Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 7, 1874, Page 10

‘Flfl:cen"l\lllllnn Doliars Invested STRONG DRINKS. What They - Are, and Where They Are Made. Different Kinds of Europoan and +. Amerionn Wines, The Distiliing “and. Compounding Business in Chicago ! A ‘Geheral.‘ld‘ea of the 'Q'uanlity of Liquor Sold Here. 3 in the Whisky Business. ‘When man was driven from tho pancoful asy- tum prichially. nsslgnod’ to him by his Croator, and gondemned $o onrn his broad by thie labor of ls hands, hiu attention was no doubt ohlofly. di« roctod to procuring tho neoossarios of lifo, such 8 f6bd, clothing, and shelter. As o culilvator of {lio ofrth, ho must havo boen constantly om: ployed, nnd, ag his oceupation varied with tho . sengon; his mind was continuaily busicd on con- trivances to diminish and sweoton his toil. His activity, whon thus oxcited, soon extondad, its influenco to ovory departmont of lifo, and, hav- ing procured its nocossaries, ho was doubtloss carly lod to task his ingouuity in tho attainment of its luxurios. 5 5 Among theso, the proservation of fruits and * thelr juices, howover rudely praciiced, might have lod to thio uso of inobrinting drink, o bev- - erago which svas discovored by somo of tho mosb + snvago nations, and is doemad & luxury by the . almost univoieal' testimony of ‘oducatod man- Kind, Carrying this_ides ‘stiil further beck toward tho Creation, Milton -sooms to havoen-+ tortainod tho opinion that tho fruib of which Adam and Evo had eaton,—- , —Whos moral tasta Brought death into the world, and all onr woe,— was of on {ntosicating nature, when ho says : Soon 1 {e (0co of that fullicious frult, Thiat with bxbilarating vapor band, About thete picits huil. plaged, snd fomont poors Mado err, wos now oshalod, © Bomo timo Iater, tho Biblo attributes tho fu- yention of thoart of making wino to Noah, The froquout allusion to wing, tho praisos bestowed upon it, tho flowing goblots, tho luxurious ban- quots ag desaribed by Homer ono thousand yoars boforo tho Christian ora, oxhibit Its value and Lhia attachmont Lo the comforts of the table and to jovial socloty. | .. . + g ANCIENT WINES. Romo, assholearncd thaothorarts from Groece, ncquired also’ that ‘of making wine a8 soon as 6ho oxtondod ber power boyond che limits of her home empire, The plnees most colabrated .for tlioir wino woro neat Naples, on tho slopes and ‘bt the foob of Vesuvius,” now covered with tho- lava and ashes of that ‘colebrated .volenno, a: _spot in which Dacchus was said to have delighted in conse~ quotice of ita rare fertility and excellont adapta- tion for tho culture of tho vine, The sen washes the limits of this beautiful Iand on ono side, and on the othor delightful hills the Falerninn, Sur- rontine, Mussic; Ganroau, nnd othors, arosd with *the choicest situation and the most . favorable rlopes from the low country, giving. nasmes to 1he products sinco: wedded “to finmortnl voree, Dut, a8 wo do not want to give an claborato his- tory of wiues, we go on to present times, -; *+ EUROPEAN VINTAGES. ° Noarly all wines which luy claim’ to. the grontest purity and. delicney aros pro- ducod i France: and on - the Rhine, whero science and long cxporience have' beon brought to bear: upon their management. Tho oxtent of tho vineyards that produce the finer wines is well known to be very limited. The finest and most delicato red wines of the | world, full of rich perfume, of exquigite bouquet and delicate color, aro those of Burgundy, grown in tho district calicd tho COote d'Or. Other Fronch rod wines nro known by the names of Tafitte, Latour, Chatoan Margaux, Sautorno, normnn;fn, Poulliac, St Eetophe, St. Tulion, zud aro mostly mnde near Bordeaux. The best of’ tho white wines of the Champaguo are all.of the fizst quallty, but differing in color and efforves- cenco, . Of Gorman winos tho bost aro Jobannisberger, Steinborger, Judesheimer, Oppenheimer, Luus benhoimer, - Liebfranenwilel, . Stoinwein, and wany others, made on tho Rhine, Main, 1laardt, md " in the Bavarisn Rhine province. In Hungary are mado tho .rich liquour wines, assences, Ausbruchs, and Maslas, B Tho climato of Italy, 8o conganial to tho vine, rrndnuos no wines much-valued - for export, ow-~ ng to tho:poor management of the vintngo. The Groek:islands producs wines of various kinds, but mostly muscndines.. The wines of Portugal are oxcollont, but, except’ port, seldom “oxported, The wines in- Madeira, now nearly dostroyed by the. wine disense, once produced » ‘remarkably fine articlo. 'Ihe winos of Spain aro mostly rad, and of superior quality, Tho great oxports are from Cadiz and Malaga. The Shorry in mado moar the Town .of Xores de la Trontera aud Port Bt. - Mary, - opposite. the barbor of Cadiz, Tho- “cheaper winos pussing bere for sher are mostly. made-up wines or good min[.;l with inferior wines, Dort wine is nenrly always miugled with brandy to provent formontation. I'ranco, Germany, Bpain, ltaly, Portugal, . Hungary, Greoce, snd Bicily are the principal wine countricsof Burope. Tolorable wine ling algo. beon mudo in the ox- treme south of tho Rusginn Dominion. AMERICAN PUODUCTH. Iu this country the cultivatiou of the vine en- nged to somo extont the enrlickt nottlers of thio North Amorican colonics, “I'he fitet perinanent Buccess in wino-maling appoars to hnve beon at- tnined Ly French and ‘Swisa sottlors in Itlinois, Indiana, and Miesonri, ' Vino fa now . producaed In omo quantity in almost every Stato of the Union, thoso yiolding the Inrgest amounts boing ghi;, Califoruia, Kontuoky, Indinng, and Now ork. Tho wines of Celfornia nearly approach the Yotter classes of Europoun ones, Los Angeles County produces the best,—a Gorman Vino- Urowers' Association of Aushem muking the most * delicate. - 'Wheir annual production zmonnts- to about 000,000 ‘gallons. ~Missourl, zud nll along tho Mlan\n»l[:rl, Oatawbn, & light, parkling wine of muscadine tlivor, I8 made, Bomio of ‘the fiue oclauses of Cutnwba rival the best champagne in delicnoy -and purity, and a considerablo Khare of the winea passing undor tho name of champagne is ovon now tho produco of American vineyurds, put up and sold under Fronch Inbels, The oulturc of the prape for winos In aluo rapidly oxtonding through tbisStato, and large vineyards can be soon alrendy at Quin- ¢y, Enut Bt, Loms, Tellaville, und othor places. Ju the nel(ihhmlmnd of Keoluk and Daveuport 8180 a Yight sour wine is mado. DISTILLED LIQUORH, _All'the intoxicating drinks used in anclont timos soom to bave boon tho products of for- montation merely. -Tho art, a8 it has heon aall- ed, of diatilling tho flery domon of drunkennoss 1rom his attompored stato in wine and beer, is' o dincovery of modern dnys, Tt i first montionod By an Arnbian physician of the oloventh contury, Abnlkasem, though the invention s stiribe I\}od by some to -the . Northorn nutions, o namo: aqua vilw, given to distilled #ipirits by ourly phywiclins and alehomists,. whows what an estimato thoy mado of tho dus- | vovery taymond Bully declares this adnmirablo ©skonco to bo an omanation of the Divinity, an oloment nowly-rovealed to snan, but bid from antiquity, boenuse Lo human rneo was thon too young to noed this boverago dostmed to rovive lxopxxonzlau of modern decrepitude,. Badly haye their anticipations been boliod, . . Au audloss varioty of substunces are now usod in this oxtensive manufacturo, Bugar is tho diveat sourco of alcobol, and accordingly all vogotablo products contuining sugar, such us Erapos, Hugar-cano, swoot fruits, hootroot, e, uto wsed fu the matufaoturo of wpirits, " Btarch will uiso give spirits, since it onn bo con- vortod into sugar, and this acconnts for tho uso of potatoes aud othor vegetablos and fruits con- tulmufi; starch, Bpirits avo chiofly manufactured from barley, corn, aud ryo; wheat belng loss wsed, owing to ita cost! Tn tho north of T rope, potato apirit iu largoly ade and consimed, and much spitit is alko now mnde of beet-root, Tho Swodes mako o kiud of spirit from tho sap of tho birch, maplo, olo,. Nosldes tlewo, tharo ura chorry-brandy, jroa undy, cjdor-spirits, oto. -um is made frow) malakagy, Gln iy dis- tilled from corn or mn!i,;lw)41||§ &, portion of Juniper-perries to the othax ingrodionts, hud ty Juostly munufactured iu tho' Kingdow of 1lal- land.” - i il ol E Tlio name Brandy 21d 6nls fipplled to* spivite” dlstilled from wine, ‘Tho most lamous brandy jg that diatillod In Cognae, o disteict fn thoe wost of France, from the chofcont wines; but compara- tivoly Httlo of that sold undor tho unmo of Cog- nna comea from this distriot. . In lator yonrs, brandy distillod from Californin wine has boon in tho marlkot, and hins alrosdy takon a Inrgo sharo of tho drinfiors’ patronago. Whisky mado from barloy, corn, ryo; otc., ia'tho cheapcst aud most common form of intoxicatlug liquor madoe in the Unitod Btntes, and ita production hins boou. vory Jargo from tho Rovolutionary perlod down to tho prosont timo, Tho Btates which aro mostly on- aged In tho mauufacturo of whisky are Now §'urk, Ponnsylvanin, Ohio, Illinols, Indiana, nud Kontucky. ' "Considerable quantitioa are nlso | mado in" Tonnessos; Missouri, and Californis, “ho valno of the \vhlnky manufactured gonfly in tho Uniled Btatos™ is “ostimatod to’ be about §80,000,000, { - - COVERNMENTAT. CONTROL. Tho manufacture of ug:h-ilu [ rmqud nnder the survelllanco, of tho Internnl ‘Hovente Dopart- ment ; tho distiiler. is: subjected. to numeroun atringent rogulations with a viaw to,pravent the evnsion of * tho very high taxen. . Thero is doubtless - mno ) botter subject for taxation than spirits, sinca they may In-gonoral (. hio looked - ujion. na_purely. articles of luxury, 'Tlie consumption of lntuxlununq uauom i8 in- croating.day by.day. In tho United Btntes the #als of whisky during the vour ending Juno 80, 1871, wns estimatod at 60,000,000 gallons-of. im- «portad epirits ; 2,600,000 gallond imported winew; 16,700,000 gallons ale, boer, and portor, 05,000, <000 barrols . .nativo .. brandics, wines, eta., ostimatod. .40 . bo worlh \ 931,600,000, n - total: voluntion of ©600,000,000, . At resont -the. tax on ench gallon full-proof. alco- B Eol 1870 conta, which hna to. bo paid by tho dise thler, and_for which, nsn xccopt, n stamp la ‘pantod and nailed on tho barrol containing the spirit, . Tho manufacture. of splrits s supor- vised by n United Sintos ofiicor, called Storo- kaopor, as Lo hins algo to storo tho barrols. cons taiuing the. manufaoturod, alcohol until the Gouger has gangod and -proporly stampod thom, Very often it ia found that thesa officors and tho ownors of the distillerics.nra Work&ulx togother, dividing the.profits. mado by swindling the Governmont. out_of the tax, “eithor by rofills ing-old stampod barrols or solling without -any stamp. - at . .ail, .. Thongh the, fing s very “high - this nefariona businoss ia still tinnsnoted overy. day, ofton rollnhhlzglgnutlo proportions, - ns lnwl{ shown in tha suit of the nitod States nyainst the Pokin distillors, © CIIOAGO DIBTILLENS AND COMPOUNDERS, Tho distillories in tho Tirss -Qolloctor's Dia~ triet of Illinois, ()hm\;tu and neighborhood, ave only ton in number, 'but what - distillories. wo havo da & largo businosn, uso o largo quantity of corn, ryo, ote., and g0 for help to . consumo tho product of the farmors.of tho Northwost, . . The Northwosters Distlllory, on Clybourn avenue, commenced working sgain last” woolk, liaving beon idlo for somo timo, It .is o) oratod Dy n stock company, . with. $300,000 capital, of which B, E. Lawronon is Prosidont, and 8§, M. Nickorson Vico-Presidont. Thoy manufaoture about 2,000,000 gollons of apirits por yoar. Tho Chicago Alcohiol Works aro ownod by IT. T, Pablman and Dr. Rush, bolng situated at the cornor of Kinzio and Sycamoro Atrects, Whon tho Itevenuo laws woro not. so strict, Pahlman used to make a great deal of money. -Mulier & Reed are also doing n.vory extensive Dueiness, sbipping to the Erat, ‘Che soutor part- nor, I, B. Muilor, is County Treasurer, Dickinson, Lench & Co., anothor large distill- ing flvm ot 25 South Cnnnl streot, have their works at Olybourn place bridge, aud mako all Xinds of stoam whisky. . 1L 5. Shufoldt & Co. aro dolng: tho largost business in the city, and’ manufacture, bosidos othor goods, a fina gin. They export to England, Their Wworks aro located on”tho North Branoh, near Chieago avenuo, ’ . @. G. Ttuasgoll corrien on o distilery in an old waoodon shanty nt No. 278 Third avenue, mostly manufacturing highwines, On the lake-shoro at “Twenty-sovonth stroet, in a bullding formorly occupied by tho old South Bido Distlllery Company, is now tho distillory of Georgo Miller, who does o good business, mnnufacturing highwines only, 1, C. Mersorenu also malkos- highwines -and nleohal.’ Bouth of this city there ara tho Charles J. Binger Distillery, in tho Town of Palos, and thio Uniion Copper Distillory ot Catamot.’ Tha Jast ono 18 owned and worked by Junkor, Roello- & Co..-of thiavity, who also rodiatill a¢ thoir building cornor Kinzie and Rush stroets. Ros-: well O, Mersoreau also carries on distilling in this distriet. 2 o Of rodistillers, reducing highwines to aleohol, and compounding the diferont kinds of. spirits from alcoliol by steam, wo havein this oity Sam My-- or8 & Co., on East Madison stroot, tho oldost as- tablisimont of thia kind in the city, doing & vory. oxtensivo’ business, also.earrying on an oxport businoss to Lvanston, Harlem, and other sonts- of temperanco elong the Northwestern Road. Goods nont to these places ave boxed #o that an, ontsider- may siok know the. contents, "John Clarke & Co., on River street, aro also doing & nico businos, being vory onterprising, and wn- dorselling muuy- of their competitors.- This firm is composed of Johu Clarke, ox-Postmaster Eastmau, .snd ox-Gaugoer W, 8. Golsen (known botter among his frionds under the name of Soblaompclien), - Blabbing & Robinson, on Fifth avenue, redistill and reotify mostly tha highwines of tho Northwestorn Distilling Com= vany, . Oliver Ford & Co., havo their establishment on Bouth Wator street, and Georgo Crosby. on South Franklmn, nenr. Randolph - strect, - and Mason on-Michigan stroot, near Market—all of them doing a good business. James Walsh, the cx-Alderman, has aleo an - apparatus in bis building on Wost Lake streot, but has not run it latoly, Bosldes theso distillors and rodistillors, nearly “all wholoaale dealors in liquora -carry on -tho businesa of compounding, making rthe difforent kinda of . liquors, by buying Tectified spirit and mixing - it with tho required crgonces, sirups, and an additional quantity of water, Wo can safely say that two-thirds of all lk}uarfl gold in thin city nre made in this way. Of other cheap whiskies, the steam goods, mado at Cincinuati, are sold hero.' Finer whiskies find ‘hero only a limited market. The. bottor | brauds are mostly sour magh whislkies, mnde in tho Dlue-grass country of Kontucky, namely, Woodford, Frankfort, aud Auderson Countics. Thoy aro known by the names of their distil- lora” McBraver, Hormitago, Colter, Taylor's Old Fashion Coppor,- Bond- & Lillard, ‘Athorton, Trazier, ote. On nceount of the Ynnlo. last fall, most of those distilleries stopped working, and the result is now an advanco in price of from 25 0 90 por cont. Ponnsylvania ryo s also Lan- dled by some housos, : ‘ BRANDY AND WINE, In brnndiua,nlntfin bneinossis done, ag well in imported ad in Culifornin_goods. Of importod brandice tho botior brands ero -T. Ionnossay, Martoll, Otard, Dupuy & Co , Bayers, N, Barrin= son & Co., and n fow others, -Imitations of tha different brands arc slso often found. Of wines we find nearly all the different kinds made © in the world, from tho Johunnisberger and Bteinborgor Tmperial Qrbi- not at $110 the baskot to the Catawba at 3150 tho gatlon, Most of -those foroign goods which are imported by Chicago firms ave sont via Mon- treal, and dutios paid at the Custom-House hora, Importation would bo choaper, porhaps, vis Now York, but thon the importers have to pay the duty on their goods, as gaugoed by tho Cus- tom-1louse - oflicers at Now Yorl, and would be the - losors bg & deficionoy made by railrond employes ~Dotween there-and Chicago. When ‘Congress made a law allowing goods to he shipped in bonded cars from seaports to Cus- tom-Honeos in the ‘intorlor, it_exompted winea and liquors, which is u largo drawbnok to fme norters of thoso goods hero, - Novortheloss, thia branch of business is growing hero every day. QOrommes & Ullrich paid during the last yonr nearly 60,000 duty on goods imported by way of Montreal.’ Tesidon thom, Willinm IT, Schimjifo man and Chapin & Gore are the largust import- erd_of winod and brandios in tho Wost, The trado in Rhine wine has heen falling offt Iately on ‘acconnt of an advance In prices from 40 to 50 Eer cent, caused by & poor orop during 1871, 1872, and 1879, ‘I'ho annual snles in oham- Innfimu in this city smount to about ane aud a ial clmm{)ngnou are #old, suoch as Charles Heidsick, Boucher fils, aud Marcoan. - Tho fiucr wines aro Moot Chandon, = Mumm, Vonve Cliquot, L. Roodorer, Krug, Piper Helduiok, Roimart povo ‘ot flls, Tho highest in pricos and constdered tho finest in the world, is tho champagno made by Madamo Pomory, ' ‘The larger part of the chamupagno bronght to this city s sold to sport. ing louses. Thiy businoss was, before tho firo, in _tho hands of Pat O'Noill, but atterwards was taken from him, and is mow mounopolized hy Ghapin Goro, {thoy rold lnst year 8,000 baskets Bouoher fils, bonldos o considerable quantity of other brandy of Hungarian wines.: Lolinyer and Oodonburger Wwines aro importod Dy “Talbort & Strong. Liquora hko’ Abaintho, Gliartreuss, Ienodioting, Wormuth, * Alnsh, Doneknmp aro largely ime vorled by Gromnes & Ullrich and Wfillnm 1, Hehimpforman, — Of - native - wines, we find in thin market the vrodusts of the Aupaleim Wine Compnny, eold by their agouts, Willlam Zlolka & Coy, ~undor Tz '"Twmyuse Bullding, ‘o Onlo Wine Company have their wine vaults at. 47 North Clark stroot, Tho Urbaua Wino Company, of Hammondsport, N, Y, sonds » good many L(nudn Lero, a4 do Ike Lpn)ri of Kt. Louls, and ‘Work, of 'Ginciynati, Tho Ploasant Valloy and KollY Iuland Wino Com- -banios aro roprosented lore by Grommon & Ulle rlehi? Of "Ohlesgo - Wine Growem - we’ oan- only. mentlou John A, Luck, who solls & Light wour millions, Tho clieapor clnksos of imported . wino medo nt' his vinoyatd, ' Johnunisborg," fiftoon miles south of Portr, 1N, ; LICENARD DEATERA, | As tho regiatcts of the Intornal Revenne Do- partmont shovw, wo have in ‘thig ‘oity 166 whole-, anlo ll:lunr-dunlurn, moat of whom ‘aro Also, llaonsod a8 rootitiors,” compoundors, and rotail 'danlors, . Tho wholosald liconne costs $100 § rec- ‘tiord and compouindors pny 8200, mid- rotallora $26 por annum. * About ono-kialf ‘0f the Ohicago ' Uquor-donlora aro Gormana, Noatly all of them are in ' good findneial atanding, and ‘thodo brrned out "bavé met thoir labili- 'tiea. . ~without. any compromise. ‘Tho “gon- coral 'buslngss' day with them is Mondny, ‘On’ this day thoy " vislt thoir olty onstomord, “eollocting and spo\u\lug doma of tho colloctad: monoy agnin. -I'hd’ t-nlu_lnl‘ fvosted - in vthe, whisky nintinfacturo and traie or Cliloago in con #ldorod: to bo: abioub 815,000,000, wit sales of about 620,000,000. CRAVING REST, On 1 for the lelsure to lie and to dresm - By rowe woollsnd well or somo rippling atrosm, ith w cool grecn covert of trees ovorhosd, . And forn or, 1osd for my verdurous bod 7 1To voat and riflo with rushos and roods, ~hreading wild barrien ko chaplets of beads, Lotting tho breozo fan my foveriah Drowi, - Hoaring tho birds sing tliclr saummery vows, 0N 1 for the Tofaura to lfo wittiout thonght, Upon tho mind’s auvil the {ugot unwroight : T'ho hanunors that boat fn my, tomplos at rest ¢ Galm in lifo's nttosphors, ealm fn tho brosst, To lolf 6 sauntor, to Taugh or £ swee Waken.fhio eolioos, or allonce 10 eone” ‘With no human being at hand to {utrude, Or quostion tho Whoraforo of muunor or mood, Oh 1 tor such lotsura {o reat and to steay. “In'green haunta of Nature, i€ but for o day .fllro“fll‘l.llf““h‘u lliok ntl:)m aky Ix;!nm llmfi onio with my beart, iy Lopes, and P i the Year Round, ) ho WY poiis O B MO A PARABLE'FROM LIEBIG. sunupl Tha chureh-bolls woro ringing ; o Dovil st alnging On the stump of nrotiing n\lfl\‘au i “*Olil fafth it growa cold, and tho creeds'they grow ol And tho world 15 nfgh ready for mo.? Tho Hilla wont on ringing A apirit came singlng, And smiled as lio cnu‘fxmgx l'lnpll‘l:fl: e, * Van wood does bt perish now recdlings to chordsh, And tha world i3 too liva yet for thoo,” = —Charles Kingsley, © ———— Cossack Mancnvres. . . ‘St Petershura Litter to the London Times, Aftor tharaview yosterday, the Pringess drove off to tho Jlichaol Manege, whors the Emporor'a Cirgnssinn and Cossaak body-guard wont throitgh their fents, * Theso wild horsomon gave us some sconos of thoir prodatory warfare, oxhibiting & skill and netivity porfootly marvelous. Ono 'af- ter anothor, theygalloped by the Princess, shout- ing florco war-whoops and firing their long pis~ tols aud- flint-locks at Imoginary foos. Thoy acemod to discharga their woapons in evory posi- tion-but from the saddle. Hanglog.on one sido of tho horag until tho. hend * almost grazed tho -ground, and taking a loisurely aimunder tho animal's belly. seomod the favorite nttitudo. Ono cavalier went by at speed stonding on his head in his saddlo ; othors lonpod on and off ithowr -horsos with the eado of cirons-riders, Tho manege 8oon g0 fllled with smoko that it might woll, for all we could seo, havo been somo mouutain do- flle, and tho body-guard a band of robber knights swaoping down on some village or earavan, .or on tho party of peaceablo travalers raprescnted Ly the Grand Duke Nicliolas, tho Princa.of Wales, tho Duko of Edinburgh, aud Princo Ar- thur. ' The Czarovon and Drincsss of -Wales were thoro alao, and altogotber the wild ridors would have mado a good day's worli1f thoy had been brigands of the Stoppo instead of the faith- ful body-guard of the Kuperor, . Admiral Papoft told me it woa a fino sight to see 1,500 of theso Torgemen playing their warlike pranks for milos and miles about tho Imporiul cavaleads whion tho QGrand Duke Constautine was travoling in the Caucnsus, They always turn ont in hotor: of meinber of the Impoerinl family, golug through the whole drama of their war along the. road, Onao or twice yestorday they divided and fought o battle amoug thomselves, Ialf ' of them mado thoir horses lio down, and erouchod be- hind the animals, tho long -barrels of tho tlint-guus pointing {n the divection of the enomy. Prosontly the asenilants came tiding 'out of the curtain _of -smoke with floree eries, opening aglorioua firo in oll dircotions, ‘which rathor remindod ono of some.of cho molocs. of . our Autumin Mancuyras. Eyvery one -nust. have been killed, -spectators included, * before the band disentanglod ‘themselves : from - onch othor | and ratired again to opposite ends of the mansge to tnlko breatht aud measiro powdor for'snothor onalaught.: It was -8 picturesque -and hmplrlug{ slght, 0s utterly -opposad to the precision and seienco modern warfaro as auything well vould bo. ‘Tlio costumes, the arms, tho men, and the horses who carried them—all were wild -and strange, tolling us of & nation of warriors who knew not of barrack-yards snd *schools’ of muskotry, but -who kaow right: well how to flth in their own wild way. In real fighting these fine follows, ono may supposs, are’ not quitoso g fnesome asin tho Michacl Maneqe. Probaoly, for instanco, the trooper, who rode .wvith hia Liead in his saddle. and, his- foot in tho air, would rosorvo that attituge titl .tho day . was evor, and.till ho might safaly indulge in the transports of victory. Ono of tho Civeassians, n burly mnn upon s white horse, was'a son of tho great Schamyl. He was presonted to the Princo of Walos at tho conclusion of:tho spestaclo, Moro than ono of the Russian officers, prosont woro .decorations earncd in -frontior warfare with such cavalry ss thoss boforo us, i Dl e iy Al Fortunc Madae by n Waisteont. Soma poople have o Iancy for fine waisleoats. ‘Uhis tasto was moro common in my young days than it is now. Stirring publio events wore apt to -be .celebrated by.patterns on waistconts to moot the popular fancy, I. remomber. that the cn])tura of Alauritiug, at tho closo of. 1810, was followed by tho fushion of weariug waistcoats spockled over with small figures shapod liko J.mb island, and cslled Islo of Frauce waist- | conts, It was & galling thing for the Frouch risonora of war ou parole to boe confronted with lieso demonstrations, - At court, highly orna- mouted waigtoonts hinve beon the fashion for gon- orations, George, Princa of Walos, whilo Ro-, gont, was noted for his nffoction for this rich va< rioty of ‘wnistcoats, aud thoreby bangs a tale. 1lis Royal Highness biad an immenso dusira for a waigtcoat of a particular kind, for which he conld divcovor only a pieco_of stuft .insuficicnt, in dimousions, 1t was a Fronch matoifal; and coutd not bo matched in England, The war wns rag- ing, nud to . procure the roquisita quanlily of, Btulf from Paris was declared to bo impractica~ -ble. At this juueture one of tho Princo's at- tondants intexposod. 1o said he know & Frouch-- maun, 5, Bazalgotto, carrying on businéss in ono .of tho obscure ' streots of London, who, he was cortain, would undertaka, to proceed to Paris aud bring away what was wanted. This_oblig- ing tailor was forthwith commissioned to do his bost to procuro tuo requisito mato- rial. . Finding that n chance had ocenrred for distinguishing himselfaud laying the foundu- tion,. of his fortune, "the Fronchman resolved to mako the attompt. It was a hazard- ous affair, for there was no rogular communica- tion with tho coast of France, unloss for lettors undor a oattel. Yot Bazalgotla was not daunted. 1t ho.could only Iaud. safoly in & bout, ull woutd bo right. This, with some dificully, and mnnuuvoriufi, ha offoctod, As a protonded refu- 00 baele to i own country ho wan allowed to and aud proceed to Puris, Joyfully ha was able to procure the quuntity of material roquired for tho Princo Itogont’s walstcont ; and not lona ,lnr fully did ho manage to return to London. wilh tho precious piaco of stuff wrapped round hLis person, ‘Lhe waistcont was mndo, and so was tho tailor’s fortuno and that of his family.— From Dr. Chambers' Serap-Book, " A Middlc=Aged British Ministry, o the Kditora of the New York Evening Poat:. . Looking over, this evaning, tha list publishod by you of the expoctod new Euglish Ministry, I am Ho foroibly struck Dy a cortain fict conngcted with tho list thut I canuot svoid enlling your at- - tontlon aud that of your .rondors to it.. 'L'ho list is omphatically that of a mmdln,nfiod Ministry ; something.of a novelty for Iugland. A vary ‘large_proportion of tho new AMiylsters, whoso agos Lhappon to know, aro mon who may bo sald to bo In the primo-of (utatesman) life, in contradistinction with the advaused age so com- mon in puch lists.. Lhus, tho Promier bim- solf, Mr, Disraoll, the eldest man on.the list, fs 683 Lord Onirns, Ohancellor,. s 65; Larl Dorby, Forolgn Boeorotary, 48 ; tha Duke. of. Richmond, War Boorotury, 506; tho M quls_of Balisbury, Sccretary for Indin, the Earl of Carnarvon, Colonial Bosrolavy, 8ir Btafford Northioote, Chancellor of the Iix- choquer, 56. 1donot correotly remombor thy agos of Mr. Hunt, of the lome,Depustment, aud Gathoruo Hnrdy, of the Adniralty, but: bo- love that nelther is past 60. Tord Lonnox (Honry Coorge Oharles, son of the fifth Dulte of Ltiehmond), named for Works and Duildings (Int s hope that he will bo more popuiar: thit Mr, Ayrtonl), is 62 ; Bir John Charles Hay. Admirsl- ty Hocrotary, 52 .and . Lord Olaud Johu Hamil- ton, Undor. Forolgn - Soorotaty, is: (again diplo- tnationtly nud in the statosman, world) a more boy of 81, , L cannot but think tho conjunction of comparativoly.youuss men worth noting, what- ovor may bo ity onon for the conubry: ;... , . A CoBMOPOLITAN, . without avai A WEIRD STORY OF BRUGES, From London Sactaty, Blx months ngo, whon {n Brugai, that *quaint old town of art aud song,". as Longlollow stylos it,—s towa all unchangod sinco tho ancient days of Flnudots,—I haoame cognizant of .tho follow- ing oventa by happoning to Lo prosent at tho oxaminatién of the chiof notor in thom boforo, ono of ths{wo Burgomasters who govern tho oity, ! ' With a Bolgian friend, Ilind beon lounging in 8 window bf the olub-house-that ovarlacks the: spnolous: bqars known as the Grando Placo’ (abovo wlich-towora the wonderful bolfry, -from; ‘Whonce o may look down-on the frontlorsof; [ Holland' 4 on amap, and from whonco, it Is #nkd; tho mbuth of tho Thames may bo soon on a' cloar day)! ‘whon n ‘polico eacort, with swords |' drawen, ebiductod » prisoner past; towards the Tdlals do Jistico, Ho was' & young man of tho betior clatg apparantly, vory pale, vory apd, and' "doprossod in- aspeot, vory handsomo in faao graceful fnbonring, and * “'MOST UNLIRE A ORRINAL. Tt hands, Lowovor, were munacled, and a crowd of workmen and childron clattored nolsily around him m thir woodon sabots," g S Y As tho rumor sprond that a torriblo assassina- -tion had | just boen committod, wo followad tho oncort totho magnificent old hall in that edifico, Which wag'whilom tho Palnis du Francdo Brugos, and which contnins- a-chimney-pieco ocanpyin one entltesido of it, with gighntic atatues carve in wood, and marblo bas-roliofs rof rosenting ohnatoly, the slory.of Busanuah and tho Eldors, a4 the rader may find {n his “‘Joln Miirray,” Trom that which trangpired ab tho oxaming-' tion of tao prisonor, and what I road in a fow subsaquait nwinbors of the' little local paper nomed Ja Pairie; I gloanod Lo following Htory, :which, iyrome of its features, rominds ono of tho cnsopl h ¥ 5 ‘no_nn:;n&: mfrlzxrmrfixinm montionid in tho Spectator:; the pasetng of the -soul fron body to body, includivg ?hu influences of mesnerio, crystalline, and magnotia forces, though 1do not protend to know auything of tho loarned ind myatorioua jargon concérnlug thoso mattore/but muchi of what I hoard that dsy ro- ferrod t} in;tho Palnis do Justico. -+ A mili or #0 on tho lovol highway. beyond tho hm\uml\ ronud fowors of tho loopliolad nud em- battled Parto 8¢, Croix, ono 6f the atill romain- Jng. bagriers. of the old fortifientions, thore stands, ‘st a‘ littlo *distanco from' tho rond, a quaint okl Flomish dwolling-houito, built of. red . brigk, nad almost Liddon among chestuut aud apple treos. If wo aro to boliove the * Chironyke Van Viaadoron,""it was'onco ' shiooting-box of Clinrles thio Bold, ‘and noar it Mary of Burgundy recotvad the 1all from her horso "whicli: proved O fatall Ba nll this s it may, it is n houss with neny ninted gables,. strauge ontshots and Vienms of quuintly:carvod oak : and therein, with Dis nopbow, Hendril, and an old housokeeper, roslded . | DR VAN GANBENDONOR, enlled Doctor, uot from lis profession, but for his learning, a8 ho enjoyed the reputation of wnderatanding el langnages, living aud dead, and being mnster of ovory scienco, human and divino ; and was rogardod by the simplo and ro. ligious Brugoia as altogethor a miraclo of a man in somorospacts, Bomo thoro wero who deomod him a dangerous dupe tohls own powers, .and these were .tho clergy espocinlly, who, with somoething of repug- nanes, draw their bick cloalis oloser about them whon *the Doctor” passed thom on tho high- wny or in the narrow unpaved stroots,.as it wag notorlous that ho nover.crossad the threshold of & churel, or was : known to lift his liat oither to them or to tho numerous Madonnas that deco- rate. overy atroot-corner, and many a doorway, to0, in Brugos. Tho Herr. Doctor, now past his 60th yoar, had, in gomo ‘rospocts,. decldodly n bad reputntion, and, arundred nnd {ifty years ago or go,. mighé have ended his stndios amid a-binzo of. tar-bar~ rols inctho.Grande Placa as n wizard; but in thin, our aga of stonm and tolegraphy, he wai viewed as simply + % :: A LEARNED ECOENTRIC, and ag a dabblor in mosmerism, clairvoysnce, tho oilic light, and second sight; bnt theso occult mysterios, which tho Church condemusa, ha would soom to hava carried to ' length that sooms straugoly out of piace in theas days of hard facts and practical common Rense, A forohond high and bald, 8 head tonsnrod round by o fringo of silvery _hair, oyos-keon and | quick as.thoso of a rattleannke,—oyes.. that ncomod to glaro through his _gold-rimmed .filnanua,—mnflu the faca of Herr Van Ganson- donck so romurkablo that those. who ssw, it neyer failed to bo improssed by its stranga.expreasion ° of intollectunl power, tingod with “somawhat of inganity ; but hia visitors were fow. was chiefly spent in his library ; nud, as he was rien, heing proprietor of moro tian one of those gigantic mills tho sails of whioh overshadow the grassy.ramparts, ho conld afford' to plense him- golf by livitg a8 ha chose, aud seclusion was hig cll(])lcu. Hu seemed to have but ono favarito only,— & HENDRIK,— o brother's orphan son, whom he had adopted, educatod, and who waa to be his hoir, Hondvile wag now in hin 20th yoar, decidedly handsome, but with droumy blue oyss. that lLnd | an expression in thom one could not easily for- got ; yet tho Jad's fompor was poetic and enthu- sinatic, and now he had but receutly returnad to Bruyes, alter uudergoing a conrse of study, and attondiug those lecturos which are given on aci- | anco, literature, and art, st the library of tho DMuseum in Brussels. . The grim old studont hailed the return of the yonugor one with a pleasure that. ho did not concoal, ond_thero waa at. lesst on¢ moro in Brugos that did so with joy, Lhiy was LENORA, tho daughter of Madamo Van.Eyelk, n widow- lady. reciding in ono of those quain old hauses at the Quai Eapagnol. To, lier ko huad beon batrothod, and tho monotary plans of his uuclo alone ‘wero awaited for their marriage, young -thongh Hendrik waa, v Drugos, nceordiug to an - old monkigh rhyme, hias over boon celobrated for its H)mtty wirla; but Lovora Van Eyck, o bright blonda of 18, was moro than Krut!)"—slm was chming, with that wondorful bloom of comploxion . which is_so truly Bolgian | light, langhing, hazol eyos that wero full of merriment, and all hor wavs snd modos of oxprogsion piquaut and attraotive. Bho had beon ono of the six young ladies who, clothied and vailed in whita, ‘were selooted on tho Jast Corpus Christi day to bosr tho gilt Ma- donna through tha stracts before the Bishop, Le- nora had boon with hur family at Blankenburg— tho = little . Brighton of “the DBrugois—for soyoral woeks after. tho return of Hondrik:to the. house of his unclo ; and when sgain they -met ab thoir favorito trysting-place, tho long walk of statoly poplura by tho eaupl near the Porto St. Croix, sho Boon bocume consoious of a STBANGE AND PAINFUL CITANGE in tho bearing, thoe manuver, and the eyes of her lover. Languor seomed tu yorvads evory se- tion ; lin face hind besomo palo, bis eyes more . drozmy thau:ovor, and he waus unusually taci- turn and abstracted. Why wus this ? Lonors askod of harsolf, while” she watohed him with thot keonuess of .oy and anxioty of hoart that aro born of love and tendernoss, for thera wasa singular mys- tory now sbout tho ouco bavpy Iondrik that filled her with gravo -porploxity, " IInd bis love for lor changed ? 1lis eyes, though sad, wero loving in expregsion as ever, when thoy mot hors —yot ovon Lis smilo was sad— i 80 VEY 8AD | Again and again, in her most winning way, sho would implore Hendrik to revaal to hor any.seorot Lhat woighed upon his mind, but in- vain, Why was it, sho usked, that lio, whom eho liad left. o livoly In boaring sud happy in spirit, bad now, become so moody? and why was it that thorg wero - timos when ho soomod to feal himwuelf compelled, a8 it woro, to loava her suddenly and in hasto, without a word of ox- planation,” apology, or oxouso? Bho plended § ]l’gullrlk could but_avort his pal- 1id faco, or cover, his oyos with bis hand, as1f to shnt out umx;nt painful” vislon or orush somo worrying thought: P p lh{du’f'nd nu‘lI toll hor—leat sho shonld deom him mad, and_so shrink from bim—that his unelo, the Iorr Yan Gausondonols, Lnd, mesmor- ically, moquived o . - . MYSYERTOUS, AND TERRIBLE INFLUENCE ovar him, aud that by tho moro powor of yill he conld summon him to his prosonce at all timaos, wherover ho might bo, or with whomsoover ha was ongngoed—ovon with bimsolf; and that le, -Henirik, found. himself totally poworloas and inoapable of effeoting his emuucipation from tho budlsy and montal thraldom under which e writhed i 1o darod not toll hor all this, or, furthor, Tors Van Gusondonck had the' powor to sot i asleop on & chalr iu his Jibrary, sud then to cause his spivie (far this wasallegad-iu the Palais o Justico) to disonguge itwalf. from tho body, and o on dstank misslons through tho air for thougauds of . miled iu the course of .o few min- utow, or that, whon thus, put to sloop, the Herr, by oxulunu_hlu,ur(;nn ot {dealily, could abtain . siich information as ho wisbod on strange and abstrusp aubects, . . "Phat ho had becomo s DELLS AND NEUVE-UIATTERBD MEOMERIO ME: |, iio ’tlmuuht 4t timion 'ho might coniido ¥5hor; Hig timo | that, but ovon in this hini.courago falled him, for othor and -more torrifylng : convictions woro oreoping upon him; thua he shrank from tolling tho girl who loved him sn‘dnnrl'{. that) whon his apiritual epsence was dispatohoed to distant landa, tho Horr, by tho samo power, pormitted other spirits to antor his body and uso ita mombors for Purpauus of tholr own,” Tho horrar of this idon,: b was allegod, mado tlie -youth's: lifo insupport- ablo, for, on awaking from thess strango and in- voluntary trances, hio would at times fiud on his peraon cita and brufsos Lo was all unconscious of recorving ; somotimos his purso would bo gona, or {n {ta place m‘guc bo found strango monoy and lottars to: and-from Individusls of whose existonico ha know nothing,. . . ‘Al this-was -dono by one. whose powor. ho. could noither ropel nor dofy; and now. ho had tho natral drond that jt his body waa made to obby tho bohents'of theso ‘spititual intruders, ho might bs lod into some horriblo prodicament —tho committalof &, .. .. u - . . . DRRADFUL'ORIME,:: Anothorml&zht even como in his place and moot Lenora : . - 5 Ong ovoning a8 thoy sat on tho: grassy ram- - part tlint ovorlookod “the: great canal,” the girl atrovo to rouso or sootho Mim singing with great awootnoss oro of Jou Von Boer's Flomish #songs; but tho musio of hor voice' and the pactry of ‘the author: of * Zoik Jongaling " foll on Hendrik's:oar in'vain. ‘When sho pansed; I dronmt of you last night, darling Lonors,” 8ald tho young man, looking.at hor with:inox- pressible tondorness; ' but auch droams aro #o’ tantalizing,.oven more 8o than tho droama one' haa by doy." : B ¢ All your lito scoms ono hazy dream now, ondiik,” said Lonora somowhat potulantly, § . " TForgivo me, doaroat, you knotw not what yon talk of. ~ My mind, I'grant-you, 18 s chnos, full of strango torrors, porplexily, and coumsluni ond times thore aro. when I foar for my reason,” 1o addod wildly, passing a hand over his foro- hoad, and, lauklnfiwldm p 5 e lknnr Mendrik do not spoak thus, I imploro you. #05 i * I must—in whom can I confide, 1t not in you? And yet I daro not— p I DARE NoT 1" . Aftor a pango ho apolo again, but *with' his ©yos fixed, not-on her,” but on the still, deop watar of tho ehining cnaal. ' .; ** This muoh Lwill tollyou, Lonora, Yostor~ .doy. my uncle sgut mo on some. businoss of his" to, tho 'houso’ of an ° advocate; Pora Bans, ponr the Boguinage, a' Lousa in’ which I * had “never: beon”’ beforo, and X wan shiown into a room to walt. ' On’ Jook- inground, to'my sstonislimont, every' article in it—nnd thio room 1tsolf—the colling, thio atove, the' windows.'snd tho' palntings—eispooially ono by Hans Iomling—woro all familiar to mo, and I scomed to recognize overy object thoro. ‘I was novor hero'bofore' thought I; ‘aud yot T must ‘hava boen—but whou? If so, thero is a little ‘window behind this picture, which opens to the gardon‘of tho BegulnnFc.' T turncd the pictaro, and lo! thoro was tho httlo windas in question ; T anw through it the garden with all its cherry- troes and two or throo bn%ll‘nua flittlng about, O, Lonora, thore is indeed somo’poawer boyond mattor, pioving that tho soul is indopondont of tho body (" e X 1t must have beon a drohm."” 3 .. *“IT WAB NO DREANM," roplied Mendrik gloomily. " 'Bn?t howdo you mccount for the strango ancy P e % i “ My dlsemboaled spirit must have boon thero, gont on somo neeyraod orrand by my uncle 13 * But you wonld die, Hondrik,"” *Not fl nnothor tenant woroe at band,” ropliod Hondril, gnnshing his'testh.’ £y “Thon tho girl wopt to hoar him, a8 atio natural- 1y deomod it, raving thus, 5 # Such thinga cannot bo,” sald she, sobbing. ' My unclo saya thoy may; and tho thaoory 18 asold ns tho days of Pylhagoras,” * s 3 know nothing of Herr Dythagorns; but thia I know, that tho Herr Van Gonsendonck 18 a. ; atrange and bad man, Pardon me, doar Hon- drik’s but ho novor entoran shurch door, nor has .hio boon to mass or confossion for years. * Lonave him, and Bruges: too, rathior than bocoma the victim of such dreadful dolnsions,” o do oither is to . . LEAVE AND TO LOSE You! T am hip Liolr; and wo have but to waithis pleas- ‘ure—or, it inay be, his denth, to bo 8o linppy,” ropliéd 'Hondrik - sadly ;“and thon they rolapsed into silonco. With Lenors it was silonce in- dyced by sorrow.and alarm, while ber lover imulr]nml to lot bis thoughts slip away into drenm- and. % The sultry summor-ovoning braozo ruatled the loavos noar-them; the honey-bees. buzzod aud . hummod among the wild flowers and buttercups that grew on tho old.rawmpart; and far away ‘could bo heard thoe censeloss c‘.\irplng of tho crickets, vk : Lenoras head rested on” Hendril's shouldor, and ho-was lost in thonght, though mochanically toying with her hair, which shown like ripples of gold in the light of tho wotting sun. Ho was aware that Lonora lind bogun to spoal to him aguin; her voice seomod to minglo with tho drowsy hum of tho bovs and tho -evening chimgs or carillons in the distant spires; but ho heard her a8 if ho hoard hor mot; till sud- donly & THRILL SEEMED TO PASS OVER NII¥f, - ag & aecrob and iniuitivo sonsio or knowlodgo that gence made him staxt from the grassy bank, gnatch & hosty kiss, and hurry away by tho arch of tho Parte 8t. Croix; loaviug Lenora mortified, neds of. his doparture. B * Oh, how changod he1s!" thonght sho, ns she or Lomo onthe Quai Eapagnol, ° .. - On two or.throe occasions the unhappy Hone drile had -what- ho concoived to be un- doubted proof of his body laving been, in tho intorvals of mesmeric trances, tenanted by auothier apirit thanhis own; nnd this strange nnd wild conviction causod such intense horror and loathing of his uncle thnt the. exprossions to which ho gave uttoranco to mora than_ one of his frionds—mors than all to Lenors—wara ra- callod, most fatally for bimself, at a future timo, “ " * Orio:day, is the Ruo'des Aupustines, ho was accostod by Brothor Eusabius, & Capuchin, “Friend Hendrik,” said he, severely aud gravely, *was it becoming in you T 7O TE DOYSTENING i ad you were yestorday at tho low estaminot in the mnrket-rlmn, and with such companione— follows in blonsos and snbots 2" “ Impossible, Brother Euscbing; I was not thoro," fallored Hendrik, ns the uaual fesr orept ovor bim, ) T, mysolf, saw you. looked at me.” “+When~at what hour 2" ¢ 8ix in tho evening.” “8ix!” f Hondrik felt himsolf ‘grow pale, . o remem- herad thatot that identical time ho was under tho handa of his unclo. He groaned in sore and dira porploxity, and his tonguo clove to the roof of his mouth, while tha Capuchin .continued to addross him in tones of robuke and carnost ro-: monstrance, !~ 1 * Have I & doublo-ganger,:or am:I becoming erazod " urgod Hondrik, *‘Bolievemo, Brothor Lusobjus, ) And, moreover, you - T WAS Not TaERE(" hio addod piteously and earnestly, - “ ¢ At tho hiour of 67" porsistod the mnbeliov- “jug Capuchin, “*T swoar to you that t the hour of G I was, and had boon for some time, 1n one of thoso un- secountable trancos in which my unclo has the' power to cast mo—one of those hours: ‘of bodily torpor “that’ have come’ upon: me,” "he added, whilo “tho porspiration poured, in hnnd-droq! from his pallid’ brow. I- awoke about 8, I °licard tho chimes ringing in the Charon of Bt. Gilos, and' near mo st my unele, pen inhand, aa if in the act of quostions hiad beon_ravealing in my magnotic slumber, Oh! am T tho viotim of neoromanoy ?" 4 Bearcoly, in this age of tho world,” roplied the Capuoliin, but now with more of pity than Tebuke {n his mauner, “T mwonr to'you by the Holy Bload that I spoak: tho truth {” continned (Tendrilk, roforring to tho famons rolique of the Brugois in the littls chispel nour the Hotol de Villo, * I Iast ramember hoar- *Ing-the voico of my unclo as I sank into aleop; my arms foll powerless by my sido; my eyos closed; wavos of magucilo fluid or alr to flow over mo; and MY BPINT TASSED AWAY, at'his hohost, to other Innds.” + What maduess—what raving is this, Hon- drlle 2 wald the saudaled fraiv,with sadness and weverity. Do you' menn to toll me that your, unolo is another Cagliostro—a veritable Bal- samo 7" 4 T fear it—I foar ft,” sald Hendrik, with olasped hands. “Lonrn flyat to foar-thoe potations of the os- tamiuat,” roplicd the Cnpuchin,” as he -turnod coldly and bluntly away, belioviug that theyoung man waa intoxientod, 4 Tog On another accaslon Tondrlk falled to keop an appoiitment with Lonora Van Ryak, who waftad for him auxionsly till long past tho time namod, ond then proocaded pensivoly homeward. As sho approached the stoop and sntiquo bridga that londs from the Ino'dos 'Angnstines to the Qual * Bepagnol she saw Mondelk oross it, sud luu"k at horealmly and deliborately tho while, b g ' WITIOUT A GLANCE 0T BMILE OF nzabflm‘r"mu. for lmflr% tilpl nb frst ad boat: happlly, paw, beoamo porploxoll dy ho'turuod abriplly “up his torriblo rolation requirad his immadiate pro- | sorrowful, and uttorly bowildored by the sbrupt: Erncendud slowly in tho other diroction towards | ing mo and committing to papor, that which T | soomed tho'| opponile bank of tho canal, and dropped into littlo skiff, which ho pracaudad to uninaor, aud, in dolug Ao, out It right hand sovoroly, “Tondrik( ondctk[" sho callod aloud 5 hut hio hieard har not, and, shipping n pair of soulls, pullod swiftly out of sight, - Whon nexéthoy mot, and_sho upbralded him with thin steanga conduat, the same, omotion af foar that had came ovor him whon confrontod by tho Ouyuuhln again fllled hlw hoart, aud ho cnlled Hoavon {o witnous that {t was not ho whom sho liad soon, . “But lm'r‘o, Ilendrik, fove, 1a tho wound on your hand," urged the astonishod ‘;m. 41 know not Liow I rooelved it," ho moaned,| ‘! thongh awaro that.a waund s thore,” -~ Thin pagaos all cumPrnhunuion 17 gnld, Lono-, ra- mournfully, . * Oh[ Hondrik, I thought:a' Iove ltko ours would naver die torror aro destroying it now." | Bnmemln% liko a”sob camo into Hondril's throat, and through his glonched toetl Lo mut< tored Loaraoly and florcoly— 2 “This kind of lita—a" doubla life, It woul soom—oannat last for ovor. Nothing doos last for ever, and . " . THE IND WILL COME ANOX," : And-ag.ho spokoe hia fixad hin-molat and now hollow uycs as If on gomo dlstaut horizon which ho alono oould aeo, . , ** Hondrik |—denrest Hondrik{” urged tho girl aoaen!nfil , 88 8ho carossod hiu. faco botwoon hor goft and pretty hands, for hor hoart was full of alarm as woll ‘aa lova; it wos-s conviction so ;Ira;dful, tho fear that ho was porhapa bogoming nsnno, ] ) “* Can over-atudy at Brusscla bavo mado tho oor-boy ill," thought Lunarn,. in tha solitude of hor -ohamber: that night. 0Ol! must I give him up after all—aftorail? DaroIgo through Iifo ng-tho wifo of ono Ko strange, 80 wayward, nnd 80 moody ? “No; bottorbo a boguine like 3 Yot doubt qml, Aunt Truoy.. I amso happy at homo. Why ' do girls marry 2 .aud for what do I want to marry 2" And as sho ponderad thus, sho:sat lookiug at hor ‘white hands, and cl.mnflng Hendrik's botrothal ring,~nan'opal got with dinmonds,—from oho fingor to anothor, till4t. slipped from her and rollod away on tho varnishod Hoor, from whonca 8ho satohod it'up with a littio ory of alarm, for tho evont scomod . » OMINOUS OF EVIL. Ok, I must indeod consnlt Brother Tusobius sbout this mattor,” waa hor coneluding thonght, .more especinlly’as tho Onpuchin had told her that “* Opals were uulnck¥." And, whon ho droppod in for hia post-prandial cup of coffoo with Lior mother that ovening, Lo- nora did take him into hor oconfidenca; but the “frinr only imbibod ‘{:inuh after pinch .of snuft from the-huge wooden box which he carried in tha sleavo pockot of liis brown frock ; hinted of what lie had soon at the estaminet, and shook lifs. shavon liond, adading (hat Tondrik Van ‘Gansendoncic camo of a bad stock, and should bo avolded.” 8o tho Oapuchin was consultod no moro on tho subjeet, _Hondrik now broke many appointments made with Tienora, ‘Ho seonied” to bo no longor tha mnstor of his own_actions, and ho was ao fra- quently repronchod by her for his inattontion and nnkiudnesy that ho foarod to make n prom- igo to hor at all, aud two entiro days passod with- out their maoting. Could' ho foll her that which ho mnow confidontly belioved to bo tho caso; thal Horr Van Gansondonck had cast himinto'n mos- merie Erance, loaving him in that condition, and intending to come bacl in an hous or 8o} but, having boon summonoed awsy on businoss, Dbad loft him, to all appoaranca _BPELL-NOUND AND MELPLESS, to the terror of tho old Lousckeopor at tho ohateau? On the third z}ng ho mot her coming from vos- roru in tho Chuich of the Bsguinago, whore sho ind boon to visit hor Aunt Fruoy. - Lenora was very pale; her eyos woro full of tears, and, a8 Hondrik conld_porceivo, thoy woro _sparkling with resontmeont. 8ho was in tho vory summor of hor bonity—thiat ngo whon all girls soom protty. IHendrik gazed upon ler caregs- ingly, nnd would have kissed her, but tho wallk was & public’ one, and the blanchisscurs wers " busy amid = the Mimngwater. Lo- nora, Whs 50 prm.mi drossed, too; and most ’ snitably did or “silvor-groy cos- tume, trimmad with rose-colored ribbon, bocoma her biondo besuty, hor purity of complexion, and fair, shining trogaca, Frosh, young, and graco- fnl; thoro was & delicnoy and softness in nil hor nir nud porson, yet nuger waa apparent in lior oyos ; and thoyo of Lonora were what o writor lins doacribod as ** wonderful golden eyes,—oyos which paintors daro not imitato, becanso the color i8 #o subtle, and the ' light in’ thom 8o liv- jug,—oyes that are calfed bazol, but aro not hiazel,” i . - 41 NOW RNOW THE REASON of Lfm“' avaiding mo in tho Rue des Augustines, ond also whore you 0 going on "that evening in the'sldm,” enid she. 4 Lunanl\i‘ have I not already said—" “oudril,” intorrupted the girl, with govority, . “I have for somo timo foared ~ thab you wero orazod; now ‘I'fitid that you ara ‘wickod, and that Brother Eu~ sobius was right, aftor all.” + ¥ Wicked—my darling! % Do not speaic to mo.thus ; I have good rea- fon to bo most iudif:_n;nl: with you,” sho con- tinued, stamping her little food on the ground. ' ! For what, doarost ? . askod Tondrik, whose huar% was stuking with vague approhension, as usual, ’ - * Congo to twist your moustache, and answer mo this: wad it right or proper of you to be drinking with soldiors at the Rampart de Gaserno Iast evening?—and worse ‘still, to bo toying with avd OARESSING LITTLE MADEMOISELLE DENTELLE, the lace-maker, who livos there—toying with hor actually in the opon streot, while mamma aud I passed you ?" added Lenors, whoso eyes woro flashing throngh 'thoir tonrs, t,\mugh hor chook waa pale, a8 Hendrik's now became, Ho was voicoloss, and could maka neither ra- sponso or roply, for ho knuw that at the time to which slie reforred ho lad besn, as ho simply plrased it, “put to sleop in' his kinsman's stndy,” and that on awakening ho had found himself not there, but lying on the grus{ bank " noar the Rampart do Cagorne, aud that, instoad of his hat, ho found on bis head the kopt of & soldier of tho Socond Regimont, then quartorad in Bruges, and & pipe, of which ho know noth- ing, dangling from a batton of hir'coat! Tho stara'vroro Bhiining, and tho dew’ was on {he rags, but how long he had beon thore, or how o camo to bo thers, wore alike mysterics to him. * e folt bittorly the ntter hopelosaness of urg-~ lm{ more to Lonora; yot ho attempted to falter ouf some explanation. | * I8 I8 JVAGALING, WENDRIK,” roplied- ‘tho - girl passionately, ‘*anothor faco—nnother lovo—has como - botweon us, ntbnrx\yiuu you would not daro to troat me thus!" Your auspiclon is falso, dearast Lenora,” uald he, .* Ob, pardon me, sweat ona ! but Ifeel o8 if Iwero in s dream—as if ¥ wore some ono clde, and not myself |" . Again, dreama [ said Lenora soornfully, as ghe drow his botrothal ring from hor flugor, dasliod it at his feat, and loft him, . Night arter :night hnd Lonora laln awalo, brooding over tho chango that bad come upon Hendrik, woeplng tho while, with wide-opon -eyes in tho darke ness, and now sho had come to tho firm resolu- tion to DISYIBY TIN FOR EVER § ut when sbo left him, silent, stunned, and con= founded by tho Minuowater, her heart yonrned for him' again, and she ropented hor soverity, lont his mind might bo, as she too juatly feared, ‘affooted. 2 Aund pow he, whilo aazing wistfully ‘aftor hor rotiring figure, thought with loathing and hor- ror of gho Jtoon visnge, the ‘hawk-liko noase, the cold, yat oloar, glittoring eyes and gold spactacles of that odious rolative to whom ho wan unhap- pily indebled ovon for food and raiment, for his past education, and all his fatura prospeots in. ]lm—Lnnun inoluded ; but who soomod to pos- soss over him & powor Bo unacconntablo, 80 TERBINLE AND DIABOLIOAL! Muchof thishosmd to ono or two friends whom he mot on his way homoward, and the ex- rosaions weora ‘nlso romambored agrinst him in ho timo that was to como. * Boon aftor hie fonnd himself scoretly and ime orativoly summened to tho prosence of tho Tarr, who—as ha atterward told tha llurs;umnu. tor o the Palaisdo Justico—"'bado him go sleop,” and sont his spirlt on somo myste- rions orrand, hundreds of milos away, Woat happoned in the library of that * lonoly hitlo chatoan outside tho Porto 8t. Crolx, while his e!);h-lmn\ SRAGICO WAH thus absont, the unhappy Hondrik never could know; butwhon it ro-sutored hig body—or when o :iwokn—-lm wag hormfled to find his loarned uncla . LYINO DEAD ON THE FLOOT amid a pool of blood, his faco and‘throat gashed by dreadful wounds, whish hnd ovidently hoen niflicted .by s blood-spotted knifo which .Ilen~ drik found olutehed in Afs own right hand! Blaod-gouts wore ovor'all his clothes, the paok-' oty of which wore found to bo' stuffed with mouoy, jowels, and other valuables takon from’ & burosu and doslk, which had Deon burst opon and ratigackod, ‘ " Tho soul of Iéndrix died’ within' him I’ Even 1f hio bad ‘committed this crime In frenzy ~—und ho falt cortain that ha dld wot'do so—' why should ‘he bhave wonght, to rob his unold 7, o thon, thought of Lonors, and of tho Horrow uusl_»liumn Hhat would ‘como “l‘x’q" hor, oW § “Lio rooldd and foll donyelodi‘on the- foor. Thn erlos of the old Io peodily broaght xidy Hondrik sniatpergdedlly biodgl WAS ARRESTED, chargod with nasnnsinatior and rohbery, and was at once conslned, ns alrendy dosoribod, to the Palais do Jnatico, whore all tte weird Loty cama to light. Tho hatrad and horror ho hnd ox~ [u-umqod of lus doad unclo wore mow romem- horod _fatally bi’ all who had heard them; :ulb {.ho knil'n 'm h{ug ll‘l) hh[i hand wns, sin- ulnrly enough, found to bo . the proparty of o goldior of tho Sacoud Bolginn anvm;. e To the lant fondrik nssorted his innoconco, whan tried and convicted for that which was, no unnaturally, deomed o most cruol and une gratoful crimo ; and s advocato, Poro Dnas, who, singularly enough, wns also & dabblor in mesmorism, Jabored hard in_his eniso, but in vain. Whon brought to tho’ weaffold lu tho Granda Placo, Hendrik, attonded by Brothor Lusobius, bad all the boaring of a wmnit; ¥y 08 ha - fully boliovod that tho orimo committed,' if by his hand, way at Ionat ¢_ . DY TIIE DIOTATE OF ANOTNER BPINIT. Lonora visited him in tho dreary coll the night bofore ho diod, and, according to La Palrie, ns thoy parted, Hondrik said : * “Denth; overt!on tho seaffold, hns no torror for mto now. I know whore my spirlt will go, and that none on earth ean rocall it. You wil como,to mo, boloved Lenora," ho added, point- ing pwards; “ you will come to mo tliere in Ticaven, whero thore ean bo no parting, no death, and 1o Rorrow." X - And, with ono long embrace, they parted for over, Tho editor of La Palric, writing of those things tho noxt day, ssid, not without truth, “Ttondrik Yan Gansendotick was, too_probahly, on\zndi and, if 8o, slould not hnve boen exo- cuted,” JAMES Gnawt, NN LA SORCIERE. No color'above—na color bolow— No sound, savo tho bara bonghs nighing ¢ Tor atark and stilf {n a corement of snow - Tho poor, tired Esrth iz lying | 01 har hluo eyes, tho bills, lio colil, Jeadon welghts § Ther gay, rippling Initgh fn tho river & T huahed 3 and the chillof hor ‘breathipenotrates 3y vory soul with a shivor DidIsleop? DId I dream? Ahove me—bolow— ‘That moniont, a mubtlo ransation Of south winds, of blue-birds, of rivulet's flow,~ A suidon, wateango teansformation. From Death unto Life,—from heart-break ta hops rI klllhw, fltfl by lluru' intuition 3 g For n lontiiened AU Tay wa fny horoscoy "Xl o Liyncluth-glamn my magioane s T Explain it who may, that Ofrcoan apoll "Neath tho purplo bola’nodest protenses; But tho witchory,—ahi 1 o nll know it well,— ik lowers Droafl Disya il the s | e Earth's resurroction, tho bird-songs, th All ny in tiat dolicato challea s —." 8 chisery And iy leart las grown gl foe Tknow tho loza b In liftiug from hut and from palaco, ~—Doston Advertisers - —_— LOVE'S FANTASY. She sleops And sonud nnd motion loep with her: Nor, nny fainfost broath moy atic Thio tender hunh that midnight keeps, "o whilo sho slcops | 8hio wakea | Ana lifo and mornlng wako again ¢ " Tlio hird pours ont his ogor Atraln, Tho ready bud in biossom breaks ‘Whon shie awnkes | —Kate Putnam Osgood tn the Chrisyian Unian, P —_— : Third National Prison-icform Cone : Zrosse .. Thia body, convened undor the nusplaes of the National Prison Association, will meot nt St. Louis, Mo.. on tho avoning of Wodneaday, May 13, 1874, Tho oxorcises will consist of an open- ing address. by the Prosident, Horatlo Soymour, of Now York ; an address of woleoma by Gov, ‘Woodson, o Missowri : and o response {vy tho Rev. Dr. Ballows, of New York. ‘Pho working eossions will commenco Thuraday morning, and continue six days. The Secretary will submit his annual report, roviewing tho progross of tho work in this and_othor conntrics daring the yoar. Roports will aleo bo prosented by the standing committeos, viz.: on criminal Inw roform; on the roforms needon in_our polico systoms; on prison discipline ; on proveniivo nod reformatory work o8 . rolated to Juveniles ; and on tho caro of dischnrgod prisonora, In discuasing these roports timo will bo afforded for o full iu- torehango of oxporioncos and views by the ofli- cora of prisons and reformatorios, ng'woll a3 for tho prosontation of faots and argumonta by thom, and all othiera who may bo ontitled to the floor. Tho louding foatura of the Cincinnati Congross was & Aorics of lmpars on most of the tapics ombragod in the prison question ; that ot the Baltimoro Congross, & aotios of roports by compotent pongon the actual status of Peni- tontiary and roformatory work in_the sovoral Btates and Tarritorios, Itis intondod that dis~ cussion shall bo the spacial charactoristic of tho Bt. Louis, ag it was of the London, Congross, Invitation to be present and to participate in tho proceedings of the Congress is cordially ox- tonded to Governars of Statos: the aunual and life_mombors of the Nat. Pris. Asiociatiou ; to Judgosof Criminal Courts; to oflcors of E‘nnuus, juvonile roformatorios, and provontive gtitutions; to tho membors of the managing Boards of such establishments ; to Commiusion. ors and Ohiofs ot Polico ; to tho Seorotaries rnd mombers of Doard of BStato Charities, prison #ocictios, and'Rocial scionco associations; to the membors of pormanent and special Prison Com. missions ; and to other porsony who, though not included in any of the abovo classosd, are, novor: theless, spocially vorsod in ponitontiary scioncs and interostedin prison roform, Sir Waltor Croton, tho distingnished author of tho Irish prison system, is confidently ox- pectoted at the Congross, Sir Walter has made volico, 58 woll 28 prison work a spocialty, and ot both points his knowladgo will bo of . £ho high- ot valuo in guiding us to right conclusions ‘Wo say, then, como ong, como alt.. Lot us hava such a Coneroess at 8t. Louis ns, by the numbor and quality of its momborship, by the broadth and vigor of its discussions, by tho amonnt and value of tho information gathored and diffusod, by tho onrnostness of its spirit and wisdom ot itn work, shall profoundly impross itsolf upon tho public opinion aud public action of the whala country. . 0. Wines, Secrotary. 320 BuoApway, Now York, Fob, 21, 1874, Caution to American Girly in Europes Paris Tielter to the New York Times, Tast night I witnessed the discomfiture of twa young American ladies who ovidently got them- solvas into a moss by not understanding the cnse toms of tho ocountry, They entored. the Cnfa Tortont, Boulovard dos Ttalions, unnccompaniod, and tho waiter declined to sorve them with ico~ oroam, They wore politely told that it wan tho rulo of tho estabhsbmont “not to gorve lndica alone, and thoy wers obliged to pass ont undor tho gazo of a large numboer of Indios and gontle- mon sitting at the tablos, Thoir faces “showed that they wera honoest girls, and that thoy wera intensely humiliated, They thonght - that thoy could entor horo and eat thoir ico as comfortably and socuroly a8 at many ostablishmenta on Broadway, The Cafe Tortoni is'one of the most respectablo places in Paris, and. its ices aro famous, Thoy aro found on tho tablos of tho aristocratio aud offieinl world:at all grand dinuors, and, in a word, they are delicions, This in oho of the fow placos in thecity whoro gontla- mon go with thoir wives, - 'This reputation for ros{mulnhlllty could nover bo kopt up oxeopt by malking it an_inexorablo rulo not to_sorve Indic unaccompanied, for if ona woro allowed, thore would'be no excuse for refusing anothar, and at altthe habitues of Yortoni'sare rich or well-tos do, the demi-monda wonld goon make that a fa- ‘vorito rondezvous. - On ench side aro onfos whera a dozen womon of the bonlovard ean bo ssen al all tinos, and it is just for that reason that no Amerlean woman would entol thoro. Tho rospacinble plncos are only kept 80 by making this rulo in- exorable, Aworlcuns §irlz avo apt to think that thoy onn tako caro of themaolves in any part of the world, and that may bo truo if thoy conform to the customs of tho conntsy in whicly they aroq bt ‘here two Amorioan i{irls cannot go out un- nccompanied at 9 o'elook in _tho evening, to got ice=oroam, without boing lisblo to a mauvais uart d'henre. In fino, with all duo doferonca o those who think otherwise, Ido not think that Amorican girta shoutd promenade the streots of Daris at night without & gentlo. mian protostor, Imay render o sorvico to soma ono by anying Ehat tho rospoctable cafos do nol gerve ladios nlono, and . I cannot Imagino thab Amorican girla would ontor tho othar sort, ox- capt by arzar or ignoranco. Avcompanied by a gontloman they are I]nae ag froo from inault or uunoyauce as in tholr own house: ————————— Tho Néw Orloans Police. 0. 0. Tulton writes: **The polics of Now Orloans have the reputation of ‘boing tho most ofiolont In the United Statos, Thoy aro rogne larly drilied as eavalrymen, aud s portion of tho forco i3 mounted, About ona-third of thom are ¢olored mon and two-thivds white.” 'hero is ¢ na distinotion on account of raco or golor,' and wa oo colorod mon aoting undor whito offcors, and sometimos whito mon under colorod officers, oy wro & fing-looking body ofmen, and the platoons of monnted polico, white aud biaok in- tormixad, murehing at tho head of tho- pro- couslonn yostordny showod that thoy woro wolls drilled horsetaon," *