Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 23, 1887, Page 12

| 9 | A | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: COMPANY MINUS CAUSERIE, Bome Social Gotham Gatherings Withont Danocing, Dining or “Dramatios.” ELEGANT EASE EVERYWHERE. American Women Queens in Educa- tional Realms—How They Rule Among the Intellectual— Operatic Notes. New Yonrk, Jan, 20.—[Correspondence of the Beg.]-It is the fashion to say that New York hias no society except a danc- fog and dining coterie; that nobod, attract people without offering some s« pecial attraction; that there is no honse where any, exeept the very youngest, ean find companionship and conversa- tion, unless with the most intimate or ancient of friends. But I have found out the contrary. I went to a house, not very Jong ago, where there was no entertain- ment offercd, gxeept the company of the Rguests, There was neither music nor dancing nor cards; there were no private theatricals, no readings or recitations, or bagpipes; no lectures on art or ancient gems; no Nincteenth Century or Thurs- day Evening club--not even a *‘Causerie.” There was no assumption of intellectual- ity, but there was just what constitutes good company-—case and elegan nd igh quality of tone and talk. hostess, & woman who speaks half ngunges well and has lived in D countries, brings about her people of various nationalities; but the core and foundation of her cirele is the highest and most exclusive fashion of New York. Between 10 and 12 o’clock . there were pernaps forty people in -her rooms; severnl women of rare beaunty; some of them married belles, some of the latter additions to soci others who have been know in the most distinguished companies in Lurope and Ameriea for ears enough to have marriagenble laughters of their own., All were well dresscd; none in demi-toilettes, which are the fault and the draw to most of the attempts to bring people together in this way WHEN THE WOMEN WILL NOT DR! the tone of the society is at once lowered. Full d an air of of elegance that nothing clse accomplishes and as soon as the women come in in high-bodied gowns, and without their ornaments, you .nay call it w. you ple: it is not Wwhat is meant by —soci At the house ['sp diamonds and were dres: as for din- ner, but they eame for conversation. Some, indeed, had dined at the house on that evening, and these made a nucleus The effect was radiant, 2 the result of costume and small y S0 much better It was like a dinner after the have joined the la 3 only everybody did not at once be think of “taking leave. Instead, at this fortunate house, people began to al D There were men of fashion and we and men of distinction in other ways; foreigners of eminence; Frenchmen with illustrious associations; Englishmen of the aristocracy; Ameriean painters who are famous in Europe; New York politi- cians who are yet in fashionable socicty; members of congress, liter: men, mi tary men, diplomats—a gathering us various in ch almost as a Wash ington or Par salon could collee Indeed, 1 can think of only one house in Washington where the world of fashion ean be attracted in the same way to meet clever people perhaps not altogether of that world, where A TIHE ITAUTE VOL receives that dash of ntellectuality which it absolutely requires to prevent in- sipidity, but which, when it is possesse makes society one of the most exquisite of pleasure 11 the more ¢ isite be- enuse o rare—in America espeeialiy, but not to be found every day in any place in the world, The ease and simplicity scen on the night of which I'speak, were especially charming. ‘The host red sufliciently for her guests, but not too much, She possessed not only that knowledge of the world wh indispensable, and whici only long experience brings-—-but a pe- culiar conversational ent besides; a faculty for touching on lighter themes, ssip and badinage, but flitting from ese to others thit only a cultivated mind cun grapple with for socicty, and who has been of the incongruons elements found in New York, to crystaliize the last result of wivilization—a salon. As she went about resenting forei 1, talk- ing with one or another Who scemcd at the moment to be out of rapport, she exerted an influence that was very per coptible: it emanated while she moved, like an odor. She is a woman talked of in the gond gompanies of two continents; and though 1 had met her at intervals during twenty or almost thirty yours in New York and Washington, and London and Newport, and 1 know not where else at home and abrond, THE SECRET OF HER SUCC bad hitherto escaped me. But I make v submission now. 1 venture to say | ow why she has suceceded, § ‘woman of genius; of a genius for society, and deserves to have her carcer recorded ‘a8 well as Recamier Perhaps I may venture torelate a story L hoard of her in England. She was v much in the circle of the prince and rincess of Wales, invited to the little in- - timate parties at Marlborough house and Sadringh: se who he words have related to me that mor onee the prince would say to her want to present a forcighner to you, gount this, an Itaban; or Monscign shat, n Frenchman ane else here who awn language.” So the Amc same to the rescue of the English court For the Enghish as a rule, speak no lan- uage well but their own, Many of the morican women are far better edus 1 nd more accomplished that the great lish dames. “I'hey have a talent for society to afar greater degree. 1t &N ease, 4 grace about them, an making themselves interesting by being antevested, which iz sovereignin society; " and for this to &0 to waste, as it oftén does, scems o doseeration of nature's gifts that should not be allowed. The Buccess of one such house as I was fortu- te enough to penetrate, shows that others may emulate this good example here are all the constituents in New ‘'ork of the tinest company,but scattered separated, kept. FOR THE that throw such make refincment pos 8o many proach, inevitably degenecrate into vulgar ostentation. Wealth is not a ~ erime that all the critics and censors of jorals should hold it up to public repre- - sion. It is not even necessarily un- | mocratic, 50 long as it Is ...uly acquired, The fact that wealth opeéns so many doc is a _ proof of that society in New York, after L all, is as demoeratic as it should be. The ~ American who has achieved a fortune q a better position often than he who simply inherited what his father left, ~ and does nothing to justify fate for her rtiality. But évery man in America £ &m. he may be president, and almost _Any woman may aspive to enter soc @ 140 boxes at the opera, all in the _sawe tier ona level, each exactly like ry other, are a curious exemplification whe democratic idea. The latest come “phares the exclusive position and pri '~ag of all the others. But I don't find wore their charm at than at an talk to him in s 1 offen le, need not, as that baldness and bareness in the wealth of New York that are sometimes ascribed to it by those who have never scen society here. There are wealthy vulgarians, cer- tainly, but there are also yulgar people who are not rich, just as there are rich people who are not vulgar. Even those poor stockholders atthe Metropolitan opera, who built the house and lavished their hohéy té procure for themselves and the public a pleasure of the most elaborate and expensive charac- ter, have something to be said for them. Because they use their boxes as such boxes are used everywhere else, they are made a target for tho_rest of the world who have no boxes. They do not appar- ently APPRECIATE WAGNERIAN MUSIC, to listen to which is a study, and to enjoy an effort. They go to the opera for musement, a8 many other people do, the isians, for instance, who are yet good udges of art; they might even prefer 1[:\ an strains, which need not absorb the attention, and which form a pleasaut accompaniment to social divertisement. It is true the people who y fior #1 as the case may be, have their rights and are entitled to their money's worth, but the rm»]n- who pay from £12.000 to §20,000 or 1 box and an a ment of §2,000 or $3,000 a season besides, have some rights too. They pay all this for their pleasure, but they give up the sort of wmusic that most of them prefer, because there is a craze just now for the German style, and then if they don’t listen to e note the world of auditors is up in arms, They don’t often interrupt the music, most not oftener than people do the plays at other theaters, put they are criticised and deeried because they prefer them- slves and their own company and con- versation to Wagner, This may be bad taste, but it is not altogether unnatural or unusual For after all, the whole end and pur- pose of an opera house is not music; neither 10 London nor Paris nor St. Petersburg nor Vienna, If it had been in New York the Metropolitan opera house would never have been bult. This house is owned and constructed by a tain number of people, in the first place for social purposes, becanse they liked a form of amusement in - which they could sit and receive their friends while a fine spectacle or performance was pass- g on the stage. ‘Lhey did not go to all the expense and trouble solely to af- ford EARNEST LOVERS OF ¢ an opportunity to study counter-part. If the student insists on ab- solute silence, thut—especially while the interminable Wagnerian situations are evolving, and if the student will have nothing but these claborate musical ex- vositions—the result may be that the stockholders will give up their boxes, and close the house, and then where will the students be? The stockholders as well as the others pay for their amuse- ment, and it is in consequence of what they pay that the mu students get the finest rendering of their favorite master that America has ever known, Idon’t advoeate ill breeding or noisy talking at great moments of the operi; but the students and the publie should not be too hard on the poor rich stock- holders and unmusical fashionables. These may not be absolutely perfect in , or some of them in manner. They may talk too much or too loud ocension- ally, but not often, if ever intending to anhoy; and certainly no human heing would be so preposterous as purposely to burst into a laugh in the midst of “Fidelio’s™ finest scene. The a hich doubtless the unfortunate who was its cause regretted more than the the audience, has been tortured into an insnlt to the publie, I am sure, unjustly. I have not heard who committed the offense, but it must have been inad- vertently. It seems to me there 1s some- thing to be sud for the unlucky people who own the opera house, and without whom we could not possibly have the operi ApAM BAbEAU. IMAN MUSIC armony and - EDUCATIONAL, “There are 565 colleges in the United States, and only 119 of this number publish papers. Forty thousand dollars and a million of land haye been recently given to the versity of Texas, ilarvard is the lasgest college In the coun- try, Oberlin is_second, Columbia is third, Michigan fourth, and Yale fifth. ‘The new Harvard divinity school is ex- pected to cost about thirty thousand dollars, and the erection is going on with greatpro- 100l of technology is s00n to be estab- lished in Atlanta, Ga. ‘The state hs appro- riated $65,000 and the city of Atlanta 570,000 }ur the purpose. J. A, Bostwick, of New York, has pre- nted to the Wake Forest college'in North arolina £50,000 in - addition to the §20,000 given some vine ago, Cornell university will confer no honorary dearees hereaiter, and to becomea doctor of laws, under the new rules of the university, one must be examined. “The modern language convention of Amer- ica met at Johns Hopk ty, Deceni- per 2. Nearly all of the principal ‘(o' e ses in the United States were represented, Harvard college has been left $400,000 by the will of the late John 0. AT Williums, ‘This is to be known as the *“Williams Fund,” and is intended to ald needy and ceserving schola Du st year $13.254056 was ex- pended for educational purposes in the s of New York, Of this amount 9,1 was for teachers’ wages. ‘There are 5 school teachers and 1,735,073 “school children in the state. To Brown university the will of the late Hon, Daniel W, Lyman, of Providence, be- aueaths £50,000 for the _erection of a building for any use not _sectarian, to be called the Lyman_Memorial, with & reversion of half thie entire estat ‘The New York Eyening Post discusses the movement now on_foot for the introduction of industrial traininz for girls in onr publie schools, and it dwells on the iniluence of normal school training, showing that how- ever valuable this may be in and_of 1tself, it is not an unalioyed good in its application to the daughters of our laboring class subverted where sowany persons are turning over Andover, We still ellng to the simple faith that the acme of human wisdom is to know when to lay down a poker hand, Philadelphia has started out another these long-lived phenominal “boy-preachers,” Heis w siaid tobe sixteen, 1f he follows the example of Harrison he will remain a boy until the gray hairs come, In a little churchyard down the Susque- hann valiey 1s a humble tombstone inseribed with the name of a worthy wouan :n | this inseriy in expressively inaceuraie En- glish: “She done what she conld.” 1f you would live long don’t be a day la borer buta cl man. Day laborers live on an average about thirty-two years, while the average life of a clergyman is sixty-seven years. ‘There are other advantages in being clergyman, too, A woman in Bridgeport, Coun., complains that her husband, who is a member of the Salvation Army, makes her life miserable around the house by too mueh praying and singing and assaults upon her and the chil- dren because they do not believe in hLis re- ligious methods,” 1t is 2h to makea man lose his hold on all the religion he has to be compelled to break off abruptly in the middle of a praver or a hymn to mmer his wife and children because they do not join in the worship. A Boston lady prominently identified with Sunday school work, and who is much inter- ested in bringing our Chinese residents within the pile of Cheist 1 uiluenee, called the otier diy unon ooy o eelestiol pro- tey 8 John welcomed it 10 s laun- dry with evident ple +and when the Ereetings v e oy touzollan, i re- sponse to iy, her to "under- staud that 1 e n oved very mueb attencing Sunday : ¢ iovl, information that was exeeed- ingly gratfying. Auxious, however, (o re- eeive more p aetical demonstration of the in- fluence of the seliool upon him, she asked bim if she did not th ok it did. hiwm good. SYiQ, yi? caie the convineiug response, “waslie: fol le whole conglegation.” A TRUE HISTORY. Translated From the Russian of Count Tolstol By E. C. Waggener, *'God knows tne truth, but he does not al- ways immediately disclose it,” In the city of Viadimir there lived a merchant by the name of Aksenoy. He was the owner of two shops and one dwelling house. Aksenoy was blonde, handsome and fond of merriment and good company. In his youth he drank a good deal, and when under the influence of liquor made a terrible uproar. Since his marriage, howevyer, he had indulged but seldom. One beautiful summer morning Aksenov coneluded that he would go to the fair i Novoyorod, but when he swent to bid his family good-bye, his wifo said to im: “Ivan Dimitrievitch, thou must not go to-day; T am afraid tor youtogo." “Afraid ! eried Aksenoy, beginning to laugh; “what are you afraid of-—that I'll commit a folly at the fair?"* YNo,” said his wife; know myself why I am afraid. Only I have had a bad dream about you. 1 saw you return from the city, and when you took off your hat your head suddenly be- come as white as snow.” At this Aksenov only lavghed the more. *That's a good sign," smd he, *'I shall have good luck and bring you a magnili- cent present.” And kissing his wife affectionatelv he took his departure. Hulf way to the fair he meta merchant of his acquaintance, and stopped to spend the night with him at an inn near by. They supped together, talked till bedtime, and retired to sleep in adjoining chambers, Ivan Dimitrieviteh was not a great sleeper, and he awoke in the mid- dle of the night restiess and wide awak: To avoid the heat of the ¢ more comfortably, he dee his journey without waiting for morning. Rousing his postilions he ordered them to harness the horses, and after settling his account with the innkecper he drove “and I do not ded to pur Going about forty versts he decided to rest again, feed his horses and eat his own dimner at another httle auberge by the ide of the rondw: While iting for lighted Dimitrievitch 1f upon the doorstep and be- on lis guitar. Suddenly furious ringing of bells, a troik lup to the auberge, and a tehinovik (oflicer of the state) descended, followed by two soldiers. Approaching Aksenov he asked him what he was doing there and where he w going. Aksenov answered him very politely, then invited him to join him m acup of tea. The official "declined and _continued to press him with questions—*“Where had he slept the night betore®” “Was he alone” ‘Had he been alone all the evening with his triend the merchant?” *And why had he left him so vrecipitately Aksenoy, surprised at these questions, related all that happened to him, But why do you wish to know ¥’ said ‘I am neither a brigand nor I am traveling about my own afl s the right to question me. The ollicer beckoned to the soldiers to approach, then turning to Aksenov said Tf T question you it 1s as a com- ioner of police, and because the merchant with whom you passed the night was found murdered in his bed. Where is your luggage? We must have it.” Dimit ch pointed out his trunk and y began to search them, W ? L the oflicer sud- denly, holding up somethihg that he 1 taken from among the clothes in the bot- tom of the sachel.” Aksenov: looked and saw that it was a knife all spotted and brown with blood; he shuddered with terror. “‘And why this blood upon it continued the ofiicer. Akscenov wished to answer, to tell them that he knew nothing about it, that the knife was not n his, but he was un- able to articulate a word. e merchant was found this morn- ing dead in his bed; you were the lust one with him; the inn’ “was closed and you were the only guest. Conf then that you killed and robbed him,” persisted the oflicer. Aksenoy swore by all that w he had not even seen the m they parted for the night; that he money save his own all told; and that th to himj; but his voic face pale, and he t ague fit. “Bind and y him in the ¢ cried the oflicer peremptorily, him to the prison.” An inquiry forwarded to Viadimir in regard to Aksenov’s character vesulted only in the information that he was we esteemed by all who knew nim, although he had been a little wild and fond of drink, Neverthel Aid the mer- chants and neighbors, s an honest man, and it is hmpossible that he conld have murdered Riuzan and robbed him of 20,000 roubles.’” The wife of Askenov was in the great- est distress and knew not what to think. Her children were all young, onc of them still at the breast, but “she took them and traveled as fast as possible to the where her hushand was confined, They at fist refused her permission to sce him, but at last her prayers prevailed and she was allowed to ‘enter the prison, her husband, in conviet's dress, chained with a horde of robbers and murder She put the children in their father's arms, then seating Lerself be- side him, begged him to tell her all that had befallen him., “What can be done when enov had finished, “save to supplicate the he will never let the wocent suffer for the guilty, I have al- ssed a petition to him,thongh I have not yet becn able to send it, Ah, an Dimitrieviteh, it was not in vai I had that dream swhen I saw with snow-white hair. Thou already with trouble! Ivan, my it the truth t thou hast told me?” Aksenoy red ber with a revroach- ful glance, buried his face in his hands, A soldier appenrea at the moment and announced that the time was up and she wust go. The bitterest drov to Aksenov i this parting with his wife was the knuwlm,gv that she had doubted him and had even asked him if he had killed the merchant, “God alone knows he; “1 must trust in Him mercy.” From chat time on he ceasea to think ding away petitions; he closed llu-:m to hope and prayed only to God. On the evidence against him Aksenov was condemned, first to the knout, and afterwards to transportation and’ hard Iabor, and with wounds scarcely healed departed with a gang of other conyicts to Siberia At the end of twenty-six years of exile, hardship and ow. Dimitrieviteh Ak 1 become an old man; his i snow and his long most to lis waist, Al of his gaiety had disappeared; he rarely spoke and never laughed, spending his time when not at work i prayers to heaven. In prison Akesnoy had L shoemaker, ana with the money which carned from an oecasional sale bought oIf a Book of Martyrs, which he whenever there was light enough in the dungeon for him to see; and on holiday: and fete days attended the prison ehapel and sung in the choir. T keepers loved hum for his docility, and his com- held him in high estéem, ealling him ndfather,” and a “‘man of God.” No one wrote to hun from his old howme aud be did not knew whether his wife s holy that fter al no bout 8,000 roubles nife did not belong strangled, his as with an said hig wife, nsw then the truth,” said and await His white b arned to be o and children were living or dead the time passed on ; One morning there was g stir of excite- ment in the prison; a batch of new criminale had just been brought in, and with them intelligence from the outer world, The convicts gathered about the new arrivals,plying them with a thousana and one questions: *‘From what city or village had they come? “For what crime had they been sentenced?” ete., et Aksenov also drew near and listened to what was said. Among the prisoners was a man per- haps sixty years of age, tall, museuiar ana robust, ““The reason why I am here,” eaid he, “is simple enough, [ was unharnassing & horse from a sieigh and they took me for a thief. T told them I only wanted to go faster, but all the same Tam here. Truly hgreat criminal nd should have be before, only, you see, the police didn't know it. nd you are from where?” “Viadinir, T am a shopkeeper of that city. My name 18 Makar, and that of my father Semionoviteh.’ Aksenov lifted his iead, “Did you ever hear them speak of the merchants Aksenoys” said he. ““Are any of them living " *'Of course,” said rich merchants now was sent to Sibe: Askenov did not like misfortunes, £o he only sighed and held his tongue. ' His comrades were not so reticent, however, and_soon had given the new-comer the details of his sad his- tory, He was very much interested and looked at Aksenov with astonishment-- something like uncasiness. He refused to answer any more questions and tried to turn the stbject. But Aksenov would not let him; some- thing in the manner of the man aroused his suspicions, and he pressed him elosely. “Did you ever hear them speak of my aflair, Semionoviteh?™ said he; “‘and do you remember anything abont itt" $ “No,” he respanded; “the earth is fuli ard of 1t, of course, but it's so long since it h )l]u'ncnl that I have forgotten what was 1 “But do they know who killed the mer- chant?” Aksenoy continued. “The one in whose bag the knife was found, of course. How could it be other- W Why, Dimitricvitch, the L under your head and you'd ha him " Makar did not secem to notice the slip he had made, and Aksenov said nothing either, but more and more convineed that he was in the presence of Rinzan’s murderer, got up and left the room. But all that night he could not sleep; the faco of his wife as she had looked when he had bade her good-bye to go to the tair, rose up before Tim; e saw her laugh, he heard he He felt his little children nestling in his arms and thought himself as young, gay and \ppy, romping in the garden with mis wnily about him, then d on the steps of the inn where they had arrvested him. Again he was under the lasn of the horrible knout, loaded with manucles and herded with conviets, Anger bitter as death filled his heart, and he would glaaly have died to be revenged upon the wretech—the brigand—who caused it all. He vrayed all night deavoring to beealm himselt, but it w in vain, Thus tifteen days passed by, neither touched nor spoi Semionoyitch, He never closed his eyes at night, and spent the hoursn such a tumult ‘of conflicting emotions that he searcely knew wha vas doing. One night, as he w. z his cell, as [\ ndering what 1t was best to do, 1ddenly noticed that plank had been loosened behind his - bed. He stooped to examine it, when all at once q mionovitch stood before him, a rhitful expression of rage and chagrin orting his countenance. He would turned away and lett him, but 1 zed him he hand and held him fast, telling b with what incredi- ble labor he had d beneath his cell, carrying away the divtin his boots. “Keep silence and you shall go with " he said; “'say a word and I will kill Makar; ‘‘they are Ithough their father to speak of his Aksenov Makar houhast no need to kill me,” said Aksenoy, trembling with passion; *“thon didst that years ago. As for myself, 1 have no wish to escape; but whethier I de- nounce you or not God onty will decide.” The nest day, when the conviets takep out to work, t were, discovered on An examination of the pri 15 made a once and the tunnel was found. Th 18 10 evildence against any one in particular, and the conviets woald not al the truth, for they knew the of- would be whipped to death, d the governor of ssing Akscnoy, “you are ;5 give me the name of . Semiono- but Aksenov lips opened, he struggled to speak, but the words would not come. “If I am silent,”” he thought, Sthey will Tet him off; but why should [ do this? 1 believe him to be the assassin of Riazan, and yet I cannot, if 1 would, prove it I will not tell yon,'" he said at last to the governor, fixing his cyes upon Semio noviteh; “God will not permit me. You are master here--do with me as you will =1 will not tell!” To evel effort of the governor his answer was the same. On account of his unvarymg good conduct, he was not punished; and they failed to find out who iad made the tunnel. The following night,us he was stretehed upon his bed, he d some one ap- roach and lean above him, He opened his eyes and recognized Mukar, “How now cried nov angrily, “hast thou stiil more need of me? Go, or I will eall the guard;” and he at- tempted to rise But Makar pushed him back upon his pillow. gy “Do not do that, Ivan Dimitrievitch,” said he, “for I am here to beg your par- don. It was I who murdered the mi chant Rinzan; 1 who placed the knife in your bag; I would have murdered yon 100, but a noise in the corridor startled me, and I made my ¢ o by the win- dow. In the name of God, Ivan Dim- ineviteh, give me tiy pardon! I will dec myself guilty at once—thou s be set at liberty and return to thy home “This is all very easy to say," Aksenov veplied sadly: “but I haye suffered too much; my wite 18 dead; my children and friends have forgotten me. I have no place to go—but [torgive, all the same;” and lifting Makar trom his knees, the two old men mingled thewr tears to- gether, ST will dec boots. viteh remained trembled like your innocence to-mor- row,” said M finally; 1 will suffer less under the lash of the knout then I id u refused to denounce me: 1k of all your misfortunes nd pray for you,” Aksenoy replied, a great pe: suddenly filling s soul. He no longer regretted his home, his wife or his children, he did not even care to leave his prison i Makar Semionoviteh w 5 good as his word--he red himself the murderer of the merchant Rinzan, and ready to suffer the pumsnment 4 But when the order arvived to s Aksenov at liberty, Aksenoy was dead.” - . Colored society has its heart-burnings. One of the ne, churches at Elberton, . had a Christmas tree. As but few of the members could t or write, they seled colored damsel who had “been to school' to write the names on the presents, whicn sne readily consent to do. When the presents were distributed and the names called out, the assembly ] groatly surprised to find that all the iandsomest and most valuable presents liad on them the name of the girl who did the writing. Anindignation meeting was hastily held, and « vedistribution of the presents ordered iwmed: ~TWELVE SHERMAN “SHO0TS A STUB.” Senator Logan's Famous Game of Knuckle: Down" With His Grandson, SOME STAY-AT-HOME SOLONS. Selection of New House “Chalrmen’’— Stories of the War—The Cluver- fus Hanging—Circumstans tial idence, WASHINGTON, Jan, 20,—|Correspondence of the Brr.]—Speaking of General Sher- man's absentmindedness, an old soldier said to-d “An incident happened on tain, Ga, the evening th General Sherman sent his famous dispateh, ‘Hold the fort,for Lam coming,’, to Allatoona,Octo- berds, 1854, The general received a fresh cizar from some one—cigars being scarce— 1d e bezan to shout for a light. Lieuten- ant J. Clarence Peck, of General Whittaker's staft was the unfortunate possessor of a fresh lighted cigar, and he politely handed it to General Sherman, who lit his own eigar and then deliberately threw the lieutenant’s cigar away. A broad smile displayad itself all around. ‘Ilie general was thinking of those million rations at Allatoona; butit didu’t ap- pease the disgust of the licutenant,” **u “Senator Loan was very fond of plaving with the childien,” said a lady who "has ior many years been a frequenter” of the Lozan houselold. *“T'he senator used to get 8o ab- sorbed when he was plaving with the httle ones that he cared nothing for what was zo- ing on arouna . He was very fond of his ndson, Licutenant Tucker's” boy, about rs old. I rememberthat just one day s he was taken itl he was playing mar bles in a room with the boy. The g 1 pretty evenly matehed and” the gor absorbed in it. While the game was at its height the servant brought in a eard to him. It was that of a prominent senator. The general, who was down on his knees at the time, and about to shoot his marble, took the card, looked at ita moment, then said to the servant: * “Tell the senator to take a scat, be there in five minutes, I want to linj: game for the boy is ahead of me now,’ w*a zood deal of talk iy bemg indulzed in ith reference to_the orzanization of the Fiftieth congress. So many members were de- teated for re-clection that an almost complete organization of the commitoes will be ccessary. Mr, Randall will likely go back to the head of the committe on appropria- tions: Mr. Belmont to the head ot forcign affairs; Mr. Ilerbert to naval affairs: Mr. Blount to postoflices and post roads: Mr. Matson to invalid pensions and Mr. Hatel to acriculture. The great majority of chair- men were elected to stay at lome, Probably tiie most conspicuous of these is Mr., Morri- son, of ways and means, — 1lis absence will be most conspicuously felt. Then Mr, Willis, of Kentucky, head of and harbors, al Bragg, chairman — of military affairs, who ' is left at home, ~ will be ‘missed in the Fiftleth congress. Heis ahard worker anaa highly intelligent member, s sareastic reports on bills and his sarcasticspeeclies witl hem He is describad as and histeeth iy Vitginia, el man of t nd one of the best lay vers the hotise | (. retives upon h own volition. Heis tired of congression; work, and it will bey rs before the visitors to_inquire for “that oquence, with the sonth- nd of vo Mr. Mitchell, of Con- t. another who refires becanse he does Nt more ¢ L Jite, will_mal in_the of patents. Nicholas of New York, “the jolly Dutchman,” away from tie head of militi 1ill, of Ohio, will say good-bye to terr while his colle Me. Geades, will ook no more upon war etaims Mr. Barbour, of Vi ginia, will depart trom the head ot the Dis trictof Columbias Mr. Eldridge, of Michi- wan, from pen Mr.” Conb, of Indiana, from public Mr. Miller, Te from banking and curr ! in short, Will he 5o nume orking machinery of th as diffel t from the presen can well be, considering that the same party will retuin control. Pine Moun- * Very many interesting war reminiseeness are rehearsed at the panorawa of the Battle of Bull itun in this eitv. A couple of veter- ans were discussing war’ matters there this morning, when one said: “Iwas present when General Grant bid President Lingioln good-bye at Fairiax Court House,” Virginia, when he started on to Richmond with the army of the Potomac. Mr. Lincoln said: ‘General, I don’t want to hear of your retreating towird Washington.” There was a twinkle show dness in the : i for a seeond he scemed to g something. Finally he re- i “If I do one small boat will carry my army across the Potomac.’ “It would have done any ) the expression of gr mixed with face when sral Grant said this. Lineoln had the utmost confidence in eneral Grant’s courage and tact, and when t him he knew that Richmond would suceunb.” man good to have e and o **e Itis estimated by "t clerks who handlo them that more than 000 measures ha been introduced in the house sinee it beeame evident to any wide-awake member that there was not y.¢ least hope of action by both houses, and that the measures would die, that one-hi these the anth wonld ney upon by eithe Even at th veali of ~the house will result in the introduction of from one to 300 bills, when committee meetings, with a very few exceptions, have been suspended, and it is lmpossible, not o say improbable, that any of them will Teceive attention. Asked why this is 50, an old member said: It is to s isty the constituency. Why, I have often received requests fraim constituents during the last month in a congress to introduce i bill, and when 1 told them that there was not the'least possible chance of consideration they urged that | ntroduce it anyway. 1 have hiad constitnents insist that 1 introduce a bill on the very last day of the session, and it I did notdo it they would wor we. They have but one opinion about a re- fu to introduce a bill on the day Yy want it introduced, and that 18 that the member does not ca tor them. Of course, these bills are introd (| shuply to pl srvous people. But doyou know tha tenths of the labor devoted to bills and r ports on them s thiown away? 1t s true. And there has been what would amount to five years' wouk of a sinzle man wasted dur- ing the past two weeks. enators, althoush they are in the midst of excitement, and have many trying times, are the most excituble peoplé I ever saw, vid an emploze of the this mornin 1 have seen senators, in priva tions, in billig s, At the eard and at horse 0 fact, at all p) where there 18 excitement, and they lose their heads quicker than any elass of men [ know of, considering the cliances they have of becoming cool, ecaleulating 1 saw one who was detained on the outside of the senate ehamber the other day till the morn- ing hour was over, and he had some bills to infroduce. He completely lost his head and was Wild,” * **e Au old employe of dne of the leading de- partments heré said to-day that the alleged winds of the so-called reformers 1w all the departments were all concentrated on the little, diminutive, unimportant points in the service. Any little elerical error, that would formerly have been correeted without any fuss or hubbub, Dow creates as much con- fusion and jaw-wagging as would an attempt to subvert the very foundations of the gov ernment itself. If a fizure, or a Dawme, or a word is_accidentally omitted from an order or a letter or “paper of kind, at once the divislon or in which It was prepared s of an e er quest for the and when he is found he is passed from he; 1o head till he finally reaches one of the hi daddies, where he i3 overbauled in a style and toue that makes him wish in th ninost Yecesses of his soul that he had la bornin’.” In this sort of intinitesimal re form, hours and even days of valuable time are spent, the public business delayed, and Dersons having business with the depart- ments are compelled to waste their time and money in waiting till the eulprit is run down and dily punished. Of course, errors should notoceur if they can be rrvn-mu'd‘ but they have always occurred and always will as long as men are frail and mperfect. In nearly ©Very case every error that would ciuse a loss to the government or detriment to the publie service is discovered and rectified before any harm cqn result, thanks to the system in vogue wheu the present administration came in, and |§mlv real reforms are effected they must be effected In some other way than by keeping l‘\'l‘r\‘l\r\dr on the qui vive all the time for clerical slips or omissions, a*y Althouzh from five to fifteen executions occur mnuu\llf at the jail in this Dhlnrl.nnll hangings excite but fittle interést'Bencrally in Washington, there has been a great deal said aboyt the execution of Cluyerius at Richmond, Va., on the Lith inst. This is more because of the extreme doubt existing in the minds of many people as to his guilt than on account of the close proximity to the national capital of the state in whicli the ex- ecution occurred. Washington 18 largely composed of hot-heads and impulsive clhiarac- ters, little glven to sympathy nu1 I-\m..\r be- lieving in capital punishment, but a groat deal of sympathy is expr « for the man whosa soul was " flashed into eternity full of blood and gailt, or spotless as to the erime charged against the culprit who possessed it. It will "be remembered that one of the strongest links in the testimony that con- victed Cluverius was a wateh key found near the reservoir from whicl the o roi Lillian Madison was taken a few days after hor mur- der or suicide. This wateli key was an un- usual one, and was identiied by a jewe the property of the culprit—at least’ the jow- elerknew of no other key like it and knew that Cluverius had one just like it, In any Tizht the case ean be put Cluyerius was coti- vieted solely upon eircumstantial evidence, and hadihe been tried in Pennsylvan one of thiree or four other states, where ¢ viction “upon cireumstantial eviden not under the constitution: or statutes permit asentence of death, e would have been alive to-da, An Ohio statesman, discussing lhulxull\ tion and execution of Cluverius, said: In was first mony which ate a fow years ngo, a ted of murder in and hanged upon four-fold e than that condemned Cluverius, and years afterward it was develoned that he was as in- nocent as a person could be. A whole fam- ily living in the country was discovered to have been murdered, ‘There was a hand on the place named Wilson who had a elub foot and the thumb off his right hand who disap- peared at the time the murder was com- mitted, and, of he was instantly charged with the In looking about the house footprints of a man having ic- formed oot were discovered ; aiso the print of a blood-stained hand on the door facing, which disclosed the loss of a thumb, The farm hand was found and tried on the strength of this evidence of the crime aginst him was found guilty and exceuted, Years passed and a eriminal lay on his death-bed at Columbus. Just befora he breathed his last he confessed that he had committed the mur- ders tor which the other man had suffered. mination showed that he had the de- formed foot and the loss of the thumb on the right hand.” man the testi- ¥ e ar Munele, Ind., about ten vears ago, a barn was burned one nignt and a great deal of property destroyed. A harmless old she maker was charged with the arson, thrown jil, and a tew weeks afterward biought to trial. A detective who had been cmnployed to ferret ont the euilty person. and who m the aflidavit that the shocmaker burned the i, took the jury out to the seene of the tire and showed that the boots the shoemaker had on fitted tracks made about the place on the nizht of the fire and traced the tracks to the old man’s home in the city, e also pro- duced a piece of cloth froni the seat of the ker's pantaloons, which he found a_splinter on a rail on the top of the fence near where the barn stood and where e tracks showed th the oner had lett the premises. The ease was le e on this testimony. \When the prisoner was about to be found “cuilty it was discovered that the detective, a short time after the shocmaker was thrown in jail, had feigned drunkenne: been arrested, and thrown into jail and in the ne cell with the prisoner, where he remained over night. The detective was ased the next A day or two afterwards e repeated the act It was discovered, further, that he had torn the pieees of eloth from the pantaloons of the prisoner while the latter was aslecp, @ traded boots with him, and when put in the ond time had re-exenanzed boots, During the interim =~ between” the fivst and second time the detective was in jail he had gone to the farm where the fire had oceurreld, wearing the boots of the prisoner, made tie: tracks with themn and placed the picce of eloth under tl; splinter on the rail.” The old man was quitted without form when these discoveries were made known, but it was a hair breadth eseapi it is believed by many people here and in Virginia that Cliv en inno- cent of the mu his “consin and con- upon e nee as flimsy as that cited ier of the above ut the fact that he betrayed his cousin, ruined her virtue and left her heartlessly upon the world, and, ac- cording to his own hypothesis, drove her to suleide, makes the sympathy much less than it would otherwise ve e S, HeATn A PRIMITIVE FOLK. Some Curiosities afe Among Mountains of West Virginia, Atter a silence of a few minates, in which the old fellow had wred at me to his content, says a Winficld (W. Va.) correspondent of the PhiladelphiaTimes, and sized me up from head to foot, he suddenly burst out: “Stranger, is you married¥” Being answered in the néga- tive, his roomy and eapacious mouth broadened into n grin and said: *Wall, while you is out in the country you ought to hunt np a gal and git married.” And then, turning to a great buxom lass who would tip the and only sixteen years old hived girl-he con- tinued, “Now, thatis Ann. Shew git married the wuss kind, and if can make it up I guess [can s ‘round git some flour, kill charn, and give you a weddin’,” and your correspondent thought that if | s looking for physical strength and d velopment he couldn’t do better, When bedtime came I was advised to “shell off,”" which, to my surprise, I hada to do before the family, consisting of the old man and wife, ten childzen, (a smail crop for this part of the countr nd the fair Ann; so, with my face a lovely eri son, I shelled oft. Pretty soon family followed my example. rom the log rafters of the one-room house, in which the family ate, slept, cooked, and did everythin, g toons of dried purip wples (dried ind strung), the clot of the whole family, picces of pork. and endless other things for comfort and winter consump tion, On the table, three times a day, we got ably fried pork, sweet ' potatoes, (s sugar), and forever and eternally *“Johnny constant,” or corn bread, and I may add, buttermilk. 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