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Year: 1867

a Curious Romance OF the ballet IN new


York.


Last winter wealthy Cuban con-
ceived an extravagant passion for quite
q pretty young woman dancing at a
leading Broadway theater; wrote to her,
and solicited an interview. He poured
his passion out in burning words, and
offered to pour out his gold rs freely;
but she informed him, as the celebrated
English actress did her opulent admirer,
that the way to her bed-chamber lay
through the church. He sought to shake
her resolution, but in vain, and in
despair of possessing her otherwise, he
made her his wife He tired of her in q
few weeks, and as his relations were
violently opposed to such an alliance,
he soon deserted her, and returned to
Havana.


Too proud to follow him, she went
back to the stage, and during the month
Of May clerk in commercial house
down town fell in love with her, and
went through the same experience as the
Spaniard. Hymen before Venus for
her, and so the young fellow, with de-
gree of dishonor Characteristic Of an
older head and cooler heart, entrapped
her into false marriage. His employer
accidentally discovered the deception,
became interested in his pretty ddnSeuse,
and apprised her of the clerks villainy,
assuring her he should be compelled to
wed her, if she desired it, by process of
law


Esmeralda declined to have any thing
more to do with the rogue, and released
him Internationally. The merchant
was so much struck with the woman's
spirit an d beauty that, although he knew
she had twice consented to marry in
cold blood, he proposed matrimouy to
her, and for the third time she accepted.
Certain legal steps are necessary before
the last nuptials can be consummated
bat the commercial lover is desperately
enamored of her, and has already placed
her in a handsome mansion, and made
her a deed Of the property, with $4,000
for pin money. His friends are indig-
nsnt, aud aver that he is infatuated.
But he sWears he loves her, and will
marry her as soon as practicable She
says she is deeply attached TO him for
bis kindness to and sympathy with her,
aud is now leading very quiet and ex-
emplary life.


Her fdnce is nearly forty, and has
long been sought as a husband in modish
circles to no purpose His liver seems
70 have struck now; and there is little
doubt he will wed Esmeralda this win
ter, and snap his fingers at comment and
criticism. She will join Grace church
be passed upon by Brown; ride 20 morn
ing service with gold-clasped hymn
book, and look ten times more as If she
was born 70 It ali than many Of her sex
Who prate OF blood and breeding.-N T.
Cor. Gin. Enquire.
Year: 1867

Some days since we published state.
ment contradicting what appeared TO be
sensation account, in an evening paper,
of an alleged scandal case in Third street,
Arbor Hill. We did so upon the author
ity of the supposed husband, who was
alleged to be the injured party, and who
was believed to be the party charged with
throwing his guilty wife from a second
story window. This statement was in.
dignantly denied by him and repeated
by us on his authority. He alleged, and
truly, that his wife was an honest woman,
and that she had accidentally fallen
from the window on the night in ques-
tion; that his relations with her were
only those OF confidence and affection,
and that, as she was true wife and
mother, he was anxious TO defend her
from the disgrace which the publication
referred to had cast upon his family. 1t
has since transpired, however, that, by q
singular coincidence, there were tioo wo


men who went through second story
window to the pavement about the same
time, and in the same street--one OF them
by accident, and the other thrown by a
husband, infuriated at the sudden dis
covery Of his wife's guilt The former
was not seriously injured, while the lat
ter had three of her ribs broken, one eye
put out, and other serious bodily injuries
inflicted. The husband, wife and para
mour all recently came to this city from
Hartford, Conn. The guilty wife has
gone home to her parents and the other
parties implicated have left the city.
Averse, as we are, to the publication of
cases of this character, we refer to this
one simply for the purpose Of explaining
a curious coincidence, and diverting un.
just suspicion from respectable and
worthy family.-Albany Argus, Oct H..
Year: 1867

his attentions. The addition Of few
Of those superb sleeping cars to our
southern roads will make them equal to
any. And we hope such an improve.
ment win be found both practicable and
nrnftahln.
Year: 1867

sSr The Boston Saturday Eoening
Gazette says: at is said by those who
ought to know that the hardest thing in
the world is the heart of thorough
going fashionable woman. Perhaps it
will 20 near to be thought, one Of these
DAYS, that the next hardest thing is the
heart of professional philanthrOpist,
who is so intent on the good of all men
in general that be cannot respect the
rights, the services or the sensibilities Of
any man in particular.
Year: 1867

Who have no time to lose, fooling with various
mixtures Of tho day. and who have no money
TO throw away, could not do better than 10
spend One Dollar for the KING or CHILLS
and be cured Of all forms Of Chills, Fever, Etc.
Its taste is pleasant, and 1t never affect the
head or cars
Year: 1867

An ingenious attempt was made in the House
yesterday to move the Tariff bill into a po-
sition that would have afforded some hope OF
its passage this session. Mr.. Morrill, offered q
resolution to take II out Of the hands of the
Committee of the Whole on the state Of the
Union, to concur formally in the amendments
of the Senate as reported and modified by the
House Committee OF Ways and Means, and then
to refer the whole matter to a committee Of
conference. Had this been agreed to the re-
port of such committee Of conference, when
made to the House and Senate, would have to
be voted upon as a whole, under the rule OF
Congress; and it was no doubt the expectation
of the friends of the bill to be able In this man
ner to press it through despite the opposition
to some of its details. The resolution was,
however, defeated by the significant vote Of
S4yeas to sc nays 1t required a majority Of
two-thirds to secure its passage. The bill Of
denominations may consequently be regarded
as in all probability dead for the present ses-
sion. II is not likely to be reached and acted
upon in its regular order, and the people will
rejoice over its defeat.
Year: 1867

KENTUCKY IN NEED OF RECoNsTRUCrIoN.-Ac-
cording to the testimony Of Governor Bram-
lette, in his late message to the State Legisla-
ture, not one of all the rebel States so badly
needs reconstruction as Kentucky. Her loyalty
during the war was only deadweight upon
the government; her loyalty since the war has
been regulated by returned rebel soldiers, and
they are now at their old game of bushwhack-
ing and burning out of Unionists as if the war
was still in ful2uhI We begin to think it q
pity for Ken hat she did not secede !;
for then she wolid have had that wholesome
in Tennessee.
Year: 1867

and Fakensein are proposed by the government party
ss candidates Tor the CITY OF Berlin which In this man
ner would 90 represented exclusively by the men who
have received national rswards for their activity In the
late campaign, and who it hoped, are consequently
best quaned TO carry out tho wishes Of the nation.
Whatever may be thought OF this logic the subjects Of
IL have not the ghost Of chance in Berlin WHERE in
spite or the dsunion OF the liberals and the machina
tons OF their adversaries the victory OF opposition
candidate Is pretty we'll assured In all the six districts
with the possible exception Of the one In which Bis
II arck Is put forward.


hand, especially In Pomerania Brandenburg. Silesia
and East Prussia, the government prdgs likely To
carry everything before them but these accessons to
the ranks OF the Ministerial party may be than
by the crowds Of malcontens open or
concealed enemies Of Prussia and adherents Of the
cen regsse who will hll the opposition benches from the
newly incorporated provinces.
Year: 1867

Who THE NEGROES REsPEcT.-A correspondent
of the New York Herald, travelling through the
South, writes as follows -" Much to my surprise
l have not yet found negro who does not make
light of the alleged attachment of the slaves to
their old masters. 1t is deserving of notice that
there are one or two persons in this community
much renerated by the negroes for the reason
that they ever set their faces against traffic or
ownership in slaves Their regard for the enemy
of slavery seems paramount to every other affec
tion 1T is Joined as one with the instinct of
self-preservation. Will you note with the South
ern whites-will you make their cause yours,
and affiliate with party of their making !?
l ask, and the answer is, in every case, with a
shake of the head: 'We cannot be of
them They have a singular trust in the
Southern whites in many things, but politically
speaking, doubt whether they are prepared to
trust them at ALL SO jealous they of the least
possibility of perlling their freedom
Year: 1867

Coop ADvIcE.-Ex-Governor Brown, Of Geor-
gia, told the people in his recent speech at Au-
gusta -" We must submit to it or fight. If you
don't intend to fight, why sit here and growl
and find fault with the DEGREES of Providence
You claim the protection of the Government
In claiming that protection, is it honorable in
VOC TO be its enemy? In peace we should be
friends. If you want Northern capital to aid de-
velopment, you must invite it, and in doing so,
treat those whom you invite as your friends
You must look at things as they now are. Your
old institutions are gone-slavery is abolished
Start out anew You must accommodate your
selves to the new order of things"
Year: 1867

DIVORCE UNDER FRENCH LAw.-The French law
does not allow divorces, or, rather, the Catholic
church does not but those who separate must
still appeal to the law and conform to prescribed
rules. By so doing it becomes final, the same
as a divorce in other countries, but they cannot
marry again, and neither party can have the
children after they FIVE years of age. The
girls placed in a convent and the boys at
school. If the wife demands the separation and
is rich, she must still support her husband, and
plce cersa. They often remain on speaking
terms and meet in society. We have thus seen
persons separated towards each other shake
hands and converse pleasantly though hating
each other. In Russia the offending party is for
bidden to marry, the other can 90 so if it pleases
him or her. The French are very scrupulous
about appearances, and woman who lives NOM
inally with her husband retains her position


though all the world may know that she does
not deserve it. But soon as her husband
casts her off, everybody else does, and it is about
the same if she leaves him. though in both cases
she is always called 10y his name. They
many that they form class at Paris, and it is
this class which gives the reputation to Partisan
society of immortality. They are LEFT alone with
the freedom never allowed TO those who have not
been married they are branded whether guilty
or not they become reckless, and at last fall in
to the vices of which they were perhaps at first
falsely accused. Women of other nations in tho
same position resort to Paris the principle
that misery loves company, and to bury them
selves from the sight of friends, and thus their
name is legion. of which Americans begin
ming to form corps. More than one rich hus-
band we have seen spend twenty thousand dol
lars in Europe to purchase misery for the rest of
his life Still they come.
Year: 1867

Many orators and politicians are finding an in
spring theme for popular discourse in the move
ment now generally making to ameliorate the
condition of laboring men by shortening the
time required for days labor The press, to
great extent, is the advocate and champion of
the same cause. Pulpit eloquence sometimes
takes the same direction, on the principle that
the object in view and the result to be gained is
social and moral reform. All this may be very
WE'LL though the remedy sought is plainly be-
yond the compass of the means and agencies


employed to secure it. No person would regret


to see such a condition of things brought about


would enable men to get livelihood by less
severe toll. But there are one class of the COM


munity who, in this struggle, are quite over


looked Stalwart men demanding relief
from incessant toll and the champions of their


cause are unremitting in appeals and arguments


in their behalf; but the harder condition of over


worked women receives little attention. The


strong man to whom all occupations are open,


who is at liberty to choose his employment, and
who has strength in his arm to hew his path to
fortune, finds those W ho ready to second his
endeavors to obtain partial release from unre-
| mitting labor but woman, whose path is cir
cumscribed by conventionalties, who is restrict
ed to very few, aud these unrenumerative occu-
pations, who works greater number of hours
than man, and for smaller pay, obtains less en-
couragement for relief in her harder lot. The


legislation of the day in regard to labor is cal
cuated chiefly for the benefit of man, and the
sympathy which the agitators of the subject ex-
press are mainly directed in the same way. We
have heard nothing of labor leagues composed
of women in the Eastern cities where d" strikes"
are the order of the day, there no professions
of women parading the streets and demanding


less work and more pay. Such demonstrations


would meet with no encouragement even from
those who are the most enthusiastic advocates OF
the claims of the working classes. If woman


cannot be her own advocate in this agitation,


she ought to find champions among those who


profess to be the friends of the toiling masses.


Here is field for the philanthropist. To en-


large woman's share of labor, to insist upon her


right to do any sort of work which she chooses


to undertake and can perform well, and to claim


for her as high wages as men receive for similar


service, is much more necessary, and much more


practicable than this agitation in behalf of Ia


boring men alone.-Oregonida.
Year: 1867

An samiable daughter of Grey Cooper, at Port
land Maine. who had been divorced from her
husband, called her father lar new at him
like wild cat, scratched his iace' ana iocked
him M in the cellar, during little unpleasant
ness. the other day. Her husband must have led
q Jolly life the time he was with her. -
Year: 1867

philanthropy and fervent piety =" Manners
easily and rapidly mature into morals. AS child
hood advances to manhood, the transition from


bad manners to morals is almost imperceptible.


Vulgar and obscene forms of speech keep vulgar
and obscene objects before the mind, engender
impure images in the imagination, and make un-
lawful desires prurient. From the prevalent
state of mind actions proceed, as water rises
from the fountain. Hence, it is that what was
originally word or phrase becomes thought,
is metriciously embellished by the imagination,
is inhamed into a vicious desire, gains strength
and boldness by being always made welcome,


until at last, under some urgent temptation, it
dares, for once, to put on the visible form of ac-
ton it is then ventured upon again and again,
more frequently and less warily, until repetition
forges chains of habit and then language, i'm
agnation, desire and habit bind their victim in
the prison-house of sim In this way profane
language wears away the reverence from things
sacred and holy; and child who has been al
lowed to follow and mock and hoot at ntem-
perate in the street, is far more likely to be-


come Incorporate himself than if he had been
accustomed to regard him with pity, a fallen
brother, and with sacred abhorance, one
self-brutifed and demonized. So, on the other
hand purity and chasteness of language tend to
preserve purity and chasteness of thought and
of state they repel licentous imagining they
delight in the unsulled and untainted, and their
tendencies and aptitude are on the side of virtue.
Year: 1867

The Cabinet makers occupation is about
gone. For some time past we have been
assured almost daily by some Of the news
papers Of Washington and other cities,
that important changes were to be made
at once in President JoHSsoS's Cabinet
We have contended all along that this was
mere rumor, there being no foundation
upon which to predicate these reports.
Now we see these journals are giving it
up, and sagely remark that there is to bt
no change. What the next sensation will
be it is impossible to say. Most anything
that is within the range Of probability
would doubtless be acceptable in these
dull times for news.
Year: 1867

SENATOR FEssENDEN.-The Intelligencer
denies that Senator FEssEYDEN has written
a letter iavoring impeachment. In this
our neighbor is partially right; but the
Senator is said to talk freely Of it, though
he does not write letters endorsing the
measure
Year: 1867

A SHOCKING OCCERgRNCE-On Sunday
morning, the 18th instant, short time before
daylight, very melancholy affair occurred
near Leavensworth, in Darlington district
south Carolina the particulars of which are as
follows:


Mr.. Peter Mclve who lives in the Leayens-
worth neighborhocd, had been for some time
past troub with rogues depredatIng among
his poultry, and on the night in question, il
seems Mr.. and Mrs. Mclver were both wake
1ul and apprehensive of harm. Mrs. McIver,
unknown to the family, had gotten up and gone
into the yard. no one knew why or wherefore,
and MIR. McIver hearing some noise out there
awoke his son-a young man nearly grown
and told bin some one was out in the ward
The son took his gun and went to the yard. and
seeing some strange object near where the
fowls were. shot At random in that direction
and saw the object fall. He then went 20 the
house and told his father that he had shot
some person down, and about the same time
the cook woman came in ana said some one
was hurt near the fowl-house Upon going
there the DIRE adful truth burst upon the arou sed
household, that Mrs. McIver was shot in a
vital part OF her body by her own son. One
shot penetrated the brain, but she was able TO
speak, but not fully conscious of her situa-
tion, as she labored under the impression that
somebody had struck her q blow upon her
head. Physicians were promptly sent for
who pronounced the case hopeless Mrs
McIver lived about three hours after receiving
the wound.
Year: 1867

TIE PRESIDENT ASD TIE PREss.-A WASH
ington telegram to the Boston journal says:


"Thc President gave an audience this Fore
noon to several representatives Of the press
from q distance, who called specially 10 SEQ
him. In the interview ho said be was willing
at any time to furnish proper information for
publication, but that no had reason within a
Short time to complain bitterly Of certain per-
sons who had been 10 see him publishing ox-
aggcratcd and false accounts of conversations
with him. This practice had become 50 an
noying to him, he said, that he should tako
care in future to grant interviews only TO such
respectable and honorable journalists as no
knew personality
Year: 1867

radical) will have a vote on the subject
of Impeachment in the house, but who
is openly against the proposition, says on
the subject of Mr.. BTNGHAM's speech


ave are glad hatamember occupying
the position Of Mr.. Bingham ip the party
has taken issue with the more disorgan-
izing Of the extremists upon this point.
His reasoning will commend itself 10 the
intelligent judgment of the people, ana
his attitude in the house viii, we trustl
lead to the organized action OF those OF
the party who dissent from the violence
Of Mr.. Paine, and are not prepared 20
sustain Mr.. Stevens in his warfare upon
the state governments of the south"


The Cincinnati Commercial on the 18th
inst says, edit0rially:


1t is for the present sufficient to say
that the ablest men in the present con-
gress doubt whether there are substantial
grounds for the impeachment.
Tuere exists no partisan necessity Tor
the removal of the president, were such
a thing consti.utionaily possible, and as
congress has the Endorsement and back
ing OF the people, it Is not needed 10 give
that body actual or moral power to act
as it may see fit. Under these cireum-
stances, il may now be considered
whether it is wise 20 further cOmplicate
the political situation and stir up fierce
agitation for the sake of ousting from the
executive char a man who Is impotent
to do evil il such be his disposition"


The Chicago Journal, strong radical
paper, says:


Impeachment is a dey7aier resort,
never TO be adopted until every other
measure has failed. Unless the inyesti-
CATION committee appointed by the lower
house of congress shall make some ne"
discoveries against the president there
would not seem 10 be sufficient reason
for his impeachment, for he y tied hand
and foot by loyal two-thirds majority
in congress"
Year: 1867

Special Dispatch TO the st. Louis Eepublican-l


WASHINGTON, January 22.-Mr. Nor
riu, chairman of the committee on ways
and means, will tomorrow or next day
address the house in an elaborate tinan-
cfsI speech. He will state that in his
opinion there will have Is be a curtail-
ment Of at least two hundred millions of
the currency before we can resume specie
pa, nents, coupled with a stitfening of
the tariff. He Is not in favor OF sudden
contraction, but of gradual withdrawal
Of the amount of the currency. He shows
that the veto of contraction of four mill
lions per month during the past year has
been virtually negatiyed by the cores
pouding issue of national bank notes,
and that there is now quite as much cur
rency ahoat as when the contraction of
the legal tenders commenced. He be-
lieves That it WAS never more important
that the tax and revenue systems should
be put upon a stable basis. He says he
indorses Secretary McCullOch's financial
course as sound and true, and he does
not think it is wise for congress to go
wrong because the secretary is right,
though he distinctly disclaims indorsing
the political views OF the secretary.


France exported eleven thousand nine
hundred and fifty-four waterfalls " last
Year: 1867

DEAR SIR.


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MEMPHIS, TESs,, Sept |, 1893, Isal4-
Year: 1867

THE FAIR.-We acknowledge with bow rs
graceful rs we know how TO make, the receipt
Of IN invitation yesterday 10 attend Il lunch
at the Catholic fair, rendered us by the ladies
in charge thereof. Our Z" locals" being busy
about murder trials and such like, could not
attend; the chiefs of our Sanctum were OF,
and not to be found, and our "devil' ddn' t
have his good clothes on 50 that it was impos-
sible 10 find any one 10 represent the DtSpHtM
in reply TO the kind invitation of the ladies'
We regret that such should have been the ease
and hope that the ladies will not deem us in
appreciative of their goodness.


The fair is worthy of Il VISIT not only from
the cause of its being held, but also Oh ac-
count of the attractive articles and good
things offered ut such reasonable rates. Call
and satisfy yourselves of this fact.