Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1874, Page 10

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH . 22, 1874. 2 Seward and others what they thousht of ut any tima; and, when fhoy onco mot at the bo simply tho omission of passages that hurriel ologant. — 3 “around his magnificont perdon _the conscience | England is scarcoly o success, ‘The mothod will METROPOLITAN KODES. coving sk tringe, aro considored tha magg SUMNER. Talk Apropos of the Great Sen- ator’s Death. The Brooks-Burlingame Duel-—0ne i of the Seconds Speaks, , Bir, Smzmer's Work aid Example—Tis Rank " Among Btate-Folks. Enecdotes and Associations. From Oar Own Correspandent, : WasnINGTON, March 19, 1874, . Cherles Sumzor's deach provokes a long train of juvoluntary reminiscences. He was ono of thalnst of & stalwart liue of azgressors upon Siavory,—mea not able to be nice, and. ever rough-handed, as if they meent businees. He reeoived tho firat blow over planted by gloved Carolins npon Msasachuseits, the physi- cal sequel of .Hayne's aitack on Webster, and the biow was 1o bis fams like tho siroke of the Eing's wand bestoning Kuighthood o the re- ent. Ar. Bumper's Senstorial career was for some time disappointing to the Radical Abolitionists of New England and the Weat, many of whom were advocates of s . Y ROTGH PROCEEDINGS , - and rough words with the Fire-Eatera. . Sena- tor Wade was the favorite of this class, becanso Do was knowa to be combative, Ligh-tempered, a Deavy hitter, and 3 élean ebot. Sumner had spoken with boldness such as to warrant thio be- Jef thst hewonld uttorpositivechallenges against the Slave-power. When Douglas introduced his Eanzas-Nebraska bill, that long-expécted effort of New England's fasorite was nade, and many “persons hoid that he never excelled it. . 1t was a long epeoch, and was hoard by 8 ms- jority of the' people in the’ gallerics, and Sen- ators on the flcor, with a sense of admiration and outrage, because, at that ddy, all orthodox influences ‘and general counsels. were for com- promiseand good will. An eye-witness tclls me ihat not one of Sumner's Northern collesgues bad tho spirit to saya word; but Badger, of North Carolina,—a VWhig, of an impalsive and kindly heart, who was renowned for Lis physical agility, :and, when past middle life, could tum handeprings, like & ehoe-black, up and down the pavement,—ruched up to Sumner and gave him Dis hand warmly, 8ayivg: i “Sumyer, by George! you Lave made the best 2nd worst speech ever maddo in the Seoate.” Mr. Sewerd, who had mo great courage, and would let Donglas perform. with his fist, while epesking, close up_to bis face, ratber hung Lis head. Even Chase, who had moro intimacy with Sumner thsn any other Senator, made no demon- slration of satisfaction. The rougher young Pire-Esters debated together ; buti somo of the Whig Scoators were tronbled, and'were heard to 1nake the remark to Northern men : “ God knows we doo't want to fight yon! Can mothing be done by which you will let us alone " At that time PRISTOS A EROOKS , was ope of the finest specimera of youth, high upirit, and pbysical endowment in’ either Houso. He was 6 fect 2. inches ligh, very zht,and generaliy correct and affable. Hewas rather & negalive man, snd sdopted current opiuion readily, -and was, therefore, essily in- cited by moro sivister and backward people. Anongst these the chief were Keitt, Edmupd- son,—the most murderous of them all —and Jegse Drizht. The two former had drawn Brooks, little by little, into the babib of drink- ng: fad they made the remazk: © That Symper onght io get sn immediato flogging. fWhich of us hall doit 5”7 . Brooks snswered : ¢ I presume T ought to do it, for I represent Senator Batler's district.” This was jast the conclution desired by the zoadjutors. I got my information from Mr. James, then of Wiscanein, andnowof Californis, + who has reated all ‘the story to me, and knows mnch of it 28 o other man does, for he was Burlingame's recond in tho ensning challenge to rdncl. Mr. James does not believe that Senator Butler, who was thonght to be sggrioved by Sumner's epecch, wRs relztive - of Preston 8. Brooks. Datler was the guardian of the first wife of Drooks, lowever. When Brooks formed the resolution -to sitpck Sumner, e, Keitt, and_ Ddmmodson proceeded lodrink hard; and, for the restof hislife, Drocke’ was under tho infincnce of liqnor nearly Ul tho time, Ho_bought & gutta-percha cans, 3ollow, and gold-headed,—a weapon much de< sried by the brntal portion of the press 2s boing 1 mere switch, whereas it derived strength from Mg hollow form. and the weight of the material mado it formidable. With thiscane, le'and his party lay writing around the Benato Chsmbar nntil the adjonrnment, when Mr. Sumrner sat at hiis desk, closely wedged batiween his clnir and the desl:logs,—ihe size of the old Chamber giv~ ing very contracted quarters to such lanyo men. Trooks walked directly up to the front of tho desk, and,’ with sn iostant's romark. to the ‘effect that Mr. Sumoer had outraged kis couneetion, Drooks struck him bebind the trown, at that partof the back of the head which islesa defended by the efmil.: He struck with at force, and repeated the blows rapidly, un- il Mr. Sumner, seeking to arise, burst tho desk from the floor to whick it was ecrewed, and by this tims Brooks had taken him by the hair, so that, all bloody and inseneible, he fetl forward 1i] dead man, and tho cano was shivergd to pieces, - ¥ AFTER-WORK. A Senate Fago ofticiourly asked Brooks if he wanted the picces ; but that aseailaut said that be required only the gold head, which he put in hin pocket. * Keitt called out from the door, in 2. Lrutal wa; 4 Brooke, next time kill bim ! and added an oath to thesuggestion. de then exclaimed: *Let's 0 take & drink, . -Dright, Donglas, Keitt, Fdmundson, and one or two others, strode off to a saloon within the Capitol; celled the * Hole-in-the-Wall,” and drank. ' It scarcely seems probable thut Douglas could have joincd such party: but few persons wese aware of Mr. Sumner's injurice, or the im- portance of the event in bistory, aud it just thit timo -of the day when convivial Seuators iook their liquor. + 3y, Sumner, aftera_time, was takon up from The sofa whera he had been Iaid, very pale and bewilcered, and put into 8 carriage, which took bim 1o Lia chambers in the resident portion of fho city. That night bie was vieited by fow per- 2008, and could searcely conversa; and it is not believed thut he ever mado_anv revengeful ref- nces to the subject. His brother, George Sumner, came on to Washington, and ssked Mr. +James, ‘who was A very Jarge man of & firy spirit, vet cool in =ifrays, what be onght to do. Said James: “‘If it were my brother, I would 3o this: Take e short double-barreled shot-gun, put it under ny cloak, and welk up to the House of Representatives, and, right in his chair. as be sttacked my brother, I -wonld blow him to pieces.” | George Bumner said be could not do this, and Le did nothing. - Mony of Brooks' -Northern friends, Tike Upham, ceased to hold intercourse with him. Senator Crittenden, of Kentucky, bad esid: Shame on you, sir;” and then the North: ern proes and the foreign press came roaring in; €0 thut Mr. Brooks found himself ina vary Zoubtfal posifion, which his negative characier =nd artificiul secee of honor were unable to sus- tain. - He kept drinking, with his norves strung up to be ready for a chellenge or s street-fight. ® THE PENALTIES OF PUGILISN. There wera indeed soveral persons who needed onlv sach intellectual provocation as Keitt znd Edmundson hind given Brooks to puts him to doath; and, amongst otlers, a_Mr. Kiugman, 2 nowspaper correspondent,—still liviag in this city and quite weulthy, —had once started aut to 1lnd Brooks and ebwot 'him doad. Br: was in 20 nnenviable position; for his instircs, unlike Dis kation, wera €0 much for the Union and fra- ternity, that a Mr. Boham had peariy beaten tum in’ South Carolina for delisering au invoca- tion to the American flag, Brooks met it by say- ing thatonce in Mexico,when chased by guerrilias nnd murderers until he bad given up ail hope. Le eaw the Americsn colors in the distance, snd ewore that be would be thankful for the protec- tion they gave. : THE DUEL GOMING ON. Tiret, Bon. Wude mede a spesch, and intimat- ®d (hut'be would fight ; bat, for Ssomo reasou, Brooks paid no attention to bim. Northern men ihink that Brooks wes afraid bo fight as good a ghot a8 Wade. 2 Than Honry Wilson let off & epeech, and, when he came, all warnm from tae IB& it. They al said ‘they woro sorry o mado it ; for they had no iden that Wilson's temperament involved the qualifications for a delibaraze dual ; and this proved to b the caso when Brooks challonged Wilson, aod cho lutter roplied that he would resent-sn attock upon him. 7" gaid ‘Barlingame, when he heard “Any weak dellow will Tosist 82 aitack prevent. Wo are beiug nade “ Pgh ntemptibl & A Barlibgamo was & desd-shot,und, althoush averse to ducling. got raady o Make a speech which ehould put Mr. Brooks on his metal. He wa# an actor on thio foor, and this_comment ou the beating of Alr. Sumner was delivered in such s mauner as to produce all tho effact he desired. “ Ho stole into the Senato and emoto Charlas Sumner,” ssid_Burlingmo, *as tho wicked Cain stmoto lis brothe: > “Ttis s lio!” cried Keitt, acrosa tho Honse.” Burliugame at-once rasvonded that o know what Le was gsying, aod could bo found when wanted. What follows is cizcumstantial, sud related to mo by Mr. James whilo looking down upon the doud fa00 of Sumner in tho Seneto to-day. 3Ir. Bocook, of Virginin, called on Burlingamo, and eaid that Loboreno hoatile messege, and, in the event of & duel, would ocase fo Tepresent Mr. Brooks ; but he added, in sn earnest way, that Brocks, who valued Durlingame's esteom and acquaintsaco, wes dreadfully cat-up, end wanted some plliative in order ot to bo obliged to0 chullonge. - Burlingamo was swhward in such things, aud, being softencd Ly Bocook’s diplo- macy, naid he vould write whatover his frionds advised as proper sud diguitied. - He did write & Christian leter, and the, with tho usual tresch- ery of duclisis, Brooks roso in Congress, ssid soinethig handsome aboat Burlingame, aud immediately afterwards remarking that * A cook that would erow ond would mot figat was de- spised by the pullelr,” read aloud Mr. Burlingsmo's covciliatory lettor. Tuis arouscd Durfingame, uwnd next day Le published o card in tho Aational Intelligencer, rovoking whatever be had cunceded, and putting Mr, Brooks in a position where hg would be re- quired to challenge. The moring the card was published Mr. James arrived in the city; sud his Telations with Speaker Bouks - wore such, thiat, as tho physical representative of the party, Humpbrey Marshall ssked him: ** Wil Bur- lingeme fight if challenged ? Ho oughi to. ™ Hastening to Burlingane's rooms, Alr. James was asked: *“What wul come out of my card? “1 think you will receive a challengo before 12 -olalocks.” THUE DUEL MADE UP. Butlingame then msisted that James should conduct the negotiations, and empowersd him to either act as second or to clioosa the seconda. James, it may bo remarked, was & very splon- did specimen of the Nortuwestorn New Yorkor, 6 feot 2, with clean features and a military air. He bad come to Waslungton during the Kunsas- Nebraska agitation, to eollect somo Stato claims ; but; revolting at the Admimscration odtroges west of Missouri, had abandoned a zood deal of non-official influence he had acquired with £res- ident Frank Piorce, and was of great useto Banis in keeping together bis force Tor the Speaker- ship. Ar. Linooln afterwards made um Colicc- tor of the Port of San Francisco. The condition of political sentiment in Wash- ington, ut this exciting peticd, way somewhat dif- forent from what superfieial_writers will ropio- sent it iu the future. Tue Whig party was ox- tinct, bug its leaders from the South, a3 well as the North, were looking out for mew combinz- tions, and obativately refused affilistion with their'ald Domocratic encmics, even for tho sake of Slavery.” They bailed tie rupturc which Douglas had brought sbout iu the Dem- ocrstic rauks, and watched the Drooks- Sumner controversy with an avidity never dia- interested. 3r. James went {0 Ben Wade first, to act as Barlingame's second; but that old drover remarked that, while L would fight a duel, ho could hardly afford to be a second in another mau's affair. James then went fo Sam ouston, of Texas, who eaid) with a hungry look : i I wish I could accept ; but Iam s member of the Liaptist Church, and they would all get a laugh ou me. ' You tell Burlingame to como and sce_me, howover, sud I will give him sdvico woith millions.” i Thus, ‘queerly enongh, Sumner, whoso first reputation had been made by opposing the annexation of Tosus, was put in altiance aud sympathy with Sam Houston, the Lero of that annexxtion. The lust resort of Mr. James was Losis Camp- bell, of Dayton, O., & man embittered with tho Pierce coterio, and ready to fight, “Yes,” eaid Campbell, Il act as second; for T can'’t get a tight for myself out of thosa fellows.” At2 o'clock that_day, Ar. James encountered in the Capitol Georgo Eustls, member of Con- gress from Louisisna, and son-in-law of the “'Ashigftou baaker, Corcoran. “Will Durlingame fight i Brooks challenges Lim?” inquired Eustis. *Ho ought not to avoid it, for itis seldom that onegosn has tha chauco and honor to be the champibu of a whola section. As a politician *ho has an unusual op- portunity. All these troubles,” continued Eastis, “grow out of-the mnscrupulons smbition of Douglas, wha hes repealed the Micsouri Com- prowmise to get influeuce in the South, and is ia~ different to what good men he may ruin.” At this moment Doaglas camo up, and Eustis, turning to him, said: +* Douglas, wo wore just abusing yon. Welil,” snid Douglas, “there is no need of tho devif appeariug if I am the sabject and you and James are reviewing mo.” Ho was interrupted by Barlingante, who touch- d Jumes on the shoulder and said: “I huve Tecoived the challenge.” James turned about, and, walking off s stop, eaid: *“Who brought it to you ?" *Jos Laue.” It thon appeared that this challengo was in bad form, aud that Lang had bronght somo verbul message wit it, which indicated s com- promising and shillr-shally rpirit smongst tho o-Eaters, He enid Mr. Lrooks wanted the duel to come off immedictely, The {0 men resolved to Liold Brooks in tho position where he"had put himeelf, and _they went'to Campbell's room, in the rear of tho Ndtjonal Hotel, to draw up au acceptance of the challenge. Campbell took thy paper to Mr. Brooks' room, which bie found filled with Sonth- erners, who wero drinking sod_smoking, and were generally drunk or approaching that staga. He was not able to get $rooks aside until late in the night. THE BEASON OF CIIOOSING CANADA. Beantime, Jumes bad directed Burlingame fo glip over to the grounds of the Smithsonian Iu- stitute, sud it behind the shrabberies sud Lreos in tho southeast corner, 1n order to evade tho po- Tice, whio would be sure, at thie ramor of tha dael, to arrest the Northern mau, in order o make it appear that e had goi- protection in that way. Thiore his_seconds joined him,—and I am nob iura but tlat this was the day alter.the accept- auce of the challonge,—and iir. James brought word from Irancis I, Diair, 8r., who had becomo a Froe-Soiler, thut Buriogame must onno ac- count fignt in or near the District of Columbia. +i No Northern man will ever get & chance with a Southern Congressioual mob, if tho fight comes off within such limits as make the ground attainable from Wushington. After Cilley was killed by Graves, I weut over ine fiold and made & study of the positions. . Graves had a rogular mob; “and Cilley had been put in such a spot, end ot such a moral disadvantage, that the ratio of Lis chance was like one prson's in 3 lottery.” James, Campbell, and Burlingame, acting on this suggestion, thought of Penusylvania as the proper =pot. _They also discussod the Bermuda and Bahamo Islauds and Cuba, but' finally, as Dight appronched, agreod that Canads was thomy expaditiously aud naturally reached. The par- ties were, therefore, to meot t the Cliiton Ilouse. They all ropaigad to Burlingame's rooras, and partooks of a boltls of champaguoand o fine lunch. (I belieye my memory returns at this point, and thsl it vas after the conferevce in the Smitusonian grounds when Campbell carried the acoeptance.) At auy rate, James sud Burl- ingame got into a carrisge. after nudnight, and drove 1o a railroad-siation in Marsland, nad, when the morung-irain came along, they pro- ceeded t0 New York, TIE DUEL OFF. y They stopped at the Everet. Houso, on Union Square, Tegistenng sssumed namas, sud commu- nicatinyy with Washingon by o. cipber. Tnat nigot they went {0 o shuoting-gallery on Broad- way, where Burlingame’s dexterity made such surprise that James once forgot mmself and cafled his principal by name. Next morning ths tolegrapa brought the information that the ‘Washington people were in great mystory 8a to their whercabouts. The third morniog the news arrived that Brooks, under the plea that he did not beliove that they meant fight, bad pubisbed, in hig treacherons way, all iotes, ofiicial and confidential, and he doclared tho fizht off. As s consequence, Burlingame shrow off the sk, and 2 magninicent dinner. ensaed, given fo him by New York Republicans. Ar. James has no doubt bat that Barlingame was a man whoso courage grow cool and relioble a8 the occasion for itapproached, and that_he would have killed Mr. Brooks. He discussed, on the way to Now York, the proprity of shooting at his adversary's legs; -but Jamss reminded’ bim of Brooks' duel ..with _ Wigfall, = whero both- mon perfnrmnum, aimed true, and weis both wounded. Buslingams thea ‘resolved .to make the-affray bloody. Burlingamo never spoko with Brooks again, but anticipatingan affruy, held himself ready for s foatain on the terrace of tha Capitol, ho had o cocked pistol undar Jus cloak. aud looked directly into Drooks' eves. “Ieaw at the first glance,” said Rurlinguma, ©that therp was no disposition to make &n at- tack.” Brooks walked with Mr. James in the Tast Capitol Park on_another occasion, and en- deavored to Tostore_good rolations; but James was not amiable, and they partad in Some sullea- ness. The Southorners had advised against tho duel, because, as Blair said, |they could mob 'attend -it 4n a mob. Drooks teiz friondless, snd thore s Teason to belicve that he was disgustod with the drinking erowd he had como to asaociate with, aud that they had helped to break down hif bealth by encouraging excesses. In his last sick- noss ho left some peculisr and rmicable state- ments for Burlingame's ears, aud tuen died so suddenly that somo donbt whether his death was natural. forced into brutal positions, which loft a guaw- ing unbappiness aud satioty. Such aro the anomnlous conditions worked in human . charne- tor by abuormal general movements: .Tuo blow atruck by Brooks conferred knighthood on Sumnor. The victory of Brooks was fatal to his hoalth and peace of mind. It was & moral de- foat, Iike the victory of Cain over Abel, and of Dilate over Jesus. “Where ia South Carolina to- day, then 8o gratulated? Is 3lassachusetts the ‘worse in hiatory ? ) ‘Whon quite & littlo boy, I remambor scciag the train shoot past a railwav-station witt the body of fenry Clay upon it. That 18 &1l I recollsct of :ku‘lmprefluiun, ‘and vat it always scomed to mo af CLAY AND CARLES SUMNER had pearer noints of rescmblance than Sumner and lus_prodecessor, Wobster. The imporious &pirit, the over-riding will aod momentuw, the dead earnestnens, of Clay, in big or little things, wore the same in Sumner. Behind both stood & loyal State aud party, grandly in the minority, but not faltering for thut, In the matter of brendthof mind and sympathy, everybody willset down Sumnerss the narrower, but nobody can “ copper ” history on that snbject by ssymz s0. If Freedom is a narrower snbject of parsuit than the Presidency, sud Humauity narrower than tho Nutional Road, Bumner wag on the parrow-gatge. We live too near the fireplace to compute the warmth of relative character. .'Timos wero less skeptical in Mr. Clay’speriod. e gave One- Lalf bis life to his manners, and was the political father of the Coliax and Henry Wilsou school; and therefore his magnetism has become & tradition,—his tenderness and love are taken for granted. 5 He was & m=n, no doubt, of a religions love of country and great legislativo powers, distributed on a great number of secondary ‘objects, and ofton wsted on too obstinate snyport of thinga not vital. When his National Bank was dead, swhere wero his interminsble epeeches upon it.? ‘When three times the country said No to his pretensions, he gathered up the piccea of him- self, and azain begnn to roll the stono up tho il Finally ho came supernumezary to the Sonate, with Liie unwilling conseut of his State, “to get even.” And he died getting evon, leaving a jumbled fame,—the brightest apostle of disappointment that ever wont to battle sinco Charles the Bold.. It would seem bard to call tius kind of Justrous political leader a groater man than oue of duller parts and more learning, who prossed concludions upon Slavery, saw it epring to the encountor, 8aw it retreat’ and ory twice, and who then, saying: *‘God help ma, shall Tollow the bloody monster to its den,” fol- Jowed it, and like Samson hived to ses ‘'3 swarm of bees and honey in its carcass.” 3r. Clay could not hiave been Mr. Sumner- nor have done his work, as he lived ina fron, tier, slaveholdinz. matorial commuuity : but the Qpportunity is a part of the man. Public ca- reor is & salad, and all that goos into it i a part of its excollcucs. Afr. Webster did not live in Kontucky, but be made no use of Lis oppor- tunity. ~He lived down past tbe point whero Sumner began the battle, “1la Leard in the Sen- ate Mr. Sumner’s first spocch, when be said, in the fac of Mr. King: 44 Bfr, Preaident, atlength I have the floor. What Parlismentary courtesy has so long re- fused. Parliamentacy right has obtained.” And, in a few minutes, Mr. Sumner saw OLD wEDSTER, then 70 years old, hstening in & neighboring seat behindward; and- ho save that thros tiwmes Webeter changed his position, a3 if uuwilling to appear ourious or interestod, or Lo .natod by the speaker. Thero the wenk moral-vature, carry- ing the great utellect, heard peshaps the voica of Time moaning in tho shell, yet only half-ar~ ticulate: *‘Out, out, brief candie! Tife's becn in theo but a poor player, to strut his hour upon tho stage ™ SUMNEDR'S DEATE marks an epoch. Iu -probebly terminates the Slavery-contest in every particular, and leaves the Szpplementary Civil Rughts bill suspendsd for savernl years, or until tho colored people 1n bulk matricnlate more in cifizmmhi{y. That raco will continue to press for equalify, throngh Congress, with diminishing chances; but Snally e prolonged anomaly.of 3 distinotion with eqrulp citizenship will compel a reawakoning on the subject. Bat no man, uot 8 negro, cau rako suy more reputation ont of tho Slavery question. This nation of white men has paid a fearfal price per capita for the frectiom of the slase, It bas paid for, say, 4,000,000 slaves, tho sum in money of $2,600,000,000, or abouc $650 perhead, in debt alone, bearing jutorest,~—tho samo the dusky race would have cost bought up Dy the Nation without losing a life. Such & pleco of profligacy is war! A great war represonts the wauts over and above set- tlement of its issues. Itis the cast of the ob- duracy zud the passion, tho demagogerv, and the mw, and the cheating, of tho suffering sida. 'hat man in our history was over 80 ox-~ “ponsive to Lis raco a3 Calbonn? That supor- sorviceable and dishesrtenod diniectician made fnto a grand thoeology the mercantilo greod and social sonsitiveneas of slaveholders, and afflicted & whole ago. Misorable man! He constried the courtésy of n human charter to be, first, an immemorial privilege; next, an oternal right; nest, a Divine iaw; fivally, a superb economy ; and, ‘at lnst, a rcason for secession and civil war, 1t was this being who filled a grest spacs in Ro- publican history. Hia whole system of what was called statesmansbip is clearly tracesble to the proferonca of Jackson for Yau Duren over him- solf for the Picsidency. He wus the mnrderer of a mitlion men, because he could not have his vain will. 2 R THE FEACE-MAREE. Charles Sumuer no less showed af the out- ‘bresk of Lis political career the power of a mere antaczoniem to make principles. - The Whig party 0pposed & war for the sake of Toxas chiofly bo- causo it was to be a Democratic war: and Massa- chugetts opposed it because » great Stava Empire would como into the Union. One Of the srsu- moents against this was a goneral oppositian to all wars:-and 80 the ““Truo Grandeur of Na- tiona " made the overtare to Summor's long reries of speeches. It boro littlo resomblznce, indoed, to Webater's carly oration on the Bit- tle of Bunker Hill. But it came to pass that tho orator was ore day to bo almost a Wilkam Pitt belind the groatest war of tho ora, and we heard 0o more abont the true grandeurof na- tions_until tho battle-flag resolution was pro- posod. - How much evil influeuce on onr ganeral fortunes the Mexican war may have hai, is still a problem. Did it bave auy? Were Tom Gorwin und that classof men much botter than Quic- ‘man and Worth, and the soldiory who went to tho Capital of the Montezumas? Mr. Sumnper's election to the Sonato was some- thing like Chase's, and, like Lincoln’s luck with the Presidency, the ncoident of an intrigne. All theso men show us cleariy that politicad manipu- Iation is one of the most powerfal instrumental- ities of government. Half-a-dozen Wits may neutralizo dsstiny, and often tho greatost ca- Teer is not within the nomination of the people. Sumuer nover was the popular favorite of Mas- sachusetts. He satistiod the iutslicct of the ruling coteries, and owed a good deal to Pres- ton S. Brooss for his second olection. Harvard, Lougrellow, Garrison, the pross, tho ravicws, and his own pride of bearing, were his constituen~ ey. Withiout being a cold, ha was an aristo- cratic, man, a3 aro all gendine Jovers of Froo- dom. ' There is nothing in tho passionate lovo of Topublican Government which compela & man to lie down in a puddlo and cunltivate low com- pany. Tho men who kopt the sacred firo of Freodom slive have been grandly austaro, like Sully, Carnot, and Moreau, Hampden, Milton, and Bright. Freedom domands spaco i0 with- draw {om the crowd, aud the firat right of & Lepubiican is not to bo elbowed. Mr. Sumner_succeoded taat magnificent Tur- verdrop and Micawhber, Daniol Webster,—a living iwmage of God with a borrowed shilling foreverin hispocket. Heimposed upon everyiody bat him- solf, having too much approliension to be his own proy. Even inour day 1t woald bo conside ered scandalous 10 make or accopt &uch levies as ba did upon the merchants of State stroct, in ro- turn for moving the tariff up or down, as their interests dictated. Ha abaudoned overy 80 Bo was designed for, and overy principlo his miod naturally discriminated wupon, matl, as Whittier wrote with aaked trath s + Ofall we loved and Lionored, naught But power remuing,— - A faden angel's pride’of thougnt, &tili strong in chains. Tho popular heart of the country is searcely ablo 0 rocover from the recollection and fable of Mr. Webster to this dsy. Tiho grandear of Nature was all exertod upon him. - He conquered by avpoaring. - To the lust, hard, picayune busi- ness-men were deliberately lus victims; and By 2ll acconuts, ho was & super-sensi-- ' tivo man, whom tho false codes of the day and thougnt of bis Btato, and of much of tae country, wore prostituted. To this man Mr. Sumusr sucoesdod by tho suointment of the faithful few, as the young David wxs solected by Samusl to suscced the more imposiag Saul. TILE RISE OF SUMNER'S 8CHOOL. ‘The personal ambition of politicians is almost inextricably mixed with movements forward or retrograde. In the Administration of Monroe bozan s series of personal intrigaes whioh, in Juckson’s two terme, developed in the elunina- :tion of Cafhoun, and, in Polk's Administration, in the climization of Van Buren. Theso two, Calhoun snd Van Buren, are of more conso- quence to Amarican bistoty thau eithor Clay or Webster. ‘[heir struggle to resch the Presi- dencg, and Vo Buren's repulde from o Demo- cratic' Convention, led to the Fras-Soil move- ment in the North by way of rovenge, just after r. Calboun introduced his ultra Blavery reso- Intions of Feb. 19, 1817, that u State law accom- panied an emigrant-slave to the new Territories of the United States. Then died almost in & body tho veterans who lsgzed superfluous on the stage: Olay, Calhoun, aud Webster, The bolt” undertaken by Van Buren, and, the assumption of Terntorial rights for Siavory by Calkoun, went right on ; and, whon the optim- istio, bland, and rathor muddfe-headed olr, Fill- more cameup, by tha accident of “splits,” in the game of political faro, the weakest Cabinet oven tho Whigs could composo smilingly advanced the Fagitive:Slave bill. The dramafis persons of the final alruggle was then ready to hand. The young Sumuer wes_ready for the Senafo, and Mr. Webster properly expired with some expres- sion of wooder that, being so enpernumerary, he could ““still Live.” Tor a litlo while, Dougias believed that the Fillmora policy was & Wuwning one, and that he conld go it two better by breakinz down all the compromisc-fenaos. 80 as to got gratituds in the South. He disd Webster, an unsuccessful seekor for tho Pr dency. Then followed violence in Ksnsas, on the tloor of the Senate, and at Harpor's Ferry. Henry A..Wiso roused the military spirit in the South, Capt, Ellsworth in the West, Gov. Bauks in Now Englond. The war cano a8 naturally as flame runs or clouds break. Socession wasa politics! blessing in_that it withdrew from tho Senate the resctionary majority, and left an entire Congress to co-operate with tho new Ad- ministration. . BUMNER AXD 18 ASSOGIATES. In that Senate which asscmbled July 4, 1861, aboat ton wecks after the affair at Fort Sumter, the following men cnly rotan the firat rank: Pessenden, = Sumner, and Trumbull. 'Phirts months afterward, on Dee. 7, 1963, tho Sonate, Wwith many new accessions, had none of promi- nence, . Colfsx became Speaker of tho Houso; and Blaine, Fenton, Bontwoll, Dawes, Thad Stavons, Craswoll, Winter Davis, Schonck, Gar- flold, Julian, Farnsworth, Washburne, Lovojoy, and Frank Blair wers members. Tho Congress of tho United States never equaled that House, before or aftorwards. It contmmued throughout the War, and down to 1872, to be the superior of the Senate. I {hnk that the Scnato has again recovored the palm, particularlv in 1874, when the currency question bas baen debated. Mr.. Sumner arose immediatols, at the ont- brealk of the War, to ba an suthority in tbe land and sbrond. At tho Heal of the Foreizn Affairs Committoa of the Senate, he and Thad- dsua Stevons, while ontortainiog little resvect for Mr. Seward's moral courage and political chaxvacter, gave bim & musculsr enpport which battressed him up. At the same time they both unitedly pushed along the great mop and canter- izing 1wstrament with which they determined to Tub ont tha tha last pora and soed of Slavery, aad ‘of political discrimination betwoen white and black. These are the men towompars with each othor. TI(E TIREE LEADERS OF CONGRESS, in the humanitics of the conilict, were 'Winter Davis, and Slevons, and Coarlea Sumncr. Thase men preparad Iieconstruction, and led Congress and Mr. Lincoln far shead of their natural pro- ponsity or pormal conraze in the matter of Emancipation and Black-Suffraze. The historian must not forget the fact that the Republican party was neither roady nor earnest aboat either of theso measurea when it passed them. Tho hand did what the heart lung back about. Tho party. for its political pocessities, assumed s philanthropy it had not yet acquired. Sumner, Stevens, and Davis were dead in earnest, and hellowed and pushed the party up to_the work. Herain is Charlos Sumuer the groat_Senator of the period. He compelled the prajudices of race to vield, and ths Republican party is full of men say: * Wa've got too much nigger in v." Yesterday, on the stroet, a public ofiicer from a Now Enzland State said to me: “‘Swinuer was pushing his Supplement; Civil Rights to uncomfortablo lengths. My blo is not warm enough yot to pat my children to school with negroes, and divide a bedroom or & bed with dazkoys,” I quote this £o show the reluctant repalsions of race, infinitely decreased since the close of tho War, but by no means extinet; and there were brave Generals who felt like bresking their swords, and strong politicians, like Roborl T. Schenclt, who hardly approved of Emancipation,, when Ar. Lincoln conclided to proclsim it. 1f Black-Suilrago is to redound to tho peacs, good morals, industry, and political probity of the Nution, Mr. Sumner's fame will be imperishable with the black raco, and sscure with the whites. It now scems probable that his Radicalism will prove to have been atatosmanship also. Ho was devoted to Lig ideas, and never be- traved them. e wasalso trus to his frionds, and gave them belp, but not to the escriiic of his own sense of personal sovereignty. He had all the will of the greatest men. ~Lesrning_and offico never mado him effeminate, although he was sometimos the victim of his ideas, sod car- ried by them beyond the proprieties of tho day. e was no saint, howover, in littlo rospeots. e loved the tablo and good wine. His temper was high, and he waa essily provoked ; and, with Faith, and Hope, and iumanity in & bizh de- gree, be lackod Charity, Yot his_aroused feel- ings waro ueyer debased by malignity. Ho roared like a lion. His fury was a mouarch's. Ho could strike down his opponent, but never sting him with the fangs of souymous hato. 'oward tho endof lifo, bis sewso of ontraged rights was soothed to tranquinty, and bo approached Na- ture to rejoin Ler in tho grave with tho mag- nanimity of one not littler than tho part hio had played. - Fow men respected him moro than_his fullow-Senators of the Democratic party and tho South: Stevenson, Thurman, Merrimon, Me- Creery, and Gordon. The - President imltated these aud honored himself ¢ the bicr, and his daughter was thoughtful enongho Jay a cross of fowers thore. Garir. —— LITERARY ITEMS. Harper's Magazine for Apsil bs four illus- trated articles—"Tho Farallon Islads,” by Charles NordhofT ; “ Tho Secret Regions of the Stage.” by Olive Logan; “Illsley,” by Moncare D, Conway; and “Oliver Goldwraith,” by Georgo 3L, Towle. *My Mother and " by Mrs. Craik, and “Tho Living Link,” by Prof. Do Mille, are continuod. Gen. McClollan Lms a paper on * Army-Organization " ; sud there aro poems by Kato Putnam Oagood, Will Wellace Harney, and Richard Henry Stoddord. —Scribner's Monthly for April hos the first three chapters o **Tho Mysterious Island,” by Jules Verno; & continuation of *The Great South,” by Edward Kiog; tho conclusion of “Earthen Pitchers,” by Rebecca Hurding Davis; *Clrist's Resursection Scientifically Consider ed,"” by Angustus Bisuvelt; and poems by Ben- jamin F. Talor, John Fraser, aud Edward King. Tho number is profasely ilustrated. —&t. Nicholas for April (Scribner & Co., Now York) is filled, as nsual, with reading-mattor and pictures of interest to children. . Among the con- tributors are Donald G. Aitchell, Elizabeth Stu- art Phelps, J. T. Trowbridge, Celis Thaster, and Ti¥mas Bailey Aldricks. —.eniorest’s ustrated Monthly and Demo- rest’a Young America, both for April. have been rocoived. ‘Alvo, tho' National Sunday-School Teacher and the Liltle Folks for the same month (Adams, Blackmer & Lyon Publishing Company, Omicago). ¥ —Our Monfhly (Alfrad Murtien, Dhiladelphia) ia 8 magazine of a roligious character. Its last number conteins _articles on “Coins of the Bible,” “Blauveli on_Modorn Skopticism,” “Christ, the Opener of Seals,” &o. —-We have recaved the March number of the American Hislorical Record, (Johm E. Potter & Co., Philadelphia) ;and a copy of tho Jinion Era, an iliustrated religious periodical (Chirch Union Association, New York). A —Mr. Gedrzo Cartcr Btont is soon to publish a colloction of songs, ballsd, stc., translated from the Chineso. —A uew volume by Camon Kingsley, on * Health and Edocation,” is forthcoming. —As consrastion of the ramor of Mr. Glad- stonc's retiramont from the leadership of tha Qpposition, it is known that he bas_written a icttar to Prof. Max Mauller, announcing his par- Posa to parsuo the sindy of philology for the proseut, o P . —:4 Laughs at My Lovers, by Myself and Hae- band,” is the titio of book soan to b publisned in Boston. It ia minde up of extracts from real love letters written to a celebrated beauty, * whio has been married long cnough to talk on such subjects With equagimity.” . - i addition w +Clarissa Harlowe,” Mr. Jones s to_condenss, far Messrs, Holt & Cov, Boswell's johnson, the Tewriting of waich in modern roaders wonld consider superfinous. —Jobn Banvard, the nutbor and travoler, is writing the “ Private Life of & King (George 1V. of Englsud), which will contain much that hus never been published, based upon papers of undoubted authen ty. It is smdto be any- thing but fatiering to the first gentleman of Eucope.” + —“Quatrovinpi-treizo” is tne first of his novels which M. Victor Hugo has oublished sthis | own expense. The enterprising Frenchman who isanid to hsve givon. £15,000 for “ L'Homms qui Rit," was not ruined by the bargain, asmight have been expected but ho lost mouy by it, and his example nas not encouraged ths others. ‘The heavy prico-demnnded for the Germau transla- tion Irighened away the publishora on the othar side of the Rhine, and the Gorman version i ‘brought out by a Strasbourg houso. —Ipteresting facts as to the value of foroign copyrights are given in conusction with Miis Braddon's latest novel. aud Wilkia Collins’ tale, published hers as *The Dead Alive.” For the former, the Gorman publisher pays £100; tho Russion £45, the Swedish £30, the Dutch £25, the Italian £10; for the lattcr, the figures are respectively £65, £15, £10, £5, and £5. —Afessrs. Honry Holt & Co. sent 1,000 franos ina lotter to L Ivan Tonrguenieff. They are Dow publishing. an edition of his works. M. Tourgusnieff is not to be oatdone in generosity, and he pronoses to present to Mr. Holt an Ea- glish trapslation of a story which will sopear in Russian in the album contributed by Rnssisn- literary men to the fand for tho benefit of tho fuminc-stricken pessants of the .Province of Samara, . ~The financial pasic in Americs has caused the withdrawal of the proposals mado to many English men of lettars who were invitad to de- livor lostures in tho Uuited States. The high prices offered were tompting, and it secmod for a time that & new sourco of emolument was opening up to & oot ovor-paid profession. Tho Zoo, on tha other hand, will proit by the panio ; for 'Amencan competition was forcing up the ‘Pprico of animals at & rate sufficient to alarm even a woalthy society like that which has its gardena in the Regent's Park, and a rhinoceroa or tapir was bocoming a fearfully costly purchaso.— London Athenweum. —It is interesting to mote that tho English "editions of the two most important French and German novels of the yoar will bo the work of Americans. Mir. Frank Les Benedict, now in Tondon, is trasslating Victor Hugo's ** Ninety- three,” 'which Harper & Bros, will shortly pab- lish liere; and Mr. Simon A. Stevens' tranxlation aof Anurbmbix' Waldfricl,” has been received by tho English publishers from Henry Holt r. B. H. Stoddard, as sditor, and Messrs. Scribuer, Armutrong & Co., 8s publishers, aro abont to entorupon a liverary euterprise which will interest all Americans who delizht in biogru- phy, memoir, and “ana.” The Euglich press aboundsin an entertaining sort of litorature— personal reminiscence, autobiography, &c.— from which we =are largely excluded from the foct tbat, many of tho books, hay- ing moatly s mere local value, our publish- ers do not feel warranted in their reproduction. In_ the Bmponsd volumes—to be called the ** Bric-a~-Brac Beries "—all the most valnabla and .| agreeable portions of the foreign books of ro- miniscenca will bo presorved—thie biographies will bo cordensed and the intersperted sketches and anecdotes will bo presented, it need oo, in. full. The firat volume of tho ¢ Bric-a-Drac Bories " will appear at an early day, and will con- tmn the cream of the autobiograplfios and ‘memoirs of Honry Chorley, for many years the mausical eritic of the London Athenaim; of J. R, Plauche, the veteran dromatist, and Charles Mayne Youag, the famous tragedian.—New York Tribune.” % —Three weeks azo there was a sale of anto- graphs at the rooms of Messrs, Sotheby, Wilkin- #on & Hodge, London. Amongst tho more eagorly contaated ware a Prolude for the Lute, by 8. Bach, for £16; a letter from Beethoven, sunonncing that he liad been offered the post of Hapelimeister, £11 103, 30d_a Song to Hope, by the samo musiciau, £10; a letter from JMichel Angelo Buonarroty, sckuowledging the roceipt of 1,600 gold ducats as part payumont for the tomb of Pope Julius, £610a; a letier [rom Buros, £13, snd s cantata, £12; a letter from Erasmus, stating that the King and Archbisho, Lliad invited him to England, £16 10s ; H. Field- ing, complaiving of moncy disappointments, 46108 ; Do Feo, complaining of hin treatment, £11 118 ; Goothe, £22 104 ; Goldsmith, giving a doleful sccount of Lix travels on the Continent, £37 103 ; Hogarth, consenting to ba s momber of the Acadomy of Augsburg, £13 10s; Keats, £7158 3 Lamb, £915: Songa by Mendelssohn, X15; -Mozart, respecting his intended wife, £16 163 ; Rabens, £15158; Schiller to Goathe, £9 5s; Shelley, £7 and £6 124; Smollett, 11 1185 Swerne, requesting & loan‘of £50, £95a; Bwift, sisting that on_sccount of his poverty, *If I come to- More Park it must be on foot, £9 9 ; Tasso, with a sonnot, £23 108 ; Wordsworth abusing * Guy Maunering,” £7 24 6d, &e. The entire salo produced £635 18 Gd. ~Berthold Auerbach Lissa new novel in press with Cotta, and it will appear in_sbout a mouth, It bastodo with the Franco-German war. In length it will be about the same as *'On Hights ;" but Dr. Auerbach himself prizes it higher '8 3 romance than sven that popular work, Of course your publishers will have sharp eye for_its appearance. Friedrich Sviel- hagon is also, I beliove, hard at work on & novel. Siuce ** What ihe Swallow Sang,” Spielhagen 1ing published ovly oue short work—* Ultino —a tale of adventureson the Exchange. Just pmow I 8co the National Zeitung has begnoa series of fewiletous about Neapolitan life from s elogant pen. Gustsv Froytag's grand work, Die Annen, which has now reacbed its second part, 1a by far the most important literary event of tho preseut. Its plan 18 to trace the history of an ofd Germaa_family from an carly age, throughs .all tha vicissitudes of civilization, 10 the present day. At tho rate of progress which Froytag is now making, Ishould say half-a-dozen volumes will bardly complete the y{njucl. It is certainly s grest undertaking.—DBerlin Corrve- spondence of e New York Tribune. —)L Juies Verne's new story, ‘“The Mysteri- ous Island,” which is now ** running " as a serial in lus Paris magazine, commences in a notsble way. 1tis written for American boys, and pro- sentsin its characters and opening incidents some pointa worthy of note. The ume is March, 1865, and tho_placs, Rictmoud, Va. Richmond, invested by Grant, is complefoly cut off from Lee's army, aud the Goveruor of the city has 10 means of communicating with Lee. In fact, Richwond is in exactly the samo condition to- wards Lee as was Paris towards Gon. D'Aurolle de Paladine during the Franco-German war. Under these circumstances, ono_Jonathan Fors- ter, a determined Confederate, chafing under inability to cross Grauy’s lines and reach Lee's camp, dotermines to mako the attempt to luave tho city by meuns of a ballonu, which is fuliy in- tlated and ready for departuro, but whick, owimg to a fearful tempest that is prevailing, 13 left fastened in the public square, awating & more propitions day. In the meautime the five real characters of the story are ploiting to take possossion of this balloon and depart from the city. These porsons are the Hon, Gedeon Spilott, a war-corraspondent of & New York paper, who had been captured Ly the Confedarates ; Aaj. Cyrus Smith, aged abont 43, a Massachusotls man and a Uvion officer, to whom, duning tho war, the United States Goy- erument had coufided ‘the charge of the rail- roads—also a prisoner of war; Pencroff, a Northern man and sailor, who, with young Har- bert Brown, a_New Jetsey iad, had gone to Tichimoud in the begiuning of tho year 1365 from tho North on business mattors ; and, fiual- 1y, Nabucodonoser, called Nab for short. s mo- £ro man shout 30 years old, who was born a slave on Maj. Simith’s "plantation in Massa~ chusetts, but whom Smith, au sbolitionist, had long since emancipated. Nab, who was very de- devoted to his master, had left Massnchusetts to join Smith in Richmond. All these people, in- cluling Smith aud Spilett, are perfectly free to come aud go in Richmond. The five come to- gether on a dark night when the wind is howling, enter theLasket of the balloon, cub the ropes, and whirl awayin tho tempest. The tornado continues for four daya, and in that time tho ‘balloon is blown westward for 7,000 miles, and is finally wreeked, landing the adventurers on & mysterious and desert island in tho Pacific Ocean. A€ thus poiut bagins the record fortunos and miafortunes.—New York World. ~ Sunday-School Prizes. - AtaNew Your's Bundsy-school fastival in village on the Clyde, several wealthy and promi- nent peoplo, among’ whom was rs. Cratk, the authoress of **Johm Halifsx,” met to distribute prizea, which they did in & uovel and gracefal way. Tho prizea wero cards cnticled Safety Signals,” under which heading wore arranged quotations from the Bibla, from Sir Edward Par- 1y, Prof. Geo. Wilzon, and Kitto; and the words “'Till sauary, 1891 followed each bog's naie, It waa then esplained to tho scholara tlat if at any time before the expiration of the above term they required assistance or advico in tno maiter ol clioosing & trudc, or in any ouher way, thoy ore to call on any one of the ladics or gentle- ‘men then present, and thoy wonld do all 1a thsir power to furtbor their intcrests. 3 —Tho oldest pilot in active servico on the Hadson River is Lewis_Enaigm, of the stesmer Daniel Dress, of the Albany daily lino, Ho hes Loen ou the river £5ty-fiva years, or since ho wes 10 years old, 2ad " has just. buen re-sngaged for tha coming serson.- ? Spring Promises and Spring Fulfillments. i Black Still 2 Favorite---Gray and Bluo _ the Fashionable Colors The Passion for Blending Shades More Prevalent than Ever---Shirring as a Source of Ele« . .. gance. Hafmonies of Hues Imperatives-— Spanish Veils for Sum- mer Nights. From Qur. Own Correspondent. A NEw Yons, March 18, 187, Wo have not had so great a dearth of licos, this, season, that ifarch nced to have turned 1nto one especially on ouracconnt. Bo that as it may, the rongbest and most disagreeablo ‘weather of the wholo winter has been during the past fortnight ; and 80 bad has it been that the most devoted folloswers of Fashion have been tempted to remain indoors, and haog over fires, instead of pursuing folly in wind-driven crowds. Still, the modistes are nono the less busy be- -cause their patrons happen, for the tims, to be indiferent; well knowing that, for their cus- tomers’ momentary caralessnoss, they will b ex- pected next month to make full componsation. I VERNAL PROMISES. Although it is early yet, and the spring-goods are not fully oped, enongh Jie on the connters to prove no great novelties are to- be ‘produced, and thut the variety of stuffs, comparatively speaking, i3 small. Last year you conld not connt the fresh fabrics, of all grades and prices, thot lined the shops; this yesr, you re- ceive the impression that nothing is mew, and that you are eoxpected to purchase last season’s importations at slightly- reduced rates. If _you look carefully, howoever, you will discover novelty mow and then, bnt nothing striking. The varistions are principally in- the weaving of -old and well- Ffemombered goods, rather than in the materials themselves. We find ancient favorites, such as serges, pongees, poplins, alnacas, snd the like, with peouliar twills, diagonal rops, raised stripes, cte.; begniling us, for the instant, into believ- ing thom now, but, upon ezamination, betraying tamiliar iraits. The suitings are chicfly of mixed, silk and wool, threads,—= combination singuiarly attract- ive to the eye, though wofully inclined to shrink and cockle. Mized gools tre never safe to. buy, iflone cares alout their wearing quality. Now and then, 2 mixed stalf cau be found to' auawer. for hard sarvice; bnt for oneof that sort there are & hundrod . otbers which will not pay for makiug. I remember the fate of a friend Tast summer, who conld not resist getting 2 pale, cafe-aulait silk-and-wool stuff fora steeet-dress. Tt was made afier the weather was warm enough for tho windows to be kopt open; and,.while the sait wasin the work-room, tho moistuo of the atmosplora 50 &hrank it that, when tho lady tried it on to wear, the akirt was meveral inches too short, and the Wwaist too tight to fasten. This is an extreme casa; but it is likely, in less degrae, to happen to auy mixed gooda. i Polonaise-materials are couspicuons from their absence, which certainly indicatos more suroly than anything else thit that desirable garment is likely to depart in tho conrve of events,—at_losst a8 an indepcndent article of apparel, We bave been g0 constantly assured, for the last_two yeam, of ha positiva death of ihe polonsiso, and, in tho next senteace, its wearing more than ever, thAt prognostications about it have ceased to be regarded. Now. hosw= avr, if there bo_nothing to make them of, it is evidous theca will bano_palonaiscs. To take their place, somsthinz will unquestionably be invonted ; for we mnust not bo berelt of them 3nd ovorskirts at one fell swoop. Thus far, few BPRING SOITS have been shown, and those that have been, oftener than not, aro black. The moro import- ant ** openings™ will_not take place before the closo of next week. Uatil then, no temptation ie strong enough to win a sight of the novelties, —if any there be,—though hints and half-state- ments are many. & £ Gray and biue are called the modish colors, though it is dificult to sea that one tint is moro widely worn than another. Most feminine Goth- amites are artists enough in dress to wear the buoe that is adapted to their complexion, lec tho fashion be what it will. Where thov are too faithful to mode to sirike it altogether, ihey skilifully mingla the color whick does sait them with that which doesn't, thus following voguo and prefarence. One of tho simplest implicitv, alas! is not ag tastefullest costumes alreadv completed is of two shades of . blue-zrey foulard. (Tho manis for two or moro shades, blended in the same dress, provails to an unwonted oxtent, only the contrasts arenot 80 genorally violent as they have been.) Tha walking-skirt barely touches the gronnd bebind (the possossor of this pretty suit respects. herself too - much to tril her gowi over filthy side- walks), sod s . but thres yards snd ‘a quarter round the extreme bottom. -The lowest trimming is g twenty-inch, scsnt, bizs: flounco. The top of the flonnce is faced on the inside (the width of 3 card, onl¥, fhowing cir the ont- 6ide), to a finzer's depth, with the darker shads the dress being of tho lighter. Two and n balf inches from thio top i3 a keries of shirrs; which 18 to say that the flounce is gathiesed on six threads placed a half-inch apart. Zhis shirring—the most elegant way of heading a flounce just at present—is usod in all matovials, and. on every description of full trimming. The. flounce .is faced np from the lower edro, a finger wide on the outside, with the dark. Alove this are three “iuch-wido bands of tha Kght. corded on both edges with two fino cords of {he dark, Gn the tablier aro threo finger-wide bands of the light, corded on each edge wilh two large soft corda of the dnrk, and reaching over the top of the flonnce somo eightinches ; thopart lapping over the’ flonnca being lined, left to hang loosely, and ending in s tasscl-tipped point. In the 'back the skiri has s large paier-onif. (Here let mo romark that the puif, introduced into street aa woll a3 house dresses, is almost the only change inskirts.) The juclot is short in the back, the only fuliness peiuyg a large box- plait in the middle.” In front, two long, square tab-onds bang over a short, sauard rest. The whole baaqne is finished with a double soft cord of the dark ; the rest—alyo of ths dark— being outlined by a corded band of the lizht, A round, standing, fasing collar 8 io the nock, and large monaquetairo culls on the cost-sleeves —not to mention two cnuning poctets on the tabs—finiah the Auit. In dereription she cos- tumb is plain enough ; but tha eiect i very protty. N AN ELEGANT DRESS for cgrriage and dioner has just been imported, It is of a roft, rosv-gray tint (a real cloud-grav), and is made of faille. ‘Che demi-train is bor- dered from the seam of the front breadth on one side to the seam on the other, by sn eichtoen- inch flounce, worked on the edge in English om- broidery in four shades of will,—two lighter; two darker, than tho dress. Tho head of the flounca is ' also wrought, but not 8o doep, and the flounco is set on with six shirrs. The tavlier is wronght all over in the ssme English embroid- ory; and, where the wheels and evelets permit it to be soen, a lining of pale rosa-color i8 Vizie olo. Two.largo wings, ot foosa breadths of silk, are fastened to tho belt, sud also in the front seams. Theeo ara worked, on tho edres, aud Lave s heavy sowing-aitk fringe across the bot- vom. The Wngs are caught together in the brek by embroidered bands, having fringe on tho lower edze. Dotween the bands the back breadth, folled on to the lining, shows like a se- ries of puffa. The jacket, short all round,'is corerod with open embroiderv over & rose-col- ored lining. The_ sleeves_ are-ccat-shape; the upper and under sides, made of smbroidary lika tho basquo, are caught togother with tiny bands over s rose-colored pufl, atter the maoner of Lo back of the skirt., An elegantly-worked au- tmoninire hangs at Yhe left side, out of which ceps s pink silk haudkerebief, ed:ed with Jaco. Tho costame is unique-and ruaily elegant; but, to my thinking, not adapled to other nccasious than an elaborate diaer-party or. a démi-dress reception. e . - . ODDB AND ENDS. s G The dolman is the favorito shape in outside gar- monte. It is more fraquently mude in lizht-col- ored spring-cloakings than it was last yeur, wheu black superseded everything. - Many of the moat expensive doimans are mash bobraided and. be- decked with beads; bas. those borderil with doublo folds of Leavy repued siik, and doup a characteristis of the incoming siyles) as well | Latest advices from Paris daclaro it sbsol nécessarr to have bonnots, wraphings, pariay cufty, coilars, and handerchiefs matel the dress, To tl:at end. Jingerio is made with broad big). ings of a color to harmonizo with the prevailis tint; whilo Lau Iketobicfs have monograms gy dowors wronght o thread to mascl. For summer-wrens will be worn dai emvroidored mantelots of lawn, Dainsok. '.fl“’,; ganze. "Of courso, thoy are the mereat prolensy of a coveribg; formiog, novertheless, s, graceful drapery, whick fow figures can afford spare. “Tor all cotton and linen fabrics, washayly laces, wuch 23 cottor guiparo, oft.. will rivs English embroidery 0a a trimaming: but, ag thy cmbroiders is mewer, it will, doubtless, bo thy more popular, Eiderly ladies, and young Iadics to whom it iy becoming, will wear S veils depending woar from high combs, 83 8 substitnte for bonnets o4 miosummer evenings. It seems strange that, iy 50 ot & climato as ours, women hava not, lons ago, lesrned the comfost and appropriatoness of abandoniug Lats on summer mghs. : " Foasziow, = F * Fashion frems, From the New York Heil, Onaof the ormaments picked out for ths, coming bonnet ia the Russian pompon. It is of several colors micely blended, and stands uprighs from {he sido of tho beadgear like an illuminala] cornstalls, : —A new freak of faeiion consista of birth. announcen:ent cards. They are vorv small, ang the annowucoment reads: **Complimenia of 3Mr. and Mrs. —sud son (or daughter, which over the case may be), Feb. 30, 3 p.m.” —Fleth_colored boots for ladies® wesr, labelag “ Paradise boots, " in allusion probably to the kind Evo wora, are diaplnyed 23-a plessing novolty by a west-sido Crispin —Pondent-ear-rings aro coming into fashios, azain. Many now styles are exhiiited in Roma gold. somo of which nro very pretty. The loba ear-ring was a fashion of comparatively short daration. —Bells of jet or rabber bave tsken the plac of those conspicnous gold (2) balla or bations: worn in the standing-collars & short tims agy, “Tortoiso-ahell battons are also usel In this way, —Tboy used to tia tho sash _on the left side in a protty bow, but wow, as thoy,are worn of such mide and handzomo ribbon, the ladies put them whoraver thera is 2 © break " in thoir dress. —Scarfs of Spania o guipure nct aco, from threo o fonr yards long. and half a yord 'widz, ate worn aronnd the neck instond of tho far boay’ used during the winter. Those who can afford it prefar the real guipure or thread-lace scarf. —Those tarribly ancient crapo shawls warn by. our great grandmammas have besn revived for scarfs, ‘Thoy come in white. pink, and blue,- —Sunshades aro in fasbion sgaln. The larga affairs o withheld for 3 while, and now the eor- rect thing i3 an articlo botween a sunshade and parasol. of white cluny laco over white, or black over purple. Thoso mascnling club-handla af- fuirs, which wete worn daugliag from the wais belt, will not be in fasion again, thauk good. neea. " —Some c? thanew French flowora are made of tinfoil, colored aud tinted“in tho most perfect style. Taey aro very frail aad delicate, and on that account—it i3 to be presumed—are o ox- pensivo. Tinfoil wrerths aroand the front of YOur naw spring bonnet will bs the *‘tip of the tashion.” - —Some of tha.new visiting cards are_four inches long by two inches wids, and of hoary Bristol board, slightly tinted or watered. W notice that romo of the fashionable yonng ge tlemen abont town now have their resldencs en- graved on their visiting cards. This is advao- tageons if ball or pacty invitations ara sxpected. —Thore Jazge and awkward-looking fans will not be fashionable next mammer, we hear. The substituto is very protty, and slio serviceablo— not usmally a commoi combination in thess days. The shapo Is Pompadour, and there is araplo space for crest, moncgram. initials, or *scribbling™ on either side. + Scribbilng” en passant, is quito a8 fashicnsblo nOW 83 it was twenty years ago. _—Tho latest’thing in dolis is & young lady of tinted wax, who, wien wound up and givena high chair at tho tablo, reaches out her arms, seiz+s & bit of bread, and slowly puts it in her wmonth. Whon sho has dane this & certain nume= ber of tizcs 'tis necossary to opon her back, ro-, move tuo food, and wind her up again. Would! that numan beings conld ‘be relieved of indiges tion in the szme manuor. ! THE MORNING-STREET. 1 walk along the AMornin: et Tled wih e silence stiangs and swen AL reers as lone, 38 still, a6 dezd, uuaumbered years hud fled, ng the noisy Babel bo Without a breath, memory. The ligt wind walka with me, alons, Where the bot day Like tfume was biowns Where the whoels roared and dust wasbeat, Tie dew i in the Morning-Street. ‘Whero oro the restless throngs that pour Alou thie mighty corridor While the noon fames 7—the burrying crowt. Whrose footsteps mate the city loud 7— Tae myriad faces ~bearta thst beat No more in the deserted strees? Those footsteps, in In mornig-suns loug set i t Those hearty—far in tho Past they beate: Are singing w their Moruing-Strced, A city 'geinst the world’s gray Pritne, Lust in some desert, far frum Tam: Whre nolseless Ages, glidiug through, Ii:ve only siftod sands sud dovw, - * Were not more lone to one who rst, Upou giant silence bu Tian this stranga quict, ot eaved on eizher side Hangs trewbiing, ready <00n to best Wil humsn waves the Morning-Streat, Ay, 500n the glowing morning-flood Tours through this charmed solitnde 3 All silent now, this Meirnon-stona Will nttieinu to the rising sun . Too busy life this vein shal) bedt— Tho rusls of whtels, the swarm of fa The Arachne-thieads of Purpose atr. Unreen, witlun tiia morning-gleata § Tue Life will move, tie Deatl be plain, Tue bridaf throug, the funeral train, Together in the crowd will mret, Aud yass along the Morniag-Sixest, —Abiantic for i ebruary, 1. The Lightning-Rod Man’s Nistake, Upin Blossburg, the other day, = tishiniag- rod man drove up 1 front of & handsome edifica stsuding in the midst of treos and shrubs, ad Bpoke to Mr. Swamers, who was eitung on the stepa in front. Mo accosted Summiers, 23 143 owner of the residencs, and caid : 7 i 0 you have’ no lightuny-rods on this 0 3 s “ No,” eaid Summers. . 4€Aro you going Lo it any on 2" “ Well, I hadn't thought of it,” replicd San- mera. A * You ought to. A tall building lige this is very much €xposed. I'd like 10 ruu 7au up oud of wy rods ; twisied steck, glnss touors, uickel plated tips; everything complete. 3{ay I put up ©on to show you? I'Il'do tho job cheap.” *Certainly you may, if you want to. I aveu't the slizhies: objection,” said Summers. During the next half hour, the man bad b3 Jadders up and his gssistaats at work; and, 2 the end of that time, thd job was done.’ He ealle ed Sammers out into tho yard to Zadmire it He said o Summers : ” Now, that 18all well cnough ; but, ifit wasmy house, I'd have another rol pus_on the otler side. ‘There is notlung like being protected thoroughly.” “That's trae,” said Summers; “ it wonld better.” “IIl put up snotber—shall I?” asked the man. ‘ ; * Why, of courso, if you think it's beat,” eaif Summers. s Accordingly, the man went to work Agaid sud soon biad tho xod in ite place, © That's a first-rate job,” Lo ynid, 0 Summers, 05 they both stood cycing it. *1 like such & man as you are—big-hearted, liberal, not afrid to puc a doilar down Yor 2 good thing. Taares Boe pleasurs 1n dealin’ with you. I like-you 0 much that £'d put a couple tore roda on thsb house, ono on the forth end dud cue oa the south, for almost notlring.” B It would make thinga safer, I suppoge.” 6aid Bummers, = : * Cectainly it would. I'd better do it, bada'® —hoy " ** Just a8 youthink proper,” eaid Summers. $0 thio man ran up two moro rudy, and then came down, and said to Summers: o “Thers, that's'done ; now let's settle up.’ Do what * Why, the job’s finished, and now I'll takt my moaey."” 2 7 **You don't expect me to pay Fon, I hope?’ % Of course L do. Didn’t you' tell mo to pul 1hose T0us 00 Your honso 7 4 My housoi” shonied Summers, * Thuzéct snd bghtming! I vaver orderad you to put thoso scds up. It would. huva bsen’ ridiculous. Wby, man, this iy the Coar-Houso, and I'mbee wasting for the Court 10 assemble. I'm on L0 jury. You geew to be anxions to rush oud yorr Tods, and, as it was none -of my busiaess, ] let yougoon. Pay forit! Come, now, that’s Ppretry good” | & Tho Blossburg peoplo say that the manver in which thit ligh¢aing-rad man tore arouud tofdy and swore, was'fearfal. Bas whoa he gob o5 off the Court-Hoiso, he'left permanently: Ho docan’t fancy the place. * 295 = - e N o