stances by consum'māte conduct. The honors paid him, which had hitherto been reserved only for rank, ar fortune, of military success, purchased by the blood and tears of thousands, mere, in his case, a homage to intellectual power, successfully exerted in behalf of the of the noblest interests of humanitailandet noe enw ban Jan 10 After a brief interval, the sovereigns requested from Columbus a recital of his adventures, to His manner was sedate and dinined, but Warried by the low of natural enthusiasm. 919iqmos bases vid 1911 1910ied & es llida eid, He enumerated, the several islands which he had visited, expa tiated on the temperate character of the climate, and the capacity of the soil for every variety of agricultural production, appear ing to the the samples imported by him, as evidence of their natural fruitfulness. He dwelt more at large on the precious metals to be found in these islands, which he inferred, less from the specimens actually obtained, than from the uniform testimony of the YHANOITUЛОУНЯ, АНТ 08 natives to their abundance in the unexplored regions of the interior.od Lastly, he pointed out the wide scope afforded to Chrisitianēzeallinathe illumination of a rade of men, whose minds, Ifar from being wedded to any system of idolatry, were prepared, by their extreme simplicity, for the reception of pure and uncorrupted dobtrifera even asw ti bas abasligid odt of arisly J2974. Kebe, Jasticonsideratian touched Zsabellais heart most sensibly; and the whole audience, kindled with various amationaby the Ispeaker's eloquence filled up the perspective with the gorigenus coloring of their own fańcieljas ambition, or javanica, Qr devotional feeling predominated in their bosomsid When Colum-bubiceatsddstheoking van de qirten, fidgether with all present, propstrated tlwemselvesion lihçin kinees in grateful thanksgivings, Mbile the solemn strains of the Te Deum were poured forth by the choir of the royal chapel, as in commemorationțof some glorious trictóryono asw didtrol edt of beirineILLIAM H. PRESCOTT. byulgaltzBRESCOTT, the quübent historian, was born in Salem Massachu Mey By His father, William Prescott, LL. Da L.D. distin guished lawyer and judge, noted for intellectual and moral worth, died in Het honth of 1894 at the danced age renomis grahantier was the ble -araltear Coloner Williant Presgatt, we hordon Wanded the Anterican forbes at Bun ut Prescot the the pride of ancestry to stamp him as one of nature's noblemen. An untoward qoesidentijnifallegar borwhich he lost the sight of one eye, and the sympathy subsequently excited in th thaigthers Aendered him almost totally blind, but not 1 Te Deum, te de domn of thanksgiving, so called Frohs the alet words, " Te Deum laudamu Thee, God, we praiseruit Bbmit ai ti tadt esiton withstanding, his indefatigable industry, united with fine taste and a well-stored mind, elevated him to the highest rank in that difficult department, historical composition. Indeed, it is the concurrent judgment of the best European critics that he had no superior, if he had an equal, among contemporary historians. His first work, "Ferdinand and Isabella," was published in the beginning of 1838, and was soon republished in nearly all the great cities of Europe. That, with his second work, "The Conquest of Mexico," are not only among the finest models of historical composition, but in a very genuine sense they are national works. The choicest words of panegyric can not do injustice to the exquisite "beauty of Mr. Prescott's descriptions, the just proportion and dramatic interest of his narrative, his skill as a character writer, the expansiveness and completeness of his views, and that careful and intelligent research which enabled him to make his works as valuable for their accuracy as they are attractive by all the graces of style." In private life Mr. Prescott was as much admired for his amiability, simplicity, and highbred courtesy as for his remarkable abilities and acquirements. He died January 28th, 1859. D IV. 39. THE REVOLUTIONARY ALARM. ARKNESS closed upon the country and upon the town, but it was no night for sleep. Heralds on swift relays of horses transmitted the war-message from hand to hand, till village repeated it to village; the sea to the backwoods; the plains to the highlands; and it was never suffered to droop, till it had been borne North, and South, and East, and West, throughout the land. 2. It spread over the bays that receive the Saco' and the Penobscot. Its loud reveille broke the rest of the trappers of New Hampshire, and ringing like bugle-notes from peak to peak, overleapt the Green Mountains, swept onward to Montreal, and descended the ocean river, till the responses were echoed from the cliffs of Quebec. The hills along the Hudson told to one another the tale. 3. As the summons hurried to the South, it was one day at New York; in one more at Philadelphia; the next it lighted a watchfire at Baltimore; thence it waked an answer at Annapolis. Crossing the Potomac near Mount Vernon, it was sent forward without a halt to Williamsburg. It traversed the Dismal Swamp' to Nansemond, along the route of the first emi 1 Saco, (sa ko). *Reveille, (re val' ya), the beat of drum about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to stop • Swamp, (swomp). grants to North Carolina. It moved onwards and still onwards through boundless groves of evergreen to Newbern and to Wilmington. 4. "For God's sake, forward it by night and by day," wrote Cornēliüs Harnett, by the express which sped for Brunswick Patriots of South Carolina caught up its tones at the border and despatched it to Charleston, and through pines and palmettos and moss-clad live oaks, further to the South, till it resounded among the New England settlements beyond the Savannah. 5. The Blue Ridge took up the voice and made it heard from one end to the other of the valley of Virginia. The Alleghānies, as they listened, opened their barriers that the "loud call" might pass through to the hardy riflemen on the Holston, the Watauga and the French Broad. Ever renewing its strength, powerful enough even to create a commonwealth, it breathed its inspiring word to the first settlers of Kentucky; so that hunters who made their halt in the matchless valley of the Elkhorn, commemorated the 19th day of April, 1776, by naming their encampment Lexington. 6. With one impulse the colonies sprung to arms; with one spirit they pledged themselves to each other "to be ready for the extreme event." With one heart the continent cried, "LIBERTY OR DEATH." BANCROFT. GEORGE BANCROFT, the eminent historian, was born in 1800, in Worcester, Massachusetts. He graduated at Harvard College at the early age of seventeen. The next year he went to Europe, and studied for four years at Gottingen and Berlin, and traveled in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and England. On his return, in 1823, he published a volume of poems, which were principally written while he was abroad. He soon after established the academy at Round Hill, at Northampton. He was appointed collector of Boston in 1838; was made secretary of the navy in 1845; was sent as minister plenipotentiary to England in 1846; and on his return, in 1849, became a resident of New York, where he has since devoted himself principally to the composition of his "History of the United States," the ninth volume of which appeared in 1866. He has also lately published a volume of "Literary and Historical Miscellanies." His "History of the United States" has been published in its original language in London and Paris, and has been translated into several foreign languages. It is a work of great labor, originality, and ability, and eminently American, in the best sense of that word as used in regard to literature. It is the most accurate and philosophical account that has been given of the United States; and is elaborately and strongly, yet elegantly written. V. 40. THE REVOLUTIONARY RISING. Ο UT of the North the wild news came, Swift as the boreal' light which flies The fife's shrill note, the drum's loud beat, 2. Within its shade of elm and oak The church of Berkley Manor stood ; And some esteemed of gentle blood. In that Tepublic of the heartsberg Heardoseas QWI betinu edi to vuotaiH Where all the HARRY POORIGINA Saniogas 23W 9H bus: 0181 ni br Decked in their homespun flax and weal and -ob ponia and Where youth's gay hats with blossoins bloomaid no ποίο in Hamid bojov And every maid, with simple art, with simple aromelor dinin alt to vrotail Wears on her breast, like her own heart, emulov s bordail bas nobrol nibud whose depths are all perfume asista basia odt moistot Isteva otai botsland and bas aits dry genasenідіть об эт While every garment's gentle sti -olidq bus subreathing rose and lavendersger ni bean es brow Jedi to 19110049 The pastor came; His snowy locks" Hallowed his brow of thought and care; Bö' re al, northern; pertaining to the north, or the north wind. And calmly, as shepherds lead their flocks, 5. Even as he spoke, his frame, renewed Rose, as it seemed, a shoulder higher; 6. A moment there was awful pause, - The other shouted, "Nāy, not so, That frown upon the tyrant foe; |