THE TREE S IN WINTER. 
BY GEO RGB W. BUNGAY. 
From the lone woods no wild-bird hymns 
Ring out upon the wintry air ; 
The solemn trees lift up their limbs 
Like a reft nation offering prayer. 
They’re teachers that I’ve learned to lore, 
Whose leafy book I oft have read ; 
Their limbs point to the world above ; 
Their roots point to the world that’s dead. 
Oh, solemn thought! the woods so lorn 
In winter, and in spring so fair, 
Hold in their trunks for the unborn i 
Cities, and ships, and coffins there ! 
Here root clasps root throughout the wood, 
And branch entwines with branch above ; 
So hand joins hand in brotherhood. 
And heart joins kindred hearts in love. 
Godet/s Lady's Book. 
if*’* limn*. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
TELESCOPIC PHILANTHROPY; 
OR, JOEL SHELDON’S MISSION. 
BY EDWARD WEBSTER. 
[Concluded.] 
Joel Sheldon, with his captive companions 
was an unwilling and horrified spectator ot this 
wholesale human butchery under form of law, 
and fully expected ere many days to meet a 
corresponding fate. Many Americans sojourn¬ 
ing at Havana in search of health, or engaged 
in the peaceful pursuits of commerce, were also 
present at the execution ; and, it is needless to 
add, were filled with indignation and a burning 
desire for vengeance. But what could they do 
or say, in the midst of an infuriated populace, 
whose thirst for blood was only whetted to an 
intenser sharpness by the sight of that already 
spilt, and who waited merely for a nod of 
authority, to fall upon and tear limb from limb 
every hated Anglo-American upon the island, 
regardless of age or sex. Fortunately, however, 
both for the mob itself and for the objects of 
their hate, that nod of authority was not given. 
The Governor General understood full well that 
such an outrage upon international law, and 
such an invasion of the rights of foreign resi¬ 
dents upon the island, would kindle an auto 
da fe both for the vice royal sceptre and the 
crozier of the priest. He was a shrewd politi¬ 
cian and energetic ruler, as well as a cool- 
blooded tyrant, and understood perfectly that, 
while it was safe for fhim to walk square up to 
the line of international law, and to execute 
summary vengeance upon mistaken men who 
had by their own voluntary acts placed them- , thwnc fu.Uuuvtc 
selves beyond the pale of their country s piotcc 
tion, it would be nothing short of an act of uttei 
madness to go a hair’s breadth beyond. He, 
therefore, by the strong arm of military author¬ 
ity, not only protected these foreign residents 
from any outbreak of popular fury, but he 
listened with a chivalrous and courtly bearing 
to an energetic remonstrance from them, against 
any further military trials and executions. 
The surviving prisoners, who for several days 
had lain in chains, in momentary expectation 
of a summons to trial and death, together with 
such of the scattered adventurers as from time 
to time subsequently fell into the hands of the 
authorities, were therefore remanded to Spain 
for trial. This number was much increased by 
the capture of a large portion of the real divis¬ 
ion of the expedition, whose failure to follow 
immediately after the advance, was attended 
with such fatal consequences to both. The error 
was caused by no fault or cowardice ol theiis 
however, but resulted from the ti eacliei y of 
their guides, who intentionally led them astiav, 
find into a position from which it was impossi¬ 
ble to escape. One single exception was made 
to the removal of the prisoners to fcqiain, and 
that was in the case of the prime mover of the 
expedition, Lopez himscll. He was a Spanish 
subject, not an American ; and was retained in 
the island and tried as a traitor, not as a pirate. 
Condemnation and death by the murderous 
garote terminated his career, and consigned him 
to a grave of infamy—Spanish American in¬ 
famy — which means loving infinitely beyond 
their deserts, his countrymen and his country. 
consolations of religion, save the hollow and 
mumbled mockery of the pure and undefiled 
teachings of the Saviour — no cessation of 
exhausting toil by day, and racking pains by 
night‘greet the prisoners until the Angel of 
Death comes as the Angel of Mercy, with heal¬ 
ing in his wings for all their woes and sufferings, 
and sets the captives free ! 
The illiterate and depraved criminals, con¬ 
demned to these mines for henious civil offences, 
such as arson, burglary, highway robbery, etc., 
looked upon the new comers as enemies to their 
i religion and country, and hence aggravated the 
hardships of their lot by a fanatical and unre¬ 
lenting persecution. Day and night passed by 
unheeded ; time was divided, not by natural 
laws into intervals of rest and labor, but by 
artificial rules into long periods of toil and 
brief ones of cessation. The red hot alembics 
glowed beneath the intense heat of the furnaces, 
and the stifled air reeked with the volatilized 
Mercury, until life and death were separated 
from each other by a very iragile and uncertain 
barrier. While these days of hopeless and hor¬ 
rible bondage were passing over the heads of 
the unfortunate prisoners, the American people 
were stirred with a feeling of intense commiser¬ 
ation for the sufferings of their countrymen.— 
The errors and follies of their course were 
swallowed up in the rectitude of their intention 
and the miseries of its results. 
Frances Hayden, notwithstanding the abrupt 
termination of the engagement between her and 
her lover, had, so long as it was possible, kept 
trace of him to whom she had pledged her 
earliest and truest' affections. With sleepless 
vigilance she had watched his progress at the 
South, until he sunk from her sight beneath the 
veil of secrecy which covered the earlier move¬ 
ments of the Cuban liberators. Never having 
failed to read, with the unwearied eye of a true 
and faithful love, a daily paper from New Or¬ 
leans, she thereby, among other matters of 
general interest, became familiar with the course 
of events connected with the expedition, as they 
gradually became developed. No list of the 
persons engaged, however, had ever been made 
public, and no suspicion had ever crossed hei 
mind that the mild and peaceful Joel Sheldon 
would, for a moment, entertain the idea of 
engaging in a warlike demonstration. Judge 
then of her horror and distress, when, in connec¬ 
tion with a detailed account of the capture and 
execution of Crittenden and his fifty compan¬ 
ions, she read in the roll of the expedition, then 
first published, the name of her lover. The 
account further stated that several prisoners had 
subsequently been captured, and that many 
others had managed in some way, either to 
elude thus far the vigilance of their pursuers, 
or had escaped altogether ; but, as the names of 
those executed had not been given, it was im¬ 
possible for her to tell whether he was among 
tliooo foilmnato ilbuv 
slept in a bloody and untimely grave ! With 
an energy and courage which ever characterize 
the true and noble hearted woman, she resolved 
at once to ascertain the truth for herself; and, 
if he vet survived, to spare no exertion in order 
if possible to avert his threatened fate ; but if 
he had already fallen a victim to violated law, 
then — but her bursting heart refused to re¬ 
spond to the question — “What then ? ” 
In pursuit of this object she determined to 
proceed immediately to Havana, and unravel 
personally the story of his fate. A brief time 
only was necessary to prepare for the journey, 
and then, with a small sum of money which she 
had accumulated from the products of her own 
industry and economy, and an additional sum 
voluntarily contributed by the friends and 
neighbors who sympathized with her in the un¬ 
dertaking, she set out for New York, and em¬ 
barked upon the steamer Black Warrior, then 
upon the eve of sailing. After a prosperous run 
of seven days, the steamer moored alongside the 
docks of that celebrated city. A man-of-war, 
bearing the Spanish flag, lay beside her, with 
guns all shotted and grinning through the open 
ports, while a company of marines were drilling 
upon her decks; but takings very little note of 
those things passing around her, our heroine, so 
soon as her passports were vised, hastened to the 
office of the United States Consul, for the pur¬ 
pose of prosecuting her inquiries. That func¬ 
tionary was absent, however, as he had been be¬ 
fore upon much more vitally important occa¬ 
sions, and a young Creole, half office boy and 
half clerk, with a vast amount of insolence and 
which he had written in pencil the names of the the Spanish Minister resident at W ashington, 
prisoners, and commenced reading them aloud between whom and the Secretary of State none 
to his excited and breathless listener. Most of but the kindest personal feelings existed ; and, 
them were strange to her-French, Spanish and j in the interviews which followed, the interests 
Creole of the Southern States, with now and of the brave girl were pressed upon the km< 
then one common to all parts of the Union. Her j consideration of the Spanish Sovereign A 
heart sank as he proceeded, and she was ready bundle of despatches to the American Minister 
to give over in despair, when there fell upon I at Madrid were committed to her hands, and 
her ear the familiar and wished for name of the War Department which was just then send- 
| in°- out a vessel to reinforce the Mediterranean 
Joel Sheldon. 
« Is he still alive ? Oh ! God be thanked ! ” 
she exclaimed, and bowing her face to the earth 
in presence of the merchant, gave way to an 
uncontrollable flood of tears. Her companion . , , . . ,, ■ 
. t i -..,,,, 1,1 noro.i,,™ many days of anxious doubts—almost of despaii, 
was made ot sterner stuff, and would never haic j “““‘i " 1 
forgiven himself had he been betrayed into any 
similar manifestation ■ so he fretted aoout, knit i 
squadron, offered her a free passage. ■ 
After arriving at Madrid, the usual negotia¬ 
tions and delays incident to grave matters of 
state had to be submitted to, but at length, after 
. . yerv little knowledge either of the duties of the 
Joel Sheldon and his companions veie [ officg qi . of tiie E n gii. s h language, officiated in 
transported as State prisoners over the sea, tried 
bv a civil tribunal and convicted and sentenced 
to perpetual imprisonment at hard labor, in the 
Quick-Silver mines of Almaden. There, im¬ 
mured in a living tomb a thousand feet beneath 
the surface of the blessed earth, where hundreds 
of human beings are condemned, as the penalty 
for crimes, to drag out a brief and miserable 
existence, amid poisonous fumes and death- 
bearing exhalations, these victims of a mistaken 
philanthropy were condemned to labor and to 
die ! The mines of Almaden are even yet the 
richest of their kind in the known world, not¬ 
withstanding they have been wrought for a 
period of twenty-five hundred years, and paid 
tribute to the Greeks seven centuries previous 
to the birth of the Saviour of mankind. With 
an unscientific and bungling apparatus for 
extracting the metal, which has been in use 
unimproved since the time of the Moorish 
conquest, which wastes in deleterious fumes 
one-half of the precious deposite, and carries 
ghastly disease, trembling of limbs and hollow¬ 
ness of cheek to the wretches condemned to 
feed the furnaces, the state prisoners of a 
tyrannous government are compelled to toil while 
life lasts. No light of the glorious sun — no 
cheering and welcome smile of wife, or children, 
or friend, ever reaches the criminal there ! No 
his eye brows into a terrible frown, bit his lip 
as if in vexation at some great imaginary wrong 
which he was bent upon cogitating. Neverthe¬ 
less he stole furtive glances every now and then 
at the bowed and fragile form before him, all un¬ 
conscious at the moment of his presence, and 
dropped a tear sympathetically, in spite of 
himself. 
« Listen to me !” he said at length, approach¬ 
ing her gently ; “ you have no time now to in¬ 
dulge in either joy or sorrow. Joel Shel¬ 
don and his captive comrades are on board the 
man-of-war now lying at the wharf, but which 
sails this afternoon with them as State prison¬ 
ers to Spain. If you desire an interview before 
he goes, come with me at once. I am acquaint¬ 
ed with the commander of the vessel, and may 
possibly aid you in your object,” Without a 
moment’s delay they hastened down to the 
docks, where they arrived just in time, howev¬ 
er, to see the man-of-war, with sails all set to a 
stiffening breeze, standing out of the harbor.— 
They watched her progress in silent disappoint¬ 
ment, until, in a brief space of time, first the 
dark outline ol her hull, then her snowy pile of 
canvas, sunk out of sight at the verge of the 
horizon, into the bosom of the open sea. The 
merchant left his companion to her uninterrupt¬ 
ed meditations, as she watched with straining 
eye until the vessel’s direction could be traced 
no longer, and then inquired of her what course 
she now intended to pursue. 
“Follow him to Spain 1” she answered, “and 
share his lot, whether it be captivity or death 1” 
“You will not be permitted to do that; nei¬ 
ther is it desirable that you should, for your 
misery would only be an aggravation of his own. 
There is now no apprehension of his immediate 
condemnation, for law in the Old World, fetter¬ 
ed as it is by precedents, does not move with 
the same celerity, either for good or evil, as it 
does here. I have a better plan to propose to 
you. Go back to Washington, and lay the case 
before the President, with such documents as I 
shall be able to furnish you, and ask of him the 
intercession of the Government in behalf of the 
the government of Spain, desirous of making 
some atonement for the needless severity of its 
Viceroy in America, but predicating its action 
upon the ground of her Catholic Majesty’s most 
gracious clemency and mercy, granted, not only 
to Joel Sheldon, but to all the others an uncon¬ 
ditional pardon. The woe-begone prisoners, 
with pallid cheeks, and eyes too weak to bear at 
first the light of day, were summoned from their 
subterranean abode, and, in the presence ot a 
crowd even of sympathizing enemies, whom 
curiosity had congregated at the spot to witness 
their release, together with such of their own 
countrymen as happened to be in the country at 
the time, they were all restored to the blessings 
of liberty once more ! Weakened and unnerv¬ 
ed as Joel Sheldon was by his long and severe 
imprisonment, when he beheld among his as¬ 
sembled countrymen, the unexpected form of 
his early and only love, and saw her extend both 
hands with tears of mingled tenderness and 
sympathy, he folded her to his heart in unre¬ 
strained and passionate emotion. 
The sequel of our story is soon told. The re¬ 
leased prisoners all rapidly recovered their 
health and strength ; and Joel Sheldon and 
his devoted lady-love were, in their presence, at 
the United States Consulate, married soon after. 
He with his wife remained in the country two 
yearn studying the Spanish language, and sup¬ 
porting himself by instructing the young Cava¬ 
liers in his own vernacular; after which he 
returned to America, and is at this day a dis- 
tingirslied Professor of Modern Languages in 
one of our Western Colleges. Mrs. Joel Shel¬ 
don, from a happy home, the possession of which 
was a condition of re-payment, transmitted to 
her friend in Havana the sum lent her, principal 
and interest; with such a letter of gratitude and 
thankfulness accompanying, as made the tears 
of the stern old merchant fall like rain. 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
ACROSTTCAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 13 letters. 
My 1, 7,13 is necessary to sustain life. 
My 2, 7, 10,11 is what we all have. 
My 3, 7, 8, 9 is another term for a prison. 
My 4, 7, 6 is used on a boat. 
My 5, 6,12 is a kind of vase. 
My G, 7, 13 is a tenant that seldom pays his 
board. 
My 7, 6, 13 is a fine study. 
My 8, 4, 7, 13 is very valuable in some parts of 
Europe. 
My 9, 10, 10, 11, 13 is a species of ant. 
My 10, 4, 4, 6, 9 is a renowned editor. 
My 11, 7, 6 is a part of the body. 
My 12, 11, 13 is used for fishing. 
My 13, 4, 2 is a weight. 
My whole “ keeps the world alive.” 
Lakeville, N. Y. 
Answer next week. 
* Cortona tp j Prisoners. r t’R 
°F< 
his stead. Failing to obtain any reliable infor¬ 
mation from this source, she inquired the way 
to the counting-house of an American firm at 
that time extensively engaged in the sugar 
trade. The head of the firm, for whom she in¬ 
quired, came forward to meet her. He was a 
man past the meridian of life, with a sprinkling 
of grey mingled in his once jet black hair. His 
eye was dark and piercing, and seemed, when 
bent upon a person in its full intensity, capable 
of reading his inmost soul; but there was an 
air of benevolence and kindly feeling withal 
mingled in his bearing, that won instinctively 
upon a stranger the very first moment of his 
presence. Humor intimated that, while con¬ 
demning openly and in the strongest terms all 
foreign interference in the affairs of the island, 
he had, nevertheless, since the demonstration 
had been made and terminated so wretchedly, 
been active and untiring in his efforts to save 
the lives and mitigate the su fferings of the un¬ 
fortunate captives. 
After having learned from a brief narration 
the object of Frances Hayden’s visit to Havana, 
and settled in his own mind, without any con¬ 
fession on her part, the relation that existed be¬ 
tween her .and the object of her search, he took 
from his pocket a letter, on the blank leaf of 
to the United States are such that her Majesty’s 
Ministers would very gladly grant as a favor 
what they will not and cannot surrender as a 
rmlit. From Washington, if it is deemed ad¬ 
visable, you can afterwards proceed to Spain; 
and God grant that so heroic and self-sacrificing 
an effort as you are making will not be under¬ 
taken in vain ! But stay,” he added; “ this 
journey will require something of an outlay.— 
Have you the means of paying the expenses ?” 
She counted out to him the balance of her 
funds, which were of course inadequate. So, 
without a word further, he drew a bill of ex¬ 
change on New York for five hundred dollars, 
and of a corresponding amount upon Madrid, 
and presenting them to her, said pleasantly, in 
order to remove the appearance of an act of 
charity, “ I only lend you this amount, and will 
await patiently for its repayment until you, as 
Mrs. Joel Sheldon, are settled hereafter in a 
prosperous and happy home. Your passage to 
Charleston is secured and settled by one of my 
clerks, on board a fast sailing clipper, which de¬ 
parts to-morrow. From there you can reach 
Washington in a few hours by the cars. The 
servant here will see to your accommodation 
until such time as the vessel is ready to sail.” 
So saying, he hurried out of her presence under 
plea of pressing engagements, giving the grate 
ful recipient of his bounty no opportunity to 
return an. expression of her heartfelt gratitude 
for all his unexpected kindness. 
The merchant drew up, in the interval, as 
authentic a statement of facts concerning the 
expedition as was in his power, and accompa¬ 
nied it with a petition signed by all the respec¬ 
table American residents of Havana, and as 
many of the Spanish officials as he could induce 
to lend it their names, praying that the Execu¬ 
tive interpose, so far as it was proper to do so. 
the power and influence of the United States 
between the captives and their impending fate. 
He added to these, a private letter to the Presi¬ 
dent, stating the facts of Frances Hayden’s 
heroic devotion to her lover, and the deep 
personal interest he felt in the success ot her 
undertaking. With these important papers she 
set sail next day, after bidding her kind protec¬ 
tor an affectionate and tearful farewell, and 
receiving from him in return a hearty God 
speed ! She reached Washington in a few days, 
had an interview with the Chief Magistrate 
who, after reading the documents, referred her 
with an expression of kindly interest and an 
endorsement of approval upon the papers, to the 
State Department, at that time presided over 
by America’s greatest statesman, the Sage of 
Marshfield. To him no human being in distress, 
when'it was possible to afford relief, ever ap¬ 
pealed in vain ; and of course no heroic daughter 
of his own beloved New England would be 
turned away without his active interference in 
her behalf. 
Negotiations had already been set on foot 
concerning the matter of Cuban invasion, through 
Jimmy. 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
mathematical problem. 
The diagonal of a square is four feet. Re¬ 
quired the distance from each corner, so that 
when connected by a line will form a regular 
octagon. 11 • s - w. 
Answer next week. 
A HERALDIC CURIOSITY. 
Dug up near the village of Perry, Wyoming 
Co., N. Y. Supposed to be the coat of arms of 
the great Silver Lake Sea Serpent. 
Take a cross letter, and two-thirds of the sea. 
Unite them together ; the product will be 
What some people say gives to scandal a zest. 
And oft is found worst where they say it is best; 
A traitor’s its doom—for ’tis quartered away. 
And for such execution too dearly we pay ; 
Yet ’tis treated still worse, for, by royal desire. 
In the palace ’tis “drawn” thro’ hot water and fire. 
Answer next week. 
GOOD NATURE. 
Those children are universally beloved, who 
are uniformly good natured. A heart of stone 
will melt before the pleasant smile, the ringing 
laugh, the joyous shout, and the merry prattle 
of childhood ; while a snarling, petulant, and 
fretful disposition, will drive away the comfort 
of many an otherwise happy circle. As in 
childhood, so in youth; the first-named quali¬ 
ties of disposition render a boy beloved by his 
companions, and a girl the idol of her friends. 
Parents should spare no pains in inculcating 
such a spirit, and the youthful reader of this 
paragraph, it is hoped, v^ill cherish it as he 
would “ apples of gold in pictures of silver.”— 
Honesty and integrity of purpose are more vi¬ 
tally important as concerns our future well-be- 
mo Dto cheerful man is the happy one 
here, and much more likely to be tne successful 
one also. It is impossible for a youth whose 
temper is soured in his early days, to clear his 
brow in after life. Sunshine does not follow 
storm in this case, as it does in a summer sky, 
and therefore let all begin early, and sustain 
through life the light of a cheerful and sunny 
disposition. 
Answer to Algebraical Enigma in No. 314 ;— 
A table of logarithms of numbers. 
Answer to Arithmetical Problem in No. 314 : 
42 feet 4 inches. 
Answer to Charade in No. 314 :—Wind-lass. 
GINGER SNAPS. 
What utility is there in killing hogs, if they 
are cured directly afterwards ? 
When is money damp ? When it is dew in the 
morning and mist at night. 
What is the difference between an auction 
and sea sickness ? One is the sale ot effects • 
the other effects of a sail. 
“ Though lost to sight to memory dear,” as 
the maiden said to her lover, when his face was 
buried in beard and whiskers. 
A Young Gent in Le Roy, suffering from a too 
strong sensation of the more tender feelings, de¬ 
fines his complaint as an attack of /ass-itude. 
The Scottish language is particularly rich in 
diminutives. Thus, man, manny, manniky, bit 
manniky, wee bit manniky, little wee bit Man¬ 
niky. 
Why is a man who is catching dishes which 
are pitched to him by another, like a celebrated 
breed of fowls ? Ans.—Because he’s “ cotchin 
china.” 
To enjoy life you should be a little miserable 
occasionally. Trouble, like cayenne, is not very 
agreeable in itself, but it gives great zest to other 
things. 
The following is an exact copy of a printed 
label on the medicine boxes of a chemist in Buf¬ 
falo, New York, “Cough Lozengers. Dose- 
One, three times a day, at bed-time." 
The Editor of the Rochester Democrat gives 
this recipe to kill fleas on dogs : Soak the dog 
for five minutes in camphene, and then set fire 
to him. The effect is instantaneous. 
An old cynic, at a concert one night, read in 
the programme the title of a song, viz. : 
“ 0, give me a cot in the valley I love.” 
Reading it over attentively, the old fellow final¬ 
ly growled, “Well, if I had my choice, I should 
ask for a bedstead!” 
Mr. Green sued a lady for breach of promise. 
Her friends offered to settle it for two hundred 
dollars. “ What!” cried Mr. Green, “ two hun¬ 
dred dollars for ruined hopes, a shattered mind > 
a blasted life and a bleeding heart! Two hun¬ 
dred dollars for all this 1 Never ! never ! never 1 
Make it three and it’s a bargain /” 
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