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_ ; | 3 x 5 Eo for Ryach, Convey. wa] VOL. IX. No. 37.1 PRINCE ALBERT, COUNTY OF ONTARIO, Ge W., THURSDAY, SEPT 20; 1866. [WHOLE No. 505 -------- ®he Antara Bhserher, A WEEKLY POLITICAL, J AGRICULTURAL, CAND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, ships of Brock, Thorah, Mara & in A tacit | Hos ete. in he 'onnty of Ahad Bm es Vd PR OOK, cB ALBERT, ders left at alice or at bis residence will be punctually atte: Debts collected in Can- COUNTY OF ONTARIO, ningto: are otherwise i srompt remittances . E, the North On- EVERY THURSDAY MO RNING, taro Auctioneer. lifiayip THOMAS COURTICE, BAIRD & PARSONS, ADDLE, Harness and Trunk Manufac AL) turer, Simcoe street, Prince Albert. Every- thing in the line kept constantly on hand. Shop emus ' r annam, if eid within six | opposite the On! e Factory. 'months; if not paid within that time, $2.00. Nosub- - Et) taken [7 less as Lt 37% noha and no paper R. WALSH, k3 money, when addressed to his Office, prepaid and regisiered, will be at our risk. , RATES OF ADVERTISING. Tor each line, first insertion - - - 8008} S1bsequent insertions, perline - - - 0.02 ©urds, under 6 lines, per annum 5.00 Advertisements measured in Noupasedt, and shurge) according to the space they occ Advertisements received ferro gion, without spe. 5 fd 8, will be inserted until forbid, sud char dum Noadvertibemein will be faken out umil paid for, A libesal discount allowed fo Nerchaiity and others ple the year or balf-yeni Any Speci otice, jheolycet SF enich isto promote niary heheh efit of any mdividual or company, lo & advertisement, snd charged aceord- LT terms wilt, in all cases, be strictly ad- 0. 'The constantly increasing importance of the North Riding ofUntariorenders the publication ofthe OBskRY ER a necessity. Ever advocating right, snd condemning weangy it ilk constant} te pala of. ih take the lead in forwarding e county; and in the amodnt five will d by E. MAJOR, 1 issomn AUCTIONEER for the County Ontario. Terms made Sgws, and days of Salefixed, at the Opsenver Office + ©. THOS. H. WALSHE. ICENSED Auctioneer for the Town- Literature, The Volunteer. (Ooicim) At Puebla, our Hero lay for several weeks inthe miserable hospital, sick from his wounds, and with chills and fever. Here, but fgr the kind attention and what he [ORSE Farrier,is always in readiness Ak to attend to all who may favor him with He is well acquainted with the mode of Charges moderate. ricking and trimming ; and can treat success- ully any diseasc that horses are subject to.-- Residence, Prince Albert. Port Perry Agewen. JOSEPH BIGELOW, AGENT Diels, Eh pos abada. 8 I PRP Runny. amplriets, Hund Bills, Posters, Bill fa Blank Forms, Receipt Rooks, Check Books, Business Cards, Ball Cards, &e , &c., of e | a and color, executed promptly, and at lower h un af any other gaiuliclment ih this county. d ries a distance getting hand bills, &e., printed, hp a ar 10 take home with them, BAIRD, | H. PARSONS. istieas Diveetory. GEO, W. J JONES, N M. D, HYSICIAN, Surgeon, and Obstetrician, Simcoe-st., Prince Albert. v REVERE HOUSE," » MANCHESTER l PROPRIETOR. AVING purchased the above hotel, and has H furnished the Bar with the ehoicest liquors and cigars. Every attention paid to gue: Stages to and from Whitby call daily. ostlers always in attendance. COTTAGE HOTEL, GREENBANK, {# B. PLANK, Careful ul © ublic that he has taken the ¥. H. BRATHWAITE, M. D, C. M,, NM RADUATE of the Hnversity © of McGill Ehysician Surgegn and and Pines. 4 : 5 atince a) ooeupied by Dr. 3 ra ARE, ORONER for the County of Ontario, *hysician, Surgeon and Accoucheur, ovould take this tunity of informing his smiends that during his absence from among them, ne has made his particular study diseases of the Throat and Lungs,on which he can be consulted, with fide other branches of his profession. on le terms, at his residence in Prince Albert. Drs. McGILL & RAE, HYSICIANS, Surgeons, £6, ke, Residences, King street, O, WA. M'GILL, M. D. F. OAKLEY, M.D, ANILLA. Dice a1 and AResidence,--the late residence of Dr. Bain. JOHN BILLINGS, Biss Attorney at Law, Solicitor | Dee and, a. RAE, M, B, in Chancery, Notary Public, Convéyancer, Prince "Albert. Office over T. C © COCHRANE & COCHRANE, ] Bilis wae Attorneys, &ec. Prince C. Forman's Albert office--opposite the Town Hall; ort Perry office--over Mr, Bigelow's Store. HUDSPETH & MARTIN, TIORNEY Satlar, Sole Solicitors for ce in Keenan's Block, Kent street, Lindsay. P. 8, MarTiN, | Free 0 always in atte .| out. The premises are pleasantly situated, op-! Tn subscriber wishes to inform the | al ve hotel, (0 oy he has fitted and furnished throughput, and where the best accommodation, with careful attention, can always be found.-- Good stabling, enclosed yards, and attentive Ostlers. ou R. A. MURTA, Proprietor. Greenbank, Feb'y 13,1866. 6-1; Jewett's Hotel, KENT STREET, LINDSAY. Good stable and shed attached, and an attentive ostler always in attendance. to and from the Cers and Bonds. Saintfield Hotel. HIS house being new, ew, commodious, and well! hed thr , the puhlic favoring him with their custom may depend on finding every convenience necessary. to their comfort ats tended to. Good Stabling, and attentive Ostlers D. CAMPBELL, Proprietor. THE ROBSON HOUSE! | LATE SCRIPTURE'S HOTEL, DUNDAS STREET WHITBY, O, W,| GEORGE ROBSON, - - - PROPRIETOR. ibege to.announce that he has T= 1 Shae erie er oe formerly known as Scrip- ture' 's Hotel, for a term of years, and that he has '| renovated and re-furnished the'building through- posite the Post Offiee, in the centre of the town. The Railway Omnibus calls at the Hotel, and the Stages for or Uxbridge and Beaverton leave the Oor every morning. 53 Careful Osticrs always in attendance. GEO. ROBSON Apa HupsPETIL NORM ANT. PATERSON, ay Patggson, Toronto ) A TIORNE Yat Taw. Beart in Clncers, Oonveyancer, &c. verton. ce in hi building ocoupled by Dr. Wilson, Simeoe-st. P. A. Hs TTORNBY at Law, Solicitor in Chan-| % hel -- oS Ta, Notary Public, &o., iF BEWEL & MoIEE,: {4 ttorneys, icitors an BEE SELB 8 BACHONE at i 7B Stir omy ova re Offices] . CAMBRON, : a | H. J. MACDONELL. remem. ™ ANDREW ' 'F. McPHERSON, BASE fra bk ad PICE--Dundas street, 8 doors west of the i ! Solicitor ! me DINGO Avrvey) Consézanca, i, Ors. Office--Simcoe +8 opposite office. . RAGTIC £ Buri Bae cw AL: st; a a 0 . pris Bi do oor Dost Court. Tiusiyisss ensouty den. i NEED A ae for ' the Towa Brock, Uxbridge and Scott. SN and days of sale ap- I REVERE HOUSE COMMERCIAL HOTEL, 08 BROCK STREET, WHITBY. i | Vemence af ho guests. 22 WESTERN ASSUBANCE COMP'Y '| vareroene... BEAVERTON, C. W. HE Subscriber begs to announce that he has leased the above hotel, which has been fur {| nished and fitted up throughout in the best of style. None but the oes liquors and cf will beke t in the bar, and his table will all the delicacies of the season. ful Le obliging ostlers always in attedance. # 'WM. PARKIN, Proprietor. Beaverton, July 27, 1864. 9 und 'begs to anpounce Ahnt J he has taken the above well known premises' which | are been: HeWly furnis| reno' by him, and where the best accommodation go- ing, with. cq Tp us whe attention, san always be found. ood stabling, enclosed Ee a 8, ris ad atten- tive Ostlers. Charges ex! 23.1y TON plein EAST MARKET BQUARE, TORO NTS TO, C. W. TE Subseriber having Ving Yeaseil The Anign Ho tel, in addition to, the./: ional, he converted the two premises to anemammoth! Hotel--the tho latgest d most Tm the glad to receive his friends | and ee the Sree w. bi labor 5 expense will to.conduce o the comfort and eon- ; BOARD--ONLY $1 PER DAY. Th ant stab) very extensive, and' are oder et tlers. THOMAS PALMER, Posptiator; Toronto, Feb. 17, 1864. |TORONTO, C. W. INCORPORATED... nase veasnenn reeransasen A851. Capital, ~ - SRAUsRG0, || Prcr-ParsienT BRC'Y AND TREAS.. JAMES Rik SSH J d the wonderful liberality of Captain Elliston, he must have died of want and neglect. As it was, he recovered, and joined the army on its march for the capita city. At the storming of Chapuitepec, the gallant Captain Elliston fell; and, while supporting his dying (riend in his arms, Moore received a rifle-ball in his side, which stretched him on the turf. Captain Elliston was already insensible, and soon died ; but bleeding and struggling in lis agony, lay young Moore, trampled on by contending foes, by the flying and pursuing, till there "was a lull in the storm of battle--till its thunders ceased and the fierce conflict was passed he was then borne, with hundreds of his fellow-soldiers, toa temporary hos- pital, where he underwent the torture of having the ball extracted from his side ; and when, on the day following, the American army took possession of the Mexican capital, our hero,.exhau-ted and feverish, made his grand entree in a baggage-waggon. Little =a | did he see of the glory aud the triumph, little {did his sad heart exult even at the shouts of the victorious troops when they poured into the Plaza Grande, and the star-spangled banner was hoisted over the National Palace. To the hospital he was again con- signed, to wearaway week after week in lonely suffering and privation, such as he had never knewn before. And this was his share of the glory and the spoils--the long-promised "revels in the halls of the Montezumas,' From this sickness Maore never wholly recovered while in Mexico nd sg' miser-| able was he in body, v ring in mind, that he had nd'distinct 1ecolle®lion of how he returned to the city of New Orleans, on lus way home, with the rem- nant of his regiment. There they are to receive their wretched pay, but finally disembarked amid the shouts and enthusias- | tic cheering of a motely crowd of citizens= Frenchmen, Jews, sailors, flatboatmen, and negroes. Perchance a fair Creole shudder- ed as she looked at them, and thought of their deeds of blaod end sacrilege, and | herself like a devout Catholic, or a dark brown Spaniard scowled at them from beneath his huge sombrero, and cursed them | between his shining teeth. But all the most respectable citizens, all trne American patriots (as patriots go), delighted to honor the bold fighters, maimed, and sick, and ill-clad as they were and all doubtless felt, as their distinguished guest the great Amen- | can swtesman bad felt, when with a youth fol ardor warming his chilled veins, and the old lion crouchant in his nature thor- oughly roused, he declared that he himself ¢ would like to kill a Mexican.' Just before the steamer left the Crescent City the friends of a gallant young officer came on board, to present him wiih an elegant sword, as a tribute to his bravery. {| When the chief citizen closed his flattering speech, and stepped forward to present ithe: shining blade, lo! the hero had no sword- arm with which to wield it ! But he grasped it in his left hand, ard waved it over his head, while his sunken eye gleamed, and a es hot flush kindled in his shallow cheek, and a deafening shout went up from the admir-| {mgt ye lo, this proud, animating bi hat young officer lay in his cofin,' his one arm lying across his breast, and that sword--Oh, splendid mockary!--| glitering at his side. y Crarrer IIL NEARLY. two yeare of sorrow and cate had | shadowing har fair brow, and diming some-, |THE ALBION HOTEL, what the morning brightness of hersmile.! | In all those weary months, she had seemed' to the warld much as of old---oalm and cheerful, and "sweetly torgetiul of herself ; but those beneath the same ¥aof with her might have told of sleepless nights, of hours} of melatcholy abstraction, of the deathly be | whiteness of her lips at the news .of any recent battle in Mexico, and of the fearful | shrinking of her sight from the list of the] killed and wonnded. From her former lover, Margatret had. never heard directly, and but seldom throngh his mather, to whom she was most affec- ly and Hf d, yet with whom she did not often converse onithe' subject nearest the hearts of both. Mrs. Moore had last heard:from her son sk folly dl J |by a line trom New Orleans, and was now || daily looking for the arrival of the boat wm which, if still surviving, he woald return to Rg | Mie native oity, It was late on a chilly and misty night a a gallant steamer, having on board Travelling Agent; ae Cid Ontario | some three hundred soldiers, coming up the Ohio, neared the city of ----, What a detained some time by illness, and waiting | passed over the head .of Margaret Neale, | you = |" « Who should it vo but Margaret, dear] fearful contrast did the: men present to = fiery-hearted young. adventurers wha b once embarked from fou 2, a waving of banners, and the cheering she pra Standing in groop al ugatel deck, | looking impatiently 'ard the ity, shopk: ing little and in low tones, were the retn ed volunteers, pale, gaunt, haggared, and disfigured men, shamefully shabby and dirty in appearance, forlorn and miserable in the extreme. On the "forward part of the lower deck stood three rude coffins,containing the bodies of soldiers who had died on their passage up the Mssissippi--officers; for such privates as had died had been buried with little delay and no ceremony on the river banks. On a larga coil of cable, in the bow of the boat, and where the red light of the furnaces gleamed on his thin and pallid face, lay Herbert Moore, looking tull fifteen years older than at the time when he left his eity and set out for the wars. Never, he afterwards declared, had he suffered more, even in the hospitals of Megico, than he endured in this passage from New Orleans ; from sickness, neglect, cold, and starvation. For the first time for many days he had now dragged himself from his miserable berth, to watch in pain and exhaustion, and apart, from his comrades, the approach to that dear home he had so wantonly abandoned. His heart was agitated with the most painful anxieties for the dear onas 1here, for not one |ctter had ever réaehed him in camp or hospital. He knew not if his mother yet lived ; and Margaret, of her he dared not think ; he felt unworthy to breathe her name, even to himself. Nearer and nearer ghone the lights of the city ; a shout was sent up by dn expectant crowd on shore, and feebly answered by those on board. In afew moments more, | the boat lay at the wharf; her planks were thrown out, and the eager friends of the re- torned volunteers crowded around thiem. Almost every poor fellow had some one to take him by the hand and call hig by his Christian name, and cordially welcome him home. Some there were who came to loved names ; and one young boy, who came to meet his father, when: something was told him in a low voice by the captamn, ran and flung himself on one of those rude coffins, and cried aloud i in4he agony of a sudden paroxysm, But group alter gronp tbe soldiers and their frends went on shore, until, with the exception of two or three sick in their berths, Herdert Moore was the only man wae forgotten, abandoned, utterly friend- less! A feeling of awful desolation came over him--a dread sinking of the soul into the lowest depths of loneliness and despaur. He drew his worn eap over his eyes, wrap- | ped his tattered blanket about him, stretched himself out, and prayed that he might die! A hand was laid gently on his shoulder ; he lcoked mp, and the good pastor, Mr. McDonald, stood at his side. The old man Herbert could nat speak, but he caught the hand of his venerable friend aud raised it to' his lips, in the excess of bis humility, and grateful joy. Half - unconsciously, the young volunteer was carried on share, in the arms of a stont serving fonng man, who ing for him and his friend. Weak and feint, he was sinking helplessly back against the cushions, when gentle arms were wound about him, and his head was drawn tenderly against a saft_bosdm. ¢ Mother! is it you 8' asked the young soldier in a trembling voice, for it was so' over him. There was no word given in' emacidted face, and fast tears fell on is || pale, scarred brow. ¢ Ah,' he murmured, ¢I think I kop the touch of that has, Margaret, is at } id Herbert 2' ehe replied, bending down, and kissing fhe cold, tremulous lips of the poor volunteer. Herbert burried his face in Margaret's' bosom; and wept like a child. Love, sarrow, shame, disappointment; dis- yet half sadness--all the long-suppressed feelings of his soul had way in that nd sionate burst of tears. On reaching the house of Mr. Neale, H Herbert found his mother awaiting him with gpen arms, and weeping with excess of grateful happiness. She had been in herself the nurse and'almost. Gonatant com- panion of her beloved friend. to rise for a weary length of time. much for his exhausted frame. He suffer-' martial Musi look around vainly, and vainly eal on be-| left on board. No one came for him ; he gazed searchingly in the face of the soldier] a moment, and then folded him in his arms.' placed him in a carriage, which was wait- dark that he could not see the face bending: answer, but a delicate hand glided over hie| couragement, and a great joy which was delicite health for some months past, and bad taken ber home, making Herbert was bome at once wo hisdliomber and laid upon a bed from: which he was not' The agitation and joy of his return were too ed a relapse; and for many weeks lay at the wery gates of death, in a sate. af ater, blank insensibility and childish' helpless: ness, or raving in delirinm--fighting his battles over, again, or --_-- the 'thirst and burning fever of long marches. | Bat through all this painful season, there 'was one fond, brave heart, ever near him, one friend, faithful and brong in a love mightier than madness or death, who stood a prayerful watching, In hours of complete prostration, when the soul of the sufferer slept a dull, lethargic sleep, and all others despaired, there was one who still hoped | whose fast faith would not give way ; and in those hours of frenzy, when his own mother shrank from him in fesr, that gentle, yet courageous one would fix her soft, mild eyes upon his with a divine spell of loving power, and the wondroug soothing sweetness of her voice calmed the mad tumult of his brain, as the voice of the Prince of Peace once stilled the tempest and smoothed the face of the sea. As Herbert slowly recovered, he was like a child in his unquestioning submission to Margaret, and in his dependence upon her for courage and consolation. But after a while, as memory returned, and everything came back to him, he began to shrink with shame and self-reproach from her kind- ness. To find himself thus reduced to an object of mere benevolent interest, to have her thus compassionate and care for him, in the angelic charity of her nature, after she had ceased to love him, was indeed the bitterest drop in the bitter cup he had been called upon to drain. He pondered long, sadly, and with burning cheeks upon this ; and as day after day he walked slowly up and down his chamber, leaning on the arm of his frnend Mr. McDonald, he would sternly resolve to leave the hospitable roof of Mr. Neale, and no longer to tax the generous kindness of Margaret's forgiving heart. But as day alter day there would come a gentle rap at his door, and Margaret would enter to enquire afier his health in a cheerful, cordial tone, or to bring him some delicacy prepared by her own hands, or a basket of fresh flowers, or to read to him from a new book, or passages from the poets who had been favorites with them both in the dear old ime, what wonder that his brave resolves failed him-- were utterly for- gatten ? In those sweet mornings, as he reclined' on his luxurious sofa, when the cold light ot the winter sunshine fell upon him pleasantly, as warmed by passing through { curtains of rosy, with his head leaning upon his mother's shoulder, clasping her thin white hand in one still thinner and whiter, but with his dark deep eyes fixed on an- other face than hers, and with the silver waves of tliat delicious voice flowing over his heart and soul--ah ! what wonder that he had not strength to go forth the Paradise into which he had crept shivering and sick, forlorn and reken-bearted? But fiercer and more incessant grew the struggle in his breast, until, summoning all his courage, and nerving himself with a true piide, he thus wrote to margarel-- ¢« My BEsT AND TRUEST FRIEND,--I know that I should crave forgiveness far once again addressing you ; but on your .gene- rosity you have taught me to rely with a perfect trust, which you will not harshly construe into presumption. + I must leave you Margaret, now that I 1 am so much better, I must return with my mother to our cottage home, and no! longer be a tax on the kindness of your friends, or subject you to observation and idle remark, or myself to the charge of un- manly dependence. «I proudly left the mistress of my heart. | I resigned for a time her love, bestowed upon me freely, in the wondrous benefi- {| cence of her great nature, for the mad. | ehance of winning a distinction with which I might claim it as an equal ; and | return long after she has ceased to love me--return Jpoar nd unknown, ito be the recipient of her bounty, the object of har charities--to owe to her my very life. Is not the meas- ure of my Lumilation full? 1s not my] pennance accomplished ? Do not say I' write bitterly, there is no-bitterness in all my soul towards you. I accept my punis ment with the more meekness, almost with, for. that it comes at lastfrom a hand so be ig 3 all yaur angelic goodness I dare not attempt 10, thank you. The world has' no language through whichto convey to your heart the gratitude of mine. Butit will find ils way 10 you, in hoprs of loneliness and uilence, 'and. breathe into your spirit its] deep, Ainarticnlate blessing--the blessing of one ready to perish--lifted by your hand from an abyss of hamiliation and .deapair ynto the light and hope of a betler life. Yes. dear Margaret; a higher and worthier course than Ihave yet pursued seems open- ing:before.me.. 'I am resolved to put down for ever that imperions and arrogant 'mling spirit, pride, and to set my foot. on that gilded form of selfishness called ambition ; for to these did I not sacrifice Heaven's. divinest good, life's most inestimable bles- sings? Henceforth I will speak and aqt more boldly and ardently for the great principles of the age, for justice .and free- , and every 'form and manifestation of Goy's eternal trath, withont hops of favor, and without fear of the world. [I cannet 'sould tempt me (6 ee n faith, or a 'purpose; however unpdpular it might be, which I had ones taceived into my heart, or of that degree of moral cowardice which 'would cause me to shrink from the advogacy of the right, were hosts arfayed against it. Dear Margarotyid it mething 10 liave come fo this, even through my sore disap- pointment, humiliation, and suffering, from that dark time when [ went forth discrown- ed of your love, hopeless, reckless, and defiant 7 ¢'The hardship and sickness which have broken down my physical constitution, taken the youthful glow from my cheek and the light from my eye, and made me the wreck and shadow of my former self, have, I hope, in all humility, given health to my spint, and a more enduring strength to my charaeter. 1 have been taught a deeper reverence for weman, a higher estimate, a more adorning worship of love, even that love, that ¢ pearl of great price,' whieh 1, like a perverse and reckless ehild, flung from me into a sea whieh rendered not back from its still depths the treasure of my impoverished sonl. ¢ Dear Margaret, [ was never worthy of your love. I love you too passionately and fitfully. At ene moment, I would bow be- fore you with the adoration of a devotee-- and the next, stand over you with fold d a nd' imperious brow. { rebelled against $he dominion of your fove when 1 should hivve resigned myself to itas to an angelic influence rent te surround me with an atmosphere of truth, and peace, and real greatness. 1 should have seen that, in bestowing it upon me, yon lifted me above the low breath of the world, and made me your companion and your peer. { should have felt, through all my soul, that he upon whose breast had drooped your queenly head, had bern erowned with a glory and exalted by a joy to which all the honors and pleasures in the great world's gift were poor and tasteless. But I wasa boy, Mar- garet--a wayward, thoughtless, and short- sighted boy-- whose faults you have long sinoe forgiven, theugh yowr justice and womanly dignity condemned the offender. | ¢I hardly know why I have written this, except it be to reveal to yon what enflering and your goodness 'have done for me. I go forth into life anew--not us at first, leaping joyfully forward, as to rana merry morning course, on a festive day, nor, as at that other time, when, in the noontide of fiery passion, I dared mad chances, and made of existence a scene of fierce conflict within and withoot. It will be, henceforth, Irke a night journey, shaddowed and some- what chill, but fresh, and lit by the light of holy stars, pure hopes, and high purposes ; they eome forth even now, in the twilight of my despondency, are rounding into distinct7and radiant forms, and setting their bright gems for me in the skies. ¢I know that my repentence and good resolves comeoo late. 1 know that it is at the eleventh hour. that{ goto do my Masteér's wark. Bnt something tells me that #e will even now and thus accept me, and that you, who have learned Him, will have faith in me, and hid me be of good cheer. ¢ And now, dear sister of my soul, fare- well! 1 write not the word as once I wrote it, half in love and half in bitterness ; but with mostweverential tenderness, and the deepest devotion of my nature. "Do not think me hasty, or too impatient to be free from the obligations you have laid upon me. | I am sowmuch better that even my mother says I shall be.quite able to go home to- morrow. The blessings of the widow and her son-- her gon, restored to her from the dead--shall remain with this household, shall rest upon you, dearest Margaret. # HegsErT Moore.' Forthe half hour after Herbert had sent the above letterto Margaret, he sat in his cushioned arm-chair, by the writing- -table, H moodily brooding. It was evening, and there was a pleasant gre.on the hearth, and the whole room hada bright and cheerful' air. ButHerbert was sadder and lonelier than ever--his breast heaved with suppress- ed sighs, while a few large, expressive. i| teats started from his eyes. Some one rap- ped timidly at the door. Herbert, thinking it a servant, called, ¢Come in!' and did not nse. There was a (ivick, light step in the room, and; looking up, Herbert beheld 'Margaret? But betare he could rise to meet her, she was kneeling, half- playfully by the side of his chair, her fair hand laid on his arm. Her beautiful eyes were swimming in teats, soft, reproachin! tears; but a loving fd joyful smite was playiog about, her parted lips. ¢ And 80," she said, ¢ you would dismiss your faithful nurse! Ah! wilful and per- verse child, what mad fancy is this 2? -¢ But, Maagaret, I am better--nearly well. indeed--and so can spars you as a nurse.' ¢ But 'Herbert, IT cannot spare my patient.' ¢.Q Margaret uriell Herbert, as hie rose, and, lifting her from her kneeling position, looked earnestly in her eyes, tell me what you mean by those words. They are too blessed for belief,--I reel nnder them. Can} on God be 80 'good to me? Can it bo possible | that you love me once more 2*" | love you through all ; though, had you . rcs turned as the conquering hero, you would never have known of this; and the hand proudly demanded would have teen yet more proudly refused. But now I glory in telling you that you still possess the sole love of my heart. I glory in your worthi- ness, in your noble aspirations, in your vie- tory over self, in your regeneration, and all I am and have is yours, yours alone.' ¢ God be thanked for this unspeakable happiness ! 0 ! Margaret, come nearer fo my heart ! come nearer, Margaret." A slow familar step 1s heard in the hall without, and the next moment there enters the good pastor. ¢ And how is our patient to-night ?' he asks. ¢ Ah! very much better, { perceive, Why, I have not seen such a bright look for a month. What sparkling eyes, and on my word, he has a positive color {' ¢ So much the better is he, father," says Margaret, smiling, ¢that he grows proud and independent, and talks of dismissing his nurse." ¢ But only,' answers Herbert, that she may re-appear in another character ; and, continued he, turning to Mr. McDonald" ¢ on you, my dear sir, I must depend to give her back to me in that new and better character," ¢ With all my heart,' replies the minister on whose-mind the welcome light breaks at once. 'But what says my Margaret to this 7? Bat vainly he questions and looks around, Margaret is no longer in the room. The door is ajur ; and though the light fall of such footsteps may not be heard, down the dim hall goes the gleam of a white dress, and the {door of a pieasant chamber, be- longing to a certain dear young lady, is opeued and shut quickly. Andi a few short weeks the Neale mausion was crowd» éd with the friends of both the families to witness the nuptials of Margaret Neale and the happy VOLUNTEER. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY. The Boston Transcript tells an amusing story of a young gentleman who, walking on the common a few evenings since, came in contact with a person going in the opposite direction, Both apeligised and walked on, A moment after the young gentleman missed his watch, and turning ran after the individ~ ual whom he just met. [le soon overtook him, and drawing his revolver, placed it at his head, and instantly demanded that he should give up that watch. The man ter- ribly frightened, obeyed and took his departure from that vicinity with the great- eat possible expedition. The young gen- tleman went home and related the circumstance to his motlier, who burst into a laugh and told him that his own watch was in his room, and that he was the robber and pot robbed. eet Bere A PROMPT WITNESS. ¢« Have you purchinsed any intoxicating liguor of defendant?' inquired the constable. « Not that I remember," replied the wit- ness cooly. « Have you obt.ined any at his store 2 ¢« Not that I remember." ¢ Will you try to recollect 2 Bear in mpd that you are under oath.' ¢ [ am trying.' A pause. ¢ Well, witness, what do you say now 2 continued the official presently. «I haven't made any discoveries yet.'{ ¢« Have yon pot, within a week, told per- sons that you bought liguor of defendant # ¢ Not that I remember." « Did yon not tell me yesterday that yop had bought spirits of defendant ?* ¢ Yes, sir." ¢Youdid! Aha! Well, sir, when yop told me that, did yon lie or tell the truth 2° «I told the truth.' « Well, sir, then you have bought spirits of defendant 7' ¢ Yes, sir ¢ What did you mean by sweaung yap copld not remember ¢' 4 1 meant that I could not." . ¢ Your memory returned amazingly.quick. Did you pay defendant for the spirits yop bought of him ? # Ye, sir." ¢ How mneh ¥ + Twenly-five cents: ¢ What kind.of spirits did you buy 2° ¢ Spirits of camphor.' ¢ Ahem! wo reat the case here: ¢ Not guilty,' came:from the jury-box, aa the members tried to appear sedate and dignified, and with an effort restrained themselves {rom joining in the roar of laughter that went round the court-ropm. A down-east editor, in describing a coun~ try dance, says :--¢ The gorgeous strings of glass beads glistened on the i « bosoms' of the village belles like polished rubies resting on the surface of Awa, apple dumpling." i An old gent fiom the country sit one of the most recent and in the city lately, and wrote now conceive of any honor or.reward which ¢ Why, Herbert, 1 have never cessed to