apable of translation. First appeared the representative
of the _Herald_, dressed as a jockey; an irresistible air of assurance
accompanied him, and he threw frequent summersaults with inconceivable
quickness. Next marched the _Tribune_;--a youth shrouded in inexplicable
garments, and the living centre of a whirlwind of exploding theories.
Then stepped the _Times_ in rapid succession; a blooming boy dressed
with precision, and delicately balancing himself as he delivered his
part. Next appeared the _World_, habited as a theological student, and
sorrow for irreparable loss was indicated by a Weed upon his hat. One
looked for the embodiment of the _News_ in vain, but a Wooden figure,
wheeled in silence through the apartment, was thought to convey a
mysterious lesson. A martial ghost, wearing upon his head a triple
crown, like the vision of Macbeth, yet bravely supporting himself under
the three-fold encumbrance, seemed the _Courier_ of Wall Street. The
pageant passed, but Roseton seemed unsatisfied; and it soon occurred to
him that the deep draughts of secession news, which he had been
accustomed to receive each morning from the _Journal of Commerce_, had,
on this occasion, failed him. But on further reflection his infallible
logic convinced him that the existence of this paper must have ceased at
the same time with that of the Southern mails.

It now remained to perform the morning toilet; and a corps of attendants
conveyed Roseton to his dressing-room. Here the lavish wealth of the
Pont-Noirs found another appropriate field for its display. The floor
was of Carrera marble, curiously tesselated, rising in the centre to the
support of a fountain, where water-nymphs breathed forth shattered
columns of fragrant spray, whose parabolic curves filled a spacious lake
below. Vases of diamond, emerald and ruby crowded the mantles, each
filled with some unknown perfume--the result of Roseton's miraculous
chemistry; for in this science Roseton was supreme. In a single day he
exhausted the resources of American laboratories, and a short visit to
Europe convinced him that henceforth he must be his own instructor.
Savants in vain solicited his formulas. 'Why,' he reasoned, 'should I
furnish children in science with tools of which they can not comprehend
the use?' Delicate tables, chiseled from the humbler gems, were
scattered about the chamber; agate, topaz, lapis-lazuli, amethyst, and a
smaragdus of miraculous beauty. Chairs of golden