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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
Kobin, little robin, why wer
A' toooiue back north while
.lu>t from the palm proves mi
H ire you no fear for the friv<
you so silly,
et ’tWiissoeliillyV
uluiy and warm,
)«' st irm ?
' ou are out even now in tlie falling snow,
< <h, what will you do ami where will you go?
What will protect your delicate feet,
Where will you sleep and what will von eat?
The Modem Hector and His
Ways. •
Hector was the so
of the Trojan war.
1 t !te Min of Or ginai
more cruel, if css
Priam and the here
. m ulern Hector t
aai.I the hero of a
xly war, than the
A (’AEn-'ORYBA itOlSAX'll.
Sow ’Sum siini llet After
TlVCili} - fei«-p:ir.
nil !«S3S.
. Clin
Pray, lm
Von pon
" can you sing,
little thing?
1 suppose yon thought our winter was through.
And the very first thing you would have to do
Would he to go and liiiihl yon a nest.
Oh. then how disappointed, little robin red breast.
Kor you cannot build when nortli winds blow.
And the ground is covered with sleet and snow.
And icicles hang Irom the leafless trees ;
No, no, little bird, I am sure you would freeze,
still you continue to sing,
You poor litl’e tiling.
Why not Hy back to your warm winter-home.
Not to return till our spring days come.
And I’ll strew the bushes with bits of thread.
Bright ribbons and rags for tin- cosy lied
1 can make high no in te mnp’e tree,
For the little bird lings that will sing foi me,
And for your happy brood I will scatter crumbs
And expect you to feast on the cherries and plums.
Then how you will sing
You dear little thing.
After alt 1 have said you sit on the bough,
1 am half afraid you are frozen now,
1 have not heard you chirp for a moment or two,
I will go and see what’s the matter with you I
Its eyes are closed, it Hies not from me,
Its dear little feet are froze fast to the tree,
I will take it in to be nursed and fed.
But no. ’tis no use—it surely is dead.
It never will sing
Any more, poor thing!
Pittsfield, Mass., March, ISM).
Our Portrait Gallery
Kngravings ami iiiogni|tliies of
■MMingnishet! ften ami
W onion.
est-iiiKi'V liis loss, sm<l the
>r ivtmiMing. ft his shij
l deduct w.trth oi n
from the sum t« »f:i2 of hi>
of these calamities ho is
SI. 4»ai-lan«I.
U.
■Bon. Augustii
AVe here present an engraving of the 1
nbir ex-Govr-rnnr of Arkansas, Augustus
Garland. Pethaps no man in that galiaut
state lias over so completely won the re-
sped and affections of that people,
into power right upon the retiring heels oftli”
fanatics, who had plundered nnd oppressed
tge people of the state, his advent was like
the appearance of an angel amid the dark-
ticss. He established law and order; the peo
ple vveiit, to work in security, and now pros-
jierity is to be seen on all iiands, and cheer
fulness and good-will reign in the habitations
of tlie Arkansians.
He was Imrn near Covington, Tennessee
.Tune 11, I832, and the foliowing year his
parents moved to Arkansas, and settled in
Hempstead county. He graduated at s’b Jo
seph s College, Kentucky, in 184!!, aiid'hvrau
the practice of law. In IS56, he settled” at
Kittle Hock, where he has since resided. He
was a delegate to the Secession Convention,
and opposed the movement with much ubil-
iit . but after the state had seceded ha went
with the majority, and did les whole duty to
the end of the war. He was t wice elected to
the Confederate C ongress, and tilled an unex-
Pired term of Hon. C. B Mitchell in the Sen
ate. In 1st 16 he was elected to the United
States Senate, but was denied his seat. In
the spring of D74 he sided with Baxter in the
Brooks and Baxter difficulty, anil became act
ing Secretary of State. He was afterwards
put in nomination for Governor, and elected
- .V* tc .> • an,I tile gstti
of March 1875 was observed tin re—- — ■
south as a day of thanksgiving, at his request,
for the action of Congress in sustaining J edge
Pollard’s report on the condition of affairs
which prevented the President from interfer
ing with the affairs of the state by military
foree.
Under his administration, Arkansas was re.
deemed, and is growing in wealth and power
Preparations lor the Marriage
ol the Austrian Crown
Prinee anil a I’aii* Biel-
g i a 11 Prince***.
New York Herald.
Sui-prise. general anil unmitigated sur
prise, was the impression produced both in
Vienna anti Brussels by the news of Crown
Prince Rudolph’s betrothal with Princess
Stephania, of Belgium. That has now given
way to equally unmitigated satisfaction, for
the Prince Imperial is, after his father, the
most popular man in the Austrian Empire.
His affability and simple manners have won
the peoples’ hearts. He is a distinguished
j i l ogon.
! If tt in.m breaks his leg, he c-tii hi
j pain and wait for recovery. If his
j burns-down heca:
amount required 1
is lost at sea he ch
vessel an 1 cargo
property. In all
more or less of a philosopher, according to
temperament and circumstances. But tin-
man who Would utter no complaints in these
situations, is frenzied by the bite of a II -a or
the buzzing of a mosquito. No logic or phil
osophy avails against these tormentors: and
if he were to lie continually at their mercy,
hfe -tself would cease to lie desirable. “I c -n
endure being crushed by elephants and claw
ed by tigers,” said a man who had had a taste
of.stieli exit iterating experiences. "1 lost an
arm in the war, and a whole block of build
ings in the Chicago lire, but ail Ad ron lack
gadfly is worse than the whole of them put
together.”
The human mosquitoes, fleas, and gadflies
are those persons in a community who aspire
to be funny, their wit consisting in the con
stant ridicule of the dress, appearance, or
{•eouliitrities of their companion; the bur
lesquing of speech and manner; imposition
upon a too r-ady credulity, or the pretended
disapproval of deeds and words. Tin desig
nation. ’'a great tease,” is considered a com
pliment; and tue individual so termed is
gratified bv the fear and aversion of his vic
tims, the blushes, tears, protests, anil bursts
of temper called forth by his attacks, meus
uring ins success by the magnitude of these
results.
It is acknowledged that this propensity, as
it is exhibited among children, is hurtful' to
the lust degree. The attempt of one child to
tyrannize over another, to hector, to lease,
to provoke, to aggravate, to tantalize—all
synonyms of the -ame things—is rebuke i by
his elders, the offender sum-times soundly
cuffed, liis victim sympathized with andconi-
forted. But there is no reason to exp* ct
from the little ones, the consideration, ttn-
derncss. generosity, and self-control that
grown people are supposed 10 exercise. These
graces of the .spirit belong to maturer dew;-
opment. If they always accompanied R,
there would be fewer needless heartaches in
the world.
Joint Smith sincerely loves his wife, but
also dearly loves what he calls his “little '
joke’’ at, her expense. She is a matter-of- j
fact woman, a devoted wife and mother,
good housekeeper and kind neighbor, but
ipreciutii-n of
One of the o strange 1
, j which makes us someth
fitness of things’
• lie | at the Vallejo Ju idio t,
mi the arrival of the <’
gers for Vallejo were
quite a descent from the
and the ladies required (
gentlemen present. \ Mr. G.
ulator, was doing the agreettl
in luima:
aider at
'The tide being low
ntra Costa, passen-
coinptlled to make
wharf to the boat,
te assistance of the
grain spec-
ill til's re-
j A I»AK4>TA LOVli; STOKY.
The l,ticl. tifa I'lurk} Itlonde.
! H illiam Dowall. of Faxon, Sibley county,
Minnesota, th“ head of t numerous family of
toys and girls, yi ldiug to the laudable ani-
'-it.ton of finding a largir farm for his fami-
| *••’, sei. his face to the westw urtl and selected
j himself a home of 326 acres in Hanson coinr
’ t/, Dakota. So well pleased w as he with the
, ntiiii-y that he resolved to send his two
j grown-up daughteis out to the new land of
j Komise that each of them might secure a
i b'rni of in r own. With this aim in view ,
t
boarding-school, from which she emerged in ; sit at her feet I was fit f 0
1S06 to Hml herself suddenly ad pted by the j,he good bird’s heaven,!
emperor, called prineess imperial an ! mar- mope and dangle at her he.
rted suortly after to the hereditary prince of | “[ wonder now my patro
Baden. Site was then seventeen, with a 1 me. but a schoolmaster in
lovable face, great natural 1
icity, a certain '-ainiisluit
which suited her well, a
ively complexion and clear
• was exquisitely blonde.
most tig
and viv
manner
voice, 1-
Her ha i
The I’riin-e of Bade 1 was nor,
ing hi love with her, lint at, first
was not returned. He was you
stout: his face was comm mplac
-ievcrii; ss
-ss in her
charming
■ blue eyes.
g in fall-
t affection
but very
mid mex-
in tin
ed always out
incrally fell asleep
The youthful Ste-
sjiect, and one of the last ladies to descend
was overburdened with bundles, which he
took charge of, and accompanied the lady to
t e cabin, where they sat and engaged in e< >11-
versation, which finally touched upon the
nativity of each, w'.i-n it was found that
they were both from the same town in Ken
tucky. This fact made each more communi
cative, when lie enquired her name, which
was given as Mrs. G. Immediately the gen
tleman asked:
“You had a daughter, did you not.?”
you know thatj”
“Is that daughter living ?’’
“She is, and at present on a visit to friends
at Vallejo, where I am now going.”
“Merciful heavens'.” he gasped. “My child’.”
“Sir,” said the Hdy rising; “what do you | pk.riiig trip next morning. Si
, fcjfe.simply lovable. Nellie was t
M an! he crazily replied. Mean "’!'. v >f the concern, and it was deemed
1 mean that that daughter is my own chib l >, s 'fE'|*.Iient to take Annie along, Nellie vol-
an< ‘ „ j u(Peering to “go it alone” with the land man
you aue my wjfk. 1 and select claims for herself and sister. On
Almost overpowered at this confession, j tiie trip they were accompanied by other
she plied him with questions, to every one of j iiume.seeker.si but Barrett nnd Nellie Dowall
which he returned a correct answer, when she | occupied foremost place in the procession,
was convinced that the man was really her j enjoying a whole wagon and quiet conversa-
h us baud, from whom she had Iicen separated j bun to themselves. As far as the history of
twenty years. It seems I lint the twain were j the affair discloses, the whole conversation
married at Paris. Kentucky, in 185X. mid related exclusively- to business. The girl se-
tliirteen months afterward he went to Liver- I lected a pre-emption and timber claim (,V-’o
pressive; he talked litth
of place, bored, and ;
j wherever he might be
phanio gay, piquante,
j and proud of being ado
whom she then regarded with some reason | w
j as the lirst sovereign in the world, g ive the spinniu
Prince of Baden to understand that he was
I greatly honored by her bestowing her band
upon him. In vain did they seek to correct
her ideas in this respect. She made no ob
jection to the marriage, and was quite ready
to consent to its taking place whenever the
emperor wished it; but s -e persisted in say
ing that Napoleon’s .laughter should marry
a king or the son of a king. This little van
ity, accompanied by many piquant jests to
which her seventeen years gave a charm, did
not displease the emperor, and in fact rather
amused him. He became more iuteres'ed
than before in liis adopted daughter, and
precisely- at the time he married her to the
prince, he became, with considerable pub
licity, her lover. This conquest finished turn-
Dn.l agent, and' an arrangement was entered ( »‘K the head of the new princess and con-
fflto that they should start on their land ex- I ‘ lr,lM * 1 h . er 1,1 her haughtiness toward her fu-
pjoriiig trip next morning.- Bister Annie *"re husband, who sought in vain to please
s the business , . .
As soon as the emperor had announced to
the senate the news of tin
nothing under
ut to sigh, an l
Is.
is did not desert
those day-s, a,id
1 iv ighborhood. was locked upon
| as a very- superior animal, and t suppose
| that was the reason no one compl.ineil of
, my moon-struck insanity.
| “She at length wore the ring of our be-
I trotiui! upon her linger, and I was happy in
j the ilinugUt that everything was irrevocably
1 se-tied. Alioilt th s time, cws c line from
; No
hi gentleman, before leaving, made ar-
|‘•ligements with (’has. Barrett, a claim
I agent, who guided himself in his homeseek-
| Il| g, to receive his daughters upon their ar-
I rival lit. Sioux Falls. In course of time Dow-
! caff’s daughters, Nellie and Annie, arrived
at “the Lowell of the West,” and true to his
j appointment, and instinctive gallantry the
! ,lv "iy land man, Barrett, met them at tiie
: depot. They were a pair of charming girls,
j calculated to excite in the manly 1 osom a ro-
| g et that, in this favored region, a man can
! ifurry only one wife at a time. Added to
I tie charm of jicrsonal appearance, Nell'"
. Ikxvdall, one of the sisters, was thi
“I did,” she responded. “Pray, how did I of ways at “oncepractTcad“and ,l f^
, | eiuatmg. Nellie meant business, talked busi
ness and ica.s business all over. She talked
in an eminently practical manner to the
sh- is utterly- Jackin,,
humor, at least of tne kind
band enjoys, if it can no
name,
“Wife,” lie calls out, in
suffering, pulling up his shir
and see if you call find the
arm.” J) >wn go spools, sciss
box, in the wildest confosioi
The sensitive woman, w ith
called
h r I111--
mt
cat
con’ort"
many gi
d fa.
aisnter m my
;, and button
on the floor,
dance ut the
tends over him, hindered by
tans an 1 much writhing, till, as he
sees how pale she h-is grown, he ree.liw*s liis
hand cries out in a very different tone,
“Come to ' Dink of it, there isn’t any there!
Hi:! ha! h.i!” He laughs long ami loudly.
It is very funny: very funny, indeed. It is
funny to him exactly in proportion as it is
painful to her. He does not notice the trem
bling of 1 lie fingers with which siie picks up
her scattered sewing, or how. f >r the rest of f
the day, she starts at every little sound. Hi
lias given her nerves a wrench in comparison
with which a blow in the face would have
hud a far less injurious effect.
Bur. it is generally before visitors that the
: ’S
• \ - ;'W
V ’ '
^ ' '
good man displays 1
more trying to his '
satisfactory- to him,
tors. D is for such
his affectionate ",
“sli.-k housekeeping
tis greatest efforts. It is
wife, co-.sequentiy more
to have several specta-
occasion- that he reserves
tiicisms concerning her
4 “p.
looking,”
tefdfrtGltV.’ttrfivhG.y^kiy'-eiVouK
facetious remark concern-ng the value of
second wives. She bears it with the equan
imity acquired by long practice. For her
guests—they can !lest testify us to their en
joyment of these matrimonial courtesies.
John Smith, Jr., inherits his father’s dis
position, “Mary,” he calls out to liis sister,
whose thorn in the flesh is her red hair;
“lend me one of youreurls, will you, to light
mv cigar ( Oh, it lias struck is again, has ■
it ?” is lbs observation on iter flushed |
cheeks, another jieciiliarity to which siie is I
sensitive. She is credulous and frank, too, j
like her mother. “Did you know the City |
Hall was burned dowin f” lie asks her, with ,
a serious air. 1 'W hy, no. Is it!” is the nat- t
ural answer. “Not that I know of. Ha! ha!
ha I” laughs John, Jr. She speaks of a sick j
friend who has eaten nothing for ten days, j
“Why, Mary, there is a man I know of who
has not taste’ 1 a mouthful for ten years,” he I
exclaims. “Why, whore ?” she asks hastily, I
•‘Oh, iu Greenwood Cemetery;” and lie !
laughs again. He is the punster of the turn- ,
ily circle. He asks his little sis.or. an oilec- 1
Bf«>. AUGUSTUS II. GARLAA1).
pool on business. The vessel on which lie j acres) for herself, and the same for her sis-
took passage was wrecked, and all ou hoard i ter, and resolved to complete the business of
were supposed to have perished. The news her mission by proceeding to the Ya»kton
coming to the young wife's ears she was ut- laud office, sixty miles distant, to file the
terly prostrated and was ordered to Cali for- ; nec 'ssary application for the claims. It was
ilia by her physicians. Arriving here, she j afternoon on a rainy day in April, unpleas-
took up her residence at Los Angeles. The ‘ afit for a long ride in an open wagon, and
husband was picked up from the wreck by a 1 tie land agent, fearing that in the darkness
liishing smack and taken to some remote for- •: ttey might lose their way, suggested that
eign port, where he was thrown upon a bed ! th>y take a lay-over under shelter on the
if sickness, which lasted some fifteen months, j pnirie that night; but the bright young
trip down the Danube, and the other eagle
shooting. Neither of these works have lieen
published. He has attended with great
punctuality to his military duties at Prague,
to the garrison of which he belongs. He hus
seen something of the world, and only last
year went on a sInviting excursion to Africa.
He was greatly pleased with his iast journey
to England anil Ireland, and looks forward
to the opportunity he is about to have of re
newing acquaintance with the Prince of
Wales. His future bride is said to lie one of
the handsomest princesses of Europe, of an
amiable disposition, and, even for a princess,
exceptionally well educated. Few beyond
the court circle have ever seen the Princess
Stephania, except those who have happened
to be in the way when the Queen has occa- | fortune
uionally been accompanied by her daughter
as she drove in the well-known pony chaise to
the Bois. She has been brought up in the
strictest seclusion, never, unless with her
iiarents, having been out of sight of her
Jiore.-nrtnle. She has ne'-erappeared
burst of teal’s which follows this announce- j Before the mast on a sailing vessel, and in
moot, the child jierceiving only the offense | due time arrived in New York. From there
of the remark, is satisfactory to him, as he is j j !0 wrote three times to his wife, but
thereafter allowed to read his newspupei 1111-
disturbed. It is true, as Emerson says,
“There tire i>eoj)le who win never understand
a trojie, or any- expanded sense given to your
words or any humor: but remain literalists
after hearing the music, poetry and rhetoric,
and wit of seventy or eighty years. They
are past the help of surgeon or clergy. Bu->
RGCE1VBO NO ANSWER.
Almost frenzied at the thought that she
might be dead, and being without funds and
having 110 friends, he “faced” his fare clear
to Kentucky, and shortly after arrived at
Paris. Inquiries throughout the town assured
him that his wife had disappeared a year or
before, no one knew whither. Some said
gore.rnnnte. She has ne'-er appeared on any
public occasion, not even to witness the
school-childrens’ fete, given two years ago on
the occasion of the King an 1 Queen’s silver
wedding. Nor has she ever lieen seen on
even these can understand pitchforks anil she had gone in search of her husband, others
tiie cry- of lire, anil 1 have noticed in some of ; f[lilt siie might be dead, and others that she
this class, a marked dislike of earthquakes. ’ \ | l!1( I gone to California. He sought the old
Unfortunate, indeed, are the poor people i family physician, but lie had left the town
who can never “see the point” of a joke, or j s(m in time before. Mr. G. 1 hen went to work
join in the laugh which it raises. But mis- j a t Louisville, and made enough to bring him
if body or soul deserves tender j p, Ouliforui t a year after his arrival in Ken-
treatment. VVe are not to toss tiiese mental j tucky. He searched almost everywhere for
cripples upon the pitchforks of our w:t, ; his wife, lmt without success, and finally gave
shout false alarms into their too credulous ; i, er U(J as A id she also had mourned
ears, or startle them with assumed convui- j f or j,j s death. Neither, however, had mar-
sions which may- throw them into the same , again, and lust evening on board the
_ mdition. “Fun is 'better than physic,” and
a gov>d joke is one of the best things in hit*,
but fun and joke on one side at the cost of
discomfort or suffering on the other, ceases
B . - to be funny, but becomes, of all things, the —
foot on the streets of Brussels, or enjoyed nlost; s j)i v an d stupi I. It is worse than that; j had been separated twenty years. But im
the envied pleasure of gazing in passing into I j t j s cruelty and persecution. There are j agine his unutterable surprise and joy when
the shop.winilows. Her sole companion has gravestones’ on the hillsides upon which ; t ;)e mother led into the parlor a beautiful
’■ " * ™ — could be truthfully inscribed: “Teased to j young lady, his own daughter^ whom he had
death by her loving and disconsolate hus- j no j seen since she was a b*abe. Father,
bund.” ! mother and child will leave to-morrow for
There is no time of peace in which the ; jgan Francisco, where Mr. G., who is now a
modern Hector prepares for war. He nev- j comparatively wealthy man, has his business
er lays down his arms; liis enemies are al- ' ” ■ .. •- * ■
ways in expectation of his assaults. H” is
an ignoble warrior. He lieats down xeak-
nesscs which cun make no resistance. He at
tacks not the seen uml the physical, but the
more precious unseen ami spiritual, and Ills
military record is liut a series of mean and
been her sister, the Princess Clementine, now
in her tenth year, and the principal recrea
tion of the week, a visit every Sunday to
the Convent of Jette St. Pierre, where she
was allowed to join in the amusements of
pension naires of that aristocratic school;
and now all is suddenly changed. State
dinners, visits to the opera, drives every day
with her future husband, herself, with him,
the object of respectful curiosity and inter
est, with all these gay flags flying in her
honor, the Princess Stephania, in all the
freshness of youth and bright with the first ! dishonorable exploits,
impression of an unknown world, must feel
herself transported to a new life.
Contra Costa was the first intimation either
had that the other was iu existence. The |
now happy couple arrived here last night,
and to the surprise of the friends of the lady,
she introduced her husband, from whom she
and where they will hereafter reside.
Soux Falls, and the two girls again set out
fir Minnesota. But Nellie left a pledge be-
hnd. Her heart was with the Hanson coun-
tjland agent. Before leaving she made him
hr promise that in two weeks she would re-
trn, and made arrangements with him to
snd him a dispatch announcing the time of
hr arrival. On the anticipated day. Bur
nt role eleven miles to the nearest postof-
fle to receive her communication; and in
riponse to its call rode all night, arriving at
Smx Falls at an early hour next morning,
fere lie met the Minnesota blonde; “soft
e;es looked love to eyes that spake again,”
ad inside of a single hour the Dakota boy
ad the Minnesota girl were made one flesh.
“Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.”
iVriters of romances might weave this love
aair into a story of twenty chapters, hut
v tell the “plain, unvarnished tale.” The
light, brave, business blonde is happily
tarried in Hanson county. Near the ruins
xtlie old homestead shanty the bridegroom
9Pfll(tjtefi a neat story-and-a-balf cottage
liich travelers by the Chicago, Milwaukee
id St. Paul railway may descry, half a mile
Oitant from the railroad on the prairie, two
ties west of Bridgewater, in Hanson county,
fit the eastern States a story of this kind
tmld lie termed a romance; But in Dakota
eh affairs are every-day, commonplace oc-
o-rences. Dakota Territory is broad enough,
trt its hardy sons are gallant enough to af-
td a farm of 320 acres and a wealthy hus-
kid to every brave, tolerably good look-
^ girl who has only the courage and desire
t“go west and grow up with the country.”
No hotel in the state, says a Tennessee ex
change, has grown more rapidly in public es
teem than the Commercial at, Nashville,under
its present admirable management. It fills
the bill completely of a comfortable, home
like, hospitable establishment, whose guests
soon feel at ease and realize that they are in
thoroughly good quarters.
The fourteeeth annual session of the
Iidirgin Teachers’ Association will liegiu at
Karon on Tuesday, the 4th of May next,
p;very educator and friend of education is
urged to tie present. Any information de
sired and copies of the programme may be
obtained from Captain Roliert E. Park or
Professor B. M. Metier, of Macon, of from
S. C. Caldwell, Secretary of the Association,
Rome, Ga-
C. B. LeRow.
Tlioscof the older States who are accustomed
to look upon Texans as semi-clvilized barba
rians, will be rather surprised to hear that
Mrs. Grant says in all their their I. svels she
lias never seen so unanimous a untilitestst on
of respect, and that she likes Texas.
A buzzard captured iu Log 11 county, Ky.,
had 011 one of its feet a steel trap of peculiar
pattern, which was identified by Mr. I’rangh
her ns having Iteen carried away five years
previously.
If any of our readers suffer with neural
gia or he iduche, we would call attention to
*Neuralgine, an unfailing remedy for tiiese
PERSONALS.
PRETTY NTEPIIAYIE.
George Eliot is in Rome.
Prince Leo|told is eoming to America.
It is forty years since Queen Victoria’s
marriage.
Raphael, the illustrious, was born on Good
Friday and died on Good Friday.
The late accident to the Princess Louise
proved to be a pretty serious affair.
Miss Whitney has received her first install
ment of $1600 on her Adams statue.
Stendhal says that in France women are
flattered at twenty and deserted at forty.
Seneca wrote in praise of poverty, on a
tablet of solid gold, and with millions let out
at usury.
!
Longfellow's Evangeline has been translat
he
Romance of RoaaparteS
Adopted daughter.
troubles. It is endorsed by many of our most ei j Portugese by a lawyer of literaay abili- £
- ■*-1 American literature.
dress Hutchison & Bro.,
[From Mine, de Remusat’s Memoirs.]
The Beauhamais profited by the elevation
< Madame Bonaparte, and continued to
<wd about her. I have told how she mar-
ti the daughter of the MarquisdeBeauhar-
ls to M. de la Valette. The marquis was
I a long time embassador to Spain; he is in
ance to-day. The Comte de Beauhamais,
S son of the lady who wrote poetry and
vels, had married early in life Mile, de
sav-Marnesia. From this marriage sprang
laughter, who resided, after her mother’s
4th, with an old aunt, who was very re •
ious. The Comte de Beauhamais marry-
t again, never seemed to think of this
Ung girl. Bonaparte made him senator,
de Lesay-Marnesia, uncle to the young
iphinie, suddenly recalled her from Lan-
Ddoc; she was fourteen or fifteen. He pre
ted her to Madame Bonaparte, who found
very pretty and refined in all her little
marriage, 1 he
youthful Stephanie was installed in the Tuil-
eries in ail apin.ment especially arranged
for her, uud there she received the deputa
tions f 0111 the governmental bodies. Of that
from the senate her father was one. Her sit
uation was certainly a little odd, but she re
ceived all the addresses and felicitations
without any embarrassment, an 1 replied
extremely well. Having become the daugh
ter of the sovereign, and being a favorite iu
addition, the emperor ordered 1 hat she should
everywhere follow next to the empress, thus
taking the precedence of the whole Bona
parte family. Madame .Murat was extreme
ly dis;.leased, who hated her with a cordial
hatred, and could not con.vsil her jealousy.
Mademoiselle thought this very amusing,
and laughed at it as she did at evervthi ,g
else, and succeeded iu making the emperor
laugh also, as he was inclined t> i.e amused
at all she said. The empress was much dis
pleased at ths new fancy of her husband’s.
She spoke seriously to her niece, and showed
her how wrong it would he for her not to re
sist the efi’or's which Bonaparte was making
to complete her seduction. Mile, de Beau
hamais listened to her aunt’s counsels with
some docility. She confided to her certain
attempts, sometimes extremely cold, made
by her adopted father, and promised to con
duct herself with caution and reserve. These
confidences renewed a’l the former discord of
i the imperial household. Bonaparte, un
changed, did not take the trouble to cone cal
! his inclination from his wife, and, too sure of
j his power, thought it extremely unhandsome
| in the l’rince of Baden that he should be
wounded by what was going on under his
f very eyes. Nevertheless the fear of an out
I burst and the numb r of eyes fixed upon all
j the persons concerned rendered him prudent,
j On tli*’other side, the young girl, who only
! wished to amuse herself, showed more resist-
j ance than he at first anticipated. But she
j hated her husband. Tiie evening of her
j marriage it was impossible to persuade her
\ to receive him in her apartment. A little
later the court went to St. Cloud, and with
it the young pair. Nothing, however, could
induce the princess to permit her husband to
approach her. He complained to the em-
• press, who scolded her neice. The emperor,
I however, upheld her, and liis own hopes re-
j vived.
A '! this had a very bad effect, which at
fatigued by the importuity bf*bis‘wife, struck
by the discontent of the young prince, and
persuaded that he had to do with a young
person who only wished to amuse herself by
coquetting with him—he con-ented to the de
parture of the Prince of Baden, who took his
wife away with him, She shed many tears
at leaving France, regarding the principali
ty of Baden as a land of exile. When she
arrived there she was received somewhat
coldly by the reigning prince. She lived for
a long time on bad terms with her husband.
Secret negotiators were sent from France to
make her understand how important it was
to her that she should become the mother of
a prince—an hereditary prince in his turn.
She submitted; but the prince, rendered
frigid by so much resistance, now showed
very little tenderness toward her, and this
marriage seemed destined to make them both
very unhappy. It was not eventually so,
however; and we see later that the
Princess of Baden, paving acquired a little
more sense with years, iiegan at last to recog
nize her duty, and by her good conduct suc
ceeded finally in regaining the affections of
the prince and enjoyed the advantages of a
union which she had at first so entirely un
derestimated.
Uncle Rufus’ Story.
By Mrs. C. W. B. Towle*.
It was a dark and stormy night in Decem
ber. The wind roared abroad, and a fine fire
of pine logs blazed up the ample chimney.
Every member of our family-circle seemed
happy and content except cousin George
Griswold, who had come on a visit to us from
Greenbriar.
He sat apart, moody and disconsolate, taking
no interest in the conversation, and persist
ently refusing to engage in his favorite game
of backgammon. We all knew tv/iy he was
thus gloomy and taciturn. Rose Ellis, a
pretty young girl in the neighborhood, had
jilted him, and married another.
They had been engaged more than a year?
He had built a lieautiful little cottage on his
productive farm at Greeubriar, and come
down with the expectation of carrying a
bride back at Christmas; but alas! he needed
no cage, for his bird of Paradise had flut
tered away, anil was now in the nest of an
other.
She married John Hastings, a handsome
young merchant in the village, and the
couple were enjoying their honeymoon in
New York. It was not to be wondered at
that cousin George felt mortified, chagrined
and disconsolate. He could have sworn at
that moment that there was not a faithful,
true-hearted woman in the world.
“Tut! tut!” exclaimed Uncle Rufus, who
had had a sharp eye on him all the evening;
,4 tut, tut, boy! never take on at the head
what you can’t shake off at the heels. I’ll
tell you what! there are some girls a fellow
might grieve after, and then again there are
flirts not worth a thought. I’ve been all
along the road yon are traveling to-night,
and know all about it. It was—let me see—
it must have been about the year I820, when
I first met Patsy McCray. She was a lass
worth looking at twice, I can tell you, with
a clear white forehead, delicate peach-
bloomy cheeks, a lithe form, and pretty lit
tle hands and feet. But there was some
thing in her eyes I could never quite fathom.
They were blue as the azure heavens, yet
somehow there didn’t seem to be much soul
shining through them; but I was desperate
ly in love, and didn’t stop to think much
about that then.
“ I was a handsome young schoolmaster,
and if I do say it myself, could have married
almost any girl in Strattouville, but Patsy
McCray was th e brau ideal ol my soul.
“ She seemed fond of me, and very proud
ol my attentions, and I was spooney enough
to be flattered by this. I became the most
devoted lover—or rather milk-sop—woman
ever carried in her train.
“I could not teach the children—my mind
dwelt so incessantly upon her and her per
fections, and when the hour for dismission
ich that mv poor old mother—Heaven
rest her soul!—was very siek, and desired to
see me. Of course I immediately tore v up
my school, and hastened away to her lied
zzled by her lot, | side.
1 by the emperor, | “Patsy’s education was limited, for few girls
>ected to know tnucu outside of
and weaving in those days. I did
therefore, look for letters from her, hut
supposed all the while that her heart was
t i n ; to me as the needle is to the North Pole.
My mother ! tigered fora long time, and I
watched by her bed day anil night for
months.
“One evening 1 was a little surprised when
a square, poorly superscribed letter was put
into my hands. It proved to be from John
Nichols, the postmaster at Strattouville. I
read carelessiy on, until I reached a para
graph like this:
“’There was a big weddin’in town last
night. Sam Fitch and Patsy McCray have
made it out at iast. You know he has been
hanging around her for a year and better’
(I knew no such thing, the deceitful hussy),
‘but some didn’t believe she’d have him. 1
used to think mebbe you was spooney in
that direction, but’spose I was mistaken. A
schoolmaster I gue-s’ll look higher than to a
Strattouville g ti. But Patsy is right good
look 11’—that’s a fact.’
“ I read no further. The world seemed
whirling around, and all there was in it. I
came near falling, in my blindness, on to the
tied where iny dear old mother lay, awaiting
the Death-Angel. Wha I did, or how I
j lived through it, I can hardly tell at this
j length of time, but men somehow get over
blows like this, and rise like young saplings
which the tempest has bowed down. My
good old mother died, but l did not return to
Strattouville. I took a school in another
place, and two years after married Nabby
U nite, a true hearted, faithful woman, who
has clung to me through all my dark and
bright days as the ivy outside clings to the
chimney by which we are seated. Thank
God! the days of sunshine have outnumbered
those of d >rm.”
“Pi'itdid you never seo or bear anything
more of your faithless sweetheart!” asked
cousin George, whose face had brightened
wonderfully under this narration, “ i can’t
for the life of me see how you were able ever
to forget her.”
“ Yes, 1 saw her again!—thank God for
that, too,” exclaimed the old man, fervently.
! ‘i saw her again, and at that w.’ud Yghc,
the idol whi m [ h 1 1 all along carried hit!
away in the bottom of my heart, changed
instantly to worthless -'d ay. Twenty yews
had passed away. It was about the year 1S40
when business led me to Worcester. There
was snow on the ground, an I the little gild
ed. cutter in which I sat, well wrapp d up in
buffalo robes, glided over the troz-'rt ground
as over ice. I remember that clear, beauti
ful winter day well—I shall never forget it.
But towards night, the air grew very keen,
numbing mv fingers and sharpening my ap
petite. inns were not frequent, anil i hud
fasted since early morning,
Sundown found me on a strip of road,
"here there were few houses and those were
passed only at long intervals.
As I b -fore said, there were few taverns
nnd belated travellers must stop at private
hous s or camp on the roadside.
1 had proceeded some distance without
meeting with n single habitation and was be
ginning to fear that I might not come to one
soon, when a tumble-down old ruin came
suddenly into vh w. It was siiu ited a little
off from the road, with a straggling Virginia
fence before it. I feared from the desolate
aspect of its surroundings, that it might not
A slatternly woman answered The'Rifiti-
mons. Her frmvsily arranged hair stood up
all over her head—her home-made lin-ey
dress was of a very scant pattern, her shoes
were worn slipshod, ami grey woollen stock
ings, not over-cl m, covered her ankles.
I was so disgusted a f her appearance, that
I at first thought I would go on, but I was
very hungry, rny horse was tired and a few
stais were already twinkling in the heavens.
I desperately resolved to make a virtue of
necessity, [and finally asked in my blandest
tones:
,‘Madame, can I stop here for the night ?”
“Waal, I don’t know, stranger—in tho fust
place we haint got nothin’ to eat, and in the
second place, Sam—that’s my hustiund—is a
leetle the wuss fer liquor, But it’s five miles
to the next house, and I ’spose you’ll have to
come in. You can put your hoss inter the
stable yonder, and mebbe rake up a little hay
or fodder to give it. As for corn, there ain’t
a nubbin on the place, and we’re out o’
bread.”
I again hesitated, but it was the liest I
could do. So I unharnessed Shakespeare,
and led him reluctantly to the empty barn.
By dint of much effort I managed to rake up
for him a bundle or two of very dirty food,
and then turned my feet toward the house.
When I entered, I saw a drunken man
stretched befo”e a fire-place that was well
filled with ashes. His wife sat crouched
down in one corner, smoking a very foul
pipe. I soon perceived that her condition
was not much superior to that of her hus
band. When she rose to give me a chr.i:', she
staggered across the fire-place and came near
falling.
The man raised his rough head, and looked
at me with his watery eyes.
“I’m very ’appy to see ye, stranger, (hiei,
ho said, “ ver’ ’appy to ’ave ye come into our
humble ’abitation, (hie),” and he sunk back
evidently overcome by his hospitable feel
ings.
“I haint got no bread, mister, as I tole
you,” said the woman, “but Sain has some
monstrous fine whiskey here. Mebbe, as
you’re cold, you’d like t r take a horn, and
sorter warm up like,”
“No, I thank you, madame; I’m not
thirsty,” I said, sinking down in the shabby
splinth bottomed chair, she had managed to
place for me.
Thus refused, she placed the black flask to
her tobacco-stained lips, and emptied it with
a disgusting gurgle.
Judge of my astonishment when I at length
learned that my entertainers were none other
than Sam Fitch and his wife. What miser
able wrecks of humanity they were! and
that bloated, vulgar, dirty, drunken creature
of a woman might have been my wife—the
mother of those dark-eyed, beautiful children
I loved as I loved my own life.
I went to bed supperless, but my heart was
so filled with thankfulness, that I forgot the
emptiness of mv stomach. I did not reveal
my identity. Indeed both were soon too
beastly drunk to know anything.
I left that wretched domicil at earliest
dawn, with a blinding suow-storm drifting
into my face, and have never heard from
Patsy McCray and her husband since. But,
young man, I have realized from that hour
that there is a just and good God, oftentimes
mercifully thwarting our plans, an l leading
us thro igh paths that we know not or.
“Count no man happy until you see him die,”
exclaimed dethroned Criesus, repeating the
words of Solon, but I say, “count no man
miserable who has been jilted by a heartless
flirt.”
An expression of peaceful resignation had
crept over cousin George’s face during this
recital, and I am happy in recording that he
is to-day the happiest husband and father in
Greenbrier.
Before the ensuing year had drawn to its
close he had married Ella Gleason, one of the
best if not one of the prettiest giris in the
world,
La Fayette, Ala.
ys. She placed her in Madame Campon’s came, I seized my hat and hurried away to
Clara Morris ended her engagement at San
Francisco March 13th. On the i8tb she acted
“Camille” for the benefit of Mr. Maguire.