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Hall. R. Haywoed. W. C. Wat, klrs. J". Seers. J- W. Thomas, Stephen Williams I nuiniui W.J David K. uorteh, w.j.iiaUs. We, .Ti-ly hi...,- , ' eaaBBL . I ... pM F? jgWjy y, t mmmm ' ' " W .r'j - . , c.t.'. -V, : t-u itrViCTTOy? V v.'r JlPlrfTl'h i-, , " " -.-..-mm .. i . i i.,-ja - t V V i'l i. flfi f 1 t I ? I i i ' . (- . . ;..v ..- -i ; . . - ... . , - BYP0RSLEY BROS.:&EIGUERS.i AUTUMNAL VATS. " ' BOUJ3I K. SQCIXX, The aowM bnve died at Sunmer tasab, Tb. air i. laden, daajp awl chill ; ' v Yet loet and lone amid the gloom Which late was gay with bud sad bloom, A fugitive from ball and room, WbceKeheaased,Ik)iterstfll. i The undulating adds are dun, ' i ( And sere ami browife munaarmk The forwt monarcba, one by one. . , ' ,- wswre late the sepbjrn, t-ug oa. Hang Summer's low and sweet farewell, Storms are toy heralds, 'Antuma ; tnaie, i banting their paeans loud and long, remring their antheme through the tnes,: STuoee outatreteiiefl 1 1 i k ,k - - Hoar back a aoand UfceeuUea seas, - - ' , ' And aingera of .Uxy martial aong. ,- Thine is a magic wand of worth, !!". And typical of something won ; ' ' With thee around the bomely hearth, Oetber the tillers of tus earth, . ' . Drink to thy f ruitfuljese with mirth, Aad rest from faithful labor done. Thy prueenee here is not hi rata, - ' T Though many s thing we love has' fled ; Behold the fild of waving grain. Result of labor and of pain. Of Niinawr sun snd Summer rain, -Grow gtadea where thy stepf have fled. And though the swallow's circling flight . ' " Amend onr doors no more is seen, The rabbin angers to delight. And through the cedar's foliage brij-ut, Tb purple finches' notes unite. - And squirrels glad the lingering greeiv Earathas her dynastiee her kings, J" Beyond the soope of man's hour ;. ; And thou art one-. inanimate things,' Wide lakes and streams and brooks and eprmge, . . Forests snd groves each to thee brings, : .j Some tenure of thy reign and power, t The leafy inaple dares aspire, ! The ttrst cf all the fore old, ' ' To weloome thee in fit attire ; Each. Uushing leaf thrills with desire. And erimaon at thy kiss 4 fire, And duns thy Urery of gold. Trom yonder hill the thundering pines, : ! ' . .. Bef use aUegiance to thy reign. Loot in the forest's dark confines, Or stretched afar in verdant lines. They fling aloft unchanging signs. Nor own the f eWers of thy chain. f. . Tet thoo art welcome unto me, t ' Though harsh thy winds, though Mea and chill ; For through their wild, sad minstrelsy, . There steals a strange weird harmony, . As when low sighs the fretful sea, - jfhat soothes and charms and wins my will. AS Outward things to happy eyes. Are worthy of our studious thought ; ' The storms that sweep Uiarchiag aides,' The countless hues in sntnmn guise, , The merest forms our fancy priar,. L : Hire some divinity Inwrought. ' The world is beautiful, far and wide, ' Whatever the seasons onay unfold, To him who feels the peaceful pride. Of some g)d action done who side 1 By saie with duty strews the tide, ljit error on our life has rolled. Tlrsn welcome be thy fruitful days. Thy gulden sheaves, the yellow ears ; I AU Nature lifts her voice in praise. The murmuring brooklets sing thy ktyr, ' O thus be bit seed in eountieas ways - . The Autumn of my closing years. The flowers hsve died at Summer's tomb, The sir is laden, damp and chill ; Yet lost and lone amid the gloom Which bite was gay with bud and bloom fugitive from hall snd room, Whence ah has fled, I loiter still. 1 1. . 0E SUMMER XIUI1T. . L AT THE HOTEIi. If I commenced niv storv according m the way which was once fashionable among the imitators of Sir 'Walter Scott, I should have to describe the interior of an old-fashioned hotel where the gos sips of the neighborhood were eniovine Eipe and glass, and mine well-pauncheil out did justice to his own cheer. There wr-re no flagons of Rhenish, or sack, bowver; glazed framed notice proclaim ed me ate 01 iurton, ana ardent spirits did that moderate or immoderate work which some constitutional authorities declare to be absolutely necessary in the rigors of our northern climate. More over, it must be admitted that our tavern had the title of the Railwav Armes, which I suppose is nnromantic as noay be; although! confess tba' -to my minu, rauway, roau, canal and mod ern mansion, as indicating the advance and liappiness of man, really help fine scenery; which is, I think, the idea of lurners noble picture of "Feace." StilL the Railways Armes was not the pretentious, flaiing red brick building so often runup near a railwav-stntinn? but by a happy chance this stution was a terminus; the railway had run its course, and sank down, as if exhanste.1 by the side of an old-fashioned marini,! inn, with gables, ivied porch and stone rnullioned windows, which no nainter would despise, and often T.tvKntA,l scenes on wltich tho specter's eve for the picturesque would not refuse to dwell. The landlord, to mark his affin ity with tho spirit of the times, had adopted the name of the Railwav Armes instead of tfce Cauvuce Armes. for of th Canyngea nothing was left save some broken nose and toeless effigies in the huge old church, and some stray dcR ceudants in far-off places. There had been a great deal of cosy talk superad ded to warm liquors this night, for mine hotel being on the outskirts of an old- fashioned market-town, and near a rail way station, was in great request But the roidniffht hour was well-nio-h rcta-h. ed, the up-express had gone more than an aour ago, the last farmers and gra dient were adjnstiug their Inal views on the Btatbof the nation, and were takimr their ultimate sips; and then, when "Mary, my dear." shouted on old rubicund farmer. " vou mav.' brino- m another irlass of hot irin and water? ami that makes the twentieth; and "here's the soveveign n The door opened, an there strode in to the apartment a gentleman with a fur red traveling cloak and a short valise, such as in the old days would have pro claimed the Cavalier, or, at least, Mys terions Stranger, in which the old ro maicists delight, but which in these practical days announced the bonnafide traveler, in whose favor acts of Parlia ment relax their stringency and exhibit positive tendernes. lne fanners and craziers touched their hate and made cheery salutations, for which the instinct of their class they at once recognized that the new comer be longed to the ordei of the so aires, the eststed gentry to whom they paid rent and obeisance, whom they met at hunts ard in the country towns. He was a man whom, accuratelv speakinc we should call elderly; the kind of man whom jjeople call "still quite a young man, which reallv means becinrunsr to getiid. He had an abundance of soft, white beard, tender and rather restless eyes, and a countenance of great nobility snd refinement. He returnee the greet ing with much kindness, and. calling for ' something, he sat leside his own reflec tions, which apparently were, hardly of a very ciieenui uescnption.; O . ' But the last customer had departed, and the bonna fide traveler still lingeerd on. As they went off steamin? from their drinks, my landlord shows sigm and appearances of shuttincE m for the night: : ...- . - " Are you wantiug a bed here to-night air?" - J " No, landlord, I am train r on to Ash- enford." " Ashenford ! exclaimed the landlord, rith a metaleic lustre coming to his eye; 'why that is nine miles across the wolds, .y-l -ill want a conveyance. " No, thank vou, said the stranger; I think I shall walk. It is a fine moon light evening.. A queer time for walking, quoth the landlord. " People generally finish their journeys, instead of beginning them, at tins liourr" . " I have been in countries,": said the stranger, "where people do as much of their traveling as they can by night in stead of day, as being more cool and comfortable. And so, good-night to you, landlord." And without waiting for any direction as to his route, he marched into the air, and the landlord saw him get over the stile beyond which ran the path through the water-meadows that led to the Ash enford road. , t "I don't know who that ' gentleman can be," mused the landlord; "and I can't call to mind bis face; but he must know this part of the country pretty well to make out that path by the water- meadows into the road, I thought of telling bim of it, but then any stranger woula go wrong.; f , ' j ; ': ;. . VU THE AFPABITIOS. In the). Meanwhile onr traveler had safely threads! the complexities of the entangled path by the alder trees that U led-towards the high "tpad. Bare and wuiw ior mues ana miles onwaru f learned' the high road in the distanoet, 'he toad was originally made by the old Romans,' wh did such work bravely, shrinking from no difficulties, sunnouiit ing every hill and sonnding every ralley, and disdaining the jrta by which mod ern eniiieers evaue natural dimcuiues. For a tune the traveler followed a road, dux presently anaining im minenoe he struck across the trackless wolds in a di rection that, through a wild country, would bring them sooner to his destina tion. At tunes he listened to the mid night sounds, for, let rde tell yon, in the stillest , nights there are all kinds of sounds in the - quietest, country; the sighing . winds, the, stirs of leaf and bough, the burrowing creatures, the startled game, each thrill of water, each several echo. There is something very I- mysterious in mat under-current of life is the .dead rjf eight? in an open lonely country. Thus our stranger almost au dibly soliloquized: - .. , "I really; think there is . something most depressing and disappointing in coming back t the! scenes of one's early days. It is quite a mistake. The early days are all a mistake. . If you want to see a whole country-side perfectly dead, to have every illusion dissipated, to choke the last fount of feeling, and to Eut ashes on the last bit of green, go ack to the scenes of early days. The brook, that lovely brook, alone is fresh and -musical as when I first heard it rip ple over its shallows. That old school is not the same old school that I went to: it'isrnfdler'aaid joorei-;'the playground is nothing; the school not what it was. I expect the new proprietary schools cut out; all the old grammar and college schools. And here so many years of my early life was passed thirty years ago before I went out to India. And here I first loved Lettice Lettice, who jilted me for one nearer home, widow of the opulent brewer deceased, of brazen face and voioe, whose virago tongue is the terror of half . the -country. There are only quiet and independence left me in this world, and 1 must get what passion less enjoyment I can out of them. Mv life has not. been a happyonA. . Success ful in-appearance it has beert a failure in reality. My b"ne great-task in life, even before I left Halleybury, was for love. Love was the one. jabsurd dream on which I lived for years amid the heats and eolds of Upper-India. And when I f)t the letter that told me all was over sank into a life more solitary than be fore; and, save that I loved my work, and made sons and daughters of the dusky people I had to look after, and that I might study the stars of heaven and the herbs of the field, most human feelings died within me, and I cared not for man nor" wbmen either.1 And then the government quarreled with 'me anout my annexation, and declared that I was more friendly to the natives than to ministeral interests, and so they com municated all my claims and got rid of me. And I suppose I shall have to drill myself into a machine, eat and drink as much as I may consistently with- the safety of my liver, live by rule, sleep by rule so much time for rest, so much time for reading no duties, no ties, no interests 'the long set life "and apathe tic close.' I don't think I should have gone back to that wretched old place at home: but I suppose that I am prettv wtJLthe test of the Canynge line; and 1 1 - 1 11 . T eujjpuna iu uuiy uiing on earui j. can claim relationslup with is the defaced old Crusader in the chontry of the parish church. And he's hardly more dead than I am." ; . I do not say that Canynge said all these things in order as I have put them down. But I do as the, cunning play wrights have ever done select such parts of his solilquyc as flings light on his history. " It was at this point that Canynge saw what seemed to be a ghost The. coun try waa one of that nature, that a long chain of billowy downs rose and fell, fell and rose, for a stretch of runny, many miles. Sometimes the' 'undulations vt-re extremely gentle, but at others the emi nenoes rose to some height and sharp ness of outlines, t Canyivg had come down one slope, and was passing along a eheep-puth above which towered down frith, some abruptness. . On the height immediately above him a figure presently startled hi in, which might well occasion an emotion of wonder. It was that of a female' form clothed in perfect whitej'a face clear, cold, 'pure, and of so spiritual a eoniplrTxion'trrat it required a little imagination to conceive an angelic visitant, unless 'the prof used diamonds that sparkled on her dress might betray a mundane) origin. Her long golden hair noated over her ehoulders, and her white eeck and bosom glimmered through lace flmbroidery. In spite of his astonish ment, Cfinyuge- mechanically quickened his pace, and in a - few minutes was brought face to face with a fair girl who was descending the path which he was mounting. He saw how accurately his eye had divined at once the rare type of loveliness he had seen, and a hundred thoughts at once rushed into Ids mind as to whr-.t should account for this sud den appearance at two o'clock in the morning in such attire on these fart away lonely wolds. Had she ran away from some accident or outrage? had she escaped from a lunatic asylum or some unfriendly dwelling ? or what could be the explanation of this strange event, occurring thus startingly in the midst of his complaints about his monotonous and stereotyped existence ? He hardly knew how to act, whether to alarm the maiden by returning to addres her, or to abstain from taking - any notice, and yet keep her carefully in view. A man in these circumstance falls back on what one might call his mechanical mor ality, the instinct of the -"benefiting" that has gradually grown up into an ex tra sense. Canynge drew back, raised his liat, and inquired whether he could be of any service, She laid her white hand on his arm almost caressingly, and said " Oh ! yes, indeed, if you could get back into the road, and help papa. It will be a long time before we can get help from home. Presently a brilliant burst of laughter was heard, and two other ladies came leisurely down the slope of an opposite WOld. . 'r ' ; ' ' When they saw a strange gentleman in confabulation with their companion. whom they called Exeline, who had just S rutted them, they, came up and told leir story at ths t dead hour ef night . The party were coming home ' from a ball at a great house, and had left some what early." . The story was a very sim ple one. They had' taken the narrow road across the wolds, and the coachman was not quite sober, and had upset the' carriage on -the bank,J One horse ; was decidedly injured, but the difficulty was to get the carriage straight " The young ladies had easily got out of the carriage, and, thinly clad as they were, they had set off to walk in their evening costume the most direct cut home across the down. t In answer to the inquiry of this chahce comer, they told hinr he might certainly be of &se if he would strike off into the road, and with a few hurried polite phrases they started .homewards to procure further assistance. There were only two gentlemen with the carriage, and the coachman was ly ing by the side of the bank, .hardly sen sible," "whether from drink or blow. A young man who had evidently been on horseback, for his horse was picketed to a tree, was busily engaged in repairing damages with aa elderly gentleman, while an old turbaned lady, in a state of dismay, was using somewhat incoherent expressions of horror. Canynage was able to be of essential COLUMBIA, TENJf FRED AT', : DECEMBER 20, 1872. Berne?, They made what use they could of the one uninjured horse, and both shafts being broken,' they managed to propel the vehicle and to keep guard try the window to allay the ladies fears. which were not altogether destitute of foundation, that there might be another repetition of the disaster before. they reacnetuiattue.- .. , T ,-v -?. : . " I think, yoa inayt:be Sir Henry H al oe rt, said (Janynge to the old gentle man in the pause that ensued after the immeqiato preparations rwere complete. I " And TOn- I ' was the answer. "Tour old schoolfellow, Canynge, bo- ore l went to Uaileyburv. r.Ouryn,-r said Sir Henry, warmly grasping' ins band, if you had known how often I had thought of you. how much 1 had desired this meeting. I watched you for years in India, and when, you left the Civil Service, and I most - thoroughly took your side and sympathized with you, you seemed to be lost sight of altogether." . ? ' "I nave been in Italy and the east,! said Canynge' "and only lately have been traveling in England. " " And where do you live now ?" Nowhere. . That is to say, entirely in hotels." . - . , "And how do yoa spend your time?" " Chiefly traveling about in express trains. i P 'But where are your traps, and how uo we una you nere ai miunigui t ,' " My man has been at at Ashenford, and I was walking over to meet him." " " And in this' Out-of-the-way spot, at this odd hour, we meet, lou were com ing to see me, I hope?" " I don't know. I had some idea of it, but I am afraid that I should have given it up. l am out of sorts, Halbert, by which -1 mean out of health, out of spirits. e are both oldish men, but you have not been shriveled up in India as i have. 11 . " You must come . on. for the nitrht anyhow; stay for a month; stayjaf long as yon like." "I think not, Halbert I am the worst possible sort of guest to Lava-. selfish and solitary, rise and roost at all hours not amusing, or to be amused I a." regular badger in earth, only fitfor the Indian jungle. . "iWe will draw you out replied Sir Henry, ''We will send over by and by for your servant at Ashenford. You shall do exactly as you like, and will be, at least, as comfortable as at ai hotel." It was a long pull round by the hall. Aftr going four or five miles help came, and all the disagreeables were effective ly arranged. ' At last they reached the hail door. As they stood on the thres hold Sir Henry again greeted his guest with both hands outstretched, and just at that moment the first rich ray of the morning sun struck from the east across the world, ushering in a new world, and, perchance, the dawn of a brighter day to the worn heart and frame of the old Indian. IIL LIUT AT EVKNISO. t Canynge was undisturbed till late next morning. The law of the host was gone forth that the new inmate was to be left to his own devices. The servant came to take orders whether he would breakfast in his own room or downstairs. Having replied in the, latter way, Mr. Canynge went down into the library. A breakfast lunch was on the table, and he had . hardly sat down when a tall ele gant girl, the same whom he had first met on the downs the previous night, presently entered the apartment, and quietly sat down by his side. : " I am told that I am to have my lunch fit your breakfast, Mr. Canynge, ' she said. "Paparkas l&eu eblirJ to go over to the Pettv Sessions, where he always takes the chair. Mamma is not down yet, or my sisters either," she ad ded, laughingly; "and mamma said you were to be my special charge till the rest, came in." , J .""My child," said Canynge, with his gentle smile, "I place myself in your care, if yon will be troubled with a stu pid old man. It ia quite a new experi ence to me to have so fresh and good a girl to look aftr niy. tea and toast" " But you are not a stupid old man," said Eveline, with earnest eyes, "if am ma told me that out in India you had been quite a sort of king over a country as big as twenty of our English coun ties, and had done the people ever so much good." .'... "A man mnv lie a (.timid old msrL'iu spite of all that. Miss Eveline, fla- yoni will certainly find . out, if I stay here much loner." . . He thought he had never seen a high er type of intellectual beauty than in Eveline. .. The face had that expression of goodness which is essential to4eauty. That night had been a very eventful night to her, for it had been her first ball. She had not yet properly come out, and was to be presented at. Court next season: but the Talbots were such 'old friends and neighbors that she had been allowed to go to their ball. And Eveline was quite content with the com parative retiredness that was hers until the days of her first season should come in. 1 5- That young man whom he had seeu the night before, with his steed tied up, was evidently an institution in the honse. It was pretty clear, indeed, that he was kept there by feminine attrac tions, and more than suspected that this attraction was Eveline. Lady Hul bert was anxious to get him for one of her girls, but if the eldest would not meet the occasion then even let it le the youngest; but she had still hopes for Caroline. Canynge did not see much of Captain Mortoiu The Anglo-Indian kept his morning to himself, rarely ap peared . at tho public breakfast and lunch, and almost limited his inter course with the family to apparently in terminable talks with his host ever the wine; But he was a man of late hours, and would sit in tho smoking-room or billiard-room even later than the gal lant captiin. And hearing from Lady Halbert that the gallant captain had been making proposals for Eveline, like Lady .nalbert he was in favor of Caro line. He granted that Morton was rich, handsome, " gentlemanly, . and : if not much good, at least with little vice about him. . But he was a man of the true voluptuary type, who had exhaus ted all the round of pleasure, with no notions beyond natural interests. Caro- line was a woman of the world, cr.pableLa;ign is bent upon employing the Pyra of taking and holding her own way, having quite settled her character and tastes..! But somehow he was sorry to think of Eveline being handed over to. such a man, who would hold her. " a lit tle better than his dog, a little .dearer than his horse,' and that, all her fine sympathies and abilities should - be dulled by contact w ith such companion ship. ' ' For lie had seen a great deal of EveH line. .Lady Halbert had especially de sired her youngest daughter to le very attentive to Mr. Canynge. She had told her child that he was nearly fifty years of age, and to Eveline fifty ir five hundred were nearly similar quantities, indicating the illimitable age of grand fathers. Lady Halbert had uo objection that her child should be the favorite of a rich Indian. Poor Lady Halbert tfas a good, worthy woman, out she acted with the short-sighted selfishness of her class." It was not wit or worth, or character, but lands and houses that she wanted for her children and Sic Henry Halbert left the consideration of these things ' to Lady Halbert, , Hec ladyship even speculated- whether thi wrealthv Indian' mnrlit not do for Onrn- line, who was " getting on." . j In the meanwhile Eveline was a great1 deal with the old man, mginally.she took it to1 herself as a kindly duty at her mother's desire. But the old man in many wavs interested her very great ly. He refused to take any part in the society of the neighborhood, and as Eveline did not go out they were hrown , much on Mr. Canynge's great resource, mnsic. He passed hour after boor in the ' organ-chamber t the HalL ' and threw open a new world of music to bia young friend. . Then his man brought over strange instruments of science, with 'whose use he' familiarized his pu pil, and he ' would go into the library, ana taxing aown votume alter volume, would have something to tell her sat great jnen and of -stiiTing pages in their writings, xuueeu, loose wno watcnea Mr. Canynge wim Understanding eyes might have een in him a life of leisure and song,- of real leArning and genuine high feeling, while his obvious unrest ana unnappiness pernaps strucx a uan- gerous chord oi sympathy. ? - One day there was great mentaljdia turbance at the hall,' The gallant cap- um had auroptiy lea. The story came .out after- dinner conterse. Morton had insisted onr his answer, and he got it and did not like it Evsrjne could not say she loved him,' and so she captain called ffr hjs teed, and?arode ojt My lady would hAvetltrown Caroline at his head, but " Caroline me no Carolines" was his thought. Mr.' Canynge found much to meditate on in thaterent It was time for himto take hiafdeparhire ho better time than Jwh there was soma sort of trouble in the houee. The fate of the captain made him aualyrt and disinteg rate his own feelings towards Eveline. He smiled very bitterly when he told himself that he was an old fool and loved .Eveline with a. love othe and deeper than a rrandfather'ai It there was a good reason for Captain Morton to go there was good -reason for him abH so. He Buonosed he must be in second childness to love such a child. Being a man . of quick resolves he settled that that should be his last'night at the HalL andlept ujou jiisfexihle determina-. , He announce1., it next morning, and when Sir Henry tried to make him, alter hid lans he imninded. him ' that he would be 'a ''perfectly free agent so firm ly that he stopped discussion. He Lproniiscd to let his old school-fellow knowvwhat; his plans would be, and to arrange for a meeting again. Many a golden fee, was given among the domes tics at the Hall; many a kind word and "Smile which some of them had learned to value at least as well And then he sought Eveline in the organroom. She had looked startled and pallid when he spoke of leaving, and he had not seen her during the morning. He had a diamond cross in his hand, one of rare value, which he had brought from Florence,. He entered, the room. very quickly and . the young girl, who 'liad not heard him enter, was at the bay-win dow,' weeping audibly with the wet tears on her" thin, delicate "fingers t'ti l ! " Jiy cnud. said alt. uauynge, grave ly, "this is a famous cross which I pro cured in "Florence. You,-' must take it from me. It will be a memorial of an old man's loving regard for you, when perhaps I shall have- left thase parts forever."-- - ' - ' 3 ' ' ' " Oh ! Mr. Canynge," she said, "you must not say that I should grieve even more than I grieve now ill thought that I should never seeyou again. It is the one tnrng to wmcn x snau iook ior- ward." Is it possible, my child, that you shed these tears for me." " Oh ! yes." she said: "who has been so kind and patient, and loving with me as vou Lave" been?' I only wish that I hai loved you more." And now the tears came fast, and almost nncontrolla blv. " You love me, my child, but you do not know i what love is. Some. bppy man wiil Y-m-rcsi Lve ' Perhaps some day poor Morton will .be BUCcessluL Perhaps ' "a ever mention jLaptam .Morton to me, almost r.ngriiy exeiaimea tne mai den. ,"I might have liked mm better, perhaps, if I had not seen you." Then a sudden thougnt strucK Canvnge. "Was it possible that this young girl, in the generosity of her na ture, was giving bim the priceless gift of her lova'f" " Oh !" he said "Oh. heavens ! Is it possible that you love me as you have not loved others; that you would be my wife." "I love ton' with' all my heart, she said, the warm blushes on her face, " but I am not worthy to be your wife." But she became his wife. Let no one say finch love was not deep and true. In the estate that was once mat w me Canyngea, and was bought back by their descendant, there is a hale happy man restored to life and energy; and the ine quality of years is not so much, as year by year he grows younger as she grows older. . It is a curious fact that the jeal ous captain did marry Caroline after alL : - f The Pyramids. It is said that the Khedive intends to turn tho great pyramid of Ghizeh into : a lighthouse. He, is an enterprising and somewhat ' ' tinimaginative sovereign; prone to works of utility, and with scant veneration for that which is mere ly old or curious, and it is quite possf ble that he may cause that ancient sum :mit to Je crow-ned With a Federal lan tern and occupied by a discontented stipendiary with a coil of Manchester wickiug and a Copic pitcher of clarified benzina. Notwithstanding the advan tage to the neighboring commerce of the Nile of such a lofty -and far-beani tog Pharos, all reverent travelers who have seen it from across dim levels of desert, a pillar of cloud by day, will re gret to see it turned into a pillar of fire by night -The Arabs had a tradition that these structures were built by the inhabitants of the elder ; world, and alone of human works bore the burden of the flood. Whether or not this be trne, they are at least old enough to be released . from obligations of utility. The mummied sovereign in the base ment, whoever he was in life, Memos or Cephren, Thotnies or Barneses, or Pha raoh, . must experience an emotion of posthumous . resentment . at the mere mention of such an employment of his towering and venerable monument If it were Cleopatra who slumbered there, she would break from her cere-cloths in rage at such presumptuous audacity, and disperse avenging asps throughout the twenty-five palaces of the present ruler of the lands of Egypt II indeed that able but rather sacrilegious sover- mid in purposes of use, let him turn the crypt into a consular residence. He may again have accredited to him a pe culiar official like Butler, in which event he has but to watch the ingress of that inconvenient and objectionable function ary, brick up the entrance, and thus re lieve two rations by one act of masonry. Xcw York fribune.- . If Too Please. I , Boys, do you ever think how much re"al courtesy will do for you ? : Some of the greatest men were" ever cautions in this respect When the Duke of Well ington was sick, the last h$ took was tea. On his servant handing it to him in a saucer; and asking if he would have it the Duke replied, " Yea, if you please." These were his last words. How much kindness and courtesy is expressed by them ! He who had commanded great armies, and was long accustomed to the tone of authority, did not overlook the small courtesies of life. Ah, how many boVs do ! .What m rude tone of command they often use 'to their little brothers and sisters, and sometimes to their i mothers !. : They order so: That is ill-bred, and shows, to say the least, a Want of thought ' In all your home talk remember. "If your please." To all who wait upon or serve you, believe ithat-"If you please" will' niake you better served than all the cross or order ing words in the whole dictionary. Do not forget three little worth : "If you please." "Speak gently; It Is better far To role by love than fear,' -PAINTED MOCK. (The "Hock" alluded to Is a tremendous precipice . to us iuihii river, wnicn rises perpendicularly from the water to a height Of three hundred f eeC It is probably four r and red yards IB length, and ai the headland of one of the ridges of the- Cumber buio, wmcn appears 10 nave been broken in twain at that point to allow the river to pass. Along the top u us pracipm uarwe are many puces where the water exades, strongly Impregnated with iron and other coloring suhstsjnices, which, running down the face of tbs "iters' rive it the appearance of bavin oesw ruueiy - painwt. rrom una eimunstaace it tarn Its name. Old Indian tradition; however. assign another and very different cause 'for the eoloriag, battering that it was the blood of their noted -braves'' aiaip in battle. upon the nnun&, wblrh so deeply dyed the river front of the famous -rantea Boca,"J Lung yean rustle by, like the tune-tinted leaves That low on the waters are shed. When the wind thromgh the frost-emit ten foliage grieves, Aad the birds of the Bummer have fled. . Yet leave they an echo those swift-gliding years. vi nm iua xeaneM ana rise -Here dwelt, (ere had settled the stoat "Pioneers, ") vu uie uauss w we ongni xennessee.- ; It rises from river, from valley and glen, That echo. it atola fmm the aA. Ajfif it whispers its stories of derk-viwaged men " In the depths ef the old forest shade. And here, where, the craggy, and weather-plalued Bangs over the murmurhur tide. ' .' It tells of the night battle's terrible shock. . ,, . . And the valiant who met it and died. ' . True, toarisU may tell ns that over the faoe . , Of that precipice hoary and dread, nde marks of the graver and paint we may trace " Hnt the colors b A'afprearera anresd. . But they know sot the tale of that nighthadoweat fight, r . , f .. . ) Both summit and side of' that perilous height . nnni uirwu h, uie unu 01 we warn. . . nere ayea with tne blood or the brave. . ; Twss the season when the first chilis of Autumn - around Had fallen, and blossoms all rale. Lay dying sway on the f roet-eovered ground in the aeus of that beautiful vale : Far down on the lowlands the buffalo herds Sought out the green msrursse still. . And hues like the plumage of farad urn birds , .. aay pngnf oer ue sun-crestea mil. ; i ; 0ar tha chestnut tree )hsking their hardy brown v hmrrm -v , The wiid-crane lav trailing across : And ripe eonee, fresh fallen from cedar and firs Half-covered the emerald mass. Blue mountains from ander ttar rich siBber base Looked upoii- westeaaa ann. Whose softening splendor and lonR-fcUnUng rays. ' .-,-.. ... . . 1 . . - ; ah iimi i, 111,1 . .i 11 1 r aia guuc A flarse osrthe rref iptee I Boldly its gleam , '. snoots ap from the toa of the Bock . . Tis the trunk of a pine-tree that hangs o'er.' the stream, , r . . . ., Aad breasted the knrrleaneV shock. And there on the aunimit a warrior band , - Lies, gathered to silent repose, "''''! Tie the brave Tuecerora the pride of the land . . on the track of his treacherous foes. , . .. He scorns in the lowland to ttske him a lair , He scorns In the forest to hide : , . . ,. 5 When the foeman comes on, Tuscarora is thece, . W ith his warriors, trusty and tried. He loves on the erag-rif ted mountain atone v To sleep on some teuantiees peak. . ' i Where the cry of the vulture can answer his own vt 1th a hungered and-dtsth-teuing shriek , . . And here where the night wind in rapid career ,' . . Sweeps over the rock-cradled nest Of the sun loving. eagle, the dark mountaineer,, . . And his followers, laid thenl to rest : While rose oa the night a Bisgaiflcent.blaze As the pine beacon's quivering glow Caet down its huge fire flakes and dorp-Unted rays nhere the water-tones unue oeiow r Like a red eye In heaven the blood circled, moon Looked ont with a wondering stare' - - And cloud-cuff and river, and precipice soon .- Were lit with Us a-udarssg glare. And tbt atist telling ,np from the face of the stream ' ' Hung heavily over the height, t Yet, shining beneath it, the bright billows gleam In the wizzard and wandering UgfaA ' As down the deep gorges the winter wind launches, His voice through the caverns re-echoing hoarse; -His fury abroad mid the bare forest branchaa, -; . Uprooting the rocks in his terrible course ( . So, dread to the aleeiwrs, the sadden up-breaking . Of pleassntest dreaming and peaceful repoee, . The sentinel's shout brought a fearful awaking - That saw them environed by mordero. foes 1 Cloie gsthered tkx " Braves'' tike a thunder-bolt a. rung ' i ' t f l . The Chieftain's defiance on high; Abroad to the wind-gust his signal was flung And his warrior's echoed the cry ; His eye in its socket, a fountain of flame, ; , Boiled redly, as guxhing his cheek " ' Down-nsihing the blade of a battle-axe came, ( ' And was died with the blood-gushing reek. - - . r . TTwiihering tat red lhe spirits were given, They fought not for victory then And souh that knew, naught of the mercy of Heaven ! n Disdained now to ask it cf men : The red stream of carnage a cataract runs Fsr over the precipice side ; -, : .'' ; With the Mood .of a thousand the wfldertwea' The eaard on the summit was dyed ! ; The conflict was over and Mit on the brow Of the "Buck," where the beacon bad shone, AU wounded,' and bleeding, and desolate now, Stood ths brave Tuscarora suone. Hi falcon-eye measured the perilous steep . , . Deep-dved with it streamlets of gore '- i. Quick I ere'the foes reach him one tigar-Iike trap, Aad they saw the young Sachem no more l f j . Swift water, closed oVr him the gallant and . brave ' ' : . ' And the pride of hfc -nation and land . .- -Bank, whelmed In the rushing and fetterless wave mi.- -ii The IsM cf his warrior band. I -And red wtth Ms Webloo was aMllied the foam Of the Mae lilkws sbinlisrng free, r . When the battle was kr aid "he sought hh last home ' In the depths of the dark Tzskeshkb I , 'irifinia trench. Amuseuieits of the Queen. . . . ; The Queens' wallaa4"drivi are not confined within"' her own policies ; she crosses the Dee almost daily, and is quite as oftnTfeen on the opposite side of the river. She always uses an open carriage, but not always -the ; same. Sometimes it is a wagonette, sometimes a low pony plupton. No guard of honor accompanies the royal equipage, how ever. Her trusty attendant, John Brown, site on the-box beside "the coachmarl and when tlare is liof room for him there b4 ridest"i horseback b.vt the aide 01 tne carnage. . iu tends the Queen. An outrider a little in advance of the royal carriage clean the road, and the Queen goes quietly on her way, with a smile and a nod. for any who chance to meet her. But as a rule. Her Majesty is not intruded upon when she ventures beyond the royal dorninions, unless on Sunday, and then it is strang ers only who run-after her. ' The cot tagers do not annoy her, and she comes and goes without molestation. Indeed, they make a point if keeping out of the way .when, the white horse of the outrider appears in sight Should the Oneen. however, happen to come' unex pectedly -on her subjects by Deeside, she is deferentially acknowledged. The Queen and her ladies frequents 'pie nio" in the woods or on the hillside should.it be handier. Materials , to make a fire and cooking utensils are taken in the" carriage, and tea is made'on the green sward, and handed round in rustic fashion without "any ceremony. At these afternoon "teas" tbtr Quev. has no special chair of honor. Her seat is pretty often on the clump ofa tree, with her cup in her hand, or any dtei casual resting-place that terns up con veniently. . Excursions are made also to various places of interest, and every corrie and glen within reach has beeu visited by the royal family. Court Cir cular. r : "' '.-,: ' , Thr? Wonders of tae Yello w.Uaai ! i There is probably no more, magnifi cent region of strange freaks of nature than the valley of the Yellowstone river, and the country almost immediately around it Here, lying fax tip ohhy arsvthe nterparts of the Geysers of Iceland and mountains abounding in the rarest form of crystallization. New dis coveries are being made here constantly. The United States Geographicbl Survey, now at Fort HalL report, recently, jthe, exploration of another Geyser basil), rivaling the "Fire HeleT of the Yellow stone. . Thia last is hear Shoshone lake. One Geyser the " Union "presented the curious phenomenon, of sending wa ter from oa?, raid steam from the other mouth, "resembling a great engine." Another was named the " Minute Man " one minute never passing without an ebullition. . The crater were beautiful ly colored by" mineral deposits A cor respondent of the Hv4tMng Pott says: -' The effect of the Umon Geyser, when in action, was most grand, the -water shooting to a height of seventy feet, when, breaking into spray, it fell to the earth in a shower of drops, each, one sparkling under " the sun a rays, and forming a splendid bow; while from the other mouth rose thundering a cloud of steam, whose misty column contrasted strongly with the limpid water of the first i. . COMMODORE XATHE Tf F. MAURY. Bxtraeia from his Aaaterijr Addroaa fee foretlao Aarrtemltmrml Aaaortattosk at lbs ansa sw. aessua sssi stale r air. Co-ope ratleia Aanoatsj AsrtcsritsrrUta B . sorsus vv mscat ey jnigai uetaia. - GkNtiAikn I have subjects to dis cuss of great interest to all the bread earners" of the land. . These subjects concern, in an especial manner, the wel fare of those who earn their bread from the agricultural and mechanical pur- i The question of which I am about to treat is one of this sort : How shall the fanners of the country procure from the General Government that degree of con sideration, and such legislative enoour agement for agriculture as it requires and deserves ? Its importanoei when con trasted with the other great interests of the country, such as commerce and nav igation, railroading, mining and manu facturing, is to say the least, quite equal to theirs; then why should it not receive as much consideration from the law givers? '; . . ;. ; ' According to the official statements, statements not generally very accurate, I admit but sufficiently so in this instance perhaps to give an idea of you wealth your crops last year amounted in- round numbers to Si.iAM.ow.iM): that is me annual produce of your labor, and it is increasing. Y hat, compared to this, is the produce of the mines, the -gains of commeree or the earnings of railroadM? "-"According to' the late census, there are said to be 12,500,000 " bread earn ers in the United States. These nil the mouths of the 39,000,000 of people who inhabit the country. Thus every one who ia not a drone, has oh the aver age, to earn bread for three months,' irouowmg up these statistics, it ap pears that these several industries sub sist respectively : The agricultural and mechfihiiral.t23'630,rj0tf souls, the manu facturing, 1,117,000 ; the5 mining 472, 000; the railroad and expressmen, 690,000. ' Therefore you - beat in numerical strength the several industries that are so much. '''.'' ,..,.-..:? ' - . iCOKK COMPACT IX 0B0ANIZ ATIO JT ' and powerful with Legislatures than you are, some ten, some twenty, and some fifty timej and all combined five to one. - " Hitherto your combinations have ex tended only to the formiug of State and counties societies, and the influencing of State Legislatures. Theirs are gen eral, they impress Congress. , j Follow their example, and foster the great National Agricultural Congres tltat had its birth in this city on the 2Sth of .Hay last. The interests of agriculture, not in Missouri alone, or in any one State, es pecially, but of the whole country, re quire me adoption by Congress of cer tain measures which are too weighty for any one State or section to carry. They TOirlired the united combinations of all, and bre it is, thia Congress, with 23,- 830,000 "bread eaters" at its back, pre pared to bring forward those measures and press them with a vigor that no government can withstand, "","'' It has already spoken with regard to one of these great measures, and ere its memorial could be enrolled and sent up to Washington, the public press took up the petition, and legislators catching the spint, passed though they were upon the very heels of the session an act in creasing the appropriations for the Sig nal Office, and commanding it to address its labors to the benefit of agriculture as well as commerce. This information will enable you to fix prices upon your staples instead of going to the merchants to set the prices forytra- -it will be proclaimed by tele grams, distributed througn me raaus and repeated by the county and village press throughout the land, until every farmer will, in his own interest and for self-protection, be compelled to take at least one newspaper ; so here, besides the general and patriotic, is a direct pe cuniary interest which the press has in advocating this measure and in helping us to "roll this call along." Of this Congress the St Louis Agri cultural and Mechanical Associatfiroris somewhat the foster parent. ThafOon gress met and was organized in this city under the wing of your Association, and because of your usefulness, ,. TOUa INFLUENCE AND OL0RT in the land, I am here to ask you to en courage this Congress, to speak well of it, to help support it, and send your clear-headed men to represent you in it tint May, at Indianapolis, and annually thereafter! for there are other measures. of' general concern to come before it which are second only in importance, to the great scheme which it has already in hand.' I call it a great scheme, be cause wherever it has been brought for werd it has metrwith approval from wise and good teen, ? 'It is meet therefore, that your Na tional Agricultural Congress , should be diligent in this matter, for as soon as it moves the'government in Washington to issne invitations for the International Conference it has to turn its attention to the subject of ,f 1XLAJJD TBAPE - with the view of urging Congxeea up to its duty v of "regulating commerce among the States." ' .- I need only mention railroada and wayrfreighta .to wake you. up on this subject, and to remind yon of grievioua burdens unfairly , laid npon you and hard to bear. Your oppressors in this are encouraged aided and abetted by the very power that should protect you, viz : the Gov ernment of the United States itself. Now, speaking in a gefceral w ay, all agricultural produce reaches market in the first instance, as wtfy-freight. The farmer pavs that, and then the groceries and supplies which he receives in return often, come to him" charged also with Lerdioris way-fariffk. - The Government you also anow, nas made . munificent land grants to many of the railroads ; but the bounty came from ycu, and was created by your own enterprise and labor, e. g., here were pablie laad Take a drag in the market ; the farmer settled upon them and by improving, amid hardship, toil and pn-yationf-,"his owsf traet, lie enhanced the value of the rest He opened a way to it through the wilderness ; he made roads and a clearing; he tried the cli mate and proved the soil ; built mills, shops and churches ; established schools; paved the way for immigration and set tlement: and thus value was given to the unoccupied land around about The Government profiting by such en terprise, and forgetting the laborer, said practically to one railroad company , af ter another: "Here, take these lands ifraltrflfitcr sections; which these far mers have by their labor made saleable ; I will double the price of mine that re main you may do what you like with yours ;we together will encourage set tlers to come ; and thus, when by their present inustry.vthty 'shall have im parted sufficient value to your portion, you can raise the money to build your road, and make yourselvee rich." Suppose that the money which is use lessly expended npon the army and navy aa much of it is were applied to the construction of certain grand works of internal improvement, built to carry pheap and regulate commerce between the States. Such would . completely provide for the common defense; they would be aa useful ifKpeare as in war, and being constructed Vrt ..of savings, they would add nothing to'jqur taxes, while they would vastly mcrease your ability to pay., . . . .. -Moreover, considering .that it w the farmers who have given value to Vie public lands; considering how-ihte lands have been often squandered and rtfJaatedly misused and how it is now proposed by the politicians to "use them in the future, la it not quite time for VOL. XVIII. NO. 24. the farmers to rise np in the great Agri cultural Congress, and say " Stop ! henceforth let the pnblio lands and the proceeds thereof be applied to the agri cultural interests, not of States and sec tions, or of monopolists but of the whole country; and among other things. Jet them be ayed for the encouragement of certain great national highways by which and through which Congress may- regulate commerce among the several States, and so relieve way freights and agricultural transportion of the unequal taxation under which they now labor and are now oppressed. The only sure way for the Government to secure itself and the public against such ' impositions in the future, and of regulating railroad commerce between the States, is to pro vide certain national lines 4oth by wa ter and ' rail between thia -valley and the sea.. Let them be independent of all other lines, and managed, not in the interest of "rings," speculators or cor porations, but 'of the public Let the tolls on them be sufficient to keep them in repair.-- Let them be so ordered and equipped as to satisfy the demands of trade, meet - the requirements of the agricultural interest, and " r PROMOTX'. THH 'oEXKBAL ' WELFABB ' Kf j. - - . . while in war they will enable the Gov ernment to meet the exigencies of mili tary necessity and make sure the com mon defense." ,., : -.'. The General Goveahment can, if you in your Congress will say the word, give all the encouragement necessary for the construction of such works, and that, too, without any increase of your taxes whatsoever. '' ' , . What i there in the condition of the country to make a large navy and a greater armv more necessary now than they were before the war? - The ship ping engaged in the foreign trade ia not so much now as it was then. The In dians are not so- nuinoroua. The out posts are not so difficult of access, neith er are the frontier lines to be guarded as long now as they were then, and the yeomanry, of the country consists not of raw militia as then, but largely of vet erans in war; and yet I venture to say that there are few who hear me that will not be astonished to learn that the cost of the army now is far greater than it was before the war. It ought to be less. " ... ' " Now, then, suppose the expenditures of the army and navy had been reduced to ante-bellum proportions, here would have -been a saving of $640,000,000 which might have been applied to the con struction of those highways. Suppose it hud been applied, you would have had something to show for it, whereas now you have notliitg. Yon would have had two inland water routes between the great valley and the Atlantic, each wholly within onr own borders, and as available in war as in peace ; and you would have had the beginning of a sys tem of national railways with multiple tracks and branches between the great centers o4jroduction in one section and those of export and consumption ia the other, which would regulate commerce in peace, provide' for the common de fense in war, and as highways for com merce be almost as valuable as the Mis sissippi River itself. Remember, that when vou get. these water lines iu the shape of , r 'r, ,A SHIP CASAL , . - , , between the James River and the Ka nawha, and between the Tennessee and the Coosa and the Ocmulgee down to the sea in Georgia, all toll free, except for maintenance and repair; that when you get two or, three national trunk lines of railway to cross the Alleghanies and branch out at both end, each wfth double or multiple tracks to such places as Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmand and other sea ports at one end, while on the otlier the racliatihg stems lead off to Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville, Memphis, etc., you will bo able to deliver your produce on board ship at one third, and even less, of present rates. - If instead of looking into the past we look to the future, then in reducing tha army and navy to the ffu quo mnto bcUunt, we may assume a saving w hich, with the public land fund, will amount to not less than 840,000,000 a year. Something like this sum being useless ly expended ujion thing that contribute nothing to the wealth of the country, it might be most advantageously and ben eficially davoted to these works. You "permit your representatives in Congress to vote millions, annually, for the encouragement and protection of fYirfi'or, ronimerce by sea. But yoa do not require them to vote anything for it by : laud. Besides the navy, which I have already told yoa about, there are light-houses, the coast survey, and the consular system ; they absorb millions. Now, let us inquire what is the value of this commerce in .JniericaTt vessels, on account of which so many millions are annually expended. Its total value for the last year was 8343,910,318. Why even the tolls paid to the railroads ex ceed that by nearly a third ($111,038, C32 !) and the total value of the coin-; merce over them according to Poor, who is held as the best authority is no less, than fifteen thousand millions of dollars a year, or more than forty times as much as your foreign commerce, and yet .Congress does everything for one, nothing for the other. t f Surely you will move your Represen tative there to reconsider and act in this matter. Among the Herculean labors that de volve upon a truly National Agricultu ral Congress is the strangling of these monster monopolies, and the rescuing of the industries of the land from these odious tariffs. The adoption of this plan will give it strength for that. Your Captain Bent suggested the im provement of the Missismppi aa a lit subject to come before your Congress. I agree with him. There is no industry in the land that is more dependent than agriculture upon river navigation. Agricultural produce is the basis of river commerce. - . The adniirality jurisdiction ' of the Government extends to river and lateral waters alike, ami inland navigation de serves aa much of the fostering care of Congress as coant navigation, and you fanners must look to it also. Tlir'Se's-Pestal Telegraph Schetae. Of the new postal telegraph scheme, the Express, in its money article this afternoon, says: "It will be revived, but in a shape somewhat different from that presented during the previous ses sion. The new scheme will lie a com pany with $20,000,000 capital, to con struct an entire new line throughout the United States. It is stated that this company will ask the right of way from Congress; agreeing in return to connect all tile postoffiees of tho -conn try by wires, transact all government business at one-half the rates charged forpnvate messages, and finally divide with the Pohtoffie Department one-half the an nual profits. The company wdl also ak from the government accommodations rent free ia the different postoffiees. The projectors of this enterprise will claim for it the advantages of a postal telegraph without any expenditures by the government .Thia scheme is now being matured, and in backed by a prominent New England member of the House of representatives. It is report ed in financial circles that it was origi nally intended to make the capital $10, 000,000, but, after consultation and de liberation, it has been decided to in crease it to $20,000,000 .in order to. cover contingencies. Cincinnati Commercial. A majj of Iowa Falls, who has a lime kiln, asserts that, with wood and corn in about equals parts, the fire is better, and scarcely more expensive, and that the lime is somehow vastly better. - IIISToRIC BELLS. A late number of Appletona' 'Journal contains the following sketch of old St Michael's Church, Charleton,Jand its chime of bells: Very dear to the people vl Charles ton, South Carolina, is St Michael's Church in that city, which ia said to have been built after the model fur nished by Sir Christopher Wren, and copied from St Martin's-iri-the-I'ielda, London. - The likeness to St Martin's is so strong that no Charlestoniaa J coming to London needs have that church pointed out The spire of St Michael a, however, is much the more beautiful. Any one who had seen it would remember the church, with ite old-fashioned mahogany pnlpit, and great brasa chandeliers, and high-back mahogany pews, where the devout might pray, and the careles sleep un seen. But chiefly were the people proud of their bells. There was no such ehime in the colony when they were hung, and after they bad changed their tune of God save the King to -Yankee Doodle, there never were any bells in New York or Boston that came np to them in their Fourth of July per- -fonnance. Of all the works of man's hand there is none which seems tv have such a life of ite own as bells. How they sympathize with the people, giv ing voice to their joys and their sor rows ! How, with "prophets' voices, they speak to each man in Ida own tongue 1 . V hen the Jintiau took Charleston in 1780 they stabled their horses in the church, aud, unhanging the bells, sent them off to London, where they were dumped on the Tower wharf, and left unnoticed for many years. At last the vestry of St. Michael's received a letter bidding them to expect their bells by a certain ship sailing from London. The people went in proceasion to bring up from the ship their beloved bells, which tliev Lad narer hoped to listen to again. and with prayer and thackngivings they were replaced in the church tower. The pious 'benefactor never made him self known, but he was supposed to have been some British officer who had been at the taking of Charleston. For 70 years did those bells regulate the social life of the city. For, not only did they call to worship, and celebrate all occa sions of public joy and sorrow, but nightly they rang a curfew. Ii was in tended to warn the negroee home at 9 o'clock in winter, 10 in summer; after that hour they might not go into the streets without a written pass. It would not suit this sketch to recal the - memories of the day when the , United States flag, lowered from Fort Sumter, was brought up to the city ; some one ordered the bells to ring a clangor. ' ' ' ; Time went on, and Charleston behind i her defences of sand resisted all the ef- ' forte to carry her. During the five hundred (546) days of bombardment all the lower part of the town had to be abandoned. Houses and churches were , .. . . . it . . j r" 1 I . siiaiteretu jet tne spire oi oi jn;-.iim?i a was untouched. ' Perhapa good angels guarded it But, what neither the malice of the enemy nor the spite of fortune did, the people themselves ef fected. For the bells were taken down and sent to Columbia, to be cast into cannon. Gen. Beauregard pronounced them unfit for the purpose; and the fate, which heaped up at Columbia for safe-keeping everything of value in the State, there detained the bells alao. Then Sherman'a army passed through, leaving ite track aa of lightning. A partv of half-drunken soldiers, out for a lark and for plunder, were accosted by a negro who offered to show them the bells which they had rung in secession. "Never," said the men, "shall they play that tune again ! and they smash ed them into a hundred pieces. Sad was the return to the desolated homes, and the meetings in the dumb church, to which no miracle might now restore the voice of the chimes they loved. But they were men of pluck still, and as soon as they had shaken themselves np and provided for the first pressing needs they resolved to tax themselves to iud u iiuvn, r3- . - . Scarcely had the rector bread, and the vestry and congregation were all very poor, but they wrote to C. R. Prio- lean, ol London, to inquire we cos oi a new set Thia geutleuMai had l. so long in England aa to hav wome almost an Englishman. fai Eng lish wife and bl-a handsome English children, bat -Li" heart stirred at the recollection f the dear-old voices that had called him in childhood, and he un dertook he task withr loving seal that brought about the most surprising re sults. There was no record at Charles ton of where the bells came from. But Mr. Prioleau searched the directory for the oldest founders of the city, and went from one to the other until, at Meares k Co., White Chapel, London, a firm which had been in existence three hundred years, he found, by patient ex amination, the record of bells cast for St. Michael's Chnrch. Charleston, 8. Q, ia 1759. The proportions of the metal, and sizes of the bells, were all entered in the books ; and the present Meare engaged to turn out a new set which, when hung, should make the Charle tonians themselves think they heard their veritable old bells. 'But Mr. Prioleau was not content with thia ; he wrote back to hav all the fragments that could be found sent omt, and this was done. Meanwhile, Mearea still found iu his service an oil man of seventy-six, who had been apprentice under the very foreman who, more than a hundred years before, had cast these 1k11 ; and he, stimulated by Prioleau'a generosity, never rested till he brought to light the very original moulds for the castings. Into them the new metal was melted with careful distribution of the broken fragments, so as to make the illusion a reality. All that was wanting " to make up the cat Mr. Prioleau add ed, and the reward of his perseverance . and generosity was to send to the vestry4 these new bells, which are the very bid ones still. Again did the congregation with tears and thanksgiving receive tho Wlls from this their fifth voyage across the Atlantic and hung them up in St Michael's steeple. May they never again be removed by the rough hand of War, or ever sound ought but peace on earth and good-will toward men. Clouds: On of the saddest thought that the saddest come to us in life ia the thought that in this bright, beautiful, joy-giving world of ours, there are so many shadowed lives. If suffering came only with crime, even then we might drop a tear over him whcee errors wrought their owit V a. a a t 11. H recompense, uut it is not w,uai -u we should not have it to record that the noblest and most gifted are often among those who may count their fate among shadowed lives. With one it id the shadow of a grave, long, deep, and narrow, which falls over a life, shutting OUt me jriaKlue-w " ' rwiiMMii, blighting the tender blossoms of hope. With another, it is the wreck of a ' great ambition. He has buibled hi j ship, and launched it on the sea of life, freighted with the richest jewels of hi ' strength, his energies, hut manhood.' Behold, it comes back to him riten, battered, torn in some horrible tempest, " the wreck of a first rate." With some others, disease throwa its terrible shadows over the portals, and shuts out the brightness and jo ' outside world from the sufferer within. Bnt this is the bghtest shadow of all ; for it teaches the heart lessons of endurance and faith, and through ite darkness the sufferer sees ever the star of promise shining with rays that tell of the u-lories beyond. Of all shadowed lives. we find it in our hearts to feel most for those which are darkened by an un happy marriage. . Unhappy marriages ia the quintessence of human bondage. It wounds daily our fondest and sweetest impulaea, it trifles with and buries our holiest ami dearest affections, and writes over the tomb thereof : " No hope; It embittert the victim with the thought that lost forever to his or her life ia a glory of a great love ; closed forever to him or her, the portflofw a hapjry borne that fountain-of Irecraesa arj delight, at which the-sionl musaV nr i dnak to gather strengh for thelJ and buxdou of tH outside battle. : ' , "" f i