6 HEIjEnsr-A. WEEKLY HERALD.

Written for the Helena Herald.T H E DIVO RCE O F JO S E P H IN E .

The reign of terror past, and France awakes !The victims spared from that dread holocaust Of woe unutterable, omniscient doom.The trembling naMon presses wildly to Her almost bursting heart: in that fell time Of doubt, uncertainty, nor rank, nor age Was free ; the purest souls of earth, and minds As gifted aa the gods of ancient lore,Were trampled, like the morning dew, beneath The grazing herd ; unbridled fury reigned.A monster, Argus-eyed, on brazen front Polluted name of liberty, ensnared The unsuspecting, till the havoc dire Appealed to highest Heaves.

Not in vain—A silent youth, unshrinking seized tL; helm,Bids peace be still ; enwrapped in iiut' ‘Ct,A mind mysterious, as unseen ways By which the world is governed, self-controlled, Unscrupulous, with power to read the depths Aad sinuous windings of the human heart.From chaos order sprang; one master hand And iron will controls the elements Renewing barriers, and once again Religion's altars burn, with incense rare. Surrounding nations hail the victor mind,Then bow submissively, and commerce wide His white-winged sails rich tribute pay.The purple robes of empire hail their chief ;From Rhenish steeps to Adriatic shores His will was absolute; beside him shone A spirit pure and gentle, undefiled,As mother love that lights Madonna’s brow,Half angel, wholly woman; fain would she By loveliness beguile him from the shrine Of vast ambitious, bonds of selfishness,And cause the Golden Age to smile again Upon the earth ; the lion and the lamb Together lie: alas! no little child To lead them.

High above the martial din Of warring legions and contending hosts Ambition beckons, guides the victor's fate To future d3rnasties and high renown.Beneath her baleful star, that Moloch shrine, What recks it, million bleeding human hearts? And thou, pure spirit of unselfish t^ th ,To whom affection is thy all of life,The bond which binds thee to that warrior-soul Must riven break; so destiny demands.

Pale morning dawneth slowly; shifting clonds Conceal the sunlight ; hollow winds and grass With Winter crisp resound the rustling step.And crowds are gathered hurriedly ; from lip to lip A whisper ominous ; tis like the bolt,Which long expected, yet the dirge of doom.

Within those palace walls a gathered host: Enthroned princes, long descent of kings,And statesmen, grandly lored, in majesty Triumphant; warriors from a hundred fields The heroes ; beauties soft and syren-skilled,Are blended with the throng; the arched roof And marbled corridors a silence keep.

Now foremost in the gioup, as if to scan What fixed decrees the hidden shades conceal,And then with quick, impatient gesture bid,The fated edict onward, is the child Anointed monarch-seer of destiny.Apart from all, self-isolated, stern,A frozen statue, chilled in attitude Of thought ; the folded arms and massive head Betraying, Sphinx-like, ne’er a syllable Of vain regrets and love’s eternal war,Affection whelmed in state-craft policy,Ambition has its limits, thou has thine.Avenging Nemesis, too often scorned,With sternest retribution sows thy path With treachery and leagnered walls of steel ;Thy armies scattered as by Titan’s breath ;An empire vanished ; thou thyself a waif.A mythic warning on the scrolls of time.

And fate the inexorable, the just,Is emblemed now, os through dim cloistered aisles The pc. Uing anthem’s volumed cadence seems Like martial muBic clanging on the wind.Stem is the soul, enshrined in deepest thonght, Cold is the heart, unhallowed with a tear;The fiat is decreed ; like Pascal lamb,One victim more is led to sacrifice ;Devoted woman’s pure, unselfish love.

No nobler nature, fallen crushed like thee !No sadder tribute to forgotton hours,Of lavished homage, and a nation’s trust:But now an Empress crowned, then nothingness.

The hour approaches : slowly in their midst,A glimmer of white robes is faintly seen,An emblem of her soul’s sweet purity,And then with tearless eye, beseeching gaze,A ch. ek whoso.tinge seems marble as of death, She seals her doom.

The mournful pageant ends.For those who love thee with a faith which seems Idolatry- to them, the faltering step And anguished sigh of sympathetic woe,Thy soul-suppressed emotion quenches tears :The throbbing brain and quickened pulse arc lulled To listlessness ; and thou art deadly calm ;When moonlight shades the cold sépulcral stone, Or falling snows the first of Winter shrond The tiny grave of infant loveliness,The heart-throbs beat with scarce a deeper chill. The dream is ended and thy days are hushed ;Like flower exhaled upon the breath of night,As sea-shell tossed by ocean currents wild ,On frozen shore ; or bird by adverse wind,On weary pinion, floating, seeking rest.

No expiation of a nation's guiltMay equal this; the gifted, loved of earth,With grasp remorseless, hurled by vengefnl fate, To realms beatified, each soul at rest,Their dreams of perfect life are realized.The garnered loro of wisdom yields its sweets Through Eons of eternity ; life’s veil Forever rent, each mystery revealed ;And love, involuntary incense, breathed In sweet celestial harmony, doth waft The sonl, in waves on waves receding from The lading realms of time, unto the hand Omnipotent ; we grope in darkness here:At rarest intervals our faith is blessed With whispered cadence from that dreamless shorn. But living sacrifice, the thoughts that bum The heart they feed upon, the hopelessness Of cherished memories forever hushed,The chilling isolation, vague despair:Mourn such as dead ; talk not of griei and tears Till ye have pressed this clulice to tliy lip,And quailed its biUer agony; then learn This truth ; the living are beyond the pale Of our restricted, cold humanity.

No longer shone that benison, success,The hero’s glory on the tented field:Frond Moscow’s heights and Beresina's snows, And million gathering hosts on flank and rear Fortell thy doom, ill-fated Waterloo.And he, that warrior-soul o'er-whelmed, betrayed; Cookl Fortune yield no balm to mitigate Hie fall? the victor’s wreath no talisman ?His life a harden ! gone, forever hushed.The gentle voice whose every accent breathed Of self-devotion and unchanging truth.

Like winds that fan the azure-pl(imaged isles Of Summer seas, with perfume laden, yet Distil a subtle poison, serpent dew ;

So carking care and mingled tenderness,With barbed arrows pierced her breaking heart. The exile’s name forgotten save by thee ;In nightly vigils, or in midnight tears,With waning life thy soul a blessing sought,Thy last petition breathed a prayer for him.

If love unselfish and unchanged by time,May live beyond the grave, then surely thon,As pure a soul as ever blessed the earth,A love like thine would sanctify ; though guilt Might rest on us, in mercy Heaven itself Would not refuse thy prayer; each spirit linked With thine in bonds of truth, thou’d consecrate.

—[Mrs. Helen E. Taylor. Bannack, M. T., February 1 ,1875.

A r r e s t o f » F o r g e r .N ew Y ork , February 9.—A. M. Pugh,

alias C. Hunter, was arrested at Buffalo today, with numerous forged deeds and mortgages of property in the AY estera States in his possession.

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B ayonne, February 8 .—The Alfonists bave entered Estella. The Carlists Chiefs, Men- dieri and Argoaz, were killed by tbeir own men, Çarlos has retreated to Yergura, in

Gulpazcoa.-L ondon , February 8 .— Spanish dispatches

do not confirm the report of the capture of Estella by the Alfonsists. The Carlists claim they recovered the ground lost in Guipazcoa ; that General Loma has been compelled to abandon Loreze and Guelaria and is hemmed in at San Sebastian : and that the Alfonsists lost 12,000 killed in recent engagements.

M a d r id , February 8.—Alfonso will return to Madrid on Saturday.

Gen. Jovellar takes chief command of the Army of the North.

Ma d r id , February 9.—Official dispatches admit that the advance guard of the extreme left of the troops operating against the Car- lists in Navarre, has suffered a check owing to the over-confidence of its commander.

The Carlist chief Mendize, was shot by order of Don Carlos for treason.

Count Valmaseda is to be appointed Captain-General of Cuba.

General Moriones has been appointed commander in-chief of the Armjr of the North.

H enday , February 9.—The military operations of the Alfonsists in the North have been temporarily suspended, and the troops Ere fortifying themselves in positions which they occupied in their advance.

L ondon , February 9.—The Carlist committee in this city claim to have information that the Carlists have won a great victory over the Alfonsists, the latter losing seven thousand killed and wounded, and that Don Carlos had issued a congrat ulatory address to his troops.

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P a r is , February 8.—Valentine (Rep.) is elected to the Assembly from Seine-et-Oise. There was no choice in the Cotes-du-Nord district.

P aris, February 9 .—The Bishop of Strasbourg having issued a charge to bis clergy in which be alleged the church is persecuted by Germany, the authorities seized all of the copies and forbid the promulgation of the document.

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M o n t r e a l , February 8.-The Grand Trunk Railroad reduced the wages ten per cent, today, and this morning all the Conductors refused to go to work save at the old rates. There are twenty long trains lying in the yard here, waiting bauds to run them. No freight trains left either way to-day. The train men at Brockville have also struck, and there are no trains from there.

M ontreal , February 9.—The strike on the Grand Trunk Railway lias ended.

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