The Arkansas banner., 1846-03-11
OK, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH H. Is46.
From Frasier's Magazine. THE WOUNDED SPIRIT.
 CHAPTER VI "l spread my books, my pencil try, TEe lingering noon to cheer; But miss thy kind approving eye, l hy meek attentive eat."
CHAPTER VI
Thy meek attentive eat.

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 But miss thy kind approving eye, Thy meek attentive eat.'
 nEBER.
 As the velocity of falling waters increases according to the depth of their descent, so do the most violent passions of the human
 mind soonest wear themselves out. All bit ter was my misery on hearing of Anna Sin gleton'S illness, and so intense was my anxi- ety for her recovery, that, l yerily believe the loss of reason itself must have followed a protracted suspense; but scarcely had a
 week elapsed ere another letter arrived.
 trembled when it was delivered to me, for the superscription was in a hand well known to me. On turning it over. merciiul heavens the seal was black My .beart throbbed-auttered-- -paused--then beat with a violence that prevailed every limb, and al- most ere the servant had left the apartment, started up and tore the sheet open in a par oXysm of delirlous anguish All my dread [ iul anticipatohs were too well founded Anna Singleton was no more! She had de- parted 10 a serener and happier world. Her spirit was now beyond the contamination of sin--beyo ond the reach of wo She had died in peace with, and beloved by all; full of benevolence and serene faith. Her sun had ; gone down Tn cloudless light, but what but darkness remained for me struck my clenched hand on my forehead with frantic l wildness; then stood, as being incapable of comprehending the extent ol my misery, in the unmeaning apathy of despair What req son had to lament? My repnings were sordid and selfish. Anna Singleton was, ol ought to have been to me, far more than life itself, and she was for ever erremoved from tho sins and the sorrows of earth, to the bowers of paradise, 10 the society of angels, and ol blessed spiriis-and was to deplore that she was hapFy etefnally happyl In d momen
 nv soul was cased in adamant. shed not \ ! tear, but ordering away the meal had no 5 tasted, shut myself up to suffer m darkness and silence. The tower of my hope hat 9 been suddenly dashed to the ground. and l scattered in ruin. The rock on which had q founded all my schemes of future felicity hae ' been shvered to it's foundations by the earfh- d quake of despair The waters had passet over my beacon-light, for me, life was now , but a troubled deep without guiding star like castaway, whose bark has been swamp
 ed, l was left to swim amid the painless
 boundless, and unbridled waters. Mlser, - for me had received it's crowning consumma e ton, and happen what might, nothing coult q afiict me more. Changed for me, in twin
 kle of the wings of Time, was the aspee n and the object of existence. Circumstance : had conspired to leave me without a hope + and without a fear: yet scarcely had reach
 ed the verge of manhood, an orphan, and al
 most d misanthrope. Ie-E - Iz h There was one passage, however, in thI F fatal letter which fell pleasantly on my sor T rows, as the dew on the parched herb, an ;. dropped balm on my ranking and incurabl'
 wounds. sFhe day preceding her death, e wrote Dr. Singleton, '.my dear child, wa > sitting by her bedside, with her hand il e e mine, mentioned one or two of her friends :. to whom, when all was over, she entreatet 5, to be kindly remembered, and more especial T. ly you, of whom she thought with affection . even in her dying hours"
 Night approached, and mental distress hal
 thrown me into high and raging fever
 lights scanned to flash before my eyes, and
 dull, dreary, continuous noise as of man
 waters sounded in my ears. The pulse
 throughout my frame throbbed so distinctly
 that could feel them in every limb, and et dull leaden weight lay stiAingly on my breas oi impending respiration. ] threw myself 0 .n n. my bed, and immediately wild dreams bega ' to haunt me: the fantastic visions of heate is imagination were all out in array Now
 was ln central forests, beneath umbrageou s poughs, tossed to and fro, ever to and fire
 th creaking noise, by some mighty rusf
 ing wind. Twas midnight on the dil
 broad river, and boats without passenger
 were drifting up and down. As the ligh
 nngs flashed over, beheld the bare beetlin
 rocks on which l stood, and looking up
 heaven, all was black and starless. Now
 was startled by wild animals rushing lro le thickets in savage hunger and now | sra at with fettered feet from their giaring eyes an
 ruthless fangs, until reached the ocean-- m mighty expanse of waveless waters, gloom ne and sunless. panther was making hi '' spring at me, and plunged over the rock {
 avoid him; away and away swan; all wa = silent around, there was the monster behin
 me, buileting the waves with his callihs
 paws. We were now out of sight of shore
 the surface of the sea was wrinlded by larg lg inky rain drops, which melted in the foo e. Ge- with a hissng sound. felt my srengt nss exhausting, and breathed as It were liqui 'rt fire, when looking iearfully back, saw m
 drowned enemy floating on the waters, an ad s, large black birds Tapping their wings owe on him. Then terrific thought struck me, thi h. the ocean had no bottom, and felt myse
 sinking rapidly down, down-the noise {
 the waters laundering in my ears as l sank
 and all was dark save single lurid ray thu T shot, as from the setting moon, deep into th
 wilderness. of wavest The sea-monsters ile
 startled from me as descended, with the
 enormous fins, and their fanlke tails, an ,g some had legs like crocodies; and with the k, sprawlng web-feet they menaced me as w descended Still did sink and sink, till a nd insenslbility came over me, and l clutched { nd the sea-weeds, which gave way in my gras rs, and ever gaveSway, unable to support m H- weight, till fell through clear aerial (,
 panse, lighted by pale, pale stars, till al lengt
 my feet touched rock-and the rock oper
 ed-and, lol glimmerlng passage, throug
 which wandered, yet far, far above, as in - Armament, heard the floods howling, and !;
 groped through the awful caves, saw
 length lamp hanging from, the roof by