American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-02-04

turc. with all deep feelings and beautiful capa-
cities, so lavish of her affections, SO accustom'
ed to free outpourings of love, became reserv-
Cd and apparently cold and stupid. When the
step-mother gave birth to an infant, the toun-
tains of feeling were again unscaled. 1t was
her delight to watch the babe and minister to
its wants. But this development Of the attec-
tons was likewise destined to be nipped in the
bud. The step-mother, though by no means
hard-hearted, was economical and worldly-wse.
She deemed it most profitable to employ heal
thy, stout niece of her own, somewhat older
than Elizabeth, and to have her step-daughter
bound out in some family where she could do
light labor. 1t was also determined that Will
liam should go to service; aud his place OF des-
tination was fifty miles from that of his sister.
The news of this arrangement was very bitter
to the children. Both answered their father,
very meekly, that they were willing to go, but
their voices were deep, sad, and almost inaudi-
BILE. Without saying another word, the boy
put on his hat, and the girl her sun-bonnet, and
taking each other by the hand, they went forth
and roamed silently to their mothers grave
There they stood for long time, still, still
and their tears dropped fast on the green sod,
AT last Elizabeth sobbed out
ooh, if dear mother was alive, Willie, we
should not have to 90 away from home"
But Willie could only answer by fresh out
burst of grief. A little clunp of wild flowers
nodded over the edge of the mound. The al
fectionate boy cut two of them, and said
'Let as keep these, Lizzy, to remember mo-
ther by"
The flowers were carefully pressed between
the leaves of Lizzy's Testament, and when the
sorrowful day of parting came, one was nicely
folded in a paper for Willie.
CHOW, dear sis, give me that nice little curl"
said he, putting his finger OIL soft, golden
brown rnglet that nestled close to her ear, and
lay caressingly Oh her downy cheek She
glanced in the fragment OF glass that served
them for a mirror, and with eyes brlmtui oil
tears, she answered.
! "Oh! Willie, cannot give you that. Don't
you remember how dear mother used to wet
my head all over with cold water, TO make my
haifcurl? She used to laugh when shook
my head and made the curls 60 all over my
forehead; and she would kiss that little curl IN
particular. She said it was such darling lit
tie curl''
Thus chldishly did the innocent ones speak
together. The brother twisted the tavorlte
curl round his finger, and kissed it too; and
bright tear fell on it, and glttered III the sun
shine.
William left home few days earlier than
his sister, and bitterly did the lonely one sob
herself to sleep that night. She shuddered in
the dark, and when the moon looked in at the
window, its glance seemed more mourntul than
ever. The next morning, she fell from the
breakfast table i'll u fit more severe than usual
But as she soon recovered, and as these spasms
now occurred only at distant intervals, her
step-mother thought she had better be in read
mess to depart at the appointed time.
The wagon was brought to the door, and the
father said to her
"Lzzy, put on your bonnet, and bring your
bundle. 1t is time to 60"
Oh, how the poor child fingered in her little
bedroom, where she and Willie slept in their
infant days, and where the mother used to
near them say their prayers, and kiss them
both, as they lay folded in each others arms,
To the strong step-mother she easily said good
bye; but she paused long over the cradle OF
the babe, and kissed each of his little fingers,
and fondly turned little wave Of sunny hair
on his pure white forehead. Her heart swell
ed, and she had to swallow hard to keep down
the sobs; for it was her cradle, and she was
thinking how her mother used to sing her TO
sleep. Her father spoke to her in tone of I'M
usual tenderness, as if he too remembered her
infancy, and the gentle one who used to rock
her III that cradle.
"Come, Lzzy," said he, "it is time to GO
You shall come back and see the baby before
long"
With blinded eyes she stumbled into the
wagon, and turned and looked back as long as
she could see the old em-tree by her bedroom
window, where all the summers OF her young
life she had watched the swallows come and go
1t is dreary fate for loving and sensitive
child to be bound out at service among stran-
gers, even If they are kind-hearted. The good
woman of the house received Lizzy in very
friendly manner, and told her to make herself
at home. but the word only sent an echo
through her heart. For few days she went
about in state of abstraction that seemed ike
absolute stupidity. Her step-mother had pre-
pared them for this, by telling them there was
something strange about Lizzy, and that many
people thought her fits had affected her mind.
Being of coarser and stronger natures, they
could none of them imagine that the slow
stagnation of the heart might easily dim the
light of intellect in creature so keenly sus-
ceptible. But, BY degrees, the duties required
of her reused her faculties into greater activl'
ty; and when night came, she was fortunately
too weary to lie awake and weep. Sometimes
she dreamed of Willie, and her dreams OF him
were always bright and pleasant; but her mo-
Their sometimes iondled her with looks OF love
and sometimes came as the pale, cold spectre
Thus the months passed slowly away. Hel
father came to see her at distant intervals, ant
once in great while letter came from Will
lie, in large, stiff hand. Unaccustomed tc
writing, he could not through that medium tel
much that was passing through his heart
That he wanted badly to see his sister, ant
often kissed the flower they plucked from the
dear mothers grave, was the substance of al
his epistles.
fro be continued
4 BLOODY AFFRAYs IN Missouri. A young
man by the name of Dudly, cut with bowie