Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-11-18

ne awoke NJ midnight, when all the house were
asleep, crying, with shrleks, ION Goo oil mercy
Marc aret is murdered Mysterious passion OF
Love! that darkens its own dreams OF dehSnt
with unimaginsble horrors. Shall we call sucn
dire bewilderment the superstlstOn OF troubled
fantasy, or the inspiration OF the prophetic sou''
From what seemingly insignificant sources
and by means of what humble instruments-may
this life's best happiness be dIifused over ihe MOUSE
holds of industrious men! Here was me orphan
daughter of forgotten paupers, both dead ere s'e
could speak; herself, during all her me,ancho'y
childhood, pauper even more ehsa'eu ',"n W.
thew had heen-one of the most neglected and
unyalued of all Gods creatures--who, had she
then died. would have been buried III some net
tied nook of the kirk yard. nor her grave been
watered almost by one single teaf--suddehiy
brouobt ont from the cold and cruel shade III
which she had been whitening away, by the inter-
| nosition of human but angelic hands. into tiie
| heavens most gracious sunshine, where an d.
once her beauty blOssomed like the rose. ohe'
who for somany years had been even besrudginSiy
fed nm the nearest and scan,iest fare, by PERJURY
uncr,teful for all her weak but Jealous efforts to
please bv Idonn her best, IN sickness ana sor
| row. at all her tasks, in or out OF DOORS anu
in all weathers. however rough and severe-was
NOW raised TO the rank of moral. intellectual.
and religious being, and presided over iehueu'
and instructed. many little ones iar lar happier
in their childhood than ii been her lot 10 De- anu
all growing up beneath her now untfouo'eo eyes
in innocence. love, and joy inspired INTO 'ne'r
hearts BY her their young and happy oenciactress.
Not human dwelling i'll all the parish, 'hat had
not reason TO BIZ thankful to Margaret burnside
She taught item to be pleasant IN their ''ahuers'
neat in their persons, rational III their MINUS pure
. oil hnlr
Rudeness, coarsencss, sullenness. all angry hts.
and all idle dsposliions-the Oeset'ihS vices anu
SINS of the children of the poor, whose hOme-edu-
c,lion is oftep 40 miseraby, and almost necessa-
rilv. NEGLECTED.: did this sweet Teacher. by the
divine influence Of meckness never rutfied, and
tenderness never troubled. in few months sub
due and oyercome-til her school-roon. every
day in the week. was, in its cheerfuness, sacred
as Sabbath. and murmured from morn I'll! eve
with the hum Of perpetual, happiness. The ct
! fects were soon felt in every house. All iloors
were tidicr, and order and regularity enlightened
every hear,h. 1t was the pride Of her scholars
70 pet their own little gardens behind their pa.
rents huts to bloom like that OF the Biae-and
in imitation of that flowery porch, to tram u!
the pretty creepers on the wall. In the KIRK
| yard, a smiling group every Sabbath forenoon
waited for her at the gate-and walked. with her
at their head, into the House of CODA beautl-
! full procession to all their parents eyes-one ny
one dropping away iito their own seats. as the
band moved along the little lobby. and the minis
ter sitting in the pull pit all the while, looked So
lemnly down upon the fair hock-the shepherd
of their souls!
1t was Sabbath. bat Margaret Burnside was
not in the kirk. The congregation had risen to
Join in prayer. when the great door was thrown
open. and a woman, apparelled as for the house
of worship. but wild and CHASTITY in her face and
ewes as maniac hunted BY evil spirits. burst in
upon the service, and with uphfted hand, be-
seecbed the man Of God to forgive her irreverent
entrance, for that foulest and most unnatural
murder had been done. and that her own eyes had
seen the corpe of Margaret Burnside lying Oh the
moor in pool Of blood! The congregation gave
one groan, and then an outcry as if the roof OF
the kirk had been topping over their heads. All
cheeks waXed white, women tainted, and the
Grmest heart quaked with terror and pity, as once
and again the ailrighted witness, in the same
words, described the horrid spectacle, and then
rushed ont into the open air. followed by hun.
dredS. who, for some minutes. had been palsy
stricken; and now the kirkyard vas all in tu-
multi round the body of her who lay in a swoon.
In the midst of that dreadful (erment there were
voices crying aloud that the poor woman was mad,
and that such horror could not be beneath the
sun; for such preparation on the Sabbath day.
and first heard Of just as the prayers of his peo-
pie were about to ascend to the Father of all
mercies. shocked belief and dnubt struggled with
despair as in the helpless shudderings of some
dream of blood The crowd were at last pre-
vailed by their pastor to disperse, and sit down
on the tonb-sttnes, and water being sprinkled
over the face of her who still Law in that mortal
swoon. and the air suffered to circulate freely
round her, she again opened her classy ewes. and
raising herself OH her elbow, stared on the multi
tude. all gathered there so wan and silent, and
shricked out, "The Day of Judgment! The Day
of Judgments
The aged minister raised her on her feet. and
led her TO grave. OF which she sat down and
hid her face on his knees. '.Oh that should
have lived TO see the day-but dreadful are the
DEGREES of the most high--aud she whom we all
loved was cruell, murdered Garry me with you
people. and | will shew you where lies her
corpse
Where--where is Ludo,ic Adamson:" CHI
ed hOarse voice which none here had ever heard
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