Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1879, Page 9

1 PARIL —_— 4 Night in a Street of the an Day French Capital. e S Yorolng in the Ruo do Medicls-.The Ickers-~Golng to Worke-AL e ¢ Cremerle.” A R jos—Tho Students and the Cafes w"l‘unoral-l’rnuuasinn—A Pause in tho Day's Business, Ragp Btreo —A Hour of Alminthe---At the News- pw“.mnnk- Evening-Bchoes - Midnight, The errespondence of The Tribune. mg;‘."jf:r:.rlll.—flcmcen night und mornlog. Thelast sombre shadea are vaoishing, Fost, ot softly, the cotar of the heavens changes, Trom black to stecly-blue, then to a lighter- bine, Inthe nelziboriug Garden of the Luxem- bourg all Ls sllent. As you look through the Jofty ratlings you sce the huge, square form of the Palace stretching away, gray and siately. The broad gravel-walks, with thelr atiff borders of Jeafless trees, stare at you coldly; aud the hite statues dotting the sodden Iawns sccm Jike lingering ghosts stilfened fnto marble, Tt white bliuds of the Palace, the closed gates, the universal hush within, tell the samno sleepy story. Even the waters of the Medicis Fountain i ”;nnl::c Rue de Mecdicls the students are at st Nalt-a-dozon motlonless cabis lino the rord oo one side, waltiog patiently for custom, A light urns [n the lttle wooden kiosk, Tluminating the slumbers of the weary sergent- devile} ond glving the hour to such rare stragglers 88 may poss. FIVE 0'CLOCK. Farther on o groun of ragpickets cluster drearily round a colonna des spectacles, Thero wrefive or six of them, men aud women. The women wear frowsy, zowns, and their head wrapped In bondages thut once wore handker- cbiefs, In their hands arc the Lrooms with which they have heen sweeplng the guttors. Each man bends under the weight of n lmge asket, stuffed full of rags and refuse,—paper, crusts of ‘bread, bottles,—the night's harvest. Presently, however, theso unfortunates move off to thelr wretched habitations, Quartfer- Moufetard-wards, The brightenfug sky ls flushed with yellow and erlmson ; In a fow min- utes the busfoess of the day will begin. Ifow lovely theclty looks nt this fresh moralng-hour | Athin, pure wnlss still hangs upon the streot, walilng for the full radiance of the sunshine to dussolve 1t. This is the time of all times for seelng Parls, Flecting as the glory of the dawn, it vanishes almost ero you can note its beanty, Now the sun is falrly above the hori- ton. Theelly i awake. Idrk! A dull sound comes to you from across the street. Under the carth ot your fect the bakers are hard nt work. Ugh! Nuta pleasant sight these bakers, etrlpped to the walst and recking with the effort of production. BIX 0'CLOCK. The marchand de vin ot the corner ia taking down hls shuttera, Strageling relays of work- men begin to pass along the strect, white blouses und blue,~painters, masons, brlcklay- ers, mechanies. Now and then one strays futo the wine-shop, nnd vou see him leaning idly over tlie zie counter driuking. Thess are not likely 1o do much to-day. Next door {sa cremerle, also open, snd pradually flillng with other groups, making 8 modust breakfast of two sons' worth of black vofiee and o balf-penny loaf, or three eous’ worth ol chocolate. Somo are stu- dents who have been out scouring the quarter allthe night, aud are hardly yet soberod; others areworkmen, In onie corner- thers oven sits o ragplcker,—side by sfdo with a gentleman fu eveulng-lrens, who hias. dropped in hero on the way homu from sujio_ bintl {:1 the neighiborhood. torecrult bis streogth with an underdons steak aod a basin of soup.. . By thta tima tha bakei-shop {s opin, Dolog a roarfug trado o “little crescents™ und hot “brloshes,” oo, i AT Xr0TIT "a change comes o'er the spfrit ™ of the scene. All the workien who mean to work haye gone sbout thelr busiuuss, Now it Is the turi of the workrirle, Pretty, eraceful creatures! What o bright procession they make ns they go tripping past sou, burchended) thinly-clad, daintily-shod, werry-eved. Ahll what would notmany an Enzlish Countess or German Princess give to be able to show sach feet wud such flgures! The air s filled with the sounds of their rippling laughter: erery one who weets them siniles fn sympoathy, Even the surly omuibos-driver catches the i fection, wud breaks out Into n gallunt jest o8 lio dronus by, throned fn hieh but solitary state. The bottle-green postman, with the peddler's ox strapped raund Iifs walat, stops more than once ou bis way to ralse his shiny kept and grin etq:,:muolu. e, ting, tinkle! Woat's all this ringing aboutl’ Ol its the dust-cart, At 8 (carltor i ’lptmmm"m)“e" morning the bell 1s rung. II; cart stops I front of ench house, the drlver m\lwnnp thie heap of refuse thut has beon de: n‘na fted {u the doorway over night by the con- dlerre, ol the street knows them no more for twenty-fonr hours, > E Parls shopkecpers, us o rule, rise botimes. s Y NINE : Al thelr windowa ar trinned. Grocers, butch- nr:.‘nnd {ruiterers open lung before, But the Galea und restaurants rematn cloged fn many nt‘gt for & zouu haf-hour longer, b uxv1 the gates of tho Palavs Garden are open &v'.h he tlerca old guardinn. bas taken bis place o “eentmncnlrum whente lo frowns sternly & b:s Ramins who veuture to tresposs on the mr den Jawns. A faing twitte ng of spar- wl:vnlwum tosonon the breeze, as you stand nit ol“«.'l the “rallings {n the Rus di Medicls, “mu w.lllll an occusfonal cry of the mussel- l”"nan, A 1 moule! aln moule!" and the fiitant music of thie marchand e roblnets play- “zllnmcuk,v alra upon liis tin trumpet, At inter- el lnlumwuo In monotonous nolse as the \Jnmflfll uctor .on the Boulevard 8t, Michel r its blatant note upon the horn, warning fllm l}lnlrurllve to clear the way, i lnflu'h auother dally visitor coming alone the A rehand d*labits | ’Aruhand‘huqu! i Uitsl” That was the old clo’ ma, 1lis rm.“::;.zm.f;' :nrq l:m "i“d:l“:.k‘;"d thestudent- muregate thicl theres N Blopabit and you'l] nfcuz plenty gl th:n:bum 15 thelr bu:\khwhmlx:u—vl'r:m that to 13 or 1 ey are very fond of taking breakfast fn rohrly de Medlcls,” 8o, by-the-by, nre the Tchiers lllku flaeres wnd, miad you, they are gen- mm’e“ nowlediced to” bo authorltie fu_tho llmu? of catlug und ariuking, When s ll;l les ctudlants and Messieurs les ull to feediug, they ore apt to ling |l‘!ollr,wm.l by coflee, und colfee by i 2 l;:mlgu :I‘lminumx :-hu littls iin- ent in frout o enfes are ;lll;;?upu:d by long-hafred, wud~e" u :m:l:s. ha ‘?f dominoes und drinking ale —{ntroduc: IJw‘"mm:mlv:u ludizpensable to the due and by b«;"'l u'mlurnund ng of tho lectures at the oot r‘ :}L schuols, Sweot, carcluss adolcs- et hlle they linger thus, life for them e niuuule-, duty no burdons | o hyl.&l iat wos hastily said; for hera comes o Boiay remlnder, winding slowly past the h e’wlfl":-f" 0ast the pleasant garden where seily TG sparrawa wtlil maka the ulr mu- A YUNRRAL PROCESBION, Bi 3 _dfi"f}h_ Keutry, wearing cocked hats Judges (‘:r Uands, solems and {mportant us wap ‘Hu‘l uch wore {mpressive), lead the n) nr‘u h l!lllu open hearse, disclusing the cof- m:l‘cl of it ns 1a not covered by the Wind the hearse a loug stream of resching as far as (b Boulevard Thero” are men and women {n the —voune o Most wear bluck, and every man Waviug mr“vl“ll‘-&nbrflmndlfd. Al“ut:‘ the ¥; embourg the brecze: it ol of um':g&m urufll:: e or a moment the rattle of \lml‘rmglu\r;:f.. s coased. ‘The players suspend u:.;slxn 8t tho sigit, " Hands me. Ay down, the lilted ylasses, and every the Mateeiaily tor Parlslan studeutdom aflects = te In philosophy, and, to a Ma- ncoyer) oW 8 the King of Terror.’ Elsu why Now the gy, oury reet ts silent. =Thesu are the off- |,M,"’f5.‘l’;° duy. From 2165 the waltera enjoy e n“‘mx.‘mul shopieepers drowsily peraase atired, om0 bsck-nurlors, Ludis, carcfuily Vg up a4 20 throurh the porte-cocheres, Lormag relurning visits, Lazy grou; Wiy m:nud the Cologne des dypecw.l o thenyrey "mbrlglu-hucd adverilsements of the D% you to enfoyment, ‘Ilie old. laay ] = £ THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 2, INTS—TWILVS AGEE. in the kiosk dozes over her nnsold coples of the mornlue paners, or ciinta stugglshly with fhe oftivinls of the omuibus-oflice. 17 you nre curlons enoutth to peer through the covtfned windows of the Calo do Medicls, you will dlscover the sorlehtly, mucli-painted Hebes of that racketty catablishment ynwning at thelr crochet-work, and evidently wearg Ing for the return of thefr hopeful customers, now drinking In Jaw, medl- clne, and philosooliy at other temples. At lnst PIVE 0'CLOCK rines out from the Pantheon, und presently the Rue de Medicls s alive again, for the hour most. racred to Parisians,—the males, of course,— Vheure de 1'abainthe, has arrived, The sans wild Absnloms cluster oy the lttic tables, nl @reat Is the consumption of evil-smelling bever- ages ero dinner. “Tlie old Indy at the kiosk in- terrunts her alumbern to nttend to the fast-suc- ceeding emissaries of the newspaper oflices, who bear her wicrewith to satisfy the literary cravings of her customers, ond Migarox ani Mleclex are repinced by Frances, Eatafrtes, mul Lilertes: very few Fatafetes. thongh, for Hona- partism hné few partisnna, A great many L'rances: aur studious youth is Kadical, While dinner roes on, the sun hs been sink- ing to reat behind tho eray Polove, Lamns have been lit, and_ the newsonper-klosk once mors glows with all the colors of the ratnhow as the Eas within aheds fts rays on its surrounding walls of glass. ‘Then the cates GHOW CROWDED AND ROISY. There §s 0 sound of revelry by nlght? at the Medlels and the Cafe de ln Jeuncsse. Young ladies of amiable micn, but nueertoln morallty, stroll by o‘| the orins of thelr student-swalis, Heated political discusstons nre begun in the cold, silvar moonlight,—~amd drowned, ere they ended, fo beer. Bands of rude-throated gontle- men march alorner the pavemant, shouting and singing—if singing that can be called which mur- dera soog. ‘Pl shopkeepers cloge their ahut- tersy nnd the bottle-green postman delivers bis last buduet of letters. MIDNIGHT. 8till the shoutlng and singing. [f anything there fs more of It than ever,—cspeclally at the Jeunesse. But the quieter portion of the street has retired to yest. Half un hour Inter, The cafes are closed. The revelers disperse in dif- ferent dircetlons: some move lhomewards, others dlsl:r])t:nr in_search of milk; and the Rue de Mcdicls isloft ton few belated gtrag- glers, e sergonts-de-ville, and_ the rog pickers, Darkness broods agaln over the Gardens ail the Palace, nud nothing but the distant bawl- iog of the (students disturb the peaceful mel- ancholy of the night. Hanny Mertzen, A CITY ON TIE ICE. How Fish Are Canght iIn Sagionw Bay in Nor:p the Winter, Speclal Correspondence of The Tribune. EA8T 8AGINAW, Mich,, Feb. 10.—~The business of flshing through the feo on Saginaw Buy hus been prosccuted regularly for soveral years, and has attained larze proportions, glving em- ployment to Jarge numbers of men, and forming a city as distinct 08 it Is novel and pleturesque. At present there are about 700 bulldings com- posing the city on the Jee, nnd active operations are progressing. The soll on which this clty is bullt {s not of that permancnt alluvial which hms given Chicazo the cogno- men of *Garden Clty’': uor vetis It suscepti- Die to the cultivatiou of ordinary summer-crops; but it {s of a character peculiorly adapted to the crops which are being ralsed (through the fee) at the present time. The city {8 frregularly latd out; fn fact, no attentfon whatever fs pafd to right anzles; and it {s not hikely that the ordi- nary rules for finding a given foeatlon in o clty would avall iere, The bulidings fn this pecullar and interesting town have all been erceted sinee cold weather st in; and, with very few excep- tlons, the dwellers are all of the sterner sex. The city commences three or four iles from the light-house,and extends several miles out. [n former years there existed a regularly-orzanized Munlcipal Government, with a Mayor and Com- mon Counchi: but I believe that no such constt- tuted body exists this season, and the peaceable denizens are at liberty to erect o wouden build- fog fnside of the fire-limits, {€ they choose, ‘The houtes oro ncnr[f of uniform size, atont four by elght fect. They are cheaply though warmly constructed; goberaily made” ot thin pine boards, lined or covered with buflding- paper. Thebunk s placed i the end opposite the door, and the pantry §s a ghell on one sido of the hut. A smail window in the side admits Hghts but, while enpared o flshing, this 18 uaually covered, The little-houscs are warmed with sheet-ivon stoves, about sixteen inches long, round execpt at the top, whera I8 ¢ eriddiu for'caoking thu frugal meal of the vecupant. In the fluor of the nmm.r is a trap«loor, nbout twenty fnches square, which, on beinry ralsed, reveals o hole through the dee, The tlsherman scats himself on a block at one side of 1lie hole, and lowers into the water a herring attached to one end of a string,—the opoosite end betng fastened to the -top of the bullding. The herrlngs are used for decoys, und are caught a8 needed. In getting the decoy rcndi’, a plece of lead, about four (nches {n length, 18 forced down thie herriug’s throat (for a sinker), a slip-nopse Is placed over his Tead, wnd he is let down, 1f alive, ho swims nbout unaided; but, Il dead, the m‘wrumn resorts to artitichn] methods, by dangling the line, ‘e water whero the snanties ara jocated is from ten o fifteen feet deep, und the hottom, being usunily sandy, 18 easily discernibl Attached to another string t8 the spear. A nail fn the handle enables it to be hung on the cdire of the floor, whence it fs_qulekly talken wheneyer the flsh come up to the decoy. It 8 then durted awiftly, nud, Lefore an Inexperlenced person could hardly realize ft, the victn (s plerced, and pudled throueh the fce fnto the shanty, ‘The fish run best carly in the morning und af- ter 4 p. i, After dark, alamp with o reflector 18 used, and the business s prosecutod as pere sistently as fn the day-time. The bulk of the fisb caucht are pike und plekerel, with ovea- sfonuily trout and whitefish, When the tishing ig'zood, un industtious flsherman will take out from fifty to 150 pounds per day. The fsh run in gchouls, and the water Is often falrly black with them. ‘The flsh are sold to wholesale deal- ers ot Hay City and Saglnaw, und shipped in every direction. As high as 2,000,000 pounds hava been cuught in 8 siuglo season. 'Fhis year the searon cominenced rather late, und the girod- uet will bo amaller. '['he oceupution is not without danger, especial- 1y in the early spring, when the fco eracks s and thery #5 scarcely o scason that some of the hard; fishermen ure tiot carried out to sea, from which they are rescucd with great diftfeulty, Lost vesr your corréspondent went out n o tue witha porty, and rescued half-a-dozen tishernien whose rotreat hud becu cut off by the movite out of the lee, When the jco beging to crack und act uneaslty, the careful Hsherman packs his Jittlo domlcile on n sled and hauls it to the shore, wherg it 18 stowed away for anotlier geason. Numbers of snantics are lost nvery year,—tne venturcgome flshiermen temalning on’the fee so long that [t §s lnpossible to take the shant ncross the eracks, “The lttle houses dotting th biue expanss of fce for miles In every direction present a pleturesque wud curlous spectacle, nud 1he eity is visited annually by large oumbers of {utercsted strangers, C. ———————— FROM SITTING BULL'S CAMP, Speclat Correspandence of The Tribune, Woon Mouxtaiw, No W. T., Jan. 2.—Maj. Walsh has just returned from Sitting Bull's camp, nnd reports him uod his camp to be on Freuchmen's Creek, aud on Amerlean soil, he bolog camped two miles south of the line, ‘The Mafor reports 8. K, to be in o great stato of cxciteinent. It seemna that for some time 8, B. has beon very anxious to arrange o peace with his encmics, the Crows, aud negotintions were taking a very favorable turn, wheu the Crows turned on the 8loux, killed two of them, and stale 163 horses. 8, L. feels very much segrioved at the miscarriage of his vlans, und aoys that it was the Amurleans that Induced the Crows to act 50, He has hungup his wmpe at the door of his lodge, n sleunl nmong Indiana to call the young men togetlicr, nd' ho savs I will go to war agalnst the Crows. ‘The Major strongly advlsed him nof to go to war, but, s the canip was across the'liue, ne could do noth- ing toward coercing them. There s no use diseuising the thing; the Canadisus bave o great deal of a whits elephant on their bunds fu Sittiug. Bull, His dlalika s not to Americans alone, but toall whites, Hols without doubts bad lndian, and the peoplo hievs are beglunlug to Rud {6 out, The police force here, some eighteen all told, armed’ with a gun thut, With the improved repeating ritles that the 1ndians have, would be comparatively useless, could not do much work, us 1hey - ‘tilfmbudly are sgaings some 2,000 or 8,000 ln- ans. ‘I'ho weather hero bas been very storniy; one balf-urged was trozen to deatl) at the fuot of the mountain, Hespectiully yours, ¥, e —— Gamposstor Skinner's Luck, The wisdom of ohexiog the njunction, % Be not torgutful to enteriain stranizers,’ is tlus- trated in the case of dolin E, Sklaner, ot presont u compositor fu n New Huven prntingofiice, Years uzo, while Sknner wasa youth ot 15, he ahured hils meazro substunce with o youth named Autoine Mercer, who yepresented thot he hed been bunished from the bome of & wenlthy clelntue Leland of 8§ ‘Thowas. ‘the uncle Tooked upon youns Mercer as s helr til the Intter was discovered to have pledged s loveto nmutatto eiel, Then the uncla sent him torth to core for himeelf, He driftedto New York, found ernplovinent as o printer, hecame dissl- pated, Joat his g{tuntion, was taken In aml eared for by Youn Siinnerat Port dellerson, L Ly ami finnily decatnped in the hest clothes of his fricnd's [ather, Yeara passedeand nothing was heard from Mercer tiH] a few davs apo, swhen o 4 Tndls paper was receleed by Joha E. 8kin- ner, contalning the annonneement of the death of Antotne Mereer, und the statement that. his will devised his fortune, amountinie to $750,800, o his vld friend, John E. 8kinner, who had befriended him a¢ Port Jefferson, Lo L, nsa mark of regnrd and appreclation of his kind pets toward hin" ‘The paper stated that the for- tune comu to Mercer from an uncle, deceascd nt 8t, Thomas, Mr, 8kinner has taken steps to sccure the fortune which seems to be his, but 18 80 far from losing his hicad fn the meanwhilg that he continues worle at Lis case as ususl. o ee THE PLAGUE. 1ts Ravages nt Various Porloda, Tastan onvnad, In view of the possibility tlnt Europe may soon be visited again by the scourge which has wrought such sad liavoc In the past, it nay not bo-uninteresting to review briefly the history of previous visitations, und to state the theories which are eutertained with regand to the trang-s mission of thediseuse. ‘The history of the plague dntes back neariy as far ns we have historieal records. in 767 B, C.) aceording to Petavius, it spread over the then known world, In33t B, C. it made such havoe tn Carthage that thedespair- ing population offered up thefrchildren as snerf- fices to the cods to allav its fury. About a cen- tury Inter ft roged with creat destructivencss at Atliens, nnd “Thueyidides has left us a graphie deterlvtion of it At the same thne fvextended over Egept and Ethiopln, In the eighteenth year ot our era the plazie swept ofl the popus Jation of Greeee at the rate of 10,000 dally, In the fourth century it raged with violenco in Britaln, aud ¢ iortality (8 révorted to bave been 80 great that the 1iving were scareely able to bury the_dead, William of Mahnesbury wrote that in 752 an epldepife currfed off 35,000 persons {n Chichester. In 1348, durinie an vol- demle which prevalled very geuerally throughs ont Europe, 200 persons perlshed dally in Lons don. I 1478 more persons died of pestilence tu Enpland than had died in nfieen yeors of contfnued war. At varfous other perfods, London hus suffered terrl- bly from the scourge. In 1603-'4 more then 20,000 persons perished in Lomdon, anet in 1625 more than 85,000, But it was In 1665 that what has passed suto history as * the Great Plaguo” oceurred. Estfmuates of the deaths in London during that visitation range from 05,000 to 100,000, John Evelyn's dlary contalus some briefl but very graphic memorandi of its ravages, For example: **'Ihere per. fshed this week of the plazue in London 5,000 “Came home, there Pcmhhm nearly 10,000 poor ereatures weekiy s # To London, and went through the whole elty. The shops universally shut up, a Jdreadful” prospeet.’ ‘This was the last visitation of the plague M England, but other portions of EIII’U‘D’U have suflered from fg in modern times, uotably Muarscilles fn 1720, Moscow In 1371 and 1 und the Neapolitan States in 1816 nnd 1810, Its last appearance In Europe was in 1844, ‘The discase derives {ts name from the Greek word signifyiug *a blow.” 4 s nn ageravated malignant fever, with very varied symuptoms il manifestations, and sometinies carrics o patient off within twenty-four hours from the time of attack, A revurt which was made to the French Acadeiny in 1840 arrives at four gen- cral conclusiona: First, thut the conntries where the plague originstes are Erypt, Syria, and the two Turkeys, but {t ia probable that it may be developed irithoat fmportution In the regencles of Tripoll und Tunls and the Empire of Mo- roeeos second, in those countries the vonditions which favor its development are the habitatton of atlluvial or marshy grounds, a hot, waoist at- mosphere, low, Ubadiy-alred, and erowded huuses, the accumulation of a erent quantity of animal snd vegetable muatters o a state of putrefaction, n seanty aml unwaolesome diet, greeat mmoral and physieat destitution, wd the negllizence of the Jaws of publle und vrivate hygienes talrd, Aporadie plague does not seein to bo transuissible, but epidemic plucue {8 transunsaible, both (o the Jocalltes where fbls raging and without (h fourth, ft fs Lrans- wiited by means of miasmnta piven out by the bodles of the sick,~tlicse miasmata in close and fll-ventilated plnces, constituting ceutres of rnsulumml fnfectlon. No_ rigorous observation hns shown the transmissibility of the plazue by slinple contact with the Infected, but new ef- oerlments are necessary Lo determine that it ls not transmilssible by the gouds nnd wearing ap- parel of the inteeled, ‘lhe symptoms ol the plague are go various und its nature s o imper- feetly understood thot other diseuses arce Ire- quently mistuken for it, aud, ou thy other hand, the real plazue, ns i the presont ense, §s often at first trented only ns ordinary fover, until ity rapid spread and- terribla mortality reveal its true character, % Laltimore German Correspandent, It 1s gatimated that not jess than 52,000,000 persous” full victims to the black death in Astu sl Europe toward the middle of the fuup- teenth century, Of these, 15,000,000 are sup- nosed to have perished v Euroge, 24,000,000 in Asia_Minor, Indis, and the udjacent countries, and 18,000,000 in China. ‘Fhe istorlan writes, concerning the uppenrance of the plazue in Europe: ~**Ferrible omens in the heavens vver whelmed the natlons with dread, In I37a lurge comet appeared; in fullowing yeara came tmimense multitades of locusts: but'in 1848 thy end ot the world feemed at hand, An earty- gunke devastated Cyprus, Greeee, dtaly, and the Iptoc vulleys. Mountaina eaved . In the Provinee of Carnthen, v Austris, toirty vite lages aml o town wers utterly de- stroyed. ‘The atmospuere beeame thiek, fetid, and confusing. Wine heeame turbid fo the bar- rels, Fiery meteors illuminated the sky. A pillar of flame was seen over the Papal patace ot Avlenon, These terrors were foliowed by a murderous plague. It orlginated (v China, Wos carried through the whole of Asin, und in Ger- many received the name ot the * Black Denth,’ ‘bueauise ftecovered its vietima suddenly with black }wuutulus. and olten killed them instantancously, t spread over the woole of Europe, nad {t (s said thut,dt did not rage most virulently in Ger- many. Nevertheless, 14,000 persons “died in Basle, 16,000 in Strasburg, and the same num- ber fu Erturt, amd thev perished i all other places In shmilar proportions. In Osvabruck only seven fumilics are gald to have survived.” For twenty-tive vears the awful epldemie malntained its sunihilating sway, while at the s time droughts, tawines, loods, und carthe quokes destroyed city and country, and vast awarms of locusts everywhers jnfileted the divest sayages. Meautine, the whole order of uature secmed reversed. In mld-winter the severcat ralns wers experfenced, nud fo. swinmer long- contiuned aid severe frosts, aud voleanoes that had been longe_thougnt extinet opened thelr craters auew, Some laye attributed the orlein of the epidemle to the ostmospherie changes pro- duced by the convulslons of the carth, combiied with the docay of organie inutter,—tis myriads of jocusts yid the vunumbered bodies of men aml animsls, Soute have also attributed that frightlul epf- detule to the thew recorded approach of several vlunees to the sun. lugrmuch us fonr planets enter the perthelion fn 1831, wo have at least this slmhlarity between Uie presont -time and thut dreadful” perfod; and this cireumstince, come bined with the sudden outbreais of the plague that Is reported trom Europe, may glve rise to the fears that the comiui planetury proximity to the sun §s perhaps to have an evil iinvort for poor huwanit, —— Engllsh Worklngmon. Engtund has not Amerlcan competition alone to fear for her comuiercial decadynce, as i8 fllus- trated by a story told by thy Londen corres spondent of the Liverpool Mercury, A buyer of tlnsmith's work walted on w munufactirer witha good order, which must be completed to thme. ‘Uhe monufacturer would not cogaze to have {t ready v the moment pamed. o was at oneo told that he must take only us much ns he wus certain to tinish, Bald o master: *Then I muat consult my men,” 1t was Tues- day, ‘They had not yet returned to work for the week, ™ But most'of them wero gothered to- gether iu the nelghborig public houses. Man- ufacturer und buyer made o tour n wmr;my, und fuund the men upon whose good will the fulilllment of the contract depended, ‘Thoy needed wgreat deal of pleadlng, ‘Vhe mustor had to make many promises. But after the hnd been Lesought, umd persunded, aud bribed, they did ut lengih condescend to do the work Lhat ey 0 thele hands, ——————— Recont Seens in & London Criminal Court, Ristnge young counsel cross-examiniug u wits neset M Nu W) sir, what do you say your name Jeructa “Aud whers do you state you lived Petticoat lane,” * What do you du therel What s your y usalonf®? [ an a dealer tn eloth," ¥ 0p, o dealer 1 clothl Are you i a large way of businesst Do you deal s darge pleced or simall 09! w1 Geal priuctpally i made-up. pleces.” *Ob, [ seol u_sbort, vou are un-old ciothes dealeri »Welt, sume people call me 80.”" © Now, sir, mizht [ ash what your rellefon 68" (he had not el in conTe when the ontl wus adustolatered), Ths Witness butst out laughing, * Louk be you usks we wy namu, and § tells you Moses Is- Traels: you usks mo my address, unl I tells you Petticoat lans; vou usks tue iy urofession, und Liels you un clothies dealer; wikd now you aaka wo my religion—why, s Quaker of coursol Junder way, MINNESOTA. The Gubernatorial Qiestion---Giov. PIHs- bury a Third-Term Can- dldgte. —_— Ho Is Opposed by|Lient.-Gov. Wake- fleld and a Mgjority of Re- publican| Papers. Legislative Tnvestizations-~-\heal.Testers. nelly’s Contest--+An Extra Session Kext Year, Spectnl Correspondence of The Tribune. 81, Paur, Minn, Feb, 10.—In nls annual messnge last month, Gov. Pillsbury weote wisely concerning the politieal, sovial, nnd busi- neas disturbances caused by onr too frequently recurring elections of public ofticers; und, nbhout two weeks afterwards, n faction ol his friends alded to {mpreas his lpsson upon the intnds of those who were enjoying theirnfter-election rest from the anxletivs anfl distractions of uarty polities. The oftickal determination of the re- sults of our lsst clectiof was followed, within n week,. by o formal anpouncement thut Gov. Dillsbury was A CANDIDATE FOR A THIRD TERM} and, for Republicans,| that opened the next campaien, Licut.-Gov.{ Wakefield was alsn an- nounced as o candidate fur the Governorship; und his friends throughput the State seem to have neen already well fware of the fact. Prob- ably the gentleinen ‘fho bave charee of the Governer's enudidngy fhought 1t Lest to bring out thelr man early,} becanse they feared u “glate® was betng made up fn Wakefiel’s in- terest which might be hiard (o break. Doubt- less they relled upon the Governor's personal popularity to check thé Wakefield movement, aml overcome the ordinary opposition of per- sonal , and Jocal rivhlry. They could not bve autfeipated the Peculiar form and force of the opposition thdy have aroused. For, though Gov, Pillsbury] has untll new been res parded a8 one of the most popular men of all who have been ot the hbad of our State Govern- ment, nine out of ten pf the Republican paners of the State fiereely denounce bis third-term aspleation, and all whoseek to promote it. The two-lerm precedents of the party in Minnesota are vehemently uregli und the Governor's sccrctary uml an imigioary combination of politicisus are wrathfhily accused of proposiug tuls offensive {nnovition. A few journals ridicule the Governor’s pretensions,~forzetful ot lil services to (ho Biate,—by representing Iiim s ruled by an aufe-rgom Cabinet: but, for the eredit of the Repuljlican press of Minneaota, Iam glud to be nble te write that the majority of those opposing big present candiduey en- deavor to treat him} with the respect he has folely carned, Judging from the muvements of the politiclans who ¥isit 5t. Paul darlug the legistative seasion, Licfit.-Gov. Wakefleid is THE PRESENT PAVOINTE; but, between now und the meeting of the State Canventlon, fn Juiy gext, there will be time enouch for the Plllsbliry party amd the Wake- field party to usc eaclf other up, after the man- ner of the Kilkenny, cdts, leaving the final con- test for other candidates. lndecd, others are already named ns possitle winners of the prize, which, by the way, is hot the nost desirable of State offices, Ex-Lient.-Gov. Armstront, of Freehorn County, and, ex-Senator Edgerton, of Dodee County, are njentfoned by several pa- gers; nud uninenttondd are dark lories enough to make a big tield, Jiniteu only by u general couversion thut, if Gob. Pillsbury’ls not renom- inated, the eandidate sall be taken from the southern part of the Hiate. Next to the carly.jopening of an unpleasant contest for the (invu:fur.hlp, in our Minoesotn Hoe of political numaives, is THE INVESHIOATING MANIA which afllicts our leglfators. The Insane-Asy- lum manngement haspbeen under {nvestipution by u Senate Commits fora vear; und, at the end of it,the wearled majodity of the peopleof the State would willingly vote tetfubject the Rev, Mr. Kerr, the Asyium ‘Ureasurfr, to olinost auy punish- ment, provided ihey'snizht ulso punish Senator Duran, who tenductéd the long examination,— nud pfterwards madem.four hours speech ahout. 1t,—by jockine bim ugin the 8L, Peter Asylom. But ol the people hove ugainse the two 13, that Kerr Is a blnudering! bookkeeper, und Duran o pertinaclous Wwvestigstor. I seselon wa have “ever a0 muny ' {naestizations awd inguirles ‘The Stato (s being hunted over for ex-conviets to tell what they know about the treatment and feeding of {ninatesof the State Prisun, A Jolut Coinmittee is under orders to find out whether the. Ruilway Companiesdls- crinnpate for or aegalnst any of their patrons. Another Comnnittee s to inquira whether rofl- wav-charges ought not to be reduced and equul- fzed v Juvor of intermedinte points and short routee. Sull anothen hos been appointed to in- vestigate the operauons of produce-buyers, to Tearn whether there arc any cambluations amouwr them to prevent compctition und llinit prices. And yet another {a-cogeged in an lnquiry into the use and abuse of THE PAIRBARKS WHEAT-TESTER, This Jast Committex, in deference to the com- mon prejudices ot -farmers, will recommend that the scaled halt-bushel be made the tegal ure for testing 1he quality of gram py it, withiout forbidding the vee of the co: ent two-quart tester where both parties con- sent {o fts use, 1t will also prabably be recom- mended that the Legislatureprescribe a uniform method of filling the tester; amd, for thut, a hopper, attached to the tester, as invented by Senutor Staey, 18 favored. lu forty successive trials before the Cemmittee, this hopner did not make a variation of two ounces on the weight of u bushel, although handled by many diile; ent persuns, Ter- As exhibited to the Comuniittee, it aprees with the resulu standard in erading; aud the fuventor elalins It can be multiplied fn- definitely without variation. Yot ¢ think large, ligght kernets woull teed through (b more sluwly thun small o shrunken oues; wnd thut the In- wenuity of those who are disposed 1o cheat will ho equa) to any deviee or regulation the Leelsin. ture can adopt, Nothing but such o crop us we Jutd bt 18577—ull No. 1 wheat—wall put an end to the differences between farmers uml buyers about the grades ot grain. But [ was fatendiug to remark upon A PECULIAR PEATURE of Minnesotn investigzations. Our Republican cxislntures—sublinel v configent or abominabty imve turaed over the most impurtant of the many (nvestigations undertaken in the fast five yeurs to those who most wanted to Investi- gate; and 1he Denocrats have not fafled to fm- prove their opportuniti ‘There s now, In con- sequence, an uutapoken feeling of Republlenns, that, If thiere (s auy rottenness Lo dlie out, If dise honest officiule arc to be exposed und punished, or ff ubusesare fo be corrected, Republicaus should do the work and take the credits nnd thut, on the other hand, Republican munnge- ment of ulfulrs of the State shonld bu protucted ram misrevresentation and slander, HAN ANO0OBIN' cuss." Yet Minucsota Republicans are not so dls- uleted but thut (hey onjoy the grad farco Mr, inatlus Donnelly (8 conducting tn his so-calicd contest of the fast Congressional election In this | dlstriet, That nlwn'uncuw il usually amus- ing comedian in pofities is taking evidencs os- tensihbiy to sustain the nssertions fn bis notics of contest, thul Mr. Washburn's mafority of over 3,000 was obtalned bf error, fraud, bnbery, and fntimidation; and hls witnesses are saving Mr. Washbura's attorneys the necessity of call me any. ‘They !vm\'u that there was wo error, no friud, no brbery, no. futimidation,—uot oven wlhers the unexpectedly Jarge vote for Wushburn surprised him nud bis friends ns did Donnelly, — 8titl Dounelly 8 an=with an inimitablo uffectation of serlousncss—calling Donnollyltes to swear that they thought and guvased, or heard sumcbody elso say they thought and guussed, money W belng spont freclys; uid Demucrats as well as Republicans, wio swear tiey supported Washiburn without pay or intimidation, -~ All that hos been shown of the ude of waney i, thut the lacal lle‘:uuumu cagidls datea fo 8t Paul, in_onler to get mon Lo staud at the pulls {n this city mud peadlo stralght Re- publican tickta in the face of an overwheling ucal opposition to Waabburn as a Minnvapolis candldate, bad to pay several ticker-peddicra §10 each for Lho day's work. lushort, Donnelly i5 proviag that the clection was unusually clean, with nothing else extraordinury about ft exeept the mauifestation o St Paul und Minueapolls in votior precty solldly contrary waya, Lf any LCongresstonal “Comitttee ld cowmpielted to go through the evidunco Tunatius Is collecting, fn members wilk vote unamimausly, I am sure, thut thy vontestant ought to by seated—ou sure muscles. UIENNIAL AND BXTRA SESSIONS. ‘The present scaslon of tho Leglslature s the flrst gf biennial sesslons, scord(s I udopted constitutionul amend but it already more thun probable tbat an oxirs sess “ friends for tiventy years, 11 he necesanry about a year from now, conrtitutional lmjtation the present sesslnn expites four weeks from Friday last snd hardly n beginning Lias been made toward providinge for the two yeara intervening before anotlier reiaiinr sesalon. The dififeulty of nnllclrnuuz the needs of State institutions for ao long & time without encouraging extravagance, und the imoorsibility of prepurine fn wdvance for emergencies such s e State has experlenced, are leading many to acknowledsee thist it was un- wite In such a Biate as thix to adopt the blen- niul-seeslon amendment. Some of e Jegladi- tors arc aleo of ovlnt.n that, notwithstanding the nmendment, thicy are required to meet next January to formally canvass nrel dectare the re- stits of the next cleetfon; while otliers would doubtlesa be serry not to have nn_excuse for an extra session, thouzh 1t Is limited to thirty days, 1L GOSSIP ABOUT LINCOLN. What Ward Lamon Doosn‘t Tell About Abe Enlow=Ilow Lnmon Wus Iullilozed— Lennard Swett Tolia 1lis Rteminlacences of Abraham Lincoln, Corresnondsnce Indinnanolis Journal, Nrw Yonk, Feb, 8,—The marriago certificalo of Abranam Lincoln’s father and muther 18 now roing the rounds, having been discovered last week and broughtto the lght by s Kentucky lnwger named Browne. In his letter to Gen. Bristow, Inclysine ft, lie sava: *The record ought forever to silence thie chareo of the Pres- ident's {leritimacy,' Perhaps It would not oe- cur to anybody but a lawyer—a Kentucky law- yer, we mav suy—that (he discovery of the mar- riage certificate of a child's parents must be tuken 08 proof of bis paternity. Undoubtediy ‘Thomas Lincoln and Naner Ilauks were war- ried, but. unhioplly, tint does hot settle the controverss, I do ot huow thnt i8 i3 heeessary to he settled, 1do not know as it mal difference whether it {3 settled or ne ) hamn Lincotn's fame, as o juab and feariess g triot, combinmng the keen analytical brain of o man with the tenderness of o woman, 18 seeure Torever. Still, the reader of Ward Lamon’s Life of Liucoln, st which Gen, fiestow aling bis S refu- tation,” will be likely to resnember tiat. Laman htats at something quite different from a mere failure on the part o1 Thomas Lincols to regie- ter o marriage certficne. e saows clearly, enoueh that Thomos L| i was o bazy, shift- Jess fellow, and that Abrabam ¢ neyer spoke of hia father nisd molbier without arest reluctance and sigeiticaot reseeve.' ‘Then he breass out, whthout warnime: *That Eolow atoey 1" and tnunediately forrets to tell us what it Is, but he says thut *‘the lufelivitles of Thomas Lincoin’s life In the ueighborhood becume stibportabie,’ winl that, finally, they culminated, shordy after Abe'a birth, in u savuice conbag between Thomas Lincoln and *“one Abraham Enlow," in whieh Lincoln bit off Enlow's nose, winl then, having disfigured him tor Hie, tett for Ininogs, Now, I kuow sometting sbout Lamon's rela- tiou to Lincoln, and perbaps T had better tell . Lamon swas a Virginuan oy bieth, and teft there about 1850, when hie was 21, und went to 1l nofa. e wus a rlch spri of an ol slave-hold- fug family, aid was wortn §30,000 or 340,00 11¢ studicd law, but the amount of law he Knew was never excessive, He drammed up bustness tn Vermtilon County nml got Lineoln to try the cases, 1le was o reckl dasning, plegsant, social, rood-looking feliow, un ndmirable etner, free with money, widd fond of cumbe stories, and when Lincotn, Duvid Davis, Leonard Swete, und Dan Veortiees met at court Lumon usualiy en- tertalued thew, 1w wore a white hat and drove & dashine sran of hurses, Ile was a brave i, was a flne boxer, il wis proud of 118 herculean frame, He was not astudent, It isn's likely thut Ward Lamon, or **thi}," as hs cronles of thut day called hin (bis middle name), ever read a book throngh fu his life. About atl the “oflive* lie hud was fo a buggy behind a span of bob-tafled lorses. He Lad” no culture, and fuumn‘l. make u speech more than four words ong. » lis most striking characterlstic was per- sonal devotion to Lincoln. Lincoln reciprocated the Jiking, 8s was natw Wien be beeame Prestlent he took Lamon alone ux he would have tuken o bull-dog. He was tumous all over llnois as unconquerable in a hand-to-band flght, e coutd *“clean out ”* nny dozen men any time. Mo generally carrled two revolvers about him, Destdes a knlfe efhteen ineties lonz wind aslun rhot, No better tnan jor the service ould ha been found, und he ustitied the choree, Libcoly felt that it was necessary to surround timecl( with pluck amd diclsion, und Lamon was made Murshal of the District, He would have gi his life auy day for that of his master, The {den that therd was an aetive conspiraey Lo os- sossinnte the President took pesseasion of his souly nud he kept wateh at the White House every night with his body-guard, Fear- ing " that the gruard would wuot be virl- Iant, ho went, alter Linculn retired to bed, snd “Iny on a sofu fu the holl outside of his door, Lincoln found hiin there watching one night on emerging from bis rooin upexpect- edly, and gota b tor him. inslsting what he should use it. Lamon was olten charged wich proslaverylsm, with |llslo\';lll‘)', with dissolute- ness, but Lincoln &kept blm in olllce by sheer force of Will; “or be knew that, even if Wi po- Heewau had tow very earnest convictions, e hud a perdoual’ devotion which was of more vaiue than any sentfment. Lanvoln nlways fznored his old partuer, Hern- don, fter bis zreat clevation. ‘Ile reason prob- ably is that Heendon was formerly irrezulur in s Babfts, wud Lincoln feared that he mignt re- lapme, Vhatever the cause, Hlerndon keenly feit the slight, uid alter Linceln's nssassinatioi went to Kentucky und obtained letters amd memorandu amouliting to BW pages bearing on Lineoln's birth und hovhood. ‘Tncse he suld to Latmon, nnd they resnpear [n the two tiest chap- ters of Lumon's book, But not all of theu, or even the substance of atl aof them, o thoss chupters Lumon made ong defimte statement which he wus compelled to omit: for whben he fuvited David lavis, Leonard Syatt, aud Jegse Fell (und Sehuyler Colfax, | leve) to et him at the Briges House, Chi- engo, andthere read to them what e intended to print, they denounced him as un fngrato nml w ruillan, and theeatened hilu with all e pe ulties they could think of 1t he should persh waking the charzes which he called his rev tions, After spending all nient under 3 winl menace, ho was at lust. fucueed to modify 50 much thut nothing of it seems to remalu’es- cept a hunt lor o marrinze certificate! BWETI'S NECOLLECTIONS OF LINCOLY, 1 am veminded here of what Leonurd Swett told me s vears ago about Limolu, wind, us it has o been printed, 1 may s well print It tere, Lineolu ana Swett were Tast amd futlnmte ‘I'hiey uppenred as at- torneys fn the sahie vourts, they rode aml ate togother, told stories togethier, uid bad simtlar expertences, Lumon's — blography renrasents Lincoln’s boyhoud as o period of sulering; but Mr, Swett sald to et * Lincoln had a jully time when he was a lad, Tt wus a rough HIe, of vourse, ad withont Jux- urles, butt It was not a lile of exceptionsl priva- tious, § have heard him gell of it I remember riding with W 01 buggy e day, un v 1y ihe whole histo Those were hapoy days,” he satt)y alluding to Ws Loyhoud. 1t was the life of the avernge ploneer—the same lite that most of the futhers atd nrandfathicrs of ihe pre: encration lived in Jlilnals und Keatueky, {dea of sulferin ver outered my mfnd durlng the whole telling of his story, 1o 1epresented thut he had o Joyous, cheerful, comlurtable time” s lw it rene, Mr Swete,” I asiced bl 4 that Lineoln Jome expected to bo Preeident, und regs- utut cd all his actlons to that end “Why, no!" lie exelaimed. * Nothing could by more untrue. {lo never thonght of the puse sluility of it enonzh even to fuke about it tH) Juet before the Conyention met thut numinated hilm, He had been talked of sowse ut soring- fledd a year before, but e met U by tetliog a story to the crowd tu sllustrate his tieapacity,” 4 And you were ull the while setting up plns for him ™ "Curluhfl?’. We were all working up public genthinent, for his success beun to loom up a8 wossible. 8o, when he ridiculed his chane ptilled hf fute_wnother rooun, wud sah *Now, see liere, Lincoln; this 18 outrage Weare trying o get you nominated for the Presidency, wnd you are workie richt aponinst us, Now you iust stop Ity umd give us a chance,’ " AV uat did Uncle Abe say to that plain talk " Sle loughed, and satd It wasu't serion enuueh Lo ke uuy fuss about, but he proy fued ho wouldu't futerfere §f we wers bound to. tut him jorward, ‘Che week before the Chleuzo Jonvention ety 1 satd to him: * Well, Lin- coln, are you golug to the Couventiont’ Lo auswered with u laugh, ¢1don’t know what o do. 1" most 1ou imuch of 4 candutate ta o, innl uot quite cuouh of 4 candidate to stay at lowe, * Did {ou ever talk with Lincolu about re- lglon, Mr, Sweet " § usked, i wOfteny he replied. **After 1850 1 was in the habit of traveling with Lincoln Irom county~ seat 1o county-seat, und Yoquently slept with bim, 1 have discussed these mutters with him lundreds of thnes, Hoo telicved the cardi- nal doctrines of - Christiouity. —flo was fond of hscusshnge theology, und was well puated ruing the tucts invalved, He wonlg swear somctines, wil somotines utler heroteal CXPrEasions, o wint ho mizht rather be rezarded as aliberat or Unftaglun thun strictly ortasdex; put ) have beard him ssy ity thnes that he believed his was *an fnstrament fn tho hands of Providenve to brlng this thiwe shrourd.! o s atnan who cared far more for deeds than for cronda.! I lave talked thus long about Mr. Lincoln, hecause current sdiscusalon acems to bring hia honored nante and tame upancw. And L am sure | have given pretty nearly Mr. Bwetl's words. Mr. Swett, by the way, bears a very close resemblance (o " Llncoln in stature, ju gestiee, in I in temperament, in geninl quabities, nnd 1 the very texture of his mind, amt I aball be greatly ‘mistaken if he fs not anatched up it sent 10 the Scnate hefore long, from that State whgu first-rate Senntorial timber {s not very plemy, JrRONE, EUROPEAN GOSSIP. HOW EUGENIE BECAME EMIRISS. Iandon ‘tyuth, In the year 1815, or thercanouts, the Parlsian Perfecture de Police turned its attention to the Countess de Montijo, who was then residiog, svith ier two daughters, on the third floor of & house fn the Rue Bt. Antofne, Paris, and asked the Comtnlssalre of the auarter to make inqui- rieaabout this lndy. ‘The request was notan unusual one, for the Police of Continental cities are nceustomed to ry {nto the alfairs of strang- ora; g0 the Comnasiire sent in & report which ran substantially thus: “‘Ihe Countess do Montljy, divorced wife of o Bpanish Grandee, Aeems Lo live in eusy but not wiiluent circum- stances. Bhe recelves few Iadies, but many dis. tingulshed forelgnera of lier own und other countrics. She uives occasfonal tea-parties, at vhich cards are played. Her dauzhiters—one aged 19, und the other 18—ure renowned for thefr rreat beauty. It s gatd that the cldust is ofnz (o marry the Dulke 4’ Albe,” ete, Tats repart,” founded probably on the gossin elfeited from -servants by n foolish detective, was chvivusly tntrue iu some of its insinua- tionss hue it was duly lodeed In the urchives of the Prefecture, whenee the Republicans extracts ed st after the tll of theSecona Emudre, for pub- lteation in thiat shabby collection of State papers entitied * Fascleales™ My ubject it quothiz iU here 12 to recall the itnpression which extsted In 1lse oftfeiu] mind o8 to the respectubility of the Countess de Moatiju, She wits rated 0 pollee- books usulady whow society rathereutand whose thrawing-room was little better than a polite gambling-raloon, The trath fs, thnt there was uothing “agatnat Mme, de Monto except her separation fram her busband, After this unfor- tunate domestic event, shie went truvellng about the workd with her iwo danghtees, who recelved akind of flymer education in Germany, it Lo land, sud iinadly fu Parls, The Conntessen] o handsomne allowance, and her o taught by the maste conrse there was a tinge of Bohemibsnism fn the cxistence ot a lady romntng from ety to clty with ber children, und never remaining o one place more than a year ot a time, One can make some ullowancee, therefore, for the plous horror o Fialin (Detter known under the name ot De Verslgny, which he had usurped), when, on hearive “of’_Napoleon 11L's intended marriage with Mile. Eugenle de Montijo, he threw biin- setl on Jus koees und besoupiit his muster not to,do this rash thing. This oeeurred n Junuary, 183, Napoleon had tried to contract marriage with u Princess of lo- varfa, but had been rebutfed; he had then made anolier of hils hand to the Priucess Carola Wasa of Sweden, but liad failed in this quarter afso. With 3 uroper spivit by resolved thut he would bave nothing inoro to do with mariages de con- venance, pus would make u fove-matel. Ile tod repeatedly notived atlle, De Montijo, who* used to attend the bulls at the Elysee with her toiher und her stster, who had become Duchiess d’Albe, fle zave the Countess an lovitation to suend o week ut St. Cloud, aud at the expiration of the vistt anuounced sbruptly to his Ministers thut he was gofog to ralse Mile, Eugente to the Throne Count de Murny was the first to uo- derstand the situation, i, after warmly co ratulatinge the Emveror on his adlrable cholee, rab ol 1o proffer bis complimeuts to the future Empress. Her Majesty never in atter time for- got this act of chivalry and prescoce of mind. Meanwhile, Flaliu, abuse mentloned, was bune Dlinz out his siliv soul in distraugbt wonderfugs us to whut France would say, France took the thing very coolly. Little time was given for objections, as the morrnge was solemuized enzht duys alter the notifleation ap- pesred in the Mundenr; and the Municipal " Counail of Parls hud to vote thelr gift of 424~ 000 to the Empress with s much haste as good apeed. Mlie. De Montljo was then 27 years old, uid there {s no arm (o saving, sioce the matter is notorious, thut she had alrendy lind sevaral offers of marrlage, ller reasun for relusing some of these §s sald to have lam in a Wttle prgue which she had experienced az the very bridliaut mae- riage which lier sister bad made,” Somehow she had got to think hat the Duke d'Albe was paying hia court to herselly when she dircove ored her mistake she bore the disappolntment (I 1t was oue) very poud-naturedly, but yowed that, since lier sister had wedded o Sponish Grandee of the first cluss, she, teo, woull marry novody under the rank of u Duke, One of Ml BEugeulc's sultors was s Scoten oflicer of the Dritlsh arms, n younz man of govd family, who et ler ot Brichton in 1516, sud proposed ot of hand. - One would have liked to soe the facy of this worthy fellow when he subseguently learned to what hizh destinies his eruel ove had come. Heds now, Jike the hero of ** Lovksley Hall" the very eheertul fatherof o grown-up fanvly, 3lle. DeMontijo wun alsu stied by o Frenchi nobleman who sat on the Legitinidst -benches fu the Constituent Assembly of 1843, und by u famous and witty ench author, who beeanie an Linperfal Senutor, aud Hved to con- cratiiate the Empress frequently sod laugimng- Iy o her good souse 1 baving roj him. He remalned single, thowsh, und chenshed to his Hie's end thie most knlghtly reverence for the lndv whom he betleved to be neerless among wolen. PIUS 1 ROPERTY. Rame Corresunadenve Londun Standard, Three upartments are appropriated to the ralo of the effcets of the late Pius IN. Anywhere else they would be vast saloons. Measured by thie seale of the Vatican, they are ordinary-sized rooms, In the central one, to whicn visltors are first admitted, fs o large quantity of 1he most intolerably wretched oli-paintings which it was cevermy Jot to see gathered together in one olace, They are ull sacred subjects, with the exception of o serles of vletures repressuting the Popa going In procession to varlous points of Rome,—St, Joln Lateran, the Via Sucra, the Col- osseum, cte.,—and they appear to be coples of caples of coples fur themost part. In particular, 1 vbserved n verslon of Ruphael's ** Madonna dellu Begeiols," the well-known pleture in Flor- enve, winteh was enoueh tu make the spirlt of the ereat urtist—it ho haunts the seencs of s bly inumphs—flee away In horror trom thuse walls he has made glorious with beanty, Al these pletures aro catalogued and numbered. But [ saw o one make the [nintest approach to asking the price of auy of thent 10 the same room are two magiitleent pleces of Gobelin tu‘mlry huniz on th These are not for suley but they uve very precious Just now to the visttor, us affording a rest and redef to the eye, ufter the exatbition of works of art (1) rang below them, Alter abeiel period ot wultlh Monslgnor (who had been detalued In con quence of having to wait on his llotiness) ap- peared, and ushered 1he wssembled cotnpany 0 n sccond rovin, ‘The salil company was not very numecrows, und congjsted almuost exclisive- Iy of ludies, mid afinost entirely of forefzners, great muny heretle bunk-notes hovo hud the honor of beiniz exehaniged for memoriuls of Popy Lus IX, durlng these lutter days, 1118 Royal Highuess the Crown Princs of Sweden Das made one or two hundsome vurchoses, und numvrous othier Protestants of now-regal’ runk have done tho sume, At present the bulk of the most preelous objeets have bLeen disposed ol “Yhere are stll, towever, some handaome things tu he hud, “The coflection fs of the must enrfously varled sort. Amone the articles which recyr to my memory, 1inay take at gun- dom seversl pafrs of embroidered elippors, an Indlan varved caskety s jar full of rice, some common muslin and iucusears, u diumond cross with gold chioin, colured bindiug for furnitire, a sct of sliver glit saltspoons, and sume Mankets! dhua ben told befurehund thut the articles were priced remarkably low, This Lokl not find to by gulle accurnte as regurds all Lho thingy, But {an incliued to beilevo that the really precious objects, such as gold sl goms, ete,y, were cheaner fu - proportion than the com- mon ones. 'Lherelins been some tine old lava to bu biud, vut that s now nearly all goue, I yue marked, o, o crimson velvet scapulary, wag- mllccmfy wibroidered tn gold; o pustoral cuntainlig an eoterald of hm:u 12U, surplices, for ono of which 400 frunes wag do- satded; but the lace which telmmed ft wag neliher “autique nor valuable. Perhups somo of the ‘most available artlcles tor the general public wore a collection of fragments of warhle from the varfous catacombs, polished and fnserthed fn red letters, ws followus “Aray- mentum Lapidise Cameterio Carlistl [ov Dot Liliey aa tho codv way vel, 1490 JX., Pout. Mos, Sucel, Lring, Ann. XXVILY “Lhes expensive, and jorw nve little momorials; but they are nearly all disposed of. of this , which aurceatly dlstl fram avy other speciva of conimerciai aper: tiou [ have over witncesed i lmlf-, wis the fu- podsibliity of burganng. ‘The price of each are tivle s plainly sarked noa cacalozue, which Pericoti Keaps fu his own s, sud fram ont tall i the nuwber silixed to the object yoli wish to purchuse, he reads vut the cost, Thus v is, so many frauce, 1o iore wid o Jess und (0 your purse be hot Juag cnough to allord ft, Yo gracofally retirg wud hold your tongue-~that is all. Altozether, tho scene 14 a eurlats oney nd ona ot Iikely to be repented In the same fashion. To behoid o rey- crend Prelate of Holy Church with his purple | sllic mantle on his shoulders, politaly telllng vou the price of twenty yards of binding, or & palr of old shaus, und recefving vour onev for tho - same with a courtly bow, Is & spectacle not to be secn every day. ’, LEO XIIL'S PICTURES. Rine Correspondence London Glode. The walls 0! Itome are uow covered with pla. cards informing the public that two portralts fn off of Leo X111, which cost 2,000 lire, are ex. posed forsale In a furaiture-shop. The story of these portraits fs curious. On the clevation of Cardinal Pecci to the Pontifieate, Signor. Guldo Melinari, s Roman artise,wont to Cardinal Franchi, Secretary of State, and requeated ners mission 10 thake two portraits of the new Pope, with or without payment. ‘The Cardinal vlemvc\l‘ 2 to fmportunity and consented, Subsequently his ™ ' Emincave made inquiries uid found that Mollnart bore no yery high reputation ns nn artist, but as the painter_ wns so inodest in his orlginal de- | mand the Cardinal felt no great disquiet about - the matter. When the portraits arrived they were cousflered wretehed - like, nesscs, and Franch! made up his mind to stick them in a corner and to give the artist the lib- eral donatlon of 600 Hre fur his trouble. Before the payment was made Cardlnal Franchi dled, Molinarl then went to the Vatiean to demand s rewaril, uud when bo heard that only 500 lira were tobe glven to bim he appeared to be ns- tounded, und boldly clnimed 1o less than 8,500 Nire. 'The helrs of Cardinal Franchf were une wllting to act precipitately, anid sent the two, plctures o n sworn vatuer, Martinettt,’ The lctures wera showa Lo Prof. Bomplaol, & mem- her of the fatnonus Acadeniy of 8. Luke. The - Prafessor sald that une of the poriraits wos. worth 109 lire, the cost of the canvas wnd vig- mentay aind the other, at a hich valustion,.lie estimated at 500 Hre, but before acourt he might’ put its price at 1,000 bre, the Inferior vleturs be- ing wol nntinng beyond 100 lire. Mollvarl now reduced his elalm to 1,000 lire for both plet- ures, and the heiis of Franchi offered to pay 700 lirein fullguittance. Anothier Academiclan, Prof, Grandl, belng privately futerrogated,. cone fessed that be agreea with Bompiunt that as' works of art the pictures were valueless, \Hely- ng probably on thess privately-cxpressed -opin- fous of the' professors, Martinitl, the valuer, vropused the the disputs should be submitie to the Academy of 8t. Luke, und that fts decis- fon shoula be flual and withont appeal. ‘The wroposal was accepted, wul the Professors of the Academy, incluting Bompfanl wnd Grandl, met nwl uvanimously signed the following verdiet: ““The hicirs of Cordinal Franchi are bound to pay 2,000 lire for the portraits painted by Signor Molfuark' “The money wus paid, nd by way of revenge the putlle nre now fnvited Ly mural placards to fnspect the pottralts, the reveipt for 2,000 lire nnd the signntures of the Professors of the Academy, which are ull exvosed to vlew in the furniture-warchouse in Via del Teatro Valle, No. 67, $*LONDON=-BY~THE-SEA.” Landon Letter ta New York Jimer, it Is the Brighton winter weasou, Lucky Brighton, which contrives to have so mau; sons! Luckier still, this city by the =eu, which always finds patrons, no matter how dull trade may be, 0o matter what otber city may bo steeped to the lips in poverty. There will, I suppose, nlways be riclt people enough to keep Brighton rofng, and men and women of fashion to imake Klug's road wprizhtly, und local soclety gay. Wherever riches nnd fashjou foregrathier here witl art und literature, und the hungers-on of moclety, nlso be found. lLet us take our place on thesteps of u funous hotel on the fushlons- ble drive, facing the sca, and count up the notas bilities who arc here, und, a8 you will flod me mentionlnge actors und others supvosed to ba daily and'uightly engaed in the exerclse of thélr profession, you will remember that Brigh. ton s ouly an hour uud o quarter'sdistance from the matropolis. ‘There ure wavy Londonets who live bicre, scores who vo down regulurly from Saturday to Monduy, snd thousands who are continually ruuning up and down. Mr. Georite Lewls, of legul fame, s here, the solleit. or who Lus ' just helped Luboucllere to Iay Wybrow Nlabertson {n the dust. Mr. Lewis fa i sllm, younir-lyoking man for uue wiho has made %0 great o name among the luwyers of Londea. The oretty forewsn-looking lady on nls arm 18 bis wile, and the stalwart-loaklag fellow who is swiling und saluting him with lus riding-whip is Edmund Yates, who 18 bestridine u sturdy, old-fashioned Enghish cob. Mr. Yutes has gone tulive near Lewis, (o Portland plave, the noblest realiontial street lu London, Mr, Liotel Law- son, the chief vroprietor of the 7Teegraph, drives pnst us, beginiugr with liealth, his ambi« tion to be vne of the richest of England’s com- wmoners becoming more aud more pussible every day. They eay he made £1,000,000 i Turks the day the British protectorato was announcod. Hold! Here's o sight for Brizhton. A spider- waeeled Amerlean carrlage, with a puirof hurses, between hucks nnd frotters, 1tis o uuvun‘y here, #nd looks étrange among the heavy vehcles of the English, - ‘Uhe driver is Afr, Charles Wynd- ham of Criterfou nnd * Pink Dominos" fame. Let vs putl him up und ask whether he Is really going Lo produce * Lemons.” 4 No," he says. “\What thent” He loughs and says, * Walt und see, tuon awf,” It is not nccessary. Wi hup- pen to know. The warv nnd élever Wyndhom caunot keep everybodv's secret, - ‘Thé new comedy will be Brotison Howard’s »* Hurrfcanes recast, rewritten,tnd possibly repatued. ‘The niaptor of * Les Fourchambuult? is av work on it nov. Lord Ronald Gower walks by, e is a sculptor, IHehouwhy Filde's first important pieture, * Lovers fn n-Boat on_the Thames,"” Beveral members of the OPern .Comlqllu Cotn- puny ure In the parade. £, M. 8. Plnafore ™ ia taking o reat. Sergennt Ballantyne, who sne- riileed o Judgeship to Bohemin, strolls lefsurely by, und the Duke of Beanrort smokes his clear returns some old friend’s grectiug with a gental smite, Mr, Arthur Cecll, of the Prince of Wales® (who delizhted Wilkie Colllns a year or two ago by his extraordinacy performance of 1he doctor [u ** Miss Gwilt ™), passca us on the wayto the trafu, andd nlf n dozen other theatrie- ol arttsts arc on thelr way back to the fogs uud foollizhts of the metropolie. ! THR l‘All(E\JlOfl-MA“KET. Tur(s Gorresvandence Zandon News, Paris has no quartera’into which ludies might not penetrate with lmpmflv.y. At the dog-wure ket held every Monday, near the Barriero St. dacques, old ladies arc to b econ fn great num- bLers, bargaining for pets stolen from Englaud, A gystem of free exchiuge Is sald to co on bes tween the French nd English dog-funciers, so thut vatnable quadrapeds flehed on oue slde ot the Channel are speedlly shipved to the other, Anyhow, ft {s notieeable thut muny of the pugs, Ring Charlesvs, torriers, und Havanas sold at the market are such wetl-mannered Hitle doss that 1hey must have received thelr education glsewhera thanin the back-yards of frowsy shiops. ‘The [ashion w doga varies, sl ft I8 ratier sure vrising to sea how quickly the demand for an, speclal breed §s met LY a javisn supply. few years nro wu were told that the race of pues was dying out; but some grent ladies touk to cultivating pugs, und 1ot ult the markets swanned with black-nosed Hitls mousters, Yellow, wiry Euglish terriers are now the rage * in Parls, unit Jtalfen greyhounds have becomo 80 seures thutu faneler tofd o he conld vot uns dertake to furnlsh a well-matched puir—crenm or mouss colur—for Jess thun G franes, Lot any grande dame or poplar uctress set up & palr of levrettes, and { will be bound that in a twelves month we ahull see these shivering, uncomfort- able little creatures skippingover the pavements of avery cley from Duskirle to Bayouue, Anu teurs of butluogs will be sorry to hear M. Gleot's laws cdict agolust thls face has alto- wether seoured them trum the market, for it s now furbldden tu walk a bulldor about the eity, oven with a chaln wnd n wmuzzie ou, Befora Jeaving the market let us tuke note of some placards advertising dogs “who go well insmilo or double harness.,” This applies to the long- suffering unimals—mastiils or colley mwade 1o drae the catts of milkmer, hakers, nud butchers in French Kianders and alt over Bel~ giuu und Bwitzertand, e ee— Hymeneat Literature ut the Bouth, When Hymen lights his torch und Cupld sliugs s bow across his shioulder und starts off fu search of game, the Bouthern cditor mounts hls Pecusus undd jozs oll in thy direction ul M. Parvassus, In the Memphls .{qu the mur- rlago ot Dr, Johu W, Joues, of Lagrangs Miss Lizzio M. Rives wus unuounced the aher day, und appended to the noticawore the follaw= fug beautitul gems of thouihit [ *The ehivalry of the galtont Doetor has par- landed his chaplet witlh the fairess und siveetest flower that nloomns m the partecre of eanty, whoss fracrance witl lwpreguate with redolency wvory itinpulse of hils generous heatt, ‘The brisht- ast star Lhut radiates the radaxy of fasvinating wotnen shines upon and Humines his patliwuy with ber bland sintle il alluring leht, whose reapleadent cifuleence, glowlng with undimminet Justre cuch revolving scason, witl pilot the m- guilous victor of su catimable u prize o the buven of nappiuess. The e of 1he trepid bridegroom s coponated with the richest unl most beautiful jowel thue gleams (1 the cuskes of luve, whose diumond brilliaocy will calor with w more vernal hue the faurels weeathed around hits brow, gleaned _frou helr vovage down the stresim of Time. 3ay joys uud blessiugs oy o2 quisite und bullowed us thoss encrondered by a shower of roses scuttered down by the hunds «t tho Perl from the fur-ofll rardens of Parsdiza crown Your wedded duture and jucroase with tha fapso of yeara,"! <3 e SR, ':‘