Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper 1863-08-01: Vol 16 Iss 409

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-~ —— FRANK LESLIWS ULLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. fAveusr 1, i838, Bernum’s American Museum. FNGAGEMENT OF THE DENIER 4 BROTHER”, Tight-f«pe Dencers, Gymnasts, ete. Continzen snece-s ef SANDFORD’S ETHIO- PIAN OPERA TROUPE. Also, to be seen at all hours, the OURANG OUTANG. TIGER CATs, BOA CONSTRICTOR, AUTOMAT."N WRITER, > a ete. Admission te all, 25 ceats. Children under Yeu, 15 ecnts. “FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. NEW YORK, AUGUST 1, 1863, All Communications, Books for Revie wv, ete., must he aadressed to FRANK WESLIE. 72 Duane Street, be- tween Broadway and E}m, sew York. Dealers supplied and subscriptions received for ¥iuANK LESLIF’S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER, also FreANK LeESLIN’s PicTorIAL History OF THE WARK OF 1861, by GzonGE P. Bemis & Co., Propri- elors of the London American, 100 Fleet Street, Lon- don, England, Single copies aiways on sale. TERMS FOR THIS PAPER: ORS CONT ORO FOR ce cccrcccccccccescccecs Iwo copies “ Four “ 7 Pneen-a.eigueeusnes Magazine and Peper one ycar..... Soveee Pee eweeee Pee eweeee eee Summary of the Week. SOUTH CAROLINA. A report was spread that the rebels abandoned and burnt Charleston on the i4th July. It was unfounded, but the last ticlnnond Enquirer classes the advance on Charleston among “serious disasters—the most serious that have attended our arms since the beginning of the war.” VIRGINIA. Gen. Gregg crossed at Falling Waters, and Was surrounded at Shepherdstown on Thurs- day, July 16, but after a six hours’ fight cut his way through. Our cavalry have advanced to Culpepper Court Tiouse. On the 17th a detachment of the 7th Michigan cavalry routed a part of Stuart’s cavalry on the Alexandria railroad. On tie 13th our gunboats took possession of Fort Powhatan, on James river. Gen. J. G. Foster has been placed in com- mand of the Department of Virginia, and Gen. Dix moved to New York. MARYLAND. On the 6th of Jaly, Gen. Kilpatrick moved on Heserstown and defeated and captured a large force at the place. On the 7th, Kilpatrick again met Stuart at Boonsboro’ and repulsed him, and following up his advantage, attacked the enemy near Ilagerstown, and utterly defeated them, kill- ing Major-Gen. Pettigrew and cupturing 1,200 prisoners and many wagons. TENNESSEE. The campaign of the rebels under Bragg in this State has closed. At the last ac- counts he had, after all his vaporing, retreat- ed from Chuttanooga to Atlanta, Georgia. This, with the victories of Grant and Banks in the West, and Meade in the East, narrows immensely the fleld of rebel operations, and ought soon toend tte war. In his pursuit of Bragg, Rosecrans took 4,000 prisoners. Gen. Hurlbut announces the defeat of rebel cavalry by Col. Hatch, at Jackson, Tenn., on the 16th July. KENTUCKY. A fight took place on the 7th near Burks- ville, Ky., in which our troops lost seven killed and wounded. A brother of the rebel Mor- gan was killed at Lebanon. THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. A rebel force attacked the plantations near Goodrich’s Point, carrying off negroes and property, destroying what they could not remove; but Gen. Ellet, of the Marine Brigade, pounced upon them, killing num- bers, pursuing them ‘as far as he could in safety. MISSISSIPPI. Gen. Sherman, after the fall of Vicksburg, started in pursuit of Johnston, and at last ad- vices had captured his rearguard near Jack- son. Gen. Dodge has routed Forrest and Biffles at Corinth; Col. Blythe has taken Coldwater, and Gen. Chalmers, Panola. INDIANA. Morgan has marked his course in Indiana by murder, arson and pillage, but the militia are closing around him. On the 17th Col. Kunkle repulsed him at Berlin. On the 18th he was overtaken, near Pomeroy, by Gens. Hobson and Judah, and broke up lis force into small squads toescape. Some attempted to cross the Ohio, but were driven back by a gunboat, losing 150 killed and wounded. About 1,000 have been captured, including Col. Ward, Dick Morgan and Duke. LOUISIANA. The surrender of Port Hudson on the Sth | was indaced by the noise in the Union comp i “The high brick block and clusely-packed Lenser seription. ‘Their feats o: sti the day previous, where Gen. Banks’s men were celebrating the fail of Vicksburg. It excited the curiosity of the rebcls, and as the lines approached at some points very closely a rebel officer called out to know what was goingcn. A copy of Grant’s dispatch was handed to him, and the next morning at tivo o’clock a parley was sounded from the rebel works, and Gen. Gardner surrendered. On the 9th Gen. Banks marched in. Gen. Banks has since sent a force to recapture Brashear City. ARKANSAS, Little Rock is said to have becn captured by Gen. Blunt with a force from Helena. NAVAL. The Florida continues her career, having recently destroyed the ships Southern Cross, Red Gauntlet and B. F. Hoxie, taking in the last half a million of dollars in silver bars and sinking a large quantity of silver ore. A naval engagement has taken place off the harbor o7 Portland, Mainc. NOTES AND NOTICES. Philadelphia. ‘Tne Philadelphia papers record, with con- siderable glee, that almost all the lawyers of the 14th Ward of that “‘ noble” city are victims of the draft. As the late Mr. Burton said, one night, when the vivacious audience was in a spasm of laughter, “ I don’¢ see anything to laugh at.” ‘‘ Everybody” knows that lawyers, parsons hnd physiciars are fair game for ‘‘ everybody” not troubled with “ creditors, con- sciences or corns.” The “ What Is It?” “or any other man,” for the terms are synonymous, whvo has neither ‘‘a corn, a conscience or a creditor” is decidedly a lusus nature, and ought to eclipse the quadruple uniquities at Barnum’s, the four un- weighable atoms of quadrilateral nothings—the Tom Thumb family. When troubled in the pocket, the mind or the body, we fly to either our lawyer, our priest or our physician; and yet, with true human in- gratitude, we chuckle over their being forced to fight against their will. But if their absence should result in less “‘ love, law or physic,” the “ partial evil” which fells on them must be endured by us with becoming resiguation, on account of the “universal good” which we share with the rest of a mourning but, Ict us trust, appreciative community. The Confederate Army. Toe Washington Intelligencer says that Gen. Meade has forwarded to Washington 31 regi- mental battle flags, allofthem captured on the 1st and 2d of July. Thirteen of these were taken from Virginia regiments, four from North Caroliva, two from Georgia, one from Alabama, one from Mississippi, one from Florida, two from Alabama, and the other seven belonged to States whose names are not given. It would seem from this that either the rebel army engaged in the recent invasion was mainly composed of Virginians and North Carolinians, or that the hottest of the fighting was done by the troops of those States. The greater part of the armies in the South-West was composed Alabamians and Missis- sippians: these have been ceptured by Gens. Grant and Banks. Judging from what the deserters say, the army ef Gen. Bragg is made up of regiments raised in Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky. Dahomey. Cart. Wi_morT, of the British Navy, has We have often been assured by our friend Major Longbow that a person whom everybody else has long considered “ a raw head and bloody bones” was a per- out of Laird of Long Branch or D-lmonico of Gotham, and that, of course, being ‘‘ ebony,” he was so highly polished as to prefer chimpanzees to flunkeys or Irishmen, to stand behind his visitor’s chairs and ad- minister to their wants. After reading Capt. Wilmot’s work, we are inclined to swallow the chimpanzees as casily as the Major swallowed the royaldinner. Capt. King of Dahomey as his honored guests for about a month, and, to use a expression, his majesty put them through a course of African sprouts, which royal guard, or 7th Regiment of Dahomey, is com- posed cntirely of women, thus realizing in Africa the Amazonian dream. ‘The cutting off their right breast isa fiction, as every anatomist might know ; butto their discipline, courage and efficiency the Captain bears en- thusiastic testimony, saying, with especial uncticn, “they are, as abody of women, remarkably handsome ;” to which picce ot information headds, somewhat unne- cessarily, “ the King is very partial to their company.’ The cruelties commonly attributed to him are also practised, such as the lakes of human blood, pyramids of skulls, the daily decap:tation of a subject and other atrocities; but, in justice to the King of Dahomey, we must meption that when Capt. Wilmot remon- strated with him on the wickedncss of such proceed- ings, and told him that, if he wished to secure the friendship of the English ‘he must abolish such bar- barous customs, the polished bit of ebony astc nished him by saying that he kuew it was wrong, that he shoukd like to discontinue them, tut that the people were so wedded to their national custome, that if he gaye up cutting off his subjects’ beads they would soon cut off his. They doubtless considered them as their “ constitutional mgbts.” He also defecded the stave trade, by observing that it was more the fault of the white men who bought than of the black man who sold, but he candidly confessed if they did not sell their prisoners as slaves they would put them to death. We shal returg to this most curious aid in- structive volume, Work fur cur Philanthropists. Mr. Wi1118, who, with all his affectations, is a thoughtfvl humanitarian, during the late riots went about observing ; he draws the following pictcre of what he saw in the 2d Avenue. It ought to be read from every pulpit in New York, till theevilsso fear- fully painted bave been corrected, or at least much | modificd The indifferenc* of the rich andeur Govern ment to the condition of the poor is always brought home to them at lest. Mr. Willis says Wilmot and his four companions remained with the | would make even the fastest New Yorker stare. The | result of her operatic ‘speculation at the Winter | Garden, 1s sbout to leave us, the centre of musical taste of the whole Western | continent. just published a very full and interesting account of | his visit to that living ogre, the King of Dahomcy. | t | cessful in his operatic speculations, and has, strange | to say, made a very considerable profit, — ! ever, by a sysiem of the utmost economy. fect gentleman, whose cannibal cuisine took the shine | | together with Brignoli, Amodio and Signor Muzio, ' ve strongly supported. in this neighborhocd seemed to be literally hives of sickness ard vice. Curiosity to Jook on at the fire ragiug 80 near them bronght every inhabitant to the porch or window, or »ssembled them, in rag; dirty groups, en the ridewalk in front. Probably net acreature who could move was left indoors at that hour. And it is wonderful to sce and difficult to be- lieve that so much misery, and disease, avd utter wretchedncss can be huddled together and hidden by high walls, unvisited and unthough: of, so near our own abodes. The lew’ but pale and sickly young wome.:, sca’ce decent in their ra attire, were im- pudent and seattcred everywhere in the crowd. But what numbers of these poorer classes are deformed, what numbers are made hideous by sclf-neglect ana infirmity, aud what aumbersare paralytics, druakars, imbecile or idictic, forlora in their poverty-stricken abandooment for this world. Alas! human faces look 89 hideous with hope and vanity all gone! And female forms and features are made so frightful hy sin, squalor and debssen.ent. To walk the streets as ‘we waiked them, for those hours of conflagration and riot, was like a fearful witnessing of the day of judg ment, with every wicked thing revealed, every sin and scrrow blazingly glared upon, every hidden horror and abominxtion laid bare before heli’s expectant fire.” What terror has the bullet or the bayonet for euch acluss? What reverence can 1t have for law ? The Anaconda Closing Round It. In January, 1862, the Confederate States comprised : States, Square Miles. VERRIER. oc cccccocccsscsesece vo. ccgeee 41,352 North Caroliv:a .......... éGeqeetnteses 50,71 South Carolina ....ceccceeeessececcseee 29,385 Georgia........ $00ceeseceeseose eo0ccewe 58,000 FROGEGR 0c cccccccccvcccccccccccscccccscs 59,278 Alabama........000+. 000s cerccecoccsecs 60,622 Missiesippl .......cccccccccsccccccccecs + 47,156 Temnessee.......sccccceees ecccccece sees 45,600 Kentucky.....cccssccssccccese eoccese + 37,080 MISSOUFE occ ccccccccccccccccccceccccoces 67,380 RFEANGES 0 ccccccccccccsccccccceccoeccs + 52,198 LOUIMABRe 0c cccsccccccccccccccccscceces 41,285 WORRGs cc cccccccccccccccccossoscosecccce 237,504 Bets... ccscvcccccccesceseces 838,206 Now the armies of Jeff Davis have been driven from one-third of Virginia, ali Missouri and Kentucky, greater part of Arkansas, one-half of Louisiana and Texas, and small portions of ali the other rebellious States, reducing the slave Confederacy to these di- mensions: States or parts thereof. mg miles. OF Virginia. .....ccccccccccccccccsseces ,000 Of North Carolio ++ 40,000 Of South Curolina - 28,000 Of Georgia.. 58,000 Of A:abam... 50,000 OF FESS ccncsescoccccccocs soccccecs 30,000 Total ..ccccccccccscccccccss 238, THE IDLER ABOUT TOWN. WE are very sanguine as to the quality of our musical prospects for the coming season. We shall unquestionably have at least one brilliant oper- atic company, under the control of Max Maretzek, who has, of course, the lease of the Academy of Music. His company will contain eome of the most prominent tuvorites of the past season: such as Madame Medori, who will arrive in September, and Mazzolini, who has risen more rapidly into favor than any tenor with- in our remembrance. Inall other respects the com- pany wil be very strong. ‘The scason will begin, it is said, the first week in October. Madame Medori, it is also rumored, will bring with her the composer of the successful opera of “ Ione,” who will possibly come prepared with a new work to be presented for the first time to an American audience for its critical judgment. This will be, we believe, the first ‘time that a composer of European reputation has selected New York as the locale for the production of a new and important musical work. I¢ is an unmistakable indication of the spreading reputation of this city as Mr. Grau, we are told, sails this week for Europe in search of musical novelty. He has peen very suc- his 1t was only achieved, how- it is uo- derstood that Madame Lorini and Madame Moreasi, brief snanagerial career. will rejoin Mr. Grau on his return. If he orings some young talented and beautifal artist with him, the united attractions of such a troupe would offer a dan- gerous competition to Manager Maretzek. Carl Anschutz is arming himself for the coming campiign. He has sent a special agent to hunt throagn every capital in Europe for a young and good- looki..g German prima donna. If such a pheaomenon can be procured, and Aurchutz has really engaged the brothers formes, tenor, batitone, with the great Curl Formes as the baseo, he will assuredly make a for- tune by bis speculation. The mmperial Vestvali, disgusted, no doubt, at the The fair lady should remember, however, that she not ovly did not fail, but that her performances, vocally and dramatically, was a splendi. success; the failure only being in tne antiquated music and the wretched style of assistance she had selected to support her. Vestvali is to open the New Opcra House at Matanzas, Cuba, some time uext month. She will be the shiuing star, but will The theatrica! eveut of the week was the produc- tiou of a burlesque on M‘ss Bateman’s play of “ Leah the Forsaken,” eutitied “‘ Leah the Forsook.” It is from the pen vf Mr. Frank Wood, a geutleman well- known in the literary world as « brilliant, pungent, witty and facile writer. He bas sustoined bis reputa- tion in this effort, which is undoubtedly successful in every poivt of view. Ihe incidents of the play are closely copied, and viewed from the most humorous standpoint; the language is terse and pointed, and the hits at local and generai events are happily expressed, and eutirely free from grossness or vulgarity. We copgratulete Mr. Wood upon his deserved success, ana nope that we shall soon hear from him through some higher class of composition for the stage. The D ere is eapitally acted, each actor seemiag to strive io do full justice to the author’s humorous concep- tions. Mr. Setchell, as “ Leah the rorsovk,” was irresistibly funny, and his make-up was the most comical absurdity we ever beheld. Mark Smith, A. H Davenport and Sol. Smith, jun.. were equally ex- cellest and equally droll, Miss Emily Thorne, as Rudolf, evidenced much comic humor, and san © When this Crucl War is Over” tothe delightof eve one, The music is very pleasant and very well arrarged by Mr. John Cvvk, 5S og is a capital Leader, ‘Takiuy it «il together, * Leah the Forsvok” must be provounced a decided success, 2nd we advise all who would cujoy a hearty and invigorating laugh, to alle- viate ovr so ialtroubles, to viett Winter Garden during the rua of thet mirth-moving Durlesque. Niblo’s Garieu was closed for a fow nights, in con- sequence of the trenble iu the city, and ty »oflord Mr, Wheatley » short rest, his coutinuous labors for several weeks haviug fatigued him pearly to illners. It will be re-opered, however, on Thuredsy, the 23d inst., when “ The Duke’s Motto” will resume its irimaphant career. Baro hes added to the attcections of his Museum the famous serobats, the Denier Brothert:, whose erformanees are truly of the most wonderful cc surprising that they cannot be described. They must be seen to be comprehended. Two by = Cats, just caught, fierce and untameable, and the living Ourang- Outang are also to be seen, with the other curiosities, during the week. These, end the wonderful Autom. aton Writer, rerder a visit to the Museum of rar; intercst. Foreign. Lamartine’s new work, “ Fior Aliza,” is said to bx one of his most charming compositions. . Tis auto- biographical in form. The t.rm, “ Poor devil of an author!” has lost all its force in a genere! senre, anc must in future he only used io particular cases. The sums received for their works by authors of the pr: - sent day would appear as fxbulous to those who r flect upon the rewards of Jjautho:s in the past Within the past few years 2 fortune for a lifetime has been aid for sing!e bock, and still the publishers have cen magoificently repaid. Itis said that Lareartine’s memoirs, his real memoirs, writien by himself, have been purchased by the publishers of Vi.tor Hugo's “Les Miserables” for the enormous sum of $70,000! Poor devil of an author, indeed! An interestirg fact connected with the publication cf Madame Hugo’s “ Memoirs of her Husband” jx much talked of in literary circles. Victor Hugo knew that his wife was engaged on the work, avd supplied her with data from time to time, but he knew nothivg of the minu‘r or the matter of the composi tion until he received the printed copy from the pu}, lishers. His letter to them, in reply, in which criticism, love and gratitude are so delicately inate: twined isa perfect masterpicce of writing. Three of the most prom ‘nent singers m Europe at the present “ay are Americaxs, to all intents and pur poses. Adelaide Phillips was of course born here, and gained the high position which she now holds by hard work and years of practical experience before the public. She did not achieve eminence at a start but worked her wav up by slow but sure degrees, never allowiug her heart to faint by the way, until she stands now side by side with the first artists in Europe. We ave a perfect right to cliim bot) Adelina and Carlotta Patti as American artists. They came here mere children, received thei. first art impulses and all their education here, and echieved that reputation in this country which gave them oi once the entrée into the art world of Europe. Adelina Patti has made a sensation, if second, only second to that which attended the career of the beau- tiful Piccolomini. She has braved all the ert tribunals of England and Europe, and she has bewildered them and wrung from them tributes of admiration to her genius such as have rarely beea bestowed upon any one. She still continues her triumphant career, the last English papers bringing still other accounts of new successes, Carlotta Patti made her mark in London at once. Itis the great concert city of the world, and concert s-ngers of first-class ability are very rarely met with. Carlotta Patti stepped into the front rank at once, for Ler specialty is concert singing, and a hundred engagements were laid at her feet within a month. The re which attended her appearance in the con- cert room was scarcely less than that which greeted her sister on the operatic stage, and from the night of her first appearance all doubts as to her future career were set at rest. No concert in London and no festi- val in the provincial cities is idered lete in iis features of attraction unless the name of Carlotta Patti appears on the programme. We have thus in two years given to Europe a first-class prima donna, a first-class contralto for opera, and 4 first-class soprano for concert purposes. This is pretty good, peg yn | that in matters of art our country is as yet but in its infancy. The Bourcicault bubble it seems has burst. The Jordan exposure withdrew from him at once the sup port of his wealthy and influential friends, and his reputed immense wealti seemed to fade from him as if by —_ - His Astley’s Theatre speculation burst up; his Theatrical Company, which was to have yielded 10 percent. to the shareholders, is vanishing away; Bourcicault is a bankrupt and his wife has left him for Amevica, having previous to her departure, it is said, commenced against him an action for divorce. The latest operatic success in London is the produc- tion of M. Gounod’s opera of “ Faust,” in which Mme _ Miolan Carvalho sustains the part of Margher- ita. The musicis said to be very beautiful indeed. A successor to the vocal crown resigned by Madamc Giulia Grisi has been found, it is sxid,in Mdlle. An- tonetta Fricci, who made her debut at the Italian Opera House, London, last mouth. She is but 2+ years of age, and commenced her career when she was only 18 yeurs of age, inthe city of Pisa. Her success immediately secured her engagements at Livorno and Florence, and her reputation spreading like wildfire over Italy, she was at once secured «& the leading attraction at Turin, and subsequently «t the San Carlos, Naples. fler triumph was unquali- tied everywhere, culmiuatiog in Europe at the Lmpe- rial Theatre at Moscow. She sang repeatedly before the Emperor of Rusgia, and received from the Em- press mauy presents of the most bril.iant and cosily character. er success in London assures her pos.- tion, and the musical world conyratulates itself that the glory of Grisi, whic: had passed away, will be renewed by one almost a counterpart of that great artist in face, figure, voice, style and genius with the sdvantage of youth and all the vigor, freshness and enthusiasm which are *he attributes of that brightest period of our existence. Our artists should bear in mind that a general exhi- bition of the Fine Arts is to open at Brussels in August. It is open to the works of living artists of all countries, and we shou!d %e pleased to know that Amerisa was represented there by the works of some of those whose genius has made their names 45 familiar in this country as household words. EPITOME OF THE WEEK. ic.—The board of directors of the New yeementts Ruilroad have just decl a semi- annual dividend of three and one-half per cent. - —— On Wednesday. yA a meeting was held in the Town Hall, Tremout, Westchester county, N. \., which was attended by the most respectayle citize..s. Revolutions condemning mob violence were p»ssed, also others demanding that the Constitu‘ionality of the Conscription law tested. The Provost M:r- shals were called upon, who gave up the eurol:mcnt papers, which were destroyca. Should, therefore, the draft be enforced, the work will have to be done all over again, — In Troy there was some little disturbance about the draft, and the Troy Times office was gutted. ‘i lic ex-Mayor having xssured the mob that the draft law Was to be tested, the rioters dispersed. — In Boston, also, there h»s been considerable rioting, and an attempt was made to storm the armory, but the military rePulecd the attack, many of the rioters being killed. — Filty-four wounded rioters were rectived in‘o Bellevue Hospital, New York, on the first three d«ys —of these 28 have died. —— Messrs. O'Neil, Moore and Benedict, charged in Philadelphia with couspiracy and high trea: on, have been held to answer. The question of bail is © 0° yet decided. Mr. Van Dyke, counsel for the accuse, waived a further hearing, it is alleged, because it \ * not desirable that the letters in the Southern mi! should be read. (ine was shown said to have »)'" written by Dr. Dicksou ot Jefferson College, !’! delphia, to a Confederate officer, giving informat): of the movements of tiie Federal . rmies. — The Common Council have voted $2,500,000 pay tae commutation of 8¥0 for those who are foo poor to pry itthemeelves. 1t would require $4,000,000 to pay «ll the quota fur New \ ork City. to —- The destructiou of property durimg the rio’ will herve to hs paid fur by the State, The press rr commends thet a tax he id upon cmicrants in ore to mect the losser. — At Troy the f met the megrocs Is 5° ugth and agility are sv great iinet the ira ~k th bas black waiter*

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on board, was -verned ageinat lending at the wharf, and was theretore obtiged to return tu Albany. w= It has been Areited tu the U.S. Cireuit Court by Juceo Selson that a vessel may epproach a block- aded port to u-certain the state of ti blovkade, if she does «9 ia govd fiith — field har new Pllen to 12s, end the exchange on London is now 138. — The Spinish Mivister ic Washizgton has writ- ten for a siip of war to be x for his protection, in the event of avy troubie in the Federal capital. — There have been 65 inquests held on persons killed in the reeeut riots. Ireland, 4!; Germany, 8; American, 8; Engiand, 1; Denmark, '; unknown, 4. Of these were boys under 2. A‘lofthem were cngaged-in throwing stones at the milit.ry and police. “our are women— all Trish— shot whil> peltirge the troops.

Western.—Ci eimaati was rcleased from martial law 02 the lth of July. -——- Negrocs are not allowed ta? tacky. — Parson Brownlow, who holds the office of As- sistant Special Ageat of the ‘Treasury Department, is at loggerieads with the military authorities at Nash- ville, The Parson gives permits for goods to be taken out of the city, and the Provost-Murshal orders the pickets to refuse to Iet them puss. — ‘the Evansville Jenrnal s-ys it is estimated that 75.000 persons ure now under arms io Indiana, and are makiug towards the rebel troops under John Morgaa. — The State of Michizan has ordered that no more 10 W regiments be raised within the state, that no commission will be givea to any officer for any new organization, nor will any State bounty be paid to men eniisting for any such organization; that all recruiting in the State shall, until further orders, be for men for the regiments and batteries now in the field, and all men enlisting therefor will have choice of regiments aud will be entitled to the usual Goy- ernment and Stete bounties. GSouthern.—The fon. Pradford Brown, State Senator trom Cuswell county, N.C., has taken open ounds fo. a reconstruction of the Unioo. The Hon. ohn A. Giliaer aud other exteusive slaveholders in this State are suid to be in favor of the gradual eman- cipation system. Many members of the Legislature, now in session at Ralcigh, have come out for the im- mediate repeal of the act of Secession, and for the recall home by Gov. Vance of the North Cuvolina troops. Military.—Ge.. U. S. Grant has beer made a Major-Gene-al in the regular army. —— Gen, Mcade has been promoted to a Brigadier- Generai in the regular army. — The New York Times gives the following inte- resting account of the escape of the Confederate army: “ Mr. Thomas fF. Hartes, one of Marshal Mce- Phail’s detecti es, has furnished me some interesting details of the escape of Lee’s army down the Poto- mac. Whilst out on a scout he wastaken prisover by the rebels, and confined at Williamsport from Friday last until the srrival of our troops. Up to Sunday he was in clsee confinement, but ted full view of the river and the operations of the rebels. Ou Sunday his guard went across the river, leaving him, and he then passed about of « citizen of Williamsport, and had the fullest cpperiuuity for iaquiry aud observa- tion. The temper of the rebels, soth officers and inen, was despondent, and they were in momentary expectation of an atteek from our for e-. the result of which they admitted must be disasi On the arrival of I.cc’s advunee, on Sunday wii iogranhical work, “The Wanderings of a Beauty,” published here « whiie ayo by Carleton, is yreatly praised by the Lon- don Conrl Journal, — Victor Hugo is nearly ready, on dit, with a work upou the Freneh Revolution, to be called ** Seventeen Hundred and Ninety-three.” Madame Huyo’s autobiography of her husband will be forthwith given to the world iu an English version by « London publishing house. —— Bayard Taylor has a novel in press, to be called “The Strovg-Mindcd Woman: A Reminiscence of American Lite.” — Spurgeon, the Ward Beecher of London, denies that he receives £1,000 a year from the American publishers of his sermons, le ix reported to have wail that “he'd like to eve it, or even a thousand penee !” —— An experiment has just been made on the Seine, st Paris, with au iustrument ealled a locho- metre, for meusnring the speed of vessels. This justrument, which is iutended to supersede the log DOW In use, in composed of a metal syphon, of which the extremities ure iramersed in the water. A emall screw is fitted to the top and to the interior of the instrument, on which the water acts as soon us the

ship or boat moves, by constantly entering ove end of | the syphon and ruoning out at the other. Some | clockwork is attached to the screw, the functions of which are to mark on a dial-plate, by hands, the dis- |} tance in yards performed by the vessel, commenclog Mr. Delmonico for allowivg people to talk polities iu | with one unit and extending t> hundreds of miles. The experiment was tried on board the steamboat Parisien, Which carries passengers between Paris and St. Cloud, The distance was accurately marked ou the dial-plate by the movement of the hande, — At Nibley Knoll, uesr Wotton-under Edge, Eng., the first stoue wos laid of a monument to It is to consist | ot a tower 111 fect high, exelusive of the terminal,

which will be « reflector. A Bible will be kept, chained, for public ieading, just within the entrance door. — A maguificent skin of an old male gori!la, with the skull, has heen brought from the Gaboon by Mr. Winwood Reade (the adventurous explorer, who has followed in the footsteps of Du Chaillu), and has by him been deposited in the museum of the Anthropo- logical Society of London. The specimen hus been placed in the lnuvds of the taxidermist, and will, most probably, when stuffed, equal in dimensions the old wale vorilla in the British Muscum. —— Mr. Henri Drayton (a Philadelphian) was giv- ing his entertainment, “ Federals and Confederates,” at Rochester and Chatham, England. The pictorial illustrations are said to comprise sc veral well-executed panoramic &ketches ia both the Northern and Southern States ot America; and Mr. Drayton sings several capital songs in first-rate style, and introduces many amusing anecdotes of negro life. —— An author’s quill may now be his doctur! It is anew invention, in Paris, called “ tne electro-gal- vanic pen.” ~~ the union of two metals, capable of producing « voltaic current, which is excited by the moisture of the hand, it diffuses « healthy and cura- tive influence over the whole body of the person using it, acting on the nervous system. If all the benefits anticipated by the inventor of this article are realized, it will be a valuably-medicinal ¢ iscovery. — It has recently been discovered that the air of Hail Columbia is taken from Richard Cour de Lion, an opera of the last century composed by Gretry, who, though a Belgian by birth, ws for 50 years the star compuser of the French lyric sta The original is eaid to be a very majestic air, and forms part of a Santasia from the above-named opera, arranged by Arban, which is quite popular at the Champs Ely sces concerts It is suid that the liberties taken with it in filebio a for Hail Columbia have not at all im- prov t. — A pew prima donno has just appeared in Lon- don, named Antonietta Fricci. She was born in Vienna, 1839, and made her debut in Pisa, in 1857. Since then her course has bern a triumphant one in Naples, Milan, Paris, Vieuna and Moscow. Her up- pearsuce in Jamdon has becn «a genuine success, The London 7 imes says she bears a strong resemblance to Madame Grisi, both in volee and acting. — Mr. Chureh’s picture, “ ‘The Icebergs,” is now exhibiting in London with great success, the German Gatlery, where it is on view, having been crowded with the elite of London society,

295 — Gerald Massey hag received a pension of £70 pcr year for his verse efforts. hat.—It is the fashion in Spain to throw cigars to fxvorite actors on the staze. A * princely Cockuey,” lately at Madrid, wishing to do the thing ‘slap up, Brown,” as he told the Alguazil who ar- rested him, pitched s box of the finest Havanas at some actor he much adinired, which, striking lim ou the shins, made him roar with pain. The editors in Wisconsin tateiy held a conver - tion at Lu Crosse. The Democrat of that place says: * Among the objcets of interest to some of our edi torial brethren were our extensive breweries. aud the verdict was rendered tiat ‘1a Crosse beat evea Mil- waukee lager.’ ” — Some of the collegiaus at Clinton College have provided themselves with aa_ enormous bow], of suf- licient capacity to hold halfa pound or so of “the weed,” from which radiates numerous stems. The bowl is filled, placed on the floor, and the contents lighted, when the smokin, fraternity gather round in acirele, apply their mouths to the stems, puff, and have a jolly lene. It is cousidered a decided improve- ment on the old style. | ——_ A conrersazione in connection with the Work - ing-Men’s Club and Institute Union recently took place at the Hanover Square Rooms, The usefulness of the society was illustrated by its recent achieve- | ments in Soho, where, havmg guaranteed the rent of premises, and efforded counsel and other assistance, a body of men had voluntarily cleaned, repaired and fitted up the house, and made the furniture for a club, which in a fortnight attracted nearly 200 working- , men, | —« ‘Lhe ancient English “ yard” was a measure of length based upon the length of the arm of King Henry 1. — The will of Richard I., which is said to bear the earliest known autograph signature of an English | sovereign, was recently produced as evidence in the | De Wiltes peerage case. — The New York Trivune Hayana correspondent says: “The Don Junipero, a pseudo witty paper, issned each Saturday, to-day comes out with what the editor, one Sandaluze by name, no donbt considers very funny, viz., a would-be caricature representin Juarez, with a bed on his shouldérs, who meets Jonathan with a valise; the former says, ‘ They have drivem me from | my house, and I ain going to live with my friend Don Louis Potassa’ (meaning Potosi); to which Jonathan replies, that as he expects soon to be driven from Blas-inton (Washington), he had come to Jaarez to seck a domicile.” — M. Edmond Texier, in his weekly summary of vhit-chat in the Paris Siecle, makes the following re- masks on M. Granier de Cassagnae: ‘ I have named the Nation, which has for its chief editor M, Granier | de Cassagnac, the same who a fortnight ago said to his electors—'T ain not only the son of my father (applause), T am the child of my own works. God has given me an independent character, and my labor has procured me enough to live on. I am devoted to the existing institutions, to the Imperial dynasty und to the interests of the srrondissement.’ This last hrase reminds me of that of M. Mangin, helmeted hawker of pencils, ‘Known throughout the whole world, and even in the fanbourgs of Paris!’ ” — Some of the war correspondents of the daily papers are very wmusing—ecce signim. One of the | toudies writes: “I took a ride round to Gen. Bank»’s headquarters, aud was glad to find him quite recovered from a severe cold in the head.” This is almost equul | to Knickerbocker Clarke saying, * That Charles Dickens had got the loveliest sneeze lie ever heard !”” PERSIAN PATRIOTISM. IlousenoL_p Worps gives us an anusipg article on Versia, aud says the following is the sub- stance of a recent conversation between the King of Versia’s Vrime Minister aud the English Ambas- sador: “ Tow ia it,” suid a despairing British diplomatist to u Persian courtier, determined to have it fairly out with him—* how is it that for some years past. my couatry and yours have not been good trieuds? Eng- land is anxious to stand well with you. She desires to sce you strong and prosperous, Sle would be wil- ling to aid you, if possible, against a forcign enemy, or yive you every advice aud assistance in her power to improve the state of your country at home, In re- turn, she simply and loyally asks ouly for your ‘friendship and good will. Why do you persist in misunderstanding us?” “Why,” replicd the Persian, with cqual frankness, “we acknowledge two motives for our actions. We may be forced to do a thing, or we may be brived to do it. Foree you dare not use, for your Parliament will not allow it. This we know, therefore we are not afraid of you. We have vo'hing to hope from you; for, although you are very rich, nothing will ci induce you to part with any of your mouey. We ——— el

sins are naturally insolent towards those from whom we have nothiug to hope and nothing to fear. The eternal curckle of your blue-books and newspapers has long ayy taught us that we are a political neces- sity to you, #8 long as you maintain your empire in the East. We know perfectly well that whatever we do you will not harm us, and we do not chovse to serve your purposes for nothing. Ove huedroth part of the sum you wasted in makivg such a silly rumpus down at Bushire a few years ayo, if well dis- tributed among the right people, would have made ux your humble servants forte next hundred yeare. ‘As it was, we derived a singular pleasure in provoking you, knowing perfectly well that we were quite saie in so doing. We evjoyed, also, much umusement from the Indian rebellion, and, had it continued, we should have sent active aid to the insurgents, to spite you. It would have been better to givé us a few ; tomeauvs.” * Doubtless it would have been better,” returned the Englishman, good humoredly, ‘\if—honor apart —Persia were the only nation in the world whose friendship could be bought. But if we bought you, | we must buy the chief of Herat, and every rapacious | soldier whose sword wins power for him in Cabool and Candahar. We inust purchase the Affghane, and the Oosbegs, and the Turcomans, and the free coun- tries of India. We are, #8 you s»y, a rich people, br* we are not rich enough for this.”

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In answer to the question, Are you tougher | and more vigorous than when you enlisted /—the | large, tall man almost univcrealiy answers that he is much less 80; while, on the contrary, those of smal! | or medium size, including many students and in-door | mechanics, often of slender form, geverally answer that they are stronger and much healthier than be- fore they enlisted. The simple diet of the army and pure air of tent life invigorates them; besides, they probably take better care of themselves than large, strong men are apt todo. The last icel confident in their strength, and negicct sanitary measures. Coast Derences.— Vice-President Hamlin and Senators Fessenden and Morri!] had further in- terviews with the Secretaries of War and the Navy on the subject ef coast defences and harbor arma- ment. Secretary Welles has promieed to detach four armed veseels as a guerd of the coast from New York to Eastport, and another to protect the tiehermen. Stanton has given orders for mounting the guns garrisoning the forts in Portlaod harbor, and has authorised the Governor of Maine to raise urtillery companies for the defence of the coast towns, Senators Samoer and Wilson, in accordance to instructions from Gov. Andrew, huve cxerted themselves t» further these same ol jects. One: of the greatest novelties of the day is due to the inventive genius of some French fishormen, who found that by sinking a bottle containing glow- worms «x good take of sardines was insured, which has given rise to.the electric light to invite the fish to heir nets.

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FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. [Avevusr 1, 1868. : bynaee 5 «lute as) seal oma! le Pier re ene mC himit rt Wtf 10 San i Oi fh An AMV pUINOOTNY oa rLLNTY OOOO NL “uialudalk: _20 a Be LAIRD’S MANSION HOUSE, LONG BRANCH. As We announced in our last, we present in this number a view of Laird’s famous Mansion House at Long Branch. The plaee is too widely known to need description, and Mr. Laird has been too long the successfui director of the Mansion House to make eulogy of the famous watering-place, the hotel, or its genial proprietor anything but a work of supererogation. The great improvements introduced into the hotel and the superior management of its concerns, all adding to the comfort and happiness of the inmates, are of such a character, however, that even those who thought they knew it well will be no less surprised than enchanted at the change, How extensive the accommodation for guests is may be inferred from the remarks in our last. iar = Py f re W in 1. i im! ANTOOUITN FATAL s¥ ~ r7 TANK TUTTI TAAEL) RUPEE RRR RAS piu il ce OUR SUMMER WATEBING-PLACES—LAIRD'’S MANSION HOUSE HOTEL, LONG BRANCH, N. J. MAJOR-GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN. Grn. LoGan, one of the most esteemed and capable of the Western Generals, is the son of an Irish physician, and born in Jackson county, Illinois, near where Murphystown now ir, Feb. 9, 1826. He volunteered in 1844 for the war with Mexico, and was elected a lieutenant in the 1st I.linois volunteers. He served through the war, and returned as adjutant in 1848. He then studied law, and rose rapidly. In 1852 he was elected prosecuting attorney of his district and member of the State slature, and in 1858 sent to Congress. Durivg the extra session of 1861 he left his seat and entered the ranks of Col. Richardson’s regi- ment and fought bravely at Bull Run. Returning to Iioois, he raised the 3ist regiment, receiving his commission Sept. 18, and on Nov. 7 led it into action at Belmont. He was here in the midst of fire, had his horse shot under him, but e At Fort Donelson he was severely wounded, and fears were entertained for hia life. He recovered, however, was appointed a Brig.-Gen. March 21, 1862, and placed in command of an Illinois brigade in Grant’s army at Coriuth. He was subsequently in command at Jack- son, On the 20th of Nov. he was promoted to the rank of Major-Gen. of Volunteers, and — distinguished himself in the late siege of Vicks urg. A HINT TO UNDECIDED PERSONS. In the times of Pythagoras, when the souls of men passed into brutes and they became new crea- tures, it was found necessary for a man to change his condition, Bei'g conscious of this necessity, be con- voked his friends on the occasion, and seriously be- sought their advice, whilst a multitude of animals were paraded before him that he might make a choice , me _ a Fgh of the new existence which he was about to assume The variety ouly served to puzzle his judgment and lex his taste, and good reasons were all against them all. The horse might be made to work, 80 also might the ox—and the last might moreover be slain for beef; the swine was too groveling and a | and the dog was liable to be beaten with a cave, short, each one had its disadvantages and objections. At this moment, a near relative, who wore a stout beard pendart from his chia, urged him by all means to become a goat. This animal, from its lively aspec and promising qualities, suited better than any which had yet been seen; but upon su: veying it all around, although he liked it in front, he strongly objected to the configuration and finish of the hinder parts. Con- tinuing in this state of doubt and perpeext. and being unable to decide what to do, and whether he would be one thing or another, all of a sudden his ears began manifestly to shoot upwards, a thick hair commenced goats upon his skin, a coarse rumbling voice was eard, and, to the astonishment of his friends and kindred, he was immediately changed into an ass. SIEGE OF VICKSBURG—NIGHT FIGHT INTHE CBaTeR, AFTER THE EXPLOSION OF THE yoORT HULL {MINE, JUNE 27.—FROM & SKET U BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST, FRED. B. SCHELL. ae a hin A EN S48

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‘ f ahs eae eee a ta ee Avcust 1, 1868.] -_— owe ee eee = we wee THE RED FLAG AT THE DOOR. An Incident in City Life. . BY HENRY C. WATSON. Trey crowd in from the sloppy street, They crowd in thick and fast; They push and crush and elbow hard, For who would be the last? They swarm into the open door, The red flag hangs outside— Oh! how the greed for something cheap Swells up the living tide! Two years ago a blushing bride The welcome threshold passed ; A month since—lo! with stealthy tread Stalked ruin grim and vast! The household toppled o’er their heads, The red flag hangs outside. The crowd swarm through the open door, Lost bridegroom—wretched bride! The motley crowd with hasty step Throng parlor, hall and stair ; They come for bargains—care not for The household idols there. They care not for the cause that makes The things so very cheap ; They come for bargains—those who sell Have bitter cause to weep. A Babel din pervades the house, And still the hammer falls ; The red flag hangs outside the door And every idler calls. No thing is sacred from their touch, The greasy, bartering crowd! Oh! could these dumb things find a voice, And speak their thoughts aloud, Each could a tale of tenderness And human love unfold; How passion sanctified, and made More worth than richest gold, The slightest trifle from the hand Of those whose hearts were one. But still the red flag hangs outside, The hammer still clicks on.. The crowd swarm into every room, Save one—and that is fast. Each rude carle tries to force the door, And then goes grumbling past. Within that room, with fastened door, Pale Sorrow sits alone, Mourning for hopes, and joy, and love, And household gods all gone! She knows the red flag hangs outside ; She hears the hammer fali; Its never ceasing monotone Crushes through brain and all. It is the dread Iconoclast That stalks into the door, And dashes all her idols down In fragments on the floor! The din grows faint and fainter still ; The hammer’s click has ceased, And silence falls upon the house, From barterers released. Now from that fastened door comes fort! The mourner, sad and slow, No prying eye is there to watch How fast the teardrops flow. And as she threads the household ways Lo, like the drowning man, Her thoughts flash back the perished p In one short instant’s span. The laughing child—the blushing girl— The veil—the bridal wreath— The happy home—the darkened room The loved one cold in death! And then a blan* came o’er her life, * From which she only woke . To know the red flag hung outside, To Héar thfe hamnier’s stroke ; FRANK LESLIV’S WLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. _ - ee MAJOR-GEN. JOHN A, LOGAN, U. 6. A.—FHOK A PHOLOGRAPH BY ANTHONY. To feel that round her widowed heart An icy coldness lay, That never shall be thawed to life By love’s effulgent ray. That ghostly walk through desert halls, With memory all alone, Has heaped up years of untold woe On that sad-hearted one. The stairs are passed—the hall is crossed— And softly closed the door; In the darkening night she leaves the home That ne'er shall know her more! Convictep AGAINST THEIR Wi1.—The London Spectator noticcs as a curions fact that out ef the cight essays sent in at Oxford for the Chancel- lor’s prize for the best Latino essay on the present American struggle—the subject proposed by Lord Derby—all of them of more than average excellence —seven are on the northern side. Moreover, several ot the writers had begun their labors as true South- *rners, but had been converted by the pure force of the consider tions which a thorough study of the subject brought before them. The Midnight PRIZE STORY No. 24. THE TENANT OF THE STONE HOUSE. By Mrs. Lillie Devereux Umsated. PART I. TEN years ago last August I was making a visit to my grandmother, Mrs. Standish. I had been an orphan for several years, the only home I had known being her pleasant house, and I was now with her for a little rest in the warm weather, after my somewhat arduous duties during the past first year of my law practice. She lived in a pretty cottage that stood a little out of the village o/ Elmdale, on the banks of a small stream known in the neighborhood as the Trent. The situation was very lovely, the grounds at the back of the house sloping down to the river, and thick woods Tater view. 27 rolling away to low hills surrounding us on all sides, even that towards the town. It was rather a lonely spot, the only house near us being the one that stood next us to the right, and this had t een un- inhabited for several years. It was an ugly, grim- looking place, built of rough native stone, square and substantial, but horribly suggestive cf a jail; the giounds too were much neglected and a good deal grown up to sombre evergreens, so that the whole aspect of our neighbor was peculiarly unin- viting. The repulsiveness of the appearance of this spot and the loneliness of the situation, com- bined to the somewhat high rent asked for the place by the person having it in charge, had doubt- less been the occasion of its standing so long empty. It had been built by a singular old Scotch- man, I hed heard my grandmother say, to suit his own odd fancy; upon his death it had fallen with quite a large property to a remote heir, and had ever since been awaiting a purchaser or a tenant. I had grown so accustomed to seeing it deserted that I was quite surprised when coming home late one night, soon after my arrival, to notice a light in one of the lower windows, and one of my first questions when I saw Mrs. Standish at breakfast the next morning was in reference to this. ‘Why, do you know, grandma, that the Stone House is rented ?” “No, I think not,” answered the old lady. ** Oh, but I saw a light there last night.” ‘“* Yes, I know there is a family in it, but I think they are only occuying it to keep out the rats and to prevent it from falling to decay. They appear to be very common persons, not regular tenants, I am sure.” “‘T am sorry for that,” I said. “I was hoping some pleasant people might come in and prove agreeable neighbors.” So the subject dropped and very speedily passed entirely from my mind. I gave not another thought to the Stone House and its occupants until that evening when my interest was suddenly and strangely reawakened. Mrs. Standish always re- tired early; she was getting well down the vale of years, and not equal to any great exertion. I al- most always sat with her as lung as she remained in the parlor; it was my duty and my pleasure to do so; but after nine o’clock, when she generally disappeared for the night, I went out for visits to the few agreeable families in Elmdale or for a walk. This past day had been very sultry, and the c oler evening was still so warm that I felt disin- clined to any exertion, and taking my cizar Alice returning to her Prisoii. strolled out into the garden, thinking I would spend an hour or two there instead of walking far- cher. It was a lovely night, the moon, just past the first quarter, was passing through a cloudless aky, the haze that rose up from the humid earth floating on her fair face like a thin veil, and spread- ing off in a pale luminous rainbow around her Che whole atmosphere seemed full of vague silver ight, the mist reflecting from every invisible float- ing pearl of moisture the tremulous lustre; hrough this transparent cloud the civer gleamed a smooth sheet of pale radiance, the near trees rose up dark and cool, the more distant ones faded .way shadowy and indistinct, and the note of a dis- ant whip-poor-will came up mournfully sweet from he depths of the woods, seeming to fill the heavy ir with melody. [took one or two turns along the river bank, vhen chancingin my idle walk to approach a little ,earer than before the boundary line between our lace and the next, I was startled to perceive a slight girlish figure dressed in white that was yacing up and down the deserted garden. The livision fence did not reach quite down to the shore; a group of low rocks just at its termination eventing the necessity of artificial barriers, and vere I paused to watch my unknown neighbor ‘he passed on quietly and slowly, now under the hade of the evergreens, and then out into the aoonlight, until she came so near to where I s'ood hat L could trace distinctly the outlines of her sce and form. A sweet young face, lacking per- ips somewhat of the vermilion and bloom that aould belong to her years, but still marvellously ively, lighted with a pair of large dark eyes, full f intellect, yet tinged with a vague sadness, and shaded by rippling waves of fair hair that was oiled carelessly around the exquisite head. Her igure was graceful in proportions, yet a trifle too light. Her dre ss, as Lhave said, was white, con- ined at the waist with a broad black sash; on the shole there was something of striking, almost un- grthly beauty in her appearance, arising doubtless the wnusnd contrast of iter dark wyds and

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golden hair, the fragility of her “orm, and the trange, sad expression of her features. She di! net gee me, for 1 was in the chade of the treea; but comums on slowly che paused'at the rocks, and after ope anxious glance in the direction of the house she seated herself on a large flat stone that formed u convenient resting-place. A moyuent she sat there in silence, then she began to sing. Feeling that I was an intruder, I had intended to turn away, but the first sound of those low swect notes chained me to the spot. Her voice was a delicious mezzo-soprano: the song she sang a strange, unknown recitative. She went on chant- ing in a wild minor key, that had something won- derfully bewitehing in it, every now and then turn- ing a wary look towards the grim Stone House, and never permitting her tones to rise above a low sub- dued key, so that even the timid whip-poor-will did not cease his night son A few moments I could not resist the pleasure of listening; then feeling that I was guilty of an inexcusable espionage, and perhaps glad to have an excuse for specch with the fair unknown, I stepped forward into the biighter moonlight. ‘Pardon me, miss,” I began, but at the first words the young girl started up, uttering a faint scream, trembling in every limb, and with a look of the utmost terror on her lovely face. ‘Do not be alarmed,” I hastened to add; “I overheard your singing, and it did not seem right not to let you know that you had an unscen auditor.” For a moment she continued to gaze at me with wide, startled eyes, then she faltered : “Thank you—I—I thought I was all alone.” “Twill not intrude upon you if you prefer soli- tude,” I said reluctantly, yet feeling as if I ought to leave her. One more anxious glance behind her, and then taking a step forward as I was about to turn away, to my intense surprise she cried almost piteovsly : “Oh, no! please don’t leave me!” Her eyes were fixed on mine imploringly ; had I been desirous of going I could not have resisted that appeal; as it was, bewildered with amazement and astrange new interest, I came towards her. “Certainly not, if you permit me to stay; I shall be only too happy.” As I spoke I stepped over the low rocks and stood close beside her. She watched my approach with singular curiosity; but once assured that I was indeed there, a new grief seemed to distress her. “Oh! forgive me,” she exclaimed, “ for calling you tome. What must you think of me, a total stranger, in thus addressing you? But if you knew all you would not wondcr. It is so long, oh! so very long since I have been allowed to see any one, but——” and another troubled look at the grim house closed the hurried explanation. “Do not think it necessary to excuse your kind- ness,” I said gently, for the unhappiness so visible on that lovely face was full of a mute appeal. “I should be glad if you would try-to believe me a sin- cere friend, although our acquaintance has been so brief.” “You are very good, ’ she said, with a less anx- ious expression than before; ‘I needa friend very, very much.” “Then trust me,” I cried impetuously ; ‘I will serve you in any way to the utmost of my power.” “Thank you; I shall remember that promise,” she answered. “ Please to begin your kindness by excusing anything that may seem strange in my manner. I cannot explain all to you now; but I have watched and waited so long for a friend to help me that you will forgive my imprudence.” This was said with gentle dignity; all the while her eyes wandering restlessly away from mc to- wards the jail-like house. “The obligation is all on my side,” I replied. “«T beg you will soon Ict me show you how entirely I am at your service. My name is Mark Standish. I am here with my grandmother for the prescnt, and shall be for some time to come. Send for me at any moment and I will be at your orders.” ‘« Are you in that house ?”’ she asked eagerly. “Ta **Oh, I'm so glad!” she exclaimed, with a sudden look uf hope. ‘‘Then I shall certainly be able to see you again, though I cannot send for you,” she added say. ‘‘I can only try to meet you some- times here.” “ Then I will watch for you every evening.” “T cannot ask that; only sometimes when you are in the garden, as you were to-night, and hear me singing, you will be kind enough to let mc speak to you again.” “To be surc I will,” I said, carnestly. ‘‘ But please don’t talk as if it would not be my delight to watch and wait for you.” She smiled gently. “* You are so kind,” she said, ‘‘ and it is so plea- sant to hear a kind voice after my long solitude.” “ Who could be otherwise than kind to you ?” “Ah, you do not know!” and the shuddering glance to the house was an eloquent termination to the sentence. “There,” she suddenly ex- claimed, as her cycs caught the gleam of a light that showed through a lower window; “they arc coming. Quick—you must go r Her whole aspect was full of the same pallid terror I had seen when she first discovered me. Her words were so imploring they secmed to en- force my flight. “ To-morrow night, then!” 4 Yeos; but stop one moment—you must not tell any ae: not any one,” she repeated carnestly, “ that you have seen me, poor Alice Linden.” “No.” “Then good-night.” Her whole manner was strange, almost wild du- ring these last hurried sentences; now she waved her hand and glided swiftly away into shadow, while I sprang over the low rocks into the shade of the trees. Then I could not help pausing again : I saw aman come down the garden walk, halting from time to time as if searching for some one; then I saw the young aii! come out to meet him, and heord his strange rongh address. “Oh, you’re there, «re you? Male and sume in; you've been cut toe long alread: The slight figure seemed te shrink away a liltte, and, while mnmy bloud boiled tu sve ut, he scizert her by the wrist, and at a quick pace dragged her after him into the house. When she was fairly gone | could stop to reeall the strange events of the evening. ‘Poor Alice Linden” she had called herself. This was her name, then; but what was there to explain all that was mysterious in her situation? Mrs. Standish had spoken of the inhabitants of the Stone House as common, vulgar people; but this girl was cer- tainly a lady, every tone of her voice, every feature of her face, every line of her figure showed gentle blood and high breeding. Yet why was she here? Shut up, evidently almost a prisoner, in mortal dread of the rude inhabitarts of her grim jail. Yet I must not inquire of any one concerning her, I had promised not even to mention having scen her. I could only weary mysclf with endless con- jectures and useless speculations, hoping time would solve the mystery. For three nights afterwards I watched in vain for any trace cf my lovely neighbor. One evening was rainy, and although the two following were fine there was no appearance of the white dress, no sound of the sweet voice. But during this time I succeeded in learning all that I could about the inhabitants of the Stone House. They were a man and his wife, named Norton; as my grandmother had said, very common-looking persons. At dilfer- ent times I contrived to see them both. The :an I knew at once to be the same person who had dragged Alice away. He was powerfully built, with a coarse, repulsive face, in which, it seemed to me, cruelty and cunning were the promi- nent characteristics. The woman was fit mate for such a man, heavily framed, stout, disagrecable, with no trace of any of the feminine amiability or softness—a brutal, sensual face. I shuddered as I fancied the gentle being I had scen in the com- panionship of two such creatures. No wonder she looked eagerly for a friend, and my heart bled as I thought of all the possible horrors of her situation. It was evident no one knew of her existence there; she was kept shut up within that stone prison, neither Mrs. Standish nor any of the servants whom I questioned ever having seen or heard of its third occupant. But although I did not sce Alice, it seemed to me that she was never for a moment out of my thonghts ; all day those sad, dark eyes haunted me, and all night they floated through my dreams, seeming, with mute entreaty, to implore my help to free her from some unknown cvil. The fourth evening was again very lovely, the moon this time shone through endless spaces of clear pure air, sending down showers of silver arrows that darted through the waving branches of the trees and fe}l in sparkling clusters on the rippling stream. I had not been in the garden many minutes when I heard the low sweet chant that had first drawn me to “ poor Alice Linden.” I came quite up to the rocks before I saw her, she was seated so close down by the river bank. **Good evening, Miss Alice,” I said, gently. “Ah, good evening,” she answered, pleasantly ; and in a moment I was seated beside her on the rocks. The rippling river plashed past our feet, the heavy -_ arched overhead, and the moonbeams sifting through, lighted, with weird splendor, the fair scene and the lovely being at my side, till it seemed as if I m‘ght be in an enchanted bower, with a pale, large-eyed water nymph beside me. “Oh, Miss Alice,” I could not help saying, “I have thought of you every moment since I saw you last. I am so glad to see you again.” ** And [am glad to see you,” she replied, frankly ; “more glad than you can possibly be to sec me, since you are not cut off, as I have been so long, from all pleasant companionship.” “‘ And why are you so shut off ?” I asked, eag>rly. “1 can see that you are notin your proper position ; will you not confide all in me >” “Not yet,” she answered, gently, ‘not yet. I have had much comfort already in the thought that I can soon tell you my strange story, and that you may be able to help me, but you must wait a little while first.” “Do you not trust me ?” I asked, sadly. “Yes, entirely,” she replied eagerly. “ But on all accounts it is better to wait. I have thought much of our last interview. I hope you did not consider my manner strange ?” she said anxiously. “No; not more so than would be natural under the circumstances.” She looked relieved. “And you have not told any one that you saw me?” “No; I could not cven speak to the Nortons, lest they might suspect me.” ‘“* That was right,” she cried, earnestly. ‘Try to keep out of their sight as much as possible; if they discover that I have spoken to you, that I havea friend here; they will take mc away.” “ But why should you remain with them or go with them, if you do not choose? They have no authority over you, have they? I am sure they are not related to you.” “Oh, no!” she exclaimed. ‘“ Yct they have me in their power. Ilow can I Icave them? where can I go, I, young, alone, friendless? Besides, in the three years I have been with them I have never before had so much liberty as this, and even now they two are watching, so that they know escape is impossible.” “You wish to leave them ?” “ Oh, so much!” “Then you shall not stay here a day,” I cried heste then, |

«Come at once to my grandmother, Mrs. Standish, | | from the mine, without any granulation whatever. she will protect you.” Alice shook her head. “No, not yet; you must wait a little while.

I ,am already happy in believing that I have a friend

| | | ‘ and protector at hand. I do really begin to hope that hefore long, by your help, T shall be free.” This wae vil that che would cay oo thi: subject ty-mizht, but we hadan hour's delightful comyorsa hou on many other themes. She told mie a little of herself; she was an orphan, too, her father had been dead three years; she had an uncle who was her guardian, and I gathered, from some expressions she Ict fall, that he it was who had condemuei her to her present life. Butshe would not dwell rauch upon this point, preferring rather to speak of her childhood, and to listen to me as I told her my own history. She betrayed an astonishing ignorance of events passing in the world around us, telling me at last that she had neither seen a newspaper or a book, or had any conversation with any person, except the Nortons, for nearly three years. 1 was utterly amazed, and again uttered my indignation, and urged her to leave these wretches. Once more she checked my impetuosity, and with gentle diznity finally forbade me to annoy her with uscless «ues- tions. She was inexpressibly lovely, there was such a sweet gracc in all her motions, such thorough re- finement in every word and action, that I might as weil confess at once that I was captivated and charmed before we parted. During all our talk she kept a wary eye on the house, and at last, when an hour had passed, she insisted upon my leaving her. ‘** It would be better,” she said, ‘‘ that she should go in before they came to call her; she wou'd be more likely to gct leave to come out again.” Very reluctantly I acquiesced, first obtainins; the promise that she would try to come soon again, and renewing my pledge not to mention having seen her. Then I bade her good-night; for one moment she let me hold her little hand, then she hurried away and I returned to my own garden. (To be concluded in our next.)

THE LOUISIANA SALT MINES. One of Gen. Banks’s operations was the destruction of the rebel salt works, one of those ne- cessary but most unpleasant duties that a General is sometimes compelled to perform. These mines are one of the curicsities of the country, and few of our readers doubtless were aware that salt was quarried and blasted like granite in any part of the United States. The mine is on a little island called Petite Ause or Little Bay, near New Iberia, The island is a fertile spot, rising about 170 fect high in the midst of a wide- spreading sea swamp. The salt deposit is found near the south-westerly border of the island, under dry forest ground, which ground is only about 15 feet above the level cf the tide water in the bayou. ‘The salt quarry consists of a whitish or cream-colored solid smooth rock, under- laying the earth, witbin a space, so. far as yet ascer- tained, of about 46 acres, and on an average of 19), feet below the surface of the earth, and about four and a half feet below the surface of the bayou or tide-water. The rock is hard, compact and perfectly dry. The only moisture attending it is contained in the earthy soil above the rock. The salt was discovered as follows: Mr. John Hayes, now living upon the island, where he his re- sided since 17), was hunting for deer, just over the salt bed, in 1791, and to quench his thirst drank the water of asmall clear spring, just at his feet. He found the water so salt that he afterwards took some of it to his own housc in a bottle, and boiled from ita teaspoonful of salt. Soon after, Jesse McCaul bought about 19 acres of the land, including the salt spring, and began boiling salt. He afterwards dug several small wells for a better supply of brine, with- out much success, but while digging found an Indian earthen spoon about two feet below the surface, a buck horn about nine feet below, and the al- most perfect skeleton of a supposed mammoth about 10 fect below the surface. These springs were afterwards almost wholly ne- glecte, until the year 1812, when John C, Marsh, on account of the enhanced price of salt consequent upon our war with Great Britain, commenced and conti- nuced boiling until the peace of 1815, Judge Daniel D. Avery, the present owner, became possessed of these salt lands, and commenced boiling the brine in September, 1861, end continued boiling till May, 1862, when he concluded to improve oue of the springs, and if possible to find a better supply of brine by diggiug much lower into the earth; and, when only about 13 feet below the surface, the pick- axe man at the bottom struck upon, as be thought, a eake of icc, but this, upon being broken off, closely examined, handed all round, broken to pieces, tried in the fire, tasted of, cte,, ete., to the wonder of all, proved to be pure rock salt. Steps were immediately taken to work this minc,and at the present time the wells or shafts for the blasting apd excavating this rock deposit are about 12 in number, of different sizes, and located within'a radius of about 400 feet. They consist of a square or oblong excavation down from the surface into the earth—a depth on the ave. rage of about 14 feet below the surface—to the hard, smooth rock-salt deposit below. There pits arc sunk and walled up—something similar toa coffer dam— cither by planks thoroughly braced from the opposite sides against the carth’s bank on cither side, or a sort of framework of logs dovetailed together at the nda, like the walls of a log-housc, and extending from the surface of the ground down to the salt quarry bclow ; and made so tight that the crumbling, falling carth was thereby entirely excladed from the pits. These shafta arc, on the average, shout 20 feet square, One of the pits, however, which has been made and worked by the rebels, is much larger than either one of the other pits, is made in the form of an L, and is about &) fect long on its outer linc, and about 0 fect on its iuncr line, aud about 20 fect wide. From all of these pits there has been excavated more or Jers salt down into the rock a depth of from 10 to 45 fect below ite surface. This larger pit had been worked much more than cither one of the others, The salt rock has been blasted and taken fyom this shaft to the depth of about 33 fect, and far into the rock be- low, outside of the walls of the pit and under the earth, and salt banks Icft standing above. A large column of the rock salt, about «ix fect in diameter, yemains standing under the inner clbow or apvx of the pit, to sustaia the rock arch of salt and carth above it. Over and around these pits there were erected, during the last year, scvcral buildings, sheds, and much machinery for drilling, blasting, hoisting and barrcling the blocks of salt, just as excavate From 400 to 600 men were constantly employed du- ring «a portion ef the last year—a part of the time both day and night—to exhume and barrel the salt, and load it up on from 109 to 500 teams, constantly there ~was, however, rapid

on the ground, and driveu from almost every section of the rebel States, cach tevmster ct nding 5 out and ip most anxious waitive, y ili cash ia herd the meat turn for the loug-visterl for bead, Some of ther: pits were woiied by the owner of the soil. Vthere were worker i ry contractlug parties, whe furvished or defiuyed their own expences, with the necessary Jabor, sod paid to the owner a stipu- lated sum per pound tor the salt The average se-bug price of the sit on the ground was 414 cents per pound. Judge Avery has received, \ithin the last year, over $1,200,000 for this salt, iu addition te the many smaller suins which haye been received during the same timc by the other contraciing parties «1 the mines. There has probably becu received in all for this salt within the last fiscal yexr, at the works, the enormous eum of from $2,000,000 to $3.600,000. Such another prolific source of money-makiag has never yet been discovered within the United States since the forma- tion of our Government. All of these buildings and the machinery works have beca eutirely destroyed by oar army. Nothing remains but one or two frail sheds, the lining of the pits, and several sinall steck~ of the salt blocks piled around upou the carih near the wells. Major-Gen. Banks states that the Confederate guns were loaded with this salt, and fired upon our soldiers, LEE’S ARMY CROSSING THE POTOMAC AT WILLIAMSPORT, JULY 13, 1863. Tue escape of Lee across the Potomac in the face of Gen, Meade’s army is one of those events which has cxused the greatest cisappointm: nt; and when we see with what means he effected the trans- portstion of his army shume almost gives place to wonder, Our Specisl Ariist seuds two sketches showing the mode of operation at differcut points. In one, showing the Fair View Mountains in the distance, we see a rope tied to a tree ou either side of the river, and mer by hand pulling the filut across. The other presents a less rudecontrivauce. ‘The wire extending across the river is fastened on the Virginia side to up- right standing posts Whceis running on the wires were connected with the euds of the boat, and the whvle was so arranged that the current of the river propelled the scow acrors, Artillery on the Virginia shore protected the ferry, as well as the infantry wadii g and horscs swimming the stream. THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG-—LEE’S RETREAT. In future years the traveller will, with a field- book of the civil war, visit few spota with greater respect arid interest than the quict cemetery over- looking the town of Geitysburg. Here, as he stands looking down from the cntrsuce to that home of the dead, he will reracmber that the great struggle of the war took place. This wa: the key of Geu, Meade’s position, avd on it Lee hurled, ou Thursday afternoon, July 2, his bravest aud most resulute veteran troops; but their furious charger, sustained and supported by an jmmense f:rce of artillery, all eeutrcing on the hill, failed to bréak the Union strength, and the rebel hoide, broken, routed «..d defeated, recoiie. without even the s:utisfuction of ounce planting their new flag on the height In our last we gave two views of this memorable part of the battle, showing the charge up the hill and the sceue from that abode of the dead, Continuing our sketches of thi» memorable cam- palgn, we present cne of Gen. Meare’s army crossing the now famous Antietam, near Funkstow-~, in his pursuit of Lee, a pursuit which promises s0 1). ch and effected so little. The Antietam, the Chic!) >umin the White Oak, the Rappahannock and the Vs, 00 will live hereafter in song, 46 master pocts we.\« their names and the evenis that have occurre: «|. their banks into undying.verse. Antietam has «nother bridge now in ruins, whi¢h will ever be remembered as the scene of Burnside’s battle. Lee es Meade by throwing up ertrench- ments an hg | to defend his position. He y moving his men and their plunder over the Potomac. We give two views of this crossing of the Pototaac, a feat so often accom- plished by Lec, We also show the ayuuct on the Ohio and Chesapeake canal, near Williamsport, injured b the rebels, who were, fortunately uusble to aqcomnpllen its perfect destruction, PEMBERTON, LORING AND LEE, The Rebel Generals of the South-West. LirzvT.-Gen. PEMBERTON was born in Pennsylvania, graduated at West Point, and at the commencement cf the rebellion was an officer in the Federal army on the frontier, in command of two companies of artillery. His command was ordered to Washington, and reached Baltimore during the time the riot was in progress. Pembertion resigned his position, ai then went to Richmond and ten- dered his serviocs to President Davis, was accepted, and given the command of a rcgiment of cavalry. He was afterwards made a Brigadier and sent to the De- partment of South Carolina, and commanded on James Island when his subordinate, Lamar, defeated Benham at Secessionville. As he was an especial pet of Davis, he was soon aftcr made a Major-Gen. After a short time he was sent to the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana and promoted to a Licut.-Generalcy, Socially Gen. Pemberton is abrute. If you have busi- ness of a military character he is approachable, but not otherwise. He dresses plainly, and his personal carriage is stiff and ungraceful, Iu temper he is bru- tal and unmanageable, coutinually in a quarrel with his Adjutant and Staff. Soldiers »nd citizens are dis- pleased with him, both socially and os a military chieftain, and demand his transfer to some other de- partment. The War Department at Richmond have uvlimited confidence in him, however, and there is 20 prospect of achange. ‘The V’resident, in his address to the faithful at Jackson, some time ago, spoke in extravagant terms of himas a military man, wand ad- vised hearty acquiescence in all his plans, His personal characteristics are: height tive feet 10 inches; eyes, dark gray; nose, keen, shorp and straight; voice, coarse and rough, speaks quickly, and plumes himself upou his dienity: is reserved Ie his manner, believes in Gen. Vemberton, and don’t care a rush for public opinion. Gen, Loring is 2 native of Mirsissinn’, and is con- sidered one of the beat officers inthe Southern army. He lost an arm in the Mexican war. His personal cheracteristics are those of a gentleman, treats overy- body with profound respect, and espouses the cause of the rebels becauxce he belicves it just. Heis five feet nine inches high, dressca magniliccntly, and aims to secure the confidence of his men. He ts « jovial, good-hearted fellow, and worthy of a better cause. He was recently iu command at Greenwood, where the Federal trvops were repulsed. Brig.-Gen. C. D. Lee is a South Carolivian, and when he became a rebel wos a Ist Lient. in the Fede- ralarmy. Iie graduated at West Voint, and beara the reputation of an cxecilent soldier, This officer commanded the Vicksbury batteri:s, and all the arttl- lery in the district of Vickeburg. Itis said thar he was 60 indigvant at the recent renning of the block- ade by the transports and cuubeats, thaths seet all the guuners with their oMeers in trons to Nich mond, a. Lee dreeses plaiuly., and acts the geniieman, Jeff Davis believes in Lev, and asc.i’ tu “tim the possession of extraordinary military geniu<. Hs conduct in the battle of Chickasaw Bayoa ‘s highly commended. Gen, Lee is considercd oue of the rising men of the Confederacy,

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Awacsy 1, 1868] THE LETTER. --SucH things must be.” Avid so lL touh dic letter, And held it to the flame. Ou! how it curled around the snowy shect, That fell, and fell, in fraymenis at my fect; And last it burned the name. “ Such things must be.” Ll waiclhed the little flakelets ; ; They fluttered at my breath; Quivered like ashen lips of penitence, And filed my heart with a foreboding sense Of mystery and death. «“ Sach things must be.” These words I said and pondered. Out of the wasted scroll A thousand bitter griefs and woes were wrought By the ethereal fingers ot a Thought That trembled in my soul. ‘Sach things must be.” The day is past for ever; The ashes swept away : Aud yester’s joy is scorned and spurned as folly ; Then why remember it with melancholy That haunts me all the day? afi Hyacinth Imperial. By Mary Kyle Dallas. Wuen Hyacinth Imperial, the best-dressed man of his set, called upon Miss Adelaide McIntyre, daughter andheiress of old Job McIntyre, the banker, who was worth, if report said true, more than his weight in postage stamps, it was with the intention of doing his best to win her good graces and be- come the fortunate possessor pf the beauty and her estates. For not only did Mr. Hyacinth admire the clustering curls, roguish eyes and dainty rosebud lips“of Miss Adelaide McIntyre, but he likewise admired the white marble louse in Fifth avenue, which was to form part of her wedding portion, and felt that it would be a very good thing jor him if he could settle down as proprietor of said mansion and future possessor of the hvarded wealth of the old banker. Beauty was a great taing‘in Mr. Iyacinth’s eyes —par exemnle, his own—but money was a greater. Had Miss Adelaide been the living likeness of Madame Grognon, of the fairy tale, Hyacinth, tewpted by the jingle of gold, would stil have “come thitherto woo.” For the Imperials, though of a high family, were a poor one, and old Mrs. Imperial found her slender income almost insuffi- cient to supply dear Hyacinth with shanghai coats, leg of mutton inexpressibles and dainty kid gloves, to say nothing of cigars, moustache dye and per- fumery, necessary to give that dainty gentleman a distingué appearance. It would have seemed to common mothers in the shopkeeping or mechanic rank of life, that Hyacinth, being of age and in perfect health and condition, might have done something for himself and bought his own cigars, moustache dye, etc., without his mother’s aid. But—good gracious!— what do vulgar folks like these know of our aris- tocracy? To spend mouey is ‘‘ the thing;” to earn it decidedly low, not to be thought of by people who consider themselves the “ upper ten,” and who used to pass their summers at Saratoga and New- port before the Shoddy Brigade marched thither. To use Hyacinth’s own words : “Tt’s weally vewy vulgaw for a fellaw to do any- thing for a living, you kuow. Nobody who weally ‘was anybody could ever wite, or paint, or act, or edit papaws, or go down town to howid business places, that smell like wagbags, and where bales are always being ict down on vulga fellaws’ heads and crushing ’em, and where otha fellaws always fall down hatchways; and only some old fellaw, who didn’t cxre how he appeared, could put on a white choka and a coat all buttons, or without any (I forget whicl:) and pweach to sleepy people about doing wight and putting money in the poor box, and all that, you knew. So even the church ain't open to us.” Consequently Hyacinth dawdled about in crimson dressing-g wus and smoking-caps, and paid calls on ladies of h's set in recherché attire, and was seen at Grace Church and the opera, and squeezed his mother’s purse, and robbed trusting tailors and hatters, and drove confiding bootmakers to distrac- tion, and borrowed money of good-natured cousin John, whom he never saw if they chanced to mect in Broadway, because he came from the country and wore serviceable leather boots and bobtailed gray coats, and treated him with a stentorian, “How are ye, ily? aud how’s th’ old weman ?” Meaniug therey nu Jess a personage than Mrs. Maria Cornelia Imperial, mother of Uyacinth Im- perial, Esq. When Adelaide McIntyre, ia ali the splendor of her wealth and loveliness, dawned on Hyacinth’s vision, that young gentleman jumped in an instant to the conclusioi ‘hat sie was his twin soul, sent down with half the beauty and all the money, and resolved to win and wear her. He denced with her at Mrs, Slug’s great ball, sut beside her at Mrs. Tomtit’s dinner, and calicd om her according to ex- press permission the next day. Jt was a charming call, and Hyacinth fel: that he had made an im- pression. During the course cf the conversation photo- graphs kad been toucied upon, and Miss Adelaide having an album—who has not in this year of our Lord 1863 ?—produced it for inspection. There were friends of all ages, from the grandfather, in ‘ with bald head and a el sé sses and a to bs ercase of fut for a neck, t them wie Miss Adsiaids heaclf, to whom the photog:ap had done but meagre justice, for she sat holt uprig’tt | and disconsolate, with a background of tower aid | tree behind her, which made it appear more likey | that the pie ure was a reprezentation of Castile | Something, with a lady in the foreground, than « portrait of Miss Adelaide McIntyre, with « !and- scape in the distance. ‘Of cour-c the portrait was not like her—the certe de visly of a lady never is— aud after lamentations on this score, Hyacinth ventured to remark : ‘* You ought to have your potwait painted, Miss | McIntyre. I know a very clevaw fellaw, not one of , our set, of course, but vewy wemawkable, who has painted all Mrs. ‘Tortit’s family. Te’s something or | wather gweat, but whether it’s pwe-Waphaclite or a Grecian paintaw I can’t wemembaw. Pewhaps it ain’t eithaw, but he is vewy good at taking | petwaits, so they say.” Mrs. McIntyre jumped at the suggestion, and , had the artist s address down instantly. A portrait | of Adelaide would be a good chance for another big | gilt frame, with burnished curves and scrolls upon it, and Mrs. McIntyre adored gilt frames. Consequently, Mrs. M. and daughter, escorted by the splendid Hyacinth, went to Mr. Danbhard’s studio next day, to arrange preliminaries. They found the artist at his easel, hard at work over his version of “Queen Elizabeth Signing the Death-Warrant of Essex,” and he had contrived to give the much-abused spinster Queen more nose and redder hair than any of his predecessors. Likewise her stomacher had diamonds upon it full four inches in diameter, and her ruff could at first sight have been mistaken for an organ, with many silver columns in the background. The artist him- self was no beauty, and, from appearance, his twin brother had posed for allthe masculine characters ; so that the ancient and red-haired Bess had all the loveliness to herself, and, hideous as she was, was quite a belle by force of contrast. In bis confusion Mr. Daubhard wiped his bruskes (they had blue paint in them, by the way) on the tails of his not over glossy coat, and handed a chair to either lady, which he snatched away aguin sud- denly, as the awful recollection that a bottle of copal varnish had been smashed in one, and that a fluke-white tube had burst in the other, dawned upon his mind, Finally three other chairs, originally red velvet and superb, but trough studio usage now tan- colored and shabby. were produced, and Mr. Daub- hard trying hard not to reveal in his countenance the thought that this wos a deputation from the royal family cispatched to purchase Queen Lliza- beth and Cw. for the walis of Windsor Castle, was all attention. It was only to paint Miss Adelaide’s portrait. It was a disappointment, but the deputation would come some other time. As he glanced at Miss Adelside he decided that it was not a disappointmen. after all. And before he opened the door to bow tr.em out int. the pitechy blackness of the hall—public buildings are always dark as Egypt—he was in the seventh heaven. That glorious creature sit to him-—that plump, pearl-browed, rose-cheeked angel. Queen Bess looked scraggy and idiotic for the first time, and he turned her to the wall. Spinster royalry had lost its charm in the presence of flesh and blood Yankee beauty. And Mr. Daubhard put on his tasseled hat, and oblivious of the blue piint on his coat, went down to Williams & Stevens’s to purchase carmine and ultramarine wherewith to render the cheeks and eyes of his new divinity—as the cheeks and eyes of other juvenile artists’ divinities are rendercd over and over again, ina manner which must make Nature blush and wonder why she never thought of making human flesh and blood so brilliant. It was very kind of Mrs. McIntyre to be afllicted with rheumatism during the progress of the pic- ture, for which Miss Adelaide sat twice a week; and kinder still of her to send lit:le Rose, the youngest, not fifteen, with Miss Adelaide when she ENd aimeng di o j ; most of his brothers, he was, you know, only one ; paint stains and an odor of crasivg turpentine went to the studio, and to permit Mr. Hyacinth Imperial to escert them. But it was the kindest of all of Miss Rose to desert invariably when once around the corner, and with the pert remark that | she ‘did not want to see our Ad screwed up like a | poker in the big armchair,” make off for parts un- known, and leave the two ¢é e-/-téle. Hyacinth | made the best of his opportunities, and after six sittings was sure Miss Adelaide understood him. | Little Mr. Daubhard, with the blue paint not yet erased by turpentine applications, as he vainly supposed, was a mere nobody in Hyaciuth’s eyes, a | foil for his elegance, nuthing mure. When at the door one day, Adelaide, all viushes | and hesitation, whispered : **Go away now, Mr. Hyacinth, «ad come for me at three o’clock.” | The splendid Imperial fancicd that he detected | signs of flattering consciousness in the request, und obeyed her witnout a fear of the consequences. | And when, dimpling aud smiling, she came out | from the dingy building at the appointed hour, he was sure that he had made animpression. Ile grow bolder after this, and she encouraged him. Yes, she smiled at bim, she touched him with the d'mpied whiteness of her fingers, glittering with diamonds. She made big eyes at him, and said: “You may call to-morrow,” as who should say, “You ouly of all the world.” She even went so far as to tell mamma McIntyre, who was still in a state of flanuel and Radway's Ready Relief, that Mr. Hyacinth Imperial was a love of a creature. And maioma, who approved of good familics, groaned in the falsetto tone people think necessary to adopt when they are ill, that she was “sure Adclaide couldn't do better.” Than what she did not say, but there was no need of explanation. And young Mr. Daubhard in his studio, poor fellow, hopelessly in love with the girl, whom he suppcsed to have carmine cheeks and ultrimarine blue eyes—(she had not, and no o~e else on earth ®KANK Lescik’S (Lees kKAiED ve WSPAPER, | vey hod eithefr--grew pee ably thin with ceeret mad “let concealment, kke a worm in the bud, prey on his damask—” no, he had not damask | cheeks, his were yellow. He did not dare tu lift his eyes to the face of a beautiful heiress. You might yuess that; for not oniy had he degrade! luve, , himzelfLy workin. for a listing, but he had a grsrd- motber aud three reaiden amuts to support, and had hard work to appease the mouthly wrath of the landlord, and pay the grocer who cupplicd black tex and brown sugar, which constituted the staple articles of diet at the suite of rooms which he called home, and where, when the maiden aunts did not bewail their scanty wardrobe with tears, | madameé the grandmother grew crusty and scolded by the hour. Nv tailor trusted him, no bootmaker was ruined in his cause. And though he was a very good-hearted young fellow, and made as few mistakes in the ultramarine and carmine line as of the common order, and wore shabby coats with about them. Of course, during the sittings, Miss Adelaide | never once looked at him, but sat “in maiden | meditation,” not exactly “ fancy free,” but think- : ing of Hyacinth Imperial. The sittings were over—all but one. For the | jJast time Hyacinth offered his escort, fur the last | time pert Miss Rose deserted. Lower and lower, as they walked along, the dark moustache drooped over the Parisian bounet, and deeper glowed the blushes on Adelaide’s fair cheek; and there, onthe sidewalk of Fifth Avenue—fit place for his pro- posal—Hyacinth said: “ An’ wealy, Miss Adelaide, you knowI adowa you. Is it presumption to hope?” ctc. He had learnt it out of the last new novel and recited it well all but the ‘‘r’s.” And Adelaide looked pensive, and could not speak for many minutes, but said at last: “It is so sudden, Mr. Hyacinth; I really—must consider—but, perhaps—when you cail for me I'l] give you permission to—to—tu—ask pa!” Hope? why this was certainty; and so he pressed her hand at the studio-door, and she bade him re- turn by four exactly, and went in to sit for her por- trait to that plain Mr. Daubhard, who had no style about him, and whose, coat-tails had daubs of blue paint still upon them. Hyacinth sauntered up «nd down, took an ice-cream, went to look at the white marble front so soon to be his own, and returned to the studio. To his astonishment the door stood wide open aud an old woman was scrubbing the paint. Where was Adelaide? not gone, surely. “Be you Mr. Imperial?” said this functionary, on her knees, looking up through her cap-bordcrs. “*Yes,” responded Hyacinth. Here, then,” said the female, thrusting a note towards him; ‘I’m to give you this here.” Hyacinth caught the note, white-enveloped and perfumed. Oh, joy! it was addressed to McIntyre pere. Speak to pa—she had said. He understood all. He took a stage and drove to the McIntyre mansion. Pa was at home. He would see Mr. Imperial; he was all smiles and amiability. Mr. Imperial had a note for him. Ah! his daughter’s writing? excuse him, and he broke the seal. As he read his face grew dark with rage, and he turned toward Mr. Hyacinth, who, occupied with his own reflec- tion in a mirror, saw not the change. ** Do you know the purport of this note, sir?” he asked fiercely. Imperial, still oblivious of the state of matters, “hoped he could guess.” ‘Do you know, sir? Are you a party to this? this—this ?” McIntyre pére could find no words to express his wrath. Imperial began to fear the downfall of his hopes. The hero of the last new novel had melted a stern parent by a certain speech. He endeavored to re- call it: “ Wespected sir,” he began; ‘ have you no ten- dawnus for your own offspwing? Let her give her hand where her heart has been bestowed, and we will both—” What more he would have said remains untold, except on the twenty-fifth page of “ Angelina de la Jenks, the Heiress of Hollow Oak,” for McIntyre pere, lashed to fury, applied his boot to a purpose not intended by the bootmaker, and the elegant Hyacinth found himself in an instant in the lower hall, with his Adelaide’s letter in a crushed and crumpled state beside him. “Go! and take that scrawl with you,” shouted the enraged parent; and Hyacinth imperial obeyed. Safe beyond the house, he unfolded the billet of his ladylove, and ere pressing it to his heart essayed to peruse it. Horror of horrors! these lines met his eye, and these alone: “Dean Parpa—Forgive me. I am married to my dear Alphonso Daubhard. The Rev. W. Wal- pole will have performed the ceremony ere you read this. “P.S.—When you see my Alphonso you will not wonder at my choice—he is so different from | that Hyacinth Imperial. “Pardon us. It wasn’t Phonsie’s fault, but all mine. Your affectionate daughter, * ADELAIDE McIntyre. “PS.—Phonsy is my pet name for Mr. Daub- hard.” Wretched Hyacinth, the world grew dark before his eyes. Here was perfidy indeed. She had jilted him for a “ common fellaw, with paint upon his coat-tails, who weally carnt his living.” The last news of Mr. Imperial was, that he was paying attention to the widow Blackberry, who was only five years older than his own mother, and im- mensely rich. And the same rumor hinted that McIntyre pére had forgiven Adclaide, and set paint- ers and upholsterers to work inside of the marble- fronted house which was to be her marriage | the gutter, | eed animal, and at last said portion. 59 FUN FOR THE FAMILY. A youns lady in Hoboken upoa being asked liow she could possibly aliur’® te tal m-siw lessons these bara war times, seplicd, “Oh, Leouliae myself to the low notes!” “Take off your hat, ian!" ciicd a judge toro Amazon io a riding dress, ** Tam » lady,” was the repty ; _ * Then,” said the judicial, po judge.” Wnry is 4 darkey with no hair at the top of his hea:t l-ke a exradid ‘te for a cind who jue be re- jected by its members? Because he’s a black-bala individual.” A cocknry, on hearing that the French Republican motto was “ Liberté, Faatite ef Pruier- nile,” olserved that hberty and fraternity were very cll, but he should never like to see a-gal-eat hay! AN acquaintance, meeting Bishop Beve- ridge, asked him how he was. Beveridge replied: “it Lauswerin Latin, I am sic, sic; if in English, so-so.” His friend retorted: “ ‘That is a so-so sort of pun, Mr. Bishop.” A MAN lost his dog the other day, and “Ta not save.” Liely, “LI age ut a | when he whistled it made a fushion»bly-dreseed young lady jump about as if she had St. Vitus’s dauce, Finally she grve a sudden jump forward, and the un- fortunate dog ercaped. A wITNEss in the box. questioned by a lawyer as to the gencral reputation of another witness, yee asked whether the individual was not a notorious r? ‘ “Why,” said he, “not exactly that; but he is what 1 call an intermittent liar.” Mvcarss was one day with a friend, when he observed a r ¢og that had been killed lying in uggins paused, gazed intently at the ** Here’s another shipwreck.” “Shipwreck! Where?” ‘“« Thero’s a bark that’s lost for ever.” His companion growled and passed on. TuE Courrter de Paris tells a story of a beggar who presented himself regularly at «a certein colfee-house with a clarionet under his arm. “ Will you allow me, gentlemen,” he «aid, in a huwble tone of voice, “ to play atune? I am no virtuoso, and if you prefer givmg me a trifle, 1 will spare you the annoyance of listening tome.” Every one telt at once for a few stray coppers, and the musician depa: ted with a profound reverence. This he repeated several evenings in succession. At last one evening a young man who had never failed to contribute to the wants of the itinerant musician, asked bim in a friendly manner to give them a tune; let it be good or bad, he wanted to bear him, ‘** But I am afraid, sir, I shall disappoint you.” ‘* Never mind that, give us a tune, anyhow.” **But I am a poor player, and have a poor instru- ment,” ** No matter for that, I want to hear you.” “ Well, sir, since you i: sist upon it,” said the poor mail, “I can tell you that I don’t play at all. I carry this clarionet mcrely for the purpose of threatening people with my performance.” ‘“*WuHeEN I lost my wife,” says a French writer, “ every family in the town offered me another : but when I lost my horse, no one offered to make him good.” TuHenre are friends for the old maid—the universal aunt! Children love her, aad kittens come and lie in the fireshrine at her fect, and purr. Vhcre are a homes where her presence is welcome, and by-and-bye some pour soul whom she has coin- fo , will put a flower on her grave. But tor the old barhelor—heaven help him—for humanity cxres not for him. AT Ballston Spa, one Sunday afternoon, fatigued with his lowg journey, a wagoner, with his son John, drove his team into a barn, and determined to pass the Sabbath in enjoying a season of worship with tiie good people of the village. When the time for worship arrived John was seutto watch the team while the wagoner went in with the crowd. The preacher had hardly announced his subject before the old mn fell sound asleep, He rat against the parti- tion in the centre of the body slip; just over against him, separated by a very low p irtition, sata fleshy lady, who seemed all absorbed in the sermon. She strug- gied hard with her feclings, but unable to control them any longer, she burst out with a loud sercam, avd shouted at the top of her voice, arousiny the old man, who, but half awake, threw his arm round her waist, and cried, very any “Whoa, Nancy! Whoa — Here J. hn.” calling his rou, “ cut the bellyban , loosen the breeching. Quick, or she’! tear everything to pieces !’’ Wouat three words did Adam use when he introduced himself to Eve, and which read the same back and forward ? * Madam, I’m Adam.” And Eve’s polite answer is said to have been: “| trust the time will never be, When Ill not care A-dam for thee.” FAME AND ForTUNE.—An anecdote is re- lated of Benjamin West, that when a small boy in his Pennsylvania home he accompanied a neighbor’s sou to mili, sharing boylike, in his ride, upon the bags of ain. As they rode leisurely on, they discussed their plans for the future, and Benny surprised his young playmate by announcing his design to become an —_ and paint the portraits of kings, qucens and nobles. “Very well,” returned the rustic, “I intend to be a tailor.” ** Then you may ride by yourself,” ex*laimed Benny, leaping down from the back of the thrice-laden horse ; pa I Tae ride with a boy who looks no higher than at. Benny’s ambition was gratified; he lived to paint portraits of the noble and the royal, winning pleaty oi fame but avery moderate share of fortune. Ho was offered the distinction of knighthood, but pru- dently declined ; he was not rich cuough to eupp.ort a title. The incipient tailor probably mude a fortune in ready-made shoddy, and if he had been where such trappings are in the market, might perhaps have pur- chased the baronetcy which West was too poor to accept. Never did an Irishman utter a better bull than did an honest John, who being asked by a friend, “Has your sister a son or a daughter?” answered, “ss ei og my life I do not know whether I am uncle or aunt !” A CORRESPONDENT writes: ‘I notice in youre paper that a lady of rank in Italy his lefta arge sum of money to the Society for the Preveotion of Cruelty to Animals. Will this ameliorate the con- dition of henpecked husbauds, for I dow’t know a race of more ill-used animals in the world ?” At Irkutsk a strange case~in cornection with the prevalent passion for gambling came under the notice of Mrs. Atkinson, the authoress of “ Re- collections of Tartar Steppes.” In ouc of the maga- zines of the bazaaralady was observed whose his- tory might be briefly summarized in ths statement that she was lost and won at cards. Her husband been a wealthy Siberian, but like many of his countrymen he was au inveverate gambler. In cue nigist he lost every copeck he possessed—land, house and furniture fullowed—and, last of all, he staked his young and beautiful wife. She was also “ lost,” and the victor eutered calmly into possession of his win- nings. Itis nota little curious to hear that the pair thus strangely mated had lived together “2 yeers, and “ led a most happy and cxemplary life.”

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A WALK. I WANDERED by the swift Garonne, That bright and flashing river ; And many a thought I mus’d upon Whick made my bosom quiver. My path was in a winding lane, And while I humm’d a ditty, Before me scarce a mile or twain Lay Bordeaux’s famous city. But memory did not waken then My country’s ancient story, Nor how she once rul’d fair Guyenne, Nor Black Prince Edward’s glory. The early spring had just begun, The leaf was on the bramble, And gaily shone the noontide sun To cheer me in my ramble. I came to where a trellis’d vine Had form’d a rustic cover, And near it hung a clumsy sign, To greet the wayworn rover. So hereeI stopp’d awhile to rest, And list the woodbirds singing, And watch them for their summer’s nést The needful mortar bringing. The sun peeped through and touch’d with gold The branches rough and twisted, And still the river onwards rol!’d Like time, so unresisted. Then swell’d my heart with tender joy (How near akin to weeping), And petty griefs known when a boy Across my brain came sweeping. Indeed it was a dream of green And hearty childish feeling, Beneath the leafless trellis’d screen, Springs long clos’d up unsealing. And oh! methought, could we retain Our childhood’s dreamy fancies, What dearer prize would still remain Amid life’s later chances ? The open heart, the love unsold, The fearless, thoughtless trusting, How ill exchang'’d for prudence cold, Itself in self encrusting. The flowery paths we mov’d among, The April tearfi] sorrow, The merry laugh, the dance, the song, Could we in manhood borrow : None kings would be, but gladly change, And all their state surrender ; Content as children free to range, Neglecting pomp and splendor. one entas ae aeeee ELEANOR’S VICTORY. BY MISS M. E. BRADDON, AUTHOR OF “‘ AURORA FLOYD,” “LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET,” “LADY LISLE,” “JOHN MARCHMONT’S LEGACY,” ETC.

CHAPTER XXXII.—THE TESTIMONY OF THE SKETCH-BOOK. Ir is only natural that one painter should take an interest in the work of another. Mr. Darrell testified no surprise, thercfore, when Richard Thornton appeared at Hazlewood the morning after his arrival at Tolldale, under convoy of Mre. Monckton and Laura. “I’ve come to say how sorry I was at your not coming to dinner last night, dear Mrs. Darrell,” Laura said to the lady who was so soon to be her mother-in-law; “and I want to ask you whether I ought to have the sprigged muslin morning dresses trimmed with pink or blue, or whether I ought to have three of them pink and three blue, for Launcelot might get tired of seeing me in the same colors, you know, and might have two of them trimmed with peach, if it came to that; and Eleanor has come with me; and Mr. Thornton— Mr. Thornton, Mrs. Darrell; Mrs. Darrell, Mr. Thornton—has come too, because he is an artist and wants to see Launcelot’s pictures, especially the beautiful picture that’s going into the Academy, and that the committee is sure to haug on the line; and I’m sure Launcelot will let Mr. Thornton see his studio—won’t you, dear Launcelot ?” Miss Mason pursed up ber rosy lips and put her head on one side, like an insinuating canary, as she addressed her affianced husband. She looked very pretty in her winter costume, with a good deal of rich brown fur about her, and a dash of scarlet here and there. She looked like a fashionably- dressed Red Ridinghood, simple enough to be deluded by the weakest-minded of wolves. She was sé pretty that her lover glanced down at her with a gratified smile, deriving iderable pl re from the idea that she belonged to him, and that she was, on the whole, somethin» to be rather proud of—somcthing that added to the young sultan’s dignity, and bore testimony to his supreme merits. , Eleanor looked at the lovers with a contemptuos ourve lifting her firm upper lip. She despised Launeelot Darrell so utterly, that she was almost cruel enough to despise Laura for loving him. “Yes,” she thought, “Mr. Monckton is right.

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Shallow, celfish and ‘rivolous! and he i. false as well, Heaven help you, Laura, if I cannot save you from a marriage with this man!” Mr. Darrcll was very well pleased tu do the honors of his studio to Richard Thornton. It painting fellow, the embryo Academician thought; the peor devil would pick up fresh ideas, and get a glimpse at the higher regions of art for the first time in his life, perhaps. Launcelot Darrell led the way to that pleasant, prettily-furnished room which he called his studio. The “ Rosalind and Celia” still occupied the post of honor on the easel. Mr. Darrell worked very hard, but in that spasmodic fashion which is antagonistic to anything like progress. The en- thusiasm which upon one occasion kept him at his picture long after the fading light had given him notice to leave it, entirely deserted him upon another, and was perhaps followed by a fit of dis- gust with himself and with his art, which kept him idle for weeks together. He made a merit of this fitfulness, depreciating a power of steady and persistent labor as the faculty of a tradesman rather than an artist. He took credit to himself for the long pauses of idle- ness in which he waited for what he called inspira- tion, and imposed upon his mother by his grand talk about earnestness, ienti » rever- ence for the sublimity of art, and a great many more fine phrases by which he contrived to excuse the simple fact of his laziness. So Eleanor Vane, as sorrowful Rosalind, still smiled sadly upon a simpering Celia—it had been quite impossible to prevent Miss Mason from assuming the conven tional simper of the weak-minded sitter, who can’t forget that his portrait is being taken, and that he is in a manner in the very act of handing down his smile to posterity or to the furniture-brokers—cut of an unfinished background, and clad in robes of unfinished satin and velvet. Mr. Thornton won- dered as he looked at the young man’s work, and remembered how many miles of canvas it had been his own fate to cover since first he had handled his brushes and splashed in sky borders and cloud- pieces for the chief scene-painter at the Phenix. Launcelot Darrell, with his mahlstick in his hand, smiled with sublime patronage upon Eleanor’s humble friend. “This sort of thing is rather different to what you’ve been used to, I suppese ?” he said; ‘‘ rather another kind of work than your pantomime scenes," your grots of everlasting bliss and caves of constant content, where the waterfalls are spangles sewn upon white tape, and the cloudless skies are blue gauze and silver foil ?” “‘ But we’re not always painting transformations, you know,” Mr. Thornton answered, in nowise offended by the artist’s graceful insolence; ‘ scene- painting isn’t all done with Dutch metal and the gluepot; we're obliged to know a little of perspec- tive, and to have a slight knowledge of color. Some of my brotherhood have turned out tolerable landscape-painters, Mr. Darrell. By-the-bye, you don’t do anything in the way of landscapes, do you?” ‘* Yes,” Launcelot Darrell answered, indifferently, “T used to try my hand at landscape; but human interest, human interest, Mr. Thornton, is the strong point of a picture. To my mind, a picture should be a story, a drama, a tragedy, a poem— something that explains itself without any help from a catalogue.” ‘Precisely. An epic upon a Bishop's half-length,” Richard Thornton answered, rather absently. He saw Eleanor’s watchful eyes fixed upon him, and knew that with every moment she was losing faith in him. Looking round the room he saw, too, that there were a couple of bloated portfolios leaning against the wall, and running over with sheets of dirty Bristol board and crumpled drawing- paper. “Yes,” Launcelot Darrell repeated, “JI have tried my hand at landscape. There are a few in one of those portfolios—the upper one, I think— not the purple one, I keep private memoranda and scraps in that. Thegreen portfolio, Mr. Thornton; you may find some things there that will interest you—that might be useful to you, perhaps.” - The artist threw down his mahlstick and strolled across the room to talk to Laura Mason and his mother, who were sitting near the fire. In doing this he left Eleanor and Richard side by side, near the easel and the corner in which the portfolios leaned against the wall. There was a large, old-fashioned window in this corner of the room, the casement against which Eleanor had stood when Launcelot Darrell asked her to be his wife. The window was in a deep recess, shaded by thick, crimson curtains, and in the recess there was a table. Any one sitting at this table was almost concealed from the other inmates of the room. Richard Thornton lifted both the portfolios, and placed thei on this table. Eleanor stood beside him, breathless and expectant. “The purple portfolio contains private memo- randa,” whispered the young man; “ it is in that portfolio we must look, Mrs. Monckton. There is no such thing as honor in the road we have chos?n for ourselves.” ; The scene-painter untied the strings of the loaded scrapbook and flung itopen. A chaotic mass of drawings lay before him. Crayon sketches; pencil scraps; unfinished and finished water-colored drawings; rough caricatures in pc n- and-ink, and in water-colors; faint indications of half-obliterated subjects; heads, profiles, chias and noses; lithographed costumes, prints, etch- ings, iliustrations torn out of books and news- papers; all flung together in bewildering con- fusion. Mr. Thornton, seated at the table with his head bent over the papers before him, and with Eleanor standing at his shoulder, began steadily and <e- liberately to examine the contents of this purple

portfolio. Ile is all, these, | would be quite a new sort of thing to this scene- | We carefully scrutinised each drawing, however | slight, howcve: roughly done, however unpreten- | tious. He looked also at the back of each drawing, | sumetimes finding a blank, sometimes finding a | faint pencil indication of a rubbed-out sketch, or a ' rough outline in pen-and-ink. For a long time he found nothing in which the j utmost iogenuity could discover any relation to ; that period of Launcelot Darrell’s existence which | Eleanor believed to have been spent in Paris. “ Belisarius. Girl with basket of strawberries. Marie Antoinette. Headsman. Flower-girl. Oliver Cromwell refusing the Crown. Oliver Cromwell denouncing Sir Harry Vane. Oliver Cromwell and his daughters. Fairfax’’—muttered Richard, as he looked over the sketches. ‘ Didn’t I tell you, Eleanor, that a man’s sketchbook contains the record of his life? These Cromwell drawings are all dated in the same year. Nearly ten years ago; that is to say, when Mr. Darrell had very little knowledge of anatomy and a tremendous passion for republicanism. Further on we come to a pas- toral strata, yousee. The watermill; Rosa. There is a perpetual recurrence of Rosa and the Water- mill; Rosa in a bridal dress; the mill by moon- light; Rosa in a simple russet cloak; the mill in a thunderstorm; Rosa sad; the mill at sunset; and the series bears date two years later, when the artist was desperately in love with a rustic beauty in this neighborhood. Now we lose sight of Rosa, and come upon a Roman period; the artist goes in for the grand and classic. The Roman period lasts a very short time. Now we are in London; yes, up to our eyes in ‘student life in the metropolis, Here are sketches of artist existence in Clipstone street and the purlieus of Fitzroy Square. Here is the Haymarket by night. An opera-box. Lady Clara Vere de Vere. Lady Clara at the flower show—in Hyde Park—at a concert—aha! the artist is in love again, and this time the beauty is high- born and unapproachable. Here are pen-and-ink hints at contemplated suicide; a young man lying on a pallet bed, an empty bottle on the floor labelled Prussic Acid; another young man leaning over the parapet of Waterloo Bridge on a moonlit night, St. Paul’s in the background. Yes, there have been wasted love and despair, and a wild yearning for death, and that generally morbid and unpleasant state of mind which is the common result of idle- ness and strong liquors. Stay!” cried Richard Thornton, suddenly, ‘we're all wrong here.” ‘*What do you mean?” asked Eleanor. She had watched the young man’s examination of the drawings with eager interest, with ever-increasing impatience, in her desire to come to something tbat should be evidence against Launcelot Darrell. ‘‘What do you mean?” she said, and then she added impatiently: “‘How slow you are, Dick! What do I want to know of this man except the one proof that will identify him with that man upon the Boulevard ?” ‘* 1’ma afraid we’ve been making a mist ke all this time,” Richard said, in rather a despondent tone. “I’m afraid these sketches must have been done by some companion of Mr. Darrell’s. I’m afraid they’re none of them his.” “Not his? But why—why not?” Because the first lot, the Cromwells and the Rosas, are all signed with a flourishing autograph -—‘Launcelot Darrell, pinxt.,’ in full, as if the young man were rather proud of his name.” “Yes, yes; but what then ?” “The London life sketches, the Lady Claras and the suicides, which are much better than the first lot, though I should have thought they had been by the same man, are all signed with a monogram.” “A monogram ?” ‘Yes, of two initials. I’ve been trying to make them out for ever so long, and I’ve only just suc- ceeded. The two letters are R. L.” Richard Thornton felt Eleanor’s hand, which had been resting lightly upon the back of his chair, tighten suddenly upon the rosewood scrollwork, he heard her breath grow quicker, and when he turned his head he saw that she was deadly pale. “It is coming home to him, Richard,” she said. “The man who cheated my father called himselt ‘Rober: Lan—’ Part of the name was torn away in my father’s letter, but the initials of that false mame are R. L. Go on, Dick; go on quickly, for pity’s sake; we shall find something morc presently.” Eleanor Monckton had spoken in a whisper, but at this moment the scene-painter laid his hand upon her wrist and reminded her by a gesture of the necd of caution. But Mr. Darrell and the two ladies at the other end of the roomy studio were in no manner observant of anything that might be going on in the curtained recess of the window. Laura was talking, and ber lover was laughing at her, half pleased, half amused, by her childish frivolity. Richard Thornton turned over a heap of sketches without speaking. But prese#ftly he came upon a water-color draw- ing of a tong lamplit street, crowded with figures in grotesque costumes, and with masks upon theic faces. ““We have crossed the Channel, Eleanor,” he said. ‘‘ Here is Paris in Carnival time, and here is the assumed name, too, in full—‘Robert Lance, March 2d, 53.’ Be quiet, Elear.or, be calm, for Heaven’s sake. The man is guilty; I believe that now, as fully as you do; but we have to bring bis guilt home to him.” “Keep that sketch, Richard,” whispered the girl, “‘keep it. It is tte proof of his false name. It is the proof that he was in Paris when he was believed to be in India. It is the proof that ho was in Paris a few months before my father’s death.” The scene-painter folded the tumbled sheet of drawing-paper and thrust it into the breast pocket of his loose coat. “Goon, Richard; goon,” said Eleanor; “there may be somcthing more than this.” The young man obeyed his eager companion; one by one he looked at the pen-and-ink sketches,

the crayon drawings, the unfinished scraps in Tn dian ink or waier volor They all bore evidence of a life in Paris and its neighborhood. Now a débardeur hanging on the arm of a student; now a grisette drinking limonade gaseuse with an artisan beyond the barrier ; a funeral train entering the gates of Pére la Chaise; a show- man on the Boulevard; a group of Zouaves; a bit of landscape in the forest of St. Germain, with equestrian figures beneath an arch of foliage; a scene in the Champs Elysées. And at last, a rough pencil sketch of a group in a small chamber at a café ; an old man seated at a lamplit table playing écarté with a man whose face was hidden ; an aristocratic-looking, shabby, gentee} old man, whose nervous fingers seemed to clutch restlessly a little pile of napoleons on the table before him. There was a third figure; the figure of a smartly dressed Frenchman standing behind the old man’s chair; and in this watcher of the game Eleano recognised the man who had persuaded her father to leave her on the Boulevard, the companion of the sulky Englishman. The sketch was dated August 12, 1853; the very day on which Richard Thornton had recognised the dead man in the ghastly chamber of the Morgue. On the back of the drawing were written these’ words: “Sketch for finished picture to be called * The last of the Napoleons’—Robert Lance.” The likeness of the principal figure to Goorge Vane was unmistakable. The man who had been heartless enough to cheat his kinsman’s friend had made this record of the scene of his cruelty, but had not been so callous as to carry out his design after the suicide of his victim.

CHAPTER XXXIII.—-MAURICE DE CRESPIGNY'S WILL. Ricuarpd THorNTON folded the peneil sketch and put it in his pocket with the water-colored drawing. ‘ “I told you that Launcelot Darrell would make a confidant of his pencil,” he said, in a low voice. ‘We may as well tie up the portfolio, Mrs. Monck- ton; there will be nothing more in it that can help us. The memory of your father would scarcely be pleasant to this young man after the 12th of August. When he made this sketch he had yet to learn the consequences of what he had done.” Eleanor stood behind the scene-painter’s chair, silent and motionless. Her face was pale, and her mouth compressed and rigid with the eftort by which she controlled her agitation. But a flame of fire burned in her luminous gray eyes, and her delicate nostrils quivered with a convulsive move- meut. Mr. Thornton carefully replaced the sketches in the purple portfolio, tied the strings and laid the book in its old place against the wall. Then, un- fastening the green portfolio, he went rapidly through the landscape scraps which it contained. “The hand is weak here,” Richard said; “ Mr. Launcelot Darrell has no sympathy with nature. He might be a clever figure-painter if he had as much perseverance as he has talent. His pictures are like himself—shallow, artificial and meretri- cious, but they are clever.” The scene-painter said this with a purpose. He knew that Eleanor stood behind him, erect and statuesque, with her hand grasping the back of his chair, a pale Nemesis, bent on revenge and de- struction. He wanted, if possible, to let her down to commonplace feeling by his commonplace talk, be- fore Launcelot Darrell saw her face. But, looking round at that pale young face, Richard saw how terrible was the struggle in the girl’s breast, and how likely she was at any moment to betray her- self. “Eleanor,” he whispered, “ if you want to cagy this business to the end, you must keep your secret. Launcelot Darrell is coming this way. Remember that an artist is quick to observe. There is the plot of a tragedy in your face at this moment.” Mrs. Monckton tried to smile, but the attempt was very feeble, the smile was wan and sickly. Launcelot Darrell came to the curtained recess, but he was not alone. Laura Mason came with him, talking very fast, and asking innumerable questions, now turning to her lover, now appealing to Eleanor or Richard Thornton. “What a time you’ve been looking over the sketches,” she said; “‘and how do you like them, and which do you like best? Do you like the sea- side bits or the forest sketches? There’s a picture of Tolldale, with the cupola and the dinner-bell, Eleanor ; I like the sketches in the other portfolio best; Launcelot lets me look at them, though he won’t allow any one else to see them. But I don’t like Rosa. I’m terribly jealous of Rosa—yes, I am, Launcelot; and it’s not a bit of use telling me you were never in love with her, and you only admired her because she was a pretty rustic model. Nobody in the world could believe that, could they Mr. Thornton? could they, Eleanor? When an artist paints the same face again and again, and again and again, he must be in love with the original, mustn’t he now ?” Nobody answered the young lady’s ‘eager ques- tions. Launcelot Darrcll smiled and twisted his dark moustache between his slender womanish fingers. Laura’s unrestrained admiration of him was very agreeable ; and he was beginning to be in love with her, after his own fashion, which was a very easy one. Eleanor looked at her husband’s ward with a strange expression ia -her face—a stern unpitying gaze, that promised little good to the young heiress. “What is this foolish girl’s fancy to me that it should weigh against my father’s death?” she thought. ‘ What is it to me that she may have to suffer? Let me remember the bitterness o: his sufferings ; let me remember tbat long night upon which I watched for hini—that miserable night in which he despaired and died. Surely the remem- bran :e of this will shut every thought of pity from

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Avoust l, 1863.] FRANK LESLIE£’S ILLUSTRAiLD CA ORS A 303 NEWSPAPER, Perhaps Eleanor Monckton had need to reason wh herself thus. It might be difficult te be true ier scheme of vengeanse, when, in the path she had to tread, this girl’s heart must be trampled ,pou — this, innocent, childish, confiding little -reature, who had clung to her and trusted in her, and loved her, from the hour of their first ceting. a Should I be pitiful, or merciful, or just to her if I suffered her to marry a bad man?” Mrs. Monckton asked herself. “No; for her sake, as much as for the memory of my father, it is my duty to denounce Launcelot Darrell.” Throughout the drive back to Tolldale, Mrs. Monckton silently brooded upon the morning’s work. Richard Thornton had indeed proved a powerful ally. How often she had been in that studio and not once had the idea of looking amongst the artist’s sketches for the evidence of his life occurred to her. “J told you that you could help me, Richard,” she said, when she found herself alone with the scene-painter. ‘You have given me the proof which I have waited for so long. I will go to Woodlands to-night.” “ What for ?” “To show these two sketches to Mr. de Cres- igny.” “But will that proof be strong enough to con- yince aman whose powers of perception must be weakened by age? What if Mr. de Crespigny should fail to understand the evidence of those sketches? What if he should refuse to belicve your accusation against his nephew ?” “ T will show him my father’s letter.” “You forget that your father’s letter accuses Robert Lance and not Launcelot Darrell.” ‘‘ But the sketches are signed ‘ Robert Lance.’” « And Mr. Darrell may deny his identity with the man who signed himself by that name. You cannot ask Maurice de Crespigny to believe in his nephew’s guilt on the testimony of a pencil-drawing which that nephew may boldly repudiate. No, Eleanor, the work of to-day is only one step upon the road we have to tread. We must be patient, and wait for more conclusive proof than that which we hold in these two sketches.” Eleanor sighed wearily. “And in the meantime the 15th of March may come, or Mr. de Crespigny may die,” she said. “Oh, let me go to him at once; let me tell him who I am, and show him my father’s letter; let me tell him the cruel story of his old friend’s death. He knows nothing but that which he learned from a brief notice in a newspaper. He cannot refuse to believe me.” Richard Thornton shook his head. “You have asked me to help you, Eleanor,” he said, gravely; “if I am to do so you must have some faith in my counsel. Wait until we have fuller power to prove our case before you reveal yourself to Mr. de Crespigny.” Mrs. Monckton could not very well refuse to sub- mit herself to the scene-painter’s guidance. He had already most decisively demonstrated the superiority of his deliberate policy, as compared with the impulsive and unconsidered course of action recklessly followed by a headstrong girl. “T must obey you, Dick,” Eleanor said, “ be- cause you are so good to me, and have done so much to prove that you are a great deal wiser than lam. Butif Mr. de Crespigry should die while we are waiting for further proof, I——” “You'll blame me for his death, I suppose, Mrs. Monckton,” interrupted Richard, with a quiet smile, “after the manner of your :ex ?” * Eleanor had no little difficulty in obeying her counsellor, for when Gilbert Monckton met his wife at dinner, he told her that he had been at Woodlands that morning, and that her friend Maurice de Crespi ny was daily growing weaker, and was not expected to live through the early spring months. “The old man is fading slowly away,” the lawyer said. “‘ His quiet and temperate habits have enabled him to hold out much longer than the doctors ex- pected. It is like the gradual going out of a candle they say; the flame sinks little by little in the socket. You must go and see the poor old man, Eleanor, before he dics.” : “Before he dies!” repeated Mrs. Monckton, “before he dies! Do you think he will die very soon, then, or die suddenly ?” “Yes, I think he may go off suddenly at last; the medical men say as much, I understand.” Eleanor looked at Richard Thornton. “I must see him, and must see him before he dies,” she said. “Is his mind unimpaired, Gilbert? Is his intellect still as clear as it was a week ago ?” “Yes,” answered Mr. Monckton, “I have every reason to believe so, for while I was talking to the two young ladies in the breakfast parlor Henry Lawford, the Windsor attorney, came in, and asked metoup to Mr. de Crespigny’s room. What do you think I was wanted for, Eleanor ?” “T have no idea.” “Twas wanted to act as witness to the old man’s will, in-conjuxction with Lawford’s clerk. I need searcely tell you I was nota little astonished to find that Maurice de Crespigny had only now made up his mind as to the disposal of his money. I suppose he has made half a dozen wills, and des- ‘royed one after another according to his humor. I only hope the maiden sisters may get a decent reward for their long years of patience and expec- tation.” Eleanor’s trembling fingers trifled nervously with the ornaments at her watchchain. It was with dificulty that she could control her agitation. “But to whom is the fortune left?” she asked, creathlessly. “ Did you hear that, Gilbert ?” “No, my dear, it isn’t usual to make the wit- hess to a will acquainted with the body of the deed. ‘aw poor Maurice de Crespigny execute his feeble autograph, and I put my own muscular-looking “gnature in the place indicated to me, and I asked ne questions. It was enough for me to know that Thad no interest in the document.” * But did Mr. de Crespigny say nothing -—not.b 3 that could lead you to guess who——” “Mr. de Crespigny said nothing whatever cx!- culated to throw any light upon his intentions. Re seemed relieved by the idea that his will was made and the business scttled. Luwferd wanted to carry off the document, but the old man insisted on keep- ing it in his possession. He wished to look over it, he said. He wanted to see if his intentions had been fully carried out, in the spirit as well as in the letter. He put the parchment under his pillow, and then laid down with an air of satisfaction. I dare say he has gone through the samc little come:iy again and again before to-day.” “Perhaps he will destroy this will,” Eleanor said, thoughtfully. There was a double danger of Launcelot Dar- rell’s yetting the fortune. He would get it if it was bequeathed to him. He would take it as heir at-law if his great uncle died without a will. “Yes,” Mr. Monckton answered, indifferently, “the old man may change his mind again if he lives long enough to repent of this new will. But I doubt his surviving so long as to do that.” “And have you no idea, Gilbert—have you no idea as to whom the fortune is left ?” Mr. Monckton smiled. “This is a question that concerns you, Laura,” he said, “‘a great deal more nearly than it does us.” “What question?” asked Miss Mason, looking up frora an elaborate piece of embroidery which she had been showing to Signora Picirillo. ** We are talking of Mr. de Crespigny’s fortunc, my dear; you are interested in the disposal of thar, are you not?” “«Oh yes, of course,” answered the youpg lady; “I ought to be interested for Launcelot’s sake, I know; and I know that he ought to have the for- tune, and that nobody has any right to deprive him of it, especially those nasty old maids who had him sent to India against his will, and I dare say ise will have horrid pains in his liver from the clim:ie when he’s older. Of course he ought to have the fortune, and yet sometimes I think it would be nicer for him to be poor. He may never be a great artist if he’s rich, perhaps; and I’d rather go to Rome with him and sit by his eagel while he works, and pay the hotel bills and the travelling expenses, and all that sort of thing, out of my own money, than have him a country gentleman. I shouldn’t like him to be a country gentleman ; he’d have to hunt, and wear topboots and nasty leather gaiters, like a common ploughman, when he went out shooting. I hate country gentlemen. Byron hasn’t one country gentleman in all his pocns, and that horrid husband in Locksley Hall will show you what an opinion Tennyson has of them.” Miss Mason went back to the signora and the embroidery, satisfied with having se‘tled the busi- ness in her own manner. ‘He couldn’t look like the Corsair if he had Woodlands,” she murmured, despondently ; “‘ he’d have to shave off his moustache if they made him a magigtrate. What would be tie good of his t.lk- ing seriously to poachers if he wore turned-down collars and loose handkerchiefs round his neck? People would never respect him unless he was a Guy, with creaky boots and big seals hanging to his watchchain.” Eleanor pushed the question still further. “You think that Mr. de Crespigny,has left his fortune to Launcelot Darrell, don’t you, Gilbert ?” she asked. Her husband, prompted by the evil spirit that was his occasional companion, looked at her rather suspiciously, but her eyes met his own with an un- faltering guze. “Why are you so interested in this fortune and in Launcelot Darrell ?” he said. “T will tell you by-and-bye. But tcll me now if you think the estate is left to Mr. Darrell ?” “T think it scarcely unlikely that it isso. The fact of Maurice de Crespigny making a fresh will within six months of the young ‘man’s return looks rather as if he had been led to relent of some pre- vious determination by the presence of his niece’s son.” “But Mr. de Crespigny has scen very little of Launcelot Darrell.” ‘Perhaps not,” answered Mr. Monckton, coldly. ‘I may be quite wrongin my conjecture. You ask for my opinion, andI give it you freely. Pray iet us change the subject. I hate the idea of all this speculation as to who shall stand in a dead man’s shoes. As far as Lauucelot Darreil’s interests are concerned, I really think there is an uncurrent of common sense in Laura’s romantic talk. He may be all the better for being a poor man. He may be all the better for having to go to Italy and work at his art for a few years.” Mr. Monckten looked sharply at his young wife as he saidthis. I rather think that the demon familiar had prompted this speech, and that the lawyer watched Eleanor’s face in the desire to dis- cover whether there was anything unvleasant to her in the idea of Launcelot Varrell’s lung absence from his native country. But clever as Gilbert. Monckton was, the mystcry of his wii’) face was as yet beyond his power to read. He watched her ia vain, The pale and thoughtful countenance told nothing to the man who wanted the master key by which alone its «x- pression could be read. (To &: continucd ) A DitemMa CONCERNING Reset Notrs.— Judge Wylie, sitting in the District Court at Wash- ington, D. C., as a Court of Admiralty, is at a loss to know what to do wirh a large amount of so-raijed Confederate mony, included in property brought b - fore him for condemnation. He says that to conden it would be to recognize it as property; to sell it would be to giveit circulation, and to destroy it would be to give aid and comfort to the enemy by relicving him of his liabilitics. KINDNESS. U's the tlowery inead uw Through tre wicket gate, Comes oar dariing lassic, Charming little Kate; Eyes as bright as jewels— Shining is her hair— Rosy cheeks and dimples— Fairest of the fair. To see her is to love her: The little lambkins wait To greet their siniling Katy, To meet her at the gate. The little piayful kitten— She runs to meet her there, And all domestic creatures Her kindly blessings share. Oh, the power of kindness! ~ So gentle, loving, meck, It is indeed a language Even the dumb can speak; The deaf can understand it, It sheds a cheering ray ; Then let us strive to make it Our guide from day to day. MY SECOND-CLASS TICKET, By Flint Kelsey. In a pleasant New England town I was borr and brought up, where my father had been in a thriving business for. many years; but reverses de- priving him of his fortune he took his departure for the Eldorado of the West, where, after many ‘rials and priyations, of which we probally have a smail conception, he dicd. Wheu this trouble came upon voother I was a little girl in pantalettes, and aside jrom the hush in the house and the serious faces of all about us, realized little of my loss. He had been gone from our circle too long for my young miu to retaln much remembrance of him, so after my firs’ burst of gricf I reourned him but little. We moved to Wieconsin when I was fourteen, and having just éonned long dresses, 1 was satisiied with everybody and everything. A faint recollection of my appearance comes to mind as I think of those days. 1 was extremely tall for my age, but not correspondingly broad, sv my graid- mother’s description of me must have been a happy one—‘ the tip eud of nothing, whittled off to a poiz'.’ Unfortunately I had one feature which attracted uni. versal attention, judging from the remarks alwys being passed upon it. That was my nose—an unqualified pug. It is now described as retroussé, which is little consolation after the vexations it has caused me. ‘To be sure I hive features to compensate for this one; my mouth, jor instance—whose gencrous proportions amply mike up for the other’s deficiencies in this respect. My hair hung about my head in a tangled mass,and mighthave been pretty had it been “ golden in the sunlight brown in the shade,” but, alas! it was decidedly yellow in light or shadow. Had the color stopped here it might have been endurable, but its charming effect was imparted to the skin. In beautiful contrast were my eyes—large aud gray, whose peculiarity hiaa always been to stare, in unwinking pertinacity, «t every one. Thus looked my amiable eelf in this milk and water stage of my existence. Was I conscious of my lack of beauty? Always! When a mere chill I have stopped in the midst of play to long with all my silly little heart to be pretty, that peopie might love me and not be for ever nagging me for whut I neither made ner could mend, Soon the bracing Western air blew roses into my cheeks and the lily to my skin. The languor of ill- health gave place to a joyous love of life and motion, and so my lank frame grew rounded and symmetrival. The fastest pony on our farm was my favorite, :nd like deer we sped over the prairic, my return to be grected with more affectionate looks than 1 had cver known before. The world began to louk brighter from this period, Instead of sitting off in au unob- served corner, I had a place with my good-lookiug brothers and sisters, and they came io know that their little “‘ pug nose” was not at all dull i: warmed by kind looks. In my fifteenth year I was sent away to scuool, .nd after three years of study went East to teach. Gur farm had yielded us « comfortable livelihood up to this time, but now the wheat lay in wasteful profusion tm all the granariecs, not bringing enough to pay for its transportation. It is a wearying, irksome thiag to be poor. Whew one has an appreciation fur the good things of life, and is obliged to sce season aficr season shift by with no perce; tile improvement in one’s means, the warm impulses of the heart grow sluggish and life loscs its zest. Some of these trials aud dangers beset me, for I had to depeud ou my own labors for support, and was but indi:fcrently compen- sated for my ardudns duties. America has yct to learn that women’s labor should meet with a corr- sponding reward with man’s. Uatil then thousa:ds of young women must needs live a mere bread-and- butter existence. The silver liing to my cloud was my mother’s love—glowiug always at white heat. However heavy may be the prison-walls of life, a mother’s penetrating love will strike the dampness from their surface, and cause a glow about the captive uneclipsed by aught this side Divinity. I had been away irom home more than a year, and as the annual vacatien drew near word came that they could not let the time go by without a visit from me, go I ccm- menced counting the days that must intervene cre I should see them. Can any one measure his heart- tides as they rell in to the home shore, where the tired waters, no longer beaten 2bout on a tempestuous rea, may find satisfying rest? The journey was a long one, and to meet its expenses I made my old clotlics serve me another svason, and 1 aved every cunt with a miser’s care. Had my scx been different I might vave rode on the car-catcher for aught I know; but one thing I could do, and that wus io procurc a secoud-ciass ticket. After some hesitation I cva- cluded to do this, but how to kecp the kuowledge from my friends was the next study, for I had yct to learn that honest poverty is no disgrace. I felt cx- tremely sensitive on this poiut, and as sev ral of my acquaintances were going to the cars to s* me oft, I wes in a quiver lest they should cnow of wy umilliy. To avoid avything of the kind, I went tie day | fore my intended departure aad procuccd my ticket, from whose surface starcd the wirds “ Second- 3 | Class” in alarmingly plain type. I thought to keep this concealed, aad take a scat in the car just back of that created one until out of eight of the depot, when I would quietly change into the other. One cannot understand how oppressed I felt in anticipa- ticn of these events unless he has passed through the same mill A truly elongated face I earried to the cars, where my friends were awaiting me. T tried to sheke off my forebodings. but my utmost efforts were failures, and asthe time of departure drew near my nervousness must have been percepti- ble to all, but fortunately they could not attribute it to the right cause, As we were all seated there—the | gentlemen trying their best to interest me, and the | ladies in sympathetic eilence—I heard my name pro- nounced, and looking up received the outstretched hand of « valued friend. He wore a duster-coat and carried a valise, These I saw at a glance, and as I realized their import, namely, that he was to become my travelling companion, I felt a dizziness amount- ing almost .. faintness. Could itbe possible,thought I, thatth ~.,.csshould be so against me? Here was I with a prc~ramme of deceit marked out in order to avold aa expcsure of poverty, and I must needs be detected in it. Icould have cried from vexation as these thoug’:‘s whirled through my brain. What should I do¥ But there was no time for considera- tion, as the warning bell now struck, and my friends were gathcring around with their kind farewells. [ know they thought mine were tears of regret instead of wounded pride. Those they shed must have been from sympathy. We were off at last—it seemed an age of torture—and as the flutter of handkerchiefs faded from sight I would have postponed my visit rather than meet the inevitable exposure that awaited me. Do not blame me. I was young, and false opi- nions hed made the mortificition seem very great. I struggled long to regain the composure which had quite deserted me, and in seeming obliviousness he sat, thinking no doubt that emotion at parting from my fricuds was the caus¢. It was nearly time for the conductor’s appearance before I mustered courage to say in a choking voice: “Mr. , 1 am going to the front car.” I did not look to see his surprise, but I heard it in his voice. “ Going to the front car? What do you mean, Miss Kelsey ?” I was trembling perceptibly, and he must have thought something unusual was the matter, for he took onc of my hands from my blushing face to catch its expression, but I kept my handkerchief guard over it, and in explanation drew forth that dreadful ticket. My heart was beating triphammer fashion, and sounded painfully distinct in the hush of the next . moment. I waited for him to speak, but he said no- thing; and hardly daring to do so, I looked at him. He was studying not the cardboard but me, with an amused look in his eyes, yet very serious face. “And so you have been troubling yourself with this bugbear, Miss Kelsey? Could you believe my opinion of you would alter because of this circum- stance¢ You are a hero, my child, to undertake what few women would have the moral courage to perform; but fortunately you will not have to carry out your intentions, for I shall esteem it a great favor if you will let me make it right with the conductor.” Oh, no! I would not allow that. My pride re- volted ut the idea. 1 would go twenty times the dis- tance rather than submit to that humiliation. Be- sides, I told him 1 needed a penance for my deceit, and considered thisa good one. He tried hard to dis suade me, using as an argument our long and con- stan? friendship; but I was firm, and at the first sta- tion carried out my design. It was an ugly car, and the tobacco smoke almost stifled me; but how sweet it all seemed after the per- plexitics through which I had passed! When he had seen me as comfortably seated as the accommo- dations allowed of he left me, and I thought regret- fully: “He will not return: he prefers to admire heroines from a distance.” But he did come pre- sently with cushions for the seat, and as night drew on he gave my tired head a most comfortable resting- place. How strong his arm seemed asa shield from danger, and if I nestled closely to its owner it was as a weary child would have done to its father. The night was lovely—starlight glinting every- where, beautiful pictures speeding past us, and sweet lessons in the sky. There it was that a flower immortal bloomed into being in my soul, which has sinee enveloped my whole life within its glorious petals. For looking ameng the true stars, he told me I was most precious to him, and without my love his life would be asa long dark night. When the change of cars was made we rode no longer in those uncomfortable ones, for I had given him a right to provide for my welfare ever after. We reached our journey’s end in safety, to receive my mothe:’s blessing on our troth, I did not go back to teach; but a pretty house near mother’s. became the field of my labors, and never have I ceased to be thankful for the Providence which directed the purchase of that Second-Class Ticket. AN EAST INDIAN RAILROAD. However selfish the policy of England may be, her despotism is that of civilization. Be- neath her iron rule commerce flourishes, and railroads follow, asa natural consequence, her armed tread, What the Romans did for England, England is doing forthe East. A recent traveller thus describes the Bhore Ghaut, a declivity 16 miles long. A railroad now connects the interior of India with Bombay, the chicf wesicrn port of Hindostan : “ This communication brings the bigh lands of the Decean—2,000 feet above the sva level—into close con- nection with the low lands of the Presidency, and with the town of Bombay itself; converting the Deo- can into a kind of suburban district for the citizens, The Bhore Ghaut Incline of the Great Indian Penin- sula railway has occupied more than seven years in construction ; and during the greater part of that time there have been 45,000 workmen daily employed upon it. The incline is a series of tunnels through moun- tains of rock, and viaducts stretching across valleys, alternating with cich other; each part'a triumph of modern science and skill. The incline reaches at one long lift the height of 1,832 feet, the hi eleva- tion yet attaincd by any railway incline. It is 154 miles long, aud its average ent cons: quently one in 46.39. The highest tisoncis 37, the sharpest curve 15 chains radius. The tunnels are 25 in number, the greatest leogth of any of them 34, yards. There are eight viaduota, one consistin of eight arches of 50 feet, and being 129 feet high, wnd ucoiher of a like number of arches with a mext- mum bright of 143 feet. The quantity of cutting amonuts to 2,067,738 cubic yards, aad of embankments to 2,452,398 cubic yards. There are 22 bridges of va- rious spans, and 74 culverts. The total cost of the works has been £1,100,000 sterling, or £68,750 9 mile-”

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a 304 FRANK LESLIE’S ILLUSTRAYED NEWSPAPER. __[Aveusr 1, 1863) 2 ill = eae aS Whit re lj (i uly Hh un ] AUTO CRA | tHE MISSisvliPIZKAV KK—-THEZAUTOURAT, *#LAGSHIP OF BRIGADIEB-GENEKAL ELLE1’S MAINE BRIGADE, PATBOLLING THE bIVER.—-FROM A SKEICH bY F, RB. SC DELL. engaging the larger bands, smaller forces of the rebels were commit. ting atrocities in other parts, 4 house in 28th street near 9th avenue was sacked and plundered, and, mob in 9th avenue led by a mma named Burke was routed by the soldiers, but another band fired; liquor store at the foot of 424 street, the flames destroying the Weehawken ferry-house. Mayor THE RIOT IN NEW YORK. Tue riot which began on Monday, July 13, continued with unabated fury till Thursday, the 16th, when the rebels were com- pletely defeated in Second avenue by Capt. Putnam. On Tuesday Capt. Putnam, with Company F 22th United States Infantry, by a bayonet charge routed a mob at Sth avenue and 46th street, who Opdyke’s house and the Tribus . were attacking a large mansion. office were also attacked, Brooks's : Lieut. Wood with another force clothing store plundered, negro | dispersed a body of rioters who dwelling-houses in all parts pil. S were attacking a factory near Pitt laged, and many of the poor cres- and Broome streets, but as the tures murdered. . B rioters showed fight a volley was At Manhattanville the houses of E fired, killing many and routing the Provost-Marshal Nugent and Post- rest. master Wakeman were sacked and © * The police were also active, and pillaged, but further outrages were as a large body of rioters were checked by the active exertions | 4 ravaging in 2d avenue and 22d of Rev. Mr. Quarter, who adroitly 7 E street they were attacked by Capt. ona ag the mob into a pub'\ Wilson, of the 32d Precinct, with xs j his force and completely driven Mey y yt 4 = from the field. The police then bevan burnin d pillaci g av aging. removed 200 stand of arms. In Juage McCunp rescued the negro, The afiernoon, however, the rebels — hy. b Mayer to x 4 e again appeared in force and took people to deporte; bet ey & possession of the steam works, assembled, hung the negro again but were at last dislodged by and one or two more, Twice the the police under Capt. Helme and : = : : mili were compelled to fire on Capt. Franklin’s regulars, with : , ' a “2 on Me oe = a some of the 11th New York volun- ‘Ss - : ——_) ann » — ercest struggle was in rs teers under Col. H. F. (Brien. a a are . 2 laa 2 Pad ON Col. O’Brien was subsequently : . Ber wer te? prt, gra ati SS“ atrocities were attacked by a body when alone caught by the mob, = | ' Rha eA emg gnc re “e of troops under Col. Winslow and : and butchered with a ferocity that . _— sicko t. vw Col. Jardine of Hawkins’s Zouaves, J has no parallel in all the annals of with a battery manned entirely by & Indian warfare. INVASION OF MARYLAND— GtBRAL MEADE 5 ARMY CROSSING THE ANTIETAM LN PURSUIT OF LER, JULY 12 -- PROM A sGFTCH BY jw net any hy SZ L | While the authorities were thus OUR SPECIAL ARTIST, E. FORBES, were overpowered and driven ; bu an : + . — = ( . 9 on wird TNE EL =. str Pet, ie? me the ha BUINS OFFTUS AQUEDUUF v> inh OALO AND CHBSAPYAKE CANAL, aT WILLLAM:PO0T.— SKEICBED BY_C. B. MH, BON AILY,

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1, 1868.] AvuetstT 18684 es INVASION OF back, leaving Col. Sardine and some others seriously wounded. In East 39th street the military succeeded in disper- a sing the mob after a severe struggle. Duriog the day the depredations at Yorkville and Harlem were renewed, and attempts made to destroy the Government vessels building at the yards of Wm. H. Webb and C, Delamater. During the week the lines of 6 and railroads had been —— the gas was cut off im the lower part of the city, and business generally suspended ; | Smaller commit. arts, A h avenue d, ands r & man by the | fired 4 of 424 ‘ing the Mayor Tribune srooks's » negro irta pil. or crea. uses of 1d Post- ked and & es Were ertions vdroitly | pubic he moh ue, and laging. negro, ae rely forris, vilitary drives but on Thursday troops came into the city rapidly, and confidence was restored. Considerable fighting took place in the 18th Ward on the line of ist avenue, between 1 and 28th streets, The 65th and subsequently the 7th Regi- ment N. Y. 8, Volunteers, while patrolling the streets ware attaches and had several severe collisions with ne rebels, Co!. Mott with some dismounted cavalry had been hard pressed by the mob in 22d street ncar3d avenue, and had one sergeant mortally wounded. Capt. Put- INVASIONffUr MALYLARi ——ike’S ABMY OROSSING THE POTOMAC AT WILLL!Moiuxi LY sUUWs GLivbD BY WIRES.-FROMgA SKETCH BY CUR SPECIAL ALBTISI, ¢ —* = te. A ee Po ee LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSP4P RY PENNSYLVANIA—BATILE OF GETTYS8URG, FRIDAY, JULY 8.—FROM 4 SKETCH BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST, EDWIN FORBES, nam, 12th United States Infantry, was sent to his re- lief, and soon dispersed the rebels, who fled to the houses and renewed the attack; but Capt. Putnam fired on them, and killing many on the housctops, en- tered the houses and captured 24 of them in arms, and several more outside, all of whom they carried off, In Brooklyn no riot of consequence took place, but a mob on Wednesday night burned the grain eleva- tors at the Atlantic Dock. The authorities have now got the supremac continued in our present number, These sketches were not made without risk, and often obtained only by great ingenuity, the mob looking on the use of —— and paper about as tolerantly as did that led by ack Cade, Those in our present paper represent two groups of rioters as seen in different avenues, pixing an idea of the parties concerned ; the murder of Co}. O’Brien, the armory in Seventh avenue, the fight between Schermer’s battery and the mob at 28th street, a scene . An- drews, the leader of the first mob was captured, many ' in 32d street near the same avenue, the prompt justice of a lieutenant on a rioter in 36th street, the burning of the Weehawken ferryhouse, and the fierce battle in Second avenue near the Union Steam Works on the 14th; the pillaging of the clothing store of Brooks and Brothe’s in Catharine street. rioters caught by the police, and the destruction of the grain elevators, 25 authentic scenes of these fearful ~~ of the p'underers caught, many of the rebels taken in arms, and others closely followed up. Speedy justice | now meted out to these will save New York from similar scer es. During these riots we have had no less than seven artists on the spot, transferring with graphic skill the chief events. Our sketches are all real, not mere | making in all imaginary affairs, with obscure backgrounds which | riots. will do for any scene. Persons acquainted with the | -——— localities will attest the accuracy of the sketches | in the splendid supplement given with our last and ' f(A Fast FrieEND.—The Electric Telegraph. The Siege of Vicksburg. Gen. Ellet’s Marine Brigade Patrolling the Mississippi. Now that the Mississippi is open from St. Anthony’s to the Gulf, and that the course of com- merce and the flag of freedom can go unstayed “ Down the great river to the opening sea,” {INVASION OF MARYLAND—LEE RETREATING ACROSS THE POTOMAC TO VIRGINIA, ABOVE WILLIAMSPORT, JULY 13.—FROM A SKETCH BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST, C. B. H. BONWILL. the army and navy, to a great extent, relinquish the care of the river to Ellet’s Marine Brigade. The brigade owes its origin primarily to Col. Charles Ellet, jun., the projector of the ram fleet, who died from a wound received at Memphis, but when the rebel fleet was swept from the bosom of the Missis- sippi, Brig..Gev. Alfred W. Ellet created the present marine brigade, which has done immense service. The steamers are built peculiarly, and are garrisoned by cavalry, infantry and artillery. Their business BON @ILi

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306 #RANK LCESLIF’S (LLCSTRATED NEWSPAPER. [Avausr 1, 1999 to keep the river open and aid in other operations, mpaval and military. Being everready to throw a force @ any point, they render immense aid. Of their operations prior to the fall of Pittsburg, Admiral Porter says: *‘ While the army have hada troublesome enemy in front, behind tnem the gun- boats, Marine Brigade under Gen. Ellet, and « small force of troops under Gen, Deunis «nd Mower, hive kept at bay a large force of rebels, over 12,000 strong, accompanied by a large quanrity of artillery, aac thoug': offered battle severai times and engayred, the rebels invariably fied, and sati-fied themee)ves by assaulting half-disciplined and unarmed blacks.” Now that the enemy have been dislodged from taeir last strongholds on the banks of the Mississippi, the duties devolved upon Gen. Ellet’s command are im- measurably increased, but he will not be founud wanting, as he has recently shown in his summary punishment of the marauders at Goodrich’s Point. Night Fight in the Crater. Nothing, perhaps, iu the war has exceeded in fierce- ness the fight in the crater of Hickenloper’s iirst mine, after the explosion. The troops rushed in, but the enemy were almost as 800u at the spot, aod over the remaining mounds of earth a fierce battle ensued. Our men « a five second hand-grenades, but in some instances there were actually caught up by the rebels and hurled back before they exploded. Those who had muskets raised them over their heads to fire inside at the rebels. Thia deadly strife in the darkness, with the shades of night lifted only by the o~- of bursting shells or musket flash, was perfectly rific, THE HEROES OF {812 AND 1863. Tur New York Times war correspondent at Harrisburg thus relates a recent incideut there, which ought to stir the degenerate sons of Pennsyl- vanialikeatrumpet. Truly there were giants in those days: “Of the three hundred grant but tiree Tc make a new Thermopylz.” “I had written thus far when I heard the noise of a dram and fife, and looking out of my window saw a band of 15 or 20 old men marching up the street, be- hind ap old and tattered silk fi went out and followed them. They were all soldiers of the war of 1812. The flag they bore was in the battle of eeuton in 1774, They were members of the Soldiers’ Asso- ciation of 1812, of Harrisburg, and went in a body to tender their services to the Governor. It was an in- spiring sight. They were mostly hale, hearty old men, a little feeble and tottering in their walk, but far from having lost their energy or their patriotism. They kept perioct ttep to the music, and marched up to the Govcr »’s room, where the Captain, in a few appropriate words, announced that they were ready to into the trenches and fight, and would go further required. Not one of these men is less than 63 ears of age, and the oldest is 76. There is an example for young men who are 80 afraid of their precious eB. ese veterans were loudly cheered. No one need ask who they were. The story was written in the tattered ensign and the gray heads. It was curious to see them mancuvre. ey marched in single file out of the Governor’s room. When they got on the ground the order was given, ‘ Left face!’ not front, asnow. The next order was, ‘ By sections of two— on your left—wheel!’ Turning acorner, it was right or left wheel, not file. The old boys came up to the mark like young ones, and carried us back to the old times. As they halted in front of their rendezvous, a number of soldiers gathered around, and one of them said, with manly indignation, ‘ Pretty hard on you, old cocks’—irreverent but forcible— to have to come out. This —— neighborhood has sent 60 men, and here are 16 old ones.’ These old patriots are to be armed with the old flint-lock muskets, and if they have to go into the trenches, they will ‘do or dee,’ you may be sure. AS OTHERS SEE US. Tue London Quarterly, in an article de- voted to our present war, says, in alluding to our failures : “They are not such as we should have naturally —— for a people like that of the Northern States. | ailure is that to which they are least accustomed. | Whatever may be their faults, they have a right at least to the credit of generally succeeding in what | they undertake. They are onergetic, fearless, ingeni- ous, resourceful beyond any other nation of the earth. By what malignant fate has it come to‘ pass that the people who individually are proverbial for their | readiness in surmounting obstacles that seem to | others hopeless, should, as a nation, have made the | most ignominious fuilure that the world has ever | seen, in an enterprise in which all the chances were on | their side? There can be but one explanation—it is that which is in everybody’s mouth: they were in- | famously led. Ith s been well said that a regiment of asses, with « lion at their head, will do more than aregiment of lions with an ass at their head. Good leaders are the one thing needful, which no other excellencies, however supereminent, can replace. In | this case there was everything else that the most | sanguine patriot could have desir2d—gallunt soldiers, magnificent equipment, an overwhelming copesterey of numbers, and an easy communication with their sources of supply. But there was one fatal defect which has mele them, with all these advantages, the inferiors of the ill-armed, ill-fed, ill-clothed, out- numbered Confederates. The defect was that th y had not, and have not now, one man who can be called a General in the field, nor one man who can be called | a Statesman in the cabinet.”’ ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE. Tue Birmingham Gazette, of a recent date. has the following. We are anxious to know who can be the heroine of this charming love story : “ About twelve years since a gen*leman and magis- trate of the county of Worcester, England, was struck withithe singing ofa nailmaker’s daughter atC-—. At his request she was taken from the natl-block, treated as one of his family, and neither pains nor money wan spared to fit her for her future vocation—that of a public singer. Soon after she had made a most successful debut her kind friend and patron was removed by the stroke of death. Time rolled on, an‘ the fair canta- trice was qeety heard, not oniy in our noble Town Hall, but also in London and New York. But now we must introduce a new character on the scene, The young lJady’s patron had an only sou, a magistrate and barrister, who had not been a listless hearer or observer of the good voice, and, better still, the good looks and exemplary conduct of our heroine. with him the saying of the wise man, ‘ Many waters eannot quench love,’ was fully seen. The broad Atlantic offered no barrier to the passion of his heart: he sought, wooed and won her, and soon, within twelve miles of Birmipgham, some marriage bells will ring forth merrily, because two loving hearts will be united together until ‘ death do them part.’ ” A BACCHANALIAN HERO. A NEWSPAPER correspondent writes: ‘I have seen mention in the epee of the hero of Corinth—a private. Let ne tell you of another, who belon to our division. He was a private in the 52d illinois, and unfortunately drunk—so drunk that tey had taken bis gun from him. When the line fell back before that furious rebel charge, and when they 80 nearly obtained possegrion of the fort. he refused to go back, picked up a gun, and remained in p sion. A rebel ib, who was the first to enter the works, called upon him tosurrender. He replied, ‘1 never surrender!’ and shot the captain. A} rivate at- tacked him just then; he knocked him down with his gun and bayoneted him ; and before any more coud get And '. at him our men hed rallied and driven the rebels off, so that ha helithe work solitary and alonc, and by the time the regimevt got in again he hsd robbed the rehel captatu of #i40 in Confederate money, and such other little articles of value as he hac about his person.” A Letter or Cernvantus.—The following trausluiior of on inter. sting aunouncement with this euption, in « Valenc'a (Spain) paper, forwarded to the librarian of the New Esyvlund Historie Genealogic«] Society by George Kent, Eaq., United States Consul at that place: “A discovery, thot wiil be highly gratifying 19 lovers of the literary fame of our country, has just beeu made in the archives of the Count of Altamira, who has the fortune of mumbering among his illus- trions amvestors the most cevoted patrous of letters | and aris. Itis that of a long cpistie in verse, directed to Mateo Vezgucz, State Secretary of King Philip IT., by Miguel de Cervante soli siting iutercession with the King in his favor, and for his companions in misfortune; a remarkable com- position, not only for the beauty of expression and nobleness of thought, but also for the information it contains about the life of the immortal writer. We hope to see it published soon, since everything that refers to Cervantes awakems in us the most lively in- terest; and it would please us if this were not the last discovery of the kind that we should owe to the elnu- cidation and industry of the distinguished and learned man who is recognized as at the head of the specified archives, underthe direction of the well-known indi- vidual who is now charged with the general adminis- tration of the house of «ltamira.” PrRoPOsED MODE OF LESSENING ACCIDENTS ON RAILWAYs,—On considering the particular form of accident in which one train runs into another, it appears that, after a considerable breakage has taken ey a’ the end at which the two trains meet, a num- er of passenger carriages, at a given distance from the shock, escape; therefore, if before the trains, on each side of the passenger trains, goods trains were placed, they would receive the shock; and breaking the force of the biow, the passenger train ef carriages would escape. 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GOLDEN BALM OF LIFE! | served by carriers i InN TERNATIONAL HOoTr SN MOUA Ys ‘MOONS a BROADWAY AND FRANKLIy » SACHEM’S HEAD HOTEL GUILFORD, CONN. The undersigned takes pleasure in snnounc; his friends an a ge oy? that he will 5 bs this m cent Hotel, on the 29th day of j. This Hotel is of modern construction built ON an oy. tensive scale, with accommodations for 500 gue, beautifully located on tong Island Sound, 1) mij east of New Haven, on the New London and Stoy ~ ton The driver are unsurpassed, and fighi,, unequalled. A new Yacht of 40 tons is kept for the accommodation o: the Guests of this House. 4 ji liard Room, with three new marble tables. Two joy Ten-pin Alleys. Bathing-houses, with hot and qj water. Accommodations for 50 horses. Going from New York to Sachem’s Head, take thy 8:00 A. M. train and 2:30 P. M., Saturday niglita, 5.» P.M.; CHECK snd TICKET to Sachem’s Hea direet, changing cars at New Haven; time through 3} hou From New Haven to the Head at 7:00 A. M.. 10:3 A. M., and 5:30 P.M ; Saturday nights 8:45 P. x, 0 the arrival of the 5:30 train from New York. |” , Lm rt ag yo Head depot at #:304¥ :00 and 6:45 P. M.; Mondays 6:00 A. M., co . with 6:50 train New leven ae ( the oysters are planted on the und. The fi and lobsters are all floating in the fish cars.) A German Band has heen engaged for the Seagm, and will be on hand from the day of opening until th; + of closing. . B.—Moaquitoes are never seen at the Head, H. LEE SCRANTON, New Haven, June 1, 1863, TONTINE HOTELD NEW HAVEN, CONN. Having resumed the proprietorship of this imi class Hotel, the House has been put in perfect ord from chimney to cellar, the building painted throu out, papered and whitewashed—water put in, and seh Bath Rooms added. Large additions have also bea made in Furniture, etc, and the old Tontine is noy equal to any first-class Hotel in-the Country. Fam lies can have suits of rooms at cither House as lowale at any first-class House. The two Houses are furnished with Meats, Poultr Milk, Butter, Vegetables and Fruit, daily, from lif) farm at Sachem’s Head. A Telegraph line is in constant operation betwea the two houses, and connects with all the lines in th H. LEE SCRANTON, New Haven, June 1, 1863, 7 THE OR ORIENTAL ELIXIR. Providential and Wonderful Liscovery') A certain Restorative of the Mentai and Physical Bnerzies, And all Diseases connected with a : DEBILITATED NERVOUS SYSTEM, Such as Neuralgia, Loss of Appetite, Discast Liver, Colds, Coughs, Consumption, Palpitation the Heart, Depressed Spirits, Diseased Kidueys, Premature Decay, etc., ete. To Clergymen, Public Speakers, Actors, Singer Auctioneers, or others, whose avocations demu great strain upon the voice, this remedy is invalusbl as its recuperative properties renew thi expendel vitality resulting from exhaustion. PRICE $1 A BOTTLE. A highly concentrated preparation, almost ins taneous in its exhilarating, strengthening »nd sooth ing effects in all cases of extreme Nervous D.0vilit) Premature Deeay from early excesses or other uss Can be had in Pint and Quart bottles, Price, $3 and $5. : Address WATSON & CO., New York ——at Wew York Daily News. Devoted to Peace and Constitutional Lilexty. BENJAMIN WOOD, Editor and Propri*! The Re-issue of this paper commenced on MONDAY, May 18, 1853. Daily News, per annum....,....Six Dollars. Six monthe.......- Three Dollaré Single copies....... Two cents. Weekly Edition, per annuin...........--- One Delitt: Communications to be addressed t» BENJAMIN WOOD, New York Daily News No. 19 City Hall Square, New York City. Persons in thie ~ and vicinity desir'se will leave their eddrvs »¥ at' Vv office, Oo. W. FRENCH. 607 Broadway, GENTLEMEN’S FURNISHING GOODS ee wei ee te 7 ) o1 to each, + gre sn 2. doz A’ Be = teck of Muslin. U snd Jean Drawe™ wur wn warranted tot! C, W. 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SMO Ye ‘MOOT Ss 4 OTEL, ouncin le will A 4 Of June, t On an oy. 100 Luesty d, lo Wiles nd Stonipe. and fishing yi . - Two :— 2% and col ad, take th Liglite, §:% [ead direet, h 3} hours, Me 10:54 15 P. M., 00 k L x 230 AM, Connecting The fia he Season, 1g’ until the Head, LINTON, ELD = pagers « this fire rfect orde d throuch in, and nevi + also bea ine is nov ry. Fane c as lows pe ae 8, Poultry , from hi yn betweet ines in th .NTON, LIFE! R. covery | gies, t ‘STEM, , Disease pitation Kidneys, roprie! %. Ds. d Colla oRDE! vier a y lant n. Li ae (CB. . way, 5) Aveust 1, 1863.] FRANK LESLIE’S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. 307 ———— J. H. WINSLOW & CO. TEE A OPPORTUNITY EVER OF- ERED T SECURE GOOD JEWELLERY AT LOW PRICE2. 190,00¢ WATCHES, CHAINS, SETS OF JEWFLLERY, GOLD PENS DRACELETS, LOCKETS, RINGS, GENTS’ PINS, SLEZVE-BUTTONS, STUDS, ETC,, ETC., ETC WWorcts B550,000, To be sold for One Dollar each, without rd o value, and not to be paid for till aretoget. Send 25 cents for a Certificate, which will pform you what you can have for $1, and st “he eame ime our Circular containin 1 list snd particu- ars, also terns to Agents, which we want in every Regiment ena Town in the country. J. H, WINSLOW & Co., 208 Broadway, New Yors. TO ALL, WANTING FARMS. Large and tastving Settlement of VINELAND. Rich Soi', Good Crops of Wheat, Corn, Peaches, ete., to be seen, Only 30 miles from Philadelphia. Delightful climate. 20 acres tract at from $15 to aed ad acre, yable within four years. Good schools and society. Fiundreds are settling. Apply to CHAS. K LANDIS, P. M., Vineland, Cumberiand Co., New Jersey. Re- port of Solon Robinson and Vineland Rural sent free, From Report of Solon Robinson, 4g. Ed. Tribune: “ It is one of the most extensive fertile tracts, in an almost level position, and spitable condition for plea- sant farming, that we know Of this side of the Western prairies.” 406-9 VAN ANDEN’S ONE DOLLAR $ PORTABLE COPYING PRESS, Acknowiedged by all who have used it to be, in all respects, unequalled, Sent free by mail. ‘Liberal dis- count to Agents and the Trade, HANNAH & CO., 104 John Street, N. Y. Send for a Circular. 309-411 Card Pictures, Photographs, &. K. W. BENICZKY, HAVING ENLARGED AND IMPROVED HIS GALLERY, Yo. 2 a4g@->NEW-~-@ Chambers Street has increased facilities for making Card Pietures an other Photegraphs, AT THE WEST PRICES. 000 TIFFANY & O©., LATE TIFFANY, YOUNG & ELLIS. Fine Jewellery, Precious Stones, Watches, Silver ‘vare, Bronzes, blocks, Rich Porcelain Articles cf Art ond Luxury. No. 560 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Hovsz in Paris, TIFFANY, REED & CO, The Cheapest Jewell House in the World, Cir culars sent free. Address J, A. SALISBURY Agent, Providence, R, I. 395-4070 CASH !—Cash paid for old NEWSPAPERS, PAMPHLETS, BOOKS and Store Papers, RAGS, ROPE, BAGGING, COTTON and all kinds of paper stock, at 40 West Broadwa ys 000 Cc LES MAUR & CO, Bo You Want Luxuriant Whiskers or Moustaches * “\ 4S Onguent will force them to grow heavily in Wh six weeks (upon the emosthens thas) without stain or injury to the skin. Price $i—sent by mii‘, p ‘st free, to = Sg on receipt of an order. R. @, GRAHAM, 16? Nesscu St.. New York, DERRICKSOK & BARTLETT, (Successors to JAS. T. DERRICKSON,) COMMISSION PAPLR MERCHANTS, 30 Beekman Street, NW. ¥. ws G, DERRICKSON, Henry A. BARTLETT. $75 A MONTH !—I want to hire Agents in eve; ©) county at $75 2 month, expenses paid, to se my new cheap | Sewing Machines. Address 300-411 . MADISON, Alfred, Maine. VIXIATURES ON IVORY, Ste, MER. and MISS WAGNER, ARTISTS, Studio Building (Dodworth’s), 204 Fifth Avenne, 000 Opposite Madison Square. Pensions, Bounty, Pay, Prize Mone for Soldiers aad Sailors’ or bein? promptly collected. Soldiers discharged for wounds, entitled to bounty, we send our Hand. Book of Information and Circular, with Lists of prices, by ert | address, with stamp to pay return postage. SOMES, BROWN & CO., 2 Park Place, New York and 476 7th Street, Wash- ington, D.C. 406-9 $60 a nth.— Ve want Agents at $60 a month, expenses piid, to sell our EVERLASTING PENCILS, ORIENTAL BURNERS, and 13 other articles. Circu- lars free SHAW & CLARK, Biddeferd, Me. 399-411 So: Karlw Phesica! Wereneracy of AMERICON PEOPLE, Ana the eerly maisacisly dec:ine of Childinod nd Youth, just published by DR. STONE, Physicia» to the Troy Lung and Hygienic Institute. A Treatiee on the above subject, the ezusc of Ker- vous Debility. Marasmus and Consumption; Wasting of the Vital Fluids. the myveterious and hidden eauces w 3°} Impaired Nutritior and Digestion. book, | ‘ail no> to son? two re? Stempe ard chtain this Acdress DR. ANDREW STONE, Paysician to the Troy L=ng and Hygienic lustitute, and Physician for Diveas« of the Hvart, Throat and Langs Mo. 96 Fifti t,. Troy, "7. ¥. 402-414 BOOKS, CARDS, P LONDON, PARIS and YANKEE NOTIONS. Cir- clars sett on receipt of stamp. Address MACKEY & C0O., &' *Tassan St., N.Y, FURNITURE. FURNITURE, WHOLESALE AND RETATI. DEGRAAF & TAYLOR, (FORMERLY H. P. DEGRAAF,) This establistment is six storeys in height, and extends 242 feet througa io No. 65 Chrystie Street—making it one of tue largest Furniture Houses in the United States. They are prepared to offer great inducements to the Wholesale rade for Time or ROSEWOOD, PARLOR AND CHAMBER FURNITURE ; Mahogany and Walnut Parlor and Chamber Furniture; Also, CANE and WOOD SEAT work, ell qualities; HAIR, HUSK end SPRING MAT- ‘“RESSES, a large stock; ENAMELLED CHAMBER FURNITURE, 73 .4ag the purivess, 25 cents each, which must » be he re ti dle t hat Cash. Their stock consists, in part, of ee onion ee your optionto send $1, take the article or not. thcir remittance amounts to $1. | ! 52,600 ACENTS WANTED RABE OPPORTUNITY! Satehes, Chains, Lockets, BRACELETS, RINGS, G@°r2) PENS AND PENCILS, 4c., Worth $400,000, ‘ To fc. #0.1 ior One Dollar exch, without regard to No. 87 Bowery. New York. ¥..°, and not to be paid for till you know what you are to get. in aj! trars»ctions Dy mail we shall ¢ saris fter kno ing what you can have, then it will be at Five articles can be ordered for $1—eleven for = fairey for $5—sixty-five for $10—and one h Sor $15. ; AGENTs.—Those acting as Agents will be allowed 10 cents on every article ordered by them, provided Agents will collect 25 cents fe r urticl | in Sets, from $22 to $100. *o us efther in eash or postage stamps,” With the in- } : ; ; é aw, | formation of what you can have will be sent a Cir- TUCEKER’S NEW STYLE PATENT SPRING BED, | cule giving ‘ull instructions to Agents and « full | The best as well as tae cheapest of any in use. Retail price, $2each. — | Their facilities for manufacturing defy competition. Ail work guaranteed as represented. Ev soldier should have A BADGE WITH HIS Subscribers will forward to any soldier in the a x solid Silver Badge with his Name, Company and Regi- ment engraved upon it, on receipt of One Dollar. The above cut represents size and style of wy furnish- ed. It can be fasteved to any garment. Address DROWNE & MOORE, Manufacturing Jewellers, 208 Broadway, N. Y. | | Attention, Soldiers! —" MICSICA: BOXES. Pile 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 18 and 24 es, and in all styles aud sizes, with American Melodies, Operas, HOSTETTER’S Dances, ete., sod varyin,; in priec CELEBRATED cg ee OP ATLLARD | | Emperter, 21 Masder Ls 9 (wpatatre), Neo York, | STOMACH BITTERS — een ~ ~*| HosTeTTER’s BITTERS.—BEWARE OF ICE WATER.—The chill given to the circulation by large draughts of simple ice-water is decidedly dangerous —rot that the cold and grateful fluid may not be im- bibed without peril, if a wholesome medicated stimu- lant be incorporated with it. In fact, a small wine- lass of HOSTETTER’S CELEBRATED STOM- SoH BITTERS, taken before or with the ice-water, the whole difficulty will be obviated. This genial preparation is the purest and most heaithfal tonic which the vegetable kingdom has yet contributed under the manipulations of science, for the use 0 man. It converts the refrigerated beverage into au The Cenfecsions and E.zverienc ox ar Invalid. ¥ ,O«LISHLD fer the benefit and ac a “/sening § anda caution to young men who suifer frou Hervous Debility, Premature Decay, &c.; supplying at the same time the mears of Sclf-Cure. By one who has cured himself, after cing put to = expense through medicai imposition and quackery. By in- | closing » postpaid addressed envclope, Singie Copics ay Me may be had of the author, NATHANIEL MAYVALR, | invigorant, and causes it to assimilate healthtully with Ksq., Bedfort, Aings Sow t+, ¥. ¥. 395-407 | the fluids of the body. In all the range of medicincs there is nothing so sure as a preventive of malarious fevers as HOSTETTER’S BITTERS, nothing that so completely defends the system against the malaria which bears upon its foul winds the seeds of deadly disease. Take HOSTETTER’S BITTERS with your ice-water, and you are not only, safe from the effects of the shock which the un fied beverage is cal- culated to produce on the circulation, but forearmed against all the causes of fever. ; Sold by all Druggists and Family Grocers. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, PREPARED AND SOLD BY HOSTETTER & SMITH, Pitrseure, Pa. Depot ror NEW YORK, 428 BROADWAY. 1,500 | Bottles Sold in 10 Days! THE GREATEST CURF OF THE AGE! THE GREEN SEAL RHEUMATIC SPECIFIC! A CERTAIN AND SPEEDY CURE FOR CHRONIC AND INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATISM | RHEUMATIC GOUT! One bottle of this extraordinary remedy will cure an 0) attack of Rheumatism, relieving the pain almost famnedintey. Two bottles will cure the most obstinate case of Gout, allaying the pain in a few hours, reducing the swelling and eff g aradical cure in an in ible short space of time. Testimonials of its wonderful powers are pouring in upon us. PRICE $1 A BOTTLE. Address WATSON & CO., New York. ; "UD bk wea Scop Shag ‘alll 4) PR A Kal F4.% a PARR’S TOOL CHESTS, fitted with complete sets of tools, sharpened and set, ready for use, end packed in cases for shippi Prices from $3 te $32 | each, and containing from 8 to 92 tools, according to size. Shipped on receipt of price. Send for descrip- tive Circular to the manufacturer, | 409 GEO. PARR, Buffalo, N.Y. ‘Union Playing Cards! National American Amusement Cards. Colonel for King, Goddess of Liberty for Queen, and Major for Jack. 52 enameled cards to the pack. Eagles, Shields, Stars and Flags are the suits, and ' you can play eli the usual games. Three packs mailed on receipt of $1. The usual discount to the trade. Send for a C . Add AMERICAN CARD CO 409-12 455 Broadway, or 1¢5 William St., N. Y. Gold! Gold! Full irstructions in Ventriloquism, and how to win | the undying love of the opposite sex, sent by mail to | any person for Five Cents. Address | JAGGERS & HANDLEY, Calhoun, Ill. ress | fhe Great Money-Making Article. tend needs -. E nts or Soldiers | mie 10 a day. Sample, articulars, sent | mail, for 25 cents. r . A MONTH! I was to hire ere county at $75 a month, expenses . se Feoil Sewine Machines. Address, E. MADISON, Alfred, Maine, #7. my new cheap 92 cular. «6409 gi par me oy of articies, and then it will be at your option to send and get the articles or not. Address 8S. M. WARD & CO., Bex 4576, New York. 208 Broadway. P. §.—Should any articlo not give entire satisfac- tion the same can be returmed and the money AGENTS and DEALERS, And the trade in gencral—the following list of our mos* rapidly sellin: articles—Patent Match Safe for Vest locket end indelible Pencil. Very useful for marking clothicg. New Magic Tobacco Box Econo- mizer. Egyptian Cement—a union with this nope can sever. New Card Thermometers and Barometers, and 20 more novel and useful articles selling rapidly. Send ref for Circular, S. W. RICE & CO)., 8% Nassau St., N.Y., 434 Chestnut St., Phila., Pa. “‘ Moustaches and Whiskers in 42 Days.” Hunting, Fishing 22d many other GREAT SECRETS, all in the BOOK of WONDERS. 10,000 sold. 11th . Now Ready, only 20 cts. 8 for $1, oye Aadress C, E. HUNTER & CO., Hinsdale, N, H, How to Woo and be Sure to Win. “ PSYCHOLOGIC FASCINATION ”—A book of 60 pages and five illustrations, containing directions so plain that any person can fascinate and win the love and confidence of any person of the opposite sex in- stantly; thus rendering SUCCESS IN COURTSHIP CERTAIN. Sentby mail for 60 cents and a 3c, stamp, Address E. D. LOCKE & CO. Box 1525, Portland, Maine, More than 30 years of sale and use ot MARSHALL’S Catarrh and Headache Snuff, have proved its great value for all the common diseases of the head ; and at this moment, more of it is used, and e stands higher than ever before. Sold by all Drug- ste. 414 «6 Psychomancy.”—How either sex may fas- cinate end gain the love, confidence, affection and good will of any person they choose, instantiy. This simple mental acquirement can possess, securing certain success in love, marriage, &c., free by mail, for 25 cta., together with a guide to the wmanasriod of both sexes —an extraordinary book, of great interest; third ed)- tion; over 100,000 copics already sold. }! rma & CO., Publishers, Philadelphia, teed. Testimonials of $7 5 PER MONTH Clergymen and Scientific men sent free. PO aed ALE, Jr, & CO., Newburyport, Mass. Diamond Pointed Gold Pens at Wholesale ee Medium Pen $0 38, in Silver extra case, $0 75 Large “ "0 50 “ “ “ 100 Engrorssing “ 0 75 os o “« 18 Commercixi “ 1 2 rs e “« 200 Mammoth °° 12 “ 4 “« 250 Leviathan “ 2 00 “ os “« 300 Also, Fountain Pens—one filling will write eight to fifteen hours Genuine 8. Send stamp for Cir- GEO, F, HAWKES, Manufacturer, 64 Nassau Street, N.Y. » Everybody — it in 4 A mosquito me (es y the army); also, every Te the eure, to bax the dust and cinders out. J. HAVEN’S it. Price mly manufacturers, as no riage or licences have been sold. AGENTS WANTED in all parts. It is m re- the best thing out to sell, and pays the best. ceipt of $1 25, the Shield and Bag will be sent free, Send stamp for Circular. 409 These Celebrated Engraved Cards sold only at J. EVERDELL® Old in ee Broadway, cor. agplee | N. ¥. Established 1840, For Specimen by Mail, two stampa co “es E. H. MARTIN, Hinsdale, N. H. | a —-— -—-—___— 00 More Agents Wanted |—Something New !—$5 | New Maps of Port Hudson and Vicksburg. — | 2 day arapteed. No canital required. Address, | | Size 20x30. Prive 15 cents eadh—showing all of the | Fortifications, Battcries, etc. Agents can make $5 xe inf Wholesale, $7 59 per 100. G. W. '‘TOM- | me N, Publisher, 221 Washington Street, Boston, ass. Circular, one stamp. Address Box 28, 408-17 awiey, Pa. | | EMPLOYMENT At your own Homes. | THOUSANDS CAN REALIZE A HUNDRED DOLLARS WEEKLY.—No utensils required except those found in every household; profits 100 per cent. ; demand staple as flour. It is greatest discovery ofthe sge. Full particulars sent on receipt of two stam AGENTS WANTED for our “RUBY TUBE THERMOMETERS.” “ HEMMER and SHIELD.” combined, for hand sewing. ‘‘ NOVEL UNCON- SLMING CIGAR PIPE and HOLDER,” combined. “BIRD SEWING HOLDER.” for the Lap. “ IM- PROVED COAL OIL BURNER” — “ GENTS’ MATCH SAFE,”—“IMPROVED INDELIBLE PENCIL,” for Marking Linen, and 5 more novel and useful articles, For Cireulars and terms, inclose stamp. RICE & CO., 37 Park Row, N.Y. A New Medical Work. Every person, male and fe male, should havc acopy. Seut Fxer to any addreas, | 400-12 Address Box 2729, P. 0., Philadelphia, Pa. with Stamp, J. W. SrEPHENS, Morristown, N. J. | 408-9 Card Photographs 20 cts. each, 6 for $1. | ‘| 30 per cent premium paid for prizes. {[nformetion furnishe:!. Highes? price paid for D: ubloons and all kinds oj Gold and §ilver. TAYLOR & ©O., Bankers. No, 16 Wall Street, N. Y.

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FRANK LESLIE’S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. _ [Aversr 1, 1863. Et aN yi “A . \ ae \y y N\ THE MODERN HERCULES. Surgeon-General Hammond crushing out the Hydra Calomel. Note Papers and Wedding Cards. Tiffany & Co., Nos. 550 and 652 Broadway, Would pempontey inform their Patrons and the general Public, thet they have recently re-arren and considerably extended the STATIONERY DEPART- MENT of their Fancy Goops EsTABLISHMENT, and have now unequalled facilities for hing the lates: styles of Correspondence and Wedding Stationery- Cards of all sizes and shapes, engraved u the premises with punctuality and dispatch. Anitials stamped, eslored, or plain, in ordinary text or origi- nally designed monogram. A choice assortment De la Rue’s and Asprey’s Writing Cxses, Dispatch Boxes, Note and Letter Papers, as well as the last French styles, constantly for sale. 4080 Splendid Watches given to all our Agents. Agents wanted to sell our GREAT STATIONERY PRIZE PACKAGE, The best in the United States. Send for New Circular. Important Information. Something entirely New. 0000 WEIR & CO., % South Third St., Phila. PERFECT FITTING . SHIRTS. Made to Measure at $24, $80, $36 and $42 PER DOZEN. SELF-MEASUREMENT FOR SHIRTS. Printed directions for selt-measu7ement, list of prices, and drawings of different styles of shirts and collars sent free everywhere. AVIVA A HOMES 18 ito LUARS ENAMELED WHITE, Having the appearance and comfort of linen, have been worn in En, land ior the last two years in prefer- ence to any other collar, as they are readily cleanea tn one minute. To military men or travellers they are invaluable. Price $1 each ; sent by post on receipt of $1 15. Wholesale and retail. te wanted for every town and city in the Union. For terms apply to 8. W. H. WARD, No. 387 Broadway, New York. UNION LEAGUE BADGE. An Emblematic Silver-plated Bedge of the Union Party of the TC States. Pr‘ces, per hun- dred, $10. Per thousand (to Club), $80. Single Badges, 15 cents by mail, Address JOHN W. EVERETT, P. O, Box 1614, or 111 Fulton Street, New York. 0000 Mal emal ge—For valuable information send iets 40 Be m. ue, Box 62, Woburn, Mass, 4100 i Jesstifal Siero-eope fir © oH. 44 AGNIFYING 600 mailed on receipt : See. Five of 4! wers, $1 ‘Ad- aress ¥, B. BOWEN, Bex 220, , Mare r) Lands.—To ALL Wanrrixe Fasus, Thriving Beruemet. , Climate : see adverties- wout of Tiaclamh. peg? 307. 406-99 GEN. GRANT AND GEN, MEADE, Army Corps and Division Pins, UNION LEAGUE & MASONIC PINS. AMERICAN WATCHCHAINS, LOCKETS, RINGS, PINS, etc., etc. I will send to any Soldier, on the receipt $1, a Solid Silver Shield, or any Army Division Pin with the Name, Company and Regiment engraved on it; ora Kearny Cross Pin in fine Gold Plate, or a fine Gold Masonic Pin or Ring; and for 50 cents I will senda new style Union League Pin, together with my wae. T. HAY WARD, Manufacturing Jewell . T. , Man’ eweller 208 Brosdway, N. ¥. TO EVERYBODY Who wishes to get rich. We offer GREAT INDUCEMENTS To sell the largest, best and cheapest Stationery and Prize Packets Out. Something that everybody wants, and NO HUMBUG! Send for our New Circular and read for yourself. ° G, 8. HASKINS & CO., 36 Beekman 8t., N. Y $20 AMERICAN $20 LEVER WATCHES. HANDSOME HUNTING CASE GENUINE AMERICAN LEVERS, for $20, or a case of six for $110. Watches of every description at -owest wholesale prices, All orders from the Pity, must be pre-paid 0000 J. L. FERGUSON, 208 Broadway, N, Y. A% articles for Soldiers at Baltimore, Wash- é ingten, Fortress anaes. . x m ewberpe, Port Royai, ars other be sen, at half rates, by HARNDEN'S EXPRESS No. 74 Broadway, Sutlers charged low rates. 000 vai¢. For particulars, ad- ae nih stanay) ERIS BEOS., Mass, 1-416 ~ Rare Opportunity for Agents ! " From a Reliable Source. The advertisement on our inside page, of Ss. M. WARD & CO., Offers a tempting opportunity to acquire personal adornments and useful articles at a small price. The firm is entirely reliable and will perform all they promise.— Working Farmer. ° Shults’ Onguent.— Warranted to produce a full set of Whiskeis in six weeks or money refunded, Sent, postpaid, for 30cents. Address C. F. SHULTS, 4080 WATCHES. $7. $7. A Beautifal ved Gold-Plated Watch, Lever Cap, emall size, English Movements, perfect time- ret Sent free by mail, in neat case, for only $7. A Solid Silver, same as above, $7. Special adapted to the army. CHAS. P. NORTON & Co. o 38 & 40 Ann Street, N. Y. Nervous Diseases and Physical Debili- TY, arising trom Specific causes. ir both Sexes—n-w and reliable treatment i> Reports of the HOWARD ASSCCIATION—sent in sealed letter envelopes free of charge. Acdress VR J. SKILLIW OUGH TON, Howard Association, No. 2 South Ninth str: et Ph ladelphie, Pa, ° STEINWAY & SONS, Nos. 8 and & Waiker Street, N. Y., were awarded 6 FIRST PRIZE MEDAL t the late Great In bition, Londor Ther: were two hundred and sixty-nire pianos from } entered for competition. eal pe of the worl: ithe epecial correspondent of the New York Times “7 \esers. Stcinway’s endorsement by the Jurors is epwhatic, ond stronger and more to The point thar cfany European maker.” OMe $15 Per Day Easy $15 And a Watch Free! 100,000 men and women wanted to act as Agents in LOCKWOOD’S, 675 BROADWAY. 10 COLLARS FOR 40 CENTS, E> THE GENUINE CLOTH-LINED PAPER COLLAR, At Wholesale and Retail. Gents. Furni Goods. TI have ceolegest and best jeelected stock the city, and itee to please th {most fastidious. . 4 SHIRTS 6 best quality Linen for $30. *I9PIO OF Ope sIV]TOH wouyT NO FIT! NO SALE! { everywhere Orders prom attended on application. to. All ae iavised to call on \ CHARLES L. LOCKWOOD. ; Lafarge block. 675 Broadway, N. Y. STERLING'S AMBROSIA DR, STERLING’S AMBROSIA is a stimulating oily extract of Roets, Barks and Herbs. It will cure all diseases of the scalp, and itching of the head; en- tirely eradicates dandruff. prevents the hair from fall- out, or from prematurely y, causin it grow thick roa ts It is entirely differen‘ from all other pee, and can be relied on. DR. H. H. STERLING, 493 Broadway, New York For sale by . Put up in a box containing two bottles. 4080 every Town, Village and Camp to sell our é y ir, unex and EXTRA LARGE SIZE TATIONERY, RECIPES, YANKEE NOTIONS and PRIZE PACKAGES, , Best and Cheapest ever manufactured. Each P: contains fine Writing Materials, such as Paper, Envelopes, Pens, Pencils, Blotters, Emblems, Ladies’ Paris Fashion Plates, De- signs for Neeolework, Cottage Keepsakes, Household Companions, Camp Com) ons Yi Soldiers), Parlor Amusements, Guide for Letter Writers, Many Ways to Get Rich, Likeneeses of Generals, Gents’ Pocket Calendars for the Year, Union Designs, YANKEE Notions of all kinds, Recipes, Games, Army Laws and Advice, Rich and Costly Presents of Fashionable Jewellery, etc., etc., ete., the whole worth MANY DOLLABS, if bought separately. Price each Package ONLY 26 cents retail. Wholesale rates to Agents very low. 300 to 00 PER CENT PROFIT AL- LOWED. Packages of escriptions put up for Sut- lers, Pedlars, Olesale Dealers, etc. GOODS SENT TO ALL PARTS OF THE ARMY SAFE. All Soldiers are allowed to Receive and Sell our Goods. A Splen- did Solid Silver Watch, Erglish Movements. and Correct Timepiece, presented free to all who act as Agents, Send for our New Circulars with Fztra Premium Inducements, free. 8. C. RICKARDS & co., 1 > Nassau Strect, New York, the Great Ori argest and Oldest Prize Package House in the World. Beware of imposters of similar names, MEN’S, YS AND CHILDREN’S MEN’S, BOY’S AND CHILDREN’S CLOTHING. CLOTHING, CLOTHING. PRICES REDUCED 20 PEB CENT. PRICBS REDUCED 20 PER CENT. CLARKE’S CLARK’S CLARK’S PIONEER CLOTHING EMPORIUM, PIONEER CLOTHING EMPORIUM, 398, 400 and 402 BOWERY. 398, 400 and THE BALANCE OF THE BALANCE OF THE SUMMER STOCK TO BE SOLD BY JULY 10th, TO BE SOLD BY JULY 10th. TO BE SOLD BY JULY 10th. BALLOU’S Patented French Yoke SHIRTS, Warranted to rit, and to be CHEAPER for the same qual- ities and make than those of any other Shirt House in this city. Circular contain- ing drawings and prices sent free. For sale by all the principal dealers throughout the United States. BALLOU BROTHERS, 403 Broadway, New York. Mental and Physical Energies Re- stored.—See page 306, " TOMES, SON & MELVAIN, 6 Maiden Lane, New York. ToT a es in Arms and Mil.vary Goods of every Description. BICH PHESUENTATION SWORDS. hate vealers Breach-, is, stp oe Manat. aring Cee maveivthe Piste, FINE DRESS SHIRTS TO ORDER. UNRIV ALLED In MANUFACTURE, Fitting and Material, AT UNION ADAMS, 637 BROADWAY. FRENCH FLANNEL ARMY SHIRTS Dress Shirts TQ MEASURE. SIX SHIRTS $12, $15 & $18. JAS. PARRISH’S Dress Shirts, TO ORDER, are made a Perfect Fit, Superior Work, and are Unequalled in Quality for the Prices. STREET, near Brosdway, N. Y L.Y.DS. Spring is the time to use DR. LEATHE’S Which Purifies the Blood, Invigorates the Body, gives Tone to the Nerves, "Strength to the Muscles, and Health to every Channel, Joint and Limb. One Dollar per Bottle [which often cures]. t, 130 CHATHAM STREET, N. Y. Sold 502 GRAND STREET. Ask for LEATHE’S YELLOW DOCK SYRUP. Take no other. Established 1848. Sold by Druggiste everywhere, ° TO CONSUMPTIVES. The Rev. Edward A Wilson continues to mail fre: of charge, t2 all who desire :t, « copy of the prescrip- tion by which he was compietely cured of that dire d‘sease, Consumption. Sufferers with any Thros' or Lung Affection should cbtaia the Prescriptio » and try ite efficacy at once. Delays are dengervuvs. Address REV. EDWARD A. WILSON, WilliemsScrg. King’s Co., N. Y. 323 CANAL 4070 YOU WANT TO BE CURED of RHEUMATISM, 409-200 Wanted at $15 per Day.—We want ener ic Agents and reliabie Canvassers for a gentev! usiness, at a commission ot from $5 to $15 per = No humbug! Address C. M. DUNN & Cv., Pu lishers, at either Cincinnati, O., Chicago, Ill., or Ito Reade Street, New York. 4090 How to Reduce the Price of Coal. BUY NET HeWe Fish’s Patent Heat Adapted to either Kerosene or sons cocked at a cost of or ° Dlustrated 4d e “WM. D. RUSSELL. Agent. Of Bp 9’ @rst. CATH -AMURONESOTA