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' \HE CAROLINA SPARTAN. P" by cavis & trimmier. DctfolciJ to Southern ttigljts, politics, Slgricullure, aniJ fitlscelJnm). $2 per anhttm. ~VOL. XIY. ' SPARTANBURG, S. C., THURSDAY, WAY 7, 1857. " NO. 1L^ THE CAROLINA SPARTAN. BY OAYIS & TJRIMMIER. T. 0. P. VERNON, Associate Editor. Pries Two Dollars per annum in advance, or , $2.50 at the end of the year. If not paid until P after th" year ospis $3.00. Payment will be considered in advance if made within three months. IY? subscription taken for less than six months. Money may be remitted through postmasters at our risk. Advertisements inserted at the usual rales, and contracts made on reasonable terms. The SrARTAH circulates largely over this and djo ining districts, and offers an admirable medium | ts our friends to reach customers. Job work of all kinds promptly executed. Bl inks, Law and Equity.continually on hand or primed to order. CAROLINA SPARTAN. From Blackwood's Magazine. HESTER BENFIELD. CHAPTER III. CONCLVl>KL?. Old Miss Morris is dead, and Frank Ucnfield, now in the army, has left England with his regiment to join the brave moti doing battle with the Sikhs in India. And liow has Hester borne this parting from her son! Alas! alas' she is much changed. Long bad Frank mourned over a blight r which seemed to have fallen on his mother's Jove for him, for the cause ot which he and the trilA nlfl frionil imui nr\ n\Aro K.wl i sought in vain. Severe in look, hii<] cold in manner; auspicious at one moment, repentent at the next; captious, or painfully humble by turns, it was difficult to recognise in Doctor Thornton's wife the Hester of other days. Her husband did not, perhaps, remark theso*variations so much as others, for time seemed to have rather increased than lessened tier devotion to him; but lie even was grieved occasionally by her doubts, bitterly expressed, of bis affection; and when, in his own gentle truehemted way, ho would kindly soothe her, and Hi rect her thoughts to the fountain which calms the most turbulent feelings of frail humanity, she would weep upon his breast, and tell liitn that bis love was lior chief happiness. To poor Frank, on his return from school for the holidays, the change was sad; he who bad been for so long hi* mother's darling, to find himself now supplanted in her affections, as ho believed, by hi* little sister, r for whom hi* mother's passionate attachment amounted almost to idolatry. Nothing the hoy could do appeared to please her; accused harshly of duplicity, of untruthfulness, where no ground.* existed for the accusations, hi* stepfather would mildly interfere, and point out to Hester lier injustice; then, perhaps, reinor*efu! and ashamed of her conduct, she would entreat1 her soil's forgiveness; hut this, he hud observed, was during the earlier phase of the change. Gradually liei demeanor towards hiin and all, bare the farored two, her husband and her daughter, became colder and more impenetrable. Water could he struck no longer from the rock, and a hariier arose, between the mother and son especial 1 y, which caused him to he happiest when freed from the chilling influence of her presence. Ten long years had Hester kepi her j dread secret, hidden in the de?|?csi recesses of her heart?this secret which had turned | all that had before been sweetest to her in | life to gall. George Asleigh had kept his j word, and since last they had met and 1>arte-J she had neither seen nor heard of lim. Little did she dream that tho Lord i JiodUnd, whose acts of hcticvolenco the pa pers so often related, and of whom the world spoke so highly, was the one man who had caused this embittering of her ex* isle nee. lie, in the mean time, had withdrawn to the country, and devoted himself to the iin- . provemenl of those about him. It was the first pursuit which in any way rewarded his efforts; and during the time thus passed in ameliorating the condition of his tenantry, lie experienced feelings of contentment to which lie long had been a stranger. Colonel Allenby?now a general holding a high military appointment in India, which, when offered to him, ho could not lefuse, as it gave hira an opportunity of seeing active service?had been obliged to leave Lady Helen, and his sweet daughter Alice, to proceod eastward. Lady Helen, still proud, perhaps more so than ever, and in her ina- j tured beauty almost magnificent, saw him uopart wiin ucep nuxiciy nun sincere iegret; but there whs something of the Spartan in ber character, which perhaps made his soldier-heart love her all the more: for with the field of honor spread before him, had power been given her to solve the future, even though the path upon which ho was about to enter should lead to death, hers would not have been the lips to bid him ; stay. Not so the gentle loving Alice of fifteen summers. How tearfully did she lies- ; tie in his breast, and pray that (rod would preserve ber noble father from evory danger! lie had called her his little dove, and as such, when far away, he thought upon ber?his dear and "only child. And Alice would sit at home, and long- | ingly think if she could but obtain one of those mystic fairy glasses, which enable their happy possessors to poer through space, how she would watch his footsteps! A-h, Alice, well is it for us all that many things are hidden from our view. Could your sensitive nature have borne to follow hiin in that long and dreary march beneath that burning Indian sun?toiook upon him in that bloody pass, wbere lie bleaching " still the bones of our murdered men?bad ' you seen hi in unhorsed, surrounded, and ; that dark sinewy arm uplifted to hew him < down, would not your heart have sickened, and your vision failed to distinguish longer, i amidst that foarful scene, the father you ] loved so dearly? And yet a moment's long- i er gaze would have shown him to you, | though faint and bleeding, rescued by a | gallaut youth, who, at imminent peril to i himself, bears hira onward to a plaeo of ] safety. t uIIy dearest Helen," wrote General Af lenby on the morning after the action, M' trust this may reach you before you read in the newspapers any account of our las! disastrous affair. Yes, my beloved wift and child, but for the care of an all-merci ful Providence, 1 might now be lying side by side with those poor fellows who entered with me yesterday into that treach erous pass, to return no more. I owe my life to a young officer of the name of Henfield, who, seeing 1110 unhorsed, disarmed, and on the point of being cut down, struck my assailant to the ground, and supporting me on one arm?for I am slightly wounded?fought his way with the other from the Bcene of bloodshed. 1 nm now nwaiting my deliverer, and I shall tell him there are two who will thank him better than I can for having risked his own young life to save mine?you, my beioved wife, and you, my Alice. I shall write again soon: at present I nm not equal to greater exertion; my wound is but trifling, so have no anxioty on that score." Frank KCnneld also wrote to his mother to tell her of his safety, and as ho did so, a sigh escaped him at the thought, which would intrude itself, that she would have but lightly regretted him had ho been numbered with tlio fallen. He was interrupted in his occupation by a messago from General Allenby, requesting bis attendance at his tent. When, on his return, he to sumed his pen, he ndded to his letter that he had had, 011 the previous day, the good fortuno of saving the general's life, and that, overrating this service, which he would have equally rendered to any fellow crcaturo in the same danger, the kind old general had appointed him to his staff, and recommended him for promotion. 11 is mother's reply to this letter was more affectionate than any sho had ever written to him. Sho called him iter gal lant brave boy, and told him how intense had been her anxiety on 1."* account, on the arrival of the news of the action, until his letter dispelled her fears. She added that she was under the greatest obligations to General A lien by's wife?although shedesited he would not mention this?and it had fivei! her (lie rrrenleel Knlisfiietimi I#-> hear of the assistance which Frank had been able to atlbrd him. Bells were ringing and cannon firing to announce successes in llie Hast, while mourners, whoso hearts' best treasures had been taken from them in the struggle for these very victories, listened tearfully to sounds which to them were as the funeral knell of the dear ones they had lost for ever. Heroes, both real and unreal, were docking homo; amongst the former were daily expected General Sir William Allenby and Iris aide de camp Major lien field. ''Mamma, dearest, don't you long to see Major Hen field I" said Alice Allenby. "lKm'l you long rather to see your father, Alice?" returned Lady Helen. "Oh, of course, my own precious father is before every one else in the world. 1 thought you would have understood that, mamma; but if there is one person 1 wish to know, it is Major Hen field?only think of all we owe him." This, Lady Helen admitted, was venture, and equally true was it that she war sincerely grateful, but she ardently wished, ill llm annin limn I... I I - i.. - .. young unmarried oHioer, her husband had owed his deliverance to Home steady old Benedict, or to a soldier in the ranks, whose reward would have been very different to that which tire general had given to Frank Benfield. She was disconcerted by Alice's enthusiasm on the subject of their gratitude to him. It frvtteJ her, and alarmed her pride to think that, perhaps, in Alice's dovoLion to her father, she misht look with too kindly an eye on the young soldier to whom she owed so much; her hope was that he might not prove to ho a person likely to captivate one so fastidiously reared as her daughter had been; but in this respect Lady Helen was grievously disappointed. She was compelled to admit tolierself, when at length they became acquainted, that she had never met with a brighter, handsomer, or tnoie engaging being than the man to whom, in her fear of giving hitn too great encouragement, she had determined to accord outwardly but a scant measure of gratitude. But, Lady Helen, you may work as you will. You may call Major Benfield to this side of the room, on the smallest pretext, when ho is speaking to Alice on the other ?you may carry her off from the ball room just before the last dance?yet they will sum ihii in love, notwithstanding all vonr efforts to prevent it. They know it not themselves. It was only accidentally that they discovered it at all. When Alice's little Arab, which was supposed to have (inched his education at the training school, became restive one day and threw her, then it all burst forth, and llio dreadful part of it was, that Sir William Allenby saw nothing in it that was objectionable. "Heavens, Sir William, how you try me!" cried Lady Helen, ending her string of arguments against such an engagement, by asking him, if his life had been saved by a common soldier, whether he would have thought it necessary to unito his only daughter to the man a* a mark of gratitude; to which her husband smilingly replied, by quoting the marriage of I>avid, the shepherd hoy, with the king's daughter, in acknowledgment of a far lighter debt. "You Know I am grateful, Allenhy. God knows how thankful I was for your delivering," she said, her eyes filling with tears; "but the blood of the Mildons has never pet mingled with that of a plebeian, and I cannot he;.- lo think of it. "Ilow do you know he is a plebeian, as pou call it? I ain sure there is nothing in Frank llenfield's appearance to imlicato this; a finer looking, more gentlemanly fellow I have never seen. And think of our little Alice- she loves him. Poor child, it is her first love, and for a question of mere pride would you wound her )Oung heart!" "Oh, Allenhy, that will soon heal, never ' fear," said Lady Helen, coldly ?"first 1c ' is all a dreain?a mere fancy." | "I)o you say so, Helen!" asked her h t bftnd searching! v. > She colored deeply, over faco and ne< . nnd then replied firmly, "Yes, because i havo proved it." Frank Ifeufielu had a conversation wi Lady Helen, which more than ever hard* ed her against him, nnd made him lea London to seek his mother, resolved , leai 11 something from her of his parcntnj ; She had hitherto evaded all his questiu on the subject, but now he has an object view, which, in spite of her coldness, nen i him to press for the truth. She was livii by the sea side, whither she had gone I the benefit of the health of his sister Mai whose declining state her mother alone w unable to porceive. "Mother," cried Frank, "I beseech yi to tell mo who my father was?who y< yourself wore previously to your raarris with Dr. Thornton? if you rctaiu t slightest affection for mo I entreat you do what 1 ask; the happiness of my li may depend upon your answer." lie waited for a reply, but nono catr, Her faco worked convulsively for a m inent, and then gicw as calin nnd stony before. "Oh. mothor, answer me!" "1 will, Frank?listen. From my li you shall never learn what yon seek know?never; nnd none but mine can i veal it?none. Nay, listen further," (ai there was a passion and almost madness i the glance with which she regarded hilt "if again you approach the subject, li curse, boy, my bitter curse, shall fall on yo so beware." "Mother," he urged hoarsely, "you < not know to what misery you, are co demning your son. Do merciful, I implo you." "Aro you a' the sufferer, think yo Dear your share, boy. Jlc had no mercy she concluded wildly, and then, waving li hand peremptorily, she said, "do." II agitation was alarming to witness, and I would havo remained to soothe her, b again she commanded him to be gone, ai sadly ho obeyed. In the garden ho met his sister, and f< a while his thoughts were diverted fro his own griefs by the shock he received seeing the ravages which a few weeks hi made on the young creature beforo him. "Oil! Frank, my dear brother, how gl: 1 am to see you!" she exclaimed, "lbc you come down to stay with us for son time? 1 hope so. 1 have l?een so wishii to see you; there is something 1 want ask you." -j>o, aenr .Mary, I can only stay for 3 hour; I must return to town by tlio nc tiain: but tell tne, ?lenr child, about you self, how you feel? l>o you get strong here?" "That is just it, Frank?just what I wa to speak to you about. Come, let us s down quietly, and then 1 shall bo belt able to tell you. You know, my dear br llier, how passionately our mother loves in 1 have sometimes mourned over this blii affection for one so little worthy of such <1 votion. Frank, I have thought it sitifi Sometimes lately I have been almost ten lied at her outbursts. One night since v came here, when she thought I slept?b 1 don't sleep much, dear Fiank?1 felt o mother leaning over me; presently she kb ed me gently, and then murmured; "F you, my precious, my darling, I must go c enduring;" and shortly afterwards si named sumo one?1 could not catch di linctly who?George, coupled with son other name, and called him, almost tiercel the ruinor of her peace. I have been Ion lug to tell you all tins, and also sornethii else. Dear Frank," and her voice alight shook, "do you not see that 1 am dyinj I to not luru away, or seek to deceive m 1 feel, too surely, that I am soon to lea' this earth; and it pains me that my darlin mother should no perceive how nearly 111 end is approaching. The blow will fall i much heavior if she is unprepared to recoil it. My dear father, I see, expects it; b even he does not know how quickly tl last sands are running out. Do you 11 think I should tell her? I wish, dear l?r tiier, you could bo at hand, to support n by your presence, to soothe and calm h into resignation. You must console h? you know, when I am gone; and, Fran when 1 am taken away, the scales will f; from her eyes, and she w ill do you the ju | lice which it lins often grieved me, oh! i ; deeply, to see withheld. You will con [ again soon?some very early day; for. r | member, I have little timo to abide hei ' and then I shall tell her. You will com i will you not, dearest Frank?" It was almost a relief to Frank BenfieU pent up feelings to hold his young sister : his heart ami weep. It seemed to him, ho did so, that every being whom ho lov< 1 was either to ho severed from him by i cruel fate, or cut off b^ death. The moth of his earlier day*, how changed was sli i YVI ... ?n l.~ -- Tf ii(U U'UIW i 'O III.II I 11 > 31UI 111115 HLMIIflU 1 I ! which had arisen between them? The o ' friei.d who had taken that parent'# pla ' also gone. Of Alice he dared think i ! inoro, and Mary, his dearly loved sistc nbout to sink permaturelv to tho gra\ i Long did ho hold her in his arms, her pn j cheek resting on his shoulder. ''I elu | come, Mary dearest, tho day after to-tm : row. Oh, my outer!" he cried passional ly, after he had snatched a last kiss, "wou that I, uncared for ant) an outcast, wero be taken, and that you, the light of mat hearts, might still bo spared to spread su shine around." if- i?r. i. 1. i ? ? > - ? no iciv ncr |nim?(i ami nmazoii hi ii last word*. "Mamma," slie suddenly i quired tliat evening, "why have you nev told me anything xhoul Frank'* father? never heard you speak to Frank about hi either; he died long years before you ma ried papa." It was a thrust Hester littlo expected fro such a quarter, and she gasped for breal in her vain effort* to articulato. "Poor Frank seemed very unhappy th evening, mother dear, and said things whit tvo distressed nud puzzled tne when he wn leaving. What could l?e moan by callin us- himself an outcast, and uncnred for? Ol mother, it grieved mo to hear him say sue ik, things; I trust you wore not speaking se i 1 verely to liim to day, he is so good." "Mary, my own angel, spare your wretcl ilh ed mother," cried llester, throwing herse in- at the feot of her child, "every word yo ive utter is a dagger in my heart. Do not yo to reproach me. L?t all the world accuse m< jo. but not youand then, with her face hid ins den in the folds of her daughter's dress, th in secret of so many years was told?told a es most ere she know.it had passed her lip< ng "My own darling mother, what have yo Tor not sulforedt Oh, mamma, I must tell yoi ry, now; I cannot delay, for 1 feel?I feel tha as it is coming closer even than; I though Look at my hand; is it not thifi and pal? ou Look at my face; is it not wan! Can yoi OU believo health will ever again visit it! ge told dear Frank to-day, mamma, what 1 an ho going to say to you now, instead of wailing to and begged him to coir.n and be beside yoi ife when I broke it. I am not growing better daily, hourly, my strength decreases. l)i ie. ; you not understand?do you not sec, dear o- i est mother, that I must quickly bo at res hs . ?that I shall soon fall into that blessci i sleep which knows no waking? When . am gone?mother! mother! 1" ps Hester's eyes grew distended, and tin to hand which clasped her child's pale finger o- grasped them more tightly for an instant id us, with a shriek, she fell backwards on tlx in tloor in strong convulsions. '.) ly CHATTER IV. UI Frank Henfield stood beside a couch, oi which lay extended the figure of his sister 1? on tho evening succeeding the day las n* mentioned. He had boon suddenly recall ro : ed in consequence of tho dangerous illnes ; of his mother, whose cries, in tlie height o l'| i delirium, from an adjoining room, piercer his heart, though they failed to biing am er i expression into the face of tho marble forn 4'r on which he gazed; for Mary was past ill ',e earthly emotion?she was dead. 1,1 Days passed, and still Hester raved on K' watched and cared for by the husband sin bad loved so dearly, and the son she Inn. )r so wronged. At length a change came ,n which they hoped might he for the bette nl ?first a glimmering of reason, then a grail ual recognition of those about ber; but tin mental shock, joined to gieat bodily pros u' tration, on learning that her daughter wa k'? dead, which tltev bad tried in vain, bv even ie c -.: i r ? t . utmno uv;iion, u? Keep irom nor rnowieiige was loo great for the little strength remain 10 ing; ami though Iter miml continue*I clear it became evident to them that her day ,n were numbered. xl It was during one of these latter days r* that, calling Doctor Thornton and her son t? er her side, she with much pain and difficulty revealed to them likewise the secret whicl had burned in her heart so long, and re 11 counted to Frank all the incidents will er which the reader is nlreadv acquainted. ? "I do not know, my son, whether you c* father still lives. 1 may he going down t< the grave to find ho has preceded me there e and if so, then the reparation 1 ardently wish to make you will he all loo late. Giv< rl" me my desk. See," she said, taking asmal k0 volume of Milton from it, "this is the only ul thing 1 have to give you to aid your searcl ur ?the writing on the tlv leaf is his. lb '8' 1 bought the book shortly after we were mar ar j ried, in the town in which fir a few week >n ; lie resitted with me;" and Frank read oi -- | ui? page i.? which .-ho ]x>inte<l, "t?eorg< I Maldon Adeigh," lOtli Doc., 18?." 10 "It \v?? tliirtoen vears, in September la*t .v* since I saw or Itcnrd of him. This also 1 Frank, 1 wish t.i give you; I ike it to Lidj 'J* Helen Allen by, and tell her the dying hies* 'y ' ingof the worn m she once succored is hor*. " and she placed in his hand the card whicl l0- Lidv Helen M ildon had given her so main k0 years hefore. '? "If I could but write a few words," sin '.v said, striving to raise herself in bfid: "if in so . is f >und, they would satisfy him, if he a' iro all doubted. Husband, dearest, help me;' 111 and while Doctor Thornton supported he 10 in his arms, with a trembling hand sin traced tho following words: ''Gkoiigk Asi.eiuh: I am on my death hod?a few hours, and tho hand whicl writes these lines will be motionless f> I ' evermore. If you still live, they will hi jjj given to you by our son. Do not start what 1 say is true, although, when last w. S . met, fearful that a desire to right him inigh weigh more with you than the wish yoi expressed to repair the injury done to me * I was tempted to conceal his existence. Ku flrtmwl u llirt n.,rl I ll.fit.i . v( l.ifl l.i.fl. I 1. last request of his mother is tlu?l you wil do him thu justice which she has so wick ' s edlv withheld. That God may pAidou tnc attd forgive you, is the earnest pravor of ns *'I Ikstkr." Her peace whs made with nil, and in tin a sombre twilight, with tlio gentle lovinj or heart of old restored to hor, Hester wa ie* parsing away. ''Hark! did you not hear i voice calling me? It is my Mary's. 1 se her now; she is going to bear me upwind cw on hor bosom. l>earest husband, I inav no 10 stay?kiss me, and let ine depart. Frank !r my dear dutiful son, forgive ino; let 111 clasp you once more," and in that close cm ''? brace hor last sigh was breathed. ,r' Not many weeks after tho events w 0 have narrated, Frank Hen field presenter himself at General Allenhy's to give In mother's message to Fatly Helen, and en '> treat her l<t put otl' his dismissal until h 11' had had time to make inquiry ?e*pectiii| i his father. Tbo only cine he possessed wa lis no slight, that how to follow it had heen 11 matter of anxious thought, lie had deter cr mined to consult his kind friend the goner I ai; and as he drove to the house the though in struck him that Maldon, which was one 0 ,r- ( his father's names, had also heen Fail Helen's?that it was at any rate a Strang m coincidence, if it should lead to nothingLh and Maldon was not n very common nain< Lady Ui'lon received liiin coldly enougl is , though hor glance softened when sho nr U | ticed his dress of deep mourning and learn is f/oin liiin that he hint been absent attendg ing the deathbeds of his mother and sister. ?, "My mother, Lndy Helen, desired me to I) give you this, and to tell you"?Lady Jlel- > lo i- en whh looking with a puzzled air at the \wl card ho had handed to her?"and to tell ' .ri i- you that the dying blessing of the woman " If to whom you yourself gave that card, and u whom you onco succored, was yours. I see ? ' w you liave no recollection of the occurrence M % to which slio alluded. When you were l.ra Lady Helen Maldou, do y ju remember, on M e a journey from London, about fivc-and twen- Co I- ty years ago, observing in the porch of a vo ?. wayside inn a young girl?" .. u "I do, 1 do?I remember all now. 1 as* H u aisled her with a trilling sum, which she C.?' it unwillingly accepted as a loan, and to sat- 1 * t. J i>fy her I gave her this card with my nd- e*'" ?1 dress. I see, I see; she paid back the z " u | money a few months afterwards, when she Vl 1 1 j found her husband, it was he she was go- jj*' i ing in search oil'." "My mother did not find him. Lady it Helen. You were not the only good Sa- ri" ; marilm Providence cast in her lonely way. H<' j An elderly lady, whom she met in the mail, t took her home, and assisted her in her t search for her husband?inv father?which wr 1 proving fruitless, after seven years she be rx' I came the wife ..f Doctor Thornton, believing her first husband to be dead. Thirteen . b years ago they found themselves face to c? s face, and?do not think harshly of her? ., my little sister was dearer to her than life. j,(i 3 Concealing my birth from him, slio entered ci? with him into a solemn compact to preserve Pci sccresy on the subject of their marriage. It j was a voluntary proposal on his part, to re, pair in a degree the wrong he had done her; for. Lady Helen, entangled in an at- ^or t tachmcnt formed previously to meeting my I1'"" mother, ho had intentionally deserted her." ,Jl* ? "A sad story, Major Hentield. Poor girl, nM1 f I rememl?er lier well-?she was very beauti J?e! ] ful; and your father, is be since dead?" cm "That I do not know. Hurifield was my <n" ) mother's name?this is bis, the only clue I t'1' | have to him"?and drawing the copy of n,,< Milton from bis pocket, be opened and pre- j c'-r t settled it to I>adv Helen. i an< u He was about to proceed with what he had to say, when, looking up, lie was shock ! , ed to see her face deadly pale. She stretch- v*'a x cd her hand out feebly for a botllle of es- "rI . senee that stood on a table near, and clos* u c u ing her eyes motioned liim to be silent. ^,,r When presently color returned to her kJli I .. . i. .... ! . . : s cimm-k, hiju sue was aoie 10 command lier r self sufficiently, she sat up, and in n low i clear voice addressed him thus: ^ 11 "If your statement is true, von arc the ffa' son of my first cousin, Lord lied land, and i ''a R your proper appellation is Viscount Mai- ,nl don.** *i!>l ,t 'Oh! madam, iny father is then alive? j you can direct me to him," coed her listen- s',( y er joyfully. , "Ves. he is living down in shire, on Pr< . one of his properties." Sho close J her eyes '>s' , again, and then Frank saw the white lids quiver, and tears struggle from beneath the r long lashes. ' 0 "I see it all now," she murmured?"poor l',( ; ' George?Frank," she said hastily, as if to e,n speak before the old pride gained the in is ren j tery over her gentler feelings, "when you w? | j have seen and told him all, add that his L" cousin, once Helen M ildon, forgives him, 'b( 1 and prays for his forgiveness in return. 1? t. Voting man, I was the woman whom vour 1? . father loved ? I have been the catisc of all ' , : his and your poor mother's uuhappine**. sio ! Stav ?I will tell ion. In an angry haugh- nut 0 : ty moment, when he had told me of his thi love, 1 sent him from mv side, little dream 1 a ing t?? what his pride?great at my own? he; l( would lead him; but it is all plain to my II; ; vision now. Go, and God speed you"?and ho . unable to control longer the emotions w hich mi i. . i.: _.. i. , e ii - i i ii i ' i u-.i 11 111 in 'i \ vans '! nor, J.HHV HOI- Ull i'ii( with kindly pressure, grasped his hand, iih iiml left Itiin?iii.w much bowildeioJ, may in; ; Iw well conjectured. of Hut one great joy stood out fiotn nil tra other-?Alice might vet he his; and this of reflection was uppermost in his m il l, while "It ho travelled, as quickly as steam could take fro him, to the part of the country where Lord thi Kedlaud still led his hermit life. gr; ill i* noodle** to describe what passed he- L's tween the father and son. All substantia- ( ti" ted and proved to their mutual happiness, they returned together t<? London, and a *l" joyful meeting and reconciliation took place br< at Sir William Allenby's. Tho world had, j m:l of course, plenty to say when Lord Red* | u| land introiluccd his son, and no little scan- i dal (ell upon poor Hester. Rut she was | act beyond the range of calumny then; and as i wii f?r the old l>octor, lie was not of the world, lin nor did lie live in ?t. so the tongue of ma de; lice did not reach him. It was curious to ' ag< mark how tliis gay world, whose tongue on wagged so busily, struggled and fought for In the I ivor ot the young Viscount, and tin- an vexation which the announcement of his mi q engagement to Alice, and subsequent tnar- i mi r liage, cans;*! to all its votaries. It failed. s however, to disturb the happiness of any of 1 tra n the parties concerned; and nt length the riv great world found some fre>her subject to | inn s occupy it. and left our friends alone. ' ha { Loid Kedland did not long survive lies of ter: ho lived to see two of his graudchil- of t. dron horn, and then, amidst the tears and ha t- regrets of his family and friends, joined her, pa we may hope, in that better land for which , vis ho had many years been jrreparing. wl There are few people mi happily mated tid | as Frank and Alice, and it is one of their eij. 4 greatest pleasures to visit and cheer the th i? good old lfc?ctor, who, having long given pa 0 up practice, resides near the spot where his ij0 ? dear ones lie buried, waiting to ho called ih< 's hence. wt u Sir William and Lady Allenby are quite in >. of one mind now on the subject of their .. son-in law, and if there is a fault which th ( grandmamma, in her lectures to Alice's lit a* ,f tie daughters, particularly condemns, it is Rft v that of pride. ' of e ti! Lorenzo I>ow once said of a grasping Tl i. avaricious farmer, that if ho had tho whole Ci i, world enclosed in a singlo field, he would to ?. not he coutenl without a patch of ground n< it on the outside to raise potatoes. th Tlie Coolie Trade. A late arrival from Cuba brings inform* n that of 1,32*2 coolies, comprising foui rgoes, designed f??r that island, four Iiuii ed and fifty, or inoru than one third o 3 whole number, "spoiled" on the passage; d that the total number arrived on the md since April, 1855, is 10.534; died on 3 voyage 1,789. Of all the nefarious ,des in which man ever engaged (sayi s New Yoik Journal of Commerce) tin die trade is among the most horribly le Iting. In extenuation of the guilt incurred it ieged that the patties concerned have a itract with the coolies; but in effect the luded victim is a slave, and not the faint dawn of hope illumines hi* dark hori i. Numerous ini]>orlnnt and incontrortible facts have been brought to the at ition of our Government by means ol 3 "message from the President of the Uni I States communicating information in rard to the slave and coolie trade," pre ited to the House of Kepresentatives one ?r ago. Mr. Parker, U. S. Minister to China, ote to Mr. Marcy on the 12th ofFebrua 1850, that the following shipments ol dies had been made during the year 55 from Swatow, an illegal port even for ;al trade: Ships. Tonnage. Coolie* icricsn 5 6.592 3,05(1 tish 3 3.8i? 1,5)38 ilian I 5(H) 25v -uvisn 3 1.860 1 ^11?<J Total 12 12,773 6 338 Mr. Parker also stated, fiom official in* matiou, that the number of males iin" rted as coolies from Calcutta and Mad* , from 1845 to 1852. into Pritish Gui i and Trinidad, was 1,700; and lie sug ;ted "the necessity of specitis instructions .mating frum the Navy Department to r men of war on the China station, au irizing them to resort to illegal ports, I to examine such ve>?el? as do, and astain that they do not, offend against law, I to make them accountable if they do.' mary, 18i>G, Mr. C. D. Mugford, at mg Kong, notified Mr. Parker that lie s agent for one of the most respectable ns in the United States who had made ontr.icl with the Brazilian Government sending to Rio de Janeiro some 2,000 inese, and that part of them had been pped. but the firm were ready to abide tlie decision of the Governments of the liled States or China as regards the ie lity of the trade. Subsequently, Mr rker nddresed a public notification, call j on citizens of the United Stales to d?< t from this irregular and immoral traffic The evidence Constantly accumulating tci >w the horrible character of this trade Is still more loudly for its speedy sup tssion. The London Times recently pub led a deeply interesting communication this subject from which we extract the lo w i ng: ' The testimony of Sir John B iwring to i lamentable condition of the Chinese igranl cannot but recall to most of oui ulers* minds the disclosures made a few ek* ago at the 'Ihames Police Court in tulon with resjieet to the condition ol s Coolies on board the ship Duke ol rtland, on her voyage front Hong Kong Havana. "It will b<* remembered that on the coca' n referred to the master of the vessel ide the confession that one hundred and rty two of the emigrants, all of whom I been taken on board, he said, in good itlth, had died between Hong Kong and ivana. lie had 'had as many as two ndied invalids at one time,' and 'many ?re had died after they had landed in ha.' His log l>o<>k contained daily, and >re than daily, entries of death. Tin igiairate said 'he had heard of the horron the middle passage when the odious slave de was in existence, but bo never heard anything like this." The counsel said is most horrible. Chinamen aie leonghl m t hina to work on plantations, and s i> the result. The English tlag is dis iced by such a tiallic.' The captain con sed 'It is a dreadful traffic, and quilt le it was put an end to.' "Vet this was luit an accidental disclo e of a system which was only casually night to light in this instance by tli? igistrate's inspection of the log-book in n t of wages. "1 have myself, when in Havana, beard :oitnIs and witnessed scones connected lb this traffic which are peifeclly appal g. In some instances the proportion o til to living at the conclusion of the vv.y e has been as high as two hundred of the u for every three hundred of the other March. 1853. the British shin (iortriidr ivcd ?t Havana with i cargo of 108 CLi men, and in a note appended to the re n wo read, "of the Gertrude'* 1S2 died.' "Such are the horror* of thi< second *l?r< <le during tlie passage. When ho ar i-s at hi* destination, in the majority o itancoa, the coolie finds that his mi sen s but commenced. 1 have seen example) considerate treatment, and consequent!} comparative comfort; but iheso are tin ppily rare. On arriving at Havana, afte suing the quarantine, the coolie, if lie sur **, i* irAtiftleirfiil to llie ln<jlie*t hnMer i< > place* Itint upon hi* plantation side lo e with liit slaves. Hi* term of service i jlil years; his labor as hard as his maste inks he can sustain, lie receives a sinal y>oenl monthly, which makes Ins condi at by a few dollar* preferable to that o o slave. H?- i* exposed to the same toil itched by llie same overseer, with whi| band and sword at tlie side, as the slave "(>n the other hand, hi* position i* wors an that of liis slave companion, inasniuol hi* master's interest in iiim ternvinaie er eight years. In proportion a* the tern service approaches its expiration the mc e for retaining tliecoohw in life decrease le slave's life is usually worked out, as th iban planters have themselves confes*e me, in ten years of full work. The Chi se coolie, a* every one who has lived o e Cuban plantations knows, reaches hi end on an average after a very much short* cr term of labor. Again, the Cbtiramaedoes not henr the tropical heat with thecase with which the negro endures it." I' Remedies for the Increase of Crime. ' The increase of crime in the country ab largo has become a matter of universal ito1 toriety. and the failure to punish criminalshas rendered-the law# on the subject almost obsolete. Indeed, the only result which in marry cases follows a murder is a gravo waste of eight or ten days of time by court, lawyers, juries, and witnesses, and a bill of ' costs to tlie Commonwealth. A religious paper now before us makes 1 an effort to explain the cause of the increase ' i of crime and to suggest remedies. Thecause, it ulleges, is fouud in part in the fact that more attention is given to the mere in' lellectual than totiio moral culture of youllr,: that in times of great civil convulsion, when anarchy and violence prevail, as in the first French revolution, it is the learned, and not the ignorant, w!k> lead the way to destruc; lion. No severity of law, says the writer,, no strictness in the enforcement of penalties 1 will ?ecure public justice amongst a corrupt . community, or serve as a substitute for an honest heart in the people. You may mullipiy jails and penitentiaries, yet, in spite of ' nil tlre.se, crimes will multiply so long as the heart of the people is left in all its corruption to work as the ereat fountain of . crime. The conclusion to which the wrii ter comes is that Christianity has a power i exceeding all others in counteracting human wickedness, and is adequate to all the present necessities of nations sinking under the weight of their own corruption ami crimes. This all seems very well, but we mav suggest that the power to work out reform' must not be that sublimated sort of Christianity which claims a wisdom and refinement beyond the precepts of the great founder,, and which has too much tenderness of conscience to hang a murderer when his crime is made manifest. In short, there must be, in addition to the inofld culture admitted to be necessary in diminishing crime, that stern idea of justice which renders the cer1 tainty of punishment a terror to evil doersi The Siamese Gift to the American , Government.?The Union gives the foli lowing description of the presents from the i two Kings of Siam: ,4\Vo were this morti! ing jterniitted to inspect, at the Department i of State, a curious collection of presents just received from Itankok, in Siam, from the;wo Kings who reign over that country{ Among these interesting specimens of the ' i handiwork of the intelligent Siamese, we, especially noticed a solid gold snuff box? (weighing upward of fire ounces,) quaintly i ornamented iu colored enamels, a long pipe with a tiny bowl richly ornamented with enamelled gold, for smoking opium; a. i pair of large shears (made somewhat like! those in general use in this country for shearing sheep) for trimming the beard; a> ? sword, of exquisite temper, with a scabbard i in ide from a single piece of lancewood by some process of mortising that few American workmen could equal; a musical instrui menl resembling a flageolet; two 'tam-tams/ F or drums, each made from a single piece of wood, ahout two feet in length and ten inch ' e? in diameter, with strips of cane instead i of cords, and giving a clear distant note . | when beaten; spears, fishing tackle," <kc. Pa- more Williamson vs. JudoeKane. Tlie suit for damages brought | against Judge John K. Kane by Passuiorc Williamson for false imprisonment, before 1 the Court of Common l'leas of Delaware ' county, was some time since argued on demurrer. To the declaration claiming damaJ ges Judge Ivane put in fwe special pleas, setting forth his office, the proceeding* : which had occurred, and justifying his en1 i tire conduct. The plaintiff replied de injuria to these pleas that the defendant bad committed the acts of his own will and ' without cai>-e. The Judge's counsel demurred specially to the replication on three' pleas ami joined issue in two of them. Theargument on demurrer was herd in Decerning. <~*n Saturday last Judge llaines, of Delaware county, gave notice that he decided against Judgo Kane; so that the replication stands, and the case will go to trial' on the general issue, and will be tried some time during the present month upon it* 1 merits. I ClkF.MlStKY AND the 1>AIRY. A tcien| tific agriculturist near Brussels, in Europe, has been making a series of experiments,, f with lire most satisfactory results, in restoring rnnci 1 butter to ;Ls original sweetness , and freshness of taste. The operation is peifectly simple and practicable. The bnt, tor is beaten in a sufficient quantity of . i water, into which had been mixed chloride of lime, at the rate of about twenty five or ' ' IliirtV drop* lo every two pound's of butter. . After bringing nil tbe butter into contact with tbe water it is allowed to stand for ao ( hour; then the solution is poured otV, and1 1 the butter washed thoroughly in clean j water. The small quantity of chloride . used is declared to be abundantly sufficient for all purposes. The Sol*no Dues.? It is announces! that '! the abolition ot the Danish Sound due* ' may be regarded as a fact accomplished. It is understood that tbe capitalization of them* * proposed by DiniiMrk has been accepted ' by tbe European Governments inters*t?d, and that a treaty lias been signed with the United States, by the terms of which, in* ! consideration of the payment of an incon' i sidorable amount of money, ($393,000,) thie ' annoyance to our commerce is to be foreve* discontinued. { li Lieut. Maury ha* published aa article girs ; ing the result of an experiment which be ii made by planting Sun Klower* near his residence for the purpose of preventing fret. quent attacks of cbilL and fevers to whiob e the locality was subject, particularly (hiring i| the summer. \l.s first experiment was eni tirelv successful, but to insure and establish* n confidence, lie designs continuing bit exis periments, and thru making a further test.