Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1872, Page 2

2 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1872. _—_——— ——_—_—_ — ——————me __—_—_—————_—_— e, NEW ORLEANS. Gayarre, the Historian of Lou-~ isiana. The American Mediterranean---Com- ponents of the Crescent City. The Spauish Domination ~- No More Filibustering-—Ezport= ing Everything and Im- porting Nothing, BIrs. Gaines and Her Lawsuits--- Topography of New Orleauns. From Our Own Correspondent. . Wasarxczos, Dec. 16, 1872, Amongst the strong and strange old personaj characters of New Orleans is one, nearly 85 years of age, still moving sbout tho business-siroets, ond endeavoring to do his part in the changed condition of bis native city, GAYARRE. . This is Charles E. Arthur Gayarre, the his- torizn of Louisianz, a men of mixed Spanish and French descent, who has been on the controver- sinl side of almost every question, and who took up pamphlcteering egainst that original carpet- bagger of them all, Edward Livingston, as early. 551525, when he wes aboy. After studying law ia the North, he went to the Legislature in time tc congratulate France, in an address on behalf o Creoles, upon the revolution of 1830 at . Tlected to the Senateof the Dnited S:ates in 1835 he added another quaint page 0 nis carcer by dsclining the place secount of poor health, and then, for several , he was Secretary of State of Louisians, aizer of the State finances and library, and ral 2athor. In 1858 hefbolted parties, only <0 find the usual ingratitude of Republics in be- ing beaten, and, after meuling his fellow-citi- =zens for their epathy and corruption, he appear- e at tho head of 2 body of Roman Catholies, in 1835, applying for admission to the National Enow-Nothing Convention, where, of course, he wes excluded. He favored Secession, and is 0w comparatively obscure; but the recollec- tion of his intense and peculiar face suggests that we accompany him in memory, at this ex- tracrdinary time in Louisians affairs, to see how <jiis Stete reised itsolf aid its society above the delta of the Mississippi. THE GULT COUNTRT- As the traveller proceeds toward the Gulf from Washington City, he observes little change of weather or folizge until he has got quite withia the Yine of the climate of 3lobile. After leaving Moutgomery, Ala., wherethe bloff-lands are high and hilly, ho pasees by gentle grades t0 8 country of wido rivers and lagoons, with swamps of brilliant hues growing rankly between them, and in the bazy dawn ho sees arks and rafts steercd, seemingly, in the central air, so rauch bigher is the water than the soil, and go unvsual and obscured the sight. Then he feelsa queer, sleeping buiterfly st Lis pulse, ssying, Come flutter or come dream;” and Le knows 1het it is the true Sonth he has reached at last. THE AMTRICAN MEDITERRANEAN. From Pensecola to Mobile is 50 or 60 miles in 2 straight line; from Mobile to New Orleans is 130 by reil. Insbort, it is but 250 miles by rail from Pensecola past hobile to New Orleans by present lines of communication, and should be 2o more than 200, if the Gulf-side line wasin operation. 4 Theeo three ettloments, and the islands and Gulf-shores between them, constitute all the vitel history of the Latin races as it affects Southern melropotitan politics. Tho contost Detweon Frence, Spain, Great Brifain, and the Carolinas, on the Gtif of Mesico, presents some striking resemblances to thecontest between the Datch, Swedos, Canzdisns, and English Colon- ists between the Capes of the Delaware and New Englend. New York, founded by the Dutch is an histericel paraile] to New Orleans, founded iy the French neardy & century afterward. Toth cities attest in tuelr cites the sagacity or uck of Peter Minuils oxr Lemcine de Bienville,— serfectly different men, whoso nationsl attri- Sutes of cheracter geem to remain inths perfect- 1y different cities which retein supremacy in the ospectivo sections. Pensacols was founded by the Sperieh in 165, Mobile by the French in 1702, and New Orleans also by the French in 1715, We have not attended much in the North Soutbern history, aad these places were of sery little account except as points of conten- zion between the nations eoumerated. Btill, itis strenge to think that 300 Moxicans were the fonndess cf Pensacols ; that 1,500 Greeks and Minorean sctilers came at one time to Florida ; That, more than a century sgo, women from the streets of London and the House of Correction cf Paris became the pilgrim mothers on the Bt. John and Mississippt Rivers; and that little old setilements like Biloxi were at one time marked out to be the dominant towns of the Gulf. FIRST WINE. . ho roed from Mobile to New Orleans is one of the best ecuipped, in rolling stock-and road- ey, in this country, and the roufe passes many old forts and the brozd croeks of many rivers, 5 *hat it compares with tho tide-water line in the East, between Washington and New York. Xew Orleens is a delight,—full of interest with- out logic,—and it i3 one of the few places whera one would wish to return and examine it more at leisure. NEW OBLEANS RELATIVELY. New Orleans heg 2 population of a little ehort of 200,000 (191,418, sccording to the census of 1570), ard racks ninth among our American cities, or below Cincinnati snd above Ban Fran- clsco. * It is nearly twice the growth of Louis- ville, three times that of Charleaton, five times Memphis, and si Limes greeter than Mobile or Bevacnah. 1t has notut present the progressive incressa of cither Louisville, . Memphis, Charleston. Filty ikousand of its Tresi- dents aro natives of other countries, but 115000 of them are native TLou- jsianians. Sevenmty-cight are black matives ©f Africs, the Inat conquests of the elave-trade. XNearly 1,000 aro natives of Cuba,” and nearly £,000 of France. There are 15,000 native Ger- sians, 15,000 Irish, 3,500 Ttaliens, 1,000 Spanish, and 300 Mexicans. 3 ¢ 113 COMPONENTS. Out of the 66,000 people occupied with some sort of labor in New Orlesns, nearly one-halfare engaged in professional and personzl services 25 %cr example; there are but 126 clergymen and 472 barbers and hairdressers, 310 lawyers and 717 hotel and restaurant folks, 117 confoctioners and only 53 whoelwrights. San Francisco has been compared to New Orleans as o foreign city, * and it afforés gocd opportunity for comparison, being next beiow it, or with 150,000 inhabitants, aezrly equally divided as to nativity between the Tnited States and foreign lands; 12,000 are Chinese, 8,500 French, 14,600 Germans, 26,000 Trieh, 1,600 Italians, 1,200 Mexicans, and’ 1,500 Swiss and Swedes, Sen Franciso is & more thorough mingling of independent nationalities, andits gaietyisth sceident of their sudden meet- ing and inoranic Gevelopment. New Orleans is a rendezvous under fres government, near the Tropics, of habitans, Creoles, maritimo people, 20d Americans. It contains fow men to remind oneof the great driving geniuses of Ssn Fran- ciBeo ; its bourgroise life 'is thet of & respec- table provirciai city of France or the Low Coun- ties; and, with slitkat is said of its Latin at- smosphere, the Americen life enlivens and cheers it moro than 21l tho other elements: A good Jealis sxid about good Americans going to Paris when they die. A really representative Ameri- canwould dic any way in Paris. The moribund life of the French quarter is queer and attrac- tive for = little while, but, soon after getting to New Orieans; the averago American looks at the Teathen romains no more, withdraws o hisin- stituticns, and makes his own_Paris, which is zlwsya more nearly like New York. I was at 75t susprised, but presently in' accord with a sieiement a gentlemen of the city mads fo me : #¢ THE SPANISH DOMINATION fiers of tweniy-four-yenrs was far more vigorous than the French setilement. The Spanish are towu-builders, and. they gave New Orleans a start, anaking it worth the American’a taking Dhold of it. Obr strongest foreign blood hers Lo is of Sparish etock.” After this reflection, the French part of New Orleans locked to me moro and more like the ~minvigorated life of the French parts of Mon- «arepl 2nd Quebee, and I ihonght of the fierce .energy of Havana 281 had seen it nine months lecfore, guarded by the Spanish Volunteros. Havana to-day is the great city of the Gulf, «2qusl to New Orleans S apalarion (197,000 o N e 00000 Gubaus T 1 Morro Cestle,—which bezrs the name of that same b’Bsifly who was the first Spanish Governor of New Orleans,—many s _Louisisnian—French, Spanish, British, and American have suffered ' captivity. "It received much of its sustenance from the emigres from Florids, and, afier thres Eundred years of domination, peril, and fieres influence over all our Gulf-regions, it is stillthe giant in the gateway of New Orleans “‘a-laying for us” out there in the offing, to catch us’ as we come down the Mississippi and seek to run past to sea. OTR STRENGTE ON THE GULF: . The following is the population cf the Amsri- can ehores of the Gulf of Mexico: Florida, 190,000; Alabama, 1,000,000, Miesisippl, 800, 0005 Louisiana, 725,000; Texas, 1,250,000 To- tal of all races, sbout 4,000,000, of whom 2,000,- 000 are white people. The whito fighting popu- lation may bo get down at 250,000. For any mil- itary uses egeinst the Spanish races, particular- Iy againet elave Cubs and Porto Rico, the Amez- jcan negro population is a8 numerous and mere effective. E\'o are thus nearly twice more nu- merous than the Spanieh colonies of the Guif ; but our relative density on its shores is not as groat as upon the other shores, including the islands. 1 asked Judge Fellows, an old Whig, who had ‘been opposed to every filibustering oxpedition which quitted New Orleans, and to tho Mesican War bofors he got there, whether, on the whole, he approved our partition of Mexico in 1847 in the light of subsequent events. Ho eaid, heart- ily: “Yes! It wasa blossing to thoe people of the Northern Provinces of Mexico; and I am sorry that the Government did nct also include the eight Northern Provinces of the present Mexico, with which Texashas large dealings, and which are full of mineral resources." NO MORE FILIBUSTERO. It would seem at this writing that the contin- geacy is very remote for any political fermont or extension of which New Orleans is to be the seaf. That city does now no’ more than hold its own. IMobile and Pensacola meke humor out of the ecline of ench cther, in theirrival papers., Gal- veston probably sees no present incrense for itselt in railways leading its cxports off by the North, All the tendency of the times is interior-ward. .| Scarcely excepting New York, all our cities face inland and turn their backs to the ses, and the towns which are gxowinfi up are on the inner rim of the Continent. In the slave States, the cause of this invoultion may be found in the increase of the West and North in Manufactures and Money, Obedient to those great magmets, the coast-cities have turned from the sea to tho prai- ries, and there is relatively nothing behind them. As if Nature ceased her activity when the neces- sity for it was reduced, tho very ports of the Guilf seom to have lost the sluices_ which kept them open, and Mobile is now far inland from heavy tonnago, and calling on Government for aid to regain her character. New Orleans, stilla ginnt, is mede the sufferer aa well, by inordinate pilotage and tonnage charges, Pensacols, With 2 superior harbor, bas lost vitality. It might almost seem that the reviving day for these sea- ports will be when the raw materials and staples of the tropics seok tho United States for & mar- ket. The policy of EXPORTING EVEBTTHING and importing nothing, 80 popular with high Protectionists, has never yet mzdo = .rich nnd healthy Commonweaith in the South. The com- mercial, like the human economy, seems healthi- est when the ebb and fow of the blood are nearly the ssme. To send eway 4,000,000 bales of cotton and get 4,000, 000 bales of something back, is & ‘truer receipt than to show the export-bills and borrosw again for next year's crop. Blavery was always a great commercial sweat, like the Isbor of its field-gangs. It had a fever of brute human energy between planting and ginning times, and these perspired such copious exports that overybody trested end predicted the universal dominion of a wise mankind which was always gelling to the world sud never buying anything in return, Thus pride and raggedness devel- oped together, Everything was bounded by the Slantation and nothing by the bomestesd. - The tortured ground gave forthits increase like a weary slave, and found no eleop to refresh it- gelf for the next year, But still the exports rolled up the usual, znd even the larger meas- ure, and_only accasional sproes of filibustering ghowed that the heart of the planter was some- times disturbed. 'BLINDNESS BEFORE MEN. And, 21l this while, the North and West, buy- ing something nsefol in return for something necesssry sold, fenced tho fields, tightenod the roof-tres, added to the farm-stock, educated the ooz, invited the immigrant, and, 'siming not st gomminu, aimed at thet which is its only stable component: goneral prosperity, end the production of men 83 bottor than sither slaves or masters. The non-importing Bouth mads the great contention, st last, for tho virgin ground claimed also by these homestead- making peopls. The waye from the Gulf rolled inward with all the fervid foics of the South. It found, in the words of & school-history which is generally studied in theso dsys by Southern boys and girls, this state of things: +The census of 1860 ascertained the number of the people to be 81,445,080; but the white in- hebitants of the States that afterward seceded were little over 5,000,000. ithor these num- bers, nor the vast disproportion, wera known at the South till the great Civil War had been ter- minsted. The amount of cotton raised in 1860 was 5,387,053 bales, or more than twico as much 28 in 1850. Wheat and other products had great- 1y increased, but in a less degree.’—Holmes' School, History of the United States. To this state of things it was always urged that the North tyrannized over the South by putting it under the tyranny of the Tariff. But the chances were equal under tho Tariff, or, Iather, the South had the advantago in posses- sing all which the North ‘had for manufacturing uBes, besides the staples to be manufactured. Tts fael, water-powor, natural highways, credit, 2nd caphcity to support free labor chioaply, were oqual to the North'e; but it dreamed its dresm of exports, and langnished every year. THE CHINAMEN OF THE NOBTH. The South ha plenty of Northern followers in this,—people who are forever holding up thoir hands to sn&: “Exports exceed imports! Glorious !” But the vigor which men aud na- tions possess is not merely in the exertion of force, but in the scquisition of it,—in inhal- ing enough to perfact existence, self-sustaining, scquits a capeble posterity, not naked, nor yet armored =0 28 to sleep the dull sccurityof cowardice. A large propartion of tho receipts of what s sold, exchanged for something of com- fort or devolopement, 18 wisdom in man or com- monwealth, The ship had better return with the yield of barter than with the dull ingots of sale. No man needs money es a commodity, except tho money-lender. Tho imported horée, acquircd within prudent condi- tions, may lenve tho purchasomoney behind him, but it has come back in a noble form of beauty and beneficence. And in this Protection is o soulless principle, that it aims ¢t Non-Inter- course as the finality of national happiness, i stead of Exchange, which is commercial Chris- tianity, h This is donbtless old and crude, but it has come up naturally from thinking over the condi- tions of the Southern States and their sea-poris. I might go further, and show thet SOUTHERY STATESYANSHIP, so vaunted and so glittering for mnany years, was an idle series of intellect propulsions toward ‘matters exterior to our country: The aflairs of Mexico, and Spain, and Englind, which it as- sumed to direct without 8 particle of conscience or call, than o Denish pirate had to procipitate himgelf upon neighboring coasts, * Manifest Destiny” was tho confident ppology of this Slaveholding Puritan, who lived meantime ina log-house, wooed his negro-women, andelevated his. teloscope 20 a3 not 0 foel the flea in his breaches’ leg while he watched the offensive Englishman 2t London with anxious policitude, He indulged in deep meditations oyer Federal sggressions, unthinking Of the Tact that, if therc ws any motive for Federalin- terference, it wasin the States meglecting the work which they ought to have dons. At the gamo time, he proposod moro work abrosd for I* the Federal Government to do than the wildest Federal desired to be dono at home. And, at~ tending to everything on the globe butthe gocial wants of his own community, this gentleman +was planted amangst his, forefathers without a public cemetery, and the problem of our day.is. to restore o gocial lifo to the South which he erseveringly neglected, though as msudlin in gja affection for 1t &8 an Indian for his woods. Lot Texss be minded to revipw ihese things, and start the new career for the Southerp young man! = % MES. GAINES. . Mrs.-Gaines is the great female character in Now Orleans. She s a small, plump, bright-eyed womsn, and she has been tho heroine of the very heroic law-suit which she hus personally conducted, raising money for the purpose to tho amount of helf & million, recovering negrly a million, and with ell the probabilities in her favor of getting a million more. But, if she were £0 get what she would receive under other conditions then those of democratic publio opinion, she would possess half the'city of New Orlesns in its most valugble pars, and be & wealthier~ woman than Miss Burdett-Coutts, whom Wellington endeavored to marry ogt of covetousness to her fortune, bt Tho hom of this Isdy s in New York City, but eby spends much of her time in New Or- Jeans, whexo she has strong friends and strong enemios, lmost cqual in number. Her suit has involved many ot her intimate friends, from ‘whom she has borrovwod money $0 DAY lawyera' fees and court-fees. Her socond husband, Gen- eral Gaines, believed implicitly in the merits of er ease, and gave her £200,000 to fght it out. -She has been twico marrled, and to excellent men both times; and I was told that that the brother of her fist husband had helped her with nearly the whole of his funds. Thore is a dash, piguance, snd nimbleness abont this woman which distinguishes her 28 one of the Queens of her sex. She i said to bo about G0 years of ago, It would pus for 403 and, while her education is defective, she is a natural authoress and lawyer, and can write 8 stinging bricf, whero szuce ond justice are mixed together. Bhe is just the gorf of woman to be identified with New Orlesns,—Provincinlism and Cosmo- politanism -mingling in her a8 amongst many of these old Rabitans. Her mother had married & French bigamist, and, discovering the fact after she reached Now Orloans, presumed to marry ngain the great Daniel Clnrfie, who was one of the wealthiest men of the Sonth. He was one of the earliest. pro{\etty—ho‘[ders in New Orleans, and represented ihat “Territory in Jefferson's Administration, Clarke was smitten with tho beauty of the French lady, and contracted = secret marriage with her,—mado secret in or- der to anticipate a divorce from his French pre- decessor. But, while he was absont in Washing- ton City, his relatives and connections, who had expected to get biz money, told him' that his wife was unfaithful, and hired her lawyer to tell her that her marriage with Clarke was not legal. Having o natural afection for man, the French 1ady proposed to tako & third husband. This of- fendod Clarke, and it scemed to confirm the lies which had boon said against his ledy ; and mean- time his daughter was born,—the present Mrs. Gaines,—for whom he maintained affection, so that, while ho lot the wifo slide, Le gave a very coneiderable sum of money to a man _in Wil- mington, Del., to be used and applied to the education of his duughter, and, ot her maturity, to present her with the principal. Thus the banks of the Brandywino, where Lafayette Thomas, Harry McComb, and your humble cor- respondent passed their youth, became the playground of the future Mrs. Gaines. As they had no Penitentiary in the State, and never whipped white people at the post, tho custodian of tho babyeaw no business-reason why he should not squander hor money. He did squan- der it, and history has mado no mention of the innurerable fricd chickens, roast capons, and deviled crabs which this unfaithfol guardian de- voured out of the inheritanco of the babo in the woods, A 3Ir. Croasdsle, who is the best jour- nalist in Delaware, some timo ago collected the story of Mys. Gaines’ childhood in Wilmington, and it was published, over another namo, in the Gelazy ilagazine. When the guardian had squandered all the ‘money, and both his liver and conscience were disordered, somo faint recollection of her child- hood inepired a dream in the little ward. She dreamed that her father was another per- son than ihe man she called father; that he was rich, and Jived in a distent State, amongst ne- groes, molasses, and such other things as chil- dren like. She camo down to brezkfast the next morning, where tho unfaithful guardisn was thinking, in a morose way, how fortunato it was for him that tho State had no Penitentiary, and how unfortunate that thore were no other little irls to bo let out with endowments, Unhappy elawarian! _For him no longer the fried oyster gamboled, or the chicken fricaseod ! While Lig was thinking over this thing, the little gitl told her dream. Ho immediately fainted, and they had to Lorrow some old Delaware ryo, next door, to bring him to conecience. As Lo came to, ho said: ‘*Myra [he pro- nounced it Myrie, as did the future gallant ltus- band of tho little girl], wWho bas beon putting that nonsenso into your head ?” Ho answored his own question by gonfessing, liko au honest criminal in ono of thio fairy-baoks, The little girl was at once put in possession of s lawsuit. She became o heroino, married two nhusbands, and bas living graudehildren. Both her husbands were devoted men, who balieved in her claim; sho does the same, fightiug it out. I bave a theory that Naturo's chief use for us in this life is employment; and that, like the flies which convert into healthy motion the mor- tification and decay in the atmosphere, we are all right enough when something is given us to do. But Nature mekes a very uchappy dy of us when she leaves us a vast lawsuit, and, at the same time, impresses us with the fact that we are after our rights. Who would know much about Daniel Clarke, or the man in Delaware, if it were not for Mrs. Gaines? THE CRESCENT CITY. The situation of New Orleansis very fine. Con- sidering that it stunds on the Mississippi, and in & flat country, it is 8 fine naturally as New Yorics site. They had very nearly put tho town 2t Mauchse, which is near Baton Rouge ; but Bicnville, who waa & pricst, insiated npon New Orleans, ' At tha city, the river melkes along turn, cresent-shaped, first going northesst and then southeast. This is how they called it tho Cresent City; but I hadsupposed the name to in- dicatetha Mohammedan habits of thoiuhabitaute. It ia a great thing tostand on the levee and ook at this wonderful viver sweeping by, whoso wa- tors have come from New York State, from all the slopes of tho Alloghenies, from the sides of the Rocky Mouxntaius, and finally from the borders of Canada, and which have flowed ovor 1,000 miles since receiving the waters of the Ohio. At New Orleans it is really {hat the dississippi is tho great spectacle which one has dresmed of. Its tawny, reptilian na- fure no moro sppenrs; but there i8 a brightness, @ flash, & broadth, aud dopth, and mejesty in it, which make one feel that be s in the presence of the Father and the Heir of Waters. When he is told that the depth at New Orleans is from 80 to 200 feet, he cen reo why the ocean should make that vast indentation of the Guif of Mex- ico to receive 8o great a guest. Although the city looks npon our maps to bo at the mouth pt tho Mississippi, it is nearly 10D miles above tho Gulf, and, from tho intervening parts, called +the Coast,” n wholo flect of steamors repair to Now Orleans. The_city, is renlly three-fourths a8 for mp tho Alississippi a8 Albany is up the Hudson. Fivo miles porth of the town ig tho Loug Island Sound of New Orletns,— Tako Ponchartrain, which is shallow, but adapt- able for light-draught steemers to Mobile. The interior commuuication through Louisiena, ‘hich can Le had by steamer from New Orleans, is almost infinite ; and to look at the stezmships 1ying et the leveo is to focl more impresaed than fosco tho ships-of-war at Cherbourg or the docks of Liverpool. I was treated to . ARDE in the Police Coramissioners’ stesmboat by Mr. Young, clerk of Mayor Flandera. Thecity iteelf is no great sight from the river; but I was told that, xuin;%the cotton-geason, about 56 steam- ships plied between New Orleans and _Europosn ports. On the farihor side of the river, a dis- nsed fonndry, several marine railweys, and tho chimnoys and sheds of some sugar-houses, indi- cato ¢ Algiers.” Tho two objocts which seem to bound New Orleans on tho water-side aro & tall grain ezevntor on the west, end tho barracks on tho east. AT THE DABRACKS I fonnd Captrin Smith, ono of thirty-four Brmiths who are officers of the Regular Army. The commandant was also & Smith, from Maine, and & vory-woll-gathered-up and pradent man. I could not help feeling tue moral pover of the United States, to sce about 300 men maintaining this post in the faco of & turbulent and mighty populsce. Tho Sorgeant, who seemed to be the most efficient non-commissioned officer, was a Hobrew. The ongines of death were vory effective, however, in the shapo of;a tremendous batteries of Gatling iuzm, which can_fire lile o regiment of men discharging grape-shot. Noth- ing has been 80 much abused with so little rea- son 28 TEL BEGULAR ARMY of tho United States. It containa the best dil ciplined material in tho country, gets no prize- ‘money, and is reduced every time we bave noth- ing eles to do. Last year it cost $25,500,000, or Just sbout as much as the Post Office expendi-~ tures. Itcoetlessihan to pay pensions in the same sprce of time. Wiore are mero claims now ‘before Congress which demand moremoney than this, as,for example, the refandingof the cotton tax, building the Goorgie Ship Canal, etc, h GatE. PSP S 01d New York==Fiow Nay-Day Poles were Abcliskeds The Director Genoral snd the Councilors of New Netherlands to all porsons who shall hear, see, or read theso.presents, greeting : Wreneas, Experience has ehown and taught us that on New Year_daye nnd on May days, from the firing | of guns and planting May poles, and drunken drinking, there have resulted unnccessary wasto of powder; much drunkennees, and other infolent prac- tices, togethor with other lementable accidents and bruises that generally arise terefrom. - Therefore, in order to prevent these, it s horeby expressly ordered - by the Diroctor General and_the Councilors that, from titia time forth, within this Province of New Nether- . 1and, on the New Yoar and My days, there shall bo no Zor May polcs planted; mor shall there be on ibe occasion any wines, brandywines or beer deslt out; ecd in order to prevant &ll such sccidents and injuries, there shall ben fino of twelvo guilders for the first offence, twenty-four guilders for the sec- ond offence, snd arbitrary correction for the third offcnce; tho_onesthird for the ofiicers, one-third for the poor, snd tho remaining one-tbird for the prose- “cutor, Yo do, by theso presents, command all the subsliern courfs in this provinco to proclaim theso presents in 4ll their public places, and to afiix them thers, and promptly to execute them, “Done in the Fort Amsterdam,in New Netherlsnd, this Jaat day of Docember, Anno 165 £ 635, Signed by order of thely High Mightiness, the Direo- tor Hanocal and the Councilcrs of New Netberland, ©. V. RUTVR, Bectolaryy WARM FEET. And How to Keep Them So. - A correspondentof the Ameri :an Agricullurist furnishes that paper with the following remarks on warm feet, which remarks are admirably éal- culated for odr lati*17~: - o go with cold {wu. 1o Lo undermine the con- stitution, and this half the women and the girls are doing. They have & habit of cold feet, and an_sccompanying habit’ of ill-health; tLink home-knit woollen stockings aro not very fash- ionable. Once, no country girl was reckoned fit to be married unti! ehe bad %.mifl\'er’pillo?\'-énsa full of stockings, but it is not 8o now. I do mot, regret that less _hand-knit ting i done now than formerly, but I hope wo shall not give up warm woollen stockings for winter useuntil we can replace them with somolling _betéor. Merino, or tho common boughten™ white wool stockings, are rather thin, ‘but some of u8 supplement them with an additional pair of cotton atockings, wearing ihe cotton or’ the. woollen pair next the feet, as in- dividuals prefer. Cold fect are often caused, at least in part, by too tight elastic, or bands at the tops of the stockings, or by tight shoes, or ehoes tight in tho ankles. "These interfere with the circulation of the blood, and there cannot bea comfortsbla degres 'of ‘warmth without s good circulation and aeration of the blood. My laat lesson in this matter came from beby's ex- perience last September. ~Suddenly she con- tracted & babit of having cold _fest, and when I warmed them the ekin seomed hard and inactive, suggesling tho need of a bath, when 2 bath did not seem necessary excopt for the feot. At length it occurred to me that her “ankle-ties ” had been too looge, and just be- fore wo came homo from our visit a young lady cousin had set the buttons back further, to make the littlo slipper stay on better. Ever sinco. that change ‘the slipper-straps had been too tight around her avkles, especially after I put on woollen stockings. I changed the but- tons again, and her feet no longer got cold, ex- cspt in conaoquence of the actual rigora of tha climate, Bome well-informed persons object to Congress _gaiters, the elastics aro usually so firm and closo zbout tho ankle. nty very loose garters are allowable, and these may not be necessary when the stockings are worn over under-rawers. Garters in the ‘shape of straps buttoning to both waist and stockings are most gensible for women as well as children. Many women are obliged to work in kitchens where the floors in winter are always cold, It Lelps matters to have a carpet down, but thi kitchen carpet is_objectionable on tho acore of cleanliness, especially there there are many children, A few large thick rugs are better. These can be shaken often, and will afford the kitchen occupents warm places to stand or. sit at tieir work. Theroaro somo very cold days when I wear my Arctic overshoes all day, and the children also keep on overshoes. The tloors of our houses are many degrees colder than the air about our heads, _ Oxo thing too little thought of in this connec- tion is absolutely essential to healihy warmth of body,—that is, pure . Men who work in the open s&ir somo every day have = eat advantage over hougekeepers. Their blood gets oxygenated, and g0 purified (28 far ss such & degzeo of, air can ‘do 1t) and preparod to warm snd nourish the body, of which the blood is the constant up- builder. ' Everybody, male and female, old and young, onght o got out of doors some every day, and breatho freely with tho mouth.. The air of sleeping rooms and otler living rooms ghould bo puritied each day. Keep brick or soapstones in the oven, to ba wrappedup and put under your feet when you are abliged to sit for domo timo at distance from the fire, especially if you are writing or stadying. s =R LONDON. From 3Miss Alcott's New Booke “ From this moment I cease to_be the Com- mander-in-Chief. Livy adores England, can speak the language, understand the money, and knows all about London ; so she shall be leader, end I will repose after my long labor.” With this remark, Amands retired from office, covered with glory, and her mates yoted to erect a statue ltn(]lmr honor as & token of their undying grati- ude. Lavinia took tha lead from the moment they landed at St. Catherine’s whart, and, thongh somewhat domoralized by o rough paseage of eightecn bours from _Antwerp, was equal to tho occasion, She did love Eagland, and thought London the most dolighiful city in the world, next to Boston. Its mud and fog were dear to her; its beef and beer were nectar and smbrois, after the continental slops 3ud messes; its_steady-going, respectablo citizens beautiful'in_her eyes; and the words **home” and * comfort” wero not an idle mock- ery hero. Therofore thoold lady joyfully sniffed the smoky air, gazed with tenderness on the grimy houses, and cast herself, metaphorically speaking, into thoe arms of s stout, ruddy-faced Earter, as if at last she had found aman and & rother. Nobly did the burly Britein repay her confidence and earn the shilliog, which in England makes a1l things possible. 1 boro them to the station, fot tickets, checked luggage, put the ladies in a firat-class compartment, gave them all necessary directions about the hotel they were_ after, and when the bell rang touched his cap with a smile apon his clear, red foce which cansed Lavinia to add & sixpence o tho shilling she gave him with & montal blessing. “This is truly a decent country. See how well ono ia cared for, how civil everybody is, bow hon- est, how manly!” began Livy, as she mounted ‘her hobby, and prepared for a canter cver the prejudices of her friend; for Amands dotested IEngland boecauso she knew nothing of it. +"The cabmau cheated ue, asking double fares,” replied the dear girl, wrapping_ berself in many cloaks and refusing to admire the fog. “Not at all,” cried Livy, *the trunks wereim- monse, and you'l fnd wo dhall havo to pay extra for them everywhere. It is the same o5_having tiiom weighed nnd poing for the pounds, only this saves much time and trouble. Look at the handsome guard in lis silver-plated harness How mucly nicer hn is than o gambling Italisn, or o Frenchman who compliments you one min- ute and bebaves like & brute the nest. It does my soul good to see the clean, rosy faces, and her good English instead of gibberish.” “ Naverin my life have I scen such tall, fine- Tooking mon, only they are all fair, which isn’t my stylo,” observed Iatilda, with & gocret nigh for the dark-oyed heroocs from Turin. Thus conversing, thoy scon came to the G— Hotel, just attbo ond of tho railway, and, with- out going out of the stition, found themsclves settled in comfortable rooms. “ Rogard, if you please, theso toilet arrange- 1ments, two sorts of bath-pan, two cans of cold “water, ono of hot, two big pifchers, much soap. and six towels about thoe size of table-clotls. call that an improvement on the continentel cup, saucer and napkin accommodations,” said Layinia, proudly displaying a wesh-stand that looked like a dinner-table laid for s dozen, such was the display of glass, china, and napery. “The English certainly are & clesn people,” remarked Amands, softoning s liitle as she re- menberod her fruitless efforts to find 2 bath- pun i Brittany, where tho people said the ought was cauged by the English using so much water. “They need more appliances for cleanliness than any other race, because they live in such a dirty country,” began Matilds, removing the soot from her face in flakes. “Now, my dears, you shall have food fit for Christian women to eat. No weak soup, no sonr wine, no veal stowed with raising, no groasy salad mado of all the weeds that grow. Beef that will mako you feel like giauts, and beer that will cheer the cockles of your heerts; not to mention cheese which will make you wink, and bread with s little round button atop of the loaf, hike the grand Panjandrum in the old story.’ g Thus spoke Lavinia enthusiaatically, a8 sheled herdlock of two into the eating-room atluncheon time. Being seated at a littlo table by one of the grest windows, tho old lady continued to ing thie praises of Britennia while waiting for tho repast, 3 “Ten't this better than a stone-floored cafe with nino clocks all wrong, seven mirrors cracked, much drapery all dirty, o flock of tous- Ied garcons who fly about like lunatics, and food wwhich I shudder to think of? Look at this lofty room; this grave, thick carpet; that cheerful coal-fire; these neat little tbles; theso large, clean windovs; thess quist, minisferial waiters, who seem to take n paternal interest in your wants, and, bést of all, this simple, wholesome, well-cooked food.” Here the arrival of a glorified beefstesk and & shining pint-pot of foaming ale gave an appro- Eriute finish to Livy's lecture. She fell upon or lunch like a famished womsn, and was speechloss tillmuch meat had vanished, andthe wasg low in the pot. - “Itis good,” admitted Amande, who took to her beer like a born Englishwoman, and swel- {’owed some of her prejudices with her delicious eef, «It's such & comfort to know thatIam nob eating o calf’s brains or a pig's feet, that I can enjoy it with a free mind, and the sight of those two beantiful old gentlemen gives 1t 2n added relish,” said Matilds, who Been watching & air of halo old fellows eat their lunch ina solid, eisurely way that would have been imporsible to an American. “Tt is eo restful to see SBDPIB take things calmly, snd ot bolt theix monls, o yush sbout like runaway steam engines. It is this moaersa- tion that keeps Englishmen o hearty, jolly, and long-lived. ~They do mot tear themselves to piecas a8 we do, but take.time for rest, exercise, food, and recreation, like sensible people ds they are. It is like reposing on a feather-bed to live here, and xay tired nerves rojoice in it,” said La- vinie, eating bread and cheese ag if that was her mission in Lfo, AN ABORIGIRAL MEDUSA. Singnlar Collection of Live R2optilese=e Hoas, Anacondas, Vipers, ktattle snales, Bacers, Joint Snakes=s=Visit to an Endian Snakerye ok Fram the Kanaaa Cily Times, _Near the head waters of Cache branch of In- dian Croek there resides an old Shawnee Indian woman by the name of Net-talla-quab, familiarly called, in the immediate neighborhood, Aunt Netty. She occupies a small log cabin in & rocky cleft or gulch remote from the Aubray & Kansas City Road, and about ono mile from the road. This old woman cannot be lesa than 90 yeers of age, although ske will not under.any considera~ tlon stato her exact age. She is a. perfoct ro- cluso, 25 much so_as though she were dead and buried. Few visit her lonely cabin, and those who intrude once upon her privacy seldom care to venturs thereagain. Anattache of this paper, in company with Alr. Enoch H. Downs, of Cass County, paid a visit to. the old Indian's cabin & few days ago for the purposs of examin- ing a rare collection of reptiles, gaid to be Lept by tho old squaw. After some little difficulty the cabin was digcovered in a bend of the creek, completely concealed from view by precipitons rock banks, except from the south side of the ravine. A huge, vicious mastifl wolf dog showed his ugly fangs, and for a time disputed entrance to the cabin. The door opened and s hideous old squasw made her eppearance at the sperture, and in o guttaral voice said something to the dog, which at once retreated hehind the stone chimney at the end of the cebin. Without bid- ding the party enter tho old squaw retreated Lorgelf within the cabin, leaving the door open. TFollowing the old woman into the cabln, our re- gm’tm: and his guide ware for 2 momant blinded ¥ tho smolke and darkness. Standing near the door for a few moments, they were enabled to see the old equaw seated upon & block of wood near s mouldering_fire, smoking & emall red pipe, and apparently unconsciéus of the pres- ence of strangera. Mr. Downs, well acquainted with the old hag's taste for whiskey and tobaceo, 1aid & quantity of each inher lap. “The sight of these unexpected luxuries hed a magical effect upon the squaw. Her small dull black eves glit- tored with joy, and hor leathery face brightened with satisfaction. She arcso, on being made ac- quainted with tho object of the visit, dragged out & largo box and » barrel from near_ tho fire, which at first appeated to be filled with leaves, but on closer examination iwere found to con- tain the old hag's family pets. Muttering some whining, sing-song words, ovidently of endear- ment, she put hor hand down into the barrel and Dbrought forth first a huge “blne racer,” which, nalf torpid, coiled iteelf slowly into & knot upon the stove-hearth. Then she took out black snakes of various sizes, one of W not less tban four feet in length. Then she lifted out a_perfect knot of mixed snakes, spotted, striped, aad yellow, which wers Inotted and ontwined n a coil as large @s o half bushel measure, All of these loathsome “reptiles she said sbe hed col- lected herself in the country around about her. Some of them she said she hed had for yoars. Each of the snakes sho_called by names, and, alter laying the writhing mass npon the warm hearth, left them to squirm and uncoil in the warmth genorated by the firo. Turning to tho borx, sho opencd the lid and pointed to s large yellow and black bos comstrictor which lay coiled mp, filling one-half of the box. She canght it gently by the back ‘of tho neck nnd the tail, and lifted it also out upon tho hearth, and then took therefrom » huge brown snake, of a variety unknown to ourroporter. Each of these monsters was at least four or five feet in longth, and appeared to e far more active and lively than the smaller snakes. Sho then dragged forth an old wolf- skin rob» from her bed in & corner near the fire, 4 n porfect medley of rattlesnakes of izes, thicknesses, and ages, Theso i, rolling the squirming mass ontupon th . icarth, whero the visitors, at & safe distauce, might view the loathsome sight at leisure. Upon the walls hung a variety of snake skins, rattles, dried snakes’ beads, lizards, and piece of dried meat. This sight was the most repngoant ever wit- nessed by our reporter. Tho old bag sat down upon the hearth, laughing ond chattering her horrid gibberish, and proceeded to windtho two Jargest enakes about Lier wrinkled old meck, and then to uncoil the holf torpid masses of suakes. In & short time sho had her.lap full of the squirming reptiles, and appeared to handle and play with them like so mary harmless kittens. The visitors,unable to withstand tho loatksome, sickening sizht, and the efluvis ganerated in tho close, dark den, soon took their leave, loaving the old squaw to the compauy of her singular pets. She devotes much of her time to playing with them, allowing them to crawl over ber bed and over the floor. She feeds them upon birds and insects. The former she catches alive and feeds to the larger suakes at intervals of one er two weeks. She works o small patch of garden, and depends mostly for other necessaries npon the surrounding country, in which she begs. She refused to follow her tribe south wien they deperted a few years ago, and thoy loathed her 80 much for her hideous habits that they did not regret leaving her. In the warm months she permits her pets to roam at will over tha cabin, 2nd in no instanco hua she been bitten by any of them, although they will hiss and dert with their poisonous fangs spitofully at times, yot she ap- pears to control them by & faw whining words and o glance of her du.l.{ black eyes. Itisneed- less to say old Aunt Notty has few visitors, and those who have visited her are not anxious to Topeat the visit. —_——————— Mira. Somerviile. ZLondon Correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial. One who knew Laplace told mo that he once said: “T find there are but two women who compre- hend my ‘Micaniquo Celesto,’—ono is a DMrs. Greig, the other W Ars. Somerile Tho great eatronomer wes much surprised when at once informed that Mrs. Greig and Mirs. Somerville were one end the same lcviy. Mra, Somorville was at the same time ono of tho most devoted domestie characters. ° Sho loved her harp, and her rooms were often the scene of the most charming companies, She was & lovely woman in presence, and most gentle to all around her.” All'the great learned societies of the world sont her diplomas, and the Royal So- ciety of St. Potersburg gavoher the degree of Dodtor of Philosophy. A friend of mino, who was wiih her when she received the Rusaian degree, tells me that Mrs. Bomerville exclaimed: *‘Dear mo, I hope they won't make me ridiculous by calling me Doctor.” Sho was a perpetnal distress to lion-hunters, never saying or doing anything eccentric, or. iving grounds for any wonderfal story. Among ger earliest friends wero Lord Brougham and Dalton, the latter of whom continually con- sulted her. Sho alept away hor last moments, dying from sheer age, and swrrounded by her devoted dsughters, As an instanco of her power of absorption in her scientific work, no matter what was going on in the room, Dr. Somervills sras fond of releting that ho once laid a wager with & friend who doubted the wonderfal ab- straction told of her. The two sat close besido her while she was at work, and the Doctor said Joudly: “Do you know, sir, my wifo hore paints her face? Sho has false hair; she has fulse teeth, [A pauso.]- Monsieur, Afrs. Somerville ‘has such an abominable temper that there is no living with her!” Theiady merely canght her namo, and, raising her gontle face, said: *‘Did you speak to me 2" pse iR T S Judah P. Benjomin. Among the most striking careers of the times hss beon that of Judah P, Benjamin, who long roprosented Louisiana in tho United States Sen- ate, subsequently became tho leading member of the Confederate COnbinet, and, after the close of the war, removed his residence to Londoa, He procured naturalization in Euoglend. and, upon complying with the requisitc conditions, began practice in the Westminster and Lin- coln’s Inn Cowrts, His progress has been g0 rapid that, althongh he has only been at the English bar five or six years, has_reccived the homor of “(Queen’s coun- gel,” and assumed the traditional #gilk gown,” thus taking his place among the upper grade of barristers. It is now intimated in some of the English papers that Mr. Benjamin is among the foremost in the line of thoso who sare likely to bernised to the Bench within the nextfew eara. It would be curious to see an ex-United tates Senator and an_ex-Confoderate Secretary of State sitting beside Sir A. Cockburn on the Queen’s Bench, with patched wig =nd ermine gown. _Mr. Benjamin iz 2 man of brilliant sbilitys 88 an advocate, and he sat in our national councils; his speech on retiring from the Senate, just before the war, as one of thrilling_eloquence, not soon to bo forgotton by those who heard it. He is of He- ‘brew extraction, and if promoted to the English ‘bench, will be the first of that faith to occupy & high judicial position there. Wers he to become T.ord Chief Justice, and Mr. Disraeli again Pre~ mier, the singular spectacle would be exhibited ‘of Jewish heads of English sdministration snd the English lgw.-—AZbauy Argus. SAVED BY HIS WIFE. How a Plucky Kentucky Woman Outwitted the Vengeance ol a Wronged Fatier and Son. _ From the Bowling Green (Ky.) Democrat, A Tittle more thaa two years 230, s the Unitid States mail steamer Bowiing Greon, from How. ing Green, Ky., to Evensville, Ind., was ap proaching the landing et Morgantown, Ky., an unusually large crowd of theriver—s0 unusual a crowd,-in fact, a8 to atirach (he special attention of créw and passen- ers. Upon landing, thres men, armed cap-a-pie, rought a prisoner aboard. The oldest of tho party, afterward ascortained to b the father of one of the younger men, approached the Captain -and- gave him tho follow- ing history: Ho said that he lived somewhere in the interior of Indians, and fthat several years prior to thia date the prizoner was shily, attractive young lothario, teaching school in the vicinity of his home, and, part of the time, boarding at his house. Paterfamilias Dad a daughter just budding into Womanhood, and of courso at the most suscegfible age. The reader anticipates me, no doubt. The oft- repeated story was re-cnacted. e young school-teacher and the maiden becams attached, engaged, acd, alas, with the result, also not un- precadented, she “loved not wisely,? but- too well” Beforo the disccvery, the faithless swain deserted to parts unknown, leaving the poor girl to meet the horrors of her sitnation along and nnsusteined: The law_of Indiana makes seduction felony, and the girl's father sworo vengeance against her_seducer. Annually, after his crops were *(1aid by,” or garnered, when hé had tho most leisure, he and his son were accustomed -to devote one or two months to a methodic and - pa- ]t‘ient ieuchfl!mi 1:ha gbu]prit. Som;fimes travel- ing by rail, then river, and yet, again, ‘throngh more ohscum’vanhn}requen{ei eris of the country, it buggies or carriages. their efforts wore unsaccessful_until the spring of 1871, when, pursuing their search through the Green Rivar section of Kontucky, they, by some accident, found him teaching school on Mud River, Butler County. Armed with a requisition from the Covernor of Indisng, and the ap- proval and order of arrest from the Governor of Kentucky, they took charge of him. The young ran had, in the mesutime, married an estimable lady, who was, at this timo, the mother of a baby -only three weeks old. His cxemplary babits hod made him many friends, and the pecaliar, aud to all, interesting condition of his family, caused this affair to exasperato them in no slight degree ; and, in ‘connoction with serious threats toward the arresting party, application wos made to Hon. John E. Hal;:fi, thon the Judgo of this judicial circuit, and sit- ting at Morgantown, for & wIit of Rabeas corpus, which was granted, and the prisoner brought before um. Upon presentation of the requisition and order of the Governors, respectively, Judge Haleell, while feeling, in common with the whole community, a pro- found sympathy for the prisoner, was compelled to remand him to the custody of his prosecutors. Fesring a mob and violence, which were threat- cned, they, instead of retarning in their car- riage, waited for the stcsmer Bowling Groen, and came aboard as already related. The old man, while exultant over his success, +was painfully apprehensivo of an attempt torea- cue risoner at Rochester—forty miles by water below, and near the home of the prisoner and his frisnda—and therefore he hired young , a'8ix and o half foot Kentucltian, 38 an assistant guard, furnishing him with & double- barrelled shot-gun and navy revolver. They all declared their determination to die rather than surrender their charge, and appesled to the Cap- tain for ngsistance in caee of attack. The Captain respectfully declined to order his crew to do any fighting for them, but agsured them in good faith of his perfect neutrality, and that he would place mo obstscles in their way. Thereupon, rather startling and impressive preparations for defence were made hefore arriving at Rochester, and an uttempt may have been contemplated and abandoned in view of the desperate resist- anco indicated. There was quito acrowd as- sembled at ths landing, snd some trepidation manifested by both parties, but fortunately there was no attempt ta release the prisoner. Instead, there camo eboard s small, delicate, pele-faced woman, with a three-weeks old babo 1n her arms. This woman had ridden abont twelve miles through wmud, cold and sleet, to intercopt the boat that was bearing her husband to a felon’s cell in an In- diana Penitentiary. Whatever may have been his'indiscretions—ss she mildly termed them— in his carlier youth, sho said to the Captain that he had slways been noble, kind, and true toher. She knew of this sad affair in his his- tory befors_her marriage, know ths girl was utterly worthless, and that, in this affair, her hnsband was more the victim than the girl— “more piuned against than sioning.” AMany persons present knowing and bearing witness to his exemplary lifo, and_impressed with thieir ovident mutuel affection, the lively sympathy of all on board the steamer was s0on manifust. ‘Bat I anticipute. ‘Delicate thongh the little womsa evidently was, she had the air af one enthuscd with some great passion and nerved for soms desperato purposa. Her step was as firm aud stately as 2 Queen's, her eyes almost scintilated sparks from exelted nervous excitement. and her thin, pale lips were compressed until there could be seen the imprint of her small teeth, through them. "The prisoner was sitting_near the &tove in the forward cabin, encircled by his guard. 1saw, slight though it was, the thill or siart asiho wife's eyes fell upon him and his- surround- ings. Her salutation was constrainediy quiet and undemonstrative. With but 2 Blight pauso, she rather peremptorily said <‘come!” as sho startod “towsrd the ladies’ cabin. Tha guard rathor hesitatingly objected, bub sho - replied in a compressed tono, “he shall come !” Mo arose, and the guard zccom- anying, all walked aft and sat down in the ndies’ cabin. With a sort of fascination, £ fol- lowed. Fere there was but little conyersation for some “time, boyond mutual inquiries in ro- gard to health, and some cx\gmued apprehen- sions on the partof the husbend of iujury to both mother and child from "exposure to such | tveather so soon after heraccassion to matarnity. The stenmer had progressed many miles by ‘bed-time, and meanwhile, a_stateroom had been assigned the woman, in which, after being well Warmed and snugly earapped, the little babe was sweetly sleeping and, as mothers fondly fancy, smiling in Tesponee to angel's whispers—at any Tate happily unconscious of ite paronts’ troubles. ‘About 10 o'clock, Blrs. — aid, * John, it is bed tima ; I know you need sleep. Come into my room ‘and go to bed.” The guard thereupon arose and positively ob- jected; but she turned upon them with a with- ering glance and o desperata Tesolution in her faco, saying, ** You need not open_your moutbs. You have kept him in _that- lcathsome jail for two nighta; be needs eleep, and ho shall haveit, You aro three great, brave men, to fear a little, unarmed man like him! Guard the outside of the doors as you will, but in here he shall sleap!” - % Her taunt prevailed. The guard Iyxelded‘ and the prisoner retired with his wife. I was aston- iahied at hor auccess, and wondered at the imbe- cility of the guard; but, at soveral successive landings, while the lody was still up, they sould demand admittznce to her room, look in upon tho prisoner, see that he was thers, and then Tetire. The steamer was about arriving at Calhoun. The boat had blowed, or whistled, for that land- ing. Ihad noticed somo suspicious mancuvres among the passengers, and, to admit. the trath, among some of the oficera; but yet nothing tan- gible. I sat up lator than usual, under & vaguo and shadowy impression that some under- ground work " Was going on. The pilot whowas at the wheol—a lamented friend—is now dead. When nearing the landing, X noticed the boat in a most unusual position relative to the bank— her head pointing obliquely across to tho other shore, while ber stern was scraping along tho bank in tho bushes on the landing side. I looked, but there was mo wind to exphin it. I could not understand it. After scraping hor stern slong the bank for about a hundred yards, she at last righted and came into the landing all right. As nsual on landing, the d rushed up forward o watch the exit of all, forgetting that & boat has two ends, and that it is posaible to get off at either. Had they been cognizant of this fact, this true story might have been materially altered. After leaving the dock at this point, the ds, a8 usual, went to Mrs, —'s’ room and demanded admittance. She, for thé first time, refused to open the door, allegis g 8s & reason that she had now undressed, and they could not then comein. They appealed to the Captain. He told them he was powerless. As the lady claimod, she had paid for her room; it was sacred to privacy, and he thought they had lost control of the prisoner when they consented to lothimgointoherroom. Theguardsthendeclared their determination to see, and again demanded admitéance, threatening to break down her door. She then asked them to *wait a minute,” and I supposed she would dress and submit to the gearch. A moment elapsed, when tha little woman stepped quickly and firmly out, closing the door with aclash behind her, and witha cocked Derringer in her hand. If her manner was os I have described it when she first came. onbonrd the steamer, it was now s hundred- fold exngganzsd! A pythoness, a lioness, an eoreged tigress at bay—pshaw| BShe can't be doscribed 8s shoe then sppeared, Havo was seen upon the bonk | you not felt- the spell.—the awful fasci« nation of o great and terriblo passion? Here it was,—her oves fairly blazicg, her hand trem- bling, not with weakness, but surcharged power ; the glittering weapon raised, exposing its mur- derous half-inch calibre; its shining porcussion cap and hammer, drawn back in dreiful threat- ening harmony with its mistress. No witness of this scene will ever forget the scathing, burning words that then hissed from her lips as she said : ““Aad you would break inioa lady’s bed-cham- ber, would you? Is there onc of vou whoia tired of life, and covets death? Then et him come, for, by all that is sacred, dy my own honor, ‘he man dies that puts his foot in this door.” Then, derisively, she added, “Come, do come. Waere 'is the hero that would break n lady's dog?™ And with & “hah! hah!” sounding 8l manjacal, she stood swaiting the result, The words shrunk back before the power of Passio) ang desperato determination thus dis~ Phyed-ilar wers thoy cowards. It was but toap~ parent kat this was no mero scting. Death for On8 Was'artain, and they did not wish to harm ber. Aten and again, for thirty miles, st seve ersl landugs, they would go beck and try pere sussion, fizn thrests, but were always mot with that murdrous, cocked Darringer, and the,~ golemn daclis tion that * the man dies that en ters my roomp ‘bAt Delawary, after soversl vain applications, 0 heroic litty woman suddenly stepped ont from her room, Iressed, 3\155:, and dignified, as if nothing untaal had happened, sad, with well-niected cokrtosy, invited tae guards to enter. They did enter, and yon may imagine their consternatiolon finding that * thobird had flown!” Inthe “jubbub” attending the dis- covery, tha Captza was colled, then abont 8 o'clock a. m. He ¢juld givo the guards no com- fort—men seldom fod sympathy when outwitted by a woman—but hd pizcad the boat at their service for o thorough nud exhaustive search. The landing of the stern of tho boat at Calhoun, instesd of her bow, wWas mow recollected and undegtood. It was all plain 10w, and the collusion'sf the pilot and mate on watch -was gelf-evidenl The captain_charged thom with it. They d.\d?a denyit. He repri- manded them severaly, liongh it was observed {me thufiy e not di‘sch:igei for this—certain ly an act of mercy, thougy,, maybe, af S pexfieetor jnitice. B i % Tonaniihe o ut to Teturn to this bave, heroic woman, The thrilling episode over, the lay thera, wcng, almost fainting, bub glorifid—at least in the" writer's estimation. But aphort time_ befora she had eppeared like o theatening, destruce tive thunderbolt, surchorgel with power, and desperate, unflinching yill—now weak,. exhausted, gentle as = kmb. Her obe ject mccomplished, hor hustind saved, her womanhood, in all its beawiful tenderness. ond gentlencss, returns, and, n the reaction” from the terriblo excitement ‘of the ordeal: through which ehe had, padsed, the lay utterly exhausted—almost dead, ~ Hor litle infant wag scarcely more helpless, but the he{:ism she had displayed, coupled with her delicke condition, - elicited from sl on board the most watohtal and tender care. She fully recovered inp fow weeks, &nd rejoined tho husband her bravew had saved. und the writer had tho pleasure’sf mecting them, heppyin each other's affectin, and on their way to —, whera they hoped ‘the wrath of thio old Nemesis of Indisun could not ressh om. Whatover we may think of the husbands stn— and of courso nous wil fil to condemo_it—ye, certainly, all will join ma in doiag hor i £2av0 814 devoted womam, T CooT 10 e Dowrivg Gaeex, Dec. 16, 1872, WAGERS. Curiosiiies of Eetting. ‘Wagars have becn called fool's argnments, bt they are the resort of Englizh-speaking peoplo overywhore for the scttlement of all forcible questions. In old times, in England, ** betting ” |. was the rule of life. a8 the literature of the last century and the ceuntary befora show. Sir Rob- ert Walpole bet with Mr. Paltency a guinea that he had not misquoted ** Horaco” in Yarliament. The Glerk of the House declared Pultener right; npon which Sir Robert throw the guinea sceoss the Honse to be picked up by his opponent, with the Temsrk that 1t was the firat public money ha. hiad toucked for a long tims. The headguartsrs of betters wera at White's, Walpols writes : “‘One of the youths 2t White's has committed a murder, and intends to repeat if. He batted fif- teen hundred ineas that a man could live twelve hours under water ; hired a dosperate fel- low, unk Lim in s ship by way of ezperiment, and both ship and men have not apreared aince. Another man and ship are to te tried for their lives.” Many bets were mads on health ond lougevity. A writer, referring to this, sare that those who would 3 gaiuers by the-desth of o person on whom a wager is laid, ¢ watch all the stages of his illnees, aud are oy impatient for his denth as the undertakor who expects to have the care of the funeral; while the other side are very solicitons sbout his recovery, send every Lour to know how he does, and take as much - care of him a3 a clergyman’'s wife does of her husband, who has no.other fortune than lis liv~ . ing. Tremember amean withthe constitution of a porter, wpon whose life very great odds wero' -laid ; but when the person he was pitted againae® was expected to die every week, this man shob Limaelf through the head, and the knowing ones were taken in.” Lord Mountfore snd Sir John Bland staled twerty guineas a side npon the lives of two noted men, the former backing Rzau Nash to outliva . Colley Cibber. The comedian died in 1757, at the nge of 86; and the beau in 1761, st the age of 87; but before the first event came about, both the wagers had committed suicida. At the house of Sir Mark Sykes, the conversation turn= ed upon the dangers to which Bonaparte was ex- posed, and the host offéred to take ahundred ° guineas from any one of the company, and pay back & guinea a day 88 long as Bonaparte lived. The Rev. B. Gilbert accopted the offer, and paid down his hundr guineas. For thres vyears he recetved his guinea & day xegnla.fliv enough, then the Earonet grew tired. of his bad bargain, and refused to continue his payments. 'The clergyman broughé an action to compel Sir Mark o fulfill tho agree- ment. The Court decided that as the wager cre~ - ated an urdue interest in the preservation of the lifo of a publicenerzy, and, on the other hand, held ot an inducement ko plot his assassination, it tended to produce public mischief, and was therefore illegal. Wagers have sometimes proved fatal to the unconscions subjects of them. Sir Thomas Hosto of Aston, riding home from the hunting field with some friends, extolled his cook’s punc~ tuality in such extravagant fashion that he wag badgered into risking & considerable sum upon it. _Unluckily, for the first time, the cook waa behind time with the dinner. Enraged at the jeers of his visitors, the irate Sir_Thomas made Tor the kitchen, took up n cleaver lying too rend- ily, and with one blow killed his unhappy ser- vant, In September, 1733, says the Annual Register, “ A yoang Irish gentleman, for a considerable wager, set out on Monduy, the 22d inst., to walk to Constantinople and baci again in one year ;” and in June of the following year, Mr. Whalley arrived about this time in Dublin from his jour~ _ney to the Holy Land, considerably within the limited time of twelve montha. The wager laid on the performance of that expedition was £20,~ 000. Buck Whalley was a Dublin macaroni, wliose appearance in & awallow-tailed blue-coat, gay waistcoat, buckzlin breeckes and top-boots, created no littlo astonishment at Jerusalem. He was taken for a madman ; and thanks to that be- lief and a stout shilelaghi, went on his way un- molested, and was enabled to return home ta claim his winni;:‘fs, and he was henceforth dub- bed Jernaalem Whalley. Some years ago s London waterman wagered that he and his dog would jump from the contra arch of Westminster bridze and land at Lam- the dog_ followed suit, but_taking it into his Dead that bis maater was in danger of drowning, the faithful fellow dragzed him willy-nilly to the shore, sad by his well-intentioned blander lost the waterman his wager. An impudent rascal had sach faith in the good lasses of Worcoster, that he bet he would kiss fifty girls in going down the High street of the faithfal city. Unfortunately for his speculation, he canght a Tartar tho very first attempt, anc got thros weeks’ hard labor for his pains. Brongham contrived to make a holidey pay for itself by the exercise of o little shrewdness. It was in his college days, that, by way of seeing & Iittle life, ho went one auturan to_Dumiries, in order to make one at the Caledonian hunt meet- ing. According to the then custom, everybody dined at o table Thote, and after dinner betting getin. Brongham offered to betthe whole com= pany that none of them would vrite down the Tmanner in which he meant to go to the races next day. Those who sccopted his challenge Wrote down their conjectures, and Brougham wrote down his intention of travelling in a sedan. chair, 8 mode of convesance no one hsd hit upon. To the races he went, an immense crowd seeing him eafely chaired to the course. The bet was then renewed s to the manner of his retarn to Dumfres, the acceptors taxing their S¥ita to imagine the most improbable method of iravelling. ~Brougham had calenlated wpon thia and won the double event by raturning in a post- chaisa and pair. e " The English stories might be supplemented by tho lmfilitudfl of queer election_bets made in this country, at the head of which the wheels ‘barzew business standa promirent, ‘both together. He leapad from the bridge, sad. -