Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 9 April 1859 — Page 2

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U. HDIVKN.

nmy ?.W .IKKK. KKKXKV.

For President in 1860,

IN DOUGLAS,

Sithjrrf la the decision nf thr Drnwrntii National ('onrmtion. to be holdni at Charlrstn/t, South Carolina.

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Tritinw le.'ivn the. ('r:m'fur(li-\ i'.lo :ia fjllo

A m., roicht i..o l. Ji..

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Tlir'H u'h Kxprew A. M. Ai-rniiimoilalitiii 4:i\' 1*. M.

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eiations are t-hrtse of respectable men, not,

hon,I

S&" In most of the towns of the State, the retail liquor traffic has hi ed. Public opinion is the that is.aceomplishinsr this happ^

Blackwood roil Ma .—The March number of this splendid magazine has been ...received. Its contents are as follows:

Chalons—The Camp Clothes and Scare| crows The Turks in Kalafat, 1S.YI The Castes and ('reeds of India The Luck of Ladysmede: Italv her Nationality or Dependence Ihisent's Tales from the Norse Napoleon III. and Kurope.

The new volume of this magazine, together with the other four Heviews. commenced the first of last January. Now is an excellent time to subscribe. For terms,

i^'c., see advertisement in another column.

tury gives some important information rcl-'

tions of flour from the Atlantic ports and

MAXSOX A- POWERS' IRI STORK "Wc took a stroll a few days sinco through

this extensive establishment, which i. now heavily stockcd with goods, recently purchased from thc cstorn markets. Vast quantities of drugs, medicines, oils, paints,

I For the Review. CHRISTOPHER WALRl'P. Friend Bowe.n:—'Permit mc, through I the columns of your paper, to offer some remarks concerning the above named gentleman.

During the campaign of '58, Mr. "WalkI up was considered one of the most prominent speakers that the Republican party could bring into the field. His voice was :heard in almost every town, hamlet, and

school-house in the county, in defense of Republican principles, and no occasion, where praise might be given, was permit-

tod to pass without having it bestowed up-

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W O S I I N I

him with a lavish hand. Even their {•"posters" were headed with the name of

Chris. W alkup, followed bv such names as Hill Bromley, Jim Wilson, fcc., &c. But no sooner docs Mr. Walkup, from a conviction of duty, forever renounce the doc-

f3"Th^l'rii\vl«rilsvi!l(' Hcvittw. furnish- tritics of the Republican party, than all the n:l to Snliieribrr« at fcl.-'iO in niv:tncc, or *2, ,i„„„ .* if not |m id within the voir. -4 satellites denounce him as a weak man, ^and an "office seeker."

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AICliKK THAN ANV l'AI'KK IT11I.ISIIKD IN Crmvfoi it9villi!! Advertiser* cull u| and uxniriini- irar list of irsr srr?sciui',r.i:s. j&\

Rut such, really, in my opinion is not I the case, and if he had an object in view

that justified the cour.sc lie pursued, it was I the dictates of an honest heart—the promptings of a silent monitor, that told I

him that honor, virtue, and morality, were far above and preferable to the most lucrative offiec that could be bestowed upon

lim

a ,c

nors. The lasv provides that the applicant

shall show to the Hoard that "he is a man

of good ed with a license." This decision the part of the Commissioners is truly commendable and will meet with a hearty approval from tho entire community. Of course, no moral man would sell liquor by

the dram, much less sell an adulterated and poisonous article, and that too to minors and drunkards. We have an abiding faith in our commissioners. We believe

gammers, thieves, vagabonds and pimps. dary is too good a place for hiui. The scale to weigh applicants to sell their! fellow-men the bitter waters of .Lethe,

should be impartially held. Let our Com-, ie .u\.m agt.s i.it

mission crs do their dutv, and our word for

:Si». every applicant will'be found wantinc. if'*

en abandon-

irivat power't]

constituency in the world.

If the love ot office induced him to adop* !his present course, whv did h", after

failed to r.-ceive the nomination for Troas-'

urer. volunteer to spend hi- time and

K. K. HKVANT, Aok.nt. to which thev aspired

rr»-:- :.-=s=i's.rr-1

'J'iii: OitANTixt or Licknsi: r.\m:u Tin:

an ha to

adulterated liquors, or to drunkards or mi-

1,ni 11

cor^*ia^

they will do their duty like men and grant)sent word that he had credited her a license to no man who is unr.ble to show band's whisky hill with the amount.

111011-

in behalf of the Republican party dur-1*"1'1

but opposition to the Democracy and if Gov. Douglas replied that— lie had permitted the convention to have -V

«r ..... i, lorvot so estimable and virtuous a private SAM..1I KAIL KAl. required in a Republican convention to re- {gentleman, and so illustrious a patriot and

\t ,i,„» I demonstrations of any marked character,

on that convention, for manv "ood and lion-

uuu auu uuii

est Republicans permitted their names to cessions through the streets, being underKrcifrht

'y ('oinmissioncrs will grant no license at P"1'^'—cutofl his connection with them for- Iiuchanan will take official notice of the

their next regular session in June, to any ever—and enlisted under the broad ban-1 man who has been known heretofore to sell

er cmocr

acy, for which we extend to

welcome. KIPLL'i

"WOULD THAT MAN STEAL.

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o^gootl moralr/mractrr^ and fit to be truM- the name of Posey, in Brookville, recently dent of the Philadelphia Press

upon sold whisky customer until he had Passing over a very ancient bridge, run tip quite a bill, fie then went to the and through the old city gates, and a wife of a man whom he had kept, drunk, Peasant avenue of tine trees beyond, you

I to say thev have the cheapest, goods, but

fiu.t K.wvronnsvii.i.r. lAit. lie raw- Bromi.kv can and will sell all kinds of dry about ten o'clock the sea breeze wafts in a :,fordsvillc bar at present consists of the fol-'goods, silk goods, white goods, bonnets, lowing gentlemen: ribbons, fancy goods, clothing, hats and

McDonald & W illson, allace .t White, caps, lower than all. And be it rcmem-

!,o bore,! th it ,ilis hmiaC is

Isaiah V. llesten and .Mary M. Ead-\ Patrick 11. Sweeny and Amelia d. Lane. Calvin Walker and Ann Mastersou.

——>Capt. Wallace with his company of' explorers have not yet started, They are awaiting the finishing of a design by Jason W. Corey, of a new style of fire-arms, styled the electric gun, which weighs but nine pounds. This gun dispenses with powder and ball, electricity being the only agency used. With one of these guns a marks-

8®" A corre.Miondcnt of the V. ('en-. with unerring certainty. With these wean-

ons, Capt. Wallace expects to annihilate

otivc to manufactures in California. his statements we learn that there arc in march through Sonora the State flour mills, with a capacity for producing 2,oU0,00n barrels per an-[ num nearly $3,000,000 having been expended in erecting these mills. Importa-

From

any foe that my [sic] present itself to arrest his

M)tk t: or r.LKcriox.

The annual election of officers for the Montgomery County Agricultural Society,

aflp

crally, arc invited to be present.

By order

THE.FREE SCHOOL.

by this establishment for filling order?, are Monday, three Democratic Justices of thc second to none in tho State. 'Peace and one Constable were clected.

Ihe Free School opens on next Monday.

d} estufTs,, glass, Ac.. Ac., wore stored away Every scholar is requested to be in atiu huge piles from the basement to the up- jtcndancc on thc first day of thc session per stories. The trade of this house has By order of thc Board. increased so, of late years, that thc purchase of such an immense stock at one time has been found necessary to keep up with thc demands. The facilities afforded

Mr If it were becoming for either philosophers or poet* to meddle with Nature'* business at all, Alice Cary'i counsel to the. March flowers would be quite seasonable in April: ___ yf*

Keep your muddy eovera close, flowers, Nor d»re to open your eyes, For all this month your lover, the Sun,

Will only tell yon lies! f»

lie will only tell yon lies, flowers, Pretty and undesigned, For through this rough and cloudy month

He never knows hia mind.

The Daffodil may look at him With her bright and angry eyes, mouths But pink9 that come with their hearts in their

Most wait for warmer skies.

O diiise?, stay in your grassy house, Yc poor deluded things, '.o

And keep your little whito fingers shut Away from his golden ring

as mean a man as he is. The penitcn- ®r '.

uomi.ia

,,tn hasi

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"ii ii jbudv. A\ know it is very common for all I be linagiuedordescnbed lie viii kick tlie lieain.

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art

.Isaae Naylor, James W ilson, Hiram Still- hoofs aud shoes. Be sure and call at this Igles breakfast you have had, forsakes you. .well, John Morgan, and Gu.sfavus Scott. new store if you would save money. l'ou can only lie and watch the swarthy, dark-eyed, Minorcan inhabitants lounging

The following arc the Licenses 'b

gr nitC(Ii

pm thc First of A

jtl,

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Yc meadow lilies, leopard-like. Under the mold, so doop, Crouch close, and keep your spotted cubs

For a month yet, fast asloep. j..

Trust not, ye modest violet*, Mis promiwa to you, Nor dare upon his fickle smilo

To broaden your kerchiefs blue.

Ye little twinkling marigolds, 'Tis wi«s sometimes to conbt, And though the wind should shake his moans

To music, look not out. 'Tis a rough and churlish month, flowers, So heed yc my advice, Else you will wake to go to Bleep

Willi t-hccks as cold as icc.

Tiik British

and

Americans

[couver's.—There

Van-

is a smart chance

t,nt tll Araerican

residents of Victoria,

(Vancouver's Island, will come in collision

r5t!s

ing the campaign of '[#. American firms of that place requested No sir, Mr. Walkup is too honest fo be- 'permission to celebrate "Washington's

long to any party that has no principles

irth

thou

ilipwn liim i.. t\, ,i desire to show especial regard to the memnewii nun uown to tlic standard of morals! .• i1, v®

ive a nomination, he would have been !statesman as Washington, he did not feel the man. Jjut it is a notorious fact, that lauthorized even in this case, to depart so honesty, virtue and morality, had no claims

authorities. Nineteen

"day, by firing a salute at mid-day.

possessing the moat sincere

ar fr0IU custom as to

sanction any public

1 *1 1 lv

such as the firing of salutes, or public pro-

scntcd before it, but they were all (taken by private individuals." thrust a.sidc to give place to men of doubt- A public meeting was held, and a com-

"'oral character and unworthy the place

mIttC0

appointed to draw up for publico-

tl0n to tlie wor,cl a

protest against this in-

suit to the feelings of the American por-

'kup had realized the dia- tion of the ccmmunitv. This protest has

an jr a W as in to a it is a id 3 I

subject and join in the protest.

ST. AUGUSTINE.

The oldest town in the United States is net the least attractive, if we may trust

na American says, a fellow by the highly colored picture of a corrcspou-

who had a few bushels of coru of her own, ami bought it, promising to pay tho money when he went for it, but he took the corn away, promising to send the pay immediately. hen the woman sent for tho .v. f.iv tl... ii,. ,i usually ot dark stone, line streets wi tlie pa} to! tlie corn, the heartless wretch I j. •. -i pavement or sulewuiK, scarcely wide en hus-ifor our carriage, and overhung by balco-j ^Ve nies which almost meet. The effect is al-

Ihat he is an honest, indit.\trioax and up- don't say he would steal, but do say that together foreign and novel. The old right citizen in cmnmuniu—that his asso- if there is no hell there ought to be one I Sp

come out upon the plaza, a pleasant square.!

Kpiscopul church, and the court-house, on three sides, while the fourth lies open toward the sea. The city is antique and picturesque in the extreme. The houses, rithout enough I

f°rt battlements anil water

,c rfcct as at ll

ic penitcn-. tj,

""^rsclling every-1 I ho charming atmosphere can neitl,

^"'P^tion, is

limit of the town on the north, and the

1 L'nited States barr.\cks its farthest extent [towards the south. From the one to the other of these points, our Government has

wuwn.1uc.14. uu,

piofca&cs bnilt a sea-wall, which forms a splendid

»S S"«ds, enables him to do promenade. ...

It must, be exor two in the

i-'--

.'or an hour

cr lce

-pi /. Ii -n ii .. ,. morning, it is apt to be too warm, but

soft, balmy, and delicious air as grateful to the sense as a cordial. Pleasure parties meet you at every turn, the invalid forgets

crs for IviU, y^r

sun

(o ]id iv

i„sf. transform the whole picture into a gay scault i.i T-i- port scene on thc Mediterranean.

dames M. Plunkct, and Elizabeth Mil-i jler. Marshal Lashley and Lueinda Watkins.

meagre'cg-

while the bright waters,

the shining beach aud the long sea-wall,

TRIDU.VT INSl/UANCK COMPANY.

For the information of persons hold ins policies in this Company, we copy the fol lowing

man can direct a streak of lightning, a per-' was perpetually enjoined from further exfect thunderbolt, at a distance of six miles c^'sing the powers and franchises con-

tei7']11 lj-\

its liart

at the Court House, in anee for thc Company.

from Chili and Oregon are now nearly at Crawfordsvillc, on Saturday April 00, VALUABLE WORKS FOR SAIE an end. 1^55). The members, and the public gen-!|

AC0B

JOHN BUTLEE, Superintendent.

the Township Election on last

cr, the Court being of

opinion that the said corporation has be-

,conic insolvent, and is so managing its'

"at mv present itsrlf to arrest his concerns that the public and those" having funds in its custody arc in danger of be-: ing defrauded thereby, Francis E. Iloppin,

Esq., was appointed Receiver. The Attorney General appeared for the Commissioners, and S. Currey for the creditors of the corporation. There was no appear-

K. Aemor, agent for the Il'lus-

tratc(1 Life of

Kit Carson," and Life

Speeches of Daniel Webster," is at

I KAXIv M. IIEATON, present stopping at the Crane House.— Secretary. Every person who wishes to make a valua-!

ble addition to his library, should subscribe immediately for these works. The Life of Kit Carson is clcganth* illustrated and printed on the finest quality of paper. This woik giving us a highly interesting and vivid description of frontier life is esprc'ally adopted for the rising generation and we cannot too strongly urge upon our young men to secure a copy of it.

ti^Kead the advertisement of Snyder's j" Cheap Cash Store,'"' iu another column.

SOffOBA EXPEDIUOH iLX.TJSTIlA.TED 1

The head of the Expedition.

Supplies of the Company.

Scales for weighing the precious metals. Manufactured by Orlando Corey.

Hunting Deer on the Platted

Keeping a sharp look out for Indians.

Meeting the Overland Mail Coach of Butterfield & Co.

Killing Turtles and Alligators on the Gila.

•M

Capture of a Giraffe on the Gila after a ohasc of three weeks.

Interview between the Chief of the Ca-

and swear eternal friendship.

One of the expeditionists pursued by a band of Apaches makes his escape bv leaping over a gorge in the mountains seven hundred feet wide.

roHiiim

SI'PRKiHF. COURT. Visit to thc Alcalda of lil Paso by an Before Ames C. J. and Brayton. agent of thc company. His Highness for Moxmv Mareh°S 18'VJ o. bottle of old bourbon, gives information ,P1 c, V. as to the whereabouts of a Jarce cave The September term of the Court for,

fincd

the county of Providence was connneneed (gets, diamonds and rubier, but the this morning. (trance of which is guarded by a terrible Upon thc application of John 11. Bart dragun.

lett, illiam R. Watson, and Samuel A. Parker, Insurance commissioners, the Trident Insurance company in this city

with vast quantities of golden nug-

rum

We propose to illustrate the Sonor* expedition, which will shortly start for the "undiskivered. kintry." The expedition will use camels instead of mules. The following represents (.f! ij'

Terrific encounter between the explor/l

rea

come to time was declared whipped. The

The ladies (fair senorottas whom the compan)- have captured) chasing antelopes on thc domains of their lords. Capital amusement.

PATAcromnr hrothkm, or

VIKDCffnr THETtOVM.

We are not related. Hu name is John 6tiffithf, and I na William Waldur, and ealj jd oursclyes The Patagonian because it looked well the

bills and pleased the public. We met by chance, about six years since, on the racecourse aVDomfeas'ter, and so took a sort of mutual liking,'and went partners in a tour through the midland counties. We had never seen or heard of each other up to that time. and though we became good friends, wc were never greatly intimate.— I knew nothing of his past life, nor he of mine, and 1 never asked him a question on this subject. I am particular to have all this clear from the beginning for I am a plain man, tell a plain story, and I want no one to misunderstand a wor(d of what I am about to relate, j? foV 1

TVe knew each other's weight and strength now to a hair, and grew bolder with experience, so that there was scarcely anew feat brought out which we did not learn, eyen to the "perchee" business, and the trick of walking, head downwards, on a marble ceiling. T,he fact is, that we were admirably matched, which, in our profession is the most important point of all. Our height was the same, to the sixteenth of an inch, and wc were not unlike in figure. If Griffiths possessed a little more muscular strength, I was the more active, and even that difference was in our tavor. I believe that, in other respects, we suited each other equally well, and know that for the three years and a half which we had spent together, .( counting from our first meeting at Doncaster down to the time when we dissolved partnership with circus folks) we had never had an angry word. Griffiths was' a steady, saving, silent fellow enough, with little gray eyes, and .heavy, black brows. 1 remember thinking, once or twice, that he was not quite the sort of person I would like for an enemy but that was in reference to no act of his, and only a fancy of my own. For myself. I can live with any one who is disposed to live with me, and' love peace and good-will better than anything in the world.

Wc had now grown so expert that we resolved to better ourselves and return to London, which we did somewhere about the end of February or the beginning of March, 1855. Wc put up at a little inn in the burrougb, and before a week was over found ourselves engaged by Mr. James Itice, of the Belvidere Tavern, at a salary of seven pounds a week. Now this was a great advance upon all our previous gains, and the tavern was by no means a bad place for the founding of a theatrical reputation.

Situated half way between the west end and the city, surrounded by a densely populated neighborhood, and lying in the very path of the omnibussus, this establishment was one of the most prosperous of its class. There was a theatre, and a concert room, and a garden, where dancing, and «uppcr eating was going oil from eijrht to twelve o'clock every niirht, all

inanehes and the Captain of the Kxpedi-1 through the summer, which made the placc tion. They form a treaty, drink, smoke,

laced by the Cathedral, the Protestant Catching rout the 1 ea.s of Sierra .Ne- should be raised.it wc proved attractive

vada. Rare sport.

Indians stampeding the stock at night.

special favorite with the working class-

Here, then, we were engaged (Griffiths

.... .. -},) with a promise that our salary

^"l dragon. After a .'"'m.''T V? Z50

ght of three days the dragon failing to ~.

1 us an

pasted up all over the town, and our .s:ila- prcs.sion that came over

ry was increased to fifteen pounds a week those and the gentleman who always writes currents of mv Id

which I take this opportunity to thank him kindly. V.'e lodged (of course together) in a quiet street on a hill, near Islington. Thc house was kept by Mrs. Morrison, a respectable, industrious woman, whose husband had been a gas-fitter at one of the theaters, and who was now left a widow with one only daughter just nineteen years of age. She was very good and very

pretty. She was christened Alice, but slowly along homewards thai her mother called her Ally, and we soon

years. I ain not a good hand at telling a story,

I also fancied, before many months were to speak of it. I had no idea she would I over, that she did not altogether dislike have taken on as she did, and 1 declare me for a man's wits are twice as sharp that, even then, if the posters had not been when he is in love, and there is not a blush,. already out, aud myself bound in honor to or a glance, or a word, that ho does not, act up'to mv engagement, would have -r0ne contrive fo build some hope upon. So one straight to Mr. Bice and declined the busiday, when Griffiths was out, I went down ness' altogether. Poor little soft-hearted

stairs to the parlor, where she was sitting darling! it was a sore trial to her and to by the window, sewing, and took a chair me also, and was an inconsiderate idiot beside her. not to have thought of her feelings in the "Ally, my dear," said I, stopping her first instance. Bur there was m/hclp for right hand from working, and taking it, it now so I gave her the only consolation up in both ot mine, "Ally, my dear, I in my power, by solemnly promising that want to speak to you." jl would be the lirst man tied to the tra-

She blushed and turned pale, and blush-1 peze. It was, of course the safest posijed again, and I felt thc pulses in her! tion, and when I assured her of this she I little soft band throbbing like the heart grew calmer. On all other points 1 kept of a frightened bird, but she never an. my own counsel, as you may be certain jSwercd a syllable. and as to John Griffiths, I saw less of him I Ally, my dear, said I, I am a plain than over. He even took his meals in the man. Iam thirty-two years of age. I. city now, and during the seven days that

don't know how to flatter like some folks.' elansed bntwn^n the twi'ntv-riinrh jinJ rlu-1

company possessing themselves of the hat answer she made, or whether she fessing now that I went and cried a teari arms a couple inches higher up, and lookgold and diamonds become immensely rich, spoke at all, is more than I cau undertake or two in thc passage. ing right into my face "Do vou see this''" Purchased haciendcs and lived in grand to tell, for my ideas were all confused, and -Keep up your spirits, Ally dear," said I "-I* was a large, open cla0q,-knife, and ,1 oulj remember that I kissed her, and y, smiling and kissing her the last thing

waist. I scarcely know when it wa3 that I first noticed the change in John Griffiths but that it was somewhere about this time I am tolerably certain. It i3 bard to put looks into words, and to make accounts of trifles, that, after all, are matters of feeling more than matters of fact but others saw the change as well as myself, and no one could help observing that he grew to

ever. He kept away frpm home as much as possible. He spent all'his Sundays out started away the lint thing after breakfast, and not coming]back again till close upon midnight. He even put an end to our old friendly custom of walking home together after our night's work was over, and joined a sort of tap-room club that was kept up by a dozen or so of idle fellows belonging to the theatre. Worse than this, he scarcely exchanged a word with mc from morning till night, even when we were at meals. He watched me about the room as if I had been a thief. And sometimes, though I am sure I never wronccd him willingly in my life, I caught him looking at me from under those black brows of his as if ho hated nfc.

More than once I laid my hand upon his sleeve as he was hurrying away on Sundays, or turning off towards the club room at night, and said: "Griffiths have you got anything against me?"—or, "Griffiths, won't you come home to a friendly glass with me to-Tiight?" But he either shook me off without a word, or muttered some sulky denial that sounded more like a curse than a civil answer so I got tired of peace-making at last, and let him1 go his own way and choose his own company. "Patagonians." said Mr. Rice one day, for he had a wonderfully merry way with him, and always called us by that name, "I suppose you would make no objection to a little matter of extra work and extra pay on tho sixth—just to end the season with something stunning-—he}'?" "No, no, sir, not we," replied Griffiths, in a sort of hearty manner that wasn't natural to him. "We're ready for anything. Is it the flying business you spoke about the other day "Better than that," said tho manager, tilling up the glasses. "It's a new French feat that has never been done in this country, and they call it the trapeze. Patagonians, your health."

So we drank his in return, and Mr. Rice explained all about it. It was to be an exhibition of posturing and a balloon ascent both in one. At some distance below the car was to be secured a triangular wooden framework, called the trapeze.— l-roni the lower pole, or base of this triangle, one ot us was to be suspended, with a ligature of strong leather attached to his ankle, in case of accidents. Just ns the balloon was rising and this man ascending head downwards, the other was to catch him by the hands and go up also, having, if he preferred it, some band or other to hind 1 lim to his companion. In this position we were, then to go through our customary performances, continuing them so long as the balloon remained in sight. "All this," said Mr. Rice, "rounds much more dangerous than it- really is. The motion of a balloon through the air is so steady and imperceptible that, but for the knowledge of being above the housetops, you will perform almost as coin fo:-tardy as in the gardens. .Besides I am speaking to brave men who know their business, and are not to bo dashed by a trifle—hey, Patagonians!''

Griffiths brought his band on the table, and made the

again. "I'm ready," said he, "I'm ready to do it alone is afraid to go with me." lie looked at. me as he sort of mockinir laugh blood to my face. "If von mean that for

and raised it soon was, for we drew enormously. Wc brought out the p.erche and ceiling business, came down in the midst of fireworks from a platform higher than the roof of the theater and in short, did everything that was ever yet done in our line—ay, and did it well, too, though per-! to-niirht. haps it. is not my place to say so. "At all ]f'"| was to fry from events, the great colored posters were

com!

Iff]

it seemed nd.

aoout the pays in the .Sunday Mn.b, was stand it then—hut 1 understood it well theSurr-v hills drew pleaded to observe that, there was 110 per- enough afterward". forinance in London half so wonderful as Well Mr |?i(.f. ..-•« .r?,t:I•- nl,^.

ended the matter moils Wurtemhur

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iti

l,..t ,f +i i» .i Mignim pleased to I hem there were nolinuir but i/rcn lie'd that ot the I atagonian Brothers for fin, ,1S so wiilin" and a f.

ovc-r.and above our general sala-

evenin rv. Poor Ally! In the midst of the excite-! ment I had forgotten her, and it was not until I. was out of the theatre and walking it 1 remember-

that she must be told.

tell into the same habit for they were part, I. did not believe there was th-! very simple, friendly people, and we were slightest danger but I knew how her fears soon as good friends as if we had been would magnitV everything and the nearer' living together in the same house for

Ci mu

to Isllnaton'th

then went to the green, room to see after Mr. Rice, and hfar sotaething 'of whit was going forward.

Mr. Rice was there, and three j^ntleJoan with him, namely Captain Steward, Captain Crawford and Sidney Baird, Esq. They were fine handsome looking gentlemen, all three—especially Sidney Baird, Lsq., who was, as I have been' told a playwriter and one of the cleverest men of the day. I was. go inn- tQ jraw hack when I saw them-sitting there with their wine and cigars, but they would have mc in to take a glass of port, and shook hands with me all around as polite as possible, and treated me as handsome as any gentlemen could. "Hcre.s health and succcas to you, my brave fellow," says Colonel Steward, "anil a pleasant trip to'us all!" and then I learned they were going up in the car-witkMr. Staines/

And now, what with their light cheerful ways and. pleasant .talking, and what with the glass of wine that Ih^d taken, anil tho excitement, and the lVuni of voices from the crowd outside, I was .in first rate spirits, and as impatient to be off as a racer at the starting point. Presently one of the gentlemen looked at Iiis watch. "What are wc waiting for?" said he. "It is ten miuutes past six already."

And so it was. Ten minutes past tho hour, and Griffiths had not boon seen or heard of. Well Mr. Rice grew very uneasy and the crowd very noisy, aud so twenty minutes more went by. Then we made up our minds to go without.him, and Mr. Ilico made a little speech and explained it to the people and then there was a cheer and a great bustle and then the gentlemen took their seats in the car and hamper full of champagne and cold ahieken was put in with them and I was made fast bv one leg to the base of the trapeze anil Mr. .Staines was just about te get in himself and give the signal to cut loose, when who should we see forcing his way through the crowd but Griffiths.

Of course there was another, cheer at this, and a delay of eight or ton minutes while he was dressing. At last he came/ and it was now just a quarter to soven clock- He looked very sullen when lie foumPthal lie was to be the undermost bui there was no limo to change anything now, even if I had been willing

with ith.—

i! anv man here

said Ih that br

voar, I never

with a :ht the

do! o!n, saio

T, quickly. "I'm no more afraid than if that's all about, it, I 'II

".v more words with linesof railway crossing them here and Mr. Stains and Ins fa-j there and presently it grew unite dauit. IV. I

tU,

,'e

:u 1 :im! wo

gaged: fifteen hundred additional lamps except through breakes and wore to be hired and Griffiths and I were I tlie clouds. to receive twelve pounds aoiece for tiie

'jgra-.p from my hand to mv up to the middle of mv himselt by degrees, till nearly on a level. There

his loft wrisi'--

and my right were bound together by v. leathern strap, the signal was given, the band struck up, tho crowd applauded like mad, and the balloon rose straight abovi. the heads of the people.

Down tank the trees and the fountains, and the pavement of upturned faces—down sank the roof of the theatre, and fainter grew the sound of the hurra!

rrahing and the

music. Ihe sensation r/as so strange that for the first moment, was forced to close my eyes, and felt as if I must fall and h: dashed to pieces. But that soon passed away and by the time we had risen to aboiK three hundred ieutl way ji.s comfortable as if I was-born and bred in the air with my head downwards.

!'e.-e itly we began our performnne.'s.

iown heavily I Gnflilhs? was as cool as possible—1 never glasses ring j.saw him coolcr—and we went through cvI coiieoi\abie attitude now swiii'dii!/ our hands, now by our feet, now throwing somersaults one over the other. And dii^ ring tlie whole of thi- time tlie streets aud .-quares seemed to sink away to the rivht, and the noises tr,,m the iivTiJir worid died on the air—and, a.i I tinned'and sli changing my position with ov

lung,

minute,

I caught »trang« flittering glii.., sunset and the city, tne .s!._\ and tiie rrver,

... jleaning over the ear ami: nov. iill tins day the tiny passengers swarming down below •scribe tho ex-1 like ants on a'n ant hill. face tin I spoke Then the gentlemen grew tired to turn all the ing over and began to talk and for uld not undr

Jean-

i, and then

el he ha ii

id the eit

sank away to the right, farther and farther.

eeaseiTto see anything

opcniiM

"Come John," said T, "Our share of this business is done. Dont you think v,c might a.- well be getting into the car."' lie was hanging below just then, hold-' ing on by my two hands, and had been hanging to for some minutes, lie didn't seem to hear me, and no wonder for the clouds were gathering about us so tljickhj that even the voices oi the gentlemen up above grew mufliud, arid I could hardly a

•jce a y.iru oerore me in any '.Lirection

more uncomforta-' So I called to him

bly .1 felt. After all, 1 was such a coward question. —for I. always am a coward where women

are concerned—that I could not tell her

as, I dare say, you have found out by this time—and, indeed, I never did sit down to that day, nor even thc next, and it. was onI write one before so I may as well come lv on Sunday, when we were sitting ioto the point, and confess that I loved her.! trethcr after dinner, that I found courage

again and repeated tho

but shifted hi*. wri.it, and then arm. so ranting our tacee cam"' he paused, and

no an.-wer

I ielt his hot breadi on my cliock. "William Waldur," said he, horseiy, "wasn't to-morrow to have been your wedding day?'1

Something t'i•: tone of his voice, iir the question, in the dusk an dreadful solitilde, struck me with horror. S tried to shake off his hands, but he held to fast for that. "Weil what if I was.' said I, after moment. Vou grip

roiind. My darling clung about me as if mean.' Catch hold of the pole, and let'mc

her heart would break, arid although I did I do thc same, My head is on fire

jou as ive. I my best to cheer her, I don't mind con- "Do you sec this?"'said he, catching my

felt very happy, and that when Mrs. Mor- before I left the house. "And don't be breath seemed to hiss over the cold blade, rison came into the room, she found me spoiling your pretty eyes in that wav.— bought it this evening—I hid it in my with my arms clasped round my darling's Remember that I want von to look well, I

and that tve are to be married to-morrow.

bo more silent and more unsociable than I davlight-: so I made haste to dress, and

won

],i u.,

lie was

The multitude in the Belvidere Garden shall cut you away from the balloon. I was something wonderful. There thev

hard. Catch

ihohl ot the pole, will you.' and Jet go of my arms." He gave a short hard laugh, hut never stirred. suppose were two thousand feet high,' says he, and it seemed to me that he had something between his teeth. "If either of us was to fall, he'd be man before he touched the ground." would have given the world at that

1 Je Wor

holding it with his teeth. His

eIt

—I waited till the clouds came round

ail

there was no soul to see. Presently I

an oal 1

00,

were, men, women and children, thronging her, and I mean to keep it?" •, the balconies, the orchestra stairs, and every available inch of ground and there, in thc midst of them, rolled and swayed thc huge Wurtemburg balloon, like a sleepy, lolling giant. The ascent was fixed for six o'clock, that wc might comc down by

Ji^10Uld

never have

A dimness came over my eyes Rud everything grew red. I felt that in another minute I should be insensible. He tho't I wa3 so already, and, letting myarmfrqe, made a spring at the polo overhead. That! spring saved me. Our wrists wero bound together and as he rose he drew me ahmg