The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-05-28
Western Correspondence. No. o.

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freak Of nature els cost to the COM
pdny-Pr vs.. railroad riding.
ROLLING PRAIRIE, hdiana.
Early one delightful morning, as we
were vending our way over the beauti-
ful plain, toward the northeastern parl
of the State, breathless and terror
stricken deer shot by us like an arrow
running for life to escape the fangs OF
the hound that was upon Lis track. We
watched for a moment the actions OF the
hound. With his nose close to the
ground, seeming lis way, he went dash
ing past US on furious run, his broad
ears Tapping close 10 his neck, and his
eyes glaring with Joyous excitement. The
noble deer, as he heard the cry Of death
upon his track, entered upon a bold swim
for life, and skinned over the fields with
the velocity of dart The hound warm
ed up in the chase, and literally flew TO
grasp his prize. Well, let them pass
the cry grows fainter and fainter, the
deep, loud bay OF the hound, dies away
in the distance, and ihey--the pursued
aud the pursuer-are but an emblem OF
what is going on in the human aud ciU-
iH>td world around us. Life may be
divided into two parts-the hunter and
the hunted. 1t is an endless chase :,
where the timid and the weak constantly
fall by the way. The swift racers come
aud go like shadows upon the vision, aud
the cries Of fear and Of victory swell up.
on the ear and die away, only to give
place TO another, and another. 3" Thus
musing, we logged on.
Al the close of the day, having ,ray>
eIled for many miles through a wooden
and unsettled country we came out up-
on clearing, on which was a new white
cottage, framed barn, and a young or
chard, which contrasted fuely with the
wild and woody region through which
we had just passed. We ro &c up TO the
house, and called for lodgings, which
were freely granted, and we soon found
ourselves engrossed in conversation will
family from eastern New York, who
apparently had seen life in its more af.
,s fluent and fashionable forms. 1t appear
&c ed that our host had formerly been {
r merchant ia one of the eastern counlie.
in New York. With a good stand fo
&c business--a genteel esdence-an in
- terestng young family-a good and sui
:. fcient capital, he was IN the height o
-, prosperity and nattered himself, that h,
should soon become rich--eXert a con
r.. trolling influence in the circles in whicl
he should move educate his family gen
at teelly, and make figure in the world
ce All this he could very reasonably expect
MS and more even, should the tickle goddess
U" Fortune, continue to favor him with he
smiles. But, alas she betrayed his con
~ fdence-she withdrew her smiles, an,
~ lent her lrown TO cast him TO
The vale
r. Where pinching want holds universal sway.
nd Jackson's specie circular, and lis con
comitanis, made sad and wretched wor
iii nmnnn tho hnriuose man of ~, ..oun,r
at large, and in the crash Of 81 he wen
81 down with the multitude. Being one q
the noblest works of God, viz, an hon
he est man, he managed to pay all his debt
ID. and save few hundred dollars, WIT
e? which to move his family to new coun
IN try and make a rude beginning as far
d. mer. lie seemed naturally fitted 70
some of the lighter occupations, but tn
a. delicate young merchant is spreadin
into the broad d-shouldered working man
d. and his wife was looking stout and heal
thy. On being asked how he bore hi
in loss of property, he replied 1t brok
pc not only my purse. but my spirits al
ie' down. He staggered under it awhile
but ral!ying his good sense, he sought
=! home in the west, and is now useful il
W raising wheat, while his wife, adaptin;
herself 10 her situation, makes butter
,se spins, knits. and cooks like good house
wife. As he shouldered his axe mex
ne morning, and started of for the woods
k one would never have dreamed that h,
nd once strulted up and down Broadway
NJ selecting silks and laces, for the ricl
be wives and daughters of the yeomanry o
q! the Empire Stale lie has a farm o
- 100 acres aud is doing well, He is
ho man of fixed religious character and yer,
id useful in his town. Such men Offer
up shine brighter than ever after passin.
OF through the furnace, and shed dow
le- light like the full-orbed moon, A" dis
pelling the gloom about them. Sucl
" was the case in this instance.
he From this place we passed on to lh'
village Of Dexter in Michigan, where ",
spent day and night aud took an op