samNlLwMmelt6n, | Proprietors.
rery soon engaged in desperate feuds with
«:hc horse-thieves and plunderers around them
ind as they were not yet strong enough to
l nuke head efficiently.were one after
#ripal |l(Jftri).
.
Written for the Yorkvillo
Enquirer.
DORA.
by howard ii. caldweli..
i
5
Where the weeping-willow bendcth
On the breeze, her branches long,
Where the wild bee's music blendeth
Sweetly with the mock-birds' song ;
Where the fragrant orange Jjlossom J
red mimosa's bloom, '
Calmly sleeps, with tlirobless bosom, C
Loved, lost Dora, in her tomb. n
Near this willow-tree we parted, v
1, in anger, she in tears; d
Both half-maddened, heavy-hearted,
Spoke the doom of after years. s
Faint the woodland echoes sent it C
Back to our astonished ears 1
That "Farewell," for our hearts lent it
Thoughts of bitterness and tears. r
We were both too high of spirit, f
Bach was loving, each was proud; s
Love's faiut sigh, how could we hear it
While our Anger stormed aloud ? c
Far to distant lauds I wandered J
Lies
"*
on
*
to
was
obnoxious to
s uccessful
the
to
contrast of his
e
a
of which he
or
was
his
if these
off or killed
For tlic Promotion of the
shootin'
-
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1
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countryhis wife
»
-
.
.
inecsintly,
aeud
Mounlins,
ofaskig
sete,
ascertining
THE SHOT IN THE EYE,
orquarjlling
'
discovcrhlo
x*
7
.
temer,
gratitous
.
.
unfortun:c
.
determination
l
p
,
» 1
ii*
.
p
theblacknith's
conituted
>
conscience
^
enrely
.
J
operations
^
wentloungag
gathred
adriration
vehcicntly,
imriiio
iUIUUC
tt'1
nn
nivil UU
rrvoin
VI WUUL
on
appears,
retreated
complained.and
Drawing
the
piteous entreaty rouud the monster's
new birth to Jack Long! His eye took in
at a glance. A shudder like that
everything
of an oak rifting to its core, sprang ajonghis
nerves, and seemed to pass out at his feet
and through his fingers, leaving him as rigid
of the
11*
! !_
n
Ml
1*1
and when the blows
possessing marble;
his
mocking devil before him fell uponhideous
.
% Cafe
with
whether
cntirey
"""
innumerable
ground, wailing and cliuging
knees, his children weeping by her, and outside this group a circle of men with guns in
their hands. That fearful awakeuing was a
comprehended,
X
perpciraed
dcied
iuterposition
general
fellow,
lewis m. okist, puuuher.
water curls, or uses the " irou," ber jiair is
rinjr that night of peril wa.s froui the
brushed carefully froiu her forehead, and the
of God.
whole mass compactly secured ; if not, why
"Again he said about the battle of the then
her lovely tresses are soon hid in
Cowpcns, which covered him with sohadmuch
bits of paper.
felt
he
a
as
a
leader
and
soldier,
glory
afraid to fight Tarleton with his numerous This task accomplished, a night cap
may-be edged with plain muslin,saveor
army, flushed with success, and that he
hides all,
as long as he could, till his men
may-be with heavy lacc, which As
soon as she
her own sweet countenance.
he could go no further.
his army in three lineson the hill side; ties the string, probably she takes a peep in
the scene.in the distance her glass, and half blushes at what she sees.
contemplating
the glitter of the advancing enemy.he The light is out.her fair, delicate form
trembled for the fate of the day. Going to gently presses the couch.andiikc a dear,
the woods in the rear, he kneeled in an old innocent, lovely creature, as she is, she falls
tree top, and poured out a prayer to God for gently into sleep, with a sweet smile on her
his army, for himself and for his country.. still sweeter face. A man, of course, under
With relieved spirits he returned to the the same circumstances acts quite differently.
lines, and in his rough manner cheered Every movement in his chamber indicates
them for the fight. As he passed along, the coarse,rough mould of his sullen nature.
they answered him bravely. The terrible When all is ready, he snuffs out the candle
carnage that followed the deadly aid of his wuii ins nngers, line a canninai, ana uicn
lines decided the victory. In a few moments jumps into the bed like a savage. For a few
Tarleton fled. 'All/ said he, 'people said moments lie thinks of all the piccadillcos he
old Morgan never feared'they thought old may have committed during the day.vows
Morgan never prayed; they did not know; a vow to amend soon, groans, turns over,
old Morgan wa.s miserably afraid.' And if stretches himself, and then all is silcut save
it had not been, in the circumstances of the the heavy groans of the slumberer.
amazing responsibility in which he was placed THE "DAYS" 0]TTHE CEEATION.
how could lie have be en brave ?
American gives the
"The last of his riflemen are gone; the The S'icntifn:
a
of
recent article in the
summary
brave and hardy gallants of this valley that
Prof. Dana, of Yale
Sacra,
by
waded to Canada and stormed Quebec are all
on the harmony of science and
gone.gone, too, are Morgan's sharp shooters
in regard to the creation :
of Saratoga. For a long time two that
"We
now eudcavor to present the
his captivity in Canada were seen in this substance will
of
Dana's account of the
Prof.
village, wasting away to shadows of their history of creation, because
it is the latest,
youth, celebrating with enthuiasm the night clearest and best we have seen, and must
be
of their battle, as the year rolled
of
interest
to
son of Adam. He says
every
Lauch and John Sehultz. But they have that
geology proves our earth to have been at
answered the roll call of death, and have one
a fiery ball in space; then dry land
time
joined their leader; the hardy Lauck
seas appeared, with a tropical clime over
and
that Sehultz, the feeblest of the band,
At a later period,
whom he had so often carried through the the whole globe.
to
enlarge, the dry land to
began
snows of Canada, should outlive him. There
a temperate climate to gather about
is interest round the last of such a corps."
the poles, and tribes of animals became more
localized. Then, in the last age before man
the continents take their full breadth ; rivers
flow, everywhere valleys are formed, and
zonesof climate became nearly like our own,
and every region of the globe has its
fauna. < Finally, the features, and
OF WHAT WOMEN ARE MADE.
and life, attain all their present variety,
"Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife;
A bad, the bitterest curse of human life."
as man appears to take his,place at the
of his Maker.'
Simonidcs, a poet famous in his generation, who flourished about four hundred " Ilis ideas regarding the production of
years after the siege of Troy, tells, us, in a light are peculiar, and as we have seen the
noted satire, that the gods formed the souls same views before, and now find them
of women out of those seeds and principles
by Prof. Dana, we presume they are
several kinds of animals and
which
lie dragged the six stout men who hold
it after his frantic bounds nearly to h'is own
door, before he was prostrated, and then it
was by a heavy blow dealt, him over the head
with the butt of a gun. The last objects
which met his eye as he sank down, were
the horrified faces of his two children and
wife looking out upon him !
The blow deprived him of his senses for
sometime, and when he recovered he found
himself half stripped, and lashed to a tree a
short distance from his house,.IIinch in
front of him with a knotted rope in hand,
was
mooneyed
to
aud hints were not
Irive him away, they would publicly warn
dm to leave the county in a certain number
Striving to forget her:'still, Ji
All the while, I only pondered 0
if days, under the penalty of being scourged sure enough his ball, which was larger than
Of that maiden, loved so well. 0
ir shot. The common pretext for this was Hindi's, had passed through the same hole,
Then, my foolish pride o'er-tbrowing,
^ he accusation of having committed some widening it! I
I to my loved home returned : e
"He's a humbug ! It's all accident! He
rime, which they themselves had
Absence made my love more glowing,
^ with a view of furnishing a charge to can't do that again !" shouted the ruffian,
For her liow my spirit yearned! ^
ring against him. Their hate was
turning pale, till his lips looked blue, as the
I returned, and asked a maiden j
ruthless and never stopped short of aecom board was held up. "I'll bet the cars of a
Where my Doha might be found
its purposes; and in many a bloody lishing
buffalo calf again.sl his, that he can't do it
"Yonder sleeps the sorrow-laden
ol
bad
the
cruel
and
outrage
question again."
ray
Doha, 'ueath that grassy mound 1"
heir supremacy been mooted, until at last "If you mean by that, to bet your own
Now, when brightest Morn awaking t here were few left to dispute with them, cars against mine, I'll take you up!" said
n«l they tyrannised at will.
Jack laughing, while the men could not reSmiles o'er meadow, lake ami lea, a
these few were Jack Long, as he sist joining him. IIinch glared round him
By her grave I watch heart-breaking.
Among
trllK fmr/«n
lnnlr
ln»fmv> flmtn u»lir»
Far more fair than Morn was she ! v,ras called, who neither rocoguued uor
.>
v best
when
and
and
indeed
troubled
him
U
their
never
know
Ami,
shadowy twilight closes,
quailed, with compresspower,
imsclf about them one way or the other.. ed lips silently loaded his gun. A new tarBringing gloom o'er earth and sky, h
Watch I, where her form reposes. 1
Ie kept himself to himself, hunted
get was put up, at which, after long ami
and nobody knew much about him. careful aim, he lirod. The shot was a fine
Night is not as dark as I! ^ S!
This low grave me-seeins the portal
,J ack had conic of a £wild-turkey breed,' as one. The edge of the ball had just broke
To a glorious land of Calm, tl
be western term is fur a roving family; and the center. Jack, after looking at it, quietWhere kind angel-hands immortal (]
bough still a young man, had pushed onand ly remarked.<
Pour on wounded spirits, balm. }j
of the settlement*^ two territories,
"Plumbing out the center is my fashion;
Here I see a beauteous vision I ]j
ad at last followed the game towards the I'll show you a kink or two, Captain Ilinch,
Of that ever-blooming shore, S(
>uth, and finding it abundant in Shelby about the clear thing in shootin'. (live us
\Vl*rc, in radiant fields Elysian, C(
junty, had stopped here, just as lie would another board there boys!" t
Tears and parting come no more! jj
ave stopped at the foot of the llocky
Another was set up, and after throwing
had it been nccc. >ary to pursue it so out his gun on the level, in the same rapid
Peaceful be thy sleep, my Dora! It'
ir. He had never been in the habit
careless style as before, lie fired; and when
Peaceful"as an angel's dream: Hi
H' leave of any power where he should
the eager crowd around the target announAnd when first dawns Death's Aurora
and of course scarcely thought of the ccd that he had driven the centre cross clear
Come thou, on earliest beam, ll
inacessity of doing so, now; but quietly set out, he turned upon his heel, and with a
Come to me, oh guide most saintly!
work.built himself a nice log-cabin, as pleasant nod to Ilinch, started to walk ofi".
Where thou gocst Heaven must be.to
f;i r oil' from everybody as he could get. And The ruffian shouted hoarsely after liini.
How long mud I hope here, faintly,
"I thought you were a coward 1 You've
tl ie first thing that was known of him, he
Weeping 'neatu the willow tree? j
ad his pretty young wife and two little ones made two good shots by accident, and now
March 18"»G. Ill
that you've beat inc..
mgly stowed away in it, and was slaying you sneak oft'sir!to brag
You can't shoot before a
Come back,
ie deer and the bears right and left.
The honest brotherhood had made several mussle half as true !" t
^
u
aiItcmpts at feeling Jack's pulse and
Jack walked on without noticing this morhis availability; but he had always tal insult and challenge, while
Ilinch laugh»jciucd so impassively good-natured, and ed
and loud.jeering liiui
tauntingly
long
ut them off so pleasantly, that they could with exulting bitterness, as long as he could
nd no ground for either disturbing
make himself heard, "a flash in the pan,"
The following tale of Texas bonier life, f(
with him. What was more, he was "a dunghill cock, who had spread his white
is a faithful portrayal of a large portion of
rather an ugly-looking 'customer,' feather," while the men who had been surthe population of Texas, Cfteeu years ago.. hysically
ith his six feet four inches of brawn and prised into a profound respect for Loug, and
was written by Mayor Webber, and we
the inclination, just
^ one
were now still more astonished at what they
believe was published originally in the Demo- ^ in; though
his ©
tn nnrnulennv.
together
7
considered his "backing out," joined clamI~
0~
cratic Review:
ith a broad, full, good-humored face, gave nrmiclv in linntinrr liis rnfrmif fl
My word for it, reader, I should never <(|11 air of sluggishness to his energies, and The fools!
have ventured to construct a professed ro- a
They made a fatal mistake, iu
of easy symplicity to his
expression
he left the insult unresented from
juauce out of incidents so wild and strange
supposing
which oifered neither invitation to
fear fur himself. Jack Long had a
as those of this narration. It is only with
insult nor provocation to dislike. He any and
the hope that you will accept in good faith as the
pretty wife at home, and his love
young
very impersonation of iuoffensivc, for her was stronger than his resentment for
the assurance given in the same spirit, that jfi
slumbering on its conscious his own indignity. His passions were slow,
these things really did occur while I was in iyal honesty,
and
these men, without exactly and had never been
;
rength
the country, aud most of them within my j.
fully roused.none of
felt
some little disinclination
uowingwhy,
at least hut his love, and that presented
personal knowledge.that I venture to re-1 waking him. He had evidently never; them
forlorn and deserted, with her
her
late them at all. Remember, the scene is | cen roused to a
knowledge of himself, and littleinstantly,
in this wild country should he
laid in a frontier county of Texas, and if f thers felt
ones,
just as uncertain what the knowl-!
you have even a remote conception of the Jge might bring forth as he did, and were throw away his life with such desperate odds;
the turn the affair was likely to
history of that Republic aud the general ot specially jealous of the honor of having and seeing
he had prudently determined to get
character of its social elements, you will be j, first
take,
tested upon their own persons. So
before it had gone too far. hut had
prepared for a good deal. (j
lat Jack Long might have been left for awayof those men seen
the spasm of agony
in
Shelby county, lying Western Texas, ^mny a day in quiet, even in this formidable any
shivered across his massive features,
which
on the border of the 'lied Lands,' was rather
to cultivate his passion for as these
gibing voices rang upon his ears in
thinly settledit in the latter part of '30. What eighborhood,
at the expense of the dumb, insult which
orkmanship,
no proud free hunter might enhad
was
the
population
generally very ild
around
but for an
would have takeu the hint, to beworst caste of border life. The bad and a( tilings be was him,
dure,
they
accidentally induced to ware of chafing the silently foaming boar any
desperate men who had been driven over lakedisplay
it.
of
our frontier formed a rallying ground and
longer. t
to fall short of ammunition,
Ilappcuing
with
the
This was an ill-starred day for Jack, though;
head-quarters here.seemingly
to hold the county good against ^ c went one day to 'the store' for a fresh from this time troubles began to thicken athe intrusion of all honest persons, and as a 5,1apply. This cabin, together with
bout him. The even tenor of his simple
t
si
shop and one or two other huts,
sorioi '.visaua 01 me nest, tor tne
life was destroyed, and indignity and
protcc-1
the 'county town," and as powder happy fullowcd
tion of outlaws and villains of every grade.
each other fast. 1J inch
outrage
And indeed to such an extent had this pro- a Lid liquor were only to be obtained there, never forgave the unlucky skill which had
was the central resort of the Regulators,
him of his proudest boast, that of
rscription been carried that it had beeoiuc ack
found them all collected for a great robbedthe best marksman
as
much as a man's life or
on the frontier,
notoriously
being
was worth who settled among theui s looting match, in preparation for which and he swore, in base vindictive hate, to
dog
with any worthy purpose iu view; for he icy were getting drunk as fast as possible, him to death, or make him leave the country,
must fall into their confederacy.leave.or ) steady their nerves. 11 inch, the Regu- Soon after this, a valuable horse belonging
die! This was perfectly understood; and 1itor captain, had always been the hero of to a rich aud powerful planter, disappeared,
the objects of the confederacy may be readi- s'.ich occasions; for, in addition to being lie was one of those men who had comproly appreciated, when it is known that every a first-rate shot, that was known that it mised with the Regulators, paying so much
now and then a party of men would sally out w ould be a dangerous exertion of skill for black-mail for exemption from their deprcdafrom this settlement, paiutcd and equipped ainy man to beat him.for he was a furious tions, and protection against others of the
like Camanchcs, with the view of carrying aiad vindictive bully, and would not fail to same stamp ; and he now applied to Ilinch,
off the horses, plundering some marked man 11lake a personal affair of it with any one for the recovery of his horse, and the punishof a neighboring county; then returning 71 ho should mortify his vanity by carrying ment of the thief. This Ilinch, under the
with great speed, they would rebrand their ff the prize from him. In addition, the contract, was bound to do, and promised to
scoundrels he commanded was
forthwith. He aud some of his
plunder, resume their accustomed appear- and ofat his
service in any extreme, so that accomplish
men went off on the trail of the missing
ance, and defy pursuit or investigation. Not
aey made fearful odds fur a single man to horse, and returning next day, announced
only did they band together for their
iu this way, but a single man would ontend with.
that they had followed it with all their skill
carry off a fine horse or commit a murder Everybody else in the county was aware through a great many windings, evidently
with the most open audacity, and if he only 0 f this state of things but Jack Long, and intended to throw off pursuit, and had at
succeeded iu escaping here, was publicly ^ e either didn't know or didn't care. After last traced it to Jack Long's picket fence,
and there could be no doubt but he was the
protected. I do not mean to have it under- hey had fired several rounds, he
stood that the whole population at this time 11 listlessly into the crowd which had
thief. The planter knew nothing of Jack,
around the target, exclaiming in
were men of such stamp avowedly. e
but that he was a newcomer, and demanded
over the last brilliant shot of Ilincb, that lie should be forced to
There were some few whose wealth to a 11
give up the horse,
vrhich was rather triumphantly the best.. and
them
iu
the
observances
of
to the extremity of the frondegree protected
punished
a more seemly life.though they were com- ^'he bully was, as usual, blustering
tier code. But this was not lliuch's plan yet
every one around him, and awhile. lie knew the proofs were not strong
pelled to atandleast wink at the doings of their nrhen he taunting
saw Jack looking very coolly at the
more numerous neighbors;^
ruffianly
plausible, even
enough to make the charge
oli aI
f Vi
nf f liof UCICIUU*
/I
while there was yet another, but not large
gittlli
before a Lynch Court, of which he himself
class of sturdy, straight-forward emigrants, ial admiratiou in his expression which was was both the prosecutor, judge, and executhe board, and tioner. His object was to first get up a hue
who, attracted solely by the beauty of the 4^ emanded,it he snatched up
close
to his face, and
hrustirig
into
settled
themselves
had
insultingly
come
it,
country,
cry against Long, and under cover of a
down wherever they took a fancy.with r oared >ut.
general excitement, accomplish his develish
characteristic recklessness neither caring nor "Here ! you Jack Long Shanks.look at purposes without question or mock trial even,
neighbors, but iitihat! Take a good look ! Can you beat So that, after a great deal of manoeuvring,
inquiring who were their arms
and hearts i'i" Jack drew back with a quiet laucb, and for eight or ten days, during which time the
in
stout
their
own
trusting
to keep a footing. Of course all such were siaid good-humoredly.
charge against Long was industriously circu-
of tljf afot.r
Political, Social, Agricultural
latcd by his myrmidons, so as to attract
attention and expectation, as to the result
of his investigations.he proclaimed far and
wide, that he had found the horse at last,
chap as you beat it!"
"I don't know as I would be very proud hid in a timber bottom near Long's ! This,
of course, seemed strong confirmation of his
to beat such bungliu' work as that."
themob wercmost of them
"You don't! don't you ?" yelled the
guilt, and though
now fairly in a rage at Jack's coolness. horse-thieves, to all intents, yet it was an
"You'll try it, won't you? You must try unpardonable crime for any one to practice
it! You shall try if. We'll see what sort professionally among themselves; so that
of a swell you arc!"
Long was loudly denounced, and threatened
"Oh, well," said Jack, interrupting him on every side, and ordered to leave the
forthwith.
as he was proceeding to rave for quantity,
These proceedings Jack by no means
"juse sot up your uoaru, 11 you want iu sou
or felt dispi^cd to be moved by ;
me put a ball through every hole you can
but gave them one and all toundcrstand, that
make!"
to remain where he was, until it
Perfectly astounded at this rash bearding he meantsuited
his convenience to go ; and
of the lion.for it was difficult to tell
entirely
his
if
time
and theirs did not happen to
that
Jack's
dictated
contempt or.simplicity
manner.the men set up the board, while agree, they might make the most of it..
he walked back to the stand, and carelessly And Jack was such an uncompromising snaglooking somebody, and his reputation
swinging his heavy rifle from his shoulder, «rish
which had now spread everywhere.of
fired seemingly as quick as thought.
such consuninto skill with his rifle,
"It's a trick of mine," Faid he, moving
towards the mark, as he lowered his gun ; that he thought it a condescension to shoot
"I caught it from shootiu' varments in the game anywhere else but in the eyes.was so
eyes; always takes'eni there. It's a notion formidable, that no individual felt disposed
to push the matter to a personal collision..
I've got.it's my fun."
lie
and
ran
to
the
all
might, still, therefore, have been left in
target,
eagerly
They
"Pshaw ! You don't brag on such
as that, do you
"lirag on it! I'd like to see such a
another
exterminate
lawess
themselves
commandid
purifytif/
suspiious
inlependently
unfortunate enough make
inlividual
limself
them, whether by
villainy, proceeds
efused share with them, by the
forthwith
course.he
h:\teul
urrounded.threatened.had stock
driv:ii
wantouly.and
sufficientanloyauces
was to
finally ousted or shot. It the
more
this honest class that
and brutal of the others associated
and assumed the name of 'Regulators.'
numbered from eight to twelve.and
lliey
i inder the organization of rangers,
* by a beastly wretch named 11 inch, they
irofessed to undertake the task of
the county limits of all bad aud
characters; or in other words, of all
nen who dared refuse to be as vile as they
rere.ftr if they were, who chose to act
of them and their schemes..
1
i \ i
i
i
1r*i-ins
precious nrouiernoou suou ueeauiu me
courge of all that region. AV henever an
<
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and Commercial Interests of the South.
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VOL. 2.
Independent Journal i
An
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.
as
flesh, making it welt in purple ridges,
white
spout dull black currents, he feltlhern no
than the dead lintel of his door would
have done, and the agony of that poor wife
or
more
following
liilliotlifcu
College,
revelation
slashing
upon
a frantic echo to every harsh
quiet, but 11 inch had unfortunately takenin shiicking
seemed to have no more effect
sound
the
conduct
Jack's
from
impression,
up
his car than it had upon the tree above
the shooting-match affair, that ho must be a
coward, and if this were true, that all his them, which shook its green leaves to the
sskill amounted to hut little; and like any self-same cadence they had held yesterday in
jther bloody, wolfish brute, he followed him the breeze. His wide-open eyes were
calmly and scrutiuizingly iuto tlie faces
up the more eagerly for this very reason,
which would have disarmed a generous foe. of the men who stood around.those features
Besides, Jack had given fresh and weightier are never to he forgotten !.for while IIinch
imatter of offence, in that lie had refused to lays on the stripeswith all his furiousstrength
<ibey, and defied his authority as Regulator. blasnheniini/ as thov fall, that trlancc dwells
Hie very being of that authority seemed to on each face with a cold, keen, searching
as if it marked them to he
1require now that a wholesome example should
in hell ! The man's air was awful.
1Lie made of him, for the awing of all
refractory
I
persons hereafter. The wretch, who so concentrated.so still.so enduring ! lie
was cunning as ferocious, had sworn in his never spoke, or groaned, or writhed.but
i nniost heart to ruin and disgrace Long, from those intense eyes of his I.the wretches
1 he moment of that triumph, now availed could not stand them, and began to shuflle
1limself remorselessly of all his influence, and and get behind each other., hut it was too
1tnowledge of the society around him, to
late; he had them all.ten men ! Thn/
ici /f rrijish ri'il.
it. Several horses now
and robberies of other kinds, perpetrated AVe will drop the curtain over this
<
scene. Suffice it to say, that after
\with singular dexterity, followed in quick
him until he fainted, the Regulators left
s uccession. All these things he managed.
him ; telling his wife that if they were not
hroujili the clamors of his scoundrelly troops, out
of the country in ten days he should be
t o have laid directly or indirectly, to Jack's
shot. lie did go within the specified time;
loor.
But in the popular estimation they counted and, as it was said, returned with his family
to Arkansas, where his wife's father lived.
ais nothing, in fixing the charge of
The
incident was soon forgottcu in Shelby
malice upon poor Long, in comparison
c
shared
round.Peter
glancing
<
I
n
J
c
'
'
intensity,
remembered
1
acjomplish
disappeared,
wondering
mountains
expand,
Select .Jleitag.
peculiar
climate,
command
horrible
lashing
t
endorsed
dangerius
About this time county amidst the
accepted as the most correct theory of light
constant recurrence of
to the
vvith one other incident.
by all whoHehave paid any attention
similar scenes.
without mutual
, lot only ITinch himself, hut every other
subject.
says,
About four months after this affair, in
who had made himself conspicuous, by
action, there could be neither light nor
with au adventurous friend, I wascompany
heat. Hut let it be endowed with intense
i nsisting upon Jack's guilt, and the necessity
western Texas. Our objects were to
attraction of different degrees or conditions,
cif punishing him summarily, began to lose,
the country, and amuse ourselves in
and it would produce light as the first effect
c very day or two, valuable stock, which was see
district we found
vvontonly shot down sometimes in sight of hunting for a time over any
of mutual action begun. The command,
a particular sport.as for
well
for
adapted
Let light be,' was the summons to activity
heir houses ; and it soon began to be
bear-hunting, deer-hunting, buffalo-hunting,
in matter.' The plain meaning of this is,
that every animal lost in this way,
>
renarked
&c. Either of these animals, is to be fouud
that the matter composing the earth was in
/<uul turn shot in the jr! This was
iustanty
in greater abundance, and of course pursued
existence before the law of gravity, and that
1 associated, of course, with Jack's
when it (matter) was endowed with gravity,
1
and curious predilection for that mark to greater advantage in peculiar regions;
and as we were anxious to make ourselves
the mutual action resulting therefrom
i 11 hunting, and a perfect storm of
the modes of life in the canine particles; these are scolds, always
t
followed. A meeting was at once c-on familiar with all
light; in other words, light is an effect
>1
iiuuu^u barking and snarling, and live in perpetual of the law of gravitation.
vjuuiuiy>
puiuu
\
at the store,' of which the planter cucd
to stop wherever the promise of anything clamor. A fourth kind were made out of
"The records of the rocks, Prof. Dana
vvas the chairman; and at it, by an
the earth. Such are the sluggards, who asserts, declare that the creation of the
interesting offered itself. ,
specially
>
vote, a resolution was passed
i Jack Long to be whipped and driven out Prairies, timber, and water were better
pass their time in indolence and ignorance,
kingdom came not forth all at once, but
in Shelby than any county we had hang over the fire a whole "Winter, and ap- in long
There was an age when
if the country.and Ilinch with his
passed through.the timber predominatingin ply themselves with alacrity to no kind of 'hell-fish,progression.
such as cuttle-fish, corals and
*
appointed to carry it into effect! lie over
the prairie, though interlaid by it
business but eating. ]
were dominant. The earth was then
c ould hardly contain himself for joy ; for
every dircctiou. This diversity of surface "The fifth species of females were made too warm, and the atmosphere too impure for
1 iow, whatever extreme his pitiless
* might choose to indulge itself in,maligniy
he had attracted a greater variety and quantity of out of the sea, and are of variable, uneven ]more exalted forms. This was the Silurian
game, as well as afTorded more perfect facili- tempers, sometimes all storm and tempest iage of geological science.' The next age
rio fear of after-claps or questioning.
ties to the sportsman. Indeed it struck us 'ometimes all calm and sunshine. The sixth was when fishes filled the seas, which is the
It was the third day after this meeting, as a
Paradise; and my friend species were made of such ingredients as ;Devonian of geology. Then followed
perfecttohunter's
Jrack, during all these persecutions, had
remember a man of some wealth j,compose an ass or beast of burden; these are < when reptiles,
happening
frogs and salamanders
himself with the most stolid
f
who had removed from his native country, naturally slothful and obstinate, but the hus- icommenced. Land plants then came forth,
c
Avoiding all intercourse with the and settled, as he had understood, in Shelby, jband exerting his authority, will live upon ;rod were of exuberant growth, to abstract
s ettlers, he had continued to hunt with even
wc inquired for him and very readily found hard
fare, and do everything to please him. ,carbonic eas from the atmosphere and purify
i nore assiduity than usual, and was in a great
him.
<iThe
cat furnished materials for a seventh the air. The vegetable products of that age
» neasure ignorant of the unenviable notoriety
of
of
!
said
be
or
women, who are of melancholy, jire now found in our coal fields. After this
thoughtmost ?pecies unamiable
1 le was enjoying. lie had heard something "Whatever else may
are
the
nature, and so repug- :ame the Reptilian age/ when there were
froward,
Texans, they unquestionably
cif the charges with which his character had
of
that they fly in the reptiles larger than whales in the water;
the
nant
to
offers
love
We
were
frankly
hospitable.
1.icen assailed, but attributed them all to the generously
when
he approaches
of
husband
their
face
and
and
servants,
horses,
received,
reptiles on land, and flying reptiles
kindly
the
calous
at
he had incurred
.i
enmity
This
with
endearments.
1
them
was
else
air.
j
and
whatever
n
the
conjugal
spenecessary
i
He could understand perfectly guns, dogs,
" In each of these ages were distinct
1 iow one man could hate another who had to ensure our enjoyment of the sports of the sies of women are likewise subject to little
and
The
himj
host
as
our
the
of
of
as
well
time
|
thefts, cheats,
eighth
pilferings.
succeeding to exterminations
I>eat him in shooting, and thought it natural country,
*
taken
out
of
the
of
females
were
we
i
and
at
our
the
Silurian
were
forthwith
life.
ape.
species
disposal,
existing
Through
cmough; hut he could not understand how self,
ill-na- ;Devonian, Carboniferous and Reptilian ages,
hat hatred might be meanly and desperately were soou, to our hearts' content, engaged These are such as are both ugly and
in every character of exciting chase.
turcd, who have nothing beautiful in them- jin America.fifteen times, at least, the seas
;'indictive, and therefore gave himself no
WEEK.
!selves, and endeavor to detract from or ridi- we re swept of their species, and in the
NEXT
CONCLUDED
c
about it. lie was only anxious that
jule everything which appears so in others. <
11 lis wife should not hear and be
epoch not a species of the former
annoyed by
"The
mare with a flowing mane, which Dccurs.' All this occurred during the fifth
MORGAN.
GENERAL
ainy of these things, and preserved his usual
broke to servile toil or labor, com- Jay of Genesis, according to the geologists,
c heerfulness of demeanor.
Among the incidents connected with the svas never
a ninth species of women. These are iwhich may have occupied a period of more
posed
solI
but
this
rude
of
patriotic
lie had just returned from hunting, and closing years
who have little regard for their hus- |:han a million of our years.
1 ayiug aside his accoutrements, partook of dicr, the following, originallyofpublished in they
who pass away their time in dressing, <' The next epoch, the sixth day, was the
bands;
1844, may
t he simple meal her neat housewifery had the Winchester Republican
and perfuming; who throw their jidvent of man, and the more perfect
bathing,
a
in
the
narrator
as
be
regarded evincing
firepared for him; then stretching himself
the
nicest curls, and trick it up in ]
bair
into
and Prof. Dana asserts, with other gejlogists,
of frankness, simpliciilpon the buffalo robe on the floor, romped singular combination
A
and
woman
fairest
flowers
the
(
that1 the whole plan of creation
<
garlands.
and pathos :
\vitli his two rosy-cheeked boys, who rolled ty,
is
a very pretty thing for a ]bad evident reference to man, as the end
this
)f
species
"The 'thunderbolt of war,' this 'brave
c verbis great body, and gamboled and
stranger to look upon, but very detrimental ind crown of the animal kingdom/ and
c in riotous joy around him ; but mother Morgan who never knew fear, was in camp :o the owner, unless it be a
king or a prince science has no evidence that any living
\ranted some water from the branch, and the often wicked and very profane, but never a ivho takes a
a toy. <
to
such
have been created since his appearance
fancy
f rolic must be given over while Jack would disbeliever in religion. He testified that
>n
this
<
"The tenth and last species of women
globe.
f50 and bring it. So jumping up, he left the himself. In his latter years, General
« There is no
whatever in regard
}vere made out of the bee; and happy is the
dispute
united
himself
and
as
looked
religion, maP ^l\in «n1a/ia 1nan who gets such a one for his wife. She t
1 ittle-folk pouting willfully they
professed
AVAAt!nn
^ gCVlVglOM
piavjc,
aiftcr him from the door, and started. The WllU luu rrcbujficnau
Her
discribed in Gene*
and
unblameable.
hat
orders
of
creation
t
1
the
faultless
s
altogether
Mr.
Kev.
care
of
(now *
s treain was only about a hundred yards from under the pastoral
her good glis, exactly accord with geological science,
and
flourishes
by
improves
amily
in
this
house
some
who
it
was
to
preached
Dr.) Hill,
t he house, and the path leading
She loves her husband and jmd the records of the rocks and Scripture
t hrough a dense high thicket. It was against forty years, and may now be heard occasion. ]Management. him. She
him a race jtre in perfect harmony. The only subject
1 s beloved by
Ilis
last
were
street.
London
«jrack's religion ever to leave his house
ally on in this town: and while days to his ()f beautiful and virtuousbrings
children.
She (>f dispute, then, is in reference to the
sinking
his gun; but the wife whom he loved passed
c
her
sex.
She
herself
1
of time; there is not, and cannot be, any
t
among
aibove all the universe of sentiment and
grave he related to his minister the experi- 1listinguishes
She
never sits (:onflict between 'Science and Revelation."'
with
surrounded
s
graces.
said
his
soul.
of
'People thought,' he, s
i
else, was in a hurry for the water, ence
the loose tribe of women, nor passes
aind the distance was so short,.so he sprang 'that Daniel Morgan never prayed'people imong
with them in wanton discourses..
time
1
ler
What Real Courage Is..It is real
was
never
f.;aily out with the vessel in his hand, leaving said old Morgan He then afraid.people
virture
and
is (sourage to wear old garments till you can aford
is
full
of
and
she
prudence,
reto
know.'
did
not
water
The
had
been
proceeded
t he rifle behind.
dipped
* he best wife that Jupiter can bestow on f
to pay for new; to say no when you are
vlp, and lie was returning along the narrow late in his blunt manner, among many other
1nan." t
to lend « half a dollar" to even a sufering
isked
stormed
the
that
night they andQuebec,
J>ath closely bordered by the brush, when he things,
i
loafer; to refuse to drink toddy when
while waiting in the darkness
storm,
1 elt a light tap on each shoulder, and his
are
cou
TO
the
word
GOING
BED.
for
to
career
up to your head and ears in it; to be
3
He had just time with his men paraded,
1
straDgelythatimpeded.
it is more profitable to be a
when
1
u
nest
considered
to
we
the
bed
hav,e
felt
he
always
Going
unhappy; enterprise
a lasso had been thrown over
t 0 perceive
do
to
1
right against the current; to
more than perilous; it seemed to him c>ne of the most sober, serious and solemn <d_ve;
1 lira, which would confine his arms, when he
to
re*
indifferent
>e
1
in
-groundless slander; to and
a
man
can
a
miracle
be
could
than
which
less
c
engagedWith 1uain
bring
>perations
a aw himself suddenly surrounded, and was that nothing
unchanged
hours.
bf
ney
compliments
an
at
encounter
such
an
the
whole
t
safe
from
off
them
He
number
men.
twenty-four
of
luring
r ushed upon by a
He stepped aside tt young lady it is altogether a different thing. [ jilt edged solicitations of fetnifoWuty; to
the yoiceof Hinch,
amazing disadvantage.
s
recognized
^ralk in the "paths of godliness," when both
i
down with him! drag him down !" as and kneeled by the side of a munitition of 1iVhen bed time arrives she trips upshestairs
f eefc are pitched another way; to go near a
had
t he men who had hold of the lasso about bis war, and then most fervently prayed that the ivith a candle in her hand, and.if
I
saloon at two in the morning,
the
his
I>ody jerked at it violently in the effort to Lord God Almighty would be shield and jfeasant company during evening.with >rilliant oyster
a bear, and not go in ; to keep
as
1
The
canhead.
her
in
ideas
the
than
mngry
for
less
t
lome
agreeable
Almighty
nothing
t hrow him. All his tremendous strength defence;
her luxuriant hair 3rour patience with a chambermaid just from
\vas put forth in one convulsive effort which arm could protect him. He continued on <lie on the toilette.and
from
the Ihnudom 1Ireland; to be a man among fools; to do
\vould have freed him, but the infernal noose his knees till the word passed along the i s speedily emancipated
If
she
and
his
combs
that
<
duif
He
believed
usually wears 3?our duty if it takes yon to the Almshouse.
pins.
1lad fallen true, and bound his arms. As it lines.
safety
fully
pcron
compose
that their good and bad dispositions arise in
them according as such and such seeds and
principles predominate in thcirconstitutions.
He says:
"The souls of one kiud of women were
formed out of those ingredients which
a swine. A woman of this make is a
sloven in her house and a glutton at her
A second kind is of the fox, foxy, and
has an insight into everything, good or bad;
some of this class are virtuous, and some
vicious
"A third kind of women were made up of
molecular
'
traversing
compose
tabic.
i
wellmown
indignaion
unaninous
condemnng
Regulaors
a#ni« n
1
4
m n %» » n
A
it
n
wc iijuuc 11 a
me. I ri
t
in
in
nnoiMnr^
<
produced
«*SM1
animal
distributed
trilobites,
<
1
another,
delorted
indiffcrince.
'
leviathan
1
shootng-mateh.
creations
previously
i
'
unlasiness
suc:eeding
1
.
(
aninals,
screamid
'
LL 11
Tl.-
vnuau
i r*
Morgan
spenes
lU
iu nuc
withiut
»
advance,
appeared
instantly
shoutng,
bilC
UiUCl
a
Ml VICAUVU
oaaavf
finTT7l V
quesion
eveything
"
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