Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 20, 1873, Page 11

1B CIIICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1873. 11 & PERU. The Traffic in Chinese Coolies. Nominal .Apprenllcoship for Eight Yoars, sut Actual Slavery a0r Life. doolies as Child-Nurses, and as Gamblers, Horrors of the Ocean Pasange---Six Hundred Deaths in a Osrgo of Twelvo Hundred. Bpectal Correspondence of The Chicago Tridune. L, Peru, 8, A,, May, 1873, To-day I havo beon off on board onmo of tho Coolio ships, in tho harbor of Callao, to visit the home of thess poor Chinsmen, who aro brought hore to work tho augar, coffee, cotton, and rico plantations, up and down the coast, a8 woll ag to be sold as house-gorvauts. . Poru hue doolared nerself a Republio, and would be Justly indig- uant 'woro I to daclare that this traflio {n Coolies is but anotlior featuro of #E 4 THE SLAVE-TRADE long since abolished. ButI think I ean con- vince my ronders that the buying znd sclling of Coolies diffors very littlo from the mothod for- morly omployed by the African traders. The Ohinamon are brought from Japan and Olina, and thoro are also moro or less Malays. They aro paid 5 soles a hioad ($26), and are ontrappod, smugglod, and bonght to go on shipboard, where * thoy are put into the hold until the full number I8 obtained, When they arrive at Callao, you go on board, seloct the sorvant you require, pay the Ohinese Commissionors €800, and rocolve the boy or man solected, and also a paper which binds him to you for o torm of EIGIT YEARS. You aleo agroo, in this appronticeship-paper, to puy him $1 por week, which s all the profit he derives from his sharo in the bargain ; and, with this dollar & weok, he is to purchaso his on- tiro olothing ; but, as his yearly outfit consists of a pair of pantaloons and & shirt (changed as often, however, as soiled) and you cannot in~ duce bim to wear s lat or shoos, except lst- slippers, and cast-off hats that you may give bim, ho doos not require much -money. This Qollar por weok buys hia entire wardrobe, At tho ond of eight yoars, nccording to the paper which yon not only have signod, but which ho himsclf hag sanctioned in queocr, cabalistic signe, you both undorstand that ho is freo, and can go whorever ho may profor, But horo Xoan seo the greatest injustice, Thero will bos ques- tion raised of extra work demanded, of broken and misplaced articles that he must work out; and, doos he demand his frecdom by the Qourts, the Judge will invariably, for a foo, decide sgainst him ; o that SELDOX DOES TIE GATN his covoted froedom at tho expiration of tho eight years. Bomotimes he hiasbocome attached to his situation, and will continue right slong, yoar aftor yoar, for tho old stated prico, $1 por wook, and sometimes I have known humsno familios who, having & faithful servant for tho pight years, and having bocome assured of his invaluable services, cither as cook, stoward, or ohild’s nurse, will rotain him long yonrs aftor tho ecight have oxpired, and pay him €35, and even §80 a month, 4 I said i # onTLp's NURSE," for the Poruvian ladiés profor theas Coolies (thera are never any womon brought to Poru among the Chinese) a8 nursory-maids to sy othier of their own sox. A mau-nuree for ohil- dron scoms to me wholly out of charactor, if not absolutely vulgar ; but, whon you eee thom car- iog for all tho children in & family,—girls, babies, and all,—it approsches the ludicrous very foroibly, Yet thoso men-nurses are vory foithful, kind, and attentivo to the family nostlings committed to their eare. ‘In walking - .down tho narrow streots, how often havo I looked in at the large paved couflr‘fnr(}n of the housos, and seen somo old, wrinkled Coolie .(or it may be some younfi, lithe, and handsome on?&khuiglug up the dslr - ‘baby in his arms, as he walked her to eleop down tho vine-covered porches ; and tho elder children, swarmed around bim, puhlng at bis baggy trou- sera, and geemingly very happy with him, As the Coolies are tho most INVETEDATE GAMDLERS in the world, thefl aro often held to pny a gam- bling dobt, If they have nothing clso carthly that thoy oan gamble for, they will put up‘thom- Belves against money. For instanco, they will put up their hand, one fingor, the foot, both arms, their ontire body, against your money ; and 8 foot or hand will Bervoyou forayear; and, should you gain possossion of tho body, he is your slave for a life-time, and bound to sorve you. And so, for the pleasure and oxcitomont of play, Coolie will Sut himself into o life- an long _ ‘sorvitude, never again _ will ho be .ablo to roturn to his homo or kindred. Peruvians, Imowing of this_morbid pro{mnuny amun[iln.\u Coolies, and the honor and patience which they evince in ful- filling tho conditions of thoir sclf-eriforced sor- vitude, will win thom at this great dissdvan- tu%e, and keep them in perpotual slavery. ccasionally a Chinaman will prove tobe s sullen, moroso, dangorous sorvant, drawing carving-knives at tho slightest provocation, an uarreling with tho othor sorvantss and tho family, gind to got rid of him, or let him go, will bo only too thankful that his eight-yoar torm has expirod. But generally THKY ABE FAITUFUL HERVANTS, =nd any pretoxt is usod as a sufflciont oxcusoe to keep them beyond the oight years. Somotimes, on the cotton, coffes, Bugar, and rico planta- tions, they will riso in open 'rovolt, murder tho entire Lhouscholds, and creatoe o porfect relgn of terror ; but this ia seldom done, unless they aroe detninod boyond their torm of eight years, -If, in their desperation and rage, ono, single-hand- ed, commits murder, or any desperato_doed, ho istaken instantly and burned slive at an fron stake, before the assombled plantation. And so, almoat hopeless, they are bound aahelpless as a voritable glave ; and'I am _glad to soo that tho American and tha English Ministera at Lima aro protesting n[itlnst this servitude, and calling the nttontion of tho Government to the wrong being dono the poor Coolies, It a Ooolle prove sullen, gun orous, or impudent, his Peruvinn master s him TIED UP AND WHIPPED; and I have ropeatedly socon thom knocked down for some omission of duly. If .Le prove utterly orrigiblo, o is taken oft to some Peruvian man-of-war lying in the harbor of Calino, tied to the mast, ‘and flogged daily with n leathern cat, kopt in tho hold, fed on bread and water on- 1y, and punished almost to th vergo of doath, auntil he realizes that he muat mark out & differ- ont line of conduct, If Le seoms uncleanly, disty, and dishonent, he is sold to some Chineso fonda-koeper (a fonds being a restaurant), ‘where the disciplino and vlfilunca never rolax, in his caso ; or, should ho still prove unfaithful, he is sold andre-sold a dozen timos within the olght years. ut 'L was on board A COOLIE BITE, ‘Just at anchor in tho harbor, Among tho rig- .glog are fluttoring tho queer nankeen trousers ‘and linen blouses of the Coollcs, who have had :thelr first washing-day since lanving Chins. The Onptain comes to welcomo us, and tako us: all :about the ship (Poruvian) himsolf. Bhe occu- plod soventy days in tha trip from Macao to Callno. Mo tolls us ho brought 1,200 of theso ‘poor wretches, sone SIX HDNDRED OF WHOM NAVE DIED of aonrvy, as their rico proved to be sour snd mouldy. 1fe rubs hia hands, shrugs his shoul- dors, rolls bis eyos, and tells how unforlunate this trip has been for him,—for, bosidos having lost Lalf of Lis numbor, he had to shoot down nine for mutiny! Wo walk with him on to the forward deok, and look down into the stifting hold, Toavena! whatastonch! what ulgmq Ia It any wonder that scurvy dwells hore? that yellow fover was brought to Callao In 1867 and 1869 by Coolio ehips ; aud that 1,800 foreiguers In Callno dlod, out of » foroign population of 8,0002 Ovor 200 misorablo beings, wrappod in ‘blanlkots, roll like Indin-rubber balls, nt ech lurch of " the vessol thelr thin hands olagping thelr kneos, too weak to even sit up upsupport- % ;d.a t’l‘lm Captain says that noarly every day ho ud to PITOR BOME OVERNOARD, overoome with soa-sickucss, home-sickness, and seitrvy,—and, lot mo rdd, the stifling airof tlo hold.” Bome of thoso poor follows aro oven now lying gosping in the sgomies of death, their henda awollon to twico their naturnl sizo, Bquat- ting all about thom, orowded In_worae thau cat~ flo - In & oar, the woll Coolics - are playing dominoes, or gambling with gronsy cnrds, innghing, joking, nond paying no further hoeod to thoir dylng comrades all'about thom than to coolly knock Lhoir hoads to ono sido, if, in their dying_dolirium, thoy roll too nenr tho dominoes or eards, I am not sura but that they aro glad whon onodles and is thrown ovorboard, 8o eramped in and orowded are thoy, playing on the dlrl.{ floors of tho hold, ond squatting 10 closo as to be fairly wedged in, it sooms, Now thoy aro brlnflnF up _eomo doa onos, fastoning woights to their uaked nnkles, and plung h)gll om over the sldes of the vassol to food tho sharke. As Ilook ovor tho sido, 1 #00 lome nankeen trouscrs, and & greasy piR- tail bob up and down n moment, and then thoy sink to rise no more. I ias told they ofton THLEW THE LIVING OVERIOARD . whon thero was no longor any hopo of their rocovery. No prayor is sald; only the waves sing a wild rn(\ulom. Whero do tho souls of thege poor bodios go? Who i to bs- held ro- eponsible for tho manner of tlioir denth? Now let us go and look at the bonlthy ones, tho younger ones, who aro hoing inspected by orsons como off to buy them. Thoy aro boing od, in small tin cups, which hold their mouldy rico, which in only given to thom twico ndnty, Homo oat it with fingers, and many of thom with chop-sticks, which they handle ns doftly and nently as wo do knives aud forks. How hungry thoy scom! A pint tin-basin, twico n doy, of mouldy, wormy, sour rics! How thoy scrape out ovory scrap, and lick tho very ontside of tne dieh, like hungry dogs. How thioy raiso up sattonuatod hands, and cry * Chin-ohin I"— MonE! Mone! in tho most shrill volcos poeatblo, onli to hoyo tholr ears pulled and bo rapped on the heads, like refractory cbildren. > It n Coolie gnina his eight years' freedom, snd is freo todonshe will, Lo opens either a Chl~ nese enfin%-houuo, gombling-saloon, or cheap sooond-hand clothing-storo. Wholo atroats in Lima aro given up to these, and they often bocomo very wealthy, When onco rich, what thon? They tako steorage pnesege in o natonmor back to China, their Linrd-oarned money sowed in a belt about thom ; and, onco in China, they sot up their joss-hounes, tell thoir adven= tured, and die happy. Thoy havo, howevor, RO NATURAL KINDRED-ATTACHMENT. Whon their fathor, brothers, " and relsfives grow old (or blind, from a rice diot), they turn them off to bog and to die, and rofusc thom oven shelter and food. Bo much about our China- mon. Warpa, ot Sl “TO MATE IN THREE MOVES.” Crimnon the hesrt of tho sea-coal fire, Desalo and I, in tho ruddy glow, ‘Her motlier reads, and the old grandsiro Dreams of Lla youth, in tho “ long ago.” Quiot and warmth and lovo in tho room, Now or iever my sult to pross ; Where the hyaclnths shed their siwoct parfume, Wo play 570 gamos—ono Jove ; one chicss. Quoen of the red, and quean of my licart, Whon will you wear my goldon ring? Tlushiing hor choeks the roncs slart, Slyly she murmurs, © Check to your king." 2ty pewos advance press on and die; 'ha bishops battlo in lines obliquo: By bravo knights fall; but I can’t tell why 3 honrt gTORS atrong 88 my game grows weik, Darling, anewer me, 11t your oyes ; Your mothier sleeps, and tho timo approves ; Bpoak, swoot mouth, with o glad aurpriso ; “ You'll bo mated, slr, in throo moro moves.” Then lot this bo ono—and Lior dimpled hand Looks all tho falror for plain gald ring ; In vain T rally my scattored ban ‘A3 sgain sho cliocks my poor lost king. Noarer her gold brown curls to mine, Tho choss-men geem in s dark eclipss, Check I—8hall I dio and make no sigh ? And X steal kisa from hor ripe red lips, Mato1—and hor Josous o5ea proclatn Who wins by lovo, and who in chosa; And the prido of my 1ifo 1a the golden game, Thiat waa lost whon X won my darling Boss, —Seribnar's, e e h LITERARY NOTES. Mies Rhoda Broughtonis ongaged on & new novel. —Kato Fiold hias boon invited to writo critical notices for tho London Athenaum. —-Sutherland Menzics is to ?uhlmh two vol- umes about ** Political Womon," 4 —Tho President’s danghter, Nollle, is at worl on & summor-book to be called ** Bkotches from Lifo at Long Branch." —Rumor says that ono result of Mr. Plim- goll's book about abusos and wrongs of English anilors ia to sot Charlos Rende writing a novel on tho subjact. —YVictor Hugo has just finished the bookupon ‘which he Lins beon engaged sinco last summor. Itwill be entilled nntro-vin;r'malzn," with, ag the firstserics, © Lo Guorre Civilo,” —M. Philarote Chasles now oconpies on_tho Paris Moniteur the position formorly filled by Beinte-Benvo. —The London lady whom Jonquin Miller is to marry is Miss Hardy, tho novelist, and daughter of 8 Thomay D, Herdy, long amiplovod 1n tho ofiico of the Master of the Rolis, and himsolf a learned hiatoflogfl:&mr. —\Womon aro tinguishing thomselves as biographors, Miss Taylor rocently published Buckles Life ; Mra, Grote_has just published an admirablo sketch of the Life of tho Historian of Groeco ; and the best account we hnve of Montalembert ia from tho pen of Mra. Oliphant, the anthor of Irving’s Life. —Mr. J. H. Bowman, of Pittsburgh, has pro- pared for ngecdy publication ** A History of Pe- troloum and Its Dovolopmont, with Biographical Bkotchos of Pionoer and Prominent ,Operatora in tho Oil Regions of Ponnsylvania.” —Contennial litorature begins to blossom out vigorously, Tho Rov. William F. P, Noblo will ubligh ** Centennial Biogfin by ¢ Mon of Mark tho Great RepuhuoI 1770-1876." —In aroviow of ‘‘Middlemarch,” the Rovue des Deux Mondes saysof George Eliot that “Tow English writers’ equal her in powor;" but declines to secord her ‘‘a placo among the world's groatost novelists.” —The twenty-sixth volumo of tho groat *His- tolra Litterairo de TFranco,” just published by Didot, is devoted to tho fourteonth contury.” —Julian Howthoruo's * Bressant ” has beon rocoivod with groat favor by mnoarly all the Lon- don prees, 'The Spectafor says that, while thero is nothing in it to romind us of any of our great- or novoliats, it has *real gonius and_ extraordi- nary pictorial power.” Which is decidedlyrough on our greator novolists, —It i8 rumored that a now romance has boen discovorod, unfinished, smong tho papers of Lord Lytton. It is said to be an historical ro- mance entitled ¢ Pausnning,” boing founded on that individual's lifo, nmgufarly full as it was of viclssitude. F ~It Is solomnly announced in the London pa-~ ors that tho New Tostamont Revisors of tho criptures have got as far ag tho fiftoonth chap- tor of Acts, At tho past rato of progress thoy will have finished the new Enpy 'uufi Biblo in :lllwm elovon years—or it will havo finished om, ~Tho Spectator-thinks the influonce of Swin- burne and Rosotti is visible in Joaquin Miller's * Bongs of tho Sun-Lands.” It would praise the book were it his first venturs, but it retains all the faulte of the first without its freshness. —The Rov, B, I, Burr, whose “ Pater Mundi " i tho third boolt with a fantastical Latin title he haa put forth, deals largely in rhetorical exag- gorationa. Witness thio s . Burely, ihadequato Law-Hypothesta! Full surely, 0intoxicate Law-Schome, boulevorriug thyself and then :llpgwlh;g thio universe to stand on it apex, fustead of 280 —Tho moral character of Paul Do Kool’s novels was matter of discussion, among othor things, st tho Tichborne trial. One of the coun- sel declared that he did not know a more immor- al writer in all French litcrature, which shows that Lo had never rond Dumas, tlly Flaubert, Foydeau, Droz, Bue, or Gautlor. Chief-Justic Cookburn well disposed of the question in tha sontence: ** Paul De Kock,” said His Lordship, *in his search aftor the ridioulous is unsorupu- lous; buf, whother he proserves dolicacy or violates it, he doos not sook to juflataoe the pag- slons.” —Tho latest travoler in 8pain in Dr, Geppert, who published in German his sketches of a tour in that rotrogrado country. 'Tho Professor wont for litorary rosoarch, and met only n sories of disappointments, At Madrid ho foind no edition of o classical author less than a contury old; at ‘I'olodo ho had to inform the librarian of the ex- [stonco of his own cataloguo, of which he was profonndly ignorant, and at Beville he discov- erod two {mportant Latin inrcriptions only to bo denicd tho priviloge ot copying thom until they ehould have beon edited by a gentloman ig- norant of Latin. —In tho June numbor of the Churchman's Shilling Magezine tho cditor offors Eomo ox- l:.huut on as to the origin of tho title of tho Chyintian Year,” on the autborlty of By, Par- kor, of Oxford, & son of the omlitiont publisher of tho firt edftion of the work, According to this gentloman the lata Mr, Kebls, on ontorlug the plip in Broad stroet one morning, saw, ab tho top of n emall stairenso whioh led (o s liftle Fl“ely fillod with bookshiolves, o work entitled * L'Annes Chrotionne," in twelyo volumes, and at onco asked Mr. Parkor to allow him to exam- inoit, A short timo nftor tho * Ohristian Yonr” eppoared, and there can ba littlo doubt that the author took his title from tho old Froncl dovo- tonal work, At “lvl tato, if this should not h‘rfim boon tho caso, tho colncidonce {8 romarke ablo, ~—The French Academy has- throe vacanoles to NI, aud {s in a eovious quandary over tho multitude of candidntos for literary famo. Thoro aro Mossiours Micholet, Louls Blano, Neuillot, About (who has beon rojected biofore), 'aine, Ronan, Bimon, Quinet, Woigs, Erokmann-Chat- ren, flumnu, [ih, Flaubort, Bardou, Laboulnye, and'n host of lossor notables of tho pon. Tho Acndemy has hoon long raled by the Orleanist Ry, o gat nto i, Viatovor other qualiios: fon o might v I was Yoquirodot an aapirant acadomioian that ho should havo writton somo- thing sbout Rome, that ho should hold fast by the Iinglish Conutl‘.utlnn, and bo porsuaded that the history of Franco began in 1830 and ended in 1848, —Tho anceens, or tho partial snccees, of popular outhors as readors, in tho lnst fow yonrs, seomse Ifkoly to draw out all of this class, ‘Wilklo Col- 1o has read in London ; and his roputation as B noyolistdrow a large nudienco. Tho PatlAlall Gazello says of it 1 **'Tho rording waa & failuro; but the audienco aat it ont, listening to words whicl wero not vory audiblo, smiling at jokes which were by no moaus laughable, and finally applauding a story which no ena could quito have understood who lind not proviously met with it in print.” . . —Lippiucott & Qo. announce as in pross a work with the singular and somowhat ambitioun titlo of ‘Misslon .of tho Norih Amoricon l’onfillo, Geofirn'{»hlcul, Boclal, and Political,” to bo illustrated with six oharts ‘dolinesting tho physical, architoctural, and thormal lawa of all tho continents,” by William Gilpin, Iato Gov- oruor of Colorado. They aunounce also o book in Hebrew theology, outitled, ** Tho Luminous 'Unilly," ‘which ia & scries of lotters addrossed to tho Rtov. A. Guinzburg, o rabbi of Boston, by tho Rov. M. R, Millgr, and discussos tho ques- tlon, “Ia Unitarianism, na_opposed to 'L'rin- itarlanism, a principlo "of Hoathenlem rathor than of spocifio Judaism?” —Rebocon W. Easterbrook, an nuthoress of varied ability (snd sister of “*Eloanor IKirk," Mre, Jamos: iod on Friday afternoon of con- sumption. ho Lind never nn{nyod robust hoalth, but tho disense which spoodily olosed her life was of sudden and unoxpected “appoarance. Miss Ensterbrook was well known among journalists, rho having boen in their ranks for sevoral yonrs. Bhe was connocted with the editorial staff of the Standard during the lifo of that journal, and contributed to ita columns a number of pathotlo poema snd others of a quaint charactor, wl wero wldo&uhoulntnd through tho Btates, At the eamo timo and sinco, almost up to her death, sbe wroto for Harpers Magazine, Frank Leslie’s Ohimney Corner, and the Ledger, Mliss Easter- brook was carnestly smbitious to ehow in sll branchos of literature, She mado a venturo san dramatist ; but_hor aphy, called “Honor," has nover beon producad. A novel, written by her recently, 1a_goon to be published by Jamos R. Osgood & Qo.—New York Herald, July 14. —Nfossrn. Gilbort & Rivington writo to tho Lonuon Daily News of the welcoming addresses road fo tho 8hah at Dover, in London, and else- whero ¢ * Copies of tho addressos which wo had previously printed in his own language, were prosonted to the Bhah, so that he might undor- stand what was being read to him in English. This was g0 in tho cases of tho Ode at tho Al- bert Hall, tho nddresscs at Guildhall and at Dovor, ote. At tho last-named {:laco, wo can hardly think it probablo that tho Mayor and Cor- oration wero nware that tho Oriontal trans- ator bhad freoly rondered their scntencen of respectful congratulation and woloome into such startling announcoments as that “they Dowed their facos to tho ground snd kissed tho hem of his gor- ment,” “ that his condesconsion In visiting onr shores had raised our land to tho skios," **that heaven had now come down to earth,” ete, All tho addresscs printed by us in Porsian wore tranglated by natives or well-lmown Porsian scholars.” g —Lord Lyiton s sald to bowriting a lifo of hia fathor, tho first Lord of that namo, Anything from thio pon of Owen Merodith will bo lively and readablo, but it is doubtful if so good a poot has tho requlsito qualifications for BIoGTapLOr. He wrotoa lifo of his friend, tho Hon. Julian TFano, and no ono who over knaw that clover and accomplished young gentleman rocognized a fosture of bim in the marvelous pioturo dravn by Mr. Lytton, Among other fantastic things snid of him by hia en- thusinstio oulogist, it was stated that ho could fi‘lvo a corroot and graphic panorama of & thun- ler storm by the more working of his eyebrowa! Tho relations oxisting botween ' Bulwer” (as Tame insists on calling him) and his only son wore vory intimate and tondor. There is Bome hint of them fn that occentrio yot charming novol, *Kenolm Chillingly.” Theso vory rola- tions, whilo they ndd greatly to tho intorest with whioh the public will rond the young peer's lifo of his father ,will prevent the ready scceptance of all his statoments of fact. It is rathor to be rogrettod that Lord Dalling and Bulwoer hiad not lived to writo the lifo of his brother. They began tho world together at an_capecially interesting perlod, and tho voteran diplomatist could have appreciated, a8 fow othera could do, the varied, yot consistont, careor of his brother in politics and litoraturo.—New York Tribune, —The London Athencum of Juno 21 enys: The following correspondonce has beon sont to us for publication : ‘Brrrisu Muszux, June 19, 1873, T'o Messrs, Blackiwood & Son : Ia Do Guincey's vorks (vol, 14 of tha first, and 13 of tho second English Edition) occurs an essay entitled & Traditions of tho Rabius,” Xt had proviously ap- penrod in the Amorican edition under circumstances thus detailed by Mr, H, M, Alden, in the Atlantio Monthly for Beplember, 1863; “ His Amorican editor eclected from among the masa of periodical writings in the vatious magazines for ‘which D:Qulma{“wrotn those which, having no other cluo to guide him than {heir peoullar style, he judgm.l to have proccedod from Do Quine Coy’s pen. In one instance—as to *Tra ditions of tho Rabbins,'—after cousiderablo oxamina- tlon, lio still hicaltated, and, finally, wrote to Do Quin- cey (o set himself right, The Intter disowned tho essay ; holad forgotton it, Mr, F—, howover, afler another oxamination, concluded thst, notwithstanding Do Quincey's donial of the fact, ho must havo written 1t ; accordingly, at his own. risk, he published. it, Afterwards, Do Quincey owned up, and ever aflor that referred all disputed cases of this nature to his Boston publishers,” **The I'raditions of tho Rabbing,” as given in Do Quincey’s colloctod works, s n ropriut from Biacks wood’s A!laf:n’m of tho socond part nnl{'nn! the oasay, originally printed fn £pril, 1833, 0 first part Biad sppeared in tho magazine for November, 1833, A talo, eutitled ‘* Ellezer the Bago and Ellezer the Bimple,” apparcntly by tha writer of thio ** Traditions, bad, beon published in the August number of the Intter year, This also 8 cmitted from DeQuincoy's collcoted writings, 1If, thereforo, *‘Traditions of ihe Rabbins " be really by him, the editions of his works nra incompleto, Y'rom the ovidenca of style, however, 1 am almost convinced that it cannot bo lis, Ho may concolvably havaboon overawed Ly the posliiveness o wearled out by the persistency of his Amorican edifor, or not havo carod to disown what had once gono forth to tho world under his name, You might, probably, Do ablo to determine tho point by a roference to tha archives of tho magazine, It is of roal concern that the works of an English classic like De Quincey should be nelther mutilated nor intorpolated; oue or the othor thoy certainly sra at prooent, I 'remain, gen- tlemou, very respoctfully yours, RicnAnD GAnNETT, {5 Gronor BrnrsT, Eorvounax, June 16, 1879, To R, Garnett, Eeg.: . Thio two articlcs, “ Traditfons of the Rebbins," a pesring i Diackwood in Noveiober, 1830, and April, 1633, were not by Mr, Do Quincoy, bt by Dr. Groly. T turned up tho old Magnzin Boak, where tho aniry s mado i my fathor's land, in his ususl monthly reo- ord of the contenta of each numbor, X can araly supposs tlint Do Quiicey over said theso erticlon were Lis but X can quilo {magine tho eort of grim humor with which ho might bow to the superior l):!nntrnuon of the American editor, who porsisted in nowing what ho bad written bettor than he himself did, Blleve me, dear alr, yours vory truly, JouN DLAGKWOOD, —_— Kow Princes Tell Thelr Loves Tt seowms that, at one time, some stripling of a Prince with asmple moang, and who knew that tho thing had got to be done up handsomoly to pro- duco an tmpression, decided to send an Esster ogg to the damsol of his lovo, who, in this caso, happouod to be a Princess of the royal house of Baxony. Ho he cnlled a wkillful jewolor to his aid, and tho ordor was given. Tho result was an Enator egg stich a4 had nover been seon beforo, and has cortainly nover since boen equalod, which to-day is preserved in the Green Vault, Princo and Trincess bave passod uwu{ but tho ingonions trinkot remains to tell how tho soions of royalty told their love in tho days of old, ‘Lo the ordinary observer it is an egg, and noth- ing more. But closo oxaminution reveals a lino of soparation which encirclos it, and further soaroh discloson & sprin%. Touching this, tho ogg-shell, which praves to ba gold, enameled to roprosent a sholl, opens and roveals a chiol, flodged, with overy part counterfeitod, but all of gold, onamoled. 'Turning tha lttlo follow over, aud touchiug a concealed spring, the body o}mns, rovoaling aunothor egg of ‘smallor dimox- slons, This, also of gold, aud also enamoled, opons_ like [y firab; and now we come to tho kornol of tho whole affair, an elegant solitaire dinmond ring, the etono of wondorful boauty and clearnoss of wator, and worth s small fortuno in iteolt, Tho writor's momory of gonoalogical faots in not strong, and as tho earllor editions of tho Almanach do Coths aro not ot hand, ho can- not say whother tho lady accopted her princoly suitor, but it 1s vory cortain that shoacouptod the oggs, for it 18 still Tu the strong rooms of tho houdo of Baxony, & ourius aud coatly trinkot, ' THE HAUNTED CASK, ! Trom Chambers Journal, Aftornoon on o bright, warm, voluptuoun day, such na only the tropies can produco; in the foroground, tho great panorama of Bombay out-~ sprond in tho dazzling sunshino; bohind, the ‘brond bluo aweop of tho oncircling sen, now in ono of ita ollday humors, dancing and sparkling 85 if nothing so wicked as a storm had evor en- torod its mind; and In the contro of the ploturo, tho good sbip Australian, bound from Nombay to Bouthampton, with froight and passongors a8 por advertisoment. Tho packet's timo and stenm aro both very poarly up, and most of tho “ homoward-bound” aro alrondy on board. Boveral bronzed and ‘boarded shokarries, ladon with skins, not of wino, but of bears and tigors, and nervously anxions about tho comfortablo stowago of tholr favorito | rifles; a good many very yollow-looking disciples of tho M.E.I.0O.B, overwlielmed by an avalancho of pugreo; swarms of picturesquo native sor- vants, looking wofully chop-fallon at the prospact of & voyage ncross tho ¢ biack wator” to that dis- malisland where there ia no sun, and o gront deal too much fog ; o statistical M. P. who has boen out hore to gathor materiala for & hook upon tho cost of the Indian army, extracts from which he insists upon reading to overy ono ho moots, & practico which hos alrosdy earned him tho name of the *Anclent Marinor;” a diplo- matio young engineor, who, having brought on ‘board & hugo and feroclous cockatoo, as & pres- ‘ont for Lits aunt at homo, kias just had his thumb ,moarly bitten off by tho savage nnimal, and ia ‘trying to look as if it didn't hurt him; two or throo clorgymen of various denominations, sedu- lously avoiding each other; sundry oflicors golng home on leave; and, bettor than all, an sbund- ance of 1adies. Bprightly Iadies who have lost theirhusbands comforting forlornladics who have not yot fonnd thom; onterprising ladios who bave boen all over tho world patronizing timid Iadies who *daron't go anywhore by themselves ;" ‘strong-minded ladles who have como out with tho intention of oxtirpating heathenism nlto- gother (and are coming home without having dono it) declaiming against tho wicked obatinacy of the * benightod idolaters;” and -othors, bo- sidos, too numerous to mention, But, although tho packet might, scom to bo ‘protty well fillod, the Captain evidontly does not’ think tho tale complete, to judge by tho wey in which'he is leaning over the sidoe and looking shoreward. DPlainly, there is ‘‘ something more coming,” aa childron say toward the end of & Qbristmas dinnor ; and horo, sure enough, comes tho “something mora " at Iast, in tho form of & susht, girusl.\-]unkln[z, varx protty young lady, in doop mourning, attendsd by two maids and's wholo boatfal of luggage, conepicuous smidat which, to the visiblo amazement of tho lookors- on,is a huge, punchy, subatantial-looking oank, capable of containing enough liquor to olevaio tha ontire ship's company.. “ Glad to mea you ninln, Mra, Errington; hope you'll bo comfortablo with us,” saye the Captain, hunrfll{ as his new passengor “comos timidiy up the s do. “I'vo got sll rondy for you down bolow, and if *there’s anything "elso you'd like, you've only to namo it.” “Thanik you. wery much, Capt. Prescott," anawors tho Iady, 1 a timid littlo voice like tho chirp of a shy canary, “Will you bo so tery kind as to havo those things taken down to my state-cabin—and—aud that cask, plesse, along with thom?"” ¢ This momont, mn’sm,” answers tho gallant skippor, manfully kungmghduwn the shado of nur&x;tao that strugglea in his faco at this unox- peoted postscript. ¢ Goorgo, just pass that cask down alon wl& tho lady's luggagoe, and sco that it don't got hurt on tho road.” Fortunately, most of the passongers wore too fnlly engrossed with their own concorns to no- tico the astonnding * Iady's companion " which Muys, Errington (huscommonded to tho Captoin'’s good officos ; but tho eailors woro moro obsorv- snt. Thoy oxchanged looks bip with solomn moaning; and o few hours later, when tho shoroa of Indla had already begun to fado into the pur- flu ehadows of tho evening sky, tho cask quos- fon " waa brought forward for serious consid- cration by tho Conscript Fathers of the forocas- tlo. “Did yor oyer 2. “ Ain'l that s pretty stars, just 1" ' Who'd ovor lia’ thought it 7 ™ ¥ Woll, I am blowed! To_think o'a niminy- piminy littlo crootur Uko that 'ero, what yor mh;ht Ulow away wi’ & puff out o' a bacoy-pipe, Iayin’ in a8 much grog as ud sarve a foro-mast man for a twelvemonth [ " “VWell, what o' that ?" romarks, sentontlonsly, old Jack Davitt, the Bolomon of the forecastlo, “Mark my words, my bo's; it'a just thom asyer :von}gu'i expeot to do things what allus does do om “It'a o burnin’ shome, anyhow,—that's what itis!” strikes in Bill Bawyer, whone tlery com- plexion shows that his intorest in the liquor question is not purely thooretical, “ To think 0" ono litilo bit of a 'coman a-keopin’ all that ’ero good stuf? to hersolf, while thoro's hundreds o' God's creoturs a-pinin’ (a8 one may ssy) for want on't!" “*Ay, BIll, you may well be grumpy! sich & Tot o‘l'llual\fihaur\l, 290 JOR BOE. &iBoTa": tb got none y “And thon thoy talks o' our drinkin'{" pur- auea Bill, too indignant to notice this innuondo. “Who ever sood one o' ua drink a wholo cask nt onca? And yet, I'll bet you a week's grog, ns that ’ero young "ooman, whon sho gots ashora at Bou’ampton, "ull be nqiom' on to overyboi; ‘bout ‘tho habitooal "tostication o' English eail- ora!' Now what, I axenyor, whal kind o' fair play d'yo call that "era ?" And the orator, ovorwholmed by the thought '| u{I auch monstrous injustice, relapies into gloomy silonce, But this theory speedily proves to bo as un- foyndod as popular theories usually are. The way in whi Lo obnoxioua cask, when once 1airly oneconced in a comer of Mra, Errington’s etato-cabin, is walled In, or rather buried, by a ‘moun of trunks, boxes, and bags, mpfy vin- dicatos the sobriety of its charming owuer; for the most conflrmed topor would hardly have ta- ken tho troublo to pull down and rebuild such a ‘barricado every time that he might feel the noed of ‘‘a drop of comfart.” But the failure of thia golutlon only enhanged tho intorest of tho puz- zle, not moroly with tho sailots, but among tho pasgongers likewiso. And, moroover, the mys« tory scomed to concontrate itself exclusively upon the cask ; for with regard to horself, Mra, rrington S]lmo winning ways and delioato boauty specdily made hor a vergal favorito) had no roservo whatovor. It was soon known that shio had como out from England about three onrs bofore with hor hugeand, a wealthy civil- an, conaldorably older tlgh hersolf; that Mr. Errington had died in one of tho up-county sta- tions, bequoathing her the wholo of his proper- ty; and that sho swas now roturmng to England, wilh the intontion of remaining there. ~ This union of woalth, boauty, and friendlossnces, combined with the charmingly helpless {imidity of hor manner, at oncolaid tho wholo masculine section of {he community at hor fect—from yompous old Mr. Chutney, of tho great Calontta imnan of Chutney & Currie, down tomischioy- ous little Ensign O'Nsufihlln, who was threo yeara youngor than hersolf—but the old adago of “Love mo, love my dog," was in this caso anything but verified, Three-fourths of the bacholor pagsengera loved Mra, Errington, or said thoy did; but thoy wore very far from loving hor cask likowise, Their only feoling toward it was ono of diroct personal hostility, An article 8o closely guarded by its mistross, and involving » scoret ‘which sho refused to impart to-them, was cloarly a dangorous rival; and but for tho manuer in which this unpopular talls- man was ontombed boneath unnumbered pack- ages, somo of those audacious spirits would yery pmbnb1¥ have attempted its destruotion, or, at any rate, the probing of tho mystery of ita contenta, *Too bad, sir—altogothor too bad 1" aatd Mr, Ghutnoy to hls friond aud confidant Nolivor, of tho HLE.X,0.8. “We ought to memorialize tho Oaptain about it; 'pon my word, we ought. 1t's intolorablo that & community of respeotable Englishmor should be hag-ridden in this way by Ahcon‘fgundnd ensk that nobody knows anything about, ¥ Daring the firat Bnrt of the voyago—namoly, from Bombay to the Capo—this novel kind of Pandora’s box had & clear fleld; for, aftor the firat bustlo of gotiling down bLad eubsided, tho monotony of the paseago was unbrokon. No shark was obliging enough to catoh himsolf for the gonoral amusement. ‘Tho albicores and fly- iug-fish obstinately doclined to * brenls the glit- toring surface with their olfin gambols," accord- dug to tho form progoribod for thom by would-be nautioal novolista, Not a single water-spout could be inducod to show it face ; nnd considorable ox- citemont wna croated ono morning by the M, I, announcing that ‘¢ the steward had just montion- od to bim having hoard the second onginoer oa; that one of thoinon thought ho had soon a sail." In this univoraal doarth of evonts it wea not surpriging that Mra. Errington’s mystorious pos- gosslon should assume ag prominent an interost ad if 1t hiad been tho casque of AMambrino him- solf, or that which orushod Mastor Conrad so unexpootedly In the Casfle of Olranfo, Tho Let ters of Junius, the Man with the Iron Mask, wero not moro absorbingly intereating, or more hopo- lossly unfathomablo, It beeama the subjeot of moro wagers than the Derby, or Mr, Wilkle Col- ling' Dead Seorct, The Onptain and Xirut Mnto digoussed it nightly over their 8 o'clock grogy tho bluo-jacketed parliament in the cool's gal- lory rosolved {tolt into a porpotual Committoo of Inqu.(l‘fi on the subjeot, aud always onded by m“luf that ‘thoro must bo summnt wrong 'bout it"—John Bull's invarinble vordiot upon any thing which he can not undorstand. The protty Misa Fishor, from Poonnh, being *sur- rigod lcyuvhelly unoxpaeoted propoanl” from apt. Voriphast ~ of tho {‘h Nativo In- fantry, nccopted him conditionally upon his “finding out all about flm! lorrld cagk.” The literary M, P. gavo it a placo in his book upon the Indlan Army, Judgo Upplnlaw, of the High Court, who was as foud of tactnfcal dofinitions ns ho ws of brandy- pawneo, “snmmod up* Mra. rrington as “n ositivo augel modified by a Iatent cask.,” Young ollonghdoy, tho poot of the Mullagatawny Olub (going homo on loavo), nctually worked it into a gong, which Lo wroto off the Mauritius, commonolng : 1y noul is 1ike a apacionn cank, With love hooped up within; and Mr. Chutney, aftor supping upon cold pork and Welsh rare-bit, washed down with two bottlea of stout, awoke yoling from n hidcoun droam of boing erushed to doath by the National Dobt in the shapo of acask. Tho young ongi~ noor guggonted that tho myntio punchoon must contain Bomo new fashion of erluoline, packed in that way to proseryo its rounded proportions. Ono of Mrs, Ijrrington's chosen fomale inti- matos—n Iady of proverbinl couraga—hit upon tho brilliant' {don of mkhlg hor, poiut-blauk, what the cask containod; but tho charminy widow only cast down. hor oycs and answered, ‘with hor most bewitchingly childish air, that it waa & special koopenke, which no ono must know about yot. = As tho voyage wore on, a now subject of in~ toreat bogan to dispute the supronuncy of tho fa- mous cagk—nnmoly, the competition of suitors fortho good graces of its charming ownor. This rivalry had now grown more dofined and palpable, owing to the fact that (a8 Col, Ras) of tho —th Plungers, elcgantly ekprosso “the paco was gotling sevors, and the woedy onos woro boginning to tail off.’ Oapt. Vori- phaat had been *“ withdrawn " by hia attnchment I'to Miss Fishor, whose name tho young engineor, hig eabin-follow, ungallantly paraplrased into *the ‘judicious Hookor," Ensign O'Naughtio, oftor a day or two's philandering, had likewiao ‘¢ dropped out of tho running,”—romarking, with tho air of =» connoissour, that those very Loung women wers not his stylo; which, sho eing only 22, and ho fully 19, was natural enough. ~Old Mr. Chutnoy, Wwho at firat seemed to bo further &mu than any oue, fouud a saluta- ry check in ** tho unwarrantablo way in which he liad been bullicd by thaf abominablo cask," ‘which appearod to have asaumed in his eycs the haunting individuality of an ovil apirit. But, notwithatanding these dofoctions, a large number of worshipers still romained truo to thoir allegiance, and of theso tho most conspicuous 'was unquestionably Mn{. Leyd E. Kyller, of the —th Light Infautry. Rich enough to have no thought of marriage as & speculation, blase enough to cars littlo for flirtation as an amuse- ment, bo had at firat devotod himself to tho charming widow with that quiet, confldent, halt- condoscending ense with which the exporicncod mililaire of our time is wont to monopolizo the protticst woman in a company. But ho was laying with odged toola. Mrs. Errington was Yuut one of thoss daugorous little creatures whom men pot and protect as children till they sudden- ly find thomgelyes falling in lovo with thom as women ; and it soon becamo abundantly evident that tho novico was mord than a matel for the vatoran, It was curious to see how this man-— the admired wit of Bombay dinnor-tables, tha chosen loader of Simla plenics and up-countr; gathorings—lost all his wonted fluoncy and golf- rolianco na soon s he ontered the onchanted cir~ cle; and to notico the deop, earnost, tondor look which softened and almost gloritted “his disci- plined face, while ho talked with tho ono womnan whom he cared for. 'The finer naturo of tho man was aroused, as it always must bo, at thefirst touch of n pure and mauly affection ; and as it awolte, all his apt compliments and well-turnod phrasos, all the convorastional sleights-of-hand which had sorved him with ordinary women, for- #ook him one by one, At times lo was B0 ab- solutoly eilont in her prosonco as to make an Irish brothor-officer romark that * tho Maojor niver :E:zkn & worrd when ho was falking to Mrs, Er- gton.”” Perhsps tho young lady horsolf was not wholly unconscious of this ; but only onco did gho Lazard any allusion o 'it. Thoy hap- pened to bo left togother on deck for a few min- utes, and the Majorinstantly becamo so flagrant- ly tonguo-tiod that shio vontured to rally him upon tholoss of his proverbial fluoncy. “ ITow very thoughtful you are to-day, Mnj. Kyllor; you must be inventing some_wondorful complimoent for ono of the ladies yondor. I mup- pose thoy take np so many of your protty BvoncB- o8 }knt you have none to spare for poor littlo mo Tho words thomsolvea woro not much; batthe tono n which thoy wro spoken, snd tho look that shot them homo, might Lave shaken any man’s norve. Tho strong oldier shivored from Lead to foot, as ho had never dono in marching up to tho muzzles of the big guns at Sobraon, “ 8o you think I'm nothing but a_flattorer!" sald ho, blltufl{. ““Well, perhaps I sm to tho othors ; but with you it's difforont. I can't Iook in your faco, and iusult you by stringing to- gothor &ratty spocches such a8 I'd ropent to any woman I met by chance in a drawing-room. In your pregenco, must spoak the truth, come what may." flm had the tact to chango the conversntion and break off their fefe-a:fefc na soon as posuiblo; but there was a shade more of kindness in hor manner toward bim from that time. Lot small ‘wits Buer a8 thoy will at * the powoer of flattery ovor women,” simple mauly earncstness has itk weight, novortheloss. thia time our friend Bill Bawyor %whnm wo have negleoted far too much of lata) was any “thing but easy in his mind. e had, indeed, in common with overy ono clse on board, abandonod tho thoory of Mrs. Errington’s tasto for liquor 3 but this only whotted his ouriosity with respeot to thio myeterious cask, . It hauntod him like tho recollection of anunfulfilted duty. 1le felt him- seolf humbled, both os a man and o sailor, by tho axistonce of a soorot which ho could not pone- trate, nud a supply of liquor which_ ho had nob sharod. Ho bocamo silont and meditative, as if absorbed in tho elaboration of somo great pro- ject; and, ono ovening, after a silence so pro- longed as to make Jom Blackott, the wit of the farccastlo, hint that “Bill must ha'run his tongue around atwixt two o' his baok teoth," ho suddenly began ss followa: * Toll ye what it is, my bo's—I can't get that ’ore cask out o' my head 1" "Which on 'em, Bill? Thore's a-many casks got into yonr head siuce you fust owm aboard] " **Btop your chaff, and liaten to me, Tuat goin’ oft, I was fool enough to think as how that'ero blessed little hangol monnt to drnkit all horsolf, but now I knowas batter,” 1*In courss yor doos, Bill, now that you wants somo on’t yourself." **Just hold your jaw, and lston to me, will yor? 1f thero ain't no liquor in that 'ere cask, ‘why, thon, thera 'aint ; but if thoro be, why, then yo know, liquor’s liquor. Now thal's just what 1 means'to find out aforo I'm a day older,” m'fiA?fld how aro you a-goin’ for to do that, I knows what I knows," answored Bill, orac- ularly, “Iwarn't born ot 6 o'vlock yuulurdny mornin', J warn't, Just you wait s bit,” On the following ovening, Bill appeared before hia cnngm?ntml messwmatos with an air of con- sclous merit. ** Wall, m! hoarties, I told yor as I'd find out, and I done it I ' Long life to yer, 1d yor do tho trick “Woll, I goos aft, 80 a8 to como olose past whore Madamo Horrington was aeiltin', and a;{l I to Bam Jones: ‘Bam,’ says l’, ‘e this 'ero_hoat holdas on much longor, somo of thom epirit-casks 'ull bo a-bustin’, for suro!’ My oyos! youshould just ha’sced tho faco as Mudamo put on, for all the world like o land- lubber when he begins for to fool tho up and down o' blue wator, ‘I'hat era cask's choclk-full o' liquor, I'll take mydavy; and if I don't have s tasto on't aforo over we sights Old Lngland agin, I'm a Dutchman!" s fiut Lark yo, Bill," struck In Jem Dlackett,” who was Loginniug to bo jealous of Bill's sud- don rise to distinction, *if yor goes and takos some un olag’s grog, ain't that rayther liko thiovin', somehow 2" “Jom," anaworod Bill in tho tono of Socraten “ghutting up" Protagorns, *‘you talks like n fool. Answormo thin, will yer? Aln't lgquor mada for to Lo drunk 2" Unanimous agreemont on tho part of tho as« sombly, “ Bocondly," pursuod Bill, with a logical air, 1t you grants mo ag how Ilqum-‘n made to Lo drunk, don't It stand to romson as it can’t Do drunk if thoro ain't nobody to duinl it " Trosh signs of sesont 'to thia incontostable proposition, : * Woll, thon,"” concluded Bill, with the enlm triumph of & graat reasonor who lips succesded in dosconding to tho levol of his audience, *“it's 88 plain as the compara that if somobody's got o lot o' liquor, and_don’t drink i, somobody also muat, folk will mivuse tho gifts o’ Providouco tlint ’ere way, I fools it my dooty to provont 'om. Now biark yo, mates, 1 promises, and vows wol- wmuly, hote, aforo yor all, au 1'll Lave a swig out Bl you're the boy. How 0 ! that 'ero cask aforo tho ond o' the v'y'ge, if I dies for it1" 2 e In this wiso dld Bill Bawyor, bravely as any Knight of tho Round Tablo, undortake this now Quost'of tha Bangroal, Moanwhilo Mre, Errington's flirtation with the Major apposred, to most observors, to have died a natural doath; just as, whon tho guns conse firing to lot tho agsaulting column rush on, men unveraod in war might think tho sloge abandon- ad, Yor soyeral days she had sedulously avoided him ; and ho, singularly enough, appeared not a whit oast down thoreby. Love Is. not slways Dlind ; and what he saw might woll glvo him courngo. Mrs, Errington's sliort-lived confidonco in hor power ovor thia strong will and daring na- turo had vanshiod na suddenly, a8 it camo. Bho oould not forgot tho storn ompliasio of tho words which rang in hor cars night and day: “In your rogones I must toll the truth, come what will [ Tis tono and mannor had {old it only tao cloarly slrondy; and she folt that, whon ho camo to ut- tor that truth in actual words, she must perforce auswor him plainly, without artifico_or ovasion. And what answor wos sho to givo? Thatimo had boon whon sho could have lsughed him into silouco, or abnshed him with a look ; but now slo dared not oven attompt it. In this fashion things._proceadod for abont n weok, during which time tho indefatigable En- sign (who, though considerably tho youngest of tlio community, appenred to havo fairly carriod hin eloation aa Maatar of the Coromonies) con- coived tho brilllant idea of adding to the oven- ing amusomonts what Lio wao plonged to call ““ an orchoatra botiweon the acts "—or, in other words, a fow songs in tho intorvals of the dances, sorve ing the double purposo of varyiug the entortain- mout and glving & broathing-time to_tho loss practisod daucors, Tho now plan had an im. menso success, A vast amount of hithorto un- suspocted talont wan suddenly brought fo light ; and Col. Yootyn Grave, & wiry old sabreur who hnd lost a legin somo forgotion akirmish of tho Bikh war, astonishoed ) hiu porformance of the brave old Gorman song of The Orifizlcrl Soldier, which, as ho uaivoly ro- mariced, had nlways struok him ns partioulasly eppropriato to himeelf : A cannon-ball comen flying, And knocke my leg off clear ; ‘Woell, where'a tho uso of er}'(n{[ ? IF'oad's cheap enough down kicre, Ono shoo und stocking less—and no Bo much more monoy saved, you know To buy good German bear' | Atlast thero camo o dny: when the Major spoko out. Onp quidt evening, whonall was still uxcune tho sounds of morry-making on the after-dock, he capied hor, a littlo apart from tho dnncers, loaning over tho eide, in tho shadowy splendor of the moonlight, sud gazing dreamily into the ?litterlng foam, Now or nover! Ho wont strafght to her as ho would havo marched n&) to o battory, and asked bravely onnuih, but with a tightening round his heart which ho had never folt whon ho throw bLimself bare-headed among the B8ikh tulwars, the quostion upon ‘which hung the wholo of hia futuro life. Bho must have boen less than woman bad sho not boon propared for.such an occurronco ; but, nevortheless, it tasked hor sorely when it camo, To Fivn no answer was impossible ; to answer declutyoly, in the fluttor of her unstrung nervas, ‘was almost oqually so, asanyed to tamporize, ** Giyo mo time," sho ploadod, “only n little timo to think it over.” ¥ “* Time to think over it 1" cohoed the Major's doep volco, with the faintest tlni;a of scorn in ils tono 3 you have boen unconscious of it, then, till now ¥ A Dutch fortross, when hard pressed, opons its sluices and inundates the whole scone of ac- tion ; & woman, when drivon to‘extromity, inv: rinbly rosorts to tho eamo oxpediemt: Mra. Errington burst Into tonrs, © - . * You're too hard upon me,” she sobbed, in tho tono of o distrossed child ; ** how can you talk to me like this, whon my poor husbaud has been only throo months In his—grave 2 (Sho brought out the last word with an effort, as it it Like a true woman, sho “roquired somo thought to recollect whether he had ¢, gravo or not,) ' How can you expect me to think of a now love already? If I wovo to forget him ro soon, I could not expeot him to lie quict in his grave [ ‘The words had baroly Enssud her lips whon the alr shook with o tremendous oxplosion from tho cabin, followed by n yell liko that from o scalded hyeua—and thon the sound of s heavy fall. * Murder 1" 3 *¢ Buicldo 1” * Boiler burst 1" ¢ Powdor-flask 1" “ Bprung a leak " Bhouting these snd other conjectures, the whola throng rushed pell-mell into the cabin, whoro n strango wsight awaited thom. Butin ordor to oxplain all this, wo must go backa- little, Bill 8awyer, like a true Englishman, had nevor onco wnvered in bis rosolution, or consed to watch for a chanco of carrying it out; but for gome timo I'ato sosmed persistently advorso. The covered cask remained soourely ontombod in its parcophagus of bagrego ; and the fow flying visits which Bill contrived to payto tho first~ class cabin served only to assuro him of this un- wolcomo fact. Could” he but have got tho cabin to himsolf for o singlo quarter of an hour, hig brawny arms would have made light of the inter- ‘voning barrieado ; but this was precisely what ho could nover succoed in doing. Seldom dnough gould ho coin any plausible pretext for intrud- ingupon the encred ground; and even when Lo did, thio const uovar”secmed £0 bo pesteetly cloar, **Too bad, by jingo!" growled the disappointed explorer, ns ho returned, onv evening, from a fruitless reconnoisaance, “‘I'm blest it there ain't alwaya somebody a-hangin’ about that 'ero cabin, without bein' sxed.” Mr., Sawyor's rightcous indignation probably hindored him from sceing how complately thig romerk applied to himeelf; but_his shipmates woro quicker at spproheusion, and greoted it “with n roor of laughtor that mado Lis gara tinglo, In fact, tho poor fellow’s life had now becoma n burden to him, from the unsparing bantor of his comrades upon tho long-dolnyed fulfillment of his rash promiso, Fromold Jack Dasitt down to littlo Joo, the cabin-boy, overy ouo had hig fling at Bill. “Bill, my hearty, ain't yor gottin' awful thirsty, e-waitin’ for your lquor so long " “ You'd bost 1ook sl us Bill; it yor don't do the trick aforo wo sight i England, we'll have 305 up for par-forrg—blast if wo dow't” ‘ Toll yor what, Bill—you go and drown yer- solf, and then thoy'll give yor a swig o' tho Jush to bring yor round " * Come, boys, you leave Bill alone ; don’t yer 8ao ha's e-goin® to wait till the last day of tho v‘yuge' and then drink the whole cask at ouo awig 1" And go on by the hour, Ll poor Bill b:lxm to have sorious thoughts of murder or suicido, Dut, as the good old Russian proverb has i, g nvo? man his hour, if he will but wait for it ;" and doliveranco camo nt last to the much- enduring Bill, in & very unoxpocted way. On the vory doy of the Major's proposal, Mra, Er- rington had suadenly recollected some ravishin, article of mourniug toilet which sho had not yo introduced to the notice of the community, and which (according to,the immomorial custom of articlos when particularly wanted) turned out to bo in the most un-got-at-able of hor many boxes, the vory foundation-stone of the groat Mpyrnmid‘ Ag a natural consoquence the whole odifice hed to bo pulled downj; aud Mrs, Errington's sor- vants, who recolved strict ordovs to put tho things in their places again forthwith, postponed the oxooution of the order (as usual) till such timo as they should have nothing botter to do, and left nvnrlvltmn in statu quo, Bill—who hay- ing eatisfiod Limsolf that all the passongora wero on dock as usual, had etolon in, hopelessly enough, to go through the form of reconnoitring —waa not slow toappreciate thin astounding gift of fortune, 44 Talk o' miracles " mutterod the dovout ad- venturor; ‘‘if iis ain't one, I'm a Dutchian! Here'a & lot o' good liquor a-runnin' to wasto, roal unchrist'n-liko; and hore am I an houost sallor, wantin' to mako s good uso ou't; and hore's tho way oponed for mo all to once, just like 08 it was'dona o' pur{:uuol Folk may well ay a8 how there's a Providouco iu every thing (" With this plous acknowledgment, Bill atoppod briekly forward, and bad just laid his hand upon tho long-covoled prizo, whon suddonly, with n crash 1tko the report of a mitraillouse, the top of tho cask flow in shivers, aud up from the froth- lmi liquid agmlg s human head, gaunt, livid, atly, with lack-luatro eyes and grinning teotl, ‘Wwhich, In tho dim light, soomed to guash as i tuirating for blood, What Bill said or did ho could nevor rocolleot. According to tho subsequont tostimony of the stoward (who wag tho firat to arrivo on tho sceno of nnfluuz, hie * gung out ag if ho wae a-hailin' u forry-boal noross tho Channbol, and then floppod down 28 flat as & floundor] ™~ At ull ovents, Lo loy sensoloss in the doorwng of Mrs, Exrington’s stato-cabin, half in aud half out, just as tho tido of puaserigern oaue pouriug In eir missuo. “Woll, I deolave,” oried Mrs, Erriugton, sob- bing with indigustion, * that howid mon lny actually beon trying to stoa] tho splrits ont of my cask ] I promised my poor dear husband thint I'd earry his body homo to Eugland ; but I #ald nothing about it, for foar of thoso dreudful sailory waking & work about having a dead body on boardy and now the caek's bursb with tho hont, and that wicked wrotoh hoe got a flue fright—and servod him quito right, tool” Ho saylng, sho fulnted away in tho outatretch- od arms of iln]. Kyilor, who, antiolpating some such catastropho, had shilitully taken uphis po- sitlon besido hor, To thig day, tho old roldier hias not forgotton the incidont, * My wifo may he wholo community by - look dolicate, eir,” Mo wil eny, * but she's not ono of your hyatorical sort, I oin promiso you | Blho never falnted but onco in horwholo life, aud ll‘mt w:m on board of » Bombay gteamor, whon—" ato., oto, ‘But howovor bad s, Errington might bo, or BlI Bawyer was infinitoly worso. 1o had ndoed **got b fino fright”’—so fluo, in fact, as to koop him undor the doctor's hands for thoe re- maindor of tha yoyage. The first act of his con- valesconoo was to tako the pledgo; and ho is now (to uso'hin own hmueg “drawn up high ond dry on ghore,” as tho lanilord of & tompor- anco hotol, in the olub-room of which ho occa- slonally figuros ns o toototal lacturor, with brill- fant success, Dut Lo lhas novor forgotten hin torriblo ndventuro ; and to this vory day (as you | can hardly talk with Lim for balf on hour with- out digcovering) ho romnius firmly convinced that tho Enomy of Mankind, ~ for wmomo inscrutablo purpose of bis * own, Intro- ducod - nimsolt fnto tho fatal cnek with the view of ontravplnrf1 him, Bill Sawyer, into * drinkin® somo o' him,” nnd thereby, of courno, forfoiliog all hopo of well-being both hero and horeaftor. Tho story of his rash vow, and ita supornatural defoat, ontortains n won- dering cirolo every night In tho perlor of tha “T'oototnlors’ Arms’ and tho narrator (who, to~ eard tha clono of Lis talo, nover falls to call nt~ tontion to the noat littlo clogk on the chimnoy- * Elccn. presonted to him, in tolen of foryiveness, )y Mro. Maj, Kyller) invatiably winde up his > reeltal with the same emphatio sontenco ¢ 8o, thon, d'ye #oo, my lads, whon Lcum out o' dook, and'was in craisin’ hordor agiv, I made a solomn vow aa I'd nover touch a drop o' liquor no moro, to the very ond o' my born days, for no conedoration whatgomodovor; and 1 think I may ony 88 1've kep' that'ere vow a lrifle beller ner I did Cother un 1" THE OLD WOMAN | MET AT BADEN. Howard Paul, tn the Amertcan Reglater, Parir, I can distinetly remomber when I first wit- noseod Shoridan's comedy, ‘The Rivals,” of thinking that the character of Afrs, Malaprop muat bo an amueing oxaggoeration, Whon X road Mra. Portington's sayiugs I thought thom gro- tesquo, but overdono; and although I roaved with lnughter at Sketchley’a *“Mra, Brown at tha Play,” I concoived the old ladyto bo born of the brain of tho facetious raconteur. I wot mo of a Iady in Tondon about whom many violent dinloeations of sylla- blos sro related, and who is snid to have . boasted that sho had a spinal staircase under her ostablishment, but when I mot this lady I found that eho not only spoke excellont English, ‘but was & shrowd woman of businesa withal, and thorofore concluded that somo of tho mad waga of tho “ Junior Qarrick™ or “Savage" cluba adopted this lady out of a quaint sort of affac- tlon as o pog to hang their jokes upon. Bus, rocontly, st Badon-Baden I met an American fomale {I can't call her a lady), who out-Mals l{;ropnd the most Partington of Ar. Brown's. Sho was from ‘“out West;” and lived at Milwaukeo whoen sho was ot homo. Bhe bad boon loft n widow, her hus- band haying boon a farmor, and was now on Ler tirat tour on the Continent, 8ho was litor~ slly & ‘phennmenon of ignoranco ond mis- conception, and if evor the An;ing that “a littlo learning is ndangorous thing ” received exsmpli- fleation it did in this caso. ~ Sho sat noxt to me at thotable d’hoteat tho lotel, and atter the ashion of nelghbors st Continontal dinnors, wa foll into convorsation. Hor appearance hind at« tractod my sttontion. Bhe was o largo, yollow- faced wonian, with Lair tho color of mahogany, and the front of her ample gown litorally dotted all ovor with bold, shining, Palais-Royal-lookin, Jowelry. It soumoad to start from her chin an oxtond ina glittering, uobroken liue down ta hor very toes, Ono of tho waiters spoko of her to his brothor-kellner as the ‘‘old Ylg in armor.” At dinnor sho turned to me and uaid s *“You'll oxcuso me, but how do you have your lettors nddrossod ? " - +Oh, simply to tho Hotel Royal” (whore I wag nln.ying). 3 “"That's & good idea," puraued she. I didn't know the namo of no hotels Lero, so a neighbor of ming who bad once been in Ifiurupu told ma it would bo a good plen to havo all of mina sent to tho post restaurant, and I can't find no such rostaurant in town. 1 took onrringo yostorday end looked for 1t everywhere.” It was simply & duty to inatruct her that she should nppl{ to tho poste restante. 3¢ you do not speak Freuch,” I anked, “low do you mako yourself understood whon you are sight-socing # ¢ Lordbless you, no French for me ; I under- stand nono of these furrin’ tongues, not I— Englishio as much as I can menage. I hiva aninterrupler whorever I go—ovor sinco I loft England at least, Now, London i8 a scnsible placa to visit, .if it's only for that reason thoy do Bpeak English thero, and that's a comfort, if it is toggy." f found the old dame had just roturned from Italy, and it was astounding to hear hor mix up Elncmc and things and poople. It required but a "ttlu gontle encouragement to looson hor onguo. *"Did you lilte Milan ?"" I inquirod. o Tt's olegant,” * And the pictures, the art troasures of sunny Italy, are they not dolightful ?" I nsked with an affaclation of enthusinsm, - #Thoy'ro u?lond(d " said sho, * whoro thoy'ra not too old, 'Choy showed mealot of broken bits of things in Romo that I couldn't maka hend nor tail of—a body here, a leg thoro, an arm somowhere else; it looked to mo mero rub- bago, that did, but the pictors woro very mico. I ltked Ila?hnol's marzingo with the Virgin, bug 1 didn’t think much of the ‘! Last Bupper,” aa they showed mo at Milan, How thoy can call that a master-pieco I can’t think, for I've scon public-houso signs in Ameriky that lLad much richier coloring into thom than that. One of tha Apostles only had ono leg, and I'm ouro that aint no good drawin’y not that I know much of paintin’, dear knows.” 4+ Did you stop at Floronce ?" I asked, 4Qh, yes, and wont to the Pity Panlnce, and saw the picters thero too.” “Did you soe Vonus, by Titlan? Thore's o work 1" I boldly assertod. *“Yon, thero is s work, and sho ought to be asbamed of horself!” “‘Ashamed of hersolf, who—Vonus? Why, you wouldn’t have Ler drossod or drapod, would yA«;\:?_ You'd ruin the clossic beauty, Think of *“Think of docency! I say sgain sho_ought to be ashamed of horself; I dou't mean Vonus, for I mpoes it's the roglar thing for her to bo un~ dressod ; but Titiens ought to remembor she's & lady and looked upon as sich in Loudon. 1've hoard her sing." . il ‘Beud her eing, who?” I asked in amazo- ment. ¢ 'Why, Titiens ; and how she could wastoe her timo paintin’ ono of Lier own sex layin off on & gofs, liko that, I can't think. 'Litious’ Yenus mny be a great work, but for my part I profer her Norma,” It i ovidont that the colncidonco of sound in tho popular pronunciation of tho two names had uttorly misled this sstonishing old oreaturo, and an Iloft the table and gavo hor s partingglanco, I was rominded of that othor old damo of that convenient locality known as “out wost,” who onoo wroto to hor son not to getinto tho “ por- niclons hablt of wisittog bilious rooma and bowel-alloys, as sich wicked places led to tho shadder of tho value of doath,” which was quito a8 porvorted a stato of idoas as Mra. Partington when she roturned from Naples, and wounld in- pist on always talking of *‘a corruption of Mount Vociferous,” v —_— FROM THE SPANISH. Thoso flowars that woro o flush of Joy and pride, With (o awak'ning morn thelr bidy unclosiuy, 1n tho chill night's encircling Shall breatlio of hopoless grief a “Chiat areh of streaming purplo, siow, sud gold, With flonting cliango of hues the aky udorning, Ts for our wortal lifa a slgn and wainiug, 80 briot its apan, and Lopos aud deada eo told, Motst with the dewy dawn, the buraling rouea Glow Ll thelr frageant 1ife In fadlug clovea; Their fomb, thioir cradle, in one bud eufold. ‘Bich deatiny 1man fnds himsslf vepoating : QOnso (iay bokiolds life's comitig and ity fleciing, Whilo Lut as bours soom agos thiat lava rolled. — A Post=0Iiice Romance, From the Mancheatsr Union. Rogularly every two wooks for the past six yonre o lottor lag” boon roceived et tho Post- ofice, addvessod to * Dr. ——, Manchester, N. IL,” written ovidontly by the samo hand, Tho cnu'gruphy iy good, and s evidently that of u Indy. 'Tlio namo is ontored on the liut timo aflor Lime, aud no one has avor claimed ono of theu, After lylng at tho oflico tho time speoified by Inw, tho lettors aro sont, ono aftor the othor, to tho'dead-lattor offico at Washington. 80 it gooa on, yoar aftor year, On one occasion ouo of the lotiors was roturnod from the dead-tettor ofica bocause {t contamed somo triflo of laco, whiole the Departmont woa dosirous should bo relurnod to tho writer, ‘Tho lottor gave no cluo ay to wha or what tho wriler was, and was signod ulmuly “Emelino," ‘I'his name was entored on tho list, ‘but no one over claimod tho lotter or the bits of, lace. Amfi)mr straugo foature of this oase ' that tha “ldest inhabitant ™ hay nevor hosd of any man of the namu the lettora boar, and o the. wholo watter romaiug & mystory yoar ullps year,