VOLUME I. WASHINGTON CITY, D* C., DECEMBER 17,1871. Written for THE CAPITAL. Ginx's nature on the morning in question— keep them all alive. This fact Ginx often man in New York, sir, an' the mother a doin' For THE CAMTAL. cuting its details. While the counsel for the circuit with another;) at present its period is DRIFTING. wc are not prepared to depose on this point; impressed upon his wife's mind, as though to so well an' so comfortable, too," one of them THE AFTERWARDS. United States is in this hobble, the old rumor is rather less than 1,210 days. It 1s the generally On the ever moving tide of the river, but it is within our knowledge that he was perform with zeal and thoroughness his duty, exclaimed in tones unmistakably compli- BY TANNT DOWNING. revived with new strength, to the effect that the received opinion (though Sir J. Herschel sug- My shell boat drifts, with ceaseless quiver; Mixed Claims Commission have enough bills filed gested another explanation) that this constant not in the gentlest of moods. The black and then if Mrs. Ginx should be so obstinate tary. And I, After the woes and the worry against the Government to offset all brought by hastening—which implies a constant tendency in packing-cases came in for a large share of his Vexing this life, Lie in my skiff, content to lie, as to add the fatal straw why—why, sir, the "'O's the mother?" was Ginx's laconic re- our citizens twice over. If only one-third of the comet's path to draw nearer towards the sun, After its hardships and hurry, And drifting watch the changeful Bky, spite, and he tumbled and belabored them consequences be upon her own head. joinder. After its strife, these adverse claims are allowed, it is stated, we is due to the resistance of some very rare medium, Drifting clouds and drifting boat, most unmercifully, to their imminent peril, And Mrs. Ginx. That unfortunate matron " 'O, indeed!" exclaimed the woman. Unto earth's storms and its sorrows shall be brought in debt to Great Britain. This through Vhieh the solid planets pass without ap- Ever moving, ever afloat, as he assisted his heir apparent in the process saw the Impending woe and daily grew paler, "'O,. indeed!" echoed the five females in Cometh a calm, is more than was bargained for, and not at all en- preciable check. If so (and It Is difficult to resist How like we seem, as lying here, of putting them ashore. The younger Ginxes Over its heartaches and horrors couraging to the people In general, who expected the conclusion) the comet Is doomed to destruc- Either or thither, how little I care, sadder. She cried a great deal when Ginx chorus. were not forgotten, each coming in for his or . Broodeth a balm. to find profit as Well as secure amity out of the tion. The nearer its path draws to the sun the Whither I drift, was absent, and as the days .lengthened to "'0 should the mother of so likely a brace arrangement. But If the Administration is to greater the resistance which the comet will expe- Or the clouds—what rift her proportion of kicks and cuffs, while weeks, the weeks grew to months—one, two, o' triplets be?" added the first female, regard- Death with his merciful fingers bungle the main matter of the Alabama claims, rience—as well because the interplanetary atmos- May come in their tissue, fleecy white; Mrs. Ginx was a target at which he kept up three, she became so worn and wan with the ing Ginx's bewilderment in the light of a bit Sealing the eyes, Foil have my sculls, and they unite, an irregular fire of oaths, and fault-finding, Shutteth out anguish that linger?, and also figure out an indebtedness on the other phere must be denser near the sun than else- weight upon her heart that she experienced in of pleasantry in which he was pleased to in- where, as because the comet's motion must grow And mingle again in their pure delight: and abuse. Although a great ocean lay be- Ope'neth the skies. counts, the distrust with which its negotiations So as the sun goes down to the west, reality the, illness which she had so long dulge—pleasantry being usually regarded as All that is sensual and lowly, have been received will speedily increase to continually more rapid. This last circumstance, tween him and that troublous little offshoot of Quailing the stream ere he sinks to rest, feigned in order to keep the dread secret from in order on such occasions. Purgeth away, alarming proportions. indeed, will seem to many a strange result of the the parent tree, the memory of his baby ] lie in my skiff, content to lie her husband until the very last. Ginx's mind was now fairly made up in Makcth humanity holy. resistance experienced by the comet, but it is And watch the glorious western sky. seemed yet to rankle in the father's bosom; Sacred its clay. none the less eertaiu that such a result must fol- It came at last—the ending of this suspense reference to the condition of things in Little A CORRESPONDENT of the Pall Mall Budget and when the last box had been safely landed, low. The time will at length come, then, when Au azure sky, and an emerald sea, which "dragged down her life." One even- Fleecem street. The female portion of the Bear we the battle stout-hearted, thus speaks of the great gambling island, A flecking of white that deepens the blue, after each infantile Ginx had been kicked or this comet at each return to the sun will graze his ing Ginx returned from his work to find an community at least had gone stark mad. He Wrestling for right; A flash of foam from a porpoise or two, cuffed into a state of rage or sullenness by its Knowing when day is departed, Monaco: mighty orb, giving up gradually more and more unusual commotion in that particular quarter pinched himself to see if he were really Ginx, In Monaco play is the sole business of the place. Leaping and rolling in frolicsome glee, iffectionate author, and the mother had been Cometh the night; of its substance, until finally it is completely ab- Ji sail to southwest, of Little Fleecem street wherein he domiciled. thinking we suspect, that even he had not A pictucsque but arid rock affords but few re- chaffed and bullied to a condition of mind Knowing our Father hath mansions, sorbed by him, and so vanishes for ever from the And over the crest Female heads of families passed up the stair- escaped the evil* influences of the mysterious Many and large; sources for out-door amusements. With the planetary system.—London. Spectator. which sought relief in sobs and tears, Ginx Of the hills out yonder, the edge of a cloud case leading to his six-pair-back, and meeting presence. 'Appearing to be satisfied on this Trusting our spirits* expansions exception of one or two exclusive coteries, there Rolls up, flows down, like the fold of a shroud. seated himself on a trunk, filled and lighted a others, coming .down exchanged whispers, point he made ope more effort to obtain light. Unto Hie charge. is scarcely any general society; each person chari- short black pipe, and thus addressed the com- tably, and usually with perfect truth, setting The bun, as he goes, reaches out his broad arms, those descending looking very wise and mys- panion of his joys and sorrows: "W'ere's Betsy?" he inquired sternly of down his neighbor as a blackleg, and avoiding He grasps the fair clouds, he rifles their charms, terious. As Ginx walked along the narrow SPIRIT OF THE EUROPEAN AND He fills them, "©etsy, we be naow in America." Miss Ginx. him accordingly. There is no shooting worth street, as he had done a hundred times or AMERICAN PRESS. lie thrills them, "Yes," replied that lady with a fresh out- That young lady pointed to the miserable speaking of, for even a Frenchman soon gets tired Away he has sped, more without creating any sensation or at- of missing nothing but larks. The scenery, is burst of tears, as though her husband's observ- apology for a bed and began to cry; for had TJIE Washington correspondent of the Bos- But his kiss leaves its trace, tracting the slightest notice,'heads were thrust certainly lovely, but constant walking and driv- ation had reference to some subject either of she not.heard her parent's oft-repeated threat? toil Post gives this story as being narrated by For each virgin face out of windows, and little knots of femmes even along the beautiful Cornice road, is a Is glorified still, by a blush burning red :— past or prospective sorrow. Doubtless she now thought the drgad climax General B. F. Butler: gathered on the corners and in the door-ways pleasure apt to be followed by satiety when totally lie touches the edge of the pall in the west, " All on us except the baby." was at hand. ll Butler says Senator Wilson was very active to gazing at him curiously. Such remarks as unrelieved by other recreations. After a stay of A passion of rages flames up in his breast, " Y-e-e-e-s;" sobbed the mother dolefully, Ginx strode past the females who confronted secure the appointment of his friend Sumner to He burns, he consumes in its fiery spell, "That's him;" "He don't look like he'd do few days the doom of the unwary tourist is "allbut the ba-a-a-aby," and she broke down him with the three piping infants, forced a the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Com- almost inevitable.