IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) fe './. 7, 1.0 I.I 1.25 l;^ 12.8 |50 "■■ 1.4 12.5 2.2 2.0 1.6 V] <^ /i ^>. ^ > /A Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14S80 (716) 873-4503 •s? l\ ,v \\ % V «>"«^i«> 4f^ ^ <^ [^ 4ff CIHM Microfiche Series (l\/lonograplis) ICMH Collection de microfiches (monographies) Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions / Institut Canadian da microreproductions historiques Technical and Bibliographic Notes / Notes techniques et bibliographiques tot The Institute has attempted to obtam the best original copy availab.'.».> lU A. S IRVING, Publislierv.^ J ■<;■,■•.'* "!!*■■«<■■. i:^y ^^H. '% J ^K THE 5, a Celebrated Jumping Frog OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, AND OTHER SKETCHES. BY Mark Twain TORONTO : A. S. IRVING, PUBLISHER'. 35 KING ST WEST. 1870. ■:#■ TO i; ONTO : DAILY TELEOnAPH I'RINTING HOUHK, HAY STItKKT. ff SS'oiO MIK #■ CELEBRATED JUMPING FJIOG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY. «uspiiion that Z.;...V7«. /? ' S ;!^ ''^tm;;-"'^ I I'av. a Iu.ki,£ knew sucli a inTsoiniffe • 'in,i tl ot ], ^ ' ■ ' ^""* '">' '''"'"'l "''ver old Wheel.- a'bout i;^, ' i "^ouh n ^l^- ^ Tllf :;^^ 1 •' ''^' "' ' "^^^^ infernal reminiscence of Iiim as lon was a liorse-ra(;e, youM lind him flush or you'd find him busted at the end. of it ; if there was a dog fight, he'd bet on it ; if there was a cat tight he'd bi't on it ; if there was a chicken fight he'd bet on it ; why, if there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first ; or if there was a camp-meeting he would be there reg'lar, to bet on Parson Walker, which he judged to bo the best exhorter about hnv, and so he was too, and a good man. H" he even seen a straddle-bug start to go anywhere's, he would bet you how long it would take lam to get wherever he was going to, and if you took him wy, he would follow that straddle-bug to Mexico but Avhat he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road. Lots of the boys here has seen that Smiley, and can tell you about him. W]iy, it never madenoditreience to/«*»i— he would'bet on any thing— the daugdest feikr. Fareon 'walker's wife laid vtiy sick ouc'e, for a gooU whilet and / V s ^ h /% \ ^ The Jumping Frog, 5 it seemed as if they warn't troin" to snvp lipr • Knf -,., come in, and Smil/y askcl K'shc wm ami he ..?H . .""'"* '"' eMerablc bettor-thank the I,o«l forl.T, mfS melv .. ^ "'"•' "°''- fl"&'J;ty„.!::v."'™«'''' "^■■'' "^^'■" '■J'-ktwS.and.a'S'tra? Thish-yer Smifey had a mare- -the l»oV8 railed hpr tl.o fiff»«« • i. three hundred yards staTt. and then l>ass l/ 7uSr X^' b^t ^IwZ aT the la^-end of the race she'd get exc ted and desDomt7iii;r.,w?^ cavoi^ng and straddling npfand scatte;^ K^^^^und MnZ" ' sometimes ui the air, and sometimes out to one side aiL3 thet, o^^' and kicking up m-o-r-e dust and raising m-o-r-e racket wShW ? ' 1 ' ing and sneezing and blowing her noi-and alv^^ys S un a? & stand just about a neck aliead, as near as you couUrcvpher itXwn And he had a little small bull pup, that to look at him v.n.>?f7"- i he wan't worth a cent, but to set' around and looVor^ ^y'^ a jav foi a chance to steal something. liut as soon as nu.n .v\v . V he was a different dog ; his^nder-jawMX'i ^^Z^SL^ o castle of a steamboat, and liis teeth would uncovei ami 1.^,1 like the furnaces. And a dog might tackle l^^h^ and bnliv T^^ and bite him, and throw him overi.is shoulder two "^ ^'""j Andrew Jaekson-which was the name th Z-lmh^w "t'Y°^ would never let on but what he was satisfied and ladn^teT?.^^^^^ the time, till the money was all up; and then all of a c;i„l,i« 1. 11 to make a snatch for his pet holt, he saw in t mfnute i ow S 1. "' imposed on, and how the other dog had hun i 1 tirrL, * ^ ^'T" aud he 'peared surprised, and thefi hflXl'^er^d 0" ^^^^^^^ ajid did nt try no more to win the light, and so lu, .nt slI^T,!'!?;- '' He gave Bouiey a .00k, as much als to ^ay his heart was toike^lS'u ^BP" « The Jumping Frog. waa /m^ fault, lor i>utting up a dog that hadn't no hind \v'j,n for him to take hold of, which was bis main (U'])('ii',li'nt:e in a tight, and then he limped oir a piece and laid down and died. It was a good pnp, was that Aiidrew -IiKdison, and would have made a name for liisself if he'd livid, for tile .stull" was in him, and he had genius— I know ft, because ho hadn't had'no a|»portiiiM|l{',s to speak of, and it don't, sland to K'as(m that a dog^|jpfihl*tii^|(Bjin(h a tight a.s lie eonld und(^r tiicm ciieum- ts, if 1^! hadn'_t H(|ftR!eiit, It always makes me leel sorry when I (|ief.his'i), and'THiiway it turned ont. l«y liatl rat-tarrieis,'!TrHl chicken (;ocks, and tom- m kind (^ things, till yoncimhln't rest, aniL,yon oould- , %• hiiuflo het on hut he'd match you. tt^ketched .ntrtd(>k*kiin home, and said he carklated t^edercate months Imt set in his back ; and s^^ Ke never «Jone nothing for three and i(|fii;u thHt fi'og to .imill). And you het you he did Jeain liim, im; too., H^g|ve hiin' ft little punch behind, and the next minute you'd havd th» frc^ whirling in the air like a doughnut— see liim turn one % *— V ^, -. fj -■ -- -- — Q *. , ^^,. «...«>, WIIJK VJlll^ iimmerset, or may J)# a ogMple, il he got a good start, and come i.\(^\\n M-i'oolcd ai.djll right, like a cat. He go1; liim up so in the matter of catching tli|S, and kept him in practice so constant, that he'd nail n lly every tithe a.s tar as he could sec him. Smiley said ail a frog wanted was education, and he could do 'jnost anything- and I bcliove him. Why, I've seen him set Dan'l Webster down liere on this floor — ^Dan'l Webster was the name of the frog— and sing ont, "Flies, ^'''^V'k.*^*^^'"/'"*^ qiiick'n you'd wink, he'd spring straight up, and snakeTl lly oft"n the counter there, and Hop down on the counter there, and flop down on the floor again aa solid as a gob of mud, and fall to scratching the side of his head with his hind foot as intlift'erent as if he ludn't no idea he'd been doin' any niore'n any frog might do. You never see a frog so modest and straightfor'ard as he was, for all he was so gifted. And when it come to fair and square .juni])ing on a dead level, he could get over more ground at one straddle than any animal of his breed you ever see. Jumping on a dead level was his strong suit, you understand; and when it come to that, Smiley would ante up money on him as long as he had a red. Smiley was monstrous proud of his frog, and well he nii.!;ht be, fur fellers that had travelled and been everywlurcs, idi sai(l he laid over any frog that ever tly:/ see. Well, Smiley kept the beast in a little lattice box, and he used to ftitch hini down town sometimes and lay for a bet. One day a leller—a stranger in ihe camp, he vras — coiae aer oss him with his box, sind says ; /^ / S 1^ ^ m / \ The Jumping Frog. 7 " Wliat might it l.e that you've got in yio box ?" And Smiley says, sorter inditrerciit like, "It might be parrot or it might bo a canary, mnybe, but it ain't— it's only just a frog " And tlie feller took it, and looked at it eMreful, and turned it round thia way and that, and says, "H'm_so 'tis. Wtdl, what's he good ." Well," Smiley says easy and .areless, '^leV .'ood enough for one nV^' } f,»'0"'»l.l"' 9 / don't it Dan'l a ation that atter with e ketched . "Why, med him And then frog down id ront yard, he moved t easy — I an of the likely to ''. Siuiley, e hutton- idn't have il, good- 31. \ y- AURELIA'S UNFORTUNATE YOUNG MAN- f THE facts in the following ease came to me by letter from a younf*- lady who lives in the beautiful city of San Jose ; she is perfectfy unknown to me, and simply signs herself " Aurelia Maria,'* which may possibly be a fictitious name. But no matter, the poor girl is almost heart-broken by the misfortunes she has undergone, and so con- fused by the conflicting counsel of misguided friends and insiduous enemies, that she does not know what course to pursue in order to ex- tricate herself from the web of difficiilties in which she seems almost hopelessly involved. In this dilemma she turns to me for help, and supj)licates for my guidance and instruction with a moving eloquence that would touch the heart of a statue. Hear her sad story : She says that when she was sixteen years o' ihe met and loved, with all the devotion of a passionate nature, a >\-ang man from New Jersey, named Williamson Breckinridge Caruthers, who was some six years her senior. They were engaged, with the free consent of their friends and relatives, and for a time it seemed as if their career was destined to be characterized by an immunity from sorrow beyond the iisual lot of humanity. But at last the tide of fortune turned ; young Caruthers became infected with small-pox of the most virulent type, and when he recovered from his illness his face M-as pitted like a waffle-mould and his comeliness gone forever. Aurelia thought to break off the engagement at first, but pity for her unfortunate lover caused her to psstpone the marriage-day for a season, and give him another trial. The very day before the Avedding was to have taken place, Breckin- ridge, while absorbed in watching the flight of a baloon, walked into a well and fra_ctured one of his legs, and it had to be taken off above the knee. Again Aurelia was moved to break the engagement, but again love triumphed, and she set the day forward and gave him another cliance to reform. And again misfortune overtook the unhappy youth. He lost one arm by the premature discharge of a Fourth-of-July cannon, and within three_ nionths he got the other pulled out by a carding machine, ixunuia 5 heart was almost crusiied by these latter calamities. She could not but be deejily grieved to see her lover i)assiDg from her by 10 Aurelia^s Unfortunate Young Man. w f piecemeal, feeling, as she did, that he could not last forever under this disastrous process of reduction, yet knowing of no way to stop its dreadful career, and in her tearful despair she almost regretted, like brokers who hold on and lose, tliat she had not taken him at first, before he had suflered sucjh an alarming depreciation. Still, her brave soul bore her up, and she resolved to bear with her friend's unnatural disposition yet a little longer. Again the wedding day approached, and again disappointment over- shadowed it : Caruthers fell ill with the erysipelas, and lost the use of one of his eyes entirely. Tlie friends and 'relatives of the l)ride, con- sidering that she had already put up with more than conld reasonably be expected of her, now came forward and insisted that the match should be broken off ; but after wavering awhile, Aurelia, with a gen- erous sjunt that did her credit, Siiid she had reflected calmly upon the matter, and could not discover that Hreckinridgc was to blame. So she extended the time once more, and he broke his other leg. It was a sad day for the ])0()r girl when she saw the surgeon °rever- ently bearing away the sack whose uses she had learned by previous experience, and her heart told her the bitter truth that some more of her lover was gone. She felt that the field of her aff.ctions was grow- ing more and more circums(;ribed every day, but once more she fiwvned down her relatives and renewed her bi'trothal. Shortly before the time set for the nuptials annthrr disaster occurred. There was but one man sc: 'ped l)y the Owens IJiver Indians last year. That man was WilHamson Hreckenridge Caruthers, of New Jersey. He was hurrying home with haj)])iness in his heart, avIk n he lost his hair for ever, and in that hour of bitterness he almost cursed the mis- taken mercy that had spared his head. At last Aurelia is in serious perplexity as to what she ought to do. She still loves her Brejkenridge, slie writes, with tiuly womanly feel- ing—she still loves what is left of him— but her parents are bitterly opposed to the match, because he has no property and is disabled from working, aud she has not sufficient means to support both comfortably. " Now, what should she do ? ' she asks with painful and anxious solicitude. It is a delicate question ; it is one which involves the lifelong hap- piness of a woman, and that of nearly two thirds of a man, and I feel that it would be asssuming too great res]ionsibi]ity to do mort; than niake a mere suggestior. in the case. How would it'do to build to liim. ? If Aurelia can afford the expense, let her furnish her mutilated lover A Complaint about Correspondents. \\ IdnI\^nSv T" '"' • '''?^^'" ^^S^' ^"'^ ^ «1"«« ^y« «nJ a wig and ^ve K^^^jTKz-K ^.i-.^ A COMPLAINT ABOUT OOREESPONDENTS, DATED IN SAN FRANGISOO. TTTHAT do you take its for on tliis side of the continent ? T am 12 A Complaint about Correspondents. and censes to answer tlici letters of liis friends and even his relatives It IS your own fault. You need a lecture on tlio subject~a lecture which ought to rea.l about as follows :— J " '^ itciure There is only one brief; solitary law for letter-writing, and yet vou ^ ther do not know that law, or else you are so stupid that you nJvor think of It. It IS very easy and simple :-Write only about thin^' and peoi)le your correspondent takes a living interest in ° Can you not remember that law, hereafter, and abide ijy it ? If vou are an old friend of the per.ion you are writing to, you know a number onus acquaintances, and you can rest .sntisliud that even the most trivial things you can write about them will l)e read with aviditv out nere on the e:lge of sunset. ^ Yet how do you write ?-how do the most of you write ? Whv vou drivel and dnvel and drivel along in your wooden-headed way about people one never heard of before, and things which one knows nothin the line of inarch from " ^ I always stopped there, because I knew wliat was coming— the wir news, in minute and dry detail— for I could never drive it°into those mimskulls that the overland telegraph enabled me to know here in han]fore it, it was not answered, and one useless correspondent censed. My veneral)le mother is ii tolerably good correspondent— she is above the average, at any rate. Blie puts on her spectacles and takes her scissors, and wades into a ]iile of newspapers, and slashes out column after cohuan— editorials, hotel arrivals, poetry, telegraph news, adver- tisements, novelettes, old Jokes, reijipes for making pies, cures for "l.iles"— iuiything that comes handy ; it don't matter to her ; she is entirely impartial ; she slashes out a column, and runs her eye down it over her spectacles— (she looks over them because she can't see through them, but she ])ivfers them to her more serviceable ones, because they Ixave got golU rims to thein)— runs her eye down the column, and says, " Well, it's from a St Louis paper, any wav," and jams it into the euveloi)e along with her letter. She writes about everybody I ever knew or ever heard of ; but, unhappily, she forgets thai when .she tells me that "J. B. is dead," and tliat '* \V. L. is going to marry T. D." and that " B. K. and l\. M, and L, P. .L have all '^1 14 A Complaint about Correspondents. gone to New Orleans to live," it is more than likely that years of absence have .so . u I.h n.y rec-ollection of once fumiliar names that their iinex,.lau.ed initials will he as unint.-liii^ihle as Hebrew unto me talLnrir^r 'T' \"/"^'' ""^^ '' ^ ''''-'' know whom she i; .talkii g about fherefoni I have to ^uess ; anil this is how it came that I mmu-ned the denth ot Bill Kribben when I should have rejS ourcorrect'lT ' ^''"'■"'■""- ^ ^'''^''' '' ''^'' '^' ""ti«J« f, Jn'ebTh* n''^"^ ""'^ i'/terostiui. h-tters we get here from home are fiom chil. ren seven or eight years old. This is petrified truth. Hap- pily they have got nothing to talk about but home, and neighbors Icls^T/'mi^r^^ri"'' •"";'" '-'^"1^ '''''r'^'y «*t;ansmi.s"rthou. siinds 01 miles. Ihey write simply and naturally, and without \ KebZ"? ^7.'^'f\ T '^y ^^''l '^11 they know, and then stop. They \«H H « k" abstractions, or moral homilies. Consequently their Nei.istles are brief ; but, treating i^ they .b of familiar scenes and per- sons -'hv^ays en ertaining. Now, therefore, if you would learn the a i^nl l .7. ir/'?' ^'' ; '^'^'^ '''''^' ^r. ' ^''^''^'^'^ ^ letter from trf ^1 „^ 1^^ ^ ?'■' ""^ ^Se-preserved it as a curiosity, because it Tnlt iTran thus : "^"' ^"' '' '^'" ^^"^'' '^'""^ ^''^ any information " Tinele Mark, if yoxi was here, I could tell vou about^Es^^ifthe broke off a horse He was riding it on Sunday. MaJgaret, that's the maul, Margaret has took out all the spittoons, and slop-buckets an old jugs out of your room, because she says si,; .lon't hink yoi 'S ever coming back any more, you been gon^e so long. Sissy Slrov's mo her has got another baby. She has them all the time " It has 7ot h tie blue eyes, like Mr. Swimley that boards there, and look just ifke legs out. Miss Doosenberry was here to-dav ; I gave her your nicture you can t think-twice as many as Lottie Belden's. And there's one such a sweet lilt e buff one with a short tail, and I named !t fir you.' AH of them s got names now— General Grant, and Halleck. and Moses and Margaret, aiu Detiteronomy, and Captain Semmes, and ExoX ' ad Leviticu.., an.l Hovace Greeley-all named but one,' and I am savl ing it, because the one that I named for You'« Jw-.^. ^im- nil fi,,, tl-L since, and I reckon it'll die. [It jtppears to have been niigh^ ro,^ N s Jnswera to Correspondents^ 16 i on tlie short-tailed kitten, iiamincr it after me— I wonder how the reserved victim will stand it.] Uncle Mark, I do believe Hattie talUweil likes yon, and I know she thinks vou are pretty, because I heard her say nothing couldn't hurt your £,'oo'd looks— nothing at all- she said, even if you was to have the sniall-}x)x ever so bad, you would be just as good-looking as you was before. And my ma says she's ever so smart. [Very.] So no more this time, because (leneral Grant and Moses is fighting. "Annie." Thif child treads on my toes, in every other sentence, with a perfect looseness, but in the simplicity of her time of life she dosn't know it. I consider that a model letter— an eminently readable and entertain- ing letter, and, as I said before, it .contains more matter of interest and more real information than nny letter I ever received from the East. I had rather hear about the cats at home and their truly remarkable names, than listen to a lot of stuff about people I am not acpiainted with, or rcjul "The Evil Effects of the Intoxicating Bowl," illustrated on the back with a picture of a ragj^d sealiiwag pelting away right and left, in the midst of his family sircle, with ajunk bottl^ ANSWEES TO OOEEESPONBENTS. MOKAl. STATISTICIAN."-! don't want any of your statistics. I took your whole batch and lit my pipe v.'ith it. I hate your kind of people. You are idways cipheri'iisr out how much a uum'-s health is mjiired, and Jiow niii<-ii bis ..itcllc<'t is impjdnd, aiul b W many pitiful doUirs and cents b.- wastes in tlic cimrse of. rdiuty-l o year's indnlgence in the f'al.d pra.ticc «r smoking: an. I :ii Hie e(ii! i y and in ji'iiyiiiif Itiliiaiiis occasi^nal'v fatal practice of drinking coiiee and in taking a glass of wine at (iiniier, k<-., &c., ^. . And y< u r always fi>:iiring out how many women have been laiiiicd to death be- •y 16 Answers to Correspondents. cause of the dangerous fashion of wearing expansive hoops, &c., &c,, &c. You never sec more than one side of the question. You are blind to the fact that niostokl men in America smoke and (hink coffee, although, according to your theory, they ought to have died young , and the hearty old Englishmen (irink wine and survive it, and portly old Dutch- men both drink and smoke freely, and yet grow older and fatter all the time. And you never try to find out how much solid comfort, relaxa- tion and enjoyment a man derives from smoking in the course of a life- time (whicli is worth ten times the money he would save by letting it alone, nor the ajipalling aggregate of happiness lost in a lifetime by your kind of people from not smoking. Of course you can save money by denying yourself all these little viscious enjoyments for fifty years ; but then what can you do with it ? What use can you put it to ? Money can't save your'iurinitesmal soul. All the use that money can be put to is to pui-ehp'^e comfort and enjoyment in this life ; therefore, as you are an enemy to comfort andenjojme'^t, where is the use in accumula- ting cash ? It won't do for you to say that you can use it to better purpose in furnishing a good table, and in charities, and in supporting tract societies, because you know yourself that you people who have no petty vices are never known to give away a cent, and that you stint yourselves so in the matter of food that you are always feeble and hungry. And you never dare to laugh "in the daytime for fear some jioor wretch, seeing you in a good humour, will try to borrow a dollar of you ; and in church you are always down on your knere with your eyes hurried in the cushion, when the contribution-box comes around ; and you never give the revenue ofiicers a true statement of your income. Now you know all these things your- self, don't you ? Vfry well, then, what is the use of your stringing out your miserable lives to a lean and withered old age ? What is tlu; use of vour saving money that is so utterly worthless to yoii? In a word, why don't you go otf somewhere and die, and not be always trying to seduce people into becoming as "ornery" and unloveable as you are yourselves, by your ceaseless and villainous " moral statistics?" Now, I don't api)rove of dissipation, and I don't indulge in it either ; but I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatever, and so I don't want to hear from you any more. I think j'ou are the v(!ry same man who read me a long lecture last week about the degrading vice of smoking cigars, and then came back, in my absoiice, with yuur vile, reprehensible lire-proof gloves on, aud carried o3 my beautiful parloi stove. r" ^ "H ,r \ y^ Amwers to Coirespondents. 17 ."Simon AVmeelkr," ^ouom.— Tlie following simple autl touching remarks and accompanying poem have just come to hand from the rich gold mining region of Sonora : To Mr. Mark Ticain: The within parson, which I have sot to poet- try under the name and style of " He Done His Level Best," was one ntiioug the whitest men I ever see, and it ain't every man that knowed him that can find it in his heart to say he's glad thejioor cuss is busted and gone home to tlie States. He was here in an early day, and he was the handyest man about takin' holt of anything that come along you most ever see, I judge. He Avas a cheerful, stirrin' cretur', always doio^- sometliing, and no man can say he ever see him do anything by halvers. Prcachin' was his natural gait, but he warn't a man to lay back and twidle his thumbs because there didn't happen to be nothin' doin' in his own cspeshial line— no, sir, lie was a man who wouM meander forth and stir up something for hissclf. His last acts was to go to his pile on "kingsrfHrZ" (calklatine to fill, but which he didn't fill), when there was a "flush" out agin him, and naterally, you see, he went under. And so he 'was cleaned out, as you may say, and he struck the home- trail, cheerful but flat broke. I knowed this talented man in Arkin- saw, and if you would print this humbly trilAite to his gorgis abilities, you would greatly oblecge his onhappy friend. .19/ HE DONE Hlf; LEVEL UKST. Was he a mining on the flat — He done it with a zest; Was he a leading of the choir — He done his level best. If he 'd a rcg'lar task to do, He never took no rest; Or if 'twas off'-and-on— the same- He done Ills level best. If ho was preachin' on his beat, He'd tramp from cast to west, And north to south— in cold and heat xiG uons iiis level bCct. 18 Answer's to Correapondenta, m I i He'd j'luik a sinner outen (Hadea),* And land liini with tlie blest; Tlieii snatch a prayer 'n waltz in again, And do his level best. He 'd cuss and sing and howl and praj', And dance and diink and jest, And lie and steal — all one to him — He done his level best. AVhate'er tliis man was sot to do, He done it with a zest; No matter what his contract was, He'd DO HIS LKA'EL BEST. "Verily, this man was gifted with "gorgis abilities," and it is a hap- piness to me to emlnilm the memoiy ot" their lustre in these colnmns. If it were not that the poet crop is unnsually large and rank in Califor- nia this year, I would encourage you to continue writing, Simon; but as it is, perhaps it might be too lisky in you to enter against so much opposition. " IiNQTTiRK)i" wishes to know which is the best brand of smoking tobacco, and how it is manufactureil. The most popular — mind, I do not feel at liberty to give an opinion as to the best, and so I simply say the most popular — smoking tobacco is the miraculous conglomerate they call " Killikinick." It is composed of equal parts of tobacco stems, chopped straw, " oUl sohliers." fine shavings, oak-leaves, dog- fennel, corn-shucks, simtlower ])etals, outside leaves of the cabbage plant, and any refuse of any description whatever that costs nothing and will burn. After the ingredients are thoroughly mix'^d together, they are run through a chopping machine, and soaked in a spittoon. The mass is then sprinkled with fragrant Scotch snuff, packed into various seductive shapes, and labelled "Genuine Killikinick, from the old original manufactory at Kichmond," and sold to consumers at a dollar a pound. The choicest brands contain a double portion of '• old soldiers," and sell at a dollar and a half. " Genuine Turkish" tobacco * Here I have taken a slight liberty with the original MvS. " Hades" does not make such good metre as the other word uf one syllable, but it sounds better. ^ y- Anawera to Oorreapondents. 19 f" contains a treble quantity of " olil solilier3," and is worth two or three dollars, acoonliuf^ to the amount of stMvioe thi> said "old soldiers" have seen. N. B. — This article is invfVi red J)y the Sultan of Turkey; his picture and autof,'rapli are on tlu- lahtd. Take a handful of *' Killi- kinick," crush it as fine as you can, and examine it closcdy, and you will find that you can make as good an analysis of it as I have done ; you must not expect to lind any particles of genuine tobacco by this rt-ugh method, however— to do that it will be necessary to take your specimen to the mint, and subject it to a fire-iussay. A good article of cheap tobacco is now made of chopped pine-straw and Spanish moss ; it contains one " old soldier" to the ton, and is ealleaper, was mistaken by the country journals for seriousness, and many and loud were their denunciations of the ignorance of author and editor, in not knowing that the lines in question " were Avritten by Byron," so Ansioera to ^orreapowknts. o-^^^^^^yoTnZt^^^^^^^ V l""",.I.I.,g out at ''holy Kuitars n„d ii.l.Ilos a mr^^^^^^^^^ *""'^'?" '"^ '"' ""•'«"■ nmve at tlic s.-at of war 1 J.^ .? ' ^ '^ "" ''"'''' «"« t" «!<' I'ffoiv von «tartles lor . 1.ps„1cs, if yo„ oo<«ui)y ft neu- : ""• 1 n. "'"'' ^"^^^ of us (Icriv.. finn. +1 "•. ' "" pi'oiouud Ja-nttalofiuthntsou^iscirncl is Po« n " " "^etiou that th. girl tion of the lugubriou? ditt7 Lif hv r^^ • "?"''^*^ ''3' tl,e resurm- don'tletyours(Tennn-uJ4Lr 2^ ^'J^'^ of people. Sixthly, he chorus, oud remaiu" tho ^sot iU overvr ,^^^'''' "" ^ho balanco if ) ocks arouml ; an CL, .0 Jet the ^.cople know he was aronmi: ■"Your i Iiiiig out nt >Ut ol'llipi'i- "», til ere is of ith'Ihii- iiHlicd f!('ii- 1(1 ly, rhiw Ix'lbiv you ruthlcHsly 'lowini;/ of tlio house oriufy hos- iippy nftor J, but ^t't side of it. Previously "(led, hIio in' a neu- oj'.s roujul ine with i^h of a profound tin; girl I't'snripc- Sixthly, dfluco of for four robably, lent iviid but the n sioklv , piping nintter, 'ortaiKT hirken [ thot^; ■aulin^cr, 30011 as Youv ^ Ansvers to Correspori ^mts. 21 aniateuv tenor is notoriously the most Holf-conoeited of all Ood's crea- tures. T.'uthly, don't ijjo scrcnadinj? at all ; it is a wicked, unhappy, nnd seditious prarti'-c, and a cidaniity to all souls that avo weary and desiu! to shiniber an-', would be at rest. Kleventhly ami lastly, tlio father of the y-Minc; lady in the next block says that if you eomc prowlinj? around his i."iier it makes the old lover .she has blighted. IJon't allow yourself to believe any such nonsence as that. The more cause a girl iinds to regret that she did not marry you, tln^ more comfoitablc you will feel over it. It isn't poetical, but it is mighty sound doctrine, " AiirriiMF.Ticus," Vlnjiniti, Xr.raiJrr.—*' If it would take a cannon ball C;\ seconds to travel four miles, and 3| seconds to travel the next four, and 33 to travel the next four, and if its rate of progress con- tinued to diminish in the same ratio, how long Avould it take to go fifteen hundred millions of miles ? I don't know. "Ambitious Lfarnku," Oakland.-— Yea, you arc right— America was not discovered by Alexander Selkirk. "DlsCAunED LovKH.'--"I loved and still love, the beautiful Ii dwitha H.'.mrd, and intculed to marry her. Yet, during my tem- ■ -r.iy absence at Henica, last week, < ' ■« ! she married Jones. Is my happiness to be thus blasted for life ? iriave I no redress ?" Of course you have. All the law, writtcni and unwritten, is on your side. The intention and not the act constitutes critiie in othef words, constitutcb the deed, if you cull your bosom friend a fool, and intend 22 Anaioers to Correspondents. i JS Z St; 'f^l^^^^l.il^'^' -^ -aning no insul, it you can go free, for ,^u jl e bf n' , urS'l"'? -^^ ^'^^^ ^"^ ^ ™^" man, and manifestly intend Ckm Im" n n? ■ /'* '* ^?" ^'"^ *« kill a law still hoLIs thal'tlxe /.^^l ^7 ons 'ut ho T'"''^^ *^^^ ^*' '^'^ guilty of murder. Kr-o if von I..1 ,?> • i p, : f^'^"'^' '"^"^^ you are without really ^V.^.;.^.f,J'to^ « , " ^^ ^^'"jf^^^^ ^M.ta/l^, and her at all, because the act of marriage o w^h."'"^ '^''' f^^-''^^'^ ^« the .i„;e«^io«. ,\nd ergo, in the striTinf^V nf ., "'"i"!*^'^*'' ^^^t''«"t deliberately intended to^nany EdSa ^.n 1 r !^'t \'^''. ''"^'^ y«" married to her all the same-becai se '^' t ' • i^V^'!-* '^^ ^*' ^^^^ «»•« constitutes tlie crime. It is a c "i "a's d.v tS F ^'^v?' '^'' "''''''^'^' and your redress lies in taking a eln V and mnrll? ''*?^ '' ^'^"»" '''^'' much as you can. Any manlis licated case : You your wife-there^is no gc^^ i„t t^^^^^^^^ I'T'^^^S to law, she's and if she never intend^ to^ZrTl '^* ' ^''^ '^'^ ^'^''"'t "^arry you course. Ergo, in l^Jryig jZIY Il^X^Ju Ti'"' '""*«^'^' "^• she was the wife of another man at the IS.f {•''f '-'^""^y' ^'''''''' as far as it goes-but then, don't yo^seeshl lufn '' f T^' ^^'^" when she married Jones, and consem Pnfl! .'i "^ ""^ ''*^^«^^' ^'***«"f^ Now, according to this vfew of Sa«i ^ '^'' '^^' not guilty of bigamy, was H .aV;«,. a1 the same tin eanHu fh' "'"''"'^^ '"^ ^^^"'^'^'t who lime, and yet who had no 7 X^i.n^t. ,";""/ ''^ ''^^ ^^'' '^^'^ auy vW.«^/o,. of getting mS an tC f .f ''^'''''' and never had been married ; and by the same Sas". n^v !"' ""^ TT' ''<^^'<^r Jutd you have never been .any on^'Thusba^T^ ^^ •'"" ^ ^^^''^^'^^or, because you have a wife living ^I Zl to Til fj.'^r '\ '''"'•''^^^ '''«'^ because because you have been depdved of tJt.^^^^ F"'"J^"«^« ^ ^'^'^^^'-^r, going to Benicia in the list place win ' """'^ ^ eonsumate ass fo • by this time I have got mvS f «n \ ^ *^"°' )'"''''' ^« mi^^^d. And this extraordinary case^^Lafl si alhivfn!'^-"^ ^" '^^^ intricacies of to advise yon-I might get co Wd n \\^T''^' ^">' ^"'^b^r attempt stood. I think 1 could take n fl.« ^ *'"! ^'J '"''"^^ myself under- following it closely aw ileneanT 'y^''^ ^^'^'^^'^ I l^'lt off. and by i:.it},pr flfof -. ' '^""V' PeHiap< 1 could Drnv'^ t" I'niM-c •^- c •• "• ...the, that ,„u neve,. e.,.ted ..t,,!,, or that you are .IcaJ'^trra Answer's to Con'esi^ondents. 23 consequently don't need the faithless Edwitha— I think I could do that, if it would afford you any comfort. "Persecuted Unfortuxatk." — You say you owe six month's board, and you have no money to pay it with, and your landlord keeps harassing you about it, and you have made all the excuses and explana- tions possible, and now you are at a loss what to say to him in future. Well, it is a delicate matter to ofier advice in a case like this, but your distress impels me to make a sugg(>stion, at least, since I cnnnot ven- ture to do niore. When he next importunes you, how would it do to take him impressively by the hand and ask, with simulated emotion, ^* Monsieur Jean, voire chien, commr se portc-il ?" Doubtless that is' very bad French, but you will find that it will answer just as well as the unadulterated article. "Arthur Augustus." — No, you are wrong; that is the proper way to throw a brickbat or a tomahawk; but it doesn't answer so well for a bou(;[uct; you will hurt somebody if you keep it up. Turn your nose- gay upside down, take it by the stems, and toss it with an ui)ward sweep. Did yo\i ever pitch (pioits ? that is the idea. The practice of recklessly heaving immense solid boncpiets, of the general size and weight of prize cabljages, Irom the dizzy altitude of the galleries, is dangerous and very reprehensibh\ Now, night before last, at the Academy of !Music, just after Signorina Sconcia had finished that ex- ([uisite melody, ''The lust Rose of Summer," one of these floral pile- (Irivers came cleaving down through the atmosphere of applause, and if she hadn't deployed suddenly to tlu^ right, it would have driven her into the floor like a shingle-nail. Of course that bourpiet was well- meant ; but how Avould you like to liave been the target ? A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down wit! it. "Young Mother." — And so you think a baby is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever? Well, the idea is pleasing, but not original; every cow thinks the same of its own calf. Perhaps the cow may not think it so elegantly, but still she thinks it, nevertheless, i honour the cow for it. We all honour this touching maternal instinct wherever we fiiul it, be it in the home of luxury or in the humble cow-sheil. But really, madmr, when I come to examine the matter in all its benrings, I find that the correctness of your assertion docs not manif<'st itself in all eases. A sore-faced baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be con- scientiously regarded as a thing of beauty; and inasmuch as babyhood u Answers to Correspondents. that I sliall not i.e mit vm, fl i -^ "^^ ^^'/'^'^ ^" this chair re.mires "lonths, in thisoitv w io h rim, n in T"^' ''"^'.^'' "-'^^ ^'S'^teen honrs on a stretoh/l'et a on '^ oV ^'^^ 7^'?%'^ J">' " twonfy-fonr moM leniarkable o v -nt S.-s o rl, f ' '' P«ls«e.^.sos sonieof the sworn testhnony^of wit^lssof ^^' ''" ^"^ «"l^«tantiatod I.y the thei TmZ^ "7^^^^:^::^"^ bluo-;nass pin, box and all ; knot on its forVLTaftor Si • "''"^^^ refreshnient am „nu ^en nt "'^ ' H''';'"^ "• T'*'^* ""^ ^""''^'^^ with bruss-work-sn ashed m nn!l nf fi ^,''"' *'''"'^'^'* ornamented the brass. Thou it 'ml Znf V f *','' ^''''"' ""*^ *''«» swallowed than a .lozen lei , mm^irj^^^ laudanum, and more why it took no no •" udamm. tr ''^""'''"'•- ^^^^^^ ''^'"^on After this it lay clown on it ^'^^T^ "'f';*^ '^"' "" 'n«»''^ **> take. silver-headedA^alebonecaiL w; A ''^'. "'" «'-^ '"^'^c^s of a was all its mother r ,u Id do to n^I t ' ^\?'"^ '/'^ ^ ^'''^ ^^''''' ""'^ it out some of the child with it ^ Sef br." :S'f\:" l""' ^'""^".^ broke up several wine-"lasses and f. ll tl^ 1- " -^ ^^^ ^'^"^'^ "g'''i". it fragments, "ot nnndinS a^t^r two TLri^'nf ""'^ «-'1'-ving the ' popper, salt, and f\aliforn a mat!h;s ,et ^1 i I'l*^"""*'*^"* ^'"**^"'' butter, a spoonful of salt a suoonf , 5 '"^^"''^'y ^/'H"'" '' spoonful of '"atcl.es at each mou hful ^ a ^ ,1 V'n'''7' f"'' ^^T' °'' *"'"' ^"^"if^'r l,«o,n„, .-,.-_. . . 'V"i'i"'"l- (I vill remark here that this thina of leifpfS nil, .v,fc. „1I ..1. . . „ , « "^ henuty likes ,,ai ted Gn ,2 luVifil. '7'"? ^'^''\ *^^"* ^'»« t'""^ of but she iuiini ely prefm Shfor,!^^^^^^^^^^ '"^t "' f '" '''''' ^'^ °^ «^^^» ? n.ent to ou o "m^n nufaZ^^^^^^^^^ ^^'^'V:'^ I ^•^^«'-'«" ^'^^ sdf-coneeited, superohio a ^^ l^ Cj''^""' ''.""I '"' ^^'"^''^''t' opera-sharps, any time • von ,. nJi , , ^ '"''" *'"^^ y^" Arizona some howl ni-dervis ofi Hnl ""'"."'^ ^'*^'' ^'^'^^^'^ «"d listen to then you come1,;^t:'.^^^^';S r^^^'Zf T '" ^*^"'^" '^^^' ^^^ with the stufly aspect an.l ?] » / i -i ' ^ yo"''seIt up against the wall an'g»«?-ora !- uniform comes here, con.e to borrow a?do lar and ah If > ' \ '! ^'"'V *''' P"'"''^' ^'^^ expanded eyes .ind moutli an nl , M •^''" "^'"'"y'^ «*«•"' ^vith sprawling hands heldamt in fvito'v^nr/'''r "''""^^^'' ""^ yo'n- covered hams, and wherhe^ts al mosr 1 'ni'',/^^ your pent-up entluniasm -m, Z\l,,; i -ri^l' .^^' y^'" ^o uncork have it pretty much tryourscF t^i'''*^''7^""^^ 1*"''"' You find everybody starin7at vc n 7 if f y" ^»«^''heepish when you when soniething ea y^fine ^' un.. vnn "'' ''"'T, ^^'i""^= ^^ ^o lJ,ok NeveiMuind, tirou'^h Mundv^^^^^^^^^ ^''^ Huiet. then, that they have n^businesl *o'dn /• ""^lences , o things at tlu. opera those thousand- olLrS;rfmib"^^ they never let one of ill-timed apphiuse just f 1 e o .1 !T "^"^"^^ ^'"''^ ''' ^^'th their to throw all'lns or'l foon. ntA; l'.w * '' '' •' .""^^^ '"^' '« P''^*P«nng so all thut sweetness is t Wr te Zl''"'" "a^^ *V^ ""'''^ «t''^"'' ^"^ be Jmppy to hear fron' you ^'°""'' ^^"'■I'^'y' ^ «^^^11 ^l^vays ^ 27 Fence to a wliioh tlie i^i'tite fal sc- ot's suoli a ivere doing V you liail ignorant, u Arizona listen to n air, and t the wiUl 3 dummy, , iiiid dis- 7 strains, J» a raw Murpliy, ly within you to 1)1! would't le habit, a British o-ora ! — li means, iK'e, out lid witli lid your t' oan'vas- uneork 1 ! You hen you do look ', tlien. le opera one of h their ■I'paring dn, and always V AMOUNT THE PENIANS. WISHING to post myscif on o\w. of tho most current tnpii'S of the dfiy, I, ^Mark, hunted up an old I'riend, Dennis McCarthy, who is cilitor of tlic new Fciiiaii j'oiiru;d in San Francis(!o, The Irvih I'coplc. I found him sitting on a sumptuous caudlc-hox in his shirt sleeves, solacing himself witli a whilf at tho nntional dhudceu, or can- 6c^;>, or whatever flicy call it — a cl;iy pipe with no stem to speak of. I thought it might flatter l;im to address him in his native tongue, and .so I bowed with considerable grace and said : " Arrah !" And he said, " Be jabors !" •' Och hone !"sai(rr. " Mavourncen dheelish, acuslila machree," replied the McCarthy. " Eriri go bnigh," I contiiiuc(l with vivacity. " Asthorc !" i'esjiondeil the McCarthy. "Tarenn' ouns !" said I. " liho dha husth ; fag a rogarah lum !" said the boLl Fenian. " Ye have me there, be me sowl !" said 1 (for I am not up in the niceties of the langu;ige, you understand ; 1 only know enough of it to enable me to " keep uiy end up" in an ordinary conversation.) ''»>"'^"s/V V— THE STOPiY OF THE BAD LITTLE BOY ooMe to GEIEE. WHO DIDN'T ONCI*i tiiere was a bad little boy, whose name was.Jim— thoilgli, if you will notice, yoii \vi|l riniltkat I'-id. little bovs iiih iicui'ly idwavis calcd James in your iSunday-.school books. It was very .strange, but still it ^va.s true, that this one was called Jim. 2$ The Story of the Bad Little Boy. IJc didii't linvc any sick mother, either— a sick mother who was pious ami hiul the consumpticn, and wou bt rrln 1 V iV. i • n grave and be at n.st. but lor the st o. . ore «].f LmJI if?'" "/ ?' anxiety she lolt that the world would be In,- J? 'n if ^^'' 'T^^.^'' when she was -one. M.,.s<. l.n.l i, . ' : \,^':":.! ' "'^ '^'' t^^^'-^i'tls 1"'" .bunefi. and 1 IS gone Most bad boy.s in the Sumlav 1 iiave .sick niotbers, who teaelj them to y books are named n.c down,- ;tc., nnd sin, (1m si p* v ' ^^T^■^'H " ' • ^'^ Once this little bad boy stole the kcv of (he ivinf,.,- ., i v there and helped hini.clf to .on '• ja / a n lib i ff '^ «liPI'ed lu tnr, so that his mother would neW L^ tl . iir ' ''T'l V^^' i^u^:irs'^;'j;;: 'r;i:^;]:7£,:^i- t:^S..& 3 ton, by ,1,.. ,;,,„..■, s.vat <.;« ' u," 'tltl uL if „ ,"^, "^i"','. T f \vc(*s, aiMl rcpfnt and Lucouw koo.1. Oh ' , o 1, « nl ' aa he Wanfcil. and ramp down airri-ht an '■', - »'"'', "«™"y''W''fs " *" "b"^ > anu jiL- was all reauy lor the '"•'!« escHped is a mystery to n.e^ 'Sabi.alJ,. JJow tlii. Jjn, ever 4lu« t^^llVt^^ '-•; tI.o .ay of it. a J.lu- of tohacT., and tl.o (-I.m.I • nt ,li h •/ '^ I' 1'^"* '" ^ho inrnag.rie w/th his trunk, if l.rcn so . o ,] t n n '''' '"; ^"'^ "'" ^'^•'' '^^'-^^ ««" IHTinint, and didn't niak '^n s k ... ? T^^'"''^ '''^^''^ <'««<'nc« of pep- fatl.e, '.s ,^nn and went . nn " on th bV h^^^^^^^^ "I'^^frtls. He stoli iL or four of Ins tinkers off. li .%tr u k his littl .'i ?'^ '^'^'."^ '^''^"^ ^'^''^^ ]iis,tist when he was angry, an 1 s ^ i,/' ?. f''^''^" .*^'« ^'^'"Pl'' ^vith summer days, and die ^"Mth wee tw , L . "^ 1^''" *^^»''^"g'' lo"g that re.lu;uLd the a„g^il;\,?^;:;:^^:'J-f--s. up^n. l^r Hp^ He ran otl and went to sei ;f U<^ .., i i-T . " *^"'" ■'*h«! gtjt over it. self sad and alone in te world Ss'Vw^^^^^^^ n '""'', ^'''^' '^"'^ fi"^* '""'■ "HTch-yard, and the vine.mbow ^d Zt 7hfs"r"? V^''^ '^'"•'^ •lown and gone to decay. .\h • no- he e-, , L? boyhood tumbled got into the station-hon.se the' iirst tLin<' '"' '''""^ ^^ " I'^P^'"' «"d th^t^^^rrc^j:;r;JSt^'t?r;i ^ ^'-^^ ^r^^- -^-^ ^^-i-d '■"henting and rascality; and now ie i thf^ f "'^ ^'^I ' '^ ''''^ ^"«""^»- ^^ q/ 31 CURING A GOLD. IT is a good thing, perhaps, to write for the amusement of the public, hut it is a far higher and noWer thing to write for their instruetion, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit. The latter is the sole object of this article. If it prove the means of restoring to healtli one solitary suflerei among my race, of lighting up once more the fire of hope and joy in liis faded eyes, of bringing back to his dead heart again the (luick, generous impulses of other days, I shall be amply rewardijd for my labour ; my soul will be jtermeated with the sacred deliglit a Christian feels when he has done a good, unselfish deed. Having led a pure and blameless life, I am justified in believing that no man who knows me will reject the suggestions I am about to make, out of fear that I am trying to deceive li>m. Let the public do itself the honour to read my exjMjrience in doctoring a cohl, as herein set forth, and then folkw in my footsteps. When the White House was burned in Virginia, I lost my home, my happiness, n y constitution, and n)y trunk. The loss of the two first- named articles was a rratter of no great consequence, since a home with- out a mother or a sister, or a di^tilnt young female relative in it, to remind you, by ])utting your soiled linen out of sight and taking your boots down ott" the mantel -])iece, that there are those who think about you and care for you, is easily obtained. And I cared nothing for the I0.SS of my ha]»i)iness, because, not being a poet, it could not be possible that melancholy would abide with- me long. But to lose a good constitution and a better trunk were serious mis- fortunes. On the day of the fire my constitution .succumbed to a severe cold, caused by undue; exertion in getting ready to do something. I suffered to no purpose, too, because the ])lan [ was figuring at for the extin- guishing of the fire was so elaborate that I never got it completed until the middle of the following week. The first time I began to sneeze, a friend told me to go and bathe my feet in hot water and go to bed. I did so. Shortly afterward.s, another friend advised me to get uj) and take a cold shower-bath. I did that also. Within the hour, another friend assured me that, it was policy to " feed a cold and starve a fever. " I had botli. So I thought Hi ii 32 '^'^^ng a Cold. ■••if III ^OlQ. viotion. I ivn?.,'i^^'^^""'''m'ntiv/ )^ ^^''^^ a/?ainc//,r *^'«t they ''"* »»•' Irt the ,'"" i thoiK'Jif A^'-t«i Jotvn ' »o.som frieiuj T^'i corneas ^,f * '"t they Pon this con- ^'^ ^« a good °*^'«- cold m "^^' an enrth- '"''^s 00 the a J subsided, 1 bo;rnHi,j„ ^*" "'/ CIS*! y.^^Jio had 'i iiJ a part ' J'ecessitv "^liy com. « ajjpearcd ^rpentine. ssfuJ of it enough • miracJes at tJiat X-'-'essioii [ that I Cwn'?2<7 a Co/c?. 33 nJ^!ri^T^a:^:^fl::i^:^IY'^ ''\ aocorain,ly ; but cloMitoastateol lUtcr exhaustion, and then the Lmcnt I W il f. talk m niy sleep n,y discc.lant voice .voke n,e up n"ain ° *' .My case ,^re\v more iind n.ore serious every day. 'riain .dn wno - n.com,nend«l ; I tpok it. Ti.en .dn and mohies ; I to th^t a «o ihrn jin and onions; I added the onions, and took al/t Wo f i!:^:?f:Iik,•;/^u^^;!?^-^••^^' '--^' --i-^ ^^-^ '^^"!^^al ; ' l'''''">'r%""',' " tf""'°'»»^ "f '■'» K'-»'"Im?tl,or We sailed ; iit ft ,,', ''''■■'' ^''^ l'"'"^^"! ^^1' >l».v, »,,.[ I doctored my eouS all T . ^1 "annging m this v.ay, i luiijc or.t to ioiiirove I'veiv l,o„i and;^^:^:;;f;,:^:^,s-rti..^^;t,;r'-'^:::?tVTr''^^"^ It IS a cruel CA-pedient. Wlien tlic elnlly rag touches one's warm J ^y;oi;n!;::r;s---,--^^^ f„Hn?ii' h»''ib' i-osc up out of tile ^v^ter considerably stranded and fmiously angry, and started ashore at once, spouting water likeawhale 34 Curiny a Cold. ble thing m tlio world ^ ' " ^^ *"''' ^"o«t uiicouifbrta- a j'iy ^"^Uv:<:;S ^"^^^ to --e ,„y eoug,, l>rea.st. I U-lic-ve that wuul Live'trod^ r,^fr'"r^M'^* i'^."'^^^''' *« '^'Z been lor yuung Wilson. Wh m w.n to h M f ""''^' '^ 't bad not -which wa.s a vn-y gc-or-'c us o p ■; ?l ♦ ' •^'" '"^^ '""^^ard phistor m th« night, and cat it xl l\lZ^' }^''^ y;^">\^V'ii..on got hungry titc; I am ronliaent that^iun.ti^ w, ? 1^"^ ^''''\^ ^''^'-" ''"^'^ «» W healtliy. ^""'^^ic Mould liave eaten me if [ had u'en and besido'th. st?, ;^.f ^l^^l^^V'/ ?h^' to Steamboat Springs, were ever eoncoct.-l. T 'vVon V.. ''*. *^'" ^''^^'^^ medi,..ini3 tha to Virginia, wh.-re nohvi/h, *":■,'"'"'' '"^' ^"^ I had to go hack absorbed every da • ' I na^^id J"'^'"" '^" ""''^^ty of i.ew renSlies I and undue expo.ua-. '"""''^'''^ ^o aggravate my di.ea.se by carelesre.ss 1 iiiialU' coneluili'd f,i vi .;*• u n there, a lady at k L^c Ho„.r. n'"'^''"' j'"^ ^he li,-.st day I got every twentv-fou Lo s ami a r^-f ^^.'^ ."\', '"^ ^^""'^ ^ ^^^^^''t of whisky precisely tlie san. ouVe ^t^; '^f Occidental recommended "^^^r :^^^^^:^' '' take a quart; that r.tirin^;L:^;;:i!;!^t.Sii;^^ 'trl'\ ' ^'^^ ^^ ^^- --i^- have lately gone \hrous' £ ttm trvl? f T?^"^ '''^'''''^' I more than kill theui. "^ *'^ " ' '^ ^t don't cure, it can't 35 '>■ dfiys some oolishness as cqimintance, she looks at uiicoinforta- tny cougli, fistor to liiy it liad not tard plaster e— where 1 got hungry ■h an appe- f liad been fit Springs, icines that to go l)a(;k eniedies i irelessness iay I got 3f whisky nunended art ; that ! conside- atment I } it can't AN INQUIRY ABOUT INSUEAN0E8. COMING down from Sacramento the other night, I found on a centre table in the saloon of the steamboat, a pamphlet advertisement of an Accident Insurance Coiiiimny, It inteiosted me a good deal, with its General Accidents, and its Ha/ardous Taldes, and Extra-Hazardous furniture of tho same description, and I would like to know something more about it. It is a new thing to me. I want to invest if I come to like it. I want to ask merely a f(!w (lucstions of the man who carries on this Accident shop. For I am an orjthan. He publishes this list as accidents he is willing to in&ure people against : General accidents include tho Travelling Risk, and also all forms of Dislocations, Broken IJonos, Ruptures, Tendons, Sprains, Concussions Crushings, Bruisings, Cuts, Stabs, Gunshot Wounds, Poisoned Wounds,' Burns and Scalds, Freezing, Bites. Unprovoked Assaults by Burglars^ Robbers, or Murderers, the action of Lightning or Sunstroke, the effects of Explosions, Chemicals, Floods, and Earthquakes, Suffocation by Drowning or Choking— where such accidental injury totally disables the person injured from following his usual avocation ,' or causes death within three months from the time of the happening of the injury. I want to address this party as follows : — Now, Smith— I suppose likely your name is Smith— you don't know me, and 1 don't know you, but I am willing to be friendly. I am acquainted with a good many of your I'amily— 1 know John as well as I know any man— and I think we can come to an understanding about your little game without any hard feeling. For instance : Do you allow the same money on a dog-bite that you do on an earth- quake ? Do you take special risks for specific accidents ?— that is to say, could I, by getting a policy for dog-bites alone, get it cheaper than if I took a chance in your whole lottery ? And if so, and supposing I got insured against earthquakes, would you charge any more for §an Francisco earth(]uakes than^ for those that prevail in places that are better anchored down ? And if I had a policy on earthquakes alone I couldn't collect on dog-bites, maybe, could I ? * If a man had such a policy, and an earthquake shook him up and loosened his ioints a good deal, but not enough to incapacitate liim 36 An Inquiry about Inturances, from engaging in pursuits wliirh tl wouldn't id not reqniro ] you pa)' liiiii some of liis pension ? [ Prov.iked and U ■ n Iiim to lie tidit. iiu ,>Ke"all fish in the matter "of mojieV—went''ov,.r tn v-"i" good silver mine, they would let Ivtn.u.:'' .-".l bought into a till his purse got down to a m-,t lh ■• f / /i' '"\'^ V""^ .isscssments big fish would close in on In aL/tieA/l^^i'^'^l''"^^'/''^^ ^'^''^'^ tl'« forth you might consider tlut m n t e li .t of ^^'^"^y^ ^'^^ Dity ; and you would have him down to a ^t too ^fV^ '""^"^'^■ ready insure against that sort of thim ; d% ° < '"1^'/ ^'^^ ^^'^ give Washoe a fair start. You mi d.t s ;7'i '? '^''"'^ '*' 3'^'^ can Why, Hmith, J coul 1 get v^^n/o fl ts " f ^'" '^-''■"'^ ' ^^"«i»'^«« ? ^j^such an ^^^^^r^^'s^X^-:;^^^- iathatline^ you might V^TL^Z^^^^t:^'''^^ wouldn't mmd ex-pense—vou mi'd.t m fJ. -f I^ "^ ' " ^"'"'iices. I I suppose I wouhl ^et ahe^do •?,,•« n ^^ "'' ^'"' !*'>'( ''a-irazardous. hav^ .een blightecf f ^!;;r5ed ^rm'tln^^"^^ ^"" ^'^y''^^' ^^^-^^^ ^ ^^^r:^^ri&Ztl^^\/;^^ «^^PP«- ^^'0 light- another party-could tln;t ot Icr mrrv ph,^ '^ '"^'f ^"^'^' «"^^ f'-'tcli could the relatives otulX^rtlLT^ Or bright world in the bloom o^lS vouth aS^^ ^'"^'^ "''' ?^ «^« r;;S:oef-^ -f eomsehe\voSdr- ^i?;;,- s:^-^: Literature in the Dry Diggings. 37 Smith, that that looks just a little shaky to me, in a measure « Vr.„ appear to have it pretty ranch all your own I'J^ yo^lT l i.°n very .veil for the lucky forty-five that have died - and lien vll\ if'' li^t.ir^ dc^'tsee.^ to strik "h^lS/an^t^lVlS , I;;^ aJl^^e^'? you Wont thoirfam lies get fatigued .vaiting for^their ^hv Sends? Don t your customers drop off rathtT slow, so to speak " '"'^'"^^''^^ ? You will ruin yourself publishing such damaging statements as thit piove that there is such precious little use in it. Good-bye, Smilh ! LITEEATUEE IN THE DEY DIGGINGS. books to speak of., exce,. now alld ^^ T^^t nt X^^pS^.'" prayer-book, or a hterature of that kind, in a c'eneril wnv % I u Lng on and last a good whilu when peop e ^^^^T^J^ Yf unners ; but as for iiovels, they pass then! around aid weaV 1 1, A on? m a week or two. TSTnw f i^-u „.„c n„ • . ..."^K ^.mm out 38 Literature in the Bry Diggings. 11 ' J e bster Unabrulgocl whatthoro is left of it, but they started her sloshing around an»^ hairs on the rear of his head and drum . Z. ?„v •• • ?' \''^^'''^T ^r^ '°^^-''^"' »« ^^'^^« J»is "«"^1 custom beloie turning in for his regular afternoon nap. 39 :artecl her J camp be- 1 went to low slio's lok again, it keeping » to camp, gton Imtl he words ; I'ou know, 3 couhl'nt -'11 as any used to in rattlers and then ok Stoker id cussed light and Pickerell, le struck. 1 get her, of her by ny in the on in her I to get it !out with .ud drum il custom "AFTER" JENKINS. AGIJAND afliiir of a ball—thf! Pioneers'— mnn niY ..+ n, /^ • . uuiong.tthegaya.dfe't\.:"Lmti" tla-ongh her «muous course .n"? ?!• ' •l'-';'^''^^ that repugnance to ostentation in dress whi..h ,•« 40 " After " Jenkins. licing oHeijded with Mi s X ni, n , '' l'=^Pl'i»es,s to hear it. of no nse Ibr lier to be ^^S^t^^ {^^, \« ^'-- t'-t it is iiounshing around with a brass ov.for l f J^ i '^ ^""^^^^ ''^'"^^P' 'i»d wateriall.'^uid smili,,. n ,ic W smn. /b^ 1 ?''''?''-'^^ ^''^'''^gl' J^er her dismal ])ug nose Tn hot ^^S ' "?"<"'^ her decayed teeth, with aixylmdy. Evlrybody know^" slie [ old T "/ \^~f^« '^°"'<^ ^^^^ ^Taired (you ini^ht almost sr^milt^vft^.rtS^^^ ^'"T1 ^^^''^ ^« inusclcs and tilings, fro.r tl.e-roi I , n w i "'''J,''''"'^" ^"^ ^^•'^'^ and and everybody knows -ilso tl^.f "I'-P"* tog<'ther scrap by scrap ; pull out her /ey.pi,t and she wm ZV^'^ ^'^T'"^ *" ^« ^'«"1^1 ^^ to Th.ro. now, my fa.ledC'er aki^t^^^^^^ ^'^"'^^'^ P^^^le. amuse yourself wftli it m d' i ever yoV^^^^^^^ home with you an'? ^«'\ * .soldier ! How mid warlike situations h Ic ?of auloSr^^ "'"'f-^^" ^" ^^■"•"»- ' the man of rising fame the 1 llof p T «^,*^'^o'-^l"»'^'y adventu;cs • self, finally, retnrni a VA 1 ! l\ f ^°'*""? '<^ ^''^«* J '-^"^ ^^ehoM hMn- dier-genon:! to cast .1 , "" ^^'',"1"' ''^ '^^'""^ed and scarred b'- n ^^^S.^^^{;L^^:^^^ ^^^ ^'i-yste. ; but he our dropped in, and when the conversation turned upon the soldiers, the visitoj said ; 3en. lis chilling old tender ill briglit- hwart the sc of gone- d upon a orn, while en missed. d last he why this tones : love my grap your you oan't s. uo \" eyes, she thought, summons his lost raise and to recall drygoods le strode il him. (( i and the % and as il out of nd then ' fellows, hen th« Lucreiia Smith's Soldier. Eeginald de Whittakcr looked rather downhearted expect It s owing to you, Jliss Loo, though when 1 ong with the other boys this 43 and didn't morninnr. I I--- "" " b <-", o'^ii, ^uiNs Jioo, tnoug 1 wlien I met him ,•,^^n,r t e vast armies would breathe her name as he breasted the crimson lor weeks she nursed her grief iu silence, while the mses foded from tl^ ol n. '• ^f} ^r^"^^' ''• ''^^ «1^« ^^""S to the hope tl at ome day fnlt 1 ^r^^'^ ^^^""^ '^^^^ "^ Keginald's heart, and he would write to her ; bui the long su.nmer days dragged wearily alonr-iml .HlT .! et er came. The newspapers teemed Ifth stori Jf bat fe' and ca^n. J^^^ and eagerly she read them, but always with ahe same rP.nl? t^^^^' wel ed up and blurred the dosing li/es-thl nan XZ vt looT tiT 'S ''Tl' '"' ^}'' ^^"^^ "^''^"'S ^■^t^'-"'^'^ to her sinkiiig"he^-t Let ,r«.,. f ?"'''!V'^''''"'^'"^^«^«"tained brief mentio^of h m and presented always the same,picture of him-a morose, unsmilin"' dol perate man, always in the thickest of the fight, b "gti nSl vUh imvd^^^ private soldier, desperately wounded r ~ "" ^- ^^"'^'^'''''* 44 m Lncretia Smith's SohHer, CHAPTER IV. On a coiuli in one of the wards of .(.led sol fi hospital at Wash "^'oiuuied sojdior • j,io i,,.a were not visible :' but h Te'J^rno't'^rl '""f/^S'^;^ ^'"'^ '''« '^^^tifres had hunted him out severu voe] ! ,' L V' • ^^"'^T^ ^^"'^t^'«' SJ'« patiently Matched by In-.n an n ^e n '^ «/"''^that time she had soon as the siii-eon iul I nisi., hi? •' •'"""''- ''> ^he morning a« him until relieved a i '] n "^ '^T I'f ^•\^^-^"""^'^"'""' "•'^'^•" ^^^'-^ving and he conld not ,Uter a y 1 j.], ^\ ^ .b' ll'''^''''"'^ '''-^ h>wor jaw? never once been ble.ss.d Avii a n^t f u / ^''''T^'^' ''"'^^ ^^''' ^'^^ Shq stood to her post briv .K •,» ^ • I .^^ ''"'^ ^'■"'" ^"-^ ''car lips; vet ho did get well aiain ; r; d lu.;;' h^; vb^ '^'^'*'"^" *'-^ -j-» her for all her dt^votion. ^ ^^hlchwouId more than reword At the Iiour we have rbi><;,Mi f >,. *i was in a tun^ult oU^^^'^^^^Z^ ''''' ''"I^f"' ^''^- that at last her Whitt I i h d n o , ' d „ r • '"P'*'" '^''^'^^ t^^^l ^er removal of the ban.b.-.s fro bi. .nVi '"^ "'''"'^'•>' ^^ ^-^'"""t "f the feverish impatience for ihT t\ '}' ''""^ '^"^ '''"^ "^^^ waiting with features to her vh"w At last he n, ° '""\" l"'*^ '^'■'^«''^«« t'^« ^'^ve ^°^(r:n~:3^^-^St;rl^ -no, tile asStrr^^'^^^' ^^^-t is the matter! Alas ! it was the face of her countenance as she brou!! t er fist dol ?T^ ^^ ^?''>' '^^«t«^'t«d ' ''SS^nS- - S^ it?' V^^^' -'-^^^^ "^^'^ mortal weeks here sn^iflHm/nJl V iT' ^- ^'""' '''"^^ ^««1«1 away tJiree . It was a sad, Tad ^^^'^ S^^l^^"^ '''' ^^'^"-^ ^^^dlri'' "^^ imposter was 11. D. or Rich,, d T^fi i ^'"t, innocent and unwitting thesoldierof dear littlcEuSLe Mum ^1}T}'^: '' ^^^^^-i"? 'tS life""' ?^^i^3:;Lueretia a^&r' '^^"^^ «^^*^' -^l "tterly the StLl!tert1i ^^.:tnchd "ff ^Z ^^^^ ^ ^^"- ^-t us draw remain, during a se.4on atleast fo, fF~^"'; '"o«^^»^'^°Iy it must still has not turnel up yet ' °' *^'' "'^^ ^^^^"^1^ de Whittaker 45 i^ton lay a liis features 1:100 of tlio ith's. She no slie liad iiiorning na ver leaviupr lower jaw, :ils sho liad f Hps; yet that when lan reward ', Lucretia 1 told her nit of the iting with the loved beamin;? pectanc)'. d lo ! the 16 face of slie stag- distorted at made ly three dier!" iwitting sconsin, utterly us draw 1st still littaker •■k t ^ THE KlLLim QV JULIUrj OilSAE "LOOALIZED " .N ''™ti;^?a^';.:ii;;5;;^!'\;;;=^j;J^ ^ --I'^I-er n-portor so much satis- takes a livi,,-. ar]i.rh( i„ th ' V V' ' ■'-"vatJiig urcu,.istiu.tial.itv. He «"'J '"'•« will 1h. troilv ill ^^^^ ^'^^^« g-^''^ to ,,rss A fooling of vJ!t h y !f '^■''' ^'^''t^'S" tJ'" «l''ea.!lul inloH.V V,,,''' KonM3 wL<.„ (v; ,,,,;: V-' :^^ «yV'' ""^ that I was not ro^orting i^j "o'T^ing.puiuT bo,v..i,,h ii;iV ;i .. ri^ ';'-: '-''^?,?J"-j ^f the t'oyswilh t;;!.s nio.'it nuigjiiiioont " ii'Mii" ilia' ever foil this;bjj',::L:^s::f'pL^^ fcivounte "item" of th- vv'l^ ' 1, ^ ,'• V " ••'i-'H'^K-terKstios of the li'nity l.y tlio hi-^h n k 'fim: V, ?'.'"• 1"^'''';^ n-to grandeur and sub- uctors in it. In iiu^- ^Hv i '"'"^ "''"'^ political standing of the oM IJomo, button- C^^i.-^:::'^"" >"y^elf skinnishing^woi^ tronslorring "all the r V i S'n- 'M^' t ""^V^^ti.ons by turn a, and better still, anivin-. at t lo t nP i ^^'"' *^ niy note-book ; and, suasivoly to the dy nt CVsar - obV'"^"'^''^ '^"^"^' ^" *""« *« «^y !>«•' you kno,^, but wlnt vnn Pnni 1 • • '^''''",' "'"''' yo^^ ""'t so far gine just how this 1 :; ]^.pir ^-f :>'«"'-'f ''1! ^ii^^lo and tollafSTow nowdo!'\.n,lgo thoi'^Vri /htoK^ t*^' ^«"^^l""t you ?- by the morninl paper hound?! "' '^ ^'"'" ^'''^ ^^"' "P^' ^"^1 be envied giiSng5y'^s'i;;::;i^i'sv;;?;?' ' ^i^'-^r ^^^^^^ "^ ^^-titem there ;1i/kI sonii ^^C^^'Z^!^^^?^'^'^'''^ '^'^'''^ some, and misroprosont'ition n 1 r "'-V^^'^' '^"^^ praise and pity for tlie paper), and |. y " ] !' "^ d n I'l^ J "'^'''' ^''^'' '^''^ "'^^ I ''^^^^^^^ the tiu\os, and oxtravianl^d; J; f ' "^1'''""'^ "'^ *" tlio tondoney of house and the ^.^i^l^S^^^^^^'^^^^ - the Sena'te- 46 Killing of Julius Ca'sar. J tne followhip nl)lo urcnnnt nf u f,.„. n • . , exciSon';"'SJ2;;t1}^ :^.?^r" "''? ^'"-n into a state of wii.l which siclci the Srt a f? l"^-n"/'^ *^'"'^« ^''"'''^y "»V..ys all thinking „.on with'CiL ^ ^Ihe^n I., r^^;^?;''*^ [''^'j-l'- life IS lield so cheaplv, an.l 1],p ef-vvoJu, «f 'i»-ity wliore Imumn . As tlic result of that a Imy if is o , • ' f1 ? T'^y ''^ "^ ••'''•""^e. ists. to reconl the death of o^/e of cm , o st " / "'"^ i'' ^^"^'^ J*'"''""^" whose name is known wherevT t nr. mi -^fi"'"^ citizens-a man ithnsheeuouri,loasurran o r VhJ^^^ '^'"^ "^'««« «amo from the tongne of U ^a J ^ ability. We refer to ? J CV !r tl o F?''' *" ^Y ^"'^ "<" «"'• P""' "TJie facts of tho / ^"^""H, tlic Linperor-elect. ^ them from the '^onili^i^l^Z^ i;^ ^:!: ^^^^^^ •'""^'^ ^l^tormine follows .--The affair wn"s a e .dioVro.^ were about as of the ghastly butcheries tlu t~ n ' "/ """'''''• ^ine-tenths of the Eiokerings, andjVvilo slsS;i n . ' -^ "^>^v-a-,lays grow out accursed elections. K^ rwouM . / "'""''^''"? ^'.'^''^dered by these stables were elected to s ve a Je t v 7' • ''' ^'^' '^ ^'" ^''' ''''y ''on- never even been able to ( l,oos . ! f ' V" ""r experience we have event with a do.en knock -Z^h t!pf'' '"'']'''''' celebrating the station-house with drunkcnt; g :;,! ^Ver Sft T^^''^'" "■'!"? '' ^'^^ the immense majoritv for C'lesar it f . ?.ln • °1, ^* \^ '''"'^ ^'"'t w^^en the other day, ami the ciUvn w«; nHV ^ 11 * '' "''^'"'"^ ^^'^^ ^^^^I'lred amazing unselfishness in Sn^ ?t tbl f *'"^ gentleman, even his save liim from the whispe -ed fnsnlf nf T '""' ''""^ •''"^'^^^'"t to Tenth Ward, and other h^eS J "f L.K '"''*• T'^ '' ^'''^' «f the mostly from the Elevent land Tb^L . ''T'",^''^ candidate, hailing who were overh.anlTpeak f^i o S .'n i "'^^''' ""*«^'^^ ^^^^t'-i^t^t C^sarJ, conduct upon that oc ,??,sion ^ '^ contemptuously of Mr! they^i;^Si:;ti;:;^;l^ti;$/^--- --yamong ns wl. think was a put-up thincr-a cut ind,;? r •'''^«'^^'«'"'ition of Julius C«>,sar Brutus\nd luot of h?s Wl ^,^^^^^^^^^^ l^'^tebcd by Manms according to the p.ognn me wt" lu' n""''f ^ ""*?"'>^ *"" faithfully suspicion or not, we leave to fl,l J'''-.''' ,'''' ^^^^^ grounds for this asking tb- thev will read tb.fnl/'''-'^^ *^ J"'^^" ^"'" themselves, only »nettuy m session, and Ctesar was coming down tlie '.»na)i 4 N Killing of Jnlins Crcsar 47 street towards tlie oapitol, ronvcrsincr ^vitli sonio personal friends, and jollo\v(.(l ns usual, l.y a lar;r." nuuihcr of citizens. Just as li,' was pass- ing in Iront of Dcinostl.cnos and Tliucvdidcs's dni-'-store. lie was oLscrvin^. onsually to a .cxcntlonnn, who, our informant thinks, is a fortunc-toUer, that the Lies of Mar.h won, coine. The ro ply was \ es, hey arc come hut not gone yt.' At this moment Arteinidonis •stepped uj) an.l passed the tnue of dav, and asked f'a'sar to read a S(;hedule or a tract, or something of Iho kind, wldch he had l)rourrhtfor Jnspprnsal Mr. Decius lUutus also .said .something about an Mmmble wilt which ^' wanted read. Artemidorus l.cggcd that attention might be pai.l to his hr.st, because It was of personal consequence to (V-sar. llielatler replied that what conoerne.l him.self .should be read last or words to that ellect. Artemi.lnrus begged and besecdied him to read the paper iiistantly,^* However, Cavsar shook him o!f, an.l refused to read "n.V Petition in the street. Jfc then entered the capitol, and the crowd followed him. "About this ime the f.dlowing conversation was overheard, and we consider that, taken m connection with the events which succeeded it it I'cars an appalling significance ; llv. Papilius Lena remarked to w^Tn , ^ 'l^"*!"" (.'ommonly known as the ' Nobby IJoy of tlie Third NAard ) a bruiser in the p. y of the Opposition, that he hoped his enter- prise to-day niight thrive ; and when C'a.ssius a.sked, 'What enterpri.se ?' he only closed his left eye temporarily and said with simnlat(,.l in '"T?:'' ]" '"• '"ost rom],:;,,,,.,,,,,, „ fa.J ho ,vns like it, a„,l I "lli'; '',''' '''' ■:'""'■•'■ '■'""•nrfcr. T!„.,, ,?^ ciaggers drawn, nncl t],e K er suoe oV'" '^•" .•"J^-''" ^""^ ''^^^' t'lo r his body; but before Jio co,iI str bo Vf ' "' ^''"^'^"1^ a wound in>o/i others could strike at a]]/Cu.s.i iT.f f V'V/'"' ^"^'''"' "tJ^^'i' of the ^t jnth as ..any blow, of ]d:po Sfi t Jv';^"^^■^'^"^« ^^ ^'^^ Wl ' \"f\^'scribable UT.rour • the t nv. ' ' f ^'V^''' ^V''« tli« Senate had blockaded the doors iitlieidi 4' tip S "' *''« ^oW^i<^s i"g, the scrgeant-at-arn,s and 'il n".5./l"'^' *'' ''^'^•'^r« ^^-^"^ the build- assassins venerable senato?riadS'' ^''' struggling ,vith the and were leaping over bencheindflv.-f ^'''''. ^^cuinbering rubes fusion towardsfthe slielter of ? . ^''^ .^^^^''^^ the nislos in ^^dld con- ^;oiceswore shoutin- • S. r p r ""?.™^*t'^«-i"««'»«. 'tnd a thousand pest. And mnid it all, ^^-eoi (w" '^ i"^^-^ --^^'ove tlio r.,.rini^ of a t. m- ;atue, like alion at b'u°n^ri f i !\'.^°^'^ '^''^h his back ■.rr,,i„;t ./' : ^"ll. with thJ dSt " ShV'^ rtb"""'*^ --I>onb. Jaud l,i^ 5 had shown bpfn,.. .,. ' "^ ;'- ile's friend "tlier got mhov, and !!t plT.sonf:, iK'lt down uwnt, liiit rel'iiscd to 'litis; Init ;i>fi)s fixed liiiKMifiiiy TJh.n Ik. ft coiuiiry dionld he hed, .171(1 -a spranf* ' tlie arm shoulder He then i^'<'ivo his ith tlu'ir lul ni>o]i ■ of tlie s at his ! Senate lobbies e build- ith tlie r " ?"''' ^^"'■'^ ^^"^ony, whose posi «nbJeot of abso," in, iXc't^f tX ""^'^ ^"""'^^^^ "^^^^ ^^^ °"' and Xr A.;;; J^ii^^ tJ^,!;?::^!:;'^^^ r I'^rr^ ^ J"^^- ^^^••'^ ^"^ony off to the F.;rum uid nt W „ ^"t hold of the body, and lugged it go to prcs,s, the c lief of olice .'rf-'r^?'?,'" ^^.' ^'"'^'^^ ^hat, as wo and isVaking m^^e:[^^Ji;^!'''^'''^ ^^^''^ '^ ^--^' to bo a riot. AN ITEM WHICH THE EDITOS HIMSELF COULD NOT T7TOEESTAND. /^UR esteemed friend. Mr.- John "Willinn, qv^^ ^e ^r^ • . . "Pou the Jeic. and walfea'S'^i^Ll ^. 't^Jfi'^l!!-""? 50 Mr. SJcae's Item, ejaculated in a broK voice " FrSl 'V''"-^ ^'^''T^'^ his manuscript, burst into tears. W.Jere ^o mm J 1 of t "'V?^ °J» ' ^ow sad !" aU think to call him hack and emwi "' '^'l''^' *^"* ^^'^ '^''i not gone, and it was too late The 1 1" L*? T'^f'^ ^""^ ""^il he was knowing that our friend would l2tl^}f,^''^'''''}l^'''}' *« P^-^««' but important, and cherishing ?he hone tL t' I'")^^^'?!'^" «f this item melancholy satisfaction to Ws^rrrintwf ^""^ 'T^ '^^""^^ * once and inserted it in our columns " ' ' '^'^^'^''^ *^' I^^^«« ^^ leaving his rSoetogolwntZf', f '^7 ^^'.°"«^ ^^^'^'^ ^^^ for many years, with the^excep ion oTlv ^f o '^ ^/"'l ^'^' "^"^^ ^"st""^ of 1850, during which he was crfin^^^^^ i ^^^'^ ^"terval of the spring in attempting to stop rnunwo^ hi ? ''if '*'' ^'V injuries received self directly in his wike nm^fT, ^" '^J thoughtlessly placing him- which. if/elLlL t ev fas^S^^ hands ^ill shouting, have frightened the an malsti I n So ,W i ^^"'^ inevitably though disastrous enouX to i^s elJ n, ?f '""'^ ^^ ^^^-cVm^ its speed, al- ancholy and distressiZ"'bv re on of fl n , '''"'' ""VT^^^^red more mel- who was there an" -^ ^-^^ J-1 m^re mixed get one interested in IWs caS^nd tKr S hir^l^^^^ *° Schuyler, anyhow, and what part of Cth C] n.l h}y • ^^'"'f'?. he started down town at sIyoV-IopV .k i i . i ^^ ^^^^ ^"' ""^ if did anything hanprn to 1 r^lf^;;^'-^ ^"•i""^^ Ji'L 'Mistressing^ acEt V CoLiLinr\he"fhr ?''^ '^•'' "'^' ''''^' '^' of detail observable in the iton ?f S ^^'^'^''^'"'^'^^ circumstantiality tain more infonn.tL t 'i t be oT'tl . '"' ^''^ ^^"Vg^^t *« eon- and not only obscure brVfUw^^^ f contrary, it is obscure- ing of Mr Sch vler's l.o m> ^ "^comprehensible. Was the break- ^ny timea ? Or did it consist in tlie death of thaliiu El&e 52 -Vr. S/me*8 Kern. tlmtdrivfll for, witi, „i, ar,;; ;„t!'Sii" i'' '/- r"^- And howtli {lasscd 1) low n >asscd :'\v ij "lossoii ioiiii,soIu,.fo„uI.hi,wvt, «<'«'ii'tilaiin!?, if I II' \v o'li.) In ^Vhat (li,l ft fi runaway lionso intod to N(op hin, ? "V:""" ' i<»iiMi JiCL'c, nin i.vi-i> l,,r ,. I 1 "'"'"• iinii f IS <'xtra()r.iinarv ol <'>iis? ^Nnd warning" hy ? ^^^:\ that liis >vifo .Im ,ir;, Z )„' " n"^ '.'"^"'^ ^'"'t «<'»mvln fin L ♦ fa.ik-whcivfon., lion t^Iu ... ''"1"''^^ '''■"'^^' "'•>l'"t Ih. k.,;o doossjvMn tonio thnt 'm Sk ;:;'['i "/'": '>"'>^i«'ati..K ho vl ' U ";»«olf, Iio llevel•^voula Mv. , • '^^'''^ i"«"xi,-atinLO.owI niono "^A-nial inu.sinary*li«"t ;;.Slnr ' M "'""^' '-'^-''-'.tt over nml over asrain xriil, n / ."• ' 'lavo rciK fhis alim.i.l ;i . j.-a swims ; i-lliT^,^ ,;; ,;^, '-'""/'ti..., i.i.u.iiS,: ,"; " ly sconis to I,avo boon a u'oiX t ""'"^ "'*'i ^"'! '"' ''• '''''^'''^ '• n m^ inipossil.lofoilo(,onnin/w n?l / ■""""' '^'"'^ or oUkt I.nt ;' timt tho next time anvfl.in-' han , f r . ^"'"I"^!!*''! to ,v.,u<>.s(; «iiotl>crm,ol,,,roducti„„''J"u;e„',;^;.'« '" -^'I'Ler out tl,c ,„„,ai„g „f ■^.^ "VAr.rx.v Hlont.) In What (li.l '«\vny lionso Ntf>p him ? Jiiuldhofttly I'.V? nnout this «i'i«| item 'iiitil my I'LM'ci'faiii- '•"t it is was tJie ' l'<'qU(\st cikLh, ],o II ciiahh' 'lappciicd he driven lining of ^ f X 53 AMONG THt SFIBITS. San Francisco w L 'k u'w of t h n^? '""'""'^ V'" ""'^^ P'^''««" i" •'.ivo tho Hpin,. (;;;;hamlo' . Hn '::t;hn::'..^'^^'yr«''^ ';« --^^ •• I.S this V,T c out ir"^ It "T '^"'U'^.V tl'^m n,si.lo. asking. l.a,...r3 for the cor v. , end ' nl^" A j;t.?'^n"''^'''';^ '^"Tl^'^ ^''" bv till' l..i,.l' \ui '"'"'n ""' «• ^"'l li>at old sport know liiK ranJ 'Did you die in '51 ? 52 ? '53 ? 'Ci ?_" 0'Ao.v/.--«'l{,aj), rap, rai," rox/vbKi];fj:^^^''^^ ^^'-^^--^ ^y^ontcry? dog-bito? small. "Rni>, rap, rap," • ''£rrap"riT"''^^ cl-'ownod ? .stahbcl ? shot ?-" 'VRap, rfl.p, lap." Sandwich Jdr:»rp.:7it'&:"„tt "'° '"■""' «™'''°"- «° ■"-" ■■" 1^ 64 Al Amoii(/ the >Spirtli. •out tlii.st.iiuc n couplo of V, wrote -uJc^.u:L''^:.;^J^:;7; 1 ;;;;;;;;;' '?;v'r'":!'"^- T'?7 soundodliko- ^ "" "lloiuloill Nu.l .soinctluug which 1st oin goi.st liiormi.s HursiH of liui-^hhT fVomthcauau.»ce.l 1 KM'O irrtv n iri,,o^ 1.; -■ 'PI.. ^ . .'■• ■'iii.-'irtui Jiu '/ I (T troiii 1 nn;co rHps--s,gn,«yi„^r..a, thoro ,ras n Ji-.^t h L us \..llc-n su! scliijdu.n ?" [Mon, luughtcF. I Throe rnpa. , "Fiuzig Ktullou, ilerol?" ^ X in.sowrtorowIickterhairowfK.rlVowl.incnihackfoI- rotl Vi'.s to lliat Inmnlihlc ns it may seem, the snirit chaufully nuswo nstoiMHliinj^ ])ioi)()sition. " , »iij iui.',\\L , Tableau ! Young OHomlorfr spmiiir to liis feet in •, ««.,< . r mg cxdtement. Ho exclaimed: ^ fousum- ** Ladies and Hlientli'incn i i ^.,;.u„ i Speerit-rabbing de ^hc ii.:. i vJn^'ic^M''''" ""' V»>«» vot lif«! but he yoos as live and helty as— ^"^''" ^^''"' *"^'^^ ""^^ '^''''^^» The Medium-" Sit down, sir!" Olendorir-" I}ut 1 vant to " Modiuni— Von are not liere to make sneoohes kip cif i O uid ..luared liimscdf for an oration!]^ ' "^ ^^^''" ' fbit lin? ■"" !^^^^' '^'''' .T'^'"'' '^^''^^'^t ! dere is no sul««t wliieh tbroughthe roof Shr lid d T"' •^''"?^^ <>"^''Hlorir shot un dcceit\nd eheating i h e r n 1 n • l'^^'".'". '\'*'' '''■^"^1 '"»i tho lan.i of «hado^S i^l u m^ ^ th i I" l^^"'"^' I'^'^.'i?'- '■•••^•» She said in substance thouL ^ n lU, .1 I ''".' ^^'■''^^'>' ^''^ter. ju.t such Mows . dnii:zV':u\;;:;^.t^eia;^'rrs5!l^^^^ [Mv. I'loily man oil. Tlicv ing which ulit'uce.] luhatkfol- t!h to Uiat ith ovciy ooultl not -conltiii't tod sonio 12. v'liich it wrote oonsum- vot lifs! kI (Iwelf, ! [Mr. -" [All t wluch shot up ud nnd 10 from l)ittor. full of ighteat Among the Spirits. 05 jv ■ •« )rclcxt to vnsh in nnd nssumo nnyl.ody's nanif, nnd ran and Avrito and i« and swindlo with a {.oirct Ioosom-ss whenever they could rone in a living nliinity like poor Olleiidorir to communicate with' rOieat Hi)i)lauHo and hiu^diter. I L'-'"'"' /niendorir stoo.l h is ground witli good jiluck, and was going to open l.iM bat erics ngain, when a storm of crh-.s arose all :;v(;r tlfo houHe, (..!t down ! (;o on ! Clear out ! Hponk on— we'll liear you ! Climb (lo\ni Ironi tliat platlorm! Stay where you are I Vamose ' Stick to your post — say your say." ' Thomediun'i rose up and .said, if Ollendorlf remained, she would not hlie recognized no one's right io come the.-e and in.sult her by practiainc a deception u])on her, and atl(;m].ting tr) bring ridi.nile upon so solemn a thing as her relign.us bclicl'. Tin, audience then became quiet, and the subjugated OlU'iidorlf retired from the idatform. The other (German raised a spirit, (piestioned it at some length in his own language, and said the ai)HW(>rs were correct. The medium claim- ed to be entirely iinac(|uaiiite(i willi the (ierman language. Just then a gentleman called mo to the edge of the i)]atform nnd asked mo il 1 were a Spiritualist. 1 said I was not. He asked me if I were prejudiced. 1 said no more than any other unbeliever- but I could not bcheyo m a thing which 1 could not understand, and I had not seen anything yet that 1 could by any possibility cipher out Ifc^ saul then, that he didn't thiidc I was the cause of the dilforence shown hy tiie spirits, but he knew t'-cre was an antagonistic influence around that table soiniiwhero ; lie had noticed it from the first; there was a piuiifn. negative current passing tolas .sensitive organization from that direction constantly. I told him J guessed it was that other fellow and 1 said. Blame a man who was all tin; time shedding these ii'''rnai m-galive currents ! This appeared to satisfy the mind of the inr/uirinir lanatic, and lie sat down. ^ ° 1 had a very dear friend who, 1 had hoard, had gone to the spirit land, or perdition, or some of those idaccs, and J desired to know .some- thing concerning him. There was something so awful, though, about talking with living, sinful lii.s to the ghostly deod, that I could hardly bring myself t^ rise and sneak. But at last I got trimblingly up and said with a low and trembling voice • • " la the spirit of John Smith prestmt ?" (You never can depend on these Smiths ; you call for one. nini the whole tribe will ceine cl.ittoj-ing out of hell to answer yon ) ^' ^Vhock } whack ! wJiack ! whack '" 66 Among the Spirits. Bless me ! I believe all the don.l and daninecl John Smiths hotweon han J^rnncisco and perdition boarded that poor little table at onco ' I was considerably set back-stninied, I may sny. The andienco nr«od me to go on, howev(>r, and 1 said : ** "What did you die of?" ^The Smiths answered to every disease and casually that man can " Where did you die ?" They answered Yes to every locality I could name Avhile mv rreor/ra- piiy held out. Jon " Are you hajipy where you are ?" There was a vigorous and unanimous " No !" from the late Smiths "Is it warm there?" An educated Smith seized the medium's hand and wrote : Its no name for it." "Did you leave any Smiths in that place when you cam: awav ?" " Dead loads of them !" I fancied! heard the shadowy Smiths clmckle at this feeble ioke— dead^'^^^ ^^^'^^^ ^""^"^ ^''' ^^^^ ^"^^'^^ "^ ^""^^^ ^^^'^^^ "^^^ "^'0 •| How many Smiths are present ?" "Eighteen millions— the procession now reaches from here to the other side of China." .*« rj!?^^t,*-^^""^ '^^^ '"'"^^' Smiths in the kidgdom of the lost «" -IhelnnccApollyon calls all now comers Smith on general prin- mFstakln^' ^°"*"^^*^^ ^"^ ^^° '^^ ""^^^ ^^° ^« corrected, if he chances to be !!m^^'^* ^^^ ^^^^ ^l"*^"^^ ^^^^ ^^^^'^^ ^^^'^^^' fi^'oJc ?" They call it the Smithsonian Institute." 1 got hold of the right Smith at last— the particular Smith I was after- my dear lost, lamented friend— and learned that he died a vio- Poor wretch • ^^ ^^"''^'' ^^^ ^"^'^ ^""^ ^^'^^ *"^^"^ ^'"" ^^ '^'^^^^'■ ..n\i'f}p-^ "^' f -'^^'^ '^r*''"' ^''''^^'- ^ gentleman in the audience said that this was his Smith. So he questioned hini, and this Smith said lie too died by violence. He had been a good deal tangled in his religious behel, and was a sort of a cross between a Universalist ond a Unitarian . has got straightened out and changed his opinions since he ie t here ; said he was perfectly happy. We proceeded to question this x,iJK,aive and iroiicsomu old parson. Among spirits 1 judge he is the Among the Spirits. 67 *l gayest of the gay. IIo said ho Iiad no tangible body ; a bullet could pass through him and never make a holn ; rain could pass through him as tlirouglr vapor, and jiot discommode him in the least (so I sui)posc he don't know enough to come in when it rains) ; or don't cave enough;) says heaven and hell are simply mental conditions ; spirits in the former have ha])py and contented minds, and those in the latter are torn by remorse of conscience ; says as far as ho is concerned he is all right— he is happy ; would not say whether he was a very good or a very bad man on earth (the shrewd.old waterproof nonentity? I asked the question so that 1 might average iny own chances for his luck in tho other world, but he saw my drift) ; says he has an occupation there- puts in his time teaching and being taught ; says there are spheres- grades of perfection— he is making very good progress— has been pro-" moted a sphere or so since his matriculation ; (1 'said mentally, " Go slow, old man, go slow, you have got all eternity before you," and he replied not ;) he don't know how many spheres there are (but I sup- pose there must be millions, because if a man goes galloping through them at the rate this old Universalisfc is doing.h e will get through an infinitude of them by the time he has been there as long as old Seostris and those ancient mummies ; and there is no estimating how high he will get in even the infancy of eternity— I am afraid tho old man is scouring along rather too fast for the style of the surroundings and the length of time he lias got on his liands) ; savs spirits cannot feel heat or cold (which militates soniew.iat against ;ill my notions of oi-thodox damnation— lire and brimstone) ; says spirits commune with each other by thought— they have no language ; says tho dietinctions of sex are preserved there— and so fortli and so on. The old parson wrote and talked for an hour, and showed by his (luick, shrewd and intelligent r(-i)lics, that he had not been sitting up nights in the other world for nothing ; he had been prying into every- thing worth knowing, and finding out everything he possibly could — as he said himself— when he did not luulcrstand a thing he hunted up a spirit who could explain it, consequently he is pretty thoroughly posted. And for his accommodating conduct and his uniform courtesy to me, I sincerely hope he will continue to progress at his present velocity until he lands on the >rery roof of the highest sphere of all, and thus achieves perfection. 58 BBIEF BIOGRAPHIOAL SKETCH OF GEORGE WASHING- TON. rpillh day, many years ago precisely, Georurg to Halifax— and America was free ! He served two terms as President, and would have been President yet if he had lived— even so did the people honour the Father of his Countrjr. Let the youth of America take his incom- parable character for a model," and try it one jolt, anyhow. Success is possible— let them remember that— success is possible, though there are chances against it. I could continue this biography with profit to the rising gereration, but I shall have to drop the subject at present, because of other matters which must be attended to. 60 ■ A TOUCHING STORY OF GEOEGE WASHINGTON'S I30YII00D. JI t please your neighbour to l.roak tho sacred calm of night with the ^-r .f, 1 "° ■ '''" ""^'«'>' tru.uboiio, it is your duty to put up v/ith his tY«t n ni v'" TVr.'']' 1^!''^'^^'-*^ ^" P'^y I'i'" f«rtho unhappy instinct SfnV y • *" '^'^'^ ^" ^='^^'-'^^ diseor.lant sounds. I did nut always 1 ™:1 V co"«iJ«'^tiou for n.usi.'al aniat.-ur,: • ;,s born of certain disagreeable personal experiences that once followed the development of ahke nstmctin myself. Now this infidel over the way, who is kanung loplay on the tron.bones, and the slowness of whose progress IS almost miraculous, goes on Avith his harrowing work every night? uu- I would have .set f.re to his house. At that time I was a prey to an aUih huulf "''• '''' '''^ °f/^"^'^ ''-''^''' '^^^ tlie sulieringsMldureS nev. r 1 1"'' 'T''"^'']-''^'^'': "^ plaj'ed " Old Dan Tucdcer," and he ?ould row r^"^-*l'"f . '^'' \ ^^'^ ^'' I'erfoimed that so badi; that he iT I weri nl ' '"a'' ^f '''^^' ^ '^ ^ ''''^ ^'''^^^> «^- "^^0 a nightmare thoni M^^'- .,f^l«"y««li'^ confined himself to "Dan fucker," nSh^,! n ?, r^^ ^"'" '''''} '-^^st^'^ed from violence ; but when he Hb, V t 1 r T^'"r;'' ""'^ ^^''^^^ *° '^« "Sweet Home " I went over Jilav th .1 n " "'/^ « ^^ "f-^* f ''^'^'"'* ^'^« '-^ ^^-reteli who felt a call to £in.in n^^^^ ^'\''i^J payed the scale, however, with his dis- hut fiml V r'"/' ,"'^ V'^ ^^"^' ^"^ t^^^ l'-^"^?th of his tether also ; deseSnl ,;o ,^^'i be branched out into a ghastly tune, I felt my reason him n^?l,- ^"^^'%^^^« exquisite torture, and I sallied forth and burnt CO -net nlivl ''i ?^'^^"ff ^h. next two years I burnt out an amateur talentVi^?1f'n 1°^'"'''/ ^■'i??oon-sopliomoro, and a barbarian whose taients lan in tlie base-drum line into m'*vl^io'[i''"'^T ^'T- ''r'^'^'^ ^^'' trombone man if he had moved to hif ou^. f ^^''"' •''°'^ '"^ *^°'^ '^^^y'- ^"* ^' I «^i W lt"out'"" "^^ ^^^^ "'^^^'^^^^ tot!^;^tS.SS^'/i>;,S;S^^:f^:r'^^^! ^?-"^*^«-t moves a ma„ fine himself to sawing vooJlfinJlIvf 11 ' -^^^ ^^'""^Y ^^'""''^'^ ^«"- they call tke accordecm U thJs dav f bo/' h"" *" *^'.° i"-stuMnent ventiy as any man can bnf of J . ^ t ^^''-, ^^'^ contrivrance as /-.u-- a disi;.ti„g^nd iaoh;h.^^.SLSLnr t'7^?' ' ^";^'^"^>^ 'f^'^l-^^ city, and learned to plav " \ nLl t ,nr, « -^ "^ "^ ""^ powerl'ul capa- ^'ow, that I must ]m;e^bc^m Sftt fv^S"' '1' '*; • ^' ^^^'"« *« "'«. enabled, in the state of ignorance ^ wb .b Tl\ "^ inspiration to be of tlio whole ran-e of 7..,?. ,i 1 ' )! ""'^^ ^'^en was to select out ■sounds vilest andt.^ d t Ssir^ZX'T/^'i "'' 'f'^^^ ^'^"^ "^^^ there is another tuuo in the wS ^1 f pcor^leon I do not suppose much anguish upoir my ^0^0^ T 1 ""• V'S ^ '°"^^ ^•'^^« ^n^i-^ted so musical career. ^ " ^' ^ '^'^ '^'^^^ ^^^^t one during my short va^t^£i^Tc.5n^^;:^^^ \ -^^ ^ ^-^i the adding some little llouriS Im ' ", ?"^^ melody, and I set about indiflbrent success, I "uprose -ls ^''f "?.*' '^', ^"' ^'^"^ ^''^ther presence with an ^vprcSHl.o^t Lr f^^i*-"'^ ^'"^^^''^>' ^^''^ ^ perate enterprises. S "h e '' d\ ^^1 ^''"^ °'^?''''^ t'' ''^"-^' ^^^s- ' ^' ■' " ^'""^ ^"mcuung more then simply " rough enough " on 62 (,'eorge Washington's Boyhood. them : it was altoKetliev t.io rough ; half of them left, an.l the other half would have followed, but Mrs. Jones saved thein by discharging me from the i)reinises. c -n I only stayed one night at my next lodging-house. Mrs. Smith was after me earh ni the nioniing. She s.id ;' You can go, sir ; 1 don t want you here : I h:n'e had one of your kind beforc-a poor liinatio that played the banjo and danced break-downs, and jarrecl the glass all out of the windows. You keep me aw. ke all night, and if you was to do it again, I'd take and mash that thing oyer your head ! I could see that this woman took no delight in music, and I moved to Mrs. Xr\hree nights in succession I gave my new neighbors " Auld Lang Sync," plain and unadulterated, save; by a few discords that rather un- pfoved the general effect than otherwise. But the very first time I . tried the variations the boarders mutinied. I never did find anybody that would stand those variations. 1 was very ^yell satished with )ny efforts in that house, however, and I left it without any regrets ; 1 drove one boarder as mad as a March hare, and another one tried to scalp his mother. I reflected, though, that if I could only have been allowed to give this latter jiist one more touch of the variations, he would have finished the old woman. , ,. , , r I went to board at Mrs. Murphy's, an Italian lady of many ex- cellent qualities. The very first time I struck up the variations, a haggard, care-worn, cadaverous okl man walked into my room, stood beaming upon me a smile of inetfable happines.s Then he placed his hand up I i i I ! r I! I A Page from a Califoryiian Almanac. pressly for the latitude of San ScS ^«"«^ving almanac ex- OcL m~^\\XtcTiSlor^ ^'"'"'"^ "r'°" ^'^"'t countenances. Oc,'. l9-LoK„tforTaT, ..^"""enanees grow more nielancholy. Tl.,en.aldctSt^i/:;;;,^ ^^-1 to loolc in i.r i (v'c^. 20.— More weather, Oct. 21.— Same. Oc<._ 26. -Considerable plienomcnal atmo,s].horic foolishness \1.nnf asperating jokes. ^"^^"JoC.ito lu luimorou.s conversation, or ex- Oc^. 28.— Misery, dismal forebouinirs, aiid dc^nsir I'r.w.r. .f n Oct. 29.— Beware ! Oct. 30. -Keep dark! Oc/ 31.— Go slow! «tr«yea in Nov.-,rtc,;,l(„„ iu i.^'tta^^Z 1 ';";;;?" K^?"' ™'' ""• i\o(A. 2.— Spasmodic but exlularatinr^ c-ivfl,,,,, ,i • , , occasional sWwu. „r,„i„ „„,i dua"& a',,";';!; ,'.''»' '""""l™™' ^r i\ov. J.— Make your will. " ' Nov. 4.— Sellout. Nov. 5.-Selectyour 'Uaat words." T.oseof John Qui.cy Adaius Information for the Milliojh ^5 will do, with the aadition af a svlliible thus • "Ti,i= .• *i, i . . earth(iuakes." ^jnimie, tims . lias is the last of i^?''- S-— J,'^epare to shed this mortal coil i\ov. /. — Shed ! eight thousand mflVs in d aLter iu tC n In! '' " '•'^'^ '""""^^ ''«'« serenely spinning the day before. ^ ^''' '"^^""'^ ^^'^ «*^' ^^is world jf bricks and ItfFOKMATION FOE THE MILLION. .,T,„,„ a Tk;r 1 . SpjiixoFFELD Mo , April 12 full histoV'ot'k^aYa ^'"^K l' ^"l '^ ^^ -^^'^^^ >'-g-« "^^ a are the productions of thJ earth ?*''?, ^h''!;,"^ ^' ^^^ ? What they die of mostly? Do yo' t ink ft 1 n V'^', ^ ^''^t ^''«^««>^^ do who can make a livin- in Miss^im itn L -^"^'i ^' /i^^^^sable for a man try? Th<.re are s.^v al ,^f J^ S wm, 1 ^'"*' *? *'''}* l'''^''* of thecoun- if we could ascertain a crtinttS^^ there in the spring than tl,is, I suppose you know J il H S mi h 'Tl ^';V"r '^";"*^^ he lives in Nevada now- ihJLJt''}}^^'- ''r,i'«<'J to livelicre j then evada now ; they say he Hoping to hear from you soon, ^c, I ivmain, yours Iruly. "William m a mine publish the correspondence in its entrrety : ^' ''''" ^'"'^ ^° 66 ! ! ei fi ■III ^''^""'"^tion for ike M-Mion. jngly reminds me'of tjie ^xt'^A "'^ ^^nnliarity-^but tlnf Imve taken the contrarrt. ^"^ ^''^ ^o«t. whose nnml * "''^^^ ^o^^cJ'- strangers I fpf.) .ji i „*" answer your hnZ V\® ^^^^ similar. T will now resporl to vi,. ''"^^<^ ^« worthy of rtlnr""''„^.';^"^^«ted have fulminated 'ttjr' ''''''^ ^'''^'^''^oislnTetT^^ ^ Your object in wri ir,c, f« , , " "^^'^^ you Wh/tt^lrr^^ ^- ^^"" history Of meanyharm, liiS^^^^ ^^t^vo ; but as vl ^^ ^"^ ^^'' ^'''^^'y that I would be k.HH^I '''°"' though it wi J h' .^. ' ^^^"^ "<^^er done to. Howeve,'V';;i f :::,V^ *''^^"^ ■'^fir , / . '' '^^ ^on;?ress Tu^,. ."""'-J- -It only berama ™u,Hry look, ™ 1-.„„1'° «°t let t4t <^". though. Th^ «^eritstlS;i^^'tson'T'"^^^'«*^>^t^i^^ **: ^-^ a^carcity of mines here do not m; ,^'^!"^^ *° y^"!' ft'iends k„ '^ ^^f° ^«»"ded I get too deeply infl, ' I V. discontinue this -^tnZf ^/ ^"'ginia and wtiys on a stretcii,' Information for the MUlion. g; after that you may loan out your umbrella for twelve montlis u-iH, +i serene confadenee v;hicl. a Christian feels in four aces SomlVin ?=\^ wmter begins in J^ovember and winds up in June and ^nZ^^^TJ'^ IS a bare suspicion of winter in March and An.^f '.^ . ^''"^''tmies there balance of tL year. But as " f^^Jr^lt^^^k^^^^^^ good, what there is of it. °' "^^ "^"'' ^^^^ chmate is What are the productions of the earth ? You mean in N-pvn,l. .<• ' course. On our ranches here anythincr can be r^hoTih^l ^ ^ ' ""^ duced on the fertile fields of Missouri" ]S,f J^ f ''''" ^^ P^"" ing-as scattering perhapsr^a'^L^vye;. in"LaTe ."^ S7 T th" most part, is a barren waste of sand, enbellished u^-fTl^^ i , sage-brush, and fenced in with snow-clml n oun Sn7 B ,Mh^«??^'?i^y features were the salvation of the land, ^"anv for no H^i?l/. ''*y tilted American would have ever come here irheplae hfS [U^^f l: of access, and none of our pioneers would bnv<> «+,,! i iT .u " ^^'^^ here, if they had not felt rat/s^ed That the^Lucf not td -^^ f,°* chance for making a living anywhere else. Such i man Wi l,?nf "'' he crops out in America. "' ^^ ""^"'' «^» of 'It xv'f^^^'l r ^''' ^ ^^""''^ ^' '-^^ ^^<^''^^ithy here as it is in anv i.art of the West. But never permit a question of that kinf Jr. viil/i ■ your brain, William ; bcciuse as long as Providence ha an .S^*' '" you wi 1 not be likely to die until vour time co,nes ^^ ''^ ^^"' coni^^i;^;^^:-?- ilj^S t^ --JC s;: "^j-^:^ mtoxicating bowl have got the buio-e on those thini: f/f H'«^*^ '^"'1 the remarked by Mr. Risin|last Su^ I w^obs rve 17^^"?^'^^ tion, William, that Mi^ Rising is oJr Episcopal mnisf^e- ^3 l, T^' as min3h as any man among us°to redeeri thK^m U^f^^ ^,t' JjiT tme state of semi-barbarism. We are inflicted witJi J\ \ha r ^ mcident to the same latitude in the States I belTeve JL ^''T'' added and a half a dozen substraeted ontcountotm^^^^^^^^^^ However, the doctors are about as successful here boHi in kilH,!„ !i curing, as they are anywhere. ' ^ ^'""^S ^^^ Now, as to whether it would be advisable for a man who can makp ^ hving in IMissouri to emigrate to Nevada I confess T n?« !^. i mixed. If you are not contentJn your rese^itcond tion ?.^ follows that you wouhl be entirel/satisLd i V^ tS mat ^S^e^ more or less than tion always produced nity liere, where, if by a chfinge. 'ctain Well . 1. - -1 UCUi ,„„ , .J""^ "^^"^ find your opportu- 3 vur xicauh, ana are sober and Indus- 68 i ! WormationfoT the Million. i3;ss3a=Fss-s.="« plate any UnZfT • ^ "^''''^^ ^^'^^ «t^^ men wtll-''"'^ '^y°" ^«n% best efforts in he trn?.f • ' ^''^^^^ ^""^^ "o interest nt .''"i '^""^^^ ">g; a man gets ""^1/ line — even with ni\.f„.. •••cu.i.s- tjjg ygj, ••agement. Besides the 1? '''' ""^ t^f-m-have i3 Iieaid of him Sh . ^'"'^ '" ^«^^^^ «^an ! «tranges L .W ^«*^-f ^ange-nlo you i' ovv^' W 1 • ^ "ever even about itl^^^"'r"^V'-'«"«WerabIe:•'•t1,.;l^¥^ "ot only o-"" --"ing that ever hnnnmir,] *. •'"" "'"Jvy, wi here from ove t^ l^if/ '^V'T ^''^•="fi«« o^ tlie "ei^ ffS ^''"""^^ ^ it with that ah- Vf trhun >C?'^*'^^^^. «^ ^^ ^Iso. ttlZfi *! ^"» delights to behold in X"^^^ ^vhich a heL \-fc^ ^?* ^^^ or i.i a small way. lie looh!^ f ^ -^^^ endeavoured o be ' i"""! ^'^ "Do you know I H,Jnl. m , pensive awhile hnV « ii ** ^^"^^«c- and I stUl think Xf if h ' ''''' '"^^ ^^lea about it T oi ''^ '^ '^«»' be better than they '^Vno^ 7^'" ''' ""^^ ^^^^^ 4e \ 7>^« ^^^^^^Srht. " ^ -^ ''^'""'^J beware of JoI,„ SnSj;?; ^^''^ "'bicli you and if you don't. '•|m. Itcontem- L'ts. You cannot I tracts; the very them-.],ave met '^- been inteifer- i'-'^« lu Jus j)aper, jynovv. If you kVashoe;biityoii -tlie fact is— I veiy singular ? Ha])py nian ! t I lie ver even Jiam, it is the '1 he not only strangest part 'le in Washoe, though. But ' "?nie ; I am " ^0 ; I know ^'I'e, because I 'ay he arrived t these days. ^Hlar instance Much to him ' /lid not say like mine so b« a benefac- 'ly. sa3's he, they'd ever ays thought, chances will '"iglit one of ig man yet. like to sell ■o'n you on rant. But, which you ence ? Zfmnc/i 0/ the Steamer Capital. 59 You hope to hear from me soon ? Verv tmnrl T qTiqII o1c« 1, hear from yoxi soon about that littie matfo^^tve reWd Tow" William, ponder this epistle well- never min<] tliV.ovVo I ^^ there, and the nonsensi but reflee't u "n einfaXs"^^ Z' cause they are facts, and are meant to be so uiulerstS an I be W.l^^^ _ Remember me affectionately to your friends and X fin -.! '^^'^eved- cially to your venerable grancilnotL, Swhom I W St the Z" sure to be acquamted-bnt that is of no oonso(^^nfM/rrVn,, 1 ^ ,' have been in your town many a time, and a tT owns^of t I'T' / boring counties-the hotel-kcopors w 11 recoUect me vivfd^l the ne.gh- ber me to them-I bear them L animoJfty! ^' ^'''''''}: Yours aflcrtionately. ^ THE LAUNCH OF THE STEAMER CAPITAL. I get Mr Mujf Nicker son to go with mc and assist in reportiiu, the armt steamboat lamich.-He relates the interesting histm7T^ lll'Z-l panoraviist. '^•''^iij uj me itaveuuitj I WAS just starting off to see the InmipTi nf +i,„ ~, i. . Capitk on Saturday week! wl L " o,me acmt^M V^'^^ Mmnph, Murpl, Mumf, ^Murf, MumZl £Sbr 1 S nlv feko ""' -(he is well known to the public by all these names nil ^'"'^7^"" which is the right one)-bolnid on Ihe sa^^ie enS ' ^ '"'"'"^ ''^>' lliis was the man I wanted. We set out in a steamer whose decks were pmw.l<.,l „.,'+T, ^ /. ,, neveral fnVnd" ai^l -i^ v>. Lj i /., .^^^^ J iiompson, came up, with had fo„.d-a„'obje'cr:^ iu^rStl^rbr'TS^t a^^^ Z^t^S; !'■;} 70 f I J^W. of tU Steamer Capital ■^u^emll! '™ '" "le .'—Tills to M Ir^.r'""' ;vhichhappen,.clman\ '."'''^^^ Spring,, of o • ^ve listened with Tranr 5f""* '"'^^'''^ "^"''elbowa in f]"'°'^' ''^"'' ^^e ^, Ti'ore was sometl n^ i,?^ "'ll?" |« ^-^ ^tor,?"" '^' "'" ^'^""ter, .iule tlus reminded Tiiomison 'f if. t.-"" ^^^^^-"'''tured stn,.iJ whom he had once fE' ?n vf' ^''^'''''' o^a person nP "''"'"' ^'"^ settlements of one o^tl" Z^ '"'"' ^^'^"^ trave Tin- f 1m "l 'T« kind u^>til he should gLeuth^f'?^'-" ^\^^''' ^^^^v?^^f\^Y. I^ack "iu.-,tMitionally creatoH !i '^' '" ^he case, ^^t fu.f^''}'^'^ drinking ofhis innocent issinn .'"•? 'Consternation at ^ o. "^*^'^ t^'e had n give tlie l,is,o,„ i„ ,,,. „. , '"""■ '■«•<"'.«,«, / ■.S:^-.ye was a fellow trnvi-lH,'"''""'-'""'' <"™ l»n".ia"o 1 tfc 'I 'ler man who nm. >ark replete .rjtli •fary qiicstioij-. ' tlie bar iu ( i.p ^«tless i)mltitiid .. tiun- tluMga ill it -K, ivheu Smith ->y a tear ; and 0!i, lie explau'.ed •t"7*>f a voner- '"gi» ; m- Years iie CO. (Id aever Jady. io'i that it gave "111 a good aiuit ^ ciroumiiance iJiood, an.iwe counter, v.iulo I'iJ man, a.^l 'he same kind 'Sh the back 'lied drinkinf' f the tale had eetin- by one, »1. -Nickersonf 'f ofConnec- 31-e stayed on] ^JiAMlST. •y (said llv. , 'tiiral pano-l mo for him. I " y. and timi friend vou Xtt^^wc/i 0/ ^Ae .S'^eawier Capital ^IZ^Zl^}^^^'^^^ the tunes there wony along first-rate. But tlien didn't .. 4 f "^^ !• * "^ I'''-''''' y*^" liappened to be plavm on th. proprie les. so to speak-clidn't seem to ^ gate :. ttie picture that ^Viis passing at the tin 71 are you notice that some- i"g was a little rouih jiin; with the general foreii-r, lotlJe subiert""vou knmv "",I"'-f"'° "",'-"i "f i'.«'"«-»-as a little low fuit, you uuStau.! '•■"' '' ^■"" ''"^" ' ^'"""^ «"™1' or fol- he'Sl'f„;;s;;i;^'j;s;:f ^>;: j;:;;;j;j -«-,, ,,„tit „,ight he, out L was to fit it to a j"t vi h ■. n ;^^ a stu„„ui{> ,,„.ture was reeled- auJinue to set the idea o? tl^' ' A t a, i Zm , em T'S ""? "■' mattei-s, and the halance weir«rettv ,n^I ,,, ,''"' V*"';' '» J^'Wo (% always coioe out st™ ^i oV m ^2"? ITfJ^)^ "'"' ''??«■:'- Well 1r",? '° *-'^°- «"°u--' "™"i i^tL^^l^^i '""■" " «'™ „e:;Su,rd tsr;-:i;5ro'?tS?oSrSi" "'»rr ">= i.,« from the upliftej ^onl^n.Z\7a^i:TAr\TZj "TI sparkles n the eves of tlie evritwl rr,.m;^ ,f ti ' ^^ the joy that siems ready to b,f,.thS atlX'togSs roT«l\."il'"%t^^^^ "'"' .uyjneuds, is as sole.uu aud iustrueti.e L"'r ^ol^y^'is I'L^Td hertm™;!;'"''''"' "■'" °" "•■"'^'> »"^ ""> "«™"-l *« =I««h wa.s fluished "Oh! we'll all get blind drnnk When Johnny cornea marching home I" i*. 72 ; 1 ^'''^'^^^ of the Steamer Coital ooulX'tly : Sf ^if '^VS"V^ ^^'"^ «-'-oanecI a little T. , -Ladies and L'entlompn <].„ r i'"sgutaud gaze exhibits o.fc of l/e '„ o't '^o.^ m'"'^ "°^^ ""^"^^li"'' itself to v Saviour and hi« a\^^- \ ^^^ notable eventcj in «.i i ^ . ^^ 3'our awe-inspSfn,/' ,^.'!'^ P'^« "!•«» ^^^ Sea of Galileo /; ^"^''^'-y-our how beautiful'" an/ltJ,! 1^ ^^'^^'^ vvhisneriu^—' « ni, 1 i • and the orcl^estra let himielf i^it aga^a ! ^''''' ^"^^^^ •' "w/oV'^'""*^^^ ocean wave And a home on the rolling'Sp r ooSraSf ^S'.;!?^?--' --'-ring turned on tb- . ,-"t. The sho^Cn"Sitt?d iT ?'' /^ «''^ y I'is shrouo points wui° hf ^t J^.* '' '^'r« ^'^ 'before anvbodv.^nnli . .. '"^ «*''«i- towards the - at the ^l^^^-^ opinion in the case, the innocent old m. And Go along witli me !" •^' iilH Origin of Illustrious Men. 73 ui™°uU.;r" ""' '•'""' ""'• S-'^l-J t'.e orcl,o,.,a .„d shook him to 'the'lV,ieeS nm! l'"t '""'''■ '■"" '■l">»*r-hc«Jeaker yl ^"^^™' ^oues wa« actually a shoenmker Patrick MuiX^-'-r •h^'*^r- W" Jws neve" -.n ' ^'^'^'" evi- James P«fr,i ^ ' ""^^"^ ^o have boen of T..; i*^ '"^ ■^">' smce. got his ,„.„,,:,!tV'""">i °»t I'-.. >v„ui,i ••i,n,„it tt " rt??.' "^''^'=° "'« Jolln DavisVr,,;, „ , x, • «aitn. He jicver 76 ADVICE FOK GOOD UTILE QIELS. «houl,l tr. .t, l„.i- with a si ml „F l?I T ''■"' " T^''^ ■^'""■' ""'■. yon will regard it as a ncrf, rt v full ^ natural to lus time of litV, J,e this c™\.eutly plax.^ bt l^ti^ln^^r'n^;^ ]l ''*" -T^ '^ ^' ^'^^^ ruin and disaster. '"' ^"""^ *^'*^ ^^^use infant to financial because it wil, .oil li "dot us It iTLT'T^ ^ ^7 '""^^ "^ him, then you atta wo ,w3 ' ;.p.nlf "'' ^°- ''^^"'"^ ^""^ ^ li"!-, for tion tithe hsso.Xn:^^:,^^^^^'^'' '^'^ '"^l^^^iate at'ten- ^^ukr will have a !• dencv to rS nv!',-^ at the same time, your hot I'ossibly the skin inTpots ^"^P^^'^ties from his person-and woI^^^'^'S S^hI :.; tr^' '':!!' " '^'''f '' ^ --^o to reply that you she bids yoi , and th n ■. v. rW^' *' "^/"P'-^^^/^'at yoli iill do^aa to the diJtat;.s of j'lur b;Vter ;;:!gnTent''"''''^ "^ '" "^'-^"^^ ^^^^^'J^'^g clurhes, and for the pSirof^Un" l'"'' f'^ '"'^. 5'^"^* ^^^'^"^^^"1 let on that vou are si. I TV.' ""^^^'^y^"" ^^o^"'' from school when you prej^^dicSa^dhuno thei/mtTe 'fn-r^ ""f^^^*° ^'^^I^^^'^ t^^^^' li"l« ■^t«^?;:eS^?;^'Sl-^^.Sr '"^r^^'A '^^^-^ ^^ the ^ed. v„. 1-1 *= ""v^iiiii always sno' iou ought never to "sass" old people- .uss ;: aey "susa you nrst. 76 OOUOEEIfllfo OHAMBEBMAIDS, ., When they fluj tj,,. ,,.,, ^''i' t^'''' ^^Sht from d.^. the nioniinsr flu, l»iJiou-,s removed tn fi, xi frying in Vel?^„S« ""t t!.e,S.Si '°,^ t'f„r"" "f"'" W i„ ness, tliej. ninko (?,r I 1 • ""^'ctaui- ai„l „ -^ •"-'""".I' "Piiit ■ l,i,f ^fSs^^r' - sit; -«-■ ""-". ^ They always put the r... i . ''''"' *^i« ^oot- trouble. «"«= «""a Sropmg i„ ttjaA ''"',' '"l «"'» >-™ to . Tiiey are for ever ai„] „ ® ' ^^^If into Concernimj Chambermaids. 77 wardrobe was in the mmni'iirr a., i i if you leave the ' ™wTS li "i '"'" ^""'K^'' ''"* *» ^'^^ morni,,.., scrap that you are j.ioro low i*on fl, , . ., "^ ""V' l'^"t"'"J«'' oi«l gi-a.lually uvan-m' Tt yo • K e t ^ i 1"")^ '^^"''■' '"^"^^''i'''' >'"« ^re you imsibly ("ml.. tl>.?f , f- ^ */':' "*'' ^'''" '"'^•V t'^^''«lJ the pains iheyVilll:?,l:;^^;t.;^-;;r-;;"^>;^-l^ place again every tiine. It does then. (Jo.tl ^ " ^'"' ''"'" ^^^■ Absolutely nothing ^ * '^"^ *^"->' "'''''" ''^'^'^"t a hereafter? aownstairsX'it wl eVyo7con,e I " "^"^l^ ^'°" *^^^'^l' ''««k ble of sending a waiter for wl u> u ^ •!/" ^'"* •^'''" *"* *^'' *'''^^- something, f „ MhTch c e I s rmn.o tt V'^ f ''T'^ ^^^^ *° P^^ '^i"i , They k'eep ah^^y y'i . to K vo t tftf '''"'*'""'^' ^'^■^'^^'• destroying /our re'st anV^^flLi ^ ?ony upon t »•%»;'' "^•' ''^"f up they don t come any :nore tilfnex? L" ^ " ' ^"* "^*''^' ^^^ S^'<= . lUey do all the mean things thev can tbinl- nf -,,,1+1 , ., just out of pure cussedness, and nothiref " "'^ ^' '""'^ *^^'^ ^^*^ "^"^"^ Chambermaids are dead to every humln instinct maids, I mean to do it. * Legislature abolishing chamber. ill I 1 ; i 78 BEMAEKABIE INSTANOESM' PBESEJJOE OF MM. spars and viggina; all to slm-rirn, i r ]' ^^^^''<^^- It tore her light could be upsTt. .^1 n He u;te l5' V^*"^' "1 "l^t all furmture St and tluthi with a per t oosenS Tor^fiiT'^ ^''^^\''^ thernhitliei could be set. and ^ir^ better next time.) He quit the gate business after that, and w^/.t along peaceably enough, but absorb- ed in meditation. I noticetl this latter circumstance, and it soon began to niJ me with the ^-avest apprehension. I said to myself, This ma- lignant brute IS planning some new outrage— some fresli deviltry or otJidi; ; no horse ever though! over a subject so profoundly as thi.s one 18 doing just for nothing. The more this thing preyed upon my mind the more une^asy I became, until at last the suspense became unbear- able and I dismounted to see if there was anything wild in his eye • lor I had heard that the eye of this noblest of our domestic animals is very expressive, I cannot describe Avhat a load of anxiety was lifted trora my mmd when I found that he was only asleep. I woke him up ... .. „.-,.. ^,.:^ ^i^ijj ^^^^^J .J i;i;^t(,j- -waiK, and liien liic inborn villainy of his nature came out again. He tried to climb over a stone wall five or six 82 A Strange Dream. mighil^ve^Tegh^t,t TtP^P ^^T *° «"« ^»«rse, and that I ^eat ea^tVake and the ^^^^Z^^t^ ^f^^^ /\ A STEANGE DEEAM. A^^e^uT.^^^^^^^^^^^^^ and pondered over the mystenous ijnk lacking in the cliain of incident, ',,. ' ' * ' ^'^^^^'^ is no '^T^i^^^r^^^^ -^^ '^-P them and proceed night wrsyecSlVsu£^'l'v?ew'S^^^ ^Y- "^° '^'''''^<^^ of the the earth's surface in its most n7r^ *^^ mightiest active valcano on lylit of xnoon or stai n t5ie Zlfe? '"^J""^^^- ^liere was no crater\s gorgeous pyrotechnics. ^ ''"'''"' *° "^^^ ^^''^ effect of the SI.™' '; "/•■'«"» "'"tionS ^upiSif"; ""y o™' the crimson and Ireighted with tlie damnwl miri!! ' ,""'• m'uincd by demona mote distance; starftd ?1 1 ,™^ .'™™"J' ™' "P out of tl^ r^ tartl,, a„a folIoVcd'^iti S,.r.;:;'X *»r-.^«-> rtootthe- -/es rne g.aud jets uf molten Jaya se, and that I nvitch from a « broke into a in it and one _ shake of the iu a storm. A Strange Dream. 83 ^anchcich Is- s mysterious There is no ltd each in ind proceed cter of the valcauo on 3i'e was no feet of the )f tlie vast -the abyss to the end 1 there, at id down a .'—shaded e crimson y demons of the re- hook tlie I ten laya that sprang high itp toward the zenith and exploded in a world of fiery spray that lit up the sombre heavens with an infernal splendour. "What is your little bonfire of Vesuvius to this !" My ejaculation roused my companion from his reverie, and we fell into a conversation appropriate to the occasion and surroundings. We came at last to speak of the ancient custom of casting the bodies of dead chieftains into this fearful cauldron ; and my comrade, who is of the blood royal, mentioned that the founder of his race, old King Kamehameha the First— that invincible old iiagau Alexander— had found other sepulture than the burning depths of the Hair, mau mau. I grew interested at once ; 1 knew that the mystery of what l.)ecameof the corpse of the warrior king liad never bceii fathomed ; I was aware hat there was a legend connected with this matter ; and I felt as if there could be no more fitting time to listen to it than the present. The descendant of the Kamehamehas said : — " The dead king was brought in royal state down the long, winding road that descends from the rim of the crater to the scorched and chasm-riven plain that lies between the irale viau mau and those beetling walls yonder in the distance. The guards were set and the troops of mourners began the weird wail for the departed. In the middle of the night came a sound of innumberable voices in the air, and the rush of invisible wings ; the funeral torches wavered, burned blue, and went out. The mourners and watchers fell to the ground paralyzed by fright, and many minutes elapsed before any one dated to move or speak ; for they believed that the phantom messengers of the dread Goddess of Fire had been in their midst. When at last a torch was lighted, the bier was vacant— the dead monarch had been spirited away ! Consternation seized upon all, and they fled out of the crater. "When the day daAvned, the multitude returned and began the search for the corpse. But not a footprint, not a sign n,.s ever found. Day after day the search was continued, and every cave in the great walls, and every chasm in the plain, for miles around, ^Yas examined, but all to no Ipurpose ; and from that day to this the renting place of the lion king's baies is an unsolved mystery. But years afterward, when the grim prophetess Wiahowakawak lay on her deathbed, the goddess Pde appeared to her in a vision, and told her tliat eventually the secret would be revealed, and in a remarkable manner, but not until the great Kauhuhu, the Shark god should desert the sacred cavern, Aua FuM, in the Island of Molokai, and tiie waters of the sea should no mote visit it, and its floors shoixld become dry. Ever since that time the Si A Strange Dreanh f^S|;n7i^^"lr.. Z ^^nclnow, after ag^;, for the m-stSe S.^SL'r" inrof'tJ'^ "^"^ ^"^^■- '^ --th watersof the sc^a ceased to flow Ltr?,,:.^'*' '"T"' ^'^gends. the ment is become dry i As vn ,. .^ the cavern, and its stony pave- evc.,t spread like ^ilJ:^^Z^:^}f'''^' "'^ nen/o/';h s looking every liour for th.> n irac e w .;.l. ■ I ' '''"'^ ?1'''^ ^''^ "atives are reveal the secret grave of the dead W '' '" "'^"'^^ *'^^ "^^^'^^T and ^ ^^iS^':^l^^^ f «- volcanic .a,.,fie. and con .luJed to pass the time .^ 1^' '^•^f,^'' , ^^'^^'^ted „p.Aook, y''"'V'''r^'«veral instances orvMuS^ cha,,ter I came throncrh th^ «.«.„„„ „^ , lunaikal^J,. revelations, made to men a I n..nner of^anc^narHX^;t;;S,"1nrr'^' *""^ ^'--' -'^ ;^^:S'S oS -^^ -^^^^^^ --^- poi-rli^^^^'tif 3^;^^ rl^&L£^\j::^S.r;:J^^^^^^^^^ m the great which softened the outlines rT.,.. r ^'*??^^ "» '-^ «ort of twilight tolerably distinct. A^Z^ LS^T^'''^ ,^^'^''^'' ^^»t still left tSn of a rude column of iS .'n^ 5 f "'" '*'1*1'^^^ «"t from the sha ow step, beckoning nic to ;^lov' I didt'^'T'f /^ f 7 -'^ ----^ dreds of feet, upon a narrow trai whiel. w ^^''^''■"' ^«^" l^""" through piles and pyraniids of se^nu.! T?""?'^ '*'' ^^''^^o^^ course overhanging massJs^ of "^^n ,f J^ f,^ ' y ^'^'TVV''' ^^'^ ^"^^^^• into an inttnitude of foncifil s ,anl! ti^I^'^ "^^'tist hand of nature that possibly niypluaiS lit ShtT ad n^'i^^^' '''''''^ ^"3^ ^^^ f the crater, and then disappear Zfea -e meto "''" ""'""^ ^^' ^'^wels 1 tnaz^s, and M^ork out m/del^emnce L SJ ^"^^^^^ *^>^o»gli an eye to such a contin Jncv T nT.l.lf I ^^°^^> ^^"d so, with course by breaking off fS^ctS J 1"^' "'*""'' ""'^ "blazed" my walls and festoons of sulphu"^Fhi J v.v"'i'' ^^-^f^.^o^^Hy. from lavJ crater's side, and pursued o,Vv J,wl^ ^ve turned into a cleft in the many a fathom down totix^tl e LmH^^^^^ ^''''' ^^indini for course lighted all the whiL by a .udX aln ^ ^"I'terranean firel. our innumerable cracks and crevices ^ndtll^^'i^ ^'}^!''^ ^P through Pflunpses of the flood of molt.^! T.^ ^^'i^'h'h ^^f^r^ed me occasional "*^*"S «"u iiissmg III the profound It if A Strange Dream. 85 ^ncl now, after ley who were J, the day is I'hi: a month legends, tlie stony pave- news of tliis le natives are mystery and ic magirifio- d "pa book, >fct!r I came lade to men fences, and ■ afterwards some dark 11 the great of twiligixt 1 left theni the sliadow [ measured down hun- ous course and under ■ of nature my mind the bowels y tfirough iso, with lazed" my from lava ft in the 'dings for fii'cs, our > through 'ccasional profound depths beneath us. Tlie heat was intense, and the sulphurous atmos- phere suffocating ; but I toiled on in the footsteps of my stately guide, and uttered no complaint. At last we came to a sort of rugged cham- ber, whose sombre and blistered walls spake with mute eloquence of some fiery tttnipest that had spent its fury liere in a bygone age. The spectre pointed to a great boulder at the farther extremity— stood and pointed, silent and motionless, for a A'w lleeting moments, and then disap])eare(l ! * ' The grave of the last Kain(!hanieha ! " The words swept mournfully by, from an unknown source, and died away in tlie distant corridors of my prison-huiise, and 1 was alone in tlie l)Owels of the eai'th, in the home of desolation, in the presence of death ! My first frightened impulse was tofiy. but a stronger impulse arrested me and impelled me to approach the massive bouldei' the sj)ectre had pointed at. With hesitating stej) 1 went !"oi\vard and stood beside it. —nothing there. I grew bolder, aiid walked around and about it, peer- ing shrewdly into the shadowy lialf-light that surrounded it— still nothing. I paused to consider what to do next. While I stood irreso- lute, 1 chanced to brush the ponderous stoiui with my elbow, and lo ! it vibi-ated to my touch ! I would as soon have thought of starting a kiln of bricks with my feeble hand. My curiosity Avas excited." I bore against the boulder, ajid it still yielded; I gave a sudden push with my whole strength, and it toppled from its foundation with a crash that sent the echoes thundering down the avenues and passages of the dismal cavern ! And there, iji a shallow excavation over which it had rested, lay the crumbling skeleton of King Kaniehamehathe Great, thus sepulchred in long years by supernatural hands ! The bones could be none other ! for with them lay tlie rare and priceless crown of pula- vialmna coral, .sacred to royalty, and tahit to all else beside. A hollow human gi'oau issued out of the — I woke up. How glad I was to know it was all a dream ! •* This comes of listening to the legend of the noble lord — of reading of those lying dream revelations— of allowing myself to be carried away by the wild beauty of old Kileana at midnight— of gorging too much pork and beans for supper!" And so I turned over and fell asleep again. And dreamed the same dream precisely as before ; followed the phantom— "blazed" my course— arrived at the grim chamber— heard the sad spririt voice— overturned the nia,ssy stone— beheld the regal crown and the decaying bones of the great king ! ^ _ .. _^., ^ . •••"o <'l"->> v-it vitii'-'ur; ttliU. .^tUj^Uiai ij- viviu aream, and finally mi;ttered to myself, "This— this is becoming serious !" 86 A Strange Dream, but if thore is anythii,- i.i t mfc dv r^- v^oim,?'? ^^ «"l'erstitious. instn.rne,vt appointed to J^^^^L^^^^l^^^^^^^ f- the ed along 1 even half expected to see n.y solenn iuid^.t.r^ .^^" some nook n the lolty ^Jall and beckon neo'uit o \ /''l^ ^^"^ I reached the plac-e where I had first soeiU i", i mv dr.t r, '? '"''''' would stand the test of ste r ?c'alitv L/ f '7 >''''^' «« ^^^^^ ^^ from the glowing furnaces visible 'far b ovv suxatcS tl . r''"i'"J and m the presence of the mysterious boulde" ''""'^ '■^^"'^^'^^' the :jpSn:c^Tz;'it s^^:: ^;;s l ^^^^^^^ ^«- «- -i- or agaiS?^ t^i:idX:?^,Sb?;i^ ^l^^^;f theston. and bore we ght and strength to^ear anZurged aS t It vielt'l "'^ "^^ but I was so enfeebled by my toilsome imun ft L T ^ m ^^ ^^''"^ ' t now it I rested a littl^e, a.^d therrai :i an^edge of th^ strong, steady push, and placed a small stone uX it to K f f^ ^ botrert?siLratlyt;tt:d'' li^'5^^^^^^^^^ ^'^ ^^ together were so exLtSg, how S.r that I wa oblf '1 fT'^'^'' then, and recuperate my strength bT^ lonlJ ^IZ^'P:!,'' ^ilf ^^ — alter hour, I laboured, gl-owing more" and mVro weary, blif still Short and Siiujular llations. a7 ut a single I longed for lied to the perstitious, 1 1 nm the As 1 walk- :» out from '' last when II, I recog- \mong the ravcrsed iu fc. I won- so that it chill went broken off menibered luished all ow nie. I eft in the ■ ascended close, hot it I stood ehamher, I realm of "jectiire, sen power and bore t my full d again ; lot over- der by a > it from process, e of the . losphere ie down aSiU. SO, )ut Still upheld by a fascination which I felt w ' afused into me by the invisible powers whose will I was working. At \.-..>t I concentrated ray strength in a final elfort, and the stone rolled from its position. I can never forget the overpowering sense of awe that sunk down like a great darkness upon my spirit at that moment. Afti solemn pause to prepare myself, with bowed form and uncovered head, 'owly turned my gaze till it rested upon the spot where the great stoi, ; had lain. There wasn't any bones there ! I iiist said to myself, "Well, if this ain't the blastedest, infernalest swindle that ever I've come across yet, I wish I may never ! " And then I scratched out of there, and marched up here to the Volcano House, and got out my old raw-boned fool of ahorse, "Oahu," and "lammed" till he couldn't stand up without leaning against something. You cannot bet anything on dreams. SHOET AND SINGULAR EATIONS. A S many will remember the clipper-ship Hornet, of New York, /\ was burned at sea on her passage to San Francisco. The disaster occurred in lat. 2" 20' north, long. 112« 8' west. After being forty- three days adrift on the broad Pacific in open boats, the crew and pas- sengers succeeded in making Hawaii. A tribute to the courage and brave endurance of these men has been paid in a letter detailing their sufferings (the particulars beiug gathered from their own lips), from ■which the following exceri^t is made :— ., i j On Monday, the thirty- eighth day after the disaster, we had nothing left," said the third mate, "but a pound and a half of ham— the bone w■ ^""^'^^'^ ^^-^^^ «niong themselvei, andgnavvTdthom m? tV"""^ '}]^''^^^ *^"^ staves turtle was scraped with lufv^^ oil 1^' . ^^f «'^^'" ^^ a little green third niatechoClSeces of S.;?'V'^.^*'^^ ^""'^ ^^^ving. ^I'he except the soft straps o? t^p^^^^^^^ I'Ut ate\othi,^ math day, and saved one fcrr/ortieth ' *^"''' "" *^^ *^"^ty- The men seemed to hav - ■,ZhfY^\^ ■ wrecked mariner's last dr? : ■ ^ : iS '"-f T" ^""^^^ «<" the ship- appear to have eon^S^,?':.: ;;: ''fcf'""^^"^ ' J'"t they do not lots and killing one of ili^h 'Unhor^ °"^y thought of the casting they were eath,g rags and S^^ fa possibility ; but even wheS wood they seem^to &e stm t;d\ notio^^^^^^^^^ ''''''' '^"'^ ^«^^ «-^ felt that some one of tho ^nm^ notion that it was remote. Ther well knew; andTurh g «.e iT?Le ^or j'^'' «oon-which one thc'^ voyage they were patienly burhuntnv w'itW tV^ '^^'' ''''^^^' ^ ^ to each l^SiiX^.?-. it-^t th^ -a^ferhma^r-Tir^^^^^^^^ ^«"-y I I-ve mentioned the sinking man and noted b-T-r '^T^ I'''''^"^^ i»teresf upon and some de-rconfrb-rf t^'^^"^ strength with ,.nfiv,-T,«.T„- -ne decree of chcux-fuiness. He frequently said to ThomX'" I W^s^ism Canihatism in the Cars. 89 ' and eating nilp and eat into rations, lie two sick liiee liad to without "g ' we'd liad , we'd have them, and ave shared hut it was nvas cover each man tain made, tlie staves little green ing. The te nothing ;he thirty- the ship- ey do not tie casting v^en when hard oak e. The/ one they ir terrible wonder if iking of ? to them- Saturda}'- entioned 3si upon «"k Cait; tnas, think ho will go off pretty soon no^^ , sir; and then we'll eat him!" This is very sad. Thomas, audalso several of the men, state that the sick " Portyghcc," during tlie iive days that they were entirely out of provisions, actually eat two silk handkerchiefs and a couple of cotton shirts, besides his share of the boots, and bones, and lumber. Captain Mitchell was fifty-six years old on the twelfth of June — the-fortieth v.»t-.iii+ltf ^n^rt Itvvs in tnu '_na:i:ueis ul i ;■ ixui,iuiiai jL-t-t^i=iai.uie. i i.v - itlij • »-w men halted near us for a single moment, ayd one said to the other : IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) /> #.^ J"^. 1.0 I.I 11.25 |50 ™^ 2.5 2.2 2.0 U 11116 Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 V iV r i/.A i \ 90 CambaUsm in the Cars. nZZf ^''*'" ^'^^^^'^''^' ^'''^ r^-«""«« that you will not Inter! tnre''!;npi,-n^"^^ °?' ""'''^ ?' "'^*'^*''^ *'^^' following strange aclven- THE STRANGER'S NARRATIVE, ing^tiSn ^^olS'fofpT'- ^^^^' If""'''^ ^'-^"^ St. Louis in the even- ^iStSi^F^ ^"S^^S^nTSSa/ i^ U7;oon to Andergo ''^"'"' l'^''^^^^^^^^'^^^ ^^ «^« ^^o^ror. we smtn VilLr'nf' w^^f" **" '''"'^ ^''''^'^^- Shortly after leaving the soUtude thS strelt^f M ''i '''^''''^ 'T' that tremendous pmir e unohstructeT ^by t?ees or Mh Settlements. The winds, whistled fiercely ao-oL fl.„ ,' /'" ^^^'^ ^''^^rant rocks, snow hefoie it like ^nvL f \?^ *^''''*J ''"^"^^ t^^« falling ^Pn Tl,i i J '^P^'^J^ ^™™ ^^^^ crested waves of the storH^v itself to ;ve°T mind a^d ovt.^^^^ ^'""^ ""^ ^^""^^ P^^'^^^t'^d spirit. ^ ' ^ '■'•^tended its depressing influence over every bylL'^^e^sin ""Jf "nU^'" T'''''\^ ^ ^""^ ^^•'^"^^■d «"* «f '-^'1 "neasy slumber ,,L!rL':®'?'".'« ^i all motion about me. The annallina tn,^l. ^lo.w " '"^ -=^anuy-we wei-e captives in a snow.drift7"°"-iirhands'io .^/^fprfrf^"*^ Canibalism in the Cars. &1 :, my boy." ad touched ettled into and said, ^ter of my > its events not inter- ige adven- leiandioly, the even- ir passen- e were in n formed, ial in the orrors Ave mng the IS prairie s dreari- '.vinds, rocks, 5 falling ! storhiy minished it with ead halt ke colos- erfuhiess soned in •resented er every slumber ilap.hed Lands to < ^ the rescue !" Every man sprang to obey. Out into the wild night, the pitchy darkness, the billowing snow, the driving storm, every aoul leapedl with the oonsionsncss that a moment lost now might bring de- struction to us all. Shovels, hands, boards— everything that could displace snow, was brought into instant requisition. It was a weird picture, that small company of frantic men fighting the banking snows, half in the blackest shadow and half in the angry light of the loco- motive's reflector. One short half hour sufficed to prove the utter iiselessness of our efforts. The storm barricaded the track with a dozen drifts while wo dug one away. And worse than this, it was discovered that the last grand charge the engine had made upon the enemy had broken the fore- and-aft shaft of the^driving wheel ! With a free track before us wo should sdll have been helpless. We entered the car wearied with labour, and very sorrowful. We gathered about the Stoves, and gravely canvassed our situation. We had no provisions whatever — in this lay our chief distress. We could not freeze, for there was a good supply of wood in the tender, This was our only comfort. The discussion ended at last in accepting the disheartening decision of the conductor, viz., that it would be death for anv man to attempt to travel fifty miles on foot through snow like that. We could not send for help ; and even if we could, it could not come. We must submit, and await, as patiently as we might, succor or starvation ! I think the stoutest heart there felt a momentary chill when those Avords were uttered. Within the hour conversation subsided to a low murmur here and there about tlie car, caught fitfully between the rising and falling of the blast ; the lamps grew dim ; and the majority of the castaways set- tled themselves among the flickering shadows to think — to forget the ; present, if they could— to sleep, if they might. The eternal night— it surely seemed eternal to us— Avore its laggmg hours away at last, and the cold grey dawn broke in the east. As the liglit grew stronger, the passengers began to stir and give signs of life, one after another, and each in turn pushed his slouched hat up from his foreliead, stretched his stiffened limbs, and glanced out at the Asin- dows upon the cheerless prospect. It A\-as cheerless indeed !— not a living tiling visible anvAvhero, not a human habitation ; nothing but a vast Avhite desert ; uplifted sheets of snoAV drifting hither and thither before the wind— a Avorld of eddying flakes shutting out the firmament aliove. All day Ave moped about the oars, saying little, thinking much. Another lingering, dreary night— and hunger. ■^* 9 Canibalism in the Ca/ra. Another dawmng-another day of silence, sadness, wasting hunger, hopeless watching tor succour that could not come. A ni^ft of rfst less slumber, filled with dreams of fasting-^wakings distressed w?th the gnawings of hunger. _ The fourth day came and went— and the fifth ! Five days of dreadful imprisonment ! A savage hunger looked out of every eye. There was m It a sign of awful impoit-the foreshadowing of a something thS The sixth day passed-the seventh dawned upon as gaunt and hajr- S:!!fi " T. P f ** a company of men as ever stood in the shadow of death It mu«t out now ! That thing wliich had been growincr up in every heart w.is ready to leap from every lip at la.st ! Nature had bee taxed to the utmost-she must yield. Richakd H. Gaston, of Minne- sota, tall, cadaverous, and pale, rose up. All knew what w'is coming All prepared — every emotion, every semblance of excitement was ?ir^^M:?J^sr.:IS: ^'^"^'^^^^"^ -^•^^"^ "H-red in the' ^^ '' Gentlemen,-It cannot be delayed longer ! The time is at hand ' We must determine which of us shall die to furnish food for the rest • " Mr. roHv J Williams, of Illinois, rose and said : "Gentlemen -I nominate the Rev. James Sawyer, of Tennessee " ^"''^^"len, i Slot of^'w^ot^'-'^' °' '"'"'"' "^'= "' "«"^"^^*« ^^'•- ^--1 of St"Lo"ts!"''' ^' ^^''''^'''' '■ " ^ liominate Mr. Samuel A. Bowen, Air. Slote : ''Gentlemen-I desire to decline in favour of M in A. Van Nastrand, jun., of New Jersey." bea'^edeTw-' "^^^^^^^'^ ^'« »<'ol'J'^<''tio", the gentleman's desire will . .^tr. Van Nastrand objeciing, the resignation of Mr. Slote wis rejected. The resignations of Messrs. Sawyer and IJowen were S offered, and refused upon the same grounds Mr. A. L. Bascom, of Ohio : " I move that the nominations now close, and that the House proceed to an election by hallo '' Mr. Sawyer : " Gentlemen,-! protest earnestly against these pro- ceedmgs. They are in every way, irregular and unbec^ominV 1 must beg move that they be dropped^at on?e, and that we eTct f -chaiiran iJtl^^']^ ""4 Vm^^'' «ffi^^'-« to assist him, and then we can "nn" nira tilt; Dusiuuss oefore us understaudingly " ^ -•- Mr. Belknap, of Iowa: -Gentlemen,-! object. This is no time Canibalism in the Cars. 93 iting hunger, light of rest- stressed with rs of dreadful There was _nething that ich no tongue uut and Iiag- he shadow of rowing up in ure had been x, of Minne- Wiis coming. Itument was in the eye.s is at hand ! )r the rest ! " ntlemen, — I Mr. Daniel A. Bowen, >f M; m 3 desire will ■ Slote was n were also ations now n t these pro- g. f must a chairman i can rrn nn j_j - — I is no time to stand upon forms and ceremonious observances. For more than seven days we have been without food. Every moment we lose in iHle discussion increases our distress. I am satisfied with the nominations that have been made — every gentlemen present is, I believe — and I, for one, do not see why we should not proceed at once to elect one or more of them. I wish to offer a resolution " Mr. Gaston : " It would be objected to, and have to lie one day underjthe rules, thus bringing about the very delay you wish to avoid. The gentleman from New Jersey " Mr. Van Nastrand : '• Gentlemen, — I am a stranger among you ; I have not sought the distinction that has been conferred upon me, and I feel a delicacy. " Mr. Morgan, of Alabama : "I move the previous question." The motion was carried, and further debate shut off, of course. The motion to elect officers was passed, and under it Mr. Gaston was chosen chairman, Mr. Blake, secretary, Messrs. Holcombe, Dyer, and Baldwin, a committee on nominations, and Mr. R. M. Howland, purveyor, to assist the committee in making selections. A recess of half an hour was then taken, and some little caucusing followed. At the sound of the gravel the meeting reassembled, and the committee reported in favour of Messrs. George Ferguson, of Kentucky, Lucien Hermann, of Lousiana, and W. Alessick, of Colerado^ as candidates. The report was accepted. Mr.' RottERS, of Missouri; M.. President, — The report being properly before the House now, I move to amend it by substituting for the name of Mr. Hermann that of Mr. Lucius Harris, of St. Louis, who is well and honourably known to us all. I do not wish to be under- stood as casting the least reflection upon the high character and standing of the gentleman from Lousiana- -far from it. I respect and esteem him as much as any gentleman here present possibly can ; but none of us can be blind to the fact that he has lost more ilesh during the week that we have lain here than an} among you — none of us can be blind to the fact that the committee has been derelict in its duty, either through negligence or a graver fault, in thus offering for our suffrages a gentleman who, however pure his own motives may be, has really less nutriment in him — TheChaik: The gentleman from Missouri will take his seat. The Chair cannot allow the integiity of the Committee to be qu<>stioned save by the regular course, under the rules. Wliat action will tlie House take upon the gentleman's motion ? Mr. Halliday, of Virginia ; I move to further amend the report by u Canihaliam in the Cars. substituhngMrHarvrey Davis, of Oregon, for Mr. Messick. It may be urged by gent emen that the hardships and privations of a fionTS hfe have rendered Mr Davis tough; but. gentlemen, is this a tinTe t" cavil at toughness i is this a time to be fastidious concerning trifl™' is this a time to dispute about matters of paltry significance? No, gen- tlemen, bulk IS what we desire-substance, weight, bulk-these are the up?n mVinotiot' ""''"""* ^'^'"*'' """^ ^'"^'' "'* ^^l^^^ti^"- I i"«ist Ml^ Morgan (excitedly): Mr. Chairman,-! do most strenuously object to this amendment. _ The gentleman from Oregon is old, and furthermore is bulky only in bone-not in fiesh. I ask the gentleman from Virginia it it is soup we want instead of solid sustenance? if he would delude us with shadows? if he would mock our suffering with an Oregonian spectre ? I ask him if he can look upon the anxious faces around him, if he can gaze into our sad eyes, if he can listen to the beating of our expectant hearts, and still thrust this famine-stricken fraud upon us ? I ask him if he can think of our desolate state, of ou? past sorrows, of our dark future, and still unpityingly foist upon us this wreck, this rum this tottering swindle, this giiarfed and blighted and sapless vagabond from Oregon's inhospitable shores? Never' (Applause) The amenament was put to vote, after a fiery debate, and lost Mr Harris was substituted on the lirsf amendment. Tlie balloting theA began. Five ballots were held without a choice. On the sixth, Mr Harris was elected all voting for him but himself. It was then moved that his election should be ratified by acclamation, which was lost, in coi -sequence of his again voting against himself Mr. Kadwa Y moved that the House now take up the remaining can- didatcs and go into an election for breakfast. This was carried. On the first ballot there was a tie, half the members favouring one candidate on account of his youth, and half favouring the other on account of his superior size The President gave the casting vote for the latter, Mr. Messick. This decision created considerable dissatisfac- tion among the friends of Ml^ Ferguson, the defeated candidate, and there was some talk of demanding a new ballot ; but in the midst of it a motion to adjourn was carried, and the meeting broke up at once ' The preparations for supper diverted the attention of the Ferguson faction from the discussion of their grievance for a long time, and then when they would have ta.ken it up again, the happy announcement that Mr. Hams, was ready, drove all thought of it to the winds We improvised tables by pfoppingup the backs of car-seats, .and ani: down witn hearts lull of gratitude to the finest supper that had blessed Canibalism in the Cars. ick. It may 1 of a frontier liis a time to ng trifles ? is !? No, gen- these are the :ion. I insist strenuously is old, and le gentleman tiance ? if he ring with an mxious faces listen to the line-stricken state, of our upon us this blighted and (Applause), i lost. Mr. Uoting then e sixth, Mr. then moved was lost, in laining can- rried. vouring one ^e other on ingvote for ! dissatisfac- didate, and midst of it, at once. le Ferguson i, and then, cement that ats, and sat iad blessed 95 our vision for seven torturing days. How changed we were from what we had been a few short hours before ! Hopeless, sad-eyed misery, hunger, feverish anxiety, desperation, then— thankfulness, serenity, joy jtoo deei) for utterance now. That I know was the cheeriest hour of my eventful hfe. The wind howled, and blew -the snow wildlv about our prison-liouse, but they were powerless to distress us any more. I liked Harris. He might have been better done, perhaps, but 1 a»y fee to say that no man ever agreed with me better than Han-is, or afforded me so large a degree of satisfaction. Messick was very well, though rather high flavored, but for genuine nutritiousness and delecacy ot fabre, give me Harris. Messick had his good points— I will not attempt to deny it, nor do I wish to do it— but he was no more fatted for breakfast than a mummy would be, sir— not a bit. Lean ?— why, bless me .'—and tough ? Ah, he was very tough ! You could not imagine it,— you could never imagine anything like it. " Do you mean to tell me that—" Do not interrupt me, please. After breakfast we elected a man by the name of Walker, from Detroit, for supper. He was very good. 1 wrote his wife so afterwards. He was worthy of all praise. I shall always remember Walker. He was a little rare, but very good. And then the next morning we had Morgan, of Alabama, for breakfast. He was one ui the finest men I ever sat down to,— handsome, educated rehned, spoke several languages fluentl3-~a perfect gentleman— he was a perfect gentleman, and singularly juicy. For supper we had that Uregon patriarch, and he was a fraud, there was no question about it- old, scraggy, tough, nobody can picture the reality. I finally said, gentlemen, you can do as you like, but / will wait for another election! And Grimes, of Illmois, said, "Gentlemen, / will wait also. When you elect a man that has something to recommend him, I shall be glad to join you again." It soon became evident that there was a general dissatisfaction with Davis, of Oregon, and so, to preserve the good-wiU that had prevailed so pleasantly since we had Harris, an election was oailed, and the result of it was that Baker, of Georgia, was chosen. He wasspleiidid ! Well, well- after that we had Doolittle, and Hawkins. andMcMroy (there was some complaint about McElroy, because he was uncommonly short and thin), and Penrod, and two Smiths, and Bailey i Bailey had a wooden leg, which was clear loss, but he was otherwise good), and an Indian boy, and an organ-grinder, and a gentleman by the name of Buckminster— a poor stick of a vagabond that wasn't any good for company and no account for breakfast. We were glad we got him elected before relief camo. d6 Canibalism in the Cars, "And so the blessed relief did come at last ?" Yes, it came one bright sunny morning, just after cloctiou. John Murphy was the choice, and there never was a better, I am willing to testify ; but John Murpliy came home with us, in the train that came to succour us, and lived to marry the widow Harris " Relict of " Relict of our first choice. He married her, and is happy and re- spocted and prosperous yet. Ah, it was like a novel, sir— it was like a romance. This is my stopping-place, sir ; I must bid you good-bye. Any time that you can make it convenient to tarry a day or two with me, I shall be glad to have you. I like you, sir ; I have conceived an affection for you. I could like you as well as I liked Harris himself, sir. Good day, sir, and a pleasant journey." He was gone. I never felt so stunned, so distressed, so bewildered in my life. But m my soul I was glad he was gone. With all his gentleness of manner and his soft voice, I shuddered whenever he tvpned his hungry eye upon me : and when I heard that I had achieved his perilous affection, and that I stood almost with the late Karris in esteem, my heart fairly stood still ! I was bewildered beyond description. I did not doubt his word ; I could not question a single item in a statement so stamped with the earnestness of truth as his ; but its dreadful details overpowered me, and threw my thoughts into hopeless confusion. I saw the conductor looking at me. I said, "Who is that man ?" "He was a member of Congi-ess once, and a good one. But he got caught m a snowdrift in the cars, and like to been starved to death. He got so frostbitten and frozen uj) generally, and used up for want of something to eat, tlmt he was sick and out of his head two or three months afterwards. He is all right now, only he is a monomauic, and when he gets on that old subject he never stops till he luis eat up tl at whole car-load of people he talks about. He wouhl have finished the crowd by this time, only he had to get out here. He has got their names as pat as A, B, C. When he gt.'ts them all eat up but himself, he always says :— 'Then the hour for the usual election for breakfast having arrived, and there being no opposition. 1 was duly elected, after which, there being no objections offered, I resigned. Thus I am here.' 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