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POETRY.

AUGUSTUS BROOM.

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A COMIC SONG, BY THE LATE DR. ROBERT

CUAMBERS.

In @ parlor gay, one summer day, By sieep and heat oppressed, Augustus Broom, a young bridegroom, Lay duwn to take a rest,

When Agnes sweet, his darling bride, Came in and sat down by his side, And said,‘ my dear, your Nancy’s here!’

He with a snore replied.

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Well, since you will lie snoring still, I know what IL will do; Those whiskers rare, beyond compare, I'll clip a curl or two. I know you love them passing well, __ And would not fer a kingdom sell. Twill serve you right for the shameful slight, And be a joke to tell.’

The deed was done, and she thought it fun, For haircan grow again;

Sut when Broom did fee) the cold hard steel He started up amain;

And cried ‘my dear!’ with a frantic roar, And quickly off both whiskers tore—

‘It is too had, you drive me mad; They cost me two pounds four!’

LITERATURE.

MARCUS WARLAND ; THE LONG MOSS SPRING. CHAPTER XV. Marcus looked upon her steadfastly one moment. In that moment her image, as he had seen it at different periods of their intercourse, passed rapidly before him, like the phantasma ofadream. The childlike. bewitching fairy of the fountain, the incar- nate Lightning that gilded the hall of the university, the playful, gentle, fascinating mistress of that lordly mansion, the inspir~ ed sibyl of the library, the loving, impas» sionate compassion of the moonlight hour, —and last of ull, the tender, humble artless ourse. What a beautiful picfBre gallery it made! And there she stood, so changed, sO near, and yet appearing so far off. She seemed to have altered the very style of her dress, so as to destroy “the identity of the Florence of other days. Her hair, in- stead of falling in wild, luxurant wreaths around her person, was gathered up behind, and fastened with a silver comb, at the sides of which the ringlets dropped, as if ready to fall from their own abundance. The features had a marble rigidity of out~ line,in lieu of their former bewitching soft ness. The lovely. radiant Creole was trans-~ formed to the cold Grecian statue. It was a Galatea before Pygmalion had warmed her with the divine breath of love. Marcus felt his heart swell almost to bursting. He had been under the spell of an enchantress, who could sport at will with the passions of man. With a mighty effort he would break this spell, and free him- self from her power. He approached the door, and placed his foot upon the thress hold. ‘I came,’ said he, ‘from the grave of my father, who bade me bear to you his part- ing blessing—a blessing hallowed by the solemnities of death and the prospect of eternity. Igonowfrom the grave of my buried love, bearing with me a lesson more awful than his dying accents taught me. They breathed of hope and immortality. There is more of death around me now than I saw in his shrouded form.’ He turned and passed hastily through the hall, who Letty, flying out through a side door, arrested his steps. ‘Stop Master Marcus; you mustn't go.’ cried the negro girl making vehement ges» tures. ‘You don’t know what I knows. It’'liall be ’clared up. Jist wait a minit. Master Patterson himself is here. The Lord sent you, sure enough, this very night,’ ‘ Let me pass,’ cried Marcus in a more haughty tone than he had ever addressed to a negro before. ‘I cannot will not be detained.’ ‘Master Marcus mustn’t go till he hear something,’ said Letty, jumping into the doorway, and putting her arms across as a burrier. ‘ He be sorry all his lifeslong if he no mind what this nigger say. Miss Flor- ence been ceived, thatshe has, She been most raving ‘st-acted ’bout it. Come along back, Master Marcus !’ The eloquence of Letty had attracted the attention of Delaval, who was passing from the dining-room to the parlour,in company with Patterson. Seeing a gentleman in black, whose egress Letty seemed resolute~ ly resisting, he came forward, wondering what it could mean. The eyes of these two estranged young men met in the twi- light rays of the shaded lamp that hung above the staircase. They burned upon each other with mutual scorn and ire. ‘I came,’ said Marcus, placing his back agcinst the door-post, and folding his arms across his breast, ‘to demand an expla- nation of the reiterated insults 1 have re- ceived. 1 am commanded to leaye the presence of the sister, lest the brother should wreck his vengeance upon me; and Icallupon the Almighty God that made me, to bear witness that I have never in- jured you or her, in thought,word or action. Who talks of injury? Mine is the injury, deep as life itself. In friendship,as in love, I have only too blindly trusted, been fatal- ly deceived.’ Marcus raised his voice with energy of passion. Delaval was about to reply, whea Letty, stepping between them, cried out - ‘Master George, oh! Master George, please come into the parlour, and you too, Master Marcus, where Miss Florence and Master Patterson is, and I'll clare it all up, just like moonshine. I got Master Patterson here o’ purpose, ‘cause I know white folks don’t believe all a nigger say. Master Marcus haiat done nothing wrong 10s how. I never think he did,’ ‘There may be something in this, said Delaval, who had been excessively struck by the tones and looks of Marcus, so ex- pressive of outraged innocence. ‘ Warland, will you come? Vindicate yourself from this aspersion, if you can, and relieve me af a burdén that has well-nigh crushed me to the earth.’ Marcus bowed his head, and walked in silent dignity, side by side with Delaval, into the room from which he had just been banished. Delaval metioned toa chair, but Marcus refused the offered courtesy.

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ed to do it as a friend, and by a friend,’ | Florence was seated on a sofa, im a state of passive agony, between her uncle and Mr. Patterson. The latter rose and greet- ed Marcus with great cordiality. Letty had followed the young gentlemen into the parlour, with a face of utterable meaning.

+ And now,’ said Delaval, in 4 command. ing tone to the negro, tell me what you know, and all you know!’

‘ Before I begins,’ said Letty, folding her hands with serene importance. ‘1 must a-k Miss Florence to please be so kind as to ’xibit the letter she drop out of the book, on dis here floor.’

‘Letty,’ cried Florence, stariing to her feet, ‘ have I not forbidden you ——’

‘Sister, said Delaval ‘1 entreat \ou to let her have her way. Permit the letter to be exhibited, as Letty says, that Mr, War- land may aot assert we gave him no oppors tunity of vindication.’

While Florence with ovident reluctance left the room, Mr. Alston rose, and waviag his hand with his accustomed dignity, ex- claimed ; ‘ This seems to me a very extras ordinary proceeding, for a young lady of Miss Delaval’s station to obey the bidding of a slave, aud to be called upon to disp'ay her private papers in this prom ssuous com: pany. | must say I disapprove of this trans- action, and protest against the interference of this very officious negro,’

‘Uncle, I beg of you to let things have their course, They have gone too far to recede. I have invited this young gentle men to return, and by the shade of Cicero he shall have a hearing.’

Florence entered at this moment, and advancing to Patterson, with haughty grace gave the letter into his hands.

‘This is your property, sir, { believe,’ she said. ‘It was left by accident in the leaves of a pamph.et you had the politness to send me. Can it be a matter of sur- prise to you that the writer of that letter should find himself here an unwelcome and unhonoured guest ?’

‘Why, this is a letter from Mr. Warland !’ said Patterson, locking at it with surprise ‘| know not how it came in that pamphlet; but surely he never wrote anything to me which could give offence to you, or any human being ?’

‘ Just please look inside of the ’velope,’ said Letty, ‘and see if that be the right one, Heap of fine coats put on over cle rags and titters.’

Marcus stood in digr:icd silence, with that proud curl of the ii: which gave in- expressible beauty to th: passion of scorn. He saw Patterson glance his eye carelessly over the contents of the letter.

‘Yes, I recollect this very well,’ cried the jatter ; ‘a business letter, which can in- terest no one but the parties concerned. But what is this? A postscript! twice the length of the letter, too! I never saw this before. Strange—unaccountable !’

Me read on, and as he read, perplex ty and indignation were visible in‘his knitting brows and in his kindling eyes.

‘This is foul, iniquitous,’ he exclaimed, - Warland never wrote aline of this post script, never ! How it came here the powe! of darkness only h:nows.’ ‘That me,’ cried Letty. it came there, I 'spec.’ ‘Allow me to see what they have done me the honor to attribute to me,’ cried Marcus, advancing and taking the letter from the hand of Patterson.

‘Oh, Marcus!’ exclaimed Florence, springing forward and endeavouring to snatch the paper with her trembling fingers ‘read not,! pray you, those shameful words You never,never will forgive me for having believed, for one moment that you could have been the author, Marcus—in pity for my shame, in pity for my penitence my deep humiliation, refrain from the per- usal of those disgraceful lines.’

Clinging to his arm with impassioned and appealing look, in which joy, ecstacy, and self-reproach were struggling for mastery. Florence sought to gain possesion of the vile forgery, that had caused her so much misery. Delaval had hold ofhis other hance squeezing it with the old tourniquet gripe

‘ Warland,’ said he ina husky voice, ‘|! wish you would take a pistol and shoot me through the head. I am sure I deserve it, and ten times more, for being the dupe of such villany. Forgive me, Warland, if youcan., God knows you have not suffered alone.’

‘I must know my alleged crime,’ aswered Marcus, returning the warm grasp of De- laval’s hand, and gently releasing the let- ter from the agitated fingers of Florence. ‘Let there be no more concealments, no more mystery. For your sake as well as mine, oppose me not, I pray you. Your vindication, ] doubt not, is contained in this letter.

The letter is unnecessary to transcribe, for, as Patterson remarked, ‘the contents were interesting only to the parties con~ cerned ;’ but the postscript,so mysterious« ly added, in handwriting so exactly re- sembling that of Marcus it could not be told from the original, we will insert, that Florence and Delaval may be vindicated in the hearts of others for their injustice to Marcus, I was this:

‘ What I am now about to say is in perfect confidence. I know you will never betray the trust of a friend, especially when an- other is concerned, in whom I know you have a deep interest. That you are a lover of the heiress of Wood Lawn, is no secret to the world. That | have veen so fortun- ate as to be honoured with her favour, is a fact perhaps more notorious. My motive in intvoducing the subject to you is disin- terested, and I think you will appreciate it. I fear you have been rejected for mv sake. As in these days young men mostly marry for money, I presume the worldly advant~ ages of the match have not been overlooks ed by you. 1 add this to say to you in the unreserve of perfect friendship, that I am willing to withdraw al! claims to a priority in her regard. Perhaps there is not an other young man in the world who would be affected as I have been by the proof she has lately given of her devotion to me. You know, everybody must know by this time, that she followed me, disguised as a mulatto, and stayed with me during that sickness occasioned by the wound inflicted by the rsseal Pellam. | ought to feel grate~ ful and exceedingly flattered by such an unheard+of act of affection; but I acknow» ledze that I am so fastidious, it has filled me with the deepest disgust. It has anihilat- edevery particle of the love | once felt. In- deed, so great is my present repugnance, that even the prospect of possesing her

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splendid fortune cannot reconcile me to the thought of a union, Now,if it is the fortune you desire rather than the girl, all this will Should you be disposed to resume your addresses, you may release me from a very disagreeable scrape. That fiery brother of hers may get me into difficulty. Idonot wish to fight him, as I really like him. Thisis all sud rosa. Let me know your intention soon.’ lt would be difficult to discribs the feel- ings of Marcus while perusing this shames ful forgery. That Florence should have been deceived by the handwriting he could not wonder, for it was the exact counter- part of his own; that, being deceived, she should feel insulted, wounded, and outrag« ed, a8 never woman was before, he could not wonder, His greatest wonder was that Delaval had not shot or stabbed him, in the first storm of his anger. Crushing the vile paper in his hands, he looked at Fior- ence, who was no longer the cold, rigid statue, but the Galatea, warmed by the divine breath of love. Their hearts fush- ed to each other in that lightning glance, and their hands involuntarily extended, sealed by tbeir pressure the reconciliation that glance expressed. The words that came to their lips were too sacred to be uttered in the presence of others. They did not, could not speak. Neither did De- laval,who again grasped the hand of Marcus and throwing his arm over his shoulder, drew him closely to his side. In the burst of emotion that followed the perusal of the letter, Letty’s agency and promised explanation were momentarily overlooked. She waited impatiently for the subsiding of their full and passionate teelings, twirling her fingers and coughing elaborately, she recalled their attention to herself. ‘Do you really know, my clever darkie,’ asked Patterson,‘who wrote that abominable thing? If you can enlighten us on this subs ject, you shall have more money in your purse than you can spend between now and Christmas. Speak and tell us all about it.’ ‘Well, master, you must let me have my own way,’ answered Letty, speaking witb consequential deliberation, ‘and I'll tell you what I knows, and clarify the whole subject. I seen a long time how everything wrong. Eversince Miss Florence drop that ‘ere letter and pick it up, she no had no peace, no satisfaction of her life. She told never mention Master Marcus’ name, iongs as I live, and I knowed that wa’n’t nateral. So 1 thinks and thinks, and does nothing but think, how to bring matters right, when I heern of the camp-meeting and sot off. “[hen I made bold to go to Master Patterson’s I got ‘quainted with Creasy, one of his house-women, at the camp-ground. She got religious there, and sbe so happy; she love everybody, and me too, She invited me go home with her, and that was jist what I wanted I made my- self agreeable 0’ purpose. Well, when } gets to Master Patterson's, and I feels sorter at home, and talks kinder familiar like, | asked who visited her master, and if she “membered who was there when he sent the bundie of papeas to my young mistress. Says Creasy, says she, ‘ Nobody here that time, ‘less Master Pellam. Yes, Master Pellam was here, one, two, three days then.’

‘Pellam !’ repeated her auditors, look- ing at each oiher, Florence turned a re morseful look towards her uncle. She had been suspecting—shecould not help it— his immaculate irreproachability.

‘Another wound in the back!’ said Marcus, involuntarily, another cowara tarust!

‘Well, as soon as she tell me this,’ re- sumed Letty, animated by the impression she had made, ‘I question and questiva her, allin a roundabout way, just like a Christian for all; and this what 1 finds out. One morning, when Master Patterson gone to the plantation, she see Master Pellam in the next room. Upper part of the door all of glass, so she see him good as could be. He never ’spected Creasy close by, She mighty quiet body, you know; keep still as a mouse, think a heap tho’. Well, she ’member seeing -him take up a letter off the secretary, pull it out of the ‘velope and sorter ponder over it.; then set down and write away on the same paper a long time. She ’member too how he keep looking over one shoulder and then t’other as tho’ somebody right there. S’pose he thought ole Satan ‘hind him. So he be, sure enough. Then he put it in the kiver, and stick it in a little book, and clap some newspapers on top on’t; and made up & sorter of a bundle. She never thought of no harm, Creasy didn’t, but she mighty ob- sarving person, and got a powerful strong memory. ‘Sides, Creasy she say she ’mem- bers seeing Master Pellam giving the bundle to her master, and ask him to send it to Miss Florence, ’cause she like to read the news.’

‘This is true,’ said Patterson. ‘I re- member his staying at home that morning: on the ples of having letters to write, and | unlocked my secretary for his use, I had read him Warland’s letter the night before —at least a portion of it.’

‘The packet came in your name,’ said Florence. ‘Had Pellam’s been mentioned, I might have suspected something trea- cherous. Yet, even then, blind and wil- ful girl that I am, I feared I would have been guilty of the injustice and wrong which through life I shall vainly rue.’

Marcus bent down, and said something to her in a low voice, that brought s rich glow to her cheeks and a smile to her lips, but no one else heard the words he uttered.

‘1 told the servant that it was sent by Pellam; but I suppose he forgot or neg- lected the message,’ said Putterson, ‘I was not aware that he possessed his won- derful talent of imitation, But what mio. tive could have prompted an act of such cold«blooded malice? Have you ever in- jured or thwarted him, Warland ?’

‘I have been so unfortunate as to cross his path,’ answered Marcus, looking uncon~ sciously towarcs Florence, ‘and 1 cannot wonder that he does not look upon me as a friend. He has sought tc injure me more than once, and the weapons have been turned against his own breast. Une never forgives the man whom they have wronged. This is the secret of Pellam’s deadly malice. He has more mind than I have given him credit for, and, like yourself, I was ignorant of his peculiar talent for forgery.’

‘1 was aware that he excelled in pene manship, said Mr, Alston, who had been watching for a favourable opening for s speech. ‘He was distinguished for this when a boy, and amused himself by imitat-

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TRA LP nephew and niece confided to me the very unpleasant circumstances which have come to my knowledge this evening, I think I could have explained them in a very satis~ factory manner. I regret thatl ever en- couraged the visits of this exceeding'y un- wo: thy young gentleman. I consider d |i quite irreproachable, but the wisest may may err in their judgment of men. I regret too that I allowed him to prejudice me against a very estimable young man. Mr. Warland,’ added he, walking majesctically forward, and extending his aristocratic hand with an air of dignified selfsaprobation, * 1 make you welcome at this time and here. after to Wood Lawn, and I trust all un- pleasant rememberances will be buried in oblivion,’

A RUSBAND EUCHERED—A WIFE OF TWO MEN A STAKE AT CARDS.

On Sunday afternoon and evening one of the most singular incidents in the history of the matrimonial lottery took place at No, 154, Johnoon avanue, Williamsburgh, it being the playing of a game of cards for the possession of a wile, by her two living husbands,

The causes of this phenomenal incident, briefly told, are as follows:—In the fall of 1871, Louis Lange, a barber, married Annie Hortsmann, of Hudeon City, N. J., aftera courtship of two weeks. They lived tox gether a very quarrelsome life for « few months, and then in a fit of passion he de- serted her and went to Chicago. She being left without means went home to her parents, but having obtained a situation went back to Williamsburgh. Here she met the groomsman, Claus Doscher, who officiated at her wedding. After waiting two years without hearing from Lange. Mrs Lange married Doscher in 1874. Last week Lange came to Brooklyn, and, intent upon being made happy in the future, sought his wife to make amends for his previous ill treatment, and give promises for better treatment.in the future. He was horrified to find her the wife of his groomsman, but after considerable self~comamunion, he de- cided to arrange the affair amicably. So. with a mutual frend, who was acquaint- ed with all the parties, he called on her, in the rear of 154 Johnson avenue. He was made cordially welcome, and after a conversation of some half hours duration the men adjournea to the saloon in the front building to settle the matter bya game of euchre. The room was a dingy one, the light of the one or two kerosene lamps casting only a faint glimmer on the interesting game which was heralded, accompanied and foilowed by copious draughts of lager. In the earliar part of the game fortune seemed to be in favor of Doscher and he speedily scored nine of ten points pecessary to win, but there he stop~ ped and Lange slowly and by ‘one,’ scored up to the same figure. The woman as the game progressed left ber seat and took a place by the side of her second husband, All those in the room gathered around the table, and as Lange took a trick an audibie sigh came from the woman, but as Doscher laid out trump after trump she seemed re- lieved, and when he had made the winning point she saluted him with a hearty kiss. Lange for a rsomert seemed angry, but said _ well, Doscher,old boy, she ain’t worth fight- jng over; here’s joy to you with her,’ and he{quaffed a foaming tankard of beer.

The party then commenced drinking and kept it up till midnight, when they separ- ated the best of friends.— N. Y. Herald.

MISCELLANEOUS.

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Disastrous floods have occurred in Upper Austria and Moravia. A sub-marine cable between Australia and New Zealand has been successfully laid. The Corporation of London will give a grand fete to the Prince of Wates on his return from India.

A young man, claiming to be the son of the Earl of Devon, is in jail at Buffalo, N.Y,, for a month’s hotel bill, amounting to $325

The liberal leaders in the English Com- mons, including Lord Hartington, Earl Granville and Mr. Gladstone, have agreed on # severe attack upon the government for the Suez Canal purchase.

A Query.— he Trurc Sun says that the morning train from that ambitious town for Halifax, should be called a - milk train,’ as it brings 166 cans, each containing about six gallons, Can the Sun swear that it is all milk ? But perhaps that is the cream of the ‘ Sun’s’ little joke.

We find the following contents in T7'hv Edinburgh Review for January, lately re~ published by the Leonard Scott Publishing Co., 41 Barclay Street, New York :

I. Scottish Statesmen of the Revolu- The Dalrymples. Il. Army Recruitment.

Ill. The Two Amperes.

lV, Gardiners Reign of James 1.

V,. Wagner and the Modern Theory of Music.

VI Post Office Telegraphs.

VII. Pattison’s Life of Casaubon.

Vill. Iceland and its Explorers.

XL. The Suez Canal.

Loxgevity!—There is a family belonging to Horton, N.S., consisting at present of seven living members, whose united ages amount to 494 years, being an average of seventy years, 51X months, and twenty~six days each. They are all enjoying good health at present and some of them have the prospect of many years of lifetocome. Two members of the tamily have died, one at the age of twenty-two years and the other at thirty- three years. By adding their ages to those living you have an aggregate of 599, or equal to sixty-six years, six months and twenty days each, —Their father was eighty, and their mother seventy five years at the time of their deaths, which would make an aggregate for the whole fa:aily of 754 years, or an average of sixty-eight years, six months and sixteen days each member.— Com. to Berwick Star.

Tae Timipirr oF Orators.—A writer of the -* Fortnightly Review’ asks whether ar- tists, and especially orators, are peculiar.y liable to the sensation of pain and to fear, He thinks that they are, and attributes it to.an unusually sensitive organization. Peel is believed to have owed his death to be-~ ing unable to bear an operation which a less sensitive man might have borne. An emi- nent operator described Bishop Wilberforce as a‘ bundle of nerves,’ and as the most sensitive patient he had ever known. Ora tors, as a rule, show a painful anxiety about their own speeches, and toilsome uneasiness seems @ condition of their success. A ju- nior counsel once congratulated Sir William Follet on his perfect compcsure in pros- pect of a great case, Sir William merely asked his friend to feel his hand, which was wet with anxiety. The late Lord Derby said that his principal speeches cost him tw? sleepless nights—one in which he was thinking what to say the other in which he was lamenting what he might have said better. Cicero, according to Plutarch, ‘not only wanted courage in arms but in his speaking iso; he began timidly, and in many cases, ne scarcely left off sbaking and trembling even when he got thoroughly into the current and sub-~

ing the handwriting of others, Had my

SAYINGS AND. DOINGS OF OUR REx PRESENTATIVES., During the debate on the shipping in- terests of the Dominion, Mr. Davies said : Mr. Speaker, as a member coming from a eship-building Province, eliow me to say a few words on this question—t! 6 establishment of Dominion Lioyds uncer Government control—- which ts looked upin with great disfavour in my Province. It is well known that the English and French Lloyds are associations of mercbants, not, however, under government control, but purely private in their character, ard there would be no objection to the establishment of similar associations in the Dominion ; and as the hon. member who hus just sat down has said, I dare say that in a few years tueir inspections would Le tound to be equal to the Engliss or French examinations, The British Cloyds is an eld-established inn stitutior, and its report carries g:axt weight with aaderwriters, &c. The Burcaw Verin fas is Ot more modern origin, but it now