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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1882-09-28, Page 8Sept 28,1882, one ot These PIRYS. Cirrled in the window -seat, Watching the leaves Whirling, whilst raindrops.beat Down on the eaves. . Dark seemed this world that day, We two alone, Changing to gold and gray, - Lived in our own, -- Dreaming, as childhood dreams, Life must be good, Whispering of nobler themes, SOBZOB understood; Dreaming all love was true, Eager with praise, Smiling at all we'd do "One Of these days." Here to the window -seat Came you and I, Whilst with his noiseless feet Time hurried by-; . Here as in childish days Used we to dream, Carelcss of wiser was, Love was our thenae. Sonaetimeal Wondered, dear, How it should last, But the next moment, dear, Doubts were all past, Past as you answer me. ' "Love never strays; • Happier still we'll be One of these days." Now by the window -seat Stand I alone Whilst the wind drives the sleet Making its moan. . Clouds might obseure the sun, Sometimes of old,• But while Hope's sands dorun, • Hearts find the gold. Love, when the angel band Called you away, When in my clasp your hand Passively lay, Faintly your whisper then Answered my gaze " ' Love, WB shall meetagain One of these days." TJ A. Life's "Nly s"t erv. Luli ?" he began quelitioningly; ten- derly; but she answered, a.e if she had not liteard-hi aptiekS -tiTlialf-lesewililisreds beseeching way, "Don't tell my. father 'please -that I have -shown you -this. He wouldbe vexed with me for Meddling withhisthings. I must -go in -now." , "Are you ill, tun?" he asked anxiously. "No -only -chilled. I'm cold -my heart is cold," she murmured, brokenly. • By the light of the lamp in the dining - room 'both Griffiths and Zora saw Luli's face as she passed quickly by them, and almost -fled away from -them, sayingonly, "Eon't follow me." They looked at each other as the door swung to behind her, and they heard her light feet fly upstairs as though something were pursuing her: , " Is she not well ? How pale and strange she looks 1'2 eaid Zoraelooking alarmed, ' • " She said -she' wasechilled. -• What ban lse the matter with her ?" said Griffiths, anxiously. .- " What have you been talking about? what have you been saying to heel" asked. Zone - " Nothing. I Was only telling her, an anecdote abotican interesting Mae of 'rivalry and robbery and all thatea.a fellow who shot his cousin-butsurly-----'-"; • "Shot his cousin? have you been telling her about a murder of that sort?" exclaimed Zora. It was that then 1 ,of course. Why, don't you knows? have you never heard Heard what ?, I know nothing. Yes, I knew she was engaged. Was he theiaLe--" "hot," replied Zora, in a lowi voice, shuddering. . "Good Godl if I had only known! But • I, like a blundering idiot, went On telling her how her father weeeted the pistol from theman's hand, and- kept it as a relic, and asked her if he had 'it still; and of course it must all be a most painful subject poor child!" • ' • ' - " Kept the pistol! he f her • father kept the pistol? and you asked her - about that 1" cried Zona starting white with horror and dismay, the truth bursting upon her like athunderbolt. • Then recover- ing herself, and remembering that, while there lingered's hope of keeping the secret, it mustbe guarded Still with all the power of heart and brain, she added hurriedly, in agitated explanation, •' "She has never got over it -We never speak of it to her -he was killed -shot - and we never let' her hear of . any such "1 am very sorry. .1 shall COM to -mor- row early. (*oto her now," said.Griffiths, Sorely troubled, and took his leave. - • Zora flew to Luli's door; it was looked Zora tried to open it, and pleaded, "betnie in l" • "Who is there ?" asked Luli in a strange suppressed voice. . "0n13 , darling. Are you not well? • may not come in1" - '•"" I am quite well', leaveme, please," Yeas all the answer she received. , • • It was useless to vex her ' bypersisting. Zoraleft her, but did not Venture down stairs again. Glencairn might return rand she dared not face him with the hewe that the 'old skeleton had risen and rattled its bones in Luli's face'. She wondered overall that Griffiths might have said to .Lidi, conjee-' tured fearfully how much his weeds had led her to suspect. .. , Trembling with terror and excitement, and the consciousness that"' all the house- hold hung blindly and darkly on the brink of Some gulf, whose depths they Could not guess, Zora oreptto herbed, and lay listen- ing, and started and shook ita she heard , Glenceern'efoot upon the stair. But he; supposing they -were Weeping, and that all was well, didnot call for Lula but passed, with captiously quiet footfall, in unsuspecting tranquility to his room, - while Zora lay shivering in cold thrills, of • bar andforeboding. — CHAPTER XXXV.' None shall triumph a whole life through; For death is one and the fatee are three; At the door of life, by the gate.of breath, There are worse things waiting for peen than death. . • • Death could not tever–my soul and yon, As these have severed your soul from me: —Swim:trams:. "Where are the young ladies?" inquired Glenoairn, the next morning, as lari stood by the breakfast•table. "Please, sir, Miss Luli—" began the nervant, rather hesitatingly. • "Isn't she well ?"eheeinteernpted her, sharply. •. "I -dont --know, sir; but Miss Zora won't , come down, and says she don't Want any breakfast; and MOB Luli is looked in her room." " Alone ?" " Yee, sir; she won't let Miss Zora in, I think." , Glenoairn waited to hear no more, but Strode upstairs tb Luli's room, Outside Luli's door Zone was standing, with her hand on the latcheas if she had been aisk- • -ing for admittance: At sight of Glom:mien Wm started, and drew hastily back, and looked round, as if contemplating a flight to herown room. His heavy hand on her ahOulder arreeted her ; his °yea fastened, like the dull, malignant eyes of is serpent, on her face. " What's the matter?" he said. "1 don't know -I can't ,imagine. She will not open her door." - Glen:mini ehook the lock with an impa- tient hand., Open the door, Luli." There was a moment's Silence ; then a hasty, uncertain step crossed, the floor. The key was turhed,the latch lifted, and the door flung open wide, with an abruptness and carelessness totally uncharacteristic of Luli, and opposite to her usual leisurely softnese. She stood before them, facing them, white and wild, .herstartled eyee like those of a Wild creature hunted to the .brink a a precipice, and teirning there to bay. She had on the white.dress she bad worn the previous night; the same jet cross hung en her bosom; the same ribbon that had bound ,back the smooth bright blonde braids of hair yesterday had slipped loosely down' among the tangled and disordered tresses now. - - "What do you want r she said. The wildnees of her gaze, the uncertainty with which her eye wandered, her deadly paleness, and the strange abruptness of her tone, struck them both with a cold Shudder of alarm. It was not insanity, but the wildness of a brain overfraught with fearful doubts and dread. " Child, what is the matter?" "Luli, dear' -what .is it ?"`faltered Zora. But thoughZora asked •What was the matter, something in her manner, in her Manifest shrinking and nervous agitation, in the terror and the consciousness •with which her. dark eyes glanced and sank, betrayed to Luli's excited and high strung perceptions that Zora had no need to ask. Whatever it was that had to be known, Zora knew it! • This- conviction flashed upon Luli swift and clear as lightning, as &we's tremulous, fearful glance wavered between herself and G-lencairn. pioious even to obtuseness, generally, unnaturallt keen -sighted now,the conviction struck home to Lull's heart at once, but struck her With no added hang. All she knew, all,she thought, all her poor bewil- dered tortured brain had room to conapre-• hend, was this. The weapon that. had caused her lover's death, concerning which - there had been such marvel and such mys- -teiryTtlie'WeapY.-eiwhpoliseeeffili if -traded - to any one would have giyen a clue ateance teward that mystery's solution,- was her father's', had been in her father's possession for years. Why then had her father kept this strange silence both at that time and sice ? Why had he borne no witness, given no evidence? This was all that she could realize; this question' only had been burn- ing like red-hot iron in her dizzy, whirling brain during- all the vigil of •that night which had seemed eudlese, yet ended all too SOCHI. 3 • So, silent under thoughts too terrible to be put into words -speechless " lest the question to which there seezned but one answer,- and that too full of horror for her to endure e,nd live, should buret from her lips -faint and dizzy, and feeling like OIle being whirled through space, withthe rush of innumerable waters in her ears and black night surging round het, she let them take her by the hand and question her and lead her down -stairs. • . "Did she tell you ?"hedemanded, point- ing to Zona . • "No," said Luli, staring at hint, wildly. "So -it -was your handl" she Said after a fause, with a sort of bewilderment in her tone. And there then was a silence. , • The hour has come now, and they know it. Destiny has overtaken Gleacairn . and he turns to face it without a word, • surrenders,' knowing his, case hopeless, without an attempt at self-defence, • or denial: ' Luli has no reproach toiatter,no question to ask. , : ' - Her eyes seern to recede, 'ad Et strange light flickers in their depths, and though they are 'fixed f3till upon hers father's face, it is as if they saw it,' not: Her breast ,heaves, and the seenis to be struggling for breath ; her lipetwitch.and quiver convul- sively; • at last thy are distorted into the fearful ." senablanc,e, of a, smile," and a wild scream of laughter bursts frinea them. ' As that laugh, ending in a .piercing shriek, strikes upon- his. ear, Glenceirn startand rushes from the room. •'' He brushes roughly' past a servant, who,' • startled bythe scream, is running upstairs, and flies into the open air. •, •r How lopg he stayed Mit hew far hd walkedoe'vehere he went, he never 'knew. ,He was not conscious of time, nor place. • So darn) threse hours that .he had deemed he -left her to the possibilities. of. the dawn of new hopes, and, affections, he had left her to horror and despair. And from. the .hand he had dreamed might lead her toward the light had .fallen the .blow that had oast her into the abyss. .He' did not wonder how all would end. ' It, sepreed to him that all ,was ended, • The veseel had gone down; with all hopes on: board, Bunk suddenly in eight of land.. He heaped (=Bee, the deepee end' bitterer; for . theirsilenceeon his own- forgetfulness- in leaving out �f his 'calculations that one piece of fatal 'knoWledge- vihich Giiffithe possessed.. • But he: could :not think; he could not reflect. The past,- the present,. the future seemed' blotted: out. "Total eclipse ansidrit the blaze ; of : noon." ,lie. could see nothing. a .• ' • Tho servant who opened .the door was • in tears, andsobbedlouder; at, the sight of, him. But ina moment •Zora harne,forWard andereachedeher-handloward him.' Was thegesture one of warning.or of. entreaty? He looked in her -face and stood still as if he had been shot. , , "What has hapeneds?" lie Said ; and the servant thought his tone showed 'want Of feeling. • Zorawas silent a, moment, her . breast beavirig, but no tears.inther • soleinn, awe- struck .eyere Then she whispered: in a faltering voice, • ; ' . • Itis well With.her now." , He looked down on the ground, and his stern lips did not . quiver; his feels might have been cut out of marble. , ;" bead?" -he said. , - " And Zora breathed faintly, "Yes," • , . " now was it ?" asked Glencairn. '" hadled Zora into the dining -room and shut the door: s• • . '• ' • "Why • don't you speak?"ho 'added. "'Do you th.ink.I can't bearsit? Haven't I" borne worrie?- Tell me all."? . "There is little are, tell," murmured .Zora.' "Shebroke a blood -vessel almost .directly after you leftthe house., Mr. Griffith went for the doctor; but he came to late to do anything for her. She never ..spoke-- orat least spoke no articulate words -till " Did she -suffer repeli?" he aeked in.. a harehlo,w whisper: "]To; I do. not think she was ,consaions, for more than a feW mintitere, • She Was taken frone us 'sooneLlreey aeon after the doeter panne." „ . . • . , "But at „the last -yon 'Say she ripOke, What did she sat?", , • • .e• • • Zcira, e hesitated a moment e then she answered him -softly -and solemnly, "We knew' it was the end, and. I was, holding her in my armsand bent close to, hear what she' said; as her•liPs, moved. She looked away beyond us all with , a sort .of light on her feed, and said, So, this, was •whei.yoa gave Ma no sign, my love!' Then she tried to stretch her arises out as if she saw-himeethereand whispered And that --46 e • • Zora's voice .hacl trembled, at the allusiOn' to Duke, and. now She broke deeVii ;into, sobe,. and . the • tears brinaniede .hver and streamed dewn her cheeks. But lie, listened immovable as ,stone. Hw only • asked one more question, ,".Where is she?" • And when Zora had answered; " In herowit- rooria" he turned and left -her. •• • •• • He went hp r3tritight.t,o room 'and they Who Watched and listened ' heard •the door 'close softly behind him. , Then there, was a long, long silence. No human pity,. no human reproach,nolove nor haterdared. penetrate the solitude . where G•lencairn• watched by the fair cold • marble • that Was his loving, living daughtee omens -show long ago? No, voide nor feotfall dared diatur,b the silence that reigned there: , • At laat he came out from the •room of death and asked for Zorn. ,She was down- stairs they told hina. • • Zorce Was sitting •with her face buried in. her hands, her heart aching alike. With the horror of this new tragedy and ethe re -awakened agony , of 'the old wound, when 'Mew:igen entered. •: "You erehere ? ' .it is yen I Want," he Zora looked up, and • note only the old grief, but the old terror a clutched her heart again. . •• ' 'As he earn° to her side and .1cioked down upon her With his dark deeie-set ' eyes - eyes which burned With a sombre fireatid which no natural tears Seended to have, softened -her terror of- himwas' . strong' upon het ;' but stronger still her .pity and her sorrow, her conviction that in the ,presenceof this terrible, tragedy, obicardice shouldbe 'ashamed to enter.' ,•„ . 'But sher had no reason to fear. His voice had. never.been more quiet -his manner , never so gentle -to. her, , . • "It is not, patch I' have to say,” be began. • " Only that from the oath exacted from you once, ,I•abiolye yoow Tell the true story to whom ,yoti will. Some day some ote, may have a claim to hear ie from you. I Bet 'yen free to Emeak.", Hewes silent a 'few Memento, and then They, looke • eiteh. other in , silence 'then, and saw, and yet, turned their eyes. away from seeing, that the -evil hburevas uhonthem. While yet -she lay panting andsniute, unable to find words to utter, on the sofa where they had laid her, while they watched her and dared not push their 'questions so far as to precipitate the mement that Zora, at least knew must come, Martin • Griffiths, anxious to, know whether Luli had recovered from leer last night's indis- .positioneappetered upon the scene. • He had no need to ask any question; he saw at opce the terrible change inher. Pale 'and startled, he bent over' her and lifted the frail:hand and laid his iingeronthe little wrist. •. ' • Luli looked up atleine, and for a moment, she seemed to breathe More freely -to draw in a purer air. In the stiflirtg coils of the nightmare in whipla she was struggling, the presence. of a 'spirit that was true; the • snbtle influence of a soul that was loyal and open and sincere ----touched her with a kind of unaccountable relief. What ether influence was it that unlocked her.painfully closed lips, 'and led -her to break •the unnatural silentie she had led -2•' • ' " She is very ill," Griffiths said anxiously. • "What have you done to her? what have• . you said to her ?", he asked, in a deep,low " Nothing, on my soul!" protested Zora, solemnly, gathering from the truth the courage to lookup. , , Luli watched their faces with a Strange look. • "-Go to papa, --in the next room, you and he," she said, very quietly under her breath to Griffiths.. "Zora, come here to • Zora went and ---stood by Lull's side, as Griffiths drew Glencairn apart. The moment she found herself alone with Zora, Lull' with a sudden effort sprung to her feet, andeaught Zora's two hands in hers. Her slender fingers strained Zora's with a •strength that was startling.; she drew her back further away from the door with a force that was irresistible; her eyes flamed upon Zora's face, and pierakel down into the depths of Zora's soul. • w"You know tuli said, in, an awful whisper, " and yeusehall tell me, now end here! Hozo came -he by his death?" Zora, paralyzed, at first could not speak. " How can I know ?" he then gasped. " You know," repeated Luli, in,the same deep unnatural whisper. "You shall tell me. •I will kill you if you don't!" . Her slight frail fingers greened Zera's hands till they almost bruised them '; and Zora shrank and Eihivered with a faint cry of fear, for all the tiger nature of her fatlner glared in Luli's altered eyes. ' Luli-Luli-I ce,n't I can't! :Comeback -oh, Mr. Glencairn 1 come back," cried Zora desperately. " Come- back -tell her -I-do not know !" Griffiths and Glencaiin Were on the spot in a Moment. , Glencairn stood between the two girle, pushing lolora bade almost roughly, challenging Luli's eye k with the grim defiance andagony of his own. Luli was past all dread now. Her feariess gaze: ' did,. not shrink from her -father's ;-her steady hands did not tremble as they searched .in the folds ' of • her dress and olosed with a convulsive tenacity on'the betraying relicof the past tragedy -the .silver mounted 'revolver, unloaded and harmless now, harmless as a baby'd play- thing, yet More murderous this day in its bloodless betrayal than in the days When it had done -We -wink.-- • "How came thie' -yours-there 2" she and to that voice and to those eyes - no living lips could answer a "Who told her it was thine ?" cried Glen - cairn, savagely, turningwith ii-flasla of fury upon Martirt Griffiths. , ' ".How came it there ?" she asked Again, and this time there was a passion of plead- ing in her tone, as she seized and clung to thelast frail floating straw of hope to keep her from sinking into the hideous depths that yawned before her horrotaetricken eyes. . _ eae, •• . • 'Irtiftheltillen and defiant desperation on Glencairn'e face statobad awayethat last, Otraw. CHAPTER XXXVI. You should have wepthex yesterday, Wasting upon her. bed; But wherefore aliodld you weep to -day That she is dead? ' Lo, we who love weep -not to -day, But ercsen her royal head. , , • . CHRISTINA ROSSD'Ilr It Was on Zora that the task of Meeting Glencairn with the news had fallen ; for G-riffitInestrong man though he was, at that moment was too broken down to face Luli's father with the tidings that must be told. It was not 'Glencitirn only who was to suffer on Griffiths too the bloW ha,d fallen with stunning force. The words. of .love that he had kept in his heart and longed lestia he had countedroThWITeia he mist- r-3T3t to 'breathe had been at last Broken, the himself free to utter thein had come -and. they had been outpoured at last 1 upon a dying ear ondonsoiouFi of them,upon a dead ear that heard them not! So it was' Zora, weak though she was in herself, yet brave in her womanly synanathies, who took the responsibility of bearing -the ill new, . " added with a sort of abstracted thoughtful- ness, "You leave kept my secret well. "God forgive me 1 • I have," she answered." "The ways of Destiny are wonderful," he said in the seine abstracted way, as if only half his consciousness were there with -her, and the depths of his soul were unknowing of leer presence and of his own words. "1 dreaded lest- you in dreanis or fevers might lsetray„ me. And it was he - whom I had hoped -Well! we knew not from what quarter the thunderbolt will fall." - , He sat there lost in thought, with his head en his hand: and for a long while neither.broke the silence. Zora looked at him, and as ,the moments went by, still mor and more her fear and recoiling from him yielded- to her compassion. She eoula not hate him now in his mute, unuttered, dogged despair, which found relief in no tear nor sigh, which no mortal could have dared essay to soothe'or stir. The Fates have played- their -game with me," -he said at last. "They let me hope -as the te; lets the _mouse run. They showedane glimpse of . what her life might `have been, if she had ever known—" • "11 she had never known ?".mused Zora, with her deep eyes still dwelling 011 his face. " Could the truth bealways hidden ,Yet sometioaes-when T hav_e_ seen you -seen you with her -e -I, even I, have wondered -Is it possible? Was it all a horrid dream ?" She had never epokeu BO to Glencairn before, and so speaking she marvelled at herself. He seenaed to be recalled to clearer consciousness of her presence by her words. • I - To be continued.) A Kidnapped Girl Finds Dier.Kelatloss Alter Ylv,estY-Firien, Years,' '• Twenty-seven years ago 'a little, girl 10 years „old, named ',Elizabeth Alexander,, living with her parents` in ..•Huramhieys County, Tenn., was sent to it neighbor's house toborrow meal; She found the family of the neighbor absent from honie, and started to return, when she was thet by a man named Mance. Peppers riding a hope Peppers told the 'child to getup• behind, him and go to the •next 'house and --get the meal. The girl. allowed lieleelf-tO be Placed. behind • Peppers, and,instead of taking her to the next., house,. he lode through . the , woods out: of . the set- tlement and kept travelling Until they. reached' Hornersville, • in Dun- hin County, Mo. Pepperra ,clied some time afterward ande' gave the girl to, Nelson Mills, who brought herto the lower end. of New .Madaid Cpuntehalieut twenty - 'five yearsago., She was raised by Mills, and When a young winnaie was married to Jefferson Coonrod, ,farrner' in that neigh, borhood., . She is nowsthe mother of -three children. Last year a man named Mitchell came to Portageville from Tennessee,got- acipiaiiited.with Mrs.' 'Ccionrod,• and hap- pening to mention Humphreys County, she reeked himif he knew Bob Alexander,. and.then told him the story of her being' 'kidnaPpeil by Peppers. -.Mitchell became interested in the.story; aid wrote the facts ;beck to Tennessee. • It was ascertained thatthe Alexanidershad moved from that county, no .,one. -knew wireste. About . a :ntenth ego letter's carrie.to Mrs. Goo -tired • from Graves Couriteally., from her brother steter and nephew, stating that they had •heard. Of her, and as a test of. heridentity, asked her what her Mother's Maiden name was: (Her brother signed . his; name W. A. 'Alexander) Mrs; Coonrod wrote to her brother, addressing hirn as WilIim Ameri- cus Alexander, ritatinh her ,mother's name . was Patriy Combs • On 'SinislaYati. W. A • Alexander and Mrs.. 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Y. - A disagreeable nd unsightly reeult of poverty of the blo d is seen in the various diseases of the akin that disfigure the sur- face of the body./ In this cheat of cases there is a defect he the digestive process and the tissue elementa do pot reach the circulation in a state fit for the work of repair. Here Wheelers Elixireof-Phos- phatee and Calisaya, 'composed of agents that inVigorater the stomach and secure healthy blood, has cured many'Obstinate 'eases., THE NIGIIT iTtiCK ON Hilt A Parallel in the Battle ofStoiiey Creek. INTERESTING:REMINISCENCES. The night attack on Arabi's camp walls one made during the war of 1812, by a small force under Brigadier Vincent, to anticipate an assert& by the UnitedStates troops on his 'hosition at Burlington 'Heights. On the 151h June, 181.3, Vincent learned that the enemy were advancing with a force reported to be 3,500 men, with eight or nine field pieces and 250 cavalry to capture his position. Lieut. -Colonel (afterevards Sir John) Harvey, D. A. G., suggeeted a night attack on the camp near Stoney Creek, to Which Brigadier Vincent consented. The following are thetdetails given by :colonel Harvey, from his original letter, • hurriedly written, and some parts of • it not very legible, which is among the military documents con- tained in the Archives at. Ottawa! - BURLINGTON HEIGHTS, Sunday, 6111 June; 1813. • MY DEAR Coacherree-s-The enemy having dared to pursue, as he arrogantly termed it, this-division-by4-moving=a-ceirPs-01-37500 men, with four field guns and 150 cavalry, to Stoney Creek (within ten Miles of this position), I strongly urged Gen. Vincent to make a forward movement for the purpose of breaking up this encampment • In the course of yesterday afrennion our advanced post (at Davis', eight miles hence, towards Forty Mile Creek), consisting of I the light company -of the 49th Regiment,was driven in. I instantly went out for the purpose of reconnoitring, and found .the enemy. had again withdrawn to his camp at Stoney Creek. I therefore recommended to the General to move the five companies of the King's (say 280 men) and the 49th Regiment (say 424) --total, 700 men, whieh was accord- ingly 'done at half -past - 11 o'clock. General Vincent accompanied these troops, the condu:ct and direction of whiCh he was so .good as to give to, me. The, troops, moved in •perfect order -and ;profound' silence, the light companies of the, 491h and Kingaseinefrout these 49_th Regimentin_the centre and the King's,as a , reserve. In conformity with direetions I had given, the sentries at the outposts of the enemy's camp were bayonetted in the quietest manner and the camp immediately stormed. The surprise wastolerably com- plete, but our troops, hicautiously advancing and charging across theline of campfires, and a 'few muskets being fired (notwithstanding every exertion to check it) our line was 'distinctly BACH by the enemy, whose troops in seine degree recov- ered from their panic arid formed upon the surrounding heights, peured it j'deretrue- tive fire of nmeketry upon us, which we answered on our part by repeated charges whenever a body of the enemy could be discovered or reached. Tee King's Regi- ment and- 'part of the 49th 'charged and carried the four field pieces in very gallant style, and the whole sustained with undaunted firinnese the heavy fir's, which was occasionally poured upon them. In lees theta tbrae-ailarte_fa of seise...hour the Enemy had completely abandoned -his, guns and 'everything else to us. -Our [loss har3 been severe, but that of thdimeny'mucla more so. Our trophies; besides the three guns and howitzers (two ,of the gunseby- the-bye, were spiked by us and left on the ground for want of means of removing) are two brigadier -generals,* Chandler and Winder, one field officer, three Captains, one lieutenant rind about 100 men prison - TERRIBLE S A Young Woman Sacrifices Herself as a Burnt Offering. SHE IS BURNT TO A CINDER. Early Monday morning the people of Weed - stock were very much excited by the news that Miss Sarah Elefone, of that town, had been burned to •death. Of course there were various rumors Afloat, some to the effect that -she was the Victim of a lamp explosion, and othere that she had com- mitted 'suicide. A reporter of this paper, who had been spendiug it few days in the town, made inquiries and elicited the fact that it was ItIOST DELIBERATE SUICIDE and had been undertaken and carried out with the utmost coolness., The family are. high -FY -respectable and no appearance of insanity has ever been manifest. There were three daughters and two sons, all highly intelligent, the daughtor Sarah being . conspicuous for aptness in educes tion. . She had been visiting in Grand. Haven, Mich., and had only it few days ago returned home from a visit to friends -there. She had for some tinie past been troubled. with dyspepsia, but had hown no signs of mental aheriation. Shewaepteictly pious and a reguiar attendant at church and Sabbath school; and she attended the • Methodist Sunday School at Woodstock Sunday afternoon. No one noticed any- thing wrong in her action's althOugh the family thought it rather odd, as it was unueual, that she ehould wish to remain at home instead of going to church in the even- ing. When the sermon in the C. M. Church - waeabout half Over, a young lad named Hopkins litirriedly rushed into the church, went to thepew occupied by Mr. Elstone and the Whole family went put hurriedly. .Nothing more was • thoueht- of the occur- , 0 rence until ;this moreing. Then the news spread like wildfire. Mr. Hopkins, who lived •next door and only it few rode from the scene of the burning, saw fire and smoke near the shocks of corn whiCh hi 's neighbor had just gathered. He thoueht Mr. Elstone's corn had taken fire and at oeoe ran over, when he found the temporarily demented girl standing over a fire, which she had ;kindled, holding bothiher enne up, her CLOTHING ALL BURNT 0.ET , . and her hair on fire. He at Once dragged her, from the flames auci c..xtinghished the fireli1 her hairs taking her over to the bank of a small stream , and laying her on the. grass. He then sent his sou on horseback • to acquaint the family of the eccurreiece and also to call a ph3e3ician. When they -arrived 'at the house they found. the unfortunate; girl burnt from her feet eo,- her neck so that she leolsed i he color of a smoked haul. She lingered for four hours, talking incoherently -and at last said, calmly, "1 am going to Jesus," turned over and expired without a struggle. That the whole affeir' was :delib- erate and 'preneedi tate d cannot; be doubted, as on goiug into the hpuse a note was found which stated tlaat dhe was -- tired of !ivies in 'Ping world and had made up her mind to sacrifice herself. She was it young girlaif more than -ordinary intelli-' gence Etal_e_uniaersaller seeee_ented, _being coneelysand attractive in appearance, and, a feeling cif horror pervades the whole Community,' .It has , beeu alleged. that, her mother was unkind to her, but the' family State that she had neer cornplathed of anything. Usually, she was sanguine and _lively in, he actions, aid therefore; thee affair is all the more astoeishing. Women ns Judicial Officers. le• Informationhaejust been received that the enemy has entirely abandoned his camp, burnt his tents, destroyed his pro- visions, ammunition, etc., etc., and retired precipitately toward the Forty Mile Creek. Our advance• poets occupy the ground on whieh, his camp stood. -I am, my dear Colonel, very faithfully, .etc., etc" . J. HARVEY, Lt. -Col., -D. A. G. In the official report of the 'same date sent, to Sir George Prevost by Brigadier Vincent, which gives substantially the facts stated by Col. Harvey, occurs the following sentence, showing the noble spirit of the commander towards his subordinate officer. • "To Lieut. -Col. Harvey, the Deputy Adjutant -General, my obligations are par-, tioularly due ; from' the first moment the enemy's approach was known he watched his movements and afforded me the earliest information; to him, indeed, I am indebted -for the suggestion and plan of operations. Nothing could be more ' clear than ' his arrangements, nor more completely suc- cessful in the result." ' In 'this as in the recent affair under Wol- seley there are the closest.eerienablanceir-a small force as against one much superior in point' of numbers; a night eurprise and the decisive result of the bayonet charge. Donenes BIMINER. * [The return shows that the other pri- soners, besides these, were one major, five captains, one lieutenant and 116 noncom- missioned officers and privates. The British ' casualties were 23 killed 136 wounded and 55 missing] now to Choose a Wife. " Aplacie for everything, and everything in its place," said the patriarch , to his daughter. " Select it wife, my son, who will never step over a broornsticia" The son was obedient to the lesson. " Now," said he pleasantly on a gay May day to one • of him companions, "1 appoint that broom- stick to choose me a ,wife. The young girl who will not step over it shall liseye the offer of my hand." They passed from the 'splendid saloon to the grave ; Some stum- bled over the broomstick and others jumped over. At length a young lady stopped and -put it in its place. The promise was ful- filled ; she became the wife of an educated and wealthy young man, and he the hus- band of a prudent, industrious Etnd lovely wife. He biought, a fortune to, her, and she knew how to save one. It is not easy. to decide which was under the'greatest obligation ; both were rich, and each enriched the other. * - Ravagea Of Diphtheria. Diphtheria is raging in the vicinity of Schoumburg.. Mr. Woods lost four chil- dren last week. • Mr. Wm. Jenkins, of Prince Edward Island, who arrived in Emerson with hie family only a -fortnight-- since, has lost three children with- diphtheria, and two others now 111 are not expeCted to recover. -Henry Ward Beecher answers the question, " Is it wrong to dance ?,, as fol- lows : " It is -wicked, ' he says, " when it is wicked,- and it is not wicked when it is 110t ;wicked. In itself it has no more moral character than walking, wrestling and rowing. Bad company, matimelY hours, evil dances, may make the„ exercise revile good company, wholesome hours and home influencee may Deals° it a very greatbenefits"- -The new lacers are so rich in color that they look like oriental embroidery. The leather lace is made, applied to or woVen into the fecelle lace. In England ladies•have h eld•and exercised judicial authority. Thus the Countess ,of Pembroke was Sheriff of, Westmoreland before the era of Magiia Charta, and, being at that period•a judicial efrieer, she .held, it court andexercised the power of it subor- dinate Judge, andsat with the Judges on the bench at the Appleby A.SSiZeS. Eleanor • was 'appointed to fill the -office of Lord -Keeper of England, and actually performed the duties of the LordSChancellor in person. King, Henry • III., in the year 1235, . ap- pointed hereLady Keeper' of the Great Seal, which post she held for nearly a year, and performed all thejudicial and minis- • terial duties: ' • The Countess of Richmond, mother. of Henry VIII.; and Lady Bartlett were both ' appointed Justices . of the ,Peace; and third lady, Whe.was a Magistrate, actually 'eat upon the bench at the assizes and ses- sions in the County of Suffolk. Variond judicial' • inquiries rerapectiug freehold ,property were, in the reigh of Richard II, made before 1' divers lords and ladies." - It is steted by Many old legal writers; whose ,opiniori is entitled to respect, that women are disqualified to become arbitrators ; but the better opinion now is that they may be so, on the ground that every person is entitled to select any peremi lip likes for his hedge, and he cannot afterward object to the incompetency of thoeci he has obosen to act as arbitrators on hie behalf. - The Du -chess of 'Suffolk, in the reign of Edward IV.,, acted are. arbitrator before she was married, and j the legality of her appoint- ment and theexercise by her of this ciffice were not diriptited.Ladies' EMCIO3E2SEN223.424.0 [(FROM BRAZIL.) 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