The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-19

but that voice whose keni0 erecting
Set this heart 80 wildly beating
At each fond and frequent meeting,
esA Comes no more.
HOW THE OLD LOVE JARED.
CHAPTER /.
One morning the sun shone gioriously from
his blue home in the skies athwArt lew Paie
yellow clouds. Then its rays tell shearteheo
and cold on some two or three nunrie9 yaros
of murky atmosphere, peheae" ""'e" 10y
The streets were something narrow. and the
houses were curiousty damned, and had a per-
manently blackened look; but what they
lacked in size or beauty. they compensated for
in number. SeafarinG men stood talking IN
groups at the corners OF the crossings. Every
par Of trousers ia the place was m ore or less
daub bed with tar and some Of those who wore
them were fine stalwart specimens OF the
Saxon race, with bullet head, bulldog neck,
handsome sun. burnt face, and crisp, FIAT, yell
low curls. Small boys OF five years old wore
their IA hers SOU westers. Que jos tied another
rs he passed along the street; another young
'un was climbing up coast-waiI In a sort OF
fly fashion, inserting his toes in invisible
chinks, and holding on by projections not to
be discerned by ordinary eyes. lie fell more
than once and from u fair height, too but
rose nothing daanted, and doegediy recon-
menced the ascent. They all wore q reckless,
self.l eiiant air, and were, 1 suppose, of the
proper stock to make British sailors. Even
the less respec table of the women who were
wranGiing among the men, differed strangely
from the faded, WORKOUT objects who are daily
placed before the magistrates in our London
police courts. Their laughter was loud, their
voices deep, their limbs massive. Very virile
indeed they looked and were. Further ON to
the right, some stupendous works were in
course OF construction. Thews and sinews
were TO be seen there, such as only England
produces, toiling doggedly and perpetually.-
toiiing also after their fashon-here to pump
water in, and there to pump water out. Be-
sides these, there were some hundreds OF big
horses dragging enormous loads, calmly, as II
less than nothing about their noise. They
were OF the sort OF animals foreigners are SO
much smitfen with when they see them in the
dray.carts in London, very carefully tended
many of them were gaily ornamented with
ribbons, plating OF hair, brass settings, and
the like, according to the taste and ability Of
the man who looked after each particular
horse. The works themselves were well
worth an examination. The workers were
pushing cut groins and Dressings which must
have astonished the sea as they gradually
forced it out of its old landmarks. 1t happened
more than once that it had in the night time
arisen and revenged itself. aud that in a few
hours the labor of months had been swept
away. But the next day saw men calmly set
ting to work TO repair the damage with double
care, and replace the wall with fourfOld
strength. More than score OF broad acres
were already redeemed from the salt waters.
Here and there might be observed thoughtful
looking men, standing, watching keenIy and
with contract ted brOws the progress OF things.
Standing rather apart. with folded arms and
profoundly discouragedair,a young gentle
man was likewise gazing round him. He was
broad -shouldered, rather understood, but not
iil-made, and muscular He had full blue eyes,
quantity of hair of a tawny red, a large
mouth garnished with set OF capital teeth
Naturally his smile was constant bright and
lovial but now it was considerably overcast.
He walked up to one Of the contractors
with the air of a man who has made up his
mind to last effort.
"Then you do not see any prospect of en-
ployment for me, Mr.. Langford -
mo, do not indeed Seilon. You, see, Rem
nv manages it all, and he has the cash That
place would have just suited you, and you
would have done the work far better than
Renny's nephew. It's not the right man in
the right place, Stephen. But the man is in
the place and right will not turn him out
while might keeps him in. I'm very sorry
TOR it, stephen, but it cannot be helped"
"Weli, goodbye, then, Langford. l shall be
at Vendor on Sunday They shook hands,
Itwas Sunday in the old town Of Vendor,
and the cracked bell of Il large church was
its opened doors. 1t was an old church-you
might tell that by its strange, high, numbering
pews, which no devout young Oxford curate
had vet swept away. The windows were cob
webbed aud dusty, with here and there pane
OF stained glass in quaint pattern; these
were distributed with perfect irregularity.
These windows looked on to the backs of
gloomy houses, and on to worn gravestones,
where the forefathers of those who now stood
there slept. Long, tangled, sickly grass twined
about the gravestones one or two were orna-
men,ed with marigold and oyster-shells.
Some trees of smoke-dried green slowly grew
and slowly decayed by the side of the old
church. The bell-ropes hung into the body OF
the building, and a stove reared ITS uns1ghtly
pipe in the centre. supported ny IRON oars.
which radiated from it in every direction. The
churchwardeps were already seated-or rather,
enthronsd-in canopied pews. and looked
down with the contempt natural to officials
ON the rest of the scanty congregation
Thev were subs tantial shopkeepers, and had
every right to do SO. The pews at the side
wars Of an extra height. Their seclusion
omatimes promoted intense devOtion-some-
times. great levity. A few school girls shell.
tered their whisperings in these depths. and
some aged aud not very reputable or hand
some looking old men in colts and caps were
1hinly sprinkled higher mp. A glance at the pile
of ioayes ranged behind the ch nrchwardens,
might possibly account for their attendance.
In the Innings Of these 2ews every shade aud
hue In green must have been exhausted. Some
were OF u rich brown and tawny aspect
others were violently green, and very woOlly
in Substance sundry OF them were worn and
moth .eaten, the rotten wood had fallen away
ing. ofwhich one could only guess the proba.
BILE extent. Against two of the pillars were
slips Of wood. and thereon were inscribed arms
and other heral9sc devices also, names pSr.
parish served the honorable Office Of mayor
The dates were respectively affixed; some
were as old as seventeen hundred and twenty
Their h0nOred remains now mouldered within
the dreary precincts of this venerable edifice
and their dignity was of strangely little mo-
ment to them. The Clergyman looked like I
gentleman an observer would guess that n
was also bon-yivant. He read the services II
speedy, yet orthodox manner. The congre
CATION was not large, and the clerk IS responses
were alone audible. f.~ssss5