Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 6, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 August 1870 — Page 6

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[For the Satunlay Kvcnlng Mall.] WAITING AT THE OA TK BY KEV. K.CASE. *•.«

They said not a line could I write of merit Having pocsie's language or pocsie's spirit No I took up my pen and I wrote them this, Fresh from the land of immortal bliss.

I fell my heart that Mi, ,1,1 not be dead

smiled,

A woman grown, but in heart a child.

She kissed my brow with soft lips then-, And parted the tangles out of iny hair, And drew me closer with bated breath, And whispered, "There's no such tiling as death!"

A strange light seemed to enhnlo her brow, And sin- looked like a dream in the morning's glow And somehow she seemed to pass away Like a snowy cloud in the light of day.

It, was but a passing gleam of light, From, I know not where, that crossed the sight 1-V.rall the while she still stood there,' Yet something mofe than earthly fair.

I clasped my heart and held my breath, And never so strange was that strange word, Death I thought of beings that'arc notyf clay, And avked myself, can she pass away?

But there came a mist one summer night And shut out the beautiful stars from sight And over my heavens there ist a cloud, And it's silvery lining became her shroud.

And now I know, though I cannot see, At the Golden Gate she is waiting forme And though to my vision her form is dim,

If because (iod ha: Him.

July 12, 1.S70.

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brought in near to

The stars, I hid to us, seem sofa inland small, J11 the far 11 heavens may be brightest of all So near to IIim that we cannot see "Who said "sutler such tocomcunt

me.

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Ought I Not to Have

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(•old-blooded people who

I know 1 hero are many an,I obtrusively-moral" would have called it a cruel and criminal yet I cannot ln-ip regretting

,io it. I doubt' it' an.V

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my extreme

roA'ocation, pr found me bio, ("in

!ave tounu 1111

guilty of any tiling worse u(in jUstitia|le, temporary insanitv -iff" tidbit that all niv wrongs, AV'lll

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l)i presented in all their onornu

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[to peculiar relation yard Dick Farrell is first lull}

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,-lood towa understood. It will, there lore, be necensarv to go back to lie period a a a a met him in this wise: I ndoubtcdl.A you remember that rocky ravine which is situated the little .roan do Maurienne^ foJJH^rVnis of the fcU'rnvis to Turin. lijs I had

!Ulwa

"lls P'11*'0 one morning, 011 my

A ^yjp'to Italv, and found that, owing to ,.dne accidental delay, 110 diligence would start to cross the mountain until evening. Consequently, having several hours at my disposal, I devoted them to an exploration of the valley, and finally attempted to climb up the steep face of the northern side of the ravine.

Now, 1 had never been a good climber, even in my boyhood, and as 1 was at this time niore'th'in—well, I was in the prime of manhood, at all events—1 ought to have known better than to haA'o made the attempt. However, I -did not know better, and so laboriously Climbed up the precipice until I found myself 011 a narrow ledge, where furthfher progress upward became impossible. To my great annoyance, 1 found, too, that I could not retrace my Mops, since any attempt to look down into the Aiillcy, which lay some two hundred feet below made me

OXCOSSIATIV

Presently he disappeared, followed bv the greater part of the ermvd, and I Avas about to resign myself to despair and an utterly hopeless attempt to clamber down the rock, when I was delighted •by the reappearance of the young man, who landed suddcdly Ivside mo.liaA'ing been letdoAvn by a rope irom the top of the precipice. *'NOAV, old boy," he remarked, with indecent familiarity, as he unfastened the rope from about- his waist, "let me just fasten this round you, and you'll be all right in a couple of minutes. Tell them not to forget me when you (jet to the top, for I haven't had mv dinner yet

So saying, he tied the rope under my arms, shook it ns a signal to thoao above, encouraged me with the remark, "Steady, now, old fellow, and good luck to'you!" and calmly proceeded to relight fiis oxtingnishedcigar, while I was rapidly hauled through the air to a place of safety. s: This young man was Dick Farrell.

The rope whs again let down, and he soon made his appearance beside me. Luckily he could sjeiik French, of which I did not know a single word, and I appealed to him to rescue me from the police, who had promptly arrested nie on charge of having attempted to commit suicide. Pick persuasive oratory secured my release, and,

being thus doubly indebted to him, I felt obliged to invito him to tho hotol and to dinner. lie proved to bo a painter of somo sort—I know nothing about art—on his way to Rome, and, though ho was in the main honest, and always good-tem-pered, ho was altogether too much of a vagabond to be a suitable travelingeompanion for a gentleman of my ago

ii a os it on I el is on

mwh C0n9PCutive

I remembered every word she said proposed that we should journey to When she stood down there by the gate and home together. Hut, what was I to do? I Clearly I could not say to the man who

She look my hand, and 1 heard her say Something of things that must pass away, Of broken pi tellers and shattered wheels, And of what the heart in its loneliness feels.

Something was said of an early death,— I could scarcely listen, and held my breath That some one would wait by the Golden

Gate,

Over there where the angels Watch and wait.

Home one would wait, and not go in, And leave me alone, for 'twould seem a sin, Sin to drink of the fountain first, And I not there toquench my thirst.

champagne, he

I had just saved my life, "Sir, I cannot consent to travel in your company, because you wear a preposterous hat, and are addicted to perpetual smoking and untimely singing." Of course I lacked the courage to saA' this, and lienco it followed that for the next two weeks we were constantly together. I will do him the justice to say that ho never attempted to borrow money from me, and that he rendered me considerable service by acting as an interpreter between myself and tlie natives. Still, his undignified habits were a constant source of annoyance to me. He would insist upon my aeeonipanyinghim into thirdclass cars, where he smoked, and sang, and drank cheap wine, out of casual bottles, with chance acquaintances, in a manner disreputable in the extreme. I acquit him of any intentional disrespect in representing to the police at St. Jean that I was a lunatic, and that he was my keeper, since he solemnly averred that by no other pretence could he have saved mo from arrest. I cannot, however, excuse his habit of calling me "old boy," and tho gross familiarity with which he criticised my personal appearance, and what he was pleased to call "iny jolly greenness."

Alter we scaclied Rome, as Avas quite natural we saw a good deal of each other. Tt so happened that we one day visited the Catacombs of St. Calixtus. The guide who was with us was explaining the skeletons and things with great apparent eloquence, and Dick was translatinghis remarks to me with comments and additions of his own, when we came upon another party, consisting of a middle-aged lady, her'daughter, and, of course, their guide. As they were evidently Americans, wo stopped and conversed a few moments with them, and ultimately accepted their invitation to accompany them through the rest of tho Catacombs—Dick escorting the mother, while I walked by tho side of her pretty daughter.

Pretty is just tho word which described her. She was not strictly beautiful, but her manner was extremely attractive, and she had, moreover, ah idea of the respect duo to a man

character and position in life, which I have found that young girls, as a rule, seldom have. I soon learned that her mother, a widow lady, was from New York, and that they were both Ave 11 acquainted Avith the family of my business .partner. We therefore rapidly became as familiar as old acquaintances and presently, Avliilo Dick, with his accustomed impudence, Avas giving the old lady a history of the Catacombs—of which am certain that he

knoAV

abso

lutely nothing, the daughter dreAVcloser to me and Avhispered v,'^,ii,i vou dare to get me a little piece of bono out ot,...v They rtre all saints' bones, you know, but the guide won't let mo have any, unl besides, I can't reach them, though need not say tnlnr* .9^ saint! —a rib I think it. Avas-^r^v saint quaintunce Avas'dehghted wiffli. Girlish pleasure

Avith

bone

tho aflaircan-

Avlnch she hid the

the folds of her dress, and in

sisted that she Avas ever so much obliged toiuo," together with the childish pa«Wness with Avhiflfa she had wlusnoredlicT request, completely charmed fact fell in love Avith her on

the"spot,'Mid determined that I would liv',V nor* she Avould give her consent. AYJien we parted at the entrance of the Catacombs, I was Avannly invited by both tho ladies

l.o

call upon them, and

to bring my friend Avith me. ToA'isit Miss Scott in company Avith Dick Avas precisely what I diet not Avish to do. Hut here, again, I could net help myself. Though Dick professed to lie a Avarm admirer of the AvidoAV, it always happened that, soon after our arrival at theSeotts'apartments, heAVOUICI manage to be in close conversation with Susie, Avhile fell a prey to the mot her,

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giddy.

At thisdistuneeof time I am willing to confess that 1 was deeidely frightened ns 1 thought of the probability^" of my remaining a hopeless prisioner,starving to death in full sight of the hotel—Avhich had an excellent table d'hntr—and of the railwav-station. Hope, which we are led to believe springs eternal in the human breast, fortunately inspired me Avith the happy thought of tiring my revolver its a signal of distress. No ,sooner had I acted upon this idea than, tho entire population of St. .lean appeared to become simultaneously aware of my position, and tloeked to the foot of the precipice to watch my anxiously expected fall. Owing either to their Stupidity, or to their reluctance to spoil a prospective tragedy, these people did not make the slightest effort to rescue mo. Finally, alter they had waited two hours in the vain hope that I would lose my foothold, they set up an idiotic shout at the appearance of a young man carrying a coil of rope on his shoulder.

conversational poAvers-

Ave re of the iih*4 oppressive character. The saniejthing used to occur Avhen Ave A'isited ruins and palaces together Avhich we did nearly every day. Still I felt 110 fear of his riA'alrv. Susie eA'idcntly liked me, and ill ways appeared delighted to see nie. Besides, never for a moment supjxised that she could prefer a penniless vagabond toanian of means and recognized respectability.

All this is merely introductory and, though the preceding statements haA'e a tendency to make a short story long, still it Avas necessary, as I haA'e said before, that the precise nature of my intimacy Avith Dick should be set forth before I could iisk tho question, "Ought I not to lniA'e done it

One day we prevailed upon the ladies to make a A'isit to St. Peter's. In order to make tho excursion partake some-AA-hat of tho nature of picnic, it Avas agreed that

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should take our lunch

Avith us, and eat 011 the immense roof of the church. In order to make sure of securing Susie for myself, I preA*ailed upon trs. Scott to iiivite the ROA\ Lconidas W. Smiley, Avho Avas then in Rome, to accompany ns in sending to iineiglo that worthy di\'ine into acting as an escort to tho AvidoAv, -I never thought Avhat Avould l»econK) of'Dick if thus left Avithout a lady companion nor Avcre my suspicions aroused by the sarcastic smile with Avhich he praised my forethought in inviting the clergyman. "Ifany accident should happen—if you should break your neck, for example," he remarked—" it Avould bo so handy to haA'e a clergyman ready!"

The day appointed for the picnic, of course, arrived. Never shall I forget the sensations Avith Avhich I ascended the long, Avinding, inclined plain AA*hich leads up to the roof of the church. I had determined to offer myself to Susie in the course of the day and, though I had 110 doubt as to the result, yet the novelty and importance of the step I Avas aliout to take made nie somcAvhat nervous. I had too, an undefined and wholly unacknowledged feeling that she was not, after all precisely the sort ofAvife for me. She knew absolutely nothing of business, and Avas about as ignorant of the duties pertaining to tho position for which I intended her as a girl could well be. Nevertheless, I had so stronga fancy for tho gay little butterfly, that I felt tho impossibility of existence apart from her. For Aveal or for Avoeshe held my fate in her hands, and I determined that those dear little hands should be mine, come Avhat might. before vr© had our luneh we were to ascend the dome. At this stage of affairs I succeeded in placing tlie widow In charge of the clergyman, and, with Susie, began thio assent of the eoutit}ess stairs. Dick, however, .followed, so closely behind us—in order, as he phtended, to keepSusie frotn falling-Mint »bwn face til!

I could find no opportunity as^lier

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She only replied:

TRRRK-H AIITE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, AUGUST 6, 1870.

tho quest ion whieh AVUS on my lips. At last AVO roachod tho lantern, and only tho great copper ball remained to be oxplorod. As Mrs. Scott doclined to enter tho ball, I Avaited with Susio until her mother had gone out upon tho outer gallery, vainly hoping that tho long-sought-for niomeut had arrived. But scarcely had her mother disappeared Avhcn tho A'ounglady announced tho intention of* climbing into tho ball, whereupon thooHlcious Dick ran up tho iron ladder to assist her. When they had both succeeded in entering that stifling den—whero no man of sense ever Avillingly placed himself—sho cried out that no ono else was to come up 011 any account, for sho Avas afraid that the ball Avould break loose under any additional weight. I was thus forced to stay at the foot of tho ladder Avliilo they remained in the ball, engaged—during what seemed to 1110 an intolerable length of time—in an animated doiiA'crsation, conducted in a tone so IOAV that I could not hear a single Avord that was said.

Whenthev finally descended, Susie's faco Avas tiuslied, by the heat of the place, she said—while Dick looked uncommonly craA-e, and gnawed his mustache Avith a nervous, dissatisfied air. Had he been any one else—the Rev. Mr. Siniley for example—I should have believed that he had offered himself to Susie and been rejected but, being simply tho penniless vagabond that he Avas, that idea of any such conduct 011 his part Avas too ridiculous to be entertained for a moment.

At last we turned to descend to the roof, and I

SIIAV

that the moment for me

to express niv intentions toAvard Susie had arrived.* Lingering dextrously in the rear until the AvidoAv and the clergyman Avere safely out of sight, I led Susie out upon the gallery under the pretext of shoAving her a part of the landscape AArhich she had not noticed. As

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ed over the railing, I looked around to make sure that Dick Avas out ot sight, and then began My dear Miss Susan I haA'e something to say to you."

Sho looked at me a moment Avith startled eyes, and then putting her hands together, Avith an imploring little gesture, cried, Oh, please don't.." •'Don't AA'hat?" asked I, quite puzzled by her conduct.

Don't please say any thing I mean don't! Oh just look Avhat a pretty floAver. HOAV I Avish I had it!

Tho child Avas evidently confused and frightened. I Avas about to explain myself more fully, Avhen Dick appeared upon the scene, carrying upon his arm a shaAvl belonging to some one of tho party, and asked what Avas the matter.

That beautiful little pink floAver, thero 011 the dome," she answered—" if I could only reach it."

You shall have it," he replied and then, tossing one end of the shaAvl to 1110 Avith the request that I Avould hold on to it, he seized the other end, and Avas over the railing and sliding down the slippery surface of the dome before I Avell knew what Avas his intention.

Tho floAver was groAving on a little projection not more than tAvelA'C feet beloAV us. Dick, however, had placed himself in a horribly dangerous- position for, although he could 'remain for a time resting with one loot on this projection,,it Avas impossible for him to regain tho gallery without the aid of ti»o nliuwI to which he-was clinging. He paid not a particle orattontioix to my peremptory demand that he should' come back at once, but, quietly seizing the flower and putting it temporarily in his bosom, he looked up to Susie, Ayho Airas you just noAV\ WTftyiUlSXf*""™

k*Co£

Farrt'll, do, please you fftgfiffclJtriFto death." "Susie," returned the scoundrel Avith the utmost solemnly,"Unless you giAre me iny promise this lmoment, I will let go the shaAvl, for I don't care a my life,"

GALVESTON

raAv for

Come back directly, sir," I or I'll let go the shawl myself! Don't yon see hoAv you alarm Miss Si ott Avith your confounded nonsense?"

shouted,

Tho villain never heeded 11 tence: "Promise me, Susie," ed, "orI sAvear I'll let go." "Yes, yes, Dick, I promise.'

deTotion

exis-

repeat-

cried.

Dear Dick, do come back. I will marry you-" This, Hum, Avas the result of 1113' months of

to that slnmeless

girl. This was what cam© of ny condescension toward a miserable,iinprjncipled patenter, Before ray vejy pyfcs, in my very hearing, he gained proaiise of marriage from the ladv wnoii I had intendied to marry myself*

Before I could fujdv realize! his astounding Adllany, ho had elimlod bade sBgain, and had Susie ini his jirms. I Mush tor hiMnan nature when I meltion the fact that he actually kfcsed lnr im my presence.

I tossed the shaAvl downu, an® tumid away Avithoat speaking. BefoK I hid gone many steps Susie «\'ertok no and said: Please forgive- me fl lure given you any pain. Mamma touldrit let mo sec Dick unless yo«iweraby, anl so I had to be ciA'il to you. tesidest

do like you CA*er so miaehi, and if yot of all stealing—literary stalling. AVO uld 0*11 lv marry mamma, ii

AVOUH

be so niec/r I shape and form to thoughts which find "I really think you'd better," ehinid fiiA'or Avith the public, and it is not at in Dick. ""There's a d'ergyman hen.[all improbable thn you knoAv. and it comld be done \t[ haps never had a clear idea upon any once." subject Avill claim the credit of the au-

Thcre! I haA*e told tho whole stcrxTthorsliip, and rush into print to estaband tho facts have been stated precsd lish the paternity of an article about ly as they have oceunrcd. It only re^Avhich he knows as littlo as he does of

mains for me to ask theqnestion, Woulajf ie Chinese or Egyptian languago. I not haA'e been perfectly^ justified id This is especially truo if the real au1-". x, 1 .1 '^ngjthor should be dead, an~ [rittipen to be one of those gi erous rivaPs suit To be sure he liadfand then sparkle and shine in

letting go tho shaAvl, and thus puttir a sudden and effectual end to mv trcaci

on a former occasion saved my Sfe doubtless for purposes of his OAVII, aid certainly without waiting for me to bquest that favor from him. But ad that excuse his subsequent eonduA? Just look at it in all hideousneis. While I held his life in my hands—Or nothing could haAre saved him had I 9t gbtheshaAvl—he dared to ask my fitended Avife to marry him, and, Avhatis Avorse, actually gained her conseit. Could any one haA O blamed me had! let go my* hold? Ought I not to hat} done it

Tho more I think of it, the more I au conA-inced that jusiiee to myself, pit for the unfortunate girl AA-hom Diet cruelly make a sharer in his poA*crtv, Avell as a due sense of tho guilt of 1# outrageous conduct, demanded that? should have dropped the shawl. Attl I don't hesitate to say that I am cot: foundedly sorry that I did not do it.4

For the Hnturilny Evening Mull. STEALING. FalstafT, once exclaimed, "Lord, Lord how this Avorld is given to lying." Had ho livod at tho prcsont timo ho might havo added "and stealing, too."

Wo read of tho ago of iron, the ago of brass, and tho ago of gold. This is preeminently tho ago of theft.. To steal has beeoino tho fashion of tho day—the custom of tho country, and as custom makes laAV, so to speak—tho laAV of tho land. littlo stealing, like is a dangerous petty thief is often made to ruo his folly, Avhich in the eyes of the public and the lnv, as it is administered, becomes a crime 'while had I10 stolon largely, liko a member of Congress or somo other high official, in all probability through the same "laAv's delay," or from its quirks and quibbles, or some other causo, I10 Avould haA'e escaped entirely "unwhipt of justice."

It is time that a a littlo learning, thing," and your

Formerly among the Spartans, the disgraco was not in tho act of stealing, but being caught in it and an account is given of a high spirited youth Avho, liaA'ing stolen a Avolf and hid it under his cloak, rather than submit to the mortification of detection, allowed the animal to tear out his vitals. I11 the present day. hoAveA*er, there is not only no disgrace in tho mere act of stealing itself, but none eA'en in being caught in it, proA-ided the theft has been on a grand scale and not a mere petty offense. There, and there onlv, "lies the rub."

One's recollection docs not luu-e to travel very far back into the past, Avhen stealing Avas confined to a class ot persons Avho made no pretensions to respectability, or decency, or position, to foot-pads and wharf-rats and garretlodgers, Avho, like

OAVIS,

only came out

of their holes Avhen night lent them her friendly cover for their dark deeds. NOAV, it not unfrequently happens that the bigger the man the bigger the rogue.

In former times honesty Avas the rule, and roguery the exception. NOAV roguery is the rule, and honesty the exception.

Not to steal is not to liA-e. Of late years, all classes and conditions of life seem to be troubled wit hitching palms. It is a disease Avhich has become epidemic, and Avhile all are liable to catch it, your office holder and office seeker are peculiarly so. Among these no station istoo loAv to be beneath, and none too high to be above it. From your petty constable to he Avho driA*es the chariot of State, all are looking forAvard to the golden opportunity, and are ever ready to put money in their pockets when time and circumstances Avill allow.

Indeed, to your man of place stealing becomcs almost a matter of necessity. To get into office, noAV-a-days, takes money and office seekers, for the most part, in the beginning of their career at least, are by no means oArerburdened, as a general thing, Avith this world's troods^ By the time, therefore, that a tnes nniiacii »V.

man clotires niui=cn --r-x erally strips himself ot everything else. The consequence is that lie must get even some way, and, not untreq.ue^^ 1^, -a? i^ab-nrar ije, 111 order to do so. In proof of this it is only necessary to observe the proceedings in our National Legislature of late years. Bill after bill is introduced, the main object' of which is to improve tho financial condition of those Avho introduce and support them. Representatives and Senators, notoriously Avith nothing more than a bare subsistence .a few years since, now loll in luxurious ease in splendid parlors, or roll in magnificent equipages through the streets of the Capital, or along the Avintding thoroughfares of some fashionable watering place.

Rings are the order of the day, and to be in Congress, and not to be in a ring, argues great stupidity and verdancy on the part of the member.

The motto of the time is "thrift," and noAvhero is that motto liA'ed up to more closely than among those Avho make our LIAVS.

That a man should steal money to put in his pocket or bread in his mouth, is not so much to bo Avondcred at. They are the staff of life. And Avhen Othello said, "lie Avho steals my purso steals trash," the presumption i.s, that, like the poor prodigal,, he had been spendiiag his time and his money in riotous liA'ing. Had the aforesaid purse been Avell filled "Avith sih*er dollars shinin gh silker doubtless haA'e «ather and A'ery different sentiment.

jig

through silken interstices," I10 Avould giAen utterance to andifl

There is a kind of theft, hoAvoA*er, which is most unaccountable, inasmuch as there is neither profit nor honor in it I allude to that poorest kind

Let a man or woman of genius give

thor should be dead, and the piece happen to be one of those gems Avhich now tho tioAA spaper literature of the day.

We all remember the controversy hat has arisen concerning the authorhip of All's quiet on the Potomac tolight," "Over tho River," and "The ieautiful SnoA\\" Recently one of the toldest and most unblushing thefts of Vis kind Avas perpetrated by an Ohio %ntributor to the LouisAille GourierInrnal, and palmed off 011 that paper "la genuine composition. In this inslnce the theft was more like stealing Jfu croAA'd and in open dav, than seek"Athe opportunity Avhich secrecy and diltness afford for the commission of

c'1r|yo—the

uau.whm paper, speaking •fiij r*"" uAi vpv IV'W \JI a ui Northern seaside resorts, sa\*s that Cape change in the twelfth and thirMay beach is fine but precious little, if r?"™ any finer than that of Galveston and ""lie there is so much thieA'inggo_i a tier An »U not a fourth part as safe. Every 'year?|

A Chicago arrest declined to photographed for the benefit of th« rogues'gallery. He first smashed thgreeted a monument in Union Hill camera, and then, finding the suppli?emetery, Springfield, Vt.,to themem^""too great, smashed ,tras disfigured be recognition,

subject being nothing less

J.V'A Hood's celebrated Bridge of

the editor of a paper occnpj-ing ,,sition of the Ojuricr-Joumal noun haA*e been imposed upon, is cerBinfy most remarkable, especially

psition of

oun nly

is considered that the theft was

w'noJd»aie

one, this poem being copied

on»

we recount numerous drownings atffj^roafijn the land, it behooves edCape May—none at (*alA*eston, and wi may as well add that Galveston is no as hot as Cape May.

and there are so manv pretend

fors as well as others to be watchful st, in an unguarded moment, they 11 into thesnares of the unscrupulous id designitg. J. W. J.

A lady, seventy years of age, has rA/'iiWI a tt **»•.

r5^°/thr revl«tlonary

Jt in

soldiers, and

knitting

with her own

EMANCIPATION OF SERFS IN RUSSIA. LippincotVa Magazine for August has an interesting article concerning tho Emperor Aloxander, founded principally upon statements made by M. De Catacazy, the Russian Minister in this country, to Jay Cooke, from which we make the following extract

Nothing Avas farther from the thoughts or intentions of tho emperor Nicholas, tho father of the present emporer, or of his adA-isers, or of the nobles of Russia, than the act consumated by the present emperor—tho universal emancipation of the serfs. When a boy of nine years, Alexander, sitting ono morning at tho breakfast-tablo with the emperor and oinpress, his governess standing near, Avas observed to bo leaning his head upon his hand, and apparently in deep thought. His mother asked him, "What are your thoughts mv son?" As the boy hesitated, the question Avas repeated, when, looking up with an earnest and deeply serious air, he said. "I was thinking, how when I become emperor, I can make free all my poor countrymen who are

IIOAV

slaA'cs*" His

mother Avas startled by this ansAver: whilst tho emperor Nicholas turned pale. Tho governess, fearing that the charge might be made that her influence 0Ar0r the child had caused this strange and unaccountable remark, was much disconcerted. Tho empress earnestly questioned the boy as to tlio origin of this extraordinary thought. After some hesitation he answered that he had learned it in church and from God's Avord, Avherein the duty of loA*ing one's neighbor as one's self, and of doingunto all men as

AVO

Avould lune them do

unto us, Avas so often and so earnestly inculcated. He thought that it Avas not right that those poor people should for ever remain slaves. The subject

AVUS

not again alluded to, but the young prince pondered all such things in his heart, and as he grew older greAV stronger in his determination to confer this great boon upon his subjects.

O11 his accession to the throne, Alexander immediately sent for a man of eminent piety and honesty, as

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the tow gnuss, a dozen yards off, in plain sight, and I determined to tiro at them as they lay. I lifted my gun took deliberate aim, and Avould have killed a dozen at least but before I could pull tho trigger a courier dashed up Avith a dispatch which ho said required immediate attention.

I reserved my fire and read tho dispatch. It was an order from the Navv Department to proceed, Avithout a moment's delay, to Philadelphia to tako command of a squadron which was about to sail to tho Mediterranean. I was so muck excited, you understand, that I laid down my gun right on the spot, and went off, leaving* Jiustcr there pointing at those birds like they were north stars and he avhs a mariner's compass so to speak. I forgot all about linn but he Avas a faithful dog, Buster was—and liko Casabianca he Avouldn't haA-e left CA'en a burning ship Avithout my orders.

Well, I went to the Mediterranean, and cruised around for three years, hava first rate time. When I returned, at the end of the cruise, it occurred to me, as I stepped ashore in Philadelphia, to go out and see how things were at the place Avh#re lAvent gunning. John and

AA*ent and the first thing I came across was my gun, lying there Avith the barrel covered with dust and broken clean of tho rotten stock. But what was my surprise, upon going a feAv P»acfu ft^her, to find the skeleton of that heroic, double nosed pointer.standing up just where I had left the dog before! He never budge

an inch, Mr. Quill, not a single solitary inch, that double-nosed pointer hadn't but he had stood there and pointed at those birds until he had perished in his tracks! Well, after shedding a tear over my departed friend, I went a few yards.aheaa, and—there were the skeletons of those partridges I regard this aa the most extraordinary circumstance that ever come under my observation but if any man presumes to doubt my word, I'll shoot him on the spot—I will, by George

It was queer, that story of Scudder's-, about his dog, but it*would hardly bo safe to say what I think about it.

of a strong intellect, and entrusted his thoughts and plans to him. Theso tAvo, in the recesses of the palace Avith Cod's eye upon them, and Avitli an earnest desire within them to carry out in the best manner possiblo the great plan of emancipation, devised and put into operation that A'ast scheme, the result of Avhich has been tho freedom of all the serfs of Russia.

At this pointM.de Catacazy impressively asked,

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much do you think,

Mr."Cooke, our noble emporer gave up of the revenues of himself and his immediate family?"

Mr. C. replied that he could not form an idea. He gaA-e up more than tAventy millions of dollars of annual revenue. "HOAV many serfs, think you, Avere liberated by one stroke of the emperor's pen Why. over sixty millions. And how many*families AA'ere raised from a position of slavery to become oAvners of homesteads? Why, OA*er tAventy millions of separate families and

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110 slaAre, no serf, can be lVmnd in all the Avide domain of the Russian empire." What is the population of tho Russian empire at present, and Avhat are its divisions?"

The population is about eighty-two TixTy ^nfflltfmtrtawJsome peven or eight hundred thousand^ -i'"1 uit»rc, are ot the noble classes, heretofore the owners of the serfs and all the lands some seven to eight hundred thousand belong to the clergy the remainder, some eighteen millions, is made up of merchants, mechanics, professional men, etc. Under the old regime slaves could not own land, but they Avere required to reside, generation after generation, 011 the same lands. The nobles did not own the slaves, but as they oAvned the land to which the slaves by law Avere attached, it amounted to the same thing. Tho merchants and some feAv other classes, not serfs could OAvn a small portion of land. The absolute poAvcr to regulate the occupation of the serf and to grant or refuse his claim to redeem himself Avas A'osted in tho land-owner. Many sort's were thus controlled

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had risen to a re

spectable station as merchants or mechanics.

COMMODORE SClJDDEll'S DOG. Commodore Scudder, of tho United States NiiA-y, had a doublo-nosed pointer dog of Avhich ho bragged a good deal, and for.which he Avould haA'e refused a larger Hum than

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CA'er offered for a

dog since the creation of the world. But he is dead now—not Commodore Scudder, but the dog. Like the famous hound Gelcrt, he died a martyr to his high sense of honor. Tho Commodore told nie tho story. "I went out hunting partridges one day," he said, "and took tlie dog along. We hadn't much luck at first,J but after awhile Buster—that was the dog's uame —stood and pointed at a covey of the finest birds I cA-cr saAv in all my born days. They wore squatting down in

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PROJECTED SHIP CA NA LS. The great Suez Canal, and tho pr, posed Darien Canal, have so occupied the attention of the public that few nave had their attention called to the nilmerous projects of a similar character now 011 foot in \rarious parts of tho world. It would soeni that nations aro everywhere looking for new and short* er routes of commerce, and that an era of ship canals has commenced.

In a recent issue

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announced that

the Suez Canal had been deepened so as noAv to admit the passage of A'essels of the largest class. This Avas doubted by a contemporary journal Avliicli is supposed to know more about spiritual than engineering matters. The fact remains, however, and sufficiently substantiates our statement, that largo cotton steamers, one of them carrying over cleA'en thousand bales, have* recently made the passage^ one of them passing through the canal in only fourteen hours and this passage has justly been accepted as establishing tho prac-tability of the canal for larger \-essels.

The prospeets of tho Darien Canal are not definitely settled, but it is hoped a practicable route Avill be established ere long.

The canal that was proposed to be established betAveen the Baltic Sea and the German Ocean is

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much faA*ored

by A'arious commercial associations, and is so strongly urged that probably a survey to establish the most practicably route Avill soon be made.

It is thought that a canal Avill also soon be cut through tho Isthmus of Corinth in Greece, thus connecting the GulfofJlSgina and Lepanto. This canal cannot, hoAvcA'er, compare in extent or in commercial importance Avith the one intended to connect tho Baltic with the German Ocean. It is, hoAvevor, faA'ored by the Greek GoAernnient, and Avill probably be cut through sooner or later.

A much more important project, and one which in magnitude eclipses all tho others is a canal connecting the Bay of Biscay with the Gulf of Lyons, a distance of two hundred and tAventy-fiAro miles. An estimate of the cost of tho Avork has been placed at §12"),000,(XX). The termini of this work »s

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jected are Bordeaux 011 the Bay of Biscay, and Cette on the Gulf of Lyons. The section of tho cutting is proposed to bo of the same dimensions as tho Suez Canal.

Other minor Avorks of the kind aro under consideration, and it is quito eA'ident tnat the isthmuses of the world are destined to become the scenes of remarkable engineering Avorks in tlio time to como.

The commercial changes the Avorks already projected Avill effect, if they should

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bo completed, are altogeth

er beyond present comprehension. A work like that proposed betAveen tlio Bay of Biscay and tho Gulf of Lyons, could scarcely have been looked upon, in any other age, except Avith doubt and derision. If any

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deride, it is lie-

cause they see reason to doubt financial rather than engineering success.

TkavkijLIxu ny BOAT-—"Hallo,there, capting said a brother Jonathan to a captain of a canal packet boat on tlio Erie Canal,

"Avhat

tiassage?"

do you charge for a

"Three cents per mile and

joarded," said tlio captain. "Wal, I guess I'll take passage, capting, seeing as how I am kindec gin out, Avalking so nImgiv he"got on board just as the stewardAvas ringing the bell for dinner. Jonathan dreAV up to tho table, sat down, and began demolishing the "fixins" to the utter consternation of the captain, until ho. had cleanod the table of all that was eatable, when ho got up and Avent 011 deck, picking his teeth very comfortably.

far is it, capting, from hero to

where I got 011 board "Nearly ono and a half miles," said the captain.

Let's see," said Jonathan, that Avould be just four and a half cents but never mind, capting, I Avon't bo small hero's flAre cents, which pays my-' faro to here. I guess I'll goashoro now" I'm kinder rested oout."

A SPI'NKV Wikk.—A middle aged farmer and his wifb were enjoying a Avill-'® ter evening cosily together, when tlie conversation turned upon religious4 matters, as described in the Bible,Avhich I the man had onen before him. "Wife," said tho farmer, "I've been thinking what happy society Solomon must have had in his day, Avith so many wiA'cs, \'c., as is here represented."

Indeed replied the wife, someAvhat miffed "you had better think of something else. then. A pretty Solomon you Avould make, truly you can't take proper care of one Avife. What a figure you Avould cut, tlicm, Avith a dozen wives, and all of them as spunky as I am." riio farmer took his hat and Avent to tho stable to feed tho cattle for the night.

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ClilMATK

FllANrK. It

is asserted by a French meteorologist, Aviio has made carefuf investigations of the subject, that the cHmatc of Franco, instead of becoming milder since'the Middle Ages, has actually become more severe. This conclusion* is based upon the record of observations in regard to the groAvth of the vine, tho migration

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storks, the period of vegetation, etc., and Avould seem to indicate a chronological coincidence, if not a relationship of cause and effect, between tho \'anations of climate and tho procession of tlio equinoxes.

IN- l«2fi, one of Mr.

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Hp tin

Carrol's grand

daughters was married to the Marquis ofWellesloy, then Viceroy of Ireland and it is a singular circumstance that one hundred and forty years after tho first emigration of her ancestors to America, this lady should become Vice Queen of the country from whichthoy fled, at the summit of a system which a more immediate ancestor had risked

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thing to destroy or, in

the energetic and poetic language of Bishop England, "that in the land from which his father's father fled in foar, his daughter's daughter now reigns a queen.''

only unlocks the door upon that

Futurity where the isles of the blessed lie like stars. Afleetion is tho stepping S stone to God. The heart is our only I measure of infinitude. The mind tires with greatness, the heart never. Thought is worried and weakened in its flight through the immensity of ace but love soars around "tho irone of the Highest, with added blessing and strength.—Revcrien of a Bachelor.

A cif correspondent contribuies this to our iuvenilia: My little boy, six years old, and my little girl, eight, were looking at the clouds ono beautiful summer evening watching their fantastic shapes, when the boy exclaimed: "Oh, Minnie* I see a dog in the sky Well, Willie replied the sister, it must bo a skyterrier!"