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- t~.tr> >" BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. * ^ . L wV .Yf, .. .. - ... ?,_ . - 1 . ?M1 ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JULY 31. 1872. ? VOLUME XX Our Spri IS NOW in 9tove, and we would invit< assured that we cau please both as t we desire to say that we have more and heretofore kept, embracing a large varie SPRING AND SUM iu >viuv;u v* c ?uuiu In theso "hard times to live" we have great'y to the "creature comforts." We intend to keep always "FULL Ui G-rocer ao. a ura April 10, 1872,52?tf ( c- ''< * ? WE ARE NOW STGOK OF SPRING Embracing a variety of Goods 1 Dress Goods of all WHITE EMBROIDERIES, LACES, Tfi Kfotio] Also a full line of Ladies', ] CASSIMEEES, HATS. 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Goods, id Embroideries, RTMENTS COMPRISES rtae, Boots, Sloes, Hals, ClotMnj, ) GLASS WAKE, ERY AND NOTIONS. will be sold low oil a cash basis. , & ROBERTSON. & SKLARZ, i?N DENDY CORNER, ill the World and tlie "rest of mankind' jsent SPRING season, at most unques Eilizingly ruinous rates. :lecant assortment of )E CLOTHING. js which prevail in all the Courts of Eu ND SHOES, DOMESTICS, 5, DRY OOODS, stidious and cultivated taste could desire. L.of Abbeville, cau find bargains just ex It &> Co., TITE RANGE. 1iem know, th&t we keep OF GROCERIES, rades, Molasses, in Bbls. and Cans, Sugar of several qualities. Coffee, Rice, Salt, &c. -est market prices. Work and Wait. A husbandman who many years Ilad plowed his fields'and sown in tears, Urew weary with his doubts and fears. "I toil in vain! These rocks and sands Will yield no harvest to my hands; The best seeds rot in barren lands. "My drooping vine is withering ; No promised grapes its blossoms bring; No uirds among its branches sing. "My flock is dying on the plain, The heavens are brass?they yield no rain ; The earth is iron?I toil in vain !" While yet he spake a breath had stirred His drooping vine, like wing of bird, And from its leaves a voice he heard: "The germs and fruits of life must be Forever hid in mystery, Yet none can toil in vain for Me. "A mightier hand, more skilled than thine, Must hang the clusters on the vine, And make the fields with harvest shine. "Man can but work ; God can create; But they who work, and watch and wait, Have their reward, though it come late. "Look up to Heaven ! behold and hear The clouds and thunderings in thy ear? An answer to thy doubts and fear." He looked, and lo! a cloud-draped car, With trailing smoke and Hames afar, Was rus ing from a distant star. And every thirsty flock and plain Was rising up to meet the rain That came to clothe the fields with grain. And on the clouds he saw again The covenant of God with men, Re-written with Hi's rainbow pen : lid i x; 3 K L L r *1 oueu nine aim Harvest simn nut inn, *\nd though the gates of hell assail, My truth and promise shall prevaii." THE REHEARSAL. From tho German of Eliso Folko. Tho 3d of November, 1698, in Ber lin?the residence of tho Elector of Brandenburg, sovereign Duke of Prussia, Frederick III., and his wife, Sophio Charlotte?was a veiy stormy day. The vain and sleet that a high wind drove through tho streets? which, two centuries ago, were very unlike those of tho proud capital of to-day?admonished old and young to seek shelter withii.-doors. The streets wore, indeed, nearly deserted; thuso only being abroad whoso affairs did not admit of delay. It was in the neighborhood of the 30 cauca riaing-nouse, mat on inis stormy da}', about four o'clock in the afternoon, an elderly man. accompa nied by a tall, slim boy of some six teen years, both closely wrapped in their mantles, walked hastily from house to house, looking anxiously at nil the windows and doors. They both seemed weary and cold a* well as wet. tor the boy would every now and then stamp his feet, and draw his mantle still tighter around him. ' Let mo inquire yonder at that fine house; it can do no harm, at all events." said the boy; "the capell mci3tcr" (music-director) "must live there. The house answers tho de scription exactly." ^ /mi J ??rv 41\ama i C n*nnf a ?1 Ull, iiiijunu ti j v u iiuiiu nu, and see yourself laughed at for your pains," answered the domorganist (cathedral-organist), ';Do you sup pose any Italian musician ever lived in a palace like that? Would any sane man ever think of looking for me, the domorganist of Halle, in a house like that? .And why should this Italian bo better housed than one of us? Have I not served God and St. Cecilia year after year, and not written a note for the world, and do I not still live in three little rooms in the rear of the cathedral, where the sun shines daily hardly an hour on mv sninet. and the ceilincr is so low v r ^ # # o that I can reach it without getting on a stool. IIow, then, should this mu sic-maker get to livo like a prince ? That would be harder to endure than a false treblo on a broken organ pipe." During tho delivery of this long, grumbling sermon, the boy had asked the old servant, who opened the door in response to an energetic rap with the big iron knocker, if tho court music-master to the Princess Sophie Charlotte, the Italian, Marc Antonio Buononcini, lived thero. "Yes,'' replied the old footman, in a somewhat hesiting tone; "but my master can see no one now, as he has a rehears.il at this hour. ]3o so good as to come again to-morrow. You are, I take it, only musicians?" ' Well, j'cs, wo aro just what your master is?only musicians," smiled the boy. "Never mind if he has a re hearsal?announce us. Your master knows we are coming; indeed, he wrote us to como to him to-day. We come a long way?from Halle, on the Saale." The old servant again surveyed the young stranger from head to foot, and seemed by no means displeased with his appearance. A pair of large, proud eyes looked him full in the face with the hopeful confidence of youth. "Well, come in, then. I will an nounce you to my master. Will the old grumblen there come in with you ?" "Certainly be will; and let me tell you, sir, this old grumbler, as you are pleased to call him, is a very distin guished man at home in Hallo," im plied the boy; and, turning to his companion, he called out: "This is the house, Herr Pomorganist?como in.!'' With a mien in which his astonish ment and displeasure were alike visi ble, the domorgaoiet of Hallo entered the house, which, certainly, in com parison with tho better rcsidenccs of little provincial town, bad a ncely appearance. The servant ieved the callers of tlieir wet man 3, and then disappeared, leaving sm in tho anteroom. The room s comfortably warmed by a mam th porcclain stove, and sufficiently 1 lited by a quaint lamp that hung m the cciling. Tho furniture was pie and elegant; on tho -walls hung 1 eral handsome engravings, and in i corners stood four marble statues, 'This is shameful!" cried tho dom- i ;anitit, as he took off his vest, thrce nered bat, with such a violent jerk to bespatter tho face of the Venus t Medici and the breast of the Apollo " Belvedere. fi L'Jio boy, on the contrary, gazed at I surroundings with almost breath- C i astonishment, until a eiac-uoor :ned, and a melodious male voice led out: Entrate, entrate, signori!" )d the threshold stood a tall, hand le, richly-dvossed man, of some ng more than forty years. Tho domorganist, Christian Lc echt Zaehau, ?f Halle, don't under od Italian, or his pupil eithe," lied the old organist, in an angry e. Well, then, if I must, I'll speak as I as I can in your guttural Ger n, Signor Zachua," returned the lian, smiling. "1 trust we shall be A if 15 tu liJUftU UUIBUIVCO UIIUUI91UUU, IX just at this hour, for I shall havo isk you to excuso mc until evening, easi. I am in haste to go to a re xsaI." What kind of a rehearsal?'' asked organist. "Will you not permit to be present?" Well, yes, I think I may, although rarely ad mi t spectators," answered jncneini, after a moment's reflec 1. "I am teaching my new opera, Trionfo del Parnasso,' to a very set little troupe of artists, who, es ially the ladies, are somewhat iled, and havo to be handled with at delicacy. I dare not keep them ting a momont." lie said this in -range admixture of German and lian, accompanying his jargon with rt i nrnri/to I fimiln knf trnnarn kin ui6Aivai oiuiiUj uuau iuu morganist did not attempt to in paet. "You will, therefore, excuso if I leave you now," continued ^noneini, "till you got warm and e taken some refreshments, after ich Giacomo will come with you to riding-house, where you will find with my little troupe. I must ask i to bo very still over there and ak to no one ; but after the rehear wo will be all the merrier." To be frank with you, I have not ic altogether on your account," ex ined the domorganist of Ilalle; y chief errand, as I told you in my er, is to present my pupil here to may hear him play and givo him ess to her musical library, and haps, also, permission to produce 10 one of his compositions, a mass, example, in her chapel. They are so bad, I can tell you, and it is e some one heard them besides the f>le of our little old llalle. I was 1 that the shortest way to accom ih my object was to come to you, [ that is the reason 3-ou see mc e. As for 3Tour Italian music? n !?I don'L think much of it, I tell ii i plainly." t Cut I should like so much to go to f rehearsal of your new opera," in- t posed th? boy, enthusiastically. C , home I never hear any foreign p sic, and yet I know j-our masses, d 1 also that you have written a beau- 1 [1 opera ?'Polifermo.' Ilerr Zachau s )ws your masses, too. IIo has not d f so poor an opinion of Italian mu- d as ho pretends, for?" j< 'Hold your tongue, sir!" interrupt Zaehau. "Boys, in the presence of c er people, should speak only when i y arc spoken to. I, too, will go to a i rehearsal; it can do me no harm, j t, if I live a hundred years, I shall j Tim TrM*if? o hor flifiVironl.lr fnr nil I i it. It will do you no harm either, 1 rust; you are too thoroughly groun- I 1 in the principles of the true iool." r 'Well, then, 3Tou will follow me, af- ] you got warm. I will write you , tass, and, after tho rehearsal, I shall ( ablo to tell you when you can take , ur pupil to the princcss. But then ] li must be prepared to do your best, \ r boy, for Sophie Charlotte herself , lys better than many an old, and ^ tainly better than many a young f [ former; besides, she can detcct ( jry error in a piece of music by ( irely glancing at it." \ fhe old servant brought wino and < icheon. Buononcini gave him di- < ;tions to briug his guests to the < ling-house, wrote his name on a card I d handed it to Zachau, and then 1 rned to go with a cordial "A rive- < rci." < At the door ho turned and said : "Bo sure, young man, you don't ' 1 iu lovo with any of my actresses ; me of them are beautiful, but re- 1 imber also that some of them are as 1 ngcrous as they arc beautiful. And i en they are forbidden frnit?fruit j at such as wo are not allowed to ] _ _1_ T> j mi jck. x>u on your guara r 1 After Buononcini had gone, the do )rganist turned his attention to the ' icheon ; ho did not spare the fiery i xlian wine, and urged his young i rapanion to follow his example, j 10 boy, however, was too much oc- 1 pied in examining the contents of o room, to think of eating and : inking. How different from the tlo dark room in Halle, where, for ven long years, he had practised the 1 ano, and been drilled in tho art of mposing' There, there were no sy-chairs covered with velvet; no bios with gilt feet; no mirror in Inch ho could soc himself full length; io piano with an- inlaid cover; no 1 ilock supported by a Cupid. Here a he room was brilliantly lighted by a c inmbor of wax-candles in silver- \ ranched candlesticks. How often I lad his eyes pained him in tho dim t ight of his master's old lamp, when e le wrote his sonatas and motettos I And I hese piles of music, so clean and nico- c y arranged in a largo, upright case, ? hat stood on one side of the room! r Lt home their music was stowed away \ q nooks and corners. "I feel like breaking every thine r lere in pieces," said Zachau, after r aking another survoy of the room. ? Is not such extravagance as this sin- I uI? Can a man, who lives liko King i Jelshazzar, write music fit to he heard? a Jome, let us be going ; but, drink your 1 pino. There is danger that the mu- t io we are about hear will give us the c olic if wo listen to it with empty \ tomachs." a At this time music was much culti- t ated at the Prussian court. The a ccond wife of the Eloctor Frederick c I, Sophlo Charlotte, a Hanover rincess, was passionately fond of t lusic, and had called about her a s umber of distinguished artists. She t a! r nlnrfa/] U/\ A n n rJ 11 A m*-. n Ul&Uil JJILV^ CU LliU [JIUIJU UUU llttijJ u lost admirably^and, under the diroc- t ion of the amiable and accomplished t Lttilio Ariosti, even made considera- v le progress in the art of composition, t t wals said of this gifted princess that a rhat sho would, she could and did. t ls proof, it is stated that she learned a talian in threo months so well that f ho learned Gregorio Leti, who heard 1 er speaking with an Italian, asked if e he understood German ! Whatever he undertook, she prosecuted with t hat energy and determination that c nmmnnflo nnitrorcnl arimlrotinn P Among her greatest admirers she I umbered the celebrated philosopher 1 jeibnitz, whoso extraordinary genius ? he alone, of all the ladies at the elec- i oral court, fully appreciated, as she I lone was capable of comprehending s is thdories. In reality, Sophie Char- t jtte cultivated music as a sort of re- r ixation after more severe mental la- t or. She would often sit by the hour a nd listen to the singing of the young- b r Buononcini, Giovanni Battista, rhom at such times bis brother usu- t lly accompanied; and the playing of t er favorite, Corelli, the young Eoman ? iolinist, seemed to have an indescri- 1 able charm for hor. How often, af- f era day of hard peicntific stndy, she 3 rould send for Ariosti and Corelli, { nd have them play some of their i 1- ^ ! _ ? J jvin /% M.% It AM M U A 0 [Jiuiiun^ unuto uuuic uui tiuu iuu * lombers of her little family circle I 6 Ijw often would she scud, lute in the t vening, for the two Buononcinis and e eg them to oblige her with some fa- < onto aria, or to go through some e ,e\v scoro with her, when she would t suaily play the accompaniment! t 'he elector, on his part, took ploasure i 11 affording the princess every means f his power to cultivate her favorite rt. In the ha'l of the riding-house, y his orders, a small stage, for pri atc representations, was built, on irhich the ladies and gentlemen of he court appeared in concerts and pcra. Near the orchestra stood a ostly French piano for the exclusive sc of the electress. The musical li irary of the princess was the largest n Germany, and every artist who had lie honor to be known to her had rce access to it. From far and near he worshippers at the shrine of St. Jecilia journeyed thithor in order to trofit by this privilege. It was his lesire to open this musical store iousc to his pupil, and to have him ec something of the world, that in Iunpfi i.hn Homorcranist Zachau to nn lertako the?in those clays?long ourney from Halle to Berlin. The rehearsal of Buononcini's "Tri info del Parnasso" in the hall of the iding-house was half over when the trangers arrived. They had just )aused to give the musicians and sing irs a few moments' rest, and the va ious groups that had formed on the ittle stage presented a pleasing and jrilliant picture. Tbe 3*outhful companion of the do- < norganist was completely dazzled. : 2e retreated to an obscure cornor, ; ind gazed, with astonished eyes, at me figure after another, while his naster, undisturbed by the tittoring lis strange appearance caused among i .he elegant assemblage, looked about tvith perfect unconcern. Zachau ap proached the piano, at which a lady sat before an open scoro. The musi ;ians ot tno orcnesiru tauuu m ? duuu iistancc from her, somewhat nearer the stage, in conversation with Buon jncini, whose stately person and rich 20Stnm0 made him the central figure Df the group. He noddod a wclcome to the two strangers when they en tered, and then took no furthor notice 3f them. On the stage the perform ers had gathered into little knots, or walked to aud fro engaged in familiar chat. "Herr domorginist," whispered the boy to his master, who had stepped up on the platform where the piano stood, "did you ever see such distin guished-looking singers?the ladies particularly? How beautiful and stylish they are!" "Neither their beauty nor their 3t.ylo is for you to gazo at," growled Zoi-.Kon Minnie hero and stick your 6060 in this score, and koep your oars open. Thoy will begin again direct ly." Bat, although tho obediont pupil approachcd tho piano in compliance with his master's command, his eyes would stray into forbidden paths. Thero was a boautifnl young girl on the stage that especially attracted his attention. Could she, perhaps, be the celebrated singer, Rogina Schocnhals? But Fraulcin Suliocnhals had not been represented to him as being particu arly attractive, and ihis young gii vas a fanltloss beauty. Sho wore Iress of rich rose-colored taffeta, an lad rose-colored bows in her powderei iair, while her feet were incased i he most delicate little high-heele ilippers that could bo imagined. An he elderly lady at her side, in gree: lamask, had somothing so dignifie md commanding in her mien I Th nen all looked as if they might bo ho rassals, although they wore embroic sred coats and waistcoats, and cai icd cavalier swords. Another grouj learer the piano, also attracted hi ittention. A bevy of pretty wome: lad gathored around a tall, elderl; nan, who wore the costume of a ca\ ilier of the court of Louis XIV, H istened and replied to the youthfc )eauties wit the case and grace tba ibaracterized the renowned school t vhich he evidently belonged. Wha t buzzing of voices! But they use ho French language exclusively, no i word of which the young listene inderstood. And when he finally approache he piano in order to glance at th core, his attention was arrested b; he pleasing manner and distinguish^ kit* of the lady, who sat nearly befor he instrument, engaged in converse ion with a middle-aged gentlemac vho stood beside her. He was richl; lut plainly attired in black, and wor . large wig, the long curls of whicl lung down to his shoulders. Hi trongly-marked feature and massiv orchcad-denoted ^he man of thonghl rhe lady was evidently much intei sted in what he was saying. "How rich these peoplo must bo I hought the astonished pupil of th lomorginist. And then he fixed hi iyes on the man in black with th ?i<rh forohend who snnlco with t.h ady. There wa3 something in th fcntleman's mien that had an irresisi ble charm for him. flow he wool lave liked to know what they wer laying to each othor I Love-makin hey certainly wero not?the gentl< nan's manner was too respectful fo hat, and then his face wore such erious, almost melancholy, exprei ion I "Look out now?they are going t )egin 1" said Zachau to his pupil, a rho same time pulling him not ovei jently by the arm to rouse him frot lis reverie. As ho spoke, he steppo orward, so that he obstructed th jianist, who now turned toward tb nstrumcnt and struck the first accorc 'achau now thought only of the mi tic. Great as bis contempt was'fc he Italian school, what ho hear ioon excited in him the liveliest intei 581. The second act began with tort of introduction that had som olerable difficult passages. In one < ,hese the lady at the piano made nistakc, which rendered it necessar 'or them to begin anew, but she wc io more successful the second tim ,han the first?again she threw th >rche8tra into confusion. As the musicians paused, a voic vas heard to say, in an emphatic an iomewhat rough tone, "My bo mnM An hnftnr. thon t li n t I TMlrt Tlfl< lage is too difficult for a womaD. VII oyes were instantly turned towar ,ho worthy domorganist of Halle or tho voice was liis?and his pupi vhose face was suffused in scarie Vnd now the lady at the piano ale ,urned slowly toward the tall provii iialist, and fixed her large blue ey< )n him with a smile full of soul an ;entlene38. ? "Then your son shall play it for m f ho will," said she, gently, as sh ose from tho piano and stepped 1 >no side. "Where is the lad ?" The youth came forward withoi ipsitnf.inn. His handsome face hn changed color again, and was now p; !er than usual. He bowed graccfull to the lady, brnshed his long dat hair back from his forehead, and sea 3d himself silently at the piano. F< a moment the notes, 'tis truo, presen ed only a blurred and indistinct ma Lo his bewildered vision, but no soo: er did the tono of the orchesti reach his ear than his nervousness di appeared. He struck the first accoi with a sure and powerful hand, at then played on with the ease and cal of a master. The troublesoMe pa sage now went smoothly, and he co tinued to plap the difficult score : though it were an easy cxercise. I came quickly to tho aid of the sin era when they seemed to need assij ancc; and when the tempo bccan quicker and the melodies and passag more complicated, he played asthou^ for him there were no difficultly He camo to the assistance now of tfc instrument and now of that, now this singer ana nuw vi Him, un Buononcini, apparently unable to co tain himself, cried out: "Santa Maria, the bo}' Ib a wonder The performers paused and look< at ono another amazed. What prodigy 1 Everybody crowded aroui bim. Now he could have had a no? er view of tho faces that a few m ments before had absorbod his atte 1 ' 1-! L. tion, yet he iookcu omy at uib inttbu A hand touched his arm gently; 1 recognized it; it was tho hand of t! lady who had been at the piano, ai held a little bunch of flowers she hi worn on her bosom. "Take this, and with itmy thankf said tho lady, her eyes moist fro emotion. "You aro a great artist the world will some day hear of yc ?You may well be proud of such son my friend," she continued, turnii to tho domorganist, "and I thank yi for bringing him to us." "Unfortunately, ho is not my son ho is only my pupil. I have broug him horo that he may be presented the Princess Sophio Charlotte." "What is his name ?" "George Frederick Handel. He come from Halle, on the Salle, and is the son of a surgeon-barbor." "Will you recommend mo now to the princess ?" inquired young Handel of Boononcini, as soon as ho could make himself heard. "That will not be necessary, my child; you have sufficiently recom mended yourself," said the lady who had given him her place at the piano, "lam Sophie Charlotto, and I learn to-day that I am far from being the performer my friends would make me believe I am. I thank you for this valuable lesson, Herr Domorganist? it shall yield good fruit for your pu pil, yes, and for mo, too. I shall expect to see you to-morrow noon at the castle, when young Handel shall play before the elector; then we will consider further with regard to him. Signor Buononcini, these two gentle men will, of course, be your guests as long as they remain in Berlin. - Good evening, gentlemen." And now, aftor this short saluta tion, it seemed as though the son, surrounded by rose-tinted clouds, Lad disappeared. A brilliant suite gath ered around the electress; the ladies, and oven some of the gentlemen, of the little troupe, to young Handel's surprise, accompanied her. ' Even the serious man in black followed her. All disappeared like a dream. Zachau and his pupil gazed after the retiring singers almost stupefied with amaze ment. The former was the first to recover his self-possession, and, touch ing his young companion on the shoulder, he said somewhat abruptly: "Come, come, boy, an electress is only a woman, after all! You did bravely. Buononcini himself could not have a Tvw'nAAAfl io A?i/)anf_ UKJLKJ Usj buvL XUC puuoyoo ID 0?iU?UW ly pleased with you; and, to win the favor of the women, is to more than half win the battle of life." "Well, my little tr&upe pleased yon, did it not ? Now you can understand why I dare not keep them waiting,'' said Buononcini, smiling. "A more aristocratic troupe no capellmeister ever had: an electress at the piano, and, among the singers, the Duchess of Courland, her charming daughter Maria, her son Prince Frederick Wil liam, and my distinguished country man Antonio Tcsi." "And the elderly gentleman dressed like the courtiers of Louis XIY?" asked Handel. "That was the first chamberlain to the electress. Francois de Jeancourt. Seigneur de Villarmel et d'Ausson. Bnt see?there are half a dozen dis tinguished people, who are waiting to congratulate you. There are Tosi and Corelli; the tall, serious lopking man just behiod them is Ariosti; the one at his sido is my brother Giovan ni Battista." These gentlemen approached, and praieed the youth in the most eulo gistic terms. The enthusiastic Corelli embraced him again and again, and criod out in his broken German : "He will be recognized an the mu sical genius of the agS! A future full of gold and laurels lies before him 1" Zachau was radiant, for the admi ration evinced for his pupil could not have delighted him more if the pupil had been his son. "And still," said ho, finally interrupting them, "you have no idea, as yet, of what he is capable. You mu9t see some of his sacred music; there is more in the boy, I trust, than a simple player." An hour latjr a right merry supper party was assembled at Buononcini's. Late in the evening, the domorgani9t of Ilalle on the Saale, forgetful of his deep-rooted prejudices, even toasted Italian music, and then, well pleased with himself and the world, and flanked on either side by his host and his pupil, retired to his chamber. At the door, after the "folice notte," young Handel detained the Italian a moment, and asked: "Who was the crentleman. dressed in black, who spoke so much with the clectress? Is he, perhaps, her phy sician ? lie looked almost as though ho might be." "You might be farther from the fact, my young friend," answered Buononcini; "he is at least the phy sician of her soul, for to him Sophie Charlotte goes with all her cares and doubts. He is, unquestionably, the most learned man in the world. You have cortainly often heard him spoken of at home?his name is Leibnitz." The following day young Handel played before the elector, and pleased him hardly lees than ho, the previous evening, had pleased the electress. He played selections from the compo sitions of his master. Scandelli, Ora zio, and ScaleJJa, and then some fan 1 iL. tasias irora mumuy given uy tuu uieu tor. And the princess also played, to the great delight of young Handel. When she had endod, ho was load in her praise?it seemed to him that he had never heard any thing so charm ing; but the electress smiled at his enthusiasm, and seemed to doubt the correctness of his judgment. "Let us hear," said she, "what your master thinks of my playing." "Guadigste Frau Churfurstin," said the domorganist, "I think your play ing is really wonderful for a woman. indeed, l would never nave douovcg a woman could learn to play so well." Later in the day, young Handel sat at the dinner-table, quite near bis no ble patroness. The conversation soon turned upon music, a theme which seemod to lend to every feature of the handsome youth an additional charm. And renon Sophie Charlotte inquired, in the kindliest mdtinor, after his pa rents, and with regard to his first studies, he told her of everything that concorned him most nearly?of tho little trials of his boyhood, of the ob stacles that had beset his path, and of his hopes and fears rogarding the fu* ire. He told her how his father &ad stermined on making a ,lawyerlir of im, the youngest son, and forbade im. spending his time witlr'jnusic. hen he pictured to her the" iottase esire of his early boyhood 5 to leira >me instrument, and his delight when. b found aft old piano, that hadObe nged to his grandfather, in the gar it, on which he practised every even ig, until his father fouftd him there, to midnight, half frozenj howy from. us time iortn, ms rattier not only ? >ased to oppose his wishei^titftTJJen aced him under the dircctiqffitf?Xt>.e >morganist Zachau.. Zachan heard nothing of all these mfidings; he sat 'at the other end of te table, between two of theyonng it and prettiest of the eleotrtafaila es of honor, Franleins von Pollaitz id Schlippenbacb, who took %im. iverely to task for his ioW estimate : the female intellect - Nevertheless, his wrtnkied features* ere radiant with ^od-htts^or., rould this have been -the case if ho id heard his pupil tell the :riHriWs8 dw he longed to visitItaly^itho'land P song," and had heard. Leave that to me; I will" see that our wish is gratified V IV u. ; 'VtMi-J After dinner, Sophie Chw^)^^?|id > her young guest: "Now go with, uononcirri; he will show you TttVrau cnl library.. There yo^sft^otfoe ad rnmmage as muchasyoji tog as we succeed in keeping -you naong us. .Should you want to play lere, you will find a piano expfrewfly >r your use. I will follow in jf IHtio hile, that I myself may ehowryou ty choicest treasures; Herr Xieibnitz ill accompany'me." T -i?- L. TT i.l i jjaicr, vy uvu jruuug xiuuuei -ugu; ?e )me better acquainted with th&$& rated savant, in speaking to l>im<)f lis first visit to tfie tonsicktiifittify, hen Sophie Charlotte herself J&olwd 76r some of the old maju im, he exclaimed, in 'ths onj i1 his admiration: 1 " , "Is it not wonderful ?? now every thing P nol "And yet how desirous,. dow, and how industrious tore 1 answered Leibnitz:1 u ie why of every thing?, wn eex. she certoinlytta'il&jtar inal in knowledge, ^nc inch sunshine may be yoore n _ ireer, believe, ray young fHtfrid; yen ill meet with nothing so bright, ao inny, or so invigorating, as her,, an alio smile." Leibnitz was right TMs feHeflsb turn in Berlin was, perhaps, ; the rightest and happiest period; in the fo of the celebrated compose^ of The Messiah." * nT tmt * "-pa* Beading SpBCTACLBs.-r-An- 'Ind ian, seeing persons reading witih loctaoles, went to buy a pwjr.foi ble himself to read. He tried se^e Eil pairs, and told the shopmfcii "tfe Duld not road with any of theme. $<l "Can you read at ail ?" a^ked.the aonman. , ;, "No," was the reply; "if I codld, o you think I would be such?a gooao 3 to tyiy spectacles?" Not Afraid.?A little thing in a abbath-school was asked by tier ;acher if she said her pvaycrs night nd morning. "No, miss, I don't." ' Why, Mary, are yoa not afraid' to o to sleep in the dark without asking rod to take care of you, and watch ver you till morning ?" "No, miss, I ain't: 'cause I sleep in be middle." The Quaker City lost 310 children om cholera-infantum last week?the lrgest rate the city has ever known, :om that cause. . One Missouri editor says of another hat "his cars will do for awnings to ten-story wholesale hog-packing stabliehment." * - The St. Louis city attorney lately ad to pay a fine of fifty dollars for oming late to court, and ten dollars aore for not sitting down when told o. Felix G. DeFontaine, Esq., tho 'raceful writer and accomplished ournalist, is now connected with tho slew York Evening Telegram as its aanaging editor. The modern Faro has fbund ila Sed Sea in San Francisco, in tho hape of a black-eyed girl whc> wins >1,000 nightly, and has broken several tanks in the city. A yonth of Franklin, Ohio, calcu that. dnrirr* t.hfi r?n.st. fiuo r#>?irs io has walked 13,256 miics in visiting ,ho maiden upon whom his affections ire centred. The Texas Pacific Railway is to bo 1,515 miles in length. For 250 miles t is to be an air-lino, and in a stretch >f 815 there will be bat six bridgcyj. A Kansas Radical editor, when- ho leard of Greeley's nomination, wry tensibly gave np his paper, got may ied, and went to worK in /lis father n-law's saw mill. / A fungus, which grows on the cal careous rocks of Florida, is said to possess narcotio properties, and to be lsed by the natives to some extent \ substitute for. tobacco. To jump into the bins of grain ele rators ana be suoked down the spout, 9 a style of suicide developing out f^est, whioh laughs at probes and itomaoh pumps. Two sisters have eloped from B'.r in, Prussia, with a young man whom ;hey are both in lovo with, aud wjioin hoy both intend 10 marry when U:ey 'eaoh Salt Lako, which is their dev - iation.