Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 30, 1876, Page 7

LONDCN GOSSIP. «Psyche Apocalypte” and Eliza- beth Barrett Browning, Artists, Public and Private Exhibitions, and & “‘Salon des Reiuses.” The Eensington School of Arte..Needle- work, and What It Sends to Our Centennial, The Foneral Bervice of Lady Augusta Stanley, in Westminster Abbey. BSpeciat Correspondence of The Chicago Iridune. Loxpoy, Eng., April 2—A little pamphlet, wPgyche Apocalypte,” hasrecently appeared, published by B. H. Horme, the well-known dramatist, who. according to the critics, has nost faitbfully reproduded, among living poets, the spirit and form of the great Elizabethan drams. It contains = corzespondence between the suthor and that pure and exalted woman and poetess, Elizaboth Barrett ; and a sketch of Lyrical Drama ™ which they were proposing ite together. LITERARY COPARTNERSIIP isa theme alwaya invested with interest, The unnitisted canuot comprehend what di- vision of labor is possible in & work 8o subtle and intrinsically personal. Beaumont and Fletcher, Erckmann and Chatrian, to wrea sort of mystery,—donble stars more at- tractive because of their mystical intellectual apiou. Mr. Horne’s pamphlet is a revalation. Hyre at least wa see how these two posts proposed to combine their powers. We hesr them discussing their thems, criticising, argu- Ing, developing, making in turn suggestions, ndopted or rejected; perplexed in the extreme over the names and charscters of their dramatis perzonm, and finally reachiog satisfactory conm- ions. Itis marvelously piquantand enter- taining, and, in an artistioc pont of view, in- [ structive. Take, 08 an example, this charaoter- istic letter of Elizabeth Barrett conceraing:- the title of the play: Ve 3 tions are excellent, and bring o, |03,U::\2§mgn. 1 1ike the Genii very much indeed. . . . Av4,2stothetitle, why what shall be sald 7 Zhat i taiut. *Payibio Unveiled” wonld surely do, athoup..n did suggest fomy own assoctations Mr. Forsters Mahometanism Unveilod,” and titles of the kind. % “* THE CNVEILED—A PSYCHOLOGICAL MYSTERY :" would that be better ?—out af Jr. Forster's way, md the “Nature Displayed” peoples. You speak of a Greek-Luglish title, such as the * Apocalypse of Payche, " ar *Peyclie Apocalyptic.” Oh1 1t won't do, Willit? Shall it be more Greek than English? Buf then nobody, not most bodies at least, will know what we mesn. Pryche the Pursuer? or “the Persecutor —Pryche the Terribls ? Well, 1 know very well what name you will choose for meafterallthis, .. . But it is bard upon me to expect an answer 10 such a question by an early post, when, eversbody admits that the Litle of & book nowadsys takes more sizdy thanall the restof it. You must think yoursel, uud your first thought is better then the rest of mine in the rear, 1 was pleased in every way by your sxpression of satisfacton with the Tough outline I dared to send sou,—I felt it to be absolute daring,—pleased every not the least with the rympatny of feeling. Can you make out anything ? I can't write auy more, Ever'aly ouss, ELD. How exqusitely the TENDER SATURE OF THE WOMAX Is revealed in the following letter : 3y DEan Mx. Hore: T nad yournote yesterday, and have to-day the Second Act, and shall be &orry and femorverul on all to-morrow imtil sure that you will Five np the thought of * Psyche ™ until you give up e cough, 1am nots desperata hunter; I like wait- ing in the dew: and, provided we have the autlers, it tway be 28 well In the'affernoon 3s n the forenoon. Shall the clock make us quarrel? No—No. ‘What made me write was indeed impatience,—there 1s 0o denying it,—only not about tue drama. Do_you Lnow wint it s £0 bo shut up in & room by omeelf, to multiply one’s thoughts by one's thoughts? How hard it i 10 know what one'a thought fs like {—how it grows and grows, and spreads and spreads, and ends i taking some supernatural color,—just lkemustard 1nd cress sown on_(art) flansicl in & dark closet. First 1 begin with the simple impertinence of wondering aby son dido't write ta me—simplo enough,— xihiough T don't call 5 altogethér my own fault when x, perplex- Imiss Jo_rletters, Then came the comple ing 11 the extreme.’ Tam vory sorry alwut the cough. Donot neglect it, last itend a2 L_ne o 32 an meutstantual frame, began my bodiiy troubles; d T uow well what that guffering is, though nearly guiie freo from it now, S0 let it be understood. con- fented, and agreed $0, 2nd well approved on each side, cutif your return to London, « Psyche " is suspendsd. The new act (second) 8 Tour spiriting Balf alive nlready. Ever and truly yours, 3 4 FEW XORE EXCERPTE, 1nd T have done:: Oh! you will build up the preface excellently well; tnd, doyon know, I am watching y gether carious's, besides the deopor interest. Iwant 10 see bow you msuage your creations,—the ereation D your edifi-ea,—never Ruving stood near aDy poeti- zal scailolding Lefore, except my own. And it appears take it very regularly. = First, the title-page— then' the preface—then [words flegivle]. Yhen yon begin building, who knows but what you will send me sy e E.B,B. The only ghdness associsted with the banishment pathy and friendship, bére has beex your offered opped o bitterness Like , an Dilierwise, Litterness has e, d independent of {hat inst most over) agliction of my lfe [ of Ler brothers mvilx‘:.gm“ peen drowned almost within Kight of her windowz], from the edge of the chasm of which I may struggle, but never can escape. But now I am unreasonable or covefous, Yon say: 1f we kave the Antigue time, wo may have a Chorua of Satyrs. T want the Modern time, and the Satyr desides. Want 18 too strong a word, but Lam inclned to_tho Satyrs. 1lean to tnem. There is something of “ high Iniastic . and.deeply contrastive to the Hesvenly Spirits. Your woods (my letter cufiung from tho forest 33 Loughton) inspired you with the Satyts, . . . think abont 1t, dear Mr. Horas: you imow eo much more of artistic effects than I do. My private {nstinct is, aflor 2l aad em. 1t wes eventually agreed that the name shonld ¢ PSTCHE APOCALYPTE"; the ecent Archipels ; but the Satyrs were dismissed, and in their place curolied the Aborigines, desig- nated Islanders, ““so a8 not to fall_foul of va- rious’ Spintual Choruses, Genii, Voices,” etc., ste. Thas happily proceeded the building up of this thought-wrougnt 2nd most mystically-bean- tifol drema, which, unfortunately, was never to be completed. Miss Barrett had been senonsly ill, 2od came, by tho advice of her physician, from her bome in ‘Worquay to London. Here she regmined strengtb, and the time for giving Tody and force to the proposed poem seemed ap- ¢ lord of Payche berseif, Love, revesled in all his irresistible di- vinity, the poctess was caught up in spocalsyptic vision and wafted away to other #cenes. Inthe proachine, when, by the su words of the author : Something was done o the proposed poem, e &‘fn""m‘ e th tak even X 3 0 a8, 050 inge. The drive, one fine m was gxl:‘:énad beyond the usual time, and the cu;?‘lrgez p with ligat of life and_bope, had vanished; and, ) ok o , lnddez".l’e,' reappeared beneath in fact, returned empiy. The young lady, Bome wecks aterwards, . the sunyy akics of ltaly as X ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWN] o Nothing, from this period, was done with regard Friendly notes passed between us, part byanyof usto the visi ot ‘only 150 from an npon sacred ground, but al fflell?;smu instinct, that = work projected and very ‘hnnghuull)' planned out, 80 as to be wrought 1n s cer- o e, snd o all fis details, accom’ Titch snd compar by combipate minds, could never possoss, if Tiithed mungly, the harmonious sud specific And intentions of its original designers. designe e * Peyche Apocalypte,” as the very name indi- cates, was MOST SUSTLY IN THEWE AND TREATMENT; % poem which would have been addressed ex- tlusivoly to the select few, snd the mors valus- lo on that account. Payche snd the soul of Vedun, purified through suffering ; Medon puri- fied and exalted in the light of the Divine 830ny.—love hayving itsissne in mnity and self- Teconciliation. L:vanthe, his betrothed bride, Jost {odesth, and travofigured in Heaven; tho interposi- 008 of poet, of a phulosopher, and child; ‘choruses 4f Hewvenly Spirits, of the Islanders, of Genii, Spints, $,¢tc.; » great chorns of reconelliation rising up {rom the'Carverse to the Reconciler,—these aro some Sl ihe mat.rials, Deveioped by two poeis of high or- e, working £ deep Sympathy and with unity of i, 3t would doutitless Liave proved a rare contribu- $ion to Englisly poetic literature, The sketch now pub- Uahed by Mr, Horne; his admirsble description of the Zanner of s uufolding, and the piguant correspond. {oce between the suthors, are, in their way, unique, Aad will give a reality to the otherwise unsubstantial {irteutce of & poem never embodied {n words, but, in eal construction and thought, complete, Angelo and OCCUPIED A POSITION OF ATER POWERGER Wan in ogr owp day. The succes=ftist~patntcrul ax onty my’imd ‘aches so that I can scarcely see to write down whatever pari of the pleasure would be otherwise ex- pressive, Oh! I have an agreeabls sense of writing nonsense,—convinced with the cloge of every sentence. dd,—for & common congh, stnking goonin a diy or two. ‘most excellently done, and the drama our * paces " alto- one certuinly, to venture with a5 to be laid in an island of the {hough 3 and the fair convalescent was alring, now and then, to the brain-fi 1 the tess, 58 far ag I know. 2 in-floating IsTic by poe gf an‘; g's being written her husband, who was a muc arlier foinds (o was, I believe, mads onary Pryche. For my own part, I have never thought of completing 1t myself,— bocause T should Bave felt tat it was llsg THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 30, IST6—SIXTEEN PAGHS, or sculptor—wina_rapidly, and with ease, wealth and gistinction, and finds ail’ his faculties called outin thelr highest activity, The yearly Exhibition of pict- res in the Royal Academy of London, and in similar {netitutiony in other cities, on a acale of magnificence, —regarded as one of the it events of the year, not ony by the artists themsel but by the public,—is animmense incentive to genfus. Then 1t i the farh fon to visit the studios of artists; their pictures ar seen in gl of development; they are com- mented upon, admnired, and tho artists kept sccord- ingly in s fervorand white heat of enthusiasm, Private extibitions are no less fushionable, and every fow yeara the distinguished artists_collect their paintings, ‘and not only disylay them to the publlc, but have the sdvantage themselves of contemplating’ tho various transitions in style throogh which they may hava passed, and their Progress m a given series of years. In France, the artists whose pictures are not ad- mitted into the Exhilition have arranged, by a sub- scription among thewselves, to open yeasly » SALON DE§ REFUSES, where the public is enabled to revise the verdicts of ihe Jury of the Exhilition, or the judices of con- moisseurs. This is an admirable plan, and should be adopted in London. There are such great numbers of urtists in this huge Metropolis that neceasarily (sside from the question of merit) it is impoesible thatn twentisth part of the pictures presented for exhibition in'the Royal Acadomy should be accepted. A Suion Ues Reruaes wonld enable the less fortunate pamters to do themselves justice, and would turn aside the in- dignation which they nc w naturally inflict upon-the Committeo by whom their worss are returned upon hands, The recent exhibition of Yo pic- ures of Lir. Walller, whose death the ‘very prime of bis career hag been so_deeply regretted, swakened much interest and was thronged for weeks, Few of the English painters hava been more success- ful {n reproducing the r_hxl’mlnF scenery of this beau- tiful island. Mrs. Mignot, widow of Louls Mignot, whoss lamented death, sbveral yeara sinoe, was a loss to American azt, is now in London arranging to give 20 exhibition of her husband’a pictures, of which the has 1made an almost complete calloction, In sl studios the artists are intensely avsorbed in giving the finish- ing touches to the pictures for the Academy. Among the artistic works sent from Englind to the Exhibition in Philadelphls, noue are of greater inter- est than the embroideries made by the ladics of the KENSINGTON BCHOOL OF ART-NEEDLEWORK. They are now open to inspection in the public room of the school, which is daily thronged with visitors. Tley are chietly articles of domestio use, such as doy- lies, tabloclotlis, curtaius, wall-hangings, panels for furniture, etc., covered with besatifal desigus, wrought ‘with the moat admirable delicacy and shill 1t has become the custom of lata to employ the great- est artiats to make the designs for such embroideries, and the consequence is that they are trus works of art. Among the asticles to be sent to Philadelphia aroa Dbookease-curtain, executed after a design by Ar. Mor- Tis ; 8 portiere, to be hung at the entrance of the Ex- hibition court’ set apart for the productions of the Needlework School, the drawings for which were sup- plied by sir. Pollen; curtains richly embroidered after designs by Mr. Aitchison and Afr. Bodley; and many other charming embroideries, Among thetn all, panel of **Music,” designed by Mr. Burnes Jones (s artist of immense originality and power), has at- tracted the most attention. In this panel, Apollo, seated on a pedestal, beneath outspreading fruit-irees, i ug on a Iyre; while femala figures, group- ed at his feet, are performing on_cymbals and harps, The compoeition is superb, and ‘the drawing of the figures masterly, The artist could not Lave displayed more knowledge, 0r given mora clear cxpression to the individuality of his genius, in the sketch for & grest icture. P mménse good is being accomplished by the Ken- slogton School of Ari-Needlework. Few insututions are of deeper interest. 1t was founded to furnish employment to ladies reduced in circum- stances,—that large and sad clss who fill English Bociety with & long wail of want and deprivation. No oOne can gan sdmiseion without proper testimonials of birth and education, The surroundiuga are all refned and besutiful. Thanks to thia School, numbers of noble women, who would otherwise be crushed and broken-hearted benesth the cruel yoke of poverty, hava become happy and inde- pendent. Their work is the best teatimony to the fact tiat they huvo mada the wisest uso of their opportu- nities. Deeply impressive was the [FUNERAL SERVICE OF LADY AUGUSTA STAKLEY, celebrated at Aestminster Abbey. Lady Blauley was one of thoss women who won the love and reverence of all who know bLer, The favorite compsnion and friend of the Queen, admired and rovered by the noblest intellects of the day,—authors, scholars, poets, Artists,—she was none the less the ministering angel af the poor and wretched, Her life was passed in do- ing good, and her death brought sorrow and desolation to her lovers in all classes of society, from the palace the garret, The moblest men and ‘women of En- glana assembled at the funeral, to pay her their last tribute of respect. The Queen'and Ler family wero prosent in deepest mourning; Carlyle—that Venera~ ble form soseldom seen now in public—w: nous among the mourners ; Robert Browning, Hustey, Max Mueller, Lord Houghton, the Marquis of Lorne, etc., etc.,—the representatives of the most dis- tnguished pames in literature, in sclence, in art, in social lite.—could bere be seen with sad countenances, mads paie by the solemnity of the occasion. Threo of Haudel’s great anthems wers sung: 1, “Sho was cyestothe blind, «nd feet was she to the lame, Shie was » mother to the poor, and caused the wdow's heart to sing for joy;” 3. * Wlen the ear heard her, then it blessed her; and, when the eye saw her, it gave witness of Ler; " and,at the conclusion of the service, the glorious anthem, * Her body is buried in peace, but her nzme liveth forever.” It is im; 1o describe the solemulty of the scene-an lime music, Dagnifcently sung, flled the cosccrated stmosphere of the Abbey,—{rom its immemorial us- sociations the most imyosing of Cathedrals,—render- ing homage to the sainted dead, and_expressing s i‘u%\: only can express the emotions of the ml_lvfl'.l'{'flflfl HOTEL ARRIVALS. Patmer House—Lt.-Col. H. Douglas, U. S, Army; J. G. Baker, Springfield, Muss.; James Kneeland, Mil- wankeo; S. N. Drake, New Orlwans; J. P. Harmson, 8t. Louls; Warren Leland, San Francisco ; N, B, Fal- coner, New Yorks: D, L Mackey. [ M. Sweetser, and F. D. Caldwell, Evansville, Ind,; W. F. Hauzharst, Cincinmati: L. aud L. I Lawrence, Utlca, N, Y.} ‘Tlieodors Thomes and wife, New York; W. F, Adsms, Wyoming.... Grand Pucific—J, 3L Woolworit, Oms’ ha; E. P, Wright, Cloveland; Ansley Gray, Wiscon- sin; C. K. Peck, Keoknk; John Franklin, Philadel phis; F. T, Dubols, Springfield ; N. §. xnd H, B, Rzy, Lebanoa, Ky. ; Jucob Houghton, Detroit; J. O. Nettle- ton, Blogmington; Dr. G. W. Breyfogle, San Joce, Cal’; Gen. George Stark, Nashua, N. H. ton, England; J, T, MecKinnie, Clevelan Jq D. Griswold, Buffalo. ... Tremont House—C. H. Allen, | Mansfield, New | mith, 5t. Louis; H, B. Bull, Austin ; G, W, Haven; T. W. Muloue, Fond du Lac; Simeon S U.8.Army; J. H. Rice, Hot Bprings, Ark.; C. J. Heales, Ma). G. B, Hedges, and L, 8. Tucker, New York; Charles Burnham, Agent Daly’s INfth Avenue Theatre, New York; Capt. W, B. Stevens, New. Yorx; George Alden, C. D, Dorman, and the Hon. Henty Blllings, cston.... Sherman 'House—The o, ~Alexinder Campbeil, LaSalle; the Hon. II. O. Goodrich, Jersey- ville; . L. Jenkius, New York; Charles B. Richards, . Hilarup, Belvidere; Stillwater, Alinn.; D, Andrews, Cleveland. ———— Ehoughtlesyness. New York Journal of Commerce. He is not vicious, and he has no spacial malice in bis heart, but his thoughtlesaness leads to more humao misery than results from the pre- meditated wickedness of a deliberate transgress- or. On Saturday be scattered orange-peel on the stairs and lubby of our building, and continaed this along down the etreet as he went, occasion- ivg several siraivs and oue severe fall as his victims incautiously troa thereon. He belongs 1o a larze famuly, all of which tkrow banaua skins and orange-peel upon the pavement, not for the express purnose of endangering the life or limbs of the wayfarers, but because they have in their hearta no thoughtful regard for human welfare. His brother is the man who carries an um- brella over his shoulder, with the point® well back. which describes an arc of 3 feet 18 he ewings his body in walking, Several persons Lave been injured in the face, one noarly lost his eye, and a number of lesaer grievances haye been inflicted thraugh his habit, but he didn’t intend to injure sny one, althongh he will not 8top the practice unlesa it is made criminal by act of the Legislatnre. 18 own cousine, guite a number of them, are the men who cross theit legs in the cars and om- nibue, thus wiping their feet on the dresses and pantaloons of their feliow-passengers. Ond of them is generally found in the cabin of the ferry- boat, either pecr the door or the narrow pasiage by the wheelhouse, where his protruded baot trips every passer who does not go by biia with at care. He wounld not put his feet on the 5;::‘ and draw them in a little, while the throng ®oes by, to procure a life-membership in any one of the great benevolent societies he 8o fondly patronizes in his Bunday contributions. His more distant relatives who stand tattling with a friend in the middle of the sidewalk, thus greatly obstructing the travel, or saunter siowly up the strest with curved elbows, or whisk through a crond with & cane under their arms, are alf readily recogaized without suy furtber de- scription. _They are a large family, and thevare naisances in whatever community they take up their abode. ———— i, Garroting with the Lasso. Pall Mal Gozelle. An attempt has lately been mdha by ths' foot~ ads of Smyrna to improve on the garrote ays- ram of roblj:::y by the introduction of the lasao. A preliminary trial of this contrivance was made the other evening, » German gentleman con- nected with the Smyna & Cassaba Railway being selected as the subject of experiment, Approachiog the victim noiselessly from bebind, ope of the thieves puddenly threw a ruuning- noose round his neck, tigbtening it with won- derful dexterity until be was brought half strapgled to the ground. The rest of the gaug then stepped forward and relieved him of a leather bag he carried at his side. They then, with much good feeling, doosened the noose an restored him to Liberty. Unfortuuacely the bag onty contained two cigars—of doubtful quality. In the mesutime, a8 the thieves of that city are, from their skill and audacity, held in no i tion thronghout the Empire, the :lx:fl':r::;l e:soptim-n of g:a lasso by the criminal classes of Turkey is probably a mere question of timo GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. Female Agents: The Proper Sphere of Woman, How to HMake Home Happy: Some Advics to Young Wives, An Affectionate Couple--- Does Darling Love Me 1”-=-Who Ys She Zaee The Resalt of an Are Vg gument. - FEMALE AGENTS. 2v the Pditor of The Chicago Tyibunas Crtcaco, April 27.—Will you allow me to speak, through your columns, of what I con- sider a great injustice? In an account of an address by the President of a certain Manufac-, turing Company, I observed that he took occa- sion to condemn’the practice of employing female agents, stating that he had the old- fashioned notions about the sphers of women, which was home; that business tended to meke her coarso and unwomanly, eto. I supposs the gentleman, 1n this suprems mo- ment of inapiration, had visions of the good old time when, as among the noble Aborigines, the woman patiently bors all the burdens of the journey of life, while her lord and master rode in state by hor side, 85 became his lkingly na- ture : and, in the pleasing idea that the capacity of his gex was 80 much better suited to the Ppresentation of tho merits of the Patent Process Lapboard, the Universa) Guide, or the Iatest edition of Baron Munchausen, he forgot to use some of that superior roason he profussed to have, but certamly did not exercise, or he would have seen the impossibility of obtaining a home with wages reduced by the competition brought about by confining femala Iabor to 80 fow ohan- nels, and by the grester number now thrown upon their own regources, who have to choose between what their employera pleago to give, and nothing ; and, in the multiplicity of words he nsed to hide his want of ideas, was not 1ot aware how apparent it was, that, like all mo- nopolists, he feared that innovations upon the zood old styles wonld result in a oas of power and money to bimself, rather than of modesty to woman; and, so long as she was content to be the living representative of the neater and passive verbs, *‘to be” and “to snffer,” and would accept such crumbs of favor s be pat- ronizingly bestowed ‘becoming humility, and cease from agitating the woman question, by and through which—not the love of justice inherent in tho average man—the righta and privilegea now enjoyed by women were conced- ed, be would care very littlo abont what became of them, except those concerned in his own wel- fare. But, then, the proper sphere of woman is home, whether she has a hume or not, and any femele possessing the old-fashioned virtue of modesty should prefer making shirts at 25 cents each, ana dying respectably among rags, in a garret, of slow starvation, rather than offend the sense of propristy by going outside that sphers of persons whose opinions are worthy of regard as men whom, his ** speach” would lead us to infer, it was contamination to spproach in = business capacity. I don't believe decent men will thaok him for giving that impression. As girl and boy at school, the sexes mingle : and the association i8 considered bensficial to both, provoking and elevating thonght. Inthe real- estate and jnsurance offices, women are em- ployed without {oss of respect ; and, in the dry- goods houses, we find eales-women (I beg their pardon, I meant aales-ladies), mingling on terms of equality with sales-gentlemen, and it wonld be an ipsuit to both to assume that the associa- tion hart them. Why, then, should the fomale ageut—wko, in most cases, seeka health in out- of-door excrcise, and who presents modestly, not obtrusively, her books or pictures—be other thsa e Iady ? Y In view of the well-known fact that three- fourthe of the fallen women in our cities be- came such through inability to dress 1n the manner 1equired by their employers if they would rotain their eituations; and the certain knowledge that, if women were paid more, and not obliged to choosa between starvation and shame, the victims of the libertine and sedncer would be few,—does it not seem soltish, if not suspicious, that these fearful souls {ook upon overy atiemps at colarging the working sphere of woman with such holy horror? Perhaps thoughts of cheaply-made garments and cheaper domestics were agitating s ample mind ; but, as long as the cducated, intelligent American gurl is placed on a level with the ignorant for- eizner or negio, and addressed and spoken of as “wmy servant,” though physically and intel- lectunlly she may be superior, so long will whe refuse to occupy the place of Biddy, 1f outside the prescribed limits she can gmn an honest livelthood ; and no sensible, respectable man will blame her. J3: G HOW TO MAKE HOME HAPPY~-ADVICE TO YOUNG WIVES. 2 [For 1he Chicago Tribune.l After you have been wedded, sy some six moothe, and you are fairly instatled in house- Lkeeping, you should, 2s a matter of course, be- gin to drop your sweetness aad smiles; for, it not, yon will certainly spoil your ** hubby.” Tno much swestness will lead him to think that he can impoee upon your good natare wilh impun- ity ; 8o, some morning, when you fesl particu- larly blue and out of sorts, come down to the breakfast-table with your hair hanging down, no collar on, and a face puckered up with frowns, Very likely your husband wiil ask, snxiously, if you do not feel well ; and you should-reply. in sullen tones, toat you feel as well as you ever did. He will no doubtlook astonished,apd wonder within himself what in the deuce does sil yon, but you neea not notice bum ; and, when ho casually remarks that he thinks the bread is a little sour, just snap him up by saying that it i80't half 88 sour as his mother’s old bread, and that, if he doesn't like it, he can_get some one else to cook and slave for him. This will prob- ably cause him to lose his tempor, and he will stride out of the houss, elamming the doors after him., You should then rush up to your room, fline yourself on the lounge, and cry until your faco is allred and blotched, and your nose swollen out of remembrance. Leave'all the work un- done, and don't think it necessaryto prepare any dioner; for thero is nothing that breais down a man’s 8pirit mors effactually 2a to let him come bome hungry and tired, and find his meals not ready. At noom, when you hear his step on the stoop, you shonld jump up to bathe your face and arrange your hair. Remember that your fature happiness depends upon your making it as unpleasant a8 poasible, and looking as wo- begone and wretched a8 you can. You will no doubt hear bim calliog you, but don't answer him. Lethim find you, and ses how utterly miserable and hideous you look with your swoi- len face, tangled hair, and disordered dreas, As the smile disappears from his face, and he asks you what you mean by this accursed fool- iskness, burst into a passion of tears, and tell him you will not listen to such awful language ; that you will leave him and go home to your mother's. This will bring him to his senses, and be will immediately beg your pardon for his un- called-for hnrahness ; and, sfter a great desl of sobbing and reproachtul scolding on your part, tenderness and kisses on his, finally make up. A fow such scenes as the above will eventual- 1y make your homo not only an earthly paradise, but will cause your husband to love you to dis- traction. W, A LOVING COUPLE, It's an advantage sometimes (says the Brook- lyn Argus) to beguile your neighbor’s servant- girl iuto yoar own service. A eervant-girl atnres up family recrets a8 a camel stores up water,— for fature use. A South-Brooklyn domestic re- cently left tbe employment of a master and mis- trees whose domestic relations had long defied the scrutiny of the neighborhood, and moved in- to a family across the way. Oneof the first questions which the new mistress agked her was in reference to her late employer: # A;fi you sura that they love each other, * Ob, yis, marm,” answered the Irish angel, proud of an opportunity to open her reservoir, *+it's swater than honey they are to wan another ~—thoy do be using the same tooth-brush.” WHO 1S SHE? Interlocutor : *Who's that showy woman who talks and laughs #o loud, and digs people in the_ ribs ?” Ioterlocutrix : *Oh! that’s the Dachess of Bayswater. She was a Lady Gwendolen Beaumonier, you know.” Interlocutor (with warmth): ‘“Ah! to be surs; that accounts for her weli-bred ease, her aristocratic simplicity of manner, her natural and straigbtforward—* Interlocutrix (putting up her eyegtass): “ By tha way, pardon me, I have unintentionally misin- formed you ; it’s Mrs, Judkins. Sha's the widow of an Alderman, and her father was a chesse- monger in the New Cut ! Interlocutor: * Dear me—ah-hum, er-hum-ha ; that quite alters the case. Bhe is:very vulgar, I must eay—awini!* (N. B.—It was tho Duchoes, after all).—Punch. J AGREEABLY SURPRISED. On & Woodward-avenne car yeaterdsy, was s maa who had looked upon lager-beer one glass too much. His eyes weré half-closed, and his head bobbed right and left as the car banged along. Opposite to bim 8at & woman with a baby in ber arms. ‘1he child looked up and smiled, and the fond mother pinched its cheok and called out: ** Does darling love me ?” . The toper straightened up, got his gaze to bear on the woman, and ina monrnfal voice called ont : % *¢ M1 your darling? D'loesIlove yon? You juz'bezz your las’ dlollar I do! ™ AN UNTOWARD RESULT. The Norwich (Coun.) Bulletin ssys: " An up-town man, who belisves in self-improvement, suggested to bis wife recently that they shonld argue some question frankly and freely every evening, auvd try to learn more of each otber. The question for the first night happened to be whetlier & woman could be oxpcted to get along withous s spring bat, and he took the afirmative; but whou ha was last sen hie had climbed up in- to tho hay-loft, and was pulling the ladder up after him.” FEMININE NOTES, k ** Let no single man escaps ” is the leap-year motto for the ladies. When a woman finds she baa married a prod- igal son, she should arise and go to her father. Mr. Joues heard that Mrs. Brown wore four- button gloves, and exclaimed : * Lordy! Why, I wear seven-button shoes !” The editor of the Boston Post heard a very clever woman eay : “ Y donot wish anybody to do anythiog naughty ; but, 1f they do, I want to know all about 1t.” ¥ The women see their way clear to vengeance on at least one of the legislators who voted against woman-suffrage last week, and that is the proprietor of the What-Is-It stove-polish. No true womsn will hereafter have & box of it in the house.—Zoslon paper. A lady in Keene, N. H., racently gava birth to a bealthy and well-formed child that waighed but 2 pounds ; wheroupon her disappointed hus- band remarked that he wouldn't have beliavad that she would be guilty of such contemptible mesnness. An Irishman, noticing a lady pass along, es- pied two strips dependiag from nader the lady's cloak. Not knowing that these were styled sashes and in the rigbt place, he exclaimed : *+ Faith, ma'am, your galluses are unti A beautiful female lobbyist says that one tear, if it can bo o shed #3 to reflect the lightof & bright setting sun, will bave more power over the average Covgressman than all the argu- ments tuat could be compressed into atwo hours’ conversation. A couple of men who were shooting in Led- yard, Saturday, brought in an article they fonnd 10 the woods. ™ it is made of her, buckled to- =ether at the ends, and measures 19 inches in ciroumference; and thoy don't know whether it is a gurter or 8 horse-collar.—Norwich Bulletin. An Indiana woman recently sent the following noto to ber husband, who is serviog out a three- years’ sentonce in State Prison; **Dear Tom : I base obtamed a divorce from you, and am about to marry again. But never mind; for when you come out I will run away with you, if you ges any way by which we can'get a living.” Mr. Buckle states that human nature has changed very little in the lass 3,000 vears ; bat we do mot remember anyrecord of a Roman Senator trying to account to his wife for & light deposit of pearl-powder on the left shoulder of bis toga on the ground that Lo had been playing checkers in & griay An experienced woman, who was abont to move, bud much difiiculty in finding & place to suit ber. She was well pleased with a house up town, but the back yard dido’s give satiefaction. The fence didn'c contain a single knot-hole, and she said she waen't going to break her neck by clinbing o top of an old barrel to sce what was going on 1n the next yard.—Norristown kerald. A SAINTED HINDOO. Reminiscence of KEis Career, Philadelphia Butletn, The following memorial comes to us from a writer in the interior of the State. We do not precisoly like his methol of speaking of tragio thiogs, but the facts supphed by the narrative are interesting, if not instructive : You may have noticed in the papers that Beluchius Jamsuttacheneebhoy was mortally wouuded the other day by the Nawab of Dada in Ahmeddnugger. Aud thos another ons of the earth’s great and noble ones passes away. I kuew him well; I refer to Bolucluus Jamsuttacheebhoy, of course. He was in some respects a vory remorkable man, even for & Hindoo. I remember that in Ins earlier years his mind assumed somewhat "of a devotional cast; aod in the first impules of his rehigions fervor he undertook to give hLis feol- ngs expression by standiog upon one log for sixty-soven years, After he had held that other les in the air for about thirty-two mouths, how- ever, lus views noderwent a change, and he con- claded to put i1t down. It seems but yesterday that he came to me andsaid that, after tarning the matcer over in his mind, it struck him as some- what absurd for & mau to hope o secure eternal [elicity by holding up his toes, and that he was now convinced that if ke hoped to get into the path of duty he should havo to engage in the work of pitching babiea to the sacred croco- diles. 1 never knew auy one to fire his whole soul to 2 work a8 Beluchius did to this, To soe thar saiutly Hindoo tako a baby aod chuck at 2 hun- gry crocodile, was to have your respect fof man- kind increased. Ho was an unusually conscien- tious man, and he never caused the animals any unnecessary annoyance. Whenone of them would prop 1ts jawa open Beluchius wonld take any odd twins that he bad in his collection and heave them into the animal's mouth with a precision that was hitle Iess than marvelous. He acquired dexterity by practicing with & rag-baby on a stufled alligator, and it was a com(ort to &ce the good man going through his exercife with that scrupulous fidebty whuch always disnguished bim. But he wearied of it at last. He told me that his sonl craved eomething which would develop his bigher powers, and s0 he joined the Thugs. Here the eame lofty devotion to auty character- ized his conduct. ~He had a way of garroting a man which brought all the instmets of his botter nature into play, and his friends never could sufficiently admire the artistic mauner in which ha disposed of the various members of lus family. It was not so much thathe brained both of nis parents with a single fling of the boomerang, although that was spoken of at the time as somethiug a little above the average, and it was not that ke choked off his grand- mother by slipping the clothes-line aver her head and tightening it by fixiog his grandfacher to the other end and droppiug him out of the window. But when be pinned hie sunt to the cellar-door with the toasting fork, and drove the cook through the roof by patting blasting powder in the stove, people 8nid that the man's services were entitled to soms kind of recogni~ tion over and above what be deserved for put- tulg his littls brothers and sisters in the well and then dropping grindatones on them. There was somothing about the man that warmed the hieart toward him. After he resigned from the Thugs, he found ralief for his yearn- g after truth by exercising npon the sacred swing. Often have I seen him run the iron hook throngh the smali of his back or through the calf of his leg, and go humming round and round, colding the man at the crank for turning 80 slow; and then be would come down and run the car of Juggernsut over the ribs of 800 or 400 common people, snd scrunch them upy and go homo feeliog all the time that he hadn't done anything pear bis duty, and wasn't half gom‘llennngh to associate with thoroughly moral eople. i Lnt it is afl over now. The alligators may go hungry now aa far as he is concerned. Who will go prowling aroand picking up stray babies for them now ? R‘Vho will butcher sugerflunuu people in the hearty fashion he used to bs go fond of ? ‘Who will make elip-nooses of clothes-lines and suspend old people out of the windows, and shoot unnecessary cooks out -through the shin- gles and up toward the stars? Nobody abont Ahmeddnugger, any wav. Onpe town can’t very weil grow more than one such man aa he. Aod now that his simple, and modest, and unpretend- ing lifeis ended, I offer him this little teati- monial of my esteer, and sigh to think whata man he would have been to our little community where the coroner might have followed him up and held about fifteen ingnests s day, and where he would have given the undertaking busincss an impulge that would have put it right upon its feet, aud enabled some of us to get ©P coruers in coffios. P e ‘The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Churchin the United States meets Thursday, May 18, at 11 a. m., in the Tabernacle Church, Rrooklyn. The opening sermon is to be preached by the Rev. Edward D. Morris, D. D., the Mod- erstor of the last Asgembly. 'Cho Committae on Commissions will meot upon the proceding day {0 receive tho credentials of tho Commissionera. EUROPEAN GOSSIP. s Freaks and Foibles of Louis of Bavaria. A$75,000 Picture---An Ingenions Theft =~-Louis Napoleon's Mistress, THE TROUBADOUR KING. Lucy Hooper writes from Paris to Applefons’ Journal: Victor Tissot has just issued the second geries of his ** Voyage au Pays des Mill- iards” under the title of “The Prussisnsin Gormany.” From the new volume we will cite s fow pasgages relating to that most romantic of living monarchs, King Louis of Bsvaria. An entire chapter is devoted to a description of the six castles owned by the rof froubadour, begin- ning with the two palaces at Munich. If half the freaks and follies related therein are true, his Majeaty must certainly have a bee in his bon- net of most nncommon dimonsions, but, as the writer is & Frenchman telting abont Germany, his statements are, of ccurse, to be taken with & grein of salt. Oane of the six castles is thus describeds “The castle of Hohenschwangau is pictur- esquely perched upon a rooky peak. All aronnd riso lofty monntaing covered with gloomy foresta of pine, and at the foot of the rock there is a ro- wautic lake peopled with swans. The King har- nesses these swans to a gilded bark shaped like asholf, and 18 drawn over the eurface of the water, while & band of singers, grouped upon the bank, execute fragments of ‘Lohengrin,’.and the moon illuminates with its pale beams the fantastio march of stuffed stags, which are moved by meaus of internal mechanism. ** At the time of the last eruption of Vesuvius the King became envious, and_wanted to have one too. He summoned to Hohenschwangau the two Professors of Geology of the University, and ordered them to get Him up a volcano. They set to work at once. A mountain was hol- lowed ont, and the hole wae filled with powder, sulphur, coal, and petrolenm. The sight was magnificent. The fire eogines were brought thither from miles around. It was thongnt that tho Royal castle had been mined by the Prus- sians and had been blown up. “ The King also wanted tempesta on the Lake of Hohenschwsugaw. An enormous machine bas been constructed, provided with prodigions wheels, which raise great waves with a terrible noise. **Whether he inhabit s castle of Berg, of Lindeohofl, or of Munich, thers ate two things that are indispensable to comfort,~his piano and his moomight. Without a piano the day would #eem to him a century long, and without moon- light it 18 impossible for him to sleep. When Providence refuses to light for him the celestial lamp, he is forced to have recoarse to & fabri- cated moonlight. A special apparatus for pro- ducing the electric light has been installed in each of the royal bed-chambers. At Munich the caxl.\_nlé is plerced with a thougand minute holes, behind which are placed gas-jets. That repre- sents very fairly a starry sky. Whila traveling the King makes nse of an economical and porta- lfle moon, which can be hung up like an astral mp. * This atrange character—this soul of a child in the body of & man, this Kimg born to reign over s nation of poets and musicians—is not suited to our centary of soldiers and of brute- force. Lous IL. would have been s charming sovereign in the days of the minuesingers and of dreamy chatelaines ; to<day no one under- stands him ; he geems to belong to a legend and not to history. He who is seated upon a throne has no right to use it 88 a piano stool, for if Orphens himself were to return to earth he would not take up a Iyre, but s gun with all the modern improvements.” A $75,000 PICTURE, The London correspondent of the New York ZTribune says : ‘The story, incredible enough on the face of it, that Alr. Millais is to have $75,000 for a single picture, I believe to be gnite true. The fact that it ig for a picture not yet painted does not make 1t less remarkable. Mr. Millais’ contract i8 with a Mr. Marsden, & pictore-dealer of the bigher order, who desires, it is 8aid, to bs reckoned above Mr. Agnew himself, who has long been known as the Leviathan among Euglish dealers. Mr. Marsden proposed to Mr. Millais to paiot = pictore for him s the price above named, and Mr. Millais, not unnat- urally, accepted ; for the sum is probably larger than has been paid o any living artist for a eingle work, or perbaps than any picture by an artist not dead has been sold for at auction, or otherwise. Taurner’s * Grand Canal ¥ was thought to have touched® high valae mark at §35,000 last year at Coristie’s. I willnot ask, Is Millais & greater painter than Tarner ? —that would be to touch on dangerous ground. e is, at any rate, the most fashion- able of living Euglish artists, and the cash value of fashion makes up a certain part— everybody may determine for himself what part —of this extraordinary price. It is said, & know not whether traly, that Mr. Marsden made but a single condition, viz, shat the pictare should not be exbibited by Mr. AMiliais. Sub- Ject, size, and all the rest seem, if this account pe correct, to have been left to the pamnt- er's discretion, and sbout 20 per cent of the purchage money was paid down to bind the basgain, Mr, Mareden, of course, intends to exhibit the picture himself. Ths number of peopls who will go to ses it solely be.ause of the amount paid for it is not small. Then the copyright is doubtlesa included, thera will be an engraving which will also be fashionable and slonally viaits Paris for & peep st the gay lifs of the motropolis. She hag :x.nevn u.omg:n’d com- mon-looking, sad every trace of her siogular and echereal beanty has disappeared. A more vulgar and notorions lisison never disgraced the private life of a European sovereign,—the scan- dal during the last yesra of the Emperor's reign being no secret for ay class of Parisian soci- oty. WHISKY. CHICAGO. THE S0UTH BRANCH DISTILLERY. : At the corrier of Alorgan street and Csnalport avenue stands the building snd property of the Bouth Branch Distilling Company, once run by -Haas & Powell, and made famonus by the recent developments of crookeduess. The Govern- ment owns this property now, it having been condemned, and yesterdsy moruing it was to bave been sold, This drew around s motley crowd. There were laborers ont of work, who formed the largest msjority of the look- erson. ‘Then there were old *‘crooks” and straight distillers. Among thoss pres- ent were noticed Dr. Rush, John Huck, Teaso Waixel, the cattle man, in the interest of Powell; Joseph Haas, George W. Stanford, A. C. Hesing, “Buffalo” Miller, and his son; George Burroughs, Jonsthan Abel, and A. B. Dickingon. A little before 11 o'clock a carriage drove up, from which alighted Supervisor Mat~ thews, J. D. Harvev, United Siates Collector, und Deputy-Marshai Back. The distillery_and grounds is property which was once owned by A. C. Hesing, and is a por- tion of that formerly occupied by the Garden Cltyhhnn(umiggcampmy. Adjoiningitis the Chicago Planing-Mill, the offshootof ths Garden City. The buildings of the distillery, including tho warehouse, are of brick, well-built, and ars 210 by 110 faet. 1n completeness of detail and convenience for the manuiacture of whisky thoy are excelled by bt few distilleries in the West. There are two copper stills, and the capacity of the tubs i 1,600 bushels. Among the proparty of the concern were 400 barrels of highwines, 500 barrels of whisky, 75 barrels of spurits, and 86 barreds of alcohol, and a swill-wagon, BIDDING IT OFF, At 11 o'clock the auctioneer, Deputy-Marshal Buck, announced that the sale would commence. This drew a crowd, who formed a circle at the northwest corner of the batiding. Tha first thing put up wag the swill-wagon. Thkoe Waixel started it ax $20; $25 was the pext bid, aud then €26, it being knocked down to ‘Waixel 2t 330. The highwines were next offered, subject to the United States tax. The Deputy Marshal an- nounced that there were 85,354 gallons. Waixel bid 9 conts s gallon; another voice cailed 93¢; 10 was the nex: figure. Bidding was pretty spirited for a few minutes, and, finally, Waixel got the lot at 13 cents, The Deputy 3arshal next announced that the real estate would be offered. He read the description of the property from a printed ad- vertisement on the warrant of condemnation. He statod that, if the real estate did not sell high enough in the opinion of the Government, the Iatter reserved the right to postpone the eale for twenty legal daya. Mr. Stanford, counsel for Poweli,. who was standing alongside Mr. Hesing, stated that thers was a mortgage of $20,000 on the proper- tv. Waixel and 3{r. Stanford wanted to know if the property was to be sold subject to this mort~ . gl2&1]. Matthews—I presume we sell only the title owned by AMr. Powell—only Alr. Powell’s right, title, and interest. - Waixel—We want to know what that title Col. lhttha‘wg—'ma Government does not guarantes anything, Mr. Waixel then wanted to know what they were aallinlg!;e A Col, Matthews—\Ve might say the interest of the South Branch ing Company. Alr, Stanford—As a matter of fact, there is one tax-sale agamnst this property, and another tax due; there is also a mortgage of $20,000, «with $800 interest overdue, besides the taxes unpad. XO SALE. It was agreed to sell the 1ntereats of Powell in tha Sonth Branch Distilling Company. Bidding then commenced. Waixel bid $12,000. This was followed by bids of $18.000, $14,000, $15,000, $16,000, filll'li.mo. and §18,000. Here thers was asudden Ar. Stanford—Whose bid is that for 918,000, wo'd like to know 2 é)epn&y-lluahxl Buck—1tis a perfectly good Mr. Stanford—\We want to know if ths Gov- ernment is bidding agamst us. Ar. Buck—It is a perfectly Jagitimate and re- sponeiblo bid. We_are not obliged to tall who ; f bidders are. We know it is good, that's al Jr. Waixel—This is not fair. We want to kmow who is bidding against ns. ‘The Government ofticers held s short confer- ence in the middle of the strest, and tha sale wag adjourned. Waixel then came forward and said he would deposit bis check for 81,000 with the Ubpited States Marsbal doring the afternoon. The Supervisor and Collector gaid, after the sale was over, that & combination hsd been formed to buy in the property st s nominal price, aod this was not to beallowed. The ground, buildings, 2ud machinery are worth 60,000, subject to s mortgage of $20,000, and the Government is determined to get at least 50 per cent of the valuation. After the sale was adjourned. the distillers took their buggies and departed, and shortly after the entire crowd dis- persed. 4 THE GOVERNMENT BUILDING. James E. Rathbone and Robert B. Graves, two ex-Gaugers implicated in the crookedness gell lurgely, and finally the picture itself will romain to be sold. Altogether it may turn out & good speculation. Holman Hunt's ‘‘Shadow of the Cross” fetched 830,000, and I never bheard that the enterprising buyer and exhibitor of 1t reponted of his bargan, AN INGENIOUS THEFT, A theft, minute in proportions, but amusingly ingenlous in its conception, took place a faw days ago aithe Grand Hotel, Paris. An sle- gant-looking gentleman, lodging at that well- known house, and giving his name as Sir James X-— Baronet, went into a fashionable boot- maker's shop on the Boulevard des Capucines, and ordered a pair of the very handsomest boots that coula be made; no expense must be spared, and the boots must be sent bome on & certain dsy by 10 o’clock, as the purchaser was to leavo for Marneilles by the 12:40 train. ‘Then down he goes to another bootmsker on the Boulevard des Italiens, and orders a second pair of boats, precisely similar to the first, which are to be sont home on the eame day, but 4t 3 o'clock, as he 1s to leave for Brussols at 5. Punctually at the appointed hour bootmaker No. 1 appears with his boots. Bir James tries them on, sud finds them splendid, admirable, not in the least dear, but the left boot hurts him a fistle, Will not the bootmaker take it home, put it on the last, and stretch 1t alightly. Ho can bring it back the next morn- iog, »8 Sir James has been obliged to delay his departure for twenty-four hours owing to pressing business. Of course, the obliging tradesman compliss with the wishes of his aris- tocratic customer, and walks off with his solitary Loot. In the afisrnoon, enter bootmaker No. 2, and the same Erooelu is repeated, only this time it is the right boot of which the customer com- plains, and which the bootmaker carriea off to stretch. The next morning the two luckless tradesmen meet face to face, each with an odd boot, thetr charmiog and anstocratic customer having taken his departurs by the night tramn for London with the other pair. I think the best thing that the deluded dolliers can do is to put the remaining boots together, and then toss up for the pair. ' MARGUERITE BELLANGER. A Parig letter to the Philadelphis Telegraph gsys : I suppose tbat thera ars many of your readers who will temember the scandal created by the unveiling of the attachment of Napoleon M. for Marguerite Bellanger,~—a revelation which was made by the publication of the Em- peror’s private papers after the flight of the Em- presa from the Tulleries. At that tire, this famous, or rather infamous, woman occupied an elegant hotel on the Bonlevard Hause- mann. She was then extremely attractive- looking, of a delicate and almost refined type of beauty, recalling singularly enouogh that of the Empress, though her origin and mode of life had both been of the vilest. After the downfsll of the Empire, she retired toa charming chatean in Touraine, which, with its . adjacent Iands, she owed to the munificence of her Imperial lovar. A year or two later shs married_an Engllnhmln.—anflnmbn of that nationslity having apparantiy a taste for wives of that description, as witness Bkittles, Laura Bell, Lola. AMontez, Anonyma, and other fasc celebriti ho all fonnd British epouses. The marriage did not provs 2 happy one, and was shortly after dissolved by mu consent, the lady sgreeingto allow her husband 20,000 francs a year 80 long 28 he refrained from com- l ingnear her. Shsnow_lives a comfortable and jolly Life as an independent chatelaine, aad otes- which was unearthed as the Au Sable distillery, near Morris, TIL,a fow days ago, dalivered them- selves voluntanly into the hands of Marshal Campbell yesterday. The former gave bail in $5,000, George C. Campbaell as surety. Lata last evening George N. Chittenden, a merchant at Plainfield, Will Couoty, came mto town and sigued a bond for the same amount for Robert B. Groves. Henry M. Cooklin, one of the chief | Fis, conwimtors. who gave bail in 5,000, with Rob- ert W. Robertson, of Norwcod Park, as surety. Judge Baogs went to Perm, 1ll, yesterday morning, and will be absent until to-morrow. Collector Harvey yesterday reassigned the thirty-tive Gaugers who are in commission in this district. The object of this is to rgmove temptation a8 far as possible from thesd men for the general good of the service. THE PHENIX Distilling Compauy 18 the name of s new candi- date for public patronage. 1t succeeds the old firm of Dickenson, Abel & Co. The officers of the Company are : 0. B. Dickenson, President ; George T. Burroughs. Vice-President ; and Jon- sthan Abel, Secretary and Treasurer. Tho DeceEsary papers preparatory to the commence- ment of businees will be sens to Washiugton to- morrow for appraval. There is & quiet piece of grim homor in naming the new organization Phenix. ‘The Russeil Distillery, on Third avenue, near Twellth street, has been dismantled, the owners, Messrs. Russell & Farlong, haviog notified ths Government that they had concluded to perma- neatly discontinue the busioess. e NEW YORK. ANDICTMENTS. New Yorx, April 20.—Several indiciments against firma in this city for defranding the Government of revenue due from whisky were handed into Court to-day. The names were not made pablic. Lady Byron and fier Husband. Lady Byron, who was a highly esteemed friend of mine, spoke to me upon the subject of & new and cheap edition of her husband's works about to be published, and likely to be widely disseminated amoog the young clerk and shop- Leeper class of readers, for whom she deprecated extremely the pernicious influence it was cal- calated to produce. 8he consulted me on the expediency of appending to it some notice of Lord Byron written by hergelf, whichahe thonght might niodify or les:en the injurions effect of his poetry upon young minds. *‘ Nobody,” she snid, “knew him as 1 did ” (this certainly was not the general impression upon the subject); *nobody knew 2a well as I the causes that made him what he waa; nobody, I think, is so capable of doing justice to him,’and therefors of counteracting the injustice he does to himaelf and the injary he might do to others in some of his writings.” I waa strongly impressed by the earneatuess of her expression, which seemed to me one of affectionate compassion for Byron and profound solicitude lest even in his grave he should incur the responsibility of yet further evil iufluence, especially on the minds of tho young. 1conld not help wondering also whether ahe did not shrink from being again, to a new Reneration ana a wider claes of readers, held up to cruel ridicnle and condemnation as the cold- hearted, hard, pedantic prude, without eympatby for suffering or relénting fowards repentance. I bad always admired the reticent digojty of her silence,with referance to her short and disastrons union with Lord Byron, and I felt _sorry, there- fore, that she contemplated departing from the Thouth T appeecistod o maive by whih s thoug! ap] |74 was actustedemifro, Xambis's sz G May 4lantio THE FIRST OF MAY. A Time When Everyhody Expects to “ Take Up His Bed and Walk,” Some Soggestions Tending to Rellers the Day of Its Terrors, CARPETS, CURTALNS, BEDDING, WALL PAPER, ¥Tou Mensrs. E. A. Lancaster & Co., successors tg the -old snd well-known §rma of Allen, Mackey & Co., 233$tato strect, the members of whicn still remain with the house, ure the leading deak ers af their line in the Wast. Their stock of carpets, curtain goods, bedding, wall psper, ste., is not only very large, but comprises the moe elogant and desirable articles for honseholddeco- ration that are manufactured. They purchase directly from mannfacturers tn this country and Europe, and are snabled both by their sxtended connections and business experisnce to suppl Chicago and the Nor:hwnip with the besp:p $00ds at the lowest prices. CIINA. GLASSWARE, ETC. There ia intereating and valuable information which we can give to all who are abont to stock or restock thewr homes with china, glassware, silver-plate, earthenware, etc, It is that thy well-known firm of Abram French & Co., Ne, 101 and 103 Wabash avenue, have decided to drs. continus their retail department to enable then to devote all attention to thewr wholesals trade, The fim is consequently offering its entir¢ stock of retail goods at the very lowes| of rates. The goods ars of the choicest design and finwh, comprising g in their line that is standard, stylish¢ and elegant, X addition to the admirable Tazi- ety of goods of the kinds mentioned, ws aotica that Mlesars, French & Co. also carry s superk asaortment of bronzes, vases, majolics, sud other of the most approved ornamental srticlea. To those who must needs commemomts this, the season of moving, by the purchas of say of the class of goods in gquestion, theopporin nity afforded by the closing ont of this retaid stock is remarkably advantagsous. *‘COTTAGE™ FURNTIUTE. - Of the many residences that will bs furnished or refurnished this sp-ing, none will be hand- somer or more ‘refined in their intemal appoint- ments than thosa equij with ths elegant en- smeled and painted suits made by Karris, Barneg & Co., of thiscity. The cottags chamber sets made by this firm are of kiln-driel wood, stylish in design, artistic in finish, and, in the grand essentials of bexuty, durabllity, and ressonable- Deas of price, peeriess and alore. The firm hag its own corps of artists, and san conssquently finish suits to match carpets, walls, bangin, otc.. jues ay desired. Theraisa hrightness -551 a cheerfulness about this coltsge farniture noy to be noted in the monotonous, sombre woods which have been in dreary vogue 8o long. The range of designs is peculiary large and varied, and, in all the requirementa of artistic harmony, these gets are charming and permanently grati- fying. They are sold at tha spacious warerooma of the firm, Nos. 270 and 372 Wabash avenua. 8 WEAVER & WILLIS. A knowledge of the wonders in the way of carpet~cleaning and fumiture-renovating which the above-nsmed firm are performing at their establishment, No. 501 Wabash aveuus, 1s of great importance to housekeepers, By the uss of Weaver's patent compreased-air carpet-cleaner carpets are thoroughly eleansed of their duat without rubbing or beating or the use of alkali, #0ap, or water. By the same process furniturs is renovatediand the criginal colors restored. ‘The process is a grest improvement over the old methods, the most delicate material being vated withont the least injury to fabro or color. Laces are also dons up in a superior manner. A detailed description of this valaable machine will be given in & fnture issus, CALKINS’ CHAMPION WASHER., . Ladies, if you do not already possess this in- valuable hittie implement, do not let another day pass withoat getting onme. It will do a large fowily washiog in an hour and will do it welly noband-rabbiug necessary, and the much-dread- d ** ngab-dny” made & play day. It is mana. factured and sold by tbs Calkins Champion ‘Washer Company, 291 Msdison street, which also keeps on_sals Ianndry supplies of all de scriptions, and the beat mannfacture of wrings ers and wringers repaira. THE EXCELSIOR CARVE(-STRETCHER and tack-hammer combined, and the *Bost Carpot-Beater,” ara very useful and popular ine ventions. They are made by the Excelsior Mane ufscturiog Company, 151 Michigan avenue. Samples delivered anywhera free of expense om receipt of price. Carpet-stretchar, $1; beater, 40 conts. g THE DEST AND MOST ECONOMICAL COAL. On trial for cooking, 84 per ton, equal to an{ more economical than hard ia the Lyons« dale nut coal; 50 cents for deliverng to tha 12th of May. Office, 86 Washington street. W. B, FARRFLY, FLORIST, ‘We recommend the sbove-named gentlemsa to such as desirs the services of a florist. Ha farnishes competent men to bed ont plani shrubbery, trees, etc. His headquarters are Wabash avenue. Daniel Drow bss begun a conrse of resding it Josephus—like one who would dull the hungry edge of appetite by bars imagination of a feas. MEDICAL CARDS. DR. JAMES. Lock Hospital, cor. Washington & Franklin-ste, Onartered by the Btateof Tilinots for the express pun el e fomscis il ) st , =i o m:-c . JAMES has stood forms. It 18 well kuow taat DR. JAMES at 0 head of tho prof or X and experience are AL ¥ Neminal Weninouss niznt losmes 3 ot e 10 million, Mamage Guias, lh?&l telis you sll about these dissases—wno s2oula_marry—why ‘not—10 cents to pay postage. Dr, James has 30 rooms and pariors. Yousesno ons but the Doctor, Dr. Jamesu luig] Jg:fl of ;‘.’I. Cf:.;n.luflnn sl\w;z h‘xlnl‘:d,gflm 2 hours, 9 m. 401 p. . - Sandun, ey A1) Basizess aerictly gonBdential. DR. CLARKE. 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