VOLUME 19,
THE WEEKLY OBSERVER.
ERIE PAL
SATURDAY MORNING JULY 10,-1848.
Prioirn - rs IN lowa.—This young sistor of the Confed-
craey is destined to be one of the battle grounds of the
present campaign. She has but four votes, yet
. they
:nay turn the scale. Mark, we say they may, for ii is
in no means certain. Present indications, howii'ver,
place her altnost beyond controversy. We see that Gen.
A. C. Donor., son of the new Senator from Wisconsin,
4 4 y1i0 has just signalized his devotion to the Democratic
rause by n prompt repudiation of theovertures of the
traitors,) heads the Cass and Butler ticket; as an
elector for the State at largo, in Iowa: ,! de . n. Dodge was
formerly an able and efficient delegate from the territory
of lowa. The Washington Union "ipeaks of him as a
fine speaker of great personal Alittlarity, and under
stands that It is his determination to canvass every coun
ts in the State. That his efforts in behalf of the nation
aldiemocratic nominees will be felt in the campaign, there
can be no doubt. Such devotion to the cause and the
ca ndidates of the democracy, on the part of father and
,on, contrasts most honorably to them, with the eminent
instance of black ingratitude and treachery to their party
an d past professions, presented in the previous and pros
rat attitude of the Van Barons, father and son—and if
a.mtliing short of the terrible popular rebuke about to be
.i , ited on both, can reach their Bourbon-like selfislmess
and imperviousness to the pubo sentiment,—must coin-
I F el them to hang their heads in shame. -
tit N. TAI Lon Asti THE Pnovrso.--The Buffalo Couri
<ts pretty generally known, we believe, wve, that
a
tarespondence has recently taken place between James
It. Doolittle, Esq., of Wyoming county, and Gen.-Tay
lor, in which the former desired to ascertain, definitely,
Gen. Tailor's icws on the Wilmot Proviso question:—
Gen. Talor has replied to Mr. Doolittle, though the lat
ter, deeming the letter of a private character, declines
It tang it iztt litlore the public. The substance or ,
T a , reph. however, has transpired, and is as follows:
11r. Doolittle addressed Gen. T., asking, substantially,
“art• w. of the NOrth nuthorized to infer from yodr cor
n .pundence with tho Editor of the Citieinnati Morning
S:gual, that you will neither oppose the patronage nor trio
to of the executive to the passage.of a law, or any kin-
rcd inea,rire for the restriction of Slavery 7" General
a)ler'h reply is, in substance :—.• I did not mean, in
u,wer to the Signal letter, to be considered as approving
r disapproving of the opinion entertained in that corn-
unieation, in regard to (ho question of slavery in new
nritory ; all I intended to'approvo was the frankness
well which the editor expressed his own sentimcnts."
1 . 4.3. any man of sense, with the knowledge that Gcn.
a)lor is the owe of three'kundred slaves, drubt, after
oh an explanation, that he \ is opposed to the Wilmot
mew? \
11. J A correspondent of the New 'York Mirror puts
down twenty-eight states as certain for Gen. Ta3lor, and
doubtful. Aside from the wonderful knowledge of the
pohlics of the several States displayed by this calculation,
one is led, irresistibly, to inquire the names and location
of the four States above thirty. The last wo heard from
Foyle Sam, he had only thirty children.
Onto is CO111.50.—00)0110 Weller is carrYing even --
11611 g before him in Ohio. Ilia speeches are heard by
I ;nat crowds. and his opponent, Mr. Ford, 'shrinks from
tile contest. The Democracy are united upon the war,
and upon Cass and Butler, and as the gallant Colonel
has rendered good service upon 'the field, his views are
:aa-a t ; eloquently expressed, and eagerly listened to.—
We should not be astonished. front present appearances,
to see Ohio giving as much majority for the Democratic
candidates as good old. Pennsylvania. Look out for a
old and powerful -blow for the great cause from the
Buckeye State.
T WAAL'S CABINET.—The whigs amuse them
wires uerasiouully by making out on paper a cabinet
for Gen. tor when ho gets to be President. In doing
so, they use the names of all the prominent whigs in the
I Ind, commencing with likkiel Webster and runing ) down
the coltwin to Andy rt. We observe, however,
that a Mr. Barker,, who figures prominently among the'
hidependent Tailor men of New Orleans. and had nt
least influence enough to collect a large meeting at that
place on the evening of the tlith ult., in opposition to the
rarifir ation of the; - Whigs proper held the same evening,
rd which Trialor and Fillmore were "ratified," and the
"card" we give in another column read, makes out a
edinet for the old general of quite a different material
lie nl‘ti speaks "by authority" The Delta speaks of the
meeting as a large one, and represent Mr. Baker as reit
erating the statements and rumors attributed to General
'faller, repudiating what was said and done for him at
Philwielphia; by the Louisiana delegation. Th; Delta
-report, him as follows;
"Gen. Taylor stands pledged to maintain the Consti
tatiqn, in its original republican vigor and purity. He
ron't prm it any party to appropriate him, any represcn
Mon to the contrary notwithstmuling. Gun. Taylor had
made, pledges—he will keep them. If any body supposes
hale other objects than the election of Gen. * Taylor, he
k mistilsen. to the appointments, Gen. Taylor, /
ataltarized to say, would never object to John C. Cal
houn for Secretary of State. Abbott Lawrence for Seem
tan of the Treasura. Revertly Johnson for Attorney,
Ge t eral. and 11. P. Butler for the Supreme Bench.—
se wh 9 undertook to represent in the. whig convention
tha Gen. Tolor had abandotied his original position,
an forfeited his pledges, were entirely unauthorized. I
rift r .o the statement made in the Philadelphia conven
es by Judge Saunders."
I ather a l`lerish complexioned Cabinet. that:
11.Itt wqrt: Comortr.—A largo and enthusiastic. meet
: f the democracy of the adjoining county of Chau
a me, was held at Mayville on the glorious Fourth.—
PI hes were made by Messrs. Smith and Seymour of
•do. and anighaday and Mallory of Chantauque.—
rUopnate and spirited resolutions were adopted. and
t ll lo.li enthusiasm prevailed throughout. We are
tiled to know that the fell spirit of " barnburnism" is
$ ou the wane; while the number of itsofollowers grows
• lan by degrees and beautifully less," in that part of
e • York.
(
Three hundreil and thirty indictments have boon
ferret' by the grand jury of Washington against Dray-
Sears and English, who were found in charge of the
ooner read in which that number of abscond ingslnves
e found tit the time of her capture on the 16th of
ril last. We believe the maximum punishment to be
ears 14 the penitentiary under each indictment.
Horace Greeley, speaking of the Speech of Gen.
June 19th, 1841. delivered in Paris, upon hearing
the death of General llarrison, says—" This Address
es honor, riiitreto deo subject and the author; and while it
idy rindirnh:s thafamt of the deceased patriot, it will ei
ther of his gallant comrade in war, his :ealous compa
oi /'rife--and his decoted, estimable friend in pri-
I te bje."
C:O" The N. Y. Observer, a religions paper, holds the
Hawing language in relation to the democratic nomi-
I "The Democratic Convention to nominate a Presi
cnt.and Vice President has just closed its session. The,
"""ees, Geu's Cass and Butler, aro men of irreproach-
Ae character. and I took occasion when our own Fre-
VlUrsett was nominated to express the gratification
n'1161,11, irWit feel when such men aro put up
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Far in the dark old forest glade.
Where ilialmlas bloom around,
They . had their place of youthful,'
Their youthful hunting ground
And swinging lightly in the ein:
That o'er the wigwam hung,
The busy robins, building nenr,l
Abote their dwelling sung.
Each morn their little dusky feet
Sprang down the sparkling le a,
To pluhge ben7ath the glowing scream"
Beside the chestnut tree;
And when the hiding squirtrl's nest
They sought far up the hills.
They bathed Mfit reeking forehn;
Among they Mountain rills
They saw the early golden moon
Ni) through her wavy bower,
' And In heMams they tit ,
Aromul its leafy tower;
Aid when the stars all silently
Went out o'er hill and plain,
They li-ten,l low to merry ehim
Of summer eyening rain.
These haunts they missed—the c
No healthful music brings—
They longed to run through woos
Where nature ever sings;
And doSoping mid the noise and
They pined for brook and glen,
And tlyinz, st il l looked roomy baoc,
And asked fur home again.—[l l /orritti' Journal.
'Two indian boys were carried to London pot long ago for ex
hibition, and died soon after their arrival. is related that one of
them during his last f 1101111.1113 talked incersatitly of the scenes and
sports of Its distant home, and that both wished to be taken back
to their native woods.
THE AVENGER OF BLOOD,
tale of* (Allegljeuß Mountains.
BY A CITIZEN OF TENNIS EE.
.
In the year 1812, the western port ons of the-great
State of Pennsylvania, embracing t to mountainous
region between Chambersburgli an Pittsburg. pre-
seined little more than ati unsubdta i d and unbroken
wilderness, through which the Brearoad from Phil
adelphia to the head waters of the Oh no passed—and
at that period, it was a lonely and angerous path
way, to all wayfarers between the'eastern cities, and
the great western wilderness of Oliii and Kentucky.
To the best or my recollection, his road passed
over five distinct and lofty ridges of fountains, with
here and there a sparse settlement of hardy moun
taineers and hunters, and with occasionally, between
these infant setilements, solno solitary and remote
booths of the wandering bunters, deserted, ruinous,
and forlorn, except during the hunting seasons of
the year. 01 all the tioiitudes in the universe, those
seem the most deserted, chilling and awfully alone,
which bear the marks of human habitation—and of
having been deserted by their forme'r inmates forev
er. Of tPedive ridges of mountains over winch the_
road just mentioned passed to the we tward, the mid
dlelridge was by far the highest, at d was called by,
the wagoners the Backbone. by way of preeminence'
—.and because the word "Aleghenyfr in. the Indian ,
language, means "the parent or father of moun
tain -." From the eastern brow of his lofty middle
ring 1,
~...where resided at the periq I speak of, an
honest, wealthy, Pennsylvania Dutchman, whose
name was Stonier, who kept a publie Inn,in view
ing the ruged and precipitous landscape to the east
ward the eye sias lost in a bed of iiferior bald and
barren ridges, which seemed to ex,end tolhe very
verge of the horizon; like the waves of some vast
ocean, beheld from a bold headlafd, or towering
mountain peak. In fact, to make use of a poetical
figure, the whole surface of the eastern horizon, seen
from the eastern brow of the main Allegheny ridge,
seemed like the billoWs of a tuttoilnious ocean in a._
storm, suddenly arrested by the fiat tif Omnipotance,
and fixed forever in their various pi sitions and 1
atti
tudes! The whole scene was, inde d, sublime, be•
yond any power of language I can ommand.
'I he house in which Stuffier resided was emphat
ically a Dutch house, one story high, framed and
painted, with a porch along the whole front, and dor
mer windows in the roof. And here lam compelled
to regret two circumstances—lirst, that Stouter is
an unfancied, unpoetic, and un-nove l -wrning cogno
men; and, second, th at he had no beautiful and ac
complished daughted, with a signitiant "curl of the
upper lip," that 1 might make the heroine of a sur
passing love story episode, in the t , ollowing tale of
veritable robbery, murder, and publi escudo!): But
I must try to get along without th se agreeable in
gredients, on the principle that "it ilk is sometimes
stranger than FICTIoN. " .
During the winter of 1812-'l3, n a journey cbe
tween Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, I stopped at this
orderly and well regulated taver i, to remain all
night. There was much company there, in addition
to those who arrivcd.at the tone I did; but it was of
and orderly traveling character, composed chiefly of
western merchants, and We were hot much in the
' way of each other. it is-a characteristic of the
' western people, not only to congregate together,
when in a land of strangers, bet to be cummunicative
with each other freely, in the hope of discovering
any ancient friendships, or even distant r''elation
ships, that may exists among them—Hind to hear the
news. And besides all this, your real western man,
unlike the sullen English cockney, who refused to
save a drowning man because he had not been in
troduced to him, is an inquisitivc and intelligible
animal, merely for the sake of impa,irtintr and receiv
ing information on all subjects; 'an the words of
counsellor Curran, who applied them to the charac
ter of the Irish people, the westerman is prover
bially bold and fearless, and he the efore confidesin
il
others, without hesitation. Amon r the guests who
surrounder the fire after-supper, wa a gentleman of
apparently superior information, aro who seemed to
be much of a literary character; and, the conversa
tion happening to turn on the dangers encountered
by travellers, he voluntarily related to the company
the-following narrative, with the assurance that it
*was substantially true, and we all listened with at
tention. I ,
"About a year ago," said he, "a gentleman well
armed, from theldirection of Pittsb urgh, and its ad
jacent rich stock country, stopped at, this house,
with a large drove of fattened bullocks, destined for i
the Philadelphia and Baltimore markets, who said it
wad his intention to bring back the Proceeds in mon
ey, to pay up his contracts—and that he would pro
bably return, in such a length of time, naming the
period. His name and dress, an also the place of
i. ,
his residence, I have new "forgot( n; but ho rode a
white horse, of very superior spirit and power—and
I mention the peculiar color of his horse, because it.
was that which afterward Rved; his life. Some
weeks after hehad been gone, and a bout the time of
his expected return, two Canadittit Frenchmen, on
foot; well dressed and well armed, one carrying a
brace of pistols, and the other aril e, came from the
direction of Pittsburg, and stopped at this house for
breakfast. They told Mr. Stottlei• that they had no
money; that they were travelling to Philadelphia;
and a variety of other matters; and that they had
lost their horses. He immediately ordered break
fast for them, and they ate heartily—conversing at
the same tithe, in French language, and in an under
tone. One of them was a large,
they
man, and the
other was a person of less size; dry both had much
the air of gentlemen.
"After they had breakfasted, tll l ey started east
ward, in the direction of Philadelp i e V
ia; theras a
light, soft snow on the ground, end the walking
was somewhat heavy and difficult!, They had not
proceeded more than two miles, when in the distance,
from a rising piece of ground, they discovered a
traveller advancing toward them, mounted on a
white horse. This wayfarer arid his white steed,
they imagined, were the objects j of their longing
and alxious pursuit; and, no soon , r was this fancied
SATURDAY MORNING,
■
discovery made, than they • suddenly turned their
faces again to the westwar , :and appeared to be
travelling in thaliAirection. ;The solitary. traveller
on the white horse soon overtook and acceded them,'
in the most friendly manner. r On being questioned,
they told him thdt they were[on their way to Pitts
burgh, and were destitute of the melns of defraying
their expenses, and desired him to assist them on
ward. His reply was what might have been expec
ted—it was pree.Sely what always may be expected,
by any destitute wayfarer, travelling in the great
west. He told them he was a poor man himself,
and burthened with the heavy, charge of a numerous
and helpless family of children . ; that his name was
Pot.Locx, a laboring, fanner by profession, and that
he lived on rented hand not far from the residence of
General Arthur St: Clair, in Ligonier valley; that
he had but a very small sum lof money with him,
but, that he . would share it with them, in bearing
their expenses, to the last cent. Conversation on
this and other themes, brought the two vagabond
Frenchmen, and their generous and noble comrade,
Pollock, back to Stottler's house of - entertainment.
Here poor Polloelt ordered refreshments,for his
stranger companions and himself, and pai for them
from a leathern phrse, but very poorly and meagerly
supplied, and the travellers started on . their way
westward, in company. ,
' "During the two visits these strangers had, made
at Stottle's house, their appearance, conduct and
characters, had been narrowly and closely -scruti
nized, by a brother-in-law of Stottler's, whose name
was. John Lainbetli, a blacksmith by trade, and with
whom I afterwards tookbpains to become acquainted.
He was a man of somewhat, 1 remarkable manners
and appearance, clothed in a homely garb, a little
over the 'ordinary Stature, mild and gentlemanly in
his address, and of a tactiturn and observant dispo
sition. ' His complexion was smooth, dark and
swarthy; his features regular, 'strong, and formida
ble; and his hair, Curly arid vey dark, would have
reminded you Of .ytranvick's b ack locks,' as depic
ted by Shakespeare. His eyi, however, was the
most remarkable and leading fi.ature of his counte
nance; it was blak, deep, firm; and resolute in its
expression; and 'evidenced -a Mind of great moral
power, and unconquerable resolution. In line, he
appeared to me to be just such a man, as would, on
an Indian frontier. where every i ,,kind of ambush and
-savage warfare Were to be dreaded, have been an
obj , et of alarm, to, the enemies of the white settler
and his family. This man, obscure and almost tn-
known in his condition, an ordinary mechanic by
trade, and one who had never Perused a page of his 7
tory, or even a novel or romance in his life, was, !
nevertheless, a man of high moral and mental en
dowments by- nature, and one of God's nobility!—'
There are thousands of such men in this Republic;
men who would have done honor to the - peerage of
Charlemagne, or those ofany of the other Courts - of .
Europe, ancient or modern; an yet our novelists
rind romance writers, int - taunt d with the coarse,
savage and barbarous characte s of the feudal ages,'
must resort to them for their etitious heroes and
heroines- of modern days! TI e stern realities of
American biography, and histo y, afford models of
true greatness, eqeal, if not so erior, to those of any
other country; and until our public writers can be
ilirl
induced to celebrate the lives nd achievements of
our own distingui l shed men, th public literary taste
of the country wiil be deprave' and degraded, and
we shall have neither national iterature, biography,
nor history. _ The renown of al nations depends on
the elevation of their literatur , and - the recorded
achievements of their great en, of whatsoever
rank in social lifq And this an, John Lambert,
whose person and character I lave just essayed to
delineate, might have been the ival of Washington
hail he been placed in 6, similar condition in life-.
But 1 must return to my narra
"After the departure of the
foot-pads, with *. Potluck in
remarked to his brother-in-law 1
1 the appearance of these two h
_distrusted their intentions respell
their countenances and charac4
be mysterious, darik and sinister;
to the determination of fullowie l l
Stotler dissuatd him from
being futile and n t well found(
harm ivould result' to Pollock
cellang.
bport,
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ads cool
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MID
land dells,
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their company,and he desired him to dismiss his
suspicions, as he was himself convinced they were
innocent and worthy men. While Lambert and his
brother-in-law were debating these' points on the
fronLporch, PolloCk's horse suddenly turned a cor
ner of the road, and•advauced toward them at full
speed, without hill rider!' When the horse came up
to the porch, the Whole tragedy was fully explained;
the horse's neck l and shoulders, us well as the sad
dle and saddle-c 1 4th, were covered with hlood, and
no doubt could okist us to Pollock's murder! Tho
sw-vants and young men of the, house were imme
diately mounted 4n horse-back and sent to summon
the neighbors to
. assist in recovering poor Pollock's
budy,-iind to assist, if possible, in capturing the of
fenders. !Neighbors in s ich a;country as this was
at that. time, included all who resided within ten ur
twelve miles of the place - designated.
"A little after theAniddle of the day, ten or twelve
of thd hardy dwellers of the mountains had collected
thenise_Res on StUttler's porch.' They Weue al!, as
Lambert thought, men of no 'ordinary energies of
character, though ignorant and illiterate. But Lam
bert was in error; mere roughness and uncouthness
of exterior manners and deportment, never yet ctiv
ed a. soul on fire, or a mind of elevated and genu
ine courage; awl hence pur l brutal, coarse, and
clownish boaster, are, almost invariably, poltroons
1
and cowards, when placed - in posts of known and
imminent danger. True moral courage is never
the companion oil brutal feelings, course sensibili-,
ties, and inanity of mind and soul. '(here are two
kinds of courage which we see everywhere exem
piitied; one is of Pinsicsr., and the other of MENTAL,
or Moral origin. 1 We "see them manifested in all 1
the departments of history. The formerdepends on
health,- strength and muscular energy alone; and
the latter, on the preponderattce of mental power
over the attribut e s of mere brute matter. The com
pany which , con vened on Stottlres -porch, for the
purpose of captiniing the murderers, were mere men
of physical courage; some of Bulmagiintlfs men,
"chuck Toll of wrath and cabb_lo,i," Who would fight
or encounter danger no _loner . ..than than their bel
lies were full; as will_ tiOpetir Ilk the sequel of this
narrative. IVith Lambert for their Chosen leader,'
who had made a oleion vow to capture or destroy
the murderers, the company started on foot and well
armed, in purslit of the blood -stained fugitives;
horses, however I nctive and powerful, could be of not
use to the pursuers amono b
the, rocks and precipices
of the mountainik,.covered as they were with snow.
"When the company came to the scene of the
murder. no doubt could existi as to' the facts; the
snow was much trampled, and greatly discolored
with blood, and disclosed traces of a deadly struggle
of life or death; from all appearances, the struggle
mtist have been long and dreadful, and evinced the,
obstinacy with which the poor victim of assassins-,
lion must have contended hopeless fur life. , But
what must have been the reflections which rushed
on the mind of !his -lonely and deserted victim of'
perfidy, when overcome and sinking under the hands
and savage hearts of these monsters of iniquity - and'
blood! His wife, his children; his poverty, the cold
charities of a merciless world, must have filled his
mind with horror and dismay;' the physical agonie
of death, with all their excruciating pangs, can b
but as nothing to such mentaysufferings; it is eat ,
1,
by persons who 4V3 been recovered from drownin i
and apparent death, - that at the moment-of slam -
tion, immediately preceding utter unconaciousnes
and insensibility, the - Whole series or the events f
their !ives, seemed actually present to their mind
and rdernories. This may be, and probably is th
fact, with those who die with all , theii,taculties i
full strength; but it can hardly be ithe, case wit
those who die 'uf,ordinary diseases, and linger ion
on the confines of eternity. -
"It was evident to Lambert and his company-th t
i..4i ii'ilr e.iz zi'
the bud
from t h
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Ghost; a
the eye t
old trac ,
lout, or I
rside of
two armed ,French
company, Lambert
[ that he did not like
lenehmen; that he
: 4 cting Pollock; that
seemed to him to
;and that lie had come
g them a few miles.
this resOlution, as
tJ; told hint that no
front travelling in
!moon h
beamed
snowy p
cold and
stood in
but whi
l and labo
his min
derera t
defefic
flake a
ome lit
out of t
found tl,
door of t
from tilt
ces. put
!Amber
last sce
murdere,
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boards (
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the only fire place the house could beast. The house:
consiste of but two apartments, which were with
out any partition between them, and only distin
guished from each other by a'step or two down from
the web to the east room. i'l'he poor old woman,
who ha resided fur years on this deserted road, and
' lived by selling cakesl and' beer to casual wayfarers,
slept in the west room, into which the only door in
the hou:e opened from the road; and the east room,
contain ng one oed, as it afterwards appeared, .was
occupie by the two villaioaof whom Lambert was
in pure it. After stepping a few paces.back from
the doo , Lambert are a land 'cough or two to
awaken the old woo) n—and boldly advancing to the
1
step, at d stamping he snow from 144 feet, desired
.
admitto tee in a feign d voice—and telling her at the
same ti ne that he was a stranger who had lost his
way—t at he was nearly frozen to death in wander
ing ab• t—and that he wished her to re-light the
fire, to varm hiinself, - -
ttSh: immediately bbeyed, and soon replcniiilied
and re- ighted the .fire, whilst he remained outside
the dos rounder the pretence of disrobing his feet of
the en. w—his real • Object being to await the light
of the re, that he mig ht fairly encounter the villains,
whom to had just hard talking, in on alarmed and
startle tone of voic, in the_ lower room. When
he stet ped over the door sill, into the bright light of
the fir., his first salution was the loud report of a
muske from the lo er room, the two balls from
which -truck the door post, an inch or two from his
head. No time was now to belost. Reserving hie I
fire; hi sprang down to' the loWer room, yet reeking
with t e smoke of the burned powder, 'and using his
tomah• wk with desierity ;and effect,
,knocked the
villain senseless whoi ad just fired on him, and whom
lie,bel l eyed he had- illed. In the interim, while
these ,vents were p 'ssing, the smaller villein of the
two— or Lambert - h ti 'felled the' larger one On 'the'
floor ith the heavy i blow of his tomahawk—blind
crept hrough a small unglazed - window, immedi
ately . bove the side 'f the bed, and was running tiff
in the bright moon-I ght, directly toward the mirth.
I
Lamb. rt soon discov red him, and mounting -onifie
bed, a the fellow . .vas running , directly from the
windo v, in a straight line, clothing in hand, brought
him' d. wn on his tear, with two balls, from his own
filfle, s lanted precisely between the
p boulders.Of the
horrib e miscreantil •Then,„seizing With 'At giant'
grasp, the +number. v illain, whom he 'had felted' to
the fh .'r, and who seemed to be reviving for further
comb. t, Lambert - illaced his knee on the fellow's
breast and asked the - old woman for a - rope:' This
she fu niehed by cutting a bed-cord from One of the
bedst :ads. With' this Lambert bound the - fellow,
and d egged .him to ilietre-place in the uppetrrOorn.
Then absentinitilinself for &few moments only, - he
broug t in the'..dead)nen'on his shoulder, and placed
the a . pse side by si. a. with the living murderer! ~.,
~~
1848
$
oldie dece sed could not be far removed
scene of de th; and in a few - minutes' search
.e, was disco ered. It was wedged in he
vo large rottn logs, Which had been rolled
i
il
he road, and covered with the r bbish of
rushwooil. nerotten pieces of w od, and
marks of a most sanguinary but hery.—
ls had passe through the b uly, and in the
id sides were found the marks of several
bs, given apparently, with a large hunter's
ine of the hands of the deceased was flail
id horribly disfigured; it seemed as if in the
if blood, Pollock had grasped the blade of a
fe, which littd been drawn forcibly through
and nearl y] severed the joints of !his fin-1
's clothing
nd his coun
ny in his k
nCii Was no
as . much rent and torn in the
enance bore the indications of
:t moments.
v held by the company, as to
• next to be
.ody back to
instant and
l• fore their
the soft sn
by the wind
if the murde
It of north;; t
and exhibite
and eirtai
dune. and, after having sent
Stather's house, Lambert pro
vigorous pursuit of the intu
it (foot-tracks) would be et-
DW. The propogition vas' as
company, and in a short time
rers was discovered, bearing a
w snow was light and un
their foot-prints with great
11~'
ly started on the trail; it, was
3 sun nut more than two hours
ithe whole country over which
.is passed, known only to bun
trackless•wilderness, tangled
f laurel and brushwood. The
opt the track, with industry, -
Mlution, limit sunset, and the
;lThe niontains now began to
bleak and dreary aspect; the
1 !
I rough the leafless boughs and
, seemed to be fraught with
volt' and the shrill scream of
latent and sullen roar of the
tried ominous of sullen Lnd un
the ignorant and uncultira
and inscrutable mysteries of
'cause of superstition and ter
arty so during the hours of
the comps
e evening, th
horizon, an 4
f the fugitive
a wild and
ndergrowth o
however,
nce, and rest
of darkness.]
more wild,
the winds tti
of the trees
owl of the
er, and the
torrents, sei
!angers! TI
the sublime
re allays the
more partiel
dsrAness:
)vered, as the night b?gan to
!and resolution of his compan
and that they would soon be
d still, and he called a halt for
The result of this was that
d or found an excuse fur re
?
mttert was left alone to pursuei y enterprise.
'doubly armed;* first, with the
ind his consciousness of recti.
tha goodrr if e, tomahawk, and
i these he pursued his preca
ardless of consequences,, but
events that might
, occur.—
ilOf startlight, reflected from a
, he was enabled to trace the
erers; and when the moon a
r little befoie midnight, he
?Ity or uncertainty in pursuing
ert now disc,
t the courag
• fast' ebbing
o q dead still
nsu liation .
MEM
ome,' and L
rods 'arid lon
as, however,
his cause, al
second, wit
Dire; and wi,
ney--not re
to meet 'al
1=3:1
'dace of snr
of the min..'
lull splendor,
further diffle
1 , 1 travelling 1
r fourteen T . I
1- used road, i,
.d left; this
1 between P
uated on th. I
,
vas the first '
isylvania an.
the ancient
• re still visib
,I cient roads,
1 ere adopted
ds in the %V,.
• first settler:
hence the fi
d for the so
l
act the blaze ,0
f the ob.serve I
: road, he dish
tg- cabin, nea
I this dillapidi
I n a north-ivestern direction
tiles, he came to an old and
5 titling nearly paralel with the
1 as called*the. , Old Pennsyva
iladelphia and Red 8t tie Old
waters of the Modo gahela
oad ever opened between &is
! the head waters of the Ohio
land•marks, 'three chops arid a
e by daylight on the old trees.
nd land-marks,:f have been in
liy the old surveyors and open
s[, to propritiate Heaven in fa
ii of the great Western wilder
rat chop was fur the Father
-and the third for the Holy
as merely designed to attract
When Lambert struck the
6Overed an ancient and ruinous
ly opposite to him on the north
ted and solitary road. The
gained her meridian, and
!=ral
ir unclouded splendor on the
latent mountains, and on the
scape just before him. There
ice and seeming deserted, the
:robably, the objects of his long
and, to satisfy the anxiety of
►e actual presence of the ►nor
: on the alert, and prepared for
desperate character he, had to
tious circuit round the hut, at
tom it, and as far as possible,
Pursuant to this plan, he
of the two vinous up to the
that there were ho foot-prints
irectiun. These circomstan
°obis and uticeitainties, and
now to do but to act in the
oinarY drama, to capture the
own life.
with full 8111
•aks of the (I'
solitary land'
solemn site
h contained
ions pursuit
respecting t
•lio would b
of the tnust
ilent and ca
le distace
istinct view
e foot-trck
house,' an.
cabin irr:any
at rest- all
had nOthin;
.e of this sad !
s or lose hisl
I through the shatter d clap
icier was made, a feehl light in
ad just seen
f which the
NE
ral
'Wh n the day dawned, the work of death being
fin shed, Lambert prepared to return home; having
aa.ompl shed in a few hours, and with his single
ar , whit would have immortalized any hero of the
ages of chivalry. When deserted by his faintL
hearted companions among the mountains, this man
of iron resolution and lefty moral energies, never
fal ered or betrayed the least hesitation of purpose.
Hi weredruly the virtuous and °noble fixedness of
uns,ubduable resolution, in the cause of justice and
huniunity—the lion's heart and the eagle's eyel—
Th orator in the forum, the statesman in his di
plo lacy, the law-giver in his legislation, and the
her in his battle-fields—have each the. stimulous
of public adukation urging him on to the achieve
-1
me t of renown—but what has a man of obscure and
low y fortunes, like John Lambert—who knows thrit
when he dies his name and memory will perislito
incite him to virtuous and noble deeds? I answer, 1
the trengthening consciousness of superior recti
tude, the divine impulses of a pure and noble mind,
and the exalted and imperishable sentiment of im
mortelity." -:
Reader, John Lambert was a Christian—a' true
believer in the divine mission and 'identity of Jesus,
Christ! This, at once, solves the whole problem of
his heroic virtue; in the cause of justice and human
ity, as just detailed to you. • -
"Lambert now accepted the loan of a horse, from
his aged and venerable friend, the poor old woman
of the mountains. He next placed his living captive
on the animal, after having pinioned his arms -be
hitt& him, and secured his feet below the horse.—
And then ; 'fastening the dead body of the miscreant
i
he had killed, across the shoulders of the horse, and
firmly lashing it to its companions in iniquity—he
gravely led the horse, thus laden with the living
and dead Murderers, back to Mr. Stottler's, where
he found many persons assembled, from all sections
of the adjacent country, and among them the chop-
Catlett deserters of his heroic and successful adven •
-
ture; who met; in the contemptuous countenanc.is
Of the assembly, the disdainful reward of their timid
ity and cowardice.
"The captive murderer was soon sent to jail, and
itkilue coursesof time expiated his crime, under the
gallciws.
'
" his z was the last robbery and murder ever after
perp 'tutted on this wild and lonely road.' Instead
of the rich plunder the murderers had expected from
the ' rover il
rover on the white horse, o they found but three
or fo ir• defiers in the pockets of' poor Pollock, whom
they had mistaken for the veritable rich drover, who
arrivrd at the place a few days after the tragedy,
with his money safely deposited in his portmanteau.
When lie had been informed of all the particulars
relating to the murder of the deceased, and that he
had left a widow and large family, he constituted
himself the guardian, brotector, and faithful friend
of Polfock's bereave d destitute family, and made
them Ina heirs at his decease, which happened soon
after." I
THE WIFE'S AUTHORITY.
"I never, undertook but once," said Tom "to set
at naught the authority of my wife. You know her
way—cool, quiet, but determined as ever. Just af
ter we were married, and all was nice and cozy, she
got me into the habit of doing all the churning.—
She never asked me to do it, you, know, but then
the way it was done was just in this way. She fin
ished breakfast before me one morning, and slipping
away from the table, she filled the churn with cream,
and sat it just where I could'nt help Seeing what
was wanted. So I took hold regularly edough and
churned until the butter had come. She didn't thank
me, but looked so nice and sweet about it, that I
felt well paid. Well, when the next-churning day
came along, she did the same thing; I followed
and fetched the butter. Again and - again it was
done' just so, and I was regularly in for it every time.
Not a word said, you know, - of course. Well by
and by, this began to be rather irkaom. I wanted
site should ask me, but she never did, and I couldn't
say anything about it to'save my soul; so on we
went. At last I made a resolve that I would not
churn another time unless she asked me.' Churning
day came, and when my breakfast—she always got
nice breakfasts—when that was swallowed, there
stood the churn. I got up, and standing a few mo
ments, just to-give her a chance, put on my hat and
walked out of dool•s. I stopped in the yaritto give
her time to call me, but never word said she,\and so
with palpitating heart; I moved on. 1 went down
town, and all over town, and n y foot was as rest
less as was that of Noa h's dove. I felt as if I had
done a wrong, I didn't exiictly feel how, but there
was an indescribable sensation of guilt resting upon
me all the forenoon. It seemed as if dinner .time
never would come, and as for going home one min
ute before dinner time, I would as soon have cut my
ears or. So I went fretting and moping around
town till dinner hour came. Hume I went, feeling
very much al a eritninal must when the jury is out,
having in their hands his day for life or death:
I couldn't make 4 my mind how she would•
meet me, but some kind of a storm I eipected.—
Will you, believe it? she never greeted Jae with a
sweeter smile, never had a better dinner for me than
on that day; but there stood the churn just where I
left it! Not a word was said I felt confoundedly
cut, and every mouthful of that dinner seemed as if
it would choke me. She didn't pay any regard to
liotever; b - ut went on just•es nothing had happened.
Be ere dinner was over I had again resolved, and
shoying back my chair, I marched to the churn and
went at it in the old way. Splash, began the but
ter 'paddle, splash; but as if in spite the butter never
,was so long at earning! I supposed the cream stand
ing se long, had got warm and :so I redoubled my
effiirts. Obstinate matter, the afternoon wore away
while I was churning. I paused at last, from real
exhaustation, when she sprite for the first time:=
"Came Tom, my dear, yen have rattled that butter.
milk long enough, if it's only for fun your doing it!"
I knew how it, was in a fl ash; she had brought the
butter in the forenoon, and left the churn standing
with the buttermilk in, for me to exercise with. I
never set up myself in househqd matters of • r that."
PHENOMKNON.—A very brilliant phenomenOn was
visible from.Williamburg andltrooklyn, and partin
so from our city, last Friday evening. Just be
fore sunset, the horizon was covered with dense
thunder clouds, which extended to the zenith, and
Were also very black in the North and South. As
the storm advanced, they appeared to be concentra
ting over New York, and from our position on Long
Island presented a very grand appearance. ,At
about fifteen minutes before sunset, a sudden flush
of gold pervaded the lower portion of the cloud di
rectly West of us; and then as suddenly spread until
the whole semi-circle from the North to the' South
point was flooded with an inconceivably brilliant
golden lustre. It wee dazzling to the eyes in • any
!portion of the Western sky. This strange wall of
gold advance swiftly until it hid New York front
our view. The city seemed involved ins flood :of
terrilre beauty: We observed the commotion , of
coming tempest in the dense black clouds above the
gold, but the latter appeared like a perfect, unwav
log, unbroken, wall, Weeding from the North point,
or a little East of North, to the extreme, South, • a
little higher at the West:than at the vittramities..—
A !Alterae might have been pardoned* fright at the
scene, ' Children were in great terror, and
some older peisens. In the midst of. the 'whole, a
sudden edge Of deep crimson scorned .to ' ray oat
from the clouds, and at that motnent a flash of ligli
ning passed five times up and down 'erase the gold
In the West. We never have seen so brilliant an
appearance. It was more.like eeudden rift in the
clouds,' letting through•the indescribable glory,' in
ita full radiance, which **fore been struggling
tbreugit clouds.
Thla ecen9 ivit's followed by a huirtitineend storm
of rain, but 'ittiVo'clOck in the evening, the west
ends ef, liaised were - lit• aX If by a large fire. The ,
seine appearance was - noticed as far east as Hart
ford and Nevy:HaVen..-.N. Y. Aroma' of. Cons
.
ER
1 TWO DEATV,43
From the Pennont CI rankle.
"Look !loft on this picture, ( then ou tlutt."
~' It was a gorgeously furnished appartment in the
place of England's queen. TOe windows are hung
with crimson velvet; the sofas id draperies are of
the same rich material, tastefully arranged. Cost
ly and beautiful paintings from the ancient masters,
in massive frame decorate the walls. The last rays
of the sun, breaking through tie crimson curtains
shed a soft and mellow light thr,ough-the apartment.
,Reclining upon a royal comic!), a noble queen lies
dying. Her countenance is seyerely stern, and ex
pressive of determined resolutio?. That broad fore
head is contracted, as if in pail She has" enjoyed
all the honors this world
' w ealth
can bestow. How worth
leas pleasure and renoWn appear, as the vis
ta' of futurity opens upon the eYe of the soul. The
scene of eternity now unveil themselves to her as
tonished visi(m, and her whole keparation for that
untried state is crowded into. a. ew brief moments.
•Now despair is depicted in ever feature; the lash
ings of conscience are terrible. 'he actually writhes
under - excess_ of mental anguiSh: there , is an ex
preanin of awe in the countenance of every behol
der, and the profound silence of terror seems to.per-",
vada the apartment. With accents faltering in
death. the dying Elizabeth -exclaims: "Millions of
-money for a moment of time." Miserable women;
she possesses wealth and fame she is surrounded
with pleasure and luxury—anc yet she shrieks in
vain for a moment of time. There is a groan, a
spasm, and all Is still, the heart las ceased ttsthrob
bing and that soul stands in the *sone° of Jeho
vah. Proudly did she rise' abuie the great and the
gifted upon the earth:
"But who should soar the lar height,
To set in such a starless nig it."
C. is r• '
I •
In a lowly cottage, half cone sled with overshad- '
owing feliage resides the family of the missionary.
It is a killy morning; the birds are peuring forth
el
their rich notes of melody; the air is p fumed with
the grateft4l fragrance of the tiowers, be 4 ,
ing, half
concealed, with the abundance of dew u on them.—,_
The windews of the cottage are throw i open , and
the fring,ed,curtains looped far] back to
,admit the
fresh breeze'. Although', every thing arounctseems
joyous, yet there is sorrow in that divellin,g; the
wife and mother; the devoted missionary is dying.
A smile is on her lip; in her cOuntenance there is
an unearthly beauty. Hers has been a life of sac
rifice and selfdonial in the - cause* her Redeemer—
she had given up the ease, pleasure and luxury o f
her early home to serve Christ. Now she is going
to reap her reward in heaven. eath has no terror
for her; serenity prevadee her Whole bearing as she'
draws near eternity. Her eyed are dosed yet via
-1 01121 of her early home, of childhood's joyous hours,
are thronging her mind._ Nov She joins in the wor
,:ship of God in the sanetuary r lnew unites in a hymn
- of praise; now she behdldsllie g ates of .heaven, the
river of life, while, earth and a its scenery grows
dim about her.
Look at her again. - lier fac
of an angel: those . lips -move
ceased its beating.
“The gentle air -
Comes through the open windosV freighted with
The savory odors of the early spring—
She breathes it not; the laugh of passers by
Jars like a discord in sonic mournful tune.
But worries not her slumbers. She is dead.”
Her spirit, borne on angel's w i
ngs, enters the gate
of the heavenly city. The min d of
of man never con
ceived such glory as now burst upon her enrap
tured vision. The ear of mortal never listened to
such music as now fills her soul with melody. The_
imagination never conceived such happiness as now
fills her whole being with delight. 7
•illefore the throne she stands sr4blime in robes '
(I\ ; Of glory; and now her fingers wake the chords
s ' To pxaise; which all in heaven rgpent."
WESTERN Rousivce,—ln Davis county, lowa, on
the 18th ult., Mr. John Parisat' married to Lina.
Jolly. The ceremony took pl ate in the open prai
rie, some two miles northwest of Bloomfield. The
parents of Miss Jolly were on tleir way from Shen
ler county, in this State, to Cali Jrnia and were met
by the youthful - Paris, who was searching in the '
prairie for a handkerchief he had lost the darprevi,
one. Lina like a second "Helen," toc k a "shine" to
the Young searcher after his bandana,, and Paris was
as suddenly touched in a tender part by the glances
of the fair maid. He accompani d her to Bloomfield,
where some of the citizens, haing discovered the
state of affairs, encouraged him to Wed Lina, and
save her from the wild rangers Of the Pacific—they
thought that such beauty should not be permitted to
leave the country. The young fellow did net:decide, ~
but followed on, and at length popped the question,
to which the Old folks agreed, piiovided he would ac
company them to California, fie refused; but with -
a sad heart. After kissing the girl, he returned to
town, where every one sympaized with, him, and
soon an escort was provided, a magistrate obtained,
and the young fellow proceeded buck to old Jolly's
camp, where the united eloqiie ce of the party won
;he old man's consent, and the couple was married
on the spot. On this ocasion c. rn bread served for
jt
the wedding c e and, the ext act of corn for the
wine. The of nun blestled th ni both, and moved
off towards Cali ,
ornia, while t e bride and groom
;returned homeward in triumph. Huzza for the great
west—may her young men al 'ays be•able to get
jolly!-2t Louis Reville.
, .
LAUGUADLE INCIDENT RELATIVE TO A PETICOAT.
—Daring he last session of the Ohio Legislature,
a bill for ire punishment of seduction and adultery,
was forcibly and successfidly oposed by the_mem
it
berfrom—,who seemed ti have his heart set.
upon its defeat. Soon after hi , return to his con
stituency, he received an ominueus looking package,
and withfit came a note which recognized in good set
terms his efforts imbeluell of the weaker sex in the
Legishiture, and begged his acceptance Of what
seemed to the writer the most fit present as a re
ward for his services. On o ening the package
thelawgiver! 'foetid 'only a well' worn, and not over'
clean.fionncl peacoat! Not tcf be, outdone in • the
matter, he ack..owledged, by advertisement in the
paper of the following day, the receipt of the present
with courteous thanks for this end other favors, ad
ding the omission of the fair W•riter's name to the
note though momentarily annoying, proved of no 01- '
timate consequence, as on exanfinatiorrOie recogni
zed the petticoat! Of course none of the fair sex
will ackno'tvledge having sent the package.
.•
A 'FLARE , VP , IN HARR.SIICR ..—The Harrisbtirg -
Union gives au amusing accoun ore blow-up at the
late TAYLOR meeting in Harrisburg. between the el
ements of Nativist!' and Whiggery, which began in
a struggle for precedence, and ended in a sort of
compromise. The Union says: .
ifThe names of about fifty Vce Presidents--one
halftArative.thnericans—but ni t
etenths of the whole
tint in attendance were reads After the Secretaries
' were appointed, - .Pli' j. Jones, without the aid of a
Committee, read three -resoluticns approving of, the"
nomination of Gen. Taylofas if e people's elsmiidate,
but saying not one word about - Whig principlitlt-On4.
utterly abaadoaing•all principle. : : -!! - 4 ~ ‘,i
, The fact is that not withstan mg greatiefrorts bad t
been made to get up enthusias , the meeting wean:
failure. The old members of he party Were; .
there, and we very much questi itt whether they can
lie brought , to the polls to vote or. General Taylor.
Tho meeting wound up with three chei3rxtor Gen.-.
Taylor, and three Cheers - for Marry Clay,:and three
cheers for Gen. Cdss. ,
~
Oanoos..-The population o Oregon is. estimated
by the President at 19,000, which will be Consider
ably increased by emigration th l e present year. - Mr.
Polk, in his message mrging th extension of juris
diction, rei 'yids Cr -v that, , e
,- Intended the
'me:sage
again in
03" W:
appilintedsupet
sytvania. Atiesciaterrt - appoints
01
,IBER 9.
is calm, like that
l ot; that heart has
1:Isi ii.,+l.lzol
of 1846, and
has been re
ad" in Penn-