Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper 1863-10-24: Vol 17 Iss 421

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Entered according to Act of Congriss in the year 1863, by FRANK LESLIE, in the Clerk’s Office of the, District;Court tor the noutuern Disirict of, New York. —_ No. 421—Vou. XVII.] ~NEW YORK, OCTOBER 24, 1863. [Prick 8 Cents. THE STEAM-RAMS AT BIRKENHEAD. We give our readers at last a correct sketch of El Tousson, one of the steam-rams in course of coustruction for the rebels in Laird’s yard, at Birken- head. We learn no time is lost in bringing both vessels to a state of completion, and El Tousson wants put little to prepare her for receiving her equipment. Fl Mounassir is in a comparatively backward condi- tion, but the operations on board her and in the BL TOUSSON, ONS OF THE REBEL RAMS IN COURSE neighboring workshops are rapidly conducted. The two ramsare not unshapely in their bulk, but seem ss well designed for swiftness as for strength. The length of each is 230 feet, the beam 42 feet, and the extreme deptii less than 20 feet. The burden is but 1,500 tons register, and the draught of each vessel when loaded will be some 15 feet, the deck being about 6 feet above the waterline, all the intermediate surface being protected, first, by a coating of teak over the iron skin of the ship, and then by armor- 4 - Tax 7) xu mr eho % Oe Vv A‘ ih “Sa Fe ay : hy OF CONSTRUCTION IN MESSRS. plates over that, each massive scale being 54 inches thick. All this armor is dovetailed together so ac curately that the joints are scarcely perceptible, The deck is 5-inch teak, covered with iron, and the bul- warks are also of iron, being so made as to let down outwards, and thus to clear the decks during action, Each ship has two revolving cylindrical turrets, with two guns, on the principles invented by Capt. Coles, There is also a pilothouse, strongly built of teak and ironpiated, The turret wall is a aeries of cellular ” oe lé ( a 2 A Yi fale AM. ‘ 4 ' Beane j / spaces, like the chine of a shellfish, and all these iron cells are to be filled up with teak, making one solid and uniform mass, whjch is to be again strengthened and rendered well-nigh impregnable by armor-plates. At each end of the vessel is a raised deck, forming tolerably commodious quarters for officers and men; and the forecastle is made to carry one or two heavy guns, if they be needed, In the captain’s cabin are portholes for two 32-pounders; and each ram has capacity for 300 tons of coal. The machinery, asa : . . ote ii “iutlit 5 ef tn 95 ET MONT, eT ceunne LALAD’S SHLPBUILDING-YAKD, LIRKENHEAD, BNULAND.

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— matter of cours2, is all below the wa‘erlice. Their | sterns will be so formed as to protest the scrow end rudder from shot or collision. FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. NEW YORK, OCTOBER &% 183. All Communicstions, Bsoxs for Review, ete., must -be addressed to FRANK /.ESLIE, 72 Duane Btreet, be- tween Broadway and Elm, New York. Dealers supplied and sudscriptions received for FRANK LEsLig’s ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER, also FRANK LESLI£’s PicroriAl1, HIsTORY OF THE WAx OF 1861, by GeorGE P. Bemis & Co., eee elors of the American, 100 Fieet Sireet, - don, England, Single copics always on eale,

TERMS FOX THIS PAPER: One copy one esesscesccsccccoscccsce GS OS Two copies, “ to one addres...... 50 Four > eeeees 9 00 Magazine and Paper one year.....-.++++ 6 0 SCAUTION !: Frank Leste has no Agents authorised to receive subscriptions. Letters inform us that two men, in different sections, have

received considerable sums. Beware of ampostors ! Summary of the Week. VIRGINIA. The enemy, about the 2d inst., made an attempt to cross at Germania mills with 600 infantry, but were repulsed by a party of Buford’s dismounted cavalry. The enemy are concentrating a heavy force at Madison Court-house, and have driven back to Culpeper one of KiJpatrick’s brigades that crossed Robertson’s river on the 10th. Our signal station at Thoroughfare mountain was nearly cut off. An expedition of land and naval forces started from Fortress Monroe on Sunday, Oct. 4. Its destinationisunknown. Impor- tant results are expected from the success of the expedition. Our cavalry broke up, near Matthews Court-house, a naval expedition, capturing a master’s mate and a number of seamen. They were conveying boats by land to capture vessels, as they did recently in the Rappa- hannock. NORTH CAROLINA. Elizabeth city was visited a few days since by one of our gunboats and shelled, con- siderable damage being done. SOUTH CAROLINA. Desultory firing takes place, but no im- portant operation is going on. Sumter is bombarded from time to time, to prevent any repairs. A rebel shell from Johnson exploded one of the caissons left buried in the sand, but fortunately injured no one. TENNESSEE. Gen. Burnside advanced to Hiawassee river, and holds all the passes into North Carolina. A rebel force of 4.000 cavalry, under Wheeler, crossed the Tennessee, between Chattanooga and Bridgeport, and on the 2d captured 200 wagons and an ammunition train. They then took McMinnville, captur- ing the 4th Tennessee infantry, on the 4th; then destroyed Stone river bridge and the railroad bridge south of Murfreesboro’ on the 6th. Our cavalry immediately pursued. Col. Edwin McCook, with his brigade, killed 120 men near McMinnville, took 100 prisoners, including 12 officers, and recaptured 900 mules and much booty. Onthe 5th the rebels opened on Gen. Rosecrans’s camp and on Chattanooga, setting onc house on fire. On the 9th Miller’s brigade defeated the rebels, under Wheeler, near Farmington, capturing over 300 prisoners and a battery, and killing and wounding many. Our loss was 29 killed and 150 wounded. Col. Monroe, 123d Illinois, was killed. LOUISIANA. Brashear city has again become a scene of action. Franklin attacked the rebels there with his corps, but did not defeat them till Ord came up with the 13th Army Corps. Gen. Richard Taylor is said to be at Shreve- port with 15,000 men, guarding 100,000 bales of cotton. An expedition to Morganza proved disas- trous; Col. Leake was surrounded, and after a day’s fight compelled to surrender with 480 men and two guns. Major-Gen. Dana im- mediately started in pursuit. MISSISSIPPI. The rebels assert that Col. Richardson, with his Union cavalry, 1,500 strong, were re- pulsed at New Albany on the 5th. MISSOURI. About 7,000 rebels from Marmaduke’s com- mand, under Col. Shelby, have entered south- west Missouri, from Arkansas, for raiding purposes. Our troops were concentrating upon them from several points, and their

capture was not Improbable. Carthage was burnt by the rebels on the 8th. KANSAS. The Demecrat’s Leavenworth special says there is much excitement there, in conse- quence of a rebel advance upon Fort Scott and Kansas city. All the troops at Leaven- worth have been ordered below, and it is stated that the militia has been called out. Fort Scott is believed to be strong enough to successfully resist the attack. Col. Blair commands there. Gen. Blunt will march to Texas, unless his force should be weakened by his being ordered to Springfield or Little Rock. He himself had a narrow escape lately, most of his escort being killed or taken, near Fort Scott, by Quantrell’s men, who came from Cowskin prairie to attack Fort Scott. NAVAL. The Alabama, Capt. Semmes, with the Georgia and a new pirate, the Tuscaloosa, are at the Cape of Good Hope, destroying our merchantmen. Semmes has advanced so faras to hold an Admiralty Court on his quarterdeck, at which, as Judge, he condemns the vessel, and then, as Marshal, burns them. “Judge, jury, hangman, rope and all.” The cargoes have been sold at Cape Town. On Sept. 23 the Stettin captured the Dia- mond, a fine blockade-running steamer.

NOTES AND TOPICS. An Irish Boomerang. Sir Jonaa BarrineTon, in his amusiag memoirs, gives s2veral instances of that surprisiag faculty which an Irishman possesses of kicking over the pail he has had eo much trouble to fill with milk, Who can forget the man who striking at a salmon with a scythe missed the fish, but siiced the head off his shoulders, no less to the salrucn’s astonishment than hisown? But even this worthy, and the Irish witness who testified that his pond was a herring pond, and a red herring one too, are thrown into the invisible by an address issued by a certain Junta of Irishmen, who, with their usual one-eyed sagacity, select the present time of all others to openly organ- ize an expedition of 200,000 men, under the command of Field-Marshal Meagher, to wrest Ireland from the despotism of England, This project, at once so noble and so easy of accomplishment, they thus illogically squelch by reasoning against it with all their might. Never was there such a magnifi>ent specimen of boomerang argument; for, although sent up against the enemy, it returns to Camage its projectors, Let the reader keep his countenance while he pe- ruses the following cxtract from the great Irish Proc- lamation to a people who “are well off, strong, healthy, impulsive aud young,” saying nothing of the abundance of poteen and good provisions: “It should be remembered that Ireland was rever ina ou than at present for an insurrec- tion. The country has recovered from the effests of the great famine, and the results of the Eccumbered Estates Act have been most beneficial, The late harvest has proved to be abundant beyond all precc- deut, so that armies would be sure of an abundance of provisions for tte coming yeai’s czmoai The country, on the who!s, is tolerably well off; ani is filled with strong, heathy, impulsive young men, anxious to retrieve their anvuetry’s huuor,” It doesn’t need half the eye of a blind man to per- ceive that the ressons advanced for an insurrection are very conclusive against one, In plain Anglo Saxon it reads thus: ‘‘ Dear countrymen, you are so prosperous, happy, well fed, vigorous and healchy that now is the time to get rid of ali those botherations by kicking up the devi.’s own row, and converting an Eden into a Donnybrook Fair.”

The Ondina, the New Crinoline. Conceal it as we may, no man ever yet looked on a well-dressed woman without feeliog all the wiser and the better for it. This is the esoteric meaning of Keats’s far-famed line— “ A thing of beauty is a joy for ever,” but how much that beauty depends upon the graceful flow of robe all know. Theve is a stereotyped rigidity about the hooped petticoat which makes them li tle better than a hensoop, and every man knows that in walking arm and arm with a lady the circumvallation, whish hedges her in like a walled city or a divinity, is thrown upon the opposite side of her; and while her hoops on the left taxe the skin off the side of his ealf, the other side projects half across the road, giving the fair creature a lopsided look, utterly ridiculous and paipful. We are happy to sce thet « London modistc has dis- covered a criaoline which won’t gt into escentric or unbecoming angles «hen ladies got into omnibuses or press through crowds, The articl> in question is called the * Ondina, or Waved Japon,” and the inyen- tor thus describes its wonderful properties: “It docs away with the vus'ghtly results of the ordi- vary hoops; + nd so perfect are the waved-like bands, that a lady may ascend a steep strir. iein agaist a table, throw hersclf into ar, armchair, pass to hor stall at the ——, or occupy a fourth seat in e carriage, withcut inconvesience to hers«lf or others, or pro- voking the rude remarks of the observers, besides removing or modifying ia an important degree ell! tho.ce peculiariwies tens izg to destroy the modesty of ell women; and, l-etly, it sliows the Urces to fall into graceful folds.” Such a man ougit to rank with the great benefactors of humanity, and certaialy dcscrves a statue more than hoe who merely invents some wonde-ful instrument of warfare. As it is, the London paper that chronicles the discovery does not gire the nam> of the discoverer. Such a genius, howcevcr, cancot long remain in the shede,

Where's Judge Lynch? As a strong cxception serves to strengthen thc rule, 80 does aa occastonal violence a7sist the course of justice. Weare sorry to observe that the Presi- éert, who very judiciously invades the rights of the respectable whenever he thiuks the salus poputr requires it, {!s vory tender to rogues. To put a few thousand dvllars into ‘he pockcts of certain pers ns, thousard of our bravs soldiers are crowded on board steamers which are mere floating coffies. Putrid pro- visions are supplicd fer arx'cs in the midst of a sum-

mer campaigy. Shells are benevolently filled with sawdust, and our troops are sent into bettle with | muskets which have 10 communication between the : aipple and the berrel, A cotemporary gircs the fol- Ipwing account cf another fraud which hes Intely been i scovered : “ A recent examination {nto the quality of whiskey furnished to the army hospitals has revsaled the fact that, es a general thing, the most deleterious com. pound known >een furnished for medicinal pur ses, in pl:ce of the fine, pure article contracted for. n sone of the hospitals the patients have been unable to use 2 drop, while thse who hase used it were mae worse than by their original disease. Some chiwges of officials heve been made, as the result of this dis- covery. Té contractor will betried by court mrt al, under the law of last session, aud if found guilty, be shot for the wilful fraud thus perpetratea.” As no men can obtein a contract without “ court favor,” and as most certainly no contractor would dare venture upon such an uablushing and transparent villainy without very strong “ court favor,” we have no faith in his being even tried for his “* wilful fraud,” much less punished, It is the Gov:rmenta! shield thrown thus audiciously over these rascally con- tractors that makes the Copper“eads.

EUROPEAN NEWS. ENGLAND.—Earl Russell has made a long speech at a public meet'ng in Scotland, ia which he justificd the action of the British Government throughout the present struggle between the North aud South. He severely rebuked Mr. Sumner for hia recent lecture at the Acaéemy of Music, branding him asa ‘‘mischief-maker.” Some of the British journals say that ‘“‘ bis mind has never recovered the brutal assiult Preston Brooks made upon him some years ago.” Russell closed his speech by solemnly pledg- ing England to a continuation of neutrality. He likewlse affirmed that the Government was vot aware of the character of the Alabama till ehe had sailed; and he announced that the rebel rams should not be suffered to depart. The Daily News, asted{est friend to the North, siys that much of the exasperation of the English people procecds from the London corre- spondents of the New York papers, who indulge in the bittercst taunts against England. It adds, ‘‘ that many of the London correspondents of the Northern papers are in the pay of Mason and Slidell, who do more mischief in this way than by openly cspoxsing the cause of the rebels.” : Mason bad left London, and joined his colleague Slidell in Paris. It was not, however, probable, that Louis Napoleon would so ostentatiously withdraw himself from the E»glish alliarce as to take any steps of an overt character in the face of the recent declara- tions of the British Ministers and the feeling mani- fested at recent public meetings. FRANCE.—The Florida is still “‘ trouble-bound” at aye. Capt. Maffitt isin Paris, where he was quite a lion. The London Times regards the withdrawzl of Mr. Mason as an evidence that the Southern Confeder:cy now lcans one on France, and e some imme- diate action in its behalf from that power. It says that the French sponse has taken a position on the American continent which enables “ this pocr, har- assed, unrecognised Confederacy to confer a favor on him.” The Opinione Nationale resents this sneer, and says that “ Franceis sufficiently powerful to carry out aloue and unaided any policy dictated by national honor.” The London Post, in alluding to Polish affairs, says, ‘‘ that the position of France is vastly different to that of England. The Poles, so far from having any claim upon England, have always sided with er bitterest cnomp—vene>, in whos: armies they were alweys found, France, therefore, owes a debt of gratitude to Poland. England, however, im- pelied by pumenity, Sesorre would be | 4 Ld) 4 Own peo ac 0. ranation which hes always been sraned cantast ot in t e past and wouid again be found there in the future. mng- land does not wage war for ides, but for the interes of her people. ommon sense and not Quixotism dictates her policy.” Tne CAPE oF Goop Horre.—The Alabama, Capt. Semines, had arrived at the Cape, and had been re- ceived with all the honors. The Cape Journal likens him to Pau! Jones, but the Natal Gazette says he more resembles Capt. Kydd, since he always avoids a fight, running away from every war vessel, even though inferio-to his own. The ecitor honestly saya, ‘* He will meet, without doubt, the end of his proto- type, Kydd.”

NOTABLE DEATHS. Tae last steamer from Europe brings intel- ligence of the deaths of several men who have achieved general fame. Count de Vigny, equally famous as a novelist, dramatist, journalist, soldier and politician, was born in 1799, entered the army in 1816. In 1822 h? published a volume of poems, In 1826 appeared his most popular work, Cing Mars, In 1829 his play of Othello, taken from Shakespeare, was acted with moderate success, Since then ho devoted himseif to literature, and produced numerous poems, plays, farces and almost every des«ription of articles from an epigram to an epic. In 185% he received the decor: - tion of the legion of honor, and in 1856 he was ap- pointed an officer of that order. He had been ill for several months when dexth ended his useful and hor- orable career, on the 2ith Septem er. Jxcobd Grimm, the celebrated Germw wri er, dicd at Berlin on Sunday evening, September 20 h, after a short illness. He was boru cn the 4th January, 1785 Ia covjunction with his brother he published those celebrated tales which have been the delight of mil- lions. The lattor yours of his life were devoted to that grand idea of his life, a German Dictionsry. He had only progr:sced as far as Fromm when he was called away by the Inevitabd!e. From London we learn the death of William Tooke, one of the moet uscful and influential of English Re- formers; a fact made remarkable by his being a mer- chant of large wealth. He was born in 1777 at St. Petersburg, where his father was Chaplain to the British Factory. Throughout his long life Mr. Tooke remaiced conne.ted with the land of his birth, as a war! member of the gre-t Rus-ian and Eaglish firm of Asiett, Tooke and Thoroton. Ue was the author ofa pe of Ruseia 2.4 several other works. The majority of his pro¢uctions were on political cconomy, ot which he was considered one of its soundest exv2- nents, Abdout 25 yests ago he met with a groat afflic- tion in the death of his ecidest son, Thomas, who committed suicide, while laboring under a temporary aberration of mind, occasioned by a too intense study of politicaleconomy. Mr. Tooke was one of the earlicst advocat: s of Reform in England, and was the chosen friend of Lord Joha Rasstiish usurper. This was in its remarkable consictenry, perhaps, the best embodiment of the char«tt Shakespeare gave to the stege tat we have seen behind the footlights, and displayed the «rt st ins ecmpleter aspect as the progressive studen! in — We wi ro‘ession than we have set scen him. nstauce the delivering of the auawer to Maciuf’s question in the tcene after Duncan’s murder iu the second act, comme: cing — “ Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious?” asa specimen of his mixute and subtle discrim nation in the reading of the character, must be heard t» be appreciated, as the space at our dieporal is not suffi- ent to justify auy attempt on our psrt rt detoiled avalytical critic'kem. We will aleo call attention to bis woncerful bit of physical actiag when, spp ir utly crushed by terror at the sccond apparition of Baga, he staggers bk, moevirg his arms and hands b«) re his eves, as if the appsliing image had strick » |im with blindness and rendcre:: him facapable of realiz'ng anything, rave the dread which it had crested. Bus fu trute, while thora is an occasion] portion of this embodiment to which we might object, more particu larly porhaps in ove or two of the readings, we *% unhes. tatingly compelled to class it as, next to ; 8 = taatse Bie | Richard 111.” and hie * Othello,” st Shakespearean character, and to acé0¢ a" fist we know no artist now alive who could be jusy

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——————— ————— im ly there is nore d to him, a8, very certeinly ( a f.vor the criatce could desrend, when -eighirg thelr ments ia the recder'ny of the seu‘dy eweighirg aga Cae reprper. . atte *8 Nef Irs, John Werd’s Olympic Thee ‘p22 Was, Re A : ~ she senraiton of the wsek. The theatre has been - iy repovated, end ite eppearance 1s indsed horoucs Saal It4a now not enly rich yay most won rfully j:apro

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ard clegent, but ‘tis the Joking thestre in the eity. It is also the most cora- fortal je. for sufficient space is slowed, and the yholsteriz gg has been atfendei to rcgarcless of ex a The stege haa been rebvil!, and the ground ‘oneath it exesvat-d to the depth ef over 25 feet, which rot only afferds ample :com fer sll the tran fects necessary ia the fairy cud burlesque pieces which are in Mrs, Woo%’s progr:mme to be forthw'th produced, butit hase” ablso the proprietor tothorough- ly drain the Icts, which was very much needed, As it gow sianas it is the moat del'ghtful theatre is the city, The performances are very plearant, aod sufiiciently interestibg by the aid of Mrs, John Woo:’s piquant . df dolightfal acting, ard the age‘stavce of her vy ry excellent company, to crowd the theatre for a week or tw», uatit the fair manager is ready wv: h one cf these gpecial extrevager za% in which sts siincs 80 promi nectly. Mr. Thomas Bak«r is retsined as chef worchestre, a Awe necd hercl* sry his department is sevey, He .as hadamp'e reeaags afforded p nse agattractive nim to seleet the best pleyers in the city, and thore is | san mo-e competent 19 make wie Of auch resources henfit of the rasaagement smd the delight of e public. ag 5 in Booth elosea th's week one of the mest riliant engagements he has ever played in this city. Winter Garden has been crowded night after niggt to w tness his performances, and this gifted yousg§ctor loaves to fulfil hia engagements in other cities, with igere»sed reputation ara with solid substaatinl proofs of the eppreciation of Lig audien:es, He wil. be ens eeoded by Mr, J. S, Clarke. If yu would enjoy alaugh eright, go vieit Wocde, on any night, and take your wife asd child:entoo. It is the best thirg youcando, The minstre!s — | aud dance, and play, and folks wh» go there vow ard siy that five-one-four (514) Broad way is the best cure for Dvs-pep-sia. See Welter Scott’s Lay of the Lasi (Black) Minstrel. Mr. Bernum has indeed found out that the Siorx and Winnebago Indians are the most consistent friends ef tae white 1aen, for they have consented to sacrifice still another week of their home comforts, and the pleasur: 8 of their happy hunting grounds to comply with fhe deseand of the public for their prolonged stay. The Museum is crowded to overflowizg, right and day, to witness their performances, The woaderful (; host pieces are performed ia the Iccture-room Cay and night, aad e countless muabcr of rare curiosities are to be ecen at a'l hours, , oe

EPITOME OF THE WEEK. stice—Emigrsnts rumberis g 197,000 have Be, -—- New York since January—jus* doutle the number who came during the same tire last year, —— A Boston paper, to give an id2a of the exten- sion of Ju .sism in that city withintwecty years. says that cbeut that time ten Israelites alone assezanled at a orivate house and had divine worship for t>e first time in Boston. Now there are four synagogucs ard about five handred families is that city. — The Windsor (Vt.) Journal says thatthe potato crop in that section of the State is rotting ya | badly. Asubscrib’r informs thera thet two-thirds of his crop ou examination was found to be rotten. —- The Winste’ Herald says there are only three persons in the rich town of Gcehen, in that county who pay an income tax—tha‘ is who have an income 0 more thaa $600, The to.vn of Harwinton his butone, In New Haven county, there is notone in Middlebury, and only one in Wolestt, — A‘ the esttle show and fair at Winsted this fa’l the nov«l spectacle of an ox racc is, to form ove of the attractions. — Mr Gerard Hallock has generously offered to donste one-half the value of 20 acres of lind, at Oyster Point, for a seasile park and dathing ground for th> people of New H:zveu. Of couree his offer will be gladly accepted by the e'tizers of the Kim City. — The people of Hartford are to vote on the Oh of November whither they wiilhavea new C:ty Hall, Tse lot propesed to co taken for thet purpose is be- tween the Univerraliot Church and the Wadsworth Atheneum, on Mein street, and will cost $93,000, — The ennuel Fair of the Naugatuck snd Prosa- pet Se iely tikes p'ace at Naugatn*k on Thursday 1! Fedey, Ort. 15th and 16th. A fine helf mile track has been prepared, and liberal premizms are offered in the differe.t * ranches of farmers’ produce, — A new postal currency wil’ shortly be issued by the Treasury Department. The groundwork of the fifiy-ccot note is black, w.ta a git stamp ia the centre, surroun ict the portrait of Washington. At the four corne:s and on each side of the heaa of Waeh- i.aton appear the fizures “5°,” while “Fifty Cents’ is iwserived ahove the Cgure of Washington, snd “ Krac- 1.onal Currsney” is printed below, A‘ tho top are the words“ Furrished oaly by the Assistant Tr-ae- urer and desigvated Gepositarics of the Usitet States.” At the bottom, “ R-ce'vable for all U.S. Stamps Act spproved Maren 3, 1863.% The mei part of thre face is cecupicd with e picture of sicain- boats, locomotives, cotion bales, &e., very delleately shaved, She reverse of the ffry cent no‘e is 12 jnly redin color, of the roy I's borac who attempte to sic0t himat he ren. The w.fe of Shorff Brown, thres eucecesive times, put ont the fre kiaaled to burn licr houre flocr. The house wae saved Sy her beroirm. ~— The Lindell HMote!, St, Louis, to be opened on the lat inst., is the largest one in he United States, It will secommo¢ate 1.30 guests; is reven storcys high; acd cos’, Including ground, 61,276,000, —— A‘ a recent democretic wer‘iog hel) 2° leer, Indiapa, 1 IL Dodd, of Ind “Lere- lest hope fer the preetrvation of the liseriics of 2 irce psople, ani whea drprived of that sacred right it -veuld be timo to make resistaceer, After the Pecpie had ro‘uined to their hemes, a Methed’e/ Treccker, by the name of MHuffmen, lodged a _com- Pialut with the Provost Marshal sgainet Mr. Dodu, Chargice these sentimen's to bo treerousbls, and the latter was arreste’ by the m'fit-rg. The n-ws spread ke ©! dfive, and by nins o’cio- k the next moming several (housed mes has aseerunies in a neigh orlng srove, simed with rifles, s*otguos, cor_cutters, » aforks, and evs > bizkory lubs. WHLi'e they were , meatel indee‘eion aud physicu viger of the | ttn the ecmmnenctiseat ct tne Opera, - Mer husbaed vas bidden under the | rapolis, mate ¢ | pecen, in w) ch he suid that the b2'lo*-box was the | , Wise preper’cg for the anticipated conflict, one of ' their number proceed: d to Reassclaer snd suceceted fu effecting the release of Mr. Dodd, the military authorities feariny for *heir I've-, and the citizcua being alarmed for the softy of the town, ~—~- Ths Weatern popere (raoderate) ere very eevers oa Jem Late, whera they proneusce craz;; h> has | mever recovered ths shooting of Jenxine in 1558, an | event we lilustrated at the t!me. | _~——— Jeff. Dovis’s ineendiar’es are busily at werk Is the est and South. At Miliken’s Dene, cbove | Vieksdurg, the steam.r Rod Campbeli was burat on the 21 O.'.; 22 lives iost; a2 clue to the culprit. | —— Toe pews from Arkansas is very satisfactery; | 2,900 e:t:zens of the State jo’niog the .rmy in ibree weeas, | ——— Two newspapers bave been atarted at Lit‘l> | Reek, aud th railroa} between thet ity cud Duval's | bluff has been put iuto operatior, Col, Meade, a | brother of Ges, Meade, havivg it in charge. — Tere was a heavy snowstorm in the northern | part of Indiane on the 26th Sevt, | —— It is calculated that the damage dore by | Morgan’s raid iu Hamiitoa c»., Ohio, was $87,C00. | —— 360 dollars were taken in Neshzille, in one day, for licencrs to prostitutes! That is a povel sp iicrtion cf m irti2l law, —— It has een ascertained that the frost damaged | the tobace> crap in Tevnessce anit the southern pirt | ef Kentucky te 2 greater extent than was at first sapposed, and the price ia the Lonisviile market his adyancet from thre: to four dollars per hundred pounds fn c ms: quence, Southern.—The Fru sis an inferral plot hae been d.scovered which design: d the destruction of all steamboats navigating the lower Miss'ssippi. Davis an! his Cabinet a: Richmond are the originators of the disbotical scheme, which is toemp oy men, who shul tare passage oa the boats, and when a ftavcra>iec opportunity shall oc ur set them on fire. Sixty per cent. of the estimated valuc of the vessels and cargoes is offered asa bride tothe incendiaries. The scoundrel who fired the Ruth arrived safely at Richmoxd, and received his per centage on $!00,000, — The William P.tt, an English steamer, arrived at New Orleans, a prize to one of our guabuits, having on board 1,000 bales of cotton. —— The gueriilas are becomicg bol er and more num:rous. Above Natchez they have locateiabatiery of three gurs, which they opcied upon the s eamer Julia, —— Gen, Banks’s command is reported, on the 18th Sept., at Berwick city, No battle was expected unt! he should reach Vermilion bayou, where Dick Taylor is said to be in force, Military.—The rebels st Fort Wagner were pre- vented from repairing damages at night by a large calcium light. It was adjusied in such a manner as to take inthe whole of the fort, amd out of i‘s focus irked riflemen were stationed, who popped a: every ead that showe? Iisclf sbove ti:e parapet. —— The U.S. steamer McCletla, Cap’. Gray, sailed from New York latcly, for New Orleans She has on board a smcoth bore gua weighing 49,550 pounds, which throws a solid shot weighing over 400 pouncs. —— A letter from the Army of the Potomac states that in three days 60 ont of 110 eubs‘i'utes in one regiment had deze: ted, and oth: re were leaving ®.mcst every hour, He suggests two remeiics—one cateh- ing und shooting the deserters; aud another, as soon as the substituies are regularly musiered into the United States service, to send them to the several State Penitentaries fcr three years or Curing the war, as they cou'd be gusrded more cheaply sud safely there, as the army will be likely to hare as much other busizess on hsnd as it can attend to, without the extra duty of guerding )y partici- pte exters vely in the expedition to Texar, and the magriiude of tac proj.ct assigne? to Gen. Plumly evicenccs su untiring epirit of energetic loyelty in the military administration of Gen. Banke. —— Capt. J. W. Ames, of the regular ar.cy, son cf aod grandson of Fister Ames, has been appoizted of Nerzard in 1954. Naval.—Licut.-Com. If. A. Adar, Jun., U.S, Navy, i command of the naval forees in Mississipi cote. uuder flag of trn-e, wit the rebel commarder at Miesiesippicity, who, arriving or board the flagship for the purp:se of the propo:el interview, was found to be the brother of the Commander, business was over and a brotherly chat had, they portet, the rebel aaying. as he got into the soat: | * Whatever happens, Ho0l, recollect one thing—we will be always brothers.” Both are sous of Cova. Adams, U. 8. Navy, an officer xho has sacrificed uch, | feclings es well es property, by remain‘sg true to his country. | -— The Admir:1, the lergest qeepeeer ever built ix honor of Adairal

‘r Connecticut, and nared She is 220 feet long, 36 fect beam, 26 fect decp, and pierced for four guns, ‘the Commodore, snother veesei of the samc class, will be launched in about four weeks. orders to the East to withdr=w the American squad- ron from all cc-operation with the European Powers, now at war with Japon, Personal.—The Hon. Erastan Cornt g has sent in his resignation as a Member of Congress. — President Iincola has been precented with a handsome and exceedingly substiutial cane, made from live oak of the old chip Conatitution. The wood is the finest oak, aud beautifu ly polished, Tie head © the cane is cf poli-hed iroy, the material beicg a portion of a bolt takoa f-om the orfgisal Monitor, which waa broken cy the first chot she re-eived from the rebel Merrimac On th: ton of the bead are the vor ts “Constituticn ” and ‘' Monitor,” and the « ates * 1512” and ©1962.” These fori a cire’e, an. in the centre is engraved an ar.chor—the ecb m of hope, The beautiful widow of Senator Douglas is in Washington. — Tom Tsylor is writing Sir Joshua Reynold's biography. | A marriage is to take pla-e between the only daughter of the Emperor of Brazil and a brother of Maximilian, the? Mmperor ciect of Mexico, —— Two elopements are rc. oréed by the Manches- ter (Yew Hampshire) American, viz.: Mr. Greeley, one of the proprirturs of the Pemigewasset Llouse, Pir mou'h. with Mrs. Holmes, one of his lady board- ers; and Mr. Smith, of H-:ldcraces, a member of the last Ne Hainpshire Legislature, with a ncighboring f«rmer’s daughter.

vistriduting erounition, mol ny bullets aud other- | —— Miss Bishop, ¢aughtcr of Madame Atna Mos: of the old officera return, euch as Jardine, | Judge Sctt Anes cf the Supreme Court of Bostox, : Colerel of th: colored reyimest which is now being | rived st Chelieph im ila. Col, Ames was 2 graduate | | sound, had oc-asior, a short tim? since, to communi: | After tbe | | Giregory, was launched st New Haven on the 24th uit, | — It is understood thet Secretary Wellcs hes sert , Bishop arrived here by the steamer Bavaria, She is & most splendid musician. —— The Bosto: fric-da of Ger, Banke hare reised | # Jarge rum of money ts present him with 2 swerd, te (| emmmenors*s the asrreuder of Po: tive aon.

-—— Rev. Charles Seymeur, of Fhiledelph'a. hos becn invite to become the pister of St. Peter's eurch ia Cambridge. He has sccepted the iz- vitation, —— Co}, Jardine, of the 9ih New Yerk Zouaves, formerly the Havkius, is r pidly recovering of his wounds, IJle is at the St. Nicholas. —— Gen. Winficid Scott’s hea'th is much tmproved. He is very busy on his histcry of his own campaigns, —— Henry Warren Pine, the Democratic caocidate for Go-ernor of Mass:chusctts, -s, by bis mother’s side, grand-rephew of Gen. Jcsepu Warren, the hero of Bunker Hill. — Mra. Gea. Lander is in Washi gton. ag is also Brig.-Gen. W. H. Morris and Sir acnry I .oMand, physician to Queen Victoria, At a recent dione:-party at Sec. Sewarc’s, Sir IH. Holland said the Queen was a deep sy mpathiser with the North. —— Gvinraldi, after a year of suffericg, is now en- tirely cared. The wound is cicatriecd, sud the foot, the articulation of which was though! to hive been lost. has recovered its el rsticity. 1

ihe General was able to wilk, a shot time ago,x out 20 steps, without either crutches or stick. Dr. Albanese, who slone hes attended Garivaldi during the last rcyea months, has lef Caprera, his patcent no longer requiring his services. Obituary.—Col. Solomon Porter, dicd at his residence in tLartford, on the 23d, age i 74 yeirs, He wes ove of the old merchan‘s ef tha: city. He was se prom‘nent Fre:masou and ore of the originate the State Bank, aud for masy years ite Presicent. —— The Irish pspers meution with peculisr re- ret the death of John Mitche’s youngest son, jiliain, sged only 17, who fell fighting for the rebels at Gettysburg. He wos, by all accourts, « nobie south, and his evidently beea sacrifived to his fath.i’s iasane desire to possess a flaztatiou. Sel- dem has a mim been more heavily punished for hs apostacy than John Mitchel. —— Ia Boston, 6th Oct., died George Sumner, brotier to Senator Seymurr. He hd been ill for several months, the Lamediste complaint being paralysis. He was one of the moct accomplishe men of the time, a far supevior man, intellectua'ly, than his brother, He was «mphaticaily a eacholar, a entleman and a Christian—of him we may qucte Soleric ge’a couplet— * Is it a deathbed where a Christian lies ¢ Yes! but not his, ’tis pi ATI itself that cies.” —— Dr. George Hayward died instantly cf spo- plex; on the 7th Oct.. at his residence in Pemberton equate, Boston, at the sge of 73 years. He was widely knows, nct oriy ia professional cireies, but als> a8 a prominent citizen of thiscommunity. He enjoyed a foreign reput+tioa second to no cther American eurgeon. In regard to some of his opera- tions, he was a pioneer, iatrocucing them by his boldness and success iato the range of surgical rectice, Ile was very msny years > Professor in the Medical School at Harverd University,2nd st the time of his Ceath held the position of a Fe'low of the Ccllege, to which offize he was electe’ in 1862, He graduated at Cambridge iu the class of 1509, +— Mrs, Faurce, wife of Capt. John Faunce for- merly commanding the United States e*c-mer Harriet Lane, died suddenly onthe Sth irst., while engaged in makiog calla upon her friends ‘n Brooklyn, N. Y. The cause of her derth is understood to be apoplexy, to which she wea guljec*. — The fureral of Col. kK. M. B. Munerucs (co'or- ¢d) toox plave on the 4tn of Oct., from th Catholic Church, in Chambers streke it up he wi!l h:veto borrow in England. He says bis total estimated expenditures is $15,115,711. —— The person arrested in India some months since under the supposition that he was Nena Sahib turns cut not to be that enormous miscreatt. ‘There 8 no doudt that he died sson after the suppression of the revolt, Mah rajal Dhulcep Sing, now residing ta Eagiand, hos the original M.S. of Nena’s transla- tien of Shakesp..re’s plays. It was his intention to hey trenalited ail the tragcedier—for the great ent- thro..t hac no tas'e for his favorite poct’s comcdics— when the more conzenial pursuits of murdr cna repive epgegdand was so much of a stranger you didu’t like io go withhim?? *Yes,Ido, I had — been married to him about a year, and I waan’t going to leave my folks ord go off to Lltinois witu + man | didu’t knuw moze about,.’” What could he do but discharge her? —A so'dier, gaining his knowledge of mil-'tary phrases entireiy trom hiz Own exper.cner, cives the following definition: ‘ Piskets—theee are chaps thst are sent cut to berry terbacker of the enema, and io s°¢ that the rebels has got a pass.” AN IMPROVEMENT ON, HALLECK’S MARCO BOZZARIS At m.arignt in his blackguard tent ** OL! Beau” was creaming of tho hour Whes, Gillmore, hke a suppliant beat, Shoulc trecble at his power. In are2ms through camp and streets he bore Tbe t-onhices of a conqueror, In dreams i's vou, of triumph heard, He sportet Gi!'more’s gold Jaced hst, His 1ea topped boots, his gay crsvat, As wi) his fa.cy as a bat, Or “ auy otber bird.” An hour prssed on—* old Beau” awoke, Helf stifled by a “ villainous” smoke, Exough the very devil to choke, ‘VY hiie ail around the “ stir k pots” broke, And blinéed him with srud. Ifo curecd the *' villaincus compound” Which stunk like polecats far cround ; ‘Then roare « wth a wild demoniac shriek— “ Ler i! what 2 sme!!! the Greek! the Greek! Put out tois viliainous Greek fire! Or m the last red d'tch expire, "his avert to draw one’s dsicg breath For cur deor iaud, as Heurace saith, But dreadfui to be stunk to death !” — <A Washington gentleman writes to a Boston payer: ‘ Owing to Moseby’s dcpredations, the word ‘raid’ has worked into almost every expreseion. I bave ia my cr-piey a contrabana of double-iyed blackness called John, I went out to my bern ore morciog, cd notielag that his feee was wet with perspiration, r.morked, that he ‘looked pretty warm,’ ‘Yes, meona,’ wav hisreply, ‘Vee had a pretty big raid on say wuccles dis mornin’, and I’se mos’ done gone,” — A private letter from——, Ala., says: “ Our minister nearly got himeelf into a scrape the othir day, erd wheiher he is é ‘bit of a way’ or a very car-- less f Jlow, or an ‘abolition trai‘or,’ 1s now the topic of discussion with us. At the meeting on fast day he geve out Dr. Watte’s hymn commencing : And are we worms yet alive, Aid do we yct rebel; Tis wondrous, ’tis smazing grace, Theat we are out of hell.’”’ The duel that was ¢xpected tocomecff between | the editor of the Courrier des Etats Unis and tho ec respor.dent of the Philadelphia Anquirer bas been pesipoze | until cfier the benqu:t to the Russiaxs, to which both b.ligerenta have been iuvited. The repurt that the Russian Admiral eats tallow dips and drinks tr'in oil 18 vot confirmed, although the Bea.city of beth there articles gives a color to the ruc:or. Wher the Russians visitcd Lordon in 1814, which wast before the invention of the the strect € 1

laiaps were all extingui hed hy their climbing up the lamcp-posts, etd drinking the oil, The Budget of Fun—on cxcellent autherity—saye the Russian Na- ticnal Dish is tallow stew.

Bufford’s Colored Views of the White | Mountains crd Vicinity povetpet been published ard | are now on gale at Iitchcock’s store, 455 Beoedwry. They are the mest truthfui representations of Nature we have seen, acd ought to fiuda place in every art | collection. The Enamelled Metallic Collar Company, 9t Pine street, has certainly mace an importart | discovery. Ithas manufactured acoliar which bas | the pliabi:ity of linen. Such an aiticie needs ro pra’sc, since ‘fs value to soldiers, travcliers and bac h- elors is beyond sli calculation, It reacers 4 man in- depexdent of his Inundress, since he cen ly the mere appliestion of s Litle water el ways have ¢ clean collar \ ty put on.

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FRANK LESLIE’S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. [Ocr. 24, 1863, THE WAR IN GEORGIA—-STEVENSON, ALABAMA, DEPOT FOR GEN. ROSECRANS'S ARMY.—FROM A SKETCH BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST, J. F. C. HILLEN. STEVENSON, ALA., Depot of the Commissary and Quarter- masters of the Cumberland Army. THe campaign of Gen. Rosecrans has brought him to a district where it is not easy to re- member the States in which placesare. Chattanooga, the object of the struggle, is in Tennessee, but the late battle of Chicamaugua was fought in Georgia, and Rosecrane’s depot of suppliesisin Alabama, As stand on three States, we may thee hee: in uP of the sovernatios of the New line from Memphis, which at to Lynchburg, Raleigh, Charles- ontgomery, Stevenson is an im- ton, Savannah and here a railroad from Nashville portant point, as comes in, THR WAR IN GROBGIA ARRIVAL AT STEVENSON, Our Artist shows the place in itself, and again in a very interesting moment, when the wounded from the front are arriving, after the battle of Chicamauga. Now the stillness of the country town is broken by the hurried dispositions for their welfare. BRIG.-GEN. JOHN BUFORD. Gen. Burorp is a native of Kentucky, where his father, Hon. John Buford, was, for several years, a memberof the Legislature, as he was, sub- sequently, in Illinois. John Buford was born about 1829, and, following the career chosen by his elder brother, the present Gen. N. B. Buford, entered West Point, where he graduated in 1848, and was appointed to the dragoons. He was 2d Lieut. in February, 1849 ; lat Tieut.in Jely, 1655; Captain in March, 1059, Te was employed in the Utah Expedition, and in Noy., ALABAMA, 0} 1861, made Inspector-General, with the rank of Major, He was on the staff of Gen. Pope in 1862, and on July 27 was appointed Brigadier-General ot Volunteers. and assigned to Banke’s command. He was Chief of Cavalry under Gen. Burnside, and has been prominent in all the recent cavalry operations of the army of the Potomac. An incident connected with the hanging of the spy Richardson, at Frederick, by Gen. Buford, deserves mention. He was ordered to be tried, and if found guilty, to be hung. He was convicted, letters ad- ressed to Ewell being found in his boots. The result was communicated to Gen. Buford, who responded, ‘* Hang him—hang him forthwith, If I send him to Washington, they’ll send him back promoted !”” BRASHEAR CITY, LA., Recently Taken by Gen. Franklin. BRASHEAR city, on Berwick’s bay, about THE WOUNDED PROM THE BATTLEFIELD OF CHICAMAUGA, SEPT. 26.—FfROM A SKETCH BY OUR SPECLAL ARTIST, 4. F. ©, 15 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, was, prior to the rebellion, a place almost unheard of, although it was an active, growing town of 500 inhabitants, the em- porium of a rich sugar district, the terminus of the New Orleans, Great Western and Opelousas railroad, and connected by navigable bayous with al! points, from the Gulf to the Attakapas country. After Weitzel’s victories, in October, 1862, it fell into our hands and became a depot. It was defended by two works, Fort Buchanan and Fort Schene, and was deemed in military circles a place of great importance; but it was recaptured by the rebels, under Magruder, June 22, 1863, a large number of prisoners, with quantities of ordnance, ammunition and stores falling into theirhands, At the latest accounts, Gen. Frank lin’s corps had attacked the rebels here, and with the help of Ord’s 14th corps completely defeated them. HLLLEN.

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PO aa SPO ee mn me gee i i el Oct. 24, 1863.] FRANK LESLIE’S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. 69 AT SARATOGA. BY J. K. GRIFFITH. Fieecy laces, and warm below A silken sunset shimmering through, Sweet blushroses and mignonette, With tufts of the English violet, Dropped in the soft folds here and there, Upon her bosom and in her hair; Bands of gold, with tawny glow, Clasping her waist and arms of snow; This is Fanny, and I am one Basking myself in such May sun. The pink of her face is the pink that shines Mid clusters of trailing arbutus vines, Rosily deep’ning under your gaze To the pink that the wildrose wears always. | A charming something, ’twixt blossoms that | blow And the blushes young faces alone may know. Velvety, soft, dark eyes, and shy, The dark of a moonless, spring night sky, Warm and hushed, with the robin’s breast, Newly gathered in Northern nest. With the music telling bewildering things, All of my pulses young birds’ wings, Her breath on my cheek, as she floats and floats, The palpable echo of dulcet notes ; One hand, light as a reaching vine, | Dropped on my shoulder, and one in mine ; Her foot and my foot noiseless uplift, | By the waves of sound, as we whirl and drift, | Fanny and I waltz, and—you guess I fall in love, too ?—well, then, yes! OR, ; Modern Magic. I was disappointed—the great actress had not given me what I wanted, and my picture must still remain unfinished for want cf a pair of eyes. I knew what they should be, saw them clearly in my fancy, but though they haunted me by night and day I could not paint them, could not find a model who would represent the aspect I desired, could not describe it to any one, and thongh I looked into every face I met, and visited afflicted humanity in many shapes, I could find no eyes tht visibly pre- sented the vacant yet not unmeaning stare of Lady Macbeth in her haunted sleep. It fretted me al- most beyond endurance to be delayed in my work 80 near its completion, for months of thought and labor had been bestowed upon it; the few who had seen it in its imperfect stute had elated me with commendation, whose critical sincerity I knew the worth of; and the many not admitted were impa- tient for a sight of that which others praised, and to which the memory of former successes lent an interest beyond mere curiosity. All was done, and well done, except the eyes; the dimly lighted chamber, the listening attendants, the ghostly fig- ure with wan face framed in hair, that streamed Shadowy and long against white draperies, and whiter arms, whose gesture told that the parted lips were uttering that mournful cry— “ Here’s the smell of blood still ! Ailthe perfumes of Aratia will not Sweeten this little hand—”’ lhe eyes alone baffled me, and for want of these | rk waited, and my last success was yet | unwon. | s in a curious mood that night, weary yet ', eager yet impotent to seize the object of | y search, and full of haunting images that would | hot stay to be reproduced. My friend was absorbed play, which no longer possessed any charm e, and leaning back in my seat I fell into a ess reverie, still harping on the one idea of my ‘or impetuous and resolute in all things, I had 1yself body and soul to the profession I had n and followed through many vicissitudes for years. Art was wife, child, friend, food and me; the pursuit of fame as a reward for my labor was the object for which I lived, the vhich gave me courage to press on over every acle, sacrifice and suffering, for the word | ‘eat” was notin my vocabulary. Sitting thus 2¢, though in a crowd, I slowly became aware istarbing influence whose power invaded my | 1entary isolation, and soon took shape in the | uncomfortable conviction that some one was look- agatme. Every one has felt this, and at another ime I should have cared little for it, but , just then I was laboring under a sense of injury, for of all RX WSS MSS WAY WS S”AMAMOAG \ /, SSS - S , S. oe NS — = (2 SFE: BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOHN BUFORD. the myriad eyes about me] none would give me the expression I longed for; and unreasonable as it was, the thought that I was watched annoyed me like a silent insult. I sent a searching look through the boxes on either hand, swept the remoter groups with a powerful glass, and scanned the sea of heads below, but met no answering glance; all faces were turned stageward, ail minds seemed intent upon the tragic scenes enacting there. Failing to discover any visible cause for my fancy, I tried to amuse myself with the play, but having seen it many times and being in an ill- humor with the heroine of the hour, my thoughts soon wandered, and though still apparently an in- terested auditor, I heard nothing, saw nothing, for the instant my mind became abstracted the same uncanny sensation returned. A vague con- sciousness that some stronger nature was covertly exerting its power over my own; I smiled as this whim first suggested itself, but it rapidly grew upon me, and a curious feeling of impotent resistance took possession of me, for I was indignaut without knowing why, and longed to rebel against—I knew not what. Again I looked far and wide, met sev- eral inquiring glances from near neighbors, but nene that answered my demand by any betrayal of especial interest or malicious pleasure. Baffled, yet not satisfied, I turned to myself, thinking to find the cause of my disgust there, but did not succeed. I seldom drank wine, had not worked intently that day, and except the picture had no anxiety to harass mec; yet without any physical or mental cause that I could discover, every nerve seemed jangled out of tune, my temples beat, my breath came short, and the air seemed feverishly close, though I had not perceived it until then. I did not understand this mood and with an impatient ges- ture took the playbill from my friend’s knee, gathered it into my hand and fanned myself like a petulant w , I suspect, for Louis turned and surveyed me with surprise as he asked : “What is it, Max; you seem annoyed ?” “Tam, but absurd as it is, I don’t know why, excepta foolish fancy that some one whom I do not see is looking at me and wishes me to look at him.” Louis laughed—“ Of course there is, aren’t you used to it yet? And are you so modest as not to know that many eyes take stolen glances at the rising artist, whose ghost and goblins make their hair stand on end so charmingly? I had the mor- tification to discover some time ago that, young and comely as I take the liberty of thinking myself, the upturned lorgnettes are not levelled at me, but at the stern-faced, black-bearded gentleman beside me, for he looks particularly moody and interesting to-night.” “Bah! I just wish I could inspire some of those starers with gratitude enough to set them walking in their sleep for my benefit and their own future glory. Your suggestion has proved a dead failure, the woman there cannot give me what I want, the picture will never get done, and the whole affair will go to the deuce for want of a pair of eyes.” I rose to go as I spoke, and there they were be- hind me! What sort of expression my face assumed I can- not tell, for I forgot time and place, and might have committed some absurdity if Louis had not pulled me down with a look that made me aware that I was staring with en utter disregard of common courtesy. ‘Who are those people? Do you know them ?” I demanded in a vehement whisper. “Yes, but put down tbat glass and sit still or I'll call an usher to put you out,” he answered, scan- dalized at my energetic demonstrations. “Good! then introduce me—now at once—Com on,” and I rose again, to be again arrested. “ Are you possessed to-night? You have visitec so many fever wards and madhouses in your searcl that you’ve unsettled your own wits, Max. What whim has got into your brain now? And why do you want to know those people in such haste ?” “Yo.¢ suggestion has not proved failure, a womat cau give me what I want, the picture wili be finished, aud nothing will go to the deuce, for | I’ve found the eyes—now be obliging and help me ; to secure them.” Louis stared at me as if he seriously began to think me a little mad, but restrained the explosive remark that rose to his lips and answered hastily, as several persons looked round as if our whisper- ing annoyed them. “T’ll take you in there after the play if you must go, so for heaven’s sake behave like a gentleman till then, and let me enjoy myself in peace.” I nodded composedly, he returned to his tragedy, and shading my eyes with my hand, I took a criti- cal survey, feeling more and more assured that my long search was at last ended. Three persons occupied the box, a well-dressed elderly lady dozing behind her fan, a lad leaning over the front ab- sorbed in the play, and a young lady looking straight before her with the aspect I had waited for with ; 3uch impatience. This figure I scrutinized with the eye of an artist which took in every accessory of outline, ornament and hue. - Framed in darkest hair, rose a face delicately cut, but cold and coloress as that of any statue in | the vestibule without. The lips were slightly | parted with the long slow breaths that came and ; went, the forehead was femininely broad and low, the brows straight and black, and underneath them the mysterious eyes fixed on vacancy, full ofthat weird regard so hard to counterfeit, so impossible to describe; for though absent, it was not expres- sionless, and through its steadfast shine a troubled meaning wandered, as if soul and body could not be utterly divorced by any effort of the will. She seemed unconscious of the scene about her, for the fixture of her glance never changed, and nothing about her stirred but the jewel on her bosom, whose changeful glitter seemed to vary as it rose and fell. Emboldened by this apparent absorption, I pro- longed my scrutiny and scanned this countenance The Painting finished. as I had never done a woman’s face before. During this examination I had forgotten myself in her, feeling only a strong desire to draw nearer and dive deeper into those two dark wells that seemed so tranquil yet sc fathomless, and in the act of trying to fix shape, color and expression in my memory, I lost them all; for a storm of applause broke the attentive hush as the curtain fell, and like one startled from sleep a flash of intelligence lit up the eyes, then a white hand was passed across them, and long downcast lashes hid them from my sight, Louis stood up, gave himself a comprehensive survey, and walked out, saying, with a nod, ‘Now, Max, put on your gloves, shake the hair out of your eyes, assume your best ‘deportment,’ and come and take an observation which may im- mortalize your name.” | Knocking over a chair in my haste, I followed close upon his heels, as he tapped at the next door; | the lad opened it, bowed to my conductor, glanced at me and strolled away, while we passed in. The elderly lady was awake, now, and received us graciously ; the younger was leaning on her hand, the plumy fan held between her and the glare of the great chandelier as she watched the moving throng below. * Agatha, here is Mr. Yorke and a fiiend whom he wishes to present to you,” said the old lady, with a shade of deference in her manner which: be- trayed the companion, not the friend. Agatha turned, gave Louis her hand, with a slow smile dawning on her lip, and looked up at me as if the fact of my advent had no particular interest for her, and my appearance promised no great pleasure. ‘*Miss Eure, my friend Max Erdmann yearned to be made happy by a five minutes audience, and I ventured to bring him without sending an avant courier to prepare the way. Am I forgiven?” with which half daring, half apologetic introduction, Louis turned to the chaperone and begun to rattle. Miss Eure bowed, swept the waves of silk from the chair beside her, and I sat down with a bold re- | quest waiting at my lips till an auspicious momcnt came, having resolved not to excrt myself for not..ing. As we discussed the usual topics sug- gested by the time and place, I looked often into the face before me and soon found it difficult to | look away again, for it was a constant surprise to

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70 FRANK LESLIE’S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. [Ocr. 24, 1863, me. The absent mood had passed and with it the frost seemed to have melted from mien and mat- ner, leaving a living woman in the statue’s place. I had thought her melancholy, but her lips were dressed in smiles, and frequent peals of low-toned | laughter parted them like pleasant music; I had | thought ber pale, but in either cheek now bloomed | a color deep and clear as any tint my pa'ette could | have given; I had thought her shy and proud at first, but with each moment her manner warmed, her speech grew franker and her whole figure seemed to glow and brighten as if a brilliant lamp were lit behind the pale shade she had/worn before. But the eyes were the greatest surprire of all—I had fancied them dark,’and found them the lig’1t, sen- sitive gray belonging to highly nervous tempera- ments. They were remarkable eyes; for though softly friaged with shadowy lashes they were not mild, but fiery and keen, with many l'g!.ts and shadows in them as the pupils dilated, and tie irids shone with a transparent lustre which varied with her varying words, and proved the existence of an | ardent, imperious nature underneath the seeming | snow. They exercised a curious fascination over me and | kept my own obedient to their wi!l, although scarce conscious of it at the time and believing mine to be the controlling power. Whercia the charm lay I cannot tell; it was not the influence of a womanly | presence alone; for fairer faces had smiled at me in vain; yet as [ sat there I feit a pleasant quietude creep over me, I knew my voice had fallen to a lower key, my eye softened from its wonted coid indifference, my manner grown smooth and my demeanor changed to one almost as courtly as my friend’s, who well deserved his soubriquet of ** Louis the Debonnair.” ‘It is because my long fret is over,” I thought, and having something to gain, exerted myself to please so successfully that, soon emboldened by her gracious mood and the flattering compliments be- stowed upen my earlier works, I ventured to tell miy present strait and the daring hope I hed con- ceived that che wou'd hep me through it. Howl mde this blunt request I cannot tell, but remem- ber that it slipped over my tongue as smoothly as if I had meditated upon it for a week. I glane:d over my shoulder as I epoke, fearing Louis might | mar all with apology or reproof; but he was ab- sorbed in the comeity duenna, who was blushing like a girl at the half playful, half serious devotion | he paid all womankind; and reassured, I waited, | wondering how Miss Eure would receive my re- qicst. Very quietly; for with no change but a | peculiar dropping of the lids, as if her eyes some- | times played the traitor to her will, she answered, | smilinogly, ‘*It is I who receive the honor, sir, not you, for genius possesses the privileges of royalty, and may | claim subjects everywhere, sure that its choice | eunobles and its power extonds beyond the narrow When shall I bounds of custom, time and place. serve you, Mr. Erdmann ?” At any other time I should have felt surprised both at her and at myself; but just then, in the ardor of the propitious moment, 1 thought only of my work, and with many thanks for her great kindness left the day to her, secretly hopirg she | would name an early one. She sat silent an in- stant, then seemed to come to some determination, | for when she spoke a shadow of mingled pain and patience swept across her face as if her resolve had cost her some sacrifice of pride or feeling. | “It is but right to tell you that I may not always have it in my power to give you the expression you cesire to catch, for the eyes you honor by wish'ng to perpetuate are not strong and often fail me for atime. I have been utterly blind once and may be again, yet have no present cause to fear it, and | if you can come to mic on such days as they will serve your purpose, I shall be mos’ glad to do my best for you. Another reason makes me bold to ask this favor of you, I cannot always summon this absent mood, and should certainty fail in a! strange place; but ia my own home, with all faruiliar things about me, I can more casily fall into one of my deep reveries and forget time by the hour together. Will this arrangement cause much iaconvenience or delay? A room shall be pre- p.red for you—kept inviolate as long as you desire it—and every facility my house affords is at your scrvice, fr I feel much interest in the work which is to add another success to your life.” She spoke regretfully at first, but ended with a cordial glance as if she had forgotten herself in giving pleasure to another. I felt t..at it :nust have cost her an effort to confess that such a dire afll.c- tion had ever darkened her youth and might sti!l return to sadden her prime; this pity mingled with my expressions of gratitude for the unexpected in- terest slie bestowed upon my work, and in a few words the arrangement was made, the day and hou: fixed, and a great load off my mind. What the afterpiece was I rever knew; Miss Eure ttayed to please her young companion, Louis stayed to please himself, and I remained because I had not energy enough to goaway. For, leaning where I first sat down, I still looked and listened witha dreamy sort of satisfaction to Miss Eure’s low voice, as with downcast eyes, still shaded by her fan, she spoke enthusiastically and well of art (the one in- teresting theme to me) in a manver which proved that she had read‘and studied more than her modesty allowed her to acknowledge. We parted like old friends at her crriage door, end as I walked away with Louis in the cool right air I felt like one who had been asleep ia a close room, for I was both languid and drowsy, though a curious undercurrent of excitement still stirred my blood and tingled slong my nerves. “A theatre is no place for me,” I decided, and auxivus to forget myself said aloud: “Tell me all vou know about that woman.” ‘« What woman, Max ?” “ Miss Agatha Eure, the owner of the eyes.” * Aha! smitten at last! Thatever I shou'dlive to see our Benedict the victim of love at first sight!” “ Have core with your nonsense, and answer my quesiion. I don’t ask from mere curiosity, but that I may have some idea how to bear myself at these promised sittings; for it will never do to ask after her papa if she has none, to pay my respects to the old lady as her mother if she is only the duenna, or joke with the lad if he is the heir apparent.” **Do you mean to say that you asked her to sit to ycu?” cried Louis, falling back a step and star- ing at me with undisguised astonishment. “Yes, why not ?” “ Why, man, Agatha Eure isthe haughtizst piece of humanity ever concocted; and I, with all my daring, never ventured to ask more than an occa- sional! dance with her, and feel myself especially favored that she deigns to bow to me, and lets me pick up her gloves or carry her bouquet as a mark of supreme condescension. What witchcraft did you bring to bear upon her? and how did the grant your audacious request ?” ** Agreed to it at once.” “Like an empvess conferring kcighthood, I fancy.” “Not atall. Morelikea pretty woman receiving a compliment to her beauty—though she is not pretty, by the way.” Louis indulged himself in the long, low whistle, which seems the only adequate expression for mas- culine surprise. I enjoyed his amazement, it was my turn to laugh now, and I did so, as I said: ‘You are always railing at me for my avoidance of all womankind, but you see I have not lcst the art of pleasing, for 1 won your haughty Agatha to my wif in fifteen minutes, and am not only to paint her handsome eyes, but to do it at her own house, by her own request. Iam beginning to fiad that, after years of effort, I have r.ounted a few more rounds of the social ladcer than I was aware of, and may now confer as well as reccive favors; for she seemed to think me the benefactor, and I rather enjvyed the novelty of the thing. Now tell your story of ‘the haughtiest piece of humanity’ ever knowa. I like her the better for that trait.” Louis nodded his head, and regarded the moon with an aspect uf immense wisdom, as he replied: “T understand it now; it all comes back to me, and my accusation holds good, only the love at first sight is on tie other side. You shall have your story, but it may leave the picture in the lurch if it causes you to fly off, as you usually see fit to do when a worian’s name is !iaked with your own. You never sav Miss Eure before; but what you say reminds me that she has seen you, for one day last eutamn, as I was driving with her and old madame—a mark of uncommon favor, mind you— we saw you striding along, with your hat over your eyes, looking very much like a comct streaming down the street It wes crowded, andas you waited at the crossing ycu spoke to Jack Mellot, and while talking pulled off your hat and tanbled your hair abcut, in your usual fashion, when very earnest. We were blockaded by cars and coaches for a mo- ment, so Miss Eure hai a fine opportunity to feast her eyes upon you, ‘though you are not pretty, by the way.’ She asked your name, and when I told her she gushed out iato a charming little etream of interest in your daubs, and her delight at seeing their creator; all of which was nctagrecable to me, for I considered myse!f much the finer work of art of ; thetwo. Justthen you caught upa shabby child with a dig basket, took them across, under our horses’ noses, with never a word for me, though I cailed to you, and, diving into the crowd, disappeared. ‘I like that,’ said Miss Eure; and as we drove on she asked questions, which I answered in a truly Chris- tian manner, doing you no harm, old lad; for I told all you had fought through, with the courage of a stout-hearted man, a!l you had borne with the patience of a woman, and what a grand future lay open to you, if you chose to accept and use it, making quite a fascinating little romance of it, 1 assure you. There the matter dropped. I forgot it till this minute, but it eccounta for the case with which you gained your first suit, and is prophetic of like succss in a second and more serious ore, She is youug, well-born, lovely to those who love her, and has a fortune and position which will li you at once to the topmost round ofthe long ladder you’ve been cliinbing all these years. I wish you joy, Max.” “Thank you. I've no time for lovemaking, end want no fortune but that which I earn for myseif. Iam already married to a fairer wif: than Miss Eure, so you may win and wear the lofiy lady your- self.” Louis give 2 comical groan. * I’ve tried that, and failed; for she is too cold to be warmed by any flame of mine, though she is wonderfully attractive when she likes, and I hover about her even now like an infatuated moth, who beats his head egainst the glass and never reaches the ight within. No; you must thankfully accept the gocd the gods b:stow. Let Art be your L-ah, but Agatha your Rachel. And so, gocd-night!” “Stay andtellme one thing—is she an orphan ?” “ Yes; the last of a fine old race, with few rela- tives and few friends, fer death has deprived her of the first, and her own choicecf the last. The lady you saw wit! her plays propriety in her establish- mett; the lad is Mrs. Snow’s son, and fills the réle ofcavaliere-servenie ; fur Miss Eure isa Diana toward men in general, and leads a quietly luxurious life among h«r bocks, pencils and musi>, reading and studying all manner of things few women of two- and twenty care to know. But she has the wit to see that a woman’s mission is to be charming, and when she has sufficient mc tive for the exertion rhe fulfils that mission most successfully, as I know to my sorrow. Now let me off, and be for ever grate- fal for the yood turn I have done you to-n/ght, both in urging you to go to the theatre and helpizg you to your wish when you got there.” We parted merrily, but his words lingered in my memcury, and haf unconscivusly exerted a new in- fluence over me, for they flattered the three ruling pzs- sions that make or mar the fortunes of us ali—pride, ambition and self-love. I wanted power, fame and ease, and all seemed waiting for me, not in the disa future but the actual present, if my friend's belief was to be relied upon; and remembering all I had seen and heard that night, I fek that it was net utterly without foundstion. I pleased myself for an idle hour in dreaming dreams of what might be; finding thst amusement began to grow dangerously attractive, I demolished my cast’es in the air with the last whiff of my meerschaum, aud fell asleep, echoing my own words: “‘ Art is my wife, I will have no other!”’ Punctual to the moment I went to my appoint- ment, and while waiting an answer to my ring took anexterior survey of Mise Eure’s house. One of an imposing granite bicck, it stocd in a West Ead square, with every sign of unostentatious opu'ence about it. Iwas very susceptible to all influences, cither painful or pleasant, and as I stood there the bland atmosphere that surrounded me seemed most attractive; for my solitary life had been plain and poor, with little time for ease, and few oraamexts te give it grace. Now I seemed to have won the right to epjoy both if I would; I no longer felt out of place there, and with this feeling came the wish to try the sunny side of life, and see if its geniai gifts would prove more inspiring than the sterner masters I lad been servirg ro long. The door opened in the middle cf my reverie, and I was led through an anteroom, lined with warmhued pictures, to a large apartment, which had been converted into an impromptu studio by some one who understood all the requisites for such aplace. The picture, my easel and other neces- saries had preceded me, and I thought to l:ave spent a gocd hour in arranging matters. Ail was done, however, witha skill that surptiscd me; the shaded witdows, the carefully-arranged brushes, the proper colors already cn the palette, the easel and picture placed as they should be, and a deep curtain hung behead a small dais, where I fancied my model was to sit. The room was empty as I entered, and with the brief message, “Miss Eure will be down directly,” the man noiselessly departed. I stood and leoked about me with great satisfac- tion, thinking, “I cannot fail to work well sur- rounded by such agreeable sights and sounds.” The house was very still, for the turmoil of the city was subdued toa murmur, Jike the far. off music of the sea; a soft gloom filled the room, divided by one strong ray that fell athwart my picture, gifting it with warmth and light. Through a half-opsn door I saw the green vista of a conservatcry, full of fine blendings of color, and wafts of many cdors blown to me by the west wind rustling through crange trees and slender palms; while the only sound thet broke the silence was the voice of a flame-colored foreigo bird, singing a plaintive little strain like a sorrowful lamant. I liked this scene, and, standing in the doorway, was content to look, listen and enj>y, forgetful of time, till a slight stir made me turn and for a mornent look straig’t be- fore me witha startled aspect. It seemed as if my picture had left its frame; for, standing on the narrcw dais, clearly defined against the dark back- ground, stood the Iviug likeness of the figure I had painted, the same white folds felling from neck to ankle, the same shadowy hair, and slender hands locked together, as if wrung in slow despair; and fixed full upon my own the weird, unseeing ej es, which made the face a pa'e mask, through which the haunted spirit spoke eloquently, with its sleep- less anguish and remorse. “Good morning, Miss, Eure ; how shall I thank you?” I began, but stopped abruptly, for without speaking she waved me towards the casel witha ges- ure which seemed to say, *' Prove your gratitude by industry." * Very good,” thought I, ‘if she likes the theat- rical style she shall have it. Itis evident she has studied her part and wil! p!ay it well, I will do the same, and as Louis recommends, takethe good the gods send me while I may.” Without more ado I took my place and fell to work ; but, though never more eeger to get on, with each moment that I passed ! found my interest in the picture grow less and less intent, and with every g.ance at my model found that it was more and more difficult to look away. Beautiful she was not, but the wild and woful figure seemed to at- tract me as no Hebe, Venus or sweet-facei Psyche had ever done. My hand moved slower and slower, the painted face grew dimmer and dimmer, my glances lingered longer and longer, and presently palette and bruslies rested on my knee, as I leaned back in the deep chair and gave myself up to an uninterrupted stare. I knew that it wasru‘e, knew that it was a trespass gn Miss Eure’s kindness as wellas a breach of good manners, but I could not help it, for my eyes seemed beyond my control, and though I momentarily exp2cted to see her color rise and hear some warning of the iapse of time, I never looked away, and soon forgot to imagine her feelings in the mysterious confusion of my own. I was first conscious of a terrible fear that I ought tospeak or move, which seemed imposséivle, fer my eyelids began to be weighed down by a delicious drowsiness in spite of all my efforts to keep them open. Everything grew misty, end the beating of my heart sounded like the rapid, irregular roil of a mufiied drum ; then a strange weight seemed to op- press and cause me to sigh long and deeply. But soon the act of breathing appcared to grow un- necessary, for a sensation of wonderful aiciness came over me, and I felt as if I could float away like a thistledown. Presently every reuse seemed to fall asleep, aud in the act of dropping buth palette and brush I drifted away iato 2 sea of blissful re- pose, where nothing disturbed me but a fragmen-' 4 tary dream that came and went like a lingering; | gleam of conscicusne-s thruugh tie neweaporience which had befallen me. I seemed to be still in the quiet roora, still leon- } aspect it hed ing in the decp chair with half-closed eyes, rtill’ watching the white figure before me, but that had changed. I saw a smile break over the lips, some- thing ike triumph flash into the eyes, sudden colr flush the cheeks, and the rigid hands lifted to gather up and put the long hair back; then with LOiselers steps it came nearcr and nearer tillit etocd beeige me. For awhile it prused there mute end inteny | felt the eager gaze searching my face, but it caused no displeasure; for I scemed to be looting down a myself, as if ssul and body had parted compeny and I was gifted with a double life. Sucdenly the vision leid a light hand on my wrist and touched my temples, while a shade of anxiety seemeq to flit across its face as it turned and ranisheg A dreamy wonder regarding its return woke Within me, then my sleep deepened into utter oblivion for how longI cannot tell. A pungent odor seemed to recall me tothe same half wakeful state, | dimly saw a woman's arin holding a glittering object be. fore me, whence the fragrance came; an unseen hand stirred my hair with the grateful drip of wator and once there came a touch like the pressure of lips upon my forehead, soft and warm, but gone jn an instant. These new sensations grew rapjly more and more defined ; I clearly saw a bracelet on the arm and read the Arabic characters engraved upon the golden cvins that formed it; I hevrd tye rustle of garments, the hurried breathing of some near presence, and felt the cool sweep of a hand passing to and fo across my forehead. At this poiat my thoushts began to shape themeelves into words, which came sloxly and seemed strange to me as I searched for end connected the:, then a heavy sigh rose and broke at my lips, and the sound of my own voice woke me, drowsily echoing the last words I had spoken : ; ‘Good morning, Miss Eure; how shal! I thank you?” To my great surprise the wel!-remembered voice answered quietly : “Good morning, Mr. Erdmann; will you have some lunch before you begin ?” How I opened my eyes and got upon my feet was never clear to me, but the first object I saw was Miss Eure coming towards me with a glass in her hand. My expression must have been daz:d and imbecile in the extreme, for to add to my bewilder- ment the tragic robes had disappeared, the dis- hevelled hair was gathered in shining coils undera Venetian net of silk and gold, a white embroidered wrapper replaced the muslins Lady Macbeth had worn, and a countenance half playful, half anxious, now smiled where I had last seen so sorrowful an aspect. The fear of having committed some great absurdity and endargered my success brought me right with a little shock of returning thought. I collected myseif, gave a look about the room, a dizzy bow to her, and put my hand to my head with a vague idea that s.methiag was wrong there. In dviug this I discovered that my hair was wet, which slight fact caused me to exclaim abruptly : “Miss Eure, what have I been doing? Have I had a fit? been asleep? or do you ceal in magic and rock your guests off into oblivion without moment’s warning ?” Standing before me with uplifted eyes, she an- swered, smiling: ‘*No, none ef these have happened to you; the air from the Indian p!ants ia the conservatory was too powerful, I think; you were a little faint, but closing the door aud opening a window has restored you, and ~g glass of wine will perfect the cure, I hope.” She was offering the glass as she spoke. I tock it but forgot to thank her, for on the arm extended to me was the bracelet never seen so near by my waking eyes, yet as fumiliar as if my vision had come again. Something stauck me disagrecatly, end I spoke out with my usual bluntness. “T never fainted iu my life, and have «n impres- sivn that peopie do not dream wi.en they swoon. Now I did, and to vivid was it that I stili remember the characters engraved on the trinket you wear, for that played a prominemt part i2 my vision. Shall I describe them as proof of it, Miss lure?” Her arm dropped at her side and her cyes fell for amoment as I spoke; then she glanced up u- changed, saying as she scaicd herself end motioned me to do the same: ‘‘No, rather tell the dream, and taste these grapes while you amuce me.” I sat dowa and obeyed her. She listened atten- tively, and when I ended explained the mystery in the simplest manner. “You are right ia the first part of your story. I did yield to a whim which seized me when I saw your picture, and vame down en cos‘wiie, hopiag to help you by keeping up the illusion. You began, as canvas and brushes prove; I stood motionlesstill you turned pale and regarded me with a strang? expression; at first ] thought it might be inspira tion, as your friend Yorke would say, but presently you dropped everything out of your hands and fell back in your chair. I took the liberty of treating y u like a woman, for I bathed your temples and wielded my vinaigrette inost energetically till you revived and began to talk of ‘Rachel, art, castles in the air, aud your wife Lady Mazbeth;’ then I sipped away and raodernized myself, crdered some refreshmen‘s fcr you, and waited till you wished me ‘ Gocd-morniug.” She wa* laughing so !nfectiousiy that I could net resist joiaing her and ace ptizg her belie, h! curivus as the whole cfizir acsvunt for it in no other way. She was wi kind, and urged me not to rcsume sry i was secretly disgusted with mys>if for svch * disp'ay of weakness, and finding hor | tien could ingly b, but scsmed to me | nd coused soleiy by fears for we, I persi scatiag her, piinted as I had revir dere lnfor' Every cease seemed unw niccty acute . ard eye veyed ne with a dovtity tory sid showed. Miss }.ttre eat where I piace | 17 aud intent, Lut her face did not wear tr worn before, though she | 1? ae ecail it.. T..i3 ae | tw f 5 the m rr’? mesacsy of tie Vanisi.ci fae was mere Om befire me than her own, tnd «ith but ow eee hasty glances at my meove., L rep cue - ‘the speed and skiil that filled me with celig»t. [ had far striking of a clock reminded me that

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exeecded the specified time, and that even a woman’s patiegce has limits; se concealing my regret at losing 80 auspicious a mood, I laid down my brush, leaving my work unfinished, yet glad to now I had the right to come again, end complete it in a place and presence which had proved so inspiing. Miss Eure would notlook at it till it was all done, saying in reply to my thanks for the pleasant studio she had given me—'I was not quite un- selfish in that, and owe you an apology for ven- turing to meddle with your property; but it gave me real satis‘action to arrange these things, and restore this room to the aspect it wore three years ego. I, too, was an artist then, and dreamed aspiring dreams here, but was arrested on the threshold of my career by loss of sight; and hard as it seemed then to give up all my longings, I see now that it was better so, for a few years later it wou'd have killed me. I have learned to desire for others what I can never hope for myself, and try to find pleasure in their success, unembittered by regrets for my own defeat. Let this explain my realiness to help you, my interest in your work and my best wishes for your present happiness and future fame.” The look of resignation, which accompanied her words, touched me more than a flood of complaints, and the thought of all she had lost woke such sympathy and pity in my frosty heart, that I involuntarily pressed the hand that could never wield a brush agaia. Then jor the first time I saw those keen eyes soften and grow dim with unshed tears; this gave them the one charm they needed to be beautiful as well as penetrating, and as they mct my own, 80 womanly sweet and grate- ful, I felt that one might love her while that mood remained. But it passed as rap'dly as it c:me, and when we parted in the anteroom the cold, quiet lady bowed me out, end the tender-faced girl was yne. . I never told Louis all the incidents of that first sittiag, but began my story where the real interest ended; and Miss Eure was equally silent, through forgetfulness or for som? good reason of her own. I went several times again, yet though the con- servatory door stocd open I felt no ill effects from the Indian plants that still bloomed there, dreamed no more dreams, and Miss Eure no more enacted the somnambulist. I found an indefinable charm in that pleasant room, a curious interest in studying its mistress, who always met me with a sinile, and parted with a look of unfeigned regret. Louis rallied me upon my absorption, but it caused me no uneasiness, for it was not love that led me there, and Miss Eure knewit. I never had for- gotten our conversation on that first night, and with every interview the truth of my friend’s suspicion grew more and more apparent tome. Agatha Eure was ea strong-willed, im- erious womaa, used to command all about her and see her last wish gratified; but now she was conscious of a presence she could not command, a wish sbe dare not utter, and, though her womanly pride sealed her lips, her eyes often traitorously betrayed the longing of her heart. She was sin- cere in her love for art, and behind that interest in that concealed, even from herself, her love for the artist; but the most indomitable passion given humanity canuot long be hidden. Agatha soon felt her weakness, und vainly struggled to subdue it. I soon knew my power, and owned its subtle charm, though I disdained to use it. The picture was finished, exhibited and won me ali, and more than I had dared to hope ; for ramor served me a good turn, and whispers of Miss Eure’s part in my success added zest to public curiosity and warmth to public praise. I enjoyed the little stir it caused, found admiration a sweet draught after a laborious year, and felt real grat-tule to the woman who had helped me win it. Ifmy work had proved a failure I should have forgott:n her, and been an humbler, happier men; it did not, and she became a part of my success. Her name was cften spoken in the same breath with mine, her im»g: was kept before me by no exertion of my own, till the memories it brought with it grew familiar as old friends, and slowly ripened into a purpose which, being born of ambi- tion ani not love, bore bitter fruit, and wrought out its own retribution for a sin against myself and her. The more I won the more I demanded, the higher I climbed the more eager I became; and, at last, seciang how much I eould gsin by a cingle step, resolved to take it, even though [ knewit to be a false one. Other men married for the furtherance of their ambitions, why should notI? Years ago I had given up love of home for love of fame, and the woman who might have made me what I s! ould be hid meekly yielded all, wished me a Lappy future, and fa*ed frora my world, leaving me only a bitter memory, a veiled picture and a quiet grave my feet never visited but once. Miss Eure loved me, Sympathised in my aims, understood my tastes; | she could give all I asked to complete the purpose of my life, and lift me at once and for ever from the hard lot I had struggled wi'h for thirty years. Ose word would work the miracle, why should I hesitate to utter it? I did not long—for three months from the day I first entered that shadowy rocm I stood there intent on asking her to be my .fe. As I waited I lived again the strange hour once passed there, and fe't as if it had been the beginning cf another dream whose awakening was yet to come. I asked myself if the hard hea'thful reality was not better thin euch feverish visions, however brilliant, and the voice that is never silent when we interrogate We with sixeerity answered, “ Yee.” “ No matter, I Coote (2 “ream, so let the phantom cf a Fife come toms here as the phantora of a lover came to me wig oo.” As I uttered these Cefiant words Uke u vis.vle reply, Agatha apprared upon the tveshold ef the door. I knew she hed heard Demfor agairT sair the soft-eyed, tender girl, and auld ‘trouble him not.

at once, and clinging to me with unwonted tears upon her cheek, unwozted fervor ia her voice, touched my forehead, es she had done in that earlier dream, whispering like one still dcubtful of her happiness— “Oh, Max! be kind to me, for in all the world I heve only you to love.” I promised, and broke that promise in less than a@ year. (To be concluded in our next.) “MIDNIGHT IS PAST—THE CROSS BEGINS TO BEND!” ‘‘MipnicnT is past—the Cross begins to bend!” So sings the sailor on the Southern seas, Longing for darkness and the night to end, And letting such old signs his fancy please.

The nightwatch, that began in storm and gloom, Wearied his soul, its dull hours dragging by; He smiles in seeing black clouds lift, make room. : For this sweet writing of the stars on high. And so I think, through all our ranks to-day, Look answers look, and friend speaks quick to friend, Soldier to soldier, brother to brother say, ‘Midnight is past—the Cross begins to bend!” Aye, ringing bells, throughout this summer air, With all their happy tide of music, blend The voice and blessing of our dead, who share With us this joy—‘‘The Cross begins to bend!”

A Western Hotel. By the Colonel. TuHOsr who are accustomed only to the present day travelling through the length and breadth of the land, where they are whipped about by cars or steamboats in less time than it takes to stay at home, and arrive, when their day’s journey is done, at a palace, where toe most frivolous wish of their he wts can be instantly satisfied, can hardly realise the style of travelling through the extreme West of thirty years ago, and the hotel (?) accom- modation of the same pericd. About that number of years ago necessity, or in other words, business, took me through the scuthern counties of Illinois. My experience in the newly settled parts of the different States was not small, but I was obliged to ennfess that southern Ilinois showed up about as rough a hand as I had seen held anywhere. A man travelling with what the natives were pleased to term “' store clothes” on stood but little chance, unless he was disposed to set aside all the ordinsry amenities and necessities of life, and rough it, both physically and mentally, with those he met. They were fearfully exercised lest he should * put on airs,” and repudiated, in advance, any such attempt. They had no dread of anything human, but a thorough detestation of a surveyor, and a full determination to exterminate anything in the shape of a land speculator off the face of the earth. Ina few words, any one coming with the savor of the city about him had a hard time on his travels, unless he chose to ley aside every trace of his refinement, and come straight down to the back- woods standard of good-fellowship. This was exactly the state of things when on one day, late in the auturan, I made my way through an apology for a road in that same southern Lilinois. The day had been showery and cold until! about three o’clock, wien it fairly sresting story of English life, that will cot fail to please many, Brokun CoLtumMns. New York: Sheldon, 1863, Avcw ncvilof the sersational crder, slightly relieved by superficial religion. It has received higher com- mendation than we would venture to give it. The publisher bis issued it in very creditable style, and will doubtless find the’work extensively read. Tne Poor GirL; or, Tite MARCILIONESS AND HER Secret. By Pierce EGAN. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1863. Thie story bas been quite popular in Exgiand, and will doubtless have a run here. The plot, we need scarcely say, turns ona bigamy, which hereafter will, trom the literature of our dxy, be supposed to have been one of the passions of the e — THE RUSSIAN FLEE IN NEW YORK HARBOR. Tae Russian squadron, whose advent in the harbor of New York has excited 80 much enthu- siesm, is not without its political significance, and we preecnt general view of the veseels firing a salute at the appreach of one or our naval commanders, Itis probable thet the imms‘iate cause of their presence was to preveat them from being blockaded in the Baltic, in e.se of war, and s> rendered in a marner useless to the Czar. The friendly harbors of the United States will enable them to transfer the war to the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, and i:terfe:e sadly with the operations of Napoleon in Mexico. A few vees_ls weuld effectually blockade the whole coast, and rc quire Fravce to maintaia an immense fiect in the Gulf. Then, too, by the new rules of international law introduced b7 England and France, Russia can fit out in our ports privateers, as the rebels have done in the ports of England, aud with the better right, as Ru‘sia is arecogcized Government and nota mere rebeliious gethcring Like Jeff Davis’s, Nena Sahib or the Fovian-. Tho oocaw lighted up with burning French or perhaps Exgl.ebh vessels may throw some light ou questions cf iutcraational law which are row some vhat oysecure. The Russian squadron consiste of five vessels, The firat that reached New York wan the screw frigute Os'iaba, Captain Boutaboff, on Sept. lith; oa the 24th and 25th the steam elocus Vitiaz, Captsin Lund, acd Varieg, Captain. Krewer, with the serew frigate Alexander Nevski, C .ptatu Lakoveia, and Peresyict, C-pvtain Kopytov, auchored ia the North river. The frizates cime xp through the Sound. The Alexander Nevski, called in bonor of St. Alexander, the saint aud hero of Russia. surnamed Nevski from # signal victory won on the bunks of the Neva, is shown oa the righ’ of our engraving. She is the flagship of Admiral Lisove’i, and is a fine modern bullt 51 gun ecrew frigate, 271 feet long and of about 45 Otons, The Osiiabs, iv t!.o foreground, is smaller, and carries 33 guns, 60-pounicrs. The s°rew eloops Vitiaz and Varieg, of 17 guns cach, are iu the back- ground. fhe ehipa are iv beautiful condition, te regime seems periect, the offiecrs g utlemaaly and educated men, apparently fuliy quuified for service, and the crews stout, hardy fellows.

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JouNson’s Gold Pens have now become so incispernsabie to every perron who writes, that it is only neceseary to say thes sre on rale, at retail prices, at his manufactory and office, i5 Maidenlase. Their cheapn’ 68 is as — as their exce'lence; cne pen will lest ayesr wi hout avy mcvding, and then they caa be repointed for a smali sum, and rendercd s8 good as new. Tue Card Photographs published by E & li, T. Anthony, 501 Broedway, now exced 4,000 in number, an‘1 furnish the -ompletcst gallery of persons] history in the world. Every na~e famous in modern estimation is here, end, as it were, makes us pereon- ally a quaix-ted wiih their living originile, The ecine of this workin a few ycars is hcyond caleula- tion, awl the present ———_ should not be regiccie’ of secur'ng perfect portraits of those whom we admire, and who wilh reciter be the great heroes of the present cational crisis, Ropssinc a Brows or ner Bep.--The St. Lou s Democrat h:s th: followicg: ‘At Laber’s bosrd- iog-t-ouse, in this city, aa u-ueual wedding came eff on Teerdsy right, and the .ence was prolorged til ose o’elock ic the morrins. Th« bride and groom: thea ripatred to their ; par ment, but—horribile visu —the i«d aac Ledding hac been sacrilegiourly atoica from the r.updal chamber! Some vindictive wretch had gained felonious ingress et the rear, snd effested aroboery unporalieled in the his‘ory of want pe & It ie covjectured that s» feil » vengeance could ovly hove been Cevised and executed by some dissppvinted lover.” MACBIAVELLI, the acute Italian statesman who is 69 often quoted, “rote works “On the Natur~ eft-+« French,” and “ Sketches o2 French Affairs,” ‘mn whica opirvions are expressed with regard to the char iter cf the French policy precis:ly the same as those entcrtained of it row. e siys: “When a favor is asked of them, the Vrench think first ehat advantage they tucmselves may de‘ive from t*; wv hen they caunot do you geod they promise it, excd when thoy cas teey do it reluct:ntly or rever; 9 prople ic- etluctively yrro y, erdto «ham theft comes an cacily as brev'htoz.” Mechiavelli had opportunities en: nels to study tho chavecter of the French, ant b's epinioa, expressed lo the fiftcesth century, is the same ao that wh ch he would hive givea hv he lived tu (he rinr- teenth Aud strangest of 11, the Freneca, fickle in everyth'ng, have al sys show> e singular pere'stcacy "+. of which even Julius Cas rg'y<s «a proof in *hie hy every one, including the landiord, and then lower- in his works,

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74 FRANK LESLIE’S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. [Oct. 24, 1863, —— THIS IS THE SPOT WHEREON HE FELL! BY J. W. WaTSON. Tarts is the spot whereon he fell! I stood his comrade on the right; We had been side by side before, In many a flerce and fearful fight. Look down the road and up the hill, The fields are ripe with waving grain, The cattle low, the trees are full, And birds sing blithely once again. And yet ’tis but a year ago These fields were drenched with streaming blood; Horseinan and horse and black-mouthed gun Weut staggering through the gory mud. Yon wood, to-day in glorious green, A sight to make the heart grow gled, That day we viewed with clenchéd teeth, And thoughts that made the brain go mad. From out its dense and sheltering shade They poured a deathly stream of fire; Thrice did our gallant fellows charge Through smoke, and flame, and slippery mire; Thrice did we rush, with blinded eyes, To drive the slaughterers from their lair, And thrice, with decimated ranks, We shrank before the hellish blare! Yes, yes! he was as brave a lad As ever stood in battle line. I watched him when the bravest blanched, His face gave no responsive sign. He clutched his musket thus, and stood— Just as I stand—with swelling throut, And seemed to listen, through the din, To hear the bugle’s ‘‘ Forward!” note. They camc; ten thousand yelling ficnds— They knew they matched us ten to one— And, under cover of their guns, Their bloody work was quickly done. White lips there were, but steady hands Still held the empty muskets fast; We fell, through heaps of corses, back, With close ranks, to the very last. Yes, yes! this is the spot he fell— Your foot is pressing on it now. So, you’re his brother, eh? Yes, true; I see it stamped upon your brow. You have no cause for shame, my friend; He was a soldier, staunch as steel, A comrade, one who never failed Or faltered, once, through woe or weal. As I was saying; down this hill They came, in one resistless flood ; They marked their course with fire and steel, And left behind a track of blood. We did not fly, but every step Was foughtin flame, with bayonets crossed ; But God had willed it so, my friend— ‘The day, but not our cause, was lost. Patience! my tale is nearly done: Your brother stood like chiselled stone, Crashing the masses back, until We two were almost here alone. Just then a horseman, plnnging through, Made one fierce thrust toward his breast; Your brother fell—I saw the wound. Give me your hand, you know the rest. Thank God! who gave me strength that day To make one spring upon his foe, ‘To strike, with musket clubbed, a fierce And, by good chance, a deadly blow. I saw the rider in the dust, I saw the stecd among the dead, I saw its iron hoofs crush out The brain from its own master’s head. And then twas done—I saw no morc; 1 weke to clang oi bolts and bars, To lose, for months, the cheering sight Of yonder glorivus Stripes and Stars. No! when [ came once wore to life I soaght in vain your brother's grave; ’Tis nameless, but, where’er it 1s, It is the birthright of the brave! ELEAN OR’S VIGTORY. BY MISS M. B. BRADDON, aUTHOR OF “AURORA FLOYD,” “LADY AUDLEY’S eecRe?.” “LADY LIsLe” “s0mN MaRCHMONT’S LEGACY, #374, CUATTER LVI.—THE HORTORS OF DELIRIUM TREMENS. No letter eame from Richard Thornton. Eleanor was seized with a kind of pa: ic as the days went by, and there was no answer from the young man, the frithful friend, without whose help she felt her- self so powerless Eleanor hed addressed her lett~r to the Pilasters, @: 1. div su envelope directed to Signora Picirillo, with « few burried li ves requesting that it might be hiamedi tely forwarded to the sceve-paluter. He wis in Sootlana sti'l, very ‘ikely, ani some days mu telapee befure he c.ud respond to Eleanor's evmmons. She felt assured that he would eome to There are some friends whose goodness we her. no more doubt than we doub: the power of God; and Richard Thoreton was one of these. But the week passed, and no reply came to Eleanor’s eppeal for help, so she began to feel that she stood alone, and must ect for herself. “She must act for herself, since to think of getting any eesistance from either the major or his wife in this business, which demanded foresight, coolness and diplomacy, would have been about as reasonable as to apply to one of the chi'dren playing under the trees in the gardens of the Tuileries. As far as sympathy went, Msjor and Mrs. Len- nard were all that the most exacting individual could require. The major offered to do anything in a muscular way on behalf of his wife's friend. Should he punch tie head of that scoundrelly Frenchman? Should he go over to Englon] and horsewhip Launcelot Darrell and bring Gilbert Monchton to reason, and play up old gooseberry altogether? This goodnatured Hercules was ready to hit out right and lef: ia the defence of poor Eleanor. But the one friend whom Mrs. Monckton wanted in this crisis was Richard Thornton—Richard, the clear-sighted, even-tempered, unprejudiced young man, who was ready to go through fire and water for the sake of his beautiful adopted sister, without noise or bluster; and when the Tuesday, the day appointed by the Frenchman for Eleanor’s visit to his apartments, came, and Richard Thorvton did not come with i:, the lonely girl almost gave way to despair. *She f:lt that she had to encounter a wretch who was utterly without honor or honesty, and who, seeing the value which she set upon the possession ef Maurice de Crespigny’s wil!, would be all the more exacting in his demands. And she hed nothing to bribe him with—nothing. She had been too proud to appeal to her hus- band; for ever irapulsive, for cver inconsiderate, she had not stepped to think that he, of all others, was the most fitting person to stand by her in this crisis. At first the thought of writing to Gilbert Monckton had indeed flished across her mind, but in the next moment she had remembered the bitter humiliation of her last failure. She could not endure another such degrada‘ion; and she had sern treachery and dishonor so long triumph over the simple force ef truth, that she had begun to think that wrong was stronger than right, and elways must be victorious. “If I were to write and ask Gilbeit to come to me, this Frenchn:an would perhaps disappear be- fore my husband could arrive; or he would be afraid of Gilvert, very likely, and would deny any knowledge of the will; and I should appear a con- victed trickster, who had heaped up one falsehood upon another, in the weak attempt to justify her- se'f. No. Gilbert Monckton shall hear nothieg cf me until I can go to hin: with Maurice de Cres- pigny’s will in my hands.’ But in the meantime this helpless girl’s anxiety grew cvery hour more intense. What reliance could she place upon the words of the Frenchman ? She had encountered }::m while he was still smart- ng under tha sense of hia wrongs, and in that stage of his feelings, revenge had seemed even sweeter to him than gain. But this state of things might not endure very long. The commercial traveller might listen to the dictates. of reason rather than to the fiery promptings of p2ssion, and might begin to think that a substantial recompense in the shape of money wae better thin any sugerplum ip the way of revenge. He had said that Launcelot Dar- re\l would be willing to give him ten times a thou- sand pourds for the genuine wil. What more likely than that Monsieur Victer Bourdon should have thcught better of his original design, and opened negotiations vith the new master of Wood- lande ! Monsieur Bourdon would in a'l probability have done precisely this, hed he not been hindered by one of those unlooked-fur and purely providential circumstances wiich so often help single and simple-minded truth in her encounters with versa- tile and shifty falsehocd. At half-past six o’clock upon the appointed even- ing Eleanor Menckton left the Hétel du Palais, escort.d by Major Lennard, on her wey to the Frenchman's lodging. She hed waited until the last moment in the hope of Richard Thornton’s arrival, but he had nvt come; and she had been foin to accept the iid of this goodnatured, over- grown schou:boy, who still persisted that the imme- diate punehing of Vistur Bourdon’s head would be che oest and surest means of getting possession of she will ‘*Let me punch the feller’s head, Miss Vii— beg purdon, Mrs) Monckton. ‘lhe idea of your being married to old Monckton! He sia’t any vlaer than me, you know, but I always call him old Moneston. Let me punch this dam French- man's head; that'll bring the feller to book in next to no time, and then we can do what we like with him.” But Eleancr impressed upon her stalwart pro. tector that there niust be no muscular demon- stration, and that the conduct of the interview was to be left entirely to her. “T don’t in the least hope that he’ll give up the will without a bribe,” Eleanor said; “he is the last man vpon earth to do tnat.” «I'll tell you what, then, Mrs. Monckton,” ex- claimed the major. “I haven't any ready money. I never have had, since I borrowed sixpence of a sucking bill-discounter at the first school I ever went to; but I'll give you my acceptance. Let this fellow draw upon me fur a thousand at three montha, and give up the document for that con- sideration. Munackton will exable me to meet the vli!, no doubt, when he finds I was of service to you ia this bus n+es.” Kleancr looked at the major with a gleam of hepe ia her face. But that trevsient gleam very quickly faded. She had only a vague idea of the nature and properties of accommodation bills; but | she had a very positive notion of Victor Bourdon’s character, and, though this plan sounded feasible enough, she dii not think jt would succeed. “ You are very good to me, Major Lennard,” she | said, “and believe me I appreciate your kindness; | but I do not think that this Frenchman will con- | sent to take anything but ready money. He could get that frem Launcelot Darrell, remember, at any time.” | BEleanor’s only hope was the one chance that | she might induce Victor Bourdon to accept her promise of a reward from Gilbert Monckton after the production of the will. The neighborhood in which the commercial traveller lived, whenever he made Paris his head- quarters, was one of the dingiest localities in the city. Major Lennard ard Eleanor, after making numcrous inquiries, and twice lcsing their way, found themselves at last in a long narrow street, one side of which was chiefly dead-wall, broken here and there by a dilapidated gateway or a dingy window. At one corner there was a shop for the sale of unredeemed p!edges; a queer old shop, in whose oxe murky window obsolete scraps of jewel- lery—cdd watchkeys, impossible watches, with cracked enamel dials ard crippled hands that poiated to hours whose last moments had passed away for half a century; mysterious, incompre- hensible garments, whose fashion was forgctten, and whose first owners were dead and gone; poor broken-down clocks, in tawdry ormolu cases, that had stood upon lodging-house mantelpieces, indif- ferently telling the wrong time to generations of lodzers; an old guitar; a stringless violin; poor, frail cracked cups and saucers, that had been precious once, by reason of the lips that had drunk out of them; a child’s embroidered frock; a battered christening-cup; a tattered missat; an old volume of ‘The Wanderiog Jew;” amid a hundred other p'‘tiful relics which poverty barters for a crust of bread—faded in the evening sunlight, and waited for some eccentric purchaser to take a fancy to them. Next docr to this sarcophagus of the past there was an eating- house, neat and almost cheerful, where one could have a soup, three courses, and half a bottle of wine for fivepence. The whole neighborhood seemed to be, somehow or other, overshadowed by churches, and pervaded by the perpetual tramp of funerals, and, lying low and out of the way of all cheerful traflic, was apt to have a depressing effect upon the spirits of frivolous people. Eleanor, leading the m1jor—who was about as much use to her es a blind man is to his dog— succeeded at last in finding the house which boasted Monsieur Vietor Bourdon amongst its inhabitants. I say “amongst” advisedly; for as there was the office of a popular biweekly pericdical upon the first floor, a greengrocer in the rez-de-chaussée, a hairdresser who professed to cut and friz the hair on the second story, and a mysterious lady, whose calling was represented by a faded pictorial board, resident somewhere under the roof, the commercial traveller was a very unimportant inhabitant, an in- significant nomad, replaced to-day by a student en d@rott; to-morrow by a second-rate actor at a fifch- rate theatre. Eleanor found this when she came to make in- quiries of the portrens as to the possibility of srciug Monsieur Bourdon. This lady, who was knitting, and whose very matronly contovr made it impossi- ble for her to see her knitting-necdles, told Eleanor that Monsieur Bourdon was very unlikely to be at home at that time. Ile was apt to return late at night, upon the two hours, in effect, between two wines, and at those times he was enovgh abrupt, and was evident'y by ro méans a favorite with madame the portress. Buton looking intoa dusky corner, where some keys were hanging upon a row of rusty nails, madame informed Eleanor that Monsieur Bourdon was at home, as his key was not among the rest, and it was his habit to leave it in her care when he went cut. The portress seemed very much struck by this dis- covery, fur she remarked that the last time she had seen Mvnvieur Bourdon go out had been early in the morning of Sunday, and that she did not remember having seen him re-enter. But upon this a brisk young person of twelve or thirteen, who was busy getting up fice linen in the recesses of the lodge, cried out ia a very shrill voice that Monsieur Bourdon had returned before mid-day on Sunday, look’ng a little ill, and dragging himself with a fatigued air. He was at home, then, the portress exclaimed; at least she did not utter any equivalent to our English word home, and in that evinced consider- able wisdom, since a French lodgiag is a place so utterly unhomelike, that the meanest second floor at Islington or Chelsea, presided over by the most unconscionable of British ! undladics, becomes be tter than all the pleasures and palaces we cau roam amidst—and ic is not everybody who has the chance of roamirg amidst p'easures ani palaces—by force of e»smpa’ison. Monsieur was chez lui, the portress said, acd would madsme ascend? Monsieur's apartment was on the entiesol, with windows giving upen the street. Madame would see a black door fecing her upon the first Janding. Eleaucr went up a short flight of steps, followed by the major. 6 ~e knocked upon the panel of the black door—onee, twice, three timet; but the:e was no answer. “Td lay a fiver the feller's gone out again,” the major exclaimed; “that jibbering Fiench- womak dida’t seem to know waat she was talking about.” But Eleanor knocked a fourt time, and very much louder than she had knocked before. There was no answer even this time; but a voice was heard within, blaspheming aloud with Lorri')> French execrations that seemed to freez: Lleano:'s blood as she listened to them. She di’ listen to them, involuntari'y, as people often listen in a crowded thoroughfare to the obnoxious clamor of a drunken man, paralysed for the moment by the horror of bis hideous oaths. wa, Eleanor turned very pale, and looked Acepsir. ingly at the major. : “ Hark,” she whispered, “he is quarrelling with some onc.” The big soldier deliberately turned himself int & convenient position for listening, and flatiencg his ear against the keyhole. “No, he ain’t quarrellin’ with any one,” the major said, presen ly. ‘‘I can’t make much out of his lingo, but there’s only one voice. He’s q}j alone, and going’ on like 2a madman.” The major opened the door sofily as he spoke Monsieur Bourdon’s apartmen’ was divived int, two low-roofed chambere, a little larger than com. fortable pigeon-holes; and in the inner or sma'Joy chamber Eleanor and her companion saw the commercial traveller wandering backwards anq forwards in his cbscure dep, onty dressed in his trowcers and shirt, and gesticulating like 2 mag. man. Mre. Monckton clung to the soldier’s arm. She had some cause to fear, for in the next momept the Frenchman descried his visiturs, and with , howl of rage rushed at the major’s throat. The most intellectual and diplomatic individue) in Christendom would have been of very little service to Eleanor at that moment, if he had b-en also a coward. Major Lennard lifted th: com. mercial traveller in his arms, as easily as if that gentleman had been a six-months-old baby, car. ried him into the next room where there was a narrow little bedstead, flung him on to the mat. tress, and he'd him there. You'll find a silk handkerchief iv my pccxet, my dear,” he said to Eleanor, “if you'll be so kind as to pull it out. Voulez-vous gardez-vous trongkeel, dong, vous—Scoundrel!” he exc'aimed, addressing himself to the struggling Frenchman. Mrs. Monckton cbeyed. She fell into her place quite naturally, giving way before the major. He was the hero ofthe moment. Frederic Soulié has said that the meanest actor who ever trod the boards of a theatre has some inspired moment in which he is great. I fancy it must be pretty much the same in the drama of life. This was the major’s moment; and he arose cut of his normal inanity, resplendent with unconscious grandeur. The silk handkerchief was a large one, ond Major Lennard used it very dexterously about Monsieur Bourdon’s wrists; then he found another handkerchief in another pocket, and used it as a bandage for the Frenchman’s ankles; and having done this he sat down by the bedside and con- templated his handiwork complacently, puffing and blowing a little while he did so. Victcr Bourdon lay very still, glaring at the ponderous soldier with eyes that were like those of a wild beast. “T know thee,” he exclaimed: “thou hist been with me all the night, thou hast sat upen my chest; ah, Grédin! thou art the biggest of all the demons that torment me. Thou breathest the tire and the sulphur, and thy breath burns me, and now thou hast’ attached my hands with bands of iron, white het, and thou hast tied my ankles with living seorpions!” Eleanor stood a few paces from the bed, listen ing with horrer to the man’s delirous ravings. ‘* What is it?” she asked in a subdued voicr, “Ts ita fever that makes bim likes this? Or has he gone mad ?” The major shook his head. ‘I think I can guess pretty well what's the matter with tae poor devi!;” he said: ‘he’s been going it a little too fast. He’s got a touch of del. trem.” Del trem!” “Delirum tremens, my dear,” answered the major. ‘Yes, you can hear his teeth ch: ttering now this minute. I had it once when I was up the country, and our fellers took to living upon brandy p2wnee. I had rather a sharp time of it, while it lasted; uscd to fancy the tent was on fire ;- wanted to go cut tiger-hunting in the middle of the night; tried to set the bedclothes alight to cure myself of the hiccough; and ran after Meg with a rezor early one morving. This man has got a touch of it, Mrs. Monckton, and 1 don’t think we shail get much reason out of him to-night.” The conduct of Monsieur Victor Bourdcn, who was at that moment holding a very animated dis- course with a dozen or so of juvenile demons sup- posed to be located in the bed-curtains, went very far towards confirming the major’s assertion. Eleanor sat down at the little table, upon which the dirty litter of the Frenchman’s last mez! was huddled into a heap and mixed with writing ma- terials; an ink-bottle and a mustard-pot, a quill: pen and a tea-spoon, lying side by side. The girl's fortitude had givea way before this new ard most cruel disappointment. She covered her face wi’ her hands, and sobbed aloud. Major Lennard was very much distressed at this wiexpected collapse upon the part of lis chief. He was very big, and rather stupid ; but he ned one of thos: tender childis. natures which never seare to be hard aud unmerciful. He was fr evel patting the shock-heads of dirty pauper children, ‘or evcr fumbling ia his pockets for copper colt, always open tothe i> fluenc of any story of woman- ly distress, and qu‘te unable to withstand the diz- gie.t feme'e, if she cou'd only produce the merett phantom of a tear to be viped away furtiv:ly from one ey*, while the other lcoked round the corner to see if the shot went home. He locked piteously at Eleanor, as she sat seb: bing passionately, half uaconscious of his presente, forgetful of eversth’ng cxc’pt that this last hope h:d feiled her. , “F thought thet he mi'ghe leave Per's, ene 6° Lack to Laute-lot D.rezi’,” she eaid i « breked voice; “but i netir thvaght of aust tris.’ “Sn-sh-sh-sh!” eried Moncieur Bourton from the bed. “ Fiz! Cats, cats! Sh-sh-sh-sh! Ube those cats, somebody! Tnere’s the girl Faust s*” ng jive

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vpon the Bracken with the little rat running out of her mouth! There, sittiog at the table! Go thea, Voleuse, Gueuse, Ia‘ane!” screamed the Frenchman, glaring at Eleaucr. The girl tock no notice of him. Her sobs grew every moment louder and more hysterical The major looked at her he’plessly. Don't,” he said, ‘‘my good creature, don’t now. This is rea ly dreadful, ’pon my soul, now. Come, come, now; cheer up, my dear, cheer up. You won't do anything by giving way, you know. I alweys tell Margaret that, when she thinks she can catch the train by sitting on the grcund and crying, because her portmanteaus won’t shut. Nobody ever dil you know, end if you don’t put your shoulder to the wheel——” The mejor might have rambled on in this wise for some time; but the sobbing grew louder; and he felt that it was imperatively necessary that something energetic should be dene in this crisis. A bright thought flashed upon bim as he looked hopelessly round the room, and in another mo- yuont he had seized a smell white crockery-ware jug from the Frenchman's toilet table, and launched its contents at Eleanor’s head. This was a second master-stroke. The girl looked up with her head ¢ripping, but with her courage revived by the shock her senses had re- ecived. Sne took off her wet bonnet, and pushed the drenched hair from her forehead. “Oh, mejor,” she said, ‘I know I have been very silly. But I was se taken by surprise. It seems so cruel that this should happen. I shall never ge* the will new.” “Stuff and nonsense, M:jor Lennard. it?” my dear,” exclaimed ‘* What’s to prevent your getting “What do you mean ?” “What's to prevent your takingit? We're not going to stand upon ceremony with cuch a feller as this, are we, Mrs. Monckton? He stole the will from you, and if you can get the chance, you'll return the compliment by stealing it from him. Fair play’s a jewel, my dear Mrs. M., and nothing could be fairer than that. So we'll set to work at once; and I hope you'll excuse the cold water, which was meant in kindness, I assure you.” Eieanor emiied, and gave the major her hand. “y’'m sure it was,” she said. ‘I scarcely liked the idea of your coming with me, major, for fear you should do some mischief by being a little too impetuous. Bat I don’t know what I should have done without you.” Major Lennard shrugged his shoulders with a deprecating gesture. “I might have been useful to you, my dear,” he said, ‘if the feller had been all right and I could have punched his head; but one cant’ get any credit out of a chap when he is in that state,” added the major, pointing to the commercial tra- veller, who was taking journeys on his own account in the horrible regions of an intemperate man’s fancy. “Now the first thing we shall want, Mrs. Monckton,” said the major, ‘‘is a candle and a box of lucifers. We must have a light before we can do anything.” It was not dark yet; but the twilight was growing grayer and grayer, and the shadows were gathering in the cormers of the room. Victor Bourdon lay glaring at his two visitors through the dusk, while the major groped about the mantelpiece for a box of lucifers. He was not long findiny what he wanted. He struck a little waxen match against the greasy paper of the wall, and then lighted an end of candle in a tawdry chezp china candlestick. “Fase her! ease her!” cried the Frenchman; “I sce the lights ahead off Normandy, on the sde ofthe wind. She'll strike upon a rock befure we know where we are. What are they about, these English sailors? are they blind, that they don’t see the light ?”” Major Lennard, with the candle in his hand, Set to work to look 1or the missing document. He did not look very systematically, but as he pulled out every drawer and opened every cup- board, and shook out the contents of every re- ceptacle, flinging them remorselessly upon the for, he certainly looked pretty effectually. Eleanor, kneeling on the ground amongst the chaotic heaps of clothes and papers, tattersd novels, broken meerscham pipes and stale cigsr-ends, examined every pocket, every book, and every Paper separately, but withn> result. The drawers had been ransacked, the cupboards disembowelied, a couple of portmanteaus completely emptied. Every nook and corner of the two small rooms had been most thoroughly searched, first by the mejor ina slapdash and military manner; afterwards by Lie nor, who dil her work with calmness and de- liber tion, though her heart was beating, and the hot blood surging in her over excited brain. sivery pestible hiding place in the two rooms rane been examined, but the will had not been od. Every possible hiling place had been examined; except tae pockets of Victor Bourdon’s trousers, and the bed upon which he lay. The msjor stopped to scratch bis head in air, and stcol staring hopelessly at the un- "appy victim cf his own vices, who was s-iil ay og sii'l remonstrating with invisible demons. ut Eleanor aroused her fsiend from this state of Stupefaction, ‘He may have the will avout him, mejor,” she fe sai’, " Aha!” oried the sold er, “if he has I'l have ~ , ft: an Give it to me, you unconscionable ~ weRullare,” Le ex lei aed, pounciag pa the ts Prone an, “ii hove it ovt of you, D: ccoucdel, Tell met where it is directly. , ‘, dung! What have you done - Whit have you done with Maurice respigny’s will ?”

The familiar name aroused a transitory gleam of consciousness in Vic:or Bourdon. “ Ha, ha,” he cried, with a malicious chuckle. *: Maurice de Crespigny, the old, the parent of that ong—ce'lotte; but I will heve my revenge; but he shall not enjoy his riches. The will, the will; that is mine, it will give me all.” He reised himself by a great effort into a sitting posture, and made frantic endeavors to disengage his hands. “He is thinking of the will,” cried Eleanor; “loosen his wrists, major! Pray, pray do, before the thought leaves him.” Majcr Lennard obeyed. He loosened the knot of the silk handkerchief, but befvre he could re- move it Victor Bourdon had pulled his hands through the slackened noose, and clutched at some- thing in his breast. It was a foldcd paper which he snatched out of the bosom of his shirt, aud waved triumphantly above his head. * Aha, Monsieur L>ng—cellotte!” he screamed. “*T will pay thee for thy insolence, my friend.” But before the Frenchmsn’s uplifted arm had described a second circle in the air above his head, the major swooped down upon him, snatched away the paper, handed it to Eleanor, and re- secured Mongieur Bourdon’s wrists with the silk handkerchief. So brief had been the interval of semi-conscious- ness, that the commercial traveller had already forgotten all about Laurcelot Darrell and his own wrongs, and had rambled off again into impotent exccrations against the imzginary demons amongst the bed-curtains. Eleanor unfolded the paper, but she only read the first few words, ‘“‘I, Maurice de Crespigny, being at this time, &c.,”’ for before she coud read more the door of the outer room was suddenly opened, and Richard Thornton hurried through into the bedchamber. But not Richard only, behind him came Gilbert

Monckton, and it was he into whose outstretched arms E’eanor §ung herself. “You will believe me now, Gilbert,” she cried. “TI have found the proof cf Launcelot Darrell’s guilt at last.” (To be conchided in our next ) SS WINTON, NORTH CAROLINA. Wrnron, the capital of Hertford county, N. C., wae a pleasant town on the right bark of Chowan river bcfore its destruction by Gen. Burrside in ore of his movements. During the recent visit of Col. Onderdonk, our Artist made a sketch of the ruined town, snd of the cavalry sounding for a ford on the river near a bridge which had shared the destruction which enveloped the town. SIEGE OF CHARLESTON. Union Works on Black Island. Brack island is separated from Morris island by a wide marsh on one side, and has creeks ana streams around it on the other. Gen, Gillmore holds and occupies it. It is well wooded, and may become at any moment the centre of important opere- tions in the further prusecution of the siege of Charleston, now apparently s1epended for a time. The view is given as seen from Craly’s hill. FORT GRANT—MOBILE BAY. Tae bay of Mobile, of which we give an ac- rate msp this week, is soon to becom: a thestre of ac- tive operations. It is 7lmos. c'osed in by islaxds, Forts Morgan and G:ines commanding the spproach to Modile by the main chanrel. To protect it still better, the rebels have erected a fort near Grants pass, of which we give a very picturesque view, After the burning of the blockade runner Fox, near Pare: goula (of which place we gave so fine a view in our last that we omit to present an illustration of the fate of the blockade runzer), the stearners Gere:ee, Calhoun and Johnson proceeded to attack Fort Grant, and on 13th Sept. took position within two

tailes of the fort which is situated at thig pass. Near the fort was the rebel ir»nclad Ga'nes and a steam transport But these vessrls, #8 coon as the Genesee operei spon them with her 100-:0 nd Parro:t, re- tired bebind the fort for safety, aud our vessels im- mediatcly turned their attention to the fort. They entirely diem-nt'ed and destroyed it after a short ectioa, 22 shells from the Geresce alone falling fuside of the work, This achievement deprives Moblie of at le: st one of its fortificetions. THE BATTLE OF CHICAMAUGA. We present another most interesting sketch of the battle cf Chicamauga, the repulse and check cf the retel cavsiry by the 2ith Illinois end Compary K of the 19th Iitiacis, They were sepa rate’ from the rebels by a stone fezce and a small creck. Their daring and hero'c resistance was never surpassed, scme of them climbing the sioae fenc: to meet the rebels as th: y rushed madly down upon the gulant little bad. They bad the whole rebel cay- airy an2 iour div s'ons of infantry ard artillery to fight, but, not vithstinding this vast odds, they held their position until reiaforcements reached them. The 24th Illinois was commanded by Col. G_ Michal- ¢tzy, who was s’ightly wounded in the right hind. They -vent int» the battle with 330 men, and came out with but 167, less than half their num>de-,

GrreNBacks.—Few people, perhaps, are aware why the n«tional currency is priated with greepbacks, therefore we explain the re.son. Evor since the adoption of paper currency it has been the coustant study of banknote engravers to get up some lan of printing bills that could not be count: rfeited. Tn this they only partly succeeded till as iate 28 1857, when a man named Stacy J. Edeon isv uted a kind of green iak, which he patented June 3) of that year. It 1s ce lled anti photographic ink, Ge cause it cannot be photographed va acount of ite color, sud cannot be dis'odyed with alkaliea by eounterfcitera to get a comp.e'c iacsimi'e of the bilie. Asitis a secret only known to the Ame iczv Bank Note Company and the inventor, it is impossible to counterf-it the greenback money. It tras used by many banks before the war, but as never a leading feature of the bill. Even if the composition of the ink was known, it would be of no use, as the work could not be copied from the ger - uine bills with avy other kind of ink. The date of the patent ean be seen cn the bills in s uall priat.

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j. BH. WINST OW’ & CO SHE QREATEST OF2-FTINITY EVER CF FLED TO SECURE GOOD JE E- LERY AT LOW ?RITES, a 100,000 TCHES, CHAINS, SETS OF JEWELLERY, GOLD PENE BEACELETS, LOCKETS, RINGS, GENTS’ PING SLEEVE-BUTTONS, STUDS, ETC., ETC, gTC., a - . Le Worth +500,005, qo de sold for One Dotlar each, withow’ regard to value, and not to be paid for till you know wha? you aretoget. Send 2 cents for « Cert.ticat’, which wil jofeom you what you can have for $1, sc. at the sane time get our Cireulsr pag | fu:l list end particu- j.rs, algo terms to Agents, which we want io ezery wA

Regia’ t aud Town in the country. id H. WINSLOW & Co., 203 Broadway, New York. PURE FRENSOM WIKXES AND SRANDLES, Paul De Covinck, Moned & Guizasd, Bordeaux, France —_—_—_ J. MARC MARTIN, BOLE AGENT FOR THE UNITED STATES 1b ‘No, 298 F: srl Street, N.Y, HUBBARD BRO’ pret eT Maren is NewYor«. Are offering the cheap: st, most accurate, auras. and saleable watcbes in the American msrket. They are the sole consigneea in this country for the eelebrated MAGIC TIME OBSERVERS! THE PERFECTION OF MECHANISM! Demme A TiurTive OR OPEN FACE on LADY'S OF GENTLEMAN'S WATCH COMBINED, WITH PATENT SELF-WINDING IMPROVEMENT, A MOST PLEASING. NOVELTY. Ore of the prettiest, most convenient, and decidediy the best end cheapeet timepiece for general ard re- livble use everoffered. It has within it, end connected with its machicery, its own winding a ment rendering a key entirely unnecessary. The cases of this Watch are composed of two metals, the outer one being fine 16-carat gold, It has the improved ruby-actioa lever movement, and is warrantei an sccurste timepiece. Price, euperd! vel, per ease of half dozen, $204. Eample Patches. in neat morocco boxes, $35. By mail the postage is 36cents; registering, 20 certa, COMPOSITE Silver Watches! FIRST-CLASS HUNTING TIMEPIECE. FOR ACCURACY OF MOVEMENT, BEAUTY OF MATERIAL, AND, ABOVE ALL, CHEAP- NESS IN PRICE, THESE WATCHES MUST INSURE UNIVERSAL APPROBATION ! An imitation eo fevltless that [t can hardly be detected from the sold material by the moat experienced jud- es. The mete isl being alike all through, it canxot e recognized by cutting or heavy engraving it not owly in peoernaes bat in durability, the be resemblancs of SOLID STERLING SILVER in existence, The sele of these Watches fn the army ‘s a source of enormous profit, reta‘ling, as they very readily do, et $25 and upwords. Many hundred dollass can be made in a single pay-day by any one of ordinary business tact, Sy At WHOLESALE ONLY! In heary huntin casee, beautifully engraved, white enamel dial, 22 fancy cut hands, in good running order, by the ha'f- dozen, $66; postage, $180; registering, 20 cents. Sold only by the case. Can be safely sent oy mail. Our importations ere novelties preduced by no other h.use, comb g greater accuracy as time- pear rs, being more elaborately, and artisticall fe ed, end offered tt ces chailen competi on from all other hands.” sited The precs in all parte of the eou voluntarily st- test the supericrity cf our watech«s; their ercomiums tre emphstic, speaking directly to the pcoiut, in a manner not to be mjsunde: stood : “ Portcularly veluable for Officers in the Army and Trevellers."—Fronk Lesiie’s, Feb 21. “Prettiest, beet and cheapest timepieces ever of fered.”—\, ¥, Jliustrated News, J2z. 10, “Exceed other manufactures In point of scecracy and elegance."— Army and Navy Gazette, Phila Celphia, Muy 9, . An improvement on ordicary timepieces aod fn. Valuable for railroad men.”"—North American Rail road Jnirzal, Aug. % “Els orrtely and artistically fivished.”"—¥. ¥ Scottish American, July 20. “Combine great ecouracy +s tim-keepers.”—Pitt- burg, Po., Chronicle, July £7. _ rn very pretty an4 durable watches for the army.”"— Aug. 2, ‘y end Necy Journal, Government ergen, rte One of the oldest and most reliable houces tx uskese.”—Lowisville, Ky., Journal, July 31. A@Toems, CASH! INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE! »° Ageats «mployed; buyers must desl directly with oe ifm ney }s eext us by express cr mail in a regis- tered letter, it is at our mek! Orders will mest the host Hroiapt and faith[ul sttention, HUBBARD BROS, &org imronress 419 169 Bros’ way and 2 Cortter dt St, N Y;.

MASRIMONIAL FAVORS Bridal Sets, Bridal Garnitures, Bridesmaid’s Sets, Ostrich Feathers and Paris Flowers. Straw Bonnets and Felt Hate. 4-05 At TUCKER'S, 709 Brosdwty. we the Debilitated, ths Nervous, the Wesk, tats Age "the Physically lacompetent, the only cer- ‘8 end eneedy cure is the Golden B:! L*‘fe, or Orien: ; Im of ‘entel Elixir, It strengthens the vital system, 4 the intud, cheers the 6 oirits, and is ro harmless 5 comporition that, while it nerves the man, it phe even to an infant with beneficial effect. Price ottle #20 ; WATSON & co., Box 3084, P, 0,, N. Y,

S. M. WARD. N.Y. Vols.

\Co.1 29 option to send and get the article or not, Al Cross in Box 4876, N.Y. K LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER.

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50,000 Agents Wanted! Te be sold for One Dollar each, without In all tranasactions by mail we shall charge for doing the business 25 cents eac After knowing what you can have, then it will be at your option to send one dollar, take the article or nut. Five articles can be ordered for ¢i—eleven for $2—thirty for ¢5—sixty-five for $10—and one hundred for $15. With the information of what you can have will be sent a Circular giving full. instructions to Agents and a full Catalogue of articles, and then it will Le at y-ur

| MAJ. JOHN S.TYLER | _2:0 Rect Vr.Vots.' H '

WORTH $400,000, Ss. M. Rare Opportunity! 76,000 WATCHES, GQLD PENS AND PENCILS, Vest, Guard and Neck Chains, Chatelaine Chains and Pins, Engraved Bracelets, Engraved Spring Lockets, Seal Sione Rings, California Rings, Chased Rings, Masonic Rings and Pinus, Gents’ Californie Diamond Pins, California Diamond Mar Drops, Beautiful Sets of Jewellery, New Styles Studs and Euttons, etc., ete., ctc, regard to value, and not to be paid for till you krow what you are to get, h, which must be enclosed wheu the request is made to know what you can hire, for ¢1 I will send a solid Silver Shield or either Army Corps Pin, with your Name, Reciment and Company handsomely engraved upon it, or a Ke. Gold Plate; and for 50 cents I will senda New Style Cuion League Pin in Fine Gulu Plate, Add.css ’ y ~~ = sipacataaate WARD & CO,, 208 Broadway, New York.

SERRICKSON & BARTLETT, (#zexsscts to JAS. T. DERRICES”§,) COMMISSION PAPER MERCHANTS, 30 Beekmax Street, N. ¥Y. lame G, DeRxickscx, Eizwerx A, BARTLET? AGENTS and DEALERS, And the trade in gereral—the follo;ring list of car mos rapidly se articles—Patent Match Vest P end Indelible Penctl. Very useful for marking clothing. New Magic co Box Econo- miser. Egyptian Ci union with this nore car sever. New Card Thermometers and Barometers, and 26,more novel and useful articles selling rapidiy. Sead staxp for Circvier. 8. W. RICE & CC., 83 Nassau St., N.Y., 434 Chostn7t S‘., Phila , Pa.

The Barly Physical Degeneracy of AMERICAN PEOPLE, And the early melancholy dseline of Childhood azd Youth, just publisved Sy DR_ STONE, Prysician to oo Lung aad Hygievic Irstitute. bs the eh-we an jeort, the enuse of Nor vous Debt arasmus and Consumption; Wasting of the Vital luids, the mystcrious an? hidden causes for Pa)pitation, Impaired } ion and Digestion. Aw Full rot to send two red stamps and obtein this tock. Address DR. ANDREW STONE, Physician to the Troy Lung and Hygienic Institute. oul Physicien for Dis anep or the + t, Throat ap Lungs, No, 96 Fifth Street, Troy, N. ¥. 402-14

Beauty.—HUNT’3 WHITE LIQUID ENAM EL, prepares by Madsme Rachel Leverzon, the cele- brated Parisian Ladics’ Enameler. It whitens the skin permanently, giving it a coft, satin-like texture, and imparts a freshcess end transparency to the cor - clexion which is quite natural, without injury to the akin, Itis also warranted to remove Tan, Freckies, Pimples, Sunburn, etc, Sent by mail, free from ot- servation, on receipt of price, 30 certs. Ad:dre.s AUNT & CO., Per ers, 133 South-Severth Street, and 41 South-E'ghth Atreet, Phil:delphia 417 20

Card Pictures, Photograprr. #4 K. W. BENIOZIY, AAViING ENLARGED AND IMPROVED Fid GALLERY, 20. % NEW Ge Chambers Str ct nae ‘ncrese d % “ities for making Cert Pictures 1 other Thotogrephs, AT THE LOWES? 2 PICEs 000

The Great Money-Making Article. Everybo‘y necde tt. Agente or Soldiesa env meke $10 & eay. Sampo, vith perticul-ra, ent fre* D> weil, for 25 cects. Adirecs B KE, H, MARTIN, Bix aleto, N = ae Unien Playing Cards! Giational Amezican Amusement Carde Colonei for E Godiéers of Liberty for Quen and Ms'or fer Soe 2 enn=elud ecards to the pak Eagles, Si‘cids, Siers 2d Fuze sre the su'ts, auc you cam play clitheucusl games, Two pseke ma ‘ed fre2 on receint cf@l. in wee] discount to the tr: ‘e a Sor s, Cireuter, reso — AMMRICAN CARD ©) 000 483 Broadwey, or 145 Williar: St. N. ¥ Highly Important to Old Soldiers, Con=- ser.pts and Substitates just goirg into Camp, The greatest Humbug of the ege. Send 25 cos*s to OLD ZOLDIER, Box 2588, P.O , New York city, emi ob- tain veluable in‘ormacion. : 419

7 A MONTH.—Agents wanted to sell Sowing 5 Machince.— We will give a commirsion on e!! achines sold, or emp'oy Ag‘ nts who will work for the above wages and ell expenses paid. For par \ tienlarsaddrces C. RUGGLES & CO., Dotroit, Mich. 4 ”.

— ——- ~— 600 Wonders of the World :—Wh'rkcrs and Moustaches—Gold and Silver—Love, Courtship, ete.—The Hunter's Secret--Anglei’e Secret, and a host of other Secrets, worth a fortune to any one ell sent free for 25 cents. Address - 421 J. W. SIBPHENS, Morristown, N. J. Life, Zifo.—A curious contrivance ‘ist will cure

a and Debility in six days—sent free fer SO0centsby PROF. P, H, ROSENBARGER, #21 Kittanning, Pa.

Just Published, FOR NOVEMBER, WITH 60 BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS. Authors of the day. uneasy Thronc he will have to sit upon. Besides numerous other Social Questions, 32 Pages. Small Folio. PRICE 10 CENTS. FRANK LESLIE'S Publication Office, 72 Duane Street, N. Y.

$100.—A new and beautiful Art, by which per- Mr. Merryman’s Monthly, A Melange of agreeable reading by the first The Political Car- toons are admirable, showing the Mar- riage of Maximilian and Mexico, and the National and exquisitely treated. sous of vither sex can clear from $5 to $10 per day at Cevas hawting beter acrm instructions sent on the receipt of 25 cents. 421 Address Box 2330, Bost-n, Mass. WM. P. DISOSWAY, Fire & Marine Insurance Broker, NO. 25 WILLIAM STREET, DASSNEEE, NEW YORK,

La Decalcomanie.—A besutifu! Art by which enterprising persons of either sex can clear from $5 to $10 per day. No capital is :equired and the ma- terials cost but 2 trific. A knowlesge of thie Artis worth $50 to persons haviog leisure evenings. Full instructions sent for 23 cents, Address Bex 75,P O., Worcester, Mass. 421° DURYEA’S MAIZENA

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Was the only “Preparation for Food from Icdin Corn” the receives « cre al spd honoreble menticn from the Royai Comt'ssiorers, Mekes Puddir ge, Cries, Cust+rds, Biancmeage, ete, without ising/«s2, with fow or no egus. It te «leo oxceliect fer umcken- ete. For Icecrosm noth'n> can compare with It ut up fe 1 pouns ~ecksret, under the ‘rede mark “Maisens,” with cirectioas fcr us. ‘fhey are theu, if approved, pec “t- rik “ed to pubi ehcors, verathl’ or sdvers?, f Thi: eheu.* be remittea Sy mail cr cxpresa, 1 gcther with manus riyte, prep:i4. Letters of ieqzi:y or es7.0@ aZvice ehoul? 2'ways cever a emer’ fr, to scmpeserte tre and troutld iz: sil ety’esauc aise, with Am:r'csn Melodies, " Dences, ete ,tud varying in pre frona $2 75 bo #250,00, ee M. J. PAILT.ARD, Importer, 21 Maider as° (up-ste'rs), Mio otk, > ster] Roger repr red. 6”

Poychomancy.”—E.w cithe: rex may fha- auate sad gs‘s: the love, coniden:e, fle tion sud good sil of any person tiey choose, ixetant.y. This sizxople ments! sequirexert afl «27: possess, securing ¢ euceess ic love, msrriggt, &c., fiec oF uaail, for 26 cts., together with a cuide to the unrsarried of both sexes —6& extroordiniry book, of greet interest; third edi. tion; over 100,000 cop.ss alrezcy sol’. Address Tf ora LIAM & CC,, Perishers, Philedels hin, ANNETTE ; es, THE LADY OF PEARLS, Br A DUMAS, Jr., suthor of “ Camille.” A vatui2l, faithful transl OS Jo? 5.858 .f Pirie i's Si; Lee: pra-e paid fer D ecr3 azr uR ded Be (ic'4e-4eG a: “FPAYL2E & CD. Berk1¢, . ab er Ko. 1¢ Wa br ek. FY

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80 FINE DRESS SHIRTS TO ORDER. UNRIV ALLED In MANUFACTURE, Fitting and Material, AT UNION ADAMS, 637 BROADWAY. A Beautiful Microscope for 30 Cts., AGNIFYING 500 times, mailed on receipt of price. Five of different powers, $1. Ad- dress F. B. BOWEN, Box 220, Boston, Mass. 0050 Mental and Physical Energies Re- stored.—See page 78. BRIDGEWATER PAINT Best color for Villas, Cottages and Barns. Will stand any climate. R, REYNOLDS, Agent 419-310 74 Maiden Lane, N. Y. IMMENSE PROFITS To be made selling our EXTRA LARGE STATIONERY PRIZE PACKETS, Of a new and endless variety. A SPLENDID GOLD CHAIN given as a Premium to all who act as Agents. Everybody can sellthem, Send for our New Circular. G. 8. HASKINS & CO., 36 Beekman St., N. Y. 4190 : MILLERS*5Q-7HAIR DYE Cheapest, best, and most permanent in use. a it. Sold at all Druggists. Depot, 56 Dey Street, N. Y. E. & H. T. ANTHONY, Manufacturers of Photographic Matcrials, 601 BROADWAY, N. ¥:. Oard Photographs i Our Catalogue now embraces considerably FOUR THOVUs Aro different subjects (to which additions are continually being made) of Po:traits of Eminent Americans, ete., viz.: 72 Major-Generals, 525 Statesmen, 190 Brigadier-Generals, | 127 Divines, 269 Colonels, |116 Authors, 84 Lieut.-Colonels. | 80 Artists, 207 Other Officers, 112 Stage, 60 Officers of the Navy, 46 Prominent Women. 147 Prominent Foreign Portraits. 2,500 COPIES OF WORKS OF ART, Inclading reproductions of the most celebrated En- gravings, Paintings, Statues, etc, A@Catalogues sent on receipt of stamp, An order for One Dozen PICTURES on our Cata- logue will be filled on receipt of $1 8 and sent by mail, free, panes Photographic Albums ! Of these we manufacture a great verse, ranging in price from 50 cents to $50 each. Our ALBUMS have the reputation of being supe- rior in beauty and durability to any others, The smaller kinds can be sent safely by mail ata postage of six cents per ounce. The more expensive can be sent by express. We also keep a large assortment of Stereoscopes and Stereoscopic Views. Our Catalogue of these will be sent to any address on receipt of stamp. E. & H. T. ANTHONY, Manufacturers of Photograph Materials, : 601 Broadway, New York. Sa Friends or relatives of prominent military men will confer a favor 7 us their likenesses to copy. They will kept carefully, and returned uninjured, az FINE ALBUMS MADE TO ORDER for Congregations to present to their Pastor, or for other a ry with suitable inscriptions, etc, 21-260 your Complexion.—My valuable pre- scription is a positive cure for Tan, Pimples and Freckles in four weeks. It was sold in 1859, in Liver- pool, for $96. Sent to any address for 30 cen‘ s, 421-220 WM, POTTER, Box 1943, Philadelphia. Something New.—Every FAMILY and every SOLDIER must have it. Retail price $1. For an Agency, address A. C. BALLOU & SON, Haverhill, Mass, aS@ Samples mailed to Agents for 30 cents.. 421-220 IVORY SLEEVE BUTTONS OR STUDS 75 Cents a Pair. RED, WHITE OR BLACK, engraved with initials. Also, Pearl Buttous or Studs, with initials, $1 per set each, will be sent free on receipt of the price, vy mail. Forsale by WM. M. WELLING, manufacturer of Ivory Goods, 207 Centre Street, N. Y., sign of the Golden Elephant. N, B.—A liberal discount to tie trade. A Secret Worth Enqwing.—How to make the CELEBRATED WESTERN CIDER without ipe sent 4210 apples or other fruit, ig 12 hours. The Reci every where for 25 cents. Address ROWEN. Bx 220, Boston, Maas. Ff. B, | a Hw, " ah ae te eo a aoaen bei we GOW s a 19m awe LESLIF’S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. [Ocr. 24, 1863, ————————— Our young friend Van Noodle, who has been recently married and lives in the country, is ordered to procure a good cook in the city and to bring her out with him. well; but just as he is passing the neighborhood of Gramercy Park with his charge, who should he meet but two of his most aristocratic acquaintances, who, of course tell all his set that they met Van Noodle walking up Fourth Avenue with his bride! This is all very $15 Per Day Easy $16 And a Waten Free! 100,000 men ard women wanted to cct as Agents in every Town, Viliage aud Camp, to sel! our immensely r, unex and valuable EXTRA LARGE SIZE IZE PACKAGES, containing 1 quantities of STATIONERY, RECIPES, YANKEE OTIONS, etc, Sells wonderfully. Largest, Best and Cheapest ever mapufactured, Each Package contains fine Writing Materials, such as Paper, Envelopes, Pens, Pencils, Blotters, Emblems, Ladies’ Paris Fashion Plates, De- signs for Neeclework, Cottage Keepsakes, Household Companions, yom Compasions oo Soldiers), Parlor Amusements, Guide for Letter Writers, Many Ways to Get Rich, Likenesses of Generals, Gents’ Pocket Calenaars for the Year, Union Designs, YANKEE Nortons of all kinds. Recip:s, Games gene Lewes and Advice, Rich and Costly Presents of Fashionable Jewellery, ctc., etc., ete., the whole worth MANY a + each Parka BREVARG CRAVEN: SEPA osale rates to Agents very low, OO to 200 PER CENT FPR-FIT AL LOWED. FP re of all descript‘ons jut up for Sut- lers, Pedlars, Wholesale Deaiers, ete GOODS SENT TO ALL PARTS OF THE ARMY SAFE. All Soldiers are allowed to Receive and Sell our Goods, plen- did “Solid Silver Watch,” English Movements, and Correct Timepiece, presented “ ” to all who act as Agents. Send for our New Circulars with Hatra Premium Inducements, free. 8. C. RICKARDS & Cco., 102 Nassau 8trect, New Ycrk, the Great Origins — and Oldest Prize Package House in the World, Beware of imposters of similar names, Watches Given to All our Agents! A GREAT CHANGE, pot one moment, until you send for READER, dela STATIONERY PACKAGE Cir- our New PRIZE cular, whether you want it of not, It contains im- portant information for everybody. Great induce- ment offered to Agents. 00% «=60h so WIR & CO., 34 South-Third St,, Phila. - Lubricate your Ideas With the fact that all of my Agents are getting rich and let them run awhile to the tune of $20 or $30 r day. PSOME HAVE DONE EVEN BETTER THAN THIS. One Agent has sold over $15,000 worth of my goods in last year, and has just bought and furnished a handsome residence with the net profits of his labors. If you are wide-awake, and would go and do like- wise, send four cents in postage stamps and receive all my Catalogues in return. J. R. HAWLEY, 164 Vire St., Cincinnati, O. 4200 Nervous Diseases and Physical Debili- TY, arising from Specitic causes, in both Sexes—new and reliable treatment in Reports of the HOWARD ASSOCIATION—sent in sealed letter envelopes, free of charge. Address DR. J. SKILLIN HOUGH- TON, Howard Association, No. 2 South-Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. ° ~ $40 a Month, expenses aid. For perticulars, ad- dress (with stamp) HARRIS BROS., Boston, Mass, 419-310 Prepare for the Holidays! Booksellers, Fancy Goods Deaiers, > and the Public, will please remember that there is no other Gift which com- pares with the CRAIG MICROSCOPE and MOUNTED OBJECTS, being sn endless source of amusement and in- struction. Over 200 dozen Microscopes and 700 dozen objects have been sold within a year by the Boston Agent alone. This Microscope, in brass, is mailed, postage paid, for $2 25; or with six autiful mounted objects for $3; or In hard rubber, with 24 objects for $5. A liberal for 50 centa, in addition to the above prices. discount-+to the trade. Address 0000 if ENRY CRAIG, 335 Broadway, N. Y. 260 Rare Receipts. TELLS WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO, The book sent free, by mail, for 15 cents, HUTCHINSON & co., Ld mg 4200 . * 442 Broadway, N. . ‘Watches and Jewellery. CHEAPEST AND BEST yet offered to the public, For list of articles and prices address 4200 PARKER COX & CO., N.Y. | of the keyboard. $7. WATCHES. 7 $7. A Beautiful Engraved Gold-Plated Watch, Lever Cap, small size, English Movements, perfect timekeeper. Sent free by mail, in neat case, for only $7. A Solid Silver, same as OVC, $7. Specially otapted to the army. CHAS, P. NORTON & CO., 38 and 40 Ann Street, N.Y. 7 merrrrerrerrre IMMENSE PROFITS To be made selling the INITIAL STAMP PACKET, A New Packet just out, containing the very finest quality of Stationery to be had. Dealers throughout the country should send 40 esta fara aample. Everybody, send for our New Circular. G. 8. HASKINS & CO., 36 Beekman Street, N. Y. American HEnamelled Metallic Collar Co., No. 94 Pine Street, New York, Are now manufacturing their splendid Collars, which for shape, po pee and durability are FAR IN ADVANCE of anything heretofore produced. They are the inventors and manufacturers of the om ne “ TURN-OVER” COLLAR ev:r offered. ese Collars are infinitely SUPERIOR to STEEL, being more pliable, and the material of which the are manufactured BEING A NON-CONDUCTOR, renders them free from the objectionable feature of the steel collar, viz.: the courting of that dangerous element, electricity, in the ape of lightning. nelose $1 for a “ Choker,” or $1 50 for a genuine “ half turn- over” collar, to the AMERICAN ENAMELED ME- TALLIC CULLAR COMPANY, Box No. 5173 New York City Post Office, and receive it by return mail, 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 4210 3,000 DOZ, PURE ROMAN SCARFs, Made from the Purest and Softest Silk. These are the most fashionable, elegant and eco nomical Scarfs ever imported, as they are reversip),. ~~ vont. is as as =, . ’ ey are much worn urope by both ladi gentlemen. Can be worn with either pin orrn ms The whole lot will be retailed at ” WHOLESALE PRICKS! Ray doz, at Lad ° eachs 2,000 doz. at $2 each. A 8 e Scarf sen on receipt of the aho, ameunt and six conte for ’ he above 8. W. H. WARD, Ss? Broadway, N. y, STEELCOLLARS ENAMELED WHITE, Having the appearance and comfort of linen, | been wora in England for the last two years in = ference to any other collar, as they are readily cleaned in one minute with a sponse. Prine gl ex ss 4 a they are invaluable ‘rice $1 each ; sent by post to any part of the Unio, on the receipt of $1 15. ve eae WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. AGENTS WANTED in every Town in the Union. 5S. W. H. WARD, Sole Agent for U. s., 387 Broadway, N.Y. FRENCH FLANNEL RS SS The lar each ; cut one y A single shirt sent by The cost of postage must be inclosed—63 cents for each Shirt. st eosortment in New York, $2 75, $3, $3 75 long. mail on receipt of the cost, Send the size of your neck, English Merino Undershirts and Drawers, $2, $2 256 and $2 50. Scotch Lambswool Undershirts and Drawers. ALSO. FINE WHITE SHIRTS MADE TO MEASURE AT $24, $30, $36 and $42 PER DOZEN. SELF-MEASUREMENT FOR SHIRTS. Printed directions for self-measurement, list of price e and drawings of different styles of shirts and collars sent free everywhere. an W. H. WARD, from London, No. 387 Broadway, ° Ziztra and Best Inducements Yet offered to Agents to sell our new Card Thermometers, Magic Tobacco Boxes, Venetian Barometers, Soidiers’ Smoking Pipes, Union Crystal Cement, Ice Strainers, Vy nay Pocket Match Safes, Self-regulating Shade Fix- STATIONERY AND YANKEE NOTIONS, PRIZE PACKACES. fend for New Circular and be convinced. Address RICHARDS & CO., Inventors and Manufacturers, 58 Liberty Street, P. O. Box 3131., N. Y. P. 8.—Parties wins, to Fang * Stationery, Yankee Notions, Cheap Jewellery, or to put up Prize Packages for themselves,’ we will furnish with these — at the lowest wholesale cash prices. ° Photograph Albums In Arabesque and Gold, SENT TO ANY PART OF THE COUNTRY, 16 Picture Pocket Albumss.s....s.sseeseeeeeeee $2 00 -— = French Style, Very Pretty........-+ 3 75 a ” %& "Elegant. .......ss+00++ 5 00 50 06 = =6' Turkey, extra. F eapabacesvecoocs 0 60 “ Velvet and Gold, Very Rich......... 8 00 60 “ Oblong Full Ornaments, Superb ....10 00 100 * 0d dscape Edge, Beautiful ..12 00 200 ‘ Imperial, Ivory and Gold, Magnifique.16 00 200 «“ “ Illuminated Edge, Exquisite.22 00 200 “ Ladies’ Favorite, Very Elegant.......%) 4 Card Photographs, per dozen.....+-+s+ecseeess++ Send orders with cash to 420-210 I, W. LUCAS & CO., 173 Broadway, N. Y. PRIZE FonR Ty OVER ALL COMPETITORS. CHICEERING c&c SONS; MANUFACTURERS_OF Grand, Square and Upright Pianofortes. THALBERQ’S CERTIFICATE: “Since my arrival in America I have constantly used the Pianos can only repeat that which I have so often said before: The instruments are the best United States, and will compare favorably with any I have ever known. of Messrs. Chickering & Sons, and I I have secn in the 8. THALBERG.” COTTSCHALK’S “ The problem which, posing to themselves may be reducea to this: | altering its charms, and at the same time to preserve its clearness ana homogeneity You, alone, Messrs. Chickering & Sons, been scught after, instruments. the different elements which have so lon modern Piano the most complete o Henceforth the United States may advan for more than half a century, the great European manufacturers have | How to obtain the greatest possible volume of tone usly compete wi CERTIFICATE: een pro without through all the extent have succeeded, as I fully believe, in combining in a menner which will henceforth eens Accept mtlemen, my sincere congratu!® ith Europe in the construction of Pianos, and it is not the least of all bur commercial triumphs that you have sucgeeded in matching and surpaesing the efforts of the Erards, the Pleyels, the Collards and the Broadwoods. Truly Yours, December, 1842, Warerooms, 625 Broadway, N. ¥., “LL, M, GOTTSCHALK.” 246 Washington Street, Boston a CELEBRATED $7 TIMEKEEPERS ! C. P. NORTON & CO., 40 Ann Street, News York: SAINT CAT! THE C Ot