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] easy-chair; the escritoir was closed, and Alvarez | was rath est down. so very r Not a v Hlie face was very despairing. Not a change of expression bed passed over his face during his work-mere despair was written on every fonture. Once sented, he took from his breast what was evidently a miniature, and, opening the case, looked within a moment, and he was overpowerod. Down bis head fell upon his hands, and so be remained for some minutes, moaning, eighing. the only word being the Spanish name "Ants, Anita 1-meaning, if translated into English, "Little Annie, Lattic Annio." was kno affaire w offensive say, his basey, p the large He wa him, but pany be his powe pisniet, when he After a time he was calmer, eet up the portrait re him, and, as it were, calmly worshiped it. When the valet knocked at the door, he barried, the high away the portrait, as though its contemplation were almost a guilty act. rectness Amor mirable botter e The face wore the stolid, sovere look which was known in Mexico as its ordinary expression when the don was not spooking. "The man is here, ecllor." cognize question "Let him come in." liberal a But d he was. He was a fierce-slowing vagabond, dremed as a Mexican, looking half a Mexican, but with the evidences of English birth still on his face. The interview was carried on in English, "Good-night, again, captain." Dever 1 those w face. H with a he was "You are quite to your time." "Ay, captain; what I have always said has been this whether in London or Mexico, when you have a job to do, do it-whether in London or Mexico." you apa attemp be wot "You know I pay." Take "And pay out, captain. We know each other of old, eaving your prosonce, Suppose you aro an, clover, esptain, as over?" man, 1 could Ope car lam "Like s-a devil," said the man, dropping his voice, the palses of his throat beginning to beat, Don A Indy w "Yee; take a sheet of that paper, put it under your shirt against your skin. Now, not a word during five minutes." locek of the This t The silence told awfully upon the man. He was very strong, with two flogers be could have grasped out the señor'e life, and yet be trembled fearfully. ing ac seconda reques the sa custor "Take it from your breast and look at it." The man did so fearfully, nad drew back agbest. effect ailent "What are you Thi terves "A death'e head, captain, grinning like him wo found with the blood tale upon the table." being "Wrap the paper round the lamp-globe, and wait yet five minuten." shop & Wa A DA The man tremblingly did as he was bidden, and after a few moments the chinking of the lamp- glass proved what a bold of terror the one man hed upon the other. his c which "T "Well-what is happening?" voice Tla "My face is taking the place of the akull," "Good-do you know what it all moane?" "What, captain?" ama! press "Betray me and you die." The man wae trembling terribly. WI "Never betray, captain." TE And he kissed his knife. WARD The whole affair, horribly as it told upon the pacla ignorant man, was exceedingly simple. Su room The skull shape und been drawn upon the paper with a best to deactic ink, which called for very little the it. T H the faco The face, a rough portrait of the man whose vanity enabled him to discover & Likences-hod ente been traced in ink which required a greater degree of beat than that in which the skall shape had Deen drawn in order to be perceived. The heat had been yielded by the lamp. Bot with ignorance, as it has always been, the unknown is the diabolical, and the bravo koked upon those acts as the work of Satan, through one who was his devotee. The wretch was afraid to erose himself. ing. 7 lon to GTI ord cir "And for payment--there," cried the don. And stretching forth his open lianile, a number of golden pieces foll upon the ground. The man dropped upon his knece before the temptation. coice the sum when the work is done," "God bless thee, captain." "And you will obey?" tai tell ab 11 in D hi ti The ninu again kissed his knife. Certainly this th was with him the most solemn shape of ontli. "What shall I do, captain ?" "You must scuttle a ship," The man-bravo as he was-fell back. "And all on board, captain?" And all on board." "If it must be it must be, captain." "Something more." "Ay, captein, I listen." "If you are discovered you will go down like a stone." The man hesitated. "Drowning ie letter than tortore." The man turned pale and shukdered. Evidently a resolution had seized upon him. "I swear, captain." "Good; then your fortune or your death ta b certain." "Where is the ship, captain?" "It is a yacht, my man, and harhored at Vera Cruz." - CHAPTER XV.-AT TUE LACE SHOP. SCANDAL lives everywhere, and Mexico has its elsie of scandal. As one of the attaches to an important embassy, Don Alvarez di Cernos was a man to be talked about in the fashionable world, a condition in re- Intion to hituself which would have existed bed even his many talents and his certain social at- tractiveness bad no existence whatever. His out-goings, his note, bin belaavior were at all times part of the fashiousble theories of Mexi- can conversation; but ecandal bad littie to say. against him. What was whispered concerning Don Alvarez "D She E was rather tattle than scandal-his existenco was so very regular and charming. "Tru "And "No: Not a word could be anid against his life. He was known as a gravo man, who conducted his affaire with admirable regularity, courteous to all, offensive to no one. As far as the gossips could say, his days wero devoted to his work at the em- bney, paying a few visite, and his library-one of the largest in the city. a fragns instance morning The "Is c of so ab scarcely with so Acc He was a charming man, and society courted him, but be cared little for society. Once in com- pany he would gradually exhibit energy, and prove his powers of fitnces for society. He was a superb tpisniet, and his voice sounded resonant and grand + "Dos Hogy when he could be got to ring. He music was of man, ve the highest class, and treated with absolute cor-mon los The rectness. Amongst young men he was known as an ad-placed mirable chees and billiard player, a good rider, aand res botter swordsman. Amongst the old he was re- Don Al cognized as a man who had all the great social questions by boart, and leant toward their most liberal side "Ho "Ob "I w B tell thi "Yo florist "Ha But delightful se his company was found to be, so he was known as a man who rarely smiled, who never laughed, Lattle children's romarks were those which most generally called a smile to his face. He was charitable, and when he gave it was with a tenderness very delightful to witness. But she was not to be complimented. The moment "AS "Am "Ala you spoke to him of his acta or himself, he would or attempt to turn the conversation, and if he failed be would abruptly leave the offensive person. questa "Pe beline "W er Take him for all in all, he was a suporb gentle man, but at the enne tine a man with whom one could not be familiar, shop, a leave waitin the In is "Y What er p ord "G One day, that following the event recorded in cur last chapter, an odd scandal in reference to Don Alvarez spread over Mexican society. The Indy who told the tale said she had gone into the loce-shop, the fashionablo lace-shop at the corner of the squaro, to moet & fricud and purchase loco. This friend not appearing to time, the lady, fear-wom 6 I ing scandal directed at beresif, for it is your most Tw scandalizing person who most fears being libeled, requested that ebe might be allowed to wait in the small room behind the shop, used by Indy customers who were destrons of witnessing the effect of various articles in laco proffered by the silent, sod, but trustwortby shopwoman. ald be and E quitem culnt mck "I wom point an we paro emails Bung This Indy, maintaining a watch through the in tervening window, where she could see without being noen, marked that Don Alvarez entered tho ndehop with a burried step, and asked the question: "Did the woman not bring a parcel Inst night?" She then marked the shopwoman give the dou a warning look, of which he took no notice, for his eyes were drifting about the little shelvest which lined the walls of the shop, bour mud SEX mp- circa 14 Yon, seilor," the woman replied, in a cautious voice. NE The watching lady then anw the woman put a small parcel in the don's grasp, and as she did eo, press one of his hands, What could it all mean? The don evidently took no notice of this further warning, for be still kopt his oyee npon the small TH the packict. Suddenly he turned to the door leading to the room behind the shop, and before the woman be per hind the counter could prevent him, he was across the Little the threshold, Lim The shopkeeper fell a step back as the don ena -bose -hod entered the room. pla gree wo He closed the door behind him, evidently not oug bad seeing to the intruder, dropped upon a chair near the table, and still holding the emell packet, his faco fell upon his hands, and be commenced weep- ing. re Del , the gra Loked The lady was so frightened that she rose noise- lessly from her clair and left the reom, whispered la roogh to the shopkeeper that she would rotarn again in an fraid an hour, and went her way, epreading the extra-tog ordinary nows throughout the fashionable Moxican the circles. - mber the Extraordinary news indeed a great officer of fam an embassy, a man in the decline of life, going to ot e the lace-shop, and weeping over a epall pucket.con- taining an unknown something. Astounding in- telligence indeed. I L 11. That same evening he was at one or two fashion- able balle, where his appearance, after the talk of a ly this the morning, created very great interest. It was a very old and pleasant lady who deter- un mined to challengo lim on this point, and motion r ing the don to sit beside her, she commenced. Do you know the world is talking about you, Don Alvarez ? He smiled-as we have said, a very rare act inf his case. The world, then, must be in want of occupa tion, doar señora." a like a "And they scandalize you." "All the world is scandalized more or ises." "But it in such odd scandal." "Better odd than wicked, setora." vidently "It is abourd-foolish." "Foolish " he said, starting. "Yes, I know, don, you would not like the word, at Vera Heath to but I thought ite neo would induce you to bear me. You have been made to look ridiculous." "Ridiculous! Impossible, Jady." Sho bed now put him upon his guard. Hind this aged lady's sight been perfect, she might have noted a certain hardening of the face, which deprived it of all expression, and gave it some thing the appearance of mask. "What do they say?" Lo anked. "That you were seen this morning in a lace- mbassy, shop, weeping over a little packet given you by o talked the lace-woman, who codeavored to warn you from betraying any emotion." sted hind "Strange," he replied; "for I was in a lace- social at- shop this morning." o has its on in re- "And the tale goce on to any that you hid your were at self in a littio back room, and then becamo quite of Mexi- hysterical." ie to say "And who, pray, circulated this remarkable statement ? Alvarez Nay, I can broak no confidenca." a t. REV. "True; nor should I ask you to." "And is it all truth that is whispered about?" "No; it is all tulacbood, my doar lady, based upon a fragment of truth. The atom cd verity in this instance being that I did go to a laco-abop this morning. UNQU the ago and man Then the rest of the story?" sormation Universa sto "Is completo nonsense. I cannot clear myeolf of so absurd an accusation, my deur lody-it in scarcely in my way; but if you will set mo right with society, I shall be immensoly obliged." brown which b mercial "And what am I to my " 1 Bession o afth stre "Don Silves." wealthy He spoke in a remarkably soft voice to a gentle-reputatic man, very young, who was passing, a lovely wo-week, la man lonning on his arms. and a vie nize the The gentleman addressed started, Immediately placed the Indy under the care of a gentleman, and respectfully approached the sofa on which Don Alvarez and the aged lady were seated. "How did I pass my morning ?" kindly, a for whic when th Sabbath 4 overwbe t late days "Chiefly in your library, Don Alvarez." "I went ent, and, as you were with me, you can cure eve popolar tell this Indy where I went." 10 "You paid, don, several visita; callod at a while be tempere Boriet's and a Ince-shop." Decall P "How long dul I reunin at the florist'?" "A few moments. imp pesit 8 of at "And bow long at the Ince-seller's." "Also a few moments, What extraordinary questions, Don Alvarez !" his elgo seening t al small n d "Perbapa. When I went into the litlle room, behind the lace-selloc's shop, what happened?" "When you went into the room, behind the THE nelop, Don Alvarez Pardon me, you did not leave the shop until you returned to ine; I was waiting for the doo," the youth added, turning to to the Indy. ON ent we date, fa 0 "You see, sefors, he speaks quits naturally.eleamon What say you now to this ecandal?" "That it is nonsenso." by the er mudous C. "Go to-morrow, and make inquiries of the lace-ll the er-woman." ocean, et "I will." the to the gl have e d, Twenty-four hours elapsed; then the aged Indy in and Don Alvarez meeting, ehe expressed herself dy quite outraged at the scandal that had been cir- culntod against Don Alvarez. of the he najtro Spania the aziest baggs in- (vol out "I went this morning," she said, "to the lace- woman, and very cleverly qarstioned her. When point-blanl: I asked her if you had taken a small parcel into the innor room and wept over it, she smiled, apparently with pily, and repliod: Non- Bunse, sefiors: the don catne as a customer, t?" bought as one, and went away as he came. railro the by set op -00: to ber don likely for bet o "The woman, seliora, spoke the simple truth," "Then what are we to think of the person who circulated the untrutus?" the e ves the I "One of two things." rande ous "What are they?" Das "Either that abo is very foolish, or ceed HAN ut a Jazy 80, "Or?" "Or mad." part balle dame ther turk all THE NATIONAL LINCOLN MONU-ver of Je MENT, BY L. C. MEAD, JR. the be cross (ay Tro don pro not Punde se Dear THE beautiful engraving on onr front page, of the model of the National Monument to Abrobem Lincoln, designed by Atr. Larkin G. Mead, the Vermont eculptor, will attract attention from all admirers of the plastic art, as well as from all who thtok that the country ought to put up a memorial to the late President. It worthy both of the entject and of the republic. are being collected by several different organizations w far the erection of Linedin monumente. A coutaittee min to c in this city have in hand some $11,000, and the Spring. und Deld, Illinote, comitice have about $50,000. The ma oise-grand design of Mead will cost $250,000, if completed f pered in all the rich detais. Be mede his modal in Florence, dan min in and brought it with him to this country, and it is now, extra- together with several of his statoes, on exhibition at xican the Tonth Street Sixdio Buisdag. his seep ma 100 dec Ar. Mead deserves special consideration from the fact that, while others have only talked of the cer of abubal at ing to obligation to erecta nonument to the "Patriarch of t con- the Niaeleonth Century," he has, at his own expeure, mg in-produced a model, some afteen feet bigl, of a monu-att ment expressly intended for him. The approach is by eight circular slegs, of the top of which, at the four cha cardinal points, stand life-sizo Egures, the bugler, the fa drunter, the flag-boy and the alor, which idealize re familier American suljects into beralds of the fame of w Sa shion talk of ed. deter- the Great Departed. From the circular platform, 33 notion-reached by these stepa, is an octagonal buse, twelve IL seet in height, the tour pediments of which are mar at you, mounted by four groups of four or Evo Digures ench, nine feet in beight, representing respectively artillery, infantry, cavalry and the navy-ach groop being full act in of life and vigorous action. The panele between the poliments contain bas-relief, repreecuting a regiment ecupa- coing to the war, another welcomed bome, s Duvel ebo Eigement, and the angelin uunstrations of our fair the he country-women in the hospitals. The figures in the bas-reliefs are to be four feet in height, and will average about twenty to each panel. Ds." These subjects are rendered peculiarly appropriate, by the fact that the war had actually oegun when Mr. is was first inaugurated; and that he finally lost in the war, not less truly than if he had 3 o word, is 18." Had to bear fatken on the field. From this ootagoen baso rises a shaft of 100 feet in beight, on which is senlossal statue of Mr. Lincoln, thirleon feet high, holding bis pen of emancipation; thos reserving for the planacle the commemoration of might the greatest event of this contury-the bestowal of, which berty upon 4,000,000 of bunso being. liberty it some- The picture, even in fancy, of such a monument, standing cuid the quiet scenery of a lovely Western Jandarape, cannot well fail to raise a thrill of pride alace- that our country conld pronnce at once such a states. you by man, and an artist so capable of worthily memorializing ou from bl; and it should awake a general resolve to do the utmost to secure the erection of this grand, besutiful malace and appropriate monument. career hid your It will be remembered that Mr. Mead begen his sculptor, career on by the erection of a spow statue on sculptor, 1 of the Recording Angel," one New Year's night st mo quite Brattleboro, V., which so astonished all New England, and put its author at once into the front rank of bia markable profession. Is not bere, in this monument, something worthy of his culmination-a record of patriotic glory, nt even for the pen of that Bocording Angel REV. E. H. CHAPIN AND HIS NEW CHURCH. UNQUESTIONADIX the most eloquent man of the ego in America, laking into consideration words and manner, and weighing all ble utterances for the sormation of a standard-to the Rev. Edwin H. Chaplu Universalist, no luog ieistering in the Gothic-freeted brown stone church on Broadway below Houston street, which ben recently given way to the march of com- movcial improvement, and now about to take pos- Bession of the new church on Fi:th Avenue near Forty. afth street, built for him by a denomination equally wealthy is the world's goods and proud of the picty and reputation of their great apostle. We present, this week, in connection, a portrait of the reverend doctor and a viour of ble now church. Thousands will recog ntro the excellence of the portrait, in which the broad, kindly, genial face savors so little of that clase-arrosoco for which so many ecoleslastics are noted; and no doubt when the new church becomes fixed fact in the Sabbath resources of the city, it will prove quite au overwbeludogly popular on did the old house is those Late days when only early attendance could hope to se cure even the most retired sest within its portals. T popularity of the preacher in ne natural as decided; for whilo be bas long been known as on earnest advocate of se has temperance and all the humanitarian canses, be generally obetained, with great wiedom, from "proach- ng pelitica" na it is termed, and achieved the desider of odding every year to the thousands respecting his sincerity and acknowledging his usefulness, without seenting to add a single name to the infinitesimally small number of als enemies. THE CREAT FIRE AT ASPINWALL, October 10th, 1860. 4 20 0 ONE of our graphic illustrations for the pres ent weak: shows the great are at Aapiawall, at the above date, from a drawing by C. C. Korbi, Eq, of the U.S. steatoor De Soto, Asglowall, as all Californis travelers by the Tethmone route are well amare, la the Atlantic tor ulous of the Panama Railroad, through which passes all the immense travel and freightage from ecou to ocean, and most of them are also aware that it is one of the most miserable, shiftless and detestable towns on y the globe. Most of the inhabitants are negroen, who elf have emigrated there from Jamaica, or the descendants of those esalgrants. There are also a few native white, negroes and balf-breeds, nearly all of whom speak the Spanish language. The negrors and ball-broods are the e-laziest race conceivable, and subelet chicfly by carrying en baggage for passengers, with what other employment all (levolving not-too-mandi labor) they can procure on the he railroad. They occasionally change the anode of living on-by setting fire to the miserable town, and thus securing or, no opportunity of robbing the whites who may happen to have anything, and especially strangers who are very likely to be well provided. The fire of the 10th of Octo ber originated at about half past one in the morning, in the eastern part of the town; ond when discovered from the De Soto, only a few minutos leter, almost the whole astern part was in a blaze. Commodoro Bongs, of the De Soto, with Ensign Princo and a force of the crew, sac- ceeding in arresting the progress of the fines, on the laxy notives never would have done; and the remaining part of the town, as well as the invaluable railroad and buildings, were the awed from destruction, after the damago had reached some $350,000 to $100,000-asuna twice as great, by the way, on the whole town would U- over have been worth, but for the American enterprise of John L. Stopheus and his companions and encensors. b." ho, of bem Dont antry throat an Wednesday iustility to instility to TEETH IN THE TimoAT!-The other evening. says the Newark (N. J.) Advertiser), a gentlemann from Troy, staying in Morris county, consulted one of our the prominent surg-ons for a difficulty in his throat, which entirely prevented his swallowing either food or water. dent. It seems that on the Tuesday night previous, he had unde slept very soundly, after excesive satigue. tions morning he aroko with a sore throat and an mittee allow. At the sin time an artificial tooth, and ring to a galls-percha plate about two inches long by oue und a half wide, was missing. Diligent noarch was The nule for the plate, but it could not be sound, nor was leted it found until the Newark nurgcon detected it on Satur rence day, lodged for down in the pharynx and beyond the now, ach of a finger, After considerstão difculty the ou as margeon succeeded in getting a hook below it, and flirt ing it out upon the floor. Tuo men left for bome next moralng, quite relievod, but feeling the effect of four an the days' stacvetion, thirst and elespdessDEM. MoralRemovo your false tooth when you go to bed topal wch of at night. pouse, AN ELEPHANT ON A BENDER-The bigelephant attached to Dan Rice's cireas, that exhibited at Utlea last als by Saturday says the Utica Observer of a lete date), con four cluded to go co a rid last night. fined him in the tent on the commons, er, the Bie keeper had con- back of the and Sealize reservoir, for the ulabt, and then, thinking his chargo ame of would bebuve, went to his hotel in the naiddle of the tforms, night the police at the station house were aroused by a twelve on roching in, so excited that he could hardly speak. He declared that the wild beasts had broken loose, and we war that, bended by the elephant, they had made an attack cech, cn Corn fill; that the citizens of that locality were Bee tillery, ing wildly for their lives, and that be had barely cacaped tillery. ng full to tell the talel The driver of hle elephantship w en the aroused, and, on proceeding to the scene of elephant was found in a garden, corner of Steuben and action, the cabbages, turnipe and Somebody who watched his giment Lagle strecta, quielly munching vel Dolor "garden so." wur fair motions caye leoces were no protection at all. Be would in the quickly pick up a length of feneo and lay it on one side, and thenley into the covered cabbages. In a abort average te the contents of three gardens bad been disposed average tue the contents of out for more provialone when et, and bo was opriate, the keeper arrived and relieved the anxiety of the in- beblists of that locality. en Mr. ally lost he had PERSONAL EXPENSES OF THE PRESENT POPE. The Rev. Canco Daly, parish priest in a rural district in the south-west of Ireland, says, after a recent vilt feet in to Rome, in the coume of a reply to an address of con- Lincoln, gratulation from his parislilopers: "His prsent Boll yotion: stion; pes, whose eminent virtues entitlo him to the res ation of bered among the most illustrious and saus Howal of predeces and invulnubio works. owal of predecessors, la incessantly engaged in carry great of bla The susah revenno out tho B which bo receives la alsacat wholly applied to charitable aument, and religious uses. His personal expenses do not Western amount to one scudo a day, which is less than äve of pride shillings of our money; and while other crowned beads are wasting in destructive ware, or projects of anera etates. vanity and family aggrandizement, the blood and wealth rializing of their subjects, Lo who, like his Divine Master, goes o do the about doing good, bas been selected, it seems by their beautiful Majestles of France and Italy, to be plandered of that time-sooured patrimong which even the Goth and Vandal had epared and respected." egen his hardly be raslotained with any truth that The Fopo ba ow atetue leads a Jolly Life." WEATEVER benevolent action is done without ak of bis being ostentations and without the public being witness omething should be entirely avoided, for good actions deserve to otic glory, be placed in the light, bat, notwithstanding this, the greatest theatre for virtue in conscience, After this it can night at England, 129
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