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le 214 FRANK LESLIE’S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. DeceMBER 14, 1872. — FRANK LESLIE’S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER, 587 PEARL STREET, NEW YORK. FRANK LESLIE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. NEW YORK, DECEMBER 14, 1872. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. One copy one year, or 52numbers - - oe 1, 33 One copy six months, or 26 numbers - One copy for thirteen weeks - | ad CLUB TERMS. Five copies one year, in one wrapper, to one ad- Gress, $20, with extra copy to person getting up club. s FRANK LESLIE’s ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER ts the oldest established Illustrated Paper in America, TO THE PUBLIC. It was intended to present our readers with a supplement to the present number of this paper in the form of a panoramic view of the great Boston Jire. The death of Mr. Greeley has compelled us to alter our plan, and to substitute a supplement devoted exclusively to the incidents connected with that sad event. We beg the indulgence of our readers under the circumstances, and assure them that the Boston supplement will appear at an early day, and that it will be the most perfect of its kind ever issued. DEATH OF HORACE GREELEY. HE death of Horace Greeley is a loss to the | world. His usefulness was co-extensive with civilization, for he was a man of noble impulses, of bold, original mind, of un- selfish and philanthropic aims, unflagging in purpose, diligent, always in the path of that progress which, as we hope and believe, tends to the glory of God in the elevation of our race. Pure and guileless as a child, of course he was unsuspicious and easily preyed on by the adventurers in politics who used and ebused his noble nature. Mr. Greeley’s im- pulses occasionally led him astray in cases where his heart too much prevailed ; but, in the end, wisdom triumphed, and fairly illumined his long and prominent career, which is most notably seen in the history of Slavery since he came upon the stage of action. Mr. Greeley was pre-eminently an American. His heart and soul were bound up with the American destiny, and all his strong and manly points were representative of his countrymen. And he was good as well as great. He dieda martyr to the Union ; for his life was worn out in his struggle to restore love between the sections: Men may differ about the wisdom . of his course in the late campaign, but now that the grave has closed over him, his motives will be appreciated and revered by all, and his memory will shed a blessed influence among his countrymen. Over that grave, at least, the sections ‘‘will clasp hands.” And the last great work of his life—as immortalized in his campaign speeches—will survive with the Farewell Address of George Washington. It is sad to lose the active aid of such a man at such a time. And yet it is providential ; for, his eloquent voice will plead for peace, liberty, morality, love and union, from the tomb, as it could not do with the same effect were he yet among us, to encounter the bitter- ness of selfish opposition and of misconstruc- tion of motives. He is stricken down in harness, at a time and under circumstances when his death will animate the living to com- plete the work which he began. LIVINGSTONE—STANLEY— BENNETT. AME is, to vary slightly the words of if Bacon, the lot of many: men, but it is given to few to be not only famous them- selves, but the cause of fame in others. We except, of course, biographers, whose work has exceeded their material, and whose re- nown is not inferior to that of the heroes with whom they are, in the memories of mankind, inseparably connected. But the celebrated men to whom we allude now have mainly been their own historians, and the record of their deeds has likewise been the record of their lives. Their companions and associates, when they had any, fill but subordinate places in the stories of achievements which shed lustre on their age. They may have been zealous, discreet, faithful, and, in every way indispen- sable, but the grand central figure is the hero himself, and the glory of his success is shared by none. Thus, among the band of Central African discoverers, which includes such names as Park, Bruce, Burton, Speke, Grant, each has been the narrator of his own deeds, and the sole hero of his work. But when we come to the greatest of all, Livingstone, there is one name which will for ever be entwined with his, and that name is Stanley. Not as an associate, not as a co-worker, hardly as a com- ion, certainly not a sharer in the grandest and most difficult of all modern enterprises. The simple glory of Stanley is, that whereas Livingstone discovered the true sources of the Nile, Stanley discovered Livingstone. Yet the fame of Livingstone is in no way lessened, but rather heightened, by all that Stanley has done, while it is the good fortune of the latter to have won an enviable renown for himself by his association with the glory of Livingstone. The story is one with which all our readers must by this time be familiar. What to our minds is most to be admired is the audacity that planned the enterprise, and the resolution and courage, tempered with prudence, that carried it to a successful issue ; while, as if to heighten its merits, and to show that the achievement, however easy it might appear from a distance, yet demanded a rare combi- nation of faculties to insure success, an ex- pedition started under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society of London, sup- plied with money ostentatiously collected for the ‘‘Livingstone Search and Relief Fund,” and commanded by Lieutenant Dawson, ar- rived at Zanzibar while Stanley was in the in- terior, and after loitering on the coast, finally, and, as the event has proved, for reasons quite insufficient, abandoned the object for which it was fitted out, on finding that it had been forestalled by the energy and directness of aim of a single man. It is quite possible that this expedition might have been successful if Stanley had failed, or the idea of his journey had never been conceived, but it can hardly be im- agined that the same frank welcome with which Livingstone greeted Stanley would have awaited Lieutenant Dawson, hampered as he was with instructions unworthy of the Society which sent him out, and which would have made him little better than a spy upon the great traveler ; but we may be sure that no such praise and honor could have crowned the leaders of that expedition as Stanley has won. The rare integrity of Mr. Stanley and his devotion to the interests of his employer ought not to be suffered to pass without remark. With unlimited means at his command, and with plausible reasons against an immediate return, the temptation to remain with Dr. Livingstone and share the remaining perils of his journeyings must have been great. But, no! He had done all he was sent to do, and done it well. His duty was to return home, and back he came. Of his reception in England, we need say nothing. The sneers of incre- dulity which first greeted him have been fully atoned for, and as far as public honors, royal gifts, and esteem of great and good men, can make amends for injustice, he can have no- thing to complain of. It is something to have borne down opposition, and to have silenced criticism— “To win the wise who frowned before, To smile at last.” =~ We can understand and pardon the soreness of the English in seeing a foreigner step in, and in a few short months snatch a prize they had not, till too late, the pluck or courage to contest. Beaten at Geneva, worsted in San Juan, they have not even the consolation in being foremost in geographical discoveries ; for, in addition to being distanced in Africa, it seems probable that at no distant day another nation will bear away the last remain- ing great prize of discovery by first entering the hitherto inaccessible Polar Sea. We may confess that on the first publication of Dr. Livingstone’s letters, we shared in the common doubt as to their genuineness, founded upon the incongruity—to use a mild term—of many of the phrases they contained. How these arose has now been fully explained, and as theologians say that ‘‘ he who never doubted never believed,” we may claim a sound found- ation for our present faith in Mr. Stanley. It is saying but little that Mr. Bennett’s share in this enterprise has been most honor- able to himself. No praise can be too high for the manliness he has shown. It may suit the policy of this gentleman to make his private acts of munificence resound to the credit of the journal of which he is now the proprietor, but the public generally will make a wide dis- tinction between Mr. Bennett and the Herald. We should be sorry, indeed, to think that one was the synonym of the other. Mr. Stanley is now among us, and if any words of ours can make his reception in his native land more gratifying than it has been, we gladly add our cordial welcome to that of his numerous friends. REFORM IT ALTOGETHER. E have already suggested in these columns (what some daily journals of late advocate), i. ¢., the importance of so changing the time for holding State elec- tions that these shall not be made to control, as hitherto they have done, the Presidential result. The history of Presidential elections demonstrates that tne example of a few leading States in October—to say nothing of the earlier lead in New England—settles the Presidential vote. This is all well for one party to-day, but As the lawyers phrase it, it is “‘an undue in- fluence.” Man is a queer animal. Under excitement, and in the mass (we do not like to say that all ill, perhaps, for the same party to-morrow. he acts like a sheep), he certainly plunges reck- lessly after the bell-wether. He will do this everywhere. He does it in cases of fire, of ship-foundering, of horse-racing, of smallpox and cholera, of fashion, of stock-jobbing, of amusement, and even of religion and charity. To ‘‘go with the crowd,” isa maxim. So we rush, as on cars and ferryboats, with the stream, as if the rivers must become dry in ten minutes more, or the rails disappear from the track, did we not elbow and push along with the current. In political matters this tendency is notably conspicuous ; and it is this string which your cool and experienced wirepuller uses to con- trolling advantage in all Conventions. Get up confusion, close balloting, then wild excite- ment, and next a coup d'état, and then the im- petuous mass go for the bait like greedy catfish. They yell, stamp, throw up their caps and become frantically inspired, by sheer force of magnetism, over a nomination which, in their sober senses, often they would reject. In this respect, crudely organized bodies of men are alike everywhere. It is not so much courage as it is the inflexible discipline of the battlefield and of the ship which enables the soldier or sailor to keep his head amidst panic and storm. An election is contested with great warmth up to a given time. The betting runs high with outsiders, but betting is cool and wary with the knowing ones. Now, one or more important States lead off in a preliminary skirmish. Behold the flutter! Reason is almost gone with the masses ; grave issues are lost sight of. Betting becomes bullying and bluster. It creates a stampede. The canvass is converted into a huzza for the winning horse. What a temptation there is thus thrown out to bold, cautious, reckless gamblers in politics, to concentrate corruption, and lawlessness on the States which thus control a Presidential election ! Beyond all: To hold such elections with grave regard to the philosophy of what we are enforcing, is to afford the public time for re- flection, and to secure the unbiased ballot of every voter; that is, unbiased by the undue influence which we are combating. All law is founded on experience in human nature. On this experience civilized government is based, and out of this experience we educe the Philosophy of Statesmanship. This Philosophy warns us to keep the national ballot aloof from the temptations which now beset it, as these beckon to power and fraud, under the case which we have stated. A GRAND NEW YORK HOTEL FOR MURDERERS, HE United States have acquired a proud T pre-eminence over all the countries in the Old World by their sumptuous caravan- serais. These are employed both for the housing of travelers and that section of the community which prefers the luxurious style of living and dégagé style of existence current in our hotels, to the plainer and more private life in a four-story brown-stone tenement in even our most fashionable thoroughfares. It has, however, been reserved for the Em- pire City of this hemisphere to make another step in hotel life, in advance both of Europe and her sister cities upon this continent. She has constituted the Tombs—once an ominous and uncomfortable name for those who were committed for safe custody to its precincts—into a huge hotel for the accom- modation of the highly respectable and gen- tlemanly class who amuse themselves by the shortening of human life among their fellows. It for some short space of time threatened not to become thoroughly popular. We are, how- ever, gratified to state, that during the last two years it has asserted its claim to prominence. At present it is largely, although, possibly, not sufficiently patronized. But, we have strong hopes of its asserting its position more extensively. It has, already, a clientéle vary- ing a trifle under or over thirty, and the promise is, that if matters progress favorably in the course of the next year, it will doubtless receive a much larger number of boarders. Since that eminent civic man-slaughterer, Mr. Stokes, took up his abode within it, and experienced its luxurious accommodations, with their immunity from all annoyance, ex- cept his occasional subjection to the temporary inconvenience of a trial, it has grown rapidly in public estimation. Such individuals as Mr. Scannell and Mr. King have envied his position, as well as that of Mr. Foster and others, so free from all extraneous annoyance, and in which they can indulge their taste for luxury without being intruded upon, save by their own permission. At the same time, it is undoubtedly flattering to that love of notoriety which, in common with the rest of us, they possess, that from time to time they are “interviewed” by the reporters of the Daily Press, and are able to give—at second-hand, it is true—their views to the outside world, on all subjects, blood- letting included, which may arise in the course of conversation. Of course, the luxury of their apartments and their food, wines and cigars included, depends in a measure, if not wholly, upon their means. But, so it would do in any of our leading hotels. It, however, possesses a striking advantage. They are totally free from the very objection- able presence of any close personal friend of the individuals whose lives they may have taken. Consequently, they are not at all subjected to the chance-impulse of having like returned for like. Hence, they have no prospect of expiating their own little peccadilloes by receiving a knife-thrust in the thorax or a pistol-shot in the abdomen from any one who might be irrationally or ignorantly irritated by the equa- nimity with which the law regards their breaches of it, at the expense of those whom he has chanced to regard with some affection. They also possess the other privileges which would belong to them in any leading hotel. They can dress in the extreme of fashion, be attended every morning by a first-class barber or hair-dresser, have their meals sent in from a first-rate restaurateur, be supplied with wine from their peculiar wine-merchant, smoke the finest Cabafios or Conchas, and receive any first- class female friend at stated hours—provided that they can afford to pay the regular tariff for such creature comforts. They can digest their matutinal coffee and eggs over a copy of the New York Herald or Tribune, as they choose, and subscribe to a circulating library, if they require any such literary pabulum. In short, no enjoyment is denied them, if only they have money enough in their purses, save the somewhat perilous one they might experi- ence in a daily ramble along Broadway. To tell the truth, such a life would be tho- roughly happy and delightful, were it not for an occasional doubting dread which may sometimes present itself. This is, whether or not, at some distant day, public wrath may not scoff at the loving delicacy of the law, and, seizing on them in spite of the bolts and bars which now secure them, bring them before the improvised tribunal of a modern. Judge Lynch. When this thought possibly occurs to them, it may momentarily interfere with their digestion and their slumber. But, in another moment, it will have passed away. Knowing what New York is, they shrug their shoulders and smile, feeling that the strong arm of the law protects them, as it had failed to do those for whose deaths they enjoy the delights of the ‘Grand New York Hotel for Murderers,” THE Tomas. LET THE PEOPLE ELECT THE PRESIDENT. HY shall not the people elect the Pres- WW ident directly? Why shall the great body of men be forced to select between two candidates, thrust on them by caucuses ? Is there sense or safety in this course? Dowe select the best men in this way? As we demonstrated in a former number of this journal, the idea of a popular election of a President is only recognized in our Constitu- tion by the fact of Presidential Electors. It is the Electors who are voted for. These Electors are not selected by any caucus. On the contrary, they represent the different States, and their constitutional qualification is, that they shall not be persons in any way connected, as office-holders, with the Federal patronage. It is perfectly constitutional for these Electors, when they assemble to cast the Presidential vote, to vote for whom they please—for anybody, for persons not mentioned in the canvass. It is easy to see in this idea the germ of what we advocate now, which is, to get rid of the corrupting influences which the office- holding machinery throws into the scale; to give to State preferences greater weight, and so to determine nominations for a second term, on the one hand, and to break down those combinations of professional politicians who form rings throughout the country, and barter nominations for pledges of patronage and position with the contracting candidates. Besides, it is a fact that our best men will not enter the dirty scramble of politics, as now managed by the caucus system. The true gentleman shrinks from bargains and pledges, as the price of an exalted non-parti- san and patriotic office like the Presidency. One has only to consult the private memoirs of the Fathers of the Republic to see the shrink- ing delicacy with which such men as Wash- ington, Jefferson and Madison regarded this thing. But, while it is true that no man exactly fit for the Presidency will gamble for it, it is equally true that he who can consent to gamble for the Presidency in the first place, will not scru- ple to employ all the arts of corruption to secure his second term. Now, it is to get rid of the abuse of the Federal machine by a President on the one hand, and to break down the corrupting influence of rings of trading politicians on the other, which we would secure by remitting the Presidential ballot directly to the people. As it stands, the Electors, by force of precedent, fcel bound to register the decree of the election, whose sue- SS OC eee we eee ok ee oe ek a ee ae oe Jee soe BE ee

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Decemser 14, 1872.) FRANK LESLIE’S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. 215 _ —_—_— cessful candidate is not the offspring of the people, but of a caucus. And one main truth strikes us on the threshold of this subject, which is, that, left to themselves, the people of the United States, under ordinary circum- stances, will put forward their best men, such as have State records, as private and public men, which are fit, and which should be in- dispensable, antecedents in him who seeks to rise into the rank of the first citizen of the Republic. After a war, the public reason seems to be swallowed up in gratitude for its heroes. But our experience teaches that we must guard against this drift toward a military Republic. And we can do it in no way so well as by so distributing the Presidential chances as that the reflection of the great body of the voters shall do its proper work in the election of President of the United States. The cumu- lative system of voting, as now experimented upon in Illinois, seems to be one step in this direction. We shall pursue this topic from time to time, until we present our views, as they regard the practical working of our idea, in its details. ‘“CLAR DE KITCHEN.” UR Radical friends send us privately good () news from Washington. They profess that they are. about to join the ranks of the Reform Party—Grant and all! In sober earnest, parties influential with the Adminis- tration write us to the effect that the coming session of Congress will be quite sensational after the holidays. Let us explain. It seems—from these our private letters— that the Administration leaders have resolved to investigate the investigators. In other words, that the one-sided Congress feels called upon (under Grant’s spur) to investigate the main charges on which the Government was arraigned in the late canvass. This show of yirtue the Reformers have forced on the Ad- ministration. It remains now to be seen whether or not this profession is the trade trickery of the Tombs shyster, or a high, con- scientious, statesmanlike determination to re- form the Public Service. In the first place, the Committees, if raised as suggested, must be fairly constructed, or it will be evident that whitewashing and sup- pression, not truth and public information, will be the object of the Congressional petti- foggers. The minority must be represented on these Committees by their ablest men. The law of evidence must then be enforced, as at common law. There must be no choking down orevasion. The examinations must over- whelmingly demonstrate a search after the truth, or else the trick will be plainly seen through, as one foisted on the nation by the great majority of the men accused, only to silence, by false pretenses, by a show of in- vestigation, those accusations of fraud, ex- travagance, lawlessness and corruption which the Administration cannot honestly meet ; but on which issues, nevertheless, it would coerce a lying judgment in its favor. First, then, the constitution of the Commit- tees must show the real object of the Admin- istration. And then (foremost) we must have light on the Crédit Mobilier matter. The members of Congress implicated by Oakes Ames can only clear their skirts by prov- ing that Oakes Ames falsely represented their complicity with him, for private purposes of his own. If Ames was guilty of the latter meanness, he should be summarily expelled from his seat. Now that the Administration has ‘all its needs, it must needs,” as Touch- stone hath it, “be virtuous ; or its enormity will swell and swell, till fairly it landeth in hell.” And to get rid either of the Ameses or of such corrupt members of Congress as he implicates, is a prime necessity. Congress is really the governing power of the nation. It has become so by events. It is the salt of the system ; and if the salt hath lost its savor, all is lost and gone. Mr. Ames must be sharply examined. Let us see if he can explain his Memorandum, and also what he meant by causing the letter to be written to that Senator which was sent by McComb to Mr. Bayard. Then the Black Friday business. We must know how it happened that the President and his family were so mixed up with that specula- tion, which enriched a few at the cost of-wide- spread ruin. We must know how it was that Secretary Boutwell was advised by Gould, Fisk & Co. in the premises. We are glad to note that the Atlantic Monthly has joined in this demand. If General Grant is disposed to go the whole length of that Reform on which the Cincinnati and Baltimore movement is based, he will help to consolidate our party, and leave a glorious name yet. He has begun well in the matter of the Philadelphia Postmaster. Let him now push these investigations to a sufficient length to satisfy the public judgment. And if it ap- pear from them that he has been duped by Togues, the nation will excuse that inexperience in public affairs which was so imposed on. Let him declare for the limitation of the Presi- family relatives from office. Let him promptly dismiss the military ring which surrounds him, and which is there contrary to express law, as well as against the spirit of our institutions. Let him get rid of the Dents, especially of that Dent who is notoriously established in Wash- ington as a mere office-broker and lobbyist and trader in Presidential influence. Let him do these things, and others which logically belong to them, and all the lesser matters will be con- doned. In this way, General Grant will, to use a coarse word, smash the corrupt rings that have been practicing on him. He will disperse that selfish and personal and venal party which is all that is left of the old war Radicals. He will bury the Rebellion. He will have peace. He will comprehend that opposition to him has given him that great support so well expressed by the French publicist who said, “There can be no support without resistance.” If General Grant can rise to the height of the situation, he will drive the hounds out of their kennels, and restore peace and purity and statesman- ship. He will turn his back on such tools as Senator Harlan, of the Washington Chronicle, which aspires to be his organ. He will regard Morton as the mere party creature that he is. In the words of the old negro song, he will ‘*clar de kitchen.” ASSOCIATIONS TO PREVENT CRIME. VEN the most staid journals are debating q about the necessity which exists for Vigilance Committees. It seems to be conceded on all sides that the administration of criminal justice is a failure as it stands. And it is equally obvious that the means at hand are not enough, either in quantity or quality, to prevent much crime which might be crushed in the bud. In this connection we have been led to think of the idea of Voluntary Associations to Pre- vent Crime, modeled after Bergh’s Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ; for ex- ample, whose members shall be clothed by law with the power to make arreste on view. The objection to this idea, viz., that of its irre- sponsibility and the excesses to which it might lead, are seen at a glance ; but it is our delib- erate opinion that the benefits which would flow from such legalized associations would so exceed any possible ill to the citizen that could come from them, as to far outweigh the jealous objection. All authority (we waive metaphysics) is, in one sense, an invasion on natural rights. The use of all authority implies its abuse. The first necessity of social man is to part with natural rights (in their widest sense) for the benefit of the State, and even to submit to wrongs, when such overtake him through innocent and mis- taken acts, which are done with the good motive of preserving the peace and order of society. This latter principle prevails con- spicuously in the appropriation of another’s land for railroad purposes, and in cases where neighboring property thereto is really need- lessly injured by firemen when a conflagration is raging, and the like. And we need not ex- emplify its application in a state of war. We cannot reason against the use of a thing from its possible abuse. But in such societies as we propose, none should be permitted as members but such as are well-known citizens, who should be selected from among the volun- teers, because of their higher standing, and whose official conduct should be subjected, at any time, to legal investigation ; and, of course, if a case of outrage were made out to justify it, liable to fine or imprisonment at the suit of the party aggrieved. A penalty of this sort would not deter good men from joining such associations ; and its existence in the statute would create quite as much responsibility as pertains to Mr. Bergh, or to the police, or to deputy sheriffs. Associations like these, permeating every ward, would have members walking, visiting and riding, at all hours, everywhere through- out the city. Armed with power to arrest, how much crime they might prevent! To illus- trate this thought by one notorious fact: Suppose when the man Foster insulted the ladies who were with the Mr. Putnam who was killed some minutes afterward by a car-hook, that Foster, the homicide, had been promptly arrested by some member of such association who might have been on the car—in that case murder would have been prevented. It is useless to multiply illustrations. Our ferries, wharves, need this vigilance, so do our stages, and cars, and barrooms. We hope to see the subject discussed. LETTERS FROM JUNIUS. NEW SERIES—No. III. DEAD? STRANGE discussion is going on about dead parties. Its foes would have us be- lieve that the Liberal Democratic Party is dead. Neither Sumner, nor Schurz nor Trum- bull, nor any of the great leaders of the Lib- followers. They are alive, in position, alert to defend, to maintain, to perpetuate the princi- ples of the Cincinnati and Baltimore Platform. And the memory of the martyred Greeley almost hallows the work in which he died. Undoubtedly, most of the old Democratic issues are dead; but that party (called by what name it may be) must survive, in its essentials, with the life of the Government itself, which is the champion of Decentralization as opposed to Consolidation and of State Rights, as these were arbitrated by the late war; and who are the support of a stern opposition to the en- croachments of Federal power against the sacredness of the ballot. I say that such a party must exist with the existence of the Re- public. Economical questions, of which the tariff is one, will no longer be debated as Fun- damental Principles. But, to assert union everywhere, freedom everywhere, the rightful power of the States and of the citizen every- where within our borders, and a pure Civil Ser- vice which rejects Presidential nepotism, rings, laziness, neglect, voluptuousness, the participa- tion of members of the Government in the strife of State elections, and which, based alone on merit, shall supersede the present debasement of such service which has been distributed of late as so much spoils for the victors at party hustings—these vital needs proclaim, with a loud voice, the life of an Opposition to that policy of the Government which has obtained for the past four years, Dead? Every day the official figures, as they are collected, more and more clearly demon- strate that it was the withdrawal of the Opposi- tion from the field, after the October elections, which gave his re-election to General Grant. Or if this body of men did not exactly amount to such a power, undoubtedly they came so near to it as to present to-day as formidable an Opposition Party as has existed in the country. The Opposition which Martin Van Buren seemed to have scattered in 1836, rose in its majesty in 1840, and swept the land like a tornado; and the same fact is traced from Pierce’s day, until the successful party under him was merged in the great Republican Party under Lincoln. Dead? If the Opposition Party were really dead, mark what must follow: In that case, we should accept one man and one party as our political condition; one man with an indefinite lease of power, as opposed to its constitutional limitation. Our frequent popular elections, which, by the agitation pp powerful and able Oppo- sition, subject authority and its acts to the verdict of. the masses, must practically be stricken down, and in their stead we would have left— only the permissive privilege of the Plebiscite and the quiet of Despotism. Truth never dies. Hers are the ‘eternal years of God.” What is really dead is the Past. And out of its ashes and ruins we have founded, and now we must build up, our New Party. Talk, therefore, everywhere, friends, about the organization and consolidation of the New Party. Why waste your breath and ink on pernicious abstractions ? JUNIUS. PICTORIAL SPIRIT OF THE EUROPEAN ILLUSTRATED PRESS. Sea-fowling in the Faroe Islands. Few people ever cast a thought to a little group of twenty-two islands lying between the Shetland Isles and Iceland—the Faroe Islands. Rugged and barren, these islands, which belong to Denmark, offer no in- ducement to emigrants, and their inhabitants (in all about 9,000) retain their primitive habits, manners and customs. Only seventeen of the isles are in- habited, and even these afford but little field for culti- vation. Among the staple productions of these islands are the feathers, or, rather, the down, of the innumerable sea-fowl which find a home in the steep and craggy rocks of the coast. The pursuit of these birds is extremely hazardous, and needs peculiar nerve and skill. The fowler is let down by a rope from the summit of the cliff. A rope three inches thick is wound round his waist, while a broad band of leather round his loins serves him as a seat, by which ‘he is en- abled to work for hours together. The rope, frequently two or three hundred fathoms long, is held by his companions, who let him gently down the cliff, he having a little cord in his hand with which he signals to them to stop or proceed. To prevent the rope from being cut by the sharp edges of the projecting rock, a sort of rude crane is rigged up, while the man utilizes his pole to save himself from being dashed against the side. When the wished-for ledge or cave has been reached, the man stops and secures his birds by:taking them from their nests with his hands, with the help of his net when they are actually in flight. In one afternoon an experienced man may take from two to four hundred fowl. When caught, the fowler wrings the birds’ necks, and a sufficient number being obtained, ties them in bunches and telegraphs to his companions above to hoist them up, or throws them down to friends in a boat below. Funeral Ceremonies in Paris—The Toilet of the Coachmen. We described last week the toilet of the mutes em- ployed as mourners in Parisian funerals, and for the benefit of our readers who may not have read that description, we repeat that there is a company in Paris which has the monopoly of conducting fune- rals, and which employs the mutes and all other attendants, and supplies all the usual paraphernalia of woe. Inasmuch as this company provides all the accompaniments of a first-class funeral, its depart- ments and bureaus are necessarily numerous, and among tiem one of by no means small importance is the dressing-room of the coachmen, of which we present an illustration, in which these usually lively personages are transformed by the art of dress into the most sombre-looking individuals that could be desired for such an occasion. The Recent Floods—Scene at Northwich, in Cheshire. During the last few weeks an exceptional quantity of rain has fallen, especially in England and Italy, and in both countries disastrous floods have resulted. In England the damage inflicted has extended over a large tract of country, especially in the northern, northwestern, and midland counties. At Notting- ham the Trent overflowed that portion of the town known as the “Meadows,’? and the surrounding dential tenure to one term. Let him retire his eral Republican Party, is dead. Nor are their country assumed the appearance of a vast Jak: Leicestershire, Derbyshire, and Lincolnshire also suf- fered severely. Large trac's of country also were flooded by the Tyne, and im. .ense injury done to the crops and cattle. Prfovidentially, few human lives have been lost, Our engraving represents a scene during the great flood at Northwich, in Cheshire. Northwich, the grand seat of the salt trade, is situ- ated on the River Weaver, near to its junction with the Dune. These rivers are subject to floods, and owing to the recent heavy rains, the water rose about ten feet above its ordinary level, and part of the town in High Street, near the river, was inundated to the depth of five feet. In several shops the water rose higher than the counters, causing stoppage of business and great damage to property. The First Railway in Japan. In the present number we give an illustration of the formal opening, by the Mikado in person, of the first railway in Japan, running between Jeddo and Yokohama, and which is fully described in another column. As an interesting accompaniment, and also as a specimen of the progress of art among the Japanese, we give a sketch of the railway in opera- tion from the pencil of a native artist, which, if it does not equal our photographic view in faithfulness of representation, still show, like all Oriental sketches, an accuracy of detail and an ambition which is cer- tain to lead to improvement. A November Fog in London. A London fog of the highest type is almost worth crossing the Atlantic to behold. An inferior imita- tion may occasionally be met with at Manchester, and even Paris of late years, since scores of tall chimneys arose in the districts of Belleville and Menilmontant, sometimes arrays herself in saffron-tinted robes ; but altogether, as regards fogs, neither Manchester nor Paris can hold a candle to London. There are two distinct species of London fog, though they are fre- quently found in combination. In the first descrip- tion of fog the atmosphere below is comparatively clear, 80 that locomotion is not impeded ; but the sky overhead is covered with a mantle varying in tint from pea-soup color to inky black. The other de- scription ‘of fog generally comes on after sunset, is far more dangerous, and is fortunately much rarer. The fog of this quality is usually lighter in color ; but it descends to the level of the ground, and is some- times so thick that a man cannot see the horse he is driving. This is the sort of a fog depicted by our artist. : A Mountain Cheesemonger in the Tyrol The main chain of the Alps runs entirely through the Tyrol from west to east, and thus the arable land forms only a sixth of the whole country, the rest being either pasturage or absolutely sterile. The wealth of the inhabitants lies principally in cattle, which furnish milk and cheese, the chief food of the inhabitants. The real Alpine cowherd leads a hard life, as for six or eight months of the year he is ban- ished from the haunts of men; abovw.the clouds, occupying a miserable chalet, he is frequent danger of avalanches, and he must take care that his charge do not fall over the precipices. The day on which the cattle return from the Alps is one of re- joicing both to the master and the cowherd, provided the supply of butter and cheese be large and the herd healthy. The cattle are decorated with ribbons and marshaled in regular procession. The cheese is purchased by itinerant dealers, who, being provided with trucks drawn by dogs, carry their merchandise into various parts of the country and offer it for sale. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Tue Thanksgiving Matinées at the New York Theatres were well attended. Brienott has signed an engagement with the director of the Scala, at Milan. Mug. Aim£e will begin aseason of opera- bouffe at the Olympic, December 9th. Mrs. Scort-S1ppons has given an interesting dramatic recital at Steinway Hall, New York. Tue wax-works of Mrs. Jarley, at Associa- tion Hall, on November 26th, drew a good house. Miss NEILson’s rendering of Juliet, at Booth’s Theatre, has been received with marks Of great favor. Tur first concert of the Philharmonic So- ciety of Brooklyn was given on Saturday evening, Nov. 30th. Mr. Barnum’s Hippodrome on Fourteenth Street had three immense audiences on Thanks- giving. Mr. SrantEy gave the first lecture in his course on the finding of Dr. Livingstone, December 3d, at Steinway Hall. Nisio’s GARDEN was finally and positively re-opened with the spectacle of ‘‘ Leo and Lotos” on Saturday, November 30th. Tue burlesque of “Kenilworth” was brought out at the Olympic Theatre November 29th, with Lydia Thompson as Leicester. Tue Lydia Thompson Burlesque Troupe close their engagement at the Olympic Theatre on the 6th of December, with ‘‘ Barbe Bleu.” Mr. Cuares Fisuer has made a in his réle of Falstaff, in ‘‘The Merry Windsor,’’ at the Fifth Avenue Theatre. Broveuam’s “ Atherley Court” will soon be brought out at the Union Square Theatre, where the last nights of ‘“‘ Agnes”’ are announced, Mr. Joun BroveHam’s romantic drama of “The Lily of France,’ with the presence of Miss Helen Temple, will soon be brought out at Booth’s. “ Rounp THE Ctiock,” at the Grand Opera House, is a jolly jingle of local incidents and scenes, with a plot depending upon a singular will for elabor- ation. Perrormances of German opera are given three times a week at Terrace Garden, under Mme. ~~ i management, and are proving very suc- reat hit ives of Lucca appeared in “La Favorita” on Thanksgiving Eve, before a good audience. The last week of the season opened on Monday, December 2d, with “ Mignon.” THE theatrical wardrobe of the late Walter oe ry | was sold at auction in London re- cently. A full costume for Hamlet sold for $7, and one for Othello only brought $10. The first dress in JuliusCwsar, including breastplate, helmet and plume, was knocked down for $15, while the merino shirt, toga and undershirt of Coriolanus were bought at little over $2. Very handsome dresses for Romeo and Charles Surfice met purchasers at $9 each, and a Macbeth costume, compris “three surcoats, span- gied gauntlets, neck piece, head piece, and crimson cloth robe with jeweled bosses,’’ was sold $15. The costume Claude Melnotte wears when personating the Prince was bought for $11. The whole lot realized only $535,

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views of the ruins of e Boston fire. which ha ready been faithfully and iully illustrated and described i! I columns, They posses3 a marked histori- cal interest, as they represent the condition of the burnt district as it appeared a few days ago. By this time, with the wonderful en terprise ind recupt rative powers of the Bostonians, sl been nearly all removed, foundations laid for future 1 eantile establishments. Our full page shows the area and appeat ance of the district, with the several buildings that have 1 mained unscathed by the fire, and the wharves and river in the distance. The smaller ones show the archway of ruins on Milk Street, and the ruins of Franklin Square, Franklin Square was the busiest and wealthiest quarter of the city, and filled with commanding gra- nite, marble, iron, brown-stone and brick buildings. The of goods on hand was very large, and almost all became a total loss. The archway of Street is an artistic fre fire-fiend, and presents pearance of some classical ruin of ancient Rome or Greece, Baby- lon, Thebes or Tyre. rhe arch is formed by a mass of débris falling over and across two pillars. The spectacle has been the ject of a pretty general examina- tion, the myseumsandart galleries for the once fading in importance the curious eye of visitors. and the stock ruins on Mik k of the the ap- sub- before CITIZENS’ GIFT TO rik POLL HE handsome banner prom- ised the Police Department by the Board o: Under- writers of New York, as a recog- nition of bravery exhibited during the riots of and 1871, w formally prsented on Monday, November 25th, at Union Square. About 1,200 policemen assembled early in the afternoon at Madi- son Square, and under the com- mand of Superintendent Kelso and = Drill- Captain Copeland, marched to Fourth Avenue and Seventh Street. ‘The battalions were drawn up on the new plaza 1863 at the northern end of the Park, and in front of the Grand Stand. The Commissioners of the the President Underwriters, the Produce Police Department, of the Board of the Presidents of ‘&\Y ZIV 7 THE

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J. 21% 1s < Exchan ind reé t 3 of other 1ding ¢ I s'ablishment or ’ = ) zs onl l i . g \ savage a presente ! ( LO ( l loner I = ) rned the thank of ft De} nt for the ele- t cour | banner is of dark blue Iso y i ered in ( ( l Wi ld-c¢ red Is l Sx¢ The i of | | highly v | 1 ¢ ed wi a ud gle On le bear the ¢ i l-arm of 1 City uu t eful embroide hile the olher contains the inseriptic ‘The Citizens f New York their brave Police, 18 July 1871, faithful unto death.” ) fhe banner y saluted bv the force, when the line was _ re- fi ed, end t men marched to the Cer al Office for di i ] i { ce made a fine appea ance, and the occasion att cted ala representation of our best cluiz a. THE VETERANS OF 1812 IN LINE. NEW f iture was added to j the celebration « Evacur- 4 tion Day in New York tht» year, which brouglt the two dates in much closer connection. The surviving veterans of 1812 assembled at St. l’anl’s Church on the morning cf the 25th of November. and proceeded to the armory ol the Sixth Re gciment N.G.S.N.Y. A detail of the Sixth escorted them to the old block. fort at the upner cnd of Central Park, where the Commissioners = erected for the celebration a tall hickory pole commemorating General Jackson's victor y at New Orleans, The veterans fired a salute of thirteen guns. and then raised the Stars and Stripes, amid patriotic strains from the military band in attendance. The Rev. Matthew Hale Smith, of Brooklyn, delivered a_ feeling address, and at the close of th exercises the “old boys” were driven to the armory and treated to a liberal supper. They were dressed in their cld uniform. and many of them had girded at their sides the swords which they had drawn in driving the foe from the land. Many of these veterans assisted in building the fort, and the Commissioners of the Park, besides presenting them with the flag. which was hare ac- honor of run recurring appropriately inscribed, corded them the ning it up on every W. BLACK,

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| 5 eens er aes ee a — ~ . TO = ae ne iJ t i ; ; | j aS als pan oe, oer = PSS. ES anniversary of the queror of all—Death. FIAT JUSTITIA I, tell her he is dead ; Right instantly she fears, Lest they shall wonder that she sheds no tears. And thereat, very sadly, mournerwise, She droops her great soft eyes, And goes to stand beside him where he lies. “Poor widowed one!’’ they whisper, for they see Her sorrowing mien; but she Makes passionate inward murmur IL. She hears that he is dead; and when Leap the hot, heavy tears To eyes that have not wept for years and years. And, lo! she has forgiven him all the shame He wrought upon her name, So blackening it with soilure of black blame! Then to his home she hurries, yearning sore To look on him once more ; But friends, in awful virtue, guard the door! she hears, THE LEGEND OF SMITHTOWN. and when she hears, : **I am free!’? memorable day, until the | last survivor surrenders his sword to the con-| ing only disturbed by the calls of the hospita- until one | | | FR ANK L ESL TES: ILLUS The first few weeks passed very quietly, be- ble and curious ladies of the village, Sunday evening in the latter part of It had been stormy during the day, of the family had left the house ; June, calm and moonlight, After the others had retired, Mrs. letters. Toward made the tour of the house, to determine that | all was secure. With a woman's c aution, examined everything carefilly. But the doors all locked, all the windows fastened and none but toward evening it cleared up, and the night was warm, Harris sat up some time in the sitting-room, writing midnight she had finished | them, and, preparatory to going to bed herself, she finding STRATED NEWSPA APER. | [Dece: EMBER |4, : —_——_$$$$— . - . | man lying on a sofa in the sitting-room, and | spoken on the stairs nearly three months ago looking very tired a restless night. ‘Do you,” he asked, house of yours ? | last night.” ‘*Why,” said Mrs. Harris, laughingly, ** my sister and I had almost made up our minds that | we saw one a few weeks ago; but since then we have concluded that we were mistaken. Do | tell us what you have seen.” and the rooms empty, she was satisfied that | there sleepy family up-stairs and herself. She then turned up the stairs to go to herroom. It was one of those sultry June evenings, when every one moves in a lazy, dreamy tashion. As she was no one in the building, except the | | | | slowly went up the steps, the light of the candle | flickered up and down, died away, and, finally, went out altogether. her, she told me, as a little strange, cially did not trouble her and espe- at the time, for the moon- light streaming through the large window at the head of the stairs made the whole hall | almost as light as day. When she reached this | window, she stopped to fasten it, and. looking out in the garden, where the trees stood so This circumstance struck | as she could see no cause for it; but it | cessary for me to pass three weeks in the | g¢j)) jn their silent communion with each other | | under the strange moonlight, the quiet seemed Nessa years ago my business made it ne- very quiet village known as—suppose we say Smithtown. It is situated on the shore, and isa common New England village. It has only one street of any importance, on which the whole town is strung, and which runs east and west. Its public institutions are a church, a * Doreas Society,” and the Ame- rican Hotel. In the desolate bar-room of the American Hotel you can always find three or four innocent old loafers waiting for an invi- tation to drink; and once in a while a very few younger men, whose evil propensities are the only excuse for the annual election of a constable. Otherwise, the village is sternly virtuous. As my business was not very en- grossing, the time hung heavily. There was one gentleman in Smithtown—intelligent and educated—whom I made the victim of my ennui, and compelled tu be the companion of my many leisure hours. With him I read every inscription on every tombstone in the grave- yard, examined the church, and took very long walks in the neighborhood. One evening during the last week of my stay we walked further than usual along the principal street of the village, until we were about two miles from the hotel. As we were about to turn back, I noticed that we were opposite an old house that stood on the south side of the road. It was some distance from any other dwelling, and was situated well back in a yard containing a few old trees. Its architecture was rather more pretentious than that of most other houses in the neighborhood, and it wore a mournful air of respectability. One or two of the blinds had fallen off their hinges; of the windows were broken; the front door stood wide open; the walks were overgrown with grass, and the lawn was covered with the rubbish of trees and weeds. It was evidently deserted, and its desolation excited my curi- osity. Iasked my companion whose the house was, and what it was, “Why,” said he, ** haven’t I told you of that house? Thai is our haunted house. I will tell you the story.” He threw away the stump of the cigar which he had been smoking, and lighting a fresh one, he began his narrative. ; Two years ago (said he) that house was about as desolate a piace as it is now. It had been unoccupied for many years. People seemed to have an instinctive dislike for the old place, and the landlord, finding no tenant for it, let it run to waste. Indeed, our town is not a very thriving place, and if a house like | that once loses its occupant, it is very likely to be uninhabited for a long time. through the place a few years ago. It is really a yery comfortable house. There is a large cellar underneath it ; on the ground-floor there is a hall running through the centre; and on | Se@a- | |} aloud and half to herself, * It |} woman’s voice—muttered at her ear, she said, half- | is very warm.” words a slight shudder | and a hoarse voice—a “Tm very cold.” The voice seemed so close to her, that she expected, the moment the words were said, that hands would lay hold of her. She turned her head quickly and instinct- ively in the direction of the speaker, and saw —nothing. The hall was so light, that she could | see perfectly every part of it, but there was not a sign of life to be seen. Atter the first shock of the fright had passed, and the trem- so oppressive, that. to relieve it, the her, spoke through As she shivered very, | but a strange coldness came over me, bling instinct had given away to reason, she | knew that she had been deceived ; and, going | in the darkness of your own room, | She thought | had appeared to them. They all agreed that I went | herself only fairly awake as the door closed | there was something very strange in the coin- Yet, she was tho- | cidence. | listening for some noise, the one side of the hall are double parlors, and | on the other are a sitting-room and a dining- room, while in a wing behind them is a kitchen. As you enter the hall by the front door, you have on your left a flight of wide stairs, at the head of which is a landing and a window looking Facing about you at this landing. few steps and are on the second fioor. | to her room, quite calmly she locked the door and began undressing. Thinking over the occurrence when partially undressed, she did not feel quite satisfied, and, to convince her- | self, she determined to visit every room again, | and, relighting her candle, she went through the entire house very carefully, but | found nothing Whalever out of the way, and returned to her room with a quieted mind. It was now quite late, and, retiring to bed, she soon fell asleep. She had been asleep two hours about—it was early in the morning, long before dawn—when she awoke with the consciousness that some one was standing over her. She opened her eyes, and saw at the foot of her bed a strange | woman, wrapped in an old woolen shawl, which | was drawn close about her neck and covered some | part of her face. The moon, now shining through the side window of her room, fell full upon the apparition. That part of its face which was visible looked like the face of a/| corpse. The skin was dead, ashy-white ; the lips were coloriess ; lifeless ; and the hard, black eyes, set and motionless, were fixed on Mrs. Harris. Mrs, Harris started up in bed and tried to scream out, but could not, and immediately the figure | ; H oom, | long as I could, but at last my nervousness be- turned and walked noiselessly out of the room. So quickly did the apparition depart, that it seemed but the “figment of a dream.” You | have waked up from a vivid dream of horrors, and rememberthe shudder of fear, andthe quick, | frightened beating of the heart, you felt before it had quite lost its semblance of reality; and you remember the sigh of relief that escaped _you when the real world returned, and you found yourself once more quiet and unharmed It was so with Mrs. Harris. after the retreating vision. roughly frightened, and sat up in her bed | in the alarmed ex- | pectation that her dream might prove a reality. She did not dareto move. The minutes seemed hours, and all her being was concentrated in the sense of hearing. She could hear the tick- | ing of the parlor-clock ; every leaf that stirred outside of her window was audible, and the | cricket on the hearth seemed to yell its song. out upon the garden in the rear of the house. | Once she heard something that sounded like | story has a hall corresponding with the one on | the ground-floor, except that there is a small room at one end of jt, and on each side of it are two bed-rooms. Above this there is no- thing but a large empty garret. rooms were walls and ceilings were perfectly plain. All this has got very ‘little to do with the story, but l thought you might like to know what sort af a place it was inside. Well, as I was saying, vrevious to 1857 this house had been left to jake care of itself, and had become as ruinous But, early in May of that year, Mr. Wilson—he owns the property—began to put it in repair, and in a feweweeks had it in It seems that an English widow, a Mrs. Harris—and an intelligent, wide- awake woman she was; I got very well ac- quainted with her while she was here—had determined to come to Smithtown with her as it now is. very good condition. small family, consisting of her sister, Miss R—, wainscoted, but otherwise the | | remember . you go up a| the rustling of a dress at her door, and once This | the key seemed to spring in the lock. Each time ber heart stood still in fear, but nothing followed these alarms. There were no foot- steps to be beard, nor any disturbance beyond the ordinary noise of the night; and at last, Some of the | regaining her composure and laughing down her own foolish fears, she went to sleep, and slept undisturbed till morning. At breakfast she told her night’s experience to her sister, alone | | | | during the night. was not some resurrected corpse, And they listened with deepening interest while the clergyman told his experience, which was this: “Last night,” said he, ** I went to my room, locked my door, and opening a window, sat down to read the Bible before going to bed. By some strange chance, I was reading of the Witch of Endor. I had finished my reading, and the story left a strange, superstitious feeling upon me, so like a presentiment, hardly surprised, on looking around my room, to see between me and the door the strangest and ugliest-looking woman I ever beheld. She wore a common woolen shawl over her back, and had on some sort of a figured calico dress, That, of course, was nothing; but she looked so like a dead person, that I could not believe it She had dry black hair, and wicked black eyes that did not stir in her head, and her skin had the peculiar | look and the dead-white color of a In addition to this deathly appearance, drawn corpse. 1e e cneeK seeme 0 have been eaten away, | her left cheek 1 to have been eaten awa} most ghastly and disgusting not only stood motionless, but making her a spectacle. She | 80 pe rfectly did she give me the idea of a dead body standing there, that I felt for a moment she was powerless to stir. “As I say, I was not surprised, but as I Jooked at the motionless and horrible figure, the flesh crept in my bones, and the blood seemed to stop for an instant in my heart. I did not feel exactly frightened, or at least I felt calm, I don’t but it seemed a great while, I last I de- | know how long, stood facing this apparition. At termined to speak. ** Somehow, it didn’t occur to me to ask the most natural question, who she was, or what she wanted ; but I was so fascinated with the horrible marks on her face, that I said, ‘ What is the matter with your face? I hardly ex- pected that the being could speak, and was | frightened really when the sound of my voice | But the woman, slowly | | turning her head from side to side, yet ke eping | broke the stillness, her lightless eyes fixed on me, said in a hoarse voice, ‘The lime, the lime!’ and slowly walked out of the door which I had locked, and which I found locked after she had gone. “Tf that had been the only thing to disturb my rest, I think I should have slept but little | But that was not all, though very possibly my after experience was rather the result of my own nervousness than any | reality. | to bed, ‘“* About half an hour after this woman had so strangely entered and left my room, I went but left the candle burning. In a short time after I had laid down, I felt certain that some one was in my room, and moving about. | I could see nothing, and hear no footsteps, but the hair looked dry and | | I know I heard a low voice, still T was conscious of a presence in the room. At times I would hear hard breathing, and once as if some one was speaking to himself, whisper close by me, three times, ‘Cold, cold, cold! I endured this as came so great, that I dressed and came down- stairs. In this room I have been quiet, and | think I have caught one or two hours’ sleep on the sofa. Now you know my story, and may | laugh at me if you choose; but I know that it | was not my imagination that caused me to see this apparition. ‘Tt was something real.” But there was no disposition on the part of | | his hearers to laugh. The ladies told the cler- and pale, as if he had passed * keep a ghost in this I certainly thought I saw one that I was | gyman their dreams, in which this same woman | But what could ‘they do? They could search the house, but that developed nothing. | They made inquiries of the neighbors, but they knew nothing, nor had they ever heard a word of such @ woman as was described. For some time after this Mrs. Harris occupied her own | room only during the day-time, and at night slept in her sister’s room. Gradually, however, | for she was a resolute, brave woman, she began sleeping in her own room again. At least two months passed without any recurrence of the visits of the apparition, and they had entirely given up talking or thinking of it. It was again on a Sunday night that it re- appeared. Mrs. Harris, feeling quite tired, had gone to bed early ; but she felt nervous, and could not get to sleep until long after she | had heard the rest of the family come up-stairs who, instead of laughing at the story of the | nightmare, seemed a little alarmed, and said that she herself during the night had had a! dream, in which exactly such a woman had | appeared to her, brandishing her arms and | making horrible faces at her. This strange coincidence of dreams furnished them talk for several days ; but, like all other wonders, soon lost its interest, and, as no fresh developments were made to excite their apprehensions, was almost forgotten. One Sunday evening again, two weeks—if I circumstance rightly —after the and her son and an old nurse, and bad rented | which I have related had occurred, a clergy- this house of Wilson. place really pleasant and comfortable, and Mrs. | came to preach here. She occupied the front bed-room to the right of the her son—who was only five years old—| given her own room up to this clergyman, and Harris was soon very cozily settled in it. hall, and the nurse, the room behind hers ; and Miss | that night shared Miss R——’s bed. the front bed-room to the left of the| Harris and hef sister the night passed quietly, ‘* spare | but on coming down-stairs in the morning, they were surprised to find their friend the clergy- iv ball, The other bed-room was the ~uamber.” Wilson had made the! man, who was an old friend of Mrs. Harris, She had invited him to visit her during his stay in town, and for some reason or other—I forget now what—she had With Mrs. to their rooms. At last, however, she began dozing, and was nearly in a sound sleep, when she felt a cold hand laid upon her forehead, while another hand firmly grasped her right wrist. She was awake in an instant, but be- fore she opened her eyes the events I have narrated flashed through her mind, and she knew she could see, as she did, the self-same apparition that had already made her one visit. The terror of the former night was more than redoubled. It was no dream now; but there certainly stood, in awful reality, that mysteri- ous, revivified corpse. For a time Mrs. Harris was too terrified to speak, and looked horror- stricken into the cold, staring eyes, while one clammy hand rested heavily on her forehead and another held her wrist firmly. At last, she gathered determination to end the suspense, and ascertain certainly what creature this was, whether human or spirit; and, collecting all ber courage mered out: ** Who are you ?” The woman stood for an instant, as if in doubt to go or stay; but at last the bloodless lips moved, and the same harsh voice that had and all her strength, she stam- told this story: “Ten years ago I lived in this house. ang occupied this room with a man called Charles Rheinberg, pretending to be his wife. We had | lived together happily for over a year, with hardly a single quarrel; and I had no reagop | to suspect his love for me. But late one Shy day night in August he and I went down in the cellar for some ice that was there. As woe came up the stairs, I went first, carrying the ice, and he followed me with a light, and carry. ing the hatchet we had been using. When we were nearly half way up the stairs, he came close to me, and, lifting the hatchet, struck me a fearful blow on the back of the head. I fej. and as I fell he caught me, and then dragye | me by the hair down the steps. Then, to make death doubly sure, he took from his pocket g great knife, and drew it twice across my neck cutting my throat from ear to ear. Took!” Then the woman let the shaw! fall from hep | neck, and exposed to Mrs. Harris. who lay trembling in bed, unable to do anything gaye hear and see, two raw wounds that looked newly made ; and, as the shawl fell down, Mrs, Harris noticed what she had not before seen, | that the left cheek of this woman had tiat terrible appearance which the clergyman had remarked. **When this was done,” continued the wo. man, **he got a shovel, and dug me a deep | grave just under the cellar-stairs. Having put | my body in this grave, be threw a quantity of lime over it; then he threw in the clothes he had been wearing, and filled up the hole with the dirt. I know I was not quite dead, for] could feel his heavy boots jumping upon me as he trampled down the earth. “IT, a ghost, am miserable, wretched and restless ; but I cannot leave this house, yet at times wander over it ; and in this room, where we passed most of our year together, I feel more | power than anywhere else to communicate | with the living. My whole being now is hate for the man who murdered me; and had I the power to leave this house, I should follow him till I found him, and then I shonld haunt him and madden him till I drove him raving to hell.” As the being spoke these last words, a little glare seemed to brighten her black eyes, her hand loosened its grip, and Mrs. Harris was alone again. Then the overtaxed nerves must have given way, for Mrs. Harris remembered nothing of the remainder of the night, until at early day- light her consciousness returned, and slie } awoke weak and trembling. She called for Miss R——, and only telling her that she had seen that strange woman once again, begged to be helped from the room. That same day she insisted on leaving the house, and she and her family went to the American Hotel. For | Several days Mrs. Harris was very weak, and threatened with the brain fever. I saw her about a week after, and even then the livid prints of fingers were on the wrist the ghost had held. In a short time the story leaked out; and I was one of a party who went to the house and dug up under the cellar-stairs, By this time it was quite dark, and my friend and I had reached the American Hotel again. As we walked into the house, I turned to him and asked: **And what did you find ?” ** Nothing !” HOW MAY LARGE FIRES BE PREVENTED? A GLIMPSE AT PLANS, SUGGESTIONS AND PROPOSITIONS, MMEDIATELY after a fire of unusual mag- nitude nervous people become excessively anxious to learn whatever the Fire Com- | missioners are doing in the way of preventing large conflacgrations in the future, Little credii is given the patient, exhaustless study of these officers, because little is known to the public; hence, by some strange line of logic, it is im- agined that absolutely nothing is under consid- eration. Since the Boston fire the officers 0! every large department have been besieged with suggestions, a few possessing a little of the practical element, but the greater portion | being entirely unreasonable. That the engi- neers and Commissioners of the New York | Department have been consulting quietly for | years upon questions that are now being brought to a practical, working condition, may be di covered by any one willing to make the inquiry. The necessity of efficient, preventive ani col- trolling agents has long been apparent in tle | metropolis. There are many localities in which | a fire would attain great headway despite the ordinary means of prevention, in consequence of the alarming sprinkling of lumber-yards and inflammable buildings. As there always will be cases of gross negligence in the best ordered establishments, the duty of the Cot- missioners is to devise preventive, rather thal new extinguishing, appliances, The idea of using CARBONIC AcID GAs in this light is by no means of recent birth. The power that the gas has over the oxygen # a well-known chemical law, and it is evidell that if at the commencement of a fire the f00! of the flame can be annihilated, an extensivé conflagration must be checked. Another pr perty of this gas is invaluable. When a ile has been extinguished by flooding fwith wate! the heat of the débris soon exhausts the mo! ture, and a chance spark may ignite the onan wood, and occasion a second outbreak. W'! the use of the gas, however, a coating of ‘ ud is spread upon the ruins, and a flying firebrand is as sure to be extinguished upon falling 02 as on lighting in the middle of the river. 1 gas has been used on many occasions, and w! the most perfect success. The study of te past ten years has been upén the subject °

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generating a sufficient amount of gas in a given time to be available during fires having a large amount of oily nourishment. The first favorable solution of the problem was found in the small machines manufactured by the Babcock Fire Extinguisher Company, which are now happily in pretty general use. These are excellent agents for preventing the spread of a fresh fire, and might also be of sig- nal service in dealing with one of narrow limits feeding upon oil. From this small machine there has been developed, during the past two years, a practical gas fire-engine of wonderful power and utility. This self-acting engine has now emerged from the experimental limits. It has done valiant service, and attained the dignity of a superior fire-extinguisher. ANOTHER METHOD OF PREVENTING FIRES is found in the invention of Captain Edward Barrett, U. 8. N. It is not so much a fire ex- tinguisher, as a means of checking fire from cinders falling from burning buildings. The object is to do away with the necessity of wet- ting roofs by manual labor, thus obviating the employment of firemen and engines to perform this task. The apparatus is a horizontal perforated pipe, applied to the summit of a roof, and connected with the supply water-pipe of the building when the water-level surface of the reservoir is higher than the roof in question ; if otherwise, it is to be connected with a force-pump, which will force the water to the height required to flood the roof. Under the cornice is a receiver-pipe, into which flows the water from the roof, and from which it is cast over the sides of the building, s0 that by closing the doors and windows it can be entirely flooded, and the building placed a Vabri of falling sparks and of the effects of heat from a neighboring fire.

he following figures explain those on the cuts: A, Roof-flooaing pipe; B, Water-receiver and side flood-pipe ; C, Flood-pipe for the side of an isolated building; 2. Roof and front flooding-pipe for cottages with inclined roofs, and other buildings with flat roofs. The water from the roof is caught in the gutters, and thence runs into the side pipes; by turning the cock, it is then directed against the sides, thus keeping the exterior of the building wet. Another advantage of it is, that the invention affords an admirable means of couling country residences during the heated season, Another suggestion worthy of consideration is one that provides for THE PROTECTION OF THE SHIPPING, This plan is to turn every ferry-boat into a temporary fire-steamer on the occasion of a large fire. It is said that the cost of fitting out a ferry-boat witn an extra engine and a quan- tity of hose would not be near so great as most people think, and as they are always on hand, with steam up, and can be moved about with the greatest ease, it is thought by many engi- neers that this is the best plan yet proposed to supply the present want of water at least. It is said that for a reasonable price each ferry- boat can be supplied with an engine and pump, and enough hose to conduct water from the river-shores to almost any part of the city. The new kind of canvas and rubber hose is very strong, and can be made to carry a powerful stream of water. The pumps, such as would probably be used, are capable of throwing one hundred thousand gallons per hour against a head of two hundred feet. With such an ar- rangement it is alleged that, let a fire break out on any part of Manhattan Island, it can svon be deluged with a tremendous flood of | salt water, and surely extinguished. The idea has received official recognition, and will undoubtedly be put in practice before long. the engineer-in-chief of the Jersey City ferry- boats, Mr. Francis B, Stevens, has given it much thouzht. The property lying in the piers on tie New Jersey shore, near the ferry lines, is of immense value, and there are but slim provi- | sions for wrestling with fires there. A propo- sition has been made, that, if the Chief Engineer of the New York Fire Department will detail two or three men to each boat, in case of a large fire, to operate the special engines, the engineer of the company will answer calls for | years of age. .<)

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assistance along the New York shore. The police-boat Seneca is not able to cope with large fires, and, even with the aid of Government and other tugs, could not guarantee much practical service, ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE CROTON KESERVO! might be secured, if the proposition to lay a line of four-foot mains on each side of Central Park, and thence down the city, should be re- ceived with favor. Mr. Hitchman, President | of the Board of Fire Commissioners, has com- municatad with Mr. Van Nort, of the Depart- ment of Public Works, with reference to the erection of a series of water-towers, or stand- pipes, as they are called in Philadelphia, as will a late session of the Fire Commissioners : Resolved, That the President and Commis- sioner Galway be requested to confer without be effected through the aid of other city de- partments, or otherwise, for the immediate con- struction of stationary pumping-engines and towers on the grounds adjoining the distri- buting reservoir for temporary service, by which the water-pressure in the pipes in the lower part of the city may be augmented and the flow of water increased. CARBONIC GAS WITHOUT AN ENGINE. An application of carbonic acid gas to ware- houses, and buildings of a like character, has been proposed, which does away entirely with engines. A tube runs from the cellar to the | upper floors, to which are attachments on each floor. The main tube is similar to that in a thermometer; at the bulb is a jar of sulphuric acid, controlled by a rod and crank, without the building. Beneath the jar is a box con- taining a quantity of bi-carbonate of soda. When a fire is detected in the building, a patrolman or policeman turns the crank, the | acid is thrown upon the soda, the gas gene- | rated immediately, and communicated by the pipes to all parts of the building. It will be observed in this case that the gas is used without water, while in the Babcock engine wa- ter is employed as the medium of conveying | the gas to the fire. } SELF-PROPE! LING STEAM FIRE-ENGINES,

When the horse epidemic was at its height, a | self-propelling steamer was brought into use in New York, which had done good service during the Chicago fire. It is at the house ot Steamer No. 20, in Marion Street, and has answered many calls for assistance. The use of this steamer has given the highest satisfaction. Steam is always Kept in the boiler, and the moment the gong is struck the tillerman and engineer take their places, the valve is opened and the steamer rolls away without a moment’s detention. It makes less noise than the team, | is under superior control, and, in case of a run- away or other obstacle. can be checked even at full speed within six inches. Two men stand on the fuel-pan, and five run ahead to clear the way and hold the horses that appear liable to | fright until the steamer has passed. The hose- | truck is run by a horse, as usua), and may also be used by the firemen for temporary rest when the route is of more than usual length. One | wheel of the steamer is fitted wita iron bolts, | which prevents any sliding. The engine is of | remarkable forcing power. Should the Depart- | ment decide to do away with horses, the steam- | ers now in use could be made self-propellers at a small expense. Much time would be saved, | and the number of street casualties resulting from the rapid transit of fire apparatus, be | greatly reduced, because of the ability to stop the propeller almost instantly. It will be seen by the foregoing that our Fire Commissioners and Engineers are by no means inactive. They appreciate the necessity of the hour, and are giving it the best practical thought. We shall refer to this subject again, our space being in too great demand this week, PRIVATE LIFE OF HORACE GREELEY. R. GREELEY was born at Amherst, N. H., February 3d, 1811; he died, November 29th,1872. He was reared a poor farmer | boy. Asa child, he was} aJmost as delicate as | was Sir Walter Scott, whom he resembled in his love for Scotch and Irish poetry, romances and traditions. At four years of age he was at the head of his spelling class. Like Lincoln, so Greeley came up in his self- made way, reading <scrrowed books in the hours snatched from hard toil. But news- papers soon became his hobby. He would read them by the light of pine-torches, until he re- solved to become a newspaper man himself. In 1826, he entered the office of the Spectator, a small Vermont weekly paper, as an appren- tice. In 1830, Greeley left the Spectator, and worked round and about, till he landed in New York, August 17th, 1831, where he arrived with $20, aged twenty years. He got work in Yhatham Street. His first venture was an interest in a penny paper cailed the Morning | Post. In 1834 he became editor of the New Yorker. In 1838 he conducted the Jefersonian | | in Albany, whence he also, in 1840, issued bis | | famous Log Cabin. In 1841 he established the Tribune. In connection with the Tribune, Mr. Greeley expressed the desire that ** the stone whic! covers my ashes may bear to future lages the still intelligible inscription, ‘ Founder of the New York Tribune.” ” Mr. Greeley was married to Miss Mary Cheney | on the 5th of July, 1836, who was then in her | twenty-first year, The fruits of this union | were three sons and two daughters; and but two daughters survive. His youngest and last | surviving boy died of Asiatic cholera when five At his death Mr, Greeley wrote, |

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be seen by the following resolution, passed at | delay with the Department of Public Works, | calling their attention to the facts herein set | forth, and ascertain if an arrangement cannot | | stood in his case, when we think of the excite- | side strain on his nerves, at the bedside of his ‘*Now my future course must be along the down-hill of !ife.” Mr. Greeley’s farming proclivities (so much laughed at) were born in him, and were his amusement and delight. As a writer he has been wonderfully prolific. His editorial work covers a period of nearly forty years. This, reprinted in volumes, would make a large library. The subjects he dis- cussed were as wide as the world and as varied | as human wants and human woes. He was also equally prolific in public lectures and ad- dresses, But his grand fame is that of a jour- | nalist. Asa writer, he is the fit representative of Franklin and Bentham and Cobbett. Vulgar errors about Mr. Greeley cannot be too promptly corrected. He was never a Free- lover; nor an Atheist ; nor was he a Communist, unless in that modified form which commends the interchange of industries, or a plan of rational co-operation. Nor was he a sloven in dress. In this respect, however careless, Mr. Greeley was always neat. Nor did his diet differ notably from that of others. Nor was Mr. Greeley a Spiritualist, as has been alleged. These phenomena he investi- gated and wrote about, and his conclusions are all summed up in words of his own, like | these, viz.: ‘“* Better to attend to each world in its proper order.” ‘All Spiritual poetry is weak. They write worse rhymes than the worst among the poets got off in this life ;’ and ‘* Spiritual revelations are vague and shadowy. They do no practical good. They could not fish up the broken Atlantic cable, nor find Sir John Franklin.” ‘These mediums preach too lax notions on marriage and divorce.” ‘ Perhaps they answer the question: ‘If aman die, shall he live again ?”” ‘*These phenomena are no less facts, in many cases, because they are mys- teries.” We think it due Mr. Greeley’s memory to make these quotations, to put the world right concerning him on this point. No doubt but that his last hours were blighted by mania—acute mania, which is its worst form. This inflammation of the brain is easily under-

ments of the great campaign, of his tremendous efforts in travel and speaking, at his age, during | his Western trip, and of the many hours of sleep which were lost, in the midst of the out- wife. Add to this a crushing defeat of the cause of Peace and Union, so dear to him. And his sensitive heart was much wounded by the attacks made on his motives by the oppo- sition. But the world is full of examples of great men whose reason has been shocked by like causes. In this respect, Mr. Greeley’s case | is not peculiar. It seems that Mr. Greeley’s consciousness re- | turned before death. He lived to recognize his | family and friends, and to express his faith. ‘I | know,” said he, **that my Redeemer liveth. It is done!” These were his last words. Mr. Greeley was a member of the Universalist | Jongregation. His example was in all respects Christian, humane, temperate, charitable, in- dustrious, active in doing good. His light was set upon a hill. | | | |

No American is more popular than Horace Greeley. He is loved and respected all over tie land. The defeat of the Liberal cause in- dicates neither distrust for his abilities or char- acter. That result was due to causes not fit for discussion here. And as the years go down, | Mr. Greeley’s fame will enlarge. Already he is | among our classic lights. He rarely left our shores. He was only twice abroad—once in 1851, and again in 1855—each | time to visit a World’s Fair. in Paris he was | imprisoned in Clichy, on an absurd demand of a sculptor who sought to hold Mr. Greeiey liable for a statue broken on its way to the New York Crystal Palace Exposition, of which Mr. Greeley bad been a director. His prison experiences were almost as amusing as those of Mr. Pick- wick. We doubt if Mr. Greeley has a personal enemy. He was loved by his neighbors, and by his political rival contemporaries, notwith- standing all the hard blows which he gave and received. A nation mourns for him. His humor, oddities, goodness, benevolence, wit, and even his temper (toned as it was in its out- breaks by that honest nature which ** makes the whole world kin”) make up a social life that will never be forgotten in our history—a life quite as representative, as much loved, and as permanent in our annals as that of any American. He does not die rich. It remains only to add to this imperfect sketch, that Mr. Greeley died at Pleasantville, Westchester County, at the residence of Dr. Choate, a farmhouse near Chappaqua. DE RIVAS. N Wednesday, the 27th ult., died in this’ city Ramon Florencio de Rivas, son of Ramon de Rivas, of Matanzas, Cuba, and of Florencia Cenas, of the same city. De Rivas had been for a long time subject to severe attacks of illness, but up to a few days of his death his health had been comparatively good, and his sud- den death comes upon thos? who knew him and loved him with a most painful shock. That shock will be felt through all our higher social circles, of which this young gentleman wa: in every respect an honor and an ornament. Descended from one of those proud old families that carried the blue blood of old Spain into Cuba, he retained all the aristocratic traits of his ancestors, while an education, attained partly in the United States and partly abroad, gave him the free and energetic propertics of a business man. Unlike most young gentlemen who inherit wealth and rich expectations, De Rivas, when he took up his | residence in this country, entered into the spirit of progress our institutions are sure to inspire where energy and genius exist, and out of his own efforts established Ji Mundo Nuevo, an illustrated Spanish journal, which, under his guidance, was fast rising in value and popularity. As proprietor and editor of this paper, he was steadily gaining a fine literary reputation, which his countrymen, and all

those who are interested in Spanish literature, thor- ough'y appreciate. Being only thirty-three years of age at the time of his death, it is reasonable to sup- pose that his highest ambition in that direction would have been fully gratified had he lived to reap the harvest of his first intellectual and business efforts. As it was, young Rivas stood second to none in our best social circles, and to but few as a literary and business man. To the one, he brought elegance, re- finement, a singularly fine presence and hand-ome person; to the other, exquisite taste, originality of thought, and great business energy. Few men ever | lent more perfect grace to social life, or commanded more respect in the business community. Death is always painful; but, when it sweeps a man like this from our midst with such painful sud denness, society is sure to feel the loss with more than usual intensity; and the many friends who loved and honored De Rivas will lament the death of so thorough a gentlemen as we do. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Our flag floats over San Juan. Tue Italian royal family do not like Rome as a residence. THALBERG’s musical manuscripts are to be sold at auction. Counterreir postage-stamps have attained a large circulation. Tue public statuary of the United States has cost $1,500,000, JouRNALS are being started in Paris at the rate of seven a month. A MONUMENT to the late General Meade is proposed in Philadelphia, Tue King of Holland is about to visit Paris. He will travel incognito. Joun Bricut will resume his seat in Par- liament at the coming session. THERE has been in Leghorn Orsini bombs, intended for Rome. a seizure of GENERAL Terry succeeds Hancock in com- mand of the Department of Dakota. Lorp Norrasrook, Viceroy of India, is now visiting Bombay for the first time. Tue Naval Academy at Annapolis has 221 cadet midshipmen and 31 cadet engineers. Tue Viceroy of Egypt is going to make use of the Pyramids by transforming them into light- houses. __Garrpatpr has accepted the Honorary Pre- sidency of the newly formed society of the Camerieri at Rome. Tue Grand Duchess Constantine of Ruasia is traveling in Italy, under the name of the Countess de Strelno. _ Our new territory gained by Emperor Wil- liam’s award is the best sheep-raising iand on the Pacific coast. ALEXANDER Dumas, Jr., has interdicted, for the next ten years, all theatres from playing his father’s pieces. A Frencu society has decided that it pro longs the lives and increases the happiness of dogs to make them work. Tue Emperor of Germany promises to make radical reforms in the composition of the Prus- sian House of Peers. Meuemet Rupcur Paswa, the new Grand Vizier of Turkey, is a self-made man. He rose from the ranks of the army. Tue invalid Empress of Russia will here- after permanently reside in the Crimea. Its climate is comparatively mild. THE aquarium at the Vienna Exposition ia to contain 200,000 gallons of sea-water, which is to be brought from Trieste by railway. A new fashionable square dance is called the Pyramid, and being similar to the quadrille, is likely to become quite as popular. Tue Navy Department will soon offer for sale a large number of unserviceable vessels, which are not worth the cost of maintenance. James T. Ear has been appointed Centen- nial Commissioner from the State of Maryland, in place of William Prescott Smith, deceased. A statue of Baron von Stein is tu be erected in Berlin, and the Emperor William has decided that it shall embellish Domhofsplatz. Tue General Association of Virginia Bap- tists refused to exchange corresponding delegates with the colored Virginia Baptist Convention. A company has been formed in Austria to insure marriage. The unfortunate policy-holder receives a certain sum as soon as he takes a wife. Morttry, the historian, who has resided at the palace of the Queen of Holland since he left the Court of St. James, is about to return to this country. Tur Crown-Prince and Princess of Prussia have decided to postpone their intended tour of Switzerland on account of the delicate health of the latter. Tue interchange of pulpits has been agitated in England by the Evangelical Alliance, which seeks to promote union among Christians of different de- nominations. IraLy and France have asked Austria. Russia and Great Britain to join them in an effort to adjust. the difficulty with regard to the Laurium mines, near Athens, Tue Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia propose to raise during the coming year $56,000 for the especial objects of organization. MINIATURE Conservatories are the. latest thing in drawing-room furniture. They are of glass about the size of a piano, and are supposed to contain choice plants and flowers. A GENTLEMAN just from Japan confirms the report of the reactionary spiri! set in there, but Says it is not so great as represented, and that all the Americans still retain their positions. Six New York, one Maryland, and three Pennsylvania regiments have signified their intention of participating in the inauguration ceremvnies of President Grant on the 4th of March next. AccorpinG to a statement made by the Paris faculty of physicians, the blood of the 100,000 men killed by the lranco-Prussian War would have yielded iron enough for 9,524 gun-barrels. TuREE military carrier-pigeon stations will shortly be opened at the fortresses of Cologne, Stras- bourg and Metz, by the General. Six hundred pigeons have recently been purchased to stock them,

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i Adel! ee i! be pr SSS. aa ape at — 222 FRANK LESLIL’S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER, IN THE FALL. il, Autumn, with thy dying smell ; So faint, so sad, and yet so sweet ; was not averse to recounting how more than | one Soulanges had been dragged from it to the guillotine in the Reign of Terror, or how, further back than that, Louis le grand Monarqve had figured in a sumptuous pageant within ifs walls, when the daughter of the house had given her hand to one closely allied to the Amid the strewings at my feet, Dy pattering nut and broken shell, The slanting sunbeams straggle through ; The sky is of a tearful biue ; A pensive essence fills the air; Aud, with pathetic sweetness fair, The wan world seems to wave adieu— For ever. I feel the secret of thy spell, The flying year in full retreat— blood royal. So, with a curious species of pride For ever. he looked fondly on the very stains and dis- Reburnished by the last week’s rains, figurements of the grand old place, as marks The fields recall the green of Spring ; of an honorable antiquity, and gazed with a The hills describe a sharper ring ; pitying contempt at the bright dazzling nev | The dews in diamonds drench the plains ; | homes of modern Paris, rhe leaves grow thinner in the lanes; The Hétel Soulanges was in the neighbor- The threads upon the hedgerows cling— | hood of the Tuileries, and stood in a wide court- In silver. | yard of its own, where in the Summer stiff Pale, like the fading forest hair, | rows of orange-trees and oleanders were set in jet-deau, but where at present nothing was | of prancing black ponies, harnessed to a tiny | phaeton, which madame would presently drive | into the Bois, and on seeing which Victor quickened his pace, entered the hotel, and, | nodding to the portier, who recognized him from his vilded leathern chair with a gracious The cattle browse along the lea; The piping robin haunts the lanes ; The yellow-turning woodland ‘“ wanes ;” The apple tumbles from the tree ; And Autumn, ranging through, links me | @2nounce him to Madame la Comtesse. To Nature. |} The man preceded him up the wide staircase, om i wa | which, like the rest of the mansion, was gloomy ob, F sgh ae power? } and spacious, and lighted with a flood of sub- Whereby my poesy would flower | dued and vareigated light from a great stained Petween a radiance and a tear? window, emblazoned with the armorial bear- And yet, I tind no language here ings of the house. ; : To paint what trembles to the hour— Gloomy bronzes, priceless but incalculably Within me! ugly, lined the stairs, and huge porphyry vases Oh, Eden-world of hili and green, And distant gleams of slumbering blue! I find no lyric language true To paint the shadowed and the seen: Oh, infinitely touching view, In vain thy spirit peeps between ! The sublimities that lie in you Evade me. niches. At the head of the first flight the lackey pushed aside a heavy curtain of tapestry, and announced * Monsieur le Comte La Grange, to visit Madame la Comtesse.” Immediately a warm and rosy light diffused itself round Victor, that kind of a glow in which one expects to behold laughing and dimpled Cupids and *“ lucid-throated ” Venuses, | “WRECKED!” “~ to novels, bric-i-brac, bonbons, and, above all, THE ROSCLERRAS OF MISTREE, dress. | nest of the eagle, you fot ‘re a brilliant | CHAPTER XV.—PATTES DE VELOURS. | nest of the eagle, you found there a brilliant S Monsieur Bouchon had foreseen, he} her apartments were truly contrasts to the quite failed in obtaining from Therese | remainder of the Hotel Soulanges, any clue as to the dwelling-place or friends of herself or her helpless charge. When | sévres rose with a golden stem, at a wonderful questioned by him, she assumed an air of stu- | table, like that at which ‘litania would banquet, pidity quite foreign to her general aspect, and | looked up with a gracious smile, and rose with stared at him as though quite incapable of un- | such empressement to greet him, that her sable derstanding him, notwithstanding he felt con- | muff rolled from her lap to the floor. vinced tbat she perfectly understood him. | She was costumed for ber drive, and looked As the illness of the patient increased, she | charming, as a well-dressed and pretty woman seemed to emerge from the apathy she had at|in an amiable mood invariably does, and first shown, and developed a strong anxiety | madame’s smile was radiant as she greeted concerning her state. She never seeined to| Victor, whose eyes, however, immediately sleep; but hour by hour sat erect and obser- of fantastic design stood on the pedestals in | | to make, obeisance, he ordered one of the lackeys to | itself to him, tor, despite madame’s smiles, he became somewhat sulky, and indeed he was not so stupid as not to see the finesse of the little coquette as plainly as she did herself. Knowledge of the world stands in good stead of innumerable small virtues and lofty senti- ments. Knowledge of that mystery is Tact, for instance, which prevents one wounding one’s neighbor, and bears so great a family likeness to charity, that it is not in human vision, except in that of the initiated, to discern the difference of kin. So, when presently the baron made his adieus, this goodly knowledge lent his sulky retreat the semblance of consideration, and he murmured over madame’s hand that he would leave her to welcome her nephew, who, without the sun, and a dragon spouted forth a miniature ; doubt, madame was ravished to meet so unex- pectecily, and glided away out of the tapestried | visibie but a groom holding the heads of a pair door like a fashionable spectre. “The baron is so good-natured, mon ami,” she said, turning to Victor with a smile of satis- faction. Being one of the initiated, she saw through the vail, and her vanity was gratified. Victor, who was gazing at the antics of the monkey, made a grimace, and madame play- fully struck his sleeve with her glove, **Come,” she said, ** you don’t like the baron. Confess it.” “IT!” said Victor. “I assure you, Genevieve, that I don’t know the man; but, now as he is gone, and you are about going out, I must not delay asking you the question, to obtain an answer to which, I came to Paris.” Madame blushed. yet she was anxious to defer having the protestations of revived and ardent affection that she supposed him about ** Oh!” she said, hurriedly, ** ‘place aux dames,’ monsieur! first relate to me this strange adven- ture of which Bouchon has written the comte such dry and business-like details, I am dying to hear about it from one capable of recount- ing it properly.” Victor, who knew of old the curiosity of the comtesse, saw himself obliged frivolous questions arising from the subject, | before he found an opportunity of interrogating | It was as though, on peeping into the lofty | madame in return. At length he made a dead pause, and then | and wonderful humming-bird, for madame and | said, abruptly: ‘“*My errand to Paris, Genevieve, is ‘a Madame sank back in the arm of the causerie, Madame, who was drinking chocolate from a| raised her handkerchief to her eyes, and through an open space in the embroidery re- garded him attentively. He was pale, which she knew in him to be a sign of strong emotion, but he did not look ather, She therefore took her handkerchief from her eyes and turned a little with disappointment and malice. ** My question is, how is Julie, and why have you sent me no news of her ?” Madame slapped the monkey, whose name was Cupidon, ostensibly as a check to his inquir- ing too closely into the nature of the plume in wandered from her dusky and gloomy face to vant beside the bed. She never interfered with madame’s assumed duties of nurse, or offered her assistance in discharging the fatiguing du- ties of the sick-room, and madame and the domestics avoided her as much as possible, | Thus she remained, like a stern and stony | image, silent and impassive. | Once or twice Bouchon observe! Vantage’s | other lodger hanging about the chateau, but | he never veniured to enter the house, nor did Tberese appear to have any desire to com-| municate with him. On his part, Bouchon lost no opportunity of | conveying to Victor that his presence was un- necessary at the chateau, under which intima- tion the young man’s blood boiled, and at first he endeavored to convey to the notary that his feeling in the affair was simply a chivalrous sen- timent which urged him to protect the helpless, | but as his protestations were invariably met by a shrug of Bouchon’s thin shoulders, and a skeptical grimace, he ceased to make them. On the other side, madame extolled his hu- manity and sympathized with him in his inter- est in the invalid; for, though not a clever woman, she had, like most of her sex, a subtle gitt of penetration which was almost an addi- tional sense, and which acted spontaneously and unconsciously, as did her lungs and heart. and by which she now felt that Victor harbored no unworthy design under the cloak of hu- manity. It was Bouchon’s calling to suspect motives, and in the interest of a gay and handsome young nobleman for a lovely and unknown wo- man, be could see but one issue ; and being a rigid moralist, and personally a man of honor, he resolved that Victor should be foiled. In- a straw-colored and slender young man who | her hat, but in reality to furnish a conductor to was seated in a chaise-longve nearly opposite | the electric fluid of her secret wrath, which the seat occupied by madame, with the air of | otherwise she could not have concealed from being thorougiily at aome, and who, in therosy its true object, Victor. light, seemed to lose his individuality and **Ah,” she said, as Cupidon retreated, mop- assume the impalpable appearance of a shadow. | ping and mowing, into a corner, ** what could I His physique was feeble, and his intellect | do? I know nothing?” seemed to keep pace with his imperial, which | ‘*Nothing!” exclaimed Victor, starting in was weak and spare. In fact, he required a| Surprise and alarm. “What do you mean? dark background to ‘“‘ express” him properly, | Do not you hear from my cousin ?” He was playing with madame’s monkey, who| “Oh, truly, yes,” said madame, extending a viciously snapped at his fingers, and stared | bonbon to Cupidon; ‘I hear from the dear languidly at Victor as madame extended her | one.” plump little hand to him. ‘“* Speak, Genevieve,” said Victor, who caught ‘*Welcome, ten thousand times, mon ami,” | Some indefinite fear from her manner. ‘Is she said. ‘You could not long remain in that | she ill?” gloomy spot. Allow me to present the Baron| “She does not complain of indisposition,” von Plaigneous to you.” | said madame. ‘‘But what would you? She Victor bowed, wishing the baron in a less | does not speak of you.” comfortable position than the pink satin chair| Had Madame Soulanges paused here, though in which he reclined ; and, putting up his eye- | Somewhat chagrined, Victor would not have glass, the baron stared languidly, bowed teebly, | been altogether unhappy. He knew that a and relapsed into toying with tne monkey, who | Woman who truly and honorably loves, shrinks was not singularly unlike himself. from a careless or frequent mention of him Victor seated himself in the other arm of the | Who is ever in her thoughts, and that her step- causerie occupied by his aunt, and proceeded | mother was certainly the most unlikely person | to make himself agreeable to madame, and at | for Julie to confide in ; but madame knew her | the same time disagreeable to her visitor, whom | ground, and went boldly on. he wished to withdraw, in order that he might ‘She speaks enthusiastically of her cousin inquire concerning Julie. Rosclerra. He is so noble, so good, so devoted Madame perceived his uneasiness, and her! to madame his mother, and so handsome—that | eyes sparkled brightly as the spirit of coquetry | fairness of the Saxons, which is so agreeable a | which possessed her suggested that it was a contrast to our French darkness. Ah, yes! | jealous feeling on his part which showed in his | she finds them altogether charming—mother | apparent distaste for the baron’s society. She | and son.” saw herself in fancy regaining her old sway Had madame said him, Victor would have over him, and her manner became gracious | suspected that she was endeavoring to arouse | and infinitely bewitching, though, with the pro- | his jealousy ; but she said them, and the tiny sbaft struck home. terest also urged him to this course, as the | pensity of a coquette to inflict pain, she be- wishes of Comte Soulanges regarding Julie and | stowed most of her smiles on the baron, in her cousin were well known to him, and any | order that Victor might suffer from the jealousy scandal arising at this moment would prove | which it charmed her to think her conduct especially disagreeable to his employer. | aroused in his breast. Jealousy is as incense Victor had indeed a certain reputation in| on the altar of a vain woman. Paris as a rather dissipated man, but since he The baron, who was an attaché at the Aus- had conceived an affection for his cousin, he had | trian Embassy, and had a certain reputation as to some extent reformed his manner of living ;| a promising young rouc, and whose horse had but Bouchon dreaded a relapse, and resolved if | won at the last Chantilly races, was somewhat possible to secure his departure from the ch4-| of a lion in society, and as he had introduced teau at an early date. an entirely new mode of fricasseeing oysters, This, however, he might have found imprac-| and had engaged Offenbach to compose an ticable, had not Victor suddenly deemed the | operetta expressiy to display his weak tenor gloom and quiet of the chateau insupportable, | voice and stadowy legs, as one of the Olympian and resolved to run up to Paris for a few days, | deities, he was j/éled and caressed beyond intending, as he took care to announce, to re-| measure, and, as a leader of the beau-monde, turn as soon as he had seen his uncle en voyage | Madame Soulanges certainly did her part of for his diplomatic mission to America. this lion-worship. So, one bright crisp morning found him The baron, as we have seen, was at home threading the streets of Paris, in the direction | in her boudoir. He sang duets with her, of the Hotel Soulanges ; for, after the seclusion | waltzed with her, rode with her, and above all, of the chateau, he longed to hear Genevieve’s | sentimentalized with her, and in fact made Victor turned his black eyes fiercely on the floor, and gnawed the ends of his mustache like the discarded lover in a comedy, while madame purred mentally as a cat that watches the antics of a mouse she has within range of her pattes de velours. “Does my uncle know of this?” he asked, presently, not looking at her, but still at the floor. ‘“*Rosclerra would not be a bad parti,” said madame, musingly, ignoring his question, ‘and if England were not so out of the world, Julie would make a bewitching chatelaine for that wonderful old castle. But the fogs would inev- itably spoil one’s toilettes.” This being naturally a serious consideration, madame looked pensively at Cupidon and sighed, while Victor, who was, like most clever men, easily befooled by those far below him in mental calibre, started up in a fierce rage. “Oh,” he said, “I will bid you adieu ‘madame. Doubtless my uncle wishes this alli- lively prattle, in which she wou!d doubtless give him some news of Julie, of whom he had not heard since his uncle and Madame Soulanges had left the chateau. himself excessively agreeable; but when Vic-| ance, and happily Mademoiselle Soulanges is tor reappeared on the scene, the remembrance | yet free to choose her destiny. As for this lord, that she had a rival to oust from bis bosom, | if ever Imeet him——” But at this juncture the restored in madame’s mind the piquancy of her | tapestry was drawn aside, and the comte en- former sentiments toward him, andt he faint- The Hétel Soulanges was a square building eyed Von Plaigneous suffered horribly by con- of imposing height and structure, and of a gloomy, time-stained appearance, of which the good old comte was inordinately proud ; and he eyes. tered the apartment, not in the easy costume in which he first met our gaze at the chateau, trast with Victor’s bronze skin and flashing | but buttoned into a diplomatic black coat, of a serious and meditative appearance. Something of the kind must have suggested | [Drcemper 14, 1872, He held a letter in his hand, and welcomed his nephew cordially. “Ah,” he said, “I am overwhelmed with business connected with my mission, and can hardly ever snatch a moment to pay my re- spects to the comtesse and her guests ; but, see, I have just received a letter from Milord Ros- clerra, containing news that is not too good.” Victor started and paled. The first thought of a lover is of his mistress, and his tongue almost refused, in the dread chat fell upon him, to utter her name, yet he managed to stammer; * Julie ! nothing I hope has——” The comte laid his hand kindly on his arm. ‘Do not alarm thyself, boy,” he said, with a pleased smile; ‘Julie is perfectly well, but Madame Bellerose is indisposed, and her phy- sicians have ordered her to the South of France.” Victor’s breath came regularly, and his heart beat less rapidly, while madame,having seen his anxiety, looked at him with jealous eyes, of which he was unconscious, as he glanced earnestly at his uncle. ‘*Milord Rosclerra,” continued the comte, looking at the letter through his eyeglass, “writes to inquire if he may place madame and her suite at the chateau during our absence in America. Of course,” said the comte, look- ing, however, at his wife, ‘*I respond cordially, and place my establishment at her service.” “Of course, monsieur,” said his wife, looking earnestly at him, and then glancing slightly at Victor. ‘“*He writes classic but not fashionable French,” said the comte, handing the letter to his wife. ‘+ By-the-way, here is One from Julie also.” Victor sprang to his feet. ‘Au revoir, ma tante,” he said, kissing her little hand. ‘I shall call again to-morrow.” “Do, my boy,” said the old gentleman, *‘ and dine with us. We have a small dinner party to-morrow.” Madame was already deep in the perusal of | her letters, and, promising to attend on the } to relate as | and Victor found himself in the private apart- | much of his adventure with the unfortunate ments of Madame Soulanges, rooms dedicated | Ophelia as he thought fit, and answer a host of morrow, Victor sped down the stairs and into the street, where was sunshine and the music of a military band on its way to a review, and hosts of pleasant sights and sounds, but none of which could still the jealous bitterness within his heart. There was no balm at pre- sent to soothe the smarting scratch made by the claws which peeped from Madame Soulanges’ pattes de velours. CHAPTER XVI.—DINNER AND DESSERT. HE Soulanges gave capital dinners. Quiet little affairs, you understand, consisting of eight or ten persons, selected as certain precious stones are, to enhance each other’s attractions. They were conducted very much in the style of the enchanted banquetsin the ‘* Arabian Nights.” The viands appeared mysteriously, hot and fragrant. There was no hurrying to and fro of huge glittering lackeys, but a noiseless attendant or two—mute, sombre, mild, agile, omnipresent — who anticipated your every wish, and yet left the delightful sensation on the minds of the guests of a freedom un- shackled by the close observation of another class. On these occasions the rare and massive plate of the Soulanges reposed idly on the buffets, and a quaint service of sévres took its place on the oval dinner-table. Nymphs offered you salt in sea-shells, Bacchantes held up baskets of grapes, and laughing pages held aloft tiny flambeaux. The ladies came in white muslin and a charming simplicity of toilet, and the gentlemen, with the certain prospect of an irreproachable cuisine and amusing company, were truly amiable. It cannot be said that Madame la Comtesse enjoyed these simple banquets with zest. She was a briiliant-looking little creature, with arch eyes and mobile lips, from which one would naturally expect a certain readiness of wit ; but in truth one would have been disup- pointed. Indeed, save for a certain talent for scheming (intrigue was absolutely beyond her powers), and a pretty taste in dress, the little woman’s mind was nearly void. She was con- scious of a preference for Victor's changeable black eyes, as compared with the rather dull gray optics of Monsieur le Comte. She liked the exquisite music of the fashionable opera, as it stole on her ear through the empty chatter with which she wiled away the half-hour during which, as was de rigueur, she sat in her box, but she was incapable of recognizing an air heard before. She was absolutely fond of dancing, and was capable of enthusiasm on the subject of dress, and she breathed in an atmosphere of flirtation, for which she had more than a mere penchant. Conversation that was not scandal made her yawn, and a man incapable of flirting was a bore; so, on the whole, the celebrated Soulanges pelit diners were in the nature of a weariness of the spirit to the luckless Genevieve. This evening she yawned less frequeatly over her toilet, and evinced a certain anxiety to look her best—a sign that some other ele- ment was to be introduced into the circle of wits and savans. She arrayed herself in rose- color, the hue of love, and theodor of tube- roses subtly floated around her. During her toilet she actually tried the fresh experiment, in her case, of endeavoring to think steadily on a given subject, but without much avail. After all, a cat pounces on a mouse through instinct, not from any preconceived mode of reasoning, and her spring is generally suc cessful. So Genevieve was not so far wrong, if she gave up the mental effort and waited for the promptings of instinct. Ten covers glittered on the oval table, and ten satin cartes lay beside them. Presently came a stovt novelist, an elderly Minister of Foreign Affairs, who had also written some charming vaudevilles; and madame, his wife, who was at once an aristocrat and an angel, and had entered a crusade against extrav- agance in dress. Had she been an ugly wo- man, her offense might be laughed at and

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le to ‘ie ye 1e yk hs ld ld te id in y; se 1e th rit ‘ly ty le- 3e- C= er nt, ily il. sh ot r 1g, ed rel, v= vO- 1nd FRANK LESLIE’S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. 223 December 14, 1872.) pardoned ; but if a woman whose face resem- bles that of the Madonna of Carlo Dolci happens to look well in simple toilets, are those unfortunate ladies, who require all ex- trancous aid in order to render themselves less hideous than nature had made them, to be deprived of their purple and fine linen? So, while Madame de Broussa was worshiped by the men, the women very cordially detested her. There was an actor who was a baron in his own land, and possessed a castle in the Hartz Forest, which consisted at present of a dungeon and one side of a turret ; and there was a charming Italian cantatrice, who was also a belle and an heiress, and who was chap- | eroned by a snuff-colored, lively old lady in snuff-colored laces and dingy pearls, who was a contessa. Then there was a fiery young politician, who edited a paper called the Stiletto, which spent its existence in a state of ** sus- pension,” by orcer of the Government, while the editor fought duels with other fiery young editors, and wrote clever squibs which were so witty that they were looked jor with interest, even by their victims. He, with Victor La Grange, completed the party. Victor was decidedly the skeleton at the feast ; but, finding him misanthropic, and not at all amiable, the other guests politely ignored him, and flung conversational roses at each other without pelting him, Victor was seated close to his hostess, and while she chattered to him, he preserved a gloomy silence, frowning heavily at the sévres Bacehantes. His eyes were darker than usual, and heavy rings of light purple surrounded them. His lips were pale and compressed, and his dress careless. Madame was piqued at his inattention, and with flushed cheeks turned her conversation toward the stout novelist, who instantly fell to drawing her out, and dissecting her for his next satire on society. The dinner was prolonged, as English dinners never are, for the ladies did not leave the table until the men rose, and then they all sauntered into madame’s rose-colored boudoir, where cotfee was served, and where there were oppor- tunities of indulging in cozy téte-i-tétes. Seeing all her guests absorbed in each other, Madame Soulanges retired to a little curtained laid the little package on her lap, she said, without looking up, however : ** Victor, do not be rash. We know nothing certainly.” For a moment he glanced eagerly at her, and then his face clouded over more heavily than before, * Genevieve,” he said, extending his hand to her, ** you cannot look me in the face and bid | me hope.” Madaine Soulanges raised her eyes eagerly, |} and piaced her hand in his. | ** Victor, my friend,” she said, ‘why should you not hope ?” Her lovely face glowed with emotion, which, as ifs source was unknown to Victor, appeared to him almost angelic. | He looked at her with one of those smiles which speak so plainly of the ruin of love in | the heart. * You would bid me encourage a false interest in life,’ he said, “in order that I might gain | time to anticipate the blow, and thus deaden it. | No, Genevieve ; | meet it at once, and bear it as | I may.” | A strong impulse to tell him the simple truth shook the soul of the comtesse, but for once |} She combated an impulse. Her lips grew white with the struggle of the feeble good within her, and the coquetry and deception which formed her true nature. ‘* All men are alike,” she thought rapidly. | Julie, and will be back ut her feet in a week. | I cannot incur the diszrace of saying to him, ‘I have deceived you;” so the impulse died out, and her lips resumed their usual coral-red. Victor rai-ed her band to his lips. “I will bid you adieu now, dearest Gene- vieve ; if ever we again meet, I trust it will be | under uappier circumstances,” What did he mean? Genevieve rose wildly | to her feet, and stretched out her hand to de- tain him, but he was gone, and she was alone in the rosy alcove, the sly, beautiful face of the tinted? Venus mocking her, until iu a sudden childish, ungovernable rage, sbe struck the | laughing face furiously with her little clinched | hand. ‘* Come here, Victor,” cried the comte, as his nephew passed him hurriedly as he left the recess where a tinted Venus sported with a| apartment; ‘‘come here, and tell Monsieur dimpled Cupid, and flung herself on the divan which ran round it. She tapped her little foot | impatiently on the floor, as her eyes, sparkling | like diamonds in the shadow, roved over the various groups in search of Victor. He was leaning against a bronze pedestal | which supported a lofty Egyptian vase at the other side of the apartment, and was appa- | rently looking round in search of some one, | Presently his eyes discovered her in the rosy | shadow of the alcove, and he strode across the | room to her side. ‘*A moment’s quiet at last,” he said, seating himself on the divan, ‘I have been watching for this opportunity all evening.” Madame unturled her-fan, shut it again, and | looked absently at him. | ‘Are you listening to me, Genevieve ?” he said, impatiently. “Oh! yes, certainly,” said madame, with a | little start and a sympathetic glance; * but I | was at the moment thinking of you so earnestly that——- Excuse me, my triend—repeat to me what you at first observed.” ‘‘T said. madame, that I have been watching | for an opportunity of speaking to you all this evening.” | ‘Yet, Victor, you sat beside me at dinner.” | “Truly ; yet, it was hardly a position in which | to say what I am about to utter now.” Madame looked plaintively at Victor with the air of a pitying angel, and for a second placed her fingers, tiny and fine as stings, over her eyes. “Ah! my friend,” she murmured, ‘I com- passionate you !” Victor started, and the blood mounted to his brow. He seized her wrist, and drew her hand | from her face. His fingers were cold, and | trembled. | ‘¢ Answer me truly,” he said, ‘Yesterday | you led me to believe—to understand—that all was not right. I came here this evening, hoping to find that I had been mistaken ; but you Oh! I confess to you, Genevieve, that your very air fills me with despair and horror !” ‘*Oh!” thought madame, *‘see how the fool adores this silly blonde ! Ah! how I hate her !” She lifted her lovely head, and extended her hand to him. ‘ Victor,” she said, in a vuice of heavenly compassion, ‘my heart bleeds for you. But, courage! Ail women are not monsters of | treachery !” He turned his eyes slowly on the ground, and his fine features became rigid. For a moment he was conscious that the little alcove turned to a blazing cavern, through the lurid and suffocating atmosphere of which mocking eyes watched him with a burning triumph in | them; and then he looked up again. “Thank you, dear friend,” he said, slowly ; ‘Tam answered. Give these to Julie.” He took from his breast-pocket a photograph of Mademoiselle Soulanges, and some half- dozen little billets, from which the odor of wood violets came faintly, and placed them in the hand ot Genevieve, which was slowly outstretched to grasp them, not too wiilingly, for madame was @ moral coward, and perceived that she had gone somewhat further than she had in- tended. Devoted as the comte was to her, she yet understood that if her interference between Victor and Julie came to his knowledge, even her fascinations would fail to soothe his wrath ; and, indeed, she had not purposed to do the work of separation so effectually. As usual, her object had been to plant a sting, not to launch a fatal lance against their happiness. She dared not draw back now, but cowardice and a touch of remorse prompted her to try and temper matters somewhat; and, as she Quatrelivre about the charming unknown who is al present our guest at Soulanges.” But Victor passed him without a word, and the comte gazed after him in some surprise. ‘* These young men are sadly eccentric, mon- sieur,” he said to the stout novelist. “* My nephew appears somewhat disturbed. I won- der what can annoy him ?” ** Madame la Comtesse is in the alcove, the Comte La Grange has just left,” said the novelist, smoothly, and enjoying with infinite zest what he conceived to be a little scene in an intrigue between his host’s wife and his nephew. “True,” said the comte, simply. ‘I will in- | quire if he is indisposed; and at the same time you can tell Madame Soulanges that charming anecdote you were just relating to me.” He led the willing Quatrelivre toward the alcove, and drew back the curtain, to discover madame lying in a swoon at the feet of the rosy Venus, while the quick eye of the novelist | detected a small bundle of billets lying half hidden in the folds of her dress. * Hem !” thought the man of letters, ** just as I supposed, a lover’s quarrel. What a | deucedly pretty woman the comtesse is !” The unconscious Genevieve was in the po- sition of a malicious child who has willfully done incalculable mischief, at which, though as yet undetected, his very soul trembles, (To be continued.) WHOLESALE KIDNAPPING OF ITALIANS. fj HE emigrant swindle is a string upon which | SS | | | the sensational Press has played for many years. In almost every instance after the grievances have been graphically detailed, the entire blame has been deposited at the door of the Commissioners. In the last case the re- sponsibility is changed. and it is but just to gentlemen having charge of the newly landed emigrants to state the facts without an attempt at colorable effects, and to give credit to a cient assistance. A precious set of rascals at Havre, France, have for years been prospecting Italy with the intention of inaugurating an immense coloni- aud whenever a band or family or single man expressed the slightest dissatistaction with the manner of life and employment, they displayed a glorious panorama of tree America—of the land where every one may secure work upon arrival, at surprisingly high rates of compensa- tion. Dealing as they did with the most igno- rant, dependent class, their words fell upon fruiiful soil, and during the past Summer nearly four hundred wretched beings, the laza- roni of fair Italy, were anxious to undertake the long journey. So accommodating were these scoundrels, tnat no plea of poverty was accepted. If the wish was signified, the agents promised profuse help. Here and there were parties owning small cottages or collections of furniture. If they were without money, they had the equivalent. The procurers were only anxious for the future welfare of the impecunious Italians. Behold, they would themselves advance money, not only upon the property at home, but upon the which they were about speeding. but a short time to complete all the necessary arrangements. On the 28th of October last | they sailed from Naples, expecting to be landed |at some port of Buenos Ayres. After a few | days of stormy travel they reached Marseilles, “T have really done little harm. He loves | | engine was decorated with flags and ever- | much-abused Commission for prompt and efli- | zation traffic between that country and South | America. Their agents swarmed the kingdom, | first year’s income in the great El Dorado to | recollection of matrimonial life, that when, at Under these liberal circumstances, it required | he gave instructions fhat he should be buried and were received by other agents of the col- | onization outrage. Money was paid for superior accommodations ; but, after traversing France, and embarking at Havre, they found they were | to be hustled into the steerage, the agents | retaining the difference in the price of tickets. They sailed in the Holland, being informed they could reach Buenos Ayres quicker via New York, and would be forwarded to South America free of charge. It is doubtful if a ..ore gullible party of | human beings could be found in any quarter of the globe. On reaching New York, they pre- sented letters of introduction, and for the first time learned that the officials at Castle Garden were entirely ignorant of the existence of the society under whose auspices they emigrated. They contented themselves by lounging about the large building, awaiting the accommodat- ing agents. It is hardly necessary to state they are still waiting. Since their arrival, they have lived entirely upon the generosity of the Commissioners. Mr Casserly, the Superintendent, has communi- cated with the Italian Minister at Washington | and the Consul-Generai in New York in their | behalf. The latter gentleman is endeavoring | | to secure some kind of work for them. Fail- | | ing in this, they will be sent to Ward’s Island, and maintained at the expense of the city. | ‘There are fourteen females and severa! chil- | dren in the party. They are all in extreme | destitution. A few have their baggage, but the great bulk is either on its way to Buenos | Ayres or some other place. Everything about | | them bears the stamp of poverty and thriftless- ness. Scarcely a ray of intelligence can be | seen along the entire line of faces. They were | attired in all manner of grotesque costumes tattered knee-breeches, bag-wrapped legs, im- | mense cloaks, plain hats and embroidered caps, pipes in the mouth and hat-strings beneath the chin; dirty, indolent, sleepy fellows, they appeared a class from which any nation might be glad to rid itself. OPENING OF THE RAILWAY | BETWEEN YEDDO AND YOKOHAMA, | JAPAN, ()* Monday, October 14th of this year, the | railway between Yeddo ani Yokohama, | Japan, which has for some time been used | for passenger traffic as far as Shinagawa, near | Yeddo, was formally opened as a through road by the Mikado in person, in the presence of a large concourse of spectators, the foreign con- suls and ministers, and the chief dignitaries and officers of the Empire. The day being a holiday on which a popular festival takes place, besides being the occasion of the opening of the first railway ever built in Japin, Yeddo, from early dawn, began to be astir, aud the streets, by noon, were gay with bunting and decorations, and crowded with persons of both sexes and all nationalities, decked out in their gayest attire. The Mikado, who, until quite recently, has, according to | ancient custom, kept himself secluded from | the public gaze, proceeded, at 9 a.M., from his | castle to the station, through two lines of sol- diers, and was followed, in carriages, on horse- | back and on foot, by the court and members of | the aristocracy, his ministers and other public officers, the foreign consuls, and a miscel- laneous crowd of sight-seers. Thousands had already assembled at the depot when his majesty arrived. The station-house, inside and out, was pro- fusely decorated with evergreens, flags. lant- erns and quaint devices, At the extreme end oi the railway platform a throne had been im- provised, which the Mikado occupied during the ceremonies. A native band, led by a foreign bandmaster, and assisted by the Mi- kado’s private orchestra of forty performers, discussed several airs while the Mikado entered the special state carriage which was to convey him and his suite to the Yokohama station. The | greens, At Yokohama there was speechmaking, and receiving addresses from the citizens and for- eign consuls and ministers, which the Mikado responded to by deputy. The imperial party, in the evening, returned to Yeddo, where there | was more speechmaking—this time his majesty | himself making a short address—and fireworks, when the Mikado made his rentrée into the im- | | perial castle at the head of a most imposing | | cortege, and with great ceremony. | Our illustracion represents that part of the | cerewonies when the foreign residents pre- sented a congratulatory address to the Mikado, BURIAL VAGARIES. \ E know an old lady, as blithe a body as | ever lived in this world, who, years ago, prepared becoming garments ready for her last journey. David Garrick’s widow religi- ously preserved her wedding-sheets, that they might serve her for ashroud. In 1673 a young married lady was, at her express desire, buried in all her wedding finery, consisting of a white negligce and petticoats quilted into a/| mattress, pillow and lining for her coffin ; ber wedding -shifi was her winding-sheet, and she | wore a fine point-lace tucker, handkerchief, | ruffles and apron, and a lappet-head of the | same costly materials. Diamond earrings were placed in her ears, gemmed rings on her fin- gers, and a valuable necklace round her neck ; white silk stockings, and silver-spangled shoes with stone buckles, completed her costume. | A Norfolk gentlemen preserved such a happy | the age of ninety-one, be lay on his deathbed, in his wedding-shirt, which he had carefully kept for the purpose : that garment being sup- plemented with his best suit of clothes, his best wig, his silver-buckle shoes, black wrist- | ribbons, and his favorite walking-cane. Mar- | garet Coosins who was buried in Cuxton Churchyard, Kent, in 1783, ordered her body to be attired in scarlet satin, put in a mahogany coffin having a loose lid, and placed upon trestles in a vault under a pyramidal monu- ment, the glass doors of the vault being covered with green silk curtains. Another ex- ample of vanity strong in death was afforded us a few years ago, when a wealthy court milli- ner left strict injunctions behind her that her body should be enfolded in point-lace. NEWS BREVITIES. Spurceon’s sister has taken to preaching. Pancake festivals are now the rage in Michigan. Tne Mississippi State Fair has proved a great success. Tue Dublin policemen are showing signs of insubordination. Tuere is an emigration of miners from Pennsylvania to Illinois, Tue next General Assembly of Wisconsin will have five editors in it. Cincinnati is moving to found a newsboys’ library and lodging-house, A suspension bridge is to be swung across the Mississippi near Minnehaha. Rusrnt has found the “ coming tenor” again in the person of a common sailor. Tue Pope will shortly hold a conclave, when several new Bishops will be named, Tue new Democratic Mayor of New Orleans, Mr, Alfred Wiltz, is but 26 years of age. THe new President of Mexico is 45 years old, and is brave, eloquent and energetic. Virarnta hadn’t a single cotton factory in 1864, but has erected twelve of them since, FIvE THOUSAND pounds a piece is what England will pay her Geneva Arbitrators, STANLEY was dined by the American Geo- graphical Society of New York on the 27th ult. Ir is said a schism is imminent among the Shaking Quakers on the question of matrimony. Tue Forty-third Congress will contain one colored Senator and six colored Representatives. Mr. Joun Bia.in has been engaged to make up a boat-crew out of the students at Dartmouth. A GREAT international journal is about to be established by the Ultramontanes of Switzerland. Mr. Disrak.t will deliver his rectoral ad- dress at the Glasgow University on December 18ih, at noon. Tue Haytien Government is apprehensive of troubles arising out of the indemnity demanded by France. Tne Falconer, a colossal statue designed for the New York Central Park, has been cast in bronze in Florence. Sir Sipvey Warerrow, Lord Mayor of London, is trying to establish a commercial tribunal in that city. THE title under which the Crown-Prince of Saxony vails his identity in his Oriental tour is “ Pro- fessor Morssman.”’ A staTuE to ex-Governor John Wood, of Illinois, the founder of Quincy, is meditated by the citizens of that city. SEBASTOPOL is being repaired, and will be- come again the strongest fort and the most important town on the Black Sea. Ir is expected that Philadelphia will sub- scribe about $1,000,000 to the expenses of the cen- tennial uproar in 1876. Tue Fall meeting of the Louisiana Jockey Club commenced on November 30th. The amount of purses Offered is $11,000, GENERAL SrpneEy SHERMAN, who bore a prominent part in the Texan revolution of 1836, is rapidly failing in health. Tue Mexican Geographical Society has appointed a special committee to investigate the pyramids of Testihuacan. Tue Spanish Carlists have become banditti, and infest the mountains, waiting for the diligence and its American nobbies. A Gvuarp is stationed at the door of General Lee’s old room in the Virginia University, to see that not even the dust is disturbed. Moe. OrrtiLLE von GOETHE is dead, at Wei- mar, at a great age. She was the widow of Goethe's only son, and was a Clever writer. Ir is rumored that Commissioner Hender- son, of London, has reinstated all the constables dis- missed for alleged insubordination. Durca Hetvyricu, the bond robber, and Rosenzweig, the abortionist, have been brought down from the Penitentiary for a new trial. Tue Persian Shah has accorded to Reuter, of telegraphic celibrity, a monopoly of all railway and mining operations in his dominions. A sust of Sir Walter Scott has been pre- sented to the Mercantile Library Association of St. Louis by the Caledonian Society of that city, ALEXANDER Cornwe_L Durr Gorpon, Com missioner of Inland Kevenue in Great Britain, is dead. His mother was the once famous Lucy Austin. Tue tomb of Heloise and Abelard, in Pére la Chaise Cemetery, laris, has been renewed as a@ place of pilgrimage since the performance of the opera of that name. BrigaDIeR-Generat Cook, commanding the Department of the Lakes, will, it is said, shortly | retire from service. He is 62 years old, and has been 45 years in military harness. GENERAL CLUSERET has turned up in Geneva, Switzerland, where he is living in retirement. He escaped from Paris in the disguise of a priest. He may come to the United States. Tuer recent storms have flooded the Midland counties of England, causing great damage to agri- culture, During the late gale ten men were blown into the sea at St. Ives and drowned, Presipent Grant has presented a hand- some gold watch to Captain Lechere, of Antwerp, who rescued the crew of the lightning-struck Ameri- can ship Wyman, in December, 1870. Tue Duchess de _waiaay, wife of the deceased favorite of Napoleon III., and daughter of the equally famous Prince de Moskowa, is going to be married again, to a French advocate who is only @ commoner.

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Seeteeeeeeentitieeeen semen aie a nme ere —_ i a 22 4, : ‘a SARUM TOIL THE GILBERT ELEVATED WAY FOR QUICK TRANSIT. MOST important requisite of all our large economical quick transit, thereby bringing re- RAIL-| cities, anc one which vitally affects their growth and prosperity, is that of safe and mote portions of the city and the surrounding | country into closer relations with the business centres. We can travel ten times faster in the LESLIE’S i At i NEW YORE CITY.—PERSPECTIVE VIEW —7 ae | - => 7 m| | Kneis ear } (| ini f A MK eal h \ ig SS — AA apm An mM country than we can in the city, where the rate of speed does not equal that of our great- grandfathers. Especially is this true of New | York, where the crowded condition of the} streets, and the great tength of Manhattan | Island as compared with its width, yearly int crease the distance between its residence and its business portions. For years the New | Yorkers have felt the imperative necessity of | some quicker mode of travel than that afforded by the stages and horse-cars, and the minds of inventors, scientific men and engineers, have long been direct>d to the solution of the diffi- cult problem of rapid transit, for want of which millions of dollars worth of taxable property have been lost to the city, and thou- sands of our people have been compelled to go elsewhere to take up their abodes, which, though further away, can be reached with greater facility and in less time. In fact, it is hard to estimate the immense benefits to be derived if the various parts of New York and the suburban villages were in ready communi- | cation with each other. The great social ques | tions of the day—the sanitary condition of the SECTIONAL VIEW OF THE LONGITUDINAL ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. ~hSMITM)) [DecruBer 14, 1872. OF THE PROPOSED GILBERT ELEVATED RAILWAY FOR QUICK TRANSIT. lcity, sickness and mortality; intemperance, | and the social evil. and the prevention of fires and ecrime—will find that the most efficient practical steps have been taken for their relief, ; When the great benefits to be derived from | quick transit shall be realized, thus relieving the overcrowded tenement-houses—the most proiific cause of disease and crime—and render- ing it possible for the working-classes and the poor to get quickly to and from homes, where they can live less like beasts and more like human beings. In view of these facts. it is a | subject of congratulation that the efforts to supply this great want are being crowned with |} success. At the ciose of the last session of the Legislature, an Act was passed to incorporate | “The Gilbert Elevated Railway Company,” and | to provide a feasible, safe and speedy system | of rapid transit through the city of New York. | The company derives its name from the in- ventor and projector of the railway. Rufus H. Gilbert, whose untiring labors for the accom- plishment of the object are well known, and |} who is also the inventor of the Elevated Pneumatic Railway, which was illustrated in FRANK LESLIE’S NEWSPAPER some months ago. The plan combines in an eminent degree great strength with lightness and beauty of architectural design, and is so arranged as to use steam as a motor for passengers and the pneumatic dispatch for mails, newspapers and express matter, or with slight alterations it can be operated wholly on the pneumatic principle. The railway is elevated about twenty-four feet above the middle of the street, and rests on DEW YORK CLLY,—SELE-PROPELLING STEAM FIRE-ENGINE, NOW ON TRIAL BY THE FIRE COMMISSIONERS.—SEE PAGE 218,

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arches, which are supported by ornamental columns placed along the line of the curb- stones, leaving the streets and the sidewaiks clear for travel. The telegraph-wires are car- ried on the arches, relieving the streets of the cumbersome poles, and the columns support the gaslights. The tracks of the road are sus- tained by latticed girders running longitudin- ally along the streets, which do not interfere with light or vision across the street. By im- proved methods of construction of the road- bed, the noise of the trains will hardiy. be noticeable. By means of screens, which come up on the sides as high as the wheels of the cars, their movement is kept from view of the horses in the streets below. The railway will be located on both the east and west sides of the city, for the best accommodation of travel between the Battery and Hariem. The estimated cost of the work is seven hundred thousand dollars per mile, and when completed in the manner proposed, it is claimed that the difficult and long-delayed probiem of quick transit in New York will be solved to the satisfaction and delight of the public —that the structure will not only afford a comfortable, sufe and speedy transit from one end of the city to the other, but that it will be an orna- ment to the streets through which it passes, and will be the pride and boast of people living along its line. It is to be hoped that these predictions will prove true, and the sooner the better.

FUN FOR THE FAMILY. A woman who tells fortunes from a tea-cup nee! not be a sauceress. To “Bone” a turkey—Take it when the poulterer is not looking. A pLain stew—A trip in an old-fashioned | street railway car on @ Warm day. An Iowa man recently died from swallow- | ing a pocket-knife and injurious medival treat- ment combined. He got along very nicely as long as the knife was closed, but when the doctor gave him opening medicine, it killed him. ‘‘Now, Jonnny,” said a venerable lady to | her six-year-old nephew, who was persistently d«ny- ing an offense of which she accused him, ‘‘I know you are not tellin me the truth; I see itin your eye.”’ Pulling down the lower lid of the organ that had so | nearly betrayed his want of veracity, Johnny exult- | ingly replied: ‘*You can’t tell anything about it, | aunt ; that eye always was a little streaked !” At Banchory, in Scotland, lately, the parish | schoolmaster, out of curiosity, put the question to the scholars, *‘ What is nothing?” A pause ensued until an urchin, whose prociivities for turning a penny were well known among the schoolfellows, got up and replied: ‘‘It’s when a@ man asks you to hold his horse and jist says thank ye.”’ Tne answer has since earned considerable notoriety for the youngster. ‘*Parrick, the Widow Malony tells me that you stole one of her finest pigs. Is it correct?’ **Yis, yer honor.’? ‘“ What have you done with it?” ‘« Killed it and ate it, yer honor!’ “Oh, Patrick, Patrick! When you are brought face to face with the widow and her pig, on the Judjgment Day, what account will you be abie to give of yourself when the widow acc'ises you of stealing?’ **Did you say the pig would be there, yer riverence?”’ “To be sure I did! ‘ Well, then, yer riverence, I’ll say, ‘ Mrs. Malony, there’s yer pig !’”

FURS OF THE SEASON. INFORMATION FROM C. G. GUNTHER’S SONS. OW that the golden days of Autumn have passed, and Winter presents itself, with chill winds and occasional ilurries of snow, the necessity to prepare for its extreme rigors is forced upon us. And when we look around for what will most cer- tainly conduce to our comfort in the dark days when the sun shines feebly, when icicles hang from the eaves of the houses, when snow covers the earth, and when rude old Boreas sends down upon our shiv- ering frames his most pitiless blasts, we turn to the warm coating of animals we affect to despise, with appropriative and envious eyes. A specialty in furs for the present season will un- doubtedly be Sceal-Skin, Seal-skin racques, muffs, boas, caps, bonnets and gloves, al! being presented in the most elegant and atiractive forms, and inviting to use. Astrakhan, though still worn for mourning and traveling, cannot be considered among the most fash- ionable furs. It is consequently much reduced in price, and those who ignore fashion as fashion merely, would do well to purchase. We find Astra- khan in sacques. muffs, boas and caps. Among the staple furs, the Russian SABLE retains its popularity. Its extreme beauty will always pre- vent condemnation. Next in importance to the Russian is the Hudson’s Bay SABLE, much less expensive, and scarcely infe- rior in appearance. Those who regard utility before beauty, adhere to MINK, which, though a homely, cannot be considered an unattractive, fur. Of the fancy furs, the BLACK, SILVER, BLUE and WHITE FOX are the most in favor. The fur of the BLACK FOX is equal in value to the lower grades of Russian SABLE, and is regal in beauty. The fur of the SILVER FOX is, perhaps, the most popular of the season, and justly so, from its delicate splendor. The fur of the BLUE FOX somewhat resembles that of the STONE MARTEN, and is highly prized. WHITE FOX fur, with that of the ERMINE, will be most in use f_ r the opera and carriage wear. In cheaper grades of fur, that of the LYNX will be the most prominent, but in favor will be stoutly con- tested by that of the Alaska SABLE or BLACK MAR- TEN. This, however, to be at all agreeable or useful, must be thoroughly deodorized. In children’s furs, we see that of the CONEY, CHIN- CHILLA, SQUIRREL, CAT and MONKEY, as well as muffs, turbans, etc., of Swiss GREBE. Furs will be much used for trimmings. The princi- pai trimming furs are those of the different foxes, Alaska SABLE, LYNX, Siberian SQUIRREL, and OTTER.

TO LEAD ALL COMPETITORS is the aim of the pro- prietors of the New Wilson Under-I'eed Sewing Ma- chine. It is founded on the very best principles known to the sewing-machine science, and improve ments, in advance of all other sewing-machines, are bei adopted constantly, The Wilson is rapidly quisieg the preference of ail parties that are ac- quainted with sewing-machines, and it has already taken the front rank mong the first-class machines of this country; and its price, owing to its being manufactured where labor and materia! is much cheaper than in Eastern cities is fifteen dollars less | than all other first-class machines, which fact alone | is sufficient to induce all to examine tue New Wilson | before buying any other Salesroom at 707 Broad- way, New York, and in all other citics in the United | States. The colpany want agents in country towns. | , oe Amona the many recent inventions which go to lessen the cares and labor of housekeeping, one which is deserving of special mention is the ** Ame- rican Meat ani Vegetable Chopper.” It is extremely simple, and performs its work admirably. By turn ing the crank the meat or substance required to be chopped is Kept constantly in motion, while the chopper descends so rapidly that a fine hash is pro- cured in about one-quarter of the time in which it can be accomplished by the old-fashioned method of chopping knife and bowl D. A. Newton & Co., of No. 20 Cortlandt Street, New York, are the agents for this useful addition to our domestic economy. Tue past 30 years’ experience we have had in business, has proved to us, conclu-ively, the necessity of using discrimination in advertising. } We endeavor to use special care in selecting our mediums, and then insert our advertisement so that it shall present our business to the public with a dig- | nity and persistence that will not offend, or may not be neglected or overlooked. | We are making constant use of the Detroit TRIBUNE, and find it a medium that we can conscientiously recommend. FARRAND, WILLIAMS & Co., Wholesale and Ketail Druggists, Detroil, Mich, | American Pianos have acquired deserved celebrity throughout the civilized world, and among the many manufacturers of first-class instruments, | George Steck & Co. of No, 25 East Fourteenth street, N.Y., have attained a most prominent position. Their pianos are noted especially for their sympathetic tone and remarkable durability. Their cabinet or upright | piano, containing several patented improvements, stands unrivaled, —

| THE saving of money accomplished in family | sewing by usiug the Willcox & Gibbs Silent Family Sewing-Machine, in preference to any other double- | thread machine whatever, soon reimburses the outlay. But there are even stronger reasons than this for pre- ferring the “ Wilcox & Gibbs.” Send for Sewing- | Machine Leaflets. 650 Broadway, New York. FACTS FOR THE LADIES. Miss Eten Ferris, Troy, N. Y., earns annually about $700 with her Wheeler & Wilson | Lock-Stitch Machine. See the new Improvements and Woods’s Lock-Stitch Ripper. Nicor, Davrpson & Co., 686 Broadway, near Great Jones Street, New York, offer a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of Real Bronze Clocks ; Man- tel Sets, Groups, Figures; Bisque, Parian ; Enamel Bronze Jewel Boxes ; China, Glass ; Gas Fixtures and Chandeliers, in Crystal, Gilt or Bronze, at a small advance on cost of importation. Sea, the Clothier, of 427 Broome Street, N. Y., has just received the greatest variety of Misfits ever offered in this market. lie is also prepared to take orders for Underclothing (Fiannels) not to be sur- passed in any country for cheapness and quality. LADIES! GO TO O'NEILL'S. THe new Colonnade Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa., is on Chestnut Street and Fifteenth.

Supper parties can be accommodated at the Maison Doree, corner of Broadway and Fourteenth Street, near Union Square. It is patronized by the élite of the fashion and the respectability of New York. If desired, parties of four or more can have a poom to themselves. It is also the very place for ladies who have been out shopping to call and take a little luncheon in. RUPTURE CAN BE CURED Without sufferiny. ELASTIC TRUSSES are superseding all others. Before buying Metal Trusses or Supporters, send for a descriptive circular to the ELASTIc Trvuss Co., No. 683 Broadway, New York. 889-941 E.&H.T.Anthony & Co., 591 Broadway, N. Y., opposite Metropolitan Hotel. Chromos and Frames, Stereoscopes and Views, Graphoscopes, A!- bums and Celebrities, Photo-Lantern Slides, and Photographic Materials. tf ress Coats for Balls, etc., for sale and to hire, Custom clothing, Broadway misfits, etc., always on hand, Cheap, durable working clothes, for men and boys, in good variety. Overcoats and pea- jackets, from $5 to $25. Assortment large. Prices low. SHEA, the Clothier, 427 Broome Street, one block from Broadway. 895-907 DOUGAN, Manufacturer and Importer of Hats, 102 Nassau Street, cor. Ann, N. Y. Five cents paid out fora SilLVEAR Tir For a pair of Shoes, adds more to their value than one dollar expended in any other way.

To convince you of the great popularity of the CABLE SCREW WIRE, you nee” only see the base imitations and vain at- tempts to get up something similar. Genuine goods have the Patent Stamp.

MoOTEH=ER S, NESTLE'S LACTEOUS FARINA. f The Mother's Milk Substitute. Extensively used and recommended 0 by the inost eminent physicians, V Sold by Druggists and Grocers. U H. astit & Co., Sole Agents, | E 15 South William Street, New York, R. INFANTS.

100 YEAR ALMANAC,—lor 59 cents we send POSTPAID, an Almanac giving every Year, Month, | Week and Day of the Century, also a Pocket Calendar for 1873. Extra inducements to Agents. Address, |

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, New York. IN THE MARKET FOR POMPADOUR SILKS BUTCHERS ) oR SUITABLE FOR Family Use. DINNER, For RECEPTION and Chopping Sausage, Pie-Meat, Salads, Hash, Lyons Cloaking & Trimming be known as, CER TA —being ex- act vmnitation “af MAN Mitte A As thounnad pieces of which, in order to introduce them, will be sold for 3734 cents per yard. Sample sent by mai! on

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Decrupe: 14, 1872.1 FRANK LESLIE'S ILL A New Novel by a, Favorite Author. “HARD TO WIN,” JOHN FREDERICK SMITH, PELOR Al Ok “Minniegrey,” ‘ Stanfield Hall,’ “Amy Lawrence,” ‘Woman and Her Master,” “Temptation ” “The Will and the Way,’ etc., etc. Frew writers of fiction have commanded the interest of the reading people so uninterruptedly and successfully as J. FP. SMITH. His novels, almost all issued in serial form, have been read by millions on both sides of the Atlantic. His fertile imagination, dramatic construction of plot, and artistic management of his subject, afford the novel-reader all that can be desired in a pure work of fiction of the higher order, true in character, society and descriptions, elevating iin toue, and emi- uently interesting. Without exaggeration we say that HARD TO WIN’ Contains all the elements which have insured suecess to such remarkable novels as ‘Stanfield Hall,” laniteld mall, ‘ Her Master Woman and Her Master, 66 Mi : ’ inniegrey, 6c Amy Lawrence. The character of Ellen Lumley is a charming creation of the novelist. Her | intriguing and unscrupulous aunt, Mrs. Barton Lumley, is, unfortunately for poor human nature, a character far from impossible. The young Americans are what they should high-minded, full of true and noble impulses. The flavor of the supernatural adds attractiveness to the story without shocking the probahilities or exciting distrust REMARKABLE NOVELS, In these days of rapid publication and immeasurable diffusion, are not many ; “HARD TO WIN” Will be

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J i a ——— og 7 “/4 4, Y —_ ’-. fgg dd THE LATE HORACE GREELEY From 4 Paurtocrara By E. W. Bogarpus, 363 Baoapway, N. Y.

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* - . ~ he oe a 230 SUPPLEMENT TO ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER [December 11, 1872, THE REMOVAL OF THE REMAINS OF MR. GREELEY FROM DR. CHOATE’S RESIDENCE TO PLEASANTVILLE STATION, ON THE HARLEM RAILROAD.—FROM A SKETCH BY JOSFPH BECKER, DEATH OF HORACE GREELEY. LTHOUGH it had been rumored for more than a week past that Mr. Greeley’s powerful mind had given way under the combined pressure of his recent domestic afflic- tion, loss of sleep, over-exertion of mind and body during the recent campaign, and the dis- | appointment occasioned by the result of the election, still his friends indulged in strong hopes that his malady was only transient, and | that his unusually strong constitution would soon develop its recuperative power. It was, therefore, a terrible shock, not only to his nu- merous friends, but to the nation, when the | daily papers of November 30th, ult., contained the startling announcement that the great journalist, patriot and philanthropist was no | more. He had been removed afew days previous | for quiet and for convenience of medical treat- ment to the private residence of Dr. Choate, a distinguished specialist in mental diseases, at Pleasantville, a few miles from Mr. Greéley’s Chappaqua farm, in Westchester County. Here, on the evening of November 29th, at precisely ten minutes before seven o’clock, Horace Greeley died without a struggle. At the time, Miss Ida Greeley was his only relative present. She was kneeling near the head of the bed, and praying for her father’s | soul, when she noticed that he had a | | breathing. Dr. Choate was at once called. He pronounced him dead. Then ensued a scene | of grief and sorrow as the almost heart-broken | daughter, who had lost both mother and father | within thirty days, was removed to another | apartment. Aunty Lamson, an attached friend | of the family, Mr. and Mrs. John R, Stuart, and | Miss Broderick, all intimate friends, witnessed | the death scene. THE ZONELY WATCH OVER MR. GREELEY’S REMAINS AT PLEASANTVILLE STATION. FROM A SKETCH BY JOSEPH BECKER. OF MR. GREELEY FOR REMOVAL TO NEW YORK CITY.—FROM A SKETCH BY JOSEPH BECKER. PREPARING THE REMAINS The room in which Mr.Greeley died was alarge one on the northwest corner of the first fioor of Dr. Choate’s house. It was a bright one, neatly carpeted, but devoid of chairs, pictures, orna- ments, wash-basin, or any small articles of furniture. On Saturday morning Mr. Greeley’s remains were prepared for burial in the room where he had died. The body was dressed in black pantaloons and vest and a dark-green sack coat. The feet were encased in a pair of heavy boots. The face of the dead Sage bore a natural expression. It was somewhat thinner than | usual, but by no means emaciated. The casket in which the remains were to be placed arrived on the evening train. At the Pleasantville depot the village hearse was in wailing. It was rapidly driven through the crisp snow to Dr. Choate’s asylum, With pro- fessional haste the undertakers placed Mr. Greeley’s remains in the coffin. The body was then carried to the hearse by Dr. Choate’s attendants. On the road to the depot but one sleigh followed the remains. In it were the two daughters of the deceased, the Misses Ida and Gabrielle Greeley, and Mrs. Gibbons, a life-long friend of the family. This mourntul drive through the woods in the chili air of a cold Winter night is accurately depicted by the pencil of our artist. At the depot the coffin was placed upon the plattorm, where it was watched by one of the undertaker’s assistants until the train arrived. The scene at the depot wasasad one. Be- neath the shed extending from the ticket-office. and which covers a portion of the platform, lay a box bearing the address, ** Miss Ida Greeley, Chappaqua.” A short distance off was the cas- ket, inclosed in a pine box, which contained all that remained of the once famous editor. A single lamp threw out its feeble rays THE RELATIVES AND FRIENDS, ACCOMPANYING THE REM\INS, AWAITING THE ARRIVAL OF THE TRAIN AT PLEASANTVILLE.—FROM A SKETCH BY JOSEPH BECKER. Ce a i aTverrris “ePPTTTT A T ATwoune + ‘AINOOO aITSNDOTOWM 'N

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SUPPLEMENT TO FRANK LESLIE’S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER. {(Decewerr 14, 1 i All | acme || y j } y ESA y THE OLD HOMESTEAD ON MR. GREELEY’S FARM AT CHAPPAQUA.—FROM A SKETCH BY ALBEBT BERGHAUS. | by only a few days. The immense number of his personal and political friends, and the uni- versal grief and sympathy manifested even by i disclosing the solitary watcher at his post. A cold northwestern gale swept the platform, and the drifting snow was heaped upon the Ws box that contained the coffin. Two honest those who were recently in an attitude of ‘ farmers passed the corpse, and with raised hats opposition to his political aspirations, give f and bowed heads paid their last tribute. The assurance that the last tribute of respect to bis \ watchful sentinel paced to and fro until the memory will be participated in by a train of arrival of the train. mourners more numerous than our city has ever before witnessed. LF The body was brought to the city by the eight o’clock express train. The grief-stricken | As interesting accompanimentsto thesketches { daughters and Mrs. Gibbons had a private in connection with his death, we also present ii apartment in a drawing-room car. Mr. Gib- our readers in this number with a copy of the best portrait of Mr. Greeley extant—a life bons was the only person to meet them at the Grand Central Depot. He procured a carriage, and, preceded by the coffin, which was con- TH veyed in a covered wagon, the solemn cortége ie proceéded to Mr. Samuel Sinclair’s house, 69 Wes. Forty-fifth Street. The coffin was then deposited in Mr. Sinclair’s parlor, where it now remains. As we write, the arrangements for the funeral ceremonies are as follows: The remains will lie in state during the whole of Tuesday, De- cember 3d, at a place which is yet to be desig- nated, but will probably be the Governor’s Room in the City Hall. On Wednesday morn- ing at eleven o’clock the religious rites will be p celebrated in the Church of the Divine Pater- nity (Dr. Chapin’s), °t the corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-fifth Street. Upon the con- clusion of the services at the church the body will be borne to its final resting-place in Green- sketch of him as he appeared when entering the Tribune office by the Spruce Street en- trance on the occasion of his last visit ; also, views of his birth-place at Amherst, N. H.; of the old homestead at Chappaqua, and a general view of the now famous Chappaqua Farm. Never have we had a sadder duty to fulfill than to record these incidents of an event which now thrills a whole nation—let us say a world—with sorrow. In our mission of illus- trated journalism we must assume the task of picturing those things that make a part of our country’s history; and in discharging the task we are consoled by the conscious- ness that in hundreds of thousands of house- | holds our pictures will be treasured in memory | of the honored dead. Beyond this professional duty we pay, personally, in common with all our countrymen, the tribute of respect and wood Cemetery, ther’ to repose by the side of grief for the loss of a true American, a type of the remains of his beloved wife, who had pre- | the mental strength that has made the great- ceded him in the journey into the eternal wor.d THE BIRTHPLACE OF HORACE GREELEY, AT AMHERST, NEW HAMPSHIRE. ‘ness and promise of the Republic. The New louse, Orchard. ‘ Hemlock Grove. Conservatory. Qld Homestead. Vld Barn. a GENERAL VIEW OF MR. GRELLEY’S FABM AT CHAPPAQUA.—-FROM A SKETCH BY ALBERT BERTHATS,

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