VOLUME I. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., JULY 16, 1871. NUMBER 19.
For THE CAPITAL. "Because I can't get work to do. But I "I did not intend to be rude," said Fipps Por THB CAPITAL. and you are in the way, like the celebrated THE BALLAD OF FLORIBEi AND like your asking that question. Why don't struck with the fact that General Washington several days old, no matter from what point the kcy-cliintz pattern by Olmstead and Vaux, who in his mildest tones. PATRONIZING PEOPLE. goats in the fable of Esop he adjusts his eye occupied at some time in his career all the small LEONORK. you work?" letters were mailed. We don't know why this is planned Central Park, New York. I won't under- Ö590.) " Didn't intend to be rude! Then why are glass, gives you two fingers, and inquires houses he could make available; those he did not thus, but we would like to know. Strange to say take to say much of the place, however, until I '' Because I don't like work. It don't agree T1Y ANGUS LAMONT. occupy were built on sites he had selected for BY W. L. SHOEMAKER. you standing here in the presence of a lady a yawning manner, "Aw! what are you doing we have a liking for newspapers; and, stranger have seen it. I might write what has been told with my constitution." himself or his friends, and while building had fre- with your hat on? Let us grant the conclusions of Professor now?" or, "What are you driving at?" or, still, we prefer them fresh, and don't like to think me concerning it—but these people have such "That's the difference between us. I am "I—I—didn't think of it," taking it off perliaps, gazing overyour shoulder, and twirl quently ridden past and looked at with interest. some one else has enjoyed their contents befoie lively imaginations. i I loved the Lady Floribel: 'twas in my fiery youth, Darwin's theory, that we are descended in a Such a distinction as the last he accorded the 1 straining every nerve to obtain employment, quickly, while Mr. Jack Easy whipped his off ing liis moustache at some passing fair one, they are submitted to us. I have visited lately some of the points north When I was ruled by Fancy's spell, whose shows I direct line from some crystalized gorilla or well-known Octagon house, on the comer of deemed were truth. and want of success makes me miserable, We tea at half-past six, or from that time on of the city, on the lake shore. At Evanston, unseen, and then drained the champagnc bot- fossilized megatherium—a theory, by tliew-ay, " Where do you live now?" It is not that lie Eighteenth street and New York avenue, in Wash- I wooed her long, and many a song I poured in praise till eight. Before tea the rides and drives are twelve miles away, the Northwestern University is while you don't try at all, and you're as happy tle unnoticed. cares one pmce-café, about your business or ington city. lie pursued a mad career in the way of her, propounded by my Lord Monboddo long be- usually enjoyed; afterwards promenades on tho located. The building was pointed out to ine as as if you had money in both pockets." '' But you would think of it," persisted Ned, place of abode, but lie desires to show you of manufacturing historical associations for our Who, coy and proud, but seldom smiled upon her wor- fore the professor wagged his anthropological piazza and then music in the parlor, for we have we passed—an irregular, pinnacled structure of '' And I haven't got money in one. Differ- " if you went into a lady's parlor." ' that your identity, to one of his exalted sta- generation. He wrought a fearful work in Ma- shipper. tail. His lordship, who was regarded by the several ladies here who are fine musicians and are gray stone, but too far from the road to bo Sometimes, indeed, when tow'rd me turned, soft radi- tion, is equal to the unknown quantity. There sonry, designing all the lodges, using all the ence in constitution, my friend. You rail at "Do stop, Ned," pleaded Lucy, " he didn't Scotch folk as "cracked," discovered that always ready to oblige those who ask for their noticed critically. An eruption of new houses ance filled her eyes, aprons, and bequeathing more gavels used on im- fortune; I laugh at her. You want to'sit at mean any rudeness. is thé "man çf the world" manner, as if you has broken out at North Evanston, and two rather [ Then faded slow the unwonted glow, like twilight from man was only a monkey with an amputated portant occasions than any other M. W. P. G. M. music. The coming of the band has opened the her table, and have adtoaf buttered on both "I will speak, I tell you. I suppose your were an Aztec infant, just because you haven't seedy-looking Individuals on either -side of tho the skies. narrative; and " thereby hangs a tail." The ever dreamed of handling. He encamped 011 all ball-room and dancing will be the order of the played billiards in London, or made an ass track were bidding against each other with gen- I The flower of love bloomed in. my heart when those sides. I am content to lie under the table, excuse would be, if you dared to make it, modern science of tailoring has developed the hills in the country, or surveyed them for that evening in the future, and music in tlie grove will of yourself in the jardin mobile. Slapping erous offers to bona fide residents, or those wishing dark orbs thus' beamed, and accept the crumbs that fall from it. For- that she is not a lady; but let me tell you that many monkeys, as well as puppies. Lord or some other purpose. He forded all the rivers, enliven us during the day. to become such. The only attraction this place I Yet drooped anon, nipped by disdain, and frostier still tune is like a woman. If you urge your suit a respectable girl, though she does work for Monboddo was a far-seein' cliiel', and the you on the back, he addresses you as "My drank from all the springs, and indeed he designed We had two events yesterday afternoon—first, has to offer is its proximity to Evanston proper— she seemed— too persistently, she's apt to treat you coldly; her own living, is as much entitled to courtesy more we consider the human family the more good fellow," and "after you 've seen as much the cherry tree, the hatchet, terrible infants that the arrival of the band in the stage at half-past I How could I know she did but feign, and was not what a good Methodist town of some five thousand but if you are indifferent, she's likely enough as any lady of the land." of that sort of thing as I have, you '11 think- cannot lie, steam navigation, (or looked at the three. As the vehicle eame slowly down the she seemed ? does the plausibility of the theory appear. Let inhabitants and its university. This Institution in fact, my boy, you'll learn." This party experiments made with that end in view,) the mountain the band saluted us with a lively galop, some clay to throw herself into your arms. "I humbly beg Miss Lucy's pardon—it was anyone of sound mind and healthy constitu- is richly endowed and admits women. II. generally wears a self-sufficient smirk upon Potomac river, the Washington canal, the monu- and we were all excitement and everybody rushed r Time hurried on; the enchantment waned; as from a "And if she don't?" only thoughtlessness." tion place the back of a book or other-opaque ment in front of the city hall, the heights at New- to the piazza to welcomc such inspiring strains. A mile or so'above North Evanston is Wilmette, dream I woke, "Why, go on eating your crumbs." his countenance, and much hair. It is a pe- Oh, come away," said Jack, linking his arm object over that portion of his facc commenc- burgh and the Hudson river, Germantown and The band is Donch's, well known in Washington. another embryo village, situated in a fine grove. I And, wearying to be longer chained, my flimsy fetters " I wish I had your philosophy." culiarly annoying form of the disease. He within Fipps'. "Let's go into the billiard- ing with the summit of his nose, and lie will the Delaware, Annapolis and the Naval Academy— After we had measurably recovered from our de- This place and North Evanston are some little broke; - "I wish I had something to drink." room till he's gone." And so saying he hur- discover a strong resemblance to the optics of roars- out your name familiarly, like Mr. Ed I When came to dwell with Floribel a maiden far more win Forrest in " Spartacns," and enters into but my subject grows upon me; tlie links of Gen- light at this arrival the mail came 111, and there distance from the lake, but Wlnetka, some two "I hate the fellow!" said Thornton to him- ried him out of the room, leaving the lovers some one of the lower animals. How many il eral Washington's surveying chain connect every or three miles above Wilmette and about sixteen fair, a long harangue, a sort of traveled stump- was wild excitement prevailing for some time L With eyes of tender violet, and wealth of golden hair. self, throwing himself into a chair; "he's al- alone, who stood for some moments speech- ferrets do we find among the human family! incident, principle, event, and locality known in over the package containing copies of THE CAPI- miles from the city, overlooks the lake and is the I • From pride and scorn her face was free—her manner ways cheerful,and I'm always so wretched!" lessly gazing into cack other's eyes. how many hyenas! what regiments of tigers! speech, to the effect that he, and so forth. American history, past or present. In time it will TAL. The paper could scarcely be served fast most attractive place I have seen in this vicinity. mild and meek; how few dogs! trusting, faithful dogs. Well "My good fellow, "uttered in a certain tone be proved that he drew up the Emancipation enough, and for the next hour or so every face There are several pleasant places here that have a And Jack, looking at him, said to himself, CHAPTER m. 1 Iler voice I knew was melody, ere yet I heard her speak; may the tynx-eyed of our race exclaim, an- of voice, is one of the most aggravating and Proclamation, and was the author of the plot to was hidden behind our big paper, and comments settled, homelike, comfortable look. Nothing I And oh, her smile—how void of guile! it made my soul "I hate these liard-up loafing fellows who Ned Thornton took Lucy's hand. His fea- dante can expressions, "I would I were a depressing forms of speech with which we are marry the innocent Frederick Grant to the artful and criticisms on "Brown's Young Man" were palatial in the way of houses, but the evergreens her own: have never got a penny in their pockets, and tures softened, and he said with less bitterness, and maneuvering daughter of the Queen of Eng- aud shrubbery in the grounds have had time to dog!" acquainted. It does not imply goodness. Not, not a few. I T thought lio more of Floribel, but Lconore alone— are always wanting work ! It's all humbug! but still as if he felt himself aggrieved, "I land. take root, and the green sward has overgrown the t 1 yielded to a mightier spell—loved Lconore alone. if I may be permitted to observe,for Josephus; Last evening we had a hop, and it passed off As if anybody ever did want work! What hate those empty-headed swells, with their merrily. Beaus were not plentiful, but the ladies marks of the spade and roller. The ground rises HI. We know not whether the learned pundit but it hints at imbecility, poverty of proto- everybody wants is money, and work's the flash and insolence." plasm. A man will stand being called "a sad All this apropos of Berkeley, fa- General Wash- danced with each other, and apparently enjoyed in two benches from the lake, the first some I. My aged blood bounds warm once more, remembering has ever studied the art of patronage—that ington did an amount of designing in this neigh- eighteen or twenty feet above the water, and ex- how it burned purgatory they're willing to go through with "He didn't mean any harm," replied the themselves just as much as if they had had crowds old mustard-plaster of self conceit, that coal- dog"—"J. B.'s a sad dog, sir." That's flat- borhood that is positively awful. He designed tending perhaps half a mile back, where the other f What time my fond vows Leonore with equal love re- to get it." of attendant swains to choose from. I promised girl gently, slowly surrendering herself to the scuttle of snobbishness. If he ever has, he jtery, hints at a genius for intrigue. "A bad the springs, the baths, Lord Fairfax, Sir John's slopes gradually to moet it. Gleneoe, the next turned, above to mention who are they who make Berke- A merry voice was heard in the bar, giving happiness of a brief interview with the man [man," especially from a woman, is away up in Run, Dam No. 6, (of which more anon,) the site station, we passed by. It is quite a pretty place, I And one long kiss full sealed our bliss. But who, alas, must have noticed an amazing similarity in ley attractive at present, SO I close with a few of Lizzie "good day!"' she loved. adulation. One will even swallow "rascal," of Mr. Dole's cottage, and finally wound up by understand, and one of the 'older points. High- can tell, that particular between man and the lower the names of the visitors at the hotel and the res- "Thank fortune !" exclaimed Jack. "Hero '' Perhaps not, for he's more fool than knave; atoning for the sins of his youth and wiping out land Park, twenty-three miles from the city, When heaven's own air wo breathe in this, how near are creation. Introduce, for example, a poor but and "infernal scoundrel," as they.imply, in idents of the cottages: General Simpson, United blasts from hell I the cherry-stains in his conscience by planting an on the lake shore, and about seventy-four feet comes Charlie Fipps!" but still, when I come into the bar and see respectable cart-horse to the lordly stables of ¡liis particular line, ability ; but " my good States Engineer Corps, Mrs. Simpson, and three I For soon the Lady Floribel forgot her chill disdain, elm tree near the moat; and in further proof of above the water line, has natural advantages as a "Ah Lucy! that you?" inquired the voice such fellows leaning «vcr the counter, and my Lord of Derby, or tho Marquis do Lcger; fellow " has the same effect upon the male or- daughters; Mr. and Mrs. Coffin of New York, Iler love revealed, so long concealed, and fain would cheerily. "Well, that's right! both bloom- smoking in the faces of you girls, and talking his contrition he discarded all ordinary utensils place of residence that no other place about the mine regain; place him beside the thorough-bred, high- ganization that "my good woman " had upon and Mrs. and Miss Brown of Trenton; Mrs. Orem ing as ever, I see !" Then the girls giggled. their impertinent nonsense to you, I feel as if ¡Bob Sawyer's landlady. Let us take a passing offered him for wliacking at the old stump in the city possesses, so far as I have seen. It is inter- [ But when she found the withered flower no more revived toned, and graceful form of "Ku-Klux" out way and preparing a place Jor the new growth, of Baltimore, Mr. A. R. Potts of Washington, sected by several deep ravines, and has fine large would be, " What's he up to with those girls?" asked I could hardly help knocking them down. Oh, of "Hail Columbia;" observe the look of su- glance at the literary patron. His peculiar and dug the hole with an old sword. In proof of and her mother and young sister; Mrs. Eaton ud trees for shade. There is a gradual rise from f Fierce passions tossod her like a bark upon a stormy Jack, craning his neck to see, so .Fipps ran Lucy, how I wish youwere not in this business!" preme and withering contempt which mantles tvein is the following: "Writing anything this extraordinary conduct on the part of this Mrs. Haveineyer of New York; Miss Lacy of Al- Evanston, which is but little higher than the city sea— against him coming in. He was a little man— " But what else_ could I do, Ned? I know lately? why don't you stick to poetry ? poe- hero of ten thousand legends, a piece of rusty bany; Miss Page of New York; Mr., and Mrs. Hen- to this point. [ A lonely bark, 'mid billows dark, upon a stormy sea. 011 the snorting nostril and elevated caput of "natty," the ladies would call him—with a no other business, and if it hadn't been for the latter, as he greets with speechless amaze- try's your /orfe," knowing perfectly well that metal is now shown in the office Of this hotel said derson of Philadelphia; Judge Wright and wife of IV. cvfty ode 3-011 have written for years has been to be a portion of the true sword which cleft the Washington; Mr. Garcia, minister from the Ar- -1 visited, the other day* the big water-wheels All, welaway, what deeds of ire fell jealousy may work— good-liumored face, frank, pleasant manners, Mr. Hudson's kindness I might have " ment the presumption of the humbler steed. and flourished a whip on this-occasion. Rejected by paying papers, and that an elabor- ground for the sacred elm; and in further proof gentine Republic; General Strother, (Porte Cray- that for some time past have been laboring F Provoked by it, designs how dire in woman's breast '' Starved, as I am starving. It's not for me "Nay!" we can fancy him exclaim, in the on,) and Mrs. Strother; Mr. and Mrs. Defrees of industriously to paddle the filth out of the may lurk 1 ate epic, without rhyme or reason, eminently of its identity the remains are shown of the paper "Ah Jack! is that you?" he asked cordially. to dictate to you, Lucy, since I can't find occu- language of the "Houyliuhums," "my humble Washington, their daughter, Mrs. Sample, and Chicago river and into the Illinois and Michigan P She nursed revenge; she watched her time; she brewed suited to the times, has been damned. Per- label which was once affixed to the same, and "Glad to see you! what will you take? give pation for myself. Only assure me that you and roughshod friend, come not near me with three sons; the Misses Campbell of Philadelphia; canal. It's pretty hard on- the canal, I should a poisonous draught; haps there is no more patronizing beast than told of its deeds ot renown. The elm, a most I The chalice bore to Leonore, who, unsuspecting, quailed; it a name!" love me, Lucy." a pole of forty feet." We imagine our plow- magnificent tree, still stands, and has swollen Mr. and Mrs. McCullough of Baltimore; and Mr. judge. A low dusky building with two black fun- | And some bright liquid drank she, too, but that from "Tliank you, I don't think I care about "You know I do, JjTed." boy, like Solon Shingle, retorting, " Jes so, the moderately successful but vain poet of the with natural pride in its remarkable history, until and Mrs. Gibson of the same city, and Mr. and nels thrust through the roof like the smoke-stacks death was free, anything." • "It's more than I deserve. I could kill squire—my father, lie fiti n the Revolution—^ middle walks of journalism. "I've written the trunk measures fifteen feet in circumference Mrs. Harrison and friends. Miss GRUNDY. of an ocean steamer; two smaller pipes from | And pledged her health with words untrue, and spake "Nonsense! you must have something. myself when I think what a useless fellow I well he pulled a baggage wagon." The look Something, sir, that will live; why don't you midway between the ground and the lower limbs. which the steam escapes in slow, measured puflfe ; a black, murky, fetid pool of water, thick with right courteously, Here waiter! bring a bottle of champagne!" am! Young, strong, hearty, witling, and of that aristocratic quadruped is the look show me some of your productions ? j-ou have LETTER FROM CHICAGO. | Till failed at length her victim's strength, then said, 4 style, sir!" being- thoroughly convinced.at A reference was made above to Dam No. 6. In the foulness of a great city, crinkled lines of foam " The end draws on: "Now this," thought Easy, "is the sort of eager to turn my hand to any employment, which my lord would bestow upon his tenant, CHICAGO, June, 1871. tllie same time that your style bears the same honor of its traditions tlie locomotives on the 011 its surface like soiled lace ou the robes of the He scarce will dote on that fair cheek, when thence the fellow I like! with plenty of money, and and yet can find no one to trust me because I the marquis upon his humblest contributor, I suppose my penmanship is not BO supremely JWation to his own that a penny dfp does to Baltimore and Ohio railroad always blow a whistle abandoned, dank, heavy, broad-leaved weeds on life has gone— nothing to do lmt spend it. And the way to once shot a hare! That constitutes me a or Mr. Dombey upon Susan Nipper. The as they approach it. Tradition affirms—I have excellent as to excite envy in the breasts of Bry- its brink, and a stench horrible enough to be one [ My love will seek within a week, when thine with life poacher, and I am as much an outcast as if I amiable and gentle Dr. Watts has beautifully a kerosene oil lamp. The great peculiarity of it on the authority of one of my own ancestors-— antufc St rat ton experts. I dare say there may he of the torments of Dante's Hell—that from the has gone!" treat them is to pretend you don't want any- thing, then they're sure to force it on you." had committed a murder." and practically depicted the propensity of dogs the literary patron is that he is always want- that when General Washington swore, he swore men in " Newspaper Row," even, who can write a outside. Within, at either end of the building, a v. ing to do something or another of an impos- fairer hand. I have had letters travel up. and "I'm glad I found you here," said Fipps, ' There is one at least who has not cast you to bark and bite, for "'tis their nature to." like an angel. He passed through this region grimy, greasy engine, of two hundred and fifty My Leonore, with dying breath, to ine alone would tell sible nature—what, he docs not mention. first when about sixteen years of age, and was down the continent seeking thèir destination, ap- horse power, turns laboriously a mighty water- The sudden wrong that wrought her death—the crime "I like a clium, I can't do without a clium. out." If the doctor ever beheld a small canine put- The dressy man is another style of patronizer. engaged with a nephew of Baron Fairfax in sur- parently directed as much to one place as another; wheel, forty-two feet in diameter and ten or a of Floribel. Wli^n I'm by myself I'm miserable. I think And if it had not been for that one—for ting on airs, and refusing to scrape with an- In his presence you are troubled with a pain- eying this country—that is, sitting on stones, I but I»ncver thought my chirography was so atro- dozen feet in width. A great slimy, dripping, I Ere from my lips, in life's eclipse, sank, quivering, hers so." you, Lucy—I would have shot myself. They other gentleman of similar instincts, he would I away, ful feeling that you never were, are, might, suppose, and looking at it—and in his journal is ciously bad as to utterly upset the proof-reader noisome thing, dipping its foul arms into the "You what?" would have forgiven me that." no doubt have immortalized this native pecu- of a first-class paper. I had always imagined, in- • The vengeful lady she forgave, and for her soul did could, would; or should be dressed to suit his to be found the following note: black waters below, and lifting them into the "Think.". " Oh! don't talk like that, Ned. You'll get liarity. You may have observed a small pug nocently and ignorantly perhaps, that proof-read- whirling pool without. A boy fourteen or fifteen pray; | fastidious taste. You are aware that he is : And, by our love, besought of me, I too would her for- " You think! what about?" something to do yet." trying to patronize a big shaggy poodle. I "March 18,1748. We this day called to see the famous ers were penmanship-proof, and that like the years old was pointed out to me, who ones-took looking j-ou over to discover whether you are Warm Springs. We camped out in tho field this night." give, "How to kill time." "No, Lucy, not here. I'm sure of that- have not only observed it,but felt it personally. "blind experts" in the Postoffiee Department, it into his foolish head to have a swim in the t Nor let her sin uncovered be, so long as she might live; There is one dog of my acquaintance—well, a fit subject to honor with a promenade. "Do That General George was moved by the sever- what they could not read they guessed at. When black wateroutside. He was siekforweeks after I "For soon remorse must be her mate: I pity her," she ."And/think how to prevent time, with now, and I've come to a resolution." we are not exactly upon speaking terms, in you call that a hat?" he exclaims in a com- ity of the weather and the roughness of the roads— I am made to say in my last epistle that one of it, and came very near losing his eyes. Another said; the assistance of liquor, from killing me." Fearing that that resolution would part fact do not even bow-wow when we meet, but plaining and injured manner, as if the hat he having tumbled over the Devil's Nose and other McEntee's dreamy landscapes is "nobby," I am employe washed his face in the water, and after [ "And she will pity me, too late, when I am with the "You must come and see my turnout. A them, Lucy threw aside her reserve and clung disposed to think that your proof-reader didn't dead." I know him very well. He patronizes me. I were a personal insult to himself; or, "I say, boulders, so named from their audacity hi being a long siege at home was finally taken to the hos- tip-top affair, with spider wheels, silver har- to him, imploring him not to do anything rash. even venture a guess. " Nobby" may be a very pital. He saved his eyes but don't have much I heard and sighed, nor aught replied, for she was with old boy, I don't want to be impertinent,, but stumbling-blocks in the pathway of the hero— feel it in my very bones, and have felt it for good word as sueh words go, but it does not 1 he dead. ness and bells, and all the rest of it! I passed The young man was deeply moved by her where in the name of goodness did you get to express his emotions strongly more than once, faith in the cleansing or healing properties of that a long period. That dog is a small Japanese strike me a« the very best term to apply to one every one on the road, but I had a bit of an tenderness and love. Who but a woman would that coat?" Room for the shoddy extract of e know by the number of the oath on record. pool. These wheels raise the water from the river VI. pug. He is a shaggy pug, with a small but- of Jervis McEntee's landscapes. It may, how- to the canal, some five or six feet. They were I Years well-nigh three score I have lived, and suffered accident though!" have clung to a man under such circumstances? diseased cloth! Behold that pompous mass Having suffered much by tlie time he reached the ton of a nose, which sticks away up in the air ever, be preferable to "hunky dory," or " bully," originally used simply as feeders to the canal, much, since then; "What?" "Don't be alarmed Lucy," he said, stroking of vulgarity and gold chains. Verily this man above-named point on the Chesapeake and Ohio Iu war like the bowsprit of a brig. He is very cor- or "gallopsbus," and perhaps I ought to be duly without any sanitary intentions whatever, but re- • 's wild tumult I have strived, and gained a name '' Ran into a fellow and broke his ribs—I her soft brown tresses fondly. "I'm not canal, when he was asked if he heard any one pulent and never extends his waddle beyond is a contractor. Ile has contracted with his thankful for having escaped one of these. "An cently have had a double mission. In 1836 the 'niong men; going to kill myself nor anybody else. What coming—Indians being near—George answered, mean his panels." the corner of the house. Every morning I gold the bad habit of being fussily patron- autumn landscape by McEntce; Noble's Blood State undertook a general system of internal im- And been by courtly dames caressed, but I would never " You'll have to pay for it then." I've resolved to do is to emigrate—to seek my nther impatiently rubbing his head, that he could wed; . ~ ' '' pass that door. It is the door of a party in izing. He knows in his inmost soul, "good hear nothing "on account of that dam roaring." Money, &c.," instead of "landscapes by McEutee, provements, this canal among the rest. It was For though I seemed not all unblessed, my heart to love "Never mind! hang the expense! what's fortune in America." nobby,", if you please. The figure of a peasant projected as a ship canal, extending from Lake power, a magnate upon whom I have gazed easy man," that his gold and his mental worth That is No. 6," remarked the personage who was dead. • r the odds so long as you're happy? Lizzie!" girl reclined (?) against an evening sky might en- Michigan to the Illinois river, about one hundred "America!" echoed Lucy, bursting into as an astronomer might view a comet—afar arc as much opposed as the poles. As you always accompanied the future President in the [And Floribel —let me be brief—she perished In tier joy that support and not care to be "relieved;" miles. The crash of 1837 stranded the State and "Did you call, sir?" asked Mrs. Driver, tears, for hers was not a nature to endure oft". Just as regularly as I pass that door-step place your extremities beneath his mahogany, capacity of a Boswell, and who has kindly handed prime— but I should be very much relieved if the lattty left the canal higli and dry with other uncom- bustling in. trouble without breaking down. he jingles his seals at you in a threatening down to posterity all the wonderful stories which I Poor blighted leaf! o'ercomc by grief, and horror of her do I address that prig as '' Boor follow." Just word were substituted for reclined.* pleted projects. About 1850 it was opened ks a crime;~ " Yes, but not for you—send Lucy!" Mrs. "Yes to America—to the United States. manner. "Yes, sir, that dinner service cost furnish our new country with legendary lore. at that precise moment are those expressive common canal; not being deep enough to change j And when I pray for Leonore, I pray that grace be given Driver went out again muttering that they The captain of the 'Good Hope,' now lying Braddoek's army passed this way when marching I have been visiting the suburbs of Chicago To eyes fixed, like John Bunsby, mariner's, upon me every cent of $50,000; and as to pictures, the current of the Chicago river, and depending ; Floribel, and long no more except for rest in heaven— on Fort Duqucsne, and in consequence of having seemed all to have taken a sudden, very strong in our harbor is an American, and lie tells me the coast of Greenland. Not a sign of my why them pictures are a mint of money." lately, or rather, I may say, the suburban towns, upon that stream as feeder to the first fifteen My blood is cold, and I am old, and long for rest in so done, the Indians, after the defeat of the army, fancy for that girl! she hated her! that in his country all men are free and equal, You are made to feel your monetary insignifi- for, strictly speaking, this city ha3 no suburbs ; miles or so. These wheels were built to supply heaven. existence escapes those Japan-tray lips, not made an incursion into this neighborhood, mur- "That old woman reminds me of a cat," and that there all industrious, honest men can cance. Is there no humility with gold? Must town and country join hands. If one wishes to that deficiency. Tliey were only run a portion of even a snore. I feel sure that this brother of dered many of the settlers, and carried away sev- take a stroll he may as well walk up and down the Written for THE CAPITAL. thrive; that there no man would be shunned the time as feeders, but when the river began to de- said Fipps. "Bring a bottle of champagne!" the sun and moon, and very particular friend its gilded image leave its impress on the heart, eral women and children. Some of these captives sidewalks; or, if he isn't particular about taking velop its odors the city took its place at the crank THE ANGEL. to Lucy who appeared at the door, '' Have a and prevented from earning his bread because of the seven stars, regards me as a nonentity and cast its lurid shadow over all the finer were named Smith, which is strange, but the rest exercise, he ean mince about in the park, only he and kept the wheel moving for its own relief. cigar?" opening his cigar-case. he shot a hare on a lord's estate. That there, in a stove-pipe hat. I am morally certain feelings of the soul? of the story is stranger still, for these Smiths must look out for himself and not stumble over That proves wearisome work. The city, through "Thank you, said Jack, taking one and thank God! there arc no lords crushing the that he regards me as a poor cuss. I feel it. were taken to Canada and exchanged by tlie any of the park mountains. I walked out west of CELTA LOGAN KELLOGG. its board of public works, 'has at an expense famished people under heel; that there no French authorities and afterwards returned putting it in his pocket. He is accustomed to people with gold-headed the city, one Sunday afternoon with a friend, but of about three million dollars deepened the 1 aristocrat owns the birds in the air, the fish home, and their descendants still occupy the (Continued from last week.) ' Why don't you light it ?" canes, and eye-glasses, and their hair parted found that the country or suburban air was too canal with the expectation of turning the Chi- The number and variety of men who pa- amily mansion. The remarkable part of this CHAPTER II. "I'll smoke it another time," replied Jack. in the streams; that there all that a beneficent in the middle—Joint High Commission, and strongly impregnated with the smell of dead dogs cago river up hill, making it an outlet to the lake, tronize are as numerous as the sands on the story is the fact that the name of Smith still lives On one of the " Angel " tables there stood '' 1 prefer a pipe at present. Tliis confounded Creator put upon the teeming earth to sustain and other animals in various stages of decompo- with a constant current setting into the eanal. all that, by Jove! don't you know! I have sea shore. The art of not seeing a man whom in this vicinity, in spite of the efforts made to a box of tobacco, which could only be opened -life belongs to the poor man. And in addi- sition to be specially enjoyable. I think, indeed, Doubting Thomases wag their wise heads and pre- bag won't open without a ha'penny." thought of intimating to him that I am a you do see is one requiring a scientific ac- annihilate it. Mysterious indeed arc the way« of tion to heaven's good gifts, the government is I prefer the river; it has come to be a familiar dict a failure. Two years ago, an engineer tells by those acquainted with the secret, or by "I'll try it with a florin." person. Would it elevate me in my own self- Providence in regard to the race of Smiths. Never quaintance with and long experience in the smell. Chicagoians carry small bottles of this wa- nie, these wheels had a dip of fliree-and-a-lialf dropping a piecc of money through a hole in " Don't be a fool," said Easy, snatching the the most enlightened and liberal ever known. esteem ? Would it alter his "dogged" obsti- shall this name die out from the earth. He assure^ me that the starved emigrant, as refinements of secial life. The love of patron- terwith them when they travel abroad, to prevent feet; at present it is five-and-a-half—that is, the 'lie lid. Mrs. Driver had forgotten to take coin and'pocketing it. "One florin repre- nacy? I fear not. Now, a large Newfound- homesickness. Nine miles out, 011 the Galena age is the child of self-conceit. It is the di- Having bored you sufficiently with the tradi- surface of the lake has varied two feet in that away Hie pewter mugs and plates. As Lizzie sents forty-eight pipes of tobacco. Lend me soon as he arrives, is helped on his way to land, if not pleased with my attentions, would branch of the Northwestern railroad, you find a rau out rect antipodes of a kindly regard for the feel- tions, which whether well or ill-founded, arc cer- time: If it should fall considerably it might ma- S of the "bar parlor," as it is called in a ha'penny!" Fipps handed him one. He the fruitful lands of the far West, where he very pleasant hamlet, or hamlets, for Oak Park, at least acknowledge them by a graceful bow, ings of others. It forms, in fact, a clear line tain to be inflicted 011 all helpless, credulous terially affect this new project. If this fails, how- England, a tall, shabby, slovenly man lounged is at once given two hundred and fifty acres Harlem, Thatcher, and Maywood stand shoulder dropped it into the tobacco box, which flew a passing snarl, or a gentle motion of his in- of distinction between a gentleman and a snob. strangers who flock to these baths,' I may as well ever, Western pluck will find a way through. The of land which becomes his at the end of to shoulder. You cross low prairie land, with a ; in and sat down at the table. open, and lie tilled his pipe as Lucy came in dicative mood. But this pug is a snob—an jump to the Berkeley of the present day and pro- wheels were to be stopped last night, and in a A gentleman never patronizes. He does not few small bouses here and there, to reach the "Nobody here!" he said, talking to him- with champagnc and glasses. "That's the five years, with no condition beyond that of aristocrat, He is fed on soups which fall ceed to name some of those who are now making few days, or weeks, possibly, " we shall see what cultivating it! What other government is so desire to lower you in your own self-esteem. ridge on which these little places have sprung self. "I'm as dry as dust! Not a penny in my sort!" he exclaimed gaily, since financialmat - from the rich man's table, and coddled by the Therefore lie is careful, while knowing his tin; place attractive, and what they find to amuse we shall see." Leaving these works, we passed generous? This captain urges me to leave a up. This ridge is high enough to afford good drain- through Bridgeport, the foulest quarter of the pocket, either, to drop into this box and make ters were so flourishing. fair hands of woman. He is a curled darling own superiority, not to show it. It is the cret them here. place where my character is ruined, and I am age, and fine thrifty oaks furnish shade with elms city, probably. Tlie water is very much cleaner it flyope n and reveal its treasure from Vir- "Just so," said Fipps, "I don't like little of fashion. Oil! Darwin—old hoss! forgive We are a sociable set, and don't sit and eye thrust out to starve because I shot a hare! ation of a coarse, a narrow, an unfeeling soul. on the banks of the Desplaiues river, a small river now than it has been in times past, I am told; but ginia, which same is situate somewhere in the glasses." me—why did we not remain poodles? "If It is the likeness upon man of the lower ani- new-comers until they are made thoroughly un- flowing between Thatcher and Maywood, nearly He offers me a free passage to New York, and comfortable and wish themselves miles away. if tho slough, a putrid arm of the river clasping United States, of republican fame. Open ses- "I'm not so particular," said Easy, "I so—why not—wherefore—for the bearings of mals—not the image of a long suffering Cre-. north aud south in its course, and ten or twelve guarantees me a livelihood somwhere in the Strangers, if they do not hold themselves aloof, Bridgeport in its loathsome embrace, was ever in ame, box! Sesame won't open it! Words could drink it out of a liorse trough." They this observation lies in the application." ator. miles from the city. At Harlem aud Oak Park a. worse condition than now, I can only wonder go for nothing. Cash is the real open ses- broad and fertile States if I will but go are soon made to feel at home. There is a degree there are very good residences and two or three filled their glasses. of freedom and independence prevailing here, in that any of the inhabitants of that odorous pre- nuie, and I haven't a farthing. And not a drop with him. It was for your sake, Lucy, stores-, a blacksmith shop, postoffiee, lager-beer cinct are alive to tell the tale. Here on the "West "Put your lips to my wine," said Fipps to that I did not immediately accept his kind regard to dress and pursuits, which is very charm- saloon, and a large brick school-house for a left in these cups! The greed of some people Patronage in the human family is like the CORRESPONDENCE, ing. We wear our morning dresses all day long Side, "when the wind blows from the south,and the is Lucy, "just to sweeten it." Lucy tasted it ofter. Until to-day I have had hopes of re- graded school. Thatcher is a youuger place, with | contemptible! Why, if a fly, tired of its small-pox. With some it breaks out in a va- if we choose, and trains are rarely seen. Some intolerable and marvclously compounded odors and handed the bottle to Easy, who put it to OTTR MISS GRUNDY'S LETTER. a two-story brick school-house, and very respect- existence, wanted to drown itself they haven't covering myself, of doing something still, rioligated form, with others the milder form adventurous spirits who don't mind doses of warm of foul water, glue factories, and packing-houses his mouth and took a long drink. here in my own well-loved native village. I able houses. Maywood, beyond the river on the are wafted into the southern wiudows, the good left enough to cover its head. O for a mil- of varioloid. With all it has a tendency to a STROTHER'S HOTEL, water drink from the spring every morning be- "Is it good?" asked Fipps, astonished. had hoped, oh! so earnestly, that I might open prairie, has a park that edges up into a grove, people cry aloud "Bridgeport," and hasten to lionaire with a penny in his pocket, or, better lofty style of "pitty,"and "pity'tis'tis true." BERKELEY SPRINGS, W. VA., -MIJ, 11. fore breakfast, and -other some do the same be- ' "It's better thaiiginger beer." and a rather shaky wooden tower for a lookout. close that side of the house. The southern por- offer you not the hand of a beggar and an I (to not know that any comparison lia3 hitherto fore each meal. Nearly everybody breakfasts still, a capitalist owning a sixpence to treat Whatever wounds our self-esteem is more t think nothing can reconcile me-to a prairie after tion of the city, near the lake shore, is quite pleas- "It seems all right, but where's the cork ? outcast, but an honorable name and a com- been instituted, between Michael Angclo Buona- about half-past eight; after that come constitu- with! I hear a footstep! By the pricking of difficult to bear than a direct assault upon our it is fenced in and cut up into cabbage patches. ant. The Chicago University is located there. I never can tell until I see the cork." fortable home. I have waited and tried pa- rotti and General George Washington; therefore tionals on the piazza, or in tlie grove, or up the '"v thumbs! I hope a capitalist this way comes! Characters. The former lowers the conscious- The wild prairie is impressive, like thè ocean, be- I visited that institution one evening with a party "There's a good many people who think some small claim may be laid to originality when mountain side, and next croquet begins and games No: it's only that good-for-nothing, Ned tiently, until I am sick at heart. Everything ness of our self-importance, while the latter cause it seems illimitable; but make a checker- of friends to take a peep at our neighbors, the themselves judges who can't tell any more it is urged that these two eminent men performed are usually in progress from one end of the lawn Thornton." has failed, bad luck and hard words await me board of farms of it and you spoil it for anything moon and planets, but the telcscopc, the largest assigns us at least a place in the rank of per- strikingly similar services for their respective na- to the other. Bathing begins about half-past than you 'whether the wine's good till they see. at every turn. But the moment has come but agricultural purposes. I forgot to mention in the country, had become rheumatic in its sons. One of the most disagreeable things, tive lands. The tourist, or even the. indulgent eleven, and afterwards there is a general disper- l'lie " good-for-nothing " put in an appear- the cork." when I must dccide, either for love of you to Austin, another little town between Oak Park and joints, and persistently stared at two common therefore, in the world is the conviction that reader who pcrusc9 the tourist's journal, cannot sion, most persons preferring to nap a little after ance with the promptness of an actor entering Lucy gave Fipps the cork, which he read: remain here, a starving man with a blackened the city, with a park. I imagine any well-to-do stars and couldn't be coaxed into a change of we are being patronized. Patronage in its fail to recognize the truth contained in this state- the bath, these waters being considered to possess upon his "cue." lie was poorly but neatly " 'Moet and Chandon.' Yes, it's the real individual in this part of the land who hasn't a position. These stars, apparently at a goodly name, or seek my fortunes in that fair, free mildest form may be defined to be a patting on ment. -Mark Twain and his companions were wonderful sedative powers. We dine at two dressed, was about twenty-four years old, park attached to his establishment must be distance from each other as seen through the thing and no mistake. 1 can't bear the cheap, land—America!" overwhelmed by the stupendous manner in which o'clock, and we are so blessed with good appetites, handsome, manly-looking, but with a de- the back, a looking all over you after the man- looked down upon as poor trash. I notice that telescope, appeared as oue to the naked eye. sweet stuff they sell you when you're no judge. Michael Angclo BuQnarotti had gone to work and awl abundant means to gratify the same, that several poor women down in the heart of the city (To be continued.) ner of Kate Peyton, a forgetfulness of your Tho university building is a large light-colored jected, almost sullen, expression of counte- I like my champagne dry There's a sove- designed or executed the whole of Italy and dining is by no means the least of the day's pleas- existence. In a more advanced stage it mani- have them in boxes set in their windows. stone structure, with towers resembling the cen- nance. reign, Lucy." everything in it. Mark Twain finally tells us that, ures. Sooth to say, our friend Mr. Potts knows WHEN General Jackson entered New Orleans In fests itself in a frantic desire to do something how to cater to our tastes. Whether we adjourn tral portion of the Smithsouiau Institution in its "Oh! it's you, is it, Jack Easy?" he said, "I'll bring the change." among other things, M. A. B. designed the Appian Two or three miles south of these villages lies the year after the memorable defeat of the British, for you, illuminating you with the painful to our spick and span new dming-hall for break- architecture. Hyde Park, just beyond, clings to Shortly. "Never mind! I'll take it in a kiss," which Way, the Campagna, the Tarpeian Rock, the Riverside, upon the same stream that flows by the manager of the theater waited on him to so- idea that you are too utterly weak and imbci- fast, dinner, or supper, we return- satisfied and the southern skirts of the city. The Douglas " Well, that's a cheerful way of saluting a he advanced to do, when Ned Thornton, whom Pope, the Coliseum, the Tiber, and the Egyptian Thatcher aud Maywood. There are marvelous licit the honor of his presence at one of the per- cilc to do anything for yourself. Parties with brighter views of human nature; for who monument is in that vicinity, or is to be. The mummy; aifd whatever he did not design he sat talcs told of this place. See Riverside and be fellow," replied Jack Easy. nobody had noticed all this time, started up formances. This being promised, it was resolved can feast on mountain mutton, delicious spring association who have it in charge haven't the afflicted with the latter form of the disease on a favorite stodie and looked at, and tourists happy is the advice of the privileged few who re- "Do you expect me to be cheerful?" he and interposed between them, asking fiercely, to compliment him with a song composed for the chickcns, rich cream, snowy bread, fresh fruit fiends to complete it, and won't sell a portion of desire' to be" of service to you, not because were obliged to view the stone and weep over it. side in that favored quarter. The aristocracy asked defiantly, as if he would have liked " Who gave you leave to be so familiarwith occasion. The performers were all Frenchmen, aud vegetables, aud remain a misanthrope ?' After the grounds, as lias been proposed, for that pur- they absolutely love you, but because they, by Now travelers have talked and written of their manage things there ; and any low, vulgar per- nothing better than a quarrel. and none of them very conversant with the Eng- dinner the mail comes in—long enough after- pose. So it stands, or rather waits, with some this young girl ?" so doing, minister to the belief that they are progress through various portions of the United son, unless he is able to build a threc-thousand- lish language; but the best among them was se- wards not to interfere with the digestion of cor- other of our Yankee monumental beginnings. " No, I don't expect anything of you," was "I meant no offense," answered Fipps, persons of great power and importance. It States' to little purpose if the reading pjjhlie ¡3 not dollar house, can't come in. You see they mean lected, and when the curtain rose, the General, respondents who fear reprimands from their man- Below Hyde Park the lake shore is low and sandy. the equally curl answer, more rude in tone awed by Thornton's threatening manner. convinced that Thtcr Fatrife deserves his title in a to keep that community select. The streets are who sat in the stage-box, was surprised at hear- is unnecessary to add that the proffered ser- aging editors, and who, when such blighting mis- Coming into the city from that direction you see than words. "Meant no offense! What would it be called | iffereut sense from the usual reading. The more lighted by gas, and are laid out in a sort of Tur- ing his feats recorded in a song to the tune of vices are never performed. sives arrive at meal times, hasten to fortify them- miles of meadow lands dotted with groves iiko ' If you did you'd be disappointed. You're in the society of your own class if yon were "God Save the King." The chorus will give I travel the more I am made to understand that islands; wild ducks, startled by the noise of tho selves with strengthening food and drink before * Our foreman is as good as the best at deciphering not going? Better stay! If you hang about to attempt such liberties with a young lady?" some idea of this song, which afforded much mirth Perhaps the most malignant form of patron- in the matter of either designing or contemplat- train, rise hurriedly from the sedgy grass that ing during process of formation, from a conve- opening the same. Apart from this the hour is scrolls, and hacl sufficient artistic knowledge to make here long enough you'll find somebody to treat "Hush! Ned, never mind," entreated Lucy, to the Americans who were present: age may be found in the aristocratic patron. the criticism " nobby." The head devil insisted it was hides the pools on either side. nient fossil remains in the vicinity, was as well inconvenient, for one prefers to receive letters you—you're such a popular parly!" " God shave General Shackson, Let lis interview him, as he now approaches. snobby. We refer our correspondent for consolation to fearful of a quarrel. the favorite pastime of General George Washing- and papers in the morning and to reply to tho God shave General Shackson, You are morally certain that he knows all same in the afternoon; but our mail goes out be- a Mr. Matthison who wrote a song which was sung on 'Can't return the compliment; and as for "I trill speak. What business has he com- He be von very great man, ton as of the great Italian genius, Gathering his- the Fonjth as a part of the celebration in New York, fore 9 a. m. and comes in at 3 p. m. As for our hanging about, I know somebody who's as ing here kissing and making free with you? He shave New Orleans, . about you, your doings, and place of resi- torical reminiscences of the National Capital and and who writes to the Herald of that city, in an agony I would like to speak of the tunnels aitd other good at that as I am." You think, Mr. Fipps, because you're a swell Cod shave General Shackson." dence. You are aware that you have men- its immediate neighborhood, or pursuing my du- newspapers, if-they come at all we are blessed. of mind, to say thnt its printers have made him say city improvements, but I find, as usual, I, am - Whenever the name of the General occurred the ties as chronicler Qf tradition in other portions of They rarely do come. About once a week we re- "and the glittering stars, types of surrenders to come," "drawing the long bow." It is tolerably warm "Doyou mean me?" and have plenty of money, that you are li- performer turned to him and made a profound tioned the latter to him at least ten times. ceive a batch, and the latest date of all is usually whereas he had written "splendors to come "—ED. hero just now. How is it with you? " I do mean you. WJiy don't you work ?" censed to be rude and insolent." bow, in the most approved Paris fashion. However, if there is no one else to be seen, our free and independent country, I have been CAPITAL. QtJlIOTE, to be married—is he ? When do the Zcilins leave t the success of one of our amateur societies in July, but as the Professor is engaged I'll get yon a good The clouds hung black over the dark Potomac, but the boat all to ourselves, and that la really the only way to piteous wails the death of more rioters than so avoided the position. But old Heel-taps, as he Narrangansett? Why did General and Mrs. Sherman one, boss. How yon find yourself to-day, boss ?" boom of the sullen cannon Beemed to part them, dis- take in fully tho beauties of the park. there were Orangemen in the procession. is affectionately cnllcd by his friends and admir- carrying off the prize of the second class in the select so extreme a northern point as St. Albans» THE CAPITAL. closing in the clefts silver strips of the moon's shifting On Saturday went very early to High Bridge—and ers, did not know this much, and so rushed in late festival of the Northeastern Sacngcrbund, iu " Splcndit—I make already down seex glass bier." Maybe we'll stop there a day to see them. Have the That journal fails to sec that the mere number "Tiwwsah!" Pansc to arrange tho towels. light which the heaven-seeking rocket tried to reach, the place, is what its name indicates, High Bridge. and had himself made chairman of the committee. New York, in face of the competition of old and Smiths come from Minnesota f if-so, remember us and has no connection whatever with the question and failing, fell into the river in a thousand golden The drive thereto is fllled with interesting objectB. Publication Office, 428 Eleventh Street. well-trained organizations of the larger cities. "Well, boss; how is things wld yon to-day ?'! send word how the General is getting. I am glad tii Of course Senator James cannot know that to sparks or broad, trembling bands, with variegated hues Near the bridge, perchèd on the rocks, is an inn, quite at issue. It was not the one hundred stu- "Oh, party veil." McCoys are going to the mountains, I think the air will adorn tile walls' and ccilings of the Capitol as if But with all onr growth, there is one prominent of brilliant green or dazzling red striping the river. It a resting and refreshing place for man and beast. We WASHINGTON CITY* pid Orangemen we protected at such heavy " Yam sah!" be very beneficial to the Colonel. Our love to General they were part of a bridal-chamber in a hotel, or exception to this otherwise gratifying state of was a magnificent pyrotechnic display which greeted had "cream and cake," and the funniest drink (don't loss of life, but our hard-earned civil and Flippety-flap went the brush and his memory—" How and Mrs. Ricketts. Tell Dr. Norris liis friends are all a whisky saloon, or a lager-beer hall, is an outrage. affairs,- There is one part of the musical worjd of the yonng excursionists, who no sooner touched land look so proper) you can imagine. It waa originally a SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 16,1871. yon feelin' to-day, boss ?" so glad to hear that he is going to treat himself to a triD religious liberties. Those they carried in Washington into which the spirit of progress has than they fled to the dancing-hall and almost immedi- " sherry cobblcr," bnt what, when we got it, I don't Something ought to be done. We have some "Veil." California seems such a distance to go pleasure-hnntim- triumph through our great commercial cen- not entered, and which reflects no credit upon ately seven hundred young couples were " chasing the know, unless yon'd call it " What ia it?"—a bit of notion of making application to the Board of " Yaas, sah." The lathering and his memory ceased that I am sure if I were to start, by the time I got the ° NOTICE. hours with flying feet." It is an old quotation, but lemon, of orange, of pine apple, of cinnamon, a leaf of ter, and our noble volunteer regiments and Health. Why not put up noticcs of " Commit no itself or the public. It has remained as stationary at the same moment. I'd forget what I came for. When do the JefferT" none more apt. What a host of beautiful girla! Here mint, a raspberry, and blackberry. I tasted mine, but Our respected cotemporarics have flying at brave police took home on their batons and rmi&ance" on these sjcred walls, as the authorities as the sphinx, and performs now in the same style " Well, how Is things wid yon to-day, boss ?" leave for Sharon? Have the Chipmans come? Th" are the names of a few of them whom we know. could not, oh, I COULD NOT die in summer ! So papa the same old trash that it has devoted Itself to for (A discontented grunt.) General did a right smart thing in going away from M their mastheads the assertion that each has bayonets a greater victory than our troops do on the corners of alleys ? If the Board of There were many others whom -We did not know, but said we would hurt the man's feelings by not drinking years. We mean, of course, that modern fossil, "trgh!" constituents who were clamoring for office, and t'hi achieved at Gettysburg. Health cannot save the walls from such desecra- admired all the same: what—being evidently tho resnlt of profound thought- the largest circulation of any journal in the the Marine Band, which, before crowds of ladies A repetition of the question as lie was about to apply getting rid of all appointments. "Smart fellow I tion what is the good of a board, eh ? Mrs. W. L. Wall, Mrs. G. A. Mrflhcnney, Mrs.^G. L. he called "Sublimé Porte," and he'd be the martyr of 1 Qru District. We have no wish to depreciate our Said a Catholic clergyman to a Herald re- and gentlemen of refined and cultivated taste, the razor was too much. glad he did," says papa. The massive walls and beautifully arched ccil- "I say, meesthcr barber, das ish fife times vat yon Parkhnrat, Mrs. G. L. Clark, Mrs. Dr. Wadsworth, Mrs. the occasion. He drank my glass, also mama's, and porter the day previous to the outrage, "We de- has the audacity, or stupidity, or carelessness, or We are all so sorry for Mrs. Maynadier. Do you rc neighbors' property or say one word in oppo- ings of this superb hulldlng call for neutral tints dell me dish 'IIow is 'em boss, yaas sah,' vich is Camp, Mrs. Magle, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Dr. Hunt,' Mrs. said it was very nice. precate all interference with this Orange pro- whatever it may be, to play about the same class member those lines ? and the sobfcrest ornamentation. Wc want this plenty. Now, poy, you dake my atvicc. You don't try A. Shepherd,Mrs. S. M. Merchant, Miss Hattie McCency, . On our return we drove to Stewart's, where.I matchcd sition to their continued assertion. Would cession, and yet we must recollect that we are of music as one would expect to hear in the first artist arrested. Wc want him removed. Let to make off my pcerd mit so mooch foort July drunk, Miss Rose Ingle, Miss Katie Roach, Miss Nannie Otis, your dress, and they " expressed " it that evening. I I He roso from life's banquet a satisfied guest that we could believe both. As it is, how- aspirations of a band of provincial performers, or Miss Agnes Otis, Miss nelen Noycs, Miss Cora Brown, dealing with human nature. How would Clarke take the responsibility and, capturing this lint I don't prake my cane mit. yonr nose." bought a lovely black and white grenadine suit, ready- Thanked the Master of all and in peace went to rest" from a six-tune musical box. Miss Alice Grey, Miss Gertrude West, Mias Lulie West, made, for eighteen dollars, and a Maud Millier hat, ever, we are forced to say that THE CAPITAL you Americans, for example, regard a New Fiend of the Brush, send an aged Fifteenth " Taos pah!" - Those may not be the exact words but we thought of Mlas Clara Gassaway, Mias Mamie Hogg, Miss Ella trimmed with black lace and the most natural tea rose 'em as soon as we hoard of the General's death. Onr has now by far the largest circulation of any York procession in honor of a rebel vic- Amendment with a bucket of whitewash or blue- Why do not the proper authorities amend this ? THERE'S NO PLACE I.IKE WASHINGTON. Bnrr, Miss Darling Colt, Miss Rose Whiting, Miss Fan- and buds I ever saw. I have it on now—I wish you warmest sympathies to them. Have the Jenkinses goiio tory?" His reverence failed to discriminate wash and broom to do something temporary until The material is admitted to be good, and capa- This tribute to our city comcs from a lady at. present nie Palmer, Miss Annie Barclay, Mies Mamie Corson, could see me in it. Wc did not go through Stewart's to White Sulphur? Fannie writes na that the Free weekly published in the District. As this is ble of being highly trained, but the organization residing in • State: between a political difference of our own the meeting of Congress. Miaa Ella Hobby, Mias Carrie Chubb, Mtss Carrie Story, establishment. The fact is, all of the employés look so mans are at their superb home in Pennsylvania but a question affecting our advertising patrons EDITOR CAPITAL : Your paper has penetrated to this and one imported from abroad. The legal tion has no head. It needs a conductor of sound Miss Fannie Starling, Miss Kate Quail, Miss Fannie glum, and so thoroughly proper and bnsiness-liko, that that in August they go to Miss Coleman's cottage at distant locality, and thongh I neither possess nor make THE Rev. Mr. Sunderland presented a petition aiid thorough cultivation, a musician who will nnnt, Miss Bell, Miss Whitelcy, Miss Mary Liebern- It oppressed mc, and I loft as soon after my purchases Newport. Have the Cuttaesgonc yet to Rye ? Whata only, we are prepared to prove our statement authorities would have a legitimate right pretense to any humor or wit, which so happily distin- or rather remonstrance to our legislature against have pride in the performance of real music, and noanx, Miss Lizzie Burnett, Mias Georgie Colgate, Miss as possible. On Sunday we rcated until chnrch time, jolly old meeting we'll have I if any such call upon us for a verification. to consider whether the demonstration was an guish, to a high degree, the most of the matter in THE spare no pains in drilling his orchestra into pro- Fannie King, Miss Baccy, Miss Pascal], Misses Hardy, and after aervice we dined early and drove to the park, tire crying of newspapers about the streets on CAPITAL, I should like to paint for you some of the Baker has come. Do join us at Niagara. Love to all assertion of a civil or religious right or not, ficiency. There arc many to sclcct from, both Beale, Frishie, Maggie Wilson, Ella Iiendig, Mattie where we apent the evening. I shan't give you a de- Sunday morning. We have not read the docu- wild sccncs of this border-life and give a few words of Yours, always, Akna ' and this at their peril. If right our courts Clark, Ella Clarke, Lucie Wadsworth, VOSB, Sue Yonng, scription of the new btouties wo discovered, but show OUR BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. ment, but we have no question but that it is native and foreign, in tie larger cltics, who would advice to those about to emigrate; and this for the sake would sustain them; if wrong they would be the Misses Rradley, Misses Mary Steele, Moore, Emma them to you on our return. Sunday night we went over The opposition to the proposed general sys- worded in choice set phrase, and has, taking the fill the position of conductor with credit, and it of Auld Lang Syne, in dear old Washington. SARATOGA, July u Bates, Jnlia Colt, Marian Roach. to hear Beechcr, but Beecher was beached at Rye Beach condemned. But for an ignorant, vicious reverend gentleman's stand-point, cogent reasons should be made a place of such value as to com- In this "far coimtree" we have not your Rock-creek DEAR CAPITAL: I venture to say no watering-place tem of improvement and expenditure in our O!. such a fluttering of ribbons, floating of dresses, for a few days, and we were disappointed. We spent waa so quiet as this on the Fourth, for the little boys mob to dictate to our authorities upon a quar- and strong arguments. We arc not disposed to mand the best talent. drives, your Georgetown Ilelghts, Virginia hills, nor District seems to have died out as suddenly as it and streaming of curls as "the rose-bud garden of Monday morning at Goupil's, and then I took the chil- Arlington, the sunset view from Capitol Hill, the city were forbidden to firo off crackers and other explo- rel having no connection with our affairs is cavil at tham. The noise is a nuisance and wc wish The present leader is remarkable for nothing girls" tripped al freeco in the cool breezes of midnight; dren to ft large toy store one square below the hotel, came into existence. This is owing to severál glimpses from thence, all of which are as the poetry sive and dangerous weapons, and 01 how delighted we simply insolence, and if sustained, an utter it could be abated. Many a patient, confined to a but his stolid disregard of the progress that is the music swelled, the thnnder growled baek sullen where they spent all of their stray pennies, all of mine, causes. Among the more prominent are the of life; we haveuot your flowers of glorious magnitude all were 1 and how we all chuckled at outwitting the abandonment of our constitutional rights. weary bed, is annoyed by the noise. Many a poor going on around him, and forcibly reminds us of response, and the pitying lightning kept revealing the and had a bill for several more sent to papa. They lack of public sympathy with the opposition; and of rare perfume, magnolias, astrics, your pitcher little pests—I mean presidents in futuro; but our tri- laborer, who lias toiled all the week, finds his or 1 dancing nymphs aa If to ahow the rain-charged heavens enjoyed the hour very much. At three and a half that " woodenest ' of little wooden midshipmen plant., the rare exotics of your conservatories; but we umph was shortlived, for early on the morning of the the appointment of a board of advisory en- Small wonder that Protestant associations licr rest disturbed by these boys crying aloud their how fair a scene of innocent enjoyment they would mar o'clock we took the " Mary Powell " for West Point. in Dombcy and Son, who stood as the figure-head have the modest "wake robin." ' fifth wc were startled by all sorts of noises peculiar to gineers; and last, but not least, the proposi- are being formed and Know Nothing lodges were but the rain to fall, and tho very clouds hung It was most frightfully hot at the pier, hut as soon as wares upon the streets. If the learned and pious of Old Sol Gills' marine shop, utterly oblivious of Eight yeaft before the oventf nl 18611 was a resident, Independence day, and wonld you believe it, the whole admiringly over such beauty and youth and whispered wc started we met a delightful breeze. There were a tion to revalue all the property of the District revived. We never had any sympathy with gentleman will show us how the mischief may be the great tide of humanity rolling backwards and of Washington, and with others I deem it a matter of infantile village of Saratoga celebrated the fifth instead the storm-king to pass on. And this made the foresters party of English tourists on board, and they reminded so as to ascertain the precise amount the such organizations, nor have wc now, but abated, we will join him heart and hand in the forwards at his feet. no slight interest to have been associated with the of the fourth ? neatly turning the tables on us. " They merry, BO merry in that gay greenwood, that they bore me of ¡¡copie at the opera, many of whom pay more laugh longoBt who laugh last," and I am now convinced there arc certain skulls so thick that they can effort. The question is how may we circulate our MttionVCapital, as planned and bnildcd as our nation's Hoard is authorized to negotiate in the way of Let us have a change for the present. As the the meagreneas of Mr. Wormley'B provisions with uni- attention to their librettos than the Btago; so these that if any city fathers can get ahead of tho American valuable moral family journal on Sunday morning first great chief suggested. It is of interest to have a loan. be reached only by breaking, and of this sort is Marine Band has become a public institution of versal good hnmor. They knew that there must have paid strict attention to tilth- guide-books, and only boy they will have to get up earlier than three o'clock without the noise. been there in the days bordering upon the old re- the heads we now encounter. Washington, let it be one of which wc may be been aomc mistake or mieoalculation on the part of the occasionally glanced at the scenery. on tho fifth of July. Property-holders who seek to escape taxa- gime, when a Clay, a Webster, and a Randolph were no proud. caterer, since the Analo8tan Boat Club to a man is the tion are not, as a general thing, very popular. We take comfort in the fact that the press But here the reverend gentleman takes issue shadowy or mythological forms of the past, but vital, Yon know, darling, I am no " rhapsodist," and the The season here does'not properly commence until soul of generosity. And they were right, for lo 1 Worm- of- New York, and notably the Herald, sus- with us at once, nc does not want to circulate our breathing almost, from oft-repeated mention made of Palisades never appeared grand or terrible, or even stu- after the Fourth, so ever since that memorabie non- The people do not swell with much enthusi- A NEW order of architecture, called the con- ley speaks by the card—which seek for elsewhere in our them. There was the church Webster had attended, pendous, to me, because 7 am so stupid ; to my fearfully explosive day the trains have been thundering down asm when called upon to rally about the heavy tained us in our rights, wWi one unhappy ex- moral journal on Sunday, and he docs not object columns.' glomerate, has recently been introduced into and reminiscences of Clay and Randolph, grfttesquo yet matter-of-fact eyes they look like a stose wall on the npon us discharging their human freight iu our depots ception. This exception was of course to bet, to the noise so much as he docs to the news. If Mr. Huntington attracted a great deal of notico. When owner of real estate, the "bloated bond- Washington. Senator West is having a house before tho mind's eyo in his short stirrups, riding np edge of a bluff, and so I told mama. She waa ahocked, in a way that makes me think of the whale and Jonah. ' the noise were made in behalf of. what our excel- he last appeared in public, (on the 4th of July,) he had holder," or the happy possessor of immense expected. We cannot, however, congratulate built after It. The upper window-frames look Pennsylvania avenue. And thcro was indeed the last and said "Well, Nan, my dear daughter, have the good Up they come, as multitudinous as spawn—dnety lent friend calls religion, he would help increase meant " biz;" on the Analostan occasion he meant fun incomes. To have such bleed a little in a city ourselves, as many do, over the supposed vie like inverted dog-houses. The middle-story win- of the Washington family, in the person of a Cnstis, taate to keop tliia to yourself." I only mention it now travel-stained, cinder-burnt, peevish, and weary. Your for himself and others. And those dear, enchanting, tory of law and order. The darker elements the volume of sound. If these poor ragged child- dows are ornamented with cast-iron mermaids upon the opposite shore of the Potomac, as ready to tlis- entre nous. Papa and mama commenced talking very eye must be good if you can recognize the same army where for years and years they have exhibited Cheviot Bnits all slack, sauntering about the grounds. ren were selling tracts, showing in solemn phrase with their tails cut off, and a very forlorn expres- eonrseof the "daysof Washington" as to entertain learnedly with some friendsabout. silex, quartz, Giant's as tliey march lip to the various springs to drink Sarato- no public spirit, but on the contrary have lain of New York—the elements that now hold Didn't the girls think their wearers handsome ? oh 110, how the bad little boy who broke the Sabbath by the merry-makers, the thousands of yonng people, Causeway, Fingal's—that's the last word I heard, for I ga's famous waters. With their high-heeled "higli- the city through fraud—have not made their sion of countenance. A waggish friend of ours perhaps not. By-the-hy, an accident happened to one like so many nightmares upon healthy enter- fishing was first drowned and then struck by light who yearly visited his charming domain. It is a not being a scientif, left with Harper's Bazar, that heing lows," broad-brimmed "Shepherdess" hats, puffed says the Senator expects these mermaids to sing of the Cheviots. He wanted a glass of lager, and through prise, is rather pleasing*to the bulk of our grand rally to possess the place through vio- not-to-bc-forgotten incident to have rested beneath the more within- the range of my mental caliber. open overskirts, and walking-stick parasols, the ladies ing, the reverend gentleman would think it music, him to sleep of stormy nights in winter, and that the kindness of Captain Stackpole he was enabled to citizens. The discussion of the subject has lence. When that hour comes, as come it trees that the hand of a Cnstis planted, and in his Fort Washington (Wafhington Heights) looked just seem to belong to the reign of Queen Anne rather than as he regards the terrible clang of dreadful bells he intends supplying them with'the traditional get it by crawling through a little door into a little presence to have drank at the "Arlington spring," aa lovely with its peaceful Iawna and elegant villas as to the republican nineteenth century. We have here only served to convince the people that no- must, we fear a different result from that that clash upon the car all day long during the comb and glass. We don't believe they will do room, whore he found a little keg of beer, and he drank where had slaked their thirst a La Fayette, a Washing- it did to na last summer during onr cnchanting.visit. the unadulterated Grecian bend and Kangaroo droop. thing unreasonable had been asked. But on chronicled to-day. twelve hours given to public worship. Were we a little glaea, when the music struck np and he remem- anything of the kind. In wintry weather, when ton, and a host of celebrities gone to tho everlasting As we passed Irvington (isn't that where Mr. Tnrk's In fact, they are imperative to prevent the healing wa- bered it was his galop with the lovely Miaa , and the contrary it was discovered that the heavy to utter'one word against this last mentioned these .fishy damsels get in a weeping mood, there past, oven before tho weary soldier had quenched his visiting ?) our Engliah friends tried to catch a glimpse ters from sprinkling the snowy costumes, fresh as the tax-payers were somewhat unreasonable in noise wc would be regarded as heathens and infi- will be great need of napkins. We, throw out this dying thirst and laid down there forcveffto have floated he commenced to run. In his haBte he stumbled against of the cottage where lived for so many peaceful years pretty faces they adorn. refusing their conscnt to the proposed systom MINOR NOTES. dels. hint in the spirit of .1 tine Christian, otherwise upon the waters of the Potomac in early morning or the keg, tilting and nearly upsetting it. Ho immedi- the creator of Ichabod Crane, bnt it is not visible, being . But alas! alast Saratoga is very warm! How tho ately felt damp in the rogion of the waist buckle of his— WE have liad the medical world agitated of late The Rev. Mr. Sunderland is a good little man. the ice aoqunuhitions 00 their nasal organs may gorgeous sunset,, whether they boro lis to the BhorSs»f completely embowered in trees and shrubbery, and the young folks can dance night after night and not thaw of improvement. and Mary Walker's—well you know—but thinking the over cundurango. And when the medical world We like Mr. Sunderland. He is devoting his life suggest: very bad colds. Seriously, we want that Arlington, of the " old man eloquent," or farther down," entire lionso covered with ivy presented by Sir Wal- and reeolve themselves outright is a mystery to me, who The more inquiring called upon to protest where lived and loved and died George Washington—to itnuRges stopped there ho rushed into the dancing-hall, ter Scott to Irving, and by him planted with hia own perhaps am ovcrfond of mine ease in mine hot bake- gets agitated the old-fashioned notico in the al- to what he considers the service of religion. But architect indicted and brought, mermaids and all, Mount Vernon's shrine; and not of intercBt less to have seized "Miss around the waist and went whirling hands. As wo passed Haverstraw Mr. Van Fleet loaned oven inn. After whirling, twirling, gliding, sliding, the proposed expenditures by, consulting the manacs is good, "Expect great storms about this witli all his goodness he is apt to be more zealous into Olin's court . Justice is not jobbed in that, been at the Capital in later times, which stirred and round and about, bnt couldn't tell ft hat people were me his glass and pointed out what is known as "Treason hopping, and polking at one hotel, they hurry off to account books of the city, will find that for than wise, more positive than reasonable. We court.; but then there would be such a shedding time." tried men's souls—to have shared in her anxieties, to looking and laughing it. The galop ended he took a Hill," because on it the house still stands wherein another and another the very same night t6 weave their the year ending June 80, 1870, the sum ex- of tears. When will people learn that cheap orna- Not only has the medical world been stirred recognize the divine behest to regard Sunday as havo prayed for the redeemed present time. 'Tis a seat beside his enchantress and felt damp again ; jump- Andre and Arnold met to make their final arrangements mystic dances till daylight doth appear; then an hour's mentations arc necessarily nasty and in bad taste. pended for ordinary wear and tear amounts to over cundurango, but the Board of Health and a day of rest. But that which this good little man pleasant thought to look back to her as a hallowed spot; ing up discovered that the trail of tho serpent lager was for the surrender of Weat Point. By the time we reat or so, if the mosquitoes will consent, and off to the Art means art, and originality is not more desira- $1,032,383. This is the sum paid out merely the Medical Association have gone to war, and, regards as rest would be to. others rather hard where come and go the great of all nations; to feel the over him all where he couldn't see it, but he danced no reached the Highlands I was entirely "up " in all of the springs. But look you, hydropathy does not cure St. ble tha 11 delicacy and beauty. Keep your orna- more, and took the first boat back, in order that the to keep up and continue improvements already pestle and mortar! pills and lancet! but there be work. For example, to hear the reverend gentle- very atmosphere laden of great events yet to become points along the Hudson. Vitus' dance, it only causes a suspension of it during mentation for the inside, fellow-citizens, and let shades of night would favor his homeward flight. existing, two-thirds, or at least one-half, of rows ! There be wars and rumors of wars, and man deliver one of his excellent sermons would be histories; that the flag from either dome spreads out- The scenery in the Highlands is-beautiful and grand. the day; for when the moon beams and the gas flares, us have only Correct proportions and light and ward to the breeze, to be borno to all the nations of the the same couples go through the same Terpsichorean Bliss follows Cox in a war of words wonderful in labor to us. They may soothe his little congrega- THE UERMAN DT MOONLIGHT. , The sun was very low, aud the mountains' cast a deep which was thrown away in the repairs of shade 011 the outside. earth—" the. place of places one might desire to call rites to the deafening crash of brass bands. Parlotti's length and thundrous in sound. tion. Doubtless they do, but to listen and follow Our delicious builder of light rhymes, Mrs. Fanny shadow on tho river ; every now and then a stray ray of crude improvements, and all giving to the eye home." orchestra is the best, I think. It boasts thirteen pieces, . And, first of all, wljat is cundurango ? A pen- him would fetch the perspiration to us in profuse Downing, sends us the following. We fear that the sunlight would steal from between the gorges and light no return whatever. They will find that to this German by moonlight will become the rage, and that up the water, then disappear only to flash out again a is from Trimble's Opera House, Albany, and ia engaged sive public wants to know what is cundurango ? quantities. Recreation is rest to many, repose is ANOTHER instance of pious inconsistency is to to play at the Clarendon during the summer. And we might be added over a million and a half for enchanting dance have now another run : little higher up the stream. It was the firat time in my Well, wc are informed that it is an herb of magic rest to all. be found In the proposed prohibition of soda water SOCIAL GOSSIP. have had a concert from the Hutchinson Family, which actual improvements, making in all over one Oh I Lulu, what lots you are losing, life that I ever felt in the least poetic ; and if I conld powers that has cured Colfax's wife's mother of But our friend's inconsistency does not end and mineral drinks by apothecaries on Sunday. MRS. WHARTON. needs no description, since the oldest and the youngest Condemned to that stupid croquet have got fairly started, I'd have electrified the world half the sum proposed as a loan for a wise a cancer. It is gathered in the heart of the Andes, here. He .very complacently has his dally papers This is a move in behalf of lager beer and whisky Our community was fearfully startled last week by inhabitant in the world lias heard the HutchinBon And the country, instead of amusing with a real Tennyaonlan effusion. But the only words general, and as far as it could be completed, s and was discovered by an Indian woman who un- delivered to him on Monday morniug, while lie saloons. The soda is a temperance beverage, and an event that came home to one and all of our social I could rhyme with sun were "run" and "fun" and Family. world. We allude of course to the sudden death of old Yourself in onr elegant way I perfect system of improvement. dertook to poison her husband with the bark. refuses to open THE CAPITAL. And yet the work comes in aid of that great sanitary and moi* "bun," and with river "shiver" and "quiver;" and Not to fall short of our old-time sporting character, General Ketchum, tho aickncss of Colonol Van Ness, Now, by Goorgc ! whether it is an¡horb or a bark done on the daily was a violation of the Sabbath, move. It is also healthy. Time was when the Just fancy tho fun and flirtation ; knowing that I was not sufficiently célébré as a poetess wc have had onr races. You should juat have aeon the' Of the two millions and a half but a portion and the charge of murdor preferred against Mrs. Whar- we don't know. We rather incline to the belief for it was hard, hot work in a close room, while syrups were deleterious, but that time, happily, The dresses, thé drives, and the gloves, to perpetrate eccentricities in rhyme, I gave it up. Papa races! the people hurdlod there—I meau liuddled- went into the improvements at all, much the ton, widow of the late Major Wharton of the regular that it is a bark. Well, bark let it be. This In- Forir buttons, the latest sensation, pointed ont "Benny Havens, O," whereas a cadet he every day to jtunp over the hurdles—I mean over tlw larger part settling in the pockets of contract the work of THE CAPITAL closes with Saturday has passed, and we may now partake of these army. dian female grew tired of her husband because he Sublimed from an idea of Love's. used to have many a frolic—enjoyed all the more be- horses—that is, the horses jump over the hurdles and not night. preparations with impunity, for they are made of Tho people are not only known to the fashionable ors and dishonest officials. And yet no one, was dying of a cancer. Instead of going to Indi- cause forbidden. Its a long, low, two-storied bnildin; the people. We have in this an illustration of the power to the freshest of fruits in the most careful manner. circles of the National Capital, but were noted person- Not the gloves, dear ; hnt darling, delicloua, noting the little we have, regrets either the with a garden around it, just on the shore ; it waa all A race ia so exciting that I am getting mixed, but the ana or Chicago and securing a divorce, like a be found in organization. Two-thirds of oiir peo- ages. Only a few days since the corpulent General Bewitching, enchanting, and new- We mention tills with emphasis, for a contrary lighted np, no doubt for a aupper. I'd give anything to ladies were lovely—and so were the dresses—betting in expenditure or the consequent taxation. We Christian female, she repaired to the woods to get Ketchum, finder his brown wig, grizzly whiskers, and Aunt Pruc says it's horrid and vicious—' ple arc opposed to the puritanical observance of statement just eighteen years old has been revived go there 1 Don't you remember well in the early days little books, and uttering little shrieks of. delight and have a few streets indifferently paved, a few the berry of cundurango to make a decoction that genial face might have been aeon at any hour either' The German by moonlight, Lulu! Sunday that, originating in the blind, bigoted days and is going thè rounds of the press. IIow these of the war, when Hazlett and Audenried and Griffin and exclamations of "They're off; "There they go;" "Now is a deadly poison, with which tho simple natives walking or driving npon our avenue. sidewalks graded; and, aided by a powerful of Salem witchcraft, forbidding, for example, a solemn old stories arc resurrected and start afresh I'll tell yon the way we arrange it, Gordon nsed to come to see aister Sallie, how they'd sing they're neck-and-neck;" " Now Blue's ahead;" "Now kill dogs, unfaithful Avives, and helpless husbands. As for the lady charged with this horrible, crime, aho glass and a brilliant imagination, we can swear man by law to kiss his wife on Sunday; made of on their travels wonld be amusing were they not This sweetest societal prank— " Benny Havens, O," for us children, and' how crazy the Pink's ahead;" "Now they're both ahead!" [P. S.- Cundurango is to the heart of the Andes what is well known to the best classes of both Washington society girls were about that song and bell buttons that progress has been made. Washington that holy day one of terror and abuse. Good so aggravating. Of this sort was an assertion that I vow that I wouldn't exchange it— (It's old-fashioned to put the P. 8. at the end of a letter— our equity court is to us. Now It happened that iuul Baltimore, and was the last person in the world to With Jim—for pa's balance in bank ! As tho boat nearcd Cozzens, papa concluded we would has moved forward, and no man wishes us to sense and a better knowledge of the Scripture appeared in our own paper some weeks since, ta P. S., which means please, si r.) I hope Dan Bryant don't this useful tree was not in berry, so the thought- be suspected of crime, lire. Wharton must be fifty-five get off and drive over here the next morning. The hotel read THE CAPITAL, or he might recognize his joke.] fall back or retreat. have changed all this, but the enlightened are not the effect that a glass of soda cost one and a half We turn out the gas as a matter ful wife took some of the bark, and making a tea or sixty years of age. Of medium height and slender was lighted up and the piazzas fllled with elegantly To the credit of the sex, I heard say not .one of them organized, while the ignorant supporters of tra- ccnt. Certainly, but when wo add to the sodatile figure, she appeared comely for her age, and is probably Of conrse ; then throw open the blinds, But, perhaps, the most subtle and deeidedly of this, flavored it with spices, and taking it to dressed ladies and children. In its situation on the scratched, or hedged, or went. -lame. * ditionary bigotry are well banded together, and so syrup, the ice, the marble fountain, store rent and younger in appearance than in fact. She is somewhat And let in the moonlight ; the latter quieting move was that calling for a revaluation Mr. Lo, told him to hurry up and drink so that ' S a simple suspicion of shines. edge of .that tremendous cliff, it always reminds me of (A gentleman to whom I read this letter before send- carry the day—the Sabbatli day,Wc mean. clcrk hire, the margin left the apothecary does 'eccentric, made so probably by her late huaband, who of all the property in the District. Hero, as he could go to his happy hunting grounds and take that little picture you havo of the Castle of Ehrcnbret ing it to you insists that I am using " horsey " terms not, make him a millionaire every season. was exceedingly qneer. We knew him well while sta- The light's just sufficient ! The corners zcn. Everything looked very gay and very invltin all his dogs with him. The poor Indian, but a However, if any of our pious readers wish to about ladies, and that as they all sat in carriages there everywhere else, large amounts of property tioned at Baltimore during the late war. He was mus- Are charming for those who have past hut the only rooms they had were so small, and looked good, obedient husband, meekly obeyed, and obtain THE CAPITAL in a quiet way, all they have As an earnest advocate of temperance, as a Sup- was no apparent reason why any ot them should go have escaped taxation through the shrewd tering officer at that poat. Many amusing stories were The outposts of flirting. Belle Warners ao thoroughly uncomfortable, that we got two carriages to do is to leave us their address, and this admira- porter of sanitary measures, we urge on and sus- lame.) swallowed the advice and the decoction together. told of hia odd ways. He had his office extremely neat, Is going it rather too faat ! and started for the Point. The road waa excellent, and management of its owners. To have this tain the dealer In iced soda. We will stop here, We liave a £;rea t many grandees at the Grand Union. But, strange to say, instead of taking himself off ble, higli-toncd, moral journal will be left at their the floor heing polished every day, and those infernal ou cither side there are immense trees, and as well as I uncovered was decidedly unpleasant, and the and, wending our way, hugging the sunny side of You know very well, I am no girl There's S. Rothschild, A. D. Barbour, George Law, and as advised, the decoction went right to the spot doors " soft as snow on carded wool," instead of abominations called spittoons carefully washed ont and could see huge boulders of granite. Nellie, do you more noisy are now sorry tliey commenced To goaaip, or hint at a fall, L. A. Poppcnhauscn. Poppenhausen couldn't have and killed the cancer instead of the Indian. The the noisy way, from under unearded wool, so the street, to Thompson's or Milburn's, drink six- put in place. One day while swearing in a private, the know what I could not holp thinking as I sat curled up But Belle wears a necklace of snow pearl ; popped into a better hausen than the Grand Union—he this unwise agitation. thoughtful wife resumed her sale of beaded moc common now. teen glasses to the health of the real temperance •Wan, iu the midst of the oath, expectorated a quantity in a corner of tho open carriage ? Let me tell yon ! His wife weara no necklace at all 1 has Law and a barber handy. To this we add the selection of an advisory casins at the fashionable summer resorts in the men. of tobacco over the floor. The Major stopped suddenly, "How splendid it would be if a party of desperadoes and looked at the fellow with great severity. At the Congress we have lots of distinguished people. board of engineers, made up of the most pop- heart of the Andes where our diplomatic repre IN this difficulty between Boutwell and Pleas- Well, what with the perfumes and music, would jump out from behind the trees, seize the horses, There's a dark-eyed Don Senior Rivas from swarthy "How dare you spit on my floor while'I am adminis- sentative, having nothing to do, passed his time onton we are very much in the situation of the WE HAVE received an indignant protest from The dinners, the dancing, the fun, upset the driver, demand papa's purse or life with fero- Cuba—at least he is swarthy—and D. O. Busaeli, general ular and able men of their profession. Nor tering tho solemnity of an oath, eh?" in little games of scven-up or old sledge with the some of the most respectable colored citizens of Night merges in morning too, too quick— cious threats ; then,, just as we were getting ready to superintendent of the Boaton and Albany railroad. is there any discount on their honesty. The old wife during the few minutes that her larger " I beg pardon, Captain, I forgot." the District against the late action of the Secre- I wish I could amocher the sun ! " ahell out," (slang,) on the scene would rush a party of He's the first real live bustle we ever saw. He is very people are satisfied that our new Government natives, heard of the wonderful cure of cancer, half and the bear triod conclusions. The old lady " Well, don't try it again or I'll kick you out. You tary of the Interior, appointing one Henry John- cadets on their way to Benny Haven's, who re8cne ui pleasant, and the ladies are pulling caps to get that liins- and immediately procured and sent home to is said to have remarked privately to a neigh solemnly swear—damn it—hold up yonr right hand," • Décolleté's the height of the season.- is not only acting boldly, but honestly and in and put the ruffians to flight." But I waS not gratified. tle ; and one who burrows into Shakspearc cried ont the Schuyler Colfax, through the State Department, bor that she " didn't carc a d—11 which whipped. son trustee of the colored schools. It is claimed &c. Or rather the depth, I should say ; good faith. A few years more and our once The moon floated up and made everything as bright as other day, ae she waa starting for a ride, "Bustle, bns- a ship load to cure his wife's mother. Setting aside the profanity of the remark we must that the Hon. Secretary failed to consult tho On another occasion While administering the oath to And really it's right, and its reason day. We paaaéd through Buttermilk Falls. The name tle, capariaon my horse 1" He jumped up from the neglected and much-abused city will present say that We are in the same state of utter indiffer- wishes of those most interested in the schools, • a company in the street before his office, a wagon, To make a clean breaBt when one may. I think misapplied, for I saw no falls, though the driver verandah and lifted her into the saddle. claims for admiration and perhaps win from Colfax's wife's mother is cured. Tills is a fixed ence. •» and that the whole affair as it stands originates in drawn by four mnlea, came rattling along. The Major We know, Lu, that words can't discover said they were highernp. The place looked very dirty. Saratoga is not without its historic memories, not the nation the love and loving care given by fact, for Schuyler himself testifies thereto. And a wish, to give certain favorites other than the 'in the midat of the ceremony roared to his orderly, The magic that lies in low neck. The President seems to be in the same condi I asked the driver if they sold buttermilk in the village, only in the late-strewn graves and withering flowerso f lowest bidders the benefit of contracts made in " Stop that wngon. Don't that damned fool see that I Jim says—hnt then Jim is my lover— other nations to their capitals. so Doctors Bliss and Cox have sent out another tion. At least he seeks to ignore the quarrel al (though I saw neither cow nor goat.) ne looked at me Decoration Day, but, going back to the past, we can ship manned by diplomates for another load of building and repairing school-houses. Some se- jam engaged in administering an oath ? Now men, hold I don't mind what he saya, a apeck. in the most idiotic way, and said " Pop !" What in the together. Like the honest German who, speak up your hands again. I'll begin once more." stand npon the memorable surrender-ground of Bnr- cundurango, and the two arc going «itO the busi- rious charges are made and we propose publish- world, darling, do yon suppose ho meant? "Pop!" ing of indigestion, said philosophically that he Of course all sorts of wild rumors are in circulation I did not dream how much I loved him, goyne and the home of onr Schuyler. A few miles THE NEW YORK RIOTS. ness as cancer doctors, greatly to the disgust of ing the protest with additional comments next Just as papa was about asking me if ho meant ginger ate "some bologna, some saur-kraut, a little concerning the event., and the poor woman is charged Till we Germaned by moonlight, it's true ; belov^ns lie the plain of "Stillwater and ita heights. week. pop, a dram was heard, and papa, like a war-horse We do not envy the man, native born, who all the old cancer doctors over the country who. Switzer,- and some goot deal lager, and den lie with more murdera than arc necessary to make a Borgia. Propiniquity's certainly proved him North of it a rise the old forta Miller and Edward, and A partner il y eu. a un. peu ! scenting the battle from afar, bounced np and littered tho renowned Horicon, otherwise Lake George, the can read the history of the late Irish riots in cured cancers by " a laying on of hands " instead goes to sleep an' lets 'cm fight it out mlt dem A friend, a lady well acquainted with the family, writes a little scream which evolved itself into the word lake of pure waters—Le lac Sacrement of tho French. of cundurango, and much to the wrath of the selves," Grant proposes to let "'em fight it out us from Baltimore a letter not intended for publica- Jim's form is as fine as Apollo ; New York without a feeling of intense indig- LOCAL MENTION. "Tattoo." Not being prepared for such an exciting The waters of this lake wore once sent to Canada for regular people who have no cundurango and swear mit demselves." He has been appealed to two tion, but from which wo venture to take a few extracts. Such whiskers 1 such teeth I and such hair 1 démonstration from papa, and coming as it did right on nation. The iniolence of creatures spawned 6H00-FET. sacred uses ; the lake which all travelers declare unsur- that they don't waut any. Cox has been refused They read as follows: And the set of hia bosom and collar that cabalistic word " Pop," I collapsed and did not upon our shores from the pauper-house of or three times without any result. First the Sec What an innovator is this thing called improvement I passed in beauty. Near the Horicon are tracés of the admission to the Medical Association and Bliss " We were just setting down to tea when Mr. Is really divine, I declare Ï move or speak until mama said, " Nan, there are the retary of the Treasury states liis ease, and then But a short time since and the Blde-walk on the eouth 1 French war and of tlie Revolution. What bloody trag- England is something intolerable. We dare has been turned out. And now tho Medical Asso- said, another sudden doath at Mrs. Wharton's.' tents." They had lights in thein, and I could see the the Commissioner of Internal Revenue states his side of Pennsylvania avenue, between Fourteenth and 1 edies, fierce struggles for posaession, and the terrible not own ourselves, our nationality is some "Weal], of conrse,asked the name, thinking it one of Ile has the most eloquent fingers shadow y forms of the darling fellows in their gray, ciation has turned the matter into song, and all ease, and the Inscrutable, hearing both, makes no Fifteenth streets, divided the honors about equally with fate of Jane McCrca, come to the memory. With n the family. Yon may judge of our surprise when Mr. Attached to a grizzly-bear arm ; ii-buttoned, bob-tailed coats and immaculate white» thing to be ashamed of, and open at all hours the meetings are opened and closed by a solemn response. pedestrians With the-opposite aide—the modest and Bliuddcr we turn more northward still towards onr Lu- 4 said that it was old General Ketchum. And if that promiscuously lingers, panta, flitting here and there or standing in groups to to insult. We must ask these Irish permis- chant like unto the following: intelligent female officials faced homeward, preferring r zerne—river, cataracts, mountain, and a lake. The General Pleasonton shields himself behind the " i Whj ,What is the matter with that house?' asked I'm sure I can't see Where's the harm. have a few last words before "Taps." Oh, it is de- sion to exercise our rights as citizens of a the southern Bide rather than endnre the gazes that Adirondacks—our Switzerland—with pretty lakes like "Now Cox and Bliss, we let you know laws, passed when Rawlins was Commissioner, to Mrs. K. ' Tttfere must be Bome fatal malaria about it to For Lulu, I don't mind confessing, licious to think of the delights of the place 1 We are wonld bo fastened on them by the loiterers around Wil- kill people in such a strange way.' gems sleeping therein, surrounded by green hillsides country that first gives them recognition as That cure the people as you may, restrain the inebriated Andrew and his Secretary To Alice, and you, and Kate Devon, right comfortably fixed at Roe's. The rooms are shock- lard'a hotel. But since onr late city fathers created " ' Yoti forget,' said Mr. ——, '-that only one death of pine and fir, whore come the native deer to slake men. No procession shall march through That cundurango is no go, McCulloch, that, as yet, remain unrepealed. I feel, when wo waltz and Jim's pressing, ingly small and illy furnished, but we only sleep in the jumping-off place at the south-east comer of Fif- happened in the house she now occupies, BO that the their thirst; where the huntsman yet pnrenea, nor our streets save by their permission. After a Out in the cold then you must stay- These enactments made the Commissioner as in- I feel, well, I fool I'm in heaven ! them. Last night we had a delicious serenade. Oh ! it teenth street and Pennsylvania avenne, this promenade malaria must follow her.' He eaid this in a very pecu- poachcr laws, nor lords encroach; to which, with a Singing—Cundurango, cundurango, dependent of the Administration as a swine on was heavenly, but some odious girls at the other end of time we shall be on our knees petitioning is almost deserted save by those whose business calls liar way. It made us look up, and there was a long There surely is right in what raises Switzer's cap, a hunting horn, the Scotchman's plaid, Condurango as you may.11 the hotel took it to themselves. these ignorant and vicious creatures for leave congealed water. The case selected is unfortu them there. And this block, which the last generation panse. We had not then heard, of conrse, the Blightcst Two humans to heaven, with a vim ; and when mood or mind incline, we are transplanted, Symphony qf powdered mortars and rattled bones. Papa finds many changes. We attended Professor to breathe. nate for the Secretary as well as the President. occupied for private residences, seems now to be Ailing intimation of anything wrong. Mr. 'B long prac- Aunt Prudence may blow till she blazes, by an hour's ride, from Saratoga, fashion, aud restraint (Resumed—) French's funeral. Every one seems to feel hia death No one seemed to think of an appeal from the lip with fifteenth amendment tenants. In the vicinity of tice at the bar, however, gave him opportunities to I go for the German and Jim ! to the wilds and to freedom. And yet thesi ignorant ruffians are not very much, and great sympathy is expressed for the "You're naught but canccr doctors now, Commissioner to the Secretary in the thousand the T Company a number of colored hoys, a day or two [judge, we could not havo of course. Mrs. — , one The nearer surroundings of Saratoga are ever increas- ago, sat on a large table in front of a second-hand fur- ANNA AT WEST POINT. family. There are still many of his old friendB here, so much to blame as the demagogues whose Our medicated backs we tnrn, and one cases of poor people who were seized for of Mrs. Wharton's oldest friends, caught at and took it ing in beauty of dinglewood, and fell, and lake, aud nitnre store examining a lot of well-used jelly moulds, Our little girl, late of Long Branch, but at West Point but these are exceeded in far greater numbers by those bubbling spring, and pleasant lowland. The ever novel teachings encouraged their insolence, and There's no nse kicking up a row. shortcomings. But the moment Vanderbilt is jup immediately. But Mr. would not utter another and looking to Saratoga, has the honor of creating a who are not. Mama haa been nearly all the time with the nse of which appeared to puzzle them exceedingly. ¡word on the subject. High Rock, that wonder of springs, is almost surpassed brought this outbreak upon us as a le- We thus old cundurango spurn, touched the President telegraphs to arrest further sensation. The piqnant, personal, mischievous letters her old frienda. I think, Nellie, after women pass their What's dat, Joe ? asked one of the hoys of another "The next thing we heard was the charge of murder by the newly developed geyser, the Spouting Spring- gitimate result of their infamous designs. Singing, &c." proceedings, and Boutwell orders au appeal. are read by thonaands, and 110 end of missives pour in fiftieth year, they never have anticipations, bnt all re- whose dictum appeared to have great inflnence. Why, and the arrest. Mrs. , who was exceedingly grieved constantly shooting up like the most fantastic spray-like Through the Irish Tweed, Sweeny & Co. own There are sixteen more versos of this pleasing on us wanting to know—you know—the real name of trospections; and when, with each other, they "go over The whole affair is an absurd muddle. Laws doesn't you know, Jackson ? Why, dat's a—a—a, why, ;and excited, drove to see Mrs. Wharton. She had some fountain, from tlie depths of 127 feet. madrigal, but we reserve them for future use. our modern Mademoiselle Sevifigé. All we can say ia, New York. Tammany is founded on Irish passed for a certain purpose are considered inop- dat's a shoefly. A what! rejoined Jackson, closely ;again life'a journey," it seems to me that they always Saratoga within ten years has equaled a Western town difficulty in getting in, but when she did Mrs. Wharton that ahe is a hoantifnl girl of sweet sixteen, not well erative and, although unrepealed, treated as dead examining it. Why, I sec a fly dar on dc top, hnt whar's linger longer, more lovingly, and more tenderly, over in the rapidity of her improvements. The"«»« Sara- skulls, and as an important part of the Demo- received her with great composure. Her daughter was known to Washington, for she is justout of school, but THE dreadful Intelligence reached us that a the shoe, Joe? Why, doesn't you see? asked Joe, the landmarks rai8ed by death and sorrow than those toga," Saratoga the gay, was never so beautiful as now ; cratic organization the vicious ignorance of a letters, and the confession forced from us that nearly dead with fright and grief. Will yon believe it, will be for ahe is as beautiful as a painted wag—we man prone to evil—instigated by the devil—with gilding round to Jackson's back, and when about two by pleasure and joy. I listened to mama talking over though the old "United States " has not been rebuilt, they were gotten up for ccrtain partisan purposes Mrs. W. spoke only of the annoyance the delay would beg pardon—and witty as Mark Twain. But here is her foreign land has to be encouraged., Oakey feet from him launching, with his leather covered right "Auld Lang Syne," and the above is the " deduction." still. Saratoga seeiua perfect. TI10 " Union grounds," a heart lost to Iranian good, was tjuey at work not so pleasant to recognize now. cause her, aa Bhe waa all packed up preparatory to a trip Hall, the Democratic mayor of. New York, understanding, a severe kick on Jackson, exclaiming at latest: Men ore so different—they don't hug sorrows—once disfiguring the walls of our beloved Capitol. to Europe. Mrs. believes this to be unmistakable " Congress," the park, tho deer, aro over new; and the Until the Bureau of Internal Revenue is erected tho Bame time, dar, you darn nigger, dar's the shoo, and stung they let go. To-day several of tho old officers actually issued an order forbidding the Orange Seizing our hat and umbrella we hastened to the evidence of innocence. It looks to me like insanity. . WEST POINT. higher grounds the more. attractive, as they overlook into an independent department, certainly the don't hodder mo no more. MY DEAR NELLIE : You can't imagine how charmed and papa were talking—and I never heard eucli peals of these artiatic edifices. The green retreats and pleasant procession. In this the New York World, noble structure, and sure enough we found this Her poor, dear girl, wringing her helpless hands and Commissioner is, or ought to be, under the con- we were by the announcement in your last that your laughter in my life—regular "guffaws"—all over their paths are filled with creeping arbutus aud pretty vio- one of the ablest, if not the most decent, of fiend In human shape hard at work. He was in YAAS SAH I moaning as if her heart wonld break, was enough to trol of the Secretary of the Treasury. General father and self proposed joining us at Boston; the cadet frolics, &c.; no mention of tho rough stones, lets. Hark to tlie birds—the robin rogue, the " messen- Time—Fourth of Jnly; Scene—A barber shop. 'move the mother, oven if she were innocont. And Democratic journals, came to the support of the room devoted to the Committee on Military Pleasonton is tremendous on discipline and drill. news seems too good to be true. And now I am grieving which grazed them on their journey—only jolly old ger of spring" with "eye to cherries;" the oriole The prelude on the strop had.notbeen completed and Heaven knows I hope that she is. Bnt there are so the mayor, and, while crowding its columns Affairs of the Senate, and underhis infernal brush His bureau Is run like a camp, and lie would not that you will not he with ns in our trip down the St. times are remembered. ewinging on the pendent branch; and the bobolink, we were at liberty to observe the darkening of the door many stories afloat one does not know what to believe. all the horrors of war came out. Crippled crea- Lawrence; for I am confident it woulcMidd so much to I've met lots of nice fellows, and we all enjoy every- bless him I whoso note no mocking-bird could echo. with protests against and cries of anguish tolerate for an instant the insubordination he ex- by an individual black as night, painfully angular, and It is Baid that General K. came over to collect a note, tures in likeness of men were struggling in the our enjoyment of the beautiful scenes through which And if we have not the horizon's tint iu east aud west, over ltepublican violations of constitutional hibits towards his chief, the icy Boutwell. of immense longitudinal proportions, (which might and now the note cannot be found, nor the money thing. Last night I had a score of buttons on my chain, painfulest manner upon the devoted sSles and we will pass. Maybe you can induce the Admiral to onr northern aurora speaks her fame in flame. law, sanctioned the usurpations of a mob that have been materially Increased but for the amount of either. And then the tartar emetic was used because my bracelets, and slung over the top of my comb, fall- However, we have no interest in the row what- forego the pleasant trip from Baltimore and come right A few hours' ride to the south of us we approach the ceilings of this once beautiful room. Under each material absorbed in the construction of pedals,) with she could purchase that without suspicion, while other ing through my curls. Papa made me take 'em all off, denied to American citizens the free expres- ever. If Boutwell retires it is Well. If Plepson- to Niagara, where we will be on Friday. Try, will you ? more interesting portion of the Hudson and its clcar illustration was the name of some famous battlo out any latitude worth mentioning save that allowed poisons could be had only on prescription. aud told me peoplo^atrangérs—would take me for thè ton resigns it is well. If both remain it is well. We are having.a most eharming time here and—but I sion of political or religious opinions. But in the Revolution, and,