Po. Snoolletituftsetri-T BY H. G. SMITH. A. J. , STEINHAIi TERNS—'Two Dollars per annum, 'payable all MOB in advance. uFF/CE—gouniwor 00RUER OF CENTRE SQUARE. sgrAll letters on business should be ad dressed to H. G. Stara I Co. fatxm. UNDER THE VIOLETS BY OLIVZIZVENDBLL HOLMYB Her hands are cold; her lace is white; No more her pulses come and go; Her eyes are shut to life and light; Fold the white vesture, show on snow, And lay her where the violets blow. But not beneath a graven stone, To plead for tears with alien eyes; A slender cross of wood alone Shall say that here a maiden lies In peace beneath the peaceful skies. And gray old trees of hugest limb filtall wheel their circling shadows round To make the scorching sunlight dim, That drinks the greenness from the ground. And drop the dead leaves on her mound. When o'er their boughs the squirrels run, And 'trough their leaves the robins call, And r penlug In the autumn sun The acorns and the chestnuts fall, Doubt not that she will heed them all. For her the morning choir shall sing Its matins from the branches high, And every minstrel voice of spring, That tilde beneath the April sky Shall greet her with its earliest cry. When turning round their dial track, Ettetwurd the lengthening nhadows pees, Her little mourners, clad in black, The crickets, eliding through the gram, Hhall pipe for her an evening At lust the rootleta of the trees Bluth find the prison whore she Iles, And bear the burled dust they seise I ti leaves and blossoms to the skies, So may the soul warmed IL rise I If any, buru of kindlier blood, Should uek: Wbut maiden oleepH below'? Buy only thin: A lender bud, That trled to blomorn In the Huow, blew withered where the violets blow. ZiterArm. The Ductorte Bridge. Soon after receiving my diploma, I ,went us u qualified assistant to an elder ly pructitionet In the north'of Devon. The country In that part 18 more pictur esque. Here and there lofty hills upon whose summits are beautiful woods, rise In stately grandeur—beneath them lie lovely valleys resplendent lu the spring time with all nature's charms. Noble rivers flow through these flowery vales, causing the luxuriant foliage of the meadows tospring with redoubledvigor. Emptying themselves into these rivers are an Innumerable quantity of little, insignificant streams. Oftentimes In the dry seasons these rivulets are so small as to be little else than sluices, and for the most part are traversed by means of a plank or log of wood thrown rudely across them. In some places however, wooden bridges of inferior dimensions are erected for the use of foot pitmen. gels but In no case, or but a rare ex ception, is there any bridge built for the accommodation of animals or vehicles. .'Phi nut has been severely felt in the Winter, when the heavy rains cause these streams to swell to such a size us to render fording them impossible. Many serious results ilaVO thereby been occa stoned, ordinary traffic has been coma, pletely suspended, mail coaches even being stopped by the force of the cur rent. Too often a medical man having been absolutely unable to reach a patient In most eminent danger, the result has been death. About four miles from Farleigh, the town in which I resided, was Averil Castle, the seat of the Earl of Averil. It was an ancient, warlike looking structure, standing upon the top of a hill, and commanding au ex tensive view of the surrounding coun try. The slope of the hill itself had been converted into a spacious lawn, while at the foot ran a small stream, which, owing to careful preservation, was well stocked with the tinny tribe. Although so far distant from the castle, Dr. Hallett was the nearest sur geon, and consequently had the honor of attending at the castle. Neither of - the surrounding villages boasted a meth-. cal mall, and, therefore, owing to the extensive practice that necessarily de volved upon him, and the failing state of his health, Dr. Hallett was-compelled to have a fully qualified gentleman as an assistant to relieve him from his ar duous duties. It thus happened that I had several times attended at Averil Castle, for the nobleman himself was, atthe time I am speaking of, an elderly man and an in valid though he had only recently married a lady many years younger than himself. His :lordship, though very proud, was really a pleasant man and greatly attached to his wife, who, on her part, was of a very amiable and pleasing disposition, and very accom plished, being the daughter ol a neigh boring peer. Residing at Averil Castle was Mr. Sidney Lascelles, a nephew of Lord Averil's, being the son of his lord ship's younger brother, who, dying when Sidney was quite an infant, con signed him over to the Earl's care. Like father and son were the Earl and his nephew. Heir to the title of Averil, of which lie was so proud, the old Earl viewed Sidney in a still dearer light, and considered that he had still greater claims upon him, and, being unmarried, gave youßg Lascelles a very handsome allowana. No wbuder, therefore, would it have been if, when the Lady Adelia Tracy be came the wife of his benefactor, and a Handsome settlement was allowed her, the knowledge that such marriage might perchance be the means of losing his claim to the title, and dying, as he had been born, a wealthless commoner—no wonder if, under such circumstances, he had given vent to the feelings of disap pointment and vpxatiou that must al most necessarily have been produced. But no—not by a single sign, or look or deed, did Sidney Lascelles show that the marriage was other than pleasing to him ; on the contrary, he heartily con• gratulaied his uncle, and expressed a hope that he might be blessed with an heir, who should succeed to the honors that his Lordship had so successfully borne. Every one admired his conduct, every one praised him, and when, some short time afterward, he left Avert' Castle for the metropolis, the golden opinions of all were showered upon him. Far different was the opinion in which, however uncharitable it might have been, I indulged. I had never liked him, notwithstand ing hie extreme courtesy, and now my aversion to him was more than ever, for I felt assured that these very amiable feelings were feigned, and, in short, he was playing the part of a miserable hypocrite. Catch him in his natural mood, and you would see that the proud patrician lips curled with an unbecom ing hauteur, and that the mien, though lofty, was insolent; the eyes, those never deceiving characteristics, were dangerous ones. Those Jetty orbs would glisten with an unnatural brightness, and roll with an almost fiendish leer. Despite his outward deportment, I was convinced that Sidney Lascelles was a villain. On a wild and tempestuous night I was aroused by one of the Averil ser- vants, who excitedly informed me that Lady Averil required my immediate assistance, 'adding that his Lordship was almost frantic, believing his wife to be dyin. Has g tily attiring myself, muffling up in warm garments in order to avoid, as much aa possible, the inclemency of the weather, I mounted my horse, which had been saddled, and made at once for the castle, accompanied by the servant who had summoned me. That night was indeed a fearful one ,• the wind howled with sullen roar, and the rain came pouring down wjth ter rific violence, whilst every now and then the lightning darted in vivid flashes, and the thunder rolled, dead ening with its awful noise all other sounds. " The brook is fearfully swollen, sir," the man servant said;"l had great difficulty in getting across. Even yes terday owing to the previous heavy rains, t was a considerable size, but to-nli It the water is past the ' Hollow Oak, " alluding to a well-known old tree on one side of the stream. " Then," I said, "I fear it will be im possible for us to cross it now." " I am afraid so, sir," he replied. On we galloped; fast as the guivering steeds could go, , and still there were two miles of billy, road to be, acicomplished before we oould reach the 'bank; on still •we dashed' through the angry storm, with the darkness ever around, .„ • 1,1 • , . • „ „ • - .• It utJ •l+a year foriddh • ; , • , . • . • • .71'11-73:-.oa.lol:rtaliellClo;:laareolll:7lmmatAxsia- oiluisrdiunin.llll4, 1:. • ur . .n._ I lia I eg , : • • • • 14141BUilinitrilearAlita.771:011':eaCeril"""airdilIT:fti.1:"""*LINV:Ti°7:11171:111117.1".1147•••7•16:11111.8•••77:7177••••83,516006 VOLUME 68 save when a rapid flash of the electric fluid would, by its transient brightness render the gloom more painful. "Down tills hill, and we 'reach it," the groom said. And, as we reined back our f'oaming horses, I experienced a feeling of deep thankfulness, till the recurring thoughts of the danger yet to come dispelled - by their gloominess the momentary calm. It was reached at length, the peace ful stream,of two days previous now changed into a surging torrent, and I knew by the excessive width what a fearful depth it must be in the centre. Across on the other side was the glim mer of lanterns, whilst at times, above the noise of the waters, could be heard the shout of voices. "Haste, haste, for God's sake, haste," I could at last distinguish to be their Importunate cries. " I will try it," I said excitedly, and, despite the entreaties of the man I spurred my horse Into the seething stream; on I goaded him until the waters reached almost up to my knees, and the animal could hardly stand for the rushing of the current• In vain I spurred ' • the frightened steed would go no further, and lu despair I reluctantly turned back. I could hear the cries of disappoint ment rend the air, when at last one stentorian voice bawled forth, "Swim, swim across." But for me to try and swim were mad- nem; my knowledge of that aquatic science was scarcely sufficient to enable me to advance three successive yards, even though in the calmest water, and In the present turbulent state to have kept afloat for even a couple of feet would have been for me Impossible; but suddenly a thought struck me, and at once gave utterance to It by shout ing at the top of my voice, " A roe! ro I" n a short time one was produced and I called out, " Hold fast ono end and throw the rest across," and almost im mediately the coil came whistling past. "Now help me to secure this end," I said to the groom, and presently we suc ceeded in fastening it to a tree that was standing near. "As you value my life, firmly hold fast your end" I shouted out, and the answer, "All right," being given, I pulled off my great coat and other in convenient appendages, and at once commenced the attempt. Keepingg close to the rope, I walked through the shallow water with toler able ease, but as the stream grew deeper I clasped the rope with both hands, for the current was so strong us to almost wash my feet from under me, and once owing I forato the slackening of the rope, was moment com pletelysubmerged. "Hold tight, for God's sake!" I cried, as with an efibrt, I regained my foot ing; and as I felt the tightening strain of the cord, I battled on with redoubled energy. Aud now the worst was past; a few steps more and I should have tri umphed, when suddenly before me I perceived se object standing in the water. I ruched out my hand to try and touch i, when, with a fearful noise, the rope snapped asunder, and the im petus again cast me off my feet ; as I fell I instinctively clutched at the figure I had seen, and my blood turned cold as I found I was grasping a human hand; and the hand held a knife. All of a sudden the truth rushed over me, and exclaiming " villain" with an almost superhuman force I drqgged him toward me. Once, more was I back in the boiling waters, down in the trough we rolled, and I grasped convulsively at him, and tried with frantic efforts to regalfi the bank in vain. We rose, how ever, to the surface, and at that moment a flash of lightning revealed to me the demon-like countenance of Sidney Las celles. _ With a dreadful shudder, half uncon scious though I was, I released my hold, and he reeled away from me. Now that my burden was gone an instantaneous feeling caused me to exert my little powers of swimming, and for some few seconds I succeeded in keeping myself afloat ; but strength gave way, my brain whirled, and my heart grew still, as I felt myself sinking again, and probably for the last tlpae, below the stormy tide. I was lost—by me rushed all the events of the past; all my previous life was set vividly before me. The sensation was maddening, and , now as I felt the last breath leaving me, my foot pitched in something across the bottom of the stream. Merciful heavens ! it was a tree blown downward from the bank. I grasped it; hope gave life; one more pull, and my head was above water. How I reached the bank, to this day, I know not; but the agonies I endured as I lay in a kind of stuporon the wet sward 1 shall never forget. Once more I en dured the horrors of the late fearful scene; once more I felt myself drown ing in the brook, and experienced all the terrible reality of that fearful death. I now lost all consciousness. How long I remained thus I know not. Brandy being poured down my throat, I soon rallied under its revivifying in fluence, and now perceived several men standing around me, tefififying their ooy at my wonderful deliverance. An ther drink of the brandy, and I felt myself considerably recovered. It was morning; the storm had abated, and to my great Joy I perceived the castle at a short distance. The men assisted me and I succeeded in reaching its walls. Sincere were the congratulations I re ceived; but the faces of all bore a mournful look, and entering the hall I was solemnly informed it was too late. I knew at once the sad cause of their dejection. Still a sense of duty impelled me to visit the chamber, and there, laid out upon an elegant couch, were the lifeless forms of Adelia, Countess of Averil, and her new-born child. As I was leaving the room I encoun tered Lord Averil, his haughty head bowed down with grief; hegrasped my hand, and in a voice thick with emo tion, said: "May the Lord bless you for what you have done to-night." I was compelled to stay at the castle for a short time, until the brook should be sufficiently small to admit of my re crossing it. His Lordship would insist upon my going at once to bed, himself ordering and seeing that everything was done to render me comfortable. I slept, and the next morning I awoke in a burning fever. The events of the pre vious night had proved too much for me; I became delirious, and Dr. Hallett was obliged to be sent for. For upward of a month, I lay on that bed of sickness, the Earl paying me every attention. Though now tolerably convalescent, I was quite unable to re sume my professional duties, and a change of air was strongly advised for me. When the Earl heard this he at once proposed making a foreign tour, in which I was to accompany him. "It will be better for you to get away from this place," he said, " as soon as possi ble, fraught as it is with such painful recollections." His Lordship had, indeed, sustained bereavement. Not only was there the loss of his wife, but on the morning following that calamity there was picked up, some half mile down the stream, the black ened and disfigured form of his nephew, Sidney Lascelles. "Noble boy!" the nobleman would often say to me as he recounted the painful story, '!he tried to save your life, and lost his own in the attempt." Poor, doting old man, how could I undeceive him? How could I tell him thit the "noble boy" was little else than the murderer of his wife; how could I inform him that it was whilst trying to take my life, not to save it, that he met his untimely end. God knows that he had sorrow enough to bear, without my mercilessly adding to it; so he always believed in bis nephew's honor, and carried the false opinion of him to the grave. We went on our tour, selecting the East as, an interesting part. There, amidst the historic scenes, for a while his grief was lessened while the balmy breezes strengthened his attenuated frame. After a few weeks my health was perfectly restored, and the Earl proposed returning. Theohangehimvedhitn,thou gh his constitution ad was pro too shattered to bop of his ever being restored. "I shall never forget you," he' said, as we parted, after our return; and he kept his word. A short time afterward I received a letter from him, stating that in a large provincial town in which he was at the time staying with a relative there was a large practice vacant, which he had secured for me and, as he possessed great influence In that part, he doubted not but that I might do extremely well there. With many regrets I lett Dr. Hallett, and accepted his lordship's generous offer, and I am now enjoying a very extensive practice. The Earl always visited me whenever he was in town, and I noticed with sorrow the rapid decline of his health. A few years afterward, and the Right Honorable Sydney, eighth Earl of Av eril, breathed his last, But long before his death, he had caused to be erected a substantial bridge over the spot that had been the death-place of his nephew, and in which I passed such a" night of horror." And even now, in commem oration of that terrible adventure, it is known by the name of the "Doctor's Bridge." The Story of the Iliad. The story of the Iliad is very simple. It begins with the quarrel of Agamem non and Achilles about a captive girl, in the ninth year of the war, Achilles In anger withdraws from the Grecian camp. A series of battles follow, in which the Greeks, deprived of their swift-footed champion, suffered defeat and slaughter. In the meantime the secondary heroes press forward, and become the leading figures in the mar tial picture. In separate chants, the vali ant deeds of Diomedes, Ajax, Menelaus and Agamemnon, are commemorated. But the Trojans, led on by the crested Hector, drive the Greeks down to the very ramparts of the ships. One by one the heroes are wounded and disabled, and the prospect of disastrous overthrow stares them in the face. Agamemnon, at length, convinced of his fatal error, and anxious to recall the angry hero, sends an embassy with the offer of ample reparation. The proposal is haughtily rejected. The war again proceeds, with varying fortune. The Greeks are driven within their walls, anti the Trojans, led by rafotor, threaten to fire the ships. The battle wavers, Hector Is wounded and the Trojans are driven buck. Achilles at length consents that Patroclus, his brother-in-arms, shall put on his armor and go forth to battle. The appearance of this champion, clad hi the complete steel of the son 01 Thetis at first strikes terror into the hosts of I l roy, and gives heart to the Argives. But he is slain and spoiled of his arms by Hector, and fierce combats for the possession of the dead body follow. l'he Greeks pre vail and bear the slain hero back to the camp. Abhilles, overwhelmed with sorrow, abandons himself to unre strained lamentation. This calls his mother, Thetis, up from the sea. She finds him prostrate with grief, yet eager to exact a bloody vengeance from Hec tor and the Trojans ; Hector has the armor. She goes to the smithy of Hep haistos, wht readily forges a new shield of divine workmanship, a breastplate brighter than the blaze of fire, a strong wrought helmet without, with a golden crest and metal greaves. Achilles receives the arms, becomes reconciled with Agamemnon, who sends him precious gifts and restores the Briseis. After lamenting over the dead Patroclus, be mounts the car and rushes to the field, careless of life, and longing only for vengeance. And now the war comes to its terrible turning point. The Trojan and Grecian champions are ar rayed in deadly strife, and the divided deities share, according to their likings in the battle. As the action approaches a close, the description rises in grand eur. At length both armies are with drawn from the field, and Achilles and Hector alone remain. A single combat follows, and Hector falls. Achilles In sults the body of his foe, lashes him to his car and drags him down to his tent, in the sight of Priam and the Trojans, who gaze heart-stricken from the walls upon the dreadful spectacle. The Greeks returning to the camp, funeral games are performed in honor of Patroclus, and twelve Trojan youths are slaughtered to appease his shade. Thus twelve days are consumed. Priam resolves to visit the hostile camp and to implore of. Achilles the restoration of his dead son. An auspicious omen in spires him with hope. He departs, taking with him costly gifts by which he thinks to appease his vindictive enemy. He is met by Hermes, in the form of a young man, who guides him to the tent of Achilles. The Grecian hero, astonished at his sudden appear ance, gives him a hospitable reception, and, overcome by pity for his unequaled woes, consents to surrender the body of Hector. It is borne back to the city ; the inhabitants receiv it e it with loud lamentations; funeral rites are per formed, and so the poe closes. 001• Going home by Railroad. Under this heading, the San Francisco Bulletin has the following comments upon the revolution in' distance and time which the completion of the Pacific Railroad will bring about: " When the charter was obtained for the construction of the Pacific Railroad, it was the common remark of middle aged people : "rhe work will not be finished4n my day' my children may live to see it completed, and travel by rail across the continent. Ten years was named as the shortest time, but the public mind was slow to accept less than 20 to 30 years as the time required to execute sogigantic an undertaking. The distance from Sacramento to New York, by the Trans-Continental route, is 3,129 miles. Of the entire distance, 1,887 miles are now completed and in running order; so that there remains now 1,252 miles to be built. During the present Summer, all the heavy work in the Sierras will have been completed, and the grade will pass out to the great table land, where the work is comparatively easy. The work on the Atlantic end will reach the Rocky Mountains towards the latter part of the coming Summer; but no obstacles greater than those found in the Sierras are likely to be encountered, and the appropriation being wisely appor tioned to the difficulties of the work, there is no lack of financial stimulus even among the mountains. The heaviest work will of course exhaust the appropriation of $48,000 per mile, and the additional value of 12,800 acres of land; but the lighter work of the foothills and the plains puts the balance again on the right side. In such unequal work it is not easy to estimate the ratio of progress. It may be noted, however, that the ratio has steadily in creased during the past year, both com panies striving for the greater number of miles. Sanguine men who have watched these operations closely, are diet that the entire gap will be filled within two years. But allowing the mar - gin of a year for contingencies, the whole road is now likely to be completed early in the season of 1870, or in three years from this time. Thus, the men who predicted that they, should not live to see this road finished, will have a chance to ride over it before their beards ere fairly gray. Three thousand miles at best may be a weary ride, and somewhat exhausting to the nervous force. But the first week at sea is usually devoted to the horrors of sea-sickness. A week on the railroad takes us across the con tinent. Something of the monotony is relieved by sight-seeing, and the tedi ousness is mitigated by sleeping cars and other modern improvements. Ex cursion parties can halt at Salt Lake and Omaha, and from the latter place can go down the river as far as they choose by steamboat, and then elect by what route they will complete the jour ney to New York. Even now the pos sibility of going home by rail sounds strangely, and some of us will have to make the Journey once at least, before we shall fully compass the magnificent reality. Will there be restaurants in the wilderness, and will excursion par ties take their own lunch baskets, and What will constitute the make-up and oatl Co nti n e ntal the incidental comforts, for the jeux4 of 8,000 miles? LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING,.MAX 1, .1867. _i; iotilantouo. Graphic Description of the Great World's Exhibition. (From the New York Tribune.' Pains, April L 1867. Out of the dust of the innumerable crowd—that Malthusian world in which the journalist moves forever—l have come to put my pen across the fulcrum of my inkstand, and heave all of the Great Exhibition it can lift across the ocean for you to see. Place yourself in the brightest city of the world on its brightest Monday morning. Winter, long and stormy, has rained its last. An April without showers lifts every gauze from the sun, so that he lights up the broad boule vards, and the fresh green river Seine, and shows every current setting for the Champ de Mare. When you climb to your house-ton to follow the great eter nal caravans of men and wains and ban ners, you see' around you the city of Paris, the home of two millions of peo ple, floating over the undulations of a pleasant plain, through the middle of which, lengthwise, curves a stream as clear as Croton Lake, no wider than the Passaic, and which, in Its beautiful in utility, winds through five hundred miles of France, without a tide or a sail. Of the two unequal parts in which it bisects Paris, the greater is the North ern, where you stand, set against an amphitheater of hills, populous to their summits, and bounded in the vast level tract, near to thu river, by two proud monuments, three miles apart. The one is the Arch of Triumph, to com• memorate the glory of the original Bo naparte, and built by him to honor that one of his wives he imported to bear ills children ; the other is the shaft raised by the Republican people on the site of the 13astile, when they had driven the last licentious and bloody Bourbon from the capital. Halfway between these monuments, and in line with them, in the geometri cal center of the city, lies the mighty cluster of palaces, whose varying ten antry have made the history of modern Europe. Over the oldest of them to day a tri-color flag is flying to show that the most recent lessee of the Tuileries is at home. It is in the central dome or pavilion of this huge building that Louis Napoleon may be found, and if we as cend thither we may see him, thus early, looking across the wood and flower garden before the palace, to a vast boiler-like structure that, at a mile dis tant, coils in the midst of a flat, low lying plain in the suburbs of Paris. The Seine, beneath him, reaches down to it with frequent bridges, like a long bend ing ladder; it is upon the inferior side of the stream, and between it, and the great arch of triumph tile opposite river bank is bold and high table land, va cantly and suburbanly furnished. This huge boiler, as it seems, is the crowning show of this crowned European Barnum, the latest of his surprises, his bid to in dustry to appease uneasy history. * * * * * * You must consider befotif you look down from this hill of the Trocadero upon the Exhibition, that it is meant to be a complete epitome of the world, performing within its grounds all the functions of all races—sleeping only ex cepted. The steam that drives the engines, the folly that relieves toil, the drinking, eating and worshipping of every species of man must be manufac tured and warehoused here. You see, out 01 the infinite number of towers and roofs that at first confuses you, a broad vestibule, wide as Broadway, 800 feet in length, opening straight from the bridge of Jena to the Palace. This is canopied with green vellum, spangled with golden bees, the emblem of the Bonapartes, and every foot of itsurmounted with the flag of an independent nation. Flowers and statues line it on either side ; the Im perial stand ards of tricolors, banderolles, and orifiammes are flung from two great gonfalon masts at the portal; on the roof of the Palace, climbing through the sky as if the tinted clouds had descended to wreathe it, all the colors of each nation wave ; and in the angle between the long vestibule and the deep curve of the Palace, the broad white ermine, bright with bees, stretched upon the scepter and cross, denotes the pavilion of the Emperor. The buildings in the Park are capped with fanciful flags, indicative of their purposes; yonder you see the Turk dominating his mosque, and the cro cheted pagodas tell of Thibet and the land of tea; the frowning, sepulchral portals of the Egyptian adjoin the more intellectual effigies of the Assyrian lion, where lie sucking their pipes the pure skinned Persians ; high over all a light house pierces the sky, and the twinkle of waters among the trees denotes the ripple of artificial lakes that discharge under au iron bridge into the animated Seine. A railway depot, whose rails go flying through the air, and sapping a block of houses alternately to pass the river and thread the city, is equalled in spaciousness, nearest the eye, by a great international clubhouse for the bourse of the world. Past and beyond all the far-sweeping valley of the river goes to the right among purple and palaced hills, and dark forests; to the left under its marble bridges, a score in number, pointing, at its various angles, now to the far dome of the Pantheon—now to the towers of Notre Dame—now to the steep of Montmartre and the tomb stones in the groves of Pere la Chaise. Standing at the bridge next nearest the city on this bright Monday morn ing, you see all the quays filling with people. Nurses and cabmen, men in blue frocks, and old gentlemen in hats of curving brims, invalids in chairs and crutches, foreigners of every garb and hue, all pouring down to thestone river sides, and dividing at the bridge into two deep columns, one of which is bound for the Palace, the other for the Troca der°. The street beside them is filled with a stream of vehicles, all of which pass the bridge, and divide on the other bank into similar columns, the most numerous and plebeian of which is corn- Posed of visitors who will enter the alace by a side gate, paying $4 in gold a head, while the other represents the dignitaries of State and the great am bassadors, with the legislative bodies, who are to meet the Emperor and do him homage, in other words, to pay their respects, as he comes in state to open the show. Now you see in a great lumbering stage coach, fringed all around with red, the English Mar quis of Townshend come up, footman in powdered hair and padded calves clinging behind; now, in a plain ba rouche, very feeble-looking under his black wig, the venerable Rossini rides ; again, the beautiful daughters of Mr. Beckwith dash up in a barouche, and two gray Senators follow, talking poli tics together. Here is Berryer, the lion of Marseil les, a Republican orator of the stuff of Mirabeau, in talk with Theirs, the his torian, who is spectacled and pinched of face. M. de Girardin and wife come after, equal in intellect, and he is the first journalist of Europe, a fidgety figure, obstinate in the shoulders; now the Countess of Jersey succeds, very beautiful, her outriders scattering things as they wheel the curb ; and In the car riage of Prince Napoleon, who is not present, being disgusted with his cousin and all his cousin's jobs, the still spark ling face of George Sand flashes by, careful as a girl in her attier, and only a thread or two of gray in her luxuri ant tresses ; the careless young man in the barouche, almost a boy in dress and beard, is Gustave Dore, the foremost genius of our time ; behind rolls in state ponderosity the Duchess de Morny, half-sister by marriage to the Em peror—a Demidoff of Russia, slender, and fair, and young, and a widow of the best business gambler in France ; to her alternates Couture, the painter of the Roman deoadenceB, come from his re tirement to see his students' canvasses; nest rides Hiram Haines, of Alabama. the representative of the only Southern State, a serious•faced man, who has ac cepted)he political situation, and come here to induce emigration to his State; a pause brings along the American banker, Monroe, close to Dr. Carey, of. Buffalo, both driving baronohes; then' the Prnssian General, Von Benin, very fat, and whiskered, antreeif-importaut, closes in with the Ottoman Minister, in turban and cashmere, his cimetar a t girdle; 'the terribly grim face of Liszt, the planiet, drifts by like a nightmare, and Jules Janin, the critic, oily and lazy, anticipates the thin, high, blood • less face of Alphonse de Lamartine. When these have gone, with other hundreds, all known for birth, genius, or pocket, we hear a feeble cry of Vive 'l' .E'mpereur, and coining down the right bank of the river, tnrough the Tuilleries gardens, under .the shaft of Luxor, which marks the site of the guillotine, three coaches are seen with olden laced outriders and a squad of elmeted officers from the Cent Garde galloping around them. An officer on a racing horse clears the way ; the ob sequious Gene d' Armee, mounted, back their horses, trained not to kick, against the people, and falling back In dense lines, the strangers and citizens, used to the plentiful livery, see in the foremost carriage the Emperor and the Empress. Their horses are ridden, not driven. The Emperor is hablted in a dark brown overcoat, a high silk hat, bent at the rim, dark vest and breeches, and on his breast he wears the order of a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. A diamond pin shines in his bosom and he wears a fob•chain with adiamond seal. Bowing to the few opportunities the people give him by raising their hats, he is seen to smile In an automaton and ,wooden way, and to be a thick-set man of more body than legs, with very little neck In length and a good deal of bilious breadth to it, as if it fattened on fluids. His face is swarthy aud s wolleu t crossed by a waxed mustache which hides the mouth, but the Jaws are square aud shaven, aud darkly outlined on his white necktie; he has u fair character nose, alert ears, and grizzled hair, but his eyes grey and baffling, set under bushy brows without talk or confidence in them at any gleam, turned inward and only looking out like the tall of a squirrel that winks from its nest. The lower half of the face Is all auk- mal ; the upper all sphynx—and this Is the Emperor of France. The Empress, who bows very sweetly, and very often, inviting attention rather than respond ing to It, is attired in her most becoming robes—a purple brown satin dress with a long trail, and velvet bonnet to match neatly cut and richly laced and looped, around her shoulders a black satin cloak with velvet trimmings gives fullness with shapeliness to her long and elegant waist, and her color is heightened to correspond with her eyes, which aro always full of soft and fascinating ex pression. She looks younger, but not too young, for her husband, and her features are regular and pretty but not intellect, northe strength which reflects nor so beatiful as to pass the average of handsome women. she is a pretty Empress, These noted people riding forward face on the reverse side of the caleche, are General Rolin and Aid-de-camp Geniis, common-place military gentlemen, while in the second carriage two other officers an company the young Duchess of Ras sano and the Countess of Poeze. A third carriage carries, with their suitors, the Countess of Rayneval and Mademoi selles Kloectkler and Marion, waiting. ladies, and it is too palpable to be un gallant to say that, excepting the Em press, there were no fair stars in the galaxy. Coarse complexions, too much fat, and no grace of expression in her selected maids, gave Eugenie the de cided advantage. She reigns in effects, and her maids, for every public appear ance, must dress according to her or ders. There was a time when she dared to go abroad with the youngest and fairest. Now the beautiful are kept at home, end the Queen's back-ground is the middie•aged, and passe set, in dreary or preposterous toilettes. Judged by her companions of yesterday, I have no hesitation in saying that Eugenie was bewitching. When these have reached the head of the Bridge of Jena, a procession of a thousand terracers, laboring on the Trocadero Hill, come up with tricolor flags in their dirt casts, and one of them advancing presents the Empress with a bouquet. His bretheren shout very heartily here, for these workmen eat the Government bread every day, and when the Empress has leaned forward and thanked them prettily, the carriage pro ceedsLdown the aisle of the bridge. Two gigantic Arabs, reining down a pair of wild horses, stand in nude muscularity on the brink of the bridge. When the Emperor has passed them, a single can non speaks once along the running river. Then a signal flag waves back the tidings to the Tuileries that His Highness has safely arrived. Immedi ately, to a note of the buglers,the whole hidden interior of the Exhibition trem bles with the simultaneous throbbing of a dozen martial bands. The people along the crowded quays and up the Trbeadero hear them, and cheer ; all steam is set to action at once; wheels revolve and engines ply, while gangs of men In each of the depart ments beat stoutly with mallet and at loom. Upon the interior platforms all the bodies of dignitaries are assembled, and the exhibitors are at their places, while in each department its National Com mission is drawn up to he presented to the monarch. Beneath this pavilion the sovereigns alight, and the Prince and Princess Mu rat, the Duke of Leuchtemberg, the Count of-Flanders, the Pr' ace of Orange and the Princess Mathilde come for ward to pay homage. Princess Ma thilde is an elderly lady, plainly dressed, renowned for her evening parties chiefly. The Prince of Orange is the heir to the throne of Holland, and has forgotten the liberal traditions of his race ; he is a phlegmatic-looking young man. The Duke de Leuchtemberg represents the Czar of Russia, and the Princess Murat is a pretty young married woman, whom they married at court some time ago, because she was thought to want to be married. To these gravely speaking, the Emperor and wife pass on where, in the portal of this grand vestibule, stands the head of the Cabinet, Rouher, a strong-faced, amiable man , one of the best props of the throne, and the batter ed visage of old Marshal Vaillant, the grandson of a shoemaker, who is replete with decorations, but dwarfed beside the stature of Haussmann, the Prefect of the Seine, and the Emperor's strongest re liance. With these and others are Pio tri, the Prefect of Police, the Fouche of the time, a shrewd detective, and Du ruy, the Educational Caterer, who was promoted to a bureau because he wrote a Napoleonic School History. There are no words said, nor is there any ceremony. Quickly the couple and their suite pass from stage to stage, look ing at little, shaking hands with many bearded strangers, applauded at every new stage ; and so among piles of un packed boxes, under shelves, and sta tues, and hanging draperies, they glide, till the route has been traversed and they .are ready to depart. There were few episodes except two, which I will relate. An English exhibitor, in the depth of his servility, unable to comprehend why a monarch should walk upon the naked stairs, spread a piece of carpet before his stall, on which the Imperial party trod. Loyalty having got the better of the shopkeeper, was directly succeeded by a business spirit, and he attempted to pull up the carpet that the crowd at the Emperor's heels should not soil it. He was swept along by about a thousand rushing folks, and he cried loudly for policemen to help him in the rescue. These, suspecting an attempt at assas sination, came up with their rapiers, out off the tail of the Emperor's staff, and gave up the carpet, torn to shreds. Here ended dismally the last imitator of Sir Walter Raleigh. In the Swedish department the Em peror stepped aside with M. Moustier, one of his ministers, and confidential friend of his late half-brother, the Due de Moray. 'An American semi-official, who was close by, heard the younger gentleman say : " lifai beau terapa "—which means : "The weather is fine." Moustier replied: "Meteorologically and politically. To'which the answer was: "Indeed! I never saw such hapPY skies, socially, physically, or officially. There is war nowhere; we are in a fair way to get Luxemburg under our wing ; the sea son opens well for visitors. What else?" "The American treaty with Russia," said the Emperor. " I think it means nothing." " Russian America," said M. Mous tier, contemptuously, "Is a good place to out ice." "But It's a strategic place, on a great strait like Suez," iterated the Emperor, shakin'g his head. "Is there nothing in that? They have a telegraph be- tween each other now. In case of war Asia and America could act conjointly —t►' eat ce pas?" "The Yankee" said Dioustier, "neither makes war for jealously like the Eng lishman, nor treaties for vanity like France. This is a canard." I may add, that the great piece of news the morning the Exhibition opened, was the alleged cession of all Russipn America to the United States for $7,000,000. The man who told me this I do not know well enough to go his security ; but it sounds plausibly. I reserve a description of the interior of the Palace till the next mall, and go to some of its environs. Twice the dimensions of the great circle of the Exhibition, which has been not inaptly compared to a mon strous gasometer, is the park environ lug it, 1,000 yards lb length, and in breadth 800. Sixty edifices are inter spersed 11l this; 2,000 trees of good um brageous growth are planted in it ; five lakes and three waterfalls lie in its cool grasses ; it Is Intersected with artistic ir regularity by 70 paths and drives, and comprehends within it one edifice of every architecture known to civilized man. If you enter from the great por tal on the side of the Seine, and turn off the broad vestibule to either side, you meet successively a Spanish theater, where the Gitanos dunce to the clinking pulses of castanets; a Chinese booth, where jougleura impale each other, and eat red-hot fire; a Protestant chapel, where there is worship every day, and in the English language; a hospital, where any wounded in the crush of multitudes, or by machinery, receive speedy relief ; an Egyptian cemetery in gorgeous Moresque ; a French ball, where the girls in the cancan throw their feet into the spheres, waltzing ec centrically to the music of Pro Diarolo; an international theatre, where, at al ternate hours, a troup of every known nation, from Fetish dancers to negro minstrels, make hilarity ; a lake of clear water, filled with the trout of Fontein bleau that Bonaparte used to feed ; a tropical aquarium, where you can see a weak oopy of Mr. Hugo's Devil Fish, oatchingspidersandminnowsasalady's fan catches hearts; a Gothic cathedral, brown as If with age and pompous with masses from noon till dark; chalets of the Swiss, such as grow on Alpine tops, with real chamois grazing on their miniature precipices; Swedish and Rus sian shops and huts, grotesquely carved, where candles are sold as articles of food, and the Reindeer's horned branch from the gables ; a mock harem, inhabited by real Georgian girls, not prepossessing enough to keep close in their country, and many Chinese pagodas, all of por celain, where Confucius looks contempt at the. outside barbarians; Japanese households, with two of their country women, and a pair of little-footed wives or grass widows from China, smiling like a couple of almonds with double kernels in them ; strangehouses for rare lamps and engines ; cook-furnaces that make such duties as would turn a Chris- tian stomach though it had forty coats ; innumerable pavilions of rustic pat terns; scaled by kissing flowers with thirsty cups ; kiosques and orchestral stations, which blow music and the tinkle of bells on every quivering sun beam; tents such as are spread by the Arabs when they open the Thousand and One Nights and call the Genii into their opium smoke; observatories where the telescopes swing all day; and tiny rivers trickling off through pearly bot toms, turning little mills; while in the air great wind-wings turn lazily, as in a Dutchman's dream, and over all the light-house, one hundred and thirty feet in the clouds, flings its solid calcium glare Into the constellations to rival their fixed blaze. By day the garden is a gfeen conva lescence after the cramped splendor of the exhibition, when the tints of a Con tinental day mock the painted glasses of the Babel Interior; here stroll the little girls, half-way over womanhood, the soft lights fading from their faces and the ruddyness of thoughtful and dawning ambitions making deeper tints, while the great English dames stagger down the walks in the beefness of their middle age, and florid ladies of Ger many, all of one fervid flax, rise up in the perspective like -roue metamor phosed field of overripe grain. Midst these you see the American girl, deli cately-eyed, speaking heart and thought and purity in every modest step, light of foot and shy of presence, the noblest and leastirnitable contribution the world has given. At night, when the ham mers are quiet within the broad palace, and In tlio grasses the tapers glisten as if they were burning drops of dew, the gaities of the garden start into life, and in the cafes chantant the globes of light fall upon beautiful singers, twirling the tambourine, or Theresa, merry as drunken washerwoman, satirizing the times, and beautiful Cora Pearl, come out of sin to art with the stains lost in the sad splendor of hei eyes. And through this garden, where the Emperor, dragging his feet with nimble weariness, had passed—anxious to vin dicate the right of Kings never tp grow old ; where the Empress with her old, repeated smile, almost hereditary now, had gone among her maids ; stunned, perhaps, with the din of mallets, I walked at dusk, in the silvering of sky and stream, wondering whether I were most dazzled or most wretched. My feet were white with the dustof industry, my eyes dull with the overxi utensity of hues and suggestions. I felt that man was mighty, but mightiest for happiness when a little more scattered. And over- sobered by six miles of pedestrianism, 1 sat in the American restaurant—where the ice wasbeing shaken all the whileinto somebody's cobblers—under the eagle, the shield, and the E Pluribua Unum, and 1 thanked all the Stars we own that we were not a show people ; that we had as little government as there were meridians on our school maps—enough to guide and measure, not enough to cage; that there was more than one man at home, and that he had nothing larger than a policy. Then the last bugle blew. In the moonlight the great white horses of Jena rode over the float- Ing clouds. The tattoo beat every where at once, and the place was cleared to the beat of the drum. That is what is the matter in France. Even industry marches to the.beat of the drum. Felicitous Old Age To be great, to grow old in greatness, to be surrounded by all the comforts and business of life, to possess a wife still young, who adores you, and a mother in-law in whose eyes you are a species of demigod—what more of earthly happiness could man desire? This acme of felicity has been reached and is enjoy ed by M. Tillers, the French statesman and historian, now in his ,eventy-fifth year. His study is said to be the most delightful place of its kind conceivable; an oblong room whose many windows open upon a gallery looking out upon a garden so ski lfully laid out and planted that it produces the effect of a park. Clumps of trees and shrubbery, foun tains and statues, ana in the center a fine old tree, up which climb a mass of creeping plants, add to the densely populated and noisy quarter which you quitted on entering the house into the - . very depths of.the country. This study is a happy blending of the library, picture gallery, and curiosity shop. Masses of books, pamphlets, plans, and atlases ; copies in water colors of Michael Angelo Raphael, Titian, and the other great lights of Italian art; marbles, bronzes, and artistic objects from every corner of the world, adorn the room in which M. Thiers has redeived so many alitdistinguished visitors of every nation y. NUMBER 17 News Items. The tobaooo trade of New York amounts to $100,000,000 annually. The Eaterhazy Jewels brought but $lBB,OO O at auction. A gold mine in Lamphin ()minty, Ga., yields from $5OO to $l,OOO per day. Strawberries are plenty in the New York market at 25 cents each. A fashionable party should bo called "daughter cultural shoe•." The Massachusetts Legislature has re jected the eight-hour bill. The Old Bowery Theatre, in New York, sold for $106,000. Several thousand Indians are on the " war path" in Colorado. The Indians recently carried offl2A mules from a Government train near Fort Mitch ell in Dakota. The Methodist Episcopal Church at Au burn, New York,:has been burned. Loss, (V. 8,000. A dozen cases of infanticide have come to light in New England within the past two weeks. o fo n u e r d pe sy rKi last ns w w wi er k e , Five mad dogs were killed In Chicago b a i n tt d en o . n the same day The umaha papers complain that new comers there have to sleep out of doors owing to the lack of houses. The New York Legislature on Friday voted a quarter of a million of dollars to build a new capitol building at Albany. Last year the radicals of Chicago elected their mayor by a majority of 0,887. This year by a majority of only 3,867. Yellow fovor has mado Its appearance In Palumbola harbor. It was brought from St. Thomas, W. 1., whore It prevails. A violent tornado swept over Newton, Sussex county, N. J., ou Monday, doing a considerable damage. The American Institute of Homeopathy velll hold Its annual session In the city of New York In the ensuing month of June. A Journal in St. Petersburg, Russia, an nounces that the cholera seems Inclined to roptiiit its visit of last year. Many eases have appeared In the hospitals. Of 1,320 Episcopal churches In the United States, 269 bear the name of Christ, 264 of St. John, 257 of St. Paul, 242 of Trinity, 172 of Grace, and 122 of St. James. A Southern editor says he recently drew a lottery prize consisting of thirty-eight ar ticles. It was a pint of bitters with that number of ingredients. Must have been Mtmliler's. The ship William Cumming arrived at Philadelphia on Thursday with a cargo of 48 000 bughplg of California wheat, which will net the owner a profit of over $BO,OOO. The Connecticut ihrmors aroturning their attention this spring to the cultivation of sorghum in place of tobacco, tho latter bo• ing vary slow of sale. A dispatch from Throo Rivers, Canada East, says the water has risen to a groat height. The lower portion of the town was Inundated, and the water was still rising. The Union Hotel, theatre and two stores in Petroleum Centro were destroyed by an incendiary lire on Tuesday night. Loss $7 ,000, The incendiaries were arrested. At a stile of coins in Now York on Friday, a silver dollar, coined in 1704, brought $42.50. A half dime, dated 1704, was purchased for $O, and a cent dated 1709, sold for $2O. Two men quarrelled on the race course at Augusta, Ga., on Monday night, and one tired at the other, killing a third man, who was standing by. A brother of the deceas ed then killed the man who did the shooting. The Freedmen's Bureau agents in Nortk Carolina report the freedmen In that State as generally industrious, and on good terms with the whites. Similar reports come from Kentucky and Mississippi. Miss Kate Bateman, the actress, is recov ering from a dangerous illness, caused by a poison which had infused Itself into her system some months ago when having a tooth filled. The election of delegates to the State Con stitutional Convention was held in New York yesterday. The vote was very light. The Republicans have a majority of the delegates In the State. Gen. Hancook's expedition entered an Indian village on the Pawnee Fork, on the 13th, but the Indians had fled, and General Custer was detached in pursuit of them, A general war is expected. Dr. Abrahams, who died a few days ago in New York, left nearly the whole of his fortune of $300,000 to various charitable in stitutions, Including $25,000 to the Jews' hospital. General Sickles has issued an order re.ar ranging the sub districts in South Carolina. He forbids the sale of liquor to soldiers, and directs post commanders to exercise a su pervision over civil officers under their commands. The churches erected in Cincinnati at prssent will accommodate 72,700 persons. There are eighteen Catholic houses of wor ship, ten Baptist, twenty-one Methodist Episcopal fifteen Presbyterian and four Episcopalian. At the latest reports there were in the principal ports of the United States the fol lowing numbers of vessels: New York, 556; Philadelphia, 157; Boston, 148; New Orleans, 114; Galveston, 89; Charleston, 27 ; Savannah, 30; Mobile, 13. Sir Frederick W. A. Bruce, the British Minister, called upon the President and read him an official communication from the English government, announcing the birth of a royal baby, the child of the Prince and Princess of Wales. The New York Legislature adjourned on Saturday. The Tribune was not pleased with its proceedings during the session, charging it with the greatest venality, and hoping that the Constitutional Convention, to ho chosen In New York to-day, will give that State "a House so large that no lobby can own and run it." A top has been invented in Paris, called ho prolific top; it is set spinning by a thread and needle. As soon is it is fairly in motion, a half dozen small tops come out of it—how? that is the inventor's secret— and begin to spin around it like thesatelitos of Jupiter, and after some time the top re absorbs them. A St. Paul, Minnesota, dispatch of yester day says: The river overflowed the levee yesterday, submerging a portion of West St. Paul and the Minnesota Valley Rail rand, stopping trains for several days. The Minnesota river overflowed at Mankato, and the town of Leseur is underwater. The steamer Itasca has arrived from La Crosse, and navigation is fully open. A gentleman at Calhoun, in Gordon county, Ga., states that he recently saw in one day seventy•tive women in that place, some of whom had walked ten miles in search of food to save themselves and their children fro starvation. In that and other nt counties of Georgia there are hundreds of similar cases of destitution which call loudly for relief. Rats, it is reported, weigh on an average a pound each, arid each pound represents five bushels of corn. A ship laden with corn was recently discharged at Antwerp, and an immense swarm of rats of enormous size rushed from the hold and invaded the neighboring vessels, warehouses and habi tations. The workmen were obliged to re treat to give passage to these unwelcome strangers A Wisconsin paper tells a story of a man who eloped with another's wife, but on go ing to the hotel breakfast table in Chicago, where such congenial spirits most do con• gregate, was filled with consternation at seeing his own wife with the man whose domestic peace he thought he had wrecked forever. After consultation each escorted his own lawful wife back to his deserted hearthstone. M. du Chaillu, the great el,plorer of Africa, though born in Paris in 111132, came to the 'United States when quite a boy, and as soon as he was of age, took out his letters of naturalization. His love of natural his tory and taste for ethnological studies de veloped themselves early, and he became a regular attendant at the meetings of our New York geographical and ethnological societies. . Ex-Governor John Seldon Roane, of Ar kansas, died on the Bth inst., atter a long illness, at his home near Pine Bluff, Jeffer son county, in that State. He was elected Governor of Arkansas on the Democratic ticket in 1848. He served in the Mexican war, attaining the rank of ColoneL During the rebellion he was an officer in the Con federate army, and was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. As an illustration of the perfect condition to which the working of the Atlantic cable has been brought, a London paper men tions that recently in the business of three entire days, during which messages were transmitted containing 24,440 letters (or 48,- 880 letters when doubled for repetition,) the repetitions showed a mistake of only one letter, consisting in the substitution of Pat tieson for Patterson. A St. Louis dispatch of yesterday says The latest accounts from Platte river say that the freshet had reached its height, and the water is slowly receding, and there is no fear offurther danger to the Zaciilo rail road entertained, and the recent damage will be speedily repaired. The worst break was near Elkhorn Station, where four hun dred yards of track was Waahedaway. The road between Omaha and Chi ftv la badly damaged, and the water is etill doing. nOtiQek.••••*••••••.. Auditor.' II0U01111....." Other "Notice.," tanunes, or los, throel.so Fenianlsm is very quiet at present on both aides of the Atlantic. Correspondents In Ireland, however, report that the people of that country anticipate another and more extenaive Fenian rising, and that the British commander is forced to keep fUlly prepared for active operations at any mo• ment. We noticed, a week or two ago, the mar riage of Miss Bessie Curtis, of New York, to the Marquis de Talleymnd-Perigord, son of the Duke de Dino, and grand nephew of the famous Prince Talleyraud. Miss Curtis did not change her religion to that of her husband, because the considerable popula tion of peasantry belonging to the large Talleymnd Prussian estate are Protestants, and are rejoiced at having for chatelaine a Protestant and an American. The latest and most comprehensive illus tration of universal suffrage occurred the other day in Casa county, Illinois. There was a contest between the towns of Reads town and Virginia as to which should In future be tho county seat. Readatown was beaten badly. Virginia cast more votes than there wore adult Inhabitants in the place, and theaupposition is that the babies were carried up to the polls and thus early in life initiated Into tho mysteries of the ballot box. There has been some correspondence be tween General Pope and Governor Jenkins, of Georgia, on the subject of the latter's ad vising non-notion under the Reconstruction act. Gov. Jenkins, in reply to an inquiry by the General, says ho had not soon Gen eral Pope's order, No. 1, before giving the advice, but he should say and do avhath believed was required by his positioh. Gen. Pope rejoins by informing the Governor that the laws passed by Congress must be executed. Mrs. Grant and the General will not be absent from the Capital more than three weeks at any ono Bine during the coming season. During thomobrief Intervals they intend visiting Saratoga, Newport (which they have never Keen) and Long Branch. The General keeps a stud of u dozen horses, and has lately given two of his thioat road sters to an Intimatefriond, Just now,"Old Gray," better known as "Butcher" from past service in a cart of that calling, is the prince favorite, A New England woman thinks she has found Paradise In Florida. She writes as follows: "I believe I have at last found the fabulous country whore the month of March is delightful. My visit here has been like sunshine and spring to u frost-bitten plant. I have had more life—moro rent—more ap petite—more ()aluminum pleasure In oxint once, than I have had fur yearn In Now England. Hero nine, be my future home, for at leant half the year, If 1 urn to live and do anything. Hero I um a living woman; at the North I ant for 141 X months a half dead ono." The hovers of the Flood. The Memplilm A vainnehe Kaye, In mpeaking of the late terrible flooda that have °marred on the Mbialredppl and the lower rlvere, that the appearance of them now that the water hne subaided, "causes a Auditor to the be holder." It Hayti: Battle-fields have presented spectacles from which oven the bravest shrink, and harrowing narratives have boon malted of distress, amounting almost to starvation, where triumphant armies have passed, with all the pride and panoply of war; but it was left to the unpitying flood, which know so sympathy, to wind its resistless currents around high and low, and hurl them to de struction. The valleys and the elevated grounds were all a prey to the fierce and relentless element. Where safety was sought, and security was believed certain, the invader reached his engulfing arms, and swept off everything. Fortunes wore destroyed even while the sad eyes were turned upon the wreck, divided now in interest with the instinct of self-preservation. It makes us shudder to contemplate what has been described to us of cattle, horses, swine, and even men, women and children, heaped together in one indiscriminate pile with driftwood, fences and brush, by the merci less waters. From beneath the long-standing overflow the earth appears once more. The cabin and the more boastful dwelling, where hospitality abounded, are seen no more where they once stood And their inmates —where are they? Scattered in every direction, houseless and homeless, or have perished even in the fullness of health t with all their highest hopes, their loves and Joys dashed in a moment, to be revived no more forever. AU along the borders of the great stream, for miles inland—that great stream, which washes more States and fructifies more soil than any other on the globe—these scenes of devastation are disclosed by the reced ing waters. Fortunate, indeed, were those who escaped with life. Like poor wretches who flee from conflagrations, they pre served life, but saw all else swallowed up in ruin. Pen cannot paint the horrors of such scenes. Reality far outstrips what oven imagination might paint. Hunger wasting into famine, and fading into death, with all the throes and agony of FiLeing dearest friends thus tortured out of exist ence—all those are themes at which the heart revolts as too terrible to be dwelt upon for description. We draw the curtain over the painful picture, and turn to the present duty. A Mysterlowe Supposed Suicide Nine Tears Ago Proven to Have Been a De liberate Murder•--How a Seduced Wo. man Avenged Her Wrong. [Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune.l BLANDVILLF., Ballard county, Ky., April 12, 1867.—The usual quiet of this little vil lage has been disturbed by an incident of great moment to us, and one which forcibly illustrates the old saws that " murder will out" and " a woman cannot keep a secret." About eleven years ago there came to this county, and settled about five miles from this town, a man named Hudson, of South Carolina, in which State ho abandoned his wife and three children. One of his neigh bors, named Belcher, was the father of two buxom daughters, between the younger of whom, aged fifteen, and Hudson there sprung up an intimacy which resulted in the seduction of the girl. Nine years ago this month Hudson committed suicide, and was found in the garret of his house hang ing by the neck, his knees touching the floor. He must have committed the deed some four or five days before his body was discovered, us the remains had com menced to decay, and one side of the face and ear were much eaten away by the rats. A coroner's inquest was held over the body and a verdict of suicide was returned. One of the Jurors, however, noticed something like a piece of iron in the ear of the de ceased, but did not examine it very minute ly, nor did he mention the fact for some timeiafter. The younger Belcher girl married a man named McNabb, with whom she has since lived very happily, notwithstanding she became a mother in a few months after she married. The family prospered; the elder sister likewise married and was much respected, none of the neighbors having aught to say against either of the girls. But there was a skeleton in both of the house holds; and the sisters, as they plodded along the journey of life, were continually harassed by fears and doubts, each striving in vain to lay the visions which haunted their minds. A few weeks since, during wilt of de spondency, the younger sister divulged to a neighbor the terrible secret which had so long weighed upon her conscience and made her life a torment. It was thatherself, with her sister and husband, had murdered Hud son Her story was that in company with McNabb, whom she afterwards married, and her elder sister, she called upon Hudson, and, telling him of her situation, upbraided him with her betrayal. Hudson attempted to laugh away the affair, and for the first time informed her of his being a married man. This incensed both the sisters and McNabb, all of whom commenced an assault upon Hudson, as had been proviously agreed upon in case he refused to render justice to the girl he had so foully wronged. Hudson was easily overpowered and killed by:driving into his ear a portion of the Iron spindle belonging to a spinning wheel. After the murder was accomplished the body was taken to the loft of the cabin, and left banging by the neck, as it was found several da's thereafter. The woman to whom the fearful secret was imparted divulged the facts before the grand jury at the present term of the Circuit Court, who at once found a bill against Mc- Nabb, his wife, and sister-In-law; and yesterday the parties were arrested, brought to this town, and placed in jail. The women are bothdecidedly good look ing, but their countenances seem to indicate that they have no hope. Injury to a Fine Work of Art. We regret to hear of serious injury sus. tained by the beautiful statue known as "Barbee's Coquette."—During the war it was purchased by our townsman John G. Meem, Es q., and sent to Mount' Atrey, his fine estate in Shenandoah county A few days ago, while a young lady visiting the house was turning it on its pedestal it top pled overand fell to the floor, breaking one arm in two places. sod also the nose. This was regarded as one of the moat exquisite pieces of statuary in the United States, and it is a real calamity to art that it has sus tained these damages. She is not the first coquette, however, who has come to grief.... Amclitturg Virentan.
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