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POSTRY.

IF WE KNEW.

If we knew the cares and crosses
Crowding round our neighbor's way;
If we knew the little losses,
Sorely grievous day by day,
Would we then so often chide him
For the lack of thrift and gain—
Leaving on his heart a shadow,
Leaving on his soul a stain?

If we knew the cloud above us,
Held by gentle blessings there,

In our blind and weak despair?
Would we shrink from little shadows,
Lying on the dewy grass,
While ’tis only birds of Eden,
Just in mercy flying past?

If we knew the silent story.
Quivering through the heart of pain,
Would our womanhood dare doom them
Back to haunts of guilt again?
Life hath many a tangled crossing,
Joy hath many a break of wo,
Cheeks, which are tear washed, are whitest,
This the blessed angels know.

Let us reach into our bosoms
For the key to others’ lives,

And with love toward erring creatures,
Cherish good that still sury

So that when our disrobed spirits
Soar to realms of light again,

We may say, dear Father, judge us,
As we judged our fellow mon,

C85

| pole” rule of constancy appl*

Select Viterature,

Would we turn nwityralletrembling, |

arm clasped her close, and its mate struck
out boldly for the shore.

Now you will suppose, according to the
invariable rule of such affairs, Lam going
to tell you that these two, at the instant ol
their mecting in the limpid element, so
near + to Letty, * looked into one
another's eyes,” and straightway discover-
ed they loved each other.

No such thing. Letty, at the moment
Such an event should have taken place,
Was most unromantically saugling, and
ejecting the water trum mouth, uose, and
eyes, Which, in other heroines, always
so opportunely expressive. Yet, as the
Steady strokes brought them nearer safety,
and she in some degree revived, she tlt
Pthe delightil strength of the arm which
held her so firmly, and glanced at the quiet
face, and found there a beauty she had
never seen belore,

I fear the irresistible Kingsbury lost im-
measnrably in the comparison, and ce
tainly one more in love than Letty had
been, an hour before, might have torgotten
that he was so very handsome, as he stood
rather sheepishly gn the shore when they
at length reached it.

“Thank you, sir!”

But her steady glance at Harding point-
ed and limited the words,

_ Kingsbury offered the pretty dripping
little figure the as: ance of his arm, but
it was declined, and the three sought the
house where, after the first spasm of aur.

agement, the motherly aid of Mrs. Arue,jo:,
furnished dry garments, and seated, tliont

shugly a! tea,
that night.

At last the visitors were tor , thee
sat in the little dimity-diyyyS.q'e and Matty
she had that day dono iG brees Oa
Which now hung wot and uney an rile
laa ae > 4* strange contempt had
Be those Me ee heart tow rd Kingsbury
thule iit xn hours, The eyes had lost
for pe, ache over her, that was certa
hee 0 Shey gazed with the loyer-look into

No berries grace’ the (able

EYEs, NOT THEIR OWNERS,

BY 8.

A. R,

Concluded,

Ti youth’s style of argume
somewhet in this wise. Past. ¢ a
had taught him that the ‘ne

«perience
edle to the
sed but poorly
ald he, * enact
*.y, there would be

if he happened to
ne se as if his mind
Ser R ET aa of changing tor the
House ele the cool trees betore the
Pact ee busying herself with certain
little hanc - Work, while Harding, at her
asking, ‘yead aloud, . Kingsbury felt a Jittle
his “ oice instead, but concluded it was be-
ed'ase she did not wish even the rival of a
wool to share his eyes. The truth was
reading was not among the gentleman's
fortes. Letty had discovered that he read
in a singularly soulless, tasteless manner,
as different as possible from the one who
now poured out the thoughts of the author
he held, The shadows of the trees had
crept allover the cottage porch. Letty
sprang up.

“Oh my berries! Mother will want
them for tea, and they are on a log over
atthe ‘yveach.’ All your fault, sir.” and
she shook her finger playfully at Harding.

‘A fault I will endeavor to expiate by
going alter them straightway,” returned
he,

‘Ah, thatis much easier said than done.
How are you going to find them whea you
get there? They are quite hidden from
sight, and you might huntall night in such
a jun sie without a glimpse of them. — Twill
take the boat and row across, and, if you
like, you can come down to the beach and
wait for me.”

The tiny boat had but a single seat in
the middle, and would yery comfortably
hold but one, though two persons might
be smuggled upon it. Letty did net by
any means covet such un arriungement, 50
the utmost the gallants could do was to
assist her in and push the shallop afloat, |

The pond was not above a fourth of a
mile from end to end, so it y hot long
before the light craft had left the lilies,
which fringed deeply the edges, quite .be-
hind, and rode in the smooth, deep water
of the centre. A certain pricking about
the head made Letty aware that the pins
which bound her hair were becoming loose
Hers was one of those few heads graced
vy long, heavy, shining coils of original
hair, most dificult to restrain from its
natural downward tendency. Shipping
her ours for a moment, she took olf her
bonnet, but her hair was farther gone than
she had imagined, and the little avalanche
of coils rolled triumphantly down, one
long end reaching down to'the water.

“There, now, they will think I did that
just for effect!” thought Letty, with a weird
consciousness of the two spectators on
shore, She began hastily to gather it up,
but it wasnot so etsy amatter; the treach-
erous pins had to be sought out among the
hair, and she almost forgot she was in a
boat over waters thirty feet deep,

A creeping coldaess over her fect made
her start undlook down. Merciful Heaven !
‘The water was swiltly rising in the frail
cratt; already itv beyond the lattice of
her shoe. Her heart sank down within
her, silent and cold, then it rose again with
a hot, aching bound; she stood up in the
trembling boat, aud stretched her bare
white arms towards the shove,

« Kingsbury —Cariton, heip mo!”

As the ery tloated to the land, the two
w forthe first time her tearful str
1e man to whom she had appealed ¢
ed his hands in nervous, incapable dr
but the other, though his teeth wer
set, and his lace covered with gray
ness, flung away coat and boots, and was
in the water, forcing himself through it
with mighty strokes, as il it wore his own
life he sought to save. :

There was good need, for even with
this speed he did not reach her before the
boat had sunk fur below the water's sur-
face, and the bright head, though strug-
rling wildly to ged itself up in the free

essed air, and had gone down and risen
up for tho-first of those three terrible times
allotted to the drowning, in which, per-
chance, succor may come before they sink
down into the depths, while and stark,
forever beyond all aid. Llelp was here,
however, tor as she came to the surface an

to himself, therefore sho:
the devoted too obvious!
a deuce of a hobble
change his mind,”
Were in no dange.y,

+9, it parting, they did not awaken the
old thrill in the least. It was to him she
had called in her agony, and why had he
not come? Yes, why? ‘Phat question can
never be answered to Letty in such a
manner as to bring back her old feeliue
towards its subject, f

But we, who have nothing to do with
the matter, may dispassionately inquire
how it was that Carlton Kingsbury, being,
as he considered himself, very much in
love with Letitia Arn » Was not the
first to fiy to her im her deadly peril? Well,
in the first place he was not’ by nature a
prompt and courageous man. © All his life
long he had stood by and seen other meu
fill up br
haye been, Jn that kuight-errantry pecu-
ligv.only.to the parlor carpet. he was ins
else. “Then, also, if he loved Letty Arns-
den, he loved himselfimuch better; nature’s
self-preservation cry—*' Thyself, first of
all,” rose strong within him. ‘Lrue, he
was a@ good swimmer, and might possibly
have reached the shore with his burden;
but then there were the long, tangling,
twining lilies— they would catch her trail-
ing garments, or she herself might cling
to him with that frantic, unreasoning
grasp with which so nany women insure
the destruction of themselyes and their
rescuers, It takes along time to parade
these motives in review, but they shot
quick and full through the man’
Letty’s appeal rang over the w hoot
was partly with relief and partly with
shane he had seen the one to: whom she
had notappented rush to the dangerous
errand. But he thought he had studied
too long every phase of the feminine mind
to let his nonchalance tail him now, so he
greeted Letty as we haye seen, not think-
ing his‘¢hances over or much diminished
by any means,

After this occurrence, this yeteran flirt
dis¢oyered himself to be quite as much in
love us it Was possible for a man of his
calibre to be, so, in order to case this
“sweet sorrow,” little doubting the result,
he one day alighted at the Arnsden cottage
gate, his ilirting veculubary being in the
sume exquisite state of arrangement with
his elegant person, But these desirables,
together with the eyes, which assumed to
the fullest their role of tender, irresistible
ding,
sired etlec

upon Letty, who preyed, to her
own entit istuction, that eyes may be
very lovely and entrancing, without hay-
ing any immediate connection with the
soul of their ow)

Not long thereafter Letty had another
visitor, who scarcely looked at her at all,
y put on a greater cloquence
n ever have, as the owner
igurative sense) for the lite he

plead (in
had saved.

What Letty said here we are unable to
relate, but tancy the drift of her sentence
can be gathered from the fact that the firm
arm which threw its shield between her
and death, often encircles her now, with-
out any such obvious necessity.

A Propiay.—A boy preacher has ap-
peared in Wiles, who, according to his
adinirers, is to extinguish M yooh.
This promising youth is \ “y Kntoch
Probert, who hi st completed his 11th
year, On Easter Sunday he preached to
crowded cor ations in the Baptist
Chapel at Gi Radnor, A local
print says of him—*Ile has a sweet and
powertal yo which he manages well,
His delivery emarkibly distinct, and
his heavers were astonished at such miav-
vellous truths from s boy of such tender
years.” Alter preaching two sermons on
the Sunday, Master Probert spoke at length
on the following day to the Sunday schol-

. It would seem to be an easy thing to
th.” Te children can afford
‘action in the pulpit, grown-up clergymen
will not be required,

FLoaaing IN MASSACHUSETTS, —
The girl-ogging question still continues
to be ayitated in Massachusetts, and it has
eame out that 8,765 floggings were intlict-
edin one year upon 1,062 pupils, nearly
one-half of whom were girls, in a single
school district in Boston. The punishment
is inflicted with a ferule upon the hand,
The heavy gad has disappeared, ‘This was
a five-foot sappling ot a year's growth,
which was used inthe old-fashioned dis-
trict schools, and was generally reserved
by tho tencher tor adits of both sexes,

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my pe

Ginn

Jaud adds, thy

eaches were he should himself

led utterly in haying the de-|s

From Fate English Papers.

oMicial Provincial Correspon-
dence of Berlin says:—** The prospects of
the preservation of peace, grounded upon
the as bly of a Conference, ave some-
what overcast in consequence of reiiable
intelligence of the continuance of military
preparations in France. ‘This intelligence
states that not only has the French arny
been raised to a full penee footing, but that
by the continued purchase of horses, and

The semi

the calling in of men pursued on a e
fi ceeding the exigencies of peace, it

would seem to have been rendered fit’ to
take the offensive.” “The Prussian Gov-
ernment,” adds the Provincial Correspon-
dence, hile entertaining the most
earnest wishes, and using every effort in
favor of the maintenance of peace, cannot
shut its eyes to the nee y of exercising
serious precaution and vigilance, Nothing
but a prompt and peacetul decision by tho
Conference, can relieve this Gover ine yt
from the necessity of adopting “jose pre-
cautionary measures which "yo sceurity of
Germany and Prussia deyyand.?

1 North German Gazette
: n which it again draws
attention ©y the active continuance of mili-
4a PYopvyations in France. It particu-
Jes » Pomts to the incessant manufacture
i Manitions whieh is going ou at Belfort,
at that fortress, as well as
at Metz and Strasburg, large quantities of
war material have been collected, includ-
ing especially pontoon trains, by means of
which a large number of bridges could be
thrown over the Rhine, Italso points out
that the improvement of the existing forti-
fications and the erection of new ones on
the French eastern frontier are being
hastened,

The calling out of the reserves for active
service and other military preparations
have produced a reaction in the public

i s of approaching
war are entertained. These fears have
been increased by the article inthe North
German Gazette, complaining that the pre-
pavations of France are not int accordance
with the note in the Monifeur, In) Paris a
great many horses are being purchased by
staff officers, und Marshal Niel has just
bought all the animals he found at one
deal A coach-builder has received
orders to construct 500 ambulances. In
addition to. these straws which show the
direction of the current, three impediments
are said to stand in the way of a happy
solution of the Luxemburg question. ‘The

The somi-oMe?,
publishes an » rjc

be hi

Losnpaatoe: god Peuesia ie gail ta’ he
isarming. lin correspondent of the Liberle says that
one must be blind to all evidence still tu

believe in peace,

The preliminary meeting of the Con-
’ 3
ference on the Luxemburg question tool
3
place on Tuesday afternoon, under the

rtments at the First Lord of
the ‘Treasury's oficial residence in Down-
i street—in fact, the saine room in
th the Conference in London on the
a sof Denmark took place in the spring
of 1864.

The following are the principal mem-
bers of the Conference :—His Mxeellency
the Count Apponyi, the Austrian Ambas-
sidor; His Excellency the Russian Am-
bassador, Baron Brunnow; His Ex
leney the Count Bernstorff, the Prussian
Ambassador; His Excelleney Prince de
La Tourd’Auyergne, the French Ambas-
sador; His Excellency M. Van de Weyer,
the Belgian Minister; and His Excellency
Baron Bentinek, the Netherlands Minister.
Some difliculties, it appears, arose at the
outs: The terms on which France and
Prussia consented to withdraw any cliims
may haye on the Grand Duchy
France renouncing her projected acquisi-
tion, Pr consenting to evacuate the
fortr were the neutralization of the
territory, under the joint guarantee of the
Powers represented in the Conference.
England was naturally unwilling to as-
sponsibility.
from the Hague, si

principal ap

ays that at
it was de-
clared that a guarantee for the neutraliza-
tion of Luxemburg is indispensable, and
must form the basis of the negotiations,
and the Plenipotentiaries telegraphed for
instructions to their respective Goyern-
nents,

The Conference sat again on Thursday

The members composing the Confer:
ence, in order to obtain secrecy for the
proceedings, it is said, have arranged that
nothing shall be made public until their
conclusions have been ratified by the
seyeral Powers,

A Ministerial paper says:—t Tt gives us
the greatest satisfaction to announce that
the war cloud which for six days has hung
over Europe is entirely dispersed. France
and Germany may, as some people pre-
tend, come to blows betore they settle
down to their new situation; but the con-
test will not come this year, and Luxem-
burg will not be its pretext. ‘The Confer-
«ly settled in principle the
hit meton Monday to ar-
range. The Prussian Government with-
draws its garrison from Luxemburg, and
renounces all claim to the occupation ol
the fortress, which will be razod. ‘The
Grand Duchy will retain its former rela-
tions to Holland. the only difference in its
position being its release from the con-
nection withGermany. Le willbe deelared
neulra, and ite neutiality will be guaran-
teed by the Great Powers.” ‘The astound-
ing aunouncement is then made that The
one ground for apprehension that the
lubours of the Conterence might. prove
vain, lay in the uncert whether the

Great Powers would ¢ s to give this
guarantee, ‘The Prussian Government
made that undertaking the condition sine

qua non of its withdrawal from the forty
Austria, Russia, and Franee had no difi-
culty in this guarantee, and the English
Government, after eareftul and anxious
consideration, found itselt’ perteetly able
to join them.” We hope this information
is not true, and that Lord Stanley has not
undertaken for this country s0 serious a
responsibility.

population of the province will object to
mded over te Belgium, or to be an-
dito any country but France; the
sh Government looks shyly on the
proposition to guarantee the neutrality ot

ence proved a snecess. The Luxem-
burg question has been settled. ‘The Duchy
is to be ** Neutralizec .¢., itis to remain
a partof the Dominion of the King of
Holland, guaranteed by the great Powers
of Europe. The fortress is to be evacuat-
ed by the Prussians, and razed; and no
troops are to be keptin the Duchy, except
for the ¢ of maintaining order. We
believe the guarantee is of such a nature
as not to impose upon England, or any of
the contracting Powers, the duty of inter-
fering single-handed, or in such a Way as
to constitute a practical danger of scrious
entanglement. In truth, the effectiveness
of the guarantee is pot the main froint of
presentimportancs, No power now relies
on such guarantees, ‘The grand boon
which the Conference of London has con-
red Upon Europe is, that it has estab-
“4a peaceable solution of a question
“which affected the honor of France and
ut Prussia, and has thereby enabled both
of those Powers to abandon the sfatus quo,
and accept with sheathed swords the yer-
dict of the Conterence.

The Lvening Moniteur reviews the yari-
ous phases of the Luxemburg question up
to the present. It says:—' During the
prelimivary negotiations the Goyernment
of the Emperor, wishing to spare all sus-
ceptibilities, held itself entirely aloof, The
Cabinets of the other Powers exchanged
opinions en the question, nnd reed to
recommend, as a basis of arrangement,
the neutralization of the Grand Duchy,
with the consequences which such a settle-
ment would involve, including especially
the evacuation of the fortress. Actuated
only by ideas of moderation and disinterest-
edness, France agreed to this programme,
thus giving a proot of her conciliatory dis-
position, tor which Europe will be grate-
ful to her, ‘he sentiments entertained by
the Powers allow the hope of a favorable
solution.”

Tur Drscenpants of 11 Protecror,—
It is a remarkable fact that whereas not a
single lineal and legitimate desceudant of
Charles I. is now in existence, the descen-
dants of the Protector ave to be found in
every vank of life shortofroyalty, Among
other descendants in the temale line we
y mention the Hurls of Clarendon, De
ind Ripon, the late Sir B.C. Whin-
yates, the late Sir George Cornewall Lewis,
General Bowles and his brother, Admiral
Sir Williaa Bowles, and the Russells of
Cheshunt.

TUE FUTURE OF THE CONTINENT,
(From the N, Y. Albion.)

How nearly one-hall of this vast North

Ainerican continent is to be in future goy-

presidency of Lord Stanley, in one of the |g

grned is a onestion in which we have a
toa limited extent, occupied the minds
and engrossed the attention of the leading
statesmen of tle leading nation in the Old

World. It is to the offspring of this fore-
most ristian nation that the eontrol of

this great aud productive North American
continent is assigned; and although di-
vided into two separate and distinct or-

tions, these org ions inherit
their language, luvs, wture, iutelli-

gence, and cuterprise, from the country
that gave them birth, That a vast co
nent, such as we inhabit, can be organised
under one Government is quite out of the
question; but that two equally free, yet
distinct and separate Goyeruments mnay
for some generations yet to come, control
and direct its destinies, to us appears not
only possible, but bighly probable,

Foremost in influence and import:
of course, stands this youthful, but v
ous and progressive, Republic. With its
many faults, politicially, itis still the land
of progress. Its theory of government is
but itis claimed that in this new
field, aside from the influences and in-
trigues of old established governments, it
may succeed in accomplishing in America
What it failed to accomplish in Europe;
and we say, by all means, let those who
believe this hay fuiv opportunity of de-
monstrating their peculiar theory of goy-
ernment. Second in enterprise and inila-
ence, but not in population, stands tho
Coniederation, which, tor the present, is
to be known us the ‘New Dominion”
North of us. Ilitherto, this vast country,
stvetehing—as it does—with its outlying
territory, from Atlantic to Pacifie, and
equalling in extent this widespread Re-
public, us been made up of numerous
Colonial governments, and its action main-
ly controiled by the parent state. But
now the whole position is changed; aud
the purpose becomes different, Aleading
statesman of Great Britain, in alluding: to
the change and the defence of the new
state, say ‘We have to bring about a
different s of things; and I can say the
best way to do it is to raise their political
position to the very highest position their
sense of responsibility may likewise grovy ;
and it etanet be too distinctly stated that
it isin this view that we look upon. tho
plan for uniting the provinces of British
North Aine WV

‘Lhe people of British Ameviea have been
slow to see their presentimportiuuce, when
collectively considered, and their probable
future influence; but the most advanced
of the various Provinces begin now to
divine the intent, and to second the efforts
of the more astute and experienced states-
men of the mother lind, The uneducated
and unenterprising duillions, yes, hun-
dreds of millions of the Bast, now under
British Dominion in Asin and elsewhere,
will doubtless remain as they are for some
time yet, and will not at present be urged
forward to an independent national exis-
tence; but with this rapidly moving and
developing Western Hemisphere the caso
is entirely different.

Let, then, our friends to the North of us,
awake to the importance of their position ;
and relying upon the sympathies of many
millions, even in America, outside of their
own ‘ dominion,” and the cordial support
of the mother country, avoid all internal
strife and dissension, and proceed to or-
ganize their new government, thereby
laying the foundation of & powerful and
progressive State. Por defence, let them
rely more upon the wisdon of their insti-
tutions than upon the feudal systems of
former ages, That such a course will
lead ultimately tos destiny rather to be
coveted than despised by neighboring
communities, does not, in our view, admit

of a reasonable doubt,