Harper's Weekly—March 16, 1861

VuL. V.-No. 2:20.]

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NE\Y YORK, SATTJHDAY, MAUCH Hi, .1861.

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OFl'ICF.RS in the AmlY nml Nw¥ serving i Clntirman of the Committee on Foreig-n Relations 1 withstanding his Uravado, l~(t the State, and mi~ · THE SOUTH are respectfully informed that is calied by_ those who lmow and love hhu best, grated to Te.xas. mh . t , f Jm·'s lFeel:lt will be nearly fainted. Senator KRN"NEDY spluttered even His reply to Wilkinson and Chandler was ex018 0 1 '! t C propne !J more than usual. Senator DouGLAS roared at the tremelv smart, ?!h. Chandler had abused Govglad to receir~ sketchesofFoRTS 1\ndSCI;;NES scrgeant-:tt-at·ms. That functionary called the ernOl' i<'loyd as a common thief and a seoundrel.

OF b'fr;REST at the present crisis, and to pay Capitol Police to his aid, and went forth to do or Wigfall twitted him with offering insults fm· wlllch liberally for such as they may usc. Any 01'- die •. Hr.ppily, after ~he tl1ird .cheer, the tu.rbui:nt he waul? no: respon,d in th?, field •. "I,~ill ma~e FICER in either service can obtain the TVeekly demzens of the gallcnes, obedient to Amencan m- a lmrgam With the Senator, he sa1d.

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Night had t'.tllen, and the Senate, after some opposition from Senator Jl.L1so:;.;c, resumed the debate

man. Hezekiah'-no, I mean 'Jeremiah'-no, I beg pardon, 'Zechat-iah Chandler,' I will covenant that Governor Floyd's friends shall pay the whole

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'l''VO NIGHTS IN THE SE.NATE. [EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. j I !'!PENT the evening of Saturday, Mard1 2, and tlJC night intervening between March 3 and 4 iu the lleporters' gallery of the Senate of the United States. The Senate adjourned at 1 A.M. on Suniay morning 3d, to meet again at 7 P.M. on the sr~me day, and sat continuously till7 A.~r. on Monday morning, March 4. The business before it was the foUowing Resolution, which had previously passed the House of Rept-esentatives by a twothirds vote : ~·That no amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give Congresa powe1· to abulish or interfere within any State with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or servitude by the laws of said State.''

It had been for some time evident that the Seuate wonld not adopt, even by a majority, the Critten(leu Hesolution5, or the Resolutions of tl1e Peace Congress, or the Clark R(isolutions, or Senator Doolittle'5 Resolution denying the right of secession. It was obvious, on Friday, Jl.larch 1, that the utmost that could be extorted from SenatorS" was the passage of the resolution above given.

Even that was doubtful. Very few Senators were willing to place themselves on the record as affirniing the right of Congress to interfere with slavery in tl1c States. But at least three-fourths of the Senate were anxious to see it defeated-the Republicans because it smacked of compromise, the Southern Secessionists because it hatl a tendency to strengthen the Union sentiment in their States.

These Senators, marshaled by SuM::;rlm of Massachusetts on the. one side, and MASO-"' of Virginia on the other, sought to defeat a vote by proposing a multiplicity of amendments, nnd consumiug time by debate and divisions by ayes and noes.

Against this combination of Hepublicans and Secessionists stood Senator STEPHEN A. Doua LAS, of Illinois. I (lon't thiuk he had any genuine supporters in the Senate, with the exception of Sllllators Crittenden, Bigle;·, and Jolmson of Tennessee, But he entered the lh.ts on Saturday moming with the air of a man who is going to fight in earnest.

And e\·en in such bodies as the Vnited States Senate pluck is apt to tell.

After a skinui~h with SulOlER, in which the Massachusetts Senator had rather the best of the fight, the second reading passed., by 39 to 5, Its further progress was then arrested by a five hours' speech, delivered, if not composed, by General Jo. LANE, of Oregon. \Vhen I think of tkat speech, and when I remember that Genera] I .. ane was at one time a probable candidate for the Presidency, I cnn not Hml words to express my thanks to Divine Providence for our escape. '!'rue, the speech had its advantage. It gave a rest to the wearied reporters for the press, and enabled Senators to write their letters undisturbed. When it was done, A.-..nREW JonNsox, of Tenncssee 1 t•ose to rer'lly.

Mr. Johnson is a. self-made man. In his youth he was a tailor's .apprentice, and he learned his letters from his wife. He i11 a natural orator, and as brave a man as lives. The author of General Lane's speech attackcd 1 with sarcasm and sneer, the Homestead Rill with which Senator Johnson's nam& is connected< Johnson's reply was one of the most eloquent bursts ever heard in the Senate. I remember, he said in substance, when, after years of painful struggles, with the young wife I had brought from my native place in North Carolil1a, and the little family which had grown up around us, I wns enabled to purchase a small plot of ground in Tennessee and buihl a cabin upon it which I could call my own. I remember the fceliug of triumph and exultation with which we looked upon the poor little shed, and knew that at last we had A H0:!\11~ OF OUR OWN. Aml then, ]ong yearS ago, I made up my mind tilat, if eYer I had tho power, e\·ery poor man, struggling as I was, should Lc ('Uabled to obtain a home-slJOuld have on:~ spot of ear!h, howeve1· small, one cabin, ho\y,c\·cr rude 11ml scanty, which, in the light of lteaven and the face of man, he should he able to call his own.

Au omino\lS t·ustle in the galleries followed this outburst, but 8ubsideU. on a growl from Senator l\Iason. Senator Johnson continued, laying stripe after stripe scientifically on the back of poor General Lane, and fiually closing with a magnilicent eulogium on the Union. On this the pent.. up feelings of the sp~ctators could no longer be restrained.

A trememloas cheer arose. Senator Mason instantly moved th;1.t the galleries be cleared. A few hisses w~e heard-then a stentorian voice shouted, "Tttmm CHEERS FOP. Tlm UNION!" They wen~ given with a will. Not only did the m1m's gallery shout, hut the ladies screamed and wa\·ed their handkerchiefs. Never since the first meeting of the Senate did that Lady endure f\uch an insult. For some moments the din '10as ove;·powering. ''The sergeant-rtf-n"Pms will clear the gnllerics !" commanded t'he Chair, fiercely.

It was easier said than done. There were at least :fifteen hundred excited men in the galleries.

For some moments it WM a questioil wheth-er the flenate would clear the gallerie3, or the gullcrh'B the Sanat..";). s~n.ltor Tunnn"llROP, as the ref<llected

they were bad gmmmar. had just arrived, and the gallery was full of North! am cnot1gh of a grammarian to perceive by ern spectators. Waving his hand gracefully to Senator Pugh's speeciles that he is himself no friend them 1 Wigfall continued: "The difficulty between to Lindley Murray. Whether .his amendment you and us, gentlemen, is, that you will not send would ha\'e improved the grammar of the Resolu- the right Sort of peo-ple here. Why will you not tion I really know too littl!l to say. Mr. Pugh is ~ud either Christians or gentlemen? Either peothe youugest member of the Senate in more senses ple who will not insult us with gross words, or peothan one. He hns an invincible tendency to get ple who will admit th-eir personal responsibility for upon his legs-which are short of their kind, like their language?"

Chandler had said that he those of Mr. Douglas. nut it' his legs be short, wanted to see whether we had a government; that his tongtto is loug. He generally speaks whenever if we l1ad none he would leave the country; he the President will let him. Not that he has any would go to some country where they had ouo; be thi11g to say. He seldom has. l~m·hnps the most would go atld live among the Comanches. Wiguseful office he ever performed in the Senate was faU re.plictl: ., The Senator says that under certo read extracts for Senator Douglas during his tain couditions he will go and live among the Cogreat speech on the Lecompton question. On thh munches. God forbid! 'l'he Comanches have aloccasion words of sense proceeded from his mouth, ready suffered much.;....too much-from contact with and Senators listened. This unexpected attention the white man!" His wit and repartee overturned his head, and he has talked constantly ever whelmed his Northern opponents, even in the since. On Saturday night he very nearly kiUed opinion of Northern l1earers; though, on the main the Resolution·which is printed a.horll. , Had his questions .at issue between them, be was obviously amendment been adopted the Resolution must ha.Ye wrong and tbey were right. So much for a good gone back to the House, which had adjourned to delivery and well-chosen language.

Monday at 10 A.M., and it could not have passed.

An hour or more .'l.fter midnight the Senate adOut of 38 members present, 19 voted for it; and journed to meet 011. Sunday evening. Wilen it VICE-PHESIDEYT BRECKINRIDGE-an opponent of met, Senator CRI1.'TENDEN had the :fioor 1 and deli vall settlements-giving a casting vote in the affirm- ered a three hours' speech in favor of compromise. ative, the amendment was carried.

Senator Crittenden ·will go down to posterity as a 'l'hen DouuL.\S rose, and in his deep, bass voice, good man. He is pure, honest, aml·patriotic. He eloquently appealed to the Sew.ate to reconsider the has served his country many years with credit. vote. CRI'.fTENDEN seconded the appeal. CLING- His weak point is in the back-bone. "When Lin?>IAN, of North Carolina-once a strong Douglas coin was elected, Crittenden, like a good citizen, man, now, poor fellow! a secessionist in a Union was for unconditional submission. But BreckinState-declared that he would change his vote. So ridge and others fell upon the old man, and bethe reconsideration was carried, amidst gnasllings guned him to father the resolutions wllich they had of teeth by the extreme Republicans and Seces- contrived. In an eYil nwmcnt he yielded, aml has &ionists; and, after some debate, the grammatical ever since repented the act in sackcloth aml ashes. amendmeut was defeated. Senator PuGH then The Secessionists had to sit up with him at night moved the Crittenden Resolutions as a second to prevent his denouncing the "Crittenden Comamendment. Every one kuew that they could not promise;'' and, in fact, when the vote was taken, pass. But the design was, as I stated above, to on Sunday, be voted against it. His speech wa-,; defeat action on tl1e main resolution. patriotic; b\tt it was very long. Senators on both Senator \VILKixso::;r, of 1\Iinnesot,., got the floor 1 sides listenell with respectful attention; but for all and proceeded to :flagellate the Secessionists and the practical purposes the speech might as well have South generally. He was followed, in the same not been delivered. ~;~traiu, hy Senator CnANDJ.. Eit1 of Michigan.

Both When be ended 1 filibustering was renewed. were -..·iolcnt, sevel'e, and rather abusive. Both Senator MAsoN declared that the resolution was a denied tbe right of secession 1 and railed angrily at ]Jlacebo, a. sort of 11 bread-pill," such as doctors give the seizure of Government property at the South to patients wl10 are imaginary invalids. Senator by the Se~ssionists. I!oth were fot' the forcible DouGL...\.8 instantly retorted that the South was, in maintenance of the Union. Both were answered fact, an imaginary invalid, and needed precisely by ·wraFALL, of Texas. such a bread-pill. It was dangerous ground. 'l'he A French gentleman, of large public experience, Republicans hastened to "take act" of the admiswho henrd this debate, remarked that W'ilkinson sion of the Senator from Illinoi~, and he was forced and Chandler were fair t.ypes of Northern, while to qualify it by adding tl1at, in his opinion, some 'Vi;s:fall was a fa-ir type of Southern statesmen. Republica11.s did really propose to interfere with \Vithout going so far as this, one must admit that slavery in the States. This riding Of two horses, there are superficial grounds for the assertion. you see, has its inconveniences. But Dopglas has 'y estern tllen lil~:e Chandler and Wilkinson-and so much pluck that a fall doesn't hurt him. they arc ncnrly all alike-are very unpleasant orAn altercation between him and 1\lason arose. ators to listen to. '!'heir lnuguage is not well Douglas declared that he had overheard a converchosen, and their ddivery most off'ensivc. Trained sation between Mnson and Pugh on the subject of to address out-of-floor audiencllS1 they never over- the defeat of the resolution by indirection. Mason come the habit of bawling; their tones alternate sneered at people who repeated to the Senate between a cowte and a roar. Their gesticulat-ion "scraps of priYatc conversation" which they overis abomhmLle. ",.hen they become excited 1 the heard, and wound up in his inimitably insolent hearer's anxiety for the snf'et'· of their blood-ves- manner with the adage De 9ustibus, etc. Douglas sels absorbs ev~ry other feeliri'g. To see them sit fiercely retorted that he permitted no Senator to down is his only wish. Men like Jefferson Davis accuse him of unparliamentary behavior. Mason and William H. Seward speak in ordinary tones1 yet took two steps hastily forward, and for an instant, are heard througliout the Senate Chamber. But the prospect looked warlih:e. But stopping midthese 'Vestcm Ciceros always seem to be address- way, after a pause of some moments, the haughty ing some one who is three miles ott: They appear Senator from Vil·ginia condescended to utter a halfto considel' tl1emselve~ oratoricalColumbiads, war- apology. He was ' 1 backed down." ranted not to burst with any charge. Their r;tatLet me take this 0J)portunity of saying that, with ter1 too, is generally ill-digested, They take an all his faults, Senator 1\IAso.x is perhaps the nearest hour to say what could be better said in ten min- approach, in the present Senate, to the beau ideal utes. The noise of their own Yoice disturbs tl1eir of a Senator. He seldom makes long speeches. memory, and they repeat themselves endlessly. 'Vhat he has to say he says in good language, with On a prairie, with an audience scattered over sev- a good manner, and in .a parliamentary wuy. eral miles of ground, they are doubtless the right When he has done he does not go o>er the ground men in the ri;;ht place; in the United Slates Sen- \again, but sits down. This art of sitting dov.;n is ate they are so faulty in respect of gesture, tone, the highest accomplishment of pnrliameutary scidelivery, and arrangement of matter, that even ence, and one which our Northern men find it YQry when they are right they seem wrong. difficult to acquire. l\Ir. :Mason never 1·ises needSenator 'VIGl•'At.L, of Texas, is the exact op- lessly 1 and never says foolish things. He spealts posite of these speakers. He is a finished orator- always .to the Senate, never to the galleties. In probably the most charming in the Senate. His parliamentary tactics lJC is unrivaled. His deYoice i.;~ clear, melodious, and sufficiently po,verful facts are obvious. His mannn· and tone are unto be heurd every where. He speaks grammatic- bearably insolent. He talks like a Pacha addressally, elegantly, and without etf'ort. He never ing eunuchs. Just now, his temper is embittered bawls. He never screams. His delivery is per- by his Secessionist tendencies, which are not shared feet, and his action suitable. When to these mer- by the pcbple.of his State. He sees himself topit.s I add that he is witty and smart, I have said piing over from the height of political power to every thing that can be said in his favor. For he insignificant obscurity. He dies hard. has the misfortune of being almost always illogOn the Republican side, speeches were made on ical, incorrect, and often absurd. He is a duel- this Sunday night and Monday morning by Senaist, aml carries his life in his hand. When be was a tors TRUMBULl, and WADE1 and on the other side young man he went to prttctice law in Ashmore's b~· Wigfall again. What I have said of Wilkinson district, in his native State-South Carolina. lie and ChEmdler wil1 apply to Trumbull und Wade. wrote art[des for the county paper, and made ene- The former was obviously bent on being heard in mics. One of them challenged him. They fought, 3eorgetown. Neither had prepared their speeches and Wigfall winged llis man. Another took 11p beforehand; aniil consequently, repetitions were inthe cudgels, aud was winge:llikewise. The· lead- cessant. ''OLD BENWAlm," as his familiars call ing men of the county notified the young stranger him, made some good points in opposition to Senath<tt he did not su,it their tempe;·, fl!Hl must go. tor Do\Jglas, who forgot his good manners in an lYigfallrcplied that. he pref<:r1wl to stay. "I will ntt.ack upon bim. But there was nothing new in shoot a regiment of you," he wid, "hu.t I won't eitl1er of the speeches. 'l"h-3 calm dignity naturally go." He shot eight alt.ogethcr, I beli~:o.·e, includ- expected in a. Senatorial address, the terse assering the brotlJCr of the bte Prc_,.,ton S. Brooks, who tion of principle an(l.ita logical application to curshot him too; the t'I'"O Lcllig'"rents lay seven or rent events, w:ere wanting-or at all events were eight weeks side by side, on their beds, in a tavern drowned in profuse· verbiuge. on an i8land in the Savannah Hi vet'. The eml of The leader of the Senate, under the Republican the war was, that !hooks died, and Wigfall, not- 7V!flme 1 will be FEsSENDIJ:N1 of 1\Iaine, the Chair-

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man of the Committee ou Finance. He seldom speaks. He is a cold, hard-faced man, with a gra,r cheval-de-.Jrise round his jaws; i11flexible as the laws of the unh·erse; cool as a mountain-top; and hrave as a lion. Next to him in influence, perhaps, may be ranked PRESTON KING, of New York.

He, too, is rarely heard in the Senate. His voice is a shrill falsetto, which, coming from a man built like a rum-puncheon, sounds queer enough. Dut he is very sound in council, and perfectly hraYe. His temper is merry 1 and the normal condition of his face is a broad grin. CLARK, of New Hampshire, is a bold contrast to 1\Ir. King, yet also a leader. He is a thh1, tall man, of sallow complexion, with lantern jaws and black mustache. His voice is keen, his sentences crisp. "When be speaks, it seems that a sharp knife is falling at the end of each period. Su:MNER1 ofMassachusett~, 1\Ir. Mason's successor as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, acted, during the debate whkh I witnessed, as whipper in. He watched wurily 1 and was ever ready to avail himself of all Parliamentary expedients to defeat the resolution. His voice is very good, and his elocution admirable.

Weight he has little, as he is known to be an abolitipnist; and though be is probably the most learned man in the Senate, he is not an efficient Seuator or debater. Probably the most e!licient Republican Senator in debate will be found to be DooLITTLE, of Wisconsin. His peculiar merits are, first, that be speaks clearly, sensibly, and quietly; and, secondly, that he knows how and when to sit down. This most difficult of all arts -the art of sitting down-he seems to haYe mastered. 'Tis probably a natural gift. At any rate he possesses it, and consequently he is always heurU with attention.

Hour after hour had slipped away; it was six o'clock in the morning, and no vote had l'eeu taken on the Resolution. In six hours more the Inauguration was to take place. 5enators began to look jaded. Half of them were asleep on tl1e sofas, aml some in their seats. The galleries l1ad thinned out. Repeated motions for a recess were m~tde. nut DoUGLAS, with bull dog tenacity, stuck to his point. At the bare mention oft.he \\·ord t•ece~s, his "I object.1 1\lr. President," ro~e clearly allow the din. His patience was lJeyorul ull prai& Not a sign of impatience escaped him even durir £ the most wearisome of the long speeches wlJ th consumed the precious hours of the waning see~ .'J<l.

But the instant the :floor ,\·as vacant he prcsse(~ his point. To personal attacks, and they were ~e;nny, bis sole 1-eply was-Let ns vote. And so ut last, half an hour or so before daylight, the ayes and noes were called for, and tbe Uesolution passed b~· 24 to 12-just tl1e necessary two-thirds.

If it saves tlS tlJC Border States, let us rcmeml.rer that the credit is due to Srttl'Hlli~ A. DouGLAS, of Illinois.

THE FO A'l"H.

E-nmY four years the ourtb of two months in the twelve is n Yery impo· ant day in this countrythe:Fourth of March and the Fourth of July. The one is the yearly anni versa1·~· of our national origiiJ: the other the quadrennial anniversary of our national renewal. This year it was peculiarly interesting, because of the unusual excitement in the country. :Fm·tunately for our national honor and tlte character of our civilization, there was no trouble of any kind during the usual ceremonies.

The sixteenth .!'resident of the United States was inaugurated under a soft sky and in the peaceful presence ofthotU!ands of his fellow-citizens. While he stood before them and read his address, the words were speeding all over the land as t.IJCy fell from his mouth. Along the telegraphic nerves they thrilled into millions of hearts, and it is safe to say that no words have ever been uttrrt;d in the world tlpon which bung more minds unxiously attentive than npou those.

It was curious to watch the scene in New York.

From noon, the hour at which it was understood that the ceremony would begin, thtl face of eve!')' man was lighted with the consciousness that "th~ great fundamental crisis through which our sys• tem passes every four years had ar1iv!l,.d, and th!T whole Government was changing hands. It was the mot-e momentous because not only the officers but the policy of the Government was also chm1g· ing. And still more solemn because of the import aut fuct to which not eYen a Lounger could be blinl uml deaf, that there was such serious difficulty ly· ing at the very threshold of the new Administm· tion.

Yet people's faces were sinf;ularly5heerful. Any thing positive is always satisfactory. ''Let us know the worst," is the instinctive wisb of evcr:y man in the uncertainty of a great crisis. Any thing is preferable to wallowing and maundering in imbecility. The condition of the prisoners in the ]'french jails in '93, when they wom!ered from dawn till dark, and from dark to day, whether they were going to be guillotined or not, was a hundred-fold more pitiablo than that of those who 'rere summoned to _the axe. Upon the wlwle, King Damodes was probably the most uncomfortable person in history.

The throngs at the newspaper offices were more earnest than asy crowds lately meu. They were perfectly good-humored, but the squeezing was suffocating. ·when a fe1r sheets came up wet from the press the univer~al Hi! hi! of the boys within announced to the jammed candidates outside that the1·e was a prize for somebody. Many an eager gentleman dashed gallantly into the stream, and after moving wit.h tbe solid current a. few steps, was caught and held fast for a quarter of an hour, perfectly motionless, and then struggled and strain" ed, and with much cost oftnmbled linen ami ru:filed broadcloth, emerged again into the street newspaperless as he went in, Then, when he was lucky enOugh, after patient waiting, to get a oopy ofthe address, he leaned up

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against some friendly door, or post, or corner, and rapidly scanned the words which were even then 1carcely spoken. Of course he interpreted it according to his feelings, his apprehension!!, his doubts his wiabes. There was never word spoken bv bu~an lips that was not susceptible of many iUterpretations. The color of the reflector determines the hue of the reflection.

And so our sixteenth President is inaugurated, and our seventy-fourth national year under the Constitution begins. God save the United States of America.!

A LAY SERMON.

"MY dear Hereticus," said Tbeologicus the other day as they were quietly lounging down Broadwav ,; why does modem fiction make so much fun of ihe clergy? You may take any six of the best modern novels, and you shall find plenty sly digs at the cloth. It seems to me very unfatr and unkind. Think, now, of Dickens's Chadband and Stiggins-ofThackeray's Lemuel Whey and Charles Jloneyman-of Anthony Trollope's clerical society aboutv the close of Barchester. What pictures they are ! What do you think of it?"

"My dear Theologicus," replied Hereticus, 11 1 think that where there is so much smoke there must be a good deOJ-1 of' fire. But you must not make the foolish mistake of supposing that satire stings any body but the .guilty. If you hold your bond to the fire, it is the burned part that suffers Now if you insist upon seeing all that is said of the cloth, you must look at both sides. Certamly Charles Kingsley is just to his own profession, and Tom Hughes sympathizes with Kingsley j and the ladies, almost without exception, are generous to the clerical calling. Kingsley and his friends do not believe, indeed, that an incurable dyspepsia is proof of sound Christianity, nor do they hold that flabby muscles are identical with robust religion.

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th:t j whining sentimentalists. And why should they?

What we call muscular Christianity is simply the protest of men of positive manhood and heroic tendencies against debility in body and mind as evidence of spirituality. Come, come, say the muscular Christians, it doesn't follow that, because a man honestly tries to do his duty, he must be round-shouldered an(i narrow-breasted, and wheeze with asthma, and cough with consumption, and go about the world so like the chief mourner at a fu. neral that you might justly think the worst thing that ever happened was the Chri&tian dispensation.

Come, come, don't suppose that Christianity teaches that n man is fit for heaven because he is unfit for the earth. Sound lungs and liver-a deep chest voice-a ringing laugh-a smile like a sunrise-an arm like a crow-bar-a hand like a vicea breast like a rampart-these are all harmonious with the truest religion. Disease is no more Christia.nity than anarchy is democracy. A brisk gallop every day in the saddle along the lovely banks of the Connecticut-an hour every morning at woodsawing-a little more breathing the fresh air of heaven instead of the fumes of his study-actual and not theoretic familiarity with all the sweet and sour of human life around him, would have given good old Doctor Jonathan Edwards much more cheerful views of human life and destiny.

"No, 'l'heologicus, no; Christianity is not a sol· emu black fir grove, so far nmth that tho air ilfalways icy and the sun a spectre, and flowers and fruit unknown. It is a grove in the softest climate-a celestial ti'Opic, full of music and sweetness, with trees in perpetual blossom, flower, and fruit-where sharp winda are tempered, hot sunshine mellowed, and life is a year-long festival."

"Why, Hereticus, you should have been a preacher-" "Yes; but am I not? I preach as I walk with you in Broadway. I am an itinerant, you know."

OVEit THE RIVER. PnonAnt,Y there is not a Lounger in the eoun·

try who, as be crosses the Hudson River at Albany, has not wondered how soon the ordinary decencies of civilization will insist upon a bridge there so imperiously that a bridge will be built.

In the wildest, bitterest winter the traveler may arrive there at midnight, and be forced out upon the river in an open sleigh, or earlier and later in the season, compelled to pick his precarious way along boards anjl sticks, thanking divine Providence if he escape without a ducking. Not long since, when the passengers by a train were crossing there, the plank which bridged a gulf of uncertainty between two pieces of ice was too heav· tly crowded, and the ice began to sink in the riv~ er; but by a timely cry of warniug and a rapid retreat the loss of life was avoided. This was the process of connecting at the most important point upon the great Western route from New Yorkthe point of union of the New York Central and the Hudson River Railroad.

So on the night when the rivel" broke up at AI. lnt.ny this winter, the stream of travel from the East and South and West reached the opposite shores. There was no possible crossing, and the whole CJ"owd was driven to Troy, which overflow~ ed with uncomfortable passengers. Yet there is not another railroad line in the land upon which travelers could be so annoyed.

As the matter now stands, the Lounger, who has experience, advises all "through" travelers to go and come by the way of Tray You can keep your scat quietly in tho front car from Chambers Street t() Troy, and tDere, in a spacious and comfortable station, step across from one trnin to anJitJler, and push on without the slightest !liscomlort. There is nothing r:aiucd by crossing the rh·· er at Albany,-except a general d8'l'!Ulgement. You ecramble ft'om the Hudson River ears to the ferryboat. There yon wnit in the cold. Tben you ,Jide aQI'OSs to the city if you are not ni,pped in the ioe. There you scramble into the Central R. R. 8

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and when you reach Sehenectady you see the rosy

ed slowly down the stream, many of them with

faces of ooutcut belonging to your late fellow~pas­ sengers, who have- coma comfortably round by Troy, and who re11ume their connection with you at this point. The inconvenience of the Troy route is, that you must change cars both at Troy and Schenectady; but that is of slight importance compared with the river crossing.

Let the traveler, howeYer, who is disposed to try the Trojan route, be sure that the train from the West or f'rom New York connects at Troy.

I1'or he will understand thnt the two sisters who .,it at the head of tl:c I"iver do not dwell together in perfect amity. He may, perchance, hear that Troy will under no circumstances cease to protest against the bridge at Albany. Well, be can not settle that question. But he may determine his route; and wanting the bridge, he will be a wise man if he passes through Troy.

queer freight of drift-wood, or remains of bridges, or a pile of ashes, or an old hat, era broken stove.

Nothing seems so lazy and languid as the driftice sliding down the river. Yet if you stand upon some projecting point and watch it for an hour, you will see that it has prodigious momentum. If the current set it toward a wharf or the shore, or upon a rock or a flat, it v.ill gride and grind and crush i pushing under and lifting the opposing pieces edgewise out of the river, piling itself over and over; breaking and pulverizing, and irresistibly advancing, or lifted and wedged motionless. There are three kinds of ie:e, as you soon see. First, the original deep-water, frozen pure at the beginning of the winter-the virgin ice of the river. This is the lustrous, crystal, polar ice, which mal;:es butter docile in July. '!'hen there is the flat-ice, or the wllite mass congealed on the shallows; and last, the later, superficial ice, made up of snow and sleet and the elemental deposits upon the surface after the virgin ice is formed, As spring advances, the constant friclion of the stream below wears and wastes the crystal foundations, and then the water soaks through the poorer surface, and makes the dirty, sodden, saturated ice, \l'hich falls a helpless prey in the collision with the diamond teeth of the fragments of early ice.

Over these wild, wandering, wasting acres you will see, at intervals, solitnry men and boys pushing their way in boats, running the chance of a nip. They are the picaroous, and their business is to pick up the estrays that are borne upon the ice.

Sometimes they will find a prize of timber-some. times they get "fire~wood for winter and to sell"sometimes, too, they must be caught, rather than catch, and be lucky if their own boat does not be· coma fire-wood for some later picaroon.

At last you Ie&ve the ice region of the river behind. The birds that have been exiled since the cold began float northward now upon the warm winds that blow from the equator. We are the venturous picaroons, and pluck a bird's sweet song from the drifting tropic airs. That was a bluebird. That a song-sparrow twittering in the thick~ ct, where buds nre swelling and glistening. And in the sheltered southern nooks of the Highlands, as if spring held them tenderly in his warm, open band, a poet dreams of · "da.ffodih!

That come before the swallow daree, and flake The winds of March with beauty: violetBt dim, But sweeter than the lldB of Juno's eyet!, Or Cytherea's breath."

THIS A.."'ID THAT. "DEAR Mit. Loll!I!GEB,-lsn't it rather hard that one man should work hard every day of tile year for a tolerable pittance, and another mnn, by a sllght and brief exertion, gets pe~>hnps in a. week all 'hat it COBtl! the first a year to eam? Plea.~~e answer.

INQurrurn."

This is a question which perplexes a great many people : but really it is not so hard. Is it hard that some people are born beautiful, or with gra,.. cious and winning manners; that some are eloq.uent, and some dull; that some have genius and talent, and others none? Must there not be oaks Rnd geraniums, swallows and eagles, bills and val.

1evs, to make a pleasant world? As long as there are degrees of excellence and attraction, so long there mttst be the state of things you deplore.

Yeu may ask, indeed, why every body is not perfectly beautiful, petfectly well, and perfectly happy; but those are questions to which yon will not expect a serious answer. Yet, are you quite sure that your own question does not conceal the same kind of absurdity?

For instance, how many careful, conscientious, generous women work patiently in their vocation as actresses. It is a hard life and girt with risks.

But here is one actress-suppose we say Miss Cash~ mnn-uot less careful, conscientious, and generous than any j but while the others toil and moil and have a desperate fight for life, the great actress may make a tolerable fortune every year. Is it her fault? No. Is it the fault of' the others? No. Is there any thing she could do which would enable the others to earn the same rewat·d that she earns?

No. Where, then, is the difficulty? ·There is no difficulty. You can not make the desire to see the one and pay .for it that :rou have to see and reward the other. Tommy Tinker may be as pious and good·a man as George 'Vhitefield, and have twice as large a family i but you will willingly walk ten miles and give a shilling to bear Whitefield speak, while you will not go across the street or give a groat to hear Tommy. They are both tnen, both good men, both talking men, both men who Jive by bread and meat; but the words of the one drop dead into your ears or drowsily upon your brain i those of the other kindle, inspire, enchant you into a rarer sense of life and a holier r('solution of conduct. Here is a piece of chickwee(\, there is a rose of Sharon. They are both made by the same good Father-they are both parts of his perfect creation ; but not less his gift, nor less a part of that creation, is the instinct in you which finds the rose lovelier and sweeter than the weed.

If yeu look at two men as precisely the counterpart of each other, it is strange that Adam should be paid five hundred dollars for talking an hour or two while Badam is barely paid five hundred dollars' for a whole year's talking. .1\lcchanically, t:.te talking of the two is the same thing, but spiritually it is profoundly different, They are not paid according to the equal time and talk, but accord~ ing to the spiritual food they furnish; and of that the public mind can be the only judge.

MELTING ICE. BEFORE these lines can be printed the month of stonns may have justified its name i but it began so softly that the whole continent seemed to have drifted into the tropics. The pilgrim by railway came upon the most sudden and bewildering contrasts. In the beautiful Mohawk Valley, while the snow yet lay deep upon all the hills, lighting up the usual gloom of the woods, the May sun 1

~:~:~ ::: ~fi~~~:i~gb:;~n°ih::n~~~:~~ h~~! bright sun tbrew every delicate twig in perfect and exquisite outline u on the snow. Birds were · · Hug? conspring, the trickling gurgle of melting snow, aml eager brooks, gushing out of' the hill-sides, flowing across the roads, tumbling into the rivers, made the air musical, and filled the heart with that secret jubilee that rings like an inward echo to outer sounds of joy.

Aml the g1oet1.t river, which three weeks before had broken up at Albany and Troy, and flooded the foolish buildings along the shore--foolish, because although the river is sure to break loose and ravaie the shores next year as it did this, and as

~: ~f;~lld:~u~=~~~a~;nt~~~~~~~~e~si:~ef~~lf:! spots'· and because the stream is so smooth and

gentl~ all summer long, t;hose simple buildings will believe there are no claws under that Yeh·et sheath of calm-the river suddenly opened, aml the plank." ice-bridge floated away, and the ferry. boats began to ply all unconcerned as if ice were a dl"8am of tropical poets.

But a tittle down the stream you could see the g:reat scales of thin ice, occa.rionlilly broken with a lake of -gleaming water, but generally water~logged and rot-ten. Great fissures, like the crevasses upon a glacier, marked it acmss; out hr the channel. they widened, ami as you came farther. down the thin ice was altnost wasted, and huge pteces floa.~

HUMORS OF THE DAY. ON one occasion two or three friends of Hood came down for a day's shooting, and, as they often did, in the evening they rowed out into the middle of the little lake in nn old punt. They were full of spirits, and had played off one or two pra.ctiea.l jokes on their host, till on getting out of the boat, leaving him !nat, one of them gave it a push, and out went Hood into the water. Fortunately it was the landing-pbwe, and the water was not deep, but he Was wet through, It was playing with edged Wolll to venture on such trlck.B with hlm, and he quietly determined to turn the tables. Accordingly, he }ll"esently began to complo.Ut of cramp~ and stitches, nnd nt lust went in-doore. Hill

;=::·hfm~ggo~~~~!~fe~t~f~::!J~,; ld~· ~~;

groans and complaints increased so alarmingly that they were olmOilt at their wits' -end what to do. My mother

had received n. quiet hint, and wns therefore nut uhmned, though mnch amused at the terrified effurtB and preseriptiona of the repentant jokers. There was no doctor to be had for mileg, a~ an sorts of queer ~edi~ wetoe sug-

mustard. My father at length, ns well u he could speak, gave out, in a sepulchral voice, that he was sure he was dying, and detailed some mOilt absurd directions for hill wlll, which they were all too frightened to see the fnn of.

At Ia~t he could atand it no longer, and, after hearing the penitent offender!! beg him to forgive them for their unfortunate joke, and beseech him to believe in their remone, he buNt into a p ·rfect about of laughing, which they thought at first w:1~ delirious frenzy, but which ultimately betrayed thejok•_- - - - En.nons OF TIIF. Plmss.~In Mr. Pycroft·~ "Ways and Word~ of Men of Lhtters" we read a conver~ut.ion with a

~~n;f!~e ~'!h~KI;:Ur~ !~:fi~~i:~:~'n ·~ren~;~~::~t ~~o~!~

hard-worked and half-blinded reader of proofs; for I nm ashamed to aa.y that we utterly ruined one poet t-hrough a ludicrous millprint."-" Indeed! and what was the un·

:b:~::a~~~~~!·~t~~ r:/~~es~!: ~~ ~~~~~~

made him 1111y, • See the pale m&Xtyr with ltis shirt on

firer"

ECHOES.

What must be done to conduct a newspaper righUWrite. "'Vhat ill neceasary ton fnrmer to W!Sist him ?-Syatem.

What would give a blind ml'n the grentet!t dellght?Light.

What is the beet piece of counsel given by a. jUBtice of the peace?-Peaee.

Who commit the grcat~t abominations ?-Nations.

What ill the greatest terrifierf-Fire. ~~A story of a pulpit rebuke," BaY!! Dean Ramsay, "ia traditiomll"y in the East Neuk of :Fife. An officer of a volunteer corps on duty in the place, very proud of his fresh uniform, had come to church, and walked about, looking for hlB seat~ but came \0 his pla_co rather quickly on Mr. Shirra quietly remOUIItl-ating, 'Oh, man, will ye aU donn, and we'll &ea your new bteekl:l when tho ltirk'a dune I'"

to

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the Atlantic Ocean.

One might BUppooc there t11em without trying to

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The nu!-yor of n 81naU village of Fmnce having OCCW!ion to give a poseport to a distingui~hed personage in his neighborhood who .was blind of an eye, was in great embarrass-

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A respectable sw•geon in LondtJn, making l!is dailv round to aee his patientR, had occa~ion to call nt a l!o;1~·c at Charing CI"O!l~, where he left his horse to tl:o:> t'' ··c of fl Jew boy, whom he usuelly saw in the strcd~. On r"m·, ; out of the bonae, he naturally enough expecled tu 1ir:d , ' trusty ~el'Vant treo.tin~ hin1self to a ride; but no-)f<:~t'l•­ cal knew the use of time and the value of mmwv :t Jitth• better-he 1~·as letting the horae to liU.le boys in Uic strnet, a penny a r1de t-o the lJorse Guards and back.

When George the Second got into a heat with his minister, nn•l imbted on being shown the document relating to a certain snQ,iect the nel.'t morning, the minister obey. ed; nnd when the King rose he ~nw tltree large wagons full of papers, neatly tied with red tnperl, p!1Cked beneath the window.

"Come, don't be proud," said a couple of silly young roystereu to two gentlemen; "sit do\m and make yourselves our equals." "'Ye should have to blow our brains out to do that," replied one of them-:-,---:---:---:-:--'1 The man who has raised a calll!sge-hend has done more good t.lmn all the meW physicians in the world.''

"1'hen," I"e}Jlied tne wng, ''your mother ought to have a premium."

The papeu relate an o.nccdote of a beautiful young lady who had be<:ome blind having recovered her sigl1t after marriage. Whereupon Snooks wickedly ob<lervea that it ill no uncommon thing for people's eyes to be opened by matrbnony.

Mr. Justice Page was renowned fur hiakmhness and ferocity upon the bench, While going the circuit, a face.

Uous lawyer, by the name of Crowle, was aslwd if "tb.e 0

ju~'i d~:,t n~~~~:;~. ~:\~ng~~le, "but if he is, I am sure he never was just_'-''-'"'-_"--A country editor, speaking of a blind sawyer, ~ays, 1\ Although he can't see he oon saw."

A dog is counted m~ when he won't "tuke somet.Wn~; to drink," an(i a man Insane when he takes too much, A financier remains "respectable" with a fortune that don't belong to him, while a ileggnr becomes a cl"iminal for pur. loining a piece of_m_'",--'·---Lndy Isabella l<'inch, daughtel" of the Earl ef Wiuchelwas lady of the bedchamber to tl1e Princess Aml!lia.

Lord Bath, one , borrowed a hn}f. crown of hei";

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a~~~!~~~· I ~ltouldn't be l'UJl?rised if Susan getll choked ''Wily,my~on?"

•• Becnu8e John 'Vip~y twisted hi~ arm~ around her neck the ol;her night, nnd if~be had not kiEsed to let him go, be

w:~da::::;:g=:v~-•--,:'::-:~~--::~in-p-,~---,d-I"CUllli'tnncel!, one of 1

Ilia friend!! observed that he had left but few effect&

''That is not much to

be

he had but few cames.''

wondered at.," said another, ''for

A to<, who bad-:-,.-.-c.,.,-,in-g---,of-,th-,nnrne>moe r,..;gn places ha had seen, wus asked if he hnd ever sern I.ouilli. ana. ''No," said Jack; ''what country doc~~he live in?''

Inn case which recentlycnme before tlte Court of Queen• a Bench, the following love-letter was read: "'MY EVBR DEAREST GIRL,~l received your Letter and Think not But my tltoughts are alwis with thee for beleTe me I have Long and Bitley Leemented that Part.tng day.

Oh what would I give to clasp thee in my arms. But oh! no I Can 11ot for I 11:m amonge !hease wild nnd solotory

ontliee to llcart!Je waWrRoarBcne.ath ami the wind wi~tlethrough this wild and Solatry Gleen. To see Ute bnty of nature round rue oh then I miss 'l'hy Charming ~mn~·- A_gnin I think of thee I start fl"Om my Seat !lll.d wicp~r a l'rnyer and a~k 'Vhy they Part me lrum thee. Oh none Cnn tell Howmis8eribble~=:_:::_ __ In all matters except a little mutter of tlte tongue, a womunC&Dgenei~~_:_ __ _

Many complain thnt they are not f<Plll"<!cinted Jll'i·per!}· simply been me they m·e. _______ •• Intemrcranee," said M1·o. Pmiington, wlemnly, with a riuh emotion in lJCr tone, "iM like an aft~r-dinnet• ~peeclt;'' at the Eame time bringing Rer lmnd, containing the snuff she had just brought from the box, d01r11 upon her knee, while Lion, with a ..-iolent sneeze, walked awny to another part of the room. ''Intemperance is a monster with a guod Illll.ny heads, and creep~ into the to~oms of fumilicd like any condn or an nlligntor, and deetl"GJ'l its lJMCC and hnppincs~ forever. But, tlumk Hea>•en, a ne'v Erie ha.~ dawned upon the world, and ~oon the hydrnutheaded monster will be overtUJ"ll~?.d l hn't it etn:mge thnt lll(lll will put {'UCmics into their J!!•JutlJS to ~teal away their

hr.nd~?"

''Don't you rCgtlr(l taking mnff Ill! a Yke ?" we nsk('d, innocently, "If it lio," she roplieii, with the same o!J fll"gumeut, "it's so email a one th:>t l'rovidtnee won't take no notico of it: anti, beaidc~, lllYoil f,,dories wgnl(l mic~ it sol" Ab, kind old llwrt, it wuH 11. drunkard' a arg;:mc11t!

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"Tour l1onor," said a lawyer to tl\0 jndg•, "CWll"Y mtlll who knows me kno\VE tlmt I am incHJ>a\Jk of !culling my :lid to a mean cauB.O." '''l'hat's eo," aaid his opponn1t.; ''the leaTned gentle. man never lend' himself to a 1nca!l cause; he al>>·nr~ gets cush down."

]oQti~~~~~~f o~~o~~UI~~i~~!~~n~~dl~~~~~\~Pi: ~~

eclf he flung- it away in u rnge, crying, " If you had been good for nuy thing you would not have boen thrown away by your owner."--------It woul' l·f\ lwr.I lo cou,-im~' t'm J'nn~=;netic need!(' lh~t a loadi!ione i 4't the JU(t,•t diYcr~:H;; thing in \Itt: world.

••Father, I think you Lold a lie in the pulpit to-day,"

Bll~,~~~~~b!'t 'toay~=r;

"Sir, you said, 'One morewordaud I have done.• Then you wen' on, end said a great many more worW. 'l'ile people expected yow.'d lPave otJ, •cause yon promised them. ~ kept ou preaching 11o long while after

:!'tC !:':';.

Nrtck Maefinagsn, with a wheel-bamlw, ran a race

'1'1"1\h s.l00omoU¥"e. .As the latter went out of i!lgbt, Mac obeorved, " Aff wid ye, ye,roa.rin' blaggard, or I'll be afthez runnin'

_ _ _ __

1nto.:!JC_~_!"

A ·gezrtJeman YM condoling a l!dy on •he lOOA o( her h115band; bnt fin !tin!':" tlmt Fho treated it with indlffenm.cl', rxclnimed, "C!~. wry 1reH, Mad:1tn, if tlbt 1"-e tim wny tai:e 1t.., l.car<.JII<! little !Woo~ it u you do."

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one to every potmlble nt.tmtion.

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.. Tlie times are hard, wife, and I find it difficult to heep my llO!Ie above water."

"You could easily keep your n~ above wat.er, huband1 if you dldn~ften above brane,-."

B~~a~t~~:m~~~;~v~if,•~l:~:::~~- I ~~~~dta:! my gbmc('H my foolingE betl"llf• when you: hrl.pefl motu pudding the third time:~~-« llv (:(,~r Sir, you have used my half of our CtL!l(l tf "Oh, )fell j you are JDI! ~d 1 and I alwaw take yo:~ur part."

Chllrn~--ne."

HARPER'S WEEKLY.

164

[MAROH 16, 1861.

THE NAVY-YARD AT NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

INTERIOR OF FORT SUMTER. O.:<rE of the officers of Major ANmms"C~:-< 1S command in FoH1' Smt:n:n Juts kindly placed at our disposal some more sketches of the interior of that work, and we publish the accompanying engravings from them. '!'hey explain themselves, and we need say no more than refer to their titles.

THE NORFOLK NAVY-YARD. THE recent excitement in Yh路g;inia on the sece~颅 sion question renders the accompanying picture of the Norfolk Navy-yard appropriate at tile present time. Viewed in conjunction with onr recent pictures of _Fort Monroe, it completes a series of ph:tures of Norfolk wl1ich h y:J!nnbh~ aurl in!et路cs!iug.

l'H.E KEY O.P 'l'HI路; FORT

~lOUt 'rUT~ ::\lAGAY.l}-;1!;,~

THE l'tiAJOR'S SOUVENIR.

The Norfolk Navy-yard is one of the best in the United States. It is provided with ali the usna\ furnitureofa:J.avy-yard-ship-houses,.store-bouses,

I

founderies, etc., and bas, besides, a granite dock which cost a million of dollars. At this navy-yard is anchored, as receiving-ship, the old Pennsylva-

nia, the largest line-of-battle ship in the world.

She is shown in the fore-ground of our picture.

THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE "SABINE" OFF FORT PICKENS. WE publish on page 165, from a sketch furnish~ ed us by a United States officer serving in Pensacola Harbor, a picture of tbe United States frigate Sabine, now lying off that ha.rbor. The Sabine is an old vessel, built in the old style, but is still weil considered by naval men. She was tbe flag-sllip of the Paraguay expedition, and was at that time illustrated in our columns. She is now lying off Fort Pickens, so as to be ready to give aid to that fort in case it is attacked. Her commander is one of tbe most gallant officers in the Navy, and ha~ expressed very fierce indignation at the treachery

JIL.RCH

HARPER'S WEEKLY.

16, 1861.]

THE UNITED STATES .FHIGATE of those officers wl10 have resigned United States property into the hand! of the Secessionists,

THE INAUGURATION. ABRAHAM LINCor,N was duly inaugurated at Washington on 4th March. We devote a large portion of our space in this number to the illustration of this important event. On pages 168 and 169 will be found a large view of the INAUGURA~ TION CEREMONY i on page l.Sl a picture of the INAUGURAL PROCl':SSION j and on this page an en~

graving depicting the

"SABIN~;,"

Ol<'F FOUT I>ICKENS.-[J<'ROk[ A

ENTRANCE OF THE TWO

PRESIDF.NTS INTO THE SENATE CHAMBER,

The procession began to foJ'm about nine o'clock on Pennsylvania A venue. The centre of attracw tion was Willard's Hotel, where Mr. Lincoln was staying, and by 10 A.M. the Avenue at that point was Llocked up. The day was fine and every body wu in the street. Over twenty-five thousand strangers were in the city, many of whom had slept the night previous in the Capitol and in the streets-it being absolutely impossible to find rooms or beds any where.

According to custom, the Inaugural ceremonies should have begun at noon. But at t:hat hour Mr.

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Buchanan was still in his chamber at the Capitol signing bills. It was not till ten minutes past twelve that he left the Capitol. He drove rapidly to the White House, entered an open barouche with servants in livery, and proceeded to Wil~ lard's. There the President--elect, and Senators Pearce and Baker of the Committee of Arrange~ menta, entered the carriage, and a. few minutes before one the procession began to move. The or~ der of procession was as follows : Aids.

Marshal-in-Chief.

Aids.

A National Flag with appropriate emblems.

The President of the United States, with the PresidentElect and Suite, with Marshala on their left, and the

PRESIDENTS BUCHANAN AND LINCOLN ENTERING THE SENATE CHAMBER B.El!'ORE THE INAUGURAl'ION.-{Ft:u:n

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.\lsrshal of the United States for the Di•trkt C•i Columbiu (Colonel William Selden) ami his Deputies on their right.

The Committee of Arrangements of the Sennt9.

Ex-Presidents of the United State~.

Tne Republican Association, The Judiciary.

The Clergy.

Foreign Ministen.

The Corps Diplomatiqne.

Members-elect, Members and E'x-~icmbere of Congrei~, and ex~Membe:ra of t11e Cabinet.

Tile Peace CJongre~~.

Heads of Bureau!!.

Governors and ex-Governors of States and TeiTltoriea1 and :Members of the Legliliatures of the •ame.

.A SKETUII BY

ouR SuctAl·

ARTIST.]

HARPER'S WEEKLY.

166 Oflicel'!! of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and MHiti&, in full uniform.

Qffi.cerl! and Soldiers of the Revolution, oftheWarof1S121 aBd su!Jilcquent pmiod.s.

The Corporate Authorities of W llf!hington and Georgetown.

Other Political and Military Assodntions from the DiBtrid and other parte of the linited Statell.

All organized Civil SocietieH. P:ofessors, ScboolmMter.~, and Students within the District of Columbia; Citizens of the District, and of States a!:J Territories.

The arrangements, as a rule, were bad, the throng pressing upon the Presidential carriage so as to compel it to stop frequently. But the sight was very blilliant, and the crowd enormous. A striking feature of the procession was a van labeled Constitution, upon which thirty-four young girls in white were seated. Our artist has selected for his picture the moment at which the procession passed the gate of' the Capitol grounds.

Arriving at the private door lending, through a covered way, to the Capitol, the carriage stopped and the two Presidents alighted. It was about half past one when the~· entered the Senate ann-inarm, as shown in our picture. A newspaper correspondent says: "~h·. Bnchanan and M1·. Lincoln entered, arm-ln-arm, the former pale, ~ad, nervcrus; the latter's face slightly flushed, with eompre.<2ed lips. l<'or a few minutes, while the oath was administered to Senator Pearce, they sat in f1-ont of the President's desk. 1\-ll". Buchanan sighed audibly, and frequently. Mr. Uneoln was grave and impru~sive as an Indian martyr."

After a few moments of rest, the procession formed again and proceeded to the platform on the portico of the Capitol. There, the Supreme Court, the Senate, House of Repr~sentatives, Foreign :Ministers, and a vast crowd of privileged persons quickly filled c\·el}'SBilt: while the people-to the number of some 25,000-were gathered in a dense mass below. President Lincoln was introduced tQ, the people by Senator Baker, of Oregon, and forthwith, in a clear, strong voice, proceeded to read his inaugural, which was frequently interrnpted by bursts of applause.

At the close of the reading the oath was ad· mini:>tered by Chief .Just.ice Taney; and after re-ceiving the congratulations of his fdend~, the President, leaning ou the arm of President Bu. cbanau, retired within the building, and thence (lrove to the White House.

THE WORK OF A WIND. A

in December on a prairie in Wisconsin. Within doors, Nettie and Martha alone, in the light of a flaming wood-fire. Without, a wild, sweeping wind driving the air full of whirling crystals. Clear i but perhaps the keenest, coldest night of the season-of any season.

Nettie and :M:artha are sisters. The roof that shelters fell to their hands by inlieritance only a :year ago; for when the mother died the father was lone, and being old and broken with care, laid him down to sleep by her side, as hE> hatl done for more than forty years. The house is hmnble, but the farm is good. A brother-from home now-gathers gray and golden grains by vexing the smooth, lich prairie-enough to keep them in food and comforts from summer to summer.

Nettie is little, playful, and waxen. Mattha is older, grave, and plain. 1\Iore; as she sits in her chair-not a high-backed one-her shoulders scarcely reach to its summit; and she seems to be little like a child. A pair of crutches stand against the corner.

Nettie, who, at seventeen, is not too old for kittens, and birds, and other bright and playful creatures, sits like a Turk-a very sweet little feminine 'l'urk, to be sure-the centre of a herd of feline juveniles, in the middle of the floor. With most audacious independence of winter weather and all its suggestions, Nettie wears tO-night a. light summer chintz-white ground and purple spot-a pure, bright little thing of a print, which, clinging close to her perfect figure, sweeps thence upon the carpet in billows of foam, flecked with purple verbenas. Not less than half a dozen kittens, the wildest of all imaginable sprites, in soft fur dresses of salmon and white, and coal color, are skipping about Miss Nettie in somewhat eccentric orbits, while 1t'listress Tabby flits gravely in the corner in matronly contemplation; reveling, doubtless, in memories of those days lang fi)"UC when she, too, made great havoc of balls of yarn, and gave fruitless chase to the tip of her tail. In t.he frolic Net~ tie's muslin collar loses its pin and falls to the floor, whereat the coni-color ldtten whisks it off to a corner, and deposits it under a chair as gravely as men do trophies of banners.

"Ah, you robber! yott shall have little peace with your plunder;" nnd Nettie proceeds to dislOtlge the enemy by sundry and vigorous discharges of balls of yarn.

Martha looks up from l1er book and speaks. Her v:oice is as sweet and musical as Nettie's, though graver, and she says, "Have we ever known so wild a wind as this, Nettie?"

11 Never, sis. It has whistled and roared, and whirled·the snow into heaps, and filled the air with feathers and broken branches of trees, anrl shaken the house all day," says Nettie, letting fly another ball of yarn at the redoubtable coal-color kitten, tmconquered, under the chair. " I feel anxious. Perhaps brother has been on the lake to-day."

"Oh no! No boat would venture out in such a gale, and in winter too."

"I suppose not. But what time did thb wind begin, and how, Nettie?"

"Let me think. Why, it came in a sudden gust at about ten this morning. But brother may not ltave reached the lake; ''e only look for him this 'veek. There is no cause for uneasiness, Martha."

A n(l yet the apprehension, once started, checks NMn::~ exnherance of spirits and changes her n;(Hlit. "j"!,,~ :.,..toni ...!wd kittem1, finding no reSfOn&e NIGHt'

to their bravest salliu, retire in evident rli.!igust, wondering much at the fickleness of young women in general; and the " eoal-color" under the chair sees Nettie, with utter surprise, come coolly to its fortress and take the collar without a caress. And then Nettie lies in her favorite nook of the lounge, pensive, her bead on her band, thinking of broth· er; of father and mother, under the snow; of the friend at the foot Of mountains in New England whose letters, fraught with golden words, failed to come last week and even the week before. "The mails are so irregular here at the West!''

In brushing the miles upon miles of prairie through the livelong day, the icy wind had grown mad with the fury of freedom, and tossed snow into the air with its invisible antlers; so that men, could they have lived in the biting air, would have breathed ice motes. The whole atmosphere seemed powdered with diamond dust, fioating crystals; and though the sky was cloudless the horizon was destitute of outline, earth and sky meeting in mist.

Now that night has come, and the moon is marching up the arc of the heavens, the wild wind is no less ruthless in its sweep, but tosses the snow, sways the few lone trees, and drives the frost into crevices, plating the heads of nails with a coat of white, and curling mounds of snow within the threshold of closed doors.

And now a curious phenomenon is being unfolded. A path of light, of gohlen tint, streams up from the horizon, and, intersecting the moon, forms a spear. point about it. Another belts the heavens, so crossing the first that the moon stands against the sky as a. clear "1:/rilliant pearl in a cross of gold.

On the right and left segments of rainbows unfold in as brilliant colors as the rainbow of day puts on; and near the zenith an arc of oolor, bending outward, matches another which is forming belmv.

It is one of those rare and magnificent pictures of the prairie, painted by frost-mist in the air, which a lifetime seldom finds repeated. The warmth and beauty of color in the gravity of night and the iciness of winter.

A sleigh, drawn by a pair of stout black horses, in which is a vigorous man and a fragile girl, had been winding all day among the forest trees which skirt the prairie like a broad brown fringe. The trees prevented the wind, and the cold was quite endurable. But at nightfall they shot out from under their covert upon the white bosom of the wild prairie, and the blast came down upon them with its sting. Now, while light and warmth glow within, where are Nettie and 1\fartha, and the moon b putting on its garments of violet, crimson, green, ami gold, the wild night wind bas chilled and stiffened the riders in the sleigh, and the horses are floundering weakly through the snow. The man bas taken one after another of his garments and wrapped them about his companion, and stands, stalwart and strong, in the sleigh, directing and urging the willing but failing horses. The wind, eddying and whirling, has piled the snow into hills.

Sometimes it is quite impossible to force a passage through till the hand of the driver has broken the drift with his spade.

The keen wind bites his face and hie hands, penetrates the meshes of his clothing, and would chill him but for the labor. The drifts grow deeper, the cold more intense; the strong horses reel and move slowly on. A little while ago the girl complained bitterly of cold. She thought she was freezing. But now she is quite warm-does not suffer at all. The man hears this with a shudder.

He has parted with his last coat j he can do no more.

"Take this coat, George; I don't need it now," she says, in a faint, cheerful voice.

11 For God's sake keep it on!"

11 Why, George, I do not suffer at all."

And still the horses move painfully on, and still the wind sweeps its icy fingers mercilessly over the prairie with its winding-sheets of snow.

"I am sleepy, George; wake me up when we reach a house. You must go in and warm, or yon will freeze."

The horses stop; the snow is high before.

George opens the shawl by the face and kisses the lips. She is sleeping. A few minutes more, and the sleep will have been merged in that dreamless sleep whence there is no waking. Once more, with the energy of despair, George strikes his spade into the mound of snow. The wind catches the white cubes, a11d they roll speedily to leeward. In the fitful energy of his exertions, perspiration starts despite the icy wind. But his strength is waning, and the drift is high. And what beyond? Only drifts-drifts-iterations of those he has hnttled for so many hours. It were as easy to die here as only a little beyond. No; he will make one other effort.

The way is partially cleared; the whip is put to the steeds; they advance, plunge, rise, plunge again, and fall with sheer exhaustion.

And now a light glimmers in the distance. Hope springs and nerves the strong man. He grasps his companion, and hurries on to struggle with the snow and the distance as well as he may.

11 Ob, 1\fartha! come to the window," says Nettie ; " the prettiest sight you ever saw! A great cross of gold, and rainbows aU about the moon!

Beautiful! beautiful!"

The sister reaches for her crutches; but little Nettie is lithe and strong, and. before the crippled woman bas mo,·ed Nettie has borne her in her arms to the window. Looking on the exceeding wonder and beauty they ar~ silent long. " Queen Df Night!" says MIU"tha, in audible reverie. <:Where she walks she leaves golden footprints," adds Nettie.

"Her chambers hung with crimson, and orange, and hlne."

"With a canopy of purple and violet."

"And a carpet of rainbow under her feet," says Nettie. "Wonderful are thy works, 0-" The form of· a man, with a heavy burden in his arms, appears like an apparition before the window -the face terribly haggard, the step tottering.

Net:ie rushes to the door; but the man has fallen, and two bodfe llo lifele&s before her.

It is a mystery that two aucb girls, one belplea~, the other slight, could have brought those bodie8 within the door; but it is done. Martha thinks it is brother with the bride he wu to bring from the East to their prairie home, The dress is not unlike, the form is like, the hair is like. It is ll.ot he. Nettie is not deceived.

The girl is sleeping, and will not wake. It is frail little May, come to Wisconsin with brother for life, and not for this icy death.

The man wakes and lives. It is Nettie's be~ t,rothed, from the brown house by the river-side ·within eight of mountains in New England.

He will ~>tay with Nettie and Martha on the prairie farm; for brother will not come back any more. No boat could live on the lake that day.

DOMESTIC IN'l'ELLIGENCE.

I!Clfin the suits brought against him by rome of Walker's men waa also paased. The report of the Seleet Committee on the Peace Conference proposition and the (Jdttenden resolutions wall then taken 11p,· when Senator Hunter, of Virginia, moved to strike out the :ftll!t article of the former and insert the first article of the latter. The argument was continued at great length by Senators Ma.~on, t.lrltten. den, Bnker1 and others, Senator Maaon taking the ground that the propooitions of the Confere~~ce were worse than nothing for the South ; and Senator Crittenden advocnting their adoption, and declaring hia readillCBI! to vote agninat hill own proposition in their favor. No action was taken.

- I n the House, the :flrat buaines.s ofimpol"tallce in order was the report of the <Jommittee of Thirty·three, and the fill!t proposition of that report to be conaidered wa.s the act for the admisaion of New :Me:dco aa a State. :Mr. Corwin, deeming debate UDDeeet!~ary, demanded the previous question. Mr. Hickman, of Pellllf!Ylvania, moved to lay the propo~ition on the table, which Was! agreed t()-114 to 11.

The amendment to tl1e Fugitive Slave Law, more clearly defining the duties of judge~~ and civil officers, was next in order. This was adopted, after ineffectual attempta to table it-92toS9. The next and I.asto!the series was an runendment to the act providing for the rendition of fugitives from julltice, intended to prevent contradictory decisions by

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State Sovereignty. Pending a dispute WI to precedence in

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took a recess until seven o'clock. On nal!l!embling, Mr. M 1Clernand proposed that the report of tl1e Peace Conference be referred to a Committee, but objectioDl! were made.

Another proposition to admit it failed. Territorial busi-

ness came up, and the bills providing for the organization of Nevada and Dacotah were passed. Nothing else of oonaequence was done.

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at 1 A.M. on Sd, without effecting &ny thing, to meet at 1 P.M. aame day.~In the House all the appropriation billa were paS!!ed. The foree b:IIL! were loat. The resolution censming Mr. Toucey, Seeretary of \he Navy, for accept.

!'i';n:e f:si~~~ ~~~~cera!r~':~~~:~ :~dZ:d States, waa passed after coll!!iderable oppo.rdtion--96 to 62.

No other business of oonseqUence waa tnwaaeted. The Houae adjourned nntil10 o'clock on 4th.

On Suuda.y, Sd, the Senate met at 1 P.M., and after a debate which l!l.ated till 1 A.M. on Monday, adopted the Corwin resolution, which wUl be found elsewhere.

On Monda.y, 4th, both Houees met at 10 A.M., but no business of consequence was t1·1LI1l!acted. In the Senate, Senator Fitch, of Indiana, spoke agu.inat time to kill a gas company's charter. At noon the aeeslon terminated.

1.'11E INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

At l.SO P.M. on 4th, Jtlr. Lincoln, the new President, delivered the following Inaugural: lo'ELLOW·Cl'l'IZENS OJ' TI.nt: UNITED STATJilS1-Ill eompll· anee with a custom aa old as the Government itself, I ap.

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United States to be taken by Ute Preidden' before heentera on the execution of hill office.

I do not consider it neCessary at present for me to discuss thOi!e matten! of administration about which \here is no Bp~cial allliety or excitement.

NO GROUND FOB APPREHENSION A'l' THE SOUl'H.

ApprehenHion seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that, by the acOOI!aiou of a Republican administration, their property and their peace and pel"50llal security are to be endangered. There bas never been any reaaonable cause for auch apprehenalon. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary baa all the while eldsted and been open to their inspection. It ill found In nearly all the published apeeclles of him who now addreSBes you.

I do but quote from one of those apeeches when I declare that "I have no pul"pol!e directly or indirectly to interfere with the inatitution of alav-ery in the States where it exist>~ ; I believe I have no lawful right to do so, aud I have no inclination to do 110." Thoae who nomiDII.ted and elect. ed me did 110 with a full knowledge that I had made this and mauy eimUar decl!l.nt.ions, and had never recanted them. And more than thia, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and aa a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read: "Ruo!Vf!fl, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especlnUy the 1ight of each State to or· der and control ills own domestic inlltitutions according to its own judgment exclusively, i$ esaential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our politicsl fabric depend, aud we denounce the l!l.wless invasion by armed foree of the soU of any ~tate or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as the gravef!t of crime£."

I now reiterate the!!C scntirueat~, and in doing so I only preas upon the public attention the moat conclusive evidence of which the ca~e is susceptible, that the property, pe~~.ee, and eecnrity of no s~etion ar!" ~o be In anywise en.

(MAROH lS, 1861.

Jy unsubstanUal «mti'JV(!lll!y aR to bow it ahall be kepif Again, in any law npon tbl.e 8Ul:ded, 011ght not all the safe.. guards of libert-y known in clvUb:ed and humane Jurisprn· dwce to be introduced, ao that a free man be not, in any case, surrendered as a slave? And might it not be well at the aame \ime to provide by law for the enforcement ef tho.~ clause in the Constitution which gu!l.l"H.ntees that "the citizens of each Sta.tP. ahall be entitled to all the privfit>gea and immunities of citizens in the aeveral Sto.tes f" I tn.ke the official oaih to-day with no mental rCil('rvations, and with no purpoee to conatrue the Constitution or law~ by any hypercritical rules; nnd while I do notcl1oo~e new to specl· fyparticnlar acta ofCongresa as proper to be enforced, I do

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acts which stand unrepealed, than W violate any of them1 t.ruatiBg to find impunity fh having them held to be uncoBStitutionaJ. THE SltCESSTON

QU~STION.

government. They have conducted it through many per· Yet, with all this scope for precedent, I now enter upon the aame task, for the brief COD!!titutional term af four yeal"l!1 nuder great and peculiar difficulty. A disruption of the ltederal Union, heretofore only menaced, fa now formidably attempted.

I hold that, in conttm~plation of univeraal law and of the Conatltution, the Union of these States is perpetuRl. Perpetuity fa implied if not exptei!Sfld in t.lle fundamental law of all national governments. It ia safe to a~ert that government proper never had a proviaion in its orgnnie l!l.w for its own termination. Continue to execute nil the expreesprovisiona of our national COlllltitutiou, and the Union will endure forever, it being lmpo!!i!ible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.

Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract merely, can it, aa a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the partiea who made iU One party to a eontr&et may violate it-break it, ~o to speak-but does it not 1-eqnire all to lawfully rescind it f

ili, and generally with great success.

NO STAl'R CAN LAWFULLY SRCii:DE.

Deaoending from thef!e general principles, we find the propeaitiou that, in Wgal contempiRtion, the Union fa per~ petual confirmed by the history of the Union itself.

The Union Is much older thnu the Constitution. It W1li' formed, in fact, by theArticle11 of Association in 1774. U Wall matured and continued in the Deelaration of Independence in 1716. It waa further matured, and the faith of &11 the then thirteen Statea expressly plighted and engnged that b should be perpetual, by the Articles of Uon7

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tion was tofonu a more perfect Union. But if the destruc-tion of the Union by one or by a part only of the Statea be lawfully pO!!sible, the Union :ill less than before, the Coa~titution having lOI!t the vit!ll element of perpetuity.

It followa from these viewa that no State, upon its own mere motion, ean lawfully get out of the Union; that 1"1!1• solves and ordinances to that legally void; and that acts of violence within any State or States, againat the &UtlJOiity of the United States, &l'e insun·ectionary or. revolutionary, according to circumstancea.

effect are

THE VNION SHALT, BE MAIN"l"AINED,

I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitutioa and the laW!!, the Union :ill unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I ahall take care, all the Constitution itself BJ:• preSi!ly enjobul upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing thil! I deem to be only a simple duty on my pal't. I shall perfectly perform it, so faJ: as is practlcabiE>1 nnl88JI my rightful mal!· tell!, the Ameriea.n people, shall withhold the requisition, or in some authoritath·e mann6l." direct the contrary. I trlll!t this wlU not be regarded 1111 a menace, but only BB the declared purpOI!e of the Union that it will eonstitll• tionally defend and maintain itself.

In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence. and there ahall be none, unleaa it is forecd upon the ne.tiona.l authority. The power confided to me wlll be naed to hold, occupy, and pOI!seas the property and pliLCCI! be. longing to the government, and collect the duties nnd imposts; but beyond what may be neceasazy for these objects there will be no invasion-no using of foree against or amoug tl1e people any where.

Where hostility to the United Stntee shall be so great and 1!0 universal as to prevent competent !"el'ipent citizens from holding the }'ederal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people that ol!Ject.

While the strict legal right mny exist of the government to enforce the exercise of these offiOOI!, the attempt to do so would be so Irritating and ao nearly impracticable withal that I deem it better to forego for the time the usea of such offices.

The malls, unless repelled, will continue to be furnished in all pn.rta of the Union.

So fa.r as possible, the people eV6l.'Y where shall have that sanae of perfect ~ecurity which is moot favorable to cslm thought and reflection.

AN APPEAL TO UNION-LOVERS.

The eourae here Indicated will be followed unleaa current eventa and experience shall show a modification or change to be proper ; and in every cll8e and exigency my best discretion wUI be exercised according to the circum. atanoos actually exi~ting, and with a view and o. hope of a peaceful solution of the niLtionRl troubles and the restora-tion of fraternal <')'mpathies and affections. That there are persona, in one section or another, who seek to destroy the Union at &11 event@, and are glad of any pretext to do it, I wUl neither affirm nor deny. But if there be such 1 need address no word to them.

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the destr!lction of our national fabric, with all ita benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be well to ascertain why we do It f WUI you hazard so desperats a atep while there fa any portion of the llle you fly from tha\ have no real existence! Will you, while the eertain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from 1 Wlll you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake f All pro. fess to be content in the Union if all CODlltitutional righb can be mnintained. I~ it true, then, that any right, plain. ly writ.tsn in the Constitution, has been denied f I think not. Happily the human mind is so OODI!tituted that no party cnn nach to the aUdacity of doing this. Think, if yon can, of a aingle inatnnce in which a plainly written provirlion of the Constitution has ever been denied.

MAJOlUTIIo;S MUST GOVERN.

If, by the mere force ofnumbera, a majority should depril'e n minority of any clearly written conatitutional right~

ever cause, aa cheerfully to one section as to another.

FUGITIVE Sr,AVES.

There is much controversy about the delivering up of fugit.ivea from service or l!l.bor. The clause I now r.ea.d Ia a~ plainly written In 'he Constitution aa any other of ita pi"tlVi~iona:

"No pei"Bon held to service or labor in one State, under the luws thereof, escaping into another, sllan, In conseqnence of any law or regulation therein, be cliacharged from such service or labor, but ahall be delive1-ed up on claim of the party to whom such ~ervioo or labor may be due."

Jt ia scarcely questioned that thia provillion was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of wlmt we csll fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is tho law. AU membera of Congress swear their support to the whole Uonstitution~tothil! provision asmneh u.s any other. 'l'o the propo~ition, then, that alave~, whoao casea come within the tenus of this clause, "Rhall be delivered up 1" tl!eil" oatlu! are unanimous. Now, if they would make the effut1 h1 good temper, could they not, with nearly equal unanimity, frame and paaa a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath P There Is some difference of opinion whether this clause llhonld be enforced by natlonnl or by State authority; but surely that difference ia not a very material one.. If the slave Is to be surrendered, it can be of but little conseqll6lloe to him or. to others by which authority jt is done. And lhould any one, in any ClllieJ bo wllt&nt that &h1a oa\k &lur.llsollllkept ou a mete-

It might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution; certainly would, if aueh right were a vital one. But such is

not the ca~e..

All the vital tights of minorities and of individuals are 110 plainly assured to them by affirmations and negation&, guarantees and prohibitioDI'I, in the Constitution, that controveraie.B never arise concerning them. But no organic lo.wcan ever be framed with a provision specifically applicnblc to every question which mny occur in practical adndnistmtion. No foresight eo.n anticipate, nor any document of reasonable length contain, express provisions for all possible questions. Shall fugitives from labor be sur. rendered by National or by State authority 1 TheConati· tution doea not expreasly say. Must Congreaa protect slavery in the Territories t The Co~Wtitution does not expressly say: From questions of this class spring nil our constitutional controveraies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities.

If the minority will not acquie~ce the ma.jorlty must, or tlae govetnment must cease. There is no alternative for continuing the government hut acquiescence on the one aide or the other. If a minority in aueh a cu.se will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will rnlnnnd divide them, for a minority of their own will 1\ecede from them whenever a moJority refUBCI! to be 1

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trarlly aeeede ~~.gain, precisely as portiona of the present Union now claim to &ecede from it. All who cherish dis, union aentiments are now being eduCB.ted-to-the exnet-t;em.

J}ll1' of doing tbll. 18 Ulero such perfecUdentitJ" ef . . . .

MAUCH

HAHPER'S WEEKLY.

16, 1861.]

ests among the States W eomprbe a new Union as to produce harmony only allll to prevent 1'8ll.ewed secesaion.

Plainly, the con trill idea of eec~sion is tho e<!Sence of o,n· archy.

A nwjodty held inrcatmint by constitutional checks nnd !imitations, and alwayB chll.nglng ea~ily w.ith deliberate changes of popular opinion~ und sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. ·whoevCl' rejects it does, of necessity, fly tu an~rchy or to despotism. Unanimity Ia impo~sible. The rule of a mioOlit.y, as a permaneftt o.rrang6llient, is wholly inndmi.~si\Jlc. So that, rejecting the nmjority p1inciple, anarchy Ol' de~potism in some form is aUthatlsleft.

THE DltltD SCOTT CASE.

I do not forget the po<ition asaumed by some, that ConRtitutionul questions nrc to be decided by the Supreme Uourt, nor do I deny timt such deci<lions must be binding, in llllY case, upon the parties to a auit, o.a to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consillerution ln all parallel cases by all other depurtments of the Government; and while it is obviouslypo.~si­ ble Utat auch decision may be err(meoua in any given case, still the evil effect following it being limited to thn.t particular Clt8e, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for otl1e1' cnBe~, can bett.er be borne than could the evils of a different pmctice. At the same timll the candid citizen must conf6ils that if the policy of the Govemment upon the vital questions affecting the whole poople is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordiillU)' litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own, unle-~s havin_~:r to that extent practically resigned their government info the hands of tha~ eminent tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the Court or the Judges.

It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases propel'ly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their deci!!iolll! to politicnl purposea.

One section of our country believes slavery is right., ftlld ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dll!pute; and t,he fugitive slave clause of the Con~t.itu­ tion, null the law for the suppre!l.'llon of tho foreign slavetrade, are each as well cnforceJ, perhnps, as any law can ever be in a community whru:e the moral sense of .the people imperf~ctly supports the law itself. The great body of the people abide by the dry, legal oblfgation in both ease~, and a few break over in each. This, I think, can 9 1 ~~te~~tfe !~!~t~:'~ :~: !!c7i:: t~ea:~:fu~ boi!h~fur~ eign slave-trade, now impexfcctly suppressed, would be ultimately revived, without restriction in one section, while fugitive slave~, now only partially snrrenderlld, would not be surrendered at ell by the other.

SEPAUATION lMPOSSIBLE,

Physically apeaking, we can not separate-we can not remove otu· reopective sectioas from each oLher, nor build an impassable woll between them. A ltuHband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of eaob. other; lnlt the diili--rent parts of our country can not do this. They can not but l'emain fuce to fuee, and interconnie, either amicable or hootile, muet continue between them. Is it poagible, then, to make that intereour~e more advantageous or more satisfactory aftex separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends P Suppose y(Jll go to war; you can not figllt alway~, and when, after much I~s on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical questiom as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

EXCEPT A.CCOltDING TO THE CONS'1'ITOTION.

This country, with it~ institutlone, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the

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lt~elf; and I should, under existing circumstance~, fu.vol' rather th•1n oppose a. fair opportunity being afforded the people to ~.ct UllOn it. I will venture to add that to me the convention mo:le seema preferable, in that it all~JWS amendments to originate with the people them~elve&, in~ stead of only pe1·mitting them to take or reject propositions originated by others not specially chosen fot· the purpose, and which might not be precisely such as they would wish theml!elYes to nccept or refuse. I understand n. proposed amendment to the Constitution-which amendment, howeve1·, I have not seen-has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government, shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of btatea, including that of perSODI:! held to service. To avoid misconstruction of most I hnve said, I depart from my purpose not to spe11k of particular amendments, so far as to say thnt holdiBg such a provli!ion to now be implied constitutionnllaw, I have no objecti~n to its being made express ftlld ii·rovoooble.

NOTHING GAlNED BY HASTE.

Tile Chief Magistrate derives all his authority from the people 1 and they have oonferred none upon him to fix the terms for the separation of the S~ate!. 'l'he people themselves aL.;o can do this if they choose, but the Executive, as such, has nothing to do with it. His duty is to a.dm.iniatel' the present government as it c!l>me to his hands, and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his succes~or. Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people f Is there !lllybetter Ol' equal hope in the world? In ow• present differences, is either party without faith of being in the 1ight ~ If the Almil!;hty ruler of nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the Nol"th, or on youra of the Sooth, that truth and that

\~:u~a~:~'tr!of.[ee;:~~~e~heJ;~i~!;! ~r!~eg;~~ ernment under whicl1 we live, this same people have wisely given tl1eir pul:olill servants but little power for mischief, and have, with equal wisdom, provided for tl1e retwn of that little to their own hands at very short intervals.

-while the people retain theh· vlltue an.d vigilnnoe, no administration, by a.ny extreme wickedness Ol' folly, can very seliously injure the gevernment in the short_ space of four years.

My countrymen, one and all, think cnlmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost bJ taking time.

If there be an object to hurry nny of you, in hot haste, to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be fl'1L~trated by it, Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under It, while the new administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. .If it were admitted that you wlJO are dissatisfied hoM the right aide in the dispute, there still is no single reason for precipitate action.

Intelligence, patriotism, Uhristianity1 and a fl.rm reliance on Him who has never yet furaaken this favored land, are atill competent to adjust in the best way all our preaent difliculty.

THE ISStiE OF CIVH_. WAR IN THE HANDS OF Till!: SOUTH.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, anJ. not in mine, Is the momentona issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being youl'!lelves the aggressors. You have no oath registered In heaven to destroy the government, while 1 shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. I u.1n loth to close. \Ve are not enemiea, but friends. We mnat not be enerni"eg, Though pa'*!ion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from evel'fbattle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone all ovex this hroa.d hlnd1 will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, aa surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

EXTRA SESSION OF THE SE:liATE.

On 'l'ue~day, 5fu, lit JJoon, the Sun9.te met in executive eeadon, and continued Preddent Lincoln's cabiaet,

On Wednesdt.y, Cth1 a re!lolution was offered by Sena. tor Dixon, of Gonnectlcut, providing for the printing of the usual number of copieg of the President's Inu.ugural Addl"BSil. Senator Clingman, of Noo'th Carolina, in giving his assent to the motion, took occasion to say that he did not indorne the sent.iments of the Address, which, if carried out; would lead to Will'. Senator Douglas, on the contrary, had ~me to the conclttsion that the message was ono of pCllce rather than war. This speech is a magnanl~ mous indordement of the peaceful intent of the Inaugural The motion was not disposed of when the Senate went into executive se!l.'lion.

On 'rtl1, ill the Senate, the debate of Wednesday was continued on the motion to print ~xtra copies of the Pres-ident'B Inaugural •. Senator Wigfall opmed the debate,

b_e pursued war was inevitable. Forts Sumter and Pickem, nnd all the other places now held by the United Stutes within tl1e limits of the Confederate Sttltes, must be given up, and that very soon, or the South would proceed to take them. "'The Union," he said, "ill dead, and has to be buried." Seuator Douglas replied, ea.ying that he had examined carefully the rilm!U'kil of the President, and could see no reason to change the opinion 9Xpl'BSSed by him ou the previous day, that Mr. Lincoln meant peace.

Senator Mason ull!o participated in the debate, eolll!truing the inaugural as calculated tO lead to war. The Senate adjourned without coming to a vote or transacting any otherbusineiSS. The Prl'f;ident on 5th sent to the Senate the names of his Cabinet officers as follows: Secrctaryof StaU ..... .•. WrLLI.\l\1 H. SEWABD of N.Y. Sec.,-etary of the 'J'r008ttry. SALliiON P. CnM!J: of Ohio.

Secretary of War ........ . SIMON CAMEJ.ro;>i[ of Penn.

Secretary of the Na1!1J .••. GJJJEON WELLES of Conn, Posttnaster-General. .•... MONTGOMERY BLAIR of 1\oia.ryl'd.

Attorney-General .• , ..... EDWARD BATES of Misoouri, Sec1•eta1·y of tJreJnte1'ior• •CALEB B. Sl\1lTB of Indiana.

They were unanimomly confirmed, except Messrs. Blair and Bates, against whom four or fiye Southern Senators voted because they reside in slave States. · F.All.EWEI,L OF 1\IR. BRI!CKDIRlDGJt.

A few moments before 12 o'clock, on 4th, i\-Ir, Breckinridge came into the Senate with Mr. Hamlin upon his arm, and together they sat by the side of tile President's desk until noon, when, assuming the Chair, Mr. Breckinridge said: 1 ' SENATOas,-In taking final leave of this position, I shall Mk a few moments in which to tender to you my grateful•cknowledgments for the resolution declaring your approynl of the manner in-which I have discharged my dutie~, and to express my deep sense of the uniform eonrt.eay which, as tho presiding officer, I bave received from the members of this body. If I have etJmmitted errors, your genel'Ous fm·bes.rance refused to rebuke them; and during the whole period of my service I have never appealed in vain to your justice or clml'ity. The memory of these acts will ever be cherished among the mo~t grateful recollections of my life, and for my succeflf!or I can express no better wish than that he 1nay enjoy t~ relations of mutual eonfidence which eo happily have marked our lntercourae, Now, gentlemen of the Senate and officers of the Senate, from whom I have received ao many kind offices, accept my gratitude and cordial wishes for your pl'OI!pedty and welfare.''

INAUGURAL OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT.

The oath was then administered to Vice-President IIamlin, wh-o announced his readiness to take M; in a fnll, firm tone. Mr. Breckinridge took him by the hand, and led him to the chu.ir, after which, crossing over to M:r. Seward, he shook hands ftlld extended greetings with him, and took !Lis S('.at as the newly-elected Senator. The Vice-l're:lident rapped to order, and addressed the Senate as follows: "SB:NA~On.s-The experience of several yeara in thi<l body has taught me something of the duties of the presiding officer, and with a stem, irrtlexible pru:pose to diaclmrge these duties falthfully, relying upon the courtesy and cooperation of Senatol'il, and invoking the aid of Divine Providence, I am now ready to take the oath required by the Con!ll;itution, and to entex upon the discharge of the official duties assigned me by the confidence of a generous people."

THE IN'AUGURATIOI'f BALL.

The Inauguration Ball, for which such extensive prep· !ll'ations had been made, was a great success. It was very fully attended, and passed off in o. manner satisfactory to all. Mr. Lincoln, with his family, accompanied by VicePresident Hamlin and family, Senator Douglas, and other distinguished personages, entered the Ball about eleven o'clock, and after a briefpl'Omenade, received the personal collgratulations of stteh as chose to be presented to him.

Soon afterward the Presidential party proceeded to the suppet'-room; and ~ub~equ('otly some of the pli.rty, inelnding Senator Douglas and Mrs. L:lncoln1 ll'"h~ were partnere, danced a quadrille.

The following is IUUlounoed as the list of Ghairmen of tho new Sen11te Committees: Foreign Relat.tons •.••.•..••••.• , •.• Mr. StrllNER. Fin!lllce..•...••••••.. , •••·•••·· ••• Mr. FESSENDEN, Commerce ..•..••... , •• ,, •...•..•.• Mr. CHANDLER. Military Affairs,,, •• ,, ............. Ml.~ WILSON. Naval Afl'alre.,., .••• , •...•••.••..• Mr. liALE. Judiciaxy •.• ,, ••••.•••.••••.••.••• Mr. Tn.UliBULI~ Post-Office •..•.••..• , •..••• ,, ••• , .Mr. COLLAMER. PublieLands ••.•••••.•••.••••••••. M:r. HAELAN. Private Land Cla.imll ..•••••••.•.••. :Mr. H ..uuus.

Indian Affairs •. , ••.•••• , ••..•• ,, •• Mr. Door..l'l'TLE. Pensions, •.•.••••• , ••..••• , ••.•••• Mr. FOSTim. Revolutionary Clainui ••••••.••••.•• Mr. Knm. Claims, •......•...•• , .. , .••. ,., •.• Mr. CLARK. District of Columbi~.~o ••.• , , •••..•... Mr. GmuEs. Patents •..•. , ................... , •• Mr. Su.!uoNS. Public Buildings ...•• , ••• ,,., •• ,, •• Mr. FOOT. Territories •.....••. , ••• ,, •.. , •.•.. Mr. WADE. Senate Expenses.,.,, •.•...•••.•.•• Mr. DIXoN. Pdnting ...• , ..••.•.•..•.••••.•••. Mt·. ANT!!ONY. Enrolled Bills ..•..•••.••.•..• , , •.•. Mr. BINGUAJ\l.

Engrossed B111s .................... Mr. BAltElt. TIIE STATE OF THE TREASURY,

The accounts lu.id before Mr. Chase on his asanming the charge of the Treasury allow that there are funds on hand applicable to the current expenses of the Government to the amount of $6,000,000, Besides tbis, the current receipts from the customs amount to $80,000 daily.

SECESSION OF TEXAS.

The State ofTe>x:as is out of the Q"nion. From New Orleans it i9 stated tbat the people have ratified the ordinance of secession by a majority offt·om 40,000 to 41'i,OOO. General Houston has resigned the Govauorahip.

THE CABHmT OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEnERACY.

The following ill the Cabinet of the Southern Confederacy, as at present colll!tituted: Secretary of State •• , .•. ,.· .•. . Robert Toombs of Georgia.

Ser:reta:ry o.f the 'J'reasury .... C. I,, Memminger of S. C. SeeretaT'!) of War •••••.• ,.,, .Lemy P. Walker of Ala.

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, .Judah P. llenjamin of lA!..

THE ARKANSAS CONVENTION.

Advices from ArkanRae, by w:ay of Louisville, announoo the assembHng of the- State Convention on the 4th instant, and the dectiou of lJnion officers by 6 Illl\iority. This indicates that tbe hopes of the Secessionists in that State have been defeated, THE NOR'rH CARD':uNA CONVENTION.

RetUl'llS from sixty-two out of the eighty-four coU'Ilties of North Carolina have been received, which indicate the election of sixty-five lJnionists and only thirty-three Secessionists as delegates to a l'!to.te Convention, should it be decided to hold me, which will probabJ;y have to be de-

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PROBABLE JfiGH'l' IN 'l'EX,\S.

News from Texas t"Bnders it probuble thut a. conflict hna already to..ken place in that State between the United States forces and thOile of the State of Tex"~· Galveston dates of the 26th ult. state that Captain Nichol~, commander of the State troops, had demanded of Uaptain Hill, of the United States Anny, t11e surronllcr of J.'ort :Brown.

Captain Hill refused to entertain the proposition, called Captain Nichols and hill men traitor;;, and exprea~ed his determination to defend the fort to the la~t extremity, Captain Hill refused to obey any order of General Twiggs, and had sent to :Fort Ring!told for two hundred men.

Troops were on the wsy from Galveston to reinforce the Temnnrmy.

FEDEUAL DRAFTS G-O:t-"E '1'0 l'RJ)'l'ESl' IN NKW ORLEANS.

The late Trea.surer of the :Mint nnd Assistnnt-Treasurer of the lin lied Stu. tea nt New Oi·lcanR, has just refused to honor the drafts of the Po~t-office Department for$300,000 for pootnl services, on the ground that Louisiuna has forbidden 8uch payments.

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'l'ho ft>llowing is par~ of a letter which has beon publiRile<l: "The troops are leaving the opposite 8ho•"C, disgusted at playing ~oldier, I suppoHC. 1'hey say there are only !lbout three hundred remaining, and these are regula!·~, having enli~ted for one year.

My messenger to the yard this morning said they were afraid we would attack them now. lYe could do eo, and get posse~ion again of every thing in an hour, if we were only permitted to take su<"h a course. I have now mounted nearly all the guns-that is, all that are really necessary to enable this work to be defunded by a force of 500 men. 'Ve have worked like horses to accomplish thif!, but great things can be done by ~mall mealll! when one knows how. This slllllll comllUI.nd has done more than Chase Ol' Lomax could hnve done with their 2{)00 men, and they know it. Ha"'ling ~een our guns go 11p 1'!0 rapidly, they swe~tr we have had reinforcements.

In fact, the papers say nothing else could lJJ expectedthat we have smuggled in men !l'Om the vessels. It Is true we could have doae ~o, nml tl1ey bu none the wiser; but not 11 man bns been added to this commanrl fi'Om them. In fact, so particular are we that not even an officer has come o.shore with the exception of t:aptain Vodges, and he only once, when the ve~els first came.

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"Colonel Chase was putting np a battery near the lightbollf!e, and mounting eight-inch Uo!umbiads on it. This battery would have raked our fl'Ont, so I wrote protesting

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told the ecretary of War that if he would not laJtd the troops in the B1·ooklyn, l1e, on his part, would not attack the fort, and would immediately discontinue all preparations fot• so doing, Of course this battery building was violating the agreement, and they have admitted it by not going on. They think I have no right to mount ll.nymoro guns either, but that Is all they know about it. There was no armistii'Al on my side at nil, except about the landing of the troops, ftlld that was the Secretary's. I am at perfect liberty to mount every gnn tn the fort if I choo~o, u.nd to make such other defenses as I can. Invent or copy.

"A. ,T, ST,J~:Il~IER, "Flr:st Lieutenant, First Artillery, CommiWding Fort Pie keno."

to the flag of his countl'y," in having ~urrendered, on de. maud of the authoritie~ of Texas, the military poots and other property of the United State~ in hi<! department, and under hia charge.

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FOit A BET.

The story runs that a gentleman living at St. Joseph's Island, out We8t, Wl\S engaged to be married to a pretty l•'rench girl, and tl1e bnns were published in the t:atholio Uhm·ch un a certain Sunday. The next day a Yankee made a bet of $100 with n. fl'i~;t_nd that l1e would marry the girl himself. The money was placed in the hand of a third party; the Yankee then c•tlled upon tl1e young lady and made a p!·oposition of mnrriage. She told him th"t her intended had already gi'l'en her $4.0 to hny clothes but that she didn't like him very well. At this l1er Ile\1' snito1· l•anded her a like am01tnt., and then placing $40 more with It, remarked: "There's his forty dollars, and I'll go forty betteJ•." 'l'he young lady could reHist no longer, and taking the money returned the amount given her by het' first lover, and married his competitor within an hour, well snti•fied with the bargain. The bet WRII won 1 aud in tl1e conrse of a montll the St. Joseph Islander muTied the sister of his first fiancee.

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AJ"Jny, now a leader of the Scce.~sionid force~, baa been appointed by Prellident. Dn\i~ to the command of the troops ill!<'emblcd at Charleston fo1· the attack on Fort Sumter.

Mr. Frederick W. Seward, a son of the Secret.ary of Stnte, and lately one of the editors of tlle All1any Evening ,Jount,,Jl, has been appointed by the President, and confirmed by the Senate, 1\6 A~~i~tant ~ecretaTy of State.

Illinois has drawn the first 'liplomat.ie prize in the llCJ"r!On ofN. B. Juiill, as Minister to :Berlin; Hermann Kreisman, of Chicago., goes as SeCl"Btnry of legnUon. Ex·Secretnry of Vi-"at· Floyd arrh-ed in W11sl!ington on 'rtl1, for tl1e purpose of a1•peurlng before the Criminal Court to answet· tlw in<lictment found against lrlm by the Gnmd ,J my in connection with the stolen Indian Trust l:'un<l !Jondc.

FOREIGN NEWS. ENGLAND. SWI'l'ZltnLAND SUGGitSTED AS A MEDIATOR IN OUH '!'ROUBLES.

THE London Stew of the lOth has the following: ~'It was said thnt Mr. t:obdeu had proposed the Swiss Uonfedera.. tion us medintor in the Amedcan conf!ict. 'fhe following is the tmth of the matter: Mr. Cobden, who is merely a private gentleman, has no authority to pl"Opo8e a mediator Hnving been consulted on the anbject of the disruption oi the Union by ~orne of his numerous friends on the other side of the Atlantic, he suggested that they should choooe the Swills Confederntion as an arbitrator. This fa.ct was communicated to M. Fomrod, a membex of the Federal Council. Thil! is what took. place, but uothlng more was nor could have been done. If the American Government; should claim the mediation of Switzerland, the Confederation would no doubt give the proposal the consideration It merits, but it is not probable that ~uch will he the case."

'J'Hlt "GREAT EASTERN" TO GO '!'0 NORFOLK.

The steamship Great Eastern is a.dvextlsed to san the first week in March for Norfolk, Virginia, where she has been guaranteed a Cllrgo of cotton, the freight on whlch amounts to $15,000.

TJIE GUNS IN 'l'HE l'ENSACOLA ,FORTS.

FRANCE.

The 1\olontgornery Mail has carefully compiled, front pel'sonal lmowledge the number of guns, ete-,. at J!l"CBent in the fo~t.\! at Pen~aeola 1 Florida, which is u.e iollOl-l"d: F01t Picken&-ln bastion, twcnty-.~ix 24-pound howitzer~:!; casemate, two 42-pounders; sixty-four 32-ponnders; fifty~nlne 24-poundern.

In barbette, twenty-folll' 8-inch howitzere; six 18-poundm:s; twelve 12-pounder~; one 10ineh Columbiad, mounted; three 10-inch Colum!Jiads, not mounted; four 10-inch mortars, in bad order.

Fort llaTrancas.-Eleven 32-potmders ; three 8-inch Paixlmns; two 8-inch Columbiads; eight 24-pmmdcrs; four 18-pounders; two 12-pounders; eight 12-pound howit.zerE. Flank defenses--two 18-inch mortars.

Fort M4Rae.-Lower tier, twenty-two 42-pounders. Seoond tier, twelve 8-incb Columbiads; eighteen 82-pounders.

Barbette, sixty-two 24-ponndera; three 10-inch Columbinds--none mounted.

In addition to the 500 barrels of powder recently brought to this State, there still remnim in the magazine at the Navy-yard 600 pounds of cannon powder, and SO(){} pounds of musket powder. In sand battery A there are two 8-ineh Columbiads.

JUDGMENT IN THlt BONAPARTE-PATTERSON CASE.

STATE OF AFFAIRS AT SUMTER.

Dispatches were received by the War Depo.rtrilent~ on 6th, from Major Anderson, which contradict rumorn tlmt he apprehended an attack; and relieved some other misgivings as to his situation. All the I"ecent con"espondence between him and Governor I'iclcens has been fur mol·e friendly than heretofore1 and no uausual preparations have been made which mdicate any present purpooe of eolliaion, The coast-guard outside and in the harbor o'..

Charleston has been considerably increased by gun-boats, whieh exerciae colll!tan~rveillance, and are intended to prevent reinforcements.· In Major Anderson's judgment, this foree ia sufficient for that purpose.

The Civil Tribunal of the S&ne on the 115th ult. deliv· ered judgment in the Bonaparte-Patterson cas!': in favor ofPdneeNapoleon. The Court grounds its judgment upon the fact tlw.t the queation was conclmively settled by the Emperor's fanllly rouncil in 1860. It abstains from pronouncing any opinion on the merits of the case, which, it will be remembered, M. Merveilleux, the Crown Advocate, admitted to be entirely in favor of the Pattersons. The latter will no doubt appeal.

THE ANNEXA:FION OF MONAOO.

The Journal of Monaco, of the lOth, IIRyB: •~On the !d. of February a treaty was signed at Paris by which the Prince of Monaco cedes the communes of Mentone and Roquebrune to the Emperor of the French. The ex.cha.nge of ratifications will take place within ten days, This ces. alon is made bJ1: th~ Prince for ~n indemnity of .£160,000, us alao the restitution of the pl'lvate properties belonging to his Highness in the communes of Mentone and Roque. btune, a.nd of which the Prince w-as despoiled in l84S, The treaty ~tipulates the establishment of a customs-unW., between l~rance and the Principality, and the engagemen).. on the part of the Imperial government, to COll2tl'UIIt a ca.i( riage-roo.d between Nice and Monaca," AlUmST OF A llllLT,IONAl'IU!:.

M. Mires, the great capitalist, has been arrested at PariJ and placed in the Conciergerle. It ia not clear on whM charge the a:rrest was made, though it is ~upposed to be connected with the pl'OBecution some time since brought aguinat him by M. de Pontalba, bnt whl.ch ~...-ail then com. promised. The news caused a g~-eu. ''eDRation on tbe Bourse, and the securities with whic;, ,11. -~~!res is cellnected experienced a considerable decline.

THE PROSPECT OF AN ATTACK,

ITALY.

The lfel'(!ld correspondent telegraph~: "I am infonned by an officer of the anny thnt information has been received from Major Andernon to the effect that it is tlseless to send less than twenty thousand soldiers to Charleston, Less than that number can not enter tl1e harbor ftlld tl!)stroy the batteries on either side. This informution, it is aaid, iii also in possession of the Government. '"'file (,'harleston Courier, of the 5th inst., flt3tes that Brigadier-General BeaUI"egard has cxpreeserl perfect confidence, after viewing tl1e fortifications in Charleston hu.rbor,. tha.t l•'ort Sumter can be l'B(luoed. He says 1;1\at it is only a question of time."

FLlGHT OF THE KING OF NAPLnS FROM GAETA.

MU, BUCHANAN AT LANCASTER,

Ex-President Buchanan renched his home in Lancaster on 6th, and was received by a large ooncourse of hill fello'""citizene, with a fine diflplay of military and civic soeieties.

In response to an address of welcome, Mr. Buchanan matle n. speech, in which he congmtulated hillll!clf on his retirement from public life, and announced his intention to pa~s the J·emainder of his existence as a" good citizen, a faithful friend, an adviser of those who aeed advice, and a benefactor of the widows and the fo.therle!l.'l," His only alhtaion to public 11:t'fairs was a hope that the Constitution and the Union might be preserved.

EPISCOPM_. CIRCULAH IN SOUTH CAROT.INA.

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"B.:J:J.OVI:D Bnlli~IIREN,-South Carolina having now become one of the 'Confederate States of Amelica,' u. Provisional Government having been established, and the Prusid~Jnt inaugurated, permit me to request that het"eafter, in the prayet· for •au in civil authority' now used, you sub-

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and that in the 'prayer for flongress.,' illl:!teadof the words • United States,' the words 'Orm,federate Statllfl be used, and the words • Senate a·ud' omitted. "'I retpain, very truly, yowrBrother in Chtia, "THOMAS F. DAns, "Bishop <A the Dioee.. of South O!>r<>lina."

GF.NF.UAI, TWIGGS

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lo'ROM 'J'HE ARMY.

The Secretary of War hM published an offloinl order dillmi.a~ing Getwl·Dl Twiggij from th.lil Army, "for treachery

The Moniteur publiahes the following: ''The King and Queen of Naples arrived at Rome on the 14th. Their Majesties alighted at the Quirinal, where hill Highness Pope Pius IX. paid them a visit on the 15th, It appears that tbc bombardment of the 11th nnd 12th was of extreme violence, rendering the rifted cannon useless.

From the demsnd to snn"Bnder to the moment the capitu. lation waB signed, the Piedmontese tln-ew 00,000 shells into the fortr<>ll~. The King paill!ed the Neapolitan troops in review before leaving, who wept on pre~enting arms to him. An immense cro\vll waa assembled, nud the population shed tean. Royul honot'l! WCl'B paid to Francis II. as he embarked As the ves3elleft~ a salute of 21 gum was fired, nml tlm flaga were lowered, while the" garrison ahoutc(l 'I.ong live tl1e King I' though in preaence of the Piedmontese, ulready in possession."

Sli:NSA'flON AT ROllE.

In Rowe t11e fall of Gaetn has caused immense excitement. TJ1e people are greatly agitated, and the national movement increasea in strength. On Thursday la~t a ~trong popular demolllltl-ation took place, the crowd shouted "Victor Emanuel and the unity ofltnly forever!" and even some priests joined in the chfering. The:Frenchgeneral offered no opposition to these proceedings, bnt the crowd finally dil!persed nt-the request of some French patrol~. It Is thought the Papal government will be unable to resist the movement. The Giornale di Roma denies that thm·e has been any arrangement between the Holy See

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ef hi3 Holiness becomes daily more isolated.

1\ffiXICO. The Liberal Goveroment, reeently triumphant in Mexf.

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ordering their estates to be put to some practical u1e.

These proceedings led to a elight fanatical outbreak on the part of the lowest ciasa of the population, instigated by the prieats, but the aft"ah" was ea.sily suppressed, with litUe bloodBhed. From the returns of the votes at the recent Presidential election, it appears that J\Ull'e.Z has a plural~y over bis competitor>!, I.crdo ~;nd Ortega, but as an abBolnte m~jority is req\J.M.te1 ilte clwi~e W' 11willc~ WUI lkvWft

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THE INAUGURATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

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lT THE CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, MARCH 4,

1861.-[l:<,ROM A DRAWI~G MADE ON THE SPOT.]

170 THE LOVER'S SAClUFICE. "YEs, make the fi·re burn brighter, Maud, for when Nettie Feturns from her ride she will be ''ery cold, I know. Ah! many a sleigh~ride l1avc I taken on a ChFistmas-Eve when I was young. llo\V pleased the children will be with t~e toys which we have arranged so nicely on the table over their little stocki-ngs, and Nettie, too, when she find!! out that \Ve have so slyly invited all her friends here for to-morrow evening to surprise her!

Ah me! it is just four years since I did the same for Mabel, th6n eighteen, Nettie's age: and a sad evening it was for her, poor child! If I were a bit superstitious I would never have done so again;" and a shade of thought settled upon Mrs. Frost's peaceful face.

"Why do you look so sad, Aunt Jeanette?

Surely :ron have no cause tosigl.l fot'Consin Mabel; for with such a nGble husband as hers, and such a sweet, darling child as little Eddie Annesly, she must be happy."

11 You are right, Maud, it would be strange i£ my Mabel wel'e not contented. The trouble whose remembrance clouded my brow was transitory, for it pleased God to deli~·er my darling out of her sorrow, as I believe lie will deliver us all if we bide Hist.ime."

"What was her trouble?" asked little 1\Iaud Ros.~, timidly. " Listen, child, and I will tell you. It will show yon how much Mabel's husband deserves the esteem y')u bear him. I will begin at the time when I lirst came t o - to live, and Mabel was then your age. I was much pleased with the place, and tbe inhabitants too; but the first friend I Jnade was Mrs. ·wilson, my next door neighbor, aud thmugh her daughter Kate, a young girl of 1\faLel's age, the latter soon became acquainted with all thP. young people i n - , and was before long, what her beauty entitled her to be, the belle of the p~ace. ".Among her first acquaintances among the gen~ tlemen of were the brothers Dallas and Edward .Annesly. Dallas was a lawyer in good prac~ tica, but Edward was only a clerk in his uncle's store. But Edward was the gayest of the two, and oftener seen among the pleasure-seekers than his hrothec. Many considered him the handsomest to,); but I always admired. most the more intellectual though less regular beauty of Dallas's thoughtful ceuntenance, and, as I soon perceived, my little .Mabel agreed with me in this. Etlward came oftenest to visit Mabel, and frequently escorted l1er to the evening pa1·ties, which were not few, and also took her out manY' times in the light sleigh, drawn by a spirited horse, which he always drove when he came for her.

"She met Ed ward some time before she became acquainted with his brother; but after that Dallas sought after my child almost as much as Edward.

I say almost, for he did not seek her as frequently ns his brother; for, as I said before, he did not often p:uticipate in the amusements so familiar to Edward. ''But Mabel did not guess how deep an interest E1lward felt in her, or she never would have encouraged him as she did. To her l1e was only a d~ar friend, and Dallas's brother. '' Well, the winter passed in this way, and spring and summer too, both brothers continuing to pay hJr every attention that affection could dictate, wh·~n, one afternoon late in September, whenMahel and I were walking in the garden, Edward entered our little gate, and hastily approached us. "'I h:we come to bid you good-by,' he said, smiling; 1 I go to A - ta-night.' '''You seem very glad to leave us,' said Mabel, playfully. '' 'I am only sorry on that account,' he answered, 1 although I trust to be here again ere long ; for if my mission does not fail, I shall return with brighter prospects, and free to do as I have long desired.' "liaUel was unconscious of his meaning, but the passionate glance that accompanied these words SfJoke volumes to me. He went that night, his erraml being to obtain a lucrative situation in A - offered him by an old friend, provided he shouhl prove capable of holding it. " Durh1g his absence Dallas was much oftener with Mabel than fOrmerly, and I thought that I perceived a gleam of deeper happiness in those soft eyes, while her manner grew quieter, gentler, and · more loving each day. But I was always jealous of my child's confidence, and could not endure the idea of being excluded from sharing her every thought. It was this feeling that caused me to say to her in a sharp _tone, one evening when she returned from a prolonged driYe with him, 'l\Iabel Frost, are you betrothed to Dallas Annesly and keeping it from me?'

"She stood ditectly before me in the door-way, with her <b.tk eyes fixed on me, and the red blood mounting to her brow. She looked very gentle and lovely I know, but being angry, I had the heart to repeat the qaestion. "'Why, mother?' she faltered, coming closer to me and half concealing her face in the curtain of the wimlow beside which I sat. " Why, indeed! Had I not heard him as he assisted her to alight from the vehicle, to address her hy a familiar title of endearment, which sounded thrillingly musical when uttered in the deep tones or that mclodtons voice; and, moreover, had I not seen him as he bent o\·er her to disengage the curl that bad caught upon his button as he lifted I1er to the ground, to press a hasty, and, it seemed to me, a tremulous kiss upon the rosJ·lips that now pouted half rebelliously at my question? "'Oh, mother,' she wilispered, 'he neYer did before, but-but-he always talks so to me.'

1' And could I blame him for yielding to such a temptation? Or her? Ah me, all know the pow~ er of love upon the heart of woman. Dear little Mabel! I stroked tl1e soft curls.of the dear head now restitlg ou my knee aml saitl no more.

"Soon arte1· this Ed ward retumed, but his mission was not accomplished; he had failed to secure the situation in A - .

RARPER'S WEEKLY. •• The brothers often met at our boose after this, but each appeared annoyed by the continual pres~ ence of the other.

11 'When has Dallas been here?' Edward would orten ask; and though Dallas never asked a similar question he looke(l troubled when he found his brother with Mabel. .

"But this did not continue long, for soon followed that mournful period when I daily saw with an aching heart that Mabel's eyes bore traces of con~ stant weeping, that her light step grew languid, and her merry voice more and more sad and low, for Dallas ceased to come at all. " Weeks passed after this got to be a settled fact, and I no longer doubted that my child was forsaken, before she regained any thing like her for~ mer cheerfulness. Had Mabel possessed one par~ ticle of that art which is termed 1 a woman's taot' this would not have lasted long. A few words of tender reproof, a reproachful glance, or a look of loving inquiry, lfonld have melted the stern t-eo. solve that he had made, and brought him once more to her side; but she was only a simple, loving child; so she suffered on in proud silence.

"About the last of November we learned from Edward that his brother was going to A - , to enter as partner in a long-established firm in that city, where he would have fair prospect of rising to a higher standing in his profession.

"My daughter grew very pale at this announce~ ment, but there was a fevedsh excitement in her manner after this that I did not misinterpret. She expected that he would at least come to bid her adieu, and she was not disappointed. Had she been of a less excitable temperament, I should not have remained present during this interview; but I feared that her feelings would overcome her if not held in check by the presence of n third person.

His visit, short as it was, was formal and con~ strained; but when he bid us adieu, after co1·dially pressing my hand, he turned to Mabel, who stood trembling by my side, and for a J.J;~Oment it seemed ns though he were about to clasp her in his arms, but quickly mastering his emotion, he took her hand for an instant in his own, and abruptly hastened away, "Daysv passed on, and I grew to curse liim in my heart as the destroyer of my child's happiness, for l'llabel could not conceal from me that her heart was breaking.

"In Edward's society she seemed to find a kind of solace, perhaps on accouat of his occasional re~ semblance to his brother. She did not seclude herself from society, however, but went about much the same as before; but her former sweet temper grew daily more uneven, and this increasing irritability often caused Nettie to ask me, ' What made Mabel so cross lately?'

"Dallas often came home to visit his mother, who was a widow like myself; for A - was not far distant, and he could easily ceme in a sleigh in two or three hours; bnt he neYer came to our house during these visits, although I knew that Mabel expected him, for whenever she beard that he was there she would dress herse1f with more than usual care, and start and blush at every ring at the door• bell.

"Toward Christmas I conceived tl1e idea of giv~ ing to l\Iabel, at home, on the evening of that day, a surprise-party. I kept it a secret from her until Christmas~ Day, cautioning all whom I invited not to disclose it to her, so that she was much surprised when I infonned her of what I had done, Her dress I had prepared myself, so that she would ha,·e but to perform her toilet and receive her guests ; but I myself would be unable to appear among them, much as I would have wished to witness tl1eh· pleasure, having taken a severe cold the previous day. " I felt perfectly recompensed for my trouble by the bright smile with which she greeted my intelligence-the brightest I had seen en that young face for many days_ " I wondered at this after sl1e left me ; for al~ though I had hoped to please her, I was totally un~ prepared for the delight which she evinced. " While I \vas pondering on this, little Allie entered the room, and commenced prattling to me of her Christmas gifts.

1 " Oh, mother!' she said, at last, 'I think Christmas is such a nice day. How can people cry on Christmas?' " 'Who cries on Christmas ?' I asked, smiling at her eagerness. "'Mabel does,' she said. 'I saw her cry today. Don't you know to-day, when nobody _was down stairs but me and Mabel? Well, I saw that Mr. Annesly, that went away once, go by in a sleigh, and Mabel saw him too, and she bowed her head to him, and he did this way with his hatlook, mother-and Mabel cried tlum. She looked out the window a long time after be passed, trying to see his pretty horse, I guess ; and then she sat by the fire and cried.' " So this was why Mabel was so pleased with my plan. She bad seen him, and expected him to be among the guests that night. But I had not invited him, although I sunnised that he would be at home ; for I thought it best to prevent their meeting, and knew that both his brother and he would look upon it as an oversight. But now that Mabel had seen him, and, beyond a doubt, expected him to be there, I must rectify the omission as soon as possible.

"Accordingly, I sent Aliee for Mabel, and told her to dispatch a note immediately to Edward, enjoining him to tell his brother, if i n - , that we expected to see him that evening also. 'fhis she did with alacrity, but seemed surprised that I had not done so before. " As evening came on I arranged her dress with great care; and very beautiful she appeared in the airy white robes and delicate wreath, " Soon after she descended the stairs the guests began to arrive; and having seen that the children were in bed, I retired into the sitting~room, and, lying down upon a lounge, fell fast asleep. " When I awoke the sound of music fell upon my ear, mingled with the light laugh· of the

dancers, and I concluded thnt the evening was far advanced_ But while listening to these sounds, I heard a footstep on the stairs, and Mabel entered the room. " One glance at that flushed face ami corrugated brow showed me that enjoyment had not been the share of my child that night. She put one hand to her head as she closed the ·doer, and then catch~ ing the wreath from her hair, she flung it across the room. " 1 It annoys me so,'she said, half apologetically, in answer to my look of surprise, and then :;be stood for some moments pushing back the curls from her brow with both hands. "'What is the matter, child?' I asked, at last. "'Oh, mother!' she answered, in a choking voice, 'he did not come. He is at home too, and bade Edwal'd say that be was too much fatigued to attend.

0 God forgive him I' and she relapsed into a silence which was broken at last by a tap at the door, which she answered, and then said, 'Mother, it is Edwal'd. May he come in?' "'Certainly,'! said. 'Ohl good-evening, Mr. Annesly.' " 'I am sorry to see you ill, Mrs. Frost,' be ree joined; '1-1 wanted to speak to you, and took the libe1ty of coming up.' ''I did not answer. I feared what was coming; but he turned to 1\fabel, and, taking one of her hands in each of his, he began: 'Mabel, I have at last succeeded in obtaining in A - a situatien that will give me ample means to maintain in comfort myself and another. M __ bel, yon mnst know how long I have loved you. Will you, if your mother consents, be my wife?'

"She did not answer, my poor child, but snatch~ ing her hands from him she pressed them to her brow and uttered a low cry. Oh! such a cry of agony and despair that it thrilled through and through my brain like a sudden knell of mortal pain. I can not describe the utter amazement de~ picted upon his face as he gM:ed on her like one bereft of his senses; until she thl'ew herself into my anns sobbing convulsively, and then he sank upon a couch at the other end of the· room and buried his face in the cushions.

"After several moments of horrible suspense to all Mabel withdrew herself from my embrace, and, wiping the tears from her eyes, she paused a mo~ ment as though to conquer every vestige af emotion, and then approaching him, she laid her little hand tipon his bowe{l head and faltered, '''Edward, I have always loved you as a brother.

1-I mean as a friend i God knows that you deserve my deepest love, for you [and here her voice trembled excessively] have ever been the same to me-always kind, always mindful of my slightest wish; and I thank you, Edward, and if God had given us the power to control our own affections I would gladly give you my love.' "'Mabel,' he said, rising before her, 1 after this .

I will never trust in a human being aguiul 0 God! that you who seemed so like an angel to me should be but a hea1·tless coquette after alll One who would lead one on with every appearance of lo>e until he grew to worship you with all. the power of his heart, and then cast him aside when he asks you to fulfill the promise your encouragement implied I' "This imputation seemed to sting her to the quick; andoh 1 Maud, you should have seenhet•then, as she stood erect, her slight form trembling with emotion; her long hair, partly loosened, streaming over her white shoulders; and her bosom panting convulsively under the light ball-dress, whose gay appearance seemed strangely at variance with the feelings of its wearer. "'Edward,' she began, 1 I do not wonder that you despise me if you believe what you have just asserted; but God knows I do not deserve your re~ proaches, for never until ta-night did I dream of your loving me. Oh, believe me, in the abandonment of my own hopeless love I never marked yours. Oh yes, mother,' sl1e continued, wildly, 'rather than this should cause him to despise me, I will confe~s what I harl not thought the rack could have \\rung from me. Edward Annesly, better than you love me, better than life, better than anything on earth besides, I love your brorher.'

"A deep groan was the only answer, and I sprang forward just in time to catch the fainting form of my child in my anns. "'You are killing her!' I cried. 1 0 God, that I had never heard the name of Annesly !'

"He gently placed her on the couch that he bad quitted, and while I bathed her pallid brow I im~ plored him not to repeat the unguardetl confession my daughter had made in a moment of excitement. " But he would not promise. "'She shall be happy with him,' he groaned forth. 1 He can not help loving bet·. I will ask him if he does not.' " 'Lo'\'e her I' I cried, leaning over my uneon~ scions child. 'No, he never loved her, although he used every means to win her young heart, that he might trifle with it for a few day11, but to throw it aside, as he has doubtless done many an~ other.' "'Trifled with her I Dallas Annesly! Ob, Mrs. Frost, it is impossible!' " 'I tell you it is true I He sought he 1VIth every appearance of devotion ; be called her by every endearing name ; did all but ask her to be his wife; and then, when one would have thocght that would come next, he forsook her; and I have seen her drooping before me since like the sweet :Bower that she is.' "' Ah I do not \Veep. Surely you are wrong.

Dallas is honor's self. See I she opens her eyesshe breathes now-and I will go to him and tell him what you say, and if he can not disprove it, henceforth we are strangers.'

"He di~ go to him, and well can I imagine what that interview must have been. Edward hot and angry, and Dallas-dear, noble Dallas !-with that white brow clouded, and those firm lips trembling, pewhaps, with emotitn, yet liltening calmly to the

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"•Edward,' he said, when he had heard him to the end of his accusation, ' did yon not tdl me, three months ago, that yon loved Mabel Frost? I need not tell you how much I love her. God and my own soul can alone know that. I once thou~ht to prove it some day to her, believing that she might love me. Bnt'-and here his voice grew deeper and more thrilling- 1 could I bring home to my mother and to you, as my wife, one whom my only brother loved with tho loYe tbat you confess· ed to me ? Could I ask you to wdcome as your sister one whom I knew you lond as a man should Ion but his wife ? Oh no ! And so I tore the sweet dream from my heart, and sought forgetfulness in absence, and-found it not. Break her heart, you•said? Oh! rather than bring down the lightest sorrow upon the heart of Mabel Frost I would cut out my own, and lay it, quivering with life, at he!' feet!'

"I need not say what followed when Da11as Annesly thus described the noble sacrifice he had made; but all who knew the strong affection that always existed between those iirotlwrs can imagine their mutual grief_ " Two weeks after Edward left home for some town farther West, where he had friends residing, and where he now lives ; but before his departure he came to me, ami told me what I have just related i11 regard to his brother1s conduct. " Soon after he had gone Dallas came, one evening, to our house, but l\Iabel refused to see him.

Since Christmas night she had scarcely left· her room, and seldom spoke to any oue. Dallas did not remain long. He appeared ill at ease. But he came again on the fo11owing evening, as he did on many succeeding ones, and still Mabel would not receive ltim.

"At lust, one clear night in January, when a young moon shed its clear rays over the snow~clad roads, I saw, from the window beside which I sat, a light cutter, drawn by a small dark horsewhich I immediately recognized as belonging to Dallas-stop before our gate, and he sprang light. ly from it, and entered our little garden. Mabel was lying upon the bed in the next roam, appar~ ently sleeping; and I hastened to open the door for this visitor. u His first words, after the usual greeting, were of her. " 'Will sh~ see tne ?'

"There was something peculiarly touebing in that tremor in the deep voice. "'I will ask her,' I said, doubtfully.

1 " No, take her this,' he said, holding f01·th a folded paper ; ' that is, with your permission.'

"I did not answer; but leaving him to find his way into the parlor, I carried the note to Mabel.

"I clearly heard her quick breathing when I en~ tered the room, and going up to the couch I laid my hand upon her shoulder. She did not start or move.

11 1 Mabel, Dallas is here.' "'Yes, mother.' '''He has sentyouthisletter. Will you read it?'

11 She grasped it eagerly, and placed it in her bosom_ 1 " Read it new, Mabel-he is waiting,' I said; and arranging the light upon a table, I went into the next room and closed the door of communica~ tion between the two apartments.

"She must have read it many times, for it was long before she joined me; but there was a glad smile on her lip, and a blush, stealing up even tg her downcast eyes, when she re-opened the door and entered the room where I sat. u She did not say that she intended to go to Dal~ las, but I read it in her face, and silently assisted her to chanJ:.'t'C the simple gown which she wore for a more becoming one, and smooth the tangled curls; but still she lingered, after this was done, and appeared so nervous and tremulous that I was obliged to accompany her to the foot of the stniJ~ case.

"I know not, Maud, the contents of that letter, nor what passed during the interview that followed i but Mabel came forth from the room leaning upon the arm of Dallas Annesly, who begged her mother's blessing upon their union.

"Did she give it? Was shennspeakablyhappy and thankful to her God? Oh l ye who have seen a shadow settle upon your household so dense that it seemed to threaten to overwhelm all in its black~ ness ; so gloomy that none have thought of following their usual employment or amusements; sa dark that even the youngest have ceased their sport as they looked on your saddened countenance, and have seen this dark cloud suddenly lifted from your hearts and homes, and the bright sunlight pour down with more tl1an pristine glory, you, you can tell my feelings on that nigl1t! "'Do not think me unmindful of my brother's disappointment and exile/ he said, imagining that he read this thought in my face. 'She wOuld never have loved Edward, and 'twere cruel to sac~ rifice her happiness and mine to such a consideration now.'

"My little Mabel sank at my feet and buried her face in my lap; and gracefully, and with man~ ly dignity,beknelt beside her, and bowed his head with hers.

"Oh, I could have cried aloud with joy! To see those two, now alike dear to me, united in their love once more, and more safe than ever that this sorrow and separation had intervened. Well, they were married-that you know; and Edward is li.Iso married to one as beautiful, perhaps, as Mabel, whom he has forgotten-as, it may be, Dalla.s would have forgotten her had she married Ed-ward."

"Oh no l" cried Maud, with enthusiasm; 11 he never would, I am sure. He would have loved on for ever aBd ever. Besides, what woui.d they be disunited? Mabel would not be Mabel if she were not Dallas's wife, nor Dallas Dallas if he were not Mabel's husband.''

"They are very devoted, I am aware; but then we can not tell, you know. Every thing is liable to change in this world, and tha dead and the liv~ in& are alike forgotten. But listen, Maude! do

MARCH

16, 1861. J

A DAY'S RIDE: A

LIFE'S ROMANCE.

BY CHARLES LEVElL .lUTBOB OF "OllAli.LES O'MALLEY,'' ''BARRY LOBmCQUB:R, ' 1 ET0. 1 ETO,

CHAPTER XLI. IF there be any thing in our English habits upon which no difference of opinion can exist, it is our proneness to extend to a foreigner a degree of sympathy and an amount of interest that we obstinately deny to our own people.

The English artiste strnggling all but hopelessly against the taurous indifference, has but to displace the consonants or multiply the vowels of his name to be a fashion and a success.

I traveled in a sort of covered cart, with a mounted gendanne at either side of me. Indeed, the one faintly alleviating circumstance of my captivity was the sight of those two heavily. equipped giants, armed to the teeth, who were supposed to be essential to my safe-conduct.

It was such an acknowledgment of what they had to apprehend from my well-known prowess and daring, so palpable a confession that every precaution was necessary against the daring in-

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!"thought how well it would read in my Memoirs; how I was "heavily manacled"-a great word that--orders being given to the escort to shoot me if I showed the slightest intention to escape. It was an intense pleasure to me to imagine myself a sort of Nana Sahil:J, and whenever we halted at some way-side public, and the idle loungers would draw aside the canvas covering and stare in at me, I did my utmost to call up an expression of ogre-like ferocity and wildn~s.!l, and it was with a thl'ill of ecstasy I saw a little child clasp its mother by the neck, and scream out to come away as it beheld me.

On the second night of our journey we halted at a little village at the foot of the Arlberg, called Steuben, where, in default of a regular prison, they lodged me in an old tower, the lower part of which was used for a stable. It stood in the very centre of the town, and from its narrow and barred windows I could catch glimpses of the little world that moved about in happy freedom beneath me. I could see the Marktplatz, from which the booths were now being taken down, and could mark that preparations for some approaching ceremony were going on, but of what nature I could not guess.

A large space was neatly swept out, and at last strewn with saw-dust-signs unerring of some exhibition of legerdemain or conjuring, of which the Tyrolese are warm admirers. The aiTangements were somewhat more pretentious than are usually obsen•ed in open-air representations, for I saw seats prepared for the dignitaties of the village, and an evident design to mark the entertainment as under the most distinguished protection. The crowd- now considerableobserved all the decorous bearing of citizens in presence of their authorities.

I nestled myself snugly in the deep recess of the window to watch the proceedings, nor had I long to wait; some half dozen gayly-dressed individuals having now pierced their way through the throng, and commenced those peculiar gambols which bespeak backbones of gristle and legs of pasteboard. It is a class of performance I enjoy vastly. The two fellows who lap over each other like the Jinks of a chain, and the creature who rolls himself about like a baU, and ~he licensed freedoms of that man of the world -the clown-never weary me, and I believe I laugh at them with all the more zest that I have so often laughed at .them before. It was plain, after a while, that a more brilliant part of the spectacle was yet to come; for a large, blufflooking man, in cocked-hat and Jack-boots, now entered the ring, and indignantly ejected the clowns by sundry admonitions with a lash-whip, which I perceived were not merely make-believes.

"Ah, here he comes! here he is!'" was now uttered in accents of eager interest, and an avenue was quickly made through the crowd for the new performer. There was delay after this, and though doubtless the crowd below could satisfy their curiosity, I was so highly perched and so stt·aitened in my embrasure that I had to wait, with what patience !.might, the new arrival. I was deep in my guesses what sort of ''artist" he might prove, when I saw the head of a horse peering over the shoulders of the audience, and then the entire figure of the quadruped as he emerged into the circle, all sheeted and shrouded from gaze. With one dexterous sweep the groom removed all the clothing, and there stood before me my own lost treasureBlonde! himself! I would have known him umong ten thousand. He was thinner, 1,erhaps, certainly thinner; but in all other respects the same: his silky mane and his long tassel of a tail hung just as gracefully as of yore, and as he ambled !"Ound he moved his head with a courteous inclination, as though to acknowledge the plaudits he met with.

There was in his air the dignity that ~mid, 1 ' I am one who has seen better days. It was not always thus with me. Applaud. if you must, and if yon will; but remember that I accept your plaudits with resen-e, perhaps with overreluctance." Poor fellow, my heart bled for btm ! I feb as though I saw a cathedral canon cutting somersaults, and all this while, by some strange inf'0:!dstency, I bad not a sympathy to ~en tl:~

h<unau ootors in the scene. ''As

HARPER'S WEEKLY. for them," thought I, "they have accepted this degradation of their own free-will. If they had not shirked honest labor they need never have been clowns or pantaloons; but Blondel-Blondel, whom fate had stamped as the palfrey of some high-born maiden, or at least as the favorite steed of one who would know how to lavish care on an object of suclt perfectionBlondel, who had borne himself so proudly in high places, and who even in his declining fortunes bad been the friend and fellow-traveler o f - . Yes, why should I shame to say it?

Posterity will speak of Potts without the detracting malice and envious rancor of contemporaries, and when in some future age a great philanthropist or statesman shall claim the credit of some marvelous discovery, some wondrous secret by which humanity may be bettered, a learned critic will tell the world how t.his great invention was evidently known to Potts, how at such a line, or such a page, we shall find that Potts knew it all.

The wild ·cheering of the crowd beneath cut short these speculations, and now I saw Blonde! cantering gayly round the circle, with a handkerchief in his mouth. If in sportive levity it chanced to full, he WOJZld instantly wheel about and seize it, and then, whisking his tail and shaking his long forelock, resume his course again. It was fine, too, to mark the haughty indifference he manifested toward that whipcracking monster who stood in the centre and affected to direct his mo!:ions. Not alone did he reject his suggestions, but in a spirit of proud defiance did he canter up behind him, and alight with his fore--legs on the fellow's shoulders. I am not sure whether the spectators regarded the tableau as I did; but to me it seemed an allegorical representat.ion of man and his master. '.rhe hard breathing of a person close be~ind me now made me turn my head, and I saw the jailer, who had come with my supper. A thought flashed suddenlyam·oss me. "Go down to those mountebanks and ask if they will sell that cream-colored ppny,"saidl. 11 Bargain ns though you wanted him for yourself-he is old and of little value, and you may perhaps secure him for eighty or ninety florins~ and if so, you shall have ten more for your pains. It is a caprice of mine, nothing more; but help me to gratify it."

He heard me out with evident astonishment, and then gravely asked if I bad forgotten tho circumstance that I was a prisoner, and likely to remain so for some time. u Do as I bade you," said I, "and leave the result to me. There, lose no more time about it, for I see the performance is drawing to a close."

"Nay, nay," said he; •:the best of all is yet to come. The pretty Moorish girl has not yet appeared. Ha I here she is."

As he spoke he crept up into the window beside me, not less eager for the spectacle than myself. A vigorous cheer and a loud clapping of hands below announced that the favmite was in sight long bef'ore she was visible to our eyes. u What can she do?" nske.:l I, peevishly perha!_)s, for I was provoked how completely she had eclipsed poor Blondel in public favor.

"What can she do? Is she a rope-dancer, or does she ride in the games of the ring?"

"There, there 1 Look at her-yonder she goes 1 and there's the young prince-they call him a prince, at. least-who follows her everywhet·e."

I could not but smile at the poor jailer's simplicity, and would willingly have explained to him that we have outlived the age of Cinderellas. Indeed, I bad half turned toward him with this object, when a perfect roar of the crowd beneath me drew off my attention from him to what was going on below. I soon saw what it was that entranced the public: it was the yonug girl, who now, standing on Blondel's back, was careering t•ound the circle at full speed, It is an exercise in which neither the horse nor the rider are seen to advantage; the heavy monotonous tramp of the beast, cramped by the naiTow limits, becomes a stilty, wooden gallop. The rider, too, more cat·eful of her balance than intent upon graceful action, restricts herself to a few, and by no means picturesque, attittHies. With all this, the girl now before me seemed herself so intenselv to enter into the enjoyment of the scene thai all her gestures sprang out of a sort of in·epressible delight. Far fmm unsteadying her foot, or limiting her action, the speed of the horse appeared to assist the changeful bendings of her graceful figure, as now, dropping on one knee, she would lean over to caress him, or now, standing erect, wit.h folded arms and leg advanced, appear to dare him to displace her.

Faultlessly graceful as she was, there was that iu her own evident enjoyment that imparted a strange pleasure to the beholder, and gave to the spectacle the sort of magnetism by which pleasure finds its way from heart to heart throughout a multitude. At least., I suppose this must have been so, for in the joymtfl cheering of that crowd there was a ring of wild delight far diffilrent frpm mere applause.

At last, poor Blondel, blown and wearied, tnrned abruptly into the middle of the ring, and with panting sides and shaking tail came to a dead halt. The girl, with a graceful slide, f!Cated herself on his ba«:k and patted him playfully. And to me this was by far the most graceful movement of the whole.

It was t•eally a picture, and so natural and so easy withal, that one forgot all about her spangles and tinsel, the golden fillet of her hair, and the tawdry fdnge of her sandals; and, what was even harder still, heard not the hoarse~ mouthed enthusiasm that greeted her. At length, a tall man, well dressed and of striking appearance, pushed his way into the ring, and apparently presented her with a bouquet, at which piece of courtesy the audience, nowise

jealotlfl, again redoubled their applause, She now looked round hel' with an air of triumphant pleasure, and while, with a pla\'ful gei!lture, she flung back the ringlets on her~ neek, she lifted her face full to my view, and it was Tintenfleck I With all my might I cried out, " Catinka I Catinka!" I know not why, but the impulse never waited to argue the question. Though I screamed my loudest, the great hei~ht at which I was placed, and the bumming din of the crowd, totally drowned my words. Again and again I tried it, but to no purpose. There she sat, slowly making the round of the circus, while the stranger walked at her side, to all seeming conversing as though no busy and prying multitude stood watching and observing them. Wearied with my failure to attract notice, I turned to address the jailer, but he had already gone and I was alone. I next endeavored by a signal to call attention to me, and, at last, saw how two or three of the crowd -had observeQ. my waving handkerchief and were pointing it out to others.

Doubtless they wondered how a poor captive could care for the pleasant follies of a life of whose commonest joys he was to be no sharer, and still greater was their astonishment as I flung forth a piece of money-a gold Napoleon it \Vas-which they speedily caught up and gave to Catinka. How I watched her as she took it and showed it to the stranger! He, by his gesture, seemed angry, and made a motion as though asking her to throw it away; and then there seemed some discussion between them, and his petulance increased; and she, too, grew passionate, and, leaping from the horse, Strode haughtily across the circus ·and disappeared.

And then arose a tumult and confusion, the mob shouting madly for the Moorish girl to come back, and many much disposed to revenge her absence on the stranger. As for him, he pnshed the crowd haughtily aside and went his way, and though for a while the crowd continued to vent its expt·essions of displeasure and disappointment, the performance soon concluded, and all went their several roads homeward; and when I looked out upon the empty Platz, over which the dusky shadows of the old houses were now stealing to mingle together, and instead of the scene of bustle and excitement saw a few lingering townsfolk moody and purposeless, I asked myself if the whole incidents were not a vision mind-drawn and invented. There was not one single clew by which I could brace it to reality.

Through the baiTed window of my cell I could see the clear blue sky, the great con~:~tellations, and there was Orion slowly sloping to the west, and actually throwing a sheet of glittering light on tl_le low roofs of the peasants' houses. "Are there worlds up there," thought I, "human hives of ~ork, and toil, and cat·e, and sorrow, like our own?" And I found myself at last craning like a ballad in this wise:

1'11 ve®le in a. remote ont-of-tlle-wO.l'ld spot, bat at

lenjth, what from habit and the absence of any thing to suggest a change, I ceal!ed to wish for another existence than such as I led there. ~here is a sOTt of armory at the Ambras, cluefly of old Tyrolese weapons of an early period-maces and halberds, double-headed swords and such-like-and one of our pastimes was arranging and settling them, and cataloguing them for which, in the anatient records of the Schloss' t~ere was ample material. This was an occupa! tion that amused me vastly, and I took to it with great zeal, and with such success that old Hirsch the jailer, at last consigned the Whole to mj charge, along with the task of e~hibiting the collection to strangers-a source from which the honest veteran derived the better part of his means of life.

At first, I scarcely liked my function as showman, but like all my other experiences in life habit sufficed to reconcile me, and I took to th~ occupation as though I had been born to it. If now and then some rude or vulgar traveler would rufHe my temper by some illiterate remark or stupid question, I was well repaid by intercourse with a different stamp. They were to me such peeps at the world as a monk might have from the windows of his cloister, tempting perhaps, but always blended with the sense of the security that encompassed him and defended him from the cares of existence.

Perhaps the consciousness that I could assert my innocence and procure my freedom at any moment, for the first few months reconciled me to this s~range life; but certainly after a whiJe I ceased to cat·e for any other existence, and never troubled my bead either about past or future. I had, in fact, an·ived at the great monastic elevation, in which a man, ceasing to be human, reaches the dignity of a vegetable.

I had begun, as I have said, by an act of heroism, in accepting all the penalties of another, and, long after I ceased to revert to this sacrifice, the impulse it had once given still continued to move me. If Hirsch never alluded to my imputed clime to me, I was equally resen•ed toward him.

From time to time, a couple of grave, judiciallooking men would arrive and pass the forenoon in reading out certain documents to me. I never paid the slightest attention to their contents, for I asked for no change of life nor any other existence than the present one. My ear at moments would catch the strangest possible allegations as to my exalted political opinions, the dangerous associates I was bound up with, and the secret societies I belonged to. I heard once, i.oo, and by a mere accident, how, at Steuben, I had bribed the jailer to procure me a horse, and thrown gold in handfuls from the windows of my prison to bribe the townsfolk to my rescue, and I laughed to myself to think what a deal of pleading and proof it wonld take to rebut all these allegations, and how little lik~ly it I wish I knew in the stars nbove was I would ever engage in such a conflict.

What_ sort of a life they lead, Whether they know the pangs of love, By long dwe1ling on the thought of my noble What are the books they read. devotion, and how it would read when I was Can any one say "if thnt twinkling llllllp dead and g(<lne, I had extinguished within my Is revolving upon an axis? heart all desire for other distinction, speculating What kind of a thing is a lunar S(ltl.mp? only on what strange and ingenious theories men Do the people up there pay taxea? would spin for the secret clew to my motives.

Have they their ~idee to ebb and flow, "True," they would say," Potts never cared for Salt seas to Wllsh their shoretl?

Harpar. He was not a man to wh:-· "P-~~., And whenever out to dine they go Are they plagued like us with borea? would ha>e attached himself ubder any eh't...,~ stances; they were, as indiViduals, totally un..

When for a ball they open their house, How do the Siderials cap.Jr? like and unsympathetic. How, then, explain Who performs the part of Strauss? this extraordinary act of self-sacrifice? Was he Have they a :Z'imes newspaper? prompted by the hope that the iniquities of the I conclude they have their own aches and ills, Austdan police system would receiye the deathAnd J; feel a presentiment sinister, blow from his story, and that the mound that That even they have their Holloway's piilB covered bim in the church-yard would be the And a sh:l.m of one for a minister. altar of Liberty to thousands? or was Potts one I feel, if I looked through a telescope, of those enthusiastic creatures only too eager to Volcanic remains to see; Tlmt my heart would thrill with a eecret hope carry the load of some other pilgrim in life?"

Some Lunax was looking at me.

While l used thus to .reason and speculate, I And whence does the telegraph bring them the news P little knew that I had become a sort of EuroWho is the great penny.a,..linru·? pean notoriety. Some idle English woman, Do tltey wmTy themselves on the fate of the Jew~, however, some vagrant tourist, had put me in Or the state Of the tea-crop in China ? her book as the half~witted creature who showed Do they speculate, too, how old we: are, the coins and curiosities at Ambras, and men'\Vhether we're ~quare or round P tioned bow, for I know not bow many years, I I'd like to know do they really CIIJ'O Whether we'll be burned or drowned? was never heard to utter a syllable except on questions of old armor and antiquities. In con11 Here's your breakfast," said the jailer, as he sequence, I was always asked for by my travelstopped the course of my reverie. "And the ing countrymen, and my peculiarities treated brigadier hopes you'll be speedy with it, for you with all that playful good taste for which tourmust t•each :Maltz by nightfall." ists are famous. I remember one day having "Tell me," said I, eagerly, "was there a cir- refused to perform the showman to a British cus company here yesterday evening? Did they family. I had a headache, or was sulky, or a exhibit on the Platz there?" fit of rebellion had got hold of me, but I saun''You are a deep one, you are!" muttered he, tered out into the grounds, aud would not see. sulkily to himself, and left the cell. them. In my walk through a close alley of laurels I chanced to overhear the stranger conversing with Hirsch, and making myself the CHAPTER XLII. subject of her inquiries; and RS I listened, I I BORE up admirably on my journey. I felt I heard Hirsch say that one entire room of the was dfting a very heroic thing. By my persona- cb!iteau was devoted to the papers and docution of Harpar I was securing that poor fellow's ments in my case, and that probably it would escape, and givin~ him ample time to get oYer occupy a quick reader about twelve months to the Austrian frontier, and many a mile away peruse them. He added, that as I made no apfrom the beaks of the Double Eagle. I had plication for a trial myself, nor any of my friends read of such things in history, and I resolved I showed an indination to bestir them:selves about would not derogate from the proudest records me, the goYernment would very probably leave of such self-devotion. Had I but remembered me to live and die where I was. Thereupon, how long my illness had lasted, I might have the Briton broke out into a worthy fit of indig~ easily seen that Harpar could by this time have nant eloquence. He denounced the Hapsburgs arrived at Calcutta; but1 unfortunately for me, and praised the Habeas Corpus; he raved of the I had no gauge of time whatever, and complete- power of England, our pres~, our public opinion, ly forgot the long interval of my fever. our new frigates. He said he would make EUOn reaching Innspruck I was sent on to au rope t·ing with the case. It was as bad, it was old chQ.teau some ten miles· away, called the worse than Caspar Hauser's; for he WRS an idiot Ambras Schloss, and being consigned to the outright, and I appeared to have the enjoyment charge of a retired artillery officer there-, they of certain fitculties. He said it should appear seemed to have totally forgotten all about me. in the Thnes, and be mentioned in the House; I li\'ed with my old jailer just ns if I were his and ns I listencd1 the stmngest glow ran through friend; we worked together in the garden, me-a mild and pleasnrable enthusiasm, to think pruned and raked and hoed and weeded; we that all the might, mnjesty, and power of Great smoked and fished, and mended our nets on wet Britain was about to interest itself in behalf Q1 days, and read, living exactly as might any two Potta!

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THE FORTS IN TEXAS. WE publish on page 172, from \'iews furnished by

a draughtsman in the employ of the General Gov. ernment, pictures of the three principal forts in Texas, which, according to the latest ad vices, have just been surrer..dered by Geneml Twiggs to thesecessionists. In connection with the event, we may mention that one of the last acts of the late Administration was the dismissal of General Twiggs from the army for treason.

FoRT D.tvrs, the head-quarter" of the Eighth Infantry, is ou the San Antonio and San Diego mail route. It is situated in tt caftan of the Lympia Mountains, 120 miles from the City of Presidio del Norte, on the Rio Grande, and about 500 miles from San Antonio, Texas. It is in the midst of the country of the Mescularo Apaches; and the garrison at different times has done good service in checking the Comanches iu their plundering expeditions into Mexico, and chastising·thc Apaches for their thieving propensities. The scenery here is very beautiful ; the immense rocks which form the sides of the caftan tower up 500 or 600 feet. It is not known yet whether the Texan troops have made any demonstration on this post.

FoRT ARBUCKLE, which is said to have been recently seized by the Texan troops, protects the northern frontier of that State from the forays of the Comanches. It is situated On the Indian Reserve, and is, or was, garrisonNl by detachments from the First Cavalry and one company First Infantry regiments. It is named after the late General Arbuckle, of the army. Captain Prince commands the post; Captain Sacket, Captain Beal, First-Lieutenants Stockton, Crittenden, and Powell, Second-Lieutenants Offiey and Fish com. pose the Staff.

Fl)RT WACHITA, situated on the Reserve, sixty miles southeasterly from Arbuckle, at latest dates was also said to have been seized by the Texan troops. It was, or is, garrisoned by two companies First Cavalry, Captain Carr; commander, Captain Wood. It was near here, in October, 1858, that Major Earl Van Dorn encountered and utterly routed the Comanches in- a pitched battle.

quaintance in a more agreeable spirit. Heavy in figure, movement, and conlprehension-in the sluggish complexion of his face, and in the large, awkward tongue that seemed to loll about in his mouth as he himself lolled about in a room-he was idle, proud, niggardly, reserved; and suspicious, He came of rich people down in Somersetshire, who had nursed this combination of qualities until they mwle the dif:covery that it was just of age ancl a bloekhead. Thus Bentley Drummle had come to Mr. Pocket when he was a bead taller than that gentleman, and half a dozen heads thicker than most gentlemen.

Startop had been spoiled by a weak motlter and kept at home when he ought to have l)ecn at school; but he WllS devotedly attached to her, and admircll her bevond measure. He had a woman's delicacy of feature, and Wllil-" as you may see, though you never saw her," said Herbert to me-exactly like his mother. It was but natural that I sl10uld take to him much more kindly than to Drumm.le, and t.hat even in the earliest evening of Olll' boating he aml I a.hould pull homeward abrea~:~t of one another, con-versing from boat to boat, willie Bentley Drummle came up in our wake alone, under the overhanging banks and among rushes. He would always creep in shore like some uncomfortable amphibious creature, even when the tide would haYC

sent him fast upon his way, and I always think of him as coming after us in the dark or by the backMwater, when our own two boats were break~ ing the sunset or the moonlight in mid-stream.

Herbert was my most intimate companion and friend. I presented him with a half-share in my boat, which was the occasion of his often coming down to Hammersmith j and my posscsr.:ion of a half-share in his cham hers often took me up to London. We used to walk between the two places at all hours, and I have an affection for the road yet (though it is not so pleasant n road as it was then), formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope.

When I had been in Mr. Pocket's family a

month or two Mr. and Mrs. Camilla turned up.

Camilla was Mr. Pocket's sister. Georgiana, whom I had seen at Miss Ilavisham'11 on the same oecasion, also turned up. She was a cousin~~m indigestlve single woman, who called her 1·ighlity religion, and her liver love. These people bated me with the hatred of cupidity and disappointment. As a matter of course, they fawned upon me in my prosperity with the hasest meanness. Toward Mr. Pocket, as a sort of grown-up infant with no notion of his own interests, they showed the complacent forbearance I had heard them express. Mrs. Pocket they held in contempt ; but they allowed the poor

ARSENAL AT WASHINGT!)N. IN connection with the military movements now proceeding at Washington we publish herewith a view of the Arsenal at that city. It stands on the junction of the eastern branch with the Potomac, and is ~urrounded on three sides by water. Here are fonnderies, work-shops, magazines, laboratories, and every thing necessal"y for the manufactnre of implements and matcria:ls of war. At the present time the Arsenal is a scene of great activitr. In front of the Arsenal stand a collection of foreign bra~s cannon, some of which are trophies taken in battle at Saratoga, Yorktown, Niagara, and Y era Cruz.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS. A NOVEL.

BY CHARLES DICKENS. CHAPTER XXIV. BE}.'TLEY DRUMMLE, who was so sulky a fellow that he even took up ~book as if its writer had don3 him -au injury, did not. take up t'-:!1. s~-

14il0LLY, I.ET

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BOTH YOt;R WRISTS. SHOW THEM. COME!"

deal' soul to have been heavily disappointed in life, because that shed a full reflected light upon themselves.

These were the surroundings among which I settled down, and applied myself to my cdnca. tion. I soon contracted expensive habits, and began to spend an amount of money that with. in a few short months I should have thought almost fabulous ; but, through good and evil, I stuck to my books. There was no other merit in this than my having sense enough to feel my deficiencies. Between Mr. Pocket and Herbert I got on fast, and with one or the other always at my elbow to gh-e me the directions I wanted, and ·clear obstructions out of my road, I must have been as great a dolt as Drummle if I had done less.

I had not seen Mr. Wemmick for some weeks, when I thought I would write him a note and propose to go home with him on a certain evening. He replied that it wou1d give him much Jlleasure, and that he wou1d expect me at the office at six o'clock. Thither I went, and there I found him putting the key of his sate down his back as the dock stntck, "Did yon think of walking down to alworth ?" snid he. ''Certainly," said I, ''if you approve."

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ha:~~e:a :;e~,~~ wu~~~e~~~i~:~/:ffYda;:,f~~~ shall be glad to stretch 'em. Now I'll tell yon what I have got for supper, Mr. Pip. I have got a stewed steak-which is of home preparation-and a cold roast fowl~which is from the cook-shop. I think it's tender, because tho mas~ ter of the shop was a juryman in some eases of ours the other day, and wo let him down easy.

I reminded him of that when I bought the fowl, and I said, 'Pick us out a. good one, old fellow, because if we had chosen to keep you in the box another day or two we could easily have done it.' He said to that, 'Let me make you n present of the best fowl in the shop.' I let him, of course. As far as it goes, it's property and po1·table. You don't object to an aged }Jnrent, I hope?"

I realiy thought he was still speaking of the fowl until he added, ''Because I haYc got an aged parent at my place." I then said what politeness required.

"So you hayen't dined with Mr. Jagger&: yet?" he pursued, as we walked along. ''Not yet." " He told me so this afternoon when he heard you were coming to see me. I expect you'll have an invitation to.:morrow. He's going to ask your pals, too, Three of 'em, ain't. there?"

Although I was not in the ha-bit of counting Drummle as one of my intimate associates, I said "Yes." '' Well, he's going to ask the whole g11ng"I hardly felt complimented by the word-" and whatever he gives you, he'll gh"e yon good.

Don't look forward to variety, hut you'll haYt.l excellence. And there's another rum thing in his house," }Jroceeded Wemmick, after a moment's pause, as if the remark bestowed on the housekeeper was understood; ''he never lets a door or window be fastened at night."

"Is he never robbed?"

"That's it," returned Wemmick. "He says, and gives it out publicly, • I want. to ;;;ee the. man who'll rob me.' Lord hlcss yo'11'1 I lmve heard him a hundred times if I have hea·rd him

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"You're as proud of it as Punch; ain't you, once, say to regular cracksmen in our front office, 'You know where I live; now no bolt is aged parent?" said Wemmick, contemplating ever drawn there; why don't you do a stroke the old man with his hard face really softened; of business with me? Come, can't I tempt "there's a nod for you,'' giving him a tremenyou?' Not a man of 'em, Sir, would bo bold dous one; ''there's another for you," giving him a still more tremendous one ; '' you like that, enough to try it on for love or money." don't you? If you're not tired, :M:r. Pip-though "They dread him so much," said I. ''Dreadhim?''saidWemmick. "Ahl !be- I know it's tiring to strangers-tip him one more. lieve you, they dread him. Not but what he's You can't think how it pleases him."

I tipped him several more, and he was in artful, even in his defiance of 'em. No silver, great spirits. We left him bestirring himself to Sir. Britannia metal, every spoon." ''So they wouldn't have much," I observed, feed the fowls, and sat down to our punch in the arbor; where Wemmick told me as he "even if they-" "Ah ! but /te would have much," said Wem- smoked a pipe that it bad taken him a good mick, cutting me short, "and they know it. many years to bring the property up to its presHe'd have their lives, and the lives of scores of ent point of perfection. ''Is it your own, Mr. Wemmick?" 'em. He'd have all he could get. And it's im''Oh yes," said Wemmick; ''I have got hold possible to say what he couldn't get, if he gave of it, a bit at a time. It's a. freehold, by George l'' his mind to it." " Is it, indeed? I hope Mr. Jaggers admires I was falling into meditation on my guardian':. it P" greatness, when Wemmick remarked : "Never seen it," said ':Vemmick. "Never "As to the absence of plate, that's only his natural depth. A river's its natural deptb, and heard of it. Never seen the Aged. Never he's his natural depth. Look at his watch-chain, hearJ of him. No; the office is one thing, and priYate life is another. When I go into the That's real enough." office !·leave the Castle behind me, and when I '''Tis very massive," said I. ''Massive?" repeated "\Vemmick. ''I think come into the Castle I leave the office behind so. And his watch is a gold repeater, and worth me. If it's not in any way disagreeable to you, a hundred pounds if it's worth a penny, Mr. Pipl you'll oblige me by doing the same. I don't There are about five hundred thieves in this town wish it professionally spoken about."

Of course I felt my good faith to he involved who know all about that watch: there's not a man, a woman, or a child among 'em who in the observance of his request. The punch wouldn't identify the smallest link in that chain, being very nice, we sat there drinking it and and drop it as if it was 1-ed-hot if inveigled into talking until it was almost nine o'clock. ''Get~ ting near gUn-fire," said Wemmick then, as be touching it."

At first with such discourse, and afterward laid down his pipe; "it's the Aged's treat."

Proceeding into the Castle again, we found with conversation of a more general nature, did Mr. Wemmick and I beguile the time and the the Aged heating the poker, with expectant road until he gave me to understand that we had arrived in the district, of Walworth.

It appeared to be a collection of back lanes, with his watch in his hand, until the moment ditches, and little gardens, ami to present the was come for him to take the red-hot poker from aspect of a mighty dull retirement. "\Vemmick's the Aged, and repair to the outworks. He took house was a little wooden cottage in the midst it and went out, and presently. the Stinger went of plots of garden, and the top of it w-as cut out off with a Bang that shook the crazy little box of a cottage as if it must fall to pieces, and made and painted like a battery mounted with guns.

"My own doing," said Wemmick. "Looks every glass and tea-cup in it ring. Upon which the Aged-who I believe would have been blown pretty ; don't it P" I highly commended it. I think it was the out of his arm-chair but for holding on by the smallest house I ever saw; with the queerest elbows~ed out, exultingly, "He's fired! I Gothic windows (by far the greater part of them hecrd him l" and I nodded at the"old gentleman sham), and a Gothic door, almost too small to until it is no figure of speech to declare that I absolutely could not see him. get in at.

The interval between that time and supper " There's a real flag-staff, you see," said Wemmick, "and on Sundays I run up a real flag. W emmiek devoted to showing me his collection '!'hen look here. After I have crossed this of curiosities. They were mostly of a felonious bridge, I hoist it up-so-and cut off the com- character; comprising the pen with which a celebrated forgery had been committed, a dismunication."

The bridge was a plank, and it crossed a tinguished razor or two, some locks of hair, and chasm about four feet wide and two deep. But several manuscript confessions written under it was very pleas-ant to see the pride with which condemnation-upon which Mr. Wemmick set he hoisted it up and made it fast; smiling as he a particular value as bci.ng, to use his own did so with a relish, and not merely mechanic- words, " every one of 'em lies, Sir." These wem agreeably dispersed ruhong small specimens ally.

"At nine o'clock every night, Greenwich of china and glass, various neat trifles made by time," said W cmmick, " the gun fires. There the proprietor of the museum, and some tobache is, you see; and when you hear him go, I co-stoppers carved by the Aged. They were all displayed in that chamber of the Castle into think you'll say be's a Stinger."

Th,e piece of ordnance referred to was mounted whieh I had been, first inducted, and which in a Separate fortress, lightly constructed of lat- served not only as the general sitting-room .nlt tice-work. It was protected from the weather as the kitchen too, if I might judge from a by an ingenious little tarpaulin contl'imnce in sauce-pan on the hob, and a brazen biJou over the fire-place designed for the suspension of a the nature of an umbrella, "Then, at the back," said \Vemmiek, "out roasting-jack. f)f sight, so as not to impede the idea of fortificaThere was a neat little girl in attendance who tions-for it's a principle with me, if you have looked after the Agad in the day. When she an idea, c9..rry it out and keep it up. I don't had laid the supper-cloth the bridge was lowered to give her means of egress, and she withknew whethe~· tltat's your opinion-" drew for the night. The supper was excellent; I said, decidedly.

"At the bl!.ck, there's a pig, and there are aBd though the Castle was rather subject to fowls and rabbits; then I knock together my dry-rot, insomu.ch that it tasted like a bad nut, own little farm, yon see, and g~.·ow cucumbers; and though the pig might have been farther oft~ and you'll judge at supper what sort of a salad I was heartily pleased with my whole entertainI can raise. So, Sir," 8aid Wcmmi~:k, smiling ment. Nor was there any drawback on my again, but rather reriously too, "if you can sup- little tun·et bedroom beyonJ there being such a pose the little place besieged, it would hold out thin ceiling between me and the flag-staff that when I lay down on my back in bed· it seemed a devil of a time in pvi:•t of provisions.

Then he conducted me to a. bower about a as if I had to balance that pole on my forehead dozen yards off, but which was approached by all night. '\Vemmick was up betimes in the mol'Uing, such ingenious twists of path that it took quite a long time to get at ; and in this retreat our and I am afraid I heard him cleaning my boots. glasses were already set forth. Our punch was After that he fell to gardening, and I saw him cooling in an ornamental lake, on whose margin from my Gothic window pretending to employ the bower wa:; raised. This piece of water (with the Aged, and nodding at him in a most devoted an island in thG middle which might have been manner. Olll' breakfast was as good as the supthe salad for supper) was of a circular form, and per, and at half past eight precisely we started he had constructed a fountain in it, which, when for Little Britain. By degrees W emmick got you set a little mill going and took a cork out dryer and harder as we went along, and his of a pipe, played to that powerful extent that it mouth tightened into a post-office again. 'When made the back of your hand quite wet. we got to his place of business, and he pulled "I am my own engineer, and my ov.-n car- out his key from l1is coat-collar, he looked as penter, and my ovm plumber, and my own gar- unconscious of his Walworth propert~y as if the dener, and my own Jack of all Trades," said Castle and the draw~bridge and the arbor and Wemmick, in acknowledging my compliments. the lake and tho fountain and the Aged had all "Well, it's a good thing, you know, It brush- been blown into space together by the last dises the Newgate cobwebs away, and plea8es the charge of the Stinger.

Aged. You wouldn't mind being at once introduood to the Aged, wNtld you? It wouldn't CHAPTER XXV. put you out?"

I expressed the readiness I felt, and we went IT fell out, as Wemmick had told me it would, into the Castle. There we found, sitting by a that I had an early opportunity of comparing fire, a very old man in a flannel coat: clean, my guardian's establishment with that of his eheerful, comfortable, and well cared for, but cashier and clerk. My guardian was in hjs room washing his hands with his scented soap when intensely dsaf.

11 Well, aged parent," suid Wemmick, shak- I went into the office from "\Valworth, and he ing hands with him in a cordial and jocose w;ty, called me to him, and gave me the invitation for myself and friends which Wemmick had pre"how are you?" ''All right, John ; all right ! " replied the old pared me to receive. "No ceremony," he stip~ ulatctl, "and no dinner dress, and say to-morman. ''HP-re's Mr. Pip, aged parent," said Wem- row." I asked him where we should come to mick, '' and I wish you could hear his name. (for I had no idea '"here he lived, and I believe Nod a.wav at him, Mr. Pip; that's what he it was in his general objection to make any thing like au objection), and he replied, ''Come here, likes. NOd away at him, like winking!"

"This is a fine phlce of my son's, Sir," piped and I'll take you home with me." I embrace the old maR, while I nodded as hard as I pos- this opportunity of remarking that he washed sibly could. '' This iii a pretty pleasure-ground, his clients off as if he were a surgeon or a dentSb·. This spot and these beautiful works upon ist. He had a closet in his room, fitted up for the it O:tg'!:tt to be kept together by the Nation . . ~··cr purpose, which smelled of the scented soap like a perfumer's shop. It had an unusually large my son's time, for the peo-plo's enjoyment."

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on a roller inside the door, and he would wash his hands, and wipe them and dry them all over this towel, whenever he came in from a police-court or dismissed a client from his room. When I and my friends repaired to him at six o'clock next day, he seemed to have been engaged on a case of a darker complexion than usual, for we found him with his head butted into this closet, not only washing his hands, but laving his face and gurgling his throat.

And even when he had done all that, and had gone all round the jack-towel, he took out his penknife and scraped the case out of his nails before he put his coat on.

There were some people slinking aboRt as usual when we passed out into the street, who were evidently very anxious to speak with him; but ~here was something conclusive in the halo of scented soap that encircled his presence, and they gave it up for that day. As we walked along westw~d he was recognized ever and again by some face in the crowd of the streets, and whenever that" happened he talked louder; but he never otherwise recognized any body, or took notice that any body recognized him.

He conduct.ed us to Gerrard Street, Soho, to a house on the south side of that street. Rather a stately house of its kind, but dolefUl for want of painting, and with dirty windows. He took out his key and opened the door, and we all went into a stone hall, bare, gloomy, and little used.

So, up a dark brown staircase into a series of three dark brown rooms on the first floor. There were carved garlands on the paneled walls, and as he stood among them giving us welcome, I know what kind of loops I thouglit they looked like.

Dinner was laid in the best of these rooms; the second was his dressing-room; the third his bedroom. He told us that he held the whole house, but rarely used more of it than we saw.

The table was comfortably laid-no silt;er in the service, of course-and at the side of his chair was a capacious dumb-waiter, with a variety of bottles on it, and four dishes of fruit for dessert.

I noticed then, and throughout, that he kept every thing under his own hand, distributed ev· ery thing himself.

There was a book-case in the room, and I saw, from the backs of the books, that they were about evidence, criminal law, criminal biography, trials, acts Qf parliament, and such things.

The furniture was all very solid e.nd good like his watch-chain. It had an officialloGi-1:, however, and there was nothing merely ornamental to be seen. In a corner was a little table of papers with a shaded lamp, so that he seemed to bring the office home with him in that respect too, and to wheel it out of an evening and fall to work.

As he had scarcely seen my three companions until now-for he ami I had walked together-he stood on the hearth-rng, after ringing the bell, and took a searching look at them. To my surprise, he seemed at once to be principally if not solely interested in Drnmmle.

"Pip," said he, putting his lat·ge hand on my shoulder and mo"ing me to the windmv, "I don't know one from the other. Who's the spider?"

"The spider?" said I.

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; "the one with the delicate face is Startop."

Not making the least account of "the one with the delicate face," he returned. "Bentley Drummle is his name, is it P Ah! I like the look Of that fellow."

He immediately began to talk to Drummle ; not at all deterred by his replying in his heavy reticent way, but al,parently led on by it to screw discourse fmcibly out of him. I was looking at tlte two when there came between me and them the housekeeper, with the first dish for the table.

She was a woman of about forty, I supposed -but I may have thought her older than she was, as it is the manner of youth to do. Bath~ er tall, of a lithe, nimble figure, extremely pale, with large blue eyes, and a quantity of streaming light hair. I can not say whether any diseased affection of the heart caused her lip~ to be parted as if she were panting, and her face to bear a curious expression of suUdenness and fl. utter; but I know that I had been to see Macbeth at the theatre a night or two before, and that her face looked to me as if it were all disturbed by fiety air, like the faces I had seen rise out of the caldron.

She set the dish on, touched me quietly on the arm with a finger to notify that dinner was ready, and >anished. w·e took our seats at the round table, and my guardian kept Drummle on one side of him, while Startop sn.t on the other. It was a noble Uish of fish that the housekeeper had put on the table, and we had a joint of equally choice mutton afterward, and then some equally choice birds. Sauces, wines, all the accessories we wanted, and all of the best, were given out by our host from his dumb-waiter, and when they had made the circuit of the table he always put them back again. Similarly, }JC dealt us clean !Jlates, and knives and forks, for each course, and dropped those just disused into two baskets, on the ground, by his chair, No other attendant than the housekeeper appeared. She set on every dish, and I always saw in her face a face rising out of the caldron.

Years afterward I made a dreadful likeness of that woman by causing a face that had no other natural resemblance to it than. it derived from flowing light hair, to pass behind a. bowl of flaming spirits in a dark room.

Induced to take particular notice of tl1e housekeeper, both by her own striking appearance and by Wemmick's preparation, I observed that whenever she was in the room, she kept her eyes attentively on my guardian, and that she Would quite remove her hands from any dish she

(MARcH 16, 1861. put before him, watching as if she dreaded his calling her back, and wanted him to speak when. she was nigh, as if he had any thing to say. I fancied that I could detect in his manner a con~ciousness of this, and a purpose of holding her 111 suspense. , Dinner went off gayly, and although my guard.:.

Ian seemed to fullow rather than originate subjects, I knaw that he somehow wrenched the weakest part of our dispositions out of us. For myself, I found that I was expressing my tendency to lavish expenditure, and to patronize Herbert, and to boast of my great prospects, before I quite knew that I had opened my eyes.

It was so with all of ns, but with no one more than Drummle: the development of whose incli.nation to gird in a grudging and suspicious way at the rest, was screwed out of him before the fish was taken off.

It was not then, but when we had got to the cheese, that our conversation turned upon our rowing feats, and that Drummle was rallied for coming up behind of a night in that slow amphibious way of his.· Dl'Ummle upon this in~ formed our host that he much preferred our room to our company, and that as to skill he was more than our master, and that as to strength he could scatter us like chaff. By some invisible agency my gual"dian-it could have been no one else-wound him up to a pitch litt1e short of ferocity about this trifle; and he fell to baring and spanning his arm to show how muscular it was, and we all fell to baring and spanning our arms in a ridiculous manner.

Now the housekeeper was at that time clearing the table, and my gua1·dian, taking no heed of her, but with the side of his face turned from her, was leaning back in his chair biting the side of his forefinger, and showing an interest in Drummle that, to me, was quite inexplicable.

Suddenly he clapped his large hand on the housekeeper's as she stretched it across the table, like a trap. So suddenly and smartly, that we all stopped in our foolish contention. ''If you talk of strength," said M1·. Jaggers, "I'll show you a wrist. Mollv, let theill see yonrwrist."

• Her entrapped, hand was on the table, but she had already put her other hand behind her waist. ''Master," she· said, in a low voice, with her eyes attentively and timidly fixed upon him.

"Don't!"

"Fll show yon a wrist," repeated Mr. Jaggers, with an immovable determination to show it. "Molly, let them see your wrist."

"Master," d1e again murmured. ''Please!"

"Molly," said Mr. Jaggers, not looking at her, but obstinately compressing his lips, and looking at the OPJJosite side of the room, "let them see both yonr wrists. Show them. Come!"

He roughly took his hand from hers, and turned that wrist up on the table. She brought her other hand from behind her, and held the two out side by side. The last wrist was much disfigured-deeply scarred, and scarred across and across. 'Vhen she held her hands out she took her eyes from Mr. Jaggers, and turned them watchfully on every one of the rest of us in succession.

"There's power here," said Mr. Jaggers, tracing out the sinews with his forefinger without touching them. "Very few men have the pow~ er of wrist that this woman has. lt's remarkable what mere force of grip there is in these hands. I have had occasion to notice many hands, but I never saw stronger in that respect, man's or woman's, than these."

While he said these worc!s in a leisurely, critical way, she continued to look at every one of us in regultn· succession as we sat. The moment he ceased she looked at him again, •' That'll do, Molly," said Mr. Jaggers, giving her a slight nod ; "you have been admired, and can go."

She withdrew her hands and went quietly out of the room1 and Mr. Jaggers, putting the decanters on from his dumb-waiter, filled his glass, and passed round the wine. ''At half past nine, gentlemen," said he, ''we must break up. Pray make the best use of your time. I am glrrd to see yon all. Mr. Drummle, I drink w you."

If his object in singling out Drummle were to bring him out still more, it perfectly succeeded.

In a sulky triumph, Drummle showed his mo~ rose depreciation of the rest of us in a more and more offensive degree, until he ~came downright intolerable. Through all his stages J\fr.

Jaggers followed him with the same inexplicable interest. He actually seemed to serve as a zest to Mr. Jaggers's wine.

In our boyish want of discretion I dare say we took too much to drink, n.nd I know we talked too much and too noisily. We became particularly hot UIJOD some boyish sneer of Drummle's, to the eftect that we were too fme with our money. It led to my remarking, with more zeal than politeness, that it came with a. bad grace from him, to whom Startop had lent money in my presence but a week or so before.

"Well," retorted Drummle, "'he'll be paid."

"I don't mean to imply that be won't," said I; "but it might make you hold your tongue about us and our money, I should think." " You should think!" retorted Drnmmle.

"Oh Lord!"" I dare say," I went on, meaning to be very sm-ere, ''that you wouldn't lend money to any of us if we wanted it."

"You do me justice," said Drummle. "I wouldn't lend one of you a sixpence. I wouldn't lend any body a sixpence." '' Rather mean to borrow under those circumstancee, I should say."

"You should say!" repeated-Drnmmle. "Oh Lord!"

This was so very aggravating-the more especially as I found myself making no way a.gainst his surly ob~tbat I said, disregarding Herbert's eff'ortJ to check me:

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"Come, Mr. Drummle, ~ince we arc on the subject, I'll tell yon what pussed betw:cn He:bert he;e and me when you borrQ\led th,\t money.'

"I don't wan.t to know what passed between Herbert there and you," growled Drummlc.

And I think he added, in a. lower growl, that we might go to the devil and shake ourselves.

"I'll tell you, however," said J, "whether von want to know or not. \Ve said that as you Put it in your pocket, you seemed to be im-

mensely amused at his being such an ass as to lend it."

Drnmmle laughed outJ.ight, and sat laughing in our faces, with his bands in his pockets and his round shoulders raised, plainly signifying that it was quite t.ruc, and that he despised us as asses all.

Hereupon Startop took him in hand, though with a much better grace than I had shown, and exhorted him to be a little more agreeable.

Startop being a lively, bright young fellow, and Drummle being the exact opposite, the latter was always disposed to resent him as a direct personal affront. He now retorted in a coarse, lumpish way, and Startop tried to turn the dis· cussion aside with some small pleasantry that made us all laugh. Hesenting this little success niore than any tYing, Drummle, without any threat or warning, pulled his hands out of his pockets, dropped his round shoulders, swore 811 oath, took up a large glass, and would infallibly have flung it at his adversary's head, but for our entertainer's dexterously seizing it at the instant when it was raised for that purpose.

"Gentlemen," said :Mr. Jaggers, very deliberately putting down the glass, and hauling out his gold repeater by its ma.:>sivc .chain, "I am sorry to announce that it's half past nine."

On this hint we all rose to depart. Before we got to the street-door Startop was cheerily calling Drtunmle " old fellow," as if nothing had happened. But the old fellow was so far from responding that he would not eYen walk to Hammersmith on the same side of the way ; so Herbert and I, who remained in town, saw them going down the street on opposit€ sides ; Star-

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As the door was not yet shut I thought I would leave Herbert there for a moment, and 1

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surrounded by his boots, already hard at it washing his hands of us.

I told him that I had come up again to say how sorry I was that any thing disagreeable should have occurred, and that I hoped he 'vould not blame me very much. ''Pooh !" said he, sluicing his face, ancl ~peak­ ing through the water-drops ; ''it's nothing, Pip. I like that Spider though."

He had turned toward me now, and was shaking h_i_'\ head, and blowing, and toweling himself. ''I am glad yo~ like him, Sir," said I; ''but I don't."

"No, no," my guardian assented; '' don'thaye too much to do with him. Kee]l ns clear of him as may be. But I like the fellow, !lip; he is one of the true sort; I have uot 1lecn disappointed in him. 'Yl1y, if I were a fortune-

teller-'' Looking out of tha towel, he caught my eye. ''But I am not a fortune-teller," he said, letting his head drop into a festoon of towel, nml t;oweling away at his two IOlars. You know what I run. Good-night., Pip." "Good-night, Sir." In about a month nfter that the Spider's time

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bln~h to aay it-yea, 1-even II aak her for ~lmH, with tremulous lip~!

But you-you know not the reason why'Tis to feel the touch of her finger-tips.

Though the coin that slle drop.~ in my hand drgradft, The kindly word that she gives redeellll!; And through my we!Uisome night p:n•nde9 She fills my vigils with ple~~.~~ant dre.amn.

I am a beggar, I know full well1 will diE! in a gutter, the people say; But the handsom~ kid-gloved, tailored ~well Will splendidly marry Iter some :fine dny.

'Yell, let him do it, with ring and with flower~; But the ~elf-same dl\y thl\t the bride 1~ wed The bell will toll througll the noonday hotm, And tell the t.ule of 8 pauper dead.

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