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June 14 1857 OF BOOKS. then, and so'mee fine imdfter I haven't seen any that beats? this." --Arid he? looked about with sued genuine affeefibn, tbattt cbuld not quite reooncilevit and the monrerence spuiiBwui ifw mother fifor blind I knew the occupant the cottage he nmntoVi-nnt in ho. Pann'lv asked. But.does not expect you Have you been long absent?" "Ay' 1 irm MO Oil' about eigaceenmonins, 01 Magazine. CBpmanf and "Mall, Piccadilly.

Ufce June' number opens aweary notice ot Dr. Barth's travels in Central Africa. A Stolen March" is a drowsy talej-, clumsily, told. Scandinavian Sketches are tedionS iandjjnninj teresting; and, in fact, the contents of the" magazine are far jjeneath mediocrity. The only redeemable The Hsumted Ship-?" die-latter being a recital of the misfortunes that.oyertooTi4aelgoo& Batch sWd Resen.

last 'inthis latitude I've joined the pointing tori, of the tn abstracted aiif a quietly "descended cabin. Jblow. iBsently; the appalled? spectators on dpiS rrpy tfia samswhite form bojfne otthe yes, afld Seep. brde waters as -if theyjjhadibeen firm as a marble pavement Oa on she came then wildly tossing lier arms, and clasping her hands i supplication, the un-eartMyform adu'ally jankjjunil itdisappeared "totally "berieath a bright ray of the silver moon" No oni on.deck had spoken and for a few moments after the figure' was lost to sight they remained in awed and solemn silence. and-choked sort of voice, There is that mermaid again It is no mermaid," said the captain, shuddering; it is therspirit of the unquiet dead But why did she come He is not horeVi-." Who is not here old and if what unquiet spirit are you speaking No matter," replied the -captain, Let bygones be bygones.

It would do no good to the dead or to the living to rip up old stories now." At last the ship eot into bad repute, she was re- boog in the latter part of her career. When com- to tn worstea letters woritea iu mo cop benefit of those who may not -recognise the, belonging to our fleet, I had better state spelt Bellero-phon and she thinks I am cruising on still with the Saucy So that 1 rather expect it will give the old woman a turn, to knowthat; a brush with the Rugsians, and hope to have many a one more. I trust she'll weather it, though for I shall be -more, comfbrtr abie with my wages, besides the chance of "prize-money, After a moment's pans, ha, a lower tone, Ay, and how, perhaps somebody else won't look down upon a man-o' -war's man quite so muchasshe did uponamere merchant-seaman." I took ho notice of this last speech for though I saw there was' a story behind, I was pretty, sum 1 should hear it in time and 1 was vexed at the care haunted, and no one would sail in her: But i less: way in-which he had spokeh of his mother. At last, after some more aesmtory conversauop, ae saw, of an effort, Well, master, supposa I must, be moving on a little further he strolled. Presently he met an old sow, that, a mo-, ment's he seemed, to recognise as an old ac-r quaintance, and gratified the animal.

with a friendly scratch, such as. pigs delight in--ahything, in fact, to delay his meeting with his inather. I painted oh until the fast-Betting sun, and certain cravings, reminded me that the'time' of my five o'clock dinner-tea was near at hand so, folding-up my easel, and depositing it in its usual resting-place, ,1 took.rny way As I passedVthe old biind.woman's cottagej-I witnessed a scene that left. favourable impres-, sionon mvmind as to my sailor's, r.eceotion. Hewashalf- herewith' 'his dark brown eyest an4woiid6rral tales his Baltfb life standi we all knbw pretty well howisuchimes-meriBm generally; Ik fact, the day before I to his sailitir-naturefbf Ipaiog no informed merthat he seriousthought of bringingdown; the we'dding-riog, other, bitssqf.

finery," after hisnext trip and then requested my advice, which, as matters' wrare so I.gaye, injhe. only shape left me, of entira BefoEe'I left; I.tiad the pleasure of seeing Lucy Bell, with her calm though' Bbrrowfiil fac, comfortably-established, at' the cottage, where, if I mistafc not, she will remain for. I t.hink destined to form ope of that large sisterhood 'so preciated by the generality of mankind. The Conwdesce Man. By H.

Melviixb. Laiag-man, Paternoster-row. -This. is a of sketches and anecdotes by an American author of celebrity We do will be found amusing to those who are not thoroughly acquainted with American manners and customs. There is neither plot or story, but simply a collection of trivialities which, scarce seem worthy of being published certainly, not of the author.

The most interesting sketch is that of Colonel John Moredock, a person who swore never-dying hatred to the- American and; who seems to have nourished his vengeance to the last. A SANGUINARY REVENGE. John Mofedock was the son of a woman married thrice, and thrice widowed by a tomahawk. The three; successive husbands of this woman had been pioneers, and with, them she had wandered from wilderness to wilderness, always on the frontier. With nine children, she at laBt fouvsd heraelf at a little clearing, afterwards There she joined, a.

company about to remove. to the new country of Illinois. They embarked upon the Wabash in boats, proposing to descend that stream into the Ohio, and the Ohio into.the.MisMssippVahd.so, towards the point to.be All went well till 'they made the rock of the Grand ToWer On the Mississippi, y. here they hsd to land and drag their boats round a' -point swept by a strong current Hero a party of IhoTaus, lying in wait, rushed' out and murdered nearly all of them. The widow was among the! vioiims with her children, John excepted, who, some fifty miles distant, was following with a second party.

He was just entering upon manhood, when thus left in nature sole survivor of his race. Other youngsters might have turned mourners: he turned avenger. His nerves were electric wires sensitive, but steel was one who, from self-possession, could be made neither to flush nor Eale. It is said that when the tidings we're brought hira was ashore sitting beneath a hemlock eating his dinner of venison and as the tidings' were told him, afer the first start, he kept on eating, but slbwlyand deliberately, chewing the.wild news with the wild meat, as both together, chyle, together should sinew him to his intent. Prom that meal, he an Indian hater.

He rose gothis arms, prevailed upon some comrades to join him, abd without delay started to discover whp were the actual transgressors. -They; proved; to belong to a band of twenty, renegades from various tribes, outlaws even among Indians, and who had formed" themselves into a marauding crew. No op'pbktmity for aetib'n being at the time presented, he dismissed; nis friends told them to go on, thanking them, and saying he would ask their aid at some future day. For upwards of a year, alone in the.wilds, he watched the orew. Once, what he thought a favourable chance having occurred it being mid-winter, and the.

savages encamped, apparently to remain so he anew, mustered his friends, and marched against them getting wind ef his com-' half-supppr ting; his mother up the uplifted face, that actually, glowed with satisfied joy, was listening to 'some t'aie he was tolling her, 'and evidently hanging on his every tone. They were both' eo occupied in aespair ner name was uuaujfcu, ouu agati ouc yiu-ceeded to sea. THE APENQEI). It was the Regenbobgs, aliaB -the Gode Haab's, last voyage. Her evil fame had.

become too; widely -disseminated; there was in. the north of Europe where the Haunted Ship was not known by reputation, and na one would go to sea injher. The owners, hoping to dis-prove the reports against the vessel, wrote to Amsterdam to institute inquiries respecting its original history. But the answer thev received was by no- means such as they had hoped to obtain, or such as was calculated to remove the vessel's evil In addition to what has already been related, they heard that Captain wart, who bad, as he wished, married the rich Antwerp widow, had not long after been seized with fits of aberratioa of mind, which had increased until -he had become a raving lunatic, and that he had been placed in an asylum for the insane at Ghent It had" also been proved 'that he had drowned his first wife, by forcing her over the cabin window of the Kegenbcog, after having tied' a handkerchief tightly over her face to deaden the sound of ihencries. The only witness to this frightful scene had bean Jan, the cabin-boy, who having been attracted to the cabin-door by the strange noise within, had found it fastened on the inside, but had seen what was going on through a chink in the door.

had no idea that his master was going to force the poor lady over the cabin window, untiLhe saw her pushed out, and heard the splash in the sea below. He was just going to ru3h on deck and entreat the mate and the sailors to try to save her, when' his master, hearing him move, came quickly to the cabin-door, and, finding it impossible to make his escape np the cabin-stairs, and'being in mortal fear lest his master si ould pitch Mm into the sea also, he crept' softly to a inat near, and pretended to be fast asleep." As he often slept on the outside of the cabin-door, at the foot of the companion stairs, the captain, 'after examining his face by the light of a lantern, and bestowing; three' or four kicks, left him lyirig there. It was evident, to the boy, however, that Captain -Z wart suspected he hew more than he wished him to do, for he had threatened Ui take his life if he ever, breathed a syllable of anything he had seen or heard, or fancied he had seen or heard, in -the cabin Vat an wisa eacu otuer tnst i pasaeu on nnnuueeu. -lucueALuajf, I had not been lone seated at rhv work before1 a quicK, de- eided step, the very opposite to the slouching gait of yes- Jiiaiiusu uy vapraiu wari, doiu snip ana captain" were monstrons -favourites but after the. captain married Madeleine;" the'y6nttifiil' daughter' a West Indian planter, then fell in love with a buxom widow at.

Antwerp, and to her compassed wife's death-as showu below evil times overtook the' once good ship Begenbopg. J' THE 3CEEMAID. One. nightit was! after theyOhad got within the influence of the trade winds, and were steadily and speedily careering before the joyous breeze Madeleine had been on deck as usual, and had stayed till rather an advanced hour. She had spoken, as was her wont, kindly hiit laconically to the mate, the man at the helm, and the sailors who were on deek, and having leaned for sosne tinieih deep meditation ever the side, of the ship, wrapped, as it were, in melancholy thoughts, she descended at length to the cabin; All was still above, all was.stiU below, for the noises occasioned, by the presence, of active human beings are earlier hushed on board ship than on shore.

Eight bells had just struck, and the middle watch had just come and were exchanging a few words with those of the previous watch; who had lingered a moment on deck, when a strange sound startled them all it was something like a stifled shriek, but.the cry was "altogether Piercing, yet subdued, it broke upon the ear, and it seemed to arise from the depths of the ship, or the depths of the ocean. Hush hark what is that groaned the men who were on deck. Presently a splash was heard, as if something had fallen into the sea. "It was a woman's voice!" muttered the. first mate, who was keeping the middle watch.

"Bat there is no woman in this ship except the master's wife." "It was a msrmaid's cry," replied old Hen-, drik, the boatswain, who was quite as superstitious as he was in nautical affairs; "and see! there she goes He pointed in a stats of convulsive excitsment towards the sea, where, in the clear moonlight, a white' form was visible, sweeping along with, the waves. The upper Dart of the form alone was to be seen above the water, and the figure, whose face was concealed by some strange mask, appeared to be. tossing her arms or waving her hands either in supplication or invitation to follow her. "It is a mermaid," gasped the horrified boatswain, i and they are always the harbingers of ill luck. We shall sever live to reach the shore It is a drowning woman replied the more matter-of-fact mate, though; where she, could have come from, Old Sick only knows." "Not this ship, surely," said a.

sailor. There's only one female human creature on board, and that's the skipper's. wife." "But look look!" shouted the boat-, swain, she has ducked once, twice how she is flinging her arms about "Lower a boat, and let us. save her cried, the mate, springing forward to do as he proposed. But he was arrested by the strong arm of old Hendrik.

Lower a boat for a mermaid, man 1 Don't yon know if you get within her reach it is all over with you Do you hear that sound?" "It is cried the compassionate, mate, as he shook off, the boatswain's arm, and began rapidly to undo the boat, "it is the sound of distress aud horror mingled with, the murmur of the waves." It is the mermaid's song," replied the old boatswain coolly. "Let her" go "among the fishes and the shells down below. She is worse than a shark or a sea-serpent, and she shan't get any of the Regenboog's men to- nightj I can her." As he said this, the figure, which had been gradually sinking, disappeared, and a bright ray of moonlight danced over the spot on the ocean where it had been seen. Shortly after the captain came np; he looked at the sky, and he looked at ths ocean. He made some remark on the course they were steering, observed that it was a fine night, paced the deck for about a quarter of an hoar, then quietly went below as usual.

did not see the mermaid," said old. Hendrik, or I'll be bound he would have been somewhat flustered." "He knows a deuced deal mora about the mermaid than you think," muttered the mate. But Captain wart had promised to relinquish to him the command of the: slup, next voyage, and he wisely, remembered that The'least-said is soonest mended." a very early hour the next morning the captain rushed upon deck, apparently in a state of distraction, and made the most agitated inquiries if any one had seen his wife. He said she had been 'in a very "de teraay, maae me iook up ana saime tne young sauor wuo now approached. WelL.

you.fourid your mother well, I hope?" "Did you know thatsheis poor old mother blind lie asked, in a choking voice. "Tes; surely you were not ignorant, of "Bot' I was, sir," he cried, vehemently. Do yon think I would have spoken as I did, if I had guessed what she, has brought to When I was last here her sight was not so good as' it had been, but that we thought all in the course of nature and i remember well the loving look she gave me when I left her, and that's the last I'll have to remembor-now, for she is quite After a few minutes' silence. he went on: "But for all. that, sheis a true heart of Why, sir, you know when I ibund how matters: were, I'd a- deal of difficulty to screw my courage up to tell her what I had done I know I'd rather have fought a Russian in a good stiff breeze.

bless sir, after the fifst'blast she took it quite hearty and said she hoped I'd serve my country well (see if I don't), and something about God's caring for the widow's son. Ay, she's a true Briton, every bit of her and it shan't be ray fault if she's not kept comfortable in her old age." Well and what about the somebody else?" I asked. The young man blushed to asort of burnt-sienna tint, and, stooping over my painting until feared his nose would act as a novel, stump to my last. touches. he kept so strictja watch upon him for, the rest ar tne voyage out ana nome, never once anowing nim to go' on shore at Curacoa, that he had opportunity of communicating the terrible secret -t.

any one. He had ventured once to make a few significant: signs to: the matej and whisper a word or twojiwhen his master, coming suddenly upon him, had accused him of some imaginary fault, and beaten him severely. He JFally intended to disclose the facts when: he should return to ahd'be safe from Captain Zwart's vengeance. But the captain had taken him on shore with himself, and sent him immediately witn a letter to tne master-ot a toreign snip in tne Harbour, which was on the eve of sailiner. Against his will-he was detained on board that ship and when; on its touching at mg, the enemy Bed, and in such panic that everything was left behind but their wbapons! During the winter, much the same 'thing'happehed upon two subsequent occasions.

The next year he sought them at the head of a party pledged to serve him for forty days. At last the hour came. It was on-' the shore of the Mississippi. From their covert, Mbredock and his men 4iraly, descried the gang of Cains in the redidusk of evening, pa.ddling over to aj ungled island in mid stream, there the more securely to lodge; for Moredock's retributive spirit in the wilderness spoke ever to their trepidations now, the calling through the garden Waiting until dead of night, the whites. iWamjhe towing after tbem a raft laden with their armsi Oh landing Moredb'ck but' the fastenings the enemy's canoes, and turned them, with his own raft, adrift resolved that there Should be neither escape fortha Indians; nor safety, except in victory, for the whites.

Victorious the whites were; but three (f the Jndians.saved themselves by.taking.to the stream, Moredock's band lost not a man. Three of the murderers survived. He knew their names and persons. In the course of three years each successively fell by his own handj; All were now dead. But this did hot suffice.

He made no avowal, but to kill 'Ihdiahs'w'as Ms passion. As 'an athlete, he bad few equals, as a shot, none in single combat, not to be beaten. Master that woodland cunning eaablibg the adept to subsist where tjie tyf 6 would perish, and expert in all those arts by which an-enemy is pursued for weeks, nerhans months. a purb ui xmgiBxiu, uu. ran it, utj was-jrurcea 10 go on board an English merchantman, to avoid, starvation, as he had, neither money nor-friends.

War hrbke out 'he was by theSpTessgang, and compelled to serve in a man-of-war. When at length he obtained his discharge, he took the earliest opportunity of returning to Holland, and of unburdening his mind of a secret which had so long weighed heavily on it. But the avenging hand of Providence had already punished the rhnrderor throuch "the medium of his. own eyil cOnsciQuce. The recollection of he said Ah, sir, she's gone, through a deal of trouble since I saw her last and though she did refuse to take up with me, and I thought and called her, a proud 'quean and a jilt, I can't somehow keep lip my illrwill new that she's in trouble.

Ton see, Lucy. Bell and I were schoolmates, and sort, o' cousins besides and a tighter, prettier lass you coufln'S wish' tp'sBe- and I used to fancy that she' liked inelfetto'tfiejewcliattb 'i 'and 'so I thuiik she did till she bame tb 'kh'ow' a' fellow, a sort of under-gamekeeper of Lord i--'s. Weill; and so like a foolf ispoke.up to her. Of course she would have hothing to say to me, though she assured me she. liked, me as a cousin, and plenty of that, sort of thing, which didn't suit me, and so I told her and than we came to So.the end of itwasi I left aiy place 'with Farmer and' went.

to. seaj to try if that spite her) Not a bit of When I came home next, says she, as cool as; any thihgi" 1 'think you've done quite right, cousin John yau never would have settled down to a former's next time came I difin't see her only I heard that Jim French was-keeping eonipany with her. And how, sir vpnly-think, sneaking? coward, after gaining Lucy's love, and not easily get.J know, if he has not jilted her in the faoe pf the whole, country, and' is going to be; married to Ann Spots, the baker's, a little, white faced, duihpty thing, all be'eauseshe'sgbt some money. Oh, "sir, Lucy last 'night; and; Ieball never forget.her face i Wai' Wiry Bttt so' givni pale, I shouldn't have khbwn; the pretty blBoming. girl 'I' have so often gone a-nutting'with; I'wanted her 'to marry' me right off, just, to spite the fellow, who can't really care and ahoir mm sn bad got sbme spirit but she "only gave me a wansprt ef smile, and said she did not mean'mei to; have such.

a poor sort of wife aa; she should now make. The folks she lives with, -for you" knew she's an orphaasay she. sever, rests, working away from' morning, to night. She'says it lightens 'her trouble. Poor girl, it, doebn't aeem much lighter yet." Later iu day he was.

again by my Why he made''me ''his con-' fidaht oh such very short notice I cannot 'say, unless be pressed state the previous night but though he was aware without ohce' suspBcting" it, he kept to the forest. The so- his guilt haunted him night and he lived in constant fsar of the secret misery thalhe endured at length preyed so deeply oh his mind, that his intellect gave way habits of intemperance into which he had fallen increased the evil, and he died a wretched, raving maniac. haunted Ship was sold for a mere trifle, after the lapse of some time, to a Hsmish merchant bat.hecould not get, her manned; she was co'i sequently dismantled, and some years afterwards she was seen lying aaseless hulk, in one of the harbours of Sleswick; and there she may still be lying, a fatal monument of the crimes and superstitions of the. eighteenth century. The NATipNAt Magazinb.

25, Essex-street, Strand. The eighth part of iris' publication is: rich in; well-' executed illustrations, and also contains some good articles, by contributors of literary note. Lord Erliston," a love story of considerable interest, and nicely written, is brought to a termination, and another continuous tale, called A Story, of a Haunted House," commenced. There is a portrait of Lord tnat sne naa Deen low spirits since ueaui ui uer father, he had not been willing to admit even to himsslf the. idea that her mind was affected that, however, she had spoken so.

strangely the night before, and -had gone into such violent hysterics from indulging her grief to excess, that he had'given her a sleeping draught; and, not to disturb har, as he was obliged sometimes to go oh deck during the night, had retired to another berth, leaving her afrits ia. her state-room that all being quiet there during thv night, be supposed she was sleeping calmly under the influence of the soporofic he had administered and it was only on looking in upon her atbreak of day that he found her berth empty. He had searched the cabin for her in vain. I knew something was going to happen," said old Hendrik, "for there was a mermaid alongside of the ship last night, and these creatures are as dangerous as vampires. I fear she lured the poor dear lady overboard.

There was the mate, he actually wanted to lower a -boat atd pull.after her 1" "And I wish yon had hot prevented me with vo.ur. folly, boatswain," retorted the mate; "for 111 be sworn it was the poor lady herself we saw struggling in the water, and.no mermaid at The cajtain buried face in his hands, apparently to hide his emotion, and, iitary j.uuiau tnai. uiei- uiau, ynen. a murqer was descried, he. would either, secretly pursuetheir fitick.

for some chance to. strike at least one. blow or if, while thus engaged, he himseif was discovered he would elude them by superior skill. Many years he spent thus and, though after a time he was, in'a restored to the ordinarj' life of the region and period, yet'it is believed that John Moredock never let pass ah opijortunity of quenching an Indian. Sins of commission in that kind may have been his, but none of omission.

In after life the colonel appears to have acted the part of a good soldier and citizen of the American republic. ANECDOTE OF THE His bravery, whether in Indian fight or any other, was unquestionable. An officer in the ranging service during the. war.of. 1812, he acquitted himself with more than credit.

Of his soldierly character, this anecdote is told: Not long after Hull's, dubious surrender, at Detroit, Moredock, witn some, rangers, up at night to a log-house," there to rest till morning. The horses being attended to, supper over, and sleeping places assigned' the troop, the host showed the colonel his best bed, not on. the ground like the rest, but-a bed that stood on But out of delicacy, the giiest declined to monopolize it, indeed, to occupy it at when, to-increase, the, as the host thought, he. was told, that a general, had once slept inthatbod. (i pray?" asked the colonel.

"General Hull." "Then you must not take offence," said the colonel, buttoning up his coat, "but, reallv, no coward's cause I was a stranger His first words were, I've begun 'to that, db' what ybu will, there's understanding women." A remark with which I entirely There's never one like another, that's the worst so that however many you: may know, your Igjbwledge dpn't help you a.bit. So I suppose, sir," he, said, looking.up with, a puzzled air, we' weren't meant to read them through "'Not a bad conclusion to come to, But, what is the immediate cause of "this little philippic against women'?" "T'don't exactly kh'ow'what you mean, master biitif y-pu want to know what has" rild me" uat now, it's that co'usiri'of mine. I used tb'think she'w'asj a girl of spirit, but ean get her to-show a bit. She not like'Sissy Blake; that little' -craft I fell of yesterday down there, who, it's my: belief, if.she was jilted on the quarter-deck would be hfarried in the forecastle before one could get wind of it. No, Lucy's, quite a different sort.

She won't have a word said against him and if she can't stop us, she just slips away. Well, I've done, all I can, ahd if she won't be spliced; thoreVan end of it. fl she's an raimerston, that every one who has seen that statesman must immediately recognise as a capital likeness. The following incident, told by an artist who was professionally occupied with pencil and. easel in a rural district, is a pleasant sketch, and will be read withinterest.

AN IMPROMPTU MARRIAGE. I had sketched in the trees, had bidden two ploughmen, one. fern-cutter, and two cottage maidens, Good morning," end now happily, at woTk laying on the first-shades of colour. thoughts were very busy, for that: morning I had had the unusual pleasure of- seeing a newspaper not more than four days bid, and I was far away, wandering with pur. brave fellows among the ruins of Se-baatopol, when Buddenly and involuntarily my thoughts recurred to.

the camp of, pur noble and there remained fixed. was for a few seconds unaware of the causeof this change, in meditations, till, raising my eyes, I saw coming sauntering down the wood-path a young sailor clad in dark-blue woollen shirt and trousers common to man-of-war's men, and vigorously whistling) Eartan't pour a3 he. switched away at the leaves nearest to hurl with a hazel-wand he had cut-himself. On he came now stopping to'crack nut, and how-to switch down a bunch of acorna, until reached the, stepping-stones. At the same moment a pretty little maiden of about 18, bearing on her head -a pail of milk, started from the oppotite side; and watched with some amusement in rencontre that I knew must take place at the bend of the stones; The girl had just reached the pointed stone when the sailor appeared on the next.

Halloa he cried, dfi a clear, ringing voice; who'd'have thought of my bearing down on such a pretty craft as Come, one consort, and I'll wear to leeward, and leave the open sea to you." So saying, and before the girl was aware of his intention, he had snatched kis3ati the imminent risk of the milk-pail, and leaped, lightly down into, the water, leaving the, girl-so utterly amazed at what she, called his impudent, outlandish manners as to be incapable of pursuing her way for a.second or two. The sailor watched her down the wood. then', quickly wading but, be took off his boots, shook.fhe water out, put. them on his.beltj as -be would, have said, steered his course towards me. said, I little expected a salt-sea rover so far inland as.

this. What brbuirht you hers Ay, 1 cuppoqe lt does: look a littlo. queer' to others but yon see, sir, ray motb-tr lives in that nest cottagv-aniteo I've coat ials.nd.'to so He did not seem in any. particular hurry ta.uieet her for, seating himself oa'tha banklymy.8ide, he, began cracking nats roost indaitrionaiy. Tiie-ieaso pr.sen'tjjr-.app.r..

Well, master, I roust -jssy, 'Without lUttary, yoa hawg.pt the.oXd.pUca as like as like can -be, yefy it is, too, though when .1 livatl; I didn't use to think eo' I've seen a many places since groaning as if in, agony of spirit, he rushed below to the solitudeof his private But" Madeleine was gone, and never more would arise from her liquid-grave of that the captain and the crewall felt Old Hendrik, the who. had been steering, on that eventful night, and most of the crew, execrated the mermaid (who never again made her appearance) as the cause of the lady's, But the first mats and Jan, the cabin-boy. shook their' heads, and looked "unutterable things;" whatever they might have known or suspected, however, they prudently kept their thoughts Jo themselves. Captain Zwart looked as gloomy as his name, and never recovered his frpai the time of his wife's 'disappearance; it was observed, too, that he paid his devoirs more frequently tltoa formerly to sundry flasks of old and Dutch "Jijnever," especially as the dark hours of night time, to theRegenbobg anchored lately in the harbour of Curacba, and in a short time it hilt, that island again. intelligence of Madeleine's njysteripus and jhelaneholy death caused great regret, throaghoht the'little colony where she bad been so much btloyedj.and-gaveSuch a shock to herwidosred mother, who was "already much of an invalid, thai she died before her left the West Indies, and ha was'obliged to pay her funeral expenses, an outlay which he would not ave grudged had she.

ss rich as ha had once supposed her to be. On the Regenboog's return to Holland, Captain Zwart resigned the command of her, and, according lo.his pi-'omise, situation for the first mate. Old Hendrik the other sailors remained 'in the ship, but the cabin-boy, Jan, had suddenly disappeared, and no tidings be hoard of him. The Ship proceeded with-, her -new captain on an-. tfSrer voyage.

'V' THE APPARITION. "The --new captain -and. the old boatswsin were both on derk, for thntb.t was warm, and there was not nraca.ia-ftH:',nl'f-vt 4'go below; -eight bells struck, and How iti!" t.b ouptuiu had just esclabiiod, as he tor. fhivc(nryH)son-wsy, when a white female jrm was seeii-Kliiwly'to "emerge it She teokithe other side tii'l-fc'V ztA 'gliding aloag with noisekea ihs waWeS leisurely of rth vesael, thai re-, tracing her steps, she passed along until she reached ueu lur mo, iiuwevuc uomiortaoie. Accordingly he took up with valour's bad a cold one oh the ground.

At one time the colonel was a member of the territorial couacU of Illinois, and at the formation, of the State Government, was pressed to became candidate for governor, but begged to be excused. And, thoughrhe declined to give his reasons for dechnrng, et, by those who best knew him the cause was not wholly unsurmised, In his official capacity to enter, into friendly treaties with Indian tribes, a thing nqt to be thought of. And even did no such contingency arise, yet he felt would be 'an impropriety the Governor, of' Illinois stealing out now and during a recess of the. legislative bodies, for a lew days shooting at human beings within the limits of his paternal chief magistracy. If the governorship ottered large from Moredock.

it demanded larger sacrifices. These were incompatibles. Chatjcbb's Canibbbub'y Tales in- Fbknch. By the Chvaliek bis Phatelai. Pickermg, I Chevalier is an indefatigable scholar, anil literature him much gratitude for the various new ways pioneered and opened for the general His translation of Gay's 'Tables has been worthily eulogized by the entire British press and an equal amount of praise is now due to "the Vert-ion of the, "Canterbury Tales "from the uipuau; aiiu 1 ve Daep tumaiiig, now, my laia aside, and there's "nobbdy to look after her'ahdthe'bld place rightly, that it would be a good thing ifLucy'were to come and live' with They take kindly to one'another and I fancy'I should feermore comfortable to know they 'are together when I'm tossing about in the Baltic." I quite agreed with him and; seerag that I.wasjeally interested, in the arrangement he entered into nipierous details about its accomplishment.

Just, as he had finished, 'Sissy, Blake appeared at the turn of the, wood-path, fch her pitcher of milk on her head. Ske wi indeed a prttfy object rather below the "middle ieighf with a pliant, yet well-developed figure, and trueSaxon Her blue eyas were seldom without a merry" twinkle plenty of golden hair was neatly gathered to the back of her well-formed head whilst not all her exposure to the sun had- destroyed the brilliancy of her complexion. Over her dark brown dress the fresh autamn'evenihg had induced her to throw cloak, thus supplying in the. right place that precious bit of scarlet 'so dear to 'many landscape- painters. I own I was not proof against, 'the temptatiori' and hastily sketched her.

in as'sh'e" iUvarjced, pitcher on. her pretty Jh'ead, 'No sp'one'diii jack' discover what I was aboiit, than he shouted tb the irl that she wis haying her picture taken and5 wasn't" she aslsamed" to come for such a purpose with a milk-pail 'dancing her of 'Saiiaay Thereupon: commenced a flow of rural badinage; ended in jack's dV claririg that such a giddy head cculd never, carry a pjji steadily, and that tor must convoy her safely; ho 'From tbiit day Sissy seeratd regularly seized with iit1 of old Chimeer. The volume is handsomely got up, and i is, e.mliiiied with a go'od'st'c'cl cagraving Cbaocei's portriiit, The is'an, ek-gant scholar and a i genius so, tTia-'. we. cordially hopo i be.as.succcssi'ul precdiiig -ii ana rtquirta Jack a ag aittsnce in the carnage of 'her paU.

Tor ttie iaaiith tia't'T yep. iicr'erea en isx the eouctrv: 1. UtAilkj-l tlWMiMtWMMM- i iTEAiB. NATifein' or path, and stile. Jack had every cemplefely'-'fiieamerized 1 Cieo TV.

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