American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-03-20

! The Conference continued holding their night
session until near II o'clock, when they adj
journed sine die.
II, on looking ovor the official minutes of the
Conference, find anything omitted, which !
think ofany interest to your readers, | will
send you another letter on the subject.
rencontre took place yesterday, near
Georgetown, between Major Stewart and DR..
Richie, who quarrellod about piece of land.
Major Stewart was severely beaten about the
head and face. DR.. Richie is also personally
injured There will be a legal investigation.
REMARKABLE RECOVERY OF A LOST CHILD.
We copy the following remarkable and al-
fecting narrative from the Southern Christian
Advocate, to which journal it was commune
Gated by the father of the child, the Rev Sam
uel Leafd, pastor of the Cumberland (Metho-
dist EpiscopaD Church, in Charleston, S. c.;
On Thursday, l2th of February, my little
daughter, Susan M. Nj. Leard, aged three years,
was playing in the yard, near the house of her
grandfather, and as it was no unusual thing for
her to play about the premises in open weather
her temporary absence from within the enclo-
sure occasioned no alarm. Within twenty
minutes of the time when last seen by one of
her aunts, she was called by some member Of
the family, and to their great dismay was not
to be found. Immediate serch was made
around the yard and lot, but all TO no purpose.
A little colored girl, of near the same age with
herself was also missing, and was seen in com
pany with little Susan, about thirty yards from
the fence, when they were last observed by the
family.
Whether the children wandered off vounta-
rily, or were taken away by some malicious
person. is shrouded in the most profound mys-
terry. The grandfather mounted his horse, and
made immediate search in the surrounding
woods for some hours, but without success
Evening was now approaching, and the family,
agonised at the prospect of the children con-
tnuing in the woods through the darkness and
inclemency of the night, summoned the neigh
bors to their assistance. The country was
secured for some distance around, fires lighted
up in the different directions, and every posi-
BILE effort made to attract the children's atten-
ton, but they were neither heard nor SEEM
| The night rolled heavily onward, and the
morning light only brought the sad intelligence
to the heart-broken grandparents, that the
children were not found.
1t will be remembered that the night of the
| 18th inst. was among the most Indictment ofthe
season: the rain poured down in torrents, and
the wind was blowing almost gale. Where
the poor little creatures found shelter, what
shrubbery protected, or what stone pillowed
| their little heads, or how they were sustained
under the merciless peltngs of the ruthless
storm, God, their heavenly father, only knows
! We may be allowed to believe that "The angel
! of the Lord" which "encampeth round about
them that fear him" delivered them. How
much they suffered in their exposed situation
hn loft hn do nf OF itu IN
During the following day Saturday unceasing
search was made, and about dark the body OF
the little negress was found LJeEeSS, but not stiff
) She had apparently just died.
This quickened the energies of the friend:
and neghbors, and diligent search was mad,
during that night in the neighborhood of thu
little negro, but though every bay was penetra
ted and almost every log turned over, still they
discovered no signs of little Susan. Sabbath
morning now dawned, but not with its wontec
peace and tranquility; all was gloom and melan
choly. Between the hours of ten and clever
in the morning, as young man, William To
bias, was searching near a bay, around which
the underground had formed an almost impen
etrable thicket, he observed something NOV,
near the waters edge, and going closer to ex
anime, he heard little voice addressing hin
thus-"Please take me out of the water.
want to go to grandpa's. | want some tea.
1t was the form and voice of my dear little Su
san, which he saw and heard.
She was lying PROSTATE on the leaves and
moss, one foot in the water; her bonnet thrown
back, and her clothing completely drenche'
with the rain. The young man thinks it pro
bable, that had she not spoken to him, he woult
have passed without discovering her, so thcl
and matted was the shrubbery around her. Tn
news that she was found was quickly communi
Gated to the company, and they bore her off il
triumph to the afflicted family. The scene tina
followed, upon their seeing her alive, after al
; absence of Seuenty-tlpo hours, without food o
shelter, and the endurance of three days an
nights anxious suspense and solcitude on thei
1 part, we will leave to the readers heart to de
scribe. The distance to which she had wan
! dered from home was about two miles.
The following are the symptoms exhbte
4 to the physician, who saw her within half a.
hour of her arrival at home. give his owl
n language from written statement now in m
possession: February 18th. "Susan Lear
s presents the following symptoms:-Extrem
exhaustion, loss of all voluntary action, pulls
Y mperceptible, nervous excitement extreme
wild and frantic expression of countenance
0 slight delirium; when any food was brought i
view, appeared phrenzied and yoracious-
n Treatment, wine whey, cruel, &C., in sma
quantities for several hours, gentle anodyne
= and on the 10th, a small dose of oil, with tn
! happiest effect. Case recovered rapidly.
h This case may throw some light upon tn
comparative ability of the two races, (whit
and colored,) to endure exposure and starva
ton, and may furnish all interesting fact to tn
psychologist The following is synopsis G
the particulars, from which any one may dra,
= his own conclusion.
It .age. Susan, three years old on the lat
It inst, the day before she was found; Lizzy, tw
+ years and eight months old.
! NIotb;yr Suson Glad in calno NTH m,