Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 4, 1873, Page 11

My rsimin 3 i SRR, B B i 5} 3 1 UR—— eSS R S R R AN - PERU. Life in Spanish South Amer- ica---Bull-Fighting at Lima. The Bulls, the Bull-Ring, the Mat~ adores and Picadores.- . fow a Taurine Combat is Conducted %A Thrillingly Brutal - Spectacle. » ‘Spectal Correspondence of The Chicago Trivunc, .+ .. -Losa, Peru, §. A, Apri, 1873, - Among tho many strange sights toa foroigner, and presenting & strong. contrast to hom life to an Americen’ resident - here, nothing’ affords greater interost than the national - BULL-FIGHT, i which oocurs every Sunday affernoon, aad which attracts all kinds and clasces of. people. Last Thursdsy, however, being'the birthdny' of the President of Peru, thers was a special bull-fight given in his horior, and your corresponent was om0 of the Tany who secured & private box and sttended the urique entertsinment. ‘And firsb Ist me descri] - : THE DULLS, " hat occupy 80 prominent o park in these national | smusements. - These wild crestures aro brought { from the mountains, often from’ tho- vory fast- | pesses and woods of tho interior, being caught | vith s lasso, and having rarely, if ever, seen the «] 410 of man or woma until heéir capture: Thoy o, theratore, in overy sense of the word, wild. After being Inssoed, thoy aro led, by night . gen- emally, into tho city and confined in little pens sdjoining the bulltring. These little pens are | totally dark, covered with board .roofs, and are made purposely 6o smiall and narrow that the poor ild erectures cannot lio down in any comforteble position, and cannot stand erect or turn: them- Selres in their narrow confines, withont ‘great smoyance, They ave then poorly fed, or rather early starved, snd not given water to drink sufficient to quench their intense thirst, until . thoy are rendered almost frantic by suffering, snd to this nitural madness is added a fierceness {23¢ becomes the desperation of despair, until {he eventful day dawns when they are to be led ioto the arens. e can easily seo how the very sight of man (to whom their instinct points a8 tho suthor of oll their misery) can gerve to render them still the more furious and maddened bynge. TIE BULL-RING feelf is in the form of s vast smphithestre, and .| husgeats for 3,000 porsons. Among the first tier of boxes aro private boxes Tesorved for the ( President and family, and and also for other 1ading oficials ; and it is customary to name the bulls after the distinguiched Ministers, mem- bers of the Diplomatic Corps, &c. Henry ! Meiggs (who s called tho American millionaire | joLims,and who is opening up the vast re- ‘ ‘sources of the country In constructing” 80 many | ! nilroads all through the interior), has had one of the most. formidablo of these animals, with | Iight red ribbons on his homns, named { “Eorique Meiggs” sfter himself, which is & murk of the highest honor; and the President tusalso his horned ropresentative; while the most Indicrons name of all is that of the leading prima-donnain opers-bouflé, & French woman of grest benaty and £20 vocal powers, which ia given to the third bull, o fellow of great meck, vicious red eyes, and of o milk-white color. There are generally SEVEN OR NINE BULLS KILLED in one afternoon’s sport. Tho lower ier of s, rosorvod for tho poorer classes, are just nissd one seat above the top of the high ruil that hems the arene, and have movablo wooden tters of very heavy boards, made to open and \int dovn on iron hinges, in the very faco of tha bull,—when he makes & chargo against the Dumicades - that shub him in. On the presont occasion, when the bull Tl msdo & more then usnally vig- ams _onslanght sgainst tho _ matadores arpieadores (footmen or horsemen), and they, snbly jumping fo ono o, had goifen out of tiaway, I asw him make a sortie dircctly a¢ tha lower tier of boxes, where wero women and children, and oven Black babics in arms; bal, fhough ho made my nerves thrill at the suddon* 2sss0f his attack, the people in these .open ‘Soxes invariably anticipated his attack, and shut 14 ¥ooden shtters dovn in the very faco of s eangod animal. Although b would stand a0d toss hin horns, or rush against every shui- terin rage, yot I was iold- these peopls seldom aninjured in these stlls, and prefer thesoden- s lookoute t0 all others. - Tho Perurisny lght in dsnger and sny exhibition of cruclty. In the middl~ row of boxes aro the very.clite of fushicnablo Lims and Callso sociely. ; THE LADITS . | (etn droes moro attructivoly for a bull-fight l for opers or theatro) are attired with groat elegance. - Diamonds flash, and-eilks rustlo, and fie Gark eyes beam with oxcitemont as thio frum- sounds, tho bands bogin to play mational Vi and s man enters tho arens. He sets up 40 Iudicrons figares, mado of wirc and tissue- g, soproseniing & man gnd womn, and con- | oaals "nn ler tho wira frame-work -fire-crackers’ i equibs, And now, with & crash of the tusio and s lond peal of the bugle, the Dowmted horsemen gsflop into the ring. are gix of these horsemen, each w5 carying & rod cloak upon one arm, and dresed in fights, high top-boots, and a som- . Now the peoplo shout, the trumpets rin; @ and 2 small door is hastily drawn aside, an OUT BUSHES THE FIRST BULL. The e pea of “braos " the Joud erash of cymy m, s e brass ipstrumonts, the red of the horsemen waving at him, tho noise,” Eght, and confusion abont i, ab st seom 10 Tnder him bowildered, and he simply paws the ouad, gives an ominous belloy, snifls tho air, ©d giands motionless & moment. Bub sud- - | aly, rendered doubly dangerous by hunger, and his pent-up prison-den, ho ospies the gerhm\gee of (ashe euppoees) his onemy, man jod woman, Now, his tlroat distends} the Sayy foredock | between Lip ojes ia- back; his red, wicked oyes bt that poculiar light o neasly approachin ammbatred. Ho gives s sullen bollow, snd, tih lowered hesd and one suddon bound, has Jiuated his horns deep into the false sembiance tmnking, As ho togses them upward on his waZ | prmz ! pANa ! sxap! _|roe conconled fireworka in his eyes and face, smarting from his burns, and aunoyed at @ shonts of the multitude, he viha most vicions look for something now to Tt hig funy-mnghz—:& rage upon. Now ho hinthe horeimen, wiieels aroand, and charges U8 nearest one.. And, unless one is here to ¥ 00 anp conld imagine tho skll with which adroit Chili horses parry tho attacks and ;"mhn charges of the infariated bull. As Sir krus rushes at them, they wheol and back with b rapigity that the dust flies in clonds, and fi"wehpu thom. Keeping the flank away the lowered horns, and the head facing the {itened cresture, their nostrils distanded, and iy eyed mnmgm fear, they curve and wheol &"!rhmht at the bull is the very first to i gus of fatigue, and his rod tosjme hanga S, d great beads of aweat run £rom bis shiny L.. The horsemen wave their red cloaks, in- %}:a sround Ting the char o, end are often so fiercely i tho horso il jump Fight over tho head of the bull, and often is . Bow, ¢ o PALED UPON His ToRNS! e yiinglo cloar blast upon tho trampo an- that the seone is to be changed, and the pnen gallop furiously out of o suddenls-. to in tho barricade, and the fooimen Jreot the bull ecems lost in amaze- ot at . the dieappesranco of the ’bfihg axd the closed gate that bars his fol- 2318 Lem, ho espies tho picadores, five in all, ] %\'el\'athc&bmnchex and zouave jackots, B dered most_elaborately in fiald “thread, ¢ Jnpeaniug long silke_tockinge, slippers with g Uckles, snd velvot 'skull-caps. The Hikory L makes directly for tho nearest picadore, fiy reiting for tho ceremony of an intro- ey (24 with & doep, eullenzoar, that means s : . furiieh, Sheso picadores axe 5o minbis LEAP DRECTLY OVER THE BULL, - &n{;u faly bolding - Ureath, depectiog i Y tbeu:{:.lqdn on hishorns. . Tho foot- Qm‘ Qury nces, and a kind of ik Sshhooks i one corered with colored ers. fastened ‘THE CHICAGO DAILY ' TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, N Y 4, 1873, fishhook-spears st the' bull . Each ono fastons {o Lis nock in; , and & small stream oF blosd begins 10 BT R thous these 8 Javelins in his body. - As he is growing weal from loss of blood, sgain* the trumpet sounds, the footmen run out through the opened trap, which tantslizingly shute dowh in the very face of Taurus, who has rushed: after them in his Tnd fronzy, and who takes his revongo by but- ting with head and horns at the wooden barrier whero they went out. b _ Now comes out u single picadore, the one who is to do the finishing work,—th lilling. Do you think this will bo an casy task? Look at the wild, - blood-shot -cyes of the meddencd animal. Hear his deep bellow of hatred! Soo him shaka Lis huge body:in an attompt to looson the piero- ing barbs thet iro quivering and lacerating his- fesh. . Ho gathefs Lizieelf alovly, cantiously, for & final onslaught! : ‘TAEE GOOD HEED, ‘YOUNG P1cADORE ! . There is danger in that now infuriated creaturo “that was not seen’ beforo! But our brave Span- iard (he'is a roal Spaniard, brought from Madri _and paid £8,000 for ten ull-fights) is not dis- mayod. Kocping wary éyes:on- the bull, ‘o Walks quickly into the very middle of the arens, bows with grace -to -the President, kisscs his hand - fo tho ladies, drmws s short ‘sword, .and _stands Smly to' meat the on-rughing bull. Just a8 the hugo animal lowers ‘his head, and is closg wpon him, jumping nimbly 0 oo side ho plauts his short Sword about an fach in th back of tho nock, and instantly with- Srawa it. Had ho missed tho vital part By half a5 incb; ko would bavo been tom apart by the’ Tnddened snimal ;_but ho understands his part, e fosming Taurus rcls instently, and fails Jiko a pokid fog. He Has severed the verte- bram at ono thrast! Tho blood pours:from the dend croature’s month—he WAS DEAD IX ‘A MOMENT! - Now the vast multitude shout “ Viva, Vive, Torro! Viva, Picador!” pnd women clsp jow- eled Liands, #nd drop bim money in large gold snd silver picces, and_the huzzos and plaudits sre deafening. As the spiced, scentad native liquors, and bon-bons, and cakes aro passed around, on the heada of huge negro mon, eight horsee, gaily caparisoned, and each riddon by & Tittlo megro-boy, como dancing into the arens (throngh opan gates), resplendent in bells and gilypr harness and piumed heads. A rope n'g ckly put around his fallen Msjesty's neck, and, amid cheers, and peals of music, be is ‘whirled out of the arens, sud tho vest amphi- ‘theatreis TEADY FOL ANOTHER VICTIM! TThere arefrom five to nino bulls slain st esch aftornoon’s entertainment ; and tho slain orea~ tures, torturod with barbs, fisb-hooks. spoars, darts, and fireworks, and rondered furious by fin and rage, are, immediatoly after thoy are gged ont, faken fo the adjoiing slaughter- houso, skinned, and retailed at once to tho iopn]nfion, at 2 conts per ponnd ! But the matadores and picadores DO NOT ALWAYS BSCATE, as tfi:&&d in the fight I havo witnessed and de- seril Often the horses have their entrails torn out ; the men are gored to death; and the yast concourso will applaud the prowess of tho bull, and ery ¢ Viva, Torro,” and hise the dying, mfl:& ‘man who missed bis chance to escapo. the charge of his furious enem; WaLpa. A LEGEN ¥ ““Proficn to 1n oum, non 80 Eabtrohet ot cadys ‘There's s legend, old and quain B eaiaand's sain i T at Tonsbrack, in the Tyzol, whero the swift river les ; ‘TWhere tlie berg with gnowy crown ‘Hangs the darkling o'er thetown, 5 And, circlingall, the green-domed hills and castlsd Alpa arise, "In s church, at st of sun : us doth the story run), en watched tho cupols, where, propped on dizzy ‘Daniol Avam, cali and grand, With o heaven-directed hand, ;. Stood paitning & ‘oolosssl figure of the great Saint ames, Bome And one there, whispering, praised - The painter 88 they gazed, ; elling ow ho had pondered o'er eachtext of Holy That helps the story on Of the brother of Saint John, Ofthe irst Apalls who was martyred for themartsred % > Every dawn of day, *twea sald, He ate the Holy Brea i And every nldght the Xnottéd lash wounded his shoul- era baro, Silent he came snd “:k ‘Like one whom God ke s On a high and solemn mission, that brooks no speech y but prayer, For *twsa meet that ho ehould pray Who fitly would portray ” walked with Christ, =nd Teasted at {he mystic board ; And mucl: ho necded Who wonld picture forth the faco That hadsiguo beck .t glory of the transsgured Thus 4 they balow ; While above, within the glow, ©Of an Isolating punstine, the unconséions artist stood. ‘And, where the rays fall Fall'dearly. on tho Tesned the Apostle, half-reve in dawning sa‘nt- lihood. .. -Dantel Asam poused in doubt; - “As Bo traced the nimbus out; Would tho. face show dimmer should Le add one ~ " crowning raylot more,— - With & singlo pointed spire * Tip the suroral firo - Whose curved and clustered radianco head wore? - - - Hesitating, back he drew, For 2 moro commanding view. Tho chiidren trembled where thoy stood, and whitened that awfal fore- and grew faint.” - And still ho Eackward stepped, ‘And stil, forgetful, kept 2 b His sudious e3cs fd edraeatly upos the beading Ono plank rematned alono, ) And thon tho cruel stone, That psved thochancel nd thenare, to hundred foet e Tho man, enwrappod in God BU lowly backmmed trod, 42 sepped beyond fo platfora's dizzy odge, end T, —when lo T Switt as » etartled thought, < 4 Thosaint his hands had wronght Lived, and flashod downward from the domo with out- stretched, saving arm Ono dazzling instent, one, . The hezvenly metcor shone, 4nd Daaiol Assm stood beforo tho sltar, free from- ZLike mist around him hung, Tho ling'ring glory, clung ; - o elt the pietured holy ones geow still within their - tran mee ; - He know the light that shona Through eyes of craven stono ; 424, fading up wifhio the dome, hs Bavior, great 5. - Jumes e Thus shall thy rescuo bo (ar soul said unto me), It thou bt cast thysolt on God, end trust to Him o TFor he who with his might, . . Tabors with God anght, Hathangel bands zbout him ever, and ho cannot fall —M. A.T., in the Atlantic for Ma The Marchioncss of Waterfords . - From the Brooklyn Union. . The desth of tha sbove-mentioned lady bas - caused coneiderable stir in tho fashionablo world of London, whore for_somo time past she has played s nctorions part. Lady Waterford was the aughter of Msjor Rowloy, and first cousin .of Lady Mordaunt, whoso cas0 Wss so prominently beforo the ‘world three yeara sgo, She ‘“went ont” in London with ber sunt, tho Countess of Kinnoull, and undar that lady's suspices married tho Hon. Captain Vivian, M. P., now Under-Sec- Totary of State for War. A yoaror two sgoit oas molaed abroad that Mes. Visian, whoso tasles were repol 0 _exceedingly expensive, far beyond whet her husband's means woul pormit, looked -very kindly upon the at- tention of that very wealthy lifeguardsman, the young Marquis of Wsterford, and Eovers ro- ‘marks were mede on the apathy in the matter displayed by the gullant Coptais, her busband “ One fine morning” it was fonnd that the Mar- quis and Mrs, N, were both missing, and the: ere noxt heard of in Paris. A divorce followed, and, after many months, her marriage to the Marquis was announced. ‘The end of thisevont- ol career has been her desth in child-bed, threo Weeka ago.- Prior to the marriage of Lady Mor- dnunt's sister to the millionaire Farl of Dudley, the report was current in London, and there were |- ‘grounds for believing it true, that Lord Matortord would Jaye Biel (8 AN eiots besutifal young lady; but the Monerieffe xmnymiuag and Lond Watorford had not then come into his titlo and estate; his fathor, & man-very fond of his menoy, being then -live, &0 that pecuniary interest pointed to Eord Dud- “ley, and the inclinations of the young lady were, | it'was said, sccordingly forced ‘in the direction |. of & man old enongh to ba her father, and with & reputation for disagreesblo eccentricity.- Thus, porhaps, if; greed and self-soeking had not been trinmphant on the part of the parcnts, the self- respect and happiness of several g\mg lgcu lo wonld not have been eacrificed. ‘Lord Dudloy dlosely pressed, thoy will jum Ralind ¥oulen screons, of immenso tgicknasa. MALIBRAN. - - 'A tall, handsonié house, in the noblest quarter of tho grand -01d" Spanishcapital, tho lights in® the long, narrow casements flashing down upon flag-stones web with-a recent shower; two or thres carriages- driving“slowly up to the heavy - portals that; looked froiningly down, grim with- carving snd black with ago. . From- theso vehicles, ‘heavy and’ combrous in fashion, emergo men famous in history, in art, .in the world-of polite litoraturo. : . It wasoné of Benor Garcia's Tocoptions, and ‘his Inrgo drawing-rooms word boing rapidly filled with tho clite of Madrid. The curiously antiquo furnituro, hesvy mifrors pancling the walls, choice paintings end statucs gleaming whitely under blazing chandeliérs—tho fow lady relatives of tho great composor in their tastofal costumes —tho “rich drapories, tho rooms openisg into ocach other, the distinguished. appearanco of tho company, mado & picture beantifal enough io satisty tho most fastidious taste. i In the midst of .all this splondor, a littlo girl, lovely 08 nn angol, flitted sbout. from room to room, and, a5 with timid emiles she answered tho quostions put o her by one snd anothor, attract- ed general and admiring attention. . . Tho child was ot over 5 years of age. Hor complexion was clear and pure; her cyes were. hazel; - with & tingo of amber. in théir “dopths, large, Instrous, and “sppealiii ; Ler haif, ndarly bleck nnd very lustrous, rippled in wavea. aver. her pretty shouldors. But for the half-frighten- od oxpression with which sho received the ad- | vances of both friexds aud strangers, she would have scomed faultless. For 50 small & croaturo thero wns a singular refinement and, delicacy sbout hor movemonts, aud, in sll the cily of- Madrid, there-was not a swoeter child than Murie Iebel Garcia. . . . Presently tho rooms wero-quite filled; littlo groups had gathered about tho tabled snd in tho corners. They secmed to bo discussing some ‘aatter of importance. o «Crossing_the Prado, T met one of the King’s_guards,” said o Lall, gaunt-looking man, himself 5 soldler of no méan roputation ; “he confirmed the nows of Gen. Riego's arrest an Gonbtleas ho, with several of the moro liberal nobles, will bo execu! - 4 Dops Garcia know 7" asked s youn whoso long, yellow hair fell jn threads 11 over his coat-collar. -4Yes; I -fancy ho does; ho.seoms preoccu- pled to-night ; but hark! who is playing ? “ Garcia himself ; 1. know his touch. No wonder be gets such’ enormous prices ! - I fear ho will faro hardly if his friend the' General should bo execated ; and undoubtedly ha will be. Lot us go forward and hear him; thatis his new p ; pers, Tha tio friends made thoir -way to that part of the room where the famous composer Was plaing to gratify a fow enthusiastic admirers. o was o tall man, sallow and storn, with dcop- set, brilliant oyes, 'intensely black ; lips com- pressed and firm ; and an expression’ of hangh- ty reticence. At tho closo of his per- formance came & rapturous outburst of appleuse, Tho composer did not appear to heed it. He iifted his head, and looked apout him. “Ah, Variens !” bo exclaimed, at sight of & stont man with lsughing eyes, ** you shall hear my little dunghter sing ; you remember when ou called my attention to her yoico ; she has oen ‘}Jmtiaing since then. Marie | Marie I"” he called, almost harshly. There was s stir in_the crowd, and the child sppeared, her littlo hand clasped in that of her sant, All the glow in .har eyes and cheeks had fadod out, and the 4iny creature trembled from Iiead to foot. s +Stand her on o chalr,” said Gareis, frowning a5 he spoke, rh:gs angry at the child's Hm- idity, and ho looked in the eyes raised to his own with that shriniing, sirange exprossion, with bent brows, till the child seemed to grow resolute, and, st his nod, E:nid ‘er littlo voico man o gold out in & quaint, pretty ma How. Gull i was T every oher sound was | ‘Lushed, every oye wad turned upon that ti 4 croature, from whose tender throat floated bird- notes rich 8s rare. «Wyonderful!" said Variens; “but then I looked for it whenI caught. her mocking:the thrill of her bird. Yos, thore's the ring of the fruc metal. I congratulate vou, my old friend. Tn this dolicato orgen,” and ha pointed to the thront that even now seemod to throb with the pulses of bidden melody, *you havo & mine of o 890, snid Garela, carolossly, though bis dark eyes brightened, “jf care and patience can mako her the first prima donna of the world, that she shall be 1" 5 ‘Tho woman took charge of Marie, and kissod and petted hor. Onco away from tho sight of Hhat ‘awo-inspiring glance, the faint color came back toher cheeks, and tho child-light to her Fox 7 fYou sweot angel,” said o besutifal young girl, kmoeling before tho seat on which the littlo §inger hind boen placed, “ how i it thatyoumado tho tears come to my eves ?. Do you mean to be & famons singer ono of theso dsys ) - The child toyed with the brown curls that fell apon-ber lap." Papa makes mo siag,” elo eald, simply. i “But yon like to sing, you derling 1" «Yes, when 1 am all alone with birdio; but he makca me shako my throat,” she addsd, ' putting dimpled fingors under hor clin. “And tho darling can trill s Jittlo even mow,” esld the girl, speaking to an older ady. ‘Buddonly thero was commotion in the room, mon gathored together, cod 4 low murmur of discontent swelled to & louder tone of exccra- tion. : 4 Gen. Riego is oxecuted by order of tho King —ho next?” Tho guests looked foarfully in each other's eyes. ‘Hera and thero was one lmovm to hsvo xpressod Liberal views. At any moment they worein the powor of Accusers. Garcia vent from ono to. another, talkivg in s low voice, Thoro was no more musio—no more light sud ‘merry converse. , Variens followed his friend. . “ Garcis,” ho said, * you hiad better get awey from Madrid, and take your siuging-bird -with ou. When Kings forgot common gratitude, no- Tody is safo.” This he ssid in alluston to_tho fact that the General g0 inhumanly Lilled had once saved .tho life of Ferdinend VIL i - The company dispersed in silenco. Little Mario been takon to bed by her nuree, and was now nsleep. Later, tho nurse was called to the door of the nursory by Gareis himself. = 4 “You aro to pack tho sanorita’s tkings bofora daybreak,” be said, * aod proparo her for travel- ing. We must leave tho city.- You can go with s if you wish ; in case you do, yon must borosdy 265 in the morning.” n L ‘That night nobody elept but the child,” Early in the morning a gloomy old carriage stood at the door. Little Marie, confused and frighten- ed, was lifted in; hior nurgo followed ; then Gar- cit took the buck seat ; trunks were piled on— heavy boxes full of choice music and a case of instruments, in which wero packed away Garciw’s violin and guitar, both instruments ages old. P “iWhere aro- we going, paps?” asked Mane, her little voico trembliog. “Silenco |" 8aid Garcis, sternly. , They stopped st Cadiz after a long, tiresome journey. Rbm thero thoy went by water to Vars Cruz, and reached the City of Mexico via dili- oucs. Hero tho composersoon found friends. o took lodgings with his littlo child sud her nurse in what had once beon a grand old palace. " Before bis windows 5 mugnificent fountain sent elender spirals of crystal full feot in the gir... Lovely garden-plota surrounded it, in which grow ail maner of beautiful fowers. "Little Mario had never boen s0 happy before. She flitted like o sunbesm undor. tho sombre arches connsoting the high, narrow rooms. The. only trials she encountered wero thoso of meet- ing hor father to bo instructed in the lsnguages snd in music, - Garcis . was a tromendons worker. He put heart, soul, lifo itsolf, into his profession. After. Te found ont how sweet and powerful en Organ his child seemed likely to -possess, ho used her a9 ono would a machine. For hours, when sho had grown o fow yoars older, ho practised :her on he glottis-shakio. At times, such was the eoverity of his mothod, she would glido from him, and, when in her own room, gink to the floor in utter exhonstion, ¥ 41 ho would only give me ono word of love! she murmered, and aguin; ‘¢if ho would only say, 08 ho_does sometimes to his.papils, “Dear child,' 1 could dio to please him.” “But, mits,” said hor nurse, now promoted {0 be her dmssing—mnirli-"he Toves you; for, when yon sing eometimes, I seq the tears standiog his.eyes ; and onco, when he stood bebind you, he put his handkerchief up—he did, indeed."”, <: A, yes, but that is because I am his ¢ greak ‘becauso I have & wonder- ful voico; .not for myself, Junita. +.He pever kissed me, that I can remembeor, in his life.”- “Jg it possibla? " criod the maid, holding her bands. * He must be stono;; for who coul holp it? Iused tocover your hair with kisses. But that was when you were little. Now you are prize,’.aa be calls mo; Dbadbeen prarioug.smsrriod, and the alleged ur- happiness of his t wife wag tho subject of many painfal Tumgrs. Hifteen, and look like & woman. I don't wonder San e~ wein Foanawe vl Co T T E nu];. notice, yesterdsy—but: there; T must not “What iof, Junita? - Brery tem of interest g\v?,x'ns pleasure. What should I have no- cod? " | ' “Well, then, at the cathedral—" Junity paused again, ) “Yes, st the cathedral I thank God every day that I mey go there somotimes, and feast upon euch benuty, Ob, the bewildoring music; tho hoavenly lacmonios's tho plittering busall sprinkled with powder of gold; the wonderful -carving ; the jowols ; tho great wilderness of col- umns, siatues, shrines, and founts! O Junita! you don't know how bappy I am thero—what a Ewaet, Loly foeling sinks into my soul, as if o spirit entored my heart, shut ihe door, and Kissed me! It is liko heaven. I wish I could be & nun, and bavo in my coll 5 grating looking.to- ward fho cathodral’; I could worsbip then.” “ Al gonorita must_pever- tallc of ‘being a nun,” eaid her maid, with 8 merry little lsugh, P13, 5 tho sonorita could worship tho cathier dral, thore 'are thoso who could worehip the senorita.” - z < : “ Whero ?" nsked Mario, turning to look at tho girl, who, for answer, pointed to the tall mirror, haroin Marie eaw horsolf faultlessly ‘printed— tho litho figure, overy movement of which was graco ; tho lovely neck, whito 88 ivory ; the 8oft |. oyes, stars of brightness and tendérmess ; tho ripe, red lips ; brows delicatoly but porfoctly out- lined 5 the wholc sweet, spiritual face blushing at the consciousnees of its' own_rare symmotry. * Whit mhean you, Junits ?” sho asked, as. sho turnod again toward the girl.” * Perhaps the senorita does not see, she is o ongaged with her dovotions ; but I, her humble gorvant, mark the glances of the ' young men. They czowd about the doors of the cathedral— and—ono there is”—shoe stole a look at hor mis- tross to'se if she was pleased—** who for weeks, hios - stood in just the eame place, be- hind tho great pillar' all cut in. little imagos and fowors, mcar the altar of Our Lady; and ho novor moves, but only looks at tho senorits. Indeed, buthe is very ‘handsoma ! o “ Nonseuse, Junita! I'm not sure that I should Listen to such talk.—Is ho young or old? “Ho ig not young, but more beantiful than sy youtli I have over scen. And, 88 yousp- gmadx, not sceing him, of conrse, he puts his and t6 bis lips, or over his heart, as one who adores. I don't think_ he looks at snything but ou—and if you could only seo how worshipfal o ial” & #Ts hio & Bpaniard, Junita?” asked the girl, in- terasted in spite of Hersclf. “QOh, no; so different! His hair is the color of gold, ‘and his eyea are largo, and as blue as tho MeXican heaveus. Thers is a wonderful color in Lis face. Iom suro it must be Lours and hours he waits for yon.” * Hoch, Junita ; I don't thiak prps would Like to hoar'you falk to mo of such things.” But thioro wes' » soft spacklo in the lorions ayo tender curve of the lip, that told how, with her whole, neglected soul, the girl craved loving sympathy, congenisl companionship. o following day, after hours of practico. Mario put on a thickor voil, and wended her wisy to'the cathedral, with quick-beating pulses. Her step grew slower a8 she neared the mighty pillar carved with quaint and curious dovices, and her heart almost failed her; but as she raised her eyes to look, her foot caught in some passing train, and she stumbled, but saved hersof” from falling by seizing hold of s projecting ledge, not before & face had presented itself, however, which thrilled hor, child as she was, whoso eyes looked worlds of sympathy, whose lips mur- mured in liguid accents : % Pardon ; I feared tho senorits wonld falll” and thon the faco was gone. - Junita rattled on 28 hor mistress leff the hurch, after Lior somerlat, wandering devo- ns : - I have found out that the strangerissa French merchant ; that his business house is in ‘Amorics, New York; that heis fabulously rich, and stays here but & month longer. More than that, he knows .Scnor_G and i3 himself an admirablo musicisn. Did not the senorits think his eyes were heavenly ?” “No matter what I thought, Juniata; we have 1o right to think our own thoughts in the house of God,” replied the_girl gravely ; but cuicker and faster her heart beats as she recallod that one glance he “Enu her, in which she could not but Tead his 80 - Not long after sbo rowched home, her fathor summoned her to his prosence. “‘The apartment where Garcis recaived his pupils wes & long, narrow room, with a lofty coiling, and furnishoed with many tablos of curi- ous workmanship, -on which music, freshly- writton rolls of manuscript, new copy from the printer’s, and musical instruments, Were scat- tored ad libitam. From the tall windows hung curtains of rose- colored satin, much worn, but still possossing tho pover to tinge the atmasphero ‘with & lumin- ous pink mist, which eoftened tha complexion, and floatad about arie 88 sho catersd, making ‘her raaisntly beautiful. o Marie this music-room had horetotoro boen a place of torture; but mow thore was onsir of repose in its cool interior, a cerfain 6 and barmony in keeping with the new and strangely-sweot conscionsncss sho hsd broght with her from the cathedral, ' But suddenly sho saw & figure in one of the dee{p windows. “Varions," said_Garcls, and the great basso came forward, looking almost the same 05'she remomberad him nearly ten years bofore. “ Bo this is your rare singing-bird 7" he said, tho old twinlde in ks bright eya. _i'5h in ico 8 tall, and twice as lovePy; arcia, you ought to bo & happy man,” 1 uhall be, Varions, when I see Paris again,” was the roPly. “ What | you do not mean tho child shell make her debut there ?" 4 Child!' ochoed Garcia, hts lip cnrl[n%n littlo ; “ you shall hear her sing, Variens!” He canght up somo Joose music aud’ hurried over to the piano, nodding imperiously towsrd Mare, who followed without a word.. Varicns smiled, took out his gold-bowed eye- glasses, snd looked benignly on; but, whon fha Sondorfal yoice sounded, Lis eyea glittered, his Tipa ported, o flssh a3 of inspiration brighténcd his faca. “Marvellons! marvellous” he ejeculated, as, after the first few notes, there camo a pause; “{t is the voice of a ekylark, clear as crystal, & Tich us 5 thousand-year-old Cremona.” . Variens glowed and shivered with delight. #The compass,” he_muitersd, the tone, tho trill—it i incomparablo|” he ndded, a8 dtario stood beforo him, her pale face flushed. 3y friend, my chil, I congratalato you! be- fore the month is out, you will havoe ail Mexico at your feot. No Quecn will receiye s crown 83 Lright 28 yours shall be, Garcis, 1" bespeak her for the first representation of the now opere.” “—sing in opore 1" exclaimed Nario, hor check growing paler. : Yo, littls one—you!" ssid Yariens, bending his delightpd eyes upon hor; “you, mocking- bird, with fame prisoned in your eilvery throat. Why, I nover heard such a warbler! The witch has gent me wild with her wonderful voice; and then the execution! it is, beyond comparison, th? f;nastl n;eahwfl.‘s'mu “En Yos," said Garcin, smiling grimly, ave ‘drilled Bor well four, six, and . gometimes eight hourss day.” “ You need drill no more, prince of teachers; 73 pill 380 tho ducats siowering sround you in loss than one golden fortnight.” “ I sing beforo crowds ? Indeod, I daro nob1” murmured Marie, trembling. < * Indeed dare—and you will 1” said Garcis, stornly. “‘Never lot s child of mine ssy she dare not 1" - . %) Mario ehrank back from -the harshness of his tone, the torrible command in his eye. Bhe Imeyw tbat, did ho bid her go to tho stake, sk ould oboy, while his glance was upon her, and gho was glad to retreat-from his presence, sud, in her own room, think tromblingly of tho fato that awaited her. . ¢ oo p T will bo grund! it wil o glorions cried Junita, clapping her Lands, while the color deepened in her round cheeks. ‘‘Do you Imovw they will dress you like any Princess, with & crown upon your head, and wonderfal, fiublmi owels upon your neck -and arms? And, oh w thioy will cry out at sight of your beantifal {mal (Yo s u'i'd 1 over it,” ehe added, surprised 0 geo tears In the 88, . s T am sad + 1 mugt go beforo erowds of peop(l‘a';shnfl in the midat of the biazing Tighta —nnd then—suppose e ¢ Ah, but will not the senorita’s father be1ook- ing at her ? And, besides, he will be there, with mfizemqu blae’ eyen 1 hmi of his listening while you sing g0 like an ‘an senori would that I had so heavenly gn w‘i‘c‘:‘ I wo o neither sahamed nor afraid Lo sing i # Marie liste) 10 ars upon her leshes. True, the stranger would be there ; he who perhaps thought her a- poor, Simown Spanish girl; he whose glance had thrilled her with its intensity of passion. Yes, sho would sing, sho would _stir the henrts of the progdnst in this great city; an t;‘xpr{efl:g: of trinm, jually replaced the look of sadness «hiehp o had worn on entering the room, and Janita saw, it dslight, the chango in her weat e 5, % . P Now came’ work. Garcis wag stricter and ‘more Iaborious than ever beforo, but Mario felt that her hoart was in all she did. Varicns camo every day, and_esch time sho sang ho said she nxc':{lgd'hzmem Afario seldom went to the .| Ho had ing at'ita lovely frotted spire, showing itsell s2ainst th deep las of the heayons, Hor wak- g dresms were plaasanter than of yore. “ By-and-by,” eho ssid, ‘1 shall make money | for myself; then I can travel in- beautiful coun- adfal frown trles; thon I shall not foas that dr ‘on my father’s faco, when he says: ¢1f i Mario, T shall kill mysolf.’” youdadl, The preparations , went on. -’ Garcia selected his dsughter’s wardrobe ; thore was a pleasant excitement in tho_reception of modistes, nd- miring the wonderful fabrics, laces, silks, sating’; _beholding’ herself - arrayed there- in; practiciig tho stately walk of tho stage; managing tho gracoful trains of her courtly Tobes. * Mario had but littlo time to think of the stranger. Ono day Junits came iu brenthless: - - 41 have loarned something more sbont him,” eho enid, with trombling eagerness, - - - Mario looked np from & box which Senor Va- rions had loft for her inspection, The strings of Sashing goms {oll ovor her handn on tho simplo black dress gho- wore, almost: blinding ono by B o, sy ont” s £ 5o you illy ono?” she asied, o duamed, sy 0 © “Hisnomel” . T hope it is protty " h;xm E;libnm." F “Malibran,” mused the young girl, as ehe re- turned the jowels to their velvat gl‘s]n’, “it hes s musical gound.” . : ¢ You liko tho name, then ?” T do not dielike it} it is & ploasant name— and that' reminds me - that I drenmed of: the strangor ‘but last night. Strange! I haye Lardly thought of him ; indeod, why should I 2” “Bat tho droam pleased you, [ hope ; was it saangary of good 7 &1 will tell it you,” snid Marie, “‘and you- can Judge for yourséls : I thought I was singing in tho 0ld cathodral, and for the first time. Oh! thero wero throngs assembled, the rich and great —“fi'mcas, potentates ; the mighty spco was full, crowded in every nook and corner. A gol- don’ radiance. fell from the thousand graceful arches ; bohind every elender pillar, overy shrino and sltar, that singular, rose-like luminous flame burped stoadily, so thatall the sculptured faces seemed to be alive, “Then I thought Tsans, and the lo woro' wild with oxcitement. Tl shantmr, e and throw me flowers, and almost frightenod me with -ap- plause. But, strangor ell, thoso_ tall, stately figuro s, statues of Emperors, pricsts, sngels, and the beautifal littls chernbs that look down from the tops of the foliated pil- lars and_niches, all the pure, lovely faces in the pictures, that bend from the shrines, changed to living cresturos, and smiled and nodded to me; and all the carved flowers sud- denly began {o glow, a=d burn, and brighten with beautiful colors, and the pale-whito light shope throngh them. “Then, aa I looked up, T saw an arch abovo mo, and jn it there were letters blazing liko gold, but wrought seemingly in flame. = And then, oh! I remember it now—" She hid her faco in her hands for a momont, trembling attho recollection. - “And then!" criod Junita, breathless. . Marie looked up. Her cheeks wero pale, her eyes glittered. . : “T read the letters,” she said, slowly. “To thig moment I rocalled but these words, which sls0 Boemed to echo through the great build- ing: g % {Tho divine’ "—sho hositsted, blushing. “Xercifal Hoaven! could it be Malibran?" exclaimed Junita. i 1t gonnded so like! €0 like!" murmured Marie. “ And yas he not in the dresm 2" : “Yog, Junita, I was coming. to that; he was there, bending beforeme, butin placo of a cloak " —sho shudderad a5 shospoko—t* Lo Leld & pyll -sbout him, and his faco had » far-awsy look. It seemed close st my feet, and -yet a3 distant as the scalptured fgures over the door of the cathe- 483 2 you not speak? Did hoot sponkto o Mo, ho only ogked st me. Osa you interpret my dream, Jani “You will sing in the great theatre,” said Junits, smiling, “and all the pobles will bo there, ' Yes, it means’ that you will be trigmph- ant, and this Senor Malibran will see it all; ho will feel that you aro a8 far beyond his reach as tho stars, and go home and die in despair.” # No, no " murmured Marie. « Affer all, wo had botter walb and see what time holds in store for you, perhaps,” said Junita. 3 The eventfnl hour czme. All tho City of Mexico know that n-young girl was to make hor debut in s new: and brilliant role, nd tho theatro was thronged =ith the elite of the city. When Mario firat made her appoarance, 8o slight & creature—go youthful, & whisper went round the house : . 4 11 gho faila in her voics, her beauty will save her ; she ia aa Jovely as s vision 1" BHe did not fail. Thare, bofore her, stood the teudor, tell, oreot, his piorcing cyes fastened on Tier face as the slender silver baton rose and foll to the roll of drums, the mingled melods of violing, the shriller music of tho fiute and buglo. Well for her then that ahio had learned to gnther courage from that glance—better thet fesr should norve her than that she should not succeed. As tho cloar voico roso, the audienco sa entranced ; it soared from hoight to Leight—tho gingor forgot the listening crowd, saw no longer the splendor .of tho gcenc, the hush faces upturned, tho levolod glasses ; sho sang for love of singing, and tho warbling bird- notes roused an enthusissm 8o wild that tho groat fhrong ose. on masad; and, a8 she ended Sith s thrill that scemed beyond the compaea of merely human power to produce, the plaudita grew wilder and moro prolonged. ‘Night after night sho held tho capitsl spell- bount, month aftor month she entruuced thom with tho magic of hies marvalous voiee. - ‘A yoar had nearly elopsed. Mario was the idolized singor of tho dsy. Her father wotchod her as jealously us lover watches his mistress. Sho never walked out with Junita now; never went on foot to:the cathedral. The Joung men_might look, and long for opportuni- Tiee to catoh o glanco or a-smile; in yain. Tho girl was kept liko s prisoncr, though in & more Splendid cage, for Garcia had changed his spart- ments, Ho was coininggold. It.had come true, 29 Varions hnd eaid—Mario was & mino of woalth {o hor fatlior. : Sill tho gl wad not happy. Sho had looked for more freedom ;- all liberty was deniod hor. Junita camo to her often with silly gossip. Throngh her aho learned that Senor Malibran had loft Mexico for America. Well for Mario that she worshiped her art. Fear no longer influ- enced her, nor had she to be sent for when the ‘hour of practice came ronnd. - Varions often smado onoof thelittlo puty then. Ho madlyloved this pecrloss girl, but, being ‘more than thirty years her senior, ho would not Bok hor to wod tho_sunshine of her yoang life ith tho fading twilight ,of hia. And yot thera ero times when Marie would almost gladly havo consanted to bocome his wife, snd 80 escape the Eyrauny of her fathor. Buthe never knowit, £d he sufferad in silence. . *At Ingt. Garcia decided to start for Paria. Va- rions provailed upon him to visit Amorica firet. ‘Tmusical’ friends in New York; he bad een corresponding with the manager of tho Park Thoatro of that city, who had heard of the gifted young singer, and wss anxidus to opon an ngagement with her. - Gor Matie, sho was quite indiffercnt whore sho went, 80 that she could sing the, to Ler, al- most divine musio of Bossini. Jumita sccom- ed her. ! PnfliDu you kmow I shall’ look everywhore for Benor: Malibran ?” she esked, ssucily, s, Tith her mistress, they watched tho nearing shores of“:.:ia aam{w wo_r‘lg_ ;s e i an; ly. e ot thonght of him,” sho eaid; “I care only for my profession now; I wait only till e0. My father hes become my jailor. Wherever I go, it will be the same; closo quar- ters, aride-in a closed carriage, and sn escort, eithar in tho person of Senor Garcia or Senor Varions. It matters little to me, who sm kopt 80 long & prisoner, what country or what city T Eojourn in. Bometimes Iwish Icould changa places mith you, Junita; you aro not too pro- Tious to find friends or to bresthe the air in free- “Ttis because the signor prizes his bird eo Bighly,” maid Junits, eimply. *'As for Senor Variens, ho worships you.' 5] v “Ho rfiun, Junits, {:_r my fsth{?:hmlgu. X « He would marry you to-morrow, if the signg wonld wn.sent—bntyhe nover would; the graat 80 is 00 POor.” 4 D taraed away in docp thought, In New York, tho fasbionable world went crazy atter tho how prims donna. 8o young! 2 gracefal! go houvonly beautiful! suda voica Whose liquid tones-bad never been paralleled, From pit {o gallery, eeata were takon at four times B usoel prica. Mon committed tho wild-, out extravagances for Jove of her. Costly gifts Fore Invished upon her, but they wore alwa) returned. Gareia became stricter than ever. Sho res not allowed to answer an anoore, OF £0 800 & Tiattor; and this discourteous treatment was bo- inning to injure her hitherto fioe health, “ Jusits, it 1 could go, once in these strects with you, or. slone,” ehe ‘said, pssionstely, “I thinlt it would keep me from going mad.” “The answer surprised her. : ik you had better pray to God,” said Junits, gravely. I am At lenst aa protty as your own, tc my think-' 4 Yes.” 1t seems absurd.” . “But, what other thing can you do?” asked g gil 4 “Borely, Junits, T will try;"” snd Marie left the room. ; . | That same morming, wo gentlomen wero clos- eted with Senor Garvia, One was s tall, noble- Jooking man, merchant in an Italian house in Now York, and reputed one of tho wealthiost men in America. Tho_ other was' of modiam stature, and beautiful inface as Adonis, thongh not young. ~Both had.come on the.same erraud—toask the senor for the haud of his danghter. e “Gentlomen,” said Garcia, *I will be frank with you, My daughter is but a fow months over 16. Botweon this gnd hor coming of ago she i5 worth,) to me, $100,000. ButIsmald: Iam | getting “weary ‘of "excitement ; X wieh to livo in Totirement ; and I mnko you an offer. .\Whioever | will pay o $0000, cash down, in gold, shall marry Senorita Marie, *provided 'that hia char- actor andbusiness standing shall bo unexcoption- ablo. Iam g practical man.” T am willing to do go.” _ T am quite read- to doso." “ Then it only rewains for. my. daugiter to chooso botween yon,” replied tho mercenary Garcia. ~ * Geatlomey, you may call to-mof- Biraightway, he ropaired to his dsnghter's room,_Blio sat by her window i tho early noon, tho crimson color of the curtains'giving to ber. Desuty a delicacy and ethereality which touched even his cold naturo as Signor. Garcia entered. “* Marie," Lio said; and Lis voice had taken a softer tono. . ! Sho startod, and loft hor seat. “ Marie, cbild, I have had_two proposals of ‘marriago from two of tho richost and best men in tho motropolis.” The aloquent blood fow o her cheeks ; hier eyes sought tho Hoor. ¢ What shall I eay for yon 27 . < Whetovor you pleass, Senor!” she replist. “You are willing, then, to accept one of theso geptlemen for your hiugband “I sm ready fo obey you in this, as in all things o, uho said 7.3 “Good ! 'rpoken like my.datiful daughter,”" said the sienor ; “yon will be well settled, and T shall go'to Paria. You shall havo your choica of theso gentlomen. Como in my xoom to-mor- row; bring o rose of any color; and, a8 you leavs, present it to him whom you are willing to accopt 2 your husband.” Ho lett the room.’ Marié flew to her friend and confidante, 28 well as servant. Bho lookod Jike one inspired. Ly “ Congratulato me!” ghe cried ; “my slave: iast an ond, Iam going to be married.” #WWho to 7" naked Junits. . “Alsg!” Fors moment her countenance grew sad. I donot know ; but anything is better than this dreadful, loveless life. I shall be rich, cared for—in & measure, indopendent. I ehall have my carriago, my houso—0 Junita! thod t, bo good God heard mo, and I shall, at least something besides s machine, & pioce of mer- chandiso. Now, indeed, I focl liko bird sot “ And will you, then, ecod mo away ?” # Nover, my dear gir) ; you shall sharomy good fortane. 'You need nover leave me, unless—you find n husband for yonrsele.” ~"4 Y only caro for you, senorits,” enid the girl, softly. On the following day Junita saw her mistress leave tho room with o fair, white rose. Butn brief time elspsed before she returned, breath- lesp, ber beautiful face lighted with s glow such. ag'even Jraita had never sgon before. My dear Junital” cried thegirl runninginto e e o s soung and ool and hands 1 hope he is young and good an ome," I Tospondad, with a kise. Junita! every thing! Guess now? It the 3 P “ Malibran!” exclaimed Junits, her eyes fill- ing with happy tenrs. My child, that is bo- cause you prayod Lo God.” 'And Marie became Madame Malibran. The wedding was s joyous and a noble one; 'the bride's home princely, Ab once, the boantifal and gitted singer stood on the pinnacle of select society. She was wild with happiness. Hor husband worshiped her. The best and the gratest craved permission tobecome her friends. units was her humblo companion, and po_one as more joyous than ghe in witneauing the hap- ‘piness of her child. - Weeks, months passed on, and Madam Mal- bran was the gayost of the gay, always ready to ‘please with her entrancing voico, bowitching o and young with her artloss grece, her matchloss beauty. - She had her fill of joy. Bervants by tho score stood ready £0 wait upon her ;. ho Was the queen of tho circlo in which ehe moved. For six months the besatifal ran held tho brimming cup to her lips, and not ono drop Lad_been bittor. Then came & thunder-bolt,—Malibran was s rninod man,— utterly ruined. - At first bis tovely wife could 1t realize the terrible situation. Was it poseible thatthey were poor—beg- gared ? In thoso dsys tha ds?tox'! prigon flourished in all its barbarons seversty. The ruined merchant wag put under bonds, aud liablo at any moment to be thrust into jail. His wife sat like ono stunned, amid the wreck of ber onco glorious surroundings—a stranger in astrange city, and poor a8 the poorest. Her husband_ eank under the blow, and even re- proached hor with extravagance.” “Y havonot dono it,” said hapless Malibran, tears streaming down her cheaks.. “Bat, indoed, it was you who ruined me, Ahl if T bad but the $50,000 I paid for my wifol” Unwiso admiagion ! = Mario's Spanish blood turned to fire. Bho sprang to hor feet, nearly writhing in hor an- guish. “*You bought me, thon? My father sold his child for gold 2” s articulated, with dificuity. “You paid $50,000 for mo, and that when you st havo known what disaster such reckless- ness might bring upon me, whom you professed tolova? Ob, unhappy crenfure: that 1 am! al- oy & thing of barter, and now _you taunt me! Oh, why.was I born for & lot 80 mercenary | ; g"mza ws, as ususl, her consoler and’ com- orter. 5 “ Pray to the goodwiod,” she said. A fow daya after, closely voilod, Madamo Mali- brag, pale and dofocted, deoply mortied and quits pennilass, called ugon tho mauagors of tho Park Theatro and the New Bowery ; recived tho ‘mot favorablo proposals from the latter; . en- torod into an_engsgement for six wecks, and ‘made over 820,000, ~Thia sum she aivided with the ruinod merchant, and, tsking her faithfal Junita with her, secured a pssssge to England, ‘bado her husband farowell, and, within & Woek, B0t aail for the great metzopolis of England. Arrived at Liverpool, sho journoyed thence to ZLondon, sought out the bost hotal in that splen- d city, sad, bofore she had rested, lesrned tho whereabouts of tho most eminent musical com- - posor or tho dsy, and sent him & méssage. ‘His sorvant handed him tho note while ho was at dinner. +}Madame Malibran,” murmured Do Beriot, thoughtfully. Ah! “/nee Benorits Marie Gar- cis, f tho —— tronpe, Mexico. I remember—a famous singer.” = ‘Forthwith ho burried through the meal, and within an hour he stood in the presenco of onolgfsfined to become the enchantress of tho worl . K ‘Sho received him like & Queen, arrayed in vel- vot tho color of fresh violets, her glorious bair falling unconfined to her waist, hor cheeks fushed with excitement. Never Lad sho looked 80 royally. buut!r\:]é{nr the exigencies of her sit- ‘uation had banished the appoarance of extreme youthfulness, which had gatned for hor tho titlo 3f the pelile songstress. = “T have the honor of spesking to Madame Malibran,” said the great composer, losing his lLieart, on the instant. i And I of an interview with the first composer of his timo,” said Malibran, with s gracious emilo ; and, in 28 few words a8 posaible, she ex- plamed her position. mflur Yisitor listened throughout in grave lence. A #You desire, then, to be heard in the metropo- lia ?"” ho said, st last. B 1 wish to 'make my first appearance in Lon- n. The gentleman deliberated. A gmilo Jurked in the corners of his mouth. To bo sure, he kad heard great things of the iady who sat. before him; but thon what was Mexico ?- what was New York? The capital of “n efete ciyilization—the grand centze of & new, nn‘;:nliflhmi world. - 7 “1 ghould hardly adviso it, madame,” he eaid. “ And why not?” ; “Tho greatest singers of the age find 1t diffi- cult sometimes to gain an appreciative zudionce, even when their fame is assured.” "4 Go to the provincial cities firat ; work your way graduslly along ; if you create farore thero ~_which I am certain o will,” he_ added, gal- Tantly, “thon you cau come to London, and crovmed heads will do you honor.” “"Sir, aid 3Malibren, with fashing eyes, “I Bave 7 had the honor of singing. before ‘peraons of distinction, and I will not g0 to the Provinces.. No, senor,” snd she stood erect: in ihe pride of conscions power, “I will sing in this city, in your best theatre, in your most pop- ular operss, or not st all. 1 -tell you, Banor, I Shell make my debut here, and crowned heads and the rest of your nobility shall listen tome! ™ and, in token of ber imperious struck the floor with her ¥, ° gally. g gained the day. il At 8 BOsol” o thonght bt fro 1 Grea! ” and begen o cogitate ho m,“mfi best farther hor inserosts. - 7 b ze you willng to competo witi — 2" sud | ho m o name singing at tho Boral Thoatre, o T Lo * #Yes, with any ono,” was the reply. " * “Thon L will 560 what can Bo.done ;" sud With many courteous assurances, ho Isft her presence. 2 5 0 Threo vwosks later s singular anmonncement a3 mado in tho London papers, - - - Two rival singors were to make their sppear- ance on the same night dt- the Grand -Opera- Housé—tho then reigning prima-donna snd 3Madamo Malibran, formerly Senorita Marie Gra- cia, of tlio Spanish and Amorican thestres. Thoy were to follow each other in tho_same_role, snd tho public were to judgo which was o bo the fa- ture favorite of the people. - 2 b 80 novel a proposal set_all London on fire. the trial-night ; thousands were unable to_ob- tain an‘entrance. The streets wero packed bo- foro the doors wers opened. . Immensc sums wero paid for_stonding-room. 'The mobility of England filled the stately boxes; expoctation wazon firo ; wagors wore Tado of the most ex- travagant character. Nobody doubted for a mo~ ment the continued supremacy of the: prosent idol; and, when she camo on, tho great building raug with applauso—even tho Isdies stood up, and hor pame.was on evory lip, . - d Hark ! compete with'a voico like that ? Tt was madness to try: Who ‘was this immatrire girl who bad wou the plaudits of crade Americans ? Either insane, or an idiot. . Then there Was & great hush. 5 In that slmost awful silence she entered, palo ;.d%ntg,efanr::;:duul_d n?! rouge, hex;mb:;ufiml st ey implori t Cangely-oxcited gndionen, =0 Hhe & Ereaadingly beaastal Lo xceedingly beantifull Lovoly as & soraph | ey not hea e de that nightingale's throat. aald onee ot orchestra. - Then came the crash of the Tp roso the full, sweet voico, soft as a whisper at -first, yot clear as.s flute, On it rolled, that marvelons, impassioned melody. Men held their breath and leaned - forward ; ::t:yuamf:gn !sn‘ dlabnrnbzd the, sound; nok ] her face. n came that gur- gm bird-like_trill, such 88 no other human orgha ever reu:h%d, #nd fho_entranced listeners nasse. For a time, tho applause was almost faghtfal. Women clatched their jowels from arms and bosoms and threw them on the stage at hor fect ;. men were white with their efforts to cheor and praise. It was the most wonderful tumult ever witnessad, A wreath of lsurel, composed of brilliants and emerals, was sent in bindw entrance of the stago; she was overwhelmed. with the rapture ehe had herself evoked, and stood there panting, her glorious cyes shining throigh tears, like diamonds, her cheeks flushed, her hands® out- read, a5 if to push back the surging tide— 5t0od there triumphant—the divi ‘That night, as- sho walked rapidly back and forth in tho silence of her own room, feeling that henceforth she was to go out a8 a conqueror, the one drop of bitterness floated on tho surface of hor brimming cup. Her dream was accomplished. There werathe letters of gold and fire written u on the hosven of her triumph; but Malibran, he . who had given her the name now made immarf.:h —the pall of silence, even of disgrace, envelop him it its heavy folds. ¢ - Later, Juniia bronght her s noto, which she opened with trembling fingors. It read thug: “Drvive Mameax: You were right. Your triumph is complete. All London rings with your wonderfnl succcss. - The world is ot your Teet. Allow ma to subscribe myself the humblest of your admirers, D Bemior.” a3 all tho world knows, a few years after- ward De Beriot married the queen of song and besuty, Malibran.—Ar. A. Denison, in Appil«m' Journal, SHADOWED. - They tell me thon art dend ; 3 That, within thy narrow bed, . Thy form is hid forever from my sight ; That the pure and blest, - In yon deathless iale of rest, Have bormo thy staless spict thro* its pearly gataa of ght, - They tell me thou art dead § That thy sunny golden bozd Is pillowed in s dreamlesa slumber now ; Thst the vaice we loved to hear Ne'er aball fall on mortal ear ;. That thy sleep is sweet benedth the flow'rs thal bud above thy brow, - & Gone forever | Dark and dreary - Round my sorrowd soul, world-weary, Orcops the haunting mem'ry of & hope forover o'er § Life’s ht dream with thea hath banished, Ev'ry plozeure Death hath banwhed, And alone I wait the coming of that fadeloss evermore. = OWEN M. WIL8ON, J2. _— . The Death of Shack-Nasty Jacks. i From the St. Louis Democrat. . zain arawo called npon to perform tho pain- fal duty of announcing the death of ono who, it ot altogothor lovely, was chiof among s frac- tion of thousand spirits who are not yot mado porfect. Wo rofer to “ Shack-Nasty Jack,” the onial whole-souled, or perbaps (considerin ‘mixed parentaga) we should say half-sol coppar-colored_gontleman, -who rocantly di -peacofally, and in piaces, in_his little lava- Jack did not wrap what little drapery he had abont him and lia down to plessant dreams, and his demise was hastened by a seven-inch sholl that entered and exploded in his dia~ phragm, rnining a digestive apparatus that had never beon disturbed by banquots of roast dog, salt horso, washed down by copious draughts of fory untamed benzine and ncedle-gun Whisky. An“worecall the virtues of tho decoased, our pen. unconsciously drifta into_the Philadelphia Zedg>r form of mourning, xud we aro lod to ex- ‘Dearest Shack, thon hast loft vs, o moro horses thou wilt steal; Bat "twa Gillem that bereft us, o can ALL our sorrows heal.* Firat wo thought it was old Schonchin. “Then wo heard *twas Scar-Faced Charies, But the Iatest news, Shack-Nuaty, ‘Bays tis You have quit earth's anazls. (Gone but not forgotten. - Friends of the family invitedto attond—cover- od carriages forsll who wear gloves. Born of poor but honorable parents, * Jack”™ manifested at an early 8go those traita that in after years made -him famous, and would in time hava sent him to Congress if hissoul bhad not been shelled out of_his ephemeral shell by a caat-iron_namesake. Tax-Collector, Presidont of a base-ball clab, and waa about organizing 8 Young Red Men's Horse Plagiarizing Association, when ho felt a senea- tion of gonenesa at the pitiof his sto wag gone. i o an Possessing mady of the virtues that marked the Credi¢ Mobilier operators, Shack- Nasty waa also a5 gonerous as the increased sal- ‘ary voters, who only drow their back salary to Be7 0 ths publio dsbt and the nows of i ud- on death will canse a thrill of anguish in bonome.anguish that he was' not. permitted 3 die slower, and by inches, 3 Art-Sriticlsms, A correspondont, who has attentivoly read the amatour art criticisms in the new: sends us tho. following article on an exhibition in another city, 28 & sample of what he is capa~ ble of in that in that line : Danbson's head (No. 1) is very soft and siry, and pervaded by that teto de chou in the ensem~ blo for which this artist is celebrated. “A Greck, bearing the Hod” (No.18), by Patricko Sullivapi. beantiful ideal picture, tenderly treated. The rounds of thel 7= are besutifully rung in, and theroisa gros®y of strength shown in the . bricks. with which the boarer sppronches tho scaiiud, even with the cry of *Aore mort™ ringing in his ears, 18 tremondona. - ) . ons a nos moutons™ (No. 63), by Eugin Very-bock-bosr-hove-in. Wa were glad to see. this pickire, 85 no collection is complete without some mutton from this artist, though, as there can bo ‘but a few thousand of 'his heep in thia country now, they are of courso quite rare, as ‘Tmatton should be, notwithstanding they are well done. 23 e < “SET1 Life in Bourbon County” (No. 22), isa spirited pictare by Kornjuce; © 8ge will improve this artist's . prodaction, which 43 rather cnde and flery. b “1Wreck of a Sloop" by Btorms,—evidently ona of tho old mast-ers. This artist always-hesa E;-e.z ‘denl of epirit in his water,—especially after 0 has sold a pictare. «'Flour picce,” by Miller, . The works of this . artist are (k)nedded in every family. This & Tron i oniitiod Bising in the (v)east," A Lgh and plessing composition producedin New York." 5 “ Son sot. on the Goas! (n)ico picture, though cold in tone. . The recur.i~ . bent b(a)oy in tho fo is well - handl and the rear clevation of coaster brought o very strongly. - +'The Power of the Pen,” by Hogg., This pic- ture bristles all over with {he artist’s character~ intics, who always goes to'the rootof his subject. "he pig-ment is strong, and the stye-l good. o Beiaht o Colee {17 g fate a0 PRy interest. %’:‘“‘“‘"’ stzoko of willfalness had Tho thestro was crowdod from pit to domaon . Malibrin wos oxpocted-—but ouly to. bo cstia- - Ho eerved his tribe aa . pers, .. Tho cou yd - 48 hschsato Snow. ‘Thin is &'