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,|fTHE MATRIMONIAI. LOTTERY. Mr. Roderick Rollins was a bachelor who had seen some, forty-nine summej-s, and althoiigii he was a bundle of eccen¬ tricities, ihere were few men more pop¬ ular wilh old married ladies, or even with such single ones as has ceased to J>€ flij^hty and had begun to lake a so hrr view of the pomps and vanities of this wicked world. It is just possible, indeed, that ihe gentleman's popularity miglit be attributed in part to a very handsome estaie which he had inherited from his faiher—for I have generally ob¬ served that a large landed property is a frreal enhancer of the wit, beauty or profundity of the possessor. As Mr. Rollins gradually lumbered along in life, he gradually became less and less dis¬ posed to rapid locomotion, and at the! time he is iritmduced lo the reader, be | had dropped one and anotlier of his reg¬ ular visiting acquaintances among the I'ldies, until ihe number had dwindled down lo exaci'y three families.
In one of these families—that of Mr. Petligrew; there were two elderly young ladies, named Rachel and Amelia.— These ladies were of the respective nges of thirty-saven and thirty-nine, and having outlived their taste for balls and jam?, now solaced ihemselves wilh the society of a few old beax, who would f>ccasionally drop in of an evening and have a qu'iei game of backgammon wi-th them, by the side of an old lashioned Liverpool coal fire. Among these vis¬ itors, none was more welcome than was Mr. Rollins. His stories were general.- Jy long, and had much^to nay of the sad degeneracy ofthe present fast age; but then, beside being rich in the funds, he was rich in his reminiscences of the olden time. He would every now and then so affectingly allude to the brilliant evenings of bygone years, when he used to dance wilh the Misses Rachel and Anoelia at the public assemblies, Ihat the young ladies would, in imaglna- lion, revel again in those festive scenes; Jind as Mr, Rollins named one and an- .'Other of the belles and their adorers who iUsed to figure in the Spanish dances and 'ladies chains of that simple era of Terp¬ sichore, the tears would course one an- .other down their innocent noses. Mr. Rollins was also a «onnoisseur, and a highly-gifted critic io green and black teas, and was well posted in cough and rheumatic medicines generally. Since he had got along in years, he had like¬ wise come to take a great interest in church matters; he kepi the run of pro¬ ceedings of all the annual conventions, nnd was supposed to be familiar with »he private opinions of several of the Bishops.
Now, none of ihsse subjects were in¬ different ones lo his fair companions, and as such human weaknesses us love and marriage seemed out ofthe quesiion, the inteicourse between them wasas calm aud cool as inoonshine in winter. The condilion of ancient beaux and ancient belles who have retired from the draw¬ ing roomsof mirth and fashion, and have taken to chess and needle-work, and lo.
sober reminiscences, of the heart-cnn- flicis they have undergone, is not of the cheerless character which some consider il. It may be likened to that of pen- si'^ned soldiers carefully housed in some i snu? harbor provided by theState^ where they may rest and smoke and talk ofthe mighty deeds tliey have done for the residue of their lives. The wars are oTer—the battles have been fought— and what, though one may have lost an arm, another a leg, and third has been lopped of all his limbs, yet the paih aris¬ ing from the wounds hav8|been long forgotten, and they now remember but the incidents and the glory of the con¬ flicts.
One of the other families which Mr. Rollins used to visit, was that of the well known Dr. Anodyne. The Doctor himself vyas a genlleman of the o^ school, and his lady could give you the hi*ory of every family of note in the metroplliis; but ihe great attraction to Mr. Rollins was the society of their daughter Harriet. Miss Harriet had been in her day a celebrated beauty, but having now attai'ned her fortieth year, it was generjlly supposed that the grand meridian of her charms had been pass¬ ed. In early life there had been some talk of a match between her and Mr. Rollins, but this haJ long blown over and their conversation was now, to all human appearance, as ralional and un- impassioned as tho' they were a couple of prosy philosophers. The remaining family hunored wiih llie pleasant ac¬ quaintanceship of Mr. Rollins was that of Mrs. Alterbury, a widow lady of con¬ siderable wealth and posiiion. She vvas the sisier of Mrs. Aodyne, and conse- qnentlv her daughter, the amiable Miss Anna Maria, vi^as own cousin to Miss Harriet, and were nearly of the same rip^ age. Both these young ladies were on terms of the most agreeable intima¬ cy wilh ihe Misses  Rachel and Amelia
etligrew.
bury used to dance nearly a  quarter  of j happiness of all concerned that I shonld J and wedded spouse.    And I would now
Petligrew, They bad been companions in girlliooa, had promenaded on the Bat¬ tery, had taken moonlight walks in com¬ pany with each other and wilh theii lovers ihrough the graveled walks of Sl. John's Park, and vvould doubtless sorrie- times have entended tbeir strolls to the Fifih avenue, were it not ihat the time I treat of was anterior to the discovery of that fashionable ihoioughfare. When these fair spinsters would get together and grow inspired and loquacious as their hyson, Mr. Rollins was their toast and their oracle. Bul delightful as was the relation subsisting between them and their antiquated beau, it was temporari¬ ly destined to a very singular'kind ofan interruption. All at once, a§ one ofthe wonders of the world, a new light sprang up in Mr. Rollin's mind, and this light was none other than a refleciion from the lorch of Cupid, How it carfie to pass ihat the heart of adamant, which during the fervor and passion ol youth bad resisted ths well directed volleys from female eyes of every color, and had at last succumbed,^must forever re¬ main a mystery.
But Mr. Rollins' love was as droll as it was untimely. Worse than the poor ass of the schoolman- hesiiating between two bundles of hay, Mr. Rollins had Jallen in love with all four of his female , companions at the same lime. At first, this bachelor love developed itself in pe-1 riodical fils of partiality for one or ihe other of the ladies, just as it happened —vacillaiing, as it were, from day to dny. Thus, for a while. Miss Amelia Pettigrew would be the queen of his af¬ fections. He would call to mind some roguish dimple of her girlhood, and what a splendid set of leelh one of her regu¬ lar -ringing.laughs would disclose in those days d" remote antiquity. When Miss Amelia was thus boasted on the topmost round of Mr. Rollins' ladder of weathercock admiration, she would sud¬ denly be preoipilated to the ground by a dim, shadowy recollection on the part of that gentleman of ihe bewitching va^n- ner in which Miss Anna  Maria  Attec-
a century ago.    Then the tender mem¬ ories  of   his early   partiality  for  Miss Harriet Anodyne would so stir up  poor Rollins' vagrant sensibilities that he al¬ most made up his mind to pop the ques¬ tion to ker.    He probably wouid  have done so on 9- certain afternoon,  had  he not stopped in at the Pettigrew's on his way to Dr. Anodyne's.    It happened on this^occasion that Miss Rachel   was at home alone, and her tender   solicitude in the mailer of a cold which Mr. Rol¬ lins had taken, aflecled him   vvith  such an all overish sort of a sensation,  that for a period  of some forty-eight hours ihe-Jady in question was the mistress of his heart.    Most  certainly, his  exclus¬ ive predileciions in favor of Miss  Ra¬ chel lasted no  longer  than   the   lime I have specified, and he  came at last  to enleriain a compound kind  of love   for his   four  charmers    collectively.     His condilion   of mind   was   truly   pitiable, for .beside the nervousness attendant on so anomalous and whimsical  a  state of ihe afFeclions, ||^r.   Rollins' knowledge ofthe female-heart led him to   the well- grounded conviction  ihat  even   should he make proposals to one oflhe four, he would incur the risk of losing the friend¬ ship of the remaining three.    Now, this was a contingency too painful to   think of, and the  poor  enamored  gentleman spent a whole   year   in   devising   wars and means whereby ll might   be   avoid¬ ed. As yet, neilher ofthe ladies in ques¬ tion had^the remotest suspicion of ihe whirlwind of eccentiic   passion   which I was tearing away the very foundations of Mr. Rollins'  moral   being;   for   if at any time he happened to make some ex¬ traordinary demonslralion, it was credi¬ ted to the account of a sudden' and  un¬ expected   twinge  of rheumatism   wiih which he was occasionally afllicled.
One evening in the month ofNovem¬ ber, while Mr. Rollins was sitting in bis lonely .--oom, meditating on the past, and wondering whither the tempest within would eventually lead him, he suddenly bounded from his chair, snap peii'his fingers, looked out of the win dow, put more coal on the fire, plumped himself ag.tin in his chair, aud then so- liloquizeii:
" It's of no use,','said he, "to endure this confounded perplexity any longer. One thing is certain—I love them all; and why should I not at once declare myself? Suppose they do laugh at my quadrupled affection, what then ? I am sure they must see my sincerity, and conclude that I am a man ofan im¬ mensely large heart, thus to be able to love all four of them, with this inextin- gui.-ihable ardor. Yel as I can marry but one, ihe.seleclion must be made by their-casting lots for rae; and passing sirange it is, too, that ihis happy thought should never have occurred to me until the present hour. And the», in this de¬ licious lottery I shall be sure on roy part to draw a prize, for the very good rea¬ son that there are no bjanks. But will the ladies enter into this arrangement? By my soul, they must. My proposed plan will at least show that I am not partial, and there will be no . occasion among them for jealousy."
It was lo Miss Harriet Anodyne that Rollins firsl intimated the tender senti¬ ments she had inspired, and on the first mention oi it the young lady blnshed overpoweringly. Bul as Rollins further declared that the strength of his affec¬ tions was equally great for , iheir three mutual frie'nds her counienance under¬ went an expression of the most comical curiosity; and as al last the proposed scheme was divulged whereby a selec¬ tion was to be made, Harriet laughed until she well-nigh choked.
" Ah, Miss Harriet! you may laugh, but devise a belter plan for me, if you can. You know very well that if I were to select- any one oflhe other three and leave you, you would consider your¬ self slighted and neglected. You see, then, thitt it is quite'necessary  for the
carry ,mj point, and a? I profess to" be above bovird in all my transactions, 1 shall fully state the case to your father, and ask him to superintend   ihe  draw¬
ing."' "Of
course, Mr. Rollins," replied Mfes Harrie.t, " you can ask pa's co-op¬ eration in anything you choose to, bot the whole proceedure would be so strange and unusual, that so far aa I am concerned, I must beg"—
" Now, Miss Harriet! if you please; beg nothing," interrupted Rollins, "for rely upon it I shall excuse neilher of you, and when you have seriously con¬ sidered the subjeci, you will not wish to be excused yourself. What sense would there be, I ask you, in my going out of our precious litlle circle fora wife?"
On the day of this interview, Rollins made known his delicate intentions to the other three ladies, and at first they were disposed to regard the matter in a jocular light, but on being assured by Rollins thai he loved them all with the poelic ardor of a never-d}^ng affection, it'is difficult to sayTwhether amazement or mirth was the predominant emotion ofihtir breasts. When Harriet Ano¬ dyne related to her father the" singula! communication which had been" made to her, ihe Docior was tin-own into such convulsions of laugliter, that he protests lo this day ^#gained seven pounds of flesh on the strength of it.
In the evening the four loved ones got together;and compared notes, and what a glow and flutfier of chatting ex¬ citement they were all in, to be sure.
Miss Atterbury, Miss Anodyne and Miss Rachel Pettigrew made a feint of treating the whole subject wilh deris¬ ion ; but Amelia [Petligrew very can¬ didly confessed that she was attracted by the novelty of the thing, and if fhe rest ofthe girls would agree, she would cheerfully fall in with Rollins' humor.
"And, girls, why should" vve not ?" she inquired; " one of us will be sure to get a good husband, and we may be equally sure that unless we consent to be wooed in this quarterly ma'nher. some other than one of our own dear selves will be the winner. Pa says^any person acquainted fwiih] Rollins might have known that if he ever married at all, it would be got up in the true Roll- ins^siyle, and for his part, he can't see any particular impropriety in our own¬ ing the soft impeachment, andj making ourselves a grand Hymeneal lottery, at Rollins' earliest convenience. Besides, girls, it is Jrather a pleasant reflection that Rollins slights none of us, and after the lucky one is married and setlled, the three remaining in single blessedness will have that blessedness augmented in this late trophy to our warning charms:" The ladies .went off" in fresh oachina- tions at anrjelia's playiul oration; bul it was plain lo see that they were begin¬ ning to waver—to think more seriously of tho matter, and before they parted, it was— "Well, after all, no one is to know anything about it bul ourselves— and if pa consents—and if ma con¬ sents"— ahd, in short, such is the ten¬ dency among the fair sex for lotteries and matrimony .that Mr. Rollins carried his point.
It was a cold bul pleasent evening in the beginning of December, that our four heroines and their lover were as¬ sembled in the cosy back parlor at Dr. Anodyne's. The ladies looked some, what excited, but the worthy Rollins was as comfortable and self-possessed as 8 duck in a mill pond, he seemed to re¬ gard the approaching transaction as in no degree outre, but as regular and bu¬ siness-like, and as just the only method left, whereby a gentleman with a ca¬ pacious heart could be extricated from a dilemma.
"Be satisfied, ladies," he encouraging¬ ly said, "the result will be right! I love you all, 6ut my supreme affection will be centered on the prize I draw, for she will of course  soon  become  my lawful
say, for^myseif and in the name of my dear wife, whoever siii" may be, that our friendship must be permanent and un¬ broken."
At this the ladies, in a flutter of amia¬ ble confusion, simpered a little; bul just thon the heavy tread of Dr. Anodyne was heard, and their hearts Meet pit-a- pat a little. The doctor entered into the spirit ofthe occasion, antl with the most ludicrojis but becoming gravity put twenty tickets in a box. Each lady h.td 'her name on five of these, and the doc¬ tor said that he should take eleven out single, shaking the box after each time a ticket was drawn, and the lady having the largest number ofthe residue mus', according to the stipulation, step up to the Bishop's office with Rollins and set¬ tle.
In the first drawing ofthe eleven tick¬ ets Miss Radieal Pettigrew and Mis Al¬
terbury had a. majority of tickets, but al¬ so an   equal  number   of  thetn, and so there was a necessity  for  a second at¬ tempt.    In   the second   series of draw¬ ings,   what a  fluttering of hearts there was vvhen the eleven tickets were all tA- ken from the box     As the doctor delib¬ erately opened, them, even  Rollins be¬ trayed .>:onie emoljon.  and as it was an¬ nounced that a choice had been effected, and on   the doctor's  requesting all the parties to draw nigh the table, ihe scene vvas worthy the pencil of aCruikshanks. The result was :  one lady,  one ticket; two ladies, three tickets each; one lady, four  ticket3;   and|jthis lady   was Miss Harriet,   the doctor's  lovely  daughter. Rollins instantly^sprang lo bedside, and her fair companions,  rejardini^   her as the heaven-elected bride, bestowed those sweet caresses  which none   but fenriale lips and female  hands can give.    The marriage came  offin a fevv weeks with great eclat^-the three youngjladies stan¬ ding as bridesmaids, and the old cronies of Rollins, each with a   v»-ig on his pate, serving rs groomsmen.    The match was pre-eminently  a happy  one, for Rollins got a most devoted wife, and Harriet an exemplary husband.
I'he poetical feature of this veracious .history is, that while any one of the four ladies would gladly have married Rollins, it vvas Miss Apodyne who had ever tru¬ ly love him. From girlhood up, she had cherished a secret affection for him who twenty-three years ago had won her youthful and susceptible heart, and now having fairly won him in a lottery, ho was to all intents and purposes her lawful property.
Il is true, she was sometimes inclined to a little jealousy at her husband's re¬ gard for her three friends, but as he pro¬ tested that the decision of the lottery had concentrated his afiectionson her alone, she became content. The three single ladies, gratified also ihat they had noi been shoved aside and neglected in lliis grand matrinionial scheme, ever after maintained fo'- Mr. and Mrs. Rollins the strongest attachment, and all the parties were as regular and constant in the in¬ terchange of friendly visits as they were prior to the marriage.
Tha Women of the FrencU Revolution.
From the "Court of Napoleon', or. So- ciety under the First Empire."
The women of the episodic period in French history, which reaches from the destruction of the Bastille, in 1789, to the landing of Bonaparte at Frejus, in 179^, were beyond all controversy, the most extraordinary race since Cornelia and the Spartan molher on the one hand, or.since the Amazons and the Eume- nides on the other. The annals of no naiion, certainly not those of any other period of anarchy and dismemberment, present such a picture of female influ¬ ence, heroism and virtue, and at the same time, of female excess, violence and inlamj'. 3? those ol 'he Revolution, Terror and Directory,
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Marie Antoinette and iho Dnchcss de Poliffnac had introduced and commencei! the era of feminine ascendancy; .thej[ controlled tbe court, ihe canop, and the oily. L.tfayetle, on his return from tho War of American lodependesce, re¬ ceived a more enthusiastic welcomo from the ladie« of Paris than irom tbm soldies of the Champ dm Mars, Tfae Milliners composed caps a la L«fayett«^ and tunics a la d'Estaing, to occupy aad satisfy this feminine revolutionary efTer- vescence. Madame Helvetius, who was "so happy with three acres of land," and al whose house Franklin had been so in¬ timate, Madame de Cenlis and the^Mar- qui.se de Condurcet maife their parlors llie rendezvous ofthe disaffected and the, . enthusiasls of tho epoch, guiding their speech, moulding their opining", direc¬ ting their acts. The Fele of tlie Fede¬ ration, the preparations for which 12, 000 workmen could not accomplish in lime, was successful only through the eager co-operalion ofthe women of Par¬ is: danseui and dairymaid, bayadere'and benedictine, labored together with the wheelbarraw and spade, Necker, the Mirisler of Finance, -ivas so openly^es- sisted by his wife that he was popularly called Neckerjhe IIerma|ihrodiie.
Then, a  yenrg or two later, what lus¬ tre was lent lo  martydrom, what grace vvas shed upon the   pillory and the scaf¬ fold, whal glory was  derived even froni Ignominy by the modest  heroism erf the sublime,  jet  unconcious    Girondines! Charlotte  Corday—illumined^ ifnol in¬ spired—the protest   and   vengeance of outraged   humaniiy;  Madame  Roland, the sentontioHs'philosopherJandj'iiiscreot lawgiver  of   the    Revolution;   Lucille, Desmoulina, amiable, lovely and yet un¬ daunted; threo   women, rare, even had they been isolatedjand^consecntive, and ^ trebly   admired   their   joint   and   con- temporaneos^ glories ! ^From   ihe.unpas and  cypress   whith   enconipassed their death and shadowed their grave.?, histo¬ ry has   woven them a   crown   pf laurel and a wreath of amarunth.
Tiieroigncde Mericonrl,.actinguni-fer a poignant sense of personal wrong, did as nmch to exasperate and cmhitier the hostility of the plebians tb the'aristoc¬ racy, as did Danton ; her eloquence^was as persuasive as that of Mirat>eau.— , O'ympe de Gouges had no rival in^eilher S-2X foi club oratory or patfipiilot satire;
Then, altogethsr at Iho otiier extreme, were the Women of the Mountain, vvho, with grotesque and hideous energy, with squallid and luthless turbulence, spread menace and consternation from "V'in- cennes to Versailles. They made tlio Mountain a French Sinai, which issued- 'its decrees of etern-al jusiioe amid the thunders of their applause, and the re¬ verberations of their riotous vivates-.
Later still: To 'irhom does France owo the fall of Robespierre, atid the ces¬ sation of the Terror ? To a woman, Madame Tallieo, ths voJuptuOtu and enchanting Aodalusiao. To whom does history owe tbe firsl link in the cliain of events that led to Napoleoo- Bonaparte ? To a woman, Josephine' da Beauharnais, the gentle and seduc¬ tive Creole. Upon anothor field, and in anoiher sphere, other women were at, the same moment acquiring humbler fame, by courage in batlle or devotion in the ambulance. Local chronicle still cherishes, however national hisiory may have foi^-jotlen it, t'ne intrepidity of Libert Barreitu, the charity of Rose Bouillon, and the patriotism of Fpelici'.e and Theohile Fernig.
A lato writer thus speaks of this sin¬ gular inversion of Eociety, referring in the passage quoted, to the stale of ihings under the Directory, just previous to Napoleon : " No age ciin show a ra conspicuous example of the fall am nihilation of man, and of the tri^ tlie publicity, and iniIuen<y|gjof woman. Never did woman so occupy the pub'ic gaze; never did she so openly mix in Ihe conducl of the nclion's'aflfair.". W< -
'' men controlled l!ie ch-iice vrTGcncr^l^ ;