Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-17
For tho National Era.
4 BRoTHIR's RRcOLLECTIoNs OF AN ONLY
SISTER.
BY MARY IRVING.
CHAP. XII;

How much of Iife's experience, and Of its
changes, may be crowded into few brief
months! For me, the months succeeding my
reluctant parting with my sister, wero filed
with cares and turmoils such as had never
harassed my life before. had thrown down
the political gAuntlet-it had been taken up
and had conquered in the contest, not with
out hard. fought battle
To the self-exiled wanderer, those months
had been full Of experiences, novel and anu
sing, sad and strange. A few glimpsts only
may be given.
dStrange that no many hundred miles of
land and water have 50 little power to seTa,
rate! In the hous Of day, indeed, often feel
myself alone, in . strange land. There is little
10 remind me of home; even the sunshine is a
changed thing--s fierce glare, from which |
have learned, by painful experience, to shield
my head Tho woods hung with this fnnereal
moss, the swarthy ccffles Of black, unanimated
faces, the very flowers in their bloom and
sweetness, say to me, This is far, very far
from home' But in the night the same moon
comes to smile on me, that looks down on your
home; the same stars-oh, how ] love that
North Star and one, brighter than your
eyes have seem Canopus, Last night, the
sang of the mocking-bir awoke me from
dream Of home. All melodies, melted into one
trembling delicious strain, were floating on the
moonlit, mist-laden bosom Of night. IL seemed
the music Of better, brighter world; and
when started 10 consciousness, what could |
do but weep"
Grace, a. you know, is teaching in the In
stitnte at W, sixty miles distant She is
never mt liberty to share my comparative re-
tsrcmcnt; but often visit her, as my hoydcnish
little charge has an especial fancy for holy.
days, often indnlgsd by an indolcnt mother.
Something like thought, however, seems TO DO
awaking in the neglected mind Of little Estele
and if I can sow there bat one seed Of truth,
my exile and labors will not have been in vain
Ma, did God make libby to DO my boy ? she
asked, quite suddenly, Mt. table, the other day
] could feel the mothers glance upon my face,
M the careless answer was given. Little fear
need Mrs. Livingston cherish ON that scoro !
came nod to instruct her child in politics
But her active spirit in coming to a conscious
OF others. Nature will put strange queries TO
. child
We have new inmatc--thc only son Of
Judge Livingston only brother, lately deceased.
] think # the stories mother nscd to tell me Of
poor Ebcn's declining days, when look on his
spiritualixcd face and wasted form. He is q
victim 10 ambition and its handmade, hard
etudy; and has been ordered South in tho for
lorn hope OF eludng tho too sure grasp Of con-
sumption. That ambition has been cbastencd
and hAlIowed until he seems filter for Heaven
than Garth. He would have been preacher ;
and ssseA preacher Oh life seems really
worth very little, when am listening 10 his
low words or trust and hope in Heaven. There
i sympathy in his heart for everything that
God has made: above al, for every one for
whom . Saviour died - degraded, despiscd,
though he be- How Il stirs my pulse 10 hear
him, with the franknes and fearlcesness Of one
Who stands ON tho threshold Of two worlds,
speAk The sentiments &C humanity aud Justice
that would he tolerated in no other. ThGe
gentle, emphatic words d. not convince but
they win NOT h fcreotfsniv
Give mr. credit for enc true prophecy, dear
Ralph ] en- happy yet sad, in IT, fulGlment.
You hsvs sen, by the papers Prof Athcrton's
appointment 10 that scientific m s-'op in the
Old World Did itcnser yoar fancy that Grace
mieht accompany him The nomination was
. sudden one, which IcR him NO time n come
Southward before making necess&ry prepara-
lions Tor the voyage Bnt he heart had m''-ed
Grace Iang enough Separated from her, he
had leaned how mooh his lifs had owed her
how much moro to him she had been than any
Other could be- He wrote 70 her, simply and
beautifully appealing n tho momeriss Of otber
dsya and eotrset,ng her, II her heart could
take home wandering rtar,, 70 give proof Of
~ tsurk b. joining him IN New York.
vas with Grace On hat eventual day !,
w)o had ncvcr seen her yield - evisf sac her
ovwohelped By The lido that lsttsr awake In
~ own breast II havs known III sHid she
u ~, - parting. sIf his heart had boon
35Vun NJ another. Eslalie, u we're none IL
xinol Hot NY l,f~-ui~ion vas tothat nAri;
4 knSo ooodied il firm my childhood, - M
~ 49, oooId. I know he cannot open lie
lrr1S1 y nn0ehssl We'll Il was darling that
<t1 nyost Va trus - itsfIf IN tbs hcnr q
60 sight | received osrd, with their