Vevay Indiana Palladium (Newspaper) - October 14, 1843, Vevay, Indiana r. AND DIFFUSION OP OP ABUSES AT THE BAR OF PUBLIC AND OCTOBER 14, 184:3. 32. INDIANA PALLADIUM is published every Saturday at per payable in advance by county and by those residing out of the without which no paper will be rates of advertising tee fourth loved rou when the sunny bliss on That bliss has sunk in sorrow's loves you loved you when your joyous every heart to The sweetness of that tongue is And loves you loved when you proudly gayest of the The pride of the of time has Ulike her love loved you when your home and fortune's smile could She saw smile And then she loved you such She generous faith that woman's gentle 'Tis like the star that slays and glows Alone ia night's dark vest become each other left the lone And that the wanderer on his way Then her light publish the following lines at the request of a They lire taken from a new collection of Hymns just published at When I am the hills when in youth we did I am I am Visit the place where we oft met to I am I am I think of the parents who taught us pray Each protect us Bui shed not a tear for your friend far When I am I am not a tear o'er the place where I When I am I am Let not the slow tolling bell make you I am I am Weep not for- though you kneel at my has died all the faithful to Think of tho crown all shall VVhen I am I am you a that may wave o'er I am I am Sing you if my grave you should I am l am it may on a calm summer's when the sun sheds its last lingering Come and rejoice that I thus pass Wheit I am 1 am e. c. my Heaven grant you may only be as happy asl wish that you may never feel the pangs thai break the heart of the neglected and wife is your mother's fervent I do not wish to make you John Morrison is not the man I have chosen for your He has that high the of his that is said the enemy of mankind rejoices in as the sure forerunner of a And my he has not that respect sacred nor liiat reliance in the that I would have and without he look at that Almighty power Ibr how shall he 1 tiemble for him and I tremble for thy happiness nay John is and when he is a husband ha will attach more importance to the duties of and mother I will pray for will listen to the prayer of the humble niy much do I lrust in the efficacy of And 1 trust the sad fate of hie mother and ihe awful death of his father will have influence enough to preserve him from gross But if happiness should be denied you oh this God in his wisdom should try you with afflictions and path be strewed with ray will the Christian's hope support you and the happiness after unshaken faith is assured will you in what is at best but of My days will not be kind and dutiful hast thou tny and may a mother's blessing you when 1 am at ray Jet such gloomy ideas affect if It is your wish I will not wed with John Morrison though it break my word is my and you must break it. I seek but to prepare and if euch things should be to teach you that when encompass to look to him only who ia able to Good my and may holy angels guard the course of time John and Ellen were Shortly after that Mrs. Wilson yielded her spirit to her God praying with her last for the future welfare of her beloved It will now be necessary to pass over ten and what John Morrison bad became in fa those ten years common told too Mrs. Wilson's judgment had been fully and Ellen had suffered all the of the neglected and but happily no children had sprung from this ill-matched and Ellen's reliance on placed her the vexations and troubles of the She was still the same sweet tempered and though her gaiety had the expression of her beautiful countenance well replaced the arch smile and merry John had been but Bhe had and her unceasing payers were offered for his a large apartment of a large tavern in Port a numerous assemblage of men and pilots were seated around different playing at the game of a calculated from Its peculiar excitement evil passion into Oaths and blasphemous and obscene were heard in of the The dark and ferocious glances of the losers contrasted strangly and the exulting looks of the and in this evil composed of the worst and vilest of the was John drinking freely of which in his youth resolved not to and gambling men lie all - John in his course of lost all the accumulations of his previous and he had now just staked the last money earned by his piloting in the The cards were against and rising from the he left the apartment uttering blasphemies at his ill in the run the whole length of the he not on his misspent but how he should get money to continue his vile He recollected that one of his companions of the downward a economical had received a sum of and from he determined to borrow enough lo enable him to resume his seat at the gaming On he found this man had retired to rest in the large apartment allotted to the river men as a and which contained about twenty went and found the chamber occupied only by the person he was who was in a deep sound sleep and the pocket book which contained his money protruding from under his The sight of the pocket book grave rise to new ideas in Why thought should I awake he will refuse rne the I might as well take his pocket book and use what I want and when I I can return the pocket lo the he will be none the wiser and I hone the be much for I must my cursed bad must without further reflection he took the and John Morrison whose character at one time was so youthful resolutions so strong that ho defied man to change now a a and a He sat down to the and soon lost all his ill-gotten He could not borrow from his for it was a rule that they should not borrow from each other when The morning the money was search was legal evidence could be found had destroyed the pocket yet many circumstances combined lo fix suspicion on and John who had entered life with such fair was even his vile associates as a suspected he became yet more a mile west of rising perpendicularly as a w stands the stupendous and gloomy mass of called the Viewed from the bank of the an imaginative especially one who has read Mrs. RadclifFe's might fancy himself before some vast mountain of the and the surrounding broken into many strange and picturesque readily surrounded as they are by pine and fur for turrets and extensive and ruined from which banditti might be momentarily expected to rush forthe and slaying the unwary It would be difficult to find a more for the foaming the hills that rise abruptly from the margin on the and covered to their summits with forest the gloomy pile of the the broken rocks in the back and the constant dash of water over a dam on the combine to impress the beholder with the beauty and grandeur of the But at the date of this tale it was no easy matter lo reach the There was not as a pleasant and level turnpike From the the ruined piers of which may yet be seen rising like so rocks from the surface of the to the the bills rose abruptly from the and scrambling through climbing over masses of fallen with occasionally the prospect of falling from some precipice mio the that raging and amongst rocks seemed eager to the were perils that had to be encountered by the adventurous wight who the dangerous But the scenery was and well repaid a ramble over those broken Two years had now passed since John had sealed his infamy by robbery It was on the anniversary of that a cloudless summer that two late in the afternoon were wending their toilsome way over the rough path just absorbed in such earnest conversation that many falls and severe bruises were the consequences of their inattention to the of their dangerous The elder of the two was apparently a man of at least sixty years of but hale and and from the alertness of his and the muscular appearance of his limbs where the sleeves of his being rolled up exposed them to it was plain that his age was Mike the frosty but His face which was Canned by the sun an unvarying bore the impress of hardened which could only be acquired by a life of petty He was evidently one of those raft and ark that every Spring and came down Susquehanna from the State of New and bear the appellation of The other was a large and muscular man dressed in very common consisting only of a cotton tow linen and coarse straw also was embrowned by and his face retained scarcely a vestige of so much was it bloated by constant his eyes were and his lips chapped and cracked by the foetid and feverish exhalations his impure It was John the - said the oldest who was named have during a number of piloted all my and never yet have You only one on the river who has not at wrecked one out of every and now to debt of you have in the last trip saved my Had it not been for your presence of mind at I at have been a meal for the pike ihe and 1 fear but very uncomfortably situated as regards the other for I feel that I have been very wicked repent before I quit this will have in the next what you John did would hive done as much for any one in the gatne a second more and no power on earth could have saved you from being pieces on the I cannot repent saving but Heaven help I know I have saved from death one who is my worst and who is the cause of my ruin and the name that is what do yon John said the old this is what I when I piloted your first ark accursed be the day I met I was respected by my by the love of my young and beautiful and possessed of a sufficiency of this world's good lo support mo comfortably I was You by ridicule and persuasion induced melo break my never to drink ardent 1 never had drank any until that fatal that morning made me a when you induced melo I and to all I ever and became a far the scorn and contempt of all who knew me fell on poor Ellen withered like a flower touched by an untimely her dreams blasted Through you I have been forced to leave my sweet and live in an old hut on the summit of the ao full of crevices that the bleak winds of winter chill us to the and every cheerless blast that howls around us only renders our misery more bitter and harder to And have you not even after 1 have your won from me your as you call but as I suspect infernal that I have earned during the and the river is now too low to earn any more nothing to keep Ellen and myself during the The neighbors will not help they say what they I will gamble And God of it is And after a cheerless when nothing but the few wild fowl I shoot saves us from has passed and I have made vows never again to drink or have seen Ellen's blue eye sparkle with she heard and believe you have have forced yourself on 1 have and again have icsa the light fade from her eyes and witnessed her silent for never yet has she reproached me for the ruin and humiliation I have brought upon I have been when I think how I have and what you have made to throw you ofT the point rock into yonder dreadful whirlpool and once in no power on earth could save then jump in can it be possible that would reproach me in such a If you had not drank and gamed with would with some one not your father drink and gamble before and what is bred in the bone and know the old dare you reproach a son with a father's By heaven were you a young man you should not quit the hill alive or I would remain on it a I beg your I did not intend to offend so forgive and shake I have no no and I intend to leave you all I have I you youself a rich I have often heard you but before you die what will become of me. Look at for I not even in the glass look at such a despicable object as I see ray bloated inflamed festered lips and See all the marks and not yet But a few years more of this and I shall be a disgusting And if I did outlive it is more than that you would leave your that money wrung from the hands of the poor river man and almost coined at the cost of heart felt agony of his impoverished wife and vile and how vilely to some one else who could fawn on you while you ruined 1 sometimes fancy that you are indeed the foul permitted for my presumptuous boast of never to accomplish my ruin and lead rae to my you curdle my blood to hear are getting wilder every You frighten me when you gaze so horribly on me. Surely you would not harm would not kill an old Barney I have enough on my soul without adding to it. You are safe with old am glad of and glad to see you grow I went this morning to Squire and got him to draw out my and here it is all regularly signed and witnessed I have left all to You do not now think so vilely of the old do At this proof of old Barney's of brighter days came o'er but reflection eoon dispelled this is said but it can do me no Should I follow the course of intemperance into which you have seduced I cannot if I quit well am I aware that you desert what has come over never heard you talk this way A night's will banish all these melancholy Last night I had a terrible and it makes me shudder yet to think of it. 1 thought I was floating in a sea of and wherever I turned of horrible eyes seemed to dart streams of fire into my when suddenly a vast serpent fixed his fangs in my bosom and horrible greediness to suck ray life blood and while I was writhing with unutterable it thy victim is the and the serpent had a face it was like I at one time to that my dream would prove when yoa talked of throwing ma from the points Morrison in a hoarsened by who had passed a few feet in was so much surprised at the singular change in Morrison's that he turned suddenly and was thunderstruck at his his countenance had and he looked more like a corse possessed by the spirit of a vampire than a living his face was his lips glared with a strange and and the muscles of his forehead stood out like cords and worked fearfully with some heaven's the old man with nearly speechless with horror and is the At these words Morrison recovered his usual appearance with great and a singular species of fit I am subject - to have never either seep or heard your countenance at that moment the horrible expression of that infernal serpent's face that I saw in my Surely it be that the dream was of me. did I not life think you I would take it especially after your kindness to that 1 should for a moment let us hasten to my night and will be hard to Ellen will have something prepared for and live or we'll make a night of The steepness of the hill further and in a. few minutes they the door where the a savory stew saluted the of the wearied and his companion entered the which though miserably was by the care of Ellen scrupulously the mistress of this sweet Ellen how The attenuated sunken eyes and pale were proofs of the bitter that prayed unceasingly on her Her nut hair was partially grey and care had wrinkled her still the same spirit in her heavenly countenance and her pure soul as if tired of its sojourn seemed about to spring from its to ascend to its native With flei his companion and set before them the humble fare her limited means enabled her lo After the ineal was accursed bottle was resorted to and Morrison unceasing plied Barney with contrary to his usual very sparingly It was but a short lime until the old man overcome with fatigue and the fumes of the liquor fell into a lethargic slumber and was placed by Morrison on a rude said he I saved that old man's life and in a fit of he has made me his heir and he has the will now in his If should offend him in the most trivial he will alter it and I whom he has soul and not only live in abject misery myself but must see you suffer if he would but die to-night we might be happy once murmured not utter impious I had saved his old from me my last dollar and when I asked him lo loan me a small he Ellen I in this degraded stale I am dreadfully sensible how 1 have That old man's would in some other place enable me .to resume the station from which I have and curse miser as he only hoards it to feed his greedy And as for his even he did alter it is of no use to he would if not outlive me many not should prevent from save only the will of his dear why do you glare on me so desperate thought agitates it is his life or he dies I shall have and you Ellen will again move in your appropriate if he lives I shall be an perishing and though cruelly treated perish before me. He must dream shall indeed prove true and the fiend he serves preserve my not warned him in is only a cruel in pity you are jesting if you not have me die at your it is no am a ruined and a desperate I was you well there lies the fiend who ine the vile thing once shuddered to think of. At this moment the memory of my wrongs nerves hate and if he possessed a thousand lives I would have them By the years of torture that I 1 have lingered through while that accursed vampire has been on my very by tho memory of what I the reality of drunkard and which that incarnate devil has made he shall perish by my hand God do thou turn this man from of blood he you are your wrongs have maddened down and Ellen I am not I will either be rich and happy by his death or lose nay life in the not deceive yourself by this one act remorse and despair will overwhelm you and all hope of happiness must be lost to you Thou shalt not God himself hath spoken it dreadful has been the fate of those who have Do not old man with all his Bins into the presence of- an offended God ha was the Shalt not do this I. will shriek for - who But that doomed dd interrupted beware Ellen not bo thwarted in- this Willi dash him from this and it will thought inebriated fallen will in his pocket found and I shall be why 1'not heed your thou shalt not kill If I die it T will stand between you and this piercing frantically shook the sleeping who up suddenly from his Morrison with a blow struck Ellen to and seizing the half conscious bore him swiftly to tho brink of the The wretched man restored to consciousness by his dreadful does this victim ts tho said you do not intend to murder minute for prayer and thou was the the old Take my wealth but spare my if thou I would not slay the cannot shrieked the doomed villain yelled hurling with all his herculean wretch into the who uttering a tremendous was dashed on the rocks Morrison in the very act of dashing his wretched companion from the struck his foot against a stone and after a struggle lo recover himself rolled over the brink of the The rising sun shone on the mutilated bodies of the murderer and his The Ellen was barely able to detail these terrible her eyes closed on this world Arms or board the I met with a most extraordinary many respects the most extraordinary of any living That there are other men who have lost both arms and legs by I doubt but that those others walk about and are able lo feed and I much in who was shipwrecked on the coast of Labrador in the schooner of 1SI7. The survivors mate and four of the found themselves on ihe inhospitable shore of Labrador in the month of with a cask of cherry brandy their only The mate and one crew perished with cold and The captain died soon The subject of paragraph was so badly in the legs as to be unable to accompany his companions in an attempt to find These companions returned towards night the following day with information that they had found an Indian to which with difficulty assisted Here they found a hunter with a white man and two Indians in his The hunter did all in his power the but it soon became evident that nothing but amputation would save the lives of De war and one of his The latter died from loss of during the The life of was saved by an application of hot pilch to his bleeding The operation was performed by the white assisted by the His arms soon hut his legs continued in a deplorable state till when his kind host had to the coast on a and in September he obtained a passage in schooner to at which place he was received the Hospital at St. and very kindly attended by the But here it was found necessary to both his In 1819 he obtained a passage home but on the passage his wounds broke out and while in the Glasgow a third amputation of both his legs was performed by surgeons Corkindale and The wounds soon and for nearly twenty years ha has enjoyed excellent By the aid of cork legs and the assistance of a cane joined to a cork he walks without He takes his meals by a fork into his left and by he the shipping a into the joint of the right of certain lawyer in one of the Western had a dog that a great and had been in the habit of attending court with One day the dog took into his head to ascend the and annoyed the Judge very much between his The Judge in rage him a violent that sent him yelping across the court much incensed at the unceremonious manner in which his favorite had been called to come said giving him another I not always tell you tj keep out of bad editor of the New York Mercury says he does not are because he can't are things that are sometimes taken from the pinions to spread of make me as the peach said the July editor of the Telegraph speaks of a picture as having a We he ihm it not well
