Here we wait a few moments, while the Captain of the Mine and the Agent of the Mining Company,who has joined our party at the last moment, to afford us the undivided services of the Captain as guide,are engaged in some mysterious process of moulding; an odor, not attar of rose, nor yet Frangipanni, salutes our nostrils; then our companions approach.

The flame of the candle, bright in the density of the pit's darkness, as its bearer descends step by step with the rapidity which custom has made easy, becomes in a few seconds like the tiniest glow-worm: one can follow the spark only; the man disappears within the moment.

What a moment that is!

But the brave men beyond her, with instant unanimous action bracing themselves against the sliding rocks, oppose their feeble force to the down-sweeping agents of destruction; a moment more, and they would have been too late.

Pausing to allow our horses a moment's rest, my eye was caught by its deserted and dilapidated appearance.

Twenty times a day they would fall into angry dispute about some trifle; and so violent were these altercations, that it was said that she durst not for a moment have them both out of her sight, lest one should inflict some deadly injury upon the other.

For one moment John stood still, white with rage and grief; then he uttered a sort of choking howl, and sprang at James, "You cruel coward!

At this moment, Isaac arrived, breathless with running, at the spot.

Arrived at the toll-gate, John was surprised at seeing no one there to open it; he waited a moment, somewhat impatiently, and then called out, "Holloa!"

" "Very well, tell him I will be there in a moment.

" When the girl was gone, Nelly suddenly exclaimed, rather regretfully, "How stupid of me, not to ask who it was!" John's answer is not reported, only that he succeeded in lengthening the "moment" into a quarter of an hour, and then half an hour; and it might, perhaps, have lasted the whole evening, had they not, in the midst of a most interesting conversation, been startled by a rustling in the bushes behind them.

James drew himself up, tossing back his disordered hair, and for a moment the two men regarded each other with stern, fixed looks, as if they were preparing for another encounter.

Knowing well that his life was scarcely safe, if he were for a moment alone with John, after that night, James constantly exercised such caution as prevented the possibility of an encounter.

" "Neither mine nor yours," said James, maliciously;then, after a moment, he added, "She was a worthless thing, and we are well rid of her.

" There was an interval of dead silence; the brothers regarded each other for a moment, then James shrugged his shoulders contemptuously, and turned away.

"My strength is failing," she said, sadly; "every moment is precious; if I die without that promise which they could not refuse to a dying mother's prayer, God knows what will become of them!" Mrs. Clark urged the necessity of quiet, but the sufferer paid no heed to the caution.

But on her way home after the funeral, Mrs. Clark passed the house in a friend's sleigh and stopped a moment for her bundle, which in the hurry of the morning had been forgotten.

Allen had halted to make some observations, when his men incautiously failed for a moment to keep his canoe direct in the current.

Charles Cleland, Esq., of Detroit, writes: "My partner, Franklin Sawyer, Jr., has, for some months past, been collecting materials to enable him to publish a history of Detroit, and he has this moment requested me to solicit your friendly aid.

The moment, in fact, the boats leave the island they enter the Indian country, where the act provides that this article shall not be taken on any pretence.

"But the Senate is, at this moment, an extraordinary constellation of talent.

The man gave himself up for lost, expecting every moment to be torn in pieces by the almost famished beast, who was roaring most hideously; he threw himself on the ground in an agony of mind, much better conceived than described.

The physicians and surgeons attached to the army, had every moment of their time fully occupied by the care of the troops immediately under their charge.

Everything was going on very well before, as nearly as we could see, and nothing appears to come of it, after all,not even the condign punishment of the incongruous and never-to-be-sufficiently-marvelled-at assassin, who is suspected by several people, and yet remains as unharmed as if murder on the highway were altogether too common an occurrence in New England to excite more than a moment's thought.

Could we suspect a Committee of Members of Congress of a joke appreciable by mere members of the human family, could we suppose them in a thoughtless moment to have carried into legislation a mildened modicum of that metaphorical language which forms the staple of debate, we should make no remonstrance.