Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1878 — Page 1

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THE FLIGHT OF TIIE SWALLOWS.

W. C. BESXtTT. Around the o'd minster the swallows are flying! Soon Into white winter the year will be dying; Boon, soon the chill winds through the boughs will be slzhtng, And ice will be here; Boutn, sontn are the summer and happy birds singing, . ',. And sunshine, that only here spring will be bringing. o the wise swallows gather In flocks for their winding To warm climes so dear. Are they twittering and chattering of bright days departed? Of dear happy nest homes from which they hare started? . How they wheel, as if exiled, they lingered, sad hearted. Their k now n ea Ves to leave ; and why should they thus stay the moment ot starting? , . Why so seem to loathe from gray skies to be " parting? . Think they of the happy hours here they spent, darting Through many a red eve? Do birds, like to men, hover 'round parted pleasure? Has tne past its dear memories, to bird thoughts Is the gone to you swallows, oh, sweet beyond measure? Ah, that who shall tell? Men know not the mysteries that haunt their own being. And swallows may hide feelings deep from our seeing. Weil, fleet enes, speed far, from the snows to come fleeing; Ciod guides you. Farewell ! , Sunday Magazine. i . fa Written for the Bentlnel.l THE CHURCH AT GLENYILLE. BY MRS. 8ALLIE A. RAMAGE. Chapter III. The minister's time was fully occupied for the first week of his life in the new position. Kor, desiring above all things to be thorough and systematic In his future work. heattended well to the little details of "settling down," as his landlady termed it His library was the principal part of his possession, and that was small, and consisted mainly of the various theological works that he was expected to study daring the year, as he must be ready for the regalar conference examination, by which he would be admitted to a higher position in the church. He was as yet but a beginner In the sacred life that he had resolved to live. He was to board temporarily with Mrs. Brooks, a widow, and a member of his congregation, who eked out her small income by filling up her dreary epare rooms with boarders, or, as she always proudly described them, "pro f essional lodgers." The school teacher, the lawyer, and a young doctor, who, hearing that Gleaville lay in the ague district, armed himnelf with quinine and started at once, comprised her professionals. And when Mr. Arnold, after surveying the low flat landscape from the upper front window, decided to take the best bed room, she was perfectly satisfied. Not that she said so. No; according to her custom, she only sighed the more heavily, and looked, if possible, more worebegone, as if the new minister was an infliction of Providence which she must endure because she could not rid herself of him. She watched his movements as he ad j as tea the heavy old fashioned furniture to suit himself, fixed his books neatly on the shelf, and made a good fire, for the October air was damp ami chill. Mrs. Brooks made no comments, but she carefully stored away every word, look and motion to report them all to the "Busy Bees," of which she was one of the principal members. The lawyer, Mr. Bell, invariably assured her that the "Busy Bees'' meant properly the "busy bodies," and though she resented the insinuation with scorn, she ever after refrained from treating the boarders to' the choice bits of village gossip she heard at the weekly gathering. Here she had first gotten a hint of a wedding or a divorce. She had gathered up sufficient data to warrant her into forming a perfect story' out of what had been but fragments. This she circulated industri oualy, and when it came to the ears of the parties most interested, it was lice a than der clap, for it revealed more than was known to them. She knew by rote the original Bins of every wayward boy or girl for five miles around the town; and though their tears might wipe their offenses from heaven's recording page, nought ever blot ted out a single fault from her memory, nor stopped her tongue. She was first to believe anything bad of a poor, weak, tempted soul, and the last to reluctantly confess that pos sibly there night be some good In the -striving, praying crushed man or woman. People knew her, and if there was a skeleton in their homes feared her, but if they . craved some of her tidbits of news welcomed -while they despised her: The very sight of her long, lank form, In its black bombazine dress and black luster apron, crowned by a' bonnet of a style worn by none else, was enough to blot out the cheery sunshine from a home; and yet Mrs. Brooks had her vir tues, and among them was one strangely at variance with her character. She was a good, patient nurse. There were few homes in all Glenville where she had not nursed the sick and robed the dead for their last sleep. She liked the scenes most shunned by others, and gladly proffered her services to any who - required them, and thus many forgave her all else because of memories of her kindness in hours of need. She introduced Mr. Arnold to her three boarders with the same sigh, as If resigned to her fate, but In fire minutes she was quietly pouring into the doctor's ears her belief that the church was destined to "come out of the wilderness with such a leader." She repeated all the trials and troubles it had gone through, winding up the long

story with the terrible experience the con

gregation had had with the organ that now stood in the altar place silent and unused. "We bad all sorts of trouble to bur that Instrument, and though I hadn't much faith In serving the Lord with such a thing, I didn't want to be contrary, so I just chipped right in with the three Busy Bees. We con cluded to get up a fair, and laws how we did work! I walked a whole day Riviae out the notice to the members. Some wouldn't have nothing to do with it at all. They didn't believe in organs, and they put their foot right down; not a nickel would they give. Others said they would think about it; a few promised crocneted mats, pincushions, tidies, and so on, and some of the young girls said they would be responsible for the post office and grab bag and the like. V e worked three weeks hard at the society, making aprons, and dressing dolls and piecing quilts, but some how we got along mighty slow. But the time rolled round and we decorated the church, fixed up tables, put up a cook stove, carried dishes over and went to getting supper. We charged pretty dear for things, for we had to have a nice profit to get the organ. But the people got their money's worth. To tell you the truth, Mr. Arnold, I never knew folks could eat so much and then look so cross about paying. Two ot the girls had a little fuss over a China vase that was raffled off, and their folks all got mad and went home. Then Mrs. Smith lost one of her silver forks and rather hinted that oneof the Cobb boys had It, and old Mrs. C. gave her the best talking to you ever heard. never knew till that night that Mrs. Smiths uncle had been in the penitentiary, but Mrs. Cobb told her in a jiffy. Then the Smiths, little and big. gathered up their stuff and went home. Gertrude Josephine had made some mats and a tidy to be sold at the faney table, but she jerked them up, and carried them off with her. The preacher, old Brother Cook, looked like he would drop through the floor, and his wife was as white as a sheet, for Mrs. Cobb never stopped. She just talked on till she broke down crying, and her folks took her home. Ruth Allison had been playing some on the melodeon that was her mother's, but Mrs. Cobb made such a noise that you couldn't hear Ruth's music So pretty soon we counted out our dishes. I lost two plates and broke a cup packed our baskets and come home, and when we come to settle we had made $9.15, and smoked the side of the meeting house all up with the cook stove. Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Cobb do not notice each other, and hardly ever come to church. But after the church at the Cross Roads got an organ we thought more about one and tried to get it again. We gave a concert, but laws ske, that was worse than the fair, for everybody wanted to sing and play, and nearly all of them did. But they had a fuss about the places on the programme, and the city professor got provoked and wouldn't lead. Ruth got him in a good humor, but he would have his own way and select his own singers, and because he didn't take their children lots of the members wouldn't come to the concert. But we made a little at that; not much; a little better than the fair, for there wasn't much expense. Then the young people got up a show, 'and had tableaux and charades. They wanted me for the Widow Bedott, buUI wasn't that big a dunce, I tell you, so atjast, by hook and crook, the organ was sent from the city part paid for and part not There was quite a scramble about who should play It, and at choir rehearsal that night every girl in Glcnville was there, each one of them in hopes she would be appointed. But somehow the leader pet Ruth Allison there, and being as she knew music it seemed right enough. I know it made hard feeling?, for the others went off and left her that night, and I took her home. She is the only child m this town that don't put on airs. She continued playing for about a year, and then one Sunday I saw Emehne West walk right up and take her place. Everybody looked at Ruth, but she sat quiet, getting whiter and whiter every minute. When the leader came in he was mad, and wouldn't strike up the tune, but Emeline was spunky, and played the piece straight through, and her pa started off, and so they got through. Well, after meeting there was a mighty excitement, talking and taking sides, and raising a rumpus, but Ruth stopped italL She had her father's spirit, with a little of the Allen grit She walked np to the leader, and says she: . 'Professor, here is the organ key. I decline keeping it or playing on the organ any longer, and then taking her grandpa's arm, she marched straight home. They do say she cried powerful hard, but I never heard her say one word mbre. But In a few Sundays Emeline broke down, apd the folks that was against the organ in the first place got the upper hand, and they declare that instrument shall never ba opened again. Hath Is awful sorry, for she loved music, but she won't touch it but she sings mighty pretty. Did you notice her Sunday, Brother Arnold 7" The question was a simple one, and yet the young man started and blushed, and then stammered, "Yes, I noticed her." Was there a disloyal thought to Miss Carlyle in his heart? Had this pretty wayside flower already charmed him and made him, even for a moment, forget the beautiful woman he had left in her city home? After he was alone in his room he wrote a long letter lo his betrothed, describing minutely his surroundings, and as if desirous to atone for the least remissness of duty, he was more than usually loving. But there was no mention of Rath Allison, and yet

half a dozen times while he was writing she

was in his mind. Her face was as clearly pictured as if it was before him, but nought of her or her story did he tell Miss Margaret Carlyle. He could not describe to the woman of fashion and wealth this orphaned daugh ter ot a poor itinerant preacher. He knew too well her power of ridicule, and there was a sense of honor about him that made him shield even a stranger from the keen darts of her sarcasm ; and in addition there was a feeling, perchance that he scarcely acknowledged himself, that this girl member of bis church might not please his betrothed wifeTo be Continued. Philadelphia's Drink. A telegram from Philadelphia says: The water drank by Fhiladelphians will not be so palatable to many to morrow. On Christmas day Maggie Lutz, IS years old, left her parents' house apparently for a visit to a neighbor's house. She was attired in a new print dress, and her hair was neatly arranged and clasped by a ribbon. At night she had not returned, and the alarmed household searched for her vainly that night and succeeding days, and her fate Until yesterday afforded food for speculators more or less ghastly and anxious. About 11 o'clock this morning two young men, taking a stroll along the walk skirting the reservoir, saw what tbey presumed was a dead animal ot some sort floating near the south face of the eastern basin. Thev informed the superintendent, whose little watch house surmounts the center of the wall dividing the east and west basins. He procured a scoop net and made several unges at the object until, with a more vigorous effort, it sank and reappeared with a rebound, disclosing the upturned face of a young girl, whose form was neatly attired. With assistance the body was taken out, and, all dripping, removed to the Twentysecond district station house. The many pedestrians who, in passing, beheld the policeman's burden, soon spread the tidings like wildfire. Some of Maggie Lutz's relatives visited the station house, identified the body as that of the long lost wanderer, and it was removed to her former home. Hundreds of people flocked to the basin yes terday, and the general inquiry was, in which basin was she found. Many experienced mawkish feelings when tbey reflected that for two months past they had been drinking water in which a drowned girl had been macerating all the while. Numerous inquiries were made of the superintendent whether the water would be drawn off, to which he replied: "What! runoff ten million gallons of water lust for one drowned person? I guess not Why, you're drinking this Delaware water all the time, and that is always flavored with about a dozen drowned men." In order to accomplish suicide, if such it was. tbe girl must have climbed over the paling fence, nearly six feet high, surrounding the basin. ' Brilliant St. Petersburg. Correspondence of the Boston Advertiser. When you reach the end of the Nevsky you should go down on the English quay. This is the Beacon street of Sc. Petersbug. It runs along the bans of tbe Neva, and here, on one side, are the English embassy, the hermitage, the emperor's winter palace, and the admiralty buildings. Looking at the Neva, on the other side, you can imagine, you are gazing across some great snow-covered field, with roads marked across it here and there by evergreen shrubs. Before people are allowed to cross the ice policemen go upon it in large squads to test it. When the river' is safely frozen all the temporary bridges are taken away. As you drive along the quay I would advise you to notice what a number of handsome women you meet, with their broad fur collars and jaunty caps, the white flimsy shawls which they wrap about their ears showing to advantage the rosy tint which the fresh air brings out in their cheeks. The black fox is the, costliest fur which ladies wear, excepting always the sable, which is not warm enough for the winter in Russia Black fox is the same as the silver fox we get in America; the back ot the animal is black, the rest of his body is the silver fur. For gentlemen the elk is the handsomest, but it is horribly expensive, and the bear skin, which is much cheaper, has nearly as good an effect Now the short winter day is drawing to a close, and before tbe night falls and all the St Petersburg world goes back to their open fires and their samovars, you bad better muster enough Russian to tell your driver to go home. There you will dismiss him for the day and pay him just one rouble (50 cents) The Soeletjr of Women. It is better, wrote Thackeray, for you to faas an evening once or twice a week in a ady's drawing room, even though the conversation is Blow, and you know tbe girl's song by heart, than in a club or tavern, or a pit of a theater. All amusements of youth to which virtuous women are not admitted, rely on it, are deleterious in their nature. All men - who avoid female society have dull perceptions, and are stupid, or have gross tastes, and revolt against what is pure. Your club swaggerers, who are sucking the butt of billiard cues all night call female society insipid. Poetry is uninspiring to a jockey; beauty has no charms for a blind man; music does not please a poor beast who does not know one tune from another; but as a pure epicure is scarcely tired of water sauces and brown bread and butter, I protest I can sit for a whole night talking with a well regulated, kindly woman about her girl Fanny or her boy Frank, and like the evening's entertainment One of the great benefits a man may derive from a woman's society is that he is bound to be respectful to her. The habit is of great good to your moral men, depend upon It Our education makes us the most eminently selfish men in the world. Hay tn In New Hampshire. lUtlca (N. Y. Observer. If all signs do not fail a few minutes more will find Hayes more bitterly hated among republicans than Andrew Johnson ever was. The feeling in New Hamephire is particularly bitter, partly on account of the removal of Simmons, tbe Boston collector, who has helped the party in New Hampshire out of many a bad hole in his comparatively brief time. Ex Governors Straw and Smyth even went to Washington to plead for the retention of Simmons as a measure of good policy, to counteract the effects of the Chandler letters, and to set Hayes right . before the grateful republicans of the state.. But they were snubbed, andreturned determined to disrupt things and snub Hayes in turn. Well Informed republicans say the chances of Governor Preacott's re-election are decidedly slim.

RUMOR'S GROWTH.

Fays Gossip One to Gossip Two, While shopping in the town : 'Old Mrs. Pry to me remarked,. Smith bought hi goods of Brown." Says Gossip Two to Gossip Three, When buying her a sown: "I've heard it sa la to day, my lar, Smith got his goods of Brown." Says Gossip Three to Gossip Four, " With something of a frown: "I've heard strange news,what do you think? Smith took bis goods from Brown." Says Gosxip Four to Gossip Five, , Who blazed It round the town: "I've heard to-day such shocking news Smith Mole his goods from Brown. STATE XEWS. Shelbyyille has kissing socials. Columbus is jealouai Farmers report the growing crops in excellent condition. Mocking birds are building their nests at Lagro. So says the Express. There will be more corn planted in Delaware county this season thin ever was known before. The next fair of the Greene County Agricultural society will be held at Linton the first week in October. " North Vernon has a female barber, and there isn't a beard in that town that can be found with a microscope. The Plymouth Republican says that the winter of 162U-30 was warmer than this, and that plowicg was done every month. Mitchell Commercial: The Baptists are preparing to buy ' a pipe organ for their church. It is to be 14 feet high and to cost about f 9WV It is said that coal oil and pine tar mixed well togethfr and put on young apple trees will preserve them from gnawing of rabbits. Try it, farmers. Petersburg Democrat: .f armers along the banks of White river have mostly sold their corn at 25 cents per bushel, while some have floated their corn out in boats destined for the coast trade. A farnier'glves assurance in the Western Rural that he has, by ditching weli, converted an extensive tract of pete marsh into best of Kimotby and red top meadow, yielding two or more tons to the acre. Porter County Vidette: An extensive wheat grower with whom we were in conversation a few days since informed us that he did n'ot see wheat more promising during the past 20 years than it is at present He gives it as his opinion that no damage will occur to the crop this season. According to the Rocknort Monitor, a Wedding recently occurred In the Methodist church of that city which was a little peculiar. The parties were of the Jewish faith. and "were . married by a rabbi, and yet ft Methodist church was chosen as the place for tbe ceremony to occur. After the wed ding a reception was held at Masonic hall. Franklin I'emocrat: The bad weather has Jmt a quietus on all farm operations, and armers will have to lay by their plowing until the bad weather ceases. Farm labor throughout the state this year Jromises to be lower than it has been for the ast 20 years. From $13 to $16 per month, farmers say, . will be all they can afford to give, unless j the times and greenbacks are plentier. ; This is nbt voted a good sugar year; the sap runs frealy but is not as rich in sacharine matter as formerly. The Winamac Democrat shows that a tramp near Medaryville practiced a new sort of confidence game on a farmer, pretending be wanted to buy such a farm as he saw there and had ready money to pay with, but after enjoying the best entertainment the house could afford over night getting off with the pretext of meeting his brother at train time and having him also examine the land before closing the trade. Very many, might easily be taken in the same way which remark will apply to both swindlers and swindled. Bedford Journal: A few of the moneyed men of Bedford ought to go to work and build a few houses to rent. The demand is so great that it certainly would be a paying investment Tbe tarmers throughout the county are jubilant over tbe tine prospects for a bountiful wheat crop. Tbey say the prospect never was better at this season of the year than at present There is an, old lady living in Greene county by the name of Iiiley, who is over 100 years old. She is yet hale and hearty, and able to prepare her own meals. . m . t 1 A1.L. SORTS. "Before I was married." said young Grippins, "everybody told me it didn't cost as much to keep two as it did to keep one, but somehow or other it don't pan out that way with me." Ground has been secured opposite the Main entrance at the Torcadero, at the Pans exposition, for tbe erection of a kiosk for the sale of Bibles. From the experience of 1SG7 a large demand is anticipated. It is proposed to supply all foreign visitors with copies of the gospels and epistles in their own language. There is a story that ex-Queen Isabella is about to visit England, and is in treaty for a house on the Thames. Another story declares that the expenses of the British special envoy and his suite sent to represent Queen at the Spanish marriage amounted to $71,000 Victoria for tbe twelve days at Madrid not counting the hire of carriages at $10 a day. A medical writer says that paralysis of the vocal organs may be occasioned by the pressure of tight fitting collars, cravats, etc, on the nerves of the neck. Hence he adds, "Avoid as much as possible the wrapping np of the throat in comforters, mufflers, boas, etc When once the throat becomes accustomed to 'bundling it demands that the habit be faithfully persevered In." A good thing is told of one of the Washington city belles, Miss L., noted for her wit At a dinner party the lady in question, who is a daughter of a distinguished judge, was seated next to a gentleman whom she had net met before, and who was on a visit to the city on business which had brought him in contact with the judge mentioned, who had shortly before decided a case against him. At the dinner the gentleman, who had not caught the name of the lady when introduced, took occasion to vent his feeling and express his opinions of the judge in terms anything but complimentary. An awful pause in the conversation indi

cated something wrong, and the i.-entleman took occasion to express to the lady his hope that the judge wr.i no relation of bers, to which, to the iminite amusement of all present, she replied: "Oh, no; otdva connection of my mov er's by marriage." A shout of laughter could not be prevented, and the gentleman, after a little reflection, came slowly to the conclusion that the judge's family were too much for him. Of a good family. John Bannister, tbe comedian, was presented to an old lady, proud of ancient and noble blood. The lady asked a wit of the day, who was present, "Who are the Bannisters? Are taey of a good family?" 'Yes," said the wit, "very good, indeed; they are closely connected with the Stairs." "Oh." said the lady, "a

very ancient family of Ayrshire dates back to 1450! I am delighted to see your friend." Mr. Moody told his Springfield audience the other night that he can tell on looking over a congregation the believers by the expression of their faces. Then he told them a story about a poor woman, who, hearing a rap, thought it was the landlord come to demand the rent' She refused to atswer, and thus turned away a friend who wished to give ber money. The audience laughed at this, but Moody stopped them abruptly by crying: "You laugh at "that woman, but it was you. yourself, sinner." . ' The St Louis Post says: "It is a well known fact that books, pictures, mphlets. etc., of a vile and obscene character obtain a secret but extensive circulation among the children of tbe public and private schools of the city." So-great has the danger become that a society has been formed of Christian men and women, to expose and prosecute those who publish and circulate the obnoxious literature. It must not be forgotten that a certain class of papers have adroitly worded advertisements telling the young where to send for obscene books and pictures. Not a very great many years ago an old gentleman In Kentucky was met by a friend who said: "Well, colonel, vou dined with the governor yesterday; who was there?" "Well, sir," replied the colonel, throwing back his head, digging his hands deep in his trousers pockets and spreading wide his legs, "there was me, sir, and beside myself there were four other high-toned, elegant gentlemen from Kentucky, a gentleman from Virginia, two men from Ohio, a ft How from New York and a son of a gun from Boston, sir. Will you take a drink, sir?" Celia Logan writes to the Baltimore News that professional begging is quite extensively carried on among people who assume to be respectable. The lady with a lvwsnit, involving almost countless millions,. 'is well known here. She is generally of English extraction, and is heiress to a title and also untold gold. This kind of adventuress is usually well bred, voluble and plausible, and manages to subsist in untoiling ease, by visiting first at one house and then at another, until she wears ber welcome out; then, when friends tire of supporting her, she engage board, first here and then there, and remains without paving until she is turned into the street Sometimes 6jie is literary, and frequently one of the "authors of "Beautiful Snow," or "Backward, turn Backward, Oh! Time, in Your Flight" and is writing or compiling a book that is to have such an unprecedented sale that she will be able and willing to cover with pure gold all those who now are large souled enough to favor her with the poor boon oh! mockery of fate, that she should be compelled to ask it of a good bed ana a square iaeaL This poor boon further means the sole occupancy of the best epare bedroom tor at least three weeks, and the gas going all night at full head, while she reads tbe fine printed story papers. The name of the adventuress and adventuresses in New York is legion, and their ways of cheating far too various and intricate for an honest mind to comprehend. o . URaTEL roads. Tbelr Importance to the Farmers. Bloomlngton Courier. The mud blockade continues, to the great disadvantage of all kinds of business, and in nearly every county throughout the west the people are discussing the ways and means of improving their common roads by macadamizing or graveling them. The savings and benefits to be derived from spch roads far more than repay theic cost They are indispensable t) a steady current of retail trade in the towns. Tbey enable the farmer to market all he has to sell at any time of the year and in all kinds of weather, hauling with a single span of horses what would be a load for two or three spans' on unimproved roads in their best possible condition. They attract capital to rural homes and rural avocations. Counties well improved with good firm roads soon fill up with elegant country houses, such as are rarely found on mud roads, and the economy, the conveniences and tbe pleasures of country, life are so much enhanced by turnpikes that the increased value of. the lands in a county so improved always greatly exceeds the cost of constructing and maintaining the roads. Who are tbe Confidence Men, Footpads, Kte Columbus (Ind.) Democntt.1 The Journal, of Indianapolis, sweetly remarks that 'here is not a 'confidence man, a pickpocket a burglar, a tramp, a street robber, a scamp of any degree or direction of f-uilt, that is not a democrat." In the bright exicon of the so called moral party which is Maarvarl fnp n m In is I AtiFial Mn. turns, there is no such word as truth. We I have understood, through common report and otherwise, that the following named gentlemen were of the republican school of politics: . R. B. Hayes, receiver of stolen poods. Belknap, bride taker. Moses, South Carolina thief. Robeson, who "got away" with several millions. Harrington, safe blower. Anderson, forger and falsifier (in prison.) McDonald,' whisky thief. McKee, Joyce, Babcock, " Hoge, over the border for his health. Ham Connor, who turned back about $18,OCOof money stolen; Indianapolis Journal man. formerly. Chamberlain, bogus governor. Bradley, the nn j ast j udge. Hodge, a "short" paymaster. But please excuse us, we've not the space to spare to complete the lfst The Journal is laboring under misappreheniion. The scamps are not all democrats. Preacher (to boy on the street) "My litUe man. is your father a Christian?" Boy "Yes. sir. bt he ain't working at it much lately."

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Tne Denerallzcd Condition r Turks. Correspondence New York Tribune. Constantinople, Feb. 13. Uneasiness and uncertainty reached a climax in this city on Wednesday last, when there was something near to a panic, if so undignified a word may be applied to any emotion of the Turks. The police had been dratted Into the ranks of the army, or had been withdrawn from the vt Turkish quarters of the city in order to protect Pera. Kadikeuv and other foreum ren ters. Rumors constantly floated through the streets that the Russians were still advancir g. Tbey had appeared in the forest of Belgrade, at the valley of the Sweet Waters and other suburban localities. Testimony of the truth of the stories was in the appearance of a ceaseless stream of Bashi-Bazouks armed to the teeth, savage and hungry enough for any desperate lollies. Circassians scuttled away on every side or meditatively peered into every window and door, appraising the loot each house would furnish. Refugees stood on the street corners and grumbled under their breath, or thronged the bridges and public squares, surlily resentful of the slightest jostling of the crowd. The Turkish residents were glum and silent. Even the cries of the street venders were hushed, and there was a silence in tbe air which was oppressive, like the silence before a tornado or an earthquake. I could not get out to the fortifications to see for myself, but the last report which I received from the front, at nightfall, was that the Russians Were in line before the fortifications, had summoned the Turks to leave, and that Mukhtar Pasha had refused to evacuate, and was preparing to fight The next morning, however, as soon as I set foot on the bridge, there was a stragglingcrowd of ragged, gaunt wretches, uniformed in dirt, whose Pea body nties showed that they were snpposed to be soldiers. This made it evident that Mukhtar Pasha had given up. The truth soon came out that the evacuation of the defenses of Constantinople was the last and hardest of the terms of the armistice. Tbe government bad concealed the matter . from the people, fearing a tumult although the silence of the government was the very thing needed to provoke one. It was only after the Russians actually arrived in force in front of the line that the evacuation was seriously undertaken, and then only 36 hours remained of the eight days allowed for the purpose. Several heavy Krupp gUns were therefore left in the forts sacrificed to the plan of hiding bad news from the people. That day (Thursday) Bashi-Bazouks, Circassians, gipsies and demoralized soldiers continued to pour into the city, and little rows occurred here and there. For instance, a Circassian rode through a group of Armenian hamals (porters) on the Bayazid square and jostled one of them, ' who resented it The Circassian then drew his sword and. struck the Armenian on the arm.. The plucky hamala,although UDaraatd, rushed on the Circassian, took his naked sword from his hand and dragged blm from bis boreevTbe Circassian, however, broke "away from them, and, drawing his dagger, made a lunge out at the nearest hamal, but an American gentleman, who chanced to be passing on horseback, was able to interposehis whip and divert the dagger. Upon this, some Softas and other Turks rushed into the melee, and, cursing both Circassians and hamals, forced them to depart in opposite directions. The police being always unavailable in any such emergency, I several ' times saw citizens commonly bearded and turbaned Turks stop a nascent effervescence in ths streets by tending off the quarrelers in opposite lines, with the . remark that they ought to know better than to get angry on tbe street at a critical time, when any private row may grow to be a national affair of European interest in five minutes. Thi3 cool appreciation of the situation on the part of the better class of the people has gone far to supply the want of a feasible government Lard says that there is "no government here,' nnd he was not far from right when he made the. statement to Lord Derby. If his telegram went to London by way of Bombay and Fao, as is probable, the government had begun to recover control of the city again before the dispatch reached England, however. Troops have come in from the forts, and are established in all the barracks in town now. Throughout the whole crisis, moreover, the parties have at least had coolness enough to see that' from public or private charity bread has been given to the vast hungry crowd which fills the street This, in the eyes of the classes who make the lack of government dangerous, is one of the first duties of a king, and thus they have not been aware of the situation described by Mr. Layard. The Russians have the city and the Turkish empire completely in' their grasp. This result has come about so gradually that we have watched tbe successive steps leading to it as those who float in dreams from realm to realm, and have no wonder for the marvels they behold. The vastness of the changes in progress were hardly realized nntil the empire was practically broken down, and all saw that in Europe and in Asia it' had no stable foundation. . Still, steps have been taken to gather a new army, although, as a Turkish officer sagely remarked, "There doesen't seem to be any Slace left the porte on which to deploy it' ew recruits come in every day. They are stout limbed, smooth faced boys, tied together often by thongs about the wrists, and jostling as tbey come the crowds of broken-spirited old soldiers who are arriving from the retreat before General Ghourko through Rhodope. -Many of these old soldiers are perfect types of misery. They are in rags, their guns look as if they had been in mud puddles, their heads hang like those of whipped school boys, and they weanly drag one foot after another, generally going in single file, as if misanthropically disgusted with life. Sometimes a regiment comes in whose clean, well kept guns show sold t-ly instincts; but even here the step is without spring, tbe ranks disordered and the appearance of the men is utterly weary and demoral- ' lzed. Their condition is melancholy enough to warrant the expression of their faces. They have suffered everything. They have frozen and starved alternately, and bothfrozen and starved together. They have fought desperate but hopeless battles, and have found all their efforts vain, through incompetent leaders. They have sacrificed their home, property, crops and cattle, and are now reduced to extreme poverty, being denied even the small sum needed to go home. The contrast is striking between their lot and that of the American soldiers at tbe end of the war in 1SG5, who were well clad, well fed, and paid as much for one month's service as tbe Turk would receive in a whole year, even if he was paid in fulL So strong is the ape in men that few of them can even abandon a vice unless they see a great number of other persons giving it up