New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-03-03

l the spot, gazing into the abyss of death and
horror. l saw, ! marked every thing; saw
the stecd with its burden dash from point to
I point; 1 even noted the sparks which the hoofs
If the agonized brute struck from the Ainty side
Of the ravine, and / distinctly heard low but
terribly clear shrek Of mortal agony mingiing
with the sullen crash, which told they had
reached their grave at the bottom,
The frenzy again came upon me; lest ell
thought, all fear regardless of the tremendous
height, swung myself down by bush and stone,s
4 getting footing and holding which, in other
circumstances, could have found or availed my
self OF. heard confused murmur Of voices
a'iove me, the gradual dminishment of which
was the only index to my progress; and at
length, bruised and breathless, but strong with
fever and madness, reached the bottom t
| At first could discern nothing my eye was
| oloodshot and dim; I was dizzy too and sick
| md faint; for the first excitation had begun to
| wear away. At last I saw something dark,
mingled with white; it grew plainer and palmer,
! ike the phantasmagorical scene of magic lxn-
tern; my sight gradually regained its wonted
power, my reason and consciousness returned,
and saw what will haunt me till the spirit
hath departed with the hesh-evens longer, it
may be- n
It was very terrible to be sitting there in that
wild fastness beside the dead, who but minutes,
moments, ay, had been rioting in life, and
health, and joy and had caused the change;
but for me, they still had been tenants Of this
fglad and sunny earth, still felt the blessed
freshness Of the western breeze, which now
whirled the withered oak leaves around their
unconscious forms. The solitudewa awful. /
have been in the wild battle, where death held
his bloodiest carnival; I have been at sea when
the masts were sprung, and the breakers ahead
were already baptizing the bows Of the devoted
ship; and have been in city whose walls
were crumbling, and whose palaces were sink
l Il Al IL Al
moment would have rushed into the whole Of
these united, if that could be, ais blessed re-
fuge from the calm, still quiet of death and de-
ISOLATION which that lonely gulf now presented.
! Helen's face, by some chance, was untouched,
unmutilated; her head resting the side Of
the horse, she seemed as if peacefully gazing at
me, as she was wont in by gone years, when re-
posing with ME on the sunny side of some green
d gowan-decked hill. l could not believe that
d what had happened was real II spoke to her
d grasped her hand yet warm with recent life
e laughed, upbraided her for her cold apathy
e and neglect ''What! not one word, Helen,
! after our long absence' Is this kind : 'Tis but
s to try my love; speak, Helen, speak but one
e word to say that you are still my own little
: black haired laughing Helen My eye glanced
i on the fearfully mutilated form of my brother !;
. the damning reality at once pressed upon my
brain; for an instant l felt torments to which
the severest bodily agony would be pleasure and
e ease; but madness, blessed madness. came to
$ my relief; and | awoke, as after a long and
: troubled sleep, in the very room where had
# slept when child.
e A strange fancy struck me; thought for a
It moment that ! was still boy that ray resi-
dence in India, the fearful crag, and the lapse of
g fifteen long years, were but the visionary crea-
II tions of the erratic dream OF single night /;
d and l almost expected to hear the laughing
voice of Helen We're outside my chamber door,
It chiding me for lying so long a-bed, when the sun
II had risen two hours before, and the tame stock
:, doves would be wearying for their accustomed
Is food.
a Two old withered hags, sick nurses, presume
It sat each side of my couch in earnest converse
b and gently raised myself on my elbow to lis
It ten. In truth, said one, &c It's an awful story
'tis lucky the old man died before he knew it was
j. his SON." s' What strange fancies he had, to be
= sure" quoth the other :. because the bride was
\, timersome, and did not like riding a-horseback
); he must needs have the bridemaid to take her
J. place; well, we'll, old folks will have their fan
lie cies; the laird was ever particular in keeping
y up the freaks of the family. 1 could hear nc
l. more: She cas true, then - | yelled, and
" sunk back stunned and senseless, like one
.p stricken with million thunderbolts.
t. found myself naked and chained in the dun
It. geon of mad d-house it was cold, piercing cold
1t the night was wild and stormy; high, hoarse
ny voiced wind shook the dark, tall trees whicl
r. reflected by the bright moonlight, danced an,
lie fickered the roof and walls of my cell, lk
he demons laughing at and mocking my dis
he tress great moping sereech-owl was perchet
r; outside the gratings of the window, and as tn,
n neghboring church clock chimed the hour O
" one it slowly and sluggshly raised its head TO,
re Il moment, opened its heavy dull eye and ther
of slumbered as before; the clanking of chain.
Id was sullenly heard at intervals, and above anG
" below, and from every side, came fearful de
is moniac-hke gusts of screaming and laughter
Id and shrieks of insensate agony, and wild, darl
til blasphemes and eXecrations.
Thanks be to God I nm again in my SOUND
Il mind the fierce remembrance of the above
t. fearful passages has softened down into set
A. tied, permanent melancholy. | can not beal
al society; | see no one but the old clergyman o
r. the village, whose pious communings havs
i tended in no small degree to make me bear my
= lot with patience But when lock at the desc
So lation which pe"vades my paternal mansion anc
Sc lawns, when look at my worn out frame, and
ce my hair prematurey gray with sorrow ane
v watching, and think that with ME one of tn,
: oldest families in the land will cease to exist,
- feeling of unspeakable loneliness will ever ant
, anon steal upon me ; and think with chastene,
! wonder upon the ways of that God, which ar
:, past finding out, and which battle and put t
"a fault the wisest ilnaginings of poor, erring
,t short sighted race.
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