( LEWIS BURG' Ci-B CLE 1 Jo - J . i 1 II. C. IIICKOK, Editoh. . 1 LEWISBUKG, UNION COUNTY, PEM, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1851. VOL. VIII NO. SG. O. X. WOKDEN, Pki-vter Whole Number, 401. LEWISBUKG CIHtONICLE butIcMnotPueinmy nat now to illuminate lU margins with gratuitous ! portraiture. The clergyman is entitled to our first attention. This is the first jear of hit ministry. He is a stray slip of Virginia ii iiiiMimn rixtLY jormt, Is$utd on Wednesday miirningi at LeicULurg, I'rtiiin county, l'cansylranic. TES MS. :. jw-r Tfar, f..r -ali actually in ailrxnrr; $1,74, if paia within throe uiontlm; if paid within yr; $2..0 if nt pai-1 h-forctli year pxpirv: & criiU f..r incle samara. !SuhTii.li"nti fr six udiiuIh. ar ,m If " i'''''ntinunnit. ..liMuai with the i aristocracy, who has found scope for his Fhli.hrr,!t whi-n thycri up. , . J ' ADviKTiicxtvrs inn.is.in. lv in.-Ti.-.i t so eent m enthusiasm of rtlii'lous sentiment, and f iuare. one we k. $1 f-.iir w.v-L. $i a year: two sqiiarw.. . r t . i. , . , si r.u nwuiiis.; s.r a o.-.r. Mvmntiir a.ir.-rtiH!- opportunity for his generosity of sulf-denml, in'-nl. nM .xvHin;r ntm fi.nrih nf acliiiiui. $lu a vr. i : t . i . jdii u tut Hand casual .uerti.iui-uu to be jaiti jbr, ln circuit preaching through a mountain "lien nannin in ornnnfmi. ...... . e . . .. nt... "kc ui mree nuuurea miles li-d in or deHverrul. IvmwcxKiTioxM aoluii.-d ou all m'.j.rtu of prnirul i couipajs, Wt tint within the ran." All letters must come p Kiuren in ine wnl.-r. V, reeiv,. nitration. -Thti prcaehintr nn in Wlfri. "nnco rnrr iln maimc ezriu.-iTviy in the Kiibiriai b. irtu. nt. in be di-: l'rca-ulngi on an average, once every day twi.-u in in.MtT 1 . IIH K.tK. t:s... t.dilur- buinea to i. . Hint... i'Uttl, OBSee nu M.irki tr.-t. b-tKen S.-mn.l and Third, nrcr th IforUmr,. t,. v. WoUDK.V fnrirtnT. l&ZZSXft JES ; wLich Le must traTCe onw cv"y month,. ana thow on j and twice on Sundays." lie is marked by to me, at least, that it might somehow concern the young clergymen whom the fates should favor with appointments to this circuit for a year or two to come. It was, however, so obvious, that Mr. Ash- leigh was not a marrying man, that Nancy made no demonstration in that direction, and, I believe, his general demeanor ef fectually protected him wherever he went from the usual liabilities of his exposed position. But cow that Nancy has had her usual fore-ground privileges and preferences, and made her due impression upon the Fnm the Sullivan Cutinty Vt-mcrtit. THE MAID OF THE MILL. better education, better manner, and more company ; and, after sLe baa ibaken bands refinement tban tLc men among whom be Iwith everybody entitled to that ceremony TImmv'w a Mithe TlttU maid with Urk rolling cv, And tin flcwinc ta.tir uf a jet, trto-isj Jv, And lipi will, the cherry ti.at . oouid cimpetf. And er1oft In beauty fn.m bead to tli r t : Ami though lr-Tel.T he im hy bmtnre j, Xt lfrHT far nr (be clinruiii of hr miud o honest in heart and Hi constant in will, ho match can be fuuad fur the Maid of the Mill. Wberew in iwta, or wherever he r. Ulo aofter tlia wiudu and I. loom tatrer the row. And the it'ance, in a crowd, of her ere. heatuiu fire, IMakf lai!iefl to ev j. and laddica aitmire ; Uut, like all lnrcle bciuu'i. she is never m iweet A when li'htinir the :Um of some Ioh-1t retreat, When nature without ii aii tramiuil aud till. Save the ripple that mirror the Maid of the Milf. I had met her full oft at tli close of thedftr. An alou? the crrn mend I wnuld naink:ljr rtrar, And her mcrt-4t di-mennnr and iiii.ftr ni air Hrwathed rtmmrer of li'tircn thnn mnrt-ili nn Jiharc. And murh I muse if ie near native howcr lifld Mown into Imnutj so lovwlv a flower. And Httte I thu'.ht. ns he pumii oVr tli hill, feuch leautjr U-luLeJ to the Mud of the Mill. Anl often in ehuirfa dfl her prcfenee wert ItftOor a strn- ftlAtiee- t hr own corner peat. And my yen were deliLrhTs, tlHvuPh at the cost Of mart a r ray or. nd a x-rnion all lot; Aud eu I mused in iunn-oon or cot & briMianr a Air 7h'ndd be .a-ht: And llftlel tjouht &rmr imm would thr'M M ith aftw-fi'tn for WJ iJUt ihe Maid of the M;l Hut U rlianred a I tr.M ne bright mmnrr day, Adttwn tb irren meadow I ba;peti"t to rtrar, And I ated mvMdf 'nt-xtli a lw willow tn-, M here the water as nill. anl the uilibles w. re free, Whea a little blak 'loud broke the ukr'a intillv mtt. Awl mart-ttallid fUn in the now gloomy wrt, AihJ furei ate for i-helt r to hie from the rill Aod kmx k at the door of the CA of the Mill. 'The wind was full hi jh. and the thunder did mar, And the heavy dmr.s 'tn in torrvnttt to i-our, At inlronl of the c4tae iuiptieut I rtood. A id kuwkd at the d'-or full loudly and rude; 1 knew act the fairr-Iike voi-e from within. An I growled in reply. - I'tn wet to the nkin r Slut fuw of the Btoiiue thut qt hoani did thrill, Ab confronted 1 eluj with the Maid of the Mill. Her maidenly Retinre an! rvt-il nootliiH strain Soon rendTd my frw-ble apology fsin, Anl I nt-'cr fthall'loret the ao- I lik- air. A she motiand aiit in an o.d-faltnti.d ehsir: Though aiinpie the charm uf tiie cottage amy vta, Vat Vricht in the nuii-rht of beuty they glem ; And oit-mory hall ever rerall at utv will 1'he Chans that Furrundrd the Cot of the Mill. Ko yean hare pine hr, and He bTftfte armerrs mid i l (frown toa matron both vber and rtaid, And manj'f the titar in the ehde we're reclined. Or roved in the grove with our arms intrrtwuted j And happy the meming wboM lortou light Beheld as hi wedlock fr ever unite; pleasure v n-eded hit f trtuoe to fill, When lord of the heart of the aid of the Mil!. LtwUBvaa, r.u SASDV. xninistered ; but be eubdt.es bis tastes, ! before thj congregation separates; and and conforms hia general demeanor, to wbilesbe occupies Mr. Asblwigh with ques- tbe coart?e conditions of bis work, with al! ; tions about th result of the last camp- meeting, followed by inquiries about the health of the most interesting members in the most fashionable parts of the circuit; fta.If we do not greatly mistake, the! cene of the following sketch is laid in Tuacftrora Valley, J uniata county ; where, ire before, Dr. YL commenced his profess ional career. Ed. Chron. From Sxrlain's Cnion UtgaHne. ELIZABETH BARTON. " ITR WltU 5I JILIiER. I have a itory to tell, not to make. It the derotion, but, happily, nono of the pretence, of a martyr. In good truth, he is very much out of placs in tliis rude region, except for the rare spirits, one in land especially for tha health of "Dear old a hundred or a thousand, who, perchance, j Father Ball," the Presiding Elder, and of may apprehend him. But he came among j Brother Stanford, the eloquent young us in such singleness of heart and cordial ' preacher, that is the present agony among devotcdness of spirit, that he is as much church-gossips all uttered in tones of disguised, to selfish, and superficial people, unimpeachable meekness and pleasing niel- as a prince in temporary banishment. And . ody, touched with the slight abstractedness he would have it so, for he wants the dis- if a devout spirit, 'let me introduce you ciplinc of such duty; and the concealment as well as I can to her cousin Llizabeth ; of his accustomed style of life is necessary , whom Nancy's presence has covered and to the free working of the experiment. . The concresration felt that indefinable shadowed until the last moment for lin gering has arrived, and the preacher and something in him which distinguishes the j the old folks have moved decidedly for gentlemanbred,but missing all the pretence j the door. and mannerism which, in their idea, I Elizabeth Barton was something above marked it, they generally accepted him at the middle size, and might be taller still, his own modest estimate, and the secret of j with advantage, if her bearing had but his family and fortune escaped the gossips, 'a little pretty pride in it. She was finely I lie accepted his hundred dollars a year, j formed, with such a mould of limb, and I half-story above thif long range of rooms, tree-tops on the mountain range before us. Besides, we are on the way to Tommy Bar ton's, and there is nothing in our search that matches well with grand scenery and pretty landscapes. We must get down the rugged pathway, with our attention sharply employed upon oar footsteps, and, when the feat is well accomplished, we are on the margin of the little rivulet that unrolls like a silver ribband between" the hills. Stepping dnintily upon tho plank, that swings and dips till the surface of the water steadies it, we reach the worm fence of the littlo meadow, which is crossed by a stile, raado rudely enough of an upping block on one side, and a stump upon the other. The cabin sits fifty yards before us, upon a natural terrace ; a rocky bluff rises rapidly behind it, like a giant stair way, to climb the mountain, which swells away into the mid-heaven, no steep and barren, that it seems built there to dyke out the northern storm-waves. This cabin is a rude, unshapely piece of architecture. Originally it was a square pen, built of unhewn logs, about a foot in diameter and twenty-fivo feet long ; but, as a necessity for room increased with a rising family, additions of similar log-pens were piled up at cither end until it stood stretched out in line, three houses made one, by cutting out tho end walls of tho first and throwing all the rooms into one great hall, which, without partitions, blinds, or curtains to divide them, served for kitchen, dining- room, and bed-chamber for the old folks, and cubbies for half a doien of the young ones, besides room for a hand-loom and its appurtenances in the corner farthest from the kitchen end of the building. A made up by some thirty littlo congrega- style of carriage, and rythm of movement, tions, as composedly as if he needed such as results from the best combination of a pittance, and he took the hospitalities of strength and grace in form and arrange- the circuit as contentedly as if their best meat, the best health and habits, and the was something quite agreeable to him. best tone of mind and feeling, which the Not unfrequently the position of the 'laws of correspondence can any way achieve preachor, in this nigged region, is a matter j in actual life. Ilcr hand and foot, especi of ambitious aspiration, notwithstanding ! ally, were models, and her face, in evcry thc rudeness of the people and the hard- j thing but the consciousness of high men- ness of the work ; for some of our mouo- j tal powers, was perfect in appropriate tain clertry arc the coarsest men within 1 beauty. Her head had that symmetrical the boundaries of the brotherhood ; but elegance that is never wanting in a fine oftCD, Twrj yaon. tha of rich sensibilities and a dedication of line very pure, and the features regular and talents to the most repugnant forms of i finished, but tho forms and tints, thongh accessible by a ladder instead of stairway, with a clapboard roof for ceiling, divided into rooms by drop curtains of home-made two persons was so great that they never actually touched, even at the borders ; yet an intrinsio resemblance could bo traced in every fibre of their respective constitutions. Tommy could get tipsy occasionally, talk nonsense mixed up with poetry any time, and brag like a jockey about every thing that in any waj concerned him. He was, moreover, incapable in business, unsteady in labor, and given to substitute i the sentiment of duty for its practico, and to content himself with fine speeches in place of nolle actions; and all without a shade of hypocrisy, for he was in fact so proud of what he was, and so ready with reasons and apologies for all that he was not, that he needed no pretences. He was not profligate, unprincipled, or insensible to right : he was only an Irishman ; and that hindered him from being cither worse or better, llie raw elements 01 every hnman excellence wen in him in rich abundance, and in great confusion, too; but in Elizabeth they had crystallized into the most efficient forms and and most per fect beauty ; for all of texture that was wanting in her paternal blood was supplied to her by her maternal grandfather, who was an unmitigated Scotchman. With his beggar's complement of chil dren, and general unthriftincss of character, Tommy was, of course, poor to the very verge of destitution. He had grown steady that is, sober lately, and he was not lazy; but it was as much because his health had failed, and age was beginning to stiffen the machinery, as from any prin ciple, that he was amending in his habits. It must be allowed, also, that he was feel ing Elizabeth's influence with steadily increasing force. There was dignity with its incident authority in her deportment ', not of the imposing kind, nor by afly meansf directly and distinctly shown and surrender; and, the refractory old fool would dash the tears out of his eyes, with the pretense that it was passion, and not sorrow that moved them : and with an oath refuse her permission to return. At last, when things had become intolerable; half a dozen children and the mother sick; the wholo honsohold suffering, and the father at his wit's end; she bravely fureed her way into the wretched hovel. It re- were now, on account of their nature, as well as of necessity, almost wholly contro- verted. Indeed, she was one of thostf instances of adequatencsa for the severest trials and highest duties,ayf for the noblest styles of life, whet the intellect u only moderate, but the harmony and richness of the moral nature supplies it with inspi ration, giving it range and strength anil certitude,quite beyond its own independent quired a little more resolution than the capabilities. Three centuries airo, tLcrd old man could muster, to make resistance; j were peers of England who could neither and ha silently and sullenly submitted. It j ruad nor write ; and the highest fame in was enough ; she was installed again, and all the ample round of historic greatness she had returned strong in purpose, aud , belongs to a man, who in speculative very rich in resources for the exigency. j philosophy and general literature was A year's experience, a larger sphere of j neither proficient nor remarkable for his thought, and broader observation, had done capability. wonders upon her earnest character. It J Elizabeth knew everything that hef seemed natural enough that she should be life demanded, though she had learned so a little stran ire fur a few days after her little. She could work miracles in thd return ; moreover, she was still under ban, i domestic economy of that burdensonis though the banishment was remitted ; and j household. She knew how to rule without these things together served to explain ! usurpation,where authority rather required her difference of manner and general de- her to obey ; aud the younger inmates, mcanor to her father, and old familiars, 'refractory to all other force, yielded to the and to protect her peculiarity from imper-' charm of her goodness, and the mixture off tinent remark. 1 gentleness, steadiness, and address which She left them before her religious en-' she had the grace and patience to employ, thusiasm had time and opportunity to J A just analysis of her agency in that settle into form, and take the habitual family, would make an excellent treatise direction of her conduct Residence j upon domestic conduct, though she would canvaes,affordcd the girls a dormitory at one : felt ; it was more like that energy of gen end and the older boys like accommodation j tleness which shapes the bone to the brains at the other. The family, all told, reached j steady pressure, the framework of the the round number of fourteen children, of; chest to the resilienry of the lungs and duty. Snch was the person, and such the aptitude to his work, of our friend, the Rev. George Ashleigh. It were well for our new world if the ministerial office were ! generally filled by such meff as he. Among the women belonging to this so ciety, there were two girls, whose charac ters were brought well enongh to the sur face by the events of my story to allow the hope of adequate presentment. Nancy Barton's general character was strength and style. Her religious impul faultless, seemed subdued to the air of a hard service ; and her dark chesnut hair, checked of its fulness and effect, was almost hidden from view by the severe restraint of its arrangement. My first sight of her was such a glimpse as I am now giving to the reader. I marked then the rich re sources of physical beanty that lay covered i there and unprononnced, the serious air of whom Elizabeth,tho elder, was about twenty two and the youngest child four years old at the date of our story. The mother was one of those indistinct nobodies who usually figure at the head of such a regiment of children. The father was an i.-isbtnan, and had as much of that in him as would serve to "sc. "v twice as many heirs," as the saying is, "in extrav agance." lie was one of the Bartons of tho North, according to his own account, "of a dacent family, that lived on their own land at home, and niver a one of the name was ivcr known to be a Papist." Tommy's zeal for the trae'faith, it was easy enough to perceive, wa the old grudge, and only aaithcr phase of hi pride of caste and heart, the vital power that in the tenderest flower-stalk pierces and mellows to confor mity the hardest clol The very poor are unapt to respect each other, or to regard, amid tha rude famili arities of their daily intercoure,the noblest qualities. Nor, indeed, is it easy for them to discover them in the eoan drees of j..-.cumstances which poverty imposes. Ay! it is the bitterest of Poverty's ten thousand dedication to some onerous duty, and the j boast of blood. He was religious of course, deep religious renunciation of all the de-! or he might as well have been born any lisrhts of sense and all the rride of life. ! where else as in the County Antrim. A is true to a thought ; true as my senses ! ses were very active, her social sentiments ' She spoke modestly and kindly to those I dozen years before, he bad been a member received it into my feelings and reflections, free and strong, and her selfish feelings, and I am very sure that it has suffered no ' alto, sharp and importunate. She was curses, that it denies ti- corditioLS of decorous association and refining inter cour.e ; that it prevents that discipline which habitual proprieties cf demeanor only can enforce, ttai destroys all pure and healthful self-respect, by the undigni fied and indelicate personal relations which it compels. And it is uttering si volume of commendation in a word, when I Eiy that Elizabeth had conquered her father's rciractoriness, and secured lrora mm a deference which almost inverted the Irish among strangers, with its modicum of lei sure and privacy, had invested her with proper individualism j and the severe discipline of mind and feeling undergone had worked its permanent results into the texture of her mental constitution, which was remarkable at once for its aptness and tenacity. The controlling quality of Eli-' zabeth's mind was, very plainly, in its intense religious devotedness, which, ji her, not only sublimed, bnt strengthened her natural affections, held thorn well atd wisely to their office, and gave to the siu plest duty which had anything of sacrifice in it, the tone and determination of a sacred obligation. Her ideal of a religious life is, in the phrase of her church creed, called sanctifi- eation,perfect love,or Christian perfection. I probably have been both silent and inca- pable in a discission of the principles and policy of her system. Her mind and feelings, more than any other that I ever knew, found their mani festation in action, duty, practice ; and less in utterance and social demonstration. Her reserve) indeed, seemed like an in ca pacity, and its rigidness scarcely escaped the censure of her kindest friends. Nothing except some household duty could draW her from that everlasting loom. No visit paid there, seemed to include her in its courtesies or idleness. If a direct question; interrupted the flying shuttle, and a hand paused a moment in its office, it was only for the interval required by the shortest answer that could be made in kindness and co!adialitTThe thread of her web remmed This conception was her standard. Tie , its race as quickly as the urgency of inter 1 . : i ii ii . . rugawra wouia axiow, ana ner paueces under persecuting complaisance was even , i . i . . . 4uai w tier perseverance : distortion or exaggeration there. who wre nearest to her, while she ad-! of the society that worshiped at the school- justed her bonnet and waited till the com- i house that sort of a member which can 1 order of domestic life defective in imagination proper, but the 'panj gave her room to pass; and, whenj neither be kept in nor out of the church The occurrences are now twenty years ' life of passion warmed and strengthened j she moved, it was remarkable for nothing old; the locality is middle Pennsylvania, 1 her thoughts into grandeur, and her verbal in a narrow valley, lying between two of! eloquence was of the highest tone ccn the easternmost ridges of the Alleghany ceivable in a woman destitute of literature Mountains. j anj tLe culture of refined companionship. I had just finished the nsual term of Tho custom of the church admitted of fe medical study, and attended one course of j male participation in the public devotions, lectures at Philadelphia. Of the experi-: and Nancy found scope in a stormy clo enccs common to my tribe, I had my ! quence of prayer and exhortation, for tal avcragc an exhausted purse and a dis-1 tnts that had no match in such use within appointment in a love affair. Under the the circuit of a hundred rnihs. compulsion of these, and the notion that a! She was strongly rather than hand little practice of my own with its attendant somcly made. There was a firmness, responsibilities (for which I believe I was weight, and force, with euch elegance ns better prepared than nsual) would be fine belonfr to them, in her make and manner. training for my last session at the Medical that kindled admiration, unmixed, howev- with tenderness and affection. I11imi T vtlii4...1 If -a 1 ft fc-, - nijatu at a --.v roaus cr. in the centre of a good settlement. A face, well fitted for the elocution of her grist mill, saw-mill, distillery, smith-shop, strong thoughts and burning- words, was and retail variety store, did the business stril-mr. l,r;irnt n,l otrnn Krm1nm Vf the neighborhood ; a weekly mail bro't j enough, without, being quite agreeable, or j other tenements ; one, occupied by Eliza- so much as its quick directness and unob- trosiveness. She seemed to hare no gos siping to do, and no timo to spare, as she stepped rapidly from the door, and, turn ing the corner of the building, bent her course toward home. She had two miles to walk ; roost of it over a rugged ridge, which separated the little glen where she was born fromthe valley in which the Union Schoolhoase stood. It was, in fact, bnt a rift made in the hills by a wa tercourse, with a narrow border of arable soil, raggedly irreguhir ; in spots atTording room for a cottage, a little cornfield, a garden, and so much meadow as might Her . feed a cow or two through the winter. Just where Tommy Barton lived, the riv ulet was a little more liberal of margin, and cave space within a mile for thrco m,.i.r:, ua newspapers ; and I an- j in any fashion fascinating. It turned, it ",e noaul1 c 1 u'e icmity that is may be, too fully and boldly to one's gaze; to say, of a region of hill and valley forty ! it confessed, perhaps, too much eonscious imlos in eoapass. ncss.and too much of the purpose of its own a. miic ueiow us, on the stream that bcth's grandfather, another, by her uncle, and a third, by John Brown, who renders us the service of escorting our heroine across the ridge on bad nighU, when she watered our pretty valley, there stood a ment; for there was a little of that pystera 'performing other duties of kindness and a, ,w,u.cuf rougu Luut, one-story in its passion which corresponded to the onehou, which was called the -Union1, full elaborateness of her robnst oratory. fehMlkmee. Its primary use was for j The trouble was, that, whHc her rhapsodies tho mstruct of the children of the dis- wcrc in lho vein of inBpiratioD the MW. tact, but ,t was the only public build- ery iatrudcil the fceling cf ffiueh ,tud, - . usea occa- and large practice with an aim. sionally for alhorU of public meetings, and uucunuays regularly, under some tacit agreement, by half-a-dozen sects, for prea ching and social worship. There, about aoon ca a summer Sabbath, might be found (at the time I speak of) the persons whom I wkh to introduce to the reader's acquaintance ; and, assuming that every body knows enough of the general charac ter of such audiences to answer our present purposes, I will content myself with de scribing particularly only three or four Nancy was an orphan, and dependent for her support npon her industry or the hospitality of her church friends, as she pleased to choose between those two sorts of reliances. She compromised and mix ed them as her tastes and purposes re quired. She mads along visit the year before, to a distant town in ono or other of these characters, and had returned with no slight advantage of travel and observation from the trip. A few weeks in the family of a lawyer, who had lately joined the ns in tne congregation, whom we are church. r,t concerned to know more intimately. Theyfmanner, and worked some notions into .r Z7 t ,Tr!y W of fif,y h understanding, which were not a liitle courtesy,such as his supernumerary sort of character owes tu utef.u people in the world who -are their T--J . neighbors. By the way, this was t'.j noble office that the poor fellow evei filled, and we ought to be thankful tblt he was good enough and good-for-othiig enough, to be always ready for the daty. Brown, though a married man, of about forty-five, is Elizabeth's only beau; but we may accompany her in imagination tn her cot tage heme in the glen. The footpath lies straight up the hillside, leaving the winding wagon-road abruptly and plunging directly into the thick bushes. A sharp straggle with the steepness, a brisk squab ble with the loose stones which slip and tumble under the foothold, and we have gained the flat rock that caps the ascent But it affords no out-look. The broad limbed chesnut", scrub-oaks, and under growth of bushes, hide everything bat ?iC? little Talley. It W4j evident f f ffi fif j bnt by severe measures and the hardest fighting. Tommy left the brotherhood but two choices oitber to put him out, or to blow themselves up. Accordingly, they expe?led him en sundry charges, among which were hard swearing, occasional in toxication, and perpetual contumacy. The injury of this expulsion was nothing, in the account that Tommy opened with them for it ; his pride fed fat npon his injuries ; everything, everybody, injured him. In fact, he had all his consequence in his in juries. Their greatness served to measure tho magnitude of his rights, and were wel come to his magnanimity ; but the insult was too mueh for one of the Barton fami ly to bear. Tommy was eloquent by birth right, bnt, unhappily, he was never genial except when he was boritrg some gentle man in good broadcloth, with the proofs and indications, historical and fanciful, of hie family'3 gentility. Ill luck and ill treatment, ill conduit and ill conditions (Tommy never had any other sort of either), had curdled the wit and humor inherent in his blood, and kept it for ever boiling and bubbling with fretful near and passion Yet, queer, crazy, and absard as was the mixtve in this proud, weak, worthless, high-spirited old many Elizabeth derived, it seems to me, her steady nobleness' from his impulsive aspirations, her frae enthu siasm from his wild fire, and her generos ity from his Irish pride, The chemistry of matter knows how to convert the elements of charcoal into dia mond; and the modifying forces of the vital laws are equally adequate to all the difference between this foolish old father and his noblo daughter. There was that in him which, by looking for it, one oould see might, by better mingling and steadier drift, be made to answer the best uses and highest ends ; but, by an accident, or a jog in the settling, had produced instead an Irishman which, I take it, as a rale, is nearer to a natural nobleman, and yet fur ther from a reasonable being, than any other variety of the human race: The difference in results between these Five years before, when she attached her-jclf to the church, the very church which had expelled him, he drove her with violen oe from the house, with as greet in dignation as if she had stained his came and honor with the dceptsi ahase. A weary, wretched year she endured tho exile, earning her support by labors light er, indeed, upon her hands than the tasks which she performed at home, let heavier upon hit heart ; for she could do nothing for that largo family that needed her now every day, mora and more, in every office which a woman can fulfil to a household of small children in great' seed. The mother was what the country people called "a doless creature' and the sister, next in age to Elizabeth, was delicate in health, and too feeble iu character for the service. The weight that lay heaviest upon her heart, was half a dozen of little sisters, as beautiful as birds, wanting all things and wanting, most of all things, the governance and culture cf an elder sister's nursing love and controlling prudence. They were crowded there together, like herd of orphans in an almshouse, exposed to their father's petulance, and to each other's selfishness and tempers,and suffering many things, besides, which childhood can not suffer without having tho very fountains of its life poisoned by the bitter depriva tions ; and, all without the mediation of that wise, good heart, which was aching in its exile to render its self-sacrificing ser vices. There were frettings and fightings there, tears and turmoils, injuries inflicted and endured, and with all, and above all, the absence every hour felt, by the hourly recurring need, of the ministering angel of the. household. Especially through the long, gloomy winter, the days and weeks and months wore wearily away in that wretched cabin. All suffered the penalty of the father's pride ; bnt none so keenly as himself, for to him it brought all the privation, with tho sin and folly added. But he would not yield to the constraint he felt, and the necessities Is witnessed ; because it would have bee i i such cir cumstances, not rcconoiliaUoOt hot a instant aspirations cf her heart were, for angel purity and excellence.- Hr under standing, in its enthusiasm, ejected the logical manoeuvring, by which the require ments of the highest law arsreeonciled to habitnal delinquencies of Ife : nay, she- felt weakness itself like e crime. Her meekness bora without ansogy the burden of her offences-,- 'self-justification oa the ground of natural infirmity of nature, would have felt to her the very boldness of an appeal from the law of condnct pre scribed for her by her Divine Father. The soul held in such a frame,grew and gushed like the flowers and fountains under the kindliest influences cf heaven. In the calm of her holy reveries, blessing lay like dew npon her affections, and in its exultant moment, the Divine Presence flooded her whole being with it3 light and life, like a sunburst on a mountain top. It needed only a clear insight, to perceive that her essential life was "hid with Christ in God ;" that there was a eoctar.t rap ture in the soul under that tranquility of the senses a fulness of the diviner life sustaining a level of perpetual calmness on the surface, which the forces of the outward and accidental had no power to disturb. This supremacy of the central, took nothing from the wonted energy ot the 13703 she owed to the world without ; it rather adjusted, steadied, and supplied them with a recreating strength, a constant freshness and untiring patience. If her faith and fervor bordered on fanaticism in sentiment, they nevertheless, in all the verities of use, flowed like life blood thro' her mora! system, feeding with vital force all the faculties which perform the benign offices of love and duty. A deep peace ruled her spirit, and wove its quiet into all the solicitudes which she sustained for ctrs ; and holy reit within, compensated and repaired the waste of toil without. She held herself aloof from the coarse companionship around her,without offence, for it was seen that she had no leisure for idle courtesies ; and the restraints which occupation would not account for, were credited to her devotional habits. Besides, however strange it may seem, with all her dignity, beauty, and efficiency, she was not especially attractive to tho undisccrn ing boors about her. Her riddle was quite beyond their reading; and her charms were not in direct array to their apprehensions ; for, in all its proportions, that saying of the apostle has accurate ap plication, that "spiritual things are -piri-tually discerned' and not otherwise. She was quiet constitutionally, more so still by tho high occupation of her thoughts; and she was, besides, really not cloqueul in words, nor copiously furnished with tho'ts and utterance for conversational uses. Her early education had been sadly neglected by that improvident father of hers; her nresent opportunities for study were abso lutely nothing, and hex mental activities j to her perseverance s but few a there were who understood it, of" the tfro- prieties which it exacted, there Were still fewer who could raise the hardihood to test her forbearance very severely. Her steady manner settled it without appeal for it really gave no offence, and left no disal isfaction. She was busy with a warranty and the visiter always made her apology y so as to kave the pleasure of a call marred by no feeling but the sense of bis own loss. I have seen but few women who sat as) well at the piano, and when the had a fine linen web in the loom, and the weather allowed of open doors, clear air and sum mer neatness in the array of the cabin fur niture, nothing eoufil bo more becoming than her occupation. It was monotonous; for her faco Was full of thoughtful light and changeful feel ing. Her perfect gracefulness of motion1 and simple elegance of form, her felt strength and quiet beauty, which, without challenging admiration, gave deep, pure pleasure, preserved an air of naturalness to the picture which allowed it to glide on quebtioned into the spectator's feelings. Thus I found her and1 her surroundings' when I .called occasionally as a visiter; but, when' I went professionally to see the children in their little illnesses, difficult as order was in such circumstances, the whole feeling of the soene was changed by the effect of her changed attitude She' stood foremost then,' the mind that took1 the direction of affairs ; her manner inti mating the highest qualities and her whole action impressing me with the feel-" iug, that she was my equal snd something more, except in my professional office. In? a thousand women I have met none whose? mental sympathies and intuitions felt tinner and broader than did that rustic firl's. After a year's occasional inJecurse but more than occasional interest in her the relentless severity of her toil and un relaxing strain of her mental excitation conspiring with the recurrence of tha epidemio season' and an unusually wet autumn, broke dowu her strength, and I was summoned to her bedside, by her' faithful old friend and servant, Brown with a rap on the window of my shanty, Jr know not how long after midnight ! "Doctor,you're wanted badly at Tommy Barton's. Elizabeth is down, i in afcared with the fever ; and she wouldn't let mo trouble you till, I doubt, we've- waited almost too long ; bat I hope not." Why, Brown, is that you? Are jouf afoot? It must be pit'oli-dark oa tt ridge just now." "k'es, I had no ho.-sa ; and I d rather walk such a night as this than ride, any-s how. I don't know how you'll gpt along; in the woods, Doctor I" 'Don't bother your brains alout that i 1 ft i- r 9 iris. ' . If , 5 H:'7.-1' .ro. 'VI
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