American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper., 1846-02-12


She sought from the cradle what lay IN the tomb
tu drpar its void-ant it. codness how chilling:
With aOG ntmt breatHings il sOolhes AOi her ear;
ifis g'iel's bitter essence all round it dStlling;
Her Ch ;ub is gone md dEalh S lone liness here!
pm! keen, keen The anguish the now Chiidles mother
Retires in her babe's empty cradle to smother;
md known TO her soul and ITS GOt hut non" other.
The weight of her wO and the price Of her tear.
A SNAKE-BIT FRESHMAN.
A correspondent Of the N. Y. Spirit of the
Times gives ''an original Tennessee Hunting
fncident" that "will pass" A Jolly party Of
clportsmen, made up OF veteran hunters rife for
elport and full Of fun, were enjoying themselves
tIor few weeks in the mountains of Morgan
dounty, Tennessee. A huge, raw-boned, To-
duacious lrshman, uninvited, quartered him
! Ielf in their camp, and in addition TO being a
Nuisance when awake, snored SO terTifficalIv
LFhen asleep as to drive ''tired natures sweet
nyestorer" from Others Pat was afraid of snakes
Skenerally, and 'ould snakesn in particular, and
dhe awful yarns he heard in the hunters camp
,lWaked snakes in every hair on the Irish
Inan's head. After listening to JeU yarns on
She much dreaded snake subject one evening,
ahis fresh son OF the sod prepared to turn in, Ii
,lerally crawling all over. Counting his beads
4nd the chances of being ''snake-biL" before
tay, and "tucking in' his blanket and wishing
1.-THE sowls Of all snakes in these parts in pur-
1hckuler," in Il county where, to say the
geast, they would stand but Z slim chance for
lnduging IN their natural torpidity he tei! IL
tleCp. The correspondent proceeds;
1 And now the storm began. His snoring
kraw fast and furious, loud ami long; Occlsl0a-
blly a sort Of ifsnort, half grunt, terminated
Iwilh "snakes by iabers, blast their sowls''-
I'Ugbl rgh,' when there came the variation or
schoTus in the shape Of gllud of his teeth that
VhreatsnCd 10 drive them through his Jaw OF
tcrush them to powder: by way Of variety IL
twould hold his breath few seconds ana lheG
inore again, and such snoring! nv stars, that
lcoud spell in! IL was soft Of cross between
Ehe breathing Of an asthmatic elephant and the
IbraYing Of n supeIannuated donkey, whose vii
/ TASTED longer than his wind. Well, it thus con-
itinued with the regularity of the whip-poor-
willis cyr, until, say half an hour before day.
break, when J. M. w. (Jim w. we'll say,
whose stock of patience had long ago evapo,
lrated, unrollcd himself from his blanket, Say
ping in his usual quiet way, "HumP! l'll stOl
THAT Internal concert or start the maker of it
,see if don't! Umph!" he then awoke Jim 4
IoJnd the Judge, when plot was laid and thu
lcarred into execution
w. got his hunting knife and going to where
lthe offal of large deer had been thrown, ht
Icut off about seven feet of gut, and securing
the ends with twine to retain the contents, hi
tied one end of it tight and fast to corner 0
| PaIdy's shrt-tail that had wandered through
lfrlntn in the seat of his breeches, cong it al
up smooth by his side, snake-like and true. Al
things thus arranged, the conspirators laid dowl
again, and at the conclusion of one of the stag
horn snores with the "snake sowls" variation
Jim A. roared out at the top of his voice, "Hl
WEE! Hu WEE! A big copper-headed blacl
rattle-snake, eleven feet long, has crawled u
my breeches and is tying himself into doubl
bow-knot round my body" giving the Irish
man, with every word, a furious dig in the sid
with his elbow, with running accompaniment
of his shns with his heel! Of course, thi
hurting awoke him quick and wde in his frs
movements he had his hand on the nice coli
coil of gut at his side. Kissing out "Jayzus
! from between his clenched teeth, lie made
bound that carried him some ten feet clear o
the camp, and with force that straghtene
out the coil and made the snakes tail crac
like cart whip! Casting one wild blazing lool
behind, he tore off with the rapidity of light
ming around the camp in circle of some fort.
feet across, and at every bound shouting, or ra
ther yelling, "Saze i'm! saze i'm by the tail
! Och, howly Vargin, stop lin; och, Saint Path
4 AlNh' IoiS 'h' WI JduiSttS a "ti"' ~ WI"
Bate i'm to smithereens wild gun, can't yees
He's got me fast how'd, och he has, by Jabers
an he's mendin his houH, a wha! Howly Fa
ther, he's got shark hook on is tail! Och
murther, he's forty fut long' On making thi
last circuit he ran through a part of the smoul
dering campfire, and the twine at the aft ell
of the gut caught fire; this brought new tel
ror, and added strong inducement for him t
put on more steam and increase his rate; roun
and round he went "Ies fiery sarpnt.-
Och, murther! Howly Vargin, he carries
light to see how to bite by Och, help Pr
swallowed Dumping along) ntirely all but m
he'd! He's saxty fate long, if he's tut! Threa
on his bloody, fiery tail, will yees' 1hry t
save mel" Then, as if inspired with new lit
and hope, he roared out, ''shoot i'm! shoot 'iu
but don't shoot at his head! Shoot! shoot"
Now here was a picture! There stood tn
Judge hugging sappIing with both arms an
one leg, his head thrown back emitting screaI
after scream; here lay Jim w. on his bacl
with his feet against tree, his arms elevate
like a chd's when he wants you to help hil
up, and it was scream for scream with Jn.-