Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-08-22

sink down out Of sight with all its matched
roof SO beautifnl-its cooling pigeons--its
lmurmuring bee-hiyes--and its blooming
garden. | thought of the generations of
lmy fore-fathers that had died in the Hazel
Glen--and they seemed to me like so ma
lay shadows vainly following each other
laleng he hills. Ny heart was disau;esed
within me for the faith Of my childhood
was entertained with all my affections
with all my love for The dead and the lig-
ling--for thee, Alice, and our children,
who do all resemble thee both 10 beauty
and 10 innocence, whether at thy bosom.
Tor tottering along the greensward, and
plsy:ag mid. the daisies m the sssfi Such
thoughts were indeed woven through my
Iheart, and they could not he torn thence
but by heavy hand. Alice! the sight
lof thee and them drove me mad for what
lsight SO insupportable to one who has no
Hope 10 futurity as the smiles and tears of
them he loves in bis dislraction!"
1 He who srake was no common mar
mo common man had been his father. And
he gave vent to his thoughts and feelings
lin strain of impassioned eioquence,
(which, though above the level Of ordinary
speech, may not unfrequentIy be heard in
1.-THE cottage Of the Scottish peasant, when
the discourse is Of death and Judgment.
All the while that he was speaking, the
wife kept her streaming eyes close TO his
lface--the gray.haired Pastor beheld him
with solemn looks-llie mortal remains OF
| his father lay before him-snd, as he
Ipaused, there rose the sound of the snow
lswollen food.
/ call the Almighty to witness" said
the agitated man, rising from his seat, and
pacing along the floor, g that these hands
are yet unstained by crime. But oh
how much iongey might they have so con-
Ilinued. Why need the unbeIieyer care
Tor human life What signifies The splitting
lof few drops Of worthless blood Be
1.-The grave once thought to be the fnal doom
Eof all-and what then is the meaning OF
1.-THE word crime? Desperate aud murder
lous thoughts assaulted me by myself in sol
itude. had reasoned myself, as thought,
iout of my belief 10 reyelation-and all
Those feelings, by which alone faith is
possible, at the same time died away 10
lmy heart-leaving it prey TO The wretch
ledness and cruelty of inidelity. Shapes
lcame and tempted me 10 the moor--with
leyes aad voices like, but unlike the eyes
and voices of men. One had dagger 10
Its hand-and though it said nothing, IFS
dreadful face melted me to do some muir
der. saw it 10 the sunlight--for.it was
the very middle Of the day--and | was
sitting by myself on the wall of the old
lsheepfold. looking down in an agony, on
1.-The Hazel Glen where | was born, and
where / had once been SO happy. Ii gave
line the dagger-and laughed as it disap-
Ipeared. saw--and felt the dagger dis
ltinctly for some minutes in my haud-but
lit seemed to fall down among the heather
land large blots Of blood were on my fin-
gers. An icy shivering came over me,
Though it was sunny day and without a
Icloud-an stroye TO think that brain
fever had been upon me. | lay for two
days and nights on the hill-aud more
than oace l saw my children playing on
1.-The green beside the waterfall, and rose
Ito go down and put them TO death--but q
figure in white-it might have been thou,
IAlice, or an angel, seemed 10 rise ont of
1.-The stream, aud quietly to drive the chill
dren towards the cottage, as thou wouidst
{ la few tottering lambs. =
II During all this terrible confession, the
speaker moved up and down the room--as
T we are told Of the footsteps of meu in the
condemned cell, heard pacing to and fro
during the night preceding the execution.
is Lay not such dreadful thoughts to the
charge Of thy soul,' said his wife, now
greatly alarmed" hunger aud thirst, and
the rays Of the SUI, and the dews of the
, might, had indeed driven thee into rueful
. lfeyer--and God knows, that the best OF
men are often like demons in a disease =
, The Pastor, who had not dared to inter
rupt him during the height Of his passion,
now besoueht him to dismiss from his
mind all such srievous recollections-and
was Just about TO address himself to pray
Ter, when an interruption took place most
pitiable and affecting.
The door, at which 90 footstep had been
heard slowly aud softly opened. and in
!, slided little ghost, with ashy face and
open eyes, folded ia sheet, and sobbins
, as il came along. 1t was no other than
THAT loving child walking in its sleep, and
, ldreaming Of its grandfather. Not one ofus
Ihad power to move. On feetth seemed
in the cautiousness Of affection, scarcely
to touch the floor, he went up to the bed
, side. and kneeiing down. held up bis lit.
: lie hands, palm to palm, aud said a little
! prayer Of his own, for the life OF him who
was lying dead within the touch Of bis
/ balmy breath. He then climbed up into