Weekly Messenger, Volume 1, Number 80, Vevay, Switzerland County, 23 March 1833 — Page 4

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-v. The Bride. Q tak her, but be iuithful still, And mav !ie bridal vow I?.- sacred held in after year?, A i.l warmly hrcath'd as now. Kf .-member 'lis no common lie Till! binds ber youthful heart; Mis that only troth ran weave, And only death fan part. ! bo ios .if chi i'M)dV happy hour, '1' : i-o hoMe .-l" I ta p v yea is. Ti p tre:;-.-, si ei ess of ea.il v ynut!', In smii-h-ee and in !i'.n-; I he !'-ti'( M b. her b- s tn knew, When !.tr i:n i wart was five. All he-t? and nr. re be row re-angs, T I r'e the world vi h due. II ! l..t in life is fivd with thine, I'S ij.'.i'd :ii:d ill t.) shdte. A-'d "e!l I know 'iwili be her pride, T" ? villi each snnow there; 'i h ; tiff her, .Mid may. fleeting time .V.i;k ! l 3 increase. And may ii:r cas glide sweetly oa I:i lr'-.'!,iiies and pi'iec. IiUt,;S Jest. ri- cve't to t. ink lbei' is a spot We have trod together; A;l sweeter Ftiil li know 'twill not I'o e'' thrj.it In either. Til "!:! cjis-'am e part, or fei'cra bind, O .r frames al ne tlier sever. O'er i h;tm, and realms, and time, the mind Still c ngs a? close as ever! Then let tbe world our beir.gs part, And think it can divide us We have a spell, with mightier art, Will back ns often guide us: ' I is but t" let cur s; i ri : fl , When nil -in und is gloaming, To Ma Meat t. beneath the skv, W V. ic-"- fo' n bl-.limine. t 1UZE TJi.EFrom the Casket. Tlie Oul'.aw of the Tim. A TAI.i: til I '.iC itLVULlTIUX. I , the Hiitnrmi a;.d winter ot 1776 t' i-voide ol N'-w .lerev exprrieneed tl.t r riiare "I the mi-t ries of civil wai. 1 r :ig no period of the revolutionary c fft, did the rtguiars of the royal i n.ie mi stiametullv transgress the .iw l h umiii.y, or the ruls of rivi1 i z d warf-re. as when in titcii manh thr. -ugh Ibe Jerseys, boas'u g of the Conqtit'tt over the "rebels,' as already achieved, they dr ?e future them the dispintrd and tenlh ss army of the co lor.ii'. B it horrible as weie the out rau-s coniinilted by the chivalry of Diitain, upon helpless women, and su peiannnated men, they were f-dlowed hv an i-tfVrt eminently serviceable to the g od caur-e. Another and won paUM'.ic spirit was roused in the bo p-.m-j of the hitherto peaceful and in d fi- tent inhabitants. While the vie lovioti army occupied the country, al ruot without the shadow of open op nation, and its commander was ma king hi arra.igme ts for the futnn p. .vert n-.' i t of the colony, that sptril vas bu-;U t voik, g-itlu-ring fu vigor from very new instance of hru taiitv. S tenth . hut n olutely the u.i Iria w ot e;ai':i"J, and piepaied for I'l-iirieclioii at tin1 propi-r moment ri vict.rie of Tienton and Ik 1 u m e tnt weie ret lived as the signals for ani n. The enemy, forced to retin ui. i. New B-u iswnk, f.ii .d bimelf nt i very step of his ivtrea', watched opposed, and pnr.-oed ty the madden e l yeommrvoi iew jersey, from this time for'b, 'he militia of that c..o n re.iiM Ue ii lis cnatacier, ami n. iler their favorite leadei, Gen. M nwell, d;f go.. ! eivice. They nrver forgot or forgave he oppression or oppressor, aed needed no other incentive (ubiing tln in into the field thus teaching the invaders a lesson, which they might, at les c ot, have learned from history. th.it to retain the obedience of a cv pie, their affection mut he secured, by kind and eijuita'de treatment. At he period of my story, the royal aimv xva in almost peaceful , oseion of the J r-ey s, from Burlington fo New Y 'W. Washington, wiili th remnant; of his di-handing mmv, had letiud vver the Delaware. Lai I Corn wallis. r, rather nremtire contempt of his ei-e.ijv. t Iked of ' keeping the king's pac iii New Jersey, with a corporal's puanl,1' and h id di-posed ol his troops, vith miire regard to their comfort than s "irity, f.r the winter, in Bjtlington, B odentown, Trent n, in:, till spring should en able him to pro-ecute and complete hi conq jets. It was lale io I) c ember; the old for the season, vv i uini,illy severe , and I ho troops rarely Mined from their quarfers to t thj interior. This compile wiuld have been refrohing lo the harrassed inivabiian's, h id not the withdrawal of t'e re"ular ldery left too free si ope f r ttie more despetale followers ki George, nr f.r others who usur ps I hi a ith irity. as a pretence for the most disgusting violence, and often-

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i mes muultr. Of the latter class, the i.ist horrible, and still remembered in

ie traditions of the country, Has one'color, or unlawful garment, but made

Fagan, the leader of about twenty ruf fian whose perfect insenibility to the oidinary fears and feelings of huni mit), made him the fit rhief of such a brotherhood. If nature every produced n perfect wretch, without a single redeeming trait in his character, Fagan was he. There was no inter esting romance about his moUTeS or his deeds. For the pleasure of my readers and the success of my tale, I wih there had been. Bui alas! he was actuated by no poetic hatred to the race, goaded by no undeserved contu mely. He simply robbed for gain, ami murdered to conceal the robbery. Tradition, which loves to dwell upon the honest of thieves and the gerero sity of outlaws, has handed down no deed of his to relieve the blackness o( his i ame; and hi-tory assures u that he posPfsed no quality in romm.ni with the Cor-airs and Msaronis of modern romance, but their coarage and their iiilt. The hiding-place of the b.itid wa in tbn pine barrens of New Jerc:,and (hev thence received the title f the Pine Robber, from the people of the country. Multiplied instance? of violence upon women, and even mere children, who fell into their pow it, had rendered them the (error of all classes, feXfe and aes. Still, in coo!tqueiue of the unhappv state of the lountry, overrun without being pro ecled by the English army, they uniformly e-caped the punishment due to In ir ci hues. Tlie whigs charged their ing to the credit of the tories and itl-iies; but the calamiy was qndeerved. The robbers were against olh. and favored neither. They i luu h led a tory in the name of Congres uid the continent, and ei tru- 'In men to the ciovvn, when an unfortite whi chanced within theii power. The period of my tale w as admiial nhulated tor their operations and inJutrio?l impi ovi d. I must now intioducc my reader to he int rir of a farm house not mt) iiu s I""ii l renuMi, upon i tic nign oad leading to L .rd mow n, and with . k t rn lti view ot i tic Uelaware. lne ap I'earame of things denoted comfit mil a-e, it not wealth. Belore an eoimous htarth, upon which burned the icmnant of a nugtitj hie, eat four sidividuais. I he clock I do not w ih 10 cicrtte unfit ci sai) uneaiinens but the cioi k had just told ne. The dress ot the paity indicated ibeir connexion with that peculiar socie y, 'by the world called Quakers." Contrary to their ual habit of industry, they were unemployed, and evidently wait ing at that hue hour, some unu.-ual tvent. iieide a table, on which hiv the relinquished book? and needle work of the Cuinpau), Bat a handsome old ma t of about sixt), whose mddy complt&!0ii, clear eve ai d erect form, oore eviaence to an MCllvc piiit and uu'noken coniitituiion. Though his dress strictly accorded, a phyugnomist w uid hate doubled his adherence in all ihii.g, lo the ruies of ln sect; and a patriot would have regretted to see the strength that frame exhihiud, dt voted to tillage rattier than the deit tue of the soil, in truth, Nathaniel, or as he wai genrrally called, JNalhan Collins, had heeii disowned by the m ctin for divers ii regularities since ti'C coiiiinetite.'iient of the contest, sa voi ing too much of the '-world's way s,v and e-'t i'ially lor encnurajuig bis lo sons tjiin the anny. Though "Jcali with"' atitr their la.liion, and proud lainer than convinced of his mikdecds, Nathan retained the dies-, inanin te and opinions in which he had beeneducati d, and upon all ct acioiiS, exhlhibitcd a jialuus regard lor the priuci plea and character ot lne society, when assailed by those whom it rather complaienlly term ''world s people, as dislingondicd Irom that "singularly gifted handful, w ho obey the discipline of Friends." Ii was in expectation of the return of these young men from the army, whence they were expected to be oischtrged tor the winter, that the family waited at the unusual ud ominous hour above recorded. In order tv avoid the notice of the Hessian at Trenton, they had ckosn the night t cross the river, and had been eject ed at least an hour before. The othei "Fi iends" were females. Hannah Collins, Nathan's companion, wa a tine looking portly old aey, we should sa, weie it not strictly against the discipline for lady she was; though we mul, lest offence should come, desig nate Friend H annah, as an old woman. Rachel no matter for her oicr name was in her fortieth year, and stood in about that degree of relatioi ship to the family, btie was prim, complacent, kind-hearted and single, and now on a visi' to "cousin Hannah.' Amy, Nathan s daughter, completed the par ly now Assembled, and was an aaima ted specimi o of that very intereslinj, j miehievou, and simple-hearted class ofiof joufig women, who dress plainly when they cannot help it and marry out of meeting when they please, whe ther "li lends consent or not. She

was clad in st let conformity to the Icf tcr of the law ; there as no forbiddei

so as to infiienge its fpirit as far as shdare, by a certain nameless arrange ment of the materials, showing to great advantage a perfect figure and most winning face, for quaker girls are but mortal women after all. Arujr and her father sat in 6ilence, watching with great apparent anxiety the progress of the tire. The two elder ladies were in conversation which, however, was principal!) carried on by cousin Rachel, and did not seem parti cularly to interest the mother, whose attention was frequently attracted by Ihe tread of passengers on the road, or by the wind, which sounded like hu man voices in the distance, as it gent Iv moaned through two or three pines which stood neai the house. The former was discoursing of some meeting, at which sbe had been present. 4,l hope nothing has happened to the boys," interrupted the father, rising from bis seat and walking to a window which looked towards the river. 'Perhaps, father, hey have failed to cross the liver," said Amy, "it was choaked with ice at sundown." "The boys would not mind that surely those lazy Hessians have not ventured out tins cold night. Something may have made their stay necessaiy, if it he true tbat the army has almost all deserted, they can not be spared, and woald not wish lo be." "I hope not; but I don't believe it; it is in E..t-b'b falsehood, iiitendtid to disc- urage u." "Indeed, Nathan, I fear it is true, more, particularly by what is reported of iheii s-ilfciing stale,' Said Hannah. "Does thee? then I have it on my mind to follow the bo)s, what d.st ttiii.k Hannaht and chww them how an old quaker can tight, they ) the y oung ones do pretty well." " Oil, Nathan, how thee talks." 'I am in earnest. Hannah'. 11 I were sure Fagan would not pay you a visit in my absence." Footsteps weie heard advancing up the avenue from th road. "Tnere they are. at last," eagerly exclaimed Amy. kL"t me see," said Nathan, as with the placid manner characteristic of a Friend, he moved to a window which commanded a v iew ot (he kitchen dooi, al which a knocking had comateno i He could distinguish six men, armed and equipped like iniliiia men, and an other, vTiiotie pinioned arm proclaim ed him a prii-oner. His sons were not of the party : and as the persons of tin; strangers were unknown, and the guise of militia wn often assumed by Faan, uur friend was not "eay in his mind how to act." His fiist idea was to feign dewiness, but a second knock, loud enough lo wake all hut tne dead. changed his intention he raised the window and hailed the men: Fiiends, what's your wv ill ?'' "A little refreshment of hre And food, if you please; we have been far on duty, and urn halt frozen and e, uite starved." VVe don't cutertain tUem who go to war." 'Yes, hut you will not refuse a lit tie refreshment to poor fellows like us, this cold night; thi would be as much against the principle of your sociuty as war," Thee's from Trenton ?" "No, I thank you; Nathan Collins is too well known as a friend to the country, and an hanest man, to aid a refugee we know that." S ap the old fox well " whispered one of the hand. 'Come, friend, make haste and let ns in, we are almost famished, and have far to go before sonrise,or e may change places with our prisoner here, before sunset." ''But what does thy party here, this side the river, right under the Hetsi an's nose, if " "Oh, we are minute men, sent from within, bv capt. Smallcress, to siz this deserter don't you mean to let us in!" Nathan closed the window and said "I don't know what to make of these men Amy call the boys: tell them to make haste and bring their guns, but keep them out of sight, where they will he handy." As the command was obeyed, And the three young men, laborers on the farm, appeared, and placed their guns behind ihe inner, their master unbolt ed the outer door and admitted five of the armed men the prisoner and one of his captors remaining without. Nathan thought this unnecessary of so cold a night, and a little suspicious "Will tint thy companion enter also." "fo thank you; be guards the prisoner." "Bat why may not the prisoner toot" "rshawj he s nothing but n deser ter. The cold will be good for him" "I must Ray," quoth Nathan, 'exercised,1 as he afterwards owned, pnst endurance, "thy conduct neither becomes thy nature as n man, nor thy calling, which should teach tbee more

feeling I'll take the poor fellow someitiing to eat myself." The old man had reached the door n his merciful errand, meaning it is true, to satisfy his curiosity at the same lime, when he who had acted as leader of the party , sprung from his chair, and placing his hand on his host's bteast, pushed him rut'ely back "Stand back back, I say" and then in a cooler air "and mind your own business, if you art a quaker." There was a momentary struggle in Nathan's mind, whether to knock the fell ow down, as from appearances he easily might, or to yield, in obedience to his principlet. "It was strongly on his mind," he confessed, to pursue the farmer course; but prudence conquer ed, and he quietly withdrew to the npper end of ihe apar'me it, where his men lounged on a bench, apparently half asleep, and indistinctly visible in the light of the fire and one small can die, which burned near the strat gers. In the interim, the old cook had been summoned, and had arranged gome

nil provisions on the table. '-Oil Annie." a she w as ir iversallv called. must be introduced inform. She was the child of Indian and n Ulto pa rents, but possessed none of the leatures ofherdaiker relation, except a capacious mouth, and lip to match. She refused to associate with either negroes or Indians, considering herself as belonging to neither, aud indulging a sovereign contempt for both. H-i favorite term of reproach was "Injin. and Jer," and when they lailco separately lo express her feelings, eht put the two together, a compliment al ways paid the Hessians, when she had oicaHtnii to mention them. A party v. these marauders had, on a visit to hr i master's house , stolen her fall's store of sausages; thenceforth she vowed e-U-rnal vengeance to the race, a vow he never forgot to the day of her death. The strangers ate their repast, phow ing any thing but contidt nee in their entertainer, and ate, each man with his gun resting on his shoulder. Duthe whole meal, he who called himself heir captain, was uneasy and fettles. ror some time he appeared to be en gaged in a very close srmtiny of the household, who occupied the other end of the kitchen - a scrutiny which, ow ing to the darkness, could not yield him much ntisfaction. He then whis pered anxiouly and angrily with his men, who answered in a dogged obsti nate fash-on, thai evidently displeased him; till finally rising from b eat, he hade them follow, and scarc ly ti taking time to thank Nathan for his food and fire, passed out of the house. "Well now, that beats rr.e!"aid Kl nnthan. as he and his comrades looked at each other in astonishment, at the aiirupt departure and singular conduct ot their guet8. "That are a queer lark, any how?" responded John, "it busts all naturi" " l lie i. lins, said Ann. "it that not Fagan or some of his gang, neTerj trust me! why did you not give'em a shot, the tarnal thieves? ' But eur household troop were too glad to get rid of their visitors, to in leirupt their retreat. The house was secured again and the men h-d thrown themselves down before the tire, and some of them were already asleep. when another knock at the same door. brought them as one man to their feet On opening the duor, a laborer attach ed to a neighboring farm, presented himself, breathless from haste and al most dead with fear. When he so far recovered his speech as to be able to tell his story, he pr ived to be the man whom the pretended militia men had brought with them as a prisoner, and his captors, nothing less than Fagan and a portion of his ba d. They hid that night robbed five different houses before they had attempted our friend's. Aware that hi sons were from home, they expected to find the old man un supported, but having gained admis in into the house, they were surprised at the appearance of 3 additional meu. Fagan, however, was hem upon completing their enterprise in spite of all opposition; but his followers obstinately refused. At the foot of the avenue, a bitter quarrel ensued, & mutual recrimination, Fagan taxing his men with cowardice. But the fear of purtuit silenced them at length. I he next question was, how to dispose of their prisoner, whom they had sei zed in one of their "affairs," and for want ef some means of securing him, brought with them. Fagan, ns the shortest way, proposed, as he had before, to cut his throat; but the propo sal was overruled as unnecessary. He wai unbound, and upon his solemn pro mise to return, without giving the alarm to his own home, one of the band returned him his silver buckles and a little money they had abstracted from his cheat. in consideration whereof he made to the nearest house and gave the alarm, impelled by instinct more than any thing else, heme fairly fright enod out of the higher faculties of a reasonable being. (Remainder nxt iif.J

Military Anecdote. About a do zen years ago there lived in Massachusetts a poor widow whose only remaining child was a son; he had just reached the age of 18, when he was warned to train in the militia. Now Jonathan was a good boy aad as like his dady as two peas, in every respect save one his father having arrived at thedijnity of 4th corporal, and was very fond of military exercise. But poor Jonathan could net be brought to tire a gtin, not he, he hated the very sigl.t on't. But on the eventful da " of which we speak, by the united force

of ridicule, entreaty, and cou mai d, ins moiiier wrought upon him to pro. mise to do his duly, like a man. So when armed and equipped as the law directs, he saliu-d forth like a vou: g Mars, bent on schemes of war." He arrived in due time, marched and counter marched nobly, and at length came to the order to handle catridge. when our hero began to quake, and when faiilv loaded and primed, hie courage, like B Acres', had mpletely ooii d. When the others bred he shut his eyes, but dared not pull the trigger. The command ' w - whs soon repeated, which he obeyed, out again refused to fire; and in thie way he proceeded until his gun contained six cat ridges, wken the company was dismissed. Klated wilh ha Tin"" trained uninjured, he arrived at home) where he was instantly accosted by bis anxious mother, with "Well. Jonalh io, did you fire the old gnu?" "N0 ma'am, I loaded it, but dara'nt 6hoot it." Tlie dd dame, indignant at the unmanly owardire of hr son, eiznd the mn-k-t, brought it to a shoulder, pointed it to the fire place and was about to discharge it. Jonathan, fearing the result, had just time to skulk behind an opto door, when the gun was s aU red into a thousand pieces, and the in-. Tepid old dame thrown vi dc-ntlv against the opposite wall of Ihe boV-e, while Jonathan, peeping from behii d hi. screen, vocileraied "Stic k to her. uother there a five more to com yet!" A -.o slowk op. The Exeter News Letter gives a cui ious account of a canine explosion that took place in a "neighboring state," a place where many singular thing happen. A man having been long troahled by the repeated intrusions of the dog of a neighboring store keeper, at length re-olved to rid himself of the nuisance bv his own ingenuity, ns his rrmonsti anre with the owner were likely to prva unavailing. He accordingly procured a cylinder of tin half an inch in diameter and about three inches in length; tiiis he nearly filled with powder, and placed on the top a small piece of torn h wood. Watching the approach of Hie devoted animal, he communicated fire to the touchwood, enveloped the tube in a piece of fat pork, and threw it in to the street. Poor Jowler seized ai-d is'.. - .1i,.0h iU a . a nnmei and loaded, relumed to m master s store, which was well filled with gentlemen and ladies cheapening g(ds, where he si o i exploded ! With a tremendous report. (say? the ediloi ) which shook the whole building and alarmed all the citizens in the neighborhood, poor Jowler was blown ii to ten thousand atoms, which were equal I v distributed m every part of the shop. The ladies were covered with the bleeding fragments of the dog; and one of thern had her cheek terribly scratched by the claws which were attached to one of his hind legs, as it n lozx.d like a doubled headed shot by her ours. A portion of the spine slrtick Mr. Smilh (the owner) in ire forehead and laid him sprawlii g. 1 1 ; s leik rushed to the door, his clothes and features bespattered with blood, and screamed "fue!" and "murder!'"' right manfully. The ladies joinc-d in the chorus ike eells wero set a ringing and the people rapidly assembled and gazed with horror and consternation on this uuparalled scene of blood and carnage. Cruelty in a manufacturing establish men'. Paulina Brown, an interesting girl, 1 4 years of age, has obtained a verdcit of twenty dollars, in the Court of Common Pleas at Piovidence, against Paris Richmond, for an as-ault and battery. The defendant was acting as overseer of a cotton mill, in which the plaintiff was employed, and had corrected her, witb some seveiily, for alledged disobedience of orders. The suit having been originally brought to a justice's Court, (where the magistrate awarded ten ceots damages, from which the plaintiff appealed) the jury could not give a verdict of 3 greater amount than above. We perceive by the Canada papers that Mr. Rainsville, a gentleman re cently elected a member of the Provin cial Farliament, when called on to 6ign the oath prepartory to taking his seat, was unable to sign his name, and of course made. his mark. The Montreal editor recommends that ho he put on the. eemmittee on education-