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OMLAND PRANSGRIPR.
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO GEN ERAL INTELLIGENCE, ETC.
iPAY, ABLE IN ADVANCE
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.) SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED AT THE OFFIUVE, NO. 18, MIDDLE
Vou. I. PORTLAND, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1339, No. 43.
POETRY. Jeity i is situated ona penins sul 3a sivall al
Bac ko ve and listened attentively, Pres eut-| piece, I pulled the trigger. ‘The flash of my
TF 7 che Ty case ope tinger of the sea washes the freat of its \ly inthe lull of the gale we hea and a shrill voice gup lighted up for an instant the surrounding *
Wwortb! va sais Delile. {which runs w mile or 8 abov the eny > undis}as ofa womans at a distance. s Help! Was darkness, and its report was repeated from the
4VLs Jealled Pore viver, The Cove mentioned by jall we could distinguish. We burried back|oppesite shore. 1 held my breath, and the
of the city |ro the house, and after giving orders to have} blood boiled in my breast, as [bent my head
yastonearly meet {the doors well fusteurd, and eve ything .in|to listen? Phe echo bad barely died away, as
\the waters of Fore rive a narcow slip of |readiness for an attack, we procec eded with aja despairing yell came from the middle of the
{land only divides then. quick pace and beating hearts towards Mrs.|stream., Oh! how my heart throbbed with
/ - . : | “There was quite a thick wood” he con-| Noyes’s, calliag on our way at neighbor Saw- |joy — unnatural joy, when I beard the drown-
While shining dust my coffers filled, hinned, “berveen Mrs Noyes’ and thehouse in eens for bis Company. ing shriek rising high above the gale and ming-
ie oon any Vosiony £2 7 jfmaiek | fived. ."P he land which is wow covers | y young heart throbbed, PH assure you, ling with the dash of the waves. . Pshouted
No truer friends were found. Be ned “ Aso uniny five buildings, fad laid out | 1 that wood —but not with | aloud in mockery. In my, delirium f bent
in stre was then overrun with trees aud down and lapped the water as it were. the
| bushes. Jean hardly realize, when £ look} blood of my victim, T have often wondered
around me, that Lwalk over the se at the actions of that moment —at the phren-
. . | the old gentleman, is on the
The friends who in my prosperous days | x ,
Delighted to care
YS Whose daily breath pronounced my praise —
Shun we in my distress.
ithe waters of which flow u
rmysell. My thoughts were all
—for Thad uo doubt sbe was
ves-—nnd with anotuer
fees
Ty numerous fi iulis were not observed,
Or if they were, couceas led;
‘And every wr
Was to the world revealed. | —there is not a tre
» house was the farthest (rom the setile-|thrilled with agony, as we approached i man laid his hand upon bis heart.
attacked by the
ry thing jfor iom Lfulta greater interest —— her dauzh-|zy Lwas in. My brain was on fire, and there
jter ay cousin Jane. Oh, how my bosom) was a demon here crying for blood” and. the
generous act,
. But when misfortane’s darkling cloud ane)
O'er my horizon hung jment, on the outskirts of t
army hotizo g,
Each fault was echoed long and loud,
|
3y the aged and the young. |"
“ds the house, and heard the agonizing) Mar, my children, knows not) what he
shrieks of“ help! belp!? rising above the | may do — how be may be wrought upon unul :
—inugining it was the voice of her|the trial-hour is past. Those who, under or-
ie town. Low
then twenty years, of age, and lived with
2 Jon | tempe
Ir was thecustomin my younger days—one of/ whom [loved de
ose customs, wht
cumstances, are the mildest and
tlest, when stirred up — when every latent
rowded through my brain | passion is revealed and brought into action,
a dark wood! And/iay be the fiercest and most ungoverpable 5
rer than a sister — whose dinary ¢
ht of my path, What)
‘cmnile was the fi
‘Le burie desing of early years
“hn
Vile not a votce was
y»we fear, the
thoughts of horror
reration do not observe—to collect
whilst ove) as we burried through
val terror rose —
Saturday evenin
2nd he who would shrink with instinctive hor
ze; for the| jrorat the ature?’s bfvod at
rot my foes.
"Vie chan : on
he word of Ge e house, my worst
It! when we came in sight of t
ht ofa fellow ¢
was op one of th
v front room, listening to the first objects presented to our eyes, were an lone time, at another would seek ro sbed it—
ed | tye
The heart that blessed me in my power | » eveniugs, and we Were | fears were, to appearance, real
{s new too hard to ole:
Awl they who loudest sat
saying y tho house with a tore : : ar : tps .
vedming out of the house with a toreh|to bathe bis hands in it, with all the ferocity of
| y another dragging Jane} a blood-hound. = Tt was thus with me ou reac
lof making remarks, ax he was 4 o. ‘on! by the hair! She was appare Hifeless. Alo: : . .
er round jor raking remarks, as be was wout to da, by the hair! She was apparently tifeless, A jnight. Thad just given utterance toa frien- (
poling ehitl ran through my vems when) giad “hal hal? — which rose wildly above the
ing of Mr doses. Atier he had fi
y praise,
ithe chapter, he closed the book, and, iastead |i fis haul, followed t
Nosyurps
s Uins with 7
[ihe portion of seripture be had read, he arose
The princely and the great — | : J i.
Vide he gas favor to bestow, {frou bis a and stepped to tbe window, [} saw her pale face, by the ficful glare of the |ramult of the storm —when the thought of 3
And for bis mandate wait. | LoThidis an awful night,? said be solemuly |corch, looking so ghastly and death-like, For! Jane lying bleeding on the wet groand, and ol !
B : is wealth | Ue terest rages terribly?” . a momentisy " pak copy ubively, and Tiny loss, operated like a spell “ou the whirl-
when op eigie s WLS CS etl ) t 1 ' tid t " , ver y rilike } > fatler Dy t 7 7 . : : . . ft
. vee ae | be truth did it, ‘Phe winds went shouting a to bi “ : ve I baud no doabe that dane wind raging within me —like the casting ‘of
He'll pass tum asa fagitive, yan hurrying by , the drifting rain swept, now had been bar io ously ware ae " re oil on the broken-up deep. Iu the space ofa
Unnoticed and unknown. Jos and now heavily, against the roof and) stood ber murderers, 2 ange feeling came | fey minutes there was a complere revolution
eager nnn nen nrenrenaoumnamnsiect jthe rattling Windows, aud in the pauses of the aver me.” Vengeance — ven spc recalled of feeling. [became faint and nerveless — my |
. ORIGINAL vale, the deep hoarse growl ofthe sea would/ie ty lie, Blood — blood — oh! how T knees tottered —tears gushed from my eyes
ee ‘tome to Sour ears like « solemm base, or the |thirsted for blood — to feel it oozing warm in torrents, and Turned and waded to the
. jsound ofa far-off trumpet. © "Phere is a strat ge om the hearts of her destroyers! TE know pot! shore. AN amy) sava fierceness suddenly
Hfeeling that thrills my heart when the elements | thet f possessed in iy natur gea trait. Joft me and my betier nature again held con-
A TALE OF OUR OWN TOWN ja e thus at war —I dike to pause, and bold my | l{ was rushing forward reckless of consequen- | trol. ©
. BY C, P.ILSLEY. (breath, and Hsten to their wild commotion,— | ces — Mr, Sawyer detained me. | I proceeded with as quick pace as my wenk-
— | Su this evening Twas uucommonly excited. —| At that moment the demou who held her by} ness would allow toward the house. Tdid not
One stormy night a group of us children had | Parose from my seatand stood besides Mi ithe hair re aised his arm,and atomahaw ‘ glitter- = h eed the darks nor the howling of the
gathered around the accustomed seat of our! Joues, who was looking out upon the drifine!edin th cht. Pstruggled to free iny ‘shout ~juight storm, for my heart was heavy within ‘
venerable gtd audfatl rte bear hima talk OF “old eiguds aud the foaming sea, lit up by an ocea-|ing at die same time at the top of my voice—jine. Tibought of nothing but Jane — Jane,
en times.” ‘This, was our favorite evening Siow vf dash of lightning, [se hold —hold! for Gods sake hold? ‘The | ile eeding — dead! When I reached the house
pastime — to ir round the old gentleman | ‘Do you hear anything?” said Mr, Jones} words were barely uttered, when the sharp] sd death-like hush was about it. | entered. —
and listen while be recounted some of these ine in a low tone, laying his hand upon ny arm. | rack ofa rifle rung in my ea The shot} Many of the neighbors had gathered there ;
teresting events, W hich had occurred in the] My Lead was bentin the attitude of sten-!was too lare. Phe Indian sprang forward) some sitting apart in silence and sadness, aud
course of his loug —he being nearly etgh-) j with a yell and fell to the earth ; but the tom | ome in groups conversing in low, suppr ‘
ty years old, —or some romantic incident, in) I thought Theard something,” replied I,)abawk dese ended, and was buried deep appa-|tones. In one corner of the room a litdle knot
whieh he had been a party coucerned, or h ud ina ed tone; for in chose days the |reutly in the forehead of his victim. were collected sround a bed, at the foot of
gleaned from different sources. At our eat- | people were easily alarmed, as savages were | When the savage fell 3 bis companion dash-| which sat Me : supported by a peigh-
nest and repeated solicitations after having re-/ reported to be lurking about the neighborhood |ed the toreh to Wie around, and started at full] bor, pale as a statue, and gazing with a fixed 1
quested sileace — a request entirely needless, of Palmouth, as Portland was then called, |. speed for the Cove. We all started forward. | yacant stare upon here hild, who was lyingon
as our eager upturned looks plainly manilt 8) f will step to the door and listen,” return- }1 outstripped the others, anda few bounds|the bed with her bead bound up, and her face
ted, he gave us the following simple rel ation, | ed he, He took his hat and went oat. To a| d me to the side of Jane, who was lying|as white as a suow-flake, save where a slight
which may be interesting to sume of our rea- jfew moments he came to the door wl | we Jrering in gore. Pstopped but a moment, |stream of blood was oozing over her cheek
ders. i anseen by the rest, beekoned me to hin. AL Jand then followed with the speed ofa hound | irom her forehead. When Tsaw this, a must
« Jr was some such a night as this, in the ter we had reached the outer door, he said | tl ve retreating savage. He was some rods in}came over my eyes, and my thoughts became :
year “43, in the month of November: [know [Liven attentively aug tell me if you bear any- jadvs wuce df me, when he reached the shore|confused and wandering. Sonie one look me ‘
not but the tempest was heavier. ‘The storie | thing? hv here canoe was floating, and by the time }by the band and whispered sume words in my
spirit was abroad in. good earnest, and in vo! +<'Phe wind and the waves make so much |! reached the water side he was some distance ear ;— 1 kuow not what. But Tanewered
pleasant mood, Lived then ina one story jnoise, it is almost impossible to distinguis hyin t the stream. It was so dark E could vot] wildly, though ina husbed voice, as ifaware
house, that stood at the corner other sounds — but —? discern objects even at a short distance, and | }ihat £ was in the presence of death, —* Yeo!
‘ streets, where that large brick buibling| “© What?” said he hastily, and in atone that} gnashed my teeth ins a paryoxism of rage, | yes! — he’s dead, Lheard Lis ceath-ery. Uur ht
now stho Then there were but «few hou-| made me start. when J thought my prey had escaped me, 1 dowt you bear hisshrick? No, you cannot, he
: * * * Slay Luot see
into the water, and | waters choked bia!
—a scream,” [rushed eight or ten pace
ses nvo
lived some hundred yards back of our house, | ”
| quivione
|
|
in town, and very scattered, Mr Noyes| “Tthought 1b
; The same that d heard,” he replied with | stood for a time in silence. calinly, as my thoughts be-
ddle — TE listened a mo-
My ears caught] ier??? LT said mor
came more collected, Mir. doves took te by
the arm and led we to ihe bedsiae., 1 hae
towards back-cove.’ —* Come with me.” lthe hurried dip of a 4
it may be proper to mention here, that our! We went a few rods fromthe house tow ards! ment to catch the di
ion, then levelling
