Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1873, Page 10

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: A N SRpe 'URDAY, D RCEMBER 20, METHODISM IN ILLINOIS. Two Noted Preachers---Wilson Pltner and Wittiam €, Stribbling, Aneadotes of Thelir Ministerial Ca= reer. 1 i Correspondence of The Chiengo Tribune, . * " JsoxuonvitLe, Til, Docembor, 1673, v % WILSON Prosin removed to Iltinols in his early mantood, and &qoii felt tho deop conviction, * Woe is moif I prench not tho Gospol I Bub ho had no ward- . robo which would fit him to appear ne o preach- or, oven in tho log-cabing of those onrly days; and it was 1csolved, by lits devoled brother MMonigomery and himsolf, that thoy would make tueir way to tho™ lend-mbncs at Galons,—then n poiut of great ativaction,—and earn for him an outfit. Ilo onco deseribed in tho pulpit a part of Lis oxperionco nt that tme, aftor this manner: Wo worried along nutilwe got to tho nolgh- Lorhood of the mines, but had notling to est, and wero vory lungry. The hind- hearled minors holpsd mo,—ono glving uy soimo corn-nion] and salt, aucthor somo bncon, ono gomo coffoz, and anoshier lent us a pot to Vol it in, and woed to mukos fire, Boon wo hnd n stepming supper, und, having placod our meat and dodgors on somo big ¢hips for plates, and 1hi0 swweet-ymelllng coffeo-pot alongside, beforo Leginning to eat T enid to my brother,—tliat it- tlo durk fellow yeu oo sitting over thero [point- Ing him’out iu (ke congregation],—Gum, I feel JiLie giving thanks to God for tho marcics of ITis vrovidence, ITe pald, * Wils, so do L' Wa knelt own sido by vide, and bogan to pray, aud our acarts wero filled with Joy and thauksgiving. So #o rono up whilo our eyes overflowed with tenrs of gratitude, shonted aloud tho vraise of onr &ing, hugged and danced ; and, whén our ecnteoy w08 over, looked about for our supper, und, be- aold! we had ¢ g KICKED IT INTO THE TINE it was all ruined, Dou't you think,” ho dded, * that wo should liave showed bolter jeuse to liave caton our supper first, then Jnneed and. shouted aftorwards ? Lverythiug ought to bo in its own good time, and we want sommon sonso fu roligion as in evorything elio,” Tu Guo time ho was recommonded to tho Con- forence, aud recoived on trind o8 o traveling preacber, Allthe appointments were, at that day, hard, and Wilson was gent ta tho Lnvdest ; put be never flinclied or complained. His nl- lowance ag an unmerried man was $100 a vear, end ho migl:t osteom himaelf fortunato if ha ob= tained ouc-third of that sum, The hnbits which Yo hiad scquired a8 o huntor and trapper now 1200d him in good stend, and helped hiv incoma, ilis shot with tho riflo was infalll- Mo, and muuy o deor and wild turkey + suppliod him. . No man on the froutior iad & ruer eyo for a bee-ling, and nono \was more ex- tert in secuting ‘the gum and its Lonoyed aeaguro, II6 kueiv the haunis and Labits of the Jeaver and ottor, aud, metting his traps 0s ha iwaveled the wido cireuitis and missions in the Linly-peopled country, many a good skin ro- varded his eralt, 5 When courtivg lis wife, who lived somo dis- ‘auce from hig work, Lie ealled upon an old local sreacher to flll somo of his appointmonts, with o promiso thot he would pay him in otter- iking. At tho noxt Quartorly Conforence, tho 54 mon said, *Brother Piluer, did you know that those otter-skina you gave me wero mighty a00T#" % Cortninly,” snid Wilson, * but so was e preaching ; and TOON PREACH, T0OR PAY, 7on know." Showing bis backwoods hearers onee how it g imposaiblo for them to becomo just beforo God by their own good works ho hald, * You might 08 woll get into n big kettlo and try to raixo it from the flaor by tho buil." Profoundly_impressed by n rermoun ho hiad hoard from Dr. Alers on “The Dovil a8 n Rtoaring Lion,” &o., ho was called upon to pray. Tawing, with’ his hend almost ns low us his finoes, shivering at tho vivid word-picture to ich hio had just listencd, ho bagan in low and tremulons toney ; but, as ho advanced, tho head was lifted ; tho tones grow cloar and sirong, un- til thoy becamo almost a shout : ¢ O, Lord! the Devil, that spitcful old Jion, in in {hoe. neighbor- fo0d, in thia congregation, in #he church, 1n our tearts, and Thou only eanst savo us. Drive him aat, O, Lord! with Lly mighty hand ; drive him i of ourhoarts, drivo bim out of tho churely, ont of the cougregation, oub of the neizhborhood ; drive him into the brush ; fill his mune and tail, 9, Lord! with_cockle-burrs, and give him no Xdst, day or night, vo that, d BWITONING AND SCRATCHING HIINSELF, 2e'll let us alone,” “What's tho use proaching n grent sormon to 2 littlo congregation ¥ hio uneo oxelaimed in an 2xhortation ; * it's lilko pulling out the plugs Irom tho sugas-treos, and lotting the sap run when thero are no pans to eateh it Rislng to oxhort ano night at a camp-meoting, he paused until every eyo was fixod upon’ him and o poinful silenco vaigned, Lioken only by (ho noise of tho katydids, and then cried out, in u voice of thunder, * Hark!i—hnrk !—havl to the little creatures praieing their Maker ; and so overything that hath breath praises ITim, exeopt wan. Hayo you, whom His hands Luve mads, end to whom Je hiay given a liviug roul, and for whom His Only Dogotten Son lins died upou tha Litter tree,—hava you no praise aud love to effer Him 2" . Ho was once prenching in o new sottloment near the Ilinais River, where tho absarbing topie wae At what point they should mnko o sicamboutlanding and & waro- house, “DI tell yow" “said he, *whera to build, nud what. Bogin right here and now, and lot itbe n two-story warchouse that will hold all yonr tronsuroes and a1} your hiopes, for this world and for tho world o corae, enfo from flood mnd firo; for godlinens Lath the promiso of tho life that now is and of that which is to come,” With n powerful voice, capablo of almost overy roodulation, & brilliant eye, o vivid nature, and » goul deoply In curnont, he would sowetimas pour fort] TONRENTS OF FIERY BLOQUENCE - ibat no huuman seusibilities could withatand, TLet him havo *liberty,” ns it wos styled,—or, to employ its oquivalent, let him ** swing cleac® T the tréatmont of a subject with which ho was Tamiliay, techuically called “a sngar-tick,— md not Clwistmas Evans, ¢ho grent Wolsh arator, conld surpats him {n the power of his aopulir appeals, - It conld not bo oxpectod that 3i5 expositions wonld always bo us correct ng shey were iudopendent. Ilo onco said, %My arethiren, the Apostio Paul daclaves that faith zomath by hearing, and Mr, Wesloy sy o tans but I take the lilerty of dilforing from botl those distingnished gontlemen. 1 inew a man oaes who wis 8o dent thut Lo could not hienr the soudest thundor, and he luul more fuith than any~ sody I over saw. Now, did hig faith como by Searing 7 To was subject to fita of great deprossion, On recovering from ouo of theso, & friend asked him how he felt on coming ont of tho fog and gloum, * Feel " lia exeluimed; © why, na if m joul ware runuing Lorso-yacs in tho grand praf- tie of Divinity,” In prorching ho onco maid: “I1 look upon myselt us Jogs than the lenst of all sniuty ; und, when I hear the great sormouns pronched by the Drewiding Eldors nnd Dishops, £ feol so ladly about my owu iguorance aud wenkness that 1 think I will never olwu my lips again, Jnt L ‘nlie contare when 1 yomembor what the Bible says, thut ‘Nob Ly might, nor by Jower, but by my spivit, saith” the Lord! We huve this Ixensure 1 emithen vosioly, that the oscolloncy of tho pows mnr Lo of God und uot of us, 1 have been riding through the woods bofora now, und seen o poor Hutle grapovine that hud crawlod along the oarth Lo tha 100ty Of & big trce, aud with Its focblo tondrils was holding on and trying to climb up the sides of tho wlehey monareh of the forest, Thon I have veen nnothoer vine, as Lig niound /s u man's arm, aud lifling itd head far Duto tho light; 1t wtood uy nobly wnd stalely ws if it had Lean s troo itzelf. DBut, "I you look close, you would uoe whit it sl leancd for support to” the Lranches ol the tioe, nud thst ita arms sthl clung to tho mighty ginut, IL lsd olimbed up n tho littlo ouo ws now frying £ and, strang us it veomed, it 1t wora to Job go- only for a monent, it woul Tall and be ““"1‘5""1 In piccos ; ita stiength und protection, like the hops and promisn of the lit- tlo oue, inthe trea, Bu," lo continued, ** frail aud woak as I umn, 1 sl slrive to OLING T0 THAT TREE on which_ all tho grout arws of the world muat vest, and without whish {hey are nothing,—os trae whoro roots underlie all cmnqn,—“ 080 Lrunk i6 tho wretsth of Lho universo, its branch- o axo tho ifonvews, ite blogsows are tho stur, uporing broath {8 the Joy of aonls ro- doomod, bt th shadbw Tn thy night of the dnmbed.” Mr. Titnor wan teanaforrad to Missourl_about Lwonty vearu ago, and thonco to Californin, where, I ‘botiave, ha still lvos, Anolhor mau widely known in tho Btate for tho Jnut forty yonrs, although never a mombor of thin Conforonce, derotvos to be romembored for hiw great zonl, abundunt labors, and vomarkable chariclerlation, WILLIAM 0. ATminnLING wad born, I think, in Kontuclty, hot long botoro tho begiuning of this contury, and at au_oatly ulxu ontoretl tho Gonforonce fu his nativo Btats, o soon nequirad gront distinction an o pronclior, yanking, in the cstimation of many poraons, with the ronowsied Dr, Bascom. Indeod, I linye loard the story, that, at_o camp-meotlug hold rbout 1841 or '3, whete tha two young man wera lo ])rnnnll. aomo * lowd follows of tho busor sort " nid 0 wngor as Lo which of tham would -bonr off tho palm of oloquoenco ; and Mr. Strlbbling had a8 many and strong backers a8 “tho Apollo of ths Wost," In thowo oarly days hio mado a long misslonary- journey through Itinoks and Miswourl, in conie any with tho groat Bishop MaKendroo, From tho boginuing of his ministry he way an indo- fotigablo siudent, whon, oftentimos, tho book hind to be connod on horrokncl, or by tho fligk- otlug light of n pine-knot In 1o fire-placo of o squattor’s eabin,—ho lying on the floor, while the family wers bLusled, or asleep about him. Until his™ Iateat yoars, ho was an omniverous dovouror of hoolis, and possesaed of sucl n memory as [ hnve raroly known, — Ilia passion was for tigology, and poolry of the graver kind, to which ho added o tasto for history; but ho ravoly dipped into what ia usually oalied polite loarning, oxcept to malkd a thorough nequaint- anca in emlier ifo with the groat moralist and lexicographor, Dr. Samucl Jobuson, 'That ao- qualutance COLOWED 1Y HIYLE for the rest of hia life, as it did that of De Dns- com; fusomuch that to him a horso was o steod or u quadrupad,—Mis curringo horsos rojolcing In 1o nnmes of Brutus and Cnssivg, o was nover wall or siclk, but “ romarkably thin,” * romarka- oy alim," ¥ somarkably modarate,” or * remnrk- ably in the sero and yollow leaf.” Tio never preachod, but “ pronotineed,” * signifiod,” “hold fortly,” or **dealt in rowmnrk.” 1t is snid that lio oneo addressed tho negro-hostler of n Kontuchy tavern thus: *Boy, talie my quadruped, stabu= Tnto him, donato him nn adoqunto quantity of mtritions aliment; and, when Aurora sholl gild tho Oriontn! horlzon, I will sward you s poon- ninry compeusntion' suitablo to your sminbla lospitality." It isnot to bo wonderad ut that the grinning darkey flow to his master shonting, i Como yor, Massn; fur dar's o man talkin' Spanish,” Mr. Stribbling Iaborad with great necoptability in the Kentucky Conforoncs for fl{ioon yonny, and about 1833 romoved to this neighborhood, whero ha spent the roat of his life, Althonghho was what is known ns a local preachor, his Jour- neys wore many and long, nad s r{mlnlt-minln- trations incessont and arduous. o was & man of tiveloss {ndustry and oxact mathad, fnding time for many pursuits,—tho suporintondonco of o farm, tho caro of o hundsome cstato, the read- ing of many books, aud’ tho dispensation of the Ward. As o companion he was most ngrecablo nud fnstruetive, a4 woll a8 amusing ; for ho had a quaint, grim humor, which irradisted his Loundless stories of information ; and, in tho society of Lis friendy, ho INDULOED IN 118 JONNSONESE to 8 great an oxtent nn in the pulpit, ITo onco addregsed o Ind whom ho knaw well, who was dryluF his feet after having broken throngh tho ico: ** Aro you not approhensive that the ox- posure of your pedal extromities to the frigorifle influenco of the cireumambient atmosphero will excreiso o doletorions effect upon your ocular organa? " 1fe wag singularly fond of coffos at broakrast ; and, one morning, having passed his oup to bo replenislied a number of times, startled tho Iady of the house by kaving, with tho utmost grazity, 4T would profor thal tho upper half inoh of the poriphery of thnt cup wera filled, than that any other part of its circumference woro." 1ITe oneo overwhelmed an old man who was of- fensively smoking a pipe in the room whero ho wns, with, *Venorable sir, the offumigation arising from the delatorious ofiluvin emanating from your tobneenistio roservair 80 overshadows tha organislic power of our oculars, and so ohfuscates_our atmosphoric. validity, that our apparatl _must hortly bo cbiused, unless, ihrongh tho abundant navity of your ominont politencs, you will dissmhogue the aluminous tubo of the stimulating and storomtatory in- grediont thet roplenishios its concavity,” o was the L VERY S0UL OF TOSPITALITY, and mnothivg afforded him _grenter delight than to cutortain his friends, especially his brethren, hsving o tusto for books. At such times lis colloquinl Lumor was displayed in tho fullest measure. He would frequently announco dinnor to_hin guosts thus : * Como, frienda; bites ave about to bo distributed A friend and my#ell once drove into his yard, {)rononiniz to broaklast with him, when this” was hig cordial salutation: * Brothren, how are you? Alight_and allow mo {0 conduct your quadrped throngh the otifico into the ntabulatory dopart- ment, whore ie may obtan the herbifarious and graminivorons supplios wherowith to sustain hin ftrennth ; whilo yo yoursolves shall tarry until yolave partaken of aliment farnished hy tho females in tha rofectory, and, having attonded Su‘upue(imomouu oxorciscs, go on your way ro- oicing.” To a friend who onco suggosted that ho had obrorved a coincidenco botween & sormon he Tind recently presched and onn publisliod by the great Dr. Samuol Davins, hareplied: Iwillcon- 1css to vou that Thiave somolimes plowed with Davies" hcifer.” Many a timo has he ?I\atn:] to me, in our long rides, Wholo pagoes, if noc hooks, of Milfon, Young, and Doliok, whilo Montgomory Blnir (of the “grave™), and Cowper were equally at Lis tonguo's end. I8 MANKER IN THE PULPIT i I onco hoard him was n8 peculiar as bis stylo. aunousco his hymn, and, aftor giving the num- ber, ho naid : **'F'ha tune commonly known by tho appollation of * Wreatling Jacob’ mny por- Tiaps bo approprinte upon the prosont occasion 1” And, in the course of o sermon, he onee got oft tho following purapliraso: “ Tho small particle of tho aqueous fluid which trickles fram the visual organ over the lincamonts of the coun- tonnneo, betokening grief.” A Let no one suppose, however, thnt ho was o dry or uuintaresting ' proncher, 1lis copious voeabulary wns lways freightod with well-con- nidered mattor, sot off by illustrations and descriptions often improskive, and sometimes magnificent; whilo the interost and ferver of his munuor, the mpidity und foreo of his action, would enchain tho cougrexation, fraquently 'liollglilné; Hhiony wispped B Lrertbless wandor au olight. By inhoritance, Inbor, and frugality, he be- cauio tho posscesor of & large nmount of SBNERELS,"— - “tho shokols of gold, the shekels of silver, shaoliels woighed in tho brlance of the sauctu- ary,” nsho was wont to call thom; ond at his donth, n yenr or so ago, bequeathed a good estato to liis descondants; whilo Lis venernbio and most excollent widow prosented o part of his hooks to the Garret Biblieal Inotitute nt Evange ton, and & rare and valuabla collection of old nowspapers (which would hava been a bon bouche for o historian) to the Chaplain of the Peniten- tiaxy at Jollat, for the use of tho prisoners. DIDAPPER. THE DUKE'S STRATAGEM. A MILANESE TALE, T'he Dika of Milan—Cuieazzo namned Suprumely loved Correqgly, widely fwined Tor overy charm a majdon might poseces § And, in Dor hoart, sle loved the Dike 1o Jesa ; I'hough each, awhily (40 churlish Fate deslgned Tu anar thelr Lliks) kuew not tho othetr’s nind, ut hoped and feared in silenco 3 i, at lusf, When tany o moon of trembling dotbt wad passed, And Gussip voluly Lnd essnved to ueek The cuus of Galeazzo's pallid clicek And moody afr~—xomo Judies of the Court Addrosned hm boldly thus (w half fn sport, And Inif in earnest) (=" Siru 1 wo all can Feo Your Highness i3 1n Jove !—and now, thut we Muy pay our Joynl servieo whero the sune Ta fustly due, we falu would know the namo Of hier—tho hiuppy ludy of your chofeo I Hurprised, abushed, tho Duke, with feltering volce, I civil vort sueh merry suswers made As best wight servo the quostion Lo evade, Tu vl | as ono by ono thele weapona full; With frest artiflory they the Duko wssull, Unts), uf Tongth, " eler 1ho e must vield, By elimnar overpowersd—or iy the field | WA ten 6 trueo 1" he erfed, ¥ for merey's ur Now—ploase you all I wiil ke, Stck 04 mny wuil so Sl & cotpan; Caniey onoand all, aud seo Wit 30 o pld—perehunca to cud—yonr "Mfli And al} anid ¢ Ayo P'—Coreegeta with the rost, ‘T'he bunepiot over, Qaleazzo vet Upon the Lourd & curlous cabinet Iu which, upon & panel, was porteayed, In Lppidat art, the piclure of « nnid; Wriler 1" gl Loy lovk muy Aee 1 inko | (Samo clever piintor' fuvcy.) All yo who choose, 1ny ludy: Now, when tho falr Gorregiln,—lmgering lant For faarfulness,~observed that ull who pusesd o pletured giv, i sllenes turnod nway A fron 8 fute unknown,—in decp disuisy Hhe 100k Lier turn (o guze; when, God of Uraco | rihe 2w Lo pajuted fnuge ; but the fuce Which bor own features, rudluntly fuls, Iteftocted, blusbing, ju w mirror thers I And 80 It'wag tho two truc loves wesa known § l fid §0 It cutne to pusw thut not ulony e L)y Go d thy Ducal throne | —Julh G Sudé in Serwnet’s Jor Junuary, TRUE UNTO DEATH. Dusk oropt over tho clty hours ago, The hur- ryftgg crowd liaa found o reating-placo, nnd the sounds of lnhor linve consed for a briof meason, Tow bluo is tho vault of hoaven~how clenr the' stars that look Ao solomn whon, with hearls that aro wonry of 1lfe, wn Iift tanvful oyos to pray far pliy from Him whose compassion fs ovor all 1is lisud croatad, 4 * Momory stands fiem nt Lor poat ns acouser or comfortor, aud I turn bavk tho pgos of a lifo that hog boon sullied by ain nud washod with toars,'nnd I read whon tho world is not by, I am o Southern refugoo, Tar nway, whoro Sum- mor sity a queon tho long bright yoar through, my homo lios o mass of Dbleckenod, wnsightly ruing, ns yours wore whon—that torriblo night whoso date s too racont to bo forgotton—~forcee, morcilons ‘flamen rioted like flonds nmid your housohold-gods, ‘Iioro wos nuothor—wo wors but two of thousnnda—who had net where to Iny [her liond when thoy drove us, 1iko thieves, from tho luxury amid which we are born, Hweet Aunia M——. Wild grasuos grow ovor Lot pulsoless heart, whilo mino throbs on, Tho proudost blood of the South - ran Liue in lier veing, Whilo her father was yob a ponniless man, without profession or name, the benutiful lolress of tho old cstates elopad with him from #chool, and'thoy wero married without so much a8 ** by yourloayo " to & pompons suitor whoro whito locks nnd venerablo yenrs, baoked by n million dollars, appealed more strongly to tho favor of hor family than hor own, Blinded by the adoration sha bestowed upon Tior husband, the young wife hastoned with him to lier father, with nover o doubt but that they would bo wolcome, or at least forgiven, to fiud lor a dlseardad,” disowned outeast, disinheritod and forsaken, tho door of home closed to Lior forover, and the curso of disobedionco resling upon her shelterless hoad, In n wild and ruggod section of ono of the Southwestorn States, stood & poor dwelling, linle farm-houso, half cottage, whoro the mothor—n kind and genorous woman, usod to bLnrdships and privations all her lifo—cooked tho frugal meale, washodtho home-mado linen, and scoured the hard whito floors with hor own Lands ; and the fathor, sturdy and Iudepondons, toiled upon his seanty acros, and literally oarned his brond * by tho swont of his brow." ‘I'big was tho birthplaco and liomo of Annic's fathor; and hero her mother, the Inte hoircss and belle,—pottod child of Fortuno, whoso light- ost whim hnd beon law.—found n refuge. No show and pomp met tho disheartened and humil- inted fugitive brido, but love gavo her tondercst greoting and wolcomo o n rofuga from which shie never wont until her lnst homo was made roady and sho borno out to sloop in tho valley. The daintily-reared girl becmno tho idol of the houschold, and in thal vinc-covored eof, whoro love transformoed poverty into luxnry, ahd con- tout awoetenod hardahip, wove pasued’ the bap- picst days of ler lifo. Little carod she—this bonnie Lrido, ihis love- crowned Quoon of lier hushand's heart—for (he palnces wherein Kings dwolt. Sorn & now joy stirred tn her bosom, and day by day ehe busied her cunning white fingers with ombroidery and Lits of musling ; and Lere, a yoar after her mar- viago, sho bung soft, sweot iullabics ovor hor tirut-born, n littlo daughtor. whom sho namod Annio. * Suraly,” sho #aid, with_solomnly-ton- der eyos, “ my cup runncth over.” Swoat littlo mathor I—I acem to seo hor now, na sho lay, with her baby on her arm, studying tho pink, plucid, oxpressionless taco of ~the slooping mile of humanity, porsuaded that it was the “ very picturo” of tho dark, handsoma, Learded faco’ that bent smiling over his treas- ures. But & shadow, dark as the grave in its gloom, hovered svor the dear, now homo,—tha shadow of tha Angol of Danth, who stood ab the porial. Bofter grew the voico of tho young mother, and_slower the slep that tended down- ward to tho valley of shadows., A mighly yearniug was in - her hoart to soo hor Tather uiico more, to hear his voico pronounco hor forgivenoss und give nswuranco of protection to har babe, 80 soon to kuow, ns shs had, the want of auother’s love aud guidanco. I can- not die if T may not uco him; I could not rest in my gravo at last if I do not honr him prom- ise," sho pleadod, as sho tossed xith fover-crim~ soied choeks and lips, 50 ho camo in timo to hear hor lnst oloquent apponl to graut ler potition with toars snd sobs, and to pour out un- availing prayors that her life might be spared lim. 'Irue to his projudico against her lins- baud, Lo stipulated that the child should nover bear its fathor's name, but ndopt that of its mother: Annic M—. Objoction could not be mado at such & time; Lut whon, with her lust words, sho asied that it Lo loft fu cara of Ler busbund's mother, his wrath blazed fiorcely ; but tha will that never bent before yioldod to tho plending oyes of hiy dying child 1 iliey followed him, end Lo scaled Lis cousont upon thoe lips that' would ssk no wora of him ou carth, Auhour Iater, with hor hands clasped in hor husband's, and her hond pillowed ou the bosom whoroe it had lain iu ity ufaney, sho slopt tho sleop that Lknows no waking, * Mr, Al— roturnied homo aftor the funeral; but slavos wore sout to earg for tho babe, the cottnge was mnde comfortablo and ‘ovon clegant, and cvory luxury emrounded tho'liltlo heivess, o loss of lis wifo was & terriblo bluw to tho husband, who ropronched himsolf for tho blindness of the love, and the rashuess of tho youthful passion that hud led him to tako hor from inhoritanco and friouds to shure Lis poverty and umgfi:us. Nothing was loft him now but fame,—no howme oun carfh,—no ‘hope but for position,—no love, uo wire, 110 miy- Lrews, but Ambitiou, ‘e babe shio had borne him had boen torn [rom lus heart, sopurated from Lis proteation, given for & prica to utrangers who (oapisod bim ; ovou Lis namo wan stripped from Lier, v8 if it wero soma filthy and polluted gar- ment that defiled hor infant purity. In aftor )“e:ms wa honr of lnm from tho buttlo-ficlds of $lexico, from tho Sanate-Clumber, a8 o leader in tho counsols of the nation ; but Lie never re- turned to his 0ld homo,—nover marriod or saw his child ag Annic's oducation was finishod at a city in the Southwest; and hero, a8 if somo atulity witond- ed thom, at the samo school trom which her wother elopod she learned to love a ponniloss man by the namo of Charles L—; tho Jast selon of uu impovarisliod family, whoo patent of 10~ bility dated back to thoe Notman Conqueror. 1lo liad left England to ostablich himgolf in busi- ness in Amorica, wishing firsl to_graduato from u Bouthiorn colloge; but tho rigid easto—at that timo moro tyranmical thors than in Lndiv,—barred hi$ cntrance. Tho Drincipal of the school, liimsolf an aspivant for the hand and estates of ono of tho woulthiest and most benutiful helrossea in tho Stuto, looked with little pioasuro upon the intimacy betwoon the young peoplo, At this thuo a forgory wus committed upon the Trincipal, who clargod it to Mr, L—. A warrant wag issuod, und he arrosted. On her way to tho recilution-room Anuio hoeard the Iucts, and, fi]nucing from_tho window, saw him pusaing in chargo of au oflcer. Al tha Lot, un- ovoruod tamper of her raco lenpod to hor hoart apd brain, Bho knew, though sho could not prove it, that the wholo thing was o plot to ruin hor lover, ugainst whom projudico slready existod on account of hin oponly-oxprossod anti- slavory sentuments, Thut uight sho Lad » coun- cil of ‘war with her room-mato, The givls woro Dboth rieh ; bub now the preity spondthrifts hud but empty purses, and no timo to lose. Moncy thora wai uouo, but fabulously rich wero Annio's jawels, and tlioso ntood stend, Sho daro nop laava thao house, but hier frioud obtained a suit of walo attire, shnded ber lip in imitation of o doway mouktavhe, cropt from the window on to tho porch, clung to Inttice aud vines wilh tho wnpor-cusd of @ cat, lob harself down over tha door of tho Professor’s study, aud mudo hor way toa lawyer In such a night Did Jeeslea steal from tho weulthy Jow, And with an uutieict love did sun from Venteo As far s Delmont, sollloquized tho lnnghing masquerader, Tho enso was Inid bofore tho man of briofs, who listeucd in silence, then questionad roupeotfully ; Lut a ¢losor obsnarvor than tho innocent but rack: lows girl would hinve seen that he penotrated lior disguiso, and bolieved It somo love-nifair of Tier own. His sorvicos were cugged, aud the Jowolu Joft us sovurily for pugment. When tho trivl cumo on, and gossip nuxed Misy Mason's namo with {ho prisouer'n, o leorned Lig mise take, A mont nblo defonne cleavad Mr, but so strong was publie opinlon azainst bhim that o was obliged (o 16ava tho town, - Wa will nol intrude upon the lons sad interview, bub vows of constanoy wore oxchangod, to bs kepe snorodly by one, who believad thon thut Tale, fu 115 bittercat mood, a0 palu for her Hlo the pain of that night, Ming M— spont tho wintor with hor grand- fathor, iu Cubn, and hiore met for tho fiest timoe tho lawyer who hud couductod tho cuse for Mr, L—." Thrown mmch togathor Iu sooloty, the acquaintance riponed Into frionduhip on ber parg, lovoon Iite, and su offer of marringe en- |, aued, B\u‘prhml aud grioved, tho gnntfn Bkl firmly but kindly deollned tho honor, when, to her natonishmont, ho presonted a casltet con- taluing lier own jowels, ‘o that momont sho had not known blm ‘l awd prids, bumilintlon, and rogrot atruggled with hor gratitude. Y Forglve mo,” sho sovbed, * that T ennnot Jove youn,” 1o listoned nb u doonied man lstons to o’ ton- tonco ho knows I irravocablo,~oalm, firm, and pale, tao proud to plead for what ho eraved moro than lifo, thon bout ovor her hand o mamont in ailenco, and loft Loralone, Idouot Ehlule thut thon, 'or ovor, Annio ronlized ihat Afr. L——'s rogard for hor was ot tho gamo " as hora for lim, Bho Tovad him with all tho pansionato love of her na- turo,—would Liave Lontowad upon him hor woalth and zoclal rank, o liave gono out from than gladly, ns hor mothor lind dous, to eharo his oxlla” and povorty. o lovad hor as wo lova those who aro kind to us In tho durk hours of. our lives,~ ns ouo who had stood betwesn Lim- solf and p blow lo was poworlcin to avort,—ng 1k angol of dalivoraucs,—and with n caln afTac- tion that was {empered by wisdom. e navor kuow how full of pain thoss dayk woro for hor, or that tho thought that osno fivat ab dawn, und Ingt at night, was, **I will ho tiue {o him," Trom Cuba Antio and ior grandiacher wont to Turope, snd mado tho tour of the Coutinent at thelr lolsure, ‘They lonked nt tho worls of the mastors in the art-gallorios of the Okl World: nto grapes on tho sunny hill-sldea of I'ranco; took lmrt in tho [ostivitios of ler gy bub wicked capital; drank imporial Tokay of Liungary's richost vintago in tho laud of its own winc-press; stood in the Dolaces of Moscow and tho wilont slrools of Pome poil; flonted down tho cannls of tho ** Mistross of tho Hoa" to tho dreamy music of their bont- man's wong but, fotod, lionored, worshiped aImost, for her magnificent beasuty and enormous wealth, with nobles for her slaves and Princos at Lor feet, who would have laid down titlo and power for ono kmile of favor, and thought it cheaply Dought, sho ‘wnd as cold, ng ealm, as proud and unbouding ns a statue; and atill, amid an adulstion that would have tnrned tho bradn of uother girl, bor lips ochood the rofrain of bor heart: 1 will bo trua.” Yo, five i““ Iater, wo find lier mnrried to n gontlompn belonging to a prominont family in tho South, Whon Lo asked her to bo kis wifo, shio told bim tho history of her .lifo, and ondod with the prophotic words: I hava no heart to givo you; I shall novor lovo again.” Ho was ono of tho most polisbied, chivalrous men of hiy day, ologant aud havdsomo ¢ and the fmporious, ampassioned lover, wito lad novor askad but to Tocoive, who hind nover kuolt to mortal woman in valu, who counted his amours by tho 8coro,— this poited darling of sovioty, this * glass of foshion,” whowo word was law,—world-woary bofora his timo, blaro oro.ono thrond of silver shown in Lis oriep black curls,—this man, who was uged to bo flattored nnd courted, listonod to Iug'rofusal only to rc"mnt the proposal again and ugan, bogging only for suoh ostcom as sho gave him now, ineredulous but that ho should make & ntrongor love in hor heart thon the one ho be- lioved to bo only o girtish fancy, Lut, even in tho last bour bufors their matriago, sho had anid, with teartully boscoching oyes: I shall novor Jove agmn;” and ho had lkissed awny the tenrs with tondor nusur- ancos that he would bo content. ‘I'ho prediction was hut too true, aud the gloom thiut Iny on her hoart hilled and cloudad is lifo, though o word of reproucl: was eyer spoken. Whion tho storm that had long threutened our beloved Union burat in fury over thoe laud, he Joiued the Oonfoderate army, and foll in battle, Whero the fiay wns Horcost snd hottest, whoro blood had baptized the soil like water, he had led on his men to fuco the leaden hail; and, when it was ended, they found him dead on the flold, his head rostiug ou his arm, bis broken sword by his side, and & moro peaceful look on Lhis face than it had worn of late, MWhon 1 next mot Annie, wo waro prisoners at a Southern village, One day, a Union ollicer, who was pausing o window whera wo stood, glzucad carelessly up; but, as his oyo canght howy, o look of ‘recognition and astonishment passoed over liis face, theu it grow whito na death. Auuio was searcoly loss moved, for tho man who had lilted bis cap’ snd passed on was Oharles Iater 1 tho doy thoy mot, aud she listoned to his story, uover Linving hoard from him sinco thoy parted at Wheoling, Ho had amassod o fortit.o, and married, upon short nc- quaintanco, o Indy in the North. The union wag n_wretchedly-misorable mistake, withont ouo palliating circumatanco; and ho was ropont- Ing ‘at leisure. s wife was o stylish, art- ful, suporficinl, narrow-minded woman., Ie had dreamod of the angols, and waked to find himsolf fottorad to » mockery of womashood, who mndo his ome o hell; and o sopatation, partial ju ono senso, outirs in anoth.s, took pluco botweon thom. By his forboarauco sho still woro (he name sho _dishonorod; but for fonr yenra they had neithor met or spokon. Hozetoforo there had been no strong motive for taking legal steps toward a_soparation; perhaps ho bad nover really loved; bue the knowledge of Annio’s changolesa dovotion, oven while slio was tho wifo of another; hor desolation; hor radi- ant boauty, that as far ontshone the ' beauty of tho girl hio bad known yoars ago a8 tho beauty of morn oxooeds that of dawn,—stirred his heart a8 it nover had etirred boforo, Tho gratitude Lo had chorighed nll thess yenrs swelled into a love that was almost worship. It was tho lovo of tho boy maguifled g bundra- fold, and ho beggod with passionats ontrontics to bo allowad to protect hor ; that sho would ve his wifo when ho had put away from him one who was but 8 wife in namo,—~z hated burden. Until this timo Annie hed loved himn devout] and, oven with hor hoad pillowed on ihe loy Lreast of her noblo hnubund, dreamod of tho absont lover, until it broke that houart snd rent it to nn omly gravo. But, now that he—mor- ried, bound, though but by an empty form, to suother—dared to spoak Buch sontiments, and asl of hor o promiso #o near ailied Lo dishonor, sho anaworad with contemptitous rofusal, and sont him from her with scorn. In that hour the Jovo of a lifotima lay appurontly dead, shrouded for sopulture,—waiting for a butial from which thore would be no resurroction. 'Fhore was novor, in alt her lifo, an hour of such uttor lone- Jinons,—such weary, hopoless dospair ; and - gha wept aloud with s0bs and mouns, us if her hoart had at lust broken, Iam ofraid I did not pity Lier then, Soou afior this she was freed and mudo ny comfortublo s possiblo ; bug hov pron- orty was coufiecated, and sho becimo & depend- ant upon bouuty, Six months Intor sho was on o Missis sippi River steumer. Tho boat wns ¢rowdad with passengors, gathored in groups on the doclt or in thocubin ; und, from {he brovi- ties of tho day, conversation timed upon tho ever-prosont subject of tho sad ditforaneo bo- iweon the North and South, Ladies and gontle- men toole part in it, aud Avnie, whoso deep ‘moutning, bewnty, and uir of reflnoment bad at~ tracted atiention, was kindly druwn into the dis- ousslon; Blio told her oxperienco of sulfering, Lereavement, and logs of Lomoand wealth, with an unnMecled simpliclty; and hor gorrot, un- mixed with bitterness or o ‘spirit of retalintion, touched every heart but oue, and tears stood in many oyes. Oppasite, and near her, sat 8 woman whom Ao had nheady noticed on seconnt of hor pe- culintly-ropotlant personal apuearance, who, in o veuomwous manuer nsssiled Southoru refy- geos nt tho close of the unvarnished talo t0ld at the request of - tho passongers. Sho so ovidontly luted Aunio for tho interost othors felt in her, and lookod it so pininly, that my poor little friond shrank into the cornor of Lier sofu, und guzed b hor with oyes dilatod with torror. In some unaccountablo way sho folt Ler to bo connocted with allthe pain of herlifo. On tho boat she hud mot by accidont Col, and Mrw, A—, old frionds whom sbo Lad kuown in Urightor days, wud ronewed the nequalntanco with ploasuro,’” Whon the bell rang for suppor, Col. A— gavo hor his urm to fio table, aud soated hor besido himself and wife us politoly as 1f vho had beon o Princoss of the Iouse of Ilane over, The hungry passengers seated themuolves with ploasant bustle und’ good-natured jest that nmused hor, snd, ns sho hstoned, amiling to the waltor's volubly-strung-out bill of fure, sha fiend w shorp, quorclous, frotful tone, and her first glanco trozo her bloud with u horrid rovelu- tion. Opposito sut Capt. L—, and tho woman whatio neburitablo attack apon hor had boon us cruel and unjustifiable as would hinve beon blows upon o chaliiod and dofonsoleny captive, Worno than all, fhis waw his wifo, tho womsn of waom ho lad told Lor, aud his mun- nor to hor, ieily courtoous, _smid moro plainly than worda: T Late you ; I de- teat and loutho yous but the worlkl looks on." Tor a momont Lho tablo scomed to whirl und the Htoor to shido [rom boneatl hor foot ; then, with o nuigg hiy offor, ehe recovered, oxoused Liorsolf on the plen of uiden illuess, and rotired. Mrs, A— soon cute 0 hor with rofresbments, but gho conld not tnste them, and lay with eyos fast closed uw if sho wous | shut out the horrid vision, Bo this was tho ond f her romange,—this tho woman he had sworn to cherish,—this tha cron- ture who, having voluntarily abdicated ner placo iu Lis lioart, ho had proposed to compel to abdieate his homa that i might givo hor, logally and honorably, the vsated pluco, W Al bitter, biller, wero the loow," ho dead love stireedin hor henvt as if it would roll uway the stone with which she had noaled I8 gravo and come forth, Hobs, stilled wud doep, whook hee aw the wintor-winds whako the nepon-loaf ; and Mre, A——, wise us sho wan kind, with dellcato rogard for hor suiloring, withdrow, oxprosuing kindly-wordad hopos thut sho would b bettor, 1Inppy wifo! she did not 2w thon—L hoyn_n!l_a may Rovor have loaned 1t lator—how far eurpaasing * tho {il that flesh 18 lielr to " aro tho waarisome and honrt-slckness qlf hopo Qoforred,—tho agony that s born of dospair, Lntor in tho ovoning, Mrs, A— roturned with lier husband, who bogged lior (6 come Lo tho parlor, and give thom somo of the exquisite music hio remombored Lo have heard In hor housoy and, in lLor gratitude to thom, morae than from o desire to plonso others, alio consont- ed. Ior musical talouts wora vory sunerlor, and 1o exponeo had Loon spated to porfoct 'this Lrauch of her adueation, A Hong nftor ponyg wus ealled for and glvon, from tho magterpleces of Docthoven to tha tinkling woronado of the Spanish Troubadour: and, odd- ly enough, the lust snd stralng of (ho * Mis- aroro " wore followed by the morriest Dacelian- tine uon%m‘ur rlvon nt” unlleonsed rovel whoro wit und beauty geaced nliko the feative board, m‘n} Joy was” uncontined; but, as sho onded with— Thoy lwirry mio from apot to spol, "o hanih my regeet, -Aud, when ong lonely etile Hiey win, My narrow thuy forget, toary foll faut on the white koys that throbhed Daok thofr mournful rosponss to har touoh. ‘Ulint peculiar fancination that attraots our atton- tion ta ono porson in_n crowd who ohiorvas us closely onusod Lior to lift hor oyas, and, through tho ebfuing mist of hoe tours, she snw Capte L— stauding upart from thoso who had gathe orad around hor, his arms tightly foldod over hus chost, Liu proud iead droppod sliglily forwaed, biy Lrow knitted nsif in sharp pnin, and his oyos hout upon hor with such Horrow aud ro- proaels, such rogrot and unsponkable tendornass, un sl nevor eaw ou i faco before,—something of the agouy that must have boon on Luoifer's hutled from tho battloments of Henvon, mod ono lnst, dospatting Jook ot what ind ouca been his owtt. It was a8 1€ au atetuity of love wore concontratod in o momont,—a iforca aud hlmlill'y love; ns though, maddoned by routraint, ho would tear himsclt 'froe, gather hor to bis bosom, and shiold hor in his heart from n world b0 wis ready to defy. At tho samo instant, Mrs, L—, who was ate tontively rogarding Lior, followed her oyes, saw, and rond ag woll ns shio, the look on her hus- Land's faco, Ono glanca'of Lato ulio gave thom, thon glided silontly ns a sorpent from tho room. Whon Annio landed at the place of her deatina~ tion, rain foll in_ torronts, and tho miduight was as black aud tho sky as starless os bor lifo, Tu thie darknows, throujzh which sho coutd not dis- tinguish one faco from auotlior, & haud led her notoss the plank to & carringo in \vnllluf, and thon sbo was claspod for nn_ instant by stroug arms, whilo, between Lussos, tho words, * My darling | my darling | T caunot livo without you 1" _betrayed Lis idontity, A momont lntor, alone, she loaned back on tho cushious, and aimost unconsoiously rufmn'.nd thom ngnin and ngain, as it they were all hor comfort upon oarth. It wns theirlast moeting—thoir last parting. After tho war, wo drifted aport, and I hoard from her but at raro futorvals. Now tho word hns como L0 mo that shio iu doad ; and T wondor—I cannot belp it—if, in that home that is fairer than ours,—that world that is brightor thau this,—wharo storms nover rage, where wintor never chills, whero night nover darkens,—if, in that Moavon whoro the will of the Lord is tho light theraal, tho sweot, patient lifo that was #o utterly a failura hero will bo crownod with joy 2 And will the bo united whore no humun lailtios mislond, whero the frown of socioty is not fearad, Wherd misundoratandings nover ario or misconeap tions blind 2 God grant it, olse how could wa euduro ? GARNET B, TREEMAN, > THE TWO HOMES. 1y hiomo was eeatod high and far, Upon o mountsin'a side : “Tho Qay was longest, briglitoat thero; Teucatl, tho workd was wido, Acvoss i1s blue, embracing zono T'ho rivers gieamod, thn citios altone, And over tho edgo of the fading rira, X sy the slorms in the distance diza, And tho flash of the soundless taunder, But weary grow tho sharp, cold wina Of winds that novr kissed, Thp changoless greon of fir and plno, The gray and clinging mist, Abovo the grauito prang no bowera; Tho kil gave low and acentlean flownra ; And tho iirono und tho din of tho water-fall ocame a chiallenyro, a taunting call: “4¥ia fair, *tls fult fn tho valley IV ©Of all the homasteads deep and far 2y funcy clung {0 ouo Whase gablo Lrued, o mellow etar, Taucbed by tho ainking sun, Ttoen around, bt not ungusssed, o orchards mado a leafy nest ; o tnee bofors b was thick, T know, Aud boes woro busy the gurduu throngh, And the windows wers dark witi rased, 4Tl happlor there, below,” I siglied ; T world Is warm oud nosr, And closor laye and comfort hide, ‘Tlint cannot, roach 16 hore. Wito mustor 16 must bo s blost To'l) shure with mo his sheltered mest, 1f down to thio valley T should i, Leaving the granite, the pincs wnd snow, And tho winds that aro keen o8 lances,” ¥ wandered down, by ridge aud dell ; o wuy was rough and loug; “Though carlicr shudows round mo fall, T cheered them with my song. Tho world’s great clrclo narrowar grow, Till hiedgo aud thickot bid the bive: But over tho orchards, near at haud, ‘Tho gable shione on tho quiot Jany, And far away was the nountuin’t “Then camo tho master; mournful-oyod Aud stoen of Lrow wia bic, 0, plantod fu such peaco 1" 1 erlod, s Sparo bt thio Teast to ol #Whio seaks,” Lo fald, * thia brooding huzo, Thio taniericas of thoso weary dnys? Tho Ligwoy'a dust, tho glimmer and heat, Tho woods thut fottor tho youug wind's fact, And bido tho world and ts beauty 77 o strotched his hand ; bo looked afar With oyes of old desita : 1 gaw my oo, o meliow star Thiat hiold the minset's fire, “But youder howe,” b cried, * bow fair | Tts chambors burn liko gilded air ; 1 know that the gardens are wild as dresms, With tho sweep of, winds, the dusls of stroams, And tho pines thiat vound as oz anibom ! 80 quiot, 8o serencly high 1t sits, whou clouds aro furled, Aud knows the Leauty of tho aky, ‘o glory of the workl 1 Wiio (iore ubides must Lo #o blest 10" wharo with mo that lofty crest, Ifup to tho mountuin 1 should go, Leaving the duat and (L glare bulow, And the waury 1ifo of the valloy 1 —Bayard Zaytor in the Atlantic jor January, —_—— TO A FRIEND, T wliom veraca had Ucen addressed by * Minarva." When from Olympic helghts tho Gods descond + To spoak tho virtues of un earluly friend, Discrotion thon forblds my Muso (o try Toctlc atrifo with boings of tho sky, And bids mo think that e'on fmmortal verse, Contrasted thus, might well appear tho Worsos Wiso hior command ; yot *Uia extromely Linrd To Xeop from prafeiny thoso wo most regurd, o preccyts at), and, sfolding to doaie, 1n frivndly strais X stifko the sounding Iyro, No threadbare prafaes of o plossing fuce ilave bero ¢ postian or a fAttlug plucos For beauty's patent to tho passing ¢lince, Nor scorn detracis from, nor can prulse fll;ll-\llan My versos heron difi'ront good commend,— Tho modest virtues of a cherisbed friond; The sprightly courtesy that never fail Wit now defonding, and that now assaiis,— Protoots the woak, dssuulta the erring atroug,— 18 alwaya pointed, and I nover wrongg,— Bledited, too, to Judge anothor's witty nlwwh, And glad Lo bioar, though well prepared to teach § The oultured converse (Lot reveals @ mind By Naturo gifted and by Art refined § itle polished graco extendod travel lends ; T art to turn acqualntances to friends ; Aud subtler charms wo nover can define, But only kuow, dear Madame, they kre thino, Forgivo iy lines, and lot thelr truth utone § Thuir faults ure theirs, their beauties are thine own, olfove me, too, no Muse can e'er uscend o Justly alng tho praiees of my friend, CitanLEn NODLE GERUOLY, e o AN [DYL. "Lyens Autumai-timol ‘Ths falling loag Troplictic told of Winter wlgh ; And sged (rees wept tours of geiof o vew thcir offspring fudo and dfe, “Flio ussitig birds, tho drouping flowers, o streamnlot i it narrow bad, Sorvowed for thy pleassnt honrs Of suniny Sumuice past and fled, bowor nud doll o brown leavos fell, Quickly fudiug one by onb; Aud waving woods T ritasot hoods Gleaniod like armor in the sun. "Twan Antumn-timo] Ono evening, lete, ‘Wihen trembliug stara give Earth thoir tght, 1 stood beutde thu garde Whero oft [ kisred ty Juvo * good-night,» Ulelitged tlo it 18 yeArd igo, v ttlo cot wland by thie river, And ceasolees njoved tho ourrent’s Qow; But ahe, alas | wan gono forever, 80 oun by ono ONr race 18 rim,— "Tlio longest 1ivos aro passiug brlf ; a bloom & day, And tieu doc Bummer's leat, Tav. “THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO.” A Comedy that Shook n Crown, From the St. Louis Republiean, As o onroloss Jaugh amid tho snowy pansos of tho bighor Alps lins beou known to sot in mo- ton tho avalanche which cartles devastation and denth 1uto tho valloys Lolaw, o it Rometimen hinppons that o polltical convulsion of colosual magnitudo aud vast consequonces ju procipitated by *trifles light ns air,"" b Tho Fronch Rovolution of 1780, though pra- codad and propared by tho grinding tyranny of agos, was unquestionably hnstened by two soom- ingly ingignlicant things,—n littlo comedy and o great swindlo, The comodly was the * Martingo of Figaro," tho windlo was the Dinmond Nock~ Inca. Wo proposo ta-day o tall tho story of the flvat, o g Plorre Augustin Caron was born in tho Quar- tior Bt. Donis of Puris, Jau, 24, 1742, IHo wais the son of & watohmalcor, aud, after recofving an indifferont eduoation at tho Collegs of Alfort, was ot to worlk t0 lonsn thio patorna] profession. But work—at lonst of the physical kind—was not to his liking, Whilo ab kcliool .ho had ln- Dbibed a strong lovo of musle anda docided fond- nosy for company, nolthor of which fitted him for tho dull roiikino of tho ‘whop. Naturally anouglh, the father and son Iind divers disputos on tho knbjoct, and, bolng unablo to agroe, thoy disgolvad partnorship, and the son was fathor uncoremoniowsly drivon out of_doors by tho old mau, This eltmax scoms to have brought the formor to Lils sonnes, for Lo soon grow weary of wandorlng about with uo money 'In his poskat and no cortaluty of board and lngin;u,,nml on- torad fnto nogotintiony for & roturn, Lho paront did not futend to bo voxed by an idie apprentica & socond tinio, and g0 laid “down cortain condi- tions which Plorro was obliged to sign boforo his ropoutance was accopted. ~ One of thess wo quota: You will give up your unlucky music altogeticr, and (above all) tho soulaty of young peojle, X will tolorato nelthar, Botis bave boeu your rufu, iowsver, out of cousluoration for your weikners, I allow you th viotin and thy flute, byt on the uxpross conditlon that you biny on neliler il afior supyer on worklugduyy wud atover fu tho daytimo; and that you do not disturh tho Taposo of vur nelghibors or my owi, 8o young Caron_wont brck to the bonoh, and appliad himsolf ko thoroughly that i 1763 hio i yented a now oscapomient for watohes. Bponjt- iug of thiy aud olher improvemonts, in a moemo- rinl dated June 16, 1755, ho says By theso meana I mzko watcbes as flat aa thoy aro eallid fur, Ratier than they havo Lithorto bcen made, without tn any _reapect diminishing thelr goodness, The firat of tliono simplified watclies 16 iu the hauds of the King. in Majesty hos had it for n year, and Is quito autisfied with it, "X bhavo ulso Liad “tho’ Louor, witbin these fow duys, of presenting a watel to Mud- damo do Pompadour Of Wiiw new construction, tho smallcat ovor mado; it s only funr Nuea and a haif jn dinmeter, sud two-thirds of u linu lu thifckucas bstween tho plutes. “Ihis document it slgned Caron fils, Horloger du Roi. 1lis position of makor aud fopsiror of time-pleces to tho royal awily of conrso brought him abundant custon, and his businoss increused rapldly and promisod him amplo fortune in prospaetivo. Bub our horological haro was hold, handsome; and ambitlous, and anxions to obtmn o footing at court, fecling suro ho could turn all theso qualities to his own advantage, It was his good looks which placed hita on tho first round ©f tho elippory ladider. le Tepaired n watch for tho youngs wifo of the old confrolewr clere d'oflice de la maison du Roi. ‘Lho Iady was strucl with his appenranco—buing o docided improvement upon it i itmste lord and mestor, An in- triguo followed, and the kindheartod busband, attor sanctloning tho illicit conuocction for geveral mounths, sold out lhis office to tho lover of his spomso in considoration of hbaral annuity. Moliold, thow, Carou fils —Nov. 9, 1765—installed by royal broyet, deputy clerls of the royal kitchen, * Ho now dropped his oriziual nmnoe, assuncd that of do Beaumarchals, end blonsomed out into an accomplisled and im- pudont courtier, Tho harp came into fashion woou aftor tho kitohon clerk ws inauguratod, and ho not m\lf‘ Ioarnad to play that instrumen with groat skill, but mtroducod somo_ chauges ‘iu tho arraugzoment of tho pedals which increased its powor, This attractod tho attention of the danghters of Louis XV., and ho was spoodily establishod a8 profossor of music to. theso Drincossos, and froquently porformed in the presence of tho King and Queen, 1o was now on the high rond to success, and traveled that raad with that nonchalant freco and inefrablo ngsurance which bolong to edvonturors of hig class, But wo have neitler tho spaco nor the incli- nation to accompany him in bis various porogri~ natlons, though nobody who wishes to undor- stand the tastes and habits of that era in Fronch history can afford to omit the careful roading of Beawnarchnis' memoirs, and tho innumernblo nncedotes told of him by contemporary writors. Sufliclent for our presont purpose to say that in addition to Lis schomings, bis spoculations and hig intrizues, ho dabbled in literaturo, and after soveral inforior offorts qrnfluced. in 1775, the famous * Darbler do Seville,”—a tolorably good passport to immortulity. This pieco bad n great run in Paris, aud tho author, oicouragod by his happy hlt, resalved to follow it up by 8 socond atfompt, aud tho second attompt resulted in ‘Lo Alaringa do Figaro, ou la Follo Journee.” It was written probably in 1775-'76, and Bean- marchais suys : It remdued fivo years in my portfolio, The play- ors know I had jt, and they toro it from e at Iist, Whother thoy have dons well or ill for themsolves, thno willshow, . . . Owlug to tho ox- truordinary aulogy thai they mado of {t, all claaes of saclety wished to bocomo scquuintod with it, und henco 1 wus obliged tu_ougago in quurrels of all sorts, or yleld fo univorsal requosts, Thenceforth, also, tho powerful euemies of tlie author did not fail' to apread abroad that o assafled fn tis_work, ralimon, govern- ment, morala, all ranks of socloty, According to thom 1 hiad only shakon tho Blato in "ihe ¢ Darber of Ko- vl In this nov oisay, moro infamous snd moro sodiftons, I hnd turned [t topsy-turyy, The cousorship of tho drama was more sovore ot thet timo in Yranco than it evor has been since, and ag tha ‘* Barber of Sovillo™ had con- tained many sharp thongh socrot hita at mon— nrell;l and aristooracy, it wns fair to prosume tho * Marriago of Figaro” was opon to the same objoction. The authoritics, thorofore, by ordors of the King, rofusad permisgion for its perform- aneo,—which, of conrso, only atimulated popu. far covionity. o gratify this enriosity, os woll ap his own vauity, Boaumarchnis gave roadings to melect circles, Tach of thogo readings ho profaced with n short address, which he compared himsolf to a bashful coguoh;), , s who, aftor belng long importunes forcod to yicld to her porsistent lovers ot Inst, o wes a finishod olocutionisc, and, holding in his delicately-gloved hand the manusoript tlod with dainty roso-colored ribbon, ho delivored tho aparkling comedy with wonder~ ol foreo and effest. His drawing-room nudi- encios wero composed of the Princes and Prin- cesgos of the blood royal, Dukes, Duchesscs, Counts, Countosses, Cardinale, Archbishops, Bishops, in short, & fall assortment of the lords, spiritual and tomporal, and tho choicest crenm of tho choicost French socioty, Tha * Marringo of Figara" bocame the rago ; noth- ing elss wna hoard of or talked of in the gay world of Parla ond Veranillos, and, quite natur- ally, tho domands for its representation upon (b6’ stnge incronsod in proportion to the Rnpuhmy of the comedy. At last Lonis VI, who had bitherto doponded upon the iudgmem. of his critics, resolved to decide for himsolf, Mnadamo Campan, in her delightful ‘memoiry of Marie Antoiuette, says: One morning X reclvod 3 noto from the Queen, or- dering; mo to bo with her ot 3 o'clock, and not to come without having dined, for that she should detaln mo rome {ime. When I got to tha Queon's fnner clowt, T found hor alono with tho King; clafr sud a smail table wero ready, placed_opposite to thiem, and upon {ho tablo lay g esormous menuscrigt 'in sovoral o0k, Thio King sald, “It {s Denumarchais’ comedy ; you must rearl it o vin, This will bo ditlicult in_parts; on uccount of tho eramuron und roforeuccd, I lisyo' ol resily glancod over §t, but 1 wish tun Qitcon to 1o quaiuted with this work, You wlll say nothing to auy Lody abaut (s rending, T1begun, The King often interrupted me by re- arks, always just, whether of prafse or bianie. Moat froquently he oxolufwed, “'Chis is Ju bad taste, This mun {s continually bringing back to the stugo thy dmbit of Ttalian concetta At the monologue of “Tiguro, but especially at the tirado ngninst Stuto prisans, ho rose quickly from Lis char and exclaimed with fndiguation, #Thin in detestable, Thin whall never bo pinyed ; ‘1t would be nocesuary ‘to pull down tho liustila 1o provent tho repredcntation of thin pieco from belnys dangovous, Lhin man tritlos with all that munt bo respected I & govormment,! ¢ Then it wilk ok bo played 7% gali tho Queon, o certaiuly,” re- Dlled the Iting, * you may rely tivon that," Novertholoss bots wete froely made that it wonlil ba played, ond the friends of Baenmar- chais—or rather tho admirers of his comody— dotormined to put it on the boerds at all huzards. Arrangomants wero offonted"wilh the proprictors of the Thenatro Francaly, tho parts woro dls- tributod, rehoarsals had, tho duy of tho por- formance fixed, snd & vast number of tickots sold and given. Bo socrotly hud the whole busi- uoss boen couducted, that the Kiug heard nothing of it until w fow hours pravious to the oponing of the doors, Iie imncditely signed au order of prohibition, and the messongor who corriod it found tho straefs leading to the thoatre_crowdod with carriagos and a largo audi- douce ulrendy seatad, Tho dissatisfaction wus intenso and clamorous, nud then for tho firat tima was it openly chiurged that Louls XVL had 4 attackod publio liberty,” And o it como_to sass that o comody writtenyby s watchmakor, hio deputy clork of the raynl kitchens, started S movemant which was dostined to pnll down tha throng and deluge it In the host blaod of Tranco, It is_no exnggeration to sy that tho “ Marriago of Figaro™ sharpencd the “axo which = fow yenrs Intor foll upon tho neok of tho une fortunato King, who know not how to bo either a Coustitutioun! monarch ora foarloss tyrant. ‘Wihen Beaumarebais honrd of the suppression of his pleco, o™ oxclnimad, *Walll gontlemen, o won't sultor it to bo played hoto in this Thes atro Francais ; now I awonr it shintl bo playad— porhaps f the vory choir of Notre Damol® An aminons J\m}\hnoy.—tur that venerablo eafhedral witnesoed aftorwards dramag so impious and horriblo, that, comparéd with them, tho fimsy comady wns tho most kolomn of sormons, ‘Phio” ovonts wo lnve narrated oceurred in Juno, 1783, Tater in tho samo yenr the King wag informod by M. do Vandrouil, '» membor of liis court, that Denumnrchais had oxpunged all tho obfectionable parungos, and accordingly per- mission waa granted for the performance of the lay at the “conntry homse of de Vandrouil, hioso who attonded woro nstonished to find all thewe objcctionablo paskngos ratained, but being in tho position of guoests did not feel willing to exporo tho trick, ~ Indood, tho Kiny wos told that tho aiterations mado by Besumarchais hnd takon aoll Jho Jifo out of the comody, and if reprosonted In publio it was suro to ho sume marily damned, Laborlng undor this delusion ho at’lagt ‘consented to 1t prozontation at the theatre, * Nover,” unys Grimm, * did picce nt- tract such an audienco totho Francais, All Darin way onger to seo thoso famous Voces, and tho thentro wna filled almost at tho moment whon tha doara wero opon to the public. Hardly it thoso who hind beslogod them sinco 8 in thio morning could find places ; tho grenter number forced thoir way in, throwiug thoir monoy to the doorkeopor, Itis imposeibla to bo by turns more Tnble, mora bold, moro urgent” to obtain & favor at conrt than were our young men of rank to socuro n placo ot tha first roprosoutation of * Figaro,! Mora than ono Duchoss dosmed hier- solf too happy on that day to find In tho balo vles—whoro dacont womon aro roldom seen—n misorabla littlo sant by the sido of ladles of the domi-monde,” ‘Throo porsons wero crushed to denth in tho rush for placos, and the placo, in- stond of boing damned, was rocoived with tro~ moudous applausa—for 1t wag played as origis nally wrillen, and uot in accordance with the ox- purgated edition. Tho King was oxeoodingly angry at the docop= tion practiced upon him, bt tho~ mischict wan dono boyond recall, and o pleco ran sixty-oirht councotitive nights—drawing ns largely nb ihe luat night a8 at tho firwt. Bonumarchain bocamo inyolved in o nowspapor controversy about tho morits of hig comody, and in hislast communica- tion madn ues of an oxprossion which Monsiowr, the King's brothor, construed into a porsonal {n- sult to nimsolf, Louis, most wufortunntely, wad induced to arrost and imprison the offender In £h prikon of Bamt Laznrc, from which, how- over, ho was shortly oftorward relonsed, | Thut this Imprisonment, logathor with the frst pro- libition of tho publio porformenco, aroused among tha puorlu tho bittorost animosily ngainat tho King aud the Qovernmont, aud propavod tho way for that earthquale whichi swopt crown and country futo o cormmon ruin. The French rovo- Intion could not have boen proventod—it might have been postpouod ta n more eonvoniont son- eon, but for Beaumarehais aud hug * Macriugo of Tligaro,” A HUNT WITH VICTOR EMANUEL. From the Gartenlaule, The impressiou which the chivalrous King mado upon mo nt my last visit to the Ttalina Court, ntter not baving scon him for filtecn years, was a most agreeablo one, Do not im- ngina him to bo o 6 courtler, but & pouuine choyalior,—n sort of mediwval landsknecht, who socma to please tho Ttalinne on account of his bluntness, which in so groatly ot variancs with thoir polished, insinuating mauners, Although only of medium staturo, ko Pmuuulu o command- ing appearauco by lis well-rounded form, his flashivg oyes, and military bearing, 1o canto to meet mo with outstretched hands, weleomad me heartily, and asked mo sbout my rolatives, with whom Lo was acquainted, ‘I'ho samo ovening I dined with him. Victor Emanuol, as & lrto Piedmonteso, munched his griffini (long, thin broad-rolls), and disdainod Imrhkm\} of any other dishos.” But his abstom- wusuoss was not surprising ; for ho likes to dino alone. Walking up and down in_bis room, ho eats half-a-dozen half-raw cutlets from the side- board, and drinke with it hal€ = lilre of strong Picdmontese wine. Whon attending galn-din- ners, e never oats anything but the above-men- tioned grifling, Tho King divmissod methat evening lator than tho reat of_ tho guents, and invitd mo to go hunting with him ezt day. Toward evening on tho following day, In car~ ringos drawn by four thoroughbred hovses (for Yictor Bmanuel s tho finost stud of horses in Lurope), wa ranclod the bunting-costla iu the Grajun Alps, the only mountainots region ont- sido of Bpain whero the 1bvx is found yat ; for it lias long bacomo extinet in Bavoy, Switzerlund, aad tho Tyrol, Wo lad _no companions but a fow nides and bLunters. T had prosented two splondid needlo- uns to the King, and lo told o ho waa burn- ng to try thom upon thia noblest und rarest of Europoan gamo, Early in the morning the King distributod tho cast for the lhunt amoug us. A fow carricrs wern wout with provisions to au appointod placa in the mountaing, where we wero to meot at the end of the huut. Tho aides and huutera ng- cended & mpuntein-path to the loft, while the Xing and I, accompaniod by u singlo servant, advanced straight aboad. Victor limanuel was dressod in n sliort black velvet jacket. In his hand Lo hold o long Alpino staff, and his ritlo was strung across lus back. Tho sun rose ma~ Joutically, and it Boon Lecame very warm, Nov- artheless, tho King mado gzood headway, 80 much 50, indcod, that I was hardly able o leep utop with him. Wo loft tho forests behind us, an passed thirough the Alpino pastures, Every now and then the King stood still to tako broath, and then ho seaunod tho heights through hid fiold-glass. Wo board the shrill notes of the marmots, but disdaived firing at such ignoblo amo. e Then wo reached the snowy rogions, aud our attendant declured thut he clearly discerned the frosh trail of an ibex herd. Suddenly tho Kiug motioned to me, and, hand- ing mo tho flold-ginss, poitted at sovoral durk spots Lotwoon u rocky elopo and o glaclor, At g&uunu I discorned threo fine specimens of the ibox grazing on u green onsis,—tho drat 1 evar bohold, Notwithatanding the groat distanco, I plaiuly #aw how ono of them turned around and suupiciously snuffed the air. The animals bad prol uhl{ honrd thoe nolso of our uscout, but had ovidently uot yot seen us., Now, it was all im- portant for us to get botwoen them aud tho wind, The King orderad bis attoudant to steal around them, and to drive thom toward us with Toud nolso, whilo wo wero Lo climb up cautiouaty tomeet them. We lay down prostrato upou tho ground and watehod the prograss of the attend- nut, who, with the utmost circumspection, por- formod his arduous task, It lasted hnlf an kour Deforo ha camo up closo to thom. At length ho roso within ten foot of tho throe iboxes. T'he Kiug uprang to Lis foct, LIis faco was flushod with excitomont, ** Io ready toshoot!" ho whispered to me, ¥ Tho distauce §s groat, but you must show that TPrussiuns can shoot wall,” Wo climbad with tho utmost caution littlo higher. ‘The King then drow from his belt a swall silvor whistle, and blew on it. The noxt womeut & largo ibox” emerged from bobhind tho opposite racfi. aud triod to cross tho chasro soparating it from us, The King fired, and tho ibex rollod dowu the gorgo. My bullat bit tho socoud ibox, ,which liad™ clogely followed the firat, Buk it apraug to ite feot ngain, snd tried to ratrace ita mlu[n'lv It mot, howevor, our third Ibex, and both foll under our fatal bullets, "'ho oxcitemont of this rare eport had half maddened mo. I luyried toward tho desd animals, whilo tho King followod mo alowly. Whon we reached them, Victor Emanuel, thar whem no ono can be moro gonorous, waid the Tonor of the day bolonged fo mo, although he himsolf had fired tho firat lucky shot, Aguinut tlus I protested ; but ho was inflexiblo. Bo, two of ‘the ibexes woro declared to bo mine, What" magnificent animals thoy ural They ave smallor than ;:Immnlls, l}nn,]nntwl‘rlh- standing their immonso horna, by far moro agile. Their u)[zin 18 uot brown, like thut of tho chumois, and shaggior. hu’i‘lll;:ni‘(’lnx now guul tho attendant to take tho gumo howte, and then conductod me to tho rendezvous, 'Tho rond way the most magnitis cant L over traveled in the Alps, Frequontly wo had to Join hauds In ordor to got on. I must voufesd that my strongth was nourly exhaustoed ; but Victor Emanuel walked on with astonish- ing vigor. 1 was glad whon wo cspiod the aides whom wo liad Iofc I the morning, und who ro~ eoived us with onthusiustio choers, Thoy were sittlug rouud o largo fire on suatd of moes, and wa were ssked to eat and dvink with them, '*You aro a good sportsman,” sald Victor Tmanuch, guyly, to mo, *and ko you must pormit mo to treut yoil sy such,” o took up a chioken, and rolzing it by one of tha hind legs, offered me the othor, aayiug gay- Iy: “Letus gohalvos I" Wo pullod asandcr, and I got the bij part. i * Now a good goblol of onr red wiue " shouss ed the King, * U'hLis is bottor thau all your gala diuers I Buch way my bunt with Victor Emaouel, Ha 18 every iuoh & sportaman, & soldior; ang & S 3