VOLUME I. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., JANUARY 28, 1872. NUMBER 47. For THE CAPITAL. versation; but their utteranpes on that occa- ous—loathes old, loves new—Cathartics right. of warrants; forgery of names on warrants ; issue CONFIDANTS. SPIRIT OF THE EUROPEAN AND sion we most positively decline to repeat, What next?" addressing the president. AMERICAN PRESS. of warrants by unauthorized persons, for pur- strolled slowly down the hill, often stopping to venture to hope that you are here to-night as a witness BY JOHN JAMES PIATT. owing to their emphatic and ungrateful char- " We are here, sir, for the purpose of secur- poses forbidden by law, or in payment of services lean over a stone wall by the wayside to look at of your adhesion to our faith 1" acter. not rendered. The legislature appropriated for the white oxen decorated with a wreath of bright " Scarcely," said the other, smiling. " I am here to All things that know a lover's heart ing for her the Declaratory Act, with which CiviL-SEitvicE REFORM, tariff reform, and all observe what the worship of this new religion is. I Know the warm secret closed In mine; other reforms will gain by the election of Mr. the expenses of the general assembly six hundred, flowers, as though they were the sacred bulls to to seal and perpetuate her purification." be offered at some altar instead of beasts of bur- think no phase of human thought or devotion unworthy From all things eager whispers start— " Ah, I see!" exclaimed Mr. Thinedge; "by Allison as one of the senators for Iowa in place and forty-seven thousand, four hundred and forty of study in the calmest and most-liberal spirit.'' " We know it, we know It! She is thine." CHAPTER THE TWELFTH. of Mr. Harlan, who has been turned out for dollars for 1871. Under this the thieves forthwith dens with a ring in their noses, and tended by the ballot fallen rise, without it virtuous fall. swarthy young Italians who lounged idly under "There is a touch of Eclecticism in that sentiment," It is the time of the sear and yellow leaf— various reasons, but principally because he Was issued warrants for eighty-eight thousand, one Bald Sophronia. "May I ask what you have gathered The swallow, seeking Southern skies True theory. Good morning, Miss Ginx. Am in point of fact past that time—for it is Jan- found to be " on the make," like so many other hundred and twenty-eight dollars ; and when in- the olive trqes without a thought of the morrow, this evening ¥" Where some clear snmmer waters Rhine, uary of the year. The holiday adjournment most agreeably surprised with your intelligent eminent politicians. Mr. Harlan had in this quiry is made, it is found that the books of the content that the heavens smiled to-day, basking " I should scarcely like upon so brief an examina- Circles my tropic dream and flies, has terminated, and members from eveiy comprehension of yourself. Wise man that struggle the advantage of eighteen years of po- warrant clerk and of the chairman of the com- in the delicious haze of autumn, unmindful that tion," said the polished doctor, " to venture an opinion. Singing, " I fly, but she is thine." winter Is near and stormy winds will blow. Oh, I cannot judge how many of those people about us are community in the nation have put in an ap- knows himself—man used in the general litical patronage as United States senator and mittee on contingent expenses have been lost ! you lazy, improvident race ! You should live as in earnest, I cannot ascertain as yet what, If so, they Pale flowers, which Autumn's lips have kiss'd, pearance, settling down after the Christmas sense—no offense. ' Man, know thyself,' you cabinet officer, besides his connection with the The committee on charitable Institutions stole seven thousand four hundred and twenty dol- the humming birds, culling the sweets only of are in earnest about; It is possibly the narrowness of Whose far off May gtvos hack no sign, festivities to the routine (to most of them) of known." And he withdrew to write up his Methodist church, of which he was formerly a my education—but I find it Impossible to conceive of Murmur farewell—their souls In mist— lars by drawing mileage for tours of inspection the flowers, living in a land where bud and bloom legislation with characteristic American fa- report, which, by the way, was a marvel of clergyman, and which he has artfully used to worship without a Deity." But smile, in dying— " She is thine." which they never made. The committee on .rail- are perpetual. cility. The place is a parlor in the National display-lines and sub-heads, setting forth the raise himself to office and to sustain himself in "Ahl" cried Sophronia. "My dear doctor, that is it. He has habitually met all charges against his roads stole thirteen thousand tliree hundred and Look out almost any evening when you hear one of the fatal fallacies of the human superstition." The cricket from my hearth at night Hotel, and the time is ten o'clock in the facts as gleaned from Ginx's Daughter direct, (!) integrity by adducing his christian character as a flf ty-six dollars in a similar manner. The commit- plaintive strains of music, and you will see flam- It will be admitted that tha Christian doctor was Thrills the vague hours with carols comments being judiciously avoided, thus fine, morning. A party of ladies and a gentle- sufficient proof of their falsity, and by rousing tee on banks stole six thousand two hundred dol- ling torches, and below the glare somber figures more courteous than the Eclectic lady. However, they Singing the darkness Into light, man—no, there are two of the latter—are en- leaving the public to form its own conclusions lars in the same way, and the committee on canals (in black dominoes marching with measured step did not fall out. "After a while, and she Is thine." sectarian prejudice In his behalf. For this pur- gaged in earnest conversation. They are the without bias or prejudice; which was a sig- pose he has industriously availed himself of the and drainage followed their example.—The Nation. on either side a catafalque borne on the shoulders Meanwhile Lord Bantam, Kelso, and the prophet had executive committee of the Cathartic Club, nificant fact, as indicative of the state of the franking privilege and the minutes of the three of men, and containing the dead. This Is the been comparing notes. From the latter his lordship received scant courtesy. He had rather flippantly Written for THE CAPITAL. and Miss Ginx is with them. social and political. barometer for The As Methodist EpiscopaJ conferences of Iowa, and THE LONDON Economist, in au article opèning order of Misericordia, composed of men from all asked the old philosopher, "What he thought of this?" teroid is one of those shrewd, discreet, far only a premature exposure prevented every min- with the remark " that Mr. Boutwell's third state- [vocations in life, not the laity or monks, as is the GINX'S DAUGHTER. "What is the programme for to-day, your mistaken idea, for the members are men of the "That's nothing," said the prophet: "the question seeing journals which always discern the first ister of these conferences from receiving the ment revives the Impression'that seldom has the is, What must the Great Almighty God of Israel think Excellency?" inquired the Honorable Theo- I world with the same intent and purpose of the lithographed letter in which that notorious in- finance minister of agréat country been less com- of this ? This to be the religion of the future 1 Idols doricus of President Woodbine. gleaming of a change in public sentiment, lorders of Masonry or Odd Fellowship. Step into CHATTER THE ELEVENTH. triguer, Dr. Newman of Washington, urged his petent than Mr. Boutwell has shpwn himself to of fancy hewn ont of the great living rock and stones and it had always previously condemned the [their quiet little church opposite the Campanile, Victory perched, upon the Cathartic banner. f" We have arranged to receive the gentle- " dear brother " to work for Harlan's reelection, be," and that "his report contains little eise than which He hath made and scattered over the wide earth social evil" and suffrage movements in un Ithe grand bell tower, any time day or night, and to show His power 1 A ' new religion,' quotha 1 ' Ec- Tht Bodkin was resplendent in its account of mfen of the press, Brother Theodoricus. especially by attending the primary meetings. a statement of his adherence to a policy of heavy Many of them have expressed a desire to meet qualified terms. Général Boynton of the Cincinnati Gazette has taxes to reduce the debt, and a lame'account and you shall see men hurrying in, at the sound of a lectic ohurch f' Something beyond Abraham's God- the mass meeting. How it flung in the teeth Israel's hope and helper—David's strength—Isaiah's arid converse with Sister Phosbe. We think Then came the reporters of The Patriarch done excellent service in bringing to light the vindication of his operations to convert the debt, " Ibell, from their several occupations and donning of the Astringents this triumphant issue of The PuU'iean, and The Kronekil. These were goes into an examination of the financial situation j the black mantle and cowl, and taking their place Anointed One! Yea, Christ Himself left in the backT such intercourse must prove beneficial to Sis- evidence, filed in the Interior Department, of ground of the Ages by a boy lord, half a dozen trades- the cause Cathartic! How it taunted skeptics In the United States which explains the rapid and In the procession that has been summoned to the ter Phoebe, and we feel certain that the result followed by the reporters of the Sunday papers, Secretary Harlan's maladministration, and it is men, three or fonr'clever professors, and some dozens, everywhere, and gloated over the near ap sick or dying. Back behind our recent centuries, The Skeptic, The Ghronicstale, The Gazelle,consonan t with the latter's professions of piety steady rise of American credit in Europe, and of women of masculine assumptions—God save us I will aid our cause by its influences upon so- 1 proach of the new régime! In its exhaustive that his frauds, or connivance with fraud, should fully accounts for the recent reported offer of the thé Florentines were even more wicked than of How He must laugh I He that sitteth in the Heavens; ciety. When these gentlemen meet and con- The Tempus and The Bugle. All these gave leaders it dimly foreshadowed the future, have been discovered in his dealings with the In- Rothschilds to take the four per cent, loan if the [this decade. They were so bad that their own how His sad, terrific cachiniiation must ring and reficho verse with her freely, and publish (as they similar and like lucid accounts of their in wherein the Honorable President Woodbine dians. In fact, though a good many links in the interest is made payable in London. The first badness startled themselves, and at one of their through the eternal welkin as He watches the Punchi- have promised to do) truthful accounts of terviews to that published in The Asteroid, ¡ famous rendezvous profanity sat like an ugly nello fantastics of His little creatures here below !','- was enthroned in all the majesty of the Chief chain are missing, there can be no doubt that he thing in American finances which impresses the thieir interviews, we are confident they must with the exception of The Skeptic; but it is I devil, polluting and debasing the fair minds of Magistrate, and surrounded by a cabinet of was head of an Indian ring ; and his successors European imagination is the size of the surpluses. If another passage which we shall quote, re- cairry conviction to the hearts of all dispas- always on the off side, so people say, for the I these men until they sickened of blasphemy, and have been and are still engaged in reversing his These are something absolutely without prece- garding a presumedly American habit, has any her faithful Cathartic adherents. reason, we suspect, that it has (contrary to j established a rule that for every oath uttered a sionate readers." decisions in Indian affairs, and, as far as possible, dent. By closè management, and the most a'ccu- ! genuine lightning in it we dare say it will strike Letters flowed in from all quarters—letters fine should be paid, to be used for the benefit of j" A gemmen who is waitin' in de office the practice of its contemporaries) the audacity unearthing and prosecuting the .swindles perpe- rate and scientific adjustment of taxation, Éng- I somewhere in this neighborhood : of congf&tulation, of encouragement, of com- the suffering poor. The habit was not easily sehds his card and desiahs to see Miss Ginx," to perpetrate something original, independent, trated with his sanction. It Is believed also that land is able, In peaceful years, to produce a sur- fort—letters with money and letters with ad- plus of from $5,000,000 to 810,000,000, while every overcome, and many a coin was laughingly put " I have seen occasional suggestions in the press that interposed a call-boy, handing a card to the and even funny, every now and then. On this he hàs grown rich too suddenly during Ids public Cther great state in Europe, \ except Prussia, LETTER FROM ITALY, up for the benefit of i pmieri. This led to some on this branch of education it would be well to assimi- vice. One thanked the Author of her being president. occasion it criticised in characteristic terms career, and he has been charged before a con- gressional investigation committee with having faakes a deficit as regularly as Christmas comes 'Correspondence of THE CAPITAL. order and system in dispensing the money, and late our system to that of America. But, if there 1B a that she lived in the nineteenth centuiy, and the motives and acts of the Cathartics in refer- ropt of wisdom In the hint, there are also roots of evil. ;"Mr. Adolphus Tliinedge of The Asteroid," FLORENCE, Italy, Pec, 29,1871. finally out of this grew the Misericordia, noble and she confidently, devçutly hoped she might be defrayed his household expenses out of a fund found. The United States, on the other hand, 3hie read. " Show him up," she added to the ence to Mias Ginx, even insinuating that the One day when this Theliân wórld seemed ablaze true in its charities. And to-day the young gal- Mr. Carlyle has embodied in language too vigorous and appropriated by Congress for the Washington with nothing that can be called a system of taxa- noble to be emulated his protest against prespnt-dajJ "gathered in " on the day which should mark caàl-boy. spectacle of a woman whose relations with lant hurries from his eara Mia, takes the rose acqueduct ; while it is on record in the Interior tion at all, and nothing that can be called even with the beauty and splendor of suhlight I went, chatter, and one may only very diffidently say a word the enfranchisement of Ginx's Daughter. one of the opposite sex were openly those of " Yessah," rejoined the youth, with a grin Department that his son, for two years, drew an an attempt at scientific adjustment, turns out guided by an enthusiastic friend, out through the from his btiitton-hole, placed there by her delicate or two on the matter in its relation to education. In Another stated that she had a large family of of; such proportions as to make it a matter of "affinity," becoming the champion of the annual salary from the "contingent fund," year after year surpluses ranging from $80,000,000 Pòrta Romana, a gate of the fourteenth century, fingers, lays aside his jewels, puts away the vani- the United States the culture of speech-making begins rather head-strong, rapidly-inclined daughters, to the group of villas known as America; here ties of the world, and covers himself with the almost before the culture of thought. Indeed not long wonderment in the mind of the observer how "social evil," and prating of purification though regularly attending school in the city. to $100,000,000, and, as the Economist remarks, and asked, with great earnestness if the bal- spiritualization, and the like, was peculiar, not Of such a politician the Senate and the country rthe whole of these vast sums are available for some American sculptors, with an Çngllsh one black incognito, and goes out unknowing and un- after a few words and ideas have found some lodgment the union between his chin and cranium was in a young mind, they are casually and cursorily shaken lot would operate as a preventive as well as a to say novel. It was not prepared to say are well rid.—The Nation. the reduction of the debt ;" and what, perhaps, sandwiched in between them, have erected their known to the wretched abode of the unfortunate, mbintained. He-withdrew and returned di- £till more amazes the European financier is that family altars, having their studios very near the to minister to the afflicted, carefully caring for up within it by the Remand for an " oration " on some cure; to which an affirmative answer was dis- whether or not the enfranchisement of woman impossible thesis. Fact and history are necessarily a refctly, announcing, " iven the loose estimates at the probable yield of holy of holies, the hearthstone. the sick, or reverently burying the dead, taking patched by return mail. would enhance the general female weal in any THE money markets of the world are now pre- wanting to snch juvenile spouters, wherefore they are " Mistah 'Polphus T'inedge! " the revenue made by such a finance minister as Years ago, when I had first looked upon the no merit to himself, simply doing his duty and Demosthenes' spirit grew garrulous, and marked degree; but it did not believe with the senting some extraordinary features. France has forced to concoct their exercltations partly from imagi- Never was man more appropriately named. fmrs are actually surpassed, and considerably Greek Slave, I had wondered, with a curious long- leaving the rest to God. foretold marvels to be, which were too in- Cathartics that the ballot would prove a pana- for the time being abandoned specie payments, nation and partly from imperfect data. They are en- We once knew an undertaker by the name of surpassed, by the result. All this is, of coursé, ing, should I ever see and know the sculptor? This city, respectably old, eacli day gives me a cojiraged to be theorists before they become cognizant and is flooding England and Germany with her credible to here relate. Horace's spirit uttered cea for all the ills that feminine flesh was heir the consequence of the vigor of American indus- Yet here I was at the beginning of the fruition of glad surprise ; a novelty unfolds Itself, and yet so of truths. So universal is the Yankee propensity to Pliant and a cobbler by the name of Patch. useless coin. France has always had the largest agricultural parables by the bushel—yea, even to. It regarded the regeneration of Ginx's try and the rapidity of the national growth in my wish. Stopping to inhale the perfume of a readily have I fallen into my groove, that it orationizing, that to it must be attributed in no small Ihinedge more nearly conveyed the degree of metallic currency, estimated by her bpst statist! by the bushel ; for their enormity of yield could Daughter as a worthy undertaking, but it con- ipite of all mistakes, errors, and calamities. lovely rose that looked up Bmillugly beside the startles me to be called a foreigner, and I find degree the singularly metaphysical and theoretic char- ;a«ntness, the capacity for insinuating him- clans at from eight hundred to twelve hundred only be measured by that standard. Depu- sidered example equally with precept essen- path that led to the Powers' studio, " That is one myself enumerating to each new comer the lions, acter of ordinary American reasoning, even on the ielf into (for others) narrow and impossible millions of dollars, or from three to five times as commonest matters of social or political life; still tations of the frail sisterhood waited upon the of his favorite roses," said the friend beside me. and their whereabouts, even as I have the assur- plàces, with which this Asteroid reporter was tial to that end. much as the United States held prior to the war. j THE situation in Austria is a singular one, and more those rare and monstrous forms of argument they Woodbine and besought her to do likewise I thqught so ; I had an instinct always that hé ance to do to you. K> R K enjdowed by nature, than could any other Following these came the New York Of this enormous circulation, about four hundred ¿ot very easily intelligible, The Reichsrath con- are wont to advance in international negotiation. You unto them. This was a significant fact, for must have taken the délicatesse of his inspiration find your neighbor at a dinner-table i n defiance of Ba- name have done; it was eminently appropri- and Western Associated Press correspond millions have disappeared from the channels of tains 202 memhers, and one-half plus one is essen- from these suggestions of Heaven. Up the three in ttie beginning "force-had been found neces- commerce, probably largely hoarded, but, at the tial to a quorum, without which the machine can- conian maxims, elaborately generalizing from one par- ate. Everything about him was long-drawn ents, and they flashed the intelligence that steps and into the half-open door, I Btopped BOOK NOTICES. ticular. No people in the world has equal talent for sary in the case of Miss Ginx; now those of they had just personally interviewed Ginx's lowest estimate, one hundred millions have been not work. The great object, therefore, of the Con- the ornamental expression of nothing. Tracing the iitd thin. First his hair, which was of a again to see the magnificent head of the Jéms, the LORD BANTAM. By the author of "Ginx's Baby." her class came voluntarily for absolution. A exported to England and Germany in payment stitutional or German party is to obtain 102 seats, brilliant carrot huo, unkempt and ragged. Daughter, with the results, to every nook great and only Master, wearing a look of sweet New York: George Routledge
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