Lily and the Totem, or, The Hugenots in Florida, A Series of Sketches, picturesque and Historical, of the Colonies of Coligni, in North America. 1562-1570. By the author of "The Yemassee"

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so TilE LILY AND TilE TOT£)(, in season to belJOld the for·m of tho uufortllnatc Gu~'rnachc, abnudoncd by all, nml totally lifeless, waving in the wind from the branches of a perished oak, directly in front of the for· tr·cs.<~. The deepest sorrows of the heart arc those which arc hom dumb. There arc some woes which the lip can never speak, nor the pen describe. There arc some agonies O\'Cr which \VC draw the veil without daring to look upon them, lest we freeze to stone in the terrible inspection. Thoro is no record of that grief which seized upon the heart of the poor lr.dian \'I"Oman, 1\lonalctta, ns she gazed upon the beloved hut unconscious form of her husband. She approached it not, though watching it from sunset till the gray twiliglrt i:Jpscd away into the denser shadows of the night. lJut, with the dawn of day, when the Frenchmen looked fo1th from the fortt·css f,)r the body of their comrade, it lmd di~nppearcd. They searched for it in vain. From that day .i\fonalctta dis~p­pcnrcd also. She was neither to be found in the nr>ighlxuing woods, nor among the people of her kindred. But, long after­wards they told, with shuddering and apprehension, of a voice u pon the midnigl1t air, which resembled that of their murdered comrade, followed ahl'ays by tho piercing shriek of a woumn, \vhich reminded them of the dreadful utterance of the Indian woman, when first smitten upon the shoulders by tho lash of tho ruffian. Thus cndctb the legcud of Gucrnnohc, and the l)rince!!! M:onalctta. VII, LACI-IANE, THE DELI\"ERER. BOT the sacrifice of G ucrnachc brougllt no pence to the colony. Our Huguenots were scarcely Christians. 1'hcy were of a rude, \vild temper, to which the constant civil wars prcrailing in France had brought a prejudicial training. Our chronicler tells us no­thing of their devotions. We hear sometimes that they prayed, but rather for the benefit of the s.'twtges than their own. ~'heir public religious sen'iees were ostentatious ceremonials, designed to impress the red-men with an idea of their superior faith nnd wor­ship. Laudonnierc1 who writes for them, and was one of their nulUbcr, seldom deals in a religious phraseology, which he might reasonably be expected to htn•c done as one of a people leaving their homes for the sake of conscience. Uut there is good reason to suppose that, with our H uguenots, ns in tllc case of the Ne'v ]~nglnnd Puritans, the idea of religion was more p roperly the idea. of p:~rty. It was a sti"Ugglc for political power that moved th() Dissenters, as well in Francc as England, quite as much a.s any feeling of denial or priva~ion ou the scorc of their religion. This pretext was made to justify a cause which might h::wc well found its S.'lnction in its intriusie merits; but which it was deemed politio to urge on tha .h.i gher grounds of conscience 3nd duty to God.