The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1822-09-18

Paieface, come iotwafd and down upon your
narsow .ones" Max, with grea, difficulty,
rose up, aoG kneI, down as he was ordered.
He had no words to say TO his bfide nor
elmosI did no look al her--so full was his soul
OF her image, and Of holy grief foe the dcsola-
ton in which she would DC left by his death.
Tho dewy breath of her gentle and pure kiss.
es was YET In mis- heat and the happy sigbs
OF maldeniy tenderness were now to be chang.
Cd ialo gfoans Of incvrsble despair. There
lore II was, that he said nothing as he knsit
down, but his paid lips moved in pUyer, and
she heard her name indislinCliy uusred be-
tween God a0d Christ.
Christian Lindsay had been bstrothed TO
him for ssversl years, and nothing but tho
fear OF some terrible evil like this had Eep'
thea so long separate. DSosdf1l, ihere!oie,
ss tins hour was, their souls were not wholly
unprepared for IL, although there IS alwsy,
miserable difference between reality snd neHe
Imagination. She now recalled 10 her mind,
in one comprehensive thought, their years oil
ipnooent and youthful affection and then the
holy words so lately uttered by The Old Man
in that retired place, alas called by too vain
q Game, The Queen Fary's Psriour 5" The
tears began now TO hJw-ihcy both wsp;--for
this nigni was Mark Kerr's head to Iis, not
on her bosoIa, but in the grave, or unbuisd
on the ground. In that agony, what signiGed
to her ell the Insulting, hideous, and inhuman
language OF these iicentious mufdereis!
They ieii off her soui, without a strain, like
polluted wafer of the plumage Of sono !ait
ea-bird. And as she looked on her husband
upon his knees, awaiting his doom, him the
temperate, ,ho merc,iu, the gentle, aud the
gust, and then upon those wra,hful, raging,
Teiy-cycd, and bloody minded men, are ,heyr
Thought her faintng heat, OF the same kind
are they framed by one God and has Christ
alike died tor them all
She lifted up her eyes, full OF prayers, Tor
ono moment 10 heaven, add then, with cold
shudder Of desertion, turned them upon her
husband, kneeliDg with whte fixed coun,e-
nance, and half dead already with tho loss Of
blood. A dreadful silence had succeeded 20
that tumull and she dim.y saw number Of
men dfawn up together without moving, and
lheit determined eyes held fast upon ,hcjr
victim. "Thiok, my lads, that it is Hugh
Gcmmel's Ghos, that cona m and, you now"
said a deep hoaise voice." no mercy did the
holy men Of tho mountain show to hin, when
they smashed his skull with large stones from
the channel Of the Yarrow. Now for re.
vense."
The soldiers presented their musks,s--,hc
word was giveD--1nd they fired. At that
moment Christian Lindsay had rushed for
ward and llung herself down on her knees be-
side her husband, and they both fell, and
stretched themselves out MORALLY wounded
upon the grass.
During all this scene, Marion Scott, tho
bride aid, girl Of fifteen, had hsen lying 81.
(righ,ed among the brackens within huo-
dfed yards OF the murder. Tho agony OF
grief now got the better of the sgony OF fear,
and lcaping up f,om her Concea!ment, she
rushed into the Rlds, Of the soldiers, and
EneeIiug down besids her dear Ch,istisn
Lindsay, lifted up her head, aud shaded the
hair from her forehead. "Oh Christian,
your eyes are opening--'lo ycu hear nnc---do
you hear me speaking :" Yes, l hear q
voice--is it yours, Mack ?--speak again"
" Oh! Christian, it is only my voicc--poor
Marion's,"" II Maxi desd--qnitc dead {"
And there was no seply but Christian must
have heard the deep gasping sobs that were
ncnding tho chiid's heart. Her eyes too. op.
ened moro widely, end misty as they wore,
they saw, ind;ed, close by her, the hudd.ed
up, mangled, and bloody body Of her hus.
band.
prey, who had sorged their Gil Of blood
their rage was aba,ed--and they offered no
violcnce 10 the slT.cliooate child, as she con-
tinued to st before them; with the head Of
CHRISTIAN Lindsay in her lap, wa'ering il with
tears, snd moaniog so as TO touch, at last,
aoms even OF their hardened hearts. When
blood is shcd il soon begins TO appear fear
fu! sight to the shedders--and ,ha hand soon
begins TO tromble that has le, out human life.
Cruelty canno. sustain itself in presence Of
that ruef0l colour, and remorsc sees It red
dcning into moro ghas,ly bus. Some of
the solaiers turned way 10 sileoce, or with
halfsuppressed oaih--o,hers sWsyed off q.
mong thn trees, and sa, down together; and
none would now have touched the head Of
pretty little Marion. The man whom they
had sbot deserved dea,h--so they said to one
suo,her-and ho had got it; but the woman's
death was accidenisl, aod they were not 10
blame because she had run upon their firo.-
So, before the smell and the smoke OF the
gunpowder h,d becnSar'icd away by the pass.
ing breeze from that plsce. Of murder, all