Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-09-12

They look for US their home to share
What joyful greeting wait
Beyond the river.
CUTTING AN OLD FRIEND.
Many years ago, the good ship 'Cleopa-
ira, arrived in Baltimore, with Il hundred
steerage passengers from the Emerald
Isle. Among the number were two
young men from Tyrone, who had mar
| ricd just on the eve Of sailing, and had
come with their buxom brides to seek their
fortunes in America. The latter had
grown up side from girlhood, and were
! intimate as sisters. The former were no
less intimate and attached to each other.
The names Of these adventurers were
| Terence Leary and his wife Margaret, and
Andy O'Shaue and his wife Biddv or
Bridget. The first idea of coming to
Amcrlc" had been suggested by Learv,
who was a quick, intelligent young man,
and had conceived the notion that a for
tune WAS to be made in the new country
across the Atlantic, from which ever and
anon were coming the most inspiring in
teliigence to the en!erprising and ambi-
ttlous. He had been during two or three
years gardener for an Irish gentleman, in
| whose family Mag5gy, his wife, had for
sometime acted aswaiting maid. O'Shane
was draper's clerk he had been bet
ter educated than. Leary, both as regards
school and home education; and the same
could be said of Bridget in comparing her
with Margaret. Notwithstanding this, the
| young men and their wives, as has been
said, were intimate friends, and when the
matter Of going TO America was decided
upon by Leary and Ma5gv, O'Shane and
Biddy were NOT long in making I'D their
minds to go with them.
After settling for their passage and en-
tcrlng the vessel in which they were to
sail, their joint wealth consisted of but
twenty sovercigns. This was to be the
basis Of their fortunes in the New World.
| Leary, who WAS a great deal more taIka-
tive than lis friend, had great deal to
say about what they should do in Amc-
rica. He proposed chat they should unite
their interests and stand BY each other in
good or evil fortune.
" Heaven knows, Andy" he would
sometimes say, "that Ide divide me last
crust, with yecs, ouy day. And Maggv
has the same fceliu' for BidLy, bless her
sweet sowl -
10 expressions Of this kind the more
thoughtful and reserved but equally warm
hearted Andy would reply, that while he
could hit hand or earn a penny the
friends Of his early Years should be as the
members OF his own household.
! With such feelings, and in mutual con-
, ildcnce, the young emigrants landed in
baltimore, where they soon made the ac-
'quaIntNnce Of some of their own country
men, and gained little Information in
regard to business and the prospect before
them. Neither Of these were found to be
very encouraging. Leary was the first
who obtained employment it was in the
capacity of laborer in digging out cellars
and foundations for houses about being
erected. This was several weeks after
their arrival, and when their few sover-
clSnS had become much fewer than when
they set their foot in land Of strangers.
1t was some time after this before O'Shane
got any thing TO do, and this was not un-
til he had seen nearly his last farthing-
During the discouraging period that
elapsed between the finding of work by
Lesry and the getting of employment by
O'Shane, not word was said by the for
mer, who had become very reserved to-
wards O'Sbane, about dividing his last
crust with him and Biidy.
A single sovereign remained of the ten
which made up the entire wealth of o.
Shane when he landed in the United
States, and his chances Of getting some
thing to do seemed no better than at 6rst.
This sovereign he determined to invest in
sundry small wares, aud try what he could
do in peddling them about from house to
house. In this he was more successful than
he expected his profits were, from the
first, enough to meet his small expenses,
and afterwards to gradually increase his
stock in trade, which from being only the
value of a sovereign at FIRST, was in the
course of few months, worth many soy
ereigns.
The digging of cellars was hard work,
much harder than attending a gentle
mans garden, and Leary, as soon as he
saw that O'Shane was doing we'll at ped
ding, became so much dissatisfied with
his employment that he determined to
give it up aud try what he could do with
1.-The "pack." He had nearly FIVE soye-