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fortunate speculations which so frequently ruin commercial men, had swept away the wealth of her father, and induced him to seek an asylum in the west; but whether his settlement in this immediate neighborhood, arose from his owning the small tract of land on which he now resides, or the hope of renewing the engagement between Fitzroy and his daughter, is uncertain. The connection however was immediately renewed, and never perhaps was there a more perfect coincidence of thought and feeling, than this happy pair exhibited. Often have I seen them clambering over these rugged cliffs; wandering in the shady groves, or sitting on the rocks engaged in reading and conversation; her fanciful imagination seemed now to realize all the former anticipations of love in a cottage, and happiness and the uncultivated wilds of the west.

The day for the solemnization of the marriage had been appointed, and was distant but two weeks, when the unwelcome intelligence of General Hull's disgraceful surrender, reached Kentucky. The call of the executive for volunteers to protect the defenceless frontiers of the northwest, had no sooner met the ear of young Fitzroy, than his resolution was formed.That love of country, and proud spirit of independence which have characterized the natives of the west, shone|| forth in him with an increased brilljancy; his bosom fired with the impulse of a noble enthusiasm in the cause of his country and suffering humanity, permitted him not for a moment to hesitate in exchanging the blandishments of love, for the habiliments of war, or his anticipated union to a beloved female, for the fatigues of the camp; the preparations for the approaching ceremony at the altar of Hymen, were instantly changed to those for a campaign, and in ten days Fitzroy was ready for the tented field. || I was myself present at the last inter

view between him and his intended bride, which took place on the morn

ing of his departure. Oh, it was an affecting scene, and one that I shall ever remember. His warlike dress and martial mien were finely contrasted with her delicate form and simplicity of habit. She rose as he entered the room, and with a melancholy look extended her trembling hand, which he seized with a convulsive grasp, and pressed to his lips-" I go, sweet girl," said he," to avenge the cause of our injured country-to protect defenceless women and children from savage barbarity, and wipe away the disgrace of an ignominious surrender; and be assured that in the midst of battle, the recollection of my beloved Emeline shall nerve this arm with ten fold vigor, and relying upon your unshaken constancy, and the smiles of Heaven, I shall fearlessly march to victory or death." He gazed for a moment in silence upon her beautiful face, which was bathed in tears; pressed her to his bosom, and imprinting upon her ruby lips a fervent kiss, tore himself away, and joined his companions in

arms.

(To be concluded in our next.)

THE MUSICIAN. "Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast."

An inhabitant of Alberton, in England, who could occasionally handle his fiddle, on his way home, from whence he had been exercising his musical talents, for the entertainment of his country neighbours, in passing | through a field about three o'clock in the morning, in the month of June, was attacked by a bull. After several efforts to escape, he attempted to ascend a tree, not however succeeding in the attempt, a momentary impulse directed him to pull out his fiddle, and fortifying himself behind the tree as well as he could, began to play; upon which the enraged animal became totally disarmed of his ferocity, and appeared to listen with great attention. The affrighted man, finding his fierce and formidable enemy so much ap

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peased, began to think of making his escape, left off playing, and was moving off without even the slightest desire to know who should pay the pìper. This however the bull would not suffer, for no sooner had our Orpheus ceased his fascinating strain, than the bull's rage appeared to return with as much violence as before. He was therefore glad to have recourse a second time to his fiddle, which instantly operated as a magic charm upon the bull, who became as composed and attentive as before. afterwards made several more attempts to escape, but no sooner did he stop his fiddle than the bull's anger returned, so that he was compelled to continue fiddleing till six o'clock, about three hours, when the family came to fetch the cows, by which he was relieved and rescued from a tiresome situation. He is perhaps the first man upon record who may really be said to have fiddled for his life, an:1 who has so truly fulfilled the poet's idea, that "Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast."

SINGULAR RELATION. FROM THE PEtersburg RepuBLICAN. If you think the following narrative worthy of your attention, you are welcome to insert it in your paper.

While I resided in Newbern, North Carolina, in 1814, being informed that a Negro Woman and two small children, had been that day brought in, who had been runaway for several years, I felt a wish to go and see them, particularly as there was something curious connected with their history. My friend, accompanied me to the jail, for they had been lodged there for safe keeping. We there learned the particulars of the life which they lived, or rather the miserable existence which they dragged out, during the seven years which they had spent in the swamps in the neighbourhood of Newbern.

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Those who are acquainted with the lower sections of that state, well know that it abounds in marshes and fens, overgrown with weeds, and interspersed, in some places, with clumps of pine trees. Into one of these dreary retreats this woman found means to conceal herself for the space of seven years; and to find means also for her subsistence, partly by her own exertions and the assistance of her husband, who would occasionally make her a visit. Living in this situation, she soon had an additional burthen upon her hands, by the birth of another child.

The manner in which she concealed herself as well as children from discovery, was truly singular; by the strictest discipline, she prevented them ever crying aloud, she compelled them to stifle their little cries and complaints, though urged to it, by pinching hunger, or the severest cold. She prohibited them from speaking louder than a whisper. This may appear strange to relate, but it is certainly true and as a proof that no deception* was used in this case, it was satisfactorily ascertained, that after they had remained in town for more than a month, in the company of children who were noisy and clamourous, they were not known in a single instance to raise their voices higher than a soft whisper. At first, it was with great difficulty that they could stand or walk erect, and when they did attempt to walk, it was with a low stoop, the bust inclining forward, and with a hasty step like a partridge

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But their favourite position, was that of squatting upon their hams. In this posture they could remain for hours. without any apparent weariness; and at a given signal, would move one af ter the other with great facility, and at the same time with so much caution, that not the least noise could be heard by their footsteps.

Their method of subsistence was the most extraordinary; sometimes the husband, according to the woman's account, would fail to bring them supplies; and whether the fear of detection prevented her from intruding on the rights of others, or whether she was prevented by conscientious motives, is not for me to determine; but in this dreadful exigence, she would for the support of herself and children, have recourse to expedients, which nothing but the most pressing necessity could ever suggest. Frogs and terrapins were considered as rare dainties, and even snakes would be taken as a lawful prize to satisfy the calls of hunger. It was the custom, said the woman, in the little family, when they made up a fire in the night, and this was done only in the cold nights of winter, for one to sit up, while the others slept. The one who watched, had a double duty to perform, only to do the ordinary duty of a centinel, but to watch for mice, which they contrived to catch in the following manner. The pe on watching, would spread a little meal on the ground, or a few grains of corn, or peas, or for want of these, a crust of bread, when they had it; over which, an old handkerchief, or piece of cloth, was spread; then, observing a profound and deathlike silence, the mice would creep from their retreats in order to possess themselves of the bait. 'The centinel, true to his post, as soon as the cloth was moved by the vagrant mouse, would very dexterously smack down a pair of hands upon him, and secure him for purposes yet to be mentioned. The flesh, as may be suppo sed, was used for food, which they de

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oured with as little ceremony as a boy would eat a snow-bird; but even the skin was not thrown away: for this being carefully preserved, the hair, or fur was picked off, and mixed with wool or cotton for the purpose of making gloves and stockings; and they managed to spin up the materials they could procure, by means of a stick, about six or eight inches in length. This was held in the left hand, while, with the right, they held the materials to be spun. They gave us a specimen of their adroitness in this art; and the little boy who was not above five years old, could manage his stick with surprising dexterity. Several pair of stockings and gloves were shown, which had been knit by these singular beings, during their voluntary banishment. They were grotesque enough in their appearance, and were made up of a greater medley of materials than are generally used in the civilized world.

How much longer this deluded African, with her two wretched children, would have remained in the comfort less Savannahs of North Carolina, is not known, had not the woman been deserted by her husband. Being deprived of the solace she derived from his transient visits, and the scanty subsistence she received from his hand, her situation became miserable beyond description. At length, weak and emaciated with hunger, she crept to the road, and gave herself up, with her equally meagre looking charge, to the first person she saw, who happened very fortunately to be a man, with his cart, going towards town, the sight, indeed, to the citizens, was a novel one, if we may judge from the numbers who crowded to see and determine for themselves.

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particularly the attention of the French officer. In a subterraneous prison, near a room which was occupied by the inquisitor, whose business it was to interrogate people accused of heresy, there stood in a niche the statue of the Virgin Mary. A golden glory surrounded the mother of the Redeemer of the human race, her right hand held the oriflamb, a drapery of silk stuff descended from her shoulders to her feet, and through the folds of a mantle a sort of cuirass was to be seen. This statue seemed to be an imitation of the statue of Joan d'Arc, which is seen at Orleans. Examin

The experience of every day proves the soundness of this maxim, and it is forcibly exemplified in the following: An individual in trade, finding he could no longer carry on his business, without unlawful sacrifices, became bankrupt. A meeting of his creditors was called, and an examination had of his accounts, goods, &c. which resulting it more closely, they found that

ed so much to their satisfaction, (not, however, on account of the amount of property he possessed, as from the full disclosure he made to them of his effects and very fair state of his books) that they not only released him from the operation of their claims, but also gave the individual, by general consent, the sum of one thousand dollars. In addition to the pecuniary gratuity so freely voted, the debtor retains the character of an honourable man.While we take pleasure in recording this fact, as honorary to the debtor, and so estimable in the creditors, we have to regret that such instances are

not more common.

POPISH BARBARITY.

The 96th number of the Letters Normands contains the following historical fact.

General Lasalle being at Toledo, went to visit the palace of the inquisition (for in Spain the inquisitors like other monks, wear the coarsest stuff for clothes, and inhabit the most beautiful marble palaces.) At sight of the instruments of torture, the general and the soldiers who accompanied him shuddered. It was more horrible than the most dreadful field of battle. Among these instruments was one. which from the species of sacrilege of which it conveyed the idea, fixed more

the cuirass of the Virgin was filled with blades of knives and sharp pointed nails. The arms of the statue were moveable; and were set in motion by an instrument behind the partition. The general gave orders to one of the servants of the inquisition, to set this machine in motion; the bag of a Polish grenadier took the place of the heretic. The statue caught it in her arms and squeezed it very closely. When it was taken away the bag was found pierced with holes, the points of the nails and the knives having penetrated to a considerable depth. Thus the merciful Mary, the queen of angels, became in the hands of the inquisitors the bloody minister of fanatical fury; and that nothing might be wanting to the odious profanation, they had given, by a sort of play upon words, the name of Madre dolo rosa to this terrible statue.

WOOD MAY BE RENDERED INCOM-
BUSTIBLE.

A person in or near London made known to the public that he had provided materials for a house, all of wood; and that they were proof against fire; and that, on a day fixed, he would have it on Putney Common, and a sufficient quantity of combustibles to try the experiment. Accordingly a great concourse of people as

sembled. The house was set up, and fire set to it in several places, but it would not burn. The fact is, the wood had been rendered incombustible by its being previously soaked in alum water. Boards that are used near a stove-pipe, or in any situation near the fire, might be soaked with the above, and so prevent them from catching fire, and save all the calamity which so often follows such accidents.

THE MARRIED STATE.

The conjugal state is certainly replete with friendship of the most refined nature; when two congenial hearts unite in virtuous love, their every little domestic joy is heightened into bliss by a mutual sympathy of feeling. The tenderest emotions of the soul, the warmest effusions of the heart, kindly vibrate to the responsive ties of affection and solicitude, and continue to diffuse unspeakable joy all around.

ARCHBISHOP OF COLOGNE. An emperor of Germany coming by accident into a church, where he found an ill-favoured ooked priest saying mass, "Peneportentum naturæ," that seemed a scandal to human nature, the emperor despised him, as unfit to discharge the sacred offices of the church; but hearing him read in the psalm appointed for the day, "It is He that made us, and not we ourselves," the emperor reproved himself for his proud and harsh opinion; and inquiring into the qualifications of the priest, and finding him a person of exemplary piety and erudition, he made him archbishop and elector of Cologne, which great perferment he discharged with all the care and fidelity imaginable.

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INDUSTRY.

Miss Sophiah Taylor of Verona, Oneida county, spun, at the house of Jabez Loomis, Esq. on the 8th of November last, 162 knots of woolen yarn, on a common large wheel, between the

hours of six in the morning and nine in the evening: "Ladies, out do this if you can."

ENIGMA.

The following letters were found written, in a Welch church, over the tes commandments, and remained more than a century unexplained.— The meaning, when discovered, commands admiration.

PRS VRY PRFCT MN, VRKPTHSPRCPTSTN.

To read the above, make use of a vowel as often as necessary.

HOGS!

Mr. Daniel Gidley, a farmer of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess county, NewYork, fatted in the last season 120 hogs, averaging 232 lbs. each, making in the aggregate 23,630 pounds, and 13 waggon loads of pork.

POETICAL.

FOR THE MASONIC REGISTER EPISTLE,

To Miss

When all the world has sunk to rest,

And business stays its rolling wheel; Life's anxious cares no more molest, The throbbing heart has leave to feel; How sweet 'tis then to think of those For whom we only wish to live, Whose virtues, like the blushing rose,

New fragrance to each hour can give. When wand'ring on some distant shore, As youth's gay prospects pass'd away, Sick of the world, my soul would soar, To regions of celestial day!

Regions where love forever reigns,
And kindred spirits reunite;
Where spring bedecks the flow'ry plains
With scenes of permanent delight.

Then would the thought of meeting thee,
Settle and calm my troubled soul,
Hush the wild tumult of the sea,
And bid its billows cease to roll.
O, if those dreams forever last;
And I thy friendship but secure ;

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