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lewis m. grist, proprietor, f %n Jiikpenknt Jamilj ftcfospapcr: Jfoi' % ^Promotion of % political, Sotial, Hgrinilfura! anii Commercial Jntetsfs of % iouflj. j TERMS?^2.50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. VOL. 31. YORKYILLE, S~Q., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1885. BTO. 38. 1 Original ftocttg. i For the Yorkville Enquirer. JilORNIXG, XOOX AND EVE. t BY ABDEAL. C 'Tis sweet at dawn, When Aurora's blush t Breaks through the pearly gates of morn, C Filling the eastern heavens with a golden flush t Proclaiming day, ] While through all earth rings . A soft sweet and harmonious lay , Of exalted praise that all creation sings From early dawn 1 To close of day ? When all in slumber sweetly rest t 'Till darkness flies from earth away ! 1 But oh at noon ! * To sit in a cool shade t With a dear friend is a sweet boon; r With her to linger while all is prostrate laid ~T> ? j ^ Djy iic<u, auu bi jr To keep each other cool ^ By making a fan with such vigor fly That others our energy might ridicule. ^ Ah, tho' 'tis warm, a I could with joy each day, # S Labor with a beloved one * t With increasingjoy till life had fled away. y But sweetest at eve, S When twilight gray t Mantles all things, and sad winds grieve That night is slowly swallowing up the day ; ^ In reverence "then * * To see the twinkling stars As they in beauty the heavens gem ! Lifting our thoughts from earth's sorrows and P cares s Yea, lovlier than morn, Or noontide's blaze, r For they prophesy when life is gone u We, like them, may shine thro' endless days. <?hc Idler. | THE WHITE PHANTOM. I M^jor Merritt Hill, a "bold dragoon" in b the service of his majesty George III, found * himself one dark and blustering night in ? autumn riding toward London on the old d York road. He had supped with a friend who lived at a village some distance off the n road and he was unfamiliar with the country. a Though not raining, the air was damp, a and the heavy surcharged clouds threatened p every moment to pour down their contents. A good horseman cares as much for the com- " fort of his steed as for his own ease. To r add to the discomfort of the evening, there nUnnnn rtf mootinc h i ah W ft V m en : rl \Vtt? &UI11C unaui.c ui nivw...h .. 7 v but Major Hill felt no uneasiness on that score, as, just before leaving his friend's t house he had examined his holster pistols, n and freshly primed them. A brush with highwaymen would enhance the romance e of a night journey. li The Major's horse began to give unmistakable evidence of distress, stumbling once (] or twice, and recovering himself with difficulty. At last a dim light suddenly ap- t peared at a turn of the road. The horse v pricked up his ears trotted forward with h spirit, soon halted Reside a one-story cot- t tage. The Major rode up to the door and I rapped loudly with the but of his whip, t The summons brought a sleepy cotter to the door. a "My good friend," said the Major, "can g you tell me how far it is to the next inn ?" 1 "Eh ? It be about zeven miles, zur," was a the answer, in the broad Yorkshire dialect I of the district. o , "Sev^n miles!" exclaimed the miyor, in e a tond of deep disappointment; and my li horse is already blown ! My good fellow, can't you put him somewhere and give me a bed? I will pay you liberally for your trouble." "Eh! goodne& sakes!" said the rustic. "I be nought but a ditcher. There be noa place to put the nag in, and there be only one room and one bed in the cot." "What shall I 'do?" cried the Major, at his wit's end. "I'll tell 'ee, zur," cried the rustic. "There's a voine large house on the road, about a moile vurther on. It's noa an inn, but the colonel sees company for the fun o' the thing?'cause he loikes to zee company about 'un. You must have heard ov him? Colonel Lawrence?as used to be a soger! once." "Say no more," cried the Major. "I have heard of this hospitable gentleman, and having been in the army gives me a sure claim to his attention. Here's a crown for your information, my good friend." The Major rode off, feeling an exhilaration of spirits which soon communicated itself to the horse. A sharp trot of a few minutes brought him to a large mansion, which stood by the roadside, witnout dismounting he plied the large brass knocker till a servant made his appearance. "Is your master up?" asked the Major. "I am the occupant of this honse," said a venerable gentleman, making his appearance at the hall door. ? "I am a benighted traveler, sir," said the J* Major, touching his hat, "and come to claim ^ your well-known hospitality. Can you s give me a bed for the night?" ? "I cannot promise you a bed, sir," said \ the host, "for I have but one spare bed in ? the house, arid that happens to be in a room 11 that does not enjoy a very pleasing reputa- 11 tiou. In short, sir, one room of my house v is haunted, and that is the only one, un- 9 fortunately, that I can place at your dispos- , al to-night." ? "My dear sir," said the Major, spriging * from his horse and tossing the bridle to the ^ servant, "you enchant me beyond expres- J( sion! A haunted chamber! The very ^ thing?and I, who have never seen a ghost! ** What luck!" <: Tiie Colonel shook his head gravely. " "I never knew a man," he said, "to pass ^ a night in that chamber without regretting 1 it." t! Major Ilill laughed as he took his pistols t-j from his holster pipes. "With these friends ~ of mine," he said, "1 fear neither ghost nor * demon." F Colonel Lawrence showed his guest into ^ a comfortable parlor, where a sea-coal fire Y was burning cheerfully in a grate, and refreshtnents most welcome to a weary travel- ? er stood upon a table. J The Major's attention was drawn toward ? a charming girl of twenty, the daughter of ^ the Colonel, who graced the table with her f, presence. Never, he thought, had he seen (1 so beautiful, so modest and so lady-like a creature; and she, in turn, seemed very j favorably impressed with the manly beauty * and frank manners of their military guest. At length she retired. The Colonel, who j1 had found a listener, was inclined to pro- * long the session into the small hours of the 1 morning, but finding that his guest was ? much fatigued, he felt compelled to ask him if he would not like to retire. Major Hill promptly replied in the affirmative, and the old gentleman, taking up a silver candlestick, ceremoniously marshal- ' ed his guest to a large, old-fashioned room. { A comfortable bed invited to repose; ^ ? f.hpnrfnl fire was blazing on the hearth, h and everything was cozy and quiet. The " Major looked around with a sigh of satisfaction. "I am deeply indebted to you, Colonel," v said he, "for affording me such cornforta- t ble quarters. I shall sleep like a top." ^ "I am afraid not," answered the Colonel, r with a grave shake of the head. "I never { knew a guest of mine to pass a quiet night in this chamber." "I shall prove an exception," said the u Major smiling. "But I must make one re- e mark," he added, seriously. "It is ill sport- f ing with the feelings of a soldier; and t should any of your servants attempt to i play tricks upon' me, they shall have occa- r sion to repent it." c And he laid his heavy pistols on the lightstand by his bedside. "My servants, Major Hill," said the old r gentleman, with an air of offended dignity, n "are too well drilled to dare attempt any 1 ricks upon my guests. Good night, Vfajor." "Good night, Colonel." The door closed. Major Hill locked it. Besides the door opening into the entry, here was another leading to some other oom. There was no lock upon the second loor, but a heavy table placed across com>letely barricaded it. He threw himself into an arm chair before he fire, and amused himself with building astles in the air, and musing on theattracions of the fair Laura, the host's daughter, ie was far enough from thinking of spectral dsitants, when a very slight noise struck on lis ear. Glancing in the direction of the inter door he thought he saw the heavy table :lide backward from its place. Quick as hought he caught up a pistol and chalonrtArl 4-Vio infmrlov Thorp irns nn rpnlv* CUfitU U.V iUVIUVV.. """ -~C-J ?ut the door continued to open and the table o slide dack. At last there glided into the oom a tall, graceful figure robed in white. At the first glance the blood curdled in he Major's veins: at the second herecogiized the daughter of the host. Her eyes vere wide open and she advanced with an ssured step; but it was very evident that he was asleep. Here was the mystery of he white phantom solved at once. The roung girl walked to the fire-place and eated herself in the arm-chair from which he soldier had just risen. She raised her left hand, and gazing on a leautilul ring that adorned one of her white aper fingers, pressed it repeatedly to her ips. She then sank into an attitude of reiose, her arms droping listlessly by her ide. > The Major* approached her and stole the ing from her finger. His action disturbed, ut did not awaken her. She seemed to niss the ring, however; and after groping opelessly for it, rose and glided through he doorway as silently as she had entered, he had no sooner retired than the Major eplaced the table, and drawing a heavy lothes press against it, effectually guarded limself against a second intrusion. This done, he threw himself upon the ed, and slept soundly till a late hour of he morning. After performing the duties f his toilet, he was summoned to breakist, where he met the Colonel and his aughter. "Well, Major, and how did you pass the light," asked the Colonel, anxiously. "Famously," replied Hill. "I slept like , top as I told you I should." "Then, thank heaven, the spell is broken ,tlast," said the Colonel; "and the white hantom has vanished." "By no means," said the Major, smiling; 'the white phantom paid me a visit last light and left me a token of the honor." "A token!" exclaimed the father and [aughter in a breath. "Yes, my friends, and here it is." And tie xMajor nanaea me ring io me om geuuenan. "What's the meaning of this, Laura?" ixclaimed the Colonel, this ring I gave you ast week." Laura uttered a faint cry and turned leadly pale. "The mystery is easily explained, said he major. "The young lady is a sleepwalker. She came into my room before I lad retired, utterly unconscious of her acions. I took the ring from her hand, that might be able to convince you and her of he reality of what I had witnessed." The major's business was not pressing, nd he readily yielded to the colonel's urgent request to pass a few days with him. .'heir mutual liking increased upon better cquaintance, and in a few weeks the White 'hantom's ring, inscribed with the names f Merritt Hill and Laura Lawrence, servd as a sacred symbol of their union for !fe. CANON FARRAR. Canon Farrar, Archdeacon of Westminter is to visit this country and will doubtsss be received with great 'eclat.' He will ie accompanied by Lr. Francis Gerald Veey, a brother of Jean Ingelow. It will be emembered that Canon Farrar officiated at he memorial services held in Westminster Uibey at the time of Grant's death. This onor is accorded only to the memory of the nost distinguished men and before the serices mentioned was considered in place nlv in memory of Englishmen. The Veil. Frederick William Farrar, J). J)., F. It. S. archdeacon of Westminster was born in he Fort, Bombay, August 7, 1881. lie reeived his education at King William Col?ge on the Isle of Man, and at King's Col3ge, London. Mr. Farrar was successively scholar and Fellow of Trinity College 'ambridge, and in 18-f>4 took his Bachelor's egree in that University, he was the same ear ordained deacon by Bishop ot Ely. 'or many years he was one of the Assisunt Masters at Harrow and he held with ;reat distinction the Head Mastership of larlborough College from January, 1871, ill April, 187G. Dr. Farrar was a select ireacher before the University of Cambridge in_1868, and again in 1874?*75. He ras an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen rom 18G9 to 1878 when he was nominated ne of the Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary, n April 1S7G he was appointed to a canonry n Westminster Abbey, and in April 1883 teeame Archdeacon of that place. He is he author of the following works of fiction : lErec or Little by Little," "Julian Howe" St. Winifred's or the World of School." I lis philosophical works are "The Origin of language," "Chapters on Language" 'Greek Grammar liules." He also pubished "A Lecture on Public School Educaion," "Essays on Liberal Education." i lis theological works comprise, "The Fall bf Man and other Sermons" "Seekers after iod," The Silence and the voices of God," ] 'The Life of Christ," etc. etc. A visionary local financier, who had i . thousand ways to make a fortune, and not j , single one to make a living, is described j iy friends as "a man so sanguine that the! rtf 4i L'KAoefi?inf)? intik-oc ! uere geiuug iiuim ui <i ouui'aiuujj , urn think ho is already the owner of a tanicry." ? - j(&?* We should do nothing' inconsistent nth the spirit and genius of our instituions. We should do nothing for revenge, iut everything for security, nothing for the iast, everything for the present and the uture. The cheapest and simplest gymnasiun in the world?one that will exercise very bone and muscle in the body?is a lat piece of steel, notched on one side fitted ightly into a wooden frame, and after beng greased on both side with a bacon rind, ubbed into a stick of wood laid lengthwise n a sawback. SSaTThe rose has its thorns; and beauty is tever found without one or more. They nay be blunted at the points, but cannot ip extirpated without killing the tree. ?te on ^foreign prals. SKETCHES OF TRAVEL IN SCOTLAND. BY REV. K. Ij ATI TAX. Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. The chief city of Scotland is Edinburgh. It is not by any means the largest. Glasgow has more than three times as many inhabitants as Edinburgh. The reason that Edinburgh is held in such veneration by the Scotch, and by all civilized nations, is because of its history. Edinburgh consists of two towns, which are known as Old Edinburgh and New Edinburgh. They are sepaKtr n trnlloTT Hlrl 1<Vlln hnvfyh xaiuu uj it uanv/u v/iv% xiui? _? %.? * ? is not beautiful, but it is picturesque. Tne site is a series of rocky hills, separated by deep ravines. The streets are irregular and some of them very dirty. New Edinburgh, which stretches out in a north western direction toward Leith on the Firth of Forth, is beautiful. The streets are well laid out, clean and lined on both sides with magnificent buildings. A narrow and deep valley divides the two Edinburghs. Through this valley a small stream winds its way. Along and near by the side of this stream, at an irregular distance from it, on the New Edenburg side, Princess Street extends for more than a mile. This is one of the mostcharming places I ever beheld. The street is one hundred feet wide. On the side nearest Old Edinburgh there are no houses, but beautiful flower plats, ornamented with grand monuments, at regular intervals. The other side is lined with palatial structures. What Rotten Row is to London, Princess Street is to Edinburgh. Here the rich congregate and promenade, drive or stroll about in the enchanting parterres, which fringe the south side of the street. It is perfectly charming. Art is all on Rotten Row, but art and nature combine to make Princess Street a kind of fairy spot. It will not be attempted to describe Edinburgh as a whole. This, if possible, would certainly be an onerous undertaking. Suffice it to say that Edinburgh is situated within less than three minutes of fifty-six degrees north of the equator, and is, consequently, more than one thousand miles nearer the north pole than the city of New York. It is about the same latitude of Labrador. The name Edinburgh is a corruption of Edwin's Burgh. The population at present is about two hundred thousand. The Castle is that around which everything in Edinburgh clusters. It is not meant tnat tne uastie is tne most important feature of Edinburgh, but simply that it ante-dates, perhaps, everything else in the city. It was a stronghold long before the authentic historic period of Scotland. The probability is, that, at some period away back in the dim past, some leader of a clan built a fort, and in time the inhabitants of the surrounding country flocked to him, and built for themselves thatch-roofed dwellings around the fort. This, in all probability, was the nucleus of the present city of Edinburgh. The site of the Castle is a rock four hundred and forty-three feet above the level of the sea. At present the Castle consists of a number of structures, some military and others ecclesiastical, erected at dates beginning during the reign of Queen Margaret, and ending, perhaps, prior to the union between England and Scotland in 1707. The oldest building, it is claimed, is Queen Margaret's chapel. This is.said to be the smallest chapel in Scotland. It is sixteen feet and six inches long, and ten feet six inches wide. It dates back to about the end of the tenth century. With the exception of repairs, nothinghas been done to the Castle since the fifteenth century. In some respects one of the most interesting rooms in Edinburgh Castle is what is called the Crown-room, and about this room itself there is nothing very interesting. That which makes it an object of interest is the j fact that in it are deposited and exposed to j view the Regalia op Scotland. For some reason all men take great pleasure in seeing great men?men high in office. For the same reason, whatever it may be, they take pleasure in gazing upon crowns studded with glittering stones, swords of State with keen edges, and sceptres of gold. I j Among the first places visited by strangers |: on arriving in Edinburgh is the Castle, John Knox's house and Holy rood Palace. Old j Greyfriar's Church and St. Giles Cathedral come in next, as intimately and inseparably j connected in history with the Castle, Knox's house and Holy rood Palace. Tiik Regalia of Scotland consists of the Ckowx, the Sceptre and the Sword of State. These unitedly, have a history which, if well told, is thrilling. A description ot each will be given first, and then their history will be attempted. The crown consists of two circles or bands of pure gold. The lower one is much broader than the upper one. These two circles are firmly bound together. The under and broader circle is adorned with twenty-two precious stones, between each of which there is set an oriental pearl. The stones are amethysts, emeralds, jacinths, rubies and topazes, all unpolished. The upper circle is surmounted by a row of fleurs-de-lis interchanged with crosses fleurees and with pinnacles of gold, in the top of which are inserted large pearls. This upper circle is also adorned with small diamonds and sapphires ; inserted alternately. Such was the crown | of Scotland until the days of James the i Fifth. It was what is called an open crown. | This kind of a crown indicated that the in-' dividual entitled to wear it wasadependent' and not an independent sovereign. In other words, it is indicated that Scotland was dependent upon some other kingdom, or inferior to some other kingdom. Janies the Fifth had made and attached to this ancient | crown two arches of gold. These are fasten- j ed to the upper part of the upper circle of the crown with tacks or rivets of gold. The i arches cross each other in their centres and ! at the crossing there rises a mound of gold | which is surmounted with a large cross I Pat tee, studded with pearls and on which are inscribed the characters, J. R. V.* The j crown weighs three and one-half pounds, | avoirdupois. It measures in diameter near-1 ly nine inches, and in circumference about j twenty-seven inches. Its height, measuring [ from the lower edge of the lower circle to ; the top of the cross is six and one-half inch-! es. The tiara worn with the crown is of! crimson velvet, turned up with some kind I of fur. With respect to the value of the j crown, I cannot speak. It has an intrinsic! value and a specific value. It is worth its weight in gold, since, with the exception of the precious stones witn wmcn it isauorneu, it is solid gold. The Scei'tiie is a slender silver rod gilt! with ^old, three feet and nearly three inches i long. It is ornamented with three small; figures representing the Virgin Mary, ,st. i James and St. Andrew. This sceptre-rod is | not round, but hexagonal, and divided by i three ornamental rings. Its termination is ! a globe, in the top of which there is an Ori-! ental pearl. This sceptre is supposed to have been made for James the Fifth in Jo.'lG. Tiih Swoun ok State is five feet long and is said to have been presented to James the Fourth by l'ope Julius the Second in 1007. The blade proper of the sword is only ; four feet and nine inches in length, the hail- I die and pummel being one foot and three h inches. It was made in Home, and is said by those who are acquainted with thehisto- i ry of swords, to be a piece of excellent j work. 11 is fanciful and elegant. The cross ' is represented by two dolphins whose heads meet at the handle. The scabbard is velvet i of a crimson color, ornamented with filagree I work and silver, the prevailing ornaments being oak leaves and acorns. No historical difficulty exists respecting any part of the Kkcalia ok Scotland ex- j cept the crown. The probability is that the open crown dates back to a short time after j the battle of Bannockburn, in 1.'314. There I < were other crowns belonging to Scotland, < for there were kings crowned, and this takes for granted the existence of a crown. Robert Bruce is represented by historians as < wearing a crown on the day previous to the battle of Bannockburn. It was by the crown on his head that Dr. Bohan recognized him. What was the character of that crown is not known. It was probably only a temporary preparation designed to meet the exigency of the occasion. At that time the Scotch possessed no royal diadems. After the battle of Dunbar in 121)0 Edward the First stripped king John Baliol of "baith Sceptre, Sword, Crown and Ring." The temporary diadem prepared for the coronation of Robert Bruce, in 1300, fell into the hands of the English at the battle of Methven. It is certain that the Crown now exhibited in the Crown Room in Edinburgh Castle was not in existence prior to the battle of Bannockburn. It is also very probable that the crown with which Bruce was adorned on the day of the battle of Bannockburn, formed a pattern for the present crown. If this supposition is correct, the first time that it was used, was at the coronation of David the Second, the son and successor of Robert Bruce. This event took place in auu wasaneuueu Willi great solemnity, the whole affair being conducted according to the direction of the Pope of Rome. Whatever difficulties there may be in determining when the crown was made and when and by whom first-worn, there is no difficulty in learning when it was last used. This was at the coronation of Charles the Second, at Scone, on the lstof January, 1651. There is a little incident connected with the crowning of Charles the Second which I will venture to relate in this place. The crown was put on the head of Charles by Alexander Campbell, the Duke of Argyle. That noble man was the progenitor of Col. William Campbell, one of the leaders in the battle of King's Mountain. The sword which the Duke of Argyle wore when he crowned Charles the Second, passed, as an heir-loom, into the hands of Col. William Campbell, who wore it all through the Revolutionary war. It then passed into the hands of the Preston family of Columbia, S. C., and Gen. John S. Preston wore it during the late war between the two sections of the United States. Gen. Preston, some years before he died, gave it to a gentleman in Virginia, whose name I have forgotten. It is a blade of rare excellency. So far as is known only three by the same maker exist in America. One of these now hangs in my study. This one was captured from an officerin Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton's Legion, a few days before the fall of Charleston, South Carolina, in May 17S0. From this digression I return to the Crown of Scotland. Charles the Second was crowned by the Scots under no favorable circumstances. It was not long until he had to leave the kingdom, to which he did not return until in I66U, the wnoie nation oecoming tireci 01 the unstable state of affairs under the Protectorate, brought him back and crowned him on the 29th of May. During the sittings of the Scotch Parliament, the Regalia were kept in the Parliament house. At other times they were placed, for safe keeping, in the hands of the Lord High Treasurer. In 1651, the Parliament being in session and the English army advancing rapidly, it was deemed necessary to remove the Regalia to some strong place, lest they should tall into the hands of the Republicans. It was decided to place them in the keeping of the Earl of Mareschal, and that they be deposited in Dunnottar Castle, which belonged to the Earl. A garrison under the command of George Ogilvy, a soldier of experience, was placed in the Castleearly in July, 1651. Before the close of the year Ogilvy began to be pressed by the English Regicides, lie applied to the Lord High Chancellor of Scotland for instruction as to what disposition he would make of the Regalia, and received, in substance, as a reply that,he would be held accountable for their safe-keeping. Ogilvy applied to Charles the Second for a small ship in which ne might transport the Regalia out of the kingdom, but Charles was unable to grant his request. Early in 1662 it became evident that the capture ofDunnottar Castle was an event which must take place in the near future. The siege was close and Ogilvy was repeatedly summoned to surrender. The surrender of the Castle was regarded by those in authority as a matter of minor importance, provided the besiegers could be prevented from getting possession of the Scottish Regalia. This, apparently, was an impossibility. In the emergency three ladies came to the rescue. The Countess dowager Mareschal and the wife of Governor Ogilvy planned that the wife of Rev. James Grander, minister of a small parish in the neighborhood, should enter the Castle, take the Crown, Sword and Sceptre of Scotland, and conceal them until such time as they could he deposited in their proper place. Accordingly, sometime near the latter part of March, 1G52, Mrs. Granger rode into the camp of the Republican General, Dean, and obtained of him permission to visit the wife of Governor Ogilvy. She left her horse in the camp of General Dean and in his charge, and proceeded on foot to the Castle, attended by a servant girl. The two were admitted into the Castle, but the plan for secreting the National Regalia was kept a profound secret from Governor Ogilvy. This was done in order that he might, on the surrender of the Castle, deny, truthfully, all knowledge of the removal of the Regalia, and also assert with a clear conscience that he had no knowledgeof the place of their concealment. In due time Mrs. Granger returned from the Castle with the crown in her dress and the maid carried the sword and sceptre wrapped up in a bundle of flax lint. This lint she reported she was going to spin into thread. General Dean gallantly assisted her to mount her horse, and Mrs. Granger quietly rode home, followed by her servant-girl on foot. Either that niglit, or some night soon after?certainly on the night of the illst of March, 1G02, Rev. James Granger entered the church of the parish of Kinneff' and having taken up some of the pavement stones in front of the pulpit, "and digged under it ane hole," deposited therein the crown and sceptre, both carefully wrapped up in cloth, and replaced the pavement stones. In the west end of the church, between the two first seats he made a similar opening in the pavement and deposited the sword. In this place of concealment the Reqalia remained until the Restoration in 1GG0. From the Restoration until the time of the Union of England and Scotland in 1707 the Regalia of Scotland continued to be kept as formerly and used on all state occasions. The Union, as is well known to all readers of Scotch and English history, was violently opposed by many of the Scotch nobles and people. Lord Belhaven on the eve of consummating the treaty, madea violent speech in which he declared that the throne of Scotland was about to bedemolished and her Regalia seized and carried to London as a trophy of an English victory. The common people were strongly attached to their national ltegalia, and the bare mention of the removal of them, aroused all their national pride and awoke feelings of better animosity which had been, for many years, quietly slumbering. To satisfy all on this point an article was added to the treaty of Union, in which it was ordained that the Regalia should sacredly remain in Scotland. It was wisely, no doubt, concluded that it would not be prudent or safe for the nation to deposit the Crown, Sword and Sceptre of Scotland in a place where the public eye could gaze freely upon them. There was in them, it was thought, something which would fan into a flame the fire of national pride, which still existed in the breast of the Scotch peasantry. Such being the case, the Regalia were put into their usual receptacle, a strong oaken box, firmly .secured by three strong locks and placed in what Is called the Crown room in the C'astlc of Edinburgh. This Crown Room is a vaulted room with one window and two doors. The chimney and window are secured with stanchions of iron so that an en- j trance through either is impossible. One of the doors is oak, the other is made of bars of iron. Both of these, when the box containing the Regalia of Scotland was placed j in the Crown room, were fastened with ' t huge bolts and bars and strong locks. On the 26th of March, 1707, with proper ceremonies, the Oaken chest with its precious! j contents were deposited in the Crown Itootn, the doors locked and the keys of both the chest and doors deposited, where no one 'knows. In this Crown Room the Regalia ; of Scotland's Kings lay unseen by any eye until the 4th of February 1818?a period of j more than one hundred and ten years. The : Crown Room was opened in 1794, but the Chest was not disturbed? At various times, vague rumors were circulated that the Regalia had been clandesj tinely removed and were in the Tower of | London. To quiet all uneasiness on this 'point, and also believing that no political ' reason existed for keeping the Regalia con! cealed, an order was granted by the govern| ment for opening the Crown Room and 'chest containing the Regalia, and commissioners appointed to perform the duty. One of the commissioners was Sir Walter I Scott. The commissioners, or ten of them, ! which constituted a quorum, met at the I Crown Room on the 4th day of February, 1818. Xo keys could be found, but with the assistance of a blacksmith by the name of Neish, the doors of the vaulted room were opened and the three locks of the chest broken. Sir Walter Scott is said to have been intensely excited. When 1 the heavy lid of the chest was raised and the Regalia discovered to be in it, and peri fectly preserved, the vast multitude which had congregated on the Castle hill to learn j promptly the results of the investigation, raised a shout of joy and hoisted the royal i dag. In addition to the crown, sword, and ! sceptre, there was found in the Chest the i mace of office of the Lord High Treasurer ; of Scotland. I omitted to mention in the proper place that the belt of the sword was not taken out of Dunnottar Castle by Mrs. Granger, ; but in some way and for some purpose, now unknown, kept, it is supposed, by Governor Ogilvy. At any rate, it was found, it is said, in a good state of preservation, by one of Ogilvy's descendants in the wall of the Governor's house. Of this belt I cannot speak, since I did not see it. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. A TERRIBLE ORDEAL. But there was one part of the Confeder- j ate line which did not share in the tumult and fierce resistance which was everywhere -i? i. rnuk?li ; eise apparent, xius was uie puiwoii uciu j by the division held by Ma,i.-Gen. Cleburne, : or, as all the .Southern people know him, I "Pat Cleburne." It has been said of Cleburne that he was the only man in the Confederate army who could absolutely control his men and make them hold their fire until he was ready for it to be delivered. On the day of this battle, when the Federal advance began, it is stated that he said to his troops that he would shoot any man who would dare fire a gun until he gave the word. This was the explanation of the ominous , silence all along the portion of the breast! works held by his force. Probably the ef; feet of this can best be shown by repeating | the words of a Federal colonel who was cap- j tured in this battle, and who described it j the next day: Said he: "It was the most severe ordeal which my nervous system has ever undergone. When we began the advance we naturally expected that the artillery would open upon us soon as we got vfithin range; and that, having swept forward until we were in reach of the fire of musketry, that would begin to open upon us also. "1 had been through so much of this that I had ceased to fear it, and always relied on the excitement of the occasion carrying me : forward; but here we ran for some200 yards ! or more, and there was not a cannon shot, j Another hundred yards and still no ex! plosion or bombshell or anything of the : kind! I now began to feel a little strange. 1 Another 100 yards, and still no sign of life, and my nervousness began to give place to a desire to halt. Another 100 yards and I we were certainly within range of rnus- < ketry; but still there was not one sign of , life in the entrenchments in front of us; . nothing to give cause for apprehension, apparently except the waving of the Confedj erate flag above the works, as a light wind blew. "Now, over me began to come a mortal ( feeling of dread; a feeling which I never ; 1 before felt, and which I can scarcely describe. ' JI would have turned and tied but for the j fear of disgrace, which was stronger even than the horror of death. But I knew what was coming, and determined by my example to inspire my men to brave it, no matter how terrible it was. "At length we were within scarcely more than twenty yards of the entrenchments, when from all along the line protruded forth, beneath the head-logs, scoresand hundredsof muskets. I could see them as I gave a quick glance down the whole front, and those imj mediately before me, particularly, seemed ' slightly waving from side to side. There was no mistaking it. I knew that every holder of a musket was picking out his man. "This continued for but a few moments, ! when above all other sounds, distinct and j clear, I heard the command given, "Now, men, fire!" : "Instantly, from along the entire line, there seemed, like a lightning flash, to burst i forth a sheet of flame and smoke. I was I struck, and fell senseless for an instant, but ; when i recovered myself and turned to look i there seemed to be scarcely seven men in i my entire regiment on their feet. "Then the fury of the combat arose above either sight or sound. The whole forest and ; mountain seemed to be on fire. There was j no army in the world that could have stood . before it." . As an evidence of the correctness of this description, it may be stated, that after the battle the Confederates picked up in front of Cleburne's line 1,002 dead and wounded Federals. i Strange Scenes on a Mountain.? ! Within the compass of what was once, no i doubt, a crater of Mount Lesson, California, there are boiling bodies of water of dimensions from sixty feet by forty to those small ; as imaginable, some clear as crystal, others i | white with sulphur, alum, soda and salt. ; While some are gentle simmering, others boil furiously. In close proximity are other springs, the contents of which are a composition of minerals and earth of all consistencies, from huge cauldrons, which remind one of great kettles of boiling soap, < | to others like large churns of cream, so j i thick as to he agitated with inucn uimcuity; j and one that afforded considerable amusej inent was so tiny that it was much like the < ! size and shape of the spout of a teapot, and i , emptied at intervals of several seconds ! about one teaspoonful with great force to 1 i a distance of several feet. ] I On two different pools a substance is < | brought up from the depths below, dries on 1 , the surface, floats to the margin, and is 1 1 piled up in huge quantities resembling 1 lampblack. A visitor says a handful to be 1 ; thrown into a current floats away bodily I without dissolving. The surrounding em- i ; bankments seem to be of chalk-like forma- | tion, and from every aperture as small as t ' a mouse-hole to the immense one whose 1 : force cannot be estimated, so powerful seems f the condensation, steam is emitted with 1 ; greater or less rapidity, the noise of the r larger exceeding that of any steam engine, \ On lifting a crust anywhere, the surface be- t neath, as well as the aperture, was found to j | be crystalized with sulphur. Formations t of crystals of the different minerals are i found promiscuously. Above one of these t | seeming escape valves are large rocks, t ! which arc completely encrusted with sul- i phur crystals. As if to heighten these won- 1 tiers of nature, not ten steps from a body of i water lay a large bank of snow, the greater i part of which consisted of that very curi- i ous phenomenon, red snow, so much so that 1 our fingers were stained as with dye in t compressing a ball of it. ' t HiaccUatteflus Heading, t THE GRIMKE SISTERS ! SOUTH CAROLINA ADVOCATES OF AIIOLI- ( TIOX. ( ["Cjlath" in the Cincinnati Enquirer.] A book has recently appeared, called "The Grinike Sisters," written by Catherine Birney, which 1 have read with probably more interest than any book concerning 1 women in private life, for these sisters real- t ly were unknown to the multitude while i they were highly public-spirited, and the j first fact to mention about them is the most t singular of all. They were first, in point of < time, among all women North or South, to \ advocate the abolition of slavery, as well ? as female suffrage, and they were both na- < tives of South Carolina, and one of the best < official families there. They died so near ( our own time as to make a portion of their ] story a thing of the daily news. Sarah 1 Grimko exnirod on the 2fird of December. i just before Christmas, 1874, and Angelina ( Grimke, to whom she had been a mother as < well as a sister, died on the 26th of October, i 1879. Our South Carolina friends may take 1 pride in the lives of these two women who ' give South Carolina her share in the aboli- i tion of slavery. These women lived all I through the times of Nullification, and 1 through the John Brown raid, and through . all the civil war, and during that time had j sisters and connections living in Charleston . and Carolina, and still these sisters, the t strongest of their race, were upholding ev- t ery movement which would rid the country ] of the suspicious demon of slavery. Among the families of Charleston who ) took a stand for the perpetuity of the Union ( at the time when Calhoun and his political } school threatened to disrupt it by "Nulifi- c cation" was that of John K Grimke, a col- ( onel in the Itevolutionary war. His pecu- ( liar name is German, his father having t been from Germany, and his mother was 1 a Carolina Iluguenot, Colonel. Grimke was i educated in England, graduated at Oxford i University, and he was practicing law in t the Temple, London, when the colonies de- i clared their independence, and he came i home and raised a company in Charleston. After the war he became a leading lawyer at the Bar of Charleston, and a Judge of the Supreme Court. By his wife, who was a : mixture of Irish and English Puritan stock, ) he had fourteen children, and the sixth of them was SARAH MOORE GRIMKE. She was born in 1792, during the Admin- j istration ot Gen. Washington, and she died j a maiden woman in the Administration j of Gen. Grant. Sarah Grimke had a broth- ' er, Thorns Grimke, six years older than { herself, from whom she took her early t ideas of honor and independence. This Thomas Grimke was sent to Yale College, \ like Calhoun, and was a High Church Epis- . copalian, and he had rather Germanic no- < tions on a good many questions, but he never had much sensibility on theslavery question. [ In the time of Nullification, however, he ' was a firm Union man. He died in 1834 < near Columbus, Ohio, of cholera, like the ] father ot John and Tecumseh Sherman. He had goue to deliver an address on education, and to visit his brother Frederick, j who lived in Columbus, and on the way he stopped to see his sisters, and when he reached a wayside tavern in Ohio the chole- j ra laid hold of him. His brother adjourn- < ed the C'onrtand reached the bedside just : too late. The two brothers, who had not | seen each other for sixteen years, exchang- , ed a look of recognition and Thomas Grim- kp n???pd from earth. His sister remarked of her last talk with him: lie saw very , clearly that the anti-slavery agitation, which beganin 1832, would shake our country to its foundation. I asked him whether he believed colonization could abolish slavery. He said: "No, never." Sarah Grirake, when a mere child, felt the injury of slavery on her own feelings. The severe floggings Jthe household servants re- | ceived terribly excited her, and when she | was a child her nurse found her on the ? wharf begging a sea captain to take her to \ some place where such things were not | clone. She persisted in teaching her little ] servants to read, though it was against the < law. When t HER SISTER ANGELINA I was born, Sarah, herself only twelve, asked i to be godmother for her sister. She per- 1 3isted against any refusals on this point, ( and at last the family consented, and she stood at the baptismal font and promised to l train this child in the way she should go. 5 Angelina grew up even a more independent 1 and positive woman than Sarah, but the t consciousness and patience of the elder j finally prevailed with her, and these two s 3isters followed each other like master and i disciple. Their adventures are too long to 1 relate in a miscellaneous letter like this. 1 The elder sister, as well as the younger, s spent some years in the lash ion able society I of Charleston, dancing, coqueting, <fec., and 5 Sarah wrote: "But for my tutelary god, 1 my idolized brother, my young, passionate i nature, stimulated by that love of admira- \ tion which carries many a high and noble s soul down the stream of folly to the whirl- t pool of an unhallowed marriage, I had t rushed also into this lifelong misery." She t was saved from this by her conversion by t a Presbyterian minister. 1 Her father, the Judge, becoming sick, Sarah was sent to Philadelphia to nurse him, i and there she went and took lodgings with i a quaker family. Her father continued to 1 run down, and, being sent to Long Branch, ] he died there in one of the common taverns t of that day, with no friendly being at his 1 side but this young daughter. She was i then about twenty-one. While in Phila- 1 delphia the subject of slavery was called to i the mind of Sarah Grimke by some of her j ] quaker friends. When she returned home j 1 HEM DISLIKE OF SLAVERY * increased, and she paid a visit to North * Carolina to the family of Earnwell Iihett's , mother, who was her aunt. Khett's real , name was Smith, which he changed to in- { herit property. Queerly enough out of this same stock came this first female Abolitionist and the most self-satisfied of Secessionists. Sarah (irimke's mother was a Smith, ' as Rhett was, and the Irish stock on that J side of the house never brought out any ( spirituality. Mrs. Grimke, the mother, c was a failure all her days except in producing 1 individual children. She was a poor house- i keeper, incurable in her prejudices, and the > family, notwithstanding its good extrac- s tion, continued to run down after the fath- i er's death. The father had left about $10,- t D00 apiece to his children and left his estate t undivided to continue to earn a living for i them. Sarah for a while attempted to be- t lome a Methodist, but she had made some i friends among the Quakers of Charleston, \ who were few in number, and they lent i her their books. Reading these books she f found that the Quaker methods of life suit- e >d her the hest, and to the astonishment of s her family and friends, she went to the t little Quaker meeting-house in Charleston, t though she did not at first assume the Qua- t leer dress. Suffering some little persecutiifn and mockery she was invited by a Philadel- ? )hia Friend, with whom she corresponded, t :o come to his house and live with his fami- n y. Iler people offered no opposition, and r ;ook with her a widowed sister whose hus- a land had been an Episcopalian clergyman, v This sister opened a school in Philadelphia, s< .vhich she could not have done in Charles- 1 on without sacrificing her so-called social n losition, and in 1821 the honest Quaker took t o his house this stranger of 2!). She soon li issumed the Quaker dress, and attempting t, ,o return to Charleston she found the life g here insupportable, and came back to Phil- n idelphia and made her home with a Quaker 1< ady, soon after which she was publicly ad- li nitted into the Friends' Society. This v nay sound strange to some readers, but it I< s no more strange than the conversion of o iVilliam Penn, the son of an aristocratic tl idmiral, in spite of his father's threats and f< he terrors of the law. a In Philadelphia Sarah Grimke found that ,here was nothing to do suited to her capacity, and she exclaimed aloud: "O, had [ received the education I desired ; had I jeen bred to the profession of the law, I night have been a useful member of so:iety, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of I might have been ihe protector of the helpless, a pleader for ;he poor and unfortunate." THE YOUNGER. In the meantime Angelina Grimke, more prilliant than her sister, living in Charles;on, took the same offence at slavery. When i little child she would steal out of the house ifter dark with a bottle of oil and anoint ;he wounds of some whipped slave. Even iarlier than Sarah Grimke she scouted the ivhole system as unjust, and refused to have invthincr tn do with it. Angelina connect ?(1 herself with the Presbyterians at first, considering tliat they were liberal as to education and other things. Sarah appears to nave had some passage in Philadelphia ivhich she rejected not without a life of sadness, and she hastened to her sister in Charleston at the age of thirty-Ave. There die induced Angelina into the Quaker spirit, and not without serious questioning and testing Angelina became a Quaker also. Fhey continued with that church until the marriage of the younger sister in 1833,at :he age of thirty-three. The Quakers then curned both sisters out of their meeting. \ngelina married Theodore Weld, a radical mti-slavery man, and they had a child, and Yngelina died in 1S79, at the age of seven:y-four. She was born in the administra:ion of Jefferson, and died in the term 01 President Hayes. Angelina wrote to the Quakers when she ,vas married: "It is our joy that we have committed no offence for which Christ Jesus vill disown us as members of the household if faith." Keeping her diary in South Car)lina, three years before Nullification broke >ut, Angelina wrote: "A person must be lestitute of Christian feelings to be willing :o be served by slaves who are actuated by io sentiment but that of fear. When I go nto mother's room to read to her I am coninually interrupted by a variety of orders, vhich might easily be avoided were it not or the DOMINEERING SPIRIT vhi/>h ic it tr? me inherent in the Carolinian." Again she wrote: "Slavery s a system of abject selfishness, and yet I Delieve I have seen some of the best of it. Experience has convinced me that a person nay own a slave with a single eye to the jlory of God, but as the eye is kept single t will soon become full of light on this monentous subject. The arm of power will be broken, the voice of authority will tremble." These ideas were inculcated from within ind not from without, for Angelina had aever left her native State. In 1820 Angelina Grimke, at the age 01 twenty-four, left Carolina never to return, md made her home with her sister in the Quaker family at Philadelphia. In 1835 Angelina wrote a letter on the subject 01 slavery, which William Lloyd Garrison, without permission, published. Sarah Grimke disapproved of this letter. In the meantime, both sisters had come in contact with the leading abolitionists like Catherine Beecher and Elias Wright. They offered to buy some of the slaves of their brother's widow, who would not notice their letters. Angelina had more of the masculine nature than Sarah, and was the first to throw* herself strenuously into the anti-slavery cause. The Quakers of Philadelphia persecuted both sisters in their meetings, led by old Jonathan Evans, the presiding elder, who was called Pope Jonathan. In 183G Angelina published an anti-slavery pamphlet, the first woman in the country to come flatly out on that subject. It was burned by the postmasters in South Carolina, and when it was understood that the sisters designed to visit their mother and pass the winter there, the Mayor of Charleston ?alled on Mrs. Grimke, and desired her to inform her daughter that the police had ieen notified to prevent her landing while the steamer remained in port, and that if she should slip ashore she would be put in prison. This treatment aroused the lion in ;heyounger sister's nature; the two women emoved to New York, became eminent in ;he anti-slavery cause, addressed women ind delivered lectures; appeared in Boston, tnd in 1837 the sisters proclaimed woman's ights in the anti-slavery societies of New England, and were the pioneers in this ?ause. Boston denounced the Grimke women, Dublic halls were refused to them, and personal violence was threatened. The Quavers called upon their meetings to discipline hese people of spirit. Years passed on and ust after the marriage of Angelina she, her sister and her husband, were in Pennsylvalia Hall, in Philadelphia, when it was )urned down by the mob. This beautiful lall had been built for the use of the antiilavery people who were refused any other dace of meeting in Philadelphia. It cost i40,000, and was opened on Angelina Grimce's wedding day. She made the most stirring speech within its walls, and while she vas speaking, the mob, set on by Southern lympathizers, be^an to throw stones through ihe windows. No violence could make her daneh. After she left the hall with her aulience, the doors and windows were broken hrough, the torch was applied, and the )eautiful building was burned to the ground. That was the last of Angelina Grimke as t public speaker; some disease incident to narriage affected her nervous system, and ler subsequent labors were confined to the ien and the school-room. She lived at several places in the vicinity of New York with her husband, teaching and entertainng poor people and often slaves. She finaly settled near Perth Amboy, New Jersey, md while there, the bodies of Stevens and Hazlett, two of John Brown's men, were Drought from their gallows at Charlestown, ind interred by the East. After the war he relieved some of her sisters and people ,vho had long tried to despise her, and these ;wo women passed away not many years ipart, and not widely known, but deeply Deloved. WENDELL PHILLIPS' TRIKUTE. Wendell Phillips said over their graves: 4A young woman came from the proudest State in the slave-holding section. She lame to lay on the altar of this despised :ause, this hopeless crusade,, both family and riends, the best social position, a high place n the church, genius and many gifts. There ,vas hardly any contribution to the antiilavery movement greater or more expressve than the courage of these Grimke sisters hrough the New England States. When I hink of Angelina Grimke there comes to lie the picture of the spotless dove in the em pest as she battles with the stream, seekng for some place to rest her foot. The vhite-souled child of twelve years old minstering to want and sorrow, the rich life, ull of great influences, the serene old age, ixampleand inspiration, whose life will not ? i f ii ~ 1*4. 0011 go OUt. JL' areweu, sisters, lur u. very 111le while. God keep us fit to join thee in hat broader field on which thou hast enered." Street Flirts.?Whatever idea young iris who practice street flirting may enterain of their seemingly ihnocent pastime, it nay be set down as a certainty that when a espectable young man desires the acquaintnce of one who may some day become his rife, he does not go out on the street and eek her acquaintance through a flirtation. Sut, on the other hand, the fiirtof thestreet, o matter how innocent and fair her intenions may be, is the last person he would sesct as his life companion. lie desires puriy without and above suspicion. The young irl who engages in this kind of a pastime iOt only endangers her reputation and iaves a stain on her good name, but er name is a by-word among those with riiom she flirts, to be bandied about in salons and on the street corners, fastening n her otherwise fair name a stigma or stain hat will follow her years after she sees her ally and attempts to mend her ways.?Neio r/: A nwriran.