Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1836-04-29

Oeach TO drop noIselessly down the stream.
Soon they heard the call for Mary-but
Mary lay insensible upon the resting oars
OF the pirate. And as their boat moved ST.
lently with The current down, they heard
the lover row his skifr 10 the shore and
draw il upon the sand-they saw him pass
slowly over the hill, ms they were concealed
IN the shadows Of the tall trees upon the
opposite shore.
Now, Broddish,' said Kidd, null ne
though you chased the richest ship that ever
crossed the seas. He'll be back soon with
many more; a lover is not so ready TO give
up his mistress. Pull on. and let The water
take the curses for this. Up--up the stream
pass the island Well soon find anothcrf
The canoe was propelled swiftly up the
stream under the shadow OF the riobt shore;
and ere the lover with his friends returned
TO seek the lost one, Kidd aud BroddisH were
gliding leisnrely along, secure from all lssr-
bilhy Of being discovered.
A few miles rowing brought them 10 an.
other island far more beautiful than the for.
mer. Here the same scene of unloading
was again enacted, with addition of the pre-.
cious burden that Kidd carried to the green
upon the high land
The fears aud the anxiety of fair Mary
cannot now be depic,ed-she can only know
her own feelings and her own Sorrows
The two retired few PAGES to confer to-
gether and the scene thai followed only re.
vealed It's nature TO the Responding girl
Their conference ended, they seized their
spades, and, few feet from the almost in
sensible Mary, she saw those demons dig
glng the grave that was destined TO be her
resting place until the dawn of a better day
Hours passed and still they kept their dig
ging. The stars which had shone brightly
when poor Mary left her home, were yelled
by the clouds, as If afraid 10 witness the
crime OF that night Reason, almost ecipsed
by the horror Of the scene, only claimed its
sway at alternate periods, and then the sound
OF the spades in the coarse gravel, and its
grating as it fell upon the pile beside her,
warned her that she had but few moments
left. The digging ceased-ihen broke the
moon from out the clouds and shone bright
y upon the scene around, and cast u heav.
emily glow upon her snow white cheeks.
The fearful knife lay glitiering upon the
sandy beach before her, and the lucid waves,
stirred by Southern breeze, went rolling
on as il fleeing from her presence, except
the few that came mourniully up the beach.
She saw them bring their treasures from the
boat and throw them into her grave as the
wind sighed sadly through the neighboring
trees, and then she saw them bring the hor-
rid knife
Kidd gave the death blow Life but fee
bly, struggled in the grasp of those abandoned
men; the blood gushed from the cash like
the bursting forth Of "A fountain, pouring IL
self into her grave, and crimsonng her gold
en- locks and the robe that eucircled her fra.
gile form. The moon then sank behind the
Western hills, and It's last beams reflected
on the murderer's knife. slowly dropping
the adhering blood as it hung from Kids
right hand, while his LEFT was sleeping in
the wound The blade had made in the poor
girls throat. Death, flirer victim hast
thou seldom seen
The victim--the victims bood-and the
murderer's knile-wiih Kidds ill-gotten
treasures. were buried in one grave
Such was the tradition that gave name to
KIDD's lsLAND-and thus was the tale re-
ported in its vicinity.
The struggle Of our country for hide
pendence had closed, and many weary
worn ont soldier was cast destitute upon the
wide world-his little properly expended in
the cause of liberty. The home Of the SOL
der had gone to desoation; those that had
families found them scattered, and in many
instances more wretched than themselves,
The war had been long one, and in that
time men thought OF nought but the sunny
days Of liberty when they should be gained
when he, with his own household, should
eat and drink The fruits of his own labors and
enjoy the life his Maker gave, beholden to
no one and with no one 10 modest. That
/ independence for which he had long striven,
be had now gained he had fought many
years, feeding upon the pitiful produce OF a
desolated country, and wearing out the little
property he had collected under the hard
hand Of tyranny, to cloihe his own, and his
wife's, and his children's persons from ma
kednesS, and now was cast aside by the au-
thority which had supported him, even to a
worse situation than when nearly naked and
starved on the battle field, with nought to
support his weary nature but the liberty he
had fought for and the soil of his. beloved
country This was the lot of far too many
of those to whom we now owe what we prize
most upon earth Thus many were leil,
with hearts hardened by familiarity with
blood to plumber for their scanty needs
and many less deprayed brought cunning
and article to aid them TO get what the laws
of nature tell us all mankind have an abso-
lutte right to.
| Such was the sitnotion of the soldier AT