Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 9, 1873, Page 7

:gombling-houses and something worse, the ren- lozvousrof all tho great Lords and financiora, -At Gui'mard’s tho Prince de Soubise did the honors, MADAME BU _BARRY. The Liast Favorito of Louis XV. How a Williner's Apprentice Beoame a King's Mistress. Her Torrible Death During the, “Reign of Terror.” — From Tefuplo Rar. Tho Villago of Vauoopi leura i romaikablo ag being the birthplace of &woof tho mogit famous— or shiould I say one of :tho most fampus and ono of the most infamous A—women af, Fronoh hia- tory : Joan of Arc and tio Counjthsa dn Barry, It hus boen suggosted that Voupoulours is nob entitled fo this Intter honor, , or. dishonor, but that it baa beon so0 acoredlto A from tha lovo of antithosls so common ‘amo'ag tho Ironch, nnd for the purposs of.moro - gtrikingly coutrasting two stuikingly oppoeito ¢ siyaoters, . Bo that as it mny, W MARIE JEANNE / ymp DX VAUDLRNIED | waa born fn $10 ve' v 1949, Writors diffor an to Llio condit:on of } my parents, but it is probable that sho wad th 4 qaughtor of 'a mantus-maker named Beot © a3 of ono . Vaubérior, & man of £00d bUt PO’ 22 family, Ble was oaly 8 yonts'of age when her fathor diod; ' fucomo had nover boen moro than Laro av' sslgtenco, and the obild and hor motlior were Aofb totally unprovided for. Thore were o'y two porsons in.tho wido world to whom finoy could turn for mesistanco—a poor monk, named 'Ange,. M. do Vaubornior's brother, and . Dillsud do iloncesu, Joanna's godfathor, & dinancter, a rich and bonovolont man, Doth re- eided in Paria; so to Para widow and orphan wont. ) Pora l‘Apgn was too poor to sfford them -any substantial nsslstance, but ho waited upon M. do Moncoau and raprosonted their condition. ‘Theso good offices resulted in tho child boing sont to o convent to ba eddoated, andin o eitun- ‘tion being prooured for the mothor, At 16, Joanno was spprenticed to & modiste named La- billo, Numerous stories of intrignes and lovo- edvontures arc felated of this opook of her lifa in the npooryphal momoirs which have at differ- ent poriods .passod for gonuine biographion; but, as thoir authentloity {s oxtremely doubttal, Iuhall not repoat any of them, Thero oan bo littlo doubt but that tho gixl's onrly lite was far {from immaoulate ;: ns, lndecd, what life was not, in that ago of univeran! moral corruption ? ‘We noxt find her a gompanion to a rich widow nomod La Garde, whose two sons fall in lovo with her; she envourages the addresses of both without favoring eltler; by-and-by the mother discovers what is going on and Jeanno is ox- pelled the homse. Her next stop is into tho britlikas butidepraved society of : TILE DEI-MONDE. Bho is npw a troquenter of tho salons of the slsters Yauriercs and Guimard, the dancor; Thouowvpst drawing-rooms,the most gorgoous and brallignt of the Capital, displayed & luxury morso thon Oriental. Guimard was the Ninon I'Enclos of the cightecnth century ; hior assomblics om- braced all the wit and fashion of tho nge. Arongid the apartments were conatruoted hoxes clogely curtained, resembling thoso of a theatro; they were for the accommodation of cortsin great Jadics, who, whilo still presorving some respect for nppearancés, could thus enjoy tho contemplation of the dazzling scome without bolng visible to the general eyo. Among the frequentera of these salons was tho Count Jear du Barry, a man of high family, but :a gambler and a roue. Btruck by the beauty of ‘Mlo. Lange—Jennne Vaubernior had now ns- sumed her uncle's pamo—he offered her his 4 protection.” It was accopted. Thin wau tho rcommencement of a aew npook in tha life of our advouturess, By-aud-by a grand idos onters the .schemiug brain of Count Joun ; “ TUE 'OST OF FAVORITE SULTANA hos been vacaut sinco the death of La Pompa- dour; what if Mlle, Lange could_be ralod to thot dignity? Witk Count Joan to think s to aot;. tho ho .immediately seoks about for tho menns of putting it iuto force, Not much difi- culty in that, *The well-beloved” is alwsya rc- cestible to A protty woman, and has, besides, plenty of panders und pimps about to lead the way to such an introduction, The young lady obtains an invitation to & rogal potit souper, the King is enchonted with lior beauty rud gracoful, easy manners, and Count Jean's. ambitious pro+ ject iv a brilliant success. But previcus to her mounting to tho covet- ¢4 diguity it ‘'Was uecorcary that Mademoi- cello should go through-a cortain cero- mony. As - yot sho ‘wos namcloss and Lusbandless. A royal mistress untitled and unmarried Lnd nover been heard of; such a dexcliction from’precedont would ehock Court morality. Couut Jean would, under the circum- slrueey, have boon most wlllfng to have under- takien thoaolo of busband, but, unfortunately, he bod s wife living, 1o did, howevor, tho next best thing to marrying her bimsolf; he ATARRIED MER TO IUS DROTHER, Count Guillaume du Barry, o _poor officor of marines, who willingly availed himself of so probtable an offer, D x In the Library at Vorsailles is still preserved the curious contract of this marriage, It is dated tho 204 of July, 1768. It i too long to uoto, but suflico it to say that it loft Madame Ia Jomtesae & perfectly freo agent, uncontrolled by marital authoiity, Ou tho 1st of Saptember in the samo year the marriage was colobrated in Turis. Couns Guillaume returned to Toulouse, Tichor by 6 pensiou of 5,000 livres & year, tha Court proprioties wero eatisfied, and tho Coun- 1ess was pormaucntly establisled as une reine do la gauche. 5 Tt not without s shower of sourrilons pooms and pnu(}hlundas, and & dotermined opposi- tion. be pooms snd pasquinades - iwero by divers hands, Voltaire's smoug othors; tho opposition came from the Do idon concolved, CITICACGO DAILY WaAtLizun UNDAY, NUVILMBIGIE ¥, 187, 7 i] to publicly avow his penchant, and the tavor vl if woVerelgnindy Ead t6 bo accopted by the sowctinm. """ From that time ILER FOSITION WA BYLY nECOGNIZED, and tho millluer's approntice wae surrountod by gront ' Indicw “ell ongor o undorteko llnz lnost mswinl offices mbout hot porson. “Cho oueroslly of tho King _wis 3 houndloss oo his {ufatuation, which porhaps oxcoaded all that he had folt for auy one of hia formor mistressos, Iio boatowod upon hior two annuitios, ono of 100,000 liyros, another of 10,60 l.lvresi' tho splondid eatate of Louveolon- ' nes (or Luclonnes), -snother at Nantes worth 40,000 livros o yonr, aud mnny large sums of ‘money boaldos, ~ ‘Lho war botwvaen the Do Ohelsoul and the Du Dy parties brought abont somo vital political ohanges, Do Cloivenl, thoroughly Improg- matod witk thoso Idens of constitutionnl govorn: mont which dontesquien hed borrawed from En- glond,; aud modo fanuliar in Franco by bhis *1tepris dos"Lols,” wa8 & BlAdnch Parlomen- tairg, | Madamo dn Barey alilod horself with tho ‘party of Absolutiem, and worked wun- conalugly for tho dostruction of Patlinment, This' could only bo effceted by o caup d'atnt, ‘ond,. to win tho Kiug's cobsont to this bold ccomrso, the fnvorite nmcenslugly appliod horsolt: Oneiday slio huug up in hvr bondoir ono of Vandyke's portraits of Olarles the Firat, wlich ninting sho had Jusl purehagod for a lnrgo vum, * Biro, thoy will tront you'in thé samo munnor,” sho otled, polntiug to tho pioture, “if you ) lonve these gowninen to do as thoy pleaso.” Aftor gome warm fonoink upen elthor side, * | YIEFINAL DLOW WAS OTRUCK, . - Upoh asorgeant and- two ‘of tho black muskotoors, armed! with tho suthority of o leltra de’ cachet. Of ench way: demanded whethor he would or .would 'not submit himself to the mya,l authority. ‘Thio_ supwor wae s unanimons . Nol" Upon which gontence of exilo was pronounced agalnst all. Each was forbidden Lo exerciso.. lis functions, or_evet call himsolt » mombor of Parliamont. - With {he Parlemontaires 'wers ox- iled tho Duo d'Orlonns and his wen,. tho Prince de Cotdo, tho Prlaga do Contl, aud all tho poers who bad attaohed thomselvas fo tho party, ‘Tho Duo do Oholsonl waa exiled to Chanto- loupo,—~tho samo sontonco_had long sinco boon passod upon Madamo de Granmunont, on account of her ovorbeaving insolonco to the favorito,— where he hold quite o Court, whioh was the fa. votito resort of Enoyolopodists, wits, poetf] and &l the litorary meu 'of 'tho age, ‘whence continued to flow a continuous stroam of gross pooms, after ‘tho siylo of tho colebrated ** La Bourbonnaiso,"* pamphlots and satiros against Klu[i Minist: =, 'and mistross, Bo oxaeporated was Louis by some of these foul oftusions, that had it not boen for tho intorces- sion of Madame du Barry ho would have sent tho Duko to tho Baatio.” Not only did sho savo Lier onemy from a’prison, but raiacd bis pension $0 50,000 * livres, thoroby largoly xat raiu good forevil, Tho Goustess bad a charmind: Luclonnes, near Marly, * A PARADISE OF DEAUTY AND LUXUhy. Youls, aver & prey 'to ennui among the . grand apartments’ and tedious coro- moudes of Versailles, froquently rode over there in the mornings, almost uunttended. In tho summor ho would sié under s tree for Louss to- getber, gazing down upon the valley of tho Haing, the woods of Marly, and afl the beautios of tho lovely laudsoapo that lay befors him, And tho Countess would bring him n giass of wino and a little frult that sho had plucked with herown hand, and sit down at his feet. Or thoy would atroll in the grounds, accompanied by a little whito u;;nnlol snd & negro boy named Zamore, dressed in fautastic costume’ covered with gold, who oarried n red umbrolla to protect thom from tho sun, This boy was & groat favorito with both, Ono day the King, in & frolic, named him Governor of Lucionnes, causod & dooument to bo drawu up to that of- feot, and bostowod upon him an annulty of 500 livres, ' Littlo did the Countoss droam of the terrible parb that this hunbloe sorvilo crcature would one day play in hor destiny | In 1772 sho was formally noflnflted from her husband by a deoree of the Ohatelet du Paris, As tho Ihng's infatustion showed no- sign of Qiminishing, it was mooted by certain poraons, who still prosorvod some respect for morality, shat sinoe Lonis could not beinduced to soparate from his ntistress, there should be A MOBGANATIO MABRIAGE. Tho chiet promotors of this schome were theDua doln Vauguyon, the Cardinal de Bernis, who tn- dertook & {purtiéy to Rome, in order to Boliclt tho Popo_to disaolve the Couutess’ marriago with tho Count du, Barry, and Haric-Thoroso, tho King's pious dughtar, who snid that she had bo- Ccome & Carmelito that sho might the more of- fectually intorcode with hoavoa for her fathor's salvation, It hias boon asserted that the propo- sition was & moro politioal ruse, which tho pro- ‘posers nover had any intoation of carrying into effoot, Thero was ono out of the threo just named, however, who was thoroughly in carnest, and that was Louis' doughtor. * Beforo all things,” sho said, * the King's ealvation must be thought of, and, to put an_ond to tho scandal, if he cannot separate -from his mistress he ought to moke her his wife.” Daath preserved the maigon at port, to roturn within n months Tho oxact na- turo of hor misalon would bo difiicnit bo disnover among tho countless Mitrlgyes of tho emigres ot “thln porlody A tho ncoroditod agent of the Qaeén, hovovor, who visited tho Irincoss of Lorrtino, Do Rofien, M, do Calonno, and_mauy Othors,and ansinted in n nolomn funoral scrvico for tho Kivg. This sonlod hor doom, Pitt ondenvored to poronado bor not to reliten to Parls, prodict- ing thot if sho did sho would meot the tata of Regulua, p Ifis words wore indead prophatin. Bbio_ found oll wild confusion at Tiowvoctonnes ; Znmoro and tho patriot olub 11 jjosscsston, hor traannron riflod, her nh\mndld sintons wreokod by n troop of diunXeh rufligus who robbed in tho vame of [borty, Too Iatd alio roponied of the rash con- fidonco which had urged Lor to- plingo heraaif into-tho vortex; esonpo. wns now impossible, On tho 3d of Tuly, 1703, having boen dononnced by thio_tronchorous biack, nn ¢ DRDER WAS 189UED XOIt JIBR ARRRST, By n straugo coincidenco, hor ol nt tiio Con- olorgorio was {hio naig Which liad just provious- Iy boon ocoupied by Marlo Antoinotto. Theso two \dinon Lad reigned na rival Queons at Vor- m\lllmal and that vast paloco was not Inrga enough ta contnln thom hoth:; they hnd all the noblesse tho night of tho 19th of Jauuary, 1771, , @vory morabor of the Parliamont wae aroused by of Tuanco for atlondants. Could any maglolan ot that tmo ' Linvo Jifted tho rosoalo voll and shown them tho torront beyond— | tho dim parrow ooll, tho henp of fillliy strayw, the black loaf, tho esrthon Hltuhcr of oloy waler, tha rongh, rod-capped, sabot-footed, but kindly Riohord, the concierge, and his wifo, thoir wolo cttondants, themsolves arrayed in ocopree prinon drdag | Hor judge was the bratal Fonquter-Tinvillo ;. .hor acouser, Zamore, The principal acousations ‘agnina} hor 'woro, having during tho late King's lifo squandered . vast smns.of the 'iuoplu'u monoy (thaé acousation wns just and true), of boing stl posscased of _groab trong- nres: thus wrongfally soquired, and nving beon ongaged In corob” plots to restoro.. tha royal family. At first sho met. thoso chargos scornfuily and boldly,” but when sentence of doath was pronounced all cmm‘fie daosorted Ler, and sho was carried almost fainting back to hor prisou. R = /TIE PAINFUL SOENE OF HER EXECUTION is thus vividly desoribed by ono who was an oyo~ witnoss s % Upon arriving at Pont au Ohnngfl I found's ver large crowd assemblod there, I bad 1o need to as {lis reazon of the assemblage, for at that moment I heard the most terriblo orics, and almost immediate- Iy maw come out of the caurt of tho .Pal- aco of Justice that fatal cart which Barrero, in one of those fitw of galely which are so common ' to hiim, callod * tho bier of the iving.” A woman was {n that'cart, which slowly drew near to tho #pob upon whioh Ias standing. Hor figuro, her atifudo, er gesturos oxpreared thio moat frightful despatr, Al- temnefely red and deathily pals, she’ struggled withs tho executionor aud Lis two aaststants, who could poarcely hold her updn thia heneh, and uttorlng {hose plorcing orlen which lnd fireb arréstod mo, sho Hirned. Mcte santly from oug to the othor, favoking pity, 14 waa Badume du Barry, being canveyed ¥o oxoc D. 44 i Only about 40 or 41 -yeara of ago say. 60], she - was atlll, in the torror which disfigured her featu ably beautifal, Olothed wholly in white, Antofnotte, who had preceded hor o fow weaks viooaly upou tho same Touto, hor beatiful biack hatr formed o oontraat stmilar fo that preseuted by a fune ral-pall cast gvers cofin, * In tho namo of Heaven 17 sbo orled amidst Lor tosrs and sobs, * in tho name of Heaven. gavo e, I have never dane fll to auy one, Bavome!" The dolirious frenzy of thia unforiunato ‘woman produced suoh & impresslon omong the peo- plo that oven thods who exmo Lo gloat evar her guffor- ngs liad not tho courags to cast ot bor a ward of fn- sult, Brery ono_around- appoared stupeficd, nnd no crles were licard byt her; but lier oxles wora so plerc- ing that I betiove thioy would have drowned ewcn those of tho mob had they becn uttored, . . . During tho wholo route sho never consod her shriskerfor “Lify, 1ifo!” sud to_struggle frantloally to atude death whicl tiad selzed upon her already, ' Upon arrfving at tho Boaflold 1t was nocceasry o employ forca bo attach her totho fatal plank, and lier laat words were, “ Morcy | Meroy! but one moment longer, but ono®—— and all was gald, g Bho was tho only one of the aristocrats whe diegracod the order by any show of cowardice; oll others, womon ng well as mon, met theirdoom with Spartan courage. Betweon the writera of De Obplscul's party and thoso of the Revolution MORE FOUL STORIES AND HAUSITER JUDGMENTA Dbave beon ciroulatod agalnut Mrudame du Barry than any othor womsu of her generation. And evon at the preseut day tho popular ideas conr corntug bLor, both in Frauco snd England, as derivod from thoso, mendaciows seurces. -10 human boiug duriig bis or hor lifotime vas ovorwholmed with more opprebrium, nud yob sho mever committod one rovengeful, aob against Lor dofvmora aud enomies ; neverouco solicited s lottro do caohet. On'tho coutray, Yo have seco that she not only inborceded b 8ave Do Ohoisoul from n prison, but oven ooferred benefits upou him at & timo whon Lo wasBtrain- ing every nerve to dostroyhier, Many aecdotes aro told of hor toudernoss of hoart anf of lor goneronity, and how fraquontly sho peadod to tho King for poor prisonora condewner to death upon slight or pitiable ohiargos, No pordon in distreas ovor nppoglsd to Lok in.vain. Tlor bolavior towards Marie Antoinotte hos beon already commonted upon. Whey the actor Dauberval, overwhelmed by debts Wrote to her for aasistanco, sho immediately so/shout raising a subscription ;_sho compelled ety great Lord Tronoh monarchy from this laat degradation. Whilo these schemes woro afoot TUX REALTH OF THE KING WAS BINKING PAST. That - onnui and tristosse which during so many yeara had boen tho ourao of his existonge, which™ had plungod him into licentious do- bouchery, grow heavier and heavior &8 ons by ono he s the contemporarios of hie youth, the {riends of his manhood, fall into that * blind cavo of eternal night,” to whiok day by day ro- sistloas doom carriod bim nearer. Y'ho Marquis do Olauvelin died baforo his oy at tho suppor- table ; a fow days aftorwards he waa told of the domiso of tho Marechal d’Armentieres, who was born in tho same yoar a8 himsolf and who had boen - his plsymate in chidhood. Theso woro - yovoro shooks. | Tlio - _physiciuus pioscribad constant chango of soone; and 80 ho journeyed from Rambonillet to Qom- filogna, and from Compiegne to Choisy, and 8o ackwards and forwards, renbleaamlejnoled, dull- eyed, ledon-cheokad, emileless, his hend snuk upon his broast—a terrible picture of tho jaded, worn-out volupéuary, who had drained " tho wine of lifo" until the lecs filled his mouth with nouses. An attack of small-pox, that disease o 1atal to tho Bourbons, tormiuatod his wretched life, and with it tho age of the anclen regime, on tho'10th of May, 1774, At tho first commencement of the King's brief {llnesy Madamo du Barry was ordered to remove io Ruel, and it was ‘thers that_tidings were brought hor of Lis death, Iamediatoly aftor- .wards came an order fiom the now eovnmlin, commanding her to roliro t2 tho convent of the Pont-aux-Dames, *fcr vonsons known to go Whioh concern the tranquility of my kingdom, and for the E SAFETY OF OERTAIN TATE BEODETS which bave boon confided to you.” Bo ran the lettor. After a time sho mede n humble appeal to Marie Antoinette to bo allowad to return to Luciennes. Her' request was grantod. Hor Choigeul purty, The sccret of tho hatred of the Duko de Choitoul to Madame du Barry was, that Arom tho time of thé death of tho Marquiso do Pompadour hio bad béen plotting—0 tempora ! -0 mores !—to thrust Lis eistor, tho Countoss de Grammont, & lady by no meuns io hor first yonth, into tho vacant place, The malhco of both brother and sister knew no bounds upon beo- holding the prixo suatched from them by a mero low-born advontuross, . ‘The Counters, howevor, had yot anothor cere- mony to go through Leforo ehe could ba ac- knowledged a8 theKing's mistress—she must be FOUMALLY PLESENTED AT COURT, Bo poworful was tho Do Choiseul party, that some difficulty was at firat oxperienced in find- ing o chaperon, This difficulty, however, was altimately solved in tho porson of the Couttos de Boarn, who undertools tho doubiful task. The scene of the.presontation is thus ple- turosqualy desoribed by Capefigue in his life of Madumo du Barrv: * All wers on the qui-vive in tho royal chateau on tho eveuing of tho 22d of April, 1770, for sll know tlnf thie Countess du. Tarry wis alout to Lo presented; 1ho staunch partisans of the Duke do Cholscul afiirm- ed that sucu a thing daved not Lo done, sud, even sup- osiug such on enormity was to bo committed, ow would she pass through the ordoal? Bhe would bo awkward and constrained, This convoreu- tion Locame tho more lvoly and anlinated as the King was percoived to be uneasy and abecnt-minded whilo couversing with the Duka do Richelieu aud thie Princo do Boublsu, As tiino passed un, every ono at Versuilles began Lo hink tat tho prescatition would bo delsyed o iudofinitaly put off, Liub thoy wore mistalon i the cause of the King's unensluces, ” I¢ ho wero fmpatient 1t was because lio ferrad lest anything shoul: Liappeucd to tho Gountess, | gomeluing liw aunoyed {ho hot-eaded littlo puse* bo enids # or perbups sbio {a slcle., In eny cese, I do ot wish (o prasentation to 1o deinyed Mfim‘ toamorsaw,” # Your Majesty's commnuids will bo law to her,” roplted Richelion, o fhe micit of n whirl' of conjecturen tho door apened oud * Mesdnmen lca Gomtennca de Boarn et du Turry " wore auncunced, Tho finprosalon £ho cre- ated Was SIINODEO 3 even Lo Conubens’ cremies cou= feeeed that never was more dozaling beauty combined with more gruc: uud dignity, The surccsy was come plete, Tho King, endinefuctic, luppy, ralued tho Counitosny who, dccording to ouetom, Ludft Loforo b, Wttering lender and g lzut wordy i mich w toho 84 10 be heard by all, Dlednmes, (ho King's dwughters,® who worp said to bo o hostlle'to the prasentsiion o the Du Darry, welcomed her with much cordiniity, Aunlio made s very low vuvorence Meadames raboed fior with nuich kindnees aud warmly enbraced Ler, ‘s flutterny. Tecoption Wi ackiowledged by thy Gougtors wlili a rerpectful dfiuity which fonisbed thy oldest Labilues of tbo Qourt, Every, ono of Do Ooiteul's old couriiers cald that, fur fromn taking Lier for the Riug's 4, #ho ruiher 0. Leblod a Hutla voardin “saliool girl who had come o Jnike her first communi-a, s coinploto succons havo Oourt friends, except . fow,—~De Drissac, d'Aiguillon, Richoliou,and Soubiso,—desertad hot upos ber fall. But Madame la Comtosso's gay, frivolous naturs was mnot clouded by this ingratitndo; she amused heraelf in embollisking her rotroat, Lestowing alms, encouraging tho flue arts, and giviog balls, fetes, and potita soupers, it by-sad-by & Jacobin club is estoblished st Louvecioomos, of which - the nogro Zamore, ‘whom wo Iast saw: uur{‘i‘ o _scerlet umbrelin ovor his mistress’ head, ho President. Helis no longer hor bumble rlave, but boasts himself to bo tho friend of Xrauklin aud Marat, and spouts bombastic epeeches abont liberty and nq‘ulmy. o We now come to TUE DRIGHTEST SPOT in this erring woman's tarnished lifo, Matia Antoineito, thanla to the politio counsels of her mother, Maria Therern, had met the favorite with somothing of cordinlity ; but it was impos- ‘aiblo that this agreoment betweon two such op- ible that thi t bet I3 h osite persons and such opposite interosts could 6 of long duration. A wioked jost mado upon him by Madamo du Darry baing roported to the Deuphin, thers was an immediate rupturo, which was nover healed during the lifetime of TLonis the Piftoenth, But when scrious tribula- tion fell upon the royal family they found no truor nor moro dovoted friend ihan Madame du Barry, Bho wroto to the Quoon, bui(ghlg Ler to ncoopt of all that sho posacssed. Bhe sold_hor iowa s to aid hor ncoessity ; she risked, and ul- imately lost, hor life in hor gorvica, In 1701 she raised & cry thot she had been robbed of & number of valuablo jowels, and |, offored & largo roward far the dincovery of the rabber, Soon aftorwarde sho protended that the thiof had boen orptured in Toudon, and that it way necosanry for ber togo thither to idontify and olaim her proporty. Bhio ucoordingly ob- talued & passport, and " JOURNBYED TO ENGLAND, Thero Ia littlo or uo donbt that the whole etory Wwas @ fabrioation; De B.iwuao, prokably, hai convoyed the diamonds to Marle Autoinotte ; tho atoty ot the oupture was a ruso to lesve. Tranee on & moorob mis- wion, In Tondon she wus handsomely recolved by Ditt, and n the bost socloty. Bhe returned lomne fn the Decombor of the sama year. But i in tho eaxly part of 1702 Bho nrllu raturued to Tingland, ntill ustensibly upon tho diamoud busi- neoy, pledging horself, upon obtalning her pass- %A lowd doggere], containiug the supposod history of Madwmno du Uarry, which way sung fu the streoty of suddenly obanged the liuetion ; tlio Iing was cnabled | Parls, and oven under'her windowa, of the €owrt to lay down 6 loais, Intil, with hor own domatton, she had gathere for him 2,000, ihis i but ofo out of manyanecdoles told of lier gonerosity. Bho waa the prolociress of all dobutants at the thcatres, sund a muuificent ntronctis to artists and all yion of genius ; -not, iko Powpadous, {roim (o gqulslto appraclation o‘s nn artistio mind, but ratier from good-hearts odnois, B &% ‘To moralize upon thea lifo of royal favnriten would be impertinentyysuporfiuous, The story of each one carrios 1ty 3wn moral, La Valllere, oven in her days of meionata Iove ond exalia- tion, Baruited lsy thye shadow of hor sin, atoning in the Carmplite call for her briof raptiro through yoam of mortification and penitenco’ Do Montospan oxpiating hosshort-lived plondor by ail the Yortwos of dograded prido and tho bitterncgs of remoreo ; Da Maintonon, dying solitary and unloved within the gloomy walls of Bt. Oyr 3 Do Mailly, woeping away lor life in ponitentinl toara; Do Obatonuronx, struck doad 1u tho mpment of returning triumph ; Do Pom- ndour, slowly dyivg, yeb 6till weoring out hor Foart % invonting now diversions o dispol tho morbid jonnui of hier royal lover, and evor racked by syppcliogsion lest another sfiould wemrp luor placo ; Du Barry, shrioking for lifo in the Leads- man's"cart, dyiug despairing upon the guillotine; oould. {ho Mot cloguent of moralists or ‘pronch- A to oxpoot tho Millemmium In our day, or to make man act from Jove rathor than eoll, In the prosent conditionn of ignorauco but wo cloim, navortholoss, ita possibility {n timo, and our right to Inatitato » system of logislative restraing to that ond, As n P'rade-Untonst, Lndvoeato equal pay for all mon,~not to atill foutor that rollc of despot- {sm, gluu-diuuuouow, ovon in mntters of pa; and’ labor; for all mon have equnl right to live; and onr wants ate common, Yo b siic- copsful, wo must firab bo consistont. Tf it {s propor: for ong mechanio to recoivo moro pa; than anotlior, then it is inconalutont in us to ob- joot to tho pay of tho bauker or morchnut on the ,Hano ground of ability, and so on lld,h\flnltum, through every avonto of civilized socloty, I claim this polnt as tho most important issuo in this question of Inbor-reform, and, until we necopt it a8 seh, wo will fail to vwko any prae- tical haadway in its adjustmont. his unoquial componsation i commorco hes ranrod aud suvporlod oligarchlcal monopolics at tho oxpenne of the million, In legisfation, i . hns beon the 1pmlma nonroe of corruption, - In. tho industrial rnnmlln, it has tondod ta sover all foolings of unity and sympathy. " - Dring within,tho resch of ;every human being tho nedoesitlon nud refinomonts of lifo, au (he. rownrd, of Lionost boll nd good nso to tho neigh- bior ; without hia having to debaso hia nature aa now to aoquiro & compotonoy (unless in a few igolatod cnscs, more the “result of increased valuation of man's common heritage, or nome othr. nccident, than truo, storling qualiticn of businens integriry, a8 in tho past, when this fast competitive age was nundreamt of); Where, thon, the oxousa for donylng to othora all thoir noeds When our highest aspirations can Lo attained aethoy would ho Iif timo under such n contition of lifo? For, whon Jookod at "prac- tleally, this moaus nothing more or less than re- ciprooal Industry.’ 'hink you the poor toilor, :who now averages but about $10 & weok, would do withous the moruing papers snd othor literary periodicals, and ' think himeel lucky if-ho conld sparo b6 donta for o, Bunday duily, n&: now? By no means, With the éffoct of rofining in- fluoncen would -follow xn increased decire for knowledgo, .ond n. gradual lossoning of orima,. o0d the dolng awny with polico-Torcos sud prison-houses. ¥ I wil conclude by roquesting unitod offort and utriot sonso of justico s tho peaceful and pon- siblo rond to rofonn, and tho ouly way to cacapio, within the nextfive: years, a stato of bloody anarchy. L i . I A i THE PRIEST'S HEART. 1t svaa Bir John, iho fair young prisat, ‘Hlo atrode up off tho strand But sovon fisker maidens ho loft bohind, All danalng uad fu hond, A 0o came wnto tho wieo wife'shotias ; # Now, motker, 10 provo your art § o charm Mny Carlolon's merry bluo eyes Outof a young man's hoart,h -« - L l\!i ion, you wont for a holy man, ‘Whaso heart waa sot on hm{. 3 G aing tuyour pasltar, and read in your books ; ‘Man's 1ove fleots lighlly by,” Y 1iad 1evor to tolk wiih Mny Garloton Thian #ith all the eaints n Heaven; 1 had Iivor to ait by 3May Curleton Thar to olimb tho sphoves seven. 41 Wve watched and fasted, Liavoprayed (oallahoro! ButI ind no cure, save churchyard mold, Yor tho pain which men eall love,” arly and late ; #Now Henvon forfond that ill grow -rma;’ ough that il bo lll, +1mow of a spoll to draw Moy Oarloton, ‘And bend hor to your will, “1f thon didet that which (hon canat not do, Wise woman though thou bp, , . X wonld run and run tiil I buried mysolt In tho surgo of yonder ses. . *# Bcatholess for me are mald snd wife, And ecathaloss shall they bidd Yet charm mo May Oarleton’s oyes ‘That aclica in my left side,” Bho oharmed him with tho whito witcheratt, 8he cliarmed him with tha black, But ho turnod hib falr young {ace Lo the wall, T4l shio Lioard Lis heart-atrings crack, ~Chgries Kingsley. e A LAY-SERMON. from the heart My Dran Youna Fuuzxp: You askod me, not long since, to toll you just what I thought of _you ; and I told you that some timo I would do ®o. I will proceed to keop my promise, and in this manner, for I am vory sure you will poy more heed o what I se it comes to you in tho form of a prinled lettar, for the roason that you will think it'doesn't moan you at all, but Mary Bimmons, over-the way., But it don’t moan Mary Bimmons ; it means you,—you, with your pretty, arch ways, and a gonorous Llttlo heart that lios to-day uador layer upon' layor of ' pride, and fashion, and folly. . i To bogin at thie boginning ¢ You woro born of wonlthy parents,—psvants who, “long boforo you maw tho light; tasted of toll aud Lardship, and in timo, through eninest offort, ocombined: with the fortunate rise in tho valuo of renl-estato, havo risen to a place nmong the *firat fomilles” of tho olty ; benoo you novor knew /the moaning of work. You,weio meut to school, uatil & groat deal of dissipation, fashion- rblo olothing, and & very little study, bogan to toll Boriously upon your health, and you were ro- moved from school under a phyalgisn’a. orders that you wero not to return ; ¢ exceadive brain- work wis killing you.” You played the invalid for o tine, and then, a8 the Koason for balls and porties @ow noar, you rallied astonishingly, and, in spiteof the foars of your frionds that yom: could not survive another winter, you have man- nged to survive soveral,—bare-necked at that. True, yon ocoaslonally bave hoon visitod by sn interosting littlo congly, but you did not coneider’ that your lungs woro in any immediato danger, it, indead, youevor thought of thom at all § and 80 you kopt up the habit of woaring thin-soled boots, and exposed your mneck . and arms © to the public gaze,, until-'your oldest brotha—a raw oolloge-youth, whoso orabpighton the effeot of such lessons as thesa? —_— e THE LABOR QUESTION. o the Hditor of The Chicaco Tribune, Sin: Hoviog just rond an article in this (Bunday). morping's issuo of your paper, troat- ing of Trades-Unions and the antzgonisme of Labor to. Oapital, oto., signod “Dirs. M. D. Wyakoop,” I bave prosumed to avall mysalt of the opportunity to give my ofton-oxpressod views on this subject, through tue columns of T'ue THIBUNE. S In an artiolo published in Boston in 1870, and again in an address delivered bofore tho work- ingmeon'of 8t. Louls in the spring of 1873, I en- donvored to show that the most vital principle involved 1n said sgitation had boon loft un- touched, nud still faus to roceive proper thought among the working classos, namely : Tho causoes underlying and continually producing the ovils undor whioh we labor, and tho true method of thoir adjustmont, -, . WhilaI am an esynest advocate of Trades- Unlous, and all organizations tending to better tho condition of the oppresscd toiler, I foel as« sured of the fallaoy of their position on many mointa, assumod as likely to correoct this unequal distribution of the fruits of industry. . TFirat, one of the principal evila wag the losing sight of the uain objeot of industry and coms merco,—its proper object boing to administer to tho wunts and comfort of humanity; and In our subvarting its ueos lo the basest of dpnrpaau b solf-nggrundizomont and luat of greed. 1t 18 noodlons to dwoll upon our ideas of com- morclal or industrial n?uhy, a8 privticed in all parts of tho so-called oivilized world, for wo are all too familiar with its grasping snd mercilcsa tule, productive only of slm:md aud crime, aris- toarnoy and poverly. There is not an intolligont, liboral-minded wmau hvmg but that desires somo other road to plonty aud hnppiness than tha coie of shayp bare {(nlulu end mean-flatod cconomy now' admitied 0 bo thie only true business-road'to aucoess ; nor will It be nocousary to explain to an intelligent mind how (Lo generous and woblo portion of humanity must bo-gontinually ot the disadvan- tuga in thiscompotitivo strife with the selfish and uuprinapled, ® 1 am fully alive to the objeotions o often of- fored to o freo aud impartial disoussion of “our commeraial and industriul reluticns to osoh othor ; the first boiug a pretended anxiety that if we romove the ohaucos of ‘man bedoming wealthiy, by any act of logiulation, we will oripplo all tho onorgles of Industry and " gocial progresus 1t does not speal vory highly of our estimate .of human hopes aud aspirations whou we makoe thin adintasion. ‘I'ore cortainly mustble n hnk tor base to build upon than this, and o nop¥ purposo for lifo's work, sk o tha practical oye of the sociul diz®ster his cude of logiw would seom liko & '"f‘“blnlt' 4 thalmia, It i truo it would be impypcioublo 108 opinion’ noboly cares ‘aufiming about—was fain to do tho bludiing for the family, and refused to scoompauyyou out unless you would aban- don the costuno which you imagined inoreased your attraction, 5 Your nights being given to pleasure, your duys are, of nqoessity, pasged in sloop. You take your brakiast at 11, and, with servanta to attond to owry want, managé to get tbmn¥h tho day,—driring in & ologe carriage ocoasionally, but never wiking. You never walk, baoause 1t Ly plebolan, il is tiresome, and it necoesitates tho wearing of i veil, unloss you would ruin: your comploxion,ro complexion gloriously brilliant under the ]fiu“gl\t. and with tho aid of rougo and powdor, but faded and pallow when the sun shines upon it.. You rend at ‘timos. | You aro not like the wornen of Boston, iutellectnal, aud doting upon':duxley, Tyndsll, Darwin; but you havo s wesknoss for Mrs, ‘Bouthworth, Mixs Braddon, md, if you thought your *ma' would nowr ' koow if, vou would oven smuggle - *‘Jack Sheppard” into your bou- doir, and thed sympathetio teara’ over tho sorrows of faat daring and brilliantly-fascinating highwaymst. You sare an Episcopalian in al- toudance ; m for-roal belief, you haven't any of your own, It would require considorable mental effort to softle a quostion so momentous ; so yon let Fashionand your friends do it for you, and, taking n for ready-made prayers in your hand eally forth svery Bunday evening to glvo deyoul thanks to the God whe mado you, aud to sce if thore's anything new in the way of hats ainco you envied Miss Llnwnl\ryn har last purchaso, One woek s typloal of anothor ; thorais a sad monotony about your life ; and, in the consolous intorvals that at rave times como to yoi, you are sonalble of -5 lack of something, You wffect a conterapt for the gitl who earries her ditnor- baaket in her hand to and frow her daily work 3 and, in'imitation of tho tailors’ models who kask in the sunlight of your smiles, you sneer opsuly at tho dockrine of ¥ Woman's i\ightu,"huldh'{; uj your delicato hands fu horror at tho thought of womsn voling, You have euccosded onsov- oral oceneions in' saylng vory protty, notbinga about woman's dopendouce upon man Mthough you never-had an original though!about any- hing for two conseeutive minutes 2 What I think about you ig Just this: God ‘made yon & human boing, and Put you on this carth to do_something,—to 40rk, nol to it with folded hisnda whilo others CArn_your dally broad by tho sweat of thaw 1-OWA, “You have oapuc- ity,—you dow't kugr » 0f courso; you novor Liad any uee for it 4nd you have u real hoart, dormant and pov-Tiess as it is at thiy momuuté and you might 44ve physiosl hoalth, that woul show itsolt i+ cheeks which would put to shame ‘tho lovoli¥ rosed, If you have money enough for oy *180 all your Wante and Iuxuries, forgot It aug 7otk T don't moan constitute yourself a springesocloty for the amelloration of wavages Horiobools Gun, for T don't bolieve in womou's aowing i€ they, cawheln it} Luk.cest about you. for somebody to holp, with words as woll o4 doeds, ° Don't st with ldly-folded hands axd let tho days pas unwortlly filled, Lxert yaurself o little In your homo, alvu tha smile of woloome and tha frosh girl-kius to tho fatker Jhed with the busiuoss of tho day, for habit in strong and tho fathor still works, Beo ‘whore tho brothers go, and use your ondenvor to fostar tha apiclt of chivalty which you know Il within thoir breasts, Make homa o plon- nnt that the billlatd-Linll shall havo no atirne- tion, and Job your own nxumrln ho do bright that nlower standard of womauhood will nover find favor with tho bo!u of your houschiold, Give tho nintorly word of choor and the hnud of sym- pathy whon personal sorvow or tronbio bringa ono of thom to you with lus confidence, and mako him fool that you Indeod shara hls suffer- inge, 8o divide your timo that, [n the expausion of hontt, tho mind s not forgotton, 1lead ov- ery doy, nud bookw that are worth the thne you wpend j{ nnd 5o thivk upon what you rond that you can givo an intelligent” and origl- nal - oriticinm, Look iuto the lendiug quostions of iho. day, and, if you doeom tuom worthy, indorao without “reforenco to tho osthmation in which they are Leld by somo whom tho world through courteny enllo mon, Diucard tho injurious fashions whiol liavo hoen swelling tha phyelelan's list of female patientd, and adopt a costume at onge fittod to ho sex hud ornsmental Lo the oyo. [ you want o luiGw my renxon for thia Jast pleco of advico, ‘got vetandard work ou phyniology oud anatomy, and study the structiro and” deinunds of yoir ownbody, > - G ) * A8 rogardn your roliglous davolopmont, thero are twvo mochiods to adopt: Ono s to set your- 8elf down with the full intontion of tinding out whero you eame froin, who you are, \whero you are going, why God made you, who Ho e, why Ho didn't makoe you somebody olso, and to get up inflnitely more: puzzled - than whon you sat down 3 and tho othor i to let the thhui ontiroly alones—to rest upon the hsauranco that, sinco Homelody made you, Ho will tako caro of youj: and, " guidod Dy 'exporionco, which " bng taught :you'that,” for every tranngression of low, plysical or moral, you must : suffer, so fitazd youruele that your pouition sliail ho as ght 0 {8 consisteut with livings; and, if it tronbles you to bslieve that you and your many friends avo groing to bo weparated in tho future, don’t bollevo it,—dou't boliove nnylhlnf: which will mpli'you doubt: the wisdom, justico, and. goadnous -of Gad, who you feol watches over and cavas for you lnalvmunllly. 1 hayo talked to'you all thiy timo as I would tallk to s ohlld, for I beliovo it necossary; your naturo s in many reapeoty oo imnnture and - nus dovoloped as that of n ohild of 10; and yet thoro are somo things in whioh, I am sorry’ to sny, if xumor npenks truly, your experience” Las mado you old. "Iy toll o you sra what_th world cdlls o flirt ; that all the littlo attractions which Nhture has givén you have been subordi- nated to boso wsos, and you have oponly bossted of tha conGuests you bhavo mado throngh the poswer of coquotry, Dauso, I bog of you; it is not yot' too late; you osunot knoiv whither this * toudency is* leading you, of you would nover “have ontered tho path, Thore aro ny resons why sou should ‘pauso, ho fact thaf you aro so debasing your ‘womanhood Bmvun to mo conolnsively that you could never avo known tho powor of o passlon that has | many times mado avgels of demons. Ohl you blush, Itis well; it gives me hope for ‘tho fulurey'it tolls mo thiat youare not derd to roa- non and'shame.. Shall L tell you why you aro “[ on.the brink of terribla dangor? Does not your own hoart toll you that some time, as thero entora into tho hoart of every man and every woman,-goonor or later, n loyo stronger than denth and truo aa truth, 8o it must como to you, and fn your sanl of sous you muat feel thal tho only mat worthy the admiration and love of any woman 18 ono that would not for an instant trifle with tho affcctions of anothor? ‘Do you think that the truo men whom you could: ltonor ns & husband would care to falie to hLis ombrace a wifo whose lips hind been sullied by careloss and promiscuous contact with any who had qhanced to be the playtling of tho houe ? You may pload, In ox- enuation of your fault, that you wora engaged to thoeo whoso carosses you pormitted, but, in tho sevoral instancos raforrod to, discovered, bo- fore it was too Iato, that you had mistakon & passing fancy for a life-long affection. Itis no oxcuso at all; indeod, it proves you woaker than Dbefore. You have no right to promise yoursolf In marringe to o man whom you are not suro you conu lovo until death. Theso are not to be mado mattora of hasto; nd, whon you so far forgot yeu womanly dignity a8 to snap at any chanco- it that mey bo offered, to find out later that you were mistakon, you must not wondor it your name iy bundied corolessly about among your maaculine acquaintences, aud the better )iglml of ‘men bogin to shun you, ; Thero'is s differouce, my young friond, be- tweon prudishnoss and. womanly self-respoct, nnd you will always find that any man, high or low, pure in .thought or thoroughly' dobased, will not!forget the deforenco duo to & truo wom~ s, “You ought to’know instinotively tlint familiarity Is no ovidouce of manly regard, and tho proffrad caros too ofton sprlngs from a motivé g0 bage that I ncod not name it. Guard yourself, then, that, when the timo doos come in which you can truly say to any man that ho is more to you than all elsp, you will have no reluctmico to-Iny boforo him tho history of your past lifopunapotted by tha broath of sus- piclon, nutamishod by prasticos not open to tho “world; and, when tho timo doos como, a8 you would biava'truo sympathy and huppinoss in tho future, give ench othor your confidence regard- ing the past ; lot thoro be no sealod pages, no forgotten dotails, whose -ghostly prosence will Launt.you ever aftor, and, it discovered, oast n shndoiw botween you and him who hns trustod you, + i - Vanxey Wxar, ,'The Spider and tho Wasp. Tho 1nfis ,7;35195__\@«_ » black, ugly follow. Nota waa bravo and hioneat onowgh in"Iig Wiy le way Wa8 to catoh and eat all the flios ho could, and he had just spun s strong, new web for that purpose on the outslde of the window, and mada 1o gcorot pf- hia intentions, Liko othors of his kind hio ind mot. with reverses, Many & good wob had - beon blown down or Bwopt away as soou na lt-wag finishod ; but. epiders must nok allow thomeolvos to bo discouragod, 50 naw bo Lind made anothor, Tho wasp wos threo times largor thon the epider, and & handsome follow, neatly finished’ off in riugs of Dlnck ' and yollow. Ho “had & slonder waist,. : but ho looked like a villain wnd Ladlan nnplonsant way of turning his hoad from side o aldo, and of rubbing firat ono oar and thentho othor, if t.hefi aro onrs, nud of guashing thoso nippera—if that is what ho calls them~—on tho fide of his boad, No doubt tho spldor was the bottor of the two, he wasp could ating very flercoly, and would at any timo it bad & mind to. On this particular day, the spidor had, porhaps, oaton a light broak- fast—a small moth or the liko—snd way Imniry 88 one might imogino he would bo, and bha “stationod himself in Lis den to wait for his din- ner. ‘What tho wasp wantod there it {s difioult to toll, Terhaps ho did not believe in spiders’ webs, or s not afraid of thom, but Lie camo tumbling and blundering slong, snd tho noxt minute was caught in tho web by one leg, The apider rushed out and wound a thread around tho log, but the wasp strngglod 5o violontly and shoolt tho wob 80 tfiut the spidor was immeflintulilohllgufl to (i:,o aloft and look to his fostonings. o seomod to do this coolly and deliberately, a8 though hehad nothivg eluo to think of. When ho wna satisfled lia returned to tho combat os if suro to win. Moanwhilo the wasp continued to struggle and gnash bis nippors, evidently in o _rage thab ho honld hiava baon 8o stupid or 8o unlucky. The spider prudoutly kept out of reach of the lngry ppocs, and watohod his opportunity to wind & froah thiroad round s log, whonover [t was possi- blo to do so safely. But tho wasp, also, had many logs, and, o8 500n a3 one was mado fast, anothor soomed to kiak itsolf looss, and tho fastenings of the web hadto be attendod to evory other momeut, 8o the spider had his hands full, snd it was ditlioult to imagino how it would end. Oune of tho spoolators was on tho spider's side. Bho srid'sho was afreid of wasps, aud hoped this one would not' gat away, - and she admirod the coolnees ond gkill of tho spidor, Anolher one #nid hior Bympathios were entiraly wilhs tho wasp, and it made her blood run cold to seo the spider's deliborato procoedings. But all agrood not to interfore on oithor eido. The spider had another difieulty to contond with, Whilo thoso active logs were boing fau- toned &t one momont aud froeing themsolvos af auother, the wasp's fonr wings were whirling llko the wings of & wind-mill—so fast thot all that could be scen was o sort of cloud or mint, whero the wings shonld bo, After failing many times, the spider presently sucosodad in Inslin; Lo of thouo wings together, and gradually wind= fng thom tight, until thoy looked more like a amiall, dry twig thon a parr of wings, Then he took a scoure position upon these disabled wings, and from theso contrived to throw n line around tho other wings, whioh woro still whirling madly, and soon ko had them fiymly bound to oue ol the logs, #o that thoy could not mova, ‘Chis ap- imuru« to dishonrten the wasp, as woll it might. Tia olforts grow foobler and feoblar, till, flually, the spidor cautlously approschod hini aud scome to whisper in bis oar, or he may havo stung him, but-the wasp bocame Instautly motionless, ‘His atrugglos were over, Now, taat it wus too latff, tiso spiduy'n admirer rolented, and eald sho was sorry for'tha wasp, and wistied she had holped O L ‘Thon (ho splder fastonod on one sida of the wasp's Liead, and stayod thore till 4o spectalors woro tirod of watching him. When thoy looked b him n;xnlu, somo time aftor, ho Liad chauged Lis position to tho othior side of the head, 'I'ho wesp Jooked shrivoled and diy, more liko a “down to the pln:\)!, and ‘ sang for tho children,’ {lmxmmy. than the stout, burly follow Lo lnd cou. ' 'Llio noxt timo an observation was tnken, an hour or Ao lator, tho wasp had disappearod en- tiroly, Tlio spidor waw ropouinig in Lis don, tho wab annruntly in Ferlc ¢t ropnir, and no traco loft of tho florco battl: 'th and Zome., MUSICAL CELEBRITIES. Interesting Iteminisconcon. Thio tnost captivating book syor published, for ooplo interosted in musio and muslenl poople, [i28 st boon givan fo tho_American pooplo. by Honry ffolt & Co, Its titlo s *‘ Rocont Musi¢ nud Musiclans, as Desoribed in tho Diaries and Correspondenco of Iguaz Moscholos: selecled by hin wifo and adapted from thao origlnal Gor~ maa, by A. D, Coleridgo,” . Moscholes himsolf wwas not a ganfus in muelo, but he was a tkoroigh musielnn, ond ho ostabllshod for himaelf in Loadon & roputation as an artist and o gon- tloman, , the ochoes of whioh onmo to this couniry. o was born in Prague in 1704, nn)l- cducatod for o planist iloro, -and in'Viemis, In tho cotirse of his carcor Lo camo atlont.tq London, in 1822, lpn]dn% that capltal Dhia hoia until 1846, , whon, ho was tompled baclt to Garmany by Lho offor of a Profossorahip in the Conservatory of Loipsid, whero ho mude his hone uutil his doath io March, 1670, e kopt o diary frdin the timo of his youth, and he had n volutninons corrospondonce. I'rom the materisl thus furnishod, hin wife proparad a baok, which has had thoe advantagé of farthot scleotion and rovinion by Alr. Coloridgo,-for the English and American public. ~Moschales' lifo waa pactly English, bt chitofly ~Qerman, o bacamo n fayorite tonchor of tho giluo in Lonfluli,lreuulvlfliz o guinon o losson jir iros when thiat was considored ahigh price. Ilo did an fmmonse snount of work a8 & ritor of musio for the dealors, a giver and o maveger of concorts; an arravger of oporatlo scores for tho plano,’and ns a composer of renlly solid, learned, and scholarly works, not only for -that, but for othor inatrumonts, While popuiar and prosporous, among tho English, h«lwptus the most intimate relations with Garmany, . aud tho best parts of this book aro those in which his intercourso.with Dsetlioven” and Mondolssohn are’ - desoribed, For - -he Iad:. ‘tho . rare fortune to lmow both of " thewo glants, - sud to ho on :the most affectionato relations —wilh tho .last:ndmed. .. Among tho most ,afleoting pnesages In tho book is the acoount of the lasl days' of : Beethoven, in which there aro sovernl latiers of his to Mosoheles, and a nnmbor from Schindlor and_Rau, in, whioh tho story of tha ront mnstor's llness, his'denth, sud lt funorsl s told with & minutencss that we have found in: no blogtaphy. The fltst; of these. lotters, in which Beothoven, morially” ill, slobe-doaf, ‘el- most friondloss, tormented by his worthlees nophew, ;and dreading poverty, writes to Mo- schioles to nak for help from the London Phit~ hiarmonio Society, over which Bir Goorge Smatt. presidod, may sorve a8 an examplo of this cor- respopdence. It was writton only about & month bafore his doath, and is as followa ¢ 1 1 Vigstwa, 230 Fobruary, 1827, - %My dear Moscholes—I sm convinced you will not take it amiss if I trouble you, s well ag Siv Smart, for whom' I inoloss & Ietter, with & petition. . Tho mattor shortly told is this : Bome Joars ago tho Philharmonle Sociaty, iu London, ‘mado mo the handsome offer of ArrangINg o coN- cert for my bonoflf. At the time, thank God, I a8 not in Buch o position as to bo obliged to make use of thoir genorous offer. Now, how- over, T d4m quite in a difforent Y:nluou; for nearly thice montha ‘I Lave boon laid low by & torribly Wearisomo fluoss. 1am sufferlng from dropsy. Bchindier will give you moro details i tho lettor which I incloso. ¥ou know of m; old habit of life. You also know how an whero I, live. As for my writing music, I have long cessed to think of it, Unhappily, thorefore, T may bo 8o placed as to bo obliged to suffer want, Y{m Liave not only a large cirolo of aoquaintandos in London, but also important in- fluonco with the Philharmonio Suoloty to rosus- citato thelr gonerous rasolution and carry it out speodily. Ixinulone alettor to Lhe pame cfect to 8ir Smart, and havo sent anothr alréady to Horr Stumptr, Ploaso give the lottor to Sir Smaxt, and unito with him and all my friends in London for tho furtheranca of my objoct, I am o woak that oven the diotation of this lettor in & diffioul- ty to me.., Remomber mo to your amisble wife, sud be ashured thot I shail nlways bo your friond. DrrTuovey. " .. THis pitoous appeal, and tho letters that follow it in the book, make a Fnlu!ully interosting pas- #ago, in which the whole misorablo story of the ud'of Beothoven's lifo is told, Moscholes wor- shi Ead Dim n8 a master and 2 gigantio gonius, im;f o did what ho oonld €0 corafors hin i the agt. : b ¥ The most delightful chaptors of the book are those rolating to Mendulusohn, who was to Moscheles like & younger brother, until his mar- volous muaical achiovements made the scnior fulrly idolzo the junior. Scarcely in any biog- raphy of Mendolssobn have we hnd such charm- iug rovolations of his porsonal, social character,* his life aa a frlond, a son, o brothor, s husband, and a fathor, 83 are afforded by tho many chap-. tors fn which Moscheles dosoribedhim. * But along with all those peraonal picturos, there are artistio and profossional. plotures not losa intor- eating. Wo are temptod to quote scores of pagos about this raro sud oharming goniua of modora | Germany, but solection js diflonlt,:and space I, |. limited in & nowapaper. Although the two Titans, Besthovon and Men- delssohu, aro Tmminnnh figures in' this capital book of,musical gossip and. criticism, thore are hundreds of others that appoar in it, all of moro, or loss'delabrity, Thora is montion, frequently ;éth ‘fiprsoum% l}mcdatns,_ gr nul tlmmm:uxcnl Jehiitinn,..ond of many not musical, that wore to 1800—Malibran, Soniag wMiverbonm 1814 Wood,, Sohvoedor-Dovrient, Chstollan, Jonny Lind,’ Tietiens, and scoros of othor prime Gonne; all the famous men singers, all tho great notors ond nctresdos, ol tho composors nnd virtuosl on various justrumonts ; and there ‘is froquont ' allu- sion to famous mon and women of politics and Bociety, for Mosohelos had o social and profes- sloual position which brought him into personal contaotwith the' most distinguished peoplo fu Euglaud, boginning with Quoen, Viotoria. On tho Continent ho was bofriendod by Soreulgnn 28 woll as by ‘brother’ musioians, ~We aro im- polied to ive an examplo of Moscheles diary in the following passage deacriving Afalibran when 8ho was hia guost- in-London, in. tho yenr 1837, and when hersplondid carcor’ was brought to such & sudden and doleful ond. e says: “ 8he camo at 8 o'clock ; with her wore Thal- Yerg, -Benedict, ‘and Kiingemana,. Wo dinad oarly, and immediatoly aftorwards Malibran snt ns sho used to call it, the Rataplan and some of hor father's Spanish, songs; for wont of & guitar accompanimont she uged, while playing, Gvery now and then to mark the rhythm on tho Dboard ¢ tho bnok of.the koys. After singing with exquisito grace aud charm @ number of French and !hll?m romances of hor own com- osition, sho was, rolioved at tho tho by- Lialborg; who performod all mannor of tricks on- tho Inatramont, snapping his fingors as an obli- ato to Vionnose songs and waltacs, I played of- gnnurr.ls ith revorsod handa and with my fists, and norie laughod louder than Malibran.” At G o'olook wo drove to the Zoological Gardens, -and pushod our way foran hour with the fashion- ablos, When wo had onough of man and beast, wo took one more turn {n the park, and direot] we got omo, Malibran sat down to the plano and sang for an hour, At lsst, however, shio callod ontto Thnlborg : ¢ Vonoz joncr quolquo cliosn, §'ai banoin de mie roposer,’ her repois conaist- od in finishing & most chinrming landscape in “llel{\'c)ohmrh lb:‘: nrt,ln d“ll';‘mhll B]lltl wug wolf-taught), ‘Thalberg playe oart, an 12 & wmosk mnstorly way, soveral of s ‘Btudics, aud fragmonts of & mnewly-written Rondo, thon my *Studies,’ ‘Allegrl di Bravura,’ and * mirior Conoarto. We Lind eupper. aftorwatds ; thoro again it was Malibran who kept us all léb— ing. Bhe gavo us the richest imitations of Bir Goorga’ Bmart, the elopors Koyvett, Brabam, Tbillips, sud Vaughan, who had sang_with hor at » concort given by the Duchess of O.; taking off tho fat Dutohoss Liorsol? as sho condoscoud- ingly patronized ‘Lor’ urtists, and _winding up with tho craclced voico and nagnl tonos of Lady ——, who {uflicted * Home, 8weet Home’ on tho company, Buddenly her comio voin onmo to o full stop; thon sho gavo in tho thorough Gorman atyle tfia scenn from Froyschutz, with Qer- man words, and a wholo serios of Germau songe Ly Mondelssol, Schubert, Weber, aud my Liun- blo solf; lostly,” she tookn twh whh ¢Don Juan,’ being familiar nat only with tho musio of Zorlina, hor. own part, but knowing by heart ovory note in the opora, which she could play and sing from begluhing to- ol She wont on unyiné; and signing altornatoly until 11 o'clook, fresh Lo left ug, wore ail rapturonn mbout hor riwslo, lane guagos, pointing; but what we llked bast was lior nrtlosnoss and muimbility.” Moschales nomgoaml forhor a song with Klinge- mann's words, ¢ Btoigt dor Bond auf.” (*The moon rises,”) Bhe mugd him play to hov con- stantly, know soveral of /his © atudies” by Lioart, :fld told us that her fthor -mado her praotide om, : Moecholes, sponldug In one of hiu lottora of & the lnst in"volco and spivits, When she, yolcsless. Wo only hoard subsoquently that sho liad boon thrown from ber horse when'riding in tha patls Although sufferng no injury, she had not yot rocovored: from tho violent shook, Bhe wns voon lorself, lowaver, and snng_two ! Froyschutz’ sconas in_Gorman, a comic Eng- Uty dut with Jolii Pasey, {uree Bpanlnlt, Italian and Fronch songs, winding up with the dust, ‘Ondoneo du Diable,’ for hersoit and Do Berlot, in which sho profaces his daring and mar- volous viollu passages with the words, ' Voyez commo fo diable prolude.’ The proper nnmo of the picce is ‘Lo Songe do Tartinl,' and the sup- position "”‘“F that the meator hns, fn n dream, #oou tho davil and honrd him play the ploco right through, overy latitudo {s allowed for whims and occettizioition, When my wifg nhowed some anx= foty lest siie shonld over exort horself, slo roplied, ‘Ma ohere, jo chantorals pour vous juaqu's oxtitction " do voix,’ It wae inforeating to watch her rapturos in lstsning fo & duot componod and played by Bene- dict and Do Dotiot ; cortain pasrages in tha wiork rednigd tq ma possibly to havo omanated from bLer pon. I wns ealled on at the ond of the ovening to improvise ; and that tho comlo elo- ment might be propérly feprasanted, young John Parry snused us with his mastorly Pm‘m\y of the sconn in the Wolf's Glon 1 the ™ * Freyschntz.' With a shoot of masio rolled up, with ono and in liis month and tha other ronting on the music- dosk, ho produced tho dacpest horn of trombone notos. 1lis bands worked tho keys, and hin focs » toa-tray. Thoro was tho ' Wild Jagd ’complote. ‘Thalborg bnd abad fingor and couldn't Pln{' but he aud Do Boriot stayed with us until 3 it the morning, gnn:lplnfi and commenting oo tha evonts of thoovoning.” On the 11th of ‘May Mos ahiclos i asolsted by Do Borlot at his ' concert ‘(lvan in the Italian Olmrm-Hulluo. YT hod an ‘embairas do richossos ;" bosides tlio great star Malibran, thoro woro -Lablacho, Grlal, and Clnrs Novello. - I played o concorto of Bach's that had movor boon hoatd in Bugland, and my own 'C minor Goncorto.” It was a tremondous snocess for all concornod. After a rurlm‘mnncu of tho * Mnid of Arbois,’ in «rhioh -Blalibran- porformed - marvelously, wo wont to sce Lior iv hor dressing- room. ‘Thoroshe sat, surroundod by wreaths and on enormous bouquet in hor bavd. - Bhe talked andJaughed with ps, adding: ‘Bivous voulioz me do barrasser do cotte mnchine, o'est cet abomina- - ble Duc do Brunswick qui vient .de me l'aps portor,’ and 8o mln!g, throw a colossal bouquet at me, whichi I caught.” What must ‘the abomin- ablo Duko' hiave thought, whon, o fow moments later, Lio saw me mount rmy unnr]ngo and oarsy. off his bouquet ? 'Forao it happoned at tho dntrances door ot(hmry Lane Theatre," . Tho oxertions of tho famotis artiste woro incossant ; ent of Lok, throe oporatio porfotmances por ook, shd was ropoatedly engaged for morniug and evouing concorts, and acceptod all soxts of invitations to fashiouablo broakfusts, fotes clampoties, and- private_ parties, ' To attend throe partles on - the. same evening was &' matier of constant ocourrence. for,indopond= $%.0n the - 10th- of * July,” writos Mloscheles, 1hoforo ' tho ' Do: Boriois - atarted on thels Journey, we spent an hour with Malibran, by aps pointment; we found her at the plano, and Costa standing by hors Bho sang us o comia song that sho had just composed, A sick man, wonty of lifo, invokes' death; but when death, porsonified by o doctor, knocks at _the.door, ha dismisaes him with scorn. 8ho had sot this sub- Ject so eloverly, and eang the musio so humor- ously, that wo ¢ould scarcoly rofrain from laugh= fng, sud yob we couldn't ondure to loso single noto. After this she wroto in my album a charming French romanco; thia she gang to us, and presonted my wifo with ono of her original water-color Iaudscapes. -At last we purted; . thoy wont {0 Brussels for a fow days, and roturned to Manochester for the musical festival, whera sho sang .80 bewitolingly, on the 20th of Beptomber, that the sudicrice boiaterously cailed for an oncore, ' Malibran, already in- 2 very dan- gerous state, and ono reghiiring absolute rest and cossation from work, summons all hor romain- 1ng enorgies ; aftor repeating ‘her song, and hor lulehble shako on.the high O, sho fainted away and'becamo unconsoious. Sho was taken to the hotol ; the dootor blod Lier, aud she awolko to apparont consciousnoss ; but, alas! this only Iastod till'the 23d of Builtomhar, when she died.” “. . 4-. *Exprossions of sorrow are inade quato, for such a loss ss this gunatrat_oa the whole world of art, and plunges into_grief the moro ¢onflued circlo of hor frionds. I folt com- Telied to plotho my sorrow in sound, and come posed & fantasia on Malibran's death.” —_——— ouTe * i —_— Tho Iady of the logond oldety - “Ina dragon 1orm fmprisoned _With many-colored geales bedizened,— ‘Violot,, crimnon, green, tnd golden,— Do or weary wiord to dres Tonely in somo desert, fearful, For the champlon walting tearful, Who should giyo her kisses three, Who should nerve himself to death, Who sbould daio ler poisonous breath And from tho foul enchantment set her freo s . Hor nomo is Duty—atill she liveth 5 * Btill in loucly plain she waitoth ; (Dreadful form, which cactono hatethl) But sho weopeth and forgivoth, Ouly ono can set her freo; - Wil o sigh and pass her coldly 7 Or will lis dara tho vont: xa boldly,— Givothio awful kissos thitae e § z Find tho loathly horror flod,— Dirishing loveliness instead, ¢ Andin'Lis hoart delight und victosy ¥ —Joln A, Doryun #is Sersbner's Monthly. 5 - | JExnspornting Piga. . -Two familios in_Slawsun have had an_expori- . erico”somevwhat pimilar to that- guffered by AT, Cobleigh - savaral weoks -ago. . Thosa ' familicr lived in 5 doublo honso, and ench biad o pon with two pigd. . Lust Fridny' the woman in one pari *dlécoyerod that her two piga:were fres from mons ab the 1001 ui-ve sftar moolomicnl -spacke ored, at the samo time, that o -gnte (S Clluagi- yord adjoinivg- was_open,. sud. that tho pigs might at any momout becomo ravished by a viow of the glorias within. _Hor huaband boiog &way, aho hurriedly secured the im and “then sef about £6 return tho truants by the following ine genfous plan: Taking a #hovolful of corn, she approached as clogs to tho animals as possible, sud, holding tho tempting motsol nens cuough for them to learn its inviting charactor, she sorewod Lior face into an expression of winning Bwoetnens, and backad slowly toward the pen. 1& waa a benutiful illustration of woman's faith, and we rogrot to- write that it did not worls, "'The ign took ‘'one snuff at tho contonts of the shoval, ust to show that thoy took some iaterest in tha matter, and, boing comvinced theroby that thore” was nothing injurious in.the expoeri- mont, -fell o rootiug about sgaln with re- -nowed fervor, The nearor the woman c¢ame td tho ion tho straighter her faco'grow, and pres. eutly it lost every vestige of solAitudo, and as- sumed instond an exprossion of medium forocity. What shio may have dono will nover be known, a8 at this junoturo hor husband made his ap- poarauce on the back stoop, and, her oye resting upon him, #ho commenced 'to apostrophize him in tho langnage marvied peoplo‘alone are adepts at.. Afterroquesting somebody to show him the idlot who had lot thoso hogs out, that he might punch Lis hesd, lo drove Btraight at the truants, sud miesod thom, of coucse. 'Then Lo drove nt them again with a clothes- polo, and missed thom again, although he made sndthor pole by hitting that on a stone. Ay{ one who has helped to drivo ono or two pigs will readily understand the numbor of articles that pasned through tho air, aud the stylo of conver- Bation the mun kopt up during the chaso, Final- 1y, ho got one of the aunimals in a corner, and, being by this time uttorly regardloss of personal BppoArAnCes OF consoquences, throw himself up- on the bruts, neatly scraping the fenco with the top of hishend, and falling upon the pig mn such a way as to hold in aboyauce overy one of it musoles, excopt those in tho thront. These wera ab once put In nctive oporation, and the man for » momont thought that he had captured 2 planing-mill, Then ho raised slowly, keoping 2 tight hold of the auimal, and gotting o his fe:t, and the pig in his arms, struck out for the pen, procexlm.{). gy his wifo and the other woman, ane olosely and anxiously observed by all the noigh. Yors for ‘balf-n-mile around, In this way the procession Iabiorionsly moved ; the pig, having worked its head to within two inchos of the mau's enr, was pouring thoreina (ale of unparal- leled’ distroas, which, if not calonlated to melt tho stontest iwart, nclusliy throatoned to split opon the stoutest head,” Lhe man was ut- {orly powerless to romedy the bLorvor, having hutfl bands ongeged, aud could ouly twist lia onr s little out of range, and geream’ ab tho top of his voice his plavs for ihe future of *thom hoge.” On renching the pen, and whila in the act of dumping thu[im\mng vipor over the sltlo, tho woman noxt door mado au_unfortunato - covery. ‘Lheir hogs were in tho pen; the tru- Ants woro hers, 'Eho maw, who was stil bolding tho plg, sud might have, with reason, takon a rominent pait in the debato, contentoed imsall Ey moroly oxpressiug & hopo that o might bo damuod, and 'then trudged around to the other pem, whoro ho arrived aftor minch un- laoked: for tribulation, aud again hofuced the Liowllug monstor up to tho Lop, whon thio wonuy noxt doar mado auother and Btill moro romurk- able dlecovery, Hor pifiu woro ln their pen. W \What's that ?” doreamed tho man, who wos 1o fixed he could not very woll sea inta the poi, coneort af his own bouse, sdda: ‘“ Alulibwn-anid Do Boriot mppewwd at 1L o'clock, after our oighty guestahad satisfied their musienl eppe- tics with Engluh yoorl musio, solow by Lip lisky ond Horvais, uud my own * Goneert Faitastiypte. Bho looked enry, au, when slio snug, -ono searcely revoguized ]\flllbmu, sho was'y #O siobliged o Jift his voleo to ullnku hlmunl,l' :l‘;lnlr:lwa m}al)b the din, *Thom ain's my pige, goroamied tho woman. * Why ain't umy"? ho yolled. **'Coause my plgs aro humi sl shrielax] back, It s neodlaea to add that tha strange animals woro urged out of thnt gordon withoud f1g uso of sublorfuge.—Danbury Nows,