The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-12-21

IOu wear a WILLOW III
YOU exist iuside.out, you belong TO every body
Hence the horror OF village life.
In city, 1t is not 30. For forty years you
live side by side win family you never see
whose name you never near. six inches u
brick are eq ulvalent TO the solitude OF a desert
/ hold these To be vulgar errors. /, who
have lived everyone e. give the lie TO them
The disproof follows. Attended,
Oupls bored hldeously by gossip In villages
One curses tne invention VI tea, aud Is sorry
tasL Itmo could not bless God Tor another
PnaroAn 10 put 10 death al woinea over
tweA.Y. BIt do you knoW That nave found
cities u be notuIu2 more thaH collections oil
villages | swear mat III New YORK L aIn
worried much as man can be even al
places as small AS Philadelphia, or as insIgGI.
Meant Is BalunJre.
NV lodgings were in Grea. Jones street
NY iaadiady is tne only human being in that
street who knows me, and 1 know nobody
there. Sui live Ill i village.
Explain.
Arsc piais,r Some OF the houses of my viii
tass are IN Fifth Avenue others in Twenty
sixth, others in Brooklyn. have my set, and IN
that set there is nothing but gossip. For a
month past We have talked iucessantly, and
about-wnat do You suppose
The Prince OF Wales.
No.
The election of Lincoln.
Not at all.
Patti.
Quite mistake.
marble palace.
BY no means.
Berger's billiards, then.
No. You could never guess. We have
talked, say gossipped, for month past about
Brown, THE GREAT MYSTERY,
And at length, thank Heaven, the mystery
L. solved.
Since am writing this story for the Rich
4nond Dispatch, a Southern paper, which, I'M
fortunately for me, is read in New York as
we'll as in Virginia, 1t is very certain i shall
bring down upon my Caput heavy shower OF
anathemas. You, my not Southern friends,
will sans doubt, conclude that New York So
ciety is no better than it should be, and that
nv set is, to say tue least OF it, a suspicious
one. You are welcome to your conclusions.-
Such is the insolent security OF New York,
and more particularly of certain portions of
its society, that We can well afford not only
to receive the pref ddiced opinions of our less
fortunate countrymen, but 10 abuse ourselves
ad ttbitum.
Pardon this depression. Itshall be the only
one The story shall now march on with the
steady advance OF glacier Ii 1t ends in an
avalanche, forgive me.
One month 40, called 8 meeting of the
men Of our set IN private room of the club.
Wine and cigars, of course. Echalez, Barns
toif, MERTON, Harolde. and myself, Of course.
kut there was another, not OF course. Duns-
comb came in, threw himself fiat OF his back
on the lounge, smoked, and listened;
1--WE must solve this mystery, this Brown,
this inviucible Brown, this CiGsus, this
Adonis, this Heenau, this Jehu," said l.
=" Echalez, what do you know about Brown /"
Jack turned off a goblet-he always drinks
sherry in goblet-of Wine, and answered.
"Nothing. Saw MIN TWO winters ago in
Washington, at a ball at old Cass's. Haven't
seen any body but Brown since"
EchaleZ is eur sententlous man.
BarnsIof, give us your report"
al knows noting also. l meets mi. him at
Newport, before last sooner, unit he vas te lion
Of to blaze. He troye u finest horses, give te
finest cooper, he hired 10 Chermania Pand to
whole season unit give oil 10 Zerenates. wish
in my soul he vas dead. shall pc sick init
Proun, dis three year"
Barustof Is in the steel business in Dry
street, and in love.
"Speak up, MERTON"
The fellow has an endless tongue. He bored
us for half an hour and told us nothing.
Awake up Harolde, somebody"
They woke him up. He yawned and let fall
the cane which ne mad been sucking In his
sleep Haroide is our unmitigated fooI. To
my utter establishment, he said lie knew all
about Brown. Had made inquiries that day.
He was the son OF Brown OF Brown, Brothers
q Go: A few ques lions diss ipated TINS theory.
of by a wag connec ted with the Saturday Press.
l was about To give my views, which were
of no value, however, when Dunscomb turned
ON the lounge and began to Ques ton me-
After had told him how persistently had
worked TO find out who and what Brown was,
asking every body, following him by day and
by night, and even employing detectives,
Dunscomb, for the first time WITHIN the men,
ory OF the younger men, exhibited signs OF
life. He had failed in the crash OF 81, had re-
tired on small sum, and given himself up TO
cigars and chess. lie was the nearest tch
TO Morpny III town. he delighted IA puzzles
Getting wind OF our mystlticanon about
Brown he mad entered the room, hoping u
solve the difficulty by IL word. But the result
OF nv iaoOrs the utter failure of every etfori
] had made, aroused bim.
Barnetou."
"ies."
las you go by Derby's in the morning, tel
him - send HE suit OF clothes as soon IA
possible"
Ia Aas Wer to our looks, he said:
~ unjust return 10 socIe,y tor Il week"
lie I'll heavily and lett the reon.
It mas the lst u September. Brown wa
then at SHARON. Dunscoms hurTl a there
stayea TWO d lys, asEouIshed tue crowd, wh'
Looked on nam is one Risen rom Lne dead, ant
reLurAed.
mel nm. lie was looking at the prints il
WiiItIns aud Stevens window.
W no Is Brown %
"UJu't know"
"You confess he Is great mystery 7"
mo. Yes"
Isaw he Was in a bad humor, and passed on
Three weeks afterwards, we came lace u
face IN the BARR OF the Brevoort House.
We drank together.
j asked no questions.
As he was going outof the door, he said,
Forrest played last night"
"Weli."
"BroWn was there"
He closed the door and was gone.
knew he had gotten 4 ciew.
II was the night OF the Prince of Wales
ball at the Academy OF Music.
Join me in this Cabinet 1t is good,
said Dunscomb.
Willingly" said l.
We drank.
- 10 Ia iuh <aat har 20 ixht
.'Yes; how the deuce dad he get SO thic
with The Earl St. Germans I"
address. my dear fellow, address,
"Say impudence."
Amendment accepted"
atty another glass 2"
"Yes," said l.
"Urink 70 my success"
"But have you succeeded p
"Drink."
Down went the "Cabinet" Dunseom
hurried me OF to the stage. There we So
Brown, the lovely c. L. On his arr
talking to no less parsonage than the Prin
my friend. Magnificent replied. al
zee, we have a fne view Of the Prince--and
Brown. BY Jove! he is quite at home. II
air is that Of Bayard himself. Mystery or
mystery, this much IL certain, Brown W.
born gentleman. No man could acq uire su,
manners rs he has who was not TO the man
born. No pun intended. Dunscomb, on II
honJr"
Browns party-I beg pardon, the Primo.
party were not Ave steps from the mirror
Danscomb aud myself were almost touchi,
1t. with our backs TO the Prince-and-Brow
You See Brownln
"UldJubtediy."
nat clear pale complexion p
nss, thAps what kills tho women"
Woaidn'ta little color help him %
MAX IL would, rather"
"Suppose give hin somen
looked ~ Duascomb. Was he drunk Z n
Was he going 70 insalt Brownl No.
this ! saw at glance.
what do yon mean !"