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THE SLEEPING CHILD•
BY LEIGII 11UNT.
A brook went dancing on its way,
From bank to valley leaping,
And by its sunny margin lay
A lovely infant sleeping.
The murmur of the purling stream
Broke not the spell which bound him,
Like music breathing in his dream,
And lullaby around him.
It is a lovely spot to view,
Within this world of sorrow,
One spot which still retains the hue
That earth from❑ heaven may borrow
And such was this—a scene so fair
Arrayed in summer brightness,
And one pure being resting there
One soul of radiant whiteness !
What happy dreams, fair child are given,
To cast their sunshine o'er thee ?
What cord unites thy soul to heaven,
Where visions glide before thee ?
For wandering smiles of cloudless mirth
O'er thy features beaming,
Say, not a thought—a form of earth
Alloys thine hour of dreaming !
Sleep, lovely babe l—for time's cold touch
Shall make these visions wither ;
Youth and dreams which charm so much
Shall fade and fly together.
Then sleep! while sleep is.pure and mild,
Ere-earthly tics grow stronger,
When thou shalt be no more a child,
And dream of heaven no longer.
3111gre1intun
Dacotah's Captive.
A TSLE OF THE LEAD MINES OF lOWA
While . the Spanish colonists ravaged the
southern portion of North America in quest of
gold, and the English planted the germs of self
governing on the eastern coast, the French
were but the agents of home merchants, who
enjoyed a monopoly of the various traffics, and
were sustained in the enjoyment of it by the
strong arm of military power. To the trading
association in particular, we owe the discovery
of the Mississippi to—by the son of one of the
members—the intrepid La Salle. In his day
lead was discovered within the present limits of
the State of lowa, but the noted Julien Du
Buque was the first•who taught the Indians to
collect the ore, and make an article of trade of
it. He was not only a brave, but crafty man,
and after his death, the savages, in compliance
with his dying wish, deposited his remains
upon tha summit of a high cliff overlooking the
"Father of Waters,','. securing the mouth of the
mausoleum with a massive leaden door of a ton
weight. They then burned his dwellings and
erased every trace of civilized life around his
settlements, except the orchards planted by his
own hands. Vandal whites aftefivards cut up
the door to sell, but the name of Du Bugtio
will ever be remembered in lowa.
Years passed away. The white flag of
Franco no longer waved over the Mississippi
valley; and the bold frontiersman, advancing
on the foremost wave of civilization, crossed
the river in quest of lead ore, game or fertile
soil. One of the first settlements thus estab
lished, was formed by a party from Kentucky,
led by the grandsire of the younger generation
Joe Bates, a noble specimen of a fron
tiersman. Seventy years had whitened his
long locks, but ho was still hale and hearty,
able to wield an axe with any of his sons, or to
draw a bead on a rifle with that accuracy of
aim which had enabled him to render good
service at the battle of Now Orleani. Selecting
a good locality on the very shore oP the Missis
sippi, old Joo and his sops built a log cabin, sur
rounded by a stockade to keep off the Dacotahs.
They then surrounded a . ' clearing' with a
worm fence, 4leadened the standing trees by the
fatal axe circle, and planted corn. When their
corn was well above ground and freed from
the weeds, they began to 'prospect' for lead
Ore.
Thus far they had seen no Indians, and be
gan to flatter themselves that the redskins'
had left the country to their peaCeful posses
sion, but the wily savages had kept a constant
watch over their movements. Perhaps; had
they confined themselves to agricultural labors,
the intruders might have gone unmolested, es
pecially as the Dacotahs wished to conciliate
the United States government into a profitable
treaty; but when pickaxes were wielded in
search of;lead Oro, the destruction of the pale
faces was resolved upon in council.
Tho first object of savage vengeance was the
oldest son, Frank Bates, who had built himself
a cabin about five hundred yards from head
quarters,', despite the warnings of old Joe.—
Frank,. hemmer, had no fear for Indians, and
lived with his wife and their babe in great hap
piness, until one summer's night, when ho was
'Straitened 'by. the loud barking of his dogs.—
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opening in the logs, and saw to his horror, at
least fifty Dacotahs, in full war costume, ovi.
dently seeking the easiest way to force an en
trance into the cabin. Arousing his wife, he
raised a cellar trap door ; and was about to
send her down, when the child she had left in
the bed began to cry.
I cannot leave my babe,' said she.
Nay,' lie exclaimed, will take caro of the
boy,' and almost forcing her down into the
small cellar; he closed the unhinged door, over
which he drew a large chest. Then, stizing
his rifle and hatchet, he took the infant and as
cended to the loft of the cabin pulling up the
ladder after him. A moment more, the door
wits forded from its hinges and the Dacotahs en
tered, eager for their prey. But Bates did not
remain to watch their movements, for lashing
his boy to his shoulders, he cautiously opened
a shutter in the gable of the loft, and seeing
that no Indians were beneath, jumped to the
ground, rifle in hand.
Ere he had traversed his little garden, the
air resounded with the blood chilling tones of
the warwhoop, and a volley of arrows rained
around the fugitive. happily only one struck
him, and that in the fleshy part of the aria, so
that he kept on, straining every nerve to reach
the stockade around his father's cabin. But
ere he had gone many paces a gigantic Indian
overtook him. Turning, like a stag at bay, he
faced his antagonist, knocked him down with
the butt of his rifle and then sped on his way.
But now, to his horror, he saw a large body of
the Dacotalts around his father's dwelling as lie
approached, firing over on to the roofs of the
cabins with arrows to which burning tow was
attached.
He passed—but the cries of his boy aroused
him to a sense of his own (hanger and his wife's
perilous situation. Directing his steps towards
the river, where be found lthi dugout.' safely
moored, he soon was paddling across the river
to a settlement where there was a large num
ber of whites.
Day had scarcely dawned on the stulceeding
morning, beflire twenty Miners, good men and
true, were ready to ae.amipany him across the.
river. They cared no more fn• Dacotalip, than
for prairie dogs, and acted upon the spur of
the moment, regardless of consequences.—
Crossing above his residence young Bates led
them towards his clearing. but on arriving
there, nothillg remained of his house but a
mouldering pile of ashes. his beloved wife
had evidently perished in the flames, for among
the ashes and charred beams in the cellar they
found some blackened bones. Just then they
were joined by old Joe Bates and two of his
younger sons armed to the teeth. They were
delighted to see Frank alive, for they feared the
column of smoke that had risen from his cabin
was his monument, but now they did their best
to condole with him in their rough way. He
said but little, secretly vowed to avenge his
wife's death, and well did he keep his work.—
To have seen bim, no one would have supposed
that the mild looking, slender • built Frank
Bates was an incarnate demon in the fight with
the Dacotahs, yet within a year after• his cabin
was burnt, he had twenty . scalps hanging at
his girdle. Vengeance' seemed his only
thought— his life's desire.
For some time after this outrage, the Daco
tabs kept away from the miners, but at last a
party of them .came prowling about, and the
miners determined to have a brush with them
—who was as competent to head the party as
the sworn enemy of 'the redskins,' Frank
Bates ? The party engaged two IVinneba.
goes as guides, and then struck into the
forest, following a recent trail. The third
night of their 'journey, the weary •leader
insisted on being sentry, and about midnight
the clear crack of his rifle awaked every
sleeper. In au instant, every man was on his
feet, rifle in hand, ready to repel any lurk
ing foe, but a low whistle from Frank an.
nounced there was no danger. Morning came,
and as the party crowded around the sentinel
to learn the cause of the alarm, he Merely
pointed to what appeared to be a huge bear ; a
nearer approach to the object discovered to
their astonishment the grim visage of a dead
Dacotah, enveloped in the skin of a gigantic
bruin, who, thus disguised, had attempted to
reconnoitre the position of the frontiersmen.
Frank now felt assured they were near their
enemy, and followed the trail in silence.' On
reaching the summit of a knoll, they saw the
village becore them—a collection of high, coni
cal tents made of dressed buflitlo skins sewed
together, and ornamented with rude representa
tions of the battle and the chase.
On the outskirts were the squaws, engaged
in the laborious occupations which fall to their
lot. Their infants, tightly bound to straight
strips of bark, were tied to small bent over
birches, whioh gently danced them to sleep, and
the boys of the village, with bow and arrow,
were firing at the representation of a Kansas
hunter. In the centre of the village, before the
towering tent of the chief, sat the braves,
smoking their tomahawk • pipes with social
grayity.
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The white men looked at the priming of their
rifles, put their sharp hunting knives between
their teeth, and Is ith a- deafening yell rushed
down through the frightened squaws, ere the
Dacotahs could comprehend what caused the
alarm. Dashing into the startling group of
warriors with fierce warwhoops, they dealt des
truction around them. The chief was the first
slain, bravely defending himself and encourag
ing his warriors, who nobly struggled to avenge
his death, but all in vain.
Frank Bates fought like.a demon, but at one
time was nearly a victim to a stalwart warrior.
But on glancing at his opponent. Frank recog
nized in a gay red handkerchief around his
head, his marriage gift to his lost wife. This
added renewed strength to his body and in
creased activity to his fury, as he seized his as
sailant with his left arm; lifted him from the
ground, and at the same time with nervous
forge thrust his knife into his heart. This de
cided the battle, for the surviving Dacotahs,
panic struck at the sudden attack, rushed to
the spot where their horses were gathered and
escaped into the forest. Upwards of fifty dead
warriors remained on the bloody field and
others grievously wounded, but not a single
white man was seriously injured.
The women and children fled to the woods,
and the whites found an adundance of plunder,
comprising blankets, rich furs, horses, dried
meat and tents. .But Frank Bates felt sad at
heart, for the sight of this memento of his
wife made him fear she had been tortured be
fore perishing in the flames.
Night came on, and feeling positive he could
not sleep he volunteered to keep watch. It
was a bright moonlight night, and as he was
pacing his solitary round, pl,,nning new schemes
of vengeance, he heard a light step approach
from the thicket. Frank at first raised his
rifle to shoot the intruder down, but a secret
influenced him to call out,
Who goes. there ?'
Are you a white man ?' was the reply in
tones that produced an indescribable elliict
upon the stout pioneer.
Yes, and you ?'
' I am Frank Bates' wife, who was taken
prisoner on the Mississippi,' and as she spoke
she advanced.
The rifle NI to the ground, and Frank stood
as if under the influence of a magic spell. His
hands were convulsively clenched; his hair
stood erect on his head, a shiver ran through
his frame, and he tottered back several steps.
But not so the female, who had recognized her
husband as she drew near, and now exclaimed
as she threw herself into his arms,
Frank ! my own Frank ! Do you not know
your wife ?'
Yes, it was his long mourned• bride, her fea
tures stamped with sorrow, but still retaining
her early beauty. Mutual explanations fol
lowedi- and when the delighted wife learned the
safety of her boy, all her hardships van
ished. It now appeared that when the In
dians had entered Bates' house;they found a
keg of whiskey, which they drank freely, and
then plundered everything, removing the chest
in their researches : oon two of them quarrel
led for the handkerchief Bates had seen the day
previous, and drawing their scalpingb knives,
one of them speedily received a mortal stab, and
fell directly on the trap door, through which
-the blood ran upon the hidden wife. She, be
lieving that it came from the veins of her hus
band, shrieked aloud, thus betraying her place
of concealment. Dragging her forth, her cap-
Lori bound her, then rifling the cabin, applied
the torch. The body of the slain Dacotah was
consumed, and over his bones Bates had
mourned as for those of his wife.
That day they packed the plunder upon what
horses the Dacotalis had left, and started for
their 'homes, which they regained in safety.—
The proceeds of Frank Bates' share of the spells
enabled him to rebuild his house, but this time
close to that of his fathe'r, and enclosed with a
high stockade. The Bacotahs however never
returned, and in course of time were driven to
the Bar West. Frank Batel l ls now one of the
wealthiest landholders in
„lowa. Time has
dealt leniently with him and his wife, but
neither forgets her captivity. Their son never
passes the scene of his father's flight on that
memorable night, without feeling a renewed
sense of his filial obligations, and a deeper love
for his boyhood's home.
Parental Constitution.
It is a very prevalent opinion among the on •
professional that those persons who are most
fresh and rotund in appearance, possess the best
constitution. As these appearances very fre
quently depend upon plethora, we have • the
reason why so large a proportion of fine
healthy-looking persons die during the preva
lence of severe epidemics. Women with such
constitutions, though well and healthy looking,
have usually but few children, and they are of
an inferior quality.
On the other hand very many feeble and in
firm women have many frpqh and rosy-looking
children, but their appearance is deceptive—
tbeir condition is ono of obesity —a cenStitn-
ALLENTOWN, PA., JUNE 6, 1855.
tional weakness of the van! forces which has
been entailed upon them.
The rich or those who live high, are too
plethoric to be fruitful, and hence such people
hp° usually few children. The poorer classes,
or those who have enough, such as it is, con.
sisting mostly of vegetables, arc much more
prolific, and the children have the best promise
of health and longevity. But the most prolific
women, for the time being, are those who are
laboring under some slow, chronic, but cer
tainly fatal disease, as consumption. This rip
pears to be a law of the vegetable and animal
kingdoms, that in proportion to tho danger of
the species becoming. extinct, so far as the in
dividuals are concerned, is the increase of
fecundity. Fruit trees, so battered and bruised
that they must die in a year or two, are certain
to have a full crop of fruit the year before they
die. '
Women thus circumstanced should not mar
ry ; and if after marriage they should become
so, they should cease to become mothers.
The amount of disease and premature death
that is entailed upon society by marriage of un
healthy persons, is such as to demand, on the
part of society, the enactment of some protec
tive ordinance. If the consequences were con
fined to the parties themselves, or even to their
children, the evil would be comparatively
small; but the multiplication of it is so rapid,
that, in a few generations, a very large extent
of country becomes similary aillicted. Because
a man or woman has acquired a predisposition
to consumption or some other form of disease,
It does not follow that the privilege should exist
to entail it on others.
There is scarcely an individual in society who
has not witnessed the deplorable consequences
of the marriage of those who have had entailed
upon them a predisposition to consumption, to
insanity, to apoplexy, etc. ; then what should
we think of those who, knowing themselves, by
what they know of their ancestors, to exist with
such predispositions, place themselves in such
a situation as to visit the mischief upon unborn
hundreds, perhaps thousands ? We must con
clude that they have never seriously thought
upon the subject, or else, that they are super
latively selfish or inexcusably dishonest.
There has Become broadcast in our country,
a predisposition more mischievous than con
sumption, insanity, or any form of disease that
now occurs to us, though not so suddenly and
speedily fatal—it is interpemance in the use of
ardent spirits. A drunkard is almost sure to
be the grandfather of drunkards, through the
female part of his children, and it is probable
that he may also be the father of them.
A practical phrenologist rarely fails to detect
this predisposition. Indeed, it may be truly
said, that all predispositions to disease, as well
as to crime or moral depravity, are advertised
upon the outside of the head.
All predispositions may be removed by ap-'
propriate physical and mental education, and by
judicious marriage alliances ; but who is to
direct these ? All that we can do is to an
nounce their existence, and to admonish all
young people against forming au alliance with
theM.
There is yet another predisposition, which
has hitherto, so far as we know, entirely es
caped the notice of physiologists; and yet it is
one which every person shoUld avoid, in a mar
riage alliance, and every one would avoid it
who entertains 'ambitious hopes of his children,
if he knew it. We allude to those women who
very closely resemble their mother's, and in
consequence of this entail upon them, they will
entail their own likeness and constitution upon
their daughters, and those of their husbands
upon their sons. Such children never equal
their parents respectively—the fact indicates
that-the work of degeneracy is in progress, and
if continued will result in physical infirmity
and mental imbecility. To this law there is
possibly an exception in 'the sanguine tempera
ment.
The Arabians seem to have understood this
long since-t-they Maintain that the blood in any
species of animals is transmitted through the
female ; hence they will cheerfully sell their
stallions to foreigners,•but not their mares.
As a very general law with all classes and
species of animals, man included, males inherit
through the mother, and females through the
father. Daughters, though inheriting tile men
tal pecultarities of a father may never manifest
them; because of their more restrained position
in society, but her sons will. The character
of the sons may be inferred from that of the
maternal grandfather. •
These rules are always applicable, except
when the elements• of both parents are blended
in the children, which is frequently the case.—
W. BYRD POWELL.
Visit to a Slave Auction.
The Utica Herald, under the head of Edito
rial Correspondence, 'publishes an account of
a visit to a slave auction at New Orleans.—
The sale touk place in the Rotunda of the St.
Louis Hotel, which the writer describes as an
" elegant and most fashionable airair—throng
ed.with speculators,, buyers, dealers, and look-
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ors on. Some were smoking their Ilavanas
—somo were taking their toddies—some were
reading their morning papers—some were chat
tering on politics, the money market, and the
weather. Tho auctioneers were slowly walk
ing to and fro under their elevated rostrums,
like men who appreciate their importance, and
occasionally stooping to answer an inquiry from
a customer.
After stating that no less than a hundred
and fifty " chattles" were here offered for com
petition, and describing one sale the writer pro
ceeds :
The three other gentlemen auctioneers were
driving on an equally flourishing, though not
quite so rapid a trade. One of theM, a very
handsome, youngish looking man, was devot
ing Wins& exclusively to the sale of young
mulatto women. On the block, at the time I
approached his stand, was one of the most
beautiful young woman I ever saw. She was
aged about 16 years, was dressed in a cheap
striped woolen gown, and bare headed. I could
not discover a single trace of the African about
her features. She was much whiter than the
average of Northern white *omen, and she
carried in her head a pair of eyes that pierced
ono through. Unlike many of her fellow cap
tives, she seemed fully sensible of her degraded
position, and shrank with true maiden timidity
from the impudent Stare of the hard-featured
throng about her. Sensitive reader ! what do
you think became of that beautiful girl ? She
was struck off for $1,250 to one of the most
lecherous looking old brutes I ever set eyes on.
God shield the helpless victim of that bad man's
power—it may be, ere now, that bad man's—
•lust !
But I was destiited a moment afterwards to
witness a far sadder and more heart rending
scene. A noble looking mulatto woman was
sitting on a bench holding in her arms two
little childern, one an infant and the other a
beautiful bright eyed little boy of some seven
or eight years. Tier face showed a troubled
and frightened look, as if she was conscious
some great evil was about to befall her. When
her turn to be sold came, she ascended the
platform, the babe in her arms and the little
boy clinging to her skirts. The auctioneers
offered to sell the " lot" together, but no re
sponsible bids having been made, the mother
and little boy were put tip separately and sold to
separate partics—the one going to Texas and the
other to Mississippi. The final separation of
the mother and child took place a few mo
ments afterwards. I shall never forget the
horror and the agony of that parting. The
poor frantic mother begged and implored of
" masser" to " buy little Jerninie too," (and I
will do him justice to say that he was much
moved by her appeals,) and when she found
that her pleadings were in vain, she burst forth
in the most frantic wails that ever despair gave
utterance to. At last mother and child were
forcibly separated and hurried off to see each
other no more on earth. My heart is not ad
amant, and I execrated with more than former
ardor a system that could even permit such
fiendish atrocities.
Thus I saw with my own eyes—thus I had
thrust upon me almost—two, of the most de
testable andhorrible features in the slave system
—the sale' of beautiful young women to, lustful
male owners, and the forcible separation of pa
rents from their•offmring. • These things have
been grossly denied by Northern prints and by
Northern clergymen. That they are exception
al I believe to be true ; but that they are tolera
ted in any civilized or Christian community, is
a sadeommentary upon the humanity of the age.
it ROMAN FUNERAL.
I have seen nothing in Europe which has im
pressed we more than a Roman funeral. They
always take place at night, and are conducted
in a most remarkable manner. When I had
been in Rome but a few days. I heard one
evening in the street a prolonged wailing sound,
unlike anything to which my ear had ever be
fore been accustomed.. On flinging open the
window, I discovered that it came from a pro
cession of priests and monks, bearing a body to
burial. There must have been several hun
dred, for the train extended nearly the length of
the street. ' The priests led the way with un
covered heads, and wearing their long black
gowns, over which at the shoulders, was
thrown a sort of jacket oflace. A long line of
monks of different orders followed, with the
strange looking habiliments, of coarse brown
cloth, cowled heads and sandaled feet. Every
tenth man carrying a great candle of wax, the
light of which falling upon the dark vestments
of the priests, and casting shifting shadows be
fore and behind, like another procession of
spirits, gave to the whole an aspect of .inex
pressible mystery and gloom. Add to this the
voices of the monks, chanting in deep, solemn
tones, the funeral dirge, and it is not easy to
imagine anything more mournful'or impressive.
The body was carried at the end of the proces
sion upon a bier, covered with a superb pall of
cloth of gold.. This was followed by two men
bearing upon their shoulderS what looked like
long wooden boxes, upon which the bier was to
r •t. Each priest who carried a torch was at
ended by a man holding a small paper screen:
tached to the end of a stick, which served to
- ecp the wind from the flame. Other men and
boys ran along at the sides with shovels of tin,
to collect from the pavement the drops of mel
ted wax
_continually falling. Evidently the do.
ceased was s person of considerat:on, for-the re
tinue of priestly attendants was large, even for
Rome, where it is easy at the shortest notice to.
get together hundreds of ecclesiastics of reli
gious brothers of one or another order: Aa
soon as I saw this novel spectacle, I obeyed my
first impulse, and ran out and followed, to• see
what the end might be. There was in the.
sounds of the dirge a strange charm, and in the•
whole dark pageant a fascination quite unearth
ly. A certain sort If romance inspired long;
ago, by I know not what wild and poetical and
prose recitals, was roused again. Slowly the
mournful cortege wound through several nary
row, dark streets, until it reached a heavy look
ing church near the Fountain of Trevi. I con
trived, with several others not of the proces
sion, to steal in, expecting to witness in the.fu
neral ceremonies something surpassing in dread
ful gloom what I had already beheld., But that.
was the end for the time, of the matter ; for
the bier was , deposited in the centre of the
church, the chant ceased, the torches, which%
were the only lights in the building, were ex
tinguished, one by one, and the crowd of monks
and priests hurrying out, the doors were closed,
—Cor. Providence Journal.
Young Man You're Wanted.
A woman wants you. Don't forget her.--
No matter if you are poor. Don't wait to be•
rich ; if you do, ten to one if you are fit to be
married at all, to any body that is fit to be
married. Marry while you are young, and:
struggle up together.—Ex.
But mark, young man, the woman don't;
want you, if she is to divide your affections ,
with a cigar, spittoon, or a whiskey-jug.--.
Neither does she want you, if you can't take.
care of her, and any little after-thoughts, which
are pretty certain to follow. Neither does she.
want you simply because you are a man, the
definition of which too apt to,. be,—an animal
that wears bifurcated garments on his lower•
limbs, a quarter-section of stove-pipe on his
head, swears like a pirate and is given to, filthy
practices generally. She wants you for a
companion, a helpmate—she wants you, if you
have a noble spirit—she wants you if you
have learned to regulate your passions and ap.
petites ;—iu short she wants you, if you are•
made in the image of God, not in the likeness of
a beast. If you are strong in good purpose,'
firm in resistance to evil, pure in thought and
action as you require her to be and without
which inward and outward purity, neither of
you arc fitted for husband or wife—if you love
virtue and abhor vice ; if you are gentlemanly,
forbearing and kind, and not loud-talking, ex
acting and brutal, then young man, that woman
wants you—that fair, modest cheerful bright
looking, frank-spoken woman, we mean, who
fills your ideal of maiden and wifo—it is she,
wants you ; marry her when you like, whether
you are rich or poor ; we'll trust you both on
the conditions named without further security.
—Mailer:on Gazette.
The Ungrateful Son.
The following incident was related last year
by Rev. R. Weiser.
" The eye that mocketh at his father, the•
ravens of the valley shall pluck it out." Prom
xxx., 17. This is a terrible denunciation
against ingfatitude to parents, and even in the
present day is sometimes virtually fulfilled.
Some years ago, an Irish gentleman who'
was an extensive contractor on our public
works, was reduced to poverty by the prolli
gacy and dishonesty of an ungrateful son. The
old man lost his wife„and to add to his calami
ty, his health fiiiled, and to fill his cup of sor
row, he lost his sight. Thus poor, friendless,
blind and forsaken, he found an asylum kill's
Franklin county alms-house,, Pennsylvania.
While an inmate of this refuge for the afflict--
ed, his wicked and ungrateful son traveled that
way ; lie was informed of his father's situation,
and that his parent wished to see him ; and
although he passed within two hundred yards
of the alms-house, he refused to stop and see
the kind father he had ruined. Now, mirk
the result.
The very day he passed the alms-house on
his way.to Gettysburg, in an open carriage, he
was overtaken by a storm, and took a severe
cold, that resulted in the destruction of his
eyes. .1k lay at Gettysburg in a critical situa
tion until his funds were exhausted, and those
who had him in charge took him to the Frank•
lin county alms-house.
The very day he was brought in, his father,
having died the day before, was carried out.-- .
lie was•put in the same room, occupied the
same bed, and in a short time followed his
neglected and broken-hearted father to the
judgment seat of Christ. It is a fearful thing
to fall into the hands of an angry God.
BLIND PEOPLE.
Stanley th organist and many blind
cians leave been the best musicians of theii
time ; and n schoolmistress in England could
discover that two boys were playing in a dis
tant corner of the room instead of studying, aL.
though a person using his eyes could not detect
the slightest sound. Professor Sanderson, who.,
was blind, could, in a few moments, tell how
many persons were, in a mixed company, and of
each-sex. A blind French lady could- dance in.
figure dances, sew, and'lliread ber own needle.
A blind man in Derbyshire, England, has ac
tually been surveyor and_ planner of roads, his:
car'guidieg him to the - distance as accurately
as the eyes ofothors ; and the Into Justice Field-:
ing, who was blind, on walking into a room for
the first time, after speaking a ibw words, said,.
" This room is about twenty-one feet long,.
eightten wide, and twelve feet high," all of
which was revealed to him with accuracy.
through the medium of his ear.