Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 12, 1874, Page 11

THE CHIC ©0 DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 1% 1874 11 T W S Sn e e THE SEASIDE. er-Resorts Along tho g Chesapeake. Cobb’s fsland---Chincoteagne---Reko- | bota---¥u de PEau, The Catholic Plymounth Rock---Mar- shall’s ‘Wharf--Iocking-Birds and Crabs. From Our Ouwn Correapondent. 4 CHCsAPEAXE BaT, July, 1874, sdplife is to be seen in the lukewarm ab iho (Cheaspeeke resorts. The mighty bay which s from the Atlantic between two capes, or the two son8 Of tbnthScor.ch James eps¥e river is right opposite,— o ‘;:;g of neglect; Charles, undor the %m the land parallgl with the ocean e a0 miles, and. tho land being low, the forpearly s, blg and little, flow wide as ;_. while the amount of drainage they carry, mfimol \ho rains and currents, and the ;elding loam orcley in the channels, often wash e i deep. Tho water of tho bay is brack- :;;\;{ce:(onnhl of the wayup; sait more then 3 balf w35 Tho crabs and mamanoes, sheeps- Bead, rork, mackerel, hog-flsh, oysters, 1 iod Spanish macicerel, are most plenti- o mouth of the Potomaec downto snd thence out to sea to CoBB'S ISLAND, ctich is an ocean_watering-plece, vers much fixs Fire Island, off the Long-{sland coast. Coub's Island is more New-England-like than New England itself, havingbeen acquirod half & camtary ago by Capo-Cod whalor for the prico of few bushels of ealt. There, divided from the Peolosulaof Virgivia by a swash or sound, - o pamed ! tUrEeod; fal from th ‘Hempton Boads, {allof fish, tho Cobb family face the broadest wach of the Atlantic, rolling inward from the Jrores with such barbaric might that 3,000 piles of clannél of fresh water, poured out of tzemoutb of the bay. is no more to it thin 2 drop of lemon in & tub of punch. This island —xhich I will describe during the summer—is an g resort for peoplo who fish and sail with some sdentidle sptness for it. The Department peo- oot Wasbington, who cin do almost anything Letween writing poetry and snooding & shark, and join the Baltimoresns, Virziniaos, Tedern folks, at Cobb's Island, whers they dress like wreckers, men od women ; and somo of the most eocial and roridly people of the city take gypsy joy slong these sandy beachee. The routs to Cobb's Jdsndis by Eteamboat from Baltimore or Norfolk toCherrystene Infet, thenco across the Penin- 1ols 4 or 5 miles to the Canoe-Landing, and thenee acrosa the Sound 2 or 3 miles to the idnd, where there is plenty of unostentatious weommodation. A few leagucs above Cobb's Ieland is tho vingalar ocean-resort of CHINCOTEAGUE, whete s commanity of fishers and wreckers, probably of New-Engiand origin, live in a condi- tion of savage isolsiion, amongut their dwarf ponies, ataco of singular tonghness avd lithe- pess, and by thoir adaptation to the sea-climato J 10d food, the salt grass, strong winter-gales, i and exposnire, are very suggestive of the trath of Darsin. I remember when these little ponied of Chincotengie were sold for from €12to §25 apiece. Thoy ere now frequently Fold for §360 the pelg, They dro thin and lean, often of a moitled-white color, with piscivorous eses and fisky velocity of movement. They will stand any smornt of fatigue, are indifferent to rerd-fiies, cxn swim like Neptune's own chariot- colts, azd, if it were not that the sea drowns great numbers of themnow and then, they wonld bave multiplied and possibly affected the stock to the xtent of anticipating on all our coasis the jackaeg, which is the coast-nnimal of West- em Enrope, from Gibraltar to Cape Clear. TEE BESORTS DETWEEN HENLOPEN AND HAMPTON. Above Chincoteague there is an ocean-beach called Green Run Inlet; and, on the Delaware ccean-coest, o large scttlement of religious eauf-dippers, called Reboboth,—s name suspi- ciensly Scriptural, and yet old enough bero to be Indian. Rehobothis connected with Philadel- phis by railroad, snd is opposite Cape May, yet might #8 well be 400 miles off, for all communi- zation there exigts between the two. ‘This sugpeste something new. Why would it ot be & good ocean-invesiment to have a steam- £hip visit tho whole line of summer-places, fiom Mt, Degert to Cobl's 1slond aud Vi de I'Fan,— taking in tho beaches of nino aud New Hamp- shre. Cape Ans, Isle of Shonls, Ceps Cod, Marthe’s Vinayard, Nantucket, Diock Island, New- tt and Narramanseit Eay, Montsuk, Long isaneh, Cape May, and eo ou to theClLeapeake, cosling en rou “Thére are o many steazm- boate ont of charter at this time, crowded ashore ~the railway-extensions, that 8 floating hotel of thiskind could be improvieed without delny, e2d coutd book passengers for the round excur- sion, Insifloof tho Cbesapeake there are but few Tesorts, the following Leing tle principsl : YU DE L'EAT. This i a new hotel, erected on what was for- mesly Sewell's Poirt, around which the dreaded Mermimic ueed to come. low on the wator, su alligator, and Fort Monroe immediately took the colic in her evary bomb-proof, aud called on bor physician, the Mionitor. for paragoric. 01d Brchanan, who fonght that vessel with Faccess, and gave ber up without resolution, lies taried on the Eastern Shoro of Maryland, wmougst the Lloyas, thoso long-lived janded vheai-planters, whoeo private graveyerd is said to be equal to an English cathedral's. On_that Ehlc, onthe baoks of Wye River, Frederick ouglass, tho only modest negro in our politics, v2sapoor little pickavinny, eatin som-meal & day, and moro acquainted with banges thay withl his pedigree. The old Ad- &n.l wko fought the Merrimac, aud the gray- red negro with lus foot on Buchanan's grave, mayappreciate each other and the riddle of i history in that place of private burial. od e TT8n is 3 hotel designed to accors- o ‘ate the people of the interior of Virgnia and Maryland, sud the abundaut bayeud ocean {ravel which concentrates a1 Norfolk, and to ob- ;’;‘; tha swplus of visitors unablo to be accom- ceied af the Hygein Houso, on the beach of ort Xoaroe. At the o CATIOLIC TLTXOUTH. e wouth of the Potomac is & huddle of F cls, 8 fow miles apart, called, N‘s?cchvely. “wer Peint, Marshiali's, nud Point Lookont. of oobjectof thisletter is tocouvey the exsenco " junmer-life on the Chesapeake with histori- & pint of Eaucz, by descriving a_visit I have l:hwe 10 theso places andto O1d St. Mary's Gity. h‘pfipx(ul of tho only Erghsh Catholic colony ll\vnh America, -1denbs whetl er, in your multitudinous corro- #pondence, vou bavo ever kad a lotter from this 404, the Plrmonib-Rock of several millions of fieHlesn citizens, who hold, as is usual with all g OF scctariace, that their particular land- il st aco was the footstool of faith, toleration, Lberty, Indeed, I presume they all were, ‘.Mf’“fl‘-\nnuger Williams, Jacob Leister, John e e, dod some others, nmever were satisficd. 1and pilgrims, overpowered from the immm encement, rever enjoged o supreme relig- donp FPOTtURity from 1624, when they landed, {orh 1o 1174, when they weze admitted to tolera- bk ey were never allowed to bo prop- oy ts until they tood the advico of their L, Dng-hudefl politicians, like Cbarles Car- A and led their province in the Revolutionary Ml lTheu Bocular zeal then received its re- Chtne religious freedom, and, since that dar, E!em“.’ iem” has made a'most the whole of its career in the Gmited States. The CATHOLIC, METHODIST, QUAKER. o Eame s the case with Methodism. which mfln-:i:g durin; LhecnevolutionPnu a Tory D on these Cheeapeake Pevinsulas :‘:‘!‘lfit,fimt took root, Francis Asbury, himself pDplishman, Lad o lie in retirement during Barn % pare of the War. The life of Freeborn “Tettson, by Nathan Bange, is explicit on this B and eo_great wag Wesley's cai for tho eranndist Tories, who left New York 8¢ tho m&:fl for Nova Scotin, that he dispatched farets D to Halifax as their missionary. Be- hm.u{kew}uhaq, American Methodism was WM‘:’!"’C& andits grest ascendency was to bsing AK:: the accomplishiment of Independ- traditions, .u Cfmxch it has gcarcely any colgnial beof ytp ;n]; less 1t claims George Whitefield to ® Yital relizions life of _all of a good part Bay region—indee, e of all the original Colonies—was Quakerigm, tho first spintual force to begin bere, the firat to decay. When its epcmies ceased to persecnte it, thero was an end of its apoatolio period. Methodism literally drank it up on the Lower Chesapeake, where George Fox_traveled, ns a coon_dovours an oyster-bed. It was liko Arte- mus Ward's conrtehip of the Shaker laga: ** Can I buss theo 7 #aid Artomas. She anawered: *‘ Yea!” 4 And," he ramarks, **I yea'd[” The reason they coalesced was probably be- causp thera was no difference, both holding the cardinal doctrine of an inner illuminstion ; and Quaker yearly-meeting, on West River and Threadhaven River, was abont the same an Methodist camp-moeting thirty years afterwards. At both, the tobacco and horsg traders, the cos- termongers in ice-cream and melons, the negro lovers, and the horse-jockers, sssembled, and Vapity Fair was more conspicnous than the handful of humble Christions it enshrined. The " worldly incresss and individual promotfons in both denominations go far to prove the promise 1 IHoly Writ, that the secd of the righteous shall nover beg pread. In the Baltimdre & Ohio Railroad, the alimentary canal of Maryland, Quakerism’ has always been the sound, conservative principlo; and the fortune of & West Yuver Quakor, Jolns —not John—Hopkins, excceded that of any other Marslonder in_ history, It was not lesd, than $6,000,000, and five-sixths of it was bestowed in philanthrophy. In like manner, Jacob Zome, a Methodist, the husband of Post- master-General Creswell's anot, is the richest landbolder in the Stato, his farms aod honses outnumbering the possesgions of the Carrolls, who were the heroditary surveyors of the Prov- ince. Method, temperancs, restrainment of lonse appetites, and rocial and family obliga- tious, if tie refult of religious gravity, show ths political economy that lies in any sound religion, JIEY FOR BT, MARY'8 | Take tho steamboat Lady of the Lake for Washington in the_afternoon, Stop st Alexan- dria, while they roll several hundred barrels of flour aboard, and éat a deviled crab and drink & glass of the good lager made there. Panse at Tort Washington, and hear the lugubrious ring- ing of tho mourning-bells at Mt. Vornon, ss al tho enginecrs strike them. And, by the way, is it » good sign of our times that' s sentiment of disrespect to the character of Washington per- vedes our politica? 'The other day T happened toeay that, on the whole, I thought Washington and Franklin to be tho best roproved of our pub- lic characters, and & room full of politiciana pro- ceeded to snigger. “Como now !” #aid a United States District Attorney, Washington was a regular wooden fraud.” After thoy explained it, I saw that the Serip- tural aspects of Jehovah would bave been a8 ob- jectionablo to these gentry. I think I seo Wash- ton moving up the tariff on vermicelli, or sharing 1moictics with a dotective policeman. I think I seo lum in the canal ring and a scickler for back pay. And I am gorry to say that, cighteen years 20, a set of Federal ofticens would have had too wholesome a dread of public opimion to sneer at ashingson, as she buik of them do in our period. ; However, wo turn Matthias Point after sup- per, and exchango the mail-bage, by a rope flung ashoro and returned without pausiug, al the spot where 8o many Rebel batterios wero once formid- uble, and _the lonesome _signal-flash anoounced 8 Bpy crossing the wide Potomac, Now the spot is desolate near the birth-place of that Providen- tial face and slowly-compouunded character, the ono man between Colnmbus and Lincoln, the compendium hero,—Washington. s family, with tho Wentworths, Fairfaxes, end Calverts, wers all from Yorkshire, and near neighibors, yeomen in the timo of Queen Eliza- both. When you look on the faco of *Long John™ Wentworth, of Chicago, you €oe n kins~ mun of Wentworth, the Earl of Strafford, the most accomphshed nfi)oflime of Lrglish liberty, 2nd the nearest friend of George Calvert, con- ceiver of Maryland, who loved lecrti"lcaa than Stafford. DBlossoming at gomewhat later time come the Fairfaxes, of Yorkshire, who restored the Stuerts; aud their American representatives intermarried with the Washingtons, to the great preferment of the much more humble family of the greatest of them all in fame. It is from the State and private correspondence of the Earl of Strafford—be who died under tls ax to satisfy iho Honse of Commons—that we got our best insight into the character of the Calverts. 1Its midnight when we are put down at Piney Point, 8 large botel in & fringe of wood, with a loug, holiow curve of yellow beach extending before it, plashed by tho Potomac Bay, here. many miles wide. We are putin a wagon and pulled across the neninsular to the convex side, where, instead of the Fotomac, we mest the wide cove or_bay called St. Georges Creek, 1 mile from Piney Point by the beach-wali There is a second hotel and ettlement, called MVATSHALL'S, 2 for the landlord and trader who builtit. A couple of wharves run into tbe sult water, and at the end of oneis a bathing-house, on the other & bar-room. About thirty long, fast- eailing canoes are d:mwn up about the lower wharf, An orcherd of peach-irees lies along the green loam sward, with & path amougst the fruit, slong shore. The bauks are peither. bold nor low, but of broken turf, with a beach & few teet below. The water is about 1 mile across 10 a series of white-perch creeks on the opposite shore. 'Lhers is hotel-accomodation for above a hundred, 2ad wo get to bed and to sleep in no time. i Morning breaks upon a scene perfeetly Chesa~ peakan. Less azitated than the waters of Lake Michigan,—indecd, biue zs_indigo except when rufiled by the wind, wlhen the water turns black, —thereis in tho wir tho preserviug savor of galt, & seneo of the fide pusbed up and drawn by tho Eoseroirn system of the sea, and the intimation of a_copious ammel Jife 1u fiing wild birds and fHopping fish. DProsd aud basking as arc the waters, they are fiamed with eoft, low, woody shores of deoper blue,inlaid with dull-gold, saudy beaches and spits; and, 8t every point where tho trees come to an end, a farzher point is scen beyond, of more roisty bluc ; and the largo veseels, balanced in the horizon, sometimes lie motionless, with all eail up, g0 long that, when they ruddenly diemppear, it tecms magic. Tho top-saiis are higher than the woods, and aro seen Levond them, moviug into unknown streams. Tho ear is all at once saluted by the natives of these parts, THE AMERICAY MOCKER,— thet bird who essays, like Lalnam, to flont the featherv epecics, and, by the will of heaven i 1is throat, turns mockery to blessing. A good gray poct is he, with a fierce Jook; but bhe is Echo and Art in ove, and ‘whistles iiko tbe pariridge, repeata the plaint of the whippo'will emulatca tho canars. chirps with the sparrow, and of himeelf has muwic quite original, which he deals unsparingly, D eioring mlso at pight like & fine Dohewmian Who can work ns well at midnight ns at noon. ‘He is s genius, volublo and versatile, interfer- ing in the affairs of the bird-creation, yet 8o prosaic as he hops aud whistles that all the fop- birds remerk that he lacks the literary air, and cannot therefore be o genuine musician. At this he exccutes ecvoral hundred Lkinds of vipings, cat-calls, and caws, singy Dixie and the vatch on tbe Rhine, drops 2 chord as plaiutive and sereastic together as one of Heine's bullads, and crice, a6 pluin as epecch: * Lot me out of 1l chaee ve il off tho giobe with th1s cage, and 1’ fong!™ What o wondrons esvage! In his throat ia tho inestitinble carbuncle, He is dzb 25 o Quaker, and,sll laly issinging in im. The negross cage theee birds, and eell them for &2 to 5. Rare ones often bring $100 in the citics. Noarly 150 years ago, {his bird waa described in poetry, in the_Genlleman’s Magazine, in Ea- glsnd, sy heard near tho 8pot where 1 amstand- ing. CRATS EATING OYSTERS. . At the side of the boat-wharf1s a great pair of tongs, like two iron rekes riveted togetber, so as to open and shut and clasp a peck of oysters in the £hell besween them. The handles are twice u8 high as 8 mau. And there, around the tougy 25 thoy lio in the water, is & large oster-bed, perfectly beset witn crabs, who aro feeding on the oysters. Through the transparent water wo 5co the wholo performance. The greenish-gray crab, with o shell on bm backlikoa shield indent- od and sherpened at the ends, swims endwise with tho velocity of a bird, his eyes upoo Dis side, protected by his two-armored aud clbow- od clews. When he reaches the oyster-bed, be {hrusts & ctaw in the partly-open shell, and drowns the oyster by keepiug the shell open. Then, putting lus eyes and mouth close down to the oyster, he forks him out piecemeal with both claws, liko a bad boy eatmg jolly. Ashe ia in the act, we observe on the ! arf a pieco of pork tied to a string, and an old hand-mado net. Dropping the pork, the crab _abandons tho oys- ter and seizes it with the avidity of a new desire. Lifted neatly to the surface. tho not is poked beneath him, and ho is lifted, sll furious and Ficking, into one of the canoes, where he epeed- ily has the company of about fifty of his breth- ren. This is great sport for ladics. I remember lnst year carrying Gen. Sherman’s fam:ly Off to see inlet crabbing, and they seemad to enjoy it more than the onginal march to the ses. 5 CHANGING HISSHELL, Here, at Marshall's, we have a perfect opFor- tunity to see the hard eribbscomes soft-shell,— a pieca of political apostasy which too often re- sults in his_expedition to the plate of gome res- taurant. His growth necessitates a yearly change of ghell, as these oysters.arc bound to fatten him up o a condition of suffocation. Mo Jooseus this shell by a system of perspiration, or exudation of albuminouvs matter, which loorens the sutares or jomis of the plates in the ghell.. By g.powerfnl effort the crab then backs out of his elun, like & knight. pulled out of his armor, hesd-foremost, - All limp _ard sick, he crawls off into the mud to swait the formation of another shell, which his naked body bastecs to extride by the kinaly ald of the elements. Per- haps the ovater ho Bau eaten also supplies him with his now clothes. . This ‘frick. hus not yet n verformed on .any stago: backiog out of a gholl, claws, suckers, and all, without breaking it. 'I'he operation is short, ‘generally accom- plished in & da; Next day but one the crabis again an_oyster-cannibial feeding on the molus- cany’ Panke. . h;\gl_su tho énd of the wharf, tied toacord, isa o = BHEEPSHEAD, weighing abont eight_pounds, with teeth bitin, at right htigles to his breadth, and & noso ehape like & five i He can take o book like a water-paniher, and go with it into the depths of the sea.. But on the table he is a sweet boon, and most amiable with a little egg-sauca. Fish aro very cheap here. A conple of black fellows soon came up, bringing n. very noble Atring of white perch avd rock, sverngipg about three-quarters of s pound npiece. There being pixteen pounds, they received 95 ceuts for the whole. Two glasses of grog materally reduced this compotisation, but Africa was sppeased. OFF ¥OR ST. INIGOES. At a breakfast of steak, waflles, {ried oystors, excellont coffoe, and both Wheat and epg-pons bread, smoking hot, I met, amongst othors, Mr. Tairbanks and family, Secretary of an iron com- pany, at Leavenworth, Kan. “‘Why did yoa come here, across a thonsand miles of land?” said I. **Ob! I read & book called Forest and Stream, and saw a lotter oo bay-fishing bere.” TFairbanks had Jearned to.scull one of the long, cat-rigged canoes, liko & native, balancing his Enddlu on a bit of end of prow. Nothing is asked ere for the uso of boata and sail. Board Is $16 & weok apiece for adults, Paying §2 for a negro’ to safl and scnll & double-mnsted canos, myeelf and friend doparted at 11 o'clock for Old 8t. Mary's, 8 miles cistant. The course was down Bt. George's Creek to Cherry-Tree Point, and then over the flat shal- lows to St. Mary's River, and so up the river hallowed to American Catholics to the ‘Yillage of St. Inigoes and the_seminary of O)d St. Mary's. Dut this letter has becomo a3 longz as a shad- reine. Better haul 1t ashore, and fish at Old St. Mary's in my next. Garm, PERE HYACINTIE. Flis Now Church. London (June 24) Cwlv'g!fl’nlndtnu of the New York ‘orld. The * O1d Catholics " of Switzerland have met at Berno to lay the foundations of their new eo- clesinstical organization. The meeting wus com- fissd of *nearly eighty delogates " from Basle, rne, Genova, St. Gall, Lucerne, Saleure, and Zurich. Out of the eighty, however, ouly four wers prisats, or ex-priests, to wit: Mr. Lbyaon, Ptarror Herzog, * whom gepersl reputo domig- nates 28 the first Bishop of this Chureh,” Pfar- rer Gaschwind, and another Pfarrer, name not given. of Znrich. The title of the new Church caneed some diecnssion. *Old Catholic ™ was voted down; “Liberal Catholic” was strongly advocated; but * Christian Catholic” carried tne dsy. The Roman Catholic Church was voted te bs no Church at all, but only a corpora- tion of Leathenish idolaters, ‘I'he new Church s to be governed by a couucil, cousisting of the Bishop, whan they get one, thres priests, and five laymen, and the Lishop can do nothing without the Council. When the meeting bad got thus far, a membor proposed that they should have no Riskop. This motion obtsined strong support. “ Anable Profesor of Lerne Unitersity,” s delegzte from Zofiingen, aud a Basle Doputy declared that Bishops were a nuiy- ance, and that the new Church iwould die if it ot & Bishow. At this point of the proceedings §er. Tovson and bfarrer erzog retired, and they ‘were only induced to return by being informed that the meeting bad voted, *nmid much langh- ter,” on the suggestion of Pfarrer Gaechwind, that “» Dishop is a necessity for us Catholics, although a necessary evil” Even aftor this was seitled and arrangements for stripping the Bishop of all authority wero muode, 80 great was the fear of the laymen that they made auother effort to rob the ogre of some of his terrors by calling him by another name. The term * An- tistie™ was suggested, but this was ruled out by reason of the fact thiat this was_the very word used for Bishop in the Roman Catholic maes. *And finally, moved by the remark of the I'resi- dent of the meeting thatif they changed the pamo of Bishop ** the Catholic folks will think our religion a new one.” _they - reluciantly con- sented to retain the dreaded appellation, but with_the proviso that the Council mignt depose the Bishiop at any time. Tho question of bow thoy were to geia Bishop and who was to con- gecrato bim was not discussed. "I'he correspondont throngh shom I bave ob- tained the above interesting fucts states that the new Church hasnot_yet made miuch prog- ress save in Geneva. **Tive of the prics's are already married,” and the others aro looking out for wives. * Coafession is no longer obliga- tory ;" the election of tho clergy by the laity is a tixed principle, and the new. Church has ob- tained poseeasion, by the aid of the authorities, of four of the editices which belonged to the Ttoman Cathotics, these idolaters being now com- pelled to worship in_barns or in balis hired for tlie purpose. The whole influence of the present Swiss Government is thrown in favor of the new Cbureh, snd it is rather sstouishing that its progress bas not been more merked thaa it ap- pears to bo. Perhavs when Mr. Loysou or Dfar- rer Herzog ismade Bishop it will spin elong more mernly. e BUSYBODIES. It i a fact, a8 T've been told, Tlat people, in the days of 0ld, Got rich in silver and in gold, No mazter what they bousht or vold, By minding their own Buziness. They did not try to wound one's fame, Or slender anybods's name ; They cared not when you went or came; They pleased themeelves,—you did tho same, 1fit was your own bustuess, And if a man did what wos right I his own mind, and in the steht Of God and Lav, by day and night, e went ahead and fought the Sight, Deternined on his business. Tut, in degen’rate modern doyr, ] quite a change in people’s wayz, And if you do not tell them, too, SWhere you are going, =nd what todo, They get in stich an awful stew, Theyll even watch and follow you,— Theso very busybodies, And Thien they surcly think tney ¥row Just when you come and when you go, ‘And they will whisper, 80 and 50, To every friend aud every foe,— Theso very bussbodics, But, if we toke tho rains to tee TWho these same busybodivs he, We find there'snot @ Lo orelio Who hann decent bistory, Among these busybodies, But Jet us no more notice trko Of evil tongues : but, for their sxke, We'll ops aud pray they sovn may wake From wickedness, and mouey make Ty minding their own busiuess. —_———— The Coiored Troops i the Arikansas ware The performances of the negroes in both “ grmies ” were subjects of common amuse- ment. 'The Baxterites were paricularly proud of their negro battalion, as 1t iudicated to tho world that the African mind did not_all run ono woy. One derk night & Brooks eoldier slipped up to s Baxter negro and sald, ¢ Cuffee, let me show you how to bold your gun.” _Cuffee, sup- posing that it was the oflicer of ho guard, geve Bp bis gun and squared bimself for instruction, on. £o it amazement, the point of the bay: onot was applied to the termioaticn of his ver- tebral column, 2nd he was marched off to the Brooks camp, & miserable prironer of war. A few pights afterwards a Baxterite tried the eame game. I!ei elipped up to a Drooks negro picket, and kindly offered to ehow him how to hold his gun. The unsuspecting negro warrior ave up his mueket, when he was told to trot. ut 5 second negro picket covercd the Baxterite with his gun, and marched hun off to the guard- house. Gen. Blocker, of the Baxter forces, was prond of the negro warriors, and_especially boastod of their eficacy a8 guards and pickets. One day the General wanied & _wee drop of Something stimulating ; but bis favorate grocor was out- side the lines. A negro piciet was on duty. The General, presuming his rank, nttempted to paes. “ Whar you gwine ?" asked the gnard. «]1 am going to moisten my whistle,” answerod the General. + Have yer got ary paes " «No, I am a General of the army."” «Can't belp that,” eaid thie faifhful darkey; «Whar did yon say you's gwiae?” . _ | T am going to get a drink,” said the General sharply. L v “ Noever ain't,” said the darkey, *“causeyon've told two tales 'bout it already ! 'And the Geueral didu't get throngh. Fe bad told two different stories as to his errand. . ISOBEL. ¢ And as for the rest,” said Mies Boll, éner- getically, ** what absurd nonsense it is! What 2 climex of weak-miudodnees, this dressing oar- eelves out in our finest fenthers, and trailing about like g0 many peacocks, and pretending to onjoy ourselves, when we know we do not! Do you'suppose anybody went to that place last night because they expected to enjoy them- sclves, Miss Lurkio? No, they did not. They went bocaure other people went; becauso they were nvited ; because they have fallen into thie habit of going lo such places; and they kuew thoy would be bored, and that thoy would hate each other, and would be glad when it was over. And they wero bored, and thay did hato each other, and were glad when it was over; and s 1T SERED THEM RIGHT." . Sho looked down, &s she spoke, from the highP window of Miss Lurkie's little sitting-room, with £0 much fine ecorn in her haudeome eyes, that one would have fancied she paw an offender in every innocent passer-by ‘on tLe grand, dismal street below. = “ Eh, my dear! my dear!” sighed kind 3ies Lurkie, shaking her dear old head over her kmt- ting, and secretly feeling a trifle fearful of com- mitting hereelf. * Eb, Mis Iscbel, iy dear; it's o'er trno, I fear, for this is & warld fu’ o’ in- iquities, an’ eavorin’ o' vanity an’ corruption.” 2Aiss Isobol did not lsugh, as she would have done s year or even a few months ago. She was ot inclined to laugh at anything that morning ; she was in too cynical & mood. She rose from her seat at the window with & queer littlo sigh ; and. coming to the fire, took n foot-stool st her old friend’s side, and eat down upon it, contract- ing ber browe, and clasping her hauds tightly about ber kiee. *Ja there mnothing better than this? she cried. *Is lifo slvays the same, always ke Lady Drumlie's parties—five, and stupid, and grand ? Is there nothing else for us to do but tobe ‘finiched,’ aud ‘come out,! and grow up into beauties ? What is tha chief end of man, I wonder, Miss Lurkie 2 The chief end of woman 15 to be handsomer than the two Miss Tushing- tons, or than somebody elso.” Miss Lurkio looked at the young lady over her tortoise-enell !gzchcle!, and her look was o cautions one. It would never bave dove for M:ks Bell to know that she was being scrutin- ized. The look took in the pretty, discontented face, the delicate, fine livea which had MADE M85 TSODEL LOWTHER A BEAUTY ; the tall, lithe figure ; the slender brows, knitted now. And then it wandered down to the clasped hands, aud to & gertain ring tpon one finger,—a gorgeous ring, whose centre dinmond guttered &nd glared lize s baleful eye. Mies Bell was frowning a the fire, however, and saw nothing else. BShe went on, with a shrug of her protty shoulders: ] sometimes wish that we bad fulfilled all our engagements to tho end of the programmo, that we might go home aund go to bed. I sxid &4 much to Lady Drumlio once; I was in ons of my bad bumors, aud my lady was horror- stricken. She told me I was wicked, and did not appreciate my blessings. Wicked! Per- haps #0; but itis no worse than—than things wo eay and do overy day. It was the trath, at least; and one teils thie truth so seldom that even an unorthodox truth §s meritorious. I—I wish we might go back to Drumlie, Miss Lur- l&ic. ; I am tired of Edinburg and sick of Lon- on.” “Ye are no in Miss Lurkie, # Inever shall be in good spirits again,” wns the answer, given with vebemence. I wish Lady Drumlie bad left me at home." +¢71 thocht that you were wishin’ for Lunnon, my dear,” enid Miss Lurkie. ¢ I thocht that ye were aye longin’ for the scazon.” Before the young lady could answer the door openzd, and & servant announced a visitor in the draning-room below. Mies Dell turned with a lisiless air; she supposed her grandmother had seut for her. #Who did you eay it was, Andrew?” “The Laird of Clandarrel,” replied Andrew. Then Mits Lurkie looked at her beautiful fa-~ ~orito again, over the dark-rimmed epectacles, and this time her glance was even more furtive and cantious than beforo, ies Bell's face had changed all at once. Her cheeks were glowing with nervous, palpitating color, her eyes bright with trouble. She twisted Ler long, fair fingers unconsciously in the watch- chain at her belt, *¢ And—is grandmamms with bim 2" she aslc- ed, in some surprise. * My lady is out, Miss Bell. The gentleman asked for Miss Lowther.” £ 1T 18 MY COUSIN #nid Bell to Mies Lurkie, trying to speak with in- differenco, and succeeding very poorly indeed. * ¥ wish Lady Drumlie bad been at home.” Dut every trace of coufusion had left her be- fore she reacked the bottom of the great stair- cake. When she entered the grand, gloomy drawing-room she eutered it with the finest of stately airs which £0 often awed the wotld, and had partly made her reputation for beauty. T'he dullnegs of the day and the beavinees of tho window drapery made the room eppenr zd- ditionalty gloomy, but it was quite light enonsh for her to Bee, oven at its furthieat end, the tall, fair young *giant, who rose to meet her with eager outstretched Land. But, enger as he wes, she barely gave him her glight, cdld finger-tips. © 0k, 18 it you, Hereward " ehe raid bypocrit- jeally. ' I uardly expected to ses you. Lady Drunlie is not at home.” The young man's enthueisem died away in an instané. Ho becamo o8 self-possessed as her- self, but he could not be as cool. I wisl try and bear it,” he eaid to himself. 471t was not Lady Drumlie I came to see, Dell. It was you." “Then,” eaid Miss Dell. ““you ought to have staved avay.” 1 kmow that," he eaid, biting his lips at her coldness. * But I could nut stay away; sud 80 I camo, like a fool.” “Ah!" enid bis conein, letting her beantifal eyea rest for a moment on his fuir, angered, re- proachful face. *“You nre in one of your ab- surd moods, Isco. Go and sit down there,” pointing to’ a cliir on the opposite side of the hearth. He wont and eat down, almost humbiy. It was evident that be wasused to obeyiug her, and that they were on vers cousinly terms. Then Miss Bell took s chair opposite to him, resting sgawst the cusbhioned back, laying & white band on either ma, and making quite o picturo of herself, with her flowiug draperies, and statacsque Little head, and davgerously pretty face. She regarded her cousin quito severely, perhaps because she felt strong in- ward relentings, It seemed to be her fate and punishment always to feel thees inward relent- ings when it was most daogerous to her peaco of mind. She mignt well wish hereelf eafely bacic at Drumlie, among the Lesatn and bracken. “Tow did you enjoy yourself List night, Horeward ?” she asked, after an awkward paase. “One should always regard one's enjoyment from a comparative point of view,” he replied. I epjoyed myself less than I might have dond; moro, pezhnEs, than M. MecGregor d:d, but not near g0 much as Strathsper.” Miss Dell put on ber hanghtiest eir st once. e will let that matter rest,” she said. **WE WILL SOT TALK ALOUT ME. STRATHSPET, if you please.” * No,” #aid her cousin. ** Wewon't talk about Mr. Strathspey, Bell. Wo will leavothat to Lady Drumlie, who koows how to appreciate bis vir- tues; or we will leave it to Strathepey himself, who is familiar with the subject. and can do it even greater justico than Lady Drumlie. You and I won't discuss Strathsper, for I think wo bave had enough of ki We will talk about ourselves: atopic at once interesting and im- proving.” £ But, struggle as he might to bo merely eatiri- ¢al and nonchalant, he could not help failing somewhat. His most cynical tono bad & toce of pain; his great bluo eyes were full of boyieh re- oroach and wounded love. Had be not loved TIsobel all his life, from the time tney Lad been children together, riding their rough pontes and leying boy and girl gaties at Drumlie? And Jiow waa bie to end his love, all at oace, marely becausoe her digcrect relatives had mado & {ash- ionable young lady’ of her, and heiped her to gain a wondrous reputation, and bad so far over- ruled her ol3, swect unwerldliness 28 to make Lier engayo herself to this numskull of 5 Strathspoy ¥ gude sperits, my dear,” said —simply because Strathspey was rich and aristo- | cratic, and weuld g0on come into his title! Hereward Clandarrel was not the only indi- vidoal who called Strathepey a numskull; though, to be suro, his manuer of so dosignat- ing him was more vebement than that of other people. Tho young man was & simploton; even his frienda acknowledged it in secret, however, roluctaptly ; but then, what prospects Jay before um! Wkat a golden calf he was, to bow down before and worship! And was he not heir to hie. poor young relative, the Earl of Dumblane, who was dving of copsumption? And Miss Lsobel Lowther was an slmost penniless beauty and might not miss such & chunce as this was? So shio hed sutered herself to Le éngaged to Strath- spey, aad would bo married in a fow weeks. .-\ngl this was what the great dinmond meant ; a0 f WHAT IER DISCONTENT MEANT § and what Gear Miss Lurkie's kindly pity meant ; ond last, bot not Teast, it was what her consin Hereward's reproaches, meant. Poor Viking! —Bell bad given him thio name of Viking, when ehe was 14, aud ho was tho only heron the world to hér; be was so big, and strong, and blue-eved, and fair, that it was the only title, st onco romantic_snd heroic, that seemed fit for him—Poor “ Viking " How bard it was to him to wit at this extreme end of the bearth-rug and Took acroes at thie entrancing faco and charming figuro at the other end !—and to know that both were Strathspey's property, and nos his own, as he had fondiy hoped they weuld bo ! “ But then, again, why not talk abont Strath- epey 7" he burst forth. ~*‘ There is nothing left to us to talk abhont tha! I know of. Isuppose I must not tell you that I love you, Bell ; anditis what I always say when we speak of ourselvcs, Ob, confound it all! To think that simpleton suould haye come between ua! And that you should give your sweet self to him, after—after all that hos “passed—alter all those dear old days it Drumlie,” Bell tumed her face away, saying nothing ; but Lesaw a littie quiver of the pretty zed Hps and a tremulous motion of the drooping eyolids. He rose from his chair, crossed the dreadful kpace between thom, and knelt down upon the Licarth-rug to take Ler benatiful, nersons hand. ‘*Oh, Bell I"” he cried, holding it so fast that she could not draw it away. **How am I to give youup? Yonhave not been fairtome. Was it fair to let me love you 80 long that it will tear my heart by the roots to let you go: and then to throw me avide because I am only the poor Laird of Clandarzel, aud apother manis to have an Earldom? You used. to ssy that you would rather own the crags and hills at Clandarrel than be the Queen of England. Ob, Bell, my dear, remomber what happy children we were when we thought that Dalgarnock top was nearer the ).vluuaslvty and heaven than any other place in tho world!” 1t seemied to 1sobel that she almost felt the fresh hill-side breeze bLlowing upou her cheeks, aud smelt the sun-warmed heather. She forgob her stern Ernud.mmhur. Lady Drumle; she for- ot that sho was a great Leauty and au engaged oung lady. The tears gathered in tLelong nshes, rolled down her face and fell upon her band, sparkling almost as brightly as that fesh- ing diamond. ** We shll never BE 80 NEAR HEAVEY AGAIN," sho sobbed. “Oh! we shall zeyer be Fo near eaven again. I am drifting farther away from it every day, Heraward. Aro peoplo always wick- ed and unhappy when they grow up tos be men and women 3 * And why should they bo ?” he said, the mist risjng to his blue eyes, in bLia great yearning. And why should we neyer bo 80 near Heaven ngain 7 It is love that brings Heaven near, Bell ; love, and truth, and bonest faith. Lady Drum- lie must have been more cruel than I havo thought, if it is she who las given yon such fancies.” And he bont bis great, fair head over tho littie hapd, firet almost crushing it in his own, aud then kissing it passinuately, “Don't—oh, you must not!" eaid Bell, crving softly, and trying to take the haud away from Lim. * Yon are forgetting, and—and yoa ought to remember.” o “Remember!” he echoed, kissing it still “Remember what? That 1t is Strathspev's little band now—that they have made you falke tg yfux promixe to me? Ishould like to forget bt “But it is not nght, you know,” she faltered, tearfully. “ Right!" snid be lifting his face, and looking at Ler. *‘Isitas wrong as the otuer, Bell? No; 1 ewear to you, it is more my hand than Strath- spey's ; and there lics the sin of it. Do sou think I would como kere if bo had won you ffom me bonestly, hoart and soul? Do you think I would utter a word of reproach to you if I knew you cared for Lim 2s you once cared for me? , I on'teny 88 you care for me now ; for if you loved mie, my dear, you would hzve strength enough to be true lome, snd fight my battles against them all. If you Joved bim, Tsobel, I slould scorn to speak. ~ I should be ashamed to count myself a man, if I could not bear my pain in silence, aud be glad that you wero bappy. But you know he has ot the power to stir your h!fm for & second; you kuow it. Andyouknow they HAVE SOLD YOT TO FIN . sold yon for the sake of the dead man’s ehoes he is waiting to atep into.” It was nlways the way with Clandarrel. She might begin by being eold and majestic, by treating him to the regal airs and graces wit vhich she overpowered her other adorers ; but he invAriably swept them aeide, with his honest Vandalism, in the end. He alwaya brought with bim such a sweet breath of the hill-sides, the loch, and the heather. - <7 Lo #0Oh!" sbe #aid, desperately, turning to him her tear-wet face, ** how I wish I bad never come to Edinburg. How I wirh grandmamma had left mo at home 2t Drumlio! Dut you know bow firm and hard she is,” she added, piteouely. **You know what cruel things she has said of E;ux memma's love-match, nud what a life eho s lod .her mince paps died, and she was obliged to take us all .to live at Drumlie Aiks. I wonder. myself, = bow poor mamms hns liked to bear it. I ehould bave died. . I never remember the time when grandmamma wes Dot neering, in her queor way, 2t love and poverty; aud she has often told us all—Marian, Helen, snd me—that ehe would take good care she had no more love- matches and sentunoot. You have no ides, Heroward, what croel things she can say., and Low obstinate rhe is. We are all afraid of her.” Stately and high-minded as thig young beauty +was, 8be was afraid of hor grandmother.. Dread- fully afraid of her. A terrible old woman, who was capable of auy strovg-minded act of ven- geance against those nnlucky members of her family who might dare to defy ber. Thero were rumors that ber husband, Sir Archibald, had stood in so much awe of his rigid and 1mplacable epouse that death had been a bappy relouse for Lim. It was certain tbat poor, pretty, gentle Mrs. Lowther bad eaten bitter bread when sho ind been poor, pretty, gentle Isobel Drumlie, and that sho had been driven to her marriage with the acanty-endowed Scotch minister by her wother's relentless severity. Clandarzel knew tho old Gorgon's peculiari- ties too well. lo was as firmly convinced ng Dell herself that Lady Drumlie would be capable of any hareh treatment to carry out her will. So he ea1d nothing ; ouly caressed the little hend ‘more tenderly. + Mr. Buralbispey.” Andrew's_congh had been heard before the door opened, which gave notico of the approach. Mr. Strathspey eutcred rather awkwardly, not- withstanding the face that he ought to have feit cure of bis welcome. Perhaps, after all, he was not so very surc of it. 1lestared about him for s moment eud then' canght sight of Clandarrel, and glared at him with his little, narrow eyes, and then ko caught igbt of Bell, each sitiing demaurely st the two extremo ends of the hearth- rug. Isobel rose slowly and gzve him ber slim fingers, even less cordially than sho had offered them to her cousin. “8o glad—er—to find you—er—at home,” stammered the little man. overwhelmed with confusion. * Hape you are well—ecr after—er— dissipation last pight. Delightful, wasn't it? Hope Lady Drumlie’s well—er.” Bt ho did nob condescend to take the elightest notice of Here- ward, and, indeed, had TCRNED I8 DACK GFON TITt. Mies Lowther fixed her large eyes upon him, with 8 cool signiticance. ** You have metmy congin, Mr. Clandarrel, think.” He was obligcd to ree Lim then. And some- thing in the calm glance of bis fair betrothed mado him feel that it wowd have beeu etter Lad he geen bim bafore. % Ab—er—yes, (o be suro,” Lo said, as loftily sshe dared. * Beg. pardon. B:lieve I bave. How de do?” and he vouchsafed Hereward a pod, after the manner of a potentate. Confound Clandarrel! be was always 1n the way. But he contrived to ignore him pretty tolerably. He talked and lJanghed with Miss Bell, in epite of her cold mdifference, and wmade himsolf as charming and witty as ho kuow how. Wheo Clandarrel rose to say good-by to his oonsin, there was an angry flush on ber proad face, and s look of humiiliation in her eyos. Ho wrung her band almost fiercels. “Tjon't come azain,” she contrived to whis- per. *Indeed, roumust not.” ) He quite crualied her soft fingers in his pas- sionate, brief pressure, and his boyish faco flushied to the roots of Lis fair hair. +T cannot promise that," was the rapidly mur- mured 2pswer. *Qood-by, Dell, nod God bless you!” Isobel was not very graclous to her lover when Clandarrel was gone. Sho rescated her- gelf with go cold and grand an gir that Strath- spey felt his heart sink into his little, varmshed boots. People might envy the future Eazl, and call him a Jucky fellow to havowon so famous abeauty; but now and then, even when bask- ing in the sunlight of ber presence, be felt his epirits fail him. He was vaguely conecions that the look in her expressive eyes was Dot exactly an affectionate one, and that the curve of her Ted mouth was hardly significant of unqualified pleasure. When ho tried to make 3 briiliant re- mark her manner made him uacomfortable, and when he warmed into sentiment ehe held him AT MORE THAX ARM'S LENGTX, 5o that at last Le was secretly prompted to ask of himeelf whether this was exactly the treatment e ought to expect from tue future Countess of Dumblane. 4 Sbe was 80 bright-tinted and_ bright-esed this morning thatho would Lave liked to say some- shung very tender indeed. But how was ko to begin? Bhe sat in her chair, her elbow upon its arm, and her cheek upon ber hand, her long Inshes resting on her cheek, 84 if shohind become quite uncouscious of his presence, and when he spoke she started. 3 I~ beg pardon,” he stammered. ‘I hopel did not disturb you “ Disturb me 7" said oll. ‘*Oh dzar no.” He drew his chair near to her sids, and tried to taka her hand; but, remembering who had held it last, she drew it away with sucis gesture that he slipped his chair back again, “Lhave written to McIvor about the—the diamonds,” he ventured ta say. * Ob, dear!"” she exclaimed, bofors she had time to check herself. ‘T hopemnot.” e looked quite confounded. ** Yon—hope— not! Why, my dear Miss Isobel, Lady Drumlie suggested that I should writs.” ** Can you do nothiog without consn'ting Lady Dromlie?” she seid, petulantly. It really scems that we cannot.” It was very ankward to be snapped up in this mannper, even by a beautiful young woman; and it ssemed to Strathspey that shedid nothing this morning but enap himup. He stiffencd, consequentially, . "*1f yon do not wishit,” he began; but sho interrnpted bim. & ' *Oh, if {ou are going to be angry, I think we hnd better let the matter rest, and leave every thing to Lady Drumlie at once.” She looked 80 :lovely and statelv and indiffer- ent that she bewildered and baffled him com- Plately, *How cou!d I be angry with you?" he re- joined. “You sre too hard oo ‘me, Isobel. Somehow I seem always to say the wrong things; and I cao't ml;; thinking sometimes that—that you are not as fond of me as 1 am of ou.” And haying got_thus far, be rose to take er hand, and made a8 if he would have kissed her cheek. & The rcd color, like a flame, blazed out on her face, Bhe frecd herself from his grasp, znd stood ereot 1n an instant. ¢ YoU MUST NOT DO THAT, INDEED,” she protested, almost angrily. * You—jyon for- get yoursalf, Mr. Strathspe: “$ut, fullfered her_belrothed, ‘sou hava nmmcd to be my wifo, you know; aod you ave never allowed mo fo kies you yet. I thought that when — #Qh!”gaid Dell, in terror and deeperation, ii‘l’lcuq do sit down again. Here is Lady Drum- 0" Lady Drumlid came in, marshaled by An- drew. All her servants feared her. Takinga look at the lovers, she perhaps guessed, with her usual Scotch shrewduess, that all was not quite right. _Strathspey looked stiff and flushed aud awkward ; Bell stood with the nir of a sur- prised culprit. It wasall very well to pretend to appear st wondrous ease, but thero was an sugry look on both their fuces. Ay lady was mild enough until 3Mr. Strathspey had taken his leave. 1t was ot her way to let outsiders into the secret of her amiable home- rule. Bell was abont to make her escape from the room, but was called back. “Come hero,” said my lady, in & significant tone. I have something to eay to you.” L Bell returned, with opeu tremor. A fine thing it was to bo & beanty, and a despot in a court of humble admirers, and then to be obliged to el isekly fof Liee daily scourgingsin pri- vate. *+Clandarrel has been here,” said her ;Jady- ship. whon her victim stood before her. “Yos, grandmammn,” replied Boll, deprocat- ingly; and most Leartily despising Derself in secret for hor cowardice. Long ago one of .the children st Drumlie Aiks —poor little Helen, who was the youngest—had privately compared Lady Drumlie to the dread- fal wolf-grandmother in the satoryof “ Red Riding-Hood ;" and Bell had never forgotten the pimile. Those white, false teoth of wy lady's, and her strong-featured Scctch face, her ami- able scowl, and her small, w{;ry oyes, were un- comfortably sugrestive a¢ all_times, but they were spocially suggestive to Pell this morning. Usnnefved and wretched, she was strongly tempted to break forth with pathetic terror iuto the old childish ery, *What great, Iarge teeth you have, grandmamma,” sud to listen for the answer, * All the betler to eat yon up with, my dear.” Bell knew, by experience, that she was ON THE POINT OF BEING EATEN TP *Ho was not here very long, grandmamma,” she faltered. “Oh!" said her Iadyship, pretending to joke, 80! e was not hera very long, washe! How long, pray? Long enough to make a little love and a few sweet little speeches? I should like to bave heard them. Nice boy, that Olan- darrel!” Bell bogan to tremblo. “Liston to me, young lady,” went on herlady~ ship. *‘The next timo Clandarrel presumes to come here I will sce him. Not you. Never you again. And I think that will be the last bour he ever derkens my doors. You recollect. Go!" Miss Lurkie, sitting in the little privato room eho enjoyed possession of a8 the family compan- jon and honsckeeper, was roueed from her roverio over her knitting by the entrance of ber young mistress. Bsll shaot the door ond returned to her footstool in tears and tribulation. #Ob, Mies Lurkio!” she said; * please let meo stay with you for s while and bs quict. I don't —oh, I don't know what to do!” L, Miss Bell, my bairn 2" cried the friendly old creature. ** Ye must na gio way,desr. Dinna But Bell wzs doven to desperation. Bhe was {fain to “greet” for a few minutes, in Bpite of Ler pride. “ Yon do not know wk=t T have to bear, Mies Lurisie,” she said pitcoaslr. “Yon and poor 1amma are the only friends I have in the world.” Aud tuen, thinking of Heroward and his good- by, she flung ber stately reservo to tho winds and wept openly. s A Between tho fature Ezrl of Dumblane 2ad her grandmother, Isobel Lowther lod o pleasant lifo dunng tha next few weeks. His visits became more frequent ; and under the sbarp cyeof Lady Drumlie she dared not rebel. Civil she was at lenst compelled to be, and be became 0 lover- Jiko that ehe was goaded to secret frenzy. Added to thia-was the pleasurs of wa'ching the prepara- tions for! the marriage. Lady Drumlie would allow of Bo delay, and certainly the bridegroom was enger cnough. The two “held confidential consultations together about jewels and seitle- ments sod various arrangemuts. Bell looked on. Itcould not be helped, ehe was sure. If she had intended to rebel, sho ought to have been firm ot first; but now it was too late, and sho must submit. That wasall aboutit. So, aftera week or so of passionate mirery, Isobel sank into = state of DULL, COLD DESTAIR, finding her only consolition in tuo fact that siin was losing her colorand appetite, aud might bo taken ill and die. 'T'o Hereward siie had maa- aged to write a few lines of farewell, begsing im not to come to the housa again. and asiiug him to try aad forget the dear old days at Drum- lio, or only to remember bor as his littie play- mate aud cousin, and not a8 the Boll who had made bim unbappy. And, with that, she con- ciuded the matter would ead. = But it did not end there. Unfortunately for Lady Drumlie, Clandarrel was a favorite with tho world. I’aoé)le invited bim to their dinners ard soirces; and, mancuvro a3 she would, ehe could not avoid Bell's meeting himw. She exer- cised her power in the matter of preventing their dancing together, or, indeed, doing more thau exchanging bricf words of grecting; but she could not order him out of the room, when he placed himself in & convenient coruer, aud stood there watching her charge with most ob- Jectionally tender reproach in his bluc eyes. One duy, not long before that fixed for the wedding, when Lady Drumlis was_out on somo importint business connected with it, and Teobel \was sitting in & very disconsolate mood Lefors {ho drawing-room fire, a visitor camo . To her torror and amazement, #lo fouud 1t to bo no other than ber cousin. He hurried to meet her, and took both her hards with his usual headlong enthusiasm. - + Herewird,” sho cried out,s* what do you mean? How can youboeocruel? You must not stay. Graodmsmms —" X I am not afraid of Lady Dramlie,” be inter- rupted, toesing back bis yellow hair. * Lot her como! Icouldn't stand it any longer, Bell, my dear.” Bell began to trembls. mad,” she eaid, almost angrily. * Prayzo zwa. You—jyou are as bad as the rest.” And then sho gat down ard covered her face with ber hands. He went down upon his knces at hor ride on tho hearth-rug, just a8 ho hed done that other = “ You must be going dar. * Bell, my dear,” he said, *‘ I have been driven to deeperation ; and they are making you des- perate, too. Do you think I am going o let that little sxmgvletcn marry you in spite of yourself 2 No, by—by Heaven! I A3 GOING £0 MARRY YOU MYSELF, in the face of Lady Drumlie.” On!" Bell plesded, *pleaso don't.” Daut the firo was, flashing from nis bluo eres. aod bo lookea asstrong as a lion, and moere like a giant ;h:\n ever ; fit to be master of the world—aud of ier. 1 beg of yon, Hereward, to go away before it is too late. She may be here at any moment.” “*Very well,” #aid Herexard, bending to kiss her hand. *As I said before, let her come. Do you remember ¢ Young Locbinvar, ! Bell 2" “That she did.- When they had been childron, playing together at Drumlie and Ciandarrel, they had liked the legend of Young Lochinvar eo much, that Bell managed to set the words to an old tune, and they bad suag it until every- body but Hereward was tired of Learing it. Bat Hereward had always been faithful to it in hLis heart: and he had promised Bell that if she should ever attempt to marry any one but him- self, ho would carry her off on her wedding-day, after their hero'a valiaat fashion, . **It was Strathspey who made me think of it particularly the other night—when we were at the Lushiugtons', Boll. e ie such an awlward fellow, you know'; andas I saw him standing fidgeting between you, trying to look at ease, tha words came back to mo at once + 4 The pli:;!l;f}'mm stood du?unx his bonret and And then all tho reet flashed upon mo; seemed t0 hear you singing the pgly ol figné tune in your clear, high voice, 83 you used to sing it when we galloved over the heather on our ponies. T s *She is won! We ars gone over bank, bush, and scaur; Lo They'll have fleet & v mmm-," teeds that follow, quoth young 4 But why do you recall this now? " she asked. “And then—don't look frightened, Boll—[ thought, Why not, since they Liava left us no al- ternative 2 N AND WHY NOT INDEED, BELL, if you will only be a brave girl, and listen to me; sud you will, [ know. Say you will, my darhag, aud you shall seo how my whole life will provs to you that the honest love of an honest gontle- man will go further toward making you. Lappy than all the Earldoms in Christendom.” Mo put his strong young arm aboat her, sad drew her head down on his shoulder, Poor Bell gave a sobbing sigh. g ** Think of Ciandarrell,” he continued in a Iow, persuasive whisper. * Think how the mweel wind is blowng on Dalearnoch Top this very moment, and of how blue the water looks on the loch below; and then ask yourseif if you would not be hqum- there than here, and a3y you will listen, Bell.” "And 50 ho went on in his hoadlong, boyish fashe ion, pleading as for dear life. Pleading for theold love, and its sweet, childish romanca; pleading with all bis heart and strength; and bringin back to her mind so many fresh and innocen memories, that in the end sho was obliged ta give way. And in spite of her fear, in spite of Lady Drumlie, in gpita of the future Earl of Dumblane, sho did listen; and listened to some purpose. I IT WAS A VERY GRAND AFFAIR, this Jast party of Lady Drnmlic's. All her lady- 8hiD's partics were grand affairs; but _this par- ticular one, which waa to crown Miss Lowthor's ferewell appearance in society as Miss Lowther, was liko none that had gone beforo, Oa the whole it was a *fam,” but = very byilliant and imposing jam. Nobody stayed at home who was invited. People wished to see the last of the young lady whoee debut into gocicty had created B0 great a sensation. Aud really, on this occasion, Dell was even more woll worth looking at thun ever. Sho had never scemed to bo so beautiful. Her bright eyes were almost feverish in their brilliauce ; aud more than one guest romarked that ths touch of excitement iu her usually stately mane ner Wwas positively an additional chorm. * But sbe might well look excited,” theso eame guests ooserved, afterward, to one an- other. M * And ehe might woll glance toward tho door every few minutes, ag I certainly saw her doing,™ eaid the prettiest Mies Lushington. Lady Drumlie observed ncither the excite- ment nor the glancing toward the door. She only noted, with great satisfaction, thiat Bell wad looking her best and creating a sopssijon, ond that she was really nmiable 1 hor manner to Surathspey. Dut about tho middle of the even- ing something else. Glancing across the room she saw a sight that almost turned ber to stono. This sight was no less than the figure of A FAIB, YELLOW-HAIRED YOUNG GIANT, who stood head and shoulders above everybody eleo, and who was maxing his way toward here self tbrough the crowd, and withan alrof the v greatest complaisance and good humor. . ‘When he reached hcr, her rogo was gremi She was almost motionless at his astoanding audacity. And he bowed his head before her as coolly a8 if he had been her most honored™ guest. - “ Lady Drumlio,” he e2id, ina Jow voice, 1 a8k your pardon for being here; but, a3 a kins man, I felt that Imight dare to_intrude, unin- vited. I have coms tohave my last dance with my cousin, and when I bave bad it I wiil go.” For 2 moment sho felt 1it to choke him; the next, hor hard old Scotch faco had settled back 2goin into its grim triumph. Bho made o littls motion with her fan to bring him nearer to her. ““If it were mot for tiieso people, who ara looking 2od listening,” she whiepered, *and for the scandsl 1t would create, I would take you by the shoulders myself, nnd TURN YOU OUT OF MY HOTSE."” * Bhe drew back, ncdling her flerce old head, and looking him straight in tho eye. Tho Luird of Clandarrel felt convinced that sbo would Liavo riven a year or $o of ber remaining lifo ta beve dared to do it. “Thank you,” he said, 2s composediv as be- fore, and tho sweet smilo on his lips was nover ruffled. 3 Bell, at the vpposite ead of the room, had seen it all, had trembled and, grown pale with excitement. Clandarrel had made huis way to ber, whispering the words of signal in her ear. # Now tread e a measare, guoth young Loch- invar,” " ho said ; and he took her haud and led Tier oit among tho dancera. How_people looked on as they danced ! How Lady Drumlie \@ued, and Strathepey fumed, as they wallzed S=st them, Clandarrel' Tiead bigh gbove the crowd, his cyes sparkling, tus arm around Bell’s slender waiat! Even th Dystanders caught the spiritof it; and, oddly euoughb, as it seemed afterward. a satirical young Indy whispered’ with o sbrug of bLer klioulders and a glance toward the bridegroom— “Twero Letter by far Endwinmfllchml our fair cousin with young Loch nvar.? The waltz was prolonged; the musicians kepl it up well. Deforo it was ended THE TWD UAD VANISHED. 3 Atlength o curious gucstioning whisper hegan %o circulate throngh the company. Lt reached the ears .of Lady Drumlio. She stared about fi{‘mely. aud then motioned Strathspey to hex it *Whore is my granddanghter " “I haveu't seen her. She was waltzing with that—er—fellow, you knayw, apd—-" 4 ¢ Haven't seen her !" almost shrieked the old lady. . * Let me get out of the room.” She did get out of the room, acd at last up- to Bell's chamber, where sho found a ice, ttle cream-colored note, laid upou tho lace- {rilled toilet-cushion. And Lady Drumlie, tear- ing open thin note, learned. that all her ) otting Liad been in vain, and she was a baflled, defcated old woman: 5 : “My DEAR Gpixpxasra: When Ileft the room. in tho middic of the Jast walts, Ileft it to Tunzway wul my cousin Hereward. I cannot marry Mr. Sirathspey ; aod o8 You left mo ng other chanco ¢ eacape, I was obliged to chooss this oue, though I wonld much rather bave brol the engagement quietly, instead of end- ing it in & maaner which I have no donbt will canse a rowantic scandal, I bave loved my cousin all my life, and would rather be his wifo, and pothing but the mistrees of pretty Clandar-- rel, than_the. Countess of Dumblane. ILops Yot wilt forgive mo for eversthiog eles I Lava dono to offend you ; but I caunot agk you to for~ givo mo yet for this, though I fecl tyat I hava dove right, not wreng, in being true insteed of false. We ehall be balf way to Clandarrel bofora you read thw, Heroward pays— . AT ANY RATE, DETOND PURSUIT. And—T hope you will forgive us both in time, Qear grandmamina. In Laste, yours affeclion: ately, “* [40BEL.” While Tady Drnmlie was reading this guilolesr epistle, Lull was far on her way to Clandarrel | and, once at Claudarrel, she was Eafe, for ahq was made withiu the hour the young laird’s wifa Aund there it ended. Terrible as the escapads had scemed to Ler, and much as the beantifuf Miss Lowther's wild marrisge was discussed by society, Bell found herelf as happy 8s the day were loug.—The Argosy. Sl UL Y ANTITHESIS. Diath gives s mors than Life.—Stray Poess. Age, mora ; 1 gives repoze ‘weeter than any life can e'er impart 3 5 Vaut depth of peace, wire overy burdened Msanl At lungth will loss fia wosa. 1 love not any creed That grates of deathless Iife Leyond the snn. Enough of hfe when these poor years are done: T would have Test {ndevd ! 1 Xnow my prison-ba; T bufid 1o topying towers on ahifting rands; 1 reach ot apward with decsying bands To grasp the lofty staci. Tte lgnly gravels dear, Aunc ban 0o terrors ; it I3 frea from paln; nd no scrut baue Tts couch 18 downy ; Wrings the regretful f And life—its wild uproar, - 3 Its fruiticss hopes, its withered, ‘blighted days, 14 hours of angiisb, fura the falating gaz3 Toward the “ voiceless sbure.” X Treo, CARPENTER, Crrcaco, 1574, - & A%, se0 how the sun is gilding yon distang eails,” remarked datilda Jane to Jotin Alfred, a3 the steamer on which they were passengers was nearing the port of Milwaukee. * Alas,” guoth John Alfred, gazing io thedirection indicated by hia sweet companion, * that's only a Slilwauleo street, and them things you es is ears.”—. ziile Courier-Journal.