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'.' A MYSTERY-.
Wi TEN PO It THE IHTErENDENT REPFEL
STRAYING from tie portals bright-. . -
Ora summer sunset proud, ~
Softly stole the mellow light %. 1
' 9 Through a fleecy,`, purple cloud, •
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iklli‘ tl u i n e d p
• Wreathed a transient crown of gold.
' flow. the tender ivies clung : • • .' . '
;- nd the dewy moss-rose stilling; • ' 1
ltailinetittu.err:etpsiihyrsighsigu:-:-_ ''',
Whereet a castle grim and old,
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.Tv the brtiken lichen wall ; '' .
I BluAling, from its eui'rahl thrall. ; ' .
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1 ,tiftly.through th,ose silentlshades, . -
Stole the biboklet's limpidinotes,
Breathing oldie forest glades - -'
-Where the song of wood-bird floats. ..,
Lady Agtom still and cold, - ~ t .: .
1 Like a bn3kenllly, lay,
I Shroirded,in that flood 4,0 d, , . ...
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At-uittifil-deplay . • - ; ;
Of the breezes o'er her brow,, ,
Or upon the shattered strings ~• -
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r Of her lute, or, sometimes, liolv i .' •
Angels swept them with tlifr4ings: -
Flushed for aye was loves faint sigh;
Bounding pulse, and tender word ;
'Paled the deep carnation dye—. ' - -
• • Hope no more her•tiosom stirred: -
Whoh_altdone the - tragic deed, , • ,
We, ini earth, may never knoti.; . - - .
• 'But 'tWAs`aid, a dashing steed - \•
CroaSed the draw-bridge—white as snow,-=,
Bearing off the haugiity Lord ; •
WO had sought in vain her hand,-
Never t .io the festive beard.
Came again Lord Altamand. '
Drinock,rPa.lna Arrow.
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OUR CH.Ats,,E"y'. •
--'• 1-4*E years ago we parted 'tram our 'Char
e. y, bound for thel i P.a.st, the blithest, bright,
est, bravest - lad that ever drew • breath. I,
who hive been his mother, as he says, these
- ourteen years„ have a ,right to boast of him ;
ut all our island - knows him'. ; . He was., out
• list sixteen upon the night of the great storm,
• When I and all of us thought in our, hearts
that we should never livetb . tee another day!'
the Whole Atlantic-raging' at.:, our feet, and
the south-wett. wind,. in its unbroken fury,
• I poinang• •upbn our low - -roofea cottage--,-the
ifirst opponent,..save a few mastless ships, that
it had mit for a thousand nines. The !dark
ness and:the noise were hideous; but, worie
ei still, the, pauses, when, the. powers. of air
fteeined• to be gathering .'strength fur some
ilinore.-fremendims'eff'ortkand when the light
-4 Ining showed for an instant 1.1!t3 , long line .of
''.white kind ahuddea . rin eliff,!: and the black
• Mass
of waters. rising in wrath to overwhelm
• it, \\ - .-e. women were,all up, and in the. par
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14 - or; the supper table was yet „ispread there,
lat which four hours_ before ,k-il., had. sat, ar.d
laughed, and' eaten, lisfeninito - the rising
- `tempest, not without a selfistritort. of comfort
—God forgiVe us !—,to think that WQ , we-re
-•
safe and warm on land. , - There is'a strange
i - ditTeretre observable under alhcireumstances•
bet Wren hours, whatever they May be, devot
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ed to wakefulness' and. those.,given to rest.
_ Iletweeh, twA ve 'o'clock, 'for instance, to the
V. lady of fashion; and. three o'clock, it sbe hap
peb`te,,be awakened at'such 4 time; and be
1-4-ween ten and one to persons who live domes
tic, quiet lives tire,. our§elVes; .quite, apart
from the contrast, which' the ,eaiety and
brightness of the one, and the loneliness , and
-
dirtiness which the other;Must of course pre
sent—they seem periods .of two separate. ex-.
istenees,.one of Which is not . - without ' - it cer
tain terror fur us. Whenever I have:-clianeed
to be Calle4 up at night, frOm illness in, the'
house or other cause, although I soon get my
'brain,lo order for working purpotes, I am a
.lonviine coming tb, myself: the business
• that I have been in such tunes . set to do his
I
' always apPeared, in a: mea:ure, Weired-like,
.. the familiar places .unnatural,'Una my friends
themselves what the Scotch, call t' uncanny."
z . I thinkanost people will feel What 1- mean:
On this night of the tempest .we were all .ex-,
--- Wash;ely terrified. - It.wast long before the
candles Could be-lit, (the wind got in so eve-
rywhere;)-and, when that .as done, we were
. ' 'the more frightened with looking in each oth
-1 er's faces,- Poor Janet—but fourteen then,
.--4ith her brown hair hanging about her ,
Shoulders, and, her large, eyes starting out s of.
. their bed! lierbert—thirteen4--very pale,
• 'with his mouth)iet in an arlificialamile;,poor
• little fellow, while his teeth chattered 'with
• horror.! ' Small Alice, _ia: fits of , tears and
screaming; ro as to be • beard even. through
that tempest, and' both themaids-pictorea of
- abject terror. ! Presently, ' while the . house
::
was rocking to and fro like'a tree, in rushed
.;' Master Chiarley, - 4Lessed, and with This Glen
gai-y cap tao.----7w, girl*" crieoe, "who
- will shut the from door after me?"`' _ •
- "Good heavens,: Charley,''' I exclaimed,
"you are not surely mad enough to venture
out in such - a night asthis l" .• .
• "Nes, mother, I am; why not? _ • '
. • • : • "In such a night as this ` . •
; .
When the sireetwind did 'gently kiss the trees,
'. - Did Jessica—" = .
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We bead it, you know theothet night.. I am
• , going-after J essica—Phcebe Taylor, that is—
i or she will be drowned else. kam certain
i. that,this spring' tide, with sucha'gale to help
--
it, will more titan reach their cottage, :arid
the old man can never Carry her a'way- with-
out, help." • - _ - 1 -
I ' lle.Spolte of the bedridden' wife:of a super-
I annualed fisherman; whb, in defiance of the
Wartings•of hiseompaniont, had , get up his
I . oftl' boat by. gray; ofa. house,. in the corner of
I I. ' the bay, just'ahOvehighWater - ,Mark.
Directly Charley mentioned ilit, we knew :.
. atbnee the danger to which this aged couple
. 4 mulct already_be exposed, for it wanted. but
an hoar or so to full tide;, but, the dangers
of a rescue °were not less. . • - ' • '
1 " Remember, Charles," cried I, " that these
three. children ye nobodY.-to look :to fur
• . Protection iu,J.he ,world; save you." ' •
. .
. " Qh, • yes," laughed he' gaily; •" there s
, Herbert; ain't there, Herbert? .Besides
which, 'you will not get rid of me, so easily ;
. you Will see rue again anon; bearing. the love
' .%ly Phoebe in my twins." -'. ; • • ,•'
.A,tremendous erash, occasioned by the fly.:
jag open of the ball doori_and its being , jam,
. Mea againg the wall•hy the-blast, announced
the buy 4 departure.. - Then we felt deserted'
• indeed.- ' 'file' tWo • inaid s were 'blown down
-.in the ; passage; in their„attempt ' to shut the
.doer again, ,and the rush of, wind• - intO all
parts of the house beeime so violent, that I
via_s•itt inomentary,exfieetation of its lilting'
the roof off. Out; - only ebittrort seemed -to
- Le gazing at'lle lighthouse.. We, bad been
inside it but a r ,. days xf6re.;.and it ' was,
, in a manner • cletrino• to, know that there
Wefe.4ying.beings there ten engaged in their
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some eitenithe awful effects of the ; storm.
In the Meantime, walking edgeways; its he
afterwards affirtried,-in,order to offer as little.
resistance to the wind as pessible,-and. abso
lutely feeling his way foot by foot, ur Char
ley had reached. the path - that winds down to
the beach.. Here, away from the.tr es; and
in the open, it was not so 'pitchy a, rk, and
1 the gust being dead against him, oti pnaileii
him to the cliff without danger of sweeping
, himiromiiif it, which, had it. !changed to a
point or two more westward, r it would .have
done at once, like a knife. The tuult be
-Ipw him sounded so . near and awful,' that he
seethed to be descending into the sea ; a slip,
Eviese turn, a sprain of b the ' hand or ankle,
wonld now have been certain death! to him.
I - Theie was a light still burning in the wood
en hut, however, which guided hint aright,
amigave him spirit, for it told himl that he
was-not too late. He found the old man sit
ting by his wife, with' whom he fad fully
made up his mind to die, since he could not
saim her..• -He had attempted to do so, how
everjor the poor woman was partly dressed
and had been lifted on to a`chairt She was
trying, as Charles entered the hut, to per
suade her husband to leave her toter. fate ;
"hut, since it is your time to die, Phcebe,"
-said the old man, " I seem to have, lived- in
- this world long enough:" No two ' young
-lovers, eharcoal burning to death tag ether at:
ter - the French fashion, were ever half so no
j ble a spectaele,as that-of this ancient couple.
There was no doubt whatever about theJreal
' ity Of their heroism, for the spray of the still
risiii“.tide had already tiepin to patter against
their ,,
refuge, and -, they ' knew that the end
must be-very near indeed. Charles and the
old man' togethei
.had to wade very deep be
fore they got poor.Thebe to the foot of the
pat i h,up which, with such a burden, they were
quite umtble to .make-their .way. But our
Charley was not the only angel abroad that
night-: the two coast-guard men haalso be
thought them of the perilous situati n of the
. 1 3
Taylors, and had corne from the st. tion with
lanterns, to see what could he doily for them.
They: dared hot, in such a night as ibis, how
ever, take the shortest way which lay across
the own; and had been much delayed, so
That the light in the little room was quenched,-
and the but itself far.out to sea, - when they
arrived; but they were'in time ,to assist' in
bringing Phebe up the•diff. We heard noth
ing of them until the'party were in the little
hall, and at the parlor door- , -all safe--
I *lll tell you one thing mere oft eilaricT,
to proVe" to you how brave a boy . e' was.
One of his chief pleasures Was to
fisher lads in theif perilous ex j oedit
the nests of the eider duck, and for
of cutet• sea fowl. With the aid
a,
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bat' altd a rope, he would swing hi
the fiiee of the steepestcliffs, and ii
which one would have 'thought nt..
Could have entered save with vi n ••• n. Uprui
one occasion, he went out with ano ther youth,
with only one strong rope between them, and,
instead -of one remaining above th:t precipice
bile the other went below, they thought it
would be excellent i fun' to go dowti together.
They chose, -too, for this - :atnutement, otie of
the loftiest and least freqbented c itrs'of all,
midway in which, however, they had seen
from their boat once , a great cave much haunt
ed by the sea-fowl. They, fixed , their biir
firmer than'usiil, and took to . the 'rope to
gather, the fisher lad being undermost; they
laughed and chattered in air; with the sea four
hundred feet beneath them, as town bred lads
would laugh and chatter in a swing ; but they
found nomeanS easy to reach the cavern with
their doadeloact, being afraid tti make a pen.'
dulutn of the ropefor fear - it should
_wear
away from the increased friction at the sum
'mit: At last the boy_ beneath 'obtained a
footing, and held the rope fast while Charles .
slid on - into the hole: But attracted by the
cry which the latter raised at sight of the
I ,myriads of nests which lay within, and con
fused, perhaps, besides, with the swinging, the
fisher had let- the rope slip through his fingers;
-once only -it swung within distance, btxt,in hi§
agitation he made a futile graspat it and af
ter one or:two..vibrations, succeeding one an
other more rapidly -than I can write of them,
the two boys were left in their living tomb,
Avith the means ofrescape indeed within sight,
but only to tantalize them with, its proximity:
seven or eight feet of fathomless , space lay
between them _and it—a situation to them.
who well understood it,-more
. awfully peril
ous even than it seems. No vessel ever
came near enough, on account di the break
ers, to see any signal such as they ' could make
from the sea; they had left no word at home
Of whereaboUts they-were *going, and; even
should they'be found, It was very improbable
that means ccnild be-devised for their rescue.
While they had.still the strength and' spirit to
take advantage of them. : The boy; looked at
One another in blank dismay, as they thought
of all these thinas. "My poor dear mother,"
said the fisher lad, with a groan, for he was
her only hope. " uppo§ing one dropped,"
asked_Charley, thoughtfully, after ti few mo
ments, " would this* carry one for:Certain
onto the shore in'tlia hingb bay'?" "Yes,"
- said the other, "and Within the nefct hour to
' a certainty, but it would be only . as a dead
corpse Master Charles." "-Godlalone knows
,'that," quoth. Charl i fy ; "we Must dust in
1:Him:" He wrote own upon al slip of pa
per (which I now posseSs, - *ith 'the writing
pist a little, a very little shaken, poor fellow,
Iwhen it gets to the last message;) some such
words as these: " Robert Harris is in the
Gull's Hole upon Wadden Cliff he has lost
holti of the. rope, and '.tiMst have ,Itelp at once:
my . dearest love to all at homel.,Charley."
He put this up in his-case bottle, taking the
cup off at:the bottom, so that the writing
might be seen ilobee through the glass, and
buttoned it ttp . in - his 'Coat- pocket: "My
people are richer than yours,. Bpb, and can
better spare me," cried be.' 4t II am going to
leap at the rope, old fellow, -let us shake
bands" The lad tried s to persuade him not
to risk it,- but rather to hope for rescue by.
ineans'less desperate... But-'-'--"tn't unnerve
)ire; Bob," was the- simple he, i s answer;
"once, twice,-thrice, and here' fides. " - The
other hid his face while the spring, was-taken,
1 listening for the far off splash, Perhaps, that
, should. tell .him hii friend. Was dead, who had
spoken to him the instant before. 'But when
be looked up, our Charley welt holding well
on to the rope, only he was dely pale. He
t :
two'
to the cave again. in safety and the tw
rescued lads came-up to life ain,- with their
-pocket§ stuffed- with eider -down. Charles
was abeave boy—his widoWed mother's dar
ling and mine, in whose care . she,left
him, and beloVed by all. He did not new
her long,-but loved her deitrly,i and had the
'strangest r:thought about. her allays. He
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FRIEEDO
thought that she us near to him, and upon
the eve• of any
•, lal pefil,' he seemed to
a
grow conscious of her presence. The night,
-beforwhe left.ui, as we wandered in and out
the roOs by the sea shore, and round the
leafy paths that hread the copse, and up and
down the level ndi, all grown so doubly
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dear t 4) him at
Perliatn it wasl
long npon they
stroke togethel
hanging dim en
memory, that
Wit Lour eyeSl
waters darkeniit
ternity greaking softly on
ars, nlonei nd in that beautiful spot, it
iatural, I , that we 'should speak of
Toyed den
Ihi
that
our e.
Was fl
the be
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other"—!
r t , she isi
01 see hei
k close tf
Lffed hiii
i n thatit il
then
"1 sh
is qui
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ed hi
ay," sai d
the. Paw
a Us in
climb
bebin
stars.
;Co you," S id 'he, when we had reached
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Immit, "4 , n steadtitst lights on ocelm ?
rides a ighty fleet the .guardian an
f our lan, and all night long they keep
i
watch an ward because . of us. There
khey, still, though hid frtim view, until
ined the h adland, and there will they
illen we deg end again.
.So it is, as I
i with so rt of i , -.: few sonli but have
spirit wilt ,hing over them, although utt
save, halil ', .when a more, than common
r threaten-, when heavenly stoops to
ly, and the fleet sails round td us."
to not men. ion this becauselairik such
:ef was tell harles's credit—er I believe
be a falsd, nd weak one,—but to prove
he was no -1 terc satnphire gatherer and
4er of gull' nests, a youth of nerves and
iis.only. I ad-he been so, would Janet,
;lithusitiStib the poetess, have ever loved
So dearly la. she did ? Would, gentle
, for whon I have heard him weave full
a fairy ( t- e? Would Herby, whose
ik head' hd Ile:d with visions of tilt and
Itey ?
was terrib • the parting from a lad ,like
but he ffrght th'e Fusabad 'appoint
iw
as too g od to be let slip, for our
; althdl4r.4l. for himself, be woutd bate
!tpreferree thi!, military _service. We
ied the mi hty vessel that bore him out,
iiling the lit int and speeding into space,
ter thair au . other dewy eyes in -Britain.
roof. I- thin•, ••
is the last English home
.• ,
xile sees, , , id the first speck which, alter
• years gr ws gradual to the sight on his
n. Throe h all the wnr ;la the 0. iatlea
i t w the ver • litst.of every squadron, the
ke cloutis streaming on the horizon's
F, and the first glimmering of those
t.less saik, -Inch brought up from the
war4ing " und'e -World," our wounded thou
sands. If the' •ind was fitvortible, we could
head the tnarti tl band-inusic, nay, even the
cheeks themsel -es, of the -gallant soldiers, in
the : --essek out -ard bound ; and in the home
ward,lf the sk• -s were clear, we could see,
i
With teleseopc ' the very beds of the wound
ed, ay, and perrips the dead, brought-up up
on the decks ft disembarkation. We were
sad 'enough iii.eed, but we had no miseries.
of this kind•th•n to dread fur Charley. The
Ea.st was the at peace, whither he was
'bOubd ; the vessel that bore him' was cle.av ,
ingranquil s s. 'The next letter, however,
whi-
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h we goti rom him was 'from Spain.—
Th ship had , een wrecked with awful loss of
life-P-himself ' icked tip exhausted ; but " all's
well," he wrot , "as,far as I am concerned,
except for my kit, and I hope to Stag from
Gihralter in a , tickler vessel.' A 'slip of Env
periwas etfelos d for me : ' " I told you that a
peril threate me; remember our last talk
upon the shoe " There was not a word in
his.ltieeount of he shipwreck of this incident,
which we re d of in the -newspapers: - -
"Among Othe deeds : tic heroism during the
confusion, and when it was plain thatihe ship
must go to pikes in a few minutes, that of a
Mrs Charles . rooke, E. I. C: S., deserves es
pecial -ffientici . Observing a young lady—
Missi Claud, 3 ughter of Lieutenant-General
Claud, of the' engal army, who was on her
way to joinh.jr father in Calcutta—unprovid- ,
ed with a lif e preserver, he removed his own
froin his waiS , and fastened it around her ;
and in- the. wa er afterwards perceiving her to
be I 3rifting oti to sea, he brought her by in
er ible exert ons tinder the protection of the
he dland, ark, into the bay, Where she was
re, cued.- .Mr Brooke was picked up subse
qu nay - it - ie; ible; but we are happy to state
thl d
t this nobl y youngfellow has since entire.
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MONTROSE, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1858.
Mrting, he was full of this:— ;
bin natural--having dwelt so
appy past, and stroke by
'etouched many a picture
gh in the long gallery 'of
should come at last to her.
upon that boundless world of
as t4e night drew on, with
,t called me "mother" even
ittening to tks now," he said.
,in my dreams to-night; she
of t 8 talk: thus, and remind
s time , to go within.
he, but let us once more
" So we toiled up the steep
ice, under the innumerable
If this had happened ,two
le should not have Considered
' so ,entirely disinterested, as'
od Miss Claud began to figure
pretty frequently under the
title of "dearest Ellen." In
were inarried. and last Janua-
;a most enthusiastic account of
y, then exactly a month old, and
innig to take a great deal o
lis p ing," wrote our Chajy,
three to spend- in the beloved
, I
es'of pine on either band 1
e blasts of winter, stand,
,
and West, the hoary Channel
'maker on chalk and sand ;
:ertienth the milky steep,
battle .elowly cCeePt
hrough zones of light and shadow,
ay to the lonely deep."
the latest poetic accounts of you,
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sere it Fusabad, which, indeed,
such in the World, and quite as
wn as your Southampton. 44 Ar
• :nd will Cake his leave at the
with us for England. How I
.. all to see dear Ellen and the
than Nye longed for them, be
• we pleased ourselves with im•
sort of person—pretty and good
e were certain—Charles's Ellen
And that sweet baby, too, whom
advance ever so much, and kiss
led, and made much of, already
in ! Whdther would our Charley
changed or no? 116 w much
ye to tell us, after his five years'
hat a merry, merry Christmas
ely be !
e the first rumors of revolt to
fair picture. Again the soldief
ps began to, pass in - quick mimes-
siln . before us over the eastward sea; but
this time, how much more of our selfish hearts
they bore with them ! How prayerfully,
women tho' we were, we wished God-Speed
to the rifle-ball and bayonet ! One -day we
got a letter from our Charley, confirrdifig our
worst fears;
words which, from him who al
ways took the most cheering view of mat
ters,
filled us with - gruel grief.
"It is folly," wrote he, ".to disguise our
position any loiter. The irregular cavalry
here are not to be trusted, and our lives are
in their hands ; the general cannot afford us
any addition to our little band df European
soldiers; there is Mutiny all around us; and
this is probably the last dawk that will go
safe to its destination,
so I write in haste to
catch it. Dave looked death in the face be
fore now, mother, but never with such dear
ones in my company : this is what makes it
terrible. Some Of as here think better of our
situation, and Cod grant that they . may be
right . ; but I—l saw her last night, and you
know wtuit 1 hold such a, sight to mean.—
You-Will not soon fiwfret me-and mine, what
ever happens, I Well know. heaven bless
you all."
Our Charley never wrote to us again. The
'very next telegraph ran thus :—" An out
,break of the I. C, at 'Fusaliaii ; their officers
were fired upon ; all the civilians in the sta
tion m assacred save hree . .." Never, surely,
had oracle of old the ' pOwer to east in despair,
to excite to passionate hope, to. ngOnise by
suspense, its credulous believers; that this
world-traversing. dupib sibyl . possesses' in
these days. it.Ovires are as thersery threads
of este, on which-hang human lives; our heart
strings havi.(becpme electric too, and. with
them shudder in; unison. "Save three." -In
these two words, and their interpretation, all
happiness or misery seemed for us to centre :
Father, mother,: child ! Two of them ! ono
of them at least, iu mercy; must be amongst
those " three !" After ne4rly two-months of
wearing hopes and fears,thdliames were pub
lisited, giving joy to other households—to
ours. despair. They were all three strangers.
Captain Arden, poor ,Charley's friend, was
one of the few oflicers.who escaped with life;
he wrote us a sad letter, with but one cold
gleam of hope, inn report - that he'had heard
of some Europeans of Filsaftaid being still alive
m the revolted district, under the protection
of a native rajah; but we were sunk too deep in
sorrow to he buoyed by such a floating straw
as this. Wig-wive the writer credit forgotti
intenticitis, but were not more wretched when
we read, in his swond letter; "Our last spark
of hope has, I tear, died out. I come to Eng
land by (the earliest packet, and my first - visit
will be to you." Ile had things to tell us of
a fiery terrible interest. -By this time all
tunmAad.ladi, and Winter was spreading
over .us his snow-white pall; lightly and ten
derly, as in our island he ever sPreads.it, like
a father covering thAface of his dead child.
But the seasons theriusetves 4..-0...ik t, Ing no
such change upon nature as it seemed, in the
sadaess of our hearts, to have already suffer.
ed. The breeze that swept our lofty down
lands was no longer blithe and spirii-stirring,
but rose in gusts of lamentation, and died in
Melancholy sighs : the laughing sea had be
come it waste of waters ; and our favorite
paths, where the
,evergreens flourish as in 1
spring, might.' have. been full of withered
leaves, o loth were we to walk there; be-
cause o r Charley seemed to be associated
with all these things, as the scent with: the
flower, or as-the soul with its beautifurform.
If this seems to be exaggeration; it _mulct be
remembered that our *tie household is a
very simple one, and alone in the world, end
that of - Charley was all in all to us.
The time had now arrived When the steam
er that was to, bring Captain Arden'tnight be
expected, and we watched for it attentively,
but without_impatience; with eyes less tear
ful than had followed that retreating vessel
years_ago, but with hearts far _heavier. -
_ Herbert• had been'despatched to -South
ampton to await the Captain; and bring him
on to 'us at once; so that, when the black ship
went'by at dawn, W'e knew • that we should
see him that same evening. As the after
noon wore on, we got to be so unaccountably
wistful and-anxious, that the girls and I de
termined to walk up the cliff -road to meet
our guest.
"There comes the. carriage," exclaimed
thoughtless Alice, presently, clapping her
hands.
A look from her sister reminded her at
once of the-tidings which our visitor must
needs have to tell us, and the poor girl (who
has as Iclvinu a heart as any of us) hung her .
r.
head down and let Nil- her veil. She must
have been - mistaken,hoWever, about the car
riage, as It. must have by thii time emerged
round the corner of the rock. Instead of this,
a solitary horseman,Herbert,skowed himself:
" Arden is not come on," crit'd he,," but I
have seen him ; he has brought the best of
1 news, .the very best : the baby. is saved—El
len is saved—Charley is saved : the rajah took
the very greatest care of the whole faniily.
Now don't get white and foolish, Janet, or I
will tell you no more news."
• '" They are here," murmuredltnet, faintly;
„they. are all here; I know."
" Vii . r,l4l, dearest, I was going to tell you
that Myself: they are waiting round the cliff
yonder,,, till you have quite made up your
minds•th see them." • _', ..
And there' in very truth they were—the
three: the crowing baby, the fair wife, and
our own Charley; safe in their island home.
Thanki be to Heaven,' we had indeed a time
Of great joy. I would that by every English
hearth, this year, the vacant•chais had been
as ,blithely filled ! Titan. , .. -
A '3l.tosxsisious .lltisnasii.-Not long
since, a widow; one of those whom. we are in
the habit of calling well preserved, by the
name of Madame IL
' ardent solicitationi of one of yielding then to
erary,
of Paris, married him. Qn returning from
the church and the mayor's office; the lady
took her husband aside, and said, " Pardon
me, my dear, for I have .deceived you !"
'Mn - what?" Said the young man of letters,
much troubled. ' l s' I told you tha t 4 had two
hundred thownd frc.nes, " Well,
and yOu have not? Never mind; its-ail the
same to me."' " No, that is not it exactly ;
I have two millions I" 'The husband forgave
Ater. • -
ller When we think of the labor required
to rear the few that are in our household
theweariness, the anxiety, the burden of life
, —how wonderful seems God's workl for her
carries heaven, and earth, and alt realms' in
his bosom, ~
. .1,
~....
Period of Hum
M. FLOURENS, the dis
physiologist, has recently
in which he announces tha
od of the life of man is o
The grounds on which he
'philosophic conclusion ma
It is, we believe, a fact i
dint the length of each ani
act proportion to the peric
Buffon was aware of this i
servations led him to cone
in different species of anin
times as long as the perk
Fluurens, from his own
those of his predecessors,
it may be more safely to
When BufTon wrote, th
which animals leave off g
more correctly, the pr
which indicates that the,
was not known. M. FIG
ed that period, and there
theory. "It consists," s
ion of the bones to. their
as the bones's , e not unit
ses, the animal ggowsi
are 'united to the epiphy
es to grow." Now, in n
bones and the epiphyses
ing to 111:Floutens, at tb
and, consequently, he pr
oral duration of life is
-years. "It is_now 'fiftet
1' since I commenced rest
siological law of thesdur
man-and in some of our
-and I have arri v ed at the
ma! duration of a man's,
Yes, a century's life is
meant to g ive us.'.' App
inlaid; M. Flouren's the I
been proved correct.
bones with the epiphyse
place in the camel at eig
he lives forty years,; in
and he lives twenty-five
four years, and he lives
-ty years; in the dog at
lives from ten to twelve
lion at four years, and h
a necessary consequence
of life to which 111, Flo
is entitled, he modifies
different ages. " I prod
infancy," says he, "up
it io tr.. j o in to ten th
tion is terminated. I, ,
up to twenty years, be
that the development
and consequently the in
length. I prolong yont
forty, becau.e,it is only
increase of the body in
! After forty, the bOdy d i
erly speaking; the augi
um., which then takes ,
blo .r L ,-niiic. developrileti
mulation of fat. After
, 'exactly speaking, the d•
and bulk has terminat
what I call the period
is, when all our parts b
and firmer, our functioi
the whole organisnism
riod lasts to sixty-five
therr begins old age ;
years." But thbugh M.
ens man's days, lie wu
once, that the pry:Amiga
Iv be obtained, on one
'r that of good conduct,
occupied—of labor, of
- of sobrieLy -in all this
I may be disposed•to as
destined to live a hung
so, M. Flourens ans
" Witb our manners,
ments, man_does not d
-And he speaks pt great
-Lessius, and mentions
'show that by prudence,
ety, life, can easily be
or more.
he Wealth of
JetTsor.' died cons
deed, if Congress had
brary, and given for i
he would with difficult!
from his door.
Madison saited mon
tively rich. To add t
or rathet to those of
put chased, his manusc
thirty thousand.dollar
James Monroe, the
United States, died so,
found a resting place.tl
one of the citizens. II
John‘Quiney AdaMs left some hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, the reililtof indus
try,- prudence and inheritence He with . ' a
man of method and economy.
Uartin Van Buren is very rich. • Through
out his political life he has studiously looked
out for his own interest. It is not . believed
he ever spent thirty billitigs in polities.—
His party shook the lush, and he caught the
bird.
Daniei Webster' s
ions in his lifetime, t
ion and his pulitical s
leaving his property
debts to his friends.
less than twenty thou
- exceeded' two hundr •
Henry Clay left a
It probably exceeded
dollars. He was a pi
scrupulously honest
James. K. Polk left
fifty thousand doll
i
which he saved from
years:
John Tyler is wor
Before he reached t
bankrupt. In office,
and - then married a
Zachary Taylor le
thousand dollars.
Millard Fillmore
keeps his money in
box. '
Ex-President Pie
sand dollars from hi
he had a way of his
ME
Spriggles
is no such thing as
country, there is a
Quills are
taken froin the pinis
the opinions of snot
2)
V7ROHIO."
Life. \ •
inguishea ri T nch
~üblished a book
the normal peri 7
kundred , years:'
me. 4 - to this new
" ettnnStalce," of the New York Sun, perpetrates
he following:— •
TR settle the Kansas imbroglio, one day,
The House and the &nate were 'worried ;
\ The one answered yes, and the other said nay,
\ And . "Old Ducks' was distressedly flurried.
be briefly stated :
natural histni l y,
;mays life, is in ex-
Billy English appears—and unfolds in his hands
A 'plan, 'steeped in cunning and knavery;
lie saYs k " Give the Kansas folks millions of lands.
If they swallow Lecompton and Slavery I"
Even so, altthe kingdoms of earth to Messiah
Were shoWnby the Spirit of Evil ;
" All these will tgive," said the hdastingold liar,
" Only fall dowh and worship the Devil t"
, 4,1 '
e is in:growing.
rah and .his ob
!hide that' the life
als is six or seven
of 'growth, - 111:
bservations and
is of opinion that
en at five times.—
',precise period at
owing, or, to speak
BENTON ON IME ADMINISTRATION.
Letter from 1 1 : P. Moir, Sen.
To the Edi'or of tke'N. Y. Tribune..
Six : I - enclose you my fatheeti reply to ,
the card' of Williath Carey Jones , in relation
to the opinions of the late Mr. Benton. It
is proper that I should say that I communica
ted to your reporter the particulars of the
interview between Col. Benton and my fitther;
and requested him to publish Lthem. I had I
previously asked my father's consent fct.their
publication, which he cheerfully gave, in the
belief that it was honorable to Col. Bentop to
make it known that at such' a moment he
should be forgetful, of himself and conceited
only fur . the public safety. At the same time.
I stated to your reporter that I had held fre
quent conversations with Col. Benton, in
Which he had expressedrsimilar tentirnenti4,in
language equally emphatic. Among other
conversations,l recollect distinctly, when I
saw him soon after Mr. Buchanan 's message
on the Lecompton Constitution was submit
ted to Congress, he said, alluding to the
President and his followers,'' Sir, Providence
and their own crimes hive delivered them
;nto our hands."
Respectfully,', FRANK P. BLAIR.
Washington City, May 22, 1858:.
;Ise circumstance
4rowth has ceased,
(
rens has ascertain
n lies his present
ys he, "in the.un
epipktses. As lung
d to their epiphy-
1- soon as the bones
es,,the animal teas•
an the union of the
ekes place, accord
e age of twenty ;
sClaims that the nat-
five times . twenty
n Vearg,". he r. says,
:arelies into the phy
tiou of life, both in
• domestic 'animals,
; result that the nor-
Ile is one century.
r what Providence
plied to domestic an
ry
_has, .he tells us;
"The unitsk of the
he says, ''tikes
t years of age, itnd
e horse at five yeara - ':
ears ; in the ox at
roin fifteen to twen T
two years, and he
'years•; and in the
lives twenty." As
of the prolongation
rens assures man he
ery considerably his
ng the' duration of
• ten years, 'becauTie
tho second denti-
, rolong adolescence
use it is at that age
.f the bones ceases,
rette of the bOdy in
t Alp to the age o
ht that age. that the
bulk terminates.—
es not a-ow / prop
ientation of its ,vot•
rlace, is not a srrita
but a simple am
the-growth, or more
velopment, in length.
man enters into
.f invigftition—that '
come mure complete
I s more assured, and
to perfect. This pe
r seventy, years, and
ich lasts for thirty
. Flourens thus length-
I ns him, more • than
L ion of them can on
rigorous condition—
of existence always
study, of moderation,,
t gs." To those who
why it is that of men
~ .ed years, so few do
ers triumphantly—
ur passions, our Aor
tic, he kills himself!"
length, of Cutnaro,of
Parr- and others, to
. .and above all, sobri
(tench& to a century.
ur Statesmen.
l iaratiN•ely poor. In
ot purchased his li.;
lye times its value,
ha:ire'kept the wolf
F y, and was eompara
[his fortunes,however,•
his widow,'Congr.!ss
I pt: paper's,. and .paid , .
E - for therd:
Ith ._,
Presiderit of the
.00r that his remains
-ougtr the charity of
[ uandered some mal
o
product of his profess.
• eculation•=. lie died,
o hi§ children; and 'his
The former sold for
1 -and dollars—the latter
and fifty thousand. '
•ery handsome
,estate.:
one hundred thousand;
uth.nt manager, and ti?
an. _
about one hundred and
rs—fifty atonsa - nd of
his Presidency of four_
th fifty thousand dollars.:.
;be Presidency he was ;
he husbanded his means,'
rich wife. _ _
Otie'hundred and fifty
s a wealthy man, and
very strong and safe
I ce vectsome fifty thou-,
term of service. But,
lown.—N.
l ys, that:- although there
nuzzling the press in this
ilenty of book anuslin.
ings that are sometimes,
ns of one goose to spread, .
l ~-
1 H. H. FRAZIER, PUBLISHER-VOL. 4. NO. 22.. •
-1 •
THE TWO PROPOSITIONS.
•
To the Pane.
Mr:Ruehanan's organ, the Union newspa
per, publiAtes what it calls "An "interesting
card relating to the opinions of the-late Mr.,
Renton," bringing into question a slitentent .
derived from. me. This card refers to a con-
Versation between Ca Benton and myself, a
few days before his death, of which I spoke
to ses'eral members of Congress, and was i
mentioned by one of them to a correspon
dent of the Tribune, who , reported its sub
stance to that press. The olonet's'stropg
est and most characteristic expressions were,
however, not given in That report—the pur
port only, ve
j ithout the vigor of the language,
being,retained ; and I regret that I • cantint
-now recall what We uttered with the vivid
ntss I could have:given it to the reporter had
.1 conversed With hitii personally at the time
he prepared his letter for the press. •
Mr. Jones begin's his • 2!xplicit contradie
tionS" that he may not "allovt , a fal - sity,to go
with apparent_ authority into
.history," by
saying: - :.• ,
" First, on ;the occasion described' in' the
beginning paragraph of the piece, there was
notsany old snd intimate friend from Missou
ri a participator in . the conversation. "-.. Mr.
Jones, as is evident from his card, was-aware
that the interview. described was with me,
end that the - mistake of the Tribune's corres
pondent was mere inference, from my rela
tions with Col. Mineral, that I was an "old
and intimate Misiburi friend," he being a
stringer to 'both of us ; iind yet this is the on
ly point on which Mr. Buchanan's press can
:hang its positive charge of malice and men
tacity," which it insidiously aims to bring
',home to me, for . Mr. Jones's - only other at
-tempt at contradiction antountsi merely to .a
negatiVe that he was privy to the remarks
attributed to GA. Benton. He says, second:
"No such remarks,as those set .out in . the'
last paragraph, nor those in the previous one,
which imply an invidious sectional distinction
were ever made by Gil. Benton in my pres
-1 ence ;" and to corroborate these itnporlant,
'contradictions, Mr. Jones calls Mr. Jacob,
Hall as a witriesi, as the only person to
Whom (as he believed) , the description tan
pply- of an old and intimate, friend from'
Missouri who had a • conversation with Gil.
Benton during the last'week of .his ,life. Al.
he thus formerly adduces Mr. Hall
to testify that he had no such conversation
with him, he well knew from the minutede
scription of the scene by the correspondent
.of the Tribune that I was the "old and inti
mate friend" to whom allusion was made;—,
and, in fact, in describing it himself, he al
ludes to me expressly when . he says : • "A
_visitor
was
-in—a gentleman whose pros=
ence was calculaied-to, stir still deeper the
fountains of menuiry, and was gladly wel
'corned by Col. Benton, and conversed with
him for some time and with much animation.
The effect was too much for the, exhausted
frame and exhitusted voice, and a moment or
two after the visitor, retired, the labor was
_obliged to be desisted front.",
Mr. Jones who was at, work some distance
from the bed over which I leaned. to catch
the whispers of Col. Benton's "exhausted
voice" in my ear, can, as safely as Mr. Hall,
who was not, in the house,' declare ,that the
remarks made to me were not made in his
presence. - < • •
Mr. Jones believes ;hat after
,he reached
Washington, ten days, betae' his'y.deith, he
(Col. B.) was " too - much -inclined to good
will to say anything that could woutifor' ir
ritate ;" and' Mr. I-911's corroborating testi
mony may be true that no. such sentiments
as thoSe attributed to Col. Renton by the
-writer of that article (the article in the Tri
bune denied by jones) ," Were expressed l;
him during any of those interostina D conver
sations" Mr. Haltheld. with him. _CA Ben- •
ton understood, too, well what. belonged to pro
priety "to wound, or irritate" the feelings of
Mr. Jones, or Mr. - Hall by _denouncing an
Administration to persons who. were •its ben
eficiaries.: Mr. Jones was • just, returned
from a foreign employment ; Lie. had -his ac.-
counts to settle in the Department, ho was
grateful for the patronage he had received,
and might receive more. Mr. Hall is-a large
Mail contractor, and 'has. great expectations
from an Administration which'grants favors
to none but its devotees. It would have,been
‘
unpardonable, - then, in Col. Benton to ,make
either.of these gentletnert listeners to denun
ciations, of an Adeninistralion w icli, they
would he obliged to receive in silence, *hile
it wounded their feelings and might possibly
affect their interest. But to .me and to ninny
of his friends 1. CongresS he was under`no
such restraint,*d - to them and the - .,puhlie
generally hegatlii vent to the - strongest emo
tions of his.patrTotie heart and powerful in
. .r .; ..? 7 .. .
1. /
telleet. misterly , philippie Vitinst - the
whale' ; policmf the Administibuili up=
on the DreVcott decision—iiis,4oorOni• •• •
the whole hatd. of conspirators.• ighifist the
Union, designated under the name of NMI&
ers, to whom he ascribes all the troul3lesoi.:
the country for years, and on•whorn he char
ges, in his examination of that deeision,'llt& •:
packing of the Supreine Court to assist - them
in the destruction of the;;principlea - of tIO: •
Constitution and.overthrow. of the' Govern
ment„i proves that even• tiker struck \
awir with disease he was not so tamed its to
be incapable of making what MiP.JOnei eat:.
" the invidious sectional . distinetiOir of de
claring his respect for "'thetireat se ice Mr.
Clay had rendered to the Republic at, that •
time (1850) by baffling and putting:down ,
' the traitorous Secessionists of the SoUth."
That this feeling, manifest throughout the
volume Published after he was struck . deVrti. .
and Whichhe declared - Was his. last will land •
testament, • was the 'ruling passion , in death, ';
was most strikingly shown in the con Versa:, ,
- don I had with him oI the occasion referie6 . •
to by Mr. _Rides, the lasthutene 4411;w-hi
de:oh. It'was my habit to cheer him alway ,-
with happy views of thesuccess of oar cause.
and the defeat of the machinatiens: against
the Vnion. At this interview, I bent over :
him and told' him Of the `good creek. Mr.
Crittenden's measure would have; that,eom
ing froni him,, and, being perfectly -"fair; it • •
made it impossible that4he agitators Of. the
South could excite a flietAng there to promote • •
their designs. This animated him, 'and
mind recurred .with fervor. to the contest Mr . •.' •
Cldy had with the nullifiers , in 1850, whieli le.' •
had then under review in closing his viterlt
and his life and, . although he could. - -
4peak above his breath, he gave to_lii'stitter- •.
anchihe emphasivhich,distinguisliodtusi ins
passioned conversation. He extolled Mt , ,
Clay, and denounced his adversaries, - as ilt,t" •
Tribune's as tide states. hlis bosom atrd eyt• •
seemed to dilate with she expression he Ic
bored to give to his sense of what he calle , !'
the noble
,patriotism and glorious eloquene- ,
of Mi. Clay- in his straggle against - the ent-t
-mien of the Union. The spot op' his. face.
,produced by the burning
. - eanceir.
gloWed as his - .excitement increased.t Hit
burst- of rapture over—which carried hint
back to the scenes in the Senate—he
his'familiar tune with roe, and tidded" Sir
he throttled the 'rascals l he throttled' them•o!'',
and as-if to call my attention to it„ lie said, i
Rhea particularly." I have recurred/ Ix/
the debate since, and find the following
creme to Mr. Rhett; -which was :extortet:
frOm Mr: Clay by Mr, Barnwell. tllfr/Clay, •
after lie had. named lthett, addid4L" If k
pronounced the sentiMent attributed ; to
of raisings.fhe standard of disunion aml t't
resistance to the cot ton Government, what- •.
ever he has beep, if he follows up. thaty die
• laration by overt acts; .hewill-be feaittt'r!• •
and 1 hope will meet the fate of,, a trair"%:: t•
[Great applause in tile 'gallery,..with_.difiltaii
iy suppressed by the Chair.] .\ •
• I never thought of-giving an acenteit rd
this interview •to the Press. Others thought
that such, an instance of the utter forgel fel
nes4 of •himself on the part Of Col. Benton
Millis dying condition, of the-total surrender •
_aids thoughts to a work which he wished to
make useful to his country, of the ardor
With which he entered .(while the band'-o
dath was on hini) into conflicts for the pub
lic welfare, requiring-all the vigor of his fife
deserved commemoration. Nelson, who wat , •
cheered-as his life ebbed awiiy at .every
cessive atnoutacement Of a flag being' struck •
to him by, the enemy at Trafalgar;
who died happy in the arms of vietc4:on the
nights of Abraham, did not die'inore exult- •
ingly s than Benton, when convinced-that th ,
plots - and. lopes of tire nullifiers were. con
founded.- • ..
• I am sensible that after a minds dead eve
ry statement in regard ;to his :political opir
ions made by any individual engaged iu iii,
public ContrOversy should be scrupulony
sifted and receive no absolute' .credence
, less corroborated by proof incapable - of
Version, , Now, although ,my statemeirt,. nt••
Col. Benton's remarks las-made. four c! :c
-' before his death, mid was published in
;Tribune before. the event, I will bring
test to settle the controverspinto Which 1•••.
dragged by those who would serve the A.d . .‘t
Ministration, and wherthetefore have atten - ip!
ed a, contradiction of. thithostiliti to it,whici•
the conversation with. Col. Benton 1 have re,
counted would evidence was.felt by_ him.—
Mr. Jones and. Mr. Hall unite in the -effort
to make the impression that he was a friond
of the Presidentrthe ,latter *hiring tha-i•
" heexpressed himself in unmistakable tertos•
of friendship. oward the President, commetei
in his honesty and uprightness of purpose'.' '
The former speaks of "a further exatople of
which was Shown in the satisfaction Which r
expressed at interviews subsequent to
time' (my visit) with the Presidents:and:sec
retary of State," and s both these. , •.testitior•
agree in the *stereotyped phraseology Used in
recommending the executive measure, that
with respect to-the ,partiCular .luestion (t
LecoMpton -fraud) then Vexing Coi - igt ess and
the country, his own desire' was that it shotilw.,.
be speedily settled in away to proinote what,
with him was the dominant idea—peace : tar
union'among.the States." Every body kn0v. , ; , ..
thaithe only way then or now left open .by
the President, through which the. - vexiit.. ,
question. could be "speedily Setil s eil,"
nd is the adoption. of the Ilecotripton
Stitution. i
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1 will now proctfed to,sbow, from reco - tder; . _
evidence in Col. Benton 4 s own liandWrilinc . •
that he was opposed to Mr. ;Buchanan enc . .
his administration ! that. he was opposed: i.e..
the .- speedy settlement of the. Territorial
question in relation.to Slavery in the titn.de,! '.
proposed by Mr, Buchanan, but, on the con.
..
trary, he was resolved on the•agitetion.of thr -
Subjeet, until the-opinion of the Supreme'
' Court, opening all. the Territorjes to the ir.-
troduCtion of slaves, was,rendered . abcirtivk!-
by the . ction of CongresOn: the mainteitanthi
of the political rights' of the people. That ,
he Was opposed. to Mr. Buchanatt,,not
i merely
on the, score of his Pending: measaies but,
because he his recently gifen in his.adhcsien !,
'to principles adverse to Gen.. JacksenTs. card . .
• inal doCtrine in reference. to theindepbndiaiep
::of the legislative and executive. departments '
of political deeisions of itniSupreme Court.
and because'he believed . him anti-Democratic'
lat heart. •• - ; --- „ ' - : • ~.
. . .
In proof of tbe first position, I give • Alio.
!. fol lo wino' eitract of - a 'biographi&al notice of '
,
him 'prepared by an intiljiale personal filen6,
which was subjected - to lat Benton's 'revi ! :. •
ion. bears the,mark of it.froin his own „ pea,
and wliich in givincrtte prWitto tnotives-Aild
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