HERALD OF
VOL. 1.
PUBLISIHHED WEEKLY,.
JAMES ATKINSON,
PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR
H' ARVEY SESSIONS, has received and
. opened this day, a complete assortment of’
SUMMER GOODS---among them are the
following:
Dark and light prints, pink ginghams, French
ditto, mourning ditto, brown battiste, colored ditto,
cote paly, sattin levantines, pongees, brown Can
ton crapes, black do do., black nankin do; blonde
gauze veils, Blonde do. hdifs, fig'd gio de Nap do.
hmitation berage doj company choppas, green
worsted berage, women’s H S gloves and mitts,
men’s IS, and beaver gloves, bluck Italian lus
tring, ditto sinchaw and sarsnetts, black worsted
Jean, wave stripe drilling, brown French ditto,
Rouen cassimere, blue and mixt cussinets, compa
ny nankins, striped jeans, women’s black cotton
hose, ditto white ditto, men’s mixt and white do,
ditto ditto § ditto, ditto Randomn § ditto, patent cru-|
vats, blaek lltalian ditto, merino white and red
shawls, do black shawls, plain white and colored
do; Valencia, Marseilles, and silk vestings, Russia
diapers, cloths, cassimeres, stripes, plaids, checks,
ginghams, tickings, cottons, cotton ‘pnrns, threads,
&e. all of which will be sold low for cash or ap
proved paper. Newport, may 19, 1830,
J()"N B. NEWTON has received from
New-York the past week, the greatest varie
ty of
Fancy and Staple DRY GOODS,
ever offered in this town.
$ =ll an endless variety of fashionable goods
at prices lower than ever ollered, are any induce
ment for purchasers, they now can avail themselves
of an ‘extra’ opportunity, by applying instanter at
150, Thames-Street.
Newport, June 9th, 1830,
I'l ISS BRENTON opened her school a
gain on Monday last, at her dwelling in
Church street, where she contemplates making her
permanent residence, and flatters bersell from her
present prospects, that she may establish a useful
Seminary for the education of young misses. "At
the commencement of her next quarter she will re
ceive a few more scholars, June 30—3 w
JHIENRY Y. CRANSTON, Attorney
. at Law, has removed his oflice to the
House, directly opposite to and north of the Court
House, where he may be found at all times his
oflice being contiguons to his residence. Here
after his time will be devoted exclusively to his pro
fession. [April 7.
Dllla'l‘()N HALL, has just received from
Boston, 50 flag bottom chairs, new pattern;
60 Windsor Chairs; 100 common do. at 50 cents
each ; 2 elegant sofas covered with hair cloth 5 1
comunon sofa; Mahogany and Card ‘T'ables; Cherry
do. ; common, field and high post Dedstead.—
Also, new and second hand Beds; live geese, Rus
sia and commmon Feathers ; Bed Ticking of supe
rior quality at 23 cents per yd.; 100 pair Prunello
pumps at 80 cts. pair; Cotton cloth from 6 cts, to
1 shilling yd; Broad Cloths 5 Calicoes 5 Men’s and
Boy's Fur Hats 5 4 new and elegant "linie-pieces,
warranted. Also, as usaal, Groceries, Crockery,
Glass & China Ware. ‘
.fllao;l’ost|n-)"s new and second hand COOR™-
ING STOVES, the above goods are offered
very low for Cash or short approved Credit.
'lA)l ES MUMFORD, No 99, Thames-
Q street, has for sale, blue, green and mixed
broadeloths; blue and mixed cassimeres; sattinetts;
fushionable calicoes, very cheap? London black
and white mourning ginghains; black stout I'lor
ence silk; black gros de Nuples; cireassians; Lng
lish ginghams, ladies white and cotton hose, very
cheap; silk and cotton flag hdkfs; bobbinet lace;
white and black stout Fngiish ladies silk gloves?
Swiss and Scotch musling furniture chintz; coltted
striped jean; brown bateste; American Kid gloves;
black silk vesting<; mea’s mixt cotton hose; great
assortment bleached and unbleached cottons, very
cheap; bedtickings; stout twilled stripe, for men’s
wear; home ginghams, &
ALSO,
Assorted linens very low; pongees; horseskin
gloves; stout blek lasting; brown diilling; berage
hdkfs; Nainsook & jaconet musling fine yellow
nankeen.
J()][N F. TOWNSEND, has just receiv
ed from New York of the lutest importations,
e supply of NEW and FASHIONABLE
GOODS, among which are :
Elegant Foulard Calicoes—French red Calico,
very fashionable in New York for children—A
large assortment of Merino Shawls, borders work
ed with worsted —"T'hibet Casshmere and other
shawls much wanted at this time—Black Bobbi
net Lace Veils, cheap—White & Black Bobbinet
Leces—Bobbinet Footing, a great assortnient—
Irish Linens, much cheaper taan usual—Cotion
hosiery, silk do. good and cheap —Mourning Ging
hams, (fast colours,)—do calicoes —s=4 blk Ital
fian Crape for veils—Good blk Ttalian Lustring
—Ladies horse-skin gloves some of a superior
quality—Black and white Sattin Jean—thin Jack
onet—figured do. and Swiss Muslins—superior
vellow nankins—elegant Swiss Capes —a great
ussortment of Batistes—German & English Bicts
eve diaper—wide English damask. Also —ele
gant belt Ribbons—Clark’s spool cotton—wad
ding—worsted hraids—tuncy hd'sf< of all |timl.4—-‘
Huen cambric hdkfs—a great variety of shawls, &e
for children—one piece superior steel mixed Ca s-‘
SIMERE—one piece supeib blue BroancrLorn
T'he übove, with a variety of other Goods not
mentioned, will be sold as cheap as can be pur
chased in Newport. Ap 1.
J()B SHERMAN, lus received from New
York and will open this day, a large assort
ment, of staple and Fancy Dry Goods, among
which may be found a great variety of English,
French and Scotch Ginghams; Calicoes; bk, &
col’d bombazine; Halian lustrings; gros de Naples;
gros de Swiss, anew article for ladies dresses; bl'k
and col’d levantines® nankin crapes; furniture
dimity; book musling plain and figured jaconet;
furniture chintz, vestings; rich faney silk; barage
and Cyprus erape hdkfs; fine linens and lawns;
8-4 linon damask, damask table cloths and nap
kins; ribbon; a great variety of cloths for children;
fancy buttons; silk and cotton hosiery ; white and
straw colored Navarino hats § gloves, &e.
Arso,—Just received a fresh supply of heavy
Oznaburgh, yard wide tow cloth, and Russia
Diapers. Ath wo 28th 1830,
l“fll( SALL, a fine toned square Piano Forte,
by A, MUNRO.
SKETCH OF A PARRICIDE,
By the Rev. C. R. Maturin.
[The following was told a noble Span
tard, by a parricide, as they lay in a sub
terraneous passage, waiting the fallof
!cvvning, on purpose to make theirescape
{from a monastery., The parricide, after
[the commission of the dreadful crime, had
!t‘uuml shelter in this monastery, and, by
'the most depraved services, had endeav
jored to recommend himselt'to his Superi
tnr, and, at the same time, to glut his
ili(-mlish passions by making others as mis
‘erable as himself: This is a relation from
his own mouth, of one of his deeds, while
‘- servant in the monastery, | }
' I was desired to attach myself to a
young monk of distinguished family, who
"lmd lately taken the vows, and who per-
Sformed his duties with that heartles: punc
!rumlity that intimated to the community
‘that his heart was elsewhere, 1 was soon
hnlt in possession of the business; from
itlu'ir ordering me to atlach myself to him,
]I instantly conceived I was bound to the
’mnst deadly hostility against himi, "T'he/
friendship of the convent is always a
!trcuchruusll-ugm:—w«- watch, suspect,and
ftnrmcntcuch other, for the love nl'(iml.-—;
{'This young monk’s ouly erime was, that
ihc was suspected of cherishing an carthly
passion, e was, in fact, the son of'a
|distinguished family, who (for the tear of
'comrm:ting, what 1s called a degrading
marriage, «. e. of marrying a woman of
linferior rank whom he loved, and who |
’w:ml(l have made himhappy, as fools, that
‘ls, hallmankind, estimate happiness, ) for-|
ced him to take the vows, Ile upp«-urcd;
:ut times heart-broken, but at times there |
‘was a light of hope in his eye, that look-|
‘ed somewhat ominous in the cyes of the,
Ecommunity. It is certain, that hope be
ing an indigenous plant in the parterre
\oi' a convent, must excite suspicion with
regard both to its origin and its growth.—
. Some time after, n young novice cnter-
INI the convent. From the moment he
did 50, a change the most striking took
lpl:u:v in the young monk. He and the
novice became inseparable companions
\-——there was something suspicious in that,
'My eyes were on the watch in a moment.
Eyes are particularly sharpened in dis
(covering misery when they can hope to
,ngzgrumtc it. The attachment between
ithe young monk and the novice went on.
\'They were forever in the garden togeth-,
lcr—tlwy inhaled the odours of the flow
ers—they cultivated the same cluster of
lcurnutinns—thoy entwined themselves usl
they walked together—when they were!
‘in the choir, their voices were like mixed|
incense. Friendship is often carried tul
texcess in conventual lite, but this friend
ship was too like love. For instance, the
psalms sung in the choir sometimes
breathe a certain language; at these
‘wordsthe young monk & the novice would
“directtheir voices to each otherin sounds
that could not be misunderstood. If the
Jeast correction was inflicted, one would
intreat to undergo it for the other, Ifa
‘day of relaxation was allowed, wlmtcvvr}
'presents were sent to the cell of one, were!
‘sure to be found in the cell of the other!
\ This was enough for me. I saw that sr.
‘ret of mysterious happiness, which is the
‘greatest misery to those who cannot share
it My vigilance was redoubled, and
it resulted in the discovery of a secret—
ra secret that I had to communicate and
raise my consequence by. You cannot
’gucss the importance attached to the dis
‘covery of a secretin a convent, (particu-
Jarly when the remission of our own of
tences depends on the discovery of those
of others.)
‘ One evening, when the young monk
and his darling novice were in the gar
deny the former plucked a peach,which he
immediately oflered to hisfavorite; the lat
ter acceptedit with a movement I thought
rather awkward—it seemed like what |
imagined to be the reverence of'a female.,
The young monk divided the peach with
a knife: in so doing, the knife grazed the
Minger of the novice, and the monk, in ag
itation inexpressible, tore his habit to bind
up the wound. I saw it all—my mind
was made up on the business—l went to
the Superior that night. The result may
be conceived. They were watched; but
cautiously at first. They were probably
on their guard: for some time, it defied
even my vigilance to make the slightest
discovery. Itisasituationincomparably,
tantalizing, when suspicion is satisfied of’
her own suggestions, as ol the truth of the
gospely, but stll wants the litle fuel to
make them eredible to others. One,
night that I had, by direction of the Su-/
perior, taken my stand in the gallery,
(where T was contented to rematn hour
after hour, and might afier mght, amid
solitude, darkness, and cold; for the
chance ofthe power of retalinting on oth
ers the misery inflicted on myselt) —one
night I thought I heard a stepinthe gal
lery—l have told you that I was in the
dark—a light step passed by we, 1 eould
hear the broken and palpitating respira
tion of the person, A few moments af
ter, 1 heard a door open, and knew it to
be the door of the young monk. 1 knew|
it: for by long watching in the dark, and/
accustoming myselt to number the cells,!
by the groaus from one, the prayer from
“LIBERTY and UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE !”—WEBSTER.
NEWPORT, R. I. WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11, 1830.
another, the faint shriek of restless druams}
from a third, my ear had become so fime-i
ly graduated, that T could instantly dis-|
tinguish the opening of that door from
which (to my sorrow) no sound had ever
before issued. 1 was provided with a
small chain, by which I fastened the han
dle of the door to a contiguous one, in
such a manner that it was impossible to
open either of them from the inside, 1
then hastened to the Superior, with a.‘
pride of which none but the successful
tracer of a guilty secret in convents can
have any conception. I believe the Su
perior was himsell’agitated by the luxury
of the same feelings: for he was awake
and up in lus apartment, attenedd by four
monks. 1 communicaied my intelligence
with a voluble eagerness, not only unsuit
ed to the respect I owed these persons,
but which must have rendered me almost
unintelligible:yet they were good enough
not only to overlook this violation of de
corum, which would, mr any other case,
have been severely punished, but even
to supply eertain pauses in my narrative,
’with a condescension and felicity truly.
}miruculous. I felt what it was to acquire
Amportance inthe eyesofa Superior, and
gloried in all the dignified depravity of
an informer. We set out without losing
‘a moment—we arrived at the door of the,
cell; and pointed out, with trinmph, thc,l
chain unremoved, though a slight \'ibru-;
tion, perceptible at our approach, showed)
the wretches were already apprised of
their danger. 1 unfastened the door-!
how they must have shuddered! The Su-:
perior and his satellites burst into the cell
and I held the Jight. You tremble—why 7,
I was guilty, and I wished to witness|
guilt that palliated mine, at least in thcl
opinion of the convent. 1 had only vin-:
lated the laws of nature, but they had
outraged the decorum of a convent, and,‘
of course, in the creed of a convent, there
was no proportion between our offences.
Besides 1 was anxious to witness misery
that might, perhaps, equal or exeeed my
own, and this is a curiosity not casily sat
isfied. It is actually possible to become
amaleurs in suffering. 1 have heard of]
men who have travelled into countries
where horrible executions were to be dai
ly witnessed, for the sake of that excite
ment which the sight of suffering never|
fails to give, from the spectacle of a trag
edy, or an auto da fe, down to the writh
ings of the meanest reptile on which you
can inflict torture, and feel that torture is)
the result of your own power. It is a
species of feeling of which we can nev
erdivest ourselves—a triumph over those
whose sufferings have placed them below
us—and no wonder; suflering is always
an indication of weakness—we glory in
our impenetrability. 1 did, as we burst
into the cell, The wretched hughand
and wife were locked in each utlncr’s‘
arms, The Superior stood astonished|
and appalled to see two human beings of
different sexes who dared to love each
other in spite of monastic tics,
Whatever affectation he might employ
on points of conventual austerity, there
was none here. Love was a thing he al
ways believed connected with sin, even
though consecrated by the name of sac
rament, and called marriage, as it is in
our church. But, love in a convent! Oh!
there is no conceiving his rage; still less
is it possible to conceive the majestic and
overwhelming extent of that rage, when
strengthened by principle and sanctified
by religion. I enjoyed the scene beyond
all power of description. 1 saw those
wretches, who had triumphed over me,
reduced to my level in a moment—their
passions all displayed, and the display
lacing me a hero trinmphant above all,
i had crawled to the shelter of their walls
a wretched, degraded outcast, and what
was my crime? Well—you shudder: 1
have done with that. 1 can only say want
drove me to it. And here were heings
whom, a few months before, I would have
kneltto asto the images round the shrine;
‘to whom, in the moments of my desperate
penitence, | would have clung as to the
““horns of the altar,” all brought as low or
lower than myself. “Sons of the morn-—l
ing,” as | deemed them in the agonies of’
my humiliation, “how were they l'ullcn!”(
I teasted on the degradation of the apos
tate monk and novice—l enjoyed to the
core of my ulcerated heart, the passion
ot the Superior—l felt that they were all)
men like mysell. Angels,as Lhad thought
them, they all proved themselves murtuls;‘
and by watching their motions, and llut-}
tering their passions, and promoting their|
inferest, or setting up my own in npp()-‘
sitton to them all; which I made them be
lieve it was only theirs 1 was intent on, l:
mightmake shift to contrive as much mis
ery to others; and to carve out as much
oceupation to myself, as it I were actu-|
ally iving in the world. Cutting my I'u-‘
ther's throat was a noble feat certainly,
(I ask your pardon, 1 did not mean to cx-i'
tort that groan from you,) but here were,
hearts to be cut—and to the core—every,
day, and all day long; so I could nevcr:
want employment,
I do not quite like to go through the de
tails by which this wretched pair were de
luded into the hope of effecting their es
cape from the convent. It was enough
that 1 was the principal agent —that the
‘Superior connived at it—that 1 led them
through the very passages you have tra
wversed to-uight they trembling,and bless
uql me at every step. |
| hey were conducted here, T had
|mggo.~'u~«l the plan, and the Superior
consented to it. He would not be pres
ent,but his dumb nod was enough, I wits
the conductor of their (intended) escape;
they believed they were departing with
the connivance of the Superior. 1 led
thein through those very passages that
youand I have trod. | had a map of
this subterrancous region, but my blood
ran cold as I traversed it; and it was not
at all inclined to resume its usnal tem:
perament, as I felt what was to be the
destination of my attendants, Once |
turned the lamp, on pretence of trimming
it,tocateh aglimpse ofthe devoted wreteh:
es—they were embracing cach other—
the light of joy trembled in their eyes,—
They were whispering to each other hopes
ot liberation sud happiness, and blend
ing my name in the interval they eoule
spare from their prayers for each other,
That sight extinguished the last remains
of compunction with which my horrible
tusk had inspired me. They dared to be
happy in the sight of one who must be
forever miserable--could there be a great
er insult? 1 resolved to punish it on the
spot. This very apartment was near—l
knew it, and the map of my wanderings
no longer trembled in my hand. I urg
cd them to enter this recess (the door
was then entire) while 1 went to examine
the passage. They entered it, thanking
me for my precaution—they knew not
they were ncver to quit it alive. But
what were their lives for the agony their
‘happiness cost me?—"The moment they
were inclosed, and clasping each other,|
‘(a sight that made me grind my teeth,) l‘
cclosed and locked the door. This move-
Jment gave them no immediate uncasiness
\—they thought it a friendly precaution,
The moment they were secured, I has
{tened to the Superior, who was on fire at
the insult offered to the sanctity of the
‘convent, and still more to the purity of
his penetration, on which the worthy Su
'perior piqued himself as much as if it had
‘ever been possible for him to acquire the
|smallest share of it, He descom‘lcd with
‘me to the passage—the monks followed
‘with eyes on fire, In the agitation of
their rage, it was with difficulty they
;could discover the door after 1 had re
‘peatedly pointed it out to them. The
/Superior, with his own hands, drove scv-]
eral nails, which the monks eagerly sup
‘plied, into the door, that effectually join
jcd it to the staple, never to be disjoined ;
‘and every blow he gave, he doubtless felt
\as if it was a reminiscence to the accus
'ing angel, to strike out a sin from the cat
‘alogue of his accusations. The work
fiwus soon done—the work never to be
undone. At the first sound of steps in
‘the passage and blows on the door, the
\victims uttered a shrick of terror. They
imagined they were detected, and that
'an incensed party of monks were break
'ing open the door. These terrors were
soon exchanged for others—and worse—
as they heard the door nailed up, and
listened to our departing steps. They
uttered another shrick—but O! how
(different wasthe accent of its despair!—
they knew their doom, |
' It was my penance (no—my delight)
to watch the door, under the pretence ut"
‘precluding the possibility of their escape, !
'(of which they knew there wasno possi-%
‘bility;) but, in reality, not only to mflict,
Eo: me the indignity of being the convent|
Jailor, but of tcaching me that cullosity!
‘of heart, and induration of nerve, and
stubbornness of eye, and apathy of (-ar,|
!that was best suited to my office. But/
they might have saved themselves thc!
trouble—ll had them all before | q:ntcrcd}‘
|thc convent. Had I been the Superior|
of the community, | should have umlcr-i
taken the office of watching the door.—
You call this cruelty—l eall it c'urinsily!
—that curiosity that brings thousands to
witness a tragedy, and makes the most
delicate female feast on groans and ng-i
onies. I had an advantage over them—/
the groan, the agony 1 feasted on, were
real. 1 took my station at the door—that
door which, like that of Dante’s hatl
might have borne the inscription, ‘Here’s
no hope,’—with a face of mock peni
tence, and genuine, cordial delectation,’
I could hear every word that transpired. |
I'or the first hours they tried to comfort|
cach other—they suggested to each “'h-f
er hopes of liberation—and as my shad
ow, crossing the threshhold, darkened
the light, they said, “T'hat is he”—then,|
when this oceurred repeatedly, without
any effect, they said, ** No—no, it is not
he”—and swallowed down the sick sob
of despair, to hide it from ecach other, |
Towards night a monk came to take
my place, and to offer me food. 1 would
not have quitted my place for worlds; but
I talked to the monk in his own |ungungo,f
and told him 1 would make a ment with,
God of my sacrifices, and was resolved
to remain there all night, with the per
mission of the superior. The monk was
glad of having a substitute on such easy
terms, and | was glad of the food he left
me, for I was hungry now, but I reserved
the appetite ofmy soul for richer luxuries, |
THE TIMES.
I heard then talking within, While 1
was eating, actually lived on the famine
that was devouring them, but of which
they did not dare to say a word to each
other. They debated, deliberated, and
as misery grows ingenious m its own de
fenee, they at last assured each other
that the Superior had Jocked them in
there to perish by hunger. At these
words 1 could not help laughing, The
langh reached their cars; they became
silent in a moment, All that night, how
ever, I heard their groans—those groans
of physical suflering, that laugh to scorn
all the sentimental sighs that are exhal-|
Hled from the hearts of the most intoxicat
led lovers that ever breathed, I heard |
Athem all night. I had read French ro-l
mances, and all their unimaginable non-.
Sisense. Madame Sevigne hersell says
she would have been tired of her daugh
‘iter in a long tele-u=tete journey, but clap
{me two lovers into a dungeon, without
| food, light, or hope, and I will be d——d
{(that 1 am already, by the bye) if they
'ldo not grow sick ol each other within the
Mirst twelve hours. The second day hun
|ger and darkness had their usual influ-|
|ence. They shrieked for liberation, and
{knocked loud and long at their dungcnn!
é door. They exclaimed they were ready |
[[to submit to any punishment: and the up-;
|proach of the monks, which they would|
have dreaded so much the preceding
{lnight, they now solicited on their knees,
i What a jest, after all, are the most aw
' ful vicissitudes of human life! They sup
g plicated now for what they would have
|sacrificed their souls to avert four-and
|twenty hours before. Then the agony
|of hunger increased, they shrunk l'romf
! the door, and grovelled apart from each|
(owmer, Jipare., now 1 walcica inuat,—
They were rapidly becoming objects nf’
l hostility towards each other—Oh! what
a feast to me! They could not disguise
from each other the revolting circum
stances of their mutual sufferings. 1t is
one thing for lovers to sit downto the feast
| magnificently spread, and another for lov
llers to couch’in darkness and famine—to
1 exchange that appetite which cannot be
{supported without dainties and flattery,
for that which would barter a descended
\S Venus for a morsel of food. The second
| night they raved and groaned, (as occur-
Ired;) and, amid their agonies (I mnst do
/justicc to women, whom I hate as well
as men,) the man often accused the fe
male as the cause of his suflerings; but
the woman never, never reproached him.‘
| Her groans might, indeed, have reproach
ll ed him bitterly, but she never uttered al
{word that could have caused him puin.]
|'There was a change which I well could
mark, however, in their physical feel
ings, T'he first day they clung together,
and every movement 1 felt was like that
of one person. The next day the man
alone struggled, and the woman moaned
in helplessness. The third night—how
shall I tell it?—but you have bid me go
on. All the horrible and loathsome ex
llcruciations of famine had been under
| gone; the disunion of every tie of the
heart, of passion, of nature, had com
menced, In the agonies of their famish
ed sickness, they loathed each other—
they could have cursed each other, if
they had breath to curse. It wason the
fourth night that I heard the shriek o{'thci
| wretched female—her lover, in the ugu-;
ny of hunger, had fastened his teeth in’
! her shoulder;—that bosom on which he|
|had so often luxuriated became a meal to
[him now. “Monster! and you laugh:”
| Yes, I langh at all mankind, and the im- |
lpnsitiun they dare practice when they
talk of hearts. I laugh at human pass
l ions and human cares—vice and \'irtuc,l
|religion and impiety; they are all the re
|sult of petty localities, and artificial silu-i
|ation. One physical want, one severe:
! and abrupt lesson from the tintless and
| shrivelled lip of necessity, is worth all
{the logic of the empty wretches who
have presnmed to prate it, from Zeno
down to Burgersdicius, Oh! it silcncc's,\
in a second, all the feeble sophistry of
[conventional life, and ascetitious passion.
{Here were a pair who would not have
|believed all the world on their knees,
even though angels had descended to join
{in the attestation, that it was possible to
live without cach other, They had risk
|ed ever thing, trampled on every thing,’
|human and divine, to be i each other's
|sight and arms. One hour of’ hunger
{undeceived them., A trivial and ordina
|ry want, whose claims at another time
{they would have regarded as a vulgar,
interruption of their spiritualized inlcr-j
| course, not only by its natural opera-|
| tion, sundered it forever, but, before it
ceased, converted that intercourse into a
source of torment and hostility inconceiv
' able, except wmong cannibals. The bit-|
tercst encmics on earth could not lmvo‘
regarded cach other with more abhor
rence than these lovers. Deluded wretch-|
|es!—you boasted of having hearts—l
|boast 1 have none—and which of us
! gained most by the vaunt, let life decide,
|My story is nearly finished. When I
|was last here, 1 had something to excite
e :—talking of these things is poor ew
ployment to one who has been a witness
[to them. On the sieth day all was still,
i\'l'hc door was unnailed, we entered
they were no more. They lay far from
cach other—farther than on that volup
tuous couch into which their passions had
converfed the mat of a convent bed, She
lay contracted in a heap, a lock of her
hair inher mouth, There was a slight
~scar on her shoulder—the rabid despair
of famine had produced no further out~
rage. He lay extended at his length—
his hand was between his lips ; it seemed
‘as it he had not strength to execute the
‘purpose for which he had brought it there.
As we removed them into the light, the
long hair of the female, falling over a
face no longer disguised by the novice’s
dress, recalled a likeness I thought I
could remember. I looked closer: she
was my sister—my only one—and I had
heard her voice grow fainter and fainter.
I had heard——"" and his own voice grew
fainter—it ceased.
From the Burlington (Vt.) Sentinel of Friday.
Unprecedented Storm and Devastation,
1 ~
| . The late freshet has probably occa
sioned more extensive mischief than any
other occurrence since the settlement of
the country. The extraordinary, and at
this season unparalelled, rains have rais
ed the streams in this vicinity to a great
‘er height than has ever before been
known, and the crops were at just that
period of grotwh which renders them most
liable to injury from heavy and long con
tinned rains,.—The heat, for five or six
days before the storm commenced, had
been great, and the soil was consequent
ly parched and dry, and therefore looser
and more easily washed than it is in the
spring and fall, when the greatest rains
‘usually occur. The difficulty of commu
nication in consequence of the destruc
tion of bridges and roads, has prevented
us from learning the extent of the evil,
but the ascertained loss in this county is
very great. The highest freshets known
to have occurred in the valley of Onion
River are those of 1768, 1817 and 1828,
| The river was at its greatest height on
Tuesday evening, 27th inst. and the wa
ter was from eight to twenty three feet
higher than in either of the freshets above
mentioned, according to the width or nar
'rowness of the channel.
| All the recently constructed bridges
~and mills have been built as near the wa
ter as was supposed, from former experi
ence, to be safe, but the extraordinary
rise of the waters passing far beyond all
former bounds has disappointed every
calculation. Every bridge over Onion
River in this county, including two re
cently built between this town and Col
chester, at an expense of near $ 5000, is
destroyed, and all the mills upon the riv
cr, excepting the saw, paper, and grist
mills at Catlin’s falls, and Bradley’s saw
mill in Willistown. Many dwelling
houses and other buildings, in the valley
~of Onion River, were carried away, and
five dwelling houses were seen floating
together on the flats a few miles above
this place. At Hubbell’s falls, every
thing was carried off except the grist mill,
which is of stone, and was erected by
John Johnson, Esq. in 1819, breasted
‘the whole current of the river, which for
several hours rushed against in a depth
of 25 feet and with incredible velocity,
‘without receiving the least injury.—The
‘whole loss at this place, including the
bridge, is estimated at $lO,OOO.
li The destructionis proportionably great,
on the tributary streams of Onion River.
But great as is the damage to roads and
bridges, it is probably of far smaller a
‘mount than the loss of crops. The grass
‘and grain upon the river intervals is whol
ly destroyed, and the upland crops of
‘every deseription, which were not de
stroyed, are injured to that extent, the
supply of bread stufls must come al
‘most wholly from abroad.
| T'he loss of property in Addison and
Franklin counties is said to be nearly as
great as in this, and we are sorry to say
that wo must also record an awful loss of’
lives ut New Haven in Addison county—-
We learn from the Vermont American
that 20 buildings were swept away, and
11 lives lost, including the wife and three
children of Mr. John Wilson, a son and
hired man of Mr. L. B. Eldredge, a
family by the name of Stuart consisting
of seven individuals, and one other per
son were carried away. Two younger
sons of" Wilson were also carried down
the stream about half'a mile, but escaped
by clinging to the trees. T'wo men were
drowned on Wednesday morning, in at
tempting to cross Robinson’s mill pond
in Ferrisburgh,
~ The mails due from the east on Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday, did not
arrive until yesterday noon. Every
bridge this side of Montpelier is swept a
way ; at Middlesex the destruction was
great, sweeping all the mills, and other
buildings ol] every description near the
river, which rose 27 feet. We are hap-
W to learn that the damage at Montpe
lior was not so great as many apprehend
ed, the water not rising but a few inches
higher than it did in 1828,
| The violence of the storm and destrue
“‘tion ufprn'mfl{ was as great on the oth
er side of the Lake as here. '
~ Mans years will be required to repair
the evils which last mght has brought
NO. 19.