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DEATH OF DICKENS.
ACCOUNTS BY. MAIL
PARTICULARS OF HIS DEATH
Tributes of the,,,, London Press
His Last Letter and Last Words
INTE REST IN G REMINISCENCES
The London News of the 11th sap; : . " Some
particulars are supplied to tut of the circum
stances surrounding the death of Mr. Charles
Dickens.. Be' was at Rochester on Tuesday,tbe
7th inst.; on Wednesday he was employed at
his literary labonSuntildinnerstirrie. When, at
di tinef ;he was seized with asffielent pain in
the head, and fell cletarn s becoming totally un
cow-do-us. He was placed on a sofa.in the
dining-room, as it was not considered ad
visable to remove him :upstairs. Mr. S. Steele,
of Strood, his local medical adviser, was sent
for, and found him laboringunder a
severe form of apoplexy. Rtertorous
breathing had taken•placei and -- the extremi- -
ties very soon became. cold. Mr. Steele re
mained with bins until near midnight, when
Mr. F. Carr Beard, surgeon, of Welbeck
- street, London, an old personal-friend of
Dickens, - arrived, - with go. Collins and Miss
Dickens: daughters Of the' great :no veliSts
Beard immediately consulted with Mr. Steele,
put they bad little hope.. Mr. Dickens was
still unconscious, and remained in that state
up to the time of his death. Mr. Beard re
mained with him all night. Dr. ..J. Russell
Reynolds, the eminent physician of
Grosvenor street, was telegraphed
for, and arrived ~:on- --T hursday after- -
noon: He: agreed Avith Messrs. Beard and
Steel lit eonsidering t7ie - case a hopeless one
,ion, the firsts His death took 'place at Si
o'clock: Mr. Dickens was - well on the Wed
o•sday,and wrote a great deal during the day.
He bad. lately had no premonitory symptoms
"of an affection of the brain. A post-mortem.
sxamination is to be Shade. A contemporary
suites that when Mr:Dickens sat doWn to (Ra
ses on -Wednesday, his. MISS"
Hogarth, observed: -au unusual 'appearance
in his -fact., and became alarmed, .and
said she feared he was 111, -proposing
in the' Same breath to telegraphs for
medical tus t istance. ,Mr. .Dickena repled,
.• No, no, no : I have got the toOthaehe, and
-hall be better presently."lfeilien asked that
-the window Might lassbut, :'anifalmost imme
diately he lapsed into unconscionsness; fsom_
whichstatelie never recovered_ till the .nio
ra ems& his -death: slit, ChaideS ~D iciretis the'
oungerS was telegraphed for on Wednesday
f' re Ding; burgle message did not reach Lon
410n till Thunidiss - &dining, , started in
stantly' far his father's' repesissmiLswas_
present, arthe csidsviths two - of his
sisters, M iss Hogarth,And = the'! , medical
tendatitsSs •
Elsewhere
_in the -same same paper it is pointed
out that the day- of thessreat. novelista death
was, strange 'to bay;' the anniversary of the
1 Stapiehuris accident, in which, it will be re
membered, he was in great peril, and from
, s_whicli-some-of-those-nertrest to-hiorconsider
be received a physical shock from which he
never really recovered. The friends in the
habit of meeting Mr. Dickens privately, recall
nowTsays - the Nta, thenergy-witliswhich
he depicted that dreadful scene, and how,
as the climax of his story came,' and
its dread interest grew, be would rise from the
table and literally act the narts of the several
sufferers to whom be had lent a helping hand.
New that be is gone it is remembered, too,
with absolute pans that one of the first
surgeons of the day, who was present when
this Statilehurst story was told soon after its
occurrence, remarked that "the worst of
these railway accidents was the difficulty of
determining the period at which the system
could be said to hare survived the
shock, and that. instances 'were on record
of two or three years haying gone by be
fore the life-sufferer knew that he was
seriously hint." But the medical testimony
as to the immediate cause of Mr. Dickens'
death is definite and preciee.: Apophity—au
effusion of blood on the 'brain; the cause an
overstrained system, and the result one which
was only staved off twelve months ago t when
ho was induced to obey his doctor's injunc
tions, and to suspend his reading in public—
has carried him away at a comparatively early
age, and all that remains to his sorrowing
friends is-to recall - with affection the many
traits which made this great man so lovable.
The .Times of the same date has the follow
ing: During the whole of Wednesday Mr.
Dickens had , manifested signs of illne..Ss, sas--
ing that . he felt dull, and that s the work on
which he, was engaged was burdensome to
him. He came to ,the dinner-table at six
o'clock, and' his sister-in-law, Miss Itogarth,
observed that his eyes Were full of tears. She
(lid not like to mention this to him, but
watched him anxiously until, alarmed
by the expression. of his face, she pro
posed sending for medical assistance.
He said " No," but said •it with im
perfect articulation. The next moment
he complained of toothache, put his hand to
the side of his . head, and desired that the
'window might be shut. It was shut immedi
ately, and MisB Hogarth went to him andtook
•his ariosintending to lead him trete the:room.
After one or two steps ho suddenly fell heavily
on his left side and remained unconseioniand
speechless until his death, which came at G.lO
on Thursday, just twenty:four hours after the
attack. As soon as he fell a telegram was des
patched to his old friend and constant medical
attendant, Mr. F. Carr Beard, of Welbeck
street, who went to Gad's-Hill immediately,
but found the condition of his patient to be
past hope. Mr. Steele, of Strood, was already
in attendance ; and Dr. Russell Reynolds went
down on Thursday, Mr. Beard himself remain
ing until the last. The pupil- of the right eye,
was intich dilated,. that of the left contracted,'
the breathing stertorous,thedimbs flaccid until
half . an hour before death, when some convul
sion occurred. These symptoms point conclu
sively to the giving way of a blood-vessel In
the brain, and to consequent large hemorr
hage, or, in other words, to what is called
apoplexy. '
Comments of the Daily Press. ••
The Thins of June 11 says: " The mere an
nouncement that Charles Dickens is dead re
peats the common sentence passed on all hu
manity. Death has once agaW demanded. its
own,;and made a olailn which all men must
sooner or later meet. ' We forget hOw many
mortals breathe their last in every minute ac
_ cording to the calculations of statistical' autho
rities. Sufficient unto the day is tbesivil
thereof ? andyesterday, the oth' day: of June,
1870; Will be an evil day in : , the memories of
all who can appreciate true-genius and admire
its mat:Ole:ski. WC,.'hate 'had gteater .
' writers bOth in. noetry :ad prose, but they
sw.ere_notsatourdaysandsgeneration: For -us
s
just now this loss. is our greatest. would:
have been great at any time from the moment
when he turned with aversion from the drudg
ery of a solicitor's office, amid the forebodings
of his friends, and thenceforward rose in the
clear ligbt of hteraturc s nnfiLlie.soared in the of success Dir aboVe fellowss-
There areaninth of such jealous fibre that the
'very merits of an author, his mightiest -gifts
and his most special talents, only serve as food
on 'which to nourish their prejudices. Such
are they who', while forced to admit the wit,
humor and power of Charles Dickens, always
added, "but be was - vulgar ." Yee, In one
sense he was vulgar; he delighted in sketch
ing the characters not of dukes and •duch
esses, but •of the poor and lowly. He had
listened to their wants and sorrows, seen them
in their alleys and garreni, had learnt their ac
cents-and-dialects iv heart, and then with a l
truth and liveliness all. his own, he photo
graphed them in his immortal works. In that
sense alone was Charles Dickens "vulgar."
He was of the people, and lived among them.
Ilia was not the close atmosphere - of a saloon
or of .a forcing-house.. In the open air of the
streets and woods and fields he lived and 'had
his being, and so he came into closer union
with common men, and caught with an intui
tive force and fullness of feature every detail
of their daily life.: His creations have been
naturalized, so to - speak, among all classes of
tlarcommunity, and are familiar to everyman
high or low:
When a great writer, - on his death-bed, was
with his last breath instructing his children in
the secret of his success, he said: " 13e natnral,
my children, for the writer that is natural has
ulfilled all the rules of art." And this wa.sprt- 4
:eniinently the case with laic
great; Dickens.
great - characters have struck fast root in the
hearts of his countrymen for this, above all
other reasons, that they are natural—natural
both - relatively to the writer who created them,
and
to the station.in life in which they aie sup
posed to live. Like the giant who revived. as
soon as he touched his mother earth, Charles
Dickens was never so strong as when he
threw himself back on the native soil of the
'social class among which he had been borh
and bred, whose virtues, faults and foibles he
could portray with a truth and vigor denied to
any other man. That he was eminently suc
ceissfill May.: be . :: . proved by-his -works. He is
gone, indeed, but they remain behind, and
will long speak for him. Every day will only
add to the universal feeling that he wrote not
for this age alone, but for all time, and that
this-generation, in losing sight of him, will
hardly look upon his like again.
In the same paper of the 10th is the follow-
-lug We :cannot - conclude= : - these - remarks
without paying a tribute to the moral influ-..
ence - of the writings of which we have spoken.
Mr. Dickens was a man of an eminently,
kindly nature, and full of sympathy for all
around him. This, .without, being paraded,
makes itself' manifest in his works, and we
have no doubt whatever that much of the ac
tive: beneVolence,of the present day; the inte
relitin -humble persons and humble things,
anitthe desite to seek out and relieve every
ferm of misery is due. to the influence of - his.
works: We. -feel that 4 we have
_lost one
of the foremost Englishmen - of __the
age. ' There are clever writers
enough, but no one who will take the place,
literary and social, that belonged to him. It,
was but the other day that at the Royal Acad
emy banquet he made the - best-speech Of the
eveningrin matter, language and.manner..His •
powers as an actor are well known, though,
of late-years, theyhaVe - only been exhibited in -
the narrower field of public- readings. He was:
made to be popular,and; even irrespective - of
his literary genius, was an able and strong
-minded man, who would eive_succeeded---in'T
- almost any profession - to - l schich he devoted'
himself. \‘'•3 can but condole with the public
on his sudden-and-premature loss. • •
The Daily News,: the paper, it will be remena
bered, which Mr. Dickens established, in the -
course of a- long article, says: "Never was
human being more thorough.' His friend
ship was a fervent reality, and he spared uo
_pains, -And
those carom be thought worthy;, and to whom
his countenance was valuable. The whole
energy or, his nature—and the passage in
-Dek/ C'opperyield iu which the hero attributes
whatever success he has acquired in life
to his faculty of devoting , his whole strength
and thoughts to the subject in hand, what
ever it might be,. precisely describes
Charles Dickens himself-_was given to
the friend as readily and .fully a$ to
the day's work, and it would- be itnpossibleto
say more. Again, this kindly helpfulness was
more valuable in Dickens than in most men,
1 from his shrewd common sense, his worldly
wisdoin,'lns business habits, hisintense regard
for accuracy in detail. Whatever he said
should be done, those who knew him regarded
as accomplished. There was no forgetfulness,
no procrastination, no excuse, when the time
for granting a promised favor came. His
bouts and days were spent by rule. Ho rose
at a certain time, he retired at another and,
though no precisian, it was not often that his ar
rangements varied. - His hours for writing were
between breakfast and luncheon, and when
there was work to be done no temptation was
stab ciehtly strong to cause it to he:neglected.
This order and • regularity followed--him
through the day. His, mind was essentially
methodical, and in his long walks, in his r'-
creations, in his labor, he was governed by
rules laid down for himself by himself, rules
well beforehand . , and rarely departed
from. The so-called men of business, the
people whose own exclusive devotion to the
science of profit and loss makes them regard
doubtfully all to whom that same science is
not the main object of life, would have
been delighted and amazed at Ibis
-ide of Dickens's character. Proud
of literature •as a mistress whom it
was a privilege to serve, trite to the profession
of letters as among the highest of human
callings, he was ever careful to preserve un
tarnished the trust conferred 'on him by his
genius, and never forgot that it is as im
portant. to self-respect to be exact in small
things as in great. Other celebrated men may
be pardoned for the minor sins of forgetful
ness and impracticability in worldly affairs,
but of Charles Dickens it may be said that he
bad within himself-the elements of success in
almost any walk of life, that he never broke
a promise, nor fa sled a friend
Comments - of toe Wee kly Press.
The Spectator pronounces Mr. Dickens to be'
the greatest humorist whom England has over
produced, Shakespeare himself not excepted,
and calls attention to the wonderful influence
his writings hate exerted in softening the
strong lines of- demarkation between the dif
ferent classes of English society, and the ex
traordinary stimulus they have thereby given
to the various great efforts of the day for
ameliorating wretchedness and reclaiming
crime. And yet Mr. Dickens has not only
'never been a professional philanthro
pist, but .he has, exerted his great
powers to the utmost to ridicule pro
fessional philanthropy. It• was the great
triumph of his humor to sharpen the' vision
of mankind for hideous moral contrasts which
he knew as little as any of us how to remove ;
and for the systematic methods of attacking
which he had even less taste than ,most other.
men-Ads genius, like most other geniuses, re=
tolling against system, anti, the conventional
types it tends to 'pr'od'uce. Mr. Dickens, it is
true, looked with more than approving eye on
all aspects 'of 'jollity; even though aecom
panied, as they so often are; with self-indul
gent weaknesses; and' with a detestation per
fectly morbid on those meaner and. harsher.
elements in'human nature which are fatal to
; jollity. He was fartoo fond, also, of pushing,
his doctrine of geniality to the point of senti
mental falseness., Still, the - deficiencies,
-suoh-as- they- -were, In -Mr.-Dickens-literary
-morality have really done far less to relax the
moral ideal of society unduly; than his marvel
ous powers as a humorist have done to teach
us how unduly, stringent it has often been
through mere ignorance. His delight: in the
grotesque-has done far more than .eter
' ohn Stuart Mill by any philosophical defence
-of liberty could o, to Make its tolerant to
wards individual eccentricity of almost every
THURSDAY , .1 . UNE-- 20;-1ER0
shade, 'and even _to teach_ as to pet it with
omet hi ng like parental fodness. And he has
given a'greater impulse than any man of his
generationto_that • righteous hatred of caste
feeling and class-cruelty which more and more
distinguishes modern society. •
Dickens' Last Words. •
To the Editor of the Daily News.—
Sin. Much as I should have 'continued
'to • prize to my dying day.the enclosed
letter of our dear friend Charles
Dickens, I abould never have entertained the
idea of printing itivithout the consent of the
author or his representatives,' except for the
fact of its having . been probably one of the last
be ever wrote, and for its expression of senti
ments, which I am sure it will be a pleasure to
thousands of his readers, to be permitted to
pfiruse and to peruse at once:
That the public may exactly understand the
circumstances under which it was written, I
am bound to explain, that it is a reply to a
letter which" addressed to • him in reference
to a passage in the tenth chapter of _Edwin
Drood; respecting which I ventured to suggest
that—without the slightest intention (1 was
persuaded) of hurting 'the. sincere religious
feelings of any of his .readers—he had, per
haps, for the moment forgotten that the
figure of speech' alluded to by.him ina way.
n
Which, to my certain knoviledge, , was dis
tasteful to some of his admirers, was drawn
from a passage of Holy Writ which is greatly
reverenced by a large number of his country
men as a prophetic - description of the suffer
ings of our Saviour. Kindly and Christianly .
as I believe my letter was worded, I.certainly
would not have written it, if I could have seen
only a few hours into the future. I told him
that, exemplary as had been his castigation of
religious pretenders, I was assured he could
so more say anything, deliberately, to hurt
the feelings of devoted and honest people than
becould_write the ribaldry. of Rabelais or Swift;
that I wastoyself bat lb - differently religious (as'
Hamlet would have said, and that if the pas
sage grated upon my mind, it wouldgrate still
more harshly upon the minds of many others
whom,'l was sure, he would not willingly l i
offend. The ' letter which I send you is Chas.
Dickens's reply to mine, and it is one of which
neitherhe .nor, his, deaftst-friends can - - lave
deed to be ashamed. It appears to me a
satisfactory reply, because I think it indi
cates that if the point 'of view which - I
suggested had occurred to
-him in the
.first instance he would hve avoided
the allusion altogether ; for although the
figure inay,haVe been so often used on inap
propriate occasions, he; lam sure, would'not
Pave 'wished to follow the bad example.
Whatever the result of our friendly discussion
might have been (for I was thinking ever my
reply to hith on nisi way to business when I
saw the astounding announcement of his
deAth), I cannot but be glad to have in my pos
session -Charles- - Dickens's laSt• words—and
such words—and to be able to lay them before
his thousands 'of his, admiring 'and mourning
friends. I am, &c., J. M. M.
Gsn's HirL PLACE, Higham, by Rochea-
I -ter; Kent, Wednesclay; . the Bth june, 1870.- -
DmrSir would .be quite-inconceivable-to'
me—hut for your letter—thatany. reasonable
reader could.possibly attach - aacriptural - refer
ence to a passage in a, -book of mine, repro
ducing a much-abused of speech,
-- mipressed --- into all sorts of service,
on all . sorts -of inappropriate occasions,
without the faintest connection of it with
its ()Ticino] 'Source., I am truly, shocked
t o'find- that any reader can make the mistake.
I have always - --striven-in - my writings to'ex - -
press veneration from the life and lessons of
our Saviour ; because I feel it, and because .1
re-wr_otethat_listerylfor_ m 9 ibildren=every
on e of whom knew it from having it repeated to
them, long before they could read, and almost
as.soon as they could speak. Rut I have never
, ule_proOomation-of-this=frore the house
tops. Faithfully yours ,
OFIARL ES D 1( uxs,
Dickens and. Leigh Hunt.
The same paper contains the following; In
your obituary notice of -lir. Dickens.you men
tion that some of the external characteristics
of Skimpole were taken from Leigh Hunt,
This is true ; lint it should be added that the
character in its totality was never meant for
the kindly and lovable old essayist and
poet. To suppose so, as some do, is to
do an injustice to the memories both of
Leigh Hunt and Dickens. The latter
himself corrected the misapprehension in
a paper in All the re«r Round toward the close
of 1859, after Hunt's death ; and during Hunt's
life, and after the publication of "Bleak
House," he wrote a most genial paper about
him in "Household Words.' It is also within
my knowledge that he expressed to Leigh
Hunt personally his regret at the Skimpole
mistake. I am;
EDMUND OLI.IER.
SOUTII ETAI 10.
Queen Victoria's Compliment.
An incident is mentioned as showing in
how great regard lit,rlDieketis, as a man and
as an author, was held by the Queen of Eng
land:
Shortly before his death he sent to Her Ma
jesty an edition of his collected works, and
when the Clerk of the Council went to Bal
moral last week the Queen, knowing the
friendship that existed between Mr. Dickens
and Mr. Helps, showed the latter , where she
had placed the gift of the great novelist. This
was in her private library, and. Her Majesty
expressed her desire that Mr. Helps should in
form Mr. Dickens of this arrangement. On
his return from Balmoral Mr. Helps ;wrote to
Mr. Dickens, inursuance of Her. Majesty's
desire ; but the le p tter that contained so re
markable a tribute to the great novelist could
only have reached.flad's Hill while he lay un
conscious and dying.
.The Fatal Yacht Accident offf Sanctums--
Fourteen I'ers Ins Drowned. ,
[From tlmtendon Globe of Juno 7—Eveolo,g.l
At a quarter to five ye.sterday after4oott the
pleasure yacht Royal Albert capsized, about a
mile off Hastings, with fourteen or fifteen per.:
sous on board, including :George. Wonman
and Thothas Stitchborno, boatthen. ''The acci
dent was caused by a gust of wind. .Iminedi
ately on the occurrence being observed nu
merous boats put Off to the rescue, the first re
sult being that eight 'persons Were, picked up
and brought ashore; AMong these Were two
boatmen. The bodies of Mrs.. Jo hu Cham
bers, Grange street, ,lloxton ; Mr. Richards,
London; Mrs. Maynard ; Vale pladeiHarniner
smith, and of one person anknown have been
recovered. My. and Mrs. Stoakes, of Hastings,
are missing. One of the Persons saved was
Mr. Archer, jeweler, of George' street, Has
tings. Anionst those picked up were :a lady
and gentleman—lmsband and wife—who took,
apartments in the cutter on the previous
night. Every effort was used by the medical
gentlemen in attendance to restoro animation,
and they were successful in the case of the
husband.
To-,day's Sussex Advertiser says large crowds
of people gathered round the houses whither
the bodies have been conveyed, anti the most
painful sympathy was manifested both by the
.townspeople and the visitors. The 'general
impression-prevailing was that from fourteen
to sixteen persOns were on board-indeed,, it
was stated by some of the speetatort3 that as
Many as twenty passengers had gone out to
sea. — A large numtier of visitors had flocked
to Hastings for the day, amongst whom, it is
needless to add,-the terrible catastrophe' pro
duced a most painful shock.
Fayetteville, N. C.,paper editorially an
nounces the - death Of - Dickens arid; elaborates.
about bis -- virtue and . contributions to the
literary world Under the' caption Tito
Death of a GrateAutbef." '
CkLAND.
THRINSANE POOH.
Mr. Editor: I have read your communica
tion on the proceedings of the ,Board of
Guardians, at their meeting on Monday; with
much pleasure; and I have not the slightest
doubt that the pablic mind heartily favors the
sentiments you have repeatedly uttered in be
half of.the insane, poor at our Almshouse. I
have been affected with the most agreeable
surprise in observing the tone of public senti
ment in this behalf, as illustrated in the-indig
nation manifested towards the person who is
~
alleged to have confined and ill-treated his
brother for many years, on the premises at
Fourth and Lombard streets. lam not pre
pared to sympathize fully with this particular
crusade against this individual, partly beca,tise
lam fully cognizant that a bad example has
been set him by his superiors, and partly be
cause there is reason to believe that no C71:171i
?Id motive influenced his course; but the"
quick resentment overflowing from the sense
of injury which the common brotherhood
seemed to have - - suffered is a most hopeful
..sign that all is right with the general public
in the consideration of -what our ditty
should be towards this unhappy class of our
people.
For myself, however, I do not impute in
tentional wrong-doing, even to those whose
position should familiarize them with the
needs of the insane, - for I well know how
natural it is to turn away the- eye from un
pleasant scenes and the mind, from painful
reflections. I am, on the contrary, quite sat
isfied that it is mainly ignorance which in
duces hesitation or delay in protecting their
rights to the fullest extent: A very false con
ception, too, is entertained_with regard to
this malady Few - realize that ' " not - many
men or - women are wholly "insane ;" that " the
'mind which sees darkly through certain dis
turbed faculties, sees clearly through others,"
and that thus those senses which our inexpe
rience is apt to regard as dead to suffering,
feel deprivation and abuse as acutely as -our
own. I have known at least one. truly,. kind-.
'hearted and benevolent man who persistently
avoided the sick bed of members of his own
household. It is this reluctance to be brought
face to face with suffering which hinders too
many from knowinewhat it is, and adminis
tering intelligently to its relief. They who
meet it of necessity are, for the most part, re
sistlessly impelled to befriend and succor it.
But I have extended my remarks too far. I
wished, mainly, to convey the idea that few
or none would advocate -neglect or indiffer
ence towards the insane, if they were cogni
zant of their real condition. H.
PHILADELPHIA, June 22, 1870.
A SAD-iusroßY-.
Terrible Death of a Drunkard.
The _Harrisburg Topk has the follovviug., al
luded.to_in-our despat,ehes -yesterday-:
Thismorning, at. four o'clock, Prof.-P. S.
Koonti, an inmate of the Dauphin county
prison,. : all...the horrors-of- delirium--
tremens.- .
The -history of this man and his case is a re
-markahle one.-----He-was born — of - staid - mid-re=
putable parents, in the- vicinity of, York
Springs. At an early age he was sent to
F,urope to finish an education, the basis of
which was already welt laid. He exhibite'd
unusual talent, and graduated with honors
from several institutions of learning in the old
country; having studied "JAW, medicine, and
filially theology, his intentio.n_being_to_hecome„
a minister oCtle gospel. In this — country he
held professorships in several colleges—one at
Gettysburg—being, a _proficient in the lanil
!uageScalting filtently—se-ven—ditieren
tongues. _
During the last two years his career had
been downwards. He had taken to the in
toxicating howl, and all his relatives could do
to reclaim him was in vain. He spent a pat
rimony of four thousand dollars left him at the
death of his father. His mother spent four
or five thousand dollars upon him,„ in her
efforts to &wetter son from ruin. His sister
contributed her share of a distributed estate,
four thousand dollars, in the same cause. All
this money be drank up in liquor. On the
sixth of this month he was ejected from a pro
minent house in this city, having become a
perfect nuisance. He then had fits of delirium
tremens, and was placed in the county jail for
sale-keeping.
On last Saturday week .he was discharged
and went into the country, promising to
behave better in the future. No sooner had
he a,i - rain freed himself from prison till be
bound himself in rum., Entering a tavern
near Ha:hnleu's farm, he drank four glasses
atthe bar before he could be checked, and in
a few moments afterwards fell in fits on the
floor, having forty spasms .iu succession.
Ii ere he lay for a day or so in a very pre
carious condition. Thus' he existed, drinking
and suftbring, for days, ',living , upon the
charities, of the country people. Ho wa4
quarrelsome,' slanderous, .unbearable; and
the community ,Inid him arrested and eorn
mitted to jail again . .on a charge of comma
drunkenness and slander. • The case was
settled,'the prosecutors paying the costs. '
No sooner was he liberated than he wont
back to his country haunts and recommenced
his drunken, vituperative crusade. The
spasms continued, and it was deemed neces
sary to put him in confinement, and on last
Friday he was brought to this city for the last
time and reincarcerated in the county jail.
Everything that could be done to give rest
to and restore the unfortunate man's "nervous
system was performed with care. The patient
was wild and incorrigible. Demons, hobgob
lins anything and everything , horrible
liaunted.him. He tore up his cot, crept uader
it, over it, struck at the wall, and, Indeed, ex
perienced all a human being can feel in the''
horrors of mania pottL He died this morning,
after spending the night unconsciously, at
about thirty-five years of age. His eyes pro
truded from their sockets, the result of fright
and overstraining of the muscles.
Thus died a once promising young man.
There is no doubt of his talents. As a physi
elan he was known to be more than- ordinarily
skilled. Four weeks ago ho went to „Carlisle
to perform' an' Interesting surgical operatlini,
under the direction of Dr. Zitzer. and with the
money ho obtained on,this occasion he started
on the terrible spree which has resulted in his
death. ' "
WINN,IPEO.
Red River TrotiblOii Not Settled
• The English are clearly not.deceived by the
aspect of affairs in the Northwest. The Lon- .
don .st«ndard of June 8 says :
Our latest news from the extreme West of
the Canadian Dominion signally confutes the.
predictions 80, rashly hazarded. by Mr.' Mou
se]] as tp the settlement of the Red River difli
culty,.and confirm all the misgivings , Which
we.ventured to. utter a few days ago - as to the
probable end of the. Winnipeg expedition.
We 'pointed out at the time - the absurdity of
ealculating on a pacifie- :solution of this
quarrel in the absence , of any provision for
the. abatement of Louis : Rio! and
his pretensions ; and the event • has per
fectly justified our anticipations. It
now--appears, as-from-the first was -extrernely
probable, that the authors-of • the 'Rod River
einezda are by tio'means disposed to abandon
their position with:out a, struggle ; that they aro
dissatisfied, as they naturalW would be, with
the arrangements made by the. Canadian Gov
erninent,,and _tbat_Louls_RieLis making prep-
arations to oppose the march of General Lind
say's expedition.. It is evident, in. fact, that
neither bad the Canadian Government any .
right to give, nor the Imperial authorities to
PRICE THREE CENTS
accept, the - assurance of a pacific settlement
of the Red River difficulty, seeing that it was
impossible to know how the intelligence or
what bad been done on behalf of the territory
in respect to the terms of its admission. into
the Dominion would be received by the insur
gents.
FacTs Aso rAricins.
rom Harpers' 'Magazine for July, received• Irmo -
Peterson & Bros. and Turner gc Co .J -
A Flower Piece.
BY RARRIBT PRESB
_An the ffiAvers that btow, ,
Flocking to find the Spring, who'slinnhers yet,
Nursed by the blue-eyed April. Willow
plumes,
Harebell, and cowslip, and anemone;
The silver cinquefoil, and the columbine'
That bursts, a •lance of hoarded. light,. from
- earth,
And swings its red flame on the shining - tip;
The purple vetches, washed by salt sea sprays ;
The frail convolvulns, that, ere the year
Is at the flood, leagues with the building bird,
And the rude.way-side tangles o'er her nest.
All sweet things of plot and pleach6d alley
The mimic nun of the snow-drop, and the
friar
Dwelling within the hooded aconite;
The maidens_of the pale chrysanthemum )
The royal lady of the proud and fair •
.Taponica, and ev'n the merry mites
That balance'on the trumpet-flower's edge,
Trippling their horns of honey.. With them,,..
too,
1
All the delightsome things of - old romance—
The royal violet, and Sappho's rose •
The fleuride-lis, the flower of chivalry;
The lotus, born of the eternities, • ,
Holding immortal iehor—hovered there,
- Hovered a moment; quiiing in one strain,. ;
Then falling, falling, ever on the wing,
Sought Other skies.
—A man in Illinois hanged himself rather•
than pay - one hundred dollars to cure his jaun
dice.
bas been. dedicated to the New ,
- Orleans street-car mules, by a brother bard.
A Michigander died in the actof
_on a tight boot.
—A•ten-cent-ennial squawk and hand-organ
jubilee is now talked-of-in New York, to cover
lip the chagrin at the Beethoven failure.
—A Utah gentleman - evaded - marrying a.
girl by cutting her throat, but has got, into.
trouble all the same.
—Manuel, a California Indian, bas lived Ur
years near San Jose; only to be killed by a lo
comotive a few days since. ,
•—A Michigan divorced couple haye rernaX•
ried, -- alllhrOugh - a — matrimbniai advertisement -
xvhich the man published, and the woman- au-
swered without suspecting its author. -
—The Prince of Wales, While driving home
from the Derby, lifted his hat to a group
ladies, and , by accident dropped a• glove. The•
fair ones dove into the dirt for it, his royal
highness laughing heartily at the scramble of; _
the - ladies:" - - ' •
. .
—A strip - of land, thirty by two hundred'
.feet,_co_v_ere(l_w_ith - _trees r is-graclually 7 sinking,
from the surface of the earth, one mile
south of Fort Wayne, Indiana. • The cause
supposed to- be:atirtinderground lake or river
wearing the earth away. • • • -
—The authorities of Mobile,. Ala.,..must be a 7
curiouli people. They are certainly in with
some gang of robbers. On. p
the olice returns
last week was one man " who ~liad_b.ffen_ar,
ir
rested for sate-keepowLif a-man- is--• -
not allowed to keep a safe in Mobile-why—
he'd better move.out. -
L saidof-one-of-the-buriesquc=blondeft
As an actress, she is equal to the great bulk of .
female stars now traveling in the dramatic
milky way; as a dresser, she has everbeen in
the front ranks ; and as an undresser, whete
the'cliaracter requires it, she is equal to the,.-
emergency;
—The people of St. Paul have an•old
ing next door to the Opera-house, which- they, ;
want to pull down, but'not having the money
to spare have hit upon a happy alternative.-
eliean Buchanan has been invited , to come
and take a benefit at the Opera-house,. and
bellow in some of his robwitest pieces. That
building will come down.—E.r. -
I M PQ ro N
Renort • eo for the rhuaueluhla Eveningonlletln..
LONDONREIIIIY--liork Village Belle, Little-331
tone pig iron 32 do RR do 9d do ecrali do 47' below rage '
Robt Taylor & Co.
N Olt lr 0 LK—So tir Mohawk, Rradley--13,950 2-feet Ncy ,
I lit bundles ebingles 4,7110 2 nap du 42,330 12.,1ne1l do /0.-
200 do Nup do T P Galvin St Co.
NIARUVE BIILLETIPi.
POUT OF PHILADELPHIA--JvNE 23.
Kr See Marini Bulletin on Bsside
•;. • ; •
ARRIVED. IFIB
Strainer James 8 Groen,V T anre, f BA ro Y m . Richmond, ;vbs.
Norfolk, with mdse to W P Clyde & Co.
Steal:nor Volunteer, Jones, - 24. henna from New York.
with mdoe to John F Ohl.
. Steamer Mayllower,lfulta. 24 hours from Now York.
with nide° to W P.olyde & Co.
Steamer Il L GaWs Tier, ri • hours from Baltimore,witb
noise to A Groves. Jr.
- Bark Village Bell (Br), Littlo, &5 days from London- .
derry, NV ith.l9s passengers end moon to It Taylor & Co.
?Jay 23, lat 53 82, lon X 955, spoke ship John Barbour,
from Liverpool for t3i, John) , • • •
Behr Clyde, Care. 8 days from Boston, !Ail ice to ,
Knickerbocker Ica Co—ressol,to.Knight.& Sonl. )
Sahr Slope. Jenkins, froni Patuxent River, with rail
road ties to J Milton llagy.
Schr A Tirroll, Atwood, from Lane's Cove, with gra , -
nlte to Barker &Bro. ; • .; , .
•
Bola. Plow BOY, Hallett, from Boa*toil, with Ico to ; , .e.nft
co Co.
gait. M Tilton. Miner, front Damarlecotte., with Moto
Knickerbocker Ice Co:
dchr Jeese,Wateoto, Cooley,frorn BalkTell:oval'. Ice to.
Knickerbocker Ice Co. ,
Bad Jolla Beatty. 1 rice, .from James. River, with.
lumber to Collins & Co.
•
Rehr 111ohewk., Bradley, from , Norfolk, 55wIth.,abtoglest
'to 1 P t;alvin RC,o.
Schr All Leo, Diike, Fell River. ' ' 5 • • '
Schr Sarah Mille. Baker, Now Bedford., , 5
Behr M V Cook, Falkenberg, Boston.
Tug ThosJefferson,Allen from,Beltimore, with a tow
of heroes to W P Clyde & Co.
Tug Chesapeake. Merribew, from Baltimore. with' es,
tow of barges to W P Clyde & Co. ,
OLBARED.TBiti DAY. •
Steamer A CStlmeis. Louney. N York„ W P Clyde, Co.
Steamer Teem:ly, Nichols, New' York. W M Babe & Co.
Steamer C Comstock. Broke. N. York. W 11.1 Baird,* Co.
Tug Fairy Queen, Wilson. Havre do Grace, with a tow
to barges..W P Clyde & Co.
Tug Hudson, Nicholson; Baltimore, with ti tow of
barges, W P Clyde &Co
• MEMORANDA.
Ship Gold Hunter, Freeman, cleared at Liverpool 9th
Inst. tor this port
Steamer Hunter, Harding, hence at Providence 21st..
Instant.
• Steamer Panita. Freeman, hence at New York yestor-
Bark Alice, Erickson, cleared at Loudon 10th instant •
for this port
Bark Carl, Stephenson, entered out at London 10th':
met, for this port
Bark Joshua, Fredricks, entered out at London nth
Inst. for this port
Burk Brothers, Ballard, cleared at Boston 21st inst.
East Indies.
Bark Arlington. Costello. cleared at Mobile 18th inst."
for Liverpool, with 1039 bales cotton, valued at 6198,682.
Barkentine Falthlio, Stephenson, hence for London,
at Deal 10th inst. and proceeded. • •
Brig JIM Baker, Phelan, hence et Cardenas Lint inst.
Brit' Coninui, Coombs, trom Bangor for this port, at.
Holmes' Holmes' Hole 20th inst. and sailed again next day.
Schr J M Flanagan, Shaw, hence at Olenfuegos•l3lh" • -
Instant.
Schrs Ida L, Beanie. and Maggie P Fmlth, Weaver,'
hence at Boston 21st inst. • • ' '• • . . • "
. .
Seim Jane 0 Patterson, Scull, claartd at Boiton 21st
Inst. for this Dort. • . •
Schrs White Swan, Collins, and Ada S Allen, ()%tatn.
nonce at ala's Mtn inst. . •. • ---•
Seta's Minnesota, Phinney, and IT A Taber,Bowman,
gelled from New Medford 21st last: for this port.'
Schr_O_V_P'llekopykor thls_port.olahtfrotu_WArelPtal_
21st inst. . .• ,
, . . ,
tichr R W Haddon. Malay, hence at Fall litvor 20th
lustant. .
• • • •
Sclera Mary D Cramer, Horner: • A niariran .
Shaw; Annie Burton,Burton; Frank Herbert. ()rowan.
and Anna May, ay,M hence.itt Providence 2101 inst. • ;
Schrs .1 S Weldia, Crow oil. for this port; M A MC-
Galina, Call. for do or Georgetown, DO; Vapor, John
son: midi) lillurneY. Mummy ; for 'Trenton sailed - trona:
Providence 21st inst.
..3chrs ilynj need. Gregory; Mary Riley, Riley; 006110
Wave, Bryant; it 11. Shannon.liilks. hence [or floston: -
and J Allen, Case, from Nantucket far this port, ar e ...
inst. and all BALM again nail thy.
TT SPOFE'GRD