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11, im ^SAGE'S CAREER. X^e Second Richest Man in the United States. A* Income of Fifteen Dollars a Minute^ Hs Personal Appearance and Early Ventures—How "Old StraJJie" Mada Money. Hpfdal CorrrfpoHdent*, >•»:%* Yokk, February 9.—I desire in tins .'etter to tell something about Rus j*.!l Sjt^e, <>r "Old Straddle," as he is familiarly and euphoniously called on tke street— evrtaiuly one of the most remarkable men of this generation. A uiau wl:o bfgan with nothing and hast atidtd to it till his iucorne is at the very |ea*t fifteen dollars » minute, waking or sleeping, hat lived a life which Is | worth study and full of absorbing in- ! terest. IK-is still quite young enough todoul le Lis proj»er:y again; ami there be lives in a big house up Fifth ave. cue. vith no family but a frugal wife. ! The Ka>t remarkable thing abjut K is- [ seli Sa^e •* that he is a self made man— Ui.*t he began poor. This is the eoua niuu lot ot all Americans of gcuius to day, and it is almost uniformly true of proimut lit nu ll in this city. On Monday 1 called on the subject of tliU -ketch at hisotllce in the famous rani.-hackle of a building at No. 71 Broadway, looking down ou Trinity's old churchyard. Jay Gould occupies U.c front rooms, liussale Sage theoflices next, and then the Manhattan ltailroad Company. There are not fewer thau I'lllrra HllllauMlri in tins old building, and their aggre. cut« ; •roperty would foot up over $310, 1(0",'"". There are probably twenty Statm hi the 1 nion, any one of which tin* nit ii in fiis building could buy and py every dollar down, From the side of the door which 1 sought a small | plain wooden *i£n projected into the I narrow h ill l<carnig the name, "Itus st-l! 1 entered, and was in an i o|U« r oilice. w here a dozen clerks were «■ \e I • hind desks, an<l several brokers ' walked anxiously up aud down, j»aus- j nij: every moment to examine the ta|»e j dial t?ow«d from the ticking stock re- | p« rt« r by the wall. My card was takeu and the messenger presently returned :ii> i Fi t tue through to the room. The room was plainly furnished, with lith- > ographs on the walls, and Mr. Sage sat j at :» xjuare table covered with thirty or i tony piles of little envelope* as large as a visiting card, each oile belonging to a separate broker and each envelope t»*:irins? his name. There were so many of these piles that there was hardly room enough for the great speculator to write. It* Is a Tall Ttala Kan. inclined to a bony aspect, ctiestuui nair | grown thin at the t«»p and combed for ward over the car*, a long i:rooke»l nose that might have bwn slightly warped ' In following some elusive rumor around the wall street corners, small gray eyes J that almost shut up when they look at ' you, a smooth-shaven face with brown- j ish-grpyish whiskers around under his ; chiu from ear to ear, like lloraee C»ree- ; ley and Peter Cooper, a plain black scarf and a forty dollar suit of clothes. Me ha* the nervous bilious tempera- | ment, active, strong, self-poised— the ! temperamem possessed by almost all | overmastering men. lie talks like lightning m> fast that the w<»rds tum ble over each other—and he frcjuently J 'wck to piek them up. "Well," s Mr. Sago, turning to me with a Miiile, "what do you want me to say V" I told him my errand. •V. ry «vli,"* he said, "tell your lead ers (bat 1 am in good health and am reasonably pros|>erous." I unicd'hiiu that there was no harm in beins; more explicit in resj>onse to a curio-ity that was complimentary, and finally, in auswer to my ipiestions he said: "My parents were poor. My father v is Kli»ha >:»ge, and 1 was t!ie young est of !» family of five children. The others were all born in Connecticut be fore father moved to < >noida county and I law one brother «till living -a farmer up in this State. Of course my youth nas one of more or less hardship like that «>f most country boys. I got some «eh«»olingevery year when I was small, but at the aiS^* of fifteen I went to Troy and entered the small grocery ■*t'>re<>f my brother Henry as a clerk. I bad my board and tour I>«>llitr% » Wonth W i»ge%. It wss j robally all that 1 was worth — all tl.at other boys of my age were get ting. Hut I saved some of it. I kuew ti e value of money at that early age and I put away some of my wages every month, f was always ready for a 'swap,* and made some money that way, for I was usually lucky. School? No. | couldn't go the public school any nmre, but I hired a private instruc tor, who gave me lessons nights. After three years of this service I went into business myself there with my brother, Klidia Sage, and wedealt in'fcroceries and provisions on a small scale. Our credit was good, for we always paid promptly, and we prospered. We went so far as to buy a sloop to run to New York with country produce, and we n>ade this pay, too. After two years more we dissolved partnership, and I went in company with Mr. Kates. We did a wholesale business. We went into grain and Hour, and in packing beef and pork in the West. I was lucky always. Well, I kept getting deeper and deeiier into things, and making more and more money, till finally some ten or eleven years ago I drifted down here and took a haud with the boys. That's the w hole story." ,, line- iu ir-v .nr. M);t' w<oame one of the founders and directors of the Commercial bank—the most profitable ami successful bank ever organized in that city. When the several railroads between l'uttalo and AJbany were con solidated into the New \erk Central alniut W>6, he made a go«>d deal of money in the transfer <>f the Troy and Schenectady. The "pile" he pocketed in that single transaction is said to have in en ?100,0i0. lu 1*55 the l.a Crosse railroad, now a part of the Milwaukee and St. Paul system, Rot Russell Sage to d Lseouut a note for $25,000. In ihr ( riwbor 1H.57 11.at note went to protest. Steps were takm l>y bond-holders to wipe out all outstanding obligations by foreclosure, tut Sag* organized a parly of creditors who opposed the motion, and put in more money to save what was already in. So it happened that he was a large owner of stocks and bonds of the road when the rebeUiou opened aud the tre mendous advance in prices came. There wt re any nu'nber of lawsuits, but Sage came out on top. He had mettle and pluck. As they say out west, he had •'.-and iu his gizzard." l or tweaty years Russell Sage has bad tjuite a career as a politician. He *:»s a Troy "Whig alderman for ten years. He was county treasurer. He was a trusted friend of Weed and ^•*ard and a member of several •National conventions. He was iu Con gTtx* trom lso3 to 1857, and rose to com manding influence, mainly on account listxrsoual skill in accomplishing uesired results. A re-election was with in easy reach, but he declined further honors, and soon after plunged into the voite* of Wall street. It may be re marked incidentally that he always Viungtrd in where it wasn't over his Dead. He brought here about a mil lion dollars, which he did not risk in aj emulation, but lent to speculators on R' od security and shaved notes for »•>! v<nt financial firms. A man who *iiu» b.n, well says: "Nt>Wody ev<»r —. r^a. went to Mr. Sage with collateral to bor row money and went aw ay empty banded, be tbe security , I'alM MUIm B«a4« or a pair of opera glatsea. On tbe other band, nobody ever succeeded in bor rowing anything of bim without •tcunty." Mr. Sage made a heap of money a few vears ago selling out tbe Atlantic and Pacific telegraph company to the Western Union. It waa not till about 1970 that Mr. Sage began the novel method* of speculating with which hia name ia identified. He originated tbe system of "puts" and "caiia" and "spreads" and "rtraddlee" and now in a booming market it ii no uncommon thing for him to take in $1,000 in a single day for the "privilege®" disposed of. He never oflers them for sale and never accords a would be purchaser an audienra. It must all be done through brokers. All oflers for privileges are submitted iu writing—not a word is spoken by the broker. He enters the magnate's ottlee unannounced, lays a slip of paper before him containing the otter, and silently waits the answer. The broker's queer slip might be for a "put" as follows: 100 W. U. Tel. at 7S—sixty days," the meaning being that is ottered for a guaranty of 100 shares of Western I'nion stock—sixty days to run. It he concludes to issue the privilege he opens a small book and enters the transaction, while a clerk in the other office fills a blank and The Nltnoll: If not be says. "Don't want it, don't want it;" or else answers by writing on another slip of paper a proposition which he will accept. "You ask me if I would advise any body to come here and go into Wall street." He stuck his eyeglasses on his hum? and looked at me. "No,air! Not the shrewdest man I know. I have seen hundreds—thousands— go down ami lose every dollar. Some of my old acquaintances have come here and gone out of sight in no time. It seems, when I look back, as if I was about the only one of those who came here when I did and is 1 did that has survived." "May I ask your opinion of the pres ent financial situation?" I inquired of Mr. Sage. "(Vrtainly," he answered, and he put his hands into his pockets and walked [ tbe room. '• You may say that 1 think ; we may look for continued and increas ed prosperity. Ours is a tremendous j country, full of riches not yet touched. : The railroads are prospering and pay- j ing large dividends. All the signs are i favorable. During the next ten years the West will have a growth that will astonish her own people. The tide is turned, and there M ill l»e a boom this j luxt summer. I am trimming my j sails on that theory, and you can say ! so if you want to. More of my money j is in railroad stocks than ever before, j because I believe there is going to be a j rise in all sorts of property." And I | took my leave. DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS LOADEff A negro boy at Jessup, < .'a., the other day, put a toy pistol to the hack of his sifter's head and pulled the trigger. The bullet j»a«ped through the girl's neck and she is not expected to survive. He didn't know it was loaded. David Taylor, a lad whose hanie was in l.«^a(|uena county, Miss., while ex amining his gun one day last week rest ed his foot on the hammer and looked in at the muzzle. His head was blown oil'. He didn't know it was loaded. Matthew Anger picked up an old gun at Plaquemine, La., on the lf*th lust., and laughingly pointed the weapon at a negro boy. A charge of shot went fly ing through the boy's head to the hor ror of young Anger, who surrendered himself to the authorities. He didn't know it was loaded. "The other day," says the Nevada, Cal., Transciipt, "a Grass Valley boy named Wilsou picked up a gun, and, after an examination, concluded it was not loaded. He {tointed it at a boy named Van Orden and it went oil", the charge just missing the hitter's head. There should be a law for the suppres sion of people who don't know how to handle an "unloaded gun " ile didn't know it was loaded. Michael Karan was courting his girl, Miss Dvorak, in Baltimore, last week. n play hedrew!from his hip-pocket a >even-shooter. Pointing the weapon at Miss Dvorak, he rema.ked, "I'm going to shoot you!" and pulled the trigger. Fortunately, the weapon fail ed to discharge, llaran then pointed the revolver at his breast and pulled ugain. The ball lodged somewhere in side the rib*. Ho didn't know it was loaded. (JotUivb Deck, an employe in the bakery of George Kober,iu New Haven, was shot a few days ago by William Kabauus, a boarder with Kober. Ra banus was going out shooting, and on looking at his pistol found a shell in the barrel- He pulled the trigger to see if it would exnlode, and as it did not he concluded it had been fired before. He went down stairs, where Keck was sifting flour, lvabanus pointed the pis tol in sport at Keck, saying: "Your mon ey or your life." Beck dropped the sieve, pretending to search his pockets, and said he had but a few cents. Ra bun us pulled the trigger and the cart ridge exploeled. Rabanus, terrified, cried out, "Oh, Got!! I. didn't know it was loaded." Drs. Madhouse and Hubrie extracted the ball from between the shoulder-blades, it entering at the abdomen. The physicians think he will die in a day or two. He didn't know it was loaded. MODERN LOVE STORIES. Nrnllmml ItccfDrrBlIni Into ttentl nientnllly—Heine's Urlffla n« no A u I bur. Saturday Rrrieir. The French are the most in love with sentiment for it* own sake, and have been from the days of Mile, de Scuderi down wards; and for the Germans, has not Schil ler owned that they like it, and "the more trifling it is the more generally welcome it is?" Ilut sentiment and the sentimental are much abused words. There is the sen timent of "The Bride of l.ammermoor," for example, and the sentiment of "La l>ameaux Camellias;" the sentiment of George Sand, and the sentiment of Charles | Dickens. Kxacter writers distinguish be tween sentiment and sentimentality; but most of us assign all the vxrious phase-) of ! the melting mood to the former, and like it, or lauah at it, as the case may be, with out discrimination. There is much the same vagueness, too, about a "love story." Of the modern love ; story, no doubt, as of the modern senti ment, we have most of U3 had euough, [ and more than enough. And yet was there ever a story told, to which the world has cared to listen, in which love did not ) i>lay a part? Have there ever been told i love stories more charming than "The Tempest" or "The Winter's Tale?" more terrible than "Othello" or "Borneo and Juliet?" Goethe is said to have found this terrible defect in Heine, that hq lack ed lose— an accusation which a well meaning writer has recently repudiated with scorn, because Heine loved his old mother and his young wife. That is not, of course, the sort of love Goethe had in his mind. Of a story of love, then, the world will never have enough; neither af ter seventeen nor after seventy will it na'l. Hut a "love story," as our sentimentalists \ of either sex understand it, is a very differ | ent affair; between the conventional love ! story and a story of l:>ve there is all the | difference that there ia between a horse j chestnut and a chestnut horse. TRUE BEAUTY, May I And a woman f Air, And her mind as clear as air; If her beauty goes alone. Tlstome aaW'twere n ine. May I Hud a woman rich. And not of too blah a pitch; If that pride should cause disdalb Tell me, lover, Where's thj gain? May I find awomnn wise. And her falsehood not disguise; Hath me wit as she bath will. Double arm'dshe Is to ill. May I find a woman kind. And not wavering like the wind How should I call that love mine, When Its his and his and thine* May 1 find a woman true: There is beauty's fairest hoe; The»i«beMa'.r,loveand wit; n«i>pyhe <»n coutpaaalt. A WRECKED LIFE. A Beautiful Baltimore Belle Ruined By Morpfaioe. The Daughter of a Leading Family with Scores of Suiters Marries a Promi nent Merchant and Takes to tbo Morphine Habit—He Kills Himself and she Dies a Wreck. Speriai Cbrreipcndenee of the Sunday Rr^jitlrr. Baltimore, February 10.—Ten years ago no more beautiful woman walked the fashionable promenades of Balti more than Mist* Nannie (J. Lynn. Hhe was a pure representative of that • fascinating type of female beauty that appeared to be the order of the day in this section of the Uui ted States. Blonde, , bewitching, tall, of rather commanding j appearance, arith form developed to just the right degree of maidenly per fection, her figure alone was sutllcieut to bring many slaves to her presence. Her personal appearance was such that she could uncrown a king or make a stoic bow at will. As may lie safely surmised, she numbered Her Aoiionn, Encerfinilon by the score. In the latter part of the month of May, 1K71, this priceless gem in the matrimonial department of life was led to the by menial altar by, at that time, a prominent young merchant of Baltimore, Colonel N. (J. l'ilson. He possessed a sufficient amount of the currency of the realm to support her in elegant style, and after a grand cere mony under the floral bell, and amidst the chants of the sonorous clergymen and loud peals of the expensive organ in an up-town fashionable Episcopal church, the loving and happy couple took a wedding trip to Europe, and they began housekeeping in grand style on Madieon avenue—one of the most aristocratic sections of tbis city. Here for a time peace seemed to reign supreme and happiness to have found her throne, jiut before a year had been numbered with the innumerable throng which had come and gone, the husband discovered He bad daily the most undoubted evideuce that bis beautiful wife, the angelic creatuic which he had grasped from so many outstretched masculine hands, was a slave to the terrible opium habit. Iu other and more significant words she was a morphine maniac. It I seems that a short time before her mar riage she wasaffiicted with a very pain- J ful illness. To ijuiet her aud soothe her Mitlerings her physician, one of the leading medical ligntsof Maryland, had given her morphine. When she re covered her usual health, which she did in the course of a few weeks, the crav nig lor the tlrugstiii coniinueu, as is mum the case, and she became 111 the habit of buying it at various elrug stores. The lata! appetite rapidly grew, ami ax lias been stated before, the happy husband bad not bad what lie supposed to l>e a priceless treasure a year before be discovered the awful truth. Then commenced on his pait, a long series of fruitless efforts to conceal the terrible fact from her powerful and perverted appetite. Earnest reason; logical ex. postulation and loving entreaty were first tried. AH. all in vain. She would promise reformation, but would soon again take the temporarily entrancing drug. Then the husband sent her to a prominent institution in a northern city, where they profess to cure this aw ful disease. He Kept her there nearly a year and spent money in his efforts in this direction with lavish hand. She returned home at the expiration of that time apparently cured. For a few months happiness once more reigns! supreme in that household, when sud denly one day the husband was horri fl«d by finding. A Hollle of norplilnr in one of the private drawers of the bureau, in his wife's room. For sever days prior to this time he thought she acted strangely, but attributed it to temporary nervousness. When charged with again using the drug, she weepiug ly confessed that it was so, and with loving arms entwined around his neck, and herstill beautiful face pressfd close to bis begged his forgiveness, promising him that it would never occur again, and he, man like, under the existing circumstances, did as she wished. Hut as may be amairined. she did not keep her earnest promises. .She still contiu ued taking the drug. Matters went from bad to worse, it begau to be noised about among their uumerous mutual friends that she did as she did. One night when she was out on the street she became so much affected by the now larger doses of morphine which she had taken that day, that she was actually arrested by the average astute American municipal officer un der mistaken supposition that she was really intoxicated. She spent that night within the dirty and gloomly confines of the station house cell. Her behavior and appearance next morning before the police magistrate was such that she attracted* the atteutiou of the indus trious dity reporters, and the details of the whole saa case were sped in glowing Fnglish rhetoric and chaste significant adjectives in the local papers. ThU Nftd Hlow almost broke the living husband's heart. A year after this sad event, and five years after their marriage, a more terriole calamity occurred which was [ the *iual drop that tilled the poor tel 1 low's cup of woe to overflowing. Their ' only child, a bright little girl, aged two years, was scalded so badly that she died in a few hours. After this sad event, and finding that it was utterly ini)M>ssible to free bis wife from the ter rible malady which was the bane of her life, the husband lost all hope, and ■ O yurarn n in irvuimnv sought the aid of King Alcohol. The umjuI results followed with speedy and destructive steps. He soon lost his wealth, and his business became so in volved that he made a heavy mer cantile failure. This otiee blessed and happy couple sank lower and lower in the M ale of degradation. In Septem ber, 1S81, the poor fellow one day blew his brains out, leaving the following Patbetir Hole: "Opium has directly ruined my wife. I have everything that mortal mnn could do to save her, but ail in valu. Opium htut indi rectly ruined me. Had It not been (or the fAt:«1 appetite, I could have sa\ed her. I would never have tasted whisky, and had I never drank 1 would not be where 1 am nor till a nameless suicide's grave. I love her vet, devoutly and passionately. May (Jod In ills Infinite love bless her, and may we meet where there are no teais, where there is no sorrow. For without her there would he no heaven for me in whatever will come to me in that life into which a few minutes shall usher my soul." t lie Young Widow Made Another At tempt to stay the terrible appetite after the tragic death of her husband. Kind friends rallied around her and assisted her, and for a time it really seemed as if she had actually conquered the tiend. However, six months after his funeral she was discovered one day in her poorly ftirnished room almost un conscious from the effects of opium, and several large pieces of the crude arti cle was found upon a table beside her. When this became known among the kind friends who were helping her, they almost without exception at once deserted her, and in a rew days she stood upon the threshold of extreme penury—upon the brink of actual star vation. At this particular cilsis in hei life a wealthy young married lady of lialtimore heard of her pitiable condi tion. This lady had been a school com panion of the" morphine eater when both were young misses at St. Mary's Hall, the fashionable school fir voung ladies at Burlington, N» J. She had lost sight of her for a cumber of years, but when she found her in her utter destitute and sad plight, she re membered the many hap^y hours they had dpent together durng the jnyou-< daysonbeif girlhood, aud at once to jk I the joor sufferer to her own luxuriously I furnished home in her carriage. Here I she wiu surrounded by ever I imaginable, and nothing s vw* denied ber except The Out f'»MI <11 r«o. This kind-hearted, wealthy young j lady, kept the victim of opium fastened in a handsomely furnished room in her house for three months, and had strong hopes of effecting a permanent cure when, one day, the young widow was found in a helpless condition on the floor of the apartment. The family physician pronounced the cause of the mysterious illness U> besolely morphiue. How she succeeded j» obtaining the drug will never be known, asshe refused to tell, but it is supposed some of the colored servants, to whom she was very kind, moved to compassion by her earn est entreaties, secretly procured the opium in one of iis many forms for her. After several exhibitions of this kind, and many broken reformation promises on the part of the now wretched woman, the husband of the kindly disposed woman turned the one-e beautiful Monde belle out of the house, aud she had no where to se*ek shelter except the resorts of the depraved of her sex. To one of these places she went, and after a brief sojourn there, on account of her km of beauty and attractiveness bite Hut Again Taruml Into Ihr.Htrrrt. Nothing now remained for the man and woman forsaken creature but a charitable home, and after being al most starved for lack of f.»od aud al most frozen by being without shelter, on the25th day of last month—when it seemed as if all the world was filled with holiday joys and mirth held high carnival even in the remotest corners of the earth she was admitted to an in stitution of this kind. The onc.« lovely lace had now ho changed that there was not even the* shadow of a resem blance between its now hideous distor tionsand contractions,and the lily aud roses commingled, and the beaming blue eyes which charmed all beholders only ten brief years ago. And the stately, graceful figure, once so envied by every woman who saw it, had now shrunk intoa miserable burlesque upon what it once had been. A few days ago the sorrowful and eventful life was brought to a close by the advent of the king of terrors. A few hours before her death she feebly wrote the following sorrowful note which shows that she was only too glad to escape from the woes of her life and the anguish of her existence: tier l.not Worth «f Anioiisli. "I have not only ruined tn.v life, but I have ruint-d that or my loving husband, UU<J rtl" truly his murderer; lust as miuh suns if 1 hail personally dealt illm a dentil blow; had killed him with my own hand. 1 am going ' to die in a very few hours, and am thankful toOtd that the end to my wretched, weary j existence has come at la*t. My wnly hone j now is that 1 will meet my dear husband lu ' the next world, whatever that may be for me. Opium ruintd me, and by de-itroylng me I Jkllitd him. Aeter acquiring ttic fatal appo- i tlte for that damnable drug 1 could never re sist its terrible seductions. Great God, how j J have Ml tiered, how 1 have wildly fought, but ail in vain—all in vulu. See what I am, 1 hc.w I dip, and what I might bi- and m.v dear I lovinu' husband might lie, too, had it not been for that awful appetite. I coraiuri. ie desired I !•» > II i irariai' nrii ministers talk about In tbe next world—the ; wotld I very Kcion slnll be in — lurevcu lu it< w«rM HKpect It cannot be a more terrible hell I thi.u I havesull'ered here for live years past. I Oh if this is made public, If itshould happen ( toget into the papers. girls, women, you of j iny own vex who read it, 1 beneecti you never ! touch opium in any one of its many aeduo> | live forms. No matter what your family doc- j tor may say, never, never think—" Here ihc Mote came to au abrupt termination. Tbe wretched sufferer's strength had evidently failed her at this moment and she conld write 110 more. Her hand was stilled forever by the icy touch of death. She was quietly buried by,the authorities, and the once beautiful blonde Baltimore belle, of only ten years ago, now rests beyond all the cares and sorrows of her bitter life of anguish in a nameless pauper's grave. THE ROMANCE OF ACTUAL LIFE. Hon t'rellMKhiiyNCM Won hi* Itride. /> om the Clticttf/o Trtfwm'. "Cecilc!" "Yes, papa." She arosje a brown-eyed, brown haired give, with a rare grace and sweet ness in her manner—and approached. Pierccval Deadwood pushed aside the mass of papers that lay on the desk be fore him and gazed steadily, almost fiercely, at his daughter. She returned the gaze with a tiuiid, hesitating, May corn look, while tue rosy blushes of maiden modesty cliased each other rap idly across her fair young features and leaped outward into the great lieyond. "What brings your Frelingbuyaea so often '."' askeu tbe old man. "His feet! I suppose," was the ans wer, in low, shrinking tones. "I no ticed that he had them with him the last time he called"—and the girl shrank instinctively against her bustle. "I want no nonsense," replied the father. "I have called you here to talk about your future. You must make a wealthy marriage." "Papa!" "D<> not interrupt me," he continued. "I have spoken my piece, and have onlv to add that lam a Hard Man from Payback." "fobbing as if her heart would break. Ctcilewent slowly to the sofa and set down with a dull, sickening thud. She had broken her bustle. Suddenly she arose. "I love Hasold Frelinghuysea, she said, "and I will marry no other man. Two minutes later she was doing up her back hair. • « • « « * * "You are 9ure you love?" "Can you doubt me?" asked Har old. "Yes," replied the girl, "I can, but I have decided not to"—and, kissing him warmly, she went away. ♦ t * * * * « % Spring in Coshocton. Pierceval Dead wood is again seated ' at his desk. "You expect youug Kreiinghuysea to I day?" he says to Cecilc. I "Yes, papa." Even while they are speaking the door opens and Herold enters. "Have you come to redeem your pro mise?" asks the old man scornfully. "I have'" is the reply, and Harold places fV 1,000 in bonus on the desk. "How did you get this money, aud where have you been all winter?" Drawing himself up proudly, Horold answered: "I have been doorkeeper in a New York walking match." "Sol Onlltj." Wall Street Aru'i. A member of a church organization in Wisconsin was la?t full charged with gambling in stocks, and brought up be fore a committee tor investigation. The trial btgan by the deacon asking: "Brother Smith, the charge is gamb ling in stocks.'' '•Yes. sir." "And you plead not guilty?" "No, 9ir, I plead guilty." "Then you do buy and sell st »cks, speculate in wheat and oats, and sell lutures in pork?" "I do, sir. I>idn't I give $1,000 in cash to help build this church ?" "Yes." "Well, I pcooped that in on & little deal in pork. Didn't I pay in$Vk)on the organ?" "Yes." "That was part of ray profits on a spec in oats. Didn'i I foot a deficiency of $400 in the minister's salary this year?" Yts." "That came from a r4»w in stocks. Didn't 1 chip in $700 toward the p«r*>n age?" "Yea." "That came from a corner ia oats. Haven't 1 whacked upon theorp!i»n asyhim, the new heidge, the park and the fire engine?" "You have." "Well, that means more corners, and holding on till 1 felt my hair growing gray. Gentlemen, I will step out for a moment and let you reach a vordiot." He stepped, but H was only thirty seconds before ho was called in and con eratu'ated on the verdict of "no» guilt}," \ GHOST STORIES. To* iBfH f«r Tklrtrra Fntnilir*. If reports are true we really have a haunted bouse within the limits of the town, though not far from the boundry line separating us from Plymouth. Familien have moved into it, but with out much ceremony have moved out again in a few days. A well-known teamster say» be has moved thirteen families into and out of that bouse. It issaid that mysterious noises are in-1 variably beard at night, such as scratch ing and pouerfing in the attic, the tlammering of doer and violent opening and shutting of windows. An old and equtoky pump works op and doWir at intervals, as tbougfc impelled by Home invisible agency. When a person goes lip or down stairs in the night in search of the source of these mysterious noises it is raid that footstep* seem to follow him on the stairway, but nothing can be seen to account for theo». A ( Ml ob » UhoM'x WnmUfr*. J-'rtrm Irif Kiev York Swi». Many persons who live on Temple ftreet hill in Paterson dedarc they huve seen a ghost wandering iu the streets. The Itev. Mr. Hovenburgh, who has i-een the alleged apparition, has no doubt it is a human being. It is described by others as dresst*! in a long white gown with a white cowl, and with a cat seated on one of its shoulders. It loves best to walk on Friday nights, and it has the faculty of disappearing in a mist wiien cornered. A search party divided and vainly surrounded it a week ago last night. Their fanure to grasp the gl.ost Killed others to seareh on Friday, when a large crowd made the hills noisy with their energetic investiga tions, which were kept up until 1iu the morning without definite results. There were Irequent cries of "There it goes!" by young meu who threw them selves out on picket duty, but every time the main body of "investigations advanced to a spot whence it bail been keen the ghost had.disappeared. A Huniilnt Jail. The jail in Sussex county, X. J., is said to be haunted. In this* place the alleged ghost, however, confines him telf to one cell. This cell wa-j occupied by the murderer Frederick Crill for some time before he was hanged. A uumberof prisoners have been confined in it, but all asked to be removed, be caused they heard some one walking at night in the cell with heavy boots, pre venting tiiem from sleeping. Two per sons fioni the city, who knew nothing about ('rill, were recently placed iu the cell, and iu the morning asked to be given another cell on account of the ghostly wanderer annoying them. A lew nights ago the inmates of the jail were aroused by a loud noise. I'pon1 investigation it was discovered that a prisoner had been put into this cell and that he was throwing coal» at some one w ho was walking up and down in it. The present occupants of the cell are two chicken thieves and they are the only prisoners who have not been seri ously annoyed. They declare that they hear walking at night, but that it does not disturb tliein. A ilnmilrfl linn sr. „Y< II Yuik Ititjfltcll to tUt Jfihnitikir S-nti.irl, The ghos's have been playing more annoying pranks in one of t tio French flats in Fast One Hundred and Twenty fourth street out than the other visitors in One Hundred aud Sixteenth street, where there is also a haunted house. A physician was called in haste last night to attend a well known lady who lives in this house. He found her in hysteri cal convulsions. The entire household was excited, and the husbaud said that at about 10 o'clock the bell ranir. The servant went to the door and pulled the lever that throws back the catch to the outer door. Nobody entered i\nd the servant went down from the third floor to shut the door. As flip was going down the last flight of stairs, the door closed with a loud bang and the servant screamed and turned to run back. As she turned the second flight of stairs she felt a strong current of air and the gas in the halls was blown out. Thoroughly frightened the girl ran to her mistress and breathlessly told her what bail happened While she was talking all the bells in the house were rung four times in rapid suc cession. The janitor attempted to light the gas in the hall, but it was 1*1 own out as fast as he could light it The ball chairs and the mats were thrown about by invisible hands, the bells were rung in rapid succession, and there was a general row all through the house for nearly a half an hour. The servants were tcrrifb-d and many de clared that they would not sleep in the house. Many of the ladies were fright ened, though after the gentlemen came home they became reassured, except the one before spoken of. A sharp watch was kept during a portion of the time. The bells were ringing, but no one could be detected, neither was one found in the hall. It was stated to-day that one of the occupants of the house is u medium. The owner of the proper ty informed her that if any more ghosts annoyed the other occupants of the bouse she must find quarters elsewhere. She declared in the most solemn man ner that she had nothing to do with the manifestations, knew nothing about them, and, in fact, was attending a wedding a» the time specified. Kvery precaution has been taken to keep the occurrence secret for fear of creating a panic or injuring the property, for some who have beard the story believe the house is really haunted and preparations for keeping a careful watch to-night have been made. A WUHMNU tnunin, ' Wtint Trinity Parish, Now lork. With Ita Ilnir Million lieonr. .Vfir York Sun. It doo« not seew very long when Trin ity, St. I'aul'ti and St. John's, with half a dozen elderly clergymen working in the easy-going, old-fashioned way, made lip th3 mi Malice of the pari-sh i which was the spiritual home of the J oldest representative church families. The jtarish at this time buried itself with extending the interests of the church very generally throughout the Btate. The change that has taken place is radical and significant. Now the pari.-h mainly concentrates its ener gies and resources for its own immedi ate neighborhoods. The lower part of the island, nearly stripped of ecclesias tical organizations, has fallen to its charge, is mapped out into districts and thoroughly plied with systematic, or ganized missionary labors. Now, be side* there are Trinity Chapel, St. Cbrysestom's, St. Augustine's, in East Houston street, near the Bowery, in lh*> heart of festering profligacy; While St. Luke's, Hudson street, on the westside, is virtually an adopted mission chapel and centre of fresh operations. In each of thfse eight churches and chapels is found a compact, thoroughly active body of wording priests, parish schools, mothers' societies, numberless guilds adapted to the edification of both sexes ' and all ages and conditions, relief agen cies for the discouragement of profli gate mendicaLcy and the quick, intel ligent succor of the needy and distressed, with infirmaries where the sick and disabled find care. These labor* of love and charity ate supplemenb-d by devout and experienced sisterhood-*, not to overlook the co-operation of laymen and women acting uixler direc tion. There are foiled throughout sim plicity, directness and thoroughness and tte new regime of personal, ceasele* work as th» first and most important of church duties subordinating the old fashioned notion that mere pulpit el<v quence was the main th'»ng—almost a Mifficiwcy in itself. Services wre mat tiplied to suit the requirement.* of differ ent kinds of people. There is even aser vite in German at Triuitj on Kundaj mornings. Besides all this there air three grea ftirpHcfd choirs, where charck music i studied and exemplified wfc'n etceji tional intelligence and inapressivenesi and in the remainingstationsand e'isp els effective provision ,* r the devou rendering of the mu^feitl services a Kpl <dtothe Mllflcat'rtii of tho ooogr.'gi linns. About twenty-five clergymen are working directly and indirectly wilh and under the rector. There are HO choristers, 10 organists and choir roaster?, 19 parish school teachers in the seven parish schools, educating without charge 820 scholars, 254Sunday School teachers, having care of 4,391 children, 1,063 baptisms, 490 confirmed. 4,674 communicants and 156 industrial scl ool teachers, with 1,771 pupils. The various collections and contriba Hons lr jm the several congregations ; amounted to more than $>0,000. The vestry appropriated for strictly parish purposes, put including ministrations, music anq salaries, nearly $41,000, and lor purposes ootsioe the parish nearly $43.<XK). The statistics of Trinity Church Association, a vsfcuftary and independ ent society, alone are a most edifying chapter fn this history, providing a mission house, a physician and dis pensary, where mote than3,000patients are treated; a kindergarten, a training school for girls in domestic service, reading rooms for mea, guilds tree en tertainments, lectures for the poor, a seaside home for children, a relief bu reau and a kitchen garden. The asso ciation expended ueariyS33,000 in their various activities. Indeed, I here are not many dioceses where* such an ag gregate of telling, fruitful church work is kept up with increasing ratio year alter year. RESULTS OF EDUCATION. t'liiHitrlnll.v Connlilrrrd by I!»«• N«mu Itr.\f« York Umpblr. A.- iiich cattle king. Attended school in his boyhood about a year. Able to add and multiply, but not to parse. Somewhat misty in history and geography. Thinks the Kast Indies join Siberia somewhere, and that >Vi)!iam the Fourth and William the Conqueror are identical. Hut is worth two millions, atld will be worth a third In two years. Understands his business and has under him three former col legiates helping to keep his accounts. 1J.—Father and mother "scrimped and cheese pared" to give their only son and darling hoy H. an education. Went through college and graduated villi honors. Is now 4o years of age and lalioring in a rich publisher's office at Sir, per week making school hook-. C.— ricked up the fragmeuts of an education at a New Knglaud red coun try school house at the "corners." Was always prompt in|thedollars and cents arithmatical department, and but little else. Went to California at an early date, bought city lots for taxes, and is now one of the millionaire pillars of so ciety and the church in San Francisco, his opinions on the literary merits of "our minister's" sermon are quoted and feared—and in private laughed at. I).—At an early age showed a deep inclination to study. Observing friends st nt him to school and thence to col lege. During his four years collegiate course he lived at 54 a week. Starved bis stomach permanently into dyspep sia. Wore Ins clothes thread lure until tiny ceased to protect hi in from cold, wh< ichy lie left college with honors ami the consuiirtiion. Went into the niiti istiy and preached to a rural congre^i tion (or ?2-"»o per year. Died in t h«* poar hoiise. I'. — jmoui nrari.v, ucci-chuiik "*>y Kcvfi could I*' made to y lo school regularly or apply himself to lii.t books, bully among ljis fellows urn! tin* terror of till the quiet people in tlx* village. Kun awa.v from at home at 10. leaving a had name behind him. Was not heard from for fifteen years, hut turned lip at last as a rich Western railroad contractor. ('aine hotne and gave liis studious elder brother, who had been through college and knew all aUrnt it, a situation at t-Vmi per annum, which he was thankful to get. I', atill spells pork "p-i-rkl'! 1'. College graduate. IVople well off, tiut not millionaires. K. xr.id mtfl six years ago. Doctor, 11a* done nothing since but live at home. Never earm d a cent in his life. I'roiirihly nev« r w ill. 0'.—Kicked into the street at U years of ugc. I Jeromes a newsboy. Then a cab n boy on a ('alifornu-hnund ship. A l-ar-icnder in San Francisco. Thence a hi.!• «.ii proprietor and is now a 'lead ing politician " No schooling at all. II. Went through college. Conic out. Went into his uncle's counting Iioiim , unlearned a great deal taught him ly his professors. Leacned in its place ioi n, things, affairs aud hiiiiiau natiiie." Observed closely. Saw which way tlie cat jumped. Cut his financial eve-teeth and is now a wealthy Wall Mr< et man. A Piiraou'n t'ltllh in (irnrf. A tew days ago a minister on one of of the Western roads sat down lo liin dinner at a station restaurant, and hi i.i! ng over his plate, murmured a sili nt grace ' Always do that?" inquired a rough hit.king specimen who sat beside him. "Vie. my friend," replied the domi ng ; *'1 never miss returning thanks to tin (liver of all mercies. iou don't know how much good it does." "Does it do the grub any good?" a.-Ked the stranger, becoming interest t»! "If it was going to do any good at nil I should want it to commence witli tl.i grub." "li certainly does," returned the par son earnest I.v, hoping to make a con vert. ' Think that piece of bootleg has been be M-liled?" ami he pointed at the dom inie's dish. "I think so,''said the preacher, sln cuelj; "I think tbere is no doubt about it " "And is it a thing you can make werk right straight along, or is there a limit to the game?" "It never fails," persisted the minis ter, who had an especially nice steak before him. "Then!" exclaimed the stranger, grasping the parson's plate and substi tuting hi* own dish of doughnuts and beans, "you pray tliis business of mine up to a square meal, while I get away w ith the grub already sanctified, (io it, stranger! lmn't leave off'a lick on my account, and if you i»ak<> the riffle you can bet your eternal fortune is made rijibf on the line of this road? And any rr an w hat can tone a bean dinner up to a satisfying meal can't go broke in this country, not while the raw material L< 'd> out and my mouth is in order!" Hut the parson fintehed the beans and doughnuts in sileMv, mmI the s»ringer wrapped up the 'SanetiiUtl grub" witti the Iurther suggestion thai if the douii n e missed his griy on tbat pUte there w« re plenty more b«sns in the cellar for him to practice on. until he struck the combination. A tJiwoiirtr*>*H Legislator: An Aus tin mrn-hant s»vh tiiat Colonel Harris < htever, a tm.-a.ber of the legislature, is the chamf>juu impoiih- man of Texas. "What did lie do U»at wiw iiu|»dite?" wo aoked. '-J met him on the avenue," r« plied the merchant, "and he did not lift bin bat »« me, and it in the aarne hat I w»ld to him on credit during the laft m-sm Mi of the Legislature." Texas Slft'DgH. DRIf AC. TO THE BATTLE OF LIFE. fWj«* Trihttn*. T!n»rnl *mr r»»w to Ibt hritn — "Tnak. *weelbe*rt ;driuk V * hi:n \Vh« u 11,. In the ball I* of I!??. Ar>4 iwb but after Ui* •wife! <;»y!) *he raiied the bowl. Ai.d drunk, while her anient houI S:through her ejre«, *< *he «atd: *•1 drink lu the wine i»o red. Hew!tli to thee htrU h<Mie*d » In the zlorlrti*. battle of life; It rut will be Hweet after utrlfe " Refilled hi* itohlet sgain. And blueye* were dim with pain; "Drink, sweetheart; drink to htm Who (all* iu tbe battle of life," Trembling sh« raided it up, T< • beantlfut. brimmtnic cup— Hii|«ped, and the ruhy tide Washed o'er the ve*aelt> aid*. "Love, failure ia not for thee. In this an omen. •»e," BVerted while her tears fell fast, •The time K.rdoubtln* i« p«*». And! rot !n wine, hot In roe. In »oni!»r» not brtlitut hoe, Y> drink to the pAa*eof the *eyt, • A rd who falls tn th* h»ttle of Itf*— Ix< tbl* tlwious ><*tU«r>f life *' - Wm 'I* PUf A CLOUD OF CAVALRY. How SbeHdan Rode FroatbeWil daroeuto Richmond la 1864. Ten Thouuqd Troopers—Music I* ftivmiac Marshaling The Host—Incitatt of the March— Panic—Ua der Quick Spur. Captain N. D. Proton, formerly of tiie Tenth New York Cavalry, baa writ ten an account of what be aaw, beard and felt during the raid of the paralry Corps into the suburbs of Ilicbntoud iu May, 1864. From hi* article tbe fol lowing extract i* taken: Aj nothing was to he gained in our remaining in the woods, our hrigrade gradually fell lack to our original position near Todd'* Tavern, fighting continually as we re Uitii. Before dark wehadaettled down Uhitid such temporary breastwork* of btu>h and rails as we could baatily ool left in the edge of the woods, while the tr.rn.y took position In tbe wood* in our front, an op»-n space of meadow In tel vening ot about twenty-five rod* serosa. We could plainly understand the words of It he Confederate officer* to their men in making their disposi tions. When both sides had settled quietly down in their places one of our lands struck up a national air. Music never before nor since sounded so sweet lo li e * riler as on that night. Perfect ijniet reigned, and w hen the last strains I.nd ditd away In the dUtance there arose a responsive air from a Confeder ate 1 and in the opposite woods. t beer* arnoe from our line an they struck up "Dixie." But when our hand followed with "Home, Sweet Home," ev»ry voice was hushed* The ej*e* of brave men moistened, as they were earrird lack in memory to the scene* of their childhood, and when the last notes of the soft music floated, like bWtet incense on the air, hut a few moments before laden with the missiles of death and the cheers of the victori ous and tbe groans of the wounded, cbecra wtnt up froui sympathetic heart* that told plainly of tbe ex late lice of warm and susceptible natures iKiieatb the rough exterior". It whs an oc casion long to la remembered. As we lay there upon tbe ground, listening to the music from the lands and enjoying, in our imaginations, leaves of abrrnee with "loved ones at home," the pick and spade aas busily employtd by our infantry only a few feet behind us in the woods, rearing earthworks, bul so quietly waathe work performed that we were in ignorance of their prtsince. (ieuerals tJrant ami Meade had their li •adquarters. tempo rar.l.v, at Todd's Tavern, while the niovimeut of the ariuy toward* Sp< tt.-ylvania was progressing. It was, perhaps, i» o'clock when we »i rt' ordered into linn and marched quietly buck to the tavern, where our horns Mere in aitiiiK for u», and, mounting, the niareli back ii|i*»n the road over which we had advanced lliree days before wan taken up. We had (•rocecded far in thedarkuen* l»efore wo bund the road In our front hloeked by tli»» immense atiihulauee train* from the Trout, licaring the wounded to tlie rear. We were compelled to march through the dense pillule on either nule of the road in single nle, now is inline forward on the pommel of the sad dle* to avoid coming in collision with the limb of .-nine tree, and then oloa* iti|f our eyes and plunging headfore most througlni clump of briar*. Mean* time the most heart rending cries were hmrd continually from tlie ambulance, telling of the terrible sutleriug* of the inmates. The (ticker of light from au occasional lamp on the sent by the aide of an ambulance driver made the daikness an und Us appear tlie more in* teli.-e as we tloiiliit. red through the llilld and briars. In our rear nc could hear the evjdi nets «.f continued strife be tween the opposing armies. Where eouiil we he going and for what purpose wen* \n-marching to the rear at mid. itiul't '1 be cavalry corps was soon assem bled in the field in solid columns of brigade fronts. It waa one of the most impressive sights I ever U*ln Id. The great mass moved and swayed like a field of grain in the breeze, their sabres ! (lashing in tlie morning nun. I'lie ' drooping battle-ll.iga hung la/.ily to their ' Mai's in the oil let air. Tattered and I torn, they told a silent story of long ' service and hard usage. I h id never j tiefure been aide to take in the entire | corns at a single glance. Here were Ciatliered alsiut ten thousand veteran lorsemen; a perfect sea of men and 1 horses; a grand and sublime spectacle. ! A limited numl>cr of ambulances were | to accompany lis. Supply trains were ' cut down to the least possible number. The sails were being close reefed and i the ship prepared for a voyage, the na 1 ture of which was only known to the J pilot and Ids assistants. ' rorsmil Tl llh Plashing ftnhre. I Kvt ry preparation having been per ' feeted tbe grand movement was begun, j Preceded by CJeneral Sheridan ami his stall the command broke from the ; right into column of fours and marched j in tlie direction of frcdericksburg. Torbert'a Division under tbecommand | of (Jcricral Merritt, <»eneral Torbert l»e j ingsicki took (he advance, WIIsoii'm | Division in the centre and (Jrcgg'a I)i. ; vision In the rear. The men who were ' left behind gathered by the roadside 1 and cheered us as we pasmsi them. All | kinds of speculation was indulged in ! as to our destination and pur|*me; but j it was pretty generally thought we were going to Fredericksburg to inter ! cent Stuart, who was reported marching I for 11 lilt jiImcm toiit-Miroy «iur (rHin<* ana ! aupplte*. After marching two ' mile* in liifilirHtlon of PrederickNhurg I we turned abruptly to the right, iimI crowing tli«' Ny river moved directly mro-w (lie flank* of Die two nrmi*». | We then Mtruek the "old Telegraph | road" und continued on in the direction j of Chlldnburg. The conflict whiuh wa* ; going on between the two aruiicagrew i more and more to our right and rear a* we continued to advance. Suddenly the men aeerned to rate It the inspiration that we w ere on a raid ! The liveliest interest wa« manifmled hj all that we might get a good al*rt the first day. Ie*t a force from amsj might lie thrown aero* our froet kjkI j retard our progress or tnlireiy defci , our {urj>a*es. Cloudaof duxtarijiie Iron I the moving column, giving notice t< the distant enemy of the alfc-mpt u gain hia rear. Al«>ul 11 ofrteiek A.% we pat-wed an old negro leaaity ugtin* the fence by the roadaide. If* '« «*a»ke< what road we w^re traveling on. "Direc' road to Kichnoud, inafft'r,' »>h the reply. Thia Ml 'of valuabl information waa r» reived by the tr<xt| with cheera. During the Hoceerdiu day» of the raid every mri upon whie we marched, in whatever direction !<d, wan facetiously ealk-d by the me "the direct road to Richmond,** th only exception being latter the d<-«peral ►truggle inside lb* fortiftcatieoa < Itirhmond, when tb^s hnya began to it quire anxioualy for direct read froi Kichmond!" The day wan v»*y nulU' I ot the march waa pushed forward wit • turpy. Early In the afternoon ec flanker* were attacked by Wlckbana brigade of cavalry. A Datia* Awkai mm. We at once halted and begaa prep*) at iona for action, bat a atefT officer ram galloping from the front and entered tii command forward. To eiaaa tbe gap i the column occasioned by tba brief ha we were com pa. led to taka to tba tea ThU teemed tr> encourage tiie enem] wbo evidently thought wa were battel ing to get away from them. We ke| tip* running sgl't f<>r aotne dManei u*ing tbe jwaiol and carbine. Kinallj \ t ll'ng, the enemy came charging iat the Sixtft) Ohio Cavalry and up wot l>fcU<*y, -moving w'th that regimen A 1jj4.il !o Lniid cndlfcl ««*e< fellow* demanding the surrender of oae of the gun* as b« leased forward o* hie bone to grasp the bridle of on* of Ike tbe bones.' Tbo whole aflbir «M se sadden end unexpected that for a Mo ment oar mea teemed bewildered. Bat it wee for a moment. Tbe brave fellows were all killed or oaptared la Iesatime thaa It take* to tell ft, among the latter General Kuggiee' Adjutant General. General Rogglee himself es caped. It was s moat audacious more for so small a body of men to make. The heavens were lit op late into the aigbt from burning building*, the oc casional flashes presenting v weird ap pear! nor to as, encamped about two milt s to the north. We hastily pre pmrmd a cup of coflee, whloh, «^tb tbe . ready hard tack, sere tJ lor supptr, alter which 1 lay dowo ui»w> the ground and drawing the hlsct ets srouod me tought sleep anJ r» sL . Tbe chilly atmosphere and tbe ex« itisnent of the dsy kept me gaslag m the Mais overhead and tbiuklng vf the chances of the morrow until alwut in id 11 ight before my eyelids would c.o«e. 'I lie nmrniog of Uic loth was, to u«e a Forth of July «prra»i-inf "ushered in l.y the tiringof cannon." (taring the night tbceuemy brought a kutcry into ilie woods on hill above m and "while the dew we* cm the* era#*/' tlie"*l»»* z.batig f" of?e»eml shell* in oor ir>;,l*t brought us all Is onr feet. One of Miens t-uuek clote tome, throwing tlie ifirt sil around and bounded through Hie tie« » mar by and into ti>e ri vt*r l«eymnl. Although several of the sheihrfeii is our midst, no one, so foe as I euufct learn, w us seriously injured. a Nsi uv'»awea l'eibsps we did as| thw nual care in ndiiiiit oae Maakets thai morning. We |**ckeO sue effector tie good fhspe, however, awl resinned the journey without waitin* foe heeaklrtst. As the sun rose the wea*ber beesinc op> pr«M>ively hot and tin- elsa»N ofdu»t so delisc that it was often impossible to Me the horseman immcdk»*rly hi ironi. I Hiring the allcrnoou my reKiment wa« detailed to picket Uierightdtuk during the psst-age of our brigade. We re joined the command in the evening itl (■r< und Njuiirei llridgc, oari with the l*st of the brigade encamped on Hie south Hide. The bridge wa* burned aftir nil our tro.>|is had cros-ed, tMi-l in fnnehd security we unriddled and' groomed our homes, cooked supper*, and enfo yed hii undistni U-d 111:rt11' rest. Our inen were all engaged in earing for the hoiees, cooking hreakfa«t, ixo k Ing up. etc., w hen there wuddenly broke upon the dead sir of the »ultry morning m'V# nil re|s*rts of csrlsticn <I|M-Imr.;«ii in ipiirk succession in tin* direction of tlie r'ver. All merriment wkn huslcd in an Instant, and anxious glamtw w»»n» east toward the river. Hut the First Muine eavalr.v, a regiment whose repu tation (or valor and discipline wisesso ond to none iu the corps, was on duty there, and we ft It sure they would In* able to hold iu cheek any loree brought a^ailist them. This confidence wn« for once mi-placed. The iliwharge of sii all arms waw «|iiickly followed hy tlis "rein I yell," and the next umlaut the Fir>t Maine, broken and disori(!tni/.i«d. esme fly ing through our camp*, ebMcfy follow id by the enemy. It wsm n com pli le Mirirife, and the u«ual result of a surprise followed. I'MMlr and RlifditMlr A panic prevailed for a tliur. IUn> heamd men mounted l>archack honwa ii 11<I in niHtiy ran* without refetvi*«e l* ownership; |»K«-k inulm were ri<hleii <i< uhle, ami in one liudanee a negn> m rvmit. wrap|>ed In the panoply of ail officer's uniform, ahouhler-atran* and all, mount**! on n fine charger, leading au awkward niuad iu the advance to the rear. ItrcakfaM* were left cooking over the Ann, blanket* left *nu id on the ground, and n general *Kednddle followed the llrnt alarm. Ill the inuUt of the Minting uibk* which clinked u|> the road through the wooda to our rear the lull form of Colonel J. Irwin < »r«*ine vm- prominent i iiili avoriug to I order out of cliao*. A *inail opening by tin- rond*ide in the wood* prevented a favorable opportunity for the forma I tlon of it few men. I reined my hor*e out and railed for I volunteer* to charge the advancing ft**. I There wa* n ready re*|M»n*e to tin* call. \ Nearly every man tieluuglng t«» my own I regiment hud fallen Imek acruaa the Open apace to the right of the road. Mid j I ton ml mv prem lit aaeoolatv* nearly all I M ranger*. Among the fli*t to r.»ll Into I line wa* Captain ('harlea Trelcliel, Division I'rovimt Marshal, a* gallant an | officer a* ever ilrew *abre. I hnmedi ately aaked him to take eom(iinu<l, t>ut he declined, and taking hi* plaee ill lilie urgeil other* to fall ill. It wa* 1 Homething of n KaMafflan group—oom | nii^iom «t nnil nou-commiaaioiied ofTI 1 cei>, private* and muHlclaua, tall men ' »tnl fiiort, native and foreign Imrn—no three men from the »atm> regiment, hut 1 all "good men ami true." A* the rear of our retreating fr»«op* pa*««d we charged down the rond. I'nilrr <|nl«-lt l|i«r. Ill theconfiialon and general tumuli the command to "charge" \v«* rr»p«nd | ed to with a g« nuine Yankee cin-er; the r< wcIh were priwaed into the h'»rae*' flank*, imd through a olou<l of dint we f>|M «l to the attack. Then* were but few of the i in litv in cloae pur*ui', hilt they outnumbered our charging wpiad at leaM I lin e to one. The lively cracking of carbine* ami revolver* in front of in, the ringing of the buiiot* by our ear*, the ptunuiiig In adloog of a wounded hor>< or tlie frantic emh-avor of aoroe poor wounded man t« get out of the way of theebarging troop*, were Inoi denta of a momentary nature. We re 1 lied confidently on tli* aabr* for*ucee*a, and we did not rvokon ainlaa. The charge wan inaignltoent In the number* engaged, but tbe gj*»ry wan jjatf aa gieal in the xueeeaa achUvfd aa thwugh parti cipattd in by thauaanda. He vend of the enemy werepfcefl hoi»-di"<*'U*h*t. two or three of our men wounds) I ahtditly. Apwaiag bullet eut mv Hp I auflleienlly to dnM» tlie Muod. Iu tba tiieleu I loot both aabrw Mil hat, hut I { found a niueh tetter hal, left l*y on» [ of the van<|ul*h»d. tfc* Vmmmm •• kilw4 I »un<lr-r If AJbart Kdw»ni rrrr hn •it opportunity to «b«i hi* pretty iwH Ix-art* the eurtJjr bubli wbl*h be will proteMy on* day wMr. Th* rertwn of Kngiand la ft b*ftutHM Jwd »(rtrfcil»g with »tone« worth bftlf ft million dollar*. ; There are twenty dltmowk Mutxl lit* | circle, worth 17,.006 each, making <<&>: two lavga c*«itr* diamond*, $11,'M each, maHnr fcSB.WUfc; Bfty-foar »«nall*c ' diamonda, placed at an ftoflo of Um former, etM MM; four omm, «<o^h cnupoeed of twenty-JIv* diamond*, f«. W)0; four larre diamond* on the top of Use www, W»,0W); twelve diamond* ' •< 111 b ii J la the flew de tm ftW.fWO; «iphteen »»allev diamooda contained la the Mane, IW.OUO; pearU, diamoada, : etr.. »p«a the arrhea anl crowee, tfa,« • <Ci'; hIm, 141 MnaJI diamond*, t*m1y.Mi diamond* Id Um tipper cma^ , IVul; ivotirrinnf pea Ha about th* p rim. Iti.tftW ft I A Teaaa Oael v> lb* . . K«. l & „ *>.-! aBi (lorkrtinr Tim**. Whlij' cspirtd. FblMD w« »<•••• \ cry h rlowly. * S a e n TKC AKOCLWITH THE OVCSMMT. II* 1 b»Ur*« la *HH»t J~i