American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-09-14
r,om n, Ctnrecsisat Mirror.

| WHY shoud not tale of nature, OF truth, ana ~
itself ointerest be as attentivey read and as deep
| ly considered, when it happens WITHIN re" mies
and is told in plain language. as one whose scene
IA laid afar Off and whose incidents are described
IN scotch or an Itsh diaects This last week. a
married woman in the neighbourlng town Oh
who had been working in cotton factory, mlssea'
some hour or so after sunset, her little boy Of aDon!
four years old How long he had been gone coulu
not be told, for the woman had been hard al work
all the afternoon, and all others were too busy to
care for her or her child. Her first search was 81
lent and aone--hoping to find him. and disliking
to communicate a mothers applehensiohs 20 lhe
other males and females of the cotton factory. The
night grew very dark and the search very hopeless'
and resort was finally had to all the men, women
and children Of the establishment to help her to
find her boy The buildings, with all their stories
and cellars, their sluiccs, wheels, bands, buckles
were searched with an awful apprehension on the
part of the mother and the part of her assistants
a yet more horrible though undehnable hope, 1--WE
| will out with the word though it shame human ma
ture,) Of finding leg or an arm among some part
of the machinery. Nothing. not even a curl OF his
hair, was to be found on the well examined cogs.-
Lantherns were in vain carried in nice and minute
search round all the premises Wordsworth. who
so truly to nature describes she loss OF Lucy Gray.
"'The swee,es, thing that evergreen
Beside human door
could tell Of the agony Of the parent and the more
useful because less agitated exertona OF her fellow
abourcrs. But We will leave him and return to
the factory Some one, when all other aid seem
ed to fail proposed to ring the Factory bell. !" IL
might" he said, "gct more help. and it might
awake the child who might be sleeping somewhere
and might somehow be walked up--at any rate it
could do no harm. and besides there was nothing
else shev could do."-lhe lantherns and the FAC
tory bell in the night, aroused all the bells in the
nei.hbourhood, and all the inhabitants Of the CON
tiguuus city. The cry Of fire. and of where Is
it, was raised at once down came the eng mes
down came the people, and best Of all, down came
the Fire Warlens.
Joab stark, hard working man in the DAY time,
and proportlonay hard sleeping man III the night.
had heard nothing Of all this disturbance, though
he lodged in the factory buildings, and though they
had been ransacked from ridgepole 20 foundation,
until he was aroused BY the voice Of an energetic
FTewarden, who for once did not exactly know
what he was about with the plain and ineligible
command, form line.' At which he awoke
and inquired what was the matter. The warden
couldn't tel. him. but the mother could" She had
lost her child" She sail, "her little Jim that he
used to play with, and she could mt find him. and
the Engines had nothing to do with it, "All
said Joab, ~ went out arrand this
afternoon TO the paper mills, and sec Jim at Squire
Tim liancocks-he'd run away, and he was too
tired to walk back. and thought he'd better stav
there and Iii come back aud tell the folks where [
be was and THEN when come back forgot Ill
about ito