The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-11-07

:. vain endeavor to discover some hope
cessation of tugs going up and dow
and schooners and brigs pulling in an
out, by hearing most audible sob frol
some one near us. Itwas not the sob {
childhood, caused by some sudden chang
: from gaiety to grief; it was the so
from some maturer breast, filed with
sense of loneliness and despair. I
reached other years than ours. A lady
dressed in a manner which bespoke
wealth that could crafty taste and ele
gance, and who, like ourselves, was de
tanned at that place, stood near, accom-,
panied by three children, whose desire
to get at the extreme edge of the plat
form, was with great difficulty repressed.
| With woman's tenderness her heart
recognized the stifed ebulution of sor-
row, AID approached the person from
whence it came, who was none other
than the woman we have just seen land
from the vessel, she quietly, and in that
soft, sweet voice of woman which none
can resist, inquired if she stood in need,
or was she i'll, or was her sorrow such
that it could not be relieved A por-
tion of the railing near US was vacant,
and toward that, and almost at our side,
these two women came to converse =
The stranger was fair, handsome girl
of about seventeen years, neatly but re-
~ ccarsely dressed, with shoes not only
we'll worn, but heavy and unsuited as
much for her sex as the season. The
poor girl in honest simplicity, and with
an earnestness which despair alone could
impart, related her history, uninter-
rupted by a single observation from her
companion, but often accompanied by
tears of both. We have not space for it
at length, and We will give =, changing
its order jas1 enough 70 enable rs to re.
late it briefy~
She said that she was b1ru in Boston,
she had no brother or sister now; she
remembered that she had sister, the
oldest, whose name was Lizzie that sis
ter, years ago, against her fathers will
had married, and with her husband, hav-
ing been bauished the fathers sight, |
had gone off, aud had not been heard of
sincc-no doubt was dead. At the time
of her sisters marriage, her parents
were wealthy; the pride which drove
away Lizzie had brought silent regrets,
and after while came melancholy COM
plainings by the mother signing for the
embrace of her first born These soon /
led to anger and ordinations at home,
aud dissipation by the father abroad
Losses came upon them, and at last
gathering the few worldly goods they
possessed, they left the proud city of
their birth. and settled, five years ago,
upon land purchased from the govern
nent IN Wisconsin. Her brothers, some
oldcr and some younger than herself, one
by one drooped and died; and soon the
mother, calling in agony upon her long
sxiled daughter, joined her boys in a
I>nPier cline.
None were now left but the father I
md this POOR girl. He too was hum !
lied, and strichSn by that slow but Ger f
ain disease which lights up the cheek c
nd fires the eye with the brilliancy of 1
ealth, even when its victim is on the
onfnes of eternity; he would sit and t
ell to his surviving child the acts of v
INNING love, and sacrificing devotion, r
,hich had made his Lizzie the very OBJ l.
ect of life. He would talk Of her sweet
miles, and her happy disposition, until s
lemory would lead kim to the hour u
hen be bid her depart, and not let him 8,
,e her face again. His decline was a
lpid, and this lone child saw the first c,
overs which the warmth of Spring had OF
alled from the soil of her mothers b
rave, disturbed, uprooted, and thrown fl
side, that his ashes might mingle with tt
rose of the mother of his children. e.
At his death he charged her to pay az
f, as far as she might be able, the debts OIL
Icurred to procure the neccssaries of hi
fe; the land, which for want of cul- tt
ire, had not increased in value, was d.
I'D, and left her but few dollars in
hese she expended in rearing some u
oards to mark the spot where had been 70
uried, one after another, her beloved tt
inbred. She heard of Chicago She &C
i'd heard that in this city there were p.
ices where strangers wishing employ ia
ent could fad work. She had travel pt
| on foot many miles, until she reach OF
| Milwaukee, and thence by the kind Sc
.ss of poor sailor, who had seen her |
~ after day upon the dock. watching
Ie steamers depart, had enquired and
that she wished to come
ther, but had not the money. He
ought her to Chicago on his own yes 70
!, and had told her that by crossing en-
e bridge she could find one of those 7
aces where situations were given to to
,rthy apple ants. til
Such was her story. She had men, th
med no name except that of father, SIS
other, and the endearing appellations II
brother George, Willie, etc. Both oo
the women were weeping bitterly IL