Erie observer. (Erie, Pa.) 1830-1853, June 15, 1848, Image 1
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 I 7 H_• ,. •, • • „ •‘' • • = ;3, 4 ; I , • . , : - = _ _ - 3 oclett tloetrß crib llli cnuiDszav .IN 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, 1:11 ads cool Iffl MID land dells, .. . 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 the curl tween t out of leaves, bore the Two ba, breast a vital at, MEI EST conflict ME his handl gers! ;unbat, rest ag "A cu what w•a the c(eutt pliased ai l orent, 6 (aced fro l ideated t,l he trail MEI packed, elearnes "Whe t ate in t roe) the I li trail ca,wa: :v th an rollers drsever approach anstithe sound o i brauche loud the pant( mountai known ed mind nature,a I.or, and night an ' l set in, th ions wer 6rought, further c', each Intl turning . his dang "He % ustice o ude; an EMIE Qua jou repa red ith th right oot-step E 1213 ound no la way. "Afte welvo . 1 early 'di nue he h lia trac- 1 ort, ail iver; it ern Pen iii!FF,`ll a laze,' %v Phese a , ormed, rs of ro, 'or of th' nese; an 1 the see() 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, "He . boards ( , 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-