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WES:rIIONIALSr
had one of Grover & it.icera Vs.
chines in my family for nearly - a year awl a half,
t take pleasure in commending it as every way
reliable fur the purpose ftar which it is de.ig,nett
Sewing ra. lash I.eavitt, wife
Rev;Di: Leavitt, Editor of N. 'Y. ludepon
dent. •
icattfess ttirsoll deb igb ted with yottl. Sewing
binchtio,:which kas been tny ramify-tar ninny
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eltr. ick land, wife of Cev: 1)r. StricklalikEditsa
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fect ease-with which. It is managed; as well as
rite strength and durabilitY of the sesta. .After
long, experience, I' feel Corapetent to speak in .
manner, and. to confidently recommend It for
.
.every variety of family - leicing."—lira. E. B.
Spooner, wife - of the'Editor of Brooklyn Star:
ut hsra usrl Gruver & Baker's Sewitn;
Chine for two years, std have found it fi d A pred
to all kinds of fpfttily sowiwr, from Cambric to
•BroAdelotb_ -Garments flare bats worn out with
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ipe. to give you their testimonials to its perfect
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fng.",.-=-Itobert Boorman, 'New York.
"]`,or several months we. lfnvo used Grover &
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'Gen. Geo. P: Morris, Editor of the Home Jour.
. of a letter from Tito!. R..l..eavit,.t,
F.sq, an American gentleman, now resident- In.
Sydney, New Sall th AVates, dated January taAh,
"1 and a, lentanade in Melbourn. in 18.53. in
'which there w.2ro nt-u t3;rrer thousand varas of
autring one of Grover d 134er's Ma
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all the daolle seems. sewed by sallorS vrith a
needle mad twine.'
`lf Homer could be ealleil up from his comity
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have no fault tofind."--J. IL Ifsmmunti, Senator
Of Swath Carotin.
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ifaker : , haring an eternal holiday inoommemora
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M. Clay. • •
0 .1 think it by fartho best patent : ins:se. This
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cculd not bny it.."—Mrs. J. 11, Brown, Nashville,
Tenn. -
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I carnestry recemmend.thii Machine to ' , all my
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Fir SEND Fele A CIRCULARAEI
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•
BUT ONE.
•
I have finished it, the letter,
That will tell him hells free,
' From ibis hour and for4vcr, •
Ho is nothing more
. 4 me ;
And my heart feels lightet,gayer;
: •Sinee the deed it: last is dune—
• I will teach him, that when courting .
He should never court but one!
• • I
tverybody in the villsge
Knows he's been a wooing me,
' And this morning he was riding
• IVith that snotty Annie Lee.
. They say he.saiiled upon her,
. . As ho-cantered•by he 9 Side,
And I'll warrant you he promised
To make hersoon hill bride. •
. But I hate finished it, the letter,
From this moment ko is free—
• He may hove her he Wants her,
• - Who loves her more than me.
Z. Ho may go—lt will tun !kill me— •
would say the same, se there,
• If I knew it - would, for:flirting
' Is more than I can beair.
It is twilight, and the evisting
That he said he'd visit me—
' Out no doubt he's now with Annie
- 16 may i,lay there, toe, for OW 1
And as true as I amliving,
•
If he Over comes hero more,
,I sill uct as if we never; •
Never, never met before.
It is time he should be coming,
Aud I .wooder if ho will,
If he does, look an
cdldiv— -
What's that F haduw on the hill !
I "deciare out in the twilight,
Them i's some one coining near—
Can it be t ? yes, 'tie his figuro, _
Just as-true se-1 am here
Now, I nimost,wish, I'd written
- - Not to liim•thatherwas!fiee''
For perhaps 'twits but *Store.,
That he rode with Annie Lee.-
There he's coming thro' the gateway,
I will meet him at the' loor,
And IV tell him still I hive
If he'll court 3lige Lee no more
IHER.
PRETTY MEGGY HEYWOOD.
A TALK . OF cincuastrimuti Ermr.Ncr
(L.l- a sombre and sunless morning in the
month of February, 17—, the population of
the town of.Lewrs seemed to be moved by
an unusual agitation pervading thein. They
might be seen „berrying along in groups of
thus, threes, and - more, all apparently making
bend for one particnlar spec ai if mutual
and common eun.,ent they had engaged to
meet there, or had been summoned there by
some imperative or very extraordinary cit•
. •
cnm'tauee. •
in,etfect, it•was t,o witness •an execution,
which took 'place in front of the gate-house
of the °id castle, r The county jsil bad not
then - been built. Nor for many years after
ikat aliimal occurrence.
Hoar-frost lay on the ground, scibw hung
-darkly in the air, like a tenebrous veil drawn
over the face of the sky. Anything more
dream - dotty; tend shOderingly in keeping
with the proceedings:: - of the mbruing, can
scarcely be imagined: The as‘emblage, which
begau with eggrepted crowds, grew into a
multitude—a dense„pashing throng, packed
and massed, at last, into one va-t human
tumuli, as if it formed but one expectant,
anxious creature; and one couldscarcely
tell what kind of emotion moved its breast—
whether the morbid appetite to behold sa
,
revolting a spectacle; wbctber pity or anger,
or a stern determination to see retributive
justice dealt °moot uated 1 bat enormous hekt.
It was c,itainly , not indifference, as the den
, sity 01 the crowd forcibly testified.
The gibbet was erected in front of the gate
house. The sheriff's javilio then lined the
short distance that led from the gate-house
to the platform of the grim and ghastly
j doomaman. The hour was at 'band: A mur
niur ran• through, the assembly—a, thrill of,
uncontrollable horror—a shock, keen, electric,
1 and universal, was felt to actuate the mass.
IThe door opened—the priioner, , walking be
; side the chaplainotrid followed by the Artfu
-1 man and other officials, appearsel—and' the
j shudder of horror which ran through the_as
i eetubled thousandi was easily accounted for.
The condemned was—a woman:
A woman : young and fair--Comely, even
to have verged upon the beautiful. Even al
though ber face was as white as snow, al
though ber eyes were purple and her lips livid;
even crushed, haggard, and wan as she look
ed, ithe could not be dispoileci 6f i the evidence
of an unusually- attractive face. The brown
hair wail ',nodded up. She wore a garment
of coarse white 'lnnen whether it was the
custom to do so, or whether it. was. to es
press her ; innocence—for she had protested
this with impassioned vehemence tip to the
last. Moment and was repeating it in a firm,
unfaltering voice to the venerable man who
was by her side, and who continued fo ad
miniver to-her the last censoiaribes of r e f li g c
ion as she vear r ;ed, step by step,,to the scaf
fold.
For his p:Jrt, the clergyman was even more ;
deeply agitated than Iler corn-1
posure was apparent ettough,hut it was of
a dreadful order, and might have been that;
of deepair,- as well as of resigriation. His
agitation arose from two aol3.s—the one I
was that, in -the anomalous probability of
thing's, though the evidence against her ;as
most damning, she might be innocent. Aod
what a terrible responsibility wasthat to bis
on the shoulders of her judges sod execution
ers!. On the other hand, if she was really
guilty, whatliardness of heart and utter de-
pawl did she . not betray in persisting in
that lie, even at the foot of the scaffold she
Was about to mount I N •
Tbe sigh was inexpressibly dismal. Tire
cold:gloomy morning, the loweting itusos
pbere, the chill ghastliness - of the tragical
spectacle about to be afforded tit; lookers-on
—formed one of:those blisnitingl dello:tape
exhibitions that bang about obe fqr hours, for i
days, even after tbe atrocious '. 4 jcarui vat of
the gallows" ie pieced over. ; •
- It was evident that the crowd felt an
rest in her. .li,iteprintir _rose, an3_deepencd,l
and i r aioidin'ea, sa she ad vance4 ;` and per
haps it would; kilveWownosto.siyell,of exe- ,
oration, tuid she not.at thaf ickstrup; lifted pp.
ber meekly boire4 bead, anti wtth_ber large
blue-be:truing eyes looked upon the thousatid ,
eyesri , svourieg her, With so ffrrn; sit collecledi
but not defiant wanner, that - stied or Cowed,
as it were; and farclidated .into j sulimisiors.•
The murmur died away, S and the! silence of
the grave followed. / • ' j
. -
SEe mounted to the sciktrold, step by step,
slowlrbut figoly. The grim official 'was by
her side, mill , pursuing the manipulation of
his infernal trade. She knelt, she prayed,
fubl7 l -Ckt:l3.
she rose, andlten oast:one long, keen, anxious
glance around the crowd, propably to ex-1
change a last look' with some one or other
who would look upon her a little more pity
ingly and tenderly than did the stony eyes
she met. She was rewarded ; for on a MoUnd
there stood a young man weeping bitterly,
unnerved to prostration—ber lover probably
—who extended his clasped, bands towards
her:
He too, was rewarded, fQr a sieet, raiitur
one, grateful smile, a smile.of affection and of .
thanks, broke upon her thin, - pale lips. She
kissed her bands, waived:them towaids
d then stirreodered herself to the rude
hands of theic-called ruinist..r of justice.
She advanced a step. She lifted up her
bead, as if to claim attention. Breatblesv
grew the heaving croWd; she was *heat to
confess her guilt! Clear, calm, distinct, like
tones of a silver trumpet, came her words :
" I am innocent—tNNOCEST—l declare it ;
in the Mtme of God, and a itli my last breath!"
Sheiwas a woman, or rather a girl-woman,
for her age was not twenty. She was going
to be hung
for a dreadful and appalling mur- ;
titer that had •been. committed in the town
time few - month hack--a murder committed
ander eircudistanc:ts of great atrocity, and
was to be bungi for the deed, brought home ;
again-t her. But her la 4 wards came upon ;
:them like a thunder clap.
In five" minutes, the fair comely creature
was dangling jn the air, a eidlapred, strangled,
degraded corpse, and strong men swooned at
the sight. Strong men turned white,-and sick
at the heart, though not all—net all. There
was. one—a young, genteel-looking man,
dressed with some. elegance, though it was of
A foppish order— , uthese;fae, though pale tp
lividness,,audworking neri*sly, will bore
upon it no eipresSiOn of pity. It was on the'
contiory of lid - old (log clieract-tbe , smile
on the lip, the gleam in the eyes; - and siS his !
gaze wandered horn the victim before him,
that swayed to and fro—a hideous, abbot rent
and damning sight—to the sobbing youth
who.stood far removed from him, hie smile
became absolutely fiendish, as be muttered
to himself, "We are quits now, my proud,
pretty m e ad= r
A thir I individual may also he indicated 1
—a Iti•stute,. brawny, thick-set, powerful man,
clad in 'the coarsest girb of the poor,' yet
beating little or none of those industrial tra
ces which meat the working man. • A bold,
blustermg, semi-savage air, stamped by disai... ; l
pation, with its indelible traces; set him apart
as one not, to be on too familiar terms with.
He gazed with a blo3d-shot eye'Mathe ghat:-
ly tragedy performed before hire, from' bes
Death -the rim of his broad felt hat, which
-was pulled _down . over his brows: .Not a.
muscle quivered, not a nerve stirred in his
iron frame, as the poor girl wss J off;"
b u t as he departed with tike dispersing crowd,
he stuck his tongue in hie cheek, and tnut
tered. with a sneer, and in a slang known
,only to himself, "Queer Coffins, by
Beat harman jack, and nil!" and then disap
peared. •
Strange to sac; also, there wire women a ho
looked en Without breaching—who looked
on without slitieking—who beheld that
east!) dtath with some 'fearful sense of
satisfaction I Envy and spite, - and even the
stern' propriety of justice, might actuate this,
but it certainly was not less a fact, •
At.the same moment a singular phenomeon
occurred. As the last ~budder ran through
the corpse, the sun burst forth 'alai a rich
meteoric effulgence, and bathed the poor vit.-
tem's bead with a glory that was almcst un
earthly. The crowd melted away, cowed,
abashed, ashamed, as if it bed been engaged
in some infamous act. B . 6mething like,fear,
something like remorse,• began to work
among-them; and they departed, with bated
breath, speaking of the ill-fated Muggy her
wood, just done to death in t, cruet a man
ner, and of pour Chariey Dean,
.her sweet
heart, who had been carried away in strong
convulsions, and who would be su:e to die of
a broken heart.
Then folio - sired a loag lapse of time—gossip
died away—pretty Muggy all but forgot:en,
and chalky Dean, a std and moody man,
bad quitted the place, and had not eince been
beard of..
E:M:M3
I:i31
We mail now retrace our steps a little, in
order to show bow this dreadfUl catastrophe
had come abodt,'and brouht the beautiful,
though lowly maiden, to the awful death of
the murderers. •
In-an old fashioned house, in a Mod of lane,
turning out of an old fashioned street in tbe
town of Lewes, there dwelt—keeping a small
shop, and thriving and well-to-do enough in a
small way—ati aged widow, and known to
the towsisfolks as Hama Neymer, and living
with her housekeeper, is fact, her pod daugh
ter, Meggy Heywood, a remarkably habd
some young woman, whe.e comilness brought
her as many suitors as envious rivals. Of a
sweet and genial temper, she conducted her
self with a .propriety and modesty, against
which the breath of slander never yen Cured
to direct its shafts,iLough she was sought of
ter by the bumbler town gallants, and not by
a few of the "better class' of the youths of
Lewes. •
Merry and lighthearted, she treated these i
flatterers in a wanner that was, in every re
rpet:t, creditable. Mirthful, without 'levity, 1
Meggy Ileywood knew how 'to reply to, or I
-repudiate, any advances; and if one more
presumptuous than another ventured to pt- t
some upon a Trauk familiarity, she possessed 1
the art of making him "keep his distance," 1
and of "knowing his,place," in a very un- i
common degree.
But for all this, it was not fated that Meg
gy should escape the inevitable shaft of love.
Same suitor, it, was clear, she must accept,
not °Or becanae, like every other prety girl,
she hid. (possibly) no valid objection to a 1
sweetheart; but, frecauss . , having once de- ,
tided upon accepting -one, it would relieve
her from much annoyance she was subjected '
to; and the fact once known that,she e had
made her choice, would be a sufficient 'signal
for others ,to hold eft Once appropriated
s h e weed have- a preeentor, and her choice
cruiweeordingly made.
Not all at once, though. Meggy, was
neither iles b'nor Wilful.- If she, bad do) , se
-Bearet. leant ng, any—latent sen ti men t 'towards
one over ancitbei4—rnly Main' preferenee—
Sher did not exhibit it at once. Among the
' number who -made advances, under honora
ble ptetencen, was a young spark, son of an
opulent tradesman in the town, who, on the
strength of his better dress, rumored moans,
extravagant habits, - and - otber characteristics
- of a fast.young dandy, at last became her tor
MONTROSE r riA., JUNE 16,1859.
moat, her pest and bane. Dame Keymer
herself could not keep her patience at arcing
Mr. Frfocis Peitner enter her little shop,
morning, noon, and eve, and under the pre
twice purchasing sumo will.) or other,
seeking every - - opportunity of ingratiating
himself with pretty ?iieggy.
It would Leconte town talk. a scandal. the
gossip of the will le 'neighborhood. " What
could Ae want with Meggy, forsooth ! What
At, with a rich. !lard-hearted so r t o f a f m l ipr,
wild was lookinglup to this aristocracy of
Lewes, in order tot find a match for his son—
was he (Master Francis) likely to marry lier—
Meggy=tho prettiest low-horn. lass, though
she. might Lean -II day's walk I Noneseuse !
Pooh! - She woaldn't have it—and end must
be put to it," and so on.
And thus it - Was that - Meggy did put an
end to it, for she, accepted the suit of a wor
thy and industrious young artisan of her own
station in life ; and while Charley Dean, who
wotked at one of the factories on the Ouse,
was transported and out of his senses with joy,
Mr. Francis Palmeroon the other band, was l i
. vivid, with rage and jealousy, and swore that,
some way or other, he would have his revenge.
And Mr. Francis Palmer was just the man to
do so; for w i der his fair spoken manners
:bee lurked a malignant - and evil spirit,
which was not to be turned aside from a
purpcss once formed.
Days, happy days—=weeks, happy weeks,
passed by, and the young lovers were happy.
,Charley was a prudent and money-saying
young man, and was known to be looking
out for aMO titlSinesA,-in the same artisan
lino be was following at his factory - , on his
oven account. -Lame Keymer was pleased,
which was a grfat point gained, and hinted
more than otteqt.ltat she should have a small
legacy to beque4th to her god daughter some
day : —a piece otitews that soon spread abroad
among the neighbors, who speedily genera.
ted a report, that D.eme Keymer was rich,
and tbat.Meg,gi r on her suarriage-dry would
come into-the inheritance of souse fabulous
fortune.
Meggy tfeywood was very happy, and
thought of little else than her own bliss.
Mr. Palmer did-not cease to perse,cute her,
but sbe put hid. aside with a quiet gravity
that made him ifurious. As for Chariot, he
was happy, too--, , devoted, tender, and trittf.-
tit. lie behehrin Meggy the aim and end of
all his hopes, mud wisues, and vowed, inter
nally., that if a toting, faithful heart,. and•ic
dustrious han4ind an inventive brain could
reward her; the* 'should not be wanting.tl
All, In fact, was. going on cheerfully, pleas
antly,- delightftilly; when, suddenly, as by
earthquake, or eclipse, the whets was dark
ened, absorbed, and lot forever—forever—in
the hideous calamity, the unutterable horror,
that obscured and entombed every hope, nev
er to be awakes* more 1-
One-morning:palms Kevmer was found
with her throat 'cut from ear to ear !—lter
little money-chase, which she kept in her hed
room, broken 4erf,'and - her little hoard Van
ished. Megev was the first to give the alarm,
and the utmost consternation prevailed.
The night had been wild and stcrinv; a fu
rious tempest had broken over tire town, and
wailed and boomed an night: , The wind
went bowling through the streets, bearing
the chimr e_ a, bangbigto loose abut te;a and
doors, and drowning all other sounds, if
sounds there were; white is the pauses of t h e
s to r m, a 4 if the hlast were gathering its fur
cea together for another wrathful outbartl,
Peo pl e i n their startled slembers fancied they
heard one of those awful cries which, at times
startle the ear of night, and which can be
none tuber than that of " Murder !" or of
' Fire !"
An examina!ion of the premises now took
place—trict and zealous, though, perhaps,
.not conducted on the 6.,..entitie principle of
analogy and deAuction which charactetizes
the "tletectives" of the present day. Doors
and nindows were securely fastened ; and so
far it was apparent that no one from without
could be the perpetrator c : r--at least it was
apparently so. The only living creature in
the house besides the cat, was Meggy Hey
wood, and cert.iin - sanguine marks found
about her bedchamber door led to the!con
elusion that she must be the murdcien!
arid eithiti Ole next hour sLe was safely
lodged in the old castle, on the charge, until
further examination should bring the proof
home to her.
As a matter of coßrse, the whole resolved
i'sele into one of those cases/which depend
entirely end solely upon. the' evidence of eit
cumstanees; but which efidencei =have so
repeatedly proved thenssiilres fallacious,
false, and contrary even, that- the wonder is ,
that men will venture to arrive at a conclu
sion
terminating in "Guilty'" with so many ,
past examples of judicial murder before theft.
eye,.
Circumstantial evidence went wofully •
agkl . st poor Meggy „Heywood ; 'and yet,
there was everything—almo,t—lacking to
give thi. corroboration. Vv'hat ivas the mo
tive !—and where was the plunder? What
was her gain by this fearful deed I Ever'v
one who know Meggy, knew she loved the
old woman, and that the Dame looked upon
her as her own child. On examining 'her
boxes, not a coin,' nor a trinket could be
traced connecting her with the deed. Still
the proceeds could have been handed with
out, and suspicion popted to Charley Dean
as nu associate. He, however, was soon ex
culpated—nothing was found on him, or at
his home; and as he was working through
the same night, at the foundry, in the mod
elling loom, with other men, an unquestiona
ble alibi freed him from every suspicion of
the murder at all events.
Suspicions that lack confirmation only
seem to grow into greater ceitaiuties, fiom
the anxiety that ‘ arisen in. people's minds to
have'. a doubt resolyed. People began to
grow amgry a olth ifeggy, because she woad'
not confess. Folks looked - doubtfully npon
Charley, because he protested Lis belief in
het innocence, day and pight, and because
he never ceased to visit her -in her imprison
ment wheneier• be could obtain..-admission.
nut-At lest, trio day of trial came; and great
wasilhe commotion in the town. .
Let the loader imagine 411,,the :formalities:
and preliminaries ove'r, t 4reggy in the tinekt
-0)9 prosecution opened—every title of ovi
dance adduced, and all still circumstantial. !
et,t his only wanted confirmation.- -
At last, Air. Franois rainier -iscalled. Ile
har4.itia stated; some important evidence to
communicate... It •is a breathlei* moment,
and he comes forward slowly, and makes his
statement with evident reluctance. The
sum °lbis evidence amounts to this :
"That be had enteltliued an affection for
the young person in the dock, no d being
jealous of the preference displayed towards
rival, he—although he could not defend the
act—had, out of his' instinctive • jealousy,
carefully watched then: both; no:Sitving any
clear reason, beyond that for doing so."
ilerS b.e'priesed a moment, in some embar
rassment, and then, urged by the counsel for
the prosecution, went on with ...his evidence.
"Gn the evening of the murder he bad seen
his rival and the prisoner at the bar, walking
towards the castle, and, as the darkening
twilight favored him, be followed and from
the corner on which be esconced himself,
overheard li-conversation' which threw some
light bowever sinister, upon the case in-ques
tion:, lfer lover spoke - of their Mairying
soon—of a prospect he had of setting up for
himself t adding that if he could 'muster
some fifty or tixty pounds, 6S would com
mence at once. The pti , oner. replied,that
there would not be much difficulty about
`this matter, as her godmother had some such
sum by her, which it would not be difficult
to obtain.
The effect of this evidence as it came slow
ly forth, began to tell, little by little, with the
most fatal effect. Here was a motive to the
consequence—a reason for the act-,.-a condi
tion answering the requirements of the
a confirmation that closed up the last link.
hat wlit re was the money None knew.
It could not , he traced. The lovers had noon
patted. Charley was at his walk,' and bud
not quitted it until the deed was consumma
ted. These were the good old days of
ing% Somebody mud. be hung. Muggy tiey
wood was fount - 1
guilty. Wu do not fo;low
the trial through every phase and tram: Viva.
Nieggy was fold guilty! Ti e malaln e
was mu rdered—and Mt..ggy Hey w cod was
h t , ripzid !
justilia,"
Ten years had passed away. Meggy If.e.y
wood's fli!e was only a-dreadful uory to tell
round tee winter's tire. Charley Dean had.
gone away and been forgotten, and Mr. Fran
cis j'alnier was a married, respectable, exem
plary, thriving towusiil39 of the venerablt s her-.
ough of Lewes.
One day, a dusty travel worn man might
have been seen halting suddenly before the
gate house; and while his lips quivered and
1114 !esis fitted his eves by heaving breast
and agitation it might lave b een eas ily pa l ,.
ered that something of a. very%unusaal nature
had occurred to him in the shape of remiriii
ince or memory. Etc stood on a particalar
spot. fie ejaculated a name--, ; hooovered his
rice 14 . 11+1as hands, and - sobbed aloud.
"Oh, Meggy, Meggy he murmured ; "all
this weary, weary time to wait, and no clue
Yetl 7 - nothing to prove your ihnocence yet 1 4
What's the cove inaudering about'? said a
Itoanse.drunken voice at his ear. "I've seen
a ',little gaine played out hdre myself, some ten
years ego; or thereabout ; 'but, burn me, if it
makes-me, move- -not a bit I'.' • •
.„Ahe first corner ; lififd up. this face, and
looked full into a bearded, griny, haggard,
and debauched ruffian face. The flush of li
quor was on his cheeks, its fire in his eyes,
and he laughed a short idiotic laugh as be
met the startled look - of the man. • ,
"Ay, yon may stare," he said, with an air of
rect:'ess bravado, but which, neverthales,
could not bide a certain under .iurrent of fdel
icg which itis impossible to de6no; b'ut it is
the sor of r..:stlenees which bringa ,Inura , rers
back to the scene of their critne—fhat forces
confession from hardened he,ar , V,-out of the
tery reckleegiess that has made life a daily
hell to sthem.
"She vas a womar. too— / -a girl a'most--the
fools!—the fools! and as innocent as the babe
unborn !"
"Enough" shouted Charly Dean, for it was
be —worn, haggard', aged before his time. "E.-
n0u,...;11 ! I arre,t you vn the spot. Oh, you
cannot escape me! Were you twice as burley,
and ten times as strong, lOU would only be.a
child in my g. ipe r
The struggle was brief, for the wretch
would now -escape . In vain! Soon come a
crowd, soon came constables,' soon it ran a--
bout the town that the real. murcerer of Dame
Keymer was taken, nod that Meggy Heywood
was innocent..
And they had hanged her.!
The man was taken into custody, and un
der the evulsion of circumstances, made full
confcss'on of the crime. lie, fn conjunction
with another—whose life bad long. before ex
piated his crimes--bad heard the rumor of the
poor dames little hoard of weeth. .By a skin
k:lly plat:vied and dariugly carried out scheme,
during the tempest of the night, they had
crept, by a ladder laid transversely from an
outhouse at the back to the widow's window--
had opened it.--•committed the murder, and
robbery---bad escaped—the catch of the win
dow falling a iThin having prevented suspicion
of any one's entering. And Meggy Hey wood
was sacrificed!
The townsfolk soiroweJ for many a day,
for the heedless judgement their jury bad re•
corded ; but they could not bring back the
dead. -
Let us hope poor Very met with a judge
far more merciful than she met with on earth.
Of the future of Charley Dean we•' have
nothing to record. As little have we to say
of Mr. Francis _Palmer. ' He did not deep on
a bed of MOM, as his last hour testified. '
The murderer---the double mutleter—paid
the penalty of his turpitude; and that con
cludes ail we know of the matter.
HERE is a fifty-year old jeu d' xrprit that
quite as good as new.' A tialt old gentle
man by,tbe name of Gould, married a girl
not yet out of her teens. After the iyedding;
ho wrote the following to inforni tt friend of
the Itapprevent; . ,
You see, thy dear Doctor,
Though eighty years old,
A girl of nineteen
• Fails M love with old Gould! _
To Iflfielf the Doctor' replied :
A girl of nineteen
- May fore Gould; Ii is time, .
But believe me; dear sir,
It is ocumsvithont" U!"
%Ma preaent doatine dub; of Chicago is
overs2oo,oo,-iird thoholdeka of Maoaie
to make the city pay 15 jNer,:cont:,. per au
12ttin..
Tr ti' man, 21 years of aka lfegins to sago a
dollar a weilt, and puts it to interest - every
year,lie would bare' at '2l yesp; St 50; at
41, SI,OQO- at Of, $11'500; At 71 $11 , 500:
To enn and weave,' to.knit and sew, was
ohce a girl's employment ; but uow to dyers
and catch-a boau, is all bile calls Opitlyprietlt.
,From Lights fled Shadows of Scottish pre. I separated from them by the Clear ; • deep,
. I Sprekling water !tato which scarce heard. wit
'o.76ePptism• . tee as it left the etreate, separated into two
It is a pleasant and impressive time, when -Arennis, and flowed on each side of that al- ,
at ;be close of divine service in some small ' tar, thus placing it in an island, whose large
country church, there take' place the gentle mosey stones were richly embowered 'under
stir and preparation for a baptism. A sud- ; the golden blossoms and - green tresses of the
den air of cheerfulness spreads' over the whole 1 boxer". . . .
. _
cocgregation; the more -solemn expression , "Divine servlces was cilled, and a row of
of all counhernibees fades away ; and , it is at maidens, clothed is purest white, acme egli-
once felt that a rim is to be perkirmed, which, ding on fromthe congregation, and crossing
although of a solemn ;and • awrel kind, k yet the stream on someieteppine etones, arranged..
connected with a thousand delightful assiicia- • themselves at the foot of the pulpit with the
Lions of parity, beauty, andinnoceoca. Then ! infants abouttcobe haptized. The
.with
Of
here is an eager bending of smiling facev 1 the infants, ' tist as .if they lied been in their
over the humble galleries—an unconscious ! oien kirk, had been sitoug there during wet..
rising up in affectionate curiosity—and - a ; ship, end now mood - up Ite.fore the minister'.
slight murmuring sound- in which no viola- ' Baptismal Water, taken . !tuff : that pellacid
Lion of the Sabbath sanctity of God's house, ; pool, was laying ; consecrated in a small hole
when in the middle of the passage of the ! low of one of the uprighte s sione..e. thatormed
church the party of women are seen, matrons 1 one ride or pillain of the pulpit, And tie holy -
and maids, who bear, in their bosoms, or in rite proceeded. 1111
their arms, the helpless beings- about to be ! Some of the younger ones in . that sernieir- e
made members of the Christian Communion.! cle kept gazing down , into the pool, in:which
There sit, all dressed becomingly in white, the whole scene was reflected, and now And
the fond and happy baptismal group. The ~ then, in spite of the„grave looks or adinonislo
babies have all - been entrusierd fowl preetuus -irig whispers of their 'elders, letting a pebble /
hour to the bosoms of young maidens, wh o fill into the water, that they might judge of-/
tenderly fold - then' to their yearning hetirts, is depth Fiona the leOetb of rime that had'
and, with endeaiments taught by nature, ere • elapsed before the clear air-bellsi lay. spark- e
. •
soiling, not always successfully, their plain- ling on The .agitated surface. The ritfwa
' rive cries. Then, the proud and delighted , over and the religious ,servielli of tb d.y
I/
' . girls rise up oue after
...the other, in sight of closed by a psalm. TM 'elity r'-! J - 'hey In•
'the whole congregation and -give up the it:- ed in the boly
..eound, r
farts arrayed in mull caps and long tloiving ' col:Tamed volume, eh
, linen, itrte their fathers hands. For the up to Heaven., When
• 1 _ poorest of the poor, if he has n heart at all, e•.;ho like a spirit's vr
will have his •infent well dresEed on sceli a, away high up among
day, even although it .should scant his meals 1 tee ure of the cliffs, at
I for weeks to come, and roma him to spare noticed in the, slim;
fuel to his winter Ere. s. the waterfall, -
'
- /tad now ;the fathers are all standing be- 1 iteo. then a leree steno fell front the tliff
1 low the pulpit, eith grave and thoughtful I into the pool, :eked. aeiee was heard, and a
I taros. E tch has tendit•ly taken I,:i itolvet • plaid hung over methe . point of a shepherd's
into his toil harderied hands, and supports it stair. , Titvir, watuhful sentinel bad d e s e zi e d.
li n g enthoatid steadfast Miceli-in. They are.: danger, and this was his wattling.. Forth ,
elLthe children of poyerty, and, if- they live,' with the/co gregation arose. There were
I are destined t 6 a life of toil, lint now pover- `pathsshin erous to unpracticed feet lilting
ty puts on' its . most pleasant aspect, for it ni i thededge of the rocks, leading- up to several
li beheld standing before the alt sr of religion , taxes nd places of 'concealment. The More
1 with contentment and faith. - Thin is a time ; actin and young assisted the elder—more
' with
the better nature.of man must rise up,' especially the old ? c astor and 'the women with
1 with him; and when he must feel More r. spe- ' , infants; and nut many minutes hart elapsed
chilly, that he iv a spiritual and immortal i• till not a living creatu're was .visible in the .
being, making covenant with GA. elle e i4 clhannel of the stream, but all of theatr e or
i shout to tske upon himself a holy ,Aarde : • needy so, in the clefts azd externs,..,', :•
Ito proinie, to lock after the chibre:dinteiortal The shepherd who bad . given the aiarin,
; ,
!soot; and to keep his, little feet roan the 'oad !aid daa'a amairein dot plaid, instantly,
paths of evil, and in - those of ittrirteende and on the greet' sward upon the summit of these
/ peace. Such a nought eleAt'ey'the lowest -premeiess. A party of soldiers were inimedi- .
i mind above itself—diffusesoadaVional tenders ately upon hien, and demanded wilidaignali
I ness over the domestic leelatiees, and makes he had been making, and to whom; when
I them - who hold up their toreros to the bap- one of them e looking oeer the clitt . escistml
! tismel font, better husbands, fathers, and are, ed, "See, see! Humphrey, we have caught
be; the deeper- insight „which they then pos- the' whole Tabernaide of the Lord in
.11:net at
i seas into their nethre and flier life. I . last. There they are, prairing .0d Amon-
The ministe/coniocretets the water, nub, as the atones (.4 the rive'r . Nfouss. There are'thl
1
it falls on hie /infant's face, the father f ;els the 1 Gartland Caaigs. 13v niy,soid's 'salvation, a
great ctty /In his soul.- As the poor helpless ! noble cathedreL! - Fling the le ing . sentinel
°rents:viva wailing in , the arm", he think- teever theclitf. Hera:is-a canting ettentostee
I - how nitedrut indeed to humsto infancy is the : for von, deceiving honest soldiers on tlib Toro
loveeif. Providence; And when after deli 7- , Sabbath day. Over withhim, over with hinil
i eriese, each child into the arms of the smiling . out of the gallery into the pit.", But then
' Maiden from whom he had received it, he . shepherd had' vanished 1: 1 1:43 a shadow, an=
- again' tekes his place for admonition and ado I mixing with the tall green bromine's& brush-,
vie before the pulpit, his mind is well dis h ; es, was making his untseen..:W,4• towards a
posed, to think on the perfect beauty of that 1 wood. s'• making
has-saved ltia" servant; but
Ireligion of whom the,, Divine founder said--I come, my lads, follow me. I Fletieva the way
"Suffer little children to come unto me, for . down into the bed of the stream, and the
sec+ in the kinaster n • o p p1 e ,,,,„ . . ;stops up to Wallace'' cave. They are' call-
The right of Baptism had not been the 1 , el the 'Kettle. Nine aitinee.' The hunt's up.
f performed for several months in the lit, kof . We'll be all in at the death. 'Halloo, my
„
FLanailt. It was now the hottest time of per-, boys,halloo"
s'slcution, and the, inhabitants of that parish ; The soldiers: deebed down a less, precipi•
found other places in which to worship G o d!pus part of the wooded backs, a little belusi
and celebrate . the ordinances of religion, i the crsigs and . hurried 'tip tile..channei.
It was now the Sat' ath day, and a small I But when they reached the altar "where the
I old gray-haired minister bed been standing,
of about a hundred souls, bad
met for divine service in .a place of worship and the rocks had been covered wit)i r eooo,
more magnificent - than_ any temple that ho. all was silent aed solitary, not a creature was
man hands had ever built to Deity. there, ,to be Seem
too , were three children about to be baptized. i " Ih l daCis a Bible dropped by someeof them"
I The congregation had- not assembled to the i cried a soldier, and with his feet'
spun it
tell of the bell, but each heart knew the away into the pool: "A bonnet, a bonnet!"
mid another, " now for *the pretty sanctified
hour, and observed it; for there are a hum i
.f
tired son-dials among the bills, woods, moors I face that rolled its demure eyes below it '•
'But after a few jests androafhe, the soldiera
and fieldreana tl a ebeeheld.of ti e peatant see
the hours passing by them in the sunshine ' stood still, eyeing with a kind of mysterfous
and shadow. e, 1 dreat",,the black and-silent wail's of rock that.
The church iil which they were assembled I hem Med them in, and jterrete&• only the small
was hewn by God's hand,'oat of the eternal I voice of the etreani that sent a prOfounder .
-rocks. A river rolled - its way through a I
solitude; stillness through the heart of - that ma.iesti s
-
mighty chasm of cliffs, several hundred feet -
high, of which the one eide presented ono: , I "Curse these cowardly covenanters! what
! mous masses, And the other 'corresponding if they-tumble dea' upon our heads pieces
recesses, as if the great stone girdle had been, of rocks from their hiding, plaCe I Advance I
rent by a convulsion. The Channel was ;or retreat - =" .. . •
overspread with the
: prodigious fragments of I ' There was ao reply. A.Oilig,ht fear wee up
rock, or large loose stones, some of them on every man; musket or bayonet &sell - be
!smooth and barn, others containlog soil and l of little use to men obliged to clamber up
verdure in their rents and fissures, and here rocks, along slender paths,leading they line*
I
and there crowned with shrubs and trees. not where ; and they we:e aware that arined
The . eye could at rues command a long men, now-aelays, worshipped God—men of
; stretching 'nit; seemingly closed and shut! iron hearte, who feared pot the glitter, of
I up at both
,extremities by , the coalescing ; arras—neither bnicel nor bayonet—mob, o f
cars; This medestic reach of river contain- , tong stride, firm step, and. broad - beast., who
I ed pools, streams, rushing shelves and water- I on the open field would have overthrOwn the
falls innumerable; and when the water was ! marshalled liae, mid ' gone first apd foremost
[l ow , w hi c h it now was: i n t h e common ,if a city had to be taken by storm... 2
; drought, it was easy to walk. up this scene, !' -As the soldiers Were standing together ir
with calm blue sky overhead, an utter and • resolute, a noise came upon theic • oars like
sublime solitude. On looking up, soul was I distant thunder, -but even • more appalling -;.
bowed down by the feelina of that prodigious !and a slight current of air, as though pro
height, of unscaleable and often overhanging ! petted by - it,
,p.asseil whispering along the
I cliff. Between the attune' arid :the surrimit 1 sweet briers and bream, and the, tressenof
of the'far emended precipices wee perpetual-; hired' tree.... It came, deepening and relling,
ly flying rooks - and woodpigetelot, and now I and roaring on, and the very • Certiand
land -then a hawk, filling the profound abyssCtaigs shook to their foundations, as if in an
with their -wild Cawing, deep- murmur, -or ! earthquake. . • .
. .
I shrilly bbt.lok'. L'ornetimes. a heron would I " Tito 'Lord , havo Mercy 'upon tie; what is
I stand area and still von some little stoat: isl- I this I:i And down fell Many of 'the tinkers
arid, or rise op like' a white cloud along the ble wretches on lheii knees, and • some on
black wall of the chasm, and ,disappear. their faces upon -the sharp-pointed -; rocks.
Winged Creatures, alone could - . inhabit this Now, it Will like the sound' of maorneyriads
Iregion.
_The foz and wildcat choose more of chariots rolling on their. iron melee down
accessible haunts. Yet here came the perse- the sten)! - channel of the torrent. The old
Looted. Christiana end .worshippers of God, gray haired inipister issued from tliti thoutb
i whose lead' hung 'Mr their heads these of Wallace's Cave, •abd mitt With• a lota
magnificent pillars 'end arches, scooped out{ voicee-"The lord-. Cod terrible ..reigneth.":
those grelreriee from the -solid rock, and laid I A waterspout had buist,up among thnlytoor
at their feet the calm : water in its transparent 1 lands,rand the river, in its :power, WAS at
beauty, in which they could ace themselves blend. There it tamer tumbling along ;into
sitting in reflected groups, with their Bibles t -that long reach' pr . :cliffs, and in a ..iitaent
Fin their hands:. . . . - filled it with one Mau of waves. ; ilOgnaci
. -
.t gerte upon a somi-eirdular 'ledge of rooks tated clouds ofJoatis rode - on the surface of
overia.narrow Chun orwtdoh the tiny stream t the blood-redtrirrent.. Atli army must ban)
played, a. marrobriog wafer fail, and divided [been swept off by, trait flood: • The soldiers
the congregation Seto two erfnal pa:lee-sat , perished in a moment, but high- upon' the',
;theta a hundred persons, all deaotedly list- i cliffs, above the sweep-'of desttuotion, were,
ening to their minister who ...stood before 1 the covenanters, men, wiamen :yid child Wi ne
them og vihatenig,ht -be - elided a em - all natu el uttering prayers to Goa, lunheard by them'
nil - pulpit °tilting stone: - Up to it
- there ; selves, in that ragiogithender.....
, ._ . _ , _
- led a short !light=er ate . pa, - end over it Ham, l' _e
thrOcenopy of a ,tall, graceful birch, tree,
This pulpit stood in the middle of the chan
nel, directly facing that congregation,: and
r- • -
VOLUME XVI, NUMBiR• 24.
AN Trish lover 'remarked :bat is is-great
pleasure bo especially,- when you
have your sweet-heart with you.
nom
rong,
1 , art
cing
rchi
t. be
:8 of