The Arkansas advocate., 1830-11-17

V. .ueaefee, P. rE. Conway county.
 Thomas .Nathers, do. do.
 .qrthur Clarke, P. M. Morrison's Bluff.
 Col. L. ". Clarke, do do.
 .Hark Beaa,, Crawford county
 Thonlas Hubbard, Hampstead county.
 Col. John Clark, Seyier county.
 T Farrelty, Arkansas county.
 ILL. Biscoe, Phillips county.
 ,yoba T. Foster, P. NJ. St. Francis county George F. LatDton, Miller county.
 
 From Rsackacood's Edinburgh .asa gaxiae.
 LUCY OF THE FOLD.
 Many tame tradition, embalmed in few pathetic verses, dives for ages. while the memory of theHnost affecting incidents to which genius has allied no general emotion, fades like the mist and leaves the heart rending grief undeplor- cd. Elegies and dirges might have well been sung amidst the green ruins oiyonder cottage, that looks now al- most like fallen wall-at least the rmnant of castlesshed, shaken down bY the storm. Twenty years ago, how slort.a time in national history-how. iong1a atilatofprivates sorrows iaii tongues were speaking of the death,l that there tefel, and to have seen the weeping, you would have thought that the funer- al could never have been forgotten.- Bet stop ao" tic tic shepherd on the iiliii, iii and ask him who lived of old in that nook, and chance is he knows not even their'naues, muchless the story of their afillctions. That farm house was inhab- tied by Allen FIemming, his wife, and an only child, known familiarity in her own small world, by the name of Lucy Of the Fold. In almost every vale a. iaeAg the meuntains, there Is it's peeuI- lar prlde-some one creature to whom nature has been especially kind. and Whose personal beauty, sweetness of dis position, and felt superiority of mind and manner, single her out, unconscious ", as an object of attraction and praise. making her the May-day Queen of the amending year. Such d daring was Lucy Flcmming, ere she had finished her thirteenth year; and strangers who had heard tell of her loveliness, often dropped in, as if by accident, to see the beauty of Reydelmerc. Her parents rejolced in their child: nor was there any reason why they should dislike the expression of delight and wonder, with winch so many regarded her. Why Was she as woodland bird, but as fond of her nest too; and when there was nothing near to disturb, her life was al- most perpetual hymn. From joy to sadness, and from sadness to joy; from silence to song, and from song to silence; rom stiffness, like that of the butterfly On the flower, to motion, ike that Of the same creature wavering in the sum shine over the wood top, was to Lucy as welcome change. as the change of lights and shadows, breezes and calms. In the mountain country of her birth.
 One summer day, q youthful stran- ger appeared at the door of the house. and after an hours stay, during which Lucy was not at home, asked if they would let him have lodgings with them lor a few months--a single room bed and
 Y '-.s, ttfdt hC " Ouiu ttiAC HIS IlfcdfS Witn the family. Enthusiastic boy. to
 'ii poetry had been the light of fife, ii nor dld ever hero of poetry belong more entirely than he to the world of imagi- natlonl He had come into the free noun tam region from the confinement of the waiiis, and his spirit was expand ca within him like rainbow. No eye pad he for realities--alI nature was en'in the light of f;ancy-not single oolect at sunrise and sunset the same. Vas beautiful within tIi the circle o me green hill tops, whether shrouded ID the soft mists, or clearly outlined in a sioudless sky. Home, friends, colleges, e,ties--all sunk away into oblivion and Harry Howard felt as if waited off on me wings of a spirit, and set downin a and beyond the sea, foreign to all he aad before experienced, yet etinissperfecf snd endless beauty appealing cperyhour