Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 6, 1873, Page 7

. A FETE DAY IN VIERRA The Frohleichnam Fost---Sconcs in the Austrian Capital, The Empire's Grandess and Army.--A CGorgoous Pageant. Vienna (Juns 13) L‘v)rr;wnmlmu of the New York SUIN Thoro was such a stir and trouble on the trects nt an early hour, that inn-keopors, ros- taurateurs,cab-drivers,and lodging-room keopers might haveo beon for & moment solaced in their ‘dreams of Dankruptoy and ruin by the fond chimera that spocinl trains had suddenly arrived from all parts of the world, with tho supplics of that for which thoy hungor and thirst in valn, At b o'clook drums were rolling and trumpots sounding in the barracks. Ono hour Iater, thore camo on tho ear the clang and rhythm of bands, to tho rogular tramp of soldiery rising sbove the mnolse of many feot. Look out and soo Vienna in its bost—one eye turned upward, misgivingly, at the sky—ono hand dodieated to Balnt Umbrolln—streaming off toward tho Btophans Platz. You have noticed .how tho trail of sparks dylng out in burnt papor twists and turnsin and out through the black maes. Bo twists and turns this brightly-attirod crowd through tho narrow lancs, durch-gangs, pussagos, ond labyrinthine streots which are .till loft to obstruot locomotion and delight the antiquary and the conservative travelor in anclont Vindobonia, 'Tlhe oapital proved ita right to claim the homago of the dozen distinct racos and moro which acknowledgo the away of tho House of Hapsburg, and displayed a diver~ ity of oostumesin itsinhabitants which propared -one for tho Old World pagoantry of the Froh- loichnam itsolf, and its admixture of rominle- conces of tho times of the Inquisition, with hard, prosaic, matter-of-fact 1873. CORPUS OIBISTI FEAST. - All this buatle isin honorof tho day—a grand bolidny, It is Corpus Christi foast. For con- turics it hos been the wont of Kalsor and Eaiserin to procoed from the Burg to Bt Btophens, thore to hear mass, and thenco to march on foot through tho streots in a pil- grimage to altars placed on the grabon and elsowhore alang tho route to the Church of Bt. Poter. Now I askod soveral Roman Cath- olic gentlomen the *‘why and whoreforo,” and could get no reply. They wont, as thoir foro- {athors did, to masa on Corpus Christi day, for the samoreason that thair forofathera bad done 80—ono of mzi!rlumln had = vaguo notion that it had *‘momothing to do” with prayera for the harvest. Tho gmmnrntlonn made for the cero- moninl wore not very costly. At various points ‘whorent thore wero gom! viows of the procossion elonds were oreotod for sight-seers, who paid prouty handsomoly for doubtful seats on frail- ooking comstructions. Tho windows of tho ‘houses along tho line wero ocm\rlod from top to bottom. Very incongruoua-looking policemon in greon tunios and Jager hats, sandwiched hetwoen whito-coated infantry, or vica verss, whichevor you plenso, kopt tho roadway clear, and penned in tho crowd, which was fairly managoablo, quiot, and good humored. If anyono carestoreadwho tho Gonorals wore, nnd what were the troops which took part in the ceremony, he will find it elso- ‘whore. It was with somo trouble and guashing of teeth I managed to fi“ to my rickety platform by Bt, Stephon’s Church, oven after 7 o'clack, for all tho dirsct ways wore barrod by o guard of monnted policomon and dragoons—the civil and military being employed togother in tho lining of the Btreets. Thero wns not then much to seo except thoso who had como to see, too. Acrowd with o lino of soldiors and police in front; a pavoment with o woodon estrade on tho ground, wido enough for two men_to walk upon ensily sbreast ; windows filled with faces opposite; a fm“ splondor of lnce and feathers on the finost roop of mounted men ous could well find; on tho right, whoro o sweep in _tho stroot closos up the vista by its junction with tho wallof tho church beside one’; beneath us the gendarmerie of tho palace; on their left, infantry of the line, tho Marine Veterans' Band, and the abrupt close of tho scono by & sudden bend in tho stret, which stops the line of sight conclusively. AUBTRIA'S SOLDIERY. My old frionds of the line do not look as thoy used. - The Austrinny aro popularly believed b the rest of tho world—jokingly—ta_be stupid, Juat as Mr, Stuart Mill said * the English Torics” Wero the * stupid party.” Woll, it certainly doca not seem to bo clever in theso days to keop the privates in_tho boautiful white tunic, and to a:ll: the officor into_dork tunics,—so dark ag bo almost. black., It will be snid that on service the men and ofilcors will appear in the eame colored clothing. Then why, for gmule purposes, destroy the offect of the troops v the violent vontrast #’ Of course, in war time no officer conld appear in his shako, withn ‘broad belt of guld lace at the top, another round it at tho bottom, and a gold cdge to hia peak, and in a coat with gold or silyer laco collar an ouffs, without incurring instant concontration of rile-bullets, Tho cavalry, oxcept some fow corps, havo boen motamorphosed into tho ugli- est-looking cavaliers out of tho smartest, It ‘would bresk old Radetzky's heart to ueo his hug- sors now. The horaos have been doprived of shabracks, which is & stupid thing, for they wers usoful a8 well as ornamental, The onirasses were laid asido long ago. I dow't believe in thin excessive plainnoss and Quakerly affectation. It is not the lace—it is the lance point, the sabra, tho bayonet,.clouds of dust, which betray the whoreabouts of troopa. Auy . body of horse, no matter how attired, unloss . the troop are, they their horaes are gllntod invisible greon, and their steel is blackonad, will be made out fiefore they oan come near charging distance, Itis an sggrayation of the horrors of war—of the hard- ohips of military servico—to make a soldier as unpicturesque as possible. DBut thon the Ger- man Noble Guard, and tho Hungarian Noble Guard! Bhade your eyes and look. First thore are four Btate trumpstors, with silver trumpots, on the right, Thoy are in eilver helmots, with rved horse-hair falling plumos—passez moi le mot —they are clad in searlot tabards, with gold laca epauletion, the fronts and backs of which bear tho biazonings and maby quarterings of the long-deacended House of Hapsburg, and thess fall over housings of the greatest richnoss, and over thelr buokskin breoches, only & small glim- mor of which oan be scen above' the top of tha much-wrinkled, marveloualy-long, and shining patont-loather boots. Their horses aro ‘cream color, and the trappings are ablaze with laco ; the two and twenty nobles who are drawn up on their left are of the highest families of Austria— gilver helmots and white horss hair plumets, brightest scarlet tunics, Eold epaulsttes, tho breast a broad shield of gnl lace ; boota like the trumpoeters, sot off the bearing of these gallant ontlomen, who are mounted on showy jat black orses in very gor%:mu caparison, Bright as ut set off as a dull foil the luminous extravagance of Guard on their left. They wear red too, but it in of a difforent shade. Their shakos are full of ¢ ghick,” as the Germana prononnca the word, and are tap[md by along, upright foather; their boota are of the intensest canary yellow, and oome only up to the calf of the log, s0ss to show a soarlet pantaloon, which is oovered with a sheen of fine white embroidery, But the grand sttribute is a leopard skin whole, trimmed with black, hmiln pelisae-wise from tho lef: shoul- der, with the head upwards—true leopard-ukins, which must_have been rathor scarco with the Magyar nobles before wo found out Lastern bunting-grounds. They curry curved ‘Lurkish clmoters, whoroas tho Cermans boar louyg straight swords. THE PROCESAION. the Hungarisn Nobls The bell of 8t. Btephen's becomes anlmate atter awhilo; it is loud, but husky—thoe voice of agiant with & bad cold, The boll of 8¢, Petor answers. 1t is 8 o'clock. Gen. Hullar, who hag beon sitting uneasy on his horse for some time in his cockod hat, with a caacado of bright greon feathors, o groon-white tumio, gold slooves and collar woll bedizenod with ordors, scarlet ovor- slls with gold stripes, sposks to his adjutant, who rides to comunuuicato with s rod-uose Colonel of infantry, of moat genial aud pleasant countenanco,—like Blawkon ariluu, Lo was proud of his noto,—und tho result iu that the lnfunlr{ gather thomselves up; tho floe gondarmorlo of tho burg, in derk-~ greon and black, stand to thoir arms; tho Epectators look tholr Lardost. It fs 8 o'clook. Thora comes out into the opon roadway a dingy Jittle mob of old men, with a focble banner, who laok 28 if thoy woro rather dazed by the day- light, and flit up tho stroot and disappoar like bats, ‘L'hoy are not in tha programme ; and my thoory is that they woro desorving and necossit~ ous poeoplo of #omo kind, who hud received some bouuty from lmporiul hands, uud were huston- ing to muko tho mostof it, 'Whon thero was a long pauso; no onc oamo out of the venerable old partal, to which all oyes wore turned. 'I'he QGonoral suid moro words to his adjulant—us aldes-do-camp are slyled horoabouls—hut the oharm did not work at once. 1t was tan min- utes or moro before there appeared auothor THE ‘CHICAGO DAILY' TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1873, juad—Jargor, longer, but not less dingy, mnn the‘Trut. m'lutlllng thom I Rogular olorgy, overy man of thom ; in cowl and soapu- 1ar, and shaven, but not nfvuys candid, crowna, Bome with forohonds, villainously low.; othors with tho brow of & Loyola or Antonelll ; missal In hand, (“blacc frinrs sud grsy, Dominicans, ““Warn-hoartod Brothers,” Gapuchins, Fravcla- cans, Rledomptlorists, Thoir sorvitors carried flagls and ornnmonts, but there was no particulae notice takon of thom, nor, for tho mattor of that, of tho more Iucarnntiug consplenoun procossion of all the parish priosts and curoa and sorvitors, ‘boadles, &o., of all the churches in Vieuna, to tho numbor of twonty-sight soparate religious eatablishmonts, each with flags, baoners, criiol- fixes, holy ombloms, tapor-bearing prioats and ncolytes, who moved with hitches -and breaks in tho contlnuity of tho flow in & current of stolos, chasublos, aud canonicols of the richest, borne by men oid and middle-agad, venerablo aud commonplace, of whoni so many woro' apocta- clea that ono wondered what they would liave dono o fow hundreds of yoars ago beforo :tho distingulabed invontor of these suxiliaries was born. Yollowing the last of this long train slfichd out spruco gentlomon In ovening drous, white cravats and gloves, most with o docora- tion or Lwo on the loft breast—tho magistrates of the city. Theso woro followed -by the town councillors of the same Roichshanpt snd Ron- donztadt, tho singors of the Cathedral, the allumnat'of the Prince Bishap, tho Archiepis- copnl Curgoistlock Keit, and then camo an erup- tion of conrt valots, th Knighta of tho Goldon Fleeco, carrying tapors, olosed the rear of this snimated dofile, Thero wan no eilonce in tho brilliant ranks. Thoy talk- ed aud laughcd among themnelvos. Many a namo famous in Auatria was heard in the crowd neurh mo as varlous peopls rocoguized tho pnss- ora-by. . : COMING OF TIF: EMFEZROR, ‘Wo bad acarcoly eyon for tho four doagons and Rootor Magnificus of the Univorsity, nor for the bearers of tho baldaquin, undor swhioh stalked the Cardinal, Prince, Archbishop; nor ovon for that sumptuous cauopy, oscoritd by ages with wax tapors, For *‘ Horo comes the “mfipmr." “*Hier kommt dor Xaisor!" Ereot, 28 his customs ig—clnd in the uniform of an Austrian (fenoral, as his custom ia—with'the chain of tho foigon d'or over his shouldors, and ordots and stars on his broast, bearing a long wax candlo—which flarod wildly in the wind— in bis loft hand, gravo and Joseph, with tho moasured stride in which ho combines graco and lightnoas with a ceriain majosty, came forth ; and as ho walked, turned his liead to aach side’ s it he were lvnhni,ont for friondly facoes in the multitude. Lot ug hope e saw them, for ho needs thom all—the van- quinbed in two gront wars ; the Hapsburg, who lost the lend of Gormany; who lost Italy to Augtris ; who nover loat honor or honest men's good will ; whose courago aund faith are worthy of tho best fortuncs of his house. After him camo a crowd of Archdukes, among whom, in- deed, T missod only chivairous old Aibrocchl, of COustozza, who gavo the Italians a rude losson in thelr attompt to make - Italia fara da go.” They bad cuch a household and mapy officors, and they woro all, of coureo, in full'uniform ; but tho oyes of the crowd followed the figuro of the Emporor aa long a8 it was visible, and afior tho Archduke and tlio Archer or German Lifo Guard and tho Hungarian Hussars whoolod round and rode at the ond of a1l tho proceesion, many poople wont homo—and I was among thom, It would be an hour or more bofors thoy would return, and then—memo histoire, for the Emperor ouly hoars a short service, when he ro- entoraBt. tophons's and thon tho ceromony ends, and ho is at reat, Somo time aftor I gained tho hotel thoro was s sharp volloy of musketry. ‘That indicated tho conclusion of ons part of tho procession in the Graben. Lator thore wan snothor. And l[ialn o third, Euddanl{ down came a shower which fdespened into a deluge of rain, This lasted for an hour or more, and muat havo soemod to the Vienneso whom it drenched but a poor answer to thoir prayers, ! QUEEN ELIZABETH. When it was made known that the beautiful, but rathor willtul, Empross Elizabeth would not eccompany the Kaiser in tho procossion of the Frobolichnamtest, the Vienneso wero inclined to scold, asnd dald, indeed, pout and talk not a littlo, For they are jealous of thoir liogo Indy's nffoctions, and ~ suspect her of an unduo prefor- once for tho Magyars. I fLto bo wonderod nt if she, Empress, Queen, sud woman, feels the groatost regard for thoss who traat he= with ro- spectful devotion. In Vienna thoy st cold and cengorious, much given to gossip, and rude onough at times in tho mauner of writing of their rulors in the {woss. They havo not spared tha court in their Parisian love of bon mols and chroniques scandaleuses. Tho reason hor Majesty assignod wes a proof of the urgumont agamnt giving roasons for any any decision—** If it rains what #ball I do?" Did not tho pcople of Vienna romember that sho had not hesittaod to runthe risk beforo in this very treacherons climato? And it was n sight to soo in other years, when the gracious and graceful lady, floating rather thau walking along the estrnde of planks, which is 1aid along the coures of the prooesston, passed like the vision of tho Jovely Queen, whom Burke compared to the Morning Star in his famous rhapsody, aud followed by the dames of honor in thoir flowing trains and splondid mantles, ox- torted from the hardest Radieal sud Ropublican & momentary adhesion to Imporial nv‘v‘;zy.fl- > —e BRANDY-AND-SODA. [After Swinburne,) Bline eyes to mine cyelids clivy thickly ; 3y tongu feols n mouthful and more ; My senses aro sluggish ana sickly ; To Jive and to breatho ig a bore, 1y head welghs » lon and s quarier, By paina snd by pangs ever split, ‘Which manifold washings with wator Taliove not & bit. My longings of thirat are unlawful, “And vain {0 console or control. Tiae aroma of coffoo Is awful, Topulsive the sight of the Foll, 1 take my matutinal jouraal, And strive my dull wits Lo engage, But cannot enduro tho {nfornal Sharp crack of fls page. What bad Juck my soul hid bedeviled, What domon of spleen and of apite, That I rashly went forth, that I reveled, In riotous living last night 7 Had the fumes of the goblet no odor . That well might repuleo or restrain— O insidious brandy-snd-sods, Our Lady of Paln 7 Thou art golden of gleam a8 the snmmer That gmilos o'er a troplcal sod, 0 daughtor of Bacchus, the burmmer, A foamer, & volatile fod ! Bt thy froth {s s serpent that hisses, ‘And thy gold sa s balofire dotli shifs, And the lovers that rige from thy kisscs Oam’t walk a tralght line, 1 zecall with flush and s flutter That orgy whoss end {a unknown. DIl thoy boar me to bed on » shulter, Or did I reel home all alone? Was I frequent in soresms and in acresches 2 B Lawear with » forco lup%gnm 1 porpotrate numorous 5 DiaTatt fna ggnt 7 1062 Of tho secrets T trensurs and prize most Did I empty my bacchanal breast 7 Did I button-holo men I deapiss most, And frown upon those I like best? Did 1 plsy the low fawner and flunkoy With peonle I always ignore 1 Did 1 caracole round liko » monkey? Did I »lt on the floor? 0 longing 1o research may satinte, Noalm to exhume what is hid | ¥or falsehood wers vain to oxpatiate On deeds more depraved than 1 did, And though friendly falth I would fiont not, On thia It were rash o rely, Binco ths friends who behold me, X doubt uok, Wore drunker than I, Thon bast lured ms {0 passionate pastims, Dread godduss, whoso smils 18 & anre ! ‘Yet I awear thou hast temptad the last time— T swear it ; I moan what Lawear | And thy boaker shall alwaya forbode & Dingiiat it ware wiso to didain, O, luxurlous brandy-and-0ds, Onr Lady of F'ajul —Hugh Howard in the New York Graphic, — e ——— Femaloe Gratitude, At some racos held lately, about five orsix miles from Pariy, u gay party of ladics and gon- tlemen wore onjoying themeolves with consider- ablo hilarity., They laughed, and_talked, and nlfl)ed theirehampagne, rod amused themsolves with watohiug tho orowd aud tha horseu, Buddonly ono of the young ladics, ina fit of caprice, said, ** Ok, how I wish I had a boquet of white lilao,” A gollant young gontlomsn, who heard the wish, prosontly dotuchod himeelf from the arty, and was absont for about an hour. Fhu ond of that time he returnod, cavered with dust, but boaring in his band tho covotod bouquet, 'This ho prosented to tho young lady, who blushed with surpriso and delight as she re- oelved it from him, % All the company united in praising thia chival- rous porformance. # And whore d:d you proours these boautiful flowors 7" said the Judy, complacontly inlaling their odor, “ In Parls,” *Why, how did you manago to got there " “T gallopod the entire distance thore and baole, I borrowed a Liorso of Alfrod B." “Indeed! It was very kind of Alfred B, Thauk him for me," irty-aix in number. ‘Tho gnifled, Francis | JUSTIFIABLE FICTION. It I nbrolutely essontial to a Californian en- toring London sooloty that he haw sinin at lonst ono grlzzly bear, This is expected aud required of bim, Onco Ibocame garrulous over my old onmp and mountain life. Bald an English Iady, # But you must have been afrald of wild beasts, all alone in the foroest.” E 1 Iaughed & manly laugh of dorleion, “DIAd you ever kill a wild benst?"” agkod tho tendor Briton, * I hiavo nover killod anything larger than n squirrol in my lifo, Boveral timos Lofore had I boen asked Lhis quoation. With an over- gonsol- ontious regard for veracity, I had answored, “Nay." Atonco Isunkin popular cetimation. loro was the crisis sgain. Thres young ladios weroe anxiously swaiting my snawer,—two of thom lineal descendants of William the Oon- queror. Thoy expected mo to Lo Nimrodish. 1 sald thon to myself: **Birlot veracity and T must part company for awhile. Blrict voracity keops me from shining. TheBritish publioexpect bold, startling deods from s dwoller in ihe wost- orn wilds of Amoericn, Tho British publle phall not bodisappointed. I must lauuch n slain wild bonst wpon thom. It shall fl{mro prominent- 1y ot all noclal gatherings, I will toll the story B0 ofton that I will beliove it mysolf, I will also hint vaguoly of some dark and dreadful deod all my own. fn social converae ny countensance shiall fall suddenly ; I shall hesitato ; & dreadful rocollection shall, for the momont, scem to over- wholm me ; Lwill recovor ; I will'shake it off ; I will bo mysolf again.” o 1 commonced my now caraor that samo oven- ing. Tend 1 hiad oncs killed a coyote. T brought tho benst ont modestly, as though to me thero seomod nothing particularly brave or meritori- .ous In the act, “And whet i8 a coyote?" asked the lady. Bhould I ssy that it was a -mean, snoaking, cow- ardly animal, and thus rob myaei( of all my rie- ing reputation ? 4 ga @ that tho coyote waus a great, gaunt, pow- orful animal, with & roar like a lion, and more dangorous aven than the grizzly. I said thata lingqu ons had boen known to put a wholo village to flight, and that, in his merciless caroor, ho apared melther sge, sox, nor respect~ ability. I told how I had slain ono, after a dos- porat fight. I showed ona sorr, whore I hndrun o jackknifo into my hand whon o boy. My succonn astonishes and dnzzles me, Theso {nnocont British mmnidens are so hungry for sto- rios of this description—thoy swallow them with such keon rolieh—it is unkind to deny them. I am now & hero. X rotouch and ro-ombellish tho talo for overy now party. Lvontually I am to bring out & grizzly and sn Indian—slain both in singlo. combat, - Thos littlo flotiona o justifiable, They amuse; they intorest; thoy ars oxpacted, The end justifies tho means. The American of the farthor Weat, in tho re- apeciable British imogination, in & rockless, bloodthiraty, impetuons, vindictive boing, hung with six-shooters and bowie-knives. Boated be- twoen two gontlomon, one ovening, at s social gathoring, the conversation ran thua : You aro an Amorican ?" 41 am an American—a Californian.” # Ahl and itis truo that you poople on the frontior have 8o mauy rows "', # Much that is said is true.” ¢ And haye you over killed a man 2 1 stared; I thought thero was an in- tont to quiz me. No. The querists wore two honost, innocont, English art- iats, who deomod that nearly overything in the universe worth knowing or meeing was to be found in London, and that all bumanity living without the happy, blessed boundaries of Lng- land led to & vaguo, wretched sort of existence. I hesitated in my noswer. Perhapsone of the gentlemon mistook that hLesitation for the mo- mentary confusion of remorso, a8 momory, agi- tated by such n question, ran ovor italong list of victims. He apologized. Iseaid then thatI ‘hnd nover killed anybody. Idonot think I was believod. My delay in answoring, snd my spparont confusion, howeyor, raised me in thelr ostimation. They mow held mo s a Westorn dosporado, too modost Lo confees Lis crimos. Tha English hav quite o passion for the Occidental ruftian, I saw now so vividly how groat hied boen my neglect to havo lived " full sixtoen yoars in the roughost, wildest, most lawless camps in Cali- forniu withous killing at loast ono man; to have lived whore tho * shooting scrape” was o semi- weekly institution; whero ovory one went .4 haeled " with derringors, kn(vo& androvolvors; whoro the great pior-glaas bobind the bar at the Long Tom saloon was treblod in valua by the bullet-holo through it, sent thither during a controversy betweon Dr. B, end the Bheriff. I now mourned negleoted opportunitios. I could not tvr‘ulhllllly say, I, too, have alain & Poru- vian | 4 But thero is n great deal of shooting and cut- ting among your peopla ?* remarked the gentle- man. I percoived that these mon wero hungry for a menv of wild, Western, bloody fiction. t was crutel to_deny thom., I eaid: *Corteinly. Wa shoot much. Wo shoot ofton. We shoot socially. It, for instance, tho company be sitting about tha stove in the ritle suloon, and the convorsation flags, and things generally are dull, nothing is mora com- mon than for a gentloman to get up, strotch himeolf, draw his revolver, cock it, flonrieh it about bjs hoad, and proolaim himsolf the royal Bongal tiger of tho southorn mines. Then tho sluggish blood begins to quicken in tho voins of wome other gentloman, and he gets up, strotchos himsolf, draws his rovolver, cocks it, flourishes it nbout, and proclaims himaelf another royal Bongal tiger of the southern mines. Then aro hoard ton or twolve short, sharp reports, The lights aro blown out by the concussions, Tho rival Bengal tigora shoot about at random, in the dark, and bit everybody elso save thomaolves. The unhurt portion of the company scramble be- hind thebar and underthoe billiard-tables, and cry out, * Don't shoot thia way!' When the barrels of both royolvors are omptied, the combatants olinch, and, as they imagine, cut onch othor ail to piocos with bowie-knivos ; although, when lights are brought, it turns out to bo somebody olge. Then the tivo royal Bongals shake hands, fraternize over & drink, and go off togothor to the gunsmiths to fixe!. thoir pistols roloaded, survivors piok up the dead and wounded. Thereis » groat deal of talk over the affair for several days, Tho bodies are kept until Bunday. Thea thersis = splendid funeral, The Odd Fellows, tho Masons, the military companies, and the temperanco soclsties, all turn out, with musio and banners. The Bunday-school children, dressed in white, appear in the procession, sing- ing, ‘Thera is a happy land, far, far away,' - eto. Tho minister proxchos & very ai enung discourse, andis very carcful not to say anything which may wound the feelings of the. two Bongal tigers, who satand in tho front pow overlooking the cofins, as chlof mourners, holding together by their left hands the samo hymn-book, as they sing out of it,while theright of either grasps his revolver, ready tosenda ball through th clerical organization, should ho sy anything in the funeral sormon persopslly offensive to them, Everybody for twenty miles sround comes on horasback and in buggies. The ssloons and shops do a good busincss, and the day commonly winds up with a grand ball and supper. All the young ladies are proud to dance wlPh the two Bongals ; all the young men envy thom, and resolve to 'kill_somebody st the firat convenient opportunity. Befora morning, thare are probably two or thres more ‘fatal affrays,’ and mo the lifo and exoitoment peouliar to our {roe, easy, unconventional society i sustained, from month to month and year to year. “When all this is over, a subscription is gonerally mof on foot in the camp for nuctlnE monuments over tho graves, and when the money is all nh-d‘ the man to whom it {s instrusted goos to 8an Franciaco to buy the marblos, and there ho falls in with _old frionds, and drinks, sprees, and gamblea all the money away. If ho comes back and makes confession, oither we blow the top of his head off, or we say: *Nomatter, If you bad a good time, it ia just a8 woll. Bob, Jim, and Tom will rest quite s uni without any monumonts,’ Then we put over them a choap wooden tombstone, with & protty verse painted on it. Those &mlrdn. aftor' & fow yoars, rot away at tho lower end, and the goats and oows, pretured in our camp _burying-ground, rub agsinst them and knock them over, and finally Evl? glg.'her and split them up for stove kin- ngs. Tfiay liked this skoich of California lifo, ’l;lmy rolishod it. Thoy pioked ita vory bones clean, At o cortain social gathering, the name of Joa- quin Miller was introduced. ‘i Miller has-been engaged in some affrays, I nu{»wun," gaid a gontloman to mo, -1 uaid, % Ife has slain many mon.” 1 burden Aillor with ovory sort of crime, It doos im no Injury, hore, A littlo blood gives his pooms 8 gamo rellsh, “Do you know Miller 7" Tio asked, ] do, le was my friend; but—." Hore I becamo agitated, snd corrugated my brows. I sontinugd—" I wish novor to meot that man again, If Tdo—." Hero my right hand tray- elod involuntarily toward wmy derringer-pooket. “he truth is, we onoe fought, in Californin, with doublo-barreled shot-guns, at six paces. Wo have not done fighting yet—tho war lLau scarcoly begun. ‘The noxt gale that syceps from the north—, I bag your pardon! but if we most sgain—and no matier whore we moot —tho aftalr _must bo brum‘m to & final conclusion, I trust the coming effray may naver oceur in any quiot Dritish housshold; bocauso I cannot baok down, or baok out of tho customs of my native Wost. \ith us, tho cons tingencies fuvolved by tho doctrine of porsonal responaibility know nio suspension by roason of timo, ‘rlnun. alroumstanco, or company. Wo wiil fight, ho it in tho church, the theatre, or by the hmq)hnhln firosido of the strangor. Ana nmoulg our peoplo, upon such oceasions, evary ono foola In duty and honor bound to take all tlio chances of baing hit by tho stray bullets which tho com- Dbatauts may distributo among tho company.” British _society iuslsts on providing this bloody niche for tho Western Amor~ {ean, Why mnot fill it? Tho British public domand that we smell of blood, bowie- lmhmn. and tho sulphurous vapors of the piatol. Whon a man finds, ready-mada -for him, such o robe of dark and tragio o, should he not wenr it—capacinlly when tho publio fnsist on sdmir- ing him \Fmpfiu(\. storn, bloody, vindictive, and sanguinary, theroin? 1Mkoit.” I novorhnrmod oan, woman, or child ; yot, now, I foel porme- nlmfi,\y the reckless, lifo-scorning, murdor-loving npirit of my countrymen.” I count my victimy by the scoro; I noe thom Iying woltering in the nsual goro; Itrnvel throngh my own privato necropolis; 1 vislt my own private dead-house, full of my #lain, as yof unclaimod, unrecognized. —Prentice Mulford in the Overland for July. THE CATHOLIC SUNDAY. #rom the Weatern Catholie (Chicago), July 6. Tho rocont maneuveringg of somo of. tho pol- iticians of " this city bavo produced a discussion of tho Justice of statutes kiotrn as Bunday Inws. On tho one hand, Snndsy lawas hava boen de- nounced as the offspring of fanatical' Purltau- ism, and on tho other, an opposition to them is declared to bo the result of. irreligion and anti- Christian sentimonts. In this disoussion thore bnd beon an ondoayor to mako this question tho ruling one in the cholco of municipal govorn- monty, and tho rigid Babbatarians and the frec- thinking oppononta of all roligion havo alike callod upon the peoplo to take position under ono or the othor of theso flags, and that tho cit- izens yote for eatablishing, hero in Chicago, the Puritan ‘ Sabbath,"” or voto to abolish all rocog- nition of Bunday ot all. Thozo two factions, in fact, ropresont but & very small portion of tho rational-thinking people of: Chioago. Thoy are literally factions, and it is, perhaps, rather im~ Fudum for thom to thrust their notions to tho ront and ask, or oxpoct, that the great body of the people shall accopt one or tho other, whon, in fnctbbol.h aro oxtromely objoctionablu. Tlho Catholic population of Chicago, aud of all other Fllceu, havo an intorost in this quostion, sod it is not one on which thoy aro divided, nor upon which thoy have any trouble in reaching o judgmont ag to their action. he Catholio bas no doubts or uncertaintics as to his duty in the matter of Bunday observance. From tho day b is able to comprohiond lin{ instruction at all, ho in iuatructed ne to hin religious obligations, in- cluding what ho must do, and_what he must not. do, on the Lord's Day. Thero is bardly s Caotholto child in Chicago, 7 years of age, who s not. fully informed. a8 to ‘wiiat i laylal for him to do on that day, and what is required of him._ ‘There ore but fow Catholics—at all in- atruoted In religion—who do not know that tho Lord's Day of the Christian Church is not the porpotuation of tho Jowish Babbath, and that it is & day set apart by tho OChurch, upon which all mon shail unite in the public worship of God; who doos not know that by the spocial command of tho Ohurch, spoaking in the mame of its Divine Tounder, and by His suthority, that on that day ovory Catholic must dovote a portion of his tino to this public worship, and that unless ha do so he in incurring tho pennitios of grovious sin, Ho is cumi)nllafl unloss prevented by physical impossibilition, o attond_snd bour mass, eod dovote a portion of tho day to prayors, pions roading or roceiving roliglous instructionn. [lo knows that, having porformed ihis ‘duty, tho Lord's Day, which commemorates the glorious resurruction of the Savior, is » festival, o duy of yojoicing and thanksgiving, a day sot apurt for sanctified enjoyment of God'’s blessings and of praiue thorefor. Ho knows that he is forbidden and prohibited from doing auy unneces- sary work on that day, or (o commit any othor rot which would bo sinful on uny other dny. In tho course of timo, and the changos ‘mado by tho world's progress in trade, commerco, and produotion, thore are changes'in the om- loyments of men. What would be nocessnry abor in ono country at ouo age and in oue soa- gop, would not be o in other gouutries, thero- fore, what would be au unlawful occupation nn Bundasy undor one condition of circumstances would not not be at all unlnwful undor othor ciroumsatances, The Catholie’ finds no difficulty or unwrlmnl{‘ undor any circumatances upon this point, The Church considers each caso up- on its own merits, and directa its childron ac- cordingly. When the great Constaulino first gavo_imperial recognition to tho institution of the Lord's Day, by the Churob, asono of gon- eral and public worship, he decrosd : Lot ali the Judgos and townspeoplo and. tho ocoupa- tions of all trades, rest on tho® vensrable dsy of the Sun ; but lot those who are eituated in tho “country, freoly and at {ull liberty, ottend to tho business of egriculluro, becauso it often happous that noother day 18 8o At for sowing corn and planting vines, lest, the critioal momont belng lot slip, mon’ ahould loss the comunodities granted by the providence of Heavou, That decroo, prepared at the request and, doubtless, undor tho oyo of tho Bishops of tho Churcl, embodies the spirit of tho Catholic doctrine of Sunday observanca. The distinction in the manner of observiug tho Lord's Dry, from that of kosping the Jewish Sabbath was strongl impreased, and the whola toaching of tho Churcl was to dostroy the idea that the old Sabbath wns preserved under tho now law, The Lord's Day owes its establishment to tho Catholic Churchi. At first there was a want of uniform- ity in the obeorvance of the day for general public worship among the Christians, except 80 far as an avoldsnce of tho seventh day, and finally tho Churoh, ‘st a vory carly day, sol apart the first day of the week, called it the Lord's Day, and issued the procepts for its ob- worvanco, The Lord's Day, therefore, is pocu- liarly an_establishment of the Catholic Church, inst{tuted by its authority as the Church of God, having control oyer tho spiritual welfare of man- ind, Sunday is, in addition to being o day sot apart for roligious duties, a day of rost,—rest from the toils and busy occupations of men. Itisa day set apart when thoy can leave their. worldly af- faira for & time Lo unite in common and publie worship of God, * It is slso a day of rost for tho body. In tho command to rest from unnecessary work isincluded, of necessity, not ouly a sua- ension of manual labor, butof all cccupation Elflng for its object peouniary gain, It not only arrests tho labor of the mechanio, butof the tradeaman ; though the latter msy not perform hysical 1abor, the upirit of the law IGKLII ires him ?n closo hiu place of business, unloss keeping it open be & nogessity. The Cathollo Sunday, therefors, may be de- soribed as a day whon the whole community, suspending commorce aud labor of every kind, collecta the young and tho old in the churches, and thero join together in publio dovotiona to their Divino Master, hoar instructions, read re- ligious books, vislt the slck, give alms to the poor, hunt up and comfort the aflicted. Ehvinfi porformed faithfully all theso duties, they seel and find recreation for hody snd mind in any, ‘manner not of itsolf sinful, and not in any way inconnistent with the proper porformance of the religious dutios already mentioned. Exceptin tho matter of abstaining from unnecessary labar, and in that ia included evory worldly occupation or business for profit or gain, there is no prohi- bition upan the onjoymont of any of the bloss- ings of life, that it would be lawful to enjoy on any other day, Keeping always in mind tho prohibition of all unnecessary work or business ocoupation on Sundsy, any Catholio who has faithtully porformed tho religious dutiesrequirod of him, is at liberty to enjoy suy recreation, amusomont, or pleasuro that of itself would ba barmless and innocent on any othor day, aud is in 1o wise a profanation of the Lord's ilny, or inconsistent with the lawa of the land. Tho Roman Oathollo, while under the same obligation as all other citizons, to obey the laws and the constituted authorities, has upon him a religious obligation to keop holy tho Lord's Day. Ho isnot at Hberty to disregard this Injunction, Ho dooa not keep tho Sabbath day of the Jows in the manner prescribod, nor becsuso of any ob- ligation contaiued in the Mouaio law, Ioob- serves tho Bunduy as an institution establishod by the Church, by whom he ia commanded to re- epoat it, The Roman Catholio is the only Ohris- tlan who recognizes the lmpornuvo obligation to attend Ohurch on the Lord's Dn{ and performn other religious duties, The obl (gntlon I8 pro~ civoly the samo whother tho State or municipal Iaw has anything to oy on the subjoot or not. ‘Ihe Roman Catholle, in the absouce of any “ Bunday law," {8 under the samo rostrainty that o ik when such law oxists, In a roligious sonse the ounctment of such laws doos not add any- thing to the obligations whioh rested on him he- fore. 'lie ropeal of thoso laws can give him uo liconke to do what ho might nob law- fully do beforo, ‘I'hero aro, of course, many Cathiolics who do not comply with their dnties in rospoct to tho obsorvanco of Sunday, But thoy are not to be accoptcd as vxpononts of what the Catholio popus Intion think the Bunday ought to Lo, aud what tho groat multitudo M!\lan Aook to mnko It, The olvil Iaw, a8 wo understand it, doos not in- lor}xuflo to compel mon to observe tho Bundny roligiously, ‘Ihnt is bogond the ronoh of mero human law, But the olvil Inw, rocognizing tho Lord's Day ns a day sot apart_by tho gront mul- tltudo of the peoplo for publie” worship, intor- posien to prohib{t evorything which may be calonlatod to intorfere with tho froo and undis- turbod obeervance of that day by thoso roligious- ly disposed, ‘In this rospoct tho olvil Inw is xight ; In this respoct tho civil law will nlways command tho respect and support of Onthiolics. Wlmul howevor, It Iy propused by oua cllque of politioians to disrogard Tio roligious obaory- 000 of tho Lord's Day, nnd make no dletinction botweon it and othior days of the week, and whon proposed by tho rigld Sabbatarinnm, to. malko nion conform to the requirements of the Jowirh Snbbath, whon the Christinn fostival of Buurdny ahall be- convorted into o Puritanical or Jewislt dny of wsorrow, abutiuonce, penitenco, and suflering, then neither tho extrome parti- sann of tho ono side or of the othor should ro- coivo tho support. of Uha rationnl-thinking pao- plo of thiacity. Dulh factions would advoeate measures unworthy the Amarican peoplo, and incouslstont with thoe wholo thoory of Amerlean Government, A s HIS VALEDICTORY. Or, Whnt I 8w at Commencement, *2'was & handsome Bacenfatireate, With lifn parchmont fn his hand ; And ho briekly stepped on the pintform, And took his place at the atand ; And Lo swept {he sea of faces Witli n glance of bia featleas eyo Aud a Inok that was full of triumph, " And courago ta do or die, Thero wero aunts, and uncles, sud couatns, |, Telations a half-n-score,— ¥ Allinod, old-foahigned Yooplo Wiio considered “Intnin'a bora s And frionds who woro bolter posted 0n o noeds of tha rushiug times, i WL know that knowledgo i powor, Audignorance ous of the crimos, “Then tho valedictory oponcd, s Obseura pes obiciu,” # Ora rotundo,” also, And mowmontly grow moro furious, 4 Qui non proficit deficit,” Was tho young man's raliylng-ery | And lio proved that all wors turtics Who didn't know how to fiy. o threw up * pon asinornm Of an English nentonco or two, By way of liolping hia hoarers “To it and hear him through, But he hurled in Groek and Tatin, ‘And hie did it with wuch a forco Tint {u loss than fficen minutos 1ia volco grow woak and hoarso, # Hanulbal onte porfas" Nevor worked half as hard, And nover such * furor loquendi” ‘Waa hieard from spoaker or bard, 4 Nihil oit, dux femins, Dusendo dicimus, Fax wuentls, incendlum glorln, In modia tutissimus,” And 50, to tho ond of tho chapter, “T'hla torrible youth wont in, Raking up tho doad langusges In a way that scomed a sin, Till biw volco grow woak and ‘weaker, In wild, {ncohorent muttor, # oo tempore,” thoy olzed him, And bore him homo on & shulter, A £ad and torrible warning To quoters of Grock and Latin : The young man diod, and the hearers aca Qoitld got from the Aeats thoy sab in, Thie LL, D.’s and D. C. L.'s, A, Baand the A, B, B.'es, Got'up an olaborate funeral "o add to his frionde’ distresses, Thiey coverad hiv gravo with old Greek “ roots,” And carved on o stons of granite: #Vir sapit qui paucit loguitur And tho mournors had to *utan’ it.” A, JoRDAN, — Quecn Victorins Incones Queen Vietorin either i, or ought to bo, a vory woalthy woman. ller income was ot tho beginning of lior roign fixod at £985,000 yoor. T'his sum, it was understood, would, with the ex- ception of £96,000 & yoar, be divided belween the Lord Stoward, tlio Lord Chamboriain, and tho master of the horso, tho throe great func- tionaries of the royal household, Of tho resi- due, £60,000 wero ta be paid over to the Quosn for her persoual oxpenses, and tho re- maining £86,000 wore for * contingencies.” It is probable, however, that the above arrange- mouts havo boen modified, aslimo hus ~workod chugos. Darlug the liappy daya of tho Quoon' marrlod lifo the expondituro of tho court wes very much groator than it has boen sinco the Prince’s death. Tmperors and Kings wore ontertsined with utmost splondor at Windsor. Duringthe mperorof Russia'avisit, for instance, and that of Louis Philippe, one or two hundred extra mouths were in one way or another fod at Hor Majosty's oxponso, Tho stables, too, wero formorly filled with horsos—and very flno ones they were—iwherons now the nwmber is greatly reduced, and many of thoso iu the royal mows are * jobbed,"—i, o,, bired b{ the week or montl, n6 occaston roquires, from livory stables. This poverty of the master of the horao’s dopartment excited much angry comment on tho occasion of the Princess Aloxandria’s stote eniry into Lon- don, But, besides the provious-montionod £60,- 000 o year, and what yesidue mny bo unspent from the real of tho “oivil list,” =a the £335,000 is enlled, Queon Victorin has two othor sources of considorable income. Bhe is in her own right Duchoss of Lancastar. Hor rovonue from this sourco has beon steedily incrensing, Thus, in 1865 it was £20,000 ; in 1867, £39,000; in 1809, £31,000; in 1872, .£40,000. The largest of these fguiros doon not probubly repragont a fitth of tho receipts of John of Gaunt, but the duchy of Lan- caster, like that of Cornwall, sufferad for o long timo from tho fraud and rapacity of those who wore supposed to bo its custodians. Managod as it now is, it, will probably havo doubled its pros- ont revonue bofore the clogo of the contnry, The othor ource is still more striotly poraonal in- como, On tho 30th of Auguat, 1862, thore died & gentloman, aged 72, of tho namo of John Camdon Neild. 1o was non of a James Neild, who acquired n large fortuno asa gold and silver- smith, Ho roceivad every advantago in the wa; of education, gradunted” M. A. at Trinity Col- logo, Uambridgoe, and was subsequently called to tho bar. e proved, howaver, the very ra- yorse of hisbenovolent fathor. Ho was a misor ‘born, and hid all his talents in a napkin, making 10 uso of his wealth boyond n\lowinf it to acou- mulate. From the dato of the death of his father, who left him £350,000, besides roal ostate, he had spent but n small portion of his income, and al- lowed himself scarcely tho necossarios +of life. Ho usually drossed in a blue coat with metal buttons. This ho did not allow to bo brushed, inasmuoh as that process would have worn the nap, Ho was novor known to wosr an overcoat. Ho gladly accepted invitations from his tenant- T, aud would remain on long visits, bocause ho thus savod board. A few days boforo his death he told ono of his executors that ko had mado & most singular will, but that he had a, right to do what ho liked with his own. When the document was openod, it was found that, with the excoption of a few small logaclos, hio had loft all *‘to Hor Mokt Graocious Majosty Queon Victoria, bu?glng Her Majesty'a ‘moiit gracious scceptance of tho same, for Lier nole use and benefit, and tbat of her heirs.” Probably vanity dictated this baquest. To a poor housekeoper, who had sorved Lim twenty- six years, he loft nothing, to each of his exocu- tors, £100. But tho Queon made a handsome provision for the former, and presented £1,000 to each of the latter; snd she further alned n memorial to the miser's memory. The prop- ort; bo&uusthed to hor amounted to upwards of 0,000 ; 8o that, supposing Hor Majesty to have spent overy penny of her public and duchy of Lancaster incomes, and to bave only laid by thin logacy and the interost on it, sho would from tlns sourco alono now bo worth at least £1,000,- 000. Bo this as it may, even that portion of the rnbun which survives her will probably never now tho amount of Lior woslth, for tho wills of Klns‘? and Queons;are not proved ; eo that there willbe no onlightenment on this hesd in the payes of tho Jilustrated London News. From the New Yurk T'ribune, A vory touching caso of mental alionation in a charming young lady i doseribed bya careful ob sorvor, Not long ngo her mothor found Lor in her room energetically darning stockings, and soon aftor she appeared in thekitohen and nssist- od that wondering damo in making and bakin, ‘bread and ]mstry. Alarmed by thoso foarful signs of intelleotunl disorder, hor fond parents immodiately sont for a skillful physiclan, who watehod Lot through o koyholo whilo she sowed buttons on her fathor's garmonts and mended thoso of hor little brother, Much afacted, the vonorable man remarked that nover durlng » modlcal practice of twenty-llvo yoars had ho known any fuuug orson to manifest such symptoms as theso, Tho most boart-rond- ing phiago of oll, howover, was shown tho other duy, whon her kiud fathor, with n falnt hopo of rounlu&z hor from hor sad stato, gave hor $200 and told her to buy n now dross. Alasl 'twas usoless, Bho Instantly observod thot sho didn't nood 4 new dross, aud if o would lot hor keep 45 to pay a poor widow’s ront ehe'd much rather he \vould ‘tuko tho rost of tho monoy for himuelf. For o few moments that grief-stricken old gen- tlemuan gazod upon his hapless child, then hm!ng his faco, mutterod botwoon his sobs, * Ilor miuy is uonef Her mind iy gone ! | onth)to stay, TERMIN! LIFE. i Edward King in Scribner's, Whon we woro all anugly tucked up in our borlhs In the gnyly-decorated sleoping ealoon, one of tho now-comora bogan dreamily to tell stories of tormint_troubles, *Not much as it was when wo were hiore and at Muskogeo In 1870," hosaid. “Throe men woro shot about twonty feot from this same car in ono night ot Muskogeo, Oh! this was = littlo hell, this was, Tho roughs took possession here ! in earnest, Tho keno and monto playora had any quantity of lonts nll about this soction, and 1ifo was the most uncortain thing to keop you ovor eaw. Ono night & man loat all ho had atkouo; #0he wont arouud behind (ho tent and tricd to shoot tlho kono-denler in the back ; ho missod him, but Lilled another man. Tho keno man just got a board and put itjup Lohind himself, and tho gamo went on. One day ono of the roughs took offonse at somothing the railrond folkas eaid, 80 ho ran our train off tho track noxt mornlig, Thero was no law hevo, and no moaus of gotting suy. As fast as the railroad moved on, roughs pulled up ‘stakes and moved with it. We tried to scare them away, but thoy didn’t scare worth a cont. It was next to imposaible for astranger to walk through one of. these cauvas towns without getting shot at. The graveyards wero somotimos bottor populated than tho towns next thom. Tho follows who rulo those little torrestrial holls —whoro thoy eame from nobody knows. Never had any homes—grow up liko prairic graas, only rankor and coarsor and moanor. Thoy had all boen torminuscs over ince theycould romomber. Most of thom hiad two, thres, and four murders on thelr ‘hands, and confossed them. Thoy oponly deflod the Indian authorities, and scorned Uncle 8am and his Marshals. ‘I'hey know thers waa monoy whorever the end of the road was, and thoy mosnt to have it." “But how long did this condition of affairs conlinuo 2" “It wont on steadily until the Secretary of the Interior camo down here to soe tho Territory and to examino tho railroads, e wont down In the same car, and he was_carofully informed of all tho lswlossnoss and flagrant ontrages ‘which decent pmshn Lird been obliged to submit to.. Ononight whilo thoy were on the rond, the Buporintendout-in-Chief pushod on a little shoad of tho train to get a physician, as a fijaullnmln in tho special car was taken suddonly .. The roughs captured the Buperintendent and proposed to shoot him, aa they fancied him somo local cminzary of the General Goyernment. it} hnggod off, howeyer, and oxplained who ho was, ‘Thoy hiardly derod to shoot him then; 80 he succoeded in getting o physician, got back 0 tho truin, and next day ho took the Booretary of tho Tntetior to inspact thia choico epecimen of railroad oivilization.” *“ And what did the Beoretary ses " ** Ol all the ruffiaus flocked to hiear what he had to esy. They had killed & man thst morn- ing for a moro caprico, and he was laid ont ina littlo tent which the party passed by as the looked around, Ouno aftor another of "the roug| follows was presonted to tho party ; and cach one apoke very I&;mmy, and snid ho Lind a_right to stay in ‘tho Nation,’ and he moant (with an and ho'd like to hear any one hint that ho'd bettor go away. 'Thon they told stories of thoir murderous explolts, practised at marks with tholr revolvers, and secmed not to have the lenst foar of tho Bocretary." . ““ What waa tho rosult 7" “Well, the Becretrry of tho Interior took & beo line for the nearest telograph station, and sent a dispatch to Gon. Grant, announcing that noither lifo nor property was safo in the Torritory, and that the Indians should bo aidod in expell~ ing the roughs from their midst, So, in a short tiine, the Tenth Cavalry went into active sorvice in tho Turritnr{." “ Did the rofiians make any resistanco?"” ““‘Phey got togother at tho terminus, nrmed to tho tosth, and blustered s good deal; but the cavalrymon urrostod one after another, und oxamined each man separatély, When one of the torminuses was nsked his namo, Lo usually auswerod that it was 8lim Jim, or ild Bill, or Lone Jack (with &n_oath), and that ho waa a gambler, or o ‘pounder,’ as the casc might bo, and, furthermoro, that ho didu't intond to leave the Torritory. Wharoupon tho officor command- ing would say: ‘Well, Slim Jim, or Wild Bill, or Lone Jack, I'll give you twolve hours to leave this town.in, aud it you aro found in the Torritory a wook from this dato, I'll’ have you shot?' "And thoy took the hint."” “Where are thoso men now?” ‘“8ome of thom aro at Donison, at the end of this rond. Thoy are sccuroenough thore, bocause when they are pursued on a critmnal procens they are only four miles from the Rod River, an thoy can escapo into the Territory, beyond tho ronch of Uuited Statos law, and_recrosa tho frontior in somo otber direction. You will see them at Denison. Good-night.” A moment nfterwards, the voice added : “ Dy the way, at the noxt station, Muskogoo aman was shot beforo tho town got there, nne tho gravoyard was startod boforo a singlo utreet was Inid out. You can sco tho graveyard now- a-days—eloven men aro buried there with their boots oa. Good-night again.” i o -t RIRIAM, ‘¢ Indood 11ovo thoo, Come, told thyesit up. My bopos anl thine arg ono. Accomplish thuu miy mautiood ang Laythy s ud th, 1t ‘hands in mine, aud l:fl::n&) mo." s there no flly in a woman's heart 2 My darling | muat we alwaya stand opart 7 Because your dead past hold such awful pain, Do you condemn my love to live in vain 7 Ob, dewy lifo | bocauss ono black heart dated To'palo your red with woe, nor reckod, nor cared, Need you smila sadly on me, saying * Nay 1" Fearing my kisa migat, Jnd‘l-llke,glmlnu,? Oh, matchless, fathomless, dark eyes 1 why 800 Obly heforo you what hatt comed 1o bo 7 Oh, quesnly head | whoso floating, bronze-bra oy pr i ket S e Bocause the traitor on whose breast you Iny Turnod Into blackest night your far, young day, Then left your side for paths whero flowees blooma, Taking no thought how, in that awful gloon. Whero strong, brave men have quailed, and {atlan, too, e Gt T Ahowld boar ou threnghis”” Decause in one honor and trulh were dead,— Neod you asoumno that alf his footateps troad 7 My littls girl! have you a0 many fenrs, And naught of trust for one who all thosa years Jlas loved you with alove os pure and truo ‘A8 bopeless, sinco it hid itself from you 7 Yong have I held yon dearer than my Iifo, At laat 1dare to say, Swoet, bo my wife AniaNsas, Juno 17, John Bright and the Queon. 2. D. Conway's London Correapondence to tha Cincine nat{ Commercial, The pleasure’ of the Tories and Whigs at John Dright's lotter of rebuff to tho Republicans in Congress at Dirminghsm, has been ralsed ton leo at & moro_rocent lstter written by him to r, Obarles Oattell, a Bxpmlncn; Republican, who wroto asking him (Bright) if ho adhered to the opinjons in favor of Ropublican institutions in Amorics, oxpressed in his spoeches of twelvo years ago. ‘‘I have no copy of speochos to 1e- for to," Teplies Mr, Brignt, **but you are quite at liberty to quote from thom as much as you please, They aro public proporty, if they hinve auy value, As to American insti- tutions, I hops you will be able to seo that Argu- ments that may bo rightly used hors in favor of monarchy may also be used, and with a like force, in America In favor of a ropublie.” Tho disappointment, which tho English Republicans soen to feol at the courss Mr. Bright has taken in their caso is somowhat unrcasonsble. I havo known Mr. Bright porsonnlly for many years, aond havo hoard him converso upon’ mnoarly evory political topio, nfihuugh he bas boon olways, ‘and now, a warm friond of the Btatos, his convorsation has always indicatod an oqually warm sontiment of attachmont toward tho Queon, couplod with a misgiving s to whether Amorican institutions cor fully adapted to Eunglish socioty. His fooling toward the Queon was displayed publicly sy a meoting onco hold in 8t James' all, Mr, Ayr- ton, now & mombor of the Government, hnd mado » speoch in which ho commontod with in- dircet but severo phascs on tho Quocn's absont- ing hersolf o long from public and ocourt lifo. Mr, Bright sprang up and robuked Ayrton vii- orously, launching out into such eloquont ut- terances concerning Hor Majosty's groat sor- rows, hior widowed lifo, that tho lurge audi- enco oo and cheerod Lim with enthusliasm, I am also nble to filvn a bit of unwritten history conneoted with Bright's entrance upon oflico ‘whioh_suggests olrommnutancos that may have tonded to qxlu attachment to the Quoen moro personally cordial. When Mr, Gladstoue was arranging the Cabinot of which Mr. Dright Locamo a member, ho #ald to the Queon, “I ohall have to call Mr, Bright,” The Quoonsald; d bo Buccoss~ 7 “Do not_think I bave any objsction to Mr. Dright. Ishall nover consd to bo grateful to him for his dofonsoof me in & go ular m“““fi;“ Whon Gladstone went to Bright tho lattersaid he dld not wish to hold office, Bt you must,” enid Gladstono, adding, bumorously, * you have ot us in this fix and must seo us filruugh with t.” 1fa thon offered Bright nny post ho wished to ocoupy, and the statesimun soloctod tho lowast ln.polnl of anlary,—tho Board of Trado, with £3,000, —booause, ho sald, ‘“ho know sometling ahont {t.” Whon, according to custom, he wns taken down to \\’indsor. to bo sworn in tho Quoon's prosanco, an ologant luncheon had beon prepared. Whilo Mr. Bright wns at lunchoon a pngo camo to Bay to him that, in tho onsuing coromony, Her lajouly was anxious to dispenso with any form whicli wns in nny way con« trary to his (Mr. DBright's) viows or foollngs, and the usual knecling and kisalug Lor hand might ho dlspensed with —ng 1t was. Whon Bir. Bright ontered into tho prosance of the Quoon, sho shook hands with bim heartily, Tho Crown Lrincess of Irussia waa prosont, and she advanced to Mr. Bright and told him that she and hor mother and sistora and brothers had always rememborad with gratitude his dofonso of hor against Mr. Ayrion's criti- clgms. 'Bhoy then foll into o plessant eonver- satlon, in which Mr. Bright showed more ndaptation to some of the comg!(mnntm- Ways of courts than his Quaker habits would' load ono fo suspoot, Ha roluted to the Crown Princess that ho hiad onco hoard the American Minister, Mr. Buchanan, rclate an anccdoto of his first dinner with tho Quoon. At tho table ho aat bosido a vory ynung Princoss who hLus now beoome tho Crown Princess of Prussia. In tho conrse of owur sav talk, said Mr, Buchanap, tho prineoss tureng round to mo and said, archly, ** And wiat on think of mo?" Mr. Buehir.an replied, 1 think you tho moat charm- iug pecson I evor met.’ * Far bo it from, me,” said Mr. Bright, with” an adinirable bow, “to diffor from tho judgmont of eo wiso a porson as the American Ministor,” on which the Princess broko into o_hoarty lsugl, and Mr. Drigat bo- came moro than ever o favorito at court, aud romains more than over a friond of the Queon. It may b, indeod, that republican roaders mey Tregard all ‘this as more tho crodlt of tho moparch than of the statosman ; but it must bo underatood that Mr. Dright's foolings on the subject fs based upon a long-atanding conviolion that Har Majesty is a const{tutional monaxch ; that she has consontod \to withdraw trom any resl control or direction of the Government, and 6o, virtually, leavos tho Prime Minister and his Cabipot the unimpeded rulors of Great Brn un, and the_country as gon- uing a ropublic as Amerioa, His fault now is not seoing that this kind of unreality, this fio- tion of monarchy, is necossarly transitional ; that it can not Iast forever; that it implios & beneflojal regime, -depondont on a good luok the occupancy of the throns, which may not bo followed by & run of such luck, = Moreover, the abnegation of all por- sonal rule by the Quecn—as far as shs soems inclined to oxtond that abnogation—has fts un- happy side also, a8 is attosted by an ugly inci- dent which has just ocourred. Bome poor Iabor- orson the gmou‘s catate, who woro recolying tho wrotched pittance of 2 ehillings and 4 pence a day, resolved to lay thelr caso before Hor Ba- Josty's self, and bogged for 2 ehillings and 10 ponco adsy, and to have their working timo shortened by an hour. Thoe Quoen turned the momorial ovor to her stoward,—as is her way,— and the result is tho discharge of acven of thom, ond the ejection of soven familles from their homes, becansa tho father dared try andap- roach 4he Quecn othorwise than through an un- ust steward. AT SEA. 08eal I bow beforo thy majeaty, And speak 1y rovercuce with trembling tono ‘Aud faltering lip, a if before the Throne And swful presonce of tho Deity, Ob let ma worship in thy templo high, Cerulean-wallod, with freaco-work of clond : Lot me, with thy wild Blllows, cty alond, Though rolling authems drown my childish ery. Kindliog s from a thounand founts of light, Thera Ufta thy altar of Etrurian gold: Tho changing, long cloud-cuztains, fold on fold, Vell balf its burning splondors from my sight, Day, clothed in pncrificial rabes of fioe, Binks, a reluctant offorlug, at thy sbrine : A crimson-purplo flamo of light divine Btroams heavenward from the sacred altar-pyre. Thy Great High Priest fu God : around His form A royal robo of colored mist is drawn, A thousand-fold more gorgoous than the dawn, Dore grand than whon He moves smid the stornl X how mny Liead 2% ono who meots dea| ‘Thon swful Sunset-Glory of tho Sua irs Ay trembling soul In awo gaes out to thes, Like Inconso wafted on the wing Juxe, 1873, Tu f prayer, . UARPENTER, —_— Nlow John Adams Neft the Presis dency. Mr. Adams’ last day arrived. This odious judiclary law bad beon passod threo wooka bo- fore; but, owing tothe delay of the Benato to act upon the nominations, the Judgos waro still uncommissioned. The gentlomen’s party had not tha decenocy to loave 80 much as one of theso valuablo life-appointments to tho incoming Ad- ministration ; nor an. other - vacancy whatevor, of which tidings reached tho seat of Government in time. Nominations wera gent to the Bounte as lato as O o'clock In tho ovening of the 8d of March; and Judgo Marshall, the acting Secre- tary of Btato, waa in his ofiico at midnight, still signing commigsions for mon through whom another Administration waa to not, But the Bec- rotary and his busy clerks, preciscly upon tho stroke of 12, woro startled by an apparition. It was the bodily prasence of Mr. Levi Lincoln, Massnchusetts, whom tho President-elact hed choson for tho office of Attornoy-Goneral. A conversation onsued botwoen thess two gentla- mon, which has been rocently rngarlud for us by Mr, Jefferson’'s grnc-gmnfldn:& tor: Lincoln—I have baen ordered by Mr. Jeffor- #on to take posscssion of this office and its pa- ora. L Marshall—Why, Mr. Jofforson has nob yot qualified. Lincoln—Mr. Jofferson considers himself in the light of an executor, bound to take charge of the papers of the Government until ho is duly qualified. arshall q.nldng out his watch)—But it is not yoi 12 v'alovk, Lincoln (taking & watch from his pocket and showing it)—This is tho President's wateh, and rules tho hour. Judge Marshall felt that Mr. Lincoln waa oaater of the situation ; and, ting & ruoful look upon theunsigned commi - spread upon the table, ho left his midnight viu.ior in possos- sion. Relating the scene in after-years, whon the Federaliats had recovered @ portion of thoir Eond humor, ho used to eay, laughing, that ho sd boen allowed to pick up nothing but his hat. While thoso evonts wero transpiring, Mr. Adams was proparing for that precipitate flight from the Capital which gave thelast humilintion to his party., He had not tho courtesy to stay in Washington for a fow hours, and givo the eclad of his presenco to the inau, tion of his suc- censor. ‘I'radition reports that he ordered his carriage to bo at the door of the White House at midnight ; end we know that, boforo the dawn of the 4th of March, ho bad loft Washington fer. over.—James Parlon in the Allantio for July. Gem=~Engravings The art of gom-ongraving, eince it flonrished during antlquity, has froquently been claimed to have givon to tho_modern world sn authentis portrait of Christ. One of the most notorious of those attempts, in modorn tims, was that of the famous ‘* Emorald of tho Vatican,” which was olaimad to bave beon engraved b; the ordor of Dilate, with on intaglio head of Christ, and sont by him to Tiberius, The story went further, that this gem had boen ocarefully troasured u by the Iloman and Byzantine Crowars, and thol Ottoman successors, until it wes puid by the Bulton to_Innocent VIL, as a ransom for bis brothor. Tho claim of this gom to bo o con- tomporary portrait cannot, however, stand the tost of modern critiolsm. It is not antique nor Blyznuune' in style, but belonge quite unmistaka- bly to the period of the Italiau rovival; while Mr. King, an oxcollent authority on such mattors, anyn-that tho head is undoubtedly & copy of tho Load of the Savior in Raphnol's'cartoon of the Miraculous Draught of Iishes. Other gems, olaiming also to be authentio, ara known to bo in existonco, There is one in tho collection in Paris ropresonting Christ without a beard, which is aupposod to have beon mado by the Nostoriang of Poreis a contury or two bofore the fall of that empiro. L'hero in also a wholo litorature of con- trovorsy concorning tho authenticity of cortain coine or medals, nf which sevoral aro known to bo In oxlstouco, but whoso claims to suthentioity aro cortainly vory doubtful, Tho typicsl head - ot Christ, however, which camo to bo founnlly used In byznuthm art, was copled from tho goma reprosonting Berapls, tho Eiy(ltlan god, . whoso warahi, ecoamo very fashionable in Groeco and Itnly during the last period of gem cutling, During tho middlo azos many of tho cinssica! goms undorwont o similar transforma- tion, Br. King montions a Bilonus transformod fnto an abbot, Oaracalla was wudes Peter, and Jove booame Johu. In certainly ono caso, & gom roprosenting Loda and the Bwan was sup- osed to ropresent tho visit of tho Ioly Ghiost Pu Mary, and wua usod as a decoration to the Horina'of the Throe Kings, in the Oathedral of Cologne, io which their skulls were preserved,