The Springfield Daily Republican from Springfield, Massachusetts (2024)

December 29, 1871

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nHB SPRINGIELD DAIL! REPUBLICAN: RIDAY DECEMBER 29 1871 2 TENNYSON'S NEW POEM he i EROM NEW YORK is THE NORTH ADAMS CHINAMEN GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP George Childs of the Philadelphia Ledger has moved into a new mansion which is said to be one of the finest private residences in the world A Chinaman who had his nose bitten off re cently in a San rancisco fight carelully packed it and sent it home to show his friends an Ameri can custom The Washington Star says there was a good deal of tipsiness in the capital Christmas day and urges people who keep open houses to banish liquors and substitute tea and coffee New They talk of having a new state ffleer in Cali fornia to be called a forester not to take care of the trees because the state has few to take care of but to devote himself to planting trees at a salary of 515000 a year Ashley Down orphanage in England which boasts that it solicits aid in no way ex cept by prayer has received $1500000 during its existence Mr Muller however permits his friends to know that he wants over $100000 the piesent year We hear of centenarian women enough who can knit and sew but in Clear Water Harbor la lives William Manning 102 jears oil who not only can but does sew without spectacles lie has been a cripple since 1812 when he was wounded in the war with Great Britain Mr Mori Japanese charge at Wash ington urges his government to interdict the further teaching of Chinese which is the written language of Japan and substitute English Mr Mori believes that his people will ultimattlv adopt not only the language but the manners and customs of America Gen Grant has not begun his civil service re form yet and has just removed William Emer son from the collectorship of the port of Genesee law at New York and stabbed his wife and in law Hee crped to New Orleans in apparel and was there sold as a slave Preferring to be tried for murder rather than live in slavery he admitted his crime and was brought to New York where he was sentenced tobe hanged the same year A stay of proceedings was granted during which time he tried to kill a fellow prisoner stabbing him twice with a large pair of shears Owing to a dtfect in the law he could not be tried for murder at that time but was convicted of felonious assault and sent to Sing Sing for five years but before he was taken there a revolver was nnd on his person with which he intended to kill his keeper and make his escape Soon after he became insane and has remained so ever since He is now only 33 ears old 1 1 NEW SKETCH ON BUTLER to make room for Charles Palmer of 1 Brockport Both are republicans and capable i and popular men but the" one who goes out does not flong to the administration wing of the party in New York Twelve brigands recently arrested a Sicilian farmer near Messina and at midnight took him to his own house which they dedred to plunder He was to knock at thedoor and entice his brother to open But instead of doing that he when he knocked said softly open thev will kill He obeyed and the brigands killed their prisoner in a rage and fled the town Sylvanus Dodge father of Gen Dodge and Dodge and a native of Mas sachusetts died recently at Omaha Neb He begin his political career with Secretary Boutwell and Gen Banks and was prominent in the early history of the republican party Some ago he went West for the sake of his sons where he has lately held the position of United States land office register A very poorly clad little girl recently ap peared at the irst Baptist church in Rahway with two heads of cabbage and two apples for the Howard mission saying that that was all she could spare though she would gladly give more The gift was taken to New York and bid upon the story so exciting contestants that one head of cabbage brought $52 while the remainder of the contribution is still in reserve Aman named lltshkowski lately sick with the small pox at Milwaukee Wis d'ed to all outward seeming and according to the regula tions of the board of health was quickly buried His sister not satisfied with his nasty disposal had the body exhumed six hours after intermen when it was found that indications of life still remained By the aid of restoratives he was brought to and is now alive and doing well Banks are springing up in Europe with a mushroom growth One with a capital of $10 000000 has been established at Constantinople by the principal firms and financial institutions of Vienna and another bank with the same capi tal has been startfd there under the auspices of the Vienna Union bank Brussels and Antwerp have also been somewhat astonished by the for mation in their midst banks each with a capi tal of ten millions The members of the different Protestant socie ties in New York have formed a military organi zation known as the Washington continental guard The official purpose of it is announced by the commander who says that not wishing to call upon the authorities for protection in their legitimate rights as citizens of as was the case on the 12th of Julv they have thought proper to do something in their own be half Claflin of Clinton Mo was to have been married on a certain day recently to a Miss Ezell at the residence of the parents The guests were collected and everything in readiness but the important item of the bridegroom when after a lengthy suspense a messenger was sent to look for him He was found lying across the bed in his own room with two bullet boles in his head and a revolver in his hand having preferred crossing the dark river to running the risks of a married life Rjv Mr Alden the Presbyterian pastor at Cooperstown has a very intelligent horse 17 years old but spry as a colt He was turned out to graze recently in a lot near hisstable and tore off a shoe leaving it hanging by a single nail In this predicament be found his way to the blacksmith shoo the smith saw what was wanting reset the shoe and went home again the pastor knowing nothing of the occurrence till informed several days af ter by the smith Packard who for some years has held open a standing offer to educate gratuitously 50 women in bs business college has had 200 ap plications 20 trials and two successes the latter now holding remunerative positions as book keepers lie sums up the general result of his experience in the statement that the trouble is not to find remunerative employment for compe tent women but competent women for the re munerative employment that is ready for them and will be while the world stands Harry Berry Lowrey the North Carolina out law has changed his tactics He recently levied on a house at Red Bank for meat and told the inmates that he and the members of his band had quit stealing provisions etc and would hereatter levy contributions in the day time con sequently if any property was molested in the night the victims might rely upon it that neither be nor any of his band had anything to do with it Lowrey says furthermore that he will hereafter molest nobody in the way of per sonal violence unless he is first interfered with by them The pastor of an up town church in New York was recently taken to one of the police stations and locked up for drunkenness When ques tioned about himself he said he was a Wall street lawyer and bad attempted to meet a business en gagement in Broadway but bad taken the wrong car and been carried to the most disreputable part of the city where a couple of ruffians had garroted and drugged him As one of the po licemen went to his church he was told that the story pass when he said the reason for his giving an assumed name was the confusion arising from being drugged A horrible death befell Charles Young engineer of the locomotive Bloomingdale which recently collided with a freight train on the Michigan Central road At the instant of the crash he jumped from his engine and as soon as he struck the ground a car filled with corn fell upon him and covered him completely up with the excep tion of Lis head and shoulders Being thus firm ly wedged in under the wreck he was unable to extricate himself and when the car burned his bead and neck were completely consumed After the corn had been shoveled from the track the balance of his body was found fully pre served Constable Monks went the other day to seize the furniture of Charles Burroughs at Paterson who kept the place where Eugene Taylor was murdered recently by John Canby which was the first crime of the kind there within the memory of any of the inhabitants Business had been dull with Burroughs on account of the bad name the place had got and when the constable found him he was sitting in his chair evidently enjoying a comfortable nap Slapping him on the shoulder be was horrified to find him stiff and dead with a laudanum vial by his side and a note saying he bad committed suicide because business was bad and his housekeeper had left him A German doctor in NewYork who is now having more patients than he can attend to ob tained his wife a few years ago in a curious way A mechanic called upon him to obtain treatment for bis wife a feeble lady who accom panied him Her case was pronounced consump tion Tue man in dismay inquired if she could be cured can cure savs the doctor not for you I want her myself I will give you $1000 for her if you will leave her to ie my wife" The dumbfounded husband hesi tated It was death to his wife on one hand and life to her and her loss to him on the other Then he said 1 have two replied the doctor will take them The lady consented the requisite arrangements were made and she has since been the happy wife of a devoted but eccentric husband In view of the increasing influence of the mon archists in rance the approaching marriage of Prince Ladislas Czartoryski with the Princess Marguerite is looked upon as of some political importance The princess is the eldest daughter of the Due de Nemours the second son of Louis Philippe She has two the Comte married to the crown princess of Brazil and the Due married to a Ba varian nrincess the sister of the empress of Aus tria Prince Ladislas son of Prince Adam Czar tpryski a statesman of European reputation who played a leading part in most of the diplo matic negotiations relative to Poland which took place between the congress of Vienna and the Crimean war has worthily continued the labors of his father in his exile at the hotel Lambert in Paris and is a recognized representative of the Polish cause abroad A Cuban mulatto named elix Sanchez was among the hopelessly insane recently transferred from island to the new asylum on island In 1859 he killed his father in IIow He Quarrels nnl How He blakea Up BY A SOUTHERN MEMBER CONGRESS As for Gm Butler he either cherish malice and is of a most forgiving nature or else he is the most deliberate old rascal out of jail He never had a quarrel yet that he fought to the end and I sometimes doubt his courage Look at the fights he has had with people Did you ever know him to keep one up? Now his quar rel with Grant was one which could only nave been settled between ordinary gentlemen with blood but all at cnce Ben Butler asks pardon because the latter said he was corked up in a bottle and so with the assistance of George Wilkes harmony was restored But you may bet no love between the men Theorems incapable of loving and th? other is too ambitious and selfish As Jone as Grant is president it is for the interest of Ben Butler to be as intimate with him as possible and this the gallant Ben knows and by the same reasoning as long as Blaine is speaker of the Hoa it is for the in terest of Butler to be friendly with Lim Remember this Ben Butler will never keep up a quarrel with a man unless he has the advantage of him If the other man has the best of him he will come down quick In such cases ho always asks pardon Butler seem to have any pride or dignity about ueh matters It is only with people whom be gets at disadvantage that he fights like a man Nov Grant and Blaine have him tight and he knows it but if he can make up with Biaire he will do so you remember how bitter ho was on An dy Johnson? He say enough against him but when impeachment failed Andy was still president and had favors to bestow So at the next New reception one of the first to greet the Tennessee statesman was Ben Butler Now he either cannot carry malice or else he is a designing old brute He made up with Bing ham in the same way Bingham was chairman of the judiciary committee and Bailer was a mem ber of it In debate one day Butler accused Bingham of hanging Mrs Surratt Bingham said it was a lie or words to that effect and said he was not surprised that such a charge should come from a man corked up in a bottle and fed with a spoon Both seemed wild in their anger Bingham was particularly fierce The next day or two they were talking together as friendly as two kittens but Bmgbatn yield I am sure Butler came whining around him and asked his pardon probably is it between him and Well I know hut I hear they have made up too The fact is arnswmrth was too much for Ben his language and his manners 1 ad too much fight in them Why ck told me (in fact he intimated as much in the House last session) that iu the reconstruction committee arnsworth had repeatedly shaken bis fist in face and called him a liar and a scoundrel I have no doubt they have mabe up Take a later case In the wonderful campaign which Butler made for governor he was beaten by Washburn He was not friendly toward Washburn at least it was so understood and at one time was really very bit ter toward him Vvhat is the result? When Washburn was here a day or two ago Butler was almost the first to go to him and be was the first to sign an invitation to dinner which was given to Washburn last night Do you know the reason? Washburn is elected governor of Massachusetts and may prove of some use to Ben Now about this Blaine matter and the vice nresidercy It looks to me just as if he goes for Bl just because Senator Wilson is a candi date and hatred of him is very great He believes that a New England man will be taken but he wants to beat Wilson so he puts up Blaine for the purpose of conciliating the one and intimidating the other Butler thinks prob ably that Wilson can do him little harm and so he is willing to let him fire away I am afraid Wilson is too much inclined for peace It is his only trouble he is too amiable He is always good natured no fight in him But be would make a very good vice president be is popular with all the senators and has a very strong hold upon the moral and religious ele ment of the country As a presiding officer he is intelligent and discriminating but he is not of course the qual of Colfax Washington Corres pondence of Cincinnati Comrnei ciul Sanin Worhip Krw S'Im ovj of Giftsn Hox pilaliiy of New Vol iera Mleiute i ide on Central Paik The fJtand Duke The I ate James Harper 1 Correspondence of 1 he Republican New Yoke December 25 1871 Christmas in New York! The occasional vis itor to the Empire city finds the natural evanes cent sentiment of joy and pleasure promoted to a most extraordinary degree during the holidays The patron deity of youth who is popularly por trayed as a mysterious character distributing gifts to delighted children at is yet young vigorous honored and revered in the hearts of all the people of this great metropolis as was (as the I) rich called to the thildren of landers and Holland in the year 325 No characterin fiction in superstitious credulity or in history sacred or profane has evinced such adaptation to the re gard of people of every kindred clime and na tion alike to Nicbo the refinement and splendor of the populous city or the rural sim plicity of thetountiy the steppes of Russia the vast nlains of Europe Asia or the prairies of the United States! In the and his reign is alike supren On every hand evi dences of his undisputed vay here greet the eye the ear and the sensei Not the grand outbreak of popular contempt for Tammany corruption nor the excited rejoicings and streaming throngs that welcomed the arrival of the grand duke nor yet the genuine sorrow for anticipated afflictions in the English royal household has disturbed the magnetic unanimity ot me inas es iu men pie natation for and observance of the holidays It is pleasant to visit New Yoik during the holidays Imagination does not jade me to remark this and there is no vaunting in the assertion Even the churches yesterday presented a gay festive holiday appearance extraoi Binary extra fashionable as a alter of course Nearly every visitor to the great metropolis seeks a broad road to some fashionable and popular church upon the Sabbath and among the thousands who wended their way thither to hear the and see the gay throngs who jostled each other in heavenly portals the Sabbath before was (that means corre It was difficult to determine which was the more attractive an 1 impressive the bril liant assemblage or the brilliant oratory Both were recherche and sensational in the extreme Of the late coming worshipers MJss A swept up the broad aisle robed in an elaborate court train of black silk and proudly assumed her position in the middle of the church with a decided air of hauteur and superiority She seemed to be en nobled with much of the sullen dignity of the fallen angels and no traces of celestial meekness could be discovered on her brow which rested sweetly on the back of the next pew during the exercise of invocation She may have been ani mated with a sincerity that did not appear in her demeanor She was very fashionable and stylish anyway and as she came into church alone she was the cynosure of all eyes Mrs was pre ceded into church by Mr who gaited too sprucely for her deliberate movements which suggested to observers dangerous navigation and the fear of being stranded on unknown shoals He readied his seat some moments in advance and waited for her to come up As she took her seat she gave four separate and distinct pulls upon her ponderous trail he kicked in the rest and seated himself with becoming meekness and submission at her side In the conception of ibis fashionable' worshiper the interest in her demeanor and attire was absorbed in the contem plation of her pos ible sincerity and probable character Clotbed in such outward radiance and beauty the possibility of a rebellious heart and a spirit essentially degraded evil and impure melted into incredulity notwithstanding the belief in depravity" that the clergyman eloquently upheld could not believe it in her case Religion would be thus robbed of much of its romance Miss as her petite form and stylish became enveloped in the spir itual vapor of the sanctuary all bffie witness to the momentary triumph to which the silent admiration of the entire congregation was simul taneously compelled to yield She is a power in that church evidently for the attention vouch safed to her pre ence as she entered and left the sanctuary was marked and doubtless respectful and sincere as her own behavior appeare 1 to be Evidently the fashionable worldly Miss is not a being wholly distinct from tbe character in which she appears upon the Sabbath as is too often the ease She worshiped and appearedwdl frnrr a onm tnaniniT nnQltinn in tho gallery 1 observed that she took copious notes of the sermon which suggested to my mind that she might be a Mis was among the last to arrive amid the clouds of celes tial vapor that enveloped the sanctuary Her beautiful form and radiant features seemed to be composed with Christian grace and with piety the most devout She appeared half a spiritual real ity and half an allegory Tbe words of admoni tion and exhortation from tbe pulpit rolled over her awakened sympathies and religious fervor like nectar Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold If her Christian enthusiasm sparkles like ber dia monds and her cross of and "Ever the wind blew and yellowing 'cat And gloom and gleam and shower and shorn plume Went down And the wretched Lancelot from the dragoned of the king takes small note of the jousts of arms until a shout welcomes a 1 tall knight with a simple crest of holy whose victorious way may bo tracked through the lists by the scarlet hol'y berries Against him is raised the je iious wrath of matron and maid because having won and received the ruby carcanet he indifferently enough rides past tae galleries with the frack declaration day my Queen ot'Beauty not And forthwith he wends away through wood and vale to greet her or this is Tristram and before he leaves he occupies some time of his own and some pages of ours in a tiresome col loquy with the king's fool This fool by the by like the legendary fool commonly is endowed with more wisdom than mest of the wise bit song beginning free we love but while wo this strain to which the wise fool declined to dance is strikingly in unison with the senti ments expressed by a certain female lecturer in New York not long since Were it not that this lady is possessed of the spirit of Demosthenes one might believe her to be incited by that of Sir Tristram So on rode the conquering knight carcanet in hand down into the west and toward Lyonesse On he rode until in the wood be comes upon a lodge of intertwisted beecben which he as lover had built a year ago for Qieenlsoit He has wandered since then and warred wed ded too another Isolt daughter of a ktng of the white hands" Tne latter was a princess of Brittany a meek sweet soul who had nursed Tristram when wounded wedded him when well and worshiped him all the while Her tue knight had left black blue Irish hair and Irish e' ea Had drawn him what ma vel And here in the forest lodge Sir Tristram sinks upon a drift of autumn leaves and muses how he shall explain this marriage to Isolt of Britain and so musing falls asleep and dreams And this dream there is not room to give it in its integ is one of the best passages of the poem In fact Sir Tristram strikes one as not particularly a luminous personage a little obtuse contrasted in chat with tbe quick incisive teen Isolt and withal brighter asleep thanawake irst he dreams naturally enough of the two Isolts He paces the strand of Brittany between them and I Tn than they struggle over me runy uctmaic ww strife the ewels are crushed and there a ru of wings and then A whimpering of 1 1 spirit of the child Because the twain had spehed her carcanet And as Tristram slept the king and his young knights pass to victory but Arthur with a hundred spears Rode far till o'er the illimitable red And many a glanuinz plash aud sallowy isle The wide winged su i et of the misty marsh Glared on a lme nriohicolated tawe Spite of this remarkable adjective is not this a fine passage? And after it comes the story of the ruffians making riot with wine and women in their marsh moated hold while one of tbe knights of the Round Table bangs from a tree by the causeway side The old challenge of the shield by a red shield and a trum pet wherewith the murderer and owner of the shield was to bo summoned How they came staggering out the crowd of beastly revelers and how they sank of their own drunken bulk into the mire how Arthur rushed into the tower and overthrew tables wine and this and then the following teise vivid picture of a fire at night fired tbe tower Which half that autumn night like the live North Rnl putffng up through Alioth and Aleor Made all above it and a hundred meres About it a the water Moab saw Come und by the Eat and out beyond them flush a Tiie long low dune aud lazy plunging As a bit of word painting this seems to the writer of the very best A dune as every one knows is the same as a down meaning in Eng land just what it does not mean with us a hill The reference to Moab as every one ought to know is to IL Kings 3 22 when the children of zsnrvJnrt war arrainQt larapl RAW thAAftSt LU UaU) VWIA11UJS LU TV ern waters red in the rising sun mistook it for blood and fl'd Anaking TrKtram mounts and wends away through the autumn wood toward Isolt It is a shrewd hint of the great secret of womans power in the time and in all time bis counsel to the lone creature crying by the road side cross because her man hath leit ner or weep not thou lest if th mate return He find thy favor changed and love thee Presently he gains his end half in sea and high on land A crown oi There is a legend I have seen recorded some where of this same sea washed Tintagil how in the old years a ship neared the city having on board a chime of bells destined for its principal tower A storm came up and the captain with a blasphemous oath swore he would land the bells or go to and then the storm grew wilder the boat went down and all on board there in sight of land But the bells tolled then and they tolled a century later a shrill unearthly sound that might always lie heard in the pauses of the storms that rage along that rough coast Sir Tristram gained Tintagil and the retreat of his lustrous lady love in a casem*nt sat A low sea sunset glorying round her hair And glossy throated grace Isolt the This was the Isolt this regal woman sitting there with the gold of the sunset in her hair hers was the blue Irish hers were the that had drawn Sir Tristram home ward And now with the voice of her husband's hounds echoing in the the lover heard them as he she tells him of her hate for her liege lord measured only by her love for him self This there would seem to have been queens many aud princes many within the little island in those years but Guinivere was known as great this queen guaging her error by that of the great queen counts it small incesd There is something strangely taking in this imperial Isolt with her love and her hate her joy and her despair And when she heard the fret of Tristram grind 'lhe spiring stone that scaled about her tower lu bsd started met him at the floors and there Belted Ids body with her white embrace i Crying aloud not Mark my soul! The foutstsp flutter'd me at first not he: at liKe thro ms own ca tie stea 8 my aiarx But warrior wise thou st rid st through Ills halls Who lutes tine as I to the death Mv soul 1 felt my hatred for my Mark Quicken wiibiu me and knew that thou wert To whom bi Trlsiram smiling 1 am here Let be thy Marti seeing he is uot And drawing sum what backward she replied he be who is not ev'n his own But save for dread of thee bad beaten me Scratch'd bitten blinded marr'd me Mark? What rights are his that dare not strike for them? Not lift a not tho' be found me thus But hearken have ye met him? lunce bo went To day lor three as he said And so returns belike 'within an hour way my soul but oat not thou with him tsecau he bates the evtn more than Lars Nor drink and when thou passest any wood Close visor lest an arrow from toe bu should leave me all alone with Mark and hell My God the measure of my hate for Mark Is as the measure of my love for So pluck'd one'way by hate and one by love Drain'd of her force again the sat and spake To Tristram as he knelt fore her aajing hunter and b'ower of the rn Ilarptr and thou hast been a rovtr too ur ereil matul with my shambling kiug Ye wain had fallen out about the briae Of his name is out of the prize If prize she (what she could Thine friend and ever since my craven teeks 'J'o wreck thcc villainously but air Knight VV hat name or damsel have ye ktetled to And Tristram of course would have her believe be is hers alone and tells her she is lovelier now than when light feet fell on our rough Lyonesse Sailing from Through much light laughing and badinage they come to holt of Brittany and Isolt of Brit ain tells the ta'e of her loneliness and how she watched the near and faroff sea until their wooing to death was sweeter than any other sound to her ears (Letter to New York Tribune Every advantage has been offered them for im provement Evening and Sunday schools were opened for them and have been well maintained and in many ways a kindness has been shown them that is almost partial and which other for eigners have not been blessed with An hour may be very pleasantly spent in visiting them at their workshop and in their echoed room The hour for study is after their evening meal and hardly have the cbop stieks erased cramming rice into their mouths when their eyes eagerly watch for the teachers Victors are earnestly besieged by these saffron skinned thirst ers after knowledge and to all who will kindly accept it a chance is given to help them in their simple studies for which ample rewar i will be found in their heartfelt thanks expressed for every little attention shown them Most of them speak English and many of them read and write quite well The same room is used for the dining ard school room and on the walls may be seen interspersed among the charts for their study tue daily account of table expenses kept in queer hieroglyphics by their foreman Ah SiuR who has charge of providing for their table and who is obliged to render daily a strict account of all expenses Ab Sing by his gentlemanly manners lias made many friends and occupies with Messrs Sampson Co a situation of great trust He keeps a personal ac count with each Chinaman in his own language but the simple minded heathen have thought it best to put a check even upon him and have appointed one of their number to keep an addi tional account Each man draws his own pay and is entirely free to use it as he likes thougm the contrary was asserted among other vague re ports circulated when tbe Chinese first £alPe here People have often wondered why if the enterprise is proving satisfactory to Mr Samp son other manufacturers do not employ this class of help We must remember the immense capital required for such an undertaking ana the fact that capitalists are waiting for this trial to prove a success before investing tougH rumors are now current of arrangements by cotton manufacturers in eastern Massacnu setts for introducing Chinese labor into tne workshops Their success as shoemakers very satisfactory I am told by the super) tendent that the work accomplished by the Chinamen now employed is equal both in qua ity and quantity to that formerly done by i same number of Crispins while the Chinese wotk of course at a much les expense The bnspi were paid from $15 to $20 a week for doing work for which Chinamen are piid 18 £eL ally suoposed though it is uot definitely know shout $23 a month The best proof that Sampson is pleased with his cheap labor is fact that he intends to procure more of it ho enlarges his works which he is expecting do within a yar Tbe time for the present number were hired exP in about 18 months and the course pursued by their emplover will be watched great interest and ill have a ence upon the labor question At one time i emplovers were very much worried by repo the Celestials visiting a certain saloon oi a wo uncelestial nature in the vicinity of the ctory and carrying away beer in psiis The Iasi Tournament Of the readers of Tennyson there are two quite i distinct classes They stand for two equally dis tinct types of Tennysonian poetry The individ ual who is stirred by the gentle pathos of the will go to sleep over while tbe woman who wrings her cambric handkerchief over just worries through The poem be fore us is not in the Enoch Arden vein So much the better for its poetry so much the worse for its morals Of the sailor and the knight no doubt the former is far the more reputable man the more desirable member of a small' family Tristram in fact so far as he has been known to this day and age of the world has been known very little to his own credit Tradition has al lotted to this knight some half dozen lines where he figures in the unsavory character of lover to the lawful wife of his own uncle Possibly for most readers this ugly thread of love running through the warp and woof of the poetry may mar it somewhat It go hard with such however if they do not forget this flaw of the material injthe finish of the per ed work Tbe is thoroughly Tenny sonian The admirers of the poit laureate will rise from their second or third reading of it more heartily his admirers than ever It is richly crowded crammed like a nut with those mar vels of delineation those quaintnesses of diction which men a generation ago began to recognize as Tennysonian The same hand which when some of us were children penned queen in crowns of gold ami from them rose A cry that shivered to fie tingling stars Andj as it were cue voice an agony Of lamentation like a wind that shrills AU night in a waste land where no one comes Or hath come since the making of the is apparent now in the dream of Tristram or the picture of Isolt sitting in the casem*nt of her far away tower at sea washed Tintagil belongs in the order of time between the idyl of Elaine and that of Guinevere Al through the poem we get hints of hidden a suspicion which amounted to certainty with all save the great king the gloom of Arthur the sadness of the queen the misery of conscience goaded Lancelot the ill concealed sneers of the rest all these mark the nearness of the final rupture and the flight of the guilty Guinevere The prize of this tour ney is a carcanet or necklace of rubies which after the fashion of that other jeweled treasure Excalibur seems to have boasted a wondrous origin Arthur and Sir Lancelot riding ones ar down beneath a winding wall of rock Heard a child wail A stump of ok halt' dead rom roots like some black coil of carven snakes at the crag and started mid air Bearing an nest and the tree ever a rainy wind and the wind Pierced ever a cry and crag and tree Scaling Sir Lancelot t' ora the perilous nest This ruby necklace thrice around his neck Ami all uncarr'd from beak or talon brought A maiden babe: which Arthur pitying took Then gave it to his queen to rear: the queen But coldly acquiescing in her white arms Received and alter loved it tenderly And named it The description of the scene here remindsone of some of the weird pictures of Dor One of the most striking peculiarities of style appears repeateily in the above selectior I mean the interpolation of a long descriptive phrase between anoun and its verb orex ample the compound subject in the first and the predicate two lines below stump of rhe word owning for its corresponding verb a line or two farther on and aro all inetannpu nf thft finmp marked singularity This may be one secret of the terseness of style eagle borne however is des tined to a short life Like Anabel Lee the chill winds of heaven were too cold for her and she died and the queen gives back the jewels to her husband to be used as a tourney prize It is then that Arthur is moved to inquire after the fate of the diamonds won by Lancelot some time previous and understood to have been by him bestowed upon Guinevere and which the readers of Elaine will remember had long ago been flung into tho tarn by the queen in a fit of jealousy The heralds therefore are sent from Camelot in all directions to proclaim the purney But while men prepared for it the hither side of that loud morn Into the hall staggered his visage rom ear to ear with dog whip weals his nose Bridge broken one eye out and one band off And one witli shattered fingers dangling It speaks well for the fortitude of churls in those times that one in such wretched case as this should have been able to in an appear at all much more to articulate ing through the hedge of splintered teeth" and to convey tbe challenge of tbe Red Knight his assassin The author of this challenge states with the greatest candor and leaves nothing for the imagination in bis verdict of tbe character of men and women about the king It is in an swer to this message that Arthur charging his senesebal that the churl be curiously like a and assembling his younger knights prepares to lead them against this bea then foe In his place as sovereign of the tour nament the king leaves Lancelot Those to whom King Arthur of the Round Table is a man and a friend rather than a fabled character will read and re read with a sort of mournful fond ness tbe passage where on the eve of departure he confides bis ill'defined fears to the miserable Lancelot himself it then so well? Or mine the blajnp that oft' I seem as be Of whom was written 'a sound is in his The foot that loiters bidden the glance That only seems half loyal to A manner somewhat from or I have Thus he goes away although Lancelot begs to take his place iu the war leaving Arthur at home with the kingdom and the queen And the tourney takes place on a wet windy day in au umn TERMS THE REPUBLICAN Single copies three cents by carriers orill 17 cents a week 70 cents a month or 88 a year to clubs by mall an extra copy for every ten or 11oples for $30 a year Wbbkly Single copies five cents 82 a year in club packages an extra copy for every five 6 cop es for 810 12 for $20 30 for S50 and so on or 0 copiesnd a Dally Republican for 840 Specimen copies sent to any address free postage Kafrs Of Advertising n1IV Ten cents a line ore insertion and 6c or6 lines (one hMf inch space) rm mr one dav aud 30c each alter insertion 12 tin's (one inch snace) 75c one day and 60c each after and the same rate for longer advertise ments Notices" 12c a line one insertionnd Sc a line each after insertion tn loaded tvno 25c a line each insertion Amu and extra displayed advertisem*nts bold Up" 12c a line (of ordinary type) first insertion and Rc mcIi suhs insertion Wfekly Twenty cents a line each insertion special notices 25e local notices aud large type ad vertisem*nts 530c gy AU transient advertisem*nts cash in advance SAMUEL BOWLES COMPANY Publishers Springfield Muss of Britain dish Before Dolt ot Brittany the strand Would that have chilled her bride kis Then follow questions and a vers Tristram was loved by the maiden of Bnfany XV as that his sin? he asks her It was the name he loved of the white hands" not tor her! patient and pr Terful mek Pale olooded she will yiell Lerselt to God And why not thee? a ttus Holt Then she how as she sit al ne in blackness of darkness one stoe behir her Man and hissed in her ear tbe tdinis ot Tristram mar sac ays this cat step bis own bouse) nd at the news she thinks she will flee give herselt to God Here follows a passage which well illus rates the char acter of both Tristram ever dallying with her hand God be with thee sweet when old and gray And na desire A saying that angered ber God be with thee sweet whn thou art old And sweet no more to me! I need Him now And so the day wanes Tristram is hungry If Isolt will give him food and drink he wdl lose her as she craves I am and lialf meat wine and I will love thee to the death And out beyond into the dream to conic The fated knight takes his last wine sings his last song and then wi but a moment more while in the fading he bolds up to Isolt the ruby carcanet aj si nnt sfizing the gaud woman like for its pretty glitter but instantly jumoing at a gent io us conclusion exclaims collar of someonipr which our king Hath newly founded all for th my soul or thee to ield thee grace beyond thy peers Scarcely has he epbei by flinging and clasping it about her own neck scarcely bowed to lay kisses in the hollow of her throat Out of the dark just as ttrn I ps Had touched Behind him rose a shadow and a shriek way said Mark and clove him tlnough the brain Here ends the picra so far as it relates to Tris tram and Isolt He is launched beyond into tbe dream to and shedfft alone with Mark and There would appear to have been intended a grim irony the fate i the ruby carcanet The prize of a tourney de voted to it brings on the fatal end of a guiltv love To such an end was tend ing all the high purity of the Round Table estab lished by the stamps king The poem contains mat srngle lines which will Become biuuuu greater man the greater courtesy vow that binds too strictly naps courtesy wins woman all as well As valor vs onri whpn tha kino returns and as climbs the gloomy stair stumbles on an abject figure crouching in the dark and out of lhe dark a despairing am thv fool And I shall uevcriuake thtesmilo is borne as patiently as her cross of her daily life contrasts marvelously with the common experience of mankind If the great Savior of mankind who overturned the tables of the money changers should breathe the air of many cf our so called would he think it freighted with piety amid all the splendor and display of its ceremonious worshipers? Would he not rather camplain that the atmosphere was close sin damp stiflrd with the worship of Mammon and with fasbionable iniquity? Crminu cut of the church vestibule Kagin" usually very reserved and very sensible but on this occasion very irreverent remarked that should hate to take all the piety in that church and undertake to get to Heaven with The noted divine dis coursed timely and eloquently upon the subject of giving to the poor and suffering and also of friendly gifts to these who are abundantly supplied with goods The proverb that giveth to the rich shall surely come to was not to be interpreted And ail who accorded with the teachings of his discourse will henceforth consider that it will be perfectly proper for them look a gift hore in the if it is a good horse They will scrutinize his teeth superb limbs and nimble pas terns and if he is net a they will get on and try his mettle at a two and a half clip on a smooth course The argument seemed to be that gifts like everything else should be conscientiously bestowed and critically received Very plausible too was it made to appear The cordial reception of a few cherished friends crowds the few days of my present so journ in the with abundant pleasure and occasions a grateful appreciation of their kind aud generous liberality and their bounteous hospitality The words of Ledyard are emphatically true of the citizens of the Em pire hospitality I have found as universal as the face of Among them I take the liberty of a friend to designate Mr Wvman of the world wide Agency of Dunn Barlow Co" whose central office is at 335 Broadway with a branch office established in tverv important city in the United States and Canada Mr Wyman has a fund of information proportionate to his extensive business and mer cantile connections and is yet among the young est of the business men of New York His able commercial reports in the Toronto Globe of which he was formerly commercial editor at tracted wide attention and at present his editori al duties upon Mercantile pub lished by his firm are extensive comprehensive and important in their scope and character His hospitable abode on Staten bland is fitted in the finest style cf modern convenience beauty and splendor and impresses the visitor with tbe idea that nearly all that ingenuity can conceive or wealth can purchase has been gathered to make a cheerful happy delightful home To the charm of a strong personal friendship is added an attachment growing out of many weeks of corresponding afflictive experiences in the koka ate some future bard shall join lu sad similitude of griets to mine Mr Abraham Voorhees of 431 ifth avenue is among tbe oldest and most successful of the busi ness New Yurkeis as Mr Wyman is among tbe youngest More than fifty years ago he laid the foundation of that recognized character for integ rity talent enterprise and intelligence that has ever commanded tbe respect and esteem of bis associates acquaintances aud friends At pres ent a retiren merchant prince possessed of a marvelous fund of information communicative to a degree that is rare among men of his class he is the most genial of companions ami agreea ble and hospitable of gentlemen His luxurious 1 dwelling upon the avenue is furnished with rare taste amt elegance ana ms tine stua or last cons and trained horses are a peculiar pride to Lim and are distinguished their performance on the fashionable drives parks and avenues A visit to New York in the season of good sleighing is quite incomplete without a drive on runners on Central pari Mr of East Thirty ninth street generouslv placed amatcbed pair of spanking coursers and his sable coachman at my disposal on riday afternoon the 221 inst for a pleasure I had often enjoyed with Mr him self who at this time was called to Washington The appointment at 1 was not filled until 2 o'clock owing to a argument with Mr Harris of Woonsocket I who was fresh from the wool and manufacturers' con vention at Syracuse but with the thermometer at zero I was satisfied to complete a drive in one hour was planned for two aud should be willing to hang by the neck what time was con sumed more than 60 minutes in a drive of 14 miles There is a great contrast between a or in New York city and a rude wretched primitive camp in Muskoka and referentially between a on Central park in tbe highest style of mod ern fashionable livery and a three mile portage on an obscure Indian" trail through the wilder ness when tremor those rambling hours entwims How tho wit brightens hvw the tense The grand duke did crack one joke of no mean dimensions It was at the great ball at the acad emy of music Tbe merry winning wavs and coquettish manners of the accomplished Miss appeared to captivate his imperial highness and not wishing to appear altogether a dunce in the presence of her explosions of garrulousness and wit be put her ingenuity to test by asking her she might suppbse to bo the basest he had danced in since he left St Petersburg it would not be possible to then if you give it the Svet lana (with a si lent said his fair partner the music of the Imperial jokes are no more contemptible than that take courage ye pun0 ten who delight to embody ludicrous ideas in language doubtful or equivocal Mr Brown of 141 East Tbirty fourth street with whom I tarried a day and night tells an an ecdote of the late James Harper with whom he was on terms of social intimacy Mr Harper was calle! upon by a solicitor for contributions to some Christian charitable object who said: have called to see you on the Indeed! I much regret it sir but the melancholy fact must be stated the man who attends to the Lord's business is not replied Mr Harper in his stvlc of characteristic humor and good nature He referred to his that metfrber of the firm of Harper Brothers to whom the matter of charities aud contributions on the part of the company was chiefly referred ACHILLES ilepblumi.

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