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VOLUME XXIV.
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[Notice. —For want of space, many questions received
remain unanswered for some time. Each query, if legit
imate, will in its turn receive proper attention. We must
request our correspondents to write plainly and state
their wishes concisely, if they would receive concise an
swers. Many notes that are received are so nearly illegi
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Africanus. — At the time of the
so-called* ‘Negro-plot” in New York, there were some
thing over two thousand slaves in the city. On the 14th
of March, l/tl, some goods were stolen from the house
of Robert Hogg, at the corner of Broad and Mill (or
South William) streets. This burglary was soon fol
lowed by others, and, shortly afterward, by 3 series of
destructive fires which appeared to be mostly incendiary
in their origin. A short time previous, one or two
Spanish vessels, manned with blacks, had been brought
into port, and their crews sold at auction as slaves.
These blacks had been heard to utter loud threats
against their captors, and rumors at once became rife
of a plot to burn the city. The negroes were arrested
and thrown into prison. On the 11th of April, 1741, the
Common Council offered a reward of one hundred
pounds and a full pardon to any conspirator who would
reveal his knowledge of the supposed plot. The result
of the whole matter was that several witnesses swore to
the guilt of divers parties, and, on Monday, May 11, Cae
sar and Prince (two negroes) were executed on the little
island in the Fresh Water Pond. Peggy Carey, Mr. and
Airs. John Hughson, were shortly afterward tried and
hung on a gibbet erected on the East River shore, near
the corner of Cherry and Catharine streets. Two ne
groes who answered the sobriquets of “ Quack” and
“Cuffee,” were next brought to trial, convicted and
condemned to be burned at the stake; but were re
prieved for a time “upon making confession.” The
populace, however, would not thus be put off, and in
sisted upon seeing the “burning.” The Governor
yielded, and the wretched men were roasted to a crisp.
On the 7th of June, seven other negroes answering to
the names of Jack, Cuffee, Cook, Robin, Caesar, Cuffee
and Jamaica, were executed, with the exception of
Jack, who escaped by promising further disclosures.
On the Ilth of June, five more victims were condemned
to the stake, and three to the gibbet. June 19th, the
Governor issue da proclamation of pardon to all who
would “confess and reveal the names of their accom
plices.” Upon this the accusations multiplied rapidly;
but, fortunately for the blacks, a division was about this
time made against the Catholics, and a “ Popish plot”
took the place of a “Negro plot” in th® minds of th®
populace. We have no heart to write further. Does
not the whole story read like a chapter from the History
of the Dark Ages? None the less do we state simple
facts which occurred upon our own island of Manhat
tan.
Old Bachelor.— This correspondent,
who evidently wishes to be thought a somewhat bashful
bachelor, but whom we shrewdly suspect to be a shrewd
and intelligent young lady, invites advice on the subject
of courtship, and propounds several queries that we shall
only attempt to answer partially, and that in a general
rather than special manner, for whatever we may say on
the subject will be as interesting to others as to our cor
respondent. We shall not presumptuously attempt to
give instruction or advice. We have discovered no royal
road to matrimony, or system by which courtship is to be
relieved of all its troubles and perplexities, and left a pe
riod of unalloyed, unmitigated sweetness. Even had we
any such dulcet information to impart, it is a matter of
serious doubt whether'we should hold it just or expe
dient to give it. We are quite ready to encourage matri
mony, having personal experience of its comforts; but
we question the propriety or usefulness of abridging the
preliminaries, and that is what our correspondent wants.
As a general rule, courtship of reasonable length augurs
well for happiness in marriage. “ Bachelor” expresses
the belief that courtship is a difficult matter, and only to
be carried on in the presence of the seniors—of fathers,
mothers and maiden aunts—and that there is little op
portunity allowed for the interchange of sentiment and
opinion among young folks unrestrained by the watchful
gravity of the old. We assure our correspondent that
this is an absurd misapprehension. No such barrier to
matrimony exists in our social circles; but in nine cases
out of ten. at least, all proper opportunity is allowed for
the free offer and acceptance of those pleasing assiduities
•‘through which Love doth run his course;” and the
motto of all well-designing parents is, or should be, “ a
clear field and all reasonable favor.”
Dora.—We cannot advise you “ how
to dress becomingly:” inasmuch as you have not fully
described your personal appearance, and we are neither
milliners nor dressmakers. There is an acute, though
somewhat cynical,, observer of womankind who has said
“that if a woman is well dressed, she will leave on the
mind of the observer no knowledge of what she had on,
only a sense in Summer of something fresh, cool, and
pleasant—perhaps a sort of remembrance of a blue rib
bon and a glossy curl; in Winter, of somebody very
bonny, cheery, and warm, in some funny thing or other,
and generally a bit of crimson feather or ribbon.” Every
lady is (or shsuld be) the best judge of what is needed to
set off to the fullest advantage her own peculiar style of
beauty. In general, however, a plain, simple and
scrupulously neat style of dress is most becoming.
Young Reader.— When the name of
an aggregate of sciences or arts is used in the plural, it is
generally preceded by the article‘'the,” as “the clas
sics,” “the mathematics,” “the fine arts.” In the case
of a branch of science the article may bs omitted, as
“statics,” “dynamics,” even though the name is plural.
When the name is used in the singular the article is
dropped, as “algelra,” “weaving,” “psychology,” Ac.
The name “physics” is an exception; but owing to an
ambiguity, it is going out of use in scientific nomencla
ture, being supplanted by the expression, "the physical
sciences.” The same may be said of its compound, met
aphysics,for which we usually find nowadays “ mental
science.” There seems to. be no absolute rule, however,
on the point.
Doubtful. — This intelligent and gen
tlemanly correspondent seems to be slightly dissatisfied
with the friendly advice we gave him last week. He
says: “If I am proficient.in.any one thing, it is orthog
raoby.” We are, from this statement, forced to believe
that “ Doubtful” is something of a “ Jack of all trades,
and good at none.” Certainly, a letter in which there
, are fifteen orthographical errors upon a single page, does
not show remarkable “ proficiency” in that branch of
education. However, eince our “ friend” informs us in
his last epistle that he is an accepted contributor to tho
Atlantic Monthly, we will not venture on offering him fur
ther advice; but simply wish him success in whatever
•walk of life he may enter upon.
,P. J/l G.— l, About three-fourths
of the population of Switzerland speak dialects of Ger
man. French is generally spoken in the Western Can
tons The inhabitants of Tecino, and of some valleys of '
the Grisons. speak a dialect of the Italian; and about!
one-half of the population of the Grisons speak the Ro
muntch and Ladin, which are peculiar dialects, appar
ently of Latin origin. 2. The principal languages spo
ken in Belgium are Dutch (Hollandische) and French.
8. Wo cannot answer this question, as it would seem in
vidious for us ,to select from so many of equal merit. 4
At almost any first-class bookstore.
C. 11. D. F.— Of ourselves we
.tfiould answer your question with a decided negative;
bwt we are well aware that our opinions upon the subject
differ widely from those of a large and respectable class
of oar fellow-citizens. Wo cannot see how any beverage
that befuddles the brain can conduce to the general
health of the body.
J. M.— A note for SIOO requires a
five centstgjnp: for every additional SIOO, or fr ctional
part thereof, an additional five cents. A $.1,000 note
would, therefore, need a fifty cent stamp. We have not
space to give a complete schedule of stamp duties, but
you can easily ootain one at almost any banking-house
gtOFBu
PUBLISHED RY M. A. WILLIAMSON.
Knickerbocker.— The “Nicolls Char
ter,” to which you refer, was issued by Governor Richard
Nicolls, Jun® 12,1665. It revoked the form of the pre
vious Dutch municipal government, and placed the ex
ecutive power in the hands of a mayor, five aldermen,
and a sheriff, according to the English form of incorpo
ration, said officers to be appointed by the governor.
Thomas Willett was appointed mayor; Thomas Delavall,
Oloffe Stevenson Van-Cortlandt, John Brugges, Corne
lius Van Ringven and John Lawrence, aidermen; and
Allard Anthony, sheriff.
M. L. B. Thia correspondent
writes us in reference to an answer to “ Rheumatism,”
in the Dispatch of last week. She says she will furnish
“ him, or any one, such information as will surely effect
a cure,” and that she makes this offer “with no desire
of obtaining money under false pretenses.” We pre
sume our correspondent to be honest and philanthropic.
We therefore pledge ourselves to give her remedy the
widest circulation afforded by our columns, provided she
will send the recipe to us with permission to publish it,
R. W. R.— The word “ lady ” is de
rived from the Saxon hlafdig or hlaefdiga, correllative to
hlaford, lord. The words are said by many to have origin
ally signified bread-givers, but this is doubtful. “ Gentle
man” is a compound of Gentlo (or Genteel) and man.
Gentle is from the Latin yentilis from gens, a tribe or clan,
and thus originally meant “ clannish.” -It soon acquired
the meaning of noble, or, at least, respectable birth, and
has passed through various traditional stages down to
the present application, or misapplication,
Laura J. B.— You have given us a
very pretty glimpse of what you choose to call your
“lonely” life. There is certainly not much of change
or excitement in “the care of an invalid relative,” and
we presume you sometimes long for a taste of worldly
pleasures. We venture to say, however, that you find
many hours of quiet enjoyment, and even happiness,
of which the world of fashion and folly knows nothing.
Keep on in the course which duty points out and you
will surely gain a rich reward
Mary B.— We are very sorry that
we have not time to look up fully the information you
seek, inasmuch as our professional duties give us very
little leisure. Yoer best course would be to engage a
competent lawyer, state the facta frankly and fully to
him, and leave the case in his hands, It will require
some labor and perseverance to ascertain the names of
solvent bankers at the time to which you refer; but a
successful effort in that direction may be made.
Mariner.— “l. What was the name
of the first steamship that crossed the Atlantic? 2.
From what port did she leave, and where did she arrive ?
X What was the date of her departure and the name of
her captain?” L The Savannah. 2. From Savannah,
Ga., for Liverpool, England. 3. She started from Savan
nah, May 22d, 1819, and arrived at Liverpool June 22d, of
the same year. The name of her captain has escaped
our memory, but we will endeavor to ascertain it.
Theological.— On tho 30th of June,
1817, the Prussian Government prohibited the further
use of the word “ Protestant” in the country, as being
obsolete and unmeaning (since the Protestants did not
any longer protest), and ordered the word “Evangeli
cal” to be substituted for it. The “peace of religion”
between Maurice of Saxony and the Emperor Charles
V. was signed at Passau, on the Danube, August 2, 1553.
J. C.—“ I rent apartments by the
month, and have reonived notice from my landlord to
quit on the Ist. I have always paid my rent when due,
and would like to know if the landlord can compel me to
leave.” If you have received thirty days notice, you
must “go”—not otherwise.
M. B.—“ When did the Great West
ern first make her appearance in New York Harbor?”
On the 23d of April, 1838. She made the passage in 14J4
days, against head-winds and a rough sea.
Antiquarian.—Sealing'-wax was first
used for letters In London (England), in the year 1554.
ATTEMPTED FRIUI.
SIOO,OOO AT STAKE.
A man, himself a walking fraud, locked up in
prison on complaint of his wife, for abandonment,
very naively remarked, “All the world’s a beat.”
He thought so because* a woman had managed to im
prison a “beat” •
No doubt there are a good many “beats” in the
world; our well-filled prisons are good evidence of
that. Out of prison, and who should be in it, there
are thousands, beyond question, deserving of “ free
board and lodging.”
But a beat with no fun in him is, without dispute,
a bore. When Mr. Cleaveland, a lawyer of this city,
sold the wiseacres of Hempstead, there was a show
of wit in it. Having nothing else to do, he set the
moneyed people of Hempstead speculating. There
was a large area of meadow land lying waste in the
neighborhood of the town. He represented how
profitable it would be to start a dairy farm on shares.
He was a good talker, and agreed to invest money
sufficient to purchase, for his share, forty cows. A
number of meetings were held, and at each meeting
Mr. Cleaveland stipulated that the cows should be
milked by moonlight That was a stipulation that
he insisted on in the agreement, to which they as
sented. One stockholder, who had bought his forty
cows, met Judge Bosworth, who happened to be
stopping at the same hotel with Cleaveland. The
venerable judge was asked if he knew Cleaveland.
He said he did; he was rathereccentric, but other
wise a very clever man. The judge was then in.
formed of the dairy speculation, and was asked to
explain how it was that Cieaveland insisted on milk
ing the cows by moonlight. “Why don’t you ask
him ?” said the judge. It never struck them to ask
the question, but they said they would that night.
Not long after, Judge Bosworth met Cleaveland, when
he told him that the dairy speculators intended ask
ing him, that night, what was his reason for milking
the cows by moonlight.
“The duse they do,” exclaimed Cleaveland; “ when
is the first train for New York ?”
Cleaveland didn’t wait to give his reason for having
the cows milked by moonlight,
But the biggest and healthiest beat has been, floating
around the Sixteenth Ward and Ninth avenue, for the
last two weeks. Judge Bosworth Br.j >of him that he
thinks it is a case of milking cows < - uoonlight.
It is well known that the elevated ivi’road does not
find much favor with the proprietors of property
along the Ninth avenue. They are under the im
pression that the cars passing before their windows
will be a nuisance. A few of them clubbed together
and raised $5,000 to carry the subject into court and
restrain the building of the road. It seems that the
injunction is a failure, and a “beat,” aware of the
anxiety of the property-holders to get rid of the road,
has opened negotiations with them, and agrees to
squelch it for SIOO,OOO.
There is nothing like making a good hit when one
is at it, so thinks Mr. Marr, this representative of
dead beats. At the last meeting of the property
holders, he was asked how he would dispose of the
SIOO,OOO. He said that he would buy the company
up, and then would sell to them a patent bore that
he has got for an underground railroad. The bore he
claims to possess would make an underground rail
road tunnel while standing looking at it. If Mr.
Marr’s bore is as great a bore as himself then his
borer is an undoubted success. The property-hold
ers don’t see how he is going to beat them. The
SIOO,OOO is to be subscribed for and paid into the
hands of a disinterested party, subject to his order,
when the.directors have been bought. Now he can
very readily gee where the beat will take place, if tho
Ninth avenue property-holders should oe fools
•enough to raise the amount asked. It would occur
in this way. Pretended negotiations would be open
ed; Mr, Marr would that he had all the direct
ors right but one; if he had five or .ten thousand to
operate on that fellow, it would be all right, and he
could secure the road for .seventy thousand. That
is the modus operand* of the beat, which Judge Bos
worth has mildly dubbed “milking by moonlight.”
That the fellow is a beat .of the first water, is be
yond dispute, and a healty one at that. A Sixteenth
Ward politician, pretty good at ebin music, who
never owned a brick in his life, except an occasional
brick in his hat, made Mr. Marr believe that he was
ready to subscribe $25,000 toward the project. In
twenty minutes ho had Mr. Marr enraptured; oue
arm leaned on tne shoulder, a leg was thrown over
Mk Marr’s leg, apd in this familiar position Squire
NEW YORK, SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 1869.
Mead squirted tobacco juice enough around the beat
to float his chair. Marr thought he had a soft thing
on Mead, and he asked him and Steve Merritt (an
other property-holder, over the left) into the lager
beer saloon at Twenty-first street and Ninth avenue,
where the meetings are nightly held.
At the beginning of these negotiations the prop
erty-holders did have some faith in this fellow’s
proposition—now they have none. He is an excel
lent talker, a good smoker, and is never in a hurry to
give an explanation that may be asked of him, but
he will sit many a long hour, and smoke many a
cigar, at the corner of Twenty-first street and Ninth
avenue, before he makes a dollar out of the property
proprietors. They enjoyed his SIOO,OOO beat as a
pretty good joke to begin with; but now they look
upon him to be about as big a bore as the bore he
pretends to have patented. They have all arrived at
Judge Bosworth’s conclusion that it is like Cleve
land’s milking of cows by moonlight.
SIN OF WALL STREET.
CONDONATION OF CRIME.
IF THE PARTIES WHO ABSTRACTED
$83,000 in notes and bonds, and $20,000 in banknotes
from the safe of Messrs. Komm, Pound & Phelony, No.
260 Old street, New York, will communicate with the
firm, they will bo treated with, honorably, on the basis
of a raturn of the securities only.
PERSONALS. It. F. Herald.
The above in substance may be read after the dis
covery of almost any one of the frequent robberies
on the highway or in a bank or office, which are
chronicled by the press, make a sensation for the
day, and are presently forgotten by the public.
Thieving has become a “polite art,” and your foot
pad or burglar is “treated with,” diplomatically, by
his victims, with an eyo to the division of spoils.
Compounding felony is now a simple matter of busi
ness, and Mr. Toby Crackit or Mr. Paul Clifford be
comes a partner with any financier or merchant
whose safe he breaks or whose pocket-book he filches.
We are scarcely permitted to use the term “pl un^er »**
and when we speak of “robbing,” we sof ten the word
into “abstracting.”
Here is the last case of financial villainy—the “ ab
straction” of sixty or seventy thousand dollars from
the funds of the “Security Insurance Company.”
We suppose this will be called mereiy a breach of
trust.” Mr. Frank Ballard, in consideration proba
bly of his “previous good reputation” as a leading
member of the Young Men’s Christian Association,
is to go “ scot free” from prosecution. We are noti
fied through the public prints that the company does
not intend to proceed against its dishonest clerk.
He is to be left “ to the stings of hisown conscience.”
Without doubt, Mr. Frank Ballard is quite satisfied
to endure them, at the cash premium he realized.
But let us not dismiss this case too hastily. It is a
curious one, to say the least. Not that there is any
thing curious or novel in compounding felony, since
that, as we have admiringly remarked, is a simple
matter of business now-a-days. But there are points
about this “ Security” business which are worthy of
a passing comment.
In the first place, the press were notified last week
that the ” abstraction” of $63,000 by Mr. Frank W.
Ballard had been discovered by his principals of
the “Security” company, and that it was ascertained
that the becretary had been speculating in Wail
street. It was then announced that he was absent
from the city, and subsequently reported that he
had not been seen since the discovery of his crime;
while in the same paragraph it was proclaimed that
he would probably be allowed to return to New
York unmolested, as the “ Security”people intended
to “leave him to the sting®,” etc.
This Is, indeed, a curious case, and the “ Security
Insurance Co.” assumes a grave responsibility in
venturing to arrest justice, instead of the criminal,
and to condone instead of punishing the fraud of
its defaulting agent The public naturally inquires
what peculiar ground there is for forbearance in this
affair ? Captious sticklers for obedience to law will
ask if there is any occult reason why Mr. Frank W.
Ballard should not be prosecuted? Shrewd finan
ciers may want to know whether the defaulting
secretary is a man of average business acuteness,
and whether, when he took the chances of his Wall
street game, he held sure cards, or a “stocked
hand,” to “bluff” the Security Company, after he
should pocket the stakes ? All sorts of surmises
will undoubtedly arise concerning the case of “ Bal
lard vs. Security,” and there will not be wanting
some jealous tongues to insinuate that the suit is nut
pushed simply because the accused possesses a
defense that might nonsuit or embarrass the prose
cutors. As public censors, we, of .the .press, have
nothing to do with the gossip of Wall street, but we
have a right to animadvert upon the demoralizing
practice of compounding felonies, so common in our
city, and of which this “ Security” case, if not legally
prosecuted, will be the latest example.
And it is our duty, in the interest of the public, to
speculate upon the probable consequences, to any
business company, that may follow a compromise
with criminals in cases of frauds which afiect the
reputation of financial institutions at large. Ik is
not the “ Security Insurance Company” that alone
suffers by a defalcation of this sort; for the very fact
of the fraud, and the facility with which it could be
perpetrated, deals a blow at financial confidence in
general; and if we superadd the impunity with
which the crime is attended, it cannot be but re
garded as a wholesale injury to public credit in New
York city. We need not echo the whispers of sus
picion that always circulate concerning any company
or institution implicated with or even abused by the
fraudulent practice of its officials; but we commit no
offence, and intend no wrong, in conjecturing that a
company or individual suspected of compromising
with crime, or compounding felony, will not there
after merit or enjoy the implicit confidence of a
cautious business community.
But we do not discuss either the capacity or sol
vency of the company in question, further than to
express our conviction that, in default of a prosecu
tion of the defaulter, or a satisfactory explanation to
the public of the reasons which prevent a prosecu
tion-reasons which should be more tangible than
that intimated, concerning the “stings of con
science,” etc., the public will do well to « suspend
judgment” regarding the “Security Company” as a
promising business institution. With like frankness
we would express our sentiments concerning any
banker, broker, or other business operator who
without good and sufficient cause, declines to serve
the interest of justice, in refusing to prosecute public
malefactors, or who selfishly eondones a public of
fence, from motives of interest or mistaken sympathy.
Our vigilant community arose in arms, and demand
ed that young Ketchum should be stoned for his de
linquencies, and “ public opinion” has kept his pris
on-doors barred against every private appeal for
mercy. “Public opinion” is wondrously sensitive
to the danger of extending clemency to Fourth Ward
vagabonds. “ Public opinion” heaves a sigh of relief
when some friendless pickpocket or ignorant street
urchin is “made an example of” by sturdy justices
that the rare event may be lauded by able editors in
leading journals; and we venture to say that one or
more of the directors of the Security Insurance Com
pany may have exclaimed, “Served him right,”
when reading of the condign conviction and sentence
of some shop-boy detected in pilfering sixpence from
his master’s till.
Is it just to discriminate between a wretched, illit
erate, vagabond criminal, who “abstracts” a dollar
or two, and the sleek, plausible, talented, professing
church member, expert in fraud, who adroitly “ de
falcates*’ fifty or a hundred thousand dollars from
employers who repose “ implicit confidence in his
integrity?” Which of the two detected breaches of
trust and crimes against public morals is more inju
rious to the community at large ? Which of them, if
allowed impunity, would go furthest toward demor
alizing public faith and credit, and public respect for
religion, and tho relations of man with man ? We
need not pursue the inquiry. W’e have no more in
terest in it than other citizens. But we have this to
say, that if some check be not put upon the condona
tion of crime in New York, honest men will soon lie
at the mercy of rogues, and our courts of law will be
come useless for purposes of justice.
fearless anlr
HOMES FOR THE POOR.
The Hempstead P!a!ns Property—What
Hr. Stewart Proposes to Do—Hard Work
ing Clerks and Mechanics to be Fur
nished with Cheap Houses—The Long Is
land Bailroad to be Bon In a Sensible
Way.
Ever since A. T. Stewart negotiated for the pur
chase of the celebrated Hempstead Plains, public
interest has been on tip-toe to know what he intend
ed to do with his purchase. Lately this has been
supplemented by the litigation that has been com
menced by Mr. Harvey, a capitalist of White Plains,
one of the unsuccessful bidders. Recently, the at
torneys of Mr. Harvey served upon the Supervisor
and Town Clerk of Hempstead a summons and a
complaint setting forth that the legality of the votes
cast in favor of accepting Mr. Stewart’s proposition
is to be brought before the Queens County Circuit
Court for adjudication in October next. The Court
is also petitioned to grant an order, restraining the
town authorities from making any conveyance of
the Plains property to Mr. Stewart. Apparently tho
town Commissioners nor the counsel of Mr. Stewart
are much frightened at these proceedings. The le
gality of the late election they will defend to the ut
most extent of the law, and their efforts will receive
not only the full sanction but the active support of
a very large majority of ftie voters of the town of
Hempstead. .The proposition of Mr. Stewart to pay
$55 an acre for the Plains, while Mr. Harvey’s offer
was but $42 an acre, renders the matter a personal
one to every taxpayer in the township of Hempstead.
It is not believed, however, that any protracted
litigation will follow. The will of the people has
been so strongly passed in favor of Mr. Stewart, and
the case of Mr. Harvey is believed to rest on so
flimsy a foundation, that it is the intention of the
town authorities to press the matter to an issue as
soon as possible.
They are all the more anxious, for the reason that
Mr. Stewart has pledged himself to commence his
projected improvements so soon as he has obtained
a clear title to the land.
What these improvements are to be, no one, aside
from Judge Hilton, his counsel and confidential ad
viser, can positively determine. It is certain, how
ever, that the projected improvements will be some
what of the nature of that other great work of Mr.
Stewart’s—his hotel for poor women, now being
erected. This work, which we have heretofore re
erred to, will supply a want long felt—a place where
poor and respectable but friendless workingwomen
and girls can obtain good roomy apartments, having
all the modern conveniences, at a price less than
they would be forced to pay for apartments in a
filthy tenement, or in an attic in a more respectable
neighborhood. Meals will be served on the European
plan, and at a price barely sufficient to pay the cost
of the raw articles, and of cooking.
The hotel will cover one entire block of ground at
Fourth avenue and Thirty-fourth street, and it is in
tended to accommodate nearly eight hundred per
sons. It will be made as nearly as possible self-sup
porting. There will be all the appliances of a first
class hotel, and, in addition, a very complete library
is to be provided. There can be no question but that
the enterprise will be a complete success, and an
honor to the man who projected it.
The plan believed to be entertained by Mr. Stewart
with reference to his Hempstead Plains purchase is
fully as practical. It is to furnish deserving and in
dustrious poor men with good, comfortable homes at
a cheap rate. Mr. Stewart agrees to pay the town of
Hempstead $55 per acre for the land. To lay it out
in village lots, run streets through the same, and
otherwise put it in shape for a village,fwould cost
nearly as much more. Half an acre of ground is as
much as a laboring man or clerk, the most of whose
time would be taken up by his ordinary avocations,
could attend to. This would give him space for a
small flower garden, a vegetable garden, and a straw
berry patch, while fruit trees could be planted at in
tervals. It will thus be seen that these half-acre lots
could be sold for $55 each. A good two-story house
can be put up for from $1,500 to $2,000, according to
style and finish. Probably, if a large number were
put up by Mr. Stewart himself they would cost con
siderably less. These homes will be sold to pur
chases on easy terms—say one-fourth or one-fifth of
the purchase money down, and the remainder in
annual installments. In a very, few years these
homes will be worth treble the amount paid for
them.
Mr. Stewart is believed by many to be a cold, hard
hearted man, whose sole desire is to make as large
an amount of money as possible, and who persistent
ly turns a deaf ear to the appeals for aid made to
him. Undoubtedly he does refuse many appeals
made to him, but it would be surprising if he did
not. Were he to give to all who ask his aid, even his
large fortune would be soon swallowed up. It seems
to be the aim of Mr. Stewart to put forth his charity
in practical enterprises, such as will benefit those
who are really deserving. And while conferring this
benefit, the enterprises are self sustaining. Those
who take part in their benefits can do so without any
loss of self-respect, and with the consciousness that,
although they are receiving a favor, it is done in the
most unobtrusive manner, and is, in effect, partly
reciprocal.
Mr. Stewart never does things by halves. Already
he is in treaty for the purchase of the Long Island
railroad. Should he succeed in securing it, we may
look for a decided reduction in the rates of fare.
There is no reason whatever for the high rates now
charged on this, as well as many of the other roads
loading out of this city and Brooklyn. Indeed it has
been the experience of nearly every road leading out
of New York, that on lowering their rates their re
ceipts have largely augmented. This has been more
particularly the case with the Erie, the New Jersey
Central, and Northern railroad of New Jersey. And
yet the Rip Van Winkle managers of many of the
other roads, notably the Hudson river, Harlem, and
New Haven, cannot seo that they are driving people
from the line of their roads by this stupid policy.
Any person familiar with London knows of the
penny trains run there on several of the railways
leading out of the great metropolis. For the small
sum of one penny (two cents of our currency), on
these trains, the workingman is brought in the morn
ing from points in the country eight or ten miles dis
tant to London, and for a like sum carried back in
the evening. Large and pleasant villages, peopled
almost entirely by artisans and their families, have
sprung up in the vicinity of London. Thousands of
this class of the community now avail themselves of
this easy and cheap method of pursuing their avoca
tions in the city, and yet residing in the country,
free from the many annoyances to which they would
be subject in a large city. So anxious are the capi
talists and railway people to secure this class of
travel and make it permanent, t\at they have in
many cases given those who settle on the line of cer
tain roads free passes over these roads for the space
of six months or more. And these liberal offers
have been found to pay in the end, as it had the ef
fect of inducing large numbers of people to rent or
purchase places along the line of these roads, thereby
enhancing travel. And this way travel is constantly
on the increase.
Take a case nearer home. The New Jersey Cen
tral probably offers the cheapest commutation rates
of any road communication direct with this city. As
a consequence, their way travel has very nearly
trebled within a comparatively short space of time.
There are now nearly 800 commuters passing over
the road daily. The receipts from this source alone
amount to a handsome sum monthly. And of
course the relatives of these parties travel more or
less over the road, adding to its receipts.
With his practical knowledge of business, these
things cannot have escaped the attention of Mr.
Stewart. Should he succeed in obtaining control of
the Long Island Railroad, we may look for a more
liberal management. To Jamaica, distant ten miles,
the yearly commutation is now $75, and this is a
considerable reduction over the rate that was for
merly asked. To Rutherford Park, on the Erie
Railroad, the commutation is only $49. To Willow
Tree, on the Long Island Railroad, distant only one
mile from Jamaica, th® rata of commutation is SIOB
yearly, a rather good-sized jump for only a mile of
travel. To Waverley, on the New Jersey Railroad,
distant from this city twelve miles, the yearly com
mutation is but $62. To Hyde Park, on the Long
Island Railroad, distant sixteen and a half miles
from this city, the yearly commutation is $135. To
Pearsall’s Corner, on the Southside Railroad, dis
tant precisely the same number of miles from
this city as the last-named place, the commutation
is but $65. To Mineola, on the Long Island rail
road, distant 19 miles, the commutation is $144
yearly. To Closter, on the Northern railroad of New
Jersey, distant the same number of miles from this
city, the commutation is but $95. To Hempstead,
on the Long Island railroad, distant 22)4 miles, the
commutation is now $l5O yearly.
These figures show why the towns and villages
along the line of this road have not been more rapid
ly built up. AU other things being equal, the me
chanic or business man would prefer to live down on
the line of one of the New Jersey railroads, where
his yearly commutation would be scarcely one-half
what it is on the Long Island railroad.
It is understood to be the intention of Mr. Stewart,
should he gain possession of the road, to lay down a
double track as far as Hempstead, and commence
running double the number of trains run now. This
will have the effect of not alone building up Mr.
Stewart’s purchase, but also of adding immensely to
the population along the line of the road. There is
no reason whatever why the outskirts of Brooklyn,
and further down on the line of both the Southside
and Long Island railroads, should not accommodate
a population of a quarter of a million; and it will yet
be done, if proper railway facilities are afforded.
With Mr. Stewart’s practical business head, there is
every reason io believe that the area of cheap trains
will be inaugurated. He has had ample opportuni
ties of studying the workings of cheap locomotion
during his. European trip, and will undoubtedly
make the attempt here. We are a little curious to
see what would be the effect of running one daily
train for the accommodation of laborers, on which
the rate of commutation should be only one-half the
ordinary rate. It has been successful wherever tried
in European cities, and we believe, after a compara
tively short trial, would be here.
One thing is certain. The residents along the line
of the Long Island railroad are enthusiastic over
the plans of Mr, Stewart, and predict for that region
a degree of prosperity such as they had scarcely ven
tured to hope for before. Places along the line of
the road, and for some little distance back, have ad
vrnced in price in consequence. Our best wishes go
with the new enterprise. Anything that will tend
to emancipate our better class of mechanics and
clerks from the thraldom ot New York landlords,
and aid them in procuring cheap homes within a
comparatively short and accessible distance by rail,
will always receive the heartiest support of The Dis
patch.
THE FIRST WARD HOMICIDE.
The trial of Policeman Campbell, of the Twenty
seventh Precinct, for the murder of Long, who was
shot while rescuing his son from the officer who had
him in custody, has occasioned no little excitement
in the lower districts of the city. The verdict in this
case was looked forward to with no little degree of
interest by law-abiding citizens. The question was
on every lip, would our sworn law officers be sus
tained, or would the rough element of society ride
rough-shod over the peaceably disposed ? They saw
Real, who in cold blood shot an officer, conducted
from the Tombs to the court-house without hand
cuffs. They saw “ Reddy the Blacksmith” walk .from
the Tombs to the court, and from the court back to
the Tombs, with his hands in his pockets and cigar
in his mouth. Citizens have also seen the great
criminals of our city, who have reddened the streets
with blood, walk from the Tombs to court unshac
kled. But not so with Campbell. He was hand
cuffed, and thus conducted through the streets to
the court-house. This treatment of the officer by the
deputy sheriffs was remarked by every one. An of
ficer in full uniform was walked through the streets
handcuffed, while the greatest of felons and murder
ers under arrest are permitted to swagger alongside
of deputy sheriffs, with their hands in their breeches,
cigar in mouth, and stop at some halfway house to
the Tombs to indulge before they reach the prison.
If it was the custom to handcuff all, then the hand
cuffing of Campbell would have been perfectly prop
er; but it is not the practice, and in this case it
seemed to be done to bring the police into disrepute.
Too much credit cannot be given to Mr. R. D.
Holmes, and Messrs. Spencer and Vanderpool, for
the line of defence that they adopted. They admit
ted the homicide, and justified it, and on that issue
they sent the case to the jury.
It was in this Ward that, some years ago, Maurice
O’Connell and a number of boys outraged .an old
woman, causing immediate death. Young Long was
caught by Campbell committing a similar indecent
assult on a female, and he arrested him. Taking
young Long to the station-house on a charge of dis
orderly conduct, he was attacked by the father, who
rescued the son. Campbell lost his prisoner, but got
hold of the man who rescued him. He was in duty
bound to either take that man in or shoot him—as in
this case Long had committed a two-fold offence
against the law —he not only rescued the prisoner,
but assaulted the officer, choked him, disarmed him,
created a riot, and got others to assist him in this
breach of the peace.
The strongest point made against Campbell is this,
and it is well to consider it: They say that the pris
oner rescued was only charged with a misdemeanor.
If he had been guilty of a felony or a murder, why
then he might have been justified in shooting the
man that took the prisoner from him. It is true that
the only charge against young Long was disorderly
conduct.
But the arrest had been made, and the rougher
elements of society should understand that it is per
ilous to get up riots and interfere with policemen in
the discharge of their duty. It is a policeman’s
duty to take a prisoner to the station-house after
having made the arrest, if he can’t do it the Police
Commissioners will very soon retire him, and by
the verdict rendered in this case the fact is estab
lished that the rescuing of prisoners is a perilous
business.
Policemen are not the irresponsible creatures that
a great many people suppose; they have a book of
regulations to guide them, and before they go on
duty they receive a month’s instructions, in the
school of instruction, their teacher being one of the
Inspectors. That they violate their instructions we
all know, but ,in doing it they are brought up for
trial before the Commissioners, and fined or dis
missed from the department. Nor does the matter
end here. If a citizen has been outraged and brings
about the dismissal of an officer, he can enter a civ
il suit against the policeman, lodge him in Ludlow
street jail, and cause him a great deal of annoyance,
in the shape of troublesome law suits.
It was about time that a jury should deliver such
a verdict as was rendered in Campbell’s case. The
police should be sustained by the public, riotous
demonstrations should be frowned down, and to do
that the police should not be interfered with when
discharging their duty.
The charge of Judge Cardoza was very fair and im
partial. He stated the law in the case, and left the
facts with the jury. Long, when he came up in a
menacing manner, and demanded of Campbell what
right he had to arrest his son, assumed a power that
he did not possess. It was his duty as a good citizen
to go to the station house and hear the charge that
was preferred against his son. Then, to make mat
ters worse, he gets up this riot, in which Campbell is
not only beat, but hit with volleys of stones. The
jury seemed to doubt at first the necessity of Camp
bell shooting twice. But if he was justified in shoot
ing once, he was right in shooting until the neck
grip was relaxed. This verdict in the Campbell case
will be the best lesson that the roughs of this city
could have given them. Knocking down policemen,
rescuing prisoners, and getting up street rows have
long been considered unavoidable city pas times
Had the jury failed to sustain Campbell, the police
say that it would have been next to impossible to
perform their duty in that Ward. Any other verdict '
than that rendered would have put ruffianism at a ,
premium. Ji fe not over a mouth ago since apo ice- !
OFFICE, NO. 11 FRANKFORT ST.
man was set upon by a number of rowdies in the
Sixteenth Ward. So fearfully was the officer beaten
that the coroner went to the man’s house and took
his ante-mortem examination. Finding that the
officer was likely to recover, the would-be assaeßlns
were discharged on giving SI,OOO bail.
We expect the police to protect us, and why should
it not be our duty to sustain them when they are
right ? They want the moral support of the com
munity to give them nerve and courage to protect
life and property. But if they are to be waylaid and
all but murdered, and then the villains are to get out
on the paltry bail of SI,OOO, why may not some
officer of a quick temperament be induced to shoot
when there is no occasion to resort to pistols.
In the case of Campbell, he might have submitted
to be beaten to death and stoned by the crowd, and
if, afterward, he had managed to secure some of his
assailants, very likely they would have been bound
over in S3OO to keep the peace. It is but just to say
of the police, that if they were better sustained by the
magistrates, there would be fewer complaints of
clubbing by the police. They are very naturally
disposed to take the law in their own hands when
they find it denied them in the courts. The defense
set up by Campbell was briefly this :
He was followed by a very excited crowd when he
had young Long in custody, that stones brickbats
were thrown around that he had been struck by one
of them, that when Maurice Long enquired why his
son was arrested, he (Campbell) said he could ascer
tain at the; station-house; that the deceased swore
that he should not arrest his son, grabbed him by
the coat in front of his windpipe, with his knuckles
against it, and that in that struggle the deceased
tore the prisoner’s coat; that the struggle continued,
the crowd urging the deceased on; that the prisoner
tried his best to free himself of the deceased; that he
called, as best he could, to him to let go his hold, or
he would shoot him; that the deceased still choked
him, and that, growing weak and apprehensive of
his life, he shot tho deceased.
The verdict of the jury rendered in this case,
should be a lesson to those who recklessly or
thoughtlessly Jinterfere with officers in the disenarge
of their duty, and think it sport to get up a row or a
riot in the streets.
POLICE TRIALS.
BEFORE COMMISSIONER BRENNAN.
There was but one session of trials at headquarters
last week, which was presided over by Commissioner
Brennan. There were very few cases of importance.
A large number of officers were fined three days’ pay
for being caught sitting down. Three days is the
fine now for sitting down, or talking to citizens over
ten minutes.
OUTSWORN.
Reardon and Kenny, of the Forty-third Precinct
were charged by the sergeant with walking and talk
ing to a citizen, and afterward entering a liquor sa
loon. The sergeant swore piumply that he could
not be mistaken; he saw them go in the saloon, saw
them in there, and timed them standing at the coun
ter ten minutes. He saw them distinctly when they
went in. On the other hand, both officers swore that
they did not go in the saloon. They also brought a
number of people who were in the saloon at the
time it was alleged the officers were there, who swore
that had the defendents been there they would have
seen them. The sergeant was outs worn, and the
case dismissed.
A SERGEANT BEAT.
Sergeant Temple, of the Forty-third Precinct,
charged Officer Sutton with drinking a glass of bour
bon.
“ Did you taste it ?” asked Sutton.
“No.”
“Did you smell it?”
“No.”
“ Why,” replied Temple, scratching his head, “ it
was something.”
“Something!” echoed Sutton.
Baennan—Tell us the circumstances.
Sutton—Yes, that’s it, the circumstances.
Temple—l was coming down Court street, and this
saloon was closed, pretty near, and I saw tho bar
tender come out and hand him a glass of something,
and he punished it in no time. When I got up to
him I asked him, “ Was that good bourbon.” “Of
course,” he replied.
Brennan—You neither tried to taste or smell of
what he drank ?
Temple—No, sir.
Brennan—Try and get a better case before coming
all the way from Brooklyn. Case dismissed.
PROPPING UP A BAR.
Fisher and Gillard, of tho Thirty-second Precinct,
were charged with propping up Harry Berthoil’s
bar. They claimed that they had been sent for to
compel the payment of a disputed bill. The ser
geant said there was nobody in the place to dispute
the payment of a bill but the officers themselves
who stood up by the bar with their caps off. They
were fined two days each.
A VICTIM TO FITS.
O’Brien, of the Forty-first Precinct, was charged
with intoxication. The charge was preferred by
Captain Jacobs on information and belief. Citizen
Pearson found the officer’s club, belt and hat in his
alley, which he took to the station-house. Some
body told Jacobs that the officer was drunk, and on
that information he preferred tne charge. A citizen
said he found the officer in a fit or overcome with
fatigue, and took him home in the cars. He smelt no
liquor on him although he was near enough to smell
it. The case was referred to the Board.
EAR WIGGING.
Wilson and Stevens, of the Thirty-second Precinct,
were charged with unofficer-like conduct at a gram
mar school exhibition, on the 15th inst. Citizen Al.
Mills said he was a pupil of the school in question,
when, without cause or justification, Wilson came up
and pulled his ear. Wilson denied wringing the
youngster’s ear. He merely touched him on the
head and said that he should behave himself. He
was making cat calls, and talking so that the pro
ceedings were disturbed. The case goes to the Board.
IN AN ALLEY.
Gibson, of the Fifth Precinct, was charged with
being off post, in an alley, with three improper char
acters. When he came out Roundsman Buddington
said he left his lantern in the rear. Buddington said
it looked very suspicious to leave his lamp away
back. Women of tne town were in the habit of talk
ing to him with great familiarity. Gibson’s excuse
was that a whistle came from the alley, and he went
in to see what was up. He did not explain how he
came to leave his lamp there. This alley business
cost Gibson two days’ pay.
A HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
Curley, Butman and Flannagan, of the Twenty
seventh Precinct, were put on trial for failing to pa
trol their post. A garroting affair occurred at quarter
to twelve at night, before the Washington Hotel in
Broadway, and tor three quarters of an hour after
ward not a policeman passed the spot, although
cries for help and pistol shots might have been
heard several blocks off. Mr. Kennedy, the book
keeper of the Washington Hotel, said he was sitting
outside about a quarter to twelve, when four gentle
men came along. All of a sudden there was a scuf
fling and heavy breathing. A coat was thrown over
the fourth man, and a rope drawn around his neck.
The boarders in the hotel commenced to hallo
“thieves” and “murder.” Two went toward the
Battery firing pistols, and the third coolly walked
up Broadway. The man when he got on his feet
said that he had been robbed of $25. A crowd came
upjand questioned him when he left in disgust. A po
liceman did not pass the hotel for three quarters of
an.hour afterward, and the police were not aware that
a robbery had been committed. The case was referred
to the Board.
A SINGUJLAK CASE.
They have locked up in Brooklyn jail a profes
sional thief by the name of Edward Griffin. He has
been tried and convicted, but has not been sentenced,
and what is more,.,won’t be sentenced. He was tried
here in the General Sessions for the same offense,
and acquitted. Now, as there is something myste
sious about this case, we took the trouble to call
upon the prisoner and have his version of the affair.
He was an important witness in the Dan Noble suit.
Dan was to be put on trial at Elmira for tho robbery
of the Royal Insurance Company. The trial was to
commence on Monday. On Saturday, Griffin was ar
rested and taken over to Brooklyn, and on Sunday, it
is said, Dan Noble held an interview with District
Attorney Morris. The same week an indictment was
found, bail was refused, and while Dan’s trial was
going on at Elmira, Griffin’s was commenced in
Brooklyn, consequently he could not appear to tes
tify against Noble. This sharp practice on the part
of Noble cost him SI,OOO. That is the amount it is
said Dan carried over in a package to our sister city,
which he didn’t bring back on recrossing the ferry.
The charge, if anything, of which Griffin should have
been convicted was petty larceny—a tin box worth
about $5. He claims that it was what the police call
a “put up job.” Coming out of Johnny Murray’s
house in Amity street, a thief named Scotty gave him
the box to hold a minute. Without knowing its con
tents, he took it, when up stepped an officer and ar
rested him. What was in the parcel he did not know.
A lot of worthless checks that had been stolen were
in tho tin box. This fellow Scotty had been hired by
Noble to put him out of the way.
The arrest of Griffin at the time that it did occur}
looked like an attempt to prevent the Royal Insur
ance Company having the benefit of his testimony
on the trial of Noble, He had been walking the
streets of New York openly for months; could have
been found any time that he was wanted, and had
not even been indicted when arrested. It was
known that he would be a witness against Dan on
Monday, and on Saturday he is taken in custody.
Griffin tells some queer stories about the officials
here and in Brooklyn, which, if true, shows them up
in a far from enviable light. It is proper to correct
a false rumor that is afloat. A man from California,
by the overland route, set the story about that he
saw Reddy the Blacksmith and Whitey Bob gambling
in San Francisco ten days ago. It is probably true
that he saw Reddy the Blacksmith,‘but not Bob
White—he is confined in the same cell with Griffin,
and having appealed, his case has obtained a stay of
proceedings. As for Reddy the Blacksmith, as soon
as it was known that he was in California, the au
thorities seat on alter him. Whatever may be said
of District Attorney Moms, he should not be
charge ! with setting at liberty such men as Whitey <
Bob, when it is not so.
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DRINK RUM! drink deep:
i By Owen Jones.
'• O, thou Invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no othef
> name to be known by, let’s call thee Devil.”— Othello,
Would’st thou be an outcast, roam
In raps, without a friend, a home,
Toss’d like a fragment on the foam ?
Drink rum !
Drink deep i
Would’st thou crime and discord choose.
Reputation’s jewel lose,
Every gift of God abuse ?
Drink rum I
Drink deep!
Would’st thou see thy wife forlon,
Thy children look on thee with scorn,
And feel the pang of hunger’s thorn ?
Drink rum !
Drink deep I
Would’st thou in a mad-house rave,
Or be a bloated, sensual slave,
And fill a wretched pauper’s grave ?
Drink rum 1
Drink deep t
Would’st thou with a frenzied brain,
Gaze upon thy brother slain,
And on thy hands the guilty stain ?
Drink rum I
Drink deep I
Would’st thou sink in gloom o’ercast,
As wither’d by the simoon’s blast.
Be cur fed! and hurled to hell at last ?
Drink rum !
Drink deep f
Dhink deep !
*** Entered according to act of Congress m the year IP6&
by M. A. Williamson, in the Clerk’s Office of the Dial
tnct Court of the United States for the Southern Dis*
tnct of New York. * W “
EVA EATON.
BY FRANKINDALJE,
AUTHOB OF “ HEATHMOBE,” ETC.
CHAPTER VII.
BETUBNING LIKE FOB LIKE UNKNOWINGLY. 1
• The proud Alta Yenton lived on after heS
' husband left her—lived on in her old way. Sha
had returned to her aunt’s house, and there
, her child was born—a son—and she named him
; Louis Yenton Eaton. She received two letters,
dated from Boston; the guilty man sent then*
there, that in coming time, if she sought him,
she might become confused, and know not of
his true home. These letters were strange—.
desultory—ambiguous. Her great eyes flashed,
her proud spirit rose, and she vowed ho should
not thus taunt her. This artist she had wed
for his fascinations. She blushed most remem
bering her innocent babe. He must not ba
fatherless. She read the epistles many times,
and each time found new meanings. Perhaps
ho was disappointed, for he told her he looked,
for high receptions. He spoke nothing of his
i mother, save to say, briefly, she had recovered.
■ Another letter came. It was his farewell. She
clenched her jeweled hands, and vowed to fol
-1 low the deserter. Then she bethought herself
—her means were small. She would not sell
[ her jewels—her wanlrohe, fit for a princess ;
sho would turn bigamist, also. She would wed
Danbury, who was stalking so fast to his grave
! —an oldman without a relative, with no one to
leave his immense legacy unto. People saw
her robed in sable—shrouded in crape. Sho
shut herself up from society, and word went
forth—“ Charles Eaton, the artist, had died in
* America."
She was playing in a drama; she realized
1 how fearfully she had been abused, and vowed
r revenge. She was changed ; no wonder her
friends called her broken-hearted by her hus
band’s death. Her haughty life was rent: sha
gazed upon her son, and in the depths of her
1 soul whispered words of retaliation. She re
ceived none of the associates whose past was
linked with hers. Sometimes she was awak
, ened to the better days of her youth—then sha
' wept acrid tears ; thronging memories of guile
. less hours ringing through the mist of her
i chagrin, likened unto chimes of silver bells
> from loved lands floating out upon the ocean,
1 which wafts onward—away the clinging heart,
like these came early memories. But they
never should conquer her. How long the days,
the weeks, tho months were, for she longed to
have a proper period pass, that she might re-,
ceive the addresses of Danbury; and he had
commenced to hope afresh—she knew it.
1 At last, the year had gone. She astonished
her friends. News flew like electricity. Alta
Eaton, the beautiful queen, had become the
bride of poor, dying Danbury. Then scorn
met her gaze ; it was thoroughly whispered 1
“ See how she plays her game! She hag
wed him for his money 1”
And he—this infatuated man—failed daily,
hourly, beneath tho hand of consumption. Sho
was positive his malady must soon number him
with the dead, else she never would have wed
him. How impatient her soul from the mo
ment he called her wile; she watched eagerly
to behold how, he grew weaker, while he toyed
with her perfumed tresses, drank in the mock
ing light of her lustrous eyes, kissed the crim
son of her cheek, and she suffered it —bore it
with unflinching martyrdom, for great was her
purpose. Five letters covered her design—
Money I She was discreet with all her impa
tience, for the delighted old man never noticed
her nervous, abstracted manner, her strange
gayety, her more than wonted brilliance. And
death he did not think of. He believed his idol
knew, for did she not daily say :
“O, you are better. I care not what the
doctor says. Time will return you to me,
bright, youthful, joyous.”
Foolish, infatuated lover 1 he was proud.
Had he not gained the coveted prize ? Was
she not his, and her child ? She could better
endure her own scourge of fawning, caressing,
than to behold him touch her son ; and when
the old man strove to teach the infant lips to
lisp “papa,” she scowled, and said :
“Do not commence yet; I mean he shall
learn to speak his words plain ; ’tis too soon."
Danbury yielded; he was a queen’s subject.
Everything must reach its destiny. Tha
happiest day of Alta’s life dawned. Morton
Danbury was failing so rapidly, that the physi
cian whispered in the wife’s ear :
“He cannot survive two days.”
Her heart grew a little tender—she pitied
her dupe; but he had lived in ignorance; ha
had believed himself blessed. What cause for
sorrow, then ?
Another day dawned. The princely mansion
of tho dead was draped in mourning. The
household moved with sott footsteps through
the halls and corridors, over the marble stairs ;
the widow was in her chamber. She had bid
den the servants keep guard lest she be per
turbed in her reflections—reflections which
were very sad, yet hopeful. She interrogated
her heart. Why did sho so desire to follow a>
man who had forsaken her ? Was it love ?
Was it hate ? A mingling of both, with a good
share of curiosity added. At any rate, sho waa
weary of homo; she had wealth to support her
like a princess. She would rather rear her
darling Louis in America.
Her friends wondered greatly when, only a
fortnight subsequent to the funeral, she de
clared her determination to cross tho ocean.
They whispered she loved her first husband
best, and was going to his grave in a foreign
land. She was silent before their protesta
tions.
She had arrived in the city of Boston, re
maining only a week, for she had employed
efficient measures, and believed Charles Eaton
had fooled her. Sho had groat faith in clair
voyance ; by the science she had been advised
to go to New York; ho had been seen there.
Resolve is purpose, action. She was angered
and filled with determination. Her search wag
resolved upon ; never to cease until sho found
him, living or dead. Another month had
passed; she was in her carriage, driving
through Broadway. Charles Eaton knew Alta,
his wife, was in the city, and from the moment
ho had seen her, thanking heaven she had not
observed him, he had been fearful, cautious,
oppressed with an unceasing horror. Thia
day, while she with quick, glancing eyes,
watched every passer, he had assumed his old
grace; he was buried with his past in thought.
Her eyes were fastened. She called suddenly
to her coachman:
“Halt! for God’s sake, haltl”
She sprang from her carriage, leaving her
child terrified at his mother’s manner. She
had not lost* her victim. In a moment the ar»
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