Locomotive, Volume 22, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1852 — Page 1
JOHN E. ELDER, Editor.
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NEW LITEBT STABLE, On tlae Alley back of the Pot-olce, Between the Palmer Bouse & Post-office I have some nice Horses, and some new Buggies, and twe new Carriages one large Carriage for Fuuerals or other
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foticies iastied by WILLIS Y . WKlunT,' Agent. Indianapolis, Oct. 25, '51-ly. , County Treasurer's Office. .'' ' " FIREI . FIREII ' : ' y At A. Wallace's old Stand. TV , 4k C. MUSSON keepn hand all the vsrMiea of th Pr" F . mlum Cook Stoves, which they sell cheap for Cash, hi eluding tvaalaes of tb unsurpassed Meteor Tinware of all kinds can be had at low rates. W wilt make It the interest of those wanting artkles Iq our line t rjv sat call. At ,apt 17
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Parlor Btoves of every variety, lo wholesale and retail dealer
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A sraloabta reModr tot h6lers Dyaentery, Dtstrhoea- and ComnlalnU of the Stomach and Bowels generally. Pre
peTed ty J. ? POPE jfc QQtk Mid KUuKgf itrvt Indianapolis, lnd. ,. ; - . . This is a vaWabl f orae4y t Dy sealery, DTsrraa, Cholera, n.l .11 .Aiiii.i. r thn bowels which nrevail dartnffthe sum
met nronthss. snd 4a artiilrty useful In strenrOienlng th
stomach and restoring walt pntioms.. . . f , , . - ;
season, tt will Immediately arrest the complaint, end restore the stomach and bowels to s healthy state, j : j ,f .-
, ir taken at s Utet period, iu apssuiiy an s cure, a Indictoua of it, at ttiose periods when bwsl eomplaiuti srs prarsiesV wllj spemts as preyssUvs-. Jans 18
AS nmored hit Q9lc to Butler & J&atfi1 Book Store, tm ' the South side at Waithtnstnn street, three doonveat Of
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There are some seasons when the grave-jrard seems peculiarly beautiful. When hushed twilight wings her noiseless way from heaven to wrap the temples of the dead in her soft, transparent drapery, or the pleasant moonlights up the mossed graves, m airing luminous the faces of the beautiful cherubs that have forever winged yet never taken their flight, it is sweet to wander up the shaded isles of the slumbrous city, and muse upon the holy memories of the departed. The stars burn with a lustre peculiar to autumn skies ; a clear, mild atmosphere gave a most refreshing elasticity to my spirits ; I wandered from home I scarcely knew why, and found
myself after a leisure walk, near the old fashioned burial ground of Dal Is ton village. I was a happy man ; I was really and professionally an
M. D. W hat directed my steps to the lovely, ru
ral burial ground' I cannot now tell, but as surely
as I live, 1 now believe some mysterious agency
shaped my course. The gate was open, the walks
glittered in the strong light, the shadows leaned down from the trees and frescoed the smooth gravel with quaint tracery ; the buds and flowers grouped in dark masses upon the gently curved mounds ; I knew they were buds and flowers, for their fragrance betrayed them seemed whis pering in their silent language to the beautiful dead below. In my youth I was fond of symbolizing ; everything inanimate had its type in some ideal or oriental fancy ; this evening I felt like a poet ; my imagination was as fertileyes I thought as fertile as Milton's, if my thoughts were not as sublime. I sauntered carelessly along the side where a hawthorn hedge twined its firm tendrils together, dragging my cane after me, musing in careless reverie. Suddenly I paused ; Judge L.'s beautifnl lot was directly be-
iore me ; its little silver fountain bubbling up and breaking into white globulets that glistened like hoar frost. Here I leaned by a huge and hoary elm, and closed my eyes as the wild magic breathing of a flute skilfully touched, greeted my ear ; I think that was the most blessed hour of my existence, for mingling with that plaintive melody came a bright, gentle face, with sparkling eyes, and cheeks just crimsoned enough to resemble two pale rose leaves flushing the purest snow. Oh ! how I loved that sweet May Kendall ; love! would I could think of some word that would
express even more than adoration; forgetting
lioa, 1 idolized her, and, egotist that 1 was, tan
cied that my unspoken passion was returned.
But I will not linger ; in those few moments
was pouring my very soul into the heart that I fondly fancied, as youth will sometimes, was in a
kind of spiritual presence, ever beside me.
My reverie was broken by the approach of a
stranger, and a light silvery laugh shut out the
music of the flute, for it was so like Mary's, so ringing, joyous. Presently as the fine, manly
form drew nearer, I recognized the features of
one who had bf en my college-mate two years ago : I would have sprung forward to meet him:
his name was trembling on my lips, when a sight arrested my attention that chilled my blood, and
ray teeth chattered with a sudden freezing fear
1 he two had come almost beside me, and there stopped, charmed with the little sylvan spot : the
one arm pass-
bey companion,
and when she turned her radiant face around to
wards me who was concealed by the shadow
I recognized in the full flood of moonlight, May
Kendall. I do not like, even at this late day, to review the feelings hat shook my frame when
I heard them murmur such words, of , tenderness
to each other in subdued and happy tones ;
deathly famtness" came over me as I gathered from their own lips the knowledge that they were betrothed; and when that passed away, a fierce
revenge Bent the blood boiling through my veuis
once I would have leaped upon, him and deman
ded my May, without whom my life would be a curse, arid the world a dread blank. But then by what right could I call her mine? -true she
had been most kind to me, but never more than her maidenly modesty might well beseem her conduct ; Now X knew God forgive me for the
rage that tugged at my heart-strings as I thought it why has she talked of Frederick, obi fool that I was, not to com prebend; she smiled on
me because I was his friend because I had ever
some sweet recollection to tell some comely virtue to praise- and blinded by my own blindness, 1 T . l T 1
u 1 Miit pu epeaE, x laneiea sne jovea me, -
How did I command myself enough, still to
stand motionless, evert, 11 i learned the day and hdur Ibai the wedding would take place, for every nerve in my , body seemed changed to an in-
etrumest oi jorture; y- f ortunately they did not pass me ; but retraced their steps, and I, bending low, with an almost breaking heart, slowly left the grave-yard and '.walked toward home,
top wretched. to think or tell.au the crushing weight of .my disappointment.. The .next day, before sunrise, I was on my way to the neigh
boring city i I was in a strange tumult," that 1
knew not but would prove fatal to me ; " I was ready for. almost any ' desperate 'deed, rand had
more ban once-r-I shudder ,when think, of iU contemplated self-destruction ; but I called philosophy, Hay something higher, boJier.Jto my aid
religion,. ajPi in. time,, became soothed if . net
comforted I that is, after I knew -May was, irrev
ocably .marriecLj V.j ?" . .V ll nV? ti ..-Two months passed;: I deemed myself suffl
a carriage dashed by me, light vehicle ; .in an ed her eyes, . she ias lying as if she had sought other moment it had turned and Frederick was! herc6uch from-pleasant slumber. ,;
abreast. I involuntarily; drew my reins, his face And now the most 'terrible excitement over, I denoted suffering. . breathed freely and yetanother important task
For God's sake; Doctor Lane, my early friend; was to be accomplished ; by my orders the bus-
do not stop till vou reach Mrs. Kendall's ; my I band bad been briefly informed that the ceremo-
May lies there sick, dying, he gasped; bow ny would be detained for.a moment ; he was so ashy pale he was. My face blanched I .felt a distracted with hisgrief that all news was alike singular kihd of tremor ; we dashed ahead nei- to him they led him where they liked ; he sat ther speaking, and in fifteen minutes I stood by in a little room' just across the entryl. I went in the couch of the young bride. That was an aw- closed the door and stood beside him, be glanced V it i . . li - vl, , T '.X J j. All X. ! J ... IT . .
iui nuur iiuus sptsnt , ai tu cause, a presseu uuwru up uuve, uit uriu. ais ja.ee in cis nanas wtul a her white eyelids over her dull, glased eyes b deep unearthly groan, that went to my very soul; heaven 1 thought I how can such beauty be deadt oh f I felt for the first time such exquisite joy in
auu sua, tor mi, biiere was , a mumpn m my tue periormance 01 a gooa aeea x expenencea heart until I beheld the awful grief of the hus- a new love for my profession.
band, saw the big drops like blood bead ms broad, J v rederick, said 1, placing my arm around
white forehead; almost forced him from the m- his neck, "Frederick, there is some good yet in
animated body, that he .would hold clasped to I store for you ; do not mourn in this way, Frede his bosom, kissing the white lips, the whiter I rick,' ;r.-: ;.. ';
cheeks, even -the golden locks that laid dam and "I am a broken hearted man," be uttered in
uncurled over her shoulders. faltering accents : "do not stnve to comfort me,
And when I left the house of mourning, was j you only increase my misery :
it not strange the calmness I felt settling down "But if I could give you comfort you little
over my spirit? Could this thought, even in its dream of ; if--if I told you - I stammered
iainiesi sracery, swen in rough roy mina at sucn ana a snew not nowioproceea, ior me nusoana s
time sne is not. mine, ana neuner ts sne iw , i wua eyes were iasieneu u my lace, wnue ne
am glad that as she could not be mine only, none
but death can claim her now ! L fear had con
science applied her torch, she would have read
those scathing words written on the crimson por
tals ot my heart; but 1 must hasten.
funeral services ; and still I felt that sorrowful
h appmess . Jroor r rederick was at times raving,
hen stupid with his great woe, the mourners as
sem bled, the beautiful dead laid robed in satin
in her coffin, already the large parlor was. filled
with weeping mends, i took my station by the
)Y Sit IjStW I "wj'i'Ui tuoiiucu vv ilji me li. tic Sj ly to airy business-in- i lady held her hat by the strings ; Srd'.djoein?ng I ed confidently throfigh that of h
half rose with' a strange fluick movement.
"If wbat if what, Doctor Lane ? oh ! what
am I .to think?' , his voice trembled j "there is something in my heart that bids me look to you
tor hope how 1 Yet why, why and the words
The next day I went over to be present at the sank mournfully into silence
"Did you ever hear of people falling into tran
ces, and then when robed for the burial
I could proceed no farther ; tbe excited man
sprang from his seat, elenched both my hands,
and with fire in his eyes incoherently exclaimed:
"What ? dead ? in Mrance ? laid out ?
coffin ; with unutterable tenderness I gazed upon buried ? shut up ? alive- alive ? Great God! that heavenly countenance it looked not like merciful God! you do not tell me that she
8 tern death, but soft, smiling slumber. j my May, whom I saw die who grasped is my
There were all her young companions around arms on this bosom bade me tareweil grew village maidens, whose silvery voices joined a white and Cold no, no, you mock met imnle burial scmcr hnt Art ! Vinw these faSm's "Frederick." said I. while the tears rained
simple Dunai song out Oh! how these voices
wavered, and trembled until tears and sobs cbok
ed down their music, and one mournful, heart
rending wail sounded through the room.
lhe pastor arose and began his prayer, never
heard i a more anectmg petition : how gently he
Frederick," said I, while the tears rained
down my cheeks, 'your wife still lives she was
only in a trance." :
Sever shall i forget the -ensuing scene; he threw Ms arms around me, and hugged me like
one trantic. "God bless you i Jtleaven bless
spoke of her youth, her beauty and goodness : you ! O ! Doctor, I shall die of this excess of the circumstances under which God was pleased joy ! Lead me to her, where is she my friend ?
to call her just as it were standing on the thres- My May, my sweet bird ; not dead When these hold of happy life, and looking through io the eyes looked upoa-ber for the last iime ? . Oh 1
rose-colored tuture. . 1 still kept my place by the dud no uoctor ; tnis is oo Deauaiui, too gooa ; head of the cofiin ; my eyes full of tears, never let me see her, I will be calm ; and doctor," he once moved from that holy face, exclaimed, grasping my arms with his shaking
l fancied the features grew dim ; 1 thought my nngers, -i wouia almost give youmy uieiorims,
ght tailed, and 1 bent closer to the copse ; 1 U wouia, i couia not nave survivea long you
wear woe-
drew back, wiped my eyes looked again ; God
ot mercy, what thrill sent a wild shock through
my frame and smote my brain as with hre I 1 reeled ; I fell over almost upon the coffin ; there was a moisture in the glass moisture that came
not off when I applied my hand moisture upon
the inside. , .1
My knees trembled, my heart beat against ihv
side till my body swayed like a pendulum ; fill
my serenity was gone ; the voice of the pastor
whistled m my ear ; each moment was an hour,
and yet I knew not what to do.' The conflict came again it was awful awful ! If I kept
cannot tell how dearly I loved, her.
tor, God bless you !
He did not even dream, poor fellow, that he
had been my rival. . ,
The mother hung over her Chud Hhe husband
bent over his bride- full of thanksgiving: she
with her large, bide eyes, moving fondly from
One to the other, as she whispered, 'I am better, stronger, I shall soon be wellagain; I have been
sick very long, have i not I .
rredenck kissed ier pure brow in reply, and
then hid his face in the pillow, to weep in silence and then I left them, a happier being, a better
my silence, she was stitf the bdpf death, and as and happier and better I have been ever much mine as another's : if I snoke. she was asrain since. . s
il ; 0 ' 1 .1 1 ;- I a. .4 t.A. Lf.(.UiJ lWfl , fjVlA lui11.
me wne oi my nvai. a aare not tninx oi my ixj uci uuwtuiu suu mt iuu, ot-
emotions now: I could not have been myself " pair, even now.
when that horrible temntAtinn 'beset meS-andl I am an old bachelor.: Boston Olwe Branch.
whispered me to let the dark grave claim her, if
1 might not. Oh 1 that was the great spijiny life ; I hope I am forgiven, " , ', ,
The perspiration swelled out from every pore
the Boir mnsm pisthee. A WILn, WESTERN SC8KB. ;
It was a fine morning in August, when little
S3 T. TT 7wPk r ;Vr t II Samuel Eaton, about seven years old, was mak tied the pastor that he did not cease, yet I fear- . a , hrne thAt h - ,u fatll .
rv a tear-1 a ' 4t. v-.t, v vp t; tnuB
poor husband, should be w- ftn . . wtiful child, and
cienfly fortified with goodx resolutibni t9 return homer to my choseai place el ?resideBoei ife "was
high noou when I 4yetip to the tfain street ;
his mother aimostadohzed him. There he was, with his trowsers tucked up' above bis knees, working like a beaver, bis mother's eye gleaming out from beneath Ms sun-burnt hair, and with some of bis father's strength tugging at a large stone in the.bed of the stream. . .. : "Samuel, you had better come in, band't you,"
said Hannah, in a tone of half mother and half
mate. : - ' "No, I guess not,' said Samuel. An acorn came floating down tbe stream.
The boy took it up, looked at it, was pleased,
and "reckoned" m his mind that there were
more up the "gully," and when his mother's
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ed for the life of the
know the truth too suddenly ; there was tingling from my head to my fingers' ends ; I shook like
an aspen leaf. "
Amen ! oh, bow I thanked God for that sound;
I still clung to the coffin ; I was weak, weak as a
child.
It was the custom for the chief mourners to be
called first that she might be spared the shock of seeing the dear one borne out before their eyes. The poor husband tottered out, supported
on each side ; do you not think my feelings must
have been singular as he passed? next the sob
bing mother. Now was my time, "friends, neigh
bors, ,1 gasped, 'call the sexton take" ott r the
coffin hd tor liod s sake, delay not a moment J bac waa turned off he started for the acorns
sue is no ueaa. x raAuer snnenea inaa Biuu gorge of mountain lata Which he was
the last words. - ' . f ' tat,, tr. PY,tpr Tiarl" rwew fnirmpH tthb sWark of
Oh I such a change as came over the assembly r! many centuries) by the attrition of the stream he
many swooned a crowd came rushing'up to the j had lust been playing in ; and walking on a level
coffin I pressed them back the hand -of. the 1 that bordered each side of' the water, he boldly
undertaker trembled, and screw after .screw fell j entered 4he ravine. , , Aa almost perpeadiculajt
rattling on the floor -my heartbeat quicker with wall or bank ascended on each side U the height hope and fear. 'v " .' " "l " - of a hundred feet, composed of j'ocks and crags,
a Kk 1 fretted bv decay and storm, into fantastic shapes
fair- rvenfnre home in her remth ft T retrtmed A 1 and Positions,., .A few scattered bushes find trees
moment, I saw her fenly sister standing as If riv- sought nourishment from the earth that had fall4 t. : w . ; i,r. t vTmim " tlt'1iivel MhoTe. and exceotms1 their as
staring frightfully.; I seized ber by the arm, but sistanee; and the unseen surface of the rock, this ftbe Rt.imxt tint j sKWnlr herrnrlelVv?r,o-: iinles natural part seemed inaccessible but to bird 'and
Trnn rielvi mfe "Marier-srie rriW VpKn'TPftTSv (Vie 'A be&sL' -A-bout ail eighth of" mU from tbe.eS
quick J ome and cut-off her grave clothes-she trance a cataract closed, the gorge,, browing up
must not see them must not know of-this r t & -
&t Work,- she cohcluded he "firtist b v there, ' thi -checked coming fears with the hope that be wbuU" return at the hour .of dinner. vTheri ;it t'ttce; neither ifesialT nor any of hU mea ksew'wfcer he was. " .Then the agitated mother txclalmed wHes lost ! he's lost! my poor boy will starrel in tb woods h. . -; -' - ;
wasnenng ccurage sne nastily summtmed th family around ber, and despatched them all; bu her busband, in search in different directions In the neighboring forest. -T"fi ber: fcusfcahd b said ' " ' -- ' ;
Scour every field you tail ytmr owni and if you cant fifed him join me in the gorge.. "He wouldb't go to the gorge, Hannah1 . "He would go any Where." . - ; , .v She knew not why, but a strong prelentimeht that ber boy bad followed the edurse of the strearo, dwelt strongly on her mind. " ' - 'r . ; "I can't findbim, Hannah, said tbe btisbano; as be joined ber at the motttb ef the gorge.' " An eagle fiew past the " mother as she enteredthe ravine. She thought to herself, Hbe dreadV ftsl birds are tearing "my child to pieces and frantic, she hastened on, making the walls of the ravine echo back her screams for ber offspring. The only' answer was the eternal" thunder, of the boiling cataract, as if in mockery of her woe, as it threw its cold spray upon her- hot "tad throbbing temples. " t . ' 7-, She strained: ber eyes "along the ''&tty:..heig&t that peered through the mist, till she could po longer see, and her eyes filled with tears, ' ' Who but a woman can tell the feelings of. woman's heart ? Fear came thick and fast upon the reeling brain of Hannah. " .( "Oh, my. boy my brave boy wilf.die lh hd wringing her hands in agony, she sahk at her husband's feet " The pain of "hope deferred' had stfaihed'hef hearts Strings to the utmost tension, and it seem ed as if the rude hand of despair had broken them alb ru : "w The terrified husbahd threw watehiipda.hel' pale facej and strove, by all the arts he kne, to win her back to life. At last she opened her lan guid eyes, stared wildly arouhd, and rose trern
bling to her feet. As she stood like a beart-bro-' ken Niobe, "all tears," a fragment of rock Caine tumbling down the opposite banks She" looked up. She was herself again J for half up the as cent stood bet own dear boy. - ... s But even while the glad cry was issuing frcrm her lbs it turned into a note of horror; " Oh, mercy meref -; " " : 1 The crag on Which the boy stood projected from the rock in such a way as to hang about twelve feet over the hank, riight below true of the edges of the crag,; partly -concealed "among some bushes, crouched a rjahthefc - The bojd youth Was aware of the proiunity of his patents, and the presence of his dangerous enemy at abput : the same time V I . " . .,." i. !.: t He had rolled down the stone in exultation, to convince his parents of the high statiah he had Altai lied j and he now steodvrrdt another in his hand drawing it back; andfcoking at them as if :
to ask whether he would throw it at the terrible animal before him Till then the mother seemed immoveable in her suspense ; . but conscious rf?f the danger of her son, if he irritated the beast, she rushed sotne distance, up : the rock. Yet, with the fearless mind of childhood, sisd, a tern per little used to control,' he fearlessly threw the, fragment With1 all his might at theerodous ftai;
maL It struck' one of his feet. H4 gave p sud! dea growklashed his tail with' fury, aad seemed 1 about to spring. - "l "Get yotir rifiel losiaht1 ; rt-A ' The poor iriah v stirred "feott ' tiU lfued-eya r
was fixed with a look of death upon the panther.- $ and he appeared paralysed with fesr fiis 'wife-f leaped from' the stand, and, placing net hands upon her husband's shotilder, looked 'ibta, "his f
face and said - v..
"Are yod ami,;oslahEatoa J)oyolore-j
ridus haste from the rat in e.7 7 'J-t i ' ,
Again the mother looked iowardst her soa.--i IT- -H .... -.Irl-' . .' -!.;
He had fallea upon"kneesriadjjas whisper ,
ing thfe litQa pfayefs which she had tiughUm
not tn cowardly' tear, put a ihougoi came across his mind thai he mugt dier jThe. distracted moth';v er could keep 'still1 no longer.' Bhe 'rushed cp"
me steep ascent wua vnes energy oi ucspaif, rec&- , less ofroafigerj thmking only of her son. The "
rocks crumbled and slipped beneath, her leel, yet , she fell not ' .Onoa she struggled in her agony. 4 'The ferocious creature paused a moment whea.
he heard the'wretched mother ap proach. to'h" nature," he sprurig at Uie boy.VHe t
touched the cragv and tell Dacsward, as,iianaa ; j ascended the opposite" side. ; ' -'4-j'H'.'
"Ah!'' said she.lau3rhb2 delirious j " ths ,i
not see them must not know" oflhis
"With, a wild unnatural burst of .iaughteri the girl abused herself from her stupor then as suddenly,-a flood of tears came to" her relief; all was right now j" she followed me into the next chambef, and untied the wMU'satiii ribbbas frem'thS
delicftts wrists and, unloosed the linen bands a
the breast, so by the
,e the yeuag brli'rpen-
its white veil of mist in seeming guardianship of
sue spir WHUsrti.. . xue ycruaab uuugo SKOutg over the bask east a deep 'gloom ' upon the Jjcd below,;whil6 so ldfty wis, the distance, they seem ed to 'grow up to the .ky - .3314s patches of water were tto ba seea peeping betweea thesa ; r f i j ; '. Hannah' soon missod her, boy but as he ha tftea wandered to Ca Celds where lis fitter was
panther must try it sgaia cetore he parts us, zsy , t boyr but wo won't part." . - Asd sinking -nn l"t I knees beforahim she fondly folded him to .hr l .breast,; bathipgr .lis young tfbrehead, with '.her i ! tears. ' ,V - r. X v - . ' - Unalterable ia his ferocity and hu r.-r.r.cr ef , i
gratifying it, tbe panther, again sprasg frc-a situation. 'This time ha was more .eucccs: : J
His fore foot stnfck the edga of tbe cre? - " U
will
is fore foot struck the edgg of the ill kill us mother he - Will kill -1
boy nestled close to his mother's bestrj. animal struggled to bring his body i-s cr
r 3
his sayaffs features but a stea froa the
' ' .Go away gs? - ?v, ' shrieked- tvs r:. :
-: r.i
hoarse jwith fcerrer,
f '?qu Ei:aa 1 1
clc;
ha ease-
gashed fury, aai thick jisiil:
his tr
is