Vol. XLV.

LITERATURE,

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JIME AND LOVE,

AN ALLEGORY

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Old Time amd young Love, on a morning in May,

Chaneed to meet by a river in haleyon weather,

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In the same litth

reemw for once, sa fable you'll say)

boat made a voyage together

Strong, steady and patien., Time palled at his oar, Aad Bat Lowe, who was thinking of Pleasure on shore,

ewilt o'er the water the voyagers go; Complained that his boatman was wretehedly

Siow |

Bat Time, the old sailor, expert at his trade, And knowing the leugnes that rewained to be done, Content with the regular speed that he made,

Tagyed away at his var and kept steadily on.

Love, always impatient of doubt or delay, Now sighed for the nid of the favoring geles, Aud scolded at Time, in the sauciest way,

For not having furnished the shallop with saile

Bat Time, as serene as a calender saint, Whatever the grevbeard was thinking upon), All deaf to the voice

Tagged away at his car aud kept steadily on.

of the Younker’s coy iplaint,

Love. vexed at the heart, « And cried, “* By tl Waa ever a labber who handled an o

f {nso luzy !

uty clumored the there, e gods, in what country or clime ir

w fashion as old Father Time!”

. . ; a . Bat Time ouly amiled ia a evnieal way,

Tis often the mode with your elderly Don), As one who knowe more than he cares to cis; lay, And still at his our pulled steadily on

Grown calmer, at last, the exuberent boy Enlivens the minutes with suatches of rhyme; The voyage, at length, he begins to enjoy,

And soon has forgotten the presence of Time!

Bat Time, the severe, egotistien! elf,

Sinee the day that hia travels he entered upon, Has ue'er for a mowent fe: gotten himself,

But tugs at his car and keeps sieadily on.

Awaking, once more, Love sees with a sich Phat the River of Life will be presently passed, And now he breaks forth with a piteous ery,

“O Time, geutle Time! vou are rowing toc fast!”

Bat Time, well knowing that Love wil! be dead Dead dead im the boat! ere the voyage is done Only gives bim an ominous shake of the head Waile he tags at his our and kee ps steadily 1

STATION MASTER AT LUNGLEY.

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*Tam an old man you say? Well you are right there; but ome is not really eon- sidered old at the age of ¢ rty-five. Wry

au | bald, theu ? Ah, friend, you ay wellask! Men do not usually lose ther hair so early in lite; avd my scalp was polished ia this shining fashion sume G!teen years ago. It took ouly one grim night's work, to do ail.’ “* oi

‘A story ¢

* Yes, comrade, there is a story about this poor bald pate of mine; if you wish tc hear it, Twill tell you. It m an old story now, vod over familiar to our frieuds about here, for | fear L have yabbied it somewhat too often wheu the bottle has been going rund, but as you have never heard it be- fore you will lind it as good us new. The Gy train ts not due for a tull bour yet, and) perhaps my story will help as well as any- thing else to kill time, then, aud draw tearer to the fire, for that drifting snow outside does vot make this Winter night too warm,

Fili your ylasses,

* You say you knew at once, when first you saw me, that Lhad served. Weil, no doubt, the soldier who has been in active service always bears the stawmp upoo him. J swelt powder ou wéte than one field. I was vine years io the Fusileers. I served | in Canada; and, after reaching the grade of Sergeant, 1 was dangerously wounded in a renconire with tne Katiirs at the Cane, and | was sent home with a pension, The restor- ation of health brought back my coustitu- antipathy to idieness, and, after koocking about in sore discontent for some tyme, | at last succeeded in procuring occu- pation as ticket clesk at the Longely Sta- tion on this line.’

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* You don’t know the country about Long- ley? No. You lose nothing thereby, for a more miserable district of bleak hills and wild barren moor is not to be found from this to John O Groat’s; and the population rude and churiish, wre as little attractive as the vountry they dwell in.

‘Among the few scquaintences I made during the one year | spent there was a young fellow named Carston, the son of a Wealthy sheep farmer, who lived some siz wiles from ihe station, A eiever fellow he Was—the real manayer of the farm—and on market days and such like, he was « frequent traveller oa our line. Young Garston and 1 bud vome to be great friends, und more than one pleasant hoiiday bad | spent with him (for even we railway officials have holidays now and ogain) up among the hiils, biesk aud baicen as they were. | dwell upoa this (rather tediously perhaps) feeause it ie to Frauk Carston I owe this bald crown,

* It was a cold. cheerless, winter evening, 88 I stood upon the platform waiting ‘or the mail tray frota the north, which was a little behind jis time. There was no passenger from Lonyley ; the train would aot wait two wigutes, and my work would be over when It bad parsed on. [ was pleasantly antici- pating a quiet night by my own fireside, With 4 hot cup of ‘ea and the Loudon m oro- ing paper, when the train came dashing in vod pulled up with @ shrick, and a head was thrust out from ove oi the cu: riages, while the familiar voice of wy frieud Cars- ton hailed me.

** Ned, old fellow,’ he said, as I hurried uptohim, + [ waot you to do me a great favor. You see this bag; it contains two buodred sovereigns. f'o-worrow is rent day, and 1 got this cush for the old wan this worhiog. You kacw the craze he hee for paying ie part | «om going through to

ndon on urgent businees, and 1 want you totake charge of the money aud this letter, and carry them out to our place, Get any fort of conveyance aud drive out; don’t mind expense —L'li setile af! chat. 1 now that os @ friend, you'll do this business carefully for we. Teli father L'li be home to morrow uizht if possible.’

* Off weat the train, and before I could Ulter a word, 1 wes iclt alone on the piat- form with the beavy bag of gold in my hand. The commission with which [ bad been 89

Unexpectedly entrusted was @ very disagree-

»able one that bleak winter night,

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my neck, | puched forward on chanee, more slowly this

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went home to my lodgings, got some tee, | tve. a ' loaded a small double-barreled pistol (anun-| | All you can do," said the man, ‘is to keep usual precaution suggested by the thought where you are to night; and be thankiul > — ©”) that you have the shelter of even these misera- of the gold), put it in my pocket, and 1). walls on such a night as this, Lt will be Wrapped my great coat around me. It wae well eyen if this infernal snow storia does

no easy thing to get a carriage, fly, or gig, ina little place like Longley, at that hour ; and what was a walk of four miles to me, when sure of a stiff glass of something warm and « good bed that night, and a ple»sant: | canter on a sure-footed nog back to the rail- Way station in the morning ?

‘The night, though cold, was dry, and the moon wasup. To be sure some omin- ous clouds were gathering round her, and she was rising, but steadily sinking, and would soon be hidden behind the hills. No matter; [ suould be far on my way before | her light was gone, and those clouds, i thought, were uot likely to change into what they promised—a sncw shower—till | was sufely ensconced by old Carston’s fireside

, All went wel! enough for the first balf hour; aod, as the brisk walk made the blood course warmly through my veins, [ thought how! much pleasanter this was than to be jolted/ and bruised in some erazy, lumbering old

vehicle as the Longley Loa was capable of supplying, over that rough, witd mountain. | road. But my anticipaton of the weather, proved surely deceptive, Before the balf’ hour had weil gooe by, the snow-storm came ‘

straw till morning cotaes. But you do look horribly beaten up ; here, Sally, up with yoa, lass, and get us the black one.’

‘IT turned to the other corner, beside the fre, to which these words were addressed, end now beheld, for the first time, a young wowan sitting beside a child that lay asleep upon the ground. I turned, and found her eyes fixed upon me with a strange, eager glare. She was miserably clad, and looked sickly and personal beauty. She was delicately fair: her long, divlevelled hair, of a golden ting’, actually glistened in the blaze of fire. Bus what struck me most about her was the han- gry, wolfish glare of her eyes so unnaturally large—fustened as is was upon me; that wild, eager look made my heart sick with a vague feeling of dread wnd dislike.

place), and took from it a Jarge black bottle aud a broken cup.

‘+ Come,’ said the man, ta‘ing the cupand the bottle, and pouring some of the contents of

down fierce and fast, and the moon was co longer visible. There wus no help now, however, but all the more need to get to my | jouroey's end as soow as possible; so | clutched my stick with a firmer grasp, and | quickened my pace, Bat tbe thick, steady | tall of saow so darkened the air that I could hot see twice my arm's Jengih Lefore me; more welcome. The blood came coursing and L had not been walking many minutes | warmly through my shivering frame again, twhea the apprehension atule upon me that | and +a a aie eveb iene the am I was fast losing my way. It was a dap.) Paimof my broken arm. echining the brea } gerows loeality I a ia just oe in - I oa iad oe Thea ““\fire. L took the pistol from my breast pocket midet of — riot borg for the road land laid ic on the ground beside me ; and as wound over hill and moor, without wall or!) stooped to do this, the bag of gold struck (fence; and, where the snow was rapidly against the stool with a musical clink of the | covering heath and path alike, to trace my | coins within. route with accuracy became impossible. | + Thenext moment, when [ raised my head, | ‘Humen life bad been secrifced more [ found the terrible eyes of the woman fas- |

. ‘| tened upon me with a glare more hungry and |

than once, amid snow-drifis, on that wild/welfish than before. [ was startled, and, moorland, and sheep innumerable had been | (almost mechanically) thrust the bag into ost. To make my dan er greater, the| my breast. She turned away, muttering, place was full of pits and hollows, where jsomething about my bed, and went into the | mining speculators had tried to sink shafts | other room of the anne: In the ot eet in former years. Should 1 wander off the the man sat down at the other — the fire, | beaten track, the chances were that I might | where the child wes sleeping, and (he bad

: ; : " : e"* tuken some of the brandy, and was less rough meet a Or keu HeeK iD one of these coufound- and more communicative now) begun tu talk ed holes ubout the snow storm, the probabie loss of

‘i ssumbled on at random. I had lost sheep it would cause, aud the visitation o! my bearings, utterly ; end in a few minures | turmer years. | isnew as.litile where | ‘in about a quarter uf an hour the woman eime to the door of the other room and called {him to ber. Ue went; and tor several mi- nates after, L heard them conversing in low, | eager tones. Theirwords [ could not catch ; stow det; but, tor all b knew, 1 wight be! bute the woman seemed to be vehemently going in any direetion byt the right one. | urgiag something upon her coms anion, while Was low the beaten ro.d, or was 1 op the ‘is answers were brief andbesiiating. Gra ene the earner donmep-s

} ’ feeling crept over ne—ar reiwmeuivered ho ; Suother moment cruelly : settled my odd? Ww hothae one minute or ay» hour had loubis. Que siep more—my lout found nyo passed I know not. when a heavy hand was rest; and | teil beadiong into a broad, deep jaid on my shoulder, and a hoarse voice | pit. Stanned by the fall, [ lay there [| suunded in my ear : Know uot bow long. Bruised and giddy, tried at last to regain my feet, wheu @ pang | had better throw yourself on the bed inside, of exquisite pain shot througs my left arm ; aud sicep till morning. . the bone was broken. _ * L started ap and was soon recalled to per-| ‘As with my right band l dow ted to | fees Consciousness by the sharp pain of my

ah ; & * : broken arm. The man was stauding beside steady myself and grope my way out of the) 4. hole, the agony | suff-red was indescribable; | «+ My wife has shaken out the straw,’ he yet my first thought was to fee! for the bag | said, ‘us softly as possible; and | mistake | of gold whicl: was still safely suepended from | if, atter to-night’s trawp you don’t find itas I crawled out of the pit, and | soft aga bed ot down, But take this by way of a night-cap before you go.

‘I drank the brandy, and muttering a few words of thanks, was turuing away, when he stopped me.

‘See,’ he said, * you are forgetting your Suppose pistol. You bad better take it with you.” | ‘1 did so, and biddivg them good night. | was giddy and wy tiabs unsteady already ;| Went into the other room. My bed was a}

a] ¥ 2% f straw covered with a piece of coarse |

Ire: w , astefailing Be@p of straw covere p

what @ dreadful dewth under the fast-failing Satta Wak tind 1¢ beeil of thd aboteden Tes- snow awaited me!

i thers it could not have been mor: welcome

‘At this horrible thought a cold sweat ‘then. J stretched myself upon it and was) suffused my whole body, and my parched | goon fast asleep. But sleep brought with it) tongue clove to my palate; to my last hour | confused and distressing dreams, with whieli

herd's hut on the moor. No mutter; it came to ussome way. ‘Try it—the brandy is goud,

night.” ; ; ‘Most gratefully did I seize the cup and drink off its contents ; and never was cordial

was if | had been suddenry set down, bound and biindtolded, the woor. IL was making Way, Surely, us best i evuld, through the

ia the miadie of

tune, though, and cautiou.ly, for the terror | of those vile holes was strong upoa me now

But | grew weaker every moment, and a vague aod sickly alarm seized me.

every feature was beautifally wouided ; and |

‘The woman did not speak ; but she went | to a large chest at the other end of the room | (almost the only artivle of furniture in the:

‘the one into the other, * you did not expect, | perhaps. to see anything lke this in the shep- |

and you could not take better physio to-!

which the mau eff-red, I drew nevrer to the you not get in through that?’

‘a fiere 6, angry voice.

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Literature,

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Rdward Island, Monday, January 4, 1864.

‘save them from the death of dogs. it myself !’ fore, before suspicion could have fallen upo ** Hasy, lass,’ be said, catching her vy the them; and they were never heard of alier.’ wrist and drawing ber back to her seat) ‘ The Carstons, [ hope, were grateful.’ jagain. * You're a plucky gal, Sal; butd’ye | | think I'd let a woman do what | had not the | that window across the line there?

i{atigue and the brandy bave dune for hiar, | uo long stay here; you had better look afte | and you can bear him moaning as be sleeps. | your luggage.’

| Rhis ugly bit of steel may be useless after ail

| A cloth upos his mouth and my band upon | his windpipe may be enough. There will be} /no signs of blood; and, when they do fied | bim atter the snow melts, they will say he y : : | perished in the storm.’ sweetish taste, it possesses the power of di je Now, Bil,’ said the woman with a | gesting the hardest food that can be swallow | horrid show of admiration, * you talk like a ed,

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MARVELS OF MAN,

again.’ * * Well, lass,’ he said, * consider the thing as done. Just give me the bottle.’ : * He took it, raised it to his lips, and drank {, (a deep draught. With trembling hand L ‘felt up the door for bult or loek. ‘There was|#lways aud everywhere, a wooden bolt only. Gently and silently Ljis full of it,

power of the stroagest aed.

jand searched for my pistul, resolved to sell) eayes of the earth. my life dearly. i

*L got the pistal, drew back the hammers, | and felt the nipples; the capa were gone! I tricd the barrels; they were drenched with

escape its presence.

water! [ saw it all; the pistol had been | blinded, because there is a fountain of the |

, having to advise the Public, may speak tree.”-~-Euripides.

I will do! before L recovered trom my fever, and, there- | the question at stake betwee

* Bo you see that light burning ead “4 | rank | ‘courage to do myse!f? { told you I did not | Carsten’s sister is sleeping (peacefully, 1| (Ween Protestants and Catholies, which is him, as it does not bury the cabin itself before morning. If| like the job; 1 had rather get at money any Should hope) in that room. She is the, perceived by Protestants even through the break up his household to you want anything to eat, you can have a) other way; but L didn’t tell you that [mother of three of the finest young Britons | disguise which the maodners and conyersa- | house as conditions of relief. When he erust of bread —that’s ail we have—and in) wouldn't do it. Sit you down, and let's talk tn this big shire, and I am their father. | tiga of inferior and commouplace Catholics | ives up his farm and breaks up his heuse- that room inside you may lie down on the it over. The chap is fast asleep now—the | But here comes the mail train, and it makes iheow over their U

While the gastric juice has a mild, bland,

It has no influence whatever on the thin, yet her face showed the trace of much ‘man aod a wise one. I begin to kuow you fibres of the living animal, bat at the motnent |

of death it begins to cut them away with the

There is dust on sea and land, in the. vale, and on the ciountain top—there is dust The atmosphere It penetrates the noisome pushed it home, then crept back to my bed « dungeon, and visits the deepest aud darkest

shut it out; vo drawer is s ¢ jshut it out; d 0 secret as to

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u Protestants years, by doabling the produce of the soil, For, and we adverted to 4'fuse plenty and happiness ti the point some weeks back in a notice of land. —_ - “The Spirit of St. John of the Cross,” ) i be assimilated to that of Rngland by af-

there is icdeed an essential difference be- |

atholicity. The reason | is that the ideal type of the two is different, | | that they differ in :heir notions of excellence

It is superfluous to labour | —wiiech means physical and moral

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fording out-dour relief in @ bad season to the Straggling small farmer, and not compelling . to give up bis farm and into the work-

hold, it it more likely he goes to America than to the workboase, and he would bee ‘fool if he did not. Eyen for the labourer, when it becomes a question of the workhouse degrada-

the point, that men who are wakiog for! tion and death—or the United States, he

/move together side by side. ‘fluous to labour the point, much a man may fall below standard, the mere fact-of

' standard,

| Whieh standard is the trae one ?—T'adlet.

; 1 . . . é 1 _ pened <-->. ‘dealt with while I slept at the fire; and 1) blandest fluid iv nature incessantly emptying | THE WOUNDED AFTER A BATTLE

was now utterly at the merey of those fiends. | itself under the eyelid, which spreads ivself

* Bat [had little time to wastein thougis, jover the surfzce of the eyeball at every lor the next moment the door was shaken hy | winking, aud washes every atom of dust be heavy hand. I tay Dae woaned and away. ais liquid, so well adapted to the i snored like one in & tra .bled sleep. J : silk = ae

©* Phe door is bolted in the inside,’ 1; °¥¢ itself, bas some acridity, which, under ‘heard the man whispering; ‘the fellow | certain circumstances, becomes so decided as | fastened it before he wenc io sleep.’ to be scalding to the skin, and would rot | ‘+ Then burst it open,’ said the woman. away the eyelids, were it not that along the | **No,? wus the rejoinder: + that would edges of them there are little oil manufac. tories, which spread over their surface a

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'waken him up, and he might show fight. | We mast adopt some quieter course.’

| © Tnere’s the window,’ she said; ‘ can ; :

sary for keeping the eyeballs wasied clean,

* * Quite right, lass. 1 bad forgotten.’ as the best varnish is lumpervivus 10 water.

‘TL looked to the window ; it was an aper- he breath which leaves the lungs hag

‘tare some two feet square or more, with a | been so perfectly divested of its life-giving

crazy sash of four panes, every one of which | properties, that to re-breatbe it, unmixed

Tae ae Pore aad and ae sash. with other air, the mowent it escapes from

a5 chi igh y : : E

whe sagen vip J _" W tem pie oun the mouth, would cause immediate death by mat was Ito do? vat chance of a| cae akin if te Canaeel i

jsuffoeation; while if it hovered about, a

stragzle had [ now? Faint and weary, with ‘ : ; that broken arm, what resistance could [ | wore or less destructive influence over hesith But it is made of 2

offer to this man of gigantic strength ? Crush- | would be oecasioned.

ed by the prospect of my imévitable doom, I) niture so much lighter than the common Stagyered back from the window, and fell’ gir, that the moment it escapes the lips and against a projection of the gable wall. UL nostrils it asceads to higher regions, above

nw _ my, Land to kee p me from swing | the breathing point, there to be rectified, O the pgrount 7

It did not teach the pro-! : : jection, but stretched far into some hollow renovated, aud —— back again replete with speee. A pang of hope shot through my “parity aud life. Row rapidly it ascends 18 heart. Here was a large open chimney hke beautifully exhibited any frosty morning, that at the other end of the eabin; and{ felt) Bur foul aud deadly as the expired air is, the suow, which had (allen through it, crack- | nature—wisely ecouomica! in ali her works ing under my feet. “

* Could Lescape through this? Was there |

still a chance of life? [ stooped under and a k f it a f } sh : ’ akes < bis thrust ap my head, The aperture was wide avd makes ol it the wuisper Ol love, the

and deep, and the Jarge stones of the rude ma- /soft words of affection, the tendor tones o! sunry projected on every side, These were | human sympathy, the sweet strains of ravish- steps by which it was easy enough to climb. | img music, aud the persuasive eloquence of

| To think of all this, and to act upon mytlahe flushed orator.

thought, occapied less tunelthan Lave taken | ety a wei!-made man be cxtended.on the ‘ , y t é ° - . to tell it. In spite of the helplessness of my ‘ground, his arms at right augles wich his

left arm, and the exeratiating pain Lfelt frou | ° ry 3 it, | was up through the chimney and out on | body, a circle, making the navel the cestre,

the roof before L heard the frail sash below | Stl Just take in the head, the fnger-ends,

1 crawled round (n the other end of the cabin. | the tips of the fi.gers when the arms are and from this starting point | hurried away |.xteaded. The leugth of the body is just across the moor as fast as my limbs could | Jy tinog that of the foot; while the dis- 7 oki xy back, | saw the glare of light | fdas the Stee aut Hl beat ‘the phact of ead to ibe eud of the chin is one-teuth of The snow drift had | the length of tbe whole stature.

almost ceased to fail,and the whitened ground) Qi thes xty-iwo primary elemente known gave out sume faint light chrougis the weater in nacure, ouly eighcees are found in the darkness. What I longed for now was some | py quan body, and of these seven are metallic. pitor hollow to creep into, and burrow there | 7.0. i, found ip the blood ; phosphorus in

until immediate danger was over. 1 was not} : : i d 7 : a bs Sa ‘the brain; limestone in the bile; lime tw long in-finding one. :

Not only

I slid down into it, and | ‘ with my right hand gathered the snow about | the boues ; dust and ashes in all, me. Not ten minntes had $ lam there whea| these eighteen human elements, but the { heard a heavy footstep crenching the snow | whule sixty-two, of which the universe is above. It was my pursuer, the intended as- ‘made, have their essential basia in four sassis ; and | could tear his muttered curses | sybstanves — oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, as he passed on. Ina few moments more I ‘and carbon—representing the four famitiar heard him coming back again, and then ail | oames of fire, water, saltpetre, and charcoal.

was still and silent as death. At length I | : crept out from iny hiding place, with eramp- | Aad such is man, the lord of the earth—a

ed and aching limbs, i knew no more in | spark of fire—a drop of water—a grain ol

| what direction to tara aow than [ had known } gunpowder—an atom of charcoal!

coating as impervious to the liquids neces. |

aud ways—turns it :o goed aceount in the | outward passage through the organs of voice, | yet it thundered apd rained. A poor feliow | 48getated, and its designs are culored with ae Be}

‘ance from the edge of the bair on the fore-|

aun ‘eurring after the battle of Chickamauga, |The surgeou lays off the green sash aad the | tinselled coat, aud rolls up his sleeves, and ‘spreads wide his cases filled with terrible | glitter of silver and steel,aod makes ready for ‘work. They begin to come in, slowly at first, one man pursing a shattered arm, aaother borne by his comrades, three in av ,ambulance, one ou a streicher; then faster und faster, lying tere, lying there, waiting each his terrible turn. The silver stce} grows cloudy aud jurid ; true right arms are ‘lopped like slips of golden willow ; feet that juever tarned from the foe, forever more without an owser, strew the ground. The knives are busy, the saws play ; it is bloody work. Ah, the Surgeon with heart and head, with heart and eye fit for such a place, isa prinee awong men ; cool and calm, quick aud tender, be feels among the arteries aud flogers the tendons as if they were barp strings. But the cloud thunders and the | spiteful rain paiters louder and fiereer, avd ithe poor fellows come creeping away in brokea ranks like corn beaten down with the flails of the storm. “ My God?” eried a Surgeon, 23 looking up an instast from his watk he saw the muiitlated crowds borne in, “any God, are all ny boys eutdowu!” Aad

' writhes und u emothered moan eseapes.

patient, duck,” says the Surgeon chee fully; i* U' make you all right in a minute.” | And what a meaning there was in that “ ali right!’ Lt was # right arm tc come off at ‘the elbow, and“ Juek” slipped off a ring ‘that ciasped one Of the poor useless fingers, that were to biend with the earth of Alaba- (ma, and put it in his pocket! He was

forced in. To sitde to the ground was easy | aud the feet. Tue distance from “ toe (0! making ready for the ‘all right.” Does ** Come, triend, you're tired, [ see; you enough ; and blessing G.d for my deliverance, | toe” is precisely the samo as that between | Alabama’ mean * here we rest?” If so,

‘how sad yet glorious bave our boys made it | Who sink to rest, “ With all their conntry’s wishes blest!" | Another eits up while the Surgeon follows / the bullet that had buried i:self in his side; | it is the work of au instant ; no solemn coun- _cil bere, no lingering pause ; the Surgeon is | bathed ie patriotic blood to bis elbows, and ithe work goes on. An eye lies out upon a i ghastly cheek, and silently the suffere: bides {his time. ‘ Well, Charley,” says the ‘doctor, dressing a wound as he talks, | What's the matrer?” «* Oh, pot much, | doctor only a hand off.” Not unlike was ‘the answer made to me by a poor fellow, at | Bridgeport, shattered as a tree is by light- jning: “How are you now?” I said, |“ Bully !’ was the reply. You should bave heard that word, as he said it; vulgar as it |used to seem, it grew manly and noble, and i never shal! bear it again without a thought

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differeat goais in difforent directions caunot | chooses the latter, the facilities for reachi It is super-| Which wre now great. But besides the eco that however Domical reasons for fleeing his country, the his own ideal bis possessing ‘that staudard will make him ‘o mind, and! ¢ras ind, ed upon his race by the lish rule, thought, and tone a different being from |The existence of that Gautivetion’ it is not 'the man who has adopted a totally different , too much to say, divides freland into two What the Saturday Review hostile camps, of which the people form one, sees clearly and recognises trankiy is chat 884 9 small knot of proprietors, ecclesiastical | the ideal type of Catholicism and Protestant- ism differ, that they differ in their notions | i : _ of excel'ence and perfection, that they weigh {this way, it d No palace door “8° aud measure acts aud motives by different | territorial class ae “., | standards, and that the futuce of Europe | to thosc improvements in the law which, as ay Every breath of Wind | depends en the answer to the question,| We have shown, would result in mere “fine (dashes it upon the open eye which yet is vot |

\Trish peasant hae moral ones. The | Established Charch is to him an ever-present perpe

, memorial of the injustice and wrong

|dignitaries and piacemen constitute the other. It is naturaily hateful to the Irish people ; and besides its direct in@uence in oes much to strengthen the in their political resistance

vourable economic conditions in Ireland. Bat time is ripening, and the fate of the ‘Trish Establishment is no longer doubtful : ‘justice and policy combined demand ite abolition.

Let neither statesmen nor economists de- ‘eeive themeelyes—the emigration from ire- ‘land will not cure iteelf. It will proceed, unless checked by those measures which are legitimate and efficacious, until the country stall have become nearfy depopulated : and although machinery and kill can sapplement labour, they cannot quite supplant it. All that is asked is {ree activa for economic lawe in Ireland ; if these result in reducing the country tu & mere fecding ground for cattle, nothing can be said ; but as jong as artificial laws are allowed to exist, which interfere with the natural laws by deterring from the investment of capital and employment of labour in agriculture, les no one dare to say that it is the climate, or soil, or Providence which is degrading Irish industry from « higher toa lower form. Is is the work of English law, maintained in the ignoranty. understool interest of the Irisa landlurds.— | London Morning Star, Nov. 21.

Sn A Oe THE FENIAN BROTHERHOOD.

[From the Manchester Examiner and Timew.]

The * Fenian Brotherhood,” of which our | readers have occasionally caught e glimpee in ‘paragraphs from Ivelaud aod pews from | America, is one of those strange associations which show the almost meradicable influence jof blood and race, Of its existenve there | cannot be a reasonable doubt. [tis no myth, | though its importance is probably much ex-

what the Americans call * hyperfalutan.’* | From the proceedings of the Fenian conference, | lately held in Chicago, we learn that the in- tentions of the brotherhood ave to liberate Ireland, and to crush forever ** the pluoderer }aud murderer of her people, the fell enemy of her fuith.’* Of course, this language is applied tu England; and it may interest those of yur people who are so foud of picking boles io the character of other nationalities, tu know what Fenians can say of our aational policy. ‘very man of Lrish birth or descent 8 invited to join the order. ‘The young are urged to learn the art of war; the old to keep themselves in readiness for the struggle. They have experienced captains, us the reso- iutivns of tne conference assert, and the Awerican war |a3 trained thousands of Fe- pians tv military pursuits. Their purpose is ** fixed and irrevocabie.’’ The * foul stigma’ which attaches to their name * must be wiped out.”” There ** shali be no fal R nu cowardice.’’ Sorrowing Erin of the streams must be lifted ap to her place the nations, and England, with Scotland in her train, must be blotted out of the map. if cloguent language can accomplish these projects, they will svon de finished, but the ** brotherhood’’ do not rest content with merely uttering words. Ireland, they aay, has always been ready ; how she muet orga- nize and wait anxiously for the moment of deliverance, Every parish must have its soldiers secretly drilled. No differences of religion or polities must be alllowed to inter- fere with the great plan of freedom. Orangeman and Catholic, Presbyterian and

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I shail not forget the horror of that picture | the glare of those wild, hungry eyes was before [ had entered that accursed cabin ; but But looking at him in another direetion of death which rose befure my mind's eye strangely mingted. I awoke with a sense of | I struck rmght ahead, knowing that there | these elements shadow forth the higher | ole Sa T ; f aa rew | pain intolerable, and found that [ had turned must be a human habitatian somewhere be- | qualities ol a dinieor aatare eben mere Oe, ES in YEP ee te st, Ce over on my jelt side, pressing my wounded | ture me, should | only have strength enough: | *. Sas: thebvanestei tot us aabiate more ex-essive every momeut ; i Lungsby ‘arm under me. How long | had been sleep-! to reach it. L was fearfully exhausted, and oe 2. a the ens 's : 6) — , ny side like a leaden weight. But, sirange jing of course, 1 could not tell ; but the first! I dragged my weary limbs along as if they | which speaks of irrepreesi aE SOO to say, even with the grim terror of death | s,und that tell upon my ear was the confused | were weighted with lead. For a time the that drop is the Water which speaks of | hefore me, a wild desire began te ereep over | murmur of voices from the other room. Im- | consciousness of danger, aad the exeitement | purity ; iu that grain Is the force of whieh | me to lie down upon the snow and rest | mediately the vureas grew more distinet, and of the fearful ore bad gone through, an ue subdues all things to hunself—makes the Had I done so, no doubt, the last sleep | Some words reached me that speedily brought | tained me; 7 byfand-bye meen and wide creation the supplier of his wan's and But luekily just then ;£0 me & terrible consciousness of my position pessson seemed to desert me, an stigsered | tig servitor of his pleasures ; while in the . oe ‘Que of those words was ‘gold; and at the | along like one in tha deliriam of fever. How |” fh Wet gi Mendy: Scenes ita a faint glimmer of light caught wy eye, und diiiad my band searched for the bag ; it was jong this continued I cannot teil, for I made | 8!0@ of chareoal there is a iain ¥ ic with the eugerness of awakened hope, 1) 1... safe. With a grim terror at my heart, no count of time that terrible might; but I | Speaks at ouce of light and purity rie ae hurried towards it. Im a few minutes 1/7 arose and erept towards the door. Phrough | remember bow, at last, in utter exhaustion | desiructible and resist loss progress. There fonnd myself at the opcu door of a wretches | 4 chink between tie surunken boards, Leould '{ tell prostrate on the snow. ‘Is nothing which outshines it; it 13 acted eabin, ou the hearth of which a wvuod fire |see the man and woman seated at the fre | * As I lay there, unable to rise, and un- | than the dew-deop. * Moth and rust " cor- | the latter, whose face was almost com-, able to move a limb, a long prereing s wiek, ‘rupt it not; nor can ordinary fires destroy pletely turned towards me, sat with her el- | the horrible import of which IT knew too wells, | it; while it cuts its way alike through brass b tecked apy thasieye'e und adamant, and hardest stec!. In that,