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UNION BANK.

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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.
Incorporated by Act of Colonial
Legislature.

Capital Thirty Thousand pounds Currency,
in 3,000 shares of Ten pounds each, pay-
able by instalments in three years.

PROVISIONAL MANAGING COMMITTE.

C. Palmer, Chairman, Hon. W. W. Lord, M.L.C. |

Hou. G. Beer, M-L.C. Hon. James Pope, MP. P
Henry Haszard, Esq, Geo. F.C. Lowden, Esq
Ww. E. Dawson, Esq. William Heard, Esq.
James D Mason, Esq. Thomas Dodd, —
Alfred Phillips, Esq Wm. KR. W atson, Esq

J. A. Darey, Exc Owen Connelly, Esq
George Davies beq

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New Series.---No. 29,

Basil Olwoff jie Howry Walton. He was! The winter went on with its biting cold, | I accepted my uncle’s invitation; we set} ‘Eh! Monsieur Niklas, has the baron
a baron, to be sure, but what of that!

LITERATURE,
TWILIGHT.

Softly it melts, yon fading ray,

ite snowstorms, its keen winds, its nights of out together as soon as the snow was tho- offended you then?’ asked I, with a laugh.
I suppose I must have spoken the last starry splendour, and its constant round of| roughly melted, and travelled by easy stages)‘ And you—you whom he bas supplanted
| sentence aloud, for my uncle readily rejoin- | festivity. There might be suffering in the | to Vailinga. My uncle's house, built of the | —do you not bate him ? asked the priest,
‘ed: ‘ What of that, indeed! Why, Harry, suburbs, where the tshernot narod left their | soft stone common iu the province. stood on giving me a searching glance that made me,
| you must not set my Caroline down as on a| wooden hovels to seck warmth by buddliog | a sort of bluff or rising-ground, fringed with | too, start. I had never mentioned Caroline's
| par with those silly Eoglish girls who fling in the steaming halls of the vapour-bath, and trees, and so situated that a sinuous twist of name to the papas at all, and yet be bad
‘themselves away on the first foreign puppy | where bread and sour cabbage were dear, and | the Volga almost converted it into an island. | guessed my attachment. However, bis cunn-
that flashes his trumpery title, rea} or ficti- vodki scarce, but there was no stint of revelry | On three sides, indeed, the shining river | ing was at fault. 1 did not hate Olgoff, and
tious, before their foolish eyes. We have and mirth among the stately streets of the | made a moat around it, cutting it off from I was not unjust enough to say that he who
seen tou much of the grand world in these city. I stayed, although every successive the village of Vailinga, which was ouly ac-| had known Caroline longer than I bad sup-
‘latitudes to be so easily gulled. My daugh-| week and day proved more and more clearly | cessible by a ferry, without a long detour. | planted me in her regard. Some impulse,
‘ter might have been a princess twice, at|that Caroline's affections were engaged by The view from the terrace and windows of nowever, checked me as I was about to deny
‘least, since she came out in Russian society, | the gloomy young Russian, and though it was | the bhoase was fine; the eye roamed freely | the imputation, and I held my peace; while
‘had she and I fancied those who sought her | manifest that she only cared for me as a near | over the seas of swayitg pines, whose dark | the priest, chuckling over his own keen in-
hand, and who were higher aud wealthier, relative and not a disagreeable companion. | tops were mottled here aud there by the sight into human motives, went on to speak
‘ten times over, than Olgoff.’ Yet L stayed, though [ cau hardly explain | light green of birch woods, far away beyond more freely.
He then went on to tell me that the latter | the mixtare of feelings which prompted me| which were bare and stony plains; while in| ‘ The accursed Agag!’ said he; ‘ let him
was a neighbour of theirs in the country.|to linger on at the oorthern capital. My the horizon towered, blue and gigantic, the have acare what he does. Thut is the third
My uncle had purchased a small estate on | own hopeless attachmeut had a smaller share crests of the Ural range, dividing Europe time he bas brought youder arch-worshipper
‘the banks of the Volga, not very far from | iu this resolve than 1 was perhaps willing to from Asia. of Baal into my parish; but the orthodox |
the city of Nevskoi Novgorod, and it was allow, but I was in truth much interested 10 |

Like love's last look, all faintly given
Calm, as some aoul that dies away

And fades from earth to rise in heaven
Over the still dark woodlands dim

The fluttering breeze of evening dies,
Or faintly sings day's parting hymu

Beneath the sweet, the twilight skies

Is not the twilight memory’s hour,

; Who, while its failing gleams may last,
! Sits oft beneath their sombre power,

| Te mourn o'er that dear dream—the past
Dim as yon lingering beams they rise—

The scenes, the lost, the love jof yore—

voices, Caroline's and Olgoff’s. For a mo-
ment I stopped, aud an indefivite thrill of
jealousy ram through wy veins; bat I
crushed the pitiful sentimeot, and was ad-
Vaocing, resolved to lese no time in -
ing eae when the window alee
ently flung open, and Basil O

out, and strode fast across the so oak
with flushed face and wild gestures,

I was springing to meet bim, when
smothered cry, oa the sound of a fall ate
tracted my notice; I burried to the open
window, entered, and found Caroline lyi
in & swoon upon the ground. A enw
confusion followed, several of the volable
but half-useless Russian servarts crowded
into the room at my impatient summons;
my uncle came with a frightened face; we
placed the poor girl on a sofa, and tried the
usual remedies to revive ber, and with suc-
cess, Poor Caroline! sbe only regained her
senses to commence sobbing as if her beart

I asked the papas what he meant.

'would break, and her expressions were so

FEISS BANK is formed to supply an Shadowed on mewory's tear-dimmed eyes,
addition to the money circulation of this Is Who whispers * they can come no more.”
land, the want of which hus for some time been
reusibly felt. It is the natural a - “e Pure as you fading sky's faint light
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inereaging population, an expanding Commerce, anc sis :

f the enlarged production of an industrious and Each baried face remembered seems,
energetic people. Incredible as it may seem, unul And each loved form comes softly bright,
ee yuu Hae, eve, Rove ee Bank established | And fair as childbood’s holy dreams;

1 this Island; in that year. ander the pressure of | : : ’

s similar necessity, the Bank of Prince Edward Yet ah! how changed, how cold they rise—
Island was called into existence; and while it has Those loved of youth's dear, vanished duy ;

facilitated the trade and commercial business gene , le" te
rally, it. bas largely contributed to the develope M lung from sad affection’s eyes,
meut of the resources of the Country, and its results | As phantom-like as twilight's ray.
are sup pose d to bave been sutisfact ry wo the
SOAPEMNEOTS, hav i for some years past paid them | Yet, on the brow of twilight’s hour,
an annua! dividend of ten per cent | “ ies
The increase in the pepulation since the year A dim, but deathless glory plays,
1&5, the large addition to our trade and commerce, | And o'er the soul she sheds a shower
» iwereasing Revenue, the breadth of arable land |

: ; Of thoughts, akin to heavenly rays;
eleared and caitivated, the growing imerease of :
farming stock, the augmented export of grain and |
arvicaltaral produce of all kinds, bave rendered ;
fu ther Banking operations in this Island absolutely |

And wid ber faint spiritual light,
Oit to the heart a glow is given,

Which triamphing o'er sorrow’s night,

As for Vailinga itself, it was one of those are not always to be mocked with impunity.’ |
‘there that he and his daughter spent the | the strange semi-barbarous country, its won- Villages 80 common among the steppes of os \ :
‘summer. Olgoff lived hard by, on a pro-|derful contrasts, and quaint peculiarities ; | Russia, of Hungary, or wherever the landis' — * tepben, eou of Constantive, is the most incoherent and broken by weeping, that it
/perty smal] indeed as to value and extent,/and, as habit lessened the pain of seeing | oveupied by a peop'e of Tartar descent, {t) famous preacher of his biaspheming band of | was Jong before we oould distinguish their
|but which bad been handed down from fa-|anothor preferred to myself, I came gra-| was large enough to merit the name of town, heretics,’ was the answer; but the babitual purport. At last we learned that Basil
i ther to son for a length of time most unu- ‘dually to take much interest in Olgoff hia- | but in its straggling and rustic disorder, in caution of the papas bad revuroed, aud he bad bidden her adieu, had spoken fondly
' sual in Russia, where foriunes are commonly self. He seemed a problem worth sulving, | it lack of public buildings, shops, and pave-| would say no more. ‘ ‘and in heart-broken aceents, but with s
‘of quick growth and rapid deeay. He was/ this dark, stera young man, whose reserve | meut, it was thoroughly a village, It had, | A few days later an unexpected stir took (dreadful firmness of conviction of the neces-
ithe bir of one of those ancient families of aud gravity were out of tune with the light | however, a police-court with a small prison place in the tranquil village. This was sity for their parting, and bad entreated her
| Boyards, the old squirearchy of Muscovy, 'flippaney of metropolitan manners, and who, attached, two churches and a vapour-bath. caused by the sudden arrival of a squadroo | to pray for him, and to cherish his memory.
/poor and barbarceus im the eyes of the mush- seemed a living protest against the social | The latter was a shabby affuir; but the | of light horse, detached from the sotnia of | Then be bad torn himself away, abrupily as
room nobility of Si. Petersburg, but who|sysiem of the place. I have often watched churches were targe, and theic Byzantine Cossacks in garrison at New Novgorod, and jhe had come, and the shock of parting had
‘render to that brilliant and corrupt court; my successful rival, sombre aud thoughtful, | domes were gorgeously adorued with purple | whose tents were now te be pitched on the | overcome her strength. '
| seorn for seorn, and hatred for dislike. The! io # saloon full of lace, diamonds, and gay and gold, laid on in somewhat theatrical taste, | borders of the ores, hard by the outskirts | Mr. Ludlow was very angry at first. His
Oly ffs were one of those families which | unilorms, of fluttering plames and fans, and | but which shone in the sua like the speckled | of Vailinga. The commander of this force sotion was that his daughter's affections had

necessary
ft appears from the census of 1860 and from other
authentic sources, thut in the preceding §ve years

the inerease in the population of this Island was |
breadth of land under |

9 361 persons; increase of
cultivation 45,000 acres; merease in the quantity of
reots and cereals exported $42,000 bush That in

the yeur 1861, the lmports amounted to £314,902, |
eurrency the Experts, including shipping, to)

£MG ALI, « nurreney, (showing a balance of trade in
favoor of the Island Phat in twenty years, from
1838 to 1859, the revenue more than doubled itself,
the fiwures being, in 1039 £17,011; in 1859 £41,000

Whilst to carry ou this widitioual trade, the pub

lic Banking accommodation up to 1855 was nil, and
since that time it bas never exceeded £52,000 per
unnum, or about thirteen shillings per bead for the
population, a eum so small as to be almost iucredi
ble; while the Banking accommodation of the
neighbouring Drovinee of New Brunswick, it is
believed, amonnts te thirty shillings per head

The effect of the large additions above re ferred

te. has beeu uu increasing annual demand for Dis- |

count, aud for a larger amount of Cirealation or!
Floating Capital; but as the Bank of Prince Ed
ward Island did nut provide this, the Public in
their hecessity were driven to the private discoun
ter for accommodation, at verv heavy rates, and tt
has been estimated that at these rites a sur: pearly

equal to the Capital of the proposed Bank is an
pually discounted

Deeply impressed with the importance of this
evil, and feeling that there is in this Island a
auple field for the secare and profitable action of a
second Bank, the promoters have set on foot the
proposed Establishment; and in submitting this
prospectus to the Foreign as well as Island Capi
talists, as a safe and protitable investment, they beg
to refer to the Act of Incorporation of the Cais
Bank, now before the Leyislature, and to those
parts of it especially intended for the security of
Shareholders and the public generally, namely,
Meetion Mth, where by Stoekheiders are declared
personally linble for redemption of all Bills issued
by the Corporat.on, amd ail debts dae tl ereby i
ey tga to the Stock they respectively hold
vat no Stockholder shall be lable for any sum ex
ceeding twice the amount of Lis Stock, in addition

the Stock held by him

And also Section 20, wherein it is enacted that

the total ameonnt of debts le posile exce, ted) which
the Bank shall ut any time owe, shall not exceed
three times the amount of the Capital Stoek paid

in. The Directors being made liable in their pri
vate capacities for any excess

Dabetrivtion fists for Stocktakers (aiready lances |my fatber made more than one jesting allu-| cousin, in a pleasing point of view before Not that I was unjust enough to deny that of wild rambles among the woods or tripe|Pp:'secution of the Raskolniks. In vain,

subseribed fur) are iu the bands of ewel of the
provisional committee
Charlottetown, April 1863

- BAZAAR

ST. DUNSTAN’S COLLEGE.

Under the Patronage of His Lordship the Bishop
of Charlottetown.

BAZAAR, having for its object the

raising of funds to aid iz liquidating the debt
jnearred by the re-eailding of St. Vanstan's College,
will be held at the said College on WEDNESDAY
amd THURSDAY. the Sth and Sth of JULY next
The ladies of the Convent of Notre Dame are the
prineipal organizers thereof, and are zealously
BECO ded in their laudable efforts Ly many ladies of
the city. The following articles will be disposed
of by Lottery —

}. A Drawing room Chair, embroiderered

on cioth and mounted. ........... 6s per ticket
2. A pair of Fire Screens. ...........3 *
3. An elegant Sofa Cushion..........3e
ie Oe, RO) Se eee ee -
5, lho Bs Bisisabeuviic.. 28 ”
6. A Work Box, embrojdered on purple
velvet iotcennisahiesesane pe
7. A pair of Foot-stoolse...........18 6d wi
8. A Work Box paixted on velvet... .9d ef

Contributions in money. fancy work, materials |

for fancy and useful works, &c., will be thankfully
received by the following :—
The Ladies of the Convent, Mrs. McTeaac,
Mrs. P. Walker, Mrs. D. Reddin,
Mrs. O. Connelly, Mrs Gleason,
Mrs. Ecketadt, Mrs. Gani,
Mise McDonnell, Mrs. J. Marpby,
Miss Reddin, Miss Kelly,
Mies Longard, Miss McDade
The ladies nnd gentlemen belonging to the coun
try, as well as those belonging to the city, are
respectfully solicited to send in their contributions
a8 soon as possible to either of the ubove ladies
Persons desirous of obtaining tickets for the Lot
teries will also please send in their names to any
of the same parties
Charlottetown, June Ist, 1863.

CHARLES BELL,

MERCHANT TAILOR,

QUEEN STREET. CHARLOTTETOWN.

] EGS to intimate that be has JUST
RECEIVED, via Helifax, bie SPRING AND

SUMMER SUPPLY, and ia now showing a large |

ind carefally selected STOCK OF NEW GOODs,
*aita'le for the season, in
CLOTHS, TWEEDS, DOESKINS,
TALLORS’ TRIMMINGS,
HATS AND CAPS,
SHIRTS, SHIRT COLLARS, TIES,
SCARFS, GLOVES. BRAC ES,
UNDER CLOTHING,
Gc... $e. $¢
FOR MEN'S WEAB.
Inspection respectf illy solicited
SB Remember the New Stand, QUEEN-STREET
Charlottetown, June Ist, 1863
FLOUR! FLOUR!
Idaho from New York and Carrie Rich

from Boston.
JUST RECEIVED

400 Barrels FLOUR,

different grades For Sale at DODD'S BRICK

STORE.
May 8, 1863. DODD & ROGERS.

NOTICE!
s > .
Wy HEREAsS. by Bill ef Sale, dated this
oth day of JUNE, 1863, Mr ON °
perete, of SUMMERSIDE, in mee ped
rinee Edward Island, Merchant, has THIS DAY
sold, made over, and delivered to us all hig Book
Debts, Notes of Hand, &e., PUBLIC NOTICE is
_—- es to all Persons indebied to the suid
Rona eDouald that we have appoiysed Wic.
biamM Beainsto, of Sanmerstde, aforesaid, our
Attorney, to collect said Debts and Notes, and who
hlone is authorized to yrantdisehuryes for the same.
WEIMORE & McCULLOCH,
Of Halifax, Nova Scotia
dune 8, 1803. is] 2m

} Reveals the coming dawn of heaven

| As long as [ can remember, | had been an )

| brother — who had no son of bis own, and

,and his intercourse with my parents aud
| myself was limited to correspoud-nce.

Peter the Great had failed to remodel ac-| the mingled bum of mus.¢ and merry voices, | plumaye of a starling. Most churches in | happened to be a young Russian of princely
cording to his imperial fancy. They had | until [ could have fancied him some Puritan eastern Europe, indeed, can boast of guy aud family whom [ had often re in the clubs
/given up their beards and eattans at his will, | of the seventeenth century, saddening by his | tawdry decorations that contrast sharply wiih |and ball-rooms of St. Peters murg. and who
| but they had never flocked to his new me- mournful presence the butterfly court of | the mean ugliness of the buts around them, was communicative enough both with respect
‘tropolis among the Logrian swamps, and) Cuarles LL. Wheo 1 call him my successful | aud so it was at Vailinga. to his errand and his present banishment from |
‘they kept aloof from the frowns or favours rival, Lam not perhaps wholly accurate. In| As for the residence of Basil Olgoff, that the court.
lof the sovereign. Basil's father had, how-| the first plaee, I bad, I am bappy to say, | ¥4s On the opposite side of the Volga, and; ‘ Figure to yourself, tres cher, that you
lever, been cajoled or forced into the military | been too prudent or difident to breathe one within sight of my uncle's house. A quaint) hebold au unhappy exile from civilized s80-
iservice, had risen to the rank of general ‘word of love in Carolive’s unwilling ear ; | abode itis; that baronial mansion of the | siety,” said the little count, lashing his var- |
‘and had received tke title of baron—a dis- | and in the uext place, Basil Olgoff had never | long descended Olgoffs, with its oue beavy | nished boot with a gold-mounted riding whip, |
| tinction little valued by a boyard of ancient | formally offered bimself as a suitor, He | tower of solid masonry—a tower that was | and putting on a most amusing air of injured |

And not in vain does sorrow keep
Her tender memories of the past;
Nor idly does affection weep

O’er forms an. scenes too dear to last;

But holy hepes from memory spring,

Reyotten by undying love,

And faith, ou strong untiring wing
Still soars to greet earth's lost abov,.

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»TTQa r Trtne ; : : : ~ : ‘ : |
A RUSSIAN SL ITOR. i stock, and which he esteemed the less from | Was attentive certainly, visited often at my traditionally Suid to have withs:ood more| innocence. ‘* I spent a little too much, lived |

’ ‘sharing it with the meanest of the Czar’s uucle’s house, appeared at every ball or con-| than oue siege in the days of the Tartars-— | a little too fast, and see the consequence.
My uncle, Mr. James Ludiow, was One| > cach and German sycophants, The old cert where my cousin was invited, and never «nd the more modern bu ldings of wood,| My monster of an uncle, the old prince, who
. resent, gad ye aa od of the| cevera! had reudered some service to my | Showed the slightest sign of caring for any | blackened with age and smoke, aud strongly |lives on a tenth of his revenue, was s9|
English merenants at St Peter-b rg. and | cle in times long past, and on this account other feminine society, but he remaiued mute, | resembling a series of barns. There was a | shocked at the list of my debts, that he would |
he bad often pressed me to pay him a visit the Ludiows bad always been kind and bos-| and I often wondered why. | Jarge garden in which a few flowers bloomed only pay them on condition of this frightful |
At last, towards the end of the season, | wong the fruit-trees, and close up to the | sacrifice—of wy exchanging into this bideous |
And now the mischief was done. My when the melting snow was pouring torrents suony peach-wall came the dark rustling fir- } Cossack corps, and giving up the Impe ial i
Pape ' oe La 4, | hopes were nipped ia the bud; my uscle’s of dirty wa'er down the streets, till lately | trees of the forest. A melancholy future guard, of which I was, I flutter mysel 7
who we always treate me with great kind- plan for his daughter % settlement in hfe! paved with a pure white crust of glittering home, I thought, for & young girl like cousin unworthy member. f So here | find myself— |
ness curing his frequent visi(s to bis wetivel Y , ercieresh: a08 tr bene at Eeilen crystals, when sledgetwere thrust into the | Caroline. 't, Emmanuel Galitzin—actually doing thief |
nett iby degrese, eh ey ‘and Gregg bad fair to come to an end with | coach-house, and carriages began to splash | Tie O!goff property was not large, and takers’ work, and sent here to root Out @ nest
teal trips grew lew and far berween ; Mr. | ihe earthly tenure of its present chicf. Mr. | and struggle along the quays, Baron O goff I believe the young boyard was often strait-| of heretics—I, a Voltairean !’
Ludiow’s heaith was not what it had been, | Ludlow was very much vexed, but he was spoke out. My uncle came to me in sowe | ened for means, but I am sure he was not | ‘ Heretics - I exclaimed. :
‘the kindest of parents, and the idea of dudyeon. | actuated by mercenary views in paying his) * Yes, my friend ; some sort of pestilent |
: ‘thwarting bis dauzhter’s inclinations never! * Well, Harry, boy, you must give Caro- court to Caroline. So indeed my uncle, | fanatics, j¢ nen sais rien, moi! Bat |
I scarcely remember how it came about seriously entered his head. She was bis line joy—she is to bea baroness, afier all, | who was a just man, grumblingly admitted; | famous preacher of these wild fellows, one |
that 1 wus led to accept my uncle’s invita ouly child, had been petted aud indulged for that dumb suitor of ours has found his | adding that the baron seemed to care no | Stephen Constantinoviteb, has been traced |
‘ion to pass a winter as‘his guest in the | from the cradle, and be could not bear to tongue, and be hanged to him! Don’t wince, wore what was seitled on Miss Ludlow, or | ere, and the wise-acres of the government
Russian capital. Some und:fised ideas of | vive her pain, or to be harsh with her. He | oephew. I'd rather bave given her to you, in what manver, than if every piue on his|imagiee a revolution to be brewing, and
bear-hunts aod wolf bunts, of gay balis and | thought it his duty to speak to Caroline op fifty times over, but 1 never thwarted my | barren acres were worth its weight in silver. | have sent my men, who are half heathens, |
jsledzging parties, tempted me to face the) the subject, but beyoud a word of warning gitl yet, aud [ could not find the heart to | He was sincerely attached to Caroline; but |#0d myself, a philosopher as you know, to”
journey and the climate; while my father | and advice he wou!d not go. Paternal pro-| say 00, as I longed to do, when she came 418 undemonsirative manner gave him a | Set matters straight, which is a droll idea,’
| was strongly in favour ot wy going. I sus- | hibitions and stern injunctions were as wuch | an hour ago, all tears and ‘blusies, to tell | cold and unpleasing air, though my cousin | Count Galitzin either did not kuow, or
/peet that Mr. Ludlow bad written to my our of his Way as the impressive maledic- me of Olzoff’s proposal, Heaven bless ber; | herself would never Jisten to a word in his) Wou'd not tell, the name of the informer
mother in more urgent terms than tO my-| tions and Gne speeches of a theatrical heavy 1 hope she'll be happy, but I must soy | have disfavour. who had set the authorities on the track of
self, for she more than once * woudered bow | father, LHe spoke accordingly, praising my my doubts.’ | My stay at Vailioga was a pleasant one) tg the preacher, but | could guess that
[ should like my cousin Caroline ;’ while | unworthy self, doing his best to set me, her} Sobad I. Very eerious doubts indeed. enough. There was pleety of shot, pleaty | thé malice of Pope Niklas bad prompted the

: nee .. | pitable to his sou, their neighboar.
especial favourite of this unele—my mother's |

|sion to the probability of my coming back a | Uaroline’s eyes, and at the same time ex- Basi! Olgoff was in some respects worthy of down the river, and we now and then re- | héwever, did the Cossacks scour the forests
, Benedict. Now, Mr. Ludiow happened to pressing a vot unnatural wish that she his good juck. in spite of the young boy-| ceived an invitation from some neighbouring | !it¢ sleuth-hounds on the trail of a wounded
| be a widower—a most uulikely man 10 con- | should marry a man of her own country and ard’s icy reserve, there were flashes of good proprietor, or two or three families would | der ; io Vain did the priests of the different
|tract a second marriage, and Caroline was | creed, in preference to an alien. and noble feeling which broke from him at/ drive or sail for leagues to accept myuncle’s patishes make rigid inquiry among their
| his sole heiress. But Caroline's answer, though not quite | times, and 1 had discovered that bis princi- hospitality, for Mr. Ludlow bad a wide- | flicks, for no trace of the proscribed man
| The invitation was accepted, but a num- direct, leftnahope. Sue liked me very well, ples and sentiments were modelled on a far | spread acquaintance. Tuen | found both | eojld be detected.

‘ber of trifling causes combined to postpone ehe said, as a cousin; she was in no burry higher standard than that of most of his amusement and interest in drawing forth | or my own part, I felt preity sure that
'my actual departure, and the winter season to be married, and so on. But it was plain equals in rank. But there was something | legends, anecdotes, and odd traits of national | the hunted fugitive was still close at hand,

been trifled with, and that some caprice had
led O!yoff thus roughly to break off the en-
gagement; but I did vot share this impres-

sion. Drawing my uncle apart, L told him

as cautiously a8 1 could what Galitzin had
related to me.

* Poor unhappy lad!’ he exclaimed, * it
was a sad day when I agreed to give Caro-
line to a Russian, especially one half-crazed,
as he seems to be; but we must save him if
we can.’

This seemed no easy matter. I spent the
rest of the day in a fruitless search for Basil
Oigoff, but could guin no clue to his retreat.
While Mr. Ludlow stayed to endeavour to
cousole his daughter, | was vainly interro-
gating the young baron’s servants, vainly
ranging bis grounds, or wandering from
chamber to chamber in bis house, but without
gaining the slightest information.

Weary and baffled, 1 returned home, and
my uncle met me With an anxious face, to
say that Caroline was quiet now, but so
wretched that it made his heart bleed to
lock at her. Poor thing! her white wan
countenance and eyes that had grown dim
with weeping, were sad to behold, and she
was quite changed from the gay, light-heart-
ed girl | had always known ber. Olgoff's

‘conduct had been cruel and capricious, as I

thought, aad J felt a glow of anger as | saw
my pretty kinswoman suffer thus for his sake,
The woon rose, and presently the night
wind began to sigh through the trees, and
the hours stole op fast towards the fatal
time when the meeting of the wild enthusiasts
should be betrayed. I chafed at the inaetion
to which | was condemned, and
to my uncle that I had better go across to
the village, and try to interest Galitzin in
poor Olgoff’s behalf. It was a deaperate
hope, for the young noble had the true Tar-
tar nature under his varnish of western cle-
fm but it seemed the only means left us.
quitted the room, and was leaving the
bouse, when a little bare-footed girl, who
weeded io the garden, came trippiog up
with # piece of paper in ber hand.

|was already far spent when [ arrived at St./to her father that ber affections were en- hidden, something kept back. I often felt character, from the peasantry around us, | for a great change came over Caroline's af-
| Petersburg, and took up my residence be- | gaged, and that if Basil Olgoff chose to make the conviction that Olgoff was uot entirely and found cause to be glad that I had the fianced husband, and I instinctively attri-
neath my uncle's roof. Before [ had been an offer, that offer would be accepted. My franz with us, but for my very life I could | pcwer of conversing thus. Of -course, the buted this to the influence of his religious |

many days an inhabitant of the northern! uncle groaned in spirit, but left his daughter not have explained my reasons for 80 deem- people spoke no tongue but the Muscovite ; mentor. Basil Olgoff had always been si- |
capital, | was as heartily in love with my | full liberty of choice. * Olgoff's not a bad | ing. _ However, I could not contemplate but L bad devoted much time at Si. Peters. | lent and melancholy, but now the cala |
pretty blue-eyed cousin as the fondest of | fellow,’ he would say to me in moments ol | Caroiine’s suony beauty beside his gloomy burg, under the guidanee of a shrewd | gravity of his manner gave place to the most
match-makers could desire; but the worst | confidence over the mahogany. ‘ Buta Rus-| brow and dark watehiul eyes, withoat an | teacher of languages, to the acquisition of abrupt alternations between unnatural viva- |
‘of the matter was, that my affection was|sian! the difference of religion and nation- | undefined presentiment of evil. | the Russian dialect, and having someaptitude clly and the very deepest depression. . At)
‘not reciprocated. Caroline — whom I had ality is so great, that such unions bave a| I do not think my uncle felt precisely as for the study, had made considera’ e pro-| one time be would ne absolutely gay, miribe |
not seen since she was a little fair-haired | thousand chances of shipwreck ; and though |[ did. His objections to the marriage were| gress. My uncle, on the o:her hand, had | ful, and amusing, showing a play of fancy,
child — met me with the frank kindness of the lad is a good steady lad, and the sou! | plain enough. He had wasted Caroline to never learned above a few words of the | and a store of anecdote that would hare.
bearing which our near relationship war-| of honour, as his father was before him, he choose an English busband; if ber cousin, | language; French bad always sufficed biw done credit to any lion of the salons, and at

‘ English lord, I found this beyond the
shrubbery, and 1 took it home, and my
mother said | should give it to some of the
family, as it has most likely been
and perhaps they would give ms a copeck.’

There was writing on the scrap of °
in Russian characters of course, bas" dees
were familiar to me now, and | read, in
Cigoff’s hand, the broken sentences that rau
thus:

* Pity and fegivetian lot hae fallen—so
happy esyour jover, your busband—mid-
night—at the Iletman's Oak—pray for me,
as for the dead.’

ranted; bat I found no especial grace in| bas inherited some wonderful notions of his so much the better, but at any rate be dis- | in conversational iutercourse, and he bad another he would sink inte a state of such| I turned to the child, and asked if she or

her eyes, nor was I long in learaing that | own about church-matters—is not, indeed, an | liked ber union with a foreigner, a Russian, sever cared tO acquire a tongue which is | gloomy apathy that nothing could arouse |

her affections were engaged. otthodox member of the Russo-Greek com-| aud a member of a diferent church, It was) despised even by those who use it. i from bis sullen meditations.
Mr. Ladiow, io bis blunt good-natured | munion, bat is what they eal! here a Rask-| painful to the sturdy British merchant to} 1t was not long before I began to learn, | These chaogeful moods caused Caroline

way, rated me soundly for the delay in my olnik—a dissenter, belonging to some wild | think of the old house of Ludlow and Gregg | thanks to hints and chance words, that a/ many an unhappy moment, aroused in my

atriva] at St. Petersburg, on which he laid sect. To us Englishmen it matters little how | changing its name, of bis grandchildren | great schism lay beneath the apparently dull | mind the gravest suspicions of Oigoffs)

ber parents couldread. The reply was in the

jpegative. Satisfied, sv far, + Ssorged some

smal! coins into her extended hand, and she
‘darted off homewards. I remained behind,
sorely puzzled. It was evident that this
scrap of paper was part of an :ncomplete letter

tthe blame of the failure of plaus which he | these people differ among themselycs about | growing up to speak the Muscovite tongue, | uniformity of the local system. Most of the |sanity, and even made my uncle, not habi- | whick Olgoff had designed to send to Caroline

|now avowed openly enough. ‘ritual aod discipline, picture-worship, and |to have Russian feelings and babits, and to/ villagers were of course of the orthodox faith, | tually an observant man, uneasy with regard

‘ You see, Harry, my buy, it was the wish | genuflexions; but the Raskoluiks are eue-| bow before gaudy pictures and flaring can-| but there were many who were more than) to the future. His igea was that his future |

of my heart, years ago, that you and my | mies of government, and I should have dies at the bidding of a Papas of the Greek | suspected of secret heresy, and to whom the | son-in-law might be in debt, and in his
daughter Caroline should love each other. | preferred that my son-in-law should be at| fold. He could not bring himself to deny | Caar’s supremacy in religion appeared hate- blunt good-natured way he placed his stroug-

You are my dear sister's child, and I have least in good odour with the powers that be.’ Caroline her free choice, but be deferred the ful and moustrous. Several of those Rask- box at Olgof’s disposal, and was rather)
These words rai-ed my curiosity. I knew | actual wedding as long as ke possibly could, | olniks were pointed out to me, and were, as vexed when it was declined. Still the sum-|

no soo of my own to carry on the busine-s : ‘ . : ne
which Ludiow and Gregg have condusted as yet but little about the under-currents of | hoping, as he confessed to me, that the young | far as L could judge, inoffensive persons mer went on, and the Cossack tents still
here ever since the Emperor Paul's reign. | religious feeling in Russia, but [ made iv-| people might change their minds, or that | enough—a trifle more industrious, staid, and | Whiiened the {allows across the river, and

You have been brought up to busincss-ha- quiries, and received copious information, | something might oceur to break off the thoughtful thao their neighbours. Io some! ‘he patrols went trampling through the |

bits, will be well off when your father dies if not always of an accurate mature. 1 | match. Le insisted that the time of betrothal | cases they were residents in the village, but | woods, but no arrest took place,
| I hope that it will not be yet, this many | learned that, in spite of the sheep-like doci- | should include the whole summer and au- iu most instances they were serfs of the | One day, how well 1 remember it! as I
a year—and [never beard anything of | lity with which the great bulk of the narion | (umn, and that when the family returned to O'gotf estate, and were presumed to be seuutcred aloug the leafy shade of the trees
“your ebaracter but what pleased me. Carry | had followed the beckoning-hand of the ezar- | St. Petersburg for the winter season eusuing, | under the especial patronage of the lord of | 0 the broad village street, beard the claok
will be well off, very well off, aud is a dear,| pontiff, many sects still set themselves in| it would be quite time enough to celebrate the soil, There is suid to be an intolerant, of spurs and sabre, aud Cap‘ain Count Galit-
_good girl, and a prerty girl.’ opposition to the state profession of faith. | the marriage. Spirit among ibe Russian mujiks, but | owo Zin came up, radiant and brisk. His first
‘ Jud-ed she is,’ eaid [, cracking a filbert These varied much, from tbe Non united| Yielding on all other points, on this Mr. | that in this case 1 saw Jiutle proof of it. words were: ‘Congratulate me, Walton ;
|with unnecessary vehemence. _Greeka to the sirange heretics who followed | Ludiow was inflexible, and it was settled | Tue dissenters were looked coolly upon, but give me Jy of the probable termination of
My uacle nodded, and pushed the decan- the doctrines of certain wild prophets and | that the wedding should be deferred till the | aot treated with any disrespect, and it my exile in Vailinga. Wee shall fivish with
ters towards me, as he answered: ‘I wish | martyrs. os singular, but more obscure thav (Christmas following. In the meantime the seemed as if the peasants regarded the sup-| these pests to-night, and I shall have the
you could bave bad her, Harry; but [ fear) Kniperdoling or John of Leyden, All these | affisnced couple would not be absolutely pression of religious differences as the pro-| felicity of conducting them, in chains, to
she’s in love with that Russian fellow—con- | dissenters were more or less under the frown separated, since my unce’s summer abode | Viuce of government alone. But there was New Novgorod, where at least there are do-
found him !" (ot imperial power, according to their grades | was at a place called Vailinga, situated, as | 99€ man in whose breast fiereer feelings ex © minoes and champagne, and where drinkable
What Russian fellow? Although this |—tbe adherents of the old order of things | 1 bave previously said, near New Novgorod, | isted, and this was the priest who officiated coffee can be had.
conversation took place on the tenth evening | being viewed with simple displeasure, while and om the banks of the Volga, while Baron | ia the smaller of two churches, Pope Niklas. * To-night! how asked :.
‘of my stay at St. Petersburg, we had al-| the partisans of more fanatical and danger-| Olgoff was his next neighbonr. Somewhat) Pope Niklas was an ambitious ama, it Galizin told me io his chattering style
ready been a good deal in the gay society of ous teachers were actively persecuted. | to my surprise, Mr. Ludlow gave me a warm | Was suid; more able and better instructed that the Raskoluiks had a false brother
‘the town, and [ bad seen, with a jealous | Horrid tales were told of these ast, Ples invitation to spend the summer, Or at least | than the great bulk of the rural clergy, and among them, who, for a hundred roubles,
pang. sandry wasp-waisted young officers and | of cruel torture, mutilation and death, rutb- | a part of it, on this small estate, in a country of a respectable family in Moscow itseli— had given tbe alert to government, and bad
diplomates doing their best to fascinate the | lessly inflicted on voluntary victims, who | where, as he said, game abounded and sports- the Russian Mecca, He was able to speak betrayed the rendezvous of this wild sect.
rich and pretty Koglish heiress. But when | thought to bay Paradise by creating for| men were scarce, and where travellers | Freach—a wonderful accomplishment for a The fanatics had lately made many converts
| Mr. Lud!ow named Basil Olgoff as the for-| themselves a place of tormeot upon earth. ‘seldom penetrated. I believe my worthy | papas; but I never liked the man, often as among the ignorant peasants around, and it
tunate winner of Caroline’s heart, I could But the authorities took every means to huch | uncle, who was a tenacious, though a most [ conversed with him. His aspect was was deemed needful to cut short their prose-
not help uttering an exclamation of incre- up such legends, and at the same time en- kindly man, secretly hoped that in the course | rather imposing, in his dark robes, with his | lytism by a sharp and tern exemple.
dulous astonishment. ‘deavoured by strict severity to extirpate this of the summer something migut occur to | shaven temples, his long black hair falling | ‘ Apropos,’ said the Count, that black-
‘Lis Olgoff was a tall, dark-complexioned | moral canoer from society. ‘break the engagement; that a longer ac-|in snaky profusion over his velvet cape, and looking, sulky marplot, Olgoff, is to be there
| young man, about two years older than my- To which of these sects Olgoff belonged, | quaintance with Olgoff's epperenly unat- i his fiery eyes glittering under brows that ‘to-night, and must take his choice of ga
iself, acd of a gloomy aspect and tacituro 'I bad not the remotest idea; nor, indeed, | tractive disposition might chill Caroline's | would bave become a grand inquisitor. It | thrust or a trip to Siberia. Better t e for-
‘demeavour. He was a constant visitor at | could I giean any information on the subject feelings towards him; and that his daughter | was said that he had set his beart on be-| mer, for your sake, Walton, if you have an
‘my uncle’s bouse, bat I had never felt the from my numerous acquaintances, who were might be tempted to transfer her affections coming & bishop; and indeed I could not eye, as I suspect, to aah eed poy
‘curiosity to ask any questions regarding in geveral only too communicative concern- |to ber kinsman—myself. I entertained few but recognise that he was of the trae Tor-|the savings of ce digne Monsieur garg
‘him; and I could not conjecture how Caro- | ieg their neighbors. Indeed, religion, ex- or no hopes of the sort. Indeed | was fast | quemada stawp, very unlike the tipsy boors| Aba! good-bye; I go to Pe este >
line could be attracted towards him. | cept from a political point of view, was rarely schooling myself into viewing Caroline with who officiated in the parisbes around him, |The trap closes on the mice by “ nigh |
| Indeed. among all those gay uniforms, re- | spoken of; clegant sceptici-m, or an effee- merely brotherly iuterest, but I felt an and for wh- the serfs had scanty reverence This was wartios bap ‘3 my “4
sonant titles, and sparkling orders, Olgoff’s tation of cosmopolitan indifference, reigned invivaible apprehension on her account ;| when outside -beir chapel doors. idoubt the a eo —_ ormation i
plain black-eoat, gaunt figure, aod sad face, among the polished denigens of the St. and though I rather liked Olgoff, I could I was taiking to Pope Nicklas once in the | had receiv 2 nor, a8 a a o ee could |
‘had appeared to the utmost disadvantage, Petersburg palaces, and it was understood uot but regard the attachment ag an ill-| village street, when Basil Olgof passed by I ee or a momen on oar hee to
‘and he was the very last person on whom that the orthodox Uniied Greek Church was starred one. Again, I was really curious in earnest converse with a man whom [ had | pursue. must Warn my suspicions would have fixed, It was an excellent church for the mujiks, the mer- to see provincial Russia, to enjoy the wild| never seen before, but whose long gray line’s sake, | must save her wees ed hus-
‘difficult to guess what merits Caroline saw | chants, the soldiers, the * black people’ in sports of the forest, and to make an explor- beard and keen wrinkled face were worthy band from the peril that was closing in upon |
in such a suitor. Disposed as | was to take general. That the O'goff, in some outward ing expedition among the spurs of the Ural, cof notice. The priest started, aod muttered him. I burried to the ferry, crossed the |
(a sufficiently modest estimate of my own | regpects, conformed to this church, was pretty singe I had a teste for geology, and was at something like an aaathewa, while, as if by | river, and hastened up to the house. Fs t
|powers of pleasing, [ could not see any su- certain ; and beyond that nothing was kvown, least a8 much at home with the bammer a au involuntary impulse, he stealthily shook | crossed the lawn, | beard from a ha wo
‘periority in looks or manners gn the part of though much might be suspected. the fowling-piece or rifle. his fist at the receding figures. window, that of the library, the sound o

_by way of farewell; that he had givep ap
the design, aud let fall the paper by accident.
Probably the Hetman’s Oak was the place of
meeting for the Raskolniks, while the * lot,”
_of which his incoherent words spoke as having
fallen, implied most likely the mysterious
reason for the renunciation of his dearest
hopes. While I thus pondered, I felt alight
touch on my arm, and started. Caroline
was beside me, her face deathly pale, but
with her eyes unnaturally bright, and a calm
resolve written in her features. I tried to
bide the scrawl ; it was too late.

‘I have read the writing,’ she whispered ;
‘hush! I know all. Let us go together, and

| we may yet save him.’

She threw a cloak, which she had hastily
caught up, over her shoulders, drawing the
hood over ber bright hair with an impatient
gesture, and stepped cautiously out into the
moonligt. I followed, and with quick steps
we went towards the forest. We both well
knew the place named, for the [letman's
Oak was less than two miles off, though ina
very wild nook among the woods. Bat. once
among the thickets, the moon served us little,

| the briars and interlacing boug!s rendering
‘our progress very tediousand fatiguing. At
‘last we epproached the dell, dark and steep,
‘and surrounded by gray rocks and huge trees,
over which towered the gigantic trunk and
broad boughs of Hetman’s Oak. The dense
mass of foliage here defied the moonlight,
but we could see something stirring im the
giea beneath us; someth black and
shapeless, but which as by instinct we knew
to be « crowd of human forms. Then « dull
murmur of voices suddenly swelled into g
wild and plaintive chant, some bymn of this
strange church among the desert. It rose
'and fell, now low and faint, now shrill and
loud, but always sad; and then a gleam of
raddy light broke out from a kindled pile of
fir cones, and we could dimly discern a
number of persons, nearly “ay as I should
judge, gathered around a kind of altar of

rough stone, beside which was piled an im-

ge of logs and brushwood. Nor was
is .
The sudden light showed priest and congre-

gation: it fell with lurid radience on
wrinkled face, the gray beard, and
the
the

Hs

robes of Stephen the preacher ; on
rasset garb and stern features of
the begrimmed countenances of the charcoal-
burners. only balf-human in , and the
two or three members of the assembly whose
garments revealed a hi rank. No chil-
dren were present, only two or three
womes. Bat our eyes royed hestily over

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