DEMOCRATS IN THE WAR.
The Republicans have been bank
ing on putting down tlint "infernal re
bellion," until, as Gen. Bteadman said,
"almost every man who belongs to
the party believes he is a patriot and
liero." This claim is to la* question
ed, nod brought face to lace with the
facts of history. Thereat the Gazette
is troubled. It gives the individual
Democrats credit, but says the party,
"as such opposed the war," ami singu
larly enough cites Met,'leilair's noiui
illation in IMI>4 as evidence. McClel
lan represented the Democratic senti
ment in regard to the war, and wo
would ask no better exponent, lie
believed the war was for the over
throw of the secession heresy, the pres
ervation of the Union, and the main
tenance of the rights of the States
unimpaired. The overthrow of slave
ry was an incident of the conflict, and
very likely an inevitable result once
the sword was drawn. Mr. Lincoln
bit the nail on the head exactly when
be said he would save the Union no
matter whether slavery was destroyed
or maintained. Nationality was what
the people were fighting for. The
Democrats opposed the civilian con
duct of the war bv Republicans,
especially their corruption, inefficiency
and jobbery, which found its strongest
illustration in the brood of shoddy
patriots, and they carried the North
with them on this issue in the elections
of l*ti2. The liepuidicans in civil
office, and the great army of contract
ors, quartermasters, commissaries, ami
paymasters, used the war as a means
to an end; that end was ttenliwj. The
fruits of these thefts, their shoddy
aristocracy, vulgar display, and ah >ve
all things tlieir monopoly of "loyalty,"
insult even at this day the honest com
mon sense of the peoide in evorv sec
tion of the North. \Ve know men in
this State, high in rank in the Repub
lican party, who make constant boa-t
of their superior loyalty, wbo-c only
service to the Union cause was cheat
ing the Government of huudred- of
thousands of dollars in contracts, se
cured by the connivance of the robins
in office. We are getting tired of the
assumption of these fellows that they
carried the Union cause on their
shoulders, and that they and they
alone now represent fidelity to our
form id' Government. They took ad
vantage of the necessities of the < ov
crnment to rob it; they gathered for
tunes by sending the soldiers on the
field rotten clothing ami tainted food.
Napoleon and Wellington hung such
people. They are to-day high priests
of the Republican party, and blatant
as donkeys in their professions of loy
alty. They sent Don Cameron to the
I nited States Senate from Pennsylva
nia beeaifse of the fortune he made in
mules during the war; and they "nev
er went hack" on old Simon for the
reason of his corruption in giving out
contracts induced Mr. Lincoln to kick
him out of his cabinet and congress to
lbrmnly censure him. These are sam
ple Republican heroes.
That Mr. Lincoln well understood
the character of the greater portion of
the men who voted for him, General
Stead man showed in his speech to the
Ohio Democratic convention, in this
anecdote, which is good enough to re
peat:
I make another statement here to
day—and there is a living witness in
the State of Ohio who was present
when Mr. Lincoln made the utterance.
The first I ever saw him was after the
battle of Chickarnaiiga, when I was
ordered by telegraph to report in JKT
son to him. [Applause.] I went uj>
ami called upon him, and James M.
Ashley, who is living, heard the con
versation.
Mr. Lincoln took mc by the hand,
greeting me warmly, and told me he
was glad to see me. .Still holding me
by the arm he said to Mr. Ashley:
Brother Ashley, wnat would have be
come of us in this war had it not been
for the fighting Democrats from the
North and West. [Prolonged Ap
plause.]
With a shrug of the shoulders Mr.
Ashley said:
"Mr. Lincoln, I don't know."
Mr. Lincoln replied: "I lielievc
our rebel friends would have their
flag floating at the Capital, sir."
[Applause.]
lie said: "The truth is, brother
Ashley, that our party is made up, to
some extent, of the religious ami sym
pathetic, and thev don't make first
class soldiers. [Laughter and ap
plause.]
"They don't make first-class sol
diers," was Mr, Lincoln's shrewd ver
dict as to his own party. It was true
at least as regards the free soil and ab
olition element. They wanted the Un
ion dissolved and not maintained.
Those long-haired gentry hud no fan
cy for vilininous saltpetre. At their
New England adversaries their favor
ite text was there ran be no honorable
war as there can he no dishonorable
peace. Massachusetts made up its
quoto of soldiers in the federal army
by emptying its coffers ami sending
agents into the border states to buy up
negroes as substitutes. The fighting
Stale of Kentucky placed its quoto
of men in both the federal ami confed
erate armies, and sold—yes, sold Mas
sachusetts enough darkies to help the
Yankees out of the draft.
There was a million majority in the
country against Mr. Lincoln. If the
fighting element of the Republican
party, throwing out the long haired
gentry, had set about suppressing the
rebellion on its own account, as Mr.
Lincoln said to General Kteadman,
fresh from the bloody field of Chick
nuiaugn, "our rebel friend* would hove
had their Jiag floating at the Capital."
It was the Democrats of the North and
West, in the iiriny as private soldiers,
that saved the union cause. Without
tliem the rebellion would linve been
successful. Whole regiments went to
the war without a Republican in the
ranks. Democratic New York city
sent more soldiers to the field than Re
publican Massachusetts, ami while
there were few Republicans in the
New York regiments, the Democrats
had more than their fair proportion
in those of Massachusetts. Governor
Curtin tells of a (lag he presented to a
regiment from the Democratic "Tenth
legion," of this State, in which there
were not a single Republican in the
fourteen hundred men in the ranks.
They were all Democrats.
The Republican politicians at Wash
ington and in the States controled the
bestowal of honors, ami his being a
Democrat was a bar to au officer's pro
motion. Armies were sacrificed rath
er than success should crown the head
of u Dcmocrntiu General. When it
came to award contracts, and the quar
termaster, commissary and paymaster
places, with there contingent stealages,
only Republicans were found fitting,
ami it is these heroes who have been
most industrious in cultivating the
idea that "old ('hiekauiauga" annihi
lated at Columbus, that the Rcpubli
can jmrty is the only loyal party in
the Union. Said .Steadman, ami it is
a good point to keep before the jwople :
Now 1 say here to-day, fellow Dem
ocrat.-. —ami I defy contradiction when
I make the statement —that at the
close of the war with two or three hon
orable exceptions, every soldier who
had won distinction, who was in com
mand of any department of the army,
or of a corps, was furnished by the
Democratic party. [Great applause.]
R nienils-r that the men who failed
in the war and brought disaster to the
Union cause, and brought disgrace to
our country, were not Democrat-.
It is time, high time, tellow Demo
crat.-, that the Democrats of this coun
try assert their claims—their right to
the full measure in the honor ami glo
ry of the success of our armies in the
late war of the rclicllion. [Applause.]
The war put down by the men of
iron nerves and fearless hearts—men
who come from all the vocations of
life. It was not Republican |s>iiti
ciatis who did it and they have no right
to attempt to throw this -tigma uistu
the Democratic party which furnished
its full measure of all the Soldiers that
ls>re our arms t<> victor**.
"Did Hickory**" Death Bed.
FrutD fh Cincinnati (Vturner*tal.
Mr-. Wilcox was present at Gener
al Jackson's death, one bright ami
lieautiful Sunday morning in June of
1-545, and she describes it a- a scene
never to 1m- forgotten. He hade them
all adieu in the tcndcrcst terms and
enjoined them, old and young, white
and black, to meet him in heaven. All
were ill tears, and when he had breath
ed his la-t the outburst of grief was ir
repressible. The congregation at the
little Presbyterian church on the plan
tation. which the General Had built to
gratify his deceased wife, the morning
service over, earne flocking to the man
sion as his eyes were closing and added
their bowailment to the general sorrow.
Shortly after this mournful event Mrs.
W. encountered an old servant in the
kitchen who was sobbing a- though
her heart would break. "Die missus
is gone," she brokenly said to the child,
"and now ole niassas gouc; day's all
gone, and dey was our liest fren's.
And old masr.n, not satisfied teachin
us how to live, has now teached us how
to die." The jswir, unlettered crea
ture did not know she was paraphras
ing one of the most beautiful passage*
in Tickcll's elegy upon the "Death of
Addison
He taught u ho* h* lif, arvt irh. Tim hifh
Tb p*tr fur knovNgaj taught ue h to 4te.
What is I'nt Into letter Itoxrs.
From t* Bmtom lfnW.
The carriers who collect the mail
from street boxes sometimes find queer
dejsisits therein. ISHMO- silver coins
and loose |M>stiige stanqis are among
the principal discoveries, while a car
rier the other day brought in a hank
hook containing $H. r in hills, which lie
had taken from a lamp-post IM>X. The
most remarkable instance of absent
mindedness in this direction was the
ease, not long since, of a young man
who daily carries two leathern hags—
one for mnil ami the other for monev,
etc. He deliberately, in a fit of ab
straction, walked up to the box in the
Boston post-office, and emptied the
contents of one hag, containing several
Imnk books and bills and checks,
amounting to thousnmls of dollars,
into the mail Isix, and did not discov
er his blunder until he went into the
hank and handed the receiving teller
a hunch of letters. That young man's
face, it is said, grew so pale as to
frighten every one who saw him rush
ing through the streets, eyes distended
and heart thumping in his wretched
bosom. He was made a happier and
a wiser tnnn on receiving, at the busi
ness office,the hank books nnd money,
in place of which he gladly tendered
his bundle of mail matter.
TUB llailroad Gazette says that the
world apiM-ars to be provided with
works sufficient to produce almut thrice
as much irou in a year as llie world
has ever consumed in a year.
KWINH AM) KICK.
A Washington correspondent of
the i'hiladcphiu Record drawn the fol
lowing excellent pen picture of (ten*
t rain Kwing and Kico, the Democratic
Htundnrd bearers in Ohio:
"From un Ohio standpoint it muit l>
admitted that the Democratic ticket i
n strong one, however much one may
ilitl'er witii itn political complexion and
meaning. I'eraonally Kwing and Hice
are toth excellent men. Politically
they are both strong in Ohio. Togeth
er they will undoubtedly poll the full
strength of the-Ohio Democratic vote,
for while there are many hard-money
Democrata in Ohio, the financial creed
ol Sherman ami hi* proxy Foster in, if
possible, more objectionable to them
than that of Firing and Hice, and per
sonally both Kwing and Kico nre popu
lar with Ohio Democracy, Itoth are in
the prime of life; Kwing will not be
fifty ur.til August, and Hice will not be
forty-four until November. Itoth are
natives of Ohio. Itoth were educated
at the Fast, Kwing at lirown t'niversity,
Providence, It. 1., where lie graduated
in IK.M, and Kico at I'nioti College,
•Schenectady, N. Y., where ho graduat
ed in 1860, itoth served with conspic
uous gallantry ill the I'nion army, and
both earned their promotion Hice to
the rank of iirigadiei General and Kw
ing to the rank of Major General. Both
enlisted at the beginning and served
until the end o( the war, and Hice h-ft
a leg on the battlefield to attest bis
loyalty, Iti view of these records
nnd the fact that the head of tin- He
publican ticket never faced the South
ern bullets, but devoted the years of
the war to getting rich by the sale of
groceries in the peaceful shades of Fo
turia. it is hardly probable that the !!<•-
publicans in Ohio will make tin* bloody
shirt and the new rebellion prominent
issues in the pending cnvas. Kwing
is a lawyer, and has been t'hief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Kan* is, to
which Stale be went after he left < "i
b-ge. Hice started out to be a lawyer,
but in \pril, I if,l, he left bis law iM,k
for the battlefield, and sinee tin- war
lm been manager of tin j rivate bank
ing bouse of ''. 11. Hice & < '<*., at 1 t'.tawa.
' Uiio, bis borne. Most of bis time,
however, since the war, lias been spent
in politics, and he has served two terms
in Congress. Kwing was elected as a
Democrat to the Forty fifth t'otign
and is now serving bis second term as a
member of the Forty-sixth. Physical
ly, the two men are very dissimilar.
Firing is tall, five feet elevrn nt tin
least, and of the massive, imperturba
ble order of men. Hice is short, of
wiry build and nervous temperament.
Imperturbability is Kwing'* tnoi strik
ing characteristic. Ho is almost the
eipial of Grant in this regard. Nothing
excites bun. Nothing throws him off
bis balance. Nothing disturb* bis
equanimity. Hice, on the other hand,
is of the enthusiastic, excitable order.
Kwing lias brown hair, clear gray eyes,
a pallid complexion and wears a close
to-ard and mustache, well sprinkled
with gray. Ills bead is large, especially
011 top and about the temples, and well
balanced. His face is tlatisb. but bis
nose is of the generous type, and his
lips full and ti'tn. He i a hard student
and a cogent debater. His voice has
Wonderful |>ower, and be is accounted
one of the strongest campaign •|ekcrs
in the country. In Congress lie always
commands the attention of the House
both by reason of the matter and man
tier of bis speeches. lie seldom M*eaks
except on financial matters, and always
speaks well. Personally be is one of
tin* most agreeable and enjoyable of
men. genial, whole souled and
true as steel, there is no taint of super
ciliousness or hauteur about him, nor
yet is ho one of the hail fellow well met
with everybody class. Ho is always
dignified, always quiet, yet always ap
proachable. In his faintly relations bo
is exceedingly happy, in bis personal
habits temperate and and abstemious.
General Hice, as I have said, is a
smaller, more wiry, more nervous, more
enthusiastic man than Kwing. His
hair is dark, his eyes ditto, and both
hair and beard have a tangled, negli
gent look, which conies of fits habit of
running bis hands through them when
excited. He walks with a cane, has a
decided limp, and the general air of a
locomotive under a full bead of steam.
He is a good talker, though not so good
as Kwing. and is |>ersonal!y an exceed
ingly popular man with all who know
him. He is not quite such a radical
(ireenbacker as Kwing, but is an earnest
silver man and essentially an advocate
of the 'Mlhio idea." Together, tbev
certainly make as strong a team as
could be found to pull that idea to vic
tory in October.
♦
Iteer Printing in the I nited Slates.
From lli <f tn#t>ric if.
For some years past a decider! incli
nation lias been apparent all over the
country to give up the use of whiskey
ami strong alcohols, tiscing as a sub
stitute lieer ami hitters ami other com
pounds. This is evidently founded on
the iden that beer is not harmful ami
contains a large amount of nutriment;
nlso that bittern may have some medi
einal finality which will neutralize the
alcohol it conceals, etc. These theo
ries arc without confirmation in the
observations of physicians and chem
ists where either hits lieen Used for any
length of time. The constant use of
beer is found to produce a species of
degeneration of nil the organism, pro
found nnd deceptive. Fntty deposits,
diminished circulation, conditions of
congestion, nnd perversion of function
al activities, local iutlammntions of
both liver ami kidneys, are constant
ly present. Intellectually, n stupor
ntnounting almost to pnralvsis arrests
the reason, precipitating nli the higher
fat ultics into a mere animation; sensu
al, selfish, sluggish, vnricd only with
paroxysms of anger, thnt nre senseless
nnd brutal, in his general np|K*aratico
the beer drinker may lie the very pic
ture of health, hut in reality he is the
most incapable of resisting disease. A
slight injury, severe cold, or shock to
the body or mind, will commonly pro
voke acute disease, coding fatally.
Compared with inebriates, who use dif
ferent forms of alcohol, he is more in
curable, and more generally diseased.
Ihe constant use of beer every day
gives the system no time for recti|>era
tion, hut steadily lowers the vital for- f
ces; it is our observation that beer- 1
drinking in this country produce* the [
very lowest forms of inebriety closely i
allied to criminal insanity. The most
dangerous CIIIHS of tramps and ruffians
in our large cities arc hoer drinkers, j
It is asserted by competent authority '
that the evils of heredity insanity are j
most positive in this class than from
alcoholics. If' these facts nre well
founded, the recourse to beer us a sub
stitute for alcohol, merely increase*
the danger and fatality following.
In hitters we have a drink which :
can never become general; hut its
chief danger will he in strengthening
the disordered cravings, which later j
will develop a positive disease. I'uh- i
lie sentiment and legislation should !
comprehend that ail forms of alcohol
are more or h**- dangerous when used
steadily; and all person* who use them |
in this way should come under sanita
ry and legislative control.
A PKNNSVI.t IMA ItOMAM K.
Ivvcrv day prove* the veritv of
that trit<* old saying that "Truth is
stranger than fiction." llcrc now we
have from our own Slate and front Ti- '
oga county one of the wildest regions i
of the State, a story romantic enough
for the foundation of a novel, and one
which we condense as follows; Kate
Hanson, a girl of' odd luaseiiline ways
and only 18 years old, disappeared
from her Tioga hmuc twculv-two years !
ago. Sh<- Used to spud much of her j
time in tin* woods, being fond of bun- j
tin r and expert with both rifle and :
rod. and otic day, taking the rille pre- j
settled to her by In-r father, she disap
peared in the woods never to return, i
l.v-rything |*o-sihle was done to find
trace of her, hut at last she was given I
up as lost. It was thought by her j
companion* that Kate hating formed j
nn attachment for a worthless voting
man, Johnson by name, and lu-r pa
rent* having forbidden marriage with
him, bad elojs-d witli hiin. <> I<•i j• I
Wilson, of this city, sjM-nt the w inter
' f l*7ll ill <'libit, meeting while there
Major .lane - Hopkins, of Ohio, who i
served in Thomas division during tin* |
war. Hopkins owned a fine planta
tion in the interior and warmly invit- I
•si him to I income his guest. The ,
home was a delightful one, presided
over by Mr-. Hopkins, a handsome
and dignified lady of about forty. 11• -
bad two children, and all were living
happy and contented. In the eonfi- j
di-ncc liegottcn of acquaintanceship, it
finally came out that Mr-. Hopkins
was none other than Kate Han-nti, of
Tioga county, and Wilson wu- intrust- j
s*d bv licr with the salient point* of
lu r history since her disapp-aranee, j
and requested to inform lu-r relatives ;
that she would, a- soon a* issssihle, pav 1
them a visit. The story she told is a j
singular one.
When her father ordered her to
cease receiving Johnson's attentions j
she concluded he wa* right, hut could |
not get rid of Johnson's company hut i
by leaving home. She passed that '
night in the Wf>nds, and the next day !
found a hunter's cabin —the owner* |
ah-ent. Appropriating a suit of their |
clothe*, she disguised herself, travelled
to Dunkirk. and found a situation as
cook on a Detroit and llutfalo lake 1
Iwiat. One day she read nn advertise- j
mcnt giving a minute description of !
her and offering a reward for infor- 1
(nation. This alarmed ht-r, and she ;
wandered to Cincinnati nnd found
employment on an Ohio river steam- j
er, in which position she remained
until the outbreak of the civil war,
when she joined nn < >hio regiment,
nnd was in all of the engagement* of I
Oon. Thomas' division. In 1863 she
was promoted to sergeant in her com- ;
pany. In IHfif her captain met her
one day as she was returning from
stationing n guard. He said to her
that he had long suspected that she
was a woman, nnd demanded to know
if such was the rase. The charge was
so sttddeu and unexpected thnt she
lost her self-possession and convicted
herself by her reply. She lagged the
captain not to reveal her secret, hut
he took her IK* fore < Jen. Thomas and
ntnde the strange fact known to him.
Knte wa nt once sent Iwtck to the
rear, and ordered to resume her proper
nttire. She became a nurse in the
hospital, nnd soon hail in her rare the
captain, he having been wounded in a
skirmish. Between the captain nnd
the nurse, whom he had detected in
the ranks of his company, n strong
affection formed. At the close of the I
war they were mnrried, the captain,
meantime, having lieen promoted to
the rank of major. Major Hopkins'
family was one of the best in Ohio,
and it refused to recognize his wife.
She had $!K)0, which she had saved
from her earnings on the steamer.
This wn-* in a Cincinnati lutnk. She
drew it out, and, with her husband,
went to Cuba. There thev prospered
and were found by Colonel \ViWon in
1876. Word has lieen received from
Mrs. Hopkins that she and her hus
band and children will sail for New
York in August, and visit the home
she *o mysteriously left nearly a quar
ter of a century ago.
AN ill-natured man being seen to
blush, it was asked what the cause
was. "Oh!" said a witty lady, "the
cross old creature happened to smile
and feels ashamed of it."
Kduratlon In
i f>vl<l"ti lii Nttliuiiitl K*tiw lur Juu*.
in spite of poverty, and tliougli they
j have lit llf or no notion of how to rear
1 their ehihlrfi), parents are moat anx
-1 ioiiK that they should receive a goo<l
education, and are ready to make
large saerifiri* for that end. In thin
! they are vigorously HCCOlided by the
! children themselves. In no country
are children and young people no eager
!to learn an in Greece. It might he
the paradise of the schoolmaster. The
hardship* that young Greek* will un
dergo in order to obtain an education
are often touehiug to relate. I'erhapr
a fourth of all the student* in the
i nivcrsity of Athena at thin moment,
land they number aimut fourteen hun
dred, are young men who earn their
daily bread an house servants. I have
before me a wore of newspapers with
advcrliscracjuts like the following: "A
young mail cf .goo*! character wi.-he
to iimi a family iu which he may *erv<,
with opportunity to attend thr<a Jee
| turea at the University." Tlie g/eiU
majority of the Athenian student* an
poor beyond belief. Many of them
have not decent clothe-, and come to
the lectures without neck-lies or col
lara. How they obtain book a I have
1 neve r lieen able to diacover. It is a
pity that no much ciidurance and self
denial nlioiild, lor the most part, lead
: to no little rc-uli as it u-ually doe-,
i'liere i no place in Gre<-- for half
of the young men oducatod at the
I Diversity. Muuy a graduate haa to
-peiid bin life in a menial jo-ition, hi.-
cducatiou doing little more tlian help
| ing to render him discontented. Sum
of tli<- cuh-<lrivera in Athena are men
who have panned with credit through
the I iiiver-ity. And, alter all. these
'are better oil' than , tin- prouder one.
i who prefer to starve an lawyers or doc
-1 torn. In Atln na alone, whom- popjiia
j lion i- about sixty thou-aml noula the
I'irrcu- included . there are about five
hundred law v, ra; the majority of th< tit
j -tarving and intriguing in favor of
| norm* jxilitieal ehampioii, from whom,
when he come* to jiow< r, they ex|-ei
to obtain warn- nii rahlc g'lvernmcnt
office with a vearly salary of two or
three hundred dollar-. Tliu- the ah
j" t |wt!iti< til Condition of Greece turn
even the Ix-t vjrtu>- of her citizen
i into a curse.
'
The I'epe'n Oenniiriatiiry letter.
Ixinumn, Jure 14.—The t< xt of the
Cope's letter ujkiii the projtowd mar
riage law has Is-en received here and
excites much comment. It i- addre---
Im| to the archhinhops ami bishops of
J Turin, Vcrcclli, and Genoa. A hill
making civil marriage obligatory Is -
fore the re-ligious rite • -nit Is- rl'orm
ml, wan rcoentlv pa—<-d hy the Italian
Chamber c.f lleputics, and is now
Im-riding Is fore the Senate, and the
l'o|s- ha- is-uod thin letter in the hojs
of preventing its pn-age. He starts
with the as-ertion that the state has no
I right whatever to interfere in matters
| eonnecfed with marriage. "To aftirni,"
; nays he, "that matrimony in a creation
; of the Mate and nothing more than a
j civil contract, in to deny the fumia
' rm utal principle- of Christianity, and
j even the elementary ideas of national
I law. Marriage in not an invention of
j man, lint of God, who commanded by
I thin union the propagation of the hu
man rare and the constitution of the
family, wherefore marriage, in what
; concerns the sulistance and the saueti
tv of the tie, is essentially sacred ami
religious, the regulation of which lie
longs to the Church hv the mandate
,of its divine founder. UhcChureh has
| no wish to ignore the (sditical author
! itv of the state ; it acts only to protect
the sanctity of the tie and the religious
forms proper to it. The new law has
i lieen dictated by the desire to cause
new tribulation to the Church, and not
by a wish to maintain order." He in
structs the bishops to warn the faithful
that except in form established hy
God and Church, there can lie no
honesty or sanctity in the marriage
tie, hut also to remind them that the
church, after having placed in safety
the integrity of the principle and dig
nity of the sacrament, permits the
faithful to take the benefit or whatever -
social advantages civil legislation af- j
I fords. The letter is hotly denounced
bv some of the pa|<ers here, and hy
others praised.
A llroken Heart.
Frriffi thf Ivnvsf Sen.
Miss I'rince was the only daughter
| of a l'ittsburg merchant nnd two years j
ago was wedded to Mr. Savage,of Bal- !
timorc. Six hours afler the ceremony
the trnin upon which they hail started
1 on their bridal tour was wrecked ami
the husband of less than a dav was
killed. The shock of the terrible ca
lamity mbbed the young wife for a
time of her reason. From this mental
death she recovered to go into a slow
decline. All the blossoms of her life
were withering, and the world once so
rolled in beauty and delight became a
prison from which her spirit longed to
lie free. They took her across the
sea, hut the panorama of scene and in
cident had no power to renew the love
of life, and the voung thing faded as a
flower fades. At last they took her to
the south of Vranee, and there, amid
the bloom of flowers—on the spot
where I'etrnrch once sang songs to El
vira—in the home of Leonardo da
Vinci's exile—this fair American girl
found the |ieaceful quiet of the grave.
Our correspondent who relates the in
cident draws a vivid picture of the
sorrowing family around the deaib-bod.
The father overwhelmed with grief,
the mother wild with despair, while a
young sister clasping a hand of the dy-
looks with pallid face arid rig
id lips into the glazing eyes.
"The anguish is nearly over —my
race of life is done," came in a feeble
intonation from the lips of the dying.
"And you are willing to die?" asked
a minister, bending low to catch the
whispered utterance.
"Oh, ao glad ! Listen to rne. I die,
as many of my sex have done, of a
broken heart. I had put my all of
life ami hope on the hazard of an
earthly love, and < od has -.mitten me
for my sin."
"It was no sin to love."
"No, not to love —hut to build an
idol as 1 did —and to worship the
ereature instead of the Creator. 1
have lieen terribly punished. 'I he
horror of these two brief years no
words ran t<-||."
There was a flutter of the feeble
heart. The blue eye- sheathed them
selves beneath palely tinted waxen
lids, and the fair young form, once so
full of subtle life, was frozen into
• death.
An Foglisli (.ill'- Impressions of an
American Herman,
Some Euglish lady, possibly quite a
young one, ha- contributed to a b-ad
ing Scotch periodical a description of
a german given ;it Troy, N. V., with
some rather amusing details of the
sup|s r and the dr<--- and apjsearanee
of American women and girls. In the
figures of the German the English
gtri, lollowing her leader, has to pin
a roM- in a gentleman's button hole,
and then dance with him. She blush
es redder than a ro-o, •<, the rocon/eusc
tell- it, / hut pluck- up courage, piu*
the rose to the gentleman's coat, gets
bravely over it, ami concludes by
stating: "JFibre we left America we
regarded it with all the philosophical
inditf* rcme of American lielles." The
siipjs r, however, pleases our young
lady immensely, it wa- so delightful
to camp out anywhere on tin- stairs
and partake of terrapin, oysters, ohiek
en-alad, "ami an enormous plate of
several kinds of ice cream —jterhaps
strawberry, banana, pi -ache, ami lem
on—a large sjioonful <aoli." It is
solemnly a-- rt'-d that in America it is
considered < xceedingly ill-bred to eat
all that is on your plate. In order to
assume a certain amount of languor,
young ladies just nihhh a little, as if
eating w.re a vulgar habit, but "an
unatferii-d, healthy American will cat
twi<-e the quantity an English girl
will," and girl- who are blessed with a
giMsl appetite are overheard to say:
"I am lrigbtful hungry, hut 1 must
have something. I think a few let
tuce leaves would make a great show."
When an American girl receives more
IsKjucts at a party than they can con
veniently carry thev tie them around
their dress. As to j r-uial beauty,
the conclusion i- arrived at that Eng
j lish mists and rain are more favorable
to the continuance of bloom and beau
ty than the extreme heat and cold of
America. Girls of eighteen looked
ten years older than they really were,
and ladies past thirty were wrinkled
and scraggy, "as are seldom our wo
men of fifty." Simcthing that quite
shocks our British maiden is the un
fortunate fact "that Americans adopt
the fashions directly, without reference
to age, complexion, or style." As to
the matrons, old ladies wore quite lowtfe
dresses, their poor, thin arms and
necks looking terribly cold and un
lovely. As to "the Boston," the con
eluding figure of the dance, it wa- no
dance at all, people moving languidly
up and down and showing off their
trains. Notwithstanding all this mild
disparagement, our insular girl, in her
dreams that night, acknowledges that
she danced her first German all over
again. This little commentary on
American manners at Troy may lie
more or leas truthful. We want some
little return for Mr. James's "Inter
national Episode." We are afraid
that the fair chronicler of the Ger
man, though as pretty as could lie,
wa not very well attired, nnd igno
rant of Emerson's clever saying about
the American woman: "That feeling
herself jH*rfectlv well drossed imparted
a tranquil happiness that religion
itself could not bestow." That mem
orable s|eecli of Mrs. Wcstgate, when
the Ihtehessof Bayswater calls, "she
won't even know how well I'm driws
<d," is to he resented for years to eomo
hy Englishwomen."
Koduceil Kates,
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