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WASHINGTON.
Nicholls’ Diplomats Gone to New
Orleans.
SMYTHE WILL BE MARSHAL OF GA.
Startling Interview with Judge Northrop.
HE Nils MOUTH CAROLINA I* DE
TERMINED TO HAVE HAMPTON
CHAMBERLAIN WANTBTO ARBITRATE!
Washington, Marcli 31.—Governor
Hampton has accepted a serenade by
citizens ol Washington, at 8 o’clock
this evening, and leaves for home
at 1 Suodfty morning. He prolonged
his stay at the suggestion of Secre
tary Evarts.
It is understood the Louisiana
Conservatives nave modified their
deter mined opposition to the ap
pointment of a politician as ’Collec
tor of Customs at New Orleans.
It is a matter of surprise that all
Nicholls’ diplomatic forces are mass
ing at New Orleuns to act on the
Commission, leaving the President
and his Secretaries without the
means of obtaining exact informa
tion of the progress of events.
Col. Alston, very strangely recom
mended by Senator Gordon and
others, has withdrawn his papers of
application for the office of Marshal
of Georgia. This action undoubted
ly secures the continuance of Muj.
Smythe in the office.
The Republican publishes a start
ling interview with Hon. L. C. Nor
throp, Circuit Judge of the 7th Dis
trict. Captioning the interview, the
Republican says:
The Judge la a native-born South
Carolinian, being a descendant ol'
one of the oldest families In the
Stats, When the late war took
place Jodie Northrop, his father and
his brother, all enlisted on the Con
federate side. His father and brother
were killed, and he survived. After
wards he became a Republican and a
strong supporter of Gov. Chamber
lain. After paying high compliment
to the manhood and integrity of
Chamberlain, he proceeds to describe
the situation.
The Democrats believe, as they do
in their existence, that Hampton
received over one thousand majority
of the votes and is the lawfully elect
ed Governor. claim that it has
been decided in their favor by the
courts, and they would eagerly de
fend It by the fast dollar and the last
life. I have never seen Such pro-*
found excitement and inflexible reso
lution as exists throughout my sec
tion. It is in every fibre of the atmos
phere, and must be felt to be under
stood. It is a kind of frenzy, like
that which possessed the people of
Paris in 1793. It has been repressed,
as a trained tiger Is repressed. Ou
the first move of Hampton’s finger
or lips, if that movement had been
made, the whole army of the United
States would have had business on
its hands.
Further on he says: lam a Re
publican, every inch of me, and a
Carolinian every inch of me, and I
don’t want to see the State pass into
the hands of the Democracy; but l
don’t want to see ft go to the devil
either.
Reporter—Well, if Hampton be
comes Governor, would peace follow?
Yes, sir, it would most undoubted
ly, and with that peace would come
ample protection to all people alike,
and property would at once become
enhanced in value by 25 per cent.
Washington, March 31.—Governor
Hampton visited Brady’S National
Historical Photograph Gallery to
day. Gen. Brady succeeded in mak
ing an excellent picture of the Gov
ernor.
Evarts proposes to reorganize the
Consuiar system on the English plan,
selecting commercial and manufac
turing men for Consulships.
Nothing is known in court circles
here or in New York regarding pro
ceedings in guo warranto against Pres
ident Hayes.
The President received the troops
at the arsenal this morning.
No Southern appointments to-day;
no visitors.
The Cabinet has not yet concluded
instructions to the Lousiana Com
mission, nor decided the South Caro
lina case.
A proposal to arbitrate has been
submitted by Chamberlain, through
the President, to Hampton, which
Hampton, it is understood, de
clined in a letter to the President.
A report published that troops hud
been ordered from the Stato house at
Columbia.but to remain in the State,
is noVconfirmed.
Five oompaDies of military order
edhere before the inauguration, leave
here next week for their regular
stations on the New England coast.
It has transpired, later, that the
President did not transmit Chamber
lain’s proposition to Hampton. The
Cabinet have not yet closed the mat
ter, and ho orders have been issued.
Chamberlain laid some papers before
the President, which he referred to
Evarta ami Sehurz.
Nothioghleflnite cau bo known be
fore Monday, though the removal of
troops from the State House may be
regarded as assured.
HIE CLIFAuiIMAXU'-iaUX.
WHOLESALE ARSON AND MURDER PLAN
NED THE CHINESE AND THEIR EM
PLOYERS TO UE KILLED.
San Francisco, March 31.—A Chico
dispatch says J. M. Swain, a member
of the Council of Nine, made a con
fession of the manner in which the
affairs of the council are conducted,
which agrees with previously pub
lished statements of deliberate plans
laid, involving the destruction of
property and taking the lives of both
whites and Chinese. Among those
proposed to the council as fit
subjects for murder was Honorable
Jolin Bidwell, candidate for Gov-~
ernor on the Independent ticket
during the last campaign, who was
inimical to the order an account of
employing Chinamen on his rantih
in the viciuity of Chico. The council
appears to have beeu composed of
three captains, each of whom ap
pointed 8 lieutenants. Each captaiu
had a certain district assigned fiim
in which to operate. The manner in
which the members of the Secret Or
ganization laid their plans for burn
ing and blowing up buildings in
Chinatown and manufacturing estab
lishments in which Chinese were em
ployed, and discussed the propriety
und expediency of making way with
parties who had incurred their en
mity, is almost incredible.
All the prisoners have been remov
ed to jail in Oreville, the county seat.
Every precaution is taken to render
escape or rescue impossible. Double
guards are stationed within and
without the jail, and the approaches
to town patrolled by an armed force.
Excitement over the disclosure of
the criminals is intense,mingled with
fear that determined action of the
authorities and citizens will not be
sufficient to deter other members of
the Labor Union from seeking to
avenge the arrest of their compan
ions.
i.dm: into liquidation.
THE STATE BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Harrisburg, March 31—The State
bank has gone into liquidation. The
cashier says it will pay 20 per cent,
of all claims as they mature, and will
pay the balaace as soon as the bank
realizes sufficient money from assets.
A circular signed by the President
and cashiers, says this action is in
duced principally by the unprofita
bleness of the banking business. De
positors and others assured assets
ample to satisfy as set forth in the
circular: Total assets #202,585.42;
total natalities #102,049.40 ; assets
over liabilities $40,536.00. The doors
of the bank will be kept open during
business hours.
A 110 V KILLS IIIS FATHER.
Boston, March 31.—Last night a
son of Alfred Cox, of West Bowdofn,
Me., 14 years Old,'shot and killed his
father as the latter was returning
from church. They had both been
to church; eon was making a slight
disturbance, when father told him to
go forward to another seat; boy left
the church, and going directly home,
took a gun, and meeting his father
as he entered the yard, fired on him,
killing him instantly. The lad is said
to be insane.
France.
London, March 31.—A dispatch
to the Times from Paris states that
the Budget Committee, though al
most exclusively radical, refused to
adopt the draught of a report on
public worship estimates drawn by
M. Garchafd, on account, of its vio
lent hostility to Catholicism. The
committee directed Mr. Garchafd to
remodel the report.
Fire.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. March 30.
By an incendiary fire, Thomas
Riley’s tenement house, with 5 per
sons, was burned. Others jumped
from windows. Many made narrow
escapes. The fire was kindled under
the stairs.
Hall Sailed for Europe.
New Yobs, March 31.—Oakey Hall
sailed from Boston on freight steam
er, Victoria.
London, March 31.—Oakey Hall
has arrived at, Liverpool. £
Ship New*.
New Yobk, March Bi.--Arrlved: Ne
vada.
Arrived out: Candor, Sneklakka, Ma
rfa Wakefield, Hector, Forest Belie, Pou
tida, at Liverpool; Indian, Rena, Svea,
Arno, at savannah.
Homeward: Czar, for Pensacola.
COLUMBUS, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1877.
THE EASTERN QUESTION.
THE PROTOCDL SIGNED.
BUT THE TIMES STILL FEARS TURKEY
WILL PROVE INTRACTABLE.
London, March, 31.—The signing
of the protocol is officially announc
ed.
The fTithes, in a leading article,
says. “We canuot but see Turkey iu
the back ground behind all these
fair arrangements of the powers; so
much depends on what the Porte
will do; and Russian disarma
ment is promised In expecta
tion of so many things which
may not easily be fulfilled. Ou the
contrary, the dominant feeling
in Constantinople is still defiance.
In the preseut temper of the two Em
pires the suggestion of negotiations
for a common disarmament to bo
carried on by the Turkish delegate at
St. Petersburg, does not appear
promising. It may b® said that the
success or failure of this new ut
teinpt at pacification must be
decided at Constantinople. The
Government Is in the circumstances
fully justified in sending out Mr.
Lagard. The Turks aro full of ani
mosity against Russia; and the dis
trust of Russia’s seeming abettors
may be even less reasonable than
three months ago. Many , inter
pret Russia’s overtures as
signs of pusillanimity and
weakness. Mr. Lagard has
had experience of the Turks, and
perhaps there is no Englishman to
whom they would more readily
listen. To him and other ambassa
dors we must look impress on the
Porte the expediency of doing noth
ing which may be represented as
modifying the protocol.
AVENDELI. FRILUPI.
HIS VIEWS OF HAYES AND niS CABINET.
Philadelphia Press,]
Hayes’ Cabinet reminds one of a story of
Turner, the English painter. He had hung
up at the exhibition a painting subdued in
color. As he studied it on the wall, the can
vas seemed to lade out of sight in the pres
ence of its bright rivals. After gazing
awhile, Turner flung a drop of bright red on
the center of his piece, aud the picture
glowed into startling effect.
So 1 can see Hayes gathering his Cabinet.
There is Sherman, who will leave a name
linked to no measure, or idea—his only rec
ord that he entered Congress poor and leaves
it rich. Evarts reminds one of the Pro
testant riots in London, when men chalk
ed on their closed shutters “No Popery ’ to
conciliate the mob. One timid citizen, anx
ious to stand well with both sides, chalks up
-No religion.” Amid this death-grapple be
tween Caste and the Declaration ol Indepen
dence, Evarts writes on his flag, “No prin
ciples.” Then Schruz, the Swiss soldier, al
ways to let.
Hayes gazed at the colorless piece, which
was hardly visible. Suddenly he remembers
Slavehourid Devens, the low monotony ol
whose lilc rose only once into noticeable in
famy, when, with his own hands, he put
chains on Thomas Sims and dragged him
down S’ate street. Hayes flung that blood
red drop on the canvass, and, behold! it grows
immortal—the Slave-hound Cabinet! Such
a hound should ever after be hidden inpri—
vacy and hermitage; he has no right to oh
trude himself on the disgust of mankind
Fancy him entering the Cabinet Chamber.
Sherman, never an abolitionist, neither
knows nor cares about his history. Evajt#
receives him with the suave indifference of
one who is “every thing by turns and noth
ing long.” Schruz has neither brain nor
heart enough to understand why slave-hunt
ing should discredit any one, provided ft
pays well. Key, accustomed, like all South
erners, to use slave-catchers and despise
them, makes no effort to hide his disgnst.
Such a Cabinet, a slave-hourid Cabinet, to
pilot this ship, tossed on the hot indignation
of twenty millions Northerners and the tire
less hate of ten millions at the South!
What name shall we give to the cool and
barefaced assumption which claims that the
Cabinet represents all the elements of our
politics? Where do you find in it the ele
ment which Blaine, Morton and Butler stand
for? Without that idea in the forefront of
the canvass, Tilden would be to-day in the
White House, and the Republicans not only
defeated, but humbled by their overwhelm
ing annihilation. Every other element ap
pears in the Cabinet. This only—the Ham
let ol the piece—is omitted. There is Evarts,
who represents the neutrals—men Bo indiff
erent that, in this battle of giants and strug
gle of principles, they could see notbiing ei
ther in the Republican or Democratic party
worth working for. Schruz stands for the
treachery, selfconceit and morbid office
seeking that rebelled with Greeley. Key
brings in Tilden and secession. Devens
keeps fresh before us the men who ate dirt
and wore collars in the old pro-slavery days.
If the presidential canvass had contained
only these forces Hayes would dwell quietly
to-day in Ohio. Blaine and the Bloody
Shirt elected our President. Besides, the
almost unvarying custom and courtesy of
our politics is for the President to offer to
the next strongest candidate of his party the
position of Secretary of State. When he
omits this offer to Blaine, and, further, ex
cludes from his Cabinet the idea Mr. Blaine
represents, he not only insulted Blaine, he
revealed himself as purposely betraying the
ranks that elected him
But Lamar and Hill “prophesy soft things.’
Yes, while their white constituents will riot’
speak to Longstreet. Besides, Blaine’s
spear once revealed’ Hill’s black heart.
Does any cunning man, after notice, stum
ble twice over the same stone? They both
are behaving well before company.
We have tried conciliation before.
Andrew Johnson, made Vice-President,
wa9 our first experiment. No one will
claim that as a success. Akerman, Mosby,
Longstreet are later instances. The South
lost three men, and we gained just three —
that’s all.
No, the epoch is not ended. Whoever
says so is either a knave or dupe. The bat
tle is only adjourned from Waterloo to the
coup d'etat of 1851 ami the stuffed ballot
boxes of November, 18 )2. Then Franc*
trieiftS create a Republic; we are ttying to
save one.
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KISS AND TRY.
A TALK OF T. VALKXTIXK.
From London Society.)
“I won’t marry for money and I
won’t, be married for money, and I
won’t marry at all; and when I do
I’ll please myseU—so there! You
are so stupid, Aunt Jane;’’ and the
wilful little beauty stamped her foot,
contradicting herself with a wrathful
energy that would have done credit
to an accomplished actress.
“My dear ”
“Don’t ‘my dear’ me! I’m not
your dear. I can bo dear to plenty of
people if I choose.”
“My dear, really you are so impe
tuous, you’ll never be married.”
“There it is again, that hateful
topic. Can’t you understand I don’t,
want to? Why should 1? I’ve got
plenty of tnouey; I’ve got a carriage
aud two such pets of ponies and a
hunter aud a house in the country;
what more do I want? I wish you
would all let mo aloue. There’s papa
talking sorrowfully, silly old darling,
about his declining years and only
me, and me not married ; and if you
are my aunt it’s no reason you should
worry me night aud day. I won’t
have your lawyer if he’s as rich as
Croesus-how much has he given
you to plead bis case, eh?”
“You need not insult me at all
events. I counsel you for your own
good, Miss Delaselle. Mr. Marshe is
most eligible. His fat her is in the
front rank of his profession, and im
mensely rich ; your papa approves of
this suit. There is a possibility of
the dormant peerage being revived
in the favor of that family, Mr.
Marshe senior hns rendered great
services in high quarters.”
“Thank you for your genealogical
particulars. Now please tell me all
about Captain Williams and Theo
philus Bishop, who will rise in the
church, and Sir Cornelius Wilkes and
Squire Thompson and Mr. Barnaby
and Lieutenant Vane and Lord Pau
lino, &b.”
“Really, you may well pause; the
flirtations you carry on are beyond all
belief. There were a dozen soldiers
in the house yesterday.”
“And there’il be two dozen to
night, and I shall have at least a
huudred valentines to morrow mor
ning. Everybody likes me ; of course
they do. All the men know I don’t
try to trap them into marrying me,
like the other girls. Ah, there is the
ring; sure to be somebody to see
me.
“Shameful?” groaned Aunt Jane,
composing herself to her work.
Marie glanced in the mirror over the
mantelpiece, smiled and adjusted a
stray curl.
“Aunt, don’t you think I look
awfully nice this evening?”
“Charming!” said a gentleman’s
voice, as the door waa thrown open
and Mr. Marshe was announced.
“Pardon me, that dress is perfec
tion.”
“Sir, I do not like personal re
marks ; they are extremely rude.
However, your profession, I suppose,
brings you in contact with vulgar
people.”
“Muriel” reproachfully from Aunt
Jane.
“Mis3 Delaselle is privileged,” said
Marshe, a dapper voung man, not,
bad looking, but obviously conceit
ed. Marie said all little men were
vain ; and as for lawyers they seem
ed to consider it the duty of heiress
es to marry them.
“What divorce case are you en
gaged in now, sir,” she asked.
“We do not undertake that class of
work,” said Marshe, loftily.
“Captaiu Williams-oh, und Lord
Pauline, too! lam delighted to see
you. We have been so dull this
evening, have we not. Aunt Jane?”
These newcomers hardly acknowl
edged the lawyer,who on his partsur
veved them with intense scorn.
“Neither of them has a hundred
pounds cash,” thought he to him
self, “and yet such airs.”
Marie, however, was much more
pleasant in her manner to them,
which galled him extremely, yet he
could not tear himself away, and
after twenty times resolving never to
speak to her again, he had actually
opened a tacit understanding with
Mr. Delaselle.
She was. indeed, one of those girls
of whom it may justly be said that
there was do living with them nor
without them.
He turned to pay court to Aunt Jane
when the ltev. Theophilaa Bishop
arrived. He was acting for tbe pres
ent as a curate in town till a valuable
living, in the gift ofa relative,should
become vacant by the decease of the
aged incumbent.
“You cruel man !” said Marie; “I
heard of your sermon ; so if a poor
lady is deserted by her husband and
gets a divorce she is not to marry
again?”
“Wo are opposed to such unions
on the highest grounds, my dear
Miss Delaselle. If we had only
known that a divorced was one of the
contracting parties, we should have
moat certainly refused permission to
use the sacred edifice.”
“Well, it’s very hard; don’t you
think so, Mr. Marshe?”
“To refuse would be illegal.” said
the lawyer, glad of a chance of put
ting down one of his rivals, “quite
illegal, I feel sure, to say nothing of
the bad taste.”
“By the ecclesiastical law ” be
gan the curate, firing up in a mo
ment.
“It’s a confounded shame,” broke
in Captain Williams.
“The ladies are deserving of every
consideration,” said Lord Pauline,
an aged beau, but well preserved.
“You may be sure the lady was the
injured party.”
“Ecclesiastical law repeated
the curate.
“Suppose I had a brute of a hus
band—-of course I never mean to
have one, that’s understood.”
“The premises are very lucid,” said
the lawyer sarcastically.
“And—and I was divorced. Musn’t
I—have well ”
“You of course would be an excep
tion,” said the curate ; “but as a rule
such marriaffes are even more sinful
than those contracted simply with, a
view to filthy lucre.”
This was a cut for Marshe.
“I hate women who marry for
money,” said Marie ; there’s nothing
so despicable.”
“Nothing so despicable,” echoed
Captain Williams and Lord Pauline,
neither of whom had a “dollar.”
“Except a inau’a marrying a lady
for her money,” added , the curate,,
who was well provided for as far “as
the good things of the world went.”
“Tnere should be a certain equal
ity of position and of pecuniary
means in order to insure mutual re
spect.”
“Mutual respect be hanged I” mut
tered Captain Williams in his beard,
"What did I hear?” said the
ourate;"the language or the bar
ruck-room ”
“I say a girt that marries the man
she livo9 is the truest and best,”
cried the Captain loudly; “whether
he’s poor or rich doesn’t matter.
She’s the girl for mo.”
To his surprise the captain caught
Marie’s eye fixed on him with an ex
pression of sympathy that made his
heatt give a thump of delight?
Could she? He was not such a bad
fellow, that captain, though a trifle
outspoken. t.
"I differ from you entirely,” said
Lord Pauline. “I think uorhiug
shows a more cowardly character
than for a man without a penny and
without a social position”—this was
ahiutathis own title—“to attempt
to obtain the affections of a lady who
might, engage herself to great advan
tage.”
“Lord Pauline understands the
world and human nature,” said Aunt
Jane. “His remarks are very just.
Olt, good eveniug, sir!” with a mark
ed emphasis on the "sir.”
Marie merely bowed in a distant
mauner to the gentleman who had at
that moment entered, and turned
quickly towards the Riaoo. They
all crowded round her, and pressed
her to play, scarcely deigning to ex
change salutations with the new
comer, who was thus, us it were, ex
cluded from the circle—except Capt.
Williams, who welcomed him cor
dially.
“ ’Tis poverty parts good compa
ny,” whispered he, quoting the old
song. “Never mind, old fellow ; you
are twenty times more a man than
these miserable, drumstick imita
tions. By Jove, what a chest you
have!”
Thurstan Bavnard was indeed “a
man of inches,” and broad in propor
tion—perhaps rather more than in
proportion—though he had hardly
yet reached his full development, be
ing but twenty-six, A long silky,
black beard, thick,- curling mous
taches, bright dark eyes, an opon
wide forehead, and rather massive
head, gave him no inconsiderable
claim to beealled handsome. Thurs
tau was one of those men, sometimes
met, who seem to possess every pos
sible advantage except money. He
wus tall aud strong, certainly good
looking, agreeable in manner, well
read, aud still better traveled—he
hud, for a time, carried dispatches
as a Queen’s messenger—full of ani
mal health and naturally joyous tem
perament, saddened, however, by the
perpetual sense of impecuniosity and
tRe pressure of petty debt. His fam
ily was well connected of ancientjde
scent, und yet practically he was a
vagabond upon the faeg of the earth.
The families of Baynard and Dela
selle were branches of the same
stock; he and Marie had played to
gether as children, and he was still
free of the house; but when growing
years seemed to threaten the danger
of uti imprudent attachment, Mr.
Delaselle spoke to hitn in private
very seriously on the matter, “hop
ing that ho would not take advan
tage of his position to compromise
Marie’s chances of an eligible
match.” This was extremely bitter
to Thurstan. whose proud spirit was
deeply wounded;aud henceforward
he came rarely, and adopted a differ
ential distant manner.
Marie, on her part, scarcely noticed him
now that they were arrived, he at man
hood and she at womanhood. He thought
it was pride; still he felt constrained to
call occasionally, for in truth he loved
her beyond expression.
Nothing destroys a man’s spirit like
poverty, especially if he still by birth be
longs to that class of whom it was said
noblesse oblige, and can not fully de
scend to the little meannesses too often
compulsorily practiced by those who
earn their daily bread. There were as
yet no lines upon bis forehead, but there
was an undescribahlc expression of sub
dued pain.
“I’ve conte to say good by,” said he to
Captain Williams,tvs the two sat together
in the background, while Marie played
and sang gayiy. Mr. Delaselle just nod
ded as he entered, and then devoted him
self to Mr. Marshe.
“Where are you off to, then?” asked the
captain. “ Wby on earth don’t you go in
to the army!"
“Can’t afford it—and can’t live on thir
teen perree a day either. No; I’m going
to China; you know I've studied fortifica
tion. I’ve an idea I could help them to
forlyfy themselves against the Russians.
They are much alarmed at Russian ag
gression eastward. General Kauffman s
guns easily smashed up the wretched walls
and towns of the Central Asian Kliaxs.
I think Chiua ought to pay well for in
structions how to build redoubts a la
Vauban."
“It’s not a bad idea; but how about
leaving Miss Delaselle? I thought you
were— Well, no matter; you’re just the
man for her. Yes. I’ll say that even
against my own interest. She’ll be snap
ped up before you get back, man. Look
at Marshe, and that prig the curate, and
the old lord—pah! Aro you sure she
doesn’t care for you?”
“She scarcely acknowledges me,” said
Thurstan. “And yet we Used to Still
she has a right to do as she pleases. At
all events, I start to-morrow night for
Southampton.from Waterloo Station ’
“I’ll see you off’. By Jove, I’m sorry,
dueced sorry!” The best fellows are al
ways shoved into a corner. To-morrow
night-it’s St. Valentine’s Day to-morrow,
now I think of it.”
Just then Marie’s voice, blithe and rich
in tone, began with an inimitable expres
sion of innocent mischievousness, so to
say, the old verse:
• 'A the tails they look at mo
Coming through the rye.”
“It’s just like her,” said the captain;
“and yet do you know, Thurstan, I be
lieve there’s something good in that girl
despite all this frivolity. I wish you
could have seen her just now when they
were discussing marriages for money, and
I said the best and trnest girl was the one
who married for love. There was a
flash in her eye; I don’t think she knows
her own heart yet.”
“Mr. Baynard,” cried Marie suddenly
from her seat at the piano, “come aud
sing our old favorite, ‘Annie Laurie"
The circle sneered at the mention of so
simple a ballad. He hesitated, hut she in
sisted, and Anally he sang it—sang it as
only a man could do who felt every line.
It was true that she never pledged her
word, but she was indeed “all the world”
to him. He had a beautiful voice, hell
like, yet liquid, aud to alter just one word
of Byron,
•'Lovohsth not, in all Ills choice.
An arrow for the heart like a aweet voice.”
They were all silent when he ceased.
Marie indeed seemed to recover herself
with an effort and thanked him gently,
in a tone that nearly unmanned him.
“Dear me!” cried the lawyer; “I’ve for
gotten 1 hud a telegram to leave at the office.
Excuse m*. I'll return.”
Mr. Delaselle accompanied him to the
door.
“Something very despicable in business,”
said Lord Pauline.
“Very despicable, very,” echoed the cu
rate. “Contact with the coarser natures
who seek the aid of the law must naturally
react upon those who listen to their revela
tions.”
“I believe there is a great fire,” said Mr.
Delaselle, re-entering; “let us go up to the
high windows to see.”
The gentlemen and Aunt Jane, who had
a special horror offirc, followed him quickly;
and Marie wns moving in the same direc
tion, when Thurstan, who had stood aside
to let the others pass first, spoke her name
gently.
She paused, and for the moment they were
alone.
“Yes.” she said kindly.
“I—l just called to say good by; I start
for China to-morrow night—some years be
fore I may see you again,” said Thurstan,
in a hurried and contused manner.
“Is this truel”
“It is, indeed, quite true. You will re
member me sometimea, Marie?” he almost
said “my darling,” but bis courage failed.
Her eyes fell; Bhe flushed slightly.
“Yes, I shall remember you. Stay, let me
think—bush! lait a fire?” she added, in a
different tone, hearing footsteps.
“At a great distance, no danger,” said Mr.
Delaselle. Aunt Jane glanced suspiciously
from Thurstan to Marie and back again.
He felt that he was looked on as dc trop\
and confused, believing too that to stay lon
ger would be simply to prolong his torture,
wished them good night, and left what he
had almost nerved himself to say to Marie
still unsaid, and now probably beyond his
power to say.
A certaiu stiffness fell upon the parly, and
Marie seemed to have lost her gayety, till
iu less than an hour Marshe returned, and
she brightened up to the great delight of
Aunt Jane and Mr. Delaseiie, who saw' in
this a sign of affection for him and were re
assured.
Marshe was very lively. The fact was
he thougl.t he had done a clever thing.
It was this. Driving to the ofjice of the
lirm, Marshe, Marshe fie Copp, he recollected
that he had a a valentine in the pocket of
his overcoat. It was a very expensive one,
which he had selected with much care, con
taining a few love verses ot the approved
order, surrounded with a gorgeous design,
and perfumed. He argued with himselfpro
and con, after the manner of the judicial
mind, as he drove along, whether he should
address the envelope himself in his owu pro
per hand-writing, or whether he should dis
guise his style, or get someone else to assist
him. This highly important question has
agitated the heart of valentine-senders ever
since the grateful old custom began.
Clearly, if directed in his own handwri
ting, Marie, who knew it well, would rec
ognize the sender immediately; of mystery
there would be none, and the fun would be
lost.
If the address was written by a stranger
it was ten chances to one that she wuuld
never fix upon him, in which case the valen
tine might as well be thrown into the fire at
once. What was to be done? A Frenchman
would say that the answer to this trifling
question decided his destiny It was still
open when he reached the offices of the great
firm, in which his part was really merely
nominal. In these vast businesses each
partner has one department to himself, and
perhaps scarcely ever hears the name of the
clients of the others; the young man, pert
and fashionable in his ways, thought no more
ol bis profession than was absolutely forced,
upon him. They were working very late
that night, his father was sitting still, ge
ttngup a matter for a parliamentary com
mittee—the telegram he had forgotten ie
ferred to this.
“Ah, Jones,” said he toa confidential clerk
who had a room to himself, a kind of ante
chamber to the great man's, “just put this
letter in a large envelope, one with the firm’s
initials on—only the initials mind—and di
rect it with the typewriter to Miss Dela
selle. ***** Mayfair. Have it ready for
me ”
In this way he thought he had conquered
the difficulty The writing-machine really
prints exactly like type, but the initials
would leave a clew to guess by. Clever
young man!
Jones, so soon as his hack was tnrned,
smiled and smelt the letter. “Aha!” thought
he, I’ll have a look; it’s a velentihe; I can
smell the perfume.”
The envelope was but just stuck; he loos
ened it, and pulled out the valentine, laying
it on a long letter he had just finished with
the machine. Hardly had he taken a peep
when the door opined again, and Marshe
stood in the opening—still, however, with
his back turned—talking to the principal.
In an awful fright, Jones upset all his pa
pers, crammed the valentine and the long
letter hastily into envelopes, and wrote the
directions like lightning.
“That will do—capital!” said. Marshe, ta
king the valentine. “It’s rather an awk
ward-looking parcel though. Give me that
other letter; I’ll send them both by the boy
as I go down stairs.”
He dashed back rapidly to Marie, who, as
soon as he arrived, became as merry as ever,
and raised bis hopes exceeding high. When
the evening closed, Marshe thought to him
self, “She has evidently come round. I’ll
strike while the iron is hot,and put the ques
tion to-morrow night. By-the-bye, that ill
favored Thurstan I hear is off to Hong Kong.
Glad of it; always had a lurking suspicion
there was something between them
Who in all great London, should have
been so happy as Marie that night! Rich,
feted, with crowds of admirers, aiid sure to
have a hundred valentines next morning.
Would any one have believed that she
never slept all night, but passed the weary
hours, thinking, thinking, thinking, and fre
quently shedding tears. Till Thurstan was
about to leave her, in all human probability
forever, she had never known bow much she
loved him. Indeed, she had hardly erer felt
that ahe had a heart, life had been one long
round of joyous frivolity. Now she knew
the utter nothingness of al! the knick knacks
of wealth. Of what use were dozens of ad
mirers if he was not there? She remembered
Captain Williams’ blunt declaration that the
best and truest woman was the one who
married for love. Poor Thurstan had not a
penny. Some of these men who courted her
had shown such bad taste as to describe tbe
shifts he was sometimes put to; instinctively
they felt he was a dangerous rival, and
thought to hold him up to contempt.
“1 know he loves me,” she said to herself;
“Wby has he never said so? It is money; he
is too proud to have me think he woos ms
for nrfy money. To-morrow I shall lose him
forever.”
From sheer exhaustion she fell asleep at
last, and was awakened by her maid, who
brought a salver to her bedside, perfectly
heaped up with letters. Here were the hun
dred valentines!
Scarcely twenty-fbtfr honrs before she
had looked forward to this hnoment with de
light; now she pushed the heap away as a
vanity and vexation of spirit.
“Perhaps Thurstan has sent arte,” she
thought presently, and turned them over,
seeking the well remembered handwriting.
“No, not even a valentine; very likely he ie
too poor to buy one that he think* good
enough for me. What ia this thick let
ter? What curious writing! It’a printing I
think.”
Curiosity impelled her to open it. She
read and read and a color rote in her cheeks.
“la it possible!” she cried, and sprang up.
“I’ll do it! 1 will! 1 don’t caret”
Hurriedly she wrote a note and despatched
it to Thurstan’s chamber*. A bold thing
doubtless; but reflect, they had been play
mates. It ran thus: • ‘ “
“Miss Delaselle and Mr. Delaselle would
like to see Mr. Baynard early in the day that
they may wish him farewell. They wilt
feel much hurt if he does not come.”
“Good heavens!" ahe thought, “if it
should not reach him; if he should not
come!”
Thurstan, indeed, did hesitate, feeling that
to see her again would be a severe trial.
But love, all powerful love, would not be
denied. He went. She had ao arranged
that he found her alone in her boudoir.
“It’s extremely rude of you, air, to force
me to write to you.” Now he was there she
could not resist the temptation to play With
the mouse she had caught. “Why did you
not tell me before that you were going?”
Thurstan, unhappy and downhearted,
could not meet her light tone with answer
ing raillery. He stammered some excuse.
“And why are you going, sir?”
“I must obtain a living somewhere.'’
“Why not in England?”
“The competition ia so great. And every
body despises me because I am poor.”
“Stanny,” said ahe, using an old familiar
abbreviatiou, and placing her little hand on
bis broad shoulder,, “Stanny, you’re a big
man—a giant—and oh, so strong; and can’t
you push your way ill the crowd?”
“I’ve tried,” said he simply.
“No, you haven't. 1 tell you what, Stan
—l’m not afraid of you, though you are so
big—you’re a coward! There—oh, don’t
flash your eyes at me! You're afraid, aud
so you are now running away. You’ll cry
next, I suppose. (This waeverv cruel, Ma
rie, bitterly cruel ) You’re not half so brave
as I am. Men are not half so brave aa wo
men.” Her voice sank lower and she looked
at him and her eyes suddenly filled with
tears, though be, gazing away, d-d not see it.
“Do you know what 1 should do if I were in
your place?”
Something in her tone made 'him glance
at her with a strange sensation in his
throat.
“What should you do if you were me?”
he said.
“Kiss and try,’’ she whiapered softly, let
ting her head drop against his shoulder.
He did it. There are no words by which
so sudden a revulsion of feeling can be des
cribed. The half hour that followed was
the happiest in his life Suddenly he remem
bered himself.
“I am so poor,” he said. “Forgive me —
they will say it was your money.”
“Are you sure you are poor?” She said
archly.
“Quite sure.” ,
“Then read that;” aqd be put Marshe’s
valentine into his hand.
He tried to, but he could not take his gaze
from her; and the letters seemed confused.
“Listen." she said, and read it. Slowly
the truth dawned upon him. Jones, the
clerk, in his hurry, fearing to be caught peep
ing, had put the letter aud the valentine in
the wrong envelopes, or rather confused the
addresses. Marie got instead of a valentine,
a long letter from Coppi, the second princi
pal of the firm, which had really been meant
for Thurstan. The valentine went Heaven
knows where. Of course?, how it happened
was not found out till afterwards, but there
was no mistaking the contents ot the letter.
Copp in formal phrase informed Mr. Thur
stan Baynard that by the terms of the will
of General Sir Frederick Baynard, just de
ceased—a distant relation who had never
previously owned him—he wee entitled to a
very large sum in consola, and still more
valuable estates; provided—ah, whenever
was there a blessing without a black side?
provided, that within the space of twelve
months he married a lady possessed of not
less than a given amount, upon whose chil
dren the whole was to be settled. The old
man was a miser, and it had been the work
Of his life to rehabilitate the fallen fortunes
of the family. Casting about for a means
of keeping the money he had painfully
amassed in the family, he had hit upon this
odd but not unreasonable idea.
“So you see,” said Maris, “You’re richer
than 1 am. Perhaps you won’t have me
now?”
His answer was a fresh embrace.
“Ah,” sbe said, mock ng hia prev ouify
mournful tone, “1 am ao poor now compared
to you, you’ll think it waa your money.”
‘lncorrigible,” said he, kissing her.
“Incorrigible, indeed,” cried Aunt Jane,
who had entered unseen. “This really ia
shameful—moat ungentlemanly.”
“He is richer than—everybody,” said Ma
rie, laughing. “This is tipe most beautiful
valentine I ever had,”
“And this is the most beautiful one I ever
had or ever shall have,” said he, laying hia
hand on her shoulder with an air of posaes
aion that horrified Aunt Jane.
Matters, however, were soon explained,
and her objections mglted away, as did Mr.
Delaselle’*. _ _ |
They were married early in May, Captain
Williams being Thurstan’s best man.
“I was certain she loved you,” be said. “l
can understand now what she meant on St.
Valentine’s eve when she looked at me so
meaningly, when I said the beat and truest
woman was the one that married for love.
She loved you when you were poor. You
ought to be grateful to St. Valentine all
your life!”
WEATHER INDICATIONS.
War Department. )
Office of Chief Signal Officer, >
Washington, March 31, 1877. )
For the South Atlantlo and East
Gulf States, Tennessee and the Ohio
Valley, Increasing cloudiness and
rain, with southeast to southwest
winds, falling barometer, and station
ary or slight riße in temperature,
followed in the western portion of
the Ohio Valiev during Sunday even
ing by colder northeasterly to west
erly winds, and rising barometer.
The Brooklyn Fctfiite says: ‘‘Georgia
was among the first of the Southern
Stateß to get from ‘under the barrow
of carpet-bag rule. Louisiana is
again put in ‘commission.’ Six per
cent. Georgia bonds sell in Wall
street at 101 j; Georgia sevens at 109i.
Louisiana sevens go a begging at 38
cents on the dollar. Georgia is con
tributing to tbe wealth of the whole
country. Louisiana is a drag upon
it, and Mr. Hayes has not yet made
up his mind on his ‘Southern poli
cy.’” , .. ■
For bargains in Linen Towels, Nap
kins and Handkerchiefs.
mh2s tf J. Albert Kirven.
NO. 78