Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 2, 1873, Page 8

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1873, LONDON. The Death of Fapoleon~-Friendly Feeling of the English Toward the Dead Emperor. Foreign-Refugees in the British Capital---The Quarter in Which They Live. Peculiarities of the Residents of Soho===A Specimen House. From Our Own Correspondent, . Loxpoy, J=n. 9, 1573, LOUIS NAPOLEON. Lerge placards distributed over London on- nounce the death of the Emperor Nepolcon. People stend and look st them, and animated discussions arise: Decidedly the desd Emperor hes & greater ‘number of friendly words than hostile ones. The English peopls, 88 & bady, have got it in their heads that he was the special fricnd of their country, sud they forgivo any number of offences to his own peopls for that. Those whoaremors cosmopolitan, and whotrenob prepared to think that 2 bad man is made good by o particnlar line in his policy, do not pro- pose to mournover the suthozof the Coup d Etat. They rather regard his removal 2s a favorable event in the fortunes of Franco. How times have changed! Ibave heard men ejaculate, in in the past, as to the fall in the Freuch funds which would take placa on tho death of tho Emperor Napoleon. The event was to ba made memorable by a depreciation unparalleled in either French or English history. This evon-' ing, folks think the French sccurities will rise! There is, st all events, one Pretender the less, for the elim, delicate youth who bears tho Bonsparte pame will bo unfit for con- epiracies and intrignes for many & year, if in- deed, he is ever a sedous politician. The Tmpress forgets the infidelities of her husband, and is heart-broken. One who eaw her this morning says that her eyes were bloodshot and ewollen. *They were 2s red,” he added, “as the yompg Prince's mniform.” Her day of ‘greatness is gone. For days to come'we ehall be flooded with tha theme. Dying upon this eoil, an ally, and tho ioheritor of & name which thrills through every ZEnglish'heart, I expect to seo the Emperor tho themo of hundreds of affecting essays and discourses. No onme, I presume, will criticiso the surgical ireatment which the Em- peror ‘underwent. The English surgeon who performed- tho operations for the stone enjoys great fame; but I have learned to distrust these “briliant successes.” Their good results are rarely lasting. No doubt the Emperor was a ‘bad snbject, and no doubt all was doue for him that conld be dome; put the surgeons wers top eanguine, and they either misurderstood the case or wilfully mialed the -rexders ol Lha;xf‘ bulletins. BEFUGEES IN LONDON. = TThere will be rejoicing to-night in the cafes and restaurants of Soho. There are several still in London who were yictims of his Coup d'Etat, and the refugee-quarter bas no Bonapartists in it. . We learn, too, from Paris, that the Prefect ‘of Police is about visiting London to confer with the police authorities here respocting *certain golica q’mmmm pending between England and ranco.” This newswill also help to .make London & busy scene to-night. Loumis Napo- leon's death does not agsist the Communists at and some of the mewer arrivals have not even yet acquired the feeling that they are safo. For a iong while, the Commaunists doubted whether it was wise to stir out of their lodgings, and, to this dsy, men like Felix Pyatt koop themselves particularly close. The average French refugeo believes he' Bees polico “apies” everywhere.. M. Cassagnao doclares that he saw them at Chiselhurst, the other day, in the very presonce of the Empress. For the Em- peror Napoleon, and his_following, have been Tefugees, after all, and the Emperor must rest in an English grave. WRERE THE BEFUGEES LIVE. The chosen retreat in London for European exiles is still, a8 for tho lnst 200 vears, the Dis- trict of Soho. French and Flemish srtisans came first ; then the noblesse and priesihood Quring the Reign of Terror; and afterward, the exiles of *48,'52, and '71. The grestest influx Y728 71, when Boho was overyhelmed with Com- munistic National Guards. It maybe said that every Enropean language is_daily spoken in tho streéts of Soho. A French boy sells yoa your paper; & Fronch boy brings- Jou your loaf for breskfast: in the smart figure and sparkling talll ~ of your Isundress yon recogoide the grisele. Itis at a Fronch reitaurant yon geb your dinner or your "Uhe shops around are mostly French. owapapera aro bought ab the “ Librarte,” bread " and boots at the “Bot- grocers aro “* epiciers,” L shops are called * charcu- tiers.” The costermonger, who terms himself “ Marchand de guatre saisons,” will sell you for vogotables dandelions and other foreign herbs wherewith to make your salzds. In some of the windows of the blanchisscuses are shirts which are s miracle of whiteness and smooth- pess, In therestanrants you will see well-laid tables of the Continent, with their snow-while cloths and neatly-folded napkins. I you go inside, yon seo some eating, some singing, and otbers ~ playing at dominces, 'You may taste French dushies, or the preparations of the cucina Ttatiana. THE REFUGEES THEMSELVES, The French workpeople usually prefer to live in the uppermost stories of the taliest honses, 2nd somo of the houses in Soho are 83 lofiy as thoso in Paris. The foreign poor are more tidy in their dress, and show more taste in their simple rooms than their English brethren ; and everybody knows & French honsowife will make a more savory, nowishing dish from common food than her English sister from the most choice and costly. Then, the foreignoris alwayu sober. It is sad to note, however, that many roam the strects—~the eedate German, the viva- cions Fronchman, and the lively Italinn—in evi- dent distress. 'Among them aro profcssors of music, drawing, and language, artists, eingers, politicians of every shade of opinion from the darkest blue to tho deepestred. Tho deily London streat life is & huge tumulé to them, in the midst of which they sigh hopolessly for thesun. Tho dull, dreary, London Sunday ishatefol. “It reminds me of the siegoof Pans,” says one. ““As I turn the cornerof a street, I e: t to ses a milrailleuse.” The Frenchman dovotes himself to ghopkeeping: the Ltalian is msthotical. The latter, however, take to restaurant-koeping with gusto. It is in the restaurant you see refuge foll play. In one corner will be an'oxcited group of Iialians, each one of whom, probably, L3 taken a part in insurrection. Not one that has oot been condemned to death for a politi offence. One who speaks with such a pedantic tone has three sentences against hin. = To the Eflenhtm 83 to how fax his republican aims affect ngland, he answers: “No, Caro Signor mio, TInghillerra e sacra.” Inthe opposite corner are ix men trying a quiet game at cards. They ~re_all Communsts, an it would be death to a ™ to bo scen in Pa,is. Ieaw one of their tThe. - presiding asame'eting of his fellows, nuibe. +weeks ago, I w88 striak with his some Eibs ve, his curly b, \r, his frank and handsoms f5~ ' Poor fellow ] 'I‘?I:B}"@.flkfl ar winning ‘8mild. . -sturned bac.t to Faris, an mmugs, he madiy . ~ig iyl pe ¢ ", ‘tted sui- wes recognized. mkm.‘ fate to taking the cide. Why he chosg thu 1. mever’ beard. chence of & trak T avestau- You sce, also, o LT ‘ rant Germsns too red _evén I strong German Empire; and Itclisns who . not gg back to_their country becatiss thew, iy scried the Italian army to join: G "Eb ) Trance, and, a little later, took part with t Commine, both ir: Paris and st Marseilles. Tha real motives of these meetings i3 conspiracy, ard it is perfectly true that nota few revol ntions. Liave had their beginnicge in theso Soho restan- rents, - Within the &:;:ish of Boho; the dreaded Inter- netionsle holds its meetings; snd at ite reunions in Tiupert street, on Sunday evenings, it doles out gifts to Communist members_in: need. London eclergyman asserts' that ke, one night, beard an sdvanced Red—who, by the Wiv,’ was s tailor—defending, by quots- tions from Scripture, tho mmassacre of pricets and tho plunder of the wealthy. He gava the peseage on the rich manlikened t0 the camel ‘passing through the needle’s eye,—stating that, Tor the ich man to enter Heaven, ho must first > relieved by his Communist brothers of his su~ jerincambent wealth | 1 A HOUSE IN 50HO. - A resident in the parish, who takes s great in- terest fu the conditicn of the refugees, sketchea onehovse in a Sobo street, of whichhohas iy .| of the Class of 71" e-lifo in | 4, nders ma complete kaowledgo, and which, he eass, is merely an example of » large number of othere. Ascendivg the grand old stairease,—for tha house wasonce aristoeratic,—and mounting story by story, ths visitor finds on tho topmost floor. the offico ond printing establisiment of tho * Qui Vire, a Communistio journal, edited by Vermesch, tho late editor of the notorious Pere Duchesne. The next floors em- brace a laundry, o Roman Catholic school, ead an organ-nanufactory. Lower down thereiss Isbor-inquiry ofice 2nd the Boardman's Society- From tha latter aliving “scndwich” may be hired at 1s. 62. & day,—a sandwich being geaer- ally a shaky, used-up old.man, flattencd be- treen two boards, on which placarda are posted. and who wanders from gutter to gutter of tho streete. Continning the descent, you find on the ground floor tho **Maison des Etrangers,” & Tendezvous for foreigmers, whore we reach tho ultimetum of incongruities. Strange aro_the athorings held here from day to day. On Sun- @ay afternoon there is a French Bible class; in the evening, sn Itslisn ser- vice.’ On Monday afternoon, there is a moeting for women only.” Wkile ach women stitch nad Germen women knit, uling and converaations zro cartied on under the direction of an English lady who presides, On cacli evening ere classes for ¢ men only,” for in- struction in English. In one such class, a fow weeks back, wero two matter-of-fact Dutchmen, four sedate Germans, three Italians (ono au old Roman), four ancinmcn, eeriously pondering over an casy lesson-book, and_a cosmopolitan Jow,—all Leing teught by an English Gentile. The classes bejag ended, thero is full liberty to each o speal: in his own tongue; andas all avail themaelves of the opportunity and speal ab once, -cuttural German, polished Freach, and musical alian combine to producs a discord which not unworthily reflecis tho diverse end conflicting glnhmentx 3¢ Lumanity in this stauge parish of oho. e ] LITERARY NOTES. There are rumors of another mew poem by Tennyson. .- —Dr. Johnzon told Beattie that he never read Milton through till ho was obliged to do itin order to gather words for bis dictionary. —Froudo hag done good work for himself in America. McLeon, the Middletown bookseller, has sold 150 scts of Fronde's England to Wes- leyan students. i —Mr. Swinburne will shortly publish separately tho first part of his poem, *Tristram,” the pre- nde to which appeared about & year ago. —The Coilege Courant, New Haven, hos bo- come the property of Professor Honry N. Day, who is from this timo forward to odit it, with the assistance of Ar. C. B. Dudley, & Yale graduate _The - Caristian Inteligencer (Roformed Church ) has engaged Mr. Froudo fo discuss in its columns & topic of living interest, to which the distinguished bistorisn has given long at- tention. P> —)Ir. Gladstore contradicts the report thathe is in tho habit of realing o portion of Homer every morning before broakfast. —A manuscript of the * Divine Comedy ” was the constant compenion of Michael Angelo, who was the first illuatrator of Dante. It lay on his easel by day, and was thrust under his bolstor by night. —Goorge Sand's translation of the Psalms is pronounced by the critics, to whom she has read specimens of it, the noblest work 'she has over written. 3 « —3fr. Comell, formerly of Corne!l University, has collected over 800 papers containing eulogies of Horace Greeley. - _ictor Hugo's only surviviag son has & lite of George Waehington in press. —Strauss, the King of the Waltz, will ebortly give the world his *Reminiscences of America,” through = publisher in Prague. = —A new work by 3. Guizot is expecied shortly to appesr, divided into four parts: “ Empiro,” «“Monarchie Hereditaire,” ‘Monarchie Consti- tutionelle,” “ Republique.” . —Washington Irving never had a more flatter- ing, thongh silent, tribute than was paid to his « Enickerbocker's New York” by Cnlezidge, WhAo got hold of the book late at night and finished it at & gitting about dawn. —Coleridgo was a man of infinite titlo-pagos. Ho projected o hundred works, without ever completing one. History, philosophy, poetry, eriticism, biography—hia fertile brain was for- over teeming with new volumes, which nover got boyond the announcement. The titles of the works ho imeditated, but nover executed, would £ll a Iarge volume. . —When Necker, in 1871, published his celebrat~ ed “ Compte Rendn,” & report on French finen- ces, the esgerness to obtain it was nnparalleled. a,oafin copios were xold tha first day, andiwo press- eh wore kapt at work to supply the demand. Madamo De Stael (Necker's daughter) says that 80,000 copies werd sold. Thinkof one of Mr. Boutwell's finsncareports being in such ravenous Qemsnd! i Bl Al Capefigae, the French historion, died 8 fow days ago at Paris, at the age of 74, Tho death is elso announced from Paris of Dr. Archi- mede Pouchet, 5 naturalist, agod 72, the father of . Georges Pouchet, the well-known writor on the subject of apontaneons generstion. —The ‘ Histeire de l'%!ten;nfiwyn!a (1&:’.25 1872), par un Bourgeois Republicain,” printe e ont of the Paris publishing frm. Andro Sagnier, has not been permitted to enter France. Tho publisher states that ho hos not 2 single copy of the book, and cannot explain the cause of this government interference. 2 According to a letter in tho Vienna Presse, Guizot said recently that, in_his wholo life, ho nover read a moro interesting and suggestive book thzn Buckle's “ History of Civilization,” lthough nearly every pago of the book contained things from which he had to dissent. the library which Napoleon f. carried wil m there was a perpetual presence of + Ogaian,” * Worther,” the ** New Heloiso " and the old Testament, which Chateaubriand regards 28 indicative of the chzos in the Emperor's brain, wheromatter-of-factideas mingled with romantic sentiments, serious studies with the caprices of {fancy. —,{ curions book i% now passing through the pross, the author of which serionsly profeste to give, from actual experience, & ‘mattier-of-fact Seconnt of the laws, mennors, and customs of a Lkingdom situated in one of the planets of our solar aystem. The title of the bookis * Another World.” e MUSIC ARD MEMORY. “Masic, once wund'ring through the heart, Upon a summer’s 433, Found Memory sleeping by a grave Fast falling to decay. Whispering, she louched tho slumberer, ‘Soft as tho pale moon’s bem ; Then apread her wings and passed away, As vanishes a draam, Bfemory awoke, and, list'ning, heard g, ihed wheds sho had lepty ‘Then, weaping, viewed Wl e pty— Ann'i oh l.hosr bitterly I But ab ! thoso tears wero sacred ones, For flowers long died away, Beneath that chrivmal shower dfd bloom . And beautify decay. And now no dearer spot is there, TEW Memary&al“'{un to. tfl:n Seait 0 greenest offe; of the . Around that u_.:zegn ine. ; B. R. Maxszns, —The Catholic_Review, for January 25, says that Archbishop Manning has a work in press,— namely, the third volume of his “ Sermons on Ecclesiastical Subjects,"—which will show that even before the meeting of the Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, Dr. Dollinger, the Old Catholic,” meditated revolt, and that he was re- ally tho author of o circular, to bo published in Msnning’s book for the first_time, signed by ‘Hohenlohe on behalf of the Bavarian Govern- ‘ment, recommending tho Govornments of. Eu- ropean States to take somo action in view of the probability of tho enuncistion of dangerous ‘principles by tho Council then about to meet. —ZLondon papers relate curious gtories of the o by Oxford undergradustes in the Y. “pturo examination which they have to pass . "o taking their degrecs. It ig told of one when asked to mention ¢ the two instances d in Scripture of the lower animals -" the undergradustes thought for epeakify "y “and then replied: “ Balssm'a 3 J0%P%, 'is is one, sir. What s the other 3" Uudargrldflk‘a paunsed in earnest thought. At * recollection lit up his face, as Jaat » gleat 2 g whalo | Tho whale said tinto Ttia igtian the firet King of Ia. "2k stumble npon the nam had hit the mark, and, aminers how intimate Seripturo was, ho added, e ; oet 1 ou persnadest mo to_bo & e ‘her, when nsked who was P” Ano -zel, was g0 fortunate as{o f Ssul. He saw that he wishing to show the ex- v is Imowledge of the gontidently: « Saul— aleo called Paul.” CREDIT MOBILIER. Something About the Founder of the Institution. Jules Hires and Eis “ Caisse "--The Rise and Fall of the Great French Speenlator. .Efis Trial for *“Abuse of Confi- dence”--A Specimen of His Operations. Fort DopGE, Towa, Jan. 28, 1673, To the Editor of The Chfcago Tribune: N Srm : While the daily reports from Waehing- ton about the Credit Mobilier aro still mobiliz- ing poople's minds sud prompting inquiry on the subject, something about the original inventor of tho Credit Mobilier may not come amiss. In answer to such inquiries, you have already given mach valuable information, stating, in one of your recent articles, that the Credit Mobilier was fimt imported from France in 1864 by George Francis Train. Ho is wel- come to this honmor, whether justly en- titled to it or not ; but it seems to me that the mysteries of French financicring wore under- stood by some of our big Railroad Kings, and even by some of the pettiest County Boarda in the remotest cornersof this country, long before its formal introduction by Train. It is said that tho foundation of our new State Capitol, at Des Jloines, has been laid on the Credit Mobilier plan. # The prototype of the French Credit Mo- bilier, founded by Fould and the Broth- ors Dereire, of Paris, was the *Caisse des Actions Rennis,” or cfterwards simply the “ cA1sSE MIBES,™ established in 1850 by Jules Mires, who has a re- markable family likeness with some of our own * benefactors of mankind.” As products of our time, such characte:a are worthy of carefal steady ; but, within tha limits of this lettor, I can only givo you a very general outlins of this, tho original inventorof the Credit 2fobilier. MISES’ CAREER, The son of an obecuro pawn-broker of Bor- desux, spprentice in o small glassware store, then clerk in a commission house, whers he was discharged on account of his inofficient education, Jules Mires gradually works himeelf up, through tha successive stages of copyist in & tax-collector’s offico, then agent for the recovery of wrongfully assessed taxes, then stroot-brok- er at Paris, 1o the editorship of the Journal des Chemins~de-Fer,—~a small paper devoted to rail- road interests ; and in this capacity he steps up- on the public stage, in the City of Paris, not long after the Rovolution of 1848, just as the trightaned Capital was again peeping out of its Thiding-places, eager to espy good chancos for in- yestment, and to makq up for the time lost dur- ing the days of revolation and panic. tires could not writo correctiy, and had $o get his articles revised ; but he undertook tho higher art of pufling, and developed a romarkablo talent to attract capital and influence public opinion in fayor of certain speculators and their echemes. His journal soon becamo A POWER AT THE BOUBSE. He was well paid_for his servicos, and began to sail with the wind he had himself crented, draw- ing largo profits from the ebbs and flows he was able to produce in the stock-market, His suc- cess encouraged him to extend hLis journalistic activity. o mow was already 8 man of some note, and could venture to call to his ns- sistance such a literary celobrity as Lamartine, once the idol of the Fronch people, who did not consider it beneath hig dignity <o 2asociate him- solf with Mires in the publication of the Conseil- leur du Peuple,—a paper which, for a timo, proved a grand financial success. In 1850, 88 already stated, Mirea establishedhis “ catssE,"— & Btock Company, with & capital of 5,000,000 {franca, created for the purpose of buywg, sell- ing, a0d making advances on_railroad-shares, ‘mining and all linds of spoculative stocks. Tho Caisse flourished. Mires soon declared a dividend of 80 to 40 per cent, and his institu- tion became the model for the celebrated CREDIT MOBILIER, callod intolife by Fould and Pereire Brothers, who, in acknowledgment of hia eminent merit, sasigued to Mires 500 shates in the Credit Mobi- er. Mires’ genius now returnod upon higher and higher flights. To the papers alroady ownod by him, he added two firat-class journals, then in service of the Imperial Government,—the Pays and the Constitulionnel,—which he used to ob- tain the favor of the Government by singing its praises in the highest style of his art. In 1856, tho capital of his Caisso was raised from 12,000,000 to 50,000,000, end now began that seried of . GBAND FINANCIAL OPERATIONS and dazzling projects which made his house the contro of tho largest moncy-power in Paris ; which aroused at onco the admiration and en of the haute finance of that opulant city ; whic gainod Mires o namo overshadowing even that of the Rothachilds, the Cross of the Legion of Honor from the late Emperor Napoleon IIT., Prince Poligrec for_ - gon-in-law, snd, through him, elliance with the oldest nobility of France, private eatsblishments vying in splendor with the Tuileries, and, ot last, the Prison of Mazas, MIRES' TRIAL, 2 in 1861, for ** escroguerie” end “ abus du’ con- fidence,”—two crimes unfortunately unknown to our American penal codes,—is & Fronch cause celebre, which, in thelight of recent developments here, i very interesting reading. t "Tlie roports are very yoluminous, and I canno aven mention here the various criminal transac- ticns of Miree, and the_startiing disclosures brought ont on his trisl. Bat & single one - may find & place here as & specimen, and a3 an _ illus- tration of our own Credit Mobilies A SPECDMEN OPERATION. A well-known Spanish speculstor, who bas figured largely in this country, also, and from whom tho town of Salamanca, on the Atlantic & Grent Westorn Railrond, derived its name, had obtained a charter from the Spanish Govern- ment for building & railroad from Pamplona to Sarragossa, to be finished within the year 1860, Alr. Salamanea, aunother product of our railroad age, had underiaken more than ho could accom- plish, and got stuck. Mires throw out his hools for this fish upon the sand, and Salamanca wes glad enougl to be caught. Tho two honorablo gontiomen entered Inta o privato contract, in which Salamanca agreed to Tinish tho road for 145,000 francs per kilometer ; and then mado another contract for pubhc use, 2% §200,000 francs per kilometer. With the for- mer contract in his pocket, and tho latter in his hand, Mires obtains concession from the French Goverement to form a Construction Company for the Pamplons & Sarragossa Railroad. ‘The 200,000 {ranc contract serves as a base for the capital stock, which sccordingly figures up some 40,000,000, of which 27,600,000 are to be rtaised by subscription, and the balance from the sale of bonds. With his usual Ef!mp and flourish of trumpets, Mires opena his subscription books, and the Parisians rush to his house to share in the profits of the a&lundid enterprise. In a few weoks tho stock is all taken, the 200,000 franc contract unenimously ratified by all ‘the subecribers, the bonds are issued and soon fla‘fcfl' tho capital of 40,000,000 is realized, and es pockets. the difference between the real and the simulated contract price of construction, amounting tothe snug little sum of £9,500,000. You soc “/there is nothing mew muder tho sun.’ 1 In this, by no means the largest.and most startling of AMires' transactions, the prosecutipn #aw an *‘abuse of confidence.” It was bardly to bo expected that, even in France, such & genius should be convicted of common belony; 8ad, occording to the old say- ing, that little thieyes are hung while tho big ones escape,—which seoms-to hold good the world over. Mires was finally acquitted; but tho dignity of the lnw was vindicated, and AMires, irrecoverably ruined by this trial, DISAPPEARED FEOM THE PUDLIC STAGE. Unlees transformed into the editor of & cor- tain religious journal of high standing, pub- lished in New York, or into somo highly-respec- table member of our present Congress, I don't know what has become of him. - F.H —— Yernacular of the Murdercrs. From the New York Herald. s Auything which is livguistically distinctive of a particular epoch ehould, in this age of en— lightenment, be sifted free from all husk and chafl. and preserved for the use of posterity in neat form. Such ia our intention in the prerent instonce, 80 far a8 regards the vernecular of that popular branch of thio community—our murder- ers. e do not propose going back to the time, about twenty years ago, of 4the murder of Bill Poole by Paudhcen McLaoghlin, at Stanwix Hall. There is somothing very suggestiso, how- ever, in the case of an invitation to murderers of the futurein his ko;nom 2a he fired his pistol: 4 Now, boys, sail in!” e shall commenco our quotations from the modern classics with that unfortunate prophet of the murderer's Arcadia, who learned in his person the disbelief that over- takes prophets Hanging is played out in New York. Reynolds, Jan. 25, 1670. Teko that, you s— of a h—. —3ichzel M- Aloon, Aug. 24, 1870, 3 1ghot him and I could not help it. _Iknow that something waa going to happen. I dresmt Iwass Prussian soldier and a lot of Fremch were after me.—Valentino Reckel, Sept. 10, 1670. You won't marry me and I'll kill you.—William Marsh, Sept. 16, 1870. TH knock your d—n hoad off.—John Thomas (colorad), Sept. 80, 1870. 1 was very drunk, and do nét_remember any- tking of it.—George Woodruff, Nov. 23, 1870. Now I've got you.—Abraham Jones, (colored), Jan. 1, 1871 o T saw him draw a pistol; I pulled-minp and shot him.—TReddy the blacksmith, Jan. 25, 1871. 1 am going as far as you do, and when yon get off I'll give you h——L—William Foster, April 26, 1871, We have caso ovor there.—James McGawley, Aug. 25, 1871. i 18; 11 sottle with you.—Daniel Foley, Sept. 24, 1. 2 Thera's a man shot at the ladies’ entrance.— Edward Stokes, Jau. 6, 1872. I was reported by bim for violating the rules, 22 was marked for it.—Justis Doz, March 17, 72. Well, I don't know that he is any worse oft now than I am.—James Burns, April 28, 1872. I don't care 1f yon cut my head off. Ihave done right.—Emile Andrie, June 13, 1872. 18:’[1;“ ilul!d Margaret.—Thomas Cabb, July 8, Bob, I didn't mean to shoot yow.—William J, Sharkey, Sept. 1, 1872, . 1 did’it with a knife, and then throw the knife away.—Garrett Landers, Sept. 23, 1672, 1 can kill any one that dares to cross my path. ~—John Scannell, Nov. 2, 1872, ~ Judge, you can havo this (pistol). James C. King, Nov. 18, 1872, T bave shot my niece, and am_going to givo myself up.—Robert P. Bleakloy, Dec. 10, 1872, you! T'd kill you a dozen times if T could. —John E. Simmons, Dec. 16, 1872, 1 will shoot you for this to-morrow. Marshall Magrnder, Jan. 20, 1873, 1, just pailed out my pistol and shot him.— Michacl Nizon,-Jan. 21. 1873, —_— SELECTIONS. BY DUFF PORTER. There is nothing greater than tobo a mother of men. —Women have always to carry and hold Ja- cob'’s ladder, by which we men ascend to the slies. 4 X —Though the arch of man’s power be perfect in its beauty, yet woman is the keystone, and, it she falls, tho glorious structuro is demolished. * —Wo never could kave loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. —There zre fathers who do not love their gsons; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. —'Tis a terrible thing when the father is the cloud, and not the sunshine, of his child's life. —A happy home is the happiest thing in the world. ' e —1It is tho blessed mission of love to go forth blotting out the existence and memory of evil. —The realities of the eoul, becanse they are not visible and palpable, aro not the less reali- es. —Aan is a soul united, for a period of pro- bation, to an intelligent animal. —Life is 2 unit made up of all the number- less acts, the obediences and transgressions, ‘which seem so small. . —Life is a con-iant sunrise, which death can- not interrupt any more than the night can swal- low up the sun. 4 —We wear out our energies in strife for fame or gold, and then wonder alike at the cost and the worthlessness of the meed. —An infsat, » prattling child, dying in its cradle, will live again in_the befter thoughts of those ' who love it,—plays its part, though its body be burned to ashes or drowned in the deep- est gea. —The woodruff that holds up -handfals of lit- tlo white crosses in the pleasant woods and n%uly glens yields no ecent until its life bas o bed. 4 —It will keep childron from many & snare and temptation to sin, if they can surely feel that their parents are ftheir best companions znd {frionds. —Trath springs from the immaterial wozld ; it is the torch of sunother life, which throws its light upon this. 3 —God’s handwriting is very plain to those who have eyes to sec. The injuries of lifo, if rightly improved, will e to us as the strokes of the statuary on the ‘marblo, forming us into & mote beautiful shapo, and making us fitter to adorn tho Heavenly Temple. —Every heart has its secret sorrows which tho world knows not, and oftentimes we call & man cold when he is only sad. —A person in straite, by the Hindoos, is de- seribed 28 3 littlo antstanding on the middlo of & stick which is burning up at both ends. —Let us not think that wo have all the dark hours. They are the common lot of- humanity. They are the touchstones to try whother wo are current coin or not. ~Pain,like & trusty sentinel, gnarda overy ave- e leading to the citadel of life, and we are ad- ‘monished whenover danger is t))pmu:hmg. When o decd is done, or a feeling indulged, it cannot bo undone by prayer or_penance, or the next moment's healthful or noble living. —\Why should tho cold and silent stone be smado after God’s pattern, and the warm, broath- ing temple of tho immortal soul be denied its birthright of beauty and of strength ? —Each one is at liborty to fashion God so that ‘his thought can clasp Him, elte there will bs no love to God. Maka ifim t0 suit your want, and you will have gratitude and love to Him. —At the coming of the morning, the bannered clouds fold their white tents, but Thought never folds hor wings,—the Bpirits bark is mover, moored. DROWRED. “Drovred—in the brook by the farm 1" And the frank, boyish face grew white with alarm Atthe plcture he'd scen . By the brook on the farm, Rough yillsgers all,—coarse women and men,— B Sands, rogged hearts, but lender-voioed when They turned to the light The dead girlish face that never again Should quiver with pain. Nota friend there! She had passed to ber death with only a prayer, And a paper: “I'mgoing God only knows where!” The women's tears fcll f thoughts of » mother ; The hand lacked the ring to tell of another _ Bhe might have loved better “ Than father or brother, Ayc, she sleeps, with still bands on her breast, And a smile on her lips that whispers of Test, ‘Hemay cavil wha will,— God alone knoweth best. _————— —Herewas the New Hampshiro Patterson; when QOszkes Ames * approached” him with Credit Mobilier, he turned it over with a sticl, went round it, smelt of it, and said, with & twinkle of sadness in his eyo: *‘I want some of it, but T haven't got any money.” The other Pafterson seems to be more abrupt in his manner. In & little red-covored psmphlet, containing what is called in South Carolina a *‘ Refutation” of the charges of bribery sgainat him, we can find his affidavit, in which Le says, concerning a man who complained of baving beon bribed: At tho csucns in my rooms, on the Mondsy night precoding the election, Miller called mo to the Window, in the presenco of several gentlemen, 2nd asked for money. I told hum, as nearly aa can recollect, ‘to go o hell.’” —A glance at the map of Southern Africa will show that the purchase by tho German Gevern- ment of the Portnguese settlement on. Delagos Bay will not bo pleasing to the English. fhu latter, sincs the discovery of the diamond mines, avo claimed possession of some of the territory of tho Freo Dutch Republic, and the Dutchmen are known to have asked German protection against English encroachments. Portugal, which claims much of the coast to the northeast, hasno strength out of a few garrisoned towrs, so that her authority over the natives is merely nominal. Lho planting of a yigorous German_colon in the Delagon region, whorothe climato is healthy, the goil rich, aad mines abundant, will be tke opering of anew ers for Africa.” It may per- hage meet the expectations of its designers by diverting thither & part of the German emiy G.m tion which 1§ now monopolized by tho United States. onorally in theiromn country: | ac UNBER THE CLOAK. BY DODA DROTGHTON. If thero bo anything in the world that my soul hateth, it is a long night journey by rail. In the old coaching days I do not think that I should havo minded it, passing mvi[:!j through a sum- mer night on the top of a specdy coach, with the star lack-bluc above ono's head, tho swoet emell of earth, and hor numborless flowera and graees, in ono's nostrils, and tho ploasant trot, trot, trot, trot, of tho fonr strong horses in one’s cars. Buf by railwey !—in a little stuffy compartment, with nothing to amuse yeu if you keop awake; with dim lamp banging above you, tantalizing you with the idea that you can réad by its light, and, when you try, Batisfactorily proving to you that you cancot, and if you sleep, breaking Your nocl, or at least stiffening it, by the bratal arrangement of the bard cushions. Theso thoughts paes snlkily and robellionsly through my Lead as I sat in my salon in the Ecu, at Geneva, on the afternoon of the fine autumn day on which, in an evil hour, have sottled to take my place in tho night train for Paria. I have putoff going as longas I can, 1 liko Genevs, and am leaving somo pleasant and congenial frionds, bat now go I must. My husband is to moet mo at_the station in Paris at 6 o'clock to-morrow morning. Six o'clock! what a barbarons bour at which to arrive] Iam put- gm&un my bonnet and cloak; Ilook at myself in the fl:\sa with an air of m!ici&utad disgust. Yes, I Jools trim nd spruce enough now—a. not dissgreoablo objoct, porlaps—vith slock hair, gnick and alert eyes, and pink-tinted cheeks, Alas! at 6 to-morrow morning what a different tale there will bo to tell! Dishevelled, dusty locks, half-open weary eyes, s _disordered dress, and & green-colored conntenance. , 1 turn away with s pettish gesture, and reflect~ | ing that at lcast thero is o wisdom in living my ‘miseries twice over, 1 go down stair eod get into tha hired opon carriage that awaits me. Ay maid and man follow with the loggage. I givo stricter injunctions than ordinary to my mais never for one moment to lose her hold “of the drensing-caso, which contains, 8 it happens, & grent many moro valuablo jowels than people aro wont to travel in foreign parts m‘tfi, nor of acertain costly and beautiful Dresdon china-. and-gold Louis-Quatorze clock, which I am carrying homo as & prescnt to my people. We reach tho station, and I straightway botake my- self to tho first-class salle d'allente, there to ro- main pennod up till the officials undo the gates of purgatory and relcase us—an arrangoment whose wisdom I havo yet to learn. Thero are ten minutes to spare, and the salle is filling fullor and fuller every moment. « Chiefly my countrymen, countrywomen, and country chil- dren, bufiinning {0 troop home to their par- tridges. 1 look curiously round at them, .Bpecu- Inting a5 to which of them will be Ty corapanion- cr_companions through thoe night. There are no voery unusual types; girlsin enilor hats and blonde hair-fringes; strong-mind- ed 0ld maids in prinstakingly-ugly water-proofs; baldish fathers; fattish mother; a German or two, with prominent palo oyes and spectacles. I biave just decided on the cémpanions I should gmm ; & large young man, who belongs to no- ody, and looks as if he apent most of his life in laughing—alas! Lo is not likely, he is sura to Want to amoke!~and s handsome and prosper- ous-looking young . couple. Thoy are more likely, as very probably, in ‘tho man's case, the bride-lovo wil overcome the cigarlove, Tho porter comos up. Tho keoy turns in. the lock: tho doors open. At first 1 am standing closo to_them, flattening my nose against the glass, and looking out on the pave- ment; but as the passengers become more numerons, I withdraw from my prominent posi- tion,_ snticipating & rush for carriages. I hate 2ad dread exceedingly 8 crowd, and would much profor at zny time to miss my train ratiler than bo aqueozed and jostled by one. In consequence, my . meid and I woro almost. the last people to cmerge, and have thelast and worst choico of seats. ‘Worun nlong the train looking in; the footman, my maid, snd 1. Full—full every- where! Dames scules ?" usks tho guard. “ Certainly not! Neither * Dames scules’ nor * Fumeurs ;7 but if it must be one or tho other, certainly ¢ Fumeurs.” i T am growing nervous, whenI eco the foot- man, who is 2 little ahead of us, standing with an open carriago-door in his band, and singing tous to make baste, Ah!itis all right!it al- +ways comes right when one does not fuss one- gelf. « Plenty of room here,’m; only two gentle- men.” T put my foot on the high step and climb in. Rather uncivil of tho two gentlemen !—neither of them offers to_belp mo; but they are not “Yooking this way, I suppose. **3ind the dress- ing-casel” I cry nervously, as I streich ont my bard to helpthe maid Watsonup. The man p ushes her from behind; in she comes—dross~ Ing-case, clock, and all. 'Hero wo are for the night! Enm 80 busy and amused looking out of the windor, seeing the differcut parties bidding their frionds good-by, and wetching - with indig- nation the barbaric and malicious manoer in which the porters hurl the luckless lug- gage about, that we bLave steamed oug of the station and are fairly off for Paris before I have the curiosity to glanco 2t my follow-passengers. Well! when I do take look at them, I do not make much of it. Wat- son and I occupy the two seats by one window, facing one anothor; our follow-travellers have not taken tho two othior window-seats; cupy tho middle ones, noxt us. Thoy rnfifiug. behind zewspopers. Well! we shall not get much amusement ont of them. I give them Gpasabsd job. Ah! if Tcould have had my wieh, and had the laughing young man and the pretfy young couple for company, the night would riot, perhaps, have seemed g0 long. How- ever, I should have been mortified for thom to haveseen how greenIlooked when thedawncame; end as to theso commistoyageurs, Ido not care if I look aa green os grass in their cyes. Thus 2li no doubt 1s for the best; and, atcllovents, it is & good trite copy-book maxim to say s0. So T forget all about them, fix my eyes on the land- Beapo racing by, and fell into & variety of thoughts. ¢ Will my busband really get up in timo to come and mcet me at the etation to-mor- row morning?” He doesso cordially hato getting up. My only chance is his not having gono to bed at all. - How will ho bo looking? 1 have not seen him for four months. Will he havo suc- coeded in curbing his tendency to fat, during his Norway fishibg? Probebly not. Fishing, on the contrary, is rather a faf-making occupation ; sluggish and sedentary. Shall” -we have a Dlesaart party at the house wo aro going to, for Shooting # To whom in Paria shall I go for my gown? - Worth? No, Worth is besond mo. There I leave the future, 2nd go back into past enjoymonts; excursions fo Leusmero; trips down the lake to Chilton; a bundred and one pleasuntnesses. Tho timo elips by; the after- Tioon is drawing toward evening ; & beginning of dusk is coming over the landscape. 1 look round. Good hesvens | what can those men find so interesting in_tho papera? thought them hideously dull, when I looked them over this morning; and yet thoy are still persistently reading. ~ What can they have got hold of ? I connot well sce what the man beside me heo; his tis-g-vis is buzied in an Eoglish Times. Just as I am thinking ab oat him he puts down his paper and I see his faco. Nothing very remarkablo; s long black beard, and & hat tilted somewhat low over his forehead. I turn away my eyes hastily, for fear of being caught inquisitively scanning; but Btill ont of their corners I seo that he has taken a little bottle out of his travelling-bag, has poured some of ita contents into a glass, and is putting it to his lips. It appears a8 if—snd at the samo timo it happeas, § have no mannsr of doubt that ho isdrinking. Then I foel that he is addressing me. Ilook np and toward him; he s holding out the vial to me, and saying: }May I tako the liberty of offering -Madame me 7 : “No, thanlk you, Monsieur,” I anawer, shaling myhesd bastily and_speaking rather abruptly. Thiere is nothing I dislike more than being offer- ed strange eatables or drinkables in a train, ora strange hymn-book in church. o emiles potitely, and then adds: * + Perhaps the other lady might bo persuaded to take a little” “No, thaok you, sir, I'm much obliged to you,” replied Watson, angrily, in almost as un- grateful u tone as mine. Againho emilos, bows, and reburies himselt in his nowspapor. | ‘Tho 'thread of my thoughta isbroken; I feel su odd curiosity 2s tothe nature of the contents of that boftle. Cer- tamly it is not eberry, or epirit of any kind, for it hes diffused no odor through thé carriage. All the time the man hesideme has said and dono nothing. Iwish he wonld move, or speak, or do something. I peep covertly athim. Well, at all events, o' is well defended against the night chill. What a voluminous cloak he i wrapped in ; how entirely it shroads Lis _figure I—trimmed ’with fur, too! Why it might"be January instesd of Soptember. I do not know why, but that cloak makes me fecl rether uncomfortable. I wish they wonld both move to the window, instead of sitiing next us? Bah ! zm I getting up tobe a timid dove? I who rather pique mysclf on my bravery—on my in- difference to tramps, bulls, ghosta ? The clock has been depos:ted with the umbrellas, parasols, spazo shawls, rogs, etc., inthe notling above Wa'son's head. 'The dressing-casc—a very large and heavy one—iseitting on Lor lap. I lean for- ward sud sax to her : “That box must rest veryLeavily on your -my feet. knee, and I want o foot-stool—I should bo moro cnn?tlurtlble if Ihad one—let mo putmy feot onit.” i . . Inave an jdes that somehow my sapphires will bo safer if I havo them whera I can always feel that they are there. We make the dosired change in our arrangemonts, Yes; both my feot aro on it. The landscapo outside is darkening quickly now; our Jamp is beginning to_sssert its importance. - Still the men read. I feel a Sen- eation of irmfation. What cin they mean by it? Itis utterly impossible that thoy can de- cipher tho small print of the Zimes by this feeblo, shaky Ehmm er. I am 80 thinking, the one who had befora spolion lays down his paper, folds it up, and de- osits it on the seat bosido him. Then, drawing s littlo bottle out of his beg o sccond time, drinks, or seoms to drink, from it. Then he again turns {o me: * Mademe will pardon me; but if Madame could bo induced to try s_little of this; it is & cordial of o most rofroshing and invigorating description ; and, if she will have the amiability to ellow me to say so, Madame looks faint.” What can he moan by his urgency? Is it pure %ohtenesa? I wish it were not growing so dack. heso thoughta run throngh my head a T hesi- tate for an instant what answer to make. Then en idea occurs to mo, and I manufscture 8 civil smilo and eay: “ Thank yon very mach, Monsieur. Iam a lit- tle faint, ns you observe. I think I will avail myself of-your obliging offer. So eaying, I take thoglass and touch 1t with my lips. I give you my word of honor that I do not think I'did more. I did not mean to swallow a drop, but T suppose I must have done. He smiles with a gratifiod air. - s #Tho other lady will now, perhaps, follow your example 2" : By this time I am beginning to feel thoroughly uncomfortable; why, I should bo puzzlod to ex- plain. What s this cordial that he isso eager to ouponus? Though determined not to sub- Ject'myself to its influenco, I must sce itscffects upon another person. Rather brutal of me, per- haps; rather in tho spirit of tho aatomist, who, in_tho interest of ecionce, tortures live dogs and cata; but Lam telung you facis—mot what I ought to have dome, but what Idid. I. make a ign to Watson to drink some. Bhe oboys, nolhing loth. Sho has bogn working hard a1l day, packing and getting nnder way, and she is tired. Thero is no feigning about her! She has emptied the glass. Now to sce whatb comes of it—what happens to my live dog! The bottle is replaced in the bag; still Wo nro racing on, racing on, past tho bills, and fields, and vil- Inges. How indistinct thoy are all growing! I turn back from tho contemplation of the outside view to the inside one. Why, tho woman is Mkscg already !—her clin buried in her chest, hor mouth half opea, Iookiug exconditgly imbecilo and very pisin, 83 ‘most people, when zsleep ot of bed, do look. A nico invigorating potion, indeed! 1 wishto heaven that I had gone aux fumeurs, or even with that cavalesde of nursery-meids and un- wholesome-looking babies, .auz dames seules, next door. At all events, X am not at all slecpy myself—that isa blessing. 1 sball seo what happens. Yes, by thoby, I mustsee what ho meant to happen; I must affact to fall aslecp, too. T oloss 1oy eyes, and gradually sinlking my chin on my chest, try to droop my juws andhang 1y cheeks, with &_semblance of tona fids slum= ber. Apparently Isucceed pretty well. After tho lapse of eomo minutes I distinctly feel two bands very cantiously and carefully lifting and removing’ l’:fi feot from the drossing-box. "A cold chill creops over me, and thon tho blood rushes to my head_and ears. -\Whatam I todo? what am I todo? Ihave always thonght the. bettor of myself eversince forit; but, strange to eay, I koep my presonce of mind. _till affecting to sleep, X give a sort of kick, and instantly the hands are withdrawn, and all 18 perfectly quiet again. 1now feign to wake gradually, with a yawn and a stretch; and on moving about my feot alittlo, find that, despits minkink, they have been too clever for mo, and have dexter- onsly removed my box and substitnted another. Tho way in which Imako this pleasant dis- covery i, .that whereas mino was perfectly flat at the top, on the surface of the object that is now beneath my feet thore is somo sort of excrescence—s handle of some' sort or other. Theroisno denr{ng it—brave I may be—I may laugh at peoplo for running away from bulls, for d.i.ulikmg to sleep in a room by themselves for fear of ghosts, for hurrying past tramps, but now Xam most thoroughly fright- ened. T look cantiously, in & sideway manner, aé the man besideme. How verystillheis! Were they his hands, or the hands of the man opposite him? I teke a foller look than I have yet ventured to do, turning slightly round for tho purposo: Ho is atill reading, or ab least still © holding the papor, for tho reading must be s farce. I look at his hands; they aro in precisely the samo posi- tion as thoy were when I affected to go to eleep, although tho pose of tho rest of hia body i !lilghfly altered. cold, for it has dswned upon me that they are not real hands—they are certainly false ones, Yes, though the carriage is shaking very much with our rapid motion, aud the ll§ht is shakio, 100, yet thore is no mistake. I look indec more closely, 80 a5 to be quite sura. The ong nearest me is ungloved, tho other gloved. I Jook at the nearest one. ' Yes, it i8 of an opaguo wazen whiteness. Ican plainly see the rouge ut under the finger-nails to represent tha color- ing of lifo. I tryto give onoglance at his faco. The paper still partially hides it, and as ho is leaning his head back against tho cushion, whero {he Tight berdly ponetrates, I am completcly humo& in my efforta. . Great heavens ! What is going to happen to me ? what shall T do ? how much of him 18 real? where are his real hands? what is going on under that awful cloak ? The far border touches me as I sit by him. I draw convulsively and shrinkingly awsy, end try to squeeze myeelf as closo a8 possible to the window. But salas! to \hat good ? How absolutely powerless Iam ! How entirely at their mercy! Aud thero is Watson otill slecping swinishiy—breathing hearily, oppositc to ma. Shall I try to wake her ? Bat to what end? She being under the influence of that vile -drug, my efforts will certzinly e usoless, and will probably arouse the man to employ violozco against me. Sooner or later in the course of the night I sappose they are protty suro to murdor me, but Ihad rathor that 1t should be later than sooner. Whilo I think theso things, I am Iying back quite still, for, as T philosophically reflect, not 211 the scréaming in tho world will Lelp me ; if T bod twenty-lung power Lcould not drown' the rush of an express train. Ok, if my dear boy were but here—my husband, I mean—fat or lean, how thankful I should bo toree him! Ok, that cloak, and those horrid waxy hands! Of course—I. see it now—thoy remained stack out, while the man’s red ones were fumbling aboul In the midst of my agony of fright & thiought of Mmo. Tussand ilashes Iudicrously scrosame. Then they begin to talkof me. It is plain that thoy are not faken in by my foint of u]eer; they sgaak in a_clear, loud Joico, avidently for_my benefit. Oneof them Degins by saying, * What a good-looking woman sheis! Evidently in her premiere jeunesse too” —reader, I struck 30 last May—*and also thers can bo no doubt 18 to her being of oxalted rank — Dnnhek!ns, kprgblb]_y.“ (ATgeud Duchees by ‘morning, thin! , grimly.) They go on to Bay how odd it is that poop B,mmycqus of lifs nover travel with their own jewels, but n]v{‘fi: | with paste one, the real ones boing, meanwhile, deposited at the banker's. Ay poor, poor saj ph{’roenl good-by, a long good-by. to you. Bt indeed-I will willingly compound for the logs of you and the rest of my ornements, will go bare- necked and bare-armed, or clad in Salvisti beads for the rest of my life, 80 that I do but attain the next stopping-place alive. As I am so'thinking, one of the men looks, or 1 imagine that be looks, rather cariously toward fa. T paroxysm of fear lest they should read on my face the sigas of the agony of terror I am enduring, I throw my. pocket-handkerchief—a very fine cambric one—over my face. And now, oh reader! Iam going to tell yon something which I am sure you will not believe ; Yean bardly beliave it myacif; but, a1 g0 Lo, despite the tumult of my mind—despite the chifly terror which_secms to be numbing my feelings—in the midst of it all a drowsiness keepsstealing overme. Iam now convinced sither that vile potion must have been of extraordinary stren; or that I, through the shaking of the carriage or the unstoadiness of my Land, carried more to my month and awallowed moro— 1 did not mezn to swellow any—than 1 intended, for—you will hardly eradit it, but—JI fell asteep ! « 0 x % & x e = When I awake—awake with a bewildered mized senso of having been s long time asleep— of not knowing where I am—and of having some eat dresd and horror on my mind—awake and ook round, the dawn is breaking. "I ehiver, with the chilly sensation that the coming of even a warm dsy brings, and look round, still half nnconscionsly, in o misty way. Batwhat haa happened? _ How ompty the carriago is! The dreesing-case 18 gone! the clock is gone! the man who sat mearly opposite me is_gono! Watsonis gone! But- the man in the cloak and the wex hands still sits besida me; still the hznds aro holding the saper ; still the fur is touching me. - Good God! { am lele-a-tefe with him! A fecling of the ‘most appalling desolation and despair comes ovar me—vanquishes me utterly. I clasp my Luads together frantically, and, £till looking ot im form besids me, groaa out, * Well! I did not think that Watson would have forsaken - what noml “bones with a broomatick. Suddenly I turn extremely |. me!” Instantly a sort of movement and shive; runs through the fguro; the newspaper drop: from the bands, which, however, continue to still held out in the Eame position, asif st rasping it; and bebind tho newspaper e, by the dim moming light eod tho dim lsmp gloams, that thoreia no real face, but a mask. A sort of choked sound is coming from behind tho mask. Shivors of ccid fear atorunaing over me. Never to this day shall I know what gave me the despairing conr. age to do if, but baforo T know what I sm doing, 1 Sind myself tearing at the closk—tearing amay tho maak, tearing away the hands. It would by bettor to find anything underneath—Satan him. Bolf, a horriblo dead body, costhing, scones than submit eay longer to this hideous Mystery. And I am rewarded. - When tho closk lies u tig bottom of tho carriage, when tho mask, and the false hands and the false foet—thers are false feet, too—aro also cast away in different direc. tions, whatdo you think I find underneath ? Wateon! Yes: it appoars that while I slopt —I feol sure that they must have rubbed some more of the drng on my lips while I was un. conecious, or I nevar could have slept so heavily or 50 long—they dreszod up Watson in the mask, feet, hands, and cloak; set the hat on her head, gagged her, and placed hor beside me in_the ot titude occupied by tho man. They had ithen, at tho mext station, got out, taking with them dressing-case and clock, and had made off in all socurity. When I arrive in Paris, you will not be surprised to_hear that it does not once occur to me whether I am looking green or no. And this is the true history of my night jour. ney to Paris! You will bo glad, T dare say, to hear that I ultimately recovered my espphiros, ond 3 good many of my other ornaments. The police being promptly set o, the robbera were, after much troubls and time, at length secgred : and it turned out that the man in the cloak was an ex-valet of my husband's, who ¥as acquaint- ed with my bad hadit of travelling in company with my trinkets—s habit which I have sinca eeen fit to abandoz. “What T have written is literally true, though it did not bappen to myself. A SEASONABLE PHILAKNTHRGPIST. What doea he do %hen tha stdewalks glare, And every brick scems but o snare To cateh e passer unaware? He spresda his ashes, And when down tosn wa creeping go, ‘And trembling tread a tollering row, With honest features ali cglow, ‘Ho apreada his ash Long may he live, that man of soul! Filled be his bin With red aeh cozl Till Lialos crown his sainl’y Who sprezds his ashes, And when heleaves this world of slides, Ana with grim death serenciy glides, May this be heard, and naught besides— 4 Peace to fiis Gshea.” —Hartford- Tames, < S HUMOR.. Bic transit—That across the occan. —Though a pawnbroker’s shop i8 crowded, it - ia still 2 loansome placo. —Melancholy suicido—A little boy, on_being threatoned with & whipping, hung his head. +¢ A bumper at ‘parting,” as the drunken ‘man 68id when he ran up against the post. A calico party—The agent of a print works. —Punch defines woman as ‘‘s creature en- dowed with seli-ornamental jnstinct.” —Some *‘ blarsted” foreigner says: ‘ Giva an American a newspaper and 2 pis, and he will make himself comfortable-anywhero.” —In Montgomery, Als., the other day, * four young men difl get upon o spree; one took ont hia little jack-knife, and now there min't but three,” e2ys a sprightly reporter. —The Atlantic is the only powér on earth I know that can make a woman indifferent to her ‘personal appearance.—C. D. Warner. m—*‘It seemstome that Mrs. C.'s bair was nearly grey a year ago.” * Yes, nearly.” - #Bat now it is perfectly black.” ¢ Ab, yes; you Imow sho has lost her husband since thea.” —Why ere coals the most contradictory arti- cles known to commerce? Because, when pur- chased, instead of going to the buyer, they go ta the cellar.. —TWhyis = man searching for the philoso- pher’s stone like Neptune? Decausehe isa sen-king what never did exist. —Young lady (who is tired of his ‘company) : “You ain't & bit nervous, are you, Mr. Poct ? 'All my gentloman acqueintences Start when it strikes twelve.” —An applicant for a pair of boota was asked he wore, and replied, a3 oon a8 Lo could recover from his surprise: ¢ Why two, of conrse!” —A San Francisco widow keeps the ekull of her-deceased husband in a glass case. Sho onco remarked to & fricnd who was viewing the re- mains: *Ales! how often have I banged thoso I am sorry for it now.” —A woman in male aitirc was arrested in Enoxville, Tenn., a fow nights since. Sho gave 28 an excuse that she could more successfully find her missing husband incog., especizlly o3 sho believed him to be pretty well soaked in cog- niac. —Cards and brimstone make the best matches, 28 the clergyman gaid when he married & game- ster to' & _shrew. = —In order to quiet the maidens’ fears of their constancy, the lovers in tho enstemn part of Maine bind themaelyes by & gamismry note a3 follows : * HaxrpEy, M., Sept. 10, 1872.—Dear Mary : I promise to mary you in six months . from date. Yours Iovinglg, E.N." —aA floating hotel is said to be building on the Alleghany. The first order of the Captain of the craft will be, “* Prepare to receive boarders.” —A few months ago » famous Prussian Gen- eral was inspecting some military stables. “YWhat do I see thers?” he gaid, in tonecs of thunder, to & Sergeant; ‘“cobwebs?” ‘*¥es, &ir,” was the reepectful reply;' *we keep thoat thera to catch the flics and prevent their teasing tho horses.” —é Margory, what did_you do with the tallow th=t Mr. Jones greased his boots with to-day 27 “Plense, marm, I fried the griddle cakes wi it.” ¢ Lucky, for I thought you had wasted it. ‘—“Do you think I am a fool?” a violent man nsked the late Rev. Dr. Bethune. ¢ Really,” re~ plied the Doctor, “I- would not have venfured tho assertion, but now that you ask my opinion, I must say that I am not propared to deny it.” —Thin perty (to street wrchin) : * Boy, what do you suppose that dog is_following me for 7" The youngster casts & knowing look at him, and “t)cndal'y replics: ‘*Guess ho takes you for & one [ 2 —Philosophy of the fature: Moralist—Who knows what_to-morrow will bring forth ? Posi- tivist—The day after. —That was an unhappy editor who wrote that - “white pique costumecs are now popular,” and - was gravely informed by tho proof aext morning that * white pine coffing are not poplar.” —Some questions very naturally snzgest theme selves to an inquiring mind. Anametour farmer wondors # why, on all this fair earth, the ground is bottom side up, 8o that 1t must be turned over with a plow before com can ba raised ?” —A malicious libel is going the rounds that vegetation is 80 scarco at Capo Cod that two mullen atalks and & whortleberry bush ia called » grove. Thetruth ia that unless thoro are thres., whortleberry bushes they never think of saying grove. 4 —When Madame Rrcamier was getting very old, though she preserved her benuty nearly il . the end, she once said to a friend who compli- mented her on the preeervation of her charms < 4 Alas! you cannot deceive me. The chimney- sweeps don't turn their heads any more i the streets.” —“Mr. Tones,” said s c]a§§ymm, onapastoral visit, “Idon'v seo you and Mrs. Jones at church on Sanday evenings.” ‘“Well, no," replied Mr. Jones; ‘“my wife has to stay at homs to tske carg of the children, and, as it comes rather on her, Istay to keop hor company.” A how is that? don't you keep any servants #0b, yes! we keep tio; but they don't allow us auy privileges!” —A friend, visiting in & minister's fowily, where the parents were very strict in regard (o0 the children's Babbath deportment, wes confl: dentially informed by one of tho Littlo _girls that “gho would like to be a minister.” ‘*Why#"in- quired the isitor, rather puzzled to understsnd what had given tho child so sudden an admirs tion for that calling. The visitor was qnickli enlightened by tho prompt reply: “Bo that could holler on Sunday!"—xVational Baplist. —A young 1ady teacher in s Lawrence, Masa, Sunday School, caught & boy smiling, laat Su- doy. Said she, * What are you smiling at, John: ny?" _*Nothing, mum,” was tho answer. “1 know better,” said the teacher, severely ; *‘non toll me what it was.” Johnny looked frightened 88 he stutteringlysaid, ‘* I—I—s-see yer 0-news: papers sticking ont, mum.” The teacher Esl down suddenly andarranged things. . —The following scens occurred in Vi ‘between two men who were sitting by the stovd in the resding-room of a certain saloon. “0B, excuse me, gir,” said one, *I didn't mean to spit on you.” '““Nover mind,” eaid tho man who had received the charge of saliva upon the leg of his taloons, **it makes no difference. “¢ Yt don't, eu?" said the spitist, **then I'll epik on you again,” and he fired off charge-No. 2. This camo near bringing abont a battle. The man who had teen twice spit upon explsin that, although it mado no difference abont the first spit, tho eecond might mako & '*d sight of diffarence.” I