Weekly Messenger, Volume 1, Number 75, Vevay, Switzerland County, 16 February 1833 — Page 4

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v-,' - VOL Hi. Oh! !f Lou:-! (,. happy horns O? o-M oilier eailier ti:i:e, When the world was fui! ;l flowers, And the s!;v a jutmnfr lime; A'l lite seemM so love Iv then, For it tnirror'J our own heart ; Lih" is only j-n fui when That joy of ourselves if pa:t. Fond d-diiiht and kind l -i t Are the glad:ics of th-- vnn' F the hi. XXI) beneath ,.'r IV -r t Is what we ourselves have Hung. Th-n -jo manv pleasure seem Scatter'.! iiVr our oiv;nu wav; 'Ti- ' diffi.-ult f deem H w their u-li-h will decay. What the heart now he its to nirv Son vl!l hi; utdovi d. unsought : G" "in il is he i if ;, within, Hit m nil .1 (hinup is wrought. Ti ne goes a:i I time destroys Not the j v. hut nur delight: D we no v (!o-ie the tns. f-ijjht ? ' hich -o di .hh.l our childhood ? ('. , n.wlrt. Hud hive, W a - o:u!i b' intif i!, and :; Aii hues whi h shine fh,ve A hot to f lit their elas-. we i.ion er,(v calm arid cold t Agrave to which we ''; F s-'ii'in'd in one coainv-.n mould. Pulse and step alike are low. We have I -f tin- buoyant foot We have last (he eager ev; A'l 'lni' invard chord are tnu'e, O ice so eager to reply. Is il n:t a con-tant -i-jht 5 it ti'it m-t wretched too A '!:! wi mark the weary plight la whiih iife is hurried through? S !.;.;, '. Ih'.le-s earth miv wear i h-r - i n-u r wealth in vain lit i the .1- ke .is fair, V we- watch jh. in not again. T- -nuc'i io we I :ne In hind ..!):. ,;, w;ih 1 v i i v thiol!-; A 'iie Mil ;n-d worldly miej i ;;';.( '! I:te fairy iing. G-'i..i s .d h' ,uti;. :hoii-it V (-! i.j:'i'- feeiing and youth's W i'd 'hat we d'd nat annul . 'h it in u; t'n ii wa wrouuht! W :;!d tlifii t t ei!ci could remain U sen the h'ipr :i!id flrea n depart; W ' i' ' v. c miai-.t lino :h life n tain b ' Mi:)' OUt I i ll'.ll he lifni t ! l ou.Niii.i) om r.vrr, ! A l'-w i :ir situ e, a country phvi riaa i si li:; in the pod ohl town il (!o'u-; ij, me deeply smitten with th- , i a vl a mhiii l.idv at an eveP'.riy in l3oton. At that time hf h i l m i it no avow .1 of hi passim;. hut swallow' 1 it ato-.i with In swiet ni't-. However, the 'tiar plumh. c'. I siiaj-. jc. 0011 ;vapurated, '-d in 'he -Uort sp,!re of a week, notoi':c t' tenon il of lh,it eve- tful nii;h:, h i) th'- i- -ieieiit lame, which grew hiitier 1 more Ir.mhiesome than r. and nhn h ho determined to div ti.r.i'ii'l tin; in- diuin of a hiliet ri i. This hilSet-doux w;i wiitten o 1 il'-r tii-.f p p'i, with a dove quill, Fi a;.-i i u j id and daits, and dt-s-p.t. hod l-V a post t tin I, r damt I in c-:; in s; is -;.n. ii nerety conta'.neu an t - 1 o-mu n to the lady'? henuly, and ; t d rlai ali in of the "tendt r pas To his inexpressible tid' t i iVlk t v. this h tti- r w ;is an-w. red i i a wa that cave new life to hi 1 I e-. It vi n wo t so f r a to hint, tint t:e ladv In r- if had at first siht. Co' reived somi tiling aoue ti.an frirnds'rii for him- and that his W'tU-r had di-iui?a-l'd her from a itbvrinthot d- rp tir. Thoe letters w ere followed lv t.tlio..-, Mpiu k. thick, ami heavy as a th i" h r 'lO'.vrr.' each more bright and i.fin .u th:'. ihe lal: like the threatr 1:1 II. oi'ii ol a volcano, w nicu u' iiii in hoi:, ju d;-t,i! t rnmhlnig, but proti. -z in Him? and hulle. eoon het .ipf. fo- oxploiaa. Nearly 12 :r.o vh el ip d -nice the interview; W'.n-h iirtu. h I been d. lightfully empi.ed in drawinj similies between 1 s and star lips and poppies 1 1 r .i 1 . ... c'o . k iiel ro-es nu so lorui, wueu I o irhoio received all but the summum lo.. am of In-, happine-s by a letter in viting him to Boston. Ma, had at leo.-tli (,-iven her cmnent that Miss fho il I receive tv.e dieter's addresses; a id had added to her lit of jewels, nnd even began to talk of a marriage poitioa of pin money. The gentleman w i further requested to come as sly !i-h as pas-ible, so a to ensure the old lidv's regard, who had a strong ha kering after rent rolls nnd bank -i k. but above ;dl, to be sure not to co in- 'bout lum-lf, which was every tiioitf in the woiid that hid the ehhtuii alir.iciion for hia soul's re-

drclimi. hi devoted Mary. The genrinn lost 1.0 lime in nronarinrr for his

1 1 i -! - - l oriif ; he di-posed of some can;i stock at a sacriuae, to purchase a bairouLhe, and chanced two ?!alwoilh j Io.ii-b iior-es. with all ap urtanance? 't.i h v ,t, for a hra e of amidin-. fillies jwhtiit -enned intended for the convo8 01 iove. H hen arrived in town, he drove rapidly down the street of hi harmer, intending to bloom forth in full mciidiati. Af'er springing from the chariot and estracting thunder from the knocker, the door w open ed and hi name wa? announced. Walk in s-ir be sealed sir realfv ir, I cannot challenge my memory ts to vimr name, but I think I have ome -disht recollection of your conn !ei;ince."? "I'rohably 10 madam, but I had snp-port-d th.a ynu had been better ac 'I" tinted with my name than my per on: but your daughter mv Mary." .My daughter! your Mary!" Truly madam, your astonishment -unuisf-s me. I mean vour daughter. M 11 y A. K , tn whom I have the honor of being hu-hand elect. I am Dr. .1 mies S , whom you have sig nifid you will receive as a soo-ind aw, and have come post haste from Coocord to m irrv your daughter." Upon my word ir, I can onlf re turn thanks for the intended honor; hut I attire ) 011, my daughter has been married these seven months, and I -tumid hope has no thought of becoming a widow." "Hold madam have 1 not your laughter's letter in my pocket? Did I not receive her latest on last Thursday, saving that your sanction was obtained, and that all wis waiting doe? -lie not love me and " " Beware, sir, that strikes upon my daughter's honor, the lady mut be here forthwith, who must speak for herself." Accordingly the lady wvs introduced. The doctor at once recognized his Mary in the lovi ly form before him. He fainted no a lap dog hich was hiiig on the carpet, seised him by ihe nose in his fall, whose teeth operating like a furgeonV lurel. saved him thf extremity. ".Madam," gaid he, on rising a-id extricating some fifty or -i s i v pei fumed billet-doux from his poeket, "aie not you the writer of! Ihese?" j 'God forbid!" exclaimed the seem j ingly istoni?hed lady, " letter writing is a thing I have a particular aversion to, and ith the exception of 6ome few that I hricsent my mother while r schmd, I never wrote three letters in mv life." The gentleman stood aghat. The lady was confu-ed the lap-dog bark ed, and the husband in reality entered, lie was so.,n in possession of the whole iffiii, and snatching up Ihe letteis a ith an eye lingering betwoen curiosit y and jealousy, glanced hastily over the fut, and immediately hurst into in immoderate lit of laughter. "S'death, sir, I see no cause for mer riment "None truly, in the idea of a man coming to kidnap my wife: but there i some in the fact that he has been eourtii g mv mad couin-it.-law , Matt V. , for if those are not his true characters. I'm no christian." Our hero of the billet doux paused; sm h things might be, and have been, Ihe name corresponded, and as. he had never used but the initials of the first; x la-t the truth flashed upon him that he had been all this time the dupe ol some svmpathi-ing wag. Can oit t II me w here the gentle man whom )ou suspei t resides!" I suppose, sir, as in duty bound, I mut; but I would adi-e you to take hings cnoll) , as he is a real Lucious O'Trigtrer at powder and ball, and cwrcs no more about shooting a man than he does about breaking a biscuit." This advice, however, was about as effective in calming the disappointed lover, as the love tear in a body's eyelash would be in extinguishing a vol ratio. The dortor flung himelf into his chaiiot and drove down the fdreet, at if fhe fillies were mounted by a brace of German hunters. To lind the house he was in quet of to knock to be admitted and to be seated almost breathless on a sofa in the drawing room, was but the work of a minute; it w:m more than ten before he could collect him-elf sudiciently to explain the object of his visit; and at length when he unfurled las jaws, and raised his e es lo es-ay lo! and behold, they enrounted an angel. Yes, the sly laughing glances, that stole archly through a pair of down cast lashes, were never emitted by mortal optics. So at lea-t thought the doctor; besides, the summer browned, dimple cheeked, retiring fairy form before him, belonged to a higher order of beauty than he had ever before any conception of. He at once acknow ledged the influence of those charms by one of his best bows, but in the flutter of making it, he brought a blush upon the lady's nose by coming plump upon it with his noddle The gentle

maiden, however, smiled a forgiveness, and so charming too, that it completely staggered, or at least changed the current of his passions; for when he spoke, his voice w as more like Ihe supplicant of Krato, than that of a disappointed lover. "Madam, if this is the sister of Mr. , whom I have the honor addres

sing, I lament the circumstance that brings me hither, and vet it were a libel to lament any tiling that introdu ced me to jou." ' Surely, sir, I lrut my brother has been guilty of nothing that could de grade the feelings of polite so a here she stopped and blushed, and be fore she could begin agai' , her broth er entered. He was an arch looking boy, between fifteen and sixteer., so of course. could be no great duelist, as he was represented. Finding Ihe gentleman o be very calm and polite in his inquiries, he made a general confession of Ihe whole, which amounted to this: Going one day with some of his com paniong to 'he post-oflice for letters, lie received one with his own initials, which was intended for his cousin Ma ry ; that his companions induced him to open il that they agreed to answer it, and have ever since kept up the correspondence. The gentleman, during the confession, h aved several au dible sighs. The ladv shed tears of pity at the (ale, and the boy wiping his eye-lashes which trembled with a tear, lest peradventure tie should re ceive the drubbing he deserved, sim pered "'I am very sorry I have kept vour wife from marrying you ; nut sure you can court and have my -isier Bet ty instead." The doctor stared and ighed louder than ever the lady turned her eyes towaids Ihe window, which came in visionary contact with the chariot at the door. "Madam," said the gentleman at this ominous moment, I could cheerfully submit to all disappointment, if I thought )ou would not deem the re newal of my vi-it an annovarue." Miss Betty gave a -.ilent look of sane lion, and answered that mama would be delighted al the honor, but for her self, she dare not permit the vi-it-of a stranger gentleman. II we.ver, the last sentence was softened by a smile. and in a few moments after our hero took his leave, and (as some persons have hinted) a kiss in the bargain, promising to return on the morrow. The morrow came and the gentleman vras true to his word, and love progre-sing The next it was established, the tilth irranged, the sixth eo; eluded, and on the seventh a morning paper announ ced that Dr. James S , nf Concord, had on the day previous, led the nc complished Mis Elizabeth E , to the altar of Hymen. Six months have elapsed since the marriage, and as the lady he lost is a noted shrew; and tinwife he found, a notable house wife the doctor every day thanks his stars for his cruel disappointment. Marriage in Franck. Ppon the iudurrment that determines two per sons in this ountry to enter into Unsolemn contract, from which depends o much of earthly happiness or mi-c ry, and where, even in Ihe best assort ed, there is such fear of disquietude

and uncomforlableness, of course I amices, Mr. Smith thinks he wrote

not prepared to speak. I have seen too little of the interior economy of a French menngt, to be able to sit en Ijurig'- All 1 can say is, that I startled a lady who had marriageable daugh lers. by replying in the aflirmative to her question, "whether young girls in America were allowed to select their own partner for life, and to marry for love?" I allow Ihere are such things known among us as '"marriages de coxennntt; nut these heartless compacts by the noise they make vvheu they oc cur, prove, I think, the truth of my assertion, rather than its falsity. A gentleman, who seemed lo speak knowing ly on the 6ubject, gave me the following piece of information: "A well educutated young French lady is entirely under the guidance of her mother in every respect; to her inspection. Ihe daughter's very thoughts aie submitted, and such entire confidence is reposed in Ihe judgment and disrrecf the parent, that when told, 'My child, this man is calculated to make you happy , marry him ;' it never enters into the daughter's head to say, ' 1 love him not.'" It is Irue, to a certain extent, it is peifeclly as it should be: yet, with all due deference to parental authority, I hold there is something more than a blind submission to another's mandate necessary to ensue domestic felicity How noble a man, or wtiman cither, as for that matter may appear en mn.vf, who is altogether insupportable en detail! Oh, nevermind these little roughness, they say, by dai ly contact they will be ground down, and finally disappear. Perhaps so; but is there is no fear that one or other of the beautiful gems, so rudely brought together, may in the harsh collison be broken and destroyed, or at the veryleast, their clear and delicate brilliancy clouded! It appears to me that

second maninges in France must be ihe happier; freedom of choice and benefit of her own judgment being then the privilege of Ihe lady. But I feel 1 am tie-passing where I have no bu

siness, and that it is surely unjust to decry another's standard because it accords not with our own. Women in their nature are much more gay and joyous than men, whether it be that iheir blood is more refined, Iheir fibres more delicate, and their animal fpirils more light and vo lalile; or whether, as some have ima gined, there may not be a kind of a sex in the very soul, I shall not pretend to determine. A vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of man. They should each of them, therefore, keep a watch upon the particular hias which nature has fixed in their mind, "h at it may not draw too mur.h, and lead Iheni out of the paths of reason. This will certainly happen if the one in every word and action affects the character of being rigid and severe, and the other of being brisk and airy. Men should beware of being raptiva ted by a kind of savage philosophy, women by n thoughtless gallantry. Where these precautions arc not ob served, the man often degenerates into a cynic, the women into a conuetlethe man grow., sullen and morog-;, th-; woman impertinent and fantastic. Dick, jaid a ma-ter to hisj servant. have you fed the pigs? Yess, massa, me leii um. Did von rntint iKon,. Dick? Yes, me count um all but one. Ail but one? Yes, mas-a, all but one dere be one little speckled pig, he tii-k about so much me could'nl count him. Rev. E. K. AVERY. This individual having absconded and a reward offered for his apprehen sion by the state of Rhode Island, we take the following statement in relation to the alledged murder of Sarah M. Cornell, from the Providence American. Avery, it is said, has taken passage in a vessel which has sailed from Bristol for Cuba. We give place to the following communication on the subject of the 'Tiverton murder,' the all engrossing sub ject in the south east part of the state. That a most foul, cruel, and deliberate murder has been committed by some one, the public are satisfied, from the evidence discussed. That the perpetrator of this deed will yet be exposed we have no earthly doubt. God forbid that we should judge any man, but as Avery has absconded , we fell perfectly justifiable in giving this communication a place . Mr. Mowry — Justice Howe says in his decision, that it is the instinct of guilt to flee from the scene of the per petration of crime. There is an offi cer in pursuit of Avery. There are few points in this case which go to implicate Mr. Avery which I will point out to you. A homicide is clearly proved, J ustice Howe to the contrary notwithstanding it was proved that Mr. Avery was at Fall river. D. eember 8lh, 1332. that he went into Irani Smith'- dore, that he asked him for paper, he gave it to him, Avery tore the sheet of paper into two pieon one half of if, and he gt a wafer for him; a half sheet of paper was produced in court that matched the half sheet on which a letter was written, dated Fall River. Dec. 8, 1 832, directed to Sarah M Cornell it was found in her trunk it was proved that she showed a let tertoagirl, on the 8th Dec. which she had from a gentleman in Bristol the letter was post marked Fall River. I he next is this. Avery confesses that he had an interview with S. M. Cornell, on a Friday evening, during a four day's meeting in Fall Kiver villHge, in October last. The next is Sarah M. Cornell wrote to ber father in Woodstock, Coo. that she bad two interviews with Mr. Avery, one of which lasted about five minutes; the other la-ted about one hour. It was proved that one evening that he preached in Fall Kiver not long since, he did not return to his lodging until bis meeting had been done more than one hour. The lady of Ihe house where he put up went to the neighbors to inquire for him, but did not hear from him after meeting until he came in. He told her he had been to take care of his horse, and that he lost his way coming from the stable. It is a fact that he had no home here, for he came over in a steam boat at the time, The last is this: she was murdered on the night of the 20th December, 1833. Or.e of the letters appointed a meeting on that night at 6 o'clock. Mr. Avery by his own confession, was absent from home from 2 o'clock P. M. on the 20th, to the morning of Ibe 2let, and he cannot prove by nny human being where be was from 3 o' clock, r. M. to i past 9 o'clock, on the evening of Ihe yoth. lit says that he whs about the coal mines; that he saw t msn gnnning and a toy driving sheep; ne says he -pke io the boy. The cun ner and by are not to be found on Rhode Uland that tan Mr. Aver,.

Now in these six points Sarah M. Cornell conld have had no contml wbateei over Mr. Avery. In each 0 the pos4 lions it must have been voluntarily with them, for he coald not be forced into them If these

-asp. .ion on Mr. Avery, 1 do not know what justices want, but these are no: half the ri-cumstances lhat are proved against him. The interview between Avery and Sarah M.Cornell, detailed in her letter below, is satisfactorily proved by the lesti. many of the following witness, who appeared at Ihe examination in Hrutol -1 Tbe letter of the deceased female w 9 addressed t ber relatives in Conneclicu ind bears every mnik of sincerity ' Mrs. Nancy Bidwell sworn for government. Mr. Avrrv at ot:r hnn.o .k o turday of the four days' nfi.r.0 it...i River; lodged there when be cime .tj looked at bi watch; said if was half past 9 I dont know what lime it WQa no ciock strike that evening had P1. pected him for some lime went intfj Mr. Gieen's and asked him if he knew where he whs. Fail River, Nov. 1 8th. 1852.' Dear Friends I had been looking for a letter Irom you, and began f0 thinkyou had almo-t forgotten me, when f went to the office and found .m r, you, enclosing one from my own bf0. mer, and also one from the Rev. E K Avery at the 9amP time. He c'au.e to fall K.ver as Wl0te y0(! b,)f djd not come until Friday and staid over the Sabbath. I co. Id not well v id him I er, to the meeting in the evening On Friday evening went and uhl there Mr. Avery was at prayer. 1 Maid ano neani turn preach, as concluded I would see him. After meeting r0. sed I spoke to him. I tol.I him 1 u-i.l.d to see him; he seemed to decline, theie vas so many round. I told him if I Hid not see him there I should come to P..i. tol; he however stopped, and we talked five minutes; promised to come and see me the next evening. He came, and I sfient an hour with him. He said, as I told you he would, that if that - rv case, it was not his, and said I must go to a doctor immediately; said be hod burned my letters; if he had have known what would have happened he would have kept them said I must never p.-ir it, for if that was my case be would take rareot me spoke very feelingly of his wife and children said I must say that it belonged to a man that wu dead, for, said he, I am dead to yna that is I can not marry yoo. He owned and denied it two or three times. He left me by say. ing I might wail a few weeks, and then I might wrife to him I pledged my word and honor 1 would not expose him if he would settle it theiefoie y ou must not mention his name to hov ene If it should come out, ynu can say it belonged 10 a mcmofiisi minister, but that we -ft. tied it, and that I do not choose to tell whose it i. wrote to him last week, informing him of my fears. I told bm he must not deny it, if he did I should expope him immediately. I have received the following answer without any name. Nov. 1 31 b, 1832. Min Cornell I have received yonr letter with no small surprise, and w ill cay in reply. will do all yoU ask, only keep it secret. I wi-h you to write tome as soon is you get this, naming some tin.e. and place where I can see yon, and wait for my answer before I come, and I will say whether it is convenient or not I will keep your letter until I see you. and iih you lo keep mine, and have them when i see you. Write soon say no thing to no one. Yours in haste. 1 suppose he wishes me to return his letter, therefore I have coped it, as t ought to presume, as James says, that my friends will not expose it for my sake. I have written to him ngain, and am ex. pecting an answer every day. What the result will be, I know not. I still have hopes and fears. I do not, however, w ish you to do any thing for me till I send you worn. 1 here is a girl here that has a child, and went into the factorv acam in sn weeks. She gets her child boarded lor 50 cents a week. It will not make half the noise here that it wo!d in the country. I lost eleven davs in the month of October, and ju-t cleared my b aid. 1 nave since mad about nine or ten shil. hng per week c!ea I shall trv to save ix dollars a month this winter and that is as much as I can do if I am as well as I have been for a month past. I shall trv to work till the first of March. The girls make from three to fourdollais per week in the summer, but the days are short and Ihe water is low now. We can't do very much. I have never been out of money yet and don't think I shall goon. I wish you lo fake care of my things if you don't gee me this dozen yeais.and

when I send lor them I want you to send them md not before. I do not want any thing at present. I keep at home exrept on the Sabbeth, but the snethodist. begin to know me and say, good morning isler, as I go to the factory. I do not know as have any thing more to write. I shall inform you if Hoy thing new lakes place, nnd you must nat forget that yeo have a sister in Fall River. My lave to my mother. Von must burn this letter. Farewell. Your sister, 8.4 RAH M. CORNELL.