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SUMMARY OF NEWS
the Week eniing March. 31, 1874.
or
OKKION.
At M
ntreal tliora are 200-oases of small.
ox ami
evcral tloatlis Weur .daily. Prominent
rish nieinliers of the l'.nirli.sh Parliament have
solved to press Home Kule this session. The
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root) snip iinimiaia iww immi ni i ui wuiuuiii,
.iiLT.i irom in
(iolrt Cosistj with the Koyal mar
heiii'-n from Mobile, ivjkiiAs that on the 13th she
assed the abandoned wmk of the ship Barman,
-om Peiif acola . for l.iveijvl- A desperate eu
iLrenicnt was t'oiu-ht on the '.loth before Bilhao,
;um me rme unu-iue.-
f i.i -n i . i..
ine hark Carlton, at
. l.i.ii the . UenuWu-aii arniv.l under command of
larslial Serrano, attached the(.'arl5sts at 0 o'clock
ii the morning and met withtuhbom resistance:
he ttttle was kept up all daysuid was only ston
ed by the approach of "night i when . the Kepub-
cmis e:icfonel on positions tFutthey had caftm
d from the Kov-ih'sts; the lost of the. National
nu,iM was 470 men: General Loma comoiaiid-d
he centre and General Primo d Kivera the'-right
One million of srohi was warded at Kew
iV.ik on the th, at 112 157-lfl 112 57-100.-Phe
sei-o:ii baihltiin the Massacbifcetts Jilature
fhiirs.lav. re.-iJt'd : Dawes 92, Hoar tU, Curtis
'4, Adn"j.- 15, (Hanks . b At ew Orleans the
ir'Inteis strike has ended. At Ltddini'ton, Mich.,
. SfHUKJO lumber yard the has cunvL- Oliver
Dhrto'iiV inii.-ic-tiVe in Boston hii Iieen burned
T.'j.tX Ml. An unknown h-.uk is ashore on
Jurrituck Wa'h, and Xoifolk w
. her assistance. In" si ti-dit
l-ckers have trone
;i ti-'lil r un Apaones in
- i
trlMin "M;ii. Kaudidl killed el.-k-n warriors anl
...iitin-..il thirtv women and chiilren. In the C
S-n.-ite oii"i.')th. Fenton, from ;lie .Finance Com
1 f:.vni:i.hlv on tie hill to .refund
.ifmnu .JnrU-K to certain parties in New Orleans
AinU'i..- hill was plaeed on tlie faleiidar. Ahont
11 nVitii'L' in New York. Ma:vh ii, between iitty
o r
lid HXiV
r- " .1
1 :i4;12 ltlll ini.-i uiu
I. It J-....,,, t ...!,.it,- t.. H.. ii. -
en
lor the uyj
tse of vv)ii intr on llil new
tunnel of
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l lie 1 riai ' , j .
Railroad: just before they aiiived at the
thev v-'eiv attacked by alniut one hundre
nd'-Great Western
e tuime
red ot the
strikers, who had been lying m wt. and put mem
to Hit-l.tr die leader of the ltaliaiirlit is thought, is
fatullv wounded. The toW-lar.Creseent Lity
from Ne.wOi leans for .St. lxiuis. f :h nve sugar
and eottoii loaded barges explodeier boiler; the
l..,-.,-, k.i ! ,,.'. fifteen ?eiijs killed, and
evei al hurt: the Crescent City waivalued at 70,
DM -ahA at the time of the expision had 140
(.on.,,! :uu. with wafer tiush nvitniiiute betore
explosion: the enurineer in charge
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he time was
alt welilliiii a lire liuun auu nuuv.
'count for tlie
i-xulosioii: t!i-1 barges in tow
1
lia;
five hundred
inns f-iflil. Pix Jiuuareu ions si,
ud two huu-
dreil tons fiuofiisware, all of which
as lost; four
additional de-.id; noiu- of the lodi(f4
f the killed
ljiiNe Ui-a recovered. ihe Ch?:q
Coiivt-iitiun ii.seiubled at Rock Irdu:
raiitsporatiou
March 2oih,
nine lnin.li-ed deleimtes lieinsr piti-f:
wlieu J. M.
All.-ii wat-chuse:i iWuhiit; 'the stM-kers display-
...I ,!;.-nitv nf view in the diiue.sions tliat
folk
d oi-gantiatiou; amomr the routious of a
. l.uiMt N r was one iecriu-a!li tuvoiing a
Hup cunrd at the uioutli ol uie -viissi jn nnm-.
In -June li-72. liolle veor, a youniri aged 13,
... . ,
i.htiai d and niurdi-rtHl in Mefcr (
Ohio, mid two met), named McLeod tt Kimiuell,
lynched 11 infuriated
Dlt-j)l l.Uil l'A V.li- ....1.1 , . . - ,
citizens; a few davs airo Thomas Ji. liuglaes, ot
Fort Wayne. Ind", on his death-bed, co$$ed that
he coiiiiiiilted the outrage and afterwar particip
ated in the hanging of the two umocenten.
REVIEW OF THE 30AE.K3TS
For the Week ending March 3l 874.
i
TiTVF.npooi.. March 25. Common ro?l da 9d.
Spirits turpentine 34s' 3-J Gd. i;)d.unHiHLing
below low middling, deliverable May aii June,
fc 3-lt'td. UnlaiyU, uothing below good oBinary,
shipjitd March aiwl April, ttl. L planar, tiling
LwIoht r.uu onliiiarv. shiltled FebruaV and
M:ir h -21). ITidands, notliing below pooVrdiu-
arv. deliverable in Mav and June, 8 1-lbVi Up
lands, liothinir below low middling, delivertile in
Hid. Soirits turneutme d.Jil)d'2
Maivh 27.-Cotton quiet and unehanged-ak
of 12,000 bales, including 2,(KH bales for Acu
biti.ii. nnd exnoi-t. The f?ak for the pat leek
m -
focit up 1)4.0(10 bales; for export 13,000, for eW
laUOIl Z,WV, l-HK.lv ox,vuv
in in Loin. ,-...int for the w eek (57,0(X) bale;
10.000 balei
Vnr V.k- M.ir. h-25. Gold active and advkc
eu at iit a nt- v,nuu,u" r. rs
1 . K.ir. . I t.llt ' -......imniilllt tlOlwli: tit !(
and active. Cotton easy at lbtel cents. fcoSi
ei n Hour quiet and steady common to fair e J a
$t 30 a 7 20. good to choiee do $7 2ofll. N tht
m.ti.t ,....t it , out . ecided cnanse. oru ut fr
w..l t'lirlr tive new weoteru mixed 89"a;92 cej
Kosin tinu at m 50. Spirits turpentine firm
474 cents. Pork active and firmer new m
sltt "til
J.i. on nntd 112ill2. Governmei
bund, nr.. Btnmp- and active. Cotton dull an
... narj ,.nnis .i.uthem Hour quiet an
um-hanired common to fair extra 6 30a7 20;
r it,w,i.u ZroraZM Wheat more active.
tffi2 cents lower new
"eti.-,. inivAil A2 r-pnts. Rosin is firm at 2
50. Spirits' turpentine firm at 474 cents. Pork ex- j
cited and firmer new mess If 16 75.
March 27. Gold active at 113S 113. Govern
ment bonds are teady and active.- Cotton quiet
' and nominal at 1617 cents. Southern flour
Headier. Wheat opened 2 cents better, with fair
export demand, and closed quiet, shipper gener
al lv holdintr off and refusing to pay the advance.
Corn opened 1 cent better, but closed quiet new
western mixed 89293 cents; extra choice white
southern 95 cents. Fork firmer new mess lb
C0$1675.
- WilmiKGTOX, March 25. Spirit turpentine at
4 cents. Kosin at 1 80 for strained. Crude
turjientiue at $2 95 for yellow dip and $ 1 90 for
hard; market quiet. Tar $2 00 & bbl.; market
steady. Cotton at 13J cents.
March 2G. Spirits turpentine 43 cents. Rosin
for March, at 1 97i for strained; market firm.
Crude turpentine S2 80 for yellow dip and $1 90
for hard. Tar at 2 00 bbl.; market steady.
Cotton at 13 cents.
March 27. Soirits turpentine 421 cents. Kosin
at S2 00 for Rtramed. March delivery. Crude tur
Petitine 80 for vellow din and $1 90 for hard.
Home Circle.
THE BELLE OP MONTEREY.
The Monterey of twenty-five years ago
was a vastly different town from the Mon
terey of to-day. The silent streets, now
the almost exclusive property of geese,
cows, and nomadic hogs, then echoed to the
ringing hoofs of the gayly attired cabdttcrefs
horse; the uniform of the-English and Am
erican naval officer contrasted with the
staid black mantilla of the pretty senorita;
the guitar tinkled on moonlit nights under
the lattice ol the dark-eyed belle: and the
romance of Spanish life mingled with the
bustle and activity of a prosperous sea-port
town. Is ow, an untenanted harbor, a mass
of half-ruined , unoccupied buildings, and a
drowsy air of neglect and indifference, con
stitute the -modern Monterey. Still,' the
roses and the tall hollyhocks cling loving-
. .11111 - i
ly to tlie adobe walls, and peep in through
the low windows; but the blushing, olive
cheeked cirls that offered them to the
lounging wooers at the garden gates twenty-five
years ago jiave grown into dowdy
matrons, wrinkled bv family cares, the
busy port is silent and deserted, and the
once bustling dock is rotting away, whose
maro-iii is washed by the spring-tides,
which knowing no change, murmur vet as
of old on the crescent beach.
With all its drearv somnolence, there is
a charm about the old town, sitting Jike
some sad widow by the sea, mourning' the
commerce which has deserted her, and yet,
in all her grief, Enoch Ardeu like, hoping
and waiting ior a sail, and seeing
The great stars that globed themselves in heaven,
I lie hollow-bellowiiig oi vau, ana again
The scarlet shahs ot simnse hut no sail.
Slowlv in the bay sank the evening suu
on the 24th of December, 1848. Across
the waters streamed its last golden and
purple rays, glistening on the wet sands,
tenderly shimmering through the branches I
of the oak that stood in the- old bpanish
grave-yard, and disappearing among the
nines that sentineled the lull-tops in the
back-ffround. .
Maria lrnacia
Gomez, as the angchd
bell rung out from the Mission church I
crossed irerseii uevoutiv, ior a monieni
neglecting the rose-vine that climbed to thuj
red-tiled roof of her low, long dwelling.
And as she stoml in the garden, with cross-
ed hands and large brown eyes uplifted,
her black shawl drooping irom her grace
ful shoulders, and Iter red lips moving in
prayer, a painter couia aesire no oeir-er
model for a Madonna or an Evangeline, for
the face had all the sweetness ot the one,
with the resigned expression of patient
waiting of the other.
A sour-looking,
querulous looking face
appeared at tuc
deep window.
''Come here, Maria; 'tis supper time.
"Yes, Mad re miaf. and Maria, securing
the erratic vine to a nail in the adobe wall,
entered the house.
Ten vears before the date of our story,
when Maria's sweet woman-howl was at its
dawn, for marty a mile rode nl the youth
of the poutheru country to catch a glimpse
of or pveh:ino-e word with the belle of Mon-
tprev. A rose-bud irom her finarers was a
o - . . 1
rare' ift, to be carefully- preserved and
worn with pride, and a kind glance Irom
her brown eves sent the; recipient back to
his rancho on the Salinas a happy mam
Never a cloud rested on that calm, earnest
face, nor passion found a moment's harbor
in her breast. I
But at last her sorrow came; in this wise:
T Tu., the stout shm Delifrht lurl-
ed her canvas and dropped her anchor in
the Bav of Monterey. She was owned by
the o-reat Hudson's Bay Company, and was
i..,,..wi ,...1. drain th noets of the com-
i;vydii' uut v- i
panv on the Frazer and Columbia rivers
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of the valuable furs which lay in their store
houses. The supercargo of the Delight,
James Gilmour, 'was a eon of the vice-pre-sideut
of this opulent corporation, and
showing a positive disinclination for each
and all of the learned professions, and ex
pressing a hearty contempt for the hum
drum life of Europe, had been sent by his
father to the Pacific shores, to drink his fill
of the .adventures for w hich he thirsted.
He was a youth of a singular force of char
acter, very undemonstrative, and possess
ing some decided opinions of the dilettante
which had won for him m nig university
days the title of 1 he Radical. The unani
mous verdict of the jury of old wise-heads
to whom Gilmour, senior, had appealed for
an opinion of his son's character, was that
Janie's w as talented, but odd ah eccentric
young man, in fact who, unless travel
tempered him down, would never be an
acquisition to the merchant office within
whose dusty precincts his father had amass
ed a bulky'fortune. So J ames found him
self aboard the Delight, anchored in the
Bay of Monterey, and, though nominally
sup'ercargo, really in that tangled maze of
a OUUe man 1U p
hat worthy seaman had squared the' yards
t t- tnt nainni.v-iulotli.
phis tisfaetiom got his fon
,,r . - n n ;i.i-
AlLPr
s at the gangway, and inspected the fit
ne--on of the e;ood clothes, wmcn a mer-
b . , I ! 113 . 1
ant vessel dons in port -ao you kuuw
y of the inhabitants of this odd-looting
lage on the hill-side!'.
1 'Village !' Mr. Gilmour. 1 pray yon
.'t call this a villaaro. This is a city,
the first citv in California and if 1
take not," continued the captain, "yon-
t i if T 7 7
lat the custom-house stands tne wcuiue,
spi table gentleman to whom our com
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is indebted for manv favors.'
Uh speaker
.m v i.
few
weryieaxtiiv greeieu oy mm yiuii, w,
I, .! i. 1 1 11..1 .A!itnl
as tl boat's keel grated on the sand, wel
comi them to Monterey.
Abng" the. many young and pretty
Spaifli girls whom Gilmour met m juon-
terey
as Maria Ignacia.
airy
;ced him to tow UmidI into the
list w
tne opanisn ganauus uu dlxu
n r i n x i,
than successful. The difference of Ms man
ner, his recitals of adventure in Europe,
and descriptions of the grand places of his
tory, were something so novel to Maria, so
totally different from the stereotyped com
pliments of her wooers, that she found a
charm in his society which, in her innocence,
she cared not to conceal. But the end came
at last. The Delight was to proceed north
ward, and the supercargo prepared to take
leave of all his Spanish friends.
"And so, Maria," said Gilmour, on the
evening preceding his departure, "our
pleasant visit conies to an end. Well, I
have improved my Spanish, and you, little
Madonna, if ever- the fates take you to
England, will recognize the abbeys and the
churches from my descriptions."
Maria Ignacia did not reply, but stooped
to pick up an abalone shell, which, wet
and sheeny, lay in the sand at her feet.
"And now, Maria, I have only one re
quest to make, which our charming acquaint
ance warrants. It has three parts, however
a souvenir from this dark hair of
a letter, now and then, when you weary of
your Monterey lovers, and wish to talk to
me across the water; and a kiss."
Still no answer fronnthe girl, who, with
eyes cast down, strolled along by his side.
"Then I shall take it for granted that
my prayers prevail, Maria ! 7
Her soft eves were raised to his, and he
was surprised to find how pale the face
was, and how moist the rounded cheek:
lie raised her lips to his with a half-sigh,
and then, as if anew thought had suddenly
struck him, said, abruptly, half to himself
and half to her
' "Good God ! it can't be so; Maria ! Tell
me do you love me?
The wonderful passion in the full brown
eves, 60 tender and despairing, told him all;
and then, like a foolish young man,
ne
took her in his arms, and swore all
the
oaths that all lovers have so often sworn
and so often broken; and when they stroll
ed back over the sands, Maria's tears were
goiie, and James Gilmour clasped the hand
of his promised wife.
This was, all the romance m Maria's life
The next -(lav the Delight sailed, and ior
ten years neither ship nor supercargo were
heard of in Monterey. But she never mar
ned. . She had a strange way pi every
evening walking to the hill-top where the
old:-fort stood, and looking wistfully out
across the water: then sorrowfully and re
signed!' returning to her home,
nursing
her invAltd and sour-tempered mother, and
traininir the roses about the adobe walls
On the Christmas eye, Maria Ignacia,
kneeling before her old fashioned engrav
ing of the Madonna, thought of the manger
in Bethlehem centuries ftiro, and. wondered
sorrowfully if James Gilmour was enjoying
-m his English home tne uunstmas-iree
and the mistletoe, and all those games he
had told her of when they had walked on
the sands ten years ago. And then her
thoughts w?nt back to that J une evening
when he kissed her lips and called her his
wife.
Boom ! boom ! boom ! through the still
night air.
Maria opened her window and looked
out. A party of Portuguese whalers went
. . x -, , , 11- il
rapullv bv, ami sue learnea irom ineir ex
cited exclamations that ;a ship bad gone a-
shore on tne X'oim x inoa tocks.
"May God and the Virgin succor them!''
she murmured piously, as she hurried to
wrap her shawl around her, and was soon
in the street.
Every one was astir. Men on horseback
with ropes rode lunously along tne oeacn
and toward the Point; tne wnaiers manned
thtp boats, set their sails, and sped before
the blast through the moonlit water They
were all too late, llie cruel, pointed roews
had torn the ill-fated vessel to fragments;
i 1 ' r 1 i.
and the breakers dallied with spar and mast,
I ' . 1 . . .. l.:.l ,.i-i sn tlm Imiinll
now lllllirinir iunu uisu um - m. "i.'"-")
and again draw ing them back to hurl them
once more against the Jbrown cliffs. But
not a single body did the waves throw up
that nio-ht.
Christmas Day dawned, and when Maria
Io-nacia Gomez looked frdru her window
down
to the crescent beach, she saw a
crowd oi men siaiuung auoui wmciamg.
Thev lifted it up and bore it through the
street, and to ner uoor, ior ners was me
house nearest the beach.
"Is he deadf she! asked fearfully,
"When we first saw him,'"' said a whaler,
"lie wm clinrinfir to a spar.: and before we
o-ot the boat out he was washed ashore."
Phey laid him on a bed. His dark beard
was full of sand and weeds, and a white
froth issued from his lips; a finely built man
handsome, no doubt, when those eyes,
now 6tarinr so blindly, had light and life,
and those well-cut lips moved and smiled,
"Maria Maria, what ails yout
She was standing by the bedside, her
hands crossed over her breast; her eyes as
fixed and vacant as tne aeaa Deiore uw.
. i ii r i
"O, ray beloved 1" she moanea, laying
r white face' on his bruised and; stained
l 1nat aftor en mane- VP91-S." And
I MlCdei, ".n i4-i-Ik, - J J
then she smoothed back the tangled hair
and wiped the foam from the hvid lips, and
Lained out the limbs of him who had
straightened
come to seek her after so long.
For it was her great consolation that
he had been true even to death. 1 hey
buried him behind the old fort, and Maria
took up the thread of her life again. And
now the roses were doubly dear to ner, ior
they were for his grave.
Vmpsk was a female- Greek divinity,
who appears to have been regarded as the
Twn-enniHcation of the righteous anger of
.'he god6r She i8 reprinted bflenbly
severe to the proud and insolent. In mo-
arr.rieA Xemesis is used as personify
rtonrpnmr of iniustice and wrong.
i caught the eye of Galileo at eighteen years
"Where did you learn wisdom!" inquir- of ae, taught him the secret of the pendu
i iv mon nteemed wise. lum. made many a discovery in astronomy
"Fron, the bUnd, who alw.v8 try the.r
CU liutcuca ui " '
t, n ct i t hptrtm tnev venture
i pam u"v-
THURSDAY, APRIL 2,
WHY PRESIDENT BUCHANAN NEVER
MARRIED.
Many years ago a lawyer in Philadelphia,
poor and unknown to fame, fell iu love
with a beautiful young lady of Baltimore,
andhis love, being reciprocated, an engage
ment ensued. The mother of the young
lady, however, did not view the engage
ment with satisfaction or pleasure. Indeed,
she heartily disapproved of it, for the young
lawyer was altogether too poor and obscure
to marry into one of the wealthiest and
most aristocratic of Baltimore families,
This, at least, was the opinion of the young
girl's mother, who, being very ambitious
and correspondingly proud, desired that her
daughter should wed somo person prominent
either in this or some other country
She brought all her influence to bear up-
nn the nrirl onrl did oil oliA nrcaihlv rvnhl
W i VWV UA, Ul.lt - i V- K- . -V .VUAV .
intnA n n m i,rlnvoi-'hiit
incr he resorted as mothers have done
before to deception and other conteinpti-
ble means to break off the engagement,
Letters were intercepted, handwriting imi-
tated, servants bribed and falsehoods circu-
lated promiscuously. The natural and in-
evitable result was that a misunderstand-
ing arose between the betrothed, for which
O
neither in reality was responsible. One
day the lawyer received a note written in
the handwriting of hiscee, accompanietl
by a packet of letters and a box of trinkets,
The note stated that the writer had, upon
careful consideration and thought, decided
that she 'did not love him as a woman about
to be his wife should, and for this and oth-
er reasons begged to be released from her
eno-ao-ement.
The blow was a hard one. and for a lono-
,i t p ii 1 1 xr .i I
time tne lawyer ieit me euecis acuieiv. i
TTndor the imnroccinn ihat he hn1 beon I
iilted because he was poor and unknown,
V iivivi tuv Auiuicuivu tiiliu uv bvv I
impression
he determined to become rich and lamous,
and forthwith commenced his "noble life."
TTnw well he Rnrceftded the nation knows,
for in 1848 he was made Secretary of State,
Minister to England, and a few years later and studied it by himself.' A quiet-man-was
elected President of the United States, nered bov, naturally shy, and disposed to
Meanwhile his first love married a very
rich merchant of Philadelphia, much against
her own will, and only at the earnest and
reneated solicitations of her mother. The
mamasre was not a
happy one, for the wife
neither loved nor respected the , husband,
Her cup of bitterness was full when she
X w '
heard of the election of her lover as Presi-
dent, and her mother's cud was quite over-
flowinff. She plunged into social dissipa-
tion in the hope of forgetting her sorrows,
Vnr tvL'fi nr thrift splKimc r1i was the talk
of the Quaker City, where she went to re-
. I '
h side witn iicr nusuauu. - aim wuere men
! 1 -1 1 111 1 I iL...-
first child was born. Her ehtertamments
wfr nf niiiisiiii 1 eleo-nTice. her costumes
marvels of richness and beauty, and her
euuipao-e the finest ever seen in Walnut
street.
llv and bv scandal circulated about her.
id slm neo-Wted her familv.
o.iii oio.ii .tiT annual? bp rf tranafcr-
iiu.i Diauuvi wiit'i
. y , .
nntr bpr nffrctions to a fpntleman wlio is
now United States Minister at a European
& O
city
n,,, b lw.r friPnds fell off. find
ultimately she was "snubbed most directly
and reneatedlv. She left her husband aud
went, home to her mother in lialtiraore.
where in a few months she died of consump-
tion. brnn o-ht on bv excessive and -protract-
ed dissipation. Her cruel and unnatural
mother never ceased to berate and upbraid
her for not marrvinsr the lawyer, when she
herself, by interceptino- and forsrino; letters,
broke oil the match. Her last hours were
' - i
spent in religious exercise, and it is related
that she wrote to her true and faithful lov-
r .i,ori fiii a,i W!,a nn
Ex-Presi-
jmes Buchanan,'asking forgivt
and Btatinff tiat she had never ceas
eness.
ased to
love him with all her heart and soul. -
This most romantic storv is vouched for
by reliable parties as true in every particu-
W nltl.ontrb for obvious reasons all the
names are omitted. The story has a moral,
and there are many women in society to-
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day who had best apply it. Truth, indeed,
is stranger than fiction.
"IHaveXo Chance."-
D
on t say tnat,
five chances on
young man. lou have
eacn uami. xneu you nave uunj-sn ut
least in your head. Every faculty you
nave win vote you into omce, u .you um;
enlrancnise it and iorm a conieuerauon ue-
tween tbe ireemen m vooir Drain and tne
. . 1 Til
frppnipn at thft ends of vour arms
Chances, plenty of them, tall under our
mi
eves, if we have only eyes to see theni and
hands to pick them up.
The falling: of an apple was the oppor-
tunitv for Newton to solve the mystery of
I gravitation. " .
A floating sea-weed, drifting by the ves-
sel when the crew were uttering mutinous
threats, was the chance seized by Colum-
bus to pacify an incipient rebellion and to
inenire his men with the promise of a new
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continent and a new wonu oi enterprise.
xhe pickmg up ol a pin in a street oi
J Paris by a poor boy, as he was going from
I o m-not'tmrlr cv bl rn fd at. tfiA denial of his
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application for a place, wag the founding
the success and prosperity of one of tl
greatest bankers of the queen city of tl
Of
the
errpatest bankers of the queen citv of the
I world. That simple act, illustrative of an
economical spirit asserting itself over prea
I ent grief, waa observed Irom the window;
the lad was recalled, and the refusal at the
game moment. Industry, patience and
honesty did the rest.
A jumping tea-kettle lid ia said to have
put the steam into tnat uoy s neau wuo
crave us the greatest gain of modern industry.
A kite and a key, in Franklin's hands,
were the grandparents of our telegraph and
all ,he U. of modem .nve.fon ap-
plying electncity. .. .
- A swinsring greasy lamp, just filled with
I oil bv a verger in the cathedral of Pisa,
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""I"- ISZIZ'Z
to i wnuic mwou o Diu .
uiement of time.
1874.
NAPOLEON IV.
The Prince Imperial of France, or Nap-
oleon IV, as his Bonapartist adherents de-
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light to call him, has recently attained his
majority, and a short sketch of this youth-
ful exile at Chiselhurst may not be unin
teresting to our readers:
Louis Eugene Napoleon was born on the
16th of March, 1S56. His mother, when
two years of her married life had passed
without the birth of an heir, made a vow
ihat if a son were given her she would
build a chapel to the Virgin, and this vo-
tive church was built on a grand scale at
Vincennes, in 1857. The young Prince
had an English nurse provided for him, and
he remained under her charge until his sev-
onli Idrtli.davr so that, he eonhl fine.lk EnO- I
Will. I'll 111 UU , VV vuv - I. O I
Uai, KntA l -nnld nrnnonnce his own
tnno-ne. and he SDeaks it still with remark-
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able fluencv and pure accent. AH through
his childhood and boyhood, the Prince lm-
perial had an inseparable companion in
the person of young Louis Conneau, son of
the Dr. Conneau who aletted Louis Nap-
oleon's escape from Ham; and this boy,
who is his daily companion to this hour,
has been as good as second tutor to the
Prince, so keen-witted is he, and so frank,
In his early tutors the Prince was not very
fortunate. One mau was found, who be-
gan teaching his pupil republicanism; the
next one turned out to be affiliated with
the Society of Jesus, and was dismissed be-
fore he could mould the boy's mind to ul-
tramontane ideas. The Emperor then fas-
tened on General Frossard, who was popu-
larlv sinvnosed to be a military easde, and
l - ji.!..u .t IV-l.nnli U o mil.
wuo pioyti muiscn m, j. ul i
itnrv oroosfl. TTllder this wamOl'. mOl'O
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courtly -than erudite, the Prince Imperial
learned a smattering of mathematics, little
Latin, less Greek, but a good deal of fen
einsr and horsemanshiu. Ho also learned
history, but that was because he liked it,
become more so by the diplomatic reserve
continually inculcated upon him, the Prince
had, nevertheless, iiom his earliest child
hood, a considerable fund of shrewdness,
and he used often to sav, "1 always take
off my hat to the Parisians, because they
take off one's crown so easily when they
aro offended." lie was entered on the ros
ter of the Imperial Iruard when ho was
three years old, was promoted to corporal-
ship at five, to sergeant-ship at seven, and
bore his sub-lieutenant's epaulet for the
first time, when he started with his father
I X il, 1 ... M rm. 4r.o fx net iil
i -. -w- -w- -w 1 "1 t
tur uie viunuiui w.ii. ailw tuc pta,
when .Napoleon 111. was released irom ms
caDtivitv at V llhelmshoue, the vonnff
Prince, who had been spirited away to Etig
land at the first French defeats, was enter-
el at the w ooiwicn Acauemy, anu ne uus
hist completed his course there. .No fav
oritisni was shown him in the matter oi
I studies. Althouerh two or three years
i ij v
x1iir, -t -f x. otbnv tttndontvi
vounoer tlian most ot tne otnei siudenis,
. . ...
he worked up the same subjects as they,
and has recently passed with credit an ex-
animation which would entitle him to a
commission, if he desired it. The chr.nces
are that lie will not maKe up nis minci on
this point until he sees clearly what Ayill
be the result, in France, ol the celebration
of his eighteenth birth-day. If, in a month's
time, tne prospects oi a restoration seem
remote, it is probable that he win accept
the offer made him by Queen Victoria, and
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enter tne army, waning iih-e jir. jncaw
ber, "for something to turn up. lie is a
handsome, amiable boy, a capital horseman,
ready with his money, unanected, and much
lilted bv his companions at Woolwich If
lelt to himselt, ne would giauiy nave
ed them m all their amusements and'
bles; but this he was allowed to do
regards the amusements held within tho
college grounds, ior tear tnat ne migui
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bo assassinated by communist reiugees, ue
is never suffered to go out without the es-
cort ot V iscount viary and -u. iacuon, ms
twe equerries, while a couple ot private
Corsican detectives, well armed, lollow(him
- , c cc
ai,ont everywhere, at a distance ot hlty
yari3 or so". These precautions are neces-
I sary with all who -would wear a crown
noWadavs , and with a Bonaparte more par-
ticularly so. it is Known tnat inrouguout
ti,e Second Empire JNapoleon lll.'s great-
l . ..
est fear of revolutionists was Qn account of
his boy, whom he loved witn an anecuon
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LnRnnv deep and watchful. If the
princ0 went out in a carriage, not only
miht an escort of cuirassiers be seen gal-
honino- before and behind, but equerries,
:rh bolsters onen. cantered beside either
cnrrifio-e-door. throwing watchful glances
abontthem as thev rode.
What does the Prince think of the Chis-
finllirct celebration! If wo believe his
rnnrtierB. we must take it that lie is fireful
nri( eap-er to be up in his saddle and land-
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jnof on French shores, to Do acciaimea oi
tije people; but if we draw inferences Irom
the boy's thoughtful mien and melancholy
I . V 1, . rmmmnn fata nf nrfltend-
I t-l UO, ouuivij buv - r--
ers, and is not happy.
TfTELAXDic Festxvai,. The Cologne
frflMfesavs: Iceland has in contempla
tion this year to celebrate the thousandth
vear since the settlement ol tne lsiana. o 1 1)
As early as obU a uaue nameu uacuui waa
drifted from Scotland m stormy weather,
nArtl.war.l. to an unknown coast. Ho win
tered in the country, and called itGardars
l,nlm. Shortlv thereafter, a Norwegian,
Nadod, was also drifted there. In 868, the
?aUnd caa visited bv another Norwegian,
Floke, who remained for a year there, and
called it Island. Ingolf, driven into exile
on account of cruelties perpetrated by the
Xnrwflrian King Hagr Haarsager, pro
ceeded, in 874, with his foster-brother to
Iceland, and there founded the earliest
settlements. These were near the place
where Beiklavik, the capital of the island,
now stands. Uthers louowea me , urom
ere.
and the island was eoon mhawtfed
From Iceland, Greenland, as is known, -was
discovered, and from it hardy Norse sea-
men, about the year 1000, reached that
P"" ' -
T.irm MnranihniMiila If ia dnticn. 1
qaentlyj nof iihout some historical justi-
fication that the celebrated Norwegian vi-
olinist," Ole Bull, has been collecting sub-
sr.ri nti on a at concerts amonf? his country-
men to erect a monument to the Norwegi
; an, LiefErikson, the first discoverer of Am
erica, as the latter touched American ground
from 400 to 500 years before Columbus:
and there are indications that the Genoese j
' was not only acquainted with the voyages
of the old JN'orse sailors to America,
but
was also influenced by them in his plan and
its execution.
"I Can't Afford It." How often "do
Wo hoar thia Tilen. from VOimf men. when
UIU1 ' "
dm imnnrt-inc nf nn education is urffed I
unon them. Manv of them can afford to
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poison themselves, by indulging m xne
se of liquor, paying fifty or a hun-
di-ed dollars for the privilege: they can af-
ford to educate the feet in the gaieties of
the ball-room, on like terms; to attend sen-
sational places of amusement; to stake this
game money they could not afford for an
education, , m games oi cnance; 10 expenu
money for iWels, which would pay for a
library of educational works; and n a var-
iety of other ways useless to enumerate
here.
This is looking at it from a moral stand-
point. But let us suppose the existence of
a moral young man, who makes this objec-
tion, and vet wastes no money in the ways
indicated. He "can't afford it;" but he can
afford to remain in ignorance for the remain-
.1 f l.Io Ufa ftf tin a T-ftc nHapntiAl elfim-
un ui ma mi., v. v-
ents and lvnncinleS of the buSinCSS that llC
will be every day called upon to transact.
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Ripe3Tixg for Deaxbt. No one (says
Von Humboldt) can fear death less than I cuge my ignorance in geology). My intea
do, neither am I much attached to lifej but iona were to have asked the usher of whAt
I have never known the feeling of an anx-
ious longing for death; and although it be
a nobler one than that of an absolute wea-
riness of existence, it is nevertheless blama-
ble. Life must first, for as long a period
as Providence wills it, be enjoyed or suffer-
ed in a word, gone through, and that with
a full submission, without murmuring, lam-
enting or repining, l here is one important
law of nature which we should never lose
sight of: I mean that of ripening for death.
lieath is not a break in existence; it is but
an intermediate circumstance, a transition
from one form of our final existence to an-
other. The moment of maturity for death
cannot be decided by any human wisdom
or inward feeling; and to attempt to do so
would be nothing better than the vain rasn-
ness of human pride. That decision can
only be made by Him who can at once
look back through our whole course; and
both reason and duty require that we leave
the hour to Him, and never rebel against
His decrees by a single impatient wisu.
ine nrst anu rue mubi, liiipuiium, iuiuS
i . , 1 , ,
Zlr'M nn Him
tn nam in nnnctor rmrsP K'PS and lO llirOW
" "1
who never changes, looking on every sit-
nation, whether pleasant or otherwise, as a
source, from which our interior existence portraits of; many women, called tne neau
and individual character may draw increa- ties 0f Charles II. There are two rooms, ,
sing strength; and hence springs that entire
submission which lew attain, though ait
fancy they feel it. ,
Straxgeb thas Fictiox. A North
German paper advertising for the Ameri
can heirs ot the fortune ot a widow lauy at
nerdam goes on to say:
x ne sioiy oi u.u x
en, as long ago as 1852, and tho finding
paffes oi romance, xuv mow, va-
erine Spelleing, and her. daughter Doro-
thy, were joint possessors oi uiamouub, r,e room jg very &n(j ieantiful
money, bonds, etc., to the amount oi one AnrA An. There' m one thine-, howev-
hundred and
idred and hity thousand uoiiars and
upied a house by themselves on Harlan
-i -in
onrl
occ
street, Amsterdam. Une day in me sum-
mer of 1852, a placard appeared on
lucl "x JLl-'t"- l 1""' rr-
0QT ya. thev had gone to the country.
g;x Jve(;ks 0lej aronnd, and still the pla-
para remained on the door. Tho snspici
f the poviCe were aroused at the
i absence of the women, and the house
,QiriArri
The nlacard was found to
V .1.. .v..
bo a fearful decepti0u; the bodies of the
t women were found on the floor, their
diamonds, bonds and money missing, and
no clue to the murderer and thiei iouna.
In July last the house was torn down,
and m its destruction camo to light a err
cumstance equaling m horror the assassin-
ation of the two lone women, between
the house taken down and the one next to
it was a space of about a foot; and, con-
fined m this narrow, horn Die prison, w as
found the skeleton of a man, caught mid -
way between tne top ana uottum,
. J linnnll. l.tm WArfl foimd tllA
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lUO iiiuuuu ucuwm tAiuj.
diamonds, the bonds and tne mouey ui tuu
two unfortunate murdered women. The
assassin, it was reasonably supposed, first
placarded the house, belore matting nis
entrance: then, in attempting to escape o-
ver the roof, after committing the murder,
he missed his footing, fell between the two
houses, and, witn a smnoi utuo.uu -
tween the high walls of his lmng tomb,
A "Dickens Party" was recently given
in iNew xors, at wuicu wui. uuuu.vi.
persons appeared in character! The genial
author had a consciousness of his hold on
the hearts of the people, when he request-
ed that no imposing monument should be
reared over his last resting-place, bnt that
h whole works should be trusted to keep
A Paris correspondent says that black
is worn almost entirely for street toilets..
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The Dote of is known as the $$2. ' Z?i
"Fiddler Prince," VecanBO of ha mosual "?Ti vkitm-Enrfand, aft.he..
NO 34
A good! wife is likefa snail. Whj-1 Be-
cause she I keeps in her own house. A.
good wite is not like a snail. YV hyi lie-
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hir!r A rrnArl wita la It ITA ft town P.IOCit-
Why? Because she keeps good time, A
good wife is not like a town clock? Why!
Because she does not speafe soloudtnat all
the town can hear.
Correspondence.
FOR THE GAZETTE. .
Reminiscences of a Sojourn, of Many Tears in -v
(ue. Various Kingdoms and Empires of Europe.
' j" No. 11. . , -
Messrs. Editors: At 8 o'clock a. m.
ll t 9
the cars leave LiOndon tor tbe town or
Windsor, hich has a population of some-.
? fff AAA mho hiTOnt a nni 1 wi c& xrrTw
Upvi u.MUu.n , u .
rural-looking place, situated some 20 or 25
miles west of London. 1 he groves all
around the town-are beautiful, and the
great park is very tine, the only objection
to it being that ,ever-thing is too naucn
trimmed up. But our object in visiting
iu uwi, v- -
see Windsor Castle, and we found it a very
large and stately building. It was built
during the eleventh century by William
the Conqueror; but has been added to by
vanous Kings. It is situated on the south
side of the town on a hill, and is composed
of three grand divisions: the principal and
central portion is the round - lower, irom
the top of which one has asplendid view
lor many nines in every airetuon,
Ever
since the castle was built, (like St. Cloud,
6 miles from Paris,) it has been a favorite
residence for the Kings of England. The
castle is built of a very dark gray stone,.
resembling gray granite. (You will eX'
kjna Gf gtone the Tower was built; but he
waa BO muich occupied all the time showing
anj telling us everything, that I entirely
forgot it. i The blocks are of various sizes
am shapes, and the masonry looks as if
Jt w ould last for hundreds of centuries; the
symmetry,1 together Hyith the height, length
and breadth, renderit one of the most mag-
nincent buildings m' Europe. It occupies
several acres, has an open court, is sur-
r0nnded by one of thle most beautiful groves
j in England, j Perhaps the xeason it
does not bear the marks of time more than
it rtoe9 is bat during this centucy grants
have beeu made by Parliament, at surfdrv
times, amounting to some $2,000,000, with
hich the general appearance of the Castle
n was told) was very much improved by
building the walls higher , and inserting
iarger windows. If one was not assured that
tue whole iof the buildings cover some ten
or twelve acres, it would be difficult to be-
ijeve it. Qf those apartments shown to
the visitors is the tueen s Presence tnam-
per, wnicn uas mucn ot mat- tuu .laprewj
l v i . . -
"sZZiT:iL " tZZli a a:
Lnmo otahhH 1 romAm her nnfl HCPVK
tion of St. j Peter. There is a room known
as the Beauty Room, in which hang the
,cF". u:,w j
called the King's and Queen's Guard Cham- .
ws. which contain a very hne armory.
(3ne of the: finest rooms is the King's Au-
dience Chamber, a .large and beautifully
fitted up apartment, where hang several of
Sir Benjamin West's stiff looking paintings.
TIia TCinor's dinino- room is Quite larsre and
lendid , gt George,s Hall fe very fine
it is more 0f a private apartment than any
ih r(ima. The King's Private
small, neat
the produo-
carvmgs are by
irpi v.,i Aomu, iloa
immense bed, called the state bed.
I J o
' wllict detra8 uch from the beauty of
room; -t .g more of that old dusty fe.
deJ taDest v. rcuresenting the months of
tne vear, nangiug m an uucvuuus atsuu
room. There are many other suites of
rooms through which one is shown; but all
of them are more or less domestic apart
ments. I i know of nothing peculiar to
them: thev are like the apartments of all
" -j &
upboste of OBO wWle suite of
. i .
. solu nof perhaps another canary. I
tX 4l,Q intorinr nf th
- s G eg CliapeI. It i near the
P connection witll it
wa3built 4 Edward8 m and IV, and
v TT VTI 1ere are inter.
.HeniVlI and Henry VIII. and sev-
. Qaeeng
1 i.nitt? Of the three roval chapels
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. England, this is said to be the most el
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egant. As wle had been severely , uieu u
passing through the Castle, my company
would not iagree to pay the amount de-
mandei'in; pafesing ns through the Church;
so I was obliged to deny myself the pleaa
nre of seeing the interior of one of the riclk-
est and most interesting churches in Eng
The most of my company: were
En lifih ana they were loader, and mor
s i . denunciationa of tte fee im.
position than any one else. One of tte
prettiest ideas I saw at mdsor Castle
wa b "" j - -
It consists! of two towers 100 feet each,
one called; York and the other Lancaslerj
they stand there . to remind tne xugiiAu-
man of the once unhappy difficulties that
existed between these two houses; and of
the finally happy union that took place be-
Wivcati t le two nouses, x is.uow ui
is fatigued with sight-seeing at London, to
... i. mi winder ,
be sure iu ubu h iu.'" , .
Tar -2 10. Cottou 15 cenU tt.
for th
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