The Arkansas advocate., 1833-02-20

ldibie than the distant scond Of Inc war. hoop, and tue snorting and pranciug of the steed, and showed that all around vas waking watchiulless and anxiety.
 About the middle of the night receiv-
 cd visit from yonng man with whom ] lhad formed an intimate acquainianee.-
 lie was tle only son of a gentleman of large l property in Philadelphia, but having form
 Cd an attachment to beautiful girl III humble life, and married her against the
 will of his father, he had been disinherlled l 2 nsi turned cut es doors. 1 he youth had
 soon reason to repent of lis rashncss
 Ills wife was beautiful, yirtuons, and af- iiectlenate but her want of education,
 an entire unacquaintance with those pol-9 ished manners and little eleganeies of life
 to whsch he had been accustomed, soon dissolved the charm which her beauty and ef1.esshess lad at first thrown around isisn. After struggling sometime witt poverty
 ana diseontent, he enlisted in a regiment oi Infantry, and being ordered to tilc from
 ter, lett his wife, with an infant daughter, n Yretehed lodgings in New Orleans.-- Shance brought us together, and similari- y ol tastes soon produced a friendsfiip.- depressed ii spirits as was myself. 1 was struck with the melancholy tone in which he accostcd me he felt presentiment, he said, that lie would not survive the bat tie of the ensuing day. He wished 10 bid me farewell, and to entrust to my care his portrait, which, with his farewell blessing,
 was all he had to bequeath io lis wife and chiid. Absence had rendered, or rather douoied, all the witching Ioveiness of his boyish affections. lie talked ofher. while
 tie tears ran down ais manly cheeks, and cohjnred ne, if ever returned to phi!a- deiplaa, to seek for her and make known
 Ter Case 10 his father. h vain, wliie I pledged my word Co the iulfimcnt Of Lis
 washes, l eudeayofed to cheer hin witll
 better hopes. He listened with mourniu, silence to all Chat copid suggest aung
 lis arms around my neck wraDg ms
 liasid, asd we parted.
 saw hin but once again: 1t was dur
 Ing tic hottest part of thc next and terri
 ble day. when. with noise that drowned
 even tie roar of Major Ks Artillery, C CD.
 5 s oeIsade Of Cavalry dashed past our reg
 imeht, bearing before them, ia trofnen- I sions charge, the utrepid warriors ei tle Blaek Hawk. Far ahead sa,v the lnani, l figure If hy friend--it was but for a mo lnient--tiie next instant he was fighting iil iAe centre of the enemy, and the cloud of l smoke that closed around friend aud foe
 lid hi.a from my view. When tie battle aas oyer, ,and all vas i.ushed but the rroars
 of tlie dying ard wounded, and tle trit,m- plant shotiis and rolling drums of the vic torleHs Amefieans, who continued the pur- suit during the entire Of the night, l alii.-
 ted the gallant regiment III whose ranks l lad that day the honor of standing. sfhe
 sHJon " asW ading rough cattere cd mass eg of dark ard heavy clouds, when commen- eed ny search for my friend. The lioht E as doubtful and uncertain, yet 1t was eaaY
 to keep along the track that marked Lin last career ssnuddcring, lest in every lace should recognize my friend, l pass
 cd hy and sometimes trod upon the cold
 and metoniess heaps. which now look ed so unlike the s.fery masses of living val or,' that q few hours before had cominin- gted with aconeussion more dreadful than
 the earthquakes stock. Although 1 at l first felt certain conviction This fate,
 alter@ ards began to hope that the object of my search bad, contrary to lis prediction, survived tic encounter. 1 was ahont to 1 retire, when heap of slain, in an open
 piece of woods ,on which the moon was HOW ] shining, attracted my attention; literal- i y piled on each other were tse bodies of i've ihdian warriors. and lying beneath horse vas mY friend. You may form seme idea of my astonishment on finding hy nearer Inspection, that his head was sup l ported and his neck entwincd ty the rras ] ot lovely female, from whom also the Spir- II had taken its departure; but you can
 form no conception of the horror felt at
 beliolding in iI,is scene of carnage aud desolation in te very arms of death, and on the bosom of corpse, a lovely infant | gl ppTfF lsrtt |
 ing GD It's lovely features, and a smile play ing on it's lips, as if Angels were guarding its slunbess and Inspiring ,ts dreams; and who knows but perl,aps they were. The conviction now flashed upon ny mind, these were the wife and child Of my nbfor- 1 funate friend and the letters found on i'is person of the former, proved that Yas right Tn my conjecture. Driven aside by pleasure or ambition, or by the stasa;s Of 1 life, the affections of man may ycer-l Jut nnchangah!e and unehanging is frne heart af woman. She !c.os,- at,,i t.,sf., , forever. fbis faithfi, wife had follow ed her husband through land of strangers. and over a pathltss wilderness, through ths crowded cities aud the busting canp. till she found him stretched on the battle field. Perhaps sine came in time 10 re- ceive his parting sigh, and her spirit quit ting its worn out tenement ofciay, winged it's way with haste to him who gave them being. With the assistance of some Of my comrades, consigned the helpless pairto the earth, wrapped in the same military cloak; and enyeioping the infant. this dear child of p,y adoption, in my coat, .I returned 10 the camp where our regiment Iay.'
 A SOLDIER OF THE 7rn INF. fsonu nf Q loffar to fLo Edifn. fraxa f,ai