lase tirotrtears stlect 13,Betrg. ' For THE DEMOCRAT. . & Vbe Love-lora Haiden"s-Lament. A maiden knelt by herl(Wer's • A maid of sylph-like form ; • = Evemng had come, deep was the gloom, Pealed on her ear the loud thunder's boofo, And rOund•her howled the:atorm; Rude was the ).)last Tivtt . hurried 'past, f3hoWer.eloods streamed, (.\, . Red lightnings gleamed.„ •-• I. And round her hoWled the storm. ;. ' Yet heedeth she not the storm-god's wrath, Sweeping o'er hill and lea; • Borrow sho hath, dark is her path, tlffate's behest, she has felt the seath, A loce-torn maid is she; Sad and alone - She lifeathes her moan ; lier heart most not know • - Iktthrall of woe— , A loyi.lorn maid is she. Bat Itst!iher voice goes ferth on the gale, InArge.like tones and shrill; With Oeeks nil pile, she-pours her wail, And-: - itattning, eyes tell a mournful tale, Iler-hltrt is sad and chill ; Asagels of love,. • W6.ep from above,, °ger her woes; AVthis lay flows From heavy heart and chill Ah! sad is my spirit, For bright hopes have fled, • My .heart's dearest treasure, ' Now sleeps with the dead ; • - And oh, that beside him, This w3sting, form lay ! • Bereft of his . presenee, 1 wish not to stay, , , •.• IkVhere alrs'sad and.dreary, Where sympathy sleePs . • , And wakes lint to.pity,. • When th' broken heart weeps.' . I well do remember, - . One sweet summer's eve, Togethi;r we wandered, • Bright ineies tO. weave ; ' . We.spoke of the future, Flew Swictly s the hours, Our untrodden pathway Strewed we with. flowers, Nder dreaminr, that sorrow, • .—So perfect our joy— Its arrow: would hurtle, Such bliss to destroy. , • -But soon those vain dreamings, • Were doomed to decay, For the angel of death, . Bore Arther Arther nvt-ay ; All ! sad, then, and lonely, I nourished my grief, Refused consolation, • And spurned all relief: For my lone heart had broken, _ • • its fountains were dry, • • And oft prayed, in anguish, . To God I.might die.. • . • cheeks, once sq rosy, -. Assumed a pale hue, Yet the debth of my sorrow,• No friend ever knew;. ' For the laugh tuny ring gaily; . An face wear aismile, When the b'eart is breaking . And bleeding, the while, • Bat why should I-murmur ? Of fortune complain? . With rapture exquisite . meet him again, .In yortbright . • The home of the blest, ; Where,fiee from •altsorrovr, The weary may rest; • Where grim disappointment, His chalice ne'er fills, And, fiendishly, offers, `• ' A potion.of ills. •. ` This thought, how transporting, I long for the skies, • Where anthems celestial, Unceasingly rise, Where bonds of affection, Transcendently pare, never be broken, "fint always endure.. Then come, death, kind angel, Speed qnickly thy dart, • Its flight be unerring, • I fain would depart; • • Woe's cup I've quaffed deeply, •.. Am weary of earth, . And sigh for the raptiares _ . Of Heavenly birtl ; And when froth thii temple • Of animate clay, : • • The light, that illumedit, • • Has vanished away ; • W hen' the clogs of the valley Are.henped om my breast, • .Besidehim I sorrow, Oh. grant me to. rest, Till—angels attending— • . The King of the • Shell cotne, in Ilia And bid us arise. Lathrop, February, 3855 istcliantoits. sir Anirishnian had one child buried in - the old *country and one in this; and in a spirit of . ec4notny he thought One.A9rAbstone, might answer for both. .So be erth:.ted ond with this inscription:, . • if er oj e my two children dear,!•.- One in old Ireland and %other herd.". 'V$ A locomotive - on one of the principal railroads-has been adorned with the title," I atilllive." ' That is more than many of the passengers can say at the et] of the journey jar The wafer that -flows from A. spring ,does .not congeal in the winter. And Ithos.e sentiments of friendship 101411 How froth the heart,cannot be frozen by adversity. . , . . . • . . . . , : ; 4 1 - 1 , ' '-' . , • z .. . .1. • ! . . , .. • ..: 7 4 ...5 4 , .. fficit".: , ,.. ' ‘ . - ... .', , - . . . ' . * .: J. " • • • • kiler - .• • -- 26 f/ 4 7:',- 77 ' • ' - . : r ~ 1 i , . • 1 ...1 - • V . " . 11"- : •• i gN. - • • ': I ~- i , , , , , , . , ' , V M. 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It vias taken-in hl- Most the very word :a of the murderer -though not : ehmmitted to siriting until next day; for the narrative madeLa very 1)0.(., , rftd impress. ion Oil, my Mind. - ll'hie disappearance. of the murdered 111311 had excited much conjecture as to his fa f.e:; but 0e generalliinpressicin wits that lutd,B4e,onlied to avoid his- creditors, and r iti's friends Oft 4 wondered whethxr he would return, t: - - 1 I .t , - •*1 , • . Ti! worry. - i .. There wete.•*.4l us together--constant corhpanionst4A-Cof women, iwinc - and dice-- box. - We tnad [ e'loye in company;•got drunk together, 44*mrailed from tbe same purse. [A terry slender liurtie,it NN:aS, l.PO—blit that's . , not to the point: t i . i n ~. , , . There was Harni Pierce and 111 , 1 rotner Fred—little Tom - Needharn-4.lack Fry and .. nOelf. : Harry way impetuous haStY, irrita ble; ut in the main good hearted [cart ! ed; his broth- I ler [w• ; s cooler,•mor4 calculating, and if any thiniz a •little avariciotrs, TOM was a true toper, who enjo3,-cddlis - glass to the extreme, and ivas never' happy. except when half-drunk; 1 and ,faek - was it . kind of-Wing:Or on and toady I .of - the - . whole Kuisr; For mys[elf, • there was lot,ly two ivettliaitties worth [mentioning. I from their apparenCinconsisteriey. t -t:As quick I as a fl u sh, the, least r iatorry word - wonkl.rtronse I melt [ [ oi a tont.,eF.t , s• . iif ungovei•nable- pa.:,..i o n. 1 which, When Subsided, would tind me as cold I as Inc,: and with .a Mind:free tO plot and con itise anything. , [ [ . .. an. one evening we had loSt a• good deal [ 1 ofmTney, more tlnin we could well afford-- littiv'tiker—and 1l of the gaining-room in iii-very good spii its. Fred - Pierce bad not I been with[ us,[ or pe'rhaps- we should not have Played 'so Jung, for 'Fred, .litdige the majolit v ' [ of.gamblers, w ho Oily Most tte spermely u ;wit. fortune is mostubkitl, incitriblv stormed When a certain . maiimuni of loss was-Mrived. I tit': -. : • [ [ . •.• - k ' 1‘ [ ' -In the' mornin' , 4red calledtto•sec Inc. hay o- ~ , , Pao' heard -•soinetnia-g :Loom ..le. .os , , and w i t : 11 ' I I astonished anal a'ni,:rry when he learned the. . k amount. , Ile remonstrated l‘vith me ; and- When I latighed, at this words; Igiese irritated, I One word,' as the ;saving god's , brotorlit on 1 :l i n o t lee r: we both beca me morn-, and at - leng , . . [to he!told' me thaelic thotorh it-nn unjusti: '• • i f table outrage on onr parts tii lose his share.. .1 of the money duriiig his - abstence; I called IWm a fool, and 4 retorted I that I teas a I sc!Oundrel. In a 4Wering riigl e, - I sized the i tritrs, 'Which stood; on IV, sidi t of ;l I I', i let[r th, li , t.? the i [ - • [. atid.before•l gave a tootig . .? le it.so i rtel•- i cc.. , , strOck him 60he hod i+ith rill the for ce lof %ilia I w4s matter. Ile l fell instat.tiv. • — The nest moment ;restored Me to conscious I lies, and I raised thim up. ITlie blow had !fractured his skulk and rilthi[ti• - rh no • l[lOol "1 had ihrwn—his ailCk cap, vvlrh-h he had not' ' ietnoVed d ur i ng die Iconversktion, detidenit' , 1 soniewhat die. I[lo‘[.-11.2. wasievidently dead. I A Moments 'refleolon convinced me that one 1 of oivo Lidn n .7. l ; mu -4 be donei-either to eon- eerd the body or t, - 14iscover-the- fact., atil pro .1 claiM that'l had d'one the deed ifiseg-defence. Thri fear that 1 cotild not well make it 'appear i 'so tic) the public, deterred nni front the latter I coufrse. I bad suited the day before to TO landlady thiatl in[;ended' to. tr, end a Lox full" ' of books an' paper!! to InV uncle's residence . 1 kathe,coutiry.; and the - large packing . box 1 prOeurettfo the purpose - tirtm • stood•in my Iroom. I .4tertnined to put;the body in this and thus dilpose of it. As Fivas about to do i ,tl4, I heat's a flinging at the door-bell.- 1 Thrusting [6ideit he window;; ctirtaiu, I put Itut' bead It)iroulkli the vvindow, 'which 'was tickily half hoisted, mei IsaW that my coin i portions of fhe night before L r ia d c om e t o pay flint; ar visit:ll 1 knew that / 014 , would at once • i i [come to my room,• and take tio denial for ien trance:' .ld an - instant my•ciJurse was deter minl • eq on. !: I h a nd y- Lira - gsr6:l the bo,lly* to . the ell , placcdrit • upright; and taking my dnellin , - iase front the place[ of its Usual be ; - I'stiuwinen , closed ' the closet door: I -then I threw on my grct,t coat, put[ein me, hat. nod I tqsseld the.chairs iu confusion round my rooni. li4otd scarcely.done tlii, when I heard the iltseps.of the party on the stairs, and as they I entered the teem, I gave-a 'tremendous omli, 'war every -.other evidence lof counterfeited I pasion. I sion. ~ I, Hallo :" exoahned Harr'v Pierce, " what. ',is the Maller w [ ith yOu 1 ring out ?" l' "I have 11114: nuent come in," said I, "i 0 • get my Pistols:l il I thought 'd•praetiee titi 1 I ri t ornhr.l.--andl: :Some Yfabond has been in - • • o , or , o my room, and turne,d.everything upside down:[ It's too bad, by !Jove , there'll a whole pile of I shirts, just I (term the .IWasli ' • tr.[F-Sed on the ' ••• . fidor." 1 I [1 • .l 1 - , , , I‘fy friends burst into a Wild laugh and Toni Needham exclaitned : I I . "Servediyoti, right. What business have' Yoh tri, own so - many shirts ? I I have only one inifaq, that; was what kept ne from you yes .terldaj• so !Ong,' I had-to liin bed while:it, 4. 1 ,• was being Washed and ironed—and- the wo men kept it,twO hotirs beyohd time, because.' I f.owed her-a lhtle hill." I 4 I"'Well," said . ", "d• wishivou'd .triii. Your , ponsepse. and Ilk up matters ; -and well . go I taut and take a crack or two this morning.' I ',I "Xot with me,' answered Torn, ." It's too old for 'the fingers: I'll telf you what lye . /1 - 4 CO. lir . e . lllllve a . game i Of fs Whist. There's. •' i sun, • • ••• ' • • ~• Fret i.,r" • jfIS a l4rt). I u0.1 1 ,...h.t. %,,1n...r... .. "-I don't know," said, I,i " ille' ptomised yes te-rdav 05. dome , anti s l oe tile.l", • ..-, . , . . "ell 'bet a sons,""[cried ;leek Fry, " that'he [ . ... 1- -os,theißolim, PoodfelloW I.a•ko upset your: whmircfib." i I ' • [ I - .'I [ I "..10.i like him . ," I replied: "but neyerthe leSs, 144 n. he* on Slipoting this noOrtiijor." • - I " So keu shall Shoot.old - f4llow, lv . cr i e d .. row .Nedlittio:"so' yOu.. shah ; and [ •yoti . . needn't cedl your. lingersleither. You, leave this old to-morrow trap to-morro don't yot. . „y ei. ,, , ... . • r' , • "Vern good:. 'Then we'lllgive yOur lain[-11 141.1 y a proof of- our .solid iregard. _ .Here ;"' aod.he took a piece of coal (from the hearth at, be. spoke—L" ell. chalk Gni the old lady on t(te closet, doOr. :LOad the.l istols,it'sr. about twelve rie(!sfroin the other [Side of the room atut 411 tut more bath.; trifo the old fem e4e, 644 e litiis' pepper -corns into .her, • moCk A iu itle ouP." 4 t. , . • generill 01.1 ofariproral greeted this novel i peopositlon, mid which Tom gravely prottee-. deli to sketchi : what he. calledcalleda remaikahly - . cori . ent portrait of thestnisir4s of the house; rands Harry Piece sat 'to - wlrk to load the VT I *LY 3013EiaL--DEVOTED TO POLITICS, 'NEWS, IL pistols. - Wheff.Harry had fini4mti he claim" r tunity and her life. h.'eadingfin his eyea ;his ed first shot for lii4ains; which Tom claim- stein determination, and }wrought to a,AtikUh ed fut the smile rea'son, insisting that as he I of agony, beyond , which [her lystem refuted had set up the winil tail], he ought to tilt at to go, styeyielded her grasp ; and sank .in a, it. A mockkltereation followed, which Was r swoon at his - feet. The Indian, relieved of finalh• Settled by a toss 11r, whioli. Harry. I her annoyance, new took his departure, with won'' He grasped , the pistol aCeofdlogly and, little Frances in Lis arms and as he pasl , etd 1 .• . • I tired. . through the yard', s,ei,zed upon the other son • ...,,Adi,ise of so'melhing follow, l ed. •The con- of Mr Kingsley, Wilt= . ',e also bore of I . s a cession had distuill)ed .the -body, which in prisoner. All this was lot the scene Q . . - a !Idling, had struck 'if side shelf laild overturn- I few moments, yet. how mach of terror, trial ed sound books. We all starte'd; - Needham, heatt-Ut•eaking agony, w; s embraced within however, did not nJrtice it, and! Presenting his that short period of tittle How many -years pistol tired again, but entirely[ too low, ex- of terrible suspense [nrol deep deSpair, h ad claiming when he ".saw the result—a There's their birth in ..those! brief moments. k Mrs. [ a ball in her ladyship's calf. LY Jupiter" . Kingsley; who had Stood 1 a terrified beholder ) 1 ~ Harry turned toirue as wltit'e as ashes, and of the Scene, when she saw her second irid said : "bid You' hein. anything,?" only _lying child torn from her and cariled ." I ditl,"- I repliek`• titu hallt from your pis , - into captivity, sank tinvhir the affliction jaid tell, and be Itanged't to . you, has upset some of I gave herself up-to a stolid apathy, little sl ort, , rov books I suppose." 1 of despair. One of Mrs . Slocuto's chili rep ." Olt, my God lliexelaimed Harty,.",l hark had, With a sagacity `',Mrs, leer years, at the atemble'presentinient. Suppbse my brother I tint appearance-of the s:lt ages, Snatched up .should have hid himself inthe! closet." And the youoirest child and thal to the Fort,wl ere -. [ . he sank down on the chair as he spoke. We she.gave the Idiom, and [a party' smite at, gathered round. him; ri nd tom Needham .once for the house, hilt the Indians were al burst hill° a fit of laughter. ! . - . r e ady b e yond the teat,. iof successful put. Mt. ' I ' •' ['poll my souhl" said he, "you are worse I In, a.s host time sifter the above meta ncl oly than thel•baker's daughter. I Here he cried in bereavement, Mrs. Slqctitit was called upo . to a squealing , i. pig tone. , " It I werelto he married, part with het husband maid father, who v}' , ' and wet{: to h ave *li tt l e b a b y , ant i it-,wereLoth shotand scalped by[ a party of Invlii. to come l. 'here aiid (o get into the oven and be while - foilderin , 7 cattle nearthe house: - 711 burned th,rdeath—hoo;--bon . ?", Then rPsum : in the short space of l.,ix Weeks, was that It ing, his natural tone he exelaimed i: "Y - iii are py hoffsehold broleartpl and destroyed, i the most[ ridienhotft fools, the 'thole of You, I its sutviviving members ]wrapped in inif 121,er saw[ Ifave Om any brain y in round ail c as with a mantle; 1.1.10 religion sustai I must Itaye a little -to reviv, me, aft , • ad.: Mrs. Slocum in her day Of trial,and she di spent.. N'ona better , rive Barry soute.i Lord herself and her nine i•emaining children u r , , 1 1 knows he needs it::'' . I the mercy of her 11:eitea l ly Father, and My lofart throbbed with a Sltran , re tieli,dit„ ed her head, withouti a Jourrour, to his . ! The:welfol my difficulties was beim , lapidly I er , •es. .For the dead she did not , mot tit unravelled—toy escape was amost cert a in ; I they were at rest,ant{ hi)•:,orrow or us less„ i . but wdutt it' they-should, discov r the fracture' telitning-; could r„e;4 l6 -re the r m to her algal' I walked boldly fbrward to (he- clOs e t, and But her lost, ilittrit.tir:lier darliM7Fritz res•l plia•Lng My hand O ', ~. n the can•lt hn o l,aid-- was- et er present in her thoughts. Like-_.H "In Older to dissilytte your donbt, 11l- op e n'. clod tteci,ing for herichildreo, she' refuse , tq .the m ys;,, , r y,” As I. 11 ,,, 1,:e I threw the dor Ibe comfOrted, and enter:vined a live ) ) . I CiPO Wide open. . ', -.--- ... :* . that she would one .{lay be re , -trtred •to 1a.4, Mine was an'affe,•tedk shont; but not sr, that- arms again. Her siiiiits se, rled ',moved lip• of tiro rest. . I shall never forg e t 11.jr . 1,1111.1 With this hope, and :41,e lived in the'antic,ipa , shriek of despair Whielnlelt the - bos o m of liar-tion of again seeis,g her and pte;siorg, Lei' . TV l'ieree as lie knelt forward and raised the her bosom., liars, Months and years yetj o dy oofid Mother, no t th e terrible t ones ,-,;" mp 0n,.• and the la (4' hope still burned b that hoarse - w hispihr, in which he said-- em bri4lttly 'as,ever. NO tidings : bad ever re: a Cain—God fur:Ave toy folly :"-told] th e n h e ell her of heir child], and }all e , •ave her upl sank into the artnii'of Tent Needham.her poor; heart,spicken i[nother. When pc My e ,unp a nion4. e xionined .t h,• 1,,,,1 e ,- 'Fi tt -, i was declared, find mhtny, captives remote,' ball of 1 hirry had evident le gone through his their !mines and fattrilie-i, she sent two :if heart. The alient.c or . 1,11,0 was a ; once ac- I son: to e:tiiHla in s.:tarch' of their long, counted for by intratd, blPedin: , •:, ;toil a s •,‘,,' sister. Thev , sought her; wherever there , [lie •li l' • were emtriontip , the . Laic etc he;tril the shrill t...e. s..grtest p lance [4., _ter presence; they{ yoke of our lo;steis lady raitside s c olding be- fered .rettzttds for her, tecluvervs but all in v; cause we w e r e thing pistols and sloieking-in , and they tut:hi-lied fli thYir mothei with . 1 I. ci,eedc-s ti•lii , • , s, convinced of her death ' Not so will) I,er She felt satisfied that Frances-still lived - . :del tvould not listen .., • :Inv other supposition: 1 At length her I cherished[ hope seented.,about to be reali7 a woman was found [aititing the Indians. hind beeli curried a vity ' I en a_child from, Sits/pleb:mita, and. she Was...sAt• f o r by I Slocum], whc.o:her4 , :hedihr.r and 1..1P1 , 2a to feel that her child iv: s it:stored Du invisihle link it (licit! hii: l ds a toothier to offspring was Wa l idin„ and the bere:i mother-was bemaveti 'Still. 'The - - fOutyll too, felt that she V,4 edit- the long lost looked for danghteti and 'untimely retnr to her Indian ft•ienda. Years rolled on. 1 had . whitened' the lloCk.s of the co nfi, tool her with' age ; It -,r on had. pas t sed . Meridian of Ilife,and Itherr childreti had gr/ to manhood, and,yei - she still evtertained l belief that her Fran/es still lived. -At len she was called away to [ join her husbant 'another world: and ihe''went "down into grave mourning" thtt'she was belt permit .this side the grave t #, 01hr:we-her, darlial Some cents after her deatinwheriher bil ers•were grey-Imire , 11 , M. ;111,1 When ail i ceased to entertain a thought of the lost ter, their feelings here aroused by an nouneement which !placed. licronti ques. the faet.that she stiti lived, and rememli her former home and friends. - An . Im, -:l7,mt hi 01,0 w.rotc! to the editot of lon the newspaqers• in l'ennsylvania, infirm hin t that he had seen and mik - -(1 with it v. woman among the [lndians, who told that I:er naine was Slot-nun - that her - fit was a Quaker, and [wore a broad brim . hat. That he lived [all a place - - on - the quehanna river, whii;ll Was near a town is h i there-W:l , , :1 fort, and ih [ tit she was tak,;n fl thence white a child,-14 the Indians. ' [fetter the edit , 33,---who deemed the matte -h oax threw among 1 is waste:papers, win laid for a year or mut& until his wife, 'clay in , .1 nlooking them •o , g-er, cattle Across. r !lice syMpathetic fee l lings were aroused, she sent it to the AIM; yencer, in, whit: - was publialted-. It haPpeued that, on. .count of a ielnpOrrillee ill.l4.lreSS it . contai -an extra number was pHnted, one of wII found its .way to \V'-on ing ; and two brot .and a sister immedititely started for the \ - to find the long lust ,Fltllee'i. They fo t i her, hut oh, how cb oirsk? , l.! She wae, no 4 aged woman, with ., mild clsildien [shout 1 1 , and fast airoachin 7 the grave. The ill view -which took Islthee ibetweea the long orated brothers and isistier was nilecting - in extreme.. Site infor net; them, througtian terpreter, (she had 1 - ,st Ilter native hinnt that after her captti-e s l ire. was treated in most tender manned by- the - ladians, who. her to their town,. When she soon beemn Cached to their ;ruing, nomadic life, , came to dread - boAng! . discovered by friends. Ws' hen iteigrifw lip, and her ft parents died, site to orrird a young chid' the Delawares. (theltiiie to w hich her ,t tors belcinged;) • atndlafter hisdeath she jol 'the Miaims with- i i ier people; :10 Iniu'' again. Site had been- a ividi.iy now for n y y ear ,, children timid g•rionl,childreo • growing up around her, and her lite wits ing pleasantlypnayi. 'he -was compara ly wealthy, Intsingii la rge stock,-and all tude.comforts of Itildialn life in abund; • ];[wiles one thonsanil 4; 1 liars inlspeChe, w he Inolstrvo from the' annuity which, ti i Indi a n, she had dratvn I front Govermnen After 'spending' setlera.l days with her.] friends undo Veda filial; farewell: . She tI set years ~irice,lant f was buried. with . . cc I / enable pomp, aslsbe was regarded as :i c dino o g her people. 1 . 1 - c% , ll,lquellailuit Veun'tt), our rovul • A debate now titised in te:..aid to the..e,is- po-al of the de:oh 1. ,- . N .' : I kti;!‘r . that the blow On the lieful;!would be diseorered, if the the thing was divulged ; and I a t (Awe su ,- 0' ~,.tk t. ..* , d that we intd hotter burs the body :Z:- ... e tetly, I told the-in that it could be packed in. the long WxAvlddlt lay there; and that one of u.s coald nic.e.t Cliff= conveynne oat of to‘‘ n, take it to f,olito, ott et the way: sp,,t, Where I would .-issist to bury the body. : In the nicitn ‘arle, Needham uonld purchase a r.utlin,inti' other ttecessary niaterials as I though .to se‘t÷l it off to the countly ; and: at ni-ht we wohld hate it. . • i . I . . • Harry fiercetriAde.no oppo,itton„ lie *as ineapable of anything. - The plan was ciar tied micas I.sugg4- - stedl . and eaelt parted:-- - - - The •rest was couNineed, and arc still, that a brother had teewithe.unwilliwr mutderer of brother. Harry •Vieree- died- last . year , itt tua ad-hout and Law Isere, twenty years - after, with trey- . .iirs on Inv head, and an unelou di,d reputation, ttl . , tell von the tale. . , The Lost Sister of Wyoming, OP, THE CAPTIVITY Or. FRANCI:i t•LOCCM Anions the inhabitants of the beantifni valley of Wyotniittr, at theperifsl of its inva— sion Iry that 1,4 . °A-thirst v . band tories and say: l7 es - who, -with a lrarluirity - seldom - equall ed, lard waste and destroyed every vestige of that fovely settl*:m murderirir , the iribribi ! tants and dri : viu -- I , i off tlfeir cattle, was ker-by the nittne ..f Jonathan Slocum; whose peaceful dispitiiin and many acts - of . kind ness to the lirdiails, saved his dwelling from the torch, and .Iris family from ann o yance, hile his n't . tiLthliors were butchered, their homes burnt; antli their children taken. ct.?rp tire. This iinruflity, however, was of short duration. Mr. SiHrun had a scup, Giles, who was in the battl44jand it is .5111,1)6 , -e:a that the Indians, becOMina aware of the fact, deter mined on a bloody revenge. jn the fatally of Mr; S. was the: ; Wife of a - neighbor, who had been taken copti4 by the Indians, and her two sons, one tif4im, the 'other twelve . years of age. One November, some four.montles aftel;the bloody massacre which made the valley ti destqation, a party of red- Skin-warriors waiiseen prowling around the vicinity of Wilkeibru re Fott. The two boys had gone to thdf grind-stone to., .liarpen• knife, and the women were engaged . is their ' , domestic duties, When Mrs. Slocum was star tled by a shot, and a shriek from one of the boys. Steppiugl to the door she beheld a swarthy Warrioron - the act. ,',.of scalpipg the oldest hos with . theTknife he.drad been grind ing.' Ibor-strikken at the; si g ht; 6110 st:jg .o-cred back, and ii as followed by the .Indian, with the, still warm and reeking .scalp-in his hands. ,Lookin - glabout'him for. plunder, he discovered. nothibg to tempt, .his - cupidity. worth the risk oftins carrying off, but a little 4 1 o f M r s..Sl oc tria, who stood in-116 way as he turned to the 'door, Seiiing him in his arms, Ire was abOrk to dep!rt, when Mrs. 5., - with all a motheiTs feeling, caught. him by the arm and besOirght hint, in tones of ear ire-t entteaty, notl to deprive 'her of her boy. `.• See said she,4 be can do,; thee no good, he is lame." Pr4ping the -bps., he took up a little daugliter 'Of live years,Wiro had crouch ed-in fear.behind d high-backed and "was trakiUg his-Way out when his mother again, stopped hint and plead for -her child. In the roost pathkrtic . tones, she implored him • is to kayo, her bright-eyed darling; the light her. iMme, andf the joy of her -household. As well iuight she have waked her: words up on the stern rockk or the idle wind ; the ~ -tu ged nature of th4 ; savage was not to be niched by the earnest I,Appeals, the- pale-faced squaw. 'Grrtsping with one hand the titan tie which enwrapped him, and with the er the dress_ of ho. chi Id, she dim!) to. both with a tenacity ihich had well nigh acCrOm plishecl lierpur. 'Finding himself iMpe ded in his , exit, and fearful of Appoaching assiStance, the sitvage fireiv iris tomahawk, and taise . d - it, to Nish at a-blow, her impor- TERit-TURR; IbABICULTURE, SPIENCE, AND MORALITY., -7 rsb AV" PrOspeiity i. gar 'man can'tlpais anything mean in good luck is sure td Ladie3 sltOd hxbits, that of v) It also among-A i , Id h °ruing,