Tioga Eagle (Newspaper) - August 15, 1849, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania lamils to 3tog, 3Vrtg, 0iictuc, Agriculture anft IN AT TWO WEDNESDAY AUGUST 15, 1849. Whole No. 575. the Londun BY I on And still it as blue Ai il firic hung on sinking darkening drew Ilio ill Its trumping dci anil Have i u village belK softened u IT distant heird many a so A upon tlic A ttio air Hit MTJ an- bhut and as if in in apd and and A in Inch o whispering the far olf lio linnet's homeward AH Maker tho fading Tho by Iho All kino Iho Tho milieu I u s .cu i t and ill mulu An t nn I aa In I til eu lie I ud u ft limn ffr And when s iu in A cmip Tho on ihu h to wave Ihu 11.1, All i uhoin Un y n T IIES AND mmm I. Public Alarms and Private 1 the troubles with the famous and Black the our frontier were never from of his tribe and dwelling even at n distance from Uic were frequently annoyed by un- from red men of the in the eastern and were led to desert their by er r-i M at -i Irom iho of the Indians of plunderers were com the for the to I heir deserted was a settler noth could many liU to forts for he cum to work to his own Una not to lie Mew flying parties of savages never bi liy to and that if he n nmn of 11', u u ife and a Indians nt bay a bo nothing to nnd Je used to to o George and I can few I am before they can do to fo P. remained at all i To there nn There was a voung rmn not ot neighborhood and leaving Mary he resolved to the house of had he been on Mary's As it been a between him and tho brother of her he he chose to Mmt himself up in his house thin form any compact with the this between and George Richard Marv fog love and commence m other were After tlic Occasioned by of the red had many who their homes in that Stephen family had not been resolved to return and follow his ex- was then that Richard Walla would have made Mary his notwithstanding her but she prevailed upon him 0 his until George could bo brought With regard to Stephen ho was neither for nor but left the two men to adjust their own and Mary to do as she Thus time passed one it chanced that George and Richard were hunting in tlie same piece of and met near the banks of a close to a large and deep We will not nor dwell upon Us suffice it to say that George did not return home that and that although lie was seen by several of the inhabitants without game of any was spotted with and that he had received a knife wound in his On the following morning the neighborhood was and search was made for George It being in the there were many leaves upon the which enabled the young man's friends to near the a spot where a struggle had place and where some dead body had ly been dragged and thrown into the Added to the hunting knife which ard Walts was known to was found near the crusted with said Stephen turning to the as he spoke his eye flashed his features were and his firm lips smells of My eon has been Richard added his friends with one is the murderer Revenge At the time of which we and in that portion of the country in which Ihe sceno of our story is but law law of force and individuals were bat too apt to take upon themselves the their own private powerful friends throughout the many of whom were ready to consider the quarrels of that family as their and to act In consequences of as soon as it was known that George Moxon had been and that Richard Watta was the there was a consultation among the friends of the to decide upon the course which should bo An old hunter a an pet nulls put himself at tho head of George's as lie to sec that the right tiling was and vengeance taken when It was rightly deemed that it would be a task to Richard in his own and having given Ins all necessary to Richard's residence Tlie Jroung man met him at tho and greeted Ford as lie had always The rough as ho could pky the and did not desiring that Richard should the object of his Have you heard tho Dick 2" asked What what is hard tossy but I must confess I believe interrupted That George Moxon has been said looking his companion full in the Richard turned deathly but soon ered himself and answered calmly I had not heard of Ford the and added that the murderer had evidently tied some heavy object to the body and thrown it into the Richard's pertubation wus I am sorry to replied that some have thought echoed with a The fact pursued the circum- stances aig against and it will be necessary for you explain where you were last what Ins become of your and how those of blood came on your ering you brought home no This a dark piece of said turning but there may be some difficulty in explaining these things to the satisfaction of I believe you are my would you advise me to I would go at once with mo to and give what explanation you can on j the If you are which I should be sorry to it will bo easy to prove self Deceived by this appearance of friendship in his Richard resolved to follow his ad- and set out to accompany him to Moron's On arriving he was surprised to find some half a dozen resolute apparently awaiting whila neither Mary nor Mrs. Moxon in the said is the place to give your and recoiled that your lifa depends upon your We believe you killed George and we are his muttered turning ly upon his and Seizing him by iho take that for your treachery In an instant tho young man was borne down by the friends of and bound like a Finding resistance he submitted to his said if you have anything to we will hear be have nothing to aay before a mob like replied take me before some and I will tell know about the Let we warn to beware how you treat for I am an innocent murdered George said his are his We will give you until to-morrow morning to prove your if you fail to do you must suffer tlie Richard eyed his accusers sternly and in not his mouth as they led him away to a narrow which was chosen as his place of CHAPTER Impending of Under the same roof with Mary ard was permitted to see her Does she know I am here 1" he said to she know that I am accused of taking her brother's am I a murderer in her eyas Would I could speak with From this the prisoner fell to reflecting on his probable N That cursed they will lynch me be- fore I am proved Richard was and had little fear of yet the thought of the horrible destiny that threatened caused him to He could only hope forborne lie was alone in a distant the window of which was on Ihe outside aa well as and the door of by two of Ilia avengers of Richard could think of nothing but to his When the prisoner was least expecting it he received I It was Moxon The friends of George had given her permission to eee hoping that slid might induce him to in order that I proposed deed of blood might bear appearance of j Mary was scarce well and On the present occasion she wag very and her eyes and fair cheeks showed the traces of recent Richard advanced and would have taken her but she repulsed not angrily nor but with an appearance of solicitude and Touch mo until I know whether you are innocent of this horrid or Tell me now she fixing her dark eyes upon his tell me before you my brother replied folding his arms and regarding her with a look of tenderness and if you tlo that I your you do fight to spurn you you shudder and grow sick at the sight of me But have you so moan an opinion of me aa to credit the false reports you have heard Then you are innocent 1" slid As innocent as I knew I felt the hiding her fuce in her Was it the strength of love that overcame every other or knew she not what shel did I She who shunned the prisoner a moment now sank into his arms and dropped her head upon his And Richard strained her to his for the that he was charged with shedding her brother's But the transport was soon and her asked him if he knew nothing of her replied this we met in the woods at the spot where they say I killed high words passed between and blows Richard groaned the young In the dropped my knife from my He seized and gave this slight wound in my I had not thought this of your and with a feeling of deep I bared my and bade him if I had ever given him cause to hate me to He seemed and flung the knife upon the but was too proud to acknowledge his I would not stoop to touch tlie blade that had been but turned leaving him is all I know of the I swear before the all-seeing eye of murmured I cannot but believe you bring some proof of your They will not credit your but unless you can piove what you Richard I shudder to think of the re- At this moment one of the ers came in and informed Mary that her time was and led her regardless of her tears and What did he say to you asked her in the presence of Ford and two of his he is What more 1" With tears and frequent soba poor girl to tell all Richard had Ha cried he that they quarreled i What a lame evasion to say George struck him with a and that he did not re- turn the What say He must was the response of all save who regarded his agonized daughter in Mary passed a. night of unspeakable and Richard one of anxiety and hopeless i Yet he was and several hours before the light of morning stolb through his Breakfast was brought into him by who at the same time informed him that he had but two hours longer to Such is the merciless haste of the i Two hours passed J 1 It was a beautiful autumn although there was a melancholy breathing in tho smoky air far different from the brightness of a summer It seemed a morning heaven never designed to witness a deed of deliberate bloody Vet Richard was led out to suffer punishment for the crime he was charged with having com- and it was by the light of that morning's sun that he beheld the preparations of his It was on the borders of of On the one side was a beautiful and on the a broad expanse of undulating like a troubled sea fixed with all its and stretching as far away as the eye could trate the hazy wild with and crushed by remained at home while her lover was led to and her stern and was with choosing rather witness her grief than the death of George's The execution was to take place under the di- rection of tne Richard was to be hung. Already a strong rope was attached to the lowest limb of a ed oak that stood out from the rest of the forest and a temporary staging was erected for the devoted youth to stand upon while the cord was adjusted to his A said us see your upon his said so that he can die decent like a As you returned And Richard's hands accordingly set at He then stepped the and looked around upon his Ford would have mounted with him to adjust the be not at that said with an dignified which awed the old hunter will tie the rope But just hear me say a few words for the benefit I of your consciences after you have murdered i inc. I know that you will hang that in hall an hour I shall be a corpse but even on the point of dropping into I swear that you are murdering an innocent My bloat is upon your That is a bold he said Ford with a grim i exclaimed to insult dying man But know I can resent an insult The words had scarce escaped his lips when life leaped like a tiger upon Ford and hurled him to the before his companions could recover from their he dashed through and bound ed down the declivity likoa I The Double Shoot him down shoot him cried springing to his feet in a Bat two of tho company had rifles with and as it neither them chose to take the individual responsibility of Richard's Cos while fugitive was in full their with no more effect than if they had been with a curae upon unskilful Ford dashed down the lull in hot pursuit of The woodland was between Richard and his would-be and not daring to attempt reaching he shot out upon Ford and two of his companions followed while tho remainder kood upon tho declivity watching with intense interest the Richard was fleet of of tho' all dry and was so long that it impeded his yet it did give his pursuers the He was sometimes lost to sight in the ravines and and then he would again appear on the summit of a bold elevation stretching towards the hazy indistinct outlines of the distant The fugitive gamed ground upon his but they seemed loth to give up the ard a hut far out on the The spectators of the strife watched him but soon another object attracted their A He was approaching the same but he was far beyond and spurred his charger to his utmost it seemed that it was his object to reach the hut before But he had ten times the distance and Richard was already surmounting the acclivity on which the What could be the meaning of that terrible speed He well might lash his in hot suit behind Awere two daring mounted on animals fleeter than his Seeing the danger of the Richard forgot the peril he himself was in. Swift as he had he now quickened his not to save but to rescue his He dashed up the burst unceremoniously into the snatched a burning brand the and issuing waved it above his The horseman was now close to the and tile ravages were not With unerring baste Richard plunged the brand into the and trailed the fire in a long line across the There was a strong wind blowing towards and tlie dry grass of the prairie flames like The flying horseman leaped his steed over them at the moment they started and sunk with the exhausted animal to the In an a broad sheet of flames shot and swept away across the growing fiercer and larger as it flow careering over the The savages saw their wheeling horses suddenly struck out in a broad circle to avoid the raging Half on hour all that broad ex- panse of prairie was seen either black and or and far away to the at a dis- tance the eye could scarcely might have been seen two dark specks moving slowly along he These were the two who had barely escaped the But return to the At the moment his horse overleaped the both as said to the a moment Richard was by hU and to avoid the flames that began to creep through the crackling grass against the dragged him to a space of furrowed ground that the At the moment Ford and his 1qOtiipaniona came Richard was assisting fallen man to arise notwithstanding the they had just they not forgot to seize their escaped exclaimed grasping him by tlie I you now f He had spoken when strong hand dashed him I Hands cried a well-known for he is not a but my deliverer V The looked at the man who had now recovered from the shook of his It was George Moxon Mary was in terrible suspense the return of the She had a faint hope that her lover by some interposition of it the shadow of a At the moment she was expecting the awful intelligence that Richard was who should bound into the cottage but her brother In an instant ehe was in hia but the joy of seeing him again was turned to bitterness by the reflection that Richard had probably suffered fur his supposed j The next her fears at Richard before With a shriek ot she sank from her brother's arms upon tlie bosom of her We need not attempt a description of the joy occasioned by this joy of the two young men who had been but now were of and of stern old her George corroborated all Richard had said con- their last interview in the anil their and gave a full explanation He had captured by a band of which had been prowling about the neighborhood for several and from whom he had escaped by breaking his bands and mounting one of their horses when they were least expecting such a bold he had finished his the hand of Mary within that of de- that nothing would please him well as to see his friend his Let the reader imagine the he thought he could not do belter than to marry her Acting this sion he mentioned the matter to remarking that her husbanS could not live arid asked her if she would marry him after he was She replied that she had no objection at all if her husband was He faid he had no doubt on that and he would speak to to about it. He did and the husband unhesitatingly gave his was glad she would be so well provided for his So when the winter Ihe young would come and the while the dying husband lay and coughed on the bed in the Now not much sentiment in I but there was a vast deal of It was rather cool on her part to be but vastly sensible on What could his wife and children do all alone there in the without ft The toughest part of the and that which no doubt tested the To lie gasping for breath hi part of the and see the athletic and healthy backwoodsman and his together by the and know that after a few more painful he would occupy that place and yet bear it all re- quired a good deal of especially must the reflection that were both anxious to have him take his have been rather a bitter to I into all Ue particulars you to show the character of my hero to the best heroine speaks for These two interesting were my shoemaker and his t v Men We copy the following or Life in the Woods other day I took a heavy to a or rather of whom I was told a capital An English emigrant had settled down in a remote part of the he cleared a little space about him and built a log He had been there but a yeur when one day as he was absent in the woods with his eldest his hut took fire and burned His wife was but she managed to crawl taking the straw bed On which she lay with At evening tlie band returned to find his house in a winter and the snow lay deep Calling he heard a faint and going in the direction from which it found his on the bed in the Getting together a few boards which were left from the he made a shelter over That night she was safely delivered of a child which and is now But under the exposure and together the husband look a violent which having fastened upon his and being re- by no medical treatment iii the reared another and during the summer a young settler came in and purchased a tract by He being the only family within a long this backwoodsman the evening in their It was not long before he discovered that his neighbor could not long for the most ignorant in this region knew all the symptoms of pulmonary which carries off three-fourths of all these who Accompanying this conclusion came the reflection what would become of the and as she was good-looking and ASSAYING The assaying is most curious and fic of all the the mint lake the gold and cast when it is weighed and a piece is cut off for the Me takes melts it with twice of and several its weight of It is melted in small cups made of bone ashes which absorb all tho lead a large part of the is extracted another and the sample is then rolled out to a thin coiled and put in a j sort of glass vial called a with some I nitric The are put in a j and the acid is boiled some poured a and boiled This is done several till the acid has extracted all the silver and other mineral leading the sample The sample is then and the difference between the weight before assaying value is AiJ the over and above five pennyweights for each is paid for by as its true The after it has and being mixed its due proportion of is drawn into long hoop for a the round pieces of each piece weighed brought to the right and put into a stamping i it comes forth a perfect STOPPING class of conceited touchy who stop a newspaper on account of any petty paragraph that displeases are ridiculed by an exchange as The parable should be kept before the certain man hit his toe against a pebble stone and fell to the He and under the j influence of anger and i active he kicked old mother earth right With he looked to see the vast globe dis- solved and come to But the earth re- and only his poor foot was injured the This is the way of An article the touching j m a weak and straightway he sends word to stop Ins With great he looks on to see a when the object of his spleen shall cease to Poor he has only hit his own toe a world that doas not perceptibly feel the and to no any one but x The Newark Daily of the perpetrates the i LITERACY save the of the trash now published should ba termed we cannot and we should think it would the skill of tue nicest Without a particle even of tasfe these large weekly publications are filled with most and sickening We occasionally receive one of them and find on the first page a continuation of Knight of the Silver a Five hundred dollar Prize that any schoolboy would write for eighteen On tlie second page are lines to tike away these literary the late celebration pf St. Patrick's day by the Young of this toast was needs no she speaks for A boarding house keeper in Baltimore offers to furnish gentlemen pleasant and able or two gentlemen with t A lady of in consequence of in- produced by a tight recently had her finger taken to the knuckle hope it was not her that fitted too oo JEWS PA PER I
