Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 19, 1873, Page 8

8 TIE CIICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SU DAY, JANUARY 19, 1873 THE LRHESIDE MONTHLY. A Negro ‘Wedding in the Ciden Time. 'The Destruction of the Cities of Dinant and Liege. In the Zakeside for January, William D. Wood end Ruth Chesterfield have two plessant etoriee,—~* A Dramatic Sensation,” and “ Bach- elor'sHall.” Egbert Phelps describes /A Bouih- ern Christmas in the Olden Time,” when planta- tion-life end old-fashioned Southern hospitality Led the lusuriant aspect—on the outside—that the War and Emancipation have obliterated, Tho writer 58w one of those comieal NEGDO WEDDINGS which have been g0 often described ¢ The bride and groom, answering to the nsmes of Andrew sed Susy, wero field-hands of ummbsiakably puire Gusnes blood, snd both of them bad passed tha rst half-century of life. Their dress, however, showed that they had not yet entircly eschowed the follica of ther youth, for though rudo snd cheap, as_became {heir condition; it was nevertheless not unembellished itk thoce Lits'of gewga and glariag flners of bright- colored ribbop aud tie in which the negro delighta. With the most decorous gravity the *Andrew! duz you lub dis yers wor T duz g0 " was the emphatlc reply, “ Will yoi promise to stick close to her froo time an’ »arnity, renouncin’all odderaan’ clesbin’ on'y o her ebar an’ eber an’ amen 7 1 will dat * Will you Tub, honor an’ bey "— N “Tiold on dar, Ole Jack ["bere interrnpted thie grocm, with no iiftle ehow of indignation—* ‘taint no uss taikin’ to dfs nigger ‘bout ‘beyin' de wimmen. Can't promise to "bey w0 wimmin folks on'y ‘cept off Hiseie 17 : “Silence dar{ you owdumptious nigger {” roared tho wrathful preacher ; what fur you go fur spile Gs cemmony! You done spilt all {he grabbity ob de caeion ! ‘Dis yere 's o'ny matter ob form an’ in’spensa- de’casion, Now don't you go fur to open your inck mouf till de time for you to speak | ¥itl you promise to Jub, honor, an’ bey"—(Andrew etill shaking his head ominously at the obmoxious ~iord)—* dis yers nigger Susy, furnishin’ hor wid all thirys noedful far Ler comfort an’ happiness ; cher- izhin’ 2o’ puriectin’ her from all sufferin’ and’ sorrer, on’ mekin” smoove de path ob all her precedin’ days Lo ceme T “fiposel must gay yea to dat” eald Androw, moelly. . = “Den I pronounce dess yere two conples to be man £n'wife! an’ whom de Lord hab joined togedder Jot 20 man go for to put dem ssunder 7 - Heore an uproar 2roso amoug the blacks, botokening s dilemms entirely unforeseen by 0d Jack, For inas- b ax ho had forgotten to requize the usual vows of v, tiey insisted thst however firmly Androw might ucd by the bonds of matrimony, Susy was still !z, and the pair wero but half marrled. The mat~ 1orwas < last odjnsted by the prescher commencing 10 curetaony denoro, by which means the couple were finaly united fo the satisfaction of all, Tho Chicago fire and the burning of Boston recall to the stadent of history the piteous story of the DESTRUCTION OF DINANT AND LIEGE by Philip the Good and Charles the Bold, and teaclyus, in the midst of our losses, to be thank- ful that 3vo do not live in an age when, 28 in the csse of thoso beautiful cities, royal caprice, without even the weak protextof war, deliber- ately orders the destruction of populous towns, tho dispersion of the inhsbitants, and the ntter obliterstion of the mnswmes, the mem- ury, =il traces of the victims. In “Tho Fato of Two Cities” Mr, James W. Sheehan rclatcs tho canses which aronsed 1ho royal anger against Dinant and Liege,—do-. veribes their costly end imposing churches, monasteries, and public buildings, and gives all the ezd details of their destruction. How thior- ongh snd terrible the vandalism of the act was, may be judged from this interesting passage, in which Mr. Sheshan tells how Dinant met its fzte. This city was destroyed because a mob of boys had’ burned an effigy of Charles the Bold, son of Duke Philip the G ood, snd made an im- putation npon his legitimacy. For this, in 1466, on thio 27th of August, Philip destroyod the city by fire as follows : ‘The army was billeted upon the {nhsbitants. On that day, 85 £00n as the dinner was completod, each goldicr seized the citizen in whoes house he was'lodged, and dexanded of him, upon pain of death, wher' his trezsures were concealed. For threo days and nights 4ho sack 2nd pillsge coufinued without intermistion, Every building, room, and out-house, was searched and pillaged. Tho leaden roofs of the buildings wers removed. The horses and vehiclos of tho city wera taken and employed in removing the plundered prop- erty 1o appointed places boyond {ho walls, On tho ziver, bouts eimilarly Ioden, swarmed, Thera wero eny contentions and much” blood shed betweon the Bpoflers over thelr captured prizes. Tho vindictive a5d relentless Duks Iooked on immoved at this scene, 7o hia credit, however, bo it said that from the first he peremptorily forbade any outrages on womer, and ac- tuzlly caused some men of his own guard, sccuged of this czime, to Le hanged in a conspictions’ part of the cit, whers their bodics remained suspended £ 8 warn- 4ng 1o othera, 4n investigation was had as to those who hiad parti- | cipsted in the outrage under the walls of Bouvignes, Tho witnesass were the people of tho latter town, - The detals of the examination are unknown, but the dread- ful regult was & errible sacrifico of human life, Eight hmndred men, bound together in pairs, were thrown iuto th Monse, . This part of Llie aloncment was wit- ueseed by PhflfD the Good from his perck in Bouvignes, on tho other gida of the river, Othors were hanged, £nd many killed by the soldiers, Tho surviving in- hubitasts were then declared the virtaal elaves of.the ‘cuptors, Upon evory man there was a fixed a sum, Tpon tize payment of which he might recover his freodom ; if unable to pay, Lis captors could, hold him ar e Liim 1 a slave. 'The women and chiidren, and the ec- clevinstics, wero exempt from this bondage, and wora ordered to leave the city forthwith, - They wero not al- lowed 1o take anything with them, save tho clothing ihoy bad on, In the afternoon of Aug. 28 ihis vion moved. The gates of the eity were.opened, and the women and children in long files moved out. They were offered sn escort (o Liege, whither this same army was soon to _move cisely gitailar _ errand. fathers, Lusbands, brothers and sons, in chaine. TerefL of every epecien of property, roduced fo abso- Iute want, theso thousandsof helpleas creaturcs were compelied to leave home, country, and protection, and rerieh from want Ly the roadside. - Thia accomplished, the next step in _the programme was toremove the grest body of ro0ps, Preparatory to tho fipal destruction of tho city. An’ accident, hows =, precipitated this part of its. doom. The night {hs deperture of the women and children, a fire rokic out, which soon spread. Orders wero given to estinguish it, but it reached the Hotel do Ville, whieh was Htored with gunpowder. Tho explo extended the fire, A great number of the prisomers, including the officisls woted citizens, were confined in the Church of Notre Dame, and were burned in the destrction of that buildisg. The fire epread furiozsly, and in ita pro- gross overtock soldiers laden with spoil; thousanda ¥ere bemmed in between streets of biszing fire, and perished. The vindictivo commander had 5o regrety ‘other than that an secfdent should have anticipated his wrders, and that tho world would not give bim the full glory of having applied the torch. Ho id what was Text beet to secure this deatruction, and that was to have the fire appiicd to all parts of the town not within the rango of the existing confiagration. Again and 82a{n was this work renewed. Bulldings that escaped 1l fire one day were fired tho next ; and 8o for saven dnys and nights Qid the hellish work progress, until théro was hiaviiaton or & building left in the whole of the once proud city of Dinant, ‘The eged Prince who, from his perch at Bouvignes, «conld see notling left of the once stately city of nant, with its numerous churches and public build- 1nge—-not even of its walls, with their clighty towers— Eavo bisckened ruins and smoking embere, was not ratisfied. e ordered laborers from othor citios of his domiinons fo level the broken walls of the burnt buildings, excavale the foundstiop-stoncs, and cart &Way to distant places everything incombustible that Iight ke used in rebuilding any portion of the city. Tho Tuios were thus remaved ; oficers were stationed there to collsct everything ‘of value, no matter how small, that had secaped the pillsge aud the fire, The deit and ashes and cinders wero actuaily sified, in order taleave no relic 1o bo found {hereater upon what had Leen the aito of the brave clty. In ihe list of criieles found by the oficers, and by them inven- torled rnd rold on accouut of the Government, wero meay of the eharacter following : “ Alittle clain of eilver, with bell” “Two litde eilver cujs, weighing, together, ons mark.” 44 pair of brides gloves,” o *An sgous ccnscd 1o silver.” £ A mecklace with ten littlo paternosters of amber.” The work of destruction contizuod mntil the next #pricg, end then, when thers was not 8 stone upon an- other, ond eacl timber and stoua had been carried far a3y, the vengsance of Philip “the Good " wee Batls- fied, and Dinstt was no more, - still woree, if that could be, was tho trestment of Licge. Liege was an ecclesiasticel principal- ity over which hilip bad pleced his ralative John of Bourhon, as reigning Bishop. Tho peo- plo rebelled ageinst this worthless Prince and ‘moro worthless prelate; were eoveral times pun- ished severely, and, finally, for an attempt to tmako the Bishop a prisoner, Charles, who had fecomo Dako of Flandors and Burgnndy, wipod tho city out of existonce: ‘Tre churchiee of Liege were rich beyond thoseof any city outside of Rome, They were sdorned in the most mapger. The fsme of thelr wealth exceeded Terbips tho reality; but it served to lead the soldiers, set {rov, toBiek their first plunder in these ze ona Rouser. They cntered thé churches swerd in Lhd. Tboy Tobbed the inmates and murdered them £t the s=me timie. They ascended the aitars, arrested te service,und tore tho sacred vesaels from the bands ef tho ofliciating priests,—frequently avolding discus- aion- by .murderiog the latter. In ono jostan o zollier, wllls waiting for the completicn of the' mass, robbed the priest whils the latter wes clevatlag the Host, Tlo altars andall parts of the church were eoon cleared of thelr valuablos, Simba wers Lroken open, and the graves searched for treasure. The conveuts, and there were many, were and more Drescher begaa: | invaded, the nurs eubjected fle outrage, and then wurdered. If any persons escaped with life, it was hecuuae the soldiers were too bt upon robbéry =nd spoil. The old and young, men_cnd women, mot the amo fafe. Charles, who, siucs tho destruction of Dinant. Lad succecded as Diks, went in person to tho Lambert, and driving out the robbers, terploe,” 1lis Licutenant in liko manter rescued (b Church of &¢, James: but ull tho other churciies were complet.iy gutted mud Tuia fury continued g1l thet day, On the Fuceseling noruing an order was fssued that agel ‘1nen end women sud children might leave tho city. Tho ecclesfastical communitics were sent by boats to auother city, After the departure of these, license waa gein given, 'Thero were 1o ordera to kill or plan- der ; but there was freedom given to tho soldiers to do what they plessed. Thera w33 no concerted massacro; ut flero was o general end deliberats murder, withoat tho ‘eak spology of prov- tiop, All tho men found in - Liega wero prisoners,—slaves, They were hanged, tingly or in groups, as if for diversion. Many wero carriod to the house-tops, and thence hurled to the streots below. The majority, howcver, who wero killed, were takea to {le bridge over the Meuse, tied together in paire, and thera thrown into (he river. -1fow many perished by thiese nd atlier means of death 18 unknown, The his- torians, who were of the Burgundizns, never gsve any details, though they sekmowledged tha massacre, Vee rious estimatea, founded upon mora or loss hisforical data, aro given; and many writers place th number 8 high as 60,000, Those who bad od the city befors the advenl the troops met 3 fate hardly less dreadful, =din ome instances more crucl than those who remained, They sought refuge and shelter in the woods, They wero destitute of food nnd cioibing, Thoy could go no- whereelse, Harboring or giving eheler to fugitives from Liege was beld tobo a crime, and punistied ac- cordingly. Strong bodiés of troops weto eent after them, “They wero bunted us bessts, = They perished with cold sud hungor, and £rom exposure. . Tho soldiery had exhsusted all their iugenuity and strength in wiping out Dinant, but regular Iaborors wore employed to make more thorough work of the demolition of Liege, and crase almost its very ruins from-the landscapo: . Some paine were taken to {solato the churches, in or- @er to provent their teking firo when the latter should Do kindled. Theso precautions, however, failed in many fustances, aud the churches. ahiared (he falo of thio less sanctifled properts. On the Otk of November, tho torch wos first applicd; and Charles and his army, then far swa on thelr cruel mission, exw from thoif camp the ight from the burning city. Tho fires thus indled were allowed to exhaust {lomselves, Each morning a fresh fire was started ; and thus, coutinu- ously, for seven weeks, did men 'Tabor, uncpposed, to Dburn what wos combustible in the City; and dur- ing thoso long woeks of days gad nights, tho fires thus used o gratify tho royal demhand for revenge, raged through ~{ho ‘once bLezutiful city, At last theso firea went out; thero was mothing imoro to burn. Tho churches “which had been exempled by the Duko's command, and epared by the flames, etood sur- Tounded on all sides by desolation. It ia unnocessary %0 go into defails. Tho havoc which had been enacted at Dinant wae repeated, but on » moro extensive fiold, The walls sud raius were lovelled ; the ashes and cinie ery carefully sifted. Eversthing of value was car- ried off and £old ; and all that wus left of Liege, that had been erectod by man, wero the churches without congregations, and priests without people. While Charlea the Dold lived, Liege remained un- peopled. Somo stragglers—solo survisors of her peo- ple—found shelter in tho rocky helghts bebind the city. Afterlong and fervid nppeals, the clergy wero allawed fo hire a fow mechanics; but no step foward the rebuilding or re-inbabiting tho city was allowed. No vensels wero perpitted to land; and in a come mandipg part of the city o fort was erected, com- ‘manding both sides of the river, and which suppressed any uttempt to renew the’ industry which ance n 50 famed. 3 Tha history of Liege may encourage both Boston and Chicago, 1ts loss was total; and yet, despite the oxicrmination of its inhabit- ants and' ita industries, Liege, in tho quiet growth of a fow centurios, haa become one of the busiest centres of human activity in the world : It is one vast workshop, Esch man, and It would £ocm each woman and chiid, 3 an artivan, Naturebas deporited in cloe vicinity inexhaustible beds of iron and coal. Forever, by day and wight, the miners are delving fhe aroand the fuel to feed the scemingly end- Iess array of furnaces that nover go out, In countless sliops orestroug, Lardy, and ekiiful men, fashioning and forging this {ron into_every {maginablo srticlo which tlio wants of man roquire,” Hardware, cutlery, engines, and locomotives, milis, nails, machinery } fire-arms and canoon ; carriages, and every descrip- ton of vehicle ;—these are the employments of men. In other vast establishmeats the women snd tho child- Ten aro as indasiriously at ork upan hmen and cotton g00ds, broadcloth and Jeathier manufuctures, SELECTIONS, BY DUFF PORTER. Jdolatry is but the enthronement of tho ideals of men who are ignorant of the Trua God. —In the domain of the Intellect, all is indi- vidual—gelfish. S —Our instinct i3 tho roveletion of a God and .the consciousness of our immortality. —No trial is there which, even st the most critical instant, does not &ee its gloom illu- minated by the wonderful oprising of Hope. —1If Genius lays Naturo under tribute, it is for materials, not inspiration. —One neods the effect of giving quite as much a5 the othor needs the gift. —@od never forgets anything. All Hisworks, from the creation of a world to tho tinting of & leaf, are finished—porfect. —One good deed may ba felt through all time, and entail its conzequences into cternity. —No forms are £o varied, 80 oful, 80 and, 50 majestically, 80 torribly sublime cven, uy thoso tho Greab Sculptor carves in the cicude. —There is a cortain moralaltitude where Faith becomes Knowledge. —When we aro subdued by sickness it seoms possible for us to fulfil pledges, which the old Figor comes beck and breaks, —Onoe of the burdens that bends the back of Bociety, and bresks it though it be as & camel's ‘back, is tho sickness that doca not need to exist. «—{¥hiat bias raised the ‘world, what has trained man’s faculties and given him mastory over Na~ ture, but Pain ? —He was_one of those childron, 8o deserving of Jfity from all, who have fathers and mothers, and yet are orphans. —A woman will muke a5 long and as patient 2 tug in lifa 28 8 camol, if you only give her a kind word now and then, and show her & it of groen. comfort &t tho end. ’ —Tho Goth and Saxon conquered and pos~ sessed the earth because the mother of their children wes also the divinity of their homes. —While tho phi]esogher grows gray in igno- rznco among his crucibles, evory girlish mother i8 being illuminated by overy kiss of her child. —Man _will not be truly man until ho shall Inbor seriously to accomplish tho mission ishich Earth expects of him. —Let avery man rogard himself as an act of God, his mind a thought of God, his life a breath of God. —What wo are accustomed to call Chance is but the result of forces acting unexpectodly, or under conditions net anticipated by us. —TIn nino cases oxt of ton, no man’s lifo will bo a success if he docs not bear burdens in his childhood. —Right nlongside of this troubled life, that is s0on and temporal, may lie the groon pasturos and the atill waters of the unscen and eternal, and they who know us better than we know them, can at any timo step across that littlo rill {hat wo call Death, and minister to our comfort.. LIVER VERSUS 1.OVE. BY A MIDDLE-AGED DYSFEPTIO. [Dedicated to all fellow-suercra] Tast wack 1 felt glooms end horrivly il And Tlonged for & something my Lisuk heart to fll; B0 I fell doop In love, and I failed to diskiver hat instead of true Jove, it was nothing but liver, Imsundred, T pooned, liko an ot L acted, When away from the loved ane I felt quite distracted, And it took s whole fortnight of physic to prove That T susfered from liver instead of from love, I belfero X proposed, though I really can't eay, ‘But I feel very thankfu] elie didn't kay yea ; 89, though I'n rejected, I freely forgive her, For my love is all gone Row, 1n right in my liver, orar, : Now, you middle-aged duifers who suffer like fhis, And coddle your agony as though it were Llsa, Just list to Iy maxim, and what I propose is : You, of your complaint mako a strict diagnosls. ‘Tako two or threo pilla grery night for o wock, . And, during that time, to the loved one don't spesk, Tako s long walk esch day, though It rain, hail, or freeze, And you'd ind thatthe liver's the seat of -—(kzlmlian I!Xu.lfr‘nl News, pis ol dommae: . puiiibi e £ Remarkable Dog. % From the San Francisco Bulletin. A sea Captain just arrived in this port from New Orleans exhiibits sn Irish settor dog, to whom he accredits ope of the most remrgnblu exploits in canine intelligence. The dog was the property of the first mate, and was eacly noted for extraordinary sagacity. When tho #ailors took hold of the main brace to haul it in, the dog immediately seized the ond and ran the length of the deck with i, as if “lending a. hand " to get the officer’s order executed. A planter took a fancy to tho dog, and_prevailed on the first mate to present the animal to him. He carried it along with him 600 miles up the Mississippi River, end endeavored fo ehow the setter overy kindness. Bul one night the dog eacsped, and, running elong the Yiver bunk, Teaped aboard & boat and was towed back to New Orleans. Butthe ship had sailed, and 8 schooner captain, into whose hands tho setter {all, took it with him to New York., Tho ship from which the dog was taken was fying on tko other sido ot the river, and here i where the mervel comes in. The dog, while looking over the sido of the vesscl one efternoon, scemed to take special notice of tho ship on the other side. After a few moments it leaped cverboard, swam toits 0ld homo, and_waa taken aboard by the delighted sailors, The mato was 8o rejaiced to haye his dog again thnt he declared that no_half o dozen Southern planters could induce him to part with it. Tho sotter, whoso wonderful in- stiuct had brouglt it back to its okt mastar, is now more than ever the pet of the crow, g Sibe e et THE DECLINE OF POLITENESS. From the London Saturday Reclew. In the general break-up of social habits, to which wo aro all more or lees coniributing with light hoarts, the rules of politencss would scom to be graduaily disappearing. If tho new condi~ tions of our lives have dovelopad no suitablo etiquotto, they havo at least produced aninor- dinate self-gaflicicncy. _ Doportment™ bus bocn the butt of facetious writers, and it is hard to sy whether etiquette Las suffered more from priggigh frien or {from satirieal kcollers, ~ Thoro aro many persons who think = disrogard of ceremony a fino proof of advancod idess. Yot nothing is better proved than that noble manners liave boen n part of overy noble age. To ncquire them was reckonod A chiof part of cducation, and only bLalf-witted porsons wero oxcused from the obli- gations of ctiquotte. Not being capable of the Tanly dignity which requites-ead bostows re- s{xcct, they might chattor and smirk at will, but they wero not admitted to the equality which is claimed by our free-and-easy profoasors of im- politeness. Social ritual hias been so abused for tho purposos of vanity and eycophancy that it is easicr o exposa ils abeurdity thun to prove its velue. Distinctions of rank havo piayed so miscliievons s part whenover social corruption bas got in, that it is tompting fo foncy that wo can got on with simpler machinery. In reality, howerer, rules of gesture arc almost as neces- eary to sustain civility as rules of spoech, and we can hardly realize how wo should endure much forther neglect of thom, particularly when our free fashions came'to be exaggerated by tho clagses below us. BMischief enough comes of careless language; but thé no-meaning and im- pertinence of our phrases would bo restrained in Bomodegree if our familiaxities of manner were kopt within due bonuds. our'speech gains in unintelligiblencss our bows and curtsoys, and notably our hand-shak- ing seqiire more value. Unfortu ately thero would appear to bo increasing revolt agninat ctiquetto and_good manners. Now etiquetto is the law of ivil intercourso, the art by which—to quote a Fronch suthority of the seventeenth century, when Franco was mistress of European socioty—~men lparn to “ secomporter chacun selon son age el sa condition, de prendre loujours garde a la qualite de la personne avcc laquelle on traile, e bien observér le lemps, et de regarder le lieu ou on se renconfre.” In view of tho expect- ed deluge, it may bhardly bo worth while to troublo ourselves about tho coming race; yet, if our children are to bo taught snything, “or to Lave any training, whotber for life in the bush or o share in the universal Republic, they must ba instructed in civility, which is only another mame for decent and “comfortablo intercourse with ono's fellows, whoever thoy may be. Tho growing emancipation of young poople from old-fashioned forms of respect would seem fo be making them so unendurablo in Rocioty that they aro moro and more oxiled from it. What docs it profit that thoy posscss all knowledge if not behave “according to their age and on?” Affcction is damped for tho learned little roughs, who would havo boen defightful if ouly they’ had beon trained in babits of respect Dy _attention to its outward snd visiblo signs. Natur is” not altogether “a holything,” what- ever'Squeers and Roussenu may nssort ; she has to Le reformed from thecradle, aud infant-school teachers can witness how important the conduct of tho body ia m training children. * We see how charming it is in 8 Russian child to kiss his parent's hand, to remain standing until bid- don tosit, and liston until asked to spesk. Tho discipfine of these Tartars and Cossacks is the same in which our Philip Siduoys and Jano Greya wero trained, which gave models fo Van- dyko, and kopt green tho family affection that was once our boast, and we hardly “do well to neglect it. We certainly provide sficient dis- comfort for onraelves during thoso fow minutes in which our Botties and our Hildas, edmitted to tho draWing-room, endure the miserica of shy- ezs or inflict the miseries of rudeness, both of which would havo been avoided if babitual good momners Lad pat, oversbody in Mg sight groove, The humdra of tho rising gaveration aro almost past a joke. WO shall s00n painfully nnderstand why our ancestors sent their sons to lcarn behavior as pages in otlior households, and the Gaelic Iaws of fostorage applicable to Prince end peasant may regain nY[)ro\'_al. Our fow re- maining opportunities of learning manners are disappearing before_competitive examination; yet fortunatoly, o long as military servico re- oains, certain gestures of respect will conting to be recognized as necessary to discipline, and disclpline 88 necessary to sorviceabloncss. Even supposing that women and childron were once more to b traired to givo and require re~ spect, there would still remsin tho danger of tm ineatiablo familierity which is bresking down among men more important breakwaters than those of rank aud woalth. Let us not flat~ tor ourselves tlat whon pereons of tho upper classos profess indifferenco 1g ceremony thoy show & frank bumilify, Whever they are takon at their word they immediately rotira inta monegyed or titled superiority. As rulos are dropped intercourse becomee more diflicalt be- {neon persons of different station, who might be friendly if each man only'kmew what manner waa oxpected of him, but who now.ogcillate bo- twveen gorvility and afroganco. Tho uneasy mil- lionafre shakes bis hand off in his effort {0 ex- cuso his greatness; but it is thankless, and, m hot weather, unpleasant work wonder if s dislike of meoting been taught to think not shaking hands on ju- sult sho % on him. Our National, but comparatively modern salutation, sinco it has roplaced otlier forms, has been tried by all manner of men for all manner of purposes, and has been found wanting for the good, but usefol for tho bad ends of inter- course. No longera pledge of troth, it is too ofien & plodyo of mubual suspicion, shd bypoc- risy, and it hos beon founa that citizen Kings, Emperors of the, blouges, and other magnates ‘may perform tho “shake hands” in public with- out fraternity being thareby absolntely securod. - And, wanting l[:l()lit.(!na!u,m what have travellers brqught travel? Thoso who havo lately been | involved in the international crush of the Rhine and Switzerland can bear witness that broeding has ot present nothing to do with manners. Dirth carries with it no obligations'to self-re- wpoct, and the policemon aro tho only ar- Ditors of otiquetto. French, English, and Italians, omulate Dorussians in discourtesy. Of Christinns, the Rtussian and_the Spaniard still preserva some dignity ; and wo oursclves whother thoy owe thoir superiority to_their con- tact with Oriental races, among which domestic ritual_is roligiouely maintained. Wo .all suffer from the roughness of tho well-dregsed at rail- ‘way stations, in exhibitions, in the crush at the opcra, or the great party of tho season. We will not, howeyer, lament. the mobbing of certain groat porsonages, for thoy Lave carned it by sedulously” discouraging otiquotte, and 8o be- coming leaders of the general conspiracy against Dabitual rospect. —_— Only o Little Stretched. Tho following is only s littleexaggeratedabora what any enthusiastic Californiea will eay, and swear 10, and swear at you if you do mot be- Lievo it: Dsn. Marble was_once strolling along the wharves in Boston, whon ho mot a fall, gaunt- looking figure, a “*digger” from Californis, and got into conversation with him. ** Healthy? It ain't anything else, Why, stranger, theroyou can chooso eny climate you like, kot ot cold, and that, too, without travellin’ more than fiftcen minutes.” Jest think o’ that the next cold mord- ing whon you got out o’ bed. Thero is & moun- tain there—the Sars Nevady they call it—with n valloy on each side of it, one hot and one cold. \Vcll,lfal on top of that mountain with a double- barrelled gun, and yon can, without movin’, kill either summer or winter game, jest a8 yon wish.” ““What! havo you ever triedit?” “Triedit? Often, and should have done very well but for ono thing. Iwanted a dog thet would stand both climates. The last dog I had froze his tail off while p'intin’ on the sammer side. He didn't got entirely out of the winter sids, you see; truo 28 you live.” Maxblo stoped. Killed by Scandal Mongers. From the Hudeon (N, ¥.) Star. . A short time since a report was circalated in the upper part of the city that Rov. if. Rosen- thal, Rabbi of the Jewish Church, had been uilty of misdeeds which reflectod serionsly npon is provious . spotless . character. e have refrained from even alluding to the reporta until to-dsy, when, atter an interview with the officers of the church, we find that the rumors are withoni suy foundation whatover. Mr. Rosenthal wes made acquainted with the reporta in circulaticn, and stoutly denied tho_trath of tho eame at the time, and so worried did he be- come afterward that, Baturday last, while en- £ged in conversation with a friend, Lie fell in & t, snd was removed to_his residence, in Dia- mond street, between Fifth and Bixth streets, where medical aid was called, and everything possiblo was dono for him, but all efforts were of no avail, and death ended his career this fore- noon. The cause of his death was apoplexy. THE SKAPTAR YCKUL. A remarkable face,” said I “Yery romarkable,” repliod my host. * Whose likeness is it 7—that’is, if I may in- quire." ‘* Certainly," old Gervais Laurence responded —at whose house I had been sojonrning for a week or two—*¢ certainly. That 18 the portrait +| of Hamet Herrington, s dear friend of mine half & century ago. Yes, as you say, a remarka- ble faco, and owned by one who endured a fate yot morg remarkable.” - This portrait, on which the fire-light steadily streamed, represouted s countenance of ex- treme unnatural palior, mado the more conapic- uous by eyos of blackest lustro, and by o h:tlfiu ‘black mustache and beard, out of whose depths loomy shadows seemed ta be cast upward across be melancholy features. Thesoe features were rigid, impassive, resembling the featurea of a corpeo, with the exception of tho eyes, which wero full of vivid horror. 41 gee that your curicsity has boon Leenly aroused,” said'the otd gentleman, after a min- uto’s silence. * Well, the hour in enly, and, i ipn dosire it, I will give you poor Harrington's istory.” . I zesonted with eagerness. . ¢ Upon consideration,” Mr. Laurenca contin- ued, wlen he had paused to muse alittls, “I'll relate the atory just as originally it was related tomo; or, better still, fancy the portrsit yonder » living man, stepped out of the frame, nnd seated in this arm-chair beside me. .He would tell you his adventare as followa: “I am tho son of Arthur Harrington, whohad become, before his desth, one of the richest commonors in England. 1 havo, or rather bad, & tyin brother, Stephen, s0 muchlike me in per- sonial appearance, manners, and perhaps I may 2dd femperament—although mine was a tnilo harder and colder—that even our intimates found it difficult ¢o distinguish us when apart. “On_tho eva of our twentioth birthdey our father died—died suddenly and nnox&ectndly— from heart-disense, brought on (the doctor thought) by passionate, nurestrained gricf for the loss” (two yonrs before) of his wifo, our be- loved and beautiful mother. 2 “Qur father's will was peculiar. He loft tous the whole of hia immense proporty, upon the single condition that we should, aftor gradnating at Oxford—e period near at hand—devoto at least revon years of early manhood to systematic foreign travel. This condition fulfilled, we wero to settle on the family estatos, and not'to_leavo Great Britain again upon any protext whatso- ever. ¢ Need I say that the freedom and edventur- ous change offered us in such an extensive and prolouged traveling scheme wero precisely what a couplo of ardent youths would desire and ap- prove ‘“ Four years of the a\iocifled termof travel had nlsfined. Stephen and I hed well carrjed out our father's intention. There was hardly aland, city, province, or even island, of the Eastorn or ‘Wostern hemispheres, which webad failed to vis- it, when, in the spring of the year 18—, wo found oursolves in Christiana, in Norway. Here wo met an erudite and communicative gentleman, a native of Iceland, who had been, for a decade nd upward, Professor of Geology in the scienti- fic colloge 8t Christians, and who so deoply in-~ terested us in the history, people, and antig: ties of tho island of his birth, that we resolved to take advantago of tho favorable season, and to sail for Iceland immediately. » In every way destiny favored our plan. A brig bound ‘tor Reikiavik Iay at that moment in the harbor, and we enéountered no difficulty in procuring bertbs aboard. Our voyage was equally Drief and prosperons. Soma time in April, wo landed at the capitsl, on the Faro Fiord. Before leaving Norway wo had procured letters of introduction from Prof. Thoro to the Profector of the district in which tho capital was situated, who received us with enthusiastic cor- diality, and begged na to remain with him during our sojourn in the country. ¢ “Such an invitation we ‘could not refuse. Thereforo we soon becameo domesticated in tho housohold of our hogt—a man of o charecter racely found, save in thoso remcte regions, whore the rigors of the climate foster the home- bred virtues, and strengthen all tho ties of as- sociation, “The Prefector's name was Racrek. Ho could trace his ancestry, up and up through tha conturies, to that remoto period when, madizmval Europo boing plunged in tho blackness of moral darkness, living, as Michelet says, in constant, corroding fear—fear of men, fear of the Stato, fear of the Church, fear of God, fear of the devil, fear of hell, and fear of death—a puro Christian- ity, a liberal government, and a genuine, enlight- ened scholarship had fled, 8o to spes, to an ultima Thule, and taken up their abode in storm- girdled Tcoland. As for the present family, it consisted of & son—a somewhat bear-like and anconth lad, who could not be mado, his_father ruefully remarked, to learn even tno rudiments of his ‘humanities’ —al of an_exquisitively beautiful niece, Christina. To the Iatter belong- edthe fair complexion of the women of tho North; but her eyes were full, dark, and lust trous, as those which bewilder the stranger on tho thoroughfares of Cadiz or Barcelona.” Bul her raro intalligence, her perfect frocdom of air and movement, combined with as perfect o mod- esty, and s fascination of manner at onco in- describable and irresistable, impressed one evon more, if possiblo, than her singular physi- cal besuty. art, {00, of the lithe, lovely crea- ture, from the crown of that queenly littlo head to the soles of her small, frmly-planted feot, seemed 8o fullof vitality that ono might have imagined Her very body thought. 431y brother Stephon, more tender-hearted end susceptiblo than J, naturally succumbed to tha acious swoetness and almost ideal charm of his young muiden, the like of whom we had beheld nowhere elso, not ovon tie fair immomo- rial homes of beauty through which . we had boen accustomed to stay at leisure, for year aftor yar. - * Some weoks' residence 2t Reikiavik had gone by, when the Profector proposod that. wa should abandon the sea-side and its sporta for a visit to the interior of the island. B ¢ Staplion, receivod o propasition with say. thing but favor. It was not, indeed, until Christing hersclf could be persuaded to join the excursion that ho displssed the elightest wish to oxamine the curiosities of the midiand provinces. “The incidonts of our journey were starcely notoworthy. Rocky plains stretching to tho far, vapory horizon, stunted plants, precipitous hills, wild, ' impetuous _rivulots thst gushed from their summits with the visionary Volocity of dreams—these formed the general characioristics of tho landacape through which wo passed. 4'Ou the evening of the tenth day after our Qeparturo from the seaboard, we :Hm‘d our touts upon the borders of oneof the noblest streams that ever rollod from mountains to the ocean. “Thoname of this river was the Skaptar Yokul. 1t swept through the spacions meadows, fringed with o peculiar-looking herbage. * Hore wo_established our temporary home. TFishing_and hunting consumed our time, or rather, I should say, my time, and thatof most of our. comrades, for Stephen nover joined us. “ We had now been many days on the banks of the Skaptar Yokul. Raerck's steward, tho eldest of tho party, declared that ho had never knowna season in Iceland 6o far advanced, and favorable for vegetation. 5 lades of melur, or wild oats, were ringing rapidly from the carth; tho low SErbar wisiugeln PRAGINE LS Lisentions s and from tranquil nooks, whore the snow-like remnants of = ftattered robe yet lingered, berrics of red, bLlne, and purplo, just ronnding toward ripeness, peerod forth in tho cordial sun: shige. 2 R “The river, freed from its It burden of ice, was rolling rapidly throngh tho fields; the songs of birds stirred tbe air; and, far off, along sloping baaks, cropping 'the gfaee and tossing their boamed frontlets to tho sky, herds of decr Toamed leisurely, now pausing on soms elovated &pot to eontumpfntu our encampment, and now browsing onward as quictly as before. 4Tt was & picturesque scene, and, tome, novel in the extreme. But ono_dark feature dofaced tho landscape, and that impressed mo with a strange sense of fear. “*Bomothing of horrible presentiment mingled with this fecling. I could not’explain i, for what mortal imagination could have foreshad- owed thoso terrors which the clements, even thon, were Iaboring to engender ? “The object of which 1 speak was a voleano, called, like the river, the Skaptar Yokul. It con- sisted of twenty conjcal peaksof nogreat height, dull red in color, and forming & circlc around a central clovation, crowned with enormons masses of pumica and rock. Y¥hile the atmosphere elsewhere, excepting some portions of tho horizon, was zemarkably Incid ‘and 6ercne, a dense, unpatural mist wavared over the desolation of the mountain, shifting with the wind, and growing, as I :Jbought, more gldomy and portentons every onr. “Itried to tum my attention from what the natives affirmed to be & common phenomenon ; but an oppreseive anxiety, a boding dread, im- pelled my eyes, again and again, toward those awful peaks andthat shadowy, mysterions, thick- ening cloud. “*Mly friend,’said I on ons oocasion to the old stoward, ¢ what is the matter with that veil yon- der, just over the Yokul? I'vo been watching it for daye past, and each day it hes sprozd and darkened, until now at ovening, whea tho eun sets LeLind it, ono can hardly recognize his disk, it appears g0 lurid aud blurred.” 5 “ 'ho old man laughed aloud, and rather mock- ingly: “ “1Why, you strangers,’ he cried, ‘are timid a4 childron. I bave been sixty yeirs on this island, aud meny a time I've seen our mountaing wrapped in fire and smoko ; 2nd I'vo known tl:o ground to rock under me like a sea, and the air grow stiffing as the wind passed away intos calm ‘worsothan any tempest; and I'vo heard the thunders bellow undor the esrth, louder and wilder than over they boomed from the Lieavens | Yos, all this waa terrible ! but vapor on tho’ top. of a mountsin—pehaw ! it's been there, belike, from the beginning o' the world !’ “Without venturing to offend the speaker's pational pride by tho suggeation of cortxin geol- ogisto, among whom was Professor Thoro, that Liis ieland wes probably created at = later dato than the romainder of the globe, I merely dis- puted his conclusion sbout my lack of nerve, and pureued my walk along tha borders of tho stream alone. “Rambling thoughtfully on, I met Stephen and Christina. Never had i seen tho latter go lovely. The glow of hezlthful roses on ber chosk, tho fientlo meniug a her eyes, tho half-disordored (ocks which caught sad. rotained tho sunboams, the elastic stop, and the lithe, active, buoyant figure—tho lout ensemble, in s word, of gracions besuty aud exultant hopo—in these, who could 1ail to recognize an embodimont of all most at- tractive to youthful sentiment and passion ? “With "how unspeaksble a fonduness my brother regarded Ler! _Transitory hope and gladness of an hour! Eros on the vergo of the shades! How I look back to wonder &t the hap-~ ‘pinces, 60 800n to become— But I must not anticipate, though heavon knows I could wil- lingly spare you tho dotails to follow, _ “TTho pair greoted me, and passed on. I felt no di:i)o!ition to join them, but,as they loi- tered along the green slope boyond our tents, I turned with interest to survey their motions. Stephen stopped for & moment, and was pluci~ ing somo flower from the path, which bhe handed to his companion. I saw her placo it in her bosom, and then tho lovers drow closer to- gether, ond their converso sesmod subdued and abgorbing. % “\hat an {nstant’a pang of envy, porhaps, T resumed my way. Suddenly, before I was at all aware of the distance travorsed, I stumbled over some fragments of bassltic formation, znd, looking up, thore stood tho mountain-—thaf dreadiul Bhoptar Yokul! I absolately ehud- dered with horror ! “What can bothe meaning of this?" was ea inward query that in vain domandod of reggon or nature a response. “Tho oracles of the judgment wete damb; but that singular conviction of imponding ill, that warning of aome faculty boyond the scratiny of logic, or tho snalyeis of ordinary intolligenco, which has given birth to the doctrine of presenti- ‘monts, almost overpowered me! ; *‘Tteason caunot combat such a sentiment, for I believe reason to be subordinate to it. “Q Christ! thess ehadowy, inexplicablo promptinge, so little rovereaced, Jet so feartully true! “ Digrogarding them, men have burst from the arms of wife, lover, children, to meet death, gouimyin Bome woird, exceptional shape, ere ime Lo grown older by an Lour ; disregarding ti:om, womon, feir, noble, and innocent, of o scrupalous honor, and & delicacy shrinking as the sensitive-plant—women, deserving all good gifts of life and love, have wedded themscives to infamy ond lust; statcsmen, cunning as Walsingham, and subtlo as Italian Machiavolli, have fallen in a single _day from the cabinet to the scaffold ; what miseries, in fine, without number, and without alleviation, have not fol- +lowed the neglect of this ucerring monitor ! “Had I thonght of these tbings, s Istood near the base of the Icelandic volcano; had somo good angel secondod that warning instinct, which whispers, as it Were, on tho extromo vorge of conscious, organized intelligence, an awful cxperience, @ tremendons momory, might have Leen spared me. R ““But all thinga were destined to take their ap- pointed course. I could no moro tear myself, for B long time, from the vicinity of the mountain, than X hed been able previozaly, when it lowered at 8 distanco, to turn my eyes upon the more ploasing charactoristics of the scenc. The twen- 1y precipicons, rugged hills, and tho dark cone in tho middls, posaessod a basilisk fascination I would bisyve given much to ba rid of. Indeed, I stroye persisteatly against it, but aiways frdit- lessly. - I yoturned to camp at last, and, at the supper tablo that night, was unnatorally gay. I feltlike the member of & *forlorn hope,” carous- ing just befora some desperate encounter. “There wis no restrainine my cxcitement. Hud I partaken of the puncir which our steward nover failed to prepare with his own hands, this might have been acconnted for; but I wall re- member that the testy Bacchanalian was mortal- 1y :ffended 8t my declining to join him in his ovening potations. Muttering something about the wrotched condition of morals in éuwpe, when men in rospectable society wore 80 Bhock- ingly abstinout 88 to retirc sans ‘@ night-cap,’ the grizzlyold grumbler soated himsolf on a bar- rel in the corner, and washed down Lis wrath with the contenls of a bowl Eric Bcambester would have stared at. . *‘Tho sent he had chosen was fortunatoly near his couch, for, after two hours of meditation and drinking (which latter operation embraced four-fifths of tho time), he probably thonght his “night-cap’ sufficiontly adjusted, and tumbled precipitately into bod. *‘Qur entire party, except myaelf, wero now sunkin repose. Silonco restod on tho encamp- ment, tho deep rush of the river alone breaking the slillness. = I fancicd thero was somethi ng uuusual ju the sound. The dull monotony of ‘waves was unvaried, but it seemed asif their voico was deeperand their flow moro turbid. - “What struck me, too, 88 strange, woa that the tomperaturo in the fent, which always grow many degrecs colder after night-fall, continued 28 during the day. % b‘l‘ Boon the heat increased; it became intoler- able. 4§o startling a phonomenon needed confirma- tion. Wasit the fover in myownblood? A pocket-thermomoter hung near, * 4T oxamined it by the smouldering embars of h o fire. ¢ was true; my seneations had not deceived me. The quicksilver trombled at s point, denot- ing an ntmospheric condition which: belonged to tho tropics, and to the tropics only in tho meri- dian of snmmer. ] felt the blood tingle toward my heart, and 1 grew faint from this indescribablo suspense of agony. K Gazing vacantly at the instrument, the pal- ing fire, nd the tim, uncertain outlines of tho coarso canopy above, Isaid to mynclf: ‘I am i1l; my brain wanders ; it is a phantasy ! “Several of our companione bl been acized of Iato with fever and delirium. - Exposuro legiti- matoly engendered them. *Were that the case, it was best I also shonld eleep; and yot what meant the heated atmos- phera? Tha thermometer could not lio; and suroly this boded mischicf. “A storm or hurricano impended. I had heard the islanders say that, at cortain sozsons, such are not uncommon hero. Was the present the fated period ? I conld not tell. “At all ovents speculation was uscloss. Why not leavo tho tent, and at once resolyo these doubts ? Probebly Ishould find everything—tho encampment, the river, tho meadows, evon the accursed Skaptar Yokul, precisely as I had loft them. Ilmow that they remained—that they must remain unchanged. Only the moon, as I perceived by s glimmor through the tent, had arisen, and was shining withogt. ** I wondered stupidly if a cloud still lingered upon the moonlight ; If 80, whether it had in- creased, what shapo it had ‘nssumed, and how it looked in the moonlight. “ With & sudden resolution, I roso and ad- Janced a slep or two toward the door. Thacloth flapped suddcaly across the cntrance.’ Ashamed of my weakness, but impotent as_a child in the of somo nameless horror, I s ac grasp of less h I started back and listened. It was only the wind. “Oh, now boyond doubt, T was delirfous! I would éxpose myself to these foolish alarms no moro; aud so, withont dofling my germents, I Iay down to repose. “ingular to say, notwithatanding the extra- ordinary excitement of the nerves, { didnot long continue awske. “Sloep—profound, dreamless —locked my sensea in a rigidity of oblivion, such s follows an overdoss of opium. “1It may have beon minutes or hours, I know not, when a stifling sensation, oppressive 8sa nightmare, recalled moto conaciousness. Irose ou'my pallet, and instantly became aware of o disagroeable odor of sulphur. _Smoke, densely packed a8 from & cannonade, filled tho apart- ment, From ita unwholesome inhalation my breath came short and thick; my veins were swollen painfully; & profuse sweat covered my whole body. : “Springing up, I again consulted the ther- mometer. Couly trust my eyeaight? It hed actually risen to 110 degrecs ! ‘¢ At this junctare o sound, indeacribably docp snd sullen, acompanied by a shudder of tho ground beneath, swellod ominonsly, asif from the very centre of tho earth. * ““Then, after an instant's death-liko stillnces, there burst forth a peal—a succession of peals— of thunder, in whic] greatest batilo would have been lost, swallowed ap, anaihilated. g “With & bound, I dashed aside tho covering of [*tho toxt, and gazed out into the night. God of morcy ! what 2 sight was thero! The fearfal solnrion of tho baunting prescntiment, tho aw- ful dread, the inexplicablo doubt, flashed on me like s flam cfrom o chamnel. Wo wero ,in the midst of an eruption of © the Skaptar Yokul!” ‘Seldom to mortal oyes had been ravealod be- foro & mightiar sublimity of horrora. The cloud that at sunset was comparatively a mere blot in the distauce, had now widened - through space, drifting in cddios along the heavens, and mo- montly obscuring the moon, that gleamed dimly beyond the shroud. The air reeked with an in- sufforable admixture of gases, sapor, and pumice, and the eshos showered aronnd fell thickly and with unparalloled volosiiy. : “But the spectacle moro terrible than aught else,—n spectaclo of paralyring grandeur,—iwas a volume of liquid fire, that swept toward the .Inte peaceful chaunels of the river. “* Gloaming and swolling as it progressed, I saw that the tido already overtopped tho banks, and that soon tho level meadows, supporting our encampment, would be overflowed. 70 rush shrieking among my comrades ; to intimate hurriedly tho danger, to logse from the adjoining fent (which had served as o stable) the first horses I could secure; to drag Stephen and Chuistins, half stupefied by the suddenness of our peril, to & position where we could mount and brave togethor the dangers that besat ua; to plunge thio spurs madly into the flanks of my Blonl il fasd b way if podsible, o som point of safety—appeared tho work of ages, al- thongh in reality accomplished with the celerity of desperation. . - “‘Aa we advanced, the imminence of our peril became more and moro evident. We wero_trav- creing 8 valley botween two oxtensive ridges, and it was clear that, if tho waters of the river (wich, gayod by tho conrulsions of earliquake, wero rising 1n boiling eddies above the embank- ments) should reach the sumit wo had left, tho interspaces must almost immediately be dovasted by the flood. “ But thore waa no leisura for thought. Wo boro recklessly on. b “To treble our diffficulties, the moon now withdrew even tho uncertain light she had a forded us, and darknees, almost total, encom- passed our path. Still trusting to the instinct of our horses, we speeded onward, onward like tho wind. “1 gupposed that we had riddon some miles— that the crisis of our trial was over—when the Dbroken, flinty ground we were passing curved suddenly np'into a bill. As wo reached the top, what o thrill of despair shot lhmthm then | Hissing and sparkling, & sea of mol ‘the umion of gases, phosphorus, and _lava secmed to Liave sot the tide ablaze) writhed and 7ailed bolow ; and, splitting against overy obstruction in its course, dashed iuto jets of flamo, liko a monster serpent spitting venom ond blood. “ Qur true sitnation becamo at once apparont. Relying upon thesagacity of our animals—them- sclves half wild from fright—wa had made & half circlo in the darkness, and were respproaching the vory plaiz. upon which the encampmont had stcod. “The glare from those infowpal waves showed us each other's faces. Seldom bave such coun- tenances been soen this side the grave. Atlen Siephen spoke. His voico was strained, husky, envago almost, in its agony of - supplication: **¥lyl flyl For Christ's gake, rido on! Don’t you sce that her strengthis failing her? Onl’ and ho pointed to isting, whom he had taken on the saddle before him and waa trying to sup- port in her precarions scat. “Dumbly motioning him again to follow, T sparred down the descont, and mado for the Tp- lands, which I now knew lay about a mile and a half due north. “For several hundred Wwe wers com- pelled to keep on a lino with the river, as_af- Tording the only tenable ‘ground in the neigh- borhood. . 1 had observed tho day previous that a doep mornss borderad our path on tho right. To avoid this, withont ventaring too necr tho river, was an object I tasked every faculty to accom- plish. *‘Wo bad just cleared tho narrowridge I hayve described, when a tumultuous crash in the di- Tection of the stream caused me to look back and sscertain.what additional danger threatened ?- A single glance informed mo that escape a8 hopeless. 'The rampart of rocks and sand Dad completely given way. “ Falling {rom the beight, & cataract of fire, and bearing diractly on our road with & swift- Dess doubled by tho elevation ofits egress, the glaring waters burst forpard to engulf ua, ‘Thers was & piercing cry, and the fail of hesvy body behind me. 'Tho horse that carried 'my companions, goaded to frenzy, had snapped tho rein, and hurled his riders {o the earth. Ho tremplod by me like a tempest. I snatched at the bridlo a8 he passed, but might as well have tried to grasp au electric current. At this mo- ment's gust of. wind parted tho voil of smoke and ashes that had obscured the light, and the moon ehione upon the borrors of the scene. )y own horso now grew ungovernable. Alarmod by tho other’s flight, he dashod furious- Iy in his track. 3y brain spun with the madness of the motion, and the soil glided beneath ms with the.rapidity of thonght. i “A’ dull-gray object in front canght my viow. 1t waa o site, many feet abova the lovel of the field—= rugged mound, strewed with the frag- ments of some templo. *1 threw myself headlong from' the horse; heedod not & severe concassion that rowarded the rash act ; clamored half-way up the mound ; end theo turned to witness the fate of the mn~ fortunato Loinga from whom Ilad been sep- arated. “ Across the intervening spaco a double ra~ diance wos cast; radiauce from the heavens, and a sickly, death-like glaro from the rushing o e tly uninjured by his fall, “ Stephen, apparently ure his had lifted Christius ti 18 armb. and stil hast: oned frantically forward. But the raging billows wero upon them. A roscucd the devoted pair. | ¢ Ag I looked, my brother became_evidently awaro that furtlier olforts were vain. He pausod and knelt with his Elnci(ma burden upon the raga. With his back turned to the dostruction, o shut out tho view from his beloved, I could see that Stephen kissed Lcr forvently, and then for all the membera of our house have been evont Catholics) ho drew from his breast n golden cracifix, which he always boro about his person. 3 “ 1t flashed like s divine glory amid the deso~ the echoes of tho g:nrld'a 1 Iation. *¢ Pallid as whitest marble, but ob, how beau- tiful! how besutiful! Christina opened her eyes upon the symbol of lifo n death. The lon; hair was cast back, the inanimate form revived, and a_trembling hand pressed the cross to her lips, Thia action derangod Eer robos, sud from the bodice that girdled tho young, tendor heart something like a bouguot of flowers dropy pon the ground. it * And now tho shadow of tue gigantic flood flickerod over them. It progrossed, deapencd, ‘passed, until whore, but an ins¢ant before, theso two passionate human creaturea had bresthed “their Jast vows—vows which, from tho terrific &cene sround, scemed to have canght an umn- earthly sublimity—nothing could Le discovered eave an oddying, boiling, furious whirlof tor- rents, bellowing a8 if in bestial triumph of the ruin fhey had wronght. “How Humot Harrington,” said my host, ¢ gscaped from Tecland, I cannot tell; but ho did escape, and, some years after, I mot him for theo first time since we had been friends and fel- low-students at the University of Oxford. “The circumstances of our encounter were somowbat poculiar. Travelling on horsoback throngh.the County of Kent toward the sca~ coast, I lost my way, one cvening, among ths intermediate lanes and by-roada of that part of England, and haddetermined to sleep at some cottager’s, or, if necessary, under the rosd-side hed§n, when, turning a short cornor, I came suddenly upon anqther horsoman, across whose faco tho lately-risen moon was cloarly shining. “Ihad nover been mo atartled—appalled, in fact,—for the countenance of the man before mo was, to all appearance, that of o corpse! .When, howover, the rigid-looking mupened 0 speus, 1 recognized at once & somothing familiar in the voico, “‘You don't know me, Laurence?' the man saked, in & half-mochanical, half-melancholy fashion. ‘Well, no wonder, I'm terribly chang- 4 Mo gton!® I i by arrington !’ interrupted him by ex- claiming, ¢ of course, I know vou now; but, dear old fellow ! ur are changed, as you say; been desperately ill, no doubt, or (as I caught eight of his black dress) * in—In afilictio ¢ ATy, Gervais, ho repliod, *’tis long 8tory ; Buppose you come up to the * Abbey,’ and spend the night with me; or the next month or two, if you pleaso. “Twill bo a real comfort 1o umbi- en my hoart t0 an old friend like yourself.' 4T accepted the invitation, telling him of the difficulty from which it relisved me, and at the Abbcy—2a his fine old honss was called—I learned the details of the dreadful advonture, ik ho ia imagined to have again narrated this night. . Commenting ‘on the awfal degouomeat, he observed to me: “There are men of science, Gervais, who declars that if yoa exsmine the eye of & murdered man with proper cars, and under the right conditions, you'll find refiected on the retina the exact featuros and exprossion of the ten firo (for” ‘muzdorer ot the instant ho struck: the fsta) blow, How this may bo, I cannot tell ; but 1 i mental retina, my friend, capzblo of 1 !z:dr:::i:. snd rotaining ony scene of exccptional hopcd and, where this powor bezomes morbid or gaes, rerated, as wafortunately is the case wif . ink that I understand you," w: swer; ‘ont eusely. Tamet. voury s, i mere_ ocular illusion, how wivid, i Sudicious treatment.—) fand iy #No, 1o, no." o broke in violently, s fg finitoly worso thsn any illusion ; et all hog waking or aslacp, I havo thut_condagration ot fore mo, end the forms and faces standing borribly put_against tho baskgronad of o * *"% Yoar continned he, with a win; shriok, and pointing to tho farthest part af oo room, * thero, thorait 13 now!' and. thy. e x‘,;fliedk ity bursing his faco n s hands, oll backward on his seat, ehuddoring pionos tromond o foot. "7 5 8 Yilasiay “Icould nof cure. I could not ave; end, consequently, after & fortnights. aintal rosidence at the Abboy, I sorrowiylly F.nqm ‘unfortunate Harrington to his fate, “Gradually his Gisease, 25 I learnied from g physician, assumed now and compler phac Lhio last Gf theso baflled tho skill f tho *wher; college of London surgeons,’ and, indeed, amon, the score of foreign sciontists who cama gyer ¢§ England on purposo to examine the cap 1. themeslves, there was nob = solitary dostog. ms failod to relice, in tho end, perplesed and ope. lesa [" g “ For the patient, one morning, after i Scom an scceas of upUSHSI LerTor had. Flrciil a condition of cataloptic. trancs, from nhich ae oTorts conld youse bim. With limba cold oy heavy, aud wide-opened, staring oyes, whose gl expréision of Lorrer scemod {rozen info the sy immutability of marble, Lo Iy npon his b weok after weok, montly after month, snd aftor year, with' no sign of life but a fum warmth shout the heart, the emallest qnantity of liguid nourishmost belng forsod befmeen iy ee! once only in 0 courso of fo i bouss! ‘@ ke “Tt was imposaible to feed Lim oftener; for oxcepting at noon, overy other day, his jang weroso firmly Jocked, and_his teath 'so fuasgy. sbly sot: togother, that nothing short of & de. stractive violenco could have wrenched they apart. i When Harrington nad actually remained iz his sbrormal and amazing condition for » riod of six yenrs, an object of curiosity to the ablest physiologiats of the age, all of whom confossed that bis diseaso, if not wholly unper. alleled, was etill beyond their individnal or eol. Jective skill, the ond camo unexpectedls, and iy o way powlurfu:l{h contrasted with the untataral ghastly calm of the gpectaclo and circomstapcsy Shich hiad preceded 1. “One windy, termpestuons night in Decomber, whoa the nurses, as afterward appeared, abandoned their charzo to hold *highjinks’ in the kitchen; when tho batler and other men ser- vants were stupefiod with drink, the old Abby took fire, and, before effactnal aid could arrive, was bum to the ground. i “In the confusion and terror no attempt was made to save the stricken master, who lay, s usual, in ona of the uppermost chambers. * But £wo of tho maid-gcrvants, who had fed to the Lawn outside, roportod (and subsequently made oath) o the effect that, whilo the fiames wero at their Licight, & figure they recognized 1a Harrington's appeared f tho great illnminsted window of tho middle hall, wi with arms and hands, but dttering not tho faint: ent e i ““Whéther the womon were decsived,, o whether the intenso hoat of tho firo_sctid in @ome mysterions manner apon the’ body of thy *dend-alive,’ who shall now determine? for all we positively ascertainod was, that the nobls. mansion entombod somewhere under its rnizg the ashos of the master who had 8o long linger- o in that mystorions Ewilizht Letween ki death. % i L “And now, mon emi,” concluded the old gentleman, with an nnmistakablo sigh of ralier, “your curiouity has been pratified; you know the history of 'the man yonder likencss repro- sents; but how I procured tho likeness 'tia needloss to toll. All that concorns you st pres- ent is to emoke your valedictory cigarand to 825 good night.” “ Good night, indeed ! I grumbled ungrae fully, as my excellent host tumed from moe to Tetira; *good night! Who the devil, I'd liks to know, could expect to sleop in peice after such o_*raw-head-and-bloody-bones' story s that old Laurence has regailed one with this evoning ? Counfound the portrait] It won't even allow moe to smoke in comfort !” - Whereupon I mountod achair, and. withs quick; vicions twist, turned the pictur to tis wall,—Paul H. Huyné in Applelon's Journal R0, THANK YOU, JOHN.” b Tnever sald I loved you, John 3 Why will yon tezse me, day by day, And w3z a wearipess o {hin¥ upen, Withi alwsys “do” and “pray "1 ~ You knaw I never loved you, Joha No fault of mine mudé me your {oast : Why will you hannt me with & face 13 ¥an A5 shows an hour-old ghost 7 X dare say Meg or Moll wonli take Pity upon you, If you'd ask; And pray dowt linger single tor my sake, Who can't perform that task. X have no heart 7—Perhaps I've ot ; Tat then you're mad 0 tako offence That I don't give you what I have not gob: Use sour own common sense. - . Let bygones be bygones: Don't call me false, who owed 1 ot {0 be troe. 'd rather answer ¢ o7 to fifty Johns Tha auswer “Yea” to you. Let's mar otr plessant days no mors— D Pirls of pmeesge, diys of south: Catch at to-day, forget the days befare,— Tl wink at your untruth, Lot us striko hinnda as hearty friends— No more, ro less; and friendship's good. A miracle alone could have | Only don’t keep in Tiew ulterior onds, And points not understood In open treaty. Riso above Quibbles sad shuttling, off and ‘HTo's friendslup for you if yon like; No, thank you, Joba ! —Christing Georging Rossettt. e e HUMOR. Of a now pill the patentee says, “ There isnok a Iazy hair in its bead.” —A Down-East paper announces that the ther- mometors hsd & resting spell ” last week. —* Husband, I don't know whera that boy g0t bis bad temper. I am sure, not from me" “No, my dear, for I don't find that you have lost any? —An Towa country 'Squire concludes the mar- ital knot ceramony thusly: **Them that th? Court hath joined together lat no man but :gunder; gnlt * !nflig&lll'llu children to come mstd iem,’ 80 holp you TR —n‘lzl nOW pronounco you man and—hand orer tho $10 beforo I go any further,” is the way Coz- necticut clergymen have of securing their fee. —Mrs. Lubin has been installed as pastarof $ Western pulpit. - Sweet is the savor of herzazmh and eweet Ler sanctity. ‘No doubt,” says b2 Boston Globe, * thero will bo some extrstts frow her sermons.” —A lady who made pretensions to themost refined feelings went to hor butcher to remod strate with him ou his cruel practices. “Ho? caz you ba 8o barbarous as toput little innocest lambs to death?” Why, madam,” said the butcher, “you surely wouldn'y est them alivh T eoatt1 am_plesnod toay, Miw. FiE —Doctor—*“I am_pleesed £ay, MF grgwne, that T "i.'l,l.ng" 'fil.fumr vu:v:uu“mj aby from a very healthy child of your s Mra. JOHE&—V Mra, Fitzbrowno—" Obl dethy doctor, I could not permit that, Wedo not aard to be mixed up with the Joncses in auy #af. —A well-known Connecticat_clecgyman b¥ descon who insisted upon leading tho S35 ing ot the prayer-meetings. great blunderer, ‘and ho sang melancholy tunes ho conld think of. Thekym® waa given out— T lIove to steal awhile away. £ The dencon began *“I love. to stesl " to stk whon he broko down, o started with Dundés “I love to steal.” Tho third time hlw menced and broke down when tho pastor and gravely ssid, T am sorry for onr hrotber® propensity—will somé brother pray 7’ bt love,— The ¢ Rieeding l-‘.-nmx}y-" ) A singnlar story is told by Mflbnflgg (3{:“ o pbyzician of Rufus Mitchell, aged 30, 7805/ contly bled to death from aslizht cut: g was ono of those unfortunate mea Who from the smallest scratch of tho ekin, 80 ot times ho has Inin and bled till it seamed that ‘blood had sl run ont, aud thea he would ally recover. This timo the cat was quite 750 and Bo lived rat o faw hoarm, There is 80270 thing romarkable about this family, Who 8% hors tormed aa Lelonging to (he bieeding mflx-fl Nome but the mstes biecd, and tney sre the of the fomales of the same family. For thin maon has left children; none of them ¥ bleed, bt if the girls shoald ave boys in B0 familles, they. will bo of the bloeding kisd, the boys aro themeelves freo and their 43 will be the same. I cannot explain this. T 20, practiced in the family for mare tbad F¥Fl years. Daoring this timo 8 number of th bled, died from this causc, snd othérs hsve Bug often dangerously. They seem to be 88 CAT% abont cdgo tools a8 though they were like 0% people.” iy gesticulating . o and | | j i ] i 14 i i — P vy R v T s o e R 1 1 4 ot