American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1844-12-21

take it from her. The woman, apparently
struck with compassion at the piteous words,
which indeed seemed the last the poor sufferer
might ever utter, seeing that she now sank
back upon her pillow, with but little sign of
life, retreated before his approach, pressing her
burden more tightly in her arms.
'Then," said he, ''you must do the deed; for
| swear to you it shall be done, and that in
stantly!"
Without farther remonstrance, the woman
now wrapped the little trembling, waiIing in
FAINT in her cloak, which she threw hastily
around her, and with an air of desperate reso-
luton walked toward the door, saying:
''If am to execute your horrid purpose,
you must remain by the bedside of that poor
victim of yours; she mast not be left an in
slant in her present state. you must also suffer
me to close the door, that the screams of the
poor baby may not quite pierce its mothers
ears; and give her this" she added, pouring
something from vial, at may dull the con-
seriousness of her misery, at least for awhile"
The man a2quiesced without making any
answer administered the draught; and sterny
folding his arms, took his place by the side of
the unhappy sufferer, who, completely exhaust
ed by the efforts she had just made, still lay al
most nsensible, only giving evidence of life
by the labored heaving of the snow-whte
chest, which had been completely barred to pre-
vent her from sinking under the excessive heat;
and an intense stare, which showed but too
plainly that consciousness had survived her
strength
Almost Immediately after the woman had
shut the door, the screams Of the infant became
fearfully audible; the man struck his closed fist
rudely against his breast, as if to lay PROSTATE
any feeling of compassion that might lurk
there; and planting his foot firmly on the floor,
seemed determined to continue resolutely in
sensible 10 the pleadngs of nature.
After momentary struggle, he turned his
eye toward the female and perceiving that she
was now sinking into a stupor, to which the
charitable draught had probably contributed as
much as her previous exhaustion, he drew a
long breath, and muttering at is well!' adj
vanced some steps toward the door; but remem-
bering the woman's charge, he returned to the
bedside. By this time, the cries became much
fainter; few minutes more, and they ceased
entirely;and shortly after, the woman entered
the room, her cloak closely wrapped around
her, as if ready to depart.
The man approached her. as all over"'
muttered he.
eyes," she replied, in the same low tone,
but casting a look of extreme horror at him;
'the poor innocent shall never trouble you
again" And then, as if to cut short any far
Their communication with such a wretch she
proceeded to give directions as to the farther
treatment of her patient; and was hurrying
from the room, when the man stepped before
her and put into her hands purse with gold
pieces. The woman instantly dashed it to the
floor, and in the most indignant tone exclaim-
ed: DO you think | will receive from you the
price of blood? Take it back, monster that
you are! and may your money perish with
you'll
Gas you like" he coIdly replied, but not
without shuddering slightly az the woman's
words: ''hiS however you must submit to-" and
he again drew forth handkerchief and ad-
vanced toward her. She shrunk from his
touch, but made no resistance, and in silence
permitted him to blindfold her as before. He
then led her down the same fight of stairs, and
through the same passage; repeatedly charging
her to beware how she made any effort to dis
cover either his name or the house to which
she had been brought, which must, he warned
her, bring upon her immediate destruction.
The house-door closed upon them, the car
riage-aoor opened, she was assisted in, and car
ried home by the same apparently unnecessa-
rly circuitous route; the strange being helped
her out; and not until her own door closed upon
them, did he remove the bandage from her
eyes. This done, he repeated his charge in
still more emphatic words, and vanished from
her sight; and here we will leave the bewlder-
ed woman to recover as she best may her scat
tered senses.
BY this time the storm had passed away; the
rays fearly morning were beginning to streak
the east; and Nature, as if refreshed rather
than weared by the recent conflict in which
she had been engaged was fast putting off the
dull weeds of night, to array herself in the gor-
geous robes ola southern spring day.
All. could the storms which rage in the hui
man bosom be as easily dspelled; could the
dark passions which devastate the heart of man
thus retreat before the sunshine of peace, this
world would not be the scene Of misery it now
is. The fair gardens which decorate the face
of our mother Earth may for awhile be shorn
of their beauty by the raging of the pitiless
storm; but they will bloom again, and with
renovated vigor and added beauty, when the
refreshing alterations of dew and sunshine re-
store them to life. Alas! is it thus with that
source and spring of evil, the human heart-
Can peace again take up its abode there, when
once it has been so rudely thrust out by those
monopolizng guests which rage with more
wldness than any outward storm of the ele-
ments' Alas, no! We have been told, and
every days experience shows US, that "with
na,, this is impossible"
HOUSE SLIDE. At Vicksburg, last Thurs
day night, during a heavy shower of rain and
wind, two story frame house in the rear of
the drug store of o. o. Woodman, took slide
down the hill. There were at ,he time some
ten persons, black and white, consisting OF
adults and children, in it-only one of whom
received any serious injury, and that not NOR
tai. The house made a perfect smash, break
ing and grinding the timber all to pieces. The
person hurt was woman, and she was in