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JOHNSON. 0- pale with want and still despair, - Aod faint with hastening others' gain, h'4se finely fibrIed natures bear The double curse'of work and pain; rWlidse days are long with toil unpaid, * And short to meet the orowding wlnt; Vhose nights are short for rest delayed, And long for stealthy fears to haunt To whom my lady, iitringfaint The distance-muflied cry of need, Grants, through sine nlns-dispensing saint, The cup of water, cold indeed, The, hile my lord, 'ursuing gains 'Amid'the nmakiet's sordid strife, With trageless labor fron your veins Wrilgs out the warm, red wine of life iat ope for you that better days .Shall climb the yet .nreddored east? Won fanmine in the morning slays, Why look for joy at midday-feast? Var shines the Good, and faintly throws Adoubtful glean through mist anl rain; but evil darkness presses close SfaVceagalnst the window-pane. Yhat hope for you that mansions free - Await in some diviner sphere. Whose snpphire walls can never he Dvoured, like widows' houses here ? 'oq close these narrow walls incline, . This"slender daylighieams too pale, Vor Heaven's all-loving warnith to shine, Or God's true tendernesi avail. o brolhersl sisleral who wouldilain Hojjeb4im.of healing help apply Chiegbii one agony or pain.p -nqhoieof.sunme. despairing cry Wihose good designs onertainwait, - fy tanglod sociil band. perplexed, 0, read tlie saardlentence straight; Do jus, iee lirst-love merey'nexf! :Lioppinceott's augazine. THE LOVER'S TALE. BY WILL RUTLEIE. bown on Esplanado street tandB an anclat specimen of' hrehitecturc, a rickety, tumble down structure, the roof of which Is covered with green moss, and the front has fallen in, exposing a long, wide hall, where Psyche has often hold sway. It is enclosed by a high fence which, for Want of care has become dark and dirty, eerving to advertise the frivolous entertainments to occur and va fious patent medicines. The gate stands opon, hanging on on rusty hinge, and the building is surrotin (led by a garden which, for beauty wat oneo unsurpassed in the city. 'The ruins of the fountains still re. main, and many rare flowers even yet fill the air with a sweet per.. Strange stories are told of the smansion and those who have boen its inhabitants. It was built tun dler the direction of Alphonse do Cadderona, wvho wass its first an(l only3 occupant. iIe was a gentle man of' birth andl education, stand ing high in the estimation of tile Govei-nor, anti in his younger days had been one of society's brightest ornaments. With advan ehvg years he became st6rn and poetttdant, but wa,s regarded with general admiration and respet. 'llis wife had died and left a daugh telr for' hinm to cherish and lead through life, At a proier age she was piated in' a convent, andI, fully ed ucate(l, she returnred to assn me chlauge of' her father's household. Alphonse do CJalderona had( ma ny friends wvho revelled in his mansion. Among these was a young man of French descent named0( Edgar Dupr'ena, wvho wras weal thy and hianidsome. When be behold the lovely form of. Isa. beiha, lie thought lie had never seen one ao perfect. At his comn ing her heart palpitated quicker, and4the rirh blood of her RC( wvould suffuse her check. Friend *slipr.ripene(d into -love, and all thai *was'wautlng to make their happi ness eomplhto wan h.or stern fa. ghcr's consent to Alyoir union. k. Hopefully the y'ung man ap -proached the parent and asked of him his daughter, Alphonso lis toned attentively to the petition, and, at its-conclusion, said: 'Young man, I sincerely regrot to disappoint you, bu6I. have so lected and promised my daughter to Christopher Grandblo.' Silently Edgar'received the in formation; in all its aspirations, all ambition died, and life itself was a torture. He told Isabella of the refusal, and pressing his lips to hers, bado farewell,. and was gone. She endeavored to- persuade her father to conse'nt., but her suppli cations were in vain ; I& remained firm, and commanded that : she should make instalt preparations for the celebration of her nuptials. Turning, she confronted her pa rent, her eves flashed, and the blood of resentment crimsoned her chok, but. she could not ut: ter a syllable. At last h&r spoech returned, and, with.a fearful vow, sho left his presene. . Preparations f *r the wedding progressed, and the day had come. Isabella sat in her -oom enga god in melancholy thought, her servan t entered and infornied her that Edgar Duprosa,had killed .h.inqlf. Galm .and possessed sho received the announqpment. Ordering her carriage sho changed her rbbo, .and Ont to take a last lingering look on the remains of him shp loved. The carriage rolled rapidly over the stony street and soon stood before the door; nQt until then .did she even sigh.' She valkced up the. steps and entered the patrlor gi din nup tb the coffin she gazed on the immovable fea oures of ber departed lovell, then pressiIg her warm lips to his clammy brow she turned and left the house. Evening had come, Edgar Di presa's still heart lay beneath the sod, and she whom he loved was to be joined for life to Christopher Gralidelo. The mansion -was ablaze with light, and from its richly decora ted parlors sweet music fGoated softly on the still breeze. Isabel la, in her bridal garments, looked scraphic, but despite the artificial color on her chek, she was pale. Rapidly the party were driven toward the church ; it was almost in sight when Isabella drew from her bosom a phial and swallowed its contents, then throw the emp ty vesscl in the street. Proudly up the aisle she walked, leaning on her parent's arm. P'o. sitions were assumed arou'nd the altar, and the service began. Ch ristopheri Grandolo had prom ised to Iove and to cherish. Then the priest tuirnedI to the bride elect, and said: 'Wilt thou take this man to be.' Isabella had fallen back-dead. None but the afflicted parent knew the cause of his daughter's untimely death ; he prayedl fer vently to heaven to restore his child, but his prayers were of no avail, lHe renounced society and lived alone in his solitary mansion till (loath released him. Ever' since, at midlnight, a spectre, .said to be the unhappy spirit of his (laughter, revisits the scene of her earthly joys and sorrows. (Ncm Orleans Sunday Times. THlE GRILE.s' BL,EssING.-TheOre is no greater blessing for a man than toi have acquired th'at healthy and hap py instinct which leads himt to take de light in his wvork for his work's sake, not slurring it over, not think-ing htow soon it will be done and got rid of, not troubling himself greatly about wvhat men May of it when it is done, but putting his wvhole heart and mind intb it, feeling.that- he is master of it, feeling the thing that he has turned out, be it a legal argument, or a book, or a picture,a 6r anthiug else, is con scien tiously and houoestly 'perfected Ie the best of his power. iBabies are described as coupons attaebedc . or the hnne of mnaririany. A New York Gambling Hoiue. How Country Merchants are Ta ken. in. The Twenty-sixth street gam bling house has organized a cam paign for the winter on an origi nal -and comprehensive system, after the Iladen Baden school. The house is but a few doors west. of Broadway, and not far from the aristocratic St. James Hotel. It is a five-story brown stone rront, and is occupied by it score of the card fraternity. Women, Dlegantly dressed flutter in and out its doovs; During the early Dvening the flutter of silks and lacos'and the shimmer of jewels grow most brilliant. Theee wo men are what are termed by gai blers ologant cappers. They in veigle many wealthy victims into this gambling den. One-half the number of men at this house aro young and handsomo, and , dressed- in the richest of Olothes. They pretend to repro sent scions of Fifth Avenue and other aristocratic neighborhoods. These young mon have engaged day board for the winter in up town fashionable boarding houses -one in each. The oldest -6f the orew are men who have travelled extensively. yivo of them. 1 * been runners for-Ne\v York, Phil adelphia Bioston and -Cincinnati wholesale hoissos. They have a more extended circle of acquaint. ances than any other class of men on the continent. They know thousands of country orchants Who visit .lqe York to purchaso goods, and the piles of each. Those have day board at the ho tels, and, like their companions, are agents of this gambling house. A square gamo ot faro, keio, roulette, monte, or rouge et noir is not played at thishouso. Gai blers not interested .in the gamo, are not allowed thero. The asso ciation is a combination ganibling ring. Their runners obtain. ac cess to all circles of society. How they effect this it is not necessary to explain; but they manage it to perfection. They are at all the grand recoptions, and their lady companions aro from among the families of the millionares. If the young lady has a brother who comnands ready money, she is a favorite with one of these young men, Their system for making acquaintand4s is so perfeet that they become the best known mon in the city. Some of them fre quent the Manhattan Club. They lounge in the parlors of their respective boarding houses after dinner, and mingle with the boar-der-s. They are asked out with rich men, and ask rich gen tlemen out with them. Then as if by accident, as they con verse on New York life, gambling hulls are spoken of. Just a look into some of the most elogant ones some night is suggested and agreedl upon. They go to the Twenty-.sixth street house of eciurso. Thle stranger is not asked to play. He scos half a dozen fine a1ppearing men at the tale toying with ivory chips. Others occupy magnificent sottoos and chairs. Luxury snrrounds the apartments, andl instead of a 'hell, as the new visitor has imagined lhe finds an ,abode of eleganc. He is offered a seat near the ta b)1o. He looks on and sees meti accumulating stack after stack e white, blue, red and black chips and changing them in for money He is irresistibly drawn to th< table. If he plays, he loses at long as lie lays his money down Those wvhom he sees playing and winning are membei-s of the fi-a tornity. The money they win ii passed in again, and so the gami runs. Those who operate with coun try merchants -accompany then when they piirchase goods, wit f-heir favne. and are taken wit] thein to their brilliant gambling holls,' Not ah, hontot card is turned. A number.o,01. the asso ciates of this houso may be seen J on the corners of' Twenty-sixth I street and Broadway dring any I aftoriioon. They ar'oftfi dealers i and oldor' cappor.. ,Thcso wear < diamonds and a profusion of jow- i elry. Th.oy occupy soats near the windows at the lojfman and St. i James, and crowd respectable peo- I pl off the wilks. The young men who.intrudo sna.ko-like into i higher society are hover soon I there or in compatny- with gain blors ; but at Central, Park, the I theatres, atid first-class balls, they may always be foun'd. (New York Sun, Overtaxing Chidri'en at School.+ S.h.Ol!A At the recent meeting o'f the Wiscon -Bin State Medical Society a -Iaper was iad by Dr. Waterhouse,ofPortage city, on the subject of Debility in Children, especially with reference:to the evils of overtaxing children ,in our school, the facta and suggestions--of which were deemed so valuable that a reso lution was adopted, requ6sting it: gen oral publication by the priess, for which purpose it has been revised by thle author. . We copy a few passages . "In oir common schools of the pre sent.-day--overywhore, but more es poeitl.ly in cities, and,. tle- larger vil lages, whero the best teachers are sought and generally obtairred-overy inducement, every incentive ti,at can be devisad and brought t bear to stIInIlAt6'nnc ougbnindy le faith fully and persistently applied. The consequence is that many of the brightest and best children, of from six-to ten year* of age, are .crforming more study, more mental labdr; than most of the business mou, or more than their teachers. lam aware that inany childi'eh are sluggis in tem' peraient, and iill bear ana scm to require urging to get them to learn ; yet, with niany of-this elass, it is their rapid growth that tikes away their energy, and even ability to study ; t1"(d, consequently, you mist fail to get thm to leaii mu h intil,they. cease to grow rapidly; or, i1you suc eced in getting study out of ihem you induce anmimia. What else can you expect ? You cainnot get nre from the blood than there is in it; and since the blood must supply*noiirfsh meiit to the brain and the bdy and all its organs, for their exotions,, it follows that, whenever you lax that fluid beyond its ineoimo, disoa is the result." The Instaibillty (of Ftlitical Glory4 . The last time I 'w the Duke of Wellington was on lhe day of the dissolutioni of P~arliaum it by William IV: I was at a windt on the route of tho procession, t d a gorgeous show it was. The DX e was not i nit, I but made his appear'ai e on hiorsjeback soon after it Md psse, thireaidinig his way with great diflieu!' through the densely crowded str ts. Ilis pop.. ularity at that time as at its nadir, and the noises with which lie was saluted were not as i tering as those which greeted him on iis return from Waterloo. Just opp1) te nmy window hie was brought tn a op by a coal cart, in which the was a sooty wreh, who hegan al <ing a hag at him with stentorian onits and coy-t oring him with dust. 'everal minutes must have elapsed wh:t lie was thius ignominiously enthri ad. What he said I could not hear, it I could see the'expression of his cc, and it was certainly not the sanm it was when he cried, 'Up, Guamrd and at them ' I The spectace was se ainful that Ia heartily wialged somel ly would heave t the heaver from his rty eminence.t The sympathmy, howe -, of the many headed, to my amnaz 'it, was ivith exponent of the the popular voice. Had I bedn older, I muld have been a less estonished.2 It i uite en regte .that th'o pat ogior- hould lead to sip, in the Septemg umnbcr of Lip Immigration. We concur heartily in a paragraph Aublished by us a few days sinca, from he 13altinore Statesman, depreciting he rapid snrowding of our territory vith foreign imiugrants forced in by ,xtraordinary agencies. MNt of these geicies are not en'geidered by public ;pirit--not prompted by any public xcessity. In the main they are mere 3' intended to benefit individual ad 'entures and fill the treasuries of steam )oat and railroad companics. We rust it will be a long time before this -ountry feels the curse of excessive opulation. The mation, in justice, night to go on in the natural way to ,row and inorease. Lot pcoplo come indor the desire to better their condi ,ion in the ordinary way. Those who ivould thus conic would be valuable "itizens. But what sort of peoplo do Jho- steamboat and railroad sharks ;eizo up out of thc great sea of Euro 1pvan pauperimiii ? We are given to de ploring the fact that we do not herd it the South get ia large share of the importation. But our grief is mis placed, We should rather rejoice that we have nothing to do with the great bulk of theni. Is it a great obligation, imposed by sullpernatural authority, that this coun try must be filled upi in a few years. Arc we required to see during our generation that there shall be no new fields left for exploration and develop ment by posterity ? We hope not. Rather let us hope that new and fer tile fields will be left for our posterity for ages yet to come. Ratdic a thou Hand-fold liat, that shoulId hi hen se than that our land should be prema turely ernmied with ineompatible and incongruous masse.s of population, filled not only with the vices and cor rutptions of our own country, but witli Ill the worst theories and depravities of European origin, or the yet worse peculiarities, im1oral and religious, of the other parts of the globe. Thero is a great mistake in this idea of rushing in the currents of popul: tion. In part, it. is a mania, and in part. a swindle. The honest people are enthusias(s, the dishon1est people are rogues ; they open a Pandora's box of uvils upon the nation, and swindle both parties, inunigranit and employer, with whoi they have dealinurs. We do not oppose i healthy imini ration of good prople who are able to nomo. That sort of' inanigration would proteet the iation and pronote its prosperity, and that, is the kind all 4hould desire. What is all the cry for laborers ? Is hore not enough labor here to support. thosc who are here ? and in the natu ral way will there not 1)0 ani increase of labor equal to the incerease of p)opuIla ion ? G o to. If' you want bread, go 11d( make it. You will enjoy it better than if somiebody made it for you while you idly looked on. Let those who live in the land do Lho best with their means-work and ~conomizei/-an id th ings will go on very ~vell, wh'i le the gradual developmient >f the resources of the State is pro ressinag ini a healthy anid safe manner. ~bove all, in t he maniia for inmmigra on01 let us no(t ei nrage thle in troduc ion of any more of the in ferior races. L he great nursery frmoim which all pro essions are releiIshed, from which ho rulers of the lanad must come-thie lcpartment of /ri>or-eannot 1)0 safely mtruistedl to inferior types8 of men. "or the greatness and endurance of lhe nation, labor muist be in the hands of the very best race of mnkind. ( Richmond D)ispatch. Mr. Chase consulted, aniong others, lie President of a P'hiladelpihia bank s to placing some motto upon01 the illls, as olui God we trusf,"' has been tamped upon some of the coins). AC or mentioning several scriptural texts hat had occured to him, the Secretary sked the banker's opinion. "Perhaps," vas the reply "the miost appropriate v'ould be, "Silver and gold have 1 Lone ; but such as I have I give thpoe.'?~ dfie project wvas not .carrietfdurther. Truie greatness is simp)le, self-obli rious, prone to unambitious, unselfish The Byron Story-Finis I Mra. Stowo may as well, we should say, go to Florida, and thoro lin some sequestered vale abide, The frequent showing in detail of the inconsisten cies of her story about Lord Bypon aind his sister is now surpassed by the exhibition of its "colored, amplified inncehracy," as a whole, which is mado by a writer in the last London Quarterly Review. The extracts from1 this writer's able summary are conclu sive. They deal with the merits and the demerits not only of Mrs. Stowe's article, but of the entire controversy to which it gave rise, and contain soe hitherto unpublislied letters from La dy Byron to Mrs. Leigh-letters full of'expressions of alTectionl and coni denee, writte'n at the Very period when Mrs. Stowe would have the world he lieve that Lady Byron had already been cognizant of an incestuous intercourse between her husband and his sister ! Tho ovidenee introduced, aside front those letters, is suflicient for the vindi cation of the poet and that "Augusta" to whom he addressed some of the tenderest, )urest passages of his verse ; but, even if we could go so far u. to admit that Lndy Byron ever did, after writing those letters, tell Mrs. Stowe the tale which the latter claitms to have received from her, what kind of a woman must Lady Byron herself' iavo been ? T)ic writer of this arti che in the London Quarterly does not confine himself to proving the specific charge falso; lie adlduces additfioal proof to refute the incidental charges (if Byrott's unfeeling or ungenerous conduct towards his Wife, and event carries the war into Africa where i Itay have naturally enough sul)pOsed that Mrs. Stowe might be driven by humiliation to Onigrate, for the Ir 10se of dr, Awing at contrast between Lady Byron as she was and the Lady Byron portrayed by Mrs. 8towv. Thus the unseemly ind regrettable scandal started through the world by an Ameri ean W0it1a1t has recoiled not only upon ler own head, but. on the head of the Wife for the ostensible sake of whose mCmory, assailed by a mistress, sie engaged in what we trust will be then last literary venture of its kind for the Present century. [ACw York W1orld. Hazu:-Etn Git.s.--Major. No ahI1 said t.iht a ihazIe eye inspires at first a 1.latonie sent imentl 1. ,w hich gradnally bit surely expands into love as seculrely Ftmnded as the Rock ofGibrat ar. A woman with a hazle cyc never slopes from her hasband, never chats Feandal, never sacrifices her h usbmandc's comn fort to her' ownm, never' fids fault, neveir talks too mnch i'r too little,1 alway's is an enitertaining, inutel lectual, agreeable, and lovely creatnire." 'W o never kne w,' says a brot her editor, 'btI one tin in ter-< osting andI un1am iablo w'omant with a hazice ye, and shte had a nose 1 which looked, as the Yankee says, like theli 0I tle ond of' nothbiing, whlittl1d dow~'n to a p)oin,t.' The I gray eye is the sign of'sbro'wdness andu' talent,; great t hinkers and i grecat catinsl have it. Ini women I it, indientes a better' head thanr heart. Thle darLik hiazle is noble1 in1 its sighti licaniee, as wvell as in its beauty. T1ho lutt eye is aminble, buit may bo feeble ; thle black-< tako care It A Scotchnnj went to a lawyer once I for advice, atnd dletailed te cireum stances of the case. "'hlav'e you told hme the facts pr'e cisely as they occurr'ed ?" said the 1 lawyer'. "Oh, ay,sir,'" replied he. I thought r It best to tell you the plain truth ; ye ' can put the lies in yourself." A story is told of a soldier in the I army wvhoso only fault, was that of a dIruinkoness.-I is colonel remonstrated with him. "Tom you arc a bold follow and t good soldier, but you get t dirunk." "Colonel, ' replied 'Tom, "how can you expect all the virtuesr of the human char'acter combined for Mrxf on dh. a ti-iih " [From the Now York World.1 Among the Mormons. IARIitAGE LITTLE HETTE1t THAN A MOOKERY. The mairiagev as iow existingli tI lluivh of tho Latter-Day Saints are a -ile mockery. loor instance, an eldor it the clurch, ot one of the apostles, le8ires to Marry, and one of his niigh iors has a daughter, he informs the eighbor that God has directed him o take her for a wife, and,Palthough Io may at the same time be engaged o a man of her own ohoice, she is onimpelled to submit. This is not ftenl the ease, but thcre are six in tances now ini my mind where olders n the Mormon church have married oung girls under these cireunistaices, lie marklage ceremonies being per ormned byli the elders themselves. In ther'aases the mtiarriago coremonies are >ed'ot-med by ani elder or. bishop in iatever parislh the party may live. Often the marriages are performed )y means of at spiritual letter from Brigham Young, said by him to be pecially endowed with power from .o(l. This, very naturally seems im )ossible; but when ono has ocular kvidenlee of the truth, he is compelled 4) believe. A young man-a Mormon -was to be married last spring, but rihen the (lily came Briglhan was Lvay ini the lower part of the Territory, attending to matters pertaining tohis nlills. Notwishing to wait until his eturnt mny frieid wrote to one of Brig 1amll 's counsellors requesting pormis niou to marry and also to be married. Brigham replied, through the nedium >f tho Secretary, that it was not no 3cssary for hin (Brigham) to be pro wint., but that, as the Prophet of Jesus Jhrist of Latter-day SaiNts, he pro oniOtitced thet nmin and wife. My 'riend-poor ignorant fellow that lie ,vas-so firmly believed in his religion hat he imagined what Brigham said 6vas the word of God, and went to house-k cepinJig. So implicitly (10 the people of Utah 1'erritory believe in their religion and lie doctrine of marriageand polygamy, is preaelhed by Brigham Young and his wlf-appointed appostles, elders and )ishiops4, (hat in many cases men take mives merely as ai matter of form, mid a young girl over seventeen years )f age who is uniarried is not con ,idered a good member of the church, mld is looked upon with horror by her ,ompanions. Whien a man marries me or a family where thlere are young -r sisters, Ie et nters into an agreement 0 marry eIel one of them as they )ecome of age, and, with the full con ment of the parents iad all relatives ,oncerned, somietimtes takes her into is own hmouse to instruct her in the lnt ies of married life. T1his is of daily >ceurrTen ce. In nearly all the poorer amuilies of Mormons, if they have mnly a roof over their heads, and the vife has many sisters, the husband almost imnmed inately endeavors to make icoommtaodations for (tem. 1By dint 'of )e'severtance andi frngal ity he inana g o accumaulate a suflicioncy to be mar ied anid sup jport the next sister arriv ng at maturity. Thus it continues, roam oneo to aniotherT, until all are mar. iedl, wheni they separate to different iouses, and with jealousy and en - 'y watchI eachl other's advancement. Th'le only love which exists in the haurchi of " Moroni"' inl miarried life is he love of a mnother to her offspring, r the love of thme first wife to her tusband. When in A berdeen, Dr. Johnsonx ined with a clergyman, the soun ecing 'hotch-potch.' T1hie lady of thb ouse, after having served him once, sked if lie would take some more. he gruff and stern moralist and out p)okea social hear replied, 'It is a isha fit for hogs, madam.' 'Take a ittle more, then,' was the iammediato nd appropriate reply. A shrewd old gentleman once sak) o his dlaughiter. ',Bo sure, my (loar, rou never marry a poor man; but re nember that the poorest man in the vorld is one that has money and go,. hing c.'