Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 1, 1874, Page 2

WASHINGTON. Gorernmental Projects for he Relief of Destitate Workingmen. The Bankrupt Law..-A Case in Point, Progress in Mexico~The Darien Canal--Williams’ Nomi- nation. Trom Our Own Correspondent. % WasMINGTON, Dec, 25, 1673, Theraisa cerfain gentiment in Conpress in favor of engaging in certain public works of & nationel and not of a corporate character, in order to afford relief, at fair rates of subsist- ence, to somo of the workingmen whose familiea are destitate. TRANSPOBTATION. Two such schemes are the widening of the Erio Canal, and digging & canal 7 miles long to carry deep ships from tho Miesissippi into the Gulf, evading the Delta. Mr. Stanvard, of Mis- scur, is the chawpion of the latter enterprise. Some Conzressmen hold that the only way to do either is 1o begin both =t once, in order to con- ciliate (ne jealoasy of sections. Other mom- ‘bers prefer to constract an Amoricsn canel down tho St. Lewrence. Mr. Logan and others be- Lieve the remedy to be in dirsct railroads from the Missouti to New York, The merchants of the lstter metropolis are in 2 good deal of alarm at the prospective diver- tion of giain to Monireal. It may be as well to uimit tbat we hace no national internal policy whatever, and hence tho differ- et sections stand detached, surly, accusing each otber, and each with some need growing mtolersble. Prices do not fall. generally speak- g, elthough all are in want; for we can do noither witnout our high profits, nor withont our cxtravagances. Hotels hold their ancient figure; bat it would be hard to sbow a Lotel- Proprietor, notwithstanding this fact, who keeps his mover. Eastern real estate stands totter- inz, without buvers; and in Washington, par- ticalarly, while the prices keep as high, the ouly | aow inducements aro small payments to begiu ! with. Public legisiation on such questions as | the Baukruptcy law iy made to suit individnal instances, and ot geperal principles. r. Ed- munds at present says that he will report no modification of this law whick will not be 1ctrcactive; £0 as to include those unfortunates who were overshelmed by the panic in its first the Soragues and Cookes. Certainly we 1o mercantile secunty without some ral rrovicion; nud tho Senate Euch g r that opinion, natusally standiug by the durabie inierest; while tho House, which passed s re- peal of the bill, represonts the mouetary need wiuch brougbt 1t into existence. A CASE I BANKRUPTCY. A gentlemsn gave me 2a necount, yesterday, of a case in Virginia, whero two bankrupt He- | brews bad been sent to the Albany Pemtentiny for hard laber for two years oa conviction of de- {rauding eundry merclianis in New York and Bal- timore.° The facts of the case, as I got them, sume out on their application to be pardoned, Tbese gentrs opened's dry goods store in Rich- mond, with a brauch in the interior of the State, 24 aaother over tie State line, in North Caro- lica. They obtained 5, Iarge stock of goods on credit in Daltimore, bat suddenly declared tlat ove of their branch stores Lad burned down, and their 2gent in the oiher had cleared off with the receipts, Their remaining stock was gold at auction, under ordors of the Court, and brought only a tiifle, being mamly bid 1n by tbe broth- -law of the bankrupts, The Baltimora diiors, however, and their salesmen who given the credit, prosecuted for fraud,” and alleged that they -traced heir trademarks and meny of their goods to the boiched his casc zd perplezed consulting with no_Senators, elthongh be knew that sacl an appointment M.t be of mutual understunding. 1t is now expecied that Grant ) will enticipate the action of the Sebato | and witbdraw his nomince, iu order not to imperit his own_comfort. Whether Mr. Witl- iams can afford, sfcer thai, to leep the inferior office, having been honored with selection for the highest, is to be left to his own setss of respect, and perhaps_ those social circumstances which shackle tbe individnal. If his pame is to be withdrawn, what will the next mistake be ? President Washungton, in the sixth vear of his Presidency, nomivated Jobn Rutledze to bo Chief Jusiice, and he presided at one term of the Supreme Court. The Seuate threw out tho nomination, and Rutledge went 1ssne, and con- tinued so five vears. or until his death. Rut- ledgo was rejected for maxing a speech in sym- patiy with France, against the policy of the Federalists in the Senate. 48 TO THE CALRIAGE BUSINESS on which Judge Willisms was srraigued, I may eay that not only Cabinet Miuisters, but the Agsistant Secretarv of the Treaswiy, and even tho Appoiniment Cleik, by some refinement of ofticial sensibility, keep their carriages, and, it is eaid, at public expenso, Thero miust be some extravagance in the mode of ife which leads to these expansions of oficial establishmen:is. Tallesrund eaid of Alexander Hamilton : “Ihave zecn in America one of the wonders of the werld,—a man who has made the fatare 10!‘ zl_xle nation, laboring all night to support his amily. Such scenes would be rare nowadays; private economy ecarcely permits them to be. Tne par- veou who has business with the Department is prolific with temptations and presents. The oflicial is aceailed by the eocinl aspiration at his fireside and from without, Aud, worst of all, the society which tempts him to the extrav~ aganco turns upon bim hike a fury when bo has yielded; and Le finds that one step on either uand has made him & social and political cast- away, Like a woman who can sin but once. GaTH. —_— o JRY COOKE & CO0.'S AFFAIRS. A Poor Prospeet for Creditorse-The Northern Facific Hailrond the Sole ©Origin of the Failure--Yhe Firm Ruined by rying to Uphotd the Mariet for the Xailroad fondse=Xa« Envidual Fortunes of the Partners. Phuladelphia (Dec, 27) Correxpandence of the New York Tribure, Public opinion in financial circles bas settled down 25 cents on the doilar o3 tho , figare whi ch the estate of Jay Cooke & Co. will probably yield its creditors if closed within a year, ander tho provisions of the Bankrupt law. If a longer time can be taken for its lquidation, and if thero uhun.l;i bc]{ a rebound Immchthc; de- pression of the crisis, & mu er Pertantage . wonld he - cbtainod. . Abgat half of the cutire assets of the firm are in the obliganons of the Nortaern Pacific Kailroad, which, 1t thrown upon the mar- ket at once and in_a body, would scarcely bring a nominal price’ Some small transactions in Northern Pucitic bonds were reported a fer days ago to have been made on the siock marketa: 2nd 2u3¢, but these are suspected to not have cen gentire sales. Maay ot the largo creditors are onposed to the immediato sale o the bouds and other obligations of the 10ad held by them, on the ground that nearly thao entire amounnt would be secrificed. It is fuggested by some that all the assets of the fum, with the exception a I a pleud the old chapel-master and I will pley yous nner bi the *Sicut cervus desiderat " (as tLe hart pants for the water-spriogs). 1 want you to hear thts hautboy stop.” of a tempest; THE CLD CHAPEL-RMASTER Froma the Belgraria A nuual. 1,—~THE CATHEDRAL ORGAN-LOFT. Ihad just finished my work at the Academy of Music, and cn my way heme resolved to run into the cathedral and sce my old landlord and music-master, Herr Zadaka, 80 that if the ser- vice was over I might walk bome with him. I bad been now ten months in, Ratisbon, and in that time had contrived to learn a little counter- point, a good deal of thorough bass, and a great doal more than either of love. Perhapsmy progress in the laiter passion was aided by the fact that I preferred secing my own likeness, photographed gmall in the blue oyes of Fraulein Zadaka to the conning over the masses of Pales- trina and tho elaborate compositions of the older mastore. It is slso possible that desire of mino for a walk with the old chnpel- master might have boen increased by the prob- ability of Lisa him. this sudden boiug up in the organ-loft with Tho congregation had already dispersed, and, 8 I mot thom stresming across tho grest square, felt furo that Zadaka wquld be putting by bis music and etarting homeward Ly tho time I reached ths cathedral. great flood of light was streaming in .ilcough tho whstern door and windows as I enférely; ir- radiating tomb and pillar, and spreading aoross the floor of the nave & broad band of glotons radianco, like 5 cloth of gaid laid down for somo Emperor’s coronation. church except one acolyte in & white sirplice, who was removing somo tall silver candlesticks from a side altar. out with a great volume of 't ¢joicing sound, and 2 portion of Palestrina's fine mass, “Stetla qusm viderant A'agi,” was poured forth with splendid power, and a spint of devotion worthy of the composer himself. I was so delighted that I ran under the organ-loft and clappea my hands, just as tho great deluge of music had subsided tos mera calm ripple of harmony, pure snd sweet &3 & maiden’s bymn. ™, 1t was sanset,, aud 8 Th w28 no dne in tho All at onea the organ broke An old gray head crowned by a black volvet cap, a head worthy of Titian's pmnting, looked out between the crimson curtuins of thio organ- loft, and & voice cricd: “'Ha! my licber Karl, it is you, then, who ap- 2" Come np beio, than that from Como up. my dear son. Isprang up the old stairs with the agility of threc-ana-twenty, and nas in & moment by Zadaka's Eido, studying tho passago ia tle old music-book with wbiel he was 8o euraptured. Again ke plaved a glorious passage from tho mass bo bad wentoned, till & suay gleam of sunset fell on Lis forehead, and transformed Lim 1uto & eaint Einging iv paradise to the glory of God. His eyea glowed with renewed youtls a8 L:e pressed tho desp-yellow keys, till the music pealed around him, aud made "the very plauks under our feet and _tha carved clierubim above us vibiato again. Long processional passazes, like the tramp of armies ; Lright carolings, as of welcoming angels; stormy fusues full of rude thunder and the coutlict of warrmg hosta; groans of sorrow as from expiring eaits ; thon radiant pesceful ending, like the subsiding with finglly an outburst of of the Northern Pacific securitics, shonld bo | Gujiny from the golden doors of converted tuto casd, and & dividend declared | henben’ tlswn apen b0 Saesr the ercar with the proceeds; and that the Northern Pacitic army of earth’s martyrs. As the last securities, put 1n tho form of bonds (which conld 8oou be due, inasmuch a3 tho firm héld bonds as collaterals for the moucylent to the road), should then be distributed pro rata among thio creditors. In this way cieditors who still have faith mn the faturc of the railroad, aud believe it will recover from its present embariassments, could hold the bonds ; while such s chose could gell their share of, the bouds, and no doubt get a better prico_for them thun the Receiver or ‘Trustees could if the whole amount were thrown by them upon the market. Au examivation of the assets of the bankrupt firm makes it more than ever évideat tbat the Northern Pacific wasthe weight that sunk them. Their contract with the Company gave them 13 Ecr cent for placing the loan. fiv got the onds at 83 aud sold them at par. If they bad eucceeded in disposing of the whole loan before I3 panic came, they would bave made a coloszal fu.une from tho transartion. As it was, they B b ¥ ol repliet otc finished, and the organ slowly subsided in- to rast, tho old ma, worn out by the vehemence of nis own pession, closed the book, 1csted Lis ead on hLis band, and covered bis eyes frum the zich light that now fell upou them. He was gi- leut for 3 moment or tno, as I chatiered about the doiugs of the morniag—the pedantry of oue master and the cleverness of anotaer. “Aud that Steiger, docs o over teik of me to on " gaid Zadaka abruptly, watchiog me ns I *Steiger 1™ “Yes, 8 er. Isee he has—yon color. Tcll "me what Le said.” “That you seemed like amean who had com- mitted tome crime, living so apart, and that no ue knew your antecedents.” faltering step: droughts of - flatters 2nd hope. WaS too rococo; there too modern; quartet was flimsy ; among the woodmen ; this part was 100 nois; that too slight. O Romeo and Juliet, thy suffe, mine. of the quarreling Ecené that opeos the opera ! I made love to Liea in Romeo's song, and it waa the evening after practiciog a duet of iho two Tovers that { first clasped ber to my heart, nnd Leard ber sobliko murmurs, which meant she loved me once and forever. If Zadaks bad ever been ambitious ana envious, as he used to eay bo bad been in old daysat Vieuna, when be was the bosom fiiend of Hozart, he had certainly grown a vifferent man pow. 1o was never tired of practicing snd hesricg my opera. When I sat down and played mv pet bits, he stood with bis great china pipe, like the very god of music und Rbadamanthus rolled into one; acd when Lieo rang Juliot’s songs_ ho stood and listened like Orpheus in the Elyeian Fields, when Eury- dice eings to him of thewr past soirows and their present joys. One summer ovening we wero seated under the vine outside the garden wiudow, he with his pipe, I with my riolin, and Lisa siuging 1nside at thie piano nhich stood neur the window. it was getting dusk, and (he lamp was not Lt. A nightingale, jealous of Lisa, was preluding on the linden in the garden. ** O Karl," eaid Liga, us ehe concluded the song with a shalle that scomed to dely the nightivgele, and to have etolea all its barmony, * that is xo Leautiful. You will be a second Mozart. Now ou shall have soma coffec. I'll go and get tho amp, alihough you haven't becn polite enough to give we &y eucore.” _ “Lisa!™ I eaid, but she ran up-stairs laogh- icg. “That girl loves you,” eaid a voice cloge to my ear. It was Zadaka's. **‘Llere was love in that voico and iu yours—but you do not want me to tell you that—youth and love, they are one. Thero 18 & tone of voice that love oniy can pro- duce, it cunnot be arsumed ; the greaiest actress canpot learn 1% -6 tones, 1t1s the beart speak- ing, and the Le.rt lone can produce that per- fect ha¥mony. 4 ¢ How czu Ideny Tlove her?” I stammered, ‘blushing cr.meon in tue ok, ¢ Iuis tuat Jove that bas raised you to genius. Ifelt sure it wae; and L love you for loving Lier. But mind you marry me with ker; f.r to part would be impoteible. 3y dark moments then wotld overwhelm me;” Lis band pressed my arm, and I felt it tremble; **it is allI can do now sometimes not to yield to despawr. I have Len ambitigus, very ambitious; yet hero I am iu ola age a poor, forgotten masic-master, diudg- ing at tho Philistine's wish, and bearing proud fooly’ insults.” it ** But your art consoles you.” I tried to cheer im. 1t is your success consoles me, my son, and the love that has eprung up like & beautiful spring lower between yuu and Liss. Butyou miust succeed beforo I ¢an give Ter, who is tis core of uy heart, to you. You must some day, too, Lear my wtory ; perhaps then you will carg 1248 for t Lisa." 53 Ilove you a8 a father,” I eaid fervently. No miefortunes of yours can lessen that Jove.” *If we can only 5¢t the Goveinment Director to grant a public rebearsal for your opess, it 18 certun of success. Look: is thero uot some- :lhi"g moving down that bazel walk—something a1 7" 1 looked, but eaw nothing bat tho glow-worms on o hazel bank, All boyond was now datk, and tho only sound was 2 faint rusie of tho leaves. ** He said that ? Yes, bucause he tried to be arganist bera izt this cathedral, and I beat him in open competition.” 0. po ono carcs what Bfeir=r 8 “You are sure you seo nothing " “Yeu," “Af:? pnx-db me, I sm old, ard shaken in nerver, and Lave_Leen overworkmg at my His- this that chorus a mere shout, such as you hear in Tyrolese taverns inge—noblo pair of lovera—wero s mothing to That buzzing paseagoe of the violins to oxprees tho flies at the warm edgo of & summer wood, that trill of nightingales in thebalcony gcene, cost me more torture, before it got right than ever the Egyptians suffered, or than Philo- mel berself ever endured. Cellini himeelf never took moze pains to weld and fuze and rivet to- gether the junctions of the Duke of Ferrara's engiaved armor than I did to blend the love of the moonbght scene (vearly balf haut- boye) and the terror of. the charnel-honse gcene, where the double breses groaned aud murmnred. How Zadalka glowed with trinmpn when 1 finished the scene in the balcony with passages of sercuade music dying off in the dis- tance, gurghog nightingalo tnlls, and thon a far-off shout of revelers! How Lisa bent over il 1 could feel the soft warmth of her cheek to sing us the notes for the dance! and how Zada- ka's old friend, the cure, struck in with tho bass wear laurcls, theyfshall be be truo fame or none that I wi Anaas T ead this I throw open the door into the dazzling light tEat confused me for an in- stant, and s'cpped as it wero from Hades into heaven. Lisa run formard with s cromn of jonquils ilizt she had been twisting together, and laughingly crowned my head, then ran and ent down to the piano and-piayed the first bars of apompous march of triumph from * Judas Maccabzus.” A moment after, with all her grace and strange Undine-like veerings from gayety to eadress, sho leared up and threw her &rms round her fathex’s neck. ** You look ill to-night, dear father,” she said. “ Does he not, Karl? Ho is working too burd at bis book. Karl, you must help me burn all the pens.” “ Y Lave been anxions, my Lisa, about Karl and bis success.” . “Karl's succces! why, he must succeed. Comc, papa, supper is ready ; and the cure and Babelgchweitz will soon be here for the quartet e are 0 practice.” The family group at the supper-table mado a pictue worthy of Meiesonnicr. A lctiuce, 8o deliciously cool and green, was ready in 'the bowl, and it was pleasant {0 see tho epicurean caro with which the old chapel-master: blended the salad. ‘Plic open piano, the sweet face of Lia, 2nd the fine Titian-like head of Zadakd, wero reflected in ministure in the round muror on gho wail. The ealad was just ready, and Zadaks was tossing it round with a httle cry of triumpb, when a violent knock was heard at the door, and in burst the irrepressible Babel~ schweitz, bis gooscberry eyes staring wildly, Lia red hair, 88 usual, all in a rebellious tangle, = He dragged with bim'tho gentle old cure, lus uncle, who wae expostulating, balf out of breath, at the rapidity of the cnirance. *‘Heisa,” jucbheil” cried Babelechweitz, “Sucli newsl Oh for & trombone to give it in niprupnnte wusic! eira for Karl Waldstein ! ke perission for the opers Las come. It's all niglt. it's all right! O forten thoueand big cannon to announce the wonderful opera of Karl, the great young Karl 1" ** God Le thanked !" eaid Zadaka. Liea burst iuto tears of joy. Aund I—what didIdo? I was stunned. Isat down and buried my bead in my bands. 0,ir I sbould fal! * Remember Zadeka's offer,” whis- pered a voice. Labelschweitz davced round the room hike s madmun, then pou:ed out wild cries of Laumph from tke suffering piano. It was a coronativu day for me. “Lutah! i you fail, my sonl” the ugly voico kept taging. 1L —THE CAFE APOLLO. The last privace rehearsal of tlo opera by the stuaevts of the Contervatcrium was an over- wheiming success. There conld be littls doubt of victory if the aucience was mot prejudiced against my youth. Bubelschiweitz and {us friends Lad wsisted upen tae Apollo Club, to which we both belouged, giving we a supper in the pri- vate room of the Cafe Apallo, the great 1esort of students: aud old Zadaka was to be the Chair- man of tho evecing. I think from bis manner Lie was glad tbat [ had refused ¢o do what I decrued dishonorable, and had trusted to myself aloue. He seemed now to bavedittle doubt of my stccess, and no trace of melancholy or dis- appointment lingered abont bim. His eyes rested with Lindly humor on the moixy young students, and he'nppeared to relish their wild tricke, their outrageous entlusiasm, and to en- | joy thieir nproarious songs. withabsurd choruses, 1epresenting the cries of animals. "Lue wupper was over, go wore the part songs pleasantly cheered with wie, without one glass 100 much having yet been taken. Bubelschiweitz, un the shoulders of a tall Swabian, both hidden under the same eheet, was playing the Ghost in + flymlet.” sud anawering through a speaking- trumpet the questions of tho Danish Prince, which were all in the squeakiest falsetto. Bullows of laugbter were rolling through tho room, while ao impromptu charivaii band played an scecmyaniment to this extravagant duet. The old cure was, after great pressing, just pouring ut the third glass of hock (s most Sardana- palian act of revelry in bim), 2nd we wete now prepating for oo impromptu incantation ecens 1rom ** Der Freircbutz," Bakelschweitzas Zamdel, when the door opaned, aud Steiger and o stran- ger came in, and tcok their places, without greeting any one, near the door. Steiger was never 8 pleasant sort “of person, and be looked peculiarly dissgreeable on this special night. Ho was a feiraiy-faced, malevo- lent man, who alwa:s seemed as if be were going to bite you—his head like o rat's, his forebead low, Lis complexiun yellow with' bile, bis drees tordia and careless, lus walk a distorted twist, that accompanied each’ toast, and we were all | _to fresh studies, to more toil, to more Passionate ontbursts of his art, {feeling that he was doomed to early death, and deceiving my- gelf with the thought, inspired by Satan, that & fos years more would raise me to fame. | When overpowered with fatigue, I urged Lim to moro Iabor, unconecions of my own baseness. 1 eco now my great wickedness, and how near to mur- -der the davil led mo. -At ast that fiery sonl out- waore its fragilo tenementof clay, He sank, and in almost his Inst Lours he gave me the fatal gife of twonnfinished operas, the works of his yuath. Agsinl was tempted, and fell, I set up openly a8 an imitator of my dead friend, and wove Into my operas tho airs which I had stolen and completed. My success at firat woggreat, At last some Steiger of those days, jealous of me, reported that I used MS. of Mozart. Dupli- cutes of iwo .aire I uecd were found at Megdeburg, and my secrot was discov- ered. ‘Then came that ternble -rumor, and [ chaoged my namp and fled. Ab, do ot despisa me, lieber Karl. have sinned deeply, but I bave repented deoply. You have not snffered the temptations that I aoderweat. You were Dot a man of talentaod ambition croshed bya genius whom you bad ance surpaesed—you know Dot tho bitternss of-that. From the moment I stole the thoughts of Mozart's, if 1 had written the music thoy suog in beaven, I conld neser have raised myself to fame. The devil tempted me, aud paid me a8 he always pays bis victime, in bage money that will not pass. Ah, my son’ how, bow I have suffered! How ean 1 wiel ;:;_ live now but for you and Lisa. Where is isn 2 ** She is gone to the cure’s; i turn, dear father.” s **Say that again. Yes, I have been a father to you, aud bave loved vou as one. You will not forsake ma! You will not lot Steiger come bero beautiful ehe locks | “Thank God that 1 shall eee her again beforo Idiel 1faela suwange, increasing woiglht at my beart, I feel tirough the darkness for the out- down myselz at the piaco; and then oross like an cmanation the glorious' music that the dying throughont the Requiem ghmpses of inefablo brightuess. Througn the open doors of the tomb we eaw the wideniug plory of the heaven whore tears age wiped away fiom overy eye. 1 in expresuion; bo was stretobing out his arms toward tho door. * Do you not tee him 7" he said. ¢ There is Wolfzang thero. Wby do_you not greet him, Lisa, Knil, Feinhart? He is no longer 1 faner- al clothes, his face is brigat mith the glory of beaven ; and eeo, bo umiles and holds bis band out tome, Cruel, cruel, uot to let me grasp " “Dear father,” I said, “3you only dream; there is no ond there. ‘Seo, I will open tho door.” T opened the door, end the evening eun from the gurden burst in 28 if a god bad eatered. As dec: tho bis Lands Liko clawe. his bair Jike dead moss ; altogether a man_to avoid. Tho person with bimwes a tall, wiry Fiench-Jow msu, with o smiling and beckoning to me, * I am forgiven, 1 after tise full moca next following from the sont aud Southern Africa. _A Partial Ecli visible from soy 3Moon enters Penumbra, Oct. 24, Afoon enters Shadow, Oct. 2 ‘Beginniog of Total Eclipse, Gef. 45 3idale of Total Echipse, Oct. 25... End of Totul E-lipse, Oct. 25, Moon leavea Shadow, Oct, 5. Aoon leaves Penumbra, Oct. 35, Tle eastern portion of tho moof deg. from N.) will first touch the shadow. CALENDAR FOR 1874, e — ASTRONOMICAL NOTES.--1374. Tho following conciso summary comprizes ol 4 folante s the moro important sstronomical phencmens of Ksis ‘11 the beast comes in here, ho shall go out | the coming year : A b}' that window." ECNDAYS IN THE YEAR, g . The oid man was too fecble to speak, but he | J8B. 4,11, 18, 25. July 5, 12, 19, 26, pressed my haod in gratitude, Feb. L1520, A2g.3, 0,1 3 T seo Lisa and the good old eure coming up Sat. 0,13, the strect. ~She has given him ber arm. How Lih a5 2, 29, I Norv, 1, 5, Dec, 6,13, 2, pril 5 {n Enster Surday ; being the first Sundsy the vernal cquinoz, stretched band of God. Jan, 3o ah Tom ST H00Ns, As I watched tho now oxhsusted man, Liss | Fer, 3 = and the core entered. We knelt iu praver | drch 2 g around thebed of too old charel-master, mnd | April 1 8 we rose he bleseed aud embraced us one by | May 1 one. 5hy 81 “Liga, my darling.” bo zaid feebly, “go into | 73023 the inuor room ond play mo the ‘llequiem' of | Aay, 3 Mozart. It breatbes the vory sonl of Christian | Sept, 5. hope, and I read in it sesursnce of forgiveness | Oct.” 25 10.. 50 aud of peace. Weep not for me, Lixa. I am | Nov. 23 11h) &m. 5. m. Nov, B 110" bappy now. The guilt has been lifted like the | Dec. 2. 1ih. m. p.m./Dec. 8., 6h. mili-stone from my beart. Iam at peace now. THE SO Earl"—oud ho jouied our haoas—*cad ber to | Sun nearest tho Larth, Jan, 1, 8h. Sim the iner room. 1 would Lear somo last strains | Sun enters Auiee, Spiivg somimrien s % of thn masic tlat I bavo loyed 0 lovg. The 20, 0b. 43m. p. m. i i Slasch cure will pray with mo Lere.” Sun enters Canc 7 Lisa woa otil weeving. I kissed her, aud sat | 21, 9h. 18. a. g S UMNCE commonces, Jun Sun farthest fiom Eart b, July Sin snett fhom Earth July, 4b. 46m. n.m Lumn eoumences, Sopt. outburste of griel; but by degreca the music | two of the Moon. e seecs Of tho San acd melted ioto light, and thero” difused iteelf | A Total Zeiipss of the San, April 18; <iaible £ Leastern coast of South America pee of tho oon, May1; nof Fart of the United States. - Lind pauted for & momont in & sndden relatse of | An Annular Eelipso of the Sun Ot o gnief, when a euppressed ery and s low call from | ible from Eurupe and Northeasters Africa. ot the cure zrousea both mo and Lisa. A Total Eclipso of tho Moon ov the night fol- | (o We hurried, aad found the core striving in | lowing Oct. 21; vimble frem the United Statcs. - vain to Leep the old manin bed. He seemed | The following are tiwe dates of the phases, Chi- 3‘ vandering. His eyes wero anxious bat joyful | cago time: n's limb (30 TRANSIT OF VENTS. ‘The most important astronomical event of the ade will be the nppareat passage of thc placet Venus, lise 3 small dark spot, across tho face of Sun, on tho 8th of December. The phenom- enon wiil occupy nearly 4 hours and 33 minutes, it deluged the room, the great flood of boly T 4 8 brighlacus fell full across tiio bed of tbe dywg Phebt, Gt I g e il 5. ) : “Yes, there hie pasres amay into the light, | toor P&',umfimiisn';:l i3 o g T ovethesd to the inhabitants of Australin and store of said brothers-in-law. The latter swore s 3 . ¢ 8 5 ' 4 : need not have suffercd by the want of confidence | plood js as Llack as ink, and.he is os fall of | tory of Sacred lusic. Now hsten: I cunnot, anda squit. Eavy and malevolence— | am free. The Jonrney fo the brght city has Lo- | Stadtsuscars 15 wilh br e amyt Lol n that the only__goods in question which they uffered 1 cred 3 . x % | Jong fac ccsed bad beex bid off in the public sale, | felt by the public in the success. of the enter- | malice as o melon is of teeds. We're going to | must deteuie Lisa to you till your incomeis ; long - Farewell, Li f my heart! Fi : : s Halice. g e ze. blic can al t—1 they might have stood for types of those pas- [ gun. Farewell, Liea, cors of my heart! Fare- | 41, astronomers of th I nat; give him o cate’ coneort tho laet might be ot (b | e e e e o his 1o tho "o | sioae, aud their oyes seemod (o cast a baleful | Well, Hober, lisber Karl] Heaven biess nod | ioasionomers of the priseipal natious of the priso, if $hcy bad confined their connection with it to sn agency busines. and had not supporied it with their own moncy and that of their depositors, But their _enthusias- tio futh in tie undertaling led them must succeed. Lock et me; my life is the re- sult of imperfect success, or, rather, of succers obtained Ly wrcng means. But I must not talk of that now. Again that pierciog pain in my bead! Iam bound to tell you, with the voice of tions will enable astronomers tocalenlate the dis- tanco of the earth {rom the Sun to within 10,00¢ -1miles, or abont one partin 9.000 of tue whole distance ; which is at present ouly known to ba somowhero between 91,250,000 and 92,000,006 sud offered to stand trial for perjury if the con- | trary could be shown. Conviction followed v, the creditors employing additional coun- Ths Judge (Boud) and the District At- infiuence 2s they passed around the table, pro- | guide you as it has ever done! Farewell, dear voking from every one sotto-voce expressions of | brother! Wolfgang, dear Wolfgang, I foiow!” dishike, auger, snd contompt. “Theu the head sauk ; a change passed over tho * Siéiger, old icllow.” sud Babelschweitz, ina | face. It was the shadow of tho wings of the Iull of tho mad merriment, * you don't look well ; The old chapel-mastor lay vacation—such & ove, with sixtecen trombonee aud double {ougs-aud-poker chorus.” ; + Comitted a crime ! mused the old man. “ Committed a cruze, and becanes I livo spart. | zel. tcmey oppose any, pardon- whatover ; but the Angel of Death. ey onf : to embark mote and mors in it, and then : ,, i §ury unazimously rign an application for pardop, | 10 t0. Ios and tmore it 3 | Ho did not say whascrume 3 i . ruin i s Lias bocord tic, thiat thero « o 1 Lhe ol - Byig that they mere famjored wih, by fha e e P et as g O don't think ogain of such & fellew | CXDe o e e e b oL (AL IR | 1 our voice, quanelcd_ with your tailor, of | dead in the soft evening Light, and in fhe fall | some! o ors, ha they sctod Lastlly, ot 3 Ialohour | went on until tho fimal collapse. To sell the | “iqit (UONRIG R ONEL o nave 27 | “"A pang went through mé. Wea I o again ro- | What1n the maicer? Pass him the bottle, Klop- glory of i suuset ee‘kalt riund, th bud and 1= srencrny, b fenbeim. proyed for tha pessing soul. - The following sro the_greatest elongations of sht ; and the whele Heorew influence’ €rom Allany to Richmond insists that these con- victed men, Fisker aud Goldstein, are worthy meicLunts and proper subjects for clemency. Ail this tiemendous business of bankrupter, with its two buodred Registrars and countless Assiguees, finally settlos in the Atcorney Gen- uals Department, and it requires tho very nicest acumen to discriminate between the ra; acity of the crcditor and the duplicity of the buokrupt. NELSON ON MEXICO. inister to the City of esxice, 1boma ,-<ho has been 1n the iplematic servico y for twelve years aas givea me a rose-colored account of the con- itivn of our twiu-Republic under President Lerdo ce Tejada, Perfect peace, he says, prevails from the Rio Srande to the borders of Yucatan,—all the Gen- s and Governors, like Escobedo, Cortinas, #2d Porfirio Diaz, baving ceased torevolutionize, The railroad from Mexico City to the ccast pts that mountsin-capital in close relntions with American and European cities. DBrigandage has icen vroken up. ‘Ihe interior government of the comriry assimiates in vigor and moral power with that of the United S:ates, Society 13 polito and tranguilized, and great hopes are eutertaned of railroal ' communications with both the Texas and Pacific cosst eystems; and tho Mexican engineers and capitals have, on tho whole, paeferred_to coatrol such public works, zod not surrender them to eitber English or American. Religious toleration generally pr vails, and the coantry is growing more liberal in tace, ligion, and’ letters, siuowing a rapid cpprosch _to the conditon of thin In" the United Stotes. Jnarez is looked apon as Loth the Washington end Linesly of tie country; and sach is his fame that strects tave been nemed for him ju_ Cadiz, Puris, and the Sonth American capitals. * Santa Anna, our old enemy, has leit a strong personsl, but donbt- ful tional, reputation in Mexico, having been penurions. wily, and corrupt. 3r. Nelson, who is 2 brocher of Gen. George cison, who was killed by Jeff C. Davis, and is also connected by marrisge with the Emperor Ltairbide's family, was our Minister to Chili soon after lenry Meiggs arrived there from Sau Frencisco via Pitczirn's Island, a defaulter with & carcer to win, or a priscn to which to be re- tursed. Meiggs gave a false name when he first arrived, bu: afterwards wus arrcsted on suspic- ‘o1, and purchased his release from Gor. Bigler, of Cstiforoia, who was at the time Minister. He =2xcaped acrose the Andes, put eoon returned, ac- imovwledroed himeelf in his truocharacter, devisad lLemes of public improvements which made w the moet iniluential foreigner in tho South Pacife, and is stiil instancing the rugged vigor ad eamestness. of the American character mongst those dist; ! Our accomp! DARIEN CANAL. To the above I may add the. Ewlbut, of Iilinois, Tecently. nko explains that the Selfiidge Expedition up ine River Atrato, to find a canal route across the Tsthmus of Darien, is based on a mistake. He thinks the proper way to put & canal zeross the Isthmas is to take it at _the shortest part, and tunoel the mountaine. He does not believe any canal _can be made, a8 the Governments of Europe will be restricted by our treaty with New Grenada, cud thoe Pacific Railroad interests in | the Uvited States would all bo enlisted “againet the cupul. 3 THE HEXICAN COMMGSSION, iiling in Washington City, is appreaching the riod prescribed tor it, iviag accomplished g;t:le or motbing, throngh the negligence and w- 2ftention of Mr. Wadsworth, of Kentacky, whom the President appointed for perscnal reasons, on 1i6 promise to give * ali the time Le could spare™ 0 ce. & Tie lcsicans, on the other hand, retained Calab Cuching, who fonght every .American cleimart with evasion, delay, and all (he tactics of wjustico ; so that the Commission has been a dazea. The pir ie heavy with rumors of all eoris as to . WILLIATS' uation. He encounters the bonds, it was necessary to push forward the building of the road and arousze a popular en~ thosiasm abont it rapid progress. The bond sales did not yield funds enough to do this, s0 Jay Cooke & Co. advanced their own money first aud tuen the money of other people intrusted to their Leeyicg end took the rairoad bonds a3 security. Aiter a while the confidence of the public in the road began to abate instead of in- crease. Pereonal friends of the firm who bad Leen persuaded into parchamng the bonds wanted to get rid of them, snd the firm, to demoustrate their continued faitn in the enter- prise, bad to buy them back. Otber people threatened to throw their bonds upon too market, which would assuredly have etopped any further sales at par. Some of these the tirm bought, and to some of the holders they lent money, taking the bonds as collaterals. To what extent they purchased bouds canuot be ascertained, but smoug their assets appear over ¥200.000 beld as collaterals for loans, of which 24,000 went to a former official of the House of Repreeentatives generally reputed to huve given great aseistance 1n tlobbying the laud-grant for the rond through® Congress. From the day when the firm began to buy back the bonds and make loaos upon them their doom was certain. “Their subsequent effort to save themuelves was only rowing up siream whilo the curront was carcying them stesdily and ewiftly iuto the whirlpool of bankruptcy. Politicians connected with tho Literal and Re- form movements assert that the extinordinary cxettions made to prevent the concern from: soing through'tbe ordinary course in tho Bank- ruptey Court were for the purpogo of hiding im- portant political secrets which the books of ths tirm would discloss. Thoe attemot of Butler and ‘L'remain Lo secure the passage of a general re- peal of the Dackruptey law, that would have been especially applicable to their cases, aud would “have’ put ‘their estate in the hanas of = Trustee of their own selection, is cited as procf of this.- These sccrets, it is alleged, do not relate merely to the furnishing of money in Jarge_sums for politieal purposes, as, for instagca, for the corporation fund nsed m 1872 to elcct Hattranft by bribing election inspectors to falsify the returns, but do coucern the National Administration and mony leaders of the Administration party. Of course this is only smmise and zossip. If such secrets esist, tney will never be exposed. The record of them, if any there be, is in pivate accouut-books, to which the public will uever get accees, It 1s stated in financial circles that Jay Cooke hos flo property invested in the name of mem- mers of bis family on which he can fall Lac r. Moorhead is not #o badly off, Thoe costiy bouse in which ke lives SJ\\'oth, it is said, $300,~ 000) is the property of his wife, and he i8 re- - ported to have given $100,000 each to his daugh - ters long befare the firm was threatesed with bankruptey. It is believed that Henry D. Coolie, who i8 accounted a moro prudent man than the Lead of the firm, mada some provision for his family in the days of his prospenty. Pitt Cooke hae a small fortuae in tae namo of bis wife, which was hers before marringe. OI the re- ources of the other members of the firm there are no reporta. pl 1t I n: i a w &il B Y di t k{ 1 8 A Pelrtion for o New National Holi= . day. £eoni the Washinoton Star, A petition has been presented to the House of Representatives. which the signers will, atall cvents, succeed in Leeping out_of the musty pigeon-holes of the committee. It is from filiy citizens of the City of Buffalo, N. Y., praying Congrees that the i2th day of Feoruary, the birtaday of Abraham Lincoln, be declared a national holiday, The petition is signed on parchment and framed in Liack eLony, with rows of silver etars on the inner border, and is sbont two feet coda half square. The framo is em- cased in o rosewood Ld. highly polished, bavivg for & Dbuse-relief s shield of bird's-eye maple, bearing the fullowing inscription in in- dented letiery: + Yemorial to Congrress of fifty citizens of Buffalo, New York.” The obverse side of the frame, beariug the siznetures, 18 of Ruseia leather, ard has tbe inscrigtion, ** Con- i snid Zadaks, as b drew baci tho curtains and looked down anxiously into the nave, where the broad roadway of ligut still lingercd. saw the Isst. chorister-boy, door 2" chants.” tho rigat. Look! it is crossing toward the light on the floor.” golden band_of lisht, I eaw a thin youthful figure dreesed in black, with a face turned from us, pass slowly toward tho easc door. paicful expression of apprcheasion. ** You see seeit!” and he hid his eyes and bent his hesd will run down aud tell him the cathedral is clos- ing, or he may Le locked in.” door to the west. —there was no one. Liad been quite time for a stianger paseing by to enter, cross toward the east Jeave before 1 had descended the etairs; aud that was tho explanation I gave of what Zadaka evidently was inchned 10 cousider ts a super- than bis own excited and perhaps morbid 1magi- ran up the organ-stairs together, bad fxinted ! e ing in tho organ-loft, and I Led grown into & musician of some skill, and, what is more, 1 had developed what my cnthusizstic fellow-atudents were kiud enougl to term “ a genius for compo- imitative, but they came fast, andI found in myself an ability to select and marehal them. They seemed totake ehape; and whilo men more clever than myeelf, certainly moie gcien- tific, wero wasting tueir time on drawing-room music, Ialwayskept in view the one eeftled Opera-writing, as udmitting of great play of im- composition, was to fame; Bozarg dare to despise, 1 Lad bezun an opera on stoly interwoven ; my love for Lixa had inspircd me for the work. ' I joured into it all my love again €0 purely and <o brightly. gave, I thought, s.tenderness and truth to the love passages that my uext opera I might take the Cencior Men- fred, or rome decper or Garker sabject, and throw into that the ambition of riper years; but epring of this my tirst work. I toiled on, eclect- only to dig till deeper for the gold. I wrote firet & _general sketch, taking special pains to blend harmnonioutly together the melodies with which I interspersed it. my old master, Zodaka, gaided my efforts and direcied my callow fineat things he thought too fine, and almost with tears in my eyes cut them ruthlessly out with that too ready pen ¢ his, and with sweop- ing red lines that pained me almost like gashes across my flesh. Here some phrase that 1 had carclessly etruck off grew, under hid care, into & duet whose cLarms Le inxisted on. “No, I hear nolhing; wearc alone hera, I go out as you were aving the * Sicut cervus.’ ¥ *“Dou’t you &ce 50me oue entering at the west ‘*Where 7" ¢ There, by'the monument of the Soven Mer- No, Iseo noone.” “::'nt there by the pulpil “Xom “You look to tho left pillar—I mesn thers to Tlooked, and thera truly, across the great *¢I'here, therel” eaid the old man, with a now; 1am not dreaming —it is he! You ig hands. It 18 only some chanca visitor,” Temd. *I1 1'ran down 1o & momeat, but no ono was thera, cailed; 0o one auswered. I ran from the east’ No. Iiooked into_the chioir Yeit is truc that there oor, retwn, and aturnl spreatncce, without auy more ground ation, Just then I hieard the swectest little voice call, Herr Paps, Herr Papa, where areyou?” 1t 83 Liea. 1ran forward to meet her, and we Herr Zadaka IL—TBE TEXPTATION. More than & year had passed eince that_even- tion.” My iacas were crude, no doubt, and urpose of my _ life—original ‘composition. givation, and embracing almost every style of the path I had selectes and the crown Beethoven and had strive’ for 1o ome but pe- ants and cantankerous fools liko Steiger could be eubject of ** Romeo and Jubiet,” with & fairy or her. That first passion, that never burne might never bo able again to represent with uch ltalian paseion and kustained vigor. For ove, love I Lad decided ehould be the master- ng and_rejecting, throwing away mauch, but With fatherly cato udgment. Some of my Mauy mid- arrange the overture S “There 48 o certain sense of jmmaturity in parts which you cannot see, and, therofore, can- vot amend. Lhis £olo i8 de:icious, that duet is charnung ; and yet thero is no incomparable tolo and po duet £o irzezistible as to make the whole theatre rive, as they did at Papageno's £ong in the * Magic Flute.” One spice more, ono gran of sometbing, would securo to you fame, for- tune, and Lisa,” I trembled at theso words, and felt some stracge temptation to evil creeping over me. was sure that the spirit of evil was urging me to tomething that would poison sll my life, aud covering the temptation with prizes of love and ambition almost wrrerstitle. _ A shudder passed fiom my heart o every limb. 1did not answer. 8 Zadalin went oa in s low monotonous voice, thiat secmed liko & voice in & dream. *‘ILis op- portunity lost, you will lose courage, aud eink 10to the mere méchanists with whom you study, and whose fauls [ havo striven Lard to guard you from.” Y 1 hardly knew what to say. The solid ground under me seemed to have turued into a trap- coor and let me through. I murmured some broken reprosches, some half groans, Lalf com- plaints that Le rhould have cucoursged me 80 far on the occan, and now left me adnft, soonto be a wreck. ** Nay, my son,” he eaid, “let not yonr heart sink. “Lhere is genius in your work, but you know not the public as I'do—it is & beaxt, all eyesand ears, Pt withont Draiue. Tuey 'will Lear you are young, and perbaps give buta faint and nnceriain welcome, o that your opera may not be recognized s a remarkable work 1ill’you are gray-liesded. I too shall leave music Lenind mo that will, I think, some day berecog- nized ; but what pieasure will my old bones feel from the green wieath thrown juto my grave ? You may one day lead the worid; but you must make this first success sure.” **But how—seo how I bave toiled! what de- l‘ight aud youth I have thrown into this work! WY Lat—" At this juncture, and before Zadeka could an- fold the plan which I misirusted, Lira came dancing in with tho lamp, and began to open the chess-board, *+ Now, Karl; now, dear father, Earl and I aro going to try the duet, ‘When summer evo begibs to weave.' " * Lisa,” eaid her fatber gravely, “ close the veranda door for a ehois time. 1and Karl are talking about something serious.” Lita closed the door with the sweet unques- Lilom'ns obedience of her nature, and we were aloue. ‘“*Howam T, Father Zadaka,” Isguin broke out, “ to insure this success ? I have flown my shaft. I bave done my best. I cannot wait for nper judgment. The work is the fruit of youth, aud I offer it to the pullic as that. Iow— what—" outh, always dead out or in fall ** Youth, flamo. I—1 am the great musician that carry the epell. Hear mo. 'Years ago I wad a fellow- student and bosom friend of the great Mozart. He gave mo ouce, 83 the’ greatest treasure ho eould give, a haif-wntten opera on the story of *Francesca Di Rimini,' It containa some airs as exquisite as anything heever wrote, butin a man- ner unusual with him, and more resembling Porpora. 1 value these as a very portion of my soul. 1 propose that we insert three of the best of these mrs into your opera.” *Into—my—opera "—Satan himself was then epeaking to me in the darkaess—* Herr Za- Satazn s, ves, Iray; I haveno ecruplesin de- cewving 1ools, who would let you be irodden to mud under their feet without pity. Insert these at the culmicating parts of Your opera, 2dd cue or fwo crudities to give them a resemolance to vour work, let them rise like rockets into tife higher world of genius, and eo secure fortuce, yousay ? It can never be discovered.” ‘Lisa tapped at the window impatiently. “You do not answer. ¢ How can I answel fame, acd my trensure at ono grasp. What do “Suppose I have at this moment the Govern- +* Herr Bteiger,” eaid Zadaks, rising with dig- nity and true courtesy, ** the Apollo Club drinks to you. Gentlemen, 1 Empauo the liealth of Herr Steiger, the zccomplished suthor of *First Studics for the Harpsichord.”” N The tosst was drunk with tremendous *vi- vas"” and clashes of 1nstruments, but Herr Stei- ger did not rise to reply. When the clamors for Steiger actually grew violent, he rose alowly, aud ith a malignant glance at Zadaks, * Gentlemen of the Apollo Club,” he said, “I am surprised to Lnd to-night, on the festival in Lonor of our young genius or our young failure of the fature, & non-member in the chair, and ‘more especially such a noo-mewber. T Levebeen before now accused of uttoring slanders agninat this mon ; of trying, it was implied, to lower tho yepntation of a rival. I had my own reasons for those zccusctions sud that dislike. I Lave found from the friend from Vicuna who sits beside me, that tlus man goes by an sesumed namo. His real name he conceals, and why? Bocause it has been disgraced.” 5 Zadaka scemed going tc rush at his enemy, but I 2ud Babelschweitz restrained and consoled him, “Yes, I eay disgraced, and when I tell you his infamous naie, you will kuow that he is the in- comparable willain who was evervwhere believed in Yienua to have poisoned his friend—the divine Mozart—to conceal his thefts from him. That man, Antonio Salieri, sits there Lefore ou.” 3 My blood turned jcy with horror. I bad heard of such a report a8 one gezerally believed in Vienna; but, even if it was true, how could Zadaka be Salieri? Ihad never even heard him mention Vienna. He had alwnys spoken of Mozart wich a love that bordered” on idulatry, and a regiet that sas almost overwholming. "1 wged him to riso and deny this disgraceful cal- umby, and I, with my own hands, would expel and challengo this slanderer. T'o my horror Zadnka etood up, but be re- garded me with_vacant eyes, 8nd uttered orly lucoherent words. He pointed to tho closed door, and gaid : 2 “+Who is that man in black, with his faco turned from us, who is entering the door? He nsks for me; he iurne his facel It is Wolf- gang! Wolfgang, do mot repulse me! Iam guilty. It is 1—I, my friend Frapz— And a8 be said these terrible words, the old man staggered step forward with hands up- raised, 2nd then fell heavily on the floor, 88 wo all thonght dead. > 3 ++Seo now,” emid Steiger, *“if I calumniated the man. Karl Waldstein, you were well saved from such a father-in-law.” 1V.—TOE REQUIEM. It was two days after tho great triumph of my oporn, the news of which had been be first sounds that broke on the ear of the old man, whoe consciousnces after Lis fit at tho Cafe Apollo had but slowly returned. I was eitting with bim one.bright evening, goon sfter his return to reason, and_Lixa, dear Lies, to whom 1 was&oon to be married, was gone to the curo to aek him to come and read to ber father some prayers of the chuxch, when he awoke, and sce- ing me, eat up, and begged me to como nearer to bim. Icame aud sat by the bed, holding his tlun white bands. < Ab, my son, my dear gon!” he said, **you did right to rebuke my sin by refusing my re- quest about your opers. You need not tell me sou love Lisa, for you still love a poor disgraced Wretch like me. Ah, yon have a good bheart, and beaven will emile upom you. Although, for all you know, I may be, as perhaps all Ratis- bon now thinks me, the marderer of Mozart, et still you watch and guard me with a faithful Tove, and all because I am the father of Lisa." *Not for that aloue,” I said. +No, ycu are gratefui to me for what I taught you. Alas! waat can talent teach genine? Dut Ism no murderer, £0 you nced not shudder when 1 touch y.4. 1My great £in was one of awm- bition, and its truit fell on me and crushed me into poverty and obscurity. 3y Lime on earth is but ehort ; hear me tell the taje briefly. Iand Mozart were fellow-students and dear friends. At one time I surpassed on the barpeichord, and even gamed a prize for which be failed. A year WINTER. Thou darg-robed man with solemn pace, And mantlo mufiied round thy face, Like the dim visfon scen by Saal, aeg. Has glozious spsngles, and its stars Aze ke a conguergr's fresh from Who wove it in_Time’s awfal loom, With woof of glory, warp of gloom? Jove's planet gitters on thy breast ; The morning star adorns thy crest ; The waxing or the waning moon Clings to thy turban, late or soon ; Ordon's belt fs thine,~tby thigh His jeweled sword hangs brightly by » The Pleiadcs seven, the Gipry s star, Shine a8 thy shoulder-knots afar ; And the great Dog-star, brigat, anknown, Blases beside thee like 3 throue, Take heart ! thy coat, 0 long and black, *~ Bore-worn, and fitting round thee slack, 1s broidered by the Northern Lights, Sun, min. No will Eart the Which well make up for all the hues Proud Summer, bridegroom-like, m3y use Proud Summer, with Eis roses’ sheen, ‘And dress of scarlet, biue, and green, ¥loods us with such a sea of light e miss the faint, far isles of Night, And thoughtlesn dance, while ho with Infy* iles us, o assists 0 fruit But, like a shade from Spirit-land, Dim Wiater beckons with Lis hand,— o Leckons ; all things darker grow, - Save white-churned waves and wreathing mnows We pausc; a chill creeps through our veina; We dare uot thank him for his pains; We fear to fallow, and we creep To candle-light, to cards, to sieep, Yet, when we follow him. how deep The secret Lo has got to keep ! How wenderful | haw passing grand | For peering through his etorma theie stan@ The eternal cities of the eky, * it etar ke sizect lxmps hung on Ligh; No angel yet can sum worth, Thoush sngels sing whea they bad bizth, ~Chambers’ Journal. Greeley as Chesterficld. While I wss in Washiogton, Horace Greeley used occasionally to visit us thers, I remember that he once breakfasted with me, if I recollect aright, tee-a-lefe. AIr. Greeley had long befora this discarded Grabam bread and a vegetable diet, and had grown to bo a very hearty devourer After breaifast I lighted o 173 will nal turning to me, he asked me if I koow t] claimed to be the most polite man in the country. I told bim that I recogized Lis many excollent qualities, but was not aware that be was especially remarkablo for the graces of polite- ness. He assured” mo that bo was, and told me that he had never been beaten in politcness bub once in bis Life. That happened, he eaid, maas cars ago, beforo the dsys of railronds. Early | % T mpé"ming be lefc Bagg's Hotel, at ‘%i:it'. A in a_stage-coach westward bound. . :‘ns but b;“ passenger besidea himself, a gentleman of very-prepossessing appearance, terval of talk ensued, when the stranger.ab- roptly, but deferentially, remarked fo Mr. Greeloy, #1 hopo, sir, sou have no objection to 37 “None inthe world, sir,” replied mote thought of lighting_it.” * Thereupon 3r. Greeley felt that he had been conquered in po- liteness, and be afterwatd LQL':l:nlmcd that the victor was the famous Capt. Suerman, of Laie Mercury durin, fore :Il;ui aftor l:b In the east, before sunrise, Apiil 15, 2 St min.; Aug. 13, 18 deg. 44 min. H g)cc?:\,i‘eg ‘pril, when bo can casily be discern Several apposit ing 1874, but mos ! De of interest to the ordioary obeerver. distance from Venis, both sctting pearly a¢ the same time as the Sun. one-third Moon) south from ars after the Sun. north from Jupiter- before the Sun, theso thie next mornicg beforo d: apart, or loss than on Full Moon asunder. lerics, and having t ira of Napoleon IIL, N od eron oo tha bottlas, Chatean Coatet, bo quise Lur Saluces, 8s per guady, arms, €12 per dozen. 157 For oue or two days be cse dates he will bo visible : 3 29 min. In the west, after sunzot, March 2, 1§ deg. Iy Upratsed by apells from Death's dark hall ; oy . e deg: Tuou sad, small man,—face thin and old, xllaln», June 28, 25 deg. 40 min, ; Oct.' 24, 24 degy Teeth set, and nose pinched blue with cold,— min. Ne'ermind! Ty coat, #o long and . VESUS And ftting round thee all so slack, will be an evening star, being eastward from the , from Feb. 23 (superior coujurction) to Dea 8 (inforior conjunction aud transit), She at tains her greatcst clongation, east” (16 deg. 81 ). on Sept. 29, and lior greatest brilliancy o1 stans . not be a very interesting object during 1874, being on_the, farther gide of the Sun from the ter the th. He will set in the evening, Sun, till June 5, the date of conjunction; and will rige before the sun darin, the remainder of ‘ year. In Janusry Lie will be in the constella tion Aquaries; and in Scptember and October will bo 1 Leo, near the Sickle, JUPITER Thote silver arrows shot by spritis,— = A C . dered by the Miiky Wa, will be & very_interesting object, being in the {“'lg::w!ul regrla ‘unknown Ug-d-y. constetlation Virgo, and during the greater part of the year between the bright stars Zavijava and Arists. At tho Leginning of tho sear L will be South about 5 o'clock in the morming; on the meridian at midnight (oppo: ion) Marck 2nd an Evening Star from that time until Oc. 5, the date of Lis conjunction with the Sun. sATTRY ; 1 bo in the western balf of the constellation Capricorn, near the two brightess stars, during the whole year. He will be on tho meridian ai midnight (opposition) of Aug. the cv%nin;: 8ky from theace till year. TRANTS ’ will be in the constellatlon Cacer duriog the vear, being very near to tho Beehive nebuls in 2, and visible in the cloe of the ed with the ked eyo on fine eveninge. He will be on the ‘meridian at midnight of Jan. 27; and in con- jusetion on Aug. 3. FLANETARY CONJUNCTIOSS. jons of Planets will occur dur- t of them too near the Sun to Fan. 22, Mercary wiil bo only 1 deg. 4mim. " F-A ; 4o 12min. (about May 3, Veous will beonly facter of the Full | oot ‘Both ect one hour 2od half after the Suz. Jupe 28, Veons will be 1 deg. 12 min. north ting two houss ufter the food. . ;fgu mnr; ‘Olfered ono to hum, although I | from Uragus; both sed koow ihat be did not smoke. Of course ho | San. oyt po 0 deg. 53 min. soutk declined it He was in capital hnmwlu‘;nl:]a. i u‘:gjup(!er, it 1 Lour and 40 minutes ., Mars will bo only 3 min. o' “Risivg nearly five hours two planets may te sec, jaylizlt, cnly G min. e-fifti the diameter of the ‘ Japiter will then be sontlsy | v J about five degiess cas S:Aimm I E. CoLpERT. | —_———— Sate of the Wincs of Napolcon 11f. ‘ ; Crockford's, Loudon, the rema:ning T “ifie fine wities were digposed of by Dec. 15, 8t 9 p. with whom be soon fell into conversation. After | portion of ; d of by awhile the stranger slowly, and, 88 it were, mo- | auction. Tiero, was 2 vn.lry lh“":’ccd.!:sl gz = chanically, drew a cigarcaso from his | Porto Louge, viotage 1847, i’”'p Ly e ocket, and, opeaing it tendored it t0 | man, sold at 72 per bottle; Poro Do, & B r. Greeley, who declined tho proffered | gofden port, viotaze 13:,];, in magoificors cond- offer. Tho conversation was recumed; | tion, 8. per pottie; Clarets—Lurdescr flously and presently tho strauper, estracting & | Chafesus Lafitte, vintage 1359, bottied oxpresty cigar from tha case, placed it in bis montl, 80d | by Clossmax & Co. ot the Emperor. 105, et o9 R o tha cace’to. his pocket. Amother 10- | tfs; 6an do vie, very old, laud do o crest and initialof the Em= e Cr50 per dozon. Hare old having tbo Imperial £15 per dozen. Old bottled_in roron each bottle, a cigar 2" | th e tho wine of tho Empress, Mr. Greeley, * when it is ot shght.” * Ob." [ 3falvoisie, tho wine of t rewe, bolled fd roplied his compaion, * I bad not tho most Te- | 1358 at tho Tflflmefififflfm‘fimu L em s bottle. {:om[au 5 Tntage 1365, branded with the I[mpeii T e OBt white spasiliuz Bur- 58, 10 per Lottle. Some very *Cl ,}m' updl:fe “pg:fi;';‘x’:;;lm:fxg ms%‘::e ment permission for you to rehearse your op- rowing out of the politics of Ore- red Little points of etreet-as: witich, 1ntheend, would dismay alocomotive- c. It iss2id to be shown that the family- iazo which wos procured to givo dignity to e&‘ poeition - Winch e has somoe time fo-tho United Btates ;-and G night hours ne Leard together ths great caths dral eicck bammer its nais into Time’s coffin ; many Lappy moipings we tried over eougs til their last tinih could be obtained, avd they floved _off my violn like eilk from a polished rcel. With all the fire of youth about me, per- severance enough to hew down mountains, vet patience scarcely enough to level a molekill, 1 ehould have sunk under the epparently hopelces iask hud not the good old Meator aided my¥ . ‘und®, viotage 18 later he fluw past me in the race, and I grew old ram, with the gieen envious. Still keepipg his fiiend-hip, Iraied secret intrigues to drive_him from Vienna, wheie Idieaded bis rivalry, I embittered bislifos I ielped to shorten it. I was ambitios, and dexpair made me long for his death, At last bia heart ceased to beat with its fall activity. I aw him grow hectic; In his eyes came a straoge, unpaiural fire, I feateid yot 1refoiced. Iurced gress the Forty-third." It was presented to the House by thc Hon. Lyman K. Basa, It will make a0 oinament for the commutice-room, at all everts, uud al=ays prove s reminder that such ' petitionis before them. \When the petition was presentad Mr. Bass placed itin front of the Speak- er's tatle. When that ofiicer's eyo fell upon it, heeeid: “Whoerer put that tablet there take it #3ar. 2xitisin gross violationof ihe rules of tha House.” seal, from St. Cloud, 1% le. Te Johannisberg of Priuce Metter- B oL led Gonlose- Metteraich. £1 per botdle. & quantity of wine in bond, consistine of_ports, Champlain. e S —'The latest medical discovery has been made at Bloomiugton, Ill. Itis thn:_ the ;u Dh! n‘::iz:u: mine is_a cuss and freventive uf whooping- y o in bond, consiains of, poris then the mine:'s children contract that | sherries, &c., realized, e fi%“‘;\f"m‘l,%‘flm they are talien down into the | quarter ' casks, oxclusivo of duty an ther | £hatt and Kept there until they stop whooping. | cuarwes, 4 I should etill male the eame anzwer.” “What ! are-you mad, to throw yomself down the precipice of poverty like this? Thiak of what you lose, and auswer.” “ I answer,” £aid I, with my band on the door into the lighter room, * that I will never obtain cven such prizes by base means. You would not have employed them at my age. If Iever