MINNIE DEAN.

Thii unhappy -woman whoso puniehment took effect kit Monday morning seemed to hare been poisessed for some time before she fell iato the hands of the pohco of gloomy forebodings in rDgftrd to the end of her enraer. 'Ihe rollowing lines are in her own handwriting, tho effort presumably of an idle hour when no d*ritfor waa in sight:—-

Little did my mother think, That diiy sho craiHotl nao, What land I w.ia to t'avol in, Or what death X should dio. lib that mjr father hud no'or on mo smiloJ ; Ok that my inotlior hud uo'er to mo Hung ; Oil tlmt. my cradle had uover bean n.okud, But that r had flied whuii I was jouiig. Oh that the griLio it wore my bed, My bla mow wi.ro my wiintiut; sheet; Tho clocks* and tho worms ray hjdfullowa, And oh sao .sound iih 1 sbould sloop. ♦Wood-lico.or "bliterH."

A correspondent of the Dunolin filar, which publisher! the vt-rssfJ, points out th>it "Tho four Mnrios," relating to the potiod of Mtvty Qneon of Heota. The oirouruBtanoea commoted wish the balind aro us follows: — -flh-M Quoou -iary wna (Jont to i'riinco sho yma by fourohoaon coinpamoHfl—to wit, Mary Cluming, Mary LivingHtone, Mitry Ueaton, and Maty Sodtoa (Mary Cai-miohßol appears afterwardu t> have taken thu pluco of ono o( theso)—v/ho wore nil oolobrutod in aftor lifo in song and in tradition. Subsequent to tho return to Saotlanti, ono of the Maries committed v mistake, and endeavored to hide the birth, the was aoouaed «f ohild inutdor, condemned, and aeatunced to death, and the ie Hupponed to be tpenking on the morning of her exeoution when the lines were written. '