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ted the church. Unlike that other Christmas,
no moon or stars shene White, SOFT cease
less the snow FELL She put up her umbrella
| and hurried home-the home of Deighbor-
ing house-took her belated and solitary
supper, and ran up to her own little sitting
room A fire burned in the CRATE, and her
| plano-soio relic of former spiendor-stood
| open with some new music upon it. Before
sitting down to her long practice, she went to
| the window and looked out. All the world
was white and still and ghostly, and faster
ana faster the snow was falling. AS she stood
the tall, dark figure of a man opened the
gate, and came blowing through the snow to
| the front door.
| One OF the boarders, she thought, debated
as was How cross Mrs White viii be-
| She left the window and went to the piano
| Before she commenced her practice, and half
| unconsciously, she began softly to sing her
! favoritc old anthem
| and opened, and the intruder did not advance
Come in,' she said, land shut the door
| please; there is drau-''
She stopped with low c:y, but he took hel
at her word, shut the door, and came forward
II have come back, Katie he said. "Wil
| you forgive me and shake handsT'
| He took both hers without watt ng for leave
and held them fast.
i only reached England Yesterday" he
| went on. All these years l have been
abroad, trying to forget you and be happy
and l have neither forgotten you, nor been
| happy. You We're right and was wrong
have come back to tell you so, and to ask
yon If you have forgotten me9"
Forgotten you'll" she repeats almost with
sob. % my Harry! My Harry"
u am no longer rich," he says. "Rosie
and the little ones are at the old homestead
aud the drunken husband has drunk him
self to death. tried to palter with my duty,
Katie, before | went away; I sought out
Rose and offered her portion of her fathers
fortune. She was proud. as you told me she
would be, and refused it with scorn. 4 am
poor, she said, almost starving; but will
not take as favor from you, Harry Hatton
that which IS my right. Keep all or give
all! kept all, Katie, and if I could have
| forgotten you, might have kept all in the
ask nothing but you for the rest of my life
We will be poor, but we will be together
Say you forgive We, Katie; you have not said
| it yet
] She said it then, holding him close, he1
! happy tears damping his already damp coat
collar
you and 1 are to spend Christmas Day
with Rose, he says presently, that first trans.
port over. "She's jolly little soul as ever
lived in spite of all her troubles, and right
glad to have done with malrimoney forever
Vino knows but that after eight years of ii
you may not echo her sentiments"
Il think | will risk it, though" says Miss
Engiehart. looking at him. handsome, big and
brown, with adoring eyes. so Harry! &c
| think did not know you striding through
the snow up to the gate! Twas jast thinking
with ever SO little of pang, that no gift
would be mine this year. while all the time
the best and dearest of Christmas boxes was
coming to me over the snow"
christmas has brought you your love r
onH boil h,,,
said Harry.
And New Year did,
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Mr.. And Mrs. S. G. Hall.

IN late number of The Times short
but kindly paragraph relating to the we'll
known literary copartners, Mr.. and Mrs
3 Z. Hall, made me think that descrip-
ton OF their everyday lives from one
who has the pleasnSe of calling them
friends, and vino but few months ago
made one of their circle, might not come
amiss to some Of their admirers this side
of the water.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hall 1--we in low, un-
pretending looking little house, with an
iron gate in the high white wall that sur
rounds It, In the artistic region of Ken
slngton, near the Holland House. and are
at home" to then friends every Friday
in an informal pleasant way. 4 very
neat and low-voiced maid opens the door
Tor you and shows you through narrow
hall, the walls of which are covered with
engravngs, into a long, low-ceilinged
room, where the dear old people received
all who come. 1t was warm dav in ,Ju
lV when last visited them, and the pref
ty little conservatory was full of greens
that 11ounshed to the notes of gently
dripping fountain. Only few were
gathered in the room, as the afternoon
was yet young. Mr. Hall rose at once to
greet US, and stopped me on my way to
his wife at the OF her end of the
room. We all know, Of course,
now old he IS In matter of mere years,
but younger hearted man I have never
met, nor one on whom greatness, hardly
worked for, and nobly won, rests so sim
ply. His interest in all that is new is as
lresh as ever; he wakes the fire and life.
where literature, science, or art is con
cerned as eagerly as 80 years ago. when he
| first took up the editorshlp OF the then Neao
| Monthly, now better known as the art
| Magazine. He is fine looking old man,
with head not unlike Longfellow's. an
abundance Of absolutely snow white hair,
which stands about : is face like name,
dark eyes, eager and piercing, perfectly
black eyebrows, bushy and straight,
and an overhanging brow, be-
speaking intellect. His wife is as gentle
as he is lmpulsive; as full of Wo,nanli-
ness as he IS of manliness; as quite and
earnest in her welcome as he is spontane
Gus and cordial. She, too, has white hair,
put smoothly down, and banded by a
broad black velvet ribbon. She has a
kind, true face, purified by suffering, and
marked by thought and study. She re-
ceived us sitting on low oaken settee,
over which an eastern shawl, carelessly
thrown, seemed fitting adjunct for her
satin and rare old laces. Her sweet voice
/ asked our pardon for seeming rudeness
IN SO doing, but, said she, smiling, Il
am an old woman, and growing older,
my dear, so claim my privileges, you
see." In the course Of conversation with
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A Christmas Carol.

The moon came out. and crowned the hills
With holy calm;
The stars flashed down on silver rils
And groves of palm;
While tranquil at the days surcease,
Blest Bethlehem slept, thing of peace.
Even dumb Natures pulses thrilled
With tender ave,
AS If she felt, thus hnshed and stilled,
More than she saw
And meath the starlight bent her knee,
In rey'rcnt, glad expectancy.
Down On the plain, in peaceful wise,
The white tiocks slept,
While shepherds. meath the crystal skies,
Their vigil5 kept;
And midnight's awe and silence fell
Upon their souls in that lone dell.
And then--a glory from the place
Where angels kneel;
The light, it seemed, OF Gods own face,
nd swift did steal
The lu0ter from the shining stars
And chained the moonlighCs shimmering
Then Gods bright messenger came down,
WiCh princely mein;
ana happy face outshone his crown
And raiment's shecn
Whlle by the gracious words he said
SSSNAA
Fear not!for TO- tidings bring
w., Oi greatest JOY;
whose music through the world shall ring,
Without alloy;
bear your news of priceless worth,
vi Christ, The King, come down to carthw
Then suddenly the sky grew bright
With angel eyes;
Their carol stirred the pulse Of night
in tender wise;
And echoed DER the slurnbering land,
All loving, rGVrent, jubiant, grand
Glery to God to sinful men,
Peace and goodwill"
The light died out; the earth again
Grew dim and still
The angels left the starry dome,
And Christlay born in earthly home
0 Lord come down to us tonight,
Give us that grace,
0 grant one glimpse OF tn shepherds sight
To see Thy face
10 worship at those blessed feet!
The CHRIST in hearts ard homes to meet!
-Grace Raymond
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A Quaker's Christmas Eve.
BY FANSIER ROBINSON.

How slow and soft the sr ow-dress falls
Upon the vine deserted walls,
As if some gracious soul, intent
Upon the one sweet deed it meant
Since in its grace and beauty lay,
Should wrap each bare thing on the way,
Till all things white and whittier grow,
Except the shadows earth may throw,
The tender gray, the peaceful white,
Quaker setting make tonight;
And SO this moonshine, which is shade
Only little lighter laid,
Into my heart still mood has crept,
With which glow OF sunrise kept
When youth and Benjamin were mine,
All! swift the slcwest years incline.
And sunrise has no story now
10 moYc me like the night and snow.
Il those unqniet bells would cease
Clashlng their peals across this peace,
1t seems the hours rare silentness,
Even worldly hearts might chide and bless
And lift the lowest heavenward
To greet the birthday of the Lord.
| can not think the loudest bells
Can utter what a pure voice tells;
The spirit needs no braZen tone
To whisper triumph to His own
The blessed healing falls to them
VINO touch unseen the garments hem;
And hidden deeds are waited higher
Than chantings OF IN angel choir,
Hosanna still the mad lips cre,
While still the mad hands cruelty;
But angels watch and women weep,
And theirs the Rising after sleep.
How careth He, for Christmas song
Towhom all days and song belong!
Only an ebbing love has need
Its high-tide reaching thus to heed.
Always the willing angles sing
To worn out workers listening:
Always our Christ is in the earth,
Always his love, his human birth
In 10y that crowns our la'er morn
As in Judean Christmas born
And yet mind how every year,
When M ripe birthday draw anear,
Dear Ruth, from out her gtyer life,
With worldly hope and wisdom rife,
Comes to the quiet nest ouce more,
Bringing the smile her father wore,
And little gracious gifts, to tell
She keeps by some high miracle
The simple heart meath costly lace,
That needs double grant of grace
Though all the year Ruths tcnderest eyes
10 mine are opening to the ski 8,
Though love unsaid be love complete,
find the special service sweet.
And So, perhaps, those louder chimes,
Smoothing the prose-told hours to rhymes,
Like some rare vol, e God sets to round
The Earring ones of shriler sound;
Icese spires with grand and silly art,
Climbing to reach the Central Heart;
These broken lilies, and the rush
VI feet where leaning angels hush
May be to clearer eyes than mine
Fresh spellngs of a tale divine.
And He whose birthday knew no bliss
Except woman's troubled XII s,
May still forgive the foolish art,
And hide the meaning in His heart.
-HarDe,'s Maqaztne
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shone on, day after day, just as ever; but
that father is lonely still with the dread lone.
illness of childlessness, and his steps are
oftenist traced to the little grave where Harry
lies, and whose white tombstone, below his
name, bears strange deyice-a dog dying
beside a cap and toy
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For dinner and reception toilets the
neck dress OF crepe lisse ruching is still
the most popular. The windows of our
fashionable stores and shops are flied
with rich, beautiful and unique novelties
and goods, and in many cases, handsome
y and artisticaliy displayed.
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Pretty and pew itoiIet boxes are ma de
OF delicate shades of satinand painted bv
hand il, quaint designs
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A Christmas HYMN.

Twas in the calm and silent night
The Senator Of naughty Rome
Impatient urged his charioL's flight,
;, From lordly revel rolling home.
lrlnmphal arches, cleaning, swell
Ills breast with thoughts of boundless sway
chat rocked the Roman what befell
a paltry province far away
In the solemn midnight
Centuries ago?
Within that province far away
Went Flooding home weary boor;
A streak OF light before him lay,
Fallen through half-shut stable door
Across his path. He passed-for naught
Told what was going on within;
How Keen the stars. his only thought,
The air how calm and cold and thin
In the solemn midnight
Centuries ago.
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It is the calm and solemn night
thousand bells ring out and throw
Their Joyous peels abroad, and smite
The darkness, charmed and holy now.
The night that erst no name had worn,
10 it happy name is given,
For in that stable lay new born
The peaceful Prince of earth and heaven,
In the solemn midnight
Centuries ago.
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OVER THE SNOW.
A Christmas Story.
by MRS. MAY AGNES FLEMING.

Fr OH Demorest's Monthly
"hark! the herald angels sing,
Glory to the newborn KlngW
National Republican., 1878-06-07

THE Raleigh IN. c. Register calls the at
tention Of PostmasterGencral KEY to a
slight Inconsistency between the precepts of
his late letter to Southern Democrats and his
practices in dispensing the patronage of his
Department Of the Government 1t says:
While we endorse all that the Postmaster
General says, we cannot refrain from advising
him to lend his aid in rcscuing the next
House of Representatives from the clutches of
the revolutionists by distributing the patron
age Of his Department in such manner as to
make treason odious rather than respectful
1t is hardly consistent that Mr.. KEY should
find fault with the gentlemen from North
Carolina and other States who vote I'd for the
POTTER resolution and at the same time allow
them to bestow whatever of patronage the
POST Office Department has TO bestow in the
South. IL Mr.. KEY will but make his acts con-
form to the tone Of his letter we think we
could promise the Administration that designs
against its integrity would be nipped In the
bud, so far as North Carolina can aid but the
Administration cannot reasonably expect to
retain for any great while the friendship of a
class of men whom 1t has most shamefully ig-
nored.
We trust that the Postmaster-General will
read this little bit of friendly advice and
then paste it in his hat for future reference
There is wisdom, truth, and justice in such
advice under existing circumstances.
National Republican., 1878-06-07

NAsBY is just now deeply absorbed in
the investigation business. He is becoming
tired of impecunSous waiting. He feels
confident that when TILDEN is President,
lssAKER GAvIrT is collector, and he is post
master at the Corners there will be change
in things. He recounts his investigation
troubles, and appears to be beset some as
POTTER is. Nasty explains:
All the trouble We hcv is to keep the fellows
away wich we don't want to testify. We hev
too many witnesses, for they don't all know
wat TO swear to. For instance, Dcekin PoGRAM,
the blessed old imbecile, wanted to come on
here aud testify to his givin 5000 to arm
company nv Dimocrats in Mississippi to carry
that State for TrLDES. and II took mighty
smart fggerin to keep him away.
! TGLDES hes u reputashon for heving money,
iand witnesses are comm here to us in swarms.
We shel prove that there wuzn't no sich thing
cz fair eleckshun in Floridy and louisiana
that in both them States men took our money
and then voted agin us that our rifle clubs
wuz intimidatid, and that our repcaters in
Louisiana was kept away from the polls by
force.
There Amt agoin to be no trouble about IT,
We hey men here wich will swear to anything,
and, In fact we have an embarrassment of
swearing material.
National Republican., 1878-06-07
PERSONAL.

Representative GLOVER, of Missouri, Is
quite sick.
DIR. Cook, wife, and daughter, of Louisville,
KY, are at the Riggs.
SENATOR MCDONALD left on the $50 train
this morning for New York.
SECRETARY MCCRARY and Quartermaster.
General Meigs visited Arlington yesterday.
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue yes-
terday attended the Brewers Convention at
Baltimore.
ALExASDRIANs were around the White
House yesterday considerably interested in
the appointment of postmaster for that place,
Berkleys nomination having been rejected a
few days since by the Senate.
AMONG the callers at the White House yes
torday were the Secretary of this Interior and
Postmaster General; Senator Kellogg; Repre-.
sentatives Neal, 1apham, Hayes, McCook,
Hunter, Hubbcll, Kcifcr and Robinson, of
Indiana.
AFTER serving twenty-five years in the Iowa
Penitentiaryaor a crime that he never COM
mitted, Mr.. Graham has been released He is
now lunatic, and any remarks he may make
concerning the intelligent jury will doubtless
originate in his mental unsoundness.
DIR. LINDERMAN, Director of the Mint, is
having bronze medal coined at the Phiadel-
phia mint, commemorative of the Valley Forge
celebration, and which will be ready OH the
10Th inst, the day of the centennial anniyer-
sary of that event.
NJ. +. n. HOWELL has been designated to
act as Chic: Clerk of Public Lands, vice Moberly,
resigned. Mr. Howell has only received a
temporary appointment as Mr.. Moberlys
resignation does not take effect until Septem.
Der ], aud as the appointment is a Presidential
one President Hayes has not yet made u per.
manent selection.
On Wednesday. May %, Governor McCor-
mick and Mr.. l.. p. Morton, Honorary Commits.
soners to the Paris Exposition from the
United States had the honor Of receiving their
Royal liighness, the Prince and Princess of
Waeses,and of showing them the American ex.
hibition. His Royal Highness was most cor.
dial in his appreciation, aud expressed himself
highly pleased with the exhibits and the
courteous reception he had met with from the
[ Commissioners
National Republican., 1878-06-07
CONGRESS AND THE wORKINGMEN

The following resolution was unani-
mously adopted at the immense mass
meeting of the workingmen of the District,
on Wednesday evening, in front of the City
Hall:
Whereas the people of the District of Co.
lumbia are liable to all the penalties and obli-
cations in loyal support Of the Government of
the United States, in common with all other
citizens Of our vast Republic: Therefore,
BE IL resOired That, in Congress enancting
the new law for the government of the Dis
trct, VIC demand the right and privilege,
through our suflraCes, of choosing one of the
Commissioners provided for governing the
people of the District of Columbia
The above is a comprehensive and at the
same time very suggestive comm entary
upon the peculiar condition under which
the political rights of 10000 American tax
paying citizens of the District of Columbia
are ignored. The workingmen and all other
male citizens in the District are required in
time of danger to step forward and peril
their lives and fortune in defense of the
Government OF the United States, and are
number of American citizens toward the
support of the Republic, and at the same
time are denied all participation in the gov
ernment or their municipal affairs.
The thanks of the community are due
the workingmen for this demand for the
right to choose through the sufl'rages of our
people of Mt least one of the Commissioners
provided for governing the people of the
District of Columbia.
We are curious to see how the honorable
members of the present Congress can adj
journ and 20 home to their respective con-
stituencies and ask for reelection from their
people without first recognizing the right of
the wOrkingmen and other citizens of this
large community of having voice in their
own local government. We trust the con-
ference committee having IN charge the
pending bill for new government for the
District of Columbia will read, ponder, and
digest.
National Republican., 1878-06-07

next morning at eleven o'clock, and he told
me that could get 100000. persisted In
my demand for not less than 800 OO0. and he
said he would go and sec Hernandez again. He
went away, and on his return told me that
Hernandez had said that 100000 was the fur.
thest extent to which they could go. told
him then that 1t was not worth while to go
any further and we parted. My motive In all
this was to find out
THE BAcRERs OF ASHER
and to ascertain who It was that wanted to
carry m election In such style. There had
been some rumors about New Orleans that the
sporting men, who had a great deal of money
bet on the election, had made up a pool
Leyisee was next inquired Of conc erning
the proceedings Of tho electoral college of
Louisiana. He described the formaities Of
the meeting and the manner of casting the
ballots stating that he cast his vote for Hayes
and Wheeler.
The clerk of the committee then read the
returns Of the college which had been sent to
the President Of tho Senate aud had been de-
hvered to the commi ttee yesterday by the Sec
rotary of the Senate.
After this Mr.. Lcvisoe e, in reply to questions
by Mr.. McNIahon, stated that
HE NEVER INTENDED TO CHANGE HIS VOTE |;
that he knew that Hayes and Wheeler needed
u, and that he intended to give 1t to them.
ho iurtncr stated that he signed three sets OF
returns, but did not remember whether he
signed his name on the outside envelope. The
official returns above referred to were then
shown to Levisee, and he was requested to
state whether tho signature on tho same pur.
porting to be his was genuine. lie stated
that II was not, and pointed out the defects in
it. lie said that ho signed the papers referred
to by him on December 0, and that he signed
none after that date. lie left New Orleans for
Shreveport on December 22and did not return
until some time in January.
Mr.. McMahon. These papers, the signature
on which you have declared to be forgery,
were mailed from New Orleans on december
292
Witness. am quite positive that signed
none after had signed the first set on Decem.
Der o. The two out of the three sets submitted
to the two Houses, and by them to the Elect
toral Commission, were forgerics.
Tho committee then adjourned until to.
morrow.
National Republican., 1878-06-07

o protect PorTERo and ANDERSON from
Democratic rage and violence when they
get through with their wonderful dis
closures, unless they shall push on their
promised revolution, and Mexicanize the
country. PoTTERo must either revolvc or
walk Spanish" and as for ANDERSON, he
ought to be enlisted in the editorial staff of
the Gazette. Then its mendacity might
become more graceful and piquant. Its
scurrility is eminent already. Another
professor need not be added to that depart
ment
National Republican., 1878-06-07

COULD not the Democracy let their own
fnfamy alone without thus again at this late
day raking it up and setting it before the
people? One would think they would have
more sense but then this.is one of the pecu-
liarities of their general makeup, whereby
they are all at the mercy of few unprinci-
pied leaders, who think that they see some
opportunity ahead of lettering their indi-
vidual condition, with no fear OF the igno-
rance of the Democratic masses calling them
TO account for their actions.
National Republican., 1878-06-07
THE REVOLUTION EXPLODED.

The movement which Mr.. POTTER has
been engineering contemplated an assault
upon the Presidential title if it had any
purpose at all that was entitled to serious
consideration. 1t had for its purpose to oust
Mr. HAYES and seat some one in his stead,
either by impeachment or coup detat-
peaceably If it could be, and f0rcibly If it must
be. That the scheme is one of the smart
inventions of TILDEN there is no doubt,
and this assumption has been greatly
strengthened by circumstances as wei! us by
the names and characters Of the conspira-
tors 30 far ~ they have been revealed by
the unfolding of the plot. 1t was a
scheme of political Adventures who
have less hold on public confidence than
upon their own unprincipled determination
to succeed, and who at the outset had for
their objective point q change of President
through the best available means. What
these could or should be was never entirely
clear TO their perceptive iaculties-but any
thing to bounce" HAYES Their first hope
was to establish the fact that the majority
awarded to Mr.. HAYES was secured through
fraud, and hence his title WIS to be over
turned. To accomplish this purpose the
services Of ANDERSON were secured months
ago and he was put under system of Dem
Ocratc training as swift witness" Of large
inventive genius and liberal resources
of rlscaiity. lie was put in possession of
the most skilliul grooms of the party and has
been under a system of training as to the
fabrication of documents, the drawing of
unsuspecting Republicans Of distinction into
his tolls through cnnningly y-dcvised compIi-
cations, and the weaving up of u plausible