rMORNAjWTREMim «WEt whoal noRm 'ir new MLMi«r"" JOBS'S WIFE. *&J «l ber tirsoui, Pskt KtfWkow." Jwr JobD— I'm ilansitig on." But amuse each ot asssw ne'er see wi ■We i »Mass,sp»h*i what we're sta ataadtoreu:" s ji mNn lfledminroal Bothto* but toil tertUshlru.- she said. TiU I semetUMS wish, that i were fcai. If I might cast this wealth aside, dud be, once more, thb peer man's bride From his easy chair, spoke gentleman John— We ne'er «e^ j^|l what we're standing on." THE STIWABOE88' STORY. |From the Overland Monthly tor October.] It was night on the Atlantic, and the -Is—dees sf Ska ■MnnsS^Bhr was preparing b passengers ba when her attei nil the lady to {heir berths. nassencers bavins ran ntionVas called by a low tap at the cabin door. It Mamed to be given by cautious fingers, unwilling to be beard farther than was necessary; and supposing it to be a warning from the steward that it was time to put out the lights she glanced at her watch m s urpris e, and then going to the door, she excl_____ "Why, Mr. Green, it not eleven yet, and I M> not quite randy. Wait a bit!' "It ia not Mr. Green,"/, replied a voice oat aide. "I want to speak to you, Mrs. Ford. May I come in 1" VP*, certainly, madam,"'wtefee diato apply, as Mrs. Fonl opened the&6or to one of (he lady passengers. The young wom a n entered, and, after carefully closing thedOor, she nadreswd Ike stewardess in a low, enufloua tone, while bolding and turn-1 ing over a long, thin parcel, which she drew out from a towel loosely w r apped around it. "Mrs. Ford, will you pnt this in your trank for ^e t harbor to-morrow, this little parrel overhauled at the custom house. Dbputi YoU say we shall, be in the ow, ana we don't to have overhauled at the custom put It hi your trunk till we can take it quietly ashore." Mrs. Ford hesitated. Of eonrse, it was not her burinem to disoblige passengers; bat then smuggling was dangerous, and this looked something uaosmmonlv lib* it. 8tiU, the l a dy who made the request was well known to the stewa r dess, and seemed particularly friendly to her.. It was not the first Mam the and her husband had crossed the Attention the sum ship, so they-were lances as to seem _ _______ >ver,this time Mr. and Jfrs. Seaton had an additional charm for Mrs, Ford, being fant son, s fine, li year old. Mrs. 8ej on plea of sickness, i aadtke mpsnied by their in little fellow, i ,about a L the stewardeM had eerf on to become nurse to stsskkk; moM o/the voyage, filed by the ate child, s ehargO eerf on to become nurse to she gladly accepted, and fulfilled with child, s ehargO continned, of oneself." _ said- Mrs. Beaten, smiling blandly; "goodness! this is no smuggling Its just the most innocent little machine in the world. 1 am sure, kind as youliave been to us, I wsuld he toe last penon to be so mean as to injure yon. I guess it will do yon no harm, any way. It wonld be too un kind toget yon teto trouble, when yon have been so good to Freddy, all along/' "I am sore yon were welcome to anything that she hesitated, Mrs. Seaton a half careless, half flattering told my husband yon were so good natured, I was sore yon wonld oblige ns in a trifle of this kind: out of course, if you would rather not, there is an end of too mat ter. We hope, if wa are not disappointed, to make quite a fortune for little Freddy. Bnt if this is injured by carelessness," and here she again glaaced at the parcel in her hands, "my husband would be awfol mid." "I would be very glad to oblige yon, madam, hat it woala be awkward, if i got mi xed np with any smuggling matters. The company would dismiss me nnd one think of ------darling, madam; but it is quite another thing"— "Yes, yes; I know that. But bless yon, it will not hurt you. It is a qiapIiwm. f or _ m ________ ____ __ pnt up with its being spoiled; bnt I guess they will never interfere with vou." m a kin g spools, and my husband wants to patent it in the States: but then it is in just such n condition now that if it be meddled with it will be ruined, that's all. If they do, by any chance, get hold of it, we must ut up with its beii hey will never inter____________ Mrs. Ford remembered now) that, during the last voyage, Mr. Seaton had particularly admired a new kind of spool which be had aamirea a new Kina or spool seen in her workbox, ana had_________ questions concerning it; so she concluded that it was in the manufacture of similar articles he was at present engaged, and, without farther hesitation, she took the par cel The great weight of the article, com pared with its balk, surprised her as she re ceived it; it being, as she supposed a thin bar of iron, about six inches broad and two feat long, bat not apparently msch thicker than a rfeee of cardboard. She thought of thto qs she hud itin the top of her trunk, asked several ___________ _ ___ __ having a misgiving whetherTt might aot I in seme way, injure the apparel beneath yet she felt unwilling to secrete it further' under the circumstances. Her visitor, with many thanks, retired, and Mrs. Ford soon forgot the matter in sleep. Late in the afternoon of the following day, as they drew near the end of tbmr voyage, just before going ashore at the voyage, just before going ashore at the customhouse, Mrs. Seaton sought another tete-a-tete ipith Mrs. Ford. She held in her hand two letters, and, offering them to the stewardess, asked if she wow slip them in ber pocket, "And besides," she continned "I want you to come ashore with Inc! to come ashore with hie, tremble/' 7 reddy you do not mind toe Mrs. Ford replied that she had no objec tion, bnt that she was afraid she might not have time. "Now, there's a good soul," cried Mrs. Beaton, "do say you will, right away. I am in trouble; and I am sure, when you taw it, you will leave the under-etew ardess to fixup all around, and just do as I ask. Now listen; my husband has got him self to a tight place, just now, and f guess I shall have enough on my bands as soon as we get ashore. We know there's a police man waiting for him." "A policeman!" cried Mrs. Ford, in "Oh. never frighted yomWf," replied Mrs. SeaUm, with her bland smile; "it is nothing of any consequence. You must know, ne holds a situation nnder the gov ernment, and he has got wrong in his ac counts. It is not much, but he will be ar rested as soon as be steps ashore, and all the business of getting my things through will fall on me. 8o, you see. I do want a friend, and I shall feel real bad if you do not help me." "But this arrest!" exclaimed Mrs. Ford, who wondered at the composure with which the wife spoke of such n catastrophe, so alarming to her own ideas. "Well, of coarse, we had rather it should not happen," was the reply; "but what's the use of thinking of that T- The real thing is to get out of it as quickly ns possible. Mr. Seaton has friends who Will come forward rightaway, just as soon as they know it, and that is why I want yon to carry these letters ashore for me. Put them in jour pocket, there's a good sonl, and keep them "111 ask for them, and Mr. Seaton will not be in this difficulty more than a few days. What it would be if I could not mail those letters at trace, I really can not say." Mra Ford slipped-the letters Into the pocket of her loose sloth jaeket, and ar raugrag w:iu the under-stewardess that she would be back as soou as possible, prepared do accompany- Mrs. Seaton at once They reached the slme, and, after land ing at the customhouse wharf, as Mrs. Seaton ban tiriicurafi-d. policeman qnickly arrested her iir-i. ,nd, who qniekty walked off with kftTi. niter exchanging a significant with, l;is Wife whispered sh- u, Mis. Fora, who had beat fejtto fSTthe bereaved wife in great distress! steps i» hutd f with the chiff in her hot who now drew near, expecting to n B«*>gnificsnt I fold yon so," dlifV I wl i in (viw. aid, quite carelessly, she iye duty to pay for those site ready to do sa^ She wi her boxes. .________ rather ostentatiously certain ne articles of apparel, and drew the officers' at tention to her silks and gloves. "Oh, yea," she said knew she would have things, sad wm quite Jfo4 so Wish to SX The officer eyed her closed eyes, nnd eontini ____ with minute care, unite different from the usual process. Nothing, however, of im portance seemed to b* fee result; the mat ter of duty was not very complicated, and, when the necessary step* had been taken, Mrs. Seaton draw Rm. Kurd toward the great gateway and prepared to quit the wharf in mental triumph.___ "This way, if yoa pleUse. ladies," said another officer, who now stopped for to meet them. "We most trouble y< closed the door. Here stood two women whom the stew ardess immediately recognized as female M arc h ers sod some w ha t s t a rt le d at what had occ urr e d she aaid at #nce there'mfist be some mistake, she was stewardess of the City of-, and was anxious to rerffra on board at once, having come on shore only to carry Mrs. SeatonVbaby. "Yon shall go as ebon as we have done with yon," replied the sehreber, with some thing of n sneer; "but whether on heard or not depends on other matters. Cohe, its ne use resisting," as Mrs. Ford. tnedJa evade ■fee-hands which b e ga n at oneotoremdtO her outer olothing. "It is no-nee, indeed," said Mrs. Seaffe, who seems to treat the w&bte thing kith Sha,ladled. ugh his half-1 bis examination walk this way for a minute. Allow me' and bowing and backing as if he had been of the chambers escorting s princess. ushered them into a small room ana moet serene SJSSU,. although any on ed her carefully would hav »he said. "We have not the first bit of smuggled goods about bat at least I On answer for myself; nnd as for you, as you h ad n onotion of coming ashore, exeept to one who had watched her "carefully would have seen an anxious glance at Mrs. Ford's cloth Jacket. The searchers took it off, threw it on the bench, and Mrs. Seaton, with af fected carelessness, immediately laid over it a large railway rug which she had on her arm. "My good Mrs. Ford, yon and I know it wiR-nseleto'to aharbh either of ne," she said. "We have not the first bit of cany Freddy, why, of qoorse, yon have not either. Freddy is not renfraband, sup pose," she added, laughing; so I guess toe good ladies will have their trouble for their print- Take it easy, do now; there's a_good 1 print- Take it easy, do now; there's a_good ..i t But it was no use saying "Take it easy" to Mrs. Ford. It most be an exc eed ingly unpleasant operation, I should imagine, being searched by strange woman, who strips her victim in n com, business-like way, regardless Mike of shyness nnd deli cacy. The stewardess knew that it was uncalled for, and felt it at* insult. Even to pnsaencere the thing ic rarely done, unless M l iu ~1MJ ■S U Z p trfB U r-eftWBMtoEBHKrnBil she having been oat ever passing raid not su •Am in that port with tosougk the searchers' wmiW not submit qutetiy? She putoed away the coarse hands which intruded on herwomenty feelings of delicacy. She shrank from the examinatios.sbe erica, she sob bed, she grew bysteriesl; nnd, her nervous ex citement being mistaken lor guQti Ihe was in consequence subjected to a more rigor ous examination. Every part of her cloth ing was felt; even her hair-and her boots were examined, whjte each mqifkent shq be came more painfull} agitated, and her sobs' trad eateries grew louder. The process was nearly completed, and she was about half dress ed again, when the uproar in the little room attracted attention without. For, added to Mrs. Feed's by s toriest'sereams, were the remsmrfanuoes of the searchers, delivered in the highest kiy of a Yankee voice, the'attempt ot soothing on Mrs. Seaton's part, and the load cries of Master Freddy, who would not be pdeMed I after the strange bands of prase,wqmgn had meddled With his own little person. The nowo arrested the attention of two penoms passing by, who opened the door suddenly and lookedin. 5 "What are you dqjqg to my stewardess r tte o»»ta»n of Hie City of-, who recognized beryoice^ oll Captain Stehhit, Captain Stebbit she cried, no soon as sheisaw him. "See what they are doing, tome; they've been i by sbbe, and she was half ctrfkfd by her tears. 'Why, what's all the row about T.' ashed Captain Stebbit, who was the jollieat, most food humored man in the world. "What wardess been doing 1 She ft no Here," added be, turning to his companion, "your ship is close at hand; could yon not step on board and bring us your stewardess. They are finghteninr Mrs. Fotd into fits, and she needs a friem to look after her. Yon know Mrs. Lock well; he wil1 come to von." The summons to Mrs. Lock was answered by herself immediately, and in consequence of her presence, Mrs. Seaton, who had her by herself immediately, and in consequence of her presence, Mrs. Seaton, who had her own private anxiety about the letten in Mrs. Ford's pocket, had no chance to ask for them, for Mrs. Lock hurried her friend away on board her own boat, and Mrs. Sea ton was left to her own devices. It was some time before Mrs. Ford recov ered her equanimity. The disgrace which she felt had been put upon her made her I absolutely ashamed to be seen, and even wtien K 0 °d-humored Captain Stebbit paid lier a visit and joked with her about smug Kl rs anJ searchers, she was too much over cw e to »l4T-, Unconsciously that same evening she pat ber bands in her jacket pockets, and as she Bn *tcbed them out, she exclaimed: "Good pacious! if I bav'nt got those letters still nere that lira 8eaton gave ms. What shall 1 do witb them |H s be will come for them, T exp«ct/re Mra Look, when she bad beard the ,tor y- would keep them till eh* does." bad another jm Er own shippaJd her a about passengers to impart! wbat happened to Mint friend of-ynurs, that fellow Seaton _ "Yes. I know he was arrested. That is how I got into this trouble," and Mss. Ford proceeded to repeat to Mr. Park the particu lars which Mrs. Seaton had confided to her. "A very pretty story," laughed Mr. Park, "only it happens that none of it is true, hat the arrest. He was caught, and detainedrah a charge of forgery." The two stewardesses, dntob with the un expected news, stared inquiringly at Mr. "Yes," continned he, "on a charge of be longing to a gang of forgers who have been passing counterfeit greenbacks. I suppose von know nothing about that, Mrs. Ford Not an accomplice, bey f" Mrs. Ford hesitated a moment, and then drawing from her pocket the letters in tPIl&Ud mLa ■LhkaJ. i aL am a.— At "'•"a vw ffiEBp' EffiV BUUWYX1 luvD' fw vuO others, and asked what she had better do. The steward examined their exterior for a mo| Bent; then, withbdt any remark, opea-^ ed read them in anxious silence, the two lad ,e looking on in a state of suspense. He had no sooner read them than he tore them carefully into toe minutest fragments and scattered them ont of the win dow, where the tiny morsels fluttered away, and were soon lost beyond all possibility of detection in the waters of the dock. "What were they I" gasped Mrs. Ford, in great alarm. "Evidences of his guilt, which, foand 6A yon, would have been considered proof vou were an accomplice, and given you a share of his probable twenty years in the State's "Good gracious!" cried Mrs! Lock; "vou don't say so. Why, my dear, what an es cape you have had." "Yes, indeed: what on escape. They were in pocket when I was searched." said Mrs. faintly. "Quite a providential occurrence," ob served Mr. Farit, as people are apt to say when they mean ap occurrence for which there is special cause to be thankful. "I strongly advise yon to ray nothing about them to anv one at present." It is not quite clear in my own mind whether Mr. Park was justified in the course he punned, or whether he ought not to have retained fee letters, and headed them over to justice as evidence against the prisoner. He feared to co m p r omise Mrs. wail known ^SSf with th innocent enouia si I prndent coarse to I "But now, lool when the last moi belonged, she would have come to no harm. However, they noted ad they be lieved to he safest and best, and least to involve inatoant parties; and ac ____ig to the rale, tut ft ia better the guilty should escape rather than that the innocent should suffer, it se e m e d the most take. _____ look here,?' teid Yte-Ford, when the last monel of paper had disap M 01 MMf 'Bftd digau I peered, "there's another thing of theirs I nave," and she told the story of the parcel which was still in her trunk. "Yon most get rid Of it, certainly," cried Mr. Park, in great alarm. "There is no telling what it may be.. Get rid of it at "But how f My box is locked, and I have the keys. Shall I go on board at once, and throw it out of the window T" "No, no. It might lead to anspieion, if you went off in a harry. If they think yon are a confederate, yon will be watched; and it would not do for me, either, to go and meddle with tout trank." The three felt almost as if they were con srgers themselves, as they over what could be done to se spifatore find deliberated ov cure the parcel thty believed so dangerous. Mrs. Lock and the steward, influenced by a no t un natural c a riosity; were extremely anxious to inject the mysterious package; bnt Mrs. Ford, who, in the event of discov ery, was the one to fear the result, cared for nothing so. much as being assured it was forever concealed from sight. Let it he what it would, nil she desired waa that it sfaSuld be removed from the top ot her trank, and lodged safely at the bottom of the dock. While they were considering ways and means, n mess e nger strived from the cite of the assistant stewardess! having^sent their cabin boy to inquire for Mrs. Ford, and ask some question in the way of duty. This was a favorable opportunity. Mrs. Ford sent off her keys by the boy Albert, and requested Mr. Green, the cabin stew, ard, privately to open her trank, take the parcel lying on the top, and at once pitch it info the river. In due time 'Albert brought back a had been compl The evening i her usual employment. Mrs. Green, the steward, came to her, and* having ascer tained that there was no one present, pro duced the identical parcel which she nsd belief ed was safely stowed away in the bed of the river. Oh, Mr. Green T' cried she, in perturb*. 'id yon deceive me, and keep the line to which brought book a mess age to say her orders plied with, and tulwas cafe. after Mrs. Ford's return to tion. "why did yon deceive me, iu that dreadful thing "Mow do yon know it ia a dssadful thing?*' MhJPH 1 ne man directing the deliberssnens uv a lonvenahua nv the great State of Noo York, mb brain thinkin for atliooeand, one hand jmdin A thousand. He directed the con venshun to cheer when Seymour 1 name wuz announst ez a delegate, and they cheered; he directed em to reject toe Tammany dele gation from the city, and they wuz rejected; ic directed em to do everything that wuz I a a done and they did it. "My great sir," sed I, in astonizhmeat at the power he weilrfed, "why don't you go overtp the hall and direct the convenshun?" "My gentle sir," retorted he, with a bland smile, ez he-dictated a message directin uv there s twv^undred nv my bands a clappin vociferously at this minit. There's a great many of me in that hall." After the adjournment uv the convenshun for dinner, the chairman of the committee onrcsalooshens come into toe room to submit the reaoloeshens they hed prepared, that toqy might be shoor they wood meet Mr. Tweed's idaes. The great tuan read em at tenfively and handed uv em back. "They won't do." sed he, sententiouslv. "In What respeck are they faulty asked the chairman, obsequiously. "Woodent it be wjjjj enough," sed Tweed, with a smile still more bland than the first, "woodent it be well enough to pnt in a reso looshen denouncin corrupsben, in general terms, uv course, specifyin partikerlerly, however, the especial corrupshen uv the nasfanel government, and that uv States which is nnder radikal control t" The sublimity uv sirh a sejestion com:n from Tweed struck the chairman all uv a heap. "Certainly I will, ef you wish it," sed he, "but I sposed—that is, my idee wuz—in a general way, yoo know, that the least sed about corrupsben. in view uv—well, I an jist now holding a place wich pays some' thin like ten thou—but never mind, it shel be done." "Then agin." said Tweed, sniilin still blander and with the faintest sejestion ov a wink in his left eye, "I would sejest that yon pledge the Democratic party to a hon est and economical expenditoor nv the pub lic funds!" i The chairman turned pale with surprise, but he-coincided. Everybody coincides with Tweed. "And while yoo are at it," continued the great chieftain with' a smile, the blandnis uv wich can't be deskribed, "yob hed better pnt in n relosoosben denouncin the pro ■management wv mums fit Noo York city,"but makin it,mind voo, ez the legitimate result uv Radical legislasheu four yeerq a go. Draw up this resolooshen so ez to make it plain that it's me yoor driv in at. without exactly namin me." "Why, what shell we—" "Don't go on, my friend," sed Tweed, smilin a smile which for blandnis excelled the most delishns Joon morning, "it's much better to hev. tne corrupshen denounst by ns than by the enemy, partikelerly ez we know more definitely about it. And 1 wonld sejest that yoo hev a resolooshen, boldly cliallengin a comparison between the Repnblikin and Democratic administra tifns uv the 8tate and city governments, and (here he smiled with a blandnis which was bevenly, ez he fingered a most gigantic diamond on the little linger of his lett band, and sipped a glass of champagne) any little thing wich too kin throw in ez to the neces sity return sity uv a return to the simplicity uv our Puritan fathers wood be well." The chairman wuz too effected to say a word, but he made the necessary notes, and oas ti n on e look-uv as toni s hm ent at the greatness of his cheef, who eat there smilin blandly, retired from the presence. But toe great man's work wuz not yet done. He promptly telegraft every promi nent Democratic editor and politisbn in the State to denounce him in the bitterest terms, and then tellin the convention who to nominate and what else to do, went borne. There is sgreatness and a grandeur in this man wich I can't sufficiently admire. Some men wood be so puffed up with the possession uv the twenty-five millions wich he hez made ez to.insist upon an endorsement by the pa through wlcn he made It, but not so with Tweed. There ain't no vanity about him. So long ez he hez the control uv the party, he don r t care a cent whether he is publicly recognized or not. Ez he remarkt to me ef the way to my continuashen in power is in dennneiashen nv me, very good, denounce me. I kin stud it. I ain't the first who, to getron, hez trampled over the dead body nv his reputasben. I'd just ez soon pull the wires behind the curtain ez to man ipulate the pulpits in front uv it. I ain't agoin to let personal vanity stand in the way nv the grand success. I'm hoping for next year. I'm a rather heavy load for the party to carry jest now, and I'm going to rrfeeve 'em—till after the Presidenahel ewc shun." Then I saw wat motive wuz actooatin the Amerikin Napoleon, and I wuz agin /lost in wonder. Whoever the Democratic nominee is, he will simply be a shadder, of wich Tweed will be the substance. Tweed will be the power behind the throne, wich is greater than the throne itself. And what a gffirfbus pHwpect opens to nsf Think nv a Democratik President in 1873, with Tweed behind him! Think uv Tweed makin col lectors and assessors, and postmasters, and all uv them bein responsible solely to him! Ef he hez made uv himself the revenues uv one city, wat wiil he do when he hez the nashen to bleed? I shel to wunst cultivate pleasant rela shens with Tweed. i PETROLEUM V. NASBY, (Wich wuz Postmaster.) The Summit Times says: It is fee intention of the people of this town to build it np into a city sure enough. The amount of building constantly going on, and fee number of houses which have lifted up, their ro*A since last spring is a marvel to outsiders. Our people, attbeogh they havn'tgtemach money, have a* least one of tha esaefftial ingredients to tannrai an iadomitehl® energy, Just now there are not enough of artisans to mote fee de mand. J life nv a by uv uv in a hMRR, toraratow with P m. Mi m* B1 m CwruJ -Jtorfffi-MfWto [F»m the Chicago Jsutosl, October 21. fohtfully or w to n gfifl ly, the great fire of London, September 2, lr door of a bakehouse, 1 in Pudding lane, near fully or wrongfully, the cago, October b, 1871, wtf tory aa chsrgable to one 1m«' oae Famner, wet; nnd rii tfire of t dbwntohis Leary, tore. VHMHVIB IV VUO «Ut 0* s sww/t ss dairy woman, living on DeKoven street, be tween Canal and Jeifersoit- streets. According to Mistress "ftnnidr, the cow woman was later then usual abpnt her milk ing, and to "lighten" fee fob she took a ker osene lamp to the stable. While at her work, the beast she was draining ap with her right hind fejg and hit the lamp a kick, splashing the bunting fluid against tbs wall. In an instant the whole stable was in flames, and the woman had time otily to escape with her 1 life, leaving the kine to roast. Another slightly Varied version is that she milked at .th e usual hour, bat in the evening took Mflimp and went out to see if all was right,-tod. Ah eying that the cows wanted salting,abe pat the temp down by the door and went back for ber salt dish. Before she returned the barn was all ablaze. The story told that night, and before any one had the least idea that a great confla tion was in storst-was caught up by the electric wires the next, morning and flashed wherever telegraphy extends. Even if it were tot absurd rumor, forty mfles wide of the trath, it would be useless to attempt to alter "the verdict of history." Mrs. Leary has qutde a sworn statement ia refutation of the charge, and it is backed by other af fidavits; but to little or no purpose. She is in for it and no mistake. Fame has seized be?, and appropriated her} name, barn, cows and all. She has won. in spite of herself, wbat the Ephesian youth panted for. Now that our reporters nave a little leis ure for matters of secondary importance— for things more, curious than essential—we send one of them to the spot where the fire originated, for whatevef clonds may shroud the chase of the fire, the place where it be gan-is'quite beyond diapnte. He had the good fortune to find the woman herself, and here is his report of the interview: In the centre