New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-11-30

only the desire occupies her heart and with
difficulty enables 1t to bear up She did not venture to
look behind her.
All at once two rough paws laid her shoulders
and the wideopen bloody jaws Of wolf hung
over her head 1t is the moat rsvenous beast of the
troop, which, having partly missed its leap 1t the ssdge
Is dragged along with IT. in vain seeking with its hinder
egs for resting place TO enable IL to get wholly the
rail vehicle The weight Of the body Of the monster
draws the woman BACKYARD. Her arms rise with the
child half torn from her, half abandoned it becomes
the prey Of the Esyenous beast which hastily carries it Of
into the forest Exhausted stunned senseess she drops
the reins and continues her journey ignorant whether
she is delivered from her pursuers or not
Meantime the forest grows thinner, and insulated
farmhouse to which side-road leads appears at mod
crate distance The horse left itself follows this new
path enters through open gate painting and foan
ing IL stands still and amid circle Of persona who
crowd round with good natured SURPRISE the unhappy
woman from her stupefscton to throw herself
with loud Of anguish and horror, into ths
Of the nearest human being. who appears to her
guardian angel All leave their work-the mistress Of
the house. the kitchen the thraser the barn. the eldest
son Of the family with bis in his hand the wood
which he had Just ceft-to assist the unfortunate wo
and with mixture of curiosity and pity to learn
by hundred inquiries the circumstances of her singular
refreshed by whatever can procured at the moment
the stranger gradually the Of speech and
ability to give ntegibe account of the dreadful tris
which she had undergone The insepsbility with which
fear and distress had steeled her heart begins to dsa
pear but teors seize herhe dry seeks In vale
for tear-she ia the brink Of bouudless misery Bal
her narrative had also excited conflicting feelings in tbs
bosoms of the auditors; though pity dis
and abhorrence imposed on all the same
silence only unabte to command the overpowerina
emotions his heart advanced before the resit wa,
the young with the axe; his cheaks were pale With
affrighthis wildy-rlling eyes flashed -omened fire
8 What s. he exclaimed, .three chdren-thne OWL
children the sickly innocentthe imporiug boy-ths
infant sucking out by the mother be deVoured
by the wolves Woman thou art unworthy to live :
And at the same instant the upifted deseends with
resisess the sku Of the wretcbed woman, wht
falls dead at his feet The perperator then calmly vpe
the blood off the and returns to his work
The dreadful tale speedily TO the knowledge Of th
magistrates, who caused the uncaed avenger to b,
arrested and brought to trial He was OF course sen
fenced to the punishment ordained by the laws but ths
sentence still wanted the sanction of the Emperor Alex
ander all the circumstances of this crime extra
ordinary in the motives in which it originated to b
reported to him in the mot careful and detailed
Here nowhere he thought himself called to exercis
the godlike prerogatve Of mercy by committing the
tence passed the criminal into condemnation to labo
not very severe and he accordingly sent the young
to the fortress Dunamunde at the mouth OF the Duna
there be confined to labor during the Emperors pea