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PARIS EXPOSITION-SEWING MACHINE 
AWARDS. 
ing the merchant, or man of commerce. He is 
making up a venture for foreign climes and is 
comparing, probably, the packages with the 
shipping bill while rehearsing, mentally, the 
chances of loss or gain. 
THE BEAST AND BEAUTY 
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[Concluded from page *284.] 
Those few days were endless, »low, dull, un¬ 
bearable,—every second brought its pang of re¬ 
gret and discomfort and remorse. It seemed to 
Belinda that her ears listened, her mouth talked, 
her eyes looked at the four walls of the cottage, 
at the furze on the common, at the faces of her 
sisters, with a sort of mechanical effort. As if 
she were noting her daily life, not living it natu¬ 
rally and without effort. Only when she was 
with her father did she feel unconstrained; bat 
even tb«*n there was an unexpressed reproach in 
her heart like a dull pain that she oontd not 
quiet. Aud so the long days lagged. Although 
Dr. Robinson enlivened them with his presence, 
and the Ogdens drove np to carry Fanny off to 
the happy regions of Capnlet Square (E. for 
Elysium, Anna I think would have docketed 
the district,) to Belinda those days seemed slow, 
and dark and dim, and almost hopeless at times. 
On the day on which Belinda was to have re¬ 
turned there came a letter to me telling her 
6tory plainly enough :—“ I must not comeback, 
my dearest Mies Wllllajnsno,” sbe wrote. “I 
am going to write to Mrs. Griffiths and dear kind 
Guv to-morrow to tell them so. Anna does not 
think it is right. Papaelings In me and wants me, 
now that both my sister? are going to leave him. 
How often l shall think of you all,—of all vour 
goodness to me, of the beautiful rose?, and my 
dear little room! Do yon think Mr. Guy would 
let me take, one or t wo hook? a? a remembrance, 
—Hume’s History of England. Porteii?’ Ser¬ 
mons, and Essays on Reform? I should like to 
have someting to remind me of you all, and to 
look at. sometimes, since they sny T am not to 
see yon all again. Good-by, and thank vou and 
Mrs. H. a thousand thousand times.—Tour ever, 
-ever affectionate Belinda, P, S.— Might T also 
ask for that little green volnme of the Golden 
Treasury, which is np in the tower-room ?” 
This was what Gnv had feared all alone. Once 
she was gone, he knew hv instinct she would 
never come back. T hardly know how it fared 
with the poor fellow all this time. He kept out 
of onr way. and wonld try to escape roe, hut 
once by chance I met him, and I was shocked by 
the change which had come over him. I had 
my opinion, as we all have at times If- and I 
had talked it over,—for old women are good for 
something after all, and can sometimes play a 
sentimental part in life as welL as young ones. 
It seemed to us impossible that, Belinda should 
not relent, to so much goodness and unselfish¬ 
ness, and come hack again some day never tn go 
any more. We knew enough of Anna Barlv to 
guess the part she bud played, nor dirt we despair 
of seeing Belinda among us once more. But 
some one must help her; she could not reach us 
unassisted; and so I told Mrs. Griffith!', who 
had remarked upon her son’s distress and altered 
looks. 
“If you will lend us the carriage,” I said, 
“ either H. or I will go over to Dumbleton to¬ 
morrow, and I doubt not that we shall bring 
her.” II. went. She told me about it after¬ 
ward?. Anna was fortunately absent. Mr. Barly 
was down stairs, and LL was able to talk to him 
a little bit before Belinda came. down. The 
poor old man always tbonght as he was told to 
think, and since Ids illness he was more micer- 
tain aud broken than aver. He was dismayed 
when H. told him in her decided wav that he 
was probably sacrificing t wo people’s happiness 
for life by Ills ill-timed interference. When at 
last Belinda came down, she looked almost as ill 
as Griffith? himself. She rushed Into IL's arms 
with a scream of delight, aud eagerly asked a 
hundred questions. “How were they all,—what 
were they all doing?” 
H. was very decided. Everybody was very ill 
and wanted Belinda back. “ Your father says 
he can spare you very well.” ^akl she. “ Why 
not come back with me this afternoon, if only 
fora time? It is your duty,” II. continued, in 
her dry way. “ You shotihl uot leave them in 
this uncertainty.” “ Go, my child,—pray go,” 
urged Mr. Barly. And at last Belinda consented 
shyly, uothiug loth. 
H. began to question her when she hud got her 
safe in the carriage. Belinda said she had not 
been well. 8ht* could not sleep, she said. She 
had had bad dreams. She blushed and confessed 
that she had dreampt of Guy lying dead In the 
kitchen-garden. She had gone about the house 
trying, indeed she had tried to be cheerful and 
busy as usual, but she felt unhappy, ungrateful. 
“ O, what a foolish girl 1 am,” she said. All the 
lights were burning lu the little town, the west 
was glowing and reflected in the river, the boats 
trembled and shot through the shiny waters, and 
the people were out upon the banks, as they 
crossed the bridge again on their way from Dum¬ 
bleton. Belle was happier certainly, hut crying 
from agitation. 
“Have I made him miserable, poor fellow? 
O. I think I shall blame myself all my life,” said 
she, covering her face with her hands. “ 0, H.! 
H.! what shall I do?" 
H. dryly replied that she most be guided by 
circumstance*, and when they reached Castle 
Gardens, kissed her and set her down at the 
great gate, while she herself went home in the 
carriage. 
It was all twilight by this time among the 
roses, Belinda met the gate-keeper, who touched 
his hat and told her bis master was in the gar¬ 
den ; and so instead of going into the house she 
flitted away towards the garden, crossed the 
Wb recently published a brief telegram from 
Paris, auuouncing the award, over eighty-two 
competitors, to Messrs. Wheeler <fe Wilson of 
the Highest Premium, a Gold Medal, for the per- 
fectiou of 8ewlng Machines, and Button-Hole 
Machines. The following are copies of the 
official documents con Arming the announce¬ 
ment : 
EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, 
Paris, 1867. 
Commission Imperial*, Champ-de-Mars, ) 
16th July, 1807. ) 
Mr. R. Hunting, No. 130 Regent St., London: 
Dear Sir : Replying to your Inquiry, I beg to 
state that the only Gold Medal for the manu¬ 
facture aud Perfection of Sewing-Machines 
and Bdtton-Hole M achines, was awarded to 
Messrs. Wheeler & Wilson of New York. 
Yours, respectfully, 
Uenrt E. Q. D'Alignt, 
Member of International Jury and Reporter of 
same. 
Dombet and Son. “Globe Edition*' of Hurd & 
Houghton; and Martin Chuzzlewit. “Diamond 
Ed ill on " of Tlcknor & Fields. 
In Chuzzlewit, written soon after Dickens’ visit to 
America, he introduced some American characters, 
types of nide phases of onr life, perhaps exaggerated. 
But It is of no use to bo “ thin skinned," especially 
ns he holds np British absurdities with an unsparing 
hand. Possibly he might have been a little disturbed 
by his want of success in an International copyright. 
Ticknor & Fields claim that they alone pay tho 
author a per ceotogo on sales in this country, and 
surely they offer the works in attractive dress. Tho 
large pages and type so legibly clear of the “ Globe ” 
style are sorely welcome to eyes tried by diamond 
print, and thus all tastes and wauts are met by differ- 
ent editions. The genius of Dickens still holds its 
sway, and the charm of his descriptions of common 
life still fascinates. With no effort to portray great 
personages, he bodies forth the hopos, affections, 
struggles, trials aud triumphs of the every-day people, 
giving cheerful and healthful views of life, with rare 
touches of tender aud nalural pathos. He 1ms there¬ 
by helped to expose old abuses, and roused up a more 
heartfelt interest In the world’s suffering poor. Both 
editions sold at Dewet's. 
THE NATIONAL OAPITOL: 
SYMBOLICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE INTERIOR. 
The columns of the Rural New-Yorker have 
already presented several features pertaining to 
the National Capitol at Washington—the cen¬ 
tral point or heart of numerous States compos¬ 
ing the nation. In the present issue we continue 
these illustrations embracing a portion of onr 
symbolical history, as portrayed in the interior 
of our National edifice. The first figure wonld 
seem to indicate the war period, when the peo¬ 
ple of the Colonies resolved to separate from 
Englaud and 6et up a government for them¬ 
selves. This course, determined upon, the first 
step was to draw the sword in vindication of its 
justice and propriety. 
COMMERCE. 
The steps takeu to arrive at bis point have 
displaced a former occupant of the soil—the red 
man. He has fought the pale faces, long and 
vigorously, hot in vain, lie l? weary and broken 
hearted, and sits despondently down, for a time, 
before turning his face towards the sottlng-sun. 
Another letter, of the same date, says: 
Dear Sir: Replying to your inquiry, I here¬ 
with give you the list of gold medals awarded 
to my class: 
Dupuis et Dcmeby, for Screw Shoe Machines. 
Wheeler & Wilson, New York, for tho man¬ 
ufacture and perfection of their Sewing Machines 
and Button-Hole Machines. 
There is, also, in the list of“ Co-operators,” 
a Gold Medal granted to Mr. Elias Howe, Jr., 
personally, as Promoter of the Sewing-Machine. 
Respectfully yours, 
Henry F. Q. D’Alignt, 
Reporter of Class No. 57, (Group No. 6.) Member 
of the International Jury at the Exposition 
Universelle. 
Chemistry OF the Fahm and the Sea. With other 
Familiar Chemical Essays. By Jas. R. Nichols, 
M. D. Boston: A. Williams & Co.—1867. 
A small volume containing the substance of sundry 
lectures "and communications published in tho Bos¬ 
ton Journal of Chemistry during ihc past and present 
years.” The subjects am: Chemistry of the Farm; of 
the Sea; pf a Bowl of Milk; of Die Dwelling, and of 
a Kernel of Corn. Also obscure source? of dlseaso; 
local decomposition iu lead uqueduct pipes; bread 
and bread-making, and chemistry of the sun. Each 
of these subjects Is familiarly and lucidly discussed, 
affording Information valuable to all classes, but es¬ 
pecially so to those engaged in agriculture. 
The Satinas of I)r Bushwhacker, and other 
Learned Mon. By Fhkd. S. Cozzbns, Author of 
“ Sparrowgrass Paper?, etc." New York: A. Samp- 
sou & Co.—1867. 
An assn mblago of terse, dashing’loiuicating and 
amusing disquisitions on various subjects. Among 
them are—“A Talk about Tea,' 1 “A Journey around a 
Tapioca Pudding," “Old Phrases,” &a, &c. It con¬ 
tains a ftiud of information In an attractive dress, and 
must chillengc public favor. Dkwkt has it. 
THE SOLDIER. 
In the second figure is symbolized the close of 
the conflict, and the return of the people to the 
pnrsnits of peace. As the sword had won the 
country, it was Important that it should be 
rnude available for the production of human sus¬ 
tenance. The forests were, in ttie way, hence 
the necessity for the ax,—we are sorry the artist 
did not make a better delineation of it,— and 
here we have a pioneer, or backwoodsman, who 
has exchanged the sword for this important and 
humanizing Implement. 
Extract from Lk Moniteur Universel, official 
journal of the French Empire: 
“ The Wheeler & Wilson Company of New 
York, manufacturers of American Sewing Ma¬ 
chines, have just received the Gold Medal at 
the Exposition Universelle, for the good con¬ 
struction of their machines; the new improve¬ 
ment for making button-holes, applicable to 
their sewing machines; also, for their machine 
especially for making button holes. This award 
is accorded for the great development that Messrs. 
Wheeler & Wilson have given to the sewing 
machine industry, in bringing their machines to 
the doors of all, by their cheapness aud solid 
construction, which allows then* employment 
with satisfaction in families, and with great 
advantage in work-rooms." 
THE INDIAN CHIEF. 
HOME MARKET-SHOPS AND FARMS, 
When farms and workshop?, or mills, are near 
each other, transportation is saved, the exchange 
of commodities is rapid, the home market saves 
much waste, prices are better, lands grow in 
value and productiveness, and all find labor. 
As an illustration, up among the Alleghenies, 
some seventy miles east of Pittsburg at Johns¬ 
town, are the Cambria Iron Works, employing 
gome 3,000 men, and making last year 45,000 tons 
of railroad iron, beside some of other kinds. 
The soil around is mostly rough and unproduc¬ 
tive, well nigh valueless before the mills were 
built. Every cultivable spot is now Improved at a 
good profit for a day’s journey around, and the 
price ha? increased ten-fold. It is estimated by 
the officers of the Company that the workmen 
spent of their wages some ? - 3,!k!5,000 in the past 
year, of which was — 
Paid to western farmers. i .$1,098,350 
“ southern “ . .. 319,060 
“ local “ . 217,800 
“ fore bn “ . 175,500 
“ western manufactures. 103,600 
“ southern do, . 79,200 
“ local aud eastern do. 616,950 
“ foreign do. 103,500 
“ for other articles.... 281,260 
$2,925,000 
It will be seen how large are the suniB paid 
out at home. They have just built a large 
woolen mill to employ hundreds of the wives 
and sons and daughters of the iron workers, who 
i want occupation. 
The great factories at Youngstown, Ohio, on 
the Mahoning, have used up the products of the 
farms lor a wide extent, and the value of lands 
has been more than doubled. They have bought, 
from the West, over $1,000,000 worth of grain 
aud meat, in the past year. 
Beside all this is the fact, little thought, of but 
important, that every bushel of grain sent far 
away decreases the grain-growing capacity of tho 
soil by taking away a portion of the constituent 
properties that must be had to produce that, 
grain, and thu3 of any product sent away. 
This drain is constant and immense. Stop it, 
aud thus keep up and increase the average pro¬ 
ducts of the farm, by seeking the benefits of a 
home market. 
Oood Stories. —Messrs, Ticknor & Fields have 
issued the initial number of “Good Stories," under 
which title they propose to publish, iu cheap and at¬ 
tractive form, a valuable collection of Short Stories, 
Tales ami Sketches. It Is not Intended to Unfit this 
collection to English literature, it will embrace, by 
competent translation*, the host and most character¬ 
istic short stories of all languages. The number be¬ 
fore us is first, of the series, and if it be followed by 
others of equal value and interest, the fifty cents for 
each number will be Utile for much, especially us 
Illustrations arc added to the attractive text. Sold 
by Dewey. 
PROGRESS OF THE PACIFIC RAILWAY 
Dispatches from San Francisco give encour¬ 
aging accounts of the progress and prospects of 
the western end of the Great Pacific Railroad. 
It will be remembered that Congress granted to 
the two principal companies—the Union Pacific 
aud the Central Pacific—the right to build their 
respective lines from opposite ends until they 
meet and connect. The former having nearly 
crossed the level plains of Nebraska is rapidly 
approaching the outlying hills of the Rocky 
Mountain range; while the latter, it appears, is 
making equaily gratifying headway. During 
this month it is expected the last and greatest 
of tho tunnels on the western link will be 
opened, and the crossing of tho dreaded Sierra 
Nevada Mountains bo regularly made by the 
locomotive, into the Great Salt Lake Basin. 
This achievement of hewing and blasting a path¬ 
way through primeval granite barriers, although 
all iueluded within 150 miles, is equivalent to 
more than 600 miles of ordinary railroad, In cost 
and resistance overcome. Upwards of $!10,000,- 
000 have been expended in the enterprise, which 
includes, however, Die equipment and materials 
for 150 miles additional. Eastward of the graded 
portion the line has been surveyed and located 
for 600 miles, developing an easy and favorable 
route, and It. is believed that folly half of the 
distance between the Pacific Coast and the Mis¬ 
souri River will be built by the Central Pacific 
Company, as they are favored by having their 
hardest work done, and by the presence of large 
numbers of cheap amt serviceable Chinese labor¬ 
ers. It is assuring to be informed, also, that the 
business of the road is very large, the earnings 
for July being $175,000 iu gold; while Die oper¬ 
ating expenses were less than $25,000. 
The Company receives a large subsidy from 
the Government, and in order to push on the 
work with even greater energy, are offering their 
First Mortgage Bonds for sale, through Fisk & 
Hatch, their Financial Agents in New York, and 
our leading Baukers, at rates very tempting to 
The merits and advantages of the 
Caasel’s Magazine.— Eighty broad pages of Lon¬ 
don type, with Engliwli illustrations, a monthly for 
which Walter Low, 596 Broudwuy, New York, is 
agent. It aims “ to present for family reading the 
largest and beat amount of literary matter that can 
bo afforded,” and is surely attractive. Price 80 cents, 
or $3.50 per year. 
Bell Mahone. Song and Chorus. By J. H. Mc- 
Nauohton. Published by Penn & Remington, Buf¬ 
falo, who offer at wholesale and retail the songs and 
music of McNaughton, Virginia, Gabmel, aud oth¬ 
ers, at their large musical establishment. 
THE PIONEER. 
Iu the next group we have represented the re¬ 
sults following from the use of the sword and 
the ax — a season of peace and affluence; the 
youth, rehearsing the early tolls and struggles 
by which their exemption from oppression and 
poverty were secured. 
Appleton’s Hand Book of Northern Travel.—A 
volume of 400 pages of Descriptions, Maps and Plates, 
—a guide over the broad land from Maine to Oregon, 
and over the British Possession?. Valuable for all. 
Sold by Adams & Ellis. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 21 letters. 
My 3,10,11, 21 waits for no man. 
My 15,19, 20, 21 is often cultivated. 
My 8,10, 5,12 It not homely. 
My 11,1, 7,18, 16 Is one of the New England States, 
My 11, 4, 2, 2 is an unmarried female. 
My 6,14, 9 is an article of dress. 
My 6, 7,13,17 is what, a goose Often does. 
My whole la an old and good proverb. 
Collinsville, Ill. John W. Low. 
S3?" Answer In two weeks. 
DRUNKENNESS IN PARLIAMENT 
lawns, and went in aud out among the bowers 
and trellises looking for him,—lrightcncd by 
her own temerity at first, gaining courage by de¬ 
grees. It was so still, so sweet, so dark; the 
stare were coming out in the evening sky, a 
meteor went flashing Irom east to west, a bat 
flew across her path; all the scent hung heavy 
in the air. Twice Belinda called out timidly, 
“Mr. Griffiths, Mr. Griffiths!” but no oue an¬ 
swered. Then she remembered her dream in 
sudden terror, and hurried into the kitchen gar¬ 
den to the fountain where they had parted. 
What had happened? Some oue was lying on 
the grass. Was this her dream ? Was it Guy? 
Was'he dead? Had she killed him? Belinda 
ran up to him, seized ids hand, and called him 
Guy,-—dear Guy; and Guy, who had fallen asleep 
from very weariness and suduess ol’ heart, open¬ 
ed his eyes to hear hitnoelf called by the voice 
he loved best in the world; while the sweetest 
eyes, full of tender tears, were gazing anxiously 
into his ugly face. Ugly? Fairy tale* have told 
us this, at least, that ugliness and dullness do uot 
exist ior those who truly love. Had she ever 
thought him rough, uncouth, unlovable?. Ah! 
she had been blind in those days; she knew bet¬ 
ter now. As they walked back through the twi¬ 
light garden that night, Guy said humbly,— 
“1 sha'n’t do you any credit, Belinda: I can 
only love you.” 
“ Only!" said Belinda. 
She didn’t finish her sentence; but he under¬ 
stood very well what she meant. 
JJ|| fgj f ! ji iVdte? r X'' x It appears the English have a way of keeping 
Stej yjjM fl t| • ■ irom the public eye the antics of the “ red-eye” 
Jgfgjy u members of the House of Commons. A Lon- 
don correspondent of the Chicago Tribune says: 
*~- - ~ : T - _—“ Last week I saw two distinct cases of intoxi- 
'-^ " cation iu the House of Commons. Iu one, a 
youth. clever young member talked such nonsense that 
The fourth figure indicates that home tuition the House roared with laughter, occasionally 
which lies at the base of all well regulated pa-. putting an unseemly construction upon his 
ternai government, and contributes so essen- rambling words and chuckling at the coaree- 
tiaily to the future attainments and usefulness ness. In another, the member, a learned law- 
of adult age. yer, too, was so incoherent and absurd that Mr. 
/—\ Gladstone, in charity, suggested that he should 
reserve his remarks to a later period of the dls- 
•J&Wi.'i c\ission, adding that no good could come ol his 
I debating the question at that particular moment. 
/t ’ Vj'A The House perfectly understood this advice, and 
/T3 , y£| 1 jlk ' ‘ V’ gave a significant cry of “Hear! hear!" But 
\f\r -Mr directly afterwards, it tittered loudly as It 6aw 
the offender walk up the floor with difficulty 
1 and 9ea ^ W mse ^-^ r - Gladstone’s side, en- 
t'llllltfoy ■ .i, : :1 m, deavoring to enter into a private explanation 
a with the peculiarly refined and particular leader 
'll * \ i yt °f the Liberal party. Were the press to name 
| I ’ v 1 _sa. \ these wretched men, actions at law would at 
s' \ 1 ?• once be brought, and it would be impossible to 
prove the statement however notorious the cir- 
^ ^ — ■■ cumstance. 
EDUCATION. - ♦ — - 
Next we have symbolized the results of the Sound economy is a sound understanding 
war of Independence; the cleariug up of the brought into action; it is calculation realized; 
forests and family education. These have In- it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to prac- 
duced industry, and this has produced a surplus tice; it is foreseeing contingencies and provid- 
of local commodities. The circle of human ing against them; it is expecting contingencies 
wants and aspirations has been enlarged, produc- and being prepared for them.— Hannah Moore. 
For Moore’s liural New-Yorker, 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 
I am compoeod of 15 letter?. 
My 14,10, 9,1,5 ia a mountain near ancient Troy. 
My 2, 4,13,15.1 is an Italian town of note. 
My 7,1,11,6,12 is a group of Islands in the Atlantic. 
My 9, 11, 4, 2, 6, 3 is one of the United States. 
My 5.14, 2, 4, 9, 10, 2, 12, 8 is a channel of the British 
Isles. 
My 8, 1, 6 , 13, 1 Is a river of Western Europe. 
My whole is the work of a favorite American author. 
Clinton, N. Y. Ethel & Claris. 
Answer tn two weeks. 
capitalists, 
Central Pacific Railroad Bonds are fully set forth 
in our advertisi ng columns. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
ARITHMETICAL PROBLEM. 
Two men, A and B, ran a foot-race of a quarter of a 
mile. A wins, making the quarter of a mile in 5 min¬ 
utes, while B was just 5 behind at the end of the race. 
If A’s speed Is doubled, while B's speed remains as 
before, how far will A be in front or B ? 
E. J. Shbivku. 
g3£~ Answer in two weeks. 
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, &c., IN No. 917 
Humbugs.— A man advertised lately to for¬ 
ward, on receipt of postage stamps, “sound 
practical advice, that would be applicable at any 
time, and to all persons and conditions of life.” 
On receipt of the stampB he sent hiB victim the 
following;—“ Never give a boy a penny to watch 
your shadow while you climb a tree to look into 
the middle of nemfiweek.” 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma:—He that is slow 
to anger is better than the mighty. 
Answer to Anagram: 
Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, 
And all the air a solemn stillness holds; 
Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, 
And drowsy tinkliugs lull the distant folds. 
Answer to Riddle:—Brook. 
