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The ensuing is a free translation of a fragment of the late
Snodgrass Itamsbottom The original is written in chaste and
elegant dog-latin hexameters. It is impossible, however, to
infuse into a translation the spirit and delicacy of that class,
cal language.
TRANSLATION.
Steals the sweet evening o'er the dewy twilight
Which fades away, half smiling, half in tears ;
As Hopes evanish from a topers skylight,
Leaving behind a train of dusky fears ;
These mutter dismal groans on darkness spent,
And men instinctive shun the Haunted Tenement.
As fades the dusk, the concave deeper grows
To dream-entranced, star-gazing Poetaster ;
Swells his pure spirit with internal throes ;
He glances up sublimity flows faster!
Striketh the darkness to his cranium, where
it'
Conceptions, bat-like, glkle in damp and cloudy air."-r.
Now nature smiles no longer in the rill, ; ;
Nor gleams fantastic in the summer cloud,
Nor imaged sleeps in frowning crag or hill,
Starting by glimpses from her clayey shroud ;
Hut, traced in shallow y outline, she appears
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A swart and gloomy shape, stricken by sweep of years
Slowly she draws a misty night-cap on,
And winds a clohd about her for a curtain,
Settles her elfish locks, and sinks upon
An airy couch to seek repose "'tis certain ;
In a few moments, after curt gyrations,
Murmurs the midnight deep with nasal intonations.-
See! rising from their sweot and silvery sleep," s'
Glide the weird sisters o'er the upper ocean, -
Each wave the bush-ends of their broomsticks sweep,
Gleaning for opiate spells some deadly potion.
So shining poets, glittering without number,
J.ull, by their sleepy draughts, their auditors to slumef.
On fancy lifted, pierce the dark unknown
Veil of the future ! Of the Past the shroud !
There plmntoms of the brave and pure have flown;1 " '
Tlieir shadowy structures wearing in the cloud. a
So the poor student, with ill-feigned defiance,
The glaring spectres face, of mathematic science.-
As slowly glide the rose-wreathed clouds the while,
Flushing with passion-tints the face of Heaven, .
Ureaks o'er her languid brow a holy smile! !
A trembling ray the chaos x oid has riven ; . , -,
S'.cals o'er the soul a beauteous revelation, ,
A. .iJ, faintly shadowed forth, glimmers a new creation:
So. m the blockhead's pate, if some sweet ray
( if sene iall linger o'or the horizons verge,
S oly the murky darkness steals away
A.i J forms fantastic from the gloom emerge ;
His mind, a stagnant pool, no fair words glance,t
11 it shadowy frogs and tad-poles 'ncath the suiface dance:
Trembles the death sigh on the minstrel's tongue !
Yet suffer, ere it pass, an admonition,
Ye whose. faint hearts too finely far arc strung,
Who start and shudder at a coalition,
' As gross,' quoth ye ' as blending peace and pain ;
How cm tho pure sublime e'er pierce a booby's brain V
Ye craren souls '. I cannot sympathize
"With those by silly subjects so perplext ; 1 v
Y'c need not scan the deep, nor trace the skies,
To pierce the mystery ; read this homely text,
"Winch Kcason's pages to your sight extend,
Pates, like balloons, if stuffed with gas, will always upward
tend.'
Tlic Veteran.
It was a Sabbath morn,
The bell had chimed for church, v ;l ,K
And the young and gay were gathering
Around the rustic porch. sH ,,
There came an aged man, ' -
In a soldier's garb wa heT 'w
And gazing round the group he cried,
"Do none remember me" . .
The veteran forgot
His friends were changed or gonef;
The manlv forms around him 'there .
As children he had known.
He pointed to the spot
Where his dwelling used to be, .; ft,
Then told his name, and smilingjsaFd -
" You now remember me." .,
Alas! none knew him there ;.
JWe po'iHted to a stone
Qn -which the name he breathed .wastrae'd,
A iame to them unknown.
And the Hths. old man wept,
" I am Aiendless now," cxied; he, .
tf)Yheie 1 had'inany friends in youth.
'"Not one i"cme?bers me !"
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Hi.ulish Choose. Some' people are so fontl of
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jiinubug tiieni 6ceilionalI
Foreign Correspondence.
The next day being Sabbath, we went to
Church and heard a sermon read by a clergy
man who seemed to care very little for the ef
fect it might have. In the afternoon I took a
walk through a deep winding chasm, near a
mile long, just wide enough for a road, and in
some places 70 feel high, with vast rocks jut
ting out from its sides, presenting a very wild
appearance, and crossing over, ascended to the
very top of another of the seven wonders of
Derbyshire, Mam Tor or the Shivering Moun
tain, 1300 feet high. The view from it was
magniiicent. I had three beautiful dales in
sight. All these heights difler greatly from
our hills having no trees upon them, but are en
tirely bare, and though not presenting as fine
an appearance as ours, on that account, yet al
low a much belter view from their summits.
At the bottom of Mam Tor is the celebiated
Odin Mine, whence is obtained the beautiful
Spar called Blue John. In the morning we
posted o-ver to Sheffield, 16 miles, by Hone
Dale and Hatherrage, and reached there before
10 A. M., leaving us time for an hour's ramble.
Here we took ihe railway to York, and first
foundout that they have in front and behind,
cars with windows all around, called coupes,
which allow you a fine sight of the country.
The fare is a trifle more, which we always
readily paid if wo could secure these seats.
The railroads are admirably managed in this
country. The attendants who are dressed In a
kind of police uniform, attend to what each has
to do with promptness, and every thing goes
right.
We reached York about 2 P. M. and at once
started for the Minster, whose turrets we had
seen for miles. It was so cluttered up by
houses thai it was not easily found though so
immense a building. The last fire I think did
good by clearing away some of them, and a few
more burnings if confined to the buildings
around, would be of advantage. It is a great
shame that this splendid pile should be so pent
round with miserable huts and dingy buildings,
justly placed, as it is, at the head of the Gothic
Structures of the kingdom, for its mass, gran
deur and architectural beauiies. The interior
is most superb. The windows are all of paint
ed glass. The screen separating the nave
from the choir is a most exquisite piece of
sculpture and contains the figures of the Kings
of England from William I. to Henry VI. It
abounds in monuments, some very ancient, and
they show several ancient relics of interest to
the curious. From the top is a very fine view
of ihe town and surrounding country. This
city the Eboracum of the Romans, is situated
on the Ouse and Fosse. It was long the sec
ond city :n the kingdom, .the seat of royally and
affluence, but is now far behind a score of other
cities which trade and enterprise have builded
in the utilitarian age. It is divided into four
districts which take their names from the city
gates, Mickle-gate, Bootham-gate, Morek-gate
and Walen-gate. We passed through Mickle
gate, the finest, viewed these once famed walls
of York, went to the Museum, within whose en-
j closure 'are the Old lloman Tower and the re-
i mnivie rf Mr.-..'-. A K U .1
iiiumo ui ui. maiv a xiuue, unu returning 10
the railway, went on to Thirsk, 11 miles, from
which we again posted 10 miles to the ancient
city of Ripon.
After a late dinner, S o'clock, P. M. we took
an hour's stroll, saw the Tumulussaid to have
been thrown up to cover the bones of the Danes,
who fell here in 867, in a desperate contest
with Eltaj King of the Northumbrians, under
Hinguar, in which the bird of Odin triumphed
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anu j!iiia pensneu witn tus Host, it is a high
mound about the height of tho Academy hill
from Fermer street, and though many bones are
found in it, it being the burial place of the
Daues is much doubted. From here we walk
ed to the Chapal attached to St. Mary Magda
len's Hospital, an old decayed building, with
half its windows out. It yields 400 per an
num to the Dean who preaches in it once a
month by his curatu, or as our guide said, as
often by his chorister. The last Dean took
down the bell and sold it. We looked inside
and found it corresponding with the exterior in
decay and ruin. In the morning we took a fly,
over to Studley Royal, to see the famed remains
of Fountains Abbey. The grounds, of Studley
Royal, an immense cstaie, are most piciuresque
ly laid out and ornamented. It contains some
of the finest trees in England, and the walk to
the ruins which takes near an hour, is a most
delightful one. In various directions openings
are contrived to admit of the different beautiful
diversities which hill and dale afford, while
temples, towers and statuary are interspersed
over the whole. Arriving at Anne Boleyn's
seat, the guide placed us opposite the folding
doors, and then with quite an air, threw open
wide the portals, when the celebrated remains of
Fountains Abbey with its stately walls and tow
er burst upon us, surrounded with the most de
lightful scenery imaginable. I cannot do bet
ter than copy for you an extract from one of the
many descriptions of it, leaving details until
another lime. " hundred years have pass
ed since Fountains Abbey was first reared by
monastic piety. For three centuries it was ile
voiei! to the services of the Roman Caihnlie
Chu'rcJ, -find fur Qtljer three centuries ith'as
been silently passing to decay, but time with a
lenient hand has clad its walls in the venerable
aspect of ruin, and tho kindly influences of lib
erality and taste have preserved it from that de
vastation which has levelled many kindrod fab
rics with the earth. 4 The mighty carcass of
Fountains,' as Whitaker justly terms it, 'still
remains in such preservation as not only to ex
hibit its architectural details, but also to afford
the clearest idea of the relative situation and
extent of the several buildings and of tho vari
ous uses to which they have been assigned.
Founded at a period when the massive and
gloomy character of Norman building was giv
ing placo to the more chaste and elegant style
of early English architecture, Fountains Abbey
presents a union of these styles, throughout the
whole fabric, except only the tower and por
tions of the east end, which are enriched by ad
ditions of a later date. Whether therefore as
regards architectural style, the arrangements of
a vast monastic institution, or the piciuresque
beauty of its ruins, Fountains Abbey claims the
attention of the architect, the antiquary and the
artist, while historical interest and romantic
scenery add their powerful attractions and fur
nish abundant sources of contemplation and en
joyment.' All this and much more may be said
of this intensely interesting spot
'Decay has triumphed from the cloistered gloom
Ascends no vesper hymn with solemn tone ;
But on the aisle that echoed back the swell
Of choral harmony the wall flower blooms,
As if to shew that beauty best may dwell
Where pomp is fled and gloomy grandeur gone.'
The vaulted roof of the cloisters which arc
yet quite perfect, is supported by, 18 pillars, ox
tending the whole length of the interior and di
viding it into two aisles each 300 ft. by 21, and
the fine perspective from several points gives
great beauty to the views. One end is built
immediately over the Skell whose waters you
see beneath, through one of the windows.
Over these cloisters was the dormitory, con
taining about 40 cells, the windows of which
are remaining though the roof is gone. From
the Abbey we went to Fountains Hall, built by
Sir Stephen Proctor in 1611. It has a square
embattled tower at each end, and its front is or
namented with statues taken from the niches
of the Abbey tower. Studley Royal contain
ing these parks and massive ruins and build
ings all now belong to a maiden lady, by the
name of Laurance, who also owns another
place near Buxton, named Backfall, celebrated
for its artificial romantic beauty. She is great
ly beloved by her tenants, and every one speaks
in the highest terms of her excellent qualities
and regrets the prospect of her leaving them,
which they mournfully anticipate as being nigh
at hand, from her age and infirmities. The
Earl de Grey, Lord Lieut, of Ireland, succeeds
as next heir. Our guide related a singular sto
ry to me in answer :b a query ' How it came
that a lady of so excellent a heart and princely
estate was never married V Part no doubt, is
fiction but founded in some truth. He said
when young she loved one whose rank and es
tate were beneath her, though in every other
respect unexceptionable. Her guardians re
fused their assent and would not permit the
marriage. She vowed that if prevented marry
ing him, she would never marry, and has kept
her vow. The strangest part of the story was
that hp married and is now one of the highest
in the realm, raised by her influence to distinc
tion far beyond what would have entitled him
to her hand, even in the estimation of her
worldly guardians. You have the tale as 'twas
told me.
Wc returned to Ripon and visited the Minis
ter there, which is a very ancient and fine
building having been commenced by Thurston
in 1119. Entering the door the whole extent
of a perspective of noar 300 feel is before
you. Among many other monuments in it you
are shown one, as it is said commemorating
the death of an Irish Prince, who died here on
his return from Palestine from whence he
brought a lion which followed him as lamely
as a dog and watched over him. On a slab of
marble over it are sculptured the figures of a
man and lion in a grove of trees. From the
interior we went out and descended beneath
to the Bone house or Catacombs said to exceed
anything of the kind in the country. Here
beneath ihe arches were piled in gteat order,
the bones of thousands who had been interred
in tho church yard. This seemed the favorite
of our guide, who .began taking them down
and shqwiug the peculiarities of each, brokon
skulls, fractured thighs, &c. which as I had
not much fancy for, much to his annoyance, I
cleared out as soon as poasible and thus rescued
J. to whom he was descanting most anatomi-j
cally learnedly. We took the coach for New
Castle upon Tyne at 12 o'clock, M. passing
through Darlington and Durham 56 miles.
Durham Minster has a very imposing appear
ance in tho exterior, more so 1 thought than
that of York, though it may be owiug to its
situation. The castle also, now the Bishop's
Palace presented a very line sight. We reach
ed New Castle about 10 P. M. In the morn
ing we rose at 5, and visit nl tho castle, the
Market, St. Nicholas with the spire like an
unporial ciown, audMhu old wall said to be
partly on life old I'iU wall which runs' across
the kingdom to Carlisle. New Castle seems
a more flourishing town than most we passed
through, and resembled more one of our com
mercial cities. Some of tho buildings were
very fine. We left by coach at-8 A. M. and
found on the outside two pleasant young Eng
lishmen from 'Cambridge bound to Edinburgh
as we.
We soon reached Oiterburnc near which
was pointed out the fit? Id of Chevy Chase, a
monument marks the spot where the gallant
Douglas fell. The country assumed a wilder
appearance than any we had yet seen. Our
road carried us through Ellsdon Moor, an ex
tensive waste inhabited by sheep and grouse.
At Carters Fell we crossed into Scotland. The
scenery hereabouts is wild and exiensive.
Had the hills our foliage the resemblance to
many parts of America would have been very
great. Approaching Carters Fell we saw the
Cheviots and the border country so celebrated
for wild forays and predatory excursions in the
days of feud between England and Scotland.
We reached .ledburg a place of some note and
beauty 2 P. M. It is upon the river Jed, from
whence it takes its name and is perhaps better
known to us as a place where siory tells many
of our name were executed, captured in the
border strifes. While our fellow passengers
dined, the young Englishmen and ourselves
paid -a visit to the ruins of the Old Abbey,
founded by David 1. in 1118, burnt in the bor
der warfares in 1545, by the Earl of Hertford.
It is a magnificent ruin and deemed ihe most
perfect specimen of the Saxon and early Goth
ic in Scotland. Fart of one end is now used
as a church. We ascended to the top of the
tower and had a full view of the environs of
Jedburg, abounding m piciuresque scenery,
with the winding beautiful Jed. Soon after
wuu uie winumg oeautiiul Jeu. boon alter
leaving it we crossed the Teviot, went through
Ancram near which the battle of Lilliard's
edge was fought in 1545. Now the Eildon
hills appear bold in view and soon, passing
near the ruins of the beautiful Abbey, We
alighted at the Royal George, in Melrose, and
ordering dinner to be ready on our return, our
oamonuge menus anu we ordered a convey- !
ance to Abuotslord at once. Passing along
the 1 weed, we. reached this home of the
Great Wizard of the North, in about half an
hour, and passed two intensely interesting
hours, in going over the house and grounds.
The house is filled with the most recherche
and curious articles that could be collected in
the same space no rubbish, nothing that
ought not to be there, and all arranged by Sir
Walter himself, just as they should be. It
would lake a letter to enumerate them and I
will not begin. The hall into which you first
enter is hung with ancient armor. Its walls
panneled with richly carved oak, and round the
cornice is ranged the coats armorial of the
families which kept the borders with their
names. Among the Douglases, Scons, Turn
buls, &c. that of the Maxwell's of course,
struck us at once, St. Andrew's Cross upon
the shield with the name below. As we pass
ed through his breakfast, dinning and drawing
rooms and into the Library, we lingered at
each step to trace his hand in every thing; but
the last spot was of most interest, his study,
from whence issued those writings which have
been tho admiration of the world. I sat upon
his study chair, still having the ink upon it,
and wished ihat some little of the spirit of him
whose seat it was, might come to me. In a
closet adioining are the last clothes he worn.
Passing along
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just as he took them off, when he laid down in
me oeu irom wnence no never rose again.
The lady who showed us seemed to revere
his memory as of one a little more than mortal,
and was just the kind of guide one wanted
there. She was dressed in the plaid. The
view of the Tweed from some of the windows
was very fine.
On our return a shower came upon us which
continuing until after dinner, we started to see
the Abbey in ihe rain, intending of course to
it .... . .
iook on it again oelore wo lelt. Wc were very
fortunate. For'1 though Sir Walter says "o
view fair Melrose aright" one should " vis'.t it
by the pale moon light," we saw it to . ovn
belter advantage, by the evening lightning,
lighting it -up most beautifullv. and th'i?
mg it to the rich mellow of the clea'.ini un of
mo auuwer. u. was a most ueaiulul sight
long to be remembered. Theso nUrmnt nA
graceful rums are well worthy tho nraiso of
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ouuuus uuru, anu i cannot no better than refer
you to the opening of tho 2 cunto of the Lay
of the last Minstrel, for a proper idea of their
efioct. We saw the grove of the gallant Doug
las, and where Bruco's lieart was said to be.
I sat upon the stone, the favorite seat of Sir
Waller with Maida on his knee, and as the
lightning's glare flashed thro' tho beautiful east
window, lighting all up within, the XI. stanza
of canto 2d came full to recollection. It
looked as though
'Some fairy hand
Twixt poplar straight, the oster wand
In many a freakish knot had twined,
Then framed a spell when the work was done,
And changed tho willow wreaths to stone.'
We went from here to the Church yard and
saiv 'tho' graves of Dominie. Sampson, and sev
eral otherswhose portraits ScuH had drawn,
giving new names. Here we lingered again
among the beautiful carving that every where
protuaely embellished tins magniiicent monas
tery. And here and in the cloisters we
wfn .1
as long as any light was le.ftt reaching the tfo
lei anout nail past len o clock. ,
In the morning 1 got tip at "five, ileiehniin-d
to ascimd 'oiVe of the Eildon hills before break
fast, and was well repaid for my trouble. I
first went to the lop of the highest. Tho 'V
takes in a view of 30 miles, m all dire.eiinhs.
Beneath were the Abbey and Melrose. I n Otut.
direction Smailholm, Scon's birth place, Ber
wick, with Jedburg and Dryburg on the rini,
while to the north were Abbofurd, Diunefc
Galashiels with the Tweed winding down
among them. Observing the tracery oTaiLuht
Roman Camp on the hill opposite me, I de
scended to the botloin of the peak which divide
them, and ascended to it. I found it in qm
good preservation and easily traced it rmitv4.
Here I saw J. mounting the top of this piuifc
with a lad he had picked up, so I joined 'aim
and went up to the top of it from which ivs
ihe same view, thus doing double duty befon:
breakfast, for the ascent of thee hills, nt least
1000 feet high, is no trifle so early. The Eil
don hills, the Trirnontium of ihe Romans, as
tradition says, were once one uniform cone ami
formed into the present three picturesque pe.ak
by the spirit that Michael Scott had to keep,
busy. (For the particular read Lav or the Las
Minstrel.) W left Melrose at 9 A. M. ao'?
crossing the Tweed, Allan Water, Crbtfkstoifc
Water and the Esk, passing the banks of ih,r
Gala', separating the road from Gablm
Crookston, Middleton, Fushis bridge, Dalhou
sie, Libjjrton and Powburn, seeing ihe ruins'of
Borthwick and Roslin Castles, Hawthomdou
and the seats of many of the nohilitv, w
reached Edinburgh about 2 P. M.
A man named Marsh was once traveHiag-ift'
a stage-coach, and was much annoyed by :l
garrulous old maid. After ascertaining his
name, she inquired if he belonged so such ;u
family of Marshes?
" No, madam. I do not. nnr t nn- r.., .
y that you know,' was his repU-, in sharp and
uuiupi lones;
'Oh,' said the antiquated virgin, 'there's so
much acid about you, I stqipoae you spruhV
from the Cranberry Marshes.' .
'If I did, madam,' was the promot retort, Tm
fit sauce for a goose.' The lady, was silent iher
rest of the journey.
'Zeb, can you tell us who is the reatestrmua
in the United States ? H '
'Yes, sir, Mr. Wickliffe.' ' :rf
'Why so, sir?'
'Becos, sir, he's at the -head of the 'maltU'e
partment; and if t'want for him, there wouldn't
be any males, sir; and males is very necessary,,
ir, to a free country; and, sir '
'Stop, Zeb, thr.t'li do'
'No, sir, 'twont do at all, sir, because if there
wan't no males, sir, the females wouldn't live
on no condition whatever. Just you think, sir,,
for a moment, upon the situation of a whole
world full of unprotected females ! Oh, sir, it's,
awful, sir. Oh ! oh ! oh !'
Hero Zeb's feelings Averc loo many for Him';,
and he fainted.
CKre ffos: Rheumatism.'
We saw a young man, of our acquaintance,,
to-day, limping about the streets, hair dead with
the rheumatism, (cather an unusual thing, at this
season or the year,) and we hethought us ofc a
remedy that vVe had tried, with signal success,
when similarly afflicted two winters ago ; riis
this: "Sv.-allow a piece ot Asafatida, about as
big as a pea, three times a day, just before
meals and, in a week, or less, you will be
well - it 'i0n'i "smell like apples;1' but never
min il it's a sovereign cure. We used to wash
H down with "a drink n' siimmni- lux if vm
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uavc any scruples about a dram, it is not Impor-
. m. it r .
iam. juuamj Ua.) Jourtcr.
Tho North American says: A curious little
instrument has lately been invented, which,
though not much longer than a tooth pick, will
enable the wearer to hang up his hat where
he pleases, or indeed anything to ihe weight
of fifty pounds, completely out of his way. Jt
will be found very useful in a crowded theatre
or concert room, or any public meeting, and'be
likely to save the economist a hat per annum.
It will also serve for a cigar-holder.
It must be a curious little instrument indeed.
But whero was it invented, and where is it to
be seen 1
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Thomas Hart, beerscller at Halliwell, Eng.,
christened his twenty-ninth child lately. Of
that number twenty-five aro still alive, and,
should the prolific pair live a few years, further
additions to their family may be expected.
Siivprisissfj Speed.
The St. Louis Organ says that a mule, which
had been frightened by a grisly bear, in thu
Rocky Mountains, started on a run, for the fic-t
time in his life, and went so fast that his rider,
took the consumption, owing to thu change. of
the climate, and died !