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T7-WEEKLY E9l).['1'.l. . W ik si Qo, ~S. C. I1 U IRS I)A . MAIRCII 6. 187'9 NO 1A
JENNY LIND'S HEART.
.w CAPT'AIN
Seeil Niagara-- A Trip up the Miesis
sip ullng the Dwa to Dinner
--Plea, lhe Ladies.
ot a. Louisville Leler.1
A 6b oe6r' ii' "the ante bellunm
days ,Ct'ify was Capt. St.
Clairr gono pp;nmander of one
of the g" Mississippi stoamors.in
the daiys,en tnfere we,re nQ rail
roads toWew Orleans,. and when a
trip dqwn the river was the thing
for every planter and his family to
take each winter. It was no un
common occurrence for one party
especially a bridal party--to secure
every state roonh pn board and make
the six days voyaa journey worth
remnembering .AZopg the negro
waiters ther? were always a half
dozen musicians or more, and with
this there was had a dance
every a ning, with sometiznes a
concert in the ladies' cabin, when
high born ladies sang sentiiental
s'ngs, alternately with the planta..
tion melodies .of the darkey. waiters.
I met the old...,'aptain the other
evening in the Galt -Hpuse.rotunda.
He is no longer on the river, but
spends -his summers in Sara
toga and his winters in L uis
vill or New Orleans. lie is known
to about everybody in -the South
west.. He dress a with scrupulous
neatness, wears an old fashion col.
lar around which is wound a bril
liant red cravat, and is full of stories
of steamboating days. I asked hin
if the newspatper story was true, said
to have been told by him several
years ago, that he was with Jenny
Lind at Niagara \vhen the great
songstress dropped on her knees at
the brink of the cataract, and with
streaming eyes, thanked God that
He had vouchsafed to her the sight
of so grand aq exhibition of His
power.
"Ye",', ed h:.ho .iaptin .. m+
w.s in the early 'rpingof '50 and
there was an icy mantle h dl way
down the.falls from the gdgo, and
great masses of i-.e sprmgInig up
from the bed of the river below to
meet the water as it felL It was
magnificent, and 'the great-hearted
lady could not restrain, herself as
she saw it. I shall never forget her
prayer to be made a better woman
to be made able to serve the Maker
of so wonderful a world in a way
that she should. We all uncovered
our heads as she knelt there, and I
think I am the better man for thaf
memory.
"We had been together then for
nearly a mouth. I had Miss Lind
and her party as passengers from
Now Orleans to Louisville. The trip
d->wn I had carried hundreds of the
,first people of the South to hear her
sing in New Orleans. They had
come all the way from Memphis and
Little Rock and Vicksburg, but
'when they got to New Orleans there
was hardly a seat to be had fo,r the
love or money. So many of them
camne back with me unsatisfied
they had rather be on the same boat
wvith Jenny Lind than to stay for
~the Mardi Gras and all that in New
Orleans. When we were fairly on
our way up the river, one of the
ladies-she was a great belle in her
day, the daughter of a Senator, and
.afterwards the wife of one of our
foreign ministers--came to me and
~asked whether it was really true
that M:iss Lind meant to keep her
state-room all the way to Memphis.
" 'Of course not,' and I. 'Every-.
body comes to dinner on my boat-'"
Those were simples time. The
Captain of a Mississippi steamer'
was a person of more consequence,
even, than the commander of an
ocean steamer is to.-day, and apt.
TJhomasson was the most noted of
all the captains on the Fiather of 4e
Wate&rs.
'Of course' not. She'1l be at
*dinner to-day.' Then I went
to Barnum-Barnum, the showman
--who was managing Miss Lind.
"'Barnum,' stAid 1, 'is Miss Litid
getting ready for dinner .7
"Baraumn looked up surprised.
.'Why, no,' said he, "'Miss Lind eats.
Jher meals in her own rooin-'
"Not oem my boat,' said I ; you see
I didn3 wan . to disappoint the
ladies. Welf, .3arnum~ and'I argued
this awhile, and I re~ed to talk to
Miss Lind enyaelf at it. I kcnock
.d at the do of he~ t .tt-roote
"The pleasanteaf voice INe
board sa Come in.
captain of tl4 boat, 'th'eje are
twenty ladies onobard-adieeof
the firab station i Ameiieg-whomi
I had brought any whore from two
to six hundred miles clown to New
Orleans to hoar and to see you.
rlhey couldn't get even to the door J
of your concert-room for the crowd.
again with no other hope than just
to see you. They cidn't.mini to
be rude-noithor do I ; iut I do
hope you will gratify them d not
seclude yourself all this long trip.'
"'My dear captain,' she said
as pleasantly as could be, 'I don't
mean to hide myself. Why should
I? But what would you have me
do?'
"Come'and sit at my right haud at
dinner,' 'It's nearly time for the
bell to ring.'
"'Wiz the greatest plazure,' said
the*great lady, and when dinner was
re .dy she came out of her statc-: oom
smiling, and bowed to every body in
the ladies' cabin, and sat down by
my side.
'Vill you not do -in . the lonaire
to introduce& me to ,.ladies.' she
said, and I introducec a*to all the
thq lady passengers that were at .My
table-all ladies, mind-'you. It Aas
the most pleasant dinner I ever had.
Miss Lind was curious about every'
thing and espei:lly.abhut-plaptation
life. Sio and Miss-got 'ta be
great friends, and the lady after
wards visited 'Mrs. Goldschmidt,
after her marriage to the pianists at
her homb in London.
"After dinner the tales wore
cleared away, and Miss Lind sat
clown on the sofa at the end of the
cabim,M, went- fovward to whore
Ba um was sitting, near the clerk's
af' e. '3arnuua,' said I, 'won't Miss
Lind sing some thhig for the
ladies '
" 'Captain,'said he, turning 6the,
are you going raving -madi ? Miss
bind sing in a public place like thisi
Why, man, you make we laugh.
liss Lind gets a thousand. dollurs
for every song she simys.. Pe
you've a thousand dollrr's.out
o spare ? Offer her 4Nitand -4
'hel'l tell you to .o-44out y r
a)usmness. . ,
'All right, Barn i _ j n
'Well,' tfion, I went into the pant.y
ind got my nigger band together,
rhere was one likely young boy
unong 'ew, who had such. a voice as
you never heard. I was younger
theni, considerably than I am now,
Jut I could never hear that by sing
meof his plantation woags without the
ears coming into my eyes. But I
thought I'd try him firskL So one of s
the boys kept time bu his banjo,
nd the fellow sang over his song.
[t was about a yellow girl who hal
been sold off into slavery from her
Loaisiana home into Georgia. 1
aever heard the words or the mnus'e r
before. The words didn't exactly
rhyme, nor the musie wasn't such as
you hear in the opera, but I knew it 1
would do- So I got the boys to
'tether in the cabin, and after they
Iiad played awhile the boy sang his
song. Miss Lind listened froqi first
to last, and there were tears in her
eyes, too, when,i.t was through. I
don't know exactly how it w-as, but
five minutes afterward she was at
the pian~o and sang first the music
of that song as well as she could
remember it, an:l then sor'g after
Bong of her own. -And not only
that evening either, but every' eve..
ning that she was on the boat. The
pianist of her troupe played too,
and the ot her memnbers of the coms.
pany sang or played, and my ladies
also, and sneh concerts there never
were in America before or since.
"WVe got to bhe great friends, and
when we reached L.ouisvill.e and my
boat laid up on account of' the ice
she urged me to go wit.h her to New'
York. It. was on the way that we
stoppedI a Niagara.. I tell you, sir,;
she was the greatest, and the most
beautiful, and the best woman I!
over knew."
I think the captain keeps a few
little flowers and such trifles that
date back to that trip religiouisly by
him to this day. HIe has never
married, I believe, though he was a
o.nparatively young ma.x in .1850.
"They tell me Laeadd1lie is pretty
high up," remarked a Denverito to
a visitor from the carboniate field.
"High up 1" ejaculated the other,
"well, I should say. The air is so
thin that y.ouve got to Jan .it to a
earnaer to get a square breath. Why,
I: live sorter iin a valley, hest wa*y ua
time when I went home at night I
had to push' a cloud -'froma the front
door to get in.-,Dierwer Tribune.
Do-not triOe with a comsgh, .cold,
or a2eelon af 'the thbroat, lungs
or bronQhial tubes. .P'r. Bull's
Cough SQyrup is a positive cure and
prevents conisumption.9
Pay your subscriptlip
A Now York respondent of the
[ndianapolis rnal gives the
following into ng reminiscoueo
4 the late JoI ' uonix--Ljoiiton..
uiDerby, of fill . S. Army :
VWhen Frapk roe was Presi
lent, Jeff. Davis ion secretary of
wvar, issued a ral invitation to
)fioors of the a who were skilled
clraugh on t d in suggestions
for the n ni hich it had boon
dlecided to ado no such invita.
was sent to each or. Lieutenant
Derby was very ri with his pen
-a r ing us artist. In
reply l '5Sbto ' War Depart.,
ment w a. foi. ew uniform-..
or rathhr a pecull dditiou to the
old uniform-the endment con
sisting neroly of a ng attach;od to
the scat "of trousera I each private
soldier. -Eich"oflic was to carry,
instead of a sword, ong pole, with
a hook in the end a shepherd's
crook. The pole the ring en.
ELbled officers to ke privates from
r ning away i'- e. Fugitives
Stild easily be c by it and
brought back, lors could be
kept in liner ', the ring
would be'ver the cavalry
service to .faeteit iors to the
saddle to prevent falling off ;
nid in.the artillery' ce the rings
were to be used fo ht purpos
Ds in the. abseuce os.
The specificatiotis e accompa
aiod by the most grotes uo pictures,
representing offi ra h uling back
:owardly recruits by the serviceable
ring, cavalry securely tetoned to
tho top of their steeds by the same
levice, and artillerymez harnessed
o cannon, -drawing theh through
iarrow defiles, or. up an acclivity
naccessible to mules, by cables
ittachod to the posterior staples.
On another shoet of bristol,
)oard was -an illustration, in guady
,olors of "Derby's Rotary Mule
:Jowitzer," accompanied' by the
'ollowig by the following descrip-.
,ion; "Up back of a young
1d i,ain , en _a nitontaji
owards the tail. A similar tfl9f}
ordnance is fastened with jron
)auds under the animal's abdomen,
he muzzle aimed between his fore
egs to the front, There are four
runners, two to each piece, and a
persgader,' as he is called, whose
usiifoess it is to persuade the mule
o stand firm and not retreat, by
tuiling him with oats, after each
lischarge, with a tin saus.tige-stuffor,
Yhen Irdians, or other legitimate
ramo., appear in view, the mule is,
>y a crank movement on the tail,
iubered to the front. It don't
cake any difference which way the
nul faces (and thers is wbore my
)atent comes in) one gun Is always
)ointing towards the front. At the
:oimuand 'Fire !* the top howitzer is
liseharged. The recoil throws the
mile on his buck, bringing the
econd gun into position. This is
lischarged, which suddenly throws
A mule to his fnet again, when the
runners swab out the mule's throat
Mith hay and reload.' The accom
anying'illustrations (in brown, red,
>lue and gold, and still on file in the
War Department), represente:1 tho
the rotary mule in sevon different
~ttitudes, looking contented and
nappy all the time.
This was felt to be outrageous
mudaeity on the part of a subaltern.
r'ho clerks in the WVar Department
laughed at the funny letter immod
emately, but their superiors looked
ilerious. Jefferson Davis, th~e head
af the department, was terribly in
clignant, and he resolved to defend
his wvounded dignity, Oharges and
specifications weore drawn up
again.st Lieutenant Derby, and the
aflicers were actually named for his
courtemartial, wvhen Win. L. Marcy,
Secretary of State, a man of more
sense and self-poise, said to the
irate Secretary : "Now, a e bore
General Davis;~ don't do iL. This
Derby has undoubtedly a superdu,.
ous development of humor. But he
is shrewd and ingenious, and really
a Jite draughtemuan. Hie hasa valu-.
able qtialities. You can organize a
court that will convict hing but you
will be a butt of ridieul.e for it all
your life. Bettor file the sugges%
tions of the crook-andring and the
Iively rotary mule, and say noth~
ing, Andhlie did.
Tas&pi'ny DEPARTMEKNT,
kW~ington, Nov. 10, 1876,
I takeq ~laasure in certifying
to the .m 41 Dr. Bull's Cough
Syrup, in use mu y farmily an~d as a
speciflo for, Mels of childfoa or
adulta. I bavo Mond I6 to be a oiae
almgat himediate sad' alPways pXr.
manent.. Vry Resefi 1~
It was in pursuit of some inforima
tion in regaid to this most sacred of
all Jewish obsorvances apronos of
the Passover season that a JIerald
reportor wont on Friday to find out
how the matzas are baked. In
order to do so be visited No. ,tN
Delancy street, corner of Attorney,
whore teyer Hauytiman conducts a
bakery on strictly scientific princi
pls. Tho baking of the bread,
under the supervision of a noted
rabbi, was in progress at the time of
the reporter's call. Six or oiglht
individuals, all impregnated with
essence of furious activity, were
lighted by the ruddy glow which
filtered through the interstices
of the oven, ip front of whioh
silhouettes of men, who looked like
denions of the fire, were busied
working with things which seemed
veryInuch like pitchforks, invisible
somethings buried somewhere in the
bowols of the leaping, growling,
singing flames.
There wore about eleven men en
gaged in the baking of the moteth
meal. They were all worried, flur.
ried and floured. The .Passover
bread is pure dough and water,
thoroughly mixed, and then is
poundod by a wooden bar, at the
end of which a human acts as a lever,
impressing the vagaries of his boun
cings in the several shapes ' in which
the passive dough takes form. In
the second stage the dough passes
over into the hands of the manipu
lator of a hopper. E;ventually; it.
becomes a thick roll like white vel
vet, in which condition it is shot
into a something wh?ioh looks like a
printing press. What goes down as
a sheot of dough about twenty-four i
inches wide and thirty inches long c
comes out in punctured disks. f
About half a dozen boys sit around 'I
the shoot through which the matzas, t
in this their primitive condition,
pass. As soon as the urchins gttly s
er in their little handful of the n
sacred dough they lrry off to the I
inuertnost eossos of tho, baker and v
'L' al sib oll
And so it goes on from first to
Nothing is lost, nothing is wasted, o
L,AsT OF SwALLOw TAILS.-M1r U
Graory has always attracted the
attention of strangers during his
term as senator from IIentucky,
He is one of the three Statesmen
who in that brimch wear swallow.
tail coats, and thereby hangs a tail.
One of tho three swallow-tails said
to your eorrespondeut on this
uubject the other day;
t" wear this kind of a coat because
I always did, and there was a time
wheu a man would no more think of v
taking a seat in the Senate without
4 coat of this kind than he would
think of going in his dresbing
gown."
"When was this, Senator V" j
"Well, that was over thirty years
ago. When I ftrst went into the
S5nate frock coats were just begin-- -
-ning to appear there. .A short time
previous to that not a frock or a
coat was to be seen in the Senate I
ebamber,"
These are degenerate days indeed,
when there are only three swallowv
tails in the Senate, and two of thenm
.to retire on the 3d of March. After.
that Senator Hamlhin wvill staudct
more conspicuous thuan ever from
his coat, which Ats him for a dinner, a
hop or reception, at any moment
between rising and goiiig to bed-- (
P'ittsburqD 1ispatek4.
ENJOY I,IFE?.,-What a trutly beau.
tiful world we livg in I Nature gives
us grandeugr of rountains, glens
and oceans, and .thousands of means,
for enjoyment. We can desire no .
better wvhen in perfect health; but
how often do them majority of peo
ple feel like giving it up dishearten.
ed, discouraged and worridd out
with disease, wvhen there is no oc
casion for this feeling, s eovery 1
sufferer can easily obtain satisfao-1
tory proof that Green's August
Flower will make them as free fr-orm
disease as whon born. Dyspepsis
and Liver Complaint is the direct
cause of seventy--iye per cent of
such maladies as Biliousness, In..
digestion, Siek Ifeadache, Costive
nees, Neryons Prostration, Dizsi
ness of the Hfead, Palpitation of the
Heart, and other distressing symnp
tous. Three doses .of 4.ngust
F'lower will prove 'its wonderful
effect. Sample, bottles, 10 cents
Try it.
Dlespite the general thaw and
warmth throttgbout the~ imfected
districts of Rhesia, both-public and
private adVices stat4 thae spfresh
1 i
xVW 01W o ; nA .
The Odessa (Risia) Gazette
states that during the las.t three
years 0,58 person have died of
iiphtherih in the distriets oi Migo
rod and Poltaya.
The Massachusetta I1otlse of Rop^
resentativos, by a large rgajority,
rejectod a scheme to require rail
roads to give free passage (g 4l1
nomubors of the Iogislatlro.
The thornoiotor htas recently been
38 degress below zero at Fort Pel,
ey, and 35 degreos at Winnipeg'
I'horo vas a slight sinow blockadq
in Dakota, two trains being detajnt
3d, the first time in two years.
The Liberal party in the City of
1Iexico have published a reiarkable
wrogramnie, proposing a political
roaty between the State govern
nent and the Liberals of the Re,
)ublic, in order to defeat in the next
Presidential elections the enemies
>f tho Constitution of 1857. T1Q
>low is aimed at Benitez.
A report from Mandalay assertQ
;hat the King of Burnah has nur
bred all the Royal Princes and
heir families, and ren>oved the new
ninisters and replaced them by the
ninisters who were formerly in
fice, thus restoring the former
lespotic government. Vurther in.,
elligence states that great con
ternation prevails there in conse
uence of the royal murders. ' ThQ
,ictims iutpbered eighty-six. The
lotails of the affair are said to be
orrible. British interference ie
Ioped for by the peoQplq to proyenk
urther bloodshed.
Miss Mary Marshall, of Chicago,
I Washington, completed the task
f walking 2,70O quarter n}ilos in a'
iany consecutive quarter hours.
'his is said to be ninety-six quar"
ar honra irl advance of 1adamq
LldersQl'j recent feat. Miss Mar
hall made her last quarter in threQ
iinntes and three seconds, Miss
oa Chappelle beat this at Chicago,
0 quarter miles in. aq
rs and t4en iil
" n'de 'in'Aie
f two minutes. Iu the' neantini3a
ther aspirants are fainting or
reaking down all over the country.
HIEESE 1 CIII'{PSi i O Tr1E S
-'O I,LBS. Choiqo Factory Cheese
! 'As low a the lowest.
t 17 U. G. DESPORTES.
THE 13AY STATE
"Standard Screw" Shoes
ill Qlwayo give BATISFAOTIO.
J.. M. BEATY & CO.
JTST RECJ.IVED.
AMS.--UncauvaBsed Sugar-Cured.
Canned Goods-Tomatoes, P.each
n, Salmon, Sardines, Pickles, &c.
Teas--Gunpowder .and Young
Iyson. *J. 1'. DEATY & 0,
LIVES ARE OFTEN LIOST
BlY theonso of cheap Igorosene. Get
one o. oijr safety Lanaps i.n vhlo4~
voxn the most dangerous oil is safo.
~20,000 Saved Yearly to FairAield,
When our farmers 1ogrn to purchase
hoemicals and make their own fertilizers..
~all and get .;lboolc telliag how it oan b,
one.
dec 28 MoMASTER & BRICE .
JUST B~ECEIVE~D.
fANOS]BiLter Water, Yeaeb Cakes,
BulsCough Byrup,, Gerrna;
syrup, Rat Extermiiator, Gurs
)pium, flepatio Qocmpowed.
everal Stewart Sewing . rebiues,
>eing the "improved Singer," for
vbieh wej .areents,
meh * o 1MAs-rER & RIo*.
ABOUT the 15t14 of Maroh wev ye'
.pose to remove r of
roods to the storo e,q ~tpio4
>y J.1M. BeobLy & o. wre we
vill he pleased to'ee'l4 forMhet
riends at d cutere:~iQj
~o thAat event we wilt.eslat
~o a'void un ecess~t . J l~ke. i,
noving.
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