Western Fireside, The (Newspaper) - September 12, 1857, Madison, Wisconsin iii MADISON 12 1857 A WEEKLY FAMILY WISi F S VMI will devoted to General ture Kews aad UM interests of too It will be every and mailed to Subscribers nt following copy Ml Five copies one 8 M copy fi 1 Ot Single 09 TO our paper intended T family circle and to be worthy of on for futon reference will present better Bedlam for reaching public which leave counting will Inserted at toe lowing One column one 00 column B iS 00 columa 30 00 column 1 13 SO column one 7 00 d parts of column In illon M fractional of a 12 or 1 year fix 6 One square 3 4 One Minare 1 3 1 nut exceeding 1 1 Cards for advertising to of a quarter No Immoderately large display t fo will be All yearly to paid quarterly thaw fur lew than thru be Milled In advance have by which ule every variety of JOB witb anil despatch lar attention to printing Lawyers AND BRIEF 9 By oriel to fair and Me dialing we hope to Boris and receive n fair patronage 3 H 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hare regular accent A TEACHERS CLASS Will be the third term nnd will be instructed M to Bt them In the best manner for heir work THE THIRD TERM Will commence fourth of April and continue thirteen CHARGES In English ami Drawing Modern extra each to paid in advance BOYS DEPARTMENT A room having been fitted up for that purpose a limited number of will be received and put under the charge of a competent department under the tuper- and control of tho aent anil further Information given on application to the Principal THE MADISON MUSIC STORE or DAVID HOLT Enlarged and Improved IS IN Violins Violin Jt Quit ar and a very large of all kind of Sheet kept on Churches with large and powerful toned MELODEONS of and American at extremely low BRASS INSTRUMENTS procured for Bands at lower taaa at any er In tho State Sheet of any kind and generally to order at low 111 DAVID HOLT DANIEL'S PATENT STRAW AMD CORN STALK CUTTER FOR HAND OR HORSE POWER THE the of a Machine which received Vint Premium at UM STATE FAIR at and for and which superior become generally known to the Farmers of It capable OXE TOW PBR HOUR aad li warranted the twit Machine of the kind a ttM The has to announce that has the Agency of tali machine for the State of and U now prepared to furnish either tae Hone or Hand Fewer or of inquiry be R VOX Sole Agent for State Tamer Knickerbocker THE ROCK AND THE SKELETON BY KIT KELVIN Tumbled together and expressive of the vast sublimity of the Almighty is the range of mountains in Western setts Hard toil and continuous industry hare shorn their rugged peaks here and there of their primeval dress and given creature comforts to man fed the mad engine tearing along below its shrill thanks in its lightning speed to its towering provider far above made red the glowing furnaces that melt the ore for all mechanism and imparted cheer and ness among the family circles that nestle in the green valleys far down their beetling crags The homo of the bear and the lair of the fox have been routed by the per's shanty and the silence that once was is now forever broken by the man's fixe and the rude song of the driver As formerly there is still a strange fancy inducing many to pitch their tents and take up their abode high above the babbling brook and soft valley in the of the mountains where stranger still between the struggles of nature and the determined will of man a on oc is derived but not accompanied with the palatable trimmings of easier Among these mountaineers you find en- durance with patience generosity without the ampleness of means and a certain in- applicable to such cases of as are often transpiring among them There are instances also out more formerly than now where the cultivated mind fled hither for a city of refuge to linger in solitude as a penance for early transgressions or to shut from one the world in which neither affiliation nor had been found Among the earlier settlers of this range there were two families Berry and Perrot The former waa much the elder in dence by many years He had selected a locality between two peaks on a ground and which a small portion of the valley while above and him was nothing but tree and rock Eccentric in manners he was ly seen in the settlement and in all his intercourse with mankind ed unmistakable repugnance to forming any friendly relations Various rumors were put in circulation That he had been t Gala and had done dark deeds upon the high seas and had fled inland with his as well to secure it as himself No one doubted his uncommon intelligence and his bearing was like one who had seen and known much of the great wide world Connected with his natural and unvariable taciturnity was another which the artless inhabitants below him ed into mystery aud led thorn to look upon this man Barry aa no better than he should be It was his daughter who comprised his entire family Lina by name and a maiden possessing great sonal beauty and attraction Her com- was more of the land of the olive and the vine than the rough climate of the north She the sole mistress of the bore this tude without complaint She loved her father and Lina in her beauty was to be admired in her obedience Berry had been established in the tain some years the sole resident of the peak Below and around him the world gathered its usual fragrance and with him a matter of indifference There existed but one medium between perfect solitude and civilization This was one Hack Williams a well-known hunter of that region Hack as he was familiarly called was a blunt woodsman ignorant yet shrewd cunning and cool and very jealous of his reputation as a successful marksman West and beyond Berry's was a famous hunting ground known as where Hack pursued his wild life with success It was here where Hack and Berry first met The hunter had just brought his fox to the ground and was putting down a charge of key for luck as Berry came upon And there face to face stood two beings in this mountain solitude of peculiar and diverse character the one like a sealed book the other candid blunt cool and undaunted Berry looked upon Hack with the eye of an eagle while the in- trepid woodsman still holding the flask to his lips eyed the approacher with the calmness with which his eye was wont to rest upon his barrel that spoke death to game As he pouched his cap Hack broke the silence If you don't wish to jine yourn isn't a kindred What's your Mine is Hack Williams a feller ready to do a pious or a devilish arrant as the tnr of the case may be Berry stood still reading Hack with that scrutiny which had so far served him At length stepping forward he extended his right Black I believe you I like to know more of you The devil yon would I If your name is Berry I can't understand why you want to know me They say you hate God's manufacture in the snap of Say how is it If your name isn't ry beg pardon for talking so plain You have guessed right Hack The Almighty writes a legible hand on every man's face and if I can read his graphy right I can trust you Don't know nothin bout and bout but I kin tell you so far aa my interest goes you can go a trifle over your length on a trust Human natur is human natur the world over spose Hullo there's old At this moment horn sounded over the ridge and throwing his fox over he started for the point It was this seeming indifference that hastened Berry to a parley and colling ter the hunter requested an interview with him at his hut on the following night I know where came back the re- ply of the madly u 1 Iwre before mentioned woo Perrot sisting of father mother and The former had come from at an early day with his father who had denly died upon the voyage leaving him to push his fortune alone in a strange coun try He had supposed his father's purse heavier thau he found it on the arrival at port and he could dismiss uneasy mises as to the correctness of the captain's conduct in regard to the whole He had however no tangible proof to aid him and a new land to discourage him withal he had allowed the matter to pass Entering into trade he had prospered and married but subsequently speculation had reduced him and he had sought this mountain for a little investment and re- He had been upon the ridge but a few months previous to in- with Berry Pierre was young and enthusiastic of slight figure agile and well calculated to mould himself to a mountain life He had often met Hack in the settlement as well as upon the peaks and both for each other a brotherly feeling Hack thought Pierre a gentle generous youth vastly above him in education to V hich he did not object willing to adapt himself to present circumstances and a protege for the field which exceedingly pleased Hack inasmuch as he was ed the hunter of that region Pierre saw in Hack a daring man cool in danger one in whom he trust and in a ful emergency worthy of all confidence Hack was strong at the bottle but never with excess and Pierre like all young men partook as were the contingencies They often met at the valley hostelry and while one delighted the other with breath scapes of a hunter's life Pierre charmed Hack with his Sowing words de- scriptive of La Belle France its vineyards and dark-eyed grisettes as he had ed it from his father Perrot had chosen a locality above a mile west and beyond Berry with an ple and delightful view of the Hard by his house ran a mountain rill clear musical and sweet its waters while north an unobstructed view gave him continual evidences of life below Two high ridges with their ragged caps intervened between himself and Berry and as the latter's taciturnity was known by Perrot he Bad sought no interview and they had never met Such were the relative circumstances between the two mountain families at the time of the interview of Hack and on Slaughter Field During the following day Hack as many times hesitated and as many times con- cluded to visit Berry but finally decided to know the wish or the misanthrope and turned his face toward hib abode He ar- at the valley the foot of the mountain at where he found Pierre an unexpected meeting to both parties Glad to see you Hack How is Wai I have a kind of serous arrant just putting his eye up to the mountain Berry hns invited me t o tea with shutting his mouth closely but I think natur might be ed a little bit better here Come Uncle Bill's flib is better than raw and taking Pierre by the arm Hack ordered the slings Smacking his lips over the glass Hack looked Pierre full in the Own up boy I on your mind Sick or turning pious 1 Hack you are blunt rough and to-night But if you are for the mountain we will go together And Pierre finishing the glass settled his cap upon his head and left the room by Hack Wai Pierre say I'm as blunt as an ash true I'm nobody but Hack Williams but I've got jest as strong a hand and as stout a heart as them fellers who have fine coats and soft hands and if you didn't call it bragging I should say an almighty sight more in my favor So you have old fellow nothing Do you know old Berry has a pretty daughter knew twas a gal affair Wai what of that Are you afraid to do your own Wish I was in your place to-night Aint But Hack I wish you would take some observations and if it comes convenient put in a word for me I should go hankering after her Then good-by to old Got me there boy Now that ar gun and myself never part company till death doth us sever as some your big writers say I don't know but twas one of those holy fellers Wai what shall I say to her in case I see the gal You can judge better at the time Hack But bear me in mind and come over my way and stay with me to-night Wai now that's human Think I will I'll kind o look at her and think of you As the twain separated Hack ed: I see Guess it's a kind of courting counsel Berry wants to see me for Must have recently been converted Getting civilized at last Arriving at the hut Hack The door was opened by Lina Now Hack was no gallant boasted of no beauty and thought more of a gun than a girl But when this stood before him in all the simplicity of unadorned beauty and spoke to him in a gentle tone he was evidently confounded Instead of pursuing a very natural ry for her fother he stood and gaied upon the girl with wonder and delight Gosh how He said she was Is this Mr interrupted the blushing Howd you Ha ha yes Hack Williams My fether expects you to-night and you will find him at the little falls above Do you know I have seen him sir I don't wonder at it He's ken a liking to I as for that I'm too old and he's nice boy a nicer gal If you want enny help I'm ready Kind o hope can help you Wai 1 do you like Lina hardly knew what to answer but rallying herself aud the ingenuity of her sex immediately presenting itself she re- plied I should like to see him again sir And so you shall pretty one Where and when F To-morrow by the lake as usual Hack threw out his broad hard There tis I'll do anything for you I spose there's angels and if so my idee is they're kind o like you But if they're all so pretty couldn't em all alike But I should just lief die doing That's honest The bewildered hunter turned and Lina closing the door sat looking steadfastly at The lake Lina spoke of was half a mile from her wild lonesome ro- mantic place rarely visited as there was no living thing in its waters hemmed in by trees saving a space of some three rods in which alone was a gigantic oak At its base was a ponderous quartz rock and within a few feet of the water The rock was partially against the oak and beneath it the earth had been dis- placed as if the little lake had once been and sought but in vain to undermine partially ever and forming a shelter of some six feet square Ifc was here Pierre first saw Lina and they had made it their place of meeting since Hack followed the little run up some fifty rods and found Berry waiting his approach Well Hack I'm and putting his rifle upon the ground and his chin upon its muzzle he stood looking at his new-made acquaintance You may think it trifling Hack on my part as well as putting you to trouble for my benefit in requesting this meeting but you left me so suddenly yesterday T could say no more then Wai so far there's no hurt done Do you know the family west of me on the second ridge Some Is there a young man in the house Yes Do you know Yes A 3011 so What is the Perrot Yes I said so anything strange about it Hock ore you willing to do me a vor speakin warped that way all things being equal I have a Just seen her rihe is young and I'm in no situation to lose her This young throwing his hand westward is I fear bedeviling her It must be stopped I desire no inter- course with the family Wai you want me to tell em I do sir I mind my own business and transact it too I never meddle But Hack i it not necessary for me to Don't want you should ed you Well but you have no objection Wai taint iny business and I'm no to be sent from school-ma'am a rectifying mistakes But I will pay you 1 can't no how You are obstinate You aint of course Do me this favor carry it out and ask me anything in return I ax you for your gal That's unreasonable Cannot be ed Hack threw his rifle upon his Seen any One that will be game has been about There's always two if there's one Berry looked intently into the stream Think of what I have want no trouble but I shall make it if necessary money for the inn Thank ye never use the article Hack followed the path through the woods and over the mountain until he came out near house Putting a whistle to his lips soon after a rattle among the ferns announced aome one's approach It was Pierre Halloa Hack Got into a devil of a fuss cut your heart out if you love any er Ha A hard old quid Did he speak of me See here Pierre that gal's a beauty But I can't see her again made me crazy don't know what I said but I rather think she'll call me an old fool Thare most forgot it The little creature wants to see you to-morrow as boy Seen her Kind o sly But don't blame you lucky And Hack whispered into Pierre's You are no spunk if you're scared off so Steal the gal and run away Hack had left Berry in a disappointed unsatisfied revengeful mood He could but admire the hunter for his blunt dor and considered him a faithful ally if he could secure his confidence This he greatly desired and he hoped on ation Hack would eventually deliver his verbal errand Lina in her artlessness had told her ther of meeting a young man else he would have been ignorant of the He had said nothing to her in reply and as he had not expressed his commands and aa Pierre was gentlemanly and tic in his language and honest in his re- quests she had allowed herself to build fancy castles dwelling with pleasure on the interviews The comeliness of Pierre and the romance of the meetings were material aids to him Neither did Lina suppose her father would eventually object if matters progressed agreeable to her However she had concluded to say nothing more upon the subject at least fur the present Coolly wising the Mood tnm and ut taW hha bf heavens it shall be ao He slept aa well that kaai I for thirty That Berry had his own and peculiar Pierre's absence reasons for his demurring was He could not endure any obstacle to thwart him in his designs and he had de- termined upon a policy to be followed be- fore he left the falls There was one expression used by ry Hack could not forget aud although a blunt backwoodsman he thought he reach Berry sufficiently to warrant a suspicion that he was a dark mysterious man ob- reckless and desperate He had met the hint in his epigrammatic style but he feared its meaning So strong were his feelings he resolutely decided to follow the word with the action if re- The more Pierre thought of Lina the more fearless he became in his tions He knew in Hack he had a friend to be trusted and fully relied upon in case of emergency Hack gave Pierre some hints suggestive of a careful course to be pursued in his actions aud premised all necessary assistance for he surmised Berry would resort to extreme measures if the interviews with his daughter were ued by Pierre Ho was also satisfied Lina favored Pierre and he was hopeful in the latter's energy and the endurance for a peaceful result At the same time he could hardly reconcile his sympathy in urging Pierre to proofed in face of ry's threats advice to steal the gal and run was seriously entertained by Pierre he met the engagement at the oak by the lake resolved to ascertain Lina's ings upon the subject This course ever woe not countenanced by the maden She had advised a postponement trusting that in time her father would recognize her wishes inasmuch as he had not as yet opposed her by his commands It was through Pierre she had learned of his dis- satisfaction but she could still persist in her regard toward Pierre from that her father had said ing to her upon the subject the matter remained through the summer months Hack was occasionally inquisitive always watchful He had gnade it a duty so far as he could to stand guard and protect Pierre and was very often sentinel at a respectful distance when the lovers met The uniform silence of Berry toward his daughter on the subject of her ment as also his silence toward the er concerning his request argued nothing favorable as Hack construed it It er preyed upon his honest mind and his heart smote him forebodingly had dawned upon the tains and the golden of October had come with his garb of bright The tender leaves of tho maple he had wooed with carmine and the nodding mach tossed her red tassels at his proach Silence and beauty reigned upon the wooded peaks white the mountain rills tumbled down in ing bubbles and diminutive cascades to the larger streams below as if in haste to save their pearly waters from the rude grasp of winter so high up from all sympathy and remembrance Who does not love Autumn with its fragrance with its treasures of beauty with its brown nuts and russet apples with its bracing morns its genial ians and its mild speaking evenings of The wrinkles of silver hair deepen into quiet pleasure as the dimmed eye looks out upon the great easel of God checkered by His almighty hand all over with charmed beauty The young so full of wandering thought wild to express in glowing eloquence his ardent feelings grows giddy with the burden of sweet intoxication and imbecile in action The gentle voices of girls ring like silver bells and the prattling baby turns a ful face to ruddy cheeks and laughs antly at the young master who shot in to hurrah and fly out again Reader your hand Am I Lina had grown strong in her love and had been encouraging Pierre with her hopeful expressions of the future when she was even then standing upon the threshold beyond lay nothing but crushed and mangled hopes of affections Berry had silently arranged his tia matters and had informed Lina of his wishes that she should visit some distant friends upon the sea-board for a few weeks The change was agreeable to her if she could but see to inform him But she could not induce her father to pone the journey for a day this being the one they were to meet by ponderous rock It was with a sad and reluctant heart Lina followed her father to the settlement for her departure Her eyes full of tears closely scanned the western mountain but there was no Pierre to wave her a loving adieu And so Lina had gone and Berry was now the sole occupant of his hut It was a charming day and Pierre ted with the anticipated meeting was wating with great impatience for the hour and when it came his feet sped rapidly to the trysting spot Breathless and ant he arrived but instead of his gentle Lina Berry stood before him Their eyes met The one all astonishment and bitter disappointment the other glaring with re- vengeful hate Young man! I have sent you but you have mocked me If you believe in a God talk to Him now for neither Lina nor own peak shall you ever see again Uniting the action to the threat Berry immediately plunged a poignant to the heart of the innocent victim Poor Pierre turned an imploring look from the dark face of the murderer to Heaven reeled and fell It was the work of bat a few minutes that the corpse of Pierre waa buried beneath the rock upon the very spot he had kissed his vows to to his father aa he k in the Tailey bat not following day he began to feel It was with that Hack who just then came in Where's was hia bhus ifr I know not Hack haiM sent since day before Haok started while a pallor nat over his browned That was the very day I ecwU mat come may be in the valley bat I not think what should him ao not I looked in at Uncle BuTa wasn't there nor been then At this Perrot was sadly at aad and of were exerted to the to tha father He knew Lina had gooe This had been toM at the hostelry he had refrained from Perrot who had not surmised hia son's to how made it necessary for Hack to the secret which he did to astonishment They concluded that the fether see Berry white Hack proceed to the settlement if discover if Pierre had followed Lua There waa but little rest to either that night Hack waa finding the body of Pierre for he was quite determined the deed had been while was vainly pursuing hia Fugitive m his search for Una Upon the morrow pursuant to the pact Perrot took the winding path to ry's while Hack hurried to the Flying with the speed of a to the chase he had satiated self that Pierre had not gone after In such an he would have been Perrot arriving at Berry's found the door looked with no sigas of Following a path he was hu way A Si blindly toward the fatal rock ally his anxious heart would prompt him to nail his son but the echo of hia voice came back aa hia only answer He until he came oat upon the lake by the shore of which appeared a It was Berry who turned to know the in- truder For a moment there was utter while a searching glance passed the two Is this Mr Berry or Captain of The Two The devil take your and slight shadow passed over Berry's face advanced In an instant the voyage the death his father and its consequent through mind as he replied Was not one enough that you should seek to make me son Captain Perej tell me where my son is for an true you know So shall shouted Berry he sprang upon Perrot The powerful hand of the murderer crashed him down to the earth and aa the glittering dagger so recently wet with an- other's blood uplifted for fatal thrust a gripe waa anu The weapon fell trom his clutch as he turned to meet the unflinching glare of Hack Williams eye The two closed in mortal combat Both were powerful of great muscular runce and reckless its to results For time victory seemed equal but Hack mi- lying with a desperate and effort turned hia antagonist and fixing his hand upon Berry's throat held and crushed it until the soul of the i had appeared before his God long after he sat upon the body with thv eye of a demon flashing the of unmitigated hate Slowly rising to hut feet and looking at he the corpse and hurled it far mto the waters of the lake To or your own place aa turs say I have done my duty Yes for once Hack haa done Years have passed away and with all connected with this story The are no longer solitudes and puttee of pleasure often visit this mountain On one of these visits while preparing a repast the remains of a were discovered buried below the of the rock They were the bonea of poor Rock and the Skeleton LOOKING DOWN A waa ning at a hotel in gentleman of Knoxville Tean ting nearly opposite Gideon this city a well-known merchant was on his semi-annual to the to buy goods He had two from this state under hia chawe ami of them was sitting on each side of Mr H at table Directly in froat of aim aat dandy who having finished hia raised hia eye glaas and first at one and then the other tho hv dies Mr H a heavy I thought waa about to apod the profile by hurline it at hu head j stead of that he Drought H to hk and looked the VaU torn at the top of the him The attention of the upon him a general rew till be was attS the le aad the room IB the of the jeers of the Walpole says that the of French ladies to their tn he in of tie dear
