A FALLE2N

tWOMAN'S STORY. The Omiaka Repalwicau

gives the following history of this

production, which theLo.doo ,pecfater

has pronounced the finest poemn ever

written in Ani-ria. In the early part of

the war, one dark Saturday night in the

dead of winter, there died in the

Commercial Hospital, in Cininnatti, a

young woman, over whose head only two

and twenty smmmers had passed. She had

been once possessed of an .enviable

share of beauty. and had been, aa aba

erself says, * fattered and sought for

the charms of my ace ;" but, alas.! apon

her fair brow bad Long bteen wr',ten

that terrible word-.; Once the pride of

respectable parentage, her firat wrong

step was the small beginning of the same

old story over again, which has been the

only history of thousaands Highly

educated and accomplished in manners,

she amight have shone in the best

society. But the evil hour that proved

her ruin came, and having spent a young

life in disgraee and ahame, the poor

friendless one died the melancholy death

of a broken-hearted oetcast. Among hebr

personal effects was ifand, in iM.S.

"The Beautifal Snow," which was

immediately carried to Eons B. Reed a

gentleman of talent an literary calture,

and the then editor of the Aaatiosa L

C?iow. S THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW. Oh I the

snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the

sky and the earth below; Over the

houetop3 over th bstreet, over the heal-

of rile pe.;,', you meet. Dancing,

flirting. rkimmin;g along ; biautifnl

sno, : ir can do notkhi wrong; Flyin; to

kiss a fair fvly .s cheek, (f1mnD?,

to".s in a ir,.h;.?,ome freak; a ur Pa