The Greensborough patriot [December 21, 1841]

              THE GREENSBOROUGH PATRIOT.
VOLUME III. GREENSBOROUGH, N. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1841. NUMBER 45.
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J.RKENSIsOROI lill PATRIOT.
OPINIONS ON TIIK MKSSACK.
The views of the President's Message.
ns expressed by sundry Washington,
Richmond, Baltimore end New Yurk pa- I
pen, bore come under our notice. S°
far as these (jive indication of the tone
of the public ureas and public sentiment,
it is altogether moderate. With the ex-ception
of the currency department, the
Message appears to have the approbation,
more or leal decided, of all parlies. Ilia
plan of finance meets with objections
from all, though a disposition is manifes-ted
to gitre it a calm dispassionate con-sideration.
On the part of the locufoeus
the country ia congratulated that nothing
in the shape of a corporation is recom-mended
: but the idea of n Government
paper currency repudiated. The whig*
object lo it as a Government bank, lo
most intents and purposes, necessarily
undei Executive control, anil constquenl-
I*. S. Since I ho foregoing was prepared,
we have received the "Washington Re-publican,"
which contains a very sensible
:iiiri just article on the subject of this
Land sale. We subjoin a portion of It,
that Ihe views of our Eastern friends,
touching this mailer, may be known.—
The suggestions thrown oul are entitled
lo respectful consideration, and will, no
donhi, receive il fiom the Board :
"Though we regret the ill success of
tins attempt nt sales, we cannot say that
we are surprised al it. A number ol
causes concurred lo produce it, among
which may he cniiiiicniod ihe scarcity ol
money, winch though the lauds were of-find
on a end,I, repi.ssca enterprise,
Mid the Ignorance of people abroad ol
the i xteiil anil value ol Una territory. II
the lands an; Sold, II must be to pcisnns
from elMtwhcrc. We, in this si niton ol
CMIItiy, alieady own mole swamplands
than We want—the supply is greater than
llie demand. 'I hat no sales wire made
to individuals in llna sictiuii furnishes,
therefore, no inference that we are In.
different io ihe fate of the entetpriM or
distrustful ol us iilliiiiiile piofil to the
Stale. * W'-itli our hands alieudy full of
swamps, it would he lolly lo buy more.
W'e repeat, and it is Well lhal it should be
known, thai purchasers iniisl be louud
abroad. While we highly eoiiuneiid llie
spirit and diligence wnli which Hie Boanl
have earned out tins measure, and ap-prove
of what seems lo be their general
policy, wu Ibiuk that Hie term ot credit
allowed is far 100 short, if intended to in-duce
purchase by actual settlers, who
may pay lot the laud liolll till piofila of It.
If a farmer can suppmi hiuisell lor Hie
first ihree years after u setlleineot on
wild hind, lie dots well. II U'e lerm ol
credit wi re extended io 7 veers, on eon*
diiion of paying interest, and proper
means srers taken to set forth us advan-tages
io Milligrams and residents m Ihe
ly in direct opposition to one of the car. old ilucklv sullied Slalis* we do not
dinal whig principles ; though it is ad- doubt thai numbers Would prelorseeking
milted lhal its influence on commercial
affairs would be of a salutary character.
Considering the impossibility ol erci -,g
a national bank, some New York whig
papers, we perceive, lean favorably to-watds
the "nameless monster." All
hands, however, are wail ng lor the de-tails
promised through the Treasury offi-cer.—
The fact is, Captain Tyler basso
auccessfully steered Ins plan between the
sub-Treasury system and a National
Bank, as lo puzxlo every body.
a home in N. Carolina, to going lo the
"lur West," Thus the Slate would he
benefited- no! only by being ultimately
paid for her lands, but by Hie inlroduc
lion within lief borders ol a numerous
hmlyul hardy and industrious settlers.—
The Stale wants people more than money.
Ii is mi II ib.it constitute ihe wealth of
Stales. Wo an- nol aware what plan llie
Hoard base now raxelvru to pursue, bin
we respectfully oiler tlu.se suggestions."
■ o it ■: I (. v.
BIRTH OF A mill nil I'lUMCK.
The steamship Acadia arrived al Bos-ton
on the 30lh nil. The great item ol
iniellign.ee is, thai the Queen has given
birth to a Prince. This event occurred
on theOihof November, at 12 minutes
before II o'clock, and haa thrown all Bri-tain
into a perfect ccslacy of joy. The
Park and Tower guns were immediately
fired, and Ihe Privy Council ordered lhal
"a form of thanksgiving for the Queen's
safe delivery of a I'rince be prepared by
Ins Grace the Archbishop of Canteihury,
lo he used in all the churches and chap-els
throughout England and Wales, and
Ihe town of Bcrwick-upon-Tweed. on
Sunday the 14th of November." Her
Majesty ia Ihe only*Qucrn regnant who
has given birth to a male heir apparent io
the llntish throne.
The birth of this royal man child is
thus announced by the—
Vuurt Circular.
Buckingham Palace, NoV, 0.
This day al 1"-' minutes lo 11 o'clock,
the Queen was salely delivered ol a
Prince.
There were present on the occasion as
at tin- liirih of the Princess Royal, ill her
Majesty's room Ins Royal Highness
Priuce Albert, Dr. Locock>and Mis. Lil
Is, Ihe monthly nurse. Ill the adjoining
apartments, besides iho other medical at-tendance,
(Sir James Clark, Dr. I'urgu-sou,
and Mr. Flagden,) were her Royal
Highness toe Dutcaess of Kent, the La-.y
in W ailing on.the Queen, and ill,' lw-lowing
officers1 ol State, and Lords ol the
Privy Council, VIST* Ihe l.->rd Slevvarl,
ihe l<urd Chamberlain, the Master ol the
llor.i.-.llicDukc of Wellington, ihellisliop
of London, Sir Robert Peel, the Duke ol
Biir.kiiigliam.Earl'ol Aberdeen,Sir Junes
Graham, the Lord Chancellor, and Ihe
Marquis of Kxetcr, UfOOtU ol Stole to Ins
Royal Highness Prince Albert.
Alter her Majesty's safe delivery of a
Prince the happy uilclfig'ciicc was imme-diately
communicated lo Ihe Dulchess ol
Gloucester in town, lo the Dulchess ol
Cambridge al Kew, and to the Princess
Sophia Matilda at lilarkhealh. A mes-senger
was also dispatched wnh the aus-picious
intclligcir e to her Majesty llie
the character of our Stale lor hospitality
and kindness, we should insist upon Ins
going IO Washington, in B> aulorl Coun-
III, where Hie whole community seem lo
I Vie with each oilut in their attentions
No political differences are
j there allowed lo disiuib Ihe refined
, , pleasures and delightful courtesies ul so.
papol of the 14th, the paragraph, copied J^ ^ |( ^% nmMt^ wa believeOl
below, touching lbs fertility, improve- |)r. J(,|in,0ll, i|,,,t " that man «as little to
merits, etc. of the eastern section of our [be envied, whose patriotism did nul gau
; I.,-. ., Dowager at Sudhury Hall.
Town of Washington. —If we wished! Their Royal Highnesses lira Duke ol
a etrsnger to form a lavorablo opinion of Icambridge and Prince Gcor^^ hrrived
in a slum lime at Buckingham Palace lo
EASTERN CAROLINA.
The Editor of the Raleigh Register,
who has lately boon in Iho region of ihe j
Swamp Lands in Ins capacity ol Coiiiinis- | lo visitors.
sioner, furnishes Ins readers, through his j'
good old North State.
FKOM TIIK RAI.I.IUII M0ISTES.
THE BWAMP LANDS.
The sale of reclaimed Swamp Lands,
advertised to lake place ill Hyde euuniy '
un Ihe last day of November, WU very
thinly attended, and none ol il was Belli,
because Iho bids wute below Ihe llie min-imum
price fixed on lbs sairie by the
Hoard, low as it was conceived lo Oe.—
The value ol the Umbered Land can lianl-ly
be estimated. It is wortti Irom tlSUtfti
ft100 per acre lor Shingles and Rails
alone, and will command, alter inn Um-bel
ia cat oil, 1*50 an acre lor cultivation.
Al least, this is the ordinary pries «i ihe
lorce on Ihe plains oi Marathon, or whose
piety did not grow innru warm amid the
nun's of Ionia;" and wo say, lhal lie is
little to be envied, whose kind and gene-rous
feelings do not kindle into a more
intense and fervid glow in the locus ot
Washington hospitality.—lb.
Large trees.—On portions of the Tim-bered
Land, near Like Pungo, in Hyde,
belonging lo the Stale, the Trees are ol
\\ noil incredible 1110 ; and il is not to be
wondered si, standing as Ihey have done
lor centuries undisturbed, snd unhedged
in a soil of surpassing fertility. A Cy-press
was recently lound there, measur-ing
-■'i feet in circumference, winch
adjacent Maltamuskeel Land, winch ..,• *'»«• • Uh.aammeelleerruo.l asnboouutt i1o3.efeeel'i Duunly,
in no respect, superior to thai owned by *••* of a ree large- enough for a Horse
ihe State. The Literary Beard, tliero- ••"•''•'<'• «"'« "">'" «"'°"Bh '"s"le. "' ";l"
fore, however anxious they might be to •«."?« »' iwocatriages passing abreast ol
convert these Lands into a (und which
would serve to drain Swamps in oilier
sections ol Ihe State, could not think of
Sacrificing Ihom—especially, as a post-ponement
ol the sale could III no wise af-fect
their value. Was not Ihe hand oi
industry afraid to sttikc, and wero not
ihe energies ol our people paralyzed by
the present unhinged state ol tin- coun-try—
insomuch, that no man, whatever
Ins ability, likes to embark in new enter-prises*—
these Lands Aould readily coiii-innnd
frntn 830 to $00 per acre. As il
is, Ihe Slate will have lo suspend her
operations in this branch of Internal Im-provements,
until a more propitious state
of affairs, and a inoiojust appreciation
ol the value of these Lands, (tbc fertility
each other!
W'c were Assured too, by a scry respect-ahlu
gentleman, that li) bnsbels of Corn
wero raised by a neighbor of Ins in the
hollow of a Cypress stump!—lb.
Lake PungO—This is a most beauti-ful
sheet ol water, about three miles long,
and two wide. Itaaverage depth now, is
about seven or eight feet, having been
reduced some lour or five feet by the
Canal connecting i I with Pungo River.
On this lake is to be found one of the
most reinaknlile Lotus perhaps in the
whole country—Bit Echo, which nol only
repeats words distinctly, but whole sen-tences,
il was most amusing to syllable
oul a lenience like Sir Oracle, and niter
and market for Ihein.
We understand that, for the present,
il is the intention Ol Ihe Hoard, to receive
al their oflicc in tins City, private bids
for iho Land. A Plat, exhibiting Ihe
various sections, location, Ac, has been
Ii it with their Agent in Hyde, and a cor-responding
one placed in possession of
Ofs portion ul winch is nut exceeded by "a'"muoumue.rnnt'ss fu!«-a•*d■-■r c iIiOsc,• to have it rcloru- 1 ,- . ,... . , , ed to vim with n its peculiarities ol in-nnv
in the I riion,) shall create a ditnanil u ' " > .
lonation and pronunciation, Ai overy
Ire-nil essay,
Sweet Echo sprang op Irom her homo on llie
Lake.
Ami seising llto perishing strain.
Sent iho gaj challenge with shadowy mark,
From trcu-top io trco-top again. ft-
(ttr.Mr.'\. f. Dickenson, Contractor
Un Hoard here. So, that nothing more J for the Tributaries lo Pungo Canal, in-is
necessary fora person lo do, who do-1 formed us last week, that "he has killed
■ ii • any particular Tract, than to dciig- [ die present year, almost within s
1 ' it bv the Plat, staling the price he I his dwelling, seventy Deer1" On
;bt of
m.ike peisonal inquiry alter the state ol
her Maje-ty and Ihe infant Prince. Her
Roval Highness the Dotchc.-s of (ilou.
cestt-r also arrin d al ihe Palace.
Ills Ko.-iil lligluu-ss Pii'ice Albert, at-tended
hv the Marquis of Bxeter and..
Col. Wjlde, I'.c|uerry in Wailing, let
Buckingham Palace to attend a IV.vy
Council, summont d to IMCCI at the Loun-cil
Ch unlii-r, Whitehall, at two o'clock,
to C'Mi.-nler a form of prayer and llianks-giving
for the Queens sale delivery ol
a Prince*
His liova! Highness was received at
the ('ouiieiT I Ulice by Ihe Lord Pr. sideiit
Prince Albert returned lo Buckingham
Palace after ihe Council.
Her Royal Highness the Princess So-phia
Manilla, attended by Lady Alice
Gordon, arrived at the Palace Irom her
residence at Kew to learn the stale of her
Majesty and Ihe Royal infant.
Her Royal Highness Ihe Dulchess
of K ii ■ cm lined willl the Queen
throughout llie day until lix o'clock in
Iho alirrnonn, when her Royal Highness
returned loClarcnna House,
The nobility ami gentry thronged
during the afternoon io Ituckinghain Pa-lace.
^^
For llie (;rrf-n«lM»rou|t!i Pslrlof.
I:IIII>I i mill Henry Collrfrc.
Mn. Kuiroii:—As I frequently receive
letters ol inquiry Irom different parts o(
thu counlrj, n spieling tins Inalitulion
—the price of board, tuition, and the
gonural advantages lieto offered for sound
, i ducalion, perhaps a belter service to the
j public cannot be rendered than to furnish
! a brief statement of these points lor pub-lication
in your valuable utui widely cir-culated
paper.
The College ia located in Washington
County, Virginia, about ten miles ea.'l ol
Abiiigdon, a short distance fiom llie
uiMiri stage-road frniiiLynchburg loKnox-
J ville. Its .situation is therefore central,
land easily accessible for Students in
Western \ a., X. Carolina, East Tcnnei-
'see, and Kentucky. And Irom these
i Suites its supply of students has hitherto
been chiefly denied, though scveial of
the other Stales have sent us their ropre.
sentatiies. Perhaps no spot could be
lound ill all tins wide anil beautilul do-main
more to be desired us the seat of a
literary Institution than this.
1st. On the score of its hrii'.lhfi.lnrsi,
watered by the pure springs and stn ams
which gush forth irom the mountains,and
exhilarated by iheir fresh a id bracing
miles from any town or village, the Stu-1
denls of this institution enjoy almost s
total exemption from those temptations
lo vice and dissipation which usually in-fest
those places, snd which p'ove the
ruin of so many of our mo»t promising
young men. To this facility ol location,
we refer in s great degree, the high tone
of morality and good ordei, wh'ch has
characterised Ihe College, from the lime
its doors were first opened in 1838.—
Here, ton, the Student is ssved from those
temptations to extravagance in dress snd
other expenditures, which often prove s
greater source of expense, than all the
regular College charges. This we feel
lo be a circiiuisiai.ee of great importance,
and one which greally enhances the vsl-uc
of the liistnulioii,asa place of educa-tion.
3d. Again we recommend it, from the
facl that Ihe Students are under (he con-stant
supervision of the officers, who feel
it not less their interest than duly to
watch with pirnnial vigilance over every
thing affecting Iheir morals snd scholar-ship.
Such sn arrangement, brings Ibe
teachers and the pupils into constant as-sociation
by night and by day, and furnish-es
numerous HUM olives lo emulate in
study and deportment, while it gives
them all llie advantages of a well regula-ted
faintly. The discipline of the Col-lege
is mild, but firm. The faculty arc
determined thai thu indolent and vicious
shall never he harborid here, lo infect
their fellow students and corrupt the
community. As soon its any show them-selves
incorrigible in these respects, Ihey
are dismissed from the institution,
lih. Our COlirttl of limit/ in both Ihe
Preparatory and College l>- psrtuicnls arc
lull—comprehending all Hi studies pur-sued
in the same departments in our old-est
and most popular Colleges. The
ilantlaril of instruction, also, we believe
lo be as elevated as at any kindled insti-tution,
and no uajliWlra spared lo make
those Committed to our charge a praise
to us, as well as an honor lo society. No
encouragement, however, is held oul lo
the vicious and thu indolent. We repu-diate
forever, ihe idea, that any system ol
instruction can be so unproved and sim-plified,
as to supersede Ihe necessity ol
toil on Ihe part of the student. Labor
setere and long continued, is ihe Only
pllCCcompetent tu purchase a sound and
valuable education. Hut aided by this,
we believe there are no difficulties too
great to be ov. rcmti..
Gib. The location of the College in
S. W. Virginia, m the midst ol s richly
productive country, remote from market,
renders the staple articles of livelihood,
abundant anil cheap. The consei|iieiice
is, that our annual expenses are probably
tar less than nl any institution of equal
grade lo the country.
Tuition saties from 880 to $30,accor-ding
tu the sludii s pUrsui d* Hoaid is *1
."ill oi nts per week, and no extra charge
■ nail" for washing, fuel, and room rent.
So iliat the annual college charge amounts
lo only about 90S. Student*, as is usual
at such institutions, furnish their own
bedding, &c, Besides this, there is a
large and valuable farm attached to the
College on which all the students have
Ibe privilege ol laboring two hours every
dav. Manv bv so fining, have paid 'Jit
per cent, of then expenses, and some
have defrayed Ihe irhole. Indeed such is
the scale of hbi rality on winch the insti-tution
is projected, thai there is no in-dustrious
voiuig man however poor, who
may not here obtain a thorough educa-tion
by hlsowii r-nlorprizp.
Tin: I'aculty is composed of—
Rev. CIIAIII.I'S COLLINS, A. M. Presi-dent
and Professor of Natural Science.
Bni. E. W'YLV. A. M. Prof. Anc. Lang,
and Lit., WILLIAM T. HAHLO, A.M. Prol.
Math, and Mod. Lang., JOHN <J. W'I.NN.
II Mini, Tutor.
The college vear is divided into two
Sessions of 31 weeks each. Thu Pall
session commences the lasl Thursday in
July, and ends the Wednesday preceding
Christmas. The Spring session com-moners
the first Thursday in Feb. and
cuds the last Wednesday in June. Sum.
mer vacation, fo'jr weeks. Winter vaca-tion
six weeks. C. COLLINS.
Dec. 1, 1841.
Til L M I LLE R'S M A I U.
on 1"I:MALK iimi.i-.M inmsutu.
Tin re is a lonely null close beside the
little hanlel of Lidorf, near Ibe Rhine
shore, between the lillle villages of Hvr-
.•el and l.'rsel, on the left bank below
Bonn. Tins mill is said lo bate been
the scene of Ihe following story.
Il was on a Sunday morning, " long
agea ago," that Ihe miller of this mill,
and hia whole family went to hear the
holy mass at the nearest church in Ihe
village of Hcrsel. 'ibe mill, which wss
also his residence, wss left in chsrge of
a servant girl named Hannechec, or Jen
ny, a aloul hearted laas, who bstl long
lived wuh htm in that capacity. An in-fant
child, of an age unfit for church waa
left in her cbaige, likewise.
The girl waa busily employed in pre
paring dinner for llie return of her mas-ter
and his family when who ahould en-ter
all ol a andden, bill an old sweetheart
of hers, named Heiunch Bolteler. He
waa an idle, graceless lellow, whom Ihe
mi lie rlind lor bidden his house, but whom
Jenny, with the amiable pctversily pecu-liar
li) her sex, only liked, perhaps, all
Ihe belter because others gave him no
countenance. She was glad lo sec him,
and sho told him so loo; and although
in Iho midst of her work, she not only
gut linn something to cat at mice, but al-so
found 11mo lo sit duwn with him and
have a gossip while be despatched the
lood set befoie him. As he ale, howev-er,
he lei fall his knife.
" Pick lhal up, my lass," said he in a
joking way, lo llie good haluted girl.
" Nay, Heinrich," she icplied, "your
hack Bhouid be moro supple than mine,
fbl you have less work to mike it stiff. I
labor all day long, and" you do nothing.
Hut nevermind! 'twould go hard wnh
me an' I refused to do more than thai for
you, bad tho* you bo."
This was spoken half sportively and
half in good earnest; for, kind hearted
us the girl was, and much as she liked llie
scapegrace, she was too bones', and in-dustrious
herself to approve ofjdleness,
and a suspicious course of life in anyone
else, however dear lo her. She stooped
down, accordingly, to pick up the knife.
As she was in the act of rising, however
the treacherous villain drew a dagger
from under his coat, and caught lier by
Ihe tiape of the neck, griping her throat
I'M inly with Ins fingers, lo prevent her
screaming the while.
" Now lass," bu said, swearing oul
a bad oath tl Ihe same lime, "wiser* is
your master's money ?—I'll have that ot
your life ; so take your choice I
The terrified girl would fain have par-leyed
with the ruffian, but he would hour
nothing she would say.
"Your master's money or your life.
down llie atairs on tiptoe. Creeping
iollly along the passages, she speedily
gained Ihe door of the chamber, unseen
by him, and likewise unheard. It was
but the work of a moment for her to turn
the key in the wards and lock him in.—-
Tbis done sJie rushed forth to the outer
door uf Ihe null and gave Ihe alarm.
" Fly, fly !" she shrieked lo Ihe child,
her master's lillle boy, an infanl five
years old, the only being wilhm sight or
sound either. " Fly, fly to thy father.—
tell him we shall all be murdered an' he
basic nol bark. Fly, fly !"
The child, who was at play before the
door, al once obeyed the encrffelic com-mand
otjhc brave girl, and sped asflsl as
bis liny legs could carry him on the road
by wli.eli he knew bis parents would re-turn
from church. Hauneclien cheered
bun onward, and inspirited hia lillle
heart as he ran
"Bliss thee boy—bless Hire!" slip rx-claimed,
in Ihe glafbirss of her heart:
" and music r sinus in lime, I will offer
up a taper on the altar of our blessed lady
ul Ktcinhcrg by Bonn."
She sal down on Iho stone bench by the
mill door lo ease hi r over excited spirit,
and she wept al Ihe thought ol herhappj
deliverance.
"Thank Cod!" she ejaculated! "thank
Hod fur this escape. Oh, ihe deadly
111 Lai !—am I so fond of lutn T"
A shrill whistle,Iron the grated win-dow
of the chamber in which she had
shut up the ruffian Heiunch, caught her
ear, and made In r slarl al once lo her
feat.
'• Deithcr! Dcithcr 1" she heard hint
bout, " catch the child, and come lm In i!
I am fast! conic hither ! Bring llie boy
here, and kill Ihe girl I"
Mn; glanced hastily up at the casement
from which the imprisoned villain bud
beckoned lo some one in the distance,
and then looked anxiously after her in-fant
emissary. The little messenger
held on his way unharmed, however ;
and she thought herself that the alarm
was a false one, raised lo e xcite her liar
and overcome her resolution.—Jusl, how.
vcr, as Ihe child reached a hollow spot
in the next field—llie channel of a mint-ml
drain, then dry with the heat of sum-cr,
she saw another ruffian slatt up from
the lied of the drain, and catching him in
his arms, hasten toward lite null, in ac-coidance
with the directions of his ac-complice.
In a moment more she form-ed
her future plan of proceeding. Re-treating
into the mill she double locked
and bolted the dor—the only apparent
entrance to the edifice,every other means
of obvious access to Ihe interior being
barred by strong iron gratings fixed a-gainst
all the windows—and then took
her poat at an upper casemcuL, to await
oithet her master's arrival, ainTKr-r conse.
day, atmosphere.
'• willing to give, and furward Ins bid to (|„. killed two Rucks, and caught, wnh a | 3d, I In account of the errrllint moral
'' I'.i.inl, when they will consult their common hook and line, 400 lbs. of Fish! \atmoiphere, which prevails around ns.—
I decide upon the offer. '''• I Situated In the rutmtni
The Randolph will case was arguctl
by General Jones yesterday, (ton. J.
appeared for Iheslaves. W e do nol know
when Ihe case will be Aniseed, or wbeih.
er it Will be finished at all. The siege
of Tioy lasted ten years, and was consul-ered
as lather a lengthy business. The
Randolph will caso has already been six
years on the tapis, and will probably be
decided, if at all, about the year 1890.—
It is a beautiful and forcible illustration
of sir Edward Coke's remark about the
rationality ol lite law.— Petersburg int.
Dee. 2.
Fires.—During the last five years 2,101
fires occurred in London, of which 300
were occasioned by defective fire places,
and :idf by candles setting fire to bed
and window curtains. » • ,
McT.eod is now confined in jail in Can-id
i, for want of bail on a cm! process.
lass," was all the reply he vouchsafed to
her entreaties and adjurations. "Cbeoee iiueut delivery from that dangerous post
al once," was the only alternative which lion, or her own death if il were iucviti-he
offered her; "the grave or llie gold !" hit.
She Stl* that there was no hope of " Never," soid she lo herself, "never
mercy al bis hands ; and, as she saw it, shall I have my master's boose a prey
her native resolution awoke in her bosom, such villains, or permit bis properly lo
Like the generality ofher gentle ses, she bo earned off before my eyes by ihciii
was timid at tulles ; a drop of blood cans- while 1 have life and strength lo defend
ed her to faint j an unwonted sound nil- ti-ed
her soul wuh fear in Ihe night. Bui She had hardy lime lo sreuto herself
whiu her energies were aroused by any wi.liui when llie ruffian from without,
adequate cause, she proved, as her sex bidding the hapless child in one baud,
have ever done, that in Courage, in en- and a long sharp knife in Ibe other, as-durance,
in presence ol mind, and in re- sailed the door with kirks and curses and
■OUICCB in cases ol emergency, she far imprecations of the most dreadltil char-surpassed
the bravcsl and coolest men. acler.
"Well, well, Heinrich," she said, re- "Confound thee !" he cried applying
signcdly, "what is lo be, must be. Bui the foulest epithets of Which the free spin
if you lake tho money, I shall avail go king Teutonic language arc so copious,
along with you. Tins will be no home " OIICII the door or I'll breuk n inoiiyi
for mt any mote. Bui cease jour gripe " If yon can you may," was all thn no-
Of my neck a little—don't squeeze so hlegtrlreplii.il. "Cod is greater than
hard ; I can't movo, you bug me so tight; you, and in llisa I put my trust."
and if I can't sin yon cannot get the inon- " Cut the brat's lluoat!" roared the im-rj-—
that's clear" you know. Besides, prisoned luflian above; "that will bring
time presses, and if it-be done at all, it her to reason '"
must 'oe done quickly, as the family will Sioul hearted as poor Hanncclicn was,
shortly be back from 'Hcrsel." she quailed at ibis cruel suggestion. For
The ruffian relaxed his gripe, and fi- a moment her resolution wavrrid ; bill il
nally let go hia hold. Her reasons were was only for a moment. She saw tint
all cogent with Ins cupidity. her own death.was certain if she admit-
" Come," she said, "quick, quick ! no led the assailant, and she knew that her
delay; the money is i.'i master's bedroom." maslCf would he robbed. She had no
She tripped up stairs as gaily as a lark; reason to hope that even the life of tin
he followed closely after hor heels. She infant would he spared by her C0in|
led the way into her master's bedroom, ance. It was lo risk all against nothing.
antl pointed nul the culler in which his Like a discreet girl, she cons, qu,ntli
money was secured. held f.isl in her resolve to abide as she
" Here," she said, reaching him an axe was while life remained, or until a sta
which lay in the corner of the room, "this lance should reach her.
will wrench it open at once; and while "An'ye open not the door." shouted
>ou are lying il up, I shall just step up the villain from without, aecompanyii
stairs lo my own apartment and gel a few his words with the vilest abuse, and the
things ready for our flight, as well as my fnrce.t imprecations, "I'll hack this
own lillle savings for the last five years." whelp's limbs lo pieces wnh my knifi
The ruffian was completely thrown oil and then bum llie mill over your bead,
his guard by her openness and apparent 'Twill he a merry blaze, I Irow.
anxiety to accompany him. Likeallego- " 1 put my trust in aod, n plied ihe
lists, he deceived himself, when self con- dauntless girl ; " never shall yi set)
ceit was most certain to be Ins deslruc foot within these walls, uhilsl I haw: l.fo
tion. lo P'c»<»' ye
"Go, lass," was all he said, "but be The ruffian laid the infant fora mo-not
long—This job will be done in a mcnl on ihr sward as he sou-'it for,-.on
twinkling," bustiblcs whorowith in execute bit latter
She disappeared at Ihe words. He threat. In this search he espied, perhaps,
Immediatly broke open tho chest, and the only possible clandestine ehtrnncr to
was soon engaged in rummaging its con-1 Ihe building. Il was n large aperture in
■unfa the wall ciuniiiiiiiic.il,eg Wlllt the great
As he wss thus employed, however, nb- wheel and the oilier machinery ol the
snrhed in the contemplation of Ins prey, mill, and was a pi inl entirely nii| roll ct.
and eagerly occupied in securing il on led, for itac reason lhal thn simple oreu.
Irs p. rson, ihe brave hearted girl stole pants Ii id ni u r sn ■ '■ il '■ »« ble foi