Life is But a Day. A bLlithesome maid, at early morn, Comes tripping Hghtly o'er the lea | Of all God's creatures ever born | The brightest, gladdest heart has sho ; | And owning by her speech the sway Of rapt emotion, she doth say | “How glad a thing is life” | | iGenersl. the General-in-Chief desires Qercome at Inst by midday heat And well nigh unremitting toil, A man of care lay down to sleep And snatch repose from lif He rose and with a sigh he said, 's turmol! As Care reigued fu Oblivion's stead “How sad a thing is life !" An aged pair at eve drew near, With faltering steps, a lone churchyard Death long to thew Lins lost its fear, | Although, in youth, to die seemed Lard | All hope in time has passod away, Yet from the heart each one doth say “How grand a thing is life!” The — A, — | i | | i | GEN. SCOTT'S PROPHECY. A Remarkable Prediction Before | the Civil War Opened | i | One of the most valuable contribu of the M Ag a- History is that (General Stone, in which he relates, with | {1 zine of ns to the July number American by | [] circumstance and detail, General Scott's | f Bull Run. He | i. Avil, prophecy of the battle o writes : | [] s in the Capital or | The “On to Richmond" party had its powerful supporter the contry, in the Senate and even in While it was | | | the President's Cabinet, the re disy with well understood there that i i to the dent and Mr. Seward were act coolly and in conformity ideas of the responsible military chi to m mevements, Mr. Chase in reference litary avas also understood that a stron Lieutenant General Scott, the Gene. ral-in Chief of the Army, while desiring (a) prompt means { procuring L3H was earnestly of ganized, ] t could be « posed to a forward movement until ] such time as the national forces should ke Notwith to the | be go reasonably organized as tom guocess at the least probable standing my appointment oneley of a new regime teenth United States Infantry still retrained by General S 3 Inspector General for the (‘olumbia troops, and was ly under his ord At abou 1] of the last days of the 31st of May quarters of the aged Gener May (1 I entere it = 3 O«( think it wa d as usual the make my report for the day and to A tered the (General was seated at th which had Secretary of the ceive my orders for the night, of his dinner-table ) the [reasury, Mr. Chase cleared), while occupied a seat op the table, ‘hief, courieous posite to him at the foot of Habitually the my entrance in the evening, General-in- on ly invited me to be seated ; but now he | me seemed to have engaged in earnest versatson, and as | advanced he said tok (QUICKLY “Colonel Stone, how many men do | {he you wan! to march on Richmond by Manasass way 2 . " . | 30 I perceived that the (ieneral desired . . most distinguished of our Cc gen. | | an instant reply, and said, promptly “Forty thousand, General ;"" and then added : “With quickly 15,000 serve,’ “Well, sir. suppose | give you tha force, how soon could you move ? | ‘That, General, would depend upon the De partments, Quartermaster’'s and I could move as soon as they could give me rations and trans portation.’ had “Well, sir, suppose you them w {ast would you advance “Having all prepared, General, the be the Ksppahannock in three days mced guard of my force might and “Rappahannock! Rappahannock ! what is that “The Rappshannock River, General |" there ? that “Ob, there is a river there is Rappabannock River, eh ? [ wish everybody knew that! then ?" “Should the bridge be burned “Eh! there isa bridge over that river and that bridge might be burned! | wish every body knew that, too. Well sir, if the bridges are burned 7?” “Why, then, Generrl, I would proba bly lose two or three days in forcing the passage of the fords. Then- And so 1 continued to describe the advance, The General interrupted me with “Why, Colonel Stone, you are taking forty or fifty days to get to Richmond!’ “General, I think that I would be foriunate enough to arrive there in that | time in the face of an active enemy, fully acquainted with the country.” The old General said, as if thinking aloud : “I wish I could see General Tot. ten. I wish | could see the Chief of Engineers, I immediately left headquarters to find General Totten, the Chief of Engi- neers of the Army. It wasla rainy night and to spare the aged General a damp walk I took a carriage and drove to bis house. Admitted immediately, I found the venerable General Totten and his | & seat | myself, and, apologizing for disturbing to see you | | | | on s» military | consideration, | vou l { make a certain Subsistence | ! Most uni Well, si od bs de what | service twenty five | month's men, gracious wife seated before the fire place in which a small fire had been kindled Both wel- comed me kindly, and invited me to | to keep away ths dampness, between them ; but I excused them on so damp an evening, said : headquarters, and | that at his have bronght a carriage in order you may respond to his desire with as little inconvenience as possible,” In one minute the careful wife of his vouth had thrown a cloke over the old General's shoulders, and a few ninutes later ushered him into the presence of | the General-in-Chief. There had been arrivals since my re: | cent departure. Mr. Seward, Secretary | Mr. General of State ; Cameron, Secretary of | War, (1eneral of the Thomns, Adjutant | All! entered, and a | and Army, were there, rose as (ieneral Totten chair was placed for him at the table, | between General Scott and Mr, Secre- tary Chase, Mr, Cameron seated him self between General Scott and General | Totten, while Mr. Seward stretched his | length upon a lounge near by. After a few words of compliment had ott said : “General Totten, | regret to have dis ~ passed, (General turbed vou on so disagreeable an even ing. but I greatly desired your opinion which under | matter How many troops would have i nsider it necessary (o hence on hmor movement the was of Man LESAN General Totten, as he sat there the table his hands clasped or ANd men | [hen came a » in 1 $LIODS an Answers ten 8 ALEWETr Were | had already given He turn entiemen, here pins n juestsons LO a your go unanimity of tain sel ol g\ the ingest Colonel perbaps, in the army, in whom one might expect t« i a vouthful enthusiasm and a fine et of answers i me set of questions to ti eral officers, rich in the two wars, and from him most identically the How can we explain su ypinion? Gentlem it to myself i that they peaking, and they speak can expiain be of their trade, n, growing mos l.in-Chief sa ne beyond lye g me a milit it Ar que yrtunately it is so, most tunately ! and now soldiers must it. nately, Such being the case, since, unf soldiers must settle it, | must allow the soldiers to do, what know they ought to do, and you | be carefnl not to force them to do what they know they ought not to do “There have now arrived and are in thousand three. Toere are rapidly com- ling in three hundred thousand two. years | and th What the | diers know ought to be done is this: | The three m onths men should be used | to guard the District of Columbia—the | whole District of Columbia. The two | years and the three years’ men as they arrive and as they shall arrive should [ ba placed in large camps of instruction at strategic points along the frontier: thousand men at Fort | Washioglon on the Potomac ; an equal | foroe at Annapolis, Md, ; another here { in the Capital ; another say at Freder- ick, Md,; another at Cumberland, Md, perhaps another st Pittsburg, Penn; certainly one at Wheeling, Va., and one at Marrietta, Ohio; also at Cincinnati, Obio; Louisville, Ky., Cairo,” 111, and other points on the frontier. There they should drill and drill and drill and discipline, guarding always the frontier, Meantime our gallant little navy should do all that it ean to keep up a blockade of the entire Southern const. By the last days of September, or the first days of October, wo can have the gun-boats ready on the Ohio river. By ree years men, sol | say sixteen | wan: gun-boats, built to carry just as { material fo: 8. h gun boats on those | Wenstern weters ; there is plenty me | chanical skill there, and sir, there is | edStates sent immoediate ly | od before fi Rist | | Lion 1 | | sanguine, view of matters and | | {on him, 1 | and those i the way, Mr, Secretary, said he turning quickly to Mr. Cameron, “have you or | asked you for, to go under my orders to the West? No, Genera dered for me that naval constructor 1, not yet,” said Me, Cam eron: “but, General, I can furnish you with as many steamboats as you want on the Ohio river within seven days by | contract,’ General Scott said, a little impatient. ly, “Mr, Secretary, I do not want there even one old rotten contract steamboat, many guns as 1 say, and o: just such cali- ber as I say. Sir, there is plenty of J 3 : caused the fair maiden to turn [ erly enough ! 1 plenty of time! Mr. Cameron hastened to say to Chief: thing vou w ant,” the “General, you shall have every General Scott—Thanks Mr, Secretary. | Evervthing I want is all that | want! Well, then, | best practical naval constructor in the Unit Thanks! want the to Louisville Ky., to design and see ¢ nstructed gun boats I'hese boats can ¢ silly the first frost , teeing the Government iis r ‘Yi 8) content with §g | tier, may not believe they are to be at tacked, and 1 ny relax in the rp! In any case, « preparations, ! have, LY | IL al the ju and Miss ssippi rivers an army (XK) men! not i Id ss mpanied by f uld have he the gun boats At the f \ Ir the Gul Mox the ou mal o what they know they onght i io; if men in not you ush these three mo to t Are they rebellious government 18 government you my nia two or Lhres | wut ater on ood the wut by the pr elded to those i to who sasume rities, and he in an ev sented to see sound milit enlaced by three did not succeed n two or three years - Dame Ursulas Treasure WT, WHERE | WHO ¥ If unkempt walks, trailing, neglected creepers and a heavy overgrowth of ivy | of the Clovis Court presented them all, There are the essentials picturesque, were box trees that had formerly repre sented pyramids, garden seats and live but the hands that ind the spectator now only saw ragged and un tidy foliage. like velvet, ly crowing cocks had pruned them were gone, The bowling green, once had added nettles thistles to its own rank crop. and Could one of the beauties who a century bowled there have seen it would have picked up her dainty skirts fled. A beauty of a century stands amongst the desolation, a picture is the auburn haired maiden leaning against an old, woather-beaten sun dial! Simply clad in a dark gray dress, a bunch of pale yellow chrysan. themums earelsly fixed near the throat her white little hands clasped before her, Ursula Baring looked sadly over the waste, True lovliness seldom resis long un. seen, and a large rift in the brick wall displayed our heroine to the gaze of a young man who was riding slowly past, It was but a minute's work to dismount secure the bridle to a convenient tree and scale the broken wall. With heightened color and quick steps, which ago she and Intter | you-~oh ! indeed, 1 love you! | had told her he could not hear of ' | thing between us ; What | with a startied blush, Guy Norman the sun-dial. regehed “Mr. Norman! why are you here?" “Because you are here,” replied the young man cooly, and at the same time firmly securing one of the little white hands. “But,” demurred Ursula, feebly try {ing to repossess herself of her hand,” “we are forbidden to meet. Your uncle “Is an old reptile! Ursie, be zensible! They kept us apart, heaven knows, clev. Let us be happy my dar, ling, while we have the chance." she trem I love but my She said your uncle The girl's face grew paled bled and looked down. Guy, mother trusts me. any and we are very | proud Guy i" The young man dropped her hand { hastily, \ “Youdon't loveas | do, or uncles and mothers would be nothing to you he said haughtily, Ur «ula looked up us face of love 13601 i wri What are yg good for who ao nor mothers like mine A han | herown and begged forgivenes ome winning face stooped { 1 hey lighte i over 8 Week 0 liad been Pp ari! Ked ng, | was made f her death 1 she far th i 1 ie great, and ivenilarous per AINE 1 and open smond ring in her bed vas 1 ne i In ng now we | show where m the end fifty ve AT I & Jovely great granddaughter Ursula could not wed the man she loved because he de pended on the had nothing. | had allowe i take place at Clovis Court as « will of an uncle, and sh The widowed mothe Af many excavations to ould haj pen without bringing down the walls with thrift to living on the next to nothing | then she devoted herself great she had, and interested herself in poul try, pigs and repairing linen. She did | not moan over her fortunes, and tried | to maka her girls cheerful and happy, succeeding admirably until that terrible | fellow ‘Love’ appeared. Guy Norman was packed off to [set in. Ursula could pot bear to think |of Christmas, and bated helping to | make plum puddings with a sore heart She was so pitiful in appearances one day that Nora begged her to go fora walk, and not make the pudding salt with tears ! Gilad to scape, Ursula hurried out into the wintry road, Everything look. ed dull and gray, and the girl, after walking briskly for a time, turned by a side path into the garden of the desert od court, She wandered past the stately windows ; then, with a natural inclina tiun for everything as dismal as herself, she resolved to explore the old house, Vo the | |continent just as the dull winter days | Fetching a key she let herself in and paused a moment, startled by the echo of her own footfall in the weired silence { then she passed boldly on, determined | to see old Dame Ursula’s room. A quaint, low-roofed place, with lat {tice windows an old four. post bed ‘NEW GOODS, | [ stead still stood there with faded, damp { hangings of blue, Our Ursula was earn | ently gazing on the lines engraved on’ the window, “Time will show where my treasure lies,” when she saw a herd of cattle getting into the garden through the broken wall, There was not much to spoil, truly, but a sense of order made Ursula resolve to try and dismiss the intruders, Quickly she ran out into the passage and sped down stairs ; seizing her uni- brelle she valiantly waved it as she ap peared in the garden and grest con sternation ocurred, the cattle ran thith er, and none turned toward the gap { the wall, NEW GOODS, in I'hey ran against each other {and everything else, but finally they | were induced to go, and Ursula, looking over the debris of battlefield {she had come off victorious, i where found that | the old sum dial was borden down. 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