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X llJUi XI JLi YV O 1 PPBLISgBDjOTBY TUESDAY. Editors .'a MpKttort 6a .yiv Bit Bi3titli, Do. i - - . . , . . , . - i foiU Squrt, ft l&A or lea- first insertion, $1 00. f or oni yw; qo-" : lcoo ; ,900 . 600 j 25 . CO j '75 1 40.1: -75 r ' 125 P i25j; 150 I -300 ! or tur mourn", ............... For Qa-rUr Column, 5 squares, 3 months, yr EMf Column, ID jn-re. j For On Column 20 square. 3 mouths, i "12 " UFE IN POMPEII, j The excavations which have been made p Pompeii; enable the traveller to realize pith; extreme vividness, the ordinary daily df a Roman city.- Among other objects f new and curiouejnterest, we may mejp- ion the characteristic signs which mark ' . it. J : x - t lit ine various Biiops, taverns, ana places f business. Ihese are, in some cases! fig red in baked clay, and colored, in others painted on the wails. Over a wine shop, wo men carry an amphora slung on a pole. Over another, a goat Ss supposed to indi cate the trade of a milkman. Here a large utatue of Priapus "points out the shop of in amulet-maker. A rude painting of two nen fighting, while the master stands by lolding a laurel crown, marks a fencing jstablishmenf, or. school of gladiators. (A "Minting of one boy horsed on another's jack, autl undergoing flnggelation, is an wiinous indication that the schoolmaster was there at home.1 An inn in the newly discovered Via del Lvpcnarc bore the (sign of an elephant enveloped by a large ser pent, and tended by a 'pigmy. ' This ho longer exists, un me aoor-pots oi anotti wr tavern were painted some checkers. Into the edihee of ill repute which gave its name to that street, the writer tor obvious reasons, forbears to conduct his readers. That a similar dearee of -caution was not unknown at the time when the -gulden youth of Pdmpeii might plead tlie uutliori- ty ot yatolpr venturing, within -.those dan gerous preciucU, we have a highly curioiis proof. On the walls of a villa hard bv the y'prum Boarum or cattle-market, was found an inscription, by way of advertisement, to the effect that "on the estate of Julia Felix, daughter of Spurius, are to let a bah, fi venereum, nine hundred shons. i wiih ------ - ---- - - - i lit- , f m A ooopis ana garrets, tor a term ot live con tinuou years from the firit to the sixjthjbf the ides of August." The notice concludes with the formula S. O. D. L. E. N. C.. I which is taken by Romauelli to stand for si quts domi Unociruum excrceat ne conducito 'let n6 one apply who keeps a brothel." W get many r a curious insight into the common or lower life ot the Pompeiians from the numerous graffiti, or rude scratch- mgs and scnbblines in chalk or nam til with which the walls abound. Many a party cry or political dislike, or even the routrh Fescenuine chafl' of the streets, has here come down to us in expressive, though often very dubious, Latinitv. or is embbd ied in outlines of rude but often highly grotesque art. A more than common re finement of taste is met with when, in the back-room of a thermopolium, is scrawled the first line of the iKneid. PerhansL of all the relics of eighteen centuries here laid bare, what most touches the feelings is the : reproduction, in 'plaster, of the groups of .bodies found in the year 1863. By the skill of Signor Fiorelli infilling up the cav ity left in the soft lapilli by the decay of these human forms, the figures are mould ed in all the ghas'tly reality of the death struggle. In the pair engraved by Dr. Dyer, which is probably familiar to many of our readers as a stereoscopic group, the profile of the young girl is plainly to ! be traced. Her little hands clench her veil round her head in the last struggle to keep the mouth free, while her little feet I a re drawn up in agony. The smooth young skin looks in the plaster like polished rriar- . ble. The woman, probably the mother, who lies feet to feet with her, lies quietly on her side. Her arm hangs loosely down. Her finger still bears her coarse iron ring. Besides this group, Niccolina gives the - figure of a man of the lower classes, per haps a soldier, of colossal size,'" who had lain himself downt calmly on his baick to await death. "His dress rnnsUta nf a chnrf coat or jerkin, and tight-fitting breeches of Bviue wursv stun, perhaps leather. Heavy sandals, with soles studded with nails; are Jaced tightly t round his ankles On one finger, is seen his iron ring. His features lire .strongly marked, the mouth open as in death, some of the teeth still ..remain, 1 And even nart nf fW I the plnSter' We nrfl ftftrrtr tn finif fif. . me sentry iounu erect in Ins box still erasmnor' hi lnc: HiAriiiiRpd as a fable, Much doubt has. been, attached to the recnt report of an amnhorji of stone ' having beea met ,with closely seafed;'half lull of watch ;It may be remarked, how- vrcr, uiosjfj pronze cock ot a water-pipe Joints heed btfett hermetreaUy closed by rust ior 8eyenreen ur ignceen centuries, yet NfrhichijHm being Shaken, gives audible ro)fttf the water being still unabsorbed whhin It may be added that the "numer ous fcietil pipes met with in Pompeii, to gether I'ith the general arrangements of the fountains, place beyond doubt the fact, wliteh has so frequently been questioned, that the property of water to find its level Was well known at that epoch, i - It has naturally been throughout a ques tion olj the liveliest interest whether Pom peii might fou nd ,4 to. yield': any race of the ne religion, pushing its way ' among the innjateB of the classical Pantheon, i The only indication -which? has even been held plausibflf depends on an unsatisfactory story told bj fazois.T T ; i - " : Evidences of Egyptian worship are not unfreqynt. An elegant temple disinterred next to that of Esculapius is shown by an inscnpi ion over the entrance to have been nVdicateC t Isis, to have been overthrown by an Jrtnq'Javc to have been, re stored by NurtTbT'o8 (of Nonnius) Popidius Celsinus,; at his own eense. Ihis earth quake was probably that the year 63, A. D.,; (sixteen years before the deruction of the icjitjy. J'rom this temple were t&kC? the fampus Isiac table of basalt, now in the hiuseum j at Naples. This fiue relief con tains fourteen figures, thirteen of which are turned fpward the first, which is supposed to represent Osiris. Beneath are twenty five lines of hieroglyphics, which have been interpreted by M. Champollion,;, to be an invocation of Osiris or Isis. It is, how ever, duounced by Overbeck as a sham. In a niche on the court wall, fronting the temple! stood a painted figure of Sisraleon or Harpocrates, otherwise called Orus, the son of Osiris. . Beneath this was a shelf, in tended J perhaps, to receive-offerings; and under l a board; supposed to be for the knees of the worshippers. In another nart of the qourt was fuuud a beautiful statue of i8i, wiiu iin- sys(m?7i anu ine Key or the Nile slliilces, her I drapery painted purple, and in f.iiit gilt, From "several of the pic- ; 'lures and bas-reliefs we obtain iuterHstincr S lures and has-reUrfs we 'obtain iuterestin classic svmbolisnr upon Christian art. An , instance ot this occurs m the ufflv conven- tional glriry with which the heads of sacred ' M : ' I . i . lersouages are commonly encircled. This usage was i hnrrnwprl r,v Hi ,Tf,.ii,.n r,n?r ' ers fro hi i. t Empir in whose-riaiutings it generally " assumefi the appearance of a solid plate of gold, jln a small house at Pompeii, decor- T ot ii'ireoit? or this i outer llniib or circumference is solidly and MiarpiY euueo, not snauea on ana divided into rays, as we usually see it in works of the Itnlian school. This painting has since perished.; a similar aureole surrounds the grand figure of Jupiter iu the house of Zenhvrua and Flom. Th od i hr t. tr,T onntnni.f;,,. i i . t ., .i . i - A ----0 vi.viijfia,iiro ciiiuuuc, U16 at his feet, and his irolden scentre in his hand. lined with are golden, orecious : of the t Mars and Decurio of Pompeii, the walls of tural earned away, or had not yet been fixed.in their places when Pompeii was over- whelmed, ut the mosaics, the best is be- ,ri Ukmn.,r;.; j ii.. jrwiiu p-yiii jui iovu, uidb UISCU VCI CO 111 lilt! house of the Faun, not ess than eihtPHn feet long by nine broad, supposed to rep- - I - - .aa. - - w - esenc one ot the battles ot Alexander and Darius,; probably that at the Issus! Few nnintihirs ,f mVt? ncr .,n vQi - jk.r f" f'O" v'; .."V TO Ill UIC lliU aninii ation the celebrated head of Achilles stonesj a green drapery covering the back ; sPranS over them and escaped, Carter in of thet irone. These pictures, like most j 1 locking feet, j : ' k of those discovered at Pompeii, were exe- i One day McDonald, who had grown des cuted on the plaster of the wall. It ap. iperate and reckless, rode his horse into pears, however,1 that moveable pictures ; Middleburg alone, and got on the porch of were fiot unknownl In the handsome I lhe pub,,c house-! Thecitizens urged him house Sri the street of Stabia?, excavated in lto fl,fer,lt as.a company of cavalry was then 1S47, find assigned on the evidence of an ;ln.town ,ooklnf? pr Carter, Lake and him- If. McDonald never budsred. but takincr giving up Briseis, in the house of the tracicI,edSebetween tne ,ore,eS8 of his horse, poet. ! And statuettes like those of the i and horse and reckless rider rolled to the dancing Faun, the Silenus. and those Gf sundry animal figures are not surpassed by j s the nuest remains ot classic art. AG beat, French Giant. The Libert ie says: j"A new giant, born in the department of th iVosges, and measuring ; eierht feet and Ailialf in heiffhfc. visifprl tha 'Fvliikifinn last week, having made the journey to Paris frVrincinallv with tho nhiant- n( - moaa. Paris principally with the object of meas- .:ii. u vn tt nnii" ii iiiisKii wiui liik i .r mpsn rrinnr hp i : . , 7 o:.vr V" VffiwL u'Tl'M"" fsct relate in the history of a which the latter snares with a dwarf, nnr! . . , . . -!- , , n ! j i . ., , ch?1 -"H If."3: the,": V?l$Jt, i5l ?'Srn?" to acknoyledge himself vanquished Jn sta ture. . . . i ; When a counterfeit is nresenfpd at, the Bankjof England, the gold is instantlv'mid for iti If it comes trom some known per- son, he is only asked where he got it.4 If from a strangeri- the cashier signals to his detective, always in waiting, and the officer louowa secretly, .peiore many , hours tne bankfis inf ibs&essidn.bf the stranger's biog - raphf ;1 The offender once arrested, is like- ly tot be tried, convicted, and sentenced within two days; wherefore Great Britain is no. ;an inviting field for that branch of indaitrj. ' " WAE INCIDENTS , The counties of Virginia bordering upon the Potoniac furnished fiome of the most gallant, as well as most desperate, men of tne war. fepienaia nqrsemen,- quick, with the pistol, they naturally attached them selves to Colonel Mosby,"and supported the cause of his ?4Confederacv" throuchout the war. After the surrender of the army of ionnern v lrginia, ioiiowed by that of Mos by8 command, there still remained in arms three men who had sworn never to surren der. These men were Nicholas Carter, "or "Nick Carter," as he was better known -Lake and, Charles j McDonald. "After the surrender, 1865, they were outlawed by the Federal Military authorities, arid a price set upoQ their heads. They took to the moun tains, and-led a wandering life, appearing mounted and armed at different points, in Loudort' and Prince! William. Nick was an outlaw by all the laws of civilized life. He was charged with the murder of a negro man and woman in cold blood; also a Unit ed States Quartermaster, whom he met upon the public highway. McDonald had personal wrongs to avenge. His sister was carried off from her home at Charlesfown, and imprisoned in the old Capitol at Wash ington, where she .died. From that time, wbicu was during the war, McDonald swore uever to ta'l6 another prisoner nor spare an enemy, no mter under what circum stances he met him. F?r every one killed by his own hand, he notched is pistol, and when our informant encountered tn aven ger, his weapon was covered with death tokens. j One dav the trio stopped at the residence j of Captain Charles Berkeley, near Aldie, in iouaon. lvaKe was at the spring near the house, washing, when a company of Federal cavalry rode up,, surrounding him, and inquired for Nick Carter. Lake was caught. Answering evasively, he was no tified to consider himself a prisoner;, and in this condition, without a coat, he was marched forward towards the house where he knewNick was enjoying a siesta after the n,Sht's "de. How to get into the house j and alarm him before it was too late, was a .H''stion that involved life and death, IWI t,,u -',i4-co, my avui ui death tie made au aPology ,or Ills coat, nnyl .n ..11..,.... rm . - U... .1 .....1 i. j UIIIJ V 9 UIIUVriJ 11'. fU Ull UllCilU ilUU gcl the garment. Reaching the pomh he rush- ed in. shut and held the door, exclaiming to Ua, ter who as O'S upon the sofa, b,00ts ott antl arms Reside him, "Get up. seldom caught napping, but this time he ed into the hall, confident of their game, and threw the weight of their bodies against, the door that yielded inch by inch. 'Must 1 let them inV" gasped Lake, whose strength was giving way "No!" said Car ter; "wait a second," and he hred through ter; "wait a second," and he fired through the door. 'JNow give way!" And the j .1 z i - T .l In . aoor was inrown w ae onen. rjom uar- jti ' t-i i-1 ter and Lake, who had fallen back a few . . . . , out lns reolver o counting the capped I1,PP,es Ul ",c w'omuere, ; saiu, x nave uve lor the Yankees and one for my them come!" He sat there un . tu 1,18 Pursuei? 'came around the corner, j wen hft sPranS UP llke demon possessed vt,1 tt Ul ub-h-, i ! mountincr pis horse, charored at sneed upon ! C V J i Ml ttlu" "ng as ne auvanceu, kiu- a -a, mm , a ins: and dismounting several. Reserving one barrel for an emergency, McDonald then! wheeled his horse and ' - - . spurred him towards the mountains. But j . , , A -1 ! ,ate was ,n hls Path' A hog ran from a i earth together. His pursuers closed upon . Ki 4- i tin hnf nnwtitd rUnM l-k - .a . ' i him, firing, but anxious rather to take him j - alive than dead.-j McDonald raised himself, uttered a shout of defiance, placed the muz zle of the pistol to his head and blew out his brains with the loaded barrel reserved for the emergency he had foreseen. ' Carter subsequently lettlhe country; so j did Lake, and the last "Rebels" of the war nroro nvf ? ma f f1 . ' t were extirpated. the highland Uhtef. There is a The nignianu cniei, ui uie uouit; uuuse oi iuac Grgor, who fell wounded by two balls, at i the battle of Prestonpan,. Seeing their chief fall, the clan .wavered, and gave the enemy an advantage. ' ,1 he old chieftain beholding the effects of his disaster, raised , himself on J his elbow, while the blood j gashed Jn streams from his wounds, and cried alotid, I am not dead, my children; I taraUooking at you to see you ; do your dutvJ' , These words revived the sinking 1 courage ot tne nrave jiignianaers. 5- mere ! wasa'charm I in the fact! that.-' they, still fought under the eyes of their chief.: It roused '.them to ' put forth their 1 mightiest energiesiand ' they did all that human "strength, could do to ;turn and stsm the jdreadful tide of b<Ul':-kris. Treasure DUBA230U 01 2IB LITE. Among the death notices in the Ledger this morning is that of Mrs. Alana L. Clark, who died in this city on Friday last, at the advanced age of one hundred and seven year8V What volumes of history have been made in the world during the period since her birth.! Her lifetime connects the an cient and i modern hwtory of our city and State. -When she was born, George the Second was King not only of Great Bntian, but of Pennsylvania, and the whole of our State was held as a domain by the family of the original proprietary. Philadelphia was a small town, confined between Fourth street and the river Delaware. The thoughts of the people -were yet occupied by the events : of , the "old VFort Duquesne, now Pittsburg; having ucen iaKen DUC two VMira ht-inra nnA Wblfe, having just startled Euiope, as well asAmerica, by his marvellous ascent of the heights of Abraham; near Quebec, closing the King, but losing his own life in the hprni vuii ctui iiiiih ii - v ii'i i rif ii ivi v mF hia efTort. Frederick the Great was still fight ing the battles of the renowned 'geven years' war," and Europe was still ringing with ;the artillery thunders of Prague, Miaden, Maxen, and Olmutz. We had not yet got into the preliminary contro versy with Great Britian that led to the Revolution. Washington was a young man about twenty-eight, just newly mar ried to the widow Custis, and just coming into political life as a delegate to th Vr. jT:hia House of Burgesses; although he had achieved ??me distinction as a gallant and able young soIdicT against the French and Indians. Mrs. Clark was five years old when Massachusetts roadb the first propo sition for a General Congress of the Colo nies; she was a girl of thirteen at the date of the "Boston tea party;" sixteen at the time of the Declaration "of Independence; twenty-two at the close of the war; twenty-eight when Washington was made Pre sident under the Constitution; and forty-ty-eight when Jefferson retired, the latter event being one that none but very old men can remember now. She was thirty years old when Pitt, Fox and Sheridan were fight ing their great parliamentary battles, the very history of which seems to us now so far back in the past. Her life spans all the features of our history colonial, revolu tionary, confederate and constitutional and under the latter she has survived the terms of sixteen Presidents, and more than two years of the term of the seventeenth. But in the advancement of civilization social, scientific, political, mechanical and humanitarianwhat a progress has she seen. The history of it embraces the whole era of jSteam engines, steam-ships, railroads, telegraphs, photography, light ning printing presses, modern chemistry, geology, the humane treatment of prison ers, the destruction of the old madhouses and bedlams, and the almost world-wide diffusion of republican ideas of government. Thus may a single life link together remote generations, and the greatest revolutions in the history of the world. Phila. Ledger.. 4 wa-MH-B-Ma-MpaaMHMBMMMa HOPEFUL SIGNS THE NEW CRISIS. We have, for some time past, indulged the hope that the eyes of the people of the JNortn were oemg opened to the grave and terrible realities Of the situation. We have been led to believe that this reaction would grow and exhibit itself the more, as the results of registration, under the ope ration ot the Military Acts, developed themselves in the South. Such is the case. 9 and we are cheered at the manifestations of returning reason. The wholesale frauds that were perpetrated in the Tennessee e a lection, under the first practical experiment of unqualified negro suffrage, and the frightful anticipations to which it has given rise, have had their effect in still further arousing; the most serious alarm' at the North, in view of the dangers that lie in the probable Africanization of the south ern States. We need no better evidence of this than is to be found in the followin , bat extracts from the N. Y. Herald, of the dates of the 8th and 9th, respectively. No paper in tne country is so apt, as tne neraid, in reading the signs of the times, or so prompt .au luiiuwiug ? iue iiuo ui , uuui when it begins to flow. Read: at lollowing the tide of, public opinion . aa. a. "Granting that the Northern States are prepaied for the recognition and acceptance of equal suffrage to the blacks, is New r l. tt i r - ? r r iuii, or is . ireunsyivauia, or is vjmv pro pared for tho full-blown experiment of ne- 1. . x ri . i on.i.l gro supremacy in ten ooutnern otaies, us l ljJI .1 tl coiueiiipiuieu uy uie rcpuDiican rauicais in Southern reconstruction? Assuming that if, with a conservative acting Secre tary of War in the place of Stanton, and with fire military commanders of Mr. Johnson's way of thinking in the places of the fiveicommander8 who think and act according to the gospel of Mr. Stanton assuming that the result will "be to delay. me won. oi southern restoration, ior ever, two or three years will this not be wiser than to rush headlong into ibis danger of Southern negro supremacy? Will not the inevitable tendency of negro supremacy in South. Carolina, for example, be to drive out the white population orto precipitate that war tof races .which, if . commenced, will be apt tneedilv to rinen into a war on both sides of indiscriminate extermination? . ".- - : Will social liarrnnnv or neaen-or i financial - J j :. ;. . v !:.rvo"'-r ... B,aiul uuoromg tnus an opportunity to confidence or active and systematic indus-f in reply, -Got any more or dem leettle atone for the heavy guilt of the Luxemburg -try, ever be restored to the South uadcr jhogs?" - jcoantry. ." " w - - the threatening danger J of negrosaprem- We cannot answer these questions truly without recognizing: the sagacity and wis dom of President Johnson's policy of givin to the Southern whites, - as far as possible? under the terms of Congress, a chance to recover their lost ground, and to take the lead in Southern reconstruction. We are, indeed, so far impressed, with the idea that in this view, of the question he stands in a strong position, that we feel bound to ad vise him to make the , most of his oppor tunity in bringing the issue before the peo ple of the Northern States far thtir "Ba second thought" upon it in the coming fall v"-i'iiu' ticrc is no 8ecuniy, and there are a thousand dangers, in the 'radical pro gramme which now distinctly foreshadows the placing of the late governing whites of ine ooum unoer the political control and subject to the caprices and revenges, of the black race, relieved but yesterday from the mora darkness, oppressions, wrongs and disabilities of.African slavery. Thesedan'. gers are so menacing that they must be appreciated by thinking Northern men. We hold, accordingly, that the time at last has come for a Northern reaction," and the time therefore, for decisive measures on the part of President Johnson." "Now, is the time for President John son to make the issue between his method of executing the laws of reconstruction, which means Southern white supremacy, and the Stanton method, which means Southern negro supremacy and twenty or thirty negroes in the two houses as a be gigning before the expiration of the present Congress. Let Mr. Johnson prepare at once to try New York and Pennsylvania on this test, and he will discover before the reassembling of Congress that they are ID yei reaoy to De lostled by Sambo in be Catted States Senate." XRUPP'Jy CANNON FOUNDRY. ' aaiaaa-a A correspondent of the Boston Post h-5 been on a visit to the world-renowned can non foundry, situated at Essen, Prussia: "Krupp's works now cover over fhe hun dred acres; consume daily fifteen thousand 1 1 ...a. nunored weight 'Ot coal, and the steam generated in one hundred and twenty boil ers; are lighted by seven thousand gaslights. and employ, as already mentioned upward wi cigni. iiiousauu iuen ana ooys, wno draw an annual pay ot two million five hundred thousand thalers, and, besides, enjoy many other advantages. . The iron ore for this enormous demand is taken partly from Krupp's own mines in Nassau, nearCoblenz, jianijr ujtuB6cu. x ticsQ mines yieio ine well-known specular iron. The conversion of iron into steel is accomplished by tho usual process ot puddling, and bar-iron only is obtained, by means of the Bessemer pro cess, lhe specular iron contains miirh nf tne noxious manganese, but is almost en tirely freed from it by puddling, so much so as to contain nearly' ninety-eights per cenu pure iron the remaining two per cent, consisting of carbon, flint, cobalt. ntcRei, copper, and an insignificant quanti ty oi pnospnorus. We must abstain here from a description of the nuddlincr process. and, for the benefit of the uninitiated, will merely mention that it consists chiefly in a thorough stirring Of the melted iron the w w - hottest and most fatiguing part of this gig 1 - K - TL.l j. i i auuu laoor. iiiai par. oi mo meiai wmcn is to be used for cannon must be softer than common steel, in order to obtain a certain elasticity to resist the sudden concussion at firing. This softness is obtained by the r - t- p i - t uuiiiialui c ui u uoriiou ui oar-iron, xron and steel are cut up into small bars of about six inches long, then put into black lead cruciuies, uoiaing irom imrrv to sixiv -LI-. I. .1 J! ' i . pounds. These crucibles of Krupp's have long been a precious secret, but, at present, those of.Ruel, iu London, and the Patent Crucible Company, of Battcrsea.are esteem- ed almost equal to them. The foundry is an enormous ouilding, with turnaces enough to melt at one time, in twelve hundred crucibles, all the iron and steel required for casts of the largest size. In each furnace there is room for nearly ten crucibles, which rest on movable iron bars, that can easily be taken out.- The heat in thee furnaces rises to such a degree that the best Scotcl firebrick, with which they are lined. and m f - m w in fact, the very crucibles themselves, often men; tne latter, tnereiore, are never used more than once. - A IIoGaisn Dutchman. A German tavern keeper in Cincinnati, who enter- tains porRmen and caters to tne taste both of his countrymen and patrons, I.ad roasted pig for dinner on Sunday. The animal (a small one) was served up whole, and as it was placed on the taoie sent lorth an ap petising and savory smell that pervaded the dining room, and made every occupant wish for a slice, but to the astonishment of every guesta burly, birsuted Teutonic pork deal er from the country sat down' opposite the dish, and incontinently appropriated the entire roast. The landlord happened lobe absent, and good breeding-prevented any of the guests from entering a protest,' so Hans made such a havoc of the dishVand wiped his lips .with such evident relish: that one of the waiters' with; a keener sense of the fun, approached him, and inquired if he 1-j.l 1 I iL? " t n- . . . ! -vv""o - aAO"' ucamiug facr hrifrhtonprf m mnmonf nA ha et-orl A HEW LOVE-TEST. . Jho English papers tell of sentimenta individual named Stanhope, who, bavngbe-' come possessed with the notion that -his wife was not so fond of him -as she should - oe, resolved to put her love to test. This he did by hanging himself in effigy in the attic, and concealing himself where he could watch the effects of the spectacle. - Hero is the sequel: : - . . - " After awhile his daughter came up after the skipping-rope, and caught a giimpseoi the suspended tigure. Sho ran down tho - afoira cMa !.. . 1 i-kt. ' . ll .. . owcouiiiig; wnmomer, mother: : pappy has hung himself! " Now for it," : thought Felix, in ambuscade, "we shall r have a tbucliing scene' presently." "Ilung 1 " himslfl" he heard Mrs. Stanhope repeat, " as she walked leisurely up stairs. 'He has -not got pluck enough for such a thing, or - ; he would hare done it" long ago. Well, I -believe he has done it. however," she con- ; tinned, as she came in view of Felix's rep- -; rescnUtive. "Moll" (to the little girl) I; -r think he ought to be cut . down. You had 7 better go into the kitchen and get a" knife, ' my dear; but don't go down too fast, or yool might fall aud hurt yourself. Stay, I I forgot. There's no knife in the kitchen ;T sharp enough. Yon can go round to Mr. Holmes, the shoemaker he's only four. streets off and ask him to lend us his par ing! knife; tell him to" whet it before he sends it. And, Molly, when you are in the ' ' neighborhood, you can stop at Aunt Sukey'a ' : and ask how the baby is. And, Molljvyou can stop at the green grocer's Shop as. you " come back, and get a pound of sugar. Poor . , Felix!" sighed Mrs. Stanh one. when hpr . daughter had departed, "I hope we can get him down before the vital spark's extinct ; for these buryings are very troublesome, : and cost money. He wanted to put an end 1 to himself, too; and I thick I ought to let him have his own way for once in his life; he used to say I was always crossing him. .. I wish he hadn't sj-oilod that new clothes . line; an old rope might have answered his purpose." Here a voice, which sounded ike that of the supposed suicide, broke in loon Mrs. Stanhone's Bolilnnnv with? Win confounded Jezebel, Til be the dealhof you!", Mrs. Stanhope, thinking this must . oi course oe agnostiy exciamation,"uttered . . a wild scream, and attempted to cscapo. down the narrow staircase. Felix starting . . irom nis place ot concealment, gave chase,1 Mrs. Stanhope stumbled midway; on the flight of stairs, and Mr. Stanhone. havinc just reached her and made a grasp at her uiauctcicu uttir am ib rirecuacu uitJwaiu: the amiable noir were orecinitated to tha bottom together. Both were badly bruised. ' America Slighted by B-ossia.'- - -' - -After all the talk and writing about the t, " aa- . friendly alliance between these two coun tries, the following, written to an Ameri can journal, raads strangely: "The neglect of the Czar to visit the American. Courts of the Exhibition, raited a good deal of aston ishment. " It was universally expected that 1 he. would have vUlteoVthem among the first ! nortioRg of th nalnCi Ifp prm in Imva - W wa-. mw- a. aa studiously avoided nutting his foot in them, although he visited courts of other"couri tries in their immediate vicinity. : Extrabr-- .mm a, - - a . dinary as this conduct was, his subsequent behavior is still more astonishing. After the attempt to assassinate him, some Amer- " 4 icans nere met together and prepared an address to him, sucti as several Jbngusu so cieties had presented. Thev applied for an . audience. The Czar's secretary replied that r l.i i ii L- j i t tuts war tuuiu nut rctcive iiicir nauressui-'' rectly from them, but, if they wished to pre- sent it, they must do so through the ; Rus-; . siari' Ambassador. This reply was the more " astonishing, as' the' English societies Imd - been received at the Elysee, and the Czar; talked to them in the most cordial manner. . - a a m It was furthermore noticed, fewer invita tions were issued to Americans by tho Rus sian Ambassador when he gave Iris ball, than they received to any of the recent en- tertainments." . , . ;;. Luxembueo--A Ccrious Ixcident. A curious incident in the modern Luxemburg is 'related by the German papers. . Soma 4 thirty years ago the oldest chursh in tho : ' country stood in the capital of Luxemburg, - -on the present Wil helm's places. Being in"' a ruinous state, it was taken down ancf its ' religious relics deposited in the'Liebfrauen " Church, situated close by. The historical monuments of the old church .were not " treated with equal respect, but strano-c to say, came under the auctioneer's hammer. -I and went for the most part for a song. : . A lawyer Dought the comn-and corpso -of John the Bliud, Count of Luxemborg, fittvt xxiii, vi Awiiciiiia, iur teu I nil 7C3. Corpse and coffin afterwards came into tho possession of a manufacturer "on the Saar, " where the remains of the "chivalrous king were as disrespectfully "stowed but of the way . as before. . Years afterwards, when King Frederick Wilhelm the IV travelled through the Rhine provinces, ho visited tbo factory, which bad - formerly been a fino ahby. ' - v ' -i i - t I The- proprictbr, ;ia: liowing LY foyaV guest, over the" plce,a s&Td, iestinlt that ' Vhe was'sheUering another' king,", and re-1" ! lafed to Jais majesty the singular adventures I of the cojpso. . The anger, of tho king .vas : only pacified when the pronrietnr rn?. IUuy puced at his disposal the mortal re- - I " .. i- .t -. . .fully placed at his disposal the mortal re- --s.a
The Eagle [1866-1875] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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