savages by explaining its properties. He wrote a letter in their sight-to their infinite wonder. They spared him, and made a show of him in all the settlements round about. He was to them an unfathomable mystery. He was plainly superhuman. Whether his power would bring to them good or evil, they were not able to determine. After much hesitation they chose the course which prudence seemed to counsel. They resolved to extinguish powers so formidable, regarding whose use they could obtain no guarantee. Smith was bound and stretched upon the earth, his head resting upon a great stone. The mighty club was uplifted to dash out his brains. But Smith was a man who won golden opinions from all. The Indian chief had a daughter, Pocahontas, a child of ten or twelve years. She could not bear to see the pleasing Englishman destroyed. As Smith lay waiting the fatal stroke, she seized him in her arms and interposed herself between him and the club. Her inter cession prevailed, and Smith was set free. Five years later, "an honest and discreet" young Englishman called John Rolfe loved this young Indian girl. He had a sore mental struggle about uniting himself with "one of barbarous breeding and of a cursed race.' But love triumphed. He laboured for her conversion, and had the happiness of seeing her baptized in the little church of Jamestown. Then he married her. Her After a time he took her home to England. appearance was pleasing; her mind was acute; her piety was sincere; her manners bore picturesque evidence of her forest upbringing. The English King and Court regarded her with lively interest as the first-fruits of the wilderness. Great hopes were founded on this union of the two races. She is the brightest picture-this young Virginian wife and mother-which the history of the doomed native races presents to us. But she did not live to revisit her native land. Death parted her very early from her husband and her child.* When Smith returned from captivity the colony was on the verge of extinction. Only thirty-eight persons were left, and they were preparing to depart. With Smith hope returned to the despairing settlers. They resumed their work, confident in the resources of their chief. Fresh arrivals from England cheered them. The character of these reinforcements was no improvement upon that of their predecessors. "Vagabond gentlemen" formed still a large majority of the settlers many of them, we are told, "packed off to escape worse destinies at home." The colony, thus composed, had already earned a very bad reputation so bad that some, rather than be sent there, "chose to be hanged, and were." Over these most undesirable subjects Smith ruled with an authority which no man dared or desired to question. But he was severely injured by an accidental explosion of gunpowder. Surgical aid was not in the colony. Smith required to go to England, and once more hungry ruin settled down In six months the five hundred men upon Virginia. whom Smith had left had dwindled to sixty. These 5 were already embarked and departing when they were met by Lord Delaware, the new governor. Once more the colony was saved. Emigrants Years of quiet growth succeeded. not wholly now of the dissolute sort-flowed steadily in. In 1688 the population of Virginia had increased to 50,000; and within a few years of the settlement, the Virginians had a written Constitution, according to which they were ruled. 'Virgin'ia, the first British settlement in North America, was taken possession of by Raleigh in 1584, and named after the virgin queen, Elizabeth. Long captivity in the Tower— thirteen years. In 1603 he had been condemned on the charge of being accessory to a plot to place Arabella Stuart on the throne. He was reprieved, but remained a prisoner in the Tower till 1616. An expedition which he undertook to South America failed, and gave offence to Spain. his return, James, to please the Spanish minister, sent Raleigh to the block on the sentence passed fifteen years before -1618. On QUESTIONS.-Who first attempted to colonize Virginia? With what success? When was a company chartered to colonize it? What was the character of the emigrants? Who became the chief of the expedition? What was the first English town in America? How did Smith put down the vice of swearing? From what did the settlers suffer in their first summer? How many died before autumn? What brought them relief? What befell Smith when exploring the interior? How was his life saved? What subsequently became of Pocahontas? In what state was the colony when Smith returned from captivity? Why was he compelled to return to England? Whom did Lord Delaware meet on his arrival? What was the population of Virginia in 1688? WATERLOO. THERE was a sound of revelry by night, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell. Did ye not hear it?—No; 'twas but the wind, On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet, And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before!— Within a windowed niche of that high hall Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, If ever more should meet those mutual eyes,3 And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, They come ! rose! And wild and high the "Camerons' gathering "4 The stirring memory of a thousand years: 6 And Evan's, Donald's fame, rings in each clansman's ears! And Ardennes" waves above them her green leaves, Over the unreturning brave,-alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass, Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe, And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay; The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife; 8 The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which, when rent, |