past s ,Trovitto'F; *tied•Vntirg. A Rain Dream. Br WILLIAM C1714 . ..E BRYANT These strifes, these tumults of the noisy world, . Where Fraud, the coward, tracks his prey by stealth, And strer gth the ruffian, glories in his guilt, Oppress the e heart with sadness: Oh, my friend, In what serener mood we look upon The gloomiest aspect of the elements - Among the woods and fields ! Let us awhile; ,'As the slow wind is rolling up the storm, 'ln fancy leave this maze of dusty streets, For ever shaken by the importunate jar Of commerce, and, upon the darkening 'air Look from the shelter of our rural home. Who is not awed that listens to the Rain, Sending his voice before him ? Mighty Rain! The upland steeps are shrouded by thy mists ; The vales e gloomy with thy shade ; the pools , No longer glimmer, and the silvery streams Darken to veins of lead at tby approach, ;Ob, might-37114:in! already thou art here; :And every roof is beaten by thy streams, And as thou. passest, every glassy spring Grows rough, and every leaf in all the woods Is struck and quivers. All the hill-tope slake Their, thirst rom thee ; a . thousand languishing fields,, A thousand fainting gardens are refreshed; A thousand idle rivulets start to speed, And,withlthe graver murmur of the storm I Blend theft• light voices as they hurry on. I • Thou ffirst the circle of the -atmosphere - Alone; there is no living thing abroad, No bird to wing the sir, nor beast to walk The field; the squirrel in the forest seeks His hollow tree ; the marmot of the field Has scampered to his den ; the butterfly Hides under her broad leaf: the insect crowds ; That made the sunshine populous, lie close ' 1 In their,roysterious shelter, whence the sun Will summon them again. The mighty Rain Holds the vast empire,of the sky alone. • I shut my eves, and see, as in a dream, The friendly clouds drop down spring violets ; And summer columbines, and all the flowers ;'That tuft the woodland floor, or overarch The streamlet:- 7 -Spiky grass for g enial June, 1 / '; Brown harvests for Afe • waiting husbandman, And for the woods a deluge of freshleaves- I see these myriad drops that slake the dust, ;.Gather in glorious streams, or rolling blue I•In billows on-the take or on the deep,^- And bearing navies. I behold them rhang,e To threadkof crystal as they sink in 'earth, And leave its stains behind, to Ilse, again ' ' In pleasant nooks of verdure, where the child, ',Thirsty with play, in both his little hands , Shall take the`cool clear water, raising it .To wet his pretty lips. Tomorrow= noon How proudly will the 'water-lily ride The brimming pool. o'erlooking ; like a queen, I.Her circle of broad leaves. In lonely wastes, When next.the sdnshine makes them beautiful, ,Gay troops of bathrflies shall light to drink ' At the replenished hollows of the roci;. I No* slowly falls the call blank night, and still, .All through the sfarless , hours, the mighty Rain Saiitea with perpetual-sound the forest leaves, '• 'And beats the matted-grass, and still the earth I ;D:inks the unstinted bounty of the clonds, • Drinks .for her eottre wells; her woodland brooks, . ; ;Drinks for the springing trout, the toiling bee 'And brooding bird, drinks for her , tender flovi , • ars, Tall oaks, and all the herbage of her bills. A-melancholy sound is in:the air. A deep sigh7in the distance, a shrill wail • ;Around my dwelling. 'Tie the wind of night'; A lonely wanderer between earth and cloud, • in the black shadow - and the chilly mist, ;Along the streaming mountain side, and throw+ 4 The dripping woods, and o'er the plashy fields,' ;',Roaming and wowing still,Ake one who makes '; The journey of life alone, and nowhere meets I!A weJeom or a friend, and still goes on, •,In darkness. Yet awhile, a little while,. And he shall toss the glittering leaves in play, And dilly with the flowers, and gaily lift ; • The slender herbs, pressed low by weight of rain, And drive, in joyous triumph, through the sky, ";White clouds, the laggard remnants of the storm. Alba! mints. HANNY IgEALL:I lam aphelor ! • Don't suiiie oipass judg 'mem ras upon iae—l must tell why lam what I aui. / can scarcely remember, when 'my father • removed to•the new village of Brookville. It *ma, too, that there is a dim'. remembrance of an old house by the lake,, It is all vague, dim and uncertain,however.). a Yet I some times find lingenng within me vision of an old brown building, with elms in frOnt and.. a sleepy lake down in the vale, such, I have , beard my father say,- :was our These impressions seem to me as much like dreams al realities, and no. wonder either, for the foot steps of long yearstave marched over them. But I do remember distinctly :a broad river that we crossed on our way to our new home, that is tbe most distinct of all—its silvery. \raves flashing around the flat we crossed l over on are not to be forgotten.' • • ' The streets of Brookville were not cleared of stumps when we entered a little cottage on main street. There was, a 'newness and freSliness about everything there. It, was not 18,4 before it began to' assume a busy char aiter, as new settlers came in, and new' stores , airl shops went up. My father was a brick layer, and I carried' some of the brick and mortar, that went' into what is now called . ''ibe old Court. House at Brookville," and I laiiPed to refit its brown Walls. Time flies! Among.ethers who came to Brookville was roan named Neall. He had., been a rne.r ell'ant in one of the seaport_ cities, but failing by; injuilicioui - speculations, he had retired. I with a little' wreck of his fortune, to the' new vilfage, either to recruit or to spend the eve ning.of his life in quiet. I never knew which. Ile had been a hard drinker during the few last - years-;--the demon in the wine glass had , been the main rock on which be wrecked his andhis - srife.he left in the city, in the grave -yard- he . hind , the steeple church--a n t there by hii - abases and cruelty. So said the old shoemaker who came with Neall front the city. , Nannies Neal! was like ..a bright star gleam ing in the stormuight among the clouds. She waslthe only child of the comer, and a love -I.y being she was ! She was just my age, or ' nearly, not quite—from Aprii to June iva.s differenc4, ' believe. Neall managed to get a house a few rods from ours; and he with his daughter, a sour old dame of a housekeePer, and the old shoe , maker, bothof whom came with him, consti tuted his family. 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' • \ " • -.: • down `in n the learing - on the trolikside:, after which the village was maned, and there for a full hour we played, "tatitive's . biise" among' • the broad walnut . andpopalar Stumps that. stood tike watching sentinels in the vale. - ' Thavery nest day we went 'sant together, on, the_hills with our baskets, - arid. gathered - whottlebeffies_, and talked . ,and played ,among - the -flicks, and when the drew tired sat down and she.told me of her mother-4f how AA used,to Weep while she sat at.- her feet, and then died in the old night with consumption and ajbrolien heart, and that ti*Prieit, said ,she went to live,with . the Virgin IFAngels. 1, have : Since thought that her matiier was per 4 haps tt•Patholie,;but of - this lam not certain.; Nei:di - put up 'a tavern in ,BroOkville, and the..neW settleragathered there and drank. I remeMher the first :night there Was a nUise , and latighing, fiddling and dancing, and sing-: 1 ing'there, and I - thought . 1 it must- be some -1 1 thingvery nice . .btit my mo.ther ' i told me it, ; was it!very avitled .; place,. and that 'I, mot , never: 0 there. 1 I often: wished My mother had not told me that, for, my Nannie was', there;and she was my dearest frieud. Years passed as others had, and NatinieH and I grew up; she ,was one or the loveliest', "creatures of female beauty I had lever seen.; She waa as gentle as the , whispermgs of--the!, white-iiinged zephyrs among the .April flow-' ; ers, and as pure as• the filly that bent beneath , , the iiiitniner breeze to the kiss' of the rippling -waves Of the meadow rill ; anji yet she was reared:among, the 'Wrecks of a father's fortune, and had beard, tithe after time, the rude, jest . .coarset and drunken ribaldry Of - drunken men aroundlhe little bar, her father kept. : . Nantiie•was- happily in possession of.the virtueswhich ennoble and beantifY woman's character:. She-was kintii and cheerful ;4'16-, Ither will nor inelaticholy, yet the lOvely calm 1 of her countenance was tinged with ashade i of sadness—motion, look, tone, deed, were gentle =44 the spring-time sun-beatn . 4 shim thefinge"anaeng the garden flowers - Nannie I Nealltwas the loved one in Brookville: . I'lov'eti her When we were childre,n playing on • copse and-.heath, - on, rock .andidell ; :and now that We were grown I loved lierwith all pas;itinate ilolatiy efiny younginanhOod. - N4t a Whisper, of fore ever passed hnr lips— end yet the secret was written in - and.folidly , eherished by.,.eath hidden heart. 1 Al, we Were 'happy 'in this secret heart worship. IWe were often together in the wild' tilled: where ; we - had gathered beriies when r h eliildren ; along the brbok where the waves danced o'er their pebbly-path that 10 to•the riVer; in the Old w s where oak and "pine ponied - their taper s i tit. res'u'p.to heav=en, we rambled :and dre.amed , and loved in -silence, with } none, but natiire with U., s.. For' hours ive 1.4-e sat on -the 'brook brink -watching the',l 1 — frisking : fish gliding like golden creatures among the erys )tal waves and the ' clear way.elets hastening aWav, the mellow sunlight , trembling ,onl the . jtee tops and falling-away behind the hills, and all\ the time we felt t hat ,'our _ hearts held Sweet communion in breathless whispers— dins a holy tie ; was Weaving ! : woof Land Web into our life and hope Sand destinies. 1 . -.1 . 01d Neal! became aware of eiigrowting, intimacy 'and became [enraged. One evening . when I had gone . to . spend a few hours Witt Nanglie atlher horne, - the 'Ohll-min eatne to tha little sitingroom' 1 wherei we_ vVere, Sad sternly,erdered me. sway. I arose, and a tear drop hint .upon Nannie'seyelid. IltoOk any hat,-and as I went out, th 6 old ,nansungOut after use—" Hod Carrier !" .; r'• I. The old housekeeper flattened her ugly face against the glass door betweeni the two rooms and echoed the chortis—"llod car rier!" I 1 The old shoemaker stopped itammeritig his leather as I went out, and spoke lowland said 1 he Would see me that evening. ! , 1 ! 'The rabble in the .dram lattop,l ithro - ugh Avhich I had to pass, cauft- the hots of the derisive taunt, and shoutedit afterine--"Ilod carrier!" The infernal taunt ringi in my ears 'et. . '' . ;' ' 1 ; [ . Th ,v atevening the, old shoemaker saw me and told me Nannie loved me find we should see each other clandestinely. LA than -ed him, and thrOugh his interference,. Nannie and I met each; other almost every da , and talked and loved. • . • . And!, this way we spent sot eof our hap ' piest hours, dreaming of the 1)1,-s that was to be our in a few short 'monthii for wren the • summer was pro.M l we, were ffit - e arried. Love with us was a ;reality, and in the Soli tudes about Brookville we &reamed. of' its 'I bliss, asiterrether we tvatched the drfiling of the white clouds ridiagon the ',blue ocean of the sky.. . - ' I Our dieams werelike[theclodds. . A cloud was in the sky with a:storm in Its bosom too, but. wesaw '.it not. ,:* , * i•*. •*, 1 * _I Christmas day we were to be maried.— ;, None knew,it, however, except !the old shoe inaker. and Rob 'Lincoln. RobWaskeonvey her to a neighboring louse in-,lfis'neW sleigh, and I was to meet him there with the[ village parson. ', Snell was the,arrangeinent. [- $ , The, dayslbefore Christmas , the hills and houses' were white With snob ; ifrOokville Was all life (Or the enjeYments Of the[sca 'son. That morning two strangers ar&eared in ottr midst, Non knew from wbetfee they came. them i n , 11 ti3<it them tne streets early.: ; in the day. ;disliked their looks and turnedi,asideJ, There was a lnrkiniloOk of Sin lingering about. the 'face of the eldesi,—fa heartleslobking Wretch. The youngerisppearedibat little;hetter. i All day le;ng the revel increased in and about Neall'p house. lOnce 4e i twiee there clime near 'bepag a fialit.', Justinfter sundown Ilmet Rob Lincoln r uning toNals his fath li er's house at !full s' ed. I luid:_ no trine to aSk- liim 'a sinrsle ' • , t don There isins the Mildest- e' L.• I I l _• • . the, brave, wi terrortlasuing from. tne urave young tr#Ltec. eye -S Run iwithritte V 4 meal! s--run, dreadful dares; there," [and he.grasped my aim . and I•bonnded away L with him. I Iligt'l the Wind blows talawiust',aS it flitiek ed. by my ears} as I ran- up , kite showy ( street of Brookville on that fatal ei/ening. [Draw your chair 614,6 r; I wish ',to,ipettlt.. iti whis pers now. ,Within Neall's 110usi t ts when. w reached it, I . 4ithis scene; 1 - ; 1 The old hoffsekeeper istdod with ter[ch ..,, ped! hands folffed in hei yelloiv 'apron, Zvil 4 her 'f . flattened against a . dirtt Pant ) of a a ,gl• • floor looping in to the tavern.. tt. few of th .t Ivillagei tots were staggering • aro,und the room, or half dozing on the pine benches at the flre; the old shoemaker!,se-ented ledg . -: ed with Neall,twho was,nearlyt drank, co re voke some de4ree of his and my f owaNan-• ~ pie was struggling in the 'armh of one of the two stratigerrittle tile othei• stood a little „way off grinning with grini satisfaction!! • . .A. `'+I I AEEKLY 3OMINAL---DEyOT-ED TO POLITICS, KEW, LITERATU'4 AGRICULTURE., SCIENCE, END *ORAISET.-: When . mered in - "So, ho. Nan to a city ) . roleaux of gold c I._ up from the throat .1 ser.. • • ' , Nannie sold ?, 1. . , . - - I grew dizzy—t* room, ..ith its tragedy seemed to whitl around wit. -me. heard' the familiar Voice of the old sb.. baker cry out: . . 1 • .. , . . . "Mr. Neal!, how can you limier .yo• own, child away to . one •Whose heart is to-da: as block as-any purgatory, after pionisifig-yo.. . pod T dead 'wife to be bath father and•mother to the dear child 1", • A drunken curse came from the hot lungs of the - father against, the shoemaker and bis own child ; " lietterlthat than the wife of an infamoas hod earriei!" saw the old wotian's pitted face grinning against the glass., .And then I saw the mild • blue eyes of my 'poor; half distracted, Nannie. almost starting from', their 84cl:es, and her right hand, that was free from ,the monster's grasp, held out imploringly to, me for 'help. She screamed my name: I rushed to the res cue. Rob Lincoln Was before me: Draw your chair closer. Old Neal!' was enraged that we should dare •to rescue his child .friam the.infainy to which he. had sold her, and! grasping. the old_ shoe maker's hanimer froth the bench; he hurled it at us. • The Weapon hew close by Rob's ear, and struck the head jof my poor • Nanuie.— With a low Murmur, of "Mother, mother!" she sank in my armS,to the floor - The ~two strangers fled forever from Iyookville. I call , : ed again and again to Nannie to tell me that she had not fled from earth to heaven, but 'she kept her blue eyea fired upon me, and a changeless smile rested upon , her damp face. And all .this time the old housekeeper kept her hideoui face pressed -- against the glass, :grinning through the scene: And : old Nenll stood with his, arms folded, clutching in one ;hand- the roleaux of gold. leaned againand ,again' to Naanie, and like it child, whispered in her ear, that I loved her still;' but the changeless smile was the only. answer. I he!d her head in my arms and wept. The old. shoemakerjan and brought the Tillage ;surcreon. Ile came . and knelt down by her i!on the, tavern floor, and took het pale bands his. I loved him more than ever for,hold- Ong it so softly and tenderly, ,exa mining the livid spot half hidden by.her auburn hair, where the }launder had struck. I could bear rt no i lon g er. I whist weed, "Doctor, - is‘Nan etie gone r—l could not say idead; but . iw orse I And he laid his slender lingers signifieant ily on his noble brow. -• Rob Lincoln, the doctor and the old shoe , maker carried Nannie from the tavern to the ductor's - house, and I follow/A.. And the' blood of the.victim fell drop.- by drep on the pure white snow.. -- The nest day old Neall went to' • eternity. the Angels of Rettibation• had Watched bis Meps and had marked his. last • going out, the shaft ( -, f the Pale Archer had Smack im to vex and then destroy. In the bat • strife kith the demon of dolerhWtu tremens he was Overcome, and his sr.irit shrieking, with 'fears, Went to be judged by him who' weighs Itu Mortality in the eternal balanced Truth. Ile was buried beneath the . snoir-web that jay on the yard behind the village church, fund no eye in Brookville wept. bay after day I watched. by the bedside Of poor 2 N.annie, and whispered to her, and Wet her dry lips with water. She mostly lay With her languid eyes closed, bat when. she did' openthem they stared out at me with .4uch terior that I shrank from them. And 4.lte wothi ,paint her finger at me, and call Mein monster, and command ate to . carry her . hack to Brookville, to her own . dear—. Oh ! bow agonizing that was! To liearber call My.own name and link it with *the . fondest, endearments, yet look. upon me as the mon ster who had bartered gold 'for her level nesi. Thus, days and . nights passed,: and the :faithful surgeon all the time endeavoringi, to Call backiher wandering mind. _tlt was 0 in vain.." The cloud that bad drift ai; our : suMmer Sky had burst upon . us.in a winter storm that knew no spring time of life 1. My poorloved and lost Nannieseall! She sits in, the broad flock of sunbeams that falls through her window in . one of the little rooms 4t . the 1) Asylum; a harmless, dreaming Innatie, . 71y Fellow. Passenger. What strange characters one sometimes Meets intravelliug 1.. I was lately going some distance by railway, and thought at one of the stations I was to be, leftls&us; when just as trie train was starting, in k stepped a little, p'ompus, grey : laired old gentleman, almost as finical in his attire as the celebrated Beau Ifrummel. To have determined exactly what time of life lie had .arrived at witild have been quite impossible, as he was .an Odd mixture of iouth and age; . his manners :and move reeks being as gay as a youth ,of eighteen. After picking up nip little badret; which bad fallen, presenting it. to me with a bow ,which any • exquisite' . might have envied, and re- Ordiag me with as, inquisitive alook .as was consistent with politeness, he (apparently sat isfied With his scrutiny) seated himself oppo site me with the evident detertuiton.hmof hav- I:. "a talk." i - '.... 1 to thispart of the country be fore., madam f" . , , . . • ,l," IsTo.r . - . : • • 1," Ah ! 'then you, hill 'be very,, glad -to get seine 'one to point-out the / different places 'to , you; one can't enjoy travelling otherwise.--r Pray look what a fine bold ~scene we'at_pres- -, • cut passing! that tower built on the very edge priso) I ontrost, cS , usque4antta Couittp,.Tenit'a, Iftbrttarg I', 1055. • blood bolled%in every knotted vein 1-- prang intpthe arena, old Nea .drunken tieter; Hod Carrier, I've sold ritleman !" and he held up a -kip.: A low laugh gurgled - 4 the infernal pureha. And there she will sit and chatter to her bird and her straw until the good angels beck leraway ! I have sat by.her side in that neat little cell, looking into-the tfreamy! eyes, many a lOnely hour, but she never knew me ! She sometimes calls to her kind hearted awayl” matron," ,- and bids her I " take 'the stranger And I have sometimes seen tears in that kind' hearted woman's eyes as I have depar ted, at. the slime time if rging her to treat her 'Poor Nannie kindly.' . Andnow, fair readers, do yOu wonder that tam bachelor? . _ Believe this, for me,. there " never was 'but one Nannie Neal% and3-she yet. lives, hut a lunatic! - of the rocks, and the - deep ravine of dark, un derwood beneath." , 1 ";Nothing to what We shave in Scothtad," was'lny somewhat ungracious reply. I n Scotland! ah, ,I thought yo U were froM the sister kingdo l m." (blow this cent of mine does betray Me I I do believe if I -went to the South Sea Islands, that the first question the good folks there would ask ine, after my..first sentence, would -be, "Are you (torn Sclltland Y") . " Sci you don't think Iwo can 'compete with it rs . • "Not In the grandeur'of your scenery."; " ! well, I believe you're right; I've been in ,Scotland, and. admire it very much. Pardon inc for asking, but are you a veid sw • "I am." I. 1 h l you look very young; shouldn't -• .1k four and twenty.."l, 1 intepded as a question ; howev ' in reply, and he looked a pt ', resumed after a pause. in, but had your husband V think y, This w, er, only smik the confused, ly. "Pardon me ag. his life insured I" ttN o. ,, " Ali ! what a pity !lev sure his life; it it really the proof of his love that 4 mart L should always d'O it, even if it wt. a few hundred pounds.; Rase you , dren I" 1 • - tt Ah ! I was just goiag to to insure ytetr life; I should to do' it. rm an agent for at pany, and I always take evi to recommend gentlemen an' I so." " I have no One theta won suring my life for.". - , "Ah ! but in case yeti shod do ,itt just nllow me to wive on the subject." ; "Oh ! no, pray don't trou 1 "No trouble in the world, it's just in my_way." I I I Seeing it wasrevitable, Il i .with the best gret:e possible t and appeared tistere but on er , iTords here and there. After were pretty numerous, but se. h4ress upon my mind that h 4 advantageous cornpany r in wi insure their life in Great Bri htusted,' he again returned to May I ask what your hue !" Consumption," . • ;What a- change came over man' s, countenance i The IO vanished, but the little grey e„ eel as if there wzu, a tear twin .rts he repeated : tnourefrilly: 4 I had a daughter who died two years since; she was as s 1 father need desire to look at, _take care ofWA; she .wo i and parties, poor qiing I poor tl " Was she long ill r' • " About a year,; she Caught cold by going to a ball; one bi ter's night. Her mother and . her to go; but Tom—that was —came for her, and she looko her roses and white mu4in, al both so happy-like, thativre hat to say, 'nay ; so go shetdid, and till three in the morning, drov open carriage, went .tcrher bi leave it' for months." -: • i "And was she never able to g o out again it " Oh yes ; when the snromerr -) retUrned, the. light came hack to her eyes, and the roses te her cheeks, and my darling waS as bright and gay as ever; singing liki a birtLand making her poor mother and me as happy as before that long illness; but, oh dear! she mou ld` not take care ofherself imy ti . Itwn little Lib: , la!" . - The old gentleman tu'zned away and put, T his head out of the window, . if to look at, something; but -I saw the tea 'again twinl4 ling in his eyes, and theirtemu ons motion of his lips." After a little, I . requ ted him, if if,; .was not too painfel,—to tell, ' more of hind,' sweet child. i• "Yes, I shall tell you ibecau I think you', feel for me, and like to speak a ut her.' She' continued well all summer, till - )be beginning ofVutum; and one glocnny da - , she must go;, away on an excursion to i the country, dressed] in.her laces and nruslinsi as if it were' the middle of summer and lit wa'n't going tot rain. Her mother wished her to put on al, warmer dress and shavvl,hut sh laughicland ' t said, " Oh, no ; if it breaks out fine, .I gliiidd I just look like an old woman, 41 .din that way, and they will, all be so - ,,g7 1 ; so mother 1 . • dear (and she had such ri4oaxr g "way with her,) do' let me go as Jam ; and Tom likes I this dress so much." There was,nd resisting her ;so off they drove, laughin and joking, and looking so happy and handsome—my poor child ! The rain came on as they'were returning; she arrived home drenched and shivering, and never set her prtty foot _on the green fields again I ,klut she died very happy, that was a' great' consolation to her. ' . .poor mother."* • • , We parted at tire next station -whir l a hear ty shake of the hand and o kind w sties n both i sides; and then I fell into are e rie on how !little we can judge of the. inner I man - unless • scene accidental circumstance calls forth the: under-current of concealed feeling. , For I ' thoUght, when the old gentleman was expa tiating on the merits of his insurance comps ny4hat his heart was bound up `in the mam-I molt of this world; and had no place for those deep affections-that lay hid beneath the friv olous manner and foolish attire. 'Well inay we ponder our Lord's precept, I" .nudge not lestiye be judged." 'Had I. .yiel?ed, too, to my ;impulse whencthe old genii i man began' his queries, I should have hastenidto the op posite side of the carriage, and thus deprived myself of what was a real in ulee and prof it—namely, sympathising snot tee's sorrow -1--t4e opening of those kind fe4lings in the heart, which must ever be bens vial' our naturally selfish naturesetLeiirtrie Hour..: ) , * nder the'corirm oe expression } there lurks : nisi rauchiatit error. The ban:Horn zukhith er h unta of worldly plearniee are tet the school in w rich the foal cap learn that we htiest of all les us—the lesion how todie._ . , 1 .• it -"-' _ .„ ,_ . To,nesite.pped up tha . genpernan who orris ngaged in. converee'On- !with about, 'a - do others," and *said r: -' 1 - -, I'-. ' •' , 'I seems to me I have 4ett yoei l pbysiogno -1 mymewhere, before, but, I cannot imagine whe .' ;eoper of a rely likely, I have been the for upwards of twenty yea TILE, BOSTON . March stllii 1770. On Friday, the-2d dal of March, 1770, a pidier of the twenty-ninth : asked to be em ployed' at Gray's ropewalk', and be was reptd sed in the coarsest words. He then defied the roperuakers to a b:ozing-Inatch ; and one of them accepting his challenge; he was.bea ten off. Returning with SeVeral, of his Ari com panions, they ton, were ven away. -A laiger number came dean' renew the fight -with clubs and cutlasses,- and 'in their turn encountered defeat. By this time Gray and others interposed, and - for that day prevented further disturbance. ', • -There was an end of the affair at the rope walk, but not at the barracks, where the sol diers inflamed each other' S passions, as if the honor of the regiment were tarnished. On Saturday they prepared 14udgeons ;.. and be ing resolved to brave the citizens on Monday night, they forewarned their particular ac quaintaince not to be abroad. Without duly restraining his Then, Carr, the Lieutenant Col onel of the twenty-nintb, Made complaint to the Lieutenant Governor Of the ir.sult they bad received. man should nip substanoal_ &m.o. o only for -I chit- Thee°lonel deliberatinth on Monday,see4- ed of Opinion that the town would never - be safe, from quarrOs between the people and diets, as lona' as soldieip should :be guar; among them. In the present - ease the, the rope-walk gave satisfaction by - - the workmen complained of. - should on their part, have kept the barr q ls after nightfall. have insisted on measures too: Much wished the :4uenee at Weitminis - Lreconpnend Yot pe, most hat a ingurance co - •ler) , opportunity id ladies to flo s 0. teret owner The office their men wit)' Hutchinson shou' of precaution ; . *fit favor of all who had -ter.• . . • Evening came on. Thei',..oung moon. was shining brightly .in a cloudle:s winter sky, / and its light was increased"! by a new . fallen snow.,. Parties .of soldiers were de Vett - about the streets, making. a 'parade - of vale, • chall enging resistance, and staking the i t nabi tanLs indiscriminately sticks orsheat. cutlasses. . • • A band which rushed out front Murray' , s Barracks, in Brattle street, armed with clubs, cutlasses and bayjmets, prOvoked resistance, and in. affray ,enstled. EnSign Maul, at•ihe . gate of the barrack yard ctled to the soldiers;; "Turn out and I will stand by you ; kill thern ; stick them ; knock than !down ; run lyour, bayonets through them ;" and one soldier after another levelled a fire-lock end threatened to " Make a lane" through the'. • Just be fore-9, as an officer crossed King street, now State street, a barbert lad ?cried • after .him, " There _goes a mean felloiv - who bath not paid my Master for dressing his hair . ;" on which .the sentinel station* at the westerlyend of the Clitstom ! llonse ;on the corner ,of• __. • _ _ . Id think of in- ld ever wishlto ou a few bias I e yourself" my dear I:i4 ( resigned nays'elf the infliction, ly caught a f4w Ins hints (whiph stned to tend ' i to l is was the mist ich one could Ox his .queries: baud d;ed off the old gente ok of frivolity es almost look -ling in them, Consumption ! f. consumptiOn eet a girl as * ut she wouldn't d go to balls ;ping :" King street and Exelange i lane, left his post, :and with his-musket gave Ole boy a Stroke on the head, which made 'him stagger. and cry with pain. The street soon became clear, and nobody troubled the sentry, whenqiiparty of soldiers issued violently from the main guard, Ibeir arms glittering in the moon,'-light, and• passed on, hallooing ' " Where are they 1, . Where are they ? Let them-- clime: Presently twelve or fifteen more, uttemg the same cries, rushed from the south int King street,and so by way of Cornhill toward Murray Bar racks. "Pray soldiers, spare my. life,"cried a, boy of twelve, whom they`; met. "NO, no, I'll, kill you all," answered clue of them, and knocked him down with a . cutlass. They abused and insulted several ;persons at their door, and others in the street, "runningtibout like mad-men in a fury," crying"Fre,' which seethed their watchword, and "where . are they I Knock them down", Their outrage .ous behavior occasioned the ringing of the bell at the bead of,,King-street. The,citizens whoin the aliirrii set in motion came out with canes and chits, and,partly by the interference of well-dispised office's, part ly by the tutrage of Crispin - Attucks, a mu latto and some others, the figr,ht, at the bar racks was soon over. Of the' citizens, the prudent shouted "Ifome, home;" others it was said, called mit. "Huziah for the main guard, there is the nest;" but,"the main guard was not molested the whole evening. -- 1 A body of soldiers-came ' up. Royal) Ex change lane, crying, "Where are _the cow ards ?" 'and brandishing their arms, passed through King street. Frorn, ten to twenty boys came after•them, asking; "Where are they,- where are they?" "There is the soldier i who knocked me down,". said the barber's boy, and they began pushing one another toward the sentinel. Ho primed and loaded his musket..,"The lobster i 4 going to shoot us," cried the boy. Waving ; his piete about, the sentinel pulled the trigger. "If you, fire, you muSt die for it f' said - Henry Knox ' who was passing by. "I don't care,' reputed the 'sentinel ; "damn them ; if thhy touch tne, rn fire.". "Fire and be d--_-d} for they, were ,persuaded he could not do o lt without leave from a civil officer.; and a P6iing, fellow spoke t irut, "We will., knock him . down for sn-ap ping ;" while'they whistled through their fin gers andhuzzaed. , 1 '"Stand off,".said the sent 6-, and shouted nlond,r Turn nut the main guard. They are killing a sentinel," reportedi.a servant from !lie Custom House, running to the.-main guard "Turn out; why don't you turtiout?" cried Preston, who was capthin of the day, to the guard. " He- appeared in a great flut er of sprits," and.'spoke of them roughly. A iiarty of six, two of whom ' Ailton and. Mont gomery, had been worsted at the rope•walk, formed with a corporal in front, Preston fol- Vowing. With bayonets - fixed, they haughti ly "rushed' through the pehple" upon the trot, - cursing. them and pnshing them as they ient along., They found about ten perions round the sentry, while about fifty "Or sixty came down with them: "Far God's .saket," sidd Knox, holding Preston liy the ceatitake your men back again; -if- theyfire your life reust_answer for the consequences..- " L know What. I am about" said he hastily, . . ,ttated. - • : • . None pressed on them or twovolted" that'll til they began loading, when party of about be i elve in-number ,. with theii sticks in,their h nds; moved front the middle of the street, 1 Where they had been standi_ig, gave three elleers and' passed along the - rropt, of the sol dieni,-whose musitts some of them Struck se they went by. •." You are cowardly rascals," t i y said,-for bringing arms against naked nip; lay aside your guns, and we ate ready. A very severe itter frosty win- I didn't wise her sweetheart ,d so pretty in nd they 'dn't the hearts after dancin o home in an and didn't. Nistaricat *llO4 for. you. "-Are the soldiers t. loaded,", ' Palmer ,of Preston., "Yes," he answered, powder` and` hall" they going to fire upon the inhabitanW" ,asked Theo- , dere Bliss. ''"They'eafinot, without my or-. den," replied - Preston ; while, the ton born called out, " Come on, you ra scal_; you bloody backs ' you lobster scoundrels, fire if you dare. Welnow you daienoti" 'Just then' Mont gemery received a blow fronira stick' thrown which hit his musket; and the word "Fife," being given, he stepped a little on one side, and shot Attucks, who at the time was quiet lylleaning on along stick.' The 'people im mediately began moving.off.• "Don't fire," said Langford, the watchman, to &ilroi, look ing hiMfull in the face ; but yet he did so, and Samuel Gray, who was standing next to Langford ' with his bands in his bosom, fell. lifeless. The rest fired slowly, and. in suc cession on the•people who were dispersing. One aimed deliberately at a' boy, who was running for safety. Montgomery sthen push ed at Palmer to stab him; on, which the let ter, knocked the gun out of his hand, and lev elling a blow at• him , hit Preston. Three persons were killed, among them Attucks,the mulatto ; eight were wounded, two of them mortally.. Of all the eleven, not more than one had any shareln the disturbance. So infuriated wee the soldiers that when the men returned'to take up the dead, they prepared to fire again,„ but were Checked by . Preston, while the twenty-ninth regiment ap , peered under arms in King" street; as if bent on:further massacre. "This is our time," cried soldiers of the fourteenth, and dogs were never seen more greedy for - their prey. i The bells rung in ll the churches; the i town drums beat, " arms, to, arms,':_ was , the cry. And now 'Was to be tested' the true character of Boston. • All its sons came forth exelted almost to madness. Many were ab sobitely distracted by the sight ,of the detid bodies, and of the • blood which ran plentiful ly in the streets, and was imprinted in : all 'directions by the foot tracks on the snow.-- "Our hearts ," , says . Warren, "beat - to arms; almost resolved by one stroke to avenge the death of our slaughtered brethren." But I they stood self-pos.sessed and irresistable, de `mending justice according to the law. "Did 4ou know, that you should not have fired thout orders from a civil magistrate j' ask ed utehinson on meeting . Preston, "to' save ' If my `nu • • Thep le would" not be pacified till the, regiment a s confined to the guard-room and the barracks, and Hutchinson himself 'gave assurances that instant inquiries should be made by the Coqntry Magistrates. .The body of them then retired, leaving about one hun dred persons to keep watch _on the examina tion, which lasted 'till three- hours after mid night. A warrant was issued against Pres ton, who surrendered himself to the Sheriff, and the soldiers %she _ composed the part were delivered •up and committed to prison. 7 —Bancroft's new volume of History of Uni : - ted States. . , Fanny Fern. The publicatiOn of " Ruth Hall r has stim ulated public curiosity with regard to the, name end character of its authoress, and.. given occasion for a number of articles par.; • porting to describe her krson or narrate her. history, Some.of these articles dbntain state ments which we know to be groundless,' and even calumnious; and no one of - thefli that we have seen, is calculated to, give the pub lic' a Correct idea, of her character. We emhrace the opportunity to tell our readers a great deal more than they ought to be.- , Fanny Fern is the most retiring end unob-• • trusive of , human beings. More than any other celebrity we have ever known, she shrinks'from personal display and 'public 'ob servation. During her residence, in this City, she haslived in the mostrperfect privacy, no--; er going to parties or soreis, never . giving such . herself, refusing „to, enlarge her cycle of friends, and finding full employment its well as satisfaction' in her domestic andliteritry duties., i She•• has probably received More in vitations to private and„ public assemblies, and het:ecquaintancehasheen more frequent ly sought by distinguished persons, during the period' of her residence here, than esiy other rt4lividual. To alt solicitations, of this kind she returns a mild but decideAuegatiye. In the hotels at which she has resided, no one, neither landloid nor guest, has ever : known her as Fanny Fein. Indeed, she has an abhoance of personal publicity, and can not be persuaded to sacrifice any part of Are comfort of an absolute incog. We cannot but approve her resolution. Fanny Fern is a sincerely religious woman, the member of an evangelical denombiaticin, and a regular attendant at church.—We nev : "er knew any one who •believed in •a belief more strongly - than' she in hers, or who was more 'deeply grieved when - that belief I was treated with disrespect. No one sta ds, less in *We of coventronalities---no on'e is moro strict on a point of honor and pri ci it ple than she.: She is ,a person Who is able to do all that she is convinctd she ought, .and _to refrairf,from 'doing all that ship is sure she ought npt. In strength ef purtrrse, we know not her equal among,women. - i Fern word- which : ,best describes Fann y Fern is the'Word,l4dy.4ir her ways and tastes are feminine and refined. Everything she wears' every article of furnitnre in her -rooms, 'all the details of her 'table, mist be clean,eleAant, and tastefuL Her attire, which is generally ,. simple , and,inexpensive, isaiways •exquisitlY,,ntee And becoming, In • the storm iest days; when no visitor could be expected, she is as`, carefully dressed and'ifitairett its thoughAi, was going to court.: 'Weinxy; as carefully; thoughla fact r aluthruta quick ' in stinct for, the becoming, . and makes 7 hers& attractive ivithimt bestowing Her time Or_ thought upon the matter.' Her veicii is '..shi griiiffy musical; her manner varieS2with her huittor,i,but is-always that , of a latlyo44one. -whet knoifick s ouuy. }:ens,-. has- qn. , Pleit , , what kind of women they must have been for who knights-errant did. battle in 'di Middle ages. '-'With'itli her siren` gtli , Fartny- Aril ii ev trameliseulitisit-t She eau - majtiy ttore,l suf fer incite, Ictv.e more, 4 1 !Ate•morel Admile more mut detest imote,. Oaa- any one whqn):,.ive have 'lndia. With all her sentlinietta of manner, Aare' is'not i drop of milkind twat !pin her veins. - She befitivesin haviiirjus; Woe done. 13eveuty thiesitud,peevi, 00 ipould• .f org i v e a re' ntant - b her; but nekkuroollt loss he re red. F r Fanay ern writes nue* in ! k luge:bold • 1, • ME Volume 12, SUMINT hand; . but she sender)* articie"Withotit ' very , catelul revision ;and her manuscript is put, sling to printers from it numberless erasu 1 _ and insertions., She • writes'' , from her bea and her eyes; She - has littli aptitude. or.' . for abstract thought. She never talks of h r writings, and cares little for criticisni hnowev er severe. She is no more capable of writing an intentional ttoubk entendre, than'the'gross , minded men Who have acettsed.her of doing so are capable of appreciating the'-worth of, • pure_womanh*l.- - ''' ' Such:are some of our . impressions Of this celebrated authoress. We have read lately that she smokes, rouges ffirtsoltesses in Mil -linery, -Wears Wellington'boOts, snuffs candles at ten paces, performs on the stage, drives, tandem, and cuts an,unprecedented dash gen- ' erally, to the dash)! astonishment -of Broad way. Those whourefamiliar -with the wri tings of Fanny Fern do not need to be assured that each and all of these allegationik are nt- - rerly and ludicrously , false. , She is no such person. The people who have: assertedthlit she is, are either puppies whom she has obt, or women whom she has out out, Fanny -Fern, it is true,las a superb i figure and .a Stri king presence. But all her charms ire her own ;to nature, unassisted, she owes ell her beauty of figure, all the rosein, her cheeks, and every waving.curl of her silken auburn hair. To whiCh wondd,that no one of the namea,recently assigned her , in the papers is °her true name.—Life Illuttrated. Nohneninn—Letter from One of President Young's Wives. We take the following letter from theßoa ton Times, which states it came to them from a yesponiible source. The ladies mentioned have been the victims of Monrionism, and are ,! prepared to.eirse the mysteries of the creed in a light which will doubtless. Start the en tire community : - • Allow me to trouble you 'with these few lines . which I wish you to insert in your Dai- : ly Times. My object is this.- 7:1 I have been ' for the° last ten years •s' finfr believer in, the Latter Day Saints, or rather Mormonism.— My 'parents became followers of the celebra- 1 ted Joe Smith in an early day, and ernigreted.,l to Nauvoe. , , After the death of Smith and his brother we were driven from thence..-ne 1 society split; there were two: who - wished to t take their leaders place, and standat'the bead ', of the chnrch, but could not'sped; therefore they sepersted. ° Col. Whitn, and his . follow- 1 ers, that is, sue as believeA in him, 'went to . Texas, and are iving in peace and prosperity. ' Co!. White is a ar - o4hy Van .cornparoi. with ourg,reat, or ra eentstoriousßrigham Young, notwithtanding he has , been fo-rthelast three, years m i fawful husband that is according to their own JETS and rules.' Birt foitlie -last twelve months I have seen enough to !satisfy me; for what irlon't know about minium ism-is not worth knowing . ~.:They liavesecret : plots and, objects that-they „mean to =corn. plish. They 'censure the government fer 'net i protecting them in all their hellish "'works, For all this; they mean to havesatisfaction.-- My ikject in writing this is '•to - wain My fe male friends to beware of ' the: false . priphets wlm'are daily sent . out from c ille, -- Great Salt Lake City to deceive the people, It. is: my intention to trsvig through the United States, and visit all the principle cities,- and lecture o_n this important subject, tcreaution all young people who shoulh be so unforintrate as to be le . d into the ungodly trap.. Beware. ' . In Boston I shall deliver my first lecture, as that is' My native city. 'I have one young lady in company who also . le ft the Mormons with .me. She has renoun ced 'the doctrines, and will help : me in my lectures. We shall both be prese nt, and show Mormonism in its true.colors, which you never had in your en lightened State. Had it been represented in its true light, and its object told, there would not of been a follower left sweet New En g land to join sneh asset of impmitori, for I call them .- nothinrf else, knowing them to be . such. If there ;horrid be any elders Or followers of Mormonism I hope they will come to the lec tures 'and dispute-what we haVe toss) , it they can. We have and shall fetch'doeumeOts to prove our assertions. I We . stall be there in .a few Weeksi We are at present 1 staymg,i with friends,: and its soon as we are refreshed 'from - the journei' we shall start for Boston. It is near two Mouths since-we-left the Salt Lake City. ' Yon shall-hear from 'xrs#, again, with particulars. But no md,re at present from your,humble servants, ' i • i - . r - MIV.§. SARA.IIIOUNG.I MISS. ELIZA WILLIAMS. , ' me. -• 41. Dec Was of . il .111know-Nothluglain. The ,Union (IC' H.) Democrai of last - Week held a very sensible article.tipoii this *subject. The ediviritif that paper lied just ' returned from a tour through the State, 1 which\ gave him a good opportunity of ascertaining i the state of public feeling on the subject of Kno*- Nothingisti.--:After stating the 'fact thaethis. heresy is everywhere on the deeline f the Wri- ` ter adds:--„" A change has come over 1 the spirit ,and prospects oft linewkNothingism.. Inflated with its then recent suc c ess in Ittan 7 sachnsetts; , i it .looked'` at - - New Hampshire as already within its leontrol, and its jubilant deciples had actually commenced :an allot ment of the, aPoils,..: Perliser:Nin may , say more. ' Perhaps there were some Who hore the thing, no lore, - who' were'Anevertheless, half inclined tilieoniprornise with a foe which the* fared ,might not be - suese 'astally,,resist edi Rut Milne ieNt change.. The '•eober second th hi' It 9. stone its work 1 The,grim t heart of the: Deinociatio Party-i-gtnt heart throbi beneath', home-spun, jacket's, lon, vtlie MITI mid in the' valleys - of the : Ole-Ginn- Ito Siate-i visa/ I:and the fait4 en* per- baps feible,that‘ ibis he" - - miltitt - ))4erSh edt.laslgrOWD ts 3 •an IP fl exible-4.thqerminatiou that it alai/ bei. anti it Viiii6ititita - ..0f ' tha tiinea do not 40074* 11 ' ,14 ' t doinicira6y . go into thin ' contest `iiitlyttnennt 440 1 ' 3 * or , a s u o u ss f u i issua,-,:e, Tliev nausea -,trhich hare prodncial'ihis OAP& af l 4 - 044.14ted1 . :- -..: - ling tha'rPtPutet.t.,o4*ettY-Octh.g , 4"00 Snow-NolbiliOmnieMeni. ‘' It ho - iiiit 'even thiiiiiircifinink at' honest; failitkiistri:+l -meritfrOvhtire -tem titnew been'ii*Ao4.,, accord.Antholitioni m; in 'some et its. ttaies. It.irnot sirriply lin nor, whichnity„ . s, A .: _cnsett - Vnt a MPtiatrOUSSinfit e .! k . k4 kb ought To' 4 . liiiiral/0:: le ii 14%4' , u. p o tt : p a i. Ittipetextinree all itniit r iali,- - lbe' - Wit:- it complains of ' 3 ,10 not exist . ; eraibei do, it 'is the !Snit ofillits pirpCans tn'appifivie:m -04.: We hareilit be sure, a few !Judo:like; I•but they , ire notlikely to' be turned from the ell* of their ways . .b y such litierAngelical . I ".. • • ... === =EI - • • . - CHICA 0, Tuesday;Jatt.lB, 1855. ".;
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