Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1873, Page 10

E CHICAGO DAILY' TRIBU \ WMETHODISH IN ILLINOIS, Two Noted Preachers--=Wilson Pituer aud Wiltlam C. Steibbling, Anecdotes of Their Ministerial Ca= reor. Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, JacisoNviLLE, 1L, Decomber, 1873, WILSON PrENER removed to Iilinols i i early manhood, and noon folt the deop canviction, ** Woo is mo ir T preach not the Gospol " But ho had no ward- yobo which would fit lim to ‘appear as o yroach- ar, oven in tho log-cabiua of thoso oarly duys; and it was resolvod, by his dovoted brothor Monlgomery and himeolf, that they would mako their way to tho lend-mines at Qulonn,—then n point of great atiraction,—and eain for him an outfit. Tfo onco deseribed fu tho pulpit a part of hin oxperioneo st that time, aftor this manner: o worried along uutll we got to tho neigh- borhood of the mines, but Dad nothing to ont, snd were very lhuugry. Tho kind- hearted miners helped mio,—ono giviug ue somo corn-meal and golt, another somo Lacos, ouo gome coffoe, aud another Jont us o pot to Loll it in, and wood to makos fira, Soon wo had 2 steaming suppor, and, having placed our meat and dodggers on somo big ohipn Sor plates, and tho myeot-smelling coffee-pot ulongeide, beforo Dogluning to ot Tauld to my brothor,—thal lit- {1o dark fellow yon ko sittiug over thoro [point- ing him out In tho congregation],—~Gum, I fecl Jiko giving thantis to God for the meteics of His Providence. Ho snid, ¢ Wily, 8o do 1) Weknelt dawn sida by gide, aud began to, pray, and our ‘hearts woro filled with joy and thnukegiving. So wo rose up whilo onr eyes overfiowed with teas of geatitude, slouted nloud . the raise of our King, hugged and dnced ; and, whon our cestney was over, looked nbout for our guppor, und, bo- hold! wo had KICKED IT INTO THE FIRE und it was all ruined, Dow't you think," he addod, © that wo shonld Lave showed botter songe to bave enten our supper first, thon Jupeed and ehouted afterwnrds ? Evorything ought to bo in its own good time, and wo wanb sommon sonso in roligion s fu everythung elso,” In duo tito ho was recommended to the Con- ferenco, sud yeceived on trinl a8 o traveling proachor, Allthe appointmonts wore, at that 2ay, hard, and Wilson was sont to the Tavdest Lut be nover flinched or eomplained. Iis al- lowauco a8 an unmarried man was €100 o yeor, and lio migkt esteom himself fortunato it ho ob* tnined ono-thisd of that sum. Tha habits which lio had nequired s n hunter and trapper now stood himy in good stend, and helped bie ncome. ifis shot with tho riflo was infalli- e, and mooy o door and wild turkoy .t supplied him, ~ No man on tho froutior had o truer oyo for a bee-lino, and houo was more ox- pert in seenting the gum and its Loneyod sronsure. TIo kuew tho haunts and habits of the peaver and otter, and, setting his traps 03 ho travelod the wide circuits and missions in the neopled country, many a good skin ro- warded his craft, Wihen courting his wifo, who lived somo dis- tanco from his work, ho called upon an old loeal preeacher to All somo ‘of lis appointmonts, with tho promiso that ho would pay him in otter- slkins. At tho.moxt Quarterly Conforence, the old man snid, *Drother Pituer, did you know that thase otter-skine you gave mo were mighty woor 2" * Cortninly,” gaid Wilson, **but 80 wad ho preaching ; ad - ° FOOR IREACH, TOOR PAY, you know." Showing bis backwoods Loarers once how it vias imponsible for thom to becomo just boforo Liod by theit own good works lio baid, * You might as well get ito n big Koltle aud try to taisp it from the floor by the bail.” Trofoundly impressed by n sormon ho had weard from Dr. Alers “on **The Devil s o {toaring Lion,” &e., he was called upon_to pray. Howing, with’ hig lLosd almost as low as hig tnces, shivoring st the vivid wordflicture to el lio hind just listened, bo began in low and tremnlons tes 3 but, n8 ho advanced, the head wos lifted ; tho tonew grow clear and sirong, un- :il thoy bocamo ahnost n shout 1 # 0, Lord! the Devil, that upiteful old lian, is in the nolghbor- fhood, in this songraation, fn the caurch, in our Learts, and Thou only cunst save ns, Drive him out, 0, Lord! with Thy mighty Land ; dvive him ont of ourbearts, drive him on of the churels, out +of the congregation, out of the neighborhood ; drivo him into the brash 3 Hll his mone and tadl, 0, Lord! with cockle-burrs, and give him no tost, duy oF wight, va hat, BWITCIIING AND BCRATCLUNG IIMSELF, a¢'lL let s alone.™ “What's the use proaching o grent sermon to 1 Tittlo coungregation ¥ Lo onco oxcluimed in un wxhorlarion ; - it like pulling out tho plugs ‘yom (ho sugar-treos, and letting the sap.rub hon there are no pans 10 catetiit,” ising to oxhort ono night ut & exmp-meoting, 16 pansed uutil overy oyo was_fixod upon_hint suda puinful silenco roigned, Lroken only Ly Lo noise of the katydids, and then cried out, in s voico of thunder, * Hark!—lharlk !—hnrk to e littlo crentures king thoir Maker ; and vo warything thut hath brenth praises Him, oxcept nan, IMave you, whom His hands linye mado, 1 Lo whom 1io has given o living soul, and for vham iy Only Begolien Son has died upou tho bitler (ree,~havo you no paise sud love to affer Him 7" 1o way onco prenching fn n new sobtlomont near tho Ininois River, where the abuorbing fople wae ab wibns' point they sbould make o stcamboat-landing and & ware- house. “T'N tell’ you" “said he, " where to build, and what. Degin ripht fioro and how, and lot itho n two-story warchouso thut will hold wll your tronsures and wll your hopes, for this workl and for the world to conio, enfo from flood and fira; for godliness heth tho pronusc of thelife that now 14 aud of that which is to come.” With a powerful voico, eapable of almost overy modulation, & brillisnt eye, & vivid naturo, aud & wou! lhdaopl y in eurnest, bie would sometines pour toxt Ln TORMENTS OF TIERY ELOQUENCE that no human sonsibilities conld withstand, Lot bim bave “liverty,” ag it wes styled,—or, to employ its equivalent, lot him * swing clear” in tho treatmant of n subject with which ho was fomilier, technically enliod “a sugar-stick,— and not Christmas Evans, cho great Wolsh orator, conld surpass Lim in the powerof lis populur appeals. 1t conld not bo expocted thut 1is oxpositions would always Lo oy correct as they were iudepondont, 1io once maid, “Ily brothron, tho Apostle Paul declares that faith contoth by hoaring, and r, Wesley says so too; but I take liberty of diftering frum both {hene distingnishod gontlemen, T know a man oncs who wis w0 deat thit ho conld not hear tho loudest thander, und ho had more fuith than any- body I over saw, Now, did Lis faith come by euring Ho was subject to fits of great doprosalon, Dn recovering from ouo of those, o fricnd asked aim how ho falp on coming out of the fog and Zloom, # Feel 1" tio excliimod ; * why, 1 i€ 3oul were runuing Lorso-racos in the grund praf- rie of Divinity," In preacling ho onco enid: 1 ook upon mveolt ny Jess than tho least of all wniuts ; und, ‘when [ heur tho gront sormony proncued by the Dresiding Bidors and Dishops, L foel so budly abont_miy own ignorauce aud weakness that think I will nover open my lips nguin, Dutl tako comnzo when 1 remomber what the Lible #ays, that *Not Ly might nor Ly power, but by my epirtt, #nith the Lord! Wo hwve this treasuro 1 e thon vessoly, that tho excolloncy of the power m“( Lo of Ctod and uot of us, 1 Linve becn riding through the woods befora now and secu o poor littio grapevino that bad erawlod nlong the onrth to tho roots of a big treo, aud with its feeljo tondrils was holding on and trying Lo climb up tho sldes of tho ighcy monarch of tho ' foreat. ‘Thon I havo seon another viuo, a4 big around a8 « man's apm, and Jifiiug o boud far ulo the light; it wlood as nobly und sfately aaif it nd beow s treo wsolf. Tut, if you look close, you would sco thint it stall leaned for support to the brauches of tho tiee, und that ite nrms still clung to tho Wniglity witnt, It bad dlimhod up as tho littio oue wan now trying to; and, strong s it seomod, et {0 lot & ouly for s moment, it wonld all aud be woappod in pieens ; itw strength snd protection, liko the hopo und promisa of tho lit- 1o onie, i tho treo, Bo," hio contiuved, * frail sud weak as L am, 1 s(ill strivo to CLING TO THAT TIBE an wlifeh all tho gront arms of tho world must rewt, and without which thoy wro nothing,—a trao whoso roots undorlio ol things,—whoso trunk i tho stiength of the univerto, I8 branch= o9 aro tho HMonyous, it blossonis axe tba stars, its whispering broath {6 tho oy of sonly re« deonied, but 1ta shadow is tho night of the dumned.” Mz, Pitner wan transferred to Missonri about twonly years ago, and thenco to Culifornin, whiero, 1 bolisvo, ho till ltves, Anothor man widoly known in the Stato for the Inat forty yoars, nlthough nover u mombor of {lng Confevance, desoryos to bo remombered for Iis groat zonl, abundaut Inbora, aud romarkable chnructorlation, " & WILLIAM 0. *RTRIDNLING ywas born, ¥ think, in Kontueky, not long botore tlie beginning of this contury, and st an_onrly nFu antored 1ho Oonforonco fn his native. Btato, 1o poon nequired grons distinetion ny o preachat, ranking, i the catimation of many porsons, with tho renownod Dr, Juscom. ~ Indeod, T linvo hodrd tha story, that, ab 8 camp-mooting hold abont 1821 or ', whors the two young mon woro to ln'cn\ch. somo **lowd follows of tho basor sort 2l wagor ag to which of thom would boar oft thio palm of eloquenco ; and Mr. Steibbluygz had nlw mv‘my '".“l strong backers as “tho Apollo of thy Waost," Tn thoso onrly days ho mado a Jong misstonary- Journoy througih Iiftwois aud Miusoutd, in corit- ity with the grent Dishop Meliondroa,” From Iio beglnning of his ministry ho was an indo- fotigablo studont, whon, oftontimos, the ook hindt to bo conned on horseliael,, or by tha filek- orlug Hght of a pina-kuot in the fire-place of & sounttor’s cabi,—ho H‘h\g on the tlaor, whila tho family woro busicd, or nsloop nbont i, Untll his Intost yoars, ho was an omnivorous dovonror of booiis, nud possessed of such memory as I Ifhvo marely known, 1lis passion was for thoolopy, aud postry of the graver kind, to which ho addad n taato for history ; but ho rarely dipped into what & usualiy ealled polite lonrning, oxeept to mako a thorough acquaint- aneo fu earlier lito with the yroat mornlist and lexicographor, Dr. Sumuel Jobuson, 'Fhot ac~ quaintanco - COVORED IUN ATYLE- for (ho rest of hiw lifo, a8 it did that of Do Bas- com; fnsomueh that o him o hiorso was o stead ar a quadruped,—his carringo hoises rojolelng in tha namos of Brutus and Onssius, 1o was nover woll or sick, but ** romarkably tllln"' * romarka- bly slim," &* romatkably moderate,” or ** romark- ably in the sora and ollow lenf.” Ilo never prenched, but * pronotincod,” siguified,” *Leld forth,” or **dealt in romarle.” It is said*that o oneo nddressed the nogro-hostler of a Kentuchy tavorn thus: *Boy, take my quadrupod, stabui- Iato him, donate hiim an adoquato quantity of utritions aliment ; and, whon Aurorn shall gild tho Otiental hovizon, I will sward you & pocu- viary compengation suilable to your aminble Rospitality,” Ttisnotto bo wonderod nt that tho grinnthg dutkoy low to hia mester shouting, # Come yer, Mnsani fur dar's p muen talkin’ Spaniel” Mr. Stribbling Inbored with great accoptability in ‘the Kontucky Conforenco for filtecn yonrs, and about 1383 removed io this noighborhood, whote o apent tha rost of hin life. _Although ho wan what i8 - known as n loeal preschior, his jour- neya ware many and long, and Lng_pulpit-minis- trations {ncossont and arduous. Ile was aman of tiroloss industry and exact mothod, Anding time for many pursults,—the superintendonco of & farm, tho earo of o handsomo estata, the read- ing of mauy books, and the dispeusation of tho Word. AS n companion o was most ngrocablo and instructive, a8 well as amuging ; for lio had & quaint, grim bumor, which frradinted lis boundless storiea of information ; and, in tho socloty of ti friends, ho INDULOED IN HI8 JOUNRONESE {0 am gront anextont as in the puipit. o onco addressed & Iad whom ho kuew well, wio was dr, 'HF liw feot after having brokon through thoe feo: Are you not approhensive that the ex- osure of your pedal oxtromitios to the frigorifia inflnence of the clrcumambiont atmoaphere will oxerciso a delaterious offect upon your ocular orrans? " ! o was singularly fond of coffes at bropkfast ; and, ono morning, having passed his cap to bo replonished o number of timos, startlod the Indy of the honugo by saying, with the utmost gravity, T would prefar tliat the nppor half inch of tha poriphery of that eap were filled, than that any other part of its cireumference woro,” e oneo overshelmed av okl man who wna of- fonsively smoking & pipo in the room whero ho was, with, *Venerablo sir, the offumigntion arising from {ho deleterioun ofluvia emanating from your tobaceolstic rasorvoir 0 ovosshadows the organistic power of our acnlars, aud so obfuscates our atmospherie validity, that onr n{apnmli must shortly bo cbtusod, unless, throngh the abundant suavity of your eminont politenoss, you will dirembogae the aluminous tubo of tho stimulating and storomtatory in- grediont that roplonishcs its conoavity.” Ho was tho YERY BOUT, OF MOSPITALITY, and mnothing nfforded him greater delight than to eniortain his frionds, oapecinlly his brethvon, having o taste for books. Ab such times - lis colloquinl humor wna displayed in tho fullest measure. o would frequently announco dinner to_ his guesta thus: ** Come, frieuds; bites are about to bo dintributed," A frlend and myself once drovo into his yard, ropoaine to broakfast with him, when this wag Tis Sordint anlutation: Drothron, hiow ara yon ? ‘Alight and allow me to conduct your quadinped through tho orifico iuto tho stabnlatory dopart- mont, where ho may obtain the herbiferions and graminivorons supplios wherowith to sustain his strongth ; whilo ye yourselves shall tarry antil yohave partuken of nlimont furnishod by the Tomalen 1u tho rofectorv, and, having attendod to sanetimonious oxercikcs, go on your way re- joleing.” To n friend who onco auggonted hat ho had obrorved n coincidenco botween n sermon ho Tind recently prenched and one published by the great Dr. Samuel Davios, lio ra&lliad : “Iwilleon- fuus to you that I havo sometimes plowed with Davios' heiler.” Many o time bng ho quoted to me, in _our long rides, whole paxes, it noc books, of Miltan, Yonng; and Pollok, while Meutgomary Blair (of thio # grave™), and Cowpor were oqually at his tongue's end. I8 WANSER IN THE PULPIT wns nn penliur as lis sivle, Ionca heard him annonnco liis hymy, and, after giving the num- bor, ho #aid : »Tlio tuna_commonly kuown by {hio appellation of * Wrestling Jacob® may por- haps bo appropriato upon the present oceasion " And, i Do courso of a sormon. he once gob off 1l following paraphraso: © The small particle of the aqueons fluid which tricklos from tho visunl organ over tho lincaments of tho coun- tenance, betokeningy grief.” Let, 1o ono suppose, however, that ho wis o dry of mninterorting preachor, 1lis coplous voeabulary was always frelghted with well-con- sidered inntter, sot off by ilustrations and dencriptions often fmproesive, and_sometimes magnificont ; while tho interest and forvor of 1iis manner, tho rapidity and forea of his nction, wonld onchain tho _congregation, frequontly l&ofi"{l{; them wrappod in broathless wondor and elight. " By inheritance, Tnbor, and frugality, ho be- csmo tho posseasor of o large amount of VBUBKELS, " — “the shokels of gold, tho sbokels of silver, sliekols weighed in the balnnco of the sanctu~ ary,"aalie was wont to call thom; and at his denth, n year or 80 ago, boquesthed a goad cstnto to Nis descondants; whilo his venoernkle and most excollent widow presonted n part of his bool to the Garret Biblical Inatitujo nt Fvany- tou, aud & rare and valuablo colleetion of old nowspapors (which wonld havo beon o bon onche for a historian) to tho Chaphin of the Peniton- tiary at Joliot, for tho ugo of tho prisonere. DipArren. e e THE DUKE'S STRATAGEM. A MILANFBE TALE. Tho Dulta of Milun—Gilcazzo nouieil— Supremely loved Corveggiu, widely famed 2'or every cliavm a maldon it possers & And, in lier heart, shie Juvea tho Dutlio 10 les# 3 ‘Thongh cuch, swlily (s0 clinrlish Fate llv»llumj Pu mur thelr Lliks) kuow not the other’ wind, 13ut boped uud feaved fu silenco ; tl, nt Just, When ity o inoon of trembiiug dotilt wad pased, And Gossip vauly had cssayed fo seck The causo of Gl *a palild eheck And meody air—samo Hudios of the Conrt Adtlressed hia boldly thus (a8 Lalf {n wport, And Lalf in esrnest, 4 8iral wo ull can seo Your Iiglness & {0 Tove (—und now, that wo Aay pay our loyal Bervico whiero the sumo 1 Juuitly duc, wo fatu would know tho piuno “her—tlio Buppy lady of your chiolee 1 Surprised, abushed, tie Dike, with Inlterlng volce, In civil eort Huch merry anwwers made ‘As bent ight uerva tho quostion (o evade, Tu vain | os one Ly one thelr weapons fufl, With fresh ariillery thoy the Duko asvall, Unti), ut Jougth, s elear the way muat yiod, 1y clanor overpowerad—or #y (ha el 1 WA truce—a truce 1" L erled, ¥ for meroy's sake | Now—pleanp you sl {—a Lauguet 1 will make, Biiels u tuy Hult Ho falt & compuiy ¢ o, onaand all, atid 5eo what you abisll sce 10 tid—perehunco (0 oud—your maery quest, " And ull suld # Ayo I"—Corréggia with tho rost, Tho bunquet ovor, Oalouzzo val Upon tha hourd n curious cabinot I which, upon a panel, wun mr(rn{ud, Tn huppicat urt, e picfura of a mald; (Roma elover patniors func& SUAl'ye who choone, 1y lndyelove may Naw, when tho fale Gorreggls,—Hngerig dust Tor fonrllrews,—obiorvad (it ull 1o pised ‘Tl pletured gitl, u eilenco turuod uwsy A front & fuco unknown,—in duop disinny Hite took her them Lo guzb; when, God of Graco | o #aw no painted fusnge's but the fico . Which her own features, radisntly fair, Ietlovted, Llushing, in o' wirsor thero ! l And 50 It'wos tho 1wo {pue loves wero kuown | ‘Aud so Jt cargo to puss that not ulone A Aisa By Ghieazdo Diled tho Ducal throno | —Juhn U, Suxs (0 Soribuer's Jor Junusrys TRUE UNTO DEATH. Dusl cropt over the city hours ngo, Tho hur- rying crowd has found o rosting-place, and tho sounds of dabor have conrod for & brlo? onson. Ilow bluo iy tho vault of heaven—how cloar the tars that look so solomn whon, with Lioarta thné aro woary of 1fto, wa litt Lontful oyos t6 pray for pity from 1lim whoso compussion I8 over all 1is binnd oreatod. . Momory stands firm nt hor post an aecuser or comCartar, aud I turn back the pages of lifo that has boon. sullied by sin and h}'.mhml with teats, and I rond whon tho world fa"not by, I am o Southorn tofngoo, Tar away, wharo Bum- mor pits & quoon the long bright yoar throngh, my liomo lios o masa of binckenod, wusightly riing, o8 yours woro when--that terrible night yhoso dato i too recont to bo forgotton—foree, moreilosa flnmes rioled liko fonds smid your bouschold-gods, Thoro wha anothor—wo woro but two of thousnuds—who had not where to fay ;bor hend whon thoy drove uh 1iko thiovos, from tho luxury amid which wo aro born, Bweot Aunio M——. Wild grassos grow ovor hor pulseless hoart, whilo miuo throbs on. "I'ha proudest blood of the Sonth ran blio in her veins, Whilo her father was yob o ponuiless mian, without profassion or name, the boautiful lioiress of tho old ostalos elopod with him from gehool, and thoy were magried without so much a8 ** by yourleave " to o pompous suitor whono whito locks and vouorablo yoars, backed by milllon dollars, appenled morae strongly to tho favor of hor family than hor own. Dlindod by tho adoration sho bodtowod upon hor husband, thie young wife haatoned with him to lior father, with nover a doubt but that thoy would bo wolcomo, or at loast forgivon, to fiud Ler n diseardod, dtsowned outcast, disinherited and fovsakou, the door of homa closed to bor forever, and the curso of disobedionco resting upon hor sheltorless hoad, In o wild snd rugged scction of ons of tho Southiwestern States, stood o poor dwelling, balt farm-houso, half coltage, where the mother—a kind and gonorous woman, usod to hnrdships and puivations all her lifo—cooked the frugal mealy, washodtho home-mnade liven, aud scoured tht hard white floors with her own hends ; nud tho father, sturdy and indepondent, toiled upon Dhis seanty neres, and litorally oarned his broad by tho sweat of bLis brow.” I'his was tho birthplaco and homo of Annio's fathor; and here her mother, tho lato helress and bedlo,—pottod child of Fortune, whoso light- est whim had bean lnw,—found & refuge. No show and pomp mat tho dislieartened and humil- isted fugitive bride, but love gave her tonderest greating and welcomo to o vofago from which sho nover wont until her lnst home was mady veady aud she boruo out to sleep in the volley. The dnintily-roared gitl became tha idol of the household, sud in that vine-coyered cot, whoro love transformed poverty into lixury, and con- tont swaotened hardship, wore passed 'tho hap- plest daya of hor lilo. Littlo carod sho—this bonnio Lride, this love- crownad Queon of hor husband’s hoart—for (he, palaces wliereln Kings diolt. Soon a now joy stlrrod in her bosom, and day by day she busied lier eunning whito fingets with embroidery and bits of muslins ; and liero, o yenr after Lo mar- ringo, ¥ho sung soft, sweet lullubles over her fivai-born, o littlo danghter, whom eho namod. Annio, * Surely,” sho said, with solomnly-tou- der eyos, ** my cup runucth over.” Sweet littlo mothor I—1 seom to sec hor noy, ag sho iy, with hor, baby on her arm, studging tho pink. plncid, oxprossionless faco of tho slooping mito of humanity, persuaded that it was the * very picture” of the dark, Linndsome, Learded fuco thut bont smiling over bis treas- ures. Tut a shadow, darls a8 the prave In ita gloom, hoverad over the denr, new home,—tho shadow of the Augel of Denth, who stood st the portal, Softor grow the voico of tho young mothor, and_slower the wstop that ‘tended down- Wward to tho valloy of slndows. A mighty sourning was in lor hoart to sco hor tathier onico moro, o hear his voice pronounce her forgivenoss sud givo qusurance of protuction o her bube, 80 soon 1o know, a8 she had, (ho want of & mother's love and guidance, I can- not dio it [ may not seo him; I could not rest in my gravo at last if T do not hear lim prom- ine, slio plended, ns ho tossod with fover-crim- wonod chacks and lips, 8o he camo in timo to heur Lor Jost ologuont apposl to graut hor potition with tosrs and sobs, and to pour out un- availing pryors that Ler lifo might bo spared him. True to his projudico ngainst her hus- band, ho stipulaied that the child should never bear {ts fothor's unme, but odopt thab of its mother: Annio M-, Objection could not bo mado at such & timo ; but when, with hor lust words, shio nsked that 1} boleft iu'cara of her busbind’s motler, hin' wrath blazed flercely ; but tho will that nover bont beforo yiolded to tho pleading eyes of his dying cLild us they followed Lim, aud ha sealed bis consiont upon tho lips. that would nek no morg of him on earth. Anhour lator, with her honds clasped in her Lusband’s, ond hor hesd | pillowed on tho bodom whera it had lain in its infuncy, she slopt tha slcop that kiows no waking. ‘Mr. M— returnod home aftor the funeral; but slaves wero seat to care for tho Labe, tHe cottago was mado comforluble aud ovou olegant, and every luxury eurrouuded tho littlo heiress, ‘I'ie loss of his wifo was o terriblo blow tu the hustaud, who repronched himsolf for the blinduoss of the love, and tho yasliness of the youthful pussion that hud led him to tako ker from iuboritanco and frionds to share his poverty and struggles. Nothing was Joft him 10w bui fame,—uo home on carth,—uo Tope but for position,—o love, 1o wite, nu mis- trows,but Ambition, The bako she lad borne Limn bnd Keen toru from his heart, separatod from his protociion, given for a prico to strangers who dospisod hiut ; oven bis nano was utrippod from Tier, s I it wore wome fithy sud polluted gar- mont that defled her infant purity, In aftor oury wo hear of him from tiio battle-flelds of ilflxi\lb, from tho Scuate-Chamboer, a8 o londer in tho counsels of tho natlon ; but he never ro- turned to his old howe,—nover mursied or sy bis ebild again. v Aunio's education was fnishod at o city in the Southwost; and hero, a8 if somo atality nttend- ed them, ok tho anmo school from which lor wmother eloped she learned to love n peuniloss man by the namo of Charles L—, tho lust ecion of an impovorixhod family, whose patent of no- bility dutod buck to the Nurman Cougueror. 1o hud feft Engiand to establish himeeif in busi- neks i Ameries, wishing fivat to_graduato from u Houthorn coliego; but tho rigidcasto—at that {imo moro tyransieul thers thau in Indin,—barred g entrance, The Principul of the echool, himuelf nn aspirant for the hand and estates of ono of tho wonlthiest and most beautiful ‘hetrosses in tho Siute, jooked with littlo plenstive upon the intimacy botwoon the young peoplo.” At this timo n forgory was committad upon tho Principal, who chnrged it to Mr. L warrant was issued, und ho arrosted. On her way to tho secitullon-room Annie hourd the faots, and, tzlnnclug from_the windoyw, saw him pasBihg in chargo of an oflicor, Al the hiot, un- fsoveriod tomper of hor race laapad to her hoary Bl brnin. Bhio knew, though' she could not o it, that the wholo thifig was a plot to ruin or lover, against whom ~projudice ulrendy exiated on uccount of his openly-oxpressed anti- sluvery sentiments, Thut night sho lud & coun- cil of ‘wer with her roow-mato, 'L'ke givls wero both rich ; butnow the pretty spondthritts bud hut cmpty puraes, snd uo time Lo loss, Mone: there was nono, but fabulously rich were Annie's jawels, ond theso stood stand, Sho dure not loayo tho Liouse, but hor friond obtufned o snit of malo attire, shaded her lip in imitation of a downy moustackio, eropt from (ho window on to tho poreh, olung to Inttico aud vincs with the supor-ouse of n ent, lot hersolf down over tho door of the Profossor's study, aud wudo hior way to a lawyor i auch & night DId Jesales wteal from thio wealthy Jow, Andwith o upthriet love did ‘run from Venica As far us Dolmont, soliloquized itho langhing mnsquorndor. The caso wos Inid bofora the man of Lriofs, who Untoued ln wilenco, then quantioned respoctiully ; Lut a closor obsorver thau the innovoeut but raok- less glrl would have scen that lte poustrated lor dlsguiso, and belioved it some love-affalr of hor own, 1lis sorvices were pugaged, and the Jowols Teft a8 scourily for paymont. \Vhen tho trinl camo on, sud gowip mixed Mims Mason's name with the prisoner’s, Lo lonrned his mis- talie, A mont uble dofouso clonrod Nr. but so strong was mellu opiulon ngatust him that ho was obliged to loavo the town. Wo will ot intindo upon tho lwst sad Intorview, bub vows of constancy wore oxchanged, to be keps sacrodly by ong, who believad thaa thot —s A Fate, fu ita bittorost mood, . Mad uo puin for ber Uk (e painof that night. Mliss M— spont the winter with hor grand. fathor, in Cuba, snd hero mot for tho firat timo the lawyer who Lud conduoted the cuso for Mr, L—. ‘Pluown mugh togotkor In sovloly, tho acquautonce vipeued into frioudslip ou port, Jovo on hisy.and an offer of mnrrlng‘n ens wuod. Bupsisod sud grioved, tha gent glel hor Lwhhdmw, exprossing firmly but kindly declined tho honor, whon, to Jior nsfonisliment, ho presonted & caskot con- Laining hor own Jowols, To tiat momont sha biad not known bim ; and pride, humiliation, and rogrot struggled with hor gratliude, * Forgive mo,” Wi wabbed, ** that L cannot love you.'! 1o ligtenod as o doomod man listons to a” Hon- tonca hio laowy Is Jrrovoenbla,—calm, firm, and alo, Lao proud to plond for what hio.craved moro it lifo, thon boib ovor her hand n moment (n sllouca, atd loft hor lono, I do not thinle that then, ‘or ovor, Annio rentizod that Rr ——'8 regard for' her was not tho samo oy hors for him, Bho Toved bin with all the pesionnto love of lier na~ ture,—would havo bestawed upon him lier woalth and goclal rank, or have gonoe out from thom ndly, a8 hor ‘mothar had dono, to ehnro hla oxllo” and poverty. Ifo loved hor ad wolove thoso who nro kind to us in the dark hours of ont livos,—nu ono who lnd stood botweon hime #elf and n blow ho was powerloss ko ayort,—na ils angel of daliveranco,—and with o calm nifes- tlon thint was tompored by wiatom. IIL nover know liow full of pain thoso days wore for hor, or that tho thought that came lirst at down, und 1agt at night, wan, I will ho brun to him.” Trom Cuba Annieand her grandfather went to Europo, and mado the tour of the Continont at thelr lolsure, ‘Thoy luoked nt the worka of tho mestors in tho arl-gallorica of the Old World; nte granes on tho sunuy hill-uides of Franco; took part in tho festivitios of hor gay but wicked capital; drank imporisl Tokay of “Ifungary's richest vintage in the land of ‘its own wine-press; stood in tho palaces of Mogcow and tho silont stroots of Pom- poli ; floatad down tho canals of tho ¥ Mistross of thoBon’" to the dicamy music of thoir boat- mnn's song; but, fotod, Louored, worsluped almost, for hor magnificout besuty and enormous wenlth, with nobles for her ulaves and Princos at her foot, who would have lald down titlo and power for ono smilo of favor, aud thought it cbonply bought, sho was as cold, as calm, ay proud and unbonding as n statuo ; and atill, amid an ndulation that wonld have turned tho brain of anothor girl, hor lips achoad tho rofrain of hor hoart: **1will bo true.” Yo, five years later, wo tind her mmried to s gontloman bolopging to o promivent family in fiio South, Whon Lo asked hor to bo his wife, sl told biim tho bistory of her lifo, and endod with tho prophotio words: “*I have no hoart to give ynu]; Ishall novor love again.” 1le was one of the mont polished, chivalrous men of his doy, ologant aud handsomo ¢ and tho imporious, impassioned lover, who had nover askod but to vaceivo, who had nover knolt to mortal woman in vaiu, who counted his amours by tho 8coro,— tlus pettod darling of society, this * glass of tashion,” whose word was law,—world-wenry Doforo hia timo, blave ore ono throad of silvel shown in his eriap black curls,—this man, who was usod to bo flattored and courted, listouod to lus rpfusnl only to ru‘pont the proposal again and again, bogging only for such esteem as sho gavo bim now, iicrednlous but that ko should muke a strougor love in hior hoart than the ono ho bo- Tioved to bo only o girlish fancy. But, ovon in the lust hou, biforo their marringe, 'sho had suld, with teartully bosccching oyes: *I shall nover love agoin;® and ho had lissed awny tho f{onra' with tondor. nssur- ances that ho wouid bo content, Tha prediction was but too true, aud the gloom that lny on ber honrt chilied aud clouded bis life, thongh no word of reprouch was over spokon. Wiion tho storm that bed long threstoned onr boloved Union- burst in fury over the land, ho {nina(l thio Confodorato army, and fell in battlo. \Whero tho fray was Horcest and hottost, whoro blood had baptized the soil like water, he had Ied on his men to fuco tho loadon Lail; oad, when j¢ was ended, they found him doad vn the fleld, 1ia head rosting ou lis nrm, bis_ broken sword by his sido, and a moro peacoful look on hig faco than it Lad worn of late. Whon 1 nost mot Anulo, wo wero prisoners ab o Soutborn villago, One day, & Uuion oflicer, Wwho was passmg o window whore we stood glanced carolessly up; but, as his oye cought hor, o look of recognition and satoulshment pusnod over his faco, thon it grow whits a8 death. “Aunic was séarcely leds movad, for the man who had lifted his cap and passcd on was Charles Later in tho duy thoy met, and she liutencd to his story, nover huving, hoard from him sinco thoy parted at Wheeling. o had amasged o fortune, and married, upon short ac. quatntuncs, ® fady in {ho Notth, Tho union was & wrothodly-misorablo mistako, without onp palliating cirowmstanco; and hio Wwas ropent- ng at loisute, iy wifo was o stylish, art- ful, suporiicial, narrow-mindéd woman., He lind drenmed of tho avgels, and wakod to flnd himself fottered to a mockery of womsnhood, who made his bome o hell; and o soparation, partial in one sonko, entiro In anotl.s, took Placo botweon thom. By, his forbesrance sho still wore tho nmoe she’ dishonored; but for four years thoy had neither mot or spoken. Hotetoforo there had been no strong motive for taking logal stops toward o _soparation; chhnp! ho bad never reully loved; but the knowledge of Aunio's changeless doyotion, eyen whilo she wau tho wifeof anothor; hor desolation; her radi- ant bouuty, that as far outshione the ' heauty of tho girl ho had known yoars 020 0a the besuty of mori excceds that of duwn,—gtirred bhis heart s it never had wtivred before. 2 1o gratitude bo had chorishdd all theso yoars swelled into o love that was alniost worship, It was Lho lovo of tho Loy magnitied & Lund fold, aud ho begged wilh passionato ontrontios to bo allowed to protect hor j that she would bo hig wifo when Lo kisd put away froia him one who was but o wife in.name,—n hated burden. Until this timo Annie lind loved him devoutly, and, oven with hor head pillowed on the loyal Lrenst of hor noble husbiand, droamed of iho absent lover, until it broke thit Lheart and seunt it to sn early gruve. Bat, now that se—maor- riod, boand, though but by au ompty form, to another—darod to spoak such soutinents, sud sk of lier a promise so near allied to dishouor, sho augwored with contomptuous refusal, au sent him from her with scorn. In that hour the love of a lifetime loy apparontly dead, shrouded for sepulturo,—waiting for o butial from which thoro would Lo no Yesurrection, Thoro was nover, in alt hor lifo, an Lour of such uttor loue- liness,—sucls woary, Lopeloss despair : and sho wept aloud with ¥obs nud mogus, ay if Ler heart had at lnst broken: T awm afraid I did not pity hor then, Soon nftor this she was freod and made as.comfortsblo as possiblo ; but hor prop- orty wns contiscated, and sho boeame a dopend- unt upon bounty, Six months Iator sbo wos on o Missis- ippl River steamur, Tho bost was crowded with passengors, gathored in groups on thao dock or in the eubin ; and, from tho brovi- ties of the day, conversation turncd upon the ever-prosont subjcct of the sad differcuco bo- tween the North aud South, TLadies and gontlo- men took part in it, and Aumie, whoso deep ‘mourning, benuty, and nir of relinoment had at- tracted sitention, was kiudly deawn into the dis- cussion. Bhio told Lor exporienco of sufforing, Lereavement, and loss of home and woealth, with an unaffected simplicity; aud hor sorrow, nus mixod with bitieriicns or o pirit of retalintion, touched overy heurt but ono, aud tears atood in many oyes. ¥ Oppoeite, and near her, sat o woman whom Aunme had alveady noticad on aceouut of her pe- ouliarly-rapoliant personal apuearance, who, In 5 vouowons maunor awsniled. Southorn rofu- gooR ab tho cloko of tho unvarnished tale told at the request of the puesengors, Sho o ovidontly hatod Aunie for tho interot, othors folt in her, aud looked it so plalnly, that* my poar littlo friohd sirauls into the cornor of Licr sofs, and gazed at Ler with oyes dilated with tarror, In somo unaccountablo way sho felt hor to bo connected with alltho pain of Lorlife, On the boay sha Lind met by aceident Col, aud Mrs. A—, old friondd whom she had lmown in Drightor dsys, nud ronowed the acquaintanca with ploasuro. Whou tho bell rang for suppor, Col, A— gavo hor his arm io tho tablo, and sonted her bostdo himsolf and wifo as politely as if sho had been s l'rinccss of tho Houso of Man- over. Tho hungry passongers sonted thomsclves with yloumufil bustlo und’ good-naturod jost that amused her,and, o8 sho litened, smiling to the Waltos volubly-trung-out bill of fure, sho lieard sharp, querelous, frotful toue, and her {lswt ghunco 1020 lior blood with u horrid rovola- tion. Opposita tut Oupls L——; and the woman Whoso uniehnritablo nttnek upon'hor had boon ns eruel and unjustitisblo a8 would iavo beon blows upon chuined aud defonsoleny cuptive. Worda than nll, this was his wifo, tho woman of whom he lad told hor, sud Lis man- Nor to hor, icily courioous; moid wmore plainly thun words: “Ihnto you; Ido- tost and loatho you; bub the world looks on." Tor o mompnt tho tabloe seemed to whirl and tho 1loor to ghdo (rom heneuth Mer feot; thon, with & 1lg hity offort, she recovered, oxoused herisolf on the plen of su-lden flluess, and rotived, Mrs, A—— goon cane to her with rofreshmants, but sho could not tasie them, and lay with eyos fust closed uu if sho woud shut out the horrid vialon, 8o thi wos tho ond o[ hor -romuneo,—this tho womun hoe lind sworn to chorlsl, —this the erou- turo who, lmving voluntarily abdlested ner place iu his hanrt, ho had proposed to compel to obiicalo in Lionid it o Wight givo hor, Togal} and houorably, the vacated pluce. s AN bittar, bitler, wore tho loos" The dead love stirred in lor heart as if it would roll nway the wione with which she hind sonled its grava und come forth. Hobs, stifled aud doep, shook hivr o the winter-winds shska 1l aspontleal ; pad DErs, &—, wino an sha was kiud, ‘with delicato mfiurd for hor sutforing, Rindly-worded hopes thut sho would bg - botter, Happy wifol she did not know thon—d Lope xho may naeves have learned 1t Intor—how far surpnsaing * tho ills that flash ia hoir to " aro the woarisomo and henrt-slckuosy of Lopo doforred,—tho agony that fa born of dospair. : Intor in the ovoning, Mra. A—— roturned with her husband, who bogged hor to como to the parlor, and give thom somo of tho exquisite muslo o romombered to have honrd in her houso; and, in her gratitude to thom. more than from n dosiro to plonso othors, sho consont- ad. 11ér musical talonts wora vory suparior, and no oxponso had boon spured to perfect this brauch of her education. Hong aftor song was callod for and givon, from the mnntur}vlecuu of Dacthoven to tho tinklin rorenndo of tho Spanish 'Lronbadonr: and, odd- 1y enough, tho Inst snd airains of tho ' Mis- ororo " woro followed by the morriost. Tinechn thmaomi:umr riven at” unliconsed rovel whora wit und beuaty graced aliko tho feative bonrd, and joy was uuconfined; but, as she ondo with— Thipy hurry ma from spot to apot, To banish my rogrot, Aud, wlien one lonely smilo thoy win, My rorrow they forget, tears foll fast on the whito koys that throbbed back tholr mournful responss to her touch, ‘hat poculinr fosclnatiol that atiracls ouratten~ tion to one porson in_n orowd who obscrvos us closely eaused lor to 1ift hor oyos, and, through tho shining mist of hor’ tongs, sho saw Capt. 1— standing upart from thoo who had gathe ‘orad around hor, his nrms tightly folled ovor g chost, his prond head droopod slightly forward, his brow knitted asif in sharp pain, and his oyos bont upon hor swith such sorrow apd re- proacl, such rogret and unsponkablo tendornoss, n8 slio nevor saw on a face beforo,—somethin, of the ngony that must have beon on Lucifer's whon, hurled from the Lattloments of Iloaven, 1o tupnod ono Inst, dospairing look nt what had oncs boon his own. Ii-wasas if an cternity of lovo wqro concontrated in & momont,—n florco and hungry love; as thougl, maddened by rostrint, ho would tear himself froo, guther hor to liis bosom, and shiold hor in his heart from a world he,was ready to defy. At tho samo instant, Mrs, L——, who was at- tontively regarding her, followed hor oyes, saw, and read as woll nsshé, the look on ber hus- band’s faco, Ono glanca of hato sha gavo thorm, then glided silontly s a sorpent from tho room. Wiion Annfo landed at tho place of hor dostina- tion, Tain foll in torronts, and tho midnight was a8 blncl and tho sky ns starloss as hor lifo, In the dorknens, througth which sho could not dia- tingulshh oMo faco from another, » hand lod hor actoss tho plank to o carrisgo in wnmnF, and _then #he was clasped for an lustant by siroug arms, while, botyeon Luseos, tho words, © My darling | my darling | T ecannot live without you I botraged his identity., A momont Jater, slone, sho leancd back on thio cushions, and atmost tnconsciounly repeased thom again and ngain, as it thoy wero all her comfort upon esrth, Ttwas tholr Inst meoting—thoir las nnrlinpi. After tho war, wo drifted apart, aud I hoard from hor but' at raro intorvals, Now thoe word has como to mo ¥int sho fadead ; and I wonder—I cannot bolp it—if, in that homo that la fairor than ours,—thab world that {s brighter than this,—whore storms never rago, whero winter nevor chills, whero night nover darkons,—if, in tunt Heavon whero tho will of tho Lord is the light theroof, the weot, pationt ifo Liat was o ullarly » fillura hero will bocrownod with joy 7 And will thoy bo united where no human frailties misload, wharo the frown of society Is not. feared, whore misunderstandings nevor arlse or misconcep- tions blind? God grant ft, olso how conld wo enduro ? GaRNET B, FRECYAN. . ———— THE TWO HOMES. . Ay home wag soatod high and fatr, Upon o mountatu'a side ; Tho day was lougest, brightost thare; Toncath, tho world was wide, Across itg blue, embracing zono Tho rivers glesmed, tho cities shono, wAnd over thie edge of the fadlog i, T snw the storms in the distauce dlou, And tho flash of the soundlesd tuunder, But weary grow tho sharp, cold wine Of winils that novor kised, "Tlie clinngelcss greou of Ot sud ping, The gray and clinging mist, Abiove the granite aprang no lowers s e woll gavo low and acontloss flowers ; And tho drona and tho din of the water-fall Tecanto a challenge, a tanuting call: 4Tia fair, s folx in the valloy 1" Of all thie homesteads deop and far My funcy clung to ono Whoue gablo buricd, a mallow atar, Touched by tho ainking sun, Unacen around, but not unguessed, The orebards mado a leafy nost 3 o turf bofora it was thick, I kiow, ‘And beos wero busy tho garden throngh, ‘Aud tho windowa woro dark with rose3. 44¥T1q bappler thore, bolow,” T sighedy “Tho world I warm sud noar And closor lavo and comfort bido. Thut caunot reach me here, ‘Who mastor {8 must bo 8o blest % 116'}) shiare with mo hin sheltered net, 1€ down to tho valley I shonld ga, TLeaviug the granite, tlie pines und mow, And thoe winds that aro keon as lauces,” 1 wandered down, by rldge and dell; Tjio way, %8 rough and long; 5 Though catlier abadowa round me foll, 1 chocred {hom with my song. Thio world's great circlo natrower grow, il hodgo and thicket hid tho biuat 1Bt over tho orclinrds, near at han Tio gable khiono on tho quict laud, And far away wus the mountain'l Then camo tho mastor ;. mournful-oyed ‘Aud atern of brow wits Lo, 440, pluntad In such peace 17 T erlod, “Sparo but tho least to me!? #Who accks,” o gald, ¥ Tito tameniess of tb *Tie highway'd dust, tho glimmor and heat, Tho woodls that fettor tho youny wind's feat, + ” Andido tho world aad lta boauty ¥ o strotched hfs hand ; ho looked afas’ With eyes of old desire 3 1 saw my homo, o mellow star Thint liold the Bunsot's fire, 47t yonder Lomo,” he cricd, * how fair Tis chambers burh lko gildéd alr ¢ 1 know that tho gardons'aro wiid e drosmd, With tho sweop of winds, the dush of stroams, And tho pines that souhd a1 an sathom | 0 seronely high hien clouds ure furled, Aud knows the bezuty of tho aky, Tho glory of tho world | . ‘Who thero abides must bo so blest 11e'l] share with mo that lofty crest, 1t up to the mountain I should ifl. Iqtl\'lll{( tho dust and tho glirs below, ‘Aud tho waney 1fo of tug valloy —Dayard Taylor in the Atlantic for January i TO A'FRIEND, “ Bo quiat, Toaits T wehom veraes had been addressed by * Minerca When from Olymplo Lieights the Gods deacond o apeak tho virtues of an earthly {rlend, Diweretion then forbfls my Muse to try Tockio atrifo with buings of thu eky, ‘Aud bids e tLink that d'eu immortal vorse, Coutrasted thus, might well appear the worae, Wino hor_ command ; yot lis extremoly fiard o keep from pralsing thoso we most Tegurd er precopts full, aud, yiolding to dosiro, In frlendly strain I sttiko tho sounding lyre, No threadbaro prafses of a ploasivg fuce Mavg liero u portion or o fitting placos Tor beauty’s pitent to tho passlug glance, Nor corss dotracts from, Lor ¢uu prafio enhanco, My vereos eras aifi'rout good cotmmetid,~ Yo madeat virbues of & clicrdshiod friend’: Ehs sprightly courtesy thut never fufls: * Wit now defendiug, sud that now assatig— Protecta the wesk, annaulln tho errlug atrong,— Tu alwaya poiutod, sud la nover wrong,— Sihlga, 0o, to Judgo nupthor's willy upeoal, ‘And lad £ bpar, though woll propired to teach ; “Phe uultured convors that roveats 3 miid By Naturo gitted und by Art refined ; i5ho poliehisi grace exteuded traval londa 3 “Phio art to turn acquaiutances to frionds And subtlor chutms we nevor cau dojue, But only kuow, doar Madswne, they urs thine, Torgivo my liucs, apd lot thelr truth atyno ; "Pheir faulte' are tliolrs, thoir boauties are thino own, elieve me, tov, no Alusa can o'er nscend o jusly slug the praises of my friend. A Cnaniig Nonrx GREGORY, e AN IDYL. "Pwas Antumn-timol, Tl falling lext ‘Yrophotlu told of Winter nigli ; And aged treos wept tears of grief “To sco Aheir oftupriug fad und die. The passing birds, $ho drooping fowsrs, o sirenmlot I 1ta purrow bed, Sorrowod for the pleasunt hours Of sunuy Suminur past and flod, Ty bower sud doll st bromn lsavos fall, okl fading ono by ono} ‘ Qulaidy A Vaviag woods In ruswet lioods Gleatnod ko urmor in the sun, *Twas Autumu-tima! Ouo evening, late, ¢ Whew tramuiing atory ive Liaxtl Uielr ght, stoodl ido the gurdeu-gate Whharo oft 1 kiswed auy love good-nigt? Deluaged tlio dceno a8 Jasea U0, “Tue little cot stood by the rivor, And ceasless movad thio current’s flow; But she, slss] Was gono foraver, 8 ono by auo ur Face 18 TuL,— S Tho longest lives aro passing briet ‘Wo bloow a di And then doc - - Like Bumuer's owsr, of Buiumor's leaf, 0, Jaszs LivaLiDl, i| o “THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO.” A gomedy that Shook n Qrowite + Irom the St, Lon{s Republican, As n caroloss langh amid tho snowy passon of tho highor Alps hna heen kuown to sot in mo- tlon tha avalancho which carrios dovastation and death mto tho valloys below, so it sometimen happons that n political convulslon of colosnn! magnitudo and vast consequonces lu procipitated by ‘¢ triflen light aa alr," T'ho Yronch Rovolution of 1789, though pro- coded aud prapared by tho grinding tyranny of ages, was unquostionably Lastoned by two scom- Ingly insiguificant things,—a litlo comedy and & grent pwindlo, Tho comody waa tho **Marrlage of Figaro,” tho swindlo was tho Dinmond Noek- Rwut. ‘Wo proposo to-day to tell tha story of tho it Y € Plorro Augustin Caron was born In the Quar- tior 8, Donls of Parls, Jan. 24,1742, Mo was tha son of o watchmakof, and, ofter racglying an indifforont oducation al the Collega of. Alfort, was sot to work to loarn the patornn) profession, But work—nt losst of the physienl kiy@—wae not to his llkluf. ‘Whilo at wofivol ho had im- bibod a sbroug love of music anda decidod foud-~ neay for compny, nolther of which fltted him for tho dull routino of the shop. Noturnlly’ onougl, the father and son had divers disputos on tho subjeat, and, boing unable to agros, thoy disaolved x’)nrlnoruhlp, and tho son was rathor urcoremotiiously driven out of doors by tho old man, ‘Uhis chiax seems to Lave brought the formor to his vonses, for Lo soon grow weary, of wandoring about with no moeney in his pockot aud no gortainty of bonrd sud lodgingw, snd on- tored into uogotintions for & rotury, Llo parent did not luteud tu ho vexed by an idlo approutico o socoud time, and so laid "down cortaiu condi- tlona which Plorro wan obliged to sl boforo his repontanch was accbpted. ~ Ouo of theso we quote Yon will givo up your nnlucky muslo altogothior, snd (wbovo all) tho socioty of young people, I will toleraty neithor, Dotk hiavo beew your rulu, ifowsvery out of considoration for your wouknees, T allow you the violin and tho flule, Lut'on the express conditfon that you plhy on nelttier till after supper on working.doys, snd nover n the daytimo; aiud that you do not disturh the Toposo of onr nelghbors of my cwn, .« Bo young Czron wont back to the boneh, and applici bimsclf no thorpughly that in 1763 lo fu- vented » now orcapoment for watobos, Bpenk- ing of this and other improvements, in & momo- Tint dated Juno 16, 1766, hio says: Iy theso meana I make \\'Mchcg 28 flat ag they are ealied fur, fiatior than they have hitherto been mndo, without i nuy respect dimninishing theld gooduoss, Tho firat of Llieso simplified watchen Is in the bands of tho Ring, His Dajesty bas hud Sk for a year, and is quite satisfled with it, "I Lavo also had “tho houor, withiln theso few duys, of presonting o wafch to Mad- T do Pompadour F Thia Dow conatenction, tho | sallest over mado; 1t fs ouly four lnos aud a bulf in dioinetcr, and two-thivds of & ne tu thickness between the plutes, This document is signed Caron fils, Horloger \du Roi, 1lis position of makoer aud ropairer of titae-picces to tha royal family of courao bronght Diin abundant custom, and his business increnscd rapidly snd promised him ‘smple forlune in prospactive. But our horological hero was bold, liandsome, and ambitious, and uxious to obtary & footiug at court, feeling aure ha could turn ait theso qualitics to hils own ad¥autage. It was his gaod laoks which placed hum on -the first round of tho slippory ladder, IHe ropaired a walch for the young wifo of the old coniroleur clere d'offico de.la maison du Roi. 'Lho lady was struck with his nppoaranco—eing o dogided improvoment upon her legitimate lord and mastor, An in- triguo followed, and tho kiudhosrtod husband, alter sgnctioning the illicit connection for severnl - months, gold .out his oflicc to tho lover of his spouso in considoration. of o liberal gunuity, Dohold, theu, Caron jils —Nov. 9, 1765—iustalled by royal brovet, deputy clark of the royal kitohen, ~ 1o now droppoed his oriuing] name, assiumed that of do Besumarehais, and blossomed ont into an secomplishod and fm- pudent courtior, The harp camo into fashion soon aftor the kitchon clerk was insugurated, and bo not un}‘y lonrned to pluy that instrument with groat skill, bub ntroduced some clinnges in (he arrangemont of the pedals which increasod’ ith powor, “his attracted the sttention of tho donghtora of Louls XY, and ho was upoodily ostablished a8 profosdor of musio to those Princessos, and_froquently performed in the presonce of the King aud Quoon, Ha was now outho high road to succoss, and travelod that rond with that nouchslant prace and inoffablo n;asm‘lncu which belong to adventurors of his clnsa, £ z But wo havo neither tho apaco nor tho inell- nation to accompany, him in his yarious pordgri- natlond, though nobody who wishes to under- stand the tastes and habits of that era in Fronch Distory can afford to omit tho earoful roading of Boaumarchais’ memoirs, and the innumerablo ancedotes told of hfm by contemporary writors. Suficient for our presont purpose to say that {n addition to lia sg\mmlngm hig spoculations and his intrignes, hd'dabbled in literature, and after savoral inferior offorts Ellmilucad. in 1775, tho famous ¢ Barbier do Sovllle,"—n tolorably good passport to immortality. ‘This piec had a grent iy in Parls, aud tho author; encournged by his Tnppy hit, rosolyed to follow it up by s scoond attampt, and the second attompt resulted in Lo Marlago do Figaro, off a_ Folla Journce."” 1t was written probably in 1775-'7§, and Beau- marchais suys ¢ 1t remained fivo years o my portfolio, The play- ers know I kad {t, and thoy tom it from mae at lnst, Whothor thoy havedouo well or 4 for themsclves, timo willslow, ~ o . . Owlngtotho ex Traoriinary oulogy thnt thoy mado of it, ull classes of socloty wished to Decome scquintod with it and lioco T wns obliged to engage in quarrcls of oll sorts, or yield to universal requests. Thencefortl, alko, tho *powerful enemies of the author did not fail te spread abrosd that he ussalled in this work, roligion, govern= ‘ment, morslsall ranks of socloty, According to them 1 hiad ouly shaken the Btate in “the “Burber of Se- ville,” In this new essay, moro jufsmous aud more . sodifious, T had turnod It topsy-turvy, . . The consorship of tho dramn was moro severo ;| st that time in Franco than it over hus boeu since, oud 08 the * Barbor of Soville” had con- tained many sharp fl.wlzgh wecrot bits at _mag- and aristoeracy, i was fair to presunio Marzingo of Figaro™ was opon to the eamo objoction. The suthorities, thorofore, by orders of the King, rofused permission for ita porform- anco,—which, of courao, only stimulatod popu- far carlosity, To gratify this curiosity, 88 well 18 his own vanity, Beaumarchais gavo rondings to seloct cirolos. Jach of theso readings Lo profaced with - short address, in which Lo comparod: himself to s bashful ca:}uelto. who, _nfter being long importuned, i forcod to yield to hor porsistont lovors at Jast, IHe was o finished elocutionist, and, holding in his dellcately-gloved hand tho manuseript tod with dainty roso-colored ribbion, ho deliverad the sparkling comody with wonder- il forco and ,offect. _ His drawing-room audi- oncios wero caummd of the Princos andPrin- cesgos of the biood rné'nl, Dules, Duchesscs, Couuts, Countosses, Cardinals, Archibishops, Bishops, in short, & full nssortment of tha lords, spiritual and_tomporal, and thoe choicest cream of the choicost Fremclh sacioty. Tho “ Marringo of Figaro " bacamo tho rago ; noth- ing olso wins Lioatd of or talked of in the gsy world of Paris and Veranillos, and, quite natur- ally, tho domsnds for it roprosentation upon the' stage incroasod in proportion to the p(npulnmy of _tho comody. At last Louls XVL, who Dad hithorto dopendod upon tho {Iudgmum, of hin critics, rosolved to decido for imholf. Madamo Campan, in her dolightful memoira of Mario Antoinette, says: . » Ono morning I spcelvod & noto from thio Queen, ar- dering mo to Lo with lier ut 3 o'clock, aud_not to como without having dined, for tat sho shonld detain me somna tme, When I got to tho Queen's funer closot, T fonnd hor alone wilh the King; "o chair and a small iable wero roady, placod_opuosito to them, and upon iho_tablo lay ‘an onormous msnuscript 'in soveral ooke, 5 Tho King said, “It is Beaumarchals’ comedy ; you muwt read it to us, This will Lo ditloult fu ‘lnrlu, on account of {he eravures and roforencen. I havo'ul- ready glanbed over it, but Twish tho Quoon to be ac- qualted with this work, You will suy nothing to any- body about this reading.” . Thegun, Tho King often interrupted mo by ro- marks, alwaya just, whether of prules or Llame. Most Irequently dio oxclalned, *This 1s lu bad tasts, Thin man 8. continnally Uringing back fo tho stage ‘the Jablt of ftaltan “coveetti,” At the monalogus of “Flyaro," but ospecinlly ot the tirado agalust Stato prisous, 1o rone quickly from hie chatr and exclaimed with fudignation, “This i detestable, This shall Hovur bo pluyed ; 1t would bo nucessiry to pull down tho Bustile to provent the ropresontation of this {:lucn {from being dangerous, ‘Thls mon triflos with all that st be respected in a government,” ¢ Then it will not Lo played 2" geld. the Queen, 41X, cartaluly,” re- pliod the Kiug, * you may rely upon thit,” . Novertlheloss bota wore fraoly mado that it would Lo played, aud the friends of Daoumar- chals—or rather the admirers of his comedy— datermined to put it on the boards at all hazarde. Arrapgoments woro effeoted’with the proprictors of tha Theatro Fraucais, tho pacty wara dis- tributed, rehenranla hind, the duy of' the por- & vaat number of tiaketa [ farmance fizad, and sold snd given. Bo soorotly had tho wholo bunl- ness boon conduoted, that the Kiug heard nothing of it until a fow hours provious to tho opening of tho doors. Ie ymmediatoly signad au ordar of ‘u’uhlbluon, and the messonger who onrrjod” It found the' utreots leuding to tho theatre crowded with carrlages and a large audi- dence alrohdy woatod. Tho diesatisfactlon was intense and olamorous, and then for tho firat thno was it o mnl{nhlrgnd that Loufs XVI, had #eattackod publio liberty,” And o it camo -to pasa thut & comedy wrltton}b, tho deputy clerk of the royal & WoTAment W & watchmakor, tohons, atartor tho throno an@ delugo it in tho host blood of Tranco, It i8_no oxaggeration to sny that tha “Murrinro of Figaro” kharpenca the axo which n fow years Intax foll upon tho nook of he un= fortunato King, who knew not how to bo oither o Constitutional monarch ora foarless tyrant. WWhen Beanmaretintn heatd of the suppromsion of hiw plces, lio’ oxclnimod, *Wall| gontlemon, ho won't. puh‘or it to ho played horo in this The« atro Fraticain s now I awear it shotl bo plnyed— parbaps in the vory choie of Notre Damol” An ominons erpllucy,—-fnr(hnl venerablo eathedral witnessed afterwnrds dramas’ po implovs and horriblog:that, “compared with them,the fimsy comedy wns Lhe most solemn of sermons, 'ho” ovonts we have narrated ocenrred in June, 1783, Tater in_the suno year the King wwas fuformod by M. do Vaudrouil, s member of his conrt, that Boaumarchnls had oxpunged all tho objectionablo pasungos, and necordingly par~ migalon ywas granted for the pbrformance of tha - lay at tho rcouutry houss of de Vandrouil, Thoso who attendod woro astonished to find oll thaso objestiquablo pasenges retained, but being in the position of guosts did not fecl willing ta exposo the trick. ~ Indoed, tho Kingwas told that tho alterations mado by Beaumarchats had takon all the lifo out of ‘the comody, nud it reprodonted in public it was suro to Do sim= marily damnod.. Laboring under this delusion ha nt last ‘consented to ik prozontation at tho thontre. *' Never,” snya Giimm, ¢ did picco at- tract such an audienco tothe Francais. All Darls wns ongor to seo theso famous Noces, and tho thontro was filled nlinost at tho mament whon tho doors woro apon to tho public. Iardly hnlf thoso who had besieged thom sinco 8 1n tho morning could find places ; the groator numbor foreed tholr way In, throwiug their monoy to'taa doorkeapor, 1¢ 1y impossilla to bo by tura mora humble, mors bold, moro urgont to obtsin o favor at court thah were our young mon of rank to kecuco aplaco at tho firsi represoutation of * Tigaro.) More than ono Duchess deomod hior- &olf top happy on that day to find in tho baloo- uigs—whera decent woman are seldom soen—n iserablo litthe aeab by tho sido of ladies of the doml-monde.” 'Three porsons were crushed ta denth in tho rash for places, and tho picco, i~ stend of belng dnmned, was roccived with rro- mendous applause—for it was played av origl- nally wrilten, and not n accordanco with the axn pnrfimud edifjon. fho King was oxceedingly sngry at tho decop~ tion practicad upon him, but the” mischief wns done boyond recall, and thoe pleco ran sixty-clitht conseoutive nighis—drawing 88 Jargoly ot the last night 24 ab tho firat. Beawmarcheis beeano {uvolved in o nowspapor controversy nbout the morits of Lils comedy, and in hig Inst communicn- tion made uso of an oxprossion which Monsfonr, tho Kiug's brother, coustrued Into o porsonal in- gult to bimself. Louis, most unfortunately, wes inducad to arrest and imprison the offender in tho prirdn of Sant Lazare, from which, how- over, ho was shortly aftorward released. Dut this imprisoumont, togotho? with tho firat pro- bibition of tho public porformance, , aroused among tho pooplo tho bittorost animosity aaina tho King and the Governmont, and propared tho way for that earthquake which swept crown and cotintry into a common ruin, The I'rench rovo- Iution conld not have been provented—it might Tiave baon postponed to & moro convenient son- son, biit for Boaumarchais and us * Masriage of Figaro.” ‘A HUNT WITH VICTOR EMANUEL. . From the Gartenlaube. The improssron which tho chivalrous King mado upon mo at my last visit to the Tialien Court, after not having stun-him for fifteen years, was a most agiecablo ono. ‘Do not im- agino him to bo a still courtior, but a gonuine chovatior,—a sort 8f medimyal landaknécht, who secms to pleaso the Italians ou nccount of his Dluntness, which ig so groatly at varianco with. their polishod, insinuating manners, Although only of modium stataro, ho presonts & command~ ing npponranco by his well-rounded form, his 1lashing oyos, abd military boariig. “Ho camo t6 moot mo with outstrotchod hands, woloowod me heartily, snd asked me sbout my rolatives, with whom ho was acquaintoed. *I'ho same ovening I dined with Lim. Victor Emanucl, 88 & true Piedmontess, munchod bis grifini (1ong, thin bread-rolls), and disduinod artaking of any other dishes.” Bat his abstom=" 1ouBLCKS Was not surprising; for ho likes to dine alone. Walking up aud down in_his room, ho ooty hall-a-dozen lialf-raw cutlets from tho side-, board, aud drinke with it Lalf & lifve of strong Piodmontesa wine, Whou attonding gaja-din~ Tiors, ho never oats anything but the above-mon= tionod griffini. ho King dismissod me that evening Inter than the rest of the guosis, and invited mo to go hunting with him uoxt day. . "oward eveniug on the following. day,:in car-' ringos drawn by four (horonghbred horsoy (for Victor Emanuol s tho finest stud of horses in Turopo), wo renchod tho huntlng-castlo in the Grajun‘Alps, the 6nly mountsinous togion oue sido of Spain whoro tha 1box s found yat ; for it i long bocome extiney in Savoy, Bwitzorlund, aud tho Tyrol. ) Wo had no companions but a fow nidea and fiuntors, I hnd presonted two splondid nocdlo~’ guns to tho Kivg, and 'he told e ke Was burn- ing to try thom upon this noblest and rarost of Tatropoan game. ¢ F arly in tho morning tho King distributod the cast for tho hunt amoug us. A fow carriors woro sent with provisions to an sppointed placo in tho mountains, where wo woro to meot at the ond of the huut, 'Tho aides and hunters ps~ cended a mountain-path to the left, while tho Kiug and I, accompaniod by s singlo servant, advincod straight ohoad. Vietor Emanuel was dressod in o short binok velvet jacket. In his Land bo Lold o long Alpine stalf, and his rifle was gtrung across bis back, The sun roso ma- Jontically, and it soon becamo yory warm. Nev- ‘ortholoss, the King made good Leddway, 80 much. &0, indod, that 1 was hardly kblo o lioop ste with him. Wo left the forests Lohind us, ang passed througl tho Alping pustures, Lvery now und then the King stood still to take broath, and then ho-scannod the heights through bis flold-glaay. Wo heard tho shrill notes of tho marmots, but disdpined firing at such 1guoble ame. 5 "Phefi we reached tho snowy rogious, and our | attondant declered thnt-ho cloarly discorned the fresh trail of an ibex hord. Suddenly the Kingmotioned to me, and, hand- ing mo tho flold-glass, poiuted at soveral dark apots betweon & rocky slope and » glacier, Ats gluneo I discorned threo fino spccimons of tho fbox grazing on a green onsis,—the-first 1 ovor behold. Notwithstauding tho groat distanco, I planly saw how one of thom tarned around and suspiciously snuffed the air, The animuls had probably heard the nolsa of our ascont, but lind Ovidently not yot seon us, Now, it wan all im- portant for ud td get belwaon thom and {he wind, The King orderod his attendant to sten) around them, and to drive thom toward us witk Toud nole, whilé we wera to climb up cautiousiy t4 maat tham. \Wa lay down prostrato upon th ground and watohed the progross of tho attepd- ant, who, with tho utmost circnmenection, por- formod kiis arduous task, It lnsted hnlf an Lour befors ho came up closo to thom. At lengih ha roso witdlln ten feat of tho throo iboxes. The King sprang to his fest, Hiafaco was flushed with excitement. 30 rondy to shoot{"" Lio whispored to mo. 1o distanco {8 great, but you must show that Prussiana can shoob wall.” Wa climbed with the utmost caution a little . ''ho King then drow from his bolta small sltver whistie, and blow,on it. Tlio next moment s large ibex emargad Trom bohind the opnosito ook, and triod to cross the chasut soprating it fram da, ‘heXing firad, aud thy ibox rolled down the gorgo, My bullot kit the second ibex, which lad closely followod the frst. Bub it spmug to ity foob ogaiv, and triod: to rotrace it stops, It mot, howsver, our third ibex, and bath fall under our fatal bullots, "o oxcitemont of this rare sport bad half maddened me. I hurried toward thio dond anfmals, while the Kiug_followed mo slowly. When we reachod them, Victor Emauuel, than whem no ono can. ba’ more gonerous, said tha honor of tho day balongad tomo, although ba Timself had fired tho fitat luoky shot. Agninst tinn I protoated’ but ho was ni oxiblo, So, two of ‘tho ibexes woro deolared to ba mino, Whut magnificont animula they arol “'hey aro gmaller_than fhnnMfi} fI;uz, ;.:gt:;lllll:- stauding theic inamouso Lorng, I tnov 3 "Wheir akin is not brown, like that of (hochnmo.il, ut gray and shaggior, h- ,Ll‘;“; l‘{'lng now mfi’nz iho attendant to tako the game lome, s then conducted mne to tha rondozvous, ‘Tho road was tho mosb mugniiie entt T ovor travelod In the Alps, L'roguenly wo had to join hnuds fn order to got ou, I nmwst confoys that my strongth waa noarly cxhuustod ; but Viotor Emanuol walked on with sstonishe ing vigor. 1 was glud \whon wo capiod tilo aidos whom wo bad Jeft in tho motning,. and who ro~ coivod us with enthuslastic cheors, : ‘I'hoy wore sitting round & lurgo fire on flelfi! 05 ‘mosy, nud we were ssked to caband drink with them. i *You are a good zlmrhm\m," enld Victor Zmanusl, gayly, to we, **aud so you must pormit e to troat you ua anoh.” Ilo lm‘;ln ups ?rhiuklnu. lx:zlll uo‘::lh;g 1t b :n;“:l the hind legs, offerad me the bther, sayin, ¥ 13 ) hn;:ué o halvos 1" Wo pulled asunder, ahd I got tho bigger purt. ¥ » N«ls{w [y goml"fi.bh‘u of our rod wino!" shonte od the Kiug. * 'his is bottor than all your g i Slaiers my hunt with Vietor Emlnna:. i . Buoh wi waa deatined fo pull down { [s evary inoh o spostanuasty & soldior, 2