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jfolrri JRlscdlang.
VISITANT?
A Gl»o«t Story,
It was a masked ball at the Palais
Royal that my fatal quarrel with my first
cousin Andre de Brissac began. The
quarrel wijs about a woman. The wo
man who the footsteps of Phil
ip of Orleans were the cause of many
such disputes; and there was scarcely one
fa r head in all that glittering throng,
which to a man versed iq aocial histor
ies might not have seemed bedabbled
with blood.
I shall not record the name o! lier for
love of whqpi Andre de Hrissac and I
croosed one of the bridges, in the dim
August dawn, on our way to the fcaste
ground beyond the church of St Ger
main des Pres.
There were many beautiful vipers in
those days, and she was one of them. 1
can feel tbe chijl breath of that August
morning blowing in my face as I sit in
my dismal chamber at my chateau of Puy
Verdun to-uigbt, alone in the stillness,
writing the strange story of my iije. I
can see the white mist rising from the
river, the grim outline of tbe chatelet,
and the square towers of Xotre Pauio
black against the pale gray sky. Even
more vividly can I recall Andre's fair
young lace, as he stood- opposite to me
with his two friends—scoundrels both,
and alike eager for that unnatural ffay.
We were a strange group to be seen in a
summer sunrise, all of us fresh from the
heat and clamor of the Begcnt's saloons
—Andre iu a quaint hunting dress cop.
ied from a family portrait at Puy Ver
dun, I costumed as one of Laif's Miss
issippi Indians; 1 !!),; other men in like
garish frippery, adorned with broiderjera
and jewels thai Jooked wan in the pale
!ight of the dawn.
Our quarrel had been a tierce one—a
quirrcl which could have but one result,
and that ijie direst. I had struck him ;
and the welt raised by my open hand
was'crimson upon bis fair womanly face
as he stood opposite me. The eastern
sun shone on the face presently, and
dyed the cruel mark with a deeper red ;
I'Ut the sting of my own wrongs was
fresh, and I had not yet learned to des
pise myself for that brutal outrage.
To Anlre de Brissac such an insult was
most terrible. He sras the favorite of
fortune, the favorite of women, and I was
nothing—a rough soldier who h««l done
my country good service, but in the bou
doir of a Parabe'rc a mannerless boor.
We fough*, an 1 I wounded him mor
tally Life had been very sweet for him;
and I think that a trCLiy of 'despair took
possession of him "vhen Jje felt the life
blood ebbing awav. He beckoned me to
hipj as lie lay on the ground t I went,
and knelt at his side.
"Forgive me, Andre!" I murmured.
lie took no more heed of my words
than if tiat piteous entreaty Lad been
the idle tipple of tl)£ river.uear at hand.
"1,i.-tcn to me, do Hrissac," he
said. 'I am not one who believes that
a man has done with earth because his
eyes glaze and his jaw stiffens. They
will bury me in the pld vault at Puy
Verdun ; and you will be master of the
chateau. Ah, I know how lightly they
take things in these days, and how Du
bois will ljugh when he Jiears that Ca
has been killed in a duel. They will
bury me, and sing masses for my soul;
but you and 1 have not finished our af>
fair yet, my cousin. I will he with you
when yoy least look to see me—l, with
this ugly *car upon tho face that women
have praised and loved. I wijl come to
you when your life seems brightest. I
will come between you and all that you
hold fairest and dearest. My ghostly
hand drop a poison in your cup of
joy. My shadowy form shall shut the
sunl'ght from your life. Men with such
iron will as mine can do what they please,
Hfictw de lirissac. It is my will to
haunt you when I am dead."
All this in short broken sentences he
whispered in my I had need to
bend csy eai his dying lips ; but the
iron will of Andre do Brissac was strong
enough to do battle with Deuth, a«d I
believe be said all he wished to say be
fore his hyad fell back upon tho velvet
clo.iUt they had spread beneath him, uoTt
er to be lifted again.
As he lay there you would have' tfanci
ed him a fragile stripling, toy fair and
frail for the struggle tailed life; but there
aj;e those remember the brief man
hood of Andre de Brissac, and who can
Vp ar witness to tho terrible force of that
jyoud nature.
I stood looking down at the young face
with that foul mark upqp it; and God
kiiows 1 was sorry for what I had done.
Of th ose blasphemous threats which
he had whispered in my car I took no
Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end, dare to dg our dtity as we understand it"-- A l-moour.
J3UTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1867.
heed. I was a soldier and a believer.—
There was nothing absolutely dreadful tq
me in the thought that I had killed this
man. I had killed many men on the
battle field; ani| fbis one had done me
cruel wrong.
My friends would hate me cross the
frontier to escape the consequences of my
act , but I was ready to face those con
sequences, and I remained in France.—
I keep aloof from the court, and receiv
ed a hint that I had best confine myself
'tp my own province. Many masses were
chifnted in the littla chapel of Puy Ver
dun for the soul of my dead cousin, and
his coffin filled a nicht in the vault of
our irncestors.
His death had made me a rich man,
apd the thought that it was so made my
newly acquired weajth very hateful to
me. I lived a lonely existence in the old
chateau, where I rarely held converse
with any bat the servants of the house
hold, all of whop had served my pousin
and none of whom liked me.
It was a hard and bitter life. It gall
ed me, when I rode through the village
to see the peasant children shrink away
from me. I have geen old women cross
steathily as I passed them by.
Strange reports had gone forth aljout me;
and there were those who whispered that
I had given my soul to the hivil One as
the price of my cousin's heritage. From
my boyhootj I had been dai k of visage
and stein of manner ; and hence, per
haps, no woman's love had ever boen
mine. I remember my mother's face in
all its changes of expression ; but I can
remember no Jook of a/Tection that ever
shone on me. That other woman, be
neath whose feet I laid my heart, was
pleased to accept my homage, but she
never loved m;:, and the end was tre ch
ery.
I had grqyn hateful to myself, and had
wclUnigh begun to hate my fellow-crea
tures, when a feverish desire seized upon
me, and I pined to be back in the press
and throng of the busy world once again.
I went back to Paris, where I kept ni}--
self aloof from the court, and w licre an
angel took compassion upon me.
She was the daughter of an old com
rade, a man w hose merits had been neg
lected, whoso achievements had beeu ig
nored, and who sulked iu his _shabby
lodging like a rat in a whole, while all
Paris went mad with the Scotch liuan
cier, and lacqueys were
trampling one another to death in the
Rue Quineatnpoix. Thefonly child ot
this lktle cross grained old eaptain of
dragoons was an incarnate sunbeam,
whose mortal name wag Eveline Duch
aM. ,
She loved mo. Tho richest blessings
of our lives n'rc often those which cost us
least. I wasted the best year* of uiy
youth in the worship of a wicked wo>
man, who jilted and cheated uio at last.
I pase this meek angel but a few court
eous words—a little fraternal fe.nderness
ami 10, she loved mo. The life which
been so dark and desolate grew bright
beneath her influence; and I went back
to Puy Verdun with a fair young bride
for my companion.
Ah, ho* sweet * change there was in
iny life and in my home ! The village
children no longer shrank appalled as the
dark horteman rode by,the village crcnes
no longer crossed themselves; for a wo
man rode by hit «de—a woman whose
charities had won the love of all tho*e
ignorant creatures, and whose conipan
ionship had transformed the groomy lord
<jf the chateau into a loving husband and
a gentle mastor. Tho old retainers for>
got the uniimely fate of my fair cousin,
and served me with cordial willingness,
for love of their young mistress
There are no words which can tell the
pure and perfect happiness of that time.
I felt like 9 traveler who lind traversed
thg froten seas of an arctic region,remote
from human love or human companion
ship, to and himself on a rudden in the
bosom of a verdant valley, in the sweot
atmosphere yf bomeT The change seem
ed too bright to be real; and I strove in
vain to put away from iny mind the va
gue suspicion that my new life was but
some fantastic dream.
80 brief were these halcyon hours, that
looking back to them now, it is scarcely
strange if I am still half indinod to fan
cy the first days of my married life could
have been no more than a dream.
Neither io my days ot gijom nor in
my days of happiness had I been troub
led by the recollection of Andre's blas
phemous oath. The words which with
big last breath he had whispered in my
ear were rain and meaningless to me.—
He had his rigo in idle
threats, as he might have vested it in
Mia executions. That he wili haunt tho
footsteps of h is enemy after death is the
one revenge which a .dying man can
promise himself; and if uen had power
thus to avenge themselves the earth
would be peopled with phantoms.
I had lived for three years at Puj Ver
dun;sitting %lone in the solemn midnight
by the hearth where he had sat, pacing
the corridors that had echoed his foot
fall; and in all that time my fbney had
never se plifyed me false as to shape the
shadow of theliead.
Is it strange, then, if I had forgotten
Andre's horrible promise ?
There was no portrait of my Cousin at
Puy Verdun. It was the age of bou»
doir art, and a minature set in the lid of
a gold-bombonniere, or hidden artfully in
a massive bracelet, was more fashionable
than a clumsy life-life image, fit oniy to
hang on the gloomy walls of a provincial
chateau rarely visited by its owner. My
cousin's fair face bad adorned more than
one honbonniere, and had been concealed
in more than one bracelet; bnt it was not
among the faces that looked down from
the panelled walls of Puy Vernun.
In the library I found a picture which
awoke painful associations It was the
portrait of a De Brissao who had flour
ished in the time of Francis the First;
and it was from this picture that my
cousin Andre had copied thequaint hunt,
ing dress he wore at the ball.—
The library was a room in which I spent
a good deal of my life; and I ordered a
curtain to be hung before th's picture.
We had been marrjpd three months
wheu Eveline one day asked :
"Who rs the lord of the chateau near
est to this ?"
I looked at her with astonishment.
"My dearest," I answpred, "do you
not know that there is no other chateau
within forty miles of Puy Verdun 7" .
"Indeed!" she said; "that is strange."
I asked her why the fact seemed
strange to her; aud after much entreaty
I obtained from fcpr the reason of her
surorise.
In hj?r walks about the park and woods
during the last month she had met a
man who, by his dress and bearing, was
obviously of noble ra'nk. She had imag
ined that he occupied some chateau near
at hapd, and that his estate joined ours.
I was at a loss to imagine who this stran
ger could be; for my estate of Puy Ver
dun lay in the heart of a desolate region,
and unless when some traveler's coach
went lumbering and jingling through
the village, one had little more chance
of encountering a gentleipan of
meeting a demi god.
" Have you seen this mau often, Kve
line ?" I asked
She answered, in a iono whichjhad a
touch of sadness, " I,sec him every day."
" Where, dearest 7"
" Sometimes in the park, sometimes in
the wood. You know Hie little cascade
llector, where there is soma old neglect
ei rock work that forms a kind of civ
era. 1 have taken a fancy to tjiat spot,
and hayc spent many mornings there read
ing. Of late I have seen the stranger
every morning."
" lie has nsver dared to address you ?"
" Never. I have looked up from my
book, and have ssen him standing p lit
tle distance off, watching me silently. I
have continued reading; and when I
have raised my eyes again I haye found
him gone, lie rpproach and de
part with a stealthy tread for I njver hear
his footfalj. Sometimes i have almost
wished that ho would speak to me. It is
so terribj.3 to see him standing silently
there. *.
" ile is some insolent peasmt who seeks
to frighten you."
My wife shook her head
" He is no pcaiant," she answered.—
"It is not by his dress alone I )udge, for
that is strange to me. He has an air of
nobiliay which it is impossible to mis
take."
" Is he young or old ?" '
■' He iq young and handsome.".
I was much disturbed by the idea of
this stranger's intrusion on mv wife's
solitude ; aud I W£nt straight to the vil~
lage to inquire if any stranger had been
seen there. I could hear of no one. I
questioned the servants closely, Jjiut with
out result. Thou I determined io accom
pany my wife in her vritlks, o*id to judge
for myself of the rauk of the stranger.
fs4 a week I devotedfill uiy mornings
to rustic roubles with in the
park and woods ; and in all that weak we
saw no-one but an occasional peasant in
sabots, or one of onr uw/j household res
turning from a neighboring farm.,
I was a man of studious habits, and
those summer rambles distvuriied the oven
current of my life. My .wife perceived
this, v-ud entreated uie to trouble myself
no further.
" I will my mornings in the
pleasaunee, Hector," she said, "the stran
ger cannot intrude upon me there."
" I begin to thiuk the straoger is only
a phantam of your own romantic brain,"
I replied, smiling at the earnest face lifU
Ed to mine. " A chatelaine who is al
ways reading rouiauoes may well meet
haudsotne cavaliers in the woodlands. I
daresay 1 have Mile. Senderi to thank
for this noble and that he's only
the great Cyrus in Modern costume,"
Ah, that is point which mystifies
me, Hector," she jaid. " The stranger's
costume is not modern. He looks as an
old picture might look if it could descend
from its frame."
Her words pained- trie, for they remind
ed me of that hidden picture iu the li
brary, aui that quaint hunting costume
of orange and purple which Andre de
Brissac wore at the Regent's ball.
After this my wife confined her walks
to the pteasaunce; and for many weeks
I heard no more of the nameless stranger.
I dismissed all thought of him from my
mind, for a graver and heavier cars bad
SPJne jipon me. M.y wife's health began
to droop. The change in her was so
gradual as to be almost imperceptible to
those who hatched her day Ijy day. It
was only when she put on a rich gala
dregs which she had not worn for months
that I saw how wasted the form must be
on which the embroidered hung so losse
ly, and how wan and dim were the eyes
which had once been brilliant as the jew;
els she wore in her hair.
I sent a messenger to Paris tq summon
one of the court physiciaus; but I knew
that uiaffy days must needs elapse before
he could arrive at Puy Verdun.
In tbe interval I watched my wife with
unutterable fear.
It was not her health onlf that had
declined. Tbe change was more painful
to behold than any physical alternation.
The bright and sunny spirit hat! vanish
ed, and in the place of my joyous young
br'do I beheld a woman weighed down
by rooted melancholy. In vain I sought
to fathom the cause of darling's sad
ness. She assured me that she had no
real ground for sorrow. But although
she said nothing, I could see she had no
hope or belief in the healing* powers pf
medicine -
Que day, when I wished to beguile her
from that pensive silence in which she
was wont to sit an hour at a time, 1 told
hfcr, laughing, that she appeared to have
forgotten her mysterious cavalier of the
wood, ftnif'it seeinod also a3 if he had for
gotten her.
To my wonderment, her pale face be
came of P sudden crimson; and from
crimson turned to pale again in a breath.
" You have never seen him since you
deserted your woodlancj grotto ?" I said.
She turned to me with a heart-rending
look.
" Hector," she pried, "I see him every
day ; and it is that which is filling me."
" She burst into a passion of tears when
she had said tbis. I took her in my arms
as if she had been a frightened child,and
tiied to comfort her.
" My darling, this is madness," I said
" You know that'BO stranger .can como to
you in the jileasauifcc. The moat is ton
feet wide and always full of water, and
the gates are kept looked day and night
by old Masson. The chatelaine of *a
meddiicval fortress need frar qo intruder
in her antique garden."
My wife shook her head sadly.
I see him every day," she said.
On this I believed that my wife was
mad. I shrank trom qaoeiioniug her
more closely concerning mysterious vUi
taq*. It woald be ill, I thought, to give
a form and BabntJfjfco to the shadow that
tormonted her by too close inquiry about
its look and manner, its coming and gotiig.
1 Uok care to assure myself that no
stranger to the household could by any
possibility penetrate to tho plesaauuoo.—
Having don« this, I was lain to wait '.he
comipg of the physician.
lie cawc at last. I revealed to him
the coDviction whicji was my misery. I
told him that I believed my wife to be
mad. He saw her—spent an hour aloijfi
with her, and then came to me. To my
unspeakable relief'he assured me of her
sanity.
" It is just possible that she may be af
fected by one delusiwn," ho said; "but
she is so reasonable upon all oilier poiats
that I can scarcely bring myself to be
lieve her the subject of a monomania. I
am rather inclined to think that she
really sees the person of whom she speaks.
Shs described him to me with • perfect
minuteness. The des9~iption( of scenes
or individuals given ty patients inflicted
with monomania are always more or less
disjointed ; but your wife spok* to me as
'clearly and camly as I am now speaking
to you. Are you sure there ix no one
who can approach her in that garden
where she walks V<
I am quite sure/'
Is there any kinsman of your Stewart
or hanger on of your household—ayoang
man with a fair womanish face, very pale,
and rendered remarkable by a crimson
scur, which looks, like the mark ot a
blow ?"
" My God !" I cried, QS the light brjuke
in upon me all at once. " And the diess
—the strange uld fashioned dress ? '
'■ The man wears a hunting eo»tume of
purple and orange," answered the doctor.
I knew then that Andre de Urissac
had kept his word, and that in the hour
when my life was brightest his shadow
liad come between me and happiness.
I showed my wife tlie picture in the
library, for I would fain assure myself
that was some error in my fituty;
about my cousin. She shook like a leaf
when she beheld it, and clung to me con
vulsively.
" This is witchcraft, Ileotor," she said
" The dres? in that picture is the dress of
the man I see in the pleasaunue ; but the
face is not his."
'fhen she described to riie the face of
the stranger; and it was my cousin's face
line for Jine —Andre de liris§aq, whom
she had never seen ip Hesh. Most vivid
ly of a)J did she describe the cruel njark
upon his face, the trace of a fierce Ijlow
from an open hand.
After this I carried my wife away from
Puy Verdun. We wandered far—thro'
the southern provinces, and into the vpry
heart ol Switzerland. I thought to dis
tance the ghastly phantom, and I fondly
hoped that change of scene would bring
peace to my lyifq.
It was not so. Go where we vould,
the ghost of Andre de lirissac followed
us. To my eyes that fatal shadow never
revealed itself. That would havo been
too poor a revonge. Tho unholy pre**
ence destroyed her lifo. My constant
companion hip could Dot shield her from
the" horrible iuiruder. In vaiu did I
watah her; in vain did I strive to oom-<
fort her.
" He will not let me at peace," she
said; "he comes between us, Heotor. He
is standing betweep us now. I can see
his face the red mark upon it plain
er than I see yours."
A NEW SOUTHERN STATE.
We find in the Greensboro (N. 0-) Reg
ister a copy of a memorial to Congress
' from the loyal people of Western North
Carolina, embraoing the mountain section
of the State, askipg cither that a new
State piay be organized in that section,
under the auspices of Congress, in whioh
only loyal citizens shall bo voters qr hold
offiee, or tlitit the Stato of North Carolina
shall be reorganized toy Congress upon
that basis. As their reasons for this
movement, they say that they have lo»'
all hope of those controlling the civil
poweis and internal affairs of North Car
olina taking proper steps to restore tho
State to its former relations to the Union;
that owing to tho persistent disaffection
of the instigators and propagators of the
rebellion, and the influence they wield,
the loyal population is deprived of repre»
sentation in Congress, and that they are
auxions to accept of the wise and prudent
plan of Congress, and of being speedily
and permanently restored to the Union,
and relieved of the ban of secession, and
from their present suspense and deplora
ble condition.
In legard to the formation of the pro
posed new State, the memorialists ask
(j*£t it be composed of a sufficient num
ber of counties of the west end of the
State to afford the requisite population ;
that the boundary line be fixed by a con
vention chosen by the loyal people; that
Congress order the call of a conventim,
to be held in tfyc district, for the purpose
of forming a State government, based on
loyalty to the national government, pre
scribing that loyal men only shall vote,
and that the discriminations as to test of
loyalty be made by Congress with due
reference to tho locality and to the con
dition of the people of the district dur
ing the rebellion and the a Her of
their loyalty since.
Nothing is said in tLis memorial as to
the question of negro suffrage, and wo
infer that, while these loyal people are
anxious to do all the voting and office
holding, to the exclusion of their rebel
neighbors, tbey hare DO deposition to
share their privileges with thrfir colored
pillow citizens, who, during the war, were
rather more loyal than they tfere thea-
selves. It would therefore, that if
this prayer werp to be granted, the col
ored citVsens <rf North Carolina would be
excluded from political rights, at ore
those of Delaware, Maryland. '.Vest Vir
ginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri.
It fg not probable, at the present time,
that Congress will agree to snc}> a state
of things, OT be willing to add two more
Senatorial votes to th£ array of consort
ktive impracticables.
If the United States Supremo Court
were to dee'de the rebellious districts to
be still States, tho proposed new State
could not be established without the con-
NUMBER i!
sent of North Carolina, which of cour-c,
| eould not be obtained at this lime If
' however, the rebel States perished in t|
civil war, as is contend by many ab?o
casuists, it would be perfectly competent
tor Congress to establish the propose!
new State without the consent of what is
called the State of North Carolina, an,l
if the territorial theory is to be insisted
on and carried out, it seem. tout that
the formation of new Btates out cf the
southern districts, well known to havo
»een determinedly loyal during the wnr,
would be the best way to weaken the oli
garchy and sot a mark that should be v
warning in future against Stat* reUllioi:,
While we have confidence enonjjh i i
the loyalty of the people of those dis~
tricts, we think that negro suffrage is in
dispensably naoessary to strengthen th;
new State against being overwhelmed by
rebels au4 traitors from the wabo&rd dis
tricts. Tf this were secured, we feel
oertain tjiitf western North Carolina would
soon become as valuable an adjunct to tho
caqse of liberal and enlightened progress
as West Virginia or Missouri. Asa
similar movement has b ep inaugurated
in west rn Maryland, the genaral que.v
*ion as to thfiptlioy cf establishing sucli
new States will have to be settled by Con-
gress 13 some way. Western Maryland is
decidedly bytj, and does not like to bo
overbalanced by }he disloyal counties o*
the Eastern Shore. East Tennessee has
a standing desire for separate State or
ganization. In fact, the'whole mountain
region of the south was opposed to th?
late rebellion, and wants to gut rid of its
connection with the plantation oligarchs
who domidated tho'old State govern
ments. If this could be lawfully accom
plished, we should esteem it the most for
tunate thing for the republio that has
happened in a lot}g period- this re-
in n;k we include the mountain district* of
Maryland, Vlfginia, N. Carolina, S. Car
olina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and
Kentuoky. We began the revolution by
establishing the State of West yirginin,
and wc have seen no good reason tore-
pent pf having done so. It has given r.
a staunch Republican Stato out of the
territory of old Virginia, if East Ten
nessee were now a separate Stat*, she
would at once establish negro suffrage
and be firmly secured against a recur
rence of pro>slavery pro>slavery domi
nation. Perhaps it might prove so witli
North Carolina; but jre should be op>
posed to making the expeiiment unles>
negro suffrage were conceded at the out
set, as we presume it will havd to be be<
fore tho district can become a State.—N
American.
Purity of Character.
Over the beauty of the plum and
apricot there grows a bloom and beauty
more exquisite than the first fruit itself
—a soit delicate flush tjiat overspreads
the oheek. Now, if you strike your hand
over that it is at once gone forever, for it
never grows but ooco. The flower that
hangs in the morning impearled with
dew —arrayed as no queenly woman eve r
waj grayed with jewels—onee shake it,
so that the beads roll off, and you may
sprinkle water over it as you please, yet
it can never bo made again what it was
when thedow fell silently upon it from
heaven. On a frosty morning you may
see the panes of glass covered with land
scapes, mountains, lakes and trees blen
ded in beautiful fantastic pictures. Now
lay your hand qp the glass, and by the
scratch of the finger or warmth of the
palm, ail the delicate tracery will be ob
literated. So there !B in youth a beauty
and parily of character which when
once touched and defiled oin never bo
restored—a fringe more delicate than
frcst work, which.when torii and broken,
will nevor be re-embroidered. A maq
who has spotted and soiled hi? garments
in youth, though he may seek to
them white again, can never wholly doit,
even were he tjwaih them with his tear*
When a yoang man leaves his father's
house with the blessing of his mother's
kiss still wet upon his forehead, if ho
ence Iqß3s that purity of character it is a
loss that he ca .Jnever make whole agiin
Such is the consequence of crime. Its
effects uaiioot be (Medicated -/it ca«a only
be forgiven. J
—A bill pouted on tht; walls in a coun
try village announced that "a lecture will
b$ delivered i" the open air, and a coK
lection made at the door to defray ex
penses."
—Do you !Tk.e codfish bails, Mr. Wig
pju rt Mr. Wipgin, hesitating, really
don't know Miss; I don't recollect erst
having at'e.ided one.''
The publie debt of Illinois fyas been
reduced £1,4000 within the past year,
aud now amounts to 98,638,253 31. Thq
debt of Michigan is 8,979,021 25.