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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
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