The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-26

the public institutions almost as good. The
Insane Asylem is admirably conducted, and so
is the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.
] very much questioued within myself
as ! walked through the Insane Asylum,
whether l should have known the atten-
dants from the patients, but for the few
words which passed between the former
and the Doctor, in reference to the persons
under their charge. OF course limit this re-
mark merely to their looks; for the conversation
OF the mad people was mad enough.
There was one little prim old lady, of very
smiling and good-humored appearance, who
! came siding up to me from the end of long
| passage, and, with a courtesy of ineXprcssible
| condescension, propounded this unaccountable
| inqHiry-
Does POntefract still flourish, sir, upon the
| soil of England?n
"He does, ma'ah, I" rejoined.
when you last saw him, sir, he was
'Wel ma'am," said l. Extremely well. He
begged me to present his compliments, Inever
/ saw him looking bettcrp
At this the old lady was very much delighted.
Alter glancing at me for moment, as If
| to be quite sure that ! was serious
| IN my respectful air, she sidled back some
| PAGES, sidled forward again, made a sudden skip
| lat which l precipitately retreated a step or
| tWo); and said:-
81 am an antednuvian, sir.o
thought the best thing to say was, that /
| had suspected as much from the first. There
| fore | said so.
ut is an extremely proud and pleasant thing,
sir, to be an an ediluvian," said the old lady
The old lady kissed her hand gave an
other skip smirked and sidled down the gallery
in most extraordinary manner. and ambled
gracefully into her own bedchamber.
In another part of the building there was
heated.
"Weil!n said he, starting up and pulling Off
his nghtcap; cit g all settled at last. l have
arranged it with Queen Victoria"
Arranged what ~ asked the Doctor
why, that business" passing his hand wearily
forehead no nf No
York .
ION p said l, like man suddenly enlight-
encd. For he looked at me for an answer.
"Yes. Every house without q signal will be
hred upon by the British troops. No harm will
be done 10 the Others. No harm at all. Those
that want to be saved must hoist flags. That's
all they'll have to do. They must hoist fags.n
Even while he was speaking he seemed, I
thought, to have some faint idea that his talk
was incoherent Directly he had said these
words, he lay down again and gave a kind of
groan, and covered his hot head with the
blankets.
There was another, young man whose mad
ness was love and music. After playing on the
accordion march he had composed, he was
very anxious that should walk into his cham
ber, which Immediately did.
BY way of being very knowing, and humoring
him to the top of his bent, went to the win.
dow, which commanded beautiful prospect,
and remarked, with an address upon which /
greatly plumed myself:-
what delicious country you have about
tnese lodgings OF yours"
"Poh I" said he, moving his fingers carelessly
over the notes of his instrument: '',oeU enough
for such an institution as thtS!"
don't think was ever so taken aback In all
my life.
81 come here just for whim," he said coolly.
'That's all.r
'oh That's all !" said I.
Eyes. That's all. The Doctors a smart man.
he quite enters into it, It's joke of mine. I
like 1t for time. You needn't mention it, but
| think shall go out next Tuesday!n
assured him that would consider our inter-
view perfectly confidential, and reloned the
Doctor. As we were passing through gallery
on our way out Well-dressed lady, Of quiet
and composed manners, came up, and, proffer-
ing slip of paper and pen, begged that
would oblige her with an autograph COM
piled, and we parted
~ think / remember having had few in
terviews like that with ladies out Of doors.
hope she rs not mad /"
''On what subject? Autographsm
"No. She hears voices in the air."
"Well!" thought |, lit would be we'll if we
could shut up few false prophets Of these later
times, who have professed to do the same; and
l should like to try the experiment on Nor
monist or two to begin with.n.
In this place there is the best Jail for untried
offenders in the world. There is also very
well-ordered State prison, arranged upon the
same plan as that at Boston, except that
here there is always sentry on the
wall with a loaded gun. 1t contained at
that time about IL two hundred prisoners. A
spot was shown me in the sleeping ward wher
a watchman was murdered some years since in
the dead of night, in desperate attempt to
escape made by a prisoner who had broken
from his cell. woman, too, was pointed out
to me- who, for the murder of her husband, had
been close prisoner for sixteen years.
DO you think,n / asked of my conductor,
chat after so very long an Imprisonment she
has any thought or hope of ever regaining her
hberty2n
"o6 dear, yes" he answered. 'To be sure
''she has no chance of obtaining it, I sup
poseN
well, don't knOw;" which, by-the.by, is a
national answer. "Her friends misrust her.n
what have they to do with it ?r naturally
inquired.
''Well, they won't petition"
"But If they did, they couldn't get her out,
'Well, not the FIRST time, perhaps, nor yet the
second; but firing and wearying for few years
might do it,"
"Does that ever do it?"
why, yes, that'll do ii sometimes. Political
friends III do it sometimes. It's pretty often
done one way or another"
shall always entertain a very pleasant and
grateful recollection of Hartford. 1t is lovely
place, and had many friends there whom l
can never remember with indifference. We left
1t with no little regret on the evening of Friday,
the llth, and travelled that night by railroad to
New Haven. Upon the way the guard and | .
were formally introduced to each other Gas we
usually were on such occasons) and exchanged
a variety of small talk. We reached New Haven
at about eight o'clock, after journey of three
hours, and put up for the night at the best inn.
New Haven, known also as the City of Elms,
Is fine town. Many OF its streets (as its alias
sufficiently imports) are planted with rows of
grand old elm trees and the same natural orna-
ments surround Yale College, an establishment
OF considerable eminence and reputation. The