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Row fhdea the last long streak of inow, Now bourgeon* every max* of quick About th* flowering aquarea, aud thick By aahan roota th* vlolata blow. Now ring* the woodland loud and long. The distance take* a lovelier hue. And drown'd in yonder living blue The lark become* a aightleea aong. Now dance the lights on lawn and lea, The flocks are whiter down th* vale. And milkier every milky eail On winding etream or distent eea. Where now th* eee mew pipee. or dive* In yonder greening gleam, and fly The happy binU r that change their eky To build and brood; that live their livoa From land to land; and in my breast Spring wakens, too; and my regret become* an April violet, And buds and blossoms like th* r*it. Alfred Tennjion. A.T LAST. “She is a queer craft, truly, senor, anil, what is more, she has at least one L>it of queer history attached to her." We were standing on tho Custom-house quay at Port Mahon —he swarthy, hand some, eager-e -ed and nervous of speech, a typical representative of the rugged ease-lov ’ig, idleness-oil ed, rabble which throng,a every city of i.ie fcoi'.h of JKir o.ie, and has sent its stragglers evea uto the aruiv of bu*v workers which pop ulates tho Balearic Tslsuds. The subject of l>is catument, an old h ig with high how and towering poop, elabor ate with quaint carvings, to which some tarnished remnant of its ane'ent gi'diug clung, rode easily at anchor amid a fleet of other smaller but similarly abandoned craft in the neglected corner of tho har bor to which all such merino veterans were relegated until some eu.eiprisiog speculator undertook to break ihern up. “What is the history?” tasked. “The senor would like to hear it?” “I would, indeed.” My new friend delibora'ely drew a leaf of tobacco from h-s pocket, rolled it into a cigar, which ho ignited trorn mine, blow a oloud of pungent smoke out in the di rection of the brig, and, seating hitnsc!? on one of the stone mooring posts, with his eyes fixed upon the vessel, said: “Then you shall.” This is his stoiy as closely as I cm recollect it, word for word; Fifteen years ago two people w o lov ed one another more than well lived at the farmhouse of the Finca Subernuy in the Barranco (valley) de Algander. One wa:, a girl ol the fa -ru, a creature of a beauty as pure and sweet as our sum mer sky; and a spi it as loving and wav ward as the wind that blows from the orango g-rdons of Alavor. The other, a lad of twenty, half sailor, half husbandman, but all tree lo or, bud been anchored in the valley by the cable, of his heart and in fier eyes forgotten to long for the tree air and the.salt spay. They were man and wife, of but a few months’ standing-—man and vile who went to labor, in the lime grove.- i fid orange orcha -Is side by #id><, and to whom, even with its weary work am; common lare, ihe valley was a Pa-u --dise. In the third month of their marriage a stranger appeared in the valley. He was an Englishman, a traveler lor pleasure, whose idle lounge brought him to the farm. Thu place pleased him, the people, as everywhere in the Islands, were hospitable, and proud of the pres ence of a guest; so he remained. Days wore to weeks, weeks became months, and still he lingered To day it was an excursion among the sbeqherds of the desolate heights that hem the valley in; to-morrow a sturdy climb up the MontedelTow, with its wind-wo'n con vent ruins; again a long ride through fields ofgohleq gsa’n and gardensof olives I’ruit groves, and fertile fa -ms. Whatever the amusement was he followed it up earnestly, as his countryman always do. At the end of his second month's slay one of those excursions brought him down the mountan side after nightfall, with a wild gale blowing from the north, -weep ing over the bare bill, witli a bitter breath. Ashe rode through! the darkness his attention was attracted by a women's shriek. It pierced 'be night, arid the gale, sh arp arid clear, foil of wil l ap peal foraici, and pushing towarl'it with out h esitation. In' foUad hi usijlf bef ire one of those high pyramidal structures of i loose stories, in whicn the Balearic shop herds shelter their sheep. Afire was burning in the lee of this l stall, and by its light he saw a woman a girl, rather —struggling in the arms of a burly, skin clad rudS in, while two otl.ei.i looked on with savage laughs. To ride one of these down, fell the other ' to tho earth, and with a fierce cut of his whip across his face compel the third to release his proy, was the work of as little time as it Likes to tell it, and be fore the shepherds had recovered from their stupefaction, the creator of it had cantered out of roach, of the volley of stones they sent after them, clasping the rescued girl to his breast. Her story was soon told. She was the young bride of tho farm, on her way home from another hacienda had been stepped by the half-savage shepherds, as he hud seen; sb, tiding and talking they came to the door of the house where he was an honored guest arid she a drudge. Great, as the social difference between them was, her gratitude and his admira tion bridged it over. They met often, he always lottiiy kind, lavish, on his re turn from ati occasional visit to town, with trifling gifts; she ever humbly proud of his notice truly grateful for his magnifi cence. The husband saw this, too, and saw it with pride. Poor fool! he thought that tho valley, where mon honored women as their own mothers, wives and sisters, was the world. At lad the guest departed. Next day a pedlar from Meroadel passed through the vallev. It was afterward recollected that he held some speech with her while exhibiting his wares to the people of the farm. Many other things were recollected, too, when, next nigut, her place at tho table in tho great kitchen wus vacant; her side of her husband’s bed was cold. When the country all about was scoured inly to discover two days later, that a strangeraud a country girl had-met in the market.place of Mercado], and had gone togeiuer to I’ort Mahon. Thither the husband folleowd them, mad with outraged love for berom! deadly hatred for her dcsl mycr. He louii'l chon, not. They lnd gone in tlie yacht, widen iiud broug the travel er to ihe is and, and which hud lain wait ing h-s pleasure, in the harbor. Whith ci? To Punte, some said. To France lie therefore went; by the first vessel that sailed. It would not profit to tell of the long, iruillesS search, to tell how, following them from place to place, alw .y too laic, ho traversed all the Mediterranean coa.-.;. until one day, hearing of him and that ho was now traveling alone, lie knew-thut the inevitable had come to pass, and that she had been onst-aside lor a fresher lace, a newer love. Still searching, ho found her at last. Found her in a slum, surrounded by .hieves, by vagrants, by women who wine only women in name, dead, with a breath ing Labe on her rigid heart. lie toqk the cbihl, and returning with it to his uatii'fi place, put it among those who would care-for it, and once more turned his rcfii-n-*- fitce- toward hi. goal. Uo carded-* ■ m knife now, and;bad a lea.* ibr it aw- n over her sacred grave. it wa ob o'- iv.n'ir,g, gisd somci : -n :* his heiVr 1 talk 1 him. The knife-bbrie rubbed so often to fill the rurl, was bc comin-r tliin. ft was becoming sharper, though, nnd he smiled each time he Ifiß its ftdWttanlly keener growing edge. “It will do its .ini!, all the hotter,” he thought. "It will do it all the more surely, swiftly and fatally.” Sometimes, however, a tear would be set hint) Might ho not, die? The very roving lift, bis pursuit led him exposed him to perils which might balk his pur p se. “ft" I should die before I meet, him!” he thought, “My God! ii' that should be!" At this thought his blood would turn to ice, and a strange honor come over him, a horror that would set Ins brain whirling, lull of mad devils, that had all one single, mocking (lice, and seemed to jeer at him and taunt him with defeat defeat. Irionc of those desparing fits a letter reached him from what had been bis home. It told him that the child—her child —was ill, and besought him to rei urn at once. With a cfir.se upon the fortune that in terrup'ted his purpose even ior alow u, ho set.about it to obey the letter, never cheless. He was in Palermo. The oi l brig i yonder lay there, bound for Majoicu, and be shipped on her. On the night of the third day out they cu ol9 upon a boat, drifting, and in it a , tainting man—the last survivor of a i piea-ure-yaebt foundered in a gale two days tcore. He was taken on board, revived and restored, and next day appeared on deck. Tho husband saw him, and his heart gave I a great leap. The end. long sought bv ninny laborious! ways—through deadly peril, toil, trouble, bitter wuut, but always with underi.-iting i faith, had eoiuo at Ins.. , lie and her turn do er stood face to fn-e. j His hand wont at once to lho koilo i 1 i his bosom, but touched the piiest’p letter and fell again. lie must be cautious. lie must not create any barrier to hi-* secinr the sick lit lie one among the Mujou-i Hill* His work -could he done secretly a .<1 ’ sc l'lv on someone of the. dayi of tin voyage yet to, come. Sovor.d of these days Passed wi boat brin.-.-ing the importunity; At last it a rued. 0 in night the , aveler and thee ptam sal 1,0 togo. nt; o.i-; the'.- w if. 'l\ ey I were di-ep.il -i - >-l i!•< lump s..w many a • er eip <-1 ..no e the oar.iu-evs sopa -i. The man at the whoa! lo a cow through t"-e cpo.i cabin b Ir'i sa.v t, i ,n rie at 1. st, anJ he. n o iv -k- ■ • n spe.A press.ag h-s temples -.e.'v- ' , I- -> blinds: “I m.re a lieu c'.u, he s id; ' I. w 1 ■;0 on deck f-r a breath of w.i. t it.o fiesh sir the e is.” It wrs hot; a breath ess, bevy sum mer night, upp es*ive with the intense waimth of a covni-g bin at; .uc tho helmsman, as he felt ib.- ai- fc >u h's bo-1-111 a'l i. e iuruac-es of hell lon'-l u -t have b.ou- it such a fierce g.-ss of fl ur ig jjy as to led his blood to fire and flashed a,ed mist ialiis e.iio; eyes whe-i stepped upon the deck. At. lust! at last I “A close, hot i-...h , n\v n n.” nhi the Englishman, in 1- 0.-y c oc- v.y asholor.eged slowly ;o the i. !. . “Tne sort of nf lit.to ie,iiii ido co me u>- I dies the daw led in- e gn md oh.' Tbeh’igg ve a li-c • .olcev,. dasl'ie fen ttv sted her i w . a- c~ A hr'giit hi., a f. shod - I-'. ' i the 1 gilt- of the b oni ce; ihih u , e mi-y hhjoJ weere two had u~c) .oo't' g with bV ng eyes into 11*0 blick tv. er wlie ea < ele of sn. rpi'.(pies ! i.-g.-u tt! 'phosphors cut I i-e. tv'ue icd in lines of paUiu flume anu vanished. There had been a single deep gi oao, and a figure had plunged past the c:i hi window; a figure where heart ws* cleft b - a keen krfb whose blade tv * w.i i ,o thin that it hod licet) Bnf pped of-.. i ng oidv tho liaodle in the c.'.ectu one.’s hand. At the mure i -stent, a su . t e si-igle one visible in the niii.k..- heavens litd fJleu in a swift sweep ol '-girt. Next day it was known t r-t l -e i. ave - er, ho lately snatched from de.-ih i-,>ou i , hud fallen overborn! -i a d..c-d.cn fit and been swallowed bv the sea. “And the man? r J f e c'u’hl? ’ I • c--' when my svovy-teller drew a It . i - en l j v,lpc-i ‘the pc-->•-a,-on ’"o u . : s fn-e 1 sad with the b. air ofl- ■ •>'.*•(*-] j his finished c ~:if ia. /tT-v..i "/ " | thv ni''re? ’ I “Fail bless />• d..-- o ” sa: ’- v • •• j bind mu, a- Ia slehdtir o < w.i, : - - I free-limT.i.-ii f irl bi'th icm e- 1 < ■ halo-footed. atiS ch and in die d-c.r -• • ■■■• pWt.ninl’: .! C:*S of fix- cnc i'-. .--i "1 iviisi me and smote i: - icn.l V ’ i the face with it melon-e.r. * promise? Pardon me, Liu " f i know how false be is. II" pi- - ire faithfully to t.-ike me to tli<> 1.1:• a em i •: ji/ciza to-dav, and here I find b■; - : way.-, siar iglfseycsout at i'-.-I tvic.i 1 old ship yonder. Wlwfc c.m i‘- c ->i about t that be feasts If* eyc-s jipon u <*;>, like a poor worn-in pm n nt her sit <;? “It is a sL-bie Ia mon ume nt! '- ■ and story-teller, h ; s eyes ‘Waii-tg 1 a nient with savage jn.v, which s•' c , 1 - suclt a look of love as one m cl - -me when he brushed the gi l.c. . ’ back from her icrobcad and kisdm he “8 n -r, you ask whether the mt’-i ; .4 the child of my stoiy are alive. The.' are.” . And hand in hand with i l-p.bo went up the bhi/.irig Huti-it quav, ami -■ matted imho busy -tieet. Wen tell Phillips credits Horace Greeley with having said to a lecture committee, who paid him in Western hank hills, that if convenient he woold prefer to have a well-executed counterfeit on some East ern bank. Here’s an argument in favor of cheese. Prof. Peck says that in this country, where cheese is least used, one physician to every 500 persons is required. In ttwitzerland and countries where it is most used, only one physician is needed for every 10,000 persons. NUMBER 14. KAHSAD. Nrss.au, ns is generally known, is not rally the chief town of tho inland of New Providence, but. also the capi tal of the Btihaiivts. The.‘the Legis lature meets ana the Governor resides. The Government Houso Is pleasantly si!-.luted, und the n;-l roach to it is ap propriuiciy Htlorned by a colossul sta tue of Christopher Columbus. The Legislature ie oleoted once in seven y. us, and generally Includes several coli : 1 men-burs. The black popula ti-m hi ■ >ly prodomfimtes, for not only did i: rr.ly settlers own slaves, but mmy curg. et if captured slavers were in i to Nassau, aud left thereto shill for themselves. S-m- ■of the mulattoes and! ’ey con sld- viit-li) talent as artisans. The shell work they produce -.-. c-s exquisite -te and skill; and lkrthcl. -.lm best i- hub .-or of the group ur. J very \ - : luH'i lie itoo is of ‘J-.o colored -u-osi-lil. O; 1 thinnybngs Is r. n.,fcd character of N.--. am,a modern -i- genes,who has taken up Ids msidorii* in Grahtr.town, -suburb ivifeeted by -he blu-*k g-.ii try. The old fellow, not to speak dis respe fully of him, was crossed in love in his earlier days, it is said, since which mclam-holy event he lias worn a suit of gunny bags of a fashion not borrowed from Paris, and has slept in a hogshead laid on its side under a wall 1 y the way-side; owing to the narrowness of li is quarters, and the heat of the climate,he cooks his meals In the open air. 1 think the charge of laziness un founded, if one but considers the se vere labor the negroes often accom plish, ns, for example, in the sponge fishery, which gives employment to the owners and crows of five hundred licensed cruft of ten to twenty-five tops burden, and is carried on with somfs risk from the weather,and much hard sldp, for the sponges are two or three fathoms below tho surface, and must bo tern from the rocks with hooks at tached to long poles. The position of tho sponges Is ascertained by means of a water-glass, which is a simple ob long box a foot square, open at the upper end, and containing a pane of. glass at the other; on holding this, perpendicularly over the water one win see everything through it as clear ly as in an aquarium—fish, sponges,. coral, or shells. The Bahama sponges arc chiefly of four sorts, sheep-wool, which is the most valuablo.rcef,velvet, and glove,and although inferior to the finest Mediterranean sponges, are very strong, and serviceable for wash ing carriages, surgery and the like. The sponge boats usually get in on. 1 .turday, and the sponges are assort ed in 1,1; • markets, each boat-load and variety by i'self. On Monday they n-o -!'■■.p r-d <f at auction, only mem b-.-s ol th - sponge guild and those m : n-- -- • .If offers being permitted, to bid, ; :fi v '.me by written ten h is. li. ;y." ' Mttjazine. IHI! VATICAN. > Thu word is often used,but there are tnany who do not understand its im port. The term refers to a collection •f buildings on one of the seven hills : of Home, which covers a space of 1,200 feet in length,and I,ooofeetin breadth, i It is built on t lie spot once occupied by tin- 1 aril on of the cruel Nero. It >.y . i: . origin to the Bishop of Rome, i,in the early part of the sixth cen t.ury, erected a humble residence on its site. About ’ e year 11 CO Pope Eugenlus robtiift i on ft magnificent scale. In iM.-eni I a f-ov years afterward,gave It up as a lod ing to Peter 11., King of Ar-.gon. Ju 1305 Clement V.,at th ■ in?! i ration of the King of France, r oioved the Pupal See from Rome to A vignoii, -vhero the Vutican. remained id a condition of obscurity aud neglect ,r more tin ri seventy years. But soon after the return of the Pon tifical Court to Home, an event which had been so earnestly prayed fir by poor Petrarch, find which finally took place in 1576, the Vatican was put In a state of repair, again enlarged, and It, was thenceforward considered as the regular palace and residence of the popes, who, one after tho other, added fresh buildings to It, and gradually encircled it with antiquities, statues, pictures and books until it became the richest depository in the world. The library of the Vatican was com menced 1,400 years ago. It contains 40,000 manuscripts, among which are some by Pliny, St. Thomas. St. Charles Borromeo and many Hebrew, Syrian, Arabian and Armenian Bibles. The whole of the Immense buildings composing the Vatican are filled with statues found beneath the ruins ol ancient Rome, with paintings by the masters and with curious medals and antiquities of almost every descrip tion. When It is, known that there have been exhumed more than 70,000 sta tues from the ruined temples and pal aces of Rome, the reader can form some idea of the richness ol the Vatl oan. The Chinese have commenced to take London. A colony has settled there in th* wishee-wushee business,