Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1881 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1881.

XS OLD 8WKETHE ART OF 3I1XE.

BT JA MKS W. HI LET. As our who corn at evening o'er an Ibum II alone. And mu.es on the faces of the friends that he has known. So I turn the leaves of Fancy, till in shadowy design I find the milling features of an old sweetheart of mine. The lamplight teem to glimmer with a flicker of surprise, As 1 turn it low to rent me of the dazzle in my eyes. Andliiiht my pipe in alienee, wive & igh that vem to yoke" Its fate with my tobacco, and vanish in the tanoke. "Tia a friurant retrospection, for the loving though w that start Into being are like perfumes from the blossom of the heart: And to dream tue old dreams over is a luxury dlTine, "When my truant fancies wander with that old sweetheart of mine. Tho I hear beneath my t-tudy, like a fluttering of wiogs. The voices of my children, and the mother as she sing. feel no twinge of conscience to dv'ny me any theme When Cart has cast her anchor in the harbor of a dream '. f In fact, to speak, in earnest, I believe it adds a charm To spif-e the good a trifle with a little du-t of harm for I rind an extra flavor in Memory's mellow wine That makes me drink the deeper to that old sweet heart of mine. A face of lily-beauty and a form of airy (Trace floats out of my tobacco as the genii from the vae: And 1 thrill beneath the glances of a pair of azure eyes As glowing as the summer and as tender as the (Wies. I can ee the pink sun-bonnet and the (little checkered dress She wore when first I kist-ed her and she answered the care With the written declaration that "As surely as the vine tlrew round the stump." she loved me that old sweet heart of mine. And again I feel the pressure of her slender little hand. As we nsed to talk toeether of the future we had planned : When I -hould be a poet, and with nothing else to no But write the tender verses that she set the mu.sic to: When we should live toeether in a cor.y little cot. Hid in a net of roses, with a fairy eardeu spot: Where the vines were ever fruited and the weather ever fine. And the birds were ever singing for that old sweet heart of mine. And when I should be her lover forever and a day. And she my faithful sweet heart till the golden hair was trrriy : And we should be so happy that when cither's lips were dumb. They wouldn't smile in Heaven till the other's kiss had come. But, ah '. my dream is broken by a stop upon the stair. And the door is softly opened and my wife Is standing there! Yet, witli eaijeruess and rapture, all my visions I resign To greet the living presence of that old sweetheart of mine. SATED BY MATCHES. The Story ef Young Sewing-Girl's Strange Adventure. A small room, poorly iurnihed; a pot of mignonette in the window; a girl at work at the table, sewing steadily. Khe would have been pratty if 6iie had not been so poor. If she had been better fed she would hare had a rosy cheek; if she had had fieedom and less labor, she would have had dimples; if she had worn a dress of violet silk instead of faded calico, it would have brought out the fairness of her skin and the golden hue of her hair. Aa it was, Alice Morne was pale, and pinched and sad, with the sewing girl'a stoop of the shoulders and the sewing girl's heavy heart. ' She rose suddenly and folded up her work a child's garment, of fine cambric, trimmed with dainty lace. JShe made a package of it, donned her bonmt and shawl, and went out f her lodging-house. She threaded the commercial streets rapidly, and soon emerged on the avenues of wealthy private residences. Here it was quieter. The dusk was gathering. Now and then a carriage rolled by. One or two Rouses were lighted for receptions. Many more were soberly closed. Alice went on, with her quiet, rapid step. She stopped at last before a house all in a blaze of light. Coftly lace curtains concealed the luxurious rooms within; the soft notes of the piano came softly upon the girl's ear. "The Tracy s give another party to-night," said Alice. She went into the area and rang the bell. A servant admitted her. She went in with her bundle. She came up with a light step. The work had been approved, and she had been pid. A little dazzled with the scene she had just emerged from, she paused upon the pavement to count the money. "Give me a cent," said a little beggar boy Etarting somewhere out of the silent shadows. "What do you want it for?" asked Alice "I'm hungry," answered the child. lie was pale and pinched. "Here's a dime; 1 would give you more if I could,'' she said. The child took it eagerly. She passed on, with less than $2 to buy supper and pay for a week's rent. She bad more work. When it was done she came the same way in the dusk. As she passed over the sidewalk a faint line of white attracted her attention. There was a knob of glass, generally called bulk' eyes," in the pavement. It is usually inserted over a coal vault, and is removed to admit the coal. This one had sot been adjusted with exactitude, and at the crevice appeared a line of white. Alice stooped down to examine it. It was the edge of a folded paper. She drew it out with a wild thought that it might be some valuable check or draft. But it nly contained a few words 'written in pencil: I hav watchrd for yon eontinnally for a werk. Tf

yon want to aavsluy lifo com Imck b-rr, and all night Imitt pUcr oia cbrs wtirrr you found t Lis paper. You shall be reward! with allywu tn ak. a raisoxca. Alice closed the paper in her hand and locked around bewildered. No one wai to be seen. She looked down at the lump of dull gla., but it was entirely opaque. The bull's eye was not quite evenly set in its place. She touched it with her foot but could not move it. After waiting a moment, confused and in doubt, she passed on, recollecting her errand. The area door admitted her. The servant had a child in her arms, the dainty little thin? for whom Alice made garments. Mrs. Tracy said you was to come up to her chamber," said she. ''You know the way." The lady whom she met was not lovely; she was sallow and dark; very disagreeablelooking clutching her cashmere gown at the breast, and turning impatiently toward her little sewing girl. MWhy did you not come More?'' she asked in a hoarse'voic. with a slight French accent. "The child should have had that dress to drive in to-day." I wan sick yesterday; T could not finish it, answered Alice, tremulously. . Madame matched the package, tearing it open, aud letting the little embroidered robe iall upon the bed. Wei!, here is your money," aid ehe,

opening a velvet purse. . "Next iime I will employ some one who will do as they promise." Alice turned away with a bursting heart for the woman's words meant starvation for her. She dared not raise her voice in reply; she divined that the heart under that rich robe was one of stone. As she passed down stairs she heard a low voice. It proceeded from one of the rooms about her. And he is twenty-one to-day?" it said. "Yes; it is three years since his mysterious disappearance," with a sneering laugh. The voicea were stealthy. A door closed and shut them in. Alice passed down into the street. She walked fast, treading, unthinkingly, upon the bull's eye and went home. When she flung herself down to weep, she suddenly felt the crumpled paper in her hand. What should she do? She lay thinking a long time. She considered the strangeness of the request, the possibility that it was not meant for her, tho idea that it was a hoax or written by some madman for it was a man's handwriting. Jiut the girl's heart was warm and true. The possibility that some one was in trouble and she might help them, was the thought that had the most weight. With no one to" counsel or object, she obeyed iL She went to the store and spent $1 of her precious money for matches. She received a large package, containing thousands of the Heifers. Tho city clocks were striking 0 as she reached the bull's eye. The street was silent, the pavement deserted. As she bent down some one tapped upon the bull's eye. She slipped a sheet of matches into the crevice. It disappeared. She waited a few moments; the hand tapped for more; Bhe supplied them. As she waited again a pedestrian approached. She aroe and stepped back into the shadows until he had passed; otherwise, she did not fear. The street was quiet, and the stars twinkling in the clear sky. Hour after hour 6he supplied matches, at intervals of quarter hours. Occasionally the rap came for an earlier demand. But he could not see the hand. She only imagined it to be a man's. It was long past midnight. The citv

clocks were striking the hourof2when her mutches became exhausted. bne had not been sufficiently supplied, she thought. Quite at a lo3S what she ought to do she rose from her cramped position, standing in doubt, when a voice said: Conie with me!" She started with terror, for a man stood beside her; but tho next words reassured her: "It was I whom you gave the matches to; do not be afraid, take tnv arm and walk fast; I am not safe here." -' . Alice could see only a tall form -and a pale face, the features of which she could not distinguish; but the voice, though hur nei, was gently modulated, and the stranger took her hand with a grasp that was not unpleasant. You must be tired; but this has been a good night's work for you, little girl," he said. "What did you want the matches for?1' asked Alice, trembling. lie had drawn her hand within his own, and she walked rapidly beside him. "It was the only way in which I could get fire," he answered. '-The heat molted the cement which enclosed the bull's eye in the wall of my prison, and I escaped through the cavity. It-was larger than the one in the pavement. I'have been a prisoner in my own house for three years." As they left the vicinity of the Tracy dwelling he walked slower. "I was quite helpless," he added; ''I knew no one t appeal to whom I could trust. But listening and waiting, as a man only listens and w aits for freedom, I grew familiar with your step as it passed so often over the bull's-eye and up the st 'p?, and a week ago, w hen I heard your voice to the beggar-boy, I resolved to trust you. I knew your tread tae instant that it touched the curbstone, and I slipped the paper up the crevice. You saw it immediately. The hour till you came passed heavily; you were my only hope. You are a brave, good child. Now where is your home? Can I go there f r a little rest before daylight?" "It is a poor place, said Alice, "but you are welcome.' Daylight was dawning when she revealed her poverty stricken little room to him. He flung himself into a chair and dropped his face on his folded arms upon the table. Alice fancied that he wa3 praying, and moved about noiselessly, preparing a little breakfast. She did not realize that this man was ycung and handsome, and it was not, perhaps, propriety to have him there. She wa only zealous, in her pity, to serve him, seeing, by daylight, how ill he looked. Bat by noon there were strange doingä in the little sewing girl's room. She had been sent for a lawyer, the most renowned and popular one in the city, and he came with two other gentlemen, so grand that little Aiice was quite awe-stricken. Finally Mr. Lionel Tracy that was the name of the hero went away with them and she was left alone with her poverty and her wonder. Only she was not quite so helpless and distressed as ein had been, for one of the gentlemen had smiled upon her, aud left a few piece- of gold on her table. But the marvel was all over with her, and tho gold war spentand poverty and labor and care had come back, when, one day, there was a knock at the door, and the landlady's little girl 6aid that a carriage was standing for her, and a man in waiting said that she had been sent for. What could she do but obey the summons? wondering what fairy work it wa-" that luxurious ride until she began to see through it, for the carriage stopped at the Tracy mansion. There had been great public excitement the papers had been charged with the development of the infamous plt in high life, whereby the true heir of a great fortune had been drugged, while ill, and concealed, and a story trumped up about his mysterious disappearance; but Alice, in her soli tude, had known nothing about it. Her pennies went for bread instead ot news But whn 6he stepped upon the threshold, Lionel Tracy, the restored master, met her with a tender courtesy that took away all her fear, and made her feel like a little Queen in the midst of the splendor. "Have tho rest all gone away?" she asked, seeing no one but new servants and a pleasant woman, who waj the housekeeper. "Yes; I am quite alone, and shall be unless you will come and live with me," said Lionel Tracy. "Do you want a sewing girl?'' asked Alice innocently. "No; I want a wife," he answered; "one whom I can love with all my heart, as I do you, Alice. Will you come?" Did she? "Well, yes. And the public had another episode to excite them the famous Lionel Tracy'a marriage. Alice grew charming with happiness and she was chronicled aa a beauty when she became hU bride. A little girl living down town was saying her player the other evening and had just finished "give us this day our daily bread,"

when a precocious four-year-old brother exclaimed, "Say tookies, ilmy." Trey Time.

COLONEL WM. II. SPARKS.

Personal Recollections of Erery Presl dent but Washington. Jtffcnm, at adlaon and Slorj eeaaloa In 1 820 Interertlin ; Kcmlnlscences of the Fast. .Philadelphia Times. Almost any day, sunny or wintry, there can be seen on the streets of Atlanta, a thick-set, sturdy old gentleman, bearing erectly on unusually broad shoulders an immense head, surrounded with a crown of white hair. A trifle reserved, holding himself like a gentleman and man of affairs, with ruddy face and quick, penetrating eve, holding a stout cane in his hand, less für support than in deference to an old habit of the Southwest, the stranger who sees him usually inquires of seme one for his name. Any bystander will inform the inquirer that it is "Colonel W. U. Sparks, an old veteran, who has known more distinguished people than any man living." I do not think there is so remarkable a link between the past and present to be found anywhere. Colonel Sparks is not a centenarian, being only about eighty-three, and he has none of the querulous weakness or vagueness of old age. He is still good for a ten mile tramp; is a decisive brilliant talker and altogether a compact, vigorous old gentleman. He has been prominent in politics and society all his life, and as legislator, writer and wit has been famous ior more than half a century throughout the West and Southwest. He has known personally every President since Washington and has the most entertaining gossip about each of them. He was the intimate of Henry Clay, l'rentiss, Crawford t nd the most of their contemporaries; sat opposite Aaron Bjrr at the table for three months; heard the Etory of the execution of Andre from the lips of the man who superintended it; he&rd all the small talk of the meeting of the signers of the Declaration of Independence from the mouth of Jwhn Adams, and is, in short, a perfect treasury of gossip and personal history. Your correspondent asked him tlm morning if it was true that he had been personally acquainted with every President of the United States, except Washington. "Yes, sir," he replied; "I have had the acquaintance of every man who occupied the Presidential chair since George Washington left it; the friendship and confidence of most of them certainly of the greatest of them." "Where did you meet John Adams? He must have died whenycu were very yojng." "There is a story connected with that. I was at Cambridge with three young Southern chums. We were discussing the best way to spend our Fourth of July and determined to spend it with Ex-President Adaras. I wrote a letter soliciting the privilege of calling on him and destroyed ä quire or two of paper in forming the request. Air. Adams replied that he would be happy to see us and instructed us to stop at a certain hotel in Boston. As soon as we were registered the landlord informed us that Mr. Adams carriage was awaiting us. At the door we found his coach, drawn by four horses and equipped with great pomp. We were rapidly driven to his home, where he welcomed us cordially, being touched, I think, at the respect shown him by Southerners. He gave us a most graphic account of the singing of the Declaration and the election of Washington as Commander-in-Chief. While we were with him he received the first of those letters from Jefferson that led to the correspondence between them. He read it to us and said: 'This is the finest letter ever written by an octogenarian.'" "Did yo-J know Jefferion intimttcly?'' I knew him well. 1 was once traveling through Virginia with a young friend and stopped at a 6mall tavern. As we were sitting in the tap-room four distinguishadlooking men passed up stairs and entered a small room, I inquired as to who they were und was informed that they -were Ex. President Jefferson, Ex-President Madison, Chief Justice Marsball and . I at once determined to see them and knocked at tne door of their room. Mr. Jefferson came to the door, and I stated that we were Georgians who desired to pay our respects to himself and his friends. He took us cordially by the hand, and introduced us to the company. Mr. Madison was sitting in a corner with his head tied up in a handkerchief, and merely grunted when we were presented. We soon secured attention, as we had just left Washington and bore to these distinguished men the firt news they had of the Missouri Compromise. -When we left, after an hour's stay, Mr. Jefferson followed us to the door. He took our hands in his and ending his head forward it was as flat as a board on top said: 'Go home, young gentlemen, and prepare to devote your talents and your lives to the service of your country. This compromise has only scotched the snake, not killed it, and it vill yet tear this country asunder. The South will need your services.' How prophetic were these words. I have since given the lives of my sons to the service he then dedicated me." "Was there much open talk of secession then?" Jvt me tell you a scene in Mr. Crawford's room just prior to the passage of that eompromise. William H. Crawford, ot Georgia, was then the most powerful man in Washington. His rooms were the rendezvous of a bind of lofty and ardent spirits, such as Lou n des, Calhoun, Clay, Troup, Randolph, Forsyth. He would have been the candidate of his party to succeed Madison had he not declined to oppose Mr. Monroe. He was sent to France as Minister to succeed Mr. Livingstone, who was hard of hearing. Crawford cculd not speak French, and Napoleon said after his reception: America has sent me two Senators, one of whom was deaf and the other dumb.' On the night I ppeak of there wa a meeting at Crawford's rooms to discuss the Missouri question. Mr. Holmes, of Mainp, was present. Mr. Crawford whs lying, as was his wont, on a sofa. Addressing the Southern men present he told them that if they held slavery of more importance than the Union the time had come for them to secede, but if they though', the Union uf more importance than slavery they must go home and begin gradual emancipation. Lie added that the slave States were strong enough then to go in peace and preserve their institutions, but that they could never hopo to muntain slavery in the Union." At this Mr Randolph jumped up and said: "Then let us go, and at once. Mr. Clay will be here to-morrow. I have not spoken to the fellow for years, but I will go to him to-morrow and beg him to o to his people and urge them to quit this Union. I will go and urge mine to do the same and will follow his leadership to tho last." ' Can Mr. Randolph be in earnest?" asked Mr. Uolmes, of Maine. "Intensely so,' replied Mr. Crawford; "and the course of your people, Mr. Holmes,

are forcing Mr. Randolph's views upon the people of the whole South. The next day Mr. Clay arrived frcm the

Weet. The greatest anxiety was felt as to his course. His influence was tremendou?, and the West especially was training under his lead. I shall never forget the scene when Mr. Cay entered the House the next morning. He was dressed in a suit of spotless black, and pale and majestic he walked down the aisle w'th the slouching stride of the race horse. . By an involuntary movement every member rose to .his feet, in courtesy to the great man. Mr. Randolph stepped intb the aisle to meet him. When Clay saw him be seemed to grow a foot in height, but bis face never lost its tranquility. Mr. Randolph was very much excited and said: ''Good morning Mr. Clay." Mr. Clay bowed politely. Randolph then went on excitedly: I havo a duty to perform so have you, sir. Leave your seat here as I will leave mine. Tell your people as I will tell mine that the time has come when, it they would save themselves from ruin and preserve the liberties for which their fathers bled, they must leave these peopla of the North. Do this, sir; although I never did before I will follow your lead in the effjrt to save our people." Mr. Clay listened quietly and without apparent surprise. When Randolph had concluded h said without raising his voice: "What you propose, Mr. Randolph, requires more than momertary consideration," and passed on. Ina few days his famous speech on the compromise was made and the trouble passed over for the time. President Jackson was a remarkable man. Did you know him well?'

I did, I married the daughter of Abner Green, at whose houso Jackson's wife lived, while she was awaiting her divorce. I and she and our child spent the night with Jack on at the White House. I remember that there was in the corner of the fireplace a box of corn-cob pipes, out of which the Lstems protruded. I asked the President why re was soloed of cob pipes. Jle replied: For the simple letson that they burn out before they begin to stink.' " Colonel Sparks was eloquent in his praise of Ohl Hickory," and developed two points that are interesting and new. Said he: 'It is not at all certain that Jackson was born in South Carolina; indeed, the special proof seems to go to show that ho was born in Ireland. Judge Alexander Porter, of Louisiana, was an Ir'shman, und his parents lived in the neighborhood of where Jackson's parents lived. He visited Europe shortly before his death, and made diligent inquiry into the history of the Jacksons, and learm-d enough to satisfy him that Andrew was born in Ireland and brought to Ame i:a when two years old. Judge McNary, who had investigated, held the same opinion, and always contended that Jackson was four years older than he thought he was." He says further: ''Jackson once told one of the advices his mother a little, dumpy red headed Irish woman gave him when he left her tor the last time. 'Andy,' she says, 'you are going into a wild and strange country and among rough peoplo. Never tell a lie, nor take wtat ain't your own, nor sue anybody for slander or assault and battery. Always settle their cases youself.' 4 Jackson wa3 a negro trader defpite tho proof to the contrary made by his triends. He had a small store in Brainsburgh, in Claiborn County. At this trading point he received the negroes sent to him by his partner and sold them to the neighborhood and into Louisiana. I have now several bills of sales of negroes signed by Jackson; in which his signature runs cle.tr across the page. He quit negro trading because he sold an unsound negro into Louisiana and had to stand a loss onahim. He and his partner quarreled in adjusting this loss and he quit tho business." "Were you acquainted with any intimate friend fef Washington?" "I knew intimately the man. who knew him perhaps better than any other man ever did Colonel Rev. Talmage, who was Washington's favorite aide. The circumstances under which I knew him were interesting. I passed the old gentleman one as he was mending his gate. I was then a student. 1 raised my hat and bowed profoundly. He was struck with my evident respect and asked Judge Reeve who I was and why I had been so respectful. I replied: Say to him that I could never walk in the presence of a man who has had the confidence of the great Washington with my hat on my head.' This reply pleased him so much that it gained mo a place at his fireside." i He was full of reminiscences of Washington?'' Oh, yes; ana very entertaining it was to hear him talk familiarly of the Father of his Country. He said that no character in history has been so consistent as Washington's. He was stern, slow, reserved and cold. Even Hamilton, whom he loved and trusted above all men, never ventured upon tho slightet-t intamacy. I never saw j General Washington laugh and only once or j twice did I ever see him smile. I never saw him exhibit the slightest surprise or impatience. I was with him when he received information of Arnold's treachery, and he received it as impassively as if it were an orderly's report. Of all the officers of the army Greene wai his favorite, and he was right for Greene was a superior military mai to Washington. I heard Washington say that Greene was tho only man who could retrieve the mistakes of Gates and t-avc tne Southern country. Mrs Washington was less amiable than her husband. She always remembered that she was wealthy when ehe married Washington, and the never let him forget it. One of Washing ton's strongest points was the quickness with which he read men. He mistrusted Burr from the very first, and was rarely deceived in men." In this strain have I heard Colonel Talmage talk of Washington by the hour. And let me remark here that 1 have known many women who knew Washington. I never yet saw one that liked him. Governor Wolcott told me that ho heard Mrs. Adams say fhe never believed taat Washington bad been "more than polite to Mrs. Washington." 4 Was this Talmage the same who superintended the execution of Andre?'-' "Yes. sir; and I have heard him tell of that sad affair a score of times, and always with tears. It was he who begged Washington to at least allow Andre to die a soldier's death.' Said he: 'The saddest duty I ever had to perform was communicating his refusal to Andre.' He saw my embarrassment and feeling as I approached, and rbing said, I thank you. Colonel, lor the interest you have taken in my my cafe, bot I see that it ha proved of no avail; yet I am nono the less grateful." lie paused a moment and said: '-It L hard to d:e and to die thus. I have only a short time, which I must employ in writing to my family. Shall I Bee you to-mor-row. oris this our last parting?" 1 told him it had been made my duty to superintend his execution. "We will part then at th grave," be said, and covering his face with his hands sank sobbing into his chair. When we met at the scene of execution the next morning, he asked me to secure his watch, which had been taken from him at headquarters, and send it to his family. I made the promüe, but never ec u red the watch, As he raw Mi grave a shudder ran throughout his frame, and he said: 'I am to to be buried tber . One more word. ColoDel J mark it, so that my friends may find it when thu cruel conflict (ball have endf d.' " These were the last words he ever spoke

to me. ne pressed my hand, turned and

ascenaea tne scaffold with unfaltering steps. In a few momenta all . was over. Many a time have I heard Colonel Talmage tell this story, and a privilege I esteemed it to hear from the lips of the man who hud super intended it the story of the execution oAndre . f Who is the most eloquent man thit you ever heard?" 'I have heard nearly every prominent man that has figured in American historv, and never heard any man to equal S. S. Prentiss. He and 1 were close friends for years and up to hi dtath. His speech in Fanueil Hall was the grandest effort ever made in that body perhaps. A venerable Judge of New Jersey told me a strange story concerning Prentiss powers. Said he: "I never believec any man l;ving could enchain my attention for three hours, as he is said to have done the audience in Fanueil Hall,xs I took the first chance of hearing aim. I found an enormous crowd gathered and was unable to get a seat. As he began to speak 1 teok out my watch to note the time. The first words that he uttered . ar rested my attention. There was something in his eye that startled me, and the word came bubbling up so full of power, eloquence and originality, that I found myBelf enthralled. His flights of passion were so heart-searching and superb that 1 find it impossible to Uke my eyes from his face. At one time I remember I felt as if I should faint under the intense feeling he produced. I forgot the presence of the crowd I fort ot my seventy years o age, although I was standing and when at last his physical powers falling under the enormous pressure they were sul jectod, lo h sunk back in his seat completely exhausted, I found that I ww still holding in my hand the watch, that I had taken out three hours and fifteenminutes before. My attention had been so completely absorbed that I had failed to return it to my pocket. At my side stood an old man a minister of the gospel. He was livid with excitement, and his lips trembled as he said, Will you ever doubt again that God inspires man?' " "Did you hear Prentiss speak often?" "Frequently. Tho greatest speech I ever heard him make was iu a court room. It was in the prosecution of a prominent man for fraud. Prentiss spoke for hours, producing the most wonderful effect. I returned from the Court Houso with him and remarked th:it his conversation flagged. He said at last 'I was never so much fatigued. I feel as if I did not have an idea in mv head." J "You have poured out enough to-day to empty any head," I remarked. "And yet,'' he said, "I have made a signal failure. I exhausted ray quiver in the effort to pierce that man's armor and reach his vitals, but his integuments wereproof against my shafts, and I failed." 'Failed! Why, you made the most powerful and telling speech of your life." "Yes, upon the audience, perhaps, but not on the victim he escapes uncrushed. I care nothing for the crack of the rifle if the bullet flies wide of its mark. I wanted to reach his heart and crush it to remorse and confusion but I have learned that his obtusity is superior to my invective." This was Prentiss' way. He always had a terrible and earnest purpose in his oratory. Poor fellow. His greatness was his ruin. His genius burned so finely that it wore his system away and created the de mand for artificial stimulants. The mere fact that liquor ruined one man like Prentiss is sufficient to have it banished en tirely from the world. He said to me once "The great mistake of my lifo was in leaving my Northern hom-i. There home in fluences might have restrained me, before this fearful habit got hold upon me." Pren tiss was a chivalric man in the highest sens of the word. 'He and H. S. Foote had a bit ter feud that at last culminatel in a duel, in which r cote was wounded. A short time afterward Prentus was with some triends in Cincinnati, and a toadying fellow sought to curry favor with Prentiss by abusing Foote. At last he went so far as to denounce him as a dog. At this Prentiss turned sharply on him and said: "Stop, sir! Ycu shall not abuso Mr. xoote in my presence, If he is a doe he is our dog. and he shall not be abused!" But space fails for a further recital of the reminiscences tf Colonel Sparks. I have only written down a tithe of the graphic and entertaining things he told me, and be oniy arcw casus uy upon nis enormons lunu of personal information. He has embodied much of the gossip and history of the century in a charming book, called "The Memories of Fifty Years," but when he dies there will perish with him more information concerning the great men of this country than was ever betöre locked up in the heart of anv one man. U..G LVtlaxta. Ga- Januarv. 1881. Estimate of General Jackon. Correspondence of Cincinnati Coinmerrial. It is well known that General Jackson joined the Presbyterian Church near the close of his. life. He had promised his wife. who was a very devout member ofthat sect, to do this as soon as he was free from politic?, and when improper motives could not be imputed to him for the act. To gratify her pious wisher, he had, at his own expense, built a small brick chapel on the Hermitage plantation,' which he regularly attended when at home. At the time ot his desth he wa, I believe, the "ruling Eldei" of the ccngregition, an office which he was accustomed t declare he valued higher than the rresidency. There is an old ttory that when the fact of his death was communicated to Mr. Clay, his great rival in politic, the question jocosely arose as to the probabilities of his final salvation. Mr. Clay lisrened for a moment and remarked; " Oh yes; all couldn't prevent it." The Hon. Thomas L. Junes relates an anecdote of a similar nature. 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