ane

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a

It was not her father’s voice—it was but

6t- John. ¥f S74 —s oh! the mingled hope and jy kept he as ie mute, and answer she could not, for it was

MAY, ndeed the voice of ber noble lord! Who saw A when she went On a third adjuration, however, she Weary-l ‘ and gray gathered energy to reply ; ard a brief sup Leas a ; a preseed explanation ensued. Wallenstein, : tuen, was near her,—was come to liberate With the g yeal : | her. Wallenstein ! the idol of her deams ! bg . : Hy ooo, * os ‘on |} the man for whose eaks chiely she had

*s “sname =—<Cststi‘(Cs«<S «Kee Hf, and Waas OD: thee point of los”

| ing it on the ecaffold! He came to return stab : the service, by rescuing tha: life at the hazs List tream ard of bis own.

“ra The hollow sound of blowe levelled at Dropping \ assing showers the bars now alone broke the etillness. Making fields 2 ns Joanna eauk upon her koees, and stretebing Making ros 8 $ her arms toward heaven, prayed for a biees-

™ ing upon him, prayed for his happiness, Winning which was linked with her own, whatever a : . Alcea ae shape her future fate might tuke. In this

Grief t i cm frame of mind the costinewed kneelinz, and he ts meetd : Sot] offering up prayers to God, until again For the 1 tist , roused by the voice of her deliverer, who, Summ as some loosened stones rolled withinside

Ea ee ai the apartment, b-sought ber to take care

LAUGH OR SYIL} and keep out of their war.

Si | Joarna now became active and ueetul,

a lp 1 |; nd, 3 if instinctively, pustei the table i la te Ane ;azainst the wall, yliced the two chairs And w | mounted, and with joyful amazement did — ee Wallens'ein soon beheld her immediately We leus os i oppesite him bebind the bars She pointed But a sm es now _ Out to Albert the despoiled parts of the wall, Ww. | and the places in which the bars were {ixed W most loosely ; but it seemed to ber as if - oa | snce she stood up there, Wailenst-in works ae ed with less industry, as if bis looks were

With unw 3 prow— mcre frequently directed towards ber than

Ms | his crowbar, and as if bia companion (of Se r 'whom she now first became awace) was y ' : 3 | forced to accomplieh the most. The s a | | At length. the bare gave way, the window W |} as opened. and Wallenstein presented I ; : : J - | Joanna bis hand, begging her e:. couraging}y | I > iach ne not to be afraid, for be would bring her I tf safely down. Inwardly, but fervently,

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~ LITERATURE.

THE SWEDES IN PRAGUE.

thanking God for his mercy, she spreng forward, slipped throogh, and was received in Wallensteic's arms,

threw over the rescued maid a Swed sh horse. ;

hes es ctcslins wilt have chateved, Metals man s cloak. Leopold (for he it was who

had joined in the resue) presented her a cap

p stcp toward ter betr:thed was far from ' “ » a Cc » . t . , being th? sume as ata former period, when | ° SOTO*ponting Character; and she tow

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ee . | observed, that both men were attired i: the stolen inte v ews, under tle veil« f night and ‘ se recy, only all.wed Ler to cust st times, | V8 FY Unilorm o the enemy. r o All thie was the work of a few momen‘s stew tro -s into the beart of ber friend. |. c : : ce | The youths guided Joanna, tremb ing with Al this romasce :radua ly wore away up- | ' ’ cia ‘ : joy aud a-xiety, down to the shor’, wher on more frevu n course id unpleas | °° ie : : sar t ecenes, such as that re p cilog Wallers there wane ee ore for them : . ’ . . e ¥ r " madi: mndle, ofen tock wlser. it le tees The s rength acd resoluton which, dar ioz the business of her liberation, hid upheld pose eae a tien restore nat he disc ru F * : our hero’ns, abandon :d her when nearly in whe) bad been stra t from aceid nal sid f f * & ty. f ue V 0 > eecurpuees, bet from « loadin: difiverce | *™Y But as they giided over the fice o ec “? 4 { w itt of character, was never thorouzhiy set the waier, reco!l2ction returned, and wth an

tloht intense conscionmen’ss of whet Wallenstein

" had done for her, she slid from off the bench

Wheo arrived at the bottom, Wallenste’n |

own a ve een POETRY. adjudged victim, unhinged her soul, and) rach, at V.enna. WR SN eet enn ~w ass... made her painfully doubt bow far she had ‘I ackaowled ve the advantage and kind THE ROSE, THAT RLOOMS O'ER) wen justificd in su'jecting him to this diss precastion whch your plan imphes, my MOTH] GRAV] tress; and second'y, the rememb-ance of Lord,’ replied Joauna, ‘Permit me to ask The : a Wa!lenstein, which she sought in vain to only ene question—what will be done with « repress. Of what nature would his emotions regard to my father” AY a ‘ be, wheo he heard of her doom? How fre .y quest’oa is reasonab'e, answered one a : : a » co ; et vuently, during this last night of herearthly Wallenstein; ‘ for awhile the good old man B ee a existence, when she would have co!l::ted must re in doubt es to the detals ol W s her thoug’ts, and directed them to that your ‘at But when he lear: s, tosmorrow, i 7 a¥@. (rod be'ore whoss throve she was $007 to that you have escared, I hope that this cers The a stand, did she eurp ise terself in recollec* tainty of your d-lverance will put him at H kind ions of quite a diferent nature! She be- | ease on he other score--and eubsequently— “o " . ld betore ber his beloved form, she heard ‘My Lord,’ interrupted Joanna, ‘my fa- Te: 2 i the cherished tones of his vore>. ther i not in Prague—he will learn nothing They t Thus pssse! the | ours, even quicker than | tosmorrow.’ "ie Josnna bad hoved, aud, as night app: oxech- ‘Not in Pragu criel A bert; * where ia os ed, the j«ler’e wile brought ber evening he, then! The w , i ¢ mical, which, since she had been sentenced) ‘That I know not,’ returned Joanna; ‘he at i - . to death, had been supplied io plenty ond sept to i: form me by a corfi‘ential person a With s ; bega ring delicacy, Atthe same time she lighied the | few days since, that h» could not b» a wiis When I is | ushing dawn ‘jemp, and the prisoner having partaken of ness of mydeath. and was goirg to try an Bg she waaay a ‘some refreshment, the womao d:sappeared extreme chancce— To sed bush apoeer. | with ner provision basket, havingextinguisb-| ‘Of what” interrupted Wallenstein, hase My anxious watch was soon repaid jed the lamp, and darkness and silence azsio | tily. et : od FP sia bi a ead, sie oe | reigned around Joanna. ‘ That is ae little knowo to me,’ replied A tiny s f rarer shade The bell in the tower of St. Veit ane | Sbe,‘as whither de is gone. But on ac co. ore i 7 Ye nounced the miduight hour, when the p:isoner | ecunt of this wuny, Seer eNeNS; I feel impell- To lift its head above the sod: | was roused by a slight rustling without, ed to entrea'— Aga. 'ma under the casement of her prison. It soon ‘IT anderstand you, Joanna,’ said Wallens And ® began to nod became more distinct, and apparently a-cend~ | St€D, kindly ; ‘but for the present, nobody ¥ . “4 angel's ca : ed Ligher end higher. | —not even h .—must know where pes are it few "A : or i. She listened in breathless aux‘ety until, _ oy “~— oe se e But th 1 Roses | at length, she fancied she saw a figure move | Promise you—be shall, as soon as I cen Whose sw lls back the smile | outside the bare of the cavemert Directly, ?O*riEly fi d means of furnishing him w om mn = i alterward, @ soft welee pronoune d her the intelligence, learn that you are im safe- Wer liea e welling piace. | "#™é. 7 r Louieill tei ' ss * Gracious heaven! whatd es this meen?’ oanna bowed her bead and said +o more. af wt “ yd . ae wuttered Joanna, ‘Can it be possible that |) — Leo; old now observed—* Tris convertas To lwell with ¢ s im share | @rescueisat hand? Should my father ’— | ti induces us to ride too slowly. Hemems The blessings of ¢ and then she thought of some one else ! ber, tha Swedes may be at our heels, and it But to Sacred | $ ci would, therefore, to spur on’ They sent ose of Heavenly mould Just’at t'at momentthe voice repeated, a i a ra Sl lle bt To comfort when life's friends are few, somewhat louder, ‘ Joann», are you there . : phn sch And cheer me when tbe world seems cold the veil of some peculiar train of thought—-

across the p'ain.

They were not far di,'ant from the termi» nation of their journey, when day begin to dawn in the east, and gave to view the outs lines of surrounding objects; w! ie the morn- ing efar them They now left th» high road for a side path,

‘Th star us the

said Wallerstein, raising bis eyes sadly to-

beamed on from the lef

morning shows way,’

ward it. is the thought of the approachicg separation fell heavy upon bis beart. They

nov perceived at a distance the grey walls of

| the castle which was situate! on the summit }of @ little hill. They soon reached it, and

beiag admitted, the riders sprang into the court.

peared with the information t! at her noble

An aged female attendant now aps

lady was sleeping, but that she had orvers to receive Baron Wulden and his company. Albert assisted J.anna to dismount, who, through the exerticn of the ride and her | own anxiety, wes almost worn out ‘Prey,’ said Albert, turning to Leopold, ‘procure some r freshment for our compane ion ; sh t faint ny Wulden gave directions to the attendant (sho bad bees measuring and examining the

supposed lad with curious locks, and now

heard with surprise that a female firm was

concealed within the ample ridingscluak), acd ent. red himec]f theinterior of ithe build- ing, leaving Wallenstein and Joan:a in the hall

He soon retarned, and brough! a message

of much courtesy from his aunt, who proms

ised to use the greatest cantion to ensure

} Joaana’s sifety, Another female domestic followed him, stati g that everything wasin read nes: for the lady's accommedation ; so that the parting mome:t had arrived. Jo-

anna, ¢Oliect sy a'l her strength, raised he:r-—

self from t e seat, mate 4 respectful obsix

ance to her y-ath'ul Lord, who returned her | farewell with repressed ardor, and only adds ing, in a broken voice ‘(Greet my father!” | vanish d into the castle with her guide, Tbe younz wen n | and rods at a very swift pace into the open country. The tow rs ot Pragve had grown ; @pou their view, before Walienstein’s ab. stractioc—which his frie.d dd not choose to He now checked his horse, and s retching out bie hand to Wuls | den, said, * Liow shall I thank yeu, my dear | friend, for what you have doue fo- me this | night ? *By esying no | frank-hearted ‘It is enough for me that oni expedition has succeded ;

interrupt—gave way.

more aboutit,’ r pied the

young man,

that the herore girl is safe; and that y mind haa recovered ite serenitr,’

} . Alas,’ ans: ered Wallevstein, with mournful «miie, that is not s» Never again shall I be light of heart. Ttis poor

| young woman has been preserved from a cruel, « merited death bit not from a f tal passion. She loves ms, Leoy I hare

unbanpily excited in the bosom of o.e to

Wa entvien’s iware ocensi nals floated | whom reciprocity of aT-ction would be a a bo the | BPOB which be was supportig ber in the 2 nan bef ré r mind. ani @oomed her the; * inf | dese, fame a which consumes her, and bas Po. oe | boat, to his feet, striving (though almost | i ; aye y Oo remorse, is name was on every . A 5 : comu ubicated itself to me I have 600 rht lin, hie preises in every hea:t, nor could the | mespable «fepeech) to thank bim for his a . ip, prei ’ ery af, ou'd the s ae 3 tong to bide from my heart the consciouness erevarations for the wedding. albeit ther | Stet! and hazird. In vain, for some} ‘ acne prea fig Se «| time, did the latter endearor t> raise and} Of Bit sratherbat sow it is forced apes me: diverted for awiile ber in reasing me ans) : : | Walden wae touched to the quick. eboly, by any means diszel i. The story of | *Osere Pek. . os Pa ' a Walden, during this ecene, had, with his j Joanna caused these unwelcome feelings to prt ’ ; £ . - : ’ ae | truest feeling and the nicest delicacy - and tel ; a uetomary acuteness and consileration, kept a nau , expand with f.esh wzcr, and gave new clade z s thet PY | fe ling for bis fiiend’s situdtton, he utterly e re » boat } *onRVer= streng hto her gro wing d strust of Udown _ = ae _ = : ze *~ | forebore all a'tempt at raillery. sky That Albert bad once warmly loved | S100, to draw off his attention likewise ; | el her, wae certain; t a: probable t tat some DUt 88 soon es Joanna bd been persuaded FACES remains of this pweon still luzered within to resume her seat, Albert called him fo~, greece belosm. A serijus attachm=t, on his Watd, and the feseads learnt from their fair | pert, t-war’s the gordner’s daughter she COMpanios how ehe had lived w. ilst in con- coali pot cre fit, felrg certain that the | finement; how eh» had gained information | i ' r lo k é i r r nepre« of th: Due of Friedland would of the sttack apon the bridge tower, ber pever so far forzet his linezge and sta‘ion. | Beeting with Count Martiaiiz her cavtur:, Still, oicitude tor ber fate would, doabts | eXamination, and cther circumstances,

less, acturie Lin powerfal y, ani stimulate | Thus engaged, the long course down the bis exer‘ions: acd whoever ebou'd be ins | Moldavix seemed to occupy but little time strum nial n +¢ff-c he d

#w udacqureatight to his warmest grati- |

iverasce, tar below the city, the boat put to shore,

1

tnde ecially were he gard aud difficulty Pe the trees b: came visitls under which | to be expert-nced ulven had ordered his groom to wait with She a! lest firmed a fixed plaa on the thew =e ed bores. They found roy subj c. She wos determined to rescue the thirg in readiness, and upon one horse a | Avie af Desteae. te coed tab ie tl packet contsising three mantles of that des gai+ spo’, endto ir he df thie by eription usualy worn by Bohemian dours @om* s :¢ means; aod, when ether peace, geois. Each of the yout! s immediat-ly throw or the capture of t ould put an end | O8¢ of these over his Swedish uniform tot resent s'ate of thirg:, then se woald, | which it completely concealed, and directed as » welcome g''t, pre to Wallenst-in | Joanna to follow their example. his res depe d This done, Wallenstein assisted Joanna | earnt t r prs n was in the | 0 mount her horse, and, as they proceeded “ er, a cdsu jed n makiog berse’f | 4¢ & pretty quick pace, informed her o! the kro the jal by meace cf a trusty p'an he and Wulden had laid down for her | atten ant acd mcs:@nrer, to whom the|@afety. Being forced to return rapidly to | je rawile was rela The watch wes | Prague, they could not therefore accom: |

insteed of Jounva, PS%¥ Joanna far, and had, on that account, | resolved to to a maiden |

t ty strict, and if her

some esolut: mon kad beea imorisoned accompany .

there. he micht readiy lave «ff-cted hig sunt of Leopold's, in the vicinity of Kaurz m, one Docu ses and horses were seevetly who wes p-epared for their arrival. erocure! and on the enme day on which| * Yet, notwithstanding thie,’ cried Wulden | Weil--psiein persed so many bours io gaily, ‘I would lay any wager my worthy | tanking prepar tons for the enterprise of | Pelative thiaks that Joanna and I are play- the flowing o gh’, He'eo was also occupied | ing the hero and heroine of @ romance.’

as am tren-tit ‘Well, a romance jt certainly is,’ answer-

wih for her p.an towarde the | accom lehnent o! the sane object. ed Albert.

The san of a ebeerful summer's dey bad| ‘True,’ rejoined his friend, * bot for the de cendei. and twilight spread ite shades | Aero we mast look elsewhere.’ wer ths city. The hapless Joanne beheld! ‘Bat,’ ssid Josana, timidly, ‘°s sou the near eporoseh of the termination of her | cannot have had any rep'y to your communis | short exstemce. [ler execution was fixed | cation, may not my visit be possibly unwels | for shenext a roing. Sie felt the com- | come ?—I fear— pet st consciouscess of hee rectitude, but, ‘ Fear nothing,’ interrapted the ardent a 80 t! @ fullest coms iction that nothi ig eould | Leopo'd, ‘I know my aunt well, who is, cons eave bor, ae hs eceitio s cf several persons | trary to the asua! custom of old mads, the! ef renin the K eveete, nay, the interest | b st cresture in the world, and particularly | o tre Governor Genera! bimeel', had been fond of having any hand in an adventure: to no purpose. | *Youwllremiun with the Lady Theresa |

Two picts howcv r,tlere were. which | von Walden,’ said Albert, ‘until the roads | sul ce’ ned todecompose hor: first, the | are free from the Swedes, who heve now | geiure ites: f ber father, whove heart» | tarned toward the parte of Tabor and Bud- read g «row, wh os fr long prohibs | weis, when I shall probably have you cons

|

} as an

' face has its lovers, anf those to whom its

What is there that attracts us so much in some faces,* and repels us powerfully in Others? Itis not mere beauty in the one nor homeliness in the other, for very often we see little to admire and nothing to love in @ face of the most perfect color and pro~ portions, while one that has not a good line nor @ pure tint throughout delights us

and Wallenstein start d up aetonisbed, as, | like a poem, ora song, or the first handful |

of sweet spring flowers. intellect, nor yet expression; nor is the pulsion. Wedo not all gather round the same centre, kneel before the same shrine,

finds Angelina as lovely as a fairy, as divine ingel, but to be a plain little insignificant little no-

body, and wonders where his friend’s per-

Charles pronounces her

ceptions have gone. The acknowledged elle of the season is not recognized as the

queen by all, and there are sure to be}

rival factions, each supporting its own special Venus, and both denying the claims of the others. And even the homeliest

inartistic muddle of features is pleasant

| and refreshing—those with whom affection | | had conquered criticism and who do not |

care to examine, but only to’ love. It

would be sad living for the poor ill~favored

ones else.

Neither beauty nor homeliness, neither intellect nor the want of it, nor yet ex- pression of such arbitrary kind that aj! shall read it alike—what is it then attraets us to some faces, repels us from others? Quien sabe? Is not this one of the mysteries we cannot fathom? a spiritual, or maybe chemical, or maybe electrical process, of

| which the methods are conveaied and the

result only known? What was the motive power in the strange attraction? A young

| man of thirty-three, unmarried, never saw | a young woman he would like to make his

wife save one passed on the Caledonian Canal, he in his lugger, she in-a barge. No word was spoken, only that one look exhanged, but that one look did what no

other woman had done before or had done |

since, and for ten years and more the young sailor has remained constant to the face seen for that brief moment in passing— the only face he would care to marry. When the secret of that quick and strong

| attraction is found out we shall have made a tep i i f man, — Soon Bb as at on: b jo-mitied t> visit the ducted to my relation, the Countess Mar, | Sane oo =

¥ mounted their eteeds |

It is not even |

| CORRESPONDENCE. To raz Eprror or THs Exasnngr,

Sir,—If m 30th ult. has merited the indignation of a correspondent in the Herald, and another in the Pafriof of a recent date, | must de- serve, at least, a little sympathy from the gentle reader for the very awkward position in which | am placed, in the midst of this But all thanks for that divine dispensation which gives to mankind a lit- I find that neither of the worthies referred have

cross-~lire tle comfort in the worst adversities.

succeeded in disproving a single statement uttered in that letter; but, on the contrary have digressed from the points at i and blundered exceedingly. In the first instance, my friend of the Herald, who styles himself ‘‘Censor,”’ in order to belittle the points treated on, because of their ' harshness towards his friends, the incapy ables of the Local Opposition, attributes the production of my letter toa pugnacious pedagogue of Glenfinan, as coming from such a source, the reader might form an estimate of its worthlessness. The pedas | gogue in question lays no claim to newspa- per composition touching on public ques~ tions, as far as I have been informed of him, In the meantime, it is a pointless style of argument to endeavor to depreciate an ass sertion on account of the source from which it emanated. For if Beelzebub him. self should have written or spoken the truth on an important question, he would be deserving of an appropriate share of credit.

If * Censor '’ had written something after this fushion, and said:—Mr. Editor of the Heraid—Sir,—I sincerely sympathize with you, to be made a butt for that contempt- ible, raseally Monagahan man (in fact from what 1 have been taught to believe about

| these Monaghans up to the present, I be- lieve they are all rascals, every hoof of them, and would cut your throat if they had but the chance), I, therefore, think that if others let you have your own way in conducting your own paper, it was none of his business at least. What if you did say that Pope’s Railway Government would be consigned to a limbo which would never know a resurrection,—but who, before the What if the men who passed the railway bill were designated by you as robbers, plunderers | and swindlers, who would be compelled to

last sod was laid on, arose again?

wards asked to do it? What if you asserts ed that the New York engineers, after hay- } ing seen the crooked railroad and rotten sleepers, would severely censure the work by published delarations to that effect, stamping the promoters of the vile thing with infamy for all time, but which, in due time, proved to be a certificate of good character, and silenced cavil on that score ? What of all this, I say? It only showed | that you miscalculated, and were but work, ing outa problem to enable you to raise the wind to procure the needful to keep you alive.

For, in all truth, you are ens titled to something handsome for your pains as an editor in showing that black is white, and white nocolor at all.’ Somes

| thing like the foregoing would, in my

humble opinion have been more to the point and in accord with the rules of coms mon sense, than an attempt at sarcasm and irony which has neither meaning nor apy plication. The remarks of “ Hard Grit,’’ in the last Patriot. which, through the kindness ofa friend I had a chance of read- ing, are more practical; but narrow-mind- ed prejudice and the cloven foot are mani-< fest throughout the piece. He, too, has | failed to contradict any one assertion that I have made in the article alluded to. He takes exception to the style of the opening sentence of my letter, which was intended | for a welledefined purpose, namely—to | show that a most barefaced system of lying

}and slander has been resorted to by the

| Herald and its scribes on a former occasion

against the men who gave to the Island a

| railroad. Also, David Laird’s inconstancy

| in promising to knock the brains out of the | Bill; and Major McGill’s declaration and

failure to break up the Local House of | These, Mr. |

issembly in a given time. Editor, are the points to which that sen tence had the strictest application, and it j still holds good,

endowed with Christian charity, ordinary wisdom, Or sagacity, he would not have

_tmoade such an unjustifiable and unwarrant-

\

| opinion, adapted for, and should havea) | certificate as being a blatant demagogue, | | who endeavors surreptitiously to steal away — the reputation of his fellew-creatures.

}

y letter in the EXAuner of the | #ble attack without some shadow of found-

ation to bear him out in his nefarious

RANDOM READINGS.

A great object in life—A giant. If your brain is on fire blow it out. Why should a magistrate be very cold ?—

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schemes. Certain allusions have been | Because he represents just-ice.

made in his very erudite article, regarding |

the ‘terrible chastisements of Glenfinnan’s angry pedagogue.’ Since he, in all his

Why is a ship designated as “ she ?—Be- cause she always keeps a man on the look-

A lady asked a vetran which rifle carried

wisdom, has thought proper to designate | the maximum distance. The eld chap an-

me as an ‘angry pedagogue,’ he will, I hope and trust, have no objection to my stating that from his falsifying and sophis~ tical production in the Heraid, he is, in my

In conclusion, Mr. Editor, I beg leave to tender you my sincere thanks in advance for whatever space you may be pleased to leave at my disposal, and if ‘Censor’ wante a refutation of any more of his lying slan ders, he kuows where to find me, only let him appear over his own signature, because my daily avocation will not allow me suffi. cient time to notice anonymous scribblers.

Yours, &e., &., James H, CUMMISKRY.

Glenfinnan May 13, 1874.

Herald please copy.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER,

Sir,—In a late Herald, { see that a young man, signing himself “Censor,’’ seems to think that I took a nove! method of honor- ing ‘ Old Erin,” when I wrote in the Ex- AMINER, sometime ago, over the signature of ‘ Glasslaugh Irishman.’’ The youthful and pious “ Censor” is, undoubtedly, under the vain impression that he is an honor to Ireland and the Irish. Poor, deluded youth! This disgraceful young vagabond is as much honor to Ireland and the Irish, as Jemmy O’Brien, the infamous Irish informer. No, dear “Censor,"” you're a disgrace to the decent Irish parents who reared you, in- stead of being an honor to the land which produced a Grattan, a Shiel and an O'Cons nell.

If it was my signature which caused you to wake up now and impeach me for dis- honoring Ireland, I beg leave to state, for “Censor’s’’ information, that I'll use any signature (when occasion requires it) which pleases me, and not “ Censor ;"’ and further, if his penetrating mind can possibly pick any flaws in my letter to which he refers,

‘and exhibit them as he did those of “A

fork over to their successors in office thou- Monaghan, I will be happy to have a little sands of pounds, but were never afters |

chat with this advocate for the honoring of Ireland. As he seems to have the use of the “ fostering’’ columns of the Herald, I hope to hear from him soon that is if he survives the terrible chastisement of Glens finnan’s angry pedagogue, as also those of * 4 Monaghan,”’ “Carlow Man,” and of your obedient servant. —

Aw InisaMan, Glasslough, May 19, 1874.

MISCELLANEOUS,

The new Spanish Ministry intend to re- vive titles of nobility and subsize the clergy.

The steamer Faraday, with a new Atlan- tic telegraph cable, has sailed for Grave- send.

Tue AGassiz MEMoRIAL.—It is proposed to raise a teacher’s memorial to Agassiz, “by placing upon a strong and enduring basis the work to which he devoted his life, the museum of comparative zoology.” On the 28th day of May, the birthdey of Agassiz it is proposed that all teachers should con- tribute something, however small, to this object. The treasurer is James M. Barnard 13 Exchange street, Boston,

A dog, who already bore about his muz- zel some not inglorious scars, accompanied his master, who bore on his breast the Vic- toria Cross, to the Ashantee campagne. Being of the bull-dog breed, and with a natural turn for fighting, he distinguished himself on several occasions and Indeed throughout the campaign. Inone instance he rushed into the enemy’s ranks, and singl- ing out one of naked foes, so bit and wor- ried him that he actually brought in his prisonerin triumph. He was such a favour- ite with the men that in a heavy engage- ment their fire was suspended for a minute to allow of his uninjured retreat from one of his desperate forays. He lived to enjoy his return and his honors, and at this moment is one of the greatest pets of Belgravia.

Parliamentary life at Ottawa.—Our Legis« lators at Ottawa seem encompassed with dangers to health and life. Since the in- auguration of tke Union several deaths have occurred in that Capital among memes | bers of the Dominion Legislature, and a | great deal of sickness that has not proved | fatal has been experienced by them there.

If Mr. “Pure Grit” | These things have not happened without

choses to console himself or anybody else | sufficient cause, What is the trouble? It

with the fancy that a certain portion of |

my letter formed a certificate of character

to Mr. Cayen for sifting public transgress- | condition. ors, he is quite at liberty to do so to his |

heart’s content. I have said nothing in disparagement of the reputation of Messrs. Welsh and McGill. | the less fuss is made by “ Pure Grit” puffing up Major McGill's action on the

as a politician, The assistance which he

gave

such a negative feature as totally to dess |

troy its utility in being of any specific res lief to the tenantry for perhaps a long time tocome. The features of the measure after receiving the finishing stroke of the Legislative Council, is now before the coun try for the tenantry to ponder over; and no sophistry, however artful, will ke suffi. cient to explain away Councillor McGill's | conduct for his partizanship in connection | with the arbitration clause. | Itis not my purpose Mr. Editor, to use harsh names towards these gentlemen, fur- ther than to say that Major McGill’s inter- ference and conduct on behalf of the tens

| attraction universal any more than the re- antry of Queen’s County will not serve to

| immortalize him as far their interest is at | stake. My friend “ Pure Grit’’ cannot be

j nor band together to blackball and expel | ignorant of the fact that at the banquet at | Without one favorable vote to modify. Henry | Summerside a few days ago, where 50

| many leading spirits of opposite political | Opinions were assembled, that an overflow-

ing measure Of praise was unanimously acs

corded to the to the authors of the railroad | for possessing a creative genius and sus | perior intelligence in grappling with so | grand and useful a measure. Neither if | nor but was used in taking exception even to the wire fence or the curves; everything was grand -- everything perfect.

[ am, Sir, yours, &c., A Mownacuay. East River, May 14, 1874.

Hae mee +

To the Editor of the Examiner

Dear Sir:—I regret very much that pre. | Sent ¢circum-tances force me to have my ) name paraded through the press ; but in justification ot myself, and for the informa- tion of the public generally, | consider it my bounden duty to have it so at present.

In the Hera/d, of the 6th inst., and over the signature of ‘ Censor,’ appeared rather alengthy production for any special ani- madvertence. In that production, the writer, in his usual strain of high-soundi phraseology and disreputable assertion aceuses me with being the author of a lengthy production which appeared in the | Examiner of the 20th of April, and over the signature of “A Monaghan,” East River.

Having no ambition to claim credit for another man’s work, I have to inform ‘Cen. sor,’ and all others whom it may concern, that I am not the author of the above-~ pamed production. And if ‘ Censor’ were

But I do say now that |

,| Compulsory Land Purchase Bill in his ca- |

the Bill is truly an ultimatum,—but of | mother known the excelle

is known that the Parliament buildings, on | which millions have been lavished, are, in a | sanitary point of view, in a decidedly bad The Commons Chamber, and, probably, other rooms in the building. are | supplied with impure air, and have no effec= | tive appliances for getting rid of it.—St. | John News.

Jur Russias Scanpau.—It now turns

in | out that the Grand Duke arrested in Russia

} was not the brother of the Czar, but his nephew, the son of the Grand Duke Con-

} stantine. He stole his mother’s diamonds

Hie | pacity as Legislative Councillor, all the | to bestow them onan actress. He wasa nature, although volati'e, was capable of the | Letter for that gentleman’s future prospects |

splendid young fellow.no doubt and thought | it princely and generous to bestow mamma's baubles upon an exponent ofart. Had his use to which it, she probably would not have ha to inform the police of the theft. e itis, it is best, per- haps, that the Princé’should feel the rigors of the Rnssian law, while it would be in- teresting to know what is to be done with the actress. If she does not visit Siberia she certainly will go to Paris, where she will be adored as the modern Cinderella, for whom the Prince, not being able to find a glass slipper, quietly cribbed his mother’s diamonds.—N. }. Herald,

A Paris correspondent of one of the Lon-

don papers tells the following: “A sad ac- cideut took place yesterday ia a churchyard

her

of Gosbois, a village outside of Paris. The body ofachild was about to be lowered

intothe grave when the supposed corpse was heard to groan. The mother pounced en the coffin and wrenched offthe lid with a pair of sissors which she had in her pocket. *Mon Dieu!’ cried she, ‘my son lives—he’s alive—he’s saved :’ And taking the poor little shrouded body in her arms, she bathed it with tears and kisses. But her joy was brief The child made a movement, and, muttering another feeble groan, threw backs its head and—died, The mother gazed on the corpse with haggard eyes, and then clasped it to her breast with despair, and for a few moments her whole body was convulsed. Suddenly she fell to the ground as if struck by light- ening, and, when recovered from her swoon she had become insane.”

CripsinG Horses.—Mr. Lyman Thayer, of Franklin, Mass., a gentleman who has had a large experience in the care and hand- ling of horses for the past thirty years, in answer to the question ‘How to cure crib~ biting,” says he has been quite successful by nailing strips of sheep skin on the edge of the manger, in every place where the horse could get hold with his teeth. The skin is put on with the wool side up, and if the horse attempts to play at his old trick or habit, he will find himself pretty effectualfy gagged. We were shown an inveterate cribber, which appeared to be throughly cured by the simple treatment. Mr. Thayer, like most others considered cribbing more of a habit than anything else. The sheep's wool seems to be a little digusting to the animal, and ashe gives up cribbing in the stall, he appears to forget his habit when on the street. Crib- bingfis gencrallybelieved to be a habit more than disease, although, if persisted in, it may be an indirectcause of desease.--New England Farmer.

Prince Leiiiohoku, brother of the present King of the Sandwich Islands, and heir apy parent to the throne, intends to make a tour in the United States, and probably a jovraey to Europe, during the present year. He isa young man of uncommon promise, wel] edu- cated, and of fine personal appearance and pleasing manners. With him will come Mrs. Bernice Pauahi Bishop, wife of the late Mins ister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Charles R. Bish~< op, and a highly cultivated and charming lady, one of the high nobility of the old ua- tive race, ranking next to the king. Her husband is a native of New York, a gentle- man of large wealth, the leading banker of

the Islands.

swered ‘the minnie, mum.’

Q. Question For Navat Examinations.~Can you give any other name for a ship's cut- water? A Yes, A sea-saw.

A Virginia jndge gave a convicted thief the choice of six months in jail or thirty days in jail and twenty-tive lashes. He was such a tough customer that he chose the latter.

It is reported that if the British Govern ment agree to assume the protectorate of the Fiji Islands, the Governorship will be offered to Captain Glover.

“Orr !'"-— Sergeant O'Leary: “Double! Left! Right! What the biazes, Pat Rooney, d'ye mane by not doublin’wid de squad!?” Pat : «Sure, Sargent, ‘twas’t a fair start!”

A country boy having heard of sailors heaving up anchogs, Wanted to know if it was sea-sickness that made them do it.

A Texas man recently declined to receive a telegra despatch from a yellow fever locality; he should catch the disease:

A Sunday-school scholar being asked what became of men who deceive their fellow-men promptly exclaimed, ‘ They go to Europe.’