Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 1, 1873, Page 2

, don in him; THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 873, THREE TIMES. BT TOE AUTHOR OF “1ADY AUDLEY'S BEORET,' ETO. CIAPTER I-—THE FIRST TIME, “Positivoly the Jast night of Horr Rudolph Prasinowski and tho performing liona! Posi- tively tho lasbnight! For the bonofit of IMorr Rudolph Prusinowski! Undor the distinguished patroungo of thoir Majeatics Quoen Victoris, the Tmnanan o4 Attag, the Oham of - Tartnry, His he Grand Duke of Baden, Simo- 18q,, M. P, tho Mayor and Cor- lecum, and other august por- .+ous to montion. Como early, st timo. Come and sco tho ph Prusinowski, tho favorito s nd tho olite of Europo. Take notico | lg.nugmnl Prusinowski hng had tho Yof 5" tlibrming boforo’ tho Mikado of Ja- pan, Thoworld-renowned Prusinowski has beon decorated with~tho order Rougoe et Noir by the Grond Duchoss of Belzorwasserburg. Don't miss tho Hona!" Tho abovo eontoncos, and many othera of the snmo character—in which o pieturcaque fancy, nided by tho exporienco of a public career, trifled with tho sobrioties of fact and tripped lightly scross tho borderland of flction—ap- peared in gigantio black letters upon a yollow poster on the slde wall of the Queen's Theatre, Spindlecum, and in the strects and market~ placo, upon tho quays, and in tho black sluma of tho samo Lown, A man with a palo, sallow faco, blue chin, and closc-cut bair sat in & lounging attitude upon a Jow wall opposite the stage-door of tho Quaen's, smoking & moditativa pipo, and contemplating tho Lig yollow poster with a droamy fondness, To bad a littlo group of satellites about him, also cloze-cropped, blue-chinned, and tobacco- consuming ; minog lightsin the dramatic heaven, tho elock company of tho Queen's, who wore thrown a fittlo futo the background by tho lions, shufiling through s proliminary molodrama nightly, beforo an audionce who beheld thom with impatienco, and heard thom sometimes will Jdorision, cagor for the grand business of the evening. “I think that ought to hit ’em up,” said the Herr, thoughtfully. [Ho spolto oxccllont Eng- lish for & foroigner,] “Tho Mikado looks well, doesn't e 2" “Firsb rato," roplied Mr, do la Zouche, the walking gootloman, “Waéhe a nico kind of chap, tho Mikado? " Herr Prusinowski turncd his contomplativo oyes upon tho inquirer with o look of placid scorn, “You ain't ro jolly green as to supposoI ever Bot eyos upon him ? " hosald, knooking the nelios out of hia pipe, “Iwas never in Japsn in my Tifo; nover nearer than & Japan candlestick, Tho Mikado is a safe card, ho is ; who's to nek any quostions abouthim? And go's tho Cham of Tartary." “Texpoct you'll have a clipping hiouso, cully?” remarked Mr, Tiddiking, tho low comedian, o smnll man with a falsotto voice. “Ilook forward to it, Tiddikino ; and, if it fioos, ovar ciglty, Ll staud . suppor, ‘mind nt, “Tkoro was & subdued murmur of ap; 11 or cold 7" inquired Mr. do la Zouche, “ Mot repliod the lion-tamer. “None of our cold fowl and 'am, your pastry, and rub- ish, for mo. A sirloin of beef f lop, and a primo goose at hottom, & veal pio and stowed stenk at thosides, and plonty of smoking hot vogotabloa; & pritng old stilton, and a bowl of snind to wind up with, and o8 much champagno ns you can ewallow, with braudy and water to soltlo it on_your stomache. That's what I'll do, ot tho Lion sud Lamb, if tho houeo gocy cighty when the half-price (o tho boxes is lnuso, in, This time the applanse was louder. “I plways i Jou weraa jolly good fellow, Bill,” eaid Mr, Tiddikins, *“and I don't mind Loy ofton I eay it again.” ¥ Itis to bo observed. that Mr. Tiddikins ad- drossod tho distinguished Rudolph by the sim- tlor cognomen Bill, one of tho playful licenses of fricndship, no doubt, “It's woderoful how those animals draw,” ceid Mr. do o Zoucho, thoughtfully, us if ho woro contomplating tho foasibility of sotting up on his own account a8 & lion-tamer. “ You'vo bLeon hera threo seasons, Prusinowski, and, ©ogad, the peoplo &in't tired of 'em yot. Thoy scom os enger a8 ovor. One would supposo they 10 800 o poor beggar hazard bis lifo overy i ore's pomothing in that,” roplied the Herr. “If It wasn't for the dangor, tho wild- %enat businoss would bo a8 flat ns difobwator.” ““Yoro you evor frightenod?" asked tho walking gentloman, ““Never but onco,” answered the lon-tamor, *and thou I thought it was all over with mo.” Ho grew suddeuly grave, gloomy oven, ot tho meie reeolloction waled by the walking gontlo- iau's inguiry, T'A: How did'it happen, old follow ?” asked Mr, i u seo," tho lion-tamer began, in a y 'af,. rtopping to take n-fov prolimina- hig pipo, **I was at Manchostor nigh andit was my last night ight bo to-night, Wo was 3 first-rato business, and I don't think X in euch high epirlts In my lifo, ** ¢ Why, Iill," seys my littlo woman, when T Liopt runiidg in and out of our lodgings botwaon whiles ot reheareal,—wo was cloko rgen the slum—taling hor in a handfull of monoy over: time; *yor yeem as if you was bewitched; don't like Loneo you like that. Thad o Scotch fiiend onco o said it was & bad eign,—n sign of eomething going to happen,” ‘¢ Lord love your little foolish heart,! I an- srored, *it's a sign of nothing but that I am going Lo havon screaming houso to-night, I don't supposo thero'll bo o corner you can scrow yourrolf into if you went to sco mo. For she's 1 raro ono for going in front of o night, you know, i tho missus.” Mr. De In Zoucko nod Mr, Tiddikins murmured their acquaintanco with this domostic fact, ITorr Prusinowski smoked Lis pipo for & min- ute or #o, and then wont on : “* ¢ Why, thore' thoe family box I' sho said. #That's o lurgo private box on the op!muim rompt, that don't often lot, unloss thoro's Ylulitul opera or Charles Mathews, or something out of thio common, No, thore ain't,’ T answored, Innghing. “4\What!' cried tho missus, ‘in thal lot, too 7" 4,0t this morning,’ aid 1, ‘and there's tho mon¢ throo pound threo—thirty-one and six of which comes to us.’ “‘For T bad a lf sbaro clear of oxponscs, samo an horo. Lizzie—that's my wifo, you know-—was quito proud to think T was going to bave such u good box sudicnco, for it iun't every box audicneo as will tako to wild boasts,” | ¢ T wonder whether it's tho Muycr and his family, speculating nbout that big privato bos, «+No, "I told lior, ‘it's geutlemun sud n strangor, no name." ““Wol, the night camo, a sweltering hot sum- mor oveulng, such 8 it will Lo to-night. Tho performance bogan wilh ono of {'our enteol comedies, and tho houso was so full and noisy tlio nctars conldn't hoar thomkclvey epenls, Thoy got througl it sonichow; thoro wase uhort over- ture, aud then tho curtain went up for my par- formance. T'ho throe liony discoverad in o forost, to elow music, which gets a round for thom, and gives mo my ontranco and recoption. ““You know tho beasls; thoy wore the samo three I'vo got now--Irown, Jones, aud Robin- son, O Drovn's o harueds old chap chough, not'a sound tooth iu his lond, and no moro heim in uiin theo in an eldorly jackass; Jones yop old dodger, but thoro ian't much harm but Robingon is a mnasty-tempered beast, & bruto you nevor cun bo sure of, oy ani- mnal that will lick your hand ono minute, and bo reudy to snap your houd off tho next. “1yell, I gol a firat-rato roception. I thought tho gallory would nover havo loft off applauds ing; und the sight of tho lLouse, crummed to tlo coiling, mady mo almost glddy. Lorlaps it was tho heat of tho l|]1Iu'ls, which was like an oven; porhaps, as I'd offon been mndlnfi ticat, or boing stood fur off and on protty wel =ll day, I misy havo taken a littlo moro than wes good for mo. Anyhow, I felt tho houso spinniug round mo, juat ns it I'd beon soma Gulior or a novice, lstead of the old stager I am, I locked at the family-box O. P., curlous to Aeo who'd taken it. “There wi v only ono gentle- s thoro, o man of 60 or thereubouty, with o cadaverous, lau!crn-_‘awad face, aud flghl-rod- dici huir, vory nlrM‘; it, combud_neatly on eanch pido of lis forehend, 110 was droasod in black zogula: cvening-drets, whito oholer, and all conplets, and, do you know, tho instant I sot cyes upon the man, ho gave mo & turn.” “Thal wai a queor rmw{,"‘- gald Mr. de In o to % Ty whilis ot upon five yours oy and my ¢ bon," ay it doi w Ziouche, holping himself 10 tobacco from the Josen gulta-paicti poush, whick Iy open o “ho wall. ) # Purhaps it was; bul “no oyer aguin, I should | 1 » it that night was to lavo tho fanoy over again,” roplied Pruninownkl, It was partly hin own looks, I thiok, parlly the way ho Tnokod at mo ;" niot Jilko tho roat of tho sudicnco, all good nnturo, oxpecting to bo nmnsod, bub witl o stendfast, ravenous kind of ook, ' that mado my bload run cold. ‘That's a man who'd like l]c;‘ neo nomothing happen to mo,’ I said to wysolf, 1 didn't givo way to the fancy allat once, I began tho porformanco ; but1stolo n glanco at my sandy-haired palo-faced gentloman now and then, and nh\‘n}‘s found him looking at mo in tho samo way, 110 ind Jargo Jight gray oyos, vory Hight, and thoy followed avery movo I minde lika a ¢nt'a following n mouso. 1o nover moved his eyes from mo, ko never smiled, ho novor ap- laudod; ho eat ina half-crouching attitudo, eaning over the front of tho box, watching mo, and ho madomo feol auif Ihad o ton wolght tiod to cach of my legs, Everyihing wont woil for some time, though I felt “I'd nover dono thinga worse. Brown and Joncs bohaved beau- tifully ; but junt toward the Inst, whon I had to put my lend into Itobineon's mouth to bring own tho curtain, I saw that tho bruto was in ono of bia nasty tempors. I suppose the hoat Dbad put bim ont. Anyhow, hio turnod nasty, and when I wanted o collar him, bounced away from o, 2 “ Tho houso turned as still as death all In a momont, aud I could ngo the sudienco wad frightoned, I gavo n loolk at u\{ geotloman in the box. o was loaning a littlo farthor over tho cushion, with something like a smilo on his aco. Wi Braytonat bovrightoned, Iatiee and shentlo- mens,” I naid in mybroken English,—old Sanor- kraut, tho ophocleid at tho Lano, taught mo that dodgo; ‘id is mozing. To ponst villto all I voeshy' and then 1 gave Robinson n protty smnrt cuff, and began to draw bis jaws open® “Tho brute snnrlod, turned upon mo, and in Abo next inatant would havo had Lin teoth in my gwulder if 1 hadn't given the signal for the cur-~ tain. Iinlf a dozon mr{mntcm rueliod upon the stago and helped mo tucklo bim. Wo lind him eafo in loss than a minule; but just at that ono moment, before tho curtain dropped, it was as nonr as a toucher. **Thero was a good denl of applauso; not that 1'd done anything to desorvo it, for the business of putting my hend in the brute's mouth was in the bill, and the audienee Lad been swindled out of that; but thoy ovidently know I'd beon in dnnger, and thoy called o boforo the curtain, 1 looked up ut that white-faced dovilin the private box. Ilo wau standing up, rubbing his hands in 2 sntisfiod kind of way, a8 if ho bnd scon whab lio wanted to soo; and, a9 I passod undor him, ho eaid in a slow, measured voico that gave mo tho shivors : ¢ A narrow escapo, Iorr. Vory woll done, in- deed, I congratulato yon.' “ I gnvo Lim o look which ho ought to Lavo understood, if ke didn't, made my bow to tho houao, and 'went off tho stago. Iobinson wag quiot cnough by this time, My man Jos Purdy had walked him off to his box, and thoro he was growling over Lis shin-bonos, ey mild a lion na finu‘d wigh to seo. ‘ Only lot mo geb you sofo ack to London, my friend,” saya I, fand I'll tuko you down to Jimeracks and “swop you for someihing ottor temperod. 'Taleut ie all vory woll ; but lemper is worth all tho talont in the world." Ilowover, thet's five years ago, and thera's Robingon still performing with me. Tho brute bas such o wonderful i;m for his profes- sion ! and his honrt and soul's in it, too, Tako that animal in the middle of the day, whon ho ain't particular hungry, and ho's a decont follow enough ; but come betwoon bim and his busi- nesy, and you'll find out what & lion is, Ho's been a fortuuo to mo first aud last, hna that uni- mal. Brown and Jonos are nothing wore than Bupori to him.” * You didu't seo any more of your friond in the box ?" inquired Mr. de la Zouche. % Curso L, no!_ DBy tha timo I'd changed my clothes ho had left the house, I want round to the box-oftico to seo if tho box-keepera could toll me anything about him, No; ho was astranger, 1le hiad takon his box thal morning, finding thoro wiw no stall to Lo had, and paid his thres guinens withoul n questiou, *Now, 1 daresny yowll think moe nn out-and- out fool, whon I tcll you I couldn't sloop that night, nor many nights oftor, for thinking of thut man. I couldn't got his palo c¢heoks and Taalt jawd aud light gray oyes, with that horrid gloating look in them, out of my mind. *That's i follow who'd go tosoo n mun hung, I onid to mysolf. ¢ That's w mun who'd stand by lo too Lis follow-crestures hung, drawn, and quar- tored, ond enjoy it—cspecinlly tho drawing.' I hade’t a doubt in my mind that Le way on tho luokont for an ceeident all the evening; 1badn't & doubt in my mind that it wos through him I made a nicas of it at the ond.” #*Did you ovor co Lim again ?*" asked the low comedian, *Nover; Qod forhid Lover should, for T'vo a notion that if I did, it would e tho death of mo. T'm not o uervous man in & general way, nor su- Km'ntitiuxm, cither; but I'd give up tho biggent aul T over wado by s benelit, rather than neb Loforo that man," ld“ A queor notion,” gnid tho humorous Tiddi- ns, “ A vory queer notion,” said the gentlomanly De Ia Zouche, o wan uot a fine actor, the walking gentlo- man, belonging rather to thal olass of poformers who is contomptuously likoned to a etick, snd his drametio path hud been by no meana strown with roses ; yot ho was fain Lo congratulate him- self that it had not beon beeot with lions, Lo Lod boon Romowhat Inelined Lo envy Rudolph Trusinowski Lho distinetion and prosperity of hin carcer ; but fust now it oceurred to Lim that thero wero two eldes to the picturo. e rubbed Lis ghoulder thoughtfully, and wus giad to think that bo was axponed to tho nssuulls of o flurcor snimals than those rampant tragedinns who snubbed bl whon hio pluyed Zforatio, snd meke light of him in Cassio, but who melted a little ont tholr Lenetit nights, ond treated bim to beer. CHAPTER IL—TH}: SECOND T¥ME. The Bpiudlecum peoplo showed their appra- ciation of tho Uritish drama, 13 rapresonted by liun<anin(;, by giviog dlorr Prusivowskl o bumper. Whether it was tho intluonce of tho Chum of Tartary, or tho Miliado, tho Graud Duchess of Sclzorwaseerburg, or tho local mom- e, or the simplo wmerils of (ho porformanco, fa amioot_question ; but tho Spindlecumians ua- sombled in full forco ; aud, beforo tho Horr bud lelt the family ten-tabie to ropair to tho thentro, o receivod tho plensing intollizenco thet tho crowd &b the pit aud gallory dovis was Lulf-way ncroey tho strect. “If wo Olfl{ o on like this for anolher year oreo, Liz, I'll ent the profession,” exclaimed Herr Prusinowski, cheorily, ¢ and start o theatil- cal public romawhiere on the Surrey side. It's a trying lifo, i tho wild-beust business,” “ And o dangoerous lifo, too, Willinw," said tho Littla svorman, with a sigh, “ Not much of that, old girl. I'm moro than amateh for Robinson by this time. ‘Thero isn't & movo he's up Lo that I'n not down upon, - You'ra going into tho front {o-uight, ch, Ob, you; Tuhall got a ocat at tho hack of tho hoxen, ' Mra, Podger's going with mo, Bho's taok her tickot, aud paid for it, you kuow, Will- inm, liko a lady.” w'Pnta, Liz, then; T'm off." “1t's carly, William, Thoro's tho ‘Miller ond {lin Men'—that'll last an howr and a bult surely,” “l)don't betiova it'll Iflny en hour, You ought to know whut my bonofit audicucon aro—all agog for tho lions, ~ I want to havealook altho beasts before wo bogin, and T'm always o lttlo norvous on my bew, 0ond-bye,” I'his wes nomero conjugal excuso, Tha the- atro to n man brod at tho eide-ucones jo his club, “he Torr proferrod kmoking bis pipo in the froo- and-cany atmonphoro of the dresning-room al tho Quaen'd to tho tamer delights of tho domeutic ten-tallo, Ho had vory littlo anxioty nboul hin bossts. Joo DPurdy, lis factolum, Teaper who had served his appronticsship with the gront Wombwell, had the cuatody of thom, ‘I'hio Liousa wau an oxcellent ono, “T'ho boxos were uot 5o well filled ns on_that memorable night at Manclestor, which Iorr Prusinowski had deseribed to his fricuds § bub the pit waua seotbing cauldron of humanity; the gallory lookod like & wall of cager faceu pilad ono upon tho otlier up Lo-the irou roof. *'Iho Miller ind Tlin Men " was performed almont in dumb shoiy, or kcemed Lo be, thongh tho leading tra 3 rotained on the establishment was romiing Limsclf hoarso In the characlor of Grindoy, with Lo faink hope of snutching o stray luat from the erawn of wild olive which would bo cast 1t tho fuet of the lion-tnmer by-and-by. “Phen crino_n slirring overturo—tho * 1itonza Horeo "—during whichtho audienco crackod nuts and becamo momentarily woro excited; and then thoe act-drop roso toslow music of & soul- appalling chareoter, and rovesled Brown, Jones and_Nobiuson picturesquely grouped in tho stock primeval forest. “Whoro was g pies. Tho bouso applaadd vo- ciforously. ‘L'lioro was something stirring in tho notion that these throo unfettored boasts might leap into tho pit at any moment, It was quilo s lensnut sonsalion—eipocially for tho gallory. rown, who waw oldorly and decropit, yawnod and ntrotchod himuelf out as if for plumbor, with tho air of having beon untimo), disturbod from his afior-dinnor nap. Jonos, who was of o livoly tomporament, whisked lia fail, and sugpped at un_ imaginary fly. Robindon starod full at the audionco, a4 if ho renlly did not undor- stund and nppreciato their plaudiss, Tha music quickened, brokoe into o stirring marol, and then et fortivsimo chord from tho orchostra, tho lion-tamer bonndod on tho stago —a ghrlling iguty, broad-shouldered sud mus- onlar, in closo fluhui flenh-colorod raiment, a acarlob girdlo round his waist, and nJoopnrd’s skin ovor lifs shouldor. X Thore was & fiood otrong Bhoefliold knifo in hia Dolt, but ho had no appensanco of hoing armed. Hla recaption waa tromondona. 1o slgod bow- Ing and moving his lips in vague murmurs, with an air of being quito overcomo by hin feclings, for nearly five minutes hofore ho' could bogin Fxln orformanco. His oyen wandored all round tho ouso with tho gnzo of caleulation, till thoy grow suddenly fixed, glaring at tho atalla, To-night tlaro wore thrao pooplo in all tho longth and brendth of {hom—tiwo faded-looking oldorly \wwomon in opera clonks at ono end, and in tho mlddlo, in o position-that eommanded ovory inch of tho tago, & middio-agod man with a ca- davorous faco, praminent, light-gray oyos, and lnnk, roddish finlr, carotully drossod in fall ¢von- ing costumo. o pnt in an attitudo of oxtromo attention, with bis arne folded on tho back of tho sent in front of him (lio was in the back row), and his eyes fixod uqan tho llon-tamor. For tlic moment, tho aight of him seomed to turn Rudolph Pruai- nowski to stono. talking of that (hly;' Tho cold swoat broko out upon his forohend ; but ho stamped his foot nnvni:uly, angry with himeelf for this folly, muttored an oath, and bo- an hia businors with tho lions—standing upon oir backs, riding round tho stagenpon all three ot once, londing them through n kind of danco movemont, doscribed in the billa as a act of quadrillos, with garlands of papor rosor, and otherwiso disporunF Dimsolf with them, the red- baired man in thostallo watching his overy move- mont and overy movoment of tho animnls bronthlesely, aud nover stirring by o hair's breadth from his attentivo attitude, or turning Lis oyos away from tho stago. Thon camo tho fontura of the ovening,—n It was the man Lo bad beon slnglo combnt between Horr Prusinowski and- Tobinson,—who was described in tho bills, by Usa way, &2 * Molocl tho fogal Lrindled ton, prosentod to Horr Prusinowski by one of tho oativo which fhe Morr dragged asundor tho animal'a jnwn,lnnd put his hoad into tho red-hot looking mouth, To-night, in spite of that deadly terror which bad como npon thoe Horr at tho sight of that ono dotestod spectator, everything wont amoothly enough, Iobinson, othorwise Moloch, kapt his tomper, sufforad his_jaws to bo oponad to thoir widost "oxtent, and tho tamor's liond to roposo upon Lis tonguo as on a pillow for balf o dozon Boconds or #0, and tho curtain camo down to vo- ciforous nfip!nun; but wlion tho beneficiare waa callod for thoro was no respanse., Tho promptor found him leaning against ono of tho wings, whito to the lipa. **Did you over sco & man tromble ?" hio asked, in a voico that shool so much as to Lo acarcely intolligiblo. ‘*1f you want to see ono, look at me." Ilo was ghaking in evory limb, like a man atricken with ague. Why, what's tho mattor 2" asked tho promp- tor, with moro friendlincss of than -loganco of diction. * Thoy'ro calling ior you like mad. ‘You'd better go on.” “I'm going, as soon as I can sleady mysolf. T nover noglect my.business; but I'vo hod a turn, I uovor thought I should como off tho etago alive to-night.” +1Yhy, the animals were quiot onongh."” #Yos, a8 mild a8 lJamba; but there's s man in frout that's my ovil gemus, I never folt supor- stitious nbout anyt! II:F clso baforo—none of your ghosts or that kind of rot—but I've got my funoy” about tho man. o liko o seo mo killed, and—Lo'l contrive to sce it.” Pruginowski,” snid tho promptor, “Icouldn't have belioved it 0f you. I thought yon was a man of sonse.” But tho promptor felt uncomfortablo never- tho-less. Tho human mind is cspoclally open to uncomfortablo senentions of this kind. “ Qomo, my boy,” ho exclaimed, thoy'ro log- fng tompoer.” This in allusion to the audionce, who wero clamoring hoarsely for their favorito, “You'd better go on,” Prusinowski wipod his damp forehead, pullod himsclf togethor, as it woro. “All right,” ho said, and followod the prompt- or to tho first entrance. 1fe wont on, mado his aceustomed mochapical bow, and crossed the stago, to disappear with renowed bowings on tho opposite side. 1o was looking ab the atalls all tho timo. 'Flie man was gono, ‘¢ Qurao him!" mattered the lion tamor. “If ho'd given mo timo to change my clothes I'd liavo boon in the front of tho house in timo to seo hinmi como out, 1 waut to know who heis; I want to know what lio moans.” Ilo dromscd hurricdly, tearing off hia close- nmn[‘;] garl, and shuilling tn tho costumo of avoryday life anyhow, and Uen went bacl to tho prompt entrance bofora the curtain had arisen for tlio farce, aud took nnothor survey of the stalls, thinking it just possible that his ovil gen- fous had returncd. But iho men's placo was cm]ny.] 3 Herr Prusinowski went ronnd to the publio doors of the theatrn, aud hung about there, with 8 vaguo iden that tho man might bo lingoring algo. Thore wasa large tavern just opposito tho Quoen's, where the nudienco wero wont to rofrosh themselyos—ovon the stalls and boxes— with brandy and eoda. The Horr crossed tho rond by and by, went into_ the crowdod bar, still looking for his man, and looking vaiuly, While lio wau stering about lim o friondly hand tappod him oy the phoulder, It was woll over eighty, .my boy," anid the volee of Do. la Zouche, upon whose youthful cheok otill lingorod somo trace of tho varmillion 1t had worn in the * Miller and Mon.” ** Nonrer ninoty, Liddiking tolls mo, and ho know hiow to ronkon up_a houso with atly mwn in tho profos- mion, I wish you joy.” “Thank you, old follow," roplied tho lion- tamer, vaguely. ' * Yen, I think it a good houso,” *Think! There's no room for thinking. Tho perspiration was running down their faces in tho pit alt through the Miller,” The houso was like & furnace: and uncommonly thirsty that kind of thing makes a man. ‘Tho pongelow you sont in was very nccoptablo. But, 1 say, Prusi, how about that little supper ou talked of ?" Prusinowski stared at him blankly for & mo- ment, and thon nid carelossly : Hho suppor—0, to be sure. I'd forgotton all about it.” 'Lhc noblo countenance of Do In Zouche fell, and his opon brow was ovoi- shndowed by a_sudden gloom. * But, its all right,” continuod tho bengficiaire. * Its ordored for 12 o'clock sharp. 1 ordered it on spec. I thought I should have & good house.” Pruginowski, yon nro.a gentloman! ox- claimed tho actor,~ “ I'll go homo and put on & clenn collar, I think you montioned a gooso 7" “* Roant Leof at (he top, rosst gooso at tho bottom," said tho Herr absontly. “I¢wn bird which, on the supper tablo, T ap- procialo abuvo nuy of tho fosthered tribo,” roplicd tho walling goutloman. *Au reser- voir,” To doparted, wondoring at the silence and gravity of nmun who could draw an .£80 houso, 1lorr Prusinowski loft tho tavorn and strolled listlossly along tho streot, It was not quite 11, 1o had e clear bour bofors him, in which Le could do whut ho pleased with Limuelt, Undor ordinary circumstunces ho might Liavo gone lome, to have n fow words with his “little woman,"” and mado soma nmendment in his toi- lot; but to-night Lo Lardly cared to faco his wifo ; #ho would ueo that somothing wag wrong, aud question him. ‘Tho improssion that man's appearauco had mado on him was a subject ho di (l not want to talk about, not aven with her. Ho turnod out of the busy thoroughtare in which the Quoon’s 'Cheatro was situsted pros- ently into n broad, quiot, old-fashioned-looking slrect, leading down to the quuy—n streot of broad, square, red brick houscs of tho Georgian ora, grim aud rospcetablo, with o shop only here aud thore, aud then a superior cizss of shop. It was a vory quiot streot nt this time of night. e summor moon wag shining full up- ou tho broad pavomont fnd empty road, aud thoro was just o glimpso of moonlit wafer at tho end of ‘tho strogt whoro it oponed on tho quny. I'hero was only ono shop opon at this hour, tobaceonlst’s at tho corner, T'rusinowski folt in Lis cont pockot with a dim recollection of hav- ing allowed Mr. Fitz Raymond to ompty his to- Dboceo pouch (hut ovenivg, and then strallod across tho roud toward tho fobneconist’s shop. ‘Whilo he was in tho uet of crossing, a man cnmo out of the shop, and walked slowly away toward tho quoy. ‘Lho’lon-tamor recognized fim b o glauco, and darlod after bim. It was tho ocou- pant of tho stully, & tull, angular figuro in the moonlight, with moro or less thoe air of gontlo- won, 1 bog your parden,” he shudder ;"1 T beliove you in ibo stalla at tho Qucon's 1" I'he mun turncd sud faced him. It was nat o roposuoueing countonait!hy by any means ; that oug, cadavorons visago, with tho pale, promi- nont oyos and lank, sandy hair. Tho moonlight mado it look more than ususlly cadaverous. “ You,” lio naid, L havo boon at tho Quesn's Theatro this evoning, Denr mo! you aro tho lion-tamer, I boliovo, 'his is roally curious,” Ho spoke in » formal deliberate way, that was strangely frritating to Morr Prusinowski's norves, #“You hiive somo kind of businoss with me, Horr Prusinowski ?" tho strangor eaid, intor- rogatively, tho lion-tamor stnndln{; for tho }nmunnt staring at bim, utterly lost and holp- oss, “I-T wantod to asl 4, 2t thy dtranger’s in frout to-night ¥on A quaation,” ha snld, abruptly, rousing himusolf with an effort, *'This isn't tho firat timo I'vo seon you, You took a privato box at Maucloster £ivo yoara ago for wy henont” &rlucnu of the Punjaub "—at tho end of ' “T Qid,” roplled tho atrangor. “T congrat- Into you on tho posacesion of an oxcollont momo- rf', Mr. Prusinowskl _You hnd a narrow oncapo that night at Mancheslor, I imagine. Ono of your animals turned roafivo.” ‘¢ Yos," snid tho lion-tamor, moodily, * that bruto Tobluson eut up rough. ' I lost my norvo, and ho saw [t It was o'narrow oscapo—n disap- polntniont for you, wann't it *“Fxouso mo, 1 hiardly catch your meaning.” . You thought it was all over with me, AFidu'I: you?” Como now, I want to know yotir motlvo for coming to seo mo that mo—I want to know your motiva for cumlr:lg to aco mo ta-nI{;ht." “ Motive 7" ropeated the strangor. **I should -suppoa tho motlva must bo aufliclontly obvioud. Pooplo genarally attond that sort of entortain- mont, and ovory sort of ontortainmont, in soarch of, ‘nanl\l\:omom. ’l A s or poople, porhaps, not you. I know what & man's faco moaus, and I watched yours a8 ologo—woll, almost a8 closs as you watchoed mo. 1 waen'l tho face of & man thiat camo to bo amugod."” ““You soem to havo a ‘mnnlh\r way of looking af things, Mr, Pruslnowski,” Topliod tho atrangor, tubhlnf his bony, closo-shavon chin thoroughly, ** Howover, to bo candld with you, Inm somowhat intorested in llon-taming, I am an idlo mau, you 806, My means onnblo mo to livo protty mich as I plenso and whoro I ploano, and a man without oconpation Is in a mannor compolled to croato an intercst for himeolf In things outaido his own life, I am an amatour of wild-bonst shows, Thoro was o mau callod Qroon,—you may have board of him, perhaps. I enw that man Groon porform sevontoon con- ;qmltlvo timos. I was peouliarly intorestod in im,” Yos," mnid Prusinowski, *I know all about Groon.’ To wan Lilled,—killed by o tigor that ho'd mado a good deal of monoy out of.” s hc‘ wes," answorod tho strapger. I aaw it ¥ Horr Prusinowski shuddered, b 4 thouEm 60," o arid; ** I thought as much. Youw've tasled blood." * '*Upon my honor, that is a vory unpleasant way of putting it,” ropliod the stranger. I look at thosa things ontiroly. from an artistio point of viow. Ihave hoard it assertod that mon of your sm[enulon always do moot with somo fatal accl- ont, sooner or lator. Since you push mo so closoly, T am bound to admit tlint hns formod ono olomont of interest for mo in this kind of por- formanco, I can undoratand tho delight of the Roman poople, from tha Emperor down to tho bumblest freodmam, in tholr gladintorial shows," ‘*I don't undoratand half that palaver,” said Horr Prusinowski, rudely; * but 1 trustinGod I may never soo your face again.” “ Really, now! but why ? * Becauso (ou aro & cold-blooded scoundrol, and you would liko to soo mo killed.” “ 3y doar Mr, Prusinowsld, that is a style of Janguigo which, if I were an ill-tempored man, I might rosout. But if you aro destined to moch onr doath in that manner, which it {s to bo oped you aro not, I freely adnit that I should wish to bo n apectator of the catastropho. It would not malie tha smallost difforence to you, and it would bo highly intoroating to me. Ig this your way? Nol In that caso, good night,” 110 liftod liis Lt coremoniously, nnd doparted toward tho pateh of moonlit water at tho end of tho street, loaving the lion-tamor atauding on the paveniont, transfixed and brooding. 1t was just ag ho had inagined--tho man was an mmatour of suddon death. Tho suppor st the Liou and Lamb publio houno—a suug littlo hontelry, five doora from the thentro, and much affocted by the actora— g08 0 zustronomic succoss but not & social ono. T'ho fare was oxcollont, 'The giver of tho foast ordored liquors on n liboral sealo, aud catables and drinkablos disappoarod with o colerity cheor- ing to witnoss. Yot tho banquot was not a choer- ful one. Nothing could rouso Prusinowiski from tho gloom that bad fullen upon him. Tho actors did thoir utmost to boguilo him into gay- oty, with boistorous talk and lnughtor, racy an- ecdoles, and an unlimited amount of tha bu. morous converse commonly known as ¢ chaff," 1o which tho thoatrical mind is ospocially prono ; Dbut ail thoir offorts failed. 3 By dogrocs tho talk foll fiat, and tho rovels which, undor happlor auspicos, would hiave Instod for into the summer dawniug, broke up abruptly 8t o quartor pst two. Mr. Warbecel, tho pmmth-, wallkod homo with Tiddiking aud Do Ia Zoucho, and told them what iind happened aftor the fall of tho curtnin. “ Prusinowski's as good a follow as over breathod,” ho ssid, in conclusion, ‘‘If ho wan my own brothor, I couldn’t like him bottor than Ido. ButI'm afruid there's something quecr horonbouts,” Tio tapped his forchoad slgnificantly. YA looso slato," said M. diking. A Boo in his bounet," aaid Mr. Do a Zoacho. CIHAPTER IIL—TOE THIRD TIME, It was three yoars lator in tho lifo of tho lion- tainor, and ho was porforming for throo nights ouly at a non-const town in the north of Englaud, adronry littlo placo enough, whither ho had strayed from the rich mauufacturing districty, whoro his harveats woro wont to Lo 8o plonteous ~—a dismal little town, besido which Yho sen soemed to howl more ‘dolufully thuu by othor shores; n stony High strect, a damp, windy fish matkot, boach of great loose pobblos, and o long wooden Jotty strotching out to sea, and slippory alwaya with slimo und weed, dend fish, aud other rofuso of tho groat oonu. "Fhreo years |—aud yot, on_bis bonofit night at Spindlecum, Herr Prusinowski Lud tulked about retiring on his_laurcls in a year. Ilo lad uot been doiug badly, oithor; prosperity had follow- od all Lis wandorings ; but tho human mind is elastio in its ostimato of monoy, and Herr Pru- sinoweki's notions .of tho fortuno L ought to Ilulh‘o upon had widened with the passage of time. 3 " Another six months, littlo. woman,” he enid, “and I'll el tho beasts by auction -and take n public houso,” which was his notion of peaco and rotiroment. T wish it was to be to-morrow, Willlam,” tho littlo woman angwored #adly. *Ishall never Lknow.a Lappy moment till you've douo with thoso nnimnF " The first two nights at Lowshoro, tis obscure northern scaport, ind been tolurnb“y succossful, but swhat the drame, whotbor logitimato or illo~ itimate, failed to do, the lions succeedod in do- Fu 7. Thoy drew very fair houses—not the no- bihty aud gentry, as Topregonted by ouo elderly peer, whouo ostafos bordered Loselioro, but who waa raroly kuown to inhabit Iis great stono cnstlo, prntcmuF o-little box ot Richmond, stuffed with rard old silver and costly curiosition ; and tho viear; but tho shop-kaopiers and thoir young mon and maidens; tho fow uisitora and Lho_lodgiug-liouso proprio- tora; all the sonfaring men aud” their familles; tho maids-of-all-work and fisher-boys; the po- licomen off duty, and n sprinkling of farmora from inland farma, It was lato in October, tho vory droarioat timo of tho year, aud Horr Pru- slnowski liad cotno to Lowskore in » speculative humor, just to ill up a blank woek in hig winter programme. ‘T'ho houeo was nearly full tho first night, o trillo loss woll attonded the secoud, and on tho third o considorablo falling off was_apparent. 8till, it was o very fair houso for Lowshore. Theto was o cheerful sprinkling in tho pit, a vory good gallory; tho bosos alono had o cavern- ous and dismal aspoct. Horr Prusinowski had brought o dramatis company of thrae with Lim to support tho lions, and 1o ¢lo aut tho ovoning's onfortainmont witll « couplo of farces or comedicttas, Tho por- formnncos bogan with * Dolicato Ground," and wore to concludo with tho *Secrot,” o farco of an anciont and raspectablo charactor, The weathor was ogninst Horr Pruginowski on thia particular ovoning, 'Tho north winds cuamo howling across tho Uorman Ocoan as it thoy wero intent upon sweeping Lowshore from the aco of the earth, driving a alt-favored vleot bofora thom, which well-nigh bliuded tho ad- youturous podestrian, 'Tho Horr oxprossed himeelf vory forcibly sbout the weatlor, as ho took loave of his fumily beforo solting ont for tho theatro, Tho comedietta was just ovar na ho wont In st tho staga-door, and ho had todress in a hurry, nh‘up{fihug into his close-fiiting raimont, and girding him- #olf with scarlol and gold, whilo a foobls little orchestra of four played somo old fashionod country dance tuncs, what timoe tho audlonco rognlod thomsolve with prawns and porter. ‘Cho threo lions looked tremendously big on the small stage, awiully roal against the back- ground of faded sconory. Robiuson was out of #orty. 1o was sonsitlvo upon the hub{neb of 'l!|hcr, aud bad an especinl aversion to high avinds, LS b Thuo foobla little orchestra faado & groat ntrar:- | gl to produce a soul-inspiting choid,-sud cino out suporbly, the second violin a tritle in the roar. Ierr Prusinowski boundod ou tho stago from & racky sot pieco, and began his worlk rather Ianguldly, handliug Robinton with a cor- tain amount of caution, 1o had got through half his porformanco, and wae leading the throe lions round the stage on their hind foet, to the slirring musio of tho march {n ‘ Bluo Board,"—stirring even from thioso poor, feoblo playors—whon lio heard the openiug and shutling of & door at the back of tho boxes. 1Telooked up quickly, A gontloman in evoning dress was seating himsolf dolibornte- ly in the contro-placo, o palc-complexioned man, with straight, reddish hair, The llon-tame.'s hoart turned cold. It was tho mnn ho hied scon at Manchestor and Bpindlooum, tho man whoso prosonco, by somoe morbid fanoy, ho sssoclated ith tho'ldo of poril to himself, Duxing the Inat threo verr hio had hoon alwnya moro or leph on tho lookout, for this maw, and had novor scon him—hnd bapun Lo congratulato himeolf upon tho probability that howould finish Jifs pufi:xm carcer withoat ovor performing before him again ; and haro bo was in thin remole seaport town, watehing him with the ramo eagor oyon and linngry faco, watching as mon_watchod tho glndintork n old timo, grondy for thoir hlood. It ho could linvo bronght tho ontertalnmont to an abrupt conclusion at that instant, ho would hinve dono Ao, Ile would have \Vlllln(;ly returned tho ool Lol motoy, aud anctiflco tho wight's profits to acnpo porforming hoforo that man, To was Linlf inclinad _to plond suddon illness, briug down tho enrtali wiih an_apology, but to do that would bo to confous Limsolf afraid of that man. *' D—n Dbim!" Lo mutterod to himaolf, “ho ehn'n't sco that I'm afra{d of him. Knator]" ho callod out to tho orchestra, * Fantor and loud- orl" and, aa tho music quickened, ho urged the animals with his whip. Robinson, alias Moloch, rosentod tho importl- neueo with a suppressed roar, and from that moment Rudolph Prusinowski lost hin proscnco of mind and lost his lumpur‘ Ho was dotormined to bato not ono of his tricks, to demonutrate to that cold-blooded wratol: in tho boxes that ho wna not afrald of Lim, * 1o made tho animala do moro work than uswal, lookin, doflantly at tho watehful faco in tho boxes all tho while, Tho littlo theatro shook with applause, the pit roso to him, naa tho giaml old actors usod to ssy ; tho gnllnr{ rang with bravoes. AllIn o momont, at the Ingt, in the crowning font which was to conclude the performanco, tho bravoas changed to an_awful shout of horror. No ono could say how it happenod—tho brute's movements wora too rapid for human eyes to follow. Ilorr Prusinowski was lying on the il‘ngn’mfiuled and torn, the lion crouchiug upon m. Tho keepor and a couple of brawny peono shifters rnalied upon tho ntnEu; thoy dragged Lim from undor the infuriatod benst, fnsensiblo and covered with blood, and carriod him off to tho dressing-room, whoro the two rival surigoons of Lowshoro came rushing in to him flve min- utos afterward, Burgory could do nothing ; his ribs wore crushed to powder, aud thero was A Enrfomtlnn of tholung and homorrhago, o ronthed stontoriously for about half an hour, and thon died, without one ray of returning con- soiousnoss. 3 ** 8trango,” tha rod-halred gontleman used to 8oy aftorward, whon ho told the story ns a plens- ant kind of thing aftor dinnor, and in some man- nor -roflecting distinction upon himsolf ; * tho Lmor dovil was tho mocond of his trado I maw flled, and I hnd come ncross him threo timos, nt long futeryals, in tho conrso of my tenvels in tho North, I tale o considerablo” intorost in that sort of thing; thore's moro excitement nbout it than thero I8 in tho drama, Prusinowa- ki was n_very rcspectablo fellow, had sayed monoy, I beliove, and loft his wifa and childron comfortably provided for."—Belgravia Annual, e NEGRO RULE IN FLORIDA. A Shocking Condition of Affulre—A Veteran of 1812 Maltreated by o New gro Mob—The Penalty oI Voting for Greeleys Newmansville, Alachua Co., Fla, (Nov.12), Correapond= enceof the New York Sun, Tho following is a plain statemont of facta which wo dosira to_present to the peopla of tho United States for thoir consideration. Buch out- rages a8 arc horo dotailod wo have submitted to until they havo booome too frightful to bo on- durod. Our appenls to the local authorition are all in vain, and wo despair of ever having our frievnncou rodrossed by thom. Our only hopo 5 in arousing n public sontiment which shall lead to measurea for our rolief, othorwise wo shall bo compellod to abandon our homes to tho Dlacks, who bave becomo our mastors, In this towa resides a focblo old gontloman, now in tho seventy-niuth year of his ago, Joun Powors hy name, who as aarly as 1813 oulisted in tho army of tho United States, fichting all through tho war. 1To was also with Dooatur in his oxpodition agatuat Fripoli, and servod in the Oreok War under Jackson. Last Saturdny week this old gentleman, whilo attonding Lo somo lit- tlo mattors in town, was nssaulted by o stalwart nogro, horsowhipped, and knocled down, Mr. Powers, through tho mtorforence of anothior no- gro, who had domo_respect for his gray hnirs, made bis cscapo, followed by nbout thirty of theao devils, shouting, * Kill the d—d_old ——, Xill him." Tortunatoly ho gninod tho honso of & friond, whoro he sccurod o gin. Tho nogrooy stopped thon in their purenit, {hus showing haly bravory. So long ns this old man was un< armed thoy wanted to kill him ; but whon ko was nblo to defond himuelf thoy rotreated. This ‘outrngo octurred in brozd daylight, and was wit- nossod by noarly tho eutira’ community. 1t is not the Rmt attompt that lizs been mado on the lifo of Alr. Powcrs. During tho fall of 1870, while guarding his cotton crop in tho field from the_dopredntions of thin sama gang, ho wos as. saulted, knooked down, and an attompt mado to cut his throat, which would have heen succossful but for the bravery of hig drughtor, who, being armed, firod on fhe gang and dravo thom off. Sinco (hat timo thoy have frenuontly stopyod i front of Mr. Tower's dwelling, threataning to kill him and using all manner of violeuco. A warrant wos issued for tho arrest of ‘tivo of tho partios engugod in this outrago aud gont to tho Shorilf at Gainesvillo ; but no stops havo beon taken by him to oxocute tho warrant, nar will thora ho. ~ This is ouly oneof tho nnm- orous casea thatare of common oceurrenco it this county. Ono of thio most recant of theao ontragos hap- ponod on the duy of election at this prociuct, and tho writer and hundreds of othera wore eyu- witnesses to whet follows : Tho Eolh\ WOro opon- ed at tho usual hour, and whon the votiug began it was almost impossiblo to keep the nogroum from taking completo posnession of thom. About tho middle of (he duy a colored man voted for Grecley and tho Counscrvative Btulo ticket, when' a disturbanco arono which was kept up until late in tho ovening, and finally culmis- nated in u derdly assault on two citizons of the town, Ono of them (Dr. Jackson) was atruck and knocked sonsclens by & bindgoon of somio kind as lio was entoring his dwelling to go to hin supper, and ho now lee in & dungerous condis tion. A gun was fived at him whilo faliing, and pomo forty or fitty shot ponetrated the door of his houeo. About tho eame time a young man wns also nssaulted, but having beon strucl w slunting blow on thosido of his loud, ho wan only ulightly stunued. Tho onlf' offonce that those gontlemen had commitied was that of voting 08 they Eaw propor. Boiug usod to such scenos, I' was not 50 much shacked when ealling on D, Jackson ns I would have been by tho samo sight beforo the Stato waa roconstructed. 1Tis faco prokented o foar- ful appoarance, tho slull fractured, I foar, with noxo, month, and ohin split to the bono, Nob 80, hiowovor, with a_gontloman who had only arrivad from Now York n day or two provious to tho eloction., 'Fhig gontloman had made quito an investment in property tharo, consisting of n plantation about five miles from town, two store-housos, grist mill, gin houso, and rosidanco in the villago. Ie has seen enough of hiu property, and will roturn in o day or ko satisfied with his short sojournin this portion of tha laud of flowers. % REVOIR TO 1872 Tarowoll, Ol Year | Ty parting knell now fulls upon my car From yonder iron tongiie, whoso 1noasnrad tono Uloses thy belug,—tells nic flion huet goue ; Qoo far Lehind 'tho gazo or grasp of Tonay Guno to tho Past with thut lost micuight chimot Toruver gone | bl hour *T18 moet shiowld slold (o Rotraspectlon'a power Tho Lopes, th dlsappolntmeuts, which it gave,— ko joys, 1ho sorrows, thul its Passiug wave Tlore'on fls bosom, It maybo tholnst That over oer miy Time-lifu will bo cast From that grost Puture whoay kuceseding wavo, With it resistloss pawer, boats suward tu the gravo Tl gons of mew, Wwhoso being, hers bgun, Buull yot contfovio whilo the years shall run “Lhoir endicas chain of ages, e W e ee e e e *rig past! Oh ! what & yolume I that thought f cast | - Iturns the pledges which wero mado, end broko; itho decds committed ; words of nger apoke “Thie wins with which the erring soul was stuitd Whon human pasalon wae left unrestrained : o wounds sovero which (o our lovod we gavo,— ‘Lo loved ones reating lowly lu tho grave, Ol 1 now tho Past, with stroug swzaniecle powor, Comea back te UG Fithi'Old Year's clotng hour, € Moii gathor wisdom,” ofton, “ fromm tho past;” Whilom Ao gatliored does not nlmaya luat, Iiut, when 't1a Iaid on Duty's holy sbrino, It Weda witl Powor, whos * fated" lu Divine, o scedd upon tho fallowed gronnd is sown ; Wiou to tho atalk #ta riponed head 1s grows, s urgrod, ot 0 o forgoy noe L Negleeted, tilf its gorm of 1ife shall die, Tho wikdom gatherod from tho Past, should ba Garnorod for future works of Oharity, Whoso sieed, i scattored by (ho hutid of Lavo, A bleuaing to tho sowers ieast would prove, And then, us the Old Yoar's requiem foli Uyon our oar, 'twould seem Lo way, * "Tis welt 1 Duty reglectcd would not then distross, Dut Pence, Weat Teace, with ity eweet: power, would . . blesy Tho momory of the clostug Yoar, | R JF i Ny —Tho 8t Paul & Paollio Road hay just recolv- od adeod of land from the publio domain num- boring 82,078 soren. THE NEW YEAR. Something About Now-Yonr's Ous= tons, All clvihized and somi-civilized racon of mnn- kind appoar, as if by o natural instinct, to havo adoptod oithor coromoninln, rejolelngs, or an {n- torcinngo of socinl nmonities, at an innugura- tion of n now yonr. As tho paoriod of tho demlgo of the old and Dirth of tho now yoar is not nrbitrary, but moroly marks the completion of tho onrth's ravolution around tho sun from any ono point in Hts orbit baok to tha samo polnt, or noacly Ao, iho timos of such so-called Now Yoars vary. Thus the Christian, tho Jowish, the Mohammo- dan, and tho Chinoye anniversaries occur at dif- foront timon. ‘Wo linvo in tho United States a sufilclont num- bor of the firat two and of tho lsat named, to Lavo thoir rospective aunual celebrations brought prominently under our notleo; and, sposking gonorally, theso all make it nacason of rofoleing nnd socinl rounion. The Jewish Now Year, howover, is at- tendod by more strictly religious coromonion, of longor duration than. thoso of othor scots, and includos on somo days n partinl cossation {from buslnoes, and o totsl cossation on othors, With tho Teraolitos, vialts of congratulntion nnd compliment aro scoondary to the religious ob- sorvances, It is unnoceasary to comment upon tho usual mauner in which the now year is cele- brated by tho gonorality of the American peo- plo, Thoy are too well kuown to the readers of the Jowrnal. The Chineso, who arc s0o numerons in tho Btato of California, and whoso noisy domonstra- tions involvo 8o beavy an exponditure of gun~ powder, aro reputod to consider it an absoluto nocessity to pay all indobtodnoss on this occa- slon, and that those who ara positively unable to diachargo their Mabilitios sinll bo sot freo from thom, This is tho thoory, but jt would appear that association with outside barbarlans, has greatly tonded to modify it in practico whon abroad. % In their own native Iand tho rulo is carrled ont moro rigldly, but such is the disgraco nt- tondant upon Now Year insolvency that sui- cides among the impocunious at that time ava #nid to bo froquont, o specios of high-minded- ness that but i)l accords with our gonerally-ro- ceivod notions of Chineso othica, Among tho Euglish, tho feutivitics of New Yoar's ovo and day aro of a vory anclont date. In tho foudal times, tho head of the houso pro- sided at thoso morry-makings over s Lugo bowl of a{hiced alo somowhint strangely named ‘“lamb's wool.” Heving firet l'lrunfi fo the health of thoso asgombled, ho passed it around to tho othors. As each took the bowl to drinis, ho pror nounced the Saxon words ‘¢ Wiss haol," meaning your lLealth, and from this sprung the name “wassail-bowl.” Numorous sougs wore sung, ono of which, of Gloucostershire origin, con~ tains tho following verses : Wassall, waszall, over tho town, Qur broad {s white, our lo 18 Lrown; Our howl I mado of the maplin-troe— Wa bo good fellows atl, I drink o theo, Cumo butler, and briug us a bowl of tho beat, 1 hape your soul in heaven may rest ; But if you do bring us a bowl of tho emall, Thon down shall full butlor, bowl, aud all! Tho poor pooplo carried round on the lnst da of the yoar a Lowl ornamented with ribbons, an begged for tho whorewithal to get it filled, ao that they, too, might enjoy tho wassail, At tho monastorios, then so numorous in England, tho Abbott stood bohind an cnormoua waasnil-bowl, which wag called, in _their occlo- sinstical languago, * Poculum ' Ceritatis,” ~nd, haviog drunk to all, tho others drank in regu- Inr auccossion, tho ono to the othor, until tho wassail had gono tho round of the tables, A rolic of this custom is still rotained by the corporation of tho City of London. A double- handled flugon of spiced wine {# placed beforo tho Lady-Mayoross i€ sho ba prosont, or, in her absonco, hoforo the prosiding oficer, and aho or he, standing up and holding tho flagon in both D, drinks fo tho howltheot tho company, 83 callod ont by tho tonst-umgtor, 1o thon prssea. it ta the {mmnn on his loft hand, who, aleo stand- ing, drink to Ais loft bund_ neighbor, and o on in turn until all have partakon. The corewouy i lnown o6 that of tho ** Loving Cup.” 2 Tho ringing out of the old year nnd ringing in of tha new Lins, amoug wome of the Methad- inty, givon plnco to singing in tha New Yonr, and in Yorkshire, Euglund, is known as the #Watche Night Horvico." Tha congrogation laving as- gemblad, and tho uaual survicos baving boon por- formed Bo a8 to terniunto lhofl.]{ boforo mid- Tight, o pealm ia Aung, after which porfoct i lotico is maintainod, ook fonson bing, o wup- osied to bo, engngad in silont fi)rn.yur until the our of twelve strikes, At tho first stroke of tho clock all join the Wesloyan bymn— Coma, Tok v anow Onr Jouruey pursuo, Tl round with the year, cto., ato. n introduction of valigious aarvices in counection with Lhe advent of the new yoar would appeac to bo again gaining ground— “improving tho ocension,” a8 it i termad by oo, by urgiog on all & resolntion to ameusd thoir’ ways, aud to roflcet on the pasts 116 that good thinketh good may do, And God will help him tioreunio; Tor nover yet was goud wors wrought Witiout begoniug of good thought, Tpiccopal clorgymen of momo of tho distriots whoro othur donominutions are gaining ground, linvo adopted o * Night Watch Servies,” proba- biy from motives of polley, bat the movenient is not goneral with that body in England—mont of tho clorgy of the Batablished Charch being op- poed to it, on tho ground that tho status of the Church demands that it should be tho io- nugurator of any additional observanees, not the followor of such ay muy by introduced by othor svets, Iie celebration of Now Yont's ovo and day In much more marked in Scotland than " fn England, and it groater prominenco may bo {n somo sort attributed to thore being no Christmas festival pormissible by the Calvinistlo regime. - In this counootion it may bo ubserved tuat, Lo tho samo cunwe, oporating upon thn Luritan sottlors of New Hoglund, may by traced the more notablo celebrativn of tho duy in Amarier, ‘L'ill vichin o very fow yorra tho drinking from the waesnil-howl, at the passing away of the old ont, provailed in Seotland. In that country, a3 n sowo othera which skl be namoless, excesson nro too mucl the ordor of tho day; and, 60 gon- oralin tho custom of indulging frooly, on the Pplen that it comos but onco n year, that, by mid- day, pernons of standing and ponition even, niny not unfraquontly bo soan in tho stroets of the Iargor citios, whoso uncertaln gait betmys tho dopth of thoir potatious. Nor are thero casns ontiraly confined to tho utrongor sox. ‘Uho po- lico inve inatructions, it is presnted, to Lo con- voniontly blind, so long us the pence is pre- nur\]‘nd, #0 that fow arrosts for iulvxication aro mindo, I'ho custom of * fivat-footing™ is_gonerally provalont in tho “Land o' Cukes." "Partiod, gouorally cousisting of mon only, with an abund- ant supply of whiskoy, visit the housos of their nas, as soon after midnight -as may bo, to ywinls thiom tho complimonts of the ecason 3 amd {lio porson who first entors & houko for that pur- pote is donominated “firat-foot.” Tho toast nost in voguo is ** A guda New-Yoar to ye, and mouy may ye 8co." I?urtyf'mma 8go & rule ob- tainod in wome sort, that all ladies fonnd out-of- doors aftor 12 o'clock were liable to pay the for- foit of n kiss. As manby paortics were givon on Now-Yoar's-ove, of courso numerous of the fair sox wers oub after that hour, and, none would voniura to tako tholr departurs excopt_in- carringos, and ovon theso wore slopped froquontly Ly partios of young mon und tho inmates compelled to submit to tho inovitn- blo Now-Yonr snluto. As tho melauchioly Prince suys, It is a custom mioro honored in the breach than in the obsorvance ;" but young mon of that day wora of s diforont opinion. The writer romembors boing ono nlnpul?v which stopped the earringo of §ir. Alavander Kaith, of Rayelstono. As thore woro four horses, i =3 thio pontillions drove vory rapidly, tho feat was not accomplished without considorable risk, two of tho undorgraduates being thrown benonth the horses’ foot.~ The carringo was stoppod, Liowov- or, and tho old gentlomsx acknowludged tha cap- turo, and counnellod tho throo ladies within to mako no fuss about it, but quietly resign thom- solvon £o tholr fato, In thin cand, moat of tho young gontlemon wore porsonally acqnaiuted with the baronet’s family. ~ This habit admitted, howaover, of much abuso, and was thoe oceasion of many sorious broily, 8o that poople bogan to set thoir faces agninst the custony, und It hny, conso- quently, of Into yoars fallon into disuss.~Gor- (]un Greenlaw, Applelow's Jonrnal, e T A Conl Banlk at Council Rluffts, From the Council Nugs lowa .\'ml{mm'k Tho great woktorn coal-field on whide Council Dlufts ln_situated s ono of the largest in_the world, It oxtonds north and south from Fort Dodge, Towa, to Talequah, in tho_ Indian Terrly tory, and onst and wost from the Miwsi, .. River ;ln mlrromflnr A?lrclu ”moro i than 400 nfll‘ufl « n diameter. Along tho oesbopto iy faue“fant Yol Sy 1 thickinn fromans ancd four 47 5 Tort Dodgo five feot, Muworth Lwo feot, Tine Beoll four faot, Lonvitraat, In thi senl oo coln four and o hall ©F ') 5 o theso aro two systorths "ol “carfonitorons rools, tormed ronpectively the uppor and tho lowor conl formations. ‘Tha uppor coal monsuros nro charncterized b{ thin hods of conl, thick boda of limoatonn and shalo (or sonpstona). ‘Lho lower formation in charneterized by thick hoda of coal and thin beds of llmestonoe, sand- stono, and shalo. Tho carboniforoun rockn of Iowa and Missourl dip woutwardly, houca tho conl which crops nt Macon on the Burfaco is found at Leavonworth 100 feet deop, nnd that which erops nonr the sur- faco at Ottumwn is found at Lincoln 900 feob doop, ns lins boon domonutrated in Dorlng tho arteslnu well, Dut how do wo know that thono aro tho enmo? Becnuso, in renching the coal at Lincolu_and at Teavonworth, bl antially tho Ao nories of rocke woro paakad through which chinracterizo tho upper and lower conl formationa whoro thoy crop out on tho enstorn bordor of tho conl fleld, Binco a workabla voin of conl is found at Fort Dodge, and ai Lincoln, in tho lower coal moas- uros, the aino ean pro\mhl( bo found at auy in- tormediato point, hecatua the rocks of tho upper conl crop out at ‘many intermedinto polnts, and tho rogularity of tho stvatn is eo great as to fur- nish stroug” ovidonco that tho veins extond through, 'his prosumption is rendored almont cortain by tho regularity of tho fll‘p, as 8 uvi- donced by the Leavenworth aud Lincoln veins, which ara found within n hundred foot of whero tho lovel would locato them, After woighing the soveral indications, T am of tho opinion that tho coal of the lower formation lios within 700 foot of the surfaco at Council Blufra, W. 'l RopinsoN, —_— THE NEW YEAR. A gray old man tolled nt tho rops ; Loud rang (o bell, aud clear 5 The bour was midnight, aud tho tune, “Tlio pasaing of the Yoar, And, na ho tolled, the ol man na ng, uAlHl\ l?\l}(lllclllhuniflh Nis broath 3 o laughed and sang with gl nd yet *: o toliid o knell for deathe 7 #01d man,” sald T, thin shamelczs mirth Seemy'madly out of place ; A soicmn chunt, & dlege, or prayer Would bear 8 'bottor gruce, #The 01 Year dles wolghed dawn with rin Welglied Qown with Jves misapevts Con, kucel you down with me, nud mourn Conie, Join' Inmy lament," 1 mourn not for tho past,” sald ho; A vow ifo T begin, 1 do not ring the Ol Year out,— Tring tho Now Year in, “Why do yo wish to mourn and grlovo ? Thfo Lot Innot for teara s © Thio atur of Hops shines steadfast, pure, Alovo tho coming years! “1 laugh anil sing for vors joy, A not with thameluns mirid CGaud xir, T toll not fur the dead,— 1L colobiato a bith, “ Gome, turn your hacl 1 Anid DUt YonE elel b 2Tt The night'ls dark, but {hen, good sir, Joy comethy with (no duwn,” Lours Donn, * —_— GENERAL NEWS ITEMS, Nobraskn haa 61,123 school chlldren, and di- vidos a school fund of £110,936. —The gambling liconso of Novada produces tho Stato yearly about $15,000. An cfort is to Lo mado to aliolish it. —Cutmming County, Neb,, hes ehippod moro than 190,000 bushels of wheat this sutumn. Qood for the Grenl American Dosort. —The Utica, (N.Y.) Obserter states that n now county, which shall ombraco parts of Onei- da, Madison, Lerkimer, and Otsego Counties, ia propoucd. —It hiag boen obsorved nt Charlestown, this Joon thet all the convints pardoncd rrom the Tussacliueotts Slate Prison for sicknoess, havn Qicd within ton days aftor loaving. —A largo numbor of worlmen are candidates for olection to the Brilish Pwliament, Evon ltul:.tmmefl will be oppoaed by ono in his dis- rict, . —1It is stated that torms of coneolidation havo heon agrecd upon bolween tho Boston, Lowoll, & Naslus and tho Fitchburg Railrondy, by which tho roads will soon bo placad undor ono nianage- ment, —Trom tho abstracts of taxation furnishoed the Missowri Stale Auditor by Connty Clevks und othor . partics, it 1 estimaled that the cntira amouut of goueral and local taxation throngho tho Stato lw abont 310,000,000, - > - —Tho Fredonia (N. Y.) Advertioeraqibiinhes tho itoms of cxponso incirred 1n the atrest, ox- amination, and execution of Charles Marlow for tho murdor of William Rachmup, and thoy only foot up tho sum of $0.907.76. ? —Tho Stoughton (Wis.) feporfer noten un in- conveuianco to tobuceo growors by tho contimied dry weatbor, 03 it i8 Impossiblo to atrip the Tvavos aud bropara (o erop for murlot, tho naly of which would do much to reliove *hard times.” —Ths Cauet of Common Ploas for the city 02 Mattoon, IIL, with {ts limited jurisdiction and increasod oxpensivenoks, s beon voted by the Oty Council a usoloss incumbrance, and tha Lnglflnmm will bo momorialized for its abolish-~ ment. _—Wo aro informod by U. G. Bakor, Commin- nionor of Immigeation, that 8,016 immigrants bad pansod through Galveston fur the intorior, in the last nino duys, and that over 6,000 had pasncd throngh horo sinca tho 1ot of the month, —Ualveston New 95, —Thera i nothing Toxas neods g0 much a4 thia time ns an increasoof mail facilities. Her sottlementa are extonding so rapidly tlat, whero | 8 fow mouths nothing was seon but lLiero and | thoro tho louosomo eabln of o solitary et imny now bo found large, intelligent, aud thritsy ottloments, —Tho injunction is fast doveloping its usoful- 1008 a8 a wril to do overything for overybody. 1te Inst application was to arrent tho hokfiug of o wake over o dead man in New Haven, Conn. Ono of bin rolatives objected to that peculi “tribute of respect” to tho memory of tho do- cenaod, and tho Court, on applieation, prohibited the procecding, —1T'ho **Gralinm bill” han bronght ono Wia- consin ealoon keepor to time. 1n Prexcott, o dealer named Shinu sold liquor to two or threo mon who were intoxiceted. Shina was arreated under the provisions of tho liquor bill, tried by jury, and found guity. Judge Humplroy Jrororly fined him $100, with freo ludgitgs ho county Jail for Len days, —~The Duluth Herald hns commenced enil, azainst the Northwestern Pelegraph Company, clziming S#5,000 damagoes, on the gronnd thal tho Cumnpany has viokitad ity conteact uf vot ng it with night despatches. Tho Duluth L'ribune, in the mountime, cowes out vith a Lig roostor aud lots of big dixplay lines, rejoicing s tho discowsituro of tho Zeruid in Josiuy ity dos- patches, and also glorying in tho fact that the Tribune has socured tho day deapatchos, —T'ho Froasury Dopartmont ¥ propariug o tablo of location, eharactor, wud valuo of pube lic buildiugs outsido of Washington now in ite charge. 'Lho valuo of Custom Ilouses, Dot Ofiicos, ote,, is over $10,000,000, Thero is an immonue sum iuvesled in navy yardw, light. houses, forta, elv,, ote., aud tho carrent viti- matos alono ask for over-§46,000,000, chictly to continuo conatruction and improvemont, Qver o §11,000,000 woro approprinted at tho last session und aro now boing ezpended. ‘Tho bills for new huildingd offered ut ench wession aro numbered by the ncore. 'Iho Tronsury naturelly regavds this trust &8 ouerons, wnd a° propowsl hnw beon mndo to put all public buildings i works under chargo of a soparato buresu, to bo specially crented. —Tho minsing sailor and tho faithful flannee havo remninod out of tho nowsprpors » rekpoctn- ble length of timo, Tho pair hwvo fully eamed u frosli” introduction, and’ wo tako ~plewsure in prosenting Captain Chavies Vincent. 1o railed from Boston for Caleuttn in Aug., 1343, Teaving his lovo of 18 longing for hia return with! the wenlth of Ormus and of Ind, 1{o cnmo not; sh, ho eamonot, Tho Jraru passad slowly by Lorent,— Y twenty-nine of thom,—und tho other day camd lottor to tho maid's mother, dated Livorpoal, Fgings 1€ sho {8 alive und wumarried, 1 will como.” Thu mooting was tao sweot to be told to you, vulgar, little-minded re.der, who novor wero lost in ‘tho Indinu Occan, pivked up on a taft, carriod to Chins, where you amnesed woalth—ay ¥ ~an can finh the sory youraolf, to Benth, London (Dee, 1) L‘awr:’»r:m cnce of the New Yort or! Tharo hins heon & great deal of tall hore about tho doath by stavvation of & gentloman who ie dosoribed s having beon ‘o vonkummuto clav- uleal seholar, & profound mauthematiclan, a wan whoso sequalntanco with tho Roman, with onr moreantilo, aud with fowdal Inw, was unrivallod ; whoso gonoval knowledgo was ‘almost encyclos piodio,—a porfoct mastor of five languugos; n man of fawmily, o gontloman, and n Larristor at law of the Middle Templo," This. gontleman whoso namo was Inddy, died the othor dny vt {ho Btrand Workhouso, of litaral starvation, four houra aftor ho had boon admittod ; und now liesin & panpor’s grave at Woking, "Phoro viae no rasgon for his denth by slnrvation but the simplo ono thut, without any fault uf hin_own, ho found it hu{m{a}n\un to oarn u livellhood and Q begy far'soward tho ooky Mountaine, thus makicg i was too proud