The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-25

Though PRIDE should hold your calling low,
For US shall duty make it good;
And We from truth to truth shall 60
Till life and death are understood.
THE FATAL JEWELS.
In the last week Of the Carnival at
Pera, most of the European embassies
give balls. You go to the French EN-
bassy, and meet the corps diplomatique,
the .consuls, the principal bankers and
merchants, and the French tag-rag and
bob.taiL You pass the next night chez
M. le Ministre des Pays Bas, and you
rub skirts with the same company, minus
the French and plus the Dutch tag-rag;
andtso on, ball after ball. The faces are
the same, the music the same, the re-
freshments the same; the same dull way
OF. conducting the dances prevails, the
same scandals are talked. Some of the
palaces, as they are called, are more
spacious and better furnished than
in the same dress-that is all the differ
ence. Still, these entertainments form
q pleasant break in the monotony of life
in Constantinople, and are the subject of
much preparation and scheming, espe-
cialIy among the rag-tag and bob.tail
who hope for invitations, Misseri's
Hotel, usually wilderness, at this sea-
son fills with the residents in the villages
onthe Bosphorus and others who come
into town for the balls, locomotion at
night in the city of the Sultan being diff
cnlt and dangerous. The hamals (porters)
who carry people to and from the gay
and festive scenes in sedan-chairs make O
rich harvest; and white ties have been
known to cost six shillings each in the
Pera shops.
Before the last ball took place, scan
dal and new arrival gave q great i'm
pulse to conversation. The scandal was
thus: A young Hungarian attached to the
Russian Embassy, and who had the re-
putation of not being SO popular with
the fathers and husbands of Pera society
as with the fairer members of their
household, was discovered to be in cor
respondence with sundry persons labor
ing under an accusation of disloyalty to
his imperial master; and in the course of
those perauisitions to which the children
of holy Russia must submit, some
sketches, in which the features and de-
pertinent of Madame lAmbassadrice
were too faithfully depicted, were found
in his desk. It is true, that his CORES
pondents were old college friends. and
that the ingenuity of even Russian
police agent could not force any political
meaning out of their letters; but, viewed
in the light thrown by those wicked
caricatures, there was high treason in his
unpaid boot-maker's bill. So he re-
ceived notice that his further services at
Constantinople could be dispensed with,
and that he was to take the first steamer
to Odessa, where he would be good
enough to report himself to the chief
military authority.
The new arrival was an English steam
yacht, having on board lady known to
the world at large as Mrs. Haywarde, to
her husband rs Susey, and to intimates
as "the Admiral" A lady WHO could
wear a sailors hat with the name of her
yacht on the ribbon, blue jacket with
club-buttons, and short skirt, (such as
those who have much getting in and out
of boats. and going up and down compa-
nion-ladders, should wear,) and yet APP
pear every inch q gentlewoman-not a
pretty woman for oil her large blue eyes
and soft brown hair, but emphatically
what Percy Wylde, commanding the
gun-boat in the Bosphorus, said Of her
when, seeing her at Misseri's table, he
asked, 'sWho is that nice little woman
in blue?" Being such little fair sprite
of girl, she had, of course, married her
OppOalte. oteWarG d1yWarde stood
about six feet two in his socks-a man
whose square jaw, open brow and brawny
shoulders gave you the idea that he
would be o bad sort of customer to pick
a quarrel with, but an excellent ally in
case of need. Some kind people said
that he was hard and unbending, and
that they pitied his little fairy wife; but
she knew well what o tender heart beat
in that big, rough.looking husk, so it did
not matter. It WAS great thing to have
new arrival and new scandal to talk
about; but when it became known that
the hero of the new scandal and the
s'nice little woman in blue" were old
friends, the two facts bred and multiplied,
and replenished the land with talk.