The Prairie Chieftain, Volume 1, Number 2, Monticello, White County, 2 October 1850 — Page 4

From the Cleveland True Democrat. E .TltiESiiaad la IlcIIccI. Messrs. Editors: My cdvir.t jts Lavo been so much the same with those cf r.'.l travellers, that I have not before thought it worth while to redeem my promise, and writs you cn account of them; but a short tint since, e.3 I played rather an important part in an incident, romantic and thrilling, I must e'en give you an account of it. ' I have been in Switzerland now for some time, and have in fact walked ever the greater part of it. About two weeks tince, myself and two Englishmen, companions of my tour, determined to ascend Mt. Blank, in time to see a sunrise

from the highest pinnacle which has ever been reached. In the best spirits, we hastened lo the hut of the guide, to procure his services. Ilia dwelling was in a little hallow, rest ing for support, apparently, upon a great rock directly behind it, which protected ; fmn iHo hteak mountain winds. Far above rose the lofty peaks, white and r-hastlv in the moonlight. Before the house all was soft and smiling as one of our own flowery meads. The contrast be tween the two extremes was most striking. No where are the sublime and beau tiful so closely united as in thi3 favored laud. As we approached nearer our aestina' tion, we heard a mountain song, and looking into the latticed window of the cot, saw as pretty a fireside group as one would care to have painted our old friend, the guide, with his white hair tinged golden by the fire-light, was leading tha song, his wife sat opposite, her knitting had dropped from her hands, and her face seemed to via with the fire in beaming warmth and love upon all around. Leaning upon her father's chair andjoinin," in the song was as pretty a mountain lass as one would wish to see; and sitting upon a stool, near the mother, was a young man in a hunter's dress, who might have been her son, but whom we instantly decided to be the lover of the girlIt required all our persuasive talent to induce the old man to agree to our proposals: he evidently did not wish to go, particularly on the following day, as then, he informed us, the betrothal of his daughter wa3 to have been celebrated. However, arguments and entreaties finally prevailed. As soon as he had agreed to accompany us, his daughter stepped forward " Father," said she," have you not promised that to-morrow you will grant me anything 1 askl" "Certainly, my child, anything I have shall be yours." "And you now promise me 'hat whatever I ask, you will let me dot",;if - Receiving an tssent, she knelt to re ceive his blessing, and as she rose, said significantly to her lover "Corns very early to-morrow, William." "Adele, you do not mean " Cut laughing and shaking her fanger, she disappeared. She was Very pretty. We had only Been her eyes sparkling with an arch playfulness, but could easily imagine the spirit of the mountain its el f looking forth from their dark depths. The next morning, at' the appointed hour, we had all assembled, and as we had surmised, Adele was present, and a moment after, William bounded toward us waving in his hand a beautiful banner which he had determined to plant -upon the highest point cf the rock ws sfeoidd gain. - . "Is this, then, t'13 boon yoaprsyed for,' pretty Adele!1' said I "Yes is it not a worthy ens?" Hit why so solemnly demanded! you, the di-r cf a mrar.incr, Lr.nw no dclt, every t:tt ever ulwh ws t.iust . Met so," the tzli, her -:;i:r c-:s f.-shh g tr J I :;..:; r.g Lb k, "In tvy i .- f - .y, i.i y fu ' r :a . rr .. i !;r. tJ iiat ktihig r ,e tzzcr 1 tha -' , t..J Ik, retire I, dJ..;r c i I crt vf C.z ." ? - ! I hat ? r r i - r-i m:r.y o. ; " ral vl.o f-: :i ! .-id. . ! f , i l.i g Letters, ". 'lis t: t i:. hi: cf i .2 y- t t " ' t it. u . i . . (.3 r . 1 t i.

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in i? her tha Mountain Spirit concerning whom they tell such wild legends.-' She seemed to knew the path by intuition, and often far preceded her father, laughing and calling us to .follow, seeming to us in the distance to lie dancing upon the mist. When recalled by his terrified entreaties, she would walk demurely behind him for a few moments, and soon wearying of this, would return to us, mocking us for our slow steps; and, finding that William did not fear, but was gazing upon her pranks with ail the trusting admiration of a young lover, she would hasten on to lead us, as she sald,to her mountain palace. We had reached the summit, butwithout shout or song. We were oppressed overwhelmed, by the awfulnesb of the place. A shadow, even, had fallen upon Adele, and, silent and thoughtful, with clasped hands, she looked around and murmured to herself. The cold was ' intense; the white peaks seemed to bid each other good morning, nodding their hoary, snow-capped heads; the mist rose about us in fantastic.ghostly forms; above us. was an unutterable black void; which the few stars yet hanging in mid air served only to show was unfathomable. Such, thought I, must be Ufa to the faithless, and that dark void the eternity into which they plunge. Sick at heart I turned away,and approaching tho edge of the rock, gazed down. : Never shall I forget the scene that burst upon me. The eun appeared dilating into a sea of gold, and half above the horizon swelling and flickering, seemed to have paused there, while brightening the sky with its brilliancy. Every mountain peak was crowned with gold. It had melted a pile of dark clouds far above the horizon into a molten.of glittering mass. Below, the rising mist seemed a sea of light, seeking and flying to the fountain of all light. Can this, said I, carrying out my train of thought, be the true life upon which the spirit of God has hone1 A startled expression interrupted me.l turned. Standing near, and a little above me. was Adele; her eye had caught at that instant the scene upon which I had been gazing. For one half instant she turned her face; never shall. I forget its expression. The whole turmoil cf her soul was written there. Wonder, awe, but overall an intense burning desire; then stretching her arms towards the sun, and with a wild shriek, she plunged towards the light below. Instinctively, as it seemed, feeling her purpose, before she- sprang, 1 stood prepared, and strove to seize her and prevent the fall. In vain, I caught her arm. It slipped from my grasp; but it arrested the vio lence of her fall, and drawing her near the rock, her foot at last rested upon a piece of jutting ice, about 15 feet below us, and her arms clasped a pinnacle of snow. 4 What has taken - me some time to relate, was tha work, cf one fearful moment. And there she was.clinging to that frail support; her cheek as pals as the snow upon which it - rested. Her eyes turned up to Us, and upon the rock stood our party gazing upon each other ia dark despair, save the old man who sat down and wept, and her lover, who tore into strips and bound strongly together the fiag which he had borne to commemorate h; bridal walk. Beneath, the day increased ia its glory, hut-unheeded by us. .The stern determination of William soon had its elfect upon us, and we gave him all the assistance ia car power. Des-r-rr:3 is Li; '.: nstzv asingleglance i".- . :1 ia t! -t i;,y t'.o c.'y hops of sayleg her. Long Ufa re any assistance from, fc slow could t3 obtained, her frozen f-g-rs mc-l r:lix i!.r!r hilS; mi c v-n cc.i s.i2 i . .utain th:.j, she ccidi ; .t have contlr-ccl idivo so br j ia thlj ; tnosrhers. -ly v 3 l - .i ts ; for ,lr::ly then, L t tii :3t '' i J . 3 L . 'r. 1 lh:r t'..a i5J-".t l;. v:i:i .... . 4 . 3 L C3 v I j J-k ;r..l. .i is uei.'i i i t : r, a e . A 1 i!: ! 7 it i h ..-r f.. - .r,, hi ' i I ' : i r . . ', 1 t' ; r. . r J !.:r i.i 1.' ; t... ;. ;:;.. : :V . trr- h ic . l.r.J I' , t t 3 t ;-:. r 1 r r 1 t

I h sld cewn the Ic i'ig civ vice Etc of ths guide. "Take thin," I said i. i l:.nd is breakir.-r William, but I Lit V..i it

WO; so. le that he s! ruld do Oh! God preserve ma from e:r again undergoing the concentrated, 'h:rrlhle suspense of the next instant. "Fut j our arms around my neck, Adele,' he s aid; she did so, then v. iih one foot pressed upon the rock, still in bis hand the straining band, with his free hand ha seized this new support, Et the same instant that the band broke. We breathed egain. : They tre saved! "Take Adele," 1 whispered, for they were now within our reach; and watching his changing face, added at the same time, "seize him!" It was well that I gave this direction, for as soon as they drsw Adele from him, as soon as he felt that she was safe, his strained energy gave way, his hoi 1 relaxed. But a stout man had seised his arm; quickly dropping his staff, and taking his other arm, we drew him in ssfaty to the rock. In a few moments William had recovered something of his strength; Adele releasing herself from her father's arm, was kneeling beside him. I would not have left you, William, she sobbed; some power without compelled me to leap into that flood of light, that I saw below. Oh! forgive me! He did not draw her to him, and soothe those low broken sobs, but kneeling beside her, serenely said: "We will thank God, Adele, for our deliverance." Involuntarily we knelt down, while the old man offered up a prayer as fervent as ever ascended from a tried and gratetul heart. As the last words fell from his eloquent lips, the full glory of the sun burst upon that desolate rock, making k a glorious temple. ' With chastened spirits we now hastened to descend, for the changed appearance cf our friends, and the d faculty each one found in breathing, we found to remain much longer would be fatal. It wa3 with difficulty that I coald tear myself away from my new and grateful friends; but I was obliged to leare them that very day. I returned as soon, as possible, about a week afterward, ard hast ened to the house of Adele. ting upon the little perch, gazing upon a quiet sunset; her head leaning upjin William's shoulder, and so changed ( hardly knew her. j The luxuriant hair that had floved so wantonly, was gathered back ffom the pale face; the bright eye, still aid calm, while something indescribably sad and touching seemed to tremble abtut her, like the quivering of a flower after a storm. And yet even as I gazed in wonder and admiration upon this young girl, so suddenly become a woman, and felt that a great soul had been developed ia that slight frame, even thsa I felt a regret stealing over me that her bright dawn had so soon been lost ia the meridian blaze, that the half-closed bud had burst into the rose without any of those beautiful changes which we so lave to watch. She 13 a glorious woman; but never again can she ba ' the merry Adelethe mountain spirit that bounded before us cn that eventful morning.' Cam Patch was a great diver, and the last dive ho took was offtha Falls of the Niagara, end he . was nevsr heard of egaia till a few months ego, when Capt. unoch Venlworih, cf the Busy Ann, whaler, saw him ia the South Sea: Vrby Sam, says Capt. Enoch, "how upon tarth did you get heret I thought you was drowned at the Canadian line. Why, says Sam, I went so everlastingly deep !.n that are Nkgsr dive, that I thought it was just as short to come up en t'other side, and so I cams cut. in thc.ira..;. If I d.r.'iuhetheshlr.ac.r ll.- i e.r; -.t u'.e.i I ; .t L tjFjl;n, then tny nrnic's tit 1 1 . t;hA Gjcd Hove TU Cptil.-j cf th fr,'l bas, t' ..t iy L-tvc.n tl.lj port t.u i Cu c:r.na'.i, S a-c, ho undrr.l-r.d.ro-t i ' ti l.lrg fc.:J card tl;y:f g on the: T-f ccllve L ; : Ap:;tycf -ir.:b. I:rs g-.t cn cr,a cf (13 Cs'i-f t VI ,h '- t, . .. . , r t . . . disrn '..ly comi 1 C 1 1 1 r ; C 3 . : t ? u : 1-

The following was wriUsaforthe Troy

Whig, in response to the 6200 prlsa oiTered by Mr. Barnura for the best 'Song of Welcome to Jenny Lind. It can't be beat: ' ' GP--EEIUTIC SOXO FOR TBS FEIZE. To Ib'Ra BY THE Nicbi-IK-a-GaLS. BY LITEaAISE. CHAHACTE3S, CoSTCMES. &C. Night-in-a-Gale, short gown, pe'ticoat, wooden shoes, and stuffed cap; red neckerchief, crossed in front, tied behind. Barnum German buck skin tights, black; red vest, bell buttons, Hungarian cap, wood-saw; moveable sleeves to his vest, no coat. Door-keefes (With sinister look,) dressed as a Jew Pedlar. Introductory by Bars cm. Oh! Welcome, thrice welcome! Thou dear little Maid. With a voice like brass, copper, and tinj To the land of the EaIe, And good Gingerbread, Shout and stag 'Mid the welcoming ding. Chorus by the Doorkeeper. Kight-in -?ale, the songstress! And the monnroiit South FeaCow; Was figures all in full dress. Park a-seats In front rowWalk in plenty of room. Oh! happy the moment, O'er the waves thou did'st came; Wasn't you sick a little, or morel IK) they live well on ship board! At the waves were you frighted? And didu't you wish you'a ashore? Chorus by Barnum. Ain't she pretty? alnt alio witty? Crickey I cant she Dutch and ring! When she Entiles, eh1 In her wiles, eht Won't ehe catch us all ding curtain, rises. Songstress Sings. Mine Fadiier land I leave to home, And couieK to Yankee's land-e To sing tier tervuil Yankee song, Ter Yankee-Do-dle-Baiidy. Chorus by tbk fit. :s Boots! boots! hustle 'em eut! Peanuts! crackers! candy! Loafers! niggers! clap and shout. And Yankee Doodle Dandy! Songstress. Is'ch been a maid'e Tttcher gal VVostEings on ebcr land-e, And besser den dish town ish Ish Yankee Dottdle Dandy. fCurtain falls. The Drunkard's Soliloquy. "It would be a comfortable thins? if I knowed just where 1 was bound for. Up street is mixed up with down street, and there's no such thing as cross street at all. The moon's cross-eyed, and keeps winkin' and blinkin as if she had her eyes full of Macaboy, Now, what am I to do? If I stand still here there's a very pleasant chance of going to sleep standing. If I goes to stir hang me if I know which way I am travelin'." A Scaly Joke. Smith end an artist were one day at Gov. Fish's and observing a picture of his children hanging up, the artist observed, "Smith Sardines. Do you take' "Yes,'' says Smith, little Fishes in oil." . The Philadelphia Sun advises young ladies afflicted with dispepsia to get up early Monday morning end take a dose of washboard. We have seen it tried, and know that it adds elasticity to the spirits and roses to the cheeks. An "Assistant" W anted. The Al bany Express has the following advertisement: "Wanted, an able bodied Irishman to hold my wife's tongue she and I both being unable to keep it quiet" An editor "down east" says that he hoped to be able to present a marriege and death as original matter for his columns, but a heavy thaw broke up the wedding, and the doctor got sick so the p recovered. "Mister will you lend pa your newspa per!" "O certainly and ask your ia t'.:f if he'll just lsnd ma the roof cf his house; I only want the shingles to make the tcs-keflle boil." A t. man U a tij'pKr- f.i ..J, "u :t r-.rlcs you drh '.. ff-jch $ 17 t ycj do'f I y the v : ry . t wc i'r.t t;v;h tx nth-; :idy." "Ti as c ;3 f ij 't -sail Tc!n. :rc:.::.. -.! t.. : ; : lit.-, j m rffA. -. A t y ia the cr,.iny .: j ' .! i... . t i.i:. i ' "a ) I a h v i;. 1 3 : .'it" . . .. t '. . t A 1 1 " t i t

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'An E ing on the J.liss'ss ji iiver tcii s t mighty tough sl'.il-cs t'.;'t tl.3 thieves. A Cincinnati chap, by the name ofCase, heard these narratives with, a silent and impressive humph! sad then remarked that the Western thieves beat the London operators all hollow. ilow so? enquired the Englishman with surprise. . Pra.y, sir, hai-o you lived much in the West? Not a great deal. I undertook lo set tip a business at the Desmoines rapids a while ago, but' the rascally pecpla stole nearly everything 1 had, and finally a Welch miner ran away with my wile. 'Good God!' said the Englishman, and have you never found her? Never to this day. ; But that was not the worst of it.' Worst! why, why what couli be worse than stealing a man's wife?' 'Stealing his children, 1 should ivy said the irnplicable Case. Children!' Yes; a nigger woman who hadn't any of her own, abducted my youngest daughter," and sloped and jined logins. Great heaven! . And did you not see her do it? See her! Yes, and she hadn't ten rods the start of me; but she plunged into the lake, and swam cfTlike a duck, and there wasn't a canoe to follow her with.' The Englishman laid back in his chair and called for another glass ofhalf-an-half, while Case smoked his cigar End credulous friend at the same time, meat remorselessly. I I shan't go any further West I think,' observed the excited John Bulk - I should not advise any to go, said Case quietly. 'My brother ores lived there, but he had to leave, although his business was the hesi in the country. - 'What business was he in? Lumbering had a saw mill. And they stole his lumber?' Yes, and his saw logs, too. 'Saw logsl Yes. Wrhcle dozen of fine black walnut logs.' Is it possible!' True, upon my honor, sir. lie tried every way to prevent it; had men hired to watch his logs, but it was all cf no use. They would whip 'em away as if there had been nobody there. They would steal them out of the river: out of the cove; and even out of the mill ways,. Good gracious! Just to give you an idea how they can steal out there, continued Case, sending a sly wink at the listening company, 'just to give you an idea did you ever work in a saw n.illl' Never, Well, my brother, one' day, bought an allnred fine back walnut log feur feet and three at the butt and not a knot in it. lie was determined to keep that log any bow and hired two Scotchmen to watch it al1 night. Well they took a small demijon of whiskey with them, sr. shed tha log up the side of the hill above the mill, and built a fire, and then set down on the logs to play kecTu, just to keep awake you see. 'Twas a monstrous big leg bark two Icchs thick. We!l,s I was savin they pbyed kesrdf tnd drank' whiskey all night, went to $.p a sti 2.dd! the log. Abou; a rnirxta after day-'Jght, Gecrwent over to the mill to see how i' .ey wera gettin'-on, and the lojj was gone. And they setting on Ul' Setting cn the bark. The thieves had drove a wedge into the butt end, which was pinted down tha hill, and hitched a juke of oxen on. and pulled it right out, leaving the shell and the Scct:h.v.:n siting a straddle cf it fast tslsep-. The Englishman bar rose, drrpp? ! his ' cigar stump ir.to the spit: cn,ar.J looking at his watch, thcu;ut h3 wcild go ' on deck and sea hew fr d;v.n the river we'd be before m:rr;Irg. CrTfae population cf St. Eci i.i CO,COO. In 1G iO, it wes cz'.j 2 2SZ4. 0. he'p to pay far a Tg. r-rc 3 for tra w t'.o l.,,.i.f c , " v. i. 1 ' ch-'.nsd, "I hav3 to ! SM a 1 ; Cr d j Lcrt c i if iu:;...il; J' c 1 1t tr.d h..::k it dr z, h; r.-. - 1 ; i i: ' ia c a :'.-k." A.X S C, Xj j. a '""'-,rj Ar .. -t. i r f T 1 " - . r Jr V 4 nf 1 i, j, it. w

:? E.-t's i.ir; .x At s 1 '2 : sC;l a r r . ' : j ' t i ci t'j e d.::r v i.h a .':-;',.' j ci ait.. s :- -t-re, in tl.o centre cf s ' S.i: t c ;'.!.: t fallowing couplet: "One sweet kiss I the psic.e cf liila. This excited his naturally araorou. - .

ctsnosiaoa. ana as soon as an rrn-trf ?-!. ty presented, he motioned the yourg lady to his side, and pointing to tha Laes, said, "Young lady, your pay is ready, whenever you present your lilll "I don't like to p ize this ..-f," said a culprit to a hs . g "O czver mind this once," wes t" 3 rep'y; it trill soon suspend its operauens.' .. "Here, you little rascal, up end give an account of ycu.-iJ". Wherj have you been?" "Af;r the .l3f father." "Did you ever know ma to do so when I was a hoy 1" "Mo six- bu.: mother did." " An editor says that a friend cf his carries Lis sense of honor so fir as to spend all his time in perfect idleness hecus he does cot even. Ilka to take advastac cf time. "My dear," said aa a&ctioaa: spocss io her husband, am I not ycur enly treasure?" "Oh yes," was the cool reply, "and 1 would willingly lay it up in heaven." What an 'insinuating wretch! Wcian's Eights. A f.-'.,?r.d to tha project of some ladies, for an extension of their rights, suggests that thu JlUitia Laws be so amended as to maks Isdies over eighteen years of s.z3 liable to military duty. f i. J LOYEJOY & REED are prepared to do all kinds of LETTEH PBESS PRINTING in trie neatest and most fashionable style. Blanks cf every description, Bills, Cards, Books &, Paropbhti, done to order and at the lowestcash prices. KESTTCKY 3Iutual life Insurance Company,. AT COVINGTOX, Kr. GUARANTY FUND, C1G0.OOQ V. Robbins, Pree'.dent, A. L. Gresr, Vice Presic'tct. J. II. Fay son, Secretary. EOAliD OF DIEECTQIIS. W. B. Rob bias, A. L. Greer, J. S. J.Ior-aa, J. B. C C. A. Withers, S. E. Mack, It. ii. witisers, S. J. Walker. J. T. iorebeadf. Sr.';citr. R. Freilow, M. D- Fli jtician. J. B, Caser, CL'a Co.ii. oa F.ztzce. The term cpsn which sals company insarsllfe are peeulia:ity favors.': la i iLe insured; much more so, it is be!ieed, iit.a '.he terra of say other life insurance coreysny, to-wtts; The great eecuritv tfirdd in a cotrsaty and of jiOO.CK-X!, $ZQ, OJ of wLich .a fceea paid ia cah, and iJ,(X0 secured ia tbessftit manner, by boad od ruortxge of res! estate; Rates of Frerniu-n g-reatiy reduced frota the tmttt of other coapsxties, t.ad mor cuslly grad uated ; Insurance far &e benefit cf married weroett eeccre from the cred.tore oi ilic-i jbbibecdt; The t2red..-aot liabie to mtf sweats tar rt e lire m Jisxardf ;,alk a by thl tot. - my. An bob&1 citideitiS t U rolicy I :' "". pTb;e ia cie.i; sii;uor ;j po:;c;-S tiery ts years. Notei taken in part (;r pr Triun?. Flicks issaed Rforr ; ;:i ic a hhsat C?l&f, ca.Ksiag na lost f Fcsursiaia ta lbs p&.itits. . " Live cf either sex imtrfi ietweea lis tges of fourteen fend .iit.r iacia, te, f;-: cis ar, 'iwe yeara, cr tor f!m'i.; and tr;.c:a tst: spt'IicatioDS received ard f-jr(j.;!f.i i.r F! A. Snsess, c ' j r." J!j'., seUo.pi 2.5 ' .) JoJ n i. -Ii . ... 1 ----- ' C. fcf U if rs-v-i . . : , . . . - c i t . . '-L,Jc, i- r )