The Snow Flood.

'They'Eß up, I teil you, and out in roe, aud there will be bluing roofn, and blood spilled all along the Chinese frontier, from Kara Sou to Dostvcrnik. Wo are safe enough, of course, here in Kiachta, behind our strong stockades and brass cannon But there is searcly a post to the east-ward that can be called secure, now tha Mongols arc over tha border.' . 'Surely, however.' said I, looking up from my desk and the invoice in which I was duly recording packages of brick sea, coarse siik, the white sonorous brass pecu liar to China, acid other imports from the Flowery Laud, ' tha Mongols will content themselves with sweeping off some flocks and herds and not venture on attacking the soctiomenfrs. The Russian military power—

' Ifc'a a far cry, as they say in my country to So. Petersburg, or even to the Wolga, grimly rejoined tho tirst speaker, Gilhllan •These Tartar thieves know well euongh thai, short; of Irkutsk, there are but some weak detachments to bar their way. Even the Bofcnia of Cossacks has been withdrawn, and, for the moment, the wholo of Eastern Siberia lies at the mercy of the Mongols. This wasseriousDowsforme, for, although 77iy colleague from the Land of Cakes wav quite correct in his assertion that we were safe at Kiaohta, a fortified position too strong to be attempted by the barbarian foe, there was one whoso iifa I held dearer than my own, and who, should the tilings of a Mongol inroad be confirmed, might be ex posed to aore peril. . I, Frank Richards, had been, during two out'of thj three yeara which 1 had passed in this out-of-the-way comer of the Russian dominions, a clerk in the linn of Merton <v Paulovituh, tho managing partner of whien resided at Irkutsk, and was, as his name implies, like myself, an Englishman; Mr. Merton, however, was one of those Anglo llussiaua of whom many are to be found in the higher mercantile society of St. Peters burg and who hive taken root, as it were, in the country in which the greater part of their lives had bten spent. Ho was a man ot cmsHerable property, and as a member of the Far Trading Guild was possessed of certain valvable privileges, which almost amounted to a monopoly. It was with anger and annoyance that the rich merchant learned that higgler k was in ove with his only daughter?? and that the sentiment was reciprocated. Mr. Merton, as was very natural, had other viewa for his daughter's establishment. Ho was always looking forward to a day when, leaving the active conduct of the business in younger hands, he should withdraw to the Capital, whore Miss Merton, a well-endowed beireP3, mignt very probably marry a Count, or possibly a Prince. Ie was a pitiful antithesis to such exalted visions that she should bestow her hand on a mere subordin ate in the house of Morton & P.-iulovitoh.

'Ilikoyou, Richards,'tho merchant had said to me, not unkindly ; ' and if you, ami Ellen, too, will but be reasonable and promise to forget this folly—Ah ! well, then, thi.ro is no help for it, I see.' And thereupon we parted. 1 was a good lin"uiit and well trained to tho routine of business in that remote region, so that it was oaay enough for ma to obfcun employment in a marcantila house a'.. KUchfca, at a higher rato of salary thau fchat which I had hitherto drawn. I doubb, however, if I should have eared to continue any longer in my self imposed exile from the civilization of Europe, had it not been that I could not muster tha resolution to tear myself away from a country of which Ellen Merton waa still an inhabitant even this poor consolation was, it seemed, soon to bo taken from me, for the gossips of the colony were unanimous that the ensuing winter was the last that would see the Mertons resident in Siberia.

And then, preceded by certain threatening rumors, to which scanty crodoneo harl been attached, there had occurred the Mongol incursion, prompted, as thero was reason to suspect, by the Chinese authorities, of whoso aentiments'towards the rival empire, pressing yearly closer to their extensive frontier, few doubts could 1)0 entertained by oven the moat optimistically disposed of the motloy European community— Russian, German, Polish and British -whose task it was to develop the great natural resources of this long-uuglceted corner of fcho earth. Wo were well aware that, in reply to diplomatic remonstrauc^s, the fvfandarins at Sfche helm of titafce would disclaim all responsibility for tho acts of a tribo of turbulent marauders, while at the same time thoy w>>uld chuckle, slyly, at; tho injuries thus vicariously inflicted upoa the detested Fan Qui. On the fourth day after tho outbreak of hostilities, there arrived in Ki.ichta a group of Englishmen, ongincers and Corniah miners, from a valuable tnino on the farther bank of tho Amour, the whole pla;it of which had l>ecn wantonly destroyed by tho Mongol raiders. Thoy reported tho station of Cherina'v, with all its factories and dwellings, to beiD fUmes, while tho European residents, with p,uch of their property as they could contrive to save, were slowly retreating, under the protection of a military escort, toward Irkutsk.

' Towards Irkutsk !' I exclaimed, incredul ously ; ' you mem, surely, towards Kiachta ? It would "be running into the lion's mouth to attempt the long march over tho open plninH that lie between the northern end of Lr*ke Bakal and the mountains at the head waters of the Amour. No one in his senses would give such an advantage to the (Jeet-footed enemy.'

Bat my unformant wasp ositive as to tho route which the caravan of refugees from Chortn.sk had adopted. A Cornish miner, dispatched thither to purchase powder for blasting purposes, immediately before tho Inroad, had rejoined his comrades with the news. It appeared thrst the decision, perilously unwise as ifc seemed to mo, to select the longer and more northerly lino of march, had been formed by Count ', Annenkoff, who commanded the troops, and vho was a young man, now to the country, and over-confident iv his own judgment.

Hitherto, is was added, the Mongol horsemen had contented themselves with hovering, like hawka on the wing, around their distined prey, keeping at a respectful distance from the rifle muskets of the

soldiery ; but there could be no doubt that they were waiting tha opportunity, in some unguarded moment of. swooping down upon the camp, while iho movements of the fugitives, encumbered as they wore by a heavy baggage train, and accompanied by several ladies and children, were of necessity slow. That tillon and her father were of the couiuany was .all but certain. I could no longer endure the safe inaction of life aA Kiachta, and accordingly I formed a resolve which to many of my friends ap peared rash and willful. This was, to make my way, as best I might, to the caravan, the tardy pace of which would readily be over taken by a well-mounted rider, and to persuade Ellen and her father rather to trust themselves to ray guidance back to Kiachta, than to persevere in the arduous march that otherwise lay before them. Thanks to my love of field sports, and to a certain restless apiris of adventure, I had an acquaintance with tho country for many a league arouad, Having repeatedly accompanied Tarter hunters on their bxpeuiciona in quest of the elk, ttie bustard, aud the antelope of the plains. i was excellently mounted, and felc that should I fall in with the enemy, their shaggy pomes would not easily come up with my fine Turcoman steed from the distant deseris of Khiva. And of hunger, and thirst more tumble than hanger, those quant guardians of the steppe, thoie was not much risk. 1 was to traverse a country wate-fd by many streams, affluents of the Amour, r.nd where the provident care of the ixussians had caused wells to bo dug in the dryer portions of the plain. Tue nomad tribes, with wnom even tho Mongols would not interfere, on the prin ciple of uog not eating clog, were friendly ioug enough to give food in exchange tor silver roubles, aud tho weather was us yol line aud mellow, although the 'season was Winter. The lirab long day's march brought mo to a cluster of blaoK foiS tents, conical in shape, pitched on the bunk of a auabow brook, while hard by grazed the sheep aud buffaloes that made up iho only wealth of she horde. I rode up to them without fear—for^ these ramblers through the plains ef Eastern Liberia havo little harm in them—aud recog nized in tho headmen of the camp an old acquaintance, Who spoke a UttlG Uusaian, and ofuen brought m iauibakius, yaouro, aud wild strawberries, to tho market at Kiaehta. '1 would noo push on were I you, Gospo din,' Baid the wnite-bearded patriarch, as he set before me tho simple fare —milk, cheese, and mutton kabaubu, skewered on a twig of the arbutus -that he had to offer. ' Tuey were here with us yesterday, some hundreds of tho ligat-lingered rogues from across tho frontier, aud it cost mo ton fuC aheep, and many fair words, to coax them into good behavior. Tney had two white men's heads, set on spear-pomtrt, for their standards, and their leader swore by the Holy Tooth not to go back to Mongolia without silver enough to plate the shrines of his jo^a-house, They're after tho poor folks from Caeriask by this ' time ; not that they've a::y more fancy for the whistle of a leaden bullet than other people have.' Tho gift of a golden eagle, and the promise of two more coins of the samo mintag«, in duced tho he'tdman to send with me » bare footed lad of hia fcribo, who would, I v;a,i assured, prove qnita corapotent to conduct me to a place whence I could easily over take the ciravan, and tvlao <o keep up to my horse at any pace short of a gallop. And young Ka/.im (how he came by Ins Moslem name I canuot tell, for all these tribes ot the border are Buddhists, like the Mongols beyond it), raa gallantly beside my Btirrup over weary leagues of grazing grounds, and stretches of stony barrenness, till at lungth he stooped, pointing triumphantly to a number of footprints of horses, oxen, camels and men, stamped into the hard dried mud of a shallow watercourse, and with a wave of his hand towards a distant wreath of blue mnoke, sure sign of a bivouac fire, ho received from mine tho flittering eagles, wrapped the gold in a scrap of raw sheepskin, and thrust it into the salt gourd that dangled by a thong foom his waist, and then, with a grin of leave-taking, trotted off homewards. I had not ridden half a milo towards the camp-fire before I saw approaching mo at a lumbering arable, UDgaiuly enough, but swift and silent, some two score of laden camels, urged on by four horsemen whose lances and the black Tartar caps they wore BUggosted their nationality ns Mongolian, Two of them, as soon na they espied mo, dashed at me with Joud execrations and {cries of ' Eeringhee J llussky ! kill ! kill !' My revolver was out in a tnoinenb, and the sight of it produced some effect! on the wild riders, for they wheeled off to right and left, galloping round me in circles, still brandish ing their spears, until a third horseman spurred forward, calling out something which seemed as if by magic to suspend thoir murderous intentions, and then rode quietly up to my side, and heid out his bony hand for mo to shake.

'Brother !' ho warn, in .1 .strange jai'gon of mingled Turkish and Russian ; ' very good friend, Batunchka ! Pas English Lord for gotten poor Sing-Si !'

I looked at the man's broad, flab faco, and did indeed recognize a Tartar of tho name above oientioucd, whom I had, a year before, bought oil", at an expenditure of some 6 shillings sterling, from a Cossack patrol about to hang him on a dwarf oak for buing captur ed, red-handed, aa a sbcepatoaler. " He had since then worked for us, as a porter, for some months in Kiachba, but the vagrant instinct was too stroag iv Sing-Si, and he had to throw up bin employment aud fled to thu steppe.

The other three Tartars liccmio amicable enough when they found that their com panion hailed me aa a friend, ami I gathered from the rascals' talk that, they had been acting jas guides to the Chcrinsk caravan, and had seized an apporfcunity of making off with forty camels and their loads, with which, as I made out, they intended to join their cousins, the robber Mongols. All this Sing-Si, whose moral fibre was of the coarsest, related as an excellent joke; but when he learned that I was on my way to join those, whom he had just deserted, his countenance assumed r. graver expression. 'Hark ye, Eaglish Lord/ he eaid, cautiously, as the others began to goad on their camels with blows and lance-pricks, «we

of the steppo lova a friend as we hate a foe. Sing-Si doss not want his former protector to leave hia bonea ta bleach on the plains, with those of yonder uublessed onea ;' &ad he ahook his fiat at the fay-off smoke ; ' and sure as death their shroud ia spinning fast.3 ' What do you mean ?' I asked anxiously. ' I mean,' hissed out Sing-Si, putdng his ugly face close to mine, ' that we of the old Tartar stock have no cause to be fond of the Moskov, and a pretty trick v.-c havo played them. His ! did you never hear of the. snow-flood ?' I had, in the course of my residence in Siberia, heard vague stories of such a phenomenon of the far northern steppes, and I nodded, waiting to hear more. ' The Russians will feei it soon,' chuckled Sing-Si; ' the blind moles ! Already the wind is from the north, already the threads of the Fatal Spinners span tho sky, and we have led them where there are no mountains to break tho fury of the blast; no barrier to check the rush of the white wav that shall overwhelm m^n and beast. Away English man, whip and spur, as you love your life, for even here you are not safe, and ride to the left.mark me, westwards, to the shelter of tho hills. As for me, I go.' And, spurring hia rough pony, off he clattered in pursuit of his party. I rode at a hrisk handgallop towards the camp-fire. The snow flood ! There crowded on my mind all the tales I had ever heard, of caravans, of of solitary huntera, or of detachments of troops, overtaken by the resistless drift on those illimitable plains, where not a tree, not a hillock, existed to stem tho violence of the wind. And as I sped on, 1 felt convinced that Sing-St'a warning was a true one. Un reaching the encampment I found my predictions of impending evil received very much as wero those of Cassandra in old Troy. Count Annenkoff, a vain young oilicer, with a supreme scorn for civilians aud foreigners, ridiculed my advice, aud declined to regard my imforrnant Sing-Si as anything bat a scoundrel who had absconded with a portion of the baggage. 'Excuse my incredulity, mon chei, he said, coolly, ' but your snow-flood, as you phrase it, appears too nearly related to isinbadyd Valley of Diamonds, aud tho other contea of the Thousand aud One Nignts, to command credence, and! shall use my own discretion as regards tho route to be followed.'

The other Europeans, if less supercilious, were almost equally deaf to all the arguments which I could urge. Nona of them had witnessed, though, all of them had heard of, the fell force of that snowy tempest to which the Asiatics had given so pioturesque a name ; aul none were willing to run the gauntlet of the prowling Mongols in order to elude a danger which might prove mythical. But Ellen, who believed in me because she loved me, used all her influence with her father, and with such good effect that Mr. Merton yielded a reluctant consent to have his own and his daughter's horaes resudclied, aud to sec off under my guidance, in the direction indicated by Sing-Si. As we left the camp, lighted by a br tad, full moon, that bathed the steppe with ailvory brightness, I observed thau the northern nky was growing very dark, and tbit the long fi'irnenta of gray cloud had become knit; together, as though the Valkyr were indeed busy at the loom of death. The wind also, blowing in fitfui gusts, had become piercingly cold, and our very horses snorted and aniiFe;! the air, as though they scented the approach of some viewless peril. J>y the time we had ridden, as I gassed, some two miles from the halting place, the northern i-ky had darkened sitill mare, and tho Blow sobbing of the desert wind had swelled into a shriek, while tho temporafcnre wa3 perceptibly lowered, so that Ellen shivered more from cold thau fear. We pressed on. Mr. Merton. as I have said, had been unwilling to take my counsel, in opposition to the scoffs and remonstrances of his fritnds, bat now ho said, in an altered tone :

' I begin to think, Richards, that you and the Tartar wera lii^hh Grod bless you for your unselfish kindness, my boy, whatever comes of this.'

Bofore I could reply, a terrified outcry from Ellen's lips made me turn my head, just as the first quick snowliakes came whirling down, and there, behind us, throwing before it, as it came a ghastly gloatn oE light came from tho north, a shapeless whiteness, roll ing pitilessly on.

' The snow !' tho snow i' we exclaimed, as with one voice, urging ou our affrighted horses to their fullest speed, while behind ua, like the tide rising fast over the sands of the sea shore, swept on tho whito wave, burying beneath it, as it advauned. bush and mound rvnd water-course, and blotting out every feature of the landscape) to the northward.

Then began a raco indeed, the alarmed horeevS straining every sinew to outstrip the pursuing^fate ; but with all our speed the drift gained upon us,.and presently wo found ourselvesj floundering up to our aaddle-girfchs iii snow. Tho moon's radiance was now totally obscured, but affar of to west ware my eye had caught tho ruddy glance of a lire such as charcoal-burners kindle among the hills, and never did storm-tossed mariner watch the welcome beacon of some harbor more eagerly than I did this saving light. The firo, as I had conjectured, was burning high up on one of the wooded spurs of the mountain range near the sources of the Amour ; but to reach it was no trifling task. Our exhausted steeds, worn out by the toil some passage through the show, could search' he ui\«e'l tn frerchi exertions, while the rush of the deepening flood, and the Kind iug showers] th;ii; dished into our faces, threatening at each instant to overwhelm us. We reached the Amour at last, down the swollen current of which were whirling masses of snow, and here Ellen's horse fell, and could not be raised, while that of Mr. Merton, gasping and spent, no longer answer ed to the spur.

' Save yourself, Frank ! leave us ! why should all perish ?' groaned the merchant.

There waa some strength and spiriE yet left in the gallant Turcoman ih&i 1 bestrone, and, snatching up Ellen's light form in my arms, I spurred into the river, and, strug gling through, deposited my precious burden

on the turf beyond, under the shelter of rocky boulder. I then recrossed the ford, add, bidding Mr. Marfcon clins* tightly to my horso's mane, for the third time breasted the current, and haK swimming, half wading, we got through, though on the further bank my noble home reeled and fall, with a faint low naigh, and so died. The carcases of the others were already buried beneath the driving snow. The rest of our story—how, after some fatigue, we scaled the rocky ravine where stood the hut of the charcoal-burners, and how these rough but; kindly beings warmed and fed us, and finally enabled us to reach Kiauhta in eaf sy—is a tale of mere common place hardship. I have been for years the happy husband of Ellen, and a junior partner in the thriving house of Mertou & Paulovitch, although our sphere of business has beeD removed to a lesa romantic region than that of Eastern Siberia. Of the fate of Count Anneakoff and the caravan under his charge no survivor ever returned to headquarters to tell the t&le. —[All the Year Round.

Ghost Hollow.

The strangest of all ghost stones is creating a terrible excitement in one section of Pennsylvania. Miss Kate Leininger, aged eighteen years, a beautiful and accomplished young lady, has been dragged to death and her body horribly mutilated ; and her un timely fate is attributed to a terrible ghostly appari'.ion that frightened her horse on a public road on her way to this quiet village in the night. Miss Leininger is a daughter of a citizen of this place. She invited a friend to accompany her to a country fair about five miles from the village. The lady who went with her was Miss Ada Hoffman, also from this village. Thoir conveyance, consisting of one of the family borees and an open pheaton, was got ready, and a youug brother of Miss Hoffman went with them to drive. The journey to the fair in the twilight was delightful, as the drive was among some of tho finest scenery in the State. They arrived at the small village of Schaeffers-town at 7 o'clock, and enjoyed a very pleasant evening with their acquaintances ac the festival. The two young ladies were recognized as the representative bells of that seccion, being courted and flattered for their many qualities aad accomplishments. The weather waa warm, aod they were dressed in white cambric robes. Little did they think vrhen they left home chat before they returned ono of their robes would be a shroud of blojd, and onß of their bodies a horribly mangled corpse. Ifc was after eleven o'clock before the young ladies told their attendant they desired to leave. The night had grown very dark, and aa the road was as dangerous at midnight as it waa grand in the twilight, the friends of the youug ladies importuned and begged them to remain until morning. This they refused, stating that they desired to go home that night, and they were not afraid to travel over the road, as they had frequently done so before. They left their frieuds aud pro ceeded on their j nirney homeward. They had gone about a mile alons; a small stream known au, Mill Greek, when the young driver says that he saw a strange, unearthly look ing objdcc in white ahead of him on the road, tie knew that he waa near a ravins known for a long number of years as Ghost Hollow. All of a sudden the white object came nearer and frightened the horse. The boy driver is about fourteen years of age, and he insists that the fearful thin^ jumped upon the horse's back, which set the animal to running at a frightful pace. Over the road the horse plunged in the dark night, and the young ladies scr&amed with fright. Within three quarters of a mile of this village they reached n email bridge spraining Mill Creek. The horse dashed miuliy to one side and struck a stone heap, partly demolishing the carriage. The animal was intensely frightened and began to rear and plunge. The driver leaped out and carried tho reins with him.

The horse darted ahead over the rocks, and Miss Rolfrnau, seeing that her brother, the driver, had jumped, cried that she, too, was i^aing to jump if she lost her life Miss L^ininger Haid, ' Xo ; for heaven's sake keep your se*it !' There was a short straggle, and Miss HolFinan, who is a stout well-built psrson, was master of the situation and she jumped. The wheels caught her dress and, after carrying her around several times she droppad on the* rocks nearly senseless. She shreked fearfully when she was first caught, and this added to the f/ight of Miss Loininger, who was still in her carriage. The horse dashed ahead, and Miss Leininger heard the noise of the rushing waters. vShe then determined to leap. She made the effort, jumping from the front of the carriage instead of the back. Her foot caught in the running gear near the forward spring, and she could not disengage hersolf. Hor body touched the ground. The horses pluuyed madly on, and the unfortunate young ; lady screamed in rain for help. There were not many houses near the road, and the people were all in bed and sleeping soundly. The horses dragged the bleeding, mangled, lifeless young woman at least a half mile,, going directly to their home, and when they reached there they walked slowly, while the corpse of the young daughter of the house hold was being dragged on the ground.

The father of the young woman sat at home waiting for his dear one to arrive. Ha heard the horse pass and ho ve^t to the front door to see. It was tou d:uk to distinguish his own animal. Finally a neighbor, also returning from the same fair, paw the horae and caught him. He had a lantern, and looking under the carriage he diacorvered the mangled body of the once beautiful young lfidy of the adjoining farm. The two households ware aroused, and when the men had come together the gashed and bleeding form was removed with difficulty. The sight waa a horrible one. The back part of her head and back were rubbed flat the flesh was off to the bone. Her beautiful black hair lay in ringlets clotlei with blood along the road. The highway appeared as though a log had been dragged over it. The surviving young lady is now lying at the point of death. So is the mother of the dead. The! driver still insists that a horrible sthost-like form or shadow frightened the horae,

James Corson.

'em] It was the earnest wish of J am . « Mr son, when a boy of little mO re\p tW° seven years of age, to be a < doctn Ge England ; and certainly when th • rnel was first uttered, there appearJ^' cur little prospect of its aecomDli^ for' The father of the boy, w h o w*JaS* Co' to a gentleman at Dalscairth in n 6' for friesshire, had a largo f am fll J> small a salary, that he could[' SC a im ° spare his boys to attend the ■^ °- W school; and it was with a heaw 4 tlo' that 'Jamie' was often comffifl^ leave his books to attend tothftr* ° ° labours in which his father fffl necessary to employ him. , ■ vva waa ten yeara of age, however, a hi? w blow fell upon him. His U'Tft Dalscairth, and took a situation •■ G" Yorkshire, where, as kefoundedueati<!: st much dearer than in Scotland he no longer able to send James to schoJl fe- Still, however, the boy remained mf be shaken in his determination to ba doctor in England ; and he spent ever!' S' leisure moment in poring over h• wl books. His perseverance an j[ ■ ti , ambition began to attract the noti it of the house servants of the gentleman' he with whom the elder Corson war af gardener. He excited a particular in st terest in the butler, who, being a great ar favourite with his master, easily obtain-!' er ed permission to. take the boy into the' i'o family ag his assistant. This steo: w however, at first was the occasion of di pain rather than pleasure to James, w as his fellow-servants, who had heaM f e£ of his ambitious desires, never ceased 1 tl jeering him about them; and indeed 'in the contrast they afforded to his actual h< situation was sufficiently striking. d< He was now about fourteen, tall, and tl well grown for his age, but shy and" ft awkward in his manners, and speaking, B with a strong Scotch accent, wEichthe ir Torkshiremen, though they perhaps jai speak worse English than is'mefc with g in any other county, were particularly severe upon. The jeering of his com- S1 panions, however, had no other effect on James Corson tuan to give him another object for his ambition, for he X now determined that he would conquer | his Scotch accent, and learn to speak v pure English, which he did do in tie v end.

.Tame 3 Corson, during the four yean ■ 0 that he remained as assistant with the s butler, contrived with that person's \, assistance, to perfect himself in writing \ and accounts ; and as he never omitted' y any opportunity that oceured ofacquir- t ing knowledge, he was able, when he ] left Yorkshire, to take the situation of A usher sin a school in "Wigtonshire. - c Here he stayed two years, during irhicli j; } he learnt Latin and Greek, and the £ rudiments of Erench; but as tig ] salary was very small, he took the first ■ opportunity that oceured of removing - to Whitehaven, where also he was [ usher in a school. In both these sit-■ ■ uations he saved all the money he could'- ; in the hope that he might at last re alise the project that had never once been absent from his thoughts. At Christinas 1835, James Coraon left his situation at Whitehaven, and returned to his father's cottage, pre viously to visiting London, where lie had at last determined to push hit fortune. He found, however, upon inquiry, that what he possessed would be nothing in London, and would but barely maintain him there while he was studying as a surgeon, without leaving •• him any money to pay the fees. TMsi information depressed his spirits ex ceedingly, and when he returned home,, after cousultiug- with a frieud at | Leeds, he told his father that he began { for the first time to fear his wishes never would be accomplished. The elder Corson took in the Gardener's Magazine ; and as it was lying on tie, table, James listlessly opened it, when I his attention was caught by an adra> 1 tiaement for an amanuensis, which had been inserted by Mr. Loudon for him self. The countenance of the young man brightened up, aud lie exclaimed, ' Then I'll see London at last!' His . father and friends laughed at him, and I argued the improbability of his suc ceeding in obtaining the situation.! But his presentiment had been right;j and though Mr. Loudon had about» hundred aud thirty answers to his,ad vertisement, James Corson's letter was so well expressed, and written in such. a manly, yet modest style, that he was preferred. 11 may easily be conceived that young Corson's delight, when Q» received Mr. Loudon's letter, was [ beyond description. His lather says hi! was wild with joy. Mr. Loudon at that time was en-1 gaged in writing his great work, the § Arboretum Britannicuni; and as W\ had also three magazines appearing monthly, a great many persons wett

EVENING STAR SUPPLEME^_QCTQBER__I4 1876.