Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 4, 1877, Page 9

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The namo of George Cabot bas become almost obscured during the half-ceatury since Its omn- ers decense; yet, oa that of an able statesman and prominent New-England Federaliat, whose influence was considerable during a critica) perlod {n our country's history, it deserves to be rescued from oblivion, The volutne which now appears, with & record cf Mr. Cabot's public Iife, reveals the Importent part ho bore in the politics of his time, and the claims he has to re meinbrance, along with hia assoclate dignitarics, Fleher Ames, Col, Timothy Pickering, Oliver Wolcott, John Marshall, Alexander Hamficon, end John Adams, Tho biography, pre= pared by his great-grandson, {ts composed chicfy of his letters to distingutshed members of his party, with such con- necting notes of explanation as are nee essary torender IntelliglvJe the circumstances of the dag and the relation he assumed to them. The work is to be estceined for {ts historical yalue, a6 tho correspondence now for the first tlne published throws Nght upon the principles and schemes of the leading New-England pol- {tlelans, and especially the Fedorallets, in the latter part of the elgltcenth and the beginning of (he present century. George Cabot was born in Salem, Masa., Der. 16,1751, Little fs known of his carly years; but. the statements of his biographer, that his father was.a prosperous and upright man, his mother a woman of sterling eter, and that he was educated at the beat schuols of the day, sro full of significance. The death of lis father caused him to leave Iarvard College at the end of the Bophomure ycar, and, at the age of 17, to enter a eeafaring fife, Before he had reached his majority, he was in command of asbip. In hla yoysacs to fore(rn countries, ha acquired on extended knowledge of comnierce, and @ free use of the French and Spanish languages, He hada natural fondness for science and meta- physics, and 5 love tor studious pursuits, which he (uduiged through life, 5 Iu 1774, Mr, Cabot married hits doublo first- cousin, Eltzabeth Higglueon, a woman ef unu- eual mental powers, with whom bis union was long and happy. In list, he left the career of arca-captaln tor that of a merchant, establish- ing o prosperous business at severly, He im- wmediately beeaine couspicuaus tu the political aflairs of the tuwn, aud was an active member ot the famous “ Essex Junto,” as a fraction of the Federaliat party, ain pone of men like Cabot, Theopilus Varsons, Stephen EHigginsan, the Lowells, and Timothy’ Pickering. was calted om the country to which most of ita repreannt- Aven belonged, Jn 173, Mt. Cabot fled a vacaucy which oc- among the Essex Senators to the State ature, but declined a re- Into}, Bro, jon, «| ste} FHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1877—TWELVE PAGES, he was made Senator of the United States, which position he dled far five years. An impertant change waa instituted in bis private life,when, in 1708, he retired trom business and purchased an catate {n Brookline, on which he resided tor nine sears, It wasin # retired situation, Ave talles fram Boston.—a distance which, at’ that date, Insured fsulation and rectusion, to avold sey tion from hia eons, who were now eettled inthe city, Mr. Cabot aold his es tate fa Hrookline in 18}, and removed to Nos- ton, At the Hartford Conyentlon, whl rembled Dec. 5. 1315, Mr. Cabot acted as Pre: dent of the Congress; and this was his last ap- pearance fn any public capacite, Ile remalning years, Which terminated April 18, 1823, were epent in retirement,—the business appertalning to hin office a8 Preaydent of the Boston Marine» Insurance Pombang srcnpring avortion of his time, and the rest being devoted to the com- panionsitp of his books. ‘The personal appearance of Mr. Cabot in the latter part of his Hie is winninely portrayed by Me, 8G, (Goodrich (Fcter Parton") in fr Recollections of 9 1.1 sing man among then (the members of the tarttord Consention),” says Mr. aadrich, “was George Cabot, the Presifent. He waa over ix feet in height, broad-ahouldered, and of a manly i His hale was white,—for he was past 60, shia cyea bine, his complexion slightly florid. Tle ecemed to me Uke Washington,—aa If the Rreat man, as palnted by Stuart, had walked cut of the canvas, dud Hvedand breathed aang us. He was, infact, Washingtonian in his whole alr and bearing, a4 was proper for one who was oncot Washington'sfriends, and who kad drunk deep at the same fountain—that of the Revolu- Hon—ol the epint of truth, honor, and patriot- ism. In aspect and appearance, he was strike Angly dignified; and auch was the effect of his Presence, that, {. acrowded fount, and amld other men of mark, when you once’ became con- scious ho was there, you could hardly forget it. You seemed always tu sco hin,—as the traveler $n Switzerland secs Mont Blanc towering above other mountatus around hin, wherever be may. be. But yet he was onsy Mid gractottea in hts Manners,—his countenance wearing a calm but radiant cheerfulness, especially when he spoke. He wasvefebrated tor ile conversat(onal powers; and I often remarked that, when he bern to converse, all cyes nnd eaes turned toward him, ff eagcr to catch the music of his voice and the light of is mind.’ ‘The correspondence of Mr. Cabot, relating wholly to public atfairs, shows him to have been Aman of gonnd fudement, upright principies, and atsoch patriotism, These qualities sccured lum tke confidence of tis party, and catised bir tou be consulted, on all questions of fniportance, by the leaders of Federstisin in New Eugland. In treating of Mr. Catat’s contectton with the Nartiord Conventi the biographer departs from the rule (imposed upon himecif of allowing the history of the times to be itclincated solely in Mr, Cabot’s correspontence, and enters inte aprotonged discussfon of the intentions and actions uf the celegates 4o the Conventlon. 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In his memolrof Edgar Allan Poe, Dr. Gris- wont mentions the betrathal of the poct, nearly two seara after the death of his wile, to “one of tho most brilliant women of New England.” He had firat aeen her,” saya this blogranher, “on his way frotn Boston, when he visited that city to deliver a poom befure the Lyceum there. Restless, near the midnight, he wandered from his hotel near where she lived, until be saw her walking Ina garden. Ie related the Incident afterward in one of his moat exquisite pocme, mostly of himeelf, of her, and of the most ex- alted passion.” The pocin was addressed “To Helen," and, although {t is of considerable Tength, we reprint {t bere: Teaw thee once—ones only~years a0; mnnel not may how many—Dut nof many. twasa duly midniznt: and fram out. A sull-orbed moon, that, like thine own eon, auat ine Sought # precipitate pathway op throngh heaven, There toll a ailvery-rilkon vey] of tight, With gusetuie: and suitriness, ani he upturned faces of a thourand Roses that grew in an enchanted garden, Where no wind dared fo silt, uniens on tiptoe Fo) on the upturn'd fncen of these rover, That gave out, In retuen for the lure-ligat, ‘Their odorona souls In ecetatic death— Felt on the npturn’d faces of these roses ‘That smiled and died in this parterre, enchanted By thee, and by the poetry of thy presence, Clad ail in white. apon a violet bank Tanw thee bal? reclininz, white the moon Fell onthe upturn’d faces of the rarea Ani on taino own, upturn'd~aias in norrow! Was It not Fate that, on this July midnight Was It nut Kate (whose name [9 al¢o Sorruw) ‘That nade me pause b+ fore that gardcn-pate, Ta becathe the Incense of those Alnmbering roses? t No footatep stirred; the hated world all slept, Fave only thee and me. {ONeaven? Otiodt Now my heart beats in coupling th two words |) Save only thee snl me, } promirod—t tooked— Aud in one metaut al} things dieappearcd. (Sb, dear in mind this garden was enchanted!) ‘the pearly lustre of the moon went vut; ‘The masay bunks and tha meanderins paths, ‘The happy flowera and the repliuang trece, Were seen no more; the very roses' odors Died in the arms of the uroring airs, All—all expired eave theo—enve lesn than thees Rave only tue divine fight in thine cyes— Save but the eon! In thine wpiitted yer, T sow but them—they were the worit to me. J eaw but them—saw only then far hauce— Saw only them until the ‘noon went down, ‘Whns wild heart-hintorles svemed tn lic eawsitten Youn thore crystalline, celestial spheres? Huw dark a wot Yet how sublime a hope! How silestiy soretia a xca of pridet How daring an ambition! Yet how deep, Now fathomiees a capacity Cor lovet Kut now, st lengin, dear Dian eank from sight Into a western bank of Uuniler-cloud; And thou, axzbost, amia the entombing trees Din'staltleaway. Only thtne eyes remained, They navld not fo—they never yet have yone. Lighting my Jonely pathway home that night, they have not left me (a+ ny hopes have) since. They follow me—they lead nin theougn the years, ‘They are my minietors—yet | them atiore, Their office 14 to Wumine and enkindle— My duty, fo be eared by tneir bright Hyht, Aud purifier by their eiectric sre, Aad sanctified in thelr Elysian fre. ‘hey filled my soul with beauty (which te Tope), And are far up {n Heaven—the stars I kneel to In the ead, slient watches of my night; While oven in the meridian glaroat dsy Teese them atill two sweetly acinthiant Venuses, unextinguisucd by the sun! The lady whoaa name has been associated with that of Poe in this romantic history ia Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman, of Providence, R. 1. Bhe was bor fn 1803, and her malden name was Yower. In $823 sho was married to Join Wine- low Whitman, a lawyer of Boston, who died in 1833, On her husband’sdeccase sho returned to her nativo city, whero she has since resided. Mrs. Whitman has been an author of both prose and yerac, In 1853 she collected the poems previously contributed to various perlod- {cata (na valume entitled Hours of Lito, and Other Pocma:'? in 1860 she published an casay on “Edgar Allan Poo and His Critics,” and, with her steter, Anna Marsh Power, she pro- duced a yolume of “Fairy Gallads, a revised edition of which appeared in 1807-'63. ‘To account for the non-fulfiliment of the en- A BLUESTOCKING. BY RK, EDWARDS, acruon or **Ovont We so Visit Ment” ‘*Leant A Woman ov Faamox,“ ‘ Ancuma Lovet," Etc., Era CHAPTER V CAINS MATRIMONIAL, A philosopher tia computed that one tongue of average, nut French, velocity wal publish at the rate of a thick octavo volume per day. Assuiniug the Ggures to be correct, one may calculate w:th some nicety the spced whoreat news inust travel ina thickly-populated terrl- tory, twenty ines long by six broad, and of which the Freneh-speaking Inbabltants number more than two-thirds, By the time Sir John Beverne haa fulahed his breakfast next morning every man and woman in thn little country ina where te lodged has giyon bln -a different version of Paul Chester's rescue, with marginal outea (n profusion as to the ofl Miss Vausittarte and thele Sauily affers,—thoso portions of tho affulrs expecially (when duos uisfortano fa’) ‘of ready vhroniclers!) which touch on Airs, Chester, Briefly told, alfting the facts clear from suppoaltions, hearsava, and moral-fraught inference, the history comes to this; That, some efghteoa years before the present time, Daplno Vausittart's child- {sh soul frst awoke to the ‘heay- en that Mes ebout us’? amidst the Janes and valleys of Quernec. Mer mother had dled In India st her birth ; her father fell in the Crimea, not ia glorious, pension-winning fashion, but from prosafc exposure to cold aud wet Ju the ditches befure Bebastopol. No heri- tage had the 4-vear-old child but that of sorrow, Do prospect of a homo save such astho Miss Vansittarta, ber great aunts, burjed away at Flelle-latelne, might be able to offer, “Any other man than Paul Vanslttart would have provited sgulnst thesu—theso Very distressing coutingencles," eaid Mina ‘Thou dora, fretfully, when the news tirat reached thom Of their nephew's death, “lub everything fn Paul's life from frat to last was a souddle, Choosing the wife ho did,tn Indla,—a baby-taced creature wha had nat energy enaugt to live for ber uwa child’s sakey—and now dying in this de- Dlorable way, hia name not even mentioned In the dispatcaes,”” The vldeat Mies Vanaittart, in ner stouteat, Most Oracular tones, prouounced the twowords, "Orphan Aayhuan." Aunt Hosle walked atraight away to her bed- chanber, counted oyer the contents of her Poorly-stored puree, and packed up her travel- fog-box, Capt. Vansittart, when the war broke out, bad Jel his daughter In charge of a professional Good Samaritan at Brielston,—one of the adver- thing Pivchins who offer parental affection ta Mutherless babes, by tho month or quarter; sea-batbing, if required; references to bonefleod dugymen: ond terms payable in advance. And ta Brighton Auat Hoale went. A week tater, battered: by second-class {ryeling, ner purse emptiod to its lat Wrercign (perhaps her belicf {2 Samarl- human. nature somewhat | sapped), he got back to the Channel Islands with her herge,—aemall, fale child, looking still amaller, (I fairer, by reason of ber craps sod bombs- tne, aud with soft eyes saylug “Love mo” to World in which ice tlay drop of existence Keued so absolutely impertinent a superfiuity! mote of expeusc; talk, a8 that woman in nighton did, of children’s appetites andthe coat ie ‘uuttou chops!” Thus epoke Aunt Hosle to cr sisters, ag the three beld counsel together ae, thelr wood-tire on the frst night of her ro- ra,—litth: Daphue warmly slecping in the cot Wepared for Ler up-otaire, “I maintain that a child must be a positive economy in any house- hold, Look at the sous I give Jean Maric for weeding, althuugh he oftencr plucks up my seedlings than the groundecl} Look at the clothes we throtr away,” sald Aunt Hoale, draw- ing, It must be confessed, wild drafts on her tui- sginatlon,—"the clothes we throw away berause we faye no small creature to cut them down for, As a matter of economy, a housc «ante something young; wauts ft, If twero only to make the dust fly, only as oll to hinder the old wheel from rusting.”* A sufilefently commonplace gloss to put upon Gao action, this of penco and sbilings, Butit accorded Lest with Aunt Hosic’s habit of mind to keep to commonplace in the solemn asin the trifling things of life; and pence and shillings wero subjects to which tho Milas Vansittarts must, perforce, give heed at overy atep they took. Their father's death, about five years before this date, had brought the sisters ino day from affluenve to need,—Col, Von- aittart, Gencrous George, a8 he was called in his goneratton, belonging to that open-handed class of men who hold what they plvasantly call “short views” of life, not minding the lengths behind, Genta, hospitable, @ header of sub- scriptlon-liata, w giver of delicate meata and tare wines, Goncrous George's moral near- sightedness would never permit him to sce that it might be sduty to make provision of soms Kind for bis own daughters. Sufllcient unto the day is the clinrity thercof; such was his maxim, wrought out conscientiously into practice, The aum of £700 or ‘WAS Ko- cured to cach of tho Mise Vanslttarts under, the marriage-scttioment of ther long-dead mothers this was all. By the time the Colonel's funeral expenses Were pald—and so immensely rue @ tember of suclety must, of nuccasity, ave an expensive funeral—tho ‘last shilliig lying in bis Ganker's hands was pretty well cx- cnded. Then came the settiement of his Bitlsstattors’y “haberdasucrs’, wins mer- chants’ (for it is noteworthy that men of the shortest views Invariably require the yory lonucst seedlt), and then—the Mise Van- sittarts fealized their position to the full. Tho Javiah, genial off Cafonel had been airily tronctilug on capital for yeurs, and died exactly {n timo to eacaps the taste of poverty binsell; made hisexit frum the world surrounded bj friends, with the aselstunce of the first plyal- ciona, with benestt of clergy, expeusive (uncial, notices in the local papers, sud a semi-public pageant. Now, how abould the Mlss Vansittarts con- tinue to tnd bread? ‘Thoy had reached ages when not the wildest femalo brain can any more calculate ow Matrisge aus probable financial resouns; the: ‘were accomplished up to the standard useful- ness of their station and period; aud their folug Invome iaight bo estimated at about £110 » year, How shouid they con‘inus to dud breadt Col, Vansittart, at the tle of bla death, was inbabiting a hundsome furnished douse fu Cheltenham, and on diunererchanging terns with all the ‘best people of thy neighborhood; vo his daughters were not tele endless. i It had ever been a favorite boast with Gener- ous George thet ho bad the knack of making irlends for his children, Others might surpacs him in the wisition of tunes. It was ble poor pride,—so he would declare, with generous teare suffusing bis cyes,—bis pride, bis ambi- thon, toleave bls fatally rich in kindly social ties, Now came the frultiun of bis desires. Hot house grapes and camellias, cards of inquiry hosrded{o thishour by Muss Theodora, especially such of ths poor bits of pastebosrd as are made sacred by a title; later on, advice lo measureless quantitica—all these overtlowinge of the nil of human Kinducss did the Miss Vansittarts receive. Left eo tercibly badly off! Dear, dear, could neither of the youuger ladies turn their thoughta towerla bccomivg Companion? Or there were Refuges for Decayed Gentlo- women, concerning which aome of the more {ndueutial friends eveu offered to write letters of inquiry, Or an ton to focome wight sometimes be made by fancy-work, delicately disposed of, under suop-prices, uf course, among one’s own acquaintance. ‘And then it was that the thought of Quervec, possibility of leading a life of outdoor work and-lndepentisnte, first crossed Aunt Hosie’s mind. Long years before, when Generous Georee was In command of his regiment in the Channel Islands, a great darkness had fallen acrvas Henrietta Vansittart’s path: upon the eve of inarrlage her loyer bad proved unworthy, and deserted her. No new catastrophe, eatd the world,—a catastropte, indeed, that ee platy a girl might reasonably avs antlipateds get, Uke nome other human grief, nut percentibly lessened tu the victim by reason ul ites tritences, At2), os at 60, Autt Hoslo was no coward. The burden that fell to herlot she bore, un- aided hy any of those littie pious frands whereby orthodox resignutiun contrives to shift over- heavy wolgh:atathe alotlders of thers. But ale very nearly died; kept up, witha brave white face, and a manner curiously Nko herown, for a many weeks, then suddenly fell sick aud had bruin-lover. As aho recovered, slowly, iitinily taking up the threads of Ife ake would #0 willingly have let go, the doctors proposed coun- try alr for tho girl. Milas ‘Theodora, then in the maturity of her pink-and-white charme,” could buast adimirera nota few among her Jather's subalterna, Col, Vausittart, so noon as bis dauch~ ter was pronotuncell decently far from danger, uiust have lis rubber of whist, his little dinuers abroad and at home, a5 usual, Knocks, rings, announcements of visitérs, clanging of ‘swords and spurs (in those days young warriors held it good jorm to wear thelr uniforms), —~—all the wustis and clatter af am house whore fn- mates welcoine apy soctety save their uwn,— these were not surroundings amidst which shat- tered terves and a heart stricken to desperation vould rally, So the gicl wae act fur a fort- night's change to Quernoc,a farmer's wifes accus- tomed to sick poole taking her in charge, and, ins\ of a fortnight, romained thero six months. The wholesome quickness of tho s1 air; the intermittenco of sunshine and atorin; the faretretching horizon; the rough, kind tieh- er-folk, busied os hopes and cares aoalicy tothe frivolous world in which she had gotten her death-wound,—euch were the influences that saved Henrietta Vanaittart. Inilucnces that could not bring back the vanished joy of life, but that taught her how a onal surrow may be made to tutu the wheel of unseltish activity, and remained graven on her heart long after sho ad pepurnes ae ae wilepaylng,, dinner. , ade-pacing existence of jilacea tke nat gud Cetin iets 7 4 werner, we are lucky enough to find a vacant Term-hose, we shall bo among, people rer than ourselves.” 80 she argu with her alsters when sucvesaive fine frientls had given in their achemes of Compantonshlp, Wool-work, and. Refuges. “ We shall be ludcpendent, yet as much fresh airas we ike to breathe, and have excellent butter with our brown bread. Imske responsible fur so much,” ‘no terrible thing will be to part with Ty- lers,"* said tho eldest sister, Owing rather to her deafness, or tu sume inherent elemeuts of her Sather's genial constitut{on, It was laspoust- ble to bring poor laabella nigher to the realization of erty than -_ that she, Isabella Vanslitert, must bencelorth face the retnuant of ber mortal span, rise of a snorninn, go to rest at night, luok over summer dresses in May, over wiuler oovs in October, unussisted by a forty-guincalativ’s maid! “£ am gs ready to diako sacrifices us any onc, I um sure, and during the summer months @ acaside Hite fs not unendurable! If only wocould keep Tylers.” “Our father's military position will be re- membered lu the Channel Isdands,” mused Miss Theodora. “People will kaow Who we are and What we are, There ty comfort at least in that.” Finally, Aunt Llosle’s project was carried out, Flefde-la-Relne, by a lucky chance, stood ten- futless, the land wantiog druining, the house pairs; aud by ¢he time little Daphuein her Sigek frock first ran wild among the Queroece lanes the sisters, even the two cider ones, bad settled down with a scuse of security, if nov precisely of affection, to thelr isolated life. Nover waa fife Getter titted for delight and Uberty, the natural creed of child. hood. At Brighton every item of ma- ternal care bad beca honestly rendered In ex- change for Capt. Vausictart’s checks. Daphne was scrupulously exercised twice a day, learned: Der letters by the very newest Kiudergarten lights, swallowed cod-liver oil after her grace at breakfast and dinner, and plued a littie uo- der it all! Here at Quernec sho lived to free alt sod sunshine from morning till night, had a arden to dig in, animals to feed, and the secure Beayen of Aunt ‘Moalo’s aniles ofes all, gagement between Mrs. Whitmon and the port, De. Griswold stated, first Ina eketeh orinted fn the New York Trimae am) aftriwartsin whe memotr of Poe, thatthe latter deifierately se- cured the dlasolution of the enragement by vis- ittng the Indy white in a state of brutal faloxk catlon and committing such outrages in her hotire that the polite were summoned ta eject him from the premices, Inthe recent “Life of Edgar A. Poe,” by Willlain F. Gul, the following passages from a letter addressed to the author by Mrs. Walt inan, in August, 1873, effectually disposes af ig. ntnudeyeus story originated by Ur. Gris wold: ““Noanch tory," writes Mrs, Whitman, '' a that described by De, Griswold ever tranapirad Inmy presence, No one. errtainly no woman, who had the slightest acquaintance with Edgar Poo coud) bave credited the story Sor an Instant, Te was cascotially anil Instlictively nn qentle- tman,—utterly incapadie, even tn inoments of ex- citement and delirium, of such an outrage na Dr, Griswold has ascribed to hin. No authentic anecdote of coarse Indulgence in vulgar orgica of bestial riot has crer been recorded of him. During tho Jast yeara of his unhappy lle, whenever lic yieldeil to the temptation that was drawing hfm into Its fathomlers abyss, as owith the realaticss swirl oof ‘the inaelstrom, he always | himsclt in sublime — rhapaodics on the evvlution of the untverec, rpeaking, as from soine Inayi- nary piatform, to vast andtencca of rapt and ate tentive listenera. During une of his visits to this city, 1n the autumn of 1548, 1 once saw nim after one of those nights of wid excitement, before reason had fully recovered Sts throne. Yet even then, in thoee frenzied moments when the doors of the mind's ‘Haunted Pala-e' were left alt unguarded, his words were the words of anetacely intellect overwrought, and of a heart only too sensitive and too fincly struny. J re- peat that noone acquainted with Edgor Poe would have given, Dr. Griswold’s scaudolous anecdote a moment's credenre."” On the publication of Dr. Griswold's blograph- {eal aketch of Poe, in 1852, Me. William J. Tabu: dic, a prominent lawyer of Providence, and an Intimate friend of both Mrs. Whitman and M Poe at tho time of their eucagement, inserted a letter In the New York = Zribune, in which he fienly but calmly contradicted the statements regarding Poe's conduct toward the Indy in aueatton. In ft he declares, “Ihave simply tea- {ded to what I know tobetrue, nainely: that no such incident as that so extensively circulated Inrezerd to certain alleged outrages at the housc of Mrs. Whitman, and the calling of the lice, ever took place. The assertion that Mr, ave came to Providence the last thine with the intention of breaklog off the engagement you will find equally unfounded when I haye stated to you the facth.as I know them.” After re- marking that circumstances exleted which threatened to postpone. if not entirely proriaite the marciage of Mrs, Whitman att “Mr. Poe, Mr, Pauoille states that, duriug the last visit of the poet {n Providence, “bosucceeded in renew- ing his engagement, and in obtaining Mrs. W's consent to an Immediate marriage. Hu stupped at the Earl House, where be becaine acquainted witn asct of dissolute young ncn. why often favited him to drink with them. We all know that he sometimes yielded to such temptations, and, ott tho third or fourth evening alter his locture, he came up to Mrs, Wintman's tn a state of partial Intoxication, I was myself Preacnt early the whole ereniog, and lo tost solemnly afllrm that there was no notte, no disturbance, no ‘outraze;’ yt call for the police.’ Mr. This was undoubtedly the evening referred to in your memolr, for it was the poly evening {n which he was intoxicated curing his last visit to this city; but it wus not. * the evening that should have deen before their bridal,’ for they were not thun prdlished, aud the Jaw in our State required that they should be published at Icast three tlmea, on as many different ovcasione, befure they could be legally married. The next morning Mr. Poo manifest- ed and expressed the most profound contrition and regret, and was protuso in hls promise of amendinent. He was atill urcentiy anxious that the marrlage should take plate befure he felt the city" Tue evidence which Poe continued to give that becould net withstand the temptation to in- temperance, was, in fact, the cause of the ans nuliment of hile engagoment with Mrs. \Whit- matt, A fragment of a letter written to har by hin, after the principal ineldent described by Mr.» Pabodie, 18 Invlosed by Mr, Gil in hile blograph: of = Puc, and reveals the anguish which the experiences cost him, It runa as follows: ‘The terrible agony which [ lave so lately endured—an eons: known uuly to my God and'to mysclf—sceina to have passed my soul through fire, and puriftcd it from ati that Iswenk. Hencetorward Lam strong: this those who Jove me stall sec, as well as those who have so relentlessly endeavor- ed toruin me. It necded only some such trials asihuve just undergone to inake ine what i ‘was bort ta be, by making me conscious of my own strength." Poe first saw Mra, Whitman while sho was walkin in ber garaen ona suniner-night in 1345, Stis bequsintunes with her begin early ju September, 1843; and the letter from which tha 3 nelther was there ay: Poe sald but little, above extract {* taken beara a late date tn the autumn of the same year. ILLLUSTRIOUS WOMEN OF B9- LOONA. * One of the famous names among the women of the fourteenth century is that of Novelia Andreas, Her father, John Andreas, was Profesanr ol Canon Law at her birthplace, Bologna. Novella was both beautiful and gited, and ber father’s fondness for her Induced him to Instruct her carefully fn all departments of knowledge, Hee attain. ments became so great that when the business of the fearned Doctor mae it inconventent for him to read his sccustomed lectures to his classes, he sent her tn hia place; but, fearing that her hearers would forget her Instruction: In the adiiration of her beanty, the cautious: father haa a Jittle cortain drawn lesore her face to fide {t from her pupfist gaze. Novella mar- ried a learned canontst, Jala Caldestmus, and dled not long after. Her father, as a fitting tribute to her memory, entitled his commenta- ry on the Decretals of Gregory X., “The No- yell? Near the close of the Oficenth century was born Properzin de Rosst, a gifted sculptor. Her Dirthptece fs unknown, but the citles of Bologna and Modena buth claim to be the seat of her nativity, Russ! studied drawing with Raimondl, audthen devoted herself to sculpture, which waa the favorite art of her time. Bologna tras her hotne, and wtill possesses n number of her works, One of theau iss very fine figure, in marble, of Count Guide di Pepall, Properzia assiated In making the sculptures that a/lorn the three utes of the (acade of 8t. Petroncus, ‘She Gras “family, of Bologna. still possess a curiosity of her production, peach-atone tn which 1% cut a representation Christ's pas- sion, with eleven Mzurea introduced as spect tora, each one with a characteristic expression. At her death, in February, 1530, al) Bologna mourned her fos, and a famous biographer uf the tlne wrote: “The lovely inaiden was this day made perfect.’” Bologna is proud of the [ame of a female painter also, who flourished more than acentu later than Froperzia. This is Elisabetta Siran{, who was born {1 1633, and dled on her 2th birthday. Her father, Gian Andrea Slrant, bad been a favurite pupil of Guido; and Elisabetta, even when very young, ehuwed wonderful talent indrawing. Hor father observed ler precocity, bat never theugut of giving het art-instructtoir, because she was scirl. A ylaitor at her home, seulug her abilities, persuaded ber father to ctye her adequate oppurtunities for improve- ment,and, a8 tu these the young girl add. edo yitlring industry, her aueccss was complete. Her pulutings rank = among the bestoflier time, At the age of 20 suc painted the inuch-admired Baptism of Jesus, wiich was placed Where it till hangs, in the Churets of the Certuatul, — Mer skill and atlati- ments were also grout as an engraver, a modeler {n plaster, and a musician. | The money earned. by the production of ber many large historical paintings was used by Sirani tor the suvport of fer fatuer aud bis tauily, alter be became on inyalld, Her mother belng rendered helpiess by paralysis, the young and ifted girl took upon hersel! the caro of howachold alfairs and the oversight of her younger sisters, Her famo had extended througbont Itaty, and she had re- ceryend orders from roreizn Courts, when, alter afew months of Indisposition, she dicd so sud- denig as ta briug a suspicion of polsuning upon the servant who attended her. All puselvle jiunurs were paid to ber remains, which were 9 of Doctor, Thin examination she passed trk umphantly, receiving a silver laurel crown from the Faculty, and the gown which was the sign oof her degree. Manor fotellectual conquests and deserved honors were afterwards gained by her, The Benate of her city finally settled upon her a pension, Laura married a celebrated physician. Dr. ¥ rattl, and proved herself as auperior at a wile and mother ay she bad done asa savan. Faith- ful attention to her domestic duties did not cause her to neglect study. She always kopt up With the other Professors of the College, and for twenty-cicht yearn carried on in her home a series of experiinents in natural philos- ophy, She was appointed by the Senate tn lecture on this theme In tha University. Of course al! lecttires and writings of the time were expressed ta Latin. Her works now existing are on epic poem in manuscript. lectures on phyales and mechanica, and accounts of some experiments and discoveries on the compression ol air, At her deatn, at the age of 67, she waa buried fn her silver laurels and Doctor's gown, with solemn obscyules. Another fa:nous woman of Bologna, who Med the Professor's chair, was Clotilde Tam- brouf, who, born in 1754, fived until the seven- tenth year of ourown century, in her child- hood she showed unusual aptitude for learning, but her mother was unwilling that ehe should neglect her needlework and other feminine du> ties. ft chanced that # distinguished Greek aholor lodged with the family ot Clotilde, and, while the little girl was busied with her domes. fic occupations, ane aleo Istened to the Greck Tessons given by him to his classes. One day,as an {ll-prepared student heeftated In his recitation the child prompted him, giving the correct een- tence in perfect Greck. This deefded the future of Clotilde. She was thenceforth allowed to study, and trade great prucress in gencral lter- ature, mathematics, Latin, and especially In Ureck. While yet very young, she waa appoint- ed to the Gree Professaratilp of the Tuntor De partment of the University of Bologna, Pulitl- cal troubles drove her to Spafn for awhile, but she was warily welcomed by her countrymen on ber return, and given a higher position as Greek Professor in the University than she hat previousiy held. She Uved a vecy quiet and studious life, dying at the age of 50, and leaving some translations from the Greek, aod sume Greck oretia. In 1293. Betieta Gozzadini. having graduated at Bolugua. fectured on the Institutes of Justin- fan to # large class of atudenta in her own house. In 180, Maddalena Buonsignori lect- ured onlawat Bolurna. and wrote a treatise “De legibus connubialibus’ In 1400, Dero- thea Bucca was Professor of Medicine in the University of Bologna. In 1760, Anna Morandi Mozzotina was Professor of Anatomy fn the same institution. In 1805, Maria delle Donne was appointed to a Chair of Midwifery by Na- poleon Bonaparte, at Bologna. Photographs taken from the portraits of many of these distingilsied women tney be procure: in Bologna to-day, and the uld custodian of the University, who hue the sale of the pictures, deacants with pride upon the virtues and ac- complishments of the women whom the city dehghted to honor during theft livea, and whose inemory it carefully cherishes aluce their death. SPARES OF SCIENCE. FLORA ROUND ABOUT CHICAGO, Tur Vauentan Famuny, tz Hourwonts, AKD THE Panrain Fasi.t.—The Vale trionacer: {8 @ xutall order, of less than 200 species, allof which are herbaceous plants, annual of perennial. A few have the batit ot twining, aud most of them are strong-scented ororomatic. The leaves are chiefly gathered in pliced near those of Guldo, 4u the Church of | rosettes at the root, and those in the stems aro Ban Domenico. In the clghteenth century, Bolomna poseesecd shother filustrious woman, Laura Maria Cat- ering Bass, who twas born in 111, and died ta 1778, Her family, of thy middie class, were fo the habit of revelying many Iecarned cuesta; atnong whom, a priest, sveit.e the ablilties of the littie Laura, amused himeelf with teaching ber Latin and French, which she soon net only translated, but spoke and wrote with fluency. Some other -echolars, becoming lutercated In Laura, persuaded her parents to aliow her to discontinue her housouuld dutles and devote Herself to learning. tlt Laura avon leit the Face of Bologna far bebind her in the subtiere- arches of plilosophy. Her learned {riends and teachers urged ber too display of her un- usua) powers and avpuisitions, by hutding, as was then the custoin, a publte dis- pute on philosophy. In spite of great natural modesty, Laura’s gratitude to her in- structors induced fier to cravt thelr request. Sp unustial au event brought together a multi- tude of scholars, of ecclesiaatles, of noblemen, amt ladics of rank. Laura more than satiniied set opposite each ather. The siall, tubular flowers are clustered in panicles or cymes. The order is widely distributed over the Temperate Zones, avd i# abundant inthe north of India, Europe, and South America. [¢ ts less common in Africa and North America, A single specica, the Valcrian edulls, occurs {n our flora, at Rosehill and south of Hyde Park, and blossoms foJunc, The flowers are very fragrant, and, being One and close eet, and of s pinkish-white tint, are pretty for bouquets. The plant soften seen in cultivation. The large, Bpindie-shaped rout {s caten by the Indians, The root of the Valerian officinalls isa well- known medicine ef powerful anti-spasmodic properties, used in nervous affections. Cate are very fond of the plant, which bas the curfous effect of fntoricating them, The specics crows wild In Britain and throughout Europe. Other members of the same genus poseess s(milar ropertien, as the Valerian Phu acd the V. the expectations of her friends, by her great | Dioscorides, which are natives of the Enropean knowledge, Hue powers of thought, and elezant | Continent. Latin diction, us in that language the dlscussien was carried on, reached the age of 1. Jt was then urged upon ver that she should submit bersel? to an exauil- pation before the Colfezé of Philovophy , auc ceeding in. wuleh, she cduld recelye the deurce Several of the Valerians are used by the Orientals to perftine their baths. ‘The ‘This occurred When Laura bad | young leaves of the Valerianclia are used as a balad, which {9 called by the Epgiish, Lamb's Lettuce. ‘The Splkenard of the ancients was obtained from the Nardostachys jatamansi, a native of the mountains of Inilia, and growing sometimes atancleyation of 18,000 fect. The perfuine is yielded by the root of the plant, which Is from three to twelve inches Jong. From this a num: ber of stems arise, bearing purple flowers. The ameli of Spikenard fa not generally agreeable to Furopeana, bat is much liked in Thiet and Sera he Hollymorts (Aquitottacer) are evergreen trees or shrnbs, with sisal, leathery, often spiny leaves, and amall, whiteor greenish, a Ulary Qowers. Their number ja itmited, not rle- Ing much above 100, Only one epecies, tha Com- mon Sfolly (Ilex ayulfollum), is foun in Europe; several occur In North America; but the great- er number belong to the West Indies, South America, aud the Cape of Good Hope. Tuo Common Holly, one of the most important members of the family, grows In Scotland to the height of from twenty to Atty feet. Several varletica are In cultivation, and, with thelr deep» grecn, glossy foliage, profuse and scarlet her- ties, are highly ornamental in winter. The wood of the tree. white, hard, and fine-grained, is much used by cabinct-makers aud carvers, and in the manufacture of musicat-instra- mente aud wool-cngrating. Bird-lime ts made from the inner bark of the tree. ‘The name Holly fs sald to be derived from the uc of the branches iu the decoration of churches st Christmas-time. It was first called Holy-tree,— a terin gradually ex: zed for Holly-tree. The American Holly, Hox opaca, isa native of the Easteurn-Coast States, and growa to the heicht of from twenty to furty feet. Its fullage is lees green, and its berries of a paler hue, than those of the European species. We have in our vicinity the Ilex verticiliata, called Yinterberry, which occura sparingly at Gibson’s station, ‘The leaves of this shrub are deciduous; but, after they have fallen, the bright-red berries, thickly scattered along the tena, remain for some time to decorate tho bush, The Hex glabra, or Iuk-berry, {8 common at Miller's Station. This shrob has aliining, evergreen foilage, and the flowers produced in dune give place to black fruit. At the same locality, the Mountain-Holly, Ne- mopanthes Canadensis, ts occastonally ween. It Is much-branched shrub, with deciduous leaves, flowers appearing fn May, and Mght-red drupes following after. . ‘The leaves of the Ilex Paraguasensla nre quite generally use, in Brazil and other South-Amer- tcan countries, aa a substitute for tea, It tn valled by the natives Mute, aud, by the English, Paraguay Tea. The leaves aud the frult of this and other species of Tex ere employed by dy- era. (Plantaginacex) em. Another small famit braces the humble, uauaily stemless herbs known to as as the Ribworts, or Plantains. The 120 or more species are met within cvery part of the wosld, but chiefly in the Temperate latitudes, Thelr follage is elightly bitter and astringent, and their seed: covered with mucus. Thoso of the Plantago Ispaghula and the P. Payllium are of a cooling nature, and are twade inte @ mucilage which is much used tn India in dlifer- entiliseaser. In Egypt, soda is obtalned from the ashes of P. Squarrosa. The Common Plantain (P. major) is a weed springing up in all waste plaves. Its dense floral spike continues to produce flowers and {ruit from dunce to September. The young leaves forin a deticate potherb. The . cordate has been found, bya Tripune correspondent, at Miehland Park. It bears heart-shaped or round. ovate leaves and loosely-fluwered aplkes, winch are in bloom from April to May, The otder Plantaginaccw {6 of very little use to mankind. —- THE FLORA OF NEW ZEALANDs Acommunication from Taranakt, New Zea land, published in Hardwicke's Science-(osslp, opens with the statement that the wild flowers of New Zealand are neither numerous nor gen- erally beautiful; and yet {t proceeds to enu- merate a number of species which in the desaip- tion charm one with their loveliness. ‘‘{n the early spring,” It says, " {estoons of Clematis indivisa hang on the shrubs fn the skirts of the great forcate, and warn the native gardener to prepare for the coming year. Then Sorphora grandifiorg, a shrub-tree, and almost the only one that sleds its leaves in winter, pats forth {ta clusteraaf larce papillouaceous blossoms, reminding the colonist, by their yellow color, of the wild daffodil of the carly British spring. Dysoxylum epectadilc, a trea whose leaves te- eemble those of the Lilac, its timber Pencil- Cedar, and its fruit the Chestnut, now also hangs out {ts epraye of white bell-fowers from. shoots proceedivg from the bark of mature Imbs, and not from the terminal branches. Aa the spring advances, Aristutelia race- toes, onbrub tearing a strong resemblance to the American Blossoming Currant, {sin bloom inthe forest-ciearings. Towards Cliristmaa the woods are in their glory: then the grand Rots Metroalderos robusts is suffused with @ rosy blush, by reason of its multitudinons crimaon wyrtle-hloums peeping out among fts green leaves all over {ts great crown; the curlous flowers of Astellu hang delicately out between A young child want's mother’s loye, not protes- sional insternal solicitudes, us imperatively ea ita lungs want oxyren; and Dapline, by temperament, craved for affection even more than offer children of her age, She recolved—she gave it back—In amplest measure at Fiofde-lattelne, No further uced tu truat to Jean Maric's dis- crimination Jn tho matter of scediings nnd groundacl, Daphne's tinzers—“ waren touches" stlll—were never tired of working, eo long as the work performed was tor Aunt Husic. The two eleptelde hy side; thechild iu her white cot, with her tranquil augel face, awakening some pane, you may be sure, In Aunt Hosle’s heart,—the fing oll heart wherelu love, crusted as regarded self, had but opened {nto fuller and more per- fect blossom for others. They ruse carly, and, belore tho elder sisters hud breakfaated, were on thelr way, hand in band, through the crisp moralng ait ta the fields, Whatever fenrietta Vaneittart's business, whatever the scason of the year, the litte Agure, foithiul as shadow to substance, followed close upon her foot- steps: father, mother, playiiate,—she was all these, and something besides, to the child’s instinct, Bhe Aunt Hoste! So, in sunshine and in shower, life went on until Daphne was 18 years old. ‘Then, ina dark hour, 1b waa reavlved, inainiy owing to the fact of Theodora Vansittart’s puséesatng a doye-col- vred vatin with Honiton founces, that the girl muat bu kept & child no longer,—must ‘cone out, “ We middle-aged people are apt to grow selfish, Ronrictta," said Miss Theodora,—ber mind Bede BS she spoke, ou those poor, obsu- x Tete Qnerles, Inst worn, slas! at Chel- tenfiau dinner-parties, ‘but which dex. terous manipulation and ctoas study of the J’ei Courter nes = might bring approximate}y close to the fsahion of the day, “The prospects of the potato-hartest, tho fortunes of a handful of common laborers, nay he vital enough interests for you and ine Daphne fe 13 years old, and I call It a positive duty, a duty that we owe to her granifather’s memory and to the girl, not to let such an op- portunity aa the present alip through our tins KCTS. The opportuntty was a big Government-House ball, given in honor of the arrival of a new regi- ment (always in little ouslving military stations: un event of magnitude), and to which the Mise Vansittarta were bidden, Theodora’s early pregnoatications had proved correct, Col. Vansittart's position was nut fur gotten In the Channel Islands, ani, on all occa- sions of state or official gayety, cards of invita. thon were dispatched, asa matter of received usage, to the lonely m-houss st Quermec. Un to the prescnt hour eyco Theodora had been able to extract no pleasure from these Invita- tions, beyond arranging them, io pompan with the time-yelluwed of hel tenham notaoliities, in a china dish upon the parlor table. What maiden Jody, with her half-century of existence well struck, could tave the valor to enter coucert or hall-room save in the character uf » chaperon! But now tbat Daphne was 1b—now that fi chuation could robe itself in Honiton-Rounced atin, aud call that garb Duty,—Miss Theodora felt that ber whole moral attitude towards tho outelde world bad sblited. “Let her Judge for hereelf,—let the child jusse, for “herself,”—sue cried, interpret- lug, by ber own lights, a certain wist- ful irresolution on Aunt Hosle’s houcat face, “ Daphne, yousre invited with ourselves to a hall at Goveraucut-House on the 21st (To go into society again undcr our altered cirewnstances,"' sald Bliss Theodora, in parcuthetic winor— “to follow where in brichter days one usett to Yead, requires an effort! Stil, Lam ready to sacritice personal feeling at tue call of Duty). ** Are wo to refuse oF accept"? Need I record Daphne's answer! Did the ips ofa girl of 18 ever ay pay ‘to the first be- wi dering. eto tation of white shues, gos- samer 6k! mailitary music, anda fresh ecarlet- jacketed partner for every danced The lavitation was accepted; and, during the next thrce weeks, ribbons aud fate were canvassed o¢ surcly 00 millinery detalls were ever caovassed belore within “the sober walls of Fic(<de-la-Relue. Dashing should be dressed in blue, jo green, In pink, No,—in this, at least, Aust Hosic’s finer Sense of Atncss the day.—Dayhue should be dressed in white, only » degree [ess simple than she Wore at Confirination, and with s oat- ural dower in ber hairor walst-belt for adora- iment. And then arose the question of quadriies aad, lane Daghus had froquanted the Christmas” farmae house parties round Quernec over since she was 7 years old, and understood what dancing in its severer gensc incant. In such exerclics us * J’allala chez la Bovlangere," or “Grande Maman, que voulez voust" shu was proficient. Exercises carried on, without huste, without rest, sulumply an religious ceremonies, aud to the stentoriai monutone of the performers’ own volves, straight throuih the houre of winter's might. Neither of ler ruund dances was she afraid. Such of the aland children: as bad bee to school in Fratve were always furious waltzers, and lu seme rovin a part would Whirl round at thea festivitics like su muny small dervishes, while thelr elders carried on tho Sesithate Christmas rites. of which { have Spokets fu the best kitchen, But gusarilles and lancers. Itcamate a matter uf accesalty that tho three poor old Iadies—yes, even, deaf Aunt Isabella—must forin themselves Into a set, and, with Theodora's weak treble indicating the once fainiMar scure, Ko through the thgures; peony- dued Margot, her apron aver her mouth, Jean Marie at her elbow, doing audience. ‘Thus, Daphne, scrlous as though she were learning to decipher cunelform inscriptions, got her fivat formal dancing fesson, and as ‘steps '—battements, chassercroteces, and the Jike mystorica of elegant moremeot— had net gone out of fashion in the Mise Vanalttarte? raat, the lesson was a lenethy one. By the afternoon of the 2st, however, all preparations wore complete; quadsiiles aud lancers tustered; a white dread containing sa many ted ithad needed two work-girls to bring {t home, lying, with satin sliocs, Juce-haudkerchlef, fan, and sash, on Daphne's little bed. “The Qist of June bas come! The greatest Joy tn the world ta at hand!" So her heart sang og she flew in tremulous excitement about the house and garden, at this moment consulting the old clock on the ire, at_the next the broken dial on the grass-plat. Ob! if the sun, for once, would mend his pace! It sho coutd only feel hersctt on the ruad to Goreroment- House, catch & pisupee of the Hehted windows, hear suecho of the band, to whose atrains— a diferent partner for every waltz, and lancers, aud quadrillo—she meant to dance till morning. it was the last day of ber childhood, her cood- by to pure unmixed happiness, Already the clock lugued, already the shade ‘pon the dial a moved with pace tuo slow for Daphne Van-' alttart. Eight o'clock came, and with it tha ricketty barourhe, bised for economy st @ country Ino, that wasfo convey tho bsll-guers to Govern- ment-House. Margot sud Jean Maric, at that perlud in the carlicst stage of sheepish courtship, stood together with a knot of fiaber-peopie outuids the porch tu neo the ladies depart. The nearest approach to full dress ever beheld by Quernec epee were tho short, aklrta, the jackets trlmoncd With as many bows a apaugles of (tnerant beanty at the annual fair; and a fong-drawo ceAnGe ures forth teum ‘the lips of all when Daphne tripped forth, ber face blooming as the subnet sky shat shone on ft, hee girllah ucck and arms looking White cven coutrasted with the whiteness of her dreas,—a sulitary suray of roses i hee yellow hatr ber only ernument, *Good honest creatures! They bare never seen ine alee: Cure,” remarked The- odura Vansittart, as the barouche swung heavily fnto motlos,—Thcodura, oot whul- ly uncor us of her charms, upright as 8 wand Io Tejuvenated deve colored satin, and with Honituu lace, ribbons, and plumes indescribable as a bead-dress, © But Lpruat thie fs thy becinsing of a new ilfe, Oaly forme, child—ouly for my taking the Initia. tive,—you might never have danced any- thing but barbarous Houlangeres aud Lauricrs to the end of your days, Our poor Menrietta, with all ber aterilo qualities, fa so palufully wanting fa ambition jow who: can tell what this very ball, your first introduc- fea ne the soclety befitting your birth, may, It ted, a6 «' primary, to Daphoo’s cheeks looking paler on the fsollowln; orning than they bad aver looked before in Fietde-la-Reine. “Of course wo cnujoyed oursclyes tremen- dously, Aunt Hoste,” said the pul, ag abo sat t , Miss Theodora at her side, over an 1i- O'clock: breakfast. Daphne, who usually con @uaied two or three thick slices of bread-and- butter aad her bow! of coffee betore 8 o'clock! “Still, big balla arc pot what I expocted, Grown-up partuers du waltz so out of tae, hold you 0 tight, and, as to the quadrilies snd lancers, you might crush your way through them just as well without having learned a slugie step, Only ouce I found reom to dance nehasser-crotsce, and then { saw two of the ladies etve alouk at each other behind their fans. No, for real daucing the Quernee partics ‘at Cristina ore better, after aff.” * And Str. Chester, the — partner you . danced five thoes with, who took you to eupper, who banded us tu ourcar- riage,” cried Miss Theexfora, -*{f you did not feel Mattered by such attentfous as these, all Jean say {8, You are more dificult to please than most, f ris. “Mr. Chester waltzed uo better than the test? answered Daphne, coolly, “Ef would foouer go straight through the Houlangere any aay than struggle through those tive atupld round dances with Sir. Cheater again,’? “Slr, Chester made a very favorable jm- pression upon bee tind.” satd Miss Theodora, almost with a blush. ‘The young man has an unntistakably aristocratic Mine of pro- te, and fs a connection, it | would acein, of the Warwickshire Stamers, I hesi- tated, at first, when he asked my permlasion to call,—for, of course, with no gentioman in the family, one cannot be too circtinspect. But the moment he mentioned the Warwickshire Stamers——"" “To cull bere!” {nterrupted Aunt Hosle, Drusquely, * You bave girs permission to « Young mun of whom we kaow notuing to call upon Daphne, here, at Fief«le-la-Relne!” “Gentlemen do not usually pay morn- ing vislts to girls of 13, my dear Her rietta,” sald Miss Theodora, with her little of superiority, Mr, Cheater asked leave to ine guirefor my bealth atter the fatleucsat the ball, —s yery pretty and a very natural pleco of ot- tention, too, Unless 1am much mistaken, wo may look to receiving # Visit frown Mr, Chester before the day te out.” And Theodora was right. Just af the hottest hour of the afternoon, Aunt Hose and Daphno pivging currants aud ruspberrics for the auaual qellr-muaking, forth rushed Margot to say that a ing English dandy jo a taniem (un beau Dadals Anglais ayce sen betall en fiieche) was In- quine before the frout porch for Demouselle ‘anaittart. And Daphne's cheeks flushed crimson} She had spoken truth, rigid and unvarnished, as respects the ball, The partners who held ber till ber breath was gone, the ladies who smiled ather chasser-eroiaccs behind thelr fans, the crush, the glare, the emptivess of the whulo acene, bad dsuppolntcd her ahoply asa child is glssppainted wis actoalles fi Ace abort of iupusaiblu expectation, In this momen sho lost «tthe = chilid, assumed Somikns a apne at pon ees tt a se of vanity, dangerow: ewee! only by virtue of thelr west, sprang to life within her heart, “7 don't want one bit to see Mr. Chester," —s0 the told Aunt Hosie, who stood gravely watchlug the changes of color an the xirl’s face. “And of course the visit fs to Aunt Theodora, notme, Btill, after giving bias so many dances Jast night, it mmigut look odd [ft 1 did not yo in to seo him, just tor torin’s sake." In three minutes’ timc, ber flogersstained with raupberry-julce, aud tn her gardeu-bresa gud hat, ebe entered the parlor, whero Mr. Chester awaited her, slone,~Theodora, who had not expected ber visitor ao early, being still u> cupled with lappets and lacca, lu the mialden se- clusion of ber own chamber. ‘This dret vislt did not prove a brilliant suc- cess, Alr, Chester's conversation was modelcd alter the ciliptic or telegraphic fashion preve- lent auong gentlemen of bis class;—a forui of ulterance wherein pominatives exiat not, pro- puuns aro supplanted by “uns,” “abs,” or perusals of the sellinge and whieh, altoketber gives you wore the {dca of a message fraed? st so much per word than of an attempt mete by # ratioual human being to communicate with bis kind. “Enjoyed ball fast night. Tired. Balts in hot weather deuced mistakes. London deuced inistakes”” Lo pause. “Pretty country, Jersey, for aweek. Bee it all in 9 week. Seo everything in a week.” A longer pause. “Know Cheltenbam?” — This, whea Has, Tbegdores eAtranes fied intused tem, or into the conversation. “Kuo! Chel Reahaw wel, Too well. Hunted there couple of seasons. Veuced slow sct of people, Cheltenham people. Warwickslire Stamcre— inost intimate frieuds,"" Such waa Mr, Barry Cheaters atyle; if the style be tho ian, such was & tolerably fair wees to Hie barry, Chester’ mental powers, Fortunately, there sallp of mirror above the parlor-mantelabell, a which he eottld catch distorted gitmpses of bis charms, ashe stood first on one foot, then the other, palling testlessly wt his mustache, while Mies Theodora endeavored to M11 up the gaps In Dis disjointed talk with bicn-flown Cheltenham. seminfacenves af herawn. Forturstely, too, as” foras Cheater wax concerned, Daphne's Judgment wna unconditioned by exgertence. She had abso- lutely nu standard, either of manner orintellect,. of men or books, by whieh to measure him, «A most presentable creature, really,” Mise Ahevdora pronounced, when the showy Wred dor-cart, high-steppiug, Drokeu-witded hacks, uiock very, and all, bad dashed ay, among the vieta uf sandhills out of sight. “And, little as ove cares fur looks in the other sex, 60 Very unusualiy handsome,”? “The man has cold eyes and a hard mouth,’? said Aunt flosle,whobad teen preaent, critically tuclturn, during the teat three minutes of the visit. “And le fu nota gentleman! No, The- odors, not in spits of alt the Warwickshira Stamers in the world, Mr. Chester is ease with himself, He tries bis beat to forget his origin, and auccecds— Just suficlently well to make you remeuaber it." Nor dhl (¢ please Meaven ta soften Auot Ho- ‘sfe's opinions upon lurther acquaintance. Before s month was over Burry Chester haa contrived excuses {or paying two moro alter- noon Vislts at Quernec, bia attractions each time enbanced by the smart hired dog-tast, “betall en filecue,? and mock private livery. By the end ofa fortnight it had grown to be ap accent ed thivg that the vouug man should coustantly hover around Flef-de-la-Relne, not paying. Daphne attentions that as yct could be caited seriuus, but always finding soine reason that nocesatsted his spending lung afternoons or evenings in ber nelehborhuod, But Aunt Hosie’s first verdict against him re- . mained unmodified. : She gave him no actual dtecouragement, hold- ing the fine old orthodox doctrine as regardathe celeatial or providential forging of meu‘s mar- rage-chains. She never strove to biss Daphne for or wguinst bis sult. She simply disliked him Intenscly, a did not sca that it; fell within her duties as a Christian to pot aclosk upon her dislike, ‘ And I believe, right down in my heart, f / feel as you do, Auut Hoste,” sald the girl, in « moment of balf-ead, hall-jesting, expansion. “Mr, Cheater is gvergthing that ls fascinating, , of course. Jie fs haudsome, bus acen the world, ) and a very fine world, too! 1 am sure, in bis presence, I feel ax finpressed as Aunt Theodora herself by tho Warwickublre Stamers. Yet, it comes to likinz—If vou were tossk ime whether | T shall miss Mr, Chester when he leaves, or whether 1 wish thot I had never koown him at al), I could not auawer sow.” ‘Aud eight days later she accepted him! Ran . {nto the house one evening, a wew, trembling * happiness fn her yirtish fare, with tho news thas Barry.Chester loved her,—loyed her to such an extent be could nut posslily face existence up Iesa she would become hig wits; and she--how could she have tho beart to say hin pay They * were to start at once and mize in Virginia, You could buy an estate in Bedford country, with etabling for thirty Robie an ice-house , on ft, sald Daphne, fora few buvdred pounds, and peaches were urown in orchards Hike our cider-apples, aud—aud — pleaso wight she ask Mr Chester to come lu—be wasonly waiting for her on the ter race—and everything mlybt be talked over qui- tly after teal She was so without guile, this couatry-nur tured child of 18,—ber sequestered Ife, the flne fuborn whiteness of Ler nature. raised ler so high above the level of al) falschood,—that even Avut Hosle forgave ber for belng dazzled by Barry Chester's protestations. Besides, stifling her fostiuctive persona} disiike, and some natural jealousy at descend{ag from the drat isco In Daphiera affections, What objection eudlit Aunt Hosle urge aguiust Mr. Chester's i : + Tho modesty of his worldly prospects was ald barg by bin, without resceyee on this the firat evening of bis cogsyeinunt. Ho hed aod out of the army some months before, gud ti money, or remainder of the moncy, realized by be stile of nix commission coustitutcd his actual fortune. At the sane time, his expecta- tlons frum rich friends, Warwickshire Stamers and others, agsounted to moral certaintica. Ho was yolug, not yet fund of an our door Hfe. (Did you ovcr know a cousummate- ly useless man of the Barry Cheater tyes who iid uvt mske the same prota us “fhe out. door life, weit large, sla! ying plgeon-shuctlng Taco-vourses, abd general polarity, perhaps, to |