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She, then, mn or.ce have looked, as 1 I ook now. ii'-ro.H i!io levell vc r.uachurr'i und munor house, and seen, Jh bridge, und Walton s liver-she WhOi.eoid world iiaia was Dorothy. The swalio'vs must have t wittered, too, Above her head; the rose- blew UIow, norto :bt und, sure, the south vreot up the wall and kisst:d her moat n Tnt HbJirul mouth, wbl.:l coim-slom Laukeu with her uameol Uorochy. Wlvt wmsholike; Iplctureher 'meet t'r unoouiU worshipper; N t, tensive, tis-r Ux ubuy strung I') s".u U.e sour bucolic unique, Those hearted prvintj could but see Ma'am Fine airs" in Mise Dorothy. How not? Hhe Uked, may be. pt-rfume. ,ittextare,lace,ahHMU;oom: P.rciniii- ion candidly preferred Clarissa to;a gossip's word . And, for tue rest, would seem to be or dull or proud-this Dorothy. I'oor child with heart the down-Kned nest 't warmest instincts uueoufettiSofl callow tlii"' sra&rit The brerzo- cure-s, the sunlight melt, !ur vet, bv s(inn obscure decree U A winded froia birth-poor JJoroiby. t less I dream her rar.te desire To .1 ere,! cuurl and booby Binire, .No v pale with timorous eyes that filled At t wie told tales" ct foxes killed ; .w ifwnbllns when slow toaSuM jrrew freei'wixs lave and l'ort poor Dorothy ! Twas thn she'd seek this nook, and nnd Jts evenlu? landscape balmy kind m here, where stlii hvr gentle name j jvc- on the old greea glas, would frame rV,nl dreams ot naii-u. nru umiw, j, Ywa.s heart and baud. Poor Dorothy ! ! 1,'ESVOI. Thrse last I spoke. Then Floren said, i. -bin-i mo,"lreatns! delusions. Fred; i low strange it Is you bards must go far to .iua a subject, though ! Are there no people HvSnaf, pray, hit tor a rhymer's bolid: Ji-Nlde-, you make mistakes, you see, l'waa 1 who wrote that 'Dorothy.' A Austin Dobson EXOCll A HD ES. A Cornish village on the coast. The restless sea. the yellow sand Tue white waves breaking on the strandAnd falling back a routed tost. liold F.noeh Arden, brave and strong. Sweet Annie bee, bo luuoignw-e. The banished lover's dead-pa'e face. And then the merry weUdiug sons. The seven happy year that pass, The curse of poverty that falls, And duty's voice, tbat sternly call. The sailor from his English lass. And then the weary, weary wait, The vlRioned sign, "beneath a palm. That fell on Annie's heart like balin. But led her onward to t er fate. The merry wedding bell again. That clearly, loudly, up and down, Itang through the ancient seaport town, And told the "btory to all men. Except to one who, far away. Kneeling apon the tropic sand, Oazlng beneath his trembling band, . Looks for a sail from day to day. The Jot npon his bearded face. Thejov within his broken cries, When far away his watchful eyes The outlines of a ship can trace. Then the retnrn unto his rest, The cruel tale, the heart hopes crushed. How well the noble sailor hushed The burning secret in his breast. The bitter end of all at last, "' We watch the scene with bated breath, The desolation of his death And now the tragedy hath passed. Upon onr cheeks the night wind blows, Above our heads a half moon gleams. And we return to midnight dreams Of tropic isles and Enoch's woes. SHOT LIKE A DOG. MURDER OF CASEY IX WARRICK COCYTT-PAÄ-TICL'LAF-S OK TUB atOJJSTUOUS CRIME. ! A ' dispatch of last -week announced a foul and dastardly murder in Warrick ounty, the particulars of which are obtained from the Kvansville Courier of Friday M follows: On Thursday afternoon, about three o'clock, McCoy Casey, a farmer, living in Ohio township, at a settlement known as sheran. and situated northeast from Nswburg, was returning from that place In his wason, loaded with wood, and drawn by two horste. lie passed the house of a Mrs. Ktenv, on a road leading to Yankeetown, Indiana, and situated a quarter of a mile irom his house. A tew minutes afterward Mrs. Kf-eny saw a man with a shot un run through the field in the direotion of the road near which Casey was driving. She says who paid no attention to this, however, thinking that possibly he was chasing orae came. A very little while s'.terward. the report of a gun was heard, and the woman looking out. saw Casev fall from his wagon ti the aronnd. and at the same lime saw the man with the shot-gun lire two shots at the lallini? man. The murderer then ran back through the fields as hard as he could and disappeared in the woods. Mrs. Keeny immediately ran to the scene of the terrible affair, and saw the lifeless body of Casey on the ground with his mouth to the dust and the clothing partially on fire. She ran, as quickly as posi ble. to a neighbor's and related what she had seen, and, together with a Mr. Ewing, tbe party followed the woman to the place where the foul deed had been committed. They found the body as it had fallen from the wagon, while the team had been driven from the road into a corner of the fence. It is supposed that the man was coins toward Casey's house, but seeing him on the road, and evidently no one about, bad stopped the wagon and there SHOT HIM DEAD. Twenty -seven shot were discovered in his IxkJv, of which number three were pistol lmlls. Two of the bullets wer fired in the ruht side of the head and one in the breast, besides which the small shot were scattered about the breast, and must have caused instant death to th unfortunate target. As noon as John Knapp, the coroner of Warrick rounty, could summoned from Newburg, he commenced to hold an inquest on the body. At evpting they adjourned to Newburg with the body, and at a late homr last evening they returned a verdict that the deceased bad come to his death by a pistol shot from parties unknown. The foot prints of the perpetrator of the deed were traced to the middle of the woods near by, but could not be seen sny further. A large company of Mien went in search or tbe murderer, but without success. Casey, the victim, was a man over fifty years of ace. and is said ti have African rTlood in bis reins, and for this he was iheld in disdain by many of his neighbors. lie was by trade a blacksmith, and worked for a long time in Boon vi He at his trade, but o rate year he has resided about three miles northeast of Xewhurg, on a small farm, within a settlement called Sheran. Up to a year ago, although not an associate of the people in his district, he was considered a peaceable mini. lie has a wife and four children; his rMest son about four years 0 formed a matrimonial alliance with the dsughtfr rf a frmor noatned Ub'mson, rauch lo the rep-ignance of the latter and his friend. Findiug tbat the tongue of alander was tO' mach for them, the young y pie parted. Casey, in takinz the part of bis eon in this malte, mado himself quite unpopular with hi3 neighbors, some of swhom are suspected of the foul deed. In pite of this current of ill feeling, tbe manner in which he came to his death 1 deeply regretted by the law-abiding citizens of War rick county. Ab organ manufactory to be pened aext mouth la this city, U one of tb poaslbilltlM.

THE COST OF BIG SINGERS.

MAX THE MANAGER. BEHIND THE SCENES -- A FEW ITEMS ABOUT OPERA SINGERS AND THEIR LIVES -- DOES OPERA PAY? The Chicago Tribune keeps the operatic shuttlecock flying, and comes out with a full personal description of Max Strakosch, as Max the Great: He is thirty-eight years of age, but looks not more than thirty. He is of medium hight, good figure, has a remarkably handsome face, a very pleasant manner, and a finely formed head. There are not many men in tue United States who can compare with him in activity of brain, courase, enterprise or promptitude. He is a man who by his natural gift, developed by an excellent education, could shine in any vocation. French, German, English and Italian are equally at his command, and, for all we know to the contrary, other languages also. He is essentially of a nervous temperament, but possesses one of those hopeful dispositions which, as Mark Tapley says, "come out strong'' when the prospect is the least promising. keen witted and sagacious, he can adopt himself to all circumstances. From continual practice and conflict, with mankind (and womankind) he can appear to advantage to everybody. He would have made a mark as a statesman; as a commanding officer he would have been brilliant, indeed, the army has lost one of the most grifted officers of the stage. The reporter who furnishes this distriptic of the great max was duly increased by the prodigions quantity of business which he dashed off in four languages while the interview lasted. He has great managing capacity and would lead an array so the reporter says, as easily as he does his troupe. He explained for the benefit of the world that his brother Maurice engages the talent wherever and wenever it can be discovered. As to the modus operandi of making a contract, Mr. Strakesch said: They were very different people. Sometimes they demand that a per centage of their pay be secured in advance; sometimes half of it, sometimes more or less. We have a contract with Adelina Patti to come to the United States now. It has been running since 1869. She promises to come in 1874, but she will not. Meanwhile she pays us a forfeit every year she fails to come. Ry the way, I have a copy of her contract with us in French. I will read it to you. It reads thus: TEXT OF THE PATTI ENGAGEMENT. Adelina Patti, resident in Paris, and by authority of her husband, of the first part; and Maurice Strakosch, of the second part. This bond witnesseth that Adelina Patti hereby engages herself to be in New York on the 15th of September, 1874. After she has reposed herself from the fatigues of the voyage, she engages to sing in the cities of the United States and Canada, under the direction of Max Strakosch, who represents Maurice Strakosch, 100 nights In opera, oratorios, or concerts, according to the choice of Mr. Strakosch. The representation is to be two or three times a week, as Madame Patti chooses. Madame Patti is not to sing on such days as she travels, or in case of sickness, she engages herself to sing 100 nights in America, and her engagement shall be prolonged until this is done. The operas which are to be given are to be chosen by common consent, but they are not to be those which she has sung in London. Mr. Strakosch engages himself to pay Madame Patti for each of these performances 10,000 francs, ($2,500) which are to be paid to her after each representation of opera, oratorio or concert. In order to assure Madame Patti of the payment of this sum, he engages himself to give on the first day of March 1874, a deposit of 500,000 francs. The sum will remain deposited with Rothschild until the completion of the contract. It will be placed in such funds as will secure to Mr. Strakosch interest on the money. The traveling expenses to the United States of Madame Patti, her husband, also of two other persons of first and two more persons of second class, who are to be chosen by her, will be defrayed by Mr. Strakosch. The rights of force majeure which may arise, and other things which may interfere with the present conract, are to be decided in favor of Mr. Strakosch. In case there shall be any impediment which my prevent Madame Patti from fulfilling her contract, or may Interrupt the execution of this engagement which she contracts by the present agreement, Mr. Strakosch has a right so take his securities from Baron Rothschild. In case Mr. Strakosch shall fail to deposit 500,000 francs with Baron Rothschild all the above conditions are null and void, and Madame Patti is fully released. The present engagement is signed by the Marquis de Caux, in the opacity of husband of Madame Patti, who has authorized her to make this contract. This contract was made in 1869, and is still in force. Madame Patti pays a forfeit of 3,000 francs a year for every year she breaks it, that is, she paid one forfeit last year, and will probably do the same this year, also. As to beginners, we give them small sums at first and advance them as they rise. We persist in our system, because we believe it to be sound. At present there is no money in opera; the prima donna wants to much. Ours is, I believe, the only way to fit artistes for the stage, lyric or dramatic The musical conservatories furnish talent now and then, but we only take those who have won prizes at these places, and they seldom amount to any thing. We skim the musical element, taking only the cream; but in this we are not so generally successful as we shall be. Mr. Strakosch dispels the illusion that prima donnas are imperious and exacting. It depends altogether on the woman herself. Though Patti's contract calls for the traveling expenses of six persons, others range from one to four. Generally speaking, in an operatic company every person has an agent, whose sole duty is to harass the manager -- as Jarrett does so cleverly. There is but one agent in our company, and his name is Max Strakosch; one amateur, and his name is Rouzeaud. HUSBANDS AND AGENTS. With the exception of Jarrett, husbands are fifty times as troublesome as agents. First, the agent is a professional, and a man of experience, so that he knows better than to be perpetually thrusting his nose in where it should not be. The agent makes trouble, but he is not an ass. I'd rather have to deal with a rogue than a fool, for I am experienced with one, but nobody can understand the other. A singer's agent receives a percentage of about six per cent of her receipts. Hence it is to his interest to put up her terms as high as possible. The prima donna's whim is simply terrible. There are the disappointments of the prima donna when she is sick, and the popular indignation, which is hurled at the unfortunate manager, as if he were an accomplice instead of a victim. In such cases we have loads of trouble. A prima donna's contract reads that she shall not sing on consecutive nights; an accident happens: we call on her to sing; she refuses, because it is not on the bond, although she would not be obliged to sing more than three times in the week instead of four. The same with the tenors. The reason why soprano and tenors are so often sick may be answered in many ways. As a matter of fact sopranos and tenors do not suffer more than others, but there are always two of each, and they give way when they need not. With our contralto there is no such word as fail. We are under more obligations to Miss Cary than you would think. Well or sick, she is always ready to go on and do her best; there is nobody to relieve her; the sings every night, and never compains at being suddenly called upon. She is indeed a jewel. We are proud of having brought her out, and she never forgets that. Her conduct is in such contrast with that of most singers, contraltos even, that we are glad of any opportunity to express our admiration of her publicly. The "stars" of our company are two sopranos, two tenors, two baritones, one basso, and one contralto; we travel with twenty in the orchestra, and fill up in the large cities we reach; thirty-five in the chorus; then we have in addition stage managers, tailors, dressers, and oth-

era. There are eighty-five of us traveling, with additions of a temporary character in the cities. THE EXPENSES Are simply incredible. To begin with: Madame Nilsson has $1,000 for every performance. This is sometimes three and sometimes four times a week. We will take the maximum, and the schedule for one week will be as follows: Prima donna....

t her nopranoe. .. 6 X) Contraltos.. 2.10 im .VtO i.ii) l,ÖiX S.iv K) 3)0 sou 'fcOO Tenors.Karl tones Bassos Chorus Orchestra The house Agents Traveitng Advertising Properties, ballet, stage hands, tailors, etc., 1,000 Tot ill ......w w mw titti i6-S X) Against this, the r?ce:pts for the two weeks at Chicago foot up as follows: FIRST WEEK. Monday .. ....$ 1,330 00 Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Frlday Saturday Total ;.. JT.M 00 ... 4,1-Jl 00 3..V4 M ... I.Vvi IX) 3,790 00 ..513,03 00 SECOND YEEKMonday .... Tntsday Wednesday.. Thursday Friday Saturday Total... ? 3,517 Ö0 ...... MSU .I.llf) 2,4i 60 2,350 50 3,800 00 $18,101 50 It may be thus concluded that as Madame Nilsson only took $3,000 out of the week's receipts for the first week, the management has made money in Chicago. That it has done so is to its credit. The management states that Madame Nilsson's sickness on Monday night was equivalent to $1,500 paid out from the box; and that the effect on the business for the week was bad for another $1,500. This is another managerial trouble which Chicago people can appreciate. THE "BRANDY WAR." A NOVEL TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT IN SWEDEN. A Stockholm letter to the London Standard tells of the remarkable temperance movement in Sweden: The town of Gothenburg is able to boast of having carried on the war against drunkenness with the greatest success. Since 1865 the whole spirit trade of the community has been transferred to a philantrophical company, which has undertaken to pay over to the town the whole profits of the business, and thus is working merely for the cause of temperance. The company, which disposes of all the licenses, forty-three in number, acts on the principle that no manager of its public houses shall derive any profit from the sale of liquors. All the employes of the company have fixed salaries, and the only extra profits they derive is from the sale of food, which is always to be provided on the premises. It thus becomes their interest to promote the consumption of food rather than of drink, and gradually to transform the public house from a mere drinking shop to a kind of a restaurant. No sales on credit are allowed. The results have proved very satisfactory. Not only have the public houses been transformed from dark and dirty holes to clean and well lighted houses, where unadulterated goods are supplied, but at the same time drunkenness has fallen off to a remarkable degree. While in 1865 there were 2,070 cases of drunkenness reported in Gothenburg, in 1871 there were only 1,533 a reduction of about twenty-five per cent in a town whose population is rapidly increasing and rising in prosperity. The example set by Gothenburg has been followed by several other communities, and the system has everywhere been found to work exceedingly well. But it is not the only enemy against which drunkenness has to contend. A movement has recently sprung up among the working classes themselves which promises to be more formidable a foe to the public houses than the old temperance societies. Some time ago the workmen of Messrs. Bartle & Warburg, a large firm in Gothenburg, made an agreement between themselves by which no married man should be allowed to go into the public house, and the single men only at meal times. They, at the same time, agreed never to treat each other to a glass of brandy, and imposed a fine on the transgression of this rule. They, however, did not pledge themselves to total abstinence. Married men were free to keep spirits at home, and the unmarried to have their glass of brandy at their meals. They did not wish altogether to prescribe the use of spirits, a moderate quantity of which is in our cold climate rather useful than detrimental to the constitution. A wide publicity has been given to the resolution, and an urgent appeal made to their brother workmen in all parts of Sweden to join in the movement, which now appears to be rapidly gaining ground. Nearly every morning I have found in one of your Stockholm contemporaries a notice headed "The Brandy War," and announcing that some body of workmen have sent in their adhesion to the new program. To the fanatics of teetotalism, a movement which tolerates the consumption of spirits at home will probably seem to deserve but little success; but it will meet with the hearty co-opera-tion of the many who consider total abstinence to be the remedy of those only that despair of attaining moderation, and to indicate weakness rather than strength. A RIVAL TO THE SIAMESE TWINS. -- A communication to the Pittsburgh Gazette says: The death of the Siames twins has called forth, as might have been expected, several physiological comments of more or less interest. You will allow me to contribute to the general stock of human phenomena the following well authenticated fact: In the year of our Lord 1828, in the village of Poyntspass, county of Armagh, Ireland, Mrs. O'Reilly, aged forty-two years and seven months, was safely delivered of three sons, all connected by a band or ligature, in every particular resembling that which vitally bound the Siamese twins. Sir Astley Cooper and Dr. Abernathy hastened over from London, and after a professional investigation of the extraordinary case, declared their reluctance to attempt a surgical separation. These three Armagh brothers (not Roman or Alban) lived until they reached the age of ten years. Dean Carter, of Tendorageo, read the service of the English church at their grave. Dr. Priestly and others will, I presume, remember or recollect this matter. The Evangelist calls attention to the simplicity of Queen Victoria's church attire, and says: The example of the highest lady of the realm might be imitated not only in Great Britain, but in this country, for nowhere, we are ashamed to say, is the bad taste of ostentation in dress more conspicuous than here. It seems as if, with many, the Sabbath were the grand occasion for display, and the church the place tor selfexhibition. In no other country have we seen so much show and tinselry in the churches as in some of our own cities. In Europe -- not only in England, but on the continent -- such display is rigidly forbidden, not by law, but by the recognized canons of good taste.

NOTES ABOUT WOMEN. The newspaper at Pueblo, Mexico, is edited by a woman. A Maine woman sued a saloon keeper for "the loss of her husband's society." A fashionable young lady in Boston demands $400 in pin money per month. Does she get it? Miss Anthony threatens to sue the press of America generally; for libel. Is it in regard to her age? Mrs. Minis, of Lee county, Georgia, cultivates one thousand acres of cotton and five hundred acres of corn. A Topeka girl has been left a quarter of a million dollars by her uncle, and now all through trains stop at Topeka. One hundred and four winters have frosted the venerable head of Mrs. Polly Bickford, of North Wakefield, N. H. A new weekly paper, called The Jim and Eliza Journal, has been started in Mississippi. Jim and Eliza are the editor and wife. The constitutional commissioner of Michigan has adopted the article making women eligible to school offices. Pennsylvania ditto. A young lady of Elmira, New York, spent four years in learning Greek, Latin, French and Spanish, and then married a vegetable peddler. A young lady was heard to say at the post office, "If I don't get a letter by this mail, I want to know what he was doing Sunday that's all. The Dundee (N. Y.) Record says that you

can't fling a brick in that town without hittine a dashing young widow worth from $5,000 to $15,000. Josh Billings says: "There ain't ennything that will kompletely kure lazyness, though a second wife has been known to hurry it some." A Digger Indian girl received on New Year's day a redingote, consisting of an old army overcoat, and her dazzling neck was encircled by a string of tomato cans. There was a young lady in Louisville, the other day, who said she always feels well, if she has on only a nice fitting pair of kid gloves, if nothing more. Queer climate or queer taste in Louisville. A Duluth couple were married on the ice the other day, and it would have been highly romantic if the bride had't fallen down and cracked her auburn head and kicked the minister's feet out from under him. A young lady from one of the suburbs came to the city the other day to have her picture taken. When the artist showed her the "proof and asked her how she liked it, she placidly remarked that he "put too darned much mouth on it to suit her." If bustles hadn't gone out of fashion this announcement by an eastern paper might be of some use: Tin bustles holding a galon of whisky can be purchased by Buffalo ladies who want to smuggle Canada liquor. A weighty Tennessee family, of a sort to delight the heart of a Fairbanks, was recently represented by an ethereal girl of twentyseven years who weighs 752 pounds avoirdupois, and her fragile brother of eighteen, who only weighs 585 pounds. A gorgeous Georgia girl recently peddled out 300 kisses at ten cents a smack and then gave the money to the poor to buy coal and flannel and things. The young men of that town feel within their individual and collective breasts that charity is divine. Mrs. Mary Clemmer Ames is writing a new story of American life for Every Saturday, entitled "His Two Wives." The Denver World thinks Mrs. A. E. Young leaves that fellow entirely out in the cold in her tale of the man with nineteen of 'em. It is stated as a fact susceptible of easy proof that a young man at Austin, Nevada, has made a mistake. He bought a handsome dress pattern for his intended wife and a pair of red flannel drawers for himself. He delivered the wrone bundle. Result. A broken head and a ruined frying pan. Some useful lesson or example may be found in the most simple occurrences. At the Terre Haute depot recently an old lady attempted to get off while the cars were in motion. A gentleman standing at the door prevented her. "Let her go," exclaimed a kind hearted passenger; "if she gets killed it will be a warning to somebody else." A Paris correspondent of the New York Times says that M. Sardou has just brought out another most scandalous piece. "Les Merveilleuses" is a startling piece of immortality. There is one character who comes upon the stage draped in gauze, and, although the woman is probably clothed in tights, nature has been so well imitated in every minute detail tbat everyone believes her absolutely naked. There is a suppressed cry of "Oh!" and a startled look of confusion whenever she appears on the stage. The aim of the piece is to show the follies of the directory, and it is no excuse that this piece of apparent nudity is driven away and ducked in the fountain. The Goshen Democrat contains the following: The Goshen and Warsaw railroad is finished to Marion, Grant county. The deep cut in getting across the Wabash river, for one mile, cost more than all the work from here to Warsaw. When this road taps the coal region of southern Indiana we will derive a little benefit from its construction. The Echo contains the following railroad proceedings: At a meeting of the stockholders of the above named road, held at the company's office yesterday, the following board of directors was elected: A. J. Dull, Harrisburg, Pa.; Samuel Kimberly, Sharon, Pa.; J. H. Wade, president Savings and Loan Association, Cleveland. O.; J. G. Ackelmire, C. S. Andrews and John McDowell, Brazil, Ind.; J. N. Nichols, president First National Bank, and S.F. Maxwell, Rockville, Ind.; E. B. Thomas, Indianapolis. At a subsequent meeting of the directors the following officers were elected: E, B. Thomas, president; J. H. Wade vice president; C. S. Andrews, treasurer; D. Cluster, secretary. Mr. Thomas says the road is in a better condition now than it has been for a long time, a settlement with the old contractors, Messrs. Chamberlaine & Matthews, having been made, which leaves the affair of the company entirely with the stockholders. While there is nothing very definite to be said, Mr. Thomas thinks that work from this point north will be commenced as soon as the weather will permit, and is sanguine that the road will ultimately be completed. New York amusements for the last week may be summed up in the announcements in the Sun: Academy of Music, grand Kellogg matinee; Bain Hall, St. James street, The Pilgrim; Booth's Theater, The Femme de Feu; Bowery Theater, The Scout of Sierra Nevada; Dan Bryant's Minstrels, Twenty-third street; Grand Opera House, Humpty Dumpty Abroad ; New Fifth Avenue Theater, Man and Wife; Niblo's Garden, The Belles of the Kitchen; Olympic Theater, The Athletes of America; Steinway Hall, concert; the Colosseum, Broadway and Thirty-

fifth street: Theater Comiqhe, The French Spy; Tony Pastor's, burlesque troupe; Union Square Theater. Led Astray; Wallack's Theater, Money; Wood's Museum, Across the Continent.

WAITE. HOW HE BECAME CHIEF JUSTICE -- THE CHAIN OF CIRCUMSTANCES. About the appointment of Chief Justice Waite the Toledo Blade says: There is a little secret history connected with this which there can now be no impropriety in revealing, and it dates back several years in the political history of Ohio. When the whig party was abandoned, its old leaders in this state naturally drifted into the republican party. Ewing and Corwin were such devoted whigs that they never fairly and fully became installed in the new organization, but Delano, Galloway, Ben Stanton, Schenck, Goddard, Waite, Horton, and many others less prominent, very heartily entered the new organization, though they did not seek prominence, and, as Chase was governor of the state, he very naturally became the prominent republican figure in Ohio. The ambition of Gov. Chase to become president led him into the error of calling about him as his confidential advisers chiefly such men as had formerly acted with the democratic party, while at the same time he spared no pains to cripple every prominent republican who had been a leading whig in the state. A bitter warfare was the result, and Chase found himself powerless to crush out all of those men. In their local districts they were popular, and Delano made a strong contest for the United States senatorship against Chase before the legislature in the winter of 1859-60. In the summer of 1860 several of those old whigs turned up in the Chicago convention, greatly against the wishes of Mr. Chase, and it will be remembered that Mr. Delano seconded the nomination of Mr. Lincoln in a brief speech, which at once blasted the prospects of Chase and gave GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT To Mr. Lincoln's friends. Practically, that closed out Mr. Chase in Ohio, and he was never again before the people of this state as a candidate for any position. We regret to say that in this struggle the Blade, which was then partially owned and editorially controlled by the present editor of the Commercial of this city, supported Chase, and probably was entitled to the credit of defeating Mr. Delano. Ewng, Corwin, Galloway, and Stanton, are now dead. Schenck is minister in England, and Delano is secretary of the interior. The latter, although not intimately acquainted with Mr. Waite, knew him to be a man of eminent legal abilities, conscientious, and worthy of any trust and position within the gift of the government, when the president was looking about for suitable men to serve as counsellors for the government at Geneva, Secretary Delano at once thought of the man who had sympathized with him in the fight against the Chase dynasty, and named Mr. Waite to the president, who, having great confidence in the judgement of Mr. D., appointed Mr. W. All know the highly creditable manner in which Mr. Waite acquitted himself at Geneva. When the president had twice failed to appoint an acceptable person to the position of chief justice, he consulted with his cabinet officers upon the subject, and Secretary Delano again recommended his friend Waite the president adopted the suggestion, and the people of the whole country are to-day exceedingly well pleased with the choice. We have narrated these facts to show where the chain of circumstances originated which led to the elevation of Mr. Waite to the chief justiceship. GOTHAM GOSSIP . THE RAGE FOR "KILT PLAITINGS" -- CONSTERNATION AT THE APPROACH OF LENT AND NOTHING TO WEAR -- THE FLOWER MANIA -- NOVEL ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES, OR MAKINO A VIRTUE OF NECESSITY -- THE BREACH OF PROMISE EPIDEMIC -- BRAZEN-FACED IMPUDENCE -- THE AWFULLY OBSTINATE MAN. We live in an age of kilt plaitings! If you don't believe it, just look at the fashion plates, and then at those walking fashion plates, "whose presence bright makes a perpetual pageant on Broadway. Every newspaper writer calls the age names: it is the custom, and it seems to be expected. Therefore I chose to call it the age of plaits. And there is solid ground for fear that, as the Irishman said, we shall be "kilt entirely." The height and breadth and depth of fashion is to have one's dress, that is the lower skirt of it, entirely composed of this Highland trimming, than which there can be nothing heavier, since the very method of putting it on requires three times as much material as a plain skirt. Sometimes a row half a yard in depth is placed around the bottom of a dress while the front breadth is covered with rows diminishing in width all the way to the waist; then the polonaise, or overskirt is trimmed to match, and even the corsage, also. When some strong minded woman ventures upon a protest against this monopoly, she is met.by the smiling modiste, who asks her "what she is going to do about it?" Whereupon the S. M. W. is silenced, or driven to design a garniture for her own dress, which shall be in accord with her own taste, and not just like the robes of mesdames A., B. and C. As the matter stands at present, we all look in the street, as if we were dressed by a system of co-operative mantuamaking, and perhaps that is what we are coming to, if we have not already reached it. Among other items of fashion gossip I may mention that white flannel skirts have gone out of fashion altogether among the crème de la crème; they are superseded by pale blue or lilac ones of the same material, which are invariably scolloped and embroidered with white silk. This is a decided innovation and is emphatically of the French, Frenchy; it can hardly commend itself to the feminine world at large, for among ladies of the purest taste white is tbe color(?) par excellence, for all innerclothing. It will have a briet run probably, and will be able to say as Dolly Varden might have said, "come what may I shall have had my day." Much thought is given just now, naturally enough, to the subject of evening toilettes. Lent will soon be here, and meanwhile the girl of the period asks herself the important question, "what shall I do to be saved from the disagreeable possibility of looking like a dowdy at the next Academy ball?" We must crowd just as many parties and balls as possible into the few weeks preceding the great time of fasting and humiliation, and we must look well at all of them. First, then, be it known that white gaze de Chamberg is for young ladies the most fashionable material for evening wear, and it comes in stripes and figures, both white and colored. These dresses are made over white silk, and are trimmed with flounces and sashes. The corsage is usually in the tight fitting "corset" style, high in the neck and laced or buttoned at the back, without sleeves, or else with very narrow bands of lace and flowers. Even silk dresses are made sleeveless for evening, and have PUFFS OF THE THINEST TULLE And fringes of flowers instead. Flowen are used with exquisite effect on those fine toilettes, and natural growths are preferred where it is practicable. Long sprays of the loveliest of vines, smilax, are blended with clusters of creamy white blossoms, such as lilies

of the valley, and thus a dress of the simplest white tulle or muslin is set off immensely, as indeed it should be when we remember that these perishable adornments are the most expensive part of

the costume. Such is the race for flowers now that it is nothing unusual to see private drawing rooms decked with them to the value of $2,000, and this for a single evening. And it is noteworthy that they are now arranged with very great taste instead of being made up into hideous balls and other monstrosities of an architectural nature. Great pots of growing ferns and long sprays of graceful greenness refresh the eve in halls and passage ways, while masses of delicate, fragrant blossoms cover tables, mantles, and even walls. Private entertainments, such as receptions and tea parties, are assuming a much less ceremonious tone, and we are really trying to to learn the arts of hospitality -- trying to dissociate the word society from that of Boredom. One amusing novelty was a plate card of Japanese manufacture for dinner parties, whereon are printed highly colored figures of absurd little Japs cutting up all sons of antics. There is very little change in the style of visiting or invitation cards, except that German or old English lettering is out of vogue, as also are old capitals, and all other "fancy" styles of lettering. In stationery the latest fasrion is rep note paper, which much resembles that white dress fabric known as pique. It is elegant and simple, as all monograms should be, wherewith it may be adorned. Some tinted note paper may be used. Before dropping this engrossing subjeet, I must mention the length to which a recent fashion writer carries enthusiasm, in advising young ladies to resign themselves philosophically to the dispensation of Lent, for the reason that a temporary low diet had a most excellent effect on the complexion, while the comparative repose also conduced to a renewing of jaded or impaired beauty. This can hardly be called religious enthusiasm, but it is certainly the expression of a zealous believer in the goddess of fashion. It is, as you too well know, quite the custom now to talk of man's inhumanity to woman, and to dilate generally upon the oppressions to which women are subjected. For these reasons I would call attention to the fact that this "breach of promise season" has opened with a briskness heretofore unknown, and that if our eminently intelliegent juries go on as they are doing now, the marketable value of young affections will soon have "riz" to such an extent that no woman will ever marry at all unless she asks her bashful lover to "name the day." There's not a marriageable youth in this city who doesn't shake in his carefully polished shoes when he reads the astonishing verdicts rendered by the aforesaid intelligent juries day after day. Augustus, in a moment of weakness, tells Laura Matilda that she is adorable, and perhaps calls her his little wife. When he passes on, and forgets her existenoe by the day after to-morrow, when The social of the christian chapel congrewill be held Wednesday evening at the residence of Laura and Charlotte McFarland, No. 26, East St. Clair street. NICK WHIFFLES ON THE WARPATH ONCE MORE! Glorious Old Nick Whiffles Makes His THIRD APPEARANCE In No. 18 of the NEW YORK WEEKLY. NICK WHIFFLES AND HIS TRICK DOG CALAMITY. Exhibit their exploits in No. 18 of the NEW YORK WEEKLY. Everybody has heard of Nick Whiffles, the great lndian Fighter and Scout, the hero of the best Indian story ever written. Ask your News Agent to procure the opening chapters of NICK. WHlFFLES, in No. 18 of the New York Weekly, which will be ready next week. A Source of Great Anxiety. My daughter has received great benefit from the use of VEGETINE. Her declining health was a source of great anxiety to all of her friends. A few bottles of the VEGETINE restored her health, strength and appetite. N. H. TILDEN. Ins. and Real Estate Agt.,49 Sears Building. Boston, Mass., June 5, 1872. MOTHERS, READ THIS! A GREAT BLESSING! Worth a Dollar a Drop. Mothers, are your little ones fretful? And is your patience almost exhausted in vain efforts to please them? I can sympathize with you, and can tell you what will make your little child quiet, give it a good appetite, and procure for it hours of sweet, sound sleep. My little girl is two and a half years old; and during that time l have not had two consecutive night's rest. She has been sick a number of times and no one seemed to know what was troubling her. It was hard to hear her little fretful cry, and not know what to do for her. I I doctored her for worms, but it did no good: and I was nearly tired out with sleepless nights and trouble for some days. I heard of the VEGETINE, and determined to try it. It has proved a blessing to me and my child. It has cleansed from her stomach and bowels the sores which kept gathering there; and now she sleeps soundly from her bed-time until very late in the morning, beside a long nap at midday. Her appetite is good; and in fact, she is like a different child. I often say the true value of this medicine to me is a dollar a drop. Try it. Cleanse the humors from your childien's blood while they are young. Try it, and you will join with me in calling it a great blessing. MRS. ELLEN L. CLAPP, 175 Tudor street, South Boston, July 10, 1871. CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD. The circulation of the blood is the life of the body, and its stoppage is death. We are healthy when the blood circulates freely; any interruption preventing its free course is the commencement of disease, "Blood is the life of the flesh." Can we expect to enjoy good health when bad or corrupt humors circulate with the blood, causing pain and disease; and these humor being deposited through the entire body produce pimples, eruptions, ulcers, indigestion, costiveness, headaches, neuralgia, rheumatism, and numerous other complaints? No disease can be in the body without first being degenerated in the blood; and no disease can possibly be in the body if the blood is pure. It is of great importance to know what medicine will purify and renovate the blood, eradicate the disease, renew vitality, mentally and physically, and install fresh vigor into all the vital functions of the body. This medicine is the VEGETINE, the great blood purifier. It extends its influence into every part of the human organism, commencing with its foundation; correcting diseased action, and resoring vital powers, creating a healthy formation and purification of the blood, driving out disease, and leaving nature to perform its allotted task. VEGETINE is composed of Roots, Barks and Herbs. It is very pleasant to take; every child likes it. Sold by all druggists. $5 to $20 per day at home. Terms Free. I , Partie' grmo U.S. District Court, 1 1'iHtrict ofisdlaua. Thu0 . poln derslgned hereby nUilrnent ss assigns I'istanapolls, Marl' th, riet, who hf 1 Dmrrict r 'strict n"