jette;' and Mrs. Millyun has given so juch to bear our expenses. We shall not (^obliged to hire anything done scarcely !' 'Humph !' said Miss Mary Bryant, who jjs Mrs. George Allen's single sister, jadhad five thousand a year of her own, jaJ'rio questions asked. As I said before, /gumph !' said Mary Bryant. 'Who makes the coffee this year P' she

isked. 'Oh. c are g°ing to do that ourselves, jjjg. O'Lay asked us two dollars a. night, pd we are going to save that, and Mrs. jjrown said she would do it.' 'I'll see to the coffee,' remarked Miss Hary Bryant, dryly. 'What! you make coffee ! What did «ott say about cooking, yesterday?' <Not at all. I'm going to pay Nora O'Lav two dollars a night for coffee and frying oysters. Her husband is out of fork and she has six children. For the four nights of the bizaar it will bo quite ulift, and she will come ' in at the death' and help clear up.' 'Well, of course if you pay her out of your own pocket, it's nobody's business, bat the Belief Society won't pay any bills.' f . " s i Generally speaking, I pay my own, said Miss Bryant. ' What are the girls going to make, this afternoon, when they come here ?' 'Dress dolls. There's a great deal in&deon dolls if you understand it. If youdress them cheaply and showily, and jot on the clothes, you more than quad ruple the cost in the profit . Don't you see?' • 'landerstand. I was sacrificed to such dolls in my childhood. Flimsy tarlatan and spangles, and to cut a stitch was to sacrifice'a whole wardrobe. And the doll had on nothing to speak of during the rest of her natural existence. Do these young ladies propose to immolate the juveniles also on the altar of economy ?' ' What a queer girl you are. I don't toot what you mean! Of course they wast to make all they can for the bazaar. But here comes the first of them, while we are talking, and here is Mrs. Johnson's man with the dolls in a clothes-basket!'

: In truth, it was a pretty, a kindly sight to see the girls gathered together in Mrs. Allen's pretty rooms. Girls are so pretty in themselves that it don't matter what they do;'they are always the nicest of all things to look at. * But to-day they meant business. There were bright experienced ones who cut, and industrious ones who sewed, and ignorant ones who botched, andidle ones who shirked, and busybodies who inspected tut did hot work, as always is the case in such affairs.

; Miss Bryant came in while they were the busiest, with her walking dress on, and the brightest of smiles on her face.

' Well; girls, how many have I got to dress ?'

" 'Just as many as you please. There's a hundred here, and each of us can dress one nicely, this afternoon,' said the pretty dolls-chair girl.

'That's only twenty. Well, I'll dress %.' '

' Fifty dolls ! Oh, Miss Bryant, you are too good!' And a buzz of appro bation ran through the circle.

' 'No I'm not. Fifty dolls is'nt much to dress for one's bleeding country. Select fifty of the prettiest and largest. Put them into the basket, and I'll call for them in an hour or so.' And Miss Bryant walked off.

The carriage was at the door, and Miss Bryant drove away in it. She drove a long way up Washington street, and got out at a droll little shop, kept by an old lady in a full-bordered cap.

; It would have done your heart good to have seen Miss Bryant tumble over the droll little piles of goods that had lain on the shelves so long, some of them, that they were quite shelf-worn. But there were remnants of silk of bright colors, of bobbinet lace, illusions, edgings ; summer silks in little chec&F, and small remnants of lining silks ; bright merinos and wool delaines, balls of narrow ribbons, odds and ends of all sorts and kinds. The shelves looked quite bare when Miss Bry ant paid the bill, and the face of the little old lady grew lovely to behold. 'How comes on the winter, Mrs. Hazard ?' asked Miss Bryant.

| ' Pretty bad, pretty bad. You see, I'd rented my upper room to Nelly Moore and her mother. And now she's out of Iwork, owing to Mrs. Jones dismissing her extra help on account of hard times, and I expect they'll have to move, and then what I'll do to pay the rent puzzles me.' | 'I'll just step up there,' said Miss |Bryant, just as if that was not what she Intended'to do.

\ 'So, Nelly,' said Miss Bryant, 'you iare not going to be as busy as formerly for a while. I'm ever so glad, for it helps me out of an embarrassment. I've got fifty dolls to dress for the bazaar. Of course I'm not so silly as to do it myself. Here's the material to dress them. Can you do it ?'

' In two weeks —yes, if mother will help on the plain things. It's all hand-work mostly, and takes time. ' Well they are all sizes ; some of them Pery handsome ; some small and easy to Iress. Now they must be honestly dress 3d, at least all the larger ones, with the ilothes to come off and put on, just as the ittle girls love them best; and if you iarnot do it at all, tell me. Let Catherine

Waters do up the clothes that need it— she is out of work, too—and tell her to lend me the bill.'

' Well, it's hard enough on her,' said elly;' but Mrs Rochester says that they

cannot afford a laundress, this winter, and keep their cook, too.' ' Humph !' said Miss Bryant. ' I'll bring you round the dolls^before dark.' When Miss Bryant came back she felt for a moment as if she had missed her way and got into a bee-hive, there was such a busy hum. ' I'm sure I try to be economical,' said one young lady, a teacher of music' ' I save a dollar a week washing handkerchief's and collars, and that's what I'm going to give to the bazaar. I feel as if I had earned it almost.' • '

• <jA'nd tlle bazaar ™ to help the poor P said Miss Bryant, with that odd smile of hers.

' Of course.' ' What kind of a woman is your washer woman P'

' Oh, she's a respectable woman, I assure you.

' Likely to come on the Belief Society this winter?'

' Certainly not, if she can help it. But she may for all that.'

t Now ray dear girl.' said Miss Bryant, with her dazzling smile, ' don't you think that dollar a week that you save, at, I am sure, at some inconvenience to yourself, and, I am equally certain, some nnnoyance to your landlady, w ou id help the Belief Society more by keeping: your washer woman beyond the need of its help, by her honest pay for tho only part of her work on which she makes any real profit, than to put it \ n { o soup house fund to help you don't know who, nor how needy or deserving they really are ? Don't you see that you take honest bread tc give to possible impostors P'

'But Miss Bryant, don't you approve of the baznar ? Don't you think the soup houses is a good thine ?'

' Yei the strikfrs think so, feeling sure that their families will bo helped while they fight their employers. The frontier towns think so when they have foreign invasions of needy adventurers. One who has depended on the soup-house will depend again; and you do much to encourage vice and idleness. No. girlg ! Have your bazaar. Enjoy yourselves, make yourselves pretty, and have your good time. God bless you all! But while you are doing it don't discharge the music-teacher and teach tho little sisters i^you can afford to pay her, for she has a mother to support, or somebody else ; nor do unsuitable work and make yourself ill, when tho fee for one doctor's visit will be 'a godsend to some poor woman glad of the job. If you are rich enough to be generous, you can be honest, and help others to be If you economize, try to do 'it all yourself; don't crowd another's place. Don't try to teach, and tako the •place of a poorer girl who could do it just as well, or better who lives on it, while •you only buy ribbons with the money.' ' But the example—' • Fudge ! as Burchell says. People who are needy don't want your example ; they want your place. Your room in the army of teachers is far better than your com pany. Now there is a large class of peo ple born and bred to better days, who will grow very cold and feel very hungry and never tell anybody, who will always be decent and pinched and patient, and I hold it is the business of good Christians to help these, and help them, with honest pay for honest work and with such timely help, delicately offered, as will confirm them in their own self-respect.'

This was quite a speech for Miss Bryant. But the result was seen; for although not nearly so many persons ' donated' work or articles, or were asked to do so, so much was paid out for such offices that there were not so very many poor folks to help that winter, for Free ville is only a smali place after all. And the young folks had a glorious good time and will talk of it for years to come.

Sketch of New York.

THE EMPIKE CITY OF AMEEICA

Entrance. Coming in from the Atlantic Ocean, the first land which meets the view is Sandy Hook, a long neck of land belonging to the State of New Jersey, and the point of call for all ocean steamers. Leaving Sandy Hook in the rear, and sailing north, you come into what is called the lower bay; sailing up this body of water for about twelve miles, you come to a narrow pass, about a mile in width, called the Narrows. From here on your left is Satten island, and on your right Long Island, the former about thirty miles in circumference and the latter about two hundred. On both sides of the Narrows are two stone forts, one on the water's edge, and one on the hill, which forms a pretty good barrier. Passing through the Narrows you come into New York Bay, a fine body of water, seven miles long by five broad. On your right are the shores of Long Island, and on the left those of New Jersey. There are numerous islands in New York Bay the largest of which are Governors and Bed lows. Governors Island, which is ahout a mile in circumference, holds another stone fort, the most ancient of all, which makes altogether five forts protecting the harbour. Sailing up the Bay for seven miles, you come into a fine view of New York, which tapers down to a point not more than half a mile in width. The City of New York is situated ®n an island called Manhatten, which is surrounded by the Hudson East, and Harlem rivers. The greatest length of the island is four teen miles, and the breadth three. The City proper occupys five miles from the i

southern extremity of the island, and after that you come into the suburbs. On that point of New "York which faces the Bay, stands an old round wooden fort, which is now converted into emigration barracks, and is called the Battery. Emi grants within its walls are safe from the clutches of sharpers outside, and can be forwarded to any part of the United states. As many as ten thousand emi grants havo passed through this place in one week. Outside of the barracks, jwhat used to be a barren waste, is now converted into a beautiful park with orna mental iron railings and gates, and con taining numerous summer houses, which look quite inviting to the emigrant's eye. From tho Battery, numerous ferry boats ply to and fro to Staten Islands and Brooklyn. Wo will now thread our way up Broadway, tho groat renowned street. A short way up you como to a small park called Bowling Green, and around which are located nearly all the English steamer offices]; proceeding still further up you pass a number of the leading express offices, and come into view of Trinity Church, with its steeple over 200 feet high, and which faces Wall-Street, the great financial thoroughfare. Wall-Street contains a number of fine buildings, pro minent among which are the Gold and Stock Exchange. Treasury, Custom House, and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's office. All tho leading bankers and brokers have their offices in this street. The principal room in the Stock Exchange is like an amphitheatre, in the middle of which is a fountain with run ning jets, and around which the brokers congregate to buy and sell stock. Tho brokers have accquired the namo of the Bulls and Bears. There are some queer scenes enacted hero at times, to a stranger unaccquainted with their mode of dealing, they appear like a lot of mad men, shout ing and yelling with all their might, aud very fortunately tho cold water is so near hand to cool their fevered brains, or else some of thorn would go off their chump. The bulls try to run the stocks up, and the bears to run them down. The Custom House is an immense structure, and covers an entire square The Treasury is also a fine stone structure, and in it can be found gold in abundance, so much so that when they pay out large sums it is shovelled on to the scales and weighed. Passing further up Broadway, you pass a number of tho leading Life and Fire Insur ance Companies, viz:—Home, Equitable, Mutual Life, Liverpool London and Globe, and many others. On the site whlqh- Barnum's old museum used to stand, and* which was burnod down in 1865. stands the present Herald building, a beautiful iron structure, five storys in height, and opposite which building, and occupy ing a part of the City Hall Park, is tho new Post-office, another splendid structure, for which the architect got, a thousand pounds for bis plans. In the new post office, will be found every convenience for the clerks and carriers, even to a restau rant, there are over five hundred employ ees in the office. Opposite the post-office is St Paul's Church, and also one of the oldest and best hotels, tho Astor'House, capable of accomodating 1000 guei'sts. Both tho old and new City Halls cover a portion of tho City Hall Park. The new hall has cost the government over £1,000,000. Opposite tho City Hall Park, in Broadway, is Stewarts great wholesale drapery establishment. The retail establishment is a mile further up,and covers an entire square of ground ; both buildings are fivo storys in height. This firm altogether employs 2,000 people, male and female, and does a business annually of several millions of pounds. The different buildings have steam eleva tors to carry customers up and down. In 1865 Mr. Stewart's private income was £800,000. His private residence, situat ed in tho Fifth Avenue, cost £200,000. Situated further up Broadway are the large drapery establishments of Lord and Taylor, Arnold Constable & Co., and H. B. Claflin & Co., all approaching Mr. Stewart's in size- Grace Church is a handsome edifice, situated at tho junction of Tenth Street, and commands a view of Broadway from that point down to tho Battery, a distance of two miles. From this point, further up Broardway, are tho leading retail stores, and also some of tho leading hotels, whose charges vary from ten shillings to a pound, per diem. The leading hotels, like the drapery shops, contain steam elevators for their guests, convenience. Bordering on Broadway are two fine parks, viz :—Union Square and Madison. The business portion of Broad way ceases about four miles up, and then some of the most fashionable residences are to be seen. The street also changes its name to that of the Bl'oomingdale Koad, and is one of the finest drives in the city. The principal streets in New York are East and West Broadway— Broadway proper —the Bowery, Camel, Wall, Broad, Washington, Greenwich, West South, Hudson, Centre, and Grand. The avenues run north and south, and aro numbered from one to fourteen. The Fifth Avenue is the most aristocratic street in the city. The streets running east and west, two miles from the Battery, are numbered consecutively from first, as far. two hundredth, and the Fifth Avenue is the centure or dividing line. On one side of it, for example, is East Tenth Street, and on the other West Tenth Street, which makes it comparatively easy for strangers to find tkeir destination. The finest, and the most fashionable of the numbered streets are the Fourteenth, Twenty-third, Thirty-fourth, and Forty

second. The Central Park, situated about the middle of the island, is one of the best laid out parks in the world. It takes in about 500 acres; has fine gravelled walks, aud splendid drives, two beautiful lakes, on which aro numerous small pleasure boats in the summer, and on whose surface thousands of skaters glide along in the winter. There are also a large collection of wild animals, and every, Saturday afternoon a brass ■ band volun teers its services, which contributes to the, amusement of pleasure-seekers. In the upper portion of the park is the Croton, Reservoir, which receives its supply from, the Croton Lake, in Westchester county, N.Y. The reservoir, in its turn, supplies' the lower reservoir, wnich covers two entire squares in the city, and stands on the site of the old Crystal Palace which; was burned down, and the city roe-ires its supply from tho ono just mentioned. The Government runs a line of. coaches in tho park, which start evory honr, and pleasure-seekers can avail themselves of two hours drive for the sum of one shilling. In the city there are twenty tramway companies, as many of omnibuses, aad an elevated railway, supported on immense iron pillars, and running for a distance of two miles through Greenwich Street and Ninth Avenue, On the tramways you can ride a distance of seven miles for threepence ; the.charge on the omni bus is five-ponGo, and on the elevated railway the same.

From different points in the city you can get ferry-boats to all the suburbs, viz : - Staten Island. Brooklyn, Williams, burg, Greenpoint, Hunterspoint, Astoria- Hobokeri, and Jersey city; tho charges on all these boats ure very moderate. Staten Island and Hoboken are the groat resorts for Germans on Sundays, and lager-beer and switzercase can bo got in abundance. Long Branch and Coney Island aro the fashonablo watering places. President Grant's summer home is in Long Branch, and commands a fine view of tho Atlantic Ocean ; it is a fine model of a wooden structure, and is valued at L 5.000. Among the principal places of amusement in New York, may bo men tioned tho Academy of Music, corner Irving place and Fourteenth Street, Pike's Opera Houso, Twenty-third Street, and Eighth Avenue, Booth's Theatre, Sixth Avenue, and Twenty-third Street, Wal lack's Theatre, Niblos Garden, Winter Garden, Broadway Theatre, Olympic Theatre, Kelly and Leons, and the San Francisco Minstrels, and Wood's Museum, {all situated in Broadway. The inimitable Barnum, who has been burned down several times, when last heard of had his museum in Fourteenth Street, opposite tho Academy of Music. Tho wharves lino'each side of the city for two miles. The East River side is tho rendovous forall sailing vessels, and on the North River side can be found the large steamers to all parts of the world. Tho Pacific Mail S.S. Go's, wharf, at the foot of Canal Street, is one of tho largest; the Ininan, National, Anchor, aud French lines have all large wharves. The daily papers are the Herald, Times, Sun, Star, and World. The Herald has theJlargcst|circulation and tho Sun and Star come next. Tho principal cemeteries are Greenwood, Calvery, and New York Bay. Greenwood is without exception, one of the finest cemeteries in the world ; a person could spend a week traversing it, and then not sco it all. Calvery, the Catholic cemetery, is also aycry beautiful one of its size. The Hudson .River and Harlem Rail Road depots are large brick structures. Tho Hudson River depot covers an entire square* the ground alone of which cost £200,000. Ihe Brooklyn Bridgo, which is in course of erection will, when completed, be one of the largest in the world. It will bo two miles in length and about 300 feet high in the center, and capable of allowing tho largest vessels to pass underneath. The paid metropolitan Fire Dopartment is a groat improvement over the old volunteer force. In former days, when the volunteer force existed, everything was confusion at a fire, besides being a great deal of rowdyism and theft. Now the engines and ladders are drawn by powerful horses, and can turn out in five minutes notice. The pay given to firemen is about 15 pounds a month ; everything is worked with a system, and thefts aro never heard of. The police force numbers fully 3000 men, and aro paid about the same as the firemen. The principal Markets are Washington, Clin ton, Fulton, and Center, either of which could hold Auckland market in one corner. In the East River is an island, a mile long, called Blackwells. To this place are sent all criminals whose terms of imprisonment does not exceed six. months ; here they are all fully employed, and their chance of escape very small. Randalls island situated further up the river, is the House of Refuge, where all the boys are sent, and whore they all learn some trade, whichever they may choose upon. The population of New York is close upon 1,000,000. Brooklyn numbers over 400,000, and Jersey City 500,000, and if the population increases as it his done for the past number of years, tho three combined will exceed that of London in time not far distant.—R.B. •:' . ■ '

Dean Cowper, of Durham, was very economicel of his wine. One day at table he was decanting on the extraordinary per formance of a man who was blind, and remarked that the poor fellow could see no more than " that bottle." '' Ido not wonder at that at all, sir," replied a minor canon, " for we have seen no more than that bottle all the afternoon,"

The Lament of the Covenant, 1876.

:'Wir hatten gebauet em stattlichen Haus.' --BUIIBCHLIBD.

We built of old a stately house, Its pillars were a people's vows,— The sun is set! Our house wa'tf glorious in its day : We were not worthy there to stay,— Its. sun is set. God's sun on moor and hill arose; j Screamed in its face the kites and crows. ;And round our towers the eagles came | With beak of blood and wing of flame,— j Whene'er it set. Our only houso they stained with blood, rliey tore apart its carven wood • ! The kings We died for trode us down The land we loved forgot its own, The sun is set. The house we built in days of old, | With bars of iron, with bands of gold, iThat house has vanshed. bars and bands* 0 for a house not made with hands, ' In Scotland yet! .*■***## i We turn from all that's past and done i We look to an eternal Sun, ' ! That shall not set. I Not in the Stewart or the Guelph, I Our. Covenant stands in God himself. ;Behold, a house comes down from heaven, 1 .Behold, a house by God is given . To Scotland yet! The house we loved of old was clay: Fashioned by man, it passed away Man's walls of clay must fall aside, God s true house evermore abide, In Scotland yet! We love our Covenant-house, because It mirrored God's eternal laws ; :That ancient Form among us stood i A passing image of the God. We hold, the old, we hold tho new, "We cling to the eternal true,— In Scotland yet! From hill and moor the shadows fly, A better mormng floods the sky ; Above our house, with broken bands. Stretches a House not made with hands,— In Scotland yet! And though that house no more is here Its very dust to us is dear ; ' Their bones who built its walls of old Havo long since turned to mold, Their sun is set. But may our hands forget their skill, When we forget Graves that are green on every hill, Of Scotland yet! The Cameronian or ' Reformed Presby tenan Kirk—the most ancient and intensely national of all the fragments of Scotch Presbytery— after remaining separateion the'ground of the Covenant for two J^ drM|Vearß, united this year with theiFrno Kiffl****Bfre union was fixed for Thursday, the 25 of May

How a Rebel Train was Captured

Among the expedition undertaken at this period wo must mention one which, despite its tragic termination, shows what a small band of daring men could attempt. An individual named Andrews, employed in the secret service by Buell, and twenty fave soldiers selected by him went to Chattanooga under different disguises, and thence to Marietta, in Georgia, which was assigned them as a place of rendezvous, and which was situated in the very heart ot the enemy's country. Once assembled, thoy got on board a train of cars loaded with Confederate troops and ammunition. During the trip the train stopped, aa usual, near a lonely tavern, close to tho track. Every-body got out, and both engineer and firemen went to their break fust. Andrews took advantage of their absence to jump upon the locomotive, which was detatched by his men, with three cars from the rest of the train'- they started off at full speed, leaving their fellow travelers in a state of stupefaction. At the stations where they stopped tney quietly answered questions that they were carrying powder to Beauregard's army. Presently they began the work of destruct ion which they had projected ; they cut the telegraph wires, tore up the rails behind them, and proceeded to fire the bridges which they reached on their way to Chattanooga. They hoped to arrive at thut city before the news of the expedition had been spread abroad, to pass rapidly through it and join Mitchell at 'Hunts-' ville. One of tho trains which they hal pascd on tho way after exchanging the most satisactory explanation, reached un embankment where Andrews Ind torn up the rails and made every preparation to to throw the cars off the track. Tho con ductor discovered the trap in time, and backed his engine instantly, in order to overtake those who laid it. At his approach the Federals made off in grer.t haste, throwing out of the cars everything that could embarrass their flight. They at first got a little ahead, arid a tew occupants of log huts lying contiguous to the railway track looked on without understanding this strange piusuit. But being short of fuel, they soon began to lose ground ; they could not stop long enough to tear up the rails; they tried in vain to keep up the fire of their engine, they were about to be overtaken; their oil had given out; the axle-bones were melted by the friction. The game was lost; they stopped the engine and rushed into the woods, where tliey hoped to con seal themselves. Meanwhile the tele graph had everywhere announced their ' presence, and the population started in pursuit. A regular hunt was organized n these vast forests, and Andrews waa

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