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Attorney and counsellor at Law,
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'OfliCe at Residence, East Avenue, Norwalk,
.'Will furnish Plans, Specifications, Detail
, 'hle' Block, Cha‘pelsstq New Haven, Ct. tf52
. Iron woe; and dealer in Stoves, Ranges,
' Furnaces, Cutlery, Brittannia, Wooden and
."§;Btee1’ Cptlery, Guns, Agriciiltural Imple-
,.t‘ashipnahle Draper & Tailor,
', Groceries-;Plour, Peed, &c.,
Insure aggius’thss and damage by Fire,
' i ‘ GEORGE ILCOWLES, Sole Agent
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NORWALK :GAgiETTE.
OFFICE IN» GAZETTE BUILDING.
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Wugouers, per year .
Those living out of any Carrier’s District, if
paid one yearviii advance,
Clubs of six or more sent to one address, to be
paid in advance,
single copies 4 cents. I
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plated at the time of contract. _
Cards, Resolutions, Funeral and all other SpeCial No-
tices, 25 per cent. additional on the above.
:5” These terms will be inflex1bly adhered tug
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
Norwalk Post Office.
.HAILS CLOSE
West 7.30 A. M.——-2.30 P. M.
East 8.30 A. .M.-—5.00 P. M. '
Danbury. 8: Norwalk Railroad 8.50 A.
Weston, Bedding and Bedding Ridge, 1 ues-
days, Thursdays and-Saturdays, at 12 M.
NAILS DUE.
West 9.10 A. M.—6.00 P. M.
East 8.20 A. M.,—-3.30 P. M.
Danburydt Norwalk Railroad 8.00 A. M.
~ POST OFFICE nouns.
From 7.00 A. M. to 8.00 P. M.
. CHARLES OLMSTEAD, I’. M.
s-rnrnrinr “Tacoma,
' Collector. .
Oflice at the Store of S. & L. Curtis,
Norwalk, Conn.
ROOFING SLATE,
Prom Vermont, J
VERY CHEAPyl"
At South Norwalk by ' ' :
H. n"iVINg.,£~
Tin: ALLISJOUSEfii-
.IIouser» '
3,1’0li.‘ilin Union-st,
"'C‘onn.
.- t‘ROI‘RIETOR.
- .. MOSM N, M. 3.,
Office over C. T. Cornwa PS Store, first buil-
ding east of Nordalk Hotel,
NORWALk, CONN.
References l'
me- J- Beakley, Dean, of he Faculty,
Profs. R. Kirby, Homoep hie Medical Col-
lege, New York city, or
G. W. Swazey, M. D., Springfield, Mass. 21
once opposite Congregational Church,
L . SOUTH NORWALK, CONN.
SURGICAL AND ITECIIANICAL
Connecticut. ‘
‘ ,, , »_Architectnre.
SIDNEY M.‘S'1'ONE,
: ARCHITECT,
Drawings, and ‘superintend the erection of
public and private buildings. Oflice in Mar-
Eo: F. B‘ELDEN, Norwaik, Conn.,Man-
‘ ,ufa'cturer“ Of Tin, Copper, and Sheet
Willow Ware, Crockery ; ‘and a full assort-
,.ment of=House Keeping articles generally.
I I E. BISSELL, Auctioneer, will give
articular attention to sales by Auc-
Household Furniture : terms low.
was STREET ecu.
Importérs {wholesale and ,'_retail dealers in
.n Ann‘wanzi, Inom,
_-.‘ nieuts, Oils, Paints, Window Glass, &.c.
I
C. S; I-OCEWOOD,
, and
GENTLEMEN‘S FURNISHING
, EMPOBIUM 2
NO. 3 Skiddy’s Block, Main-st, Norwalk, Ct.’
s- It? itinerant a co.,
Wholesale and 'Retail‘ Dealers in
14 and 16 , Main-st, Norwalk, Conn.
Of Hartford.
Incorporated in 1819, Charter Perpetual.
_ Gash Capitol $1,000,000
on. Terms Adapted to the hazardmntl
cousiutent- With the laws of
. compensation.
For Norwalk and vicinity.
FINE variety Of Meersehaum, Lam
and China. Pipes and Cigarv'l’uhes may
fl
New Meat Market.
HE Subscriber would respectfully inform
the public’that he has
' REJIO VED HIS STAND
to Curlis’ Building, Main Street, and
tends keeping constantly on hand the chm-
-.cest of‘Beef, Pork, Mutton, Poultry, &c.,_ &c,
3‘“Having had long experience in the busmcss
.he is ,confidentlpf his taking; ti: rESSZZIfuIfir
' .‘leillllc ariiag .
sunroof tl l P JAMES B .
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NOEWalk‘ Nflhlfithplwlu :2. ' (a:
sperm on.
” DRESS MAKING:
HE subscriber would inform her friends
nud’the’ Ladies of Norwalk generally
that she has again commenced the Dress
Making Business, and would solicit their
patronage. She cuts by measure, and will
either take work liomc,or go out by the day.
“33 CHARLOTTE DENTON.
INSURANCE.
THE subscriber having taken the agency
of the New England Fire and ilIa'rine In-
surance Co. of Hartford, is prepared to insure
all kinds of property against loss or damage
by fire, on as accommodating terms as any
other Company. ,
The. New England Fire and Marine Insu-
irancc Company has been recently established
.with a paid in capital of $200,000 and has a
lain-plus of $6,295.00. -
. JOSEPH W. HUBBELL,
Agent-for Norwalk and vicinity.
Nor walk, Fab. lst, 1861.. tf5
Gotta Percha &. India Rubber
' ' - CEMENT noornvc.
I ‘HIS article has been thoroughly tested by
builders, Architects, and others, and the
experience of years has proved it to be the
cheapest and most durable roofing in use.
‘We call attention to the following facts :
lst—It is fire and water proof. _ . _
2d—-—From its great elasticity it is not inju-
riously affected by extremes of heat and cold.
3d——It is adapted to all kinds of Roofs,
whether steep or flat, and is not in want of
constant repairs, as is the case With metal and
other roofs. ‘
4th—The cost is only about One-Half that
of Tin, and it is twice as durable.
great desideratuin to parties who do not wish
to risk having their Ceilings and furniture ru-
ined, while repairs are being made. - .
Leaky Tin and Metal Roofs are readily re-
prevented from further corrosion and leaking
thereby insuring a perfectly water-tight roof
for many years. - .
Specimens of the Roofing can be seen by
calling on the subscriber, at South Norwalk.
All orders by letter will receive prompt at-'
tention. D. F. HUNT, South Norwalk.
_ A. JACKSON a 330.
‘- No. 1 Gazette Building.
“7 OULD respectfully announce to the
9 public and their old customers, that
they have rccentlymade extensive additions
to their stock of goods. We are now prepar-
d to offer an assortment not to be surpassed
11 Fairfield County, in quality or price. We
would call particular attention to our stock of
Watches, which is larger, than ever before.—
We have a fine lot of Ladies’ Swiss Watches,
in gold cases, at prices varying from $20 to
$75, which we can recommend as being cor-
rect time keepers. Also, Gentlemen’s Watch-
es, in silver and gold cases, at an price from
$5 to $100. We buy.of the best importers in
New York, and altogether for cash, so that
Our facilities for selling cheap could not be
‘ eater. Our “stock Of Jewelry, Silver and
lated Wares was never better than at pres-
ent, and comprises all of the latest styles that
are manuihcturcd. A. JACKSON 8:. BRO.
H. QUINTABD 6t SONS,
Cabinet M. akera ;
At their Old Established Ware Rooms,
Emit Side the Bridge, i
OPPOSITE PHCENIX BLOCK.
AVE now on hand the largest and best
assortment of Cabinet Furniturc,Chairs,
Looking Glasses, Mattresses, etc., cveri-ofl'crcd
for sale in this place, which we have just pur-
chased for melt, at extremely low prices, and
intend ‘to sell accordingly. .g
= We also keep constantly on hand, Ready
Made Coflins of all sizes and descriptions, from
the most costly RosOWood to the plaintist ever
used.
From our long experience in the Underta-
king Business, we are confident we can give
perfect satisfaction to all who may need our
services. 37
Groceries Cheaper than ever
" FOB CAS H!
r: HE subscriber would inform the public
generally, that he still continues to sell
the best of Groceries, Provisions, etc., at his
old stand, No. 4 Skiddy’s Block, as cheap as
the cheapest. He offers great inducements
t6 cash buyers, as he has as large an assort-
iI'ie t 'of groceries of the best qualities. as can
be found at any store in the country. He
would invite the special attention of all to his
stock of , ,- .
COFFEES, TEAS AND SUGARS,.
which are ofthe very best quality, and will
be sold cheap. The public are invited to call
and examine and judge for themselves.
A. MOREHOUSE.
SbUTH-NORWALK
Indies ' and Gents’
Boot ch Shoe <Store.
'1‘HE subscriber, having taken the'business
and stand of Stevens & Tristraui, is pre—
pared to supply every article to'he found in a
first class Boot and Shoe Establishment, for la-
dies, gentlemen, or children‘s wear.
Our goods are manufactured expressly for
our'own sales, and warrant all work sold by
us. Always on hand, or made to order at
short notice, ,
,Cen'ts’ Patent Leallwr Boots, Shoes, disc. ,-
Ladics‘ Gaiters, die, die. ;1 Children’s
Gaiters, and Shoes, etc, «in, die.
Rubber goods ; a large stock kept constantly
on hand. Repairing done neatly and crpedi-
enilg. , HARVEY STEVENS.
South Norwalk (No. 3, E1y.’s Block), April
7, 1860.
Tonnrrfinni
THE subscriber is now prepared. to ofler to
' the public, at his old stand, as good an
assortment of
Cabinet Furniture
as can be found in Fairfield County, and at
lower prices, FOR CASH, than the some
quality of goods can be obtained at any other
. Establishment.
The stock consists in part of
Marble Top, Extension, Dining, Card, and
Quartette Tables; Bookcases, Bureaus,
' Sofas, Tcte-a—tete Lounges ; Mahog-
any and Cane seat Chairs; Gill
and Mahogany Frame Look-
ing Glasses, &c., 859.
COFFIN WAREROOMS ;
where may be found a'full assortment of Cof-
fins, which will finished in the best possible
manner, and at short notice. ,.
IRE?” A hearse will be furnished when de-
sired. ' l A. RENOUD,
Westport, May lst, 1858. *
Hardware and Cutlery.
Mechanic’s Tools, Farming Utensils, Guns,
Pistols, Iron and Steel, Window
Glass, Paints and Oils.
V TM. C. STREET do ‘CO."li:tve in store
and are constantly receiving direct
from the manufacturers, a large supply of
Foreign and Domestic Goods, under the above
denominatious,which makes their assortment
Of article‘s suited to this inarkct,‘.cquul to any
in the State, and which will be sold either
wholesale or retail on as favorable terms as
can be purchased in New York.
WILLIAM C. STREET,
A. H. VVILCOXSUN.
Panev Goods, die.
A fine assortment of Fancy Goods, Pocket
Cutlery, and a new lot of Rodger’s Scis-
sors, just received and warranted to be a first
rate article. Clocks of all kinds. he have
also the agency Of Merrill’s Oriental Pomade,
W
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Bedfmd’ for “iii. d STREET & co.
* ' factory prices.
It is readily applied to Old Shingle Roofs, ,
Without removing the shingles, which'is a .
paired with Gutta Percha Cement, and 4
. :ply
HARDWARE &. PAINT STDRE,
_Main Street,
Opposite I. H. Campell‘s Confectionery,
MARVIN a PROWITT,
Wholesale and mail Dealers in HardWare,
Cutlery, Paints, Oils, Glass, Paper Hang-
ings, Window Shades, &c.
TIMBER! LUMBER!
lath, Limo, Brick, Cement,
Paints, Oils, Glass,
BUILDERS’ HARDWARE, &C.. &C.,
> AT THE
N e‘vv Lumber Yard,
NEAR THE RAIL ROAD BRIDGE,
SOUTH NORWALK.
Our Stock is ifiew, bought for Cash, and
will be sold low. . TOLLES & ELY.
South Norwalk, Oct. 15, 1860. tf42
No' WALK _
Steam Sawmg. and, Plainin
' M 11 I. 1'- . -
THE subscriber has fitted up and is now
prepared to execute all orders for Pla-
ning; Scroll and other Sawing; manufacture
of Doors, Sash, Blinds, &c., &c.,‘ in the best
and most expeditious manner, and at satis-
Orders by mail prompt] at-
tended to. 1y17 ;TIMOTHY B. FITCH.
House. is; Sign Painting,
GILDING, GLAZING, &e., &c.,
SOUTH NORWALK.
HE subscriber will execute all orders in
Plain or Ornamental Painting in the
'most satisfactory manner, and at reasonable
prices.
Also, For Sale, his present residence (with
his business if desired), comprising a house
nearly new, with garden, trees, shrubbery,
-&c., and a shop thereon. Terms easy. Ap-
on the premises, Opposite Quintard &
Smith’s Carriage Factory, to
s .: GEORGE HODGES.
May 7th, 1860. 1y19
J. N. Locxwoon & co,
West Sideof the Bridge,
L YNES’ NEW BLOCK,
EEP constantly on hand, a large and
varied assortment of Ladies’, Gents’,aiu‘l
Children’s _
GAITERS, BOOTS, SHOES, &c.,
all made under our own personal supervis-
ion, of the best material, and in the most
workinanlike-maiiiier. Our assortment of
Ladics’ Gaiters undoubtedly comprises—both
in exteiitaiid quality—’41 finer assortment than
can be. found at any similar establishment in
. the County. In Gent’s Boots, Gaiters, Shoes,
etc, we have a larger and better assortment,
we are confident, than was ever before ofl‘er-
ed in Norwalk. We are prepared to manu-
facture, to measure any article in our line, and
at the shortest notice. . ,
. Misses’ and Children’s Shoes, Rubbers, etc.,
in endless variety. A fine article of Slippers
for Gents’ wear.
REPAIRING—in all its branches—done
neatly, quickly, and cheaply.
Whitney’s
Photographic and Fine Art
‘ GALLERY,
NORWALK, CONN.
ATE E. B. THOMPSON’S. E T. Whitney
would inform the citizens of Norwalk
that he has established himself in the Gazette
Building, andjwill furnish them with Photo-
graps, Anibro’types, and all kinds of Pictures
taken by the sun, from Miniatures, to life
size; colored" or plain; in the hi host style
of the art. E. T. WH TNEY.
Tomb Stones chonuments,
. AT THE
NORWALK MARBLE YARD.
. Near the Bridge, Norwalk, Conn.
' ‘i EPULCHRAL Monuments and Grave
Stones of every variety of patterns, and
of‘thc most skillful workmanship. The best
assortment ofAmericau and Foreign Marble,
kept constantly on hand.
Persons wishing to procure Monuments or
any kind Of Marble Works, are invited to call
and give a personal inspection of his material
and workmaniship, as this will be more satis-
factory than to purchase of agents without an
opportunity of testing the quality of the arti-
cle contractedfor.
his?“ The Lettering and Ornamental work
are executed by experienced workmen, and
can warrant it to give entire satisfaction.
. ' J. M. SMITH.
importantto owners of Horses.
f2. _, 13-“ 3.- SWAN.
‘Saddl‘er 16L Harness Maker,
Adjoining Danbury & Norwalk R. R. Depot
- NORWALK, CONN,
KEEPS constantly on hand and will make
to order .‘every description of
IInvr'ness, l '
Horse Furniture,
Trapping: 0) Clothing.
Also Saddler’s Hardware
and outfits.
Trunks, Valises, Carpal Bags, (3-0.
All in wantfof anything in his iine,will do
'well to give him a call. Orders for any kind
of work promptly executed. Repairing done
neatly and cheaply, and at short notice.
III-3231' IGBPEL,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
ADJ OININ G Store of Knapp & Lynes,
‘ Main-st.,'Norwalk, Conn. The public
are respectfully invited to call and examine
the large and varied assortment of READY
MADE CLOTHING, French Cloths, Cassi-
meres and Vestings, also a general assortment
of Geiitlenien‘s Furnishing Goods, consisting,
in part, of Hats, Caps, Umbrellas, Shirts, Col-
lars, Cravats, Handkerchiefs, Suspenders, &c.
Cloths, Cassimeres and Vestings by the yard
or pattern, and out free of charge. Particular
attention paidto Children’s Garments.
for Sale.
A very desirable small Farm, on the turn-
g pike to lN. Y., and about 10 minutes’
drive from the N. Y. & N. 11. Depot. Said
farm contains about 14 acres has all kinds of
Fruit in full hearing; large Barn and Car-
riage House in good repair, and a very con-
venient House. Terms reasonable. Apply
to :T. B. Griffith,- So. Norwalk. '
Also, a Houie and Lot on Flax Hills-aterms
reasonable. I, lso, House and Store in South
Norwalk, The undersi ned attends to the
purchase and sale of Rea Estate, on reason-
able tcrms.' ‘ t134= T. B. GRIFFITH.
. ROOFING.
VI‘HE subscriber is prepared to furnish par-
ties, building, with Warren’s superior
. FELT AND CEMENT ROOFING.
This article of Roofing is: in' use upon the
Norwalk Lock Company’s Building, and at
Lounsbury, Blssell &. Co s, where it gives en.
tire satisfaction, and is belicvtd to, he the
cheapest as well as the best ro: ing in use.—
All orders will receive prompt ttention.
3 . C. 1‘ LOOMIS.
A SUPERIOR Machine for- futting Hay,
Straw and Stalks, for an! at the New
Hardware Store of MARVIN At PROWITT
Main Street. '
something new, and needs only to be tried to
be appreciated. A. J I{ACKSON do BRO-
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BURNING FLUID, the best, for sale at ”1
s. E. OLMSTEAD or cons. ;
- lice-door,
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From, the February Atlantic Monthly.
BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC.
BY MRS. JULIA \VARD H0\VE.
Lord:
lie is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of
,wrathare stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightningofllis terrible
swift sword:
. His truth is marching on.
I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred cir-
cling eamps ; . ,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews
and damp:- ;
I have read Ilis righteous sentence by the dim and
finrnig lamps :
Ilis day is marching on._
I have read a fiery gospel writ ‘in burnished rows of
steel: ‘
“As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my
grace shall deal;
—Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent
with his heel,
' Since God is marching on.”
call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judg-
ment seat:
on, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubi-
lant, my feet!
our God is marching on i
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across
the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and
me:
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make
men free,
While God is marching on.
.____.——oo<.>~
' From the Atlantic :lIIonlhly.
LOVE AND SKATES.
In Two Parts.
BY THE LATE MAJ. THEODORE WINTHROP.
PART 1.
Continued.
CHAPTER IV.
A CHRISTMAS GIFT.
The pioneer sunbeam of next Christmas
morning rattled over the Dunderbunk hills,
flashed into Richard Wade’s eyes, waked him
and was off, rioclietting across the black ice
of the river.
Wade jumped up, electrified and jubilant.
He had gone to bed,feeling quite too despon-
dent for so healthy a fellow. Christmas Eve,
the time of family-meetings, reminded him
how lonely he was. 'He had not a relative in
the word,except two little, nieces,--one as high
as his knee, the other almost up to his waist;
and them he had safely bestowed in a nook
of New England, to gain wit and virtues as
they gained inches.
’ “I have had a stern and lonely life,” thought
vWade, as he blew out his candle last night,
“and what has it profited me ?"
Perhaps the pioneer sunbeam answered
plicable as in this case,—.—“A brave, able, self-
rcspecting manhood is fair profit for any
man‘s first thirty years of life.” '
_ But, answered or not, the question troubled
Wade no more. He shot out of bed in tip-
; top spirits; shouted “Merry Christmas t" at
the rising disk of the sun; looked over the
black ice; thrilled with the thought of along
holiday for skating; and proceeded to dress
in a knowing suit of rough clothes, singing,
“Ah, non giunge!” as he slid into them.
Presently, glancing from his south window
he observed several matinal smokes rising
from the chimneys of a country house a mile
away on a slope fronting the river.
“Peter Skeirett must be back from Europe
at last,” he thought; “I hope he is as fine a
fellow as he was ten years ago, I hope mar-
riage has not made him a muff, and weak-
ling.”
Wade went down to breakfast with an he-
roic appetite. His “Merry Christmas” to
Mrs. Purtett was followed up by a ravisbed
kiss and the gift of a silver butter-knife. The
good widow did not know which to be most
charmed with. The butter-knife was genu-
ine, shining, solid silver, with her initials,
M. B. P., Martha Bilsby Purtett, given in
luxuriant flourishes; but then the kiss had
such a fine twang, such an exhilarating titil-
lation! The late Perry’s kisses, from first to
last, had wanted point. They were, as the
Spanish proverb weald put it, unsavory as
unsalted eggs, for want of a moustache. The
widow now percevied, with mild regret, how
much she had missed when she married “a
man all shaven and shore.” Her cheek, still
fair, though forty, flushed with novel delight
and she appreciated her lodger morcthan ever.
Wade’s salutation to Belle Purtett was
more distant. There must be a little friend-
ly reserve between a handsome young man
and a pretty young woman sev l grades
lower in the social scale, living i ‘the same
however; and her gift-ofcourse embroidered
slippers—and his to her—of course “The I!-
lustrated Poets,” in Turkey inorrocco—were
exchanged, with tender good will on both
sides. .
“We shall meet on the ice,'Miss Belle,”
said Wade. “It is a day of a thousand for
skating.” ‘
“Mr. Riugdove says you are a famous ska-
ter,” Belle rejoined. “He saw you on the
river yesterday evening.”
“Yes; Tarbox and I were practising to ex-
hibit today; but I could not do much with
my old dull skates."
Wade breakfasted deliberately, as a holi-
day morning allowed, and then walked down
to the Foundry. There would be no work
done today, except by» a small gang keeping
up the fires. The Superintendent wished
only to give his First Semi-Annual Report
an hour‘s polishiiig,before joined all Dunder-
bunk on the ice. ' K ,
It was a halcyon day, worthy of its motto,
“Peace on earth, good-will to man.” The
air was electric the sun overflowing with jolly
shine, the river smooth and slieeny from the
hither bank to the snow mountains opposite.
“1 wish I were Rembrandt, to point this
grand shadowy interior,” thought Wade, as
he entered the silent, deserted Foundry.—
“With the gleam of the snow in my eyes, it
looks deliciously warpi and Chiaroscuro—
When the men are here and ‘fe-riict opus}-
the pot mils—.1 cannot stop to see the pic-
turesque.“ 1
He opened his office, took his Report and
began to complete it with ,s, ;s, and ,s in the
right places. ‘
All at once the bell of the Works rang out
loud and. clear. Presently the Superintendent
came aware of a tramp and a bustle in the
building. By-aud-by cameo tap at the of-
“Come in,” said Wade, and, entered young
Perry Purtett.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the
great silence.
this question with a truism, not always as ap-
house. They were on the most cordial terms.
Perry was a boy of fifteen, with hair the
color of fresh sawdust, white eye brows, and
an uncommonly wide-awake look. Ring-
dove, his father’s successor, could never teach
Perry the smirk, the grace,and the seductive-
ncss of the counter, so the boy had found his
place in the finishing-shop of the Foundry.
“Some of the hands would like to see you
for lialfva jifi‘, Mr. Wade,” said he. - “Will
ybu come along, if you please ‘2” ,
There was a good of deal easy swagger about
Perry, as there is always in boys and men
whose business is to watch the lunging of
steam-engines. Wade followed him, Perry
led the way with a jaunty air that said,—
“Room here ! Out of the way, you lubber-
ly bits‘of cast iron! Be careful, now, you
big derricks. or I ’ll walk right over you !—
Room now for Me and My suite 1”
This pompus usher conducted the Super-
intendent to the very spot in the main room
' of the Works, where, six months before, the
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never
Inaugural had been pronounced and the first
Vieto spoken and enacted.
And there, as six months before, stood the
Hands awaiting their Head. But the aprons,
the red shirts, and the grime of working-days
were ofl‘, and the whole were in holiday rig,
—as black and smooth and shiny from top to
toe as the members of 9. Congress of Under-
takers. -
Wade, following in the wake of Perry,
took his stand facing the rank, and waited to
see what he was summoned for. He had
not long to wait. I
To the front stepped Mr. William Tarbox,
foreman of the finishing shop, no longer a
bhoy, but an erect, fine-looking fellow, with
no nitrate in his moustache, and his hat per-
manently out of morning for the late Mr.
Poole. . ~
“Gentlemen,” said Bill, “I move that this
meeting organize by appointing Mr. Smith
Wheelwright, Chairman. As many as are in
favor of this motion, please to say ‘Aye.’ ”
“Aye i” said the crowd, very loud and big.
And then every man looked at his neighbor,
a little abashed, as if he himself had made all
the noise. ‘
“This is a free country,” continues Bill.—
“Every woter has a right to a fair shake. -
Contrary minds, ‘No.”’
No contrary minds. The crowd uttered a
Every man looked at his
neighbor, surprised to find how well they
agreed. -
“Unanimous l” Tarbox pronounced. “No
fractious minorities here, to block the wheels
of legislttion l”
The crowd burstjn to' a roar at this signifi-
cant remark, and, again abaShed, dropped
portcullis on its laughter,cutting off the flanks
and tail of the sound. '
“Mr. Purlett, will you please conduct the
Chairman to the Chair,” says Bill, very.
stately.
“Make way here!” cried Perry, with the
mannery of a man seven feet high. “Step
out now, Mr. Chairman!”
He took a big, grizzled, docile-looking
fellow patronizingly by the arm, led him for-
ward, and chaired him on a large cylinder.
head, in the rough, just hatched out of its
mould.
“Bang away with that, and sing out ‘Si-
lence 1’” says the knowing boy, handing
-Wheelwright an iron bolt, and taking his
place beside him, as prompter.
The docile Chairman obeyed. At his
breaking silence by booting “Silence t” the
an dienee had another mighty bobtailed laugh.
“Say, “Will some honorable member state
the object of this meeting?’ ” whispered the
prompter.
“Will some honorable member state the
subject of this ’ere meetin’?” says Chair, 11
little bashful and confused.
Bill Tarbox advanced, and with a formal
bow, began,—
“Mr. Chairman”—
“Say, ‘Mr. Tarbox has the floor,’ ” piped
Perry.
“Mr.~ Tarbox has the floor,” diapasoned the
Chair.
“Mr. Chairman and Gentleman”—Bili
began and stopped.
“Say, ‘Proceed, Sir !’ ” suggested Perry,
which the senior did, magnifying the'boy’s
whisper a dozen times.
Again Bill began and stopped.
“Boys,” said he, dropping grandiloquence,
“when I accepted the office of Orator of the
Day at our primary, and promised to bring
forward our Resolutions in honor of Mr.
Wade with my best speech, I did n’t think I
was going to have such a head of steam on
that the wolves would get stuck and the pis.
ton jammed and I could n’t say a word.
“But he continued, warming up “when I
think of the Indian pow wow‘we had in this
very spot six months ago,——and'what a mean
bio t I was, going to the stub-tail dogs with
niyahat over my eyes,—nnd what a hard lot
we were all round,livia’ on nothing but argee
whiskey, and rampin’ oil on headers instead
of makin’ good iron,—and how the Works
was flat broke,—and how Dunderbunk was
full of women crying over their husbands and
mothers ashamed of their ans,—boys, when
I think how things, was, and see how they
are, and look at Mr. Wade standing there
like a”— _
Bill hesitated for a comparison.
“Like a thousand of brick,” Perry Purtett
suggested, sotto race. '
The Chairman took this as a hint to him-
self. '
“Like a thousand of brick,” he said, with
the voice of a Senator.
Here the audience roared and cheered and
the Orator got a fresh start.
“When you came, Mr. Wade,” he resumed,
“we was about sick of putty-heads,and sneaks
that didn’t know enough or did n’t dare to
make us stand round and bone in. You walk-
ed in, b’ilin’ over with grit. You took hold
as if you belonged here. You made things
jump like a two-headed tarrier. All we
wanted was a live man, to say, ‘Here, boys,
all together now i You ’ve got your stint,
and I ’ve got mine. I’m boss in this shop,—
but I can’t do the first thing, unless every
man pulls his pound. Now, then, my hand
is on the throttle, grease the wheels, oil
the waives, poke the fires, hook on, and let’s
yank her through with a will i’ ”,,,_.
At‘this figure the meeting showed a ten-
dency to cheer. “Silence!” Perry sternly
suggested. “Silence l” repeated the Chair.
“Then,” co inued the Orator, “you was
n’t one of the uneasykiud, always fussin’ and
cussiu’ round. You was n’t always spyin’. to
see we did ii’t take home a cross-tail or a
hundred'weight of cast iron in our pants'
pockets or go to swiggin‘ hot metal out of the
ladies on the sly,”
ges is on the nail.
Here an enormous laugh requited Bill’s
joke. Perry prompted, the Chair banged
with his bolt and cried, “Order!"
“ VVeil, now, boys,” Tarbox went on, what
has come of having one of the right sort to
be boss? Why, this. The Works go ahead
stiddy as the North River. “’0 work full
time and full-handed. We turn out stuff
that no shop needs to be ashamed of. Wu-
We have a good time
generally. How is that, boys,—-Mr. Chair-
man and Gentlemen ?”
“That ’s so l” from everybody.
“And there’s something better yet,” Bill
resumed. “Dunderbunk used to be full of
crying women. They ’ve stopped crying
now.”
Here the whole assemblage, Chairman and
all, burst into an irrepressible cheer.
“But I ’m making my speech as long as a
lightning-rod,” said the speaker. “I ’ll put
.on the brakes, short. I guess Mr. Wade un-
derstands pretty well, now, how we feel; and
if he dou’t here it all is in shape, in this doc-
ument, with ‘Whereas’ at the top and ‘Re-
solved’ entered along down in five pieces.—
Mr. Purtett, will you hand the Resolutions to
.the Superintendent ?”
Perry advanced and did his office loftily
much td the amusement of Wade and the
workmen.
“Now,” Bill resumed, “we wanted, besides
to make you a little gift, Mr. Wade, to re-
member the day by. So we got up a sub-
scription, and every man put in his dime.—
Here ’5 the present,—hand ’em over, Perry !
“There, Sir, is THE BEST PAIR OF SKATES
to be had in York City, made for work, and
no nonsense about ’em. We Dunderbunk
boys give ’em to you, one for all, and hope
you’ll like ’em and beat the world skating,
as you do in all the things we' ’ve knowed
you try.
“N ow, boys,” Bill perorated, “before I re-
tire to the shades of private life, I motion we
give Three Cheers—regular Toplifters—for
Richard Wade l”
“Hurrah! Wirke and Good Government i”
“Hurrah! Wade and Prosperity l” “Hur-
rah! Wade and the Women’s Tears Dry!”
. Cheers like the shout of Achilles! Wield-
ing sledges is good for the bellows, it appears
Topliftcrs overhead had to tug hard to hold
the roof on. Hurrah! From every corner
of the vast building came back rattling ech-
oes. The Works, the machinery, the fur-
naces, the stuff, all had their voice to add to
verdict.
Magnificent music! and our Anglo Saxon
is the only race in the world civilized enough
to join in singing it. We are the only hur-~
rahing people,—the only brood batched in a
“Hurrah’s nest.” '
Silence restored, the Chairman, prompted
by Perry, said, “Gentlemen, Mr. Wade has
' the floor for a few remarks.”
Of course Wade had to speak, and did.—
He would not have been an American in
America else. But his heart was too full
to say more than a few heaity and earnest
words of good feeling.
“Now, men,” he closed, “I want to get
away on the river and see if my skates will
go as they look; so I ’11 end by proposing
three cheers for Smith Wheelwright, our
Chairman, three for our Oratpr, Tarhox, three
for Old Dunderbunk,—Works, Men, Women
and Children; and one big cheer for Old
Father Iron, as rousing a cheer as ever was
reared.”
So they gave their three times three with
enormous enthusiam. The roof shook, the
furnaces rattled, Perry Purtett banged with
the Chairman’s hammer, the great echoes
thundered through the Foundry.
And when they ended With one gigantic
cheer for IRON, tough and true, the weapon,
the tool, and the engine of all civilization,—
it seemed as if the uproar would never cease
until Father Iron himself heard the cal! in
his smithy away under the magnetic pole
and came cl anking up, to return thanks in
person.
CHAPTER V.
SKATING As A FINE ART.
Of all the plays that are played by this
playful world on its play-days, there is no
play like Skating.
To prepare a board for the moves of this
game of games, a panel for the drawings of
this Fine Art, a stage for the enlrechats and
pirouetlos of‘ its graceful adopts, Zero, magi-
cal artificer, had been, for the last two
nights, sliding at full speed up and down the
Ninth river,
We have heard of Midas, whose touch
made gold, and of the virgin under whose
feet sprang roses; but Zero’s heels and toes
were armed with more precious influences.
They left a diamond way where they slid—a
hundred and fifty-miles of diamond, half a
mile wide and six inches thick.
Diamond can only reflect sunlight; ice
can contain it. Zero’s product, finer even
than diamond, was filled—at the rate of a
million to the square foot—with bubbles im-
measurably little, and yet every one big
enough to comprise the entire sun in small,
but without alteration or abridgment, When
the sun rose, each one of these wonderful
cells was ready to catch the tip of a sunbeam
and house it in a shining abode.
Besides this. Zero had inlaid its work 'all
along shore with exquisite niarquetry of
leaves, brown and evergreen, of sprays and
twigs, reeds and grasses. N0 boquet in any
palace from Fontainbleau to St. Petersburg
could show such delicate patterns, or could,
gleam so brightly, though polished with all
the wax in Christendom. ' '
On this fine pavement, all the way from
Cohoes to Spuyten Dayvcl, J ubilec was sli-
ding without friction, the Christmas morning
of these adventures.
' Navigation was closed. Navigators had
leisure. The sloops and schooncrs were fro-
zen in along shore, the tugs and'barges were
laid up in basins, the floating palaces Were
down at New York, deodorizing their, bar~
rooms, rc-gilding their bridal chambers, and
enlarging their spittoon accommodations,
alow and aloft, for next summer. All the
population was out on the ice, skating, sli-
ding, sledding, slipping, tumbling, to its .
heart’s content.
One person out of every Dunderbunk fam-,
ily was of course at home, roasting Christ-
mas turkey. The rest were already at high
Jinks on Zero’s Christmas present, when
Wade and the ineu came down from the
meeting. .
Wade buckled on his new skates in a jiffy.
He stampcd'to settle himself, and then filing
ofl‘ half a dozen circles on the right leg, half
a dozen with the left, and the same with
either leg backward.
ies, showed like a blackboard where a School
. has been chalking diagrams of Euclid, to
point at with the “slow, unyielding finger of
demonstration.
“Hurrah !" cries IVudc, halting in front of
the men, who, some on the Foundry wharf,
some on the deck of our, first acquaintance
at Dunderbunk, the tug “I. Ambuster,” were
putting on their skates or watching him.—
“Hurrah !” the skates are perfection! Are
you ready, Bill ‘3”
“Yes,” says Tarbox, whizzing ofi‘ rings, as
exact as Giotto’s autograph.
“Now then, Wade said, “we’ll give Dun-
derbunk a laugh, as we practised last night.”
They got under full headway, Wade back-
wards, Bill forwards, holding hands. When
they were near enough to the merry throng
out in the stream, both dropped into a sitting
posture, with the left knee bent, and each
with his right leg parallel to the ice and fit-
ting compactly by the other man’s leg. In
this queer figure they rushed through the
laughing crowd. ‘
Then all Dunderbunk formed a ring agog
for a grand show of
SKATING As A FINE ART.
The world loves to see Great Artists, and
expects them to do their duty.
It is hard to treat of this Fine Art by the
Art of Fine Writing. Its eloquent motions
must be seen.
and a Soul, each of the First Order; other-
and skating in one syllable. So much for
yourself, the motive power. And your ma-
chinery—your smooth-bottomed rockers, the
same shape stem and stern,—this must be as
perfect as the man it moves, and who moves
it.
the critics will. say, "See, this athlete does, his
work as Church paints, as Darley draws, as
Palmer chisels, as Whittier strikes the lyre,
and Longfellow the dulcim'er; he is as terse
as Emerson, as clever as Holmes, as graceful
as Curtis; he is as calm as Seward, as keen
as Phillips, as stalwart as Beecher; hc is
Garabaldi, he is Kit Carson, he is Blendin;
he is as complete as the steamboat Metropo-
lis, as Steer’s yacht, as Singer’s sewing-ma-
chine, as Colt’s revolver,as the steam~plough
as Civilization.” You wish to be so 'ranked
among the people and things that lead the
age ;—consider the Qualities" you must have,
and while you cOusiider, keep your eye on
Richard Wade, for li‘éflias them all in per-
fection. '
First,—of ,your physical qualities. You
must bavelungs, not bellows; and an ac-
tive heart, not an assortment of sluggish aur-
icles and ventriCles. You must have legs,
not shanks. Their shape is unimportant, ex-
cept that they must not intcrfereat theknee.
You must have muscles, not flabbiness; and
a thin layer of flesh to cushion the gable-
ends, where you will strike, if you tumble—
which, once for all be it said, you must never
do. You must be all momentum, and no in-
ertia. You must be one part grace, one
force, one agility and the rest caoutchouc,
. Manilla hemp and watch-spring. Your ma-
chine, your body, must be thoroughly obedi-
dient. It must go just so far and no further.
You have got to be as uncrriug as a planet
holding its own, emphatically, between for-
ces centripetal and centrifugal. Your
aylomb must be as accurate as the pounce of
a falcon. '
So much for a few of the physical qualities
necessary to be a Great Artist in Skating.—
See Wane, how he shows them.
Now for the moral and intellectual.—
Pluck is the first,-—it always is-the first qual-
ity. Then enthusiasm. Then patience.—
Then pertinacity. Then a fine :esthetic fac-
ulty,—iu short, good taste. Then an order-
ly and submissive mind, that can consent to
act in accordance with the laws of Art. Cir-
cumstances, too, must have been reasonably
favorable. That well-known skeptic, the
King of tropical Bantam, could not skate,
because he had never seen ice and doubted
even the existence of solid water. Wid-
rington, after the Battle of Chevy Chacc,
could not have skated, because he had no
legs—poor fellow 1
But granted the ice and the legs, then if
you begin in the elastic days of youth, when
cold does not sting, tumbles do not bruise,
and duckings do not wet; if you have pluck
and ardor enough to try everything; if you
work slowly ahead and stick to it; if you
have good taste and a lively invention; if
you'are‘a man, and not a lubber; then, in
fine, you may become a Great Skater, just as
with equal power and equal pains you may
put your Grip on any kind of Greatness.
The technology of Skating is imperfect.—
Few of the great feats, the Big Things, have
admitted names. If I attempted to catalogue
Wade’s achievements, this chapter might be-
come an unintelligible rhapsody. A sheet
of paper and a pen-point cannot supply the
place of a sheet of ice and a skate-edge.—
Geometry must have its diagrams, Anatomy
its corpus to carve. Skating also refuses to
be spiritualized into a Science; it remains
an Art, and cannot be expressed in a formu~
la.
Skating has its Little G9, its Great Go, its
Baccalaureate, its M. A., its F. S. D., (Doc-
tor of Frantic Skipping,) its A. G. D., (Doctor
of Airy Gliding,) its N. T. D., (Doctor of N0
Tumbles,) and finally its highest degree, U.
P., (Unnpproachable Podographer.)
Wade was U, P.
There were a hundred of Dunderbunkers
who had passed their Little GO and could
skate forward and backward easily. A half
hundred, perhaps were through the Great
Go; these could do the outer edge freely.—
A dozen had taken the Baccalaureate, and
were proudly repeating the pirouettcs and
spread-eagles of that degree, A few could
cross their ieet, on the edge, forward and
backward, and shift edge on the same foot,
and so were Mlgislri ATM.
Wade. ‘U. P., added to these an indefinite
list of combinations and fresh contrivances.
He spun spirals slow, and 'spirals neck or
nothing. He pivoted on one toe, with the
other foot cutting rings, inner and outer
edge, forward and back. He skated on one
foot better than the M. A.’s could on both.—
He ran on his toes; he slid on his heels; he
cut up shines like a sunbeam on a bender;
he swung, light as if he could fly, if he pleas-
ed, like a wing-footed Mercury: he glided
as if will, not muscle, moyed him; he tore
about in frcnzics; his pivotal leg stood firm,
his balance leg flapped like a graceful pinion;
he turned sonicrsets; he jumped, whirling
backward as he went, over a platoon of boys
The ice, traced with these white peripher-
To skate Fine Art, you must have a Body i
wise you will never get out of coarse art
Now suppose you wish to skate so that.
laid flat on the ice, the last boy - winced and
thought he was amputated; but. 'Wade flew
over and the boy still holds together as well
most boys. Besides this, hecould write'his
name, with a flourish at the end,fli~ke.the ru-
brica of a Spanish h-idalgo. lie-could podo«
graph any letter,and multitudes of ingenious
curlicucs which might pass forthe alphabets
of the unknown tongues. He co'ild not
tumble. . .
It was Fine Art.
Bill Tarbox sometimes pressed the chain-
pions hard. But Bill stopped just short of
Fine Art, in High Artisansbip.
How Dunderbunk cheered this wondrous
display! How delighted the whole popula-
tion was to believe they . possessed the but
skater- on the- North River! How they
struggled to imitate! How they tumbled,
some on their backs, some on theirfaces,
some with dignity like the dying Cesar,
some rcbelliousiy like a cat thrown out of a
garret, some limp as an ancient acrobate!
How they laughed at themselves and at
each other! ’ .
“It’s all inthe skates,” says Wade, apolo-
gizing for his unapproachable plfiver and
finish.
“It’s suthin’ in the man,” says Smith
Wheelwright. - 3 ' '
“Now chase me, everybody,” said Wade.
And, for a quarter of an hour, he dodged
the merry crowd, until at last, breathless, he
let himself he touched'by pretty Belle Pur-
tett, rosiest of all the Dunderbunk pen of
rosy maidens on the ice.
“He rayther beats Bosting,” says, Captain
Isaac Anibuster to Smith Wheelwrighkt—
. “It‘s so cold there that they can skateallthe
year round ;but he beats them all the some.”
The Captain was sitting in a queer little
bowl'of a skiff on the deck of his tag, and
rocking it likera cradle, as he talked.
“Bosting’s always hard to beat in any-
thing,” rejoined the ex-Chairman. “But if
Bosting is to be beat, here’s the man to do
it]? .
And now, perhaps, gentle reader; you
thinkl have said enough in behalf of Clim-
ited fraternity, the Skaters. ' I
The next chapter, then, shall take up the
cause of the Lovers, a more numerous‘body,
and we will see whether True Leve, which
ne’er makes “smooth running,” can helpits
progress bye skate-blade.
CHAPTER VI.
“Go NOT, HAPPY DAY, TILL THE mm
YIELDS." ’
Christmas noon at Dunderbunk. Every
skater was in gallopping glee—as the elec-
tric air, and the sparkling sun, and the glin-
ting ice had aright to expect that they all
should be.
Belle Purtette, skating simply and well,
had never looked so pretty and graceful. 80
thought Bill Tarbox. ._ _ .. ,
He had not spoken to her, nor she to him,
for more than six months. — , e poorfellow
was ashamed of himself, and ‘penitent‘forhk
past had courses. And so, though belonged
to have his old flame recognize him again,
and though he was bitterly jealous ind mis-
erably afraid he should lose her, heliad kept
away and consumed his heart like a true
despairing lover.
But to-day Bill was a lion, only second to
Wade, the unapproachable lion-in-chiefi—
'Bill was reinstated in public esteem, and had
won back his standing iii‘the Foundry. _ He
had to-day made a speech which Perry Pur-
tett gave everybody to understand “none of
Senator Bill Seward’s could hold the tallow
to.” Getting up the meeting and presenting
Wade with the skates was Bill’s own scheme
and it had turned out an eminent success.—
Everything began to look bright. to him-F-
His past life drifted out of his mind liketlie
rowdy tales he used to read in the Sunday
newspapers. ‘
He watched Belle Purtett all the morning
and saw that she distinguished nobody with
her smiles, not even that coq (lu m’llage, Ring-
dove. He also observed that she was fur-
tively watching him. ,
By-aud-by she sailed out of the crowd and
went off a little way to practise.
“New,” said he to himself, “sail in, Bill
’ Tarbox l”
Belle heard the sharp strokes of a power-
ful skater coming after her. Her heart di~
vined who this might'be‘. She sped away
like the swift Camilla, and her modest dra-
pery showed just enough and “ne quid pinch”
of her ankle.
Bl! admired the grace and the ankles im-
mensely. But his hopes sank a little It the
flight,-—for he thought she perceived his
chase and meant to drop him. Bill had not
had a classical education and knew nothing
of Galatea in the Eclogue,—how she did not
hide, until she saw her swain was looking
fondly after.
“She wants to get away," 'he thought.—
“But she sha’n’t,—no, not if I have to follow
her to Albany.”
He struck out mightily. Presently the
swift Camilla lct herself be Overtaken.
"Good morning, Miss Purtett. (Dogged
air.) '
“Good niorniug,Mr. Tarbox.” (Taken-by-
surprise air.) '
“I‘ve been admiring your skirting,” says
Bill, trying to be cool.
“How you?" rejoins Belle, very cool and
distant.
“Have you been long on the ice 1’” he in—
quired, hypocritically. ,
“I came on two hours ago with Mr. Ring-v
dove and the girls,” returned she "with a
twinkle which said, “Take that, Sir,” for pre-
tending you did not see me.”
“You‘ve seen Mr. \Vade skate then,” Bill
said, ignoring Ringdove '
“Yes; isn‘t it splendid ‘:"' Belle replied,
kindling.
“Tip top l” .
“But then he does everything better than
anybody.”
“So he does l" Bill snid,——-true to his friend
and yet beginning to be jealous of this en-
thusiasm. II. was not the first time he' had
been jealous of Wade; but he had quelled
his fears, like a good felwa. ,_ fl,
Belle perceived Bill’s jealousyi‘fdnd could
haVc cried for joy. She had known as little
of her once lover’s heart as he of here. She
only knew that he stopped coming to see _
her when he fell, and had not" renewed his
visits now that be was risen again. If she "; ‘
had not been charmingly ruddy with the
brisk-air and exercise, she would Mlle-
trayed- her pleasure at Bill’s jealousy-with a
blush. : - '
he sense of recovered power made he:
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