J. M. WZAKLEY.I
IL WALLACE.
UNCLE SAM'S TREATMENT OF
1118 SERV:4IIM •
[coliumm).]
"What is,it to beProsident?" I once
asked of a gentlemanwho had-filled-the
°thee ; "what -is the principal _thing a
President. does?"' The reply was, "To.
Make appointments."" A. more lounger
'about Washington can see that this is
trim and it is manifest to all who look
-over-ouch-documents as that containing
the testimony taken bythe CoVodlitobli
mittee in 180; -The "reader of that
choice volume perceiies that Mr. Bu
chanan wrote long letters, and spent la
boriOus hours in forcing, upon the Phila
delphia Navy Yard, an ihooMpetent
head carpenter. The authorities of
yard. sent_baolc word that the man could
not pass his examination. No matter •;
the President of the United States would
have hiai appointed, .and he was ap
pointed ; for lie had renderd , services in .
the Presidential election, which a Bu
chanan could natoveilook. The follow
ing is a portion of tho man's sworn teal
mony ;
Question. "Do-you mean to say that
you gave (naturalization) papers to par
ties who subsequently used them in elec
tiAns, without over going before a court
to make the necessary proof (of five
Years' residence)?" • •
Answei. "I have given a few."
Question. "Well, how many did you
distribute yourself?",
Answer. " Ttso'or three thousand."
This was the man—Patrick Laffroty
was his namo—whoM the President of
the United States put over the heads of
American mechaniCs. I do not adduce
1: fact to illustrate the corrupting ten-
dopey of rotation, but to a ow ie pe y
nature of the employments to which it
reduces the head of the government.
I am not mire that Mr. Buchanan was
aware of the kind of service which his
Irish friend bad rendered him ; but the
assiduous Lafferty swore that when ho
failed to pass his examination he 'went
to Washington and- conversed with the
President upon the Subject-for an hour
and a half. We also find the President,
upon the pages of this huge volume,
meddling in the, pettiest details of the
pettiest ward elections, and-superintend
ing the division of the vulgarest portion
of the spoils. He arranged the division
and subdivision of the Oaths made on
the public - printing, and he parceled out
among three of his 'Pennsylvania neigh
bors the percentage allowed on the price
of the coal purchased for the govern
ment: Do we elect a President for such
work as this? Mr. Lincoln, too, was
immersed in the most- trivial details of
administration , I think 'lie must have
anent more than half his time, and a full
third of his strength, in arranging affairs
of which, in a properly constituted pub
lic service, he would never have heard ;
and this,lvith a million men in the field,
and the-existence of the nation at stake.
That the same system prevails to-day I
have a hundred
_proofs before me ; but
theTarineedleas, for every ono . nows
it to be the case. ' We have even read
lately a printed notice, signed 'by the
commandant of a navy yard, in which it
is stated that "no person hostile to the
present administration will be employed
is the - lard," and that "the Secretary
of the Navy particnlarly desires" the en
forcement of this rule.
Now, human nature being what it is,
we may be \ aure that nine Presidents out
of ~ten will make nine appointments out
of ten with an eye to their,own reflec
tion, or the election of their candidate.
They will generally make haste to have
the, fifty thoutiand office holders active
agents in their behalf ; and since:" power
over a man's support has always beep
hold and 'admitted to . be -power over his
will," an ambitious and able President
can easily convert' all that large army of
men from servants of the public into
personalretainess, John 'Tyler, of pre
cious memory,- for example,
_employed
his post asters in circulating copies of a
campaign life of himself. 'They wore
called upon by a'circular letter, franked,
to subscritiii for and. spread abroad • fifty
or sixty copies," which' would be fur
nishod 1 1 ,tst.tbe:lowpti00 of fifty Oilers
a hundred. * This circular latter was
accompanied by a, note
by his-
President's own office by son shd
secretary.. Tho 'following is a copy of
the note :
(qPrivaiq • '
. , PRESIDIINVIS ilOtra t ,
Decemberl• 1892:
Sin; :—As . it, is ootisidera of Ixtuiori.;
mice; in justice•to 114 President, tri'airCuL
late among the.perlde the wOrk, spoken
of in Mr. Abell's letter accompanying
this, you will- confer a favor, on the un
dersigited by taking such measures for
that end as Mr. A. suggesta.
Prompt attention, and a • liberal sib 7
soriglon will render your services still
more - Maul. •
I am, very respectfully, your &Julien
servant, '
JOHN TYLER, Ju."
• 'Phis letter, I bolieve,; correctly repro-
Bents a system-which time has not ma
terially changed. ,As a rule, we shall
not have in - the Presidential chair Bitch
blundering people as Tyleiand Johnson,
who let their clumsy hands be soon from
h,eliind the curtain of the show ; but no
APresideut who .could ,bo „nominated by
• the present stylo of politicians, can be.
reasonably
. oxpeoted to refrain from us
ing his pciwor to perpotinde his power.
Rotation. belittles, personalizes, and dis
, graces - the goVerriment in its every de
-- partmont and grade. From peculiar
eirouinst4thes, I am thOroiighly familiar
•with the workings of the system, arid I
• amconincedil — t ohri
recent. utterance on this subject is this
truthel:' Re Well Bays that:rotation is the
indbofiourzovernmontiraud that PEofes 4
slorial politicians, are the great pervort!'•
et - frOo :government. - Rotation has
created profesaional and by
rotation alone they aro kept in boing 7
The order 'did not exist before Jaelnien
- dehancked the government; it will, cease
to exist when,Mr. Jenokes hris'reformed
it,
7;1 131 bk
At ho p uttentiart,upon a well
Island, near Now York, tho superin
tendont once pointed out to nib a young .
man (not more than twenty,oight) who
hiqt*ln.la the prison fifty-eoVen
Other young men there had teen "sent
up". thisty i ttrates,,twenty times, ,eighteen
Ulnas ' , VA:et:hoes; and, I iiink;" `compar
atively few wen, seiving their Pat term.
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'Most of the crime in 'the largo cities of
the world is committed by a small'num
ber of professional villains, , who pass
their short lives between the prison and
the . street's ; not unfrequently -getting'
themselies arrested and convicted when
times arc hard. Thus the Tombs_ in
New Yorl has, like the-Astor House, its
regular customers and Blackwets Isl
and is, like NeWport, a place of
and the virtuotii portion of the people
for the support; arrest, and — entertain-
mont of a few thousand, individuals'who
have adopted stealing as a vocation.
We support them out of prison -and we
support them in raison. Rotation In
officelas called into existence an order
of politicians as distinct as the Order of
thieves; :and the inhabitants of New
York do n4tlneed to be informed that
between these two-orders there is an af
finity, Such as,that which we suspected
between Buchanan and Lafferty. —lf
anything is certain, it is nisi, the rota
tion system is developing this affinity
into an alliance. In the city of New
York, we all see this; buybe country
at large is so sound, and there-are still
so many reSpeciable Men in office and so
much of the public busines is tolerably
done,Jhat the tendency is less apparent
to those„who live out of the largo sea
ports. Bnt, the tendency exists. Hon
orable men, who aro still occasionally
sought for office, . instinctively
_perceive
it, and shrink from contact with a Class
who seem to have something in common
with men or prey which easily develops
into an -understanding, into a partner
ship. 41
That'coal agency; already referred to,.
may_serve as an example of the way in
which political transactions shade off into
criminal ones. lair atdoz:en applicants
for the agency were in - Washington, all
orwliom had spent money and wind in
the preceding elpotion, and all neighbOrs
or friends of the President. &into of the
applicants and their' adherents met and
talked'the matter over, and they agreed
at length that one or their number should
be appointed agent, and that theremolu
ments of the office shoUld - he equally
divided between him and two others. It
is hardly necessary to :lila that midair
of the three - knew anything particular
abOut coal, or even took pains to inquire;
one cethem being a physician, .another
an editor, and the an omnibuS pro
prietor. The business was "turned
over to Mono, •TYlet,& C 0.," whb " be
carafe at once the purchasers for, and the
sellers to, the government." I am haPPy
to be able to add, that when Mr. Getz,
editor of the - Reading' Gazette, came to
understand the arraugemeid, ho declined
to take any share Of its .profits ; so that
the dOctOViind f the on'thibys man hind the
whole $14,000 a year to divide between
them. Ido not say that this was as bad
as picking pockets, but only that it was
akin to it.
_ It is ludicrous to observe, sometimes,
how entirely the public—selyice is lost
sight - oPurrdpr system,
what absolute puppets the lower officials
aro in the games of the higher. If. a
member of Congress, for example, bolts
on au administration measure, the Presi
dent turns out of office the postmasters,
light housekeepers, custom house clerks,
and navy yard laborers, 'who owed their
appointments to him. There is some
thing about this so exquisitely ahsurd,
that it is provocative of laughter rather
than horror, as When wo read' of those
usages of barbarous tribes . ivhich Lave
the peculiarity of being both deadly and
silly. 'We are so constituted that mur
der itself becomes laughable if a China
man is hung up by his pigtail rand sui
cide exckte'S mirth when we read of a
Japanese nobleman going aside, and
quietly, ripping himself up. So, when
we read ef fluchanan turning a mechanic
out of his shop because a Now York
member voiNl,agahist Lecompton, we
can hardly resist the 'comic intongruity
of- the transaction. I cannot read, se
riously, such a pasting° as the following
from the Covodo Report, although I
know that precisely the same system
prevails to-day, and ,thatit is as mon
strous us it is ridiculous : .
"The division of. patronap among
members was well known in the Brook
lyn navy yard.. Eatli rnaster,,workillan
Anderitood to ,whom ho and dach of his
feiloWs °vied their places. ' Thus the
constructive engineer, tlit, master plumb
er, and the master block. maker repro
-rented Mr. Sickles ; . the master painter
represented "Mti Leering. ; • the master
spar maker; master blacksmktli, and tim
ber inspector "represented ..Mr. Maclay.
. . . Lawrence Cohaine was
pointed master carpente6pon the nomi-.
nation of .Mr. Baskin, .in the general
division of iptronage: He wail removed
On aceounty Hr. Haekin' e course upon
the Lie l vMptoo OMiatitution:"
Each of. :these representative master
mechanics , selects' and, discharges
. the
Lien efditS shop, and ho 'is 'expected ,
do this with the mot implicit dolkorico
to the will and political :interest of the
member, who caused his' appointment,'
But,' to this, it
_see_ ms, other, members
sometimes P'object. Thus, Mr. Elasltin
. .
procured the appinntment of master
carpenter Cohaino ; but we find the,llon:-
John Cochrane adslrosSing;flie r anfortn ,
nato Cohane,. thus : "I' will hay my
Proportion of men under you ; if you do
not give them, I will lodge charges
against you • ' ' I will make ap-
tarnail
bearor will bring Ma •an answor.?! ,
master paliiter,"•abont tlio samo
tooli the vmly great. iiberticif iliscliarg
qtlie man's meniber of COVesti made
painter in coseciuonce . :. 4 ` You limy Bet
it - down 'as ;f0441i.,
removed if I if t you, don't nut 'that'
'man back, The bortirdmrit was,
ain't); and: gni" insister
pairitoc was removed.' Anothin member
writes to the master.of gnu; cd, to pliers
,:,
"Ad a general thing, Hugh McLaughlin,
di}borni;;;Lnais who niy friends ;
• are, and be confei: :ioo*. ail,
,
takrcif ' the self,.
claim to Im!nglo, ma r e!, course,' WO find,
Meinher,
4addli . itho weight of "his positive.
-in-effo4 the member
iv .'s puiposo.
ag:tl49 rorusci„ of,
th,lAkoh*PllKPAti' , * X9rirr and OrQQIC
-17vitvhololuttlly cairio.to.theyinebackod
yard, once the pride Of ship builders, to
be employed in which was fornierly a
coveted honor, was "reduced to . a:mere ,
political machine; where idleness, thoff,
insubordinati* fraud, and gross neglect.
Of duty prevailed toun alaraiinOcgreo.!'
Of course!, An employer who treats his.
workmedthus deserVes to be served so,
and always,Will be. The wonder is, that
any ship built in. the bard kept afloat
long enough to reach Sandy Hook. ,
42 - noteworthy - circumstance-is, .-that
members of Congress ofany intelligence,
whcremploy this system;. are : as keenly
aliVe to its.absurditles anch.its ill cense
gnomes as we aro who pay the cost and
suffer_the-shame-of-it.—That-very,John
Cochrane who would have his share of
the navy yard carpenters has solemnly
declared that - the systemis an unmitt ,
gated evil, injurious ,to the purity of
elections, injurious to the mechanic and
his -werk,._aud., a_frightful nuisance to
members, wild-are beset at every turn
by applicants. Another member has
testified :• "My house was run dawn.
was addresSed upon the subject in the
street ; when in the lower part of the
'city`in business I would be purSued
and I really could find no rest by reason
of the great number of such aAplications.
. . • . This whole system tends,
in the first place, to the derridralizritiou
of the laboring class to their serious det
riment, and, in my jtidgment, to the.
degradation, personal' and political, of
members of Congress." As 'men 'and
citizens, they lull comprehend this; while
as politicians they insist an having their
share of its supposed advantages. :
ar millions per annum
" We shall be broken op," said &nit
tor Trumbull, of Illinois, in April last,
.
the example, or some legislation will
compel it; .of making the price of office
good behavior only,. The scenes and the
scramble of the last month lime - been
disgraceful,• as you know. :%it; you do
not probably know the effect of this pe
riodical rotation ' - upon Congress. For
example, I want the Secretary of the
Treasury to give luau - Bfliee.
.go up to thd department and wait there
for an audience, long or short, as the
.case may be. The Secretary speaks en
couragingly. Next day rgo up again,
and lie is hot quite ,so sanguine. It is
by this steady pdrsistence that office - am°
obtained here. 'Not merit, nor recoma
mendation, nor inipulso, 'but ding dong
ing, elitainstle offices:- Well, the Secro
tary;las: a financial policy, perhaps:
How cari I, 'as a senator, speak independ
ently of his polkiy, while my Mien is in a
state of svispen'se ? Thus 'the executive
part M . the government paralyzes in a
great degree .the legislator's independ
ence."
A. striking case in point, which clearly
illustrates the working of the system,
was furnished: . by a late collector,,of the
New York custom house,. who - desired to
represent the United St:des at the court
of St. U'etersburg. The Senate frustrated
his alitbititmrandinrtordrith , tevenkelsy"
turning out of the custom house thirty
-
clerks. and -porters whom a- Now 'Ynrk
senator had recommended for appoint
ment. A •gentleman who- was present
when the thirty new men were sworn in
afiked the collector whether the vacancies
had been created ix order to retaliate
upon the senator for • his adverse - Vote.
Be (lid not deny the soft impeachinent,•
though-he pretended that the thirty dis
missed 'were "incompetent." De con
eluded Ids .answer to the question in
these words "Blood is thicker than
water." If a man cheats me lam going
to pay him olf for it. I did not want the,
mission te , -Bussia . particularly. It would
have colt nie ten thousand dollars a year
to go the:Z . . ;But i then, when a man
makes up his mindto do a thing he don't
like to be cheated out of it. There have_
not been more than thirty new app6int
melds made." . Thirty men suddenly de
prived of their means of living, and thirty
more lured perhaps from stafile 'employ
mopes, in Order to gratify the 'spite of a
person, whom it had bean an affront to
Ruhiia to send. thither .as a representa
tive of The United States I -How foolish
it Is for us to complain of the alleged
peculations of custom house officials!
Has it over been possible, in any age or
cotintry,..to,get decent and capable men
, to servo on these terms ; to be the pup..
pets and instriunents of ' such a person
for; 150 a month ? You.can got thieves
on such terms. You can get }'Dols on
such terms. 'Yon can get necessitous
honest men' for , a short time on.sitch
terms. But Uncle' Sam rill never be
well served' so long as he call stand
with his hands in his- pockets while his
'servants ere thus treated.
' II You do,n't do work enough to earn
your salary," 'Wald a, chief of bureau; in
this sane cnstom home, to ono of the
clerks. "Work !" exclaimed the young
man, ." I worked to get hero yon.suraly
do 'n't'expect pan to work any, longer." ,, •
This anecdote, .Which sums up the sYs
tem'in a sontenco, is Ono of the hundreds'
of goodthings - collected by the intlOati. '
gable industry of , 'Jenekes.. ITO re
lates anothor,story, ',to-show tile rearvel-•
lons eareleSsbess 'with 'which men are
selected' evon for situations requiring
special Or 'prefeseional knowledge. The
chief clerk of-the Office of Construction
in' the Treasury Department beipg re
quested to givo the "full particulars" of
examination, thus • replied : "Major.
Barker commenced the ';examination
~~
M=El32=l
tiftying : :Yotiaro from Now York, I be-
lieve, Tar. Clark? I 11301 W -that I .was.
ifeTilipeOOaiiiYailel, a, detailed narrative
of hirfriat visit ;to Now, : ITOFici. a lid' gavn
riio an Interesting and gravid° aeeount Of;
4ttip iiishirbaape oraated in his inind by .
liniso7and - confilli(on of the -great - city
,TheslOivery of this narrative occupied,,
ali'nearlyi.iiS I remember,' about half An,
•bout'. I liStOiled to:it aitoatively,
deaVdifiiiidto.diseinie,SOine" vend; in his.
dioaOtt,i,i3o ;which 'hod roferance to my (thon
present) viaminatiOn. , failed to dis-',
cover any releYaudy, and therefore made.
th 6. aloso' of his-nairativo,
without anyprther Tumition, ; he said to .
his associate exanduers Well, gentle—
presunts. theto is, no doubt but'
that *r,,plark-is i•Mmon
-they alb signed' thOoertilleate, And-my
' examination " ,
To' it not, ono, of . the - • womforS of the
world that tlio Treasury building stood
longronongh to gii the viol': upon It?
But :tho.ereeticin of .an edifice, oyor so
Imp, is nn 'posy; Ooinpsrelli nith,
• otherttlfo o .letoi odispienous.. A 'hull&
i~lg is on to - qi inspection of, all'l4ltai
CARLISLE, PENNA, TallAtSMYi DEOEMBER 9 1569:
. .
world ; `few moo would apply for em
ploymeitt upon it, Who were.:Wlielly in
competent ; and it
. was easier to build it
tolerably -right than °Wendy wrong,
But 3+:u cannot collect a`whislcey taxtn
rotation. principles. I• have ' quote'd
Thomas Benton's. maxim that power
over a man's livelihood, is power over his
will. 'Now, who has power over a tai
collector's livOlihood? Mr. E. Rol
lins, Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
.answers this question for us in ono of his
repord—Thp_Whislcey_tax,Jie_ assures
°us, can never' be collected until "the
'combined and , aCti4: hostility of all
those against Whom the law is enforced
ahall'be iioifietent for the removal . of ani
officer_opposed to their plunderingB, l = -Ho
1' says further : "The evil .is inherent in.
the .manner of appointments, and lies
-deeper -than -the prchent-suprernacy
any political party. - . . Their ton-
me of office when secured, is uncertain
and feeble,
.seeming to' be strengthened
rather by coneessions-td•wrang_than r by
acting - the
_rights of .the gove:rnmant."
That . tollsthe While story. They natur
ally obey the-power which.gave, and can.
take aa;y:their places. Uncle Bath, to
use the language of tho ring, "goes
back" on those who carry his commis-,
sion ; does not stand by his servants
when they do their duty. He treats his
servants vilely ; and, as aNiatural come- .
(merle°, many of them are exceedingly
remiss, or worse, in their duty. This
error costs him, it is - computed,•in ,the
cdflection of the revenu e . alone,. a round
hundred ,millions per annum "in mere
money, without reckoning the injury to
the morals of the people, and the bad
example set to other --employers. "I
can't get a-man of talent," said one of
ho-architats-einploy-ed-by,thi. •
" help - Ind.-hero; becauSe, first
of all, the salary is too low ; secondly, no
,degree of merit in a man can got himiui
appointment ; and lastly, no degree of
merit can keep a good man in a place if
hoshonld - happelle get one."
Letno one hug the delusion that the
systeni is changed under President
-Grant.. Ho cannotehauge - it. — TifsNafier
doubt he is as fully alive to its ahsurdi
ties, and its impolicy as any =Ali living ;
but, like Mr. Lincoln, he feels that ho
must run the machine as he finds it. Ho
is, indeed, a victim:of the system, which
may yet cost his leis life, as it_cost the,
lives of DvonfAis predecessors. His ap
.Pointnients, suety that he practically ac
cepts the doctrine that to.the victors be
long the spoils, and that he is - even ex
ceptionally insensible to the peculiar
elaiMs which politicians Occasionally re-_
spect. In fact, - he is worried out - of his
life with the endless succession of impor
tunate applicants. I used to wonder in.
Washington that he did .not give it up,
and' fly to parts .unknown, lealling, us
without itny Uncle pain. Jnoill proba
bility, too, he desires re-electithL Every
President desires it: "It is human nature.
The politicians would drop him in an in
stant, and set "party organs! at work,
ti pause, and make appointments on any .
other principle than the one-w-hich-poli
ticiaus reebgnize ; and when the nomi-
nating convention met, in 1872, his name
would not be mentioned among the ean
, did ates.
Nothing - will ever touch this evil short
of restoring to the public service that'
element of permanence 'which it once
had, and 'which all successful private es
tabliehmentspossess. Li the lower grades
of the persons employed. in our groat
houses of business, there are freciuent
changes. Young men conic and go; as
they ought, trying themselves and the
places they fill. Sometimes the person
resigns the place and sometimes the place
rejects the person ;.and it is Seldom in
deed that a man goes on for life as he
begins. But in the higher grades there
is, there should be, there 'suet he, a de
gree of permanence. Twice a year, foil
fifteen years, I have .gone to a certain
bank to receive a. dividend for a person
who cannot comeniently go herself. Ri
variahly I find Um' same, paying teller,
well appointed, self possessed, counting
out the . meney with that careful rapidity
that never permits a mistake ; the, same
excellent cashier,, who learned his Latin
Reader at my side at, school no end of
years ago ; the same serene and agreeable
dividend clerk, and the same nice young
man' helping him. All goes like clock
ork ; all is efficient, vigorous, and suc
cessful. The yoUng' mon, as is just,
Work . get little, and are not. yet cor,- .
twin, of lieeping their placed ;iintn they
know that if they`finaliy-alioose to trust
their futurntb.that bank, there: re places
'hi it lily the deserving which will give,
then" a . deeent livelihood and' all ilnyse
curity needful for pence and dignity. *So
it 'could be at the custom house round
the corner, if only two men in it were
fixed in their places during good.behav—
ior ; namely, the collector and. the ap-•
praiser. Give-just thoSe two men_a fair..
compensation, say thirty thousand dollars;
a, Aar and• no fees ;,put it out of• the
power of politicians to remove diem ;
give them the right to select their assist-, •
ante • and hold them "responsible for thel
••
faithful collection o datios,--audiO;
shotil4 0 . 0011 a inistomlichise.that
Would aiferdAs pleasing a scone of trail- ,
Mill and efficient industry as the; bank,'
The principle of permanence should:lm
carried much farther; but even thigh*.
would lay the axe at the rootof the evil;,
and give Uncle Sam bettor work 'and',
More mean(' at two-thirds of the present •
After atrial Of forty years;intatiOrti
stands condemned as wbolly unmiti- ,
gatell' '1 g • body ind blesS'
-favA,un m .oyory ..
ing nohedy; helping Mithingthat
And aggravating- every e!iL Sam
TWilFriever 'b ,otter riptirktfthair i lidi
;Until:ha limitit,a to treat his soryantd With
aliboislity tiU(l 'consideration that seem
atyypHolit farfroftrhis ‘tiought:s.
P.Own .
short time ago, a cloao hated farimerdiedi‘
railer devising ono dollar to his only splulf
The old', ficolionlan. tnts .'aitly;Uuried' ;fin
the:Vonorablo church pird, l which tfur , 7 '
fored a' terrible Wa'shingitivity bithe"
ilood; and a litho : aite'rirard: .fiis
liodyv7ali . Totlitd,oliposito,.thOson!aplawk
having, teen InFouilit...ll,owu .the
long distance:: }lion . tbe gender 1160'0(1'
sen mai informed... O f. the,faet, i he , made
'the touching reark : " Probably, gawk
back after that dollar
rutting. your
'girl is 'O.lO >in pit4itkpgq , Alols, , ,! , ranking
'lvaiseOticoi)-ORdi'!'- - - , 4'lls'
BKEtatf, 41.. F THE, 2.LIPH, OP. AtE. .
' • HABDEOEi .
Albert: ;Wail ; , hotn." . Ati
Franklini'Mass., in the 'year' 183 . 1 He
was the Son 'of •lrfttririer'ef that ilielnity;
and re'coiVedoeily dditeatien' at"-the'
yillageschoot : 'After baiting; like litany
NOW England boYs,-felloWed the
.aveatt
thin' 'or - - teiteherkfer aWhile,. he 'went to
Reston to ithineve hie fortunes: Holuid
relined a taste for jotitnalisaisome years
before, ancliought in thateitYan engage- .
plant upon one.of, the dailypapers: .Hav;
ingleinhieitthe 'indlinentifof his prefes
sion, hormived West; and flint iii Pitts-'
burgh and afterwards in other Western'
cities, filled' various "positions on .the
press. Iu Cineinnati lie was - loCateditor
of-the :Sun, a paper thittispeedily proVed
a failure. 1 . 1 - Lonieville Wrote up the
-Matt Ward-ease-for the . When
the Kansas troubles:lntike out,' lip was
still in the West, arilk,accePted ran offer
front the New Yerk ni6lge to act as its
correspondent in the Territory: ' Ilia let
tern prOved a success, and secures
permanent pesitiori ori the staff of- that
jonrnal.. Just before the comnieneement
of hostilities in the late war, he was 'Sod
Smith as secret ciifrespouclent of the Trib
4ine. vieited Charleston,,Sayannah,
'Richmond, and other Southern pities iii
disguise, and sent borne exaggerated,
though readable letters deseriptive.ot the
scenes lie witnessedthere,
• When the War wits fully under way;
Mr. Richardson went. to the Southwest
as a Trikuna special correspondent. 'lie
was•einitured with two other journalists
at'Vicksbing, and sent by the Confeder
ates-to Libby Prison in Richniend. - After
a:detention' in thateity of 9.Vee months,
he Was removed to Salisbury Prison, in
• ;rthCarolina..--F-roin
'he suceeeded in, making hiti escape in
pecomber, 1964, arid,' with ono" of his
cOrnpanione, travelled'four hundred Miles
on`foet, until lie reached the Union lines
at . Knokville. He-annennceditis safety
.tOltiS'ereployerS by Sending: dispatch
in these words :" "Out- of the jaws of
,death, Ont_ofthemouthufbeli."
'Upon his return New York, Mr.
Richardson wrote an account cif lus ad
ventures for a booki - which "had a very
large sale.and netted him a comfortable
fortune. Another literarY, Venture, "Be;
yOnd the. Mississippi,'.' which gave a ro
some, of his observations while traveling ,
over the Plains; wai.almost equally sue
' cessfud. . With. the ?means aceumelatM
in this - manner lid was enabled to pur
chit'se 'six shares of the Tribune stock.
Since the - war - lid - has - bee,n . constantly
writing-
. for . - that paper, - , end -only. -last
•Suritnier ' nnide The oVerland - journey - to
be present at the Pacific Railroad Maui:-
guration, for the same purpose. It is
understood that lie was preparing - mato ,
'gala for a new-book, when the bullet of .
the assassin laid him low.
When he resided- in- Cincinnati, 31r.
- Richardson risarried.a yonng lady of that
city. Shp died in Boston ; dining his in
carceration in Salisbury Prison. • By her
so sad- three—Orillan-TaTiaTcwfOsieri,Tigia
.lB Maud, aged 10 ; -and Albert,'-agOd 6
years, Ho has tWo brothers living, ono'
a farmer on Long _lsland, the other,
Charles 8.. Richardson, editor of the-Bos
ton Congregationalist, and a sister, Mni.
Peter Adams, of Franklin, Mass. Aliout
three ye:vs ago, Mr.,Richardson became
acquainTed with the lady whose domestic
troubles " \rem the s OitliSO of his' tragic'
death. The circumstances of that inti
macy aro fresh in the public mind. Me-,
Farland" attempted, in 1867, to kill the
supposed itestrOyer of his pence, an the
latter was escorting Mrs: McFarland'
home from the theatre,Whero she earned
her living as an actress. The Wound
kept Mr. Richardson, in bed. bill 'n
few
days. He .afterwirits pinseed the Oven
tenor of MS way, paying no ;further at
tention to MeFailand'sthreat'S, and Wait
ing patiently until 'a safficlent time of
residence in
_lndiana should elapse • for
Mrs. MCFarland to,procurd' a diVorce
from her huslind: Ho publicly an 7
summed, in a card,- that when the never
lime was legallgeonsummated he should;
make the lad? his wife.• Tho fatal sliOt
Otlast Thursday -did not oven frustrate
this,deSigp,for„, twe,day,s heforo his end,
while lYing`npo . 44, bed; hp 1.1r45
united to heiAirlearriago , by the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher.
° •Mr; A...p.•RielfardOnWas a thoroughly
trained journalist. wrotelei6ily and
well, and his deseriptiTo powers were
mom than common: • -The extraordinary
sale - of his book attests'his ability in this
respect..' eocially, ho rlii ageaislicOni 7
,panion, and had the, qualities of heart
and planners that attracted the affection'
nrcaany'friends: "-
one snowy afternnon,,in - tha viipter of
1867,w11en a:sionn had possession of the
good town of Hartford,' two' per OM de
scended •frOpf the train which had just'
arriVed from Now . York. The snow 'fell
iri heavy flakes, and thewind; was hitter
• 'and keen.; so bitter that thapeople.-who
waited liehind'the counters rif 'the lone
*eolith. '414 ftindiCd 9440!4,#44.
rpap,a: g oa.twejaii from the ptielneta. of,
who: ;needed- hot- Coffoorusd pia.;
;tho' NOW I;',#k
These two - persons who descended, frem
the atliO' roar Car wore 'Man
and . vonnin - : tiOtl'''4Oariag, Cho ;14:1dgel
'Which Sparta tho ofl,ife and middle
.nge. The. man was a 4111,. , ereetilair
coinpleXimied Blitieare_Of age;
'the *ennui was sohio three Years younger.
xnan was a decisire.looking
With a steady eye, which lid a mixture
of blue hazel ti`eptlys:' Ile 'had •
. 4 00 4 , *lliz l o,l' 6 ,',Of' . k 414goi:oolOr,, and.
sOarri age indicatpdalifoamint la rough"'
-seeiteiron-tlio-plattuvinititedield.of baalei!
and among the . loae'p . asSagei!intOocky',
canons of 'the ridge's' cd;
servo as, a opine. Air the.hody,of trio Am
Actin COntinetit.l - : , Ho-had carried a Mos
k*otfm the old days Loiiintiptoh ind the
7 .:lansas struggle, anehidLcbine _worlE:
against the i wild,Allixmrion,: WhOlfckight
:with Ike header, and the lieroV inany,
a=nOted hnider At-,,
cheiori, cars cantle on blip/ .iund,he
'Sound:hirriself•im.thelcarof ,the South
• ' drehrands :NOM
06* 31 . 61 , 1 4.4 #iqt
limn eanip x het, sulphiyous
day, .and the batttirlimUf Tickabilrgthif
• Cionstradt 'of ' li;iiiiiiisitoiil,=i 7 .hel4lied
esinixed. yaiiilyttapase,,
•,b r oloWP.oinberton'ii tirtilleryniinf dournib'
ibiOr
II
:thriiii. haired, Sate Nirhisliered ttrii ex:
, .
perienced !long _nights .and. draary. days
in old tobOaco warohoasos and - tho hastily
'mailO prisons Of the Soutliein COnfed,
'This tall, 'whiskerekman was Albert
D. Riebardeon;'now lying stark and cold
and lonely' in an upper chamber of the
Astor Mouse; in New York city.
Fiein his toilsand travails in the !ewer,
states of the Union camo -the inspitation
atal ideas which brought forth the books,
Dufigecin,' 'Mal Escape," " Be
niseenees of many a' hot; dusty day, and,
Many a cold, bitter, ride in the saddle,
with , whistling 'bullets arl_the roar of:
Pail:Ots` - ti musical accomlianiment.
Old fanners and thCir wives and Children
read of hardTotight fields, Of, bail; breadth
escapes, and the'pangs'of imprisonment
by many a Western river and in many an
old homestead built of logs, with.thowild
fires of border civiliiation burning to
show, the pages—and Albert D. Richard
self hairhig reward in-a pecuniary -Sense-
The'wonnin whOm our readers have
soon stepping from tlio railroad train at
the'rfartford . depot' }was Neatly dressed
and
. warrnly inufflOd. She Was 'of the
,ordinarYor medium height of woman';
fah' skinned, a ibixon wonian of the old
kassiichilsetts stock; With- find: ftiattires
,arid'apiritue4 glowing eyes that seemed
to expand as the smile deopOned on her
face, when her er•ninion, in his cool,
calm Way,' offertia arm and went
down the street:
This woman was the wife of Daniel
McFarfaifd,, now lying in - the Toombs
prison, mid. charged , with having pis
tolled Richardson to death in the Tribune
office come days since: 'ln her old school
irl da s when all thin. s soomed Uri
.ht
and fair, the young, blooming girl,With
the innocent exproesion on her faeo and
the intellectual light in her eyes, who
..read Shakespearo by moonlight and,Ten
upon by the. of: pine logs, in the
shadows of the Massachusetts hills, was
named Abby Sage. • •
fewininutes the man and woman
had travorsed several streets through the
"treating - inthand - 'were at the door of
the house occupied. by the American
Publishing Company. .
The errand of the • fair faced woman
was to sell a large folio of m t uuscript to
a pitblishef. The errand of the tali; fair,
whiskbrodMan was to introduce her -to
publisher, and by his influence, if possi
hie, to get. a publiShor, for her atuu=
„ . .
script. •
„,
They walked, back between long - rows
of el elves, where thAusamlp_ of huge oc 7 :
tavo.4 . with backs laid reimsing,.
waiting 'for - myriads of istow . England
age&s.tp introduce them to the reading
public. "
There'were . three men in a back room.
One was ansanwith_white hair and white
whiskers. His namcwas Belknap. , The
second was n man in middle life, bald on.
the top of his head, with blue oyes:and
a Sandy tuft of hair at his chin. His
rianilr - WATIMTIi - s - srtifOThrairirgiTiritirrit
of the firm. _ The,third was, younger and
wore black whiskers, with - black eyes:
He was a brother : of the first Mr. Bliss;
A•folikt man dropped in—a rathei'jolly
sort of a Person, with blue eyes, a fair
eompleiion, and a look as if be enjoyed
the things of this life. This was the
artist of the eStablishment,' who did the
cuts for.timbooks of the American Pub
lishing Company. •
, Mr.:Richardson said.brielly; as he took
a chair : " -
"Mr. Bliss, this is' Mrs. McFarland.
no has sonic sheeti of manuscript which
sho wants tolmve made into a book. I
would like to have you examine them.
I think they will sell among your cos
toniers."
MN. McFarland leek a seat; and en=
rolled a folio of manuscript.
"Is there any pee' ry in kt,". said 'Bliss,
" Peary does'n't Sell now. There is no
market for it." ,
„” I do n't knew ; you will have to ex-.
=filo the nnuniseript," said Mr. Rich
" do oil stdry 11, I think," Said
Mr. Belknap,. ' , keit is a:gficSl one: . Let
'Mrs. 461`4 . 11and reSkrionle 'ef
pesltlorr", ' • .*
"I'here ought to bo .plenty of wocl
cuts to sell the book'," said; Co; the
artist.;, "I say Ihatt'as a disintorested
'lPqrson, and yet it—is business."
Tes, "pictuie's seal a book when
nthing said Mr. Bliss with
the black whiskers. • -
. .
• •" Tho,titlo that ,I think of - taking for
14_hook Pobbion . and Ponrls,",' Haiti
Mrs.' itlciParland, in a low, womanlyi
namical yoico. • •
, •
l'iyabblss and:Pearls?"' said Mr. Bliss
the sandy .tuft, "has n't that boon
d(inetbeforp?" . '
`"I think imt,!' -3lrs: • 31cl-01144mi11,
'"' . lt blab least original with trie.'?
• lot Ml;iw McFarland read some
:tixitracts front her manuscript,. and then
shall bo ableXo - judko'cif - its'inerit,"
inid3fr. 19:Lieonned. to be tho
.6490teii101d•Of ..• .
uhriilled
, tono had ,
dolightlid so nnLny andkinces
yend the first extract. •' c: ! 4 , •.
the different be-
On to liiesc at inch: Other •aitor" tho' last •
portleii , Ptibbleri • and' Pearls"' had'
favor Of limiting
a week! tre.'-'denslderl'idioat" the . :matter..
,Thei..ivOrle *light sell, ain't "Stlaai again 'it
might' he 'a tailtireGl'l
Mr:'Bulltuali IWaitgd to t hear a' little
cobro of the effusions, -nail Mr. Bliw .
Nvith the bhterralhiskWiS, Svase'onsiderinip
if it would bO 'Weil' tO • tilliAtilite it riliely;
bunhy
sondinispechiu;n CojOies:
, Tho, tiitist; jectic; • Nir tO put ttYo Jinn.:
dt'od 41i& kSlic;ole,• mid Ihon- ,
intla go
lOtil whited , ipitutiOtoript
fcir siifi
pdt, ‘ithil litoad gnpiit Jieottillod Tot: tholii
cjuletittutt
eollsetad ispqmithy for tlto ftiiy
tbioriiss;'
-"WEIL foal be,:titid:cintiukti; , reitd.
4} 1110 Suoro; : Mvs 3fearkyha4-k
Yeo oaf&
- elioug)ll4 ivignioradin : Oie
'tf,you plume; anil.thini);mrivhlitill
,t.to• bet ,
I,t,olv . ablo dodido inatiOr.l' • •
'. , liim. , il itera iti nd -!thet 'rend tthe
' t‘io
ms, libh'vtae!t foilov8; iiide-firgb
1
11.otivg , .
doseylpticirk: of.. , lker c : th - tw o r
o t
411,1)kli:dile. tiblectifko4 - 2tmly ',lke; ;ki n i . .
d Id. describe_ them .:
_,.. .A:ie t 1.1. 1 . a ...,.
'113Pv... ,, •41"ff•
•":
Who sun h sot, awl In tbir Arent;
• .Thetnaorinflonta like a elliverithread;
The oky, the lovely 19nmmrr aky,
le fiutlied with golden andfnith eul.
•
We. faintly 110.3 0 ilarralgl! f,unfot
The glimmer of thwev. Dins Mar,
While arteirer:ng bark the knee n ot rky,•
The Oral firer glratns afar.
71m flowers twe shpt, and bowed witlf
TIM trees stand Ituthol;and toll, end, dime
As in the soft tin!) tender light, "
Two children singlbelraTenlng
Ono singer's clinstorlng lock, ark% dark
And ono Inn cods of . . , olkfcn Into;
-ono looks lbrough binrk•uul fleshing ryes,
Tbb other's eyes uro !nyteteht blue.
Therrioloing hatata in 'orin.tci op,
- /bey_rninglo dilk•nnd gohirtbnii,
An lien lion .. at their mother's knee,
• • ;Shay each repent no evening prayer
' Ono arks tha o'er her lath) brikl,
• • lbo'notteloi;entio watcL may keep
fisportn nitatent.tono,
•118 ' Ron I lay Inc dorm to sloop'
hoopla hor heart the mother Prayv,
Mt% tear drops dim her lifted ryes;
• The Wooing angelA gathrrc.tlear • • ••••••
Mrty..b.onr. io r rych,iptayri orho
Sho F r pows how weak ore untidy tie;
Me mother imo, left, poor nod
Ana for hi"r tetra t 4.4 little 0000, r
- F-ho melte the loydwidchcannot
Slat ploye that, pith ‘‘.tteltint care
Thu tender Father up in Waren,
Mey help her guide to noble ends,' '
Thu prorlouellree hhi lOrd Luc glean
' , l . loui,,,!c!oni that hushed nnu Indy helm,.
Thar poftened npirlt4 drink ropcse,
Till gently round their Mending forml
The deeper 'lidded ur.uvening.elose..
' The second poem was calculated' te'in
terest those who had dear ones aCsea,
buffeting storm; and 'enduring sun, and
after tho fair songstress had read it, the
hearts of the publishers were won, and
they had already determined to publish
he book with the title of "Pebbles and
Sunshine."
=
Theato'rnt beats loud without,
The cricLet chirps blithe within,
'itild the hearth fire's ruddy glow
'Makes tho light of candle. tint,.
The wlfo altaby.Vie
heartle heavy end sad;
For a ship lu oat in the storm—
The ship of her spllor lad.
Sho sits by tht; (Ira
Of her Ballot out on tho sea,
And her heart heats but with the beAller, rain
Ao the I.Urge rolls heavily.
!bar baby Omni clone by,
She rocks bins. to and fro, •
A ed watches all bin lurtril lips
The mei I ei IL it come and go
•
And she trembler; when ho
Ana'reara that the fetebe lees
• Ia the eptlit of him for whom An nra
NlAllron beaded knees
Or. peralintee. the angel who stanch
O'er the eradleof her ; , .hifar
Ts the guardian Roltit who widehel hint
On the billows fier,e and wild: ^
Hark! she hear° the gnus
of n vessel off the °limo—
Prisy Heaven it rides the sh•ret to night
And come auto tol.ort 01.1 nit..
And ea tho o ttOr a w9f,
l'fatefles the borne go by,
And prays n Uh attainus heat
hat' thu end of thu storm Lu ;11,411
Stia therein bents not without,
. While the crldiet.chirpshlitho
uithht—
Ana the tmby ketv.entiling back
- To the nultolri who melte eh him.
"I guess well take that, book," said
Bliss, Sr., "and we'll print if, too.
It's not bad." , •
Mrs. McFarland , was satisfied, and
seemed much relieved at the decision of
the American Publishing Company.'
The book - sold Well; and is now out of
print. In New England the " Pebbles
and Sunshinh" had•alinge sale, and it is
understood that Mrs. McFarland re
ceived about five hundred dollars' as her.
share of the profits. Mrs. McFarland is
a woman of really refined literary' taste,
and before site wrote for the Hartford
firm, who-illustrated her book profusely,
She had also written two other works,
entitled, , "Stories from Shakespeare,t,,
and " Percy's Year of Rhymes.". These
were pithlished by Ilurd & Houghton, of
this Mrs. McFarland-Richardson
has now another book in the press of the
American Publishing Company,. witlr.
the title of "t` Fireside Fancies," which
Win be tpubliped iu -a.few. weeks,
.All
her books have been written ,underthe
Signature,of "Abby Sage," her maiden!
name befotO.she married RAMO McFar:
land. Beside:Alm sketches already, given
above,lin Pebblesand - Sunshine,":
thine were others" with .t•he of
"Little Sally's Christina's," "A• Night
on the,
,MountainS," . ' he Willow,"
"The First ~,May •‘,' Sheep
Shearing," "Joan of " Imogen,' t
'"Trio Royal
,Truth Teller," "The Mis
haps of -Blue !lobby,", "Lulu's Adven
tures at Sea," "Finding the Snimet,"
< , 'A, Ride in a Soap Bubble'," "Golden
:Red," "City Siglits•,", ;".Nutting in. the
Woods," t• Mer-King'S pUlaee," " Nntio
and the.. Cloud Fairies,". '".The New
foOndland Prince,"-and "George's Trip
to,the Ice Regions:" . '
. ~
In all thew short' sketchesMnd poehis
„
Mrs. MCFarland-Riehardson 'has shown
.•!. a
more than ordinary ability; andliatt
hibiteda peculiar descriptive talent a nd
poetic tutor ivhich 'gives Promise, Itilien
SlMl:eenyers ;froinlier PreSent unfortm.
l•fialn poSitiOn„Of • mnelibetter
,`• Tlilsi; , ti,sliOrt Nickell' of What, proved
• afteiiiatinto,be,one, of - tlic, - . Mest ny r itut r ,
ful Periinl4'of • MCF4rland's,,
• MM. : Richfirdion's,
,Now Jliat, the
public deMand to know, all of the .partio
:iilarii•Of this sad. tragedy and the events
thht ied'to,it,' it will not po deemed Mop,
.po'ytnini 'that this episode; shOuld find its
surlyinte..the columns of:
stoPS•of' OW, i'stor',',HOuSe .
werOWnitWO,ii 11,4,HMTent • iniinlan,:i-Or
thOli:i44 of 'the:ma:Miyho lies cold sell
at irk ask in shadow Of 'onnoei6
co'rtidoiii, iiiik . ll6' last "of re::
• spect to A ort . c“ son, 'whose
trio,finft'
liay,? • l>'4en;iiii#:rOcni46:the pall Ofa:sad
silence to' cOVer'thein:;' •
Purnplisi still UndauhtnkhFnrt:in,still,
•nndthe'libbhingS Wetik'nipaini
hi Mitof. 7 the
!lhinidier
may,Pitik„bnift vain."AliMrtij.
RinhardsoMis Mute, and cold; and litilet
for all the ages'iniiniM.'.,,
With'
'
'MO*. lora.
ktxsik ik'oitsp•Tpr '
;, _2;_:•-•
.frim '6414)0
=II
A AfISERLY AEOLVSE.
The following particulars of the death
of the .singular., Jerky City '.miner, the
fact of which:llea been alreedyennounced,
will be read wilkin'terest. We, find the
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account in the Ne\v' , Yorlc Times Of a.late
date . : • - •
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. •On Wednesday evening last, Lyman:
/Clip]; an aged boarder at Taylor's Ho-;
teli in Jersey clitY, Was found dead, sit
ting in .his chair in his,room. His death
vaft• duly 'rePorted on the following Morn
ing,. but there were ,circumstances
yeleffetryesreklay - witachr - surretrn&bis ,
lifo'and death with Lpoenliar interest.,
His 'brother, Thomas Allyn, 'nf Groton,
Corin:; - in Company with a sister, the
only relatives' of the deceased, arrived
yesterday, and, with the pertnisgion of
Coroner Burns, who is to hold inquest,
took charge of the corpse: They ex
ainined; also, the two dilapidatedlrunks
that stood in the coiner of their brother's
bed roem, and in one of them were found
stocks and bond's, deeds and Securities of
various de.seiiptions, representing a for
tiiieiicsnoopQr:-'"--
llis
, •
life, during the last five years, had
been most remarkable. Ho was a Man
of over.7Q,' and so infirm that he con
sumed half iiii hour cur More incoming
down 'from his room to the dining rootM
Yet lived upon the high Set 'floor to
save Money, and was never known when
upon the streets to use a 'horse car.,say-:
iug that they had the effect to make
people lazy, and' he' wonld not patronise
. -
them; Ho came from his room to his
meals but' once a clay, eatipg the very
smallest .quantity of the cheapest fool
Ire sought no society, and would permit
no person to enter bis room- but the
chambermaid, and she bht cared a week.
While - she arranged hit roon - 4, inva-
riably watchec ler c ose y. oan o I
server the room contained very little that
was -worth watching.. Two old trunks,
a scanty wardrobe, made up - of ready
made coats ; two hats, ono white, tin?
_other iblack, and hoth thirty_years old
patched glees and:boots, a copy of Web=
ster's Dictionary, a Bible, and-a medical
book, were all that the room contained,
and its,situntion and into•ior desoltte
ness made-it a dreary abode, - The old
man had lived here alone for nearly six
years, declining all the while to see any
visitors, for, he said, they came only be
cause they; thought he had Money ; that.
theywere mistaken, for he was very poor,
and had gleat dillieulty„in - paying his
board
Ilis brother and sistor, who took charge .
of his effects, yesterdaygnionnirtiperter
a brief sketch of his life. He was born
in Grotan, Conn., in 1797,, and was sent
at an early'age by, his father to work in
a grocery store in New London: Find
ing that his employer was dishonest, and,
that he used false weightsand measures,
Alto boy ran away and returned to his
home. ' He soon procured a situation in
another store, remaining there for anum
bet of years, until, in 1828, ho came to
New York and - engaged in business as .a
Immission-mnrohant—Becomingintor
°sled ° ln stock speculations, 'under the
advisement and iii" partnership with lie.
.Taq&b Little, Mr: Allyn :glassed a large_
fortune, which subsequent speculations
did much to reduce. - 7He was a bachelor,
and had for chitty or forty years been in
sonic degree averse to all society, but
his eccentricities were not so marked as
they were during the sir Or seyen years
preceding his deatb. DurinOils stay at
Taylor's 'Hotel, be was occupied entirely
in looking after the value of and the
Wrest upon his bonds and stocks, keep,.
ing his business, however, in so groat
secrecy that not even the proprictor'of
the hotel had the faintest intimation that
Lie guest was a Niealthy capitalist.. Ms
bills were paid with. the greatest plomp
titude,but beyond this fact no porsonAn
the hotel bad grounds fOr uupposing thltt
the old man had a dollar. Ms ocempa;
Lion, meanwhile, was entirely unknown,
ambraany speculations Were indulged in
by his felloW boarders touch ing.the work
which kei“; the recluse so much confined•
0 his garret. Wednesday afternoon the,
ill collector toolc Mr. Allyn's bill to hiss
room, knocked, received no answer,-and.
could gain no admittance. 49 . throw tho
bill into the room over the door and went
away". The (lay wore away, and it :wes:
_remarked that the' ld gentleman was net
.so prompt as formerly in responding to
the preeentation of his, hill— Mi. Fisk,
ihd proprietor,. went to his room, and
receiving no answer to his calls,' the door.
was.forced open, and the aged occupant
O.VaS found lifeless in his chair,'
The examination of the trunk and
Contents yesterday disclosed the fact that
the &titian owned stock in many , of the
hest paying concerns in the countr.y. He .
°wiled stock in all the principal railroads
in New Joracy, the Erie,Railway,lan ,
tic "and preatlYoatdn,lhollilorrie Gnnal
and Banking Company, and, tho Now
York Contrral:,, Deods folk large amount!
of real est4o.;in.Long,, Island andlfi tho
city of Brooklyn, and a pile. of State and,
-com#y 'boa4ls ware found: ~ Mith lhoao
then; was.:4 dated fifteen yeara:ago,
be , ifioathlng !prppefty - Aci::-hid
brother. and,aiater. '
— . There th4t itlw4ys pay;
oymr. in: this niit reronrieratiTe'extet- -
einGio. They are WorlFind' mut
Eithtif is tiseless Withollt Otiici6l3Otli
unite pro invinciblc and inevitably'tft:
unipluniti .. . ITO who waits-withetit
hi*, is nply mail' yielding to; •iitotli
aril despair.:. , HO. who- works I Withotit
Waitin& .is fitful' in , his'
InisiSS-Te - krltS by;
;stliadily ; aini Waits 'patientlY initY
lupie a long I jOurneY - liefoio at
its 'close find "
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it
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no rig it • '
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THE O.ROIDE WATCHES.
A New • York correspondent of , the .
Philadelphia Telegraph says : If .1 were
oroido watch seller,-'I. might wear
diamonds in my shirt bosom 'osier& as , •
Lima beans, and drive bassos that Mr. •
Bonner would not disdain to sit behind ;.
Sol' the oroide watch business in, this city
is air immense swindle, and brings
enormous returns to those who havesuf;
fielent genius to engage in it. Thep . ,
returns are so great. ali-to entirely over; '
Shade* the incomes deriVed.from" the"
legitimater -- pursults - of - tlergennine inw
porters. About one hundred thousand ' .
oraido Watches are 'annually sold,in this '
country, exemplifying the - truth of the
proverb that ono fool makes many. Tho
demand, so•far 'from dying out, is on the
increase, and the nasty, little ill tenoning,
out' of the way shops of these chrono- .
metrical swindlers, situated generally at
the topsof large buildings, where various
other kinds - of active business aro carried
on, are snore Benefit after than ever. A •
number of them are found mum Broad
way,-whichis spotted more, or_lessiwititi....:
-swindling inieuitlei Of all kinds, but • _
their favorite festering - places are in Pul-'
'ton and in Nassau •streats. thei:e - the
bogus &alers can be 'seenevery day and •
a,ll•day; a cross'betWeen the gainblor and
'the ruffian, invested with' the, diamonds
and the dissoluteness of the ono,
,anat the
surface pluguglyism -`;
troonery of the other. jtis this' kind of
Poison who Makesi fortunes out Of the
sylvan. or suburban credulity, -which'
Heves against reason,thaf a - watch worth ' •
hundreds of dollars can be obtained for
from two to four dollars: Such gushing -.-
confidence is always discoverable, ready
waiting to be duped. Like those flgera-
Live pigs which run about ready reasted,
wi r (Irks stuck into-tlnen, and asking
to be eaten, the simple ceeintiyinaii in
vites the swindler and assists his own'
seduction by his very guilelessness. It
is thus'that the most succOssfulof these
swindlers mans es to make occasionally,
*between _thirtY mid forty-thousaml-dol-
Tars 'thontli: : Connected with the
"store" whoie the oroideti disppidd
'of, is usually - a - little lottery Ace, where
the fool who has c,Dm
miffing ono mdiscretien is speedily
helped to another. ' , Many of the I
jewelled" aroides "adjusted so as Wynn
equally regular in the extremes of boat
and cold," sell for vo - apiece, when their
real value Is not more than VHS per dezen..
The pieces :which constituto the move
ment of the watch aro enclosed in brass
eaaes,.:3oiielfcoati - ca'reelY 75 cents each; '
and the Waltham watches, to the eye of
the credulous dupe, -are imitated to per
fection by the adoption of - the - genuine
trademarks; substituting radroli a d :for
a t, and .changing' Waltham Into Wald
ham. ,
There is a man out West who
_hi...the
most absent minded man ever.: kneWn. - _
Ho went out to make a call, and- forgot
that ho had returned, so that , • •
•.iting - forilimst3lf - ttreernelionse
ever Since. His brother is pietey'nestir as
,kdd, for he, hasn't beenpnt of bed Tor
•'
year, oWing havidelingiAten he*
he got into his , night gown, and being
unable to' find his way out again They
• had a slider who wan-very ahSent;teo
feet, on 'the day was to; have been
married plie did n't 'turn tipUt the chinch,
Her abience
tended's•heatt grew.fonder,
her over and inaiTied another: Bul,per
Imps their patelits were 'even more' ab-, •
sent still, for theise odd folk! are ri3poiteci
never tohave had any:'
At Upper S'indusky, Ohio, ono of the
most respected ministers called orf a sick
man, a short time ago. The conversa
tion turned Open the uncertainty of life.,
The sick man informed the reverend
gentleman that he did not expect to live
very long. The kind minister then urged
upon him the importance of, preparing
for eternity, and rlitid to him.: "Itave
you' made Your peace with God ?" • to
which the sick man innocently replied :
"I don't know that I ever had any difil
cnity with hlm. -• ' •,.
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A Spanish, priest once exhorting the
soldiers to 'fight like lions, added, in tho •
ardor of 'his enthusiasin; ‘!llefled my
Children ;• that whosoever falls 'to-day,
sleeps to night in Paradise:" . Thunders
of applause followed this sentence.'L-TIS;
, •
fight began, the ranki wavered, and the
priest took to la§ , .heels, When. a'soldiof ,
stopping him, roproaolifullyreforred to , •
suPper in Paradise; True, ••
'iny ion; true," said the priest, "but .1
novor take supper." •
.04uakorose, jealousof hor tusband,
:watched his , niovoments, and, ono morn
ingacivally discovered tholriiantkissing ,
end hugging ~the §et , /!/11.
'nlin. was not long 41 dis c overing Om taco
'ot r lds,lsifo, as she pperioollrongli the,
half open door, 'ankrlekng ths cool
mesa Ye4h4PPi4T9sfP; aP'PT491 11 991 ,,
i sodlher Potsey t . : tnee l ingd , etters
quit.
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ite4 part la l'arailyj'err,o!ik•lliO.roAlror..,
day, as' th'elatliOr, givq
us, 'a -little more.-taith arai.t,ruay .tho
small one .broke in immediately with
"Lbid give Ira a little moo growl() and;
:toast,' thereby detracting somewhat
f~qm the grayity - of tbo, o9parlion,_ . .
l!PaqaP an Y•ka:..!•fgc o3 a bas!aesa
vio`v of falm+t• t• 1 4 11 4q , ni)YA
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bl°; t al la never PaY eßah.'! •
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frPnik .
Ids • Cow anti t - oo •-.
:way I3Oclti , ,lxo wag •iisiced,,
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sold be dis'cliiilifulty
lout—wigwam Striking his liroust,• 4 ol
4icclaitned "Tndian . he •1"`"` I T' •
livngs.4
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