Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-05-24

her sleep also questioned her. and she said Tha
what troubles most cannot sleep now am so DID, and
lay my bed all night thinking Of my great good and
speet Father in the Heavens" We asked her how she ma.
nsged obtain the necessaes Of % and she said she did
know, only that people who travelled on the road
times stopped in to give her little coffee or four her main
stay being small garden Of vegetables the brush fence around
which had been built by her hands and this garden was
just exactly the neaest that beheld As to her
sight, i. good and she unacquanted with
the of spectaces We asked her how much money she
would want to support her year, and she replied that
dollars would take of her long time more than year.
As matter Of course my companions and made up little
purse for her benefit and when gave to her it seemed
if she would embrace in spite Of Indeed we made
number of ng PRESENTS and she expressed her ga
tuds BY weeping and assuring that her .Father in the
Heavens would bless and make happy wherever we
might CO. And the reader that the tears shed
by that old Of gears and ten were not the
only that sprung into the eyes that OCCASION albeit
unused to weeping
But have not given the reader idea of the home Of
this lonely being in truth, battles description Her
neghbor four miles off, and her only companions
in her solitude little dog and Her cabin stands
the waters edge, and directly the hillside it is
without window, but light in abundance in from the
gaping roof and sides the black and mouderng log habta-
on the chimney which is Of mud and sticks, and in
dlapidaed condition. Her bedsead is made Of small pine
sticks with the bark still on her couch consisting of hem.
lock boughs covered with straw upon which are two or three
wrechedly bedqults. In OF the room are
two three shelves, where displayed her cooking and
eating utensils, the original cost Of which (and they
very old and won could have been than one dollar
An old stool answers the purpose Of chair and board nail
ed the side of the cabin is her only table hanging from
the logs the side Of her bed or three old gowns
which help keep the air and the rain she is also the
Of spinning wheel and from the crevices Of the
logs around above and every where depend punches of herbs
and faded flowers which she has gathered in her ambes
but there taste and neatness displayed in the arrange
men Of the miserable furniture of the which gave it
really cheerful aspect We asked the old woman if she never
appehended any danger while thus living SO utterly alone
and she replied, Of course not who would harm poor
forsaken being like amt afraid even Of the bears for
its only last fall that down here and scratched up
my garden, but drove him off with big stick" Up to
this point every thing and heard concerning this
aged woman strange, but, when depart, we
still astonished to have her ve attention by
her wild movements and address to the following effect
Men, thank you for your goodness read, but
my Great Father has told me, in my heart, all about it
There is Heaven, men, and its very happy place and
there is hell men, and its very dreadful place they
both will never have end Now, men, good bye you
have been good to the old woman but part good
bye; we shall meet once more, at the Judgment but for
: only short time. Live, men, that you may get to
Heaven And we left this strange strange being; and
confident that long after her bones shall have mingled
with the dust trio Of travellers, if still living, will
Der with wonder and pleasure their interview with the Her.
NIT Woman of tie Aleghanies.