The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-02-10

| to her! She who would have poured out her life
| for that young couple, was now regarded with a
fearful awe by these simple beatmen, who, in their
| hearts, charged her with it ALL She knew it, and
| she burst not come down-durst not speak to them
| For a few moments longer there she stood-her
scream responded to by the affrghted sea-hlrds il
aroused from their resting places The ripple died
away-the storm passed as rapidly as it came-but
the boat or its inmates We're never given back to the
surface. And as the boatmen knet in PRAYER
around the senseless Olaf, and over the young
brides watery grave, the Fin dared up the heights
and disappeared from all eyes.
1t was strange destiny, though to a highly
superstitious people, easily expanable, that those
three true hearts should perish thus-for perish is
word as applicable to those that lived as to hers
that died. Hers had ceased its warm palpitations,
and slept beneath the ocean. One, the mans still
worked, but it urged the stream of life through the
frame of senseless idiot. And she who fled, she
had life, she had reason STILL but her simple heart
had broken There is no literal truth in the ex-
preston, " broken heart'-but it is fguratively
trle of that state wherein grief has poured the full
measure of her poison, through the blood of life,
and thenceforth all lifethings shadowy, all ap
petite for pleasure dies, and enjoyments pail, and
are painful on the senses, which, though they still
exist, yet but endure life.
Years after the sad event we have described, the
lunatic asylum Of Christiana gave refuge and pro-
lection to one whose manly form and handsome
features ill accorded with the vacant expression of
a cOun'enance whose dim eye fell meaningless
upon all surrounding objects He sat upon low
stool, and every now and then his closed hands. as
though grasping oars, went up and down with a
uniform rowing motIOn-and at times his breath
came quick, and his motion became more rapid.
He never spoke unless when spoken to-and then,
the one response was given to all questions
Hush, the storm is coming and we must be quick
or she goes down." But beyond this he had no
language, no mind, no thought. 1t would seem as
If the event which drove poor reason from her cita
DEL effected its purpose just at the instant of time
when one all.absorbing thought monopolized his
Whole mind. That one thought survived the wreck
of intellect, but it was all that remained.
And the superintendent who showed that institu-
ton, shook his head feelingy, as he regarded him,
and said: :" For years he has never spoken but
those WORDS Beside that hopeless idiot tended a
female, who, though dressed in Norwegian stuff,
displayed features that seemed to have come from
some other cline. Her dark hair and eyes, sallow
skim and peculiar outline of feature, and decately
moulded frame, were not of the Norwegian cast.
She was evidently of foreign blood But there was
in her sad and gentle kindness a something more
than that of a mere servant-this was evident even
in the very tones of her voice. as she occasionally
sought to quiet the tresome motions of his frame,
or, as nurse tends child, offered him some food.
Her genlleness, her sadly sympathetic manner
might have been that of sister, but there
blood, no resembling link between them She
tends him. said the Superintendent; like sister
or a daug hter-she followed him here, and became
servant, without reward, III return for permission
to be about him, and to feed him. She is of bad
race no doubt-bui she is all kindness 10 him and
one would not expect to find such nature in poor
Fin"
(a) Maet in his Northern Antiquities considers Fins
and Laps as distinct but these wandering and tribes
appear to be called in modem Norway indifeenty, Fin
or Lap See the works of Ingls and I.aing.
''Nipen' is the demon. god to whom The Norwegians
make such propa!ing offerings he the author of good
and evil.
() Blindness is sadly prevalent among The Laps and Fins
I'D Sweet and richly cakes left night
Norway. for Nipen o eat
(e) Wedding feaS commence on Saturday-the cere
mony on Sunday.
90 Early Norwegian history.
CD Old Norway.