The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-07-31

and the moon occasionally looked over the sill
very battlements of the great clouds.
| As bred was starting to 20 forward, one OF
these clear revealings showed him the covering
form of a man, crouched at the root of a tree
few PAGES in front of him. He was evidently
fugitive, and, in fact, was the one of whose
escape to the swamps the Georgia trader had
complained on the day Of the meeting.
| Who il here, at this time of night?n said
bred, coming up to him.
have lost my way" said the other. 81
don't know where anil"
"a runaway" inquired bred.
Don't betray mel" said the other, appre.
hensively.
Betray you'll Would I do that?" said
Dred. How did you get into the swamp"
u got eway from a souldriver's camp, that
was taking US on through the Statesn
30, OF" said bred. Scamp meeting and
drivers camp right alongside of each other
Shepherds that sell the flock, and pick the bones!
Well, come, old man I'll take you home with
me-"
I'm pretty much beat out" said the man.
Its been up over my knees every step and /
didn't know but they'd set the dogs after me-
II they do, I'll let EN- kill me- and done with it,
Tor I'm bout ready TO have it over with. got
tree once, and got clear up to New York, and
two children, with little money beforehand /;
and then they nsbbed me, and sent me back
again, and mas'r sold me to the drivers, and
oeileVe LIS bout as goods die. There's no use
IN trying to hve-everything going agin a
Die! No, indeed, you won't" said bred ;
mot If I've got hold of you Take heart, man,
take heart Before morning, I'll put you where
the dogs can't find you, nor anything else.
Come, up with you |"
The man rose up, and made an effort to fol-
low; but, wearied, and unused as he was to the
choked and perplexed way, he stumbled and
Tell almost every minute.
How now, brother?" said bred. "This
wont dol must put you over my shoulder, as
l have many buck before now!" And. suit
ing the action to the word, he put the man on
his back, and, bidding him hold fast to him
went ON, picking his way as if he scarcely per
ceived his weight.
IL was now between two and three o'clock
and the clouds, gradually dispensing, allowed
the full light OF the moon to slide down here
and there through the wet and shivering foliage
No sound was heard, save the humming of in
sects and the cracking plunges by which bred
made his way forward
GU must be pretty strongl" said his com.
panlon. "Haye you been in the swamps long?'
es," said the other, Il have been wild
man-every mans hand against me-a com.
panion of the dragons and the owls, this many a
year. have made my bed with the leviathan,
among the reeds and the rushes. / have found
the ailgators and the snakes better neighbors
than Christians. They let those alone that let
them alone; but Christians will hunt for the
precious life."
After about an hour of steady travelling, bred
arrived at the outskirts of the island which we
have described. For about twenty PAGES before
he reached il, he waded waistdeep in water.
Creeping out, at last and telling the other one
TO follow him, he began carefully coursing along
time, a long, shriIl, peculiar whistle. 1t was
responded to by similar sound, which seemed
to proceed through the bushes. After while
cracking noise was heard, as of some animal
which gradually seemed to come nearer and
nearer to them, till finally large water-dog
emerged from the underbrush, and began testi-
flying his Joy at the arrival of the new conner,
by most extravagsnt gambols.
$50, no Buckl quiet, my boyl" said bred.
" Show us the way in /"
The dog, as if understanding the words i'm.
mediately turned into the thicket, and bred and
his companion followed him, on their hands and
knees. The path wound up and down the
brushwood, through many sharp turnings, till
at last it ceased altogether, at the roots of a
tree, and, while the dog disappeared among
the brushwood, bred climbed the tree, and di.
rected his companion to follow him, and, pro-
ceeding out on to one of the longest limbs he
sprang nimbly on to the ground in the cleared
space which we have before described.
His wife was standing waiting for him, and
threw herself upon him with cry of Joy.
90, you've come back / thought, sure
enough, dey'd got you dis time |"
"Not yet / must continue till the opening
of the seals-till the vision cometh Have We
buried him?"
ono; there's grave dug down yonder, and
he's been carried there"
"Come, then i" said bred.
AT distant part of the clearing was blast
ed cedar-tree, all whose natural foliage had per
ished. But it was yelled from head to foot in
long wreaths of the tllandsia, the parasitic moss
of these regions, and, in the dim light of the ap-
preaching dawn, might have formed no unapt
resemblance to gigantic spectre dressed in
mourning weeds.
Beneath this tree bred had inferred, from
time to time, the bodies of fugitives which he
found dead in the swamps, attaching to this dis
position OF them some peculiar superstitious
The widow of the dead, the wife of bred,
the shallow grave for the soil was such as
scarcely gave room to make place deep enough
for grave, without its becoming filled with
water.
Inc GAVIN was just commencing dim fore |
shadowing in the sky. The moon and stars
were still shining.
bred stood and looked up, and spoke, in a |
solemn voice:
"Seek him that maketh Areturus and Orion
that turneth the shadow of death into morningl |
Behold those lights in the sky--the lights In
his hands pierced for the sins Of the world, and |
spread forth as on a cross But the dsy shall
come that he shall lay down the yoke, and he
will bear the sin of the world no longer. Then
shall come the great judgment. he will lay
righteousness to the line and Judgment to the |
plummet, and the hail shall sweep away the
refugees of lies"
He stopped, and, lifting the body, laid him
IN the grave, and at this moment the wife broke
into loud lament.
"Hnsh womanl" said bred, raising his hand.
Weep ye not for the dead, neither bewail him,
but weep ye gore for the living! He must lie
ill the rest of his brethren be killed; for the
vision is sealed up for an appointed time. If
{ tarry, wait for it. 1t shall surely come, and
'hall not tarryl"
EMIGRATION FOR SIX MoNrHs-The follow
ng shows the number of enigrants who arrived
1t the port of New York during the last six
months; also, a comparison between the ex-
bred portion of the present year and the cor.
responding portion the last three years:
1883. 1854 1855 1856
January 4,s0l 1854 7,485 2,344
february 1858 4,446 6,l23 1924
March $685. 1888 2,O69 1854
April 1858 3l,l48 1875 1926
Day 30,2l2 54,O78 24I77 1906