Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-12-09

oi dnrk auburn hair IL Is not q lace that can
be called classieally beautiful-- long nose
and slightly receding chin destroy its regular
| ity--but nevertheless il is a very lovely one,
and interests the behoder even before he
knows whose it is
From the picture gallery we we're shown
into the apartments Of Lord Darnley, one of |
Queen Mary's husbands, which communicate /
with hers, directly overhead, by the private |
staircase up which Darnley led Ruthven and I
George Douglas with their followers, to the
murder of the Queens Secretary, David |
Rizzio, or Riccio, in her presence and while |
| clingng TO her garments for protection. We
went up into the Queens rooms, where are
the chairs and other furniture the bed and
the clothing, precisely as she left them-they |
told us, and the little private room in VIII ich |
she with two of her ladies and Rizzio, sat
when the assassins came on their hellish
errand. 10 -
The old ushers about the palace are very
Jealous of Queen Mary's good name, and
hooted at the idea of there being criminal
attachment between her and the Italian. He
was q man of sixty years OF age Instead Of
beardless boy as has been asserted, was ugly,
austere and disagreeable but respected
by his mistress because he was a learned,
wise, prudent and faithful man He was
obnoxious to the conspirators because he
opposed and exposed a conspiracy Of theirs
to shut her Majesty up in a Castle, that
Darnley might have all authority for himself,
aud they took these means Of rddng them
selves of a stubborn obstacle in the way Of
their ambition They struck him over her
shoulder, and then dragged him out to the
head of the stairs ana dispatched hin with
fifty stabs Dark spots on the floor and walls,
are still there, but as the deed was done three
hundred years ago, | did not consider myself
bound to believe that they were made by his
blood.
Tue chapel now rooaess and in ruins, was
built by Charles / who inscribed over the
door 81 will build Il house TO His. name and
He will establish my throne forever" great
mistake. The Long Parliament took from
him both his throne and his head. Mary
and Darney were married in this Chapel
which was once fitted up in regal style. While
standing in the spot where the royal pair stood,
| was startled by seeing upon the wall in
front of me, my own name in full Christian
and sirnames were mine, but closer inspec-
ton showed the addition of an IS" to the
! latter which do not claim The inscription
! stated that he lived at Ridley Hall county Of
Northumberland, that he was born to great
estate lost it all at twenty-five, lived o poor
man all his life, recovered his fortune at the
age of sixty, and lived to enjoy it Just thirty
% days The slab sets in the wall in the most
prominent part of the Chapel, and this is all
it tells.
From the palace we went up Canongate
and High Street, and one is the continuation
Y of the other, noting as we passed along the
n grave Of Hume the Historian, the residences
T., of Burns and Milton, the church in which
John Knox preached, Seaton's Close, the mar
row alley into which that wild young rascal
e Roland Graeme ran after his pretty sweet
p heart Catherine Seaton, as Sir Walter tells us
v in "The Abbot Canongste Tolbooth, where
:, Efie Deans was held a prisoner, St. Giles
y Church, and the church of DR.. Guthrie, who
s. is one Of the ablest of living divines. A lit
r, tie distance off to the left is George Heriots
,s Hospital, built by the noble old goldsmith
= we read of in the Fortunes Of Nigel" Jing-
. ling Gordie, as King James familarly called
s. him, who was a veritable character, not by
d any means too favorably drawn as hundreds
le Of orphan lads of Edinboro will heartily aver.
And then we enterod the grand old castle and
we're amazed at its extent and apparent
'e strength. There is no eminence that com.
ut mands it, tho hill which it stands is almost
NJ perpendicular on three sides, and on the
:, fourth, its double walls and deep moat wosld
~ seem to make 1t impregnable against all the
n engnery of ancient warfare, and we wonder
w ed that it should ever have been taken except
ns through treachery. History tells us, however
y that it changed hands frequently during The
= wars which for hundreds Of years distracted
ID the land, and once at least it was carried by
storm. 1t is still kept up fortress and arse
1d nal and is garrisoned by battalion of High
landers. We saw the immense old canon
'Mons Meg which has a bore two feet in di
'e- amter from which stone balls were fired in
nd olden times distance Of two miles. 1t was
It's made at Mons, in Brittany, nearly four hun
Il. dred years ago.
We saw also the rooms in which Queen
Marys son, King James vi, was born, and
10 portrait OF her as the young Dauphine o
u France. We would have seen the crown o.
err Scotland with the scepter and sword which
n after having been lost for two hundred years
We we're found in the Castle by Sir Walter Scott
We but there was a mob of people-an excursion
he from Glasgow, l believe-besieging the en-
of trance, and our curiosity somewhat satisfied
or by the wonders we had seen through the day
raj was not strong enough to induce US TO ioiI
so the throng and take our turn
OF The climate OF Edinboro seems peculiar h
ell an American. We were there about the mid
~, die of the month of July, and the residents 0
Ct. the city frequently complained to us OF tn
III excessive heat although the mercury at n
all time rose above eighty degrees Fahrenheit
'te A gentleman told me that II was excessivel
his cold there in the winter time-that ice
ate sometimes found two or three inches thick
atty This is in latitude fhynine-eleven hundre
miles due north Of Dayton
Of At ten o'clock P. NJ there was still enoug
md Of the light Of day left to read by, and da