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Yon little cottage beneath the bill
Was dearer than all the world to me.
By It so merrily bowed the rill,
Birds sung around It, and hummed the bee
Flowers bloomed near it—hollyhocks tall,
With pure, sweet violets, lilies fair.
Bed roses blossomed against the wall,
And she whom I loved, Any llow'r,dwelt there.
Over her forehead the lovely hale
Rippled iu waves of the chestnut's brown;
And on her soft cheeks, no purely fair.
.Nestled the blush of the rose new blown.
Looking above with her sweet calm eyes,
Bearing the hue of the slimmer sky,
Loving me truly—forgive these sighs,
For all things loved her, and so did I.
Ali, me! how bright was Love's fleeting hour,
Fleeting, iw all earth's bright hours must be;
For the angels carne and bore my flow'r
' To blossom in Heav'n, away from me.
I could not mourn her, full well knowing
Site Ives most West In her heav'nly home;
'Tis long years since, and I am going
Soon, !loon to meet her beyond the tomb.
Better for are, tho' she is lying
Under the sod where the daisies grow,
Better for in.,, who kissed her, dying,
She has no part In life's care and woe.
Crown'd with the crown to ransomed
Clad In Ilan robe that the angels wear, •
Slinging glad InNtnnti lu (nods holy Hem ,
I know my darling awaits me there. L
Xittrarm.
A Chapter of !tumor
Letter from John Quill
I am at the sea-shore trying to get a
little recreation and improve my health,
instead of that, I am likely to lose what
little creation I have and ruin my con
stitution. You know I came down here
expecting to lie around and enjoy my
self, and if I saw any kind of a chance,
to mix in with any beauteous girl with
uu atilt ient father, who might he around.
I spent the last two weeks in June com
mitting oceanic poetry to memory, and
I suppose I can declaim more briny
verses from Byron or II eorge Bolter
than any other four men between here
and Kansas.
Aln this sort, or thing, you see, is de
licious I inagine yourself, as I did, upon
the beach, with the eternal breakers
dashing :ind roaring and heaving at
your feet, while the soft 1110011 rose
up slowly out or Its weltering depths,
and dung a bar of molten silver o'er the
(laming waves, while you sit on the
sand with 011(110'111 urouud the waist of
a queenly girl, tout with the other wipe
the Inevitable perspiration from your
forehead, or bat every now and thou at
a voracious gteen•huaded Ily !
Could anything lie more delicious. A
more delightful situation cannot he
imagined. Nature in all her various
moods all'ordm 110 inure appropriate and
suggestive season for Indulgence In that
tender intercourse which drdws soul to
soul and makes 'wart beat to heart.
And that, you may say, is what I am
individually on at the present time, or
rather, would be on were it lot for cer
tail,' adverse circumstances.
There is a great deal of adverse cir
cumstances in this case. The fact is, I
am afflicted with fat woman. Adipose
female is my complaint, and I've got it
so had that sometimes I seriously think
or throwing myself in the undertow
and floating out to become food for
This Is the way it occurs: You see
there Is a man here whose father was
acquainted with my father, and whose
robust pocket-book corresponds, cont.
parati vely, with the size of his daugh
ter. She, forsooth, Is a maiden who
assumes lb have seen but twenty sum
mers, but she has put in the time so well
that she has collected More beef and tis
sue, and so on, on her skeleton than
Would serve six ordinary women.
Well, you see, this heavy father has
his equally heavy daughter on his
hands, and he comes down here and lays
Mr It chance to throw her over into
main' [nutty with some unsuspected man.
In an evil hour I was induced to bor
row money from him, and now he
threatens me with the sheriff or his
daughter, whichever I choose. Of
course, I prefer the sheriff, but I worry
along with the fat woman until I see a
chance to bolt.
You have no idea how trying it is.
Her mane is Maria, and Maria is always
wanting to go into bathe. So we go
down to the beach, and I walk in her
shadow to get out of the heat. When
she el/11M to the bath house, ten chances
to one, that she nearly rips the clothes
oil of her trying to get through the door,
and then, just as like as not, I've got to
walk back and get a carpenter to come
down and take out four or live planks
au as to get her in, and then when she
is in, it is necessary for me to stand
there and hold those loose planks in
plinie while she takes oil her envelopes.
Then she comes out and tries to trip
lightly over the sands. Did you ever
see the eleplmnt dance at the circus?
Well, that's her, she looks more like a
molasses cask on two legs than any
thing else, and she's about as graceful
115 all OX.
And she wanted me to teach her to swim.
Wouldn't I hold her by the waist while
~he sa\V It she could Matt ? Waist? talk
about putting a girdle around the earth
about th e equator, or the rings oftiaturu!
Why, 1 tell you you might as well try to
embrace the dome or the capitol at
Washington. No, I would grab for a
hold anywhere else, but she niusu't ex
pect me to take her by the waist; I
would rather go and give myself up to
the sheriff at once than do that.
1 got hold of her, and she laid over on
ier back to sin! an extent that it caused
a Hood tide, and then her head went
under, and she came up blowing like an
organ bellows.
Time," said 1;
" boy mules up snail-
jug.''
But she couldn't, appreciate innocent
amusement, and she said if I tried to
drown her she would tell her pa. '
Illast her pa, a watery grave is just
what he is suffering Mr.
Why didn't I hold her up? she said.
I wasn't, a samson, I replied. I had
never taken the prize at the gymnasium
for lifting twelve hundred pounds.
Who did she take me for? So she laid
over again, and just then a breaker
came, so that she lost her balance, and
one of her legs went up so that she
kicked me In the nose. 1 don't see how
she ever did it. It seems impossible.
But she didn't care anything about
my agony. Indeed, I think she was
proud of having drawn first blood for
Maria, but she said nothing, except
that she wanted to try floating again.
But I believedl wouldn't go in for an
other chance; I was afraid she might
roll over me and flatten me out.
Then she said she didn't believe I
loved her, and I told her that as a
guesser 1 never saw her equal. Would
I swim out to save her if she was
drowning? she asked. I thougnt not;
I hadn't my life insured ; and I never
went whale fishing in my life. Besides,
I wasn't a tug boat, and had no horse
power about me.
When she came out you ought to have
seen her. She left the bar high and
dry all along the coast, and there was
enough water in her clothes to float au
iron clad.
Then you ought to see her at a hop.
She has an idea she can dance, and
when she expressed herself to this effect,
I went down stairs to see the man who
owns the place, and advised Lim as a
friend to shore up the floor with any
spare timber he might have around for
1 knew if she got to hopping there would
be an earthquake somewheres in that
neighborhood sure.
She wears a gaiter that takes a whole
side of leather, and if she once puts her
foot on yours, you are a helpless cripple
for life ; so I was unwell that night and
couldn't dance.
But she danced. She gother hands on
another of her pa's victims and tried to
waltz with him.
You ought to have seen that man.
You recollect when you wore a boy see
ing other boys trying to climb very
large and smooth chestnut trees, with
'to branches within a quarter of a mile
gY, You know they could never
ip on it. Just so with this
would clutch and grab for a
place where Maria's waist
we been, but he would slip
ime, and you never saw a
:able man in your life. I be-
lILi
no
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lieve he committed suicide three days
afterward.
She wanted me to drive her out in a
carriage yesterday, but there wasn't a
man on the island who was willing to
take her. And they were right; no
man wants his vehicle broken to pieces.
So we went around to the lighthouse,
and she insisted upon going up to the
top, but the keeper, he said the thing
was not very steady anyhow, and he
didn't want it made topheavy, and
have any accidents happening while
the Government debt is so large.
If you can do anything for this man
I will feel obliged. I consider him a
valuable official.
_ .
Would I take her out in a yacht, and
let her catch some fish there? she said.
told her no, there was no use, because
there wasn't any canal boats down
here, and I didn't want her father to
have to pay for raising any sunken
yachts. But she had set her heart on
it, HO I bribed a man to take her out in a
schooner.
It seemed to me we must have fished
for a week without any good result.
Excepting that a million or so green
headed tiles gathered around Maria,
and seemed to enjoy themselves cutting
out chunks of superfluous flesh.
I like these insects; they are intelli
gent animals ; you just leave your green
headed fly alone to hunt out good forag
ing ground. They go right to the spot
by instinct. When I got Maria home
she was covered with blisters, and swell
ed to twice her natural size. The hotel
man thought I was bringing home a
mass meeting or a woman's rights con
vention with me. •
But what am I to do? Here I am
with this woman on my hands and no
means of relief. Can't you sue out a
writ of hubcus corpus and get the Gov
ernment to send around a fleet to bring
the corpus home? Something has got
to be done, or I'll die.—Phila. ,SUndag
Transcript.
iWrltteu for the Intelllgeneer.l
"Only a Child!"
On my way down the street a few days
since, I was detained for a moment eta
crossing by the slow and solemn pas
sage of a funeral. Carelessly I asked
the question : " Whose funeral is that
and us carelessly was the answer given:
" It is only a child !" Scarcely were the
words uttered than a lady, evidently
the mother of the child, passed me.—
She must have heard the question and
the reply, alike cureless, for she raised
her eyes, and cast on me a look I never
can forget, for in It were blended pity,
sorrow and a mild rebuke for my heart•
less tone.
" Only a child !" It seemed to say.—
"Aye, so It may be to you, but do you
know what It is to me? Do you know
what it Is to have the lignt of your home
extinguished—your precious flower
blighted? To you it may be may a
child, but to me! Oh! words cannot
express the aching void its loss has kit
in my lonely heart."
retraced my steps to my own quiet
fireside, for I could no longer seek the
guy crowd to which my steps had been
bent, and sitting there alone, I pictured
to myself the little life whose last sad
scene I had witnessed.
I thought of the helpless infant, dear
er from its very helplessness, tenderly
cradled in the loving young mother's
arms. How she cherishes the little
creature—how gladly she hails the first
gleam of intelligence in its eyes! It
learns to love her, to know her, to smile
ut her. Every day is a step, every day
discovers some new wonder in the trea
sure committed :to her care. To her,
the story ls new,—it never loses its
interest, though repeated so often since
the first mother's arms encircled her
son ! Oh, what tender feelings she has
for her child! what happy autieipa-
ons for the future cluster around the
recious little being! It learns to creep
to stand. At last, guided by loving
hands, baby steps alone. This is au
epoch for the parents. Never, surely,
was there such a baby—one so lovely,
so bright! Do you laugh at their rap
ture. Ah, 'tis one of the few innoceut
pleasures left us iu this gloomy world
of ours!
Soon baby begins to talk. No one
can understand him save the parents ;
but how proud the mother is—how she
displays baby and his accomplishments
to all her friends. Aud thus a year, or
more, or the little life passes.
He is no longer " baby." No, he is
too large for that. Now, he is "my
boy" and " Georgie." There is no
music sweeter,than his merry laugh, no
dearer care than to amuse him. How
le mother loves to hear the patter of
those little feet—to hold him in her
arms—to listen to his merry prattle.
She likes to see his toys on the carpet—
to give him her work-box to upset—
nothing that lie can do is wrong, and
when he is asleep, how the father and
mother sit and talk over the happy
future "when our Georgie will be a
man." Every plan, every thing has re •
fereuce to the welfare of their boy.
llut Georgie will not play one day.
He is drooping and tired. Poor little
fellow, he does not know what ails him,
he only feels he Is sick, his only cry is
"mamma, mamma!" Aud she is ever
near him—willing and anxious to take
his sufferings on herself, unwearied lu
her care of him. And a few days go by,
he is worse, till at last even hope is lost,
and they know that he must die.
it is all over now, the loving eyes are
closed, the pure little spirit has flown.
do stranger hands may touch the fair
casket. Prepare the beloved little form
for the tomb, clasp the waxen hands on
the breast, and cut one soft curl from
the brow. Lay him in the grave, fond
mother, and return to your lonely home,
the more lonely from its former happi
ness, Shall I draw the picture farther?
.No, let me rather draw a veil over the
bitter grief of the hearts made desolate
—though 'tie "only a child !"
An American Artist in London
The A ii,rjlo- Ante elm' Tiny e, publish
ed in London, of date July 6, says :
"Mr. B. F. Reinhart, who has been
working at 39, Berner street, London,
has just finished a picture which it is a
pity, for the sake of American art, was
not completed in time to obtain a place
in the exhibition of the Royal Academy.
The subject represents a party of Penn
sylvania emigrants on their way to the
Illinois prairies. The sun is setting,
the day's journey completed, and the
encampment arranged by the side of the
State road, which before railways were
general witnessed many scenes in the
prairies such. as Mr. Reinhart has so
graphically and truthfully depicted.
The halting-place is near a creek, of
which the artist has availed himself to
group his figures in a manner which,
though testing his powers to the utmost,
gives a fine effect to his picture. On
the slope from the road to the water the
people are gathered, and above them
the teams of horses are picketed by the
wagons. The great attraction is the
sluggish stream, into which a cow, with
her fore legs well immersed, has dipped
her nose, and from which another nas
raised hers all dripping. A flock of
sheep are in the act of descending the
embankment. One man is filling buckets
for the team, while another comes along
the road with a bundle of prairie grass
on his shoulders. The horses, painted in
the most lifelike attitudes, are awaiting
their evening meal, and the women are
cooking the supper in a pot suspended
from a tripod over the fire. An old man is
sitting by with a pipe in his mouth, a
gun in his hand, and his dog lying by
his side. A yoke of bullocks have come
up just loosened from the wagons.
Figures of women and children are
clustered on the slope. The wagons
comprise all descriptions of vehicles
used by travelers in the prairies. The
picture has been worked out with the
greatest elaboration, yet the artist has
succeeded in combining a bold and
striking effect with this exquisite finish.
Mr. Reinhart's great forte lies in his ad
mirable delineation of animals, and this
subject is well chosen to display his
power. 'His picture is one of whioh
he may well be proud."
pioallantotio.
Costume and Its Morals.
[From the Saturday Review. I
Nothing is more decisively indicative
of the real value or pecessity of a thing
than the fact that, while its presence is
hardly noticeable, it is immediately
missed and asked for when it disap
pears; and it is thus that the paramount
importance of clothing asserts itself by
the conspicuousness of its absence. Of
course, the first purpose of dress is, or
should be, decency, and, for this, quan
tity rather than quality is looked for.
But as with the little cloud , no larger
than a man's hand, so from the primary
fig-leaf or first element of dress, how
great things have arisen! In respect
of amplification, dress may be said to
have attained its maximum when men
wore rubs which nearly concealed their
heads, and shoes a quarter of a yard
longer than their feet; but " fashion "
has its day, and now dress threatens to
dwindle into something not far from
its original or fig leaf dimensions. An.
other perfectly legitimate object of dress
is attractiveness, so that by his aid our
persons may be set off to the best ad
vantage; dress should also be individual
and symbolic, so as to indicate clearly
the position and character which we de
sire to obtain and hold. It is not of
men's attire that we have now to speak;
that has been settled for them by the
tailors' strike, which practically ordain
ed that lie that was shabby should be
shabby, or even shabbier still, and he
that had allowed himself to be thrust
into the straitened trowsers and scanty
coatee of last year should continue to
exhibit his proportions long after the
grotesqueness of his figure had been re
cognized even by himself. But it is of
the dress of our women that we are
compelled to testify, and it can hardly
be denied that at the present moment
it offends grievously in three particu
lars: It is inadequate for decency; it
lacks that truthfulness which is, and
should be, the base of all that is attrac
tive and beautiful ; and in its symidolism
it Is in the higliestdegree objectionable,
for it not only aims at what is positive
ly hateful and meretricious, so that it
is difficult now for even a practised eye
to distinguish the high-born maiden or
matron or Belgravia from the Anpny
mas who haunt the drive and Jill our
streets.
This indictment is, it may be said, a
severe one; but if we examine, so far as
male critics may venture to do, the cos
tume of a fashionable woman of the
(lay, it can hardly be said to be unjust.
The apparent object of modern female
dress is to assimilate Its wearers us near
ly as possible hi appearance to women
of a certain Class—the class to which It
was fornferly hardly practicable to al
lude, and yet be intelligible to young
ladies ; but all that is changed, and the
habits and customs of the women of
the delni-112.011(1G are now studied as if
they were indeed curious, but excep
tionally admirable also, and thus a
study unseemly and unprofitable has
begotten a spirit of limitation which
has achieved a degrading success. "Our
modest matrons meet," not " to stare
the 'strumpet down," hut to compare
notes, to get hints, and to engage in a
kind of friendly rivalry—in short, to
pay that homage to Vice, and in a very
direct way too, which Vice is said for
merly to have paid to Virtue. Paint
and powder are of course the first requi
sites for the end in view, and these ad
juncts have to be laid on with such skill
as the debutante or her toilette-maid
possesses, which is sometimes so small
as to leave their handiwork disgustingly
coarse and apparent. There are pearl
powder, violet-powder, rouge, bistro for
the eyelids, belle donna for the eyes,
whitelead and blacklead, yellow dye
and mineral acids for the hair—all tend
ing to the utter destruction of both hair
and skin. The effect of this "diaphan
ous" complexion and " aurified" hair
(we borrow the expressions) in a person
intended by nature to be dark or swarthy,
is most comical ; sometimes the white
lead is used so unsparingly that it has
quite a blot tint, which glistens until
the face looks more like a death's head
anointed with phosphorous and oil for
theatrical purposes than the head of a
Christian gentlewoman. It may be in
teresting to know, and we have the in-.
formation from high, because Boi-clisant
fashionable authority, that the reign of
golden locks and blue-white visages is
drawing to a close, and that it is to be
followed by bronze complexion blue•
black hair—a l'Aff lea ine we presume.
When fashionable Madame has, to her
own satisfaction, painted and varnished
her face, she then proceeds, like Jezabel,
to tire her head, and, whether• she has
much hair or little, she fixes on to the
back of it a huge nest of coarse hair
generally well baked in order to free it
from the parasites with which Unbound
ed ,when it first adorned the person of
some Russian or North German peasant
girl. Of course this gives an unnatural
ly large anti heavy appearance to the
cerebellar region ; but nature is not
exactly what is aimed at, still less re
finement. If this style be not approved
of, there is yet another fashion—namely,
to cut the hair short in a crop, ercperit,
curl it, frizzle it, bleach it, burn It, and
otherwise torture it until it has about as
ninth life in it us last year's hay; and
then to shampoo it, rumple it, and
tousle it, until the effect Is to produce
the aspect of a madwoman in one of her
worst ills, This method, less trouble
some and costly than the other, may be
considered even more'striking, so that
it is largely adopted by a number of
persons who are rather disreputable,
and poor. As it is well known, not all
of the asinine tribe wear asses' ears,
nevertheless some of these votaries of
dress find their ears too long, or too
large, or illplaced, or, what comes to the
same thing, inconveniently placed, but
a prettier or better shaped pair are easily
purchased, admirably moulded in g,utta
perclia or some other plastic material;
they are delicately colored, fitted up
with earnings and a spring apparatus,
and they Me then adjusted on to the
head, the despised natural ears being, of
course, carefully hidden from view. it is
long enough since a bonnet meant shel
ter to the lace or protection to the head;
that fragmentof a bonnet which at pres
ent represents the head gear, and which
was some years ago worn on the back of
the head and nape of the neck, is now
poised on the front, and ornamented
with birds, portions of beasts, reptiles,
and insects. We have seen a bonnet
composed of a rose and a couple of
feathers, another of two or three butter
flies, or as many beads, and a bit of
lace, and a third represented by live
green leaves joined at the stalks. A
white or spotted veil is thrown over
the visage, in order that the adjuncts
that properly belong to the theatre may
not be immediately detected in the
glare of daylight; and thus, with di
aphanous tinted face, large painted
eyes, and stereotyped smile, the lady
goes forth looking much more as if she
had stepped out of the green room of
the theatre, or from a Haymarket sa
loon, than from an English home. But
it is in evening costume that our women
have reached the minimum of dress
and the maximum of brass. We re
member a venerable old lady whose
ideas of decorum were such that in her
speech all about the foot was ankle, and
all below the chin was chest; but now
the female bosom is less the subject of
a revelation than the feature of an ex
position, and charms that were once
reserved are now made the common
property of every looker on. A cos
tume which has been described as con
sisting of a smock, a waistband, and a
frill seems to exceed the bounds of
honest liberality, and resembles most
perhaps the attire mentioned by Rabe
lais, " nothing before and nothing
behind, with sleeves of the same."
Not very long ago two gentlemen were
standing together at the opera. "Did
you ever see anything like that ?" in.
(lulled one, with a significant glance,
directing the eyes of his companion to
the uncovered bust of a lady immedi
ately below. " Notsince I was weaned,"
was the suggestive reply. We are not
aware whether the speaker was consci
ously or unconsciously reproducing a
well-known archiepiscopal mot. Though
our neighbors are not straitlaced, so far
as bathing costume is concerned, they
LANCASTER PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING AUGUST 7 1867.
are less tolerant of the nude than we
are in this highly-favored land. There
was lately a story in one of the papers
that at a certain ball a lady was reques
ted to leave the room because a chain of
wronght gold, suspended from shoulder
to shoulder, was the sole protection
which it seemed to her well to wear on
her bosom. To have made the toilet
correspond throughout, the dress should
have consisted of a crinoline skirt,
which, though not so ornamental,
would have been not less admirable and
more effective. Of course there are
women to whom nature has been nig
gardly in the matter ofroundness of form,
but even these need not despair; if they
cannot show their own busts, they can
show something nearly as good, since
we read the following which we forbear
to translate; " Autre excentricite.
C'estl'inventiondespoierincsudherentcs
a l'usage des dames trop etherees. II
s'agit d'un systeme en caoutcbouc rose,
qui Vadapte a la place vide comme une
veutouse a In peat, et qui suit les
mouvements de la respiration avec une
precision mathematique et parfaite."
Of those limbs which is still forbidden
to expose absolutely, the form and con
tour can at least be pat in relief by in
sisting on the 'skirts being gored and
straightened to the utmost; indeed,
some of the riding habits we have seen
worn are lu this respect eo contrived
that, when viewed from behind, espe
cially when the wearer is not of too fairy
like proportions, they resemble a pair of
tight trousers rather than the full flow
ing robe which we remember as so
graceful and becoming to a woman. It
will be observed that the general aim of
all these adventitious aids is to give an
impression of earth and the fulness
thereof, to appear to have a bigger cere
bellum, a more sensuous development
of limb, and a greater abundanceof flesh
than can be either natural or true; but
we are almost at a loss how to express
the next point of ambition with which
the female mind has become inspired.
The women who are not us those who
love their lords wish to be—indeed, as
we have heard, those who have no lords
of their own to love—have conceived the
notion that, by simulating au " interest
ing conditioti" (we select the phrase ac
cepted as he icost delicate), tht , y will add
to their attractions; and for this pur
pose an article or toilet—an India-rubber
anterior bustle—called the dcnii-truipt,
has been invented, and is worn beneath
the dress, nominally to make the folds
WI properly, but In reality, us the name
betrays, to give the appearance of a
woman advanced in pregnancy. No
person will be found to say that the
particular condition, when real, is un•
seemly or ridiculous. What it Is when
assumed, and for such a purpose—
whether it is nut all that and something
worse—we leave our readers to decide
fur themselves. It Is said that one dis
tinguished personage first employed
crinoline In order to render more grace
ful her appearance while in this
situation ; but these ladies with their
ridiculous thmi-lcuips, without ex
cuse as without shame, travesty
nature in their own persons ina way
which a low-comedy actress would
be ashamed to • do in a tenth-rate
theatre. The name is French, let us
hope the idea is also; and tills reminds
us of the title of a little piece lately
played in Paris by amateurs for some
charitable purpose, "11 n'y a Plus d'en
fants." ; in Franco they may in
deed say, `•lt is true i/ n'y a plus rl'en
fonts, but then have we not invented
the duni-kmpsl" And If each separate
point of female attire and decoration is
a sham, so the whole is often a decep
tion and a fraud. It is not true that by
taking thought one cannot add a cubit
to one's stature, for ladies, by taking
thought about it, do add, if not a cubit at
least cotsiderably, to [hell height, which
like almost everything about them, is
often unreal.
With high heels, loupe, and hat, we
may calculate that about four or five
inches are altogether borrowed for the
occasion. Thus it comes to be a grave
matter of doubt, when a man marries,
how much is real of the woman who
has become his wife, or how much of
her is her own only in the sense that
she has bought and possibly may have
paid for it. To use the words of an old
writer, "As with rich furred conies,
their cases are far better than their
bodies; and, like the bark of a cinna
mon tree, which is dearer than the
whop bulk, their outward accoutre
ments ire far more precious than their
inwar endowments. Of the wife elect,
her bones, her debts, and her caprices
may be the only realities which she can
bestow on her husband. All the rest—
hair, teeth, complexion, ears, bosom,
figure, including the de nips—are
alike an imposition and a falsehood. In
such case we should recommend, for the
sake of both parties, that during at least
the wedding tour, the same precautions
should be observed as when Louis XV
travelled With " the unblushing Chat,
eauroux with her bandboxes and rouge
pots at his side, so that at every new
station a wooden gallery had to be run
up between their lodgings."
It may be said that In all this we arc
ungenerous and ungrateful, and that in
discussing the costume of women we
are touching on a question which per
tains to women more than to men. But
is that so? Are we not by thus expos
ing what is false, filthy, and meretri
cious, seeking to lead what was once
dignified by the name of "the fair sex"
from a course alike unbecoming and
undignified to one more worthy of the
sex and its attributes'? Most men like
to please women, and most women like
to please men. For, as has been well
said, " Pour plaire aux femmes it faut
etre considere des hommes, et pour etre
considere des hommes it rata savoir
plaire aux femmes." We have a right
to suppose that women do not adopt a
fashion or a costume unless they suppose
that, it will add to their attractions in gen
eral, and possibly also please men in par
ticular. This being so it may be well to
observe that these fashions do not please
or attract men, for we know they are
but the Inventions of some vulgar, sel
fish pcirieepeicr or h/ocli.yt,. We may
add that if we want to study the nude
we can do so in the sculpture galleries,
or among the Tableaux Vivants, at our
ease ; and that for well-bred or well
educated and well-born women, or
even for only fashionable and fast
women, to approximate in their man
ners, habits, and dress to the members
of the demi-monde, is a mistake, and a
grievous one, if they wish to be really
and adequately appreciated ,Oiy men
whose good opinion, if not more, they
would desire to possess.
A Child with Two Heads and Four Arms.
IFrom the Chippewa (Wle.) Union, July 20.1
(in Tuesday of this week we witnessed
with our own eyes, and not another's, oue
of the most remarkable objects that ever
breathed the breath of Heaven—the body
of a child with two perfect heads and four
complete, well formed arms. The lower
limbs are natural, and also the extreme
lower part of the body. Just above the hips
the body begins to increase in size, the back
bone branching out to right and left and
diverging sufficiently to give rOorn for two
shoulder blades between them, in their pro
per position, the distinct two forms begin
ning their separate existence just below the
arm pits. In front, the body below the na
val appears natural. Above that point it
gradually branches out into two separate
organizations, the breast bones being join
ed. The vital organs are all double. The
shoulders and necks are all perfect, and
the heads are well formed. alio features
are regular and well developed, one head
appearing to be that of a male, while the
features of the other resemble those of a fe
male. The genitals of the male are perfect.
Altogether, this is a wonderful specimen of
genus of man; Like the Siamese twins,:the
two faces are naturally inclined toward
each other, the back of the body being
broader than the front part. The inside
arms aro in such a position as to naturally
twine around the little necks, each of its
fellow, giving a pleasing effect. The weight
of the body, after having been somewhat
reduced by the process of embalming, was
eight pounds.
The child was born in this village, on
Sunday, the 14th inst., Drs. S. A. Macdon
ald and Alex. Mcßean, being in attend
ance. One side lived a few minutes after
being ushered into this strange world, and
then died, while the other did not breathe,
Pompeii.
The process of excavation carried on
by fits and starts for more than a cen
tury, until pursued with some system
and energy by the present administra
tion, has resulted in laying open to view,
up to the present time, a third party or
so of the presumed area of the city,
which originally comprised about one
hundred and sixty acres. Its circuit
was about two miles in extent, of an
oval shape, the apex lying in the direc
tion of the amphitheatre, or towards
the southeast. The excavated part lying
towards the western side seems to have
been that which contained the prin
cipal public buildings—the forum,
the basilica, the theatres, the pub
lic baths, and the most conspicu
ous temples. It is scarcely to be hoped,
in consequence that the labours of
future generations of excavators will
be rewarded by any sensation equal to
that produced in the years 1824 and
1858 by the discovery of the spacious
and elegant thermte. Still there may
remain work for our great-grandsons,
with any amount of recompense in
treasures of art, or possibly of litera
ture. Considering, too, that the most
spacious and costly of private dwellings,
the house of Diomedes, lies beyond the
walls, there is scarcely a limit to the
area within which patient research may
look for its harvest, particularly since
the new and energetic directorate does
so much to guide the steps of the exca
vator, and to preserve the products of
his toil. As it is, we are often left to
sigh over the loss or waste of objects
which the amount of intelligence and
skill now at hand would most assuredly
have spared to us.
The style of the earliest remains found
in Pompeii does much to bear out the
legendary or half-mythical notices
which assign to this town, as to its
neighbour and fellow-victim, Herculan
eum, a Greek origin.
The name of Pompeii may be held
decisive of its Greek origin, though we
need not commit ourselves to the ety
mology of Solinus in tracing It topompr
in allusion to the expedition of Her
cules. The masonry of the city is iu
parts identical with that In use in early
Greek fortifications, and characters
have been met with upon some of the
stones which are described by Mazois
as either Oscan or early forms of the
Greek alphabet.
Among other objects of new and cu
rious interest we may mention the
characteristic signs which mark out the
various situps, taverns, and places of
business. Tliese are in some cases fig
ured In baked clay and colored, in
others painted on the walls. Over a
wine-shop, two men carry an amphora
slung on a pole. Over another, a goat
Is supposed to Indicate the trade of a
milkman. Here a large statue of Pri
apus points out the shop of an amulet.
maker. A rude painting of two men
fighting, while the master stands by
holding a laurel crown, marks a fencing
establishment, or school of gladiators.
A painting of one boy horsed on an
other's buck, and undergoing flagella.
tion, is an ominous indication that the
schoolmaster was there at home. An
inn in the newly-discovered Via (lel
Lupanarc bore the sign of an elephant
enveloped bya largeserpent, and tended
by a pigmy. This no longer exists. On
the door-posts of another tavern were
painted some checkers.
We get many a curious insight into
the common or lower life of Pompeluns
from the numerous graffiti, or rude
seratchings and scribblings in chalk or
paint, with which the walls abound.
Many a party cry or political dislike, or
even the rough Peseennine chaff of the
streets, has here come down to us in
expressive, though often very dubi
ous, Latinity, or is embodied iu outlines
of rude but often highly grotesque art.
A more than common refinement of
taste is met with when, in the back
room of a thermopolium, is scrawled
the first line of the jEneid. Perhaps,
of all the relics of eighteen centuries
here laid bare, what most touches the
feelings is the reproduction in plaster of
the group of bodies found in the year
1863. By the skill of Signor Florelll in
filling up the cavity left in the soft lap
ilii by the decay of these human forms,
the figures are moulded in all the ghast
ly reality of the death-struggle. In the
pair engraved by Dr. Dyer, which is
probably familiar to many of our read
ers as a stereoscopic group, the profile
of the young girl Is plainly to be traced.
Her little hands clench her veil round
her head in the last struggle to keep the
mouth free, while tier feet are drawn
up In agony. The smooth young skin
looks in the plaster-like polished mar
ble. The woman, probably the mother,
who lies feet to feet with her, liesqulet
ly on' her side. Her finger still bears
her coarse iron ring. Besides this group,
Niccolini gives the figure of a man of
the lower classes, perhaps a soldier,
of colossal size, who had laid him
self calmly on his • back to await
death. " His dress consists of a
short coat or jerkin, and tight-fit
ting breeches of some coarse stuff, per
haps leather. Heavy sandals, with soles
studded with nails, are laced tightly
round his ankles. On one finger is seen
his iron ring. His features are strongly
marked, the mouth open as lu death.
Some of the teeth still remain, and even '
part of the moustache adheres to the
plaster." We are sorry to find the af•
meeting story of the sentry found erect
in his box, still grasping his lance,
dis
missed as fable. Much doubt has been
attached to the recent report of an am
phora of stone having been met with,
closely sealed, half full of water. It
may be remarked, however, that the
bronze cock of a water-pipe was found
at Capri in which the metal joints
had been hermetically closed by rust
for seventeen or eighteen centuries, yet
which, on being shaken, gives audible
proof of the water beingstill unabsorbed
within. It may be added that the
numerous metal pipes met with In
Pompeii, together with the general ar
rangements of the fountains, place be
yond doubt the fact, which has so fre
quently been questioned, that the prop
erty of water to ildd Its level was well
known at that epoch.
It has naturally been throughout a
question of the liveliest interest whether
Pompeii might be found to yield any
trace of the new religion pushing its
way among the inmates of the classical
Pantheon. On this important point
the ruins have hitherto been silent.
The .only indication of Christianity
which has even been held plausible de
pends upon an unsatisfactory story told
by Mazois.
In one of the row of small shops ex
tending along one side of the so-called
house of Pensa, when newly-discovered,
there was found on the wall of the pas
sage leading to the pociticum a Latin
cross marked in bas-relief upon a panel
of white stncco. This wall, being at the
end of the passage and directly facing
the street, was in full view of the
passers-by. On this symbol, Mazols
founded the conjecture that the owner
of the shop was a Christian. No vestige
of tne cross now remains, and we find
it difficult, with Dr. Dyer, to conceive,
even were the cross in use at that time
among Christians, that any one should
have ventured to exhibit that sign
of the religion so publicly as this.
Mazola himself, too was puzzled
to account for the juxtaposition of
this symbol with the ordinary Pagan
emblems. Could the same man at once
bow before the cross of Christ, and pay
homage to Janus, Ferculus, Lim entin us,
Cardia, the deities of the thresholds and
the hinges of doors? Still more, could
he adore it in combination with the
guardian serpents of Esculapius, or with
the obscene emblem ofan incomprehen
sible worship, possibly Orphic or Mith
retie, which is over the hearth. The
Commendatore Fiorelli explicitly de
nies that any Christian symbols have
been discovered at Pompeii. "Evi
dences of Egyptian worship are not un
frequent. An elegant temple disinterred
next to that of Esculapius is shown by
an inscription over the entrance to have
been dedicated to Isis.
In a small house at Pompeii, decorat
ed with subjects from the Odyssey, a
painting of Ulysses and Circe was copied
by Mazola in 1812, which Is remarkable
as exhibiting the head of Circe crowned
with a halo of aureole of this precise
kind. The outer limb or circumference
is solidly_ and sharply defined, not
shaded off, and divided into rays as we
usually see it in works of the Italian
school. This painting has since perished.
A similar aureole surrounds the grand
figure of Jupiter in the house of Zephy
rus and Flora. The god is here sitting
in a contemplative attidude, the eagle
at his feet, and his golden sceptre in his
hand. His mantle is of violet color, and
lined with azure, the throne and foot
stool are golden, ornamented with
precious stones, a green drapery cover
ing the back of the throne. These
pictures, like most of those discovered
at Pompeii, were executed on the plaster
of the wall. It appears, however, that
movable pictures were not unknown.
In the handsome house in the street of
Stabile, excavated in 1847, and assigned
on the evidence of au inscription to
M. Lucretius, a Fiamen of Mars and
I)ecurio of Pompeii, the walls of the
tablinum are painted with architectural
subjects. Among these are spaces for
two large paintings, which have either
been carried away, or had not yet been
fixed in their places when Pompeii was
overwhelmed. A full account of the
principal paintings and sculptures,
together with a critical discussion
of the methods and materials in
use' among the artists of the age,
is given by Dr. Dyer. Of these,
the noblest mosaic is beyond com—
parison that discovered in the house of
the Faun, not less than 18 feet long by
broad, supposed to represent one of the
battles of Alexander and Darius, proba
bly that at the Issus. Few paintings of
any age can excel in fire and animation
the celebrated head of Achilles giving
up Brisels, in the house of the tragic
poet. And statuettes like those of the
dancing Faun, the Silenus, and those
of sundry animal figures, and are not
surpassed by the finest remains of classic
art. We lay down Dr. Dyer's work
with regret at not being able to afford
space for a more complete epitome of its
multifarious points of interest.
The Exchange of Prlmoners—Another
Letter from Ex-Commtendoner Onld.
(ton. Rol)ert Quid has written the follow
log letter to one of the editors of The Na
tional Intelligenecr :
RICITMOND, July IS, 1807.
MY DP:AIt SIR: I have read the remark.
able discussion in the I louse. Mr. Eldridge
Is substantially right in what he said. I
offered early in August to deliver all the
sick and wounded prisoners we had with
out requiring equivalents for them. I would
have made the offer earlier, but for the fact
that some considerable time before I had
made au offer of exchange, man for man, to
which I could get no response. I waited
for a response until early in August, and
failing to revolve ono, I then made the offer
above named, at the same time urging
haste on the part of the United States Gov
ernment, as the mortality among the Fed
eral prisoners was very great. During the
Fall 1 again and again urged haste, giving
the sanie reason. I informed the Federal
authorities that if they would send trims
portation for 15,000 men to the mouth of
the Savannah River T woold furnish that
number of sick tuA' ed, and that I
would 1111,. up any t. l cy with well
prisoners. I did not re 1 correspond
ing delivery of our priso, though I ex
pressed the desire that the ight bo sent.
From early In August we are not only
ready, but anxious to make its delivery.
It was our purpose, as well a, our offer, to
continue the delivery of the sick and
wounded at all the depots of prisoners,
and upon the terms mentioned; that
is, without requiring equivalents. Trans
portation was not sent until December.
The United States authorities brought
in that mouth some 3,000 prisoners to the
mouth of the Savannah River, and received
over 13,000 in return, many of whom were
well men. The 3,000 delivered presented
as melancholy a spectacle as Andersonville
ever disclosed. Most, if not all of them, had
been brought from Elmira. Some died be
tween Elmira and Baltimore—many be
tween Baltimore and Savannah. I do not
believe ten per cent of the number aro alive
now. All these facts are known to Federal
°dicers. Rebels may lie, but yet the fact is
fully established by other evidence that the
Federal authorities sent 3,000 and re
ceived 13,000. They would have re
ceived more if there had been accommoda
tion. Why was transportation sent to
Savannah for the prisoners unless I had
agreed to deliver them? Why were 13,000
delivered and only 3,000 received if I in
sisted on receiving equivalents? There is
nothing in the published correspondence
referred to by Gen. Butler which, in any
manner, contests any one of the facts I have
mentioned. Gen. Mulford will sustain
everything I have herein written. He is a
man of honor and courage, and, I do not
think, will hesitate to tell the truth. I
think it would be well for you to make an
appeal to him, as it has become a question
of veracity, (ion. Butler says the propo
sition was made in the Fall, and
that 7,000 prisoners were delivered.
I t was in August, anti over 13,000 were de
livered. If you will get Pollard's " Lost
Cause," and refer to the chapter on ex
change, there you will find the whole ques
tion accurately stated. I.: v,,ry word of the
chapter is true, so far us it pretends to give
facts. The book was published by sub
scription, by Treat 0 Co., of Now York.—
can make public any portion of this
letter. I defy contradiction as to any state
ment I have made, and challenge scrutiny.
I will prove every word by Federal testi
mony. Who, then, is responsible for the
su; c of A nd erson villa during the period
of ids nio,t 4,01 Iv mortality, from August
to January? Yours, truly,
Dempernte and Fatal Duel.
We find the following in the Louisville
r'ourier:
WELLY POST OFFICE, July 22.—A de
plorable tragedy was enacted about a mile
from our quiet little village this morning,
at daylight, which resulted in the death of
a promising young man, and the mortal
wounding . of another whose future was all
brilliancy and promise.
Littleton Wells and Sanford B. Roberts
were both young men of unexceptionable
character, and occupying enviable positions
iti our society. Wells was about twenty
two years old, and Roberts was probably
two years his senior. The former was our
deputy postmaster, while the latter was
clerk in the store of Routh R Strother. For
some time both had been paying marked
attention to an amiable and beautiful
young lady of the neighborhood, whose
name I withhold for obvious reasons, and
until within n month past were generous
rivals, their relations towards each other
bring on the most fri CI Id ly footing.
Some three or four weeks ago Wells visi
ted the young lady and made a formal pro
posal for her hand. His proposition was
respectfully but firmly declined, and upon
his pressing her for her reason for her de
clination, she indiscreetly informed him
that she had already accepted asimilar pro
posal from Young Roberts. Wells left the
house, mounted his horse and returned to
the village. lie first went to the postoffice
and armed himself with a pistol, and then
saw his successful rival at the store. Here
en altercation ensued,which:wou id 12ave:had
a bloody termination had not bystanders in
terfered and put an end to the difficulty.
From that time until Saturday they were
as strangers to each other. On that day they
both attended a pie-nic, Roberts being
accompanied by his fiance. As soon as
Wells saw them together he seemed to be
imbued with the very spirit of insanity.
Approaching them, he grossly insulted
Roberts in the presence of the whole assem
bly. The insulted man sprang to his feet,
and started towards his insulter, evidently
to resent the insult, when gentlemen present
prevented a collision. Roberts and his fair
companion, at the earnest solicitation of the
latter, immediately left the ground and re
paired to her home, where she, fearing a
diniculty between the parties, endeavored
to persuade him to spend the night. In
that she failed, but succeeded In extracting
a promise from him that he would not re
turn to:the plc-nic ground.
Reaching the village, and brooding over
the gross outrage that had been put upon
him, he went to his room and penned a
challenge to mortal combat which he in
trusted to a friend to be delivered into the
hands of Wells. This mission was accom
plished that night. Nextmorning a friend
of the challenged party called upon the
friend of Roberts to arrange the prelimin
aries. This was soon accomplished. The
arrangement was that the fight was to come
off in a meadow, about one mile east of
town, at daylight on Monday, the weapons
to be Colt's revolvers.
At the appointed time principals and
seconds were on the chosen ground. The
principals were placed ten feet apart, with
instructions to fire between the words "one"
and " three," and then advance, firing as
they advanced, such being the terms insist
ed upon by the challenges and not rejected
by the challenger. At the word both parties
tired, and so accurate was their aim that
Wells fell dead, pierced through the brain
by his adversary's ball. Roberts received
his opponent's bullet in the centre of the
breast, passing through his body and
lodging under the skin, just to the left of the
spine. At the moment I write he is not
dead, though sinking so rapidly that the
physicians say that he cannot possibly live
more than an hoer.
This terrible affair, it is needless to say,
has given our entire community a shock
such as never pervaded it before. Both the
young men were highly respected conspic
uous for their intelligence and social quali
ties. Wells leaves a widowed mother and
two sisters Ito mourn his loss. Roberts
leaves no family bereft, while the sad, sad
fate is mourned by all who knew him.
The Round „Table thus describes the Mex.
leans :
"As a matter of fact, no people on earth,
reputed civilized, are so utterly and irre
deemably despicable as the Mexicans.
They are not bloodthirsty, cowardly, and
indolent alone, but liars and thieves as well.
Nor are these qualities confined, as some
would have it, to the lower classes. Maxi
milian had a beautiful revolver, of great
value, mounted in gold and ivory; it was
stolen at a military council where none
were present below the rank of a General.
Jewels and other costly articles were notori
ously and regularly filched from Carlotta
wherever she moved. Santa Anna had his
inkstand stolen at a council of ministers, and
the room was darkened to enable the thief to
return it undetected. The scoundrel Lopez
who betrayed his master, is well known as
an adroit theif. The truth is that stealing
is so universal in Mexico, that it has almost
come to be regarded as a matter of course,
and other vices on which we ;need ;not
dwell are equally so, and are rather more
rife among the upper classes, if anything,
than among the lower. The Mexicans have
no moral fibre. Physically and intellect
ually they are equally deficient. To talk
about patriotism and liberty and the sense
of honor among such beings is simply non
sense."
Sanford Conover has boon taken to the
Albany Penitentiary.
Gov. Curtin was at Zurich, Switzerland
during the week ending Juno 22.
Chief Justice Chase has returned to Wash
ington.
Three thousand emigrants landed at Cas
tle Garden, New York, on Monday.
Professor Risley denies that little "All
Right" is dead, but says he is alive and
well.
In Baltitnore, George lianas stabbed anti
mortally wounded his wife, and then com
mitted suicide. Jealousy was the cause.
General Sickles haszppolittod William S.
I Entitle Sheriff of Charleston, S. C., to suc
ceed Sheriff Caren, whose term has expired.
It is feared that Lucy Encott and her opera
company have bOOll lost at NOR on their
voyage front Australia to San Francisco.
The widow of the Major Dade, who was
massacred in: the Florida war with 112 of
his command, died lately i❑ Pensacola.
Yullow fovor Isot prevailing, In Havana.
There woro 120 (Imam In Juno out of 750
cases.
Tho first English temporanco society,
formed In 1517, allowed Its members to
drink only 11 glasses of boor a day,
A young Southerner, with 410,000, en
gaged to fight the Chicago "tiger" the other
night. The "tiger" whipped.
T. W. Green has boon appointed sheriff
at Columbia, S. C., by Gen. Sickles, to
succeed Sheriff Den t, whosoterm hasex pi red.
Several British sportmon have arrived in
Montreal, on their way to the Rocky Moun
tains for a summer's shooting.
The mortality from exposure is greater
among the London police than in the British
army. Dyspopsy and sore feet are com
mon complaints.
It is stated that several Now England
manufacturers have united in a project to
Import several thousand coolies to do the
courser wadk of the factories.
A report iH being made up at the United
Stales Treasury showing that there are
over 20,000 officials connected with the
department through Its varied revenue
branches.
William 11. Brown, who lately died at
Chicago, bequeathed legacies to the Ameri
can Board and the Presbyterian Board of
home Missions, which will not amount to
less than $50,000 ouch.
A Mgihodistexhortor recently, bewailing
the coldness of his flock in religious matters,
said very curtly that the church members
of late attended too much to the conversion
of seven-thirties.
A fellow was told at a tailor's shop that
three yards of cloth, by being wet, would
shrink one quarter of a yard. ' Well, then,'
he enquired, " if you should wet a quarter
of a yard, would there be any left?"
A story started in a Chicago paper about
the death of the little Japanese acrobat " All
Right," in Now York, is untrue. One of
the elder members of the company died
not long ago, and the report probably had
its origin in that fact.
The President of the Cuba and Florida
Telegraph Company is General William F.
Smith, widely known as " Baldy." Ho
has gone to Cuba to superintend operations
and expects to have the line working very
soon.
Mr. Fred.] [ant, city editor of the Cincin
nati Knquir, , had a narrow escape from
drowning a few days since. A good swim
mer himself, he challenged another to swim
across the Ohio. Becoming exhausted, he
was rescued in time to save his life after
being Insensible twenty minutes.
It took seven days itud coven nights to
embalm Maximilian. The operation was
performed by Drs. Ignacio Rivadaneira
and Vianto Licento. The victim had been
pierced by balls through the thorax and
abdomen, and it became necessary to use
the Egyptian method of embalming and a
partial injection.
Rev. Dr. McClusky, of New York, has
boon appointed Catholic Bishop of Louis
ville, to till the vacancy occasioned by the
death of Bishop Laviallo. For tho past two
years the Reverend Doctor has been Direc
tor of the American College, Rome, and was
in former years President of Mount St.
Mary's College, Maryland.
RO. OUI D
The London Lancet says the latest news
from the East would lead to the conclusion
that the pestilential disease which has re
cently prevailed most fatally among the
Arab tribes in the Valley of the Euphrates
is veritable plague. At first it was hoped
that the malady was a malignant remittent,
but the symptoms indicate true plague.
Bennett, of the Herald, has been sued by
Mr. James F. Cummings, a Southerner,
who lays claim to the modest sum of $300.-
000 damages. Bennett printed an article
accusing Cummings of swindling the rebel
government, and calling hlm a delicious
scamp the best way you could fix him, and
hls answer is that ho intends to prove It.
The N. Y. Urtzette asserts that ono of the
most prosperous writers now on the proms
of that city was three years ago so " hard
up" that he wont without food for forty
eight hours, too proud to ask for help, and
too empty pocketed to have the means for
purchasing a meal. This is not fiction, but
fact. During the present year this gentle•
man has helped a score of poor people iu
distress, from his full pockets.
The Japanese of Paris have taught the
cooks at the Grand Hotel how to " bake"
ice-creams. Freeze your ice as hard as
possible, wrap it quickly in a very thin
crust of pastry, and put tu the oven. The
pastry will be baked before the ice melts
(for pastry is a good non-conductor of heat) ;
serve hot and you may enjoy the pleasure
of eating hot pastry and ice cream nt the
same time.
A mob of citizens from the vicinity of
Morris, Grundy county, Illinois, on Friday
took one Alonzo Tibbets out of the Jail at
that place, by violence, and, conveying him
out of town, hanged him on a tree until! he
was dead. Tibbets was charged with the
murder of a man named Page, but was
recently tried and acquitted. He died pro
testing his innocence, but confessing that
Page had been killed by his brother.
The Sandusky Register says: "On the
islands and the mainland about Sandusky,
many grapes have rotted within the past
ten days—in some cases ono-fourth of the
crop decaying In three or :four days. But
we are glad to learn, from intelligent vino•
yard owners bore and on the Islands, that
a good Drop still remains on the vines, and
the rot has nearly disappeared. Should It
not return, the grape crop of this region
will be a very fair one.
The cholera is assuming quite a magni
tude on the plains. It prevails at Forts
Harker, Hays, Lonen and Gibson. At
Harker and Ellsworth the deaths reach
from ten to twenty in number some days,
and the latest fatality is that of the Post
Surgeon, Dr. Sternberg, whose wife re
cently died of the cholera. Advices from
Fort Gibson report that the deaths some
days number as high as twenty. Medical
assistance is greatly needed at Harker.
The Lancaster (Ohio) Gazette says: Mr.
Samuel Sewer, residing near Amanda, has
a bull-calf, which the State of Ohio may
well be invited to parallel if it can. Mr.
Sewer furnishes us the following particu
lars: When dropped, on the 16th of April,
the weight of the calf was 131 pounds; at
the end of two months its weight was 320
ponnds, and on attaining the age of• three
months it kicked the beam at 425 pounds
weight! Match this who can.
A Leavenworth special says : Persons
from Fort Gibson report the cholera raging
there. Twelve hundred people fled from
Ellsworth City. The average mortality is
ten per day, and Wm out of avea7 ten per-
NUMBER 31
The Mexicans.
News
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msare of ten lines; $8 per year for each ad.
elftional square.
=AL Baum, PaissorfAu Paorstasir, and Gm
'au ADVAISITISING, 10 cents a line for the
first, and 5 oents for each subsequent inser
tion.
BMUS Nariosil Inserted in Loud Column,
15 Ceuta per line.
Brae:ESL NOTloss preceding marriages and
deaths, 10 cents per line for first Insertion,
and 5 cents for every subsequent insertion.
Btrarsass Camps, of ten lines or less ,
Business Cards, five lines or leis, one"
year 5
LaCISL AND OTH Eta NOTIOMS—
Executors' ...otices,- 2.60
Administrators' 2.50
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ore' notices,ZOO
Other " Notices," ten lines, less
three times 'or
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sons attacked ,dle in from ton to fifteen
hours. The placo is almost completely de
serted, and an attack by tho Indians Is ex
pected. From three to five deaths a day
are reported at Fort Harker. Tho scourgo
has also broken out among the troops at
Forts Lamed and Dodge.
A young widow of Quincy, Illinois, met
a stranger on the street and asked him tho
way; ho asked her lfsho was not a widow; she
said she was ; he said be was a widower,
a doctor from Palmyra, Mo., and proposed
marriage on the spot ; she blushed and hes
itated—wouldn't ho come home and see her
friends about it; the interview was satisfac
tory, the marriage was arranged for next
morning, the widow's cash (e4O ) got into
the Doctor's pocket, be went to get shaved
and has never returned. Ho even left her,
cruel man, standing in the public square
while ho ",just run over to the barber's."
There's no such Doctor in Palmyra, and the
curtain drops upon a woman in tears.
The Br!duo at lincre•de•Grace
A dispatch from Washington to the Phil
adelphia Ledger, says:
"Some excitement has been occasioned
among travellers between this point and
New York by a report that the bridge across
the Susquehanna, at Ilavre•do-Orace, Nun
safe and liable to give way. Inspeetions of
the bridge have lately been made by the
mast accomplished civil engineers, among
them J. 13. It. Latrobe, the Chief Engineer
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in
which it has been discovered that the tres
tle work of the long spans of the bridge be
tween the piers had commenced to give
way.
ittaohington "illratli (Company.
T HE
WASHINIiTON LIBRARY COMPANY,
PHILADELPHIA.
SUBSCRIVNON ONE DOLLAR
$300,000
PRESENTS TO SUBSCRIBERS
UNE CASH ricKSENT OF Silo,ooo,
ONE CAMII PILEMENT OF
ONE CASH PItiMENT
UNE CASH l'ammENT
Two CA. , 111 PRESEN ET OP S2,SOIIRACII,
Rem! Pill Schedule r!! Prewnts !Hoff..
Each Certificate of Stock is accompan led With a
BEAUTIFUL
STEEL-PLATE EN( 1 ItAV !NU,
WoWrii MORE AT RETAIL TBAN TIII
cos T 111 ( . 1 , :1t'1•11,11 . ATE .
111/40 MO 'Mich.!' It
I'II.I.:SKNT IN TILE
THE IVASIIIN(VroN 1,1111t.\.1:1" co.
In charlored by the:it'll° or l'o❑aNy Ivan la, anti
Organized In Ind of Ilia
R R N%' T T R
SOLDIEW4' ANI) SA I 1,()1t.4 . 010'1 I.k
lilcorporatvd by 1110 State of N.
A 111.11, 1)117.
TUE RIVERSIDE iNsTrrt;TE,
Situate at Riverside, Burlington county, Now
Jersey, 111 founded tor the purpose fq 4111411-
tously educating the sons oi Limon-veil Soldiers
and Seamen of the United states.
The hoard of Trustees consists of the
I, bluw-
Ing well-known citizens of Pennsylvania and
New Jersey.
HON. WILLIAM 11. MANN, Phalle! Attor
ney, Philadelphia, Pa.
lON. LEW is It . Bill toMA Ex-Chief
Coiner U. s. Mint, and Recorder of Deeds, Phil
adelphia Pa.
HON.JAMES M. SCOV EL, New .lerney.
HON. W. \V. WARE, New . Me rsey.
HENRY CIORMAN, Agent Adams' Ex
press, Philadelphia, Pa.
J, E. COE, Esq., of Joy, (be LV CU. , Philad'a,
TREASURY DEPA R'l'M ENT, WASIIINI,ToN, U.
C.. Aprll 18, i567.-0111eu of Internal Revetipo:
1 - laving received 'valiant:tory evidence that r ho
proceeds of the enterprise conducted by the
" Wiuthington Library Company" will Ito de
voted to charitable uses, writ is hereby
granted to sold Company Lo conduet such en
terprise exempt 'runt all charge, whether Treat
suoclal tax or ot hot' duly.
E. A, ROLLINS, Commissioner.
THE WASHINGTON LIBRARY
n order that the benevolent object Hut forth
u this circular may be successfully locum-
Uldhed, have Issued live series,of
FINE STEEL-PLATE ENO RA VI NUS,
which are put on aulawription la prim.; !ouch
below Welt retail value.
CERTIFICATES OF STOCK IN TILE W
INGTON LIBRARY COMPANY
will be Issued, Fi1;1111ped with the seal of the
Company, and signed by the Secretary, (Ninui
others genuine.)
Any person sending tui ONE DOLLAR or
paying the suineto our local Agents,w 111 receive
Immediately a line Steel Plato Engraving, at
choice from the following list, and 0110
caste of Stock, Insuring One Present in our
published schedule.
ONE DOLLAR EMMA VINOS.
No. I—"Sty11,11 My Child!" No. 2
"They're Saved! They're Hayed!" No.
"Old Seveutyoax; or, the Early Daye or the
Revolution."
Any person paying TWO DOLLARM will
receive either of the following line Meld Plates,
at choice, and Two Cortlllcates of Stock, this
becoming entitled to Two Presents.
TWO DOLLAR ENURAVINUS.
No. I—"Withilltigton's Courtship." No. 2
" Washington's Last Interview With his
Mother."
THREE DOLLAR. ENDRAVINGS
Any ',cron paying THREE; DOLLARS will
recut vo the beautiful Stool Plato ul
".130ME FROM THE WAR,"
and Three Certitleidea of Stock, becoming on
titled to three Prementa.
FOUR DOLLAR ENORA VINOS
Any puma paying FOUR DOLLAIni shall
reeolve the largo and beautiful Keel Plato of
"TUE PERILS OF OUR FOREFATHERS,"
ntl Four Certlneatee of Stock, entitling them
to Four PreNente.
FIVE DOLLAR ENURAVINOS
Any pormon who Faye Fl V 1 DOLLAR:4 ehall
receive the large and mplendld titeel Plate of
"THE; MARRIAGE; 01' PUUAIIONTAS,"
And Five Certilleatex of Stock, entitling them
to Five Prementn.
The engraving,' and Corti heat co will be de
livered to each nulaairiber uL our Local Agen
cies, or Cent by mai , pout-paid, or expresn, an
may be ordered.
'I'1II•: WASHINGTON LIBRARY Co.,
...ye I LI, A WARD
THREE, lIUNLRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
IN PR ILIV lf; N
TO Tll E HAREHOLDERY,
ON 1V EDN ES!) A )", HEPTEM HE ISII7
AT PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Or ❑t the Institute, Riverside, N. .1
SCHEDULE OF PRESENTS,
1 Cash Present
1 Cash Present
I Cash Present
1 Cash Present
2 Cash Presents of $2,5e0 each
1 Handsome Country Residence, Ka.
Ind, Grounds, Se., Germantown,Philadelphia 15,001
I Double Residence, three-story brick,
Camden, N. 1 15,000
1 Coal Depot, Offices, Sheds ' Ground,
with business established, No. 1311
Washington Avenue, Philadelphia 15,00
1 Country Residence, Riverside, N. J.,
with Ground, Fruits, etc 10,1100
1 Three-story Cottage, Lot, ,V.e. 5,15 xi
25 Valuable Building Lots, Riverside,
$3OO each 5,000
1 Elegant Turnout Family Carriage,
span of Horses, Harness, &c. com
plete
IS Valuable Building Lots, Riverside, 5,050
8300 each 3,000
1 Beautiful Sliver-grey Horse,
hands high, sired by the celebrated
Imported Arabian Horse ''Caliph ;"
also, a light. Road Wagon, weight
140 pounds, with set of superior
Single Harness, etc., making a first
class establishment 5,00
20 Planes, 85011 each ism)
20 Melodeons, $225 each 4,5101
5 Rosewood Sewing Machines,s2oo each 1,010
10 Family Sewing Machines, $lOO each.. 1,001
50 Fine Gold Watches, $2O) each 10,100)
llS) 011 Paintings, by leading artists—ag
gregate value 10,000
3 Camel's Hair Shawls, $l,OOO cacti 3,000
2 Camel's Hair Shawls, $3,000 each 6,00
3 Handsome Lace Shawls, 82.50 each 750
10 Cashmere Shawls, 850 each 501
20 Silk Dress Patterns, $75 each 1,5(0)
50 City Building Lots, 8175 each 8,750
Tne remainder will consist of Sil
verware, Musical Boxes, Opera
Glasses Pocket Bibles, and differ
ent articles of .rnarnant and use,
amounting to
Total 8:300,01X)
All the properties given clear of Incunabrance.
How to Obtain Shares and Engravings.
Send orders to us by mall, enclosing from 81
to gal, either by Post 01lice orders min a regis
tered letter, at our rick. Larger amounts
should be sent by draft or express,
10 Shares with Engravings
5.5 Shares with Engravings
50 Shares with Engravings
100 Shares with Engravings
Local AGENTS WANTED throughout the
IJulon.
The Association have appointed as Receivers
GEO. A. COOKE & CO.. whose well-known in
tegrity and business experience be a sun!.
dent guarantee that the money Intrusted to
them will be promptly applied to the purpose
stated.
PHILADELPHIA, PA., May 2U, 1847.
To the Officers and Members of {Vashinglon
bray i (b., N. d. READ, Secretary :
Gentlemen On receipt of y appointment f the
15th inst., notifying us of our as
Receivers for your Company, we took the
liberty to submit a copy of your Charter, with
a plan of your enterprise, to the highest legal
authority of the State, and having received his
favorable opinion In regard to its legality, and
sympathizing with the benevolent object of
your Association, viz: the education and main
tenance of the orphan children of oar soldiers
and sailors at the .Riverside Institute, we have
concluded to accept the trust, and to use our
best efforts to promote so worthy an object.
Respectfully yours, &0.,
GEO. A. COOKE & CO.
Address all letters and orders to
GEO. A. COOKE dc CO., Bankers,
33 South Third street, Phlladolplita,Rii
Receivers for the Washington Lierarzleg.• •
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