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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER; DEVOTED TO JITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AGRICULTURAL, POLITICAL, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. VOL. 1. ONEIDA, MADISON COUNTY, N. Y, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1852. NO, 17, THE ONEIDA TELEGKAPH ^Vill be publiabcd every Saturday at Oneida, (De pot,) Madison Co., K Y. fc>. H. FROST, Editor & Proprietor. A. K . EATON, Conductor of Scientific Department. OFFICE—No. 2, EMruiE BLOCK, (up stairs.) TERMS— One dollar and Twenty-five Cents per annum, in advance, to office and mail subscribers, On* Dollar and Fifty Cents, in advance, to Village subscribers, who receive their paper by the Carrier Where ten or more copies are sent by mail to one office, they will be furnished at One Dollar each dftliQrpllnitFnil l! f ^ Ut mide \° P\ rtic \' ar -\omphiint. The 1 from my house m St. Vincent, rolling over the 1 one man, who would bear tho crowded inside [ with orange- blossoms and Cape-jessamine.— - > - tu * lumtut mi J ' London Post meanwhile WHS announced.— threat volcano and the mountains round it. I I no longer, hut insisted on having a place on The matted floor, the shaded fight, the COin- ~ i Stirling went into another room to learn what iisc'd to look at it from our windows with your the top of the coach, among tho baggage fortahle arm -chair, and a book which I pro- Close of John Sterling 's Life, tilings, of his mother it brought him. Re mamma, and you a little baby m her arms. wheie lie stretched himself out to sleep, and duced from my pocket, mad* the morniag The dossing passages of th e biography ar e j turning speedily, with a face winch in vain I \This letter-is not so \yell written as I could \as buckled down under the cover t o take his i l.oss very agreeably, and at the late dinner- full of a deep and affecting interest. Sterling's strove to be calm, Ins wife asked, how at 1 u i»h, but I hope you will be able to read it, chance of ovcrsots. It was under these cir- hour to which I was accustomed, I left tM mother was dy ing of heatt di-eascs, while he Knightshridge ? \ My mother is dead,\ ans- 1 r himself nt Falmouth was watching over In* we red Sterling; \died on Sunday; she i-> j aihng wife upon the verge of her confinement. 1 gone.\ \Poor old man!\ murmured the The delicate tact, the tenderness, the natural | other, thinking o f old Edward Sterling, now | 2d, a t which latter date vacation tnno arri* RATES OF ADVERTISING. Ons Square, 8 Weeks, .... \ \ 8 Months, .... 6 \ .... 1 Year, piety of tho last two letters written by Johu | left alone in the world ; and these were her Sterling to his dy ing mother, reveal the entire own last vvOrSfe : in two hours more she too beaut) of his character. It is not because b e | was dead. I n two hours mother and wife aimed at literature that his friends loved bu n ; I were sudelenly both snatched away from him. in literature it may be admitted that cam para- 1 \ It came with awful suddenness.!\ writes lively he faihd. I t ts for that purity an d I he to bus Clifton fneud. \ Still for a short and the person obtaining the names and sending us j truthfulness o f spirit which breathes over the nine k ha d my Su-.ui; but I soon saw that the money, shall receive a copy for his trouble. I of l]]ehQ Uo ] ettvr6 t | lat j^ ll;u | bwn so I the niedical men were in terror ; and almost twSy '-lv^ v K , I\.!. n hourof that fata. K,,,g.asbr,d fe o shove rates, and fifty cents additional if delayed r ALMOL'TII, Ag i il 8, 184.1. news, I began to suspect our ow n pressing j patience and In rule composure, wo did not beyond six month*. \ Dearest Mother • I could do y on no good,; danger, I received her last breath upon my!know him His buttering*, his sorrows, and Good inducements will be offered to agents to • |,ut u would be the greatest comfoit to me hps- Her mind was much sunk, and her per- j nil Jus uiiutterabihtics, in this slow ngony he «anT »s* for subscribers. ' were I near you. Nothing would detain ine ' eeptions slow; but a few minute* before the , held right manfully down, marching loy ally, but Susan's \condition 1 feel that until her 1 last, sh e must have caught the idea o f di-so- I as at the bidding o f the Eternal , into the confinement l- over, I ought to remain here— i lution an d signed that 1 should kiss her She j dread kingdoms, and no voice of weakness i unless you wished mo t o g o t o jou ; m which 'altered painfully, \Yes! yes!\—returned [case she would be tho first to send me oil.— : with fervency tho pressure of my lips ; and A liberal discount made to those who advertme ' Happily she is doing as well as possible, and ; m a few moments her eyes began to fix, her by the year I seems even to gain strength every day. She 1 pulse to cease\ She too is gone from me ' J5P~ All communications must be pott-patd. I sends ht-r love to \ou . it was Tuesday morning, April 18, 1843 — i \The children\are all doing well. I rode ' His mother had d'ed on the Sunday before, j with Edward through some of the p'easant ' \He hud loved his excellent kind mother, ' hmi-s in the neighborhood, ami was delighted. «* b e ought and well might; m that good as I have often been at the same ?eason,V> se c , heart, in all the wanderings of his own, there the pihnroses under every hedge It is pleas- I bud ever been a shrine of warm pity o f moth- ant to think thntthc Maker of them c;m make , er's love and blessed soft atieetioiis for him ; nthi r flowers for the gard. n o f Ins mansion- j »'\' now it was closed in the eternities forev- \\V have here >isoftness m the air.a smoothness ! ''iinore Your affectionate papa, ^ uimstanees that I heard the tale o f Dniwid- JOIIN STERLING.^ die 1 * ivooing, from the hps of the hero, who These letters go from June Oih to August jwas our fellow-traveller. To appreciate it, one spot with regret. \ The next morning I again rang for admit tance, but no answer was accorded to lajr Should have seen the man. He was u broad-. summons. The inhospitable door was deaf to $1 00. 8.U0. 5.00. 8.00. ^nrfrtj. and the boy returned to him. The letters are\t«Upuldered portly Virginian, with a counto-1 my nppeals, and I sat down upon the step*, preserved ; and surely well worth presening.' nance florid with Health, and absolutely beam- iThc heat of th e sun was intense, the day waa In this way ho wore the slow doomed , \'g with good-humour, but widi features ! without a cloud; and it seemed as if th e heart months away. Day after day his little period deviating far from the lines of th e beautiful. I within me was broiling. But I peristed in re- of library went on waning, shrinking into less, His keen black eyes twinkled with merriment, I man.ing at m y post, till I saw the sun past and less , but I think it never altogether end- i *»d t o make Ins appearance moro comical, as j his moiiJutn ond oomtnencn his descont. ed till the general end came. For courage, i day broke on this wretched company, h e had | \ The next day, equipped in a thin lines for active audaiit\, we had all known Sterling: • received a fanciful decoration from a pellet of coat, and armed with an umbrella, I repeated but such a fu nd'of mild stoicism, of devout' >\\-'J, which had settled upon his shirt-front | m y attempt to gain admittance, and to ray like a breastpin. Ho alono was good-natured surprise, the door was opened. In reply to Even fresh disaster was food for his mirth, my inquiries for the ladies, I learned that Mrsi even\ to the broken tire and huge gap in the'and Miss Clifton had lea town. I could get wheel, threatening to break down at*every j n o clue to their retreat, and accordingly, lear- revululion, for which there was no remedy but to push on till it did break, was heard from him Poor noble Sterling, he i \ Never mind, if it should break,\ said die had struggled so high and gained so Tittle | imperlui bable man, \we shall come down 'iglith, at the rate we go. 1 have been con front the New York Tr Spirit Rapping*. After the manner of \ The Haven.' BT VVU. OBLAND BOIR.NE. bune. His poor life partner too, his other In the world of mind and spirit, euuld our grosser '\ the tlmids, and a mild sun-lnne, that com , self who had faithfully attended him so long senses hear it, I bine in .lovely peace with the first green of m all his pilgrunings, cheerily footing the hca- Tberc's a iwe >t and gentle flowing from a loved ' spring, s/iicl the mellow whiteness of the sails I vy tortuous ways along with him, ean follow and lovely nhore Yet our life is In.t a dial, where the hnnd of Btcrn denial Keeps us in the path of trial, bidding us wait ev ermore, While the land of hope's ideal, diutn.it, distant, ev ermore, Bids the spirit onward »onr. him no further; sinks now at his side: •' lh< rest of your pilgriinings alone, O friend— 1 adieu, adieu '\ bhe too is forever hidden from ; his eyes ; and he stands, on the sudden, ver\ solii.ny uninl the tumult of fallen and falling thing'.. \My little badv girl is doing well, [ upon the quiet sea. Th e w hole aspect of th e woiTd is full of a quiet h irmony, th it uiflii- | eiiccs ev en one's bodilv frame, and set ins to I make one's ver\ limbs aware o f somi thing living gooil and immortal in .ill around us — Knowmg how \mi suffer, and how we.ik \ ou ; are, any thing H a blessing to me that helps! H poor little wreck ca.st upon the sea-beach of 1 me to rise out o f confusion and grief into the; life. My children require me tenfold now — | sense of Ood and jov I could not indeed I What I shall do is all confusion and darkness.\ 1 but fi -cl how much happier I should have been.' hie I ling's ow n death was now at hand. Ii . . ,. - - , , , , ,, | this inorninrr, liiul \ou been with ine, nnd de- ! is described in a manner which will long dwell And 1 vc olten iiui'i'iiil whether tliey would come , , . \ \ i i i i ,, , .i .......... e ..n - i »IM and talk together • lighting as you would have done in all th e in the memory of all readers. I he comment tVitu the men that walk in leather, who their pies- j htllc as well as the huge beauty of the world , is a silent on e which such noble and beautiful enee ni !|(ht implore— | Hut it wns still a satisfaction to feci how much | traits suggest, and It docs not fall from the •Whether ilu-y cmil.l o.mie and bring them, from ; i 0 „„ to V()U 0 f the power of perceiving pen. meaning, reality and sweetness m all healthful At an early pi nod o f his illness, all visitors life Ami thus I could fancy that you were' had o f course been excluded, except his most While I pondered on the matter, thinking whether j still near me ; and that I could see mu, as I | intimate ones ; before long, sosoon as the end in ihe>* latter ! often have seen v ou, looking with earnest ev e> become apparent, betook leave even o f his , nt w-nvsido flowers Mather, t o avoid excitements and intolerable | \1 would r.itlur nut have vvrilten what emotions, and, < xci pt his brother and the ' must reran 1 vour thoughts to your prcsc nt Mif , M unices, wh o were generally about him com- iferings, but, dear mother, I wrote onlv what ing and going, none were admitted. This lat- I f. It , mid perhaps \oil would rather I ave it Ur form of life, I think, continued for above «.) th in that I should try to find othi r topics I still hope to be with you befi re long Mean | while, .Hid alwavs, g «1 hies* MIII, is tin ] aver I have often snt nnd wondeied whether «pirits ever blundered From the uoild beyond this mundane, as they sny thev did ol v in e , the uhtio'ldiii shoie, .\cwi of wonders yet in store. I)ayn of telegraphs and clalter, they would s*e us ! an_) ni 'Mp. j TuUing up the d/iily papers, there I rend of sundry I viipers Of tlie tables, choirs and taj>er(>, moving on the 1 ehumbcr flour, And the rupping and tho tapping, grows louder than beiure, On the window or the door here ! Iiut this also he did gain,to be a brave- man, and it was much Summer passed into autumn ; Sterling's earthly businesses, to the last detail o f them, were now all as good i,s done ; his strength too was wearing to its end , his daily turu in the library shrunk now ton span He had to hold himself as i f i n readiness for the great voy age at any moment. One other letter I must give ; not quite the latt message 1 had from Sterling, but the hist that can be inserted here , a brief letter, tit to be forever memora hie to tho receiver of it • \ To Thomas Cnrlylc, Esq., Chelsea, London \Hilbide Veiitnor, August 10, 1844 \Mr DEAU CAIII.UK' For the first tune for many mouths it seems possible to send vou a few words; merely Imwivir, for retnem br.ince nnd farewell On higher matters there is nothing to sav I Head the common road into the great d ukmss, «ith.mt any thought of fear, nnd withviiy much o f hope. Cer tainty indeed I have MUIIC Willi regard to you and me I c.umot begin to write, having nothing for it but to keep shut the lid of cerned m more helpless enterprises than this, Let me tell you a story o f what patience did Ibr me in my difficulties. Ahem ' \ ' A frog he would a wooing go,' and so, once upon a time, would I, though I vv is in no haste, for I waited till I was no longer a very young man, before it occurred to me that 1 wanted a wife. This was be cause 1 never had seen a woman whom I fan c ed, and 1 am sure no woman had ever taken a fancy to niv;, for you can readily see that 1 never was very charming But my hour was to come \ I was walking ono day with a friend through the principal street of tho small town of R, when we met a lady. I caught one look at her modest face, and said to my ft lend, \ ' Tell me who that lady is, and I will marrv her' \ Marrv her, indeed ! said he, with a laugh ; ' y on are crazy.' \ ' Till mc uhosJic is.' She is Miss Margaret Clifton, of C, South Soou they found, somehow or other, how to tnlk to one unot her. As a man would ask his brother what the messnge that he bote , And thry ansvv ered by a knocking, w huh would set the things a rocking. And would bring the folks a flocking, flocking to the chamber door, While they stood and silent waited, peeping hrougU the chambei do. .r n hilc they vv ondered more and more Then in village, town and city—(i>ome declared it wai a pay That believers in the spiuts should the mysteries so outpour)— Still the vvondrr was incieasing, and there seemed to be no ceu»iug. Till the whe<ls should get a gieasing, of this rusty- world of yoie. While the mediums—Fish y, Fox y,—on our gross maUrmlnhuro 1U»tiled nt the chamber door ly sonietlnn\ uniting us th.it cannot pen-h Tfc>ey have rappo.s wide awake, O' with the spir j 8(l|>m h „ (l( a ,; iV(l „,„,_,, , ^ its down to buco, i , , , Where th» people drank tho spirits in the gloomy 1 r ''\\ 1 \' > h >* «'*'•'' '•'<» remembrance, pain days of yuret j ful as that is, o f all m\ own follies and ill lelll- And tho rappmgs growing louder, make mc feel a 1 pers, cannot shake this faith. Wlun I think good deal prouder I „f nn ,| ]. Iimv |„,„ u ,„ f 1L | towards me , Of tL« Stats where, folks can chowder without , , . ,, » ,ri .r„ .pint* from the store, , l,a( l ' f,lt f \ r °V'''' V m \\'\'? 1 ,' [ And where Uio people free and happy, from the , ') ^e .irs, it would be too dark to believe that mountain to the shore. Fear the- spirits nevermore ' Th«r« the Sheriff do<>sthe rapping, and the spirits of Your alleetioiiaW son, JOHN STLIIUM. \ To tin' -111DIC FM.MOI ill, Apnl 12, 181.3 ' Dearest Mother. I have ju«t reu-ive I inv fathei's letter: vvhiih LTIVI'S un at least the comfort \f believing thatvoii do not flitter much pain That your mind has remained so ilear and strong, is an infinite blessing \1 do not know any thing in the vvoild that would make up to me at all fi r \\;u\ ing tin recolleition of Hie itSys I spent with vou late Iv, when I was ania/ed at the fn shucs aijd life of all your thoughts. I t brought b u k fi r distant vear>. in the strangest, most pe u -i ful wav I felt myself walking with vui m Gieenwich Park and on the s< ,is |mre .it San tjate ; almost even I se> med a b.ibv with v on be'iihnyr nvei me Dear mother, there is stire- ll.iee months Men were still working about his grounds, of whom he took some charge ; neeetlul works, gieat and small, let them not pause on account ol bun. He still rose from i oed , bad still sonn portion of his day which he could s| )( .|„| in ins library. Bi sides his, business the.i, he read a great deal—earnest | books , th e Hible, iiio^t eurnest o f books, his , thief favourite. H e still eien wrote a good | deal. To his eldest boy, now Mr. Ncvviiiin's ward, wh o had been removed to tin M.uuices since the beginning o f this illness, he addiea sed, cviiy dav or two, sonn tunes dailv, for i i^ht or nine w eeks, a h ttt r. of gi ncral pan r- li.il adviiv and txhottalinli , inter-pi ising, Spalliiglv, Dow and then, SU> ll liollccn ol his own leeliiigs and eoiidiiioii as could be addres sed to a t'oy These litters 1 hayj hitily read, tiny giv i , bey olid any he has written, a noble mi ige of the iiitimsic Steiling, the -aine faei we had long know n , but painted noiv as mi the a/ureot etiinity, serene, vieto- noiis, divimly sad , the dusts a'ld extraneous > idiguie iiu'iiis imprinted on it by the world, now washed nwav One little, excerpt, not the best, but the tlttest tor its neighborhood lure, will be welcome to the reader. \ Tu Master Edward C Sterling, London. \ Hillside, Veiitnor, June 29, 18 4 1. \Mv Diar Boy • We have bei u going on vv ith no event that those bccrets with all the iron weights that an ' Carolina.' in my power. Towards me it w still more [ \ What is she doing hero ?' true than towards England that no man has | \'Shew in the Moravian school here.— been and done like vou' If I can lend a | Marry her, indeed! Tho girls of the Mora- hand when TiiEiiK, that will not be wanting j vmn school have nothing to do with marriage. It is all very strange, but not <>nc hundredth I '1 hey are as saintly as nuns, and are as grave part sosad as it seems to the stauders bv j and decorous as if the world were a great \ Your wife knows my mind towards her chapel, made to sing psalms in I should just and will believe it without asser vatioiis. ! like to see you trv to speak to her.' \ ^olirs to the bust, \ \ ' I have no idea o f trying IL But it Is JOHN SIERUSO.\ 'true, notwithstanding, that I will marry her.' It was a bright Similar mornin g when this i \ I «»* or ' Miss Cliflon, but has- letter came to me - i f in the creat Cathedral of t c,icd •'»>»«•' hu.s.ness, for this was in the I did no worsl i,, that dav the fault *? nn fi- tllL ' '. r, T ttl,st ? ^started. Every immensity 1 did n o «oM ip was siiielv my own Stci'ing affectlonatelv refused to see me ; winch aUo was also kind and w i-e. An d tour davs before his death, there are some st.uuas of ver~e for mc, vvntten as if in star lire ami immortal ti irs , whuh are among mv s ^eied jiov.es. nms, to be kept 1 for myself alone | His bu mess with the world was done, the i one business now to await silenth what may he m other gr inch r worlds he was wont to sav , \God is great.\ Maurices win- constantly near bun: Maurice assiduously watt lied over bun the evening o f Wednesday, the 18lh o f Sep- true \ irgiiiian planter is his own overseer.— The corn was up and ploughed for the first tiuii . the tobacco fields were set with thrifty voung jdaiiis, everything on tho plantation »as m jierfeit order, and matters jiut in such i tram, that nothing would sutler in m y ab sence , ami then I set out on m y enterprise. \ To B I went; and there 1 learned that the fair lady of whom I was in quest, had God is great\ tT°\ L ' 10 '\-' r h° lne 1,1 South Carolina. The \ ^\ to South Carolina I went; and one jj rs ' fine morning I stood at the door of a stutely q „ mansion in the city o f C, and inquired it Miss Clifton was at home, She soon came to me, ami looked at mo with grave astonish- ti mber, his bl other, as he •did every two or th.ee days, enme down ; found him in the old n, e»t, \!> c . n 1 ^ hl ' r 'raukly that 1 ha d come t> mper, weak in strength but not very sensi blr weaker . they talked calmly together for an hour ; then Anthony left his bedside, and retiled for the night, not exjiectmg any change Hut suddenly,about eleven o'clock, there came a summons and alarm , hurrying to his broth er's room he found his brother dving, and in a short time more (he fajnt last struggle was ended, and nil these struggles ami strenuous often foiled endeavors of i ight and-tlnrty years lay hushed in death — Cailyle. g a polite message of regret that Ihad not the cjijjortumty to pay my farewell respects, I left town myself. In a few dajs I returned, and learned that the ladies were again at home The next day I called aa usual, and was admitted to an audience with the \*Af mother \ ' Why do you persist, sir, in this foolish and ungenerous conduct ?' \ ' It is you, madam, pardon me, who are} ungenerous. I have come to this place with an object, which I frankly acknowledge to jcm. 1 have come to make honorable proposals for the hand of your daughter. I am not accues tomed lightly to surrender my well-matured plans and purpose*. This purpose nothing oa earth will induce me to surrender, till I hare tried every means of success. But you are unjust to me. You will not even examine and consider my claims. You give me no oppor tunity of making a fair presentation of uem, You do not allow mo to see Miss Clifton, and to endeavor to gain her favor. I will cheer* fully submit to any terms you may propose, |o any probation you may designate.' \ ' I have no terms to propose to you, sir. I require vour absolute withdrawal.' Madam, this is prejudice. You must give me an opportunity to overcome it.' \ ' I insist, hir, that you shall abandon this wild jnirsuit of my daughter, that you leave my house, and mako no farther attempts to enter IL' \ ' Madam, I can not abandon my hopes of winning your daughter. My life's beet |iopej| are staked upon my success. 1 will leave you, at your request, but must hope to find yo* , more favorably disposed towards roe at ano ther time.' \ ' Understand me, sir,' said Mrs. Clifton. ' This departure must be final. I warn you that you will find my doors closed against you, should y ou attempt to repeat this iatru> sion.' \ ' The consequences be upon your own head, then, madam, for I will die upon jour doorstep. 1 will use no dishonorable means to see and lnlluence Miss Clifton ; but I will persevere as I have begun, and will surrender my object only with my life.' \ True enough, the next morning saw me debarred access even to the vestibule. I sat down upon tho door-steps, choosing the side iijion winch a partial shadow waa thrown by a magnificent live oak. A s I vscantlv gftW M the grand old tree, I was struck with the long streamers of gray moss pendent from he branches, and wondered I had not before ob served them. Waving in tho lightest breeze, beautiful contrast with the weshall never meet again It was from vouth here as quietly as jmssil that I first learned to think to feel, to imagine, 1 know ol. There is .nothing . xcej.t books to to biheve; and these powers, w huh cannot occupy mc. But you may >uj»|..*f that my be extinguished, will one dav enter anew into tln.uglits often m»v« toward* y»u, and that 1 And t^vtremT/eTn ^eirlodRinKSin the corner of I eninmumon with xou I have bought It very fancy what you may be doing ... the g.eut | M , tU) „ed-up stage coa. h. ... which we were thertore 'dear bv the prospect o f losing you in th .s c.y the greatest on the earth—-w here I s|». nt lt „ u ,, ioII , ,„ U . P , olur r ,,ads winch, And the noise of an ax or hammer, with tho poo- j „ o, |,]—but since vou have been so ill, every- so many years of my life 1 first saw Loin on um . sml |,h The wooing of Harry Dinwiddle. From Sartain's Mugnz.ne for February It rained all night, nnd a company of tra vellers were almost suflocated in theelo-ely- to marry her and forming a I do not understand you, sir. My « loss y le * ve8 of v,vuJ g\*\- theM trtme * «f mother is from home, and will be absent seve- I' 8 ™\\*: growth are highly jncturesqUej but ral days 1 am not accustomed to form any lhe y aro hIw;1 . v * >ndn .-ulive of moisture, aad acquaintance without her sanction, and must !*\Kg<*tivo of the dreaded fevers o f the k )w beg MIU to excuse inc. J country. \ S*o lung could bo moro reasonable, and ' \ A \ t,,nt d \J- 0,1 l,,e next ' *» th,fd the sta.d au.l self i.ossesstd manner of the 1 ' sat on those unrelenting stone steps.— young lady, and the absence of all confus.on V ' 8,u ' rs c8me to t,,e bou **- 1 and Ja'tty coqiutrv, charmed me. love vou already '' thought I , ' how i snail i —- - \\\ . t , w • , j worsl,\ vou when vou arc m y wife \' w \» «l.;»«rred I rose, bowed again, and stood, • '-• ' < ' la s smiling and polite, to see them depart, ae> I fereatiallv, and stood smilingly polite, while I how I shall Raw t ' ,em atlm,tteJ 10 P nvllt> g «s from which I I settled myself comfortably in lodgings, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ \ Uke y,. made honorable descent. She was a lady of great «..,,«.—. nits,,,, e- wc . -s so man y year s of my hfc 1 first sa w London „ t>rt . , sml ply beds o f c fmging rc<l clay There pl «'»ahoutsandclamer, ' thin\'hasseemcd to me holier, lofuer and more when I wq» between eight and lime years old, W as more lateral than onward motion, for we Make theepints start and stummor, for they know , ( ~ „' n)r)rt , f„| | „ f ],„ pe and final jov. and then lived in or near it for the w hole of „, Ml t ] 0 „ a i ,,to a deep rut on on side, nnd _ . /^\fPr 0 '?.' I„J „„„!,,,„ hut then' ' \Itwoiildbe verv great happme^ to see the next ten, and more than any w here else for , h( „ y. ith a sudden jerk, out o f that and mto dignity, atntely and formal with her friends, Md M &«S , ..'o'er 4 ' y bad0U S htt °' but ,h< \' . ol ,/;;;,! orc even lure; but I do not know seven years longer S.nve then I havo hard- somcwhat deej.er, on the oth« r In one and du^ant and thilhng to slight acqua.nt- MakiuK J /anioo evermore' I i f that will be granted to me. Hut for Su- ly ever been^a year w ithout seeing the jdace, „,• llu . st . | 1!LH ,j trniiMtiotis, niap went a spring, ances, 1 . . - - «• - • (Jntii n\\ my arrangemen s for a long | ^ gentleman which 1 knew myself campaign Four days after, when I had as-, ^ Qn lhoM du)| ccrtamed the arr.ral o f Mrs. Clifton, 1 again | • , £ M my qu , Uty , • , rn \fe' nt t ' , . c ' l I i knew that there W.M pomjUfoo and W« n» »«««er or ng. uamu, U.ougI. , * fcJt for nl<% Mm ,l ig ht indication. I had heard of the lady -mother, w« cai-, f More than once a sorrow- ascended door » hat ciliated to lessen my courage She was a , patll)2lng gtllnco had fallen on me widow o f amjile fortune, and o f ancient nnd ,\y J } , _b_s» , U _T , , ' san's slate, I should not he.-ita.te an instant ; Bo with mwh.ng. Bhoving, rolling, and their course hut to remain, and I with care controlling, ' u ' , ' , ru „ Forth the Sheriff bnngB the ipinta far without the have no right to repine 1 n. re is no sacrince haunted store , ! that she would not make for me . and it would And he says, \I rather reckon— 't is a guess I'll •take my neck on,— That such spirits I co u kl beckon ~Yrom a place be low the floor,\ And the valiant blow he gives them, lets the spirits all outpour, Cursing mortals evermore! i . , , , 6 I most sacred nnd deepest, ns wt Oh I I love the kind of rapping, and the welcome ' t'ful, thoughts that abide with mc. friend whose topping \\ \ ! ^ less y n »- deares t mother. Tells that mercy, like un angel, stands to guurd the : believe that he feels for you all that you have poor-house door, I ever felt for your children. And tfce brotherhood that ever, by a holy, pure en- , JOHN STEIILIVO \ vor ' - A day or two after this, \ on Good Friday, . _ Had I brought Tetters of introduction and have, often lived m it for a considerable ' ,,f ,| 10 t | llM1 .\ 0 | ( | vehicle, and the united from her best friends, and enrnest recommend- tune. '1 hero 1 grew from childhood to be a f orcc 0 f t '„inj.any WH- j.ut in requisition ' ations to her favour and hos|>itahty, she might man My little brothers and sisters and since, ' t „ su bs tlt ute a rail, which, bv tlAS light of a have un bent to something like graciousness. my mother, died and are buried there. There | iU)U . rni „,. abstracted from a zigzag Virginia! As I hud not provided myself with these, 1 1 first saw your mamma, and was there mar- fL . oce T |„ s t i luI ,g 0 gaV c an undue elevation '. made no attempt to ingratiate myself. When r.ed I t seems as if, in some strange way, to „ l)e 81 ,| e 0 f the coach, making our seats an 1 1 had told her my name, and she had re- Lou.lon were a j.art of ine,orU a part o f Lou - j Ilc | ine<1 ,,la.,e, and added a bumjrtng eraphn- 1 marked that I was a stranger, I assented with 1 tl,mk ol 11 \ ol 03 ,u \ ol nols e sls lo pjnh „f our sudden descents. Since the a polite 1 K>VV. When she begged to bo favored been and done for me ; which now arc th e and du-t and confusion, but as something si-, y^^, , lJv) . llt u f ra ,l r oads, few such expo-1 with m y business, I plainly told her that Ihad 11 as mpst beau- lent, grand and everlasting. | riences m life are now t o be cncoutitcrotl, but i come to marry her daughter. Probably no \When 1 fancy how you are walking m , ,f any on0 survneSi whose fate it was t o tra-! human countenance was ever expressive of the same streets, or moving along the ^me\ veno lhroUgll , ts weary length the upper or ! moro amazement than the one then before me. river, that I used to watch so intently, as i f | mM \ a stage-route through Virginia, the Cam- \ She sat a moment s|,eechless, then rising, she be to cruel to endanger her bv mere anxiety on mv nrcount Notlung can exceed her sy m pathy with in vsorrow. Hut she cannot know, no one can, the recollections of all you as uu^st o. M a ilhy God 1 1 is much to in a dream, when younger than yo u are— I could gladly burst into tears, not of grief, but vv ith a feeling that there is no name for. . JEv- Ur the prison nevermore 1 J ery thing is so wonderful, great and holy. While thefather; mother, children, see the gloomy finplnent( bringing hini,\ he writes\\ ft stout *' 5ad Hnd >' et . not b,ttur ' 80 fu \ of dea ^i ' • • • a.,s v>elll death,J and so borderingg onf heaven.s Can The hillegirl -till lives and does >\» understand anything of Una ? If you Waken t every ton and brother' nhoulders braced well, but for the mother there was another oan » J ou w , to one another I '* • •' »» ' AH .. . t.„ K««p this glorious bond of hesrth-ttonea evermore' Pcaes shall smile • future shall c And the children's love address you, from their child hood's golden shore, tfhfls ths thousands in the fullness of their bles sings rise and pour Bongs of gladness evermore ! Few York, Jan 12, 1853. Seeks our fallen ones to sever from the monster vice of yore, ' 1843.\ his wife got happily through her con- w ^ = nJ nyt M fu „ of dealhi •lethefslher. mother, children, see the gloomy nnP1 „ e nt, bringin g him, h e writes, \ ft stou t ^ ^ & - uort ) enng on |, wlV cn. \ poor-house door ( ! httle girl.who and the mother are doing a wel UI1< e rstand anythin o Uii 1 If as possible.\ The little girl -till lives and does w ,|| begin t o know what a serious but for the mother there was another ^ lfe is ^ unworlhy Hnd stupi j ' „ drmkt » into f ormJ j n i,| 0 rners by the rafh of .lot. Till the Monday following she too nut ^ (o ^ a without heed ; what a a night There were weariness, and hunger, union round J' our ; well, ho affectionately watching her ; bu t in wrelchw , lnslgD ,ticaut, worthless, creature ,any , anJ exasperation, for our promised supper ita anHweetly ble-s you, and the ; ^ couree <* 8 \ me t J , .\ n «f for , ™ one comes to be, who docs not as soon as pos- 1 th at night wa. a moveable feast, which receded 11 caress yon. * i worse was not ' c . ed ' th L 0U 8 h n , olh,n S ^ sible bend his whole strength, as in stringing: in 0U r slo* proffress, and looked most inviting — ii—M,,^. I the doctors or him; h e watched by her bea- sllff j^™ to doing whatever task lies lirst anf j UntalinDir in th* dwUmce. How our side all night, still without alarm; but sent in j. hi * i weary l ^n« »oh«d for the two or three hours .Un mnrnmiv Tnp«i1a v nwirniii<r fnr thn doc- J -- linns, Georgia, and onwards, ho 'dreams of it said \ You are evidently under some great yet. There were sudden halts for consultation ! mistake, sir. You will excuse me if I close —gullies to lie crossed, where our driver, this interview.' cho »«o to consider that our sati-factlon nnd our | \ The next morning, at the same hour, I safety, and the well-being of his horses, were again presented myselt, ud after a similar re al! to be promoted by our walking half a mile i ception from Mrs. Chflon, and a blank refusal or more, ankle or knee doe|> in mud Thert-! to my request for a few moinents\conversa- wero creeks to bo forded, swollen from mere ( Hon with her daughter, I politely wished her weary tors-who did not seem able to make much. \ We have a mist here to-day from the sea ! of sleep, which was the promised appendix of and It reminds me of that which I used to see 1 the supper ' How cross we were, «specially the morning, Tuesday morning, for the doc- eem able to make n of the symptoms. She appeared weak a good morning, and withdrew. \ On the third morning 1 called at the same, hour, and was refused admittance. The la>- diee were engaged. * \ ' Sa y to Airs. Clifton,' said I, ' that I will do myself the honor to wait ber convenience;' and I seated myself in the vestibule. Th« open door commanded * ple*s*nt view, and. a fine breezo entered from the garden, fragrant from some comely dark face surmounted bj a shnwy turhnn ; more than once a cool draught bad been silently extended to me by some jet\ black hand; more than once the grsssj Io4, ticeil shades of tho windows above me rtk*l)ieV~' as if somebody were an interested spectator of my sufferings; and once I detected near as; the flutter of a muslin curtain, and caught tW faintest imaginable figh. \ The fourth thi* began its course tika llf predecessors. I vvSis kept at my post bethaet, but I remember that my thoughts were mock) on the delights of my hill-country home, aad that I longed for a breath of its pool mownr tain-air. 1 watched ih« gathering of a light, Heecy cloud, hoping it might come to such a size and position as to screen me from * tfct round, red sun,' which seemed to barn inte rn y throbbing brain. My spirits wen massy ally depressed. I grew less sanguine of ani mate success. The mocking-birds ou the tree* seemed to shine on the , hses of the garden seemed to sickea aatv A sudden dimness came over mj tight; the** was a surging, as of waves, in ray ean, aasl % sank back unconseious. There waa an interval of isii If* fore I knew anything of what tbea he«aT a»k I found myself at hut a sick aaaa, M^aga) comfortably cared for. *7 °** tJP**B^ efrrant, and. indued *T *f*^Wf dadcer hae, wae my ^^gg* 1 Around ro« were mairy jeer me. The glare of the soft ie well-swept walks aad trios tN»V
