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THE OUTCAST.
BY DAVID CRARY, JR.
Beneath this bridge
The river runs,
Only a ridge
Its feHaaowc low
Of misty damps,
Of one d ark scene,
Of deathly cramps,
And then all's still :
Fit grave for me an outcast from the world.
The night is dark—
The otarlcss sky
Locks like a park
Of gloomy clouds.
The damp night-air
Chills through my frame,
And streams my hair
Like ribands torn.
Fit tlrhe to die, an outcast from the world.
Most dreadful deep
The current runs;
Like troubled sleep
On feathered down,
In swiftest speed
Its waters flow ;
Soon wilt thou feed.
Thou awful stream
Upon my form, an outcast from the world.
No sound is heard,
Save dolefui notes
Of that lone bird
The whippoorwill;
It sings a dirge
my heart —
. A solemn "dirge
For my dark soul—
A sinner's soul, an outcast from the world.
Into the grave
I soon shall go;
Whope both the brave
And coward sleep.
And why not, I,
A friendless one,
Shut from the eye
Of this cold world ?
No one to love, an outcast from the world.
No brother hare,
No sister there,
No mother dear.
No fathers love.
An orphan child ;
A heart that' 6 wrung
To deeds so wild,
That nought cab save
The dark soul of the outcast from the world.
To-morrow morn,
The sailors glim
Will find forlorn
A marble corpse ;
On ! let it drift
Adown the stream,
While currents swift
Drift to the sea
The body of the outcast from the wcrld.
Dark waves, thou'lt tell
No gloomy tale,
When I shall dwell
In thy recess;
And thou dark weeds
Twine round my form,
And crown my deeds
With slimy crown—
Fit crown for me, an outcast from the world.
Farewell to thee,
Cold-hearted world!
Thou'lt not miss one,
'Mongst thy great throngs!
Farewell to all!
My eyes grow dim—
I see my pall
Beneath]the bridge!
Ood save my soul l ad outcast from the world.
llfotdkitMnß.
Dying Soldier's Story.
BY ISAAC N. COLTRIN.
" Comrade, raise my head a little higher.—
Let me sea your kindly eyes, and clasp your
inanly hand. My moments are but few.—
I shall soon be a ghastly corpse, like one of
those that now surround me. I have long
since grown weary of life, and earnestly
Sought and prayed for death. Listen to me
I will relate ta you a sad and terrible story :
"On the sea-washed Coabt of Galway
stands a large and gloomy mansioa, and
there was 1 born—the only son of the proud
Sir Hugh de Lacy, and the heir to all his vast
estates. My infancy—but I will not weary
you with useless details ; suffice it to say
that my mother was almost as proud and
stern as my father. Their habits seemed to
impregnate everybody and everything around
them with gloom and sadness. The servants
moved noiselessly and rarely spoke, except
in whispers. It is little wonder that I grew
up to boyhood silent, meditative, and melan
choly. tt was decided by my parents that I
should enter the army on reaching my eight
eenth year, I cared little—l merely acqui
esced in their decision.
"At lenght I reached that period of my
life. To be frank With you, I was glad to
look forward to the day that would release
me from the chilling thralldom of that som
bre mansion. I never loved my parents with
a love that such relationship demanded—
"TO SPEAK IIIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT."—Thomas Jefferson
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19, 1862.
their chilliness ropelled me, and the feelingß
of love and affection were allowed to remain
dormant within my breast. A lieutenant's
coramisssion in the —th regiment was ob
tained for me. A few day 6 before I was to
join my regiment, I rambled forth among the
cliffs that overlooked the sea. The day was
calm and beautiful, scarce a ripple ruflled-ithe
bosom of the ocean, and the sun sinking in
the west threw a crimson glare over the sur
face that rendered the scene indescribably
gorgeous and enchanting.
" While gazing and ruminating, a loud and
pierceing shriek of distress broke the still
ness of the air. I saw the flutter of a white
garment iu the sea; I hastened to the spot
Npd sprung ; n—she sunk ere I reached her—
she rose, and I grasped her inanimate form,
and reached the shore in safety with my
precions burden. Precious! precious indeed
comrade. Lying upon my breast unconscious,
the declining sun throwing its mellow rays
all around us, she looked like a peri dreaming
of her grottoes and arbors beneath the deep
blue sea. She was was one of the most beau
tiful creatures I ever 6aw. Imagine to your
self a faultless blonde, and you have the pic
ture of my lost angel. Assistance soon reach
ed U3, and she was conveyed to her father's
house. By interrogating the villagers, I
learned that 6ho was the daughter of Mr.
Eitzgerald, the village curate ; they all loved
her, and never mentioned her name without
invoking her blessing. The next day I call
ed upon Madaline Fitzgerald. She received
mo with becoming modesty, a:vl thanked me
sweetly and earnestly for the service 1 had
rendered her, in which sho was joined by the
kind aad venerable curate. If is enough to
say that 6oon fondly loved Madaline Fitz
gerald, and 'hat she reciprocated rny passion.
By many excuses, I delayed joining my reg
iment. Days, weeks—ay, months—slipped
happily by. At length, yielding to my ur
gent entreaties, she accompanied ine to a
neighboring village, where we were secretly
married.
*' At last, too soon came the day that we
"must part. My regiment was ordered to In
dia to assist iu quelling the terrible Sepoy
revolt, aud 1 was ordered to report at head
quarters immediately. There was no diso
beying this summons, and we had to part.—
I pictured to her that it would not be long
ore I returned—that I should proudly pro
claim her before the world as my cherished
beautiful bride, and that we should live so
happily. Ay, dear comrade,* I told her we
should live so happily. She smiled amid her
tears, and kissed me o'er and o'er. At last
I tore myself away ; I to rush into the smoke
and cra>h of battle, and she to remain and
comfort her venerable father, who had lost
the dear partner of his bosom while Mada
lfne was but an infant.
*****
•' Well, comrade, I served through that
horrible and bloody Indian campaign—was
with Mlavelock at Lucknow, and in every
other important engagement. But while
friends died around me, smitten by fell dis
ease, or were struck down by the fatal bul
let, I escaped, unscratched ! The memory
of my sainted Madaline sustained me through
every 6oene of hardship and danger. It seem
ed like her love threw around me a shield
that made me invulnerable. At length the
Sepoys were quelled and subdued, and my
regiment was ordered homo. Joyful, joyful
news to me then ; but 'twere far better had
I been left with the dead ! After a long, and
tome, weaiis<>me voyage, I reached home.—
I had bee i gazetted to a captaincy.
" I almost flevv up the rocky path leading
to my darling's cottage. I peeped in through
the tellised window—she was sealed in the
little parlor, weeping. I rushed in, and
clasped her in my arms. She uttered a loud
scream, and fainted. She soon revived ; and
then I learned that her kind father had died
during my absence. My presence, however,
dispelled her sorrow and gloom, and we were
happy—very happy. Such a paradise on
earth for me could not last long.
" I told her that the day wa3 not far off
when I would openly proclaim her my wife.
I proceeded to the sombre mansion of my pa
rents. Its gloom chilled me. I entered the
boudoir of my mother. She arose, and cold
ly kissed me, and 6aid I looked handsome in
my uniform. " ' Lady Blanche,' 6he said
would make a fitting wife, indeed, for you."
Lady Blanche ! who could she be '/ I car
ed not ; Madaline was mine.
" My father entered, and greeted me in his
stern, proud way, and coldly, yet kindly, con
gratulated me on my promotion. It only re
mained for me, he said, to contract a noble
matrimonial alliance, to gild my future life
with honor. I listened, with an aching
heart, and, making some excuse, left the
apartment.
" Thus it continued for some time. Days
and weeks happily glided by. I was seldom
absent from Madaline, living in the'sunlight
of her glorious love. Ah. comrade ! these
were happy days—alas! too soon to be
blasted !
" There were visitors at the mansion. The
Lady Templeton and her regal, beautiful
daughter Blanche, for whom half the titled
aristocracy cf the English metropolis were
languishing for even one of her smiles. Sho
" was a superb creature, faultlessly formed—
her dark, flashing eyes and raven trcssos
would have excited admiration in the bosom
of the coldest anchorite. Comrade, I know
that you will acquit me with all feelings of
vanity—now calmly awaiting approaching
death—when I tell you that I believe she
loved me. She appeared to seek and desire
my company. I, on tho contrary, avoided
her ; and she appeared hurt by my conduct
and seeming indifference. Had I never met
Madaline, it is more than probable I should
have loved her. As it was, I could not. So
matters went on.
" One day, my father called me into the li
brary. lie asked me the cause of my cold
ness toward the Lady Blanche. He said he
knew that she loved me, aud that I must not
throw away lightly such a splendid chance
for a high alliance. He told me the lady in
tended remaining but a short time, and that
I must instantly propose to her. Disguise
was now useless. I told hitti all—my mar
raige to Madaline, and my love for her. I
never saw, and never again hope to see, such
an expression of rage and hate as 6wept across
his countenance. With a face perfectly livid
he shrieked lorth !
'•' Dog ! base, ungrateful dog ! leave the
house you have disgraced! Go, and be hap
py, if you can, with your beggar-wife ! Be
gone Never darken my door with your
presence!"
" I did not deign to vouch a single word
in reply; I almost joyously left the hated
and gloomy mansion, and hastened to the
cottage of my Madalone. Tho same evening
I received a letter from iny mother, stating
that she fully approved of my fat.ier's con
duct, and that, from that moment, she would
only regard me as an utter stranger. A day
or two afterwards, Lady Templeton and her
daughter Blanche rerurned to London.
" I resigned my commission in the army s
determined hereafter to devote iny life to
Madaline. Being now of age, I inherited an
income of three hundred pounds a year from
a deceased relative ; our wants were few, and
| my income was amply sufficient to enable us
to live very happy indeed. These were tru
ly happy days, comrade ! The peaceful tran
quility in which we lived seemed a perfect
heaven on earth.
" One morning I left her to visit s friend
who lived about twelve miles up the sea coast
She kissed me tenderly and bale uie return
soon.
"It was nighijwhen I returned. I entered
her parlor :It was deserted ! I called loudly
on Madeline :no voice replied. The echoes I
awakened seemed to mock me. I sat down
to collect my scattered senses. Her piano
was open, with the music lying on it, as
though she had just quitted it. I burst into
tears. They brought me relief; and I began
to ponder calmly over the mystery connected
with her disappearance. I knew that some
dark treachery had been at work, and I sus
pccted my parents of instigating the foul deed.
It suddenly flashed upon iny mind that I had
lately seen Richard Visiner— a morose and
sullen Englishman, employed by my father as
steward—prowling about my dwelling. I
rushed forth and saddled my gallant steed,
and galloped madly to my parents mansion-
On reaching there, I rushed into the study
where my parents were seated. They started
as I entered !
" Where—where is my wife ?' I asked, im
ploringly. If ye possess not the hearts of
fiends, tell me and do not drive me mad !'
" My father arose, and in cold and chilling
accents thus addressed me :
"What means this ill-timed intrusion?
What think you we know of your wife, but
sho has left you for some more favored suitor?
Call up your pride, renounce her, and return
to your parents and your home."
" 'Tis a lie as black as hell !" I shrieked.
She isjpure as the angels, and 6inless as the
heavens 1 Now, mark.me 1 will find my wife,
despite your efforts to part us!'
" I again left my hated natal halls, deter
mined to find my lost Madeline—or to die,
" I will not weary you with long and weary
details. Suffce it to say that lat length tra
! ced her to a private madhouse. On a dark)
tempestuous night, I eluded the vigilance of
the guards. I moved stealthily along the dis
mal corridors, hoping to find the apartment
where my darling Madeline was confined. I
heard voices' and proceeding to the door of
the room from whence the sounds came, over,
heard the following conversation ;
" Now,' interrogated a voice, which I rec
ognized as Vistner's, 'sign your rennuciation
of your marriage with Walter de Lacey. He
has deserted you. Sign it, and tou shall
.have wealth in abundance.'
" The fabulou" wealth of Golconda,' replied
Madeline—for it was 6he—'would not tempt
me to submit to your dictation, You cannot
make ine believe that Walter is false. If you
have a heart that can be touched by pity, I
pray you release me from this dreadful place.
I feel that my hours are but few. Would to
heaven that I could behold Walter once more
and I could die happy !'
" Peace, driveling woman !' thundered Yis
mer, bending over my wife, and drawing a
dagger. 'Sign this paper, or your blood be
rm your own hoad. Every mortal in this
house is in my pay, and I act by the Com
mands of noble persons; you know who.
Sign this paper, and receive wealth. Refuse,
and die!'
"Never !—never!' sho screamed. 'Oh!
save me, Walter !'
' Fool !' said he ; 'You must be mad, indeed
to think that your lover can help you now,
You are beyond the reach of all help!
"Liar and villain!' I shouted, as I kicked
down the door and dashed into the room.
" He quailed before my gaze, and I darted,
upon him with the ferocity of a tiger. I hurl
ed him to the floor' and plr.nting my knees
on his chest, drew my pistol, and placing it
to his temple, pulled the trigger. The treach
erous weapon snapped, I threw it from uie
with a curse. I dragged him to the window
which I opened with one hand, and then hurl
ed the villain forth. I heard his despairing
shriek above the howling of the tempest as he
went headlong to eternity !
Madaline had fainted. I wrapped her in
my cloak, and hastened down the 6tairs. I
met no one to bar our egress. I sprang upon
my gallr.nt 6teed, and galloped madly through
the howling storm. Madaline at length re
turned to consciousness; but, O God ! my
comrade, only to die.
Ihe shock was to much foi her delicate
frame, and the angel died in my arms.
I again stcod in the presence of my par
rents.
"' Fiends in human guise !' I wildly
shrieked, behold your innocent, murdered vic
tim !
" And 1 depisitei the corpse ofMadciline
on the floor.
" My mother screamed, and fell senseless;
my father cowered, and turned ashy pale.
" , I have sent your infernal agent to the
regions of the damned; but my lost angel
shall have a glorious funeral pyre to light her
pathway to Paradise !'
" I left the room, and locked the door.
" A few moments afterward, the mansion
was in flames.
" The servants all escaped. My parents
were never seen again. They perished in the
flames. Well was Madaline avenged.
" I escaped to the United States, and wan
dered to tlie Western wilds. When the Re
bellion broke out, I came to New York and
joined the Sixty-ninth Regiment as a private.
A few days after enlisting, the gallant Colo
nel Corcoran, discovering that I possessed
considerable military talent, offered me, as
you are aware, a captain's commission. All
I desiied was death, and I cared but Tit-
Lie in what capacity I met it. I refused the
colonel's generous offer. Comrade, you know
the rest. Good-bye, dear fellow! Loved
and lost Madaline, I come to thee!"
Private Walter De Lacy was dead!
EXTRACT FOR YOUNG MEN.
Give a young man a taste for reading, and
in that single disposition you havo furnished
him with a great safeguard. Ho has found at
home that which others have to seek abroad,
namely, pleasurable excitement. He has
learencd to think even when his book is no
longer in his hand, and it is lor want of
thinking that youth go to rnin.
Some of those who have been most eminent
in learning and science made their first at
tainments in snatches of time stolen from
manual employment. Hans Sachs, the poet
of the Reformation, and the Burns, .f Ger
many, began life as did Burns, a poor boy :
lie was a tailor's son and served an appren
ticeship, first to a shoemaker and afterwards
to a weaver, and continued to work at the
loom as long as he lived.
The great dramatist, Boa Johnson, was a
working bricklayer' and afterwards a soldier.
Linmus, the father of modern botany, was
once on the shoemaker's bench.
Our immortal Franklin, it need scarcely be
said, was a printer.
Ilurschel, whose name is inscribed on the
heavens, was the son of a poor musician, and
at the age of fourteen years was placed in a
band attached to the Hanoverian guards.
After going to England undertook to teach
music and then became an organist.
But while he was supporting himself in
this way he was learning Italian even Greek.
From music he was naturally led to math
ematios, and thence to optics and astronomy.
John Doland, the inventor of the arch
romatic telescope, spent his early years at
the silk loom ; and continued in his original
business even for some years after his eldest
son came to an age to join him in it. Few
cases are more celebrated than that of Glif
ford, the founder and editor of the Quar
terly Review. He was an orphan, and
barely escaped the poorhouse. He became a
ship boy of the most menial sort on board of
a coasting vessel. He was afterward for six
years apprenticed to a shoemaker. In this
last employment he stole time from the last,
for arithmetic and algebra, and for lack of
other conveniences, used to work out his
problems on leather with a blunt all. Few
names are more noted in modern literature.
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ROSECRANR A REGULAR " TRUMP."— Ctesar
in his victory over Pontus, and Perry at his
victory on Lake Erie, immortalized them
selves by the point and brevity of their dis
patches. Cmsar said—" I came, I saw I con
quered"—Perry said—" We have met the en
emy and they are ours." But Rosecrans at
luka has surpassed them both. He said "I
ukered the enemy." Pretty good, for a
Dutchman ! He's a " right bower."
r
[TERMS: SI.GO PER ANNTT3MC
Associations tor Help.
Several gentlemen in Providence united in
au agreement to pay each a certain sum in
case any of the party were drafted. All es
caped save one, and he is fortunate in being
aided by his associates to,bear the burden of
securing a substitute In Hyde Park, we
learn, some twenty-five were banded together
for a similar purpose, each agreeing to pay
825 apiece for the benefit of those drafted.—
Eight were drafted, which gives some 890
each to the unlucky ones. Several of the
men employed at Dickson's associated togeth
er for the same object, agreeing to pay 825
each. On Saturday afternoon, before we had
heard the result of the drawing, anothei of
the workmen was invited to join thern, but
he declined, saying he had rather expose him
self to the draft. He shortly repented, for in
less than an hour afterward a list of the draft
ed men was received, with his name among
the uufortnates ! — Scranton Republican.
The Negro Question in Illinois.
Indictments hava been found tn the Jersey
County Court against Lieut. Col. Milton S.
Littleffeld, Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry, and
Adjutant William A. Scott. Fourteenth Illi
nois Infantry, for bringing negroes into the
State. Each brought home a servant from
the war, and hence the indictment. Bv.th
were present during the session of the Court,
and one is a Republican and the ether a Dem
ocrat. The penalty is a line of from one to
five huudred dollars and imprisonment in the,
county jail not more than one year. The
continued introduction of negroes into some
parts of Illinois, contrary to t he laws of that
State, appears to increase the prejudices of
the people against this species of immigration
Public meetings protesting against this policy
have been held in various localities, supposed
to be injuriously affected by it.
Prophecy.
According to a translation from Michael
Nostradamus' " Seven Centuries of Prophecy
it appears that he not only prophesied the
j death of Charles I. of E igla i 1, the establish
ment of the French Republic, the deaths of
Ilenry IT. and Louis X\ I. of France, giving
the exact dates of each, but that a war would
arise in a country beyond the seas, that many
would perish, that there would be the most in
tense hatred manifested, that the war would
last four years, when both parties would be*
utterly prostrated and almost ruined, and then
would embrace each other with great joy and
love. Nostadamus died in 15GG. So far as
known he appears to have beeu a true Proph.
et.
Important Hearing. ,
A writ of habeas corpus was yesterday is
sued by Judge Pearson, of Dauphin county,
requiring Lieutenant Smith to produce before
him, this morning, two drafted men who pro
test against the order of the Government
compelling themselves and their comrades to
supply the places in the ranks of the old reg
imental organisations made vacant by those
who have fallen or become disabled in tho
service of their country.
Able counsel have been engaged, and as
the decision of the Judge will probably de
termine whether the Government has the
right or not, to enforce such an order, great
anxiety is naturally manifested to ascertain
the result.
Vanity Fair has a cut representing*
two colored gentlemen discussing " the crisis.''
under which the following conversation is re
ported : Tom—"Say, Pomp, a 'liable darkey
tell me just now dat Jeff. Davis is gwine to
'taliate 'bont do President's Proclamation ; he
gwine to 'clare de niggers ob de Norf States
slaves arter de fust cf Janerwerv next." Pomp
—" Bres6 us all."
ha7e canvassed the entire North in
defence of the Union cause, and in vindication
of the present Administration, and I now
propuse to recanvass the whole in order to
expose the villainies of its army officers, pay
masters, swindlers and upstarts, who are eat
ing up the Government!
W. G. BROWLOW.
U THE ONLY Exoncs OF THE SLAVE IS OVER
THE RUINS OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION."
So said Wendell Phillips, and Mr. Lincoln'
has evidently adopted this' opinion. His
emancipation proclamation supersedes the
Constitution, so far as the latter relates to
slavery aud as Webster said, " a contract bro
ken in part is broken altogether."
GOOD GROUND FOR EXEMPTION A scene
in Surgeon nailer's office —" Doctor, if the
foot won't answer, I have another all-suffi
cient reason—one that you cannot refuse me
exemption for.'*
" What is it ?" asked the doctor.
" Why, the fact is, doctor, I have not {jot
good seuse—l am an idiot," Boberly replied
the applicant.
"Ah !" said the doctor, " what proof have
you of that ? What evidence can you bring ?"
" Proof conclusive," said the applicant—
" Why sir, I voted for Abe Lincoln j and if
that isu't proof of a man's being a<* t f
idiot, I don't know how coul£ ]L
proven."
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