She (Centre /Democrat.
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BELLBFONTE, PA.
r Thii Liirgat,Ohiiiipo*t nnd Boat Pitpor
t'l!III.I8HHI) IN CENTRE COUNTY.
A POLICY OF SII.FM K.
(acucrul (Jorilon's Plans fair the South.
TUB SOUTHERN MEMHKKS Ml -TJNOT RKCI.V TO
TIIK BITTER SI'EEaTIES or TIIE K IDU'AI.S,
HUT MI ST TAKE ABUSE CAIMI.Y—
VIEW'S M II It'll W I 1.1. UF. I MCHESS
EI) ON THE BE If OCR ITS.
S|Tcial to ibe PblU-Mj.hl* Tlmo*.
WASHINGTON, December 1.
General Gordon arrived lien; last
night from Georgia, and was pre-amt
in bis seat in the Senate to day. The
Senutor comes here in a very earnest
frame of iniiul, and in this and in his
purposes lie represents those who have
come to be known as the conservative
men of the South. What lie says will I
be found to be the opinions of men
like Senators I.iimur, Kan-otn, .Jone
of Florida, and Wade Hampton. 1
found him to-day in hi.- committee !
room making ready for the business of
the session. lie was looking ruddier
and in much better health than when
be left Washington at the close of the
last session, the result of a long, pleas
ant summer of domestic ami farm lite
at his home near Atlanta. Speaking
of this, and very modestly of the ex
tremely interesting story of bis part in
the last buttles of the war, published
some time since in the Timn, lie said
at length iu answer to a question put
by me as to his idea of the kind of a
session we are about to have ; "I trust
we are devoted to the interests of the
whole country, I came here to do
what I can to prevent the keeping
alive of sectional strife and the dis
cord tlmt prevailed at the la-t session
and will prevail so long as this '.South
ern question' is kept alive."
SOUTHEKN MEN TO KEEI* qt'lirr.
General < lordon i- a man of such
sincere conviction and withal is so
thoroughly in earnest that he is very
eloquent even in conversation, and lie
seemed to-day to lie pouring out what
had been kept in ami cheeked for
many months, lie said that he had
come here with the purpose to do what
he could to prevent Southern men
from answering any of the abuse that
might be heaped upou them and which,
he saw, had already been threatened
by some Republican 3. This was his
first object and for that he was prepar
ed to layby for the time all discussion
of the doctrine of State rights. "I am,
indeed, a Democrat," said he, "aud J
believe thoroughly in the right of lo
cal self-government. I think the peo
ple in all the States, North as well a-
S'utli, believe in that, and not one
State in the t'nion would surrender a
single right for which I would contend.
Wliy. I would not have it spoken of
now, however, is because it is covered
over and blackened by the leaders of
the Republican party in Congress, and
made to IK* equivalent to the dead and
buried issues of secession. Of course
you know and they know that our
doctrine of State right- lias nothing of
the old dogma aliout it. It is precise
ly what the citizens of every State lie
lievc in, but the Democratic party
stands by what I consider the Consti
tutional right of the States, while the
Republican party is drifting from it
ami towards centralization."
'No," he said, iu answer to a ques
tion. "I have no sympathy with the
cry that the Republican party wants
to change the form of government,
that is, the masses of its voters do not.
The tendency of the party is in that
direction, however, and the tendency
of the Democratic party is the other
way. Therefore, I am a Democrat.
I believe that when the air is cleared
of passion ami when this Southern
question is taken out of jsilitics we
shall have the sympathy of the North
in our political notions. The |ieop|n
of the North do not hate us. It is
only the men here in Congress who
hate us and they hate us because they
fear that the Democratic jmrty is
about to turn them out of their places
here. We of the South know that
t the people of the North are intelligent
and virtuous and honest and brave,
and they know that the people of the
South are equally so. What makes
them distrustful of us is that they
think us rash, and they think so lie
cause of the utterances of a few men
in Congress who permitted themselves
to lie dragged into a personal contro
versy with men who deliberately set
trajis for them for unpatriotic and
partisan purposes."
TAKE Alit'SK CALMLY.
General Gordon contended "that
what the Southern members ought to
do was to sit still and not answer nny
charges that might lie made against
them or any attacks that should lie
made on the South. lie instanced
the speech that the late Senator Mor
ton made on the Louisiana case as an
illustration of the great good that the
Southern members of < 'ongress might
do their own section and the entire
country hy remaining silent under the
most bitter provocation. That speech
was the bitterest attack the Senator
ever made on the South. It was not
f only fillerl with bitterness, hut in it
Morton attacked the States separately
and called on the Senators to answer
him if they could. The character of
the speech had been known to the
Southern Senators long before it was
delivered, and when the day came they
had determined to make no answer to
liiin. In viiin Morton stormed ami
called oil the South to defend itself.
The Southern Senators made no re
sponse. They even refused to answer
his questions, and they left him the
poor consolation of quarreling without
an op|ionent. Morton afterwards said
that he had never been so badly whip
ped in his life, aud General Gordon
declared it to have been overwhelm
ing in its etfeet. lie would have his
friends in Congress maintain this at
titude now. lie holds that the only
way to bring about peace and to bring
< 'ongress to its proper work of legis
lating for the whole country is to put
'an end to sectional strife, and this can
only be done by putting an end to
sectional discussion. There must be
two parties to a wrangle ami if the
Southern members refuse to answer
attacks upon themselves and their
States the discussion must very soon
slop. When that is stopped he thinks
the South will reach its true place in
the country and that Southern men
will take their rightful position in the
work of the government not control
ling the government. Said he : "No,
I would not have that for a moment,
but ahead of the North in the work of
legislating ami caring for the interests
of the whole country, the interests
which every section should have near
est at heart."
SEEING rilKsoi'Tll IN A WKONG LIGHT.
He thinks that uow the only etli et of
answering the attacks upon the South
is to make the people of the North dis
trustful of the South. "We cannot
argue with the North," lie said, "be
cause we permit them to be blinded
by passion, and they are seeing us in
a wrong light, because some of our
friends in-i-t on lighting the issues IK
tween the sections that are settled.
(>n this question the North will til
ways be against*us, and I see it as
clearly as I see the sunlight coming
through these windows that the oiilv
[Kjliey for us to pursue is a policy of
silence, a silent endurance of all the
attacks that partisan malice can make
u|K)ii lis. When the men on the other
side see that they cannot 'piarrel with
u- they will be obliged to cease their
attacks, and that will be a gain for
the country; but. better still, when the
jieople of the North see that we endure
all that they can -ay without r>j>!v,
and arc only here for the purpose of
attending to the business of legisla
tion, they will take us for what we
really are and tru.-t ns."
< ten. < tordon will impress these views
upon the Democratic caucus when it
-hall meet, ami he will have the -up
port of the In st men of the party from
IKJIII sections of the countrv.
How Far the I'lramrr of Smoking Is
Imaginary.
I'd tin fit* I* i I n Unrft.
The question ha- been asked why n
a man smoking a pi|>e should not be
aware when the candle is put out
whether the tobacco i- -till burning.
There is, first, the |x>int of fact. It
may be questioned if any one really
finds himself in theditlieultv supposed.
We believe, under certain conditions,
the doubt may exist. Smokers are not
always large consumers of the weed.
They often form a habit of taking
very little smoke into the mouth and
of breathing chiefly through the nose.
The consequence is that the pleasure
of smoking may consist in having
something jo do, and the sensation of
doing that something is quite as likely
to lie a matter of seeing as of tasting.
In en.-e- of this class the smoker, being
deprived of his accustomed evidence
or means of enjoyment, may be dis
tressed. <>f course, it is not alleged
that a man can not ascertain whether
the contents of his pipe are lighted
when he happens to be pi the dnrk.
That would IK- sheer folly.
Meanwhile the ex|ieriment, if such
it can lie called, i- well calculated to
draw atteution to the economic ques
tion how tar the plea-ure of smoking
is generally imaginary. If it lie, a
suitable substitute for the expensive
cigar and wasteful pipe might be
found in some )iermanent material, of
pnqier consistency, moulded into the
approved slin|ie. It has long been a
mystery to some smokers how other
smokers could systematically smoke
bad cigars; the mystery may lie dis
pelled if it should turn out that the
fumes of the tobacco are not even in
haled.
Higglers In < hiirrli.
Giggling is described in the diction
ary as the act of "laughing with short
catches of breath, as laughing idly,
tittering, grinning." It is silly nnd
childish enough anywhere, hut in
church it is abominable, and yet there
is no place where giggling is more
common. It is natural in a school
girl, hut when met with in young wo
men of nineteen and twenty it is Ull
pardonablc. It is frequently a char
acteristic of young men with incipient
moustaches, who think they qualify
themselves for manhood by affecting
contempt for their elders reverence.
They giggle at anything. If they
catch the eye of an acquaintance they
giggle ; if an old woman rises too soon
for a hymn they giggle ; if a baby cries
they giggle ; if some one drops a book
they giggle ; if the clergyman coughs
they giggle ; if the plate is handed to
some one who puts nothing in they
giggle; if some one near them sings
out or repeats the responses loudly
they giggle; if the choir makes a mis
take they giggle. In fact, nothing is
to small or insignificant to arrest their
notice and produce a giggle.
Nu|iolroii--Tlic Story of Ids MuiThigcs.
Tlio marriages of the Bonaparte*
plav an important part in the Btory of
their fortunes, and none oi' them were
ho significant and important an those j
of the Emperor. To one who, like
him, looked upon the world an made
for him, and upon lawn merely 11-
something which were good for him to i
iin pone upon other*, it must have ap
peared that hi* two wives were adini
rahlv plffciucd for his uhc. Josephine
de Meauharmii.s was an ideal wife for
a young and rising man id' genius.
She hail everything which would ap
peal to a fancy like Ids, at once scllish
and passionate. She had beauty, rank,
the power of pleasing, and a certain
indolent grace that promised an obe- :
diencc reasonably free from jealousy.
I'p to the time that be mounted the
imperial throne and seated her by In
side, she was all that his narrow heart
and boundless ambition could desire.
Hut after the marvelous victory of
W'agram had opened up to his fevered
imagination still wider pers|M-ctives of
dominion, In* looked for another style
of wife, and found her in Maria Eoui-a
ot Au-tria. Her Idonde beauty, form
ed of pink and white color and round
ly curving lines and the golden floss |
of a child's hair, appealed strongly to
his jaded taste, lie was not old, but,
as he said to the directory, "one ages
l'a-t iijmin the field of battle," and lie
wanted some such solace as this soft,
unintellectuul beauty (somebody has
called it the Aldcrney style of pretli
ncss in his home, if such a word may
lie U-.sl of the Tuileric.-. He-ides, he
doubtless felt that an emperor should
have an emperor's daughter to wife,
and this was a young girl who had a
hundred monarch* for her ancestor-,
and yet she would lie gentle and obe
dient, and not argue with him or ati
-wer him, and would give him heir-.
He was genuinely attached to her,
and if he km w nothing about her, and
had no premonition of Count N< ij>-
perg, it was all the I letter for him.
She, also, was ipiite taken by storm
with him, and for a while the noveltv
of being loved by an ogre —for -u<4i
she hud always considered him —was
agreeable to her. Hut his tumultuous
glory was quite too much for the daily
food of such a human small I icing a*
the enipre-, and she was doubtle-- re
lit ved when the indignant soul left bi
lled v nt Isongwood. and hc wa- free
to follow her ignoble little heart and
mnrry Neipjierg.
Josephine would have had her re-
Velige it' -he Could have fori -seen the
course of history for even a few vears.
It is she, and not the pretty Austrian,
who will le known forever a* the wife
ot' Na|Hiteon. It i- In r statue that
ri-i - in marble in the public p'a.ra of
I'aris. It is lor name and those of
her children that mark the gn at ave
nues of the metropolis —Avenue Jo
sephine, lai Keine llortetise, B<>ulc
vard du I'riticc Eugene. Though she
was ousted reniorseh -sly troni a throne
to make room for Maria, it was her
children —the children of the ere.Jo
postscript —who should become the
tenants of palaces, and not those of
her rival. The Duke of Keichstndt
was to pass a youth of inglorious pleas
ure, and wa- to die before his prime,
and leave no son to inherit his claims
to empire ; while the Beauharnai* line
was to stretch out like the swarm of
Kings seen by the Thane of t 'awdor in
bis vision. Eugene, her heroic son,
after the fall of the Napoleons, return
ed to the court of his father-in-law,
the King of Bavaria, and became
Prince of Kiebstadt, Duke of l*u<li
tenberg, and first nobleman of the
kingdom. His daughter, united to the
sun of lUrnadotte, became tjuerii of
Sweeden ; another became a Princess
of Hohenzollern, and a third Kmpress
iof Brazil. Hi* oldest son won the
liaiul of the (Jueou of Portugal, and
the younger married a daughter of
the Czar Nicholas of Russia. And
whatever doubt might be thrown on
the purity of the NajHiloonic descent
by which the Ktnpernr Napoleon 111.
claimed the throne, he was unques
tionably the son of Hortense, and was
Bcauharris and Taseber-la-Pageric be
yond challenge. The grandson of
Josephine, l/uiis Napoleon, ruled
France in peace and with n sort of
i splcnder for the space of twenty-two
years while the period of the first Na
poleon's reign counting Consulate and
Empire together, was hut fifteen—
though so powerful was the personal
impriut made by the unele, and so
vnguc was the individual rhnracter of
the nephew, that the shorter reign
seems like an age, ami the longer like
an episode.
A NKiomtoK once called on Ben
Butler and said: "One of my neigh
bor's cows jumped my ganhu gate
last night, and completely destroyed
my flower-beds. The gate was the
height required by law. Now 1 wish
to know whether I can claim dam
ages." Ben told him he could grt
alKHit sl()'s worth. "Then," respond
ed the Ixiwelite, "it was your own
cow." The General turned his desk,
scratched off a few lines on a piece of
paper, and handed it to his visitor.
It wns in the form of an account and
read as follows : "B. F. Butler to Mr.
row, $10; (>., by irgai advice, sls;
balance due, $5." "Mr. ," said
Ben, softly, "you needn't hurry about
the payment.'
Evk* if a boy is always whistliug
"I want to he an angel," it is just ns
well to keep the preserved pears on
the top shelf.
A BONANZA BANtjl KT.
TilE SI'I.EVIhir Of Tlir. CKOCKKU RE< EI'TION
TO UE.NERAI. ORANT IS SAN rSANC'ISCO,
Fri.in l'<>rrs|iii.lnii('.. Spt (..kNi-M IE-|*ul.ll<nr>.
Life in this gay metropolis for the
|nist two months has' been filled with
scenes of revelry and inirth. Ever
since General Graut's arrival enter
-1 taimuculM and parties have rapidly
succeeded one another. But among
the entertainments the Sharon fete,
followed on Grant's return from Port
land by the Hoiian/.a king Crocker's
reception, were the most costly and
sumptuous. Nothing that money could
procure was wanting at either. The
elegant Nob hill uiuiisioii was ablaze
| with light ami splendor, and blossomed
forth into a conservatory of rare and
beautiful exotics, and the feast equal
ed the costly banquets the old luxuri
ous Roman* were wont to indulge in.
•'utsidc, the throng of lookers-on wait
id long and patiently around the bril
liantly-lighted mansion, to see the car
riages unburden their loads of brave
men ami fair women, while within the
intoxicating perfume of delicate flow
ers, the bewildering strains of music,
the beauty of the richly furnished
; rooms, the ravishing toilets of the
| guest*, ami the beautiful ami luxuriant
surroundings, made the scene one of
delight and enchantment. The Isau
tv, wealth, fashion", wit ami culture of
the Pacific coa-t were well represented
in the palace of the milliouare. Mr.
Charles Crocker is a gentleman of
medium height, rather stout ami looks
a- it lie enjoyed all the good things of
life. Hi- fats is smooth and fair, his
complexion good, his eve* blue and
kindly iu expression. He is active in
all worthy charitable enterprises, and
gives ready assistance whenever call
id upon, making good use of hi* vast
fortune. Mrs. Crocker i- n brunette,
with small features, an attractive face
and gray hair. Her eyes are dark
and o\pre-ivc, and sheulwav- dresses
iu exceedingly good ta.-lc. <>n this
occasion her costume was a combina
tion of garnet velvet and pale blue
satin, the court train finished at the
edge with a narrow fold of vdve , and
a quilling of blue velvet on either side.
The overdrew* of velvet was ojh ii in
front, diselosing a blue satin |>ctticoal.
The neck and sleeves were filled in
with rare |siint lace. Her jewels were
most ran a necklace of solitaire
diamonds, ear-rings, bracelets, hair
ornament*, whose prismatic rays fla-h
--•d with a thousand shimmering lustre*.
Mrs. Grant wore a robe of ivory satin
de I,y.ni*. with a long satin train
brocaded with gold. The Ixittom of
the front hriadth was finished with
large tassel* of white silk. Exquisite
laees and diamonds added richness to
. the beautiful toilet. Mis* Hatfie
Crocker wore white silk, with trim
mings of crushed rose*. The front of
her-kirt wa* one solid ma-* of (K-arls.
The young lady is a blonde, with
small, refined features and graceful
carriage. There were so many elegant
and costly cuxtumcs it would he u-e
--lras to enumerate them, as over six
, hundred guest* were present. The
centre of the dining r-*>m tables held
stands of growing plants—trailing
around the tables, and festooning the
dishes were living vines, fresh and
lovely. The plate* used for the first
, time wen- made in Limoges. This
porcelain wa.* decorated brilliantly
with birds, (lowers and fruit in the
centre, and rims in harmony of color.
Iho plate* used for the various
courses were all of this porcelain.
Ihe out glurs was im|M>rtcd and ele
vat<*l in delicate lace patterns, thin
and frail as your fancy eouhl desire,
. The ices were in the form of flowers
and fruit in their natural colors. The
menu* were in red, white and blue
satin, mounted on wire stands about a
foot high, and were decorated with
. vines and flowers. The whole affair
was recherche and elegant, and no ex
pense win -pared to make it the great
social sensation of the season.
ttrtndlmr at the Mill in the Last,
Df J F. Ilnrwi, m llnrfxer IWamliwf,
Southward through Thilistia there
an' no mill-streams, nnd oue constant
- ly hears the hum of the hand-mill nt
every village and Arab ramp, morn
ing and evening, and often deep into
the night. When at work, two wo
men sit at the mill facing each other;
hoth have hold of the handle by
which the upper is turned round upon
• the nether millstone. The one whose
hand is disrugaged throw* in the grain,
as occasions require, through the hole
*in the upper stone, which is called a
rukknh, the rider, in Arabic, as it was
long ago in Hebrew. It is not cor
rect to say that one pushes it half
round, and then the other seizes the
handle. This would !>e slow work,
and would give a spasmodic motion to
tho stone. Both retain their hold,
and pall to or push from, as men do
with I lie w hip or cross-cut saw. The
proverb of Christ is true to life, for
women only grind. Dr. Thompson
recalls no instance in which men were
grinding nt the hand-mill. It is te
dious, fatiguing work, and slaves or
servants are set at it. From the King
to "the maid-servant that is behind
the mill," therefore, embraced all,
from the very highest to the very low
rat inhabitants of Egypt, This grind
ing at the mill was often imposed upon
captives taken iu war. Thus Hamson
was abused bv the Philistines, and,
with Milton for his (met, bitterly la
ments his cruel lot:
"To grind In hrssen fetters under task,
Kyclos", in Oszs, st tbo mill with ilsto*. "
Webster, Minute and Stunner.
of tli*- Hftii Fmif jftco llulletDi.
Thirty years ago, when it student at
Amherst College, I remember going
oyer with several of my classmates to
Northampton, where Daniel Webster
and Uufus Clioate were the opining
lawyers in the great Oliver Smith will
ease. I shall never forget the impres
sion made by the great contrast be
tween the manner i U , ( J gesticulation of
the two distinguished pleaders in their
• losing arguments. The court-room
was crowded almost to suffocation,
and the immense interest involved, to
gether with the high reputation ot the
oppo-ing counsel, combined to excite
the attention anil interest (J f a || a
remarkabledegn-c. \\ < b*!erVge.-turc* l
us well n* his words, were compara
tively few, hut weighty, massive, the
very embodiment of dignity and con
scious strength. Most of* the time
during th* urgiiiueiit, he stood perfect
ly motionless, his body slightly U-ut
forward, and his hands Ix-liind hi*
hack. < Imate spoke for nearly two
hours, in a manner the very counter
part of Webster's, and yet equally ap
propriate to the speaker's individual
ity. He wa* all alert, every vein
-w< lied to fullnus.-, every muscle at it
utmost tension. He advanced toward
the jury ami retreated. He rose on
tiptoe, and several times in his excite
ment secim-d to spring up entirely off
his f-et. He ran his long, nervous
fingers through his .lark hair, and
anon shook them in the air above hi
head with so swift a motion that llrnv
seemed to run into each other like the
s|H.k' -on a spinning-wheel. J|j. pl.. a
la*Us 1 two hours. The day wa* hot,
and when he had concluded he sank
into the arms of uttcmianUi in a state of
perfect exhaustion and wa- borne out
into the lobby like a corj*e. The ex
citement in thecourt-f'Hon was int tise,
hut \\ ebster's calm, stern bJgic car
ried the .layover Clioate's brilliant
and fiery rhetoric. The verdict was
f'or Webster and the will.
One word concerning the gesticula
tions ..1 ( hurl. - Sunnier, lie wa- al
ways dignified and self-js*sN>.s**|, and
in hi- movements, a- well a* words,
always convey.*| the idea of d<-lii>cra
li>.n ami scholarly culture rather than
of that sjx.ntaiieoii- warmth and itn
pulsive feeling which is most apt to
-tir emotion in a hearer. But he hud
one gesture which he used not often,
hut always once or twjee in hi- great
-peerlira, which never failed to -end
the I> 1 <mm 1 thrilling to mv temples ;
and I noticed it had a similar effect on
many other-. He raised his hand
higher and higher, with appropriate
I gesticulation, while building a climax,
and when he came to cap it, he rose
■ .ii tip toe and thrust his hand up into
the air with great force and with a
look of exultant triumph. It was
magnificent. It fitted the subject
and the man.
Bemarkalile Ite-ult of Woman * Mif
fraire.
A Boston journal illustrates the ad
| vantages which will accrue to commu
nities from woman suffrage by the fol
lowing neat story : A certain gentle
man, iu apparently gisl circumstance-,
has still, for several vears, been in the
habit of raying only the poll tax.
, This year lie was astonished to receive
a tax hill amounting tos],]iMJ. He
went to the as-raeor* to inquire what
the hill meant, ami to his dismay was
questioned so closely in relation to the
ownership of certain mortgages, stocks,
Ac., that be wa* forced to con fern that
the tax hill wa* all right. In reply
to his persistent inquiries a- to who
had furnished them with the informa
tion, the assessor* finally informed him
that his wife had been registered a* a
voter, and when questioned as to her
qualifications, had proudly enumerat
ed all the various taxable properties
of her liege lord. This gentleman, it
is believed, is now no longer a believer
in woman's suffrage, if he ever was so.
But, if giving ladies the suffrage will
result in the discovery of all the jicr
sonal property now kept from taxa
tion, a good many communities may
Ik- induce*! to look uj>oii the reform
with serious eyes.
A Colony for Tennessee.
Erm Uis Itolpm.rs Sun.
The Co-Operative Colony Aid As
sociation. of New York city, lias de
termined to establish its first colonv in
the Cumberland plateau of East Teu
nessce. This location has been chosen
on account of the hcalthfulmws of the
climate, the cheapness of lands, their
comparative nearness to the Eastern
markets, nnd their adaptation to the
method of Northern farming. The
financial plan is for the Aid Associa
tion to buv the land and furnish capi
tal for building, stock and implements,
nnd deed the property to the colonists
in separate tracts from time to time as
advances are repaid with n low rate of
interest. Experiments in co-operative
farming will bo encouraged, and there
will be a reservation for pasturage and
fuel which will be the common projv
erty of the colony. A village will be
established in the centre of the domain,
with a co-operative store, school ami
machine shop*. The advance-guard
will leave New York before the Ist of
January, and the main body of colo
nist* will leave in the spring.
WHKM California!!* give public din
ner* they make a patriotic point of
using native wines, which are much
cheaper than the imported article and
nuite as satisfactory in the line of
drunkenue**.
Why Alfonso Hurried A tea i ti.
ft-" n *ll InUrvlcw In (In Cai|< ft pip,,
"I lui'J, *nid the King, "intcrre d
my whole pant ju (||<. grave of Mer
cedes. From in v* carl lint youth alio
wan my only thought. Her iruago
wa* over present in my mind, when i
passed my examinations at tin- Vienna
I liercsiarium, amid my comrade* at
the military school in England, in my
study, and in the battle-lines of I>aciir.
It war against tin- wish of her family
and mine, against the advice of Pre*i
dent ( anovas, and against public
opinion, which dislikes tin- Moiitjsn
sur family, that i nuccoediil in mak
ing her my wife. I loved her an kings
randy do, and I lived with her like
the most affectionate Ixiuriir/jiji. Wo
were never apart. We chared alike
work, plea.*ure and danger. When
ever I went out drooling bv myself I
hrought her home my hag. J told her
before-hand whatever 1 meant to cay
in puhlie *|u-eehes. She took deep in
terest in everything I did, everything
I -aid and everything I attempted.
\\ lien *li" died I de*ir<d nothing no
mueh a- to die my-elf. For two
month* I chut my*elf up in the K—
eurial, not, a- ha* la-en stated, to ad
diet niv-ilt to ascetic practices, like
Philip 11., for I am no bigot, hut to
weep over Mercedes' eotlin. After
that J sought amusement.- to drown
my grief, hut I ultimately found thin
ex intend* would not do. Now that I
am promised the hand of the Arch
duchec- Chrictine I feel that I am
lairn to a new life, ami that 1 mav vet
again be happy. It i- not for me,
who love the archduchess, to make
general reflections a* to the la*t sort of
women. Ihe archduchess unite* all
the <jualiti<- oi the Irect tvjw-x of the
Viennese, for which I have much cvui
pathv. Iler character i* frank, her
tenijH-rament gay. She i, resolute."
Here the King left off xpeakirjg in
French, and continued in Herman]:
"She i made to in-urc the happinemt
of a man worn out by anxiety and de
ception*, who yearn* for recreation at
hi* own hearth, and I am sure die
will find in Madrid the -arm--vuipathy
which -lie commanded in Vienna."
How tort Sumter Look* 10-day.
I'r >ti. a o,it.f )(Uf writer
Strolling out after breakfa*t I made
ray way to the battery, a pretty little
park fronting the Ashley river side of
Charlecton harbor, and where gather
<■<l the "fair women and brave men"
of lHtil to witne*- the Icombardmeiit
"f Ft. Sumter. Standing on the broad
sea wall which protects the battery
from the tide*, grim old Sumter can
*tiil he *ii-n in it.* ruin* -a monument
"f more hi*; iric- iutcn-t than any
j other in our country. It i* now used
as the mljunet of a lighthouse.
Some few guns are still on it* bat
jtcred wall*, but arc not kept in con
dition for -crvioe. Sullivan's Island,
just north of it. on which Ft. Moultrie
stood, and from which point the reln-l
batteries (toured their destructive fire
I on Sumter, ha* been transformed into
a village for the residence of Charles
ton aristocrat* a ferrv plying be
twecn the city and the island for their
convenience. Fort .Johnsou stands on
•latne* Island south of and opposite to
Sumter. A few troops arc stationed
here. ('a*tle Pinekncy presents the aje
pcaranoo of a terraced lawn.
Notwithstanding the destruction of
property bv the war. Chariest'>n i. still
a place of' great wealth. The dwel
ling*. with their surrounding*, of their
merchants, attest this beyond quest-ion.
j It certainly is not, however, a pleasant
place of reside nee. The site is flat,
the streets mostly narow and there is
no outlet for expansion except in the
one direction, limited bv the Ashley
river on the south, and the Coo|er
river on the north. The open space
made by these streams and the harbor
in front afford air, but furnish with it
i an nhundanccof voracious mosquitoo*.
Ilajes a* a IH*ira*tina Hypocrite*
Pnm tli# N Y. Ootnrfrlil A>lvMlbNV ( (fte{t,),
There is nothing the people of this
country have a greater contempt for
than cant and hypocrisy. The Prewi
dent's course from the time he entered
the White House up to the present has
lieon oue of pretensions and impostures
on the aubject of civil service reform.
He re fers to the improvements made
in the New York eustom-housc and
post-ofliceyinder the competitive sys
tem. This is a snare and a delusion.
The enforcement of what is called the
civil service order at the eustom-houso
i* very thin dust thrown in the eves
of the public. The competitive sys
tem is a dodge to enable the President,
the Secretary of the Treasury and the
collector of the port to take care of
their particular friends to the exclu
sion of outsiders. That is all there is
of this much vaunted reform move
ment. The examiners know who to
prefer just a* well as President Ilayes
knew who to reward for itersonal and
political services. Blood is thicker
than wafer, and these examiners will
|jive the preference to their friends
just as Mr. Hayes gave the preference
to (Jov. Moves, who nominated him at
the Cincinnati convention, and to the
large number of men who rendered
service to "count him in." The parti
sanship that brought the President
and the tkhincl to thg support of a
candidate for Governor, who was re
moved from office for no other reason
than that he waa not in svmpathy
with civil service reform, ought not to
expect the people to believe thev are
honestly and sincerely in favor of thi*
reform.