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gestion in recommendin,, the attention of our government te the natura! ization and cultivation ef

Culisava, fer the preserve lieu of the bealth of our

soldiers. This artiele has « peculiar effect upon the liver, sua yuards the system against disease by

exposure and irregular diet. It iseenid that the

great success of the Plantution Bitters of Dr Drake, |

whieh, previous te our

found in guest Seathern |

exteuct of Caksayn Bark which it contained as ene |

ite principal ingredients.—* In contirmation of this, we have heard one of car most distinguished

physicians remark, that whenever he felt unwell '

from ordimary dietetic or atmospheric causes, he iuvariably reiieved binwelf by Piantation Bitters Now, that these Bitters canaat be obtained, a sul griture should be prepared —We noderstand our

yovecnnitaut has opened ne gutiations with Dr. Drake

through a seeret agent, bit with what truth we do | '

not know.” ® . ” 7 .

We are exceedingly obliged to the Richmond * Whig‘ for its remembrance of * Aald Lang Syne,”’ but we cag assure that the Plantation Litters are not for sale to any ** secret agents, North orSoath. There is probably severa! other things that * Owr Goverumeut’’ will yet want

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nhappy difficulties was | omes, Was owing to the |

2

| —_LITERATURE,

eA ARRAN

THE LAST GOOD NIGHT.

Close her eyelids — press them geatly

i Ou the dead aud leadeu eyes,

For the soul that made them lovely Hath returned wiito the skies ;

Wipe the death-damp from her forehead, Sever one dear golden tress,

Fold her icy bands all meekly, Siooth the little suewy dress;

Scatter flowers o'er her pillow, Geutle lowers, pure avd white.— There—now softly say good nig lit.

Though your tears fiow fast, and saster, Yet you could not call her back ; You are glad ber feet no longer Tread life's rough and thorny track ; You are glad her lieavenly Father

Took her while her heart was pure,

You are glad he did not leave her, All life's trials to endure ;

You are glad—and yet the tear-drop Falleth ; for alas! you know

That your fireside will be louely,— You will wiss your darling so.

While the twilight shadows gather, You will wait in vain to feel Little arms all white and dimpled

’ Kound your neck so sefily steal ; And your cheek will miss the pressure } : ‘ Of soft lips, se warm and red,

And your bosom sadly, sadly,

Miss that darling little head,

} Which was wont to fie so sweetly, Aud those azure eyes so bright;

i You will miss ber loving glances,—

i You will miss ber soft good night.

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Another wouderful invredient, of Spanish origin | importing beauty to the complexion aod brilliancy |

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} When the morrow’s sun is shining, They will take the cherished form, They will bear it to the churchyard And consign it te the worm, Weil, it matters not—'tis only The clay dress the darling wore ; God hath rebed ber as an angel, i She hus need of this no more; i Fold her hands, and o'er her pillow Seatier flowers pure and white, Kiss that marble brow, and whixsper— Ouce Aguin—a last good night

THE STORY OF LIFE.

| Sar, what is life? } A helpless Babe, to greet the light

"Tis to be born

With a sharp wail, as if the morn Foretold a cloudy noon and nijzht ;

To weep, to sleep, and weep aguin,

With sunny smiles between; and then?

And then, apace the infant grows To be a laughing, puling bey,

Happy, despite his little woes, Were he but conseious of his joys:

To be, in short, from two te ten

A merry, moody child; and then?

And then, in coat and trousers clad, To learn to say the Decalogue, And break it; an unthinking Lad, With mirth and mischief all azog ; A truant oft by field and fen

To capiare batierflics ; and then ?

And then, increased in strength and size, To be anon, a Youth fall grown:

A hero in his mother's eyes, A young Apollo in his own;

To imitate the ways uf men

,

In fashionable sins ; and then

And then, at last to be a man; To fall in leve; to woo and wed; With seething brain to scheme and plan, To gather gold, or toi] for bread ; To sue for fame, with tongue and pen,

’

And gai or lose the prize ; and then?

And then, in gray and wriukled Eld, To mourn the «peed of life's decline ; To praise the scenes his youth beheld, Aud dwell in memory of Lang Syne ; To dreaw awbile with darkened ken: Then drop into his grave ; and then ?

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THE POLISH DESERTER.

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lv Hournal of Politics,

7 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Monday, March

fevature, wad

21, 1864.

father of a traitor” the choice between St, this was sufficiently clear aud coherent, and ‘seemed out of place among the grim wolf- and over bleak steppes, with its attendant _ Petersburg and his own Polish estates in the [ could not but admire the prudence and | heads and spreading antlers, the spears, vets, huager and hardships, would prove too much | goveroment of Kalisch. Thus it came about | forethought with which maternal affection and antique weapons. ‘for even a sound and youthful constitution. that the Count, suffering from gout, rheu- had inspired the speaker, In as few words) ‘A miserable morning, Dr. Burton !” said | (To be continued.) -matism, aod a lack of educated compauions, as possible, I pledged oe to secrecy, and Count Emmanuel pushing away bis cup; ee Eee | wrote to a friend in London to express his snatching up my Jitt!e medicine chest, and |‘ the forerunner of a winter such as you can-— desire for an English medical attendant, a pockee fatk of brandy, I signified to the not realize till you have felt it; a winter THE WAR IN DENMARK, while the high salary tempted me, a poor Countess that L was ready to follow her, | that nips and pinches you, chills you, aud THE AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN PROGRAMME, young surgeon who bad just taken his dee- Under her guidance, and treading with ex- wets you all at once, Kven St. Petersburg) The Memorial Diplomatigue says that Aus- tor’s degree, and who had been fer years en- | treme caution, L contrived to reach the door is plewsanter, as being dryer, Bah! What) tria and Prussia, -* who bave assumed the gaged to a clergyman’s daughter, who was that opeveg on the garden without arousing | cruelty of the Government to compel a crip- | rt of mediators between the Germanic ' good and pretty, but poor as myself, lany one, though it was Oecessary to pa led martyr like myself, M. te Docteur, to D'** and the Government of Denmark, ’’ are & pretty, P J | any ’ ug ry 10 pass) P y a? : , likely to propose an arrangement, when | And now, when my long description of S¢vetal doors, standing half open, according | leave dear beautiful Italy, with a sun that Schleswig is cleared of the Danes, upon the |the strange place and strange people —a [ the careless custom of Polish domestics, i really shines——Kh ? Adeline, what is following bases :— ‘letter that might have wearied others, but and from which issued the sound of the; amiss? ; ‘1. Confirwation in principle of the ter- ‘whieh I knew Alice would read over and | ¢avy breathing of sleepers. We were soon) The countess had started from her chair, | pjtoria} integrity of Denmark. over again wich fond interest in every de- | Ut upon the smooth y mown lawn, speckled and stood listening eagerly to some faint The Holstein questioa to be decided ‘tail — when this letter was half finished, | by the dead-leaves that had fallen during | sound which no ear, unsharpened by strony exclusively by the Diet. ‘there came this midnight summons J have | ‘at autummevening, and the sickly gleam jemotion, could have detected. My sens-s| + ispoken of. Opening the door, L found my- | of the moon full on the fountains, on the |are tolerably quick, bat I could hear noth- | | self confronted by the Countess. She was | tatues, on the Withering flowers, and the ing. A mipute passed, and [ thought I | very pale, aud she trembled, and I fancied S0fily swaying boughs of dark trees, But beard something like a dull far off beat of gmined by a conference of the signatories of there were marks of tears hastily dried apon 8 buman form eould be seen, aud the idea horses’ leet. _ _| the London Treaty, with a representative of ‘her face; but her eyes were unusually curred to me that the whole must be a| ‘Soldiers! they have come to seek him! the Confederation. The guarantees claimed bright, and had the restless craving look ‘delusion, 8 mocking vision seen by the eye He is lost !’ murmured the poor mother, but | to prevent future incorporation of Schleswig often seen in those of some buuted creature. | Of Overstrained imagination, |in so low a toue that the rash words were With Denmark will be personal union, like

As she stood iu the sileut corridor, hung | ‘L bade him wait, I said I would soon | he#rd by none but myself—uuless, indeed | ae oo ean — hale eee

with moth-euten tapestry, her dark bair— return. Emile, Emile!’ whispered the poor | Gilittstein, who was handing some cordial to | streaked with early grey that was due to) mother, gradually raising her voice. But | Bis muster, and caught them, | sorrow more than years—falling in disorder | there was no reply. The countesstremb ed ‘In-a few moments all doubts were set at upon the jover her white wrapper, and a small silver so much that, bat for my support, she would rest by the arrival of a cowmissioner of line. ”’ jlamp flickering in ber unsteady band, she|have sunk to the ground. Suddenly she police, accompanied by several agents and @ | PROCLAMATION OF THE KING OF DENMARK TO looked more like a spirit than a living woman. | bent forward, uttered a low ery, ‘ There! party of dragoons, to search the castle for the | THE AkMY. ‘Madame,’ I said, +1 am at your crders, he is there!’ avd darted across the lawn to apprehension of Emile Oginski, political of. | ; ' | but I hope there is no cause foralarm. ‘The where, at the foot of a spreading chesuut- | fender, aud deserter from the regiment of | battle-ficid, but also by enduring with pe Count | wee, lay something hardly to be seen by my | Astrakhan. V ery particular orders to se- | oe want = wan eee — a | She interrupted me by a hasty gesture : duller eyes. I found it was the unfortunate |cure the person of the young man had ar- one bce Gdeli Seg eae 4 histieniiee | i‘ The Gowat is sleeping. He is not iil; ic Young man realiy lying there, motionless, | rived by telegraph from St. Petersburg, and bis country. There are few among you who. lig not on his account that ah! M. Je| 1 the deep shadow, Ile was dressed in the | 40 retreat appeared so likely to shelter bim | 'Docteur! ean 1 trust you? Will you not tattered and ¢ravel-stained garb of a Rus-| as his father’s house. i | whelming loe that you have nut degenerated | |Sian peasant, his shoes were worn away by| ‘wo hours, two long and painful hours. | since Fredericia and Idstedt. You bavye all

travel, and his feet were cruelly were consumed in a minute search of the ex- | bad ample opportunity to give brilliant proofs

of eflic‘ency and endurance, and you have preserved a cheerful courage under long and | severe hardships. Soldiers! Receive for this

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in deciding the future of Schleswig

to be kept distinct—the first being treated asa purely German matter; the second ex-

/ help me, and be careful and silent ? | lL stammered out some common place as- Tough : : . S 'surance of my willingness to do all ia my Scarred and bleeding. There was a gory tensive mansion, which was rummaged trom | power to render service in the family, but | "#2 wrapped rouad his left arm, and his the garret aud turret chambers to the cellars. IT desemy 1 was awheard.io.sny speech, matted buir hang wildly about a haggard The servants Were rigorously cross-examined, | tne thanks of your King. The Dannewerke ‘being not only unpractised in French eon- | Young face that must have been handsome aud the official in commaud entered into #8 has been abandoned. The guns which were | versation, but sorely puzzled by the visit. | ODCe. His lips were white ; his eyes closed, | artfully managed conversation with the | to have curbed the arrogance of the enemy | Hitherto, | had only known the mistress of | ‘ He is dead,’ said the Countess, breaking 8% Whose easy disposition was well known, | are iu their _— i country lies me the house as a sumewhat proud and s:ately|into a low wail, as she kuceied on the wet | @Somuch that the authorities felt assured of tv the enemy. I deeply feel with you what

e . . : ‘5 | nei > } i ‘ . , i ' lady, with a grave geutlevess of bearing.| turf aud gugzed with despairing eyes upon | °C!P2 able to worm the truth from him, Pisa aeeaandtiieren staging sean ay

| equally remote from cordiality and hauyhti- | the prostrate form beside her, oat the peony _ eee oe aston the concep: ‘ond. 1pend..anliiaaat sbiaien /uess. And now this marble figure, so cold) * No, madame, he has only fainted, | Sent wit bape rth ae of bis unfortu- | were of opinion that f would no longer have jand impassive, agitated, fearful, and with There is a pulse, though a very feeble oue, "*'© 85 flight was too genuine to be an army if i did not withdraw you. They | glittering eyes and loosened hair, a prey to and the heart beats; if { cau get him to, mistaken by so practised ap observer as ihe therelore came to the determinativn to re- }some inexplicable terror and excitement! swallow a few drops of this braudy he will CoUmNSSary. The Sersnnte al30, being | —— Suidiess! I stand alone iathe world

Was the Countess mad? “No doubt she revive.’ I lified the passive head and “%°lly iguorant of their young lord's return, | With my peuple. Up t the present time no 7 i : ‘ : could not possibly betray him, either by | ?eWer bas declared that it wii sayport us by | read the doubts that were passing through | forced a small quantity of the cordial be- ee ee ee |

: - | : ™ ¥ ‘ jaets. But l depend apon you and my fleet. /my mind, for she conqaered her emotion! tween the pale lips. By chafing the cold | ewberd zeal or venal perdi ly; and the po- You are ready ra, wk blood ; but we jand addressed mein a calm voice, iv a low hands, und repeating small doses of the ‘Ce wereat last fain to believe that no person | 114 guy agaiust many, and it must therefore

} and wary tone. She wanted my ad, she | spirit, we managed with some trouble to | of the housebold had the lightest idea that | be dearly purchased. May the Almighty isaid. for a sick person who had just arrived | restore the sufferer’s sensos ; but his strength | the fugitive had even comuitted the offence | grant that the bour of cevenge May Sova lat Miklita, and whose arrival, for weighty paee quite gone. He had been so spent b |ot desertion, Fortunately the coust was strike for all the violence and injustice which | ‘reasons, must be kept a secret from the loss of blood and almost unheard-of bard- | asked SO Qeeeene, ae ae thought worth | oon range inn eneag Sper ne) household. The sufferer was—would I pro- | ships, hunted like a wolf through the forest, | while ” —_ myself, a forcigner, newly | 4% . ; ! wise, as an English gentleman anda man of that all the stre@gth of his youzhful cou- | arrived. The out-buildings underwent pe I cenuaeiaine nn aie ee San

| honor, not to reveal a werd she told me til! | stitution bad beep exhausted, Like some | crutiny, for the agents were convinced, long} Both houses of the Rigsdeg have unani-| | L bad permission from herself #—the sufferer | wounded animal, he had made a desperate before the mansion was explored, that oa See ey —_— oe oneern, 80,8 was a poor lad, the son of a former steward, | exertion to reach his wative scenes and die had secu the runaway, and thet, without | po a The eel, Setar bea }and who bad leit the Russian regiment to at home, but the effort had been too severe “#Y'™S been seen, he could not be there, | painfully surprised to Jearn shee fact ; but iss | /whieh he b longed, without leave, jand the jagt of iia strength bad been ex. | * He aever got out of the forest of Plyelo- |

, . | trust io the luture is by no means weakened, | * He is a deserter, then, Madame !” {pended in the struggle. He was co>scious

/vicg, where be was last seen by @ charcoal | nur will the army have lost heart. Tbe Dan-

| the Constitutional and Succession questions

“4. The Augustenburg Princess to obtain |

‘formal confirmation of their eventual rights miles from Flensburg, we came to the begin- extinction of the Glucksburg pins of the battlefield. {textended the

‘** Soldiers! Not alone by valour on the | was by Oversee. The poi

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New Series.---No. 16.

| edmitting two or more carriages at a time. On some of the Schleswig roads one finds | stations built completely across the highway, 80 that ail vehicles mast pase th them, which few probably do without taking some refreshment for horse or man or beth. Thi consists in general of coarse brown bread cut ap in @ trough fer the horses, and of bad Auvnmel ( a spirit savoured with carraways), | or worse fum for drivers or

roaring trade must these stations of late have

‘driven. There are several on the road from Schleswig hither, but we stepped at only two. At each the stube, a single grimy room in | which travellers are received bad refreshed according to the very limited capabilities of ‘the establishment, was throaged to the door dafantry of the line, both Prussian ard | Austrian ; Tyrolese Rifles, with their dark plumes: Austrian Dragoons in their long white cloaks (white no lunger,bat grievonsiy besmirched by this rough campaigning) ; Lichtenstein Husears, in their neat shakos a pale yellow colour; Prussian cuirassiers, in dark great coats, were all there, ali with their collars turned up, to shelter their faces from the piercing biast that whistled vutside, while the snow clung about their and stack in masses to their boots, It was hard work to get along, both for men and horses. At Smedebye, a haalet about seven

hamiect of Oversee, close to a little e or mere, to Bilschau, less than three miles from Flensburg. The chief fighting, however, nt at which the Danes made their most stubborn stand strack the eye ac once. The road rose into a short but rather eteep hill, aad eluse up to it on each side came & small wood, considerably more dense on the one hand than on the

have not proved in battle against an over- -other, but on both sides affording exceflent

cover forinfantry. It was quite obvious that by filling this room with rilemen and placing artillery on the brow of the road between them, with a battalion or two under cover on the open ground im rear for the protection of the guas. the progress uf a pursuing enemy mignt be made particularly unpleasant, and probably for a time successfuily checked. The Danes availed themselves of the advan- of the ground, and there was hard

fighting at this point. The misfortune of fighting in retreat is that the best and mese- defensible positions must after a short time be abandoned by thoir defenders, o in exchungs for others most dangerous ex- posed. And sv the Danes retreated, fighting like brave men, as their adversaries freel admit, and suffering not a little loss, but also inflicting a good deal of damage upun their gallant and eager pursuers. A eyresren of Hungarian Llussare charged along road and suffered heavily ; the Austrian infantry wade frequent use of the bayonet. The road and adjacent fields bore conclusive sigas of @ sharp contest. Peasanws were ener way about the field accompanied by iers, and duubtless they bad been occupied with the work of interment. La the distance one saw solitary figures busily engaged with something which the snow from us. Probably they were marauders rifling dead bodies. Or all sides lay shakos, knap- sacks, pouch-belts, and other articles of military equipment; hers and there ao bayonet, the barrel or stock of a rifle, pro- truded from the snow. We met a great many peasants carrying away arms. hat

horses. They usually consist of a dwelling and a stable, between which is a paved court,

The Countess slowly bent her head, and)

‘for a moment or two tried to speak, but her |

voice failed her. ‘Then, to my surprive aud

dismay, she sprang forward, dropped on her

ikuees, and caught wy hand in both of hers

}

'my dear, dear boy, come back from the those commonly found ina military guard-)°% 4 poultry-yard, and the servants, | Caucasus, wounded, famished, to die at the | room, u ithreshold of his father’s house, which he |e brought, though at the imminent risk of the avenue, and followed ther vetiring | (detection. Tée countess went untiringly ou forms wiih suppressed eurses sud jeering|

passionately cryiny aloud :

* Forgive we, moosieur, if [ tried to de- ceive you. I will trust you; I know I may do so safely.

~@%

must net ente Here the mother's voice broke into stifling

of his mother’s ‘presence and caresses, bit | he could not speak or stand, and it Was | uecessary to carry him te the uld graoge as if he had been a sick child. } More than an hour was now spent in pro- viding, as we!] as eircumstances allowed, fu: the poor fugitive. There was nothing iu ibe deserted buildiog but some trusses of straw,

Food, water, warm clothes, must all!

this errand again aud again, gliding through

}sobs, and it was with great d.fficuiry, and 3¢ the imminent risk of detection and ‘ouly by representiog the risk of alartuing | turning with linen, wine, blankets, aud ‘the household, that I succeeded in raising 5° forth, while [ remained with the patient, | {her from the ground and soothing her to a | doing whatever my experience could suzgest

{

A stea!thy step in the corridor, the faint |

rustle of a wowan’s garments, and then

there was a low tap at the door, and a voice

said softly in the Freueb language : *Doetor, mousieur, are you awake!

more reasonable frame of mind. At last she was able to tell me the rest.

‘I could not sleep,’ she siid, eagerly, ‘and [ looked out of the window into the great garden, where the fountains were | playing, and all was bright moonlight up to the verge of the belt of dark ouks. It was

‘then L saw him, Emile, but so wan and hag- |

Come and speak to me; but hist! be care-| é }sant, that none but a mother’s eyes could patient to be eared for, a secret to be kept, |

ful for the love of Heaven!’

in my lonely room, late on the third night after my arrival at the castle, writing a long letter to Alice in England. it was for her ‘sake—Alice Wilson’s—that [ was in Po- land, and at Mékliu, the mansion of Count

'geon I was. Tue Count was one of the chief nobles of the Kingdom ; his forefathers had been Palatines in the days of Polish independeuce ; his domains were great, and

able. The possessor of all these advantages was, however, anything but happy. He had wretched health, his natural! y good disposi- tion was fast growing irritable and morbidly gad. I had beea given to understand, by the friend who had procured me the well- | paid situation I now filled, that Count Ug-

‘inski had fallen under the displeasure of the |

, Russian Goverament. This was not from

‘any act of bis own, for my employer had been scrupulous in his avoidance of politics. His son, however, Emile Gyioski, bad been evnvicted of some share in a conspiracy to throw off the Muscovite yoke, and had been pauished by being forced into the ranks of the army, and seat to serve as a private in

| the Caucasus,with the regiweat of Astrakban.

Two years had elapsed since this harsh ‘sentence bad been carried into effect, and

‘The summons rather startled me, as [ sat | bave recoguised him,

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Gentlemen’s Emmanuel Oginski, whose household sur- |

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_bis revenues, in spite of acgleet, consider- |

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gerd, so iJ] and emaciated, in a tattered caftan and cap, like those of a Russian pea-

and bis lett ear was bandaged with a bloody | cloth ; but it was Emile, my dear boy, that |

{ bave seen in my dreams every night since | proximity from bis owa father ; a deception | He was so by no means to my taste, and galling to the | ghastly, standing out in the wan moonlight, |/rank and noble nature of the countess, in

the crue! day of his senteace.

that | feared he was dead, far off, aud that | his shadow had come to warn me that we should see him po more. ut he looked u; and saw me. [ lighted a lamp, and went down, and undid the door, and went out: and it was my Ewile, alive, but dy'ng, doctor.’

With all my heart, [ offered every assist-

ance in my power. The wost cruel part of

Drawing Boom Hooks, Peetical ;). young heir to a proud name aud fair es:

Works, Keepsakes, Annuals, &c.

tate, a mere boy in years, easily tempted

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Char'town, Feb 15, 1864. tf

, brought the Caar’s vengesnee on his head, ‘had never since been suffered to communi- ‘cate with his parents. Count Ogiaski had }in vain invoked all the influence of his powerful relatives; and the mother of the ‘poor boy, a high-spirited woman, who hud _uever been willing to appear at the imperial court, had conquered her !olish prejudices so far as to travel to St. Petersburg and knee! at the Emperor’s feet to solicit the | pardon of herson. But Nicholas considered | merey as mere weakuers, aud the suppliant was coldly dismissed. At the same time an order was travsmitied frow the Chaucellerie of St. Petersburg that the Count, who had ‘long resided in Ltaly daring most part of the year, should not quit tve Russian domi- nions without a special wuthorization from the Czar. Aud it was thonght indulgent by , the Lureaucrats of Use capital to give * the

the matter was, that we dared not bring the | >¥t of Glittstein, the major domo, who was, di

sufferer—‘or the poor lad was smurting under the effects of a gunshot wound aggra- | vated by privation and neglect—into the | house, nor even reveal his presence to any

one, his father not excepted. The Count

—as his wife relactantly owned—could

wever wn his life keep a seeret, and his ner-

vous temperament would infallibly lead to a betray ai of she fugitive’s position, should he | learn the truth suddenly. Most of the ser- vants were faith'ul aud trusty, but there. were some on whose discretion no reliance | could be placed; while one in special, the. major-domo, a Courlander by birth, and

who had been recommended by the Governor | of Kalish, was suspected of being a spy. | To harbor a deserter, particularly oue whose | service in the ranks was the cbhastisement of rebellion, was to commit aa offence which | Nieholes never pardoned. If known that

Emile Ogio-ki was sheltered beneath the roof under which he was born, the ruin of the | family was certain to result, while the youth himself would be sentenced to the knout. |

There was an out-house, a sort of grange, over which were two rade chambers, inteud- | ed to accommodate husbandmen at the season of barvest, but which bad for some time been unoccupied. This building, old and ruinous, would prove a safer shelter than the castle, and there would be no prying eyes there. Food and clothing could be convey- ed there; andj, ander my care, Emile might, pethaps, recover his health and tuke some opportunity of crossing the Prussian frontier, which was at uo great distance. There was no safety for the hunted wretch short of the civilized kingdoms of Westerm Kurene. All

to keep alight the flickering lamp of life. |

We did not leave him until, sparingly fed which he reevived the vews was evidently

(for he was suffering from actual famine,

| burner,’

said the commissary in a testy mauner, as he took his Jeave. ‘1 told our

‘lord the governor thit mortal limbs could | scorn of the enemy and of the populace,

| ish army has becn fureed to evacuate Holstein |without striking a bluw, exposed to the but

_uad become of the wounded! Had all been |taken away? I! not, it was now ‘oo late to | attend to them; their sufferings were over.

vot bave borne such a yourvey as that from during its retreat it preserved the most per- Among yonder trees, where the show lies

the wood hither. And now, perhaps, some booby of a village herdsman will get the re- ward afier ail.’

Toe polize and troops went off in a crest-

tale and female, watched them as the; rode down

laughter,

Toe conduct of Glitistein during this do- miciliary visit had been very satisfactory. le was present when the commissary an-

aounced his errand, when Emile’s escape Was |

proclaimed ; and the look of surprise with

gevuine. When the police were searching

tect order and diguitied calm. For aearly six weeks past it has borne inclement weather, hardships, and privations, but nevertheless \femained true to itself, and locked forward

‘with ardour ty the day of battle. Battle

He is my son, my only son, and two or three wooden bedsteads like fallen style, Itke foxes buffed in an inroad came. Every maa did bis duty in the en-|

gagements that bave vecurred, aad faced the enemy with courage, The Danish Kigsdag thangs the Danish army! The Dannewerke has been abunduued, bat the Rigsdag will vever jose contidence in ite sons, brothers, the | living Dannewerkes of our laud. Long live }thearmy! As suon as Circumstances permit ‘it willagain go to tee irout, with Gud for | kingaud country! We trustin the living God, we trust in the spirit of the people, und we | trust in the army over which this spirit soars. | ln 80 earnest a time the Rigsdag well not for- get its duty. It tuilils buc a small part of that duty when it sends a fraternal greeting

; : a tas . 4 : il alia ks vinta tamed '¢* and a free supply of nourishment would ave | *¥e house, his broad fave wore an expression to the valiant army of the Danisi land !

proved fate!) and warmly wrapped up, be bud sunk into the deep aud dreawless sieep of exhaustion,

From that night forth, 2a atmosphere of Mystery, concea.memt, and apprehension, | spread itself over all things. There was a

His eyes were dim, a human being to be secluded from the ob- |

servation of even friendly eyes. It was necessary to disguise the fact of Kmile’s

whom her invalid husband reposed the fullest confidence. But the more I reflected, the more perilous did it seem to afford Count Kmanuel any iuformation en the subj ct of his son's refuge. He was un-uspicious by instinct and by habit, spoke fieely of his affairs before his domestics, and felt the most perfect assarance of the devotion and attachment, not only of his Polish servants

as I have suid, a Cuurlander,

Of this man the countess entertained sus- picions which 1 was ine!ined to treat as the results of national prejudice. | was ratler disposed to like the Russo- German, who was a fine portly fellow, with

a shining bald head fringed with yellow)

hair, bright biue eyes, and a pieasaut smile. He was an excelleut servant, and his punctual neatuess contrasted favourably with the thoughtlessness of the Poles. | might have shared the lady’s antipathy were Glittstein a velvet footed sly faced syeo-

phant, gliding cat-like through the house, |

but there was someting biuff aud downright in the major domo‘s speech aud Learing that pleased me. 2

On the very morning that succeeded the wight of the young man’s arrival, a startling incident oceurred. It was a cold moist worn- ing, and the lazy white fog clung like a veil of half transparent gause to meadow and forest, while the mist hovered in thick masses Over the many pools and morasses of the low lying landscape. The count was uv-

well and resilees, and ate his breakfast in |

a desultory fashion: now lisilessly trifling with a morsel of toast, now raising langwid- ly to gaze out of the wiadow on the melan- choly prospect, and now as he drew his elbow-chair nearer to the great stove, desiring the servant to briog him an exact report of the last reading of a new barometer from Paris or London. The master of Miklitz was very curious in all weather pre- dicting instrumeuts, and the hall was full of aueroids aud wheel-ylusses, whose Freuch- polished mabogany and buruisied brass

Personally, |

cf eoncera and disgust ; be did uot seow! nor mutter malediciions, as ithe Poles did,

iby for the distress of the family, bat au

honest man’s ostural repugnanec to tyranny.

___* What would they say to this in England {err Burton ?' he asked, in a cautivus tone, as I passed him.

‘What indeed, Glittstein ?’

‘ The troubles of the Oginski family were by no meansat an end, ‘I'wo days after the withdrawal of the bafiled gens d’armes, there arrived an imperative mandate, seut by te- legraph to the goveruor of the province, and transmitted as rapidly as mau aod horse could bear it to the castle.

himself before the authcrities of St. Pcters. buig. there to remain until he satisfied the Cuar of his innocence of aay couplicity in nis son’s desertion.

A painful dilemma now arose, Disobe- ence was pot to be dreamed of, and the Count at once prepared to depart, but would have preterred to be accompanied ou his ‘dismal! northern journey by his wife and his medical attendant. Under ordinary cireum- | stauees the Countess would have gone with her invalid husband without hesitation, but /now—when her son jay, worn out and wounded, perhaps dying, on a mean bed in a neglected out-house, it Was impossible. It Was eq tally out of the question that L, whose professioual care wes ueccssary to the suffer- ers recovery, should absent myself from Miklitz.