Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1836-09-23

The Pilot Of Calrados contains the fol-
lowing affecting incident, in its impression
of the 9th July
A irapical event, of character happily
very rare in this city, is at this moment the
subject of general conversation
4 Young girl named Eliza Leconte, aged
II. and who exercised the profession OF an
enprayer of inscriptions on funeral monu-
ments, was buried yesterday Behind her
coffin walked young man, who was recog-
Missed as one of the Polish officers, now resi-
dent here, who was in mourning and bath
ed in tears, and who ever and anon inter.
rupted the priests who chaunted the burial
service, striking his bosom, and uttering--
ut was my fault--it was / who killed her"
II appears that this Pole was the young
girls lover, and that on the preceding eve
ming. poor Eliza, who was in delicate health,
had one OF those little quarrels with her adj
mirer. which are usually nothing but the
precursors of reconciliation, and serve as
a renewal of love. But, alas on this occa-
sion the lovers drama did not result in an
interchange of forgiveness. AT the close oil
their dispute the girls malady assumed a
dangerous type, and she died the same
night. At the instant they were lowering
her coffin into the grave, the young man
rushed through the bystanders like mad
man and threw himself into the grave; and,
before they had time to remove him, or hold
his arm, the report and flash Of a pistol were
distinguished The unhappy youth had
shot himself through the head on the coffin
of his beloved The precpitancy of the
dreadful deed, however, prevented its per
feet accomplishment and although the
wound in the head is most terrible, hopes
are still entertained that he may be saved.
| A FLOATING FARM YARD.--The follow
ing sketch of a family floating down the o.
hio on a raft, is at once highly graphic and
characteristic of our inland emigration.
ITO day we have passed two large RATS
dashed together, by which simple conveyance
several families from New England were
transporting themselves and their property
to the land of promise in the western woods
Each raft was eighty or ninety ieet long
with a small house erected on it, and on
each was a stack of hay, round which sew.
cral horses and cows were feeding. while
the paraphernalia ola farm yard, the ploughs
wagons, pigs, children, and poultry, care
lessly distributed. gave to the whole more
the appearance OF permanent residence
than Of caravan Of adventurers seeking a
home. A respectable looking old lady, with
spectacles on her nose, was seated on chair
at the door of one OF the cabins employed IN
knitting; another female was a, the wash
tub; the men were chewing their tobacco
with as much complacency as if they had
been in the land Of steady habits; and the
various avoca,ions seemed to go on with
the steadiness Of clock work. In this man
ner our western emigrants travel at slim
expense They carry with them their OWL
provisions; their raft floats with his scold
ing. squalling, grunting, lowing, and neigh
| ing dependents. to the point proposed
without leaving his own Preside: and or
his arrival there, may go on shore with a:
little ceremony as grave parsonage, who
on his marriage with rich widow, sale
he had nothing to do but walk in and hang
up his hat"