Weekly Messenger, Volume 1, Number 23, Vevay, Switzerland County, 21 February 1832 — Page 1

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'X THE IIJT-THE MSlT-Fim 'nib VL'lh 1. Vol. I. Printer's Retreat, Indiana, Tuesday, February 21, 1832, INo, 23.

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said, "often had he been to the lit id of bat- hateful Hcs-inn, who so often accosted and opposite shore. As they approached flie

!le and death, but never before had he trcrn- annoyed mc. in his prowling about Wi'ming- church, Juliette remnrktd that a mile board

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concluded. All night poor Lora was possessed with gloomy thoaghts and forebodings. The next dav would bo the twenty seventh, her seventeenth birth-day the period on which Harry'? brightest hope9 had been fixed. She recollected his despondent look and tone when he s:id, 'M know not where I shall be on the fwenty -seventh.1' The words seemed now an evil prophecy. M inting came, but not to dispel her fears. Information had been received by the insurgents, that col. Ahly, a poular leader thro' . i i 11 . ,

uif i i-nuuiiu'i.ti j ai, hiiu wen Known to De determined soldier, was rapidly approachin?, ;t the head of a considerable force. Ash Jy's name was reverenced by many of the in-larg-tts, and a terror to others. These counselled a retreat, while Hamlin, who had been one of the excepted in the general amnesty offered the insurgents, earnestly con

tended that this was the favorable moment

for an engagement. His influence unhappily prevailed, arid ha marshalled his men for

action. Th'.. position he had chosen wa6 within sigh, of the farm house, and about a h'M 1-ed yards distant from it. Lora's heart was tl'.r.thhiit with conflicting fears and h.-pe. SI. o knew Ashley was near, and she

bled. Many among the insurgents were, his ton. 1 have not yet mentioned these things to stood near it, on which she had before noi - 1 1. - .....I:. l . r.i l .1 - ! i ! t.i , . . - . -

tneighuors, ms own ioiivr, miu w was ,m uiv ;nt latner, icsi mcy migni increase ins uncasi-uiceu llie woras "eitml miles to iazar '.li.77

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2 . 'JOO w iigui iigiinisi "" . ii-85 tiuu juiiiiiuuii tiunc iwu uiitsse ti oi it; a j usi open in lie r lips i o men"'' n lilt

pleasing thought ol ttieir beinj: so ne.'ir Iiome, when, as they wheeled by the edifice, her eye became riviied on a figure which ai

the prisoners set up for a mark by their own 'him but myself, in pursuance of a threat and

friends to tiro upon, and above all, when In saw young Graham, the gallant boy, the lifi i'i ....

blood ot their cause, mi ncarl died away within him." But the stem duty of the ve teran soldier pievailed over the feeligs o:

the man; and he gave that order, still remem ifeauntsme in darkness, like nn evil and mys

bered by some, in whose ears it then tingled, tcriuus spirit he lurks about our dwelling in uPour in your fire, boys, and God have met- coui try or in town, and sometimes pulls aov on their souls'." It was at this instant that way the vines about my window, to gale in Lee had thrown himself before Graham. The rjjx-n me with the indescribable hideousness

fatal order was obeyed. Graham's life wa

preserved his friend waa the victim. This was the last and 6evere6t contest that occurred during the insurrection; but, after a short space, the rebels gave way, and dis

persed in every direction; and while the militia pursued the fugitives, and removed

the dead and wounded, one little group ie

oath which lie forced me to hear, he has dis

covered the seciet of all my walks and iour

; ies wilh my father, and has followed me 'peering out fiom an angle of the building. It

I rom Wilmington to ISnzarcth, and from rs ;i- was at Ihe moment broad moonlight; she zaieth hither. He avoids me by day, yetlgrasped instinctively the nrm of her father,

and pointed at the object. It was the Hessian soldier, to whose uncouth and almosf brutal gallantry she had so often opposed her -elf with fear and dread. He raised Lis hand over his face, as if to cast his shadow m f tiff austere brow and repulsive risage. ai.fj g.if.

ing instantly for an instant, he "-kuikf n b

of a fierce eye, nnd talks of "passion." 'Yel,:

h- added, 'M do not tear him ; I ti ust in that

l er who doeth all things well, and my ; ruplly around a corner of the buildii.g, a. id

fea; are resolved into praises for the past 'disappeared from iheir view,

goodness of Liod.

There was a blending of disguised fear.

and the deep flow of youthful affection, in the separation of the maid from her uncle.

m iined stationary. Harry Lee was stretch -ieu ordinary occasions would h no nit nnsvCliilrihond, were sealed around a cheerful

ed on the gfound, and supported in Graham's have excited. Her father bade his brotherjbeai th in their collage at Niitirelh. Tha

It was nearly a month after these cm urn stances, that capt. Percival, wilh hi- tlauuhter Juliette and her young sister. Mien ir

arms; his head resting on Lora's bosom

The mistakes that had led to this fatal Is sue were explained. He placed Lora's hand in Graham's, pressed them both to his bosom, faintly articulated, "Remember my mother," und expiretf. It was a cloudy afternoon in September,

1777, the sun was descending behind the far Alleghanies, and beyond the broad Mississippi, into his "ocean-bed" in the Pacific, when the events of the narrative now nbout to be rehearsed, begin. Before a humblo brick ediSre in Philadelphia, a small group of in dividual were gathered by the side of an ancient and unique carriage, containing but two occupants. The persons in the vehicle seemed to be exchanging an adieu with a venera

ble grey-headed gentlemaH. who stood with his hat off", and his silver locks stirred hy the bret re which blew from the west, and rustled among some trees in an open area ahead. A

tew sympathising listeners stood by, appa

rently deeply interested in the reparation about to occur.

farewell with a manly dignity and coolness,

befitting one who in th course of the war then progressing, had executed many signal and ennobling exploits It was a period when the storms of the revolutien were gathering darkly in all quarters of the horizon. The

winged fleets of the enemies of freedom were buoyed upon the waters of the Chesapeake, the Delaware and the Elk, and the thunders

on the field of Brandy wine had scarcely ceased to vibrate over the fair regions aiound.

The father of Juliette Percival had been for along period an officer under col. Stewart -He had lately been advantageous!) engaged

with the troops of sir William Heme at Bran

afternoon was closing, and as the sun broke out from among the clady diaperies of the west, and sprinkled his golden smiles into ihe little parlor, Juliette arose and gaied with earnestness from the window. The day for

the moft part, had been one of wind and

storm, but the winds had retired to their ca

verns, and through the tears of a clearing

heaven, the king of day looked with majesty

over the illumined hills, from his pavillioiiof

painted clouds Ihe scene was a spell upon the heart of Juliette. It induced aconleutcd reliance on that Gou in whose infinite sight are unfolded the cares and the perils of the children of men. She looked across the em

dywine; and for the purpose 01 convey ing.inence, or undulating ridge upon which her

"You must return with all secrecy to Na-

1 tnr.- conflict would be over, before Hai-jsareth," said theelderly gentleman who stood

near the carriage: ''It was a perilous adventure to come here, when the king's troops may be within one day's march of the city nay,

his young daughter to Nazareth from Wil

rniigton, then a small hamlet about half a league from the DeUwar, he had obtained from gen. Washington leave of absence from the army, for three days. The emotions of the father and his child as they preceeded out of the city to the north, were of a different, though equally sober kind. Captain Percival was pondering

on lh situation of a beloved country, and a

family, whose existeiu e was bound up in his

father's cottage was situated, to another nearly half a mile distant It was a long, white mansion, before whose doors a few poplars and oaks, wilh other ornamented I ices, stood waving like winged rainbows ir. ihe western air, nnd clotUed in all the colors which accompany an Arueiican forest in ihe autumn season. In that cottage lay her adored and honored George Leslie. There had she ministered to his wants and sickness with all the affection and fondnes.- of 'iii.har-

own. On whatsoever side he turned his eye, dencd youth' and unulhed loe. Eie his

Ty L-e arrived. "I care but for that," she

thought, as she advanced to the window to givi one glance at the array for the battle, bat that gUnce banished her cousin from her mi"d. The prisoners were placed in front of the insurgents, and formed a yort of breast vork for them. Lor saw only Francis Grahan , every other object vanished from her

sight. He stood erect and firm, a bravelbanks of the Delaware and Schuylkill, for ShieU for his cowardly fics. those cf the quiet Concstoga. I charge you.

1 his arrangement, so long remembered,brother, go by the river mad , it is shady and

the land was endangered. To theseuth, the smoke of recent battle seemed almost

palpably to hang over the- blue highlands ol Chiistienne rhiladclphii was in peril, and

with orrow and remorse, had been counselled

hy Hamlin. At first, it was received by the

insurgents with almost unanimous dissent :; golden and brilliant lo be hrokenand jeopard

ed uyan exposure 01 your lair race and pretty form, to the gaze of ruthless Hcsiaus, or

but Harnhn urged that this position of their

prisoners would at once disarm the enemy, or at lea:t abate their ardor; and that an easy ony bloodless, and at that crisis all important victory might be gained. But, if life roust

be sacrificed, why should it not be their enc rr.ies. he asked, instead of theirs. Poor Lora'? head reeled, but she stood ttill, gating as if she were transfixed on the fp"t She saw the militia approaching. The insurgents had already opened a scattering fin, when a loud shout was heard and responded; and from the road in rear of the farm h-use, advanced th Ivremont men. led hy Harry Lte. In nnotln.r instant they were before th; house, and Lua stood beside Lee, her hands clasped and wringing in agony. '-Oh. Harry " he cried, "they h ive

when they may be nearer still. I -day is trie enemy was near. Congress were on the

the seventeenth ; to-morrow, it is determined noit of penetrating farther int the wesl, that myself and all mv fellow-members of the where they could deliberate together without federal congress shaft depart for Lancaster. a apprehension that their debates wonld be

lc must quit the city for a hamlet, and theuU(jdL.ly broken bv the thrill of martial trum

pets, or the clash of opposing sword. From

the city, when they had once firmly 6et their

feet in its streets,, the king s troops might sally out into the adjacent country lay

waste its fields, then ready for the harvest,

and massacre its inhabitants by the light of their blading dwellings. Juliette cat with her eyes fixed thoughtfully upon the landscape over which they were journeying. The scene was beautiful. As the city and its suburban trees faded (mm their view, the rojd wound in a giaceful and continuous stretch along the western shore of the Dela

quiet; and as for vou, Juliette, your pros

pects for the ensuing month or two, are too

it may be, tho vindictive glance of some straggling descendant of the Lennilasse.-

Lven the Indians of the land, in this unequal druggie wherein we are engaged, are brot' and set against us." "Do not fear for dear uncle," said the ounglady, as she loosened the string in

her hand, and threw hark her cahuh bonnet over her clear young brow, to receive Ihe parting salutation of I'.or venerable relative. Her countenance was possessed r.t the moment with that fleeting expression cf sweet sadness, which renders woman in sorrow so

npremviy loveiy

wounds were healed, he had again rushi d in

to battle at Germantown, and was now lying scarcely convalescent, in a chamber whose w indows she beheld brightening in the lait rays of the setting sun All the events of the past few weeks flitted across her memory. The royal army had taken possession r.f Phila Jelphn. and the regions around were in fear and coi fusion. Her father had again sought ihe field, and encountered the foe, and like Leslie was suffering from injuries received in the conflict. Impressed with that fear for the future, which the state of individuals and

communities around her fully wai ranted, and actuated by the tenderest impulses of her woman's heart, she had consented to her union with Leslie as soon as his iccovery wtttild possibly permit. The tears sprang to her clear full ey es, and her meditations deepened; and seeking to soothe and avert th melancholy tenor of her thoughts, she flung a shawl over her shoulders, and stepped forth

into the garden to gaze on the prospect a-

piaecd iiie;r prisoner in I.-m.! I.incis ishoavei of her ryes, and her frame, just roundthere! hasten save him O!. God help u-'.'jed i,:f,, (he voluptuous fulness of sevr-nlcen. We can ou'y guess at the emotions thai (trembled with emotion. Do not fear for us swelled in Harry's generous oosom. Those '.he repeated, with feigned composure: "the thai were near him afterwards said, that Ik ! river road is quiel and unmolested, and I ?liall

oocaw lailvdly pa.; as maililc tnat for a! not feci quite so terrified in the ro

ware. The sun had descended, and the

moon, struggling through the clouds, and'round. To the. north-west lay the mountains

touching the river witn an incessant shower of the Bide nidge, at tk-e distance of nearly of siher, shed an uncertain light ontheii j40 milts, oveilooking the ranpes near at wav. A silence ensued between the travel jhaud, and exactly resembling huge piles of lers, as if the spirit of tho scenes by which clouds aLug that portion of the horizon. The they were surrounded, was impressed upon vast campagna which intervened and emeach. Bv degrees, yielding to ihe icouiriev braced a circuit of i:eail 30 leagues, fetmed

As she bent forward and! of her father, who questioned her resnet -lini'! as if an immense lake, with a gently unde

pressed her rosy lips upon ihe silver teniplesjhnr sadness and silence, the gentle j ulietle l iting bed, had suddenly diied, and in place of her uncle, teats dimmed tho d.ir': b!i;r;,lis(losrd t stir history of tin; surveillance of'ofits waters there had sprang opa few scat

ointrv a in

moment he seemed bewildered th at he a jthecih." Her voice altered ami fell as sin veiled his head, and dashed the tears Irom! added,' "hut have we riot reason to fear foi I. is eye.s. Certain it is, that without reply i:.g George Leslie? He has barely escaped tin

Lora, he directed one of his com

r uons lo take the comaianJ of the men, and spurred Wn horse wnwarf? to tVie head ol t.'ie iiurge;ithat seeing it wa then to. l.i'o t interpose in order to c!i.iag (he po--:i..ri of the prisoners, he leap ,i ft cm ht ' .-e, .-un-l rashed forward directly in Iron el fi..ih.i;n. Col. Ashly advanced rapo'i'y, wilh exa : military order,- ;,ttd il was. n...t till t,e i.

Man! the ;c va aaout toe;te lu

the Hessian toe thieats of constancy in pursuing her which he had made, and the fears which his menace bad awakened. She confessed that, h.ll of foicbodings, had written to Leslie, who having been wounded onl a few days before, w as ly ing ill at Chester. He hod returned a most tender and affection ate answer, imphu ing her lo be prudent, and

promising, that its soon as li e state of his

to U:

ived

cotn:!-.

hot ! i; -no-

leath which his bravery seemed to court on! wound would permit, he should proceed I

he field of Brandy w ine. and w ill the sam

exemption attend his future , hivalry I Alas! I feel mv heart sink, when I reflect upon tin d ingers into which he may soon be ru.-hinn. Without his presence to,., am lost. perille'. i l l unhappy. Last evening, us I sat in m room in :Mai!)eriy--tieet , In., king in the tu . tlaio moonlight, away t. ovarii- th.; disla vvnnds nod copses by I In- 6chuy Ikill, 1 was nm -iOg deeply alnjut him and the dangers, whie.

eet him, vvhrsi I sow a

nils siet

pen I

oi m p i-

teied meadows, with dwellings Wing like

spols upon them, and wide, soft lapses cf many colored and dimpl -blended w oods: As her ey e glanced to Ihe north-east, she beheld the Great Delaware Water Gap. and the river, breaking through l!:o Blue Ilidee, fiom a height of nearly 400 feet; tortaid the N. W. lay the Hind Gap, and directly to the westward the Lehigh Water Gap; all stem, '.hough nearly 50 miL'S ditant fit in each other, breaking through the stupendous and billowy mountains which lay upheaved afar. The last smile of day linjieitd in pt cries?

Atibci.u'y upon I he heads ef those mighty "am-

that period the place w as diminutive and of! l as.-:idoi from earth to henvcii.' The glory little important e, consi-ting nlv of a few jof the clouds above ihem, ihe sui Set kindlii

Nazareth until his restoration, during which period, he hoped lo act as her defender. The next evening found the travellers in

the borough o! Eu-ton oi -the Delaware.

iport;

scattered dwellings, of various tupects ami

diminutions soon; of wood stained by the weather, others of brick wilh spotted ends. In the middle of the road, and near the end

of the boDueh, -.t.iod a decent public edifice,

the fiery west, ihe blending of the tailh and kv, and tlte sunliijht upon the flon.is in the distance, formed a scene calculated at tn.ri to nwt the chastened hcait.aml to in'eMcatc

tin imagination. Jut. cite g:t'. d until

t....T,--.t wtm-f! t'l-i irs-'fjoins bad w;iJk. t'tvu to ami fro in the street beneath, oppo ftppirc-t'y a church; beyond it rolled th scene became J v;,y nnd vn J'-Mt.-t