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ORLEANS INDEPENDENT
A. A. EARLE, PUBLISHER.
N"o More Oompromiso witli Slavery.
(TERMS, 81,25 IX ADVANCE.
NUMBER 29.
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IRASBURGH, VERMONT, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 185G.
VOLUME 1.
Citcrarn Selections.
, THE SURVEYOR.
BT GIDDIKGS II. BALLOC.
The hot summer sun beat dow n on the
-Albany road on one day in the year 1777,
as a tired and dusty traveler turned his
feet to Deacon Hawley's red farm house,
jast beyond the western slope of the
Green Mountains. Lifting the latch with
the assurance of one used to the simple
and hospitable country ways, he inquired
of those within if he might be provided
with some refreshment in the shape of a
bowl of bread and milk, or any other
eatable which might be at hand.
lie had traveled far, he said, and find
ing it about noon, and being tired and
hungry, he had made bold to stop at the
first dwelling he met with.
" Certainly, friend, certainly ; replied
the honest deacon, who had just come in
from the field with his son Nathan. " Sit
down and make yourself at home. We're
just about taking a snack ourselves, and
if yonll step into the back room with us
presently, and help clear the table, we
shall be very glad of your assistance.
Rather dusty travelin', hey ?'
" Qnlle, It's worse than anything Tve
teen this summer," replied the stranger,
as he followed his host into the adjoining
room,
" Wife, sir," said the deacon, waving
his hand towards a rather comely looking
dame. " Niece Emma, Mr. ah
what may I call your name, sir?"
"I call my name Lewis," replied the
stranger. t
" Ah, yes, Lewis. Wife, just put on a
bowl with some milk. Let me help you,
sir, to some of the meat. No relation to
any of the Lewises around here, are
you?"
" No, sir. I came from ten miles this
side of Burlington."
"Ah, long way that. Any news going
on at the lakes ?"
"Not much, when I left. Our people
were not gaining ground much tbereJ
'" t No, no. It is a hard match for our
raw soldiers, against that army of Bur-
goyne's, all in fine discipline, with plenty
of material, and no lack of king's money
to back them. Nathan, Nathan, you and
your old father must not sneak at home
much longer, now that affairs are getting
to the pinch. Well, there are ournami
on the list, and when they want our
old queen's arms are ready."
'Young Lewis (for -w stranger could
not have been,r""e tnan twenty one,)
nodded lua-! hi assent to the patriotic
aentitient, and applied himself to the vi
jrtids, in the discussion of which he was
not so absorbed as to be insensible to.the
presence of the female portion of the
family. lie was a gallant, quick eyed
young fellow, with a sunburnt check, and
a frank, prepossessing countenance.
Such an one is never wanting in sympa
thy with the fair sex, wheresoever its rep
resentatives be found, or however scanty
be the personal attractions which they
may chance to possess. But neither
Dame Hawley nor her niece were defi
cient in this respect, making due allow
ance for the touch of age on the features
of the elder. The niece sat opposite to
Lewis at the table, and he could not, if
he had chosen, have avoided turning his
eyes frequently upon her. He thought
that never in his life had he met a more
innocent and charming countenance.
Nay, he might even have impaired his
appetite for the food before him, Lad he
iot taking warning from a rising blush,
r ff A TTl) OTae h8 e7e9 not his mind more at
LUwaX . jehtive to the play of his knife and fork
fefhavt go' "i He therefufcj copied as closely as he
offer in eoSD, might, the example of the deacon and
lWE Jt' Nathan, and had tolerably satisfied the
1 neVd 'crav"1Za of his appetite by the time that
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Srea, r. ceded with the New York
th.i PUte" Vermonte having just
net nxSi p P declared our iadependence of York State.
ch istlsE are about rUun5nS tLe boundary line, and
5'MArDlC,lJ 1 " g0ilg t0 operate in tLe lower part
Art! State- t sent a few instruments
CTtend hefore roe, and expected to meet one of
' t O1 my assistants at the village back. How-
d with P"""'' If' .ever, he failed me, and I did not think it
iie-' y joS'-orth xcy while to wait.
SK5 ul should think the York assembly
tnight know by this time how the matter
j-j 0&m yft JS hkely to end," observed the deacon
vivf1Zl'' "J' makhig trouble without any
."if UJ '' at this time above all thiBgs.
' hiCb flak- "VVb7' i:'ai Was Squire Brigg?, who lives
i, J. ai air,t-n.i-e just across the line, came
to me awhile ago, and wanted me to make
a warrant as a York justice of the peace.
The varmint! I saw what his game was
right ofH Squire, says I, Til wal, I did
come nigh saying what I should be rather
sorry for.' But I sent him away with a
flea in his ear."
Once started on the subject, the good
old deacon displayed much warmth of
feeling. lie dilated on charters, territo
rial government, and papular rights, in
terposing a brief essay on the history of
the Hampshire grants. Lewis rendered
all the attention he was able to bestow,
while Emma, as she busied herself in re
moving the dishes, regarded her uncle
with admiration as being a paragon of
historic and judicial knowledge. Mean
while the " yes sirs," and no sirs," of
Lewis, were applied a little at random,
from the fact that his thoughts centered
to the liquid blue eyes of the niece, ra
ther than to the weather stained brow of
the farmer.
" Sorry you are going," said the good
natured deacon, as Lewis rose to take
leave. " If you are going te be about
here, as you say, just drop in and see us,
We don't fall in with much company here,
especially now, when so many of our
people are over yonder looking after Bur-
goyne. So come as often as you can
And Lewis did come, once and again.
His employment detained him for some
two or three weeks in the neighborhood,
and within that time he found frequent
opportunity to visit the deacon's family,
into whose family he much ingratiated
himself. From this partiality, however,
we must except Nathan, who regarded
Lewis with most decided coolness. The
secret of his dislike lay in the fact that
he possessed a most decided regard for
his fair cousin, and feared, wilh good rea
son, the intrusion of the young surveyor.
And his jealous watchfulness presently
found sufficient to poison his own peace,
and to force on his notice the growing
attachment between Emma and Lewis.
With the latter he had more than once
endeavored to frame a quarrel, but with
out success, till one evening,' after Lewis
had left the house, young Hawley who
met him on the roadside, remarked Jn a
sneering manner, that for De-111 our"
veyor he seemed Kn0W a deal about
camp matt- military evolutions ;
at le" 11 one were to judge by his con
. crsation.
" I daresay," he continued, " that you
think we raw bushwhackers will take
down all you say for gospel."
u What do you mean by that ?" said
Lewis, flushing red at the rude tone of
the speaker.
"Mean?" retorted the other, injpetu-
ously. a Why, that we have had enough
of your high-bred airs. I, for cne, am
not going to " whoa" and " gee" with your
counterfeit pretensions any longer.
There's some foxy trick or other about
you. Who knows that you are not a
tory spy, or something equaly bad V
Lewis, in his surprise and anger at
this unexpected address, made a step for
ward, as if with the intention of instantly
repaying the insult.
Hands off, my lad V exclaimed Haw
ley, throwing himself into an attitude of
defence. " Bullying wont go down with
me." ' '
The other made.no reply, but biting
his lips till the blood came, turned away,
followed by a low laugh from Nathan.
"I rather guess I've "put his nose out
of joint for awhile," said the young farm
er, looking with a sullen smile at the re
ceding figure of Lewis. ;
Whatever might bava been the cause,
the latter did not appear at the deacon's,
where his absence caused repeated re
mark. Nathan anxiously observed the
fact that Emma evidently missed the vis
its of the young surveyor, and had lost
much of her accustomed cheerfulness inJ
consequence. By all the arts and assiduities-which
he could bring, he endeav
ored to recommend himself in place of
the absent gallant But his efforts were
all in vain. At last his patience gave
way to despair. ' '.
" Why is it," he said to her one day
when they were alone, " why is it that
you treat me with such coldness ? Why
is it that you pay no regard to the affec
tion which you know I entertain for you ?
Is it because you love this stranger, who
came, with a smooth, and most likely a
lying tongue, no one really knows from
wnence, or on what business ? I believe
that he and his stories are alike false and
deceitful. Do not then despise my hon
est love, and cling to one who is very like
a counterfeit, and who, at any rate, seems
little inclined to present himself again
before those who may chance to detect
his real character. Do you know that I
fancy him to be a British or tory spy, or
something of the sort ? Doubtless he is
well enough pleased to amuse himself on
his travels by playing with the affections
of a trustful country girl like yourself."
Emma seized her cousin's hand, and
bursting into tears, rested her hand on i
his shoulder. !
44 Nathan," said she, "you wTong me,
cruelly wrong me. I do not despise you,
nor am I ungrateful for your kind offices.
But I cannot give you the love which I
acknowledge that I entertain for another.
He loves me. Do not be harsh, I pray
you, ia your thoughts of me, or in your
surmises in regard to him. I own that
there is a mystery about him. He has
hinted as much to me, and in a manner
which showed that he himself was op
posed to the necessity of concealment.
He told me, when we parted, that it
would be long before we should meet
again, very probably not till the close of
the war. I fear that your surmises are
in some part true. Yet do not be unjust.
Honorable men have disguised them
selves as spies ere now, and at all events
I cannot believe he is a dishonorable
man. Rely upon it, if even in arms
against our cause, he surely entertains
no ill design against us. But he knows
as well as yourself, that I would never
marry an enemy to my country. Do not
then, be unkind to me, Nathan, nor take
advantage of what I have told you. I
will love you as a sister would, and let
that suffice, since I can go no further in
my regard."
"Say no more, Emma," replied her
cousin. " I see it is vain to reason with
you. I will take no unfair advantage,
though I wish the day had never shone
which brought his unlucky visage to our
house."
The summer passed on, and the rou
tine of the farm was scarce interrupted
by the sound of the distant war.' But
about the middle of August, and past
nqonday, a horseman galloped up to the
field near the roadside inhich the dea
con and his son were work. . The ri
der took off his th:e-cornered hat, and
wavin? it shouted'
i
" Deacon, tie time has come. Stark
l,wVKioita out all the militia, every one
that can carry a gun. The British and
Hessians are marching towards Benning
ton. To camp, then, to camn !"
So saying, he dashed off to spread the
alarm, which, before midnight, had flown
a hundred miles. In less than half an
hour, the deacon and Nathan were on
their way towards the encampment which
Stark had formed not far from Benning
ton village. On their arrival they were
immediately assigned their places, and on
the following morn were under march to
meet the enemy. They fell in with ad
vanced parties of the latter, consisting for
the most part of Indian auxiliaries, and
sharp skirmishes continued during the
rest of the day, resulting much to the dis
couragement of these unstable savages.
The next day a storm of rain poured
down, and both parties remained inactive
for the greater part. But the morrow
arrived, the eventful moment when Stark,
in the pithy and homely speech which
has made his name immortal, nerved his '
rude levies to the fatal charge. The
word was given, and with a single cheer
the motely colored ranks swept steadily
but with accelerating speed, on the en
trenchments of the enemy The deadly
cannon swept through them, but not a
heart wavered. " Once more, and with a
wild huzza, the mountain men poured
over the breast-work grappled with their
foes. The contest was a desperate one.
Fanner Hawley and his son were sep
arated from each other at the commence
mentj and in the hand-to-hand struggle
which ensued, the former was closely
pressed, and would certainly have fallen
by the bayonet of a Hessian, had not the
deadly thrust been warded off by the
sword of an English officer. . "
' Lewis 1" exclaimed the deacon, as his
musket dropped from his hand in amaze
ment At this moment Nathan rushed
up- ,.'
. "Take that, you traitorous spy," he
shouted, discharging his piece at Lewis.
His bullet passed through the cap of the
latter as he bore back with the troops he
vainly sought to rally. He was seen to
wave his hand with a gesture of depreca
tion, while an expression of pain flitted
across his stained features. .
Hold, Nathan !" said the old deacon
laying his hand on his son's arm,
" Whatever be his deserts, remember that
to him I owe my life. Harm him not"
Nathan's eyes 6hone with a fierce spar
kle, and shaking his clenched hands to
wards the retreating foe "Let him go
then," he said, "for this once. But the
next .time we meet we will not part so
easily. I wonder how Emma will be
pleased to find that her favorite has turned
out to be nothing more or less than a
British spy 1"
The bravery and dicipline were exci
ted to the utmost against tbe impetuous
valor of the militia, but in two hours
from the commencement of tkc battle the
regulars were forced to fly. They were
pursued by the Americans, who, scorning
the restraint of their commanders, sped
onward in hasty disorder, and were thus
near offering the enemy an opportunity
to retrieve their misfortu;.e. since Col.
Breyman, with a large reinforcement j
from Burgoyne's army, was rapidly ap-!
preaching the scene of action The fu
gitives gained fresh hope, and rallied
to renew the fight. But at this critical
moment, when victory seemed ready to
desert the mountain flag, the sound of fife
and drum approached from the eastward.
The first files of Warner's long expected
New Hampshire appear in the distance,
hurrying to shJtte the efforts of their fel
low patriots. They march on to antici
pate the enemy. The scattered soldiery
regain their ranks and hasten forward.
The battle commences again with re
doubled violence ; but at sunset all is
over. The fame of Bennington is sealed
afresh, and one more advantage gained
towards the assurance of American free
dom. Years passed again before English foot
again touched the mountain soil. The
larum of war ceased from the land, and
the soldier laid aside the destroying
sword for the peaceful scythe and plow.
Yet time and death remained at work.
A virulent epidemic-carried off the wor
thy deacon and his wife in the midst of
a bale and well-spent fife. The proper
ty passed into -the hands of Nathan with
out provision for the young niece. The
deacon had intended to make a will
which should ensure fit maintenance, but
had deferred the fulfilment of his inten
tion till he was struck down by sudden
death. Emma, left destitute, took refuge
in the cottage of an aged relative, and,
by persevering toil, gained a scanty
maintenance. ' She t irear to trie en
treaties of Nathan to be his Wife. Tier
steady discouragent gf j, Ranees
made him gloomy and morose ; and Em
ma, besides the griefs she lad already
experienced, felt an added pain in ' en
countering his vindictive glances. One
evening, on the anniversary of the Ben
nington battle, a stranger alighted from
his horse at the dqpr of the village inn.
His dress was scrupulously plain, but
there was something in his appearance
that impressed the chance beholders with
the sense of a superior station. On en
tering the public room and enquiring for
the host, Lewis, (for it was he) was in
formed that the landlord was absent but
would soon wait on him.
Having given his horse in charge,
Lewis was shown into a private apart
ment Soon steps approached, the door
opened, and Nathan Hawley stood before
his astonished guest He hardly entered
the room ere he recoiled, and his counte
nance, agitated by a hateful recognition,
became overspread with a ghastly pallor;
Lewis instantly sprang forward with out
stretched hands to detain him.
"Stay, Nathan," be said, and listen to
me. I never harmed you knowingly. If
I have crossed your path in love, or
caused you suffering, know that I, too,
have suffered, have endured suspense,
fear and doubting. Of what is past I now
say nothing. Fortune has buffeted me
sorely since I was in arms against you ;
but at last she has looked on me with fa
vor. I have recently become Lord March
by the death of a previous heir. I have
seized the first opportunity to return to a
spot I have never forgotten, for the pur
pose of putting to proof the hopes I never
ceased to entertain, whatever may be the
foundation on which I have rested them,
Let us not be enemies, pray you. Suffer
me to claim you as a friend, a brother.'
For a moment Nathan did not answer.
The veins in his forehead swelled, his
lips quivered with struggling emotions.
"You have conquered me," he said at
last "But it is through her that you coo
quer. She loves you still ; but she is dy
ing by inches. I, for one, had supposed
you but trifled with her affections. Per
haps she herself, began to fear the same
But I will say no more. Go, bid her live
and be happy, even though it be at the
expense of my own happiness."
?You are a noble fellow " said Lord
March ; "and there is many a fair cne
who would gladly repair your disappoint
ment Mark me well, Nathan, when
tell you that it will not be long before
you will find a mate by whom my words
will be proved true. But X roust hasten
Many thanks &r inspiring me with the
belief that I am not yet forgotten !
We will not describe the meeting of the
long separated lovers, tempered in its
gladness by some saddening memories on
either side. But joy is a medicine more
potent than all the drugs of science, and
in a few weeks, Lord March bore away
to English Halls a blu.-hing New Eng
land bride. A year later her husband
received a long letter from Nathan, an
nouncing his marriage wilh one of her
own schoolmates, a lovely and amiable
Sir1, . i
HOWMANY MARRY AND LOVE
A young man meets a pretty face in
the ball-room, falls in love with it courts
it, marries it, goes to house-keeping with
it, and boasts of having a home, and a wife
to grfcee it The chances are nine to oue
he has neither. Her pretty face gets to
be an old story or becomes faded, or
freckle!, or fretted and as the face is
all he vauted, and all he paid attention,
all he sat up with, all he bargained for, all
he swore to love, honor, and protect, he
gets sick of his trade, knows a dozen
faces which he likes better, gives up stay
ing at heme evenings, consoles himself
with cigars, oysters and politics, and looks
upon his home as a very indifferent
boarding-house. A family of children
grow up about him ; but neither he or his
"face" knows anything about training
them, so they come up belter skelter;
made toys of when babies, dolls when
boys and girls, drudges when young men
and women ; and so passes year after
year, nd not one quiet, happy, homely
hour is known throughout the whole
household.
Another young man has become en
amored of a "fortune." He waits upon
it to parties, dances the polka with it
exchanges billet doux with it, pops the
question to it, gets "yes" from it, takes it
to the parson's, weds it, calls it "wife,"
carries it home, sits up an establishment
with it introduces it to his friends, and
says (poor fellow !) that he, too, is mar-
rieflr and got a home. It's false. He is
not married; he has no homeAnd hf
tmj wrong DOX ;
but it's too' late to get out of if. He might
as well hope to escape from his coffin.
Friends congratulate him, and he has to
grin and bear it They praise the house,
the furniture, the cradle, the new bible,
the new baby and then biJs the "furni
ture" and he who husbands it,- good mor
ning 1 As if he had known a good mor
ning since he and that gilded fortune were
falsely declared to be one !
Take another case. A young woman
is smitten with a pair of whiskers. Curled
hair never before had such charms. She
sets her cap for them ; they take. The
delighted whiskers makes an offer, prof
fering themselves both in exchange for
one heart. The dear Miss is overcome
with magnanimity, closes the baqgain,
carries home the prize, shows it to pa and
ma, and calls herself engaged to it, thinks
there were never such a pair of whiskers
before, and in a few weeks they are mar
ried ! Yes, the world calls it so, and we
will. What is the result ? A hort honey
moon, and the unbicky discovery that
they are unlike as chalk and cheese, and
not to be made one though all the priests
in Christendom pronounces them so.
LIFE OR DEATH.
A true story of the Natural Bridge cf Va.
BT F.LlltV Bl'RRlTr.
The scene ojetis with a view of the
great Natural Bridge of Virginia. Tliere
are three or four lads standing in the
channel below, looking ip with awe to
the vast arch of unhewn rocks with the
almighty bridge over their abutments,
when the morning stars sang together.
The little piece of ky, spanning thoe
measureless piers, is full of stars even at
mid day. It is almost five hundred feet
from where they stand, up these perpen
dicular bulwarks of limestone, to the key
rock of the vast arch, which appears to
them only the size of a man's hand. The
death silence is rendered more, impressive
by the little stream that runs from rook
to rock, down the channel. The sun is
darkencd and the boys have unconscious
ly uncovered their heads, as if standing
in the presence of the Majesty of the
whole earth. At last this feeling begins
to wear away they begin to look around j
them. They see the names of hundred
cut in the limestone abutment. A new
feeling conies over their hearts, and their
knives are in hand in an instant. 'What
man has done, man can do,' is the watch
word, while they draw themselves op,
and carve their names a foot above those
of a hundred full grown men, who had
been there before them.
They arc all satisfied with this feat of
physical exertion except one, whose ex
ample illustrates perfectly the forgotten
truth, that there is no royal road to in
tellectual eminence. This ambitious
youth sees a name just above his reach
a name that shall be green in the memory
of the world, when those of Alexander,
C:sar, and Bonaparte, shall rot in ob
livion. It was the name of Washington.
Before he inarched to the fatal field, l.o
had been there, ami left his name a foot
above all his predecessor. It was a
foot above all his predecessors. It was
glorious thought of a boy to write his
name 6ide by side with that of the great
father of his country. He grasps his
knife with a firm hand and clinging to
Effect of Cofff.f. on Diseask.
Dr. Mosely obsorves, in his Treatise on
Coffee, that the great use of the article
in France, is supposed to have abated the
gravel. In the French colonies, where
eoffco is moro used than in thu KngliMi,
as well as in Turkey, where it is the
principal beverage, not only the gravel
but the gout is scarcely known. Dr.
Faar relates, as an extraordinary in
stance of the effect of coffee in gout, the
case of. Mr. Deverau, who was attacked
with gout at the age of twenty-five, and
had it severely until he was upwards of
fifty, with chalk stones in the joints of his
hands and feet ; but for four years pre
ceding the time when the account of hi
case bad been given to Dr. Faur to lay
before the public, he had, by advice, nsed
coffee, and had no retern of the gout af
terwards. .
Never suffer yourself to be de
terred by a false hnme from doing any
act whatever, however menial it maybe,
which you can entertain no reasonable
doubt that you ought to do.
stone, about a foot above where he sutnl
but as he puts his feet and hand into
these gains, and draws himself carefully
to his full length, he finds himself a foot
above every name chronicled on that
mighty wait While his companions are
regarding him with concern and admira
tion, he cuts his name in bugi capitals
large and deep iuto the flinty album.
His knife is still in his hand, and strength
in his sinews, and a new inspiration in
his heart.
Again he cuts another niehe, and again
ho carves his name ia large capitals.
This is not enough. Heedless of the en
treaties of his companions, he cuts and
climbs again. The graduation of his as
cending scale grew wider apart. He
measures his length at every gain he cuts.
The voices of bis friends grow weaker,
till their words are finally lost on his ear.
He now, for the first time, cast a look
beneath him. Had that glance lasted
but a moment, that moment would have
been his last He clings with a convulsive
shudder, to his little niche in the rock. An
awful abyss awaits his almost certain fall
lie is faint from severe exertion, and
trembling from tbo sudden view of the
dreadful destruction to which be is ex
posed. His knife is worn half way to
the haft. lie can here the voices but not
the cries of his terror-stricken compan
ions below. There t no retracing his
eteHs. Whal a meagre chance to escape
destruction. It i impo&Kihle to put his
hand into the same niche with hi feet
and retain )iU hold a moment. His com
panions instnntly perceived this new and
fearful dilemma, and awailu his fall, with
emotions that freeze their young blood.
He is too high, too faint, to ak for bis
father and mother, his brothers, and eU
ters, to conic and witneas, or avert bis
destruction. But one of his comp.-tnions
anticipated his dcairc S wift as the wind,
he bHHids down the channel, and the
fearful situation is iold upon his father'
hearth-stone.
Minutes of almost eternal length roll
on, and there are hundred tandtng in
the rocky channel, and hundred on the
bridge above, all holding their breath,
and awaiting that ftarful catastrophe.
Tlie poor boy hear the hum of new voice
both above and btow. He can jut dn-
young heart on him who reigns there.
lie grsia again his knife. He cuts anoth
er niche and another niche is added to
the hundreds that removed him from hu
man help below. How carefully he use
his wanting blade! How anxiously ho
selects the sot test place in that pier !
How he avoids every flinty grain 1 How
he economizes his physical powers res
ting a . moment at each gain he cuts !
How every motion is watched from be
low. There stands his father, mother,
brother ; and'on the'very epot where, if
he falls, he will not fall alone.
The sun is half down the West. The
lad had made titty additional niches in the
mighty wall, and now finds himself di
rectly under the middle of that vast arch
of rocks, earth and trees. He must cut
his way in a new direction to get over
this overhanging mountain.
The inspiration of hope u dying in his
bosom, ii vital feeling is fed by the in
creasing shout ol hundreds perclied
uK)ii cliffs and tree, ntul others w ho stand
with rope in their hands, on the bridge
above, or with the ladders below. Fifty
gains more ntut bo cut, before the lon
gest rope can reach him. Ilia wasted
blade again strikes into the limestone.
The boy is emerging painfully, foot by
foot, from under the lofty arch. Spliced
ropes arc ready in the hand of those
who are leaning over the outer edge of
the bridge. Two minutes mow and all
will be over. That blade is worn to the
last half inch. The boy's head reels
and his eyes are starting from the sockets.
His lust hope is dying in his heart
life must hang upon the last gain he cuts.
That niche is his last. At the lant faint
gash he makes, his knife, his faithful
knife, falls from his hand aud ringing
along the precipice, fell at his mother'
feet
An involuntary groan of dispsir tuns
like a death-knell through the channel
below, and all is still as the grave. At
the height of near three hundred feet,
the devoted boy lifts his hopeless heart
and closing eyes, to commend his soul to
God. Tis but a moment there 1 Ono
foot sw inps off be is rreling trembling
upitHug orat mw rtcrnri y 1 lark fa
..1. . f : II . . .
-."in ihiis on in car from above 1 The
man who v,;n- ,. . -
over the "bridge, has a glimpse of the
boy's head nnd shoulders. Quick a
thought the noosed roop is within reach
of the sinking youtn. No one breathe.
With tt faint convulsive effort, the swoon
ing boy drops his arms into tho noose.
Darkness came over him with the word,
God! Mother! whispered on his lips,
just loud enough to be heard in heaven,
the tightening rope lifts him out of his
last thallow niche. Not a lip move
while he is dangling over tho fearful
abyss; but when a sturdy Virginian
reaches down, and draws the lad up, and
holds him in his arms before the breath
less multitude, such leaping and weeping
for joy, never greeted the ear of human
lcirig so recovered from the yawning gulf
of eternity.
BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.
The following arc the concluding sen
tences of a strongly marked humanitarian
story publi.-hed in "Putnam' Monthly"
for January, entitled "The Ghost." They
arc eloquent and beautiful, stirring all the
generous impulses of the roul to renewed
devotion to Truth and Duty.
"Oih-c Again the aneient prophecy of
pence and good will rhines upon a world
of wars and wrongs and w oes. Its soft
ray shines into the darkness of a land
wherein swarm slaves poor laborers, so
cial pnriahs, weeping women,' homelcs
exile, hunted fugitives, despised aliens,
drunkard, ronvicu, wicked children, and
Magdalen unredeemed. These are but
the ghastliest figures in that army of hu
manity which advance by a dreadful
road, to the Golden Age of the joel
dream. These are your sifter ami your
brothers. Love them all. 1 beware of
wiongiijg them by word or deed. O)
friend, strong in wealth for o much good
take my counsel, . lit theuame of thx
Savior J chtrtj U I rut and tender to all
num. Come out from Baby lob into man
hood, and live aod lahor for the fal!n,
the neglected, the suffering, and ths poor.
Lovers, of art, custom, laws, institutiou
and forms of society, love those thing
otdy a they help mankind 1 With item
'ove, overturn them, or help to overturn
them, when they become cruel to a single
linguisb the ton of his father' voice, . huuib!el--liuman Ining. In the
to find her, in search of w hom I came.
Blighted Ambition. It it said that
all the four infants who took the leading
prizes in the Boston baby-how have
since died. We understand that hence
forth the undertaker iu gentral are about j
w ho is !outing with all the energy of
despair s William ! William ! don't look
down Your n.th;r and Henry are all
here praying for you. Kcrp your eye
toward the top.'
woild scale, eocial jh.oi, influence,
public power, the applaic of majorities,
heap of fundwl gold, tentccs rendered
to creed, code, sect, partie or flera
lions 0y weigh weight Hut in God'
Tl buy dou't look down hit eye are ;ria;oiber! yo.ir ht Mrvicelo hunian-
to get op another infantine exhibition. fii'd like a flint iord h.H-n ; and hi ity "titwe'-H ih-m
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