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THE GRAVE OF THE FIRSTBORN.

It is over now.

I have been a long time ill,

But to-day I am able to wander slow To the churchyard round the hill. "Tis there they have laid my little love, Who lingered three little months-it was

not long- And there they will lay the, too, ere the waning light grows strong.

It is but a little grave Where my little one is laid, But I keep it decked with white flowers

every day,

And above, a kindly yew's protecting shade Shelters it safe from rain and wind."

Bleep fast, my darling, sleep while yet you

may;

Your mother will not linger long behind.

Dear child, I wonder when.

Some notable evenings have been spent by this society. A dialogue of Plato, & chapter of Plotinue, or a play of Aristo banes Laying been read and prelected on in turns by the assembled membera, the Professor lunds the way np-stairs to where a sumptuous supper has been spread under The last great morning breaks, and we shall the eye of Mrs. Blackio, who places herself, liko a Speaker of the House of Commons, at the head of the table, a silent, much respected, perhaps much-needed, re- straining influence. Dr. James Donaldson, the rector of the High School, and of patristic fume, is sure to be there, describod by the Professor himself as

wake,

If I may bear you then

Safe in my nursing arms for Ilita to take; Or will Ho suffer you to some before, White soul, while I am waiting at the door?

Dear little grave, I strew Fresh sutame flowers and garden bleoras on

του;

strew upon you roses white and red I fling my heart upon you, narrow bed; Once, twelve months since, I launched my Where, lit with laughter, Love's swift river And lo! once more the year's swift pinions

heart, a rose,

goes,

move,

And now I cast it on the grave of love.

My love, myself, my child,

Lie buried here, and I an free again.

I would I were a slave, I loved my chain; I would that I might see your sweet eyes

mild: They were your father's eyes, who loves not

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I blame him not, but do forgive for thee. It is not long I stay, my life, my dear, Not long until we are together here.

Last year it seems an age ago I had not seen him then we went Together on our road; and so, By ways and converse innocent, We gained at last the sacred gato Of wedlook, and the hand of Fats Lifted the latch, and we passed in To the enchanted ground therein. And now the winds of autumn rave, And love lies dead within a grave.

Dear love, that liest thee so still,

I go now till to-morrow's sun;

The autumn evening gathers ohill, The day in well-nigh done. Bleep, dear, through all thy long untroubled

night,

Bleep calmly till the light. -From "Gwen, a drawn."

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THE DUVES.

Pretty doves, so blithely, ranging

Up and down the street; Glossy throats all bright buss changing,

Little scarlet feet.

Pretty dovos! among the daisies

They should coo and flit! All these toileome, noisy places

Seem for theta toit.

Tet amidst our human plodding They must love to be, With their little heads n-nodding,

Busier than we,

Close to hoof and wheel they hover,

Glancing right and left, Sure some treasure to discover; Rapid, shy, and deft.

Friendliest of feathered creatures,

In their timid guise; Wisdom's little, silent teachers, →

Fraging us be wise.

Flattering at footsteps eareless,

Danger swift to fee, Lowly, trusting, faithful, fearless;

Oh, that such were we

'bard and keep,

THE CHINA MAIL.

greater than those of his antagonist, and he had constantly fought on the offensive.

[No. 4930,-APRIL 26, 1879.

Faus, which the late Mr G. E. Lowes Blues of the Roman Circus. Those who his transports, when large reinforcements te roar, with his own brae once more on entrenchments, and esptured the rebal pronounced to be the best extant. But do not know their grammar sufficiently are arrived from the eastern bank, to intercopt the Mississippi. On the 19th and 22nd, capital.

When the final campaign began, Leo had before you have had time to notice even as exasperated at not having an opportunity him. His troops were raw, and even offi- he made usuccessful assaults, and on the

those whom cers were greatly disturbed at the idea of 23rd, began a regular siege. On the 4th collected 78,000 fighting, men in the lines. much as this, the Professor himself, in of learning mora; while velvet shooting jacket, has left his wife and superior.advantages have long ago enabled being surrounded. But Grant soon rallied of July, the place burrendered with 81,600 at Richmond, besides the looni militia and bounded down-stairs--a septuagenarian who to master the boggarly elements are the force, and charging the enemy, cat bismon, and 12 cannon, at that time the the gunboat crews, amounting to 5,000 preserves the Bre and the agility of a youth delighted at not being obliged to retraverse way out, reached the steamers, and return-largest capture of men and material over more. Including Sheridan's force, Graat. of twenty. What can he do for you? You the weary waste of vorbe and particies, sted to Cairo, having fully obeyed his orders made in war. During the entire campaign had 110,000 men in the works before Potorsburg must stay and dine, and join the Hellenio' invariably, therefore, happens that no and accomplished the object of the expedi- the rebels had lost-40,000 prisoners, bo- Petersburg and Richmond.

If any rebel reinforcements had sides 12,000 in killed and wounded, and foll on the 2nd of April, and Richmond on afterwards, for this is the meeting night. sooner is the Professor observed to be fairly tion. The Hellonic Club is a famous institution. embarked on a course of things in general haen intended for Missouri, they were by about 8,000 by disease and straggling; the 3rd, and Lee fled in the direction of It assembles ouce a fortnight at the houses than the former faction begins to register this operation detained. In the affair of altogether an army of 60,000 mes. Graut's Lynchburg Grant pursued with remorso of the married membere in succession, and protest against this lavish waste of time Belmont, the rebels bad 7,000 men engaged entire loss wa 8,873. The great river was 1:ss energy, only stopping to strike fresh has as its ostensible object the promotion by 0-0-ing and shuffling with their feet, against Grant's 300. Their loss was 642, thus opened to the sea, and no more im- bows, and Les at last found himself.not: of the higher Greek learning, though in whereupon the progressiste feil bound in and his 185. Grant carried off two pieces portant fighting occurred in the Miasis-only out-fonghat, but out-marched, and opt- sippi Valley. Grant was made a Major- generalled. He was completely arrounded, point of fact the conference of scholiaste honour to raise a counter-demonstration, of artillery and 200 prisonera,

and on the 9th of April, 1885, he surrendered' Early in February 1862, siter repeated General in the regular army.

On the 16th of October he was placed in at Appomattox Court House, ia the opon usually resolves itself into a carousal of and the Professer'e volos is fiually drowned deipnosophiste.

in Babel uproar of hissing, whistling, applications to General Halleck, his imme. cockcrowing, and catcalls. With all this diate superior, he was finally allowed to command of the Military Division of the field, 27,000 men, all that remained of tis

Is ten days, Grant' liad. captured”. move up the Tennesse River against Fort Mississippi, which included the armies of army. the Professor contrives to turn out fair Greek scholars. The fact is he has the Hoary, in conjunction with a naval force the Ohio and the Cumberland, as well as Petersburg and Richmond, fought by his knack of inspiring most of his students The gun-boats silenced the fort, which that of the Tennessee, with which he had subordinates the battles of Five Forks and with such enthusiasm for his subject that surrendered on the 4th, before the troops been so long associated. Chattanooga.was Sailor's Oreok, besides numerons smaller Grant immediately made pre-at this time beleaguered and almost sur-ones, captured 20,000 men in actual battle, nothing but their own unaided efforts is arrived. afterwards required to master it. There is parations to attack Fort Donchon, about rounded by rebel forces, and the army received the surrender of 27,000 at Appo probably no man within these four seas in twelve miles off, on the Cumberland River of the Cumberland, which defended it, mattos, absolutely annihilating an army of

Without waiting for orders, he moved his was in imminent danger of starvation. or 70,000 soltiora. whom the spirit of classic antiquity is so

During the year, Grant's ontiro óss well realised, though many might be found troops to the latter point, and on the 12th, capturo. On the 23rd of October Grant more perfect is the mere dead letter. John with 15,000 men, began the siege. The reached this plans, and on the 27th, the among the troops immediately under his Stuart Blackie is more properly a Professor position was extremely strong, and the battle of Lookout Valley, fought under his command, including those in Butler's army, of the Greek Literature than the Greek garrison numbered 21,000. There was bard direction, relieved the army of the Cum- amounted to 12,695 killed, 47,822 wounded, Language, a foot ho seizes every available fighting on three successive days, and, ou berland. On the 23rd, 24th, and 25:b of and 20,48 missing: total, 82,720. He opportunity of impressing upon his pupils the 16th, Grant carried by assault the November, he fought the battle of Chat- captured in the same time 66, 512 soldiers.: and the public, bitterly complaining that works which were the key to the place. Or tanooga, utterly defeating the rebels under of the rebel killed and wounded no return. the want of a rightly graduated school the 16th, the rebels surrendered uncondi Bragg, driving them from positions that was ever made. He had destroyed every system in the country should compel hira tionally 66 cannon, 17,600 small arms, and seemed impregnable, and cap uring in the army opposed to him-those of Lee, Early; to receive into his class students in all 14,623 soldiers. About 4,000 more had open field over 6,000 prisoners and 40 and Beauregard, besides the reinforcementa stages of preparation, from the peasant-lad escaped in the night, and 2,500 were killed pieces of artillery. His own losses. wore sent to Leo from all quarters of the South or wounded. Grant's entire los was less 6,610; the rebela reported 2,500 killed learing at the last not a living man of all who has just left the plough-stilts to the

than 2,000. On the last day of fighting and wounded, besides prisoners, Grant's those armies who was not a prisoner. Bla well-grounded dux of the High School or

bis numbers amounted to 21,000, This force in this battle was 60,000; that of forces had never been more than one-third the Academy, and that he should be ex- pected to minister equally to the wants of was the first important success won by Bragg 45,000; but the enemy enjoyed the national troops during the war. Its advantages of position which counterbal- all.

Nor is the influence of the Professor con- strategic results were marked; the entire anced the disparity. The victory of Chat- fined to his own particular class-room; it states of Kentucky, and Tennessee at once tanooga overthrow the last important rebel makes itself felt among all the studious fell into the national hands, and the force west of the Alleghanies, and opened youth of the University, numbering over navigation of the Mississippi, the Ten the way for the national armies into two thousand. Ho is known and recognised nonsce, and the Cumberland rivers was Goorgle and beloved by all, for he identifles himself oponed for hundreds of miles. Grant was with their interest and aspirations; he made MajorGeneral of Volunteers, and utters in soug the sympathies of their place in command of the District of West hearts, and in the Senatus Academicus he

In March, be wes ordered to move up is the champion of their rights and liberties. At any concert or pepalar gathering much the Tennessee river towards Cerinth, where frequented by the Faculties, let but the the rebels were concentrating a large army; plaided Professor of Greek appear, and a he was dirested, however, not to attack rousing cheer will rond the air. On the the enemy. His forces, numbering 88,000, last day of the session, too, when the were accordingly encamped near Shiloh, or Professor distributes hie prises, his class. Pittsburg Laurling, on the west bank of mom is invaded by a host of Justinian. Tennessee, waiting the arrival of General jaundiced jurists, Hebrow hating Divinity Buell with 40,000 more; but on the 6th of Hall men, and Greek-abhorring medicale, April, the rabels came out from Corinth all come to take their last look of the man 50,000 strong, and attacked Grant violent they love yot cannot precisely understand.ly, hoping to overwheln him before Buell On these occasions the Professor makes a could arrive. 5,000 of his troops were bo- characteristic speech, which the reporters rend sapporting distance, so that he was of all the Edinburgh dailion, who have largely outnumbered. Both sides fonghi fraudulently insinnated themselves into the fiercely, but the national forces were push. Thero, however, lecture-room, are sure to give in full, no less ed back to the river. for the instruction than the amusement of Grant helt out till dark, when the head of the lieges, maliciously insertingull the inter- Buell's column came upon the field. There ruptions, ories, and dramatic incidents. as no moro beavy fighting that night, but the 7th, the combined national ar Then, after reciting a poem full of youth but on tacked and drove the rebels, who and fire, composed expressly for the ucca- sion, he will bid them all an affectionate retreated a far as Corinth, nineteen miles, farewell, and casting bie gowe aside, start Grant was senior in rank to Buell, and His entire loss away to London, perhaps, to lecture to an commanded on both days. assembly of the scientific and learned in was 12,217; that of Beauregard, the rebel Albemarie-street, or spend a few days with commander, was 10,0617; but the ground his artist friend Mr James Archer of Phil- remained in the hands of Grant, and the limore-gardens, and taste the groat world object of the rebel attack was unattained.

Two days afterwards, Hallest arrived at before retiring to healthful summer-long solitude and rest in bis suug Highland villa the front, and neaumed command of the of Altna Oraig, on-the Bay of Oban, army, Grant remaining at the head of the beneath the huge Ben More. Such is the right wing and the reserve. On the 30th life of a man who though old is still young; of May, Corinth was evacuated by the who though full, of lere is ever learning; rebels, although no fighting Lad occurred who in an age of materialism can be enthusince Shiloh In July, Halleck was made siastic, and in a century of conventionalities General-in-Chief, and Grant succeeded him dares to be natural; a rigid logician and a in command of the Department of the writer of love songs; a finished cosmopolite Tennessee. On the 19th of September, he though a fervent patriot; a simple Christian fought the battle of Inks, whore, owing to though a man of science. World.

A granite block from grauile Aberdeen." Next him there has often, in the old days; been the late Lord Neaves, the Bets' of Blackwood, the clegant maker of vers de société. Opposite might be found Dr. Andrew Wood, who, amid the anxieties of a laborious profession, has found time to exocute a tasteful translation of Horace, Next there is sometimes known swarthy Professor David Masson; while opposite, Professor Sellar, the author of the Augustan Peels, may shed the refining influences of his Oxford training around. Song al ternates with debate; and the Professor, goided by a remark from an ex-Professor of Divinity as to the preeminence of Mill as a moralist, will strike out ferociously against The Utilitarians, and wither up their principle by sarcastically referring to it as the greatest happiness of the greatest number, greatest number number one Or, again, he will be lashed into fury by the suggestion of some one that the personality of Homer is a myth, and in veigh savagely against Wolff and the whole tribe of Separatists; which, in turn, will lead him to expatiate on the higher systematising proclivities of the Germans. Ur, acting upon the principle that when a man can write songs himself be should never sing those of others, he will troll forth, in lusty tones, The Quaker's Wife

The Maid of Dalnucorra, A Song of Good Conservatives, or the Herr Phi lister.'

ULYSSES S. GRANT.

Ulysses S. Grant was boru on the 27th

Tennessee.

the failure of General Rosecrans to carry out his orders, only an incomplete victory was obtained. The national loss was 798, that of the rebels 1,438. The strategy of this battle was Grant's, the tactics were

The terme granted to Les at Appomattox were so magnanimous that the whole popn- lation of the South at once sought to share. their besonite, All the other rebel armies offered to surrender, and the greatest divil war in history was at an end,

This event. made

andrew Johan Prudent, and left Grant by far the most outspicuous figure in the public life of the country. He became the object of an enthusiasm greater than had ever been known in America, Every pos sible beauur was leaped upon him. The

Houses were presented to him grade of General was created for him by Congress. by citizens. Tower were illuminated, bo cause he entered them. Even the rebels claimed him as their protector, when ferde - Northemera clamoured for revenge.

The remarkable series of successes which

Grant returned atonce to Washington to Grant had now achieved polated him out as the appropriate leader of thenational armies. anperiutend the disbandment of his armies, In February 1864, the rank of Lieutenant This work was scarcely begun when Pre- It had General was created for him by Congress, sident Lincoln was assassinated. and on the 17th of March, he assumed com doubtless been intended to inflict the same wand of the armies of the United States. fate on Grant, but, he, fortunately, declined Having baten all the other important an invitation to acompany the President rebel commanders, and broken in pieces to the theatre where the murder was com every other great rebel force, he now pre-mitted, and left Washington on the rezy pared to encounter in person the army of evening of the crime. Northern Virginia under Lee; and, at the aame time by his subordinates, to occupy all the remaining forces of the enemy, so that no rebel army could in any emergency, or by any possibility, support anothos, Accordingly, while he sent herman into Georgia, sad directed Sigel to penetrate the valley of Virginia, and Butler to capture Kichmond, be fought his own way from the Rapidan io the James. On the 4th of May, he could put into battle 110,000

President Johnson soon took such a Under few aspects does the Professor

soldiers. Les couironted him with 75,000; appear to better advantage than when he

while 30,000 under Butler were opposed by the same number at Richmoud, and Bigel position in politics sa to throw most of thous entertains his students at breakfast on the

with 7,000 fought Breckenridge with 5,000 who had supported the war into open bos Saturday mornings of the winter session. Viewed even from a commissariat point of

or 6,000. Before Grant reached the James, tility to him. At first he had been so bit- view, it must be no slight drain upon a

he had lost 6,000 men killed, 26,000 ter towards the dofmted South, that Gene wounded, and nearly 7,000 missing. The ral Lee asked Grant's interprgition in his man's resources to purvey a morning meal for alphabetical batches of about three

losses of the rebels can never be known, as behalf, and it was given. Grant Bayed Les hundred lads. Eight is generally the

their records were destroyed by their own from prosecution le trasson, when an breakfast hour, and the hangry company

bands; but Grant-captured in this period drew Johnson was eager for it. But Mr 10,000 mon (4,000 more than Lee), and it Johnson soon became the ardent friend of arrive with exemplary punctuality. The

is probable that the entire loss of the enemy the former rebels, and was believed by Professor welcomes all with a few kind words, and after grase in Greek recommends

was little, if any less than his, although many to be plotting their return to power. Leo fought constantly on the defensive, In this conjunction, all parties turned to his guests as a rule of their lives, to read, at he does, a chapter of the Septuagint

and, therefore, with immense advantage Grant. Congress passed laws to restrain every morning on rising. It is a leading

and security. The battles of the Wilder the President and giving Grant au amount maxim of his, too, that, Greek being a living

nezs, Spotsylvania, North Anna, and Cold of power unknown before to any subordi- and not & dead language, his people should

Harbour were the hardest Grant over nate. His position was extremely delicate, learn to speak it; and at these repasts

fought; but, after each, he advanced and He was a soldier, and it was his duty to ba Lee withdrew. They oost the national subordinate to the President. Yet tho consequently the rule is that every one present shall express his ideas and wants,

commander dear, but they inflicted losseson President was in direct opposition to Con as far as possible, in the speech of Xeno.

Loe from which he never recovered, and grene-the law-making power. Grant, how- thus accomplished the object at which ever, for a long time was able to comply phon. All the guests are somewhat sheepish

Grant was aiming. He was more anxious with the directions of Congress, without and shy; but the Professor, aided by the

to annihilate Lea's army than to effect any offending the President. Johnson, indeed, tact of Mrs Blackie, will occasionally elicit

purely strategic rezult, or even to capture sought to obtain the sanction of Grant's A shrewd remark. Raw red haired Donald

the rebel capital, for he believed that only ustas for his palioy. Be auspended the MacLeod, from the Isle of Skye, who lives all the week on herring, oatmeal, and pots of April, 1822, at Point Pleasant, Clermont those of Rosecrans and Urd, Subsequent by the sunihilation of Lee could the re- Secretary of War, and placed Grant In his toes, being importuned, will treat the coa County, Ohio. His father was of Scotchy, Grant fortified Corinth, and directed bellion be overthrown. With this view and stead, and the soldier for some months was nally, however, it became necessary for pany to a Gaelic song; and then the Pro- descent, and a dealer in leather. At the the operations which resulted in the ro- for this purpose, the campaign of the Wilder a member of Mr Johnson's Cabinet. Fl-

pulse of the rebels from that place on the nera was planned and fought. ser will launch out on the importance of age of seventeen he entered the Military Bed and 4th of October, and in the battle Whon Grant arrived in front of Rich-him either to break with the Prendent, thie tongue for philological and other pur- Aademy at West Point, and, four years poses, relating how, after a terrible combat later, graduated twenty-first in a class of of the Hatchie on the 5th, the commanders mond, he crossed the James, in pursuance or by compliance, as he thought, is dis- with cold indifference, he has succeeded in thirty-nine, receiving the commission of under him being again Roscope and Ord. of the design formed months before. But- obey the law; and he refused to do the wringing money enough from the pockets brevet 2nd lieutenant. He was assigned to At the battle of Corinth, the entire national ler had failed to take the city, and his army latter. From this time President Johnson of his close-fisted countrymen to found and the 4th Infantry, and remained in the army loss was 2859; that of the rebela more than was now joined to that which had fought was his political and personal enemy. Dis

twice as large.

its way from the Rapidan; and, in June, popularity, however, romained unshaken handsomely endow a chair of the Keltic eleven years,was engaged in every battle Immediately after the victory of Corinth, the siege of. Richmond was begun. Sker with those who had enpported the war, and, language and literature in his much-loved of the Mexican war. except that of Buena Grant proposed to the General-in-Ouf man, meanwhile, was marching and fighting in 1858, he was elected President by large. University. Then some remark will make Vista, and received two brevets forgallantry, the capture of Vicksburg, and, receiving no daily in Georgia, and steadily advancing maj szilies. him revert to his past carcer, and he will In 1848 be married Julia, daughter of Fre- inflame the peripatetic ambition of his derick Dent, a prominent merchant of St. answer, on the 2nd of November, he began towards Atlanta, but Sigel bad been de- a movement into the interior of Mississippi. fented in the valley of Virginia, and wes audience by referring to his wanderings all Louis, and In 1654, having reached the while he threatened Vicksburg from the superseded by Hunter, who made his way over Europe-hoppy Scotch professore, who grade of Captain, he resigned his commis- have six months annual holiday-insion in the army. For several years he was rear with 39,000 men, Sherman was sent by as far as Lynchburg, and was then in his search of truth and beauty; or he will engaged in farming near St. Louis, but met way of the Mississippi River with 40,000, turn repelled. His retreat left open a road recount bow, being challenged thereto by with small success, and in 386, he entered to attack it in front. Grant advanced with to Washington, and Leo sent Early to Ernest Jones of Manchester, ho met that the leather trade with his father, at Galena, ont opposition as far as Oxford, fifty miles, threaten the national capital; whereupon when Holly Springs, his principal base of Grant gathered up a force which be placed The visitor to Edinburgh who happens donghty champion of Chartism on the Illinois.

supplies, was surrendered by Colonel under Sheridan, and that commandez ra to be strolling in the afternoon under the platform of the music-hall to hold public When the war of the rebellion broke out Murphy, who was dismissed from the army pidly deve Early, in a succession of bat shadow of the Castle Rock may very pos appeal to reason on the merits of Demo-in 1881, Grant was thirty-nine years of age in consequence. This compelled the sbane, through the valley of Virginia, and albly chance to find bis attention attracted, eracy, and how the Red Republican beaten, but entirely unknown to public men, and donment of the campaign, and Grant re destroyed his army as an organized fores. on a sudden turn in his walk, by a strange bobbed, and thumped, reeled home, and without any personal acquaintance with turned to the neighbourhood of Corinth, But the siege of Richmond still went on. and pistoresque figure, of which it is never recovered his defeat, like a second great affairs President Lineola's first call

though Grant made numerous attacks, he difficult to say whether it has more in com- Salmasina, done to death by the disputative for troops was made on the 16th of April, Sherman's assault on Vicksburg failed at The fabels were gallant and stubborn, and mon with that of a Castilian troubadour or darte of Defensie pro Populo Anglicano. and on the Uth, Grant was drilling & corn- about the same time,

In January, 1863, Grant took command was only partially cuecuseful. His army of the Ettrick Shepherd. It is the figure Then, to vary the entertainment, the Tro.pany of volunteers at Galene. of a man of middle stature, lithely built; offessor will sing one of his own songs, offered his services to the edjutant general in person of all the troops in the Mississippi reached out on the right and left on both fiuely chiselled features, cleanly shaven ; & perhaps Ye tragical Ditty of Jenny Geddes of the army, but received na raply, The Valley, and moved by the river to a plot sides of the James, but for many months wealth of silken allver locks trembling on and her Stoole, a ballad calculated to send Governor of illinois, however, employed him opposite Vicksburg. There he spent more he was unable to get possession of the bis slender shoulders; a dark frock-coat a his young friends out into the world with in the organisation of volunteer troops, and ral months in fruitless effort to turn the railroads by which Richmond was supplied, place; one plan was to build a canal in The Gotorüment advised him to abandon Shakespeare collar; a cavaller hat a gray burning hate against episcopacy; or he will at the end of five weeks, he was appointed right of Vicksburg, but out of reach of its the attempt, and the country was impa- Bcottie plaid intricately wrapped round make their eyes sparkle with patriotic are colonel cf the 21st Illinois Infantry. the chest. If the wayfarer swerves from by chanting The Lay of the Brave Ca- took o mmand of his regiant in June, and guns, through which the Army could pass tint and distrustful, but Grant never his straight and independent path so as to meron, and how his kilted clansmen fought reported first to General Pope, in Missouri, to a point below another to divert the wavored,

By September, Sherman had made his pass Blose to this mysterious personage, and died at Quatre Bras. Then all riding On the 7th of August, he was commissioned Mississippi river from its course a third, to find or make a circuitons passage to the ten to one that he will overhear him hum- will join in pealing forth Guadeamua {gther} | brigadier gektoral of volunteers, the appoint rear of the town, through the tortuons way to Atlanta, and Grant then sent him the United States became a lon wing a Burschenlied, a drinking-song of and the alphabetical batok,* now no longer mont having been made without his know streams on the north and salt. But all on bis famous march to the sen, a route which the Chief, had designed for himself Burns, or a chorus of Eschylus, Probably hungry, will file out into the street, and ledge. He had been tagimously recom these failed, and in April, Grant marched six mostke hefore. He made Sherman's

WEEN the world bes ones get hold of a since the limping form of Sir Walter, or forming into knots of twos and threes, will mended by the Congressmen from Illinois his army through the swamps on the

succuss possible, not only by holding Lea the leonins face of Christopher North, used resolve to dedicate the day to faleness, not one of whom had been his personal western bank to a place below Vicksbling, ront of Richmond but by sending rein- lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get to be recognised by everybody ta Priuser Some will climb the crags of Arthur's Seat, acquaintance. For a few weeks he was while the gunboats and the transport feat street, there he been no more familiar or to scan the distant shores of File; others occupied is Watching the movements of ran the batterien under a terrião Era, Onforcements to Thomes, who then drew off out of the world.

and debated the only atmy which could Tax is no reason why he should seek to striking presence in Edinburgh than that will take the ferry boat and cross the Forth partiaan forces in Mhourl

the 30th of April he crossed the river, and have confronted Shormat. Sherman, by disguise the fact. Those English statesmen of Fisioscor Binckis. His house in Hillto sannter among the bosky braes of On the 1st of September, he was placed street is only a few doors removed from the Buratisland and Aberdour others will to command of the District of South-Eat landed at Bruinsburg, thirty milles south this strategy, a left unopposed. Thus aucased best, in the long run, who wish to

of Vicksburg,

Thomas, Sheridan, and Sherman vers all appear before the public in plain clothes, and former dwelling of the Great Unknown stroll across the Dean Bridgo, westward Missouri, with headquartersat Cairo, and on

There were now two studies opposed used in furtherance of Grant's plans; sach not a fancy dres. Under Lord Beacons The trusty old domestic who opens the through Dalery Woods to Barnbogle the 6th, without orders, hassided, Paducah, door to you, who has been in the Professor's Castle by the sea;-none of thein, it may at the mouth of the Tennisses River, and to him. Pemberton, with 88,000 men, de executing his part in the great design, and field's regime every Cabinet Minister assumes family all her life, and who speaks Scotch be safely said, forgetful of what they saw cottimanding the navigation both of that fended Vicksburg, and Johnston, with a contribiting he share to the result at which a fancy dress of some kind or ether, and with an accent strongly suggesting Gaelic and heard that morning.

strea and of the Ohio. This stroke secured smaller bat rapidly incrassing fores, was Grant was aiming. Shornien finally reach- gutturale, ushers you into the library on As the Professor converts his breakfast Kentucky to the Union, for the State at Jackson, fifty miles further east. Grant's ed Savannah, Schofield best the enemy pages in an allen, and more or less inappre Sta Michael Hike Beach was not absolute the ground floor front, over the door of parlour into a elast-room, so he does his Legislature, which hal until then affected column vas 48,000 strong HS at once at Franklin, Thomas at Nashville, andpriate character-World which is inscribed her master's motto in classroom into a breakfast-parlour, and, it to be neutmi, at once declared in favour of abandoned all communication with the river Sheridan wherever he met bim; and ail

and pushed into the Interior, between the the whie Lee was held closely to the rebelly identified in his Oxford days with deiness golden characters, gakord vå satd. The may be added, so do others convert it into the Government, zoom lot very big, for the house itrella bear garden. The Professor frequently Early in November, he was ordered to two hostile armies. On the let of May, he capital, unable to send to muy part of the or indolence, Hajeed a little, and he gained is small, and is crammed from floor to cell, deems it less incumbent upon him to ež. make a demonstration in the direction of met and defeated portion of Pember theatre of war to reinforce any aridy, ao a first-class in a cohool, that of Law and Ing with books on all subjects and in all pound the shades of thesuing attaching to Belmont, a point on the wat bank of the ton's command, a Port Gibson then; ad- matter how threatened or aesailed. Scho Modern History, conducted at the time with languages. A large substantial table for the optative mood than to devote himsail Minsissipi, about thirty miles below Charo vanding bastard, on the 12th, he fell field was now brought from the West, and a larity which made its distinctions the spreading out and comparing authorities to on exposition of the philosophy of things it was net obly in possession of the rebels, upon and destroyed a free coming out from Fort Fisher and Wilmington on the zes ridicule of the University, Worlda wa

Raya is essentially vulgar, and neVON tonopolizes all the walking space, and in general. Thus his papile, who are but commseded by the ghos of Columbus, Jackson to realet him on the 14th, he coast were captured, ea as to afford him a makes you feel you are in a genuine desirous of mastering the speech of Plato, on the opposite shore. The object of the captured Backson, and scattered Johan's foothold from here, he was sont into the workshop. There are few or so ornaments are frequently invited to dwell upon the demonstration was to prevent the crossing artoy. Turning the same day to the interior of North Carolina, and Sherten valgerer than when it proceeds from mortida sible, except busts of Scott and Niebuhr beauties of Ossian, Investigate the merits of rebel troops into Missotri. Grant got fississippi, on the 10th he atterly sited was ordered to move northward to join him, ed pride disappointed ambition, or thwarted Eignettes of the Chevalier Bansen and of Mr Browning's pastry, or consider the bis orders on the 5th, and mured on the Pemberton's entice foras st Champlon's When all this was effected, and Sheridan wilfulness. A baffled despot is the vilgarest Edward Gerhard, the friends of his youth extreme antiquity of the Darvinian theory. 8th, with 8,100 men on transports. On the Hill on the 17th, puraning hotly, he came could fad no one sise to fight in the Valley, of dirty wretcher, no matter whether he be and the directors of his early, studies The natural consequence of all this is that 7th, he landed at Belmont broke up and up with the enemy and beat him again at Grant brought the great cavalry leader to the depot of a nation vindiosting in rights

Horthy Coloridos Statuette of Goothies the tunteipices, a the Gresk class room is a scene of perpetual destroyed the rebel camp under a heavy Black River Bridge, and, on the 18th, the army in front of Richmond, and, or of a donkey sinking under ild lose Lemonts of bis motrinei Kanzisilon oflitumults, reminding sse of the Gremt pad dra fram Golumbus, and gas returning to drove hip fato Vicksburg ensamping in making a last efort drove Line from bis }

In the world and yet not of it, Ready to take wing— By this lesson could wo profit It were everything! -Harriet McEwen Kimball.

PROFESSOR BLACKIE.

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He was inaugurated on the 2nd March, 1869. His ficat Administration was dis tinguished by a cessation of the strifes web sprang from the war; by a large re- duction of the national debt, and by a not- tlement of the difficulties with England, which had grown out of the depredations committed by rebel privateers during the rebellion. These difficulties threatened at one time to embroil tas two nations, but they were referred to arbitration, and the result was a large award of damages, which were paid by England to the United occasioned or allowed, States, on account of the injuries the had

During the latter half of his Adminis tration a violent opposition arose to Grant, led by men in his own party, who were dissatisfied with lle course. The personal vituperation which was lavished on him was almost unprecedented in political history but if it had any affect, it was in his brouz, 1872, by a larger vote and a larger majo He was re-elected to the Presidency in Tity than any candidate had received sinas Bombay Gokette.