Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1850-04-24

41"u ~ was oE'oiiSHeu; i!ioftOFtIj 10 iil'
little Phcim (!or ne i; was) with Sunda'
face Oh IN the middle Of the week. III,
mystery was solved when they reached III
cabin; ; Tor there was gathering in homo
OF the frs. Patrick Of the third generation
ais this goa wero up TO, Ellen, is i: p
shouted Patrick, bursting upon them. -
thought il wasn't entirely 10 make Phelin
a president, aid Mlchae. duke, that yol
come over :"
Tears, shouts OF laughter, fsolic, pathos
poetry, and prose mos, unadornei made VI
the delightful me!enge at ,hs, unexpected
meeting. .s. .....-.>
| CHATTER V.
Patrick found tha, his family had indeed
made happy change. There was nc
gainsaying that. And he himself expert.
eaced no difficulty in procuring employ,
:nen'; but he was far from Being Sc vel!
conten. as the others. lie wrote 10 Norall
upon his arrival ct New York, and again
when he had found his father and mother,
and he wanted saily to invite her to Join
him in America. But for the game reason
that he did not return tc Ireland, he dared
not eek her to come over; for If he could
not leave his friends, how could she be
expected to leave hers. lie would
have gone "home" as he persisted in call
ing it, but, strange to say, Ellen was mo-,
in the leas, humblcd in her exac.:ols b.
tho fact Of her own marriage. She loved
Pat better than anybody in this world, her
own husband and child not eacep,od. und
is vas with feeling Of wrong that she
heard or thought Of his loving any one else,
CT being beloved by any.
Sad news began now to come from the
old country and the O'Briens had no let
ters; bu. others had, and tho newspapers
we're full Of the dreadful dssti,ution ard The
deaths from starvation in Ireland. Now
poor Patrick was worse afflicted than he
had been by separation from his parents.
Tidings cana OF etarva,ion ehd death in
houses the inhabitants OF which he knew
were wcal,hier far than Norah's father
and he feared That she might even wan, for
a bi, Of bread, whic he roIlsd in pleu,y
Had he pursued lis own incina,ionc he
would have posted back-bu, Ellen said
Don't think Of such thing Is i, mad
you ares When there's people dying
;b.re of the hunger will you go snatch TIE
bread from their mouths Or will you 80
"bome," as you call it, and feed the three
kingdoms from your own pocket" Pat
rick was hurt-and he thought Of the two
Norah was far ihs bes, comforter.
Deep indeed was tho distress ,ha, rests1
upon unhappy Ireland. Ana Patrck's
'ears for his friends a, home were
bu, too well founded. Sickness and fam
ne invaded the district in which Patrick
vas born and though his old master e,
irSt was bcun,iful 10 those around him.
stern necessity at last bgough, its admoni-
ion that he must withhold his hand There
5 distress that opens the heart; bu, when
I comes 10 dividing your living with your
,eishbor, to become q! las, fellow in his
l.cd, the instinct OF self preservation chills
.harity. Nevertheless, the good farmer
,ave-and gave day too long; for the
Jay cane when he could count his own
canty provision in food and in purse. Im-
,overishad, he learned at last to suffer and
o sicken. He buried his wife cut Of his
light, and his children sunk one after ano
her into the grave. lie denied himself
,read TO feed his furnishing fanily-al-
most rejoicing, while the dead Icy unburied
n his house, that with the release of child
fter child, the need of food and their walls
'f hunger diminished. And now at las,
lorah and himself only remained Of all
ha. happy household and they had bu,
0 prepare their last food and dio. The
immense demand which had been mad.
pon the charitable had proved too grea,
or the supply and men had ceased a, last
o think i, strange thing that people died
+ hunger.
Often did Eorah think in her distress OF
lim who was now far away. And hearth
y she rejoiced for his sake, tha, he had
,ot remained to add another claimant on
he public charity, 10 the thousands who
leaded unavaiiingly for it. Eu, it was
ad TO think that he must one day hear
hat her he loved had sunk into the grave,
he las, of her hcuse, for to death she firm.
Y looked as the only hope CT release from
u1ering.
A foo,step broks the silence, bu. it
,ardly disturbed her resery. 1t was the
ind ecclesias,ic whe had been present n,
ho death Of her mother and her bro,hors
who bad seen her sister buried, and to
u l,oLad Of M distant 1or !