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A STOnY OF THREE GENEnATIONs.
]h EAX tIAPTEnS.-CH APTER I.
Poor M1rs. Marrables ! S) young,
too-only six-atd-thiaty, and very
little the worso for wear. A widow
with the bloom of youth htill upon her
cheels, (spiteful people, wii aged
faster, went so fur as to say Mrs.
blarrables's bluom was like the manna
of the I.,raelite --"new everymorning"
but this was malice.) flaxen hair, gray
blue eyes ; a smallasoned womau vIhi
a dowy skin, nudl a figure, just plunp
and no moro, whieb would wear fir
ever without .inleading to obobity or
oriddling up into wrinkles. She had
a daughter 4,f eighteen, by name
Matilda, less y ounlg in proportion to
ier yearv, than herself. It is no affdc
tation to t-ay that the two women
vounld pass anywhere for sisters-Mrs.
Marrobles is the elder by at most
four or five years. A Mtranger would
really be incredulous as to the rela
tioiship between themn being that of
inother and dnbghter. biech a mis,
take, when it i., 8a id to be not in
plensant to the otnivorous appetite
for flattery developed in some of the
pex by advancing Cans ; but to Mrs.
Marrables it was uost embarrassing.
She was not old , she did not look it ;
and the explanation involvel mtdue
the stranger sus pcut her of beina
old'er thari she really was, IIut for
this. M-s. Marrables migbt have
hiarriol lung befure. She was never
invited o-it without. her daughter ; and
whenever any eligible gentleman be
gan to pay her the slightest attention,
some dear frien I or other toUll hi
certain to whisper 4 "'Tait ia Mat ii..
da's mother ;" and of course their
Was am end of it.
It mu.t not be concealed that moth
er nod danghter did not "hit it" very
well together. Mrs Marrables resent
ted her daughter's very existence,
while Matilda could not but be scan
dalized at having so youthful a moth
)r. It was plain to Mrs. Mrr.bles ih.tt,
in ordeir to her own success in life, her
daugh'ter must be got rid of. People
who arrive at sach a determination in
hovels, too often Tesort to crime
to ron6ve a person from their
path. But Mrs. Marrables went to
church twice every Sunday. At last
the married Matilda out of her way
to one Mr. \Vimbash, a most repeota
ble retired corn-merchant of Iligh
gate. Poor Mrs. Marrablej I Ito w
basely did Matilda return her kindl
noss. Twelve months after her mir
riage, everybody read in the Times,
"The wife of Jetho Winbush, Rs9.,
of a daughter." This was too much.
A grandmother at thirty-six I A
youthful, singing waltzing grandmoth.
er, whose Very yoathfulue s, taken in
conjunction with a not unnatural de
sire to get married again, ecame a
reproach in then eyes of right-think
ing people.
".\3 dear, the is a grandmother,"
women would say to one another;
"and how deceiteful of her it is to
look so young."
"Carries three generations re
mnarkably well," sadd the men ; "but
y ou kno w, old follow, she mrust be jolly
old."
tCHArTER1 It.
Seventeen years passed away, and
still Mrs. Mar'rables, to the scandal of
everybody, was as young as ever, or
nearly so nearly so, to all appearance,
and as single as ever. In years shie
was fifty-.thiree, and of course ounght to
have dressed for the part. 1Hut her
whole manners feeling, and appearance
were in ladierous delnnce of boer
yoau, andI seemed palpably to refute
them. Ilad she d.,ne anything wick-I
ed in her youth ? people whispered,
ndwas it. a punishment ? Was shel
1.avwandlering Jewess ? Ihow could she c
wear flixonr hair and a ohigno1 at her
time of life ? It was indecent, inm
p roper, scandalous I She might at
lenast take to gaps, with a gray front,
anid corkscew ringlets, arid a pieee of
'harrow bheok ve'lvet acoss thre rore
ke ad, for the sake of (letorum. Then
look at the way she dre~sod I Always
in the fashion, streAminlg up the
chureh aisies on a Sunday, settling
hier silks and laes amnd ribbons like al
girl. As for her conplexlon. I'
heard one lady say : luoas you, it
ian't paint, and it can't -be enamrel.
I'M tried both, and know how little
wear here is, in either, The woman
is petrified, or else embalmed. I'm
sure of it, for she ussa nothing but
violet -powder."
Mrs. Marrabtes, or, as she was com
snonly called, Mrs. Evergreen, was
not even engaged. There scorned a
settled covlotion in the inds of
eligible suitors that, aioe a man may
n arry is grand mother, the
go y f "Dountoother."
ounh to tord thm from m..rM...
other people's gradmothers. Besides,
what a horrible thing it was that the
w->man w'wldn't. grow old It mut
be wicked, iW'twas real.
M1rs. Mlarrables never forgave
Matilda for making her a grandmoth
er. But Matilda did not repeat the
offence. Mr. Wimbush died, leaving
his widow a respectable maintenance
()r herself and child. 'Tha child,
Carry Wimbush, had put short dresses
to shame when she was twelve. She
ran up like a searlet runner. She
ran right through by express fron
childhood to womanhood, without
stoping at the intermediate station of
girdom. At seventeen she was a
grown wi mn of uniture experience,
who had given up flirting for love,
along witlher oter playthings, and
was ready calmly to diseo-s an offer of
marriage on the basis of its affording
a good strategical p.sition in the bit.
tIe of life.
- Here, therefore, we have Mrs.
Wimnbush, a comely widoiv, with a
daugAter somewhat prematurely de
veloped, on the one hand, and with a
mother persistently and ever-green,
on the other ; Mrs. Wimbush and her
daughter Carry living tog, ther in
Whittington L-dgo, Ilighgate ; Mar
rables, tho youthfil and the uugrand
motherly, dwelling by her.elf at Taun
ton, and devoting her time to oolleo
ting subscriptions for different chari
table objects, nor forgetting her ovn
rents. Ms. Wimbudh seld om corres
ponded with her mother. They were
on the best of terms now, yet, by a
sort of tacit understanding, each per.
sued the even tenor of her way, very
rarely interchanging ecstacies by post.
In the spring of 1768, Mrs. \Vim
bush shut up her house in lighgate,
and came with her daughter to
11 Burueanoth, where she hired a villa.
M mny of her friends were staying at
3aurnemonzth, and through the assi.,
tance of paities and jaunts, and,
pic,.ics and balls, she made a great.
many more. Among these the Brook
shanks must be especially noticed as
particularly involved in the brief his
tory.
Old Brook-hrank, (-o everbudy call
ed him,) a cheerful oil person in the
shady side of sixty, was very rich,
but very unpreseutable, in the eyes of
the rather rigid society of the place.
He had made his money by the inven
tion of a patent medicine, familiar to
us 1.11 by the name of Brookhank%
Iiallible Ointment. It brought him
no end of money. But although lie
lived in a grand house in a fashiona
ble watering place, lie was still sole
proprietor of the infallble Ginitmient,
and his London manufactory and de
pot was yet in full working, with
"Brook.hank" overthe door and pic
tures of people with sore limbs all
over the windows. All this, society
might have winked at-might have
admitted him within its door3 upon
sufferance, and pretended never to
wake to the notion of a "atranger pre.
sent in the gallery." But the worst
of old Brookshank was, that not can
tent with living on ointment lie
talked ointment always and puffh
ed it every where. It was not
hypocrisy ; the man believed in it
heart and soul. He said he had a
sacred mission to alleviate the woes
of mankind, at thirteen peance-hal
penny the box iand lie meant it. Hie
believed in all his testimtonials--.more
devoutly than the writers could have
done. Hie was conscientiously of op in
ion that hisoeintmaent was, as hbesaid,
"good for every mnortul complaint, in.
side or out." Hie carried billa wvith
hini every where, and d intributed them
as zealously as though they had been
tracts. "Shall I ceen"said he, "while
a single fellow-ceature suffers agony
that [ can cure 1 Society could not
stand this ; for the muan would have
distributed his bills in every ball.
room and at every soiree, and never
rested till eaeh guest was supplied
with a pioture of badl legs and a string
of testimonials, lie believed in his
mission as much as Mohiamnmed did.
lie said lie had committed many sins
in his life time, but lie trusted the
good his oinitmnst had done to suffer.
ing humnani ty might be takeni into ac
count whent they were reckoned up.
The ointtment was his creed-the
ointment his extreme unction.
Brookshlank's sister kept l-is house;
a litile faded old maid, who believed
in him as much as lie did in himself ;
who would move sofity in his presence
from a reverend regard for the great
henaler of the people ; who would pla5ce
his last published teostimnonials in her
hymn book, and tead them on Sunday
with every appearance .of devoutnc's
-offering up thanks from her sim ple
he art for the goond works lie had been
able to) da ; Ikaookshank hn ad two
sons, both gettiang on tow ard middle
age. Thomas, the eldest, a surgeon
with a capital practie, used to de
slare that half lisa ases among the
poor were those of people anniering
from the effects of the Infallible Oiut
ment ; though of course he only said
so to tease his aunt. His broth.r
(Ibarles, was a lawyer of good position
and good oifcumstances. Neither was
married ; people said they were niot
marrying men. WVhat blunders peo
ple make,.sometimes, on this score.
It was strange what an Impress:o's
Mrs. Wimtanah aaamed to make -on
those two men. She mot them every
whore, and the attentions they paid
her wore :plainly ma-rked by
something warmer than politeness.
Presents, too--flowers and hot-house
fruit--found their way both from Mr.
Tom and Mr. Charles, to the widoW's
table. Of the two, Mr. Tom was by far
the most in earnest. Yet she feared to
encourage eather, and for some time
preserved an attitude of strict neu
trality bitween the rival powers, and
could conscientiously report that rhe
was on terms of the close.it friendship
with each of the belligerents; the
fact being that the key of her impar.
tality was less a matter of sentimont
than a desire to ascertain the relative
standing of the two orothers in the
eyes of their father with regard to
futuro contingenties.
It was not long before shte had an
opportunity of satisfying herself on
this point. The sincere admiration
she professod for the Infallible Oint
ment made old Brookshank's sister her
sincere friend for life, and Mrs. Wim.
bush became a visitor at the big
house. She soon found that old
Brookehank had a bad opinion of his
eldest son, Tom. Partly, jealously
of a man who professed the art of
healing as derived from books, and ex
pres.ed ecepticism as to the inspira
tion of the ointment, and partly dis.
trust of a man who might find out its
saored ingredients anti hold them up
to public derison, contributed to his
bad opinion. ToM was a heretic, and
an unibeliever In the Brookshank creed
-a scoffer at the best authenticated
testinoniala-and held the govern.
iment stamp in open contempt.
Charles was not so. Hard man of law
though he was, he consumed quantities
of the ointment, or professed to do so,
and always said it did him good. Mrs. f
Wimbush would talk ointment by the C
hour with old Brookshank, and con.
sequently became a great favorite, be
sides getting the credit for being a
most, discriminating woman. The
Old mian would even go so far as to 1
show her his unpublished testimonial.,
and produce great bundles of letters
in praise of himself and tedicine. t
These the widow would peruse with
an exhibition of rapt interest, which
was certainly very ed.fyin':. Work
ing on the confidence so obtained, she
gathered very clearly tiant the younger
son would most likey come in for the t
largest share of the unguent property.
That being satisfactorily ascertained, i
Mis. Wimbush vrarmed perceptibly t
in her manner toward Mr. Charles, I
the lawyer, and froze in the same pro
portion in the aspect she presented to
NIr. Tom, the doctor. The result was
something of an estrangement between
the brothers. Torn felt the treat
ment, but determined to know his fate. 1
le came to the widow's house, and
with very little preface, made her an
offer-punip.
"Really, Mr, Tom." said Mrs.
inmbuih, "you entirely surprise me.
Surely, I can have given you no
encouragement to-to hope-that-"
"Mrs. Wimbuth," said Mr. Tom
"we are neither of us chiekens." (the
widow winced,) "although, doubtless,
I nn a good deal the older of the two.
I am not sentimental) nor romantio ;
tio pardon my plain speaking. With
regard to encouragement, you have
given mec quite enough, perhaps, to
warrant my expecting a favorahle
answer. Trho plain question is, Will
yoQ marry me. Tom Brookahank,
M. D., aged forty-two !-a man,
though I sany it, who went mtake a
bad husband, as husbands go,"
The widow looked down, and twis
ted her bandkerchief around her fin
gere, plaiting it in knots upon her lap,
but did not reply.
Mr. Torn looked Into his h it and
then out of the window. Then ho
said : "Pardon me ; am I too late I
.ls there a prior attachment 1"
Without venturing a reply ini
speech, Mra. Wimbush bowed her
head.
Mr. Tom slowly gathered together
hi~s hat. his stick and his gloves, andI
wont out. "Confound that brother of I
mine I" said he to himself when ho
got into the etreet, "Always supplant
ing me.
CHIAPTER IV.
It was a large picnic party. Mr.
Charles Brookshank had drawn Mrs.
WVimbusha's arm thbrough his own, and
strolled away from the rest.
"Howv delightful it would be if one]
could knew the langu::ge of birds, asI
folks did in the old Hiindoo fairy
tales I Would it not, Mr. Brook-I
shank ?"
"My dear Mrs.WVimbush, they do
nothing the whole dlay long but make
love and cry, 'Sweet I I would I<
were a bird, to make love in music."1
The widow sighed, but it was morei
like a purr of pleasure.
"What did I know of love till you1
came hero ? eontinjued Mr. Charics.
Absolutely nothing-"oxoept," ho
added with reservation, in a profes. -I
sional way. And then we lawyers gen-1
erally see the dark side of the pieture
--the damae and the decees nlis.
lintt your visit hass brightened my;
whuo life. 0, Mrs. Winibush, you1
osnnot have been blind to my secret.
You have seen It written legibly in
my face, and have laterpened toebeek
Its development, I see ,you Under..
stand me, just as by intuitive fine feel
tn= yan eanupantrate lhe mesain'of1
Mendelssnln'a sorgs, without words.
Mrs. Wimbush, you have already far y
advanced towaid learning the bird.
language. I u.ay rely upon your con- ft
sentI a
"Charles, this happiness is indeed
too much," ejaculated the widow. a
"You need not be separited from
your daughter Curry. A homie for one a
is a home for both; and I will cheri.sh o
her while I live. A
'But, Charles, dear, she may mar- 8
ry.''
"%Iarry ma'am 1 Bless my soul of y
3ourse she will ! She will marry I
rue ! She has said so, don't you ti
lee ?"
Mrs. Wimbush novei a id another F
Prord, but fell flAt down on the grats. e
"Waat on earth has got innto the wo- c
Man 1" thought Mr. Charles. "She e
wuld'nt have taken it worse 'f I had y(
3roposed to murder her daughter.
In their walk they h.Ad strayed fit
brough the trees close to the out- T
kirts of another pienic partv. Mr. tii
Jharles immediately ran to abk soe
air volunteer to come to the as-.istance [
if Mrs. Wimbush, who had f.inted. i
Nt hearing the nai, an active mid- d(
lle-ag!d lady sprang up and followed
iim. It w.,s Mrs. Murrables. Tno fe
ight of her mother brought Mrs. ti
binmbush round q-tioker than any
melling-bottle could have done. h<c
The St tp.
"Mother, Mr. Brookshank ; Mr.
Broookshank, my mother, Mrri. Mar
abes." They bowed. "Ilave the ni
;oodness to leave us to-gether, Mr. m
Jharles." le bowed and obeyed. "s
'Mother said Mrs Wimbush, "what on uf
arth brought you here I I thought
rou were at Taunton." re
"No dear I have been at Burne- Oi
nouth thrao weeks. I came merely
or change. Only last week I heard "
if your being here, and should have i
ome, but I have been so much occu. us
>ied, and I felt sure of meeting you '
omewhere, and thought the surprise w
uight be the more agreeable. We've bi
lad a mo.t delightful picnic with the da
Iountstewart folks. Bat what was bi
ill this fainting about? One would I
hink Mr. Broukshank had been pro- a
>osing to you. - w
"He certainly niade me a proposal, Iw
nother, but I was quite unprepared fG
o it, and was overcome." ni
"What an imaginative and sonsi- wi
ive mi'ided girl you must be, Matil- ne
Ia ! You. make me feel quite young.
.Vhen will you be old enough to at
end to business f You will accept ry
din of course I Will, do as 3ou 11
ilcase ; you may reckon on my consent al
ou know. But I must get buck to Ui
ny part, and perhaps you had better j bu
-ejoin yours T'i-ta " I d<
Jilted for her daughter I It wasn't I
ileasant. When Mrs. Winibush got A
tome she blow up Carry for beiug so ,I
ly. ib
"Well, mamma," said Carry, "of th
oursel thought you knew all about th
t. I never made any secret of the wi
ffair. I knew very well that you re
aud rejected Mr. Tom, but I could ad
lot possibly suppose that v'as any rea- . m
on why Ishould refuse Charles Of
ourse he is older than I am, but h i
8 only five-and-tharty, and has a
,ood position l and I am sure we shall
dIwaysl give you a welcoimo ; Charles
aid ao te
"WVell," thought Mrs. Wimbu sh, 1
'ho has money, and it will be all ina I
he family ; that's at least as comfort."'> T
eHAPTEa V.
The effect of the little episode of A
he last chapter was that the brothers vi
yore made frienrds, and Tom recovered ct
als spirits, and could laugh heartily
tt what lhe had before supposed was w
us1-rother's rivalry-.i
Mrs. Wimbuah repented that p
he had rcjected Mr. Tonm. Her re- sa
sentance produced a salutary desire o
>n her p art to make atonement for the La
past. She would have him yet. he
When a widow sa3s so much as that hi
tbout a man, let him wear the hawyk. p
A month went by and Mrs. Wiem- th
ush and Mr. T.Ln Brookshank were
ieated tete-a-tete at an evening p-arty, in.
vhere the masic v~hiih was going on J
vas stsflici.ntly loud to render pivate or
somuversation inaudible save to those aj
vhom it was add ressed, g,.
"I fear," said the widow, affecting til
an absent n-.anner, "I treated you Ily
rery unkindly, Mr. Tom. You took
no so entirely by surprise, that really bi
[-hardly know what I said. I have di
een very unhappy about it-ve y."
"Forgotten and forgiven," whispered
~Ifr. Tom.
"Hlow generous of you ; you make
nue so glad ;lheoause, now that your pl
arother Charles is going to marry my ti
laughter, we shall be in some ware u
related and I could not bear you to
~hink unkindly of me," 1i
"No," said Mr. Tom, fidgeting a t<
little ; "I shall never do that."
"Ho'w droll I" said the iwidow. ti
eJ~t me see, what will the relation. O
hbip be 1 You will be my son-in-law'a
brother, and oonsequently I shall be bi
your mother-in-law once removed. p:
You will have a mother younger than w
youreolf, Mr. Tow. I hope ,'ou will aj
not presame upon her youth to be a
bad boy." ft
"All this iE very true," he6 ansWer p
ed ; "but I seethe rela tionship -in a
far different light. I shall be' your p
father-ln-law, and eonsequently my al
Qwn brother's grandfather-in-law.' 4
"You mlistako, Nfr. Tom. Do.'4
ou see that ifCarry'*
"No mitake at all about it, im:,'a i,
ir i've promiscd to marry your iuoth
r, Mrs. Mariables P"
'Monster,'' oricd Mrs. Wimbush
loud, and went ,off shrieking.
The nmu,io stopped, and there wa-i
grete fdss. But above all the
thers was heaz'rJ the voice of' Mrs.
[arrubleo. Don't bo alarmod, prav.
he is subject to it ; she went off julit
ike it the other day at a picnie. Poor
3ungthing, very little upsets her.
ut late coli to my ittle En.rul
ien."0
'They movod her into nnotber rooth.
resently Mrs. Wimiu.lh opened her
as. 'KMIother ! low ((4.e you
mhe near mie ! o away, do ! 1o
ight to be ashamed of youiself at
aur time of lifo !"
"fy time of life I Why, Fi'm ol1y
ty-fur-about tenl yeais older than
oin. Hiow can you talk so to your
other P'
"Mother if you dont leave the rooi,
will. lt's really di.-rettutlle to
tve you for a mother. You'%e never
ne me any erodit."
IMy dear, I am to glad to think you
el well eTIoughi to leave the rm,
at I will remain.''
Mrs. Wimbush got up and went
1110.
CiAPTER V1.
Jilted, first for her d.u.ghiter, nd
xt for her mother ! This was to
ueh. Mrs. Wimbush went to chureh
regular as any one, but revenge,
Ler all, is very sweet.
Six weeks afterward, Mrs. Wimliushi
covered suficient fortitude to go
d call on her mother.
"Well, child, I'm glad you are go.
g to be Iriendly ; there is nothing
cc harmony in a family circle. Lt
consider the relationshi p into
Ihib ne are about to enter, tha
imay rightly judge of our re.ponsi.
lities and duties. I and ay grandt.
tighter are going to marry two
others--the conaelquencc is, she and
vill bo sisters-in-law. But as you
e mother to my sister-in-law, you
lI nearly be my mother-in-law
ola is a very hingular iolationslip
r a daughter to sustain toward her
>lter, especially when she is not the
fe of one's fLther-in-law, Now,
"Wait a moment, dear mammia;
re news for 3ou ; l'm going to Ii ir
old Unguent ! Old Mr. Brook.
ank has asked m1 to be his wife,
d I've coniented. The conseisence
1 .hall be hoad (f the imily, anl
na fide mother-i.-law to you ali. I
*n't think we need trouble about
rinony, for we shall be a un/ld
n/ti, more so thnu 1 know of."
BeCtre hlr ImiriiAge, Mrs. Marra.
is .t to work to draw up a tattle of'
a relationships involved by thI(e
ree weddings. It is an exten.ive
Pik iu three volumes, and when one
uidors sec The Broosiaks fitmii,
vertised, they will know what it
TilE ICN1.
An Unheard-of cene In Court.
The Washington Sviday llera'd
ils of a singul er breeze ia the S
-ame Court of the Di trict of Co..
mbin, in that city, oi n Satur-lay.
ie Chief .Jusiee (.Judge ('orr)
adTI opinion in the F'arraguit prize
anoy case, and, when he hadl done,
ssociate Judge Wylie exressedl his
ows in di.senut of the opinion of thle
urt. The Heorald say.s:
"Thle Ch ief J ustice wht itented with
-athi, his lion like locks shook with
,and, in a voice whoswe notes were
egnant with uncontrollable rage, lhe
id, 'I[am surpr'ised at the d issentinct
inlin. TJheo Judgu, ;u the conaul
ion-room, assented to my views;
hbas orept out of the hole into whIch
went,' &c. The audience, whose
ophetie souls had drawn themn to
o spot to wi'neoss, -without money,
thout price,' this Saturd ay .niar inee,
dulgod in voeiferous enchination,
idge Wylie rosa with the dignity of
insulted man an-l Judges,.rnd samid:
retire from the bench, where to re
min is to bo inenited.' The Chiefl Jur
ie was about, to proceed with liis live
picturto of the 'consultation-room.,'
hen the quiet intefereneo of his
other justices restrained him in a
gree, and here the batt le ended-''
Alabama Claims,.
It is stated that Great Britain is
epared to settlin the whole matter of
,e Alabama claimrs and sign a treaty
'on the i,.llowing terms:
"First. Great Britain to admait her
ibillity in the Alabama claims, and
p.ay all damages done by her.
"Second. To submit to arbitration
o oseos of the Shenandoah, 1?lorida,
sorgia and other vessels.'
"Third. To4 enter into a treaty
nding the two countries' hereafter to
,event the sailing of the vessels of
ar from their ports to be used
gaInst a friendly andwer. ne f
"Fourth.Tomkan erotof
ilent muniolpals laws for this pur
'Be."
Tbese are terins so- broad and cotn.
late that there should not' bo the
iglitea hesltatlin as to their Accen
llorrible liallronit Accident.
S'ou.m: rs.:, N. Y., Feb. 7.-Au
o I train roui broke an axlo and
dragged along the ground until i!
reached the drawbridge at New 11am
burg, where the car ,truck tie piur.
and was thrown uo. An inef'ectual
attempt was nade to stop the express
train, which a nioment after struc ita
.oil t-ar, scattering tho oil, which iin
1n -d iately ignited enveloping the en
tire express rail In flamel. The ex.
pres train eonsis. ing of a locomotive,
baggage, Cxpress at.d five sleeping
en:., were hurled into the river. All
tle passengers in the Chicago sleep
itig-coar peri,bed in the fl.iucs. The
two following blcclping-ears were
wrapped in flnes, but the inwates
eca4lpedl.
The bridge now canght fire, and in
teo minutes fell, carrying wi h it the
tUb icago sleeping-enr and its burning
itilnates into the river below, upon the
wreck of tlhe locomotive, baggage and
express eare, which had fallen by the
alccidlelt.
The iseepitng car tiekets Nidicate
that thirteen passeiigers ->erishled, but
the other passengeis say that there
were t wenty-five or thirty personi in
the(.. luicvgo Car, not one of %1h0m11 os
eaped.
Another, :1ni probab v more relia
blie account, is fu rini he"d by tihe West
ell n Union Telegr:iph Comil any, whihe
says eighteen personH were killed out
rihzlt, anl many more fatally injured.
TIree sleping-ears were de.mtroyed.
[sIcoNo mISPATCH.]
NrI.*w Ilhmnuno, N. Y., FJh. 7-7
A. M .-lp to this timesixteen bodies
have been recoee f rom tle wreck
of the traiins whiil were burnt at the
iron bridge last ig:t.
[-runn Di r..-( In.]
Naw liAmninu, N. Y.. Fel, 7--P.
M.-Tho details of tile ieccident are
horrible. In severail instances chil.
dren were burned ill their mother.'
arms.
The body of tie conduo'or of the
sleping-ear ims been found. 11n1d upon
it a list of the plssengera in tie i
Cago car. It only gives tile surnames,
wiI are Lowell, Fowler, Pearce,
Utry, Suri-.h, G n;maund, Nocroade,
Rosenuthl, Forbush, and two more
inaking eleven. This tallies with the
i-leepjing-c.tr ti. I ke!' s, sixty-five in all,
of which fifty-fonr wt re called for. -
The engineer, niaiied hrtlett, i.s mis
sing
Nineteen bodics have been recov
cred, fourteen of which aro passen.
grs. As soon is the aodi es are rais
ed to the surface of tile witer they
are placed in a boatei baggag-e-ar to
thi1w, when tile clollhig is searched
for means of l'ntiti .'tioln. It is
thoIght that all the b1odies live been
recoveied.
The 1let of the 8ai'smn.
Gramma,lqco/ Dreisions.- The Netw
Yuo k Triunc decides that the pliral
of "Titm1on1.t" is "Tialtiouses,"0 niot
"TFi tmice."' '"On theI so 1 principle,"'
sjys anuother paerilr, "plural of a tall
or's goose' is 'gooses,' "as indeed we
hold it.,
This reminds us of an aneodoto ill
regard to at enuntry mnerchlant whlo
wanted two if these' tilo Ir's irons
,aeverai years i'.i ,1 nd rder~ed themil
froma Messrs. I ui'il & Spenicer, hard
w a ll0e11 merhats, then oin 01g busines11
in this1. city, lie wrote this order
"P1lea~ne send meit 2 tailor's gooses."~
Th in lking thalit th is wasi had gramnmar,
hie destroyed it and wrote tis one1:
"lease ronld m1o 2 t ailor's geese."
Upion~ reflection, h10 destroyed thlis one
also, for fear he imighlt receive line
geese. llo thlougiht over the mnaiter
until bie was very mn worried, and
at lnst, in aL mlomnent of desperation, he
seized his pen arnd wrote the follow
ing, wiihi wats duly mailed:
-'Messrs. JUnnn & Spener : Please
send me one tailor's goose, aind dI-m it,
'sendl mceanoter.' " Thiiis was, the
only way lie knew of to order two of
themi ; but of cour'se he had not road
the above toise decision .-Peersburg
(Courier.
A Wltness for Mlorton,
Governor Lindsay, of Alabama, iln
his~ annual messalge, eongratulates the
General asemnbly ona thle good order
arid social tranqruility which prevails
thlroughout the State, and adds:
"Will thosocial and political condi,
tion. of the State is thuls hlappy and
promising, it, is deeply to be0 regret
ed thlat at few selfish, relentloss and
aspiring men, animated by motives of
reven1!e, or tile piromptinigs of a wick
ed ambition, are laboring with a
zeal commensurate with their un
worthy purpose, not only to asperse
the character and impair tihe fair
fame of Alabama, but also to disturb
her present felieltions and hlarmonious
relations with the Federal authori
ties." Thel Phliladelphla Age suggests
thlat Governor Lindsay be summoned
as a witness before theo Morton 8mel
ling Committee.
On Monday four steatners, four
ships and one brig arrived, at Liver.
pool from the United States. with an
agregate of 27,,430 hales of cotten,
anid were followed the nert day by a
toaamer and fuldIith 59'49 amae
10tincialon of Ralilicalis by Un Indinna
Senator.
Senator Eliot, 0 Indiana, in a card
published on Tues hky mornling, thui
annuiouni ces his renutineit ion of the cor
rupt and dying RadAca paI ty
"in the organizstion of th1e Senate
I acted independent y of par.
t1y at- a t ilno when Imy v.tu could bene.
tit some friends and could ncot iiwe
bronpht succe4-s to the Re publ ican
pu rty. since tlena, in all tesit q'Ics
tions I have voted with the Ropubli.
ca n I arty until latt. evening, when [
wasurprised and mor tilied to find the
party voting to sanctionl theI monstrons
violation of tie Constittio (of the
United States, Compelling four south
erna States to :atify the lifteith
amendmwent at the dictation of Con.
gress. In the meanutime, I ive been
so gr.ssly iabused by R(eiublioan
newspapers and sdf-cioistituted lead
era, clI arged with treason, .ribory,
&c., that self-respect forbids me long
er to iihnowledge noSelf a memiber
of that party, or to act wNith it. The
responsibility imuost rest u; .1i those
who have perseented me. I will meet
them before the petidle at the proper
time. Hlenceforth I shall act inde
pen dently of all party dict iatiol fron
the men who have sought to ruin in(
and blacken my cliracter. liesiles,
on the great lead iog issues, tariff and
taxation, I have been in theory. andt
shill hereafter be in practice, :I filend
of the people.
It was for the other nations of Eu.
rope to use all their inilience, even to
the extent of armed intervention, to
provent urnneoessary lu attnniiation in
Franeo. They chose a different course.
Their remonstrances were of the fee
blest, and their policy wais tinil and
irresolute to the last degrre. They
have noSt their opportunity. They
will not be called into conference to
arrange a treaty ; their advico vill
not be heeded. WV hen the l pice h1ai
been concluded they tmnat hok to
their own houeoi. War betwoon Franceo
and Germany was inevitable after Sa.
(owa ; war between Germ ny and
E'tgland is inevitable to day. 11ol.
land rad lhIgiumi are coveted, unales
Great Britain is pusillanimous beyond
what we think~c, they will not t o ab
soihecd by (ermany withotit a bloody
contest ; anl while we deplore tle
coming confl e', we c in not ht think
that Great W.itain his chiefly herself
to blamne for tihe result. She is the
great international Iminddler; if she
had meddled to solm parlitroso four or
livo months ago, she would not now be
alarinedly countin ig up her breech
loaders, amd intliiring as to tihe state4
and eflioiency of bor navy..-Boston
Advertiser.
Iininornl tSnsion and Wolunt Suffrage.
Dur ing the recent so .-ion of the
Idiaho Turritorial Legi.ituire, the
ambitious hldioi lobbied a bill for
granting female snifrago by coming
to the capitol in force, possess'g
lihemselvos of rooms in t le builing,
and spreading therein su.:h edibles,
&e., and otherwise giving so charm
ing a reception; that the legislative
wisdom had its head turned. Thie
bill pasued -long before the enchan
ted legilators regained their senses.
0.re Mie a Hlusbai or give M1e Death!
TPhe oldl muida at Slius cilty Oenj.y
ed a bantcjl'e t at a hotel recentl y. A
Miss. Kenneda- made the conuaading
speebh, and creohted a fuiror by say.
ing ; "Let othae.s doc as they lease
as for ine, I ami detcerin ued to hzvo
a husband as sooni as I emi get one.
And let us all see to it, so that when
anothier t haiksgiving dliy rol ls around
there will n->t be another old midil in
Sioux City." ~Tuto banoaiet closed
with the song, "No onie to'ljve."
Ilsissippi Negroes.
The negroes around .\acon, \Missis
sippi, have banided togethuor 5 ail burn,
ed a portion of that city, Miurdor,
rapine, and arson are of daily commios
sion by these fiends. Not half the
fields are cultivated. Thea negroes
won't work. The rstook is killed,
iUnlesst affdirs are chanttged, the count -
try muilst be surrendered to savagery.
Let Congress extenid its searches to
that section, and reconst ruct Cufl'ee.
FasiIOnI Noles,
French mnualins, heavily trimmed
with Valeneienne-s, are favorite dross.
es for evening wear, and looped over
black or coloredl silks formi an admir
ed and becoming costume. Over
whIte silk the ofrect of the lace is es
pecially softening to the complexion.
P'opliuss are the lat'it style for the
evening costium, arid are woin' with
a court train, which can be gracefully
thrown over the left arm in dancing.
The favorite shades for popl)ins aro
pale, shell tinted pitnk, starliht blue; '
subdued orange, emeralguccan and the
changeable peaoh-blossow.
There Ie a bill before lb. lodfapa
LegIslature requiring three yepts'
residence of new-comnera bef'ore a
divorce can be obtained, and also pro
hlbiting Alvgces In oases where dSe
.oatise o Ivorce odurrge log gi~er
.44[ xspitfor eaiieos'for ell ~I,
'~res arented in de State ftr
* lthe yarty oV gaf)inte oswA%