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THIS WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL.
This world is beautiful—though winter reigni,
And sighs the wind the leafless trees among;
While bleak and cold it howls along the plains,
And hushed in silence is each birdling's song.
Tis beautiful when from the darkened sky
Falls garnered treasures on the earth below,
And clothes it with the robes of purity—
The spotless vestments of untrodden snow.
'Tie beautiful when comes the mild, calm day,
And nature kindles in the sun's bright beams
When floods of sunshine sparkle on his way,
And the blue sky, like a vast mirror gleams.
'Tis passing beautiful when sunset glows,
Where golden vistas interlude the Beene:
When the fair east is blushing like the rose,
And day's faint azure slowly fades between
'Tis beautiful and glorious when night
Circle= her brow with a fair crown above,
<, Studded with stars unutterably bright,"
Where world on world in shining order move
Ay, beautiful and good, and moving still,
To the celestial music of the spheres,
Till time shall cease, and in thy cyoles will
Be swallowed up in the eternal years.
THE LITTLE GRAVE.
"It's only a little grave," they said,
Only just a child that's dead ;"
And so they carelessly turned away
P rem the mound the spade had made that day
A h ! they did not know how deep a shade
That little grave had made.
I know the coffin was narrow and small,
One yard would have served for ample pall ;
And ono man in his arms could have borne away
The rosewood and its freight of clay.
But I know that darling hopes were hid
Beneath that little coffin-lid.
I know that a mother stood that day
With folded hands by that form of clay;
know that burning tears were bid
'Ncath the drooping lash and aching lid,"
And I know her lip, and cheek, and brow,
Were almost as white as her baby's now.
I know that some things were hid away,
The crimson frock, and wrappings gay ;
The little sock, and the half-worn shoe,
The cap with plumes and tassels blue;
And an empty crib, with its covers spread,
As white as the face of the Tess dead.
, .
'Tis a little grave, but oh! have care!
For world-wide hopes are buried there ;
And ye, perhaps in coming years,
Nay see. like her, through blinding tears,
How much of light, how much of joy,
Is buried up with an only boy !
JUST IN TIME
BY GOETHE.
inert Constance, fickle maid, forsook me,
For life or joy I cea9ed to care;
So to the river I betook me,
To finish all my sorrows there.
Upon the bank somehow I found me,
In dumb despair, my bead a-spin,
And things went whirling round and round me,
I plunged—no, I was plunging in,
When hark ! what was the sudden cry for?
1 turned ray head to snatch a peep;
Oh, 'twos a voice to sigh and die for!
"Be careful, ! The river's deep!"
And lo ! a maid, so fresh, so pretty,
A thrill through every vein I felt.
Your name, your name. I pray you?" "Kitty.'
At charming Kitty's feet I knelt.
And then 1 told her all my troubles,
, `Her eyelids dropp'd, she held her breath ;
The hies I gave, her kiss redoubles,
And now—my thoughts don't run on death
Froiu the Dublin University Magasine
THE LAST VICTIM OF THE
SCOTTISH MAIDEN.
A Scottish maiden ! What a pleasant
vision do not these words call up. Who
that has ever kept his twelfth of August
on the northern moors could fail to be re
minded by them of some bright-eyed High
land lassie whom he has met at early dawn
of day crossing the mountain stream bare
foot, with her plaid thrown over her fair
hair;and her clear voice singing out an
old sweet ballad of her native land ; or
happily, if he had an entree to the homes
of the Scottish aristocracy, they will bring
before him some yet fairer picture of a
pure pale face, where eyes of blue, tender
as the morning sky, spoke of a noble and
truthful soul within ; and he has learnt to
love the race that once had such deadly
feuds with his Saxon ancestry, because of
the ' glamour' cast around him by the
golden-haired daughters of the land.
But very different is the real picture of
that Scottish maiden of whom we are about
to speak ; nor was she any' vision of the
fancy, but a terrible reality, whom all men
•knew and feared throughout broad Scot
land, two hundred years ago. A dark
and stern lady was she truly, and one
who brooked no rivals—for they whom she
had once embraced were never clasped to
mortal heart again ; and the lovers whom
she pillowed on her bosom, slept a sleep
that knew no waking. Few there were,
even of the bravest, who did not shudder
somewhat as they saw her keeping her un
changing watch through storm and sun
shine, beneath the shadow of old St. Giles,
the principal church of the northern capi
tal ; and oftentimes, when they saw how
the ground beneath her feet was stained
with blood, they muttered curses on the
loathly maiden,' that had done to death
so many a gallant Soot. Yet to some
this ghastly lady (which was no other than
the public guillotine) appeared to have at
tractions, such as a bright-eyed damsel
would have envied; for -it is recorded of
the noble Marquis of Argyle, the last who
had died in her embrace when our story
commences, that he ran eagerly up the
steps, and exclaimed as he laid his head
on the block : This is the sweetest maiden
I have ever kissed.' This saying of his
was often cited, and the world wondered
what hidden pang had so darkened life for
the gallant noble, whose homage was
courted by the fairest ladies, that he
should die with words of such bitter
meaning on his lips; but when, some few
years later, the maiden pressed with her
cold hand the throat of him who proved
to be her latest victim, the strange and
tragic circumstance of his death obliter
ated all recollections of the Marquis and
his dying words.
It happened, singularly enough, how
ever, that these two, the Lord of Argyle
and Kendra Hamilton, who succeeded him
on the block, had been in life the deadliest
enemies ; and by a peculiar chain of cir
cumstances, which we shall now proceed
to detail, the death of the one caused that
of the other.
It was about a month after the execution
of the Marquis that Hamilton, whose race,
so closely allied to the Kings of Sootland r
was even prouder than Argyle's, found'
himself compelled by political business,
to pass a night in the little town of Inver
ary, close to Which stood the magnificent
castle of the same name, which had been
the heritage of, his dead rival. .1
• Never, perhyips, did any one approach
tit ilikgo4orp, wAVA,.g i reatep
bodaitqmopog,'need earl 3f)filtic) sib noaw
.eeaoa Hada iaw odi
than lienelm lluailton.', He w . u yo unga
Man of tt,:peettliarly . fiery and uepetuens
.
-disposition of *hem it'was often said thit
his love and his - hatred were alike to' he
dreaded, ardent and passionate was he
in - either. He was the upend son-of . that
noble family-of Hamiltens '
between • whom
and the Argyles there bad been a deadly
fend for many generations past. Never,
however, had it burnt more fiercely than
in the time of which we write when - the
families had been represented by the Mar
quis who had just been compelled to lay
his lofty head at the maiden's feet, and
lienelm, with his wild and angry temper ;
for his' elder brother Rag an idiot, who
bore the family title, but lacked the wit
to defend their honor: when assailed.--
Deep had been the hate_ between Argyle
and Hamilton, which the new shed blood
of the former had not availed to quench ;
for, in addition to the old elan feud, there
was a private quarrel between them which
had fearfully embittered their traditionary
hatred. The Marquis of Argyle had been
betrothed almost from boyhood to his
cousin, the lady Ellen Graham ; and al
though their engagement had been a mat
ter of family arrangement, he loved her
well and truly ; not so the lady, however.
She had not been consulted when she was
bound, while yet a child E to the Marquis;
and with the true feminine spirit of con
tradiction, she resolved to choose for her
self, and-accepted the addresses of Benelm
Hamilton, who, by some unlucky chance,
had fallen in love with his rival's bride.
Their wedding was even now fixed to take
place in a few months, and this circum
stance, no doubt, explained the last words
of Argyle, which were destined to be the
means of one -day bringing his enemy - to
the arms of this same cruel maiden, whom
he himself had embraced with so much
fervor. And now the recollection of that
last bloody scene was, doubtless, heavy on
the heart of Hamilton as he rode down
the path which led to Inverary Castle and
the little village that lay at its foot. It was
a cold and gloomy winter night ; the dark
ness was intense, and the wild north wind
went shrieking and howling through the
pass as if it bore upon its wings the souls
of those who had expired in some great
agony, while the dark Sentch 'firs stood up
like spectres among the bleak' gray rooks.
Truly it was an evening on which the
stoutest heart might gladly seek a shelter,
and Hamilton was fain, though sorely
against his will, to rest for the night in the
domain of his enemies. This had been no
part of his intention when he set out on
his journey ; he had then been scum-
panied by two of his retainers, and be de
signed to have passed at a little distance
from Inverary early in the day, and to have
lodged for the night in a castle at some
distance, and belonging to a kinsman of
his own; but, unhappily, that morning one
of his guides had been thrown from his
horse and injured so•severely that his life
was despaired of.. Some hours were spent
in conveying the wounded man to a Test
ing place ; and Hamilton, whose mission
admitted of no delay, was obliged to leave
him in charge of his comrade and push on
his road, although the short December
day was already closing in when he started
again.
He rode on as rapidly as he could, but
the darkness soon became so impenetrable
that he repeatedly lost his way ; and when,
at last, the lights of Inverary gleamed
through the driving mist and rain, he felt
that it had become a matter of necessity
that he should rest there for the night, as
his jaded horse was stumbling at every
step from sheer fatigue.
In those turbulent times, when every
man's hand was against his fellow. there
would have been considerable risk in
am
ilton's venturing into Inverary, an
peeially this particular Hamilton, had he
been known ; but Kenelm trusted that the
darkness of the night would prevent his
being seen by any but the landlord of the
inn where he meant to sleep, to whom he
was personally unknown, and who would
not be likely to suspect that a solitary
horseman, unattended by a single retainer,
could bear so proud a name.
In this supposition he was proved to have
judged rightly. Kenelin rode unmolested
and unobserved through the little town,
the streets of which were, in fact, almost
deserted ; as the tempestuous weather had
driven all the inhabitants into their houses,
and he saw, to his great satisfaction, that
even the door of the inn was shut—a
sufficient proof that no guests were ex
pected at the Argyle Arms' that night.
The landlord, a Campbell, of course, and
as sturdy a Soot as one could wish to see,
himself came to the door to welcome the
stranger, and after sending his tired horse
to the stable, he ushered him into the huge
stone kitchen, briefly remarking that he
must be content with such cheer as the
family provisions could afford, for that he
little expected any visitors on a night so
uncanny.'
Hamilton assured him he was not dis
posed to be fastidious, and having thrown
off his dripping mantle and disencumbered
himself of his heavy riding-boots, he sat
down on an oaken settee opposite the huge
fireplace ; while Campbell went out to see
that the horse was attended to.
Left to himself, Kenelm began to look
around him, and he was much struck by
the scene which presented itself within the
room. The hugo fireplace, which was filled
up with -wood, sent- a bright and ruddy
glow over the - whole room, and lightened
up with a brilliant glare the figure of a
young woman, who sat at one corner of the
ample hearth, and who was the_only other
occupant of the apartment besides himself.
There was something very peculiar in the
appearance of this girl, which rivited
Hamilton's gaze in spite of himself. She
sat perfectly motionless, excepting for the
rapid movement of her fingers, which she
was employing, in knitting ; her plaid
thrown back from her head left her pale
face exposed to view, _which was marked
by a singularly frigid and yet by no means
vacant expression. This was caused in
part, no doubt, by the fixed stare of her
large blue eyes,
which never moved in
their sockets nor brightened with a sparkle
of life ; it was evident that she was stone
blind, while there lurked certain lines
round the thin compressed lips which'
seemed to indicate that a c he had alt the
acuteness, amounting almost to cunning,
which often characterizes persons thus
afflicted.
The ootintentwoe was far , from beautiful
—scarcely even pleasing --yet it impressed
Hamilton with a sense of power such as ,
we often feel, and yet cannot define, in
the presenbe of persons unknown to us.
She gave no signs of being oonseipns of
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his preeenee, but he felt she was aware
that he was in the room; and as he con
tinued to watch her sitting there in her
strong' impasEdveness, an undefinable .feel
ing of shrinking and dread took possession
of him, for which- he could not- account.
He had been thinking . of big rival's bloody
death, and it struck him that the implaca
ble maiden' who had taken Argyle's
young life; might have been fitly . repre
sented by this weird damsel, who- sat there
so like a blind inexorable fate, weaving a
a web of inevitable doom.
The gallant ludghts of those times, who
feared either death nor danger, were
greatly' prone to superstition ; and Hamil
ton, hot-blooded and impetuous as he.was,
pnved no exception -to the rule. He, wto,.
therefore, heartily glad when the inn
keeper returned and broke the ominous
silence which had so oppre.4sed him.
Here, Elspeth,' said CamPbell address
ing the figure, in the broad Scotch of thoie
days, which we will not attempt to repro
duce, g Here's a gentleman, cold and
hungry, come and see what you can find
for - his supper.' •
Hamilton listened anxiously for the
sound of her voice, feeling as if it would
be a relief to hear her speak, bat she
never opened her lips ; she rose np, how
ever, at once, and began to move about in
a strange mechanical manner, her blind
ness becoming more apparent as she guided
herself by 'the touch, while the glaring
glassy eye seemed . to him absolutely ghast2
ly, as she passed near him. She placed'
some oatmeal cakes and dried fish on the
table, along with a jug of whisky, and then
returned to her place by the fire, where
she sat immovable as before.
I Is that your daughter P said Hamilton
to the inn-keeper, as she invited him to:
draw near and eat.
My only child ; and blind from her
birth,' was the reply, uttered almost with
sternness, as if the subject were painful.
Elspeth's not like other folks,, and you
had better take no heed of , her.'
Hamilton took the hint and said no
more, while he applied himself to the Aide
fare set before him, with a keen-set appe
tite. Nor did he spare the whisky, which
was wonderfully cheering after his wet
ride • and when he had finished his repast,
he felt, as he said, like a new man alto
gether. Filling his glass again, he invited.
Campbell to join him, and the two began
to, converse together on the events of the
day. Kenelm sat with his bulk to the blind
girl, and, as she never moved or spoke, he
soon forgot her presence altogether, and had
well nigh forgotten the necessity of con
cealing his name and lineage from these
retainers of his foes, when he was startled
into a sudden remembrance of his position.
Alluding to some political event, he men
tioned that he had been at Holyrood the
day before.
Ye come from Edinboro', then,' said
the -inn-keeper, kindling with a sudden
fierceness, and, clenching his fist, he struck
it on the table with a violent blow, ex
claiming : c Curses on the bloody city!—
the city of murderers ! and may the fire
from heaven come down upon it and con
sume it !'
4 Amen,' said a deep, stern voice, almost
at Kenelm's ear, and he startled involun
tarily as he saw that it had come from the
-blind woman's lips. Something, too, in
the sudden passion of Campbell had stir
red the angry blood within himself, a,pd
whilst an involuntary instiot told him what
train of thought had thus fired the retainer
of Argyle, he had much ado to hide his
own antagonistic feelings.
You speak sharply, Master Campbell,'
he said, at last. The capital of Scotland
is beholden to you in truth.
Ay,' said the Highlander, his brow
growing red with suppressed rage ; but
why should I curse the senseless stones,
though they were stained with the blood of
the noble Lord Argyle. Rather let me
curse his enemies, who drove him to death
—his bitter foes, who had made his life so
dark to him that he was fain to break some.
petty law that he might die. Curses, then,
I say, upon the traitor Hamilton, who stole
his bride.'
Amen,' the deep voice answered, but
this time enelm heard it not ; his fiery
passions were aroused beyond control ; he
forgot all but that he had been called a
traitor, and starting to his feet, he ad
vanced on the Campbell, saying :
Man, know you to whom you are speak
ing ?'
I neither know nor care,' said the inn
keeper rising, also. But I say yet more :
not only curses upon him, the traitor, but
upon her his lady light-o'-love, who would
have brought a stain upon Argyle's time
honored house had she become his bride !'
This was too much. another moment
Hamilton's dirk was gleaming in his hand.
Villain, unsay that word,' he thundered
out ; she is as pure as driven snow.'
His lady light-o'-love,' repeated
Campbell, with a mooking smile, at the
same time preparing to defend himself ;
but the furious Hamilton had closed with
him ere the words had well passed his lips
—one fierce struggle followed, then the
Highlander fell heavily to the ground as
his assailant plunged the dagger into his
breast up to the very hilt, exclaiming :
Die, then, with the foul lie in your throat.'
One deep groan—one strong convulsion of
the stalwart limbs, and Campbell was a
corpse.
- Hamilton stood transfixed, while
.his
boiling blood gradually subsided, and his
passion cooled in the presence of death:—
The whole thing had taken place so sud
denly, that he could hardly believe the
living, breathing man he had been talking
to so amicably but a few moments before,
was lying there murdered by his own hand.
Bat suddenly as he gazed, he felt his flesh
creep with a strange horror, as he saw the
soulless eyes of the blind maiden upturned ,
towards him as she knelt on the ground by
her dead father, towards whom she had
crept"with a step so stealthy that ho had
not ,heard her. Hamilton drew back, shud
dering, from the fixed stare, so dreadful
seemed the expression of hate on her white,
ghastly face : but as he receded she crept
towards him on her knees and laid her
hand, which she had steeped in her father's
blood, on his, till it bore the same red stain,
and -said in a low stifled voice : You have
miifilered him, and you shall die for it.—
None saw the murder,
for my blind eyes
saw it not ; but think not to escape ; the
vengeance of Heaven will track you oat
one .day.' Then flinging np her arms to
Heaven, she exclaimed ••'••• 4 My - father, 0
my. father P and fell upon the corpse with
a shriek so wild and piercing, that Ham
ilton felt as if it must have rung upon the
9( every pew% in tho town, and
reaohed even through the massive 'walls o;
Inverary Castle.
That cry recalled him to himself ; he
must escape right.speedily, or another mo
ment would see him surrounded by those
whom it must rouse 3. the instinct of: self
preservation at once took the place of every
other feeling, and with one bound he dart
ed•io the outer door, opened it, rushed to
the stable, mounted the horse without sad
dle or bridle, and the clattering of his
horse's feet as he galloped' away, was all
that the inhabitants heard of him as they
rushed to, thi inn, whence the blind girl's
'shrieks were still heard echoing.
liamilton never slackeried his pace till
he had laid ten miles between him and In
verary..ln those days the course of justice
was as stern as it was.summary ; and he
felt well assured that the present Marquis
of Argyle, the younger brother of his rival,
would never rest till he had found out the
murderer of his retainer, especially when
he heard from Elspeth the oireumstanoes
of his death ; and if he succeeded in his
search, the services of the 4 maiden' would
right speedily be called into , action for
Kenelm himself.
When at last he ventured, under cover
of a fir wood, to stop_hie furious course, he
began to consider the best means of avoid
ing discovery, with no small anxiety as to
the issue. His best hope was, in fact, that
none had been present during the murder
but the blind girl, who could, not identify
him ; and that not a single inhabitant of
Inverary had seen him, except her dead
father himself. He was, not very far from
the house of his kinsman, where he origi
nally intended to have passed the night.
The time he had spent so fatally in the inn
at Inverary had not extended beyond an
hour, and the rapid pace et which he had
traversed the last ten piles had fully
brought him to the time, when he would,
according to his ordinary style of .•travel
ling, have reached his destination. He
therefore resolved to proceed thither at
once, as if he were only arriving from the
village where he had left his servants, and
to trust that no one would ever suspect
him of having made his unfortunate detour
into the domain of his enemy. This plan
succeeded perfectly ; he was expected by
his cousin ; and the next morning his ser
vant joined him ; having left his comrade
doing well, so that no doubt was for a
moment entertained that he had ever de
viated from the road he had been expected
to take, and he had once more started for
Edinburg before the news of the murder
had spread beyond Inverary. Neverthe
less, when the fact did become known, it
created a sensation, chiefly owing to the
peculiar airoumatancee of the case—a mur
der committed by an unknown assassin in
presence of one sole witness and that one
deprived of the power of seeing the mur
derer, was even in those days of bloodshed,
a striking event, and the mysterious escape
of the criminal seemed altogether unac
countable.
The Marquis of Argyle, who was at his
castle on the fatal night, left no stone un
turned in his efforts to discover the per
petrator of the deed, being stimulated to
unusual activity in the search, by the sus
picion he entertained that the assassin was
in some way connected with the family of
his foes, the Hamiltons. This he gathered
from the conversation between the murder
er and his victim ; which Elspeth detailed
word for word, but afforded no clue what
ever to the actual individual, and Kenelm
himself was never suspected..
After a few weeks of useless investiga
tion the search was given up ; but the
details of the murder were carefully record
ed by the court of justice, and the Lord
of Argyle declared that if ever in his life
time the assassin was discovered, he would
bring him to the scaffold, be the interval
ever so long. Elspeth found a home in
the Marquis' household, after the good
old fashion of those times, which recognized
a claim on the part of all the helpless and
afflicted of the elan to find a refuge with
the family of their chief, and genelm had,
to all appearance, escaped with perfect
impunity.
Yet he, gay and reckless as he seemed,
was secretly haunted by one dark forebod
ing, which never left him night 'or day.
Campbell was not the first man he had
slain in the course of his stormy career ;
but he was the first he had murdered; the
first whose life he had taken otherwise
than in honorable warfare; and already
the unfailing retribution of actual crime
had commenced in the deep secret of his
heart. Wherever he went, alone or in
crowds, from the hour when the low solemn
warning of the blind girl came to him as
he stood with his feet dabbling in the blood
of her father, he heard that voice ringing
in his ear, and telling him that vengeance
would surely find him yet, and the sleep
less justice of the Invisible track him out
when least he looked for it. Not even the
joy -bells, on his wedding morning, could
drown that ominous whisper in his soul,
nor the sweet tones of the gentle Lady
Ellen, while she murmured her bridal
vows. Still was it sounding there, when
the feeble cry of his first-born spoke of
new ties to make his life sweet ; and let&
still, he heard it through the firing of the
salutes that greeted him as ambassador on
a foreign shore. Years passed on, most
of which were spent at one of the conti
nental courts ; and when,
at last, he re
turned, with his wife and family, to Edin
burgh, the murder of the inn-keeper had
not been thought of by any one for a long
time past.
One day, about a month after his arrival
in the Scottish capital, Hamilton was walk
ing along the most fashionable part of the
old town, where the houses of the nobility
were chiefly to be found, when hit; ,atten—
tion was attraoted by a fray which was go
ing on in the streets between two young
men. Such a sight was, by no means un
common in those days ; but the fury of the
lads was so great that it was evident some
serious mischief would ensue if they were
not separated. Hamilton, whose Tank in
the city entitled him to interfere, at once
rushed in between them, calling to them
in a loud voice to desist immediately from
further quarreling, and with a firm grasp of
his strong hands on' the shoulder of each,
he sent them reeling to the opposite sides
of the street.
The affair had collected a considerable
crowd, and Hamilton's rank and position
were well known amongst them', so that
they.all made way for him as he turned to
resume his walk.' One moment he stood
there in all his proud prosperity, receiving
the homage of the people as his right, and
scarce bending his lofty head in acknowl
edgment of, it-the 'sunshine of 'a - bright
glummer sky streaming down upotv his
•
noble a nd commanding , form seemed but to
typify the brilliancy of his worldlyipros-
Teets. One moment he stood thus, and
the neit f the vengeance that had so lonk
tracked his steps unseen laid hold upon.
him with a deadly grasp, and the sun of
Hamilton's career sunk down to set in
blood. A shriek so thrilling and intense
that it seemed to pierce , his very heart,
suddenly rang - through the air, and all.
eyes, as well as his own, were turned to
the spot from 'whence it_Appeared to have
' a the re •
ausen—art a sight presented itself
which caused the statelyllamilton to grow
pale and tremble like a child. On • the.
highest step of the stone stair which led to
the door of the Marquis of Argyle's town
residence, 'a tall 'haggard-looking , weriaii:
was standing—her arms were ontstretehed
towards Hamilton, and ler eyes, whose
glassy vaoattey 3 "showed - ttuit they were
sightless, seemed to glsrempon' him with
a horrible triumph as, she shrieked out - in
tones that were heard far and near': '
Seize him! seize that man whoever he .
may ,be—he is the murderer of my father,
I know him by his voice. Many .of
Argyle's retainers were amongst the crowd.
and the Marquis himself had been drawn
to the window by the' noise of the quarrel.
All knew Elspeth Campbell, the blind
woman, and remembered her father's mys
terious murder—all could testify to the
atioateness of her sense °Cheering; and to
the repeated expression of her longing de
sire that she might hear the voice of the
assassin so long sought for in vain, for she
remembered the full' rich tones that bad
called on her fathezto unsay his words one
instant ore he fell corpse, and she felt
certain she could know them again if she
could but once hear the murderer speak`;
and now, after the lapse of all these years,
the well-known voice had struck her ear,
and again and again she screamed out ;
Seize him ! I know he is my father's mur-.
derer.' In- another moment Argyle was
confrontini Hamilton, too thankful to have
such a charge established against his an—
cient enemy. The people crowded round,
and if they had been disposed to doubt the
blind woman's recognition, Hamilton's
own awe-struck conscience sat a seal upon
its truth, for he attempted no defence but
kept his appalled look still fixed upon the
blind woman's ghastly face ; he let his
hands fall at his side and exclaimed :
It is the hand of God, and I am lost.
He spoke truly, he was lost indeed.—
Argyle speedily brought him to justice.—
The blind woman's evidence was unques—
tionable, nor. did he attempt to controvert
it ; it was as if the very blood of the mur
dered man had risen up to cry for venge
ance ; and all men deemed it a lightens
sentence which doomed him to the scaffold.
Not many days after that bright morn—
i.kg when he stood, as it seemed, on the
pinnacle of fortime with odmiring crowds
around him, he found himself again tha
centre of a large assemblage, the object of
interest to all. The deadly maiden had
been prepared to receive another victim,
and at her feet the noble Lady Ellen Ham
ilton sat weeping bitterest tears, as she
saw the lover of her youth, the husband of
her riper years, led up to die.
They let him pause one instant to take
leave of her. 'My Ellen do not weep,' he
said, this is but the work of God's un—
sleeping justice. I ever knew that I must
die for that rash deed. The blind woman's
voice has haunted me through all these
years, as it seems mine has haunted her'.
She told me vengeance would overtake me,
and it is come—merciful it is that it meets
me on the scaffold and not in the fires of
hell. He kissed her pale lips and passed
on.
Still nearer to the fatal maiden stood the
blind woman, who had murdered him as
surely as he killed her father. He laid
his hand on hers : Elspeth, you are aven
ged,' he said : lam about to die. Now,
let your hatred pass away, and piay for
me.'
g I she answered, = and tears fell
from her sightless eyes as he passed on to
suffer.
In another instant the maiden had done
her work, and the last of her victims lay
slaughtered in her terrible embrace.
The instrument of death thus strangely
named was never used again. It was su—
perseded by the more modern fashion of
executing criminals, and it may now be
seen in the Museum of the Society of An
tiquaries in Edinburgh, with the dark
stains yet corroding on the fatal knife,
which were left there by the blood of him
who in very deed and truth was brought
to justice by the signal retribution we
have recorded.
Waterloo the d a y after the Bat-
On the surface of two square miles, it
was ascertained that fifty thousand men and
horses were lying ! The luxurious crop of
ripe grain which had covered the field of
battle was reduced to litter, and beaten into
the earth, and the surface trodden down by
the cavalry and furrowed deeply by the can
non wheels, strewed with many a relic of
the fight. Helmets and cuirasses shatter
ed fire-arms and broken swords ; all the va
riety of military ornaments, lancer caps
and Highland bonnets; uniforms of every
color, plumes and pennon; musical instru
ments, the apparatus of artillery, drums,
bugles ? but, good God ! why dwell on the
harrowing picture of a fonghten field 1--
each and every ruinous display here bore
testimony to the misery of such a battle.
* * Could the melwholy appearance
of this scene of death be brightened, it
it would be by witnessing the researches
of the living,' amid its desolation, for the
objects of their love. Mothers and wives
and children for days were occupied in
that mournful duty ; and the confusion of
the • corptes—friend and foe intermingled
as they were—often rendered the attempt
at recognizing individuals 'difficult, and
sometimes impossible. * • ir In many
places the , dead lay four deep upon each
other, marking the spot some British square
had occupied, exposed for hours to the
murderous fire of a French battery. Out
side, lancer and ouirrassier. were scattered
thickly on the
,earth. Madly attempting
to force the serried-bayonets of the Brit
ish, they bad fallen in bootless essay by
the musketry of the - : inner files. Further
on you trace the spot were the cavalry of
France and England had enoountered ;
ohassenr and hussar were intermingled.;
and the heavy Norman horses of thelmper,
ial• Guard were interspersed with the gay.
chargers. which had carried Albion'a chiv—
alry. Here the Highlander and tirailleur,
lay side by side, together"; and the heavy
dragoon, with green' Erin's badge upon his
halo; Via 'grappling in deith . ;ifith the ,
.9...,,....
_ - 1 , .. L
Polish-lancer''On the summit of :the
I ridge, the ground "was cumbered With the
-dead;
and trodden: fetleek deep in the mud
add torttiby the frequent rush of rival esti.
Alrb the thiek-Strewn =corpses of the Im
perial Guard pointed- stut•the spot where
NaP9/€19.414a bow oratillaikted •,-,and, the
Advance end rePulee - of-tihegeerd Ivafutrace
able
_toe mass-of fallen Frenchmen: In
the hollow beloF r, tb2- „ , , : last struggle , ' : of
Franceluta. been,veielyniade for there the
Guaril' i attileed:ti meet the British
and afford to tfieir disiirgabized companies
time to rally.
Loire iii a Railroad Cox.
" We hatie r- heard of love in a cottage;
love by the seashore, and love niifier diffi
tildes, but neierintil last Saturdai night,
did withesa love in a 'city ' passenger;
'railway - oar. Havi ng bueiness that re-;
'quired our 'attention - -in the northwestern
part-of the city until a late honr; we, at
o'clock, found our way into one of the
Madison.,avenue oars, (No. 40.) At the
corner of Franklin and Eutaw streets, a
young lady and gentleman entered the car
and occupied ti.beat in the corner. Being.
a great admirer .of females we stole a
glance at the young:lady and were mom-.
pensed by beholding a very lovely young
Miss with bleak hair and eyes—the latter
appearing as if Cupid, the God of love,
had determined to dispute the sway of man.
Her companion was one of those specimens
known as the genus home. He was attired
in a bran new suit of Harrison street
clothes, and appeared as.gay as a peacock.
The first:thing he did after seating him-'
self was to encircle the neck of his 00M
panicht with Ida left arm, while his right
hand grasped her soft and delicate left.
Not being used to such scenes, (we being a
bachelor), we kept neither eye
_open and
noted down proceedings in our 100.
Clara,' began the passionate lover,
ain't this nice, I awow it's better than
riding in an oldmmgon.
Yes, Josh,' feebly articulated Clara.
But don't hug me so, the folks are look
ing at 1113.'
Well, let 'em look !' retorted Josh.—
' Guess they would like to be in my place'
(We, for one did most heartily envy his
situation.)
Y Yes, but Josh, you know that they
will laugh at us,' meekly rejoined his com
panion.
6 Let them laugh,' exclaimed the irate
lover. t Don't I love you, and don't you
love me, and ain't we going to get married
to-morrow
Josh at that moment appeared as if a
brilliant idea had struck him, for he sud
denly bent over and kissed his fair com
panion square in her mouth.
There,' said he exultingly. Ain't
that nice ? You don't allers get them sort,'
then turning to the occupants of the oar,
he exclaimed : Strangers, me and this
young woman have come down from the
country to get married. She is a nice gal,
and I'm going to do the right thing by
her.'
During the delivery of this concise
speech, Clara's face was suffused with
blushes, noticing which, her ardent lover
remarked, Don't get so all fired red about
the gills, Clara. Yon know we are going
to be married, and what's the use to fluster
up 7'
This last speech settled the business of
the passengers. They gave one shout, and
relieved their bodies of a charge of laugh
ter, that had almost strangled them.
At the corner of Calvert and Baltimore
streets we vacated the oar, leaving the
happy couple as contented as if the future
denoted nothing but sunrise and pleasure,
and such we trust it may prove.
PATRIOTIC SLITUBER AND SENSATION.-
Day before yesterday, as the story goes,
a devoted member of the church,
and a most ardent Union man, attended
"divine worship," according to his invaria
ble custom ; but the weather being warm
and oppressive, the worthy citizen fell
asleep in his pew during the early part of
the service.
He slumbered quite pleasantly, and just
before the sermon began the choir and con
gregation sang a patriotic hymn, that filled
the sleeper's mind with a love of country
that Gould not be resisted. The text was,
"And what think ye of Christ V' repeated
emphatically several times by the minister.
This appeal to the slumberer was too
direct, and his thoughts becoming confused
in his half -wakeful, half-dreaming state, fie
forgot where he was and the exact nature
of the question, and responded so loudly
and distinctly that he could be heard
through half of the church.
"Think 2 I think and know he is all
right ; he's for the Union all the time !"
The effect of this unexpected and alto
gether secular utterance upon the pions
brothers and sisters, may be better fancied
than related. A few looked horrified, but
more could scarcely refrain from laughter.
Yet who shall say the somnolent patriot
was not correct in his semi-unconscious de
claration 7
117 - Colonel Billy . Wilson's Zouaves
are having all sorts of stories told about
them. A correspondent of the -sprightly
Milwaukee Sentinel tells the following:
Recently, a Methodist clergyman went
down to Staten Island to exhort them.
Billy Wilson drew up his men and called
attention!' The parson then gave them
a very edifying and appropriate discourse
to whieh, in obedience, to the Colonel's
commands, they listened attentively.—
When the parson had finished, Billy gave
his boys' a
: short talk, somewhat in this
wise:
Boys, I want you' to remember what
the minister has told you. It is all for
your good; take hie advice and follow it;
for there is no knowing but that in less
than six months every d--d one of you
will be in h—l !'
Here a voice from the ranks oalled out
—' Three cheers for h-1 !' and they were
given with a will. The parson, astonished
and angry, asked what it meant.
Oh!'.says Billy, c the boys don't
know much about Scripture. They think
h-1 is somewhere . ~ b et t ween Montgomery
and New Orleans, t .rt. they are d.—d:
anxious to get dowii**it neighborhcod:'.
kr A. NTS , D -PAD
Thus nearlydia;oaered. invention Pneawtee the Gotha,
from being • &flak render* Namur 'late from 'boon:
venlenee, and tee great comfort to Mother!; egf.hinineci
Sir To be had at ALL LADIES' STORM, and sent free
by poet, direct-from-the- iwrentor,-Ibus. ARMYIELD, No.
512 Twelfth. greet, ii r itattiogtfo:4.,,D,43., runitting: the
&taint. •-
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the undersigned, under the firm of REED, HENDERSON
& CO., will commence the Bankng Business In its usual
J
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They will buy and sell Stocks and Real. Estate on.com
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ANDREW JACKSON'S REDIEDY
Changing the subject, Dr.. Edgar. asked him what he
would have done with. Calhoun and other.nulliders if they
.
had kept on.
"Hung them, sir, as high as Haman; was the Instan
taneous reply, "They ehonld have been a terror to trial.
tors to all time, and posterity would have pronounced ft
the best act of my life. • .
As he raid - these words, he half rose in his bed, and all
the old glowedin his old eyes again.
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