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VOLUME I. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., JANUARY 21, 1872. NUMBER 46. For THE CAPITAL. hum of animated voices and hurried foot- were strumpets, procuresses, and ragpickers! exclaimed one of the gods; " hear how all the complishment of our purpose will involve the GRANDMAMMA NATURE. steps, all intent upon the errands of duty, of there are few of them but have lines which con- comprehensive account of the condition of the rest of my essay accordingly. It is not possible: There were low-priced confidence operators coves be a coddin' of her." "No, that's an- expenditure—[a sensation in the audience, vey exquisite and dreamy sea-pictures to the eye, BY FANNY DOWNING; pleasure, and of love. The tide poured un- gold and silver mining industry of the United that the Americans should be such enthusiastic and panel-house decoys. There were dance- other evil; Ginx's Daughter be a chicken, so and an astonishingly large number of gentle- and some of them contain passages of much States, with practical recommendations of great champions of Christianity, and yet reject its What's the matter, little girl, ceasingly on and bore the surging multitude vividness and vigor. As instances of Mrs. Thax- house belles and beaus and low gaming-house they say," observed another audibly, in reply. men suddenly think of something which de- importance to those engaged in it. The chapter teachings in their ordinary life. Lying listless on yotfr bed, to their destined havens; and not infrequently ter's word-pictures we quote from " Off Shore " stool-pigeons. There were tramps, and for- And so forth. In the meanwhile President mands their immediate attention outside, on the treatment of auriferous ores In Colorado But Christianity teaches them that their souls r With your ringlets out of curl, the haven of their seeking was Phytology these lines: 11 tune-tellers, and sweeps. There were—well, and they go]—will involve, I was saying, the is the best account of the stamp-mill process ever And your face flushed fever red ? Hall, where, long ere the hour announced in Woodbine stepped into the ante-room, and live after their bodies, and therefore they must there were representatives from every league bringing a chair bore it to the Hon. Theodor- expenditure of considerable means—traveling Rock softly, little boat, the while I mark published in this country; and the general dis- • better the condition of their minds by the culti- Won't you tell your grandmamma the hand-bills, an audience filling every nook- The far-off gliding sails, distinct and dark, cussion of smeltlng-processes for silver ores sup- vation of virtues in this world. The money-lov- All the worry and the fret of vice, vagrancy, and crime in all the great, icus, who dropped upon it straightway, grate- expenses, lodging, meals, &c., &c.—which and corner of the classic old edifice had Across the west pass steadily and slow. plies an instant want. The Beries of volumes, of That has caused such cruel jar incomprehensible city. last items we expect will largely exceed all ing Americans are doing just the opposite of this. anchored itself. fully thanking her with his eyes. She then which this forms the third, which have proceeded To my precious little pet ? others; but we propose to fight the devil with But on the eastern waters sad, they change So-called business men, who constitute a large In the foregoing selections at random from advanced to the footlights and signified her from the rapid but careful pen of Commissioner And vanish, dream-like, gray, and cold, and strange, portion of " the life and the blood " of American "They have told you Robert's bad?" What a picture was there presentèd! In the vast assemblage at least one prominent purpose to open the proceedings, when the his own element. Now, fellow-citizens, while And no one knoweth whither they may go. Raymond, are recognized in this country and In society, seemingly have no souls, for they are ex- "Asa monster he appears ?"-— that assemblage were to be seen the forms and constituent of every audience, calling, profes- Brother Tiltonanass and Sister Calfling are Europe as professionally authoritative and popu- audience calmed down somewhat, unwilling posed for sale, if not all ready exchanged, for " That's the reason you're so sad ?" entertaining you with a statement in detail of And again, in "Seaward," occur these stanzas: larly interesting to a remarkable degree. To be features of every known order of architecture. sion, craft, namely, the inevitable "Yankee," as they were to miss any part of the propitious hard cash. When their souls are disposed of " That's the cause of all these tears ?'" what we have already accomplished for our technically accurate, but not technically abstruse, In the front tiers were, chiefly, the members has been omitted; but he should always be commencement. She began— Southwest the wind blew, million little waves they receive the milliona of money they desire ; Don't believe, my little one, is their salient and acknowledged merit. of The Cathartic Club, with their families. taken for granted. He was there in charac- FELLOW-CITIZENS': [A voice in the gaHery, adopted sister, those who are, disposed to aid Ban rippling round the point in mellow tune, but what is to be done with it ? Anything they've whispered you! But mournful, like the voice of one that raves, Here were austere females of the Gothic type, teristic profusion, nonchalance and variety. "That's us."] We are, as you have been in- in the good cause will please hand to Colonel Without sympathy, without frankness and gen Think, as sure as shines the sun, Sangre such amounts as they feel able to con- That laughter of the loon! THE CLOCKMAKEBS : Sayings and Doings of Sam- Robert's love for you is true I tall, erect, self-reliant, dignified; attended, What a glorious victory was this for The formed through the columns of the press, as- uel Slick of Slickville. By Thomas Chandler erosity of feeling, despising human nature, they tribute, and those who are not prepared to We called to him, while blindly through the haze, some by tall cadaverous men with thin hair sembled here this evening for the purpose of Haliburton. New York: Hurd & Houghton. have no more use for their riches than the Peru- Grandma's old and grandma's wise; Bodkin over its skeptical and sneering con- Up rose the meager moon behind ns, slow, give to-night will hand him their names, Washington,: Philp & Solomons. vians had for theirs before the Spaniards came to Has a warm and kindly heart; and melancholy countenances, others by puffy, temporaries. One and all they had foretold considering a grave question—a question in So dim, the fleet of boats we scarce could trace, stating the amount to be paid at some future rob them. Some men find delight in the fine arts, ' Sees this world with loving eyes ;— Wheezy little fat men with very short necks the lack of interest of the public mind in the which every one, of whatsoever condition, Moored lightly just below. The publishers have here given us, with illus- time. in philosophy, In science, in the exercise of the Trust me, 'tis the better part! and very red faces, looking for all the world reformation and reclamation of Ginx's Daugh- must feel the deepest interest, and one which trations by F. O. C. Darley, a book which, thirty We called, and lo, he answered 1 Half in fear or thirty-five years ago, was widely read and fa- benevolent and social affections; but they have 'Tis a lovely world, my sweet, like exaggerated Cupids led captive in their not a few of us have had brought home to our The worthy president sat down amid the We sent the note back. Echoing rock and bay ter. They had foreseen a slim attendance at miliar, both in this eountry and in England, and no relish for these. They can no more detect And I fancy, if we will, dotage by the enemies whom the moiety of a Made melancholy music far and near, the proposed mass meeting, gmd Ixad pro- hearts. [Cries of "Yea, verily," "Ques- most enthusiastic applause, mingled with a was greatly relished for its presentment of the beauties in them than a savage can appreciate all We can trace the angel's feet life-siege had hot sufficed to conquer. Then tion."] The question, fellow-citizens, which great variety of queries, comments, and specu- Sadly it died away. In our pathway through it, Still }" claimed the belief that ninety-nine per cent, conventional Yankee character, which it served the intricate combinations of harmony in music. there were Gothic men attended by composite of those who might attend would be led there we propose to discuss to-night is Ginx's lations from each type of the mass composing That schooner, you remember ? Plying ghost I largely to fix, in popular estimation, through the As to religion, they consent to pay their pew-tax, Robert is a man, my pet, Her canvas catching every wandering beam, females, the latter costumed in a novel some- Daughter. [A voice, "Hear! hear!"J At the great audience, of which those already person of its hero, " Sam Slick." Everybody re- and to be bored by an occasional sermon on Sun; And if you would justly scan through motives of curiosity or mischief. In thing which must have been the direct issue Aerial, noiseless, past the glimmering coasl day, for appearance sake ; but their real churches Ilis true selfhood, don't forget this spontaneous gathering of the intelligent the outset The Cathartic Club realized the cited are, perhaps, a fair specimen. The She glided like a dream I members to have hoard of Samuel Slick of Slick- You must judge him as a man 1 of the union of a gentleman's unmentionables and truly representative type of the American difficulties with which we must contend, Honorable Vice President Calfling then gave, ville, the peddler of clocks, but few compara- are their counting-houses, their real bible their and a lady's shift, only it was of color navy Of another and more bouyant sort of descrip- tively of the present generation of readers have ledger, and last of all, their real god is not Al- Man is not like woman, child; democracy, it had a refutation of their first foresaw the obstacles which wicked, envious, amid considerable confusion, a complete his- tion—full of the tonic and brightness of sea- read his sayings and doings as recorded by Judge mighty God, but "the almighty dollar." He is hasty, fierce, and strong; blue. It was a beautiful sight to witness their assertion—an assertion based upon that con- and uncharitable persons would cast about tory of Miss Ginx's case under Cathartic fos- waves—are the following; we almost feel the Haliburton; and it was with the feeling that If money-making is the source of enjoyment to Has more largeness and less guile, delicate attentions toward, and gentle solici- servatism which opposes progress in whatso- our pathway, and discerned in the sequel tering, enumerating the truly generous intel- blowing spray detached from them and flying something of interest in the characterization was them, as drunkenness and gluttony are to some May be right when most he's wrong! tude for the welfare of, their masculine wards; the possibility of failure; yet none of these lectual bill of fare with which she had been ever guise it may assume; the sequel shall against our faces: not yet dead that the publishers revived the book man, I have only to say that their taste is a cor- Man's a mystery whose range the gallant manner in which they conducted bear witness to the falsity of their other pre- considerations were permitted to divert our served, &c. She dwelt long and eloquently rupted one. It is but just to say that the riches The Bplendid breakers 1 How they rushed, in its present new print. Bounds a nature wholly his; them to choice seats which they had reserved dictions: purposes from the rugged highway of,duty. upon Dr. Jollyboy's unwarrantable and high- of these men are gained by hard, patient labor, Bifold, complex, sensuous, strange — All emerald green and flashing white, at the box-office during the day, removed their [At this juncture a party standing near the handed proceeding, and attributed the swoon- Tumultuous in the morning sun, GOLD-DUST : For the Beautifying of Lives and hence they are more to be pitied than condemned We must, take him as he is.( The appointed hour drew nigh, and the wrappings, furnished them with programmes, audience there assembled not differing in at door was seized with a most vigorous fit of ing of Miss Ginx at The Bodkin office, as well With cheer and sparkle and delight I Homes. By M. M. Pomeroy. New York: G. for the question again returns, " What is to be Little darlinsr, be more bold, W. Carleton & Co. Washington : Philp & Sol- done with these riches, and what have they and performed a hundred other little offices: least one respect from other audiences, grew sneezing of several seconds' duration.] We as her subsequent well-nigh fatal illness, to And freshly blew the fragrant wind, Less exacting and more true; omons. made themselves by the operation ?" Don't believe what you are told; which the primness of oldfogyism ascribed correspondingly impatient. It first sought persevered, we overcame those obstacles^ and the shock which he had given her mental and The wild sea-wind, across their tops, Another set of men, thinking this a rather un- Just because 'tis told to you. exclusively to the province apd duty of mas- relief in rapping upon the floor with canes we announce to this intelligent audience to- nervous organism. She regarded the Astrin- And caught the spray, and flung it far We believe that we have never met the name In sweeping showers of glittering drops. of Mr. Pomeroy before, but it seems that he ÍB profitable way of making money, adopt a system Let not idle tongues have power, culine mortals. There were females ôf the night with emotions of heartfelt joy that our gents as a narrow-minded, uncharitable, in- and umbrellas, and in bantering constituent the author of several volumes previously pub- which combines both theft and perjury, and in- With their vilely slanderous breathy Doric order, unattended or unaccompanied by efforts have been crowned with extraordinary fatuated body of idiots and old fogies, from Among the poems that Strike us most favorably parts of itself in a friendly way. Directly a lished by Mr. Carleton, entitled " Sense," " Non- sures to those men a life of misery which they • In the space of half an hour any one, even of their own sex. These were as a whole and interest us most are " The Wreck gentleman in the gallery asked a gentleman in success. ['' How about leaving her three days whom it was next to impossible for anything sense," "Saturday Nights," &c. The present richly deserve. I refer to those who seek fortune To uproot a cherished faith. not remarkable for the beauty of their struc- of the Pocahontas," "The Sandpiper," "The the orchestra if d-e-p-o-t spelled depo, why without food and then bleeding and vomiting but evil to proceed. And much more. book consists of a number of short sketches, by a lucky marriage, an excellent mode of self- Robert's past is Robert's test; Spaniards' Graves," and one entitled "Watch- tures, but they were admirably substantial. t-e-a-p-o-t didn't spell tepo; which witty query her when she fainted?" evidently from some In the meanwhile contributions flowed into somewhat sentimental in character and style, but selling! A man who is so degraded as to go Robert's past is bright and clear; ing." In the first-mentioned poem, after de- 1 They were built upon a firm basis', and even person in Astringent interests. Cries of '' Put the treasury from all quarters, until the amount blameless in moral tone generally and touched through a formal loving of an innocent, confiding Yon who ought to know him best, put them all in a good humor; and when the scribing the lighting of the lamps in the light- in the minor details the principles of their woman for the sake of her money shows a dispo- Should not change so soon, my dear. janitor came upon the stage to arrange the him out," " Go on," "How about it? "J ' actually collected footed up the snug sum of house and the terrible night of storm that follows, with a sympathy for human sorrows and suffer- sition which, if an opportunity presented, would order had been scrupulously observed. Al- seats and place the speaker's desk in proper Less than two short months ago, fellow-citi- $949.72, while $538.10 more was pledged; wherein the poet says, ings, which seem to have been originally used as Let your grandmamma advise; though these might not have attracted so much contributions to Bome city newspaper. sell country, religion, anything and everything She was once as. young apd fair; position, they made believe they thought lie zens, this frail creature (leading Ginx's total, $1,487.82. as a hasty glance from the curbstone connois- We seemed, in that confusion vast which mankind so sacredly prizes. All these Dash the tear-drpps from your eyes, was Colonel Sangre, and cheered him lustily, Daughter to the front of the rostrum, trem- Then the Honorable Calfling sat down and Of rushing wind and roaring sea, i We have received from J. L. Kervand, 909 Penn- things arise from that intense love of money Smooth tlie tangles from your hair; seurs of nature, whose studios are opposite and asked after the health of his spiritual con- bling and scared) was an outcast whom all the the Honorable Theodoricus was called to the One point whereon was cast sylvania avenue, " Landmarks and Other Poems,," which is so deeply ingrafted in the hearts of the the churches and public offices, and on the by John J. Piatt, an advertisement of which will Lace your dainty bodice tight; sort, and of Miss Ginx, and said a hundred world contemned and- loathed. Less than two front, despite his protestations that the elo- The whole Atlantic's weight of brine. Americans. If they should pay more attention be found elsewhere. Clasp the tiny belt before; lee corners of streets of a windy day, yet they other equally facetiQUS things, whicli made months ago she groped in the blackest of quent Cathartics who had just preceded him She continues: to philosophy and the fine arts, they would be far Q,uick my Beauty! Run my Bright I, were palpably real, and there was a certain them laugh the louder, until their exuberance had left nothing unsaid. But they would When morning dawned, above the din more intellectual as a people; but as long as they Robertas knocking at the door I moral and intellectual night, with no lamp to something about them which struck the care- of spirits bubbled over in enthusiastic ap- know what he knew about Ginx's Daughter. Of gale and breaker boomed a gun! For THE CAPITAL. are admirers of wealth, no matter how gained, light her gloomy pathway and no one to guide A JAPANESE ESSAY. ful observer as being solid, imposing, very. plause. her uncertain footsteps. [A voice, "Gammon! It will be remembered that the Honorable Another f We who sat within they are merely practical and inconsistent people. Written for THE CAPITAL. One felt sure that those feet might beat out Answered with cries each one. Many.of the Japanese students in this country Inconsistent because priding themselves on their Eight o'clock came. So, also, promptly at Were was the p'lice ? "] Less than two short Theodoricus and the audience were on the for their owners a pathway through life un- Unto each other's eyes, with fear, are in the habit of sending to their minister, Mr. republican simplicity, they are the most willing GINX'S DAUGHTER. the hour, came the principals of the grand months ago we found her friendless, home- best of terms (BO at least was the latter) from aided by officious man ; that those hands might We looked through hopeless tears, as still, Mori, in Washington, an occasional essay, by way slaves of fashion; or pretending to be true re- mass meeting, filing'' in bright array" through less, and in prison, whither she had beejj led the moment of his entry, and now when he of showing their progress in the study of the wrestle successfully with any task that fate or One after one, near and more near, publicans, they are never so happy as whfen they a side door opening upon the rostrum. Came, through her vicious associations. [''She came forward to address them, even before The signals pealed, until English language. One of these papers, on ac- have an opportunity of paying respect to a prince CHAPTER THE TENTH. circumstances should happen to throw in their he had uttered a syllable, they cheered him first, the Honorable President Woodbine all don't look like it, do she?" from the gallery.] The thick storm seemed to break apart count of its ability, has been deemed worthy of or a duke. Where is the trouble ? The answer " PIIYTOI.OGY HAI.L—RALLY 1 RALLY I I way, even though that task were an able-bodied radiant in Composite costume, calm, cool, The so-called voice of .Law and Justiceihad vigorously. And as he proceeded, at the-end To show us, staggering to her grave, publication; although it should be understood is plain. They are too practical. RALLY! !!—On Monday evening, 15tli iafltAnt, 'ffialê" CîtlZèfl", aîffl that" flio'sC' T)fS3d, High, self-possessed, confident; and leaning doubt- been raised against her to interdict the only of every sentence they again and more loudly The fated brig. We had no heart that the sentiments in It are not those of the When Franklin, than whom there cannot be a A Grand Mass Meeting! The citizens of New square features, brown with the pure atmos- minister. Indeed, he thought it his duty to cen- ingly upon her arm, as though ill at ease, life which Society in its tolerant Christian cheered liim, and chaffed him good-humoredly, To look, for naught could save. more practical American, with all the simplicity York, without regard to Politics, Religion, sure the young student for uttering any sarcastic phere of heaven, unctious with the gratifica- spirit of charity was willing to accord. A and petted him, until the enthusiasm became One glimpse of black hull heaving Blow, of Cincinnatus presented himself before the Social Opinions, Sex, or Nationality, are in- Ginx's Daughter, dressed in a pure white robe opinions about this country, since it is a chief tion of frugal appetites, and firm with the dark picture! Behold her now! Feast your intense, not to say noisy. He tried to say a Then closed tlie mists o'er canvas torn, court of Versailles, even the ultra-royalists could vited to assemble in mass meeting at the time of modest mode, orange blossoms in her hair, a desire with Mr. Mori that nothing but the kind- consciousness of self-sufficiency, were de- good many things, prominent and objective And tangled ropes swept to and fro not withhold the veneration due the man for true and place above stated, when Ginx's Daugh- rosebud at her throat, and her feet clad in eyes upon the fruits of Cathartic zeal, and Prom masts that raked forlorn. est feelings should be cherished between the dignity, and he commanded the respect of even signed for purposes other than to felicitate and among which were that in his opinion the ter will most positively appear to vindicate white satin slippers. She was pale, and her generosity, and wisdom—yes, fellow-citizens, Americans and the Japanese. And it is due to the bitterest enemies. Compared with this grace the bed and board of mortal man. There perpetual virtue and chastity of Ginx's Daugh- Weeks after, yet ringed round with spray, the efficacy of Cathartic principles as applied features wore a tired, wan expression, height- I think you will pardon me for characterizing the student himself (who is only about eighteen glorious Bpectacle, the idea of the Americans of were females of the order Corinthian, in the ter was as good as assured, and that the Hon- Our island lay, and nought might land; to .her desperate malady; her cause will be ened in a measure by the bride's veil, (em- our treatment of her case as wise in the full- Though bine the waters of the bay years of age) to say that he wrote the paper more the present day, with much money, trying to light of whose presence dapper, nervous, orable President Woodbine was the greatest for his amusement than anything else, and is duly considered, her remedy discussed, and blematical of her union with Continence about ness of human judgment; for have we not Stretched calm on either hand. imitate the manners of other countries whose meek-looking men in spectacles and eye- citizen of the age. But it did not matter ready to take back all his hard sayings. This is teachers they might well become, and making her effect anticipated. to be sealed and solemnized,) which swept solved the problem which has baffled all who And when at last from the distant shore glasses were tolerated. These wore severe well enough for him, but in presenting the essay gracefully down from her chignon, well nigh have ever previously essayed its solution? what he said; if he had said nothing it A little boat stole out, to reach bad blunders,' is really disgraceful. In their "The Cosmopolitan Cathartic Club takes countènances whereon •were enthroned intel- we must premise that we think all the left-handed enveloping her substantial person in its deli- [A voice, "You bet; tell us how you did would, perhaps, have been all the same; Our loneliness, and bring once more eagerness to educate all the young persons to be great pleasure in announcing to the public lectual vigor and placid dignity, beneath Fresh human thonght and speech, compliments are fully deserved. The paper comes practical, they almost neglect their moral train- cate folds. The ¿ood president escorted her it." "Try it on, Gentle Annie," alluding for the audience had worked itself into that that its efforts have been crowned with suc- whose erudite shadows the frivolities of the to us through our friend Mr. Charles Lanman, the ing. Man is both an intellectual and moral being. to a seat near the footlights, and herself sta- to one of the six repentauts on the stage, state of fermentation which required no for- We told our tale, and the boatman cried f cess in a degree surpassing its most sanguine world had never ventured. They were grace- American secretary of the Japanese legation : He must be so educated as to develop both these tioned in front of the speaker's desk, bbwing from a ruby-visaged Bowery boy in the par- eign agency to maintain life, and flippancy, " 'Twas the Pocahontas—all were lost I • expectations. A crisis is imminent! Come ful, pleasing to the eye, and finished, yet to For miles along the eoast the tide IS IT A DISGRACE TO THE AMERICANS THAT THE7 capacities. If his intellect is trained more than gracefully to the audience. Following these quet.] It is for the purpose of disclosing the and effervesence. In which commendable one, come all! the casual observer they were cold, chéerless, Her shattered timbers tossed." ABB A PRACTICAL PEOPLE? his moral nature, he will be a dangerous man, for came Doctress Smith and Vice President Calf- means by and through which we achieved frame of mind they dispersed, making the his power for evil is increased beyond measure. "THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE." frigid—not the sort of structure to inspire the This ballad Is related as a personal experience, Before entering into the discussion which the this great result that I am here to-night. It is welkin ring with their mirth and jollity, after In this connection I may again observe a strange ling, tastefully attired in the uniform of The and after a doubt of Divine goodness suggested! theme demands, let me define the position from For a week preceding the night appointed average man or woman with enthusiastic ad- having been thanked by the president on be- inconsistency of the Americans. Though they Cathartic Club, (consisting of trousers of gen- told in few words: We began by illuminating by the shipwreck, and the answer given by Chris- which I am obliged to look at this delicate ques- miration, and just the sort to awaken in the half of Ginx's Daughter for their cordial in- thus neglect their moral training at home, they for ihe meeting the foregoing announcement: erous proportions, an abbreviated bedgown her moral and intellectual understanding—to tian faith, is happily ended by the relighting of tion. Japan, before the late revolution, was un- minds of children a sense of restraint and send missionaries to teach the wretched heathen glared at pedestrians on the great thorough- closely belted in, zouave jacket—all of navy use the metaphor of a distinguished agricul- terest in her welfare, both—the audience and the lamps in the light-house. doubtedly the most aristocratio nation in the suspicion. Here were men and women of the world. As is usually the case under such circum- to be good, and at the same time send a company fares from mammoth posters all gorgeous in blue—linen bosom and Byron collar of spot- tural spirit, by breaking ground and fertiliz: the Cathartics—feeling on the best of terms The piece entitled " Watching " is a very tender order Ionic, and the order Tuscan, and of stances, the down-trodden mass of the people of practical men who show their practicability every color known to "the art preservative less white, and blue neckerchief tied a ¡'aban- ing plentifully before casting the seed of our with themselves. and affecting poem of filial and religious feeling ; orders which shall here be nameless; butin strikingly manifest that characteristic which is by extracting the riches in every way, and when of arts;" glowered upon the denizens of Lit- don,•) their hair (in barbers' parlance) shingled, choice; and by appealing to her womanly We have no reliable means of ascertaining we copy it entire, and know of few religious all the vast throng the supremacy of the so- the subject of my present essay, namely, an ac- they could, by cheating those men whom their tle Fleecem street and its classic purlieus in and parted in close proximity to the left ear, pride, honor, and self-respect, awakening the state of Miss Ginx's feelings concerning poems superior to it: called sterner sex was nowhere observable, quaintance only with those ways of life which fellow-countrymen undertake to teach—to be the guise of mean little bills in shabby black, and their well-developed extremities encased thereby a spirit of emulation and indepen- herself; but that is a matter of the least con- what ?—to be good! was merged into the individuality of, and In childhood's season fair, relate to the supply of the actual wants and ne- with not so much as a colored border to give in calf top-boots and Alexander kids. (We dence, and a steadfast purpose to establish sequence. On many a balmy,.moonless summer night, So I might go on, but I think I have said driven into servile subjection by, the superior cessities of mankind. This is because the greater them a semblance of cheerfulness; and ogled are enabled to gladden the hearts of our her own worthiness. Force was deemed to be (To be continued J While wheeled the light-house arms of dark and bright portion of the nation's wealth being In the hands enough to make you acknowledge, at least to female presencè. / Far through the humid air; the loungers about hotels, railway stations, countrymen with the latter bit of information the only agency which could be successfully of the ruling class, the lower classes have to make yourself, that it is a disgrace to the Americans and sample-rooms from every column of the And then, too, there were persons of both on the authority and through the courtesy of applied to her class. We have demonstrated BOOK NOTICES. How patient hive I been. the most of everything within their reach. I; that they are a practical people. newspapers, (for the Cathartics counted not the fallacy of this belief. Here stands an Sitting alone, a happy little maid, like any other thoughtless born-aristocrat, dei sexes and of every type and nationality. a Scalping-Knife reporter, who interviewed POEMS BT CELIA THAXTER. Now York : Hurd & Waiting to see, careless and unafraid. spised this tendency of the commons. I acknowl- MB. BOUTWELL, the American finance minister, the cost, spared no expense,) insinuating it- Here sat a phlegmatic Teuton with his san- them — the CathartiCs—in the ante-room.) eloquent witness to testify against the wrong, Houghton. Washington : J. L. Kervand. My father's boat come in; edge now that this was very unjust, but still has the most delicious ideas of political economy. self into little niches in those places sacred to guinary /raw, and next them were a fastidi- Placid dignity sat enthroned upon the Com- the injustice, the inhumanity of that agency. In the second volume of Hawthorne's American Close to the water's edge something of this spirit will no doubt influence All materials used in ship-building being " pro- intelligence "Telegraphic," "Foreign," "Do- ous Frenchman and his dainty fille de joie. She stands before you a reformed, an enlight- Note Books will be found an interesting journal posite features of the Honorable Vice Presi- Holding a tiny spark, that he might steer me in the decision of the great question now be- tected " in the United States, the yards cannot mestic," "Local," "Political," "Religious," ened, a purified, a redeemed woman—re- of a visit; in 1852 to the Isles of ShoajB, on the Here were Jim and Dinah, their faces radiant dent, while the Doric brow of Doctress Smith (So dangerous the landing, far and near) fore us, and I request my kind hearers to-day compete with British builders, and the carrying coast of New England, and of hia stay at Laigh- Safe past the ragged lodge. "Commercial," "Theatrical"—in short it with joy and unguent, their persons decked lighted up and shone again with the con- deemed through the medium of Cathartic in- constantly to bear in mind this circumstance. trade has gone over to Great Britain. Mr. Bout- ton's Hotel on Appledore, one of the chief islands was everywhere. out with the cast-off finery of mistresses and sciousness of superabundant wisdom—just tercession; and now but one thing remains to I had no fears—not one; When Columbus revealed to the astonished in- well does not like this, and suggests that a bounty in that rocky group. Mr. Laighton was the father Tlui Bodkin was daily radiant with nine- the slop-shop wares of Moses & Cheapjohn. the sort of wisdom we have frequently seen crown the noble work, and assure for all time The wild wide waste of water leagues around habitants of the old world this continent, with its of $13, or £2 12B. a ton a year shall be paid to of Mrs. Thaxter, the author of this neat little column editorials, wherein the comprehensive A. few seats farther on sat an English cock- reflected from the faces of civil-service ex- a condition of moral, mental, and physical Washed ceaselessly; there was no human sound, boundless resources, unappreciated by its simple every American vessel of not less than 2,000 tons' volume, which throughout shows the influence And I was all alone. natives, the terrors of the yet unexplored Atlan- burden. This bonus is to be given for five years, theme was very exhaustively treated. It told ney, resplendent in flowing trousers and sur- amining-committee men. Then came other immaculateness to her and her class, without of her earlier and later life in the presence and But Nature was so kind 1 tic were not sufficient to keep back the bands of during the whole of which time Americans are to its readers (and many more who did not tout of brilliant hue, and stunning in side female Cathartics by name unknown, a dozen which she must inevitably soon revert to her soeiety of the sea. During the above-mentioned Like a dear friend I loved the loneliness; adventurers who soon flocked from all Quarters be taxed in order that Pennsylvanian iron-masters claim that proud title) that the solution of a whiskers and a vacant stare. On his left was more or less, in uniform, and a half dozen recent degraded, desolate, and hopeless exist- visit Hawthorne made the.following entry, among My heart rose glad as at some sweet caress to this newly-discovered land. Disregarding the may make profits, and New York may engage in a question which had perplexed statesmen, puz- a "Heathen Chinee," with cue and other ap- repentant-looking courtesans taken on trust ence, in spite of the auspicious commence- others, regarding her husband and herself, which When passed the wandering wind. rights of thè original owners, they appropriated- trade which, as this demand for bounty shows, it is zled rulers, confounded philosophers, baffled ment; for, deny her this, and nothing that we. may be fitly quoted in connection with her book: pendages entire, who blandly contemplated a for the occasion—a brilliant spectacle! And Tet it was joy to hear, to their use whatever they could obtain, and it not fitted to carry on. After the five years, Mr. " I spent last evening, as well as part of the even- philanthropists, cheated lawyers, corrupted game which he evidently did not understand; lastly came Colonel Sangre and the Honorable may have already done, nothing that we can From ont the darkness, sounds grow clear at last, was not long before bitter quarrels among them Boutwell thinks the ship-builders canget on alone, ing before, at Mr. Thaxter's. It is certainly a judges, hoodwinked Christians, and exaspe- while on his right sat a delegation of peaceful Theodoricus, they being the only male Cathar- do, nothing that mortal man or woman can Of rattling row-lock, and of creaking mast, selves began. Mexico had its Cortez, Peru its American iron .being so good that American ves- romantic incident to find such a young man on rated society since the creation, had at last Apaches, smoking the calumet of brotherhood tics, also in the club uniform, the effect of achieve for her, will avail her aught—I mean, And voices drawing near 1 Pizzaro, but that portion of the new continent sels can carry, ton for ton, ten per cent, more this lonely island ; his marriage with the pretty been discovered, and that it would be given fellow-citizens, her right—not her privilege— "Is't thou, dear father? Say!" now the United States of America was contended goods than British vessels. If they can, and pro- and good will to the paleface. Over against which, in connection with the long-drawn Miranda is true romance. In our talk we have What well-known Bhout resounded in reply, for by the English,' the French, and the Dutch. tection is np injury, why do they not oust British to the world in good time. It also proclaimed the wall, his feet fraternally elevated upon the person of the latter, was striking, not to say under the Constitution of the country in glanced over many matters, and, among the rest, As loomed the tall sail, smitten suddenly They settled in various localities of the country, vessels with any bonus at all ? Our merchants the greatest joy and enthusiasm everywhere back of his neighbor's seat, carelessly re- unique. which she lives, her Ood-given right, THE BAL- that of the stage, to prepare himself for which With the great light-house ray 1 and by their conglomeration was formed the certainly will not let patriotism stand in the way in consequence of this discovery; and in allu- clined a pioneer of civilization from the do- So evidently thought the audience; for up LOT. [Loud and continued applause from the was his first motive in coming hither. He appears I will be patient now, United States of the present day. of a saving of 2s. in the pound.—London Spectator. sion to the scurrilous insinuation of a con- main of the setting sun, negligently carving to the moment of the Hon. Theodoricus' en- front tiers, and cries of " That's so!" " The quite to have given up any dream of that kind Dear Heavenly Father, waiting here for Thee: The Americans, who Unmistakably inherited temporary to the effect that it (The Bodkin) his name upon the walnut paneling with a ballpt, the ballot! She can do nothing with- now. What he will do on returningto the world, trance they had maintained a reasonably re- I know the darkness holds thee. Shall I be the virtues as well as the vices of their ances- THE famous story of the " stuffed captain " in mistook popular curiosity for democratic en- out it!", " Brave girl!" " Will she support as his purpose is, I cannot Imagine; but no doubt ten-inch sheath-knife. This child of nature spectful silence, confining themselves to. such Afraid when it is Thou ? tors, are a nervously energetic, enterprising peo- the Prussian army has at length received a satis- through all their remaining life both he and she thusiasm, it waxed exceeding wroth, and said was the near companion of a Russian digni- complimentary observations as "Which is Woodbine for President?" "No, Gyrlee— On Thy eternal shore, ple. When they threw off the British yoke, what factory explanation by the official press. In all will look back to this rocky ledge, with its hand- in two columns of matter that it scorned to tary all-magnificent in the splendor of gold Ginx's Daughter?" " That's her in the mos- Gyrlee's the man!" "Gyrlee's dead, stupid; In pauses, when life's tide is at its prime, remained was to develop the hidden resources of Prussian budgets there figures a captain of the ful of soil, as to a Paradise." Wo believe that notice the reptile's base innuendo. It could Scantun's the boy!" "No, be dad! Who's I hear the everlasting rote of Time the country, and how well they have performed first regiment of foot guards for whose pay the lace and crimsoij trappings, and he (the child) quito net, ain't it?" "No; you're a flat. Mr. and Mrs. Thaxter have continued to make afford to bide its time. The snarling of curs Beating for evermore. this the present prosperity of the country suf- estimates are charged with 1,300 thalera, though now and anon paused in his idle dallying to That's her with the red hair; they always has Goorlee, and who's Scant'n? The Boss is the their home[on the " rocky ledge " of Appledore ; Shall I not then rejoice ? ficiently attests. In the course of this stupend- the officer's name is not to be found in the army did not even ruffle the bosom of its tranquil pay the distinguishéd foreigner the civilty of red hair." "Who's that tall cove standing cooming man. Out wid yer beggarly re- at any rate, in these poems of Mrs. Thaxter O never lost or sad should child of Thine ous undertaking they were being continually list. The mystery has given rise to many humor- confidence. And so forth. expectorating over his shoulder into the aisle by the table?" . "That? Why, don't you trinchers!" And voices from all parts of the (nearly all of which have appeared during the Sit waiting, fearing lest there come no sign, brought into contact with new difficulties, and ous but none the less violent attacks from the Monday evening came. It was a most pro- beyond ; and the courtly precision with which know who that is? That's Woodbine, the house,'' Grant"—" Sumner"—'' Trumbull"— last ten years in the Atlantic Monthly and other No whisper of Thy voice 1 they have always proved themselves equal to any progressists, who scented in the item one of the pitious evening. The balmy atmosphere was he accomplished the feat was something won- next President;" but when the great biogra- "Ben Butler"—"Tom Murphy"—"Sweeny"— New England magazines) there is little or no emergency. numerous false pretenses by which government '' Bergh "—" John Morrissey "—" Tiltonan- rumor of the inland world, and "Land Locked," Mrs. Thaxter's volume—a very pretty one with redolent of young Spring's sweet floral-breath. derful. Farther on, in the front tier of the pher came upon the rostrum they went off The world is indebted to the Americans for the was supposed to obtain funds. The "stuffed the first poem in the book, is almost the only one its flexible covers and finely-toned and tinted The trees and vines were radiant in their parquet, were an Irish laborer, an Italian spontaneously in a perfect tornado of cheers, ass," &c'., as the owner happened to be an paper—ends with a small collection of poems for steamboat, telegraph, and many other very useful captain," who was again made the subject of a that indicates absence, in its subject, from—and downy emblem-garbs of purity. The little mountebank, a prominent ward politician— and laughter, and applause. This had the " in " or an " out," or sarcastic, or disaffected, children; these, too, have their association chiefly inventions. It may be broadly asserted that fierce attack in the latest fight over the budget its burden is one of longing and homesickness an embryo Tweed or Sweeny, perhaps—in or facetiously inclined. Order being again with the sea. whatever had a practical application was studied turns out to be no other than his Majesty him- birds chirruped their gladness, and softly sang effect of somewhat disconcerting the Hon. for—the sea-island Paradise. In it she says, al- restored President Woodbine continued:] and improved by them. A glance at its educa- self, by his imperial dignity captain of his own their love-lays to the chorus of murmuring flashy costumé and sparkling with diamonds Theodoricus, who is of a naturally modest luding to the inland beauties and gifts of nature, FAIR TO SEE. A novel. By Lawrence W. M. tional system enableB one to form some idea of foot guards. He does not, however, pocket the rivulets; and importunate turtle-doves gently of paste and pinchback jewelry, a gentle and retiring disposition; and as a consequence Th,e Cathartic Club have determined to Lockhart. Published by Harper Bros., and for the people. The cities have their business col- 1,300 thalers for his own use, but pays them regu- breathed forth their impassioned madrigals to rough or two from the classic precincts of he did just what people always do under such push this question to a vigorous and speedy Neither am I ungrateful: bat I dream sale by Richard B. Mohun & Co, heeding mates away up under the shadowy Baxter street, and a Scotch swell. Vis-a-vis circumstances, namely, tried to appear as Deliclonsly, how twilight falls to-night leges, while agricultural colleges dot the face of larly towards the support of the tallest men in issue. How? We propose, fellow-citizens, Oyer the glimmering water, how the light This is an entertaining novel of fashionable the country. Then there are schools of engineer- that company of giants, for which, like Frederick eaves. Peace reigned! How appropriate! with these, across the orchestra, were a Cuban though he was never so self-possessed and so to make the Capital of the nation the scene of DieB blissfully away, until I seem sporting life abroad, that, having had a run in ing, architecture, medicine, and other depart- the Great, he has a constitutional tenderness. Later, the sun went down in a blaze of re- refugee, a Mexican exile, a San Domingo gen- much at home, which made his embarrass- England, is reprinted by Harpers. It is really a our crowning triumph. We propose to bear To feel the wind sea-scented on my cheek, ments of the useful arts, and these are faithfully charming book, and serves the purpose intended splendency, and his last fond rays furtively tleman, a Japanese ambassador's second as- ment all the more apparent. He looked first our redeemed sister to the halls of Congress, To catch the sound of dusky flapping sail attended to, while the general education of THE deficiency in England's crop of breadsuffs of holding the reader interested through a love of saluted bashful twilight as she tripped lei- sistant groom of the bed-chamber, a lustful at the president, then at Ginx's Daughter, to present her as our memorial—eloquent in And dip of oars, and voices on the gale the youths is designed to make practical men. last year is shown by the increase in her imports cigars—supposing the reader to be of the male surely forth from her bowers in the East, Turk, (the unblushing villain ! to insinuate and then the chairs, which were all occu- her silent appeal—to those who have the Afar off, calling low; my name they speak 1 The fine arts, which refine, ennoble, and delight of wheat, which were nearly a third larger in gender; of course he is a smoker if he indulges lighting for the instant her somber features himself into the continent presence of the pied. He then took refuge behind the female | O Earth 1 thy summer song of joy may soar mankind, are sadly neglected. The fact is, an 1871 than in 1870. But of this increase the United power to lift her up or drag her down, and to in novels. with the flush of outraged modesty. The stars occasion,) and the fourteen Mistresses Smith Cathartics, who were ranged in double column force them, aye to force them, to concede the Ringing to heaven in triumph. I but crave American does not want to be a painter, sculptor, States furnished only an insignificant portion, crept forth anon and the amorous queen of and husband from Salt Lake. And up in the across the rostrum, and tried to put his hands The sad, caressing murmur of the wave We have received, and put aside for further poet, or rhetorician, but a rich man. Wealth is owing to our high prices, the chief increase com- just condition of her eternal womanhood. I notice, from Richard B. Mohun & Co.: " Physiol- the night-world majestically ascended her galleries there were the inhabitants of the in those sacred havens of awkward male mor- That breaks in tender innsic on the Bhore. the sole object of ambition of the people at ing from Russia, which sent to England alone myself, with the other members of our execu- ogy of the Soul and Instinct as distinguished Society, with its common interests, absorptions, large. I must say now that I am entering on nearly sixty per cent, more wheat in 1871 than in empyrean throne. Soft zephyrs from the streets in motley force. There were gamins tals, his pockets; but unfortunately the Ca- tive committee, propose to undertake this from Materialism,'' by Martin Paine, A. M., M. D. and vanities, is shut out almost entirely, and the very serious grounds. I am not so presumptious 1870—a striking illustration of the extraordinary flower-studded shores of Jersey wafted up the in every stage of physical deformity and men- thartics, when adopting a uniform, did not laborious though pleasant duty. We will go L.L. D. Published by Harper Bros., New York! human world is visible chiefly in gleams and as to attempt to trèspass on theology, but I must fluctuations in the respective production of sweet perfumes of her incense to intoxicate tal dwarfisliness. There were Arabs of every deem such receptacles to be essential, conse- " Water and Land," by Jacob Abbott; illustrated with her, we will strive, we will plead, we cftisks of transient sails, or heard in the guns of confess I shall go very near the frontiers of it. cereals in the same country in different years. the grateful senses. Maidens gazed thought- age and complexion. There were aged and quently they were omitted. He tried the ex- and published by Harper Bros. Mines, Mills, will importune, we will reason, we will com- distress fired from hapless vessels driving to their The Americans who point the fingers of scorn and Furnaces of the Pacific States and Territo- GREELEY'S Caucasian letter has been done into fully streetward from vine-enveloped bow- decrepit beggars, and beggars youthful, vig- periment of putting them behind him, but pel; we cannot, will not fail. I regret exceed- doom on the terrible rocks described by Lowell as against the rest of Christendom as lukewarm in French. windows, and faultless young men tranquilly, orous and cheery. There were thieves, and this afforded only temporary relief " Put 'em ingly the necessity of descending to material ries," by Rossiter W. Raymond, Ph. D.; pub- the cause of religion, and freely condemn with- • Mf Butting against the huge Atlantic. lished by J. B. Ford & Co., New York. In refer- languidly smoked in all manner of eligible Jiousebreakers, and garroters; sneak-thieves, under your apron," shouted a gentleman considerations ih connection with so exalted out fair trial the rest of mankind as ignorant of OLD GRIMES is well, that good old senator.— This lack of more definite human interest is ence to this work we learn from the advertisement Places. The marts of traffic were hushed, bank-robbers, and body-snatchers; voucher- from Baxter street. " Somebody bring 'im a a theme, but unfortunately it is one of the the duties of man, geem to think that money- Chicago Post. felt in these poems, which as a general thing it is in no sense a repetition of Commissioner making is the moat important business of life, the thoroughfares resounded with the thieves, repeaters, and riot-thieves. There chair," suggested another. "That's her!" THE Danbury News says the spots on the sun hard conditions of our undertaking. The ac- are somewhat vague in their impression j yet Raymond's former books. It contains a full and and taking this as a standard, I shall finish the can be seen through a piece of smoked beer, Seward to cultivate friendiv relations with the evidence that he can be neither truthful nor know something of the modus operandi of the wound up In the "ea" on which the stress was put, CHRONICLES OF CONGRESS. Curtis, the father of the new regulations, and Cat- wearying tramp, until the blessed Ash Wednesdi* civil service board. like the last colicky groan of a dying cow, that tell and Elliott. They heard themselves de- ushers In the season of rest for the body and rnlim- THE CAPITAL. Viceroy of Egypt Mr. Seward was at that just. Instead of being content with a well- food for the sonl. gIOUS If a man's M. C. says he knows enough to be"a was almost lost in the roar that came up from all Charles Sumner believes in the immutability of nounced as impracticable schemers, and their re- time running considerably on friendly rela- earned reputation for acquired information Monday gave us the receptions at the houses of our clerk, don't the M. C. know, or will the man be sides in unextlnguishable laughter. A wild sense principles, and his whole public life has been de- port characterised as a shameful slander of the Re- tions. He was particularly strong on this and fair ability, he is eaten up with envy of judges—or "at homes," for "reoeptlon" ts a word compelled to go before the boai;d like the vulgar of fun took possession of the House from voted to applying them in a legislative sense to publican party. Trumbull replied to Carpenter in CITY EDITION". with the Viceroy. If the Viceroy were to re- others filling a larger space in public estima- good In itself but so abused and maltreated that for th herd, in order to occupy one of these degrading floor to galleries, and to it one and all gave way the colored race. But sometimes a man becomes defense, not so much of the existing system, as WASHINGTON CITY : cognize the Southern confederacy there would tion. When last' in Washington, one of the future It must be ostracised from fashionable circles' positions ? with entire abandon. Solemn old pumps who narrow in his devotion to a single object, anil his the theory of reform. He made this distinction, Let Susan have "receptions" in the kitchen whil« be the devil to pay in the moral effect. And commission called to concoct a scheme of If a man knows all the board asks him, and has had never been known to smile, lest they might vision is limited, so far as his mind's eye is con- which Carpenter had failed to discover, that the madam is "at home" in the parlor; that is it's „J® SUNDAY MOANING - - - JANUARY 21, 1872. to these friendly relations diplomatic William civil-service reform so as to defeat the very some left over, does it count against him, or will drop some of their precious dignity, almost cerned. However this may be, in this kaleido- advocates of reform were not to be held respon- English meaning—Did« Webster, or Worcester or an was instigated, for he had himself been con- ends proposed, he had his fevered vanity it be allowed as a credit to him on his first ex- rolled off their seats, and it was comical to see scopic age, when men change their convictions sible for the failure of a peculiar set of rules other man. Mais ret emu«. In what home is «» THE HOI si: OF BONDAGE. ciliated considerably by a present from this tickled by some cunning fellows in the faise amination for promotion ? such make desperate efforts from time to time to oftener than they do their undergarments, Sum- which the Administration and its agents had seen more constant sunshine than that of Judge Bradln who occupies the house built for the Hon. Stephen A We do not mean by this heading the cus- If a man don't know anything the board ask regain their self-control and once more appear ner alone stands a monument of Consistency. It flt to put in practice. Viceroy of a number of fine Arabian horses, offer of the State Department in case Mr. Fish Douglas—a home presided over by Mrs. Bradley ani him, will It jeopardise his chances for salvation solemn. Morton and Sherman also took a hand in this tom-house of New York, although such arrows of the desert, valued with other gifts retired, and in return he hastened to debase ' may be that he has worn his subject threadbare, her interesting and accomplished daughters arno hereafter, or can his M. C. save him ? My mem- debate. If Morton were an educated man he name would be appropriate. We are off to the amount of twenty thousand dollars in himself before the fountain of such honors in We have missed our Mungen, we have mourned and that people have become disgusted with the whom Miss Bradley is the sunbeam. Young pinna"? ber is colored. our Mullins, but kind Providence in our distress would not. be half so positive. His mind is Cairo, Egypt, under the shadow of the pyra gold. We know what a demoralizing effect a way to awaken disgust in the heart of the everlasting "nigger question," but Sumner does and graceful, she wins all hearts,- and on Monday h After a man has passed the board, can he get sends us a Snapp. Long live Snapp I And when not propose to leave the great work of his life thoroughly uncultured, and what he says is drawn mids, where American honor seems to be very person he so humbly worships. charms were heightened by a most bewitching toilT horse trading has upon humanity. into good society here, or will his M. C. have to he again attacks the. civil-service reform, the unfinished. Having broken the chains of slavery, only from his own narrow experience. The ma- Mrs. Bradley is more than favored in Si „tj ? much in the shade as where the flag waves Exit Howadji. . , . . UCI WU9 des The new consul general, after several mys- get him in? I don't mean this new aristocracy, Democratic party, and the English grammar, he would now heal the scars which for genera- jestic world, with its examples and teachings, is camp, who welcome each guest with that mmiwn,Z and the eagle screams over the native soil. which conveys Jo one the agreeable idea M terious interviews with one Landeau, a He- made up of Administration relatives, members of may we be there to see and hear—for life is short tions have been seared into the African-American. as nothing to Morton. The events of his own "I ani the Cairo seems to be an unfortunate place, brew familiar of the Viceroy, repudiated all the Cabinet, judges of the Supreme Court, mem- and troubles many. His speech of Monday, in the Senate, was the life are too momentous for him to pay any regard favored one." It was this exquisite tact and coarte which made Mrs. Slidell so popular during those bri hr While we write a commission is on its way, MINOR NOTES. bers of the lobby, members of Congress and such; old, Old story, but it was the truth. It seems to whatever is historical. The same may be said that the patriotic Dainese had done, run up palmy days in which she stood at the head oí empowered to send for persons and papers but the real old, musty, cob-webbed, original (sin) that humanity is so constituted that for the sake of Sherman, although John has some knowledge ou the flag on a 'pitiful salute of one gun, and WE ARE painecT to see that certain unscrupu publican court. Mrs. Field also welcomes herfriJT so as to investigate' the erratic conduct of the NOTICE TO COBRESPONDENTS.—"VVe seem to have aristocracy of the city,, such as the Qazette de- of getting rid of troubles it will concede some- of contemporaneous facts. The debate on this S left the enterprising Thomas to his vermin Ions journals are attacking Brother Cramer— on Monday, and had hosts of callers. Also Mrs, ®ne stirred the inner consciousness of no end of peo- scribed last week. thing that may compromise prejudices. All that question will run over into next week. Under nephew of his uncle—our consul general and the vengeance of the Viceroy. brother in the Lord and brother-in-law—who is about whose welcome there is such heartiness that no ple in our late issue. We have been favored with Is a man "Furnished Rooms with Board" keeps the colored citizens from the hotel, the cover of an amendment to Sumner's equal rights there—who is charged by certain pious people This is the story of Charles Hale, now be- not only minister plenipo. and envoy very extraor- one can doubt its sincerity. Mrs. Dunn, wife of Qeile. remonstrances of the most touching sort. Instead while they examine him, or how ? common school, and the railroad- is prejudice. amendment to the amnesty bill, Edmunds will on ral Dnnn, whose delightful house 1B the center for our with playing the very devil with our honor dinary, but a minister of the gospel, at the court fore the Senate as the successor of Bancroft of original contributions, such as our wont is to In case a man don't pass the board, can he get : The most infamous white man is entitled to first- Monday make a few feeble remarks on civil ser- most enjoyable social gatherings, opens her doors on a nation, while filling his consular pockets of Denmark. Brother Cramer's offense seems to Davis. It may be a true story, and it may be receive, of a statistical sort—this statistical line home on his member's railroad pass, he (the man) class privileges, if he can only pay first-class vice. It is also understood that Henry Wilson this day. Being now absent In Indiana, her daughter with money that belongs to other people, have been an attempt to read the Fish-Curtin cor- Mrs. MeKee, does the honors and wins golden opinions the " Romance of a Poor Young Man." Let is th e forte of THE CAPITAL—we have communica- being white and his member black ? prices. The most respectable black man is en- will do likewise. Then Schurz will be heard We know of only one case that is well au respondence about Old Cat at the house of the Da- for the gracious manner in which she dispenses the it be what it may, the grave charges on which tions from very nice people whose feelings are Is Professor Pratt, the horse emancipator, to be titled to nothing, whatever may be his station, from. By the way, where do the Democrats thenticated by being true in character if not nish minister. To this reading a tender-footed hospitalities. hurt. We never wantonly hurt anybody's feelings. on the board? Mrs. P. was in Dr. Newman's save just what caprice may concede him. Sum- stand on this question ? Does the 'possum policy this account is based are and have been for John-donkey of a Russian diplomate made objec- in fact. After Consul General Butler had We shrink from that with the gentle tenderness King, you know ? ner's equal-rights amendment to the amnesty bill seal their lips ? The country is anxiously await- Tuesday seems a day in which all In the neighbor- been fairly installed a demand was made by years pending without investigation in the tion,and on Brother, Cramer persisting, threatened 8enate. The proposed confirmation will of a woman. We appeal to a discriminating pub- Is Secretary Robeson going to many Mrs. means the regulating of this inequality, and no ing a response. hood of K street welcome their friends. Admiral and his subordinate consuls for some work that to leave the house, whereupon the host put his Mrs. Bailey, aided by their engaging daughters had lic to say if this is not true. It is true; The Aullck ? There is nothing civil In the marriage more. The prejudices which have survived the Monday, in the House, brought forth the usual force—at least our article will force—that in- finger in the muss and said the Russian Tartar- hostB of callers. On dlt that Miss Bailey will soon an- would instruct them in their duties. George record sustains the assertion, and is proven by service, still I'm anxious to know about this, for wreck of slavery cry out against this amendment vestigation, and if Mr. Charles Hale can an- emetic should not be insulted in his domicile. number of bills. Among the most important of nounce by "cards" that Washington and Washing, had no such useful treatise on hand, but he the space given to the protests. some one said they thought it had been mentioned as contemplating social equality! Such preju- Up to this point Brother Cramer was entirely these was one offered by Freeman Clarke, late tonians" no more may know her." Mrs. JefiHes at did have a number of copies of a book written swer or explain to the satisfaction of that in some paper. dices of course cannot be reasoned with, as they The first offered is from a poor member of Con- in the right. Recognizing our great palladium of Comptroller of the Currency, providing for a re- night inaugurated the ball season by the entertainment grave body, no one will be more rejoiced than Now, you may not be able to answer these do not possess sufficient of the elements of rea- and published by a friend, entitled "Mixed gress. He is one of the sort who lives down a liberty found in the freedom of speech, he felt turn to specie payment without contracting the given in honor of her daughter's debut. Their pleas- ourselves. questions yourself, still you may know some re- son to admit even of remonstrance. An intel- ant house on the corner of Fifteenth and K streets was Drinks," which taught the mysteries of such back alley in a second-class boarding house, quiete that he was teaching an effete despotism what currency. It is urged against this bill that it is In the meantime attention is called to the porter who reports State sociables, and writes lectual process cannot reach them. connectécl by a covered way with the vacant house ad- delicious American mixtures. These in re his pockets on hasheesh, and polishes himself the palladium was. But at the very moment when simply a measure to relieve the national banks joining, in which was the dancing. Miss JefiHes Is one consulate of Cairo, and if it is necessary to his congressional extremities. criticisms on immature theatrical performances, Sumner spoke to his amendment two hours on from paying specie, and to throw the whole bur- sponse to the demand he distributed among he should have let the eagle scream and the flag of the fairest buds that has bloomed in onr midst for— have a specimen official there under our pe- who can and will, just to oblige IN DUBIO. , Monday, and if justice is what we are. all after, den of the experiment upon the Treasury Depart- the consuls, who were generally natives, of All that ha says below is true in the abstract. wave, amid a crash of crockery and a whirl of we will not be ungallant enough to say years but the Hebrew persuasion. The joke comes in culiar civil-service reform, let us have a de- Every word is a shot, and every sentence a con- glass, Brother Cramer weakened, and putting the his speech is unanswerable. But what most peo- ment. It is claimed that it might better be enti- months. She aided her mother and father in welcom- on the thought suggested, of these hook-nosed cidedly big one—a fellow like the late James viction—in the abstract. We wish it were so in MAX ADELER, the celebrated humorist, makes correspondence in his pocket went on with his ple want is only their own idea of justice. If tled a bill to prevent specie payment. But then ing the guests during the earlier part of the evening Fisk, jr., or the living Tweed, or Tom Mur- every respect. Alas I it is not as represented by his first appearance in THE CAPITAL of this issue dinner. But he did it under protest. He an Jones and Smith make a thousand dollars per the Committee on Banking and Currency under- bnt later neither watchful mother nor jealous father sons of Moses poring over the pages of 1 "Mixed Drinks" in a solemn search of their phy, who can steal a pyramid and have done this M. C. Unfortunately we are an experienced under the head of " Graduated Grins," and gives nounced his free-born determination to read that day, they consider that their reward is barely suf- stand this matter, and probably if we say any- could keep her from those who courted her hand for the individual. Young in years, but old in observa- us an original idea in his beBt style. We have correspondence to every minister privately the ficient for their services. But if Jones and Smiths' thing more about it the committee will think we dance. Her toilet was entirely designed and fashioned consular duties. with it. by Worth, and was of white silk with an overdress of tion. And while we repudiate the imputation engaged this gentleman to write for THE CAPITAL day following the entertainment. And he did. clerks should ask that their scanty remunerations have been attending their sessions. If we can blue silk made decollete. To say who was there would regularly, and added to the force we already pos- might be increased, the former would be shocked only get currency enough, we don't care a cent With this, however, we have nothing to do that the Congress of the United States is alto- This was well. But It was not so well as if he be difficult, but we can count those who were not. The CURTIS AS EDITOR. ; at the sublime impudence of the latter, and their about returning to specie payment. What we at the present writing. From comments upon gether a corrupt one,some sin Burcly exists therein. sess, we can safely pass from "Graduated" to had put a decanter In active circulation and music-was delicious, and flowers were never seen in Harpers' Weekly claims the high-sounding If the edict from above that destroyed Sodom " CAPITAL Grins." reckless request would only be regarded as one want is some member to introduce a bill which current events we pass into the historical. smote the diplomatic representative of the des greater profusion or beauty. title of " Journal of Civilization." This claim and Gomorrah—not the way-stations on the At- With the end of Glnx's Daughter, we com- pot on the nose. That would have been grand. more illustration of human vanity and pretension. will enable the great American people to make In 1861 Mr. Lincoln, instigated by Mr. Sew is profusely illustrated in a variety of ways. lantic and Pacific railway of those names, but the mence the beautiful story of Colonel Gil Pierce, Such a demonstration would have struck terror to Sumner desires that the negro may simply be lean pocket-books fat. People are not troubled On Wednesday the Cabinet ladies went through their ard, appointed a consumptive-looking gentle real old Biblical towns, where Mrs. Lot paid that and after the " Four Hunts of a Ghost Club," by the souls of tyrants, and entitled the double equal before the law. Vlckers of Maryland, who half so much about the quality of their money as weekly ordeal. Mrs. Creswell, bright and pleasing in It is modern civilization, for example, to stir her manner, has provided dancing for all whose brains tleman of Massachusetts, by the name of heavy duty on salt Which amounted to prohibi- Derrick Dodd and D. P. We propose doing all in barreled brother to a statue by little Vinnie Ream faintly attempted to respond to Sumner on Mon- the quantity. Given the latter, and if people want Up bad blood between religious sects, and by may be,in their heels, and when she gets a "stupid" be- Thayer, consul general of the United States tion—if the edict were promulgated against our our power to make our readers happy. day, cannot separate such legal equality from gold money they can buy mines out West, and or'a pannel in the rotunda. fore her she says, in her most musical voice," There is untruthful caricatures strengthen bigotry on social equality. Well, it is hardly worth while manufacture it by individual enterprise. Here to Egypt. Mr. Thayer was induced to take Congress on the same terms, we believe the one— dancing in the ball-room." one side, and irritate to exasperation upon was it one or two ?—well, the two holy men might pursuing this matter further. If Vickers can't Mr. Smith of New York—the Smiths are repre- with him, also from Massachusetts, a Mr, OUR PRECIOUS COUNCIL adjourned not only Mrs. Williams has quite taken the public heart by the other. The ignorant Protestant must be be produced. There are a few members so Very MAX ADELER, in his funny sketch of an im- see this there must be something wrong some- sented in Congress—wants a triple-track, steel 1 Charles Hale as a clerk or assistant. Mr, without passing Mr. Solomons' admirable bill for storm, and her house was thronged during the calling put in a lively state of mind by the wood- stupid that they are virtuous, and there being proved Patent Office Report, only anticipated by where. But if the Maryland senator had asked air-line railroad from New York to Chicago, to be Thayer being, as we have said, in delicate the better regulation of the Georgetown railroad hours. An officer quite high in the—well, we won't cuts that adorn the pages of this Journal of such we refrain from asserting that the American a few hours an ingenious Inventor, who sent to : any one of the ten thousand negroes who wit- built before the next fire breaks out, so that relief say if navy or army—told us on Wednesday, In tho health—of which he subsequently died in in the interest of the people, but tabled the Civilization, while the earnest believer in the Congress is entirely corrupt. We happened to the office an embalmed baby as a model for his nessed Monday's proceedings in the Senate from trains can be run to suit the emérgency. most confiding tone and with a simplicity that was Paris—was to do the ornamental and draw measure in a manner that proves the Council to Catholic religion is taught that civilized life know, however, that to secure a seat ih the pa|tent. The Commissioner rejected the model the galleries, where the wrong was, the Massa- This bill involves the old vexed question, raised "childlike and bland," "Washington is a good place, have been as corrupt as it was insolent. We a superb place,-by Jove, for poor service-fellows like his pay, while Mr. Hale was to do the work House—pack the delegates and control the cau- with Indignation, and Sent the infant back to the chusetts senator would not have come in for any In the New York and Washington air-line scheme, does not carry toleration with it, and that all propose Bhowing this up hereafter. us. My wife and 1 are in rooms, live on the European Mr. Hale was poor in purse but rich in re cus—requires the whole of the first year's pay in ingenious Yankee marked C. O. D., (collect on harsh criticism from that quarter. We are will- as to the power of Congress to grant charters to he holds dear and sacred may be pilloried by plan, pay for onr breakfast and then lunch and dine sources. When he left the "Hub" his name anydistrict in the Union. To get iato the Senate ML) with some remarks more pointed than ing to stake our reputation upon that. Whatever the hired pencil of an unscrupulous artist as corporations. There being two committees al- round;" - And it is the fact—a sensible fact. five times this amount has to be paid. THE BOARD OF ILL-HEALTH has not treated us polite., may be elicited from the above, is just the im- was not good on 'change. From all that we ready employed in solving this problem, we don't The " Bachelors'" german was in the evening and a recognized feature of our age. to any entertainments of late. What is the mat- We think the Commissioner in the wrong. Why pressions we gathered from what took place In can learn his name was not even known in This being the case, how is it possible for the propose to say anything more about it. In case Mr. Morris " led " with Miss Stoughton, who wore an We have nothing in common with the Catho- ter ? If the Board proposes to deceive a confid- not receive the embalmed baby as a model ? Have the Senate on Monday. that commercial locality. But Egypt is members to be so poor ? We doubt the poverty. the committees can't come to any conclusion, we exquisite toilet. Miss Stoughton'« claims to "belle- lic faith, and are not called upon to make a de- ing country in this way we shall move on Its works we not Washington's small clothes ? The model is mine to your man of resources, and this poor So, when a member invites us to Welcker's or Tuesday was a day for anti-Grant petitions— will have something more to say about this mat- ship" are not derived solely from her fresh, .bright and either have a few more physicians added or but the case of the infant now a little angel, and face, but her genuine kindness of heart and perfect fense in its behalf. Its record shows more claim Wormley's to a little champagne supper, which that is several individuals memorialized for an ter in the future. Mr. Dawes got a resolution young man worked the mines to such advan all those already there taken off. The game gets arc not the small clothes of interest only because courtesy to all—traits as commendable as they are beau- to agency in advancing Christian civilization they are doing ail the time, we incontinently amendment to the Constitution prohibiting any through appointing a committee to investigate tage that in 1862, one year after his appoint- tiful,and inherited by Miss Stoughton from her mother, than perhaps that of any other denomination, to be a little too much when the Board makes us they once encased the 'patriotic llnibs of the citizen from holding office who was habitually the Louisiana outrages, and elatedat his success accept. And when an honorable member sends who was for years Philadelphia's acknowledged society ment, he returned to Boston and invested the tyy-ed. father of his country ? And then while the small tried his hand at an amnesty bill. In this he and its opponents take issue not so much upon us choice cigars and rich old wines—and they do addicted to the use of liquor. If Sumner's one- favorite. Mr. Morris is well known in Washington as some thirty thousand dollars in various ways clothes are only good as an object of curiosity, failed to secure the necessary two-thirds voté. its doings in this world as upon the tenets this unceasingly—we smoke the first, and put the term amendment is what Conkling styles it, an a "perfect waltzer"—so a young lady told us, and we OUR SPRIGHTLY neighbor the Sunday Chronicle the embalmed baby served as a specimen of in- calculated to return him a handsome interest. other in our wine cellar to treat brother editors anti-Grant movement, then it may be inferentially Mr. Blaine—we beg pardon—Mr. Hale, then re- have no doubt he is; thongh not being " waltzlsts" that they claim jeopard their salvation in (old reliability) indulges in a burlesque imitation genious science. And if the, patent were He had realized over fifty thousand dollars in upon. stated that these petitions have the same object. newed his amnesty bill of the last session, which Ourselves, of conrse we are not a competent judge. another. The debt we owe to the Catholic of our "Anna." It is evidently done by some one year. What went with the other twenty fringed the inventor could hurry his model into John Sherman has got back—the oniy original gives amnesty and withholds it in the same Mrs. Porter lends her bright presence to these germane, church in the way of science, literature, art, Now living at the second-class boarding-houses male quill-driver, and it is strange that when thousand we do not know. Doubtlessly it court, and how solemnly the judge and jury John—who has just demonstrated how easily the ' breath, and it passed. On these matters the and is a universal favorite. She understands to a rare and all that go to make up a civilized condi- on cheap indigestion is not the only practice in such attempts the feminine he seems to think would study that curious mixture of art and was well invested'elsewhere. people can raise a voice in the selection of their House is eccentric, not to say inconsistent. It degree adaptation, and her pleasant conversational which the poor congressman might indulge. Let that to write like a lady one must cease to write powers and tact are wonderful. Miss Cutts, Miss Camp- tion, is one that the considerate and unpreju- nature! own representatives—in a horn ! The theory of needs a few rules to regulate its conduct. One This business of consul is a good business us try them on some other standard. Passing like a gentleman. The letter is coarse without bell, and Miss Paschal were among the loveliest of the diced will not hastily repudiate. And when Then again, why not instead of preserving the our republican government is very fine. We all great reason why newspapers and newspaper cor- when followed with due diligence, and how over the heavy lobby that lives on the poor con- lovely girls who did the german until the "wesma' being witty, and can be only called an imitation old clothes of departed greatness, that are after respondents are so unreliable is because they at- we recollect the vast extent of purely charita- suppose that we have a say in pretty much every- hours." this was made to pay may be told in a few gressmen, let Us take something over which there in the fact that it begins like our "Anna" and ble institutions this church has created and all only a textile mockery of the famous leaders thing. Do we ? Let us see. John Sherman is tempt to predicate their statements upon what is no dispute. There is the franking system. It ends with her name. words. of ¡the past—why not embalm through this in- on« of the most Unpopular men in the State of the House is going to do. Make a prophecy as The Ohio people were all made happy at one of their sustains, we grow impatient over the gratuit- is evil in itself and rotten in its use. Why not It seems that some" enterprising Yankees ^gesiously patented process the great men, as did Ohio. Nine-tenths of the Republican party in to its supposed action, and one will slip up as à pleasant sociables at Masonic Temple, which was ex- ous insults this Journal of Civilization tenders wipe that out ? Then there is the book-making. quisitely decorated and filled with elegantly dressed sought to introduce into the land of Egypt WE REORET that our Baltimore correspondent, the Egyptians of old, and put them up in glass the State hate him both personally and politically, matter of course. The best thing the House did the thousands on thousands of earnest be- What thousands of volumes and millions of dol- ladles and happy-looking'men. cases for future generations of sight-seers in the while ail the Democrats go a thousand degrees on Monday was to adjourn. certain labor-saving machines, duly patented lievers. lars are wasted that a member may send out a gentleman remarkable generally for his accuracy Patent Office to gaze upon ? In this way we could beyond commonplace hate in their opposition to Colonel and Mrs. Hosmer at their residence gave their the world over, that in the deep, rich soil of these huBlts of brain to secure a renomination and caution, was imposed upon abominably In If the House is eccentric, it is also generous. Of a like sort is the political conduct of hajre frith us forever our Dent, George Francis him. Of course, with such a state of things, in first evening "at home." There are very few houses the Nile and under the shadow of those pyra upon. Then that immense stationery account. the account of the eccentric pillow-case and sheet On Tuesday it passed without a single objection this concern. Indulging .in the loftiest strain party at the house of one of the first and most Trtiin would speak though speechless, the great- a country where people fit up things to suit them- in Washington so well adapted to entertaining as Col- mids whereon no end of centuries look down Gentlemen who never in their private capacity the bill to allow the people burned out in Chicago onel Hosmer's. Mrs. Hosmer was assisted in the wel- of comment and criticism upon men and respectable families in Baltimore. We were an- est financier the world ever saw, our John Sher- selves, Sherman could stand no chance for reelec- according to the late lamented Napoleon saw ten foolscap or twenty sheets of commercial to import their building material free of duty. coming of her guests by her sister, Mrs. Sturgis. The events, professing the deepest sincerity and man, could bid defiance to legislatures, and tion! That is what the marines think ! But John Bonaparte, would bring out crops greatly to note, suddenly grow into literary characters, and noyed beyond expression to find so harmless an Pig-iron Kelly improved this day to make a entire first and second floors were devoted to their Pohieroy, and Harlan, and all remain a warning goes out to Ohio, consults with the federal office- purest intent, there is probably no journal have an unlimited supply of the satin-surface, affair should have been so misrepresented. Alexis speech upon the tariff. It was the same old guests, among whom we noticed Judge Holt, General the astonishment of the natives, biped and and an example forever. Members of the House holders, has a caucus of the legislature called, pretending to any decency that is so dishon- hot-pressed, luxurious paper. Why not wipe this was not a guest on the occasion, and received his speech, however, in which the blessings of pro- Dunn, who seemed quite dé solé at the absence of his crocodile, of that Pharaoh - haunted world leaving their noisy arena, senators retiring from and before the good people of Ohio get their eyes est. And we would be glad to stop here, but out ? Then, again, every mother's son of a Solon, information from another. We will be moré care- tection were shown to the best advantage. Sev- agreeable wife, whom every one missed, for Mrs. Dunn To this end they employed a Yankee of foreign the Senate, members of the Cabinet turned from open, John Is sent back to the Senate for six is one of Washington's favorites; Miss Swayne, bright this dishonesty is tinged with a flunkeyism from Blaine down to Snap, comes up from his ful hereafter, as the harm done in this way cannot eral disgusted congressmen whose minds are birth as agent, who responds to the singular their places could pass into the glass cases as and witty, about whom a happy court gathered all even- readily, if at all, be repaired. years longer 1 This is such a free country, you full of the civil Bervice subject, and who now feel that is simply disgusting, and calls for ex- district with a small army of retainers to put off specimens of the men who ruled us in their day ing to-c&tch her clever speeches; Governor McCormick name of Thomas Kindinesco. Thomas K. had know. like sheep shorn of their wool in having their posure. in an official capacity upon the Government. and were loth to leave the scene of their useful- with his exceedingly pretty niece, who is spending her become a citizen of our great republic by re- Sherman's smart performances are not confined patronage clipped from them, fired desultory While the Journal of Civilization is pouring: But we could fill our valuable journal with sinB, Tns ACKNOWLEDGED ORGAN of the Administra- ness. What a retirement for the retiring first winter amid the delights of a Washington nouncing under oath all allegiance to every to such a limited sphere. He sometimes gets shots at the new regulations governing the civil week after week its bilge water upon the open confessed sins of omission and commission. tion here, the Republican, in speaking of the dis- Schuyler, where he could be out of office and yet " season;" Mis? Dorsey and Mrs. Eastman, who are prince, potentate, and sovereign whatever, in upon a pedestal where the world can look at him. service. In this direction, as a matter of course, great favorites in Washington society; Mrs. and Miss Why, then, grow indignant over our fun at the respectful note of Mr. Fish to Mr. Curt in in the before the public I At least we ask that his win- a declaration of Intention in such case made heads of Tammany, and calling in the ajd of Last spring the House passed bills placing coal Butler carried off the honors. He isn't going to Paschal; Judge Drake, with Mrs. Drako, who was quite cheap indigestion and the self-polished extremi- Catacazy affair, says that its rudeness, of which ning smile may be embalmed. Little Alioe, in and provided. And this was strengthened by caricature to enforce its abuse—a discus- and salt on the free list, .and in the regular order admit that any broken-down schoolmaster Is more surrounded by friends more than glad to /welcome h'er ! ties ? We would that we could concur with our the Russian government complains, was owing to Wonderland,said she had often seen a cat without back to Washington; General Chipman—and what a for- Thomas' brother George purchasing real estate sion in the Senate of the United States they eame over to the 8enate. Sherman asked capable of selecting public officers than himself, poor M. C. We would drop our slurs, our jokes, the hasty zeal of the Assistant Secretary of State, a smile, but she had never seen a smile before tunately happy man to have a wife who is universally be- is had within the ranks of the party the that they be referred to his committee, and -there and Butler is right. But we have an observation in the District of Columbia and residing our many quips at their expense, and say to one the late Bancroft Davis. Now as the venerable without a eat.; Let us try it on. loved and admired; Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd, than whom they went. The worst of It is they stayed there, to make here. What is the use of this miscella- thereon, with an acknowledgment of the civil journal is printed to sustain, and such men and all " Bless you, my children. Be virtuous Fish signed the note, did this hasty zeal affect none are more popular; Senator and MrB. Schurz with even when Congress adjourned. Well, the finance neous growling at the civil-service regulations ? authorities, including the Board of Public as Sumner, Tr(jmbull, and Schurz charge and you'll be happy." that eminent gentleman ? And as the President their very comely daughter, to whom we Bald most-re- committee asked the privilege to sit during the In the Senate Carpenter was manly enough to luctantly, "Gudenacht;" Hon. S. S. and Mrs. Cox—how Works and the Board of ill-health, not then upon certain people in power a corrup- approved the note, did this same bad quality ex- THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES have not been EDITOR CAPITAL : A reader of THE CAPITAL, I recess, when they would consider the whole tariff make an open fight upon them. Let congress- preposterous in Mr. Cox to have gone in search of winter created but manifest destiny. tion as damning as that which nailed Tam- tend to the Administration ? These be pregnant very busy the past week. The Committee on had supposed until recently you were in earnest question in connection with free coal and salt. men do the same, or hold their peace. It takes sunbeams when he had them in himself and wife, for many to the barn-door of public contempt, questions that at this time seriously agitate the Banking and Currency has had Clarke's specie in your denunciation of " rings," "jobs," and On Tuesday this committee made its report on a small effort to give a congressman a reputation. there are in this selfish world but a very few such un- It seems that a turbanned son of the pro- and yet the Journal of Civilization has not a diplomatic world. We fear our neighbor does resumption bill under consideration. The com- "jobbers" in and out of Congress, but I must .these bills, and brought in a report to reduce the Proctor Knott was a combination of letters not selfish people as our Sun-set friend. We know of no phet, a bigamous believer in sherbet, bow Mr. Bancroft Davis too much honor in doing him mittee, as a whole, do not think it advisable just lady whose entire life is so given up to making other word of encouragement for the true-hearted confess that my faith has been somewhat shaken whole tariff system. There never was, in the often seen, until, in an auspicious moment, he this injustice, and the construction that malicious at thé present time to legislate on matters which people happy, as that of Mrs. Cox. strings, and Byron, called Ismail Pasha, who seek to purify their own party. Not by articles which have lately appeared. I refer to whole history of legislation, a more transparent made his Duluth speech. One short week after people might put on the explanation would lead will interfere with the business interests of the reigning "Viceroy of Egypt, entered into this only this, but base insinuations are indulged your recent flings at members of Congress, who, swindle than this action. Mind you, In the first that and the unassuming Kentuckian was the to the belief that Mr. Bancroft Davis runs the country. On Thursday the wives of fhe senators wera " at speculation and became deb