Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1874, Page 3

Dear Anna, when ! bog! Her white va: Threw o'er my t And, iauzhing, ! you wear at last for years!” was hashed, d with tears Sh “For t aid Mer lo ps my f We passed the searching Nigh The Sun ght was calm and fatr; smgoth my hair. I felt ber der love uniocked my heart tears, at last I said. mleed to ma that vail se I only lore the dead!” food one moment statue- } And, mosing, spake in and “FT vic ve may ce el od alone!”? sabeth H. Whi Dbhedead are sate with & OF THE CASTLE. ARIAN ST THE FAIRY that? iream, and be- come porsessed of a je and large estate in hangary tt was at h,and Thad © purchasing, ‘ons convinced me | » with the incum- t an adopted dangh- the late Couat. a ¢ favorite servat s ali, however, p: ed with anu: so that it only remain ce in the castle, and, if t Ty é. 1 suould airs: ryants accustomed to their anner on di<covering th: d to reside in the castle, I con- bere the reputation of be! er reveled in the anticip: t terrors of the | 1a carriage to tis I a el to be for the late it. ne MAN UmleT=too + fault moans, alterna! last led m: siness, His drivin, nant sighs and ag outright, at res ng for sinin brother. I was ite of his violent ed his younger somewbat startie!. B in 9 grief he drove we son village, in a state of bewt! bis actions and my duty in the case. Sometime before we reache. thecastie we saw | the porter ported on a large stono, in military | ude, and shouldering @ Largs stick, as if it were ariie. As weapproacted, he surieked,in | & fearful tone, “Present arms” aud began’ to imitate the sounds of the drum and trampet, while with his atick he went through the eight | movements of the jan parade regulations, atter which b jumped down {rom tue stoue mounted the stick as if it were a horse, and ga!- loped before the carriage like an outrider, all the time A moster isa master even : ached the gate the porter toed hke a post. saluting me 1 retaining erment both as to im } trained off with my oF y into ° gradually becomes 5 gas, and if anyone shoul gas50us vapors woul the house on fire. in my chair. I fell ba man was six mad people, and was ary I had bought this splendid c the letter. Having ticed that the fre w that the supper 6 not but wonder what madman had cooked it. {could not sleep. I turned over in my mind | scares of plans for getting rid of the property or for leasing it, but none seemed ‘There was oly the oue thing certain. I table, and could eon the wall and approac! Now I have another tov & began to strike, and kept on into @ bed was uncomfortable; the n and tormented me, till I cur- the hundre moon shor tai F. everything cise,—servauts, pictures, ‘clocks, beds, and moonlight. I sprang up in a rage, rerolved that the morning should rid me of my tormenters. ing began to steal over me thonght. What was it, song or music?—a tone escaped from the harmony of the spheres? { knew not whence it came; bat it was enchanting, and exerted a wonderful intiuence. Jt ceased in @ few moments, even before I could be certain what it was. 1 forgot my annoyances, Opened the window, and leaned out in the moonlight, listening. But the window opened on the court-yard. there Was ro found but the low barking of adog. I went 0 jo the hall. The song began again, snd seemed as if it were under me. It was | deeply melancholy—yet not ® song, only a dreamy. rhymeless melody, like the notes of a forest- bird, but so charming and besutifal that I lof my surroundings. this coald be the d had said het no ght and started in feould hear bet- ve been built arough the .and slong eda deo ear aura mee bad Wear @ red coat, such as teen on &fox-bunter. After already devoted fellow was read fire and water for me. My gamekeeper, though almost dangerons it Any one else presumed to order him,—the King of Lapland, as be imagined himselt ‘to be,—yet | Lowed im bumble submission before me, whom J wade bim believe to be the Ozar of Russia. My steward was such a learned and useful an that | resolved on @ heroic cure of his monomavia. I brought gas-pipes from Pesth, tig sagcavered to bargain with him to supply the castle with gas from bis breath. ‘The shocl E ty proposition threw him into s ® ilness, bit be arose from it an entirely | fare man. ' There were only two remaining in the house | who bad tot been, at least in a measare, bene | Sted by my fystem of cure: one was my Invisible siren, and the other was myself, who was in love with her. Ar econ as davlight was gone Ner song began, | aman lips: it came | —a rong of the lark from aud went, sometimes soothing me to sleep, and fometimes waking me, but { could never dis- | cover whence it cams. | Nay, more—when | slept she cams and went | my room, offen remaining hours. { had | Severs] means of knowing this: I always lett a | lamp burning on my table. When I woke it was slways extinguished, and ig turned down snetead ef blown out, had evidently touched by a human hand. This was to prevent my Seeing her should I suddenly awake. Again, | there was a clock near my bed; thie | wound up | myself before retiring. If I fell asleep at 11 | o'clock and awoke at 4 or 5, the clock would stand atlor2.anud yet it went correctly in the Cay-time. My invisible caller stopped the clock, so that its striking should not swaken sud started it again when she left. By this means | could tell how long she remained. And yet I could find no trace of her means of gaining aduutsion. | myself locked the doors, yone ardent h t, I believe the | | i | | my researche: what I related. | cromed himself, told astory of a ghost, and | prayed 1 would slow masses to be said for the ' and left the keys in the locks on the inside. My | windows were protected with fron gratin, | There could be no trap-door in the floor,for th carpet wae of one pi-ce, and pulled down argund | the edges of the Dut nowhere was teok down th pething but roof of the @ ple cohwel quantity of seed-corn 5 my room. leadin Nett T tried the y trace of a bidten door. I are, but was rewarded with Then I examined the castie, but found only an immense ad out directly over er could! discover any door to the part of the castle which she oc- lis, too, cupied, and her windows were doubly secured with iron gratings it creature eat nd drink ? What did t that exists witbout food or raiment? I questioned my servants, except the porter, who I knew before hand’ would only answer, “A master ti was net m: myself at master even ip hell,” in my own house. | knew nothing of the secret, but he aided me in and was as much astonished as The coachman Tepose of her soul. My valet, } beautiful enc lver, who Gran throngh the doors. ter I must not dows. Louis, = hented ce thi through which she bad vanished. He had, lictle ‘gnome to be no goo to k: ye met bi her, In va poetical idea of the matter. per, whd ght she & Were-woilf and a’e little etildren. ten in the forest, and tried to at she seemad bullet-p u Utried feigning slsep. é game! spirit. At ni er vof. seeme strange Ieehe really @ epirit whereas I Theeteward jd it_ was a wonderfully girl, dressed in gold and oply dew, aud lived on nectar of flowers, like a butterfly. At her wi ge’ into sir and pase invieth When it shouid come wty t-pletares on my win- ii 1 should find a round, melted spot among the flowers, that would be the por Ito wi my stratagem, and I could even pear hing, somewh near sac, sure, bat ictnred her tal! and gracefal. with blonde hair reaching to the floor anf glittering like gold in the sunshine, exion transparent long black eyelashes neholy, tasiry: sapphire eses,and the ate lips marked with a famt line of pink. My days were spent In (he care of my estate, but they were filled with impatience for the re- turn of evening and my fair enchantress. At last I dreamed of sitting with her under the shade of a pomegranate tree, while the sun, mirrored in the lake before us, t! tion upon her angelic face. her one of the apples, which she pronounced sour. I then took one mysel | between my lips, told her it was aweet, and that | she must take @ bite of it. ideas we have in dream: ow its ret in my dream { gave nd putting it Oh, the absurd She leaned ov. or, smiling. locked at me with her glorious blue ted im hia | eye®,and came nearer and nearer to take the red kernel. Then suddenly she passionately pressed her lips to mine, not fe & spirit or dream-picture, but as a real human being. Be- No, all that could not be merely a dream. was a human kiss, a real embrace, a living out- ery. And yet there wasno one in the rvom ! A thou; rought meto the | side myselt with unspeakable rapture, [quickly threw both arms around her— nd at the iustant | a sharp outery awoke me. It {came into my head. I sprang up and rusbed tothe chimoey. Then I was ashamed to have imagined that my through the fi re! low: iry could have come And to render the idea nt- terly absurd, the grate was etill fall of og cinders, and it was, besides, shat in with iron bare. ‘My heart ws and my lips burning from the kiss, As Irelighted my lamp, and feverishly be- gan to pace up and down the room, a strange ebject suddeniy met my sight—a tiay embroi- dered slipper, well have be per. whic or¢ she had no time to pick up. er of cold water over my head in 1 locked this wonderful the morning, tor have found treasar 1D an iron chest, it was only a tantalizing or gold, iI! beating from the embrace, fine and delicate that it might worn by no earthly foot. At 1 proof that she bad been in my room, by me, and fled im haste, losing the I @ assurance doubly sure, and then ittle slipper in feeling that it would nut be there men often dream that they md have locke: ,OR awakening, that ream ‘Then I Went to bed again and slept later than my custom. I puited o white | and but From order to assure n t seemed impo I was fairly awake in the morn- t the drawer of my writing desk, eeif that the last night's A realty or a d ‘The slipper still lay there just the eame ¢ and red ribbons, and a dal an flower to stay in the house. Day aud night with every thought of i there seem as the rest ot t ingly I called them my plan I would cox allowance m I then wes ge did not wish departed excer over yuu, “Yes. sir. iret hed. Iwiech to yeu wil then understand my lime must have seemed strange; | think, you will not leave the castle.” ent on solving a riddle to w no key, I shouid soon be as crazy ihad ever been. there must bean era of it! are very beautitul, but they did n t I resolved to (uit the castle : either rent the estate or ands of the steward. Accord- he servants together and told he house’ h, an Idealistic drea: XN sult y ms y A For a year after my departure je their wages in ad litio them by the wi smissed them unceremonionsly, for { g into that state of mind tn wi 9 see any face | iiitary masner, app aud began to ¥pesk in un of the Coa <A mas eat sarpr thal up to aug the fo the nt. tae His’ iwanner, language, and expression were sach that I involuntary invite’ him t> sit down, wh: he kuew the 2c awaited his de «The deceased Count,’ fortunate secre’ educate and lawfally adopt her. he id. ts of lopment alliance. 1 was now convinced that ¢ Castle, aad anxiously he eaid, “had an un- Wishing to make reparation to bis child, who was motherless from her birth, he brought her here in order to Bat he was hot permitted to make ful! reparation on earth. @ it out, lest I too should go mad, as was | The girl grew very beautiful, but never learned tospeak. She is not deaf and dumb, for she eings and notices the slightest sound. But she never epeaks @ word; she onty sings. Like forest bird, she has different tones, with which she makes known her pleasures or griefs to those who understand her speech. Tbe poor Count and I learned this music language, and 1 uncerstand her. I was the Count’s only conti- ‘If I should die, dant. He once said to me: leaving testimony that this child was mi what would happen to ber? Peopie would c: 'y consider her crazy, which she fs not. S\ wnderstanding, a good affection, and comprehends human thought. heart, pata ral ‘Sui they would put ber in some insane asylum, snd so make ber really idiotic. How shall { ” Then the Count had the strange thought to make an asylum out of his own cas- prevent thie tle tor the sake of the c! From tar ani near in the vicinity he brought together the yil- lage dunce: esee. Hisclject in doing this, and leaving them a home here for life, was to prevent his | beirs from either living in or selling the ¢ no One Weuld bu. I confess ed on your not remat more than two monthe in the castle. secret passages between a myself do not know how they are arranged lome possesses the secret.” ! Gbe wame startied me. tor he thoug! der such conditions. you first came Vio lly cured coun ane air, that wi Itis would well eait my fancy picture. every night, where I If 1 should die, the stew: was boy had onee | with you that she mae Gon of your name. be: imagine what had happened. somewhat calmer she made me understand that while you were asleep she had again stolen to your room, and—bad even kissed you. I cannot describe the tender modest smile with which. acknow! her face it. Then, sl upon her the rooms. and the steward he brought di- recy from an insane asylum. ove of all who was in ses, but I pretended the worst madness of atthe affair should become notorious. é Count gave himse iunales with ceavell I was the only eesion of my tive p to the care of 2, and en And yet it In this way Viola comes down to the hai ‘¢ her food prepared. would eare for har. On these occasions I often spoke to her of you, prised to find that the poor girl, in- adof being afraid of the etranger wno had t ber father’s castle, a8 SO much pleased and blushes at the me: es, she even let me know y togo through | that she was accustomed tosit by you while | you elept, and guard your ‘dreams, You have Pe not kn pwu that betore.”” oh, 1 knew it very well. ‘The child is not insane; but if yon should jay now, she certainly would become so. day she came to me weep'n; I could ‘- not Asshe became she itened, she covered nees, wringing her hands with a beseeching look, and the tonss of a wounded bird entreating the hunter not to ys that you will kill or imprison it. not be apgry with her. She ain, not even with hei 1 im the house. You aha! Tense Viola ill mot distarb inging. She will not even be be conscious of her existence; only pardon her this. here love you so well mi really do not fortunate.” so much! We who unfortdnates. Bat I pray you, sir, not to leave the cas- tle. You know its secrets now. are No one but yor could these poor lieve that Viola will visit you Sgaip, but if yon should accidentally meet lier, you will act with that thoughtfulness which | @very prosperous human being owes to the un- I became suddenly aware of the fact that my Porter and { were shaking bands in @ friendly way; bat I had already grown accustomed to extraordinary proceedings. Having assured him that { would remain, and that 1 won-d uo longer keep up the role of an my presence. was not angry with Viols, I be; he ia For two months I never once heard the voice of my fairy. friend, whom 1 was | into the b: | provided. Abont this time a bold bard of robbers began to +pread terror throughout the neighbor 100; they had broken many of the neighboring castles, committing roddere+, and sh — whoever oppored them. My neighbors adviser me to be ou my guard, fora gentleman happen- Ing to pass my pg bad been taken for me 'y and robbed on the highway, and it seemed retty certain that my turn would come. But was too much taken ap with my dreams to pay | much attention to this warning. 1 One November evening—It was sleeting bit- terly—I sat alone at my grate, piling stick after | stick of wood on the fire, aud watching the glowing, whistling spirit forms into which the wood became transformed, when sudden'!y I was aroused by @ loud shout, which was qaickly followed by a shot. To spring up, snatch my revolver, and rash i wasthe work of an instant. In the Opposite door appeared two masked tigares. I received them with twoshots. One of them re- turned my fire withont effect, the other fell, ap- parently badly wounded, and was dragged out by bis comrade, who ae shot at ms throagh the half-open door, partly covered myself with my own (ocr, and stood ready to meet avother attack. At the moment I became aware that others were endeavoring to force an entrance at the Opposite door of my room. In this emergency I thonght how fortunate it would haye been if the fire were burning leas brightly. As it was, I presented a distinct mark tor the robbers’ aim. Scarcely hag this thought passed through my mind when the room became dark, aud, as : { tire | looked In astonishment toward the chimao Was startied to sce that the grata and the bed vanished, and in their piace stood a palo white-robed figure, with a lamp in one trem- bling band, and shading ite flame with the other. She was the embodied pictare of my | | chucett dreams’ After a second’s hesitation my fairy ran to me, seized my hand and drew me toward the | epen space in the chimney, wh*n the enchanted floor instantly began to descend. Here, then, was the key to the mystery. The whole found- ation of the chimney, with the fire-grate, as- cended into the tice, leaving beneath it an opening which took us balf a story lower. Bs- tween the ground floor and that above it was a space high enough for a grown person to stand | upright, and which was yet not discoverable e.ther from without or within. When we reached a corner wall my strange rescuer again drew me to her and pushed back bar in the wall, when the square on which we Stood quickly ascended. Here, also,as in my room, was the seeret outlet under the chimney, through which I was now 80 magically led. I feit asif waked froma dream. A moment before in mortal danger, and now gafe in this quiet spot with my fairy. Here was the apparition of my dream! This ‘was tho being who had k me under the pomegranate tree! The same countenance, the fame eyes, the same silent lips—and now also | sgain the same sudden disappearance! On | looking around I could see her nowhere. But this time what I had seen was no dream; for in «few moments [ heard the alarm-bell sound from the castle tower. The entrance to this tower aiso I had never been able to find. It, too, then, was only to be reached trom Viola’s room. Poor child! as soon as ehe had imagined from the shooting that my life was in danger she her- self disclosed the protecting secret order to rescue me, and aiterward hasteued to signal the | danger to the inhabitants. In a short time I heard the people noisily ap- proaching my residence. This was fullowed by a sbarp skirmish cn the verandah, ending with a shout ot victory from my people. Toe robbers had fled, ‘ing with them the dangerously wounded map who had been hit b: my builet. spooopeetae dead in the court-yard. ‘The game keeper hi ‘fabbed him with his butoher-knife. The robber had ventured to oppose the King of Lapland, who had burried up to the support of his mighty friend the Cz «r. The remainder of the band were taken together within the year. But the faithfal porter had veen killed. As the servants brought lamps, and by their light We raised from the ground the bleeding bod the man who had 80 devotedly offered himself, | Viola began to lament like a young bird stolen from its Lest. She threw herself on the ground, | and went into such paroxysms of grie! that I began to fear for her reason. Aaising her tenderly, I sssared her I would | now take the place of the protectorsie had lot. | Atthis she cast her eyes down tremulousiy, bur the tears rolled from under the long, hait-c Jesbes. She had, then, understood my we Whoever can understand words cau certaial learn to speak them ! | A month has parsed since this occurrence, | and during this time I have tasked myselt wit teaching our mortal language to a fairy. My instructions have not been without reauit. [ a:n now teaching her that e marriage service which “As God is my he! aay this sentence correctly, stand sid ta will by side at the altur, am! repeat it in tarn.—Harper's Weekly. | The Keyser Family Churaing White- wash. | They baye a new bired girl over at Keyser’s | farm, just ontside our town, andon Tucstay, | before starting to spend the day with a frient. | Mrs. Keyser instructed the girl to whitewasti the kitcben during her absence. Upon ret ing, Mrs. Keyser found the job compl very satiefactory manner. On Wednesda Keyser always churna, and last Wedues lay when she was ready she went oat, and, fint- ingthat Mr. Keyser had already pit th> mi into the churn she began to turn the han lic. ‘This was at eight o'clock in the mornin tthe turned unt! ten without any signs butter appearing. Then she called in | the hired man and he turned wntil dinnor | time, when he knocked off with soma yery offensive language addressed to that butter which bad not yet come. After dinner the hired girl took hold of the erank and turned t energetically until two o'clock, when she let 20 with @ remark which conveved the impression | tbat she belleved the churn to be haunted. | Then Mr. Keyser came out and said he wanted to know what was the matter with | } | that churn, anyhow. It was a good enough eburn, if peopie only knew enough to work it. Mr. Keyser then worked the crank until balf-past three, when, as the butter had not come, he surrendered it again to the hired man because he had an engagement in the village. The man ground the machina to an accompaniment of frightfal imprec: tions; then the Keyser children each took a turn for half an bour, then Mrs. Keyser tried her band, and when she was exhausted she | again enlisted the hired girl who said her pray- ers while she turned. But the butter didn't come. When Keyser came home and found the churn stil! in action he blasted his eyes and did some other innocent swearing, and then he seized the handie and said that he would make the butter come if he kicked np an earthquake in doing it. Mr. Keyser efected about two hundred revolutions of the ¢1 ik a minute, enough tohave made uy ordinary butter come from the ends of the earth; and when the perspiration began to stream from him and stand still the batter | didn't come, he uttered ono wild yoll of rage and disappointment and kicked the churn over the fence. When Mrs. Keyser went t9 pick it up she put her nose down close to the butter- milk and took asnif. Then she unlerstoo1 how it was. The girl had mixed the whitewash in tho | churn andleftit there. A good, honest and in- | | \ teiligent servant who knows how to charr can find a situation at Keyser’s, There is a yacau- y- z NJtN” Sevaw’s Tasre ror G CLoTHES—An Eztraordinary From Michi —The Bay City (Mich.) Tribune tells t wing story: ‘ins family at Arenac great preparations for the marriage of a danghter have lately been going on. {Tue happy day was fixed, the wedding dress and indispensable | orange blossoms were secured, the varions other necessaries for such an occasion had been d ali was joyful, when, on the day previous to that set for the conmmmation of the happiness of two individuals, au Indian who , lived with his tribe a few miles distant knocked atthe door of the dwelling referred to and asked if the family had lost adress. Of course thers was only one dress thought of at that Ume, and with two steps and a bound the dam- sel who opened the door few up atairs to the room where the wedding garments had been left. The door was opened, and lo and behold the room was bare. Upon returning to the In- dian it was ascertained that a squaw of his tribe had been wearing an elegant dress ai other finery, and knowing that she d not come by it rightfully, the Indian had come to town to ascertain if an: lost any articles. He went to the yariou: houses, but no one had missed anything; and at the Poaiepige Votoms which the articles were taken their absence had not even been noticed; the room in which the ents were left was a spare bed room, and, having casion to use it, no members of the family entered it fortwodays. Th ® condition which evidenced that some one had pt in it, and it was: juently ascertained that the squaw who had stolen the articles entered the house unnoticed, slept in the one night, and the next beg 4 had and donving the wedding out left bor On her way thither she passed the woods, soiling and tearing the dress very badly. The loas of the wedding outit necessita- ted a postponement of the marriage uwantii another dress could be procured.” Carar Boarpine Houss DiaLoge: yez bave a cup oftay, Mr. Finnegan “Av it’s plazin’ to Mrs. Feggette. “Do you find it gude, Misthur Finnegan?” “Excellent, Mrs, Foggarts; that kolud of tay is this, Mrs. Foggarty? Is it Oolong, Shoolong or Orange pikve tay, Mrs, Foggarty?” “‘It's the rale gunpowther tay, Misthar Fin- nd how much the nd did ay for this tay, Mire, Foggarty 2° mr ““Siventy-foive ciuts the pound, Misthur Fin- 2. neFWell, I must say it’s a siventy-toive cents the pon: illegapt how!d of the second one had — Will jendid article at : it takes such an ® great sin.” it; it’s too grievous.” “I have married 1 ae unorganly | Accordingly, Mr. Adams was immodiately ter | take the chair of the Speaker of this house | well that the | pose, placing the pan ou ous of the stepe. THE OLD MAN peogvenrr. [From the New York News.) On the opening of the Twenty-sixth Con- grees, in December, 1259, im consequence of a id delegation from New Jersey, the House was unable, for rome time, to comple ES nization, &nd presented to the count an Qarworld the perines ana discreditable aspect of the assembled representatives of the people unable to form themselves into a constitutional bevy, On first sssembling, the House has no Offeers, and the clerk of the preceding Con- | grese, acts, by usege, ss chairman of the body Uli a Speaker is chosen. Onthis occasion, after Teaching the State of New Jersey, the acti clerk declined to proceed in calling the roll, | and refused to entertain any of the motions which were made for the purpose of extricating the House from its embarrassment. Many of the able and most judicious members had ad- dressed the House ii vain. and there was noth- ing but confusion and disorder in prospect. ine fourth day opened, and still confusion Wastriumpbant. But the hour uf disentural- ment was at band, ard a scene-was presented hich sent the mind back to those days wheu | Cromwell nttered the exclamation, “Sir Harry Vane! woe unto you, Sic Hatry Vane!” and in ap instant disperred the famous Kamp Pariia- ment. Mr. Adams from the opening of this scene of coutasion avd anarchy, had maintained a pro- fourd silence. He appeared to be engaged most of the time in writing. To —& common observer he seemed to be reckless of everything aronnd bim; but nothing, not the sligntest inci- Gent escaped him. The fourth day of the siruggie Lad pow comme Mr. Hagh H. Garland, the clerk was directed to call the roi! again. ‘He commenced with Maine, as was nsaal in those days, and was proceeding toward Massa- i turned and saw that Mr. A was ready to get the floor at the earliest moment pes: His keen eye was riveted on the clerk; his hands clasped the front edge of bis desk, were he always placed them to assist kim in rising. “New Jersey!” ejaculated Mr. Hugh #H Garland, **a1a the clerk has torepeat that" | Mr. Adams sprang to the sour. “1 rise to interrupt the clerk!” was bis lirst ejacniation, nee—silence!” reeounded through the | ba . Hear him—hear him!” to say!” were the unanimous ejacalations on all sides. in an instant the most profound silence Teigred throughout the hall—you might have beard a leat of paper fall in any part of it—and every eye wes riveted on the yenerable Nestor of Mastachusetts. He paused for & moment; and, having given Mr. Garland a withering look, he proceeded to address the multitude: “Jt was not my intention,” said he, "to take any part in these extraordinary proceedings. f had hoped that this house would succeed in or- anizing ttselt; that a Speaker and clerk would fe elected, and that the erdinary business of legislation would be progressed in. This is not the time or place to discuss the merits of the conflicting claimants tor seats from New Jersey; that subject belongs to the Honse of Kepresen- tatives, which, by the Constitution, is made tne uit biter of the qualification of its mem- bers. But what @ spectacle we here present! We degrade and disgrace ourselves; we degrade and disgrace our constituents and the country. We do uot and cannot organize: and why? Be- cavse the clerk of this House, the meré clerk, whom we Create, whom we employ, and whese existence depends upon our will, usurps the throne, and sets us, the representatives, the vice-regents of the whole American people, at defiance and holds usin contempt? Ana what is this clerk of ours’ Is he to suspend by his mere negative, the functions of government, and put anend to this Congress. He retuaes to call the roll! It is in Four amily to compel him to call it, if he will not doit voluntarily Here be was interrupted by a member, who said that he was authorized to say that corapul- sion could not reach the clerk, who had avow that he would resign rather than call the S of New Jersey. “Well, sir, let him resign,” entinued Mr. Adams, “and we may possibly iscover some way by which we can ge? along, without the aid of his all-powerrul talent, le: ing and gening. If we cannot organize in any Other way—it thie clerk of ours will not con- sent to our discharging the trusts confided to us by our constituents—then let ue imitate the example of the Virginia Honse ot Burgesses, whicb, when the colonial Governor Dinwiddio ordered it to disperse, refused to obey the imperious and tusulting mandate; and, like mer—” The multitude could not contain er repress their enthuriasm auy longer, butsaluted the in- ignantepeaker with loud and deafening cheers, “Hear what he w The turmoil, the darkness, “the very chaos of anarchy,” which had for three successive days pervaded the American Congress, was dispelled by the magte, the talismanie eloquence of a sin- | Scene, which takes place “Hear John Quincy Adams!” | | are hundrede of women ai | employed in the public health’ sei ich eeemed to shake the capitol to its center. | gle man; aud once more the wheels of govern- | | ment and legislation were patin motion. Having by this powertal appeal brought the d aszembly to a perception of its zardous position, he submitted a motion re- quiring the acting clerk to proceed to cal! the roll. This and similar motions had already been made by other members, The difficuity was thatthe acting clerk declined to entertain th: ted by @ burst of voices deman: put the qnestion?”’ ‘The voice of Mr. Adams was heard atove thetnmult: “I intend to put the question myself!” That word brought order out ofchacs. There was the master mind. As soon ag the muititude had recovered itself and the excitement of irrespousible enthusiasm ad abated, Mr. Kichard Barnwell Rhett of South Carolina leaped upon one of the desks, waved his hand and exclaimed: I move that the honorabie John Q. Adams officiate a8 presiding officer till the House be ¢ ganized by the election of its constitational of [Seng AS Many as are agreed to this willsay aye; those"? He had not an opportunity to completa the sentence—‘those who are not agreed will say no”. i oil Fesponded to the nomination. Hereupon it was moved and ordered that Lewis Williams of North Carolina and Richard Barnwell Khett conduct John Quincy Adams to the chair, In speaking of this scene; Mr. Wise of Virginia said: T regard it as the proud- est bour of your life; and if, when you shal! be gathered to your fathers, | were asked to select the words which, in my judgment are best cal- culated to give at once the Character ofthe man, 1 would inscribe upon your tomb this sentence: “IT will put the question myself.’ Too OLD TO SgsraRate.—The Des Moines a.) Regieter contains the a “Seve 'y-S.x years ago therc was born in New York ‘entleman now a resident of Central Iowa, n: far distant from the capital city. Forty-five — go Le was married and lived happily—at east so far ax is known—with his wife until abont six weeks since. Then they bad their Urst quarrel. Children have been born to them and grown up ander their own roof. Grandchil- dren have played on their knees, as old age has come upon them. What the cause of that first quarrel was we have not learned, nor do we care to lea) {tis enough for the purpose of the historian that they quarreled, and so bitterly that both took steps for a legal divorce. The long years of peace were all forgotten, and in Wrath they proposed to sever the lives that had been exe for nearly balf a century. childish as this appears, it is true, and a Des Moines man, an old friend of all parties, was sent for to prepare formal articles tor the sep- ion. He went to the residence of belligerent antediluvians about ten since. but, instead of drafting articles fora diyores, he played the role of peace-maker £9 ‘at was abandoned, aud x the old folks use one pillow again. A casi simost as strange now aw ment in « lawyer's Cffice in Des Moines. wife is and th band 61. ‘Chey reled about a pan of miik. The wife started carry it down cellar, but before reaching foct of the stairs returned, for the same 7 busband bad occasion to descend the sca: fore the pan was removed, tipped it spilled the wratbfuily. The milk-pan outweighed memory of thirty-three years of wedlock, and for the past six weoks, safely locked in an attorney's safe. bas beon lying the application for a diverce. The lawye: doesn't wish to be @ party to the suit, nor does he want the aivores 0 be gtauted, and is wictiholding the application for the purpose of etfecting & settlement of the difficulties between the irate twain.” over, milk, and came back awearing AND Now the drawling “tha a-nks” of tho languid swells bas crept into the dry Fog stores; so when a lady hands her currency to the brisk counter-jumper, and he has yelled “ca-a-sh !”’ in a rasping voice into her very face balt-a-dozen times, and rapped on the counter till ber teeth are on edge, he unsettles ber digestion for the rest of day by i ber the — nd drawling “Tha-a-nke”’ in No a easy, iliar etyle, a8 if he had just a ed & waltz'with hei ‘on Bulletin, Lapy—‘Are you the Rev. Mr. Dashleigh’s bootmaker ’”’ Bootmaker—‘ Yes, Miss.” Li: = “T want re. to make up thess slippers for him, and them to me.” Bootmaker— With leasure, Miss; Iam just now making a pair or him.” Lady (with consternation—) ‘*What!” Bootmaker—‘‘Only @ ag of leather ones I as- eure you, Miss.”— Pw: SF The eye of faith_“O, my, what a lot of currants!” *‘Ourrant calls ’em—currants, do ver?) Why, them’s ‘tloe, yer stoopid!” B7-Two ledies caught the small-pox from wearing dresses which they bad hired co go to a alt against the proprie‘Or of the costume sion, @ proprietor oF me . The jatter ree that he did net rent the dts: ease; the lady took it without his permission, ‘Case still on. §2-A saloon ki ir in Newark hasa that readily dirtisguishes dell of the milkman who daily serves the establish: and, tak- eects un a agg mig yd meet bi: way filied, and care- nd speedily seturus, Ho ia’ or the univertal, daafouing, thundering, | window. He accordingly leaned out on the silt ra W shal! the question be put?” +*Who wil | Now, | | pion, tonchin, the | peacefal | How the British Bathe at Bright: Untortanately, there is hardiy ® more dismal = to be withesrd than the English woman taking her en ide ae Enshronded in @ eavy, rag a gown, she inte ti eoutt only to be the spat’ both of See Waves anc the multitude of men gatheredon the shore to binocle the performance. No man ix permitted to go into the water at the ladies’ beach—not even with his wife. The sexes are, ¢ however, only theoretically kept apart. Firty of, the men are bathing with about as neh raiment as Adam had when in fall dress; they are just far enough away to be fully visi- ble to the ladies without being of the slightost use in case of accident. And accidents are tre- ment. On the day ofthe bank holiday more than a score of women fell down in the w aud were prevented from rising again by t long skirts. Some of them would have drowned but that wen rushed into the water trom the Let it not be sop there are Several very fine ones, ard while da! they are kept locket ap in perfect hundred vards upon the beach One findsat an Frglish bathing-shore bow dall ard stupid the nation isin some things. Frere gentleman and lady yon meet with will Press an opinion in favor of th continental plan ot ailow bathe together tn decorons c with eyes tn his or her head pradery which separates them on the English peach Teaily results in every ivable inde cotum attendant on bathing. But just as England staved off tramways until the cities of every other great conntry were enjo: them, juistasit bad been without a sleeping until this year, co it has held on fo its sem'-b individually ex barens fe of having men and wome theoretic the in separates spot pra teal re hav id, being thatthey are er decen Accorcing to the polics arran. ton, men at! boys are permitted to anil the shore. without using bathing ma And take a fwim, before S o'clock in the m. and after *in the evening. light at Sinthe evening, and odd sights of Brighton toree th ing. Hundreds of on the esplanade ars! a nr of Sia tolle from the steeples there Is a rushof thousands into the sea. It never appeare to occur to any one that there is the slightest indecoram in this nost beneath the witdows of the mest fashionable street in the city. The railing of the esplanate, jast over this nude multitude, is fringed with persons of both sexes; avd, indeed, down beneath, in the fame water where and boys are bathing. there girls,with skirts high tucked, wading and gazing wistfully ont in envy of their luxuriating brothers. And all this in a country where it ts thought indecent for men ard women, however carefully dressed, to enter the water together'—Conway in Cincin= nati Comme Farracess Kittie Brans.—A fintter was created among the colored people living around 4th and Grayson yesterday afternoon, by a mar- riage between Kittie Beans, a colored damsel of that neighborhood, and Richard Richardson, a porter on an L. and N. sleeping car, which dia | not take place, although it ‘orter have.” The marriage was set for 4 o'clock, and the preacher was engaged to perform the ceremony at the 15th street col church. A large crowd of negroes gathered at the church, eager to wit- | Ress the marriage ceremony. Shortly before the appointed bour, the groom arrived at the hovee of his Dalctnea Del To! im an aristocratic-looking carriage, and dressed ap- propriately for thy occasion, baton his euter- ing the bouse he looked for her in vain. Her parents said that she had left aboat an hour previously, for the apparent purpose of going atter her bridal dress, hut had not r: turned. Atter waiting patiently for some time the groom began to smell a mouse, and there immediately followed a terrible weeping and lamentation over the faithless Kittie Hes ¥ costamed isstill broad day- is one of it the | He used his wedding coat freely to dry his eyes, and raved excitedly about the ficklenes womankind. It was suspected that tue would- be bride had eloped with some other gentleman of color, and left the porter of » sleeping-car in the lurch. However, lamentations were of no avail, and he left the house awearing that should he in the future meet her he would never say “beans” to her agat: L reitle ¢ Jour. of INFANTICIDE BY OP formed physiciave in —One of the best In- England, Dr. Mitchetl, ce, some time ago pubiished a mass of testimony o tained by him trom numerous medical wi nesses, showing the almost universal resort to Opium in order to benumb and stupefy children, even those of the tenderest age; a very common preparation of this sort being a so-catled cordial made of treacle and opium. So ger pears, is the use of this mixture, that c #0 to the apothecaries and without any alll tion ask for adoss of it to give to the baby next day, as they are going out to work.” Chem- its frankly admit that they make and geli these opium decoctions by barre! and hogsheads full This banefal usage prevatls not i liery districts, but siso in manufacturing and non-manufacturing places; and it is statad b one physician that in the’ Nottingham, Do: and Leicester districts the niiniste ing opium to intants usually begins when the cbild ts three or four weeks old. And still ay other witness asserts that the o} given on the very duy of birth, being in read ness for that event. The tneritable resalt o this terrible custom is, of course, that great numbers of intants perieh, either suddenly trom an overdose, or, as mere commonly happens, by slow, painful, insidious disease. Compared. therefore, with this form of infanticide. the kind practiced by the Chinese may be said to be merciful. um cordial PLayina wits Dywamitg.—At St. John’s - B., a gentleman named Bertreaux, sojourn: g at the Victoria Hotel, was severely injured the other evening through his too great zeal to celebrate the advent of the lunar eclipse. He had prepared a cartridge of dynamite, which he purposed exploding in a yard underneath h and lighted the tissue paper fase; but, as the latter burned more rapidly inside ‘than out, the fire penetrated the cartridge betore he ‘w: aware, and the dynamite exploded. Bertroaux’s hand was shattered at the wrist joint and blown into a thousand pieces. His left arm near the | elbow was also badly bruised, bis right eye and chin slightly injured, and ‘he received a se- vere gash in the left cheek, apparently from @ piece of the bone of the hand, His suf- fering for a time was excruciating. A friend who was standing belind him suttered also from the shock. The eoncussion and fiash of flame have resulted In an injury to bis sight which calls for his seclusion trom the light. Another gentleman who was present was knocked by the recoil clear across the room, his sense of hearing beirg somewhat impaired. A fourth person was also in the room, but sustained no damage. Several articles of furniture were overturned by the shock, and a large hole blown into the window sill. The cartridge used was about two and a halfinches in length and an inch thick, with a small cap at one end to which the fuse o! Ussue paper was attached. FIsHInG FoR PEaRts—The Perils and Hard- ships that are Encountered in the South Paci} ‘The Florence Bailey, a stanch schooner, was anchored inthe North river yesterday, ready to etart for the South Pacitic. For several years she bas been used by Captain Wesley Clark, of Essex, Mass., in the pearl fching business, and this moroing, with acrew of eighteen men, she will pass Sandy Hook tor a re’cruise. The sets of submarine armor that are carried by the schooner are furnished with large brags helmets, and weigh about 130 pounds each. The helmet weighs turty pounds, and the shoes twenty-four ponnds, Encased in this armor, the diver is lowered tothe bottom of the sea, air being supplied by a force pump throvgh a long tube. a basket to hold the oysters he wanders among the $ and coral trees, sometimes for ten hours at atime, the basket being raised as often as filled by m2aus ofa “life line.” The Gulf of California has been the great pearl feld for many years, but Captain Clark intends to explore ‘a new re- at the Falkland Isiands, off Pat- agonia, and through the Straits of Magellan to the Society Islands, off Pern, { part of Poly- nesia that iseeldom visited.’ Seven pounds of pearls tn four months were the reanits of his last voyage off the coast of Ecuado: N. ¥. Sun. A HEROINE oF THE CoMMUNE.—The follow- ing was related to me yesterday of a noble woman whose name should live in history. She, = with her lover, a young surgeon, hat taken care of the wounded communists mage | the days and nighta of their fierce fighting wi the Versailles troops. Upon the entry of the latter into the city, when excitement was at its ht, and when every one suspected of com- plicity' with the commune was shot without | & question being asked, the surgeon was ar rested and brought before the drum-head tribunal, im the Place da Chatelet. His life trembled for the moment in the hal- ance, but was finally saved by the inter- cession of one of the judges present, who was _ an intimate friend of here, too in ata glance, saw the dang | would plunge her lover should she recognize him, and drew herseif [a saying, “Yo: are mistaken, sir.”—N. ¥. Evening Post. Ax InnUMAN FataER.—Thomss Wiid, re- siding at No. 110 Throop avenue, Brooklyn, E. A i tg oe Sane oat dente with a cowhide in so violent manner i ari, agate Samim tt ferious, and that he wilt y be dis. —N. ¥. Republic. From Despair to Den: A RUSSIAN PANKRE'S SON WHO POIRONED HIN SRLY RATHER THAN DIR OF STARVATION—A PATHETIC LETTER. rem San Prancisce Chroné Butenop, the Russian banker's #00, who committed suicide by swallowing potson oo la: Tuesday, tert t wing letter “That the public should pot eed was done ma fit of insar atter a month's resection I t World in the full possession of # that Iam calm and collected, todo thie by extreme despair, nervous excite- ment. ete, etc. Absolute want turns the into the devil. Every creature must liv; to live one needs pecumia—that whi at present (as the saying to the dogs). I ‘have deported myself correctly to this world, ring the Inst ten years 1 found that | would have fo be come in debt and live upon the charit: ot oth ers, Even now I fr: I have overstepped the Lounds, and ger claim a cent’s worth of favor. Truly, Tam now so situated that Ido now where to ohteta food fur to metrow. For weeks I have otered my © or board, but they were not It it Lam drive {or me te regula yrmar statu: ymucd already. and can hold tL was asked to ret bome, and, depen tin ter, 1 gave om as teacher; * find my hopes dashed to earth f the let ny s destiny bas tortured me very much, and than die of hunger I take my Will say, “had be come to me tained what he » al life Now r hefore dent! thetr mai second t Iamr s at tired om recovery after ar vp One ean imagine how hard or me ch ameanner, On: im. ‘fam driven to it throng ane.” My innermost thanks to the names of a doze city. poison. refused me cre. N. 8&.—The secret ts de poison fails. The unfortunate map was unmarrind and thirty-four years or age, He arrived in nia several years since, and lost his money by an unfavorable land speculation tn Alameda. His father is N. Butnop. a member banking firm of Batenop Brothers, doing bu ners in Moscow, Kussia, witha capital of $50,000,000. The suicide was an accomplished scholar, however, and did not desire to a; to hie father for assistance, and he sought t regain his financial standing by giving instrac- tion m foreign languiges. In last July he pe- titioned his father, by letter. for assistance, asking for $750 toenatic him to return home. A reply was receivet assuring him that the money Would be forwarded. Itdid not come, Lowever, and he was compelled to borrow small sums of money to enable him tosabsist. An in- quest will be held on Monday morning nex thi world, and ins troyed in case the A Wortutrss MAN.—I remember now of fellow of early days bere. ousand doliars a dw evening, after asiness hours, I encountered him leaning listlessiy against @ post, with bis two hands in his pockets. the picture of utter useleseness, 1 saluted him, snd stepped to have a mon: chat, when, aiter looking at me a mome: remarked, “You seem t have a pretty good time in this world, and yet fee you hard work generally.” Laald, “Yes, Le He sighed remarked, 1 can «. - “Whats the matter,oid man? You have plenty or money. You are good-looking—young env agi. a His income was a Why don’t you enjoy yourseit? ‘Don't know how?’ Nonsense? “Build a nice bouse a brary, books—fine horses, a yacht, g i ve, am flirt with the Shoot, fish, eail, read, HY, man, I coull not find time enough, to do, toenjoy all these thing: pend 60 mach it on each. head, saying, «‘lbon't want's house Ured of horses. Yachting? Makes me sick can’t bear water. Never tired a gun in my tife— hate dogs and women.” “Well, what ¢ ean y 2° “Nothing, except drink whis aud play cards.” 1 looked at him pitying and wondered tliat Dame Fortune could bees stupid as to waste all her fayors on such a stick; but then I recollected she wasa femal That fellow had nothing that I eavicd—noth that 1 wanted—nothing that I w his leisure, and that thousan| la couple of years late , Women, ani whiske ke Ishould § shook his CLOTHE, Is74 FALL AND WINTER. THE LAKGEST aSSURKRTMEST or Fali and Winter Clothing, MENG’, YOUTES' AND BOY BVER OFFERED BEFORE BEAD THE FOLLOWING: A splendid line of Diagonal, Basket, and Worsted Double breasted Engi are F to with Vests to match; at $12, for gentlemens RUBLNESS BELTS Ts ‘35, 1, G35 and $20; end DRESS SUITS at'@ls, 35 and 680; @ uageificent line o , including ® very genteel & handsome Melton Overcoat for bey Overcost for @8, and an Overcoat for @1 (and'$12; Biacl 1s; OVER vercoat for 95, ® fine Whit legapt Obinchilla $3 as and Brown Beaver Overcosts at §12 an@ $15; One Enclish Ker- feys, in Blue, Brown, Drab and color, sil very handsomely snd lined, at $15, fine Astracan Beaver Overcoats at 'g3) and Snd many other styles. For Youths » splendid of Business Buits from $7 to 15; Suits from $18 to $20 62, Bo variety, from §5 to $12; Basioess Pavts from $2 to 4,aud fine Dregs kin and Fancy Caasimere from @450to $3. A Lena fants at prices ranginy tifal Lue of Children’s Buits and Overcosis. very J orge a careful inspection of my goods before chasing elsewhere, assuring the public that never before have bad such a variety of Gar ments t> please all tastes and desires, to sccommodate all purses, oF to give such entire sacisfaction A. STRAUS, 1011 PENNSYLVANIA AVEN: octl3-tr ‘Three Doors trom Lith Street THE GREAT METROPOLITAN DOLLAR STORE. IMMENEE ASSORTMENT! NEW FALL AND WINTER GO PSICES LOWER THAN EVER GOODS BETTEL THAN EVER NOW 18 THE TIME TO BUY! 2DS Hero aroa few of the bargains offered :—Boys’ and Girls’ Meriso Embroidered Gaps aud Hoots, rd Morine French Hoods, Hand Knit Zephyr Oaps and Hoods, Hand Kuit Sacyues, $i, Silk and Satin uilted Hoods, very fine, @1 80 and $2; Infants’ Mo- 20 Cloaks. $7 Goitarene, $isoes ond Lady Lee. ins, OC. jes’ "fine este and v4 arr, Merivo Shirts, S0c. and and Fine teil Ties | CARTE DRw ERTIFEMENT OF PIS CHEAP PRY GoURS, 707 MaRKRr STACE. We be s frp : ery fae pure Buk + * Ale tw oe ' Drees Guoleat ibe, . w “ta sot seeortinont 1 Bree wock of weer, mm the Rew Tork je tbat er er wes them CARTERS. 707 MARKET Pare SHADES Ave JOUN T. MITCHELL s7.4" est n QE PRICE TO ALE DE E DRESS . Berges, Cart Sivrie Black = 4 peas aod PB Mohatrs, Beech Bike, | TEN THOUSAND DOL, of @e e? a. LOW KATRS er BED VEL\ RTeENS were, r 101 sod 1080 Seventh street NOW CARPE CARPETS, CARPET . & RGEST STOCK IN THE CITY, ATTRACTIONS #\TRAORDINARBY Bevery piece of CARPET of the mont arthets as wien F Senortment embraces Brossols, Thewe OU Clothe tm sll widthe SPECIAL INDUCEM EST. With the great redustion in prices mais lately we fhail wake nud pot down all Carpeta free of charge. An lmmtiense stock « DRY GOODS on the first floor at redaced rates These Who would profit should call soon WOLFORD & SHILBER «. THE akcave, 427 SEVENTE 8 octme-tr Daw Beovngap zoo. 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LADIES’ FELT WATS Fi LOOK AB WELL AD BW, OS NTHED TO ALB WHITING etm ae we eae, [P# SALE On EXCHANGE, THIKTY-FOUK SMALL FARMS, BUILD iNG@ SITBS AND COUNTRY S£4TS, NEAR AND IN FULL VIB OF THE CITY Mecst GION re SMALL FRUIT, tity «3 “ co. @