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When, in the evening's solitude,* The thought bu leisure to ho free, The puror life, tbo bigbor mood, Tbo nobler purpose wokoo in no. Hut, in tbo coroo that through tbo da/ Constrain tbo mind from hour to hour, Tbo nobior purpose fados away, Orowe faint, and loses all its power. So soum pare star's excelling ray. With all tbo beauty of its light, Is bidden by tbo glare of day, And only shines with fall of night. for ttje labira. VIRGINIA AM? SOUTH; CARO.U.NAt . UNITED IN LOVE AS IN WAR. BY ELSIE EABNE8T. CHAPTER I. " Bach Is the patriot'* boast, where'er we roam, 111* first, beat euuotfy ever is at home." [tfulibaifi'i TVawrtr. 44 The evo???o ot our war were too horrible to admit ot such a ten*der sentiment as love. There was too much ot dreadful reality to make room for runiunce." [jVrto York Paper. No romance in s?cli a war as ours, did you say ? With due deference tor the opinions of one s?> much wiser than I, 1 beg leave to differ with you. I'ity, though not Io\o, is very nearly allied with that holiest of passions :?and, when pity for the sufferings, and admirations lor the deeds ot valor ot our soldiers, are Combined, the feeling amounts to a worship, ah inost. A sentiment perfectly irresistible : hence you see such frequent illustrations of the truth ot the adage, that 44 none but the ItrUl'A 2 f 1 . v uvcii 10 iiiu mil . IV 1111%; some ot our maidens were con tent to make happy the poor ex ernpts, a larger prpurtioii have given their huuda and hearts to bold soldier boys. Let all skep* tics read my phtin, unvarnished story. They will agree with me that the tour years ot horrible war contained, or develo|>ed.?nore plots tor romance titan could have been known in forty years of peace. O, yes, I can move to you, that Southera chivalry is not dead yet. If any Southerners from other States should chance to read my simple story, I hope they will not tuke umbrage at iny caption. Believe me, it is not from lack of obligation to you or admiration of your decds that I select South Carolina from among the number, but from the tact that this is not all ticiiou, for my hero is 110 myth, but a veritable soldier from the Palmetto State. We honor, ye?, honor, old South Caroline: Though tmall thv Miry bv,thr't at bravo at I he And we honor Hampton's cavalry, who did Hticlt noble cor vice in our Old Domini m. From tliut intrepid band we Select a youthful Lieutenant as our hero. To make iny story intelligible. I must go back to the spring of 1>68. Tlie tacts I here narrate are well known to every citizen between Ohaucellorsvillo and the South Side Railroad Soon after, or rather immediately succeeding that inemoiable battle, in which our oonntry lost her noble Jackson, .while public excitement was at its highest, the citizens of the coun-ties l>otwee? the pc>ia?ts mentioned nliitrA u-ura aii.iL.i?A<l ?-J ! 1 - ?, nw.voulj'l VTU UIIU IIICCil?en at 11 to at>pearanoo ot a largo body of cavalry. Stonemao and his inhuman frntchmen, "The brute made ruler and the roan made brute/' attempted to make their way across the country, in order to cut otf communication with Richprond. Their plan was, 1 lievft, to fear up the aqueducts at Columbia acroea the Rivatma,and at Iiyrd Creek, on the James Hiver Canal, but failed to accomplish anything more than a destruction of private nmiuw. -* Hpp j-- |wiiidu tncy had very little inclination to re epect. So, ftttpf robbing henrooete, frightening women end children, end steeling negro clothing, dec., fppjing e inortel tear of Stuart's pavslry, they decamped, leaving behind tliem, in the hearts or the u ivee end daughters, sister* end sweet hoarfe of Confederal? soldier*, e hatred, letting ee lite, end strong at deeth. Our government, tearful that tliey might be sufficiently courageous to croc* the river and at* tempt the destruction of the High Briage on the South Side road, sent troops tip to the south side ol the river to intercept them. " Prldt In tbdlr pott, defUno* In tbntr ?y?, I m? the lorda of human-kind ptu by." Cobh's Georgia Legion, and Hampton's 15rigade ot South Carolinians, were camped tor several days near the village of , in? 1 shall not say what county, Theii coming was a source of pleasure, as well as of reliet to the ladies ol that place and its vicinity, as they had never seen a large number oi soldiers, and they came to protect them against the Yankees, whose uvitoAtoil oil !</* ?? s 1. V*?|/VV?VVI (IlllUIIg 1IICII1 ere a ted as great conaternution as did Falstuir* tagged regiment in their thieving expeditions, or Major Monsoon's raids on the wine cellars of the convents of PortLgfti. No wonder, then, that the brave Southern soldiers were leasted and flatteied Mniled upon by the fairest of 's fair daughters, who uever wearied in their atttcniions to the wants, real or imaginary, of their defenders; and many left sad hearts behind lliein. Some ot them returned and took their brides to the bright sunnv South ere the close ol the war. botne waited till the war was over, while some in whose cases was verified the saying, "Out of sight, out of mind," made fair promises which they n?*?r intended to Irewp. Dut these were rare cases. There were firm friendships formed, ed, which time and the chances of war hare only served to strength en ; and delightful interchange of thoughts hiii1 sentiments witli some IIffn fn tnnL-n nt? ?li?* llu* o- ~ "r of martyr* for freedom's cause.? Tlieir iiaincs live in our hearts, And will live un the bloodiest page ot history. W ith Ussiau, we say toour oppressors, "Thou lookest from thy towers to day ; yet a few years, and the blast of the deseit comes; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles around thy half worn shield. And let the blast of the desert come ! We shall bo renowned in our day ! The mark 01 our arm shall be in the battle, our nuino in the song of bards." CIJAPTEU II. " A Kdiilin plant, in a garden grew, And ibe night wind* fed It with (liver dew, And It opened its fan-liko leaves to tbs light, And clusod Ibem beneath the kisses of night." [SkM*. A few miles distant from the village we have mentioned was a neat, white cottage?aperlecl little bird's nest?hidden from the public road by a dense grove of forest oaks, and completely covered bv vines?honeysuckle*, and roses, and the modest white jessamine; a neatly enclosed garden', in which bloomed almost every flower adapt afflictions, crippled his energies, while they made sad inroads upon hie purse, whose strings were never held with a nigmira band, ilo tound that lie could not Veep np appearances as a men of wealu, so he sold oat everything eaoopt a small farm, on which lie bed e neat cottage built, and spent bis I time in the pursuits of agriculture. cd to our climute, mid ** There was a power in this sweat piece, An Evo in tbia Eden? e ruling grace, Wbicb to the flowers, did they wakes or dream, Waa aa Uod la to the starry scheme. A lady, the wonder of her kind, Whoae form waa upborne by a lorely mind, Wbicb, dilating, bad moulded her mein and motion Like a sea -flower unfolded beneath the ocean." " I doubt not the flowers nf that garden sweet Rcjuicod in the sound ef bar gentle feet? I doubt not they felt Ibe rpirit that eatne From ber glowing Angers through all their frame." This maiden lady was EIIa Morrison, a modest, retiring girl of sevenI teen ; the |>et of her lather, who ! cherished her as the last link which i bound him to lite ; a fair, fragile creature, delicate, yet lithe and ; graceful in her figure. That frail form enshrined a spirit superior to that of many more hardy-looking damsels, and that small, but finely shaped head was a casket containing a jewel of rare value. Iler mind was richly stored with wisdom. Mr. Morrison was a finely educated man, and instructed his daughter at be would have done liia son, the shock of whose early death he had never entirely recovered from. In his daughter*! tuition he bad uevor forgotten those lighter accomplishments which so uiucti adorn a lady?music, drawing, dec., in which she had efficient teachers. A deer lover of poetry, and the ideal, his daughter, while inheriting from bin: this passion, had his example to guide her in Iter choice of reading matter. They lived in a little world of tbeir own. To them their library was t%dukedom large enough." Mr. Morrison had once been wealthy, but had health, together with lamilv His wife had died when ?l)a was r only fourteen, leaving Iter tender r . floweret to bis care, well knowing c \ Chat he was as well qualified for , the task as any inan could be. . Ho determined to try to build { up her constitution, as well as form , her tntnd. 'lheretore, ho encour- ( aged her to ride on horseback un- ( til she became the best equestrian , in the neighborhood ; ana he was | amply satisfied with the roses ] planted in her cheeks after " brush- , | ing the dew lrom the npland Imwii." | lie took her into the garden and ] required her assistance in setting , plants or dropping seed*, by which , means she soon became able to bii- j . per intend the planting as well as j ' the cooking of vegetables; and, j ' while aiding in the preservation of , I her health, she was becoming a no- | , table housewife, tier father's oon- , stant companion, It had never en- * tercd into his head that she needcd other society than his and that ; ' ot her cousin, Nora 8tanhopc, a * | cay young lady ot nineteen, who had shared the advantages of ?1- , | la's education, with the addition | of two years at a fashionable board1 ing school, from which she had re turned not spoiled, but a little gid1 dy and very wilful, pcrhnj* not a little vain, from tlie score of compliments she was constantly receiving from as many yonng men. Living as Ella did, among lier [ books and flowers, caring little tor other sources of amusement, receiving but fow visitors, it is not strange that she saw none of the soldiers cam pod near her. While many delicacies, as well as necessaries, found their way from her . house to the camp, none of the soldiers found the way to her retired domicil; and they came and went in total ignorance of the gentle floweret blooming in the adjacent . forest. I know my readers will think 1 am getting this young lady into a situation where she will never be kuown, and I think 1 hear some novel reading Miss exnluiltl " Wlint rlr* u.m * i<U? UV J VU HOIIi W I I'll her ? I thought you were going to uiake her meet, by tnere acci ' dent, one of those Southern sol- 1 diers, and have a nice story of love ' at first sight, an intuitive knowl ' edge of congeniality which would ' lead tc conte&sions of love/' To 1 all such 1 say, wait a while, and j you will see that the race ii not ah ' ways to the swift." * I must here, necessarily, make a j long leap in iny narrative?from ' May, 1863, to January, 1864?at 1 which time a letter was sent to El E la Morrison from the postpiaster 1 at , with a message to the ef* * feet that it had lain in the office at 1 that place for nearly eight months, 1 and fading to find an owner, uud 1 knowing of no one who was connect ed with the Pureed family except herself, had taken the liberty to send it to her. She very readily . surmised, from the postmark, that it was from a soldier who had cvi- j deutly been mistaken in someone's ' name, or been wilfully lead astray. 1 Inquiries were made in the neighborhood for some time, and no one coming forward and proving property, she consulted her tattler, who told her there could be no im- , propriety in opening tho letter, as by so doing she might possibly find out for whom it was intended. She opened it, and read aa fol- f lows: Miss Jane Purcell?Although tho cloud of war darkens our once > fair Southern sky,and gentle peace I and innocence have given place to i cruel strife and unjust oppression, I we are often reminded of those dear tender ties which bind us to life, and without which civilization and refinement would be wanting | in the land. Having onco seen , yon. it is utterly impossible for me r to forget you ; and I venture to ( write you with the hope that if you think our very short ucqnaint- * anco will not warrant a cor reason ! dence, you will, at least, pardon my presumption, and M Though v tutor lout in tbo Sold, Tip onptiro do out ipurn. " Tbo krtrt, poor toldtor no'or dotpito, Nor count him m o itrongor j Rom tabor, bo'a your eountrjr'o oUy la day and boar of danger." J Hoping?if even hope l>e mad- ' ness?that this experiment may 1 meet with a response I am, Your devoted servant. Jambs Morton, Co. ?, 1st 8. 0. Cavalry, llamn- , ton's Brigade. Ella thought over the letter for \ a lew days, and came to the oon- i elusion that aa no one could be I found by that uame, it would be a i pity for the poor fellow to loee bit i labor, aod aaw no reason why she ] might not take the name tor a short tune. She had never seen t him, and in all probability never < would, end ?he thought such a cor- I respcudenoe would serve to amuse | her, and might instruct her in I army movements; besides by en- < couraging hira to write again, she 1 night find out who Jane Puree!! "i eally wna; therefore, sho veutured >n the following response : Mr. Morten? Yonr eery nnex >ected letter of tlio 3d June came ;o hand on tlio 5th inst. Words ire powerless to express my jhagrin at its unaccountable delay, md I find myself at a loss to form ? suitable response after such a l?|>so of time. 1 do not so much as know that VOU ai'A livinnr of ???!? ^ B "* I Lime, or, if living, where you may I be. I write at a venture. There baa been hard fighting ainee yon were in thia county, and you tuny have retired to your tar Southern liome, leaving an amputated limb in the Old Dominion. Having heard so many names, I hope you will pardon me it I fail to remember yonr personal appearance. It run should consider it worth your a bile to write again, I would be pleased to have a description of yourself, so as to qnickon my inetn . >ry. As I ainanot sure you will ;et this, I will not write at length :his time, but promiso something belter tor the future. Very respectfully, JANIK Pukcell. Thus was begun a correspondence, which increased in interest lor several months. Any scruples which Ella might have had gradually disappeared, until she found herself looking for the coming of the mails with intense interest, and responding to the letters with as I much pleasure as if she knew her unknown correspondent personally, perhaps more so ; and as though die were rcully what she assumed to be. No one was permitted to snter into this cherisfied secret.? rims was she going on, blindly, until a letter o*me to her bearing .lie name, but entirely different in ityle, orthograpln', pennmanship ; 2very thing as Different as could be, in which Mr. Morton made her an offer of his hand and fortune, emd saying lie " had no objections to an exchange of umbrotyncs." Forgetting that she had, by thus writing to an entire stranger taken the place of another, laid lierselt liable to receive an^tlihi" lie chose to wri'e to her, and fob owing the dictates of her own out aged feelings, she wrote a few burned lines, stating that wheu she uegan the correspondence, 6he did to under the conviction that iie was i gentleman and a scholar, whose otters would afford her amusencnt as well as instruction. Since die had found out that lie was leither the one nor the other, sho iof>e<l would nut trouble Iter villi any more communication* i.:_ -i - urn ins jhjii y auu enclosed ins Jut:cr. CHAPTER. III. " A lit* attend* on all I write."? P?pt. In vain did Ella essay to forget ler vexation at tlio reception of Mr. Morton's last letter. The .bought that she had but paved tho say was galling to her modesty, uitl she resolved to write to no one igain without her father's knowl rdge and sanction. She had hut >ne source ot consolation, which vfts tho fact that her name was not mown in the affair, no one in he neighborhood knowing anyhing about it except the post innser, who was an old and trusty riend. We will see how her resoutioii was kept. Ten days alter her letter was written she received the follow ing etter, written in the 6tvle of the oririer letters?-at least tlio same landwriting. uamp or 1st s. cj. cavai.ky, ) Near Columbia, S. C. ) Miss Plkckij.?I scarcely kuow low (o commence this feeble epis le. It I did not deem my past ingallaut conduct demanded an explanation, 1 would certainly giro up in despair. I think I canlot do lietter than by using the fob owing egotistic style. Mr. Morton came to mo in the ipring of 1863, at.d asked me to write a letter for him, and you nay know I readilv acquiesced vhen he promised to let u?o see the inswer, it'any ever came. When four reply was lOceived, it threw ue into raptures of delight. 1 coreaponded with some ladies in Virginia, but yours, in Morton's name, gave me more pleasure than all lie rest, and i often wished 1 could tign my own name instead of hit. I was abaont on duty when lie vrote his unfortunat letter. He is rery miserable, and insists on my vritinar vou in hia nem> hut i mvo declined poaitivSly, and have egisterod a row never to be gnil Sof tuob uugallant oonduot again, a it a perfect child ot nature. I would have hailed audi a raprare in the correspondence with talftbt, bad I remained in V irgin a; bat M I liar*left tuat noble old State, I feel myself boyond all liope of redemption. I have hitherto been able to compare my heart to a rock in tho ocean, against wM?l? the breakers con tin- < ualty dash without making any i impression. I must admit that i this last surge of the fickle goddess' < ill-favored wave has made it to tot- ' ter in its firm foundation, though < it is no more than was deserved by i a young outlaw from the Military Institute of this State, from whose time-honored walls 1 was expelled in 1801 to join the army against the ..r.-.. ?-:-J -?-? r-.i - " ?!? ? "i in; imiiu mu miner, ror I time disgracing myself, and being j a good, easy somebody, after the Pennsylvania catnpa'gn of last year, my comrades wero whimsical enough to cm for on nie the runk of senior second lieutenant, and yon know the weight of such heavy honors! was more than sufficient to turn the head of a young jackanape like myself, not then out of my teens. Therefore, I pray you, throw the veil of charity over iny unkuightly conduct. I ntn a pauvrc oystor fed cavalryman and uot worthy'of your anger or con tempt. Mav God bless you and mnke you nappy, is the earnest wish ot Rouki:t C. Willi .\yb. When this lett3r was received Ella was both astonished and pleased, llerc was romance. The only difficulty was, how could it be continued 1 She thought o*er it tor two days, and a'l her resolutions never to write to another stranger vanished before her love of adventure. Still she could not think of signing her own name. Therefore sho went with all herjdifficnlties to tier cousin nor ft Stanhope, to whom 8ho told tho whole story, nnd how much 6he wished to con tinue the correspondence, yet shrunk from giving her true nnmc, while she felt it would not be right to continue the name of Janio Purcell. Nora was in raptures. She read all of the letters, and declared them splendid. She had several soldier correspondent^^tmt noth ing in her experience could equal this. She had been reading Macaria, which had just come out, and made her head ache over Irene's scientific words. They were regular brain splitting jaw-crackers ; and she was delighted to find something to divert her thoughts from 6uch self sacrificing heroines, and a gave hci full and tree consent fur her name to be used, always pro vided she was to know how it was carried on, and be first bride's maul in nnao ? ......... ... v.ies an J illlllg MMIOUS CVCf | camo of it. " Ali t Ma belle cousin," slic said, 441 have imagined von a he- , roinc after tlie Irene ana Beiilali order, but am really pleased to . tind you flesh and blood, after all. 4 A follow feeling makes us won- , drous kind,1 and 1 am glad to tind that your heart is not stone, and you have a little of woman's pecn iiar prerogative, curiosity. 1 do test these model women, or rather monstrosities, such as Miss Evans makes of her heroines. God never made a woman such as Irene.? You know I disliko a sniveler and croaker; still I would prefer a , Ni<>be, all tears, to a woman who never enp.ycd that luxury? Why, | I actually shed tears over the description of the death bed scene of , 4 only a private in the ranks,' while , Irene held the head of her dying < h.ver whilo all around were in , tears, without so much as a moist- ( cning of her eyelids. 1 know what , you won Id tell me. tlmf 1 , ...w W.i?n that cannot find vent in tears is , deepest. I grant all that; still, the fonndnti ns of tho great deep must he broken up, sooner or later; , human nuturu cannot long bear ^ such an unnatural strain, or viola- , tion of her laws." | Ella replied that she had " no t inclination to imitate Miss Evans1 J heroines. Had circumstances < thrown me into society as much as < they have yon, 1 should, in all probability, have be n ns much of a flirt as yon are. always provided I | had been us mnch complimented, i I hope, however, my heart would i have retained as much of goodness as yutirs, and my poor giddy brain no more warped. You are really i a dear, good cousin, and I readily 1 promise you all you ask." i Writing materials wero pro- ? duccd, and the following letter was < wiitten and given to Nora to have I mailed : Lieutenant TTtWtaiwa?Truly < these rebel days are full oi < wonders. I have beard many uuvr KMimiiiio incidents ot 1 the war, hut I venture to aftirin < that few can exceed this of onr cor- I resiM.ndenee. 1 cannot find it in > iny heart to bo angry with 3*011, 1 since you have apofogizod no hum- I bly and hai dsoinelv ; and since 1 confession seems to be the order of 1 the day. I have a tale to untold 1 which, though it inay not " cause I your two eyes to atari from their 1 spheres," will go far toward setMig < your mind at ease with regard to the part you have acted in our little by play. Had the corroapon. Jence continued in Mr. Morton's name, 1 Hlioiitd. in ail probability, remained Janie Puree)! until tired it the name, and then dropped it , with the correspondence. Your 1 confession is very, very interesting, and I feel some reluctance at parting with such pleasant company, for your letters have served to entertain one who would otherwise have been very lonely at timed, I and had become welcome friend* ; but, as 16aid, 1 have a confession to make, and will do so at once. I think this much is due to you, as well as to myself, alter which 1 will bid you an au revoir, if you wish it. Duiing tbe month of January, 1804, a letter whs sent me by the postmaster at , directed to Miss Jane Pureed. At be raid it bad been there eight rucnthft, and as I bad s< me relatives by th<2 name of I'urcet!, he thought I might know for whom it was iuleuded. I have same family connections by tbat name, but not a Jane nmor.g tbe number, ard none of them belong to tbia county, 1 have tried, by inquiries among niv neighbors, and uo one seems to remember Mr. Morton. As 1 had been unsuccessful In finding out Mr. M'a inamorata, and having no corre poiulent in the army, and being possessed of a sort of monomania known aa cacorlhcs scribtndi?and, besides think ing, as l till do, tbnt some one had used that nume to deceive Mr. Morton, I concluded to adopt the name, and write in answer to his letter. 1 knew he liHd never seen me, as I saw none of the soldiurt who came to our county; therefore, I hope his wounds are not mortal. I feel now that I did wrong in treating him as I have dure, though I onlv All, at the beginning, as if it was a girlish frolic. You know how the st fair has been cariLd on. 1 mu?t con* less that some of my most pleasant hours wete spent in reading those letters intended for some one ehe. 1 hope you a re not a Papi.-I. but if vou are, and Intvo any more sins to confess, you are at liberty to confess lhem to Your romantic correspondent, Nora Stanhope. As she had hoped, her letter elicited the following response : [concluded next week] He Coudn't Tell a Lie. Alf Unmet, in one of his letters to The Peojfle^ of Indianapolis, relates the following anecdote : By the by, a good story is told of Ben Butler and his notorious honesty. A short time since, Ben Butler and Wendell Phillips had I : wusinu8t? wnn cue I'residen', and arm i'i uut, proceeded to call upon liiin. The President was busy, and sent word that he would see them presently. Phil lips and Butler strolled out into the conservatory, in the rear ?f the White House, thence to the garden, Butler and Philips were engaged in an animated conversa tioti upon some topic. Putler be came slightly excited. A largo ha'chet belonging to the gardener was beside a tree ; liutlcr casually picked it up, and while talking lie made several deep gashes with it into one of Qetieral Grant's favorite trees.? J nst at this juncture, the Prc*i? dent appearing, Butler hastily secreted it under his coat tails. Alter the compliments of the day, the President spied for the fii6t time his UkiUilnted tree, and, with tones of vehemence, inquired who had been cutting and gashing that tree. After a few moments pause, Butler stepped bravely up to the President, and took him by the band, saying, * M r. President, I cannot ted a lie ; 1 sminot tCil u lie ; Wendell Philips J id it." Raising Turkeys.?The turkey is the most tender when young, and nx>rtt difficult to raise of hII the domestic fowls; yet, with proper care in sotting the eggs under Came lions and cooping the hrood nt night regularly, while the fur keys are young, they may be easily reared in great abundance. Nov em* feed the young turkeys boiled eggs or corn-meal dough or wheat hread crumbs. They need very lilllwfood of any kind under seven days of age, and should have nothing but sour in ilk set in pans.? At about a week or ten days give them nlso wheat screenings or crumbs soaked in sour milk. Let this be their only feed tilt they begin to feather, and then give them ((rain of any kind. Tto the hen [which has the young turkey a) to % peg off to herself, with a coop near l>y her so she ca i enter at night to roost. At two weeks old let the hen loose to roam, and if the is a game hen she will do tho work of rearing the brood. [Prairie Farmer. s?> m ? In the irrave there is rest * Napoleon's Toak If you want to stay in Parts-to be climacteric, leave till the last your visit to the tomb of Napoleon. As you go into the gate, an old mnn who was with the great Frenchman at Saint Helena, will sell you a good picture of something that no photographist can sketch. It is a cathedral three 'Kindred aud twenty-throe feet ' high, having cost two millions of dollars, dedicated to one dead mart. Under its burnished dome is a concentration of wonders. Not his ashes restimr ih?r<? !? ? -? _ n ..v. v| w?i? mic viu* bulined and undecayiug body of Nup?>l$on, in military suit,in a red sarcophagus of Finlandor qu&rtzite, polished to the last perfection by skilful machinery, and resting on a rock of green granite. Surrounded by twelve funeral lainjis o! bronze, and twelve tnarble statutes of great size?one with a wreath, as if to crown ; another with a pen as if to make record tor the ages; another with a key,as if to open the cclcstiul gate for a departed spirit; another with a trumpet to clear the way for the coming oi a king?the pavement enameled into a crown of laurels, from which ladiates on all rides a living etar. '1 here are gilded gates nnd a speaking cenotaph, and radiant canopy, nnd clnlioriite basso relievos, and embossed pillars, and two Prussaii) statues holding on cushions a sceptic and a world, and ceilings a blossom with finest fresco by French and Italian masters? their light dripping down the mar* ble in blue an J saffron and emcraid and gold. Oh ! it is a drenm of beauty 1 If the dead giant could wake up and hx?k around, he might think he lay in the Moscow ho coveted, and the glistening whiteness around were the morning sun shining on Russian snows, or that universal em pire had come to him, and to make liis palao, Egypt had sent its jx?rphyrv, and Switzct land its marble, and Greece its sculpture, and Rome its pictures, ana France its bronze, and that the reverential spectators, iti all kinds of national Costume, leaning over the balustrade to look, wcro the adoring subjects of an universal religion. Why do Children Die. In answer to this question, tire Medical Recorder has the following language: ?*Tho reason why children die is because they are not taken care of. Fioin tliA d?v di' !? ?'' j V. ?. ? arc stuffed with water, suffocated in hot rooms and teamed with he clothes. 80 mnch for in door.? When permitted to hreathe a hreath of pure air once or twice during tlie colder months, only the nose is permitted to peer into daylight. " A little later they are sent out with no clothes at all on the parts of the hody which most need protection. Hare legs, arms, and necks, girted middles, with an inverted umbrella to collect the air and chill the other pa ts of the body. A stout, strong man goes out in a o ld daj* with gloves and overcoat, woolen stocking and thick dotiblesoled boots, with cork between, and rubbers over. Tbe same day a child of three years old, an infant ot flesh and blood, and bone and constitution, coca out with liose an thin as paper,cotton socks, legs uncovered to the knees, neck hare, an exposure which dbables the nurse, kills the mothers outright and makes the father an invalid for weeks. And why ? To harden them to a mode of dress which they arc never expecte I to oraetieo- T7? them to exposure which a dozen years Inter would be considered downright foolery A Valuable Minksal Discovery.?The Raleigh Sentinel learns tlmt a \alunhle mineral discovery has been made in Macon County in the rnidat of the mountains of Western North Carolina, and it is call* ed Corntidntn. The following deaenption of it is by Re*. C. Di Smith, the eminent mineralogist and geologist, late assistant to Prot. Emmons : The specimens repicsent bice, red and grey corntidntn. The corundum is of a super o.* quality. The clearago faces are remarkably well defined. Its crvataline tfri e?v ture nnd chnruc'er invest it with nn interest that does not belong to? the common corundum of comtnoice Indeed, in its superior purity nnd qualitr. nothing like tl [ins l>een found Alt?u<li*v? 'i1' .. ..?!? IIIU locality fit rnlahca hexagonal priam* of much intcrcat. Prnfa. Dan* and Dinah, of Yale College have paid me over a dollar a pound tor a box of apecimens. I have by requeat ahipped a bi?x of it to the city of London. 1 have little doubt that when properly worked, the loca.lty will yield the u Oriental, getna." JiflKit ' ?