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THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON tirsRspay, NO ER 16, 1882-DOUBLE SHERT. GLEANINGS FROM TUE PORT. FOLIO OF AN ANTIQUARIAN. Charlotte Corday, Who So Heroically | Receive my thank: Assassinated the Demon Marat, If it were done, when "tis dom, ‘Then ‘were well it were done quickly."—Macbeth. [In the largo lat of excellent and valuable historical intings in coran’s Art Gallery, none, probably, at- cis more attention than the imp-essive picture of Charlotte Corday, behind prison the Charles er, FE Jay's bri rill re On the 11th day of July, 1793, four persons seated at Duperret’s table. (Duperret was @ patriotic member of the French convention, and svon after this assemblage was arrested and guiliotined by the J ns.) The dinner was a melancholy one. The wine had no longer any charms—they ali feared its frankness. Anxiety, hesitation, and trouble were depicted on every face. The reign of terror had already com- menced by partial acts of demotratic fury. At the dessert Duperret was informed that a female “dan audience; he arose and went to found a fair stranger whom he bad ~ never seen or heard of before. but he felt in- stantly struck with a sentiment of respect and admiration on bebolding her extraordinary beauty and her noble and commanding de- meanor. * d the incognita, “I bring you intel man who is dear to ou.” She then presented him a letter from arbaroyx. (Barharoux was the representative for Marseilles; a true republican. He also died on the scaffold.) Duperret looked round the Yoom with alarm and whisp “Madam, speak lower, I en{reat you.” “No, citizen,” her reply, “on the contrar: pnverse boldly t y be interdicted. $ a representat he who passiv tacitly tole eof by inacertain deuive, . after readin: t! What do you re From the first nome fat your disposa rbaroux vire of me, madam? t 1 saw you, I felt y I this letter tells me ou merit my » confidence.” She a moment, and then said, “You are, able to ‘appreciate what chances of friends have. Tell me what may we ? The result of open re- in, Monsieur Duperret, and, bed are not at all delicient departments have received 1s, but the people are capric- jay are often their Victims the next nother moment of hesits shi ‘ “i think there Other means of delivering France, and if She stopped, and steadily regarded Dup whose asionishiment was extreme. guage surprises you moreover, th in enerzy. them with open a lous; their herve: en too long; I To-morrow, rd and pr “Charlotte Cor hotel de la Province! nd piae it on her heart, ngs to our She then retired. ining his guests, ing Ie pheren uselt kept friends! conversed but he was wrong t tever Was neither fo strued in Duperret passed the night in meditatin; the words of Charlotte Corday. She po: the means of ave Girond werethose means? ary female! it would be madness to pay any further atteation to her Proposais—no! he would not keep his appoint- Ment with her. It t be @ snare to entrap him. Yet the letter of Barbaroax, and, also, the noble counte: of the young woman, With that serene 2nd open brow, with those eves, ¢ forth candor and elevation of soul, pertidy could never exist. Duperret was faithful to the rendezvous he arlotte Corday. He found her ing with hasty steps her humbte chamber; er features we ked with fatigue, and her vered her ome flashed »ved to Duperret her eeing him. They remained silent a ts, Duperret then said, “you perceive, ou have inspired me id plede my existence that you “is it to me, or to the letter of citizen Duperret awards it?” “To You, madain, to you ale Tell me who you are and what are your projects?” “Who f am, itizen? Such as you behold me, a woman, a feeble he What I seek, what I ull know, be assured of it. © confidence, give me an to the min- aanded hermo- his lips. “Por the is it to Charlotte f Barbaroux that you “Let us go,” replied nil o1 Charlotte replied not a 1 addressed lience, why at the conven- e the myster; lucted Charlotte perhaps x to communicate to you.” se. Duperret found sof the “Comite de Sur- Yeillan 1 eto seize his papers, then called a meastire of public safety, but a sad pre- sage tor him. Duperret comprehended the dan- ker of lis situation and met it man‘ully. He a of coolness and resoluti evening he revisited Charlotte Corda anarm chair, her head leaning ba n her hand a ininiature portrait which she rezarded with sadaess. Tears stood in her . “Do you recognize it?” “Yes, it is” ‘Silence, M. Duperret. I entreat you do not w that name.” “She wept much. “Pai proneu clings, sir, and the | y | ont shrinkin forciveness for having trespassed on your con- fidence. I wanted some one to conduct me to the Minister, I was recommended to apply to you. 's; adieu, Monsieur; forget that you have known me; It is possible that we may not meet again, adieu. Your daughter ts, no doubt, waiting your return; she is very happy, your daughter.” She then pressed the hand of Duperret and withdrew, to her inner chamber. Alone! yes, she would present herself alone; that thought solaced her. Herbeautiful reatures assumed a nobler expression; her looks beamed. as with Inspiration: her whole appearance seemed to proclaim a mission more than earthly. Nature, however, had not lost all her rights; adeadly chill pervaded her heart, but it was only for amo- ment. Life Is so sweet in the days of youth that it is not easy to make a voluntary sacrifice of It without a shudder. How Charlotte passed that terrible night— how she struggled with the feelings of her woman's heart, it 1s impossible to say. In her chamber were found many papers neariy reduced to ashes, and ona fragment which the fire had Spared, were traced a few tender lines of which she was the theme. Charlotte Corday had sent the following letter to Marat: ‘1 have just arrived from Caen. Your love for your country must make you ready to receive an account of the plots meditating there. Texpect your answer.” This letter remaining unanswered she wrote another, which she de- termined to deliver herself. She concealed it in her bosom, and by the side of it a kitchen or case knife. It was on the Sunday morning, July 13, 1793, that Charlotte Corday went to the residence of Jean Paul Marat, the notorious leader of the French revolution, and the most insatiable ad—- voeate of human slaughter of all the blooe- thirsty demons during that storm of anarchy. He endeavored to get up a general massacre, and publicly demanded 270.000 executions. After announcing her desire to see Marat she was informed that she could not see him, but was told to call again in the evening. She sub- mitted to this delay without the slightest re- monstrance. Whatever feelings might have agitated her inmost soul during this dreadful interval, her ‘terior was tranquil and untroubled; not a k, not a step, not a word betrayed impa- nee or irresolution, She had made up her mind to free her country of this demon and die! In the evening, when she returned to Marat’s her countenance was serene, and nothing in her manner indicated that she was about to per- form the part of a female Brutus, or rather of a Curtins. Her steps, as they conducted her to Marat, were firm and assured, and as she passed to the monster’s den, she glanced her eyes around to see if there were any obstacles in the way of her determined purpose. Nothing escaped the searching looks of that young and selt-devoted maiden. There was nobody with Marat but an aged female attendant; he ordered her to leave him with the stranger. obeyed, and Char- lotte drew near to this ifie man. Hie was in his bath; hi arm out of the water resting ona block of wood and a pen. Marat was writi lifting his eyes he desired Chai moment. with her glance the words he traced upon the per, as he murn ed them in undertone to himself. He c J his writing, and turned his head towards his fair vi or. A frightful smile accompanied the loc She bore his look with- . and Marat, all hideous as he was, fi no terror; she even answered eturnin another, and her lips be- n flattering words: **Citizen,” said Thad at desire to see you—I an so renowned for hts hould have made me wait so long ich T demanded in the name and without te to walt a pired her w |, “Marat is exceed- if J coulé have figured you as you en myself who would haye a nce of y but I am so tor- uted by similar applications to which I am ed to submit because I have popularity to Tell me what youdesire. Speak, you are ¢ to whom Marat could never refuse you haye received my letter?” ht it is true—I recollect now the object of your visit. What have you to tell me of the conspirators at Caen? What wrong to avenge? at lover has proved faithless? You wish him Tense on the scaffold? Truly he Make yourself Marat peopie, and that eye can dis- t their most hidden retreats. it[ thus take your quar- rels to heart, what will you give me tor a re- e? With a female, Marat is not disin- sted, and perhaps, you yourself would uot pardon me if I were.” “And what recompense wishes Marat?” ot much, belle citoyenne; no, not much; for nee, a kiss from your charming mouth. Hon’t be alarmed, Marat owes few thanks to nature for his face, and I mizht say to you, as Polyphontes to Merope—a ood republicaine will think little of such a trifle.’ She advanced, as if to obey him, at the same time placed her hand in her bosom—and at the moment Marat opened his arms to enfold her he be the mortal chill of the steel which pierced his eart. The only words he uttered were—“A mol, ma chere amie Je meurs (help, dear, I am killed!) Then his arms fell, his head sank on his shoulder, his eyes, at first started from their orbits, closed forever, and the water was dyed with his blood. Charlotte quitted the apartment, and the ser- vantsof Marat had her immediately arrested. With e said, “It is useless; I was ing er myself up.” At the conyen- |, in the Clubs, and even on the scaffold, she was covered with maledictions by the inturiated Jacobins; but her courage never forsook her. She died with a rose between her lips. qT nly existence of on the 17th day arofher age. She although a republi- came from a noble fs can, and pos: d rare rins of person, united with great courage. During her brief imprison- ment—from the 13th of July to 17th, five days, she addressed the foliowlng noble letter to her father: posed of my life without your permission. I have avenged many victims—prevented others. The people wil one dayacknow Thave rendered my country. For your wished to remain incognito; but it was impossi Die. I only trust you will not be injured by what I have done. father! Forget me, or rather rejoice at my fate, for it sprung from a noble cause. Embrace my sister for me, whom I love with all my heart. Never forget the words of Corneilie—the crime makes the shame, and not the scaffoli!” howed the picture to Duperret and | Washington City sovinae Bank Settle«- men To the Editor of Toe Eventne Star: Seeing in your issue of yesterday a reference don my weakness; a woman, although she may | to the final settlement of the Washington City Possess courage, is always a woman.” “Betieve me, I take a great interest In all that concerns you,” said he; “I have been faith- ful to my word, will you be faithful to yours?” “Yes. M. Duperret, yes, and may you never ave reason to repent it. Charlotte Corday brings misfortune on all who regard her with Kindness inquired—“Cit Do you not assassin, and desery: with fury. niard hi claimed crline to id that should pierce his ret, would be blessed by all France; death could not disgrace it: that hand would have performed a deed i earth and heaven! But (she lowered her eyes), oh! may such a blow not be struck by one whois dear to you.” “and, wherefore, Madam?” inquired Du- ‘Your young dauzhter, M. Duperret, her whose biue eyes are so full of tenderness, whose affection is So sweet to you, armed with the .then accost uls breast a hat an idea,” exclaimed Duperret; “such Is not a woman's work. It is true your sex know how to die, but where could one’ be found who, without shrinking, dare even to look upon those ting for human blood? No! Marat must fall, but it must be by a powerful band.” “Duperret,” replied the maiden, = ew concealed beneath a fragile exterior. @ feeble arm before now has performed However, you are right, it ts not work of a woman, yet I wish to females id easy access to him, that and that he is less ferocious in their presence. | the revolver Egy something Perhaps, after listeni becos was disch: Meee pene Ee ane one | Lhe kanlionnnS hemk and accion a ait y mere alive to pity, more prone to mercy. 1 cpede me I cor the future. Could you introduce me to Marst, “M. Duperret?” She spoke tho words in a serious, helf jraytul mood. Duperret was “I introduce you to Marat!” he that were unaccounted for, but one went Peay far freee Setaas ca nicsnns | polioemnn’s log. The cat finally ise Mine would be but a bad introduction | t'roush a locomotive wheel at a far, very far trom bel: |have been thrown into bankruptey—all Savings Bank under the heading, ‘‘A Wonderful Case.” aquestion arose in my mind ‘show many se depositors who are now receiving their italment from this bank know to whom they are indebted for thus protecting their in- terest?” Had the application to the court, ask- ing to have a receiver appointed, been delayed one hour later than it was, the bank would its securities forced on the market and sold when no one wanted securities, but everybody wanted money, and there would not have been a depositor who would ave receivedh more than twenty-five cents on the dollar. At the earnest requ of Mr. Ruff, Mr. Ger- mond Crandell consented to allow his name to be used for the petition fora receiver, and to him more than any other man are the depositors indebted for their money. But while they were beneitted, 1am told that he was a very heavy loser in his business by the people not under- standing the nature of the case and blaming him for closing the bank. CITzeN. ‘The Carcless Cat’s Catnstrophe. From the Boston Post. volver lay on a shelf, and a cat stepped upon it and pulled the trigger and the revolver would “courage is | been caught between it and the cartridge. As be protest started on a promenade. Her owner inspire him with regrets for | he turned and bolted thron-; —that {could render him better tor | he left have been discharged if the animal’s tall hadn't it was, the cat experienced intense pain from the compression of her tail, and with violent started to relieve her, but just the n she banged and one barrel the bullet flew within a foot of wie door, which open. Tis cat thereby escaped and flew a tne , creating terrible excitement. A dog saw her go and went after her, and another discharge of the weapon sent a bullet back that slew him. Ofthe other four bullets intoa to run ant got its neck broken, and a small boy got aw: with the revolver. a a, ———_+2-______ Chas. D. Pattee, tmaster at Mich., has been with the malls ofa eine ee “Pardon me, my dear father, for haying dis- | | of certain newspapers on Judge Wylie. | | | be reversed by a hi Farewell, my beloved | DORSEY AND BRADY. An Alleged Disagrcement—When Star Routers F: Out Honest Men May Get Their Dues. Washington Correspondence Boston Herald. Wasutneton, D.C., Noy. 18, 1882.—The prob- ability is that, at the second trial of the star route thieves, which is to begin in December, the mutual dislike, amounting almost to hatred, existing between Dorsey and Brady, which was more or less apparent at the first trial, will be- come quite prominent. Dorsey's theory of his connection with the star route case has always been, it is understood, that he was chargeable with nothing more heinous than involuntary bribes; that he was in no wise guilty of conspiracy with Brady to defraud the government. Dorsey went into star route con- tracts, if this theory is correct, as he went into other business enterprises, to make bata honestly if possible’ He got on wonderfully well at first. He got.all the contracts he and his associates could; handle, and, whenever he asked for expedition or increase of service, he got it without theifeast trouble. By and by things wentitess smoothly. Tne department began to find fauls tw the performance of the service which lmdé @xisted all along, but had not been noticed betore. It began to levy fines for non formance of contract provisions, It" fl the Senator $60,000 on one route. The Senator soon saw that, if this went on much _ longer, instead of the fortune he had hoped for ruin would stare him in the face. He did what he could legitimately to save himself ey argument and by political influence. He failed. He was advised to try “ginger.” He did so, believing that to be the only way in which he could save what he had invested, to say nothing ot what he hoped for inthe way of profits, All went well with him so long ashe kept on bribing Brady, and therefore he continued to bribe him at the rate of $10,000a route. He looked upon it as a business necessity merely. He believed that the service he rendered was needed, and was honestly and faithfully performed. He bribed this government officer to prevent him from wrecking his plans. He would have stopped ina minute, if he had thought he could do so safely. He never dreamed of conspiring with Brady. On the contrary, he did what he could to prevent Brady trom bleeding him. One method, which he thought might check Brady, was to have witnesses present whenever he paid him any money. Ex-Senator Spencer was one of these witnésses. It was from his lips that the government hoped to get evidence of the bribery. It still hopes to do so. Dorsey does not care to have him testify on this point. He believes himself to be innocent of Fay la it is said, but then he knows himself to be guilty of bribery. The disagreeable relations existing hideous visage turned | S0R towards the side opposite the door, his right | Work to the advantage of the government at | on which were a sheet of paper, an inkstand, | 20t act in the case of ex- She stood by the bath, following | Of court in not coming on and testitying at the between the principal defendants (if their per- I friends are to be believed) will probably the coming trial, The President will probably nator Spencer, gov- ernment director of the Union Pacific, accused by Messrs. Bliss, Merrick and Ker of contempt last trial, until after Congress meets. pee teidnastieh te The Star Routers Desperate. From the Sunday Herald. Town, Louisville: A loaded and cocked re- |’ | on the shoulder. The public will not be blinded by the attacks That the star route ring want their cases tried before some other Judge is plain. Were Judge Wylie So poor a jurist that his rulings would probably her court the conspirators might be willing fo take their chances with him. But he is both so upright and able that the prospect of a second trial before him terrifies them. This is the secret of all the unceasing assaults upon him, and of the attempt to make somethii ut of nothing in the Soteldg case. What with bribing jurors, murdering newspa- r men, and blackguarding the prosecuting ers in open court, the star route gang are evidently growing more and more desperate. -<—______ GOUNOD’S FIRST OPERA, His Description of # Impressions on Mearing Opera for the First ‘Kime. M. Gounod, the famous composer, related the other day at the French Institute, Paris, his first impressions of the opera, when, in 1852, at the aze of thirteen, he was taken to hear Mozart's “Don Juan” at the Italiens, The simple prom- ise beforehand that he should, be takén there sent such a thrill of happiness through him that he could neither eat nor drink. “My mother remarked It,”- sald he, ‘and told me: ‘You can't go to the opera if you don't eat.’ After such a threat I would have swallowed anything that might have been placed hefore iné. But on hearing the sublime and terrible overture—how can 1 describe it when even to- day, after fifty years of an ever-increasing ad- miration, my heart thrills to think of it, and my heart trembles in writing about It! All that I can remember Is that It seemed to me as if God aking tome. TI fell into a sort of pain- delicious prostration, and was half suifo- cated with emotion. ‘Ah, mamma,’ I cried, ‘that is real music.’ I was literally overcome.” a The Idaho Bachelor at Dinner, From the Virginia Chronicle. A gentleman from Hailey, Idaho, came to the Comstock the other day. Having recently sold his claim he had plenty of money and went in for style—pius hat anda blue silk handkerchief with one corner sticklug out of the pocket of his new onal coat. He walked into the In- ternational, and when the gong rang for dinner he sauntered into the dining-room with the rest of the onable throng. Everybody looked at him, but he didn’t mind it, and went on eat- ing the brandied peaches while waiting for his soup. Whenthat came he bent so far over his plate to suck it in,with the sound like the gurgle |- of a bath-tub exhanst-plpe. that his plug hat fell head and rolled across the table against the plate of an eastern lady tourist. With a grin of apolozy he half rose, reached overand recovered it and placed it on his well-olled and_ recently Larbered head. He attacked his trout with his vers, and despised the use of any other nap- n than hismouth. Pending the arriyal of the beef, the gentleman from Halley placed both | elbows on the table and surveyed the company with great affability and self possession as he converted his fork Into a tooth-pick. Then he livted his plughat an inch or two from his head and scratched the same gently with his four- pronged toothpick. While engaged on the beef the hat fell off again and rolled across to the Eastern lady, who had grown pale. Presently the gentleman from Idaho had need of a hand- kerehief, and made use of the only one which nature, and probably Hailey provides. The plug hat fellon the floor this time, and when he had recovered and replaced it he sat alone at the table. He looked with surprise at the guests jostling one another to get out of the door. ‘ire?” he asked of a transfixed waiter. 0.” gasped the man. “No! What's the row, then?” “Had enough, I suppose,” replied the waiter with a withering look. “Mighty small eaters, ‘pears to me, and cussed queer manners about gitten’ outen aroom. Give us another chunk o’ beef—pooty fur from the horns, if yer kin.” . “Presently Landlord Hanak appeared with a colorless face and bulging eyes. He walked rapidly up and touched the arrival from Hailey “You seem to be haying a pretty good time,’>| gaid the landlord, refraining from gnashing his teeth. ell. that’s so boss. You sit down here and whack up a boitle o'wine at my expense. Oh, I've got a pocketful of rocks, an’ don’t you for. get it. Say, do you happen to know any likely hat’s onthe marry? I'm in here on that and he grinned and once more lifted his oa pike and again scratched his head with is fork. MOODY AND SANKEY IN PARIS. French Audiences, e si Correspondence New York Sun. Panis, Noy. 1.—One hesitates to refer to these gentlemen as one hesitates to speak of *‘ Pina- fore,” or that recent event in Philadelphia which commemorated the anniversary of our repubiic; but when one meets them anew in Paris, con- ducting their impdortunate services under the shadow ot the Louvre, they borrow fresh tn- terest from their incopgruous surroundings. It is not that the gospel has not been heard be- fore in the light-hearted capital, or that it had not been urged upon the people from time to time at the point of the bayonet as well as by the no less instantaneous methods of these zeal- ous workers; but when @ stranger, sauntering from the gardens of the Luxembourg, comes upon a bevy of his countrymen laboring in con- version, the contrast strikes him. For the pa t two weeks English meetings have been held at the American and Wesleyan chapels, and reunicus Francalses a I'oratoire, rue Saint-Honore; and as usual in America, these meetings have been crowded, not only by the Engtish-speaking people, but by the French. Mr. Moody in Paris is identical with Mr. Mood: in Chicago. He addresses his audience wit the simple fervor of old, telling the same stories. He bids the audience in the aisles come forward with the same familiar and collo- quial address, and ashe closes his sermon his tones quaver with the emotions of 73; while Mr. Sankey reaches as bravely as ever forthe high notes in “The Ninety and Nine.” Since the har- yest in the Hippodrome in ’76, where thousands of. troubled faces were turned toward the dis- tant and hazy speaker, and the front rows were ranged three deep with women in black holding ear trumpets under their moarnin; weeds, the fervor of these assemblies has waned, though their numbers are fairly maintained. There are now no inquiry rooms, and not many are presenting themselves at the anxious seat to see what will turn up. There are no moans, few tears, and the general burden ce sin, even here in Paris, seems more easily orne. To a casual visitor the small red-canopled por pit occupied by Mr. Moody on Sunday last seemed the only closet in the city whence inter- cessions were sent above the chimney pots and the Column Vendome, and the only closet wherein an anxious soul wrestled in serious concern for its serene comrades. The gas was lighted in the middle of the afternoon in the American chapel, and during the hour ot the services It strove to ald the rays from the stained windows in lighting the sombre interior where a few hundred Americans joined in pro- longing the faith of their fathers. Outside the | shops were all open. the boulevards thronged. Innumerable wheels trundled their ruffled freight inthe Bois de Boulogne, and the too | happy Frenchmen, fresh from the gardens, sang on the tops of the omnibuses. Here and there in the city'a cathedral was open, and devout Catholics dropped in and out: but between these points a good deal of the business and more than the pleasure of the week went on. The cafes were full, and out on the sidewalks the slim young men and the stout old men sat drink- ing thelr wine and looking with the common beatitude at the monuments which Paris has everywhere erected to her glory. And while Mr. Moody preached one could hear the work- men engaged in tearing down alarge house across the street, and shouting to the passers-by BUTLER’S DOZEN CAMPAIGNS, His Several Contests for Congressman and Governor. From the Newburyport (Mass. ) Herald. Eleven times previous to this tall Benjamin F. Butler, of Lowell, (or Gloucester,) has come before the people ofthis section for their favor— four times as a candidate tor governor, twice in his party convention for governor, and five times as a candidate for Congress. The first time that Gen. Butler was brought particularly to the notice of citizens in this part of the state was in the autumn of 1859. He was that year the candidate of the demoeratic party for gov- ernor, against N. P. Banks, republican candi- dace, who, it will be remembered by many of the older readers of this article, was the whig governor of Massachusetts from 1844 to 1851. In this election Gen. Banks was elected, re- ceiving, In round numbers, 58,000 votes tc 35,000 for Butler and 14,000 for Briggs. The next year, 1860, Gen. Butler was also a candidate of the ultra wing of his party, the “Breckenridge” or ‘-Copperhead” democracy. Massachusetts did not take kindly to this doc- trine, and throughout the state he received only about 6,000 votes to 104,000 for John A. An- drew, republican; 35,000 for Erasmus D. Beach, “Douglass” democrat, and 23,000 for Amos A. Lawrence, the Union or “Bell and Everett” candidate. This ended Gen. Butler's guberna- torial ambition for the time being, but In the fall of 1866, having gained a residence the pre- vious spring In Gloucester, in this (then the fifth) Congressional district, he was nominated by the republicans, and elected to Congress, his opponent being the Hon. William D. Northend, Gea of Salem. Again he was the can- idate of the republicans in 1868, and besides the Hon. Otis P. Lord (democrat) he had as com- petitor the Hon. Richard H. Dana, jr., who ran as an anti-Butler republican. Gen. Butler was re-elected, however. In 1870he was again the Tepublican candidate for Congress, and was elected. In 1871 Gen. Butler attempted to se- cure the nomination for governor in the repub- lican state convention, and after a hot fight was defeated by 179 votes, William B. Wash- burn being his successful competitor. In 1873 he again attempted to get the nomination, but in the convention it did not come to a ballot, as he saw he was in a minority by a test vote, and withdrew, pledging his support to the nominee ina speech. Governor Washburn was again nominated that year. In 1872 General Butler ran for the fifth time for Congress in this dis- trict, and was elected by an overwhelming ma- jority, receiving about 17,500 to about 11,800 for Charles P, Thompson, a majority of some 6,000. In 1874, he was the candidate for the fifth and last time, and was defeated by Charles P. Thomp- son, receiving 7,747 to 8,716 tor Thompson. In 1876 General Butler, having returned home to Congress of the republican party, and was elected, receiving 12,100 votes to 9,379 for John K, Tarbox, (democrat), and 1,955 for E. Rock- wood Hoar, (anti-Butler republican). ‘This is the seventh (now eighth) district. Having failed as a democrot to be elected governor, and as a republican to get nominated, General ‘But- Jer, in 1878, decided to fun as an independent or Butler candidate. He first secured the green- back nomination. Next came the democratic convention at Worcester, to which a large nuin- ber ot Butler delegates had been elected. The Butler men went to Worcester onthe afternoon of September 17, and finding that the old liners in control of the state com- to beware of the Talling br: The assembly at the Or was of a different chara oldest Protestant ¢hurcies in the city, and the pulpit, whi rly on a level | with its galleries. ’'The audience was French and of various social grades, from the ladies oire in the evening ‘This is one ot the | and gentlemen in the center to the laborers in | overalls and shirts who scowled with folded a were called In to ti lel. The hymns Mr anled upon the cabinet organ ¥ Into French and scattered in slips among | tie congregation, while the sermon. which was i, Was translated then and there, sen- | y Sentence, by a clergyman who shared | the pulpit with Mr. Moody, and scattered his | utterances reyerently among the people. It made the services long and somewhat dis- Jointed, but nevertheless, under this system, they have been as successful in attracting num- near the shades of The Tuileries as they were on thelr native soll. The Lite Banana Peel. Robt.J. Burdette, in Harper's Magazine for December. Like a bar of the beaten gold Si I gleam tn the summoer’s sun; Tam litle, [know, but I think I can throw. A man that will weigh a ton. pallenges bold, IT blow me no vaunting horn, But foolish 1s he who treadeth on me; He'll wish he had ne'er been born. Like the flower of the field vain man Goeth forth at the break of day, But when he shall feel my grip on his heel Like the stubble he fadeth away; For [lift him hizh up tn the alr, With his heels where his head ought to be; With a down-coming crash he maketh his mash, And I know he’s clear gone upon me, Tam scorned by the man woo buys m: Tam modest an‘ quiet and meek ‘Though my talents ar the work that Ido Has oft made the cellar doors creak. I'm a blood-red republican bora, And a Nibilist fecrless I be; ‘Though the head.wear a crown, I would bring its pride down, It it set its proud heel upon me, The Coronation of the Czar. From the London Echo, Petersburg correspondent em~hatically that the Czar’s coronation is fixed to ce in May, 1883. It certainly seems a long time to wait, and there is no high house- hold in the world just now where the pro- verbial slip between cup and lip Is more proba- able than in the house of Romanof. The Nowosti, however, is sanguine, and it an- nounces that the important event will be cele- brated with all the customary splendor. A commission has been appointed to make all the necessary arrangements, and it has already distributed nearly all its orders. The commission, ‘as may be supposed, is not limited as to the range and expense of its commercial dealings. The fullest confi- dence is to be put in the contractors for work and accessories; no cautions are to be required, and the contractors are to be paid three-fourths of the sum agreed when their work is completed, and the remaining fourth after the coronation. The expectation of the event is already giving a new Impulse to trade. The Russlan papers give one specimen of the magnificence of the preparations. The Petersburg firm of Grunwald & Co. has received an order from the ministry of the imperial court fortwo purple mantles, ronly flecked with ermine, for the Czar and Czarina, for a colossal baldachino to over- shadow the throne and acarpet for the steps ofthe throne of the same materials. The bestowing of this particular order was obtained by the Gran- walds as the result of a competition of the chief fur dealers of the empire. It is said that no fewer than 100,000 pieces of ermine will be re- quired to execute the prize design, 30,600 for the baldachino alone Foreigners have not been excluded from cougeyiten for some of the con- tracts, but itpwas sted in the announcements of the Ministry of the Court that preference would be given to: Russian contractors. The St. Petersburg press emphatically denied the story which appeared in a London contempo- rary, according to which the czar was crowned in private by the Metropolitan of Moscow dur- ing his recent hasty visit, and that a document in confirmation of the act is lodged among the imperial archives 80 as to be producible in the event of the czar’s death. a Climate of Southern California. However great may be the heatsby day, which mittee were exceedingly hostile to their candi- date they planned to steal a march. In the gray dawn of the following morning they arose early repaired to Mechanics’ Hall. This was locked, but a ladder was procured, entrance ef- cted, the delegates let in and the conyention organized, with Richard S. Spofford, jr., as president. Gen. Butler was then nominated. ‘The demoerats put in nomination Judge Josi G. Abbott, the republicans Thomas Talbot and the proiibitionists Rey. Dr. Miner. The result of the election was that Talbot secured 134,725 votes, Butler 109,435, Abbott 10,162, Miner 1.813 and all others 97, leaving Gen. Butler just 25, 200 short of an election. In 1879 the General made another attempt to secure the coveted seat. He first got the nomination of the green- back-labor party; next, the nomination of the “Butler democrats” so called, and lastly that of a convention of “independent republicans.” The republicans nominated Join D. Long, the “silver-tops” John Quincy Adams and the ‘pro- hibitionists Daniel C. E As a result of this election Gen. Butler lacked 13,602 votes of an election, receiving 109,149 to 122.751 for Long. 9,989 for Adams, 1,645 for Eddy and 108 for all ovhers.717""7 25.- ——_____+e. EROM MANITOBA. Points from a Tourist Just from the Great Northwest. An English traveler, Just arrived in Detroit from Manitoba, and the line of the Canadian Pacific railway, tells a news interviewer: The !mmigration into Manitoba still continues surprisingly large, and perhaps no part of North America ever received so mixed a class of peo- ple—Russlans, Danes, Germans, Swedes, Swiss, Italians, French, Portuguese, English, Scotch, Irish, Canadians, et al. Many of them enter via Lake Superior, taking the railroad at Fort William on its northern shore. The population of Manitoba is made up off two classes, capital- ists with money to loan at 12 to 20 per cent. and the usually poor, ignorant and hard-work- ing immigrants. The middle classes, made up of the moderately well off, Intelligent and in- fiuentlal, have not yet ventured the difficulties there found. Winnipeg has now a population of 40,000. Property is exorbitantly high. The tents in which so many lived last winter have disap- peared and all seemed comfortably housed. ‘Liv- ing is very expensive, and the most fa tidious traveler 13 obliged to put up with hotel accom- modations wh: in Detroit would hardly be considered third class, and for which he must pay $4 to 26 per day. A first-class hotel is, how- ever, now beiug built after the general style of the Windsor, at Montreal, though it will cost very much less money—about #50.000, The Canadian Pacific road is now being built about 400 miles west of Winnipeg, and a force of perhaps 2,000 men are thence pushing on west at the rate of three or four miles a da: The company is avoiding the heavily-tim- bered country as much as possible, building through prairie and open lands. Other men are building sections both ways yet farther west. The company has four years more in which to finish the road, but the probabilities are that all will be done in18months, Theroad is being built unusually well; said to be much better than the Northern Pacific, The weather there is very much milder than many suppose, and the road bullding will continue during the winter. The workmen, like the population, are of many nationalities, including thousands of Chinamen employed on the diflerent sections. These are paid $1.50 to $2 a day, while other la- borers get about #3. Carpenters receive about $8 a day and masons $10. Board costs a dollar a day, or less where the men board themselves. The settlements are rapidly extending miles back from the road on either side, even at the extreme point indicated. The company sells its 50,000, 000 acres of land at @2.50 per acre, with a rebate of $1 after certain improvements have been made. The government does better, giv- ing 160 acres of land to every actual settler, whether man, woman, child or baby. A hus- band and wife with eight children receive 1,600 acres. This is evidently one of the rarest in- stances tn which large families are a paying in- vestment. Asan illustration of the growth of towns out in that neighborhood, the Manitoba traveler told of Regina, first staked out eight Lowell, again entered the lists as candidate for | BARBER TALKS. A Novel Tonsorin} Organization to At- tract Customers. An organization of novel design has just been Unearthed in Denver, known as the Barbers’ Mutual Protection Association. The object of the movement is to combine the members of the tonsorial profession in solemn promise to a Tegulation of the topics of conversation in all shops which are members of the organization. As topics are a staple article and of the utmost value to the Profession, in the estimation of the Profession, a different toplo will be set aside for common use in every shop tor each day. An outline of the scheme discloses that, for in- stance, on Sunday morning, the artist will open conversation with a liberal text, selected for its appropriateness, und the inquiries: “Does this razor hurt?” “Better have your hair trimmed,” “A sea foam only costs ten cents,” etc., interlarded with brief quotations from’ favorite and familiar hymns. On Monday politics will be Introduced, confined to national, state and local, though on special occasions special forms of political dis- sertation will be permitted. Tuesday the thea- ters will be taken up, and musical ‘matters in general. Wednesday will be devoted to science, in its greatest breadth—either way. Thursday is settled on asa gala day, when the realms of political literature will be opened for the benefit of the uncultivated victim. Friday will be spent inthe discussions of hangings, past and pros- pective. Saturday, trade and the rising Indus- tries will command attention. On the eighth day there will be no conversation whatever, let the customer be ever so much in need of its en- liveningefect. Two resultsare anticipated. One is that certain customers will become attached to certain days from love for a particular topic, and thus be made permanently a friend of the shop. The other is that this will upset ali the cherished traditions of the craft, and ultimately lead to its destruction. Another objection ad- vanced by the anti-protectionists 1s the difficulty ‘an expert general conversationalist will be un- der to coniine himself to one topic during an entire day. Thus it is found that there are two. factions, and it is questionable If the scheme will live. ——___+-e- —____ Renniting Married Couples. From the New York Tribune. A long procession of men and women passes In front of the desk of William Blake, the Super- intendent of Outdoor Poor, every day. As a tall, broad-shouldered man reached the space in front of the desk one morning a day or two ago, |he laid down four silver dollars and walked away without saying anything. The superin- tendent took them up and dropped them into a box. An hour later a demure little woman came in timidly, and when she presented herself the four silver dollars were placed in her out- stretched hand. With a nod of acknowledg- ment, but without speaking, she went out. “This is a curlous phase of life,” said Mr. Blake. “The man who left the money, and the woman to whom I gave it are husband and wife, but they do not live together. lama mediator between them.” a3 “How is this brought about?” asked the re- porter. “A wife whose husband is cruel to her or has deserted her comes here and states her case to | me. I then send for the husband. when he comes that he must leave so much money here every week for the support of his \ family. Usually he is frightened into promising | that he will pay the alimony.” ® | *: How is this amount of the alimony fixed 7” “T find out how much his weekly earnings are | and teil him he must set aside a certain propor- tion of them.” “* What is done if the man refuses?” “He is told that itis much better for him to | pay the money through me than to have the case go betore a judge. To haye the case tried would | cost money. The most ignorant man soon sees that he would lose in the end by refusing to make the agreement. Persuasion has much | more to do with this class of men, some of whom appear to be merely animal in their nature, than you would think. “* Haye you any legal authority ?” “No. But tiey know that I can take steps to have the law enforced.” **Do husband and wife often come together again?” “I take every opportunity to Induce them to become reconciled to each other; sometimes I succeed. Afew weeks ago I induced a man and wife to live together again who separated In 1872. They were both moral and intelligent. When the husband came I told him that there were differences in every family, and that it would be more economical if-he and his wife should agree to travel the same road again, and that both would be happier. So one day he says, ‘Tell Mary I'll talk it over with her.’ ‘The wife was willing—they always are—and I ar- ranged ameeting to take place at my house. They met and both cried like children. It was so touching I fled to another room. Well, it ended by their going away hand-in-hand, smil- ing and happy. A week ago I received an in- vitation to visit them, which I did. I found them living as’snugly and contentedly as if the cricket had always chirped merrily on their hearth. “Here is another romance that didn’t end so Well: A woman came to me and complained that her husband would not provide for her, but spent his money for drink. She was as fine- looking a woman as you would see in a day's Journey. The husband admitted that he spent his money, but he said he didn't want all of his wife's people quartered in his house as they were, ‘Iam keeping her whole family,’ said he. ‘I didn’t marry the whole family.’ But after several talks he sald he would have a mecting with his wife. It was arranged that she could come for her allowance’ at the same hour he called to leave it. They went home toxether. But at the end of two years the husband came here a total wreck, and had to be sent to the almshouse. His appetite for drink had been too strong for him, he said, and he laid the biame on his wife's relatives. Idon’t know what be- came of his handsome wife. Another case was that of a husband and wife who were separated by the dissolute habits of the husband. The wife said that her husband was all the time try- ing to steal her child from her. The child was beautiful. 1 told her to let him have the child, and it might induce him to go home with it. Sure enough, when he became sober he went home with the child in his arms-and promised that he would give up his ‘cups.’ He kept his promise. “Not long ago there was another case in which the child was instrumental in bringing its father and mother together again. Through some mistake, the wife came for her allowance just as the husband was handing it to me at the desk. She was carrying a baby in her arms. When the husband saw her, he brushed a tear from his eyes with his sleeve and taking the child from her arms kissed it. Coming up to me he said, ‘Would you mind, Mr. Blake, if 1 pay the money to my wife herself after this?” a oe had better go home and live with her,” said I. ata: Well, I believe I will,’ he replied. So he ——_—__—__-o> __ “Father Hyacinthe’s Need of Money. From a Paris Letter to the London Truth. Father Hyacinthe is again in want of money. He owes three-quarters’ rent to the landlord of his church in the Rue d’Arras, and is menaced with an ejectment. His Protestantized Catho- licism does not take here. The French like free thought, with conformity in matters of cult to the old-established Catholic ritual. When Hyacinthe preached at the Notre Dame every seat was let beforehand, and at a high rice. As the dramatic authors say of a popu- r play, ‘i faisait recette.” His handsome weeks ago ang now having a population of 3,000, including 27 stores, 30 lawyers and 60 to 70 land agent The moral difficulties of the country have to do chiefly with smuggling liquor sellers, whose tents travel much faster than the construction pleaigs ‘the lower part of which was not then eel stood out well against the hood of the Dominican. He was so suasive when he addressed himself to hardened bachelors and described the happiness of married life, His voice caressed the ear. in talking to theladies The landicrd groaned and sat down with a thud. Then he gazed determinedly atthe Wood River fashionable, and said with set teeth: ‘Do you know, my friend, what it costs to stop at this house?” No, an’ I don’tkeer. I’ve got the tin. what's yer figure, jist far luck?” “‘One—hundred—dollars—a—day.”” ‘The jaw of the gentleman from Idaho dropped, and he fell back in his chair and gazed in fear and wonder at the landlord, who fixed him with But in midsummer often rise to a 105 in the shade, the nights kre always cool and refreshing. Neither is sua-stroke known. Nor are the vio- lent thunder storms with which nature with us endeavors to restore the equilibrium after hay- ing exhausted its utmost efforts in the way of oppressive warmth. The great drawback here —as there must be some drawback from perfec- tion everywhere—Is occasionally heavy winds, the “‘northers.” The northers sometime gather his st Then h to - Nothing for a little li like Site," answered | anak, With a long sigh of returning Hfe the flush marrying man from Hailey got his feet and made unsteadily for the door. He gat the re- mainder of the day In the waiting-room of the depot with his hand behind him asif on a pistol, and fled on the evening train. A CLEVELAND Girt happened to in 0: Wilde's moe the word nea” on, don't ou think ‘nice’ is a ni word?” Ht le of the beautiful. ‘Db gee think ee is a nice word?” replied the girl. 3K; Hart, eipten ot as al Poet up the dust from the dry surfaces over which they pass, and produce painful dyst-ctorms of two or three days’ Strnuron. in autumn and winter the temperature is chilly enough to make fires a necessity morning and evening, and even all day longin apart- ments shut off from the Influence of the sun. I was astonished to find the air so keen at these times, and the thin scum of ice forming upon water in the mornings formidable even as far down as SanDiego and its vicinity. The cold has a penetrating quality far beyond that of its register by the thermometer. This 1s usually overlooked, and it Is important to be under- stood, since fuel Is very scarce and correg) 3 tap cect. Fayots made from pranings of the ‘ woods. syceinores, and. trains, and horse-stealing Indians. But the mounted police prove themselves very efficient in both cases. he smugglers’ wares are con- fiseated and themselves summarily disposed of according to the rigid demands of Dominion law. As to the ‘noble red men of the forest, the police think nothing of chasing them down by a twenty-mile run. When caught they are punished by being tied up by the hands,strip, to the waist and thoroughly whipped with cat-o’-nine-tails in the prescace of their com- rades. Of aiiiramiliating things to an Indian nothing exceeds whipping. A dose or two of such legal medicine cures the most thieving. One of the Commandments. make my merit more, Baril go beyond the letter Tove shbor as and ten times better He is told | A TRUE GHOST STORY, The Mysterious White Horse That Ap: peared to a Maryland Parson. From Lippincott's Mazazine. The Rev. Dr. Baker is and has been for thirty Eastern Shore of Maryland. the town of Camden and has—or had some twelve years azo when this happened—a mis- sion charge In the village of Venice, sixteen miles distant, and between these places he was constantly on the road. About six miles from Camden was the country residence of Judge Silverton, a well-known and venerable parish- toner of, the worthy doctor. This gentleman had been dead about six weeks when Dr. Baker happened to be returning from Venice to Cam- den one afternoon in a carriage with a Mr. Alden, @ prominent citizen of the former place. it was in broad daylight, just about sunset, and not far from Judge Silverton’s gate, when a car- riage, drawn by a white horse, them ry y from behind and was soon out of sight. That tellow must be in a hurry to reach remarked the doctor. ‘ou notice anything particular about that vehicle??” inquired his companton. “Only that it moves very quietly, T heard no sound as it went by.” Nor did I,” said Mr. Alden, “neither rattling of wheels nor noise of hoofs. It is certainly strang. w minates the matter was forgotten Ina and the two drove on, conversing about other things. They had proceeded about half a mile, when suddenly the same borse and carriage again passed them from behind, and again in the same absolute silence, notwithstanding the hardness and narrownes of the road. Nothing could be seen ot the driver except his feet, the carriage curtains hiding his body. There was no cross road by which a vehicle in front could possibly have got behind without mak- ing a circuit ot many miles and ruming eral hours. Yet there was not the least doubt that this was the same conveyance which only a little while previous had passed on before, a the two gentlemen looked at each other in blank | amazement and with acertain suggestion of awe which prevented much discussion of the matter, especially as the horse was to all appear- ance the well-known white habitually driven by the deceased Judge. Another half mile brought them in sight of Judge Silverton’s gate, when for the third time the ghostly team dashed by— in from behind—in the same mysterious , it turned, In full Without a word of comment,the doctor quickened his horse's speed and reached the gate only a few yards behind the silent driver. “Both Mr, Alden and himself peered eagerly up the long, open lane leading to the house, but neither cart nor wheel track was visible, though it was «till clear daylight, and was no outlet from the lane, nor could any vehicle have possibly, in the time occupied, accomplished half the distance. In the simple languaze of Pliny, “nothing worthy of note followed.” The peculiar features of this strange incident are that it was equally and simultaneously evident to two witnesses, both entirely unprepared tor any such manifest- ation, and di habits of lif cit attainments, and by mere accident making this Journey together, and that to this day both of |: them—withesses, be it noted, of the most unim- peachable credibility—attest it and fully corrob- each other, but without being able to sug> gest the slighte: Spiritual Lvoiation, From the Spectator. Migrating birds, when locked up Incages at the season of migration, restiessly flap their wings andtry to fy away. The evolutionists say that fact helps to prove, not only that birds which do so are migratory, but that migration isa fact. They would deduce migration from the birds’ habitual action, even if they had never seen birds migrating. Yet it that instinct 1s to be allowed all that weight why isthe instinct of humanity, which keeps it perpetually flapping its mental wings, straining, as it were, toward another life, to be considered illusory? Why should not the Instinct be evidence in one ani- malas well as another? If migration never had been, and could not be, would not the evo- lutionist regard the birds’ action as a strange break in his system. for whi count? We suppose an ev: ply that man has derived his ideas of the supe- natural from his fears, and that he is not strain- ing toward an object, but intent on avoiding a danger. That is an answer to many theories of religious belief, but does not affect the genesis of the idea of a future state. How came man to fear a danger of which he had no ex- perience, and which has no vagy No other animal does it. A Himalayan hill- . Which never saw @ wasp, when shown one kills it, then wastes five minutes In digging its sting out, and then eagerly swallows the body, making every sign of enjoying a bonne bouche. The little creature avoids a danger of which it has no experience, but then the danger is there. Is there in all nature a creature which spends its life in pursuing an or avoiding a dan- ger which {s not only unngal. but never was real, and never could have been? Recollect that, on the theory, man is an animal, so nighly developed, It Is trae, as to have acquired excep- tional powers, but still an animal, and bound by laws which, as regards other animals, are pro- nounced to be immutable. Why, then, this strange exception? Is tt not at least more pro- bable on t idence that, as an idea from out- side is conceivable, m originally a developed animal, received from the outside this idea? That once granted as conceivable, the super- natural—i. e., the life outside this world—be- comes conceivable too, and if conceivable can be studied, like any other phenomenon. Marketing Abroad. In London the streets are alive early in the morning with smart butchers’ traps and grocers’ carts, stopping at the private houses for orders, and there is an exciting rivalry be- tween the Inds, who seem specially made to drive the butchers’ fast trotting ponies, and every other “whip” on the road. Very often the trap itself is dispensed with until later in the day, and the butcher's boy lashes his nimble steed trem thoroughfare to thoroughfare, paus- ing to ring an — summons at the va- rious customers’ doors. Then, again, in large cities, such as London and New York, the great centers of supply are too far away from the recidence of the well-to do inhabitants to make a personal daily visit possible for those who keep no carriage, while the expense ot car tare forms a noticeable addition to price unless the purchases made are considerable. And so it ‘comes to pass that ‘‘custom” has made it a very unusual thing for the vast intermediate class between the wealthy and the poor to market for themselves, yet that it would be profitable to do so is unquestionable. Many of the wealthy, who are proverblally careful of the money they have amassed, drive down and save 8 few dollars upon the provisions laid in forthe day. and in Covent len, the great West-end market for London, this fact Is so well recognized that the stall-holders have a regular scale of afternoon prices by which they attempt to de- feat ey — poe \y- — of wd juaintest spots in old European cities are on market-places. In Antwerp, until quite recently, the assembly of market women Was @ sight well worthy of notice, as they sat at the open stalls, each with her knitting in her hand, wearing on their heads great bonnets of plaited straw in the shape of bee-hives, often more than halfa yard high. So, too, in the quaint old Norman cities, the comely. fresh-complex- — women in wed high plaited bed — pigturesque apart from their surroundings, an hee inthe majority of instances, formed # suitable frame for them, for the market-place a8 often as not lies under the shadow of a cathe- and !taly the market-stalls are aglow who thronged the galleries he showed deep knowledge of the feminine heart. Hyacin’ was as much the he published *Joselyn.. seen, when the el ing in the overcrowded metropolitan that a time would Leet pee vs would rot able to fill the lecture hall in he tne d'Arras? ————— ‘The Evcz:sne as an Article of Trade. Among the lesser commodities known to the druggist trade is the eyestone. In former times Persons of wealth and forethought carried the article ina vest pocket. Travelers, in partica- were with color, and the activity and cheerfulness of the sellers is well xoowe In winter such open-air § i years the rector of a prominent parish on the He is a resident of tibthale . .