Locomotive, Volume 46, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1858 — Page 1

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1 From Gnitiain's tllnalratO'i Mugazine for October. MOLL IE," THE BELL-RINGER.

BY MARY W. JAXVRIN. Ecader, I suppose you have heard of Greenland the Greenland we used to point out on our maps at school, and " bound" with glib tongues and devoted especially in our vivid imaginations to arctic snows and skies, seals, walruses, polar bears, and a race scarce more civilized also the same locality whose " icy mountains" we have so often heard poetized in talsetto, treble, ana bass voices, at missionary prayer meetings yet we most respectfully beg to assure you that the Greenland within whose precincts (and at a date somewhat anterior to the present) the locale of our story is laid, differs widely from that in question, inasmuch as we present to your view one of tho pleasantest, most rural farming towns in New England, and for the sake of being explicit, we will say iu the old honored " Oranite iSlate. , , . . , , Now in the same quiet country town there stood, years ago, a quaint, old-fashioned, yet nicely kept farmhouse, with two tall poplare and a gay flower-garden in front, sinall-paned windows, and green moss creeping all over the sloping gable roof. We do not know that Farmer Veazy's farm-house was much unlike any other within the limits of old Greenland j hut there was an air of thrift and neatness about the premises, antl thriving helrls swept away in the rear, denoting that he was " forehanded," or " well to do," in the world: but because under this mossy roof might be found the archest face, the sweetest Bmile, the " darlingest" dimples, the curliest curls, the bluest eyes, and the prettiest hand and foot in all Greenland the attractions aforesaid being the especial property and perquisites of the fanner's only daughter wild, laughing, gleesome Mollie Veazy. Was there a husking frolic or apple-bee within the circuit of half a dozen miles, no itrl present chanced to ba the recipient ot more '.' red car" forfeits, or pawns, than handsome Mollie ; was there a country-ball, no girl save her stood at the head of the set and led off in Money Musk, Chorus Jig, or Hull's Victory ; and so the fame of the country beauty spread throughout old Kockingham county, and many lovers sighed at her feet At the singingschool in the old brick school-house, or in the villago choir on Sundays, where Mollie sat in the high, cur tained gallery, and the tones ot her nch clear treble floated out in " Corinth," or " Coronation," there was no sweeter singer; even old Deacon Winslow, who al ways " lotned in with his explosive nasal tones, some times paused to listen to her voice, and was heard to acknowledge, that " the gal looked like a picter and sung like an angel" while awkward, self-sufficient Hez Khodes, who was as much in love with rosy-cheek ed Mollie as his own sell-esteem would allow him to be in love with any one but himself, played the big bassviol with more than his wonted vigor whenever he chanced to catch the laughing blue eyes looking up trom the singing-book upon him. - Well, as 1 have said, many suitors sighed at Mollie s feet : but the maiden, though possessed of as kind a heart as ever beat in maiden-bosom, and the sweetest of dispositions, had one serious fault, which quite overbalanced these good qualifications. Mollie was hand some, and she knew it therefore Mollie was a little vain ; sho grew to expect admiration and to regard hearts as uico little trifles furnished especially for her own amusement. Mollie would flirt unmercifully, and tease all the poor fellows who were foolish enough to tall m love with her : would laugh until the tears ac tually rolled down her dimpled cheeks when awkward, long-aimed Hez lihodes came regularly every ounuay morning to help her trom the little brown horse she roue to church persisting m entangling her dress in the pillion and her feet in the stirrup, much to llez's confusion and she dropped her demurest curtsey when old widower Hopkins made it a point to fasten his great roan at her father's gate every time he came up trom " the Plains," ostensibly to talk of " tho crops" with " neighbor Veazy," but in reality to ingratiate himself into the good graces of the fair Mollie, with an eve to the broad acres she would be likely to inherit, and his chances thereto, and also to the " smart," " capable" step-mother he hoped to present the halidozen little Ilopkinses who called him father. But the mischief of it all was, that Mollie would so torment and shake her curls at Cousin Harry March, or " Cap'n March," as the people in the region round about designated the handsomest, manliest, bravest, and most jovial sailor who ever rode out of Portsmouth Harbor, or came home during the few months that his shin lay in port to " lav oil in a quiet, tanniug-town Why young " Cap'u March," with his thick brown curls, laughing blue eyes, big generous heart he who vowed that no woman should ever win him, and had actually named his vessel " The Vixen," by way of expressing his contempt for the sex why he should take it into his head during his summer's furlough to fall in love, and that right desperately, with his coqnetish cousin I am sure can scarcely be accounted for, since he had sat beside her at the same school, and played the same games with her in childhood ; but certain it is that it was the case, and " The Vixen" lay at her dock in Portsmouth Harbor week in and out after her usual time ot sailing, and the crew began to murmur and talk of shipping elsewhere. Poor Harry ! enslaved by a woman at last ! and still, the more he became enamored, the more Mollie trilled and teased him. All the coquette in her nature was fully in action ; now she carressed, and now she repulsed him, till the poor fellow was ready to go distracted between her smiles and coldness. liut Harry at last could stand it no longer. Though bashful, as true lovers usually are, he at length found couraoe to speak : and one pleasant summer's evening, when'the moon stood high and fair above the orchards and fields, he honestly confessed his love, and besought Mollie to promise that she would become his wife when once asain his vessel lay at anchor in Portsmouth Harbor. But naughty, willful Mollie ! She only laughed a glossome little laugh wondered now L-ousin xiarry could be so impertinent, and expect her, with half the Viomiv in the counti-v at her feet, to cive them all up for f,im only a cousin ! And so she lightly tossed his hand from hers uttered a mocking " good-night, liarrv ! T should as soon think of marrvin!r old grandfath er Hopkins with his six children 1" and ran lightly up to her chamber. " Very well, Mollie ! Grandfather Hopkins it is, then P said Harry, in a low voice, which (and Mollie could not nuite make out) quivered with either wound ed feeling or vexation ; but very certain it was, that when, the next day, her father came in from the hay field to dinner, and said, " Seems to me llarry went o sudden at last after loiterin' round home" then Mollie stole away to her chamber and spent the afternoon in a good, hearty " cry. Ah, Mollie, what did that mean ? The. summer waned, so did autumn : the long col winter, too, passed New England over; and March had melted into genial April when " The Vixen" rode gallantly over the Bar pa.st "the lighthouse," "the Vli.i!A back" and " the Fort" and came to anchor ,'n Portsmouth Harbor. The last snow had disappeared in Greenland the Spring was unusually early the fanners had already makcgood progress in breaking up the ground, and the buds were swelling on the lilac bushes outside the window, where Mollie Veazy sat one sunny lorenoon her thin white fingers lying listless over the knitting-irnrl-of fine lamb's wool in her lap. And, on the mom- ;,, in nnestion. the door opened at the form-house, and inwalked Misa Mehitable Jenuess, exclaiming in her

sharp voice, while her keen black eyes scanned Mol- j

ves iace with a pitiless stare ' j " ulad to see you looking so nicely, JUolhe l oup- ; pose you re going over to see the ship-launch at lortsmouth to-morrow, now somebody's got back from seal" . homebody ! V ho what t but the expression , of exultation which flashed into Mchitable's face, at her evident surprise, put the girl on her guard. " No, Mehitable, I shall not go," sho added, calmly and indillerentty. "Hum! shan t go! Jack he wouldn t, cause he couldn't 1 Don't believe he's been nigh the house yet I" soliloquized the visitor, as, after a short call, she took her way homeward. i And wliilo JUolhe sat there, and thought Hittic Jenness, with her great bold black eyes and her peony red cheeks had never seemed so disagreeable or spiteful as then, and wondered when " somebody," whom her heart told her was none other than Harry March, had come home from soa, while she sat there at the window in silent thought, and her mother bustled about, prefiaring dinner in the adjoining kitchen, something very ike a tear dropped down on her hand and thence upon the knitting-work in her lap. liut why should JUolhe, usually blitho, cheery, gleesome and happy, sit there palo, thin, and in teai-s, that pleasant sprinz morninr; ? Ah, the cirl had a hard -timo of it through the winter, what with her own selfreproach and the long, lingering fever that hail kept her within doors for many months, and from which she had scarce recovered.. Doctor Kittndge, had hardly understood the case; old ladies who brought in ' roots and 'at bs" said, " Mollie had allers been sich a healthy gal. They hoped she wasn't goiu' into a decline ;" and all the girls and beaux were sorry enough to miss tho gayest one from their social gatherings or, I should say, all but envious Mehitable Jenness, a girl of coarse, showy beauty, who had long been Mollie's. unsuccessful rival, and she secretly exulted at her temporary belleship that winter. , . ' And so Mollie sat there, looking very disconsolate. Harry March had come home perhaps had been home some days, for Mehitable had spoken of it quite carelessly ; she had seen him, of course he must have heard of her illness, but had not even called at the farm-house. Poor Mollie ! , , ,- In the course of the day, howevea, he dropped in handsomer, manlier, braver than ever, so Mollie thought as he stood upon the threshold. "Avast there, my hearty I" was his gay sailor salute, as he caught his astonished Aunt Veazy about the neck and gave her a a regular sailor kiss ; and he shook the farmer's hand, or " ihjiper, as ne persisted in cauing it, xiu ms arm ached ; but he only said, " Hallo, Cousin Mollie ! sorry vou've been sick expected to find you Mrs. Seth Hop- ; kins, and commander-in-cliief of the whole fleet over at the Plains, so carelessly that Molhe ielt a sudden pang at her heart, and with much effort kept back the teai-s from her eyes, and, on the impulse of the moment, flung him back a haughty, cutting retort. . , "Oh, pshaw now, Mollie !" and the young sailor drew his chair close to hers as lie spoke for, suspecting the true state of affairs, both farmer Veazy and bis wife happened to be in the adjacent room just then " pshaw, Mollie 1 why the deuce do you want to treat a fellow so bad ? Don't I know you had this fever all on my account and you hkeel me all the time when you jilted me last summer and you're going to have me yet Mollie 1" and his blue eyes fairly danced with merriment as he held fast her struggling fingers. Again Mollie's temper got the better of her discretion. Harry was making fun of her she'd let him see who had fevers for him, that she would ! and she passionately exclaimed " Harry March, if you want to fool anybody go and try Hit Jenness ! I've got no time to spare.. Let go my hand, sir !" ' But the sailor's grasp was so strong that her resistance proved idle ; and Harry bent over her, saying provokingly " Come now, Mollie, you're jealous. Now I know you love me but you wont own it. Guess I shall be captain of two " vixens" in my day. Come, give me a kiss, and let's us make up, Mollie 1" ' Yet the victory was not so easily won for Mollie, now thoroughly angry and excited, struggled herself free, exclaiming " Harry March, you're a conceited -yes, a conceited, impudent fellow and I hate you I wouldn't have you, if " but here the expletives were quite drowned in a flood of passionate tears, during which she retreated up stairs to her own chamber. And certainly her anger was in no way appeased, when she heard Harry step over the threshold and saunter down the lane, carelessly whistling " Molly Brooks has gone to the army." . When the next Sabbath came, Mollie, urged by her pride, took her old seat again, the first time for many long months, in the meeting-house gallery ; and while her voice, though it trembled a little at first, rang out clear as a bird's in the singing, Deacon Winslow actually 'ceased in his loudest and most sonorous nasal flights, and listened for the space of a whole verse ; and Hez Rhodes leaned over her shoulder with a whispering request that they should sing " Coronation," as a " voluntary," at the close of service. Then there was the long " nooning," when the good people pressed round Mollie with their congratulations; ibr, as is customary in country places, where portions of the congregation come from a distance of several miles " to meeting," there was quite a group who staid at noon, and collected in pews or in the vestibule the old folks to talk of the crops and predict the weather, and the younger ones to play a sly little prelude to the Sunday evening courtship that occurred at home in the old-fashioned " west rooms;" and on this occasion, when gallant Captain March, resolving to tease Mollie a little for her yesterday's naughtiness, got up an apparently desperate flirtation with her nothingloath rival, Mehitable Jenness ; Mollie, feeling tho old spirit come over her, revenged herself with lavishing her sweetest words and smiles on the willing and delighted IIcz Rhodes. Now it so happened that close adjoining the vestibule, or entrace-hall of the meeting-house, where our lovers, with a group ot other young persons, were gathered at noou, was a small closet, or entry, from which a flight of steep stairs led up to the great belfiy, and where hung the bell-rope and, on this particular Sunday, the sexton being ill, sturdy Hez Rhodes's stalwort arms did good execution by way of ringing the bell to call together the good Grcenlauders to worship. And, as the hour for afternoon service drew near, Hex was obliged to leave the laughing, chatting group, just when Mollie's smiles were sweetest, and Harry had progressed wonderfully with Mehitable Jenness, and resume his task of bell-ringing. And Mollie, who had no idea of standing there an observer of her rival's triumph also to show Harry how unconcerned she was, turned away with apparent carelessness, to stand in the doorway of the little closet where Hez pulled away lustily at the bell-rope. " Let me try, Hez," she exclaimed with one of her little gay laughs, as peal after peal sounded out from the belfry above ; and forthwith her lit tie white hands grasped the rope, and she commenced ringing in true sexton style, and with all her strength. But, luckless Mollie I She had miscalculated on that strength at least it became sadly evident that she was not fully mistress of the accomplishment she covetr ed, for just as she had given two or three vigorous pulls, and the heavy clangs had not ceased to vibrate on the air, the great ponderous bell revolved slowlv, but surely, in the belfry and Mollie, clinging tightly to the rope, quite forgetting to lose her hold, found her self carried up, up, despite her struggles and screams, tho little dark stairway, and, at the next revolution of the bell, pale, terrified, breathless and exhausted, with bent bonnet and disordered attire, set down again on the floor of the closet

" Did it hurt ye much, Mollie ?" was the first excla

mat ion ot the terrified Hez, who stood surveying Her with dilated eyes, mouth apart, and painfully ludicrous air; while, at tlus new advent trom the steeple stairs, Harry joined by .the group who were attracted thither by Mollies cries rushed lorward and caught her in his arms as she staggered faint and exhausted against the wall. .But a suppressed titter from Mehitable Jenness thor onghly restored Mollie ; and angrily pushing llarry aside, with the exclamation, " What a fool, Harry March 1 don't you suppose I went up there on purpose, just to save the trouble ot walk ing up she actually brow-beat him and, leaving Ilez Rhodes to resume his labor, straightened her crushed bonnet, and left them to take her seat in the gallery. " Hie lade 1 1 11 pay her yetl" muttered the sailor, sotto voce, as ho rubbed his cheek, which still tingled smartly under the slap Mollie had administered while struggling fer release : and, ton minutes later during which he. " might, have . been seen," as novelists say, writing something on a blank leaf he tore from a singing-book he handed . Parson Moody that same mysterious, slip of paper, as that worthy passed in the church. door, then,, with a demure face, out a wicked mischievous light lurking in his eye, walked up the broad aisle anil quietly took his seat in a corner of his father's old-fashioned, square, " bed-room," pew. Now be it known to the reader, if he or sho is not already cognizant of the fact, that in the times of our ancestors there prevailed a pious custom of " putting up a note" in church, whenever a death, or serious ill ness, had occurred in their families said note consist ing of a written request for the prayers of the people, that the demise of the deceased, or the recovery of tho invalid, " might be sanctified to their family and friends for their spiritual and everlasting good" therefore it was in no wise strange, that old Parson Moody, on entering the church, and merely glancing at tho first line of the slip handed him, then looking a moment toward the gallery, with a benignant smile on his lip, laid it down on the bible-cushion, and proceed ed to put on his heavy iron-bowed spectacles and givo out the hymn, Well, the hymn was duly sung, Mollie Veazy's clear treble ringing out sweet and pure, Deacon AVinslow's nasal explosives more sonorous than ever, while Ilez Rhodes played the great bass-viol at " the top of his bent f then followed the reading of Scripture ; after which, preparatory to the " long prayer," in which the parson roved the globe over, from heathen-land to " the rulers that sit over us in the high places of gov ernment," the slip of paper was lifted from its restingplace on the pulpit-cushion. Now the good parson had taken off his spectacles during the last singing, with the intention of replacing them only at the giving out ot his text ; hence it was not strange that, after he had read aloud the first words ot the notej Mollie Veazy desires prayers," his dim vision failed to discern the somewhat apparent singularity ot the following, ..." For being Jioisted up the steeple stairs, and then half-confounded, yet impelled onward by some fatality, finished desperately with the couplet " She broke no bones, she bruised no meat, bha is not dead but living yet." Reader, you may be sure that was " a sensation' which went round Greenland meeting-house that May afternoon 1 You may be sure that old Parson Moody turned redder than the scarlet suk handkerchief on which he wiped his profusely perspiring face, in a state mid-way between mystification and distraction that the congregation stared, then audibly tittered, while the children giggled outright that old Deacon Wins low deliberately rose, and, turning round, faced everybody but the terrified Moliio, who sank away in affright behind the drawn gallery curtains that Jtlez lihodes struck the G string on his big bass-viol such a heavy, inadvertent blow, that it groaned and snapped asunder and that when, after a great pause, Parson Moody preached a powerful sermon from the text, " Man is prone to evil as the sparks to ny upward, llarry March had never seemed bo reverent, for he sat with head bowed on the pew before him all service time and that, further, when the congregation stood up at the close, Mollie Veazy's voice was missing from the voluntary for she had crept softly out, and sat at home weeping violently. But perhaps you wouldn't believe that, after weeping herself half-sick, and vowing " she never would forgive Harry March- for sho knew he'd written that shameful verse no 1 she'd kill him first 1" and saying the same over and over again to llarry, when, with real contrition and tears in his blue eyes, he sought her that night for forgiveness perhaps you wouldn't believe, I say, that the silly little thing actually did the very thing she vowed not to do and what is more, when the " Vixen" again stood gallantly out of Portsmauth harbor, bound for an East Indian cruise, it bore on board Captain March and his " first mate," "Mollie, the Bell-ringer 1" ; THE DOORS OF THE HEART. Every person's feelings have a front door and a side door by which they may be entered. The front door b on the street. Some keep it always open; some keep it latched, sbmo locked, some bolted, with a chain that will let you peep in ; and some nail it up, so that notlung can pass its threshold. This front door leads into a passage which opens an ante-room, and this in to the interior apartments. Tho side door opens at once into the sacred chambers. There is always one key to this door. This is carried for years hidden in a mother's bosom. Fathers, broth ers, sisters and mends, otten, by no means universaly, have duplicates of it. The wedding ring conveys a right to one; aiasi ii none is given wnn n. It nature or accident has put one ot these keys in to the hands of a person who has the torturing instinct, I can only solemnly pronounce the words that justice utters over its doomed victims: " Lord have mercy on your soul 1" You will probably go mad within a reasonable time, or if you are a man, run off and die with your head on a curb stone in Melbourne or San Francisco; or if you are a woman, quarrel and break your heart or turn into a pale, jointed petrifaction that moves about as if it were alive or play some real life tragedy or other. . . , Be very careful to whom you trust one of these keys to the side door. ,. I he tact ot possession once ren ders even those who are dear to you very terrible at times. You can keep the world out from your front door, or receive visitors only when you are ready for them ; but those of your own flesh and blood, or cer tain erades of intimacy, can come in at the side door if they will, at any hour and in any mood. Some of them have a scale of your whole nervous system, and can play at the gamut of our sensibilities in semitones touching the nerve pulps as the pianist strikes the keys of his instrument. 1 am satisfied that there are as great masters of this nerve playing as Vienxtemps or .L nuiuerg iu tuuii- imu ui pcriurxuauce. Married life is the school in which the most accom plished artists in this department are found. A delicate woman is the best instrument, she has such a mag nificent compass of sensibilities I From the deep in ward moan wliich follows pressure on the great nerves of right to the sharp cry as the Aliments of taste are struck with a crashing sweep, is a range which no other instrument possesses. A few exercises daily on it at home fit a man wonderfully for his habitual labors, and refresh him immensely as he returns from them, No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul; it takes one that knows it well parent, child, brother, sister, inmate. Be very careful to whom you give a side door key ; too many have them already. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.

SS Geneva, the lovely village on Seneca Lake, fur

nishes the following specimen of parliamentary ruling: " In this fairest village ot Western New lork, the culled pussons,' in emulation of their white brethren, formed a Debating Society, for the puqiose of improving their minds by the discussion of instructive and en tertaining topics. Tho deliberations of the Society were presided over by a venerable darkey, who per formed Ins duties with the utmost dignity peculiar to his color. The subject for discussion on the occasion of wliich we write was, ' Wich am do mudder ob do chicken do hen wot lays de egg, or do hen wot hatch es de cluck r " The question was warmly debated, and many rea sons pro and con were urged and combated by the ex. cited disputants. . Those in favor of the latter proposition were evidently in the majority, and the President made no attempt to conceal that his sympathies were with the dominant party. At length an intelligent darkey arose from the minority side, and bogged leave to state a proposition to this effect; ''S'jose,' said he, ' dat you set one dozen duck's eggs under a hen, and dey hatch, wich am dc nmdder de duck or de hen r I his was a poser, was wc-U put, and rather nonplused the other side, and even staggered the Presi dent, who plainly saw the lorce ol the argument, out had committed himself too far to yield without a strag gle ; so, after cogitating and scratclimg his wool a tew moments, a bright idea struck him. Rising from his chair, in all the pride of conscious superiority, he an nounced : ' Ducks am not before de house ; chickens am de question ; dercfore I rule de ducks ,out 1' and he did, to the complete overthrow ot his opponents.' One of the earliest presidents of Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, was the venerable Dr. M'Millan a man of great gravity and dignity of of manners. In those early times it was the custom lor the students, when meeting the President, to remove the hat from the head, place it under the left arm, make a profound bow, and pass the compliments of the day. Among the students was Tom Devoe, an eccentric fellow. His father was a rich planter of Mississippi ; and as Tom was always " flush of money," the height of his ambition was to sport a gold-headed cane and gallant the old Greek Professor's daughters. The term student, which he bore in common with the other members of the college, was a sad misnomer. Tom's mind was more deeply engrossed with backgammon, checkers, and old " sledge" than with his mathematics, and he was more deeply read in the lore of Chesterfield than in that of Homer and Virgil. In fact, he was a shallow-brained, lily-handed fop, and, as may be supposed, a great favorite with a certain class of ladies, who mistake impertinence for wit, and fine clothes and affected manners for refinement and solid accomplishments. But to our tale. Tom was one day walking down street arm in arm with his friend John Smith, who had a spice of the wag about him. Seeing the President a few paces before them, Tom hastily inquired, what is ' Good-morning, Sir,' in Latin ?" . -" Ego sum stultus," was the reply, without a moment's hesitation. , Meeting the President, Tom, after the most approved style of donkey ism, at the same time making a profound salam, greeted him with " Ego sum sultrus .'" " I am aware of it," responded the President, making a slight bow. This proving rather unsatisfactory, Tom posted off" to the room of his friend Bylcs, whom he saluted with, " Deacon, what is the translation ot this sentence : ' Ego sum stultus ?" " 1 am a jool I responded the unsophisticated Dea con.' , This told the whole story. As novel writers say, Tom's phelinx may be more easily imagined than de scribed. ' . Whether the students bored him about it or not, and whether the Professor's daughters ever heard of it or not, " deponent sayeth not ;" but history recordeth that the next flat-bottomed boat that went down the Ohio bore Tom as a passenger. Tom Corwin, of Ohio, is much in the habit of cracking jokes at the expense of his complexion, which is none ot the lightest. Jfcvery one recollects the way in which he rid himself of the imputation of favoring negro suffrage during the agitation of that question in his State. While speaking in the southern part of the State, where the pro-negro feeling is none of the strong est, he was charged with having favored negro suffrage in his speeches on the Reserve. " Certainly, gentlemen, says lie, passing his hand over his face, " certainly I favored it. You would not expect me to deprive myself of a vote !" One evening, in his own parlor in Washington, wdiile Secretary of the Treasury, his complexion was made the subject of a jest equally good. Mr. Hubbard, the Postmaster-General, was discussing with a young lady the gradual assimilation of husband and wife to one another in personal appearance ; and they, unable to agree, came to Mr. Corwin, who was conversing with a gentleman and lady at the opposite side of the room, for a decision. " Well," said he, hesitating a moment, and raising his hands to his face, " I don't know how it may be with others ; but as for me, I married a white woman about thirty years ago, and I don't see that it has altered my complexion any as yet !" ,- : THE DISHONESTY OF RUSSIAN OFFICIALS. BAYAltD Taylor, in his Moscow letter, gives the following illustration of the dishonesty of Russian public officials, notoriously the most corrupt of any on the globe. JJ.et those who think a government of the people corrupt, read the following of a despotism, and they will bo vey well satisfied. Mr. Taylor says : " The dishonesty of Russian officials is a matter of universal notoriety, and Alexander the II is doing his part to check and punish it. He has not been the slightest sufferer. During the coronation 40,000 lamps were bought for the illumination of the Kremlin, and now not one is to be found ! Thousands of yards of crimson cloth, furnished on the same occasion, have disappeared, and enormous charges appear in the bills for articles which were never bought at all. All Moscow is now laughing over one of these discoveries, which is too amusing not to tell, although it may offend strict ideas of propriety in relating to it. In the suite of the Empress were fifty chosen Ladies of Honor, who of course were lodged and entertained at the imperial expense. When the bills came to be settled it was found that, in furnishing the bed-chambers of these fifty ladies, 4,500 utensils of a useful character had been purchased, or no less than ninety apiece! iV. Y. Tribune. . 1 (ST The Rev. Dr. , of Georgia, lias a rather slow delivery, which was the occasion of an amusing scene in the chapel of the Lunatic Asylum. At his last appointments he was preaching upon the absolute necessity of trusting in Christ. He was illustrating his subject by the case of a man condemned to be hung, and reprieved under the gallows. He went on to describe the gathering of the crowd, the bringing out of the prisoner, his remarks under the gallows, the appearance of the executioner, the adjustment of the halter, the preparation to let fall the platform, and just then the appearance in the distance of the dustcovered courier, the jaded horse, the waving handkerchief, the commotion in the crowd. At this thrilling point, when every one was listening in breathless sifence for the denouement, the Doctor became a little prolix. One of the lunatics could hold in no longer ; he aroso in the congregation, and shouted, " Hurry, Doctor, for mercy's sake, hurry! They'll hang the man before you get there !"