New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-03-24

solitary meditation into a high state OF entnu-
siasm, can endure this kind of contact with low
and, vulgar modes of thought and feeling 70
which Ethan Brand was now subjected. 1t
made him d. ibt, end, strange to say, II was
painful Doubt, whether he had indeed found the
Uopardonable Sin, and found it within himself
The whole question on which he had exhausteo
life. and more than life, looked Ike a deiuson'
"Jeave me- he said, bitterly, "ye brute
beasts, hat have made yourselves SO, shriveillng
mn your souls with fiery liquors! ] have done |
with you Years and years ago CROPPED into |
your hearts and found nothing there for my pur- !
pose. Get ye gomez
ssWhy, you unciyil scoundrel,' cried the
fierce doctor, &c is that the way you respond to
the kindness of your best friends +! Then let me
tell you the truth. You have no more found the
Unpardonable Sin than yonder boy Joe mas
You are but q crazy fellow. told you SO twenty
years ago; neither better nor worse than
crazy fellow, and the fit companion OF old
Humphrey, here"
He pointed to an old man, shabbily dressed,
with long white hair, thin visage, and unsteady
eyes For some years past thisaged person mad
been wandering about among the hills, inquring
of all travellers whom he met for his daughter.
The girl, it seemed, had gone off with a com
pany of circus performers, and occasionally
tdnps of her came to the village, and fine stories
| we're told of her glittering appearance as she
| rode on horseback in the ring, orperformed mar
vellous feats on the tight-rope.
| The white haired father now approached
Ethan Brand, and gazed unsteadily into his face.
| "They tell me you have been all over the
Wn,, ,,s. have seen NV daughter, for
ness lou inu ron i"t t;unre in The world and
aror,l hndv roee IN see her. Did she send any
wori 10 iar nl5 father. or saw when she is
coming back ("
| Ethan Brands eye auailed beneath the old
mans. That daughter, from whom he so earn,
estly desired word of greeting, Ethan Brand
had made the subject of psychological expert
ment. and wasted, absorbed, and perhaps ami
biIated her soul in the process
| ,syos ;, ,,nrrpred he ,prn;no AWAY from the
boarv wanderer. dit is no delusion. There is
nn IfnrorJonobla Sin
~, y - r,ourr soo,,o
4 Mhiie these .nih!s es 20 ohaarf,yy i;oht
was gong lorMalo IN ~ AZ " AZ 80 tha Snt
pesde the spring. anu oeiore .ne "oo, Vi 'no nut
A number OF the youth OF the village, young
men and girls, had hurried up the hill SIDE, I'M
PEELED by curiosity to see Ethan brand, the nero
: OF SO many legend tamiiar 10 thef cnil9nooo
fihdlns notmng' however, very reuarn :,
his experimenting but a sunpurnt waylarer
in plain garn and dusty shoes, VINO sat looking
into the fire, as If he fancied pictures among tht
Goals, these young people speedily grew tred o.
, observing him. AS 1t happened, there was othel
amusement at hand Anold German Jew, trav
! ellQQ WIN q ulOrhlud Oh HIS UdChs was passing
! down the mountain road toward the village jus
! as the party turned aside from it and, in tn
= hopes of eking out the profits OF the day, tn
= Snowman had kept them company to the lime
i kiln,
= "Come, old Dutchman," cried one Of tn
= young men, "let US see your pictures, if yo
B.. can swear they are worth looking IT."
nob YES. co,taip.n answered the Jew
!, uhe,ber az a matter Of courtesy or craft, b
~ stvIed every body oanta;n-"I shall show yor
" 800 49, ,,ory s,rorh n;c,ure. D,
e. nIoc;no tbe bor in n nroner nosition. h
! ;rr;tsd the young man and oirls To Look throur
j the class orifces Of the machine. and proceede
N eyhib;t n series of the most cutra peou
;, scratehinps and daubincs, as specimens Of til
az 0mts shat evar M ;,;nerant showman ba
"a tho TOGO 70 ;nnose unon his circle of ,pectators
- The n;ctures we've worn ont. moreoyerLta.tered
so full Of cracks and wrinkles dingy with tobact
i smoka AND otherwise in most pitiable cond
10 t;on Some purported to be the cities, publ
~ edifoas- and ruined castles in Europe: othe
a. represented Napoleop's battles and Nelsons SCI
Az che on5 in the midst of those might be SCI
y = r;oaniic brown. hairy hand, which mig
h. have been mistaken for the hand of Destin
ar though In truth it was only the Snowman poin
III ing his forefnger to various scenes of the co
fiict, while its owner gave historical illustr
.. tions When. with much merriment at its abol
he Unable deficiency of merit, the exhibition W
ar cOncl uQeu the GERMAN Ddue lltlle put L
of head into the box. Viewed through the magr
no flying glasses. the boys round rosy yisage a
,r sumed the strongest Imaginable aspect of an II
mt mense Titanic child, the mouth grinning broa
M / y, and the eyes and every other feature owe
adj flowing with fun at the joke. Suddenly, no
all ever, that merry face turned pale, and ITS e
he preston turned to horror, for this easily II
an pressed and excitable child had become sensit
nd that the eye of Ethan Brand was fixed upon h
10 through the glass.
ne You make the little man to be afraid, ca
led tain," said the German Jew, turning up the da
am and strong outline Of his yisege from his stoc
len ing posture. &c But look again, and, by chan
air shall cause you to see something that is We
fine, upon my wordH'
s Ethan Brand gazed into the box for al
,ut stant. and then, 'nrting back, looked txedly
at the German. What had he seen Nothing
,ut parently, for curious youth, who had peer
Me in almost at the same moment, beheld onl,
md vacant space Of canvas
n a 81 remember you, now" muttered Eth
ass Brand to the Snowman.
,ad "Ah, captain" whispered the Jew of Nure
md burg, with dark smile, Il find it to be hes
me matter in my show-box-this Unpardona
90. Sin By my faith, captain, it has wearied
er- shoulders this day to carry it over the mo-
,or. tain.
md "Peace!" answered Ethan Brand, sterr
eas sor get thee into the furnace yonder."