Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-01-21

neafucSS anu unprtnclpled SedGcer-u
all had been known. too weak word for
us crimc-who left thus to pine and
sori ow--and in shame far worse than
sorrow--onc, who, unIh her unhappy
fail, had been held up by every mother
as an examPe to her daughters, o.
sense and modesty tho meek un-
pretending piety ola Chrislian faith J
Never once had she striyen TO cease
TO love her betrayer. but she had striv en-
and an apPeased conscience had enabled
her to do SOTO think not Of him now
that he had deserted her forever. Some
times his image, as wsll in love as in
wrath, passed before the eve of her
heart, sut she closed il in tears of blood
and the phantom disappeared. Thus
a ! the love towards him that slept
but was not dead, arose in yeIrninys Of
still more exceeding love towards his
child hound its head was gathered all
hope Of comfort, ofpeac., Of reward, oil
repentance. One oI its smiles was
nough TO brigh,en up the darkness o.
the future. In her breaSt--on her knee
in its cradle, 7he REGARDED il with
personal prayer. And this feeling il
dcrness Of affection, all the invigoraFing
power Of passion, that under the and
OF Go |. bore her up an down tina. fear.
lul mountains brow, and after the hou
OF rescue and deliverance, stretched her
on the greeL svarl ike a corpse.
The ruinor Of the miracle SION cirelrd
the mountains base, and a strange story
without names was told TO the wool.
ranger of tho the Cara 70 est, by a
w1yiarIng TnIn. Anxious 10 know
what truth there was in Il, he Gro sed
the hill, ald making his way through
tho sullen crowd, went up To the eni
hence, and beheld just recovering from
her hnal swooa, her whom he ha so
wicked y ruined, and so bascly deserted
Kisses and groans, add hooting, and
fierce eyes, and clenchcd hands, assail-
ed and threatened him on every side.
Ills heart died within him, not i'm
fear, but in remorse. What worm he
felt hlms:'ft TO be, AID fain he would
have been 10 become worm, that, TO
escape all that united humIn scorn, he
might have wriggled away in slime in
To some h lie of the earth But the
meek eye Of Hannah met his in per eel
forgiveness, tear of pity, faint smile
of love. All his better nature rose
within him. all his worse nature wis
luelleJ. 'Yes, good people you do right
o cover re with scorn. But what is
your scorn to The wrath OF Sodi The
Evil One has often been with me in the
woods; the same voice that once whis
pered me to murder her, but here | am,
not TO offer retribulion, for that may not,
] will not, must not be, guilt must not
mate with innocence. | deserve
death. and am willing here, on this
spot, 10 deliver myseli into the hands
fl Istice. Allen Calder call on YOU
to size your prisoner
the m)ril sense OF the people, when
instrGctcl by knowle lge and en- 'ighten
ed by religl on, what is 1t bat the voice
Of g ID: Their anger subsidized at once
into stern subsection, and that soon
soltened, in sight Of her who, alone a.
grieved, alone ielt nothing but tender
iorg. venesS. into a confused compassion
for the man who, bod and bad as he had
been, had undergone m ny solitary tor
menls, and nearly fallen in his uncom
panioIed misery into the power of the
Prince OF Darkness. The old clergy.
man, whom all reverencod, put the con.
trite man hand into hers, whom he
swore to love and cherish all his DAYS,
and ere summer was over, Hannah was
the mistress If a family, in house not
much inferior to Manse. Her mother.
nc! that her only daughters reputation
was freed nom strain, but her innocence
also proved, renewed her youlh Anl
although the worthy school mlster.
who told me the tale so much better
than | have been able to repeat / :, con-
lessed that the wood ranger never be-
came altogether saint, though he be
came IN due time an der Of the Kirk,
gave his children a religious education,
errlng only in making too much Of pet
OF his eldest born, whom even when
grown up to manhood, he never called
Dy anV nj her name than tho E,o,to,