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I ever saw; l was nearly an hour in
bringing her out of it. OF course it was
the heat of the room, her exertions the
preceding week, and l prescribed for her,
Queer, wasn't it? Now, if I were a
writer, and had your faculty, I'd make
something out Of that"
" But how is his general health ?"
d" O, about the same. He can't evade
what will come, you know, at any mo-
ment. He was up here the other day.
Why, the pulsation was as plain-why,
the entire arch of the What, you
get out here. Goodbye"
OF course no moralist, no man writing
for sensitive and strictly virtuous pub
lie could further interest himself in this
man. so l dismissed him at once from
my mind, and returned to the literary
contemplation of virtue that was clearly
and positively defined, and of sin, that
invariably commenced with capital
letter. That this man, in his awful con-
dition lowering on the verge of eternity,
should allow himself to be attracted by
but it was horrible to contemplate.
Nevertheless, a month afterward I was
returning from festivity with my init
mate friend Smith, my distinguished
friend Jobling, my most respectable
friend Robinson and my wittiest friend
Jones. 1t was clear, starlit morning,
and we seemed 10 hold the broad, beau
tiful avenue TO ourselves, and i fear we
acted as if it were &C. As we hilariOusly
passed the corner of Eighteenth street,
couple passed by, and l suddenly heard
my name called from its gloomy depths.
" beg your pardon" said the doctor,
as the driver drew up on the sidewalk,
but I've some news for you. I've just
been to see our poor friend -. OF
course was too late. He was gone in a
flash"
What, dead ?"
GAS Pharaoh. In an instant, just as
said. You see the rupture took place in
the descending arch Of"
g But doctor ?"
"It's a queer story. Am keeping you
from your friends? No! Well, you see
she, that woman 1 spoke of had writtena
note to MIN based on what l had told her.
He got it, and dropped in his dressing
room, dead as herring"
How could she have been so cruel.
knowing his condition; she might with
a woman's tact have rejected him less
abruptly"
" Yes, but you're all wrong. By Jove
she accepted himl was willing to marry
him"
What ?''
Z" Yes, don't you see! it was JOY that
killed him. Cad, we never thought of
that Queer, amt it. See here, don't
you think you might make story out of
it ?"
But, 1Octor, it hasn't any moral"
"Humphl That's so. Good morning.
Drive on, John. - Bret Harte IN the Neso
York Sun
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MRS. "srOyEWALLo JACKSON,s
LETTER.

Mrs. NJ. Anna Jackson, the widow of
the great confederate general, says that
she did not express to newspaper person
lately the belief that if General Jackson
had lived, or if his policy had been Wig
orously pursued, the war might have had
a different ending. And then she goes
on to say: No man was ever more free
from petty jealousy and detractiOn of
his fellow officers or more submissive to
superior authority than General Jackson
was; and even a shadow of an imputa-
tion of this kind would be great injustice
to his unselfish, patriotic spirit, and con-
sistant Christian character, and certainly
l would be the last person to make such
an impression. or draw an unfavorable
comparison between him and our noble
generals, Lee and Johnston, or any other
brave confederate officer. The discus
sion in the article of my private affairs
reveals an indelicacy that is tso painful
for me to dwell upon; but / would fain
throw the veil of charity over the pole
publication, believing the reporter zeal
carried him beyond his own discretion,
and even betrayed him to publish, with
out my knowledge or consent, letter 70
my young daughter, which was shown
him simply as specimen of the imPer-
tinence of the kind to which we had
been subjected"
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THE BISTINIDO.

ct. H." writes; d" l am boiling over
with indignation while reading the ac-
count of the fearful bastinadoing of the
unfortunate Ali Nasmi, narrated in your
Pera correspondence. few days ago
was reading an account Of this punish
ment inflicted many years since on an
unfortunate Engl shman. As many of
your readers may not be fully aware of
the horrible nature OF this punishment,
l give the account in the victims own
words. l am led to ask how it is posi-
BILE in our day such bdrbarous cruelty
can be perpetrated for so small an offense
as the poor student was guilty of, and
which he SO magnanimously owned
The writer say The victim was
thrown fiat on his face and his leg bent
up, so that the soles of his feet were
horizontal; the feet were held in this
position by long staff and chain. At
first the blows were moderately dealt,
then they were laid on more roughly,
and every stroke felt like th application
a red-hot poker At first the pain was
excruciating, but the feelings in time
became numb, aad it wss like beating
bag of wool 1t was six weeks before he
could walk, even with erutches, and for
more than three years his feet and anslo
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HEII-T SIL sRIES.

The New York cores condent OF a
western paper says Take a walk with
me any day in the centers of the tinan-
cial, insurance, commercial and manu-
featuring interests, and | could point out
a score or two. of men whose salaries are
over $4,000, many more who receive
S25, 900 per year, and hundreds whose
income from salary alone runs from So
600 to $50, 600. Not by any means docs
the remuneration depend upon educa-
some of the highest priced officials are
self-made men, with good common, cart
horse sense" Away up town Is the su
perintendent OF refinery who gets 500
600 per year. Many years ago ne came
here a poor German sugar retiner, and
worked for day wages. He was fertile
in genius, experimental a great deal,
and made valuable discoveries in the re-
finery process. He was rapidly promoted
in salary and position, and when he re
ceived and was about to accept a salary
IT $25, 900 from a rival refinery, he was
Offered $50, 900 to remain. In the brew
cry interests recall persons whose sala-
ries run away up into the thousands.
Two managers of large breweries in this
city and neighborhood are paid S2j, coo
each, five are paid $4,000 each, and
seven receive $4,000 per year. Many
of our railroad officials receive princely
salaries. Jewett, receiver Of the Erie,
gets $4,000; Toucey, superintendent of
the New York Central and Hudson River
railroad, it is said, receives SO, 900; the
general manager of the Pennsylvania
railroad is credited with receiving $75,-
900; the "head man " of the New York
and Boston is paid $50 900, while few
general managers of leading eastern
roads receive less than S20, 900, The
bank presidents receive enormous sums.
At least six receive $4,000 per year
each; nine range from $25, 900 to $50, ,000,
and number get from $4,000 TO Sl5,-
900. The same IS true of the steamship
interests-a large number of the higher
officials pOcketing all the way from S1O,
600 to $50, 900 per year for their services
to the corporations which they represent.
Life and fire insurance furnishes a field
for great expectations on the part of
those who aspire to become presidents
and secretaries of companies. The com
panies have always been shy of exposing
the sums paid to their chief officials
Fortunately our legislature took the
matter into consideration, and forced the
leading companies to give the informa-
tion desired. Eighteen companies re
sponded very reluctantly. Three presi-
dents received $4,000 or over per year,
three $4,000 or over, u.ree 81, 900, and
the balance ran from 3, G0a to Sl1, $40
Mr.. Hyde, of the Equitable Life, has
had erich place." since 1889, when lie
began at 81, 900. In the past eighteen
years he has received $3.50, 905.
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PROCLAMATIONF FOR IN EXTRA SES-
SION ON OCTOBER FIFTEENTH.

Whereas, the final adjournment of the
fort ty-first congress without making the
usual appropriations for the support
of the army for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1878, presents extraordinary
occasion requiring the president to ex-
ercise' the power vested in him by the
constitution to convene both houses of
congress in anticipation of the day fixed
bv law for their next meeting, now,
therefore, ], Rutherford B. Hayes, presi-
dent of the United States, do, by virtue
of the power to this end in me vested by
the constitution, convene both houses of
congress to assemble at their respective
chambers at Il o'clock noon on Monday,
the 18th day of October, next, there and
then TO consider and determine such
measures as in their wisdom their duty
and the welfare of the people may seem
to demand.
In witness whereof | have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this
9TH day of May, II the year of our Lord
1877, and the independence of the United
States of America 101. E. B. HAYES.
By the President,
WM. NJ. EEARTs, Secretary of State.
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THE LIST MELODY OF P4UL PES
Tai. THE X USSIAN CONSPLR4 TOR.

THE LIST MELODY OF P4UL PES
TAI. THE X USSIAN CONSPIRA A TOR.
"The Emperor Alexander was dead.
His eldest brother, the Grand Duke Con-
stantine, was his natural successor to the
throne of Russia; but. by deed till then
kept a secret, Constantine, in Alexander's
lifetime, had renounced. the crown in
favor of his younger brother, Nicholas.
The accession of the latter, therefore, ex-
cited general surprise; an unsettled feel
ing manifested ieself among the people
and the army. The time appeared favor
able for the breaking out of conspiracy
which had been forming for years. An
insu-rection took place at St Petersburg
on Christmas day, 1925; but the move
ment of the conspirators was too hasty,
and their attempt, not well seconded by
the troops, failed through the energy of
the car. A hundred and thirty-si
leaders of the insurrection were seized,
tried and condemned, and almost all of
them were sentenced to perpetual labor
or to exile in Siberia. The FIVE principal
chiefs were condemned to be broken on
the wheel, but did not undergo that her-
rible punishment, the gibbet being SUBJ
stituted by a ukase of the emperor.
Among these FIVE chiefs the hrst and
most remarkable was Paul Pestsl, colonel
of the infantry regiment of Wiatka. The
long and arduous task to which ne had
devoted himself had not wholly engrossed
the mind of this brave and persevering
conspirator. Alive to the charms of the
arts, he cultivated them with success,
and, in particular, was an excellent mu-
sician. The young and beautiful Cath
arine W-ha conceived a devoted at
tachment to Postal. Gifted with an ex-
ouisite voice, she loved to sing his mel
odies. The passion with which she in
spired him was as fervent as her own,
and if ever the deep conspirator could
forget his gloomy reveries, it was when
seated by GATHERINGS side, and dreaming
of love and happiness.
"On the eve of the day when the in.
surrection was to break out, Postal, more
preoccupied than usual, scarcely an
swered Catherine, and at times seemed
not to hear her.
:''What aiIs you to-day, Paul?' she
said, taking his hand. You do not look
at me-you do not speak to me. neve,
saw you 50 cold, 50 absent, when you
were with me-
"Paul looked at her sadly.
"eWhat would you do, Catherine, were
you never to see me again7
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THE CARLYLE LETTERS.
The following is the text of the Carlyle

The following is the text of the Carlyle
letters:
To the editor of the Times Sir: A
rumor everywhere prevails that our mi
raculous premier, in spite of his queens
proclamation of neutrality, intends un-
der cover of care for British interests to
send the English feet to the Baltic, or
to some other feat which shall compel
Russia to declare war against England.
Later the rumor has shifted FROM the
Baltic and become still more sinister OH
the eastern side of the scene, where a
feat is contemplated that will force not
Russia only but all Europe to declare
war against US. This latter have come
to know as an indisputable fact in our
present affairs, and the outlook is surely
a grave one as to British interests.
There is none visible or conceivable to
me, except taking strict charge of our
route to India by Suez and Egypt, and
for the rest resolutely steering altogether
clear OF any copartnery with the Turks
in regard to this or any other British
interest whatever. 1t should be felt by
England as real ignominy to be con-
nected with such Turk at all. Nay, if
we still had, as in fact all ought to have,
a hand to save him from Perdition and
annihilation, in Gods kingdom, in the
future for him that has any hope in it,
that of even now being conquered by
the Russians and gradually drilled into
the peaceable attempt at learning him
self to be governed. The newspaper out
cry against Russia, is no more respecta-
BILE to- than the bowling of bedlam,
proceeding as it does from the deepest
ignorance, egotism, paltry hate and
jealousy. These things l write not on
hearsay, but on acute knowledge, and to
all friends OF their country / will recon-
mend immediate attention to them while
there is yet time, lest in few weeks the
maddest and most original thing that a
British government could do, should be
done, and all Europe kindle into the
flames of war. am, etc,
L. CARLYLE,
) Cheyne Row, Chelsea, May 4.
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THAT HISTORIC RIVER, THE DAN
UBE.

The river Danube has figured largely
in the history for 1000 years, ,and it again
becomes the object to which the eyes of
the world has turned. 1t furnished
highway for the Turks in the sixteenth
and seventeeth centuries to penetrate
Europe as far as Vienna, and in the days
of the crusades it became an outlet for
the religious enthusiasm of Europe to
flow to the holy land. The Danube,
from its source in Baden TO the Black
sea, is $50 miles long, and it drains,
with It's tributaries, an area of over 3o0,-
600 square miles. 1t passes through
Bavaria, Austria, Hungary, forms the
boundary between Hungary and Servia
TO the Carpathean mountain, where it
separates Roumania and Bulgaria, and
passes into the Black sea thISugh several
mouths, the principal being that OF
Sulina. The Danube is navigable for
steamers as lar as Ulm, in Bavaria. At
Nicopolis, in the fourteenth century,
100, 900 Christians were driven by the
Turks into the Danube, and in the ff
teenth century 10000 Turks were slain
on its shores at the siege OF Belgrade.
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RAIL ROADS
GENIUS IND CELIBk CT

Why are men of genius so often bach
elors? To this reply thatsuch instances
are not owing to anything like a want
of appreciation of woman's value, but
most generally to unfavorable circum-
stances. Most of eur celebrated authors
have been in love, but found that its
course did not run smooth. Irving, for
instance, was engaged to maiden whom
he lost by death Charles Lamb re
mained unmarried that he might devote
himself TO his lunatic sister, Mary, whom
he kept as an inmate of his house until
her death. Lord Macauley never mar
ried, but it is probable that this was due
to some youthful disappointment. He
might have had
a love that had an early root,
And early had doom;
Like trees that never come to fruit,
Bat perish in their bloom"
Goldsmith was deeply in love with the
charming Miss Horneck, whom he styled
d" the Jessamine BRIDE" and even Pope,
though lifelong invalid, expressed his
admiration of Martha Blountl but neither
of these men married. The one was pre-
vented by poverty, the other by i'll health.
Hume seems almost the only leading
writer who was formed for celibacy. He
was naturally cold and apathetic, and,
indeed, any one who could defend suicide
by such ingenious sOphistry was unfit for
social life Gibbon, when a student,
was in love with Mile. Curchod, the
daughter of 4 poor clergyman. His
father opposed the union, and the love-
lorn student resigned his hopes of matri
monial bliss. The girl was talented and
became teacher, and afterward married
the richest man in France and was the
mother of Nine. De Stael. She enter
tanned her former lover at her place
twenty years after the match had been
broken. To return to American authors
i am reminded that Percival proposed
but was refused. Indeed he was unfit
for married life by reason of his peculi-
arities. Halleck became deaf and re-
L
frmed bachelors are rare among the
editors, physicians, lawyers and clergy Of
this city, and it has always been so.
Almost all the great authors of the
British empire were married men, though
some had conjugal trouble. Among
these were Milton, Byron, Shelley, Bull
wer and Dickens. Walter Scott was re-
jected by his first love. who was above
him in rank, but she lived to see him the
greatest author of his age. He after
ward married an heiress of French birth,
Miss Carpenter, but would no doubt
have done better to have allied himself
with Scottish blood. His life was en-
tirely separate from the domestic circle,
and his wife never knew till the Banna-
tynes failed that her husband had for
fifteen years been a silent partner in an
Edinburgh printing house. Cor. CiRcia-
natl Gazette.
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VOL. XIII. NO 10.

l should die.' cried Catherine, with
enthusiasm; and then added in a voice
OF terror But why this question, Paul /?
Can you think OF forsaking me?'
Postal was silent.
" But 1t cannot be- said Catherine.
You have sworn to love me till death
" Yes! While this heart beats II is
yours, Catherine, but, he added, en-
bracing her with melancholy tenderness,
promise me, if | die, that you will live
for the sake of your old father, and that,
even when dead, shall never cease to
occupy yppr thoughts
" pfShise to live rs long as my grief
will allow. But of us two, Paul, it is not
i who shall have this cruel trial to
undergo
There are presentiments that do not
deceive said Postal, declining his head
on his breast; an inward voice warns
me that | must abandon my two hap.
.sSest yisions--the bhss of living in the
enjoyment of your love, Catherine, and
the glory of assuring the welfare of my
countrymen.'
'"' What do you mean ? cried the young
gin, whose fear and agitation increased
every minute; what mean these myste-
rious words, these gloomy predictionsY
Paul, you are coneealing a secret
"I Catherine.'
"'A secret from me, who never had
one from you'll
"' You have had all mine-but this
one does not belong TO me-
"'And, if l may judge from your looks,
your words, your thoughts of death and
parting, it must be something very
terrible!'
Terrible, indeed!'
CATER a moments silence, Postal con.
tinued
"' Hear me, Catherine. When shall
give you, this evening, my farewell kiss,
it may, perhaps, be the last you will re-
ceiye from me. But whatever may be
my lot, whenever you are told Paul is
NohlCS anu NOu budil ulll a Iculcu-
brance of me for, swear to you, my last
thought shall be of you
PestaPs presentiment did not deceive
him! He saw Catherine no more.
The day after the execution of his
sentence a young girl, drowned in tears,
obtained from the keeper of the prison
the favor of being admitted into Pestaps
cell
"After a long search she discovl red
some lines of music pencilled on the wall.
Above them were only the two words,
For herl' Underneath was PauPs
name.
"Two years afterwards there died, in a
lunatic asylum, poor maniac, whose
madness consisted in singing; every day
and at the same hour, the same little
melody. The madwoman was Catherine
the hour that at which she was ad-
mitted TO her lovers dungeon-and the
air was the last melody of Pestal."--
E1l0lisAlroRlan's Domestic Magazine.
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REL5NING AUsTERITY or THE
SH9B< Kris.

The Shakers, though unquestionabiy a
very earnest people, are not 50 austere in
their conversation and manners as many
suppose. On the contrary, they seemed
to us to be quite as fond of banter and
by-play OF a genial, innocent kind, as
people generally. They are ready to
laugh at joke. When our lady com
panion possessed herself of the quaint
Shakeress cap and confined Der curls un-
der it, they seemed as gleeful as we were
over her sudden Occurrences. As the
Shakers are no5 so austere in their man
ners, neither are they so ascetic in their
life as many might imagine. Without
being luxurious, they live very comfort
ably. Their members travel occasionally,
and in summer little parties OF them
sometimes go a distance of fifty miles to
recrt ate on the sea-shore.
The Shakers have not given so much
attention to regulating their diet as have
some communities, but still they may be
said to be quite fairly hygienic. Graham
and Indian breads are constantly on their
tables, and they eat some sruit and but
little meat. If we might be allowed to
make suggestion to them in regard to
their table, We should perhaps say that
they ate too much pie. May be they
don't know that some foreigner has said
that "all Americans die OF pie" We
could not help wishing further that they
would let the Turkish bath into the
noble new building into which steam has
pushed its way; but, doubtless, they
will open their doors to it some time.
" Cleanliness next to godliness."
As we were walking between the
various buildings, over the neat stone
walks, we stopped with a sudden start on
perceiving that we were about to put
our foot down on what appeared to be a
grave. There il the walk was a plain fat
stone, bearing the age and other rude
memorials of a departed soul.
why" We exclaimed with sudden
awe, q some one seems to be buried here"
Our Shaker companions explained that
in remodeling their cemetery they re-
moved all the old stones and put marble
slabs in their places. The stones had been
used for repairing their walks, and we
soon got quite accustomed to them. We
afterward visited the Shaker cemetery.
1t was situated ON a high and pleasant
knoll and was surrounded with a low
and open iron fence, the heavy pests of
which were sunk into stone foundation.
The marble tombstones were all of the
same size, and were placed in straight
rows, giving an appearance of perfect
uniformity. a Shaker burying-ground is
an interesting place to visit, on account
OF the uniformly great age to which its
memorials bear witness. They prove the
tslth of Nordhoh's assertion that Z: Com
munists are long-lived."
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4 SEI OF TROUBLES.

A man in difficulties is a poor fellow
who was smashed up in the recent rail-
road disaster near Vincennes, Indiana.
The omnivorous reporter published his
name in the list of wounded, two regu-
larly welded wives came to nurse him,
and neither would give him up to the
other, so both kept him in possession.
The publication disclosed his where
abouts to the police authorities, who
wanted him on criminal charges, as well
as for a large reward offered for his ap-
prehension, and five detectives are guard
ing the house in which he lies, waiting
to take him il he does not conclude to
bear no Longer the ills he has" but
" fly to others thaNhe knows not off,
Ctereldnd Leqdet.
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were very much swollen, and, though
twenty years had ELAPSED when he pub
lished this account, he still suffered.
He mentions instances of the bastinado
having been applied ior three days sue
cessively, and, if the person survived,
the feet were rendered useless for life ;
but in general, he observes, when be-
tween FIVE and six hundred strokes were
inflicted death was the consequence. y
L0ndoll Time.