From the Lady's Book.
THE GREEK BRIDE.
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Scio was one of the most beautiful and
nnulent of all the Greek Islands, and It's
Inhabitants among the most intelligent
md refined to be found in that ancient
&bode Of luxury and learning. II would
keem that the Muses., driven from their
Arcadian haunts, still fingered about the
lanes of this delightful Isle, unwilling to
abandon its temples to the desecratlon OF
Ahe Turk, or its grove-crowned hills and
lovely valleys to the desoIation that had
8eft the rest Of Greece waste oil runs
hIer merchants we're suffered to accumu-
Nate their wealth within their marble pal
hoes. and her cassic-formed daughters
mad heard, but never known, the misery OF
their sisters in less favored portions of
ths unhappy country.


But this security was only TRANSIENT
Destruction in its most powerful shape
burst suddenly and terrifcally upon them.
Their wealth excited their cupidity, and
some triAing circumstance aroused the
jealousy of the Turk, and the flaming
brand was hurled amongst her dwellings,
the sword was reeking with the blood OF
her last and noblest citizens. Her daugh-
ters, the most beautiful of Greece, were
dragged to revolving servitude, or per-
ished amidst the ashes Of their dwellings,
or fled to the inaccessible rocks OF the
mountains, the last resort ofthe oppressed
4 A few hurried to the shipping, and, weigh
ing anchor, bade adieu for ever to their
& native soil.


But the suferings, dreadful and appal'
ing as they were, that the natives OF Sclc
endured at the first sacking by the Turks
were not to be compared with the long
months of toll and peril and hunger, which
those experienced who had escaped from
the sword, only to die of cold and famine
amidst the lastnesses of their mountain
wilds. Many of these wretched beings
driven to desperation. would come dow
to the sea-shore, onthe approach OF
merchant vessel, and implore to be take
on board, to escape the prolonged miser.
of dying by cold and starvation.


Itwas at this period that an American
vessel, passing the coast, stopped at tn
North side of the Island for the purpos
of procuring water. 1t would be imPo'
sibe 10 describe the heart-rending scene
of distress that were here presented
the view. Woman, beautiful as the ia
bled beings of antiquity, were wanderin
about houseless and famishIng, and apps
rently bewildered by the very extremit


of their sufferngs. Some endeavoring I
sustain languishing babe whose feebl
wall and lustreless eye told that its teV
days of wretchedness were fading to


close. Others sustaining the totterin


steps of a father or husband, whose spil


it was crushed, and brow furrowed, an


whose vigorous form was bowed to tn


earth by the accumulated wrongs heape


upon his family.


II was a scene that touched every hear


Garments were dotted and food distril


uted, almost to the danger Of producln


famine and distress on ship board. tn


scene wrought so powerfully upon ii