he sins of life,
The hay and stubble of idolatrous love?
Ah, even in its root crime germs with doom!
Must suffering consume our earthly dross?
Is't pain alone can bind us to the Cross?
She worshipped _man_; true to his nature, he
Remained as ever fickle, sensuous, weak.
'Love is eternal!' True, but God alone
Can fill the longings of an immortal soul:
_The finite thirst is for the Infinite!_

JEFFERSON DAVIS AND REPUDIATION.

LETTER OF HON. ROBERT J. WALKER.

LONDON, 10, Half Moon Street, Piccadilly,

_June 30th, 1863._

Soon after my arrival in London from New York, my attention was called,
by some English, as well as American friends, to an article which had
appeared more than a month previously in the London _Times_ of the 23d
of March last. In the money article of that date is the following letter
from the Hon. John Slidell, the Minister of Jefferson Davis at Paris.

'MY DEAR SIR:

I have yours of yesterday. I am inclined to think the people of
London confound Mr. Reuben Davis, whom I have always understood
to have taken the lead on the question of repudiation, with
President Jefferson Davis. I am not aware that the latter was
in any way identified with that question. I am very confident
that it was not agitated during his canvass for Governor, or
during his administration. The Union Bank bonds were issued in
direct violation of an express constitutional provision. There
is a wide difference between these bonds, and those of the
Planters' Bank, for the repudiation of which, neither excuse
nor palliation can be offered. I feel confident that Jefferson
Davis never approved or justified that repudiation. What may
have been his private opinions of the refusal to consider the
State of Mississippi bound to provide for the payment of the
Union Bank bonds, I do not know.

Yours truly,

'JOHN SLIDELL.'

It is due to the editor of the _Times_ here to state, that, in his money
article of the 23d March last, he refers to the controversy of that
press with Jefferson Davis on that question in 1849, and, as regards the
suggestion of Mr. Slidell, that it might have been Reuben Davis who was
the repudiator in 1849, instead of Jefferson Davis, the editor remarked,
'it is to be f