Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-12-05

the figbt, IN battle array with banners flying
/ over the brow Of neighboring hilb scattered
his enemies in confusion, secured the indie.
pendence Of Scotland, the crown OF the king
dom for himself, and humbled the pride OF
| England by he greatest overthrow that that
nation has ever received
We are still amid the SCIENCES Of ''the Lady
OF the Lake" Buta little way oil, in full view
is that
| ''sad and fatal mound
| That on hast heard the death axe sound,
As To the nobleat OF the land,
| Fell the stern headsman's bloody hand"
Nearer still is the castle-park where the games
we're held, and whore the proud old Douglas
won the archer's and the wrestler's prizo, and
| hurled a tremendous stone
! "a rood beyond the farthest mark"
Ana still 10 Strings royal park
r I,Le gray head sires who snow the past,
And moraze on the decay
OF Scottish strength in modern day"
Here are the towers,
-"within whose circuit dread
Douglas by his sovereign bed,"
aud entering the castle, we are shown into the
Identical room in which James III stabbed with
his own hand while under his royal safe CON
duct, William, eighth earl Of Douglas, and the
window out Of which the body of the murder
ed man was thrown Here also is the
Guard Room, in which Ellen was rescued
from /, indignity, by rough John of
Brent. Here is the room in which
her lover was confined, and in another Just be-
low, brave Roderigh died; and here, in the
grand Presence Chamber, Fitz James, no
longer the wandering knight errant but King
James the Fifth OF Scotland, forgave the trans
gressions of his high spirited friends of the
wilderness, and having decked young NAL
colin neck with a golden chain, "laid the
clasp i'll Ellen hand" While walking through
The Arsenal, gazing az the long rows of En-
field rifles which seemed TO hold themselves
disdainiully aloof from the old fashioned and
less effective weapons Of the Coveanters, Cav
alera and Knights errant, which hung upon
The walls, and at the battle flags of the various
Highland regiments, distinguished in the wars,
the pleasant old lady who was acting as our
ctceroue, put into my hands a lance which
Fitz James had often carried Nothing more
was needed to excite my mind to the highest
pitch. Here was the substantial evidence that
the character in whose deeds / had been so
interested all the day, was a real being The
cycles Of years behind us seemed to roll away
and vanish. The nineteenth gave place again
to the sixteenth century, and as if under some
potent spell, forgot the world, my home, my
indentity, and half expected to see those cid
suits of armor, filled again with living men, step
down from their places and 20 out to the dead
ly fray, / was awake and yet dreaming, and
could easily have been persuaded that it was
my duty to buckle on claymore and dirk
ard hasten to the gathering of the clan" to
do battle for the gallant Knight of Showdown,
King James-the Commons king"
In Bells life of his lovely, brilliant but un.
fortunate daughter, Mary Queen of Scots,
whom all Scotland is mourning for to this
day, the historian says of James, that "he was
considered the handsomest man of his day.
He was above the middle statue; his hair
flowed luxuriantly over his shoulders in nat
ural ringlets, and was of dark yellow or au-
har or; his eyes were gray and very pene-
his voice was sweet-toned; and the
expression of his countenance uncom-
'epossessiug lie inherited a vgor-
Gus constitution, and kept it sound and
healthy by constant exercise, and by refrain
ing from all excesses in eating or drinking
He died as he had lived with kingly and
gallant spirit, In the language of Pittscottie,
he turned him upon his back, and looked and
behed all his mobiles and lords about him, and
giving little smile, kissed his hand and of,
fered it to them. When they had pressed il
W NhN'i 'Apo AOi bhC iunb llhG luTutu upon
his side again, and yielded his spirit to God.
We passed out over the drawbridge, and
went down the "flinty street which echoed
loud in olden times,
"Beneath the cOursers clattenng feet
As slowly down tho steep descent
FAIR scotands king and mobiles went"
We passed the old church in which Mary
was was crowned Queen, the tall narrow house
in which the Earl of Bosworth, Mary last hus-
band lived, and the old Mint, inwhich the 6rsl
sterling money was coined. When Mary
was Wee one, they struck an insignificant
copper coin there, with her little face upon it, Il
aud they called it "bawbee'-baby. Il
The old town still preserves the Iquaintness
of its early years, and the shril whistle of the
locomotive as we neared the station, was tho
first thing in Stirling that reminded us of the
buatllng and prosaic age in which we live. Il
FOrney.