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Nov 1, 1865

©. L. RICHARDS,

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PORBTRY.

VENUS.

Quvern of beauty, queen of stars
Shining in the twilight sky,
Just above the golden bars
Of the evening's drapery !

Beautiful thou art, and fair,

’Mong all stars the brightest gem
That the radiant eve doth wear

In her gorgeous diadein!

Brightly smiling on the earth,
On the high and lowly,
Those of much and little worth,

Silver is the sparkling river,
Golden is the glowing west,

Where thy dancing star-beams quiver,
Azure is the mountain’s crest!

Picture sweet of gold and blue
Lovely mountain, star and sky

Mirrored in their beauty true
On the silver floating by !

Evening’s feet in glory shod
On the brow of nature sweet,
Painted by the hand of God, -
Beautiful, and passing fleet!
Sweet to gaze and quaff such bliss,
Glowing nectar of the soul,
Where a Venus deigns to kiss
‘Twilight in her robe of gold!

Sweet to weave a starry chain
Reaching up to gates of pearl,

Where the gentle angels deign
Their snowy pinions to unfurl!

And descend the stair we’ve woven,
Fill our waiting hearts with love,
Till one wavering faith be proven,
And peace cometh like a dove!
Isa or P. H.

BERNARD NELLSON;
OR, THE PUNISHMENT OF A CRIME,

BY MRS. C,H, N, THOMAS,

Brrnarnp Nemson, a dashing youny
law student, sat alone in Judge Dunbani’s
ofice, complacently stroking his luxuriaut
beard, and humnning to himself,—

“The happiest life that ever was Je]
Ts always to woo and never to wed.”

Ile possessed considerable ability, but was
indolent, selfish, and pleasure-loving, still,
his fine person and fascinating manners
gained him many friends, Half the girls
in Oakville were in love with him, or fan-
cied themselyes so, from Barbara Farn-
ham, the aristogratic daughter .of the
wealthy me t, down to. NeHie Smith,
the pretty little seamstress, sewing tor her
daily bread. But his devotion to one wi®
so like his devotion to all, that cach found
little cause for self-gratulation. /

One alone~—Mary Dunham—fairtired,

brown-eyed Mary Dunham, the only child
of the stern judge, seemed proof against
all his blandishments,
_ Bernard was piqued at her indim
and impatient of the sisterly regard she
ever manifested for him, What availed
it to hina thata dozen girlish hearts beat
faster at his approach, while one calm litle
maiden sat like Mordecai in the gate, and
refused to do him homage.

Jn vain he renewed his attentions to
Nellie Smith; Mary smiled approvingly,
and when, tired of her, he offered his de-
votions at another shrine, Mary only
looked her grave disapprobation. Bernard
saw with mortification that he had no
power to calla single blush to her check,
or cause one throb of jealousy in her heart;
but with a face in which all passion seemed
concentrated, he muttered, ¢ 1 will win
her, or die.”

It was the close ofa long interview in
which Bernard had urged his suit with all
the eloquence of which he was capable,
Mary had rejeeted him firmly, but kindly
and even tearfully, as she witnessed the
bitterness of his disappointment. Pride
and sclf-love were sorely wounded.
Mary’s assurance of sisterly affection and
regard only sorved to exasperate him, and,
utterly unaccustomed to self control, his
reply was a torrent of mingled threats
and entreaties,

Mary sat still, with clasped hands, pale
and frightened, when, to her infinite re-
lief, her father’s portly figure appeared in
the doorway.  Ilis quiek eye comprehend-
ed the scene ata glance, and the young
man cowered before the stern, indignant
countenance of the judge,

‘Threats, Bernard Neilson! threats to

ence,

Let me tell you plainly that 1 do not ap-
prove your suit, and [rejoice to find that
Mary's heart does not plead in your favor,
Good night, sir!? and the judge stepped
aside, politely waving Bernard Neilson
from his presence,

With mingled teclings of rage and dis-

into the cool and fragrant night-air, and
the great hall-door that closed behind hin,

Merrill, the young pastor of Oakville, on
his first visit to the Dunhams.

The old minister, who had gone in and
out belore them for half a century, now
laden with years and infirmities, had been
dismissed ut his own request, and Arthur

with auburn hair, and dark, serious eyes.
But his chief beauty was his smile. It was
such a smile as one might fancy illumined
the countenance of the beloved disciple
when reclining upon the bosom of his
Lord and Master,

Down the long avenue, beneath the
swaying branches of the over-arching
elms, walked Bernard Neilson, crushing
th» dew-laden flowers beneath his heavy
tread, until just ss he was emerging upon
the broad street, a little white robed
figure sprang with a glad ery to meet him,
from her hiding-place in a clump of frag:
rant syringes,

O, Bernard, I am go glad to eco you.
[have been waiting here « whole hour.”

‘Yes, Nellie, Lam glad to see you, but

keeping?
cried the young girl, bitterly,

ean be done,
he kissed her fair, cold cheek, while she
threw
neck, as

5
stroked her soft hair

mured afew more false but loving words,
and left her standing like a ghost in the

my daughter, in her own father’s house? |] s

appointment, the young man strode forth ina tat ever done, preci
thing hac

you know I do n@& like to have you watch
and waitfor mein this manner, It will
snbject you to remark and censure.”

** T know it, but T could not sleep with-
out seeing you to-night, You promised
to come last evening and tell me when
we were to be married, but’ you did not.
Everybody avoids me, notices me ina
pitiful, patronizing way, and to-morrow
Imnst find a new home, Mrs. Martin
will keep me no longer, Oh, what. shall
Ido? where shall I go?” said the fair girl,
wringing her hands in anguish,

** Tush, Nellie, don’t be foolish. Yon
know that I am anxious as you can be
that our marriage should be consummated,

Can you not believe me when I tell you

that a little delay is unavoidable. Can
Pure, and sweet, and holy ! you not trust me, Nellie?”

«Oh, Bernard! have I not trusted you?
Is not my honor, my lite, even, in your
‘Tell ne wherein haye I tailed 2”

“Well, goin now; you are. shivering
with cold, ‘To-morrow I will see what
Good-night, my pet;” and

arms conyulsively about his
{ she could never let hin go,
until, gently disengaging himself, he
earessingly, mur-

moonlight, while he sought the brilliant-
ly-illumined parlors of Barbara Tarnham.

A few moments she sat there, crouching
upon the step, Weaving her fingers to-

gether ina helpless despairing attitude ;
then she walked slowly down to the little:
gate, and gazed wistiully up the street

for a last glimpses of her departing lover.
She saw him ascend the marble steps and
ring the bell at Barbara Purnham's elegant
mansion,

Could it be that he would Isave her in
her trouble and loneliness, when she so
needod comfort and protection, for the
society of the gay village-belle?

She glanced up at the little window,
with its dimly-barning light, which had
been her home for two r since
her mother died, but which after this night
wonld be hers no longer. >

She thought of her loyowed perfidy, of
the coldness of her associatés, of Barbara’s
sneers, and clasping her hands to her
brow for one moment, and gazing wildly
avound, she darted swiftly down the street,
Keeping in the darkest shadow, glancing
back now and then to see if she was ob-
ed, until sl

had passed the stores,

the houses, the little shoemaker's shop,
and the great brown bars on the out-

skirts of thy village.
A quarter of a rile beyond was Willow
Brook, a pretty little stream fringed with

| father and the servants to her assistance,
| ‘The senseless form was conveyed to the
house, the bleeding wound staunched, and
‘the physician summoned.

| The injured man soon revived.  Ilis
Hwound wes declared serious, but not fatal,
jand he was advised to remain quietly w
jhe was for the present. ‘Phe mysterious
assassin and the cause of the aitempted
murder of their young and beloved pastor
were the nine-day’s wonder and talk of
ithe eountry vil But no clne could
be obtained, and suspicion fastened strong-
ly upon no particular object. "
heart alone divined the guilty person,
the motive for the attempted me,
When Arthur was sufficiently recovered to
retura home, she communicated her sus-
piciuns to him, and begged him, for her
sake, to beware of, and avoid Bernard

s

Neilson, Arthur promised, though it
seemed ineredible to him that Bernard

Neilson could be guilty of such a crime;
but in the absence of any other known o¢
imaginable cause fer the act, he came, in
time, to look upon Mary’s solution of the
muitter as a true one, e
Summer ripened into antumn, The
trees, tired of their sober, work-day dresses
of green, donned their magnificent attire
of goldand purple and erimson and scarlet,
and stood deepening in splendor and
brilliancy, like gay masquerades at areyel,
until, the exrniyal over, each quietly dis-
robed foxthe long night of winter,
Thanksgiving was athand. Always an
event of considerable tyortanee in New
England, if was rendered doubly so. this
vem ut Oakville, as it was to witness the
marriage of Mary Dunham and the young
pastor of Oakyille, the Rey. Arthur Merrill.

The old pastor, now in his eightieth
year, in short breeches, like stockings,
and knee-buekles, was to perform the
ceremony. ‘The bride would be radiant
in her own beauty and’ goodness, her
miistening satin and pure orange flowers,
and the bridesmaids in their floating mus-
lin.

In Judge Dunham's kitchen unnsnal
bustle and railed. In the
poultry-y and chickens
throye ened themselyes with a
will, as if conscious of the important part
they were expected to play in the ap-
proaching festivities. Pampkins which
would be the wonder of a country fair, lay
seattered over the fields. absorbing the
yellow rays, and apples, large and
sthey might have growa in Eden's
yhen they tempted. its firs
yed themselves on every
nd thanksgiving seemed w

roof nature itsell, and praise
and thanks r reflected from the
human fo those who shared and re-

upon the f

willows, with arustic bridge thrown across
it. Above the bride t ater tumbled
over rocks, forming pretty little cascades
nnd waterfalls, while below it spread out

into a shallow lake, gleaming like burnish-
ed silver in the moonlight.

Nellie loaned over the railing and cast
m water, watching

a pebble-into the
they slowly spread

the circling eddie. )
from shore to shore, with an eager, Lasci-
nated i

“That is all!” she-sighed; ‘one little
step and itis over.” Another and another
pebble was thrown, and then Nellio knelt
down on the little bridge, and prayed, oh,
how fervently. All the little prayers she
had Jearned in childhood at her mother’s
knee came into her mind now, and she re-
peated them all, adding short and simple
petitions of her own for merey aad for-
giveness, ;

She rose, shivering as with an ague fit.
‘The water looked cold and repelling.

Oh, mother, mother, where are you
now? Save your child!” "

Afar off gleamed the lights of the village,
where happy maidens and innocent chil-
dren gathered around pleasant firesides,
but she had no part nor lot with them.
The thought of her homelessness, of her
lover's cruelty, and her own shame, nerved
her again for the fatal plunge, and with
one wild appealing cry to heaven, one
fuewell glance at-earth, poor Nellie sank
beneath the bright waters which closed
above her, searcely more raid than they
had been by the pebbles herown hand had
thrown,

Next morning the body was found a few
rods below the bridge, where it had been
kept from floating down the stream by
becoming entangled in a bed of water-
lillies,

* Accidental drowning” was the verdict
rendered, There was no end of scandal in

tho village, but Nellie slept in peace ;|

she heard’ it not.

Bernard Neilson was shocked, of course :
it was very disagreeable, but above all
other feelings rose the exultant thought,
Tam tree!”

eee

Oe Ok eek HOR Ke

Two, years passed, and Bernard Neilson
un altered man,

His countless flirtations were at an end,
but his old love for Mary Dunham had
grown to an absorbing passion,

Nellie Smith was almost forgotten, and
Barbara Farnham had eloped witha gay
lieutenant, Arthur Merrill seemed to
have grown in favor with God and man,
and, als for Bernard Neilsou’s peace
with Mary Dunham,

When they met, Mary ti

ed Bernard
sly as if no-
l happened; but the old judge
had never invited him to renew his visits

admitted, at the same moment, Arthur|at the house, while Arthur Merrill was a

trequent visitor, :
A new parsonage was being erected

directly opposite Judge Dunham’s house
and grounds, and it was'’whispered in the

village that Mary Danham would be mis-
tress there, From that time Bernard Neil-

jealousy.

It was a sultry smmmer evening, and
Aurthur and Mary, arm in arm, strolled
leisurely up and down the beautiful elm-
shaded avenue leading trom Judge Dun-
ham’s residence to the principal street.

Before them rose the walls of the new
parsonage darkly outlined against the
‘vening sky. ‘They paused a moment,
scussing some interior arrangement of
the builbing, when a slight rustle in the
shrubbery caused both to turn simultan-
eously. A blinding flash, a sharp report,
from the same clump of syringas from
which, months before, Nellie Smith had
sprung to meet her lover, and Aurthur
Merrill, with a low moan sank fainting to
the ground, The report had been heard,
and Mary's screams soon brought her

Merrill w: pointed his successor. son watched them with an almost insane
Ile was aon man, fair and slight, ||

joieed in her bounty.

Bernard) Neilson alone walked with
sullen step and moody brow amidst the
general joy and jubilee. THs view to win
Mary Dinham or die, seemed to stand be-
tween him and Heaven. Me could not
forget it, could not even put it aside fora
moment, thouzh he had trampled upon
other vows so lightly and with so little
compunction,

Ile grew pale and haggard, scarcely
eating food echough to. sustain life, and
finally refused it altogether, Ti) vain his
aged mother prepared him every delicacy,
and besought him with tears to partake
of them, Ife was deat to her entreaties.
From very weakness he became unable to
leave his bed. The physician declared
himself unable to discover any malady,

«The disease is of the mind, and not of
the body, It is a case of simple starva-
tion.”

The news spread fav and wide that
Bernard Neilson was slowly dying from
wilful starvation, Everybody who had,
or fancied they had, any influence over
him, exerted it in his behalf, but all to no
purpose. Arthur Merrill, as his pastor,
felt in duty bound to see him, and faith-
fully and earnestly labored to prevail upon
to renounee his suicidal course,

Bernard covered his face with his hands,
as if to shut out an unwelcome presence,
and said, slow

“Leave me, Arthur Merrill, Oh, you
know not how T have sinned against you,
Twill have neither priest nor parson at
my bedside, Yet stay a moment. Send
me, on Thanksgiving night, a piece of
Mary Dunham's bridal cake! IT think 1
can eat that. It shall be to mea sacra-
ment! Leave me in peace till then.”

Tt was_ useless t0 say more, and witha
saddened heart: Arthur wegt to commiuni-
cate Bernard's strange fequost to Mary.

Hk tO OO Ok OKO * OK

The wedding passed happily, with no-
thing to mar the vujoyment, save to Mary
the thought of one, who, though unworthy,
was evon then suffering for her sake.

According to their promise, a portion of
the bridal cake was sent to Bernard, with
other rich viands from the bountifally laden
table, Ie partook of them eagerly, with
all the apparent relish of a starving
man, aud his poor mother thanked God
with tears for his returning reason.

She took away the plate, promising to
return ina few moments with a eup of
tea, for which he had asked. With eager
» she prepared the fragrant beverage,
and hastened back ‘to his chamber. But
what a sight met her agonized vision,
With a small penknife,-which he carried
in his pocket, he had accomplished what
he intended to perform by the slow pro-
gress of starvation, Lis aim had been too
sare, and the life-blood spouted forth in
crimson jets,

The wedding party had -not separated
when news was brought that Bernard
Neilson was dead, :

Hlis last words were—

“Oh, Nellie, Nellic,
avenged 2”

are you not

Scrence AND Art.—Agricultire being a
science as well as an art, requires both an
‘educated head und educated hand.”
This is very true. The educated hand
inust have the direetion of the head, or
skilled as it may bein practice, it will lose
half its labor for not working in the right
direction, So the educated head must
have the help of the practical hand, or its
wild devices will fail of proper execution.

Milk may be kept sweet by having it
constantly in the presence et fresh water.
In» milk room provided with tabs, in
which the water is changed twice a dayy
milk will not be soured, even by light
ning.

The Bill to provide for the

Union & Government

oF
British America!

(Continned.)
NOYAL AssENT, &c.

44. Where a Bill passed by the Mouse of
Parliament is presented to the Governor-Gen-
eral for the Queen's assent, he shall declare
according to his discretion, but subject to the
provisions of this Actand to Her Majesty's
instructions, cither that he assents thereto in
the Queen's name, or that he withhold’s eho
Oueen’s assent, or that he reserves the Bill
for the signification of the Queen's pleasure.

45. Where the Governor-General assents
to a Bill in the Queen’s name, he shall by the
first convenient opportunity send an authentic
copy to one of the Queen’s principal Secre-
taries of State, and if the Queen in Council
within ¢wo years after receipt thereof by the
Secretary of State thinks fit to disallow the
Act, snch disallowance (with a certificate of
the Secretary of Stite of the day on which
the Act was received by him) being signified
by the Governor-General, by speech or mes-
sage to the Ilouse of Parliament, or by Pro-
chunation, shall annull the Act from and atter
the day of such signification,

46. A Billy ervied for the signification of
the Queen's plefsure shall not have any force
unless and ung within ¢wo years from the
day on whichét was presented to the Gover-
nor-Gene ‘or the Queen's assent, the Goy-
ernor-Gengfal signifies, by speech or message
to each 0} hy Houses of Pacliaiment, or ly
ProclamationYand that he has received the
assent of the Queen in Council; an entry of
eyery such speech, message or proclamation
shall be made in the Jonrnal of cach House,
anda euplicate thereof, duly attested, shall
be delivered to the proper officer to be kept
among the records of Cu

ANNUAL S¢:

47. There shall be a Session of Parliament
once at least in every year, so that a period of
twelve months shall not intervene between
the last sitting of the Parliament in one Ses-
sion, and the first sitting thereof in the nest
Session.

POWERS OF PARLIAMENT.

48. It shall be lawful for the Queen, by
and with the advice and consent of the
Senate and House of Commons to make
laws for the peace, order, and good goy-
erument of the Kingdom of Canada, in re-
lation to all matters not coming within the
classes of subjects by this Act assigned ex-
clusively to the Legislatures, and for great-
er certainty but nol so as to restrict the
generality ol the foregoing terms of this
Section, itis hercby declared thagthe Leg-
islative Authority of Parliament extends to
all matters coming within the classes of
subjects next hereinaiter enumerated, that
is to say: .

1. The Public Debt and Property.

2. The regulation of Trade and Com-

merece,

8. The raising of money by ail or any
mode or system of Taxation.

4, The borrowing of money on the Pub-
lie Credit.

5. Postal service.

6. Lines of Steamships or other Ships,
Railways, Canals, and other works,
connecting any two or more of the
Provinces together, or extending
beyond the limits of any Province,

7. Lines of Steamships or other Ships
between Canada and other coun-
tries,

8. Telegraphic Communication and tho
incorporation of ‘Telegraph Com-
panies,

9. All such works as shall, although ly-
ing wholly within any Province, bo
specially declared by the Acts au-
thorizing them to be for the genoral
advantage,

10, The Census and Statistics.

11. Militin—Military and Naval Service
and Defence,

12. Beacons, Buoy
Sable Island.

13, Navigation and Shipping.

14. Quarantine and the Mstablishment
Ave Maintenance of Marine [ospit-
ius.

15. Sea Coast and Inland Fisheries.

16. Ferries between any Province and a
Foreign Country, or between any
two Provinces,

17. Curreney and Coinage.

18. Banking—Incorporation of Banks and
the issue of paper money.

19. Sayings Banks,

20. Weights and Measures.

21. Bills of Exchange aud Promissory
Notes,

22. Interest,

23. Legal ‘Tenders.

24. Bankruptey and Insolvency.

25, Patents of Invention and Discovery.

26. ali Rights.

27. Indians und Lands reserved for the

s, Light Ieuses, and

28. tion and Aliens.

2y) and Divorce.

30. rration.

81. Agriculture,

32, The Criminal Law,excepting the Con-
stitution of Courts of Criminal Ju-
risdictions but including the pro-
eeedure in Criminal matters.

35. The establishment, maintenanee, and
management of Penitentiaries.

44. Rendering uniform all or any of the
laws relative to property and civil
rights in Ontario, Nova Scotia, and
New Brunswick, and rendering uni-
form the proceedure of all or any of
the Courts in these Provinces; but
any Statute for this purpose shall
have no force ov authority in any
Province until sanctioned by the
Legislature, and when so sanctioned
the power of amending, altering, or
repeeling such laws shall thence-
forward be vested in the Parliament
only.

$5. The establishment of » General Court
of Appeal, and in order'to the due
execution of the Laws of Park\:
ment, the establishment ofade”

a td ca te cee

36. Fixing and providing f; Lieutenant-
and allowances oeaveral Provinces,
Governors 96ers of Canada, and
llefos allowances and penions
thee Judges of the Superior, Dis-
trict and County ope and pis the
Admivality Courts, ia cases where
the Judges thereof are or shall

paid by salaries. Paw