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Fancy Dry Goods,- Notions,
"Ladies'
Furnishing
Goods,
iLarge?t, Cheapest, and Best Assortod
Stock in tho City.
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d!6 wlGd&wtf
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"Is in receipt of the fines and
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Of Cni meres, Cloths, Vesting, ko
ever brought to the ciiy, which
I will make up in tho
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Er5irieasii call and examine. ""a
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416 ditwtf
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fhitcomb f ry and suminsreoinplamt
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It istle great Infants' and Children'snSooth
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Sol.i r druggists and dealers in Mrdicinse
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Fores and Tift Pumps, Steam Gauges, alaii
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Takes pleaiuro in announcing to
Farmer. and JlecSianics.
That he has a large and well selected stock of
Dry t.oois. Groceries. froviMons. as were
ever brought to tne city of I'latttmouth.
J?"3-Tt will ccat von nnthir.or to look t them
whether ynu buy or not. i-iy examining the
lirices at the "JL.O HELIA JiLE" you will be
able to tell when other parties try to Kwindl
you.
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Buying Your Green-house and
uedaing Plants.
at -mix
R,irniCj Gardens.
DON'T send East for Plants when you can
get just 1.1 Rood fr less money nearer
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stock of plants ever offered for sale in tne west
nn I propose to sell them at reasonable prices.
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Ad iress. . 11 r.sr.iv.
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Flour. Corn Meal. Feed. Ac. Always on hanU
and lor sale at loweet frices.
-.The Iliichest prices paid for AVheat and
Corn.
3?ParticuIar attention given to cus
tom work.
FARMER'S EXCHANGE.
B Grm Hoover,
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I'Keeps constantly on hand all staple articles
such as
Coffee
Sagar,
Tobacco,
Molasses,
Dry Goods
Boots and Shoes, &c,
In fact every thinit usnally kept 1 a Vati ty
SHore. which will be sold on small profits for
Cash. All kinds of Produce taken in exchnage
for good and
Highest Market Price given in cash
19-w for Grain.
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lw.000 Bushels of Wheat wanted immediately
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MARK TWAIN.
A Sccsni letter f.-:n Ilia ASsut ths Sand
wich hlanis.
The Governnietil-I'rlnee mil Mills.
ky mill A m h A Kprrtmrn V i u i u
icr Ueasonsi fur Anueza-tiou,
To the Editor of the New Y'ork Tribune 1
Concluded.
FUNERAL FESTIVITIES.
I can imagine what is going on
Honolulu now, during this month
mourninsr, for I was there when the lute
King's sister, Victoria, died. David
Kalakaua (a chief) Cotuuiander-in
Chief of the Household Troops (bow i
that lor a title?), i.i no doubt now stand1
itig guard over the closed entrances to
ih j "palace" grounds, keeping out all
whites but olhCL-rs 01 btate : and within.
the Christianized heathen are howling
and dancing an 1 waning and carrying ou
in tne ;aaie old savage la.shion that ob
tained before Cook discovered the coun
try. I lived three blocks from the wood
en two story palace when Victoria was
being lamented, and for thirty nights in
succession the mourning pow-wow de
fied sleep. All that time the Christian
lzed, but morally unclean Princess, lav
in state in the palace. I got into the
grounds one night' and saw main hun
dreds of half-nakd savage of b th six
es beating their di.-nial tom-toms, and
wailing and caterwauling in the weird
glare of innumerable torches; and,
while a great band of -women swayed
and jiggered their pliant bodies through
the iutricate movements of a lasc vious
dnce called the hula-hula, they chanted
an accompaniment in native wards. I
asked the son of a missionary what the
words meant. He Kiid they celebrated
certain admired gifts and physical excel
lencies ot the dead Princess. I inquired
further, but he said the words were too
foul lor translation ; that the bodily ex
ceiiencies were unmentionable ; tnat 1 lie
capabilities so lauded and so glorified
had better be left to the itmgination.
He said the King was doubtless sitting
where he could hear those ghastly prais
es and enjoy them, lhat is, the late
King the educated, cultivated Kame
harueha V. And mind you, erne of his
tules was "the Head ol the Church :'
for, although he was brought up in the
religion ol the missionaries, and educat
ed in their schools and colleges, he early
learned to despise their -plcbiau form of
worship, and had IPipoi tedthe Jvngllsh
stem and an Kugli-.li Bishop, and boss
ed the works himself. You can imagine
the saturnalia that is making the niirbt
hideous in the palace grounds now,
where h's M.ijesty is lying in state.
A ROVAL CURIOSITY.
The late King was frequently on hand
ia the royal pew in the lloyal Hawaiian
Uefo med Catholic Chuich, on Sundays;
but when he got into ticub'o be did not
fly to the cross for help he Hjw to the
lieatb.cn gods of Li3 aucestors. Now
this was a uiau who would write you a
beautiful loiter, iu faultless English, and
perhaps throw in a lew graceful c!as.-ic
alhi:ous; ami perhaps a few happy ref
eiem.es t science, international law. or
the world's political history ; or he.
would array himself iu e'egant evening
dress and entertain you at his board in
princely styl, and couver.-e like a born
Christian gentleman ; aud day after day
he wouid work like a beaver in the af
fairs of Slate, and on occasion exchange
autograph letters with the Kings and
Emtcrors of the old woild. And the
very Lcxt wetk, business being over, he
would retire to a cluster of dismal little
straw-thatched native huts by tke sea
shore, afcd there for a fortnight he would
turn himself into a heathen whom you
could not tell from his ravage grand
father, lie would reduce his dre.-s to a
bieech-c'.uut, fi'd himself daily lull ui
whi.-ky, and sit with certain of his con-.
cubines, while others danced the pe uliar
hula hula. And it oppressed by great
responsibilities he would summon one of
his familiars, an ancient witch, and ask
her to tell him the opinions and com
mands of-the heathen gods, and these
commands he would obey. He was so.
superstitious that he would not step over
a line drawn across a road, but would
walk around it. These matters were
it ."ri i
commoi. talc in tne lsianas. i never
saw this King but once, and then he
was not on his periodical debauch. He
was in evening dress atteudiug-ihe fu
neral of his sister, and had a yard ot
crape depending iroiu ma stove pipe
bat.
GRANDEUR IN MINIATURE.
If you will be so good as to remember
that the population of the I.-lunds is but
a little over 50,000 souls, aud that over
that little handful of people roosts a
mouarchy with its coat-tails fringed with
as many mighty titled diguitaries as
would suffice to run the Russian Empire
you will wonder how, the offices all be
ing filled, there can be anybody left to
govern. And the truth is, it is one of
the oddest things in the world to stum
ble on a man there who has no title. I
felt so lonesome, as being about the only
unofficial person in Honolulu, that I had
to leave the country to find company.
After all this exhibitioa of imperial
grandeur, it is humiliating to have to
say that the entire exports of tho king
dom are not as much as Sl,;"i00.OUd, the
imports in the neighborhood of that fig
ure, and the revenues, say $500.000.
And yet they pay tbe King $oG,000 a
year, and the other officers from $3,000
to $8,000 aud heaven knows there i3
enough of them.
The national debt was $150,000 when
I was there and there was cothing in
the country they were so proud of.
They wouldn't have taken any money
lor it. With what au air His Excellency
the Minister of Finance lugged in his
annual budget and read off the impres
sive items, and flourished the stately
total 1
A SPECIMEN MINISTER.
The "Royal Ministers" are natural
curiosities. They are white men of va
rious nationalities, who have wandered
thither in times gone bv. I will cive
you a specimen, but not the most favor
able. Harris, for instauce. Harris is
an American a long-legged, vain, light-
weilit village lawyer Iroiu New Hamp
shire. If he had Drains in proportion
to his legs, he would make Solomon
beetu a failure; if his modesty equaled
hi" ignorance, he would make a violet
seem stuck-up ; if his learning equalled
his vatity, he would make Von Hum
bcldt 6eem as unlettered as the backside
ola tombstone; it his stature were
proportioned to his conscience, he would
be a gem for the microscope ; if his
ideas were as large as his words, it
would take a man three months to walk
around one of them; if an andienee
were to contract to listen as long as he
would talk, that audience wou.M die
old age; and if he-were to talk until he
said something, he would st.ll be on his
hind legs when the lat truinp sounded.
And he would have cheek enough to
wait till the disturbance was over, and
go on again.
Such is (or was) His Excollt ncy, Mr.
Harris, his late Majesty's Ministry of
this, that, and the other for he was a
iittle of evf rvthing : and particularly
and alwas's he was the King's most obe
dient humble servant and loving wor
shipper, and his chief champion and
mouthpiece in the parliamentary branch
or ministers. Anl when a qnestion
came up (it didu't make any difference
what it was), how he would rise up and
saw the a;r with Lis bony nails, and
storm and cavort and hurl sounding
emptiness which he thought was elo
quence, and discharge bile which he
fancied was satire, and i-sue dreary rub
dish wnicn ne toon ior numor, ana ac
company it with contortions of his un
dertaker countenance which he believed
to be comic expression
He bee an in the islands as a little.
obscure lowyer. and rose (?) to be such
a many-sided official grandee that sar
castic lolks dubbed hiui the wheels of
tho government." He became a great
man ia pipmy :nd he was or the cali
bre that other countries construct con
stables and coroners of. I do not wish
to seem prejudiced against Harris, and I
hope that nothing 1 have said will con
vey sucn an impression. I inns be an
honest historian, and to do thistin the
present case 1 have to reveal the (act
that this stately ficure, which looks so
like a Washington monument in the dis
tance, is nothing but a 30 windmill
when you eret close to him.
I fart is 1: ves to proclaim that he is no
lrncr an Amencan, and is proud ot it:
that ho is a Hawaiian through and
through, and is proud of that too; and
that he is a willing subject and servant
of his lord and master, the King, and is
proud and grate: ul that it is so.
WIIY WE SHOULD ANNEX.
Now let us annex the i.-IanJs. Think
how we could build up that whalimr
tiada! IT'iouuh under cur courts and
judges it might soon be as impossible fori
whaleships to rendezvous there without
being fleeced and
puiievi
bv
sailors
and pettifoggers as it now is in San Fran
cisco a place the skippers shun as they
would rocks and shoals. J let us annex.
Y e could make sugar enough there to
supply all America, perhaps and the
prices would be very eay with thed itie
removed. And Mien we would nive such
a fine half-way house for our J'acific-plav-
ing ships ; and such a convenient supply
depot and such a commanding sentry
box for an armed souadion ; and we
o.U rka ootrnn ami Pof?Vn t li'oro nnd
make it pay pretty well, with the duties
off and capital ea.-ier to get at. And then
we would own the mightiest volcano on
earth Kilauea ! Iiarnutu could run it
lie understands fires now. Let us anuex
bv all means. Wo could pacify Prince
Bill and other nobles easily enough put
thciu on a reservation. Nothing please
- aii -
an iniian.iikc a reservation a reserva
tion where he has his annual hoes and
Bibles and blaukets to trade for powder
and whisky a sweet ArdcaJian retreat
fenced in with soldiers. By annexing, we
would get all those 50,000 natives cheap
as dirt, witn tlieir morals and other
di?eases thrown in. No expense f r edu
cation they are already educated ; no
need to convert them they are alrcadv
converted ; no expense to clothe them
lor obvious reasons.
We must aunex those people. We
can allhct them with our wi e and be
n ficent government. We can introduce
the novelty thieves, all the way up from
street-cur pickpockets to municipal rob-
bors and government defaulters, and
show them how amusing it is to arrest
them and try them, and then turn them
looe some for c :sh and some for "po
lineal influence.
W
e can make
them
ashamed of their simple and primitive
justice, vv e can do away with their oc
casional hangings for murder, and let
thorn have Judge Pratt to teach them
how to save imperiled Avery-assassins
fo socitt5'. VTe can give them some
Barnards to keep their money corpora;
tions out of difficulties. We can give
them railway corporations who will buy
tlitir legislatures like old clothes, and
ran over their best citizens and com
plain of the corpses for smearing their
unpleasant juices on the track In place
of h irmless and vaporing Harris, we can
give them Tweed. We can let them
have Connolly ; we can loan them Swee
ny ; we can furnish them some Jay
Goulds who 'will do away with their
old-time notian that stealing is not re
spectable. We can confer Woodhull and
Claflin on them ; aud George Francis
Train. We can give them lecturers !
I will go myself.
We can make that little bunch of'
sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth.
and array it in the moral spltndorof
our high and holy civilization. Annexa
tion is what the poor islander's need.
"Shall we to men benighted, the lamp
or hie deny; 31 ARK 1 ft A IX.
Hartford, January f, 1873.
The Year's Eiisess.
The struggle for supremacy among ths
cities of the West now lies between this
city and Chicago. Every facility for com
merce, every opening for manufactures,
every new business conctitn, every ad
vantage that locality, enterprise, capital,
intelligence can seize mu.-t be made the
most of if we do not wish to see our nat
ural pride lowered by being distanced by
Chicago in a race in which every energy
is straiued to the utmost ; and it is not
enough that we should maintain our sup
remacy, it is absolutely necessary thata',1
the world should be accustomed to ack
nowledge it, and that no partial compari
son should incline to our disfavor. The
returns of the yearly business which are
pubii'hed with each new j-ear are the
greatest advertisement, the most con
vincing argument that can be given to
the outside world, and in these, as they
have heretofore been published, St.
Louis is at a disadvantage. The thiee
great staples of grain, lumber and live
stock are the leading features of these
returns, those on which information is
fullest and by which the readiest judg
ment is formed, and in these three staples
Chicago maintains the easy lead of past
years. Glole.
The young lady whose feelings "were
all worked up" has ordered a fresh
supply.
1873.
L07I3 :7AP3LS0iT3 sasly Lirs.
of
S:ao UnpuKIdwl Asecictes cf Sis Cares
in Lssd:n.
From the New York World.
Many rears tince. when thp dofe.Knd
Emperor of France was siludIv as thn
called a London hanncur, he was a sne
ciai lavonte ot the old JJuke of Welling
'I'u: . i i i j i .,
i-uu. xuia uuuw tie suareu wun ine
Count d Orsay. Owing to the debts ol
the latter, however, it was seldom that
he could pass out of the doors of (lore
House except on Sundays, when E.ig
Jish debtors are free from the chance or
arrest. Occasionally also a similar risk
secluded Louis Napoleon from public
observation during the week. In conse
quence ol this local interference wi.h
their social relations, the Sabbath was
the only day Ui-oii which the Eimitroi
and d Orsay could both regular! r an near
at Apsley House, the Loudou residence
ot the Iron Duke.
it was therefore on this dav tliev or
dinarily found themselves with him and
Colour ! (Jur.vood, his Secretarv. who
suj.-cquently committed suicide, taking
their share in a friendly game of whist.
This gave rise at the time to a bitinsr
jei ai inj expense ol their host, whose
.-paring n noi parsimonious halms were
well known, it was said that he had
undertaken to pay the debts for which
either of them mieht be arrested who
chanced to oveistav the hour of tuid
mght and expose him to the Mondav
grasp oi tne law.
... i , -
It was during th;s period of his inti
macy with the lion Duke that I Vine!
Louis expressed a wi.-h to be present at
the banquet given invariably at the Ads-
ley House on the date of the battle of
H aterloo, to which Wellington was ac
customed to invi the surviving (Jener
als and other leading officers who had
fought under hpn.
'Bad taste ! bad taslo ! Prince Lou-
i ......
is to he present at the celebration of
your unclo.s overthrow. Don t you
think it is?"
Your liraee, I wish to be present."
Very well, then." baid the Duke.
you shall be."
It is stated that on this occa.-ion Louis
Napoleon ariived late, and on his enter
ing the dining room every officer at the
tabla rose to receive him. As inter
viewing and reporting at that day had
not reached the exactitude of these later
days, this part of the account is not sus-
ceptioie or venucation. i either has
any audacious son of the quill been able
to explain what were the reasons which
induced the ex-Euiperor to make such a
singular request; as n undoubtedly did.
1 here was a curious sneer cutreat
about the same period in London, pro-
fessing to account for the somewhat sin-
ular controversy between these two
men- It was probably based on lax
morality or Oujcu Horiense the moth
er of Louis and the size of her sou's
nose, which very certainly spproximated
in propoition, and somewhat in outline,
to the beak ol the Iron Duke.
This was undoubtedly, false, as at the
period when the piiuce was born the
Irou Duke had very certainly never ever
een the iHotLerof the young Napoleon.
Certain it is, nevertheless, that Wel
lington not only liked Jouis Napo'eon,
but on many occasions displaytd strong
evidence that he did so.
Oje of these gave at the period when
it took place occasion tor considerable
talk, and will be worth recalling now
when that second actor in the incident
has . followed the first in quitting the
stage ot the world on which both ot
them had filled leading parts although
at oiliercnt times.
It so happened that Prince I ouis wa
present at a ball in the Mansion House.
Such tails generally or invariably follow
the inauguration of a new Lord Mayor.
On these occasions, not only the city
magnates are present, but the Cabinet
ministers, the foreign ambassadors and
many of the leading politicians. An ac
quaintance of the Prussian ambassador,
it I am not wrong this was the laron
Bunsen approached him. The young
Louis Naptleon accompanied thU gen
tleman. The latter was on the peia, of
addresiug Buuscn, when, from uiLa
cause probably political the Baron,
seeing fas trench companion, turned his
back upon the two. It was a most un
mistakable cut for the Englishman.
W elhngton had noticed this.
Shortly afterwards, when the Frince
was standing alone, he advanced towards
him, took his aim, and leisurely strolled
it was impossible to stroll other than
leisurely through such a dense crowd as
commonly thronged these balls in the
directum of the Prussian Au bissador.
Wheu he at last reached hiui, to the
intense suiprise, and possibly no small
gratification, of his companion, he came
to a dead stop and addressed Lunscn.
W hat could the latter do f rrom
policy and courtesy, one or botv, he felt
himsell unable to turn Ms bact upon
the Iron Duke, who resolutely entered
into conversation with him. However
he did not suffer a muscle of his coun
tenance to betray any consciousness of
the unwelcome presence of the third
party, xior did the immobile lines ot
the Duke s face testify to the fact ol
his being aware of the previous conduct
of the Ambassador. As for Louis Na
poleon, he kolied on, passively, sphinx
like. It must have been very uncom
fortable for Bunsen, who could not,
without positive rudeness, terminate the
conversation which Wellington had com
menced, and which he prolonged for
some ten minutes.
At last he seemed to recollect himself,
and faid abruptly :
"Probably Monsieur lc Baron, you
have not yet been made acquainted with
my youug French friend. You must al
low me to present him to you."
Then, in his formally curt manner, he
introduced the Prince to the Ambassa
dor. The latter was necessarily forced
to make a stately bow to the former and
interchange a few words with him. Af
ter this the two oassed on together.
For once in his life the stony eyes of
Louis Napoleon faMy glittered with sup
pressed merriment, in spite of the scene
around him. Yet the friend to whom
he subseouently mentioned t .is, and
from whom I heard it, when he gave me
the facts informed me that the Prince
said the Duke never even allu ied to hi
having had any special purpose in per
petiating such an unwelcome introdue
tion.
'Then had he any?" was his natural
mterrogatorv
"Oh, yes," replied Louis, "when we
left Bunsen that cast steel nose ot hi
twitched. I never saw it.display a symp
tom of mental vitality on any other oc
Number 45.
!i
casion.
At the time when the Chartist riot
oc -lined in the n.irth of England, and a'
corresponding out break was imminent
in th metropolis, almost all the troops
generally stationed in and around Lon
don had been ordered to the
the immediate disturbance. (
quently a-call for a special conetabulary
iorce was uiaue uy tne government.
All the respectable youth who did not
happen to be dabbling with Chartism in
its own person responded and were
sworn in.
Among others Louis Napoleon made
his appearance I believe it was at Bow
Mieet and took the ncces-mry oath.
Sordid ho shrink from fulfilling its re
quirements, lie patrolled a certain sec
tion ot the Strand, adjoining Wellinir-
iuu sweet, ior iour or nve uvosiv
n guts.
3Iy reason for so sneciallv r.-palbn
. I ? . I . T
inisis mat i was at the time ennnwip.
with a morning paper published in the
same locality, and had a particular
menu aiso engaged on it. who was a con
tinued l hartist. He was exncctinir th
order to take part in the insurrection at
any moment, and if Fearcus O'Cimnnr
and the other London leaders had not
been too weak-kneed, it is verv rossihI
that he might have picked off Louis
Napoleon with a bulle-t, or that the
1'iince might have smashed in his skull
with the ri'culation club the snnr-Ial nr-
lice had been furnished with.
In the one case the snecial cnnsf.ibl.
would never have arrived at the di -nitv
of Emperor of France. In the other
the then Chartist might not have riscu
to the literary positiouhe now occupies.
There certainly are singular eventualities I
in this world.
Possibly it may be forcotten no that
an American lady had i rior to the ex-
Empress of France, the chance of shriv
ing the strangely varied fortunes of the
third Napoleon. This was 31iss Sophia
Bates, the daughter of Joshua Bates, a
partner in the Barings. Her father
then lived on Muswcll Hill, and the at
tentions of the Prince to her were most
pronounced and unmistakable. How
bver, after a time, she unequivocally re-
Jused hiui. lhis may have been Proba
bly induced by his want of means, al
though it is far more likely to have been
caused by his openly-known connection
with Mrs. Howard.
When Sir William Don was running
through his fortune he was one of the
best gentleman riders and amiteur actor.
in England, both of which distinctions
he retained as long as he lived. Among
other ways in which he exhibited his
f-kill as a horseman was steeple chasing.
iu iiJs oreas-uecK siyie oi riding, in
spite or his ungainly length ot figure.
he was, perhaps, unrivalled, as well in
manner as in skill and daring.
On one occasion he waj to rid ? a very
fine animal in the steeple-chase of-the
season.
The contest was to be between six or
seven of the crack gentlemen jockeys of
the old country. If my memory serves
me rightly, it was to take place near
York. The ground had been selected
as the ground fir tteeple-chases invaria
bly is, with a righteous wish to make it
unavailable for comfortable riding. It
had rising lines, and flat, green turf, a
pleasant section of swamp, two brooks,
and a broad stream. In addition it was
agreeably broken up with some walls
and hurdles, quite suflieient with the
provocation of undue recklessness to
have cracked the bones and split the
skulls of every gentleman jockey en
gaged iu the race. One of them, indeed,
was taken home fatally injured and re
ported defunct some two days after.
Now the standing of the riders in so
ciety excited a very notable inte. est iu
the result of the contest in all classes.
Oa the morning of the day fixed for
it to come off some fifteen thousand
spectators had gathered round the spot
which was to terminate the struggle,
while hundreds on hundreds more were
scattered along the course which had
been maiked out. Every class of ve
hicle, from the farmer's gig to the stylish
l.nidau ef the lady of rank, from the
huckster's cart to the dashing cquippage
of tire fast woman, were crowded to
gether, mixed in with &s splendid a
quality of mounted horsflesh as had
ever been seen at one and the same time
in that section of England.
Among the carriages was a very nuiet
yet styiish one. Its head was thrown
back, and the latterly mo;e widely
known features of Louis Napoleon might
be seen within it. Seated at his side
was Mrs. Howard, then in her ripest
beauty, and in front of her was another
female friend. f
They had driven some twenty miles
that morning, from the house at which
they had been staying, and as the ve
hicle had borne with them a good sup
ply of wines and solid fooJ, while con
siderable delay occurred in the com
mencement of the steeple chase, the
Prince and his fair companions were be
guiliug the time with cold fowl and
him put ne.
At last the gentlemen riders are off.
The shouts tell them so. Standing upon
the seats of the carriages are the ladies.
supported by the stalwart arms of men,
who crane their necks forward to catch a
view of green, black or rtd, whatever
the color may be, that they have staked
their money on.
Louis Napoleon has laid large edds
upon Mr v uiiain, aud a mutual menu
has promised to present Don to hiui al
ter the race is over, lie l' however,
taken too much Champagne, aud has
forgotten all about the matter in ques
tion. He is leaning back in the caniage
almost unconscious, with a face as
sphinx like as ever. It cannot change,
even when under the influence of too
much wine. A loud shout is heard. A
mob of excitad men some of title and
breeding, some of neither, cluster, push
ing and scrambling around the spot
where the wiimer Las come in. Some
five minutes pass by. ThenUn ungainly-ill-figure,
but tall and handsome-faced
man, with the saddle from his horse
hanging over his left arm, is le-i through
the throng by the friend who has under
taken to make the Barouet known to the
Prince towards the carriage of the latter.
"Sir Willinui Don, allow me to make
you known to the Prit.ee Louis Napo
leon." But li.tially realizing the forms of
the two men be sees before him tho fu
ture Emperor nods his head, and as he.
does so blinks his inexpressive eyes.
"A capital rider. Don I"
ori . ... l - i ' -i. i l .:..!.
men tne i riuce iooks at iu joeM.y
, T.-.l 11, I. A ;. .
dress, ins lueas nauu Jie. tie iorj:ei 3
that the man before him is a gentlema
As Sir Willi im extends hii hand,
drops a ten-pound note in if.
L'jlra Criiie of ffte'lfuBALD for tale by II. J '
mreicnt. at me j-oni I'lnc.e. ami u. . Juha
son. North vide Main Street, between Second
and Third.
A savage oath breaks f.om the lips of
the Bironet, the-noto is hurled back in
Louis Napoleon's face, and lie sinks
again in the seat of his carriage, as se
renely sphinx-like but scarcely n tern,!.
ble as when it was two hours earlier.
At tho time when he wa orgnn-zi'iir
his theatrical descent Upon Bonlonre.
and succeeded in being incontinently
gobbled up by the French soldiers, hi
intentions were pretty generally known
and discussed in the English metropolis.
This could not have been the result of
his own discretion. It mu-t have arisen
from babbling fellow-conspirators. ,
At all events, I and another friend,
each of us well acquainted with Mrs.
Howard, had known of it for some limo.
K and myself were dining togeth
er some three or lour days previous to
his starting, when K said :
1 suppose vou ve heard its a I set
tled, my boy Louis Nap will be off be
fore fho week's out."
Are you certain ? . .
Positive! Do vou know I've half a
mind to go with hiui."
Singularly enough. I, also, with the
natuial love of adventure youth has. had
suffered my thoughts to fl.w in thesamo
direction. "Filibustering" for emniro
iad some flavor of romance in it Bo-
ides, each of us had some acquaint
ance with the nephew of his uncle. I
ad met Pri ice Louis three or four
times at Lady I'lcsing!on's and K 1
who was more intimate with Mrs. How-
aid than I was, had repeatedly been iu
his company unler her roof. And then,
a great name, even with a l.ttle man, is
with the young always an attraction.
Consequently, after dinner, wo re
paired to my chambers in the Temple
aud discussed the que.-tion seriously
enough. Had he been able to com
mence operations with larger means wa
should undoubtedly hare joined him.
But the eagle we af.er wards heard he
carried over was no more available for
seizing an empire than the "corporal's
guard" that acc mpan'o 1 him. He,
however, believed iu the love f Fraoce
for his Ljuie. He had received letters
written pledges from leading officers
in the service of Louis Phillippe.
Would the-e pledges bo kept? Could
they control their mcu ? Would regi
ments join him? .
We argued tho matter over and over
until long after midnight without arriv
ing at any decision.
Then K
cried out: "Look here,
I am weary of talking about it j lot us
leave thd matter to fate."
"How?"
"We'll toss up for it."
"What d) you mean?"
"Head, we go with Louis Nap ; tail,
we leave him severely alone."
Saying this he took a half sovereign
from his waistcoat pocket, "spun it frcm
hit tliuujb-nuil towurds the ceiling, ami
and then "watched it aa it rolled along
the table.
It came up tail I
The consequence was that wo re
in ined, and were glad enough we hai
done so, when, in less than week, wa
heard bow ingloriously tho "fillibuster
ing" expedition had terminated for a
time only. It then seemed that the dis
tance from Hani to the throne of France
must be impassable. Vet Louis Napo
leon crossed it. From that throne to
Chiselhurst appeared yet longer and
m re distant. Ha managed to pass it
in even shorter time.
Verily a marvellous man. C. G.R.
Senator ll;rt:a cn ths 22i J;:nt litis.
(CONTINUED)
It is, in my judgment, the most dan
gerous contrivance to the peace of the
nation that Las ever been invented by
Congress a torpedo plauted in tho
straits with which the ship of State may
at some time come into fatal collision.
This rule provides, among other things,
that when the vote shall be counted in
the presence of tho two Houses
"If, upon the reading of any certifi
cate, any question shall arise in regard
to counting the votes therein certified,
the same having been stated by the Pre
siding Officer, the Senate shall there
upon withdraw, and said que.-tion shall
be submitted to that body for its decis
ion ; and the Speaker of the Moose of
Representatives shall, in like manner,
submit said question to the House of
Representatives for its decision ; and no
question shall be decided affiuiatively,
and uo vote objected to shall be counted,
except by the concurrent rotes of the
two Houses; which being obtained, the
two Houses shall immedi.ttly reassem
ble, and the Presiding officer thall then
anuouncQ the decision of the yuestinn
euLmitted, aud upon any such question
there shall be no debate iu either Houe;
and any other question pertinent to the
object for which the two Houses ure as
sembled may be submitted and deter
mined in like manner."
By this rule it is provided that when
ever an electoral vote is objected to tho
Senate shall retire to its Chamber, and
each House shall separately consider tbe
objection, and the vote shall not l
counted unless the two Houses concur
to that effect. If the two Houses dia
grce, the vote of the State is lost.
This may result in a tie. or in the elcT.
tion of the candidate who would other
wise have been defeated, or in prevent
ing either of the candidates from having
a majoiity ofall the votes, and-'tbu
throwing the election iuto the House if
Representatives. Ea h House is to de
cide the question without debate, iu a
summary manner, without investigation
and without adjournment. Here is a
powerful temptation to the Hou.-e of
Representatives, by noo-ooncurreDce,
to throw the election into its own body,
and thus pei haps secure the election of
a candidate who may have been over
whelmingly Lcatcn at the polls. Th.
two Houses may be under the control of
different parties, as in 1857, led by poli
ticians, ambitiouo, exasperated, and
thir.-ting for power, who are thus ena
bled by a mere nou-concuirence to de
feat an election by the people and seize
the administration of the Government
into the hands of their party. , .
- 31 r.Mdf ton plainly intimites his pref
ererefbr a choice by the people at
livfge. On the other hand many hlr
'...l inicV.rnt sriteis think that rnstliod
UUM IIVV'6"
of voting would tend to centra'.ir.tt fhe
Government and subvert the intenticri
of the original framers of the Constitu
tion in jealou.-ly guarding the rights of
the States. We shall look for the re
port on this resolution with interest, vr
keep our readers posted.