Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 23, 1873, Page 10

10 A CHAPTER OF GOSSIP. Extracts from DMaunsoll B, Fiold’s ¢ Memorios of Many Men,” King Bomba, Lucien Murat, Thackerny, Macaulay, Sam Iouston, Hike Walsh, Diokens, Lin~ coln, Chnse, From Harper's Magazine for Decembers i BOMBA. . King Bomba, of Naplos, was a firat-olass speol- man of disroputabloroyalty. Ho was obeso, vul- gar, and filthy to the eyo, and was aaid to be the most {ll-bred man in Turopo; but of this I had no porsonal opportunity to form an opinion. . ‘Among other stories that woro circulated about him was the following : It was #ald that soon af- t6r his second marriago a court ball wan given * ‘st the palaco in honor of tho ovent. The Quoen Bid boon danclng and tho Kiug protondod to cor- duct her to a chair; but just sa sho was about sitting down ho withdrow it, oo that sho cama in confuslon to the floor, In hor mortification, aho ‘turned upon him ond said, *Whon I married wou I supposod that I was marrying & King, ‘whereas I find that X have marrled a lazzarono " ‘Wheroupon, by way of olimax, he alapped lhor 1ace beforo the whole assembly | IRVING AND DICKENS. i """ T nover saw Mr. Washington Irving botray any . sxoitement but once in my lifo, aud that was up- on an occasion when X diued with him {n Madrid, - ¥ho namo of Dickens happened to be introduced, and ho becamo vary hented in tolling mo about |his rolations with thai suthor, Finally ho could . no Jongor contain himsel?, and jumping from his neat, be walked np and down tho floor in groat epparont agitation. - Ho told me that ho had cor- responded with Dickens long before they evor _mmet, That both from his writings and his lf- ters Lio hiad formed tho highost concoption of his porsonal character, That under thesa circim- ntancas Dickons arrived at New York, snd ho, Jrving, called tpon him at tho Astor House. Fhat immodintely nfter sending in his card he was invited to Mr, Dickens’ parlor, and, aa ho entered the room, that gentloman mot bim, nap- kin 10 band. Ho had been dining, and tha table was covered with a vulgar profusion of food, and the, table-cloth was stained with gravy and wine. Wringing hia hand, Dickens' firat aaluta- . tion was, 't Irving, Iam delightod tosco youl What wifl you drink, a mint-julep ora fil“ cock~ _tail " Tho iden of inviting mo to drink mint fillcps and cooktails I” naively 'oxclaimed Mr. 3 vln'fr. Ho found Dickens outrageously vulgar ~—in dress, mannors, and mind. And nono of us immg people were then moro Incensed agaiuat im for- his * American Notes" nnd ** Martin Chuzzlowit " than was the gentle Goldomith of ‘American ltorature. LECIEN MUBAT AND JOSEDI BONAPARTE. In the apring of thie yoar 1848 I mado a fiying trlns to Burapa for tho banoflt of my hoelth. ~ We had a dolightful passage, to which tho sgroosble- ness of my follow-paasongers largoly contributed, Ono of the most pleasing and entortaining of them was Prince Lutcion Murat, next to whom I accldentally happened to occupy o soat at tablo, Ho was going to France, to derive what adyan- tago he could from tho rovolution of the provious Fobruary. I found him a most Enodmumoxd jovial companion, posscssing. withal n good doal of a cortain kind of wit and shrewdnoss, IHe waa oxtremoly carclcss sbout his pereon, a vora- -cious feeder, and tho most formidabla snorer I ovor mot. Unfortuoately for me, Lis state-room waa directly opposite mino, and, as ho always slept with his door open, I enjoyod tho full bon- efiof tho teniflo noises ho mado in his sleop. Moro than ouce, aftor lying awake for houre, " I used, in sheor desperation, to hurl my boots . at his berth, which rathor forciblo protest ho always took very samisbly, His propor- tions were already of the Danicl Lambert ordor, but they increased considorably afterward, Tho Jast time Xsnw him was in the year 1855, at Paris. -Ho was then in full uniform, and cov- . ered with orders and decorations ; and the brill- iancy of his attiro, nnitod o tha prodigiousnoss of hin person, mado him_ a sight to behold, What changos lis fortunes havo undergona | 'To bo elevated from o rort of Now Jersey uquntwr to bea momber of the Imporisl family of Y'rance, with at onc time o squint at tho throne of Nn~ ples, again to sink to the pomtion of an offshook of an outcast dynasty ! The Prince need to wear upon his head & very old, dirty, and dilapidated soft folt hat, which in ite bont eatate could hardly havo been ornamen- tal. - Apropos of this hat, lio told me that, bo- fore he lefs home, his wife, who remainedin this * _country to awalit ovents, insisted that ho should + “procurs » proper black liat ea soon as he reached N Eflym ; that unless ho would promise todo so shodeclined to accompany him here and see him _off. That ho told her he could not afford the ‘*“gxtrayagance, and, if sho imposed Eo unreason- + * ablo & condition upon giving him hor company --'so New York, she might stay in New Jersoy. Ho i had with him tho famous white plume which * used to distinguish hia father upon the fleld of = Eamu; or rathor the whalebouo remains of it, o foathers having long ago fallen victims to :*"timo and the moths, : - Hohnad acquircd » great and somewhat nn- { - enviablo yeputation in New Jersey as a horso- - Jockey. It was sald that he would atart off from i - home for & journcy upon the bnck of a sorry ‘Rosinante, and return, aftor an absonce of mey- ral weeks, driving a stylish pairof horsos beforo \n elogant carriage, the whole being tho rosult of & sories of gucoessful siwaps. He possessod o groat natural tasto for mashanics, and, from his conversation, seemed to considor Mr, duwexm, of Hoboken, the greatest geniua of the age. I was vorg much amused with a couversation I'had with him one aftornoon about his nucle, ‘Joseph Bonaparte. I well romemborod the ex- King, for as a child I Lad x{:onh novoral yeara as » boarder at the school of tho brothers Peugnet, In Now York, distinguished officors of the Grand Army, at whose houss Joseph was s frequent Bunday visitor. 1 will try to ropeat what tho Prince said, a6 nearly as L'can recollect it, in his ,own words : My uncle Josoph was a vory catimable man, with ono great weakness—his excessivo an ‘ridiculous affeotation of Fhilusn}whg and mar- tyrdom. He had boen XKing of Bpain; and © yet he had become resigned to live in obscarity in s republic! Ho msed to bore me to death with this noneonse, until one day I lost my patience and almost my temper, ‘I am weary of theso absurd proton- sions,” I said to him., ‘You are mol half the philosopher I am. Comparo for a momont our yespactive fatos. You wore born a miserablo Corsican peasant. You happened to have a brother who possessed more brains than aro froquently allotted to mankind, He grasped the eceptre of tho world, and elovated you to tho rank of a soverolgn. You had not a very quiet time of it in your exaltod position, it is truo, and ou were soon compolled to descend from it. But you came to the ground unharmed—with not a feathor rufiled; and whilo your ilustrious brother was comploting his destiny on & barren rock in the midet of a distant ocean, you rotired In #afoty to this charming place, whore you are living liko o Prince, surrounded by all tho ro- Bnemonts of lifo, with tho comfortablo income of sixty thousand dc'lars por aonum. I, on the contrary, was born on the stops of a throno, Ny father was shot in taly; [ was condomned to & like fate at Gibraltar; I cscaped with extremo dificulty, and with qothing but my life; I got to America, and huve boen ever sinco a poor ‘New Jersey farmer, And I take things aa thoy como, without even imagining that I have cause for complaint, To say unothing of martyrdom, T am a hundred times more a philosophior than you aro.' " THACKERAY, 1 was one day walking up tho avonue of the Ohamps Elysces whon I' mot Mr, Thackeray, the suthor, whom I had last seon in America, ~ Ife Joined mo, and we had proceeded some distanco when ho recognized a young gentloman on the other eide of tho stroot. The stranger, n tall end nncommonly handsome person, immodiately crossed ovor to mact him, and I slappnd asido, I overbeard Thackeray ask him what had brought him to Paris.” 1io anuwered that he had come for plersuro. *‘And have you found it?" drawled Thackeray, with a slght encor In his voice, a8 it ploasure, as s purauit, was an unworthy ofijeoz for any mun's smbillon. When they rnmd. and ‘Thackeray again took my arm, be sald to mo, * Of conreo you know the goutle- man with whom I was l)u-t spoaking 7" I an- swered that I did not, You don't mean to tell me," he continued, * that you, who have hoon 80 much In London, don't’ know whohola?" I seaured him ¢hat L had no recollootion that Ihad ever before mot tho gentloman, Wl:'y, that," he sald, *is tho Marquia of TFarintosh.”” ¢ And who is the Marquis of TFarintosh 7" I puraued, *Why, the Marquis of Bath, of course," Lo ro- plied. Thia led to & conversation about soveral other charactersa In his books, Ho told me that his own mother was the prototype of Helen Pen- dennis, but that the en&y foll vory far short of the original. He also told mo who had sat for tho porirait of Harry Fokor, but all tho town knows nbont that, ' I then romarkod to him that ho must lisve known intimatoly many Fronoh familion of the bont olass—that his I'ronch ohnractora wore moro acouratoly and ‘doliostoly drawn than theso of any othor English writer whom I had ovor rend-— and to this fl!lnhml still adhore. Ho gesured mo that, on tho contrary, ho had nover in his lifo boen intimato In a singlo Frenoh hmllfv. ‘Chis is vnr{ surprising, for ho hns exhibitod in his hooka the most profound knowledge of tho nature of tho Fronch, as woll as_of tholr man- ners, aud ho has deseribed the formor and de- plotod the lattor with the most wonderful skill, and without any false doductiond or tendoncy to onrleaturo. - MAOAULAY. ¢ It svas at about this time that I rocelved an in- vitatlon to breakfast with Mr, Macaulay, who wan not yot elovatod to the (Pauraga, at his chambers in thie Albany., I fouud him a blu?, downright Bort of person, not at all likke my firuannu«lvml ideal of tho author of tho ossay on Milton, I am not quite suro whotlior hie was or waa not at that time {n the minisiry. Our bronkfast van tels tote, and my host did all the talking. 1o had no “brilliant finshes of sllonce,” as Bydnoy Smith ro- markod of bini upon anothee occasion. Wo wote togothor about an hour snd a half, and most of the convorsation turned upon the institutions of this country, and their probablo future fate. Mr, Mncaulay shooked me by prophesying with tho utmost confidonce that Blavery was certain to bronk up our Government within ten yenrs from that time, aud that in no very distant fu- turo two divided confodoracles would, by their own wolght and from tho oporation of other. causes, drop into half-a-dozen broken Statos, with - military dospotisms ruling over them. This waa an extraordinary prodiction to an Amorican ear in the year 1856, At' that time wo nong of s thoughit of tha. poseibility of an impending criels, Hlavory brought us to a olvil war in ovon loss time than the limit of Maoau- lay's propheoy. Ha was mistaken in foro- socing & dissolution of tho Union as imme- diatoly involved in tho siruggle which that inntitution provoked. And it is to bo Loped that o was equally in error in Lis vaticinations in re- spoct to our moro ultimate fato, 1 tried to por- sunde him to roduco what he had snid to writing, snd to permit it to be read bofore the New Yorl Historloal Boclety’; but ho declined, oxeusing himsolf on sccount of his overwhelming engage- monts. IIo spoke to mo of tho Chartist demonstration in 1848, and told mo that tho numbor of tho dis- affacted collected on Konnington Common, whish had been popularly supposed at_tho time not to fall short of 80,000 or 40,000, did not, in faot, ©exco0d 7,000, 1o said that the Government Lind rosorted to tho photograph in order to ncourato- ly ostimato tho number ; that, knowing tho ares of tho common and computing tho number of poople who could atand in it side by side, aud ‘possessing a picture showing to what extent tho gpnco was coverod with human boiugs and in what closences of proximity thoy stood, they wore thus onabled to determine Liow many thero were. ) ! AN JI0DSTON, Gen. Sam " Hounton, Unitod Btates Sonator trom Toxas, wae phmicnfly & magnificent_speai- men of manhood. 8 dross was oxtravagantly outro, suggeative of bolli the fronticramsn and the Indian, Ho possessod & gront mind aud s fimz hoart, and his many . poculiaritios were armless and endearing rather than ropulsivo, His courtesy to womon was romarkable, and ho novor addressed ono othorwiso than as lady. ¥ Good moruing, lady,” was his Iuvariable saluta- tion to auy fair fricnd whom he mot at tho breakfast-table or olsowhero during the enrlier hours of tho day. e romded at Willard's when in Washington, and_although his _room wns ro- Shto with tho appliances of civilized life, ho iscardod, or protended to discard, the nso of many of thont. Buffalo robes wero sproad upon the carpot, and upon these ho slept in preferonce to un(n[f tho bod.” Ho had a printed poster upon the wall bearing the words, “Iy hour for re< tiring is 9 o'olock,” This was & cilont monition to visitors to withdratr when that hour arrived. But it was tho popular bellof that tho rost~ less old warrior was in (Lo bobit almost nightly of pacing the floor until tho small hours of the morning before ho sought ro- poso upon Lis oxtemporized couch of sking, . MIRE WALSIL . The eccontrio, able, honest, and cynical f#Mike ” Wolsh was then a membor of tho Houeo of Representatives from New York. Mike was the porpotrator of many practical jokes which furnished subjects for Waehington goa- sip. A fellow-momber of the House, whono privato avocation was that of & Lotel propriotor, vose to make his olaboratoly prepared maiden spoech. As lie proceoded, ]\{llm, ‘whoso soat was distant from his, would, at every pause, call out in his deep bags voice, loud ounough to bo heard by thoss in his immediate noighborhood, but ot 50 loud as to rench the orator's ear, *John, & pitcher of icc-wator to No. 1221 “William, anawer the bell of 1891" ote., ctc. Upon tho samo fellow-member he Pln.v‘ell tho rathor rough joke of sonding bim an {ovitation, in tho namo of tho President, to dine at the 13x- ecutive Mansion, That there might be no occa- sion for an_anawer, the invitation was only do- livered an hour before tho time ufpoinle for dinner. The victim, suspecting nothing, arrayod Iimself in oveniug dross, and started for the ‘Whito Houee, He waa closely followed by Mike and half a dozen of his oronios whom he had let into the sacrot, for the purpose of witnossing tha discomfituro of tho unexpected guest. As tho Prosidont had hncpunnd to go to Baltimore that vory afternoon, this discomfiture was completo, Whothor tho thon somowhat unnnghlatlcuo suf- feror ovor discovered or not who had played this “ Heathen~Chinea " trick upon him, I am not awaro, DICRENS AGAIR. In the spring of the year 1843 I was mnmxng North afier spending "the winter in Cuba au Nevw Orleans. I stopped a day or two at Cincin- Tnti for the purpose of visitiug an old colloge friond. Uponmy arriving there my friend in- formed mo that” Mr, Obarles Diokens wasin town, and was to hold a lovee or reception at his hotol that morning. Ho was going to it, and | naked me to nccompany bim. At that {fmo I had the admiration, aimost hero-worship, for Dickons which waa common to all young men in this conntry immediatoly aftor the publication of his earlier works, I therofora roadily aceopted tho invitation, and wo were soon in tho prosenco of the distinguished novelist, Thera wore not mnny&omons in the room when. wo entered. Immedintely behind ua followed a small Euglish Eontlemnn of supdued and- timid manners. Mr. ickens was standing in front of {he fireplacs, with his ooat-tails under his arms, gorgeously gxutlon up, and covered with velvet aud jowelry. . Dickens was_-lounging mpon a gofa at tho furthor end of tho room. Wo wora duly prosentod " by an usher, or mastor of cercmonies, and after oxchanging & fow words with the author of Pickwick, ro- tirod to give placo to the little Englishman who wan bohind us. Tpon boiug introduced this gontleman dofarontially remarked, “I had the lonsure to meot you, Mr. Dickens, at AMr, over's, in —shire, two yoarn ago." Mr, Dioltons looked him steadily in the faco for a minute, and then answered, in & loud voice, “ I never was there in my lifel” “Ibog your par- don,” roplied hia intorlooutor, overcome with confusion; *‘it was at such and such & sonson of tho year, and so and 80 was thero at tho same time.”” Mr., Dickens again gave him & withering laok, and, after o pnuse, repeated ina still more elovated toue, *Itell you, sir, Inover wastherein my life!” Here Mrs. Dickens interposod, and, addressing lLor husbund, sald, “Why, Charles, you certinly woro thoro, and I was thoro with you. Don't you romembur such and auch an oc- carrenco?” "Mr, Dickons glanced at her, almost flercoly, and, advancing & stop or two, with hig right hand raised, fairly sbouted, **Ifell you I nover was there in my lifo!” I had nover been 80 disenchanted in all my days, Tho unfortu- nate Englishmon withdrow without auothor word, sud I and my friend retired disguated. I then, for the first time, relunotautly appre- honded tho faot that anan may bo & groat su- thor without being a gontloman—a conclueion which I have frequently soon verifled in my move maturo years, MR, LINCOLN AND Tilk EMANCIPATION PROCLAMA« TION.: Mr. Soward told mo tho story of tho Emanel- pation Lroclamation, and, as ho related i, it wan strikingly illuatrative of Mr. Lincoln’s unerring and rapid pereoption of the popular will, Months Dbefore it was isauod, it was tiie subject of con- stant disoussion at tho meotings of the Cabinat. Day after dny, tho most earnost and acrimonions debatos tool place in relation to the proprioty or impropriety of the Presldont jesuing snch » proc- lamation, While an attentive listoner to these discussfons of hinSecrotaries, Mr, Lincoln did not tako uu nctive part fu thom, 8o much was this tho case that sevoral of his ndvikers were vory uncortain ns to what his ullimato determina- tion upon the subject wonld be. $o_bittor did tho controversy grow that it resultod, after a time, not only Ina bronch of persousl, and to soma extont evon oficial, rolations botweon cor- tain of tho Oabinet ofticers, but oventually oven in » prolonged discontinuance of Oabinet” meet- Ings,” During the intorrognuns matters which had beon nsually disoussod and disposed of st such meetings had to bo settlod by interdopart~ wmontal correspondence, Oneof thio othor Secro- taries, with tho obvious purpore of ammging—[ use & wmild word—Alr. Ohose, addressed & very important officlal communicution directly to me, ignoring the lhoad of the Dopartment. 'This condition of things Insted until oue day Mr. Boward recolved un autograph lettor from tho Presidont requenting I'HE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNIS: SUNDAY, 23 VEMBER him to attond, without faf), a meoling of tho Cabinot which ho proposed to hold on thoe mor- row. Al tho othor Bocratarien raceivad simjiay 1ottors, and not one of tham knew or entertained any confidont coujocture about the particular purposo’ for which they wero ealled togothor, At tho appointed time Mr. Lincoln waited' util thoy woro.all assombled, hiaving beon unuaunily reticent to the firat comers, 1o thon addrossod thom &omowhat as follows: ‘* Gontlemen, I havo asked you toocome hero that I may have tho opportunity to read to yon a proclama- fion which I am about to issue.” Deforo, howovor, pmnuflini to road if, I desiro to =ay that not” only do not {nvile any dizousslon about the gmprluty or improprioty of ita isuuo, but that I am unwilling to lislon to any. My mind is ruade up, On the contrary, as to mni- tora of form, I wiah that you all make auy sug- guntlonu thal may ocour fo you.” 1o thon drow rom hia pockot n mnnunrivt( and to tho amazement of somo, If not of all thoro nsuom- blod, procecded to road the Emancipation Proclamation. Whon ho had tinisbod, for awhile nobody spoke, Mr, Boward waa: the first to bronk tho silonco, and to recommond & verhial altoration, Mr, Lincoln adoptod it without a word of objecation. Other yrentlomon suggostod fur-~ thor chauges. Mr. Lincoln ncceptod thom all without discussion. When nobudy hed any more suggestions to mako, the mooting. broke up and the Ministors diaporsod, Tho noxt day the omancipation from slavery of four millious of liuman boings in tho United States was publish- ed to tho world | Mr, Lincoln had waited until the peopls woro ripe for it, and what ho had first lookeid upon ns h\opgormuu, hio bad at last con- sidored oxpediont and nocossary. ' omASE. We all remombor the movement that was ‘maclo, proyious to Mr, Lincolu's necond nomina- tion at Baltimaro, to briug Mr, Chiaso forward as compoting caudidato, That Mr. Chaso wam himsolf in no wise ' roluctant cannot ‘be deniod, although I know that he all along doubted that msuch & movement had “sny chance of success. In thoso days ho failed to nppreciate Mr. Lincoln at his truo valuo, as, I think, Mr. Lincoln failed to appreoi- ato him. Indoed, it would be impossible to im- agino wo men moro unlike and having fower points of contnot, Mr. Lincoln, ut loast, was entirely doficiont in what tho phxenolnglsfa call reverence; No man who ovor lived could_bo in his progenco and dominate Lim, a8 the Frenoh oxpross it. 'Thero ia a cortain sort of intallectunl atmosphoro differont from, if not highor than, that in which ho moved, and ho troubled Lim- solf vory littlo about it, or about thoss who dwolt in it. At any rate, ho inatinatively concoded nothing of “superiority ‘to anybody, and ofton failed to comprohend thoso whoso mental * plona was differont from his * own, Mr. Ohaso honestly felt Lis nuslflnrfl-y to ‘Mr. Lincoln in somo respocts, and could not bo reconciled to his undignifiod mannors and strange ways. Whilo tho move- ment to bring Mr, Chiago forward as a Presiden- tial candidate was boingagitatod, a United States Benator, whe actively participated in it, ono day csno info my office in & toworing rage. Striking his fist upon my desk, ho seid to mo that ho con- siderod Chaso the —out (using n very strong oxpletive) fool in tho world. = Ho thonwonton to toll me thatho nnd others had been uneuccessful- 1y Inboring with the Speretary to induco him to {esno o ® cotton permit™ to somobody procisely 23 ho would issue one to any respectable porson, only that tho profits were to be applicd in the interost of his nomination instead of going into private pockets. ‘Tlioro was an amount of prin- ciplo and dolicacy involved in Mr. Clinse's ro- fusal which the Bonatorial mind uttersy fuiled to approciato, When sponking of AMr, Ohase’s Prosidentinl aspirations, I am remindad, ss Ar, Lincolu used tosay, of & little story. Whon I first wout to Washington the Becretary ocoupled for his oftico a room on the south sido of tho Treasury Build- iug, with a beautiful outlook down the Potoma Boon aftorward it was proposod Lhut he should muv‘? to cortain elaborately-oruamonted and of n furnished rooms on tho west sido of tho pation by Mr. Mullatt, the architect of the de- partmont. Mr. Chase bad consented to make the change, but aftor the new rooms were rondy ho delnyed romoving. Sevoral times he appoini- od a day to doso, but when the time had come hie had changed his mind. One aftoruoon,whilo 110 was still hositating, I was standing with Lim ot ono of the windows of tho largest of the new rooms, which faced the Iixecutive Aansion, Turning to moe, he asked mo to assign one sufli~ clont ronson why ho should chango Lis quartors., I told him that thero was at loast one obvious advantago in tho oxchanga, and that was thab i ho should comé to these oftices hie would bo abla to always keep his eye upon the White Ilouse ! Mr, Chase was a man of an oxiremely nervous tomperamont, and he would sometimes be vory violent, and occasionally even unjust, while swapt by n gale of pausion. On one occasion Sonator Fesgondon tame into my room in o ter- riblo rage, occasioned by o scolding which lis had recoived from the Beoretnry. Gov. Drough, of Obljo, wsited ‘\“nshhlfilvn in the year 18G4, and Loing an exporienced railroad man, and fa- miliar with the coat of transportation, explained to Mr. Chase the foarful exiravagauce of the Quartermastor's Dopartment in the West, AMr. Htanton, unfortunatoly for himself, hiapponed lo come into the Sccrolary’s room shortly aftor the Govornor had loft it, when ho rocoived such a verbal castigation at the hands of My, Chase as fow mon would hiave ventured to inflict upon the great War Becrotary. What was more remark- ablo, however, he bore it with great meekness, But Mr, Ohase waa always just after tho mo- ment of anger had passed, and kuew how to be magnanimous. LINCOLN'S JORZS, I was once in Mr. Lincoln's company when a scotarian disoussion arose. Ho himsolf looked yery grave, and madoe no obsorvation until all tho othors hnd finiehed what they had to say. ‘Then, with o twinklo of the oye, he remarked that ho preforrad tho Spiscopslisns to-overy other sect, becauso thoy aro uaunuy indifferont to & man's roligion and his politics. | It happened that at one time a blockade-run- ner going out of Charloston harbor was captur- od, and on board of her woro found certain dis- Lm[ch“ from tho Spanish Consul in that city for jsown Govornment., Thero dispatclies wero yery hnpmémrly oponod by tho cn{;tur, and then forwarded to tho Btate Dopartmont at Washing- ton. Mr, Boward, immadiatoly after ho roceived them, sent for the Spanish Minister, Mr, Tas- eara, and, with oxpressions of great regrot that tho envelopos bad been tampered with, offered him the dispatchos. Tho Ministor, highly fu- dignant, declined to receive thom. ‘I'nen” Mr. Baward proposed to forward them to their dos- tivation through the medium of our own agents, This proposition was equally unac- ceptable, and tho ‘Secretary of Btato -awas ata loss what to do, Ho shortly afterward ex- pinined tho difficulty to tho President, whom it reminded of a ** littlo story.” * When I lived in Indians," ho said, ** thoro resided very nenr us an old negro known as ‘ Unole Josh.’” Ho was & yery pious dnxl(uxy, but was o inflym that it was impossiblo for him to’ go to the neighboring school-housa to listen to any itinoraut preacher who might happen to discourso thore on o Sun- dey. Howover, in order to make up as far as possible for his own inability toattond, hoalwoya compelled his grandolildren to go; and they woto m:‘uirml nat only to rocollect tho toxt, but salso to Loable to givo tho old man some account of tho sermon, On ono occasion n Methodlsl came aud preached. fHetold tho congregation Lhnk thoro wero two, kinds of . pooplo , in this world, Mothodlsts and Baptistd ; that{hé Mothdd ists_followed n road that lod to hopven: and’ the Baptists ono thub led to holl. -Tha'noxt Bunday thero presenied Limself s hard-shell Baptist who bad heard abont the sermon of Lis Method- ist brothor, Ho told bis anditors that It was trua that there were two kinds of pooplo in tho world, Mothodisls aud Baplists, and that they followed difforont roads; but that it was tho Baptist rond that led to heaven, and the Method- istyoad that led to holl, When old Unclo Josh heard “ihis ho scratchod his wool, aud said: ¢ Ench ono saya that thero are only two roads, and that his own loads to heaven, and the other to holl. Well, {his old nigger will go across lota ' Boward, you will havoto go across lotal” i Adsadinatan aadn SONG. "Twan tho bright, goldon bisth of a falr Summer'a dny When tho dork clouds of night had vanished awsy, Aud tho glow of tho sunkhine fal sofly aud pleyod On hfllsldo and valloy, on thicket aud glade, ‘The gentls wind stirrod with its amorous breath Tho wild flowers that dotted the sunny brown hieath, And kisged an !P‘E:lud, 1u its frolicsomo glee, Tho dew-dropa that sparkled un leafiot sud lea, Tlers was beauty apd love in the rosy-hued aky, Aud the stroams rippleq past with o zolt lulluby } Meadow and upland Jooked blooming und fairy And Bummer's bright roses sweot-sceuted tho uls Tho littla birds caroled tholr ditlles above, They rang to their mates a sweot Iyric of love; As T liatened with Joy fa tho munical atrain, Tlere came to my mem'ry happy vislons again. Tliero camo back » mofn—ah | long years 1 acavcoly can number theni, time passes Tiion 1y halr was unfrosted by tho winter of years, And my brow was unwzinkled by sorrowa and carcs, IThiers came back & morn, by tho silvery Les, When wo wandored togethier, iy Norah and'me; T 0ld her my 1ove as we walked by ita tide, ‘And vowed {n tho future to moke fier my LFide, ity alan 1 all 1o Joy of that dost Hime are fled, Allfho hopos of uiy young lisartowitored aud doad 3 ho groan leaves of Bummer hiave loug cexsod Lo grow, And nothing is loft but the desolato sriow, Onioago, Jauxs LAvALLLf, uilding, which had been arranged for bis occu-. THE DUKE OF ALVA, A Spanish Butoher Thres Hundred Yeurs Ago, How Ile Ruled the Notherlandse-- Blaughter by Wholesale. From the St, Louds Republican, Until the Cuban troublo dies out in smoks or ends in flamo, the name of the iron-hoarted noldler, who is {nsoparably “associated with the torribla ordenl through whioh the Noihorlands passed from Spanieh slavery to Duteh inde- pondonco, will drop from innumorable lips and Innumerable pens, and servo as & rsllylug ory for those who hope tho massacre of Amorfcan oltizons on bonrd the Virginius may transform the Queon of tho Antilles into an Amoricin lulaud. Nearly 800 yoars bhave elapsed sinco Alva went to his grave ; but in every struggle betwoen liberty aud oppreasion his uncnay ghost han soemed to burst the portals of tho tomb and stalk abroad ns s remindor of that ! DARR AND DISMAL ERA when s long-suffering people, goaded into mad- nens by more than dovilish tyranny, ross against an cmpiro which then overshadowed the world, and struok the blow which made republican gov- ornments posejble, How strango it is that to- day the momory of this man, who so long ago turned to a littlo hoap of cofiiu-dust, should asslst in rousing tho wrath of n grent nation which had no existence whilo ho lived, wnd sot in motion influences which may sooner o later snatoh from Spain the Inst of hor once magnifi- cont colonial possossions! Noithor Alva nor his mastor droamed that tho horrible work whioh tho one did at tho bidding of the other would bo handed down as an awful legacy to genmoration aftor genoration, and enveloped both in a halo of imperishable infamy. Doad thoy wre, but tholr doods live after them,—burned, as it were, with o hot jron into tho world's Leart, thero to {g\nn&] until “the last syllablo of recorded 0. B FERNANDO ALVARKZ DE TOLEDO, Duke of Alva, was bornin Spnin in 1608, .o sprang from a race of soldiers—himsolf destined to bo tho gronteat soldicr of them oll. His fam- 1ly olatmed descont from tho old Byzantino Em- perors, and ono of hig anceators—n Palelogus— conquered Tolodo, and added the namoe of that oil{llu his own and his descondnvts’ title. Tho father of the subject of our slielch was killod jn an encounter with the Turks, and the son graw up with a detormination to avengoe his doath and carve out fame and fortune with his sword, He may almost bo said to bave lenped from the cradle into tho saddle, for at an ogo when other ‘boys are amusing themselves with toys and trifles he'was studying tho art of war, and was wlrendy an I\l\)gl in every manly and military exeroiae. ‘When he ontered the srmy is not known, but it ia cortain that at-16 he fought nt the battlo of Fontarabie, aud at 22 accompaniod Charles V. in his campaign against tho ‘Curks. It was in this oamprigh that his cool cvurage, precocious ‘wigdom, ond remarkable gonius attractod the at- tontion of » monarch who had arere faculty for discovering whet was in & man ; and hence- forward Charles and the young Fernaundo WERE INVETARABLE, ¢ It is told of him at this period—and it is about the only symptom of the fiuntlnr paseion he ever manifestcd—that ho rodo from Hungary to Bpain on horseback for mno other purposo than to enjoy o brief interview with Lthe bride he hnd loft bebind. In 1536 o was with Cherles in the oxpodition againat T'unis ; in 15646-47 ho com- manded tho forces arrnyed sgeinet tho Smal- " caldisn league, and achioved great distinction at the siogo of Mublberg, whore ho won & splendid victory over his antagoniste, In 1664 ho was attached to the guite of . Philip— thon Crown Prince—aud joined him on tho visit to England which reenltedin his marriage to Queen Mary, When Philip by tho abdication of Nis fathor beonme XKing, Alva was appointed Pa\;nuflunlmo of lhoarmy in Italy, and waged ha - TAMOUS WAT AGAINST TOPE PAUL IV, which created such vast scandal mong the faith- ful, At the conclusion of hostilitics,—which lad all 5ono in favor of the Spruinrds,—Alva pro- ceoded to Rome, kisscd tho feet of Lho Poutiff whoso torritories he had overrun and whoso trnn{m Lio bad vanquished, snd obtnined an ab- solution which must havo stuck somewhat ju tho throat of the holy pnmounfin who gave it, ‘When Churles abandoned the cure of Stats for 1ih. sacrod ealm of tho accluded monnstary of Yuste, he rccommended Alva to Thilip in'tho sirongest possiblo torms, and urged hls om- pl%yment wherever and whenever z steady brain ond o relentless arm wore necded. Wo have neen that Philip followed this advice in the Ttalian difficulty ; bo was now to follow it in a much more important matter, aud on & stago where the mighticst scturs wero to figura for neatly eighty yoars, and whore Bpain was to rocoivo thoeo wounds which have reducad hor onco imporial sway to such insiguificant dimen- sions that che isherdly ablo to maintain her own nationality. SPANISN DECADRNOE DXGAN with tho rebollion in the Nothorlands, That robellion was the cancer which slowly but surely Liag oaten the lifo out of the dominion which once embraced the choicest portions of tho Old World and tho New,—a dominion which has had no equal sfuco Rome lost tho sceptre of tho earth. . . It is impogsiblo, of course, in the columns of & newepaper to give oven the briefest summary of those ovonts which produced s rovolt in prov- incos hitherto onthusiastically loyal to Spain.. Enough for our presont purpose to say that thus rovolt was not 60 much sgainst Spanieh -au- LhorlLK as against the Spanish Inquisition, and that tho Notherlands throw off the yolo becsuse l’hfllP 1L steadily adhored to Lis favorito mot- to: “Deiter not to xeign at all than to reip over horetics.” Up to tho moment when the peoplo of tho soven provinces fivally and forover repudiated their allegianco to Spain, they could havo beon reconciled to their sovercign by, n simplo proclamation on his part of liberty to worship God according to tho dictates of their own consciences, This was the ultimatum which William of Orange snnounced, and which Philip rofused ; and this was the pivot upon which tumed {hpxsu ovents thot, long after ‘William aud* Philip had gono, ushored in and conflimed tha Duich Republis, Margerot of Parma, a8 Rogent of the Nother~ 1ands, bed falled to crush the budding inkurrec- tlon, and being & woman—though ono of the most masculino of her sox—iwas too morciful to- inaugurato the policy which Philip had resolved! to put in forco. Ho did not havo far to lock for o man who could enforco that polioy without foar and without romorse, Alva wns & . READY AND A WILLING TOOL, and if the planot had boon searchead for & person to do Satan's bidding in Satavic style, Fernaudo Alyares de Toledo would have distanced all com- potitors. o was then 59 years old, tall, straight, with small, round head, keon, glitteriug oyes, hioavy noso, thin lips, and aniron-gray beard, which, divided into two long. tnfty, foll upon Lis breast, 108 norven ware stoel ;. ho was as incas pable of fatigus ns of forgiveness; ho bad no appotito oxcopt for blood, and went about bis Dloody businesa as quiclly and diepassionatoly au tha profossional buicher wha puis his knife to the throats of dumb Lrutes. Though the vory inearuation of cruelty ho was seldom mngry, and cortainly novor allawed angor to distuil Lis judgment or interforo with Lis appointed tusl. As a machine for systematio murder, tho aunals of mankind do not furnish his equal, Ho siznds alone and above all oiher murderers— A COLOBSAL CRIMINAL, bofore whom sll other crlminals my bido their diminished honds. 2 Alva sailed from Carthagenn May 18, 1667, Ills army oconslstod of 10,000 pioked veterans soa- sonod in a lundred battles, end it servanta for such a mastor, ‘Thoy wero porfeetly equipped, and, in order to prevent those disorders so proju- diclal to military discipline, u corpa of 2,000 of the demi-monde, regulorly enllsted aud paid, nceowpanicd them on their march, Franco, Laving refused passage tbrough her territories, Alva procecded to Gonon, and from thenco made his ‘way over tho Alps, through Bavoy, Burgundy, and Lortaine, and entored the Nethorlands without apponition. In that unbappy couniry thero was lmt ono man who know what was coming, Willinmn of Orango comprohended tho misslon of Alva, and, being powerless to offor offective, oppoxftion, ‘rotirod nto Gormony. Hoforo hin dopuriure, e urged Lpmont and Horn, his assoclalos in resistence to Spunieh rulo, to leave tho place which was soon ‘o become an immonse slaughter-pen, Thoy could not, and would ‘not, believe there was any real danger, or {hat tholr monarch in- tended any harm to those who etill consldered thomselvou his faithful subjects, Willlam begged, implored, and prayed tloni Lo fly hoforo it was too late, They refused—and so walked blind- fold to their doom, v Thio Itegent soon fonnd that, though not for- mally superseded, the supieme authorily bad boen transforred to Alva, and, after many use- Tosa protests to PLllip, rotired from oflice and medo room for the Viceroy, who had brought with him huadreds of death-warrants which the King had signod in blank and loft him the plons- ant duty of filling up, Hin first work wan to es- tablish in Brusyofs what he callod ' Tho Coun- cil of Iroubles,” but what tho world has called trém {hat day to thia d **'THE COUNOIL OF nLOOD," Tha wholo judiclary of tho Nothorlands was ongaged in ‘this ona tribunal, Ity membora were appointed by Alys, ho himself was Prosi- dont, and all its adiotn rcquired his eanction. o #nnctioned evory ediot which carried doath sud conflecation of proporly with it; bo vetoed avery edict_which rolessed a prisoner who had ever raiged his voleo agalust tho Ingui- eltion, or who was rich enough to bo worth_rob- bitig and murdering, Ontholics, a8 woll an Prot- entants, wore brought befors the Council of Blood, and, without acarcoly tho form of a Lrinl, dismissed to the scaffold or tho stake, 'They woro not condomned singly, but in droves of 20, 60, and 100. Tho names woro read over, the chargos atated, aud tho verdict rendered. Ho rogulor wag the routino of bulohery that it Ia soid ona of the Judges, the infamous Hessol, used o go sound asloop while tho court was in seeston, and whon awakoned to give his vote on 2 cano which lio had neyor heard, would always exclalm; “To tho gallows! to tho galjowsl” EGMONT AND IORN woro lmoug tho first to taste tho tendor morcien of the Prince who prided himsolf upon being ever ‘‘mild, benmignant, and placable.” Thilip bad given Alva spooial orders to meize thoso loadera at the oarlicst opportunity and executo thom whonover it was most convoniont, Thoy wore invited to a banquet in Brussels, Egmont waa arrosted while wnmng orm in arm with Alvs, and orn » few minntos later in another aparlmont of thio palace. Both wero bohoaded in tho grand square of ‘the city, June 6, 1568— Alva looking on from tnolfhhorlngwlnduw, and, a8 soon 08 tho axo bad fallen, dlnevnmhlnfl 2 courier to Madrid with the welcomo tidings that two braye and honeat nobleman, whose only crimo was dovotion to tho cause of a down- troddon Fuaylo, had been ‘ suitably punished for tholr inlquitous bohavior.” ‘Whon Egmont and Horn hiad been _dismissed, the mnchivery of massacro redoubled its spoed. Agents wore sont into the remotost towns aud yillages of tho Netherlanda with instructions to bring all suapeoted porsons—ilat is, herotics, robels, and thip rick—at onco to Brussels, Thoro the Blood Cotinell took chiargo of thom ; Vargay accused ; old Hoswol ehouted, * To the gallows!"” Alva paid, “Amen,” and they wore u\reyb out of sight by the hands of tho exccutioner. It in estimated that during the nix years of Alva'a rulo, over 18,000 men, womon, and children wore ¢ NUNG, BURNED, AND BENEADED, Thix does uot includo tha thousands unon thoy- sands who wwere slaugbtored by his noldiors. In tho battles and sioges which ho conducted in person or by his lisutenants, no quartar wau over shown. Tho beaten nmrmy wns ex- rminated, the capturod citics given up to firo ond eword, Women wore . publicly violated ; childron hacked Into picces; unborn infanty torn from the maternal womb and flung to the dogs or to the fire. At thasack of Haar- lem 800 citizens wero tied back to back, in couples, and thrown nto the lako; at the sack of Zutphen 500 moro wore fasteuod in the samo manner and drowned in the rivor, ‘Wo have not theepaco o even mention half tho horrors perpetrated by this demon in human shape, with the sanction of the mastor-demon, who, in the closters of tho Escurial, spent his days and nlghtu in dictating and auEm-lulundlng the infornal work. Philip was worthy of Alva, and Alva worthy of Philip. Dronched in treach- ery and blood, both nre piiloried in history, and a8 long s grass growa and water runs mon will wondor wby tho good God allowed such monstors a8 theso to URAY 1§ FOOTETOOL. _Alvarotired from the Government of the Nétborlands Nov. 17, 1678, His farewell advice to tho King was to destroy evory city in the re- voltod provinces oxcept two or Lhree to nerve as Enmm“ ond by no means to relax tho * Chrlg- ian chastisement’* which ho had o happily commenced. A ehort timo after lhls roturn {o Bpain he incurred the displeasuro of Philip on sacount of some misconduct of his son. Ho ‘way imprisoned and banished, but in 1680 was cmployed in tho conqnest of Portugal, which restored him to royal favor, so that ho conld die peacefully in his bed Jan, 12, 1683, Leaving a name to other times, Linked with no virtue and a million crimes, GUIZOT. Allustrious Author Yearn Old. From Appletons’ Journal, Trancis Guizot passcs, overy month, a weel ab bis home in Paris, Ibis aamall, old-fashioned Dbuilding, on tho cornor of tho Rue Destouches and the Faubourg Sainé Honore. M, Guizot bought this residonce sixty years ago, and it is still one of the architeoturalrelicaof tho nge of Louis XV., during whoso roign it was built, Everything looks old-fashioned in it, and there is hardly a room but would furnish an excellont subject for a gonrs patnter. ’ * Tontered it the other day in compliance with & roquast from M. Guizot, who desired to ascer- tain from mo somo facts in regard to the litora- turo of Spain during the sixtoonth contury. % found Ium geatod inhis truly unique library. Tmagino & small, square room, furnished in the true racoco style, and with two curious bay win- dows looking out upon a small garden, lnid out oxactly aa if Wattenu had had a hand init. All that was wanting was that tho venerablo: old man himeolf should bo dreesed in the costumo of tho eighteenth century, and the illusion that I had beon suddenly traneported into & eceno of 120 years léfl would have boen completo. Bat AL Gaizot, although it was yot early in the morning, was already droesed in tho faultless emit of black in which ono always {inds, nm, whother at his desk, in his family circlo, or in his fauteuil at the French Aoademy. ry ‘Il received mo with the utwost kindness, Timo has dealt gently with the grand old man, Moro than 85 yoara:bhave passed ovor hia hoad, and yet he stands eract, sud his oyes thoso wonderful eyos, which socmed to 1lnsh oul & supernatural fire during his groat specches the Chambor, wera as brilllant as if ho wero & youth of 20, 5 31 cosgntuhted him upon his good looks, and 8 said : “ Yen, thank Heaven, I am in good hoalth. ' I walk flve miles every day, and am & hearty ontor. I don't think yob of dylng,” he aaded, gally, “T huvo so much to do yot. My ¢ Hiatory of Bpnin’ is not haif finished.” Guizob hias long beon at work upon this ¢ Iis- fory of Spmm,” which s to bo iksued in ten Jarge volumes. He showed mo some cahicrs of lis notes, and asked my opinion. I gave it, without concoaling mg surprieo athis wondorful memory. Datos, 8o ombarrassing to most minds, did not bowilder him in the leat. I eaid that Juan Tru- illor, the novelist, had lived In tho wmiddle of the eevonteontly century. b . “ Pardon me,” sald M, Guizot, “'he lived from 1014 till 1649.” b Tho notes for tho Spanish Listory havo been collected by this iudafnllgubla workar for nearly twonty yerrs past, and I ndmired the benutiful ond fimm: chirogruphy of the manuscript, M. Guizot writos a firm, bold hand, and -he alwaya uses small, heavy noto papor, without lines. "I read the firet pago of tho Alth volumo, and found not tho slightest alteration. T obsorved that this was somothing very rare with authors. # Lord Byron," said M. Guizot, *was famous for {he oxcellont condition of his manuceript. It hardly ever happens to mo to mako o change in what I write for the printer, 2ud, strange to eny, in cngo & pogo is Jost, 1 can “rowrito it elmost ex- gotly an I penned it fhst,” 1 i;nd often heard that M, Guizot wan & vory early riser, and I asked him what his fayerite hours for writing were. I never write after 2 o%lock in the after- noon, Iriseat G, take acup of cofleo, flance over ihe morming El)wrs. and then go to work, At 10 I stop and Iunch. At:3Iam done. I do not go very fast, but thero is hatdly an old aoquamtance of mine who can keop step with mo, The couvereation rotuned to his -work on Hpain, and bo told mo that ho had studied the Bpanish lapguege ot the age of 73, and bad {aught it then to his graudehildren, T inquired about tho Indter, and the happy grandfathor bo- camo vory enthuefastio, Ile umeurod mo (hutbis constant” interconrae with tha little oncs had l;lvnn lim gomo of his best inspirations. g b History of Franco, Related to my Grandehil dron,” hus had o most extraordinary succoss, Ouno hundred thoussnd copios haye beon sold thus far, und {he domund coutiunes unabated, M. Quizot is very wealthy, and for ihe largor portion of his richéa he is indobted to Lis pen. Ho L alwnys commanded tho 1&1‘?0&45 copy- rightn, and could not havo mainteined s lavish oxpenditures, whilo ho wag Primo-Ministor of Tranco, bad ho not_hnd thin nover-failing ro- wource. Bince the French Government has con- oluded troutics with moat of the liuropean Qovs ernmenty, M. Guizot has recelvod heavy sums from foreign publishers. As o literary cnrlonlt{, it degervos to bo_mentfonad (hat he {s the only Frouch aullior who recolves a copyright from » ‘Turkivh publisher, his ‘‘History of Civillzu- tlon" having beou rocently transiated lnto that language. . Guizot ehowed mo tho odd-looking book, An Noarly 980 and he expressed his rogrot that he wasmnol familiar with the languaga; for, smong tho fruita of hin studies, now extending for almost sovonty years, is his netoniehivg familinrity with no many langunges, Ila aponks Lnglish n8 an Euglishtoan, Gorman as a German, and I was hardly able fo doleot the slightest sccout in bis pronunciation of Bpanish. I am suro hoin the most remarkable old author of our timas, aud he bids falr tolive to his 100th birthdsy, ROBERT THE DEVIL. From Appletona® Journal. The drama and opera have brought bofore tho publia many an imaginary hero- ansoolated with an historlo name. A close inspection of the facts and traditions of history has shown on what n light and alry fonndation the charactor hina beon bullded, and Lins ofton proved oven the name to ‘be's misnomer. Tho German popular logond of #Faust” is ovolved from tho shadowy myths of conturies, It cannot bo proved that Luorezin Borgia was & polsoner, or any such terrible ohar- sctor as in assoolated with tho namo. Ono has only toread Walter Soott's story of ‘' Macbeth" to loarn how marveloun wns the inventivo genlus of Bhakapearo. Even the story of * Willlam Toll" bogins to dissolve in the strong light of ‘hintorical roscarch. It ia a humilisting fact that the world's choicest charaotors of literature and tho highest art are idealitics—myths, The operatio story of ** Robort the Dovil " be- longa to those high-colored and maguificent fie- tiona, The popular impression of tho festive Duke, which tho genius of Meyerbeor Las made upon the world, is far from correct ; the father of Willlam tho Conqueror was not & good nor & wigo rulor, even a8 rulers wont in thoss rudo timon, but was scarcely mors of a flend than his redecossora, Tho pioture of Rober!, as it oxists the popnlar mind at the present tlmc, {8 woll drawn in the following stanzas, translatod from tho opora : O IR a0 e more hamead toelgn § o lived In peace—hin wifo e loved, And yot kio lived & lifo of pal, Nochild had he; for yoars and years @ To knelt at shrines—he lmelt and prayed ; But all in vain—yes, il in vain, Was overy ssorlfice o made, ‘Then loud he mnmtfau the Court, T'hat If s son to him wore born, e would devote lilm te the flend, . And let s soul from heaven be forn, And then dn Umo (hers caras a son, 0Of all tho lnd the dread aud slame— Tobert, obort—tho domon's owa, ‘And bruly ho doaerves tho name, Richard was not a childlcas King, and Robekt was not his only @on. IIo hiad nocause for anzioty In regard to the succossion,—thore waa no noed of Km’m“ on this point to gods, seints, or flandg. But'the history and slory of * Robert tho Doyil," apart from any mythical coloring, 18 & very iutorosting ono, and the Lights and shades of hia charsoter aro ot once o painful and pleas- ing nudf. Toberl le Magnifigue, of Normandy, whom historians end archeologists bave associatod with the certain imsginary or legendary loro, called Robert le Diable, and whem othor writars have enllstod in the-irnin of the *Wilder Jager,” or ¢ Wild Huntsman,” euccoedod Rich- wd his fathoron tho Norman throne in 1024, Hohad boon wild and wayviard youth, and, at tho Lieight of Lis rackless carcer, o had rebolted l[i'n!nnt his fathor, and, nt {he-head of an army of ndventurous youths, liad phut himeelf up in the old town of ¥alaise, Richard, with his vet- erane, bosieged tho town, and compolled gonng Tobert to suo for peaca. A treaty was mado be- twoon tho father and son, and the former ro- hl"tnm‘ in triumph to Rouen to celebrate tho victory. . 8 The reconcilintion was colobrated by » most maguificont bauquot in the paintial Castlo of Tollo. In the midst of the music, the wine, and tho festivity, Richard was emitten with & auddon” sickness, and Lo passed from tho Lall to his deatb-hed. While the fonst waa nt ita hoight, tho funeral-bolls wore alroady tolling. There bad been poison in the Duke's cup, and it wag whinpered that the dendly draught had boen pre- pared by Robert. Tho magnifico bogan his reisn by appealing'to popular favor. Courteous, debonair, snd be- nign, liberal to his rotainors and consdorate of the poor, ho soon huslied the whispers that had asnociated his haud with his fathers decense. It is #aid that his gifts wero so liberal that somo of tho recipients died of jO{d “Yet, despite his genorogity,” romarks an toriau, ‘* Robert's funoml cenduct was undatisfactory, and to the ast yenra of his life o dl!gllnyud all that wil oxuberant hilarity which saddons the thought!fy obrorver mora than grief.” Faoluiso, with its rural besutics and inviting hunting-gronnds, became hia favorito rosidonce. I'ho place was the centre of tho lesthor-trade in Normandy, mud foreign dealers in doo, calf, and sheop-skin resorted to tho thriving Uourgads, and woro wolcomed as residents. I'ho tanneis of Falriso were olaesed with the lowest ordera of soclety. No trade was regarded &0 low aa tliat of skinning beasts, And not only woro tho tanners thomsolves deu&nnd, bnt&hl employments dealing with raw-hide sbared samo obloquy. Thoro was &b this time at Falaigo a tanner by the name of Fulbert, who had a daughter of marvelous graco and lxcnut(, called Arleita. Bho attracted Robort's stiontion, and used to put horself in his way, drossed in s mannor to shed the utmost lustre upon her charms, He foll in love with hor, medly in love, and soon it became gossiped about the placo that Duko Robort knifl. compeny with tho tanner's daughtor, 'he windoiv is_yet shown in Falaigo, through which it is said tho Duke first saw the charming Arlottn, It is enid that ho was first atiracted by socing her littlo foet in a translucent streamlet, which, it true, wra vory pootical, . Arletta’s arto soon mode the flié;hty Dbilarious Fobert s bold lover. A son was at Ist nelnowl- edgad as their offspring. Robort bestowed upon the oy, the futuro conqueror of England, the ancoptral namo of Guillaumo (Willlam), and ordered that bo should Do brought upin the Tiouse of hiu grandfather, the tanner, Tho connection of the Duako with tho tannor's daughter was highly rescnted by the nobility of Normandy. It ia arid that whou old Baron Tal- ous flrat looked. upon Arlottn and bor ckild, ho oxclaimed, Bhame ! shame! ebame! for by {hoo and thino shall Iand miue be brought foloss and dishonor 1 ™ Tho opposition of the nobility to the Duko's intimacy with Arletia only served to inflamo his passion, 1o raised Fulbort from o tennor to Court-Chambarlnin, aud no longer mado a seore of Lis attachment to the tanucr'a daughtor, o brought her to Court, and caused hor to be. attonded with all the ceremonial splendor of titular dignity and fortune, A o The magnifico was so liberal and debonair that the pcmilo seomed willing at Inet to over- look his weaknees in reepect to Arletts, but all Lis liberality could not . purchego fayor for his clild. Wherover Willism, tho illegitimato, ap- pensed ho van less agsoointed with {ho gran- deur of tho Court than with the unsavory air of the tau-ysrd. In his boyhood William tho Conqueror wag alwuss spoken of with contume- Hous appollatiops which boro rocord to his fathor's sin. : = -y Robort Ioved Lis son as'woll as Arlotta, The hatrod of tho boy by the nobllity maddened bim. Yaxa vioro waged, political aud foreign, aud 1u thore Robert sustained & character so closely regembling that of & flend thal it Is not sur- vising {lat he should have been called “lo Blnhlu." To plundor, harey, and bun, were hia ordery to'hly troops, aud wherever lie weut ho wan victorious, and loft o black track of doso- lation bebind. But, rotwilhistanding his vieto- vies, ho was ovor reatless and ead ot hieart, His lovo for Atletta and tho Loy William wna not clinged by shsonce ;'it haunted him amid the peril of the battle and tho silence of tho camp- firo, His hoart wan ot npon it, that the tannor's son’ vhould succeed lum on the throusy ho knew that tho boy's nnmo wes & Lyword pe- aovinted with the tnu-ysrd and ita slokening poole, ! Amid all of lis morry-makings, thore was a shado of melanoholy In his faco that showed ibnt his hoart was stitl heavy, - His consclence, too, was Il at easo, and ho at laat became wenry of thiu porpetunl urivost, and tired of tha sploti~ dors of royalty and the colcbrations of victory. To withod to lcave the Duchy, to engngo in romo conkotence-quleting oxploit, to feast hiy oya on nbew socnes, sud o lend hio ear to now minstrelsy, Suddenly, Robert conyoned an assembly of hia pretatas ang nobles, declaring that Lo hed an important infontlon to communicale, They camo togother with much anxioty, whon tho Duko announced to {bom that ho had mude o Yo to bocomo o flfirim to the Iloly Land. Tho sasembly received tho Intelligenco iith conator- nation, The porils of the plgrimage woro groat, aud, \\'t;rn ho to die, who would bo his suc- cangor Ttobort, tho victor, at thin eritical hour turned bimeelt Into s boggar, With an unkingly bue’ milation, ho pleaded with tho noblea tono- knowledgo Willina a8 his heir, “All fhe nnuson,” anys an historian, **all the remorse, alf tho prickings of cousclonco, all tho stings of worldly shamo, nll tho feolings of love and sin whioh chustiso his orimo, were concentrated in that micernblo hour.” The prelates remonstiated, but oo piteonsly did m:‘;‘;gxfitm:: unhnp]\(, F:nl(nnt Duke pléad, that ko won hls cago, Willism wan accopted as his snccossor, and the Frnufl old Darous 'perfortned homnql; aud feally to the grandson of (ho desplsed ko tho Duko Legan bl now the Duko began his pilgri — barofooted, barchended, vglumu!. ov'::ug nfl‘;fiu arniont ; and with him it proved but a journcy 0 the grave, If the palmer himsolt droancd ;rnln ly at timos, his train wes most pplondid, eraldn’ went bofore him, his. mules wera ehod with gold, and ho scattered wealth whoroye or ho wont iu rlotous profusfon. At length, ho xenched tho Levant, and was Yorue along on a palunquin by his Orlental ate tendants, s dylug man. Meoting a Norman ;mlmnr rolurning from the Holy City, ho aaid: * Toll. my peoplo, when you get homs, that you saw tho devils beating me to aradize.”. I vin- itod Jerusalom, duflnrted, uan dying at Nice, of ;ml!on, wan entombod in‘the preat cathodral in 005;1: His rowmaine woro finally brought to Nor~ maudy, . Buch was the hislorical personage whom Moy- ‘orbaer, §n 1881, thinat upon the Fyrio stago, {n startlo, faeciuato, charm, snd aven awe, tha music-loving oities of Continental Burope, No opora evor created such oxclloment on tlio Paris. inn stage. It was adapted to alllands., It pos. sosscd Oriontal gorguouencss, Gorman super- naturaliam, * French vivacity, and Italian brill- ianoy.” The tender Normandy song of Alico, tho sublime scone at the cross with i intorpretations, the grand sud lowy effoota of the ristog of tho mus from their graves, snd the loftinoes and beauty of the clomng koenos, fgvu it a popularity which no provious effort of he comvoner had recoived. 0 noenio accogeo- ries Hal to the production of the cpors, as woll 2a ils peculiarities of instrumentatlon and wtlnql have mado its popularity loss onduring than * Tho flnrnonul.n,“ and it hoa boan put upon the American lyrio stago only & few times during the past deonde. —_—— WINTER'S APPROACH. Tho Polar biasts that swoep the main, Tho dingy clonds that mar the sky, o crickul’s dirge, and bleatng flocks, All, all proclaim that Winter'a nigh, The Summer-solstios now ia paat, . Its crawn of glory lald aside; And {n ita atead King Autumn relgns, Eatlronad in woali xad regal bride. Tho foroets, which wo much admire, Arrayed i tints of groon nd gold, Dismantled now of gay attiro, Plainly announce the coming cold. Tho esriy snown and frosty nights, ‘The eetrching winds througliout the day, Bespeak, in unmistakon torms, ‘Winter'a approach, without dolay, D e rvertug Foins and Jompog et sbtvering ind lowlng hor B Ry e o asethe e Hocy “And oinigration of the birds, In Nature'a mark'd, impressive lines, ‘Winter's approsch {s now foretold, In barran trocs, and frozen grounds, Aud restices flocks that sso tho fold. The mountaln-tops are veiled {n white Bright, suany daya aro obeoloto ; ©oul aira enshroudall living forma's “Tho clouds disburso prophetio sldot. The Monster, with his chilling breath, Ts marching dosm with hurrled pace § Lot oach and oll propare to preot ; iia cllling grosp and cold embrace, - myatical 5 ' FASHION, From the Ncw York Evening Mail, It s & notablo fact thal at only ono_or two of the many wodding-rocoptions In this city of lato bas wine been served. —A now material for sacks has just beon in- froduood hore, callod soal-skin cloth, It oquals in sappearnuce the seanl-skin, aud is very much oh:m[mr. o ~—'I'ho handkerchief scarfs worn by tho ladies, nnd s0 popular last season, havo boen rovive again with great succoss, —Black pill sacques, quilted, insldo and out, and trimmed with chinchilla or silver-fox fur, are new and will bo fashionablo. —Ibt promises to be quito gay, socially, in Washington nest winter, notwithsfanding hard times. Mrs, Hamilton Flsh wilt inaugurate the season by a ball noxt month, —8oal-skin saoques and jacketawill be quite as faehioneblo noxt wintor as last, There is no chnnFu in tho cut or stylo of tho garmonts,—n fact Indies who have soul-slkin on hand will bo glad to know. —TLeather jewelry—which attined somo pop- ularity hore o fow yoars ago—has been revived this season, and will, no doubt, becomo fashion- able. 'Tho now stylesnro odd, and for that roa- son will find favor in tho eyes of muny, . ~8oarlct Liowo, etripod with black, aro very fashionable just ot presont among young ladies of the beau mondo, Tho farhion of worring colored hosiery is of Frenoh origin and some- what questionablo, - —Ono of tho new styles of trimming ball and ¥nrty dressos {8 with colorod yak Inco, the manu- netire of which has reached perfection. Tho lace comes in overy shade and color, andisn most offectivo trimming. —T'hore i just now a mania among the Indies for raised ewbroidory, and even whito silk and satin bridal robes are covered on tho skirt with it. It is a very elegantand stylish modo of trimming, and “its prosent popularity will be productive of now designs, ; —A new Parislan wrap is o quilted sacque or basque of heavy gros grain trimmed on the back and front geams, and also oa tho slooyes, with bouds of Lyona velvet. Around the bottom ig rich Brussels fringe. Fashionables admit thiy to,bs oo of tho most clggant and. sizlsh wrapn introduced hera fors long time. It is called tho Patti eacquo,—after the prima donna, it is to bo presumod. —Although thero are quito as many weddings this autumn as last, none aro characterized by thesuperfluonuelogance and wicked oxtraragance of previous sonsons. Uhurch weddings are not yory numerous just now, but will Docember and Fobruary. o durin, Bridesmaids and granmumunn:g( inmany instances, disponsod ' with, snd fashionable weddings are conducted now-a~dnys on a decidodly ecouomical scale, —If tho ladies pereist In tho fashion of tight walking-skirts, & couplo of yards of material will soon bo all that is nocessary for a completo promonade costumo, It is by no moans a pretty fashion, this drawing of the skirt go tightly in frout, and just n trifle vulgar. It will do, how- ever, for that largo clags of women who (ako infinito delight in being tho * observedof all ob- servera.” —Among tho presonts xocelvod by o Philadel- . phia ride, & few days o0, was & complote toilet #ot, ton piaces In ell, of eolid ivory. The bair- brushes have musical apparatus in the back, and thie hand-glass can bo enlarged end diminishod at will. All the erticles aro embellished with a monogram ix colors, aud aro nmmFed according to size in e Jarge caso or box, of Itueeia leather lined with blus satin and edged with fine lace. —_— ONLY A.DREAM. Only s deeam—a vislon of alr ; Only a dream~—but, ob, kow fair | Flowers and sunslilue, muala and song, Filling the measura the wholo day loug ; Youtly'in its springtime—boautiful youth | illod with fla freshmess, warmth, snd truth 3 Tlowar-deckod caxth, ond yirmuring slrear. Irell mo, ity soul; waa it only, ¢ dresm ? Only a drcam,—a pair of solt eyes, Tlu ut tho denth of Heaven's owy skics ; Dimples, aud roes, and oluaters of halr Matdentood's sweetest and lovellest air ; Tovo witl its transrorts tlnt never could eloy § Visfons of glary, and worlds of joy} Gardens of floviers with Inconzo that teemy Well mo, ye shades, was it ouly s drexm 7 ol Only o droam, Yhero the poplars wave, Near yon old ‘chural, thore's u littlo green grave § Hoildering lu dust, my boloyed 1 thure,— Deatly's fingors have bratded ber clusterivg hair, Thucked from lior chocks the fresh 10508 #WaY ho Jovely fs dend,—my idol was clay, Bhadows of sunnot aro dimning Hfo's bosm § Youth, joy, sud love, ye ure only a dream | 3irto, Presidontinl Glnssiwaros ¥ At the Gorning Glass Worke n seb of glase~ ware, dostined for tho Providentlal mansion, has tnut beon completed. 1t is desevibed as followa y tho Llmira Advertiser: “It cousiats of two dozen goblets, which ave cul about half way up tho bowl, the romsinder of the bowl being richly engraved, and prowminent smong it is the United Blatos cost of army. I'our duzen champagne= ‘;hmueu and gaucer-bowly, cub nud engraved us ho goblota; two dozon rognlar ‘champagnc- glanses, onzraved ns the othews; six dozen canary-colorod hock-glasees ; soven dozen ruby Doyl flint stom nauterno glasses, These colared fi]lumofi aro vory superior. Theroe ‘aras aleo four lozon claret, six dozon shorry, and four dozen cordinl glasses, two dozen fingor bowls, which aro cut xnd opgraved with tho cont of arme; three dozon punch glasses, with handlos; four dozen ico croam {flnten, out and engravod ae (la rinsson, 'Lha valug of this glass is about 2,000, t is not n fnll set, but ordered to wake goed tho full vet sent o the White IHouce somo tina sinoe. It 1a all gotton up with the best of tasto, nnd of most_exquisito pattorn, ‘Tho cugraving 18 parfaot, Wo noticed, bosides tho above, a large numbor of entiroly now and Lenuliful same ples of progoryoe dishos, oholl aud other forms, also bottlow, docanturs, &o., whiok (ay purpaeq anything wo hava svor secn,"