Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-11-07

The London correspondent Of the Boston
Courier relates the following:
Tue letters which have appeared In the
Spectator from Mark Twain aud John Cam.
don Hotten have created considerable amuse-
ment In literary circles here, and the sym
pathy, 1t Is but Just to say, Is not altogether
with the American humOrist. Mr.. Hotten
makes some rather awkward statements for
Mark Twain and Mr.. Routledge TO answer,
and II Is hlnted that personal feeling Is In
part responsible for Marks hostility To Mr..
Hotten. The latter, IL should be said, has
resided 10 the United States, and whom Mark
Twain was married (hls bride was worth
S25O,OOO) Mt HOtten perpetrRted tocosa
paragraph In the San Francisco Retos Letter,
which vexed the object Of II so thoroughly
that he cannot forget or forgive II;
MARX TwAIS's MARRIAGE.
Mark Twain, who, when he has been long
enough sober TO permit an estimate, has been
uniformly found 10 bear spOuess character,
has got married. 1t was not the act Of a
desperate man-lt was not committed while
laboring under temporary Insanity; his insAn-
lty Ia not Of that type, nor does he ever labor;
II was the cool, methOllcal, cumulative calcu-
lahOn OF human nature working In the breast
Of an orphan laundering for some one with a
fortune 70 lOye-sOme Que with bank ac-
count to caress. For years he has felt this
matrimOny coming on.
Ever since he left California there has been
an underline Of despair running through all
his letters like the snbdued wall Of q pig be-
meath a Washlub. He felt that he was going,
that no earthly power could save him, but,
as q concession TO his weeping publishers, he
tried change Of climate by putting on
linen coat and writing letters from the West
Indies. Then be tried Thubarb, and during
his latter months he was almost constantly
under the Influence Of this powerful drug.
But rhgbaTb, while i may give htful gilt
ter TO the eye and deeeltiul redness 10 the
gills, cannot long delay the pangs OF Ap-
Mark wanted. Well, that genial spirit has
passed away; that loving, bright smile will
no more greet the early baI-keepeT, nor the
old familiar "chalk II down" delight his ear
Poor Mark he was q good schemeT, but he
couldn't he made to work.
But q man who Is q professional joker
should not cut up so rough VI what was, OF
course, only written as a Jest.
ONE OF the wild sports Of the far West"
which prevails in st. Louis Is the stampedIng
of the Texas cattle. These huge, wide
horned animals, naturally savage, are brought
there In cars from Kansas or southwestern
Missouri, and while maddened BY hunger
and thirst from their long, unTefreshed jour
nev, are depOrted Into the stOck-yards. Oc-
CasiOually one Of the deTce beasts will jump
the barriers aud escape. A grand hunt en-
sues, aud the bull or cow, further Infatuated
by the cries OF lie pursuers, sets out on a
rampage through the city. A few days ago
such an estraY ran tilt through the principal
business streets for nearly ten squares, tOss-
lag several people and creating great excite
ment on the crowded thOrOughfares. II was
finally tripped up directly In front OF the Re-
publican office, and, after much delay and
bad management was dispatched with q
butcher knife In the presence OF q multitude
large enough to grace a Spanish bull-hght.
These occurrences are getting so common
that stOck-drlvers have been warned by q
committee OF citizens 10 keep away, on pen-
atty Of being shot at sight"
BLACK velvet boots, with pearl buttons, arc
worn by ladies,