The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-11-14

stAhce-O Allce!, he uttered, sobolng ana
weeping as he spoke, "can you forgive me ior
what is passed?' .5..,s.ss -z.z =ssE
The gentle wife was bewildered at hrst-nay
almost frightened for the speech OF her husband
was so wild and incoherent, she feared his BRAN
was turned. But ere long he spoke again, and
As he spoke he kissed her. He was more calm,
and his voice was more, low. He told where ne
had been, and he spoke of the resolution he
had made. He did not tell of any trial he was
going to make, but he told her of theiron will
that had entered his soul. The night of his
| temptation had passed, and the day of his sal
yation had dawned. sa
! A few moments more, and the husband and
wife were upon their knees. Their emotions
were too deep for utterance-too wild and thrill
ing for speech. A moment they struggled there
and then wept in silence. d +. .aa. s65
| The little boy crept to the spot and threw
his tiny hands about the neck Of his parents
for even his young had caught the spark of new
| life that had been breathed into existence
within his happy home ls srg- -aeAssgss
On the next morning, Malcolm Warren,
arose better and happier man. He was calm
now, and he told Alice all that had transplred
the night before, and when it was told, they,
prayed as redeemed souls can pray. ela-ga
I Days, weeks, months passed away. Nal
colin Warren became once more the handsome
youth that had been loved and cherished by
honest friends in times gone by. The flowers
Of affection boomed again about his hearthstone
and the angel of peace and JOY made home
beneath his roof. ~
People wondered, when they noticed that
Adam Stanford went no more to the bar-room,
but the story of that nights's lesson in the vii
lage churchyard became generally known, and
other men took it to their hearts and prohtted
by it. It was good seed sown in fertile
spot. and the sexton never again gave his ex-
, ample on the side of moral ruin, but to the last
da7 of his life he glorifed in the reform he had
5 helped to work, and the last hours of his life
were cheered by knowing that some Of the hap
piest families in the village blessed him for the
S Joys that dawned upon them. ..z--E
ASAD AFFAIR-Fors some months past says
the Cincinnati Times, there have been com
plants made by the postsffice department at
: Washington, ofthe large number Of letters, with
:, :, money in them, lost in transmission through
:, Ohio, and which, it is said, SO far to exceed
: that of any other state. In consequnce OF these
: complaints the United States marshal has been
= unremitting in his efforts to ferret out and bring
y to Justice the depredators, in which, with the
= assistance of W. ]. Brown, and T. P. Shall
cross, the mail agents, he has been so far sue
cessful as to arrest, within the past FIVE months
;, no less than eleven postmasters, charged will
: this system of peculution, all Of whom have
- been examined before the the United State
- commissioner, and several held to bail to stant
-, their trial at the October term of the Unitet
!. States circuit court. There is no greater evl
4 than dishonest postmasters, and in many IN
70 stances the suffering they create is almost in
!. calculable, an instance Of which came unde
-, our observation few years since in st. Louis
~ ~ The head of a family, consisting Of wife an
es FIVE children, having some business to transat
- in Texas, left for that place. and when there
es discovered that he might employ himself fc
= some time in very profitable manner, he wrot
~ ~ to his wife in St. Louis, informing her of tn
: heightened absence, and at the same time SEND
&c ing remittance to enable her 10 defray her ex
,d penses, for they were comparatively poor, an
- expecting to return in a short time, he had le
;s her with but little money. Time passed
le and having finished his job in Houston
al he went to Austin, where he was prohta
II bly, employed for two months longer, when h
al returned to Houston to find a letter, which ha
= been in the postoffice there some time, from h
Ia wife, in which she upbraided him for leay
at ing her destitute, and stated that she was abor
70 being turned out of her abode in consequence
pd Of not being able to pay the rent. .a.
IT He Immediately went to the postofice to az
~ certain if his letter which contained the none
al he had sent Isl so one Of the Orleans banks
m had been forwarded. He was assured that
had, and with heavy heart sailed for Orlean
no on his way home, from which he had bee
. absent six months. The sorrowful sequel
~ soon told: Arrived at st. Louis, he found th
Il his unfortunate wife, who had failed recelvin
az, the letter containing the money, which was 10
DO between Texas and that city, and who was
consequence reduced to the bitterest shifts, fl
y they were comparatively strangers in St. Loui
on turned out of her once happy home, and hear
P se broken in the belief that the husband of HI
Io heart and father of her children had basely d
on serted her, had six weeks previously taken 1t
r N Youngest child, an infant of nine months Oh
,1e and in fit of desperation, upon dark al
On On stormy night, had cast herself and it into tt
M ;ts Mississippi, the turbid water of which SOC
nd nd stilled in death the unquiet throbbings Of h
m es maddened brain.
w ~ The poor motherless children were, in tt
w. w. meantime, taken care of by public chart
Liz NlttCIcu HuoDdHu, WIZ, duilhSoo NO a
se sence, had beguiled the weary working hou
nl Of the day with happy thoughts of blesse
.e. .es reunion with the loved ones, when he shou
er return successful, and whose visions at nig1
wait him off once again within the blissful ci
~, Gle of all he held dear, might well envy tt
hyy peaceful sumbering Of her who lay in the su
y cide's grave-for the body had been four
be the day after she had committed the rash ac
m ~ washed ashore on Bloody island, ,buthe lived fl
I'd his children though broken spirited and jo..
less man. s. -.,. ..m..-
RI All this misery was caused by the dishol
oe esty of rascally official, and we are glad
il see our United States marshal bestirring hin
or self with such yigor, for, knowing the indivie
as uals they have to deal with, fear Of detection
he ifnothing else, will perhaps keep those othe
10 wise inclined, honest.
Mr.. Fairbairn, c. Z. F. r. s., stated recen
u lv, before the British association of scient
ne that he had not been able to complete his e.
!, periments for the provisional report on '.tl
lu of IRON platac hicb he fa raa