The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1842-10-01

81 nnpcthy OF common anguish. Dlooo |
nd birth were forgotten now.
She did not die ill the following day
lhough she never. spoke any more, except |
slight motion OF her lips In an attempt TO
fon in the services of the church which
sere performed al her bedside. She pas
led away so cal nlv and quietly, that, it can
be no better described than in the follow
Ing lines Of which have Forgotten the au-
hor.
We watched her breathing through the
night,
Her breathing sot, and low,
AS DER her heart the waves OF life
Came heaving TO and fro,
And still our hopes belied our fears,
Our fears our hopes belied;
We though. her dying when she slept
And sleeping when she died!'
A few words will corclude all that re-
smans 10 be told. Edward never came
hgain into contact with any Of the family a,
the Hall. Tha, such meeting should
have been avoided BY all was but natural.
Yrhe old Baronet did not survive his daugh.
her quite year. All his habits broken up
f--his accustomed sports and exercise en-.
4irely abandoned--his he me and heart now
1all desola'e and dark-it is not surprising
7ihat he sank rapidly and fatally, though he
bied of no particular disease. According
No his own request, he was laid by her side,
Sin the family vault His son may, per.
{haps, survive still in possession of tie bar
lonetcy, though doubtless disjoined for ever
from the inordinate family pride which
Al Of its
{inherilance Edward Fletcher withdrew
{irom that pari of The country, selling the
3pat,imony which Aad also descended 10 him
through many generations. He settled ~
Ia rude neighborhood on The west coast oi
1Ire nd, within the sound of the surge of
5the Atlantic, 10 whose wild and dark un-
arest he was, perhaps attracted by an IN.
fconscious sympathy, such as ollen exists
tbetween the soul Of man and the myslefl-
! Gus soul of nature and lis elements. His
ieven,ua fate do not know. One circum-
stance only afterward learned respecting
his future life, His marriage was for
ever in one respect under the shadow as
4 il were of curse. He had many children
II One after another they grew up around his
board, in an outward show of beauty, which
was their natural birthright. They were
healthy, too, and they neither sickened nor
n died. Yet, whether girl or boy, no one
: attained the age OF seven or eight years.
before il became manifest that all this beau
4 ~ strength and health. were but the most
4 fearful of nockeries to The eye and heart OF
the father. They were all pure idiots.
And when he looked around upor the ghasl,
ts.-i---i;----s of the array that would enclr
Gle lns board, ne pluugh' ,r,,, vf any uusur u
physical laws Of which they might by 9th
ers be regarded as terrible evidence; 5u
as his eye rested on one after another o
his children, be saw in eact--snd his heart
sank and sickened as he saw-ony lv
1 ing and an undying monument Of the jus
moral relributive fruits of his unhaliowet
and vainly repencd revenge.
.Mn..s.zs..s...
M Esght Of Carrier Pigeons-ln the
foreign papers received by the Britannia
there is An account of extra ordinary ant
singular flight OF carrier pigeons, from Blr
i mIngham TO Antwerp, TO decide match
About three hundred pigeons, belonging Il
merchants and other parties at Antwerp
were despatched simultaneously at Hands
worth, at o'clock, on the 18th ult. Th
whole flock reached Antwerp the sam
morning, the first pigeon having reache'
there a. half pas, o'clock following in ra
pid succession by the others, in 6ves an
tens. the las, pigeon reached lis des,inalio
at half pas! 10. Estimating the dislaue
from Birmingham TO Anlwerp( measuring i
aslrigh, line at 300 miles. and allowing fc
the difference in time between the iw
points, the first bird would appear to hav
travelled at the surprising velocity of
Y miles per hour! Ii is not the leas, singula
fact connected with the match that among
SO large anumber of pigeons not one shou
have wandered from its forward cours
Az .he same rate Of speed, the Al!anl
(3O06 miles broad)could be crossed IN
about "a hours, or day and half,
the powers of any bird could endure SO lor
fight, without rest or suslenance.
Fire.-A fire broke out between IL ar
o'clock Yesterday morning in the cand