American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-05-28
NO. 40.
FROM THE n. Y. COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.


The following touching and tender tale, extract from
Dlackwood's Ednburg Magazine for March; work
which bids fair rival any in Great Britain We gra-
tilted in having in our power to present to our readers
sorich a repas Hrepresens of the most interesting
scenes and is described in the most lively and affecting
manner much so, that it s impossible for those who
have felt the affection of parent the endeaments of
connubial happiness, to read ii without emotion. Those
who shed tears will not restrain them here. The cha
rers very striking that of the parson, whose white
head had felt the peltngs of many wlnry sorms and
who seemed amostan emblem of that season, from nation
pecuarites is not familiar and pleasing to US but
his diligence in the performance of his parochiai duties
Notwithstanding the ncemency OF the season, is noble
example, well becoming his sacred office. The feelings
Of the little grandson, half fearing half hoping, will be ia
miar to those who have parent suffering under
Sickness and apparently the grave and have proms
ed themselves to make any sacrifice to perform any du
w. however difficult, if that precious life might only be
spared The affection which nature insls into child and
which parents ought to inspire, it were, trans
fered to the grandfather who had performed the duties
Of father towards him. Nor is the daughter less prett
" described she appears long to have silently
Ell the misconduct of husband, with the loss of other
friends that her heart seemed ready to admit grief be-
cause had frequently and familarly entered it. But
when introduced to the dying elder, we behold re-
lgion in all its Beauties and anticipate for the good old
man, the joy and which he is leaving us to inherit
We view him the end of his abors going take posses
sion Of the promised rest and whilst affected, we
rejoice in his happy dsmission. How tendery, in
his moments does he speak of his wife and his
surrounding friends that he had never forgotten her.
new takes place when the prodgal enters
What strength of affection does the old man exhibit, not
outstanding the many provocaons he has received lie
does not uprd him with past misconduct but only ardent
hopes that his future life will be better even his neglect
ed wife pleads for him, and cannot endure the mess
of the parson. And they all knee round the old man.
receive his patriarcha blessing On the whole, is most
lively and interesting tae the whole groupe executed
to the life and introduced with the art OF the finest painter
THE ELDERS DEATH BED.
il was on fierce and bowling winter day that was
crossing the dreary Moor of Auchindown, on my
way to the NIanse ofthat parish solitary pedestrian
| The snow which had been necessarily falling for a
week past, was dr(ed into beautiful but dangerous
wreaths, far and wide the melancholy expanse
and the scene kept vsby shifting before me, the
strong wind that blew from every point OF the COM
pass, struck the dazzling masses and heayed them
ND and down in endless Transformation. There was
something inspiring in the labor with which, in the
buoyant strength OF youth, forced my way through
the storm and could not but enjoy those CLEAN
ings of sunlight that ever and anon burst through
some unexpected opening in the sky and gave Z
character Of cheeriulness and even warmth to the
sides Of the SUBMITS of the stricken hills. Some
times the wind stopt of sudden; and then the all
was as silent as the snow mot a murmur to bt
heard from spring or stream,-now all frozen up
over those high moorlands. As the momentary
cessaons of the sharp drift allowed my eyes to oot
onward and around, saw here and there up the lit
tie opening vallies, cottages Just visible beneath thu
black stems of their snow covered clumps OF trees
open for the sheep. These limitations of life ant
happiness came delightfully."- to me in the midst o
desoation and the barking OF dog attending SOM
shepherd in his quest the hill, put fresh vigo
into my limbs, telling me that lonely as seemed t.
be, was surrounded by cheerful though unseeI
company and that was not the only wanderer owe
the SHOWS.
ASH walked along, my mind was insensibly file
with a crowd of pleasant images OF rural winter
lie, that helped me gladly EDWARDS over many mile
of moor. | thought of the severe but cheerful la
bors Of the barn the mending of farm gear by tn
fire side; the wheel turned by the foot OF old age
less for gain than thrifty pastme the skill
mother making saudi claes look amalst as weel
The new" the ballad unconscously listened to b
the family, all busy at their tasks round tn
singing maiden the old Evolutionary tale told b
some way farer, Hospitality housed till the storr
should blow by E; the unexpected visit of neighbol
on need or friendship; or the iootstep of love
nDdeterred by snow drifts that have buried up hi
Hocks but above all, thought of those hours
religious worship, that have not escaped from tt
domestic life of the peasantry OF Scotland; OF tn
sound OF psalms that the depth OF snow cannot deae
en- to the ear Of Him TO whom they are chanted
and of that sublime sabbath keeping which, o
days too tempestuous for the kirk, changes the CO
/ tage of the shepherd into the temple of God.
With such glad and peaceful images in my hea
travelled along that dreary moor, with the cuttin
wind in my face and my feet sinking ia the snow,
sliding on the hard blue ice beneath it; as chez
fully as / walked in the dewy warmth OF
summer morning, through fields of fragrance ar
Of flowers. And now / could discern, within ha
an hours walk before me, the spire of the church
close to which stood the Manse of my aged frier
and benefactor My heart burned within me as
sudden CLEAN Of stormy sunlight tpt it with fire
and I felt at that moment an inexprsssble
the sublimity of the character of that gray heads
shepherd who had for fifty years abode in the wi