Weekly Messenger, Volume 5, Number 255, Vevay, Switzerland County, 19 November 1836 — Page 1

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In wiat fiirai reasiJi .t d .u Hess Iig?,t, Of fcrvant iuiatteml;?r, iiooii Wnu' t thy pr nu! bird s laia-il Ihuht, Corapit-.i'm of the eterual Sua? "1 i what new uknowu firmament, Wliose r.idia.ce in :t3 swift descent, SmII travels io the diaimir earlh, DawtrJ those bright stars ii .-lacuJ raw What gbiwiug system owns their C'tu. When was their "lorioes natal day? Thus while the eagle ptan:lurl spread Its starry drapVy Vr his . ead, A youthful sentry paurV. hiss..ng The lisv'.iing mon r -Ue clear on high, And shed, as calm it roird along. i,iVolgetice on its blaz-mry. mid its folds, the evuiog brerz j WantonM like birds in summer trees, And rust ing on through stripe and star, The Zephyr in its careless play, Wav'd the stern meteor ft ig i.fwar, AnJ thus it said, or seemkt to say 'Where was my banncM eagle horii! On that high peak, that blushing morn First touches with its eirhest gleam; There had the bird oi Juve his birthThere RashM his eye's n onq aei'd beam, ri lie pinnacle of all the easth! "S ihliaie above the rolliiig c loud, Tliehoarv mountains sluo id, llegazM from his imu' rial stance, To where Helvetia's nol le Sell lonsM his keen shaft wiMt falcon glance, And Gesler, proud oppressor, fell, " Where dawn'd my st;irs!inoher sphero, Than m .rtal man nny dieam of here Where t,e.:her suirs untioirow'J tire. Nor the pale moon w;ih crescent dim, l.iiiht the high heaven's g Idon lyre, liesponsive to the ser-.phV hymn. " When the Wand spin Wooded oler Old Chaos, void and daik before, This beaming Constellation rose. And through the cloudl.-ss vault on high, t'pon a world's unmov'd repose, l'l.ui'd the pure iay uflibeMj ! ' llespoiided thus the ev'ning wind, Or 1'ancv to the sentry's mind. Whispered the playful Zephyr's tale; The morrow came nid charging horse, The Rashinj s-teel, the cannon's ball, The ti ft wav'd o'er the sentry's torse. S.

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Hope. See through ".lie clouds that roll in wrath, Von little star benignant, peep, To lieht along their trackless path The winders of the stormy deep. And us, h! Hop,', thy lively form In soriow's glm night, shall be 1 be star that looks ihiough cloud and storm Upon a dark and moonless sea, Whn heaven is a 1 serene and fair. Full many a blighter gem we meet; 'Tis when the tempest hovers there, Thy beam is most divu ely sweet. The rainbow, with the sun's decline, Like faithless friends, will disappear; Thy light?, dear star, more brightly shine, When all it wailanl sorrow here. Ar.d hough Aurora's stealilg gl-am May woke a morr.mg of delight, VJ'isonly thy enchanting beam Will smile amid affliction's i.ight.

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ALTF.KCD FROM THE FKEXC1I. Is it ever going to slop pouring?'" extlaimeJ. for the liMeth time at least, Monsieur E!)r;td. the landlord a small inn, situated not tar from Tours, on the road between Paris and lioidi-.ix, as he sat with a gossiping neighbor, in his small room, which served "for parlor, for kitchen, .nvl hall," on a cohl, boisterous ntrht in November, before a fire bU-

zing w i:ii grape vines listening to the "peltings of the pitiless storm without" " Only u.ir me ram, neighbor; and this the tlurd d iv of wet weather, 1 popped my head out

o( d n!i, jut before you carne in, to see if

there was appearance of a change; but no, the heavens w ere as black as the chimney there, and tiie rain seemed to be falling faster and r'.is'er. Well, we can empty our bottle in ipiis-i, for man or beast could'nt live in such a

a sioroi as this. My wite ana Mane have gone to bed. so we'll enjoy ourselves without fear of inteiruption from travellers."

As if to give the lie to his assertion, at this moment, a loud knocking was heard at the

outer do. -r. .Monsieur Ebrad and his companion, alau) L ''distilled to jelly by thoir fears," 5.U shaking in their seats without attempting

to rise, until repeated applications of a stick

to the door, and vociferations of "House!

House, I say ! landlord, where arc you ?" sat

isfying Monsicr Ebrad there was no ghost to

fear, he seized the lamp, and going to the

door, demanded, with all the force he could

summon for the occasion "Who is it knocks?"

" A tiaveller. Come, open quickly." "What do you want?" "Super and a bed. Cut don't stand talk

ins there; open your door first, and question

afterwards. Don't leave me standing here,

to be drenched to the skin.

" Walk in, Monsieur," said the landlord.

turning the key in the lock, and opening tlu

door "walk in Monsieur. Must be careful

these times. It is late, and at such an hour.

and in such a storm, who could suppose an' '0ilt robbers were abroad? There arc scores of them prowling about, and though my house

is noted for being the most noted in the kmg-

.m why you see and elevating his

imp to the nose of the stranger, he surveyed

tim from head to foot; and being satisfied ap

parently with his 'nspection, he shut the door, took the travellers trunk on his shouldei , and

ed the way to the kitchen.

When Frederick had taken oil his cloak,

uid cleansed his face and hands, he esconsed

limself before the lire, and ordered supper,

adding:

"Be as expeditious as possible; for as I

must start early in the morning in the coach for , 1 want to have as long time to

sleep as 1 can."

" loursupper will be ready in ten minutes.

said Ebrad; "but excuse me, Monsieur, if! should ask why you should stop here till mor

ning; when the coach tor would

lave taken you on to-night? " You are curious, landlord, or rather, 1

should say, you fear you have given shelter,

perhaps to one of those robbers you told me the place about here was infested with."

" Monsteui r "Don't alarm yourself, my good fellow.

He listened, and the sound

not being repeated, he persuaded himself he had been dreaming, and closed his eyes. Agaiu lie was awakened. He could not be mistaken. Some one was striving to enter the apartment. The young officer rose cautiously

from his bed, took his sabre, and stole low ai ds the door, by which he planted himself in a

defensive posture. In a few moments the Icotild identify the accused

impatient and curious mutitude, which the trial of a father for attempted assassination of his son, had collected. Jean Antoine Ebrad, the chief witness orr the part of the crow n was summoned. He had died a few days previously. Other witnesses were called, but they were unimport

ant; me testimony alone ol the Innkeeper

noise ceased. The door being double loc ked,

h redenck supposed the design of entering the

chamber having been found more difficult than was anticipated, had been abandoned; but involuntarily casting his eyes to the ground, he

perceived by the light of the moon which had

just then pierced the apartment with its rays,

a hand thrust in the opening beneath the door,

which it was endeavoring to lift oh its hinges.

Instantly his arm was raised, and the sabre fell with all its strengrh on the spot.

A suppressed cry ol exquisite anguish, fol

lowed by a heavy curse, not loud hut deep, and retreating footsteps were heard, and

then all was silence. Two bloody lingers remained on the floor. The young officer went to the fire place and lighted a candle by the embers which were still glowing on the hearth, that he might have a belter view of the trophies of his victory. After an exclamation of surprise, he took up the two lingers, and after carefully cleansing them, observed. ' For a robber, the fellow has delicatt hands for such a trade," wrapped up the bleeding members in his handkerchief, and with some sang froid as though nothing had happened, flung himself on the bed, and was soon fast a-sleep.

Frederick was aroused at an early hour in

the morning by Monsieur Ebrad. The young officer having first thrown a coup cC ail on the hands of the landlord, recounted the eventsof the night to him. "Mercy upon us!" exclaimed Monsieur Ebrad, "what an affair to occur in my housa; hut 1 knew something was going to happen 1 felt it in my bones hut stop! a travdler

came in alter you last night. I didn t hall like his looks; let's see what has hecome of lum." He lound the door of the room to which he had conducted the stranger wide open. He entered, turned aside the bed curtains, and saw no one. Traces of Mood led to the window, which he found open, and in the garden beneath could distinguish the footsteps of a man, directed towards the road. Notwithstanding the confusion into which the circumstances of the past night threw Monsieur Ebrad, he was not long in coming to the con

clusion that his ho?pi(able roof had flickered an assassin; nor did he hesitate to seek the next justice o( the peace to make his deposition, and to recount to all his acquaintances, with the most tedious prolixity, the tragedy of which his house had been the theatre. Frederick early reached the mansion of Lis parents. Not being expected, his reception was doubly more tender and affectionate by his mother and sisters. " But where is falhei ?" said he, gently re

leasing himself from the embraces of one of his eluest sisters. "You know," replied his mother, "he is frequently abroad from home. '1 hree davs since, he left here for the neighboring tow n; but we all expect him home to-day."

My family resides, in a neighboring town, and "And is he, mother, as melancholy and if! had continued on, I should have arrived taciturn as ever?"

iome in the middle f th: toiiht; to avoid "Alas, yes, he appears to be continually

w hich, by sleeping in your house, I shall reach ' tormented by some dreadful idea, though

them to-morrow, early, in the indigence that , what it is that troubles him 1 can't divine.

passes your door. Are you satii-hed ? louraniva!, I hope, will cheer him. But

"l erfeclly, Monsieur, arswered the land- tell me, i redenck, met you with any accident

lord, confused at the mischievous air with on the road?"'

which the young man replied to his impcrtiiv! "Not exactly; but a circumstance rather

ent question. singular occurred to me last night, which he

His supper finished, conducted by the land- related to them, " And see, said he,' the un-

lord Fredeiick retired to rest; but just as he deniable proofs of my exploit," takihg a hand-

was addressing himseli to sleep, an idea cross- kerchief Irom his pocket that appeared la co

ing his brain, he started from his bed. and by ver something. the light of the candle which he had uninten-j At this instant the door opened, and a man tionally left burning on the table beside him,1 in soiled habiliments, with feeblesteps, whose rose, and taking from his pocket a key, open- pale feutures depicted much pain entered the ed his trunk, and took i herefrom his sabre,, room. which he placed underneath the bolster ofl " My father," exclaimed Frederick, throw-

the bed, and then resigned himself to the pow-i ing himself in his arms. "My dear father, er of Morpheus. jnow that we are all together, how happy

Whenthe landlord returned to the kitchen,' shall we be! But you look pale and laint

it was deseited bv his neighbor, in whose! ah!" observing that his father's hand was

place he discovered a large, athL-tic man, be-1 bound up, " what do 1 see! have you been

tween forty and forty live years ot age, of ra- wounded?

thera respectable appe.u :itc;. with a sombre' " les; last night in crossing the forest, some

expression of ffountenaiM-e. leagues from here, alone, 1 was attacked by

Are you the landlord ot the inn? inquir

ed the stranger.

" At your service, Monsieur." "Let me have a bed. then. Is there any

other traveller in the nai.?"

The counsel for the prisoner, after endea

voring to prove an alibi, in an effective and

eloquent speech, his subject affording un admirable field for exercise of forensic powers, strove rather to show the prisoner was above suspicion, than topiove his innocence. "No,"' said he, in con lusit n, "the accused has been

the victim f circumstances, not (he perpetrator of guilt. The knife of midnight assassins, and not the sabie of ids son mutilated him." "And to prove," exclaimed a voice from ihe crowd, "litre are the evidences ofil which I have preserved." and two liners fell on the desk of the judge of the court. The fingers were examined by the judge, (he jurors, and the members of the bar, and all were convinced thatrlhey pertained to the left hand, whilst the accused had been wounded in the right. The prisoner was promptly acquitted. Three days subsequent lo the dial, Frederick died. To sae his father from ignominy, and his family from shame, he had cut ofi tw o fingers of his left hand, morlificatiork ensued, and he fell a sacrifice to his filial devotion.

WOMAN. What lawyer has not observed this difference between the sexes, namely: If a woman is indicted for an offence, w ho attends her iit the awful presence of justice, to console and cheer her, braving the stare of the gaping crowd1, the humiliation of such companionship and such a connexion! A mother or sister How seldom a father, a brother, or a husband! If a man is placed at the bar, w ho is most solicitous for him! Always his aged mother his broken hearted wL'c, or his sorrowing daughter. Shame, sorrow, degradation, contempt, are all forgotten in thestrengh fa woman's love. How seldom in a man's! If he attends and when does he? his I onks to ward the prisoner at the bar, though his nearest relative, is often dark and scowling ;v sense of shame that attaches to himself, weighing on him at the very crisis ofthe prisoner's late. A woman's look is f hat of c inpassioii and sympathy. She thinks not of her own situation, or ol the opinion of the crowd a-

rouud her. as regards herser; if she glances at them, it is only when some part ofthe testimony makes for or against him, or the judges or the lawyer speaks on some strong point, that she may discern their opinions of his fateShe watches his every m iveni'nt: if she is near him she anticipates his every want, she har.ds him the glass of water to quench the lever that anxiety' has produced sl.e w alks by his side from the court to the prison, and from the prison to the courl she sits r-iear lo him in

the court as possible she would sit in the bar wilh him, would they allow her she waits

for hours, to exchange one word w ith him through the grated door she rakes and

crapes all she can to make him decent at hi

trial, that his appearance may produce a fa

vorable impression. It the awful verdict h against him, she forsakes him not though all the wot Id havf forsaken him. In (he last extremity, she is by his side w ith a love that, like a noble arch pressure strengthens. She attends to the very foot ofthe gallows his ignominy, his ill-treatment of her is not thought of. Whose wail was that, w h:ch w hen the fatal drop fell, pierced every ear and every heart with the convic lion that there was one whoe pang was keener even than the dying convict's? 'Twas hers. And she will beg his body, and compose decently the distorted

limbs, and bury with care. The spot where

he is laid, Ihougn known as the murderer's grave; which the world points to with horor, and where superstition says grass will never grow; is, nevertheless, a hallowed spot to her; where she will even plant tlu: flower and malure the grass, lo induce the. belief that, if superstition is correct, the sleeper is innocent. What the poet makes her say is true: I know not, ask no, if guilt's in that heart, I know I but love thee, whatever thou art!'

brigands, and in defending myself, lost two of my lingers; but don't let that concern you, I shall soon get over my hurt." " Oh, mamma!" cried in a tone of terror, one of the sisters, who had picked up the

"One, Monsieur, one .nl one a gay, handkerchief that had fallen from the hands of

BHAGGAU i To whom? lotbee! what art thou? Have not I An arm as big as thine? a heart as big? Thy words, I grant, are bigei fa I wear not My dagger iu my n.yut.

oung officer, who arrived to-night?

" Let me be called." said the stranger after a few moments ot reflection, "by seven o'

clock to-morrew morning, for 1 must he at

Tours before mid dav, and take care to have

a good horse piovided (r me."

io each of these injunctions, Ebrad hav

ing replied by a sign of acquiescence, took a

light, and led the new com r (. 'n- chamner. The old kitchen clock had stun k (he mid

night hour, and the tenants of (So- ion were

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ill piuugeu in sleep, w:ien rieuem

Frederick at the entrance of his father, "see, here are two fingers in brother Frederick's

handkerchief.

A Literary Curiosity. The following is a literal tran-cript ofthe addrcS3 of a letter

mailed at the Boston l'ost office, the th inst. '7'hiscre lettur is fur mi hruther who live at nu bed find, or mi cister in Nantucket' James l'oxn. On the back was written: Ansur this lettur putty quik.

Preaching vs. Practice. Some men plead for the poor, and tax the in thirty or forty per cent, interest money. Some men plead lor

At these words, all were seized with con-j the poor and sustain measure s w hu b go to turn

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uei naiion and a 1 0 it. The dxeadtul trutii ; me poor out Ol cm io mei... vi'""1'

flashed across the mind of every member ol used lo cry poor peopu, . . . . m a 1 i 1 1

ihe family. An hour after the lather ol l red-;drcd heads a uay.

an

d cut off a hun-

erick was in the hands of justice. His children in their despair had not thought of counseling him him to fly.

CiiN- A sailor looking serious in a certain chapel in Boston, w as asked by the cler-

Igyman if he felt any change; where upon the

The '20th of December, 1818, the Tours' tar put his hand into Lis pocket and said Mw,

wakened by a noise similar to that, of a key court o( assizes was crowded to excess by an uot a cent.

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