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For the Philadelphia Visiter.

The Florida Volunteer's Death Song.

Comrads dig my grave where the green boughs wave,
And the gentle doves are sighing;
In some lonely spot where carcs come not:
For I know that I am dying :-

And let me sleep in everglades deep,
Where the Indian's song is heard.
The heather bees and she forest trees,
Or the hymn of the singing birds.

Yes, there let me lie 'neath the sod, where naught
hath trod

Save the goat and the wild red deer,

the head. A superb blond lace scarf is twisted round the næeud, and forms long floating lappels at back of the head.

FRENCH COURT BALL DRESS.-White tulle robe over a satin slip. The border is trimmed en volan by a superb flounce of b'ond lace, headed by a second fall of the same; the flounce is looped at the side by a knob formed of several coques of white satin riband, with long floating ends. The corsage tied to the shape, and cut very low, is trimmed en fichu with blond lace and ribband. Tight sleeves

Or Indians that dance 'neath the moonbeam's glance, covered with three falls of blond lace, the In the depth of the everglade's dell.

My brother hath joy in the billowy sea
And the storm as it rolles o'er his head;
Still his last hope is that his grave may be
Down, down in the ocean's bed.

We soldiers have joys in the trumpet's sound
And the deal'ning cannon's rattle;

hair dressed in ringlets at the sides, and a low bow at the back of the head, is ornamented with a superb bouquet of ostrich feathers attached to the knot of hair be hind, and a brilliant star inserted in the ringlets.

DINNER DRESS.-Straw-colored Pekin

Yet we fear not to die, when we know we shall lie robe striped with black; the border is

With the brave on the field of battle.

And the poet hath joys in the echoing hills,
In the groves, and the deserts dim;
The cataract wild and the gushing rills
Are music sweet for him.

But greater, my comrades, my joy in the thought,
When I from this world am removed,
When ny life-drean hath gone, I shall meet her above,
Midst the scenes she so much hath loved.

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Comrades dig my grave whore green boughs wave terminates in gerbes at the sides; the

And the gentle doves are sighing;

In some lonely spot where cares come not;

For I feel that I am dying.

And let me sleep in the everglades deep,
Where the Indian's song is heard;
The heather bees and the forest trees,
Or the hymn of the singing birds.

London Fashions for May.

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TERMS.

EVENING DRESS-Robe of pale blue gauze, over pou de soic to correspond; the skirt is trimmed with two flounces, which cover nearly the third of it; the upper part of it is trimmed en entablier with wreath formed of ribbons, from The PHILADELPHIA VISITER AND PAR. which long floating ends depend. Short Saturday, on fine white paper, each number will con LOUR COMPANION, is published every other tight sleeves covered with a mancheron tain 24 large super-royal octavo pages, enveloped in formed of double bias folds of gauze; they are looped by coques of ribband with will be a volume of nearly 600 pages, at the very low price ing ends. Corsage busque, are trimmed charged at the end of the year. with blond lace, with a heading of the Post Masters, and others who will procure four same; the hair disposed in ringlest at the subscribers, and enclose Five Dollars to the propri sides, and noend en chou at the back of phia, shall receive the 5th copy gratis. jetor, W. B. ROGERS, 49 Chesnut street, Philadel

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that suited well the silence and solitude of the spot, and might have passed for

THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY HORSE one of the stern recluse, half-hermit, half

MAN.

soldier, who, in the earlier crusades, fixed their wild homes amid the sands and It was a burning and sultry noon, caves of Palestine. The stranger supwhen, through a small valley skirted by ported his steps by a long staff. His hair rugged and precipitous hills, at the dis- and beard hung long and matted over his tance of several leagues from Grenada, broad shoulders. A rusted mail, once a horseman in complete armor wound his splendid with arabesque "enrichments, solitary way. His mail was black and protected his breast; but the loose gown unadorned; on his vizor waved no plume. a sort of tartan, which descended beBut there was something in his carriage low the cuirass, was rent and tattered and mien, and the singular beauty of his and his feet bare; in his girdle was a cole-black steed which seemed to indi- short curved cimeter, a knife or dagger, cate a higher rank than the absence of a parchment roll, clasped and bound with page or squire, and the plainness' of his iron.

accoutriments would have denoted to a As the horseman gazed at this abrupt careless eye. He rode very slowly and intruder on the solitude, his frame quiverthe steed with the licence of a spoiled fa-ed with emotion; and raising himself to vorite, often haulted lazily in his sultry his full height, he called aloud, 'Friend, path as a turft of herbage or a bough of or santon, whatsoever the art, what seeksome overhanging tree offered its tempta-est thou in these lonely place, far from the tion. At length, as he thus paused, a king thy counsels deluded, and the city noise was heard in the copse that clothed betrayed by thy false prophecies and unthe descent of the steep mountain; and hallowed charms?'

the horse started suddenly back, forcing 'Ha?' cried Almamen, for it was indeed the traveller from his revery. He looked the Israelite; by thy black charger and melancholy upward, and beheld the figure the tone of thy haughty voice I know the of a man bounding through the trees with hero of Grenada. Rather, Muza Ben rapid and irregular steps. It was a form Abel Gazan, why art thou abscent from

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the last hold of the Moorish empire?"

words. Tell me where is Leila, and con

Dost thou pretend to read the future.jduct me to her feet.' and art thou blind to the present? Gre 'Moslem, I will lead thee to her,' annada has capitulated to the Spaniard.-swered Almamen, gazing on the prince Alone I have left the land of slaves, and with an expression of strange and fearful shall seek in my ancestral Africa, some exultation in his eyes; I will lead thee spot where the foot-steps of the misbeto her-follow me. It was only yester liever have not trodden.' day, that I learned the walls that confined The fate of one bigotry is then sealed,' her; and from that hour to this, I have said Almamen, gloomily; bnt that which journeyed over mountain and desert with succeeds is yet more dark' out rest or food.'

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'Dog!' cried Muza, couching his lance, Yet what is she to thee?' asked Muza, 'what art thou that thus blasphemest?' suspiciously.

A Jew!' replied Almamen, in a voice Thou shalt know full soon. Let us on.' of thunder, and drawing his cimeter; 'a It might be an hour that they had radespised and despising Jew! Ask you pidly journeyed together, when Almamen more? I am the son of a race of kings. paused abruptly.

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I was the worst enemy to the Moors till I am wearied,' said he faintly; and I found the Nazarene more hateful than though time passes, I fear that my the Moslem; and then even Muza himself strength will fail me.' was not their more renowned champion. Mount then behind me,' returned the Come on if thou wilt, man to man: I defy Moor, after some natural hesitation; 'Jew thee!' though thou art, I will brave the contami 'No, no,' muttered Muza, sinking his nation for the sake of Leila.' lance; thy mail is rusted with the blood Moor!' cried the Hebrew, fiercely, 'the of the Spaniard, and this arm cannot contamination would be mine. Things smite the slayer of the Spaniard. We of the yesterday, as thy prophet and thy part in peace.' creed are, thou canst not sound the un'Hold, prince!' said Almamen, in an fathomable loathing which each heart altered voice; is thy country the sole faithful to the Ancient of Days, feels for thing dear to thee? Has the smile of wo- such as thou and thine.' man never stole beneath thy armor? Has Now, by the Kaaba !' said Muza, and thy heart never beat for softer meetings his brow became dark, "another such than the encoudter of a foe?' word, and the hoofs of my steed shall Am I a human and a Moor?' returned trample the breath of blasphemy from thy Muza. For once you divine aright; and body.'

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could thy spells bestow on these eyes but I wonld defy thee to the death,' an one more sight of the last thing left to swered Almamen disdainfully; but I reme on earth, I should be as credulous of serve the bravest of Moors, to behold a thy sorcery as Boabdil.' deed worthy of the descendants of JephThou lovestt her still, then-this Le-tha. But hist! I hear hoofs.' Muza listened; and, at the distance beDark necromancer, hast thou read my youd him, his sharp ears caught a distant secret! and knowst thou the name of my ring upon the hard and rocky soil; he beloved one? Ah! let me believe thee turned around, and saw Almamen gliding yet wise, and reveal to me the spot upon away through the thick underwood until earth that holds the treasure of my soul! the branches consealed his form. PreYes,' continued the Moor with increasing sently a turn in the path brought in view emotion, and throwing up his vizor as if a Spanish cavilier, mounted on an Anda. for air; 'yes Allah forgive me! but when lusian jennet: the horseman was gayly all was lost to Grenada, I had still one singing one of the popular ballads of the consolation in leaving my birth-place; I time; and, as it related to the feats of the had licence to search for Leila; I had Spaniards against the Moors, Muzn's hope to secure to my wanderings in dis- haughty blood was already stirred, and tant lands, one to whose glance the eyes his mustache quivered on his lip. I will of the houris would be dim. But I waste change the air, muttered the Moslem,

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grasping his lance; when, as the thought oh! Ineffable One! that precious offering crossed him, he beheld the Spaniard sud-thou didst demand of a sire of old. denly reel in his saddle and fall to the cept the sacrifice!' ground. In the same instant, Almamen As the Hebrew ended his adjuration, he had darted from his hiding-place, siezed drew a vial from his bosom, and sprinked the steed of the cavilier, mounted, and, a few drops upon the arid fuel. A pale cre Muza had recovered from his sur-blue flame suddenly leaped up; and as it prise, was by the side of the Moor. lighted the haggard but earnest countenBy what charm,' said Muza, curbing ance of the Israelite, Muza felt his Moorhis barb, didst thou fell the Spaniard, ish blood congeal in his veirs, and shudseemingly without a blow?" dered, though he scarce knew why. Al As David fell Goliath--by the pebble mamen then, with his dagger severed from and the sling,' answered Almamen, care- his head one of his long locks, and cast it lessly. upon the flame. He watched it till it was The horsemen dashed over the body of consumed; and then with a stifled cry, the stunned and insensible Spaniard. Tree fell upon the earth in a dead swoon. The and mountain glided by; gradually the Moor hastened to raise him; he chafed valley vanished, and a thick forest gloom- his hands and temples; he unbuckled the ed upon their path. Still they made on, vest upon his bosom: he forgot that his though the interlaced boughs and the comrade was a sorcerer and a Jew, so ruggedness of the footing somewhat ob- much had the agony of that excitement structed their way; until, as the sun be- moved his sympathy.

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gan slowly to decline, they entered a broad It was not till several minutes had and circular space round which trees of elapsed, that Almamen, with a deepthe eldest growth spread their motionless drawn sigh, recovered from his swoon. and shadowy boughs. In the midst was a Ah, beloved one! bride of my heart! rude and antique stone, resembling the he murmured, was it for this thou didst altar of some barbarous and departed commend to me the only pledge of our creed. Here Alınamen abruptly halted, youthful love? Forgive me! I restore and muttered inaudably, to himself. her to the earth, untainted by the Gentile.' What moves thee, dark stranger,' said He closed his eyes again, and a strange the Moo; and why dost thou mutter, convulsion shook his frame. It passed; and gaze on space?' and he arose as a man from a fearful Almamen answered not,but dismounted, dream, composed, and almost, as it were hnng his bridle to a branch of a scathed refreshed, by the terrors he had underand riven elm, and advanced alone into gone. The last glimmer of the ghastly the middle of the space. light was dying away upon that ancient Dread and prophetic power that art altar, and a low wind crept sighing within me!' said the Hebrew aloud; 'this through the trees. then is the spot that, by dream and vision, Mount, prince,' said Almamen, calmthou hast foretold me wherein to consu- ly, but averting his eyes from the altar; mate the vow that shall sever from the we shall have no more delays.' spirit the last weakness of the flesh. Night Wilt thou not explain thy incanta. after night, hast thou brought before my tions?' asked Muza; or is it as my reaeyes, in slumber, the solemn solitude that son tells me, but the mummery of a jug1 now survey. Be it so I am prepared!' gler?'

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Thus speaking, he retired for a few mo- Alas! alas!' answered almamen, in a ments into the wood; collected in his sad tone, thou wilt soon know all.

arms the dry leaves and withered branches which cumbered the desolate clay, and placed the fuel upon the altar. Then, turning to the east and raising his hands

CHAPTER XXVIII.

THE SACRIFICE.

on high, he exclaimed, Lo! upon this THE SUN was now sinking slowly altar, once worshipped, perchance, by through these masses of purple cloud the heathen savage, the last bold spirit which belong to Iberian skies; when, of thy fallen and scattered race dedicates, emerging from the forest, the travellers

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saw before them a small and lovely plain, right hand, his left arm clasped around the cultivated like a garden. On a gentle form of a novice, whose dress, not yet reeminence above this plain or garden rose placed by the serge, bespoke her the sisthe spires of a convent; and, though it was ter fated to the yeil; and, on the opposite still daylight, the long and pointed lattices side of, that sister, one hand on her shoul were illumined within; and as the horse- der, the other rearing on high the sacred men cast their eyes upon the pile, the crucifix, stood a stern, calm, commanding sound of the holy chorus, made more form, in the white robes of the Dominican sweet and solemn from its own indistinct-order it was Tomas de Torquemada. ness, from the quiet of the hour, from the Avaunt, Abaddon!" were the first sudden and sequestered loveliness of that words which reached Muza's car, as he spot, suiting so well the ideal calm of the stood, unnoticed, in the middle of the aisle; conventual life, rolled its music through here thy sorcery and thine arts cannot the ordorous and lucent air... avail thee. Release the devoted one of

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But that scene, and that sound, so cal- God!" culated to sooth, and harmonize the 'She is mine! she is my daughter! I thoughts, seemed to arouse Almamen into claim her from the as a father, in the name agony and passion He smote his breast of the great, Sire of man!"

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with his clinched hand; and shrieking, Seize the,, sorcerer! seize him!" exrather than exclaiming, "God of my fath- claimed the inquisitor, as, with a sudden ers! have I come too late?" buried his movement, Almamen, cleared his way spurs to the rowels in the sides of his pant- through the scattered and dismayed group, ing steed. Along the sward, through the and stood with his daughter in his arms on fragrant shrubs, athwart the pebbly and the first step of the consecrated platform. shallow torrent, up, the ascent to the con-But not a foot stirred, not a hand raised. vent sped the Israelite. Muza, wandering The epithet bestowed on the intruder had and half reluctant, followed at a little dis-only breathed a supernatural terror into tance, Clearer and nearer came the the audience; and they would have soon; voices of the choir; broader and redder er rushed upon a tiger in his lair than on glowed the tapers from the Gothic case the lifted dagger and savage aspect of that ments: the porch of the convent ohapel grim stranger.

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was reached; the Hebrew sprang from his Oh, my father!" then said a low and horse. A small group of the peasants de faltering voice, that startled Muza as a pendant on the convent loitered reverent voice from the grave, wrestle not against ly round the threshold: pushing through the decrees of Heaven. Thy daughter is them as one frantic, Almamen entered the not compelled to her solemn choice, chapel and disappeared. Humbly, but devotedly, a convert to the A minute elapsed, Muza was at the Christian creed, her only wish on earth is door; but the Moor paused irresolutely ere to. take the consecrated and eternal vow." he dismounted. What is the ceremony?" Ha!" groaned the Hebrew, suddenly he asked of the peasants. 1 relaxing his hold as his daughter fell on

A nun is about to take the vows," an- her knees before him, then have I indeed swered one of them.. been told, as I have foreseen, the worst.

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A cry of alarm, of indignation, of ter-The veil is rent-the spirit hath left the ror, was heard within. Muza no longer temple. Thy beauty is. desecrated; thy delayed he gave his steed to the bystand-form is but unhallowed clay. Dog!" he er, pushed aside the heavy curtain that cried, more fiercely, glaring round upon screened the threshold, and was within the the unmoved face of the inquisitor, this is chapel..... thy... work: but thou shalt not, triumph. By the altar gathered a confused and Here, by thine own shrine, I spit at and disordered group the sisterhood. with defy thee, as once before, amid the tortheir abbess. Round the consecrated rail tures of thy inhuman court. Thus-thus flocked the spectators, breathless and a--thus-Almamen the Jew delivers the mazed. Conspicuous above the rest, on last of his house from the curse of Galithe elevation of the holy place, stood Al- lee!"

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mamen, with his drawn dagger in his Hold murderer!" cried a voice of

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