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The eetting siar Had wake4qhe , And citade aimd Were gilded by t f of gl4!: And in and out .dt pfine 1fl1alany der "li. Gold slotes ahrt the fivs swept, And kibetassIt onwat. rolled; And sunlight lingeredb~ go. . ,A I well, it eauseth sorrowTp To psartt f thoase e love be ; And yet the sun as bright shall glow . To-morrow I Th" T wss 6bendi strand, And stooping low.gi s iver creat; The crimson seaWe lay at rest Upon the amber-ribbed sand; Dashed o'er thhrocks and on the shore d'lung pating wreaths of peay spray, Then fled away; yet turnedeonce more nd sait a g across thby, , As though i :dot beatoi .. Ah I well, ethsorrow To paiwitlrht kse-re lovI. Bldw, Yet thitherwa the tide Aht 1ow To-morrow ! Two hearts have met to say farewell At even when the sun W pt down; Each life-sound frbm the busy town , Smote sadly as a passing bell. One whispered: "Parting isswe pgin At morn and eve returns the tide;" S"Nay! partingrends theheartlintwain." And still they linger side by side, A~4 still they linger, loth to go. ! well, it causeth sorrow Topart from those we love'below For shall we ever meet or 9t0 To-morrow ? OAUGS IN HIS Off TIS. The ringing sound ta os from a blackened smithy told41#athe steel was s&thening steelgThe smith who snnng the ponderous hammer was a man of no common muscle. " He was young and remarkably hand ..me; but thea was an evil lurking in 'Ills cold black eyes which would have repulpd the cdose obearver. The ~lht bf his forge fire rendered Sh4lPue objects in the remote corners -tihop; but it fell brightly upon the stradge-looking piece of steel he ;was hammoqing. It resembled the jaws of some im mense tap, strong enough to holda bear, and the wonder was that the strength of n o- ld 4I it for its prey.,, r aan in fiddletown eoulif don trol such a trap, it was the man whose hands were fashioning it. . 'For a long time Davi4 '1lrall had been working of nights, "with his shop barred to visitors, and the clang-clang -ol]ng of his hammer .ahd sounded in th-urtherest corner ofthe growing vil lage. He was a manW strong passions, the first to resent an insult to a friend, and the last togitvup an arghment when he fo against him. No bothTred him while he swung t:ime ` or eVer the terrible steel trap which he was'ilaking. It is true that a few boys lookeddin at the window at the inauguration of his work, but his maddening threats against them had kept the r~ig urehins away. "I told her that she should never laugh at my love and live to boast of it to an other man !" David .Jh ll g~iad alond, one night as he 'pai5d to Wipe great dra~s of perspiration from hidbrow. Stlylaughed then, and told me not to let anger get the better of me, and thought I woold forget it. Forget? Never !".ad the hamm ,r came down wrathfully upon the glowin steel. "I am making this trap beeatsee'yog Jrejected my love, Agnes Temple. Bw it shaltla tear your pretty skin. 1~o no! I would not injure one of your golden haltr; lnt I am going to teach you .that there is one in Middletown wh* heart cannot be trifed with." * Thuehe,,tu to himself, while he stood 0ql,w l and swung his ham mer w~aie ery blow told on his hor .ib mechanism, and lhirried it toward complefon. That ht he finished it. He hid it in the light of his cold fire and'prono ~d t perfect; smniled upon it "with 'pride, showed that be had strength enough to master its jaws. "Now, my boys, we'll try it.!' David Thrallput his trap into a sack, smoUered the fire as. left the smithy. He walked rpidlf to .the outskirte of the village, seen by no one, for the night was dark and the wind high. It was in thf.autumn of the year,.pd We yellow leaves of the trees fell around him in golden showere., But he notice them any spore ttan to b oceasional one f-omu his 1idg be grimmed like his f acB e hwi s his shop. He did not come to a halt jaitil he reaoed the iron tra~k that ran over the road he was traveling,4 'Middletown had notf~een honored by the steam cars, which, as if to aunt the place, left it a half mile to the west, D tdThrall threw his burdenAown, an ah of relief escaped him.- Then be struck a match and looked at his watch. . "Heo passes about dine," he muttered. +&he passenger goes by at ten, then the inghtaing exprese." He poke with a flendinese almost foreign to tlq human hbart, and eat to work fastening the strong chain attach ed to his infernal trap to the iron rails. He had ft~ttly studied his part of his infernal work for he performed it in the darkness and'then rested. But the end was not yet. Tl owing himself l ponthe spring, he fhe trap, and the terrible jaws were ready to close upon their victim. The wind threw leaves upon the trap, as if intent on aiding the jealone black smith, and as the clouds seudded west ward, he saw the star gleams fall upon the leaves that covered it." It was ureqne place that David Thrallhad tMeeted for the deed upoh which he had set his heart. The road was narrow-indeed not morethan a path-that led to Middle. town, and the home of Agnes Temple. He knew the man he batd would tra: verse it before dawn, and he knew too that his trap would hold him to theiron track. It was a revenge alnioset too terrible to be recorded,. *t ~ped aw - twnph ntly &ie wola d lonket+ Thence pitkedtnp ed abkto.lid.dle kt lelio' d uot goneten yards before hesralted. '"Thtra? m1 h#~ i a been set a little` easier," he said to himself. " has not beenm#orke4 mueh and the ea icr. it it. set the sunr I hal be of zy prey." Intent upon readjust nthe ifvli.i, invention, the blakliiskbh retraced steps, and for the secon, time in lonely and beautiful spot he bent the cross-ties. He placed his knee upon the spring to prevent the jaws from.closing andesath ing t. ei maker, wiwle he tampered 'with tb trigger. He was in the midst of the work,when, from some unaccountable cause, his knee slipped from the spring, and-oh, horror I the mighty jaws- closed on his iwrist I With a cry, indescribably full of ago y, the entrapped man tried to spring to his feet, but the trap, fastened as it 'was to the iron raile, hold him securely ddb. The sharp teeth seemed to eut'into the marrow of his bones, and he was expe riencing the horrors of a human being caught in a trap. He dIed to crush the spring, but it would not yield to the power which he had lately owned, and then he had tried to tear himself loose. ?ut the pain occasioned by its efforts was so great that be was forded to desist lest he should &kt, and #n that condi tion caught by the'train. "If it had caught my leg," he cried, "I could tear it loose; but oh, these pre clous arms of mine." It was a terrible moment for the en trapped rpan. SAll at once, in that hour of terror, he thought of the man for whom he had pr pared the jaws of imyielding steel. He would doubtless reach the crossing nd eleise him before the train was duo, for Jullan Wingfield was not a vengeful 'rival. All thoughts of revenge against the beautiful Agnes Temple had left his ,ain4, he looked up at t~ stars and they seemed to mock at his misery; he cried for help'from the terror-stricken depths of his heart. But no footsteps sounded upon his ears. Heaven and man seemed to have left the hater to his fate. Suddenly David Thrall started, and a cry of despair well ed from his throat. The shriek of the engine told lim that the one dreaded hour of his captivity had passed away, and the end of all was near at hand. "Heaven have mercy !" he cried. "Do not unto me as I have done' unto an other." ,But no deliverance came, and the sound of the whistle died away with a mocking echo, Within five minutes the iron monster would be upon him, and the most terri bl6 drama ever enacted in that lqwely country would have reached its tragic finale. He heard4he roar of the train, which seemed to approach on the very lu of the wind. B'I raved, he cursed, and tried to wrech'lis wrist from the jaws of steel, and tried.to break the. off, and bear life had the blessed stumpa away, but in vain. With the tenacity of death itself the tral held him down. .Tne engine shrieked again, and David Thrall paused and looked over his shoul der. He saw the headliglht now; it dazed his eyes, and he could not shade the precious orbs with his hands. Then he shrieked at the.top of his voice; but the cars came on. "No deliverance! Oh, Heaven " he exclaimed, "I have merited this. What a terrible thing retribution is! He will be happy, and she will smile upon him with all her dazzling beauty. But-I oh, Heaven pity me! Chained to the track-caught in the tnrap made by my own hands for a fellow-being. It is just. Heaven forgive me, and bomfort my poor---" The rumbling of the train had scarcely died away in the distanice when Julian Wingfold, retunig g from the home of Agnes Temnpy, crossed the track. He stepped&where the instrument of b.. had bplaced, and passed, on l t no iandiwork. If he .t gi -down he might have e two BM!ered steel jaws, closed now upon the lifeless hands only of his rival, the blacksmith. The agIiis were discovered on the :the fgllowin'ig day, and the presence of the tirap told the awful story. David Thrall's widowed mother soon follotd him to the grave. The little asmithy stlU stands in Mid dletown,,and the superstitious say that at nijg31avid Thrallcan be hear beat ing steel before his forge. Julian Wizigfold is a happy husband and father now, but he never thinks of that one night's walk without a feeling of thankfulnae as well as of horror. O0MINO0J( mMBO BOOST. The yo¶ chikes of Louisiana rad icalism are comingiome to rpost, and Acteon.standa .aair'chm~ne of being de voured li his own dogs. J.. padison Wells and Alee P. Dumas, intimately associated with him, have begn indicted by grand jtury of the U. 8. Court, in New Orleans, "for malfeasance in office, and s~lling poesitiops in the ecstom house." Wells wsUaiested at his resi dence on Custom-house street, blitbing too ill to be movedrhe ofieer laroled him.-Ale2arandria Demoorat. A lady passenger once'haked t late Capt. Judkins the name of a. passin steamer. "I dont know," watlhe g rej~ly. '~o ant askthe cook"Wy, I thought you was th cook," she an. seered aouickly., ' The Louisiua Ceitolida, Iishad at Baton Rouge, iea lieimodel of typographiqal skil - u A Hera*k wl hen we edited .a; ee hedti~r The erntau for itf m an t aectevipt tlY er volume of t seian ana .a itoIan, have been ehe 'lieol 1,}e.4 1, is wel received byat this eefll I lageed pon owell exchditedandgl ~ t appearance isquite of4s 4 d givesn ap itive Messrs. LeSgr abmoerae dand teeg of Lou-el ipes in t N sa. al ae allew, and by he meehafual ly cedupon ouppr exchange s this ithe appearance besaidof the 'nhapnapr. Its polumne are fll of eoellt shd neiey ' ading th matterw Cand the editorials are wtten with qlearess andvior.--. skO. Dea We hnve received the frst number o. the Louisiana Capitolia n. Its polities are perely Democra ti and devoted to the mlaims of Baton louge for the :a. tion of the State government. We ent dob e position of the Capitsoluaa on this fall subjecf, and extend it oar eadingrt ulatione and best wishes for its are written. -with learnessand vor. . 0. Dem.o We e received, the first numbe r tol, a purely Democratic neat and well edited per, pbished at Baton.ims ofge, which we gladly place on ,our list of exchange& "The Caprittoian has selected its name, in viewu . the ft ture location of the State Cgovernmen t,B We en ton Rouge, in aooordanoeYWill th will of the people, as expmessed by the adop tion of the first amendmhe Capitan ontted lathis subject, and extend I t our congrat-hi mulationer pon the Convention.-ts success. Ga ette. at Baton Rouge having reeigladl a majoplace ity of the votes ecast t the lCte oletion nal bearing the signtleanit title I aidang Capitolian.ected its namea han vdoew the fu folio, printied om new tpe, thus patBa seonting handsome o tpogdapaicl"w ap pearance. W. A. LeSueur appears as of tpublishe people, and the name ofour old aiend tiLeon Jastrem ki, now meynmr of Baton Rouge, and who learned th urge arthism monsatris in this ofnvice mantion.-y years ago, is editor.-Abberille Merdtonal The Catpitolian is the name of a new jourioal printed t Baton Rouge, thus third nmber of. A.hich is on our table. We owe our esteemed contemporary the amende honorable for not noticing it soon er. However, we do it now, de bon cocar, and congratulate the Democracy of its parish, and of our State, that they have one more true and faithful advocate of itsprinciples. The Capitolian hasis the al ready made its mark as a first-class Democratic and live newspaper, and we wish it abundant success personally and Spolitically.-Aletan~ra Demoor Thejournal erdionat is atlled Baiton Rou degree of pleasurable satisfaction, difienlt to express to its readers, itovbng occasion to noe the appea;rane of.th CapitoUai, a new mhee, or atlier a "spring rose" thathas jpin t opened under'the auspices of its miend, Leon Jastremski, a gentle man so well Inown here. This new Dorcan will alwayd be welcomed in our Smfdst, because idt efends what we love anopposes lih rta hofe o toe capital where t logically should becr: hLoage,, friendlenl, the Meridional i' softh yeo, and thoegh Legtslature was either powaerless ofr'too corrupt to act and d ecide utpon the amanier , o he R thaat our delegates to the lonstied tional Coape ion, loildspl a aybore w2sdom, and that the ftoill gire as eBato-d Boe ftr 8tate capital.--Abbevllle Meridhon g . TEE 0APIT BbON BOUGE. In compliance with Secretary Breanx's resolution of inquiry Aregarding the votea on the amendments to the Constitton the Kecretary of State submitted to th" Senate the following, his special tabu lated repott; which shows Baton Rouge to have been elected the Capital ofu Louisiana, by the handsome majority ofi 6329. It willbe observed that all the oth St amendmeniome of which are desired by the people, were defeatedby over wheluing o , e with the view ofpm pelling the aedembling of a Constitun tional Convention, a measure loudly demanded by the publie interestse. No better evidence is needed to fully estab lish the people's will, in sonnection with the removal queetion. State Capital for Baton Bouge .... For New Orleans................. 21 1st amendment-for ..............11h d " " against.........,...13 hi " -for........ ....t... 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