Bloomington Progress, Volume 6, Number 3, Bloomington, Monroe County, 15 May 1872 — Page 1
The Royal Guest. Bf JULIA WJSD HOWI. I hfy tell me I am shrewd with other men : "W ith thee I'm alow and difficult of speech. With others I may euido t he car of talk . Thou wina'st it oft to realms beyond my reach. I I other guests should come. I'd deck my hair. And choose toy nuwcstgarmonts from the shelf; When thou art bidden, I would clothe my heart With holiest purpose?, as for God himself. l or them I whilo the hours with tale or song Or web of fancy, f rinsed with carelosg rhyme, l'ut how to And a fitting lay for thee, Who hast the harmonies of every tune? U friend beloved) I sit apart end dumb. Sometimes in sorrow, oft in joy divi no ; M? lip will fatter, but my prisoned heart Springs forth to measure its faint pulse with thine. Thou art to me roost like a royal guest. Whwe travels brine him to some kwly roof, Where simple rustics spread their festal fare, And, blushing, own it is not good enough. Bethink thee, then, whene'er tbou crnn'st to me, From high emprise and noble toil to rest. My thoughts are weak and trivial, matched with thine Bat the poor mansion offers thee its best-
N'EveMea Pas L'Amonr (Jul Dort. Twas noonday. On a grassy mound Within tho forest deep, I saw a child etrotch'd on the croand 'Twas Cupid, fast asleep. His btauty struck me far above All boys I'd ever seen. But as I'd sworn to banish love, To look I did not mean. But oh 1 those limbs of perfect shape. Pressing the fragrant sod I I sigh. He's instantly awake A breath awakes tie god.
lie quickly spreads bis rosy wiogs. And. bending strait his bow, With one of his sharp arrows stings My heart, and lays me low.
Go now, said he, to Chloe's feet. And languish there and weepIn vain her pity yonTl entreat From rousing me frem sleep.
Weariness. BT HlBSY W. LOSOFELLOW. 0 little feet, but such long years Must wander through dou hts and fears. Must ache nnd bleec' beneath your load 1 I. nearer to the wayside inn. Where toil shall cease an 1 rest begin, Am weary, thinking of your road. 0 little bands, that, weak or strong. Have still to serve or rule so long. Have -till so long to give or ask. 1 who so much with book and pen Have toiled among my fellow-mci. Am weary, thinking of your task. O little hearts I that throb and beat With such impatient, feverish beat, Such limitless and strong desires 1 Mine, that s long has glowed nnd burned With passions into ashes turned. Now covers and conceals its fires.
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BLOOM INGTON, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1872.
New Series VOL.VI.-NO. 3.
HOW I MARRIED THE CAPTAIN.
I had never had an adventure. I
think roost people counted me very quiet girl, drifted like a sea-shell into a corner of the great world. The tides passed over my head; there was shipwreck and disaster; there was sailing out of argosies ; there was dancing nnd music among the voyagers; butnothing surged me up cut of my sea-awept niche. Poor Elizabeth Grey! I said aloud, will the tide ever reach yo. All this sea talk, I think, grew out of the little pink dress I was sewing on that morning. Rosy Fox was going to Europe, and this was one of a dozen or two tiny dresses I had made for her. Going to Europe 1 Rosy a little prattling thing that didn't yet know one street from another in her native c;ty.
What would she do in Europe what would Europe do for her ? But forme the very thought seemed like a glimpse of heaven a sweet, forbidden glimpse; for what had I to do with change, or pleasure, or excitement ? A eeamtress, orderly, exemplary on orphan who had decently buried her mother, and who creditably supported her little brother at school such was my brief outward record.
This morning a strange restlessness beset me; an unaccountable yearning,
HKe a wooing wnm ot ocean air, bectconed me away. Why should I stay and vegetate in one spot forever ? Could I not earn my living elsewhere as well as here? Did not folks use needles in Kami chat ka and in New Zealand ?
Could I not take my sewing to another market? The thought stood on the verge of my mind, hovering, timorous, unreal, its wing poised for flight. 1 had no mony. The vision vanished, and in the gray after-light my patch looked dustier, darker, more straitened than ever. But this was not to be a day like other days. It stands apart in my memory now, illuminating that whole year, as I have seen a clump of cardinal flowers illumine a whole gray meadow. A knock eaine at the open door of my room, ind it was flung back sharp and suddenly. Very lew visitors ever climbed to my little third-story apartment; seldom any one but tetty Madame Padwelle, for whom I worked. This could not be the madame's footfall, so heavy and brisk. I looked up, and there stood Capt. David, my mother's eld friend. A tall, big-boned, grizzled man, quick, decided, and full of vigor as a Northern pine, with a flavor of old-time quaintness about him a thrifty, well-to-do man,' whose ship had carried freieht
into almost every port on the globe, but chiefly to the West Indies. I had not Eeen the captain since I was a little girl, but I knew his face and figure instantly. The tall hat he wore when in landsman's rig, the red bandana he flourished, were things of memory. Many an odd sea-shell had he brought me, and many a dainty from Jar oil lands had shown bis remembrance of my mother. His sharp gray ye was full of a kindly humanity 1 remembered that eye, and how it had stood to me in childhood for illimitable geographical knowledge, glimpses of polar sess and fathomless waters, and all the unspeakable mysteries of tne unknown world. " Well, my little g rl, how's uil the folks?" said the captain, taking off his steeple-crowned hat as he entered. The familiar voice, the hearty grasp of his muscular hand, took me back to mv eirlhood again ; for an instant it
seemed as if my mother were living, and all the weight of care and loneliness were lifted from my shoulders. Only an instant. The team gathered in my eyts, and I said, abruptly, " There are no foli s, captain." The captain's countenance fell. He seemed inwardly to reprove himself lor his hasty pleasantrr. recollecting that this was the time for conventional solemnity. Seating himself with gingerly care on one of my slim-iegged chairs, he wiped his forehead with his red bandana. " I k-ovr, I know," he said, uneasily. " 1 mean how's Jim ?" with a hasty clutch at the name, as if to save himself from further mishap. "Oh," said I, cheerfully, anxious to put him at his ease, ' Jim's doing
ismously. He'll takt the prize in languages at bis school text year." 4iArd you are working yourself to death to stutf the lad with Greek and Latin ?" I fell to laughing. " No, captain, not exactly. But Jim's too smart and too g:od to be kept in Die city, and 1 have to be away so much of the time sewing." ' You look like i', ' said the captain, gruffly. " What doy :u live on ? Shirts at sixpence apiece ? ' "No, indeed!" 1 ;ried, indignantly. "I sew on pretty 'hings robes and dresses ; see this I" and 1 held up Rosy's pretty pink dress. It glowed in the sunshine, its flounce and frilling) trembling about likeasuperabundantgrowth of petals. The captain eyed it approvingly. " Pretty e nough," he said . "I t's got ail your color in it, my little girl." It was long since I had heard any one express kindly interest in me, and the
words thrilled me with a strange feeling, intense, exquisite, allied to pain. You ought to have a change of air," said the captain, seeing 1 made no answer. The pretty dro-is seemed freighted with the visions 1 had had while making it. Rosy glimpses out of the matter of-course drudgery, the dingy and ashen hue of my habitual life, opened out of its folds. " Captain," sf,id I, abruptly, as I Kid it carefully away, " how much does it cost to go "to the West. Indies? " " By steam ? ' "o; in vourship. ' "Oh," sa'id the captain, "I'm not fitted up for passengers. A light, little craft enough, but only t carry freight. Why ? Know any one going ?" " I am. Captain, let me he freight. Stow meaway in the batch or anywhe re, only let me go ! See, 1 have thirty dollars to pay my passage ;" and I held up my pnrse. "Jim's quarter's all paid too!" "The money's an immense temptation," said the" captain, eying the slim purse humorously " immense. 1 might lay by on it after one or two more voyages." , "And, captain, you know I've acousin out there somewhere an engineer or some thing on a plantation." " Ay, that way blows the wind, does it? Well, well," my child, I'll think about it. It might do you no haim, nnd, as you soy, you might marry die engineer when you find him." "Now, captain, you know I never said that:" "No? Well, it puts a bit of color into your cheeks, Lisbeth, and that's a good thing to see, however it comes, i'll think about it, child. It's poor traveling in a freight veatel, but many', the trip the wife and I took together
when she was living." Long ago the captain had lost his young wife, a year or two after their marriage. 1 had ne ver Been her ; hut the captain's faithful remembrance of her was pleasant. She was a sort cf eaintly Tocolloction to him, brightening and sweetening his ru le l.fe, and keeping her niche in his heart forever. Three days passed. I waited, I sewed, I pricked my fingers perhaps a little more than usual ; 1 looked out of the window possibly a little often or. Madame Padwelle scolded me, Madame Padwelle coaxed me, and fina'ly, in a huff, madame paid me up and loft,
severely intimating t;hat she would be glad to employ me again when I " ;'e)t like work." Then came the captain. "Well ?" queried I. " Well," answered he, " you'll rind itclose quarters and a pretty hot viya.'o; but there's deck room." Deck rooml It was just (he one thing I wanted and then i knew tnat
i the captaiu had consented.
I sshail not tell you much about taat voyage. It. stands vet in my mind in the same relation as a elream vague, without sharpness of outline, with no separation of periods of time ; one big.
bountiful remembiance of a season of
infinite rest, when, adrift between air
and ocean, I seemed without bodily entity ; for the t hings that had marked my identity hitherto had been, but were no longer. 1 was not seasick. A strange'., visionlike sensation wrapped me about, a faintness as of a spirit coming newly
to hie m a new worm having lei t the old incumbrance of the flesh, with the old cares, far away on the far away shore. There was nothing to do that is. nothing for me to do no living to get, no exertion to make. I seemed an atom in the great sea of sky and water; the great Good was taking care of me, and the great ocean clasping me in its infinite arms of peace. I was treated J:ke a lady a rare and delicious thing to one inured to hard usage, and to earning her bread in it big busti ng city. When the intense heat made me ill, ar-d the rosy-cheeked mate's wife, who had been my companion hitherto, succumbed to it also, the captain took care of me himself. Sometimes he carried mc in his strong arms up te the hammock swinging on deck ; sometimes he brought me with his own
brawny, kindly hand my lovs:; ot water gruel. At ode! times, when nothing else called him, he furbished up his rusty stock of schooling, and read me some queer old Boa-story resurrected from the depths of his big wooden chest. Rough, brown, and burly, the sailors were all my friends ; they pointed out the dolphins and porpoises, and scared me with the prospect of whales or imaginary sharks. Their dark faces and sturdy forms made a Bolid background to my dream-land, and gave it a picturesque touch of reality. But by-and-bj' all this came loan end. Out of the dream land voyage we sailed into dream-land itself, Or.e morning 1 went up on deck, and, behold ! the gates of paradise seemed open to me. The vessel lay anchored in a lovely harbor. Sapphire-bluo shone the water, edged where it touched the beach
with a line of lace-like. foam. Beyond rose hill above hill, crowned with
glowing foliage and arched by the azure sky. At the foot of these hills clustered a group of long, low, flat-roofed buildings, unlike any I had ever seen. They seemed to have grown out of the same toil that nourished the cocoa and palm waving above them. Intense color,
vivid, jewel-like, shone everywhere about me. I rubbed my eyes. My last glimpse of land had been the gray and busy shores of New Y rk. Had f , indeed, passed out of my elim and cobwebbed life and the " glory that should be revealed ?" A strange, melodious jargon greeted my ears; a musical " enrambo l:' hissed
between the teetn. i ms couia naruiy be the accent of seraph. Looking down, I saw it fleet of gayly painted boats, from which a throng of red, half-naked inlanders climbed like monkeys up the slides of the ship. They gesticulated, they chattered, they flurried agile about the ship, chattering their delicioui Spanish a mellifluous cornucopia of vowels with angles, without sharpness tl.,e living expression of the strange scone upon which 1 had fallen. " Porto Rico !" said Captin David, as he pas.-od busi.ly on hi- wav. But busy as the captain' was, he had not forgotten me. Before night-fall a snug little" cai;a," owned by a kindly Spanish woman., received me. A quiet place a little way b&yond the busy town, white floors, vast rooms open to
the roof, with here arid there in wide perspective a chair, a table, a flowerwreathed niche for the Virgin. Such was my new home. Though ap.'irt from the town, it was
not isolated. Past its windows, whose jalousies only veiled, btrti did not hide, the outer world, drifted daily the characteristic sights of a tropic town. Overladen mules and eleepy Spanish ponies, bearing panniers of fruit- oranges, bananas, mammce-npples, and I know no', what of shining and nameless thingsmoved leisurely down to the :juay bestrode by sullen slaves, their elurk face; set oft" by now and then a scfirlet vest or a great overshadowing "sotabrero ;'' or a lazy, half-naked native loitered by with a picturesque load of dried plartain leaves for thatching his mountain hut, where he lived free, independent, and, in his expressive phwsse, " solemnly poor." My landlady, the Senora, Marie, wps a great, motherly, kind-hearted womar , a widow with a broad of olive-skinned, wild-eyed little ones to look after. Fcr them sho was very ambitious ; for the: r sakes she made the dainty " pates" of guava and cocoa-nut, which her slave Liza took down to market, poising them on her head after the ancient, fashion, which is the only fashion of things in Porto Rico ; for their Bakes si e rented the pleasant rooms in her casa to whomsoever the tides and winds brought her from sea; and for their sakes, no doubt, had she been an American woman, the would have set herself to
active industry and labored " diligently
with her hands." As it was, she cared for them and planned for them n.ftnr her own sort, nnd loved them hugely. She listened delighted while they clustered round me, chattering their dainty lingo, wondering over my light locks, my foreign dress, and coaxing me with a winning witchery to talk tc them in English. Sometimes the captain dropped in upon us ; he was taking in cargo. Great hogsheads of sugar must have been a load on his mind, but he found room for me also. Sometimes lie took rr.e out before sunrise for a stroll on tl.e hills. Sometimes we rode on horseback to some distant sugar plantation, or we visited tome oleandensaiel hacienc a whose owner be knew. 1 was getting along famously, he said; the icnora had told him with" all her fingers, eyes, and tongue how she liked me, how golden my hair wap, and how I got on with tie children. Would I like to live in I'orto Rico? Ob, I liked it unspeakably ' The red soil, the hills, the straggling roads, tie cocoa-trees, the far sugar-cane plantations with their tall chimneys loomirg against the sky ; it was all beautiful even this lazy life that lived itself without effort, and seemed to put to shall e the busy, undignified scramble we hoel called existence. " I love it all, capt&in 1" I exclaimed. " Widl," said the captain, laughing, " we must hunt up our engineer ard see what can be done about it." But Senora Marie had a new idea. "The little senorila is hsppy here; doubtless Rome of her people long a;o
were Spanibh, eh? She tells me she is not rich money no inuche, eh? L'jt her stay with me in my casa; I will give her plenty mucho to eat and to wea ; I will take her to my friends. They have haciendas, plantations, plen :y
slaves, fihe shall teach tfce children and be happy. Eh, what say you, sen or capitan ?" Senor capitan saiel nothing for some time. He wiped his forehead with 1 i red bandana : he looked over at r ie
vith a searching glance ; he kr.it his brows. Finally lie rose in his abrupt fashion. "She might do worse," he said, and betook himself to his ship.
The hot dav grew hotter ; it flamed to
a close; it died with gorgeous burning
behind the hills ; the sudden blackness
of tropic night came on ; but; he did iiot
come again. I lay awake long that night listening
to the wash of the Mirf on the disti.nt shore, and hearing the lonely cry of the watchman calling out the hour in the
solitary streets ot the town, ilow strange it would be to grow familiar with all these things, and live in this strange lanel forever !
1 said nothing more to Senora Marie
about her proposition. People in these islands are in no such haste for a divis
ion. Perhaps I had miscalculated ;he
captain's kindness it might not pay him to carry me back. And what jid
1 want to go back to ? To the Btruggle for breael again ? To the narrow room under the roof to the narrow life ol penury? Here I was rich, or miiht be; even the poorest here had his plantain hut and his pclch of banana. Yet something in me ai:hed at the thought that the good ship with its I idy cabin, its kindly captain and ciow, would go out from me, sailing thro .iih the mists of the great oceju, arid leave me drifted among the palm 'and cocoas, a worthless, unmissed thing, not worth taking home. I tried to be sensible,- to look the matter in the fare, and to rejoice that fate had provided for me i'o unexpectedly. And when day after flay passed I began to think that the captain had regarded the thing ns tinf 1, and after
his sailor fashion had departed witaout 'even an adieu. I had seen him conclude
a bargain in just suoh brief manner,
Restless and weary with a lone eight
ot wafcetulness, 1 rose one morning early and set out for the shore. Karly though it was, however, none of our household being r.stir, f found the tropic world awake before mo ; ( long the road to the harbor wagon after wagon, laden with sugar hogshead? and drawn by rough, savage-looking hulls or unkept oxen, were pun-ting on their way to the wharf.
etiquette in the west Indies does not allow a lady to be seen abroad unattended, so, hastily clambering up the hillside bordering the road, I sought a narrow; sheltered path I knev of, which, crawling mong the scraggy bushes, kept its difficult way to the rlv, r. Weary with my cxertionis, 1 sat lown a moment to rest. Just here, at the turn of the path, an opening th ough wood and rising hill gave glimpse of the ocean, with here and there the faint tracing of mast and Bail, as from the far outer world an occasional ship sought harbor. As I sat there, leaning my hotd on my hand' I bi lieve I felt the: first
touch ot homesick ne;s 1 had over known. At least my little room at home was shaded and quiet; at least its poverty and nakedness were not displayed on the roadside. Hure was I with my dream all ended, evem in the midst of my dreaming. Above me palm and tamarind feathered thn sky, the jewel shineof tropic loaf and Bower, splendor, color every where, and '.. alone gray, solitary, nnd cold.
Absorbed m thought, I know r ot how long I sat. A quick step startled me. It was not a nativo step; no native pets his foot down as if it wcra of the- slightest importance when he lifted it. again. There was meaning and energy in this
footfall, and I hastily roso to face the in-ruder. It was my gray, sturdy, faithfui captain. " Well, my little girl I" cried the hearty, familiar voice, "how's this? Out here alone this time o' clay ? The women folks will all be down upon you for breaking rules." " I I thought you had sailed," was my reply, as I buist into tears in spite of myself. Whereat the ciptain burst into that honest, friendly laugh oi his, which seemed so thoroughly to set ade trouble and difficulty, shredding them like so many cobwebs " Weil, well 1" he said ; " well, well, well !"
w men was ms soie comment. i Takinir mv hand under his arm, hfijpv
drew me awa'y from the path, up toward the level of the hill, where a little breeze stirred s.umbrcusly, and a solitary lake, shut in with foliage of bamboo and clambering vine, cooled the air. " Rest here a bit, and wipe your eyes," said the captain, spreading his red handkerchief on tbe ground ior me to Bit on. " I am on my wtvy to Senora Marie's to
breakfast, but there's no hurry. Neither she nor all hes- lazy slaves can get it reiady before twelve o'clock, you know." lie looked at hin watch with seaman's exactitude, and sitting down beside me, openeel his great umbrella Dver my heael to shut out the sun. i felt sheltered and comforted. "So you thought I had sailed, Lisbeth?'' he said. "You must have a high opinion of your poor olel captain's good manners I" The tears welled to my eyes again. 1 could not answer. "Tut, tut!" said my companion, cheerily. "You must not be so downhearted, Lisbeth, when Mrs. Marie has taken bo kinaly to you. But you'll get on better when the ship's fairly out of sight. You'll f ;el more settled." " If you were here," I broke forth. " Oh, what dc you want of me? You'll be with the young senor and senoritas, and all the rest of it. They will treat you like a primness. I'm no company fur such. They don't want an old seadog like me." Always from my childhood the captain had come md gone ciut of my life like a myth ; his ship waited in the harbor ; he had wings; he was not like any one else. And for this reason his going from me now s;emed to shut me away forever out of night into a living death. Something of this I muttered incoherently, clinging to him as though he might vanish while I wept. The captain :iooped and looked into my excited fac?; his gray scintillating eye shot a strange ray into mine. " Umph !" he said, fanning himself with his grea sombrero. "It's hot; there's not a breath stirring, and it only ten in the morning." There was nilence for a moment a tropic silence, unbroken by chirp of bird
er fill of leaf. My eyes followed the far glimpse of the ocean, with the occasional ssil heading toward tho harbor. " You like ships, Liabetb?" said the captain. " I love them !" I cried, with enthusiasm. "Just so, just so. You like things with a will; but, my little girl, if you expend so much feeling on everything, what will you have for some good man when he ask you to like him?"
" That would be different." My voice
shook
" What would be different 7" said the
captain, turning suddenly and harshly
upon me. " Lisbeth," he said, more
softly, l&ymg hi great brown hand on
my arm, " you know I mean to be your friend. I want you to remember that after I am gone. If any trouble come
to you, you know where to write; yet, after ail, it will be strange to sail away
without my little girl." I could make no reply.
"I wish the wife was here," said the
captain, with . troubled voice; "she
would tell me what to do."
' There is nothing to do, captain ;
you have done all you could tor me."
" You must, hunt up that engineer, Lisbeth." Tne captain was feeling in
the depths of his fathomless pockets for
an extra handkerchief aii he uttered this jest; but I saw a tear wander down
over the bridge of his nose before he
could find it.
" 1 don't want to hear that joke
again !" 1 cried, angrily. " I mean to live alone. I don't wan't any help lrom
anybody.
" Softly there, my girl, softly !" was the answer ; you do not know what vou ore saying. It's a hard shift to live
alone; 1 have found it so, roving old
dog though 1 am. Do not say that you
wilt live alone, Lisbeth : rather than
that, I would even ask you to marry an
old fellow like me 1"
What I said then I do not know, what I did I do not remember. Like one rescued from Bhipwreck, I looked
into the face of my friend, and thanked
(iod
And so it came about that we two
were wed. There is a little chapel down by the wrter in that far island, a tiny chapel without seats, and with a dim
THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION.
Horace Greeley, of New York, Nominated for President.
B. Gratz Brow-, of Missouri, Nominatod for Vice President.
Platform of the Liberal RepnblloiuM.
Etc.,
EU:
FIRST Di.Y'S PROCIEDLKGS.
At 1 p. m. the convention assembled.
Col. Grosvenor, of Missouri, called the convention to order, and made a short
ddress, atter wbich, by direction ol the
Executive Committee, he proposed the name of Judco Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, as temporary Chairman. The motion was carried unanimously. Mr.
Matthews then made an address upon
the issues of the hour, the sentiments of which were loudly applauded.
Ihe chair in which John Adams sat
when he signed tbe Declaration of In
dependence was set for the intended
rresielent ot the convention.
Mr. Grosvenor, by request of the
Executive Committee, proposed as temporary Secretaries of the convention
Geo. Ward Nichols, of Ohio; G. W.
Palmer, of Illinois, and Joseph Pulitzer,
of Missouri. By instruction of the
Executive Committee, he offered the
following resolution :
Jtesolveif, I hat when the convention
adjourn it adjourn to meet ttgain
ro-morrow at 10 o ciock, and that m the meantime the several State delegations
elect from among themselves delegates
doubles tne number ot votes to be cast by the respective States in the electoral college, and that when thin convention meets again at 10 o'clock to-morrow
morning, the names of the delegates so
elected report themselves tor the pur
pose of proceeding to the transaction of
too busineea ot the convention.
The Chairman then stated that the
work of preliminary organization had been completed.
As the President was about to put a
motion to adjounrn, he was interrupted and his voice drowned by a sudden and
vociferous call tor Senator Uarl Schurz from all parts of the hall, which were continued until tbe gentleman appeared on the front platform.
Mr. Hohurz entertained the aiwemInge with a short but eloquent address. The Chairman thon announced that
the convention stood adjourned until
10 o'clock Thursday morning.
SEC0VD DATS PROCEEDINGS. The convention met Thursday morn
ing at 1U:JU o clock, Judge Stanley Ma thews in the chair. The usual pre-
iminary committees were named and
an adjournment was had until 3 o'clock
in the afternoon.
The convention re-assembled at about
three o'clock. The large hall was elensely crowded with people in every
.jortion, a large number ot ladies lend-
ne interest to tbe scene by their pres
ence in the galleries:
The report ot the Committee on Per
manent Organization was presented by
Judge Spaulding, of Obio ; tbe name of
Senator schurz, as .Permanent fresi
dent, being received with a storm of
cheers and applause. The report was
unanimously adopted, as tollows
Permanent President Jion. ejarl
Schurz, of Missouri.
Vice Presidents Alabama, Tho. i
A. Murt ; Arkansas, Q. Underwood :
California, W. M. Rockerly; Connecti cut, Hon. David Clark ; Delaware, none:
Florida, none; Georgia, R. L. Malt;
Illinois, John Wentwoi th ; Jndianji,
Geo. W. Julian ; Iowa, J. A. Rom berg ;
Kansas, Hon. K. J. urawford ; Keiv tucky, Laban Moore; Louisiana, L. T, Dilassize ; Maine, L. W, Perkins ; Mary
land, Henry W. Hoffman; Massachu
setts, Gen. W. F. Bartlett; Michigan,
O. P. UUrK ; Minnesota, Aaron liora
rick : Mississippi, Col. H. Cocke : Mis
souri, Josian f orces; neurasKa, jno.
AlcC'ormick; JNevada, Geo. G. Lyon;
New Hampshire, Wm. H, Gove ; New
Jersey, J. Miller McKim; New York,
Taos. Kaines; jNortn uaroiina, u. u,
Hether; Ohio, O. Follett; Oregon, J,
W. Johnson: Pennsylvania, M. a
Lowry; Rhode Island. E. Harris ;
nicker of tapsrs burning before the
shrine of ths Virgin. There one morn
ing, before the sun was up, and before
the ship spread her homeward sails in
the harbor, a wtnderirg priest read the
marriage service over two strangers.
while the stout senora p.nd her dark
eyed little ones stood in a hushed group looking on, and Liza looked in at the
doorway with her finger on her lips,
The White Connt.
Those who delight in mystery will be
glad to hear of a new claimant to the throne of Spain, whose career has been almost as strange as that of the famous Man in the Ircn Mask, anil will recall
the interest awakenea some years ago
by the (luestion, " Have we a Bourbon
among us ? " It appears by lateadvice
from abroad that u prince has appeared and hai been recognize 1 and received by
the e:x-ing of Naj lei and others of
the Bourbon lamily. 1.1 is history
this: Ferdinand VII. of Spain, the father of the ex-Queen Isabella, had four wives, one of whom elied in giving
birth to a son. It appears Unit this
child was se'cretly taken to tbe United State, was brought up in the vicinity of New Orleans, and there married, in his nineteenth year, a beautiful Creole. The t.on of this wedded pair is the young man who now, under the odd title of the White Count, claims the throne of Charles V. If hin identity be established, he has precedence over the young Prince of Aatuiias in his claim. It is Buid that the Legitimists of Spain are 'greatly excited over this now heir to royal honors ; but it seems quite an probable that tho wbola stery is the pleisant fiction of some lively French feuilletonist.
Souti Carolina, W. W. Wheeler; Tea
nessee, Gilbert Meyers ; Texas, E. Morcan Hamilton; Vermont, Maj. J. H
Saulsbury; Virginia, Geo. Rice; West
Virginia, Ward a. Lamoo ; Wisconsin,
W. n. JJoe ; Uistr;ct oi uoiumDia.
Joseph Casey; Dakota Territory, F. 0.
Etrerts. Principal Secretaries Gen. W, E.
McLane, of Indiana; John X. Davideon, of Minnesota; D. J. Wright, of
Maine ; J. II. Khodes, ot Utno. Senator Schurz was then conducted to the platform. He was presented to the convention by Judge Mathews, and made an address which was frequently interrupted by applause. After the adoption of the report of the Committee on Rules, and the ieception and reference to the proper committees of sundry resolutions, the convention adjourned until 7i p. m. The con vention came together promptly at half past 7 o'clock, tbe attendance being greater then in the afternoon. The Chairman announced that the Committee on Platform was not ready to report, and would not be entirely prepared until 11 o'clock to-morrow. He suggested that the intervening time be consumed in presenting the names of candidates, and hearing speeches of their friends. The proposition seemed to meet with some favor, and it was so resolved. A littls time, however, showeel that the convention was disinclined to this kind of business, and some time was pas.ed in presenting resolutions of various kinds, which were referred without debate to the Committee on Platform. Cassius M. Clay, Judge Mathews and others made short speeches, nnd the convention adjourned until 10 o'clock Friday morning.
THIRD DAY S rROl'EBDINOS. convontion re-assembled at
10
The
10 o'clock Friday morning. The Committee on Resolutions presented their report. The following is the platform in full as reported and adopted : We, the Liberal Republicans of the United Btates, in National Oonvnntion aiisembled, at Cincinnati, proclaim th a follow ing principles as essential to just government. iSri-W recognise ths equality of men before the law, and hold that it i the duty of the Government, in its dealing! with the people, to mete out eijunl Mi'l exaot justice to all, of whatever nativity, race, color or persuasion, religious or political. Second We pledge ouiflelves to maintain tho law. the union of theue States, emanci
pation nnd enfranchisemept, and to oppono
anv reopen me of the queetions settled by
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amend metits of tbe Constitution.
Third We demand the irr mediate and
ftbfolutci removal of all disabil ties imposed on account of tbe rebellion, whi:h was finally satidue4 seven yeara ago, bettering that uni
versal arai,eaty will result in oomplete pacm cat ion in a P. sections of the country.
Jrourtli Ijocai auJI-rovernmont. witn im
partial suffrage, will guard the rights of all citizenn mire secarely than any centralized power. The public welfare requires the supremacy of the ch 11 over the military
tuthon'ty, and Iree tom ot person under tne protection ef the habeas corjua. We demand for he individual the fitrgest liberty,
eortaiatent with public order, for the State eel "-government, s nd for the nation to return to the methods of peace nnd the constilutiona ; limitations of power.
.i' wi Tne civil service or tneiiovernment
han become amero instrumei t of partisan tiranuv i nd pereoc&l ambition and an. ob
ject of snlfiah greed. It is a scandal t.nd a
reprofich upon tree institutions, ana Di-eo" a demoralization dangerous to 'Ae'perpetuitv of a rnptiblican Government.
firm ive tberetore regard a morougn
reform ol the civil service t one of the must praising necessities of the hour; that
honesty, capacity ana naeuiy eonatiurce ine
on y vali4 claims to puoltc employment;
tli nt tbe offices of Uovernment cease lonet
mutter of arbitrary favoritism and
pu',ronaK(, and that public station
shall beeme again the post of honor. To
lli is end ie is imperatively required mat. no President shall be a candidate for re-election.
fkvtntK The publio credit must be sa
credly maintained, and we denounce repudiiitkin in every form and guise.
tio.iti a weeay return to arecie pay-
mimt a demanded alike by the hiehest con
siderations of commercial morality nnd
honest; (ioveroment.
Ninth -Tit remember with gratitude the
heroism e nd sacrifices of the soldiers and en Ion. of the Republic, and n act of ours kali over detract from their justly earned
mine or tbe lull rewards ot tn sir patriotism. ri!i- We are opposed to all further
grants of landa to railroads or other corpora
tions, rue public domain snouia ne neia
as-orec, to actual settlers.
te)j:iU-W hold that it in the duty of
the Govt i-nment. in its intercourse with for
f ign nations, to cultivate tbe friendships of
peace or treating with all on lair ana equal
terms ; regarding it alike dishonorable either to deiQhnd what is not right, or to submit to
n.DM ie w rong. TukIjV For the promotion and success c( the te-reral principles and lueport of the
candidate nominated by this convention,
ws invito and cordially welcome tne co
operation of all patriotic cUiiens, without
regard to previous political affiliations.
The next order of business was stated by tho Chair to be the nomination of a
candtdaie tor the Presidency, witnout a formul presentation of cancl relates. The
roll of SUtes was called. The result of
the first ballot was as follows: Adams, 203; Trumbull, 108; Davis, 92J; Oreoley, 17 ; Brown, 98 ; Curtin, 62; Chase,
;! : Sumner. 1.
Before tbe vote was announced, Gratz
Brown, by unanimous consent, took the
stand, thanked his friends for their sup
port of him, but withdrew his name,
and liste d his friends to support Horace
(jreeley.
The Chair arose to announce the vote,
when a Missouri delegate rose to a question of privilege and asked to
change his vote. Considerable con fusion ensued, various delegations ask' ice to chance their votes and conten
ition arising in some of them, notably Kentucky, as to what the changes among 1 herm elves really were. CassiuB M. Clay announced Kentucky's vote changed tire from Brown to Greeley, and one
from Brown to Adams. Hew Jersey changed some of her votef . The chair BJincunced the result : Adams, 203 ; Trumbull, 110 ; Davis, 9:J ; Greeley, 147; Brown, 95; Curtin, 62; Chase, 2J; Wfiol e number of votes in the convention, 61-1; necessary to a choice, 358. No choice was made. At the close of the call for a second ballot, 1 ho vote stood: Greeley, 239; Adams, 243; Trumbull, US; Davis, 81; Brown, 2; Chase. 1. At the end of the third call, the vote footed up : Greeley, 253 : Adams, 264 ; Trumbull, 156 ; Davis, 44; Brown, 2. The fourth ballot resulted: Adams, 279; Greeley, 251 ; Trumbull, 141; Davis, II. TJie fifth ballot stood : Adams, 309; Greek)?, 268 : Davis, 27. Necessary to a choice, 3581 A f ixth ballot was ordered amid a ucei'ii! of groat confusion. Missouri :ukel leave to retire for consultation.
A motion was made for a recess of
twer ty minute. Cries of "No." 'Sit down." The motion was lost by an overwhelming vote. The sixth ballot r.Buited ; Greeley, 482; Adams, 187. B. Grate Brown, of ' Missouri, was
nominated for Vice President, on the
second ballot. Clpln ( of the Freaa aad f rosalateat Pelltleisuu. I:unapoli3, Ind., May 5, The &n-
tmet of to-morrow places at the head of
its columns the candidates ot the Liberal Bapublioan Convention for President fnd Vice President, subject to the ilecisiem of the Democratic State Con-
ven Men, which meets on the 12th of
June. In tho editorial statine its posi
t.ion he Sentinel says that the party,
t.hinuirh jU leaders and press, were
committed to the support of the Cin
cinnati nominees, ii a liberal and fair
platform was adopted. This the Sentinel
da i mn to have been dom, and that
Grteliiy and Brown, having been promi
nently named as candidates for the nomination before the meeting cf the con vention, and no objections urged to
ithem, there u no good reason wny tney
sbeiuld not be accepted, and that if
either of the other candidates had been iidlictiiJ, just an serious objections woulel
hat e been urged sgninst them as against Grfelnv. The Sentinel says that in its
conrsii it commits no one of the Sentinel
office, and if the State Convention shall
decidu differently it will cheerfully
acuuirace. It thinks there is no reason
able chance lor electing a national
Democratic ticket, and that tbe choice
is narrowed down to Greeley or Grant, and it prefers Greeley on the Liberal platform that he has been nominated on. Tho feeling is growing stronger and
stiomter in tavorot the Cincinnati nomi
nees, and the most ultra-Democrats
freely express the opinion that it is best
to accept, the Cincinnati plattorm ana
candidates in tbe national contest.
Detroit, ftlay 5. Of the press of this
ci'.y, the Free Press, Democratic, favors
a straieht Democratic ticket this tall
ar.i die Pott, Admin stration, and tbe 7Mb vie. anti Grant, take emphatic
ground against the Cincinnati nomtna-
tionu.
Titos? ILLK, Pa., May 5. The Courier,
tho Democratic organ, comes out strong-
TOE TBE BYS AID
elected ; second, because if elected they will free us forever from semi-militarv
despotisms like that of Grant's; third, because both are able and honest men ; fourth, because there is ro prospect of doing any better, and great danger that we might much wone; fi th, because if elect! there is hardly any danger of such a teket being counted out by the methods so well Known to the Grant party. We predict that not only will the Democratic party indorse the
tion, without dissent or division, but that it will acquire newand unexpected strength, and finally be ratified by the largest popular and electoral vote given
The Watliehe Pott, the organ of Sena
tor Schurz, announces to-day its support
otfjthe Greeley-Brown ticket in tbe following words : After the anxious suspense which was felt here with regard to the Cincinnati Convention, it is by no means surprising that the result is not entirely satisfactory to many persons. It is true that Greeley is known through
out tne una as an lion eat and wellmeaning man, and Germans must especially appreciate the really noble position which his Tribune assumed in contrast with all the other English papers during the French-German war, but these very same Germans cannot, after all, help being to some extent alienated by some of tbeir notions, which to some extent must bt admitted to be not altogether liberal, and putting the question whether a more popular head might not
have been given to the reform move-1 ment which certainly originated here. Entirely justified as this feeling and diaappointment are, still the Grunt party will not profit by them, lor when people once begin to criticize, they are not likely io confine their objection to the candidates of one party. And what upright patriot is there dissatisfied with Greelej's nomination who would so much as think of Grant T If the Cincinnati Convention has not pat forward the best man, that is sorely no reason for now voting for the worst. Frequently in life, and, above all, frequently in American politics, the experience is made that the beet simply not to be had, and then no other resource remains for us than to accept the comparatively better." . New Yokk, May 5. August Belmont was interviewed on yesterday, and, said of the platform and nominees of the Cincinnati Convention : " This is now but a bombshell. We must wait until we see its effect on the press, the people, and in fact on many things. It must go further. I go further. It may be policy to adopt the ticket. Mr. Giedey, in my opinion, will run well in the Southern States, but, as I said before, it is too soon to judge yeU I will do most anything to beat this Administration; not that 1 have anything against Mr. Grant, but I do not like his idea of government. The Philadelphia Convention must meet yet, and them the Democratic party will have to act wisely.. It is my opinion that the Liberal ticket will be withdrawn in September if the Democrats ciake good nominationn. In the meantime I judge it better for the party to say or do nothing ; that is better. What we might say now would probably be prevented or turned against ns whea the nomination
are made."
Washington, May 3. To Horace
Greeley : . Allow me tc congratulate you on being selected to lead a movement which, by the will of the people and God's blessing, is to purify the Govern
ment. JLTHAM TauinoiL."
Washinuton, May 3. I warmly wel
come your nomination, and predict your election. R. E. Fkntos." Dubuque, May 4. Old Antagonist, we will support yon.
D. A. J&ahont, ixlttor Telegraph, New Yosjc. May 5. Horace Greeley
clubs are forming in e very ward of New York and Brooklyn, ,-md every preparation is making for a vigorous and tuocessful campaign.
The Brooklyn iffle, Democratic, warmly indorses the Cincinnati nominE-tions.
Tebu Haute, Ind.. May 5. The fol
lowing telegram front Mr. Voorhees is furnished the agent of tbe Associated Press by the editor of tbe Terra Haute Journal .-
"Washington, May 4. IotikEditok
of TDK journal: me ruetmocrais wm
meet as usual in National Convention, and through its authorized delegates
nominate its camaiaaiee ana aeciare nn policy. Until then no man has th right to commit the jriy-ap to its fnture action. Its orgsAisatioo and pruv
oiples s iould be nla ntuned at all hazards. I . W. Vookbbbs."
The Liberal movement has no per
ceptible strength here; both parties repudiated it nith aln.o&t entire unanimity. CHABXisTOir. S. C. May 5. Tho con
servative press of South Carolina heart
ily indorse tbe (Jinuinnati ticxet ana platform as eminent ly acceptable to the South.
Idttiti Bertie. BT Has. KIMW V. I.ATTIKOBa. Our dear little Bertie wa-i te st r. W e tfaonabt thatheraretyaadraa away. We searched for kin aich. awwefaed for hias We looked eTryw ar teat a. Ulr jld o. We looked in the cellar, we leokM hi thai shed. W e looked in the bisket and dar e Had : We looked in the iurl r hehiad the Mc chain. We looted in tbe closet and r-der the '.wt : We looked ia tie entarn.i sad into the weO, Of all tbe stran i lecea I aaver eaa teU, Bntjettono purpose, wn"t III iM not s Where in tbe wWe rorld little Jtertts Half tnthteaed ai4 anxicui, with iaet fyfas
We ran to the neis ibotv, and. into the street. We chanced to flat ee up to the top of the hoi And there nn tbe riis"-ple as atari aa a nun
Bat dear litUe Bert e, so 'usnsi ana mi ; M e scarcely knew -rbnUnr in tab rtoerr. And not till we hac hin safe on te the crooad Did we dare to feel sa-elitt'.e Bertie was fenad. How he ever elimked an there we sever may Twaa a very sjneer plaoe for a babv to s. Bat we think the deal CJjd whe lakes oar of ns Sent anseU to canid bun. lest Bertie should fall.
4 HsrHM ia Cme.
As soon in tbe spring as Jack Free vacates the village sidewalk, boys and marbles begin to occupy it. It is quite safe to predic . that during the month of May not a village can be found in all the region of the Northern United States of America witnout its marble-ring. Boys, do you know where your marbles are made T Possibly you are the happy owners of some- fine old English marbles, beautifully variegated, or of some pore white "alleys." Or you may know the pride of ownership i a precious "taw," which seems to have some mysterious power of its own. Various kin is of patent marbles hare been manufac sr red. Many are mads of potter's clay, glazed and burned in a furnace; others or" marble Or sUbaster. In Saxony, mfirble are made by breaking a hard stone into seroare blocks with a hammer; Tbe blocks are then assorted into groups of various sixes. About one hundred cf the blocks are put upon a stone slab, which has been cut into concentric grooves. Hunt tap tbe meanings of these two words in the dictionary if yon do not know them already. Over" this slab is another of oak. supported by a lever, which is tamed by the power of the mill, while little streams of ws tr are let into the grooves tn nmvent the wood from aret tin too
hct by friction, and alto help make the
marbles routid. y uus process, in shout fifteen minutes' time, they are made ready for market. Only ordinary marbles are manufactured in this way. A mill containing three of these blocks will make 60,000 in a week. At other places, many processes are gone through with. After tfeey have been " sorted" snd worn down on grindstwiea, and scraped, they are completed by friction sfsinet each other in cylinders of hard mind or atone. Thev are rjoltfhed by
putting emery into tho OTlicden. They
to colored m zinc-lined vessels ana m email quuotifciee, the coloring matter being poured npon them from time to time. The dust of calcined tin is applied to give them the last polish. Do vgu know theitsrreatQusutitieeof marbles
M sent to ladle, snd China? Most of
tbe beantim . " agates " which you dots prize so highly come from a mill at Obenstein on the Nahe, in Germany. Patent marbles are known by the names " Dutchman," " Frenchman," " Chinaman." How many of the following games at marbles do' you know T Bonnes Sye, Conqueror, Die Short, Eggs in the Bosh, Increase Pound, Knock Out. Long Taw, Bridget Board, Odd or Even, the Pyra mid, Picking the Plums, Ring Taw, tans and Snops, Bounce About, Three oles. Teetotum Shot, and Tipshares. Hearth and Home.
ly f it Greeley for President. It says
" Wo ought to make sure of the over
throw of an Administration which has become it stench in the nostrils of a
ereitt majority of the American people.'
Sr. Louis, May 5. The Times, of this city, nays: "We shall support Greeley ano' t'.rown cheerfully by laboring for an indorsement of their candidacy by
the Democratic National Convention
because, tir.it, we believe they can be
What do yon think it was? A goldheaded cane? No, indeed. Grandmother was too poor to have anything like that. Why, her best Sunday-go tomeeting gewn was faded delaine, and her woolen shawl was worn almost threadbare. Yet, poor as she was, she wouldn't have given her stiff for all the gold-headed canes that ever were made. It was an odd sort of a staff too a sort one does not see very often. It was nearly five feet high, and had a head for all the world like that of a wide-awake, sunny-faced boy ef fifteen. I had to look twice before I could believe my eyes ; and while 1 was looking, I heard a brave young voice say, Keep tight hold of m, grandmother, there's such a crowd to-aay." But tbe best of it all was, that while he seemed very proud of grandmother, keeping her arm in a is all the way down Broadway, he didn't seem one bit proud of himself Grandma was proud, though of her staff. Hearth mi Bmm. Jewel Ampliation. The venerable town of Plymouth, England, has a heroine who wgl doubtless reeeivs her full meed of that kind of feme which newspaper paragraphs confer. She had recently suffered an accident by which two of her fingers were
permanently bentover the palm. Averring that mther than be thus crippled
she would loose her hand altogether, she applied to a surgeon to have it sun
putated. tie retusea, ana tnea j ansunde her from her silly purpose, bat
she pernt-ted, and left him to go m search of a less scrapvkms sawbones. This she found in the form of a railroad
train, and she actually hud her wnst on the track, and had her hand crashed Off by the wheels of the can.
Difference Between Strength of Will
and Strenrh of Mind. A verv clear illustration of the dis
tinction between st rength of will and strength of mind wi onoe given by s gay young fellow vrho probably had never read a page of metaphysics in bis life. This young gentleman, whose
friends called him Bob, for shortness, was of an exceedingly nervous temperament, and any unusual indulgence it. wine was sure' to leave him in a ahaky and unhappy condition. Bob had u consequential acquaintance named
Wattles, who was grriea witn tne aosorning qualities of a sponge, and who, although in the habit of drinking much more freely than Bod, was never known to exhibit anv siena of inebriety.
One morning Waffles called upon his friend, whom he found seated on the stool of repentance, with a wet towel bound round his bead, and severti empty soda bottles by ) is side ; and,
shocked at the s ght, he began to
moralise.
"So tou were tiaht asain last mchU
eh?" said Waffles. "Now, why don't
you do as 1 do? V hen 1 have drunk
enough I stop. You should have more
strength of mind, aad imitate me."
"Strength of mind," snarled Boh, who, nervous and irritable, had very
little disposition to submit to a temper
ance lecture from suoh a source ; " what
the duce has strength of mind to do
with it? Strength ot will, vou mean T
" Well," quoth Waffles, " what is the
difference?"
" I'll tell you the difference," retortod Bob, vindictively f w brutes have no
mind at all, but a jackass has more
strength ol wm than any being that
breathes."
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