Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-09-11
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Emigrant'S Dog.

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1t was a very sultry day, and l turned my
horse a little out of the road, TO rest him a
few minutes under the shade of a large elm.
A wagon was standing a little on before me,
loaded with all the Heterogeneous inventory
Of a Yankee farmers kitchen, parlor, pantry,
cellar, and garnet. There was the oh bn-
relu with its carved l~ion-feet carefully wrapt
around with blankets, and occupying, par ex-
cellencP. the %chiefest and safest place in the
cart. Then there were those venerable hirh-
backed chairs that reflect so much credit on
the taste and skill of the seventeenth centu-
ry all occupying such places as would seem
TO intimate a covert and respectable reference
10 the eye OF the spectator. Sundry barrels
filled with miner matters Of importance, made
up the foundation Of such a superstructure of
beds, bedsteads, bedding. bags, hrooms, box
eS, benches, bowls, bread, aud bacon, as
might have puzzled the patriarch to have adj
iusted properly within the ark. The whole
was surmounted by an ancient ample cradle
which seemed to have done some service TO
several antecedent generations, and which
was as cumbersome and capacious as a com
mon sized canoe. At the end Of the cart
was suspended the large brass kettle, which
had assumed the capacity of kind of sub
treasury, in which the proprietors deposited
weekly their six days stock Of provisions.
AT another time and place, | should not
have noticed particularly this familiar cortege
of an emigrant but Just at that moment, i
had nothing else to do but to look right at III:
besides, what most attracted my attention, il
was in the middle of the state of New York,
and the wagon was headed eastward, a 1i-
rection in which / have never before met a
turnout, as Willis would say, of this des-
cription. ! could not conceive how any true
-. - r. $1,000 H.
was the proprietor OF the plunder,-should,
in direct opposition 10 common sense, | mean
the common sense of his countrymen, have so
far mistaken the cry of WESTWARD no as to
have actually and obstinately turned away
from the golden visions OF the western world,
to pine away upon the sterile hills of New
England. A slight curiosity on this point,
occasioned in my mind a few conlectures up
on the possible causes or circumstances which
had induced Jonathan 10 such an unpopular
and retrograde step. Had he not realized all
those golden dreams of the new country
which had enchanted him beneath his
fathers roof on the banks of the Connect.
cut Had he become DISCONTINUED with the
poetry of a log cabin? Had the wife of his
youth, who had followed him ihither with
, unspokcn regrets concealed in the depths Of
her sorrowing heart, had she pinned for hpI
childhood's home, in the interesting solitude
of some vast prairie of the West? Had the
little ones which he bore thither like trans.
planted flowers, withered before the ruiasmf
Of an uncultivated wilderness! Had the
music Of The church-going bell, and all the
hallowed associations Of love and friendship
connected with his native village, been dal,
lying with his heart both night and day il
that new country, until he had finally listen.
cd IN Tho cDonnblarp ,rtr,,tin- ac H.. -.
whose tongue never asked for her home 3
Had his young, sickly, salIow-faced children
climbed upon his knee, as he returned al
evening 10 his smoky cabin, and plead with
him to take them back TO grandpa's fire.
side
l was interrupted in the midst of these ru-
limitations, by a low murmuring of voices,
which seemed 10 come from a neighboring
field partly concealed from the road bv a
thick growth of saplings. | rose up in nv
: saddle, and obtained a sudden coup-d'Gil OF
a little scene which was of no slight interest
, 10 my mind especially as it seemed to
throw some light upon the subject | had been
f contemplating. Thu first glance of my eve
fell upon a group Of four or five persons, De-
meath the shade OF a large maple, whittier
they seemed 10 have resorted to partake of a
: slight Tepast ont of the heat of the sun. But
an affecting lncluenl ildu interrupted their
peaceful entertainment, and filled them all,
from father to child, with emotions which,
even at 4 considerable distance, | could plain
ly perceive on their faces. A man, appar-
emily lhiTty-fve, was standing a few yards
from the rest, e~xerting himself at the top OF
his ingenuity, to coax an old emaciated doc
TO follow him. The poor dumb creature was
lying moiionless at the foot of the tree, with
his head reposing in the lap of a young girl
Of fifteen who, with tears on her cheeks,
was lavishing upon the poor brute all The ca
fesses OF that affection that was swelling up
in her young heart. 'Tyg!' said The father,
stepping up and patting him gently on the
head, Here he is, Tyg hereaway !'when he
would run back a few rods, as il in actual
pursuit of some wild animal. The girl, at
the same time, would lift up the creatures
head, and trying to open his eyes with her
fingers, would point to some pretended game
at a little distance. beseeching him half cry
ing with, DO look, Tyg! sec! see yonder,
see The rabbit, Tygr Again the father