She Pi . .1%1 etn; • : Ptraraz ?MOLY Tgusiu*T ;.13 cOo,exiL-sikaimistr.4o;* Co H. G Same wit. A. X4ETON. AIXItIED EIAifDEESON. ''Bniialti, ' able In 'OPPICIg,43O 'couNze oa Ommtm &KURE. . - •8 AU - -lstters un business should be ad cirell?led /0 I.looPze, 6ixnsasoa dt MARY'S HOLLOW. A ihndy dell beside the road, tiegueeterd, cool, and grassy; Al - den/Ant brook anear It How'd, Its current pure and glassy. And Mary's home was on the hill, Up In the farm house yonder; But. In the dell so cool and still It was her wont to wander. Her father's sheep the tender maid Her steps had taught to follow, And frisk-rut lambs around her play'd Down in the grassy hollow. And there she sat on summer days, Her nimble fingers flitting Through many au intertwisting maze In curious arta of knitting. , And there she sang some simple song Or hymn learn'd from her mother: The hours to her were never long— Each moment chased the other. A native quietude of mien So graciously became her, The maidens on the village-green With honor loved to name her. The quiet meekness of her brow Awoke no special wonder. Though like a brook beneath the snow A stream of thought ran under. Anil oftentimes a sudden smile Her countenance stole over, As =Mg sunbeams dance the while O'er Ileitis of blooming clover. The very angel of her hearth, Her mother's hand efirPmed her; She changed her father's eare to mirth, And silently he bless'd her. On Sunday, In the village choir Jler pure. sweet yoke outpeallng. - Struck up In listening hearts the flre Or deep and holy reelidg. When sorrow's. t;unlen roll upon Some soul too weak. to hear It, lie bent her willing shoulder down And kindly sought to share lt. The groat wide world was all asth• And heaved In toppling blllown But all was calm as heaven to her Beneath her drooping AN life ran on with anent pace, Her meek and ploun aplrit Grow mech.r for the holy place The pure In liourt Inherit. And wiwn the leaves were turning red And autumn winds were sweeping, ftWeet Mary with the early dead Beneath the grass was sleeping. The neighbors, Will, whopass that way Where Mary's sheep did follow, Remember her; and to this day They rail it :11nry's Hollow. CELESTIAL - FROLICS. The RIM Wilt put hi/4 night cap on, And coveed o'er head, When countle,,,dars appear'd amid The curtains round Ida bed. The moon arose, moseMmt herly To take a quiet peep How all the stars behaved while ho Her sovereign was asleep. She saw them wink their silvery eyes As if in roguish play; Thought silent all, to her t hey seent'd As If they'd much to say. Ho, lest their frolles should disturb The sleeping king of light, hilt, rose so high that her mild eye Could keep them all in sight. The stars, abashed, stole softly bark And Inok'd demure mid prim; Until the moon began to nod, Her eyes becoming dtm. Then Sleepily it thought her home, Thal 'M liolltoWilvro—Wllo knOWS where But aS She W. 0111., the playful stare Commene6d their twinkling, glare. And when the moon was fairly gone, The imps with slivery eyes Had so much fun it woke the sun, And he began to rise. He rose to glory!—from his oyes Sprang forth a new-born day; Before whose brightness all tho stars Han hastily away. Marty. THROUGH THE BLOCKADE " Phillips, something roust have hap pened to the Governor. I've beep watching the clock ever since eleven. It is almost half-past. He has never been five minutes after time in all the twenty-seven years that I have been a clerk here." So said the elder cashier, and I could Tot but admit that the occurrence was unprecedented, though my own expe rience in the firm was short in compar ison with that of the first speaker. Mr. 'Trent, second partner in the old estab lished banking house of Follet, Trent & Co., was punctuality itself. He chiefly managed the business, since we saw little of nominal principal, the And partner, whose working days were past. And during the five years for which I had been in the employ of the Arm, I had never known Mr. Trent to be absent from his post. Any devia tion from routine on the part of the methodical man of business is apt to startle his subordinates, and It is not surprising that while Mr. Griffith and myself were shaking heads over the Icon-appearance of our chief, the juniors should beventuring on such conjectures, ranging from apoplexy to insolvency. But t hese guesses were abruptly checked by the sudden arrival of Mr. , Trent him self. He came in with a hasty step, and I thought, as lie passed by with a nod and a civil word of greeting to the bank parlor, he looked 111 and harassed. Al most immediately he sent for MP. "Mr. Phillips, ,, said the banker, speaking in a nervous, fidgety manner, quite unlike his usual calm decision of speech and bearing, "I have something to ask of you--a service—a favor, in short, for lain sensible that this Is not at all in the way of regular business duty—in a word, would you go to Amer ica to oblige me?" " Certainly, sir," I replied at (wee. " I have been there once before, if you remember, to attend the winding up of that Wall street firm, three years since. If it Is your desire that—" But here I was interrupted. !f4 want much more than that, Frank Phillips," broke in my employer, speak ing with unwonted excitement, " more than I have a right to ask of yob, and more than I would ask of any of your companions, except, perhaps, Griffith, who is too Old, and we have been good friends out of business hours, you and I, and—and I knew your father, Frank, and knew you before you left Charter house, so tthink I may rely-on you in this sad business." And then Mr. Trent proceeded to ex plain. The service he required of me was strictly of a private character, and wholly unconnected with money mat ters. The banker,' as I was vaguely aware, had an orphan niece to whom he was greatly attached, and who had for ,some years been married. This lady resided abroad, somewhere in. Italy, to the best of my knowedge, and her hus band was an American gentloMan from one of the Southern States, and the owner of sufficient property to enable him to live in Europe with his English wife. But I - as now tp hear, for the the lirtit, time, that, on the outbreak of hostilities Mr. Bolton bad found it im possible to withstand the call of patriot ism, that he had hastened across the Atlantic to take service in the Confed erate army, and that he had quieted his Young wife's apprehensions by the promise of a speedy return. Many Southerners did the same, obeying the summons to arms with a certainty that the whole dispute would be settled in one short campaign. Among the dis lippointed.was Captain Bolton. Long months went by, and still the war went on,' nor did any safe and convenient opportunity for his wife to rejoin him present itself. Blockaded by sea, and guarded by land, the , passage of the Confederate frontier was full of risks, espockdly for ladlea and children. Na innil' al:Pt-lett' and hope deferred had J. AL 04X mm I affected Mrs. Bolton's health and• spir its. Sh e had come back from.ltaly to England, to be nearer, as she said, to her husband when he should summon her to share his fortunes. And at last the summons had come, but it was no joyful one. • Captain Bolton had been severely wounded in a skirmish with some of thineral Gilmore's troops, then besieg ing Charleston, and he had expressed a strong desire to see his wife and babes for what might but too probably .be the last time. And the favor which Mr. Trent had to ask me was, that I should undertake the task of escorting his niece and her children on the hazardous voy age to South Carolina. The hazards of which I have spoken of course belonged to the last portion of -the route, for the outward run from England to the Brit ish possession of New Providence was safe and easy. But between the Baha ma Islands and the Carolina coast • lay the blockading squadron, and I knew that no trifling dangers and hardships must be risked by those whom love of gain or any higher motive should urge to elude the vigilance of the Federals. Be that as it might, I undertook the commission, and the next: packet car ried Mrs. Bolton and her two children, under my care, to Nassau, where the real difficulties of the pilgrimage began. To procure a passage to Charleston, Wilmington, or some other less known port of '4lte beleagured Confederacy, indeA, easy enough. The bay was full of vessls attracted to that once lonely roadstead by the gainful contra- , band commerce then at its height.— There at anchor, side by side, lay the bluff-bowed brig that had brought out a cargo of war material front England, and the swift. rakish schooner destined to carry' the transhipped freight to a Southern harbor. All the fishing boats, dories and canoes seemed to have been enlisted ill tho serviw of plying between the deep laden vessels and the shore, and the vessels were all too small to ae commodate the towering piles of cloth ing and medicine, saddles, sabres, cav alry boots, kegs of powder, and Birmi ng hant rifles, that lay heaped upon wharf and jetty. Streets, landing-places, beach and bay, were all alive with the bustle and stir of a gainful and perilous traffic. Under such circumstances as these, to obtain a passage to the Amer lean mainland might have appeare the simplest proceeding conceivable. Such, however, was'far from bei the case. I found, by listening to Hying reports that circulated about the town, and which invariably referred to the one absorbing loopic of interest, that the blockade was more serious than we In England had believed it to be. Many of the sly, low, black-hulled steamers, many of the tall-masted schooners and brigantines, that lay awaiting an oppor tunity to slip off unnoticed, were des tined to capture. This was a mere matter of profit and loss, as an old mer chant, whose English was made pecu liar by the drawling Bermudian accent, explained to me on the second day of our stay at Nassau. " you see, sir, one cargo in three pays, and one cargo in four saves us from be ing out of pocket—yes, mister. We count on some loss, we do, but if a clip per has the good luck to get twice in with notions, and twice out with cot ton, why the Yankees are welcome to 0 her afterwards, hull, spars, and running gear." "And the crew ?" I enquired. Rut my communicative friend treated this part of the business Lightly enough. The seamen had high pay, and took their share in the risk of being shot, di c owned, or blown up in consideration of extra wages. The captain and mate were allowed stowage ter so many cubic feet of European goods one way, and so many cotton bales the other, and often had a per-centage on the amount real ized by a fortunate venture. Success, therefore, meant wealth for the owners and the officers, and at least a hand ful of dollars for the foremast men, and in ease of capture there was no danger of anything worse than a tedious and comfortless detention for some months in Fortress Alon rOe or elsewhere. When, however, I spoke of the probable results of an unsuccessful attempt to the pas , sengers, supposing the latter to be per sons connected with the South by de scent or adoption, the talkative -Bermu dian grew serious. And, indeed, I found that the board ing hotels of the island were (Tenned with the thmilies of Southerners, long ing for a secure opportunity of rejoin ing the husbands and fathers, who, far away in Virginia, Tennessee, or Caro lina, were fighting or toiling in the cause of their new-born Republic, but afraid to make the perilous plunge. If many vessels came back, many were taken or destroyed, and most of them that came victoriously in with a freight of costly cotton could show shot holes in their sails, and the marks where Fed eral cannon balls had "hulled" them during the fruitless chase. Mrs. Bolton, lay charge, was a timid, delicate little woman, quite unfit to lighten my burden of responsibility by taking any portion of it on herself. She loved her husband dearly, anti to reach the couch where he lay wounded, and perhaps dying, she was willing to en dure hardships and confront dangers that at any other time would have seemed insurmountable to her. But as for any aid or advice in such a matter as running the blockade, I might as well have applied for counsel to her two baby girls, little Lucy and Fanny, as to their mother, my employer's niece. Thrown thus wholly upon my own resources, I spent much time in the preliminary in quiries, and at last comforted myself that I had come to a sensible anti prac tical decision. The vessel in which we took our passages was a swift sailing English schooner, the Saucy Jane, of and from Liverpool. A beautiful craft she was, with her tapering masts and fine lines, lying like a duck on the heaving surges of the Nassau roadstead. But her chief attraction In my eyes was the high rep utation for seamanship and prudence which her commander had acquired.— With his sailing vessel, Captain Harri son had made six successful trips, four to Charlestbn and two to 'Wilmington, in the very teeth of the blockading squadron. In each case he had safely delivered a valuable cargo to the Con federate consignees, and had made the run home with a freight of cotton for the Lancashire market, and though chased, had got off scot free, while fast steamers were daily being sunk or driven. ashore. In these bold anti dex terous evasions of the Federal fleet the merchant captain had amassed a con siderable' sum of money, and this was to be the Sauey Jane's last visit to, a Southern pert, at least with her present cemniander ; "It's profitable work, very,"'eithithe daring young sailor, as he told me of his intention over a glass of wine in his little cabin, when our powinges had been definitely engaged and paid for on board the schooner; but it's too much like gambling to suit my taste, and I can't get out of my head that saying about the piteher that goes often to the well. All I've made in six double trips—a tidy lump of dollarsis aboard the craft now, in the shape of quinine, and negro cloth, and shoes, and fire-arms, ready to yield four hundred pq cent. profit if I can swap it for cotton; and as much more If I can land the cotton at Liverpool. And if all goes well, I can cut the concern, and sail to China in a three-master of my own r and Mary Anne and I —" But here Captain Harrison came to a stop, probably remembering that lie had told enough of his private affairs and prospects to a stranger. I took a fancy to this high spirited young skipper, who was a year or two my junior, but a first rate seaman, bold as a lion, and by no means as incautiously communicative in his dealings with all the world as he had shown himself to me. "You see," he frankly remarked, "when a chap's knocked about the world, from port to port, as I have done since I .. ivas bound apprentice aboard the Hood bark, in the Rio trade, lie gets to know something of physiognomy.— And I saw at olive that you were what you represented yourself to be, even he fore you showed um the letters of credit drawn and signed by your people, that my owners bank with too, as luck would have it. But, mind you, the Island's chockfull of spies. They're about us all day long, on one pretence or another, like wasps round a comb of honey. And there isn't so much as a word buzzed ashore that doesn't find its way, by fair means or foul, to that beauty there." Captain Harrison pointed to a dim speck hovering far out to sea, beyond the mouth of the bay, about which 'curled a thin wreath of dusky vapor.— This was the United States steam-sloop Pocahontas, whose peculiar duty it was to watch Nassau and the ships anchored there. This vessel was perpetually a source of annoyance, not only to the merchants of the place, but also to the authorities. She was fond of lying, with steam up, ports open, and a spring on her cable, near some ship that was notoriously on the eve of departure for the Southern ports. And even now when, in compliance with the Gover nor's peremptory commands, enforced by the ptesence of her Majesty's ship Fury, she had reluctantly retired to the prescribed limits of one marine league, she remained there as long as her coal would serve her, in hopes of cutting off some would-be blockade-runner in the outset of her career. On shore there were other dangers. Lean, wiry men, with keen features and restless eyes, were constantly to be met with at the bars of the hotels and taverns, from tile handsomest holsteries down to the low-browed cabins where coarse Mexican corn brandy was sold, and these, though loud and blatant as to their Southern sympathies, were nevertheless in constant communica tion with the American Consul. More specious spies, either real Europeans or' affecting the garb and speech of natives of the old continent, lurked in the boarding-houses, on the wharves, about the merchants' offices, and beguiling the unwary into conversation on the engrossing topic of the contraband trade. The sailors belonging to the dif ferent ships about to sail were so often tampered with, that many captains found it necessary to refuse all shore leave, lest the hour of departure should be signalled to the Federal cruiser lying in the offing, like a vulture on the wing. That she was signalled every night by some concerted system of lights dis 7 played from housetops on shore, was as suredly no secret to any one in Nassau, The instant we were aboard, and had answered to our names as the steward read them off from his list by the shad ed light of a ship lantern, anchor was weighed, quickly but cautiously. There was no shrilly piereeing fife to eneour- age the men—no heart chant of Yo, heave yo ! as the crew went stamping round after the spinning capstan bars. But if the work was done silently, it was expeditiously performed, and as if by magic the broad sails dropped from their festoons, and the gallant schooner, spreading her white wings, glided off seaward. A sigh of satisfac tion burst front many hearts as the yes, : set began to move front her anchorage. Mr. Trent's niece was the only one on board whose hopes and affections cen tered in the land toward which our Lwow now pointed. The breeze was steady, and the Saucy Jane, Alightly heeling over in response to its welcome breath, flew through the water at a rate that proved how well she deserved her reputation as a fast sailing craft. Still the utmost caution was preservea. Not, a light was shown. Captain Harrison conned Ilse schooner himself, nor did his vigilance appear to relax, until, more than an hour after we had left our. moorings, he laid his hand fandlarly my shoulder, saying, "all right now, Mr. Philips. Do you see that faint blotch of crimson red and yellow, the smoky light three miles off; no, more to leeward? That is the San Janeinto. The Yankees won't make much of us this time, or my name's not Jack Har rison." And, indeed, a More fortunate voyage, to all appearances, no vessel had ever made. Day after day the weather was beautiful, the sea smooth, and the winds though light, still favorable. We saw no Federal cruisers. Twice indeed we fell in with armed vessels, but these our skipper's experienced eye recognized as British ships of war, even before they drew near enough for the red, white and blue of the Union Jack to be visible by means of our best glasses. And one sul try afternoon the cry of " Land, ho !" was raised, and the Southern exiles on hoard set up a cry of Joy, and clapped their hands exultingly, for they knew that the low blue line, like a cloud bank, could be no other than the coast of South Carolina. Somewhat to the disappointment of the lady passengers, however, the cap tain declined to sail into Charleston harbor, as he might easily have done, before sunset on that evening. He knew too well that to make such an attempt would simply,t!e to run in the lion's mouth. We coNd see no Federal crui ser at that momerit,-but there could be no doubt that many war vessels of every calibre and class, from the ferry-boa hastily armed with a brace of nine-incl Parrot guns to the swift steam frigate, lay lurking among the - numerous is lands that skirt the coast so thickly. It would have been folly to have run the gauntlet - through. the. Yankee squadron in broad dayllght,'whereas by night - the chnn*pr . eltiding*stile eyes was an excellent one. _Harrison knew - the en-" trance to, the harbor well ;. Memory, for shoals and sand banks, for channels and shallowa, Was - remarkable, and one well qualified to actss a pilot in his na tive waters. The schooner was, therefore, moored, stem and stern, close under the shelter of a convenient islet, a long low strip of sand, crested by palmettoes and over grown with brushwood, and which in tervened between us and the blockad ing squadron. .The sails were furled, the colors hauled down, and the Saucy Jane lay concealed, only her bare masts rising gaunt and indistinct over the tut ed trees of the islet. It was confident ly believed that the best telescopes on board the Federal men-of-war would fail to distinguish any trace of 'our whereabouts while, towards midnight, we could resume our voyage with a fair prospect of success. The vessel lay in deep water, so close to the shore that a couple of planks were. thrust out as a bridge to connect the gangway with the sandbank, and most of us gladly availed ourselves of the oppOrtunity for a ram ble pn dry land. Mrs. Bolton, whose spirits had improved as we approached the country she so longed to reach, was one of the group of ladies who visited the islet, where the children were de lighted to run and play on the firm white beach, covered with bright shells, and whence terrapins and other• small turtles floundered hastily at the ap proach of a human foot, and splashed in the limpid blue water beneath. With this pSrly was the padre, M. I Mclio ehois. The worthy ecclesiastic had be come a general favorite on board,thanks to his quaint good nature and amusing eccentricities. People could not help laughing at him, but they liked him, and the children, who teased hint a good deal at first, had ended by voting him grand master of their• revels. A curious sight it was, that of a clus ter of little boys and g'rls, tuiconsehnlA of the peril that might accrue front the j neighborhood of the Federal foes, gath ered around the tall old cure, and with eagergesturesappealing to him to devise some new game for them to play at. And it was none the less curious to watch the cure himself, as intent on the amuse ment of the moment apparently, as his little friends, taking snuff noisily, and volubly chatting in his strange dialect of three languages woven into one. The ladies on board the Saucy Jane, who had at first been somewhat shocked at the uncouthness of the poor priest, now voted him a dear good creature, and a subscription had been already proposed for the purpose of sending him and his Indian servant lad home to St. Gaspard. This lad, }liaise, whom the children had dubbed Man Friday, was a taciturn boy, like all his race, but evidently attached to the priest with an almost canine fidelity. He was seldom far from his master, but on this occasion he was not as usual, ready to hold the large red cot ton umbrella over the head of M. Duch oehois, a ceremony which he often gravely performed on deck. Meanwhile, several of the untie pas sengers, with Captain Harrison, sat smoking their segars in a shady nook of the islet, screened from the sun's rays by the long drooping leaves of the feath ery palmettoes overhead, and almost walled in by thickets of the oleander, the nopal, and the prickly pear, gor geous with large red blossoms. Every body seemed happy and hopeful. Sud denly the captain sprang to his feet, with a fierce oath that died away into a shout of anger. " Hilloa! on board there. Who did that ?" One of the mates, longing half asleep over the taffrail, looked up with sur prise at the sound '6f his commander's voice. " Look, alive there! Who loosed that sail?" cried the captain. And, as we all glanced upwards, we saw, to our astonishment, t hat the main topsail of the schooner was loose, and heavily flapping to and fro in the fresh ening breeze, like the broad wings of some wounded seabird. It needed but a glimpse of Harrison's look of wrathful dismay, as he sprang on board and gave his orders—orders that instantly sent three or four seamen serambling hur ridly up the rigging to reduce the sail— to assure us that mischief was afoot. In a very short time the fluttering canvass was closely reefed, but to discover the offender who had cast the sail loose was less easy. In vain the captain sternly interrogated such of the crew as had been on deck. All declared that they knew nothing of the matter. One sail- -or, who had been dozing under the bul warks aft, did, indeed say that he had opened his eyes a few minutes before, and had, while In a state between sleep ing and waking, teen some one jump out of the standing rigging, and slip down the fore hatchway. And it was his belief that this person was no other than the padre's boy, Indian !liaise But Blake was found fast asleep in his lair below, and he did not seem even to understand what was said to him when he was asked in French,_ whether he had been aloft lately. He shook his head in dissent, however, and indeed no one had ever seen the Indian ascend the rigging or believed him capable of getting high enough to loosen the sail, even if there had been any comprehen sible reason for such an act on his part. The most natural conjecture was that the sail had been carelessly secured, and the Captain's only hope was that the fell-tale canvass had not attracted the eyes of any sharp-sighted 100k -out man on board of a Federal ship. And as hour passed after hour, and no column of smoke rose black against the darken ing violet sky, giving token of the un welcome approach of an enemy, we breathed more freely again, and all looked forward to breakfasting in Charleston itself. The sun went down sinking in a bank of grey cloud, and there were signs of a probable change of weather, but still the sea was calm. ; We were all aboard again, supper was over, and the lights were extinguished, and the passengers were all in their berths somewhat earlier than usual.— The (leek was left to the watch, and as the schooner's bekLtold off the hours we knew that the t i me for sailing would soon arrive. I was lying, half dressed, on the tiny bed in my little cabin, when I heard a voice say, in a husky, smoth- I ered tone—" Not yet, Japh ! I see one of the-Britishers leaning over the side, forward. Keep in the shade." And then followed a gentle splashing sound; and a faint tapping against the planking, as if some boat or canoe were being guided along the schooner's side iy the joint force of a paddling oar and a human band that grasped the wood work of the vessePs'side sand drew the boat forward. Of this I should have thought little—nothing was more likely than that a -boat should have been lowered for some purpose . connected with our getting clear' f the sandbanks end sunken rocki that were ninerons! in our hutnediate proximitybut the' =MINI . . •.: 7- ' ii7.'! .. ff :17 ' ..!! W : "t T?r!P, Fr :4117 lIH./ H !liif •• il " . , r)folH4P32l Ht# ti . -, b•t,“ I 1 ' ~ ~J ~-/ lief .. - ;,f1.1 fl.: ...; ', , • • , •., .' . , . Li . r i . . .. • . .'.-11::, :.:2:1 ' ...•• , ,1 .. ..: ..: ir „ ~• .. T._ . ... „.. ......, ...,. .i.:„.;.,,. ....i..T • ~., .., ..... .. ... _.....,.. • ... . ~. ....._„ . . words were suspicious, and the voice wonderfully like that of the good old priest, M. DuchoehOls. For a moment I hesitated as to whbther rshould seek the captain or one of the mates to com municate what I had heard, but the more I thought of the matter the less certain was I that I had caught the exact meaning of the speaker. I had been drowsy and only half awake, and the very notion that the cure had been the owner of the voice was a manifest absurdity that made me consider the whole affair unworthy a second thought. I listened but could hear nothing, and soon sank into a real slumber./ I was awakened by the quick tramp of feet overhead, the word of command, the rattling down of coils of rope upon the deck, the quick wash of the surging water along the schooner's sides. ,Evi dently sail had been made on the Saucy Jane, and we were heading for Charles ton harbor. I got up, threw on my up per garments, and wenton deck, where I found two or three of the male pas sengers. They were talking together near the stern with excited gestures, but In cautious tones. „As I drew near, I caught the words "the boat," and at once asked if anything had gone wrong: " Yes, Mr. Phillips, the dingey's missing," said one of the Southerners, a tall Georgian, who bore the title of Major.; "it was the only boat towing astern, as you may have noticed, all the others being on hoard. Just betin•e l ing it was found to have disappeared, though in what manner " "Captain Harrison suspects," Inter rupted another; but he was imerrupte‘l in his turn by the captain, who came quickly up, and said in a voice that shook with suppressed anger: " There's treachery afoot, gentlemen. The plugs have been removed from the bottom of every boat, and not an oar but has been sawn through just alum , the bl a de. S;on!e rascally traitor roust "Sail, ha!" sting out a sailor from the I I mast head. "A large ship on the weather bow." " sail, ho! a Ateamer to leeward !" ealled out the look-out man in the bows. " The captain started, sprang into the rigging, and took a hasty survey of the probable enemy. As he did so the red flash of a cannon shot - lit the darkness of the night, and the bellowing report followed sullenly over the waters. " Down helm, you ! put her about! smartly now, lads!" shouted the cap tain; but another flash succeeded, and down came the schooner's mainboon, mainsail and all, thundering upon the deck, knocking down and bruising. several of the crew, while a third shot crashed into the (leek, and made the white splinters fly. Escape was impos sible in our crippled condition. We hacked the topsails, and in ten minutes more a large dark steamer had ranged alongside. We were immediately board ed by a powerful force of armed seamen and marines, and declared a lawfultvrize to the U. S. steam-sloop Susquehanna. By the light of the battle lanterns we were all paraded on deck as prisoners, when what was our amazement at recog nizing in the lieutenant who commanded the boarders no less a personage than the cure of St. Gaspard, the Rev. M. Duchoehois. Yes, there could be no mistake about it. The shovel-hat and shabby soutane and horn spectacles had been replaced by navy blue cloth, a gold-laced cap, and a belt, in which a revolver balanced the cutlass that hung on the left side, but the crafty black eyes were those of our late protege, though tlic expression was wholly changed. "Yes, gentlemen ; ladies, your hunt- We servant," said the spy, with a sneer of triumphant malice; "old Papa Duchochois, very much at your service in his new capacity of lieutenant in Uncle `ant's navy, you rebel green horns." And, indeed, the villain—for the part le had played in practicing on our emu- passion was to enable hint the better to betray us—was Lieut. Aminabid Hitch, of the Susquehanna, while grinning at his principal's side, with the copper eolored pigment but half washed from his cunning face, was the ei-devant Indian boy, Illai.se, alias Japhet Butteh, a Yankee corporal of marines. We heard afterwards that the lieutenant, who was famous for his power of per sonating an assumed character, had visited Nassau for the express purpose of securing the prize money of so valu able a capture as the Saucy Jane to his own war -vessel. It was his accomplice, the pretended Indian had, who had stealthily ascended the rht,iging and loosened the sail to give notice to the lookout men of the sloop of the where abouts of the blockade runner. Alter this, the two worthies had stolen the dingey, first disabling the other boats from pursuit, and had pulled out to st , a, where, as they had expected, they had seen a preconcerted signal from their Own ship, and had beet t t, picked up by her before we approached the channel through which the fah,:te cure was aware of the skipper's intention to pass. Had we even eluded the Susquehanna, we must have been infallibly sunk or taken by the Portland, which was awaiting us on the other tack. I do not wish to dwell on the scenes of misery • that ensued on board the schooner when husbands were torn from their wives, and fathers separated from their children, to be consigned to the dreary captivity of Forts Warren and Lafayette. Nor was it pleasant to see the despair of my charge, pool Mrs. Bolton, whose hopes of again seeing her husband in life , were, to all appearance, dashed to the ground when on the eve of being realized; while to poor Captain Harrison, the affair was simply ruin. The sight of his pale, angry face is be fore me still, as he was being led away to be placed in irons, like the rest of the crew and officers. However, the caprice or mercy of the Federal authorities pro cured the release of Mrs. Bolton, as well as of several of the other ladies, after a short detention ; and, though I was not myself permitted to accompany my charge within the Confederate lines, I was glad to hear that she and her children had arrived safely at Charles ton, and still more glad to hear that Captain Bolton's recovery was con sidered probable. And thus ended what was my first, and will most assuredly be my laSt, experience of blockade run ning. A GOOD .M ' s Wisr.r.—l freely con fess to you that I would wish, when I ani laid down in the grave, tO havesome one in` his nian hood stand over me and say, "There lies one who was n real friend tome, anti privately warned me of the dangers of the young; no one knew hut he aided me in . . the time of need; I owe what I. am to hinri" or else to have some poor; widow, with choking ItWittnee, :telling her Attie children, There le your friend and thtne." WIDOW SINPSONIVEMON& • In the Parish ofltatligate, in Linlitlb• gowshirei Scotland, lived a widow wo , man by the name of Simpson: In her family resided, in thecapacity of help; one Nancy. Campbell, a. girl of about nineteen, 'who was suspected of having taken a fancy to Robin; the widow's son, who reciprocated the sen timent. Nothing, however, would soften the widow's heart as .regarded a match, till at last the following event having occurred, and Caused her togive way :—About the hay-malting time a distant and comparatively rich relation was expected to call and take tea that evening on his way to Linlithgow. It was not often that the superior.l relative honored her house with a visit, and Mrs. Simpson, determined that nothing should be wanting to his enter tainment, brought out the treasured spoons early in the forenoon, with many injunctions to Nancy touching the care she should take in brightening them up. While this operation was being conducted In the kitchen, in the midst of those uncertain days which vary the Northern June, a sudden darkening of the sky announced the approach of heavy rain. The hay was dry and ready for housing. Robin and two farm men were busy gathering It in ; but the great drop.• began to fall while a considerable portion yet remained in the field, anti, with the Instinct of crop preservation, forth rushed the widow, followed by Nancy, leaving the spoons half scoured on the kitchen table. In her rapid exit, the girl had forgotten to latch the door. The weasel and the kite were the only depredators known about the mooreland farm ; .but while they were ull occupied In the hay-field, who should come that way but (ieordy Wilson. Well the kitchen door was open, and teordy stepped in. lie banged the settle with his staff; he coughed, hc• hemmed, he saluted the cat, hit•lt sat purring on the window seat, mid at length discovered that there was nobthly within. Neither meal //01' penny was to he expected that day ; the rain was growing heavier, some of the hay must be wet, and Mrs. Simpson would return in bad humor.' But two objects powerfully arrested Geortly's at tention ; one was the broth-pot boiling on the lire, and the other the silver spoons scattered on the table. Bending over the former, Geordy took a consid- era ble sniff gave the ingredients a stir with a potstick, and muttered "very thin." His proceeding with the latter must remain unmentiened ; hut, half an hour later, when he was safely enseonsed in a farm-house half a mile oil; and the family were driven within doors by the increasing storm, they found everything as it had been left— the broth on the fire, the cat ou the .window-seat, the whiting and flannel on the table ; but not a spoon was there. " Whele's the spoons?" cried Mrs. Simpson to the entire family, who stood by the fire drying their wet garments. No one could tell. Nancy bad left them on the table when she ran to the hay. No one livid been in the house; they were certain that nothing was disturb ed. The drawer was pulled out, and the empty stocking exhibited. Every shelf, every corner was searched, but to no purpose ; the spoons had disappeared, and the state of the farm-house may be imagined. The widow ran through it like one distracted, question ing,scolding and searching. Robin, Nancy, and the farm-men were despatched in dif ferent directions, as soon as the rain abated, to advertise the neighbors, un der the supposition that some strolling beggar or gipsey might have carried off the treasure, and would attempt to dis pose of it in the parish. Nobody thought of Geordy Wilson ; he had not been espied from the hay-field. Lost the spoons were, beyond a doubt, and the widow bade fair to lose her senses.— The rich, relation came at the appointed time, and be had such a tea that he vowed never again to trust himself in the house of his entertainer. But the search went on ; rabbits' holes were looked into tor the missing Alver, and active boys were bribed to turn out magpies' nests. NVells and Darns in the neighborhood were explored. The criers of the three nearest par ishes were employed to proclaim the loss; It was regularly advertised at kirk-gate and market-place; and Mrs. Simpson began to talk of getting a search-warrant., fur the beggar's meal pouch. Batbgate was alarmed through out its borders concerning, the spoons; but when almost a month wore away and nothing could be heard of them, the widow's suspicions turned front beg gars, burns and magpies to light upon poor Nancy. She had been scouring the spoons, and left the house last; sil could not leave the tables without hands. it was true that Nancy had borne an unquestionable character; but such spoons were not to be found every day, and Mrs. Simpson was determined to have them back in her stocking. After sundry hints of increasing breadth to Robin, who could not help thinking his mother was losing her judgment, she one day plumped the charge, to the utter astonishment and dismay of the poor girl, whose anxiety in the search had been inferior only to her own. Though poor and an orphan, Nancy had some holiest pride ; she im mediately turned out the contents of her kilt (box), unstrung her pocket in Mrs. Simpson's presence, and ran, with tears in her eyes, to tell the minister. As was then common to the country parishes of Scotland, difficulties and dis putes which might have employed the writers and puzzled the magistrates, were referred to his arbitration, and thus lawsuits and scandal prevented.— The minister had heartl 2 —as who in Bathiate had not?—of Mrs. Simpson'S loss. Like the rest of the parish, he thought it rather strange ; but Nancy Campbell was one of the most serious and exemplary girls of his congrega tion—he could not believe that the charge preferred against her was true ; yet the peculiarities of the ease dernand;, ed investigation: With some difficulty the minister perSuaded Naneyto return to her mistress, bearing a meSsago, to the . effect that he and two of his elifersiwlio happened to reside in the neighborhood, would come over the following evening, hear what could be said on both sides,, and, if possible, clear up the mystery. The widow , was well pleased at the minister and his elders conArig to in quire after the spoons. She put on her best mutch (that is to say, cap), prepared her best speeches, and enlisted some of the most serious and reliable of her neighbors to assist in the investigation. .Early in the evening of theAdlowtfig „ daywhen the stammer sun was W4*: ling low and the field worli'Was• over they were all assembled in' the; eleatw scoured kitchen, elders; and neighbors, 'soberly liSteniAg . ito 'gin:Teen's testAipoOy V: t090414* her ait" silver; Nancy, Robin and the farm-men sitting bytilltheir turneanee, when the door, which .had*been. left 'half open to admit the hreeie, for the - evening was sultry,:was.quietly pushed aside, and in slid Geordy Wilsoni-with his usual ac rompanlments.of staff and mallet. - " Ther's na room for ye here, Geordy" said the widow " we're on weighty business." "Wee moin,l" said .Geonly, turning -to depart, "its of: nae consequence. only came to speak- about your spoons." "Hae yon lean] o' them ?" cried Mrs. Simpson, bouncing from her seat. "1 couldna misshein' blessed the precious gift o' hearin', and what's bet ter, I saw them," said Geordy. "Saw them, Geordy? 'Wi/rare they? and here's a whole. shi Ilin' for ye; and Mrs. Simpson's purse, or rather an old glove used for that - purpose, «•as in stantly productid. Weel," said Geordy, " I slipped in ae day, and seein' the sillet unguarded, I. thought some ill-guided body might covet it, and laid it by, I may say among the leaves o' that Bible, thinkiti' you would be sure to see the , ppoons when you went by read." Before Ceordy had finished his reve lation, Nancy Campbell had brought down the proudly displayed, but never openeditible, and intersperSed between its leaves lay the dozen of long-sought spoons. The minister of Bathgate could scarce lY command his gravity while 'admon ishing Geordy on the trouble and vex ation his trick had caused. The assem bled neighbors laughed outright when the draft man, pocketing the widow's shilling, Which he had clutched in the early:part of his discourse, assured them all that he kenned Mrt3.. Simpson read her Bible so often that the spoons would be certain to turn up. Cleordy got. many a basin of broth and many a luncheon of bread anti cheese on account of that transaction, with which he amused all the firesides of the parish. Mrs. Sim son was struck dumb even from seo Ing. The discovery put an end to her ostentatious profession, and it may he hoped turned her attention wore to practice. Has the story no moral for you, dea reader ?—Leisure Hours. (From the N. Y. 1-1..:rah1.1 The Yankee Tyranny—The Central and Western States Ylere "delvers of Wood" to New England. Previous to the present civil war the agitators of New England were eternal ly denouncing the alleged ascendancy of the seven cotton States in shaping and controlling the policy of our national government. "Everything is shaped to benefit the cotton States," was the cry of the New England fanatics. "The whole government is in the hands of the South, and every measure of legisla tion is held subordinate to Southern Interests." That there was a small basis of fact for these assertioik. is not to be denied, and that basis had this extent, no more:—The seven cotton States dc- manded that the constitution of the United States should he upheld, and that no legislation hostile to their prop erty interests in the institution of slavery should be undertaken by Con gress. They also further demanded, in one single instance—the Fugitive Slave la - w—that Congress should make some legislative provision toenforeeone of the rights guarranteed to them by the con- stitution against the treasonable and unconstitutional opposition thereto of these same New England fanatics. Tli is was about all the "peculiar legislation" the South deinanded, and, in return lir receiving It, they—a whollyagricultural and producing people—acquiesced with out murmur in all the legislation demanded by the complex commercil, agricultural and manufacturing interests of the remainder of the IThion. Well, the iralim was atlast broken up, the South being no longer able to hear peacefully the constant irritation and dangers resulting from the aggressive character of New England's an ti-slavery fanaticism. The fourteen Senators from the seven cotton States not only lost their ascendancy in our national affairs, but stepped out of the I•nion altogether. And now what do we find to be the re- suit? Aust this :—That the twelve Senators of the six New England States have adopted the role which they so vehemently denounced In what they were pleased to call the " Black Oult Squadron," and that our whole na t tonal policy is to-day subservient to the In terests and dictates, the bigotries and narrow, - puritanical prejudices, of the twelve Senators who, forming the "Blaelt Republican Squadron," are sent from the New England States to Washington. Ourpresentactual masters are more sordid, grasping and cruel than were the alleged Southern managers of the past. They legislate with a view exclusively to New England interests, and their object would seem to be to throw all the burdens of taxation and revenue upon the other portions of the loyal States, while compelling us all, by high protective and prohibitory impor tation duties, to purchase New England manufactures, however inferior to those we could obtain much cheaper abroad, at, just such prices as may suit the pock ets—we will not say consciences, for they appear to have none—of New England's manufacturing aristocracy. Th 6 main burdens of our internal revenue were thrown by the legislation of last winter upon two articles—whiskey and tobacco—in which the New England States have but the slightest interest, ' while our custom house duties were advanced to figures making regular importation all but certainly unprofit aide, and of necessity driving the trade, heretofore centred at New York, to be mainly transacted thereafter by active parties of smugglers along the Canadian border. SO much is this the ease that the Secretary of the Treasury is now .devising means to check this very smug gling,„ which has reached, even while yet, in its, infancy, enormous proportions „Secretary Fessenden apparently for getting Sir Robert Peel's maxim, as the result of_ English experience, that " it is utterly, . imposssble . to cheek any smuggling which, if successful; pay a_ profit of over thirty per cent." In our case; however, the, profits of running certain ; articles into the. United States from Canada will be many hundred per cent; nor can this be stopped in any manner anless we build along the Cana-. (Ilan. frontier such a wall , as divides the binese from the, old Tartar empire. Even this would hardly suffice; for, with such a profit ; as New England, greed-has:lefttmen to the smugglers, it woiilif be it'reintinetatiVe speculation. to. start 'inind - red large balloons in this In • the 1 44 8 4 , 0 1 11:0 the Sengte, let it, notlefargatt,tia, •• the!chainuan of every. , ec6ltanitti3c , wut a Ne« Fat glol4oijilieo6iiilt#liitlioeyiti.4 a Neva*4444l46;'l4;,ctif ------ 11A1r13 - 01P - Attoit A /317 er L tractions o ti year. • d MEITATu. mut. Plitß7T, uax snare itrctaurraniv/ • tkentiunq rot th e Ara% and 4 - cents for each subsequent laser- Pe n* Mighbrutis, arui b Y the One ooltunii e 1 yeas; Halt cuituruioyear. CO " Third coinnin..l, Quarter oilman,- .... 40 Eusuilms Ceitus, often lines;or Jess, one year ... . . Business Carols. ave //bes.ar less, 9 116 • Year IXG AZ AND arum btoricmi— Executors' noticas..--- .... Administrators' notices,..... .... - Assignees' notices,- ZOO Auditors` notices 1:50" Other "Notices," ten lines, or less, thXOP ...r44.4 f 1.50 „ ground out was eitlier:to benefit Yew England interests; or to supply food to New England bigotries and bates. The trade of New York city: was to• better stroycd by Imposing duties which would force foreighinerchandise pp to Canada, and thence, bysmuzgliiig, into the United States ; wh4ll , :lew l :England was to avoid the heavy burdenOf 'taxation, in great Measure, by • iiraNfig the iterevi est excise duties of our internal kevenue upon two artieleti in which het:interests are insignificant. Her six States, with an aggregate population of three million one, hundred and thirty-five thousand three 'immired and one, according to the census of 1860, are represented by twelve Senators, holding the chairman ships of all the most important commit tees of the Senate of the Union ;. while New York, with a population of three million eight hundred and eighty-seven thousand live hundred and forty4wo, according to. the 'sapte 'census, has but two monitors in the, Senate; and these two, upon every opeasion in which they attempted Io kftqld the interests of New York and the Central States, were roughly overridden and voted down by the "Black ItypohhealL Squadron” from Sew.Eoghtiol. Thus it is that history repeats itself. Tin: Puritans lied to t iseount country under pretence 'or a desire to secure religious liberty ; but no sooner had they obtain ed it for themselves titan they com menced burning Quakers, noneonfor mists, witches and :ill others whose tenets ware not identical with their own, or whosc,practices they could Mit understand. They protested against the ascendancy .of the " 131:te1t Gulf Squadron I?in our national atlitirs, oveu ,provoking a civil war rather than ,suh mit to it ; but, no,sooner art they given a chance of power than we tind the "Black jzt.ptililican Squadron." in full sweep, with the black flag hoisted againstthe rights, intercstsandopinions id' every section ot . the Union. Our whole govertnnenlto-day is one of Yan kee ideas 410(1 the most miserable sort of Yankee philanthropic notions. The seeptre thrown down by the extreme South as it rushed out of the Union is now wielded more fiercely And remorse lessly by the extreme Northeastern section of our people. When quill the day come it may be asked, in which' the great Central and Western States will assert their natural supretnaey,.and crush out the extrem ists, or corner-men of the continent, as we may call them—one faction of these residing in the southeast, and the other in the northeast corner of the Atlantic seaboard? When will the day conic that we of the Centre and West sin - ill be " Aniericans," and not " Yankees," in the eyes of Europe, and indeed of all the world ? are called " Yankees" now — even by our Sciuthern foes, who know better, geographically—merely because it is seen that we are the helots of a Yankee oligarchy, patiently submitting to Yankee rule, and lighting out a war which had its origin in Yankee intoler-' aIIM and bigotry. With seven hun dred and fifty thousand more population than the six New England States put together, we have but two representa tives in the Senate of the United StateS, while New England lias twelve; and, not content with foisting on us the greater part of the burdens of the war, while at the same time ruining the trade and marine of our greatest city—the greatest city on the continent—New England has now capped the climax of her oppression by so arranging it that, while but twelve and a half per cent. of her population has been enrolled for the coming draft, no less than twenty-six per cent. of our population in the first ten districts of New York have been en rolled for the same purpOse ! Does this really mean that the lives of two and a fraction citizens of New York are but worth the life of - one Massachusetts man '2 Ch• will the Bay State assert that one of her lanky sons is able to whip two and something over of our New York athletes? The question is a.per tinent one; for, as things are now pro gressing, no one can tell how soon these questions may be brought to a. very practical test. The only remedy for these evils is for the Central and North ern States to make a strong alliance, olrensive and defensive, during the progress of the Chicago Convention, and to place upon a platform, opposed alike to Southeastern and Northeastern extremists, some conservative soldier or statesman who shall be the vigorous exponent of a national, anti-corner A COURT SCENE. There is an attorney practicing in our courts, who has attained a grele notoriety., among numerous other things, for btillying witnesses on the oppth.iing sides of cases when he is con cerned. As it would not he polite to give his full name right out iit the crowd, we will merely call him " Wayke" for short. There was a.horse ease in the Justices' Court, one day, in which Wayke hap petted to be engaged. A slow and easy witness had been called to the stand by the plaintiff, who, in a plain, straight forward manner, made the other side of the case look rather blue. The plain tiff's attorney:being through, Wayke commenced a regular cross examina tion; which wits cut short in this man ner. " Well, what, do you know about a horse—you a horse doctor ?" said the barbarian, in his peculiar con temptuous and overt war' ng manner. " No,„_l don't pretend to be a horse doctor, but I know a good deal of the nature of the beast." " That means to say that you know a horse front a jackass, when you see them," said Waykc in the same style— looking knowingly at the court, and glancing triumphantly around the crowd of spectators, with a telegraphic expressioU, which said, " Now I've got hint on the hip." The Intended victim, gazing intently at his legal tormentor, drawled ont: 0, ye-as—just so—rd. never lac you for a horse !" The Suprerne,Court of the united States could not haVe preserved its gravity through the scene that followed. The lick back produced a regular stam pede, and the bushel or suspender hut tons that stuck to the ceiling above, bronght a shower of plaster upon the heads below. gVeryhody was convinced 'that whatever the' attorney might be, the.WitneSs was a f‘ liar One day a little girl about five year old heard a preacher, of a certain denomination praying 'Most lustily till the'reof rang with the Strength of his supplications: Turning-hi her mother anil'hickaing the" Maternal ear to a speaking distance,' 'She`'whispered : " Mother, 'den't You - thinli that if he neareiV.oo:7litwouldn't have Aci,ppe,y, a 9 , *.ifuetotion *PrO, a, yOlnynk4i,,elf?ca'46an fkprayer,'
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