VOLUME I. WASHINGTON MARCH rMBER For The Capital. For.The Capital. of your father, .Tim MacNair, eighteen years calmly looking out, expressed also a more and asked him what lie thought of her as an stances, but to go whithersoever the stars de- For The-Capital The Louisiana state capitol, at Baton Rouge, THE LADV OF THE TREASURY. ago this May. Bear! dear!" > emotional and more sympathetic bias. A pure REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD ACTOR. actress. THE STRIKER. is a queer, turretcd, tall edifice, resembling an Far up within that dungeon strong creed? So I said to my friend, "Give me a The Honorable Perkiomen Trappe, catching and strong woman, whose life had ripened "Where Crresus doth his hoard inclose, "Notmuch,"liereplied; "youngand pretty; letter to Mr. Jackson, and I will ride over to Slouched, and snrly, and sallow-faced, arsenel. a part of this remark; observed that .Tabel amongst the families and circles' of the best She counts the hank-notes all day long, BY DONN PIATT. got a ratherish sweet voice; no idea of acting the Hermitage and see what I can see." With a look as if something were sore misplaced. North Carolina lias a fair state capitol in a The young man Striker was seep to stride And keeps the tolly as she goes; Blake, judging by his appearance, shouldn't in condition and influence, she had never though. Compare her to Mrs. Duff! By Jove! The general ordered a horse and wrote me pretty town. Her hand upon a sponge she wets, tip the Capitol stairs at high noontide, • have buried MacNair's father, but devoured crossed to the meaner side of necessity nor to see Duff come on the stage as Isabelle in the letter desired, and in a short half hour I The state capitol of Alabama, atr Montgom- To turn the precious paper freer, My early life was made pleasant by avretired And as though at tho head of a viewless mob— him. Jabel's unfeeling remark gave MacNair appreciated the fact, scarcely palpable, even And all the statesmen's grim vignettes the Fatal Marriage!' She'd just sweep in and was on the way to the Cumberland ferry. Who could look in his eye and mistrust it ?— ery, is a classical structure, with a dome, well to her father, that he wras poor. An entire actor. He was an old fellow who had fallen Grow amorous as they seem to see her. no apparent pain ; but he said: occupy all the stage. Her voice was thunder It was a beautiful morning, and the splendid lie quoth: "They must let me into that joh. adapted to its purposes and pleasing to the eye life spent in the public service had allowed heir to a small income, and, having pure Eng- Or Til bust it!" ] No nymph nor maid that Barley drew "Jabel, don't speak to Elk about father. set to music, and lier eyes chain lightning. gray hunter I rode was young like myself, and at a distance. This town became the capitol neither time nor suggestion for improving his lish blood in his veins, retired on it and the lias form more flowing, nobler mien, He is not as patient as he should lie, and per- Then for pathos; hear her in Mrs. Haller! we had followed the hounds too often together What it was that troubled him so site as early as 1817. private fortune; and as his salary continued best of ale. He found in me a splendid list- How shall we innocent visitors know ' Eyes of a softer, rarer lute, haps in Washington they disguise some of the When she said she too 'had a Henry,' the pit to make a long journey out of a ten miles ride, The state capitol of Ohio, at Columbus, is Or face so conscions yet serene; over the war-era at the same modest standard, ener. I looked up to him as the most wonder- Perhaps a scheme of subsidy great, matters which we treat bluntly and openly. raised umbrellas to keep dry from the tears and therefore noon found me at the table of 304 feet long, 184 feet wide, and to1he summit Though won and won; she once has been. which had barely sufficed for cheaper'years, ful of men. With my youthful imagination Or perhaps a mightier project of state; There's Kitty Dunlevy, you know, and she is tliat.rained from the boxes." Andrew Jackson, jr., and. under ap engage- A plot, perhiips, some widow to rob— of its dome 157 feet high. It is built of hard And widow's colors yet attire her, he had been making annual inroads upon his filled with the, poetic scenes the stage creates, HIT virgin blush returns again a little proud."; '1 Julia Dean is not up to that ?" ment to make the Hermitage my abiding place Whatever, whoever discussed it— limestone, resembling a shade of white marble. little estate, which was now quite exhausted. I spoke face to facp witli one who had been To see a tine, bold man admire her. The glazed, whitish eye of Jabel bore the "Devil a bit; she'.s young and pretty; that's for at least a year to come. Unless Mr. Striker was "let in the fob,'' In architecture it might be called the classical His daughter might, have ended his heartache on familiar terms with kings and queens, the He would "bust;it." Not. often does her mind return similitude of a beam of satisfaction. all. The fellows run after her and the critics provincial. A demure false pediment, rises in and crowned his wishes by availing herself of tragic lovers and the beautiful beloved, and THE HERMITAGE. Along the path of comforts fled. 'I It's nothing agin you boys," he said, "that puff her. I know Julia. I know the whole Wonderful youth! such power to keep the middle over the flat, Chimneyed roof. The any of several offers of marriage which had all the mysterious people of the magic $tage. And if somotimos her lone heart yearn .Tim MncNair, your father, didn't do well. He family. Her mother was a Drake, and a dev- Tlie Hermitage is a dozen miles from Nash- In a land where Justice ne'er is asleep; rotunda is depressed, and resembles a boy's For that first love, her soldier dead, been made to her; but the soldierly bearing, To stagger the councils of state with fear, wronged nobody but himself, as I made the I liad a suspicion, since confirmed, that old ville, on the same side of the river, and fronts cap, and the fine columns and pilasters which Life is too ripe for long, lament; lisli pretty duck of a Drake sllc was. Young Or stop the growth of a hemisphere; radiant face, and tine intellect of Elk MacNair Buncastle liad never held a very high position upon a country road a little off from the Leba- No ghosts reproachful o'er her hover: stone-cutter say over his grave. Thai cost me Fosdick, a liigli-flyer. in fashionable life, fell The .time-piece of law tp crush in the fob, surround tlie edifice only make these mean- had conqnered competition when first he in his profession. He had a way of borrow- The strong, benignant Government . upwards of eleven dollars, so I did my duty in love with and married her. Lots of English non pike. The approach is through a grove Or by violence readjust it, nesses conspicuous. It cost about. $4,000,000, sought, through her father's influence, a li.cn- ing all my spare change and a singular habit She feels about her like a lover. by him. You boys don't seem to have his j nobs do that sort of thing. Young Fosdick of trees, and the drive from the park to the And, lest he be " let" into this or that job. and was once likened by the celebrated Wm. tenantcy in the army. of forgetting the little transaction. When pos- He can "bust it." No mother's hands will toil demean appetite for liquor. You are a member of took his wife off the stage, and himself off the house is bordered with cedars. This drive is Corry to a tea-cup standing on a brick. He sessed of 'my means through a loan lie would Who gives her orphon boys support; Congress, and Elk was one of the bravest gen- His career liad been brilliant and fortunate, scene of life soon after through too much high- in the form of a guitar, and was made from a Striker I in tliec no species rare made (his ocular illustration in a speech, pro- Iler window looks down on the green change from ale to whisky, or brandy, and We see ascending the Capitol stair. erals in the war, and I don't see, if he saves and When he was brought, in from the field flying. And then the widow married old Dean, design of Colonel Earl, an artist protege of ducing the cup and the brick. A pleasant Grass, growing in an inner court, then, passing to the spirited influence, let out All the ages and States of eld dangerously wounded, her womanly ministra- the actor. The first husband used up most of Jackson, who made his home vwith the gene- grass park incloses the capitol, which is cer- And there upon one lonesome tree his money and his health, hut. he is good Some similar hound or highwayman held; more than lie wished touching the facts of his ral for a number of years, and whose grave .'• A mother-bird sings fast as can it— enough even for .Tudge^Dunlevy's girl." tions at the hospital had helped to set him the beauty, and the last husband all that was Some Herod, who 'ere Heaven's babe might, throb.