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- - JOURNAL AND MKSSUTsrftUR. A b'l.lHI'S COSFESSIOX. How many times engaged ? Why, Fred, I was so y«"ng when X began, I did not keep account; bnt then From sighing Joe to laughing Dan, Making a random estimate, It was not more than six or eight. Dear me, yon look so shocked 1 How can A giddy-minded girl be euro Of her own nenrt, unless she takes A few on trial, as it were ? Yon need not laugh and shake your bead, It is a serious thing to wed.. Kot lot e but once ? Thai's very nice To road in booke; but, Fred, you have Such Grnndisonian ideas, Quite obsolete, indeed. To save Bach wealth of feeling for ono man ? No, no, that’s not the modern plan. So few nro worthy, sir, of all Thu doting love a girl can give; And Bert is quite content to be The ninth. Would I from him receivo So very small an offering ? Ah, that Is quite another thing. Repent ngain ? Oh no, I fear ’l wonld be a foslish thing to do— I'm nearly twenty now, and soon Will have to leave the field, for Lon Is growing tall so very f*st— And ono must settle down at last. ON THE CLIFF. An, Adventure at Barmouih. From Tinsleys Magazine Fifteen years ago Barmouth was a quiet little village. The whistle of the Iron horse was not to be heard within many miles, and tho passage of the coach between Dolgelly and Carnarvon was the sole ovent of the. day. There was one liotel and some half-dozen shops and oilier houses where lodgings were to be obtained, but slight as was the accommodation, it fully equaled the demand. “Just the placo for a lellow to be able to sketch without people coming to look over his shoulder,” was the comment of Hugh Carson, a young artist, as he took his first stroll upon the sands. A tall, well-built young fellow, with leg3 rather long for his body, aud a face rathrr heavy lu repose, but bright aud wicniug when he smiled. The tide was out, a lew fishermen were mending their nets and tarring their boats, and a lady and child wero down upon the rocks near the edge of the sea. A bright bit of color upon those dark rocks,” he said, “with the island on the left and the sea beyond, and that abrupt headland coming in—just the thing to l>3- gln with.” lie had his sketch-book under his arm and bis color-box in his pocket, and, sit ting down on the sand-hills, be set rapid ly to work. For an hour and a half he worked steadily, and then the bright bit of color and the child moved off toward the shore. Still he worked on at his sketch, and was almost startled when a shadow passed across his paper. He glanced up, and saw a girl of some twenty years old, with a young one seven or eight. The child dropped the hand she was holding, and came fearlessly up. “Please may I look at your picture?” lie nodded silently and went on with his painting. “O, cousin Amy, such a pretty picture; and there are you and me out on the rocks. Do look!” The girl glanced at the artist, but neith er l>y look nor motion did she second the chilli's request, and with a little shrug ot the shoulder she turnedjaway, and walked ou slowly until overtaken by her cousin. “What a bear I am!” the young man said to himself. “I ought to ha7« got up aud grinued and taken off my hat, I sup pose, and asked her to look at it, bnt Its no use, 1 can’t get on with women. I never can think what to say to them. I have no doubt she tlionght me a perfect bear. And so I am. But I suppose its my nature.” And he went on with his painting. “Cue o’clock, it’s time to go in to dinner. The tide is coining up and covering the rocks, I will finish it lo-mor- row morning.” Tho text day he worked until dinner, and was greatly contented with the result. “It will make a capital thing,” he said. “1 have been very lucky with the lights. I do thinic it will be the best thing l have done.” His pleasure was a little marred by the fact that the two girls^had again been out on the rocks, and had on their return pass ed close by him; but this tims the child had kept close to her cousin. “Offended evidently,” was his muttered comment, “and no wonder. 1 wish 1 was not such a bear.” The following morning he was late in starting for a stroll across the sands. The tide had already turned, aud there wero few places on the coast where it came in more rapidly tbau on the Barmouth sands. For a long time its approach is so gradual that K can hardly be noticed, but when it reaches a certain point It comes in with startling speed. “There are those girls on the rocks again,” lie said, as he shaped his coarse so ai to carry him to the right of them. He had not gone fifty yards along tbs edge of the sand when he heard a loud cry behind him. He looked round aud saw that the elder girl, who was reading, had risen from a camp-stool, on one of the rucks, already cut off by a rapidly in- crossing stream of water. The cry of the child ou discovering her situation was echoed by her.eoinpanion, who was about hi rash into the water when Hugh ran up. “All right, I'.tfle -one!” he shouted cheer fully. “I'll fetch yon out.” •*>> saying, lie waded into the water, Which wa* already nearly up to his waist, reaching the little girl, he took her in his »rms aud carried her to the shore. - JTi-re you ere, as right as possible,” he said, as be put her down; “but you blast inind, missy, for the tides ere very r*P ; d here.” ‘•Thank yon so very much, sir,” the elder gi r | said, “it Is most kind of you.” Tlie artist looked into the flushed face of the girl, aud the oyes in which the tears Wen- standing, aud his habitnal shyness i«H upon him. Muttering something about iu b-ing no odds et all he raised bis hat snd, turning upon his .heel, again pursued his walk. “He really is a bear,” Amy Herbert s *u.', as slic hurried off with the child lo- w*rd tlie sand-hills, pursued by the fast n!il >2 tide, “and yet, by his voice, I am >ure he could be very nice if he liked.” Amy Herbert had no experiance wbat- shy men. She was the only -aaught'sr of a' wealthy ■Manchester colto~- spuuier, and Manchester does not class *hy juung men among Its productions, sue was accustomed to bo admired, for was ptetty and an heiress, and in both Capacities made much of, but, though a httle wayward and willful, from always her own way, she was really un- s Pmh tl, and was as bright and lovable a f'rl as was to be found in the metropolis of cotton. for the next two days Hugh Carson wissed the young lady and child from the “ore, hut several times saw the flutter of * I'ght-eolored dress high up in tho hills kkinJ Barontti. “That rising tide has given her a fright,” be said u> himself, “and they’ve taken to •b® hills. Rather a nnlsence, becausa I bare done with these flats, and shall be doing the hills myself. However, they are extensive enough without onrrunning each other, as we always seem to 0® doing here.” In fact, as Hugh and his acquaintances took their meals a; about the same hour, and both came in al the very last moment before them, it is not singular that each day they bad, either, morning, afternoon, or evening, met at least once in the quiet little street, and each time Hugh raised his hat, Miss Herbert bowed frigidly, and her little cousin nodded brightly. Once when he passed the door of their lodgings, just as they wero going in, the child ran across the road as her cousin entered, aud put her baud into his, and talked to him for two or three minutes, and conveyed to him the thanks of her mamma, who was not strong, and did not go out much, for having carried her across the tide. For the next three days Hugh Carson was en gaged in painting a picturesque old farm house lying far on the bill. The subject was a good one, and he set to produce a finished picture on the spot, aud worked at it from early morning, as long as the light lasted, making his breakiast and lunch off milk and bread ami cheese ob tained at the farm house. Upon the third evening lie was returning from his work walking along the edge of the hill, look ing down upon the sea, when he came npon the little girl lying on the ground crying bitterly. “Why, little one, what is the matter?” The child, who had not heard him ap proaching, leaped to her feet, aud, udoii seeing who it was, a look of pleasure flashed across her Uar-stained face. “Oh, please, sir, do help me! Cousin Amy has tumbled down the hill!” “Good gracious, child, where has she fallen?” Hugh said in horror, for the spot where they stood was about ono of the steepest slopes between Barmouth aud Harlech. “Down tltere, sir, she. was picking a flower when she slipped, and I can’t get at her, but I cm sea ber.” And the child led the young artist to a joint futher on, where the plateau pro jected, and the face of the hill where Amy had fallen was visible. The slope where she had slipped was very steep, but became even steeper lower down. Then a rocky ledge projected, and below it an abrupt precipice some fifty feet high. Amy Herbert lay on the ledge. She had roiled down on to it, and had evidently struck her head, for site was in sensible. Tnis ledge was some three feet wide, aud, from the position in which the girl lay, it was probable that, at the first movement made as she came to, sho-would roll over the edge. “All right, little one; don’t cry, I will get to cousin Amy. She has hurt herself, but I dare say she will be all right wiuu I get to her.” Hugh spoke cheerfully, but he was by no means sure that the girl was not killed. He looked closely at the grassy slope. It was easy enough to slide down; but once down there was no getting up agaiu. He was fully a mile and a half from the town, but he dared not run for aid, for if the girl partially recovered she might he dashed to pieces before his return. It was evident that lie most slide down to her. But the child puzzled blm. He was afraid to send ber to the village by herself, alraid to leave her on top; besides, if they were to stop on the ledge till help came, it would be much more pleasant with the child there, both for Amy and himself. “Look here, Fussy,” he said, after a minute’s thought, “will youjbe a good, quiet little girl if I take you down with me to Cousin Amy. The child nodded seriously. “Here goes, then,” he said; “now you take hold of my baud very tight, and we will go down as far as we can, then we’ll lie down on the grass, you put your arms round my neck, and we will slide down.” So it was done, not without danger, but Hugh was strong and steady, lying on his face, with one arin round the child, he held on to the tufts of grass and let him self slide as gently as he could. Still his heart beat last for an iustant when, on reaching the steepest point of the slope, they slipped down with a rush the last fifteen feet to the ledge where Amy lay, half over the brink of tlie sheer fall below. “How Pussy, you sit down quite quiet while I see to cousin Amy.” Very anxious the young aitist lifted the girl’s head from the grass. There was a little pool of brood below it, which flowed from a wound just above the car. He put bis fingers to her wrist, aud, after a min ute of auxious suspense, he iclt a very faint, flickering pulse. “Thank Cod!” he exclaimed dovoutly. Then he took out a whisky-flask and poured a few drops bctwecn.the clinched teeth. Again and again he did this, the child all tlie time sitting perfectly quiet, and watching witli quiet frightened eyes. Presently the girl sighed faintly. “Take bold of cousin Amy’s hand,” Hugh said, “and when you see her open her eyes speak to her gently. Tell her to lin still, put your face to hers, so that she may see you when she opens her eyes.” Hugh was sitting on the ground sup porting the gill, whose head rested on his shoulder. Presently there was- a move ment of the eye-lids, and then slowly and languidly the eyes opened. “There, cousin Amy, you are better now. Lie quite quiet. You have hurt your self, aud must be very good.” The eyes expressed recognition and a faint wonder, and then closed again. Hugh waited a little, and then poured a few more drops of whisky between her lips. Tills time the effect was more de cided. She moved, shook her head, and tried to avoid the mouth of the flask. Tiien she looked up again. “What is it?” she said faintly. “What are you doing? Where atn I?” “Yon must be quiet amt good/’ tlie child said positively. “You must not move, the gentleman says so." This time the speech was vaguely un derstood, for she looked beyond the child’s face to that of Hugh; closed her eyes again, ai if she doubted them, loosed again, and then made an effort to raise her head. Then Hugh spoke gently but decidedly: “My dear young lady, you must be quite qu’;et. You have fallen down and hurt yourself, and you arc faint aud weak. You are quite safe where yeu are, but yjn cannot move, for we are on the side of the hill, and must wait till help comes. Your cousin is here with you. Kiss her, Pussy.” Amy Herbert listened in sort of a con fused wonder. Site did not understand in the least, except that she was told to to quiet in firm aullioritive tones, such as had not been addressed to ber since she was a child. The warm kiss of her little cousin seemed to assure her that all was safe and right, aud, with a little sigh, she closed her cycs.again aud was soon breath ing quietly. Then the child turned to Hugh. “Amy’s gone to sleep, My name isn’t Pnssy, but Ida—Ida Herbert. “All right, Ida. I’ll call yon so In fu ture. Now, Ida, when you stand up can yon see the road below there.” “Just see it,” the child said, “but it is people to look for you, and then we shall hear them shout, aud wesliall shout back again, and then they’ll come with some ropes, and up we shall go to the top. Now, shall I tell you a story?” “Ob, yes, please,” Ida Jtaid, delighted. “Will you sit quiet by me, then? And when you leel sleepy just lay your head down and go to sleep. I will go on with my story till you're asleep, but we mnst talk very low, else we tball wake Cousin Amy.” For an hour he told stories ol fairies and enchanters, and then the liltl* head lean ed gradually against hi* waistcoat, and in five minutes he stopped iu the middle of bis narrative. Then Amy Herbert spoke: “I am not asleep, I have been awake for some time, and have been thinking. You arc the gentleman who rescued Ida off the rocks, are you not?” “Yes,” Hugh said. “I thought so. Now, please, how came yon and Ida here, and where are we, and why don’t we go home?” “You rolled down a steep grassy slope on to a ledge. You struck your head In falling, and were insensible for a time. I came up, and should have run off for as sistance, but I feared if you moved before I came back you would fall over auother fifty feet, so I took Ida and slipped down to you." “Can’t I move?” the girl asked, pres ently. “Are you uncomfortable?” “No,” she said shyly. “Then you bad better lie still,” Hugh said decisively. “The ledge is very nar row and you are very weak, and, I dare say, giddy, for yon lost a great deal of blood. So you might really fall over if you sat up. With my am round you you are quite safe.” And Hugh emphasized the tact by draw ing her still more closely to him. Her slight figure yielded to the pressure, and with a little movement, which was very like the nestle with which Ida had pre faced her subsidence to sleep, Amy Her bert lay quiet, and in a very few minutes Hugh was sure, from her regular breath ing, that she too was asleep. “It must be nearly 10 o’clock,” Hugh said to binHelf. “I should think we ought very soon get out of this. The old lady will be fidget by lialf-past seven, alarmed by half-past eight, and by half-past nine she ought to have all Barmouth out witli torches. But women are so long before they set about a thing in earnest. They begin to fidget long before a man does, but they don’t set to work to take decided steps. Still, searchers ought to be out by this tune. I am beginning to feel horribly cramped. I suppose some fellows would like tnis sort ot thing, but I don’t see any point in it whatever." In another quarter of an hour Hugh saw several lights coming along the road below, and could hear faint shouts, which seemed to be echoed by a party proceed ing along the “hill. They were moving but slowly, for there were lights half way up the face, and they were evidently searching very carefullv. Tlu» rrom mem, and it was useless for Hugh to try and return their shouts. Gradually they got nearer, and he determined to make an effort, but to do so it was neces sary to stand up. He moved slightly, aud tue elder girl moved also. “Wake up, please,” he said, “help is at hand.” She raised herselt at once. “I do think I have been asleep. I feel ever so much better.” “I will stand up and shout,” Hugh said. “Will you lean back against the hill? I will lay your cousin down with her head in your lap. She is sound asleep,as a top. Now for it!” and standing up, Hugh gave a shout with all the power ot his lungs. There was a pause in the movement of the lanterns, and then a shout. “Halio-a-a!” Hugh shouted again; “this way!” Rapidly the lanterns catne flittering along the road till they were down iu front of them. “Here we are! here are tlie ladies!” Hugh shouted. “Any one hurt?” “Not much, but wo can’t get either up or down. You must let a rope down to m from above. Here wo are,” and Hugh struck a match and lighted a large pieco of paper. “Have tho party above got ropes?" , , There was shouting backward and for ward, but the party above bad not got ropes. “Send back for them at once,” Hugh shouted, "and be snre and tell tho lady that no damage Is done here..” “How do you feel now?—I was going to say Cousin Amy,” he laughed, “but I really haven’t the pleasure ol knowing your name.’’ “Amy Herbert.” “IIow do you feel now, Miss Herbert?” “I feel weak aud ratiier headachy,” she said, “but there is nothing really the matter with me. What an escape 1 have had!” “Yes, you had a natrow squeak of it,” Hugh said frankly, “just another pound or two of impetus and you would have gone over the ledge.” She was silent,'and he went on: “Do you object to smoke? Because if you don’t I should really like to light my pipe.” “Not at all.” Amy said. “There’sjsoinetliing comfortable about a pipe,” Hugh said, when it was fairly alight: “somehow one can talk when ono gets a pij e alight.” “1 think men can talk at all times,’ Amy said, with a flash of her usual spirits, “Sonic ir.cn can," Hugli said. “I can talk with men, but, do you know, some how I can’t talk with women. I can talk with you now because I don’t see you, and because I am smoking, but I should feel horribly uncomfortable if I met you iu the morning.” “I did not know any men were sby with women, nowadays,” Amy said. “Sby?” Hugh repeated. “Well, yes, I suppose it is a sort ot shyness with me. I never had any sisters, and so, yon see, I never got in the way of talking to girls. It is very annoying sometimes, and makes people think me a bear. I suppose you thought so. You must have done so.” “Yes,” Amy said. “I did think you rather a bear. I am not accustomed to shy young incn r and I simply fancied you did not want to speak to strangers. Aud now, pleas tell mu exactly what happen ed, because I shall have to tell aunt, and I only a confused idea of what has taken place.” Again Hugh told ber the facts. “Then I owe my life to you,” the girl said, when lie had finished. “I really don’t think yon do,” Hugh said, in a matter-of-fact way. “I question very much if yon would have come round out of your faint before I could have brougbt lieip from Barmontli. However, of course, I acted for the best, and it avoided all risk. There was no danger in getting d wn to you, and the little one getting dark. When are wegoinghome?” and I slippsd down as easily as possible. “I am afraid we are nut going home to night, Ida. Certainlynotunlessjsome’one comes along that road, and there Is ‘not much chanco of that.” Where are we going to sleep?” Ida asked in surprise. “We must sleep Just where wo are. Cousin Amy will sleep here, and you shall curl up close to me and lay your head against me on the other side, and 1 don’t think you’ll be cold.” “But 1 want supper before I goto bed.” “Ab, you can’t have supper to-night, Ida, but it will be great fun, you know, sleeping out here for a bit, and I expect that presently your mamma will send out hi;. If I thought you were very grateful, or anything of that sort, I give yoa my honor I should go right away by the coach to Comarvon.” The girl felt by the tone of Hugh’s voice that there was no affectation about him, that be really meant what be said. “I may just say ‘thaDk you,’ now?” she asked quietly. “Yes, Just ’thank you,’ ” be said lightly. “If I were a man yon would shake hands over It?” the girl asked. “Yes,” Hugh said. “Please give me your hand. He stooped down and put her band into “Thank you,” in a deep, quiet, earnest voice. Then, as he rose again, she went on, in a changed voice: “Now mind, it is a bargain. We have shakeh hands on it. I am nut to he grate ful, and you are not to be afraid of me, but are just to be as natural with me as with Ida.” “That is a bargain,” Hugh said with a laugh. “I don’t think I shall feol shy with you in the future. I never talked so much with a woman in my life. I sup pose it is because I can’t see your face.” “I don’t know whether to take that for a compliment or the reverse,” Amy laugh ed. “Tlie revet so, of course," Hugh said, laughing, too, “compliments are not in my line. Ah, here they are with tho ropes. They have been precious quick about it.,’ And Amy Herbert felt that there was a real compliment in tbo tones in which be spoke. “Now youhnust wake Ida. How soundly she sleeps! Now let mo help you to your feet.” Even with the aid of toe lope it was a work of considerable difficulty to get Amy Herbert up to tlie top of tlie slope, for she was weafi and shaken, and unable to do much to help herself At last it was mar.* aged, aud then she was helped down a steep path close by th» road below, where a carriage from the hotel was waiting for them. “Will you come up and see my aunt?’’ —*®y Mked, as they stopped at the door. “Not to-nigiit, thank you. I will come in the morning to see hotv you are after the shake, and, please,” he said, “tell your uunt of our bargain, it would bo awiul to cotre np to be thanked.” “Good-night,” the girl said. “I won’t forget. Como early. Now, Ida, come along, you will soon be in bed.” Two months later Mr. Herbert was walking up aud down his breakfast-room in a towering passion. Amy was sitting iu a great arm-chair. “It is monstrous, it is incredible,” Mr. Herbert exclaimed.. “Here you, tor whom I have looked for a capital match, who refused three of the very best men in tho district last year, are away for two and a half months at this beggarly Welsh village, and you come back and deliberately tell me tiiat you have engaged yourself to an artist, a fellow I never heard of.” “Dear old daddy,” Amy said quietly, “don’t get angry about it. Come aud sit down and talk It over reasonably, as you always do things with me.” “No, no, Amy. I know wliat your reasonable talking means. I am not to be coaxed or wheedled or made a fool of. It’s all very well when you want a pair of now ponies or anythiug of that kind you have set your mind on, but there is a limit to everything.” “Well, but wo must talk tho question over, daddy.” “Not at all, not at all; no talk is neces sary. You tell me you want to marry this fortune bunting artist. I say at once JSgWHfcfUF tSTl&rti sfngie word about such a ridiculous affair.” “Now, why should you call him a for tune hunter ?” Amy said, seizing at once upon the weak point. “He has not an idea that there is any fortune in tho case. He saw me staying In poky lodgings at Barmouth, and beyond the fact, that 1 live at Manchester, ho knows nothing. He tells me that he has cuough for us to live on very quietly, in addition to his profes sion. So, you see, he can’t be called a fortune hunter.” “Well, well, it makes no matter. The thins is monstrous. aud I will not hear of it.” •Well, daddy, I will do just as you like, and I won’t say any more about it now; but, of course, to-morrow I must talk about it, because it is out of the question that I should break my word which I have given, and should mako him unhappy, and bo awfully unhappy myself. So I shall have to talk about him, aud you will have to listeu”—tlie father had sat down now—“because though, as my papa, you have a perfect right to say, ‘I will not consent to your marrying this man,’ still you kuow, I must talk about a thing which is making me very unhappy. And it will be so much better aud nicer, dad dy,” and she went over to liim now and sal herself down on his knee, witli her arm around liis neck, “if you givo in at once. Because, yon know, you can’t Keep In a naughty temper with mo long; and besides, you would be very unhappy if I was uubappy; and at last, you kuow very well, you will have to give up being cruel and cross, aud will tell me to be happy my own way.” “Amy," her father said, trying to look very stern, “I have spoiled you. I have allowed you to tyrannize oyer me.” “No, daddy, I can’t allow that—cer tainly not tyraunize. I have led you lor your own good, and Jon have been as happy as tho day Is long—” “And now,” ho continued, ignoring the protest, “I am to reap the reward of my folly. Tiiat you should have married Ja man of high rauk 1 expected; had you married a firslrate mau ot busiiiessjl should have been contented. But an artist!” “Well, daddy, we won’t talk any more about it to-day. Now I’ll just smooth those naughty cross wrinkles, aud I’ll kiss you on each cheek aud the middle of your nose. There, now it looks like itself. There! 10 o’clock striking, and yon not off! Mind, I shall expect you up to luncheon.” So Mr. Herbert went off shaking his head, and although still determined, yet at heart, very doubtful of bis power of re sistance. Amy went to her special sanc tum and wrote her first letter to Hugh. The following sentences show that she bad no doubt whatever on the subject: “Daddy docs not take quite kindly to the notion yet. He doesn’t know you, yon see, aud it has of course come upon him a Httle suddenly; but be is the very best and kindest of all daddies in tho world, and in a very few days he will sen it hi quite the right light. It is of no use your writing or 'coming to ine here till he he is quite reasonable; but I expect by this day week to have everything arrang ed. I will let you know what train to come by, and will meet you at the sta tion." It is to be presumed that Amy thor- ouebly understood her father; but at any rate, it was exactly that day week that Hugh Carson, having obeyed instructions, got out at the station directed, five miles From Manchester, was a little surprised and much disappointed at not seeing her upon the platform. “Your luggage, sir! Are yon tho gen tleman from the Hawthorns? - ’ Very well, sir, I will send up the portmanteau. Miss Herbert is in the pony-carriage." KJless me, Amy,” Hugh said, after tbe first greeting, as they drove off, “yon used to talk about your pony-trap, but this turnout is pretty enough to attract aatention iu tbe park Amy,” and he looked at her with a puz zled glance; “you’re no*. a swell, are you?—because that would be dreadful.” “Well, Hugh, if being a swell means having lots cf money, I suppose I am one, for daddy has lots upon lots. He’s got cotton mills, you know. Bnt there’s nothing dreadfti! in that.” “You ought to have told me, Amy," Hugh said, a little gravely. “Pas sibele," the girl said. “In the first place, it was nice to know that you fell m love with me without knowing whether I had a halfpenny; m the second place, you would very likely have run away if you bad thought I was rich; and to tell you the truth, WO idea of letting you run away. There, Hugh, there’s the house; isn’t it prettv ?” “It’s almost a palace,” Hugh said in dis may. “Yes; and there’s papa at tho door waiting to greet you. Now, look quite pleasant aud bright, Hugh, for of course I want him to like you almost as well as I do.” v- Darla-Johnston. Ail fair-thinking men must deprecate the intention of President Davis and Gen eral Jehus ton to have their quarrels out through the intervention of the partisan rangers cf the Northern press. It was a distressful day when these two leaders drew offfor a personal tilt while the guns of the enemy shook the capital of the young Confederacy. Tlie controversy thus be gun lasted throughout the war, and will stand in history as one of ltd most remark able episodes. Two men, parted by hun dreds of miles, both busy with the onerous duties of their respective positions, con ducted a correspondence by courier, cy pher telegrams and wretched mail fa:il- ities iu which not a superfluous word on either side may be found, and in which the cold trad eaiilluus language conceals tliB linger of tho contestants. It is like tho stage play of two masters of fence, tho fitrul flashes of whoso blades in thrust aud par ry give tho only gleam of the band-to- baud contest. During all this time the Confederacy was bleeding In the sight of both. And now that peace and advanced years liavo come not only to tho great leaders, but their followers, it is pitiful that they should seek each to besmirch the fair fame of tbe other. Mr. Davis cannot destroy tlie reputation of General Johnston as a soldier any more than Gen. Johnston can establish tho inunendo that Mr. Daris appropriated the public funds to liis private use. But iu more than one Southern community there liavo been whispers of scandal in connection with tho gold, .silver and bulliun which went out of Richmond and never returned. Some of it has been traced to the United States Treasury De partment, but there ii still a large sum unaccounted for. This controversy, now that it is on, may bring out the truth in all ot its details. If so it will do some thing towards satisfying public curiosity and softening tbe asperities of a newspa per brawl. One of General Johnston’s charges rests upon the soinewl>«» >——- j _ —.ions of, General Beauregard and a Confederate officer of lower grade. He assumes tbo sole re sponsibility for tlie other, to the effect that the merchants of Richmond gave Mr. Davis $300,000 for the defense of that city, which remains unaccounted for. Mr. Davis may properly ignore ilio first, but bo should be heatd from promptly in re ply to the last. AH tho histories of the late war are fail ures as histories, aud necessarily so. The piques, the passions and prejudices of the strife live in the memories of men, though nature has kindly hidden with flowers and grasses the horriblo gashes on her fair bosom. The timo is not yet to settle the events of the great struggle or to correctly measure the men who initiated and con ducted it. To the historian of the future mnst bo left tho name and fame of the Federal and Confederate soldier. THU OVEKVOAT HE HOT. How They do Tliliiffi In Detroit as Well as In Same Oilier Places. Detroit Fret Prest. Yesterday morning a tall young man of twenty landed at the union depot with a bundle under his arm, and after three or four minutes spent in getting his bearings he walked up Jefferson avenue and turned into a clothing store. “Vo you wish to try on some coats and vests for a dollar?” asked tbe proprietor, as be rushed from behind tbe counter. “No, I guess not. Do yoa deal on the square?” “My frent, dot is exactly vliat I does. I vas so square dot I lose $3,000 last ytar. Can I sell yon an overcoat for $10?” “No, 1 guess not. Here is an overcoat that I bought of you four weeks ago.” “Bought of me?” “Yes, I think yon are tho man. When I got it home we found that it was moth eaten. I can pick it to pieces in a dozen places.” “Is dot possible! Unt how much you pay?" “Eight dollars ” “My shtars! And vliat yon vant now?” “I waut my money back.” “Vhell—vhell. My frent, I am sorry for you. Yon seem like an honest poy, " * it vlias too bad 1” ""“YeSi It WAS A Iffindie, and I want money back.*’ “Dear me, but I visti you vas here Sea tefday. Lot me explain to you. You bought dot coat four weeks ago!" “Yes, four weeks to-day.” “Vhell, I had sold oudt to my couslu Philip sbust one day before. Philip is not a square man.” “What have I to do with Philip?” “Let me explain. In dree days Philip makes assignment to my bradder Louis. Dot Louis is a leedlo off. He would cheat your oye teeth away from you.” “Yes, but I haven’t anything to do with Louis.” “Let me explain. Louis kept der place a week, und ho gif a shattel mortgage to my fadder-in-law, and vlias bounced out.” “I don’t know anything about that.” “Let me explain. Ay fadder-in-law was took mit a fit and died, and he leaf dis biace to iny wife. My wife was gone to Europe for two years, and she leaf mo as agent. Now you see how it was. I ganuot tell you who sold dot coat- May bo it was Philip, may be Louis, may be my fadder-in-law.JU couldn’t haf been me for I was in SUicago. If yon leaf me dot coat I will write to my wife. She is square sbust liks me, and may be writes back dot you can take a linen duster and two white vests and call it straight.” “Say, this is a sneaking swindle,” ex claimed the young man: “May bo it was. Philip was u great liar.” b “Pll go to. the Sflliqg^” uia.no uur ponce vhill help me catch Louis. I shust found out last night dot he cut all der hind but tons off all der coats in der store before he left.” “If you’ll gtep out doors I’ll mash you.” | “Vhell, I like to oblige you, but yon see probably introduced by emigrants. Dr. E. L. Griffin, presideut of rhe Wisconsin State Board of Health, and proprietor of the vaccine farm at Fond du Lac, the product of which is sent all over the world, was In Chicago recently for the purpose of purchasing heifers for use iu the production ot vacciue points. The demand is great, Dr. Griffin having dis posed of 70,000 points recently within the space of three days. Sometimes but fifty vaccine points can be obtained from one animal, and in other cases over -1,000. Young milch cows are tho most suscepti ble and productive—those of light red color the best, and black the most objec tionable. SI AX VS. BEAK. Artrur proceeds slowly bnt surely to make his cabinet stalwart and his admin istration partisan. Grant has been grati fied and lias had his say in tho appoint ment of Timothy Howe as Postmastei- eneral. The country does not coutain a man more unfitted for tbe successful and satisfactory administration of that depart ment than Mr. Howe, who will bring to the discharge of his responsible duties profound stupidity and the most rancorous partisanship. But Howo is the “beloved of Grant,aud Howe in turn worships and serves Grant with a slavish devotion that is sickening and despicable. Mr. James had raised the hopes of the country for increased and enlarged mail facilities, and perhaps the populous centres of tho North may yet compel these privileges and benefits. But here in the South tbe great patronage of the department will be used to buy and corrupt tho people who are not strong enough to resist tho temptation of tho spoils of office. If anything is likely to in duce the people to entertain the novel and startling proposition of 31 r. Voorhces to have ail the postmasters elected by voters of the various States, it will be a four years term of Timothy Howo as Postmas ter General. I vlias only agent lor my wife.” “Well, you’ll hear from mo again, and don’t you forget it I” said tho victim as went out. “I hope so—I hope so. I like to make it right. I vlias only agent for my wife, but I feels so square dot I take dot coat back tor $3 if you whant to trade it out in paper collars.” DEATH A OF LEPER. Tub only augres which havo touched water at tho Atlanta Exposition were handled by Georgia men. When Tom Hardeman married the North and South Col. W. H. Sparks wept audibly, and when Col. Black, of Augusta, described tbe neb cream and ripe whisky of the blue grass region the great form of Jake Rice, of tho Kentucky Legislature, shook with sobs, and his too solid flesh melted away into briny tears. Assistant Postmaster-General Hatton is not a bad man by any means. He will slash Southern postmasters with bis stalwart sclmetar, but in his milder moods be delights to dally with an old Confederate who has pluck and buttons enough to slay late in a jack pot. Keifer, it is said, has appointed Tom my Reed, ol Maine, chairman of the ju diciary committee. Tommy looks like a Japanese with tho dropsy, and some ot bis party organs continually refer to him as the “cheerful idiot.” Agricultural Commissioner Lor- nro reports that he can’t do much with Lo Due’s tea patch, but he has pnt the cotton worm on the run and is about to tree the Rocky Mountain locust. Wren Tim Howe was in tbe Senate, a speech from him was equal to a hypo dermic Injection of morphine. It is reported that the Hon. Cope Winslow, of Houston, has bought an in- History ol a Case Karel jr Encountered In this Country. A lrper died at tho charity hospital on Blackwell’s Island yesterday who for the past seven years had been afflicted with this much dreaded disease. To those ■who were about, with aud near the un fortunate man, there was not that loathing of him which history records as existing in those who came in contact with tho lepers of ancient times. He was cot isolated, & were the poor afflicted Hebrews, who wero driven from so ciety to Luddle among themselves, and who, until the influeece of Christianity brought about the change, were compelled; far from their people, to urag out, siiuuneu aud despised, a miserable existence. Christianity cared for these poor unfortu nates, and the church established orders whose spJClal cars was to attend to and supply tho wants Of these poor people. The Knights Hrspitalers ol Bt. LaSarH* bad such cbaiilv for them that he uiiial 1)1} a recovered leper who was eligible to be come grand master of their qjder. Under the care ot these orders, and with the advance of civilization, tho con dition of the poorer classes became bet ter, aud leprosy died out, until now, ex cept in Norway and a few places in south ern Europe, it is unknown. Its appear ance, therefore, in one of the city institu tions, made known by tbo death of tbe af flicted, created, if not an alarm, at least hh interest which rarely attends tbe death ot an inmate of tbe charitable institutions of Hie city. Ill the year 1876 Charles Ilenkle was admitted to tbo hospital afflicted with lep rosy. He was then seventy-one year old, a German by blrtli. In tbe yea 1803 he arrived in this city from Texas and 3Iexico, where he had been living for years as a cattle herder. Nine years after bis arrival iu the city, in tho year 1874, eruptions broke out'on his hands, head and feet. Spots of various sizes and colors showed themselves over bis body. Under the treatment he received the sores disappeared. For two and a half years he bad suflered. After his tem porary euro, which lasted but a year, tbe eruptions reappeared,tubercular swellings showing themselves on the forehead, tlie eyebrows dropped off, the skin became thick aud formed in ridges. On his admittance to the hospital these tubercular swellings had covered bis chin and neck and the upper part of his back; bis bosom, however, was freo from them. There also appeared what are called meinotic stains on the arms, and confluent sores which readied down to ilio wrists. The head was covered with tubercles, which might, the same as those on the other parts of tbe body, be pierced with a pin without causing any sensation. The inner sides of tho legs were covered with small spots scattered all about and hardened patches or skin covered the low er half of the limbs. Tho knees were covered with thickened skin. The feet became purple and swollen and had no feeling in them. Dr. W. L. Hamilton, who treated the disease, gate a medicine called schaul- moogray three times a day and applied to the body an ointment made of the same substance. This dose after a little was increased. It then produced diar rhoea and was discontinued. Last May tbe Chinese medicine or drug, hoang- nan, was prescribed, and tbe results were very marked. The skin began to loaerits thickness, the tubercles peel off and feeling returned to the parts where numbness bad before existed. Tbe pati ent, as far as the leproiy was concerned, was getting along finely under tbe treat ment, when he sank, worn out with old age and exhaustion—New York Star, December 1. Ssiall-Pox.—Besides scattering along the Pacific roads, small-pox seems to have spread o— ‘ “ — An Exciting Flic tit which Ended In tbo Beast’* Discomfiture. From the Buffalo (S. F ) Aries. An exciting and prolonged fight between & bear and a man took place in this city yesterday afternoon, creating a great deal of excitement. On Saturday afternoon, Hellriege! Brothers, the butchers, of 11 East Seneca street, received by express from Michigan a large specimen of the black bear family, weighing at tho lowest calculation 200 pounds. The bear made the journey from the West in tbe interior of a largo hollow log, and when it rc»oij. ea iu aciunsuon problem of getting tbe bear out of iia natural caco seemed Incapable oi being solved. Yesterday Afternoon bruin wa? taken to ilefsrs, Hellriegel’s slttfo And then the difilcully seemed to be greater than ever. A crowd gathered around the store, and great in terest was manifested in the solution of tbe trouble. Some one said that Jack Smith, who works as a teamster fur Schaffer Brothers, in Lloyd street, could do the business. A messenger was dis patched for Smith, who speedily appeared on the scene of action. He is about five feet in height, and liis manner shows that he was once a sailor. Smith is stout, chunky and retucular, and wears an ex pression which is a happy combination of the thoroughly determined and devil-may- care sort. Smith, in an offhand way, said he would “fix the bear for them any way they wanted it.” When told that tlie great desideratum was to get tlie bear alive out of the log and chain him, the ex sailo.* rcinareed that he would do it. “Won’t you get hurt ?" some one asked. “That’s none of your business if I do,” was Smith’s rejoinder. After some parley it was decided that the bear had best be dumped into an Ice cellar under the store. This cellar is 10x12 feet and Sfeet high. Itcontaius ho windows nor outlets except a 2x4 aper ture at the top, which is covered by an iron grating. Tlie bear was shot down into this den £(5tfk l-- 5lf~air lift ’tfrocfies except liis pan taloons amt looked very ranch like a prite-figbter as he stood alongside the bole through which he would enter the bear’s den. A candle was given him to aid in materializing tbe bear, which could not be seen in the Egyptian darkness which filled the cellar. Jack, with the lighted lantern between his teeth, swuDg lightly to the floor of tbe den. Tho intruder at once attracted the attention of the hear, which, however, did not at once begin to make any demonstrations. Jack made a poke at the bear, aud with a growl the animal got up on its hind legs and assum ed a pugilistic attitude. The fight be tween tbem began, and it was a hot and furious one. The bear fougbt aud spar red in a manner which would have pnt to the blush many would-be ex erts. His long claws were thrice Suited iu tlie back of impatient and hardy Jack, who, though the pain was great, never relaxed the hold he uad just acquired on the bear's throttle valve. This was at the expiration of neatly an hour, and tbe sturdy member of the genus homo was rapidly getting tbe better of his brute antagonist. At this juncture, with a mighty effort, which caused the animal’s body to quiver all over, tbe brute threw off the sailor. As Jack made a thrust at bruin’s throat with his right hand, the maddened crea ture clutched it and bailed his teeth in in the flesh, The sailor rallied, and in a moment 1:1“ CJ’md duldi tie cannibalistic cavern, but a big piece of flesh was misslug from between tlie thumb and the first finger. Smith in his turn grew angry, and dur ing the remaining half hour which tbe strange contest lasted lie strained every muscle and mustered every uetvii to assl?’. A CUHIOliS CASE OF FEIGXED JtXtiAXITY. How “FSc; perla-’ We-e Pussicd by a Colored Prisoner. * _. Washington Star. I ho theory of some people that Gnlteau is feigning insanity recalls the case of one Howard, a colored prisoner in the District jail a few yeara ago, who for a long time baffled the doctors and others. He was rrrested here in tbe winter of’TD-’SO for burglary and was indicted in seven cases. Had he been convicted on all he would have been sentenced to the penitentiary for about sixty years, and probably have ended his days there. The fact that he Uad been thus indicted was published and made known to him, and, in his cell (one not far from that in which Guiteau was first confined) he was one morning found hanging by tho neck. He had tied liimselt in such a manner as to make it look impossible for him to have done the Hying himself. He was at once cut down and it wai found that he had apparently lost his rcasou, is also tlie use of his legs, and the jail officials, not then dreaming that he was feigning, removed him to a larger cell, where he could have another prisoner to keep him company and wait on him. Here Howard would he day and all night, apparently unable to move, Ije ato nothing so far as couiij. bo observed. Never spoke to anyOndT and apparently was a wreck monlallv. Drs. Youug a ud McWilliams were at first of tbe opinion that the cam was a genuine one, and so Genera! Crocker and most of the jail officers. He was watched with, more care than any other prisoner In the jail. The case became one of study, and some outside physicians were given an opportunity to examine It. It was not until Howaid bad spent several months in this condition that the officials became satisfied that ho was feigning imbecility as well as sickness. Experiment after ex periment was made with him. Inthe summertime flies were - attracted to his cell in large numbers. While he was ly ing on his conch perfectly motionless they entered his ears aud nostrils,and seemed to bother him so little that the most careful observer could not see a muscle move. Dr. \oung, after a .careful exami nation. could find no cause for the condi tion of Howard, and with General Crock er finally became suspicious that he was playing “posium,” but they could not bring their minds to the belief that this man had sufficient will power to act the role he had essayed continuously. How ard’s attendant one night discovered sumo or the food which the prisoner had hid away, and about the same time the colony of flies in the cell having become rein forced a closer watch was kept on him. One afternoon when there was considera ble noise in tlie building, one of the guards walked noiselessly to the cell nu&irtlgine Tiles' away. As soon as tbe sick and demented man saw that he was discovered, he became helpless. The physicians then determined to cure him, aud giving him a shock of tbe galvanic battery soon found that it was not impos sible for him to use his legs. He, however, became afterwards apparently as bad as ever, and being brought into the rotunda one day, having to be lifted, tbe batteiy was applied, and It was with difficulty that the strongest men could hold him, and he soon found voice to yell out, “Areyou going to kill me?” After this he was token to court, tried, convicted and sentenced to the Al bany penitentiary. Before going there he needed several other applications of the battery. On tbe journey ho pretended that he was unable to walk, but the mere mention by one of the guards that Ills “comforter,” the battery, was at hand, greatly improved his condition aud he was safely landed in the penitentiary walls. Tho last accounts from Albany are to tbe effect that Howard is now one of the most efficient workers, is m fine health and as intelligent as any colored prisoner they have. EQV.IL tO THE LF.FKOV CASE. Fall I’nrlicalars ol th« BSyrtertoas murder at tbe Wimblelon sebool. London, December 1$.—The Wimble don mystery is the great social topic of the day. Opinions are much divided. Some thick Dr. Lareson is guilty of s clumsy murderj hut others, including many medical man, think the boy died in consequence of morphia administered bv the doctors. The case has excited is much attention as that of Lefroy. The police of London furnish these details of the story: On Saturday evening, Decem ber 3rd, about 7 o'clock, Mr. G. F. Lam- for dear life, and would have burled his molars in the man’s face but for the light ed candle, which every now and then came so close to bis nose that the smell of burned hair arose to the nostrils of those who were watching the fight from the manhole which afforded an trance to the cellar. Jack finally got his fingers around the bear’s windpipe and after a desperate and terrific contest choked the bear into a state borderiog on insensibility. Tbe victory was complete. Smith put on the collar and chained tlie bear iu the back part of the butcher shop. He then put on his wearing appa rel and walked off. This morning be went to work as usual. He said to bis boss, who commented on the injured band: “You see, I iought a b’ar yesterday, and I beat it, too.” Smith’s employer said to a News man that they wero not astonished at his fight with bruin. Tbe bear was to-day on exhibition in the lack part of Hellreigel’s store. It is chained jnst as its captor left it. It will be kept until Christmas, when il will be shot and bear meat will be one of the at tractionsiofthestore. THE OULU ma ttuas oX. Nearly sixteen roaa swred iu a Sla de Uaak Boston Herald When the weight of tbe precions metals is taken into consideration, the value, or the convenience, of paper money be ornes apparent. In gold, even, large sums of money become very cumbersome and dif ficult to manage. The average balauces between tbe Boston banks each day, at the clearing house, amount to $1,500,000. Tiiis sum of money, now almost wholly bandied in gold, weighs about 3 3-10 tons. It is chiefly handled in little cloth bags hold ing, perhaps, three pints each, aud eich bag carrying $5,000, weighing abouttwen- ty-two pounds. These bags cf gold are daily brought to the clearing-house in the hands of bank messengers and in carts and wagons, and daily token away in tbe same manner. Very frequently quite a little knot or crowd of bystanders nay be noticed watching a covered wagon backed up to the sidewalk in State street. Into this wagon men are throwing little white bags, which sti ike with a metallic crash against each other and upon the floor of tbe wagon. These bags each contain $5,000 in com, aud the whole ot them represent the daily balances between the Boston banks. It is not infrequently tbe case that a single wagon moves off to dis tribute among tbe various banks $500,000. Tbe bystanders look on with covetous eyes, while the driver, bank messenger and policemen - keep^guard. A Txxas lumberman soya it will take 1,000,000,000 feet of lumber in ties alone to in-law. Mr. Malcolm John was tho sole surviving heir to considerable proper ty, and it is not known how tong his father and mother have been dead. He has two sisters, one of whom is the wife of Mr. Lareson, but none of tbem has a settled residence in England. Mr. Lam- son, when last beard of in this country, was residing at Bournemouth, where he practiced occasionally in bis profession. When he called at the school on Saturday evening lie saw his brother-in-law in com pany with 3Ir. W. U. Bedbrock, tbe prin cipal of the establishment. They were having some sherry together, when Mr. Lamson asked for some ground sugar, m order, as he said, to take* away the alco holic effect of what they were drinking. The ground sugar having been brought, Mr. Lamson produced some capsules, and, addressing bis brother-in-law, said: “Percy, this is the wty we used to take it in America lo destroy the effects of the alcohol;” then he put some of the ground sugar into the empty cap sule and handed it to Mr. Malcolm John, who swallowed it. On a pre vious occasion, about three or four months ago, when Mr. Malcolm Jshn was at Siianklin, in the Isle of Wight, he had, it happens, received a quinine pill from Mr. Lamson, from which he had suffered un pleasant sensations, and in a joking >vay he said on tbe occasion, “I don’t waut any of your quinine pills, such as you gave me at Shauklin. It nearly did forme tbere.” Mr. Bedbrook was banded oue of tbe cap sules before Mr. Malcolm John took his, but did not experience any unpleasant ef fect from taking it. The visit did not last altogether twenty minutes, and soon after Mr. Lamson left Mr. John began to feel ill. He said at first tiiat ho suffered some what in the way he did when he took the quinine pUl in the Isle of Wight. He gradually grew worse, and then be commenced to vomit, complaining all tbe time of a burning sensation at tbe heart, while his lower limbs were para lyzed. Medical aid was called at once. Mr. Berry, surgeon, was at Blenheim House School at tue time, and was called up stairs as soon as tbe unfavorable symp toms began to present themselves At tbe same time Dr. Little was seut for, aud both gertiemen remained with Mr. Mal colm John until he died, in great agony, at 11:30 o’clock the same night. Before bis death be said; “That brother of mine has done for me this time,” and made other remarks to the same effect. The medical gentlemen evidently had their suspicious aroused from what they had seen and beard, for up to that evening Mr. John bad been in his usual good health, and accordingly they directed that a portion of the vomit should be preserved. It is now in possession of the police. Be fore leaving Blenheim House it was noticed that Mr. Lsnsom talked la s|