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When Edward Myilleton first felt the
conviction borne in upon hint that, if he
would wear spurs at all, he must win
them by his own unaided ellbrts, lie,
having hitherto been accustomed to a
career of unlimited consideration front
other people, felt considerably depress
ed. It was hard on him; even those
who liked hint least allowed that, after
having been permitted to think himself
his uncle Sir Ralph's heir for twenty
live years, an unexpected and legitimate
cousin should a. ise when that uncle
died, to dispute possession and finally
wrest it front him. The young man, who
hail always reeived a good allowance
front Sir Ralph, and been treated by that
deceitful old reprobate in all respects as
Iris successor, was by this unwelcomead
ven t of the rightful heir thrust out into
the world penniless and positionless.—
Ile had been given no profession, be
cause lie Was the heir. Ile had never
been counselled, because he was - the
heir. He had been taught to look upon
himself as one of the most important
men in the country, beettuse . fie was the
heir. And now, it twenty-live, he sud
denly found himself cast very much
adrift, and entirely upon his own re
sources.
They were not very trustworthy ones,
the poor young fellow had every reason
to fear. His education had been a very
good one, according to the general ac
ceptation of the term. And, indeed, in
one sense it had been an exceedingly
good one for his case, for he had never
been taught to do anything definite,
and now there was nothing definite be
fore him to do.
• In the first flush of his misfortunes
lie was buoyed up by the thought or the
multiplicity of his friends! He told
himself confidently that their name was
legion, forgetting that he had been the
future baronet when they last declared
themselves, and that he was only a
chevalier of fortune now. Poor young
fellow! that Illusion was quickly dis
pelled. He discerned the chilled inter
est very speedily, and he WIN lint made
of the maternas that strive to warm a
chilled interest up.
In his days of prosperity any number
or people stood well to the fore, profess
ing their readiness to get him some good
diplomatic appointment, " for which
your manner and culture so eminently
lit you, Mr. Mydleton." But now,
though his manner and culture were In
no wise altered, his former would-be
benefactors were. They stood afar off
and didn't. see his necessity. And lie,
scorning to apprise them of It more fully
soon found himself In the position of a
penniless roan wanting a place.
tioinething Inconsiderable was onred
to him once or twice under government.
A subordinate position at the Post-ollice,
a third clerkship at a hundred and
twenty pounds a year at Lhe Admiralty,
an 111-remunerated consulship in sonic
plagui-stricken spot abroad. But he de
clined all of these, and drifted into lit
erature as HO many of the guild do drift,
partly because they have ability, partly
because they have ambition, partly be
cause they have misplaced confidence
In themselves and the public, anal prin
cipally because they have need !
He was naturally bright ; he was well
cultivated ; he had the trick of turning
sentences; lie was indefatigable ; he
was conversant with the tone of thought
of the day ; and, above all, he was
spurred on by the sense of a Wrong. He
didn't exactly mark an epoch in jour.
nalistic literature, but lie did something
that was not altogether despicable!
That is, he wrote leaders that the public
cared to read, and that the proprietors
of the paper he was employed upon
cared to pay for.
llow men of his calibre live and move
and have their being, anti write what is
lit to read. is a marvel. lle was one of
a class, annul his career is a typical one.
He began the day with gin-and-bitters.
He ended it with brandy-and-soda. He
rushed backward and forward from his
ill-favored lodgings in Camden Town to
the printing-office, in the Strand, in
handsome cabs when he hada few shil
lings; in omnibuses when he had only
sixpence ; on foot when, as oftenest hap
pened, he had nothing. And sometimes
it seemed to lion that success was easy
of attainment, so readily made, and so
hard to mar. And at other dines It
seemed as if the goal could never be
gained, as if the race was not to the swift
and strong like himself, but to the feeble,
effete, like the—successful ones. Alter
nately, indeed, he was in hope and de
spair, and when he was in despair lie
went to man's worst, most subtle com
forter—the brandy-flask.
Not for inspiration! The brilliant
young fellew was never fool enough to
delude himself with the notion that he
owed a single idea tq the hateful enemy
who wits so seductiVe. He drank be
cause he was unhappy and tired very
often—forgetting that, when he snook
off the effect of the drink, he would be
more unhappy and tired still. At times
his to-morrow mornings were very ter
rible to him—so terrible that he would
vow solemn vows, and keep them for a
while, that never again would he put
an enemy into his mouth to steal away
his brains. But, when the time of temp
tation came, he would be too weak to
resist. And, " after all," he soon came
to argue, as his feelings got blunted,
" what did it matter? There was no
one to care for him I"
Acoupleof yearspassed over his bead,
and, at the end of them, Teddy Mydle
ton, as he was familiarly called at the
"Arteandanother well kuown literary
club to which he belonged, was an es
tablished, popular, flourishing journal
ist. To a certain extent it may be true,
that wise saw about "literature being a
good walking-stick, but a bad crutch."
But, on the whole, I hold it true that the
man, or woman either, who devotee him
ii litairrti7Otet
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or herself unreservedly and entirely and
thoroughly to literature, stands a better
chance of winning the honors and re
wards than do those who have the feel
ing that they need not work. Mr. My
dletou had literally no other interests to
clash with those that engaged him in
climbing up Parnassus. To write and
make money was the object with which
he had started. He had come now to
love the writing for the writing's sake,
independent of the money to be made
by means of it.
During these two years he had drifted
quite out of reach of theset that knew him
when he was the heir to Sir Ralph's title
and estate. He had drifted out of that set,
and had become a member of an infi
nitely poorer, cleverer, more amusing
one. Literary men and women may
have a thousand faults which are un
pardonable in Philistine eyes. But
there is about them this redeeming
trait—when they Meet together, they
do not bore 'each other; but, on the
con trary,they quicken each other's wits;
and of what other class of society can a
similar thing be said with truth ?
Brisk as the demand was for his arti
cles, and well paid for as they were, the
habits of his former life kept him a poor
man. it was so natural for him to in
dulge in handsome and good cigars and
champagne, that the not doing so was
a virtue he never practised if he could
help it. Consequently be had been
obliged to house himself frequently in
lodgings that were distasteful t-) him,
about in various shy neighborhoods such
as Camden Town and Chelsea, and even,
once when work was slack, out at Cam
berwell, where he got the blue devils to
such an extent that his readerfs declared
his style deteriorated considerably, and
public mention of his mune was less fre
quent and honorable than of yore.
But now, after two years' trial of the
tile:Nitres and pains of aliteray life,
the son shone upon him In regard to this
..p ee pd subject of a local habitation. A
ti lend laic, a clever and successful
young dramatist, anti editor of one of
the many 01'11'1! papers which London
supports, committed what Mydleton felt
at first to he the dire mistake of marry
ing.
The boy would have done well, sir,"
Teddy would say, oracularly, at the
Arts, " but he's done for himself now ;
she's some parson's daughter from the
mutt try, and she'll be wanting our friend
to write tracts and teach In Sunday -
schools. Ile's [nails a mistake, and we
shall Hotter for it, for there Isn't another
fellow going who can write a comedy
that will keep us awake."
And they (the listeners) gave vent to
brief ejaculations expressive of their va
rious degrees of sorrow at the untimely
fate which had befallen Vincent Bourn.
But Vincent Bourn went on his way,
and sonic of them felt that way to be not
altogether despicable when they were
after a time asked town and made wel
come to the tent Vincent Bourn had set
up fur himself in comfortable, secluded,
picturesque, and altogether delightful
Hans' Place. They had established
themselves in a corner-house, with a
balcony in front of its rounded window.
And the balcony and the house were
covered with Virginia-creeper and old
memories. For "L. E. h." had often
gathered leaves from the plant, anti had
lounged in the balcony with coin,' favor
ed friend. And Lady Morgan, and Lady
Blessington, and, a mightier still, Mrs.
Norton herself, had crossed the thresh
old. All of which facts threw quite a
halo of romance around her abode in
young Mrs. Bourn's imagination, she
having, as she was wont to explain.
" only known one author before she met
Vin ny, and that was papa, and, of course,
his were not like things that were read,
you know." Which ingenious explana
tion was a simple statement of the truth,
the reverend gentleman's published ef
forts being modem ned to what was
doubtless most unmerited obscurity.
'Phis new member of the fraternity
was a very fair one. Vincent had fall
en in love with her in the course of a
pedestrian tour he had taken the previ
ous autumn. Her fresh, bright beauty
had fascinated him as lie sat at the win
dow of a village-inn one day, waiting
for the everlasting eggs and bacon to lie
cooked for his refreshment. He found
on inquiry that she was the rector's
daughter, and he at once developed an
artistic desire to stay and sketch the
church and rectory from various points
of view. Being an .energetic young
felkiw, he soon carried the fortress. His
name already sounded as a rising man,
and he had very little trouble in mak
ing Ueorgie Deue believe him to be the
greatest literary light of the day.
" You may have her, if you can main
tain her," her father tolddiim..
And now Vincent, having satisfacto
rily proved that he could do this, had
her to himself up in Hans Place.
"1 hope you'll like (leorgie," the
young husband said, rather anxiously,
to Edward Mydleton, when the latter
presented himself in Mrs. Bourn's little
drawing-room for the first time.
lie was there by invitation to dine at
seven, and (leorgie was considerately
delaying making' her appearance in or
der to give the old friends a few mo
ments.
" Oh, I'm sure, to, old fellow," Ted
dy, said, politely. "The chances
are that she won't ince me; wives
always want their husbands to give
up the bad habits of their bachelorhood,
you know. I expect to be denied a
place In your memory, together with
the ballet-girls, and cigars, and clubs,
and oyster-suppers, of the past. You
have got everything very Jolly about
you, old boy," he continued, half-envy
ingly, tcc he looked round ut the dainty,
graceful arrangement of the room. "It
makes a fellow feel the barrenness of
Ills own life the more," lie was adding,
when he heard a woman's light step,
and the rustle of a dress, and Mrs.
Bourn came M.
lie had expected the country clergy
man's daughter to be more or Tess tante
and uninteresting, even if she happened
to be pretty, which Vincent had raving
ly declared her to be. There stood be
fore him now a bright-faced, charming
ly self-possessed girl of three-or four
and-twenty, who met his outstretched
hand cud his eyes quite frankly and
cordially at once, with the words:
'•Vinuy and you are like brothers, he
tells me. I hope you'll extend the fra
ternal feeling to me." And front that
moment Teddy My dleton had 'that sav
ing power in his life, a pure woman's
friendship.
" But I fear—U Vinny, I do fear so
much that he's going the downward
path fast!" she said mournfully to her
husband in the course of a conversation
some feW I non ths after th is. "He came
in last night after you had gone to the
theatre,and he wasn't as:he ought tohave
been ; and, when he saw me look sorry,
he said : ' What does it matter, Georgie?
I'm only a useless, idle fellow; the
sooner I do for myself the better.'''
" Yes, he's down on his luck," her
husband said, sadly. "Poor, dear old
Ted ! I wish we could do something for
him. You see, he has made an awful
mess of it lately on all sides, been late
with copy, and written when he couldn't
think, much less write coherently; and
the end of it is, that both the .Scarifier
and The Doily intelligence have dropped
him."
"0 Finny! and he has no home to
go to to be comforted ! "Georgie said, pa
thetically. " My heart bled for him last
night; he has come from such a height
that he must always feel his degrada
tion more keenly than those men do
who owe all the social status they have
to their own intellect ; he is a gentle•
man born, and now he has to herd with
inferiors who tolerate him. He nearly
broke my heart last night by saying he
expected we should hear of him as
found dead in a gutter one day, perhaps
the sooner the better."
• " go and look after him this even
ing," Vincent said, meditatively.
He was considerably wrought upon
by that statement of his wife's relative
to Alyilleton's reckless depression, and
he longed to help the poor, desolate fel
low. But how to do it ? There was the
rub ! He (Vincent himself) was only a
worker, and -a, very hard worker, too.—
He knew quite well that he would not
dare to offer pecuniary aid to the man
who had been the heir to thousands a
year, and about whom the traditions of
class were strong. And other aid would
be valueless at present, while he was
steeped in that bitter sense of want
which is the hard portion of those who
are compelled to count even in the
farthings, much more the pennies.
So that evening, in pursuance of his
plan, Vincent Bourn started earlier
than was his wont, in order that he
might drop in and see Edward Mydle
ton, before the exigencies of his position
as a dramatic critic compelled him to
put in an appearance at the new bur
lesque.
It was six o'clock, and the fire was
burning dimly in the small grate of the
room into which Vincent Bourn pene
trated in search of his friend. some
papers and manuscript folios were scat
tered about the table in the middle of
the room, and over the sofa, where My
dieton was lounging, with a pipe in his
mouth.
"At work, old fellow ?" Vincent
asked, cheerily, coming in with a glow
of fresh air and animation about him,
in the vain hope of the latter being con
tagious.
"No," Mydleton said, scarcely rais
ing his head, and holding a hot hand
out to his friend.
- _
" Will you come and see Gilbert's
new piece with me, then
" I'm hardly in condition to enjoy a
burlesque; thank you," Mydleton said,
rousing himself up, and looking straight
forward with hard, haggard eyes. "
have done nothing all day but smoke
and drink—S. and B. Gilbert's sub
tleties would be wasted on me."
"Sow, look here, Ted," Vincent
Bourn said, gravely and kindly, putting
his hand on the other one's shoulder to
give force to his words; " Georgie and
I have been talking about you—"
" Bless her kind little heart !" Mydle
ton interrupted, with a sob in his voice.
" And I've a notion she won't be too
well pleased with me If I don't manage
to cheer you up to night," the other
man went on, without noticing the in
terruption. "Come and dine with me
at the Arts, Ted, and then we'll drop in
for the burlesque."
Mydleton shook his head, and mut
tered a gloomy negative to the proposi
tion.
" What are you going to do ?" Vin
cent persisted.
" Nothing."
" Now, look here, old fellow ; if you
won't talk to me, go and talk to Geor
gie ; you'll be the better for it."
" I'm a worthless fellow, Vinny ; but
Pin not bad enough to go and insult
your wife by my presence when I'm
screwed—at least, not when I know I'm
screwed. Leave me to myself, old boy."
"'l'ed, will you let ine help you?"
The otter was made almost stammering-
" I'm pretty well beyond all help,"
Ted suld, savagely; " I urn ut the end of
my resources, and those fellows don't
seem to want any more of my lubrica
tions."
"'fry another paper," Vincent Hall,
hopefully. " With your talent you'll
hare It all your own way In time."
:Nlytileton smiled bitterly..
" My dear boy, the next ellin•t I make
will be to get a few paltry shillings for
more of this," (lie touched the empty
brandy-bottle as he spoke), "and a very
little more of it will do for me ; I have
lost not only ambition and hope, but
se' f-respect also. I'm broken down,
Vinny,'' he concluded, with another of
those sudden sobs that are so inexpress
ibly touching when they are uttered in
what the listener feels must be awful
mental agony.
" Be a man, Ted, be a man," Vincent
Bourn spoke with tears in his eyes, and
a falter in his voice, but he was not the
less a man fur the fact; "ben man, 'led
—shake off this depression, it's a snare
of the devil's; shake it ott, and don't
shun women like my wife. I must go
to the theatre, for I'm pledged to have a
column on the burlesque to morrow ;
but you go to her now, and let her help
you, will you 7„
" I'll try to," Ted promised, and then
his friend left him. But Mrs. Bourn saw
nothing of him that night.
" If he roused himself even now, he
could bowl the majority of his rivals out
of the field," Vincent said to his wife
about a fortnight after this; "but he's
letting himself drift down the stream at
a fatal pace; he began a novel some time
ago, and it opened brilliantly, but he
won't touch it; he's no motive he says,
no incentive. I wish you could get hold
of him, (teorgie, he's very fond of you,
and he'll go to the bad at a gallop if
some one won't stop him."
Mrs. Bourn made no answer iinmedi
ately, but after a thoughtful pause she
said:
" Finny deur, it's dull for me some
times when you're away all day, isn't
"Poor little woman," he said, caress
ing her, "yes, I am afraid it is."
"You have heard me speak of my
cousin Helen Steele
" Yes. She's a pretty cousin, isn't
she?"
"Pretty ! she's the loveliest girl I ever
saw in my lire, Vincent," she said, en
thusiastically. " I should like you to
see her; let me ask her to come and stay
with us.".
" With all my heart," he answered,
and so the matter was settled.
•' I hope I'm doing right," Georgie
said to herself in a flutter of nervous
excitement when the visitor arrived.
•• It's rather a case of playing with fire
I'm afraid," she added, dubiously, as
she went forward to meet her guest, and
the glorious beauty of the girl burst
upon her afresh.
The young lady had travelled up from
her country-home in a black-velveteen
suit, and a black-velvet turban-hat, un•
der which her violet eyes and golden
hair gleamed wondrously. the was a
splendid beauty, but she was something
more—a charming, wise, witty woman;
and Ueorgle trembled to think of ho iv
many men m ust already adore this "aid"
whom she had summoned to develop a
little scheme of her own.
" We don't lead at all the sort of life
that we used to think was London life
when we were girls together, Nell,"
Mrs. Bourn explained to her cousin that
night. " Vincent Writes all day, and
we go to the theatre very often, and
some ()fills men friends dine with us con
stantly ; that's about all the society we
go Into. I hope you'll not lind It dull."
1 infinitely prefer men friends to
women friends," Helen laughed ; "tell
me about them, Georgie. Fancy your
being a literary man's wife! it's too
funny; tell me about some of your
blooming celebrities."
" And then there's the best and clev
erest of them all, Edward Mydleton,"
Georgie wound up with, after a long dis
sertation on the merits, looks, personal
appearance, and works, of many mem
bers of the fraternity to which her hus
band belonged.
"Edward Mydleton ; I don't know
his name In print," Helen said, yawn
ing.
"No, because lie's been writing for
the press only hitherto," Georgie ex
plained, eagerly; but he has it In him
tom ph- mark, Vinny says, if
9„tdy he wo' - '
Oh.
" Now lie beautifully calm, and
wise, ant rerent about him, Nell,"
Georgie d.
"Nell I be enthusiastic when
he has is mark, but I can't be
fore that, can I 7"
" Yes, you can, when you have seen
him ; he's much handsomer than the
majority of literary men. As a rule,
they run small and plain, I think ; but
he's such a tine young fellow, and
his fate has been so hard." Ann
then, having fairly aroused her
cousin's anxiety, Mrs. Bourn pro
ceeded to tell the story of Edward My
dleton's loss of/rank and property.
"And he lives by his pen now""
Helen asked thoughtfully.
" Ye-es, yes," Ueorgie replied, con
fusedly.
"Is he making his fortune fast, like
the typical hero in distress? "
"No."
" Why isn't he? 0 Georgie, Georgie!
I suspect he's not half as clever as you
try to make him out; if he were, of
course he would make his fortune ; peo
ple always can if they go the right way
to work, can't they ?"
" Then he certainly is not going the
right way to work," Georgie said, hotly.
Then she remembered herself. She
must not be over-zealous about 'red, or
Helen would become suspicious. "The
fact is," she explained, lamely. " both
Vincent and I are so very fond of him,
that we are huffy if other people don't
appreciate him to the full at once."
" When shall I see your friend,
Georgie?"
" I hardly know; I haven't seen him
myself for a fortnight," Georgie said,
gravely. Then she added, wistfully,
"Nell, I want your help."
"I'll give it; in what way ?" Miss
Steele answered, in a little tone of sur
prise.
" I want you to show an interest and
to feel an interest in Ted Myd4eton."
" My dear Georgie, you forget," the
beauty said, drawing herself up, "you
are a privileged matron, and can do
what you please ; but I should lay my
self open to the charge of all sorts of ab
surdities if I went about showing an in
terest, and feeling an interest, in every
young journalist who has known better
days." And then the two cousins
coughed, and kissed, and parted for the
night. And Mrs. Bourn put her head
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY•MORNING SEPTEMBER 20, 1871.
on the pillow with the conviction. that
she had blundered.
•
" Ask Ted to dine with us to-night,"
Mrs. Bourn said, as her husband was
rushing off the next morning ; don't tell
him that there is any one here." And
so, at seven that evening Mydleton
sauntered into Georgie's little drawing
room.
The fire was the only light in the
room, and the hostess was alone, when
he came in, sitting on the fender-stool,
buried in thought. She had made her
little room as attractive as possible with
flowers and fresh white•muslin cur
tains. "It is well that he should feel
what a charm women can throw about
things with very little money" had been
her thought while she had been making
a judicious distribution of her few blooms
of cyclamen and geranium and fern
fronds. She was well awarded for the
trouble she had taken, when he said :
"How sweet and pure your room
looks and smells, Georgie ! I haven't
seen a flower since I was here last."
" Ted ! why do you come so seldom?"
She had jumped up and prisoned his
hands in hers, and now she was hold
ing him well into the light, in order to
read his face.
0 Ted ! Ted ! will nothing make you
careful of yourself? We love you so ; it
is so hard on us that you won't take
care," she said, mournfully noting the
ravages that the last three weeks had
made in his appearance.
He stooped, and kissed her on the fore
head.
" You dear little thing," he said, "I'm
not worth caring about, Georgie ;" and
then, while she was energetically fight
ing for him against himself, her cousin
came Into the room.
" Oh, I haven't told you yet that
my cousin, Miss Steele, is with me,"
the small diplomatist said, carelessly;
" this is our friend Ted, Helen—you
may call him Ted, too, if you're good."
"Some have honor thrust upon them,"
Helen said, saucily.
" And there is such a thing as casting
pearls of condescension away," Georgie
laughed.
" And there is such a thing as being
put in the wrong place by one's best
friends, Georgie," Mydleton said, quick
ly ; and so they became very intimate
and friendly without much trouble.
" What's your programme to-night,
little woman her husband asked of
Georgie, in the middle of dinner.
" The theatre, of course ; but which,
I haven't settled."
"There are three stalls for the Adel
phi," he said, throwing the tickets
across the table at her; " will they do ?"
" Beautifully. Ted, you must go to look
after us.''
" Won't that be tak Mg you away from
your work?" Helen asked with honest
Interest, and both Vincent and his wife
blushed In sympathy with him, us he
replied :
"'Thank you; but I have no work to
do."
"No work ! I thought writers always
had work to do; my idea of you all is,
that printer's devils hover on your door
steps perpetually," shti said, laughing,
but watching his face keenly as she
spoke.
He shook his head miserably. Her
tone of interest in him smote him to the
heart, and lie could not bear to lower
himself in her esteem by telling her that
he was one of those whose work was not
wanted. He could not bear to tell her
this, and weaken, perhaps, the sympa
thy with which she was looking at him
sogently from out those sweet violet eyes.
So he only shook his head and laughed
feebly; and then the two ladies went
away to get on their opera-cloaks.
" Why have you done this, Georgie ?"
He asked the question of Mrs. Bourn,
who had rushed into her wrap and dash
ed down-stairs again before Helen had
had time to gain her room.
" (lot Helen Steele here, do you
mean she asked, picking up the
gauntlet at once.
" Yes ; I'm down already, and if I see
more of her, it will only make my life
more wretched than it is at present ;
shall be sighing for a star—"
" 0, Ted, work for her, don't sigh
only," Georgie clamored. " Dear Ted,
I'll confess; I have prayed for you to
be what you say you are,'already 'down'
before her; if you love her, as I hope
you'll love her—"
" Wouldn't she open those magnifi
cent eyes of hers in astonishment at my
presumption? No, no, Georgie, she's
not for such as me—"
" Ted, Ted, you pain me so—Vincent
make him hear reason."
" She looks like a Countess, little wo
man ; and you want me, a ruined man,
to fall in the error of loving her."
Then she came into the room again,
looking radiant, for she was much in
terested by the manner and physique
and conversation of this young literary
man who had been the heir to a baron
etcy, looking .radiant, and rather anx
ious to note the etlbet tier looks had on
him.
It was a regular Adel phi drama that
they went to see that night. There was
a good deal of virtuous beauty in unmer
ited distress, and a fair share of flour
ishing villiany. Kate Terry illustrated
the former, and all the world knowt
what she can do with such a part. As
any rate, she did a good deed that night
for ehe helped these two young people
to a better understanding of one an
other,
" such a novice In all these
things," Helen whispered to Ted, while
(ieorgie looked away, assiduously, and
feigned unconsciousness of their pres
ence; " so what I'm going to ask may
be a very out-of-the-way thing; but I
should so much like to read something
of yours, and for you to lend it to me.
Will you ?"
"If I ever write anything worth
reading, may I lay It at your feet, Miss
Steele? if I ever write any thing worth
reading, you will be the cause of my
success—my goddess."
These last words were whispered ; but
she heard them—heard them, and did
not resent them, stranger as ie was.—
Their hearts had gone out to one an
other already, each felt; and Georgie's
heart palpitated with pleasure when she
saw the stride affairs had taken as she
ventured to look at them again.
" Do you forgive me.." Cleorgie whis
pered, when he was saying good-by to
her that night.
" I'll try to; I was a broken-dowu
man when I came here to-night, bnt
her beauty has made me a new man.
I'll deserve her yet; try to keep her for
me."
Whether he deserved her or not, this
much is certain, that he won her. He
wrote a novel into which he threw his
best, arid a publisher paid, and the crit
ics praised, and the public admired, and
she loved him for it!-,Tor it, or for
something else. At all events, it was to
his wife that he addressed those passion
ate, pure lines of Edgar Allan Poe :
"On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic fare.
Thy Naiad airs, have brought Inc lamp
lo the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome."
A Gold Island 10 the West Indies
Some three months since a small island,
in the Carribean Sea, known as the Bimita
and about eight hundred miles south of
Trinidad, while being explored under the
direction of Agassiz,a .4 found to contain
gold. The rock is quartose, and quietly a
few individuals obtained possession of the
island, and these individuals—all Ameri
can—will not dispose of any interest, al
though last week several offers from Eng
lish capitalists in London were received,
information having reached them through
the Custom House, as is supposed, although
every arrangement had been made to keep
the matter as quiet as possible. The gold
is free and easily amalgamated, and in pu
rity in veins in the quartz. Forty different
veins have been discovered on the island,
and five are now being worked, and the ore
is being received from ships at the Centre
ville Works, in Greenville, in Hudson
county. The works are running night and
day. The ore is now, with very imperfect
machinery, yielding $6O per ton, and they
are only getting one-third of the gold, but
the " tailings " are being saved, with the
view of running them through theimprov
ed machine being constructed for. All the
gold ore seen by our reporter, who tested
the specimens just as dumped out on the
wharf, will yield $lBO per ton. This great
discovery is believed to be likely to build
up a very important enterprise in Hudson
county. The ore is as rich as the richest
ores of California and Venezuela.—Pater
son jN. J.) Guardian.
r=!
The Brazilian mails by steamer Cassini,
from Rio de Janeiro on the 13th ult., at
New York on the 7th instant, bring news
that the government has carried the sec
ond, third and fourth articles of the slave
bill in the Chamber of Deputies, despite
the factions and, on each division, tumul
tuous opposition of the minority who op
pose the scheme of gradual emancipation
or any interference whatever with "the
peculiar institution."
Tree Money Blarket.
The banks and the money markets are
discussed pretty freely in an editorial of
the New York Evening Post, and some
most interesting statements made and
figures presented. The .New York money
market, in many respects, is a financial
barometer of the whole country. For many
months the abundance of loanable funds
in Wall street has been such that lenders
have had to contend themselves with 2 and
3 per cent. per annum for demand loans,
and have considered themselves fortunate
if their entire balances were absorbed in
this way. The Post accounts for this state
of affairs as follows: "First—The absence
until recently, of any active speculative
movements at the Stock Exchange, owing
to the blow given to speculation in the
early Summer by the failure of the Rock
Island " corner." Second—The policy of
the Secretary of the Treasury, who, to fa
cilitate the negotiation of the first 3200,000,-
000 of 5 per cents, has kept the currency
in the Treasury down to a meagre work
ing balance. At no time since the new
bonds were fairly on the market has this
balance exceeded $10,000,000, and at times
it has been less than $4,000,000, while
only a year ago it was as high as $35,-
000,000. Third—The creation of new '
national banks under the Legislature
or last Winter has given to the parts of the
country in which they were established an
enlarged mercantile credit which has re
lieved the demand on this centre fur cur
rency and bank accommodations. It is
hardly necessary to say that the bank cred
its which came into existence with these
banks are many times greater than the
amount of notes Issued by them. Fourth.
The withdrawal, by the secretary of the
Treasury, of the 3 per cent. certificates,
which are redeemed as fast as new banks
are established, has induced the New
York bunks, which held nearly all
of them, to keep down their re
serve and to make up in direct loans
the interest which they lost on these
certificates. Fifth.—The extreme ease of
the European money markets has led to the
employment here of a vast amount of for
eign capital and credit, the latter having
been used in the form of borrowed sterling
bills. The large speculators of the Stock
Exchange, who have been carrying im
mense amounts of stocks for mouths past,
have in many cases hypothecated them for
these bills, which they hays readily sold
and turned to account. The amount of for
eign credit so used, which does not appear
in the bank statements, Is variously esti
mated, but was probably never greater than
now." The first and must iwportant reason
of this state of affairs has been an extraordl
nary expansion of ban k credits—au inflation
almost without a parallel in the history ape
per credits. The Pox( states it very clearly,
and exhibits such a condition of the busi
ness of banking In that city as deserves
serious consideration. It says: The ave•
rage loans of the city banks last week were
$311,200,300, or about $30,500,000 tuure titan
at the corresponding time last year. Or
dinarily toe banks about the middle of
August begin a contraction of loans to Wall
street speculators, which goes on to the
close of the year. For instance, on August
13, 1070, the loans of the banks stood at5376,-
647,619, from which point they steadily ran
down until the last week in December, when
they stood at $203,417,418. On August 13,
1870, the banks held a total reserve of $70,-
000,504, of which $34,104,302 was in specie,
and the remainder in legal tenders. The
specie the third week in October was re
duced to $11,610,700, but with the disburse
ment of the November interest rose before
the close of the year to nearly $21,000,000,
The banks lost in deposits from the middle
of August to die end of December nearly
$37,000,000. In a word, the banks lost in
reserve last year,from the middle of August
to the end of the year,about $10,000,000, and
their liabilities were reduced $33,300,000,
so that they were really . strouger at the close
of the year than in August. This year the
bank loans in the first week imlanuary were
$363,570,037, and they have steadily risen
to $311,306,300, at which they stood last
week. In the middle of August, when it
was reasonably supposed that they had
attained their maximum and when great
caution in banking would have suggested
a contraction, the loans stood at $303,400,-
397. While this expansion of nearly $9,000,-
0)10 in loans has been going on in the past
three weeks, the banks have lost 31,500,940
in specie, and $1,444,100 in legal tenders, or
$7,013,049 on their reserve, corresponding
to a reduction of about $30,000,000 in their
liabilities. The actual reduction of their
liabilities has been 152,307,889." This im
proper and injurious inflation cannot be
accounted fur by an increased demand for
legitimate mercantile accommodations inci
dent to the fall trade,nor is there an explana
tion afforded by the very moderate demand
front the interior for the moving of crops.
The whole of this expansion is reflected in
the position of matters at the New York
Stock Exchange, and in a limited degree in
a few stocks in our own market. 'There
are combinations and cliques in nearly all
of the chief railroad stocks, composed of
influential capitalists and speculators.—
These combinations were compelled to pur
chase an enormous amount of stocks which
came upon the market in consequence of
the Rock Island fiasco, and it has required a
vast amountormoneytocarrythem through
the dull period of the Summer months, and
to this source chiefly can be traced the ab
sorption of the bank expansions and al9o
of the very largo amount (estimated by
some, as high as twenty-five to thirty mil
lions) of floating foreign balances and cred
its. There must come a change and that
at no distant day, in the situation, which
suggests to all classes of borrowers as well
as lenders, the necessity of caution. It is
certain that the present expanded state of
the New York banks, based, us it chiefly is,
upon fancy, uncertain and speculative
stocks, must soon reach a point that will
require a severe and extensive liquidation
of these credits to stock speculators, If they
would meet the approaching demands from
the commercial classes.
How the Famed Statute wan Saved from
rrmoda and from the tomsunue.
M. Theophile Gautier relates in the Joar•
nal 011rirl how the Venus of Milo wan caved
front the Prussians and the Communists.
At the beginning of the war, he says, when
the first defeats showed that Paris was in
danger of being besieged, the moat valuable
of the pictures in the Louvre were taken
out of their frames and sent to Brest ; but
it was not easy to find a place for the statues,
whose weight and fragility made it Impos
sible to pack them for no long a journey.—
Among these statues by far the most
valuable was the Venus or Duo, "and
the thought that this adorkble work of
art might become Prussian filled our
connoisseurs with dismay." At last, after
giving much thought to the subject, the
guardians of the Louvre hit on an ingeni
ous means of getting out of the difficulty.
The statue was taken down from its pedes
tal and laid in an oak coffin tilled with wad
ding. In the dead of night some men who
could be depended upon brought the coffin
with its precious contents to a secret door
in the Louvre, where it was taken up by
some others and carried to a spot known
only to themselves, where a crypt had
been prepared for the goddess in the cel
lars of the Prefecture de Police.—
" What a grand poem," observed M.
Gamier, "would Heine, the singer of the
bauished gods, have written on the noc
turnal burial of this most famous of the im
mortals, and what ironical apostrophes
lie would have directed against those hordes
of the followers of Rant and Hegel, at
whose approach a dweller In Olympus fled
to the Rue Jerusalem!" The hiding plai e
was at the end of one of the numorous se
cret passages in the Prefecture. A wall
was built in front of the spot where the
Venus was laid, and covered over with
rubbish so as to give it the appearance of
antiquity. To make assurance doubly
sure, a heap of documunts of some import
and, was laid in front of this wall, and a
second wall was then run up, so as to make
it appear that the biding place was made
for the documents. Here the Venus re
mained during the whole period of the
siege, her admirers wondering all the time
what had become of her. Perhaps, says
M. Gautier, she found her seclusion
i rather tedious; but time is of ;no conse
quence to an immortal, and she must
have been accustomed to darkness by her
confinement of several centuries in the
vault from which the Greek peasant Gor
gon extricated her. After the first siege it
was proposed to replace her on her pedes
tal, but when the Commune was declared
the guardians wisely determined to leave
her where she was until order was restored.
The secret was well kept, and the Venus
was not disturbed during the second siege
any more than during the first. At length
came the defeat of the Commune, and the
burning of the principal official buildings,
including the Prefecture. The anxiety
caused to the guardians by this event may
easily be imagined. Was the Venus to per
ish after all, now she had escaped the bombs
of the Prussians and the vandalism of the
Commune? Directly the army of Ver
sailles resumed possession of the Capital
the guardians hastened to the Prefecture.
The still smoking ruins were carefully re
moved, and among them was found the
oak coffin uninjured. A water-pipe had
miraculously saved the statue; we might
now apply to her the proud'inotto of the
House of Heidelberg, ' Prtestat invicta Ve
nus I ' " 'The coffin was brought back to
the Louvre and opened before a commission
appointed for the purpose. "Every one
leaned forward eagerly to look. Lying in
her soft bed in a position that quite altered
her usual appearance, her mouth half open,
as if to breathe the free air, she seemed to
look gratefully on her preservers with that
irresistibly charming smile which is un
known to modern lips. All her features
and limbs were complete;
no injury bad
been done to the marble by the damp of
the crypt in which it had so long been bur
ied."
Rothfelder, the inventor of the stem
winding watch, hits committed suicide
in New York.
sittetttyltet
A Robbery of Vouchers In New York.
The offices of the city and county govern •
ment of New York, were wonderfully
startled on Monday morning by the an
nouncement that a daring robbery bed
been committed the night before in the
county bureau of the Comptroller's office,
and that a large number of vouchers and
other papers directly affecting the proofs of
the charges of frauds that have been made
against the present administration had been
abstracted. The rumor lost nothing in
size as it passed from mouth to mouth
around City Hall and the new Court house,
and during the morning the most extrava
gant statements were in circulation, but
the plain facts of the case upon a careful in
vestigation appear to be as follows :
The Comptroller's office during Sunday
and Sunday night was left in charge of the
regular night watchman, a man by the name
of John Murphy, who lives in the Twenty
first Ward. The Deputy Comptroller, Mr.
Richard Storrs, was at the office during a
portion of the day on Sunday, and, seeing
murphy about, cautioned him, as he had
frequently done before, to remain con
stantly on duty and to keep a sharp look
out. Notwithstanding this, however, the
watchman, Murphy, left the office at
about six o'clock P. M., went up town
for supper, and did not return until
nearly nine o'clock. When he reach
ed the office he found that the coun
ty bureau had been entered. The of
fice of this bureau is on the second floor
of the building, on the Chambers street ,
side, and just west of the main entrance.—
The door of the office Is on the north side
of the west hall, near the foot of the main
staircase leading to the third floor. The
door is of heavy black walnut, but with
ground-glass windows,and out of the lower
corner of the window of the left-hand door
a piece of glass had been skilfully cut with
a diamond, leaving a hole large enough for
a man's arm to be inserted. The fastenings
of the door included two catches, both of
which could be turned from the inside
without a key, and a wooden brace reach
ing from the door to the partition of the stock
clerk's office. These catches were both un
fastened when Murphy returned, and the
wooden brace had been removed. The door
was closed, but It was without any fasten
ings whatever. The watchman must have
seen that a forcible entrance had been ef
fected, but he says that he did not notice
that anything bad been stolen from the
place. This man was relieved from duty
tit 8 o'clock yesterday morning by the Jan
itor of the office, whose name Is Regan.
When Regan arrived, Murphy told him that
the office had been entered, and then
making a thorough examination about the
place It way noticed that the doors of two
cupboards under a long desk In the County
Auditor's office had been very unskilfully
wrenched open and a number of bundles
of vouchers abstracted. These cupboards
each contained twenty pigeon -holes, and In
the first one, which was filled with vouch
ers for 1869, ten pigeon-holes bad been
rifled and the contents of the others
had been left intact, and In the second cup
board containing vouchers for 187 U, three
pigeon-holes had been robbed. These cup
boards were secured by small steel locks,
and the doors bad been pried open with a
chisel or some similar instrument and after
wards closed, so as to show no very visible
mark of their forcible opening.
==l
MAYORS OFFICE, I
Monday, r. Sept.i 11, 1871. j
ilq Dear ,S'ir have just Veen informed
by the Superintendent of Pqiice that last
night the offices of the Fivancb Department
were secretly invaded, and that as a conse
quence thereof, valuable vouchers, evi
dences of payments, and cancelled warrants
(together representing a large amount of
discharged city liabilities,) are alleged by
some of your subordinates to have then
disappeared.
The Superintendent and the Mayor im
mediately had a full conversation regard •
ing the means of investigating the untow
ard circumstances of the alleged burglary,
so as to punish the guilty, procure restitu
tion of such papers as may have been
taken, and protect the interests of the city.
Our constituents will have a right to bold
you responsible, and in a measure to with
hold from the Finance Department desira
ble public confidence. It is impossible not
to perceive that the city credit will suffer.
and in a very critical period of municipal
government.
With great personal reluctance I officially
reach the conclusion that the exigency de
mands your retirement from the head of
the Finance department, In order that I
may place there another gentleman, who
will be enabled to thoroughly investigate
its affairs and restore public confidence.
I cannot suspend any head of depart
ment, not even pending an investigation ;
I can only prefer charges to the judges of
the Court of Common Pleas, who alone can
remove after a considerable time for trial.
I am compelled to throw myself, there
fore, as Mayor, in this unexpected emer
gency upon your magnanimity, and ask
under the circumstances for your resigna
tion. Very truly yours,
non. It. B. Connolly.
COMPTROLLER CONNOLLY'S RESPONSE -II E
REFUSES TO RESIGN.
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, New York, Sept.
12. 1571.—H0n. A. Oakey Hall, Mayor: My
Dear Sir—Your letter of September 11,
asking my resignation as Comptroller, was
presented to me last night at 11 o'clock, at
an interview sought by myself. Similar
verbal requests, from yourself and others,
have been, within the last few weeks, re
ceived and declined. The official source
and subject matter of your note, as then
read to me, and as published by you in this
morning's press, demanded, and has re
ceived my earnest consideration. A crim
inal abstraction of papers from the Finance
Department seems the reason for your let
ter, so far as any is therein suggested.
In common with other city officers, I
now stand before the public and " our con•
etituency" charged with malfeasance in
the administration of high trusts so long
con tided to my care. The legal proceedings
wherein such charges aro made, and to be
substantiated, If at all, are now on hearing
before a fearless and Just tribunal. My
answer, therefore, is before the public, and
my complete defence ready to be presented,
both to that High Court, "our constitu
eels," and the citizens of New York at
large. My counsel has urged, by my wish,
a speedy trial and rigid investigation. I
sin fearless of the result, and anxious for
the proceedure. During the many years of
my administration of this office, I have not
Been, and fall now to see, any diminution
of public confidence, and such fact would
have been readily marked, nothing being
more sensitive to general opinion than
financial administration. I beg leave to
differ from your Honor In thinking the
robbery of my office creates any " unex
pected or sudden emergency."
I am not apprehensive that either your
self or this community will suspect that I
am an accomplice In that depredation. I
sin happy to assure you that it has effected
no serious mischief, the archives of the De
partment containing abstracts of all the sto
len papers. Whoever planned or executed
the crime has reaped no benefit and inflict
ed no injury upon public interests Would
not my resignation at this,particular time,
give the advocates of the partisan attacks
upon the city government justleause to be
lieve me to plead guilty, not only of partic•
ipation (at least passive) in the burglary,
but as well to all the charges now made in
the legal proceedings? So it seems to me.
My official acts have been supervised and
approved by your superior vigilance. So
far as my administration is questioned,
equal responsibility attaches to yourself.
la your answer and affidavit, read in the
pending litigation, you have adopted and
vindicated those acts. You could not j usti
fy yourself without so doing.
Consequently, I do not perceive why my
resignation should be asked, or how, if
tendered, it would have any just influence
in appeasing popular clamor. Confident
therefore, in the steadfast good opinion of
friends, in the ultimate judgment to be
rendered by the Courts, I cannot consist
ently with self-respect, accord to your de
sire. lam unable to submit myself as a
vicarious sacrifice, to satisfy the hungry
appetite of adversaries for a victim, or, at
this juncture and under these peculiar cir
cumstances, betray weakness of position
or fear of rigid investigation, by tendering
my resignation.
I cannot now anticipate the effect upon
this determination future events may pro
duce. When my past administration shall
be vindicated, and pending accusations
shall be repelled, I shall not fail to act as
may seem to be demanded by the changed
circumstances which may then exist.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
RICHARD B. CoNsottv, Comptroller.
The Indianapolis People gives the folio w
og account of the most singular suicide,
which occured near Philadelphia, (Ind.,) a
short distance east of the city, on Thursday
week : A farmer was threshing his grain
by steam power, near the road side, when
a well-dressed stranger drove up in a bug
gy, got out, tied his horse, and came up to
the machine. He first went to the engin
eer and asked for the privilege of feeding
the machine for a while, and was referred
to the feeder. The feeder , seeing no rea
son to refuse letting him try his hand,
yielded his post, which the stranger filled
with ability. After running a short time,
he looked to the engineer for more steam,
which the engineer put on, and while the
machine was going at lightning speed, he
motioned the man handling sheaves to
stop, and as soon as the teeth were clear, he
doubled up his arms and threw himself
headforemost into the thresher before the
horror-stricken observers had an idea of
his intention. He was literally torn to
pieces in an instant. No clue to his identi
ty could be discovered. His pocketbook
contained $3O, but nothing in the way of
papers. The citizens of Philadelphia are
still in the dark as regards the name of the
man, or the cause of his making way 'with
himself,
Tllton's Life of Victoria Woodhull
Mr. Theodore Tilton has justgiven to the
public the most extraordinary production
of the age, which he is pleased to call a Life
of Mrs. Victoria Woodhull. Of all his va
garies, this is his greatest, and it is to be
hoped his last. He begins at her birth,
which he tells us happened in the year 18.13.
Her name wasgiven in honor of the Queen
of England. From an early age she has, as
he puts it, "entertained angels, not una
wares," and the course of her very remark
able life has been shaped by them.
Her eccentric literary and political pro
ductions have been received directly from
the same source. Her chief "angel" is
Demosthenes, who is continually by her,
and once when he appeared in visible
shape wrote out his name in good plain
English. These same " angels " have at
times made her as wonderful promises as
ever did the witches to Macbeth. She is,
according to them, to become the ruler
over the whole country and her ideas to
prevail among the people. Her father is
described as a cruel tyrant, and hor moth
er as something equally bad. Between
them she was forced at fourteen years of
age into a marriage with Dr. Woodhull.
She soon discovered her husband to be a
rake, and a hopeless sot. They fall into
poverty, and she supports him, first by
needle, and subsequently as an actress on
the stage. While acting before a country
audience sbe was called to New York by
the spirit of her sister "Tennie," and lett
as hurriedly ft. , Cinderella from the Prince's
ball. Arriving In New York she takes the
profession of a spiritualist fortune-teller,
and makes a very large fortune for herself.
Then comes her divorce, and of that and
other events wequote :
Maim to she had entertained an almost
superstitious idea of the devotion with
which a wile should cling to her husband.
She had always been so faithful to hint
that, in his cups, lie would mock and Jeer
at her fidelity, and call her a fool for main
taining it. At length the fool grew wiser,
and alter eleven years of what, with con
ventional mockery, was called a marriage
—during which time her husband had nov•
er spent an evening with her at home, had
seldom drawn a sober breath, and had
spent on other women, not herself, all the
money he had ever earned—she applied in
Chicago for a divorce and obtained it.
Previous to this crisis there had occurred
a remarkable incident which more than
ever confirmed her faith in the guardian
ship of spirits. One day, during a severe
illness of her son, she left hint to visit her
parents, and on her return was startled
with the news that the boy had died two
hours before. "No," she exclaimed, "1
will not permit his death," and with fran
, tie energy she stripped her bosom naked,
caught up his lifeless form, pressed it to
her own, and sitting thus, flesh to flesh,
glided insensibly into a trance, in which
she remained seven hours ; at the end of
which time she awoke, a perspiration start
ed front his clammy skin, and the child
that had been thought dead was brought
back again to life, and lives to this day in
sad half-death. 11 is her belief that the spir
it of Jesus Christ brooded over the lifeless
form, and re•rrrour/ht the miracle of Lazar-
MY for a sorrowing woman's sake.
=l=l
There is a maxim that marriages are
made in heaven, albeit contradicted by the
Scripture, which declares that in heaven
there is neither marrying nor giving in
marriage. But, even against the Scripture,
it is sale to say that Victoria's second mar
riage was made in heaven ; that is, it was
decreed by the selfsame spirits whom she
is ever ready to follow, whether they lead
for her discipline into the valley of the
Shadow of death, or for comfort in those
ways of pleasantness which are paths of
peace. Colonel James H. Blood, command
er of the Sixth Missouri Regiment, who at
the close of the war was elected City Au
ditor of St. Louis, who became President
of the Society of Spiritualists in that place,
and who had been, like Victoria, the legal
partner of a morally sundered marriage,
called one day to consult her as a spiritual
istic physician (having never met her be
fore), and was startled to see her pass into
a trance, during which she announced, aa
conseiou.lly to herself, that his future destiny
nod to be linked kit h hero in Marriage. nag,
to their mutual amazement, but to their sub
oefil«.nt happiness, they were betrothed on the
spot by " the powers of the air."
The legal tie by which at first they bound
themselves to each other was afterward by
mutual consent annulled—the necessary
form of Illinois law being complied with
to this effect. But the marriage stands on
Its merits, and is to all who witness its
harmony known to be a sweet and accord
ant union of congenial souls.
Col. Blood is a man on philosophic and
reflective cast of mind, an enthusiastic stu
dent of the higher lore of spiritualism, a
recluse from society, and an expectant be
liever in a stupendous destiny for Victoria.
A modesty not uncommon to men of intel
lect, prompts him to sequester his name in
the shade rather than to set it glittering in
the sun.
One night, about half a year after their
marriage, she and her husband were awak
ened at midnight iu Cincinnati by the an
nouncement that a man by the name of
Dr. Woodhull had been attacked with de
lirium tremens at the Burnet House, and
in a lucid moment had spoken of the wo
man from whom he had been divorced, and
begged to see her. Colonel Blood imme
diately took a carriage, drove to the hotel,
brought the wretched victim home, and,
jointly with Victoria, took care of him,
with life-saving kindness for six weeks.—
On his going away they gave him a few
hundred dollars of their joint property to
make him comfortable in another city. lie
departed full of gratitude, bearing with him
the assurance that he would always be wel
come to coins and go as a friend of the
family. And from that day to this, the
poor man, dilapidated In body and
emasculated in spirit, has sometimes so
journed under Victoria's roof and HOMO
times elsewhere, according to his whim or
will. In the present ruins of the young
gallant of 20 years ago, there is more man
hood (albeit an expiring spark like a can
dle at its socket) than during any of the
former years; and to be now turned out of
doors by the woman whom he wronged,
but who would riot wrong him In return,
would be an act of inhumanity which it
would be impossible for Mrs. Woodhull
and Col. Blood either jointly or separately
to commit, For this piece of noble con
duct—what Is commonly called her living
with two husbands under one roof—she
has received not so much censure on earth
as I think she will receive reward in heav
en. No other passage In her life more sig
nally illustrates the nobility of her moral
judgments or the supernatural courage with
which she stands by her convictions. Not
all the clamorous tongues In Christendom,
though they should simultaneously cry
out against her " Fie, for shame!" could
persuade her to turn this wretched wreck
from her home. And I say she is right;
and I will maintain this opinion against the
combined Pecksnilfs of the whole world.
MEMLE
Her suffrage notions are derived exclu
sively from the aforesaid Demosthenes,
who Indited her memorial to Congress.
Of her personal appearance we have a line
rhapsody. She combines the features of a
" Roman marble" with the expression of
"St. Stephen, the martyr," and the tresses
of Hortense Bonaparte. Her free love
theories are from John Stuart Mill and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Of her present
pursuits we are briefly told that she is en
grossed with business affairs, having only
a few hours daily In which to indulge her
customary habit of "sitting on the roof of
her stately Mansion o❑ Murray Bill, and
there commune with spirits."
We have no space to give a further no
tice of this fearful production, but the brief
extracts we have made are sufficient to
show its character. We should give the
erratic Theodore the benefit of a doubt
that he too was inflated by spirits—of a cer
tain kind—only we know the saying in
vino veritas, and we don't believe that a
particle of truth can be found in these van
ities which were doubtless instigated by
"the world, the flesh or the devil,"—by
exactly which of the three we do not feel
competent to say.
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TRHNTON, Sept. 12.—Chancellor Zabris
kie having recovered from his recent in
disposition, the long-looked-for argument
In the matter of the application to prevent
the lease of the United Railroad Compa
nies of New Jersey to the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, commenced this morn
ing. Fifteen attorneys appeared to take
charge of the interests of the several parties
concerned.
For the complainants, John Black and
others, the following gentleman appeared :
Vincent L. Bradford, Esq., General Garrett
S. Canon, Abraham Browning, Esq.. P. L.
Vorhees, Esq., add Eon. Jeremiah S. Black.
The United Railroad Companies/were:rep
resented by A. J. Fish, Esq., Ed. T. Green,
Esq., Hon. Thomas B. Carpenter, Jacob
Vauatta, Esq.,lsaac W. Scudder, Esq ,
Courtland Parer, Esq., Theodore Cuyler,
Esq., Hon. F. T. Frelinghuysen, Hon.
John P. Stockton and ex-Chancellor Wil
liamson. Attorney-General Robert Gil
christ was also in attendance, and stated to
the Court that, although this was a private
contest, the State was interested, and the
Governor bad requested him to appear. If
agreeable, he would submit: his argument
in a private form.
No objection was made to this, although
some amusement was created when, in re
ply to Mr. Scudder's query, which side he
would take, the Attorney-General prompt
ly replied " against the lease." The pre
liminaries, including the affidavits of the
President and Secretary of the Trenton
Delaware Bridge Company, that the Cam
den and Amboy Railroad Company were
stockholders in that corporation, being
disposed of, the argument commenced.
Mr. Vincent L. Bradford, for the corn
plainants, took the initiative and read his
argument from a printed pamphlet of 149
pages, with an appendix of 30 more.
Mr. Bradford, who had not concluded his
argument when the court adjourned, will
be followed by Hon. John P. Stockton for
the lease. It is understood that four coun
sel will be beard on each side.
NUMBER 38
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DISSOLUTION.
DISnOLUTION OF PARTNERMHIP.—
Tho partnership heretofore existing be
tween the undersigned under the name of Run
nel, Musselman Co., Is this day dissolved by
mutual consent.
Tile business of the late arm will be settled
by their successors.
A. W. ck J. R. RUkREL.
They return their thanks to their numerous
friends for their extended patronage to them,
11.1.1 bespeak fur their successors a continuance
of the stun e. J sO. It. RUSPIEL
11. I). MUSSELMAN,
J. W. lIIIBLEY,
W. U. BENDER.
Lancaster, Aug. 7, Ital. Inuntaw.s3naw
A W. &I. R. RUNNEL HAVING PUB.
chased the stock of the late firm of Rus
sel, Musselman dr. Co.,avill keep on hand a full
stock of goods In their line, to which they In
vite the attention of their customers, Con
stantly on hand u stock of
HEATERS, STOVES AND RANGES
OF ALL THE LATE IMPROVEMENTS
BCILDINU MATERIAL
1101:SE-KEE1'INCt GOOD 3, :HARDWARE
ULA.SS, I'AINTS,
au7.lm,l3taw,t3mw A. W. dr. J. EL RUM.MEI
D YE ./N
TILE OLD ?STATEN ISLAND
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No. 47 NORTH EIGHTH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA,
Lad Dresses:of every description, dyed o
cleaned. Knit and wool blanket shawls
dyed or cleaned. Camel's hair, Paisley and
'troche shawls cleaned In a superior manner.
Velvet cioaks handsomely dyed. Matta and
worsted damask curtains dyed and cleaned.
Kid gloves and feathers dyed or cleaned.
Goods received and returned by Express. We
only ask a trial to prove our superiority and
skill. stWni w 3.5
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No. i 7 No:th Eighth St., Philadelphia. -
N. B.—We have no other office in this city.
CARPETS
CARY ICVN AND OIL CLOTHS,—
Thomas Depuy, 37 South Second street,
/1110V0 Chestnut, Lust Ode, Philadelphia, would
call the attention of those wishing to purchase
ear petings, to his large and choice line of For
eign and Domestic, both In relation to quali
ties as well as styles. Also, Oil Clotho, lifollings,
Rugs, „Wats, Stair-Rods, &c., &c., Write linvesteash
prices. - sepa-3mF&lmi<l,s
- It. 13.—.1. STEWART DEP u Y Is not at 2.53
South Second, but is with Thomas Depuy.
ROOFING SLATE.
DOOFING SLATE—PRICES REDUCED
rh The undersigned has constantly on hand a
rill supply of Roofing Slate for sale at Reduced
Prices. Also, an extra LIGHT ROOFING
!SLATE, Intended for slating on shingle roofs.
Employing the very best slaters all work Is
warranted to be executed in the best manner.
Builders and others will and it to their Inter
est to examine the samples at Wm.. D. Sprech
er's Seed Warerooms. No. SI East King street,
Lancaster, Pa., 2 doors west of the Court House.
We have a .so the Asbestos Roofing for fiat
roofs, or wY ere slate and shlngies cannot be
used. Lt Is far superior to Plastic or Gravel
Roofing.
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FRUITS, SALT FISH, &0..
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Country Produce received and sold on com
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ESTATE O! MART AWN L&IIKEI1178,
late of Martin twp., dec'd.—Letters of ad
ministration on said esutte having been grants
ed to the undersigned, all persons indebted
thereto are requested to make immediate pay
ment, and those haying claims. or demands
against the same will present them for settle
ment to the undersigned, residing in said
township.
THOMAS LABEZIIIS,
Administrator.
BSTATE OF ROBERT CORRELL, LATE
of Leacock township. Lancaster county,
oeased.—Letters Testamentary on said es
tate having been granted to the undersigned,
all persona indebted to said decedent are re
quested to make Immediate settlement, and
those having claims or demands against the
estate of said decedent, to make known the
same to Henry Barton without delay, residing
tri;Leacock township, Lancaster county.
JAMhE M. BARTON,
BAWL BARTON,
Executors.
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To the Heirs and Legal Representatives
ofMichael Renck, late of East Earl townehtp,
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, decesaed :
You ate hereby notified, that by virtue of an
order of the Orphana' Court of Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, to me directed, I will
hold an Inquest to divide, part or value the
real estate of Michael Renck, deceased. on
FRIDAY, the 6th day of OC COBS M, IX% at 9
o'clock, a. M., at the public house of Martin
Orube, in East Earl township, Lancaster
county, Pa., when and where you may attend
lf
heriff' you thlak s
O pr
ce, Lancast e r, Pa., Au MYERS,g. 29, 1871.
Elheritt
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In the Court of Common
Abraham Nixdorf, Pleas of Lancaster Co.
vs. Alias Supcena for
Divorce
Mary Nixdorf. to August Term, 1871.
No. 59.
TO MARY N XDORF ..... YOU ARE
hereby notified that depositions of 44'1[1:les
see to be read in evidence In the above ease.
on the part of petitioner will be taken before
the Commissioner appointed by the Court for
the purpose. A t the °lnce of the Commission
er, No. 5 Court Avenue. In U.S !City of Lancas
ter, on Monday, November 241 1571, between
the hours of 9A. M. and 4 P. M. of said day,
when and where you may attend if you think
proper. HAMUEL, H. PRICE,
s6-ttw:lB Commissioner.
AM USEM EN TS.
FALL EXHIBITION
LANCASTER COUNTY
Agricultural Park Association.
L.l. A' LSTER, PEN 21" .1. ,
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY
PR KM I UMS, $3,?00
C=IM
WEDNF:SDAY, SEPTEMBER. 27rit
NO. I—A PRI:AI - WM OF WO.
For Hormetf that have never trotted better I Ilan
37 —MO to:firm t, 8175 to 'fecund, 175 to thin!.
NO. 2-.1 PIiH.IIIU.I( OP $3OO
'or II 0n0.% that hove nevor trotted better I hau
15—M0 to (trot, 070 to 'wood, 830 to third.
Fur Running liormfownod In LancuNtermun
ly; boils In 6; 1111.0 hont3-375 to (trot, S3A to
mouton!,
SECOND DAY
TRUILSDAY, SEPTEMBER ':.4711
NO. 4-3 PREMIUM OF 81,500.
'or [formes that have never trotted hotter than
• :B—TAX) to Itrid, PAM to seeoad, 520) to third.
NO. 5-A I'REMIC.If OF SXIO.
For Horses thnt have never trotted better than
3 minutes-81'2.5 to first, 850 to second, 1125 to
third.
NO. 0-A PREMIUM OF 11500.
For Running Homes: ono-nnil.a-half
nod rupoitt.—sl3o W Urea, $161) to smoud.
ADMISSION 50 CENTS
Fur further particulars address
13ENJ. F. BAEIi,
Secretary.
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OAK HALL'
Sixth and Market Eftreets,
PHILADELPHIA
RAILROAD BONDS.
lIMEEiMU!iiREMI
On the line of the
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD
A Land Grant of
12,000,000 ACRES
Berl h'artning and Mineral Lands:in America
3,000,000 Acres of choice Farming and Grazing
Lands on the line of the road, In the Htate of
Nebraska, In the Groat Platte Valley, now for
sale, for CIIJSII or long credit.
These lands aro In a mild and healthy cli
mate, and for grain-growing and stock-raising,
unnurpamed by any In the United Staten.
Prices Range from 19 to $lO Per Acre
HOMESTEADS FOR ACTUAL SETTLERS
2,500,000 Acres of Government Land, between
Omaha and North Platte, open for entry as
homesteads only.
SOLDIERS OF TIIE LATE WAR
Are entitled to a
FREE HOMESTEAD OF 160 ACRES,
Within Railroad limits, equal to a
DIRECT BOUNTY OF $4OO.
Rend for the new edition of descriptive am•
phiet, with new maps, mailed free everywhere.
Address 0. F. DAMS,
Land Commhudoner U. P. R. K. CO.,
3mdoawn3mw• Omaha, Nab
ALIBUE.LIaANA'OUtt.
YitoPOS ED ASIENDIIIENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION OF PENNSYLVANIA.
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution
of Pennsylvania.
Be It Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep
reserdatives of the Ctimmontocalth Penruyitoniu
in General Assembly met, That the following
Amendment of the Constitution of this Corn•
mon wealth be proposed to the people for their
adoption or rejection, pursuant to the provis
ions of the tenth article thereof, to wit :
AMENDMENT.
Strike out the Sixth Section of the Sixth A r •
title of the Constitution, and insert in lieu
thereof, to wit:
"A State Treasurer shall be chosen by the
qualified electors of the State, at such times
and for such term of service as shall be pre
scribed by law."
JAMES H. WEBB,
Speaker of the House of Representative&
WILLIAM A. WALLACE,
Speaker of the Senate
Approved the fifteenth day of June, Anno
Ixanuti, one thousand eight hundred and
love uty.one.
JNO. W. GEARY.
Prepared and certified for publication pur
suant to the Tenth Article of the Constitution,
F. JORDAN,
Secretary of the Commonwealth
°nice Secretary of the Commonwealth,t
ocl 0 Harrisburg, July sth, 871. f
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y are prepared from thefrui/s, and will ho
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that are mold. Aar Amc your Grocer or Drug
glut. for WI/Merger's Ecirriets.
BARLOW'S INDIGO BLUE
Is, without doubt, the best article In the market.
for blueing clothes. It will color more water than
four times the same weight of indigo, and much
more than any other wash blue In the market.—
The ONLY GENUINE IS that put up at
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The Labels have both WILTBERGIER'S and
BABLow's name on them,
r eby mo oil
s o t t s h e
arnsd ars counter. r.
Jet. WIL S ERGERRNDELIBL G INK s.
Will be found on trial to be a superior artiae. Al
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Pure Ground SPICES, Genuine MEDICINES,
Chamois Skins, Sponges, Tapioca, Pearl, Sago,
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