Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-11-07

flee of the district Judge. with a circuit
embracing all the counties on the Rio
Grande. Nomore auspicious post could
have been desired by young man de.
voted to the pursuit of ambition, since
it opened the path to political influence
and the first step led directly into the
halls of Congress. But singular to say
the stranger did not hesitate an instan,
to refuse the flattering offer.
A week subsequently, he laid asid,
his fashionable dress, clothed himself ir
leather, purchased the most powerful
horse in the market, with hardy mult
for carrying burdens, provided "a tent
cloth hatchet. tin cup, frying-pan ant
several long ropes. and set out alone
into the ctapparet of the desert Thu
equipped, he wandered for weeks in tn,
great prairie, which expands like Sc;
between Laredo and Bexar; and finall,
pitched his camp near a romantic foun
tain, some fifty miles from the former
village, and half that distance from thu
Rio Grande.
Here he lived in utter solitude during
three consecutive years, never approach
ing the settlements. or having the slight.
est intercourse with the human species,
save the ferocious bands Of savage Indians,
against whom he waged eternal war
But, although isolated from his kind, he
did not spend his days in idlenass or his
nights in ease. He subsisted entirely on
the spoils Of the chase, which furnished
him alike with food and raiment. lie
cultivated with his own hands a. lovely
garden, Glled with flowers and fruits, and
employed all his leisure hours in the Ia
borious pastimc of catching the feetest
mustang. and the finest wild cows, until
his property amounted to enormous herds
all thoroughly tanned and domesticatcd.
/ Such an existence. apart from its un'
relieved lonelines, was exposed to ever
lasting peril as his location was situated
on the line usually followed by the Cam
anches in their pre- latory incursions into
Mexico. What, then, it may well be
asked. was the charm of such life, that
could fascinate SO much erudition, intel
lect and genius from all the siren allure
ments ofc vili1ation, away into the shad-
owy depth, of the old dangerous woods.
and cause their posScsSor to forget the
subim- ambition of man and the serene
banty Of woman? That mystic spell ot
enchantment was the love of solitude, in
herent in every imaginative mind, and
only with few more potent than the pas
sioa for society There are hour, when
the most gilly glittercrs of the world
sigh to be alone, with nothing around
them 5u, the Titanic shape, OF eternal ma
ture--the great unchaugins earth, with
its green trees, hoary rocks and tho glo-
rioRs vault Of heaven, with its frownng
storms or stars Of untadmg fire. Let this
sentiment become permanent and para
mount. and the solitary happiness Of the
hermit ceases to be incomprehensiblc.
At last. however, an event occurred
which produced complete revolution in
the character of the Texan anchorite -
Daring one of his excursions on the pra
re he discovered three Indians, who were
returning from foray into Mexico, with
female prisoner Instantly giving them
chase, he killed two Of them, and rescued
their captive. His surprise and pie lsure
may be imagined, when he saw in the wo-
man delivered from a doom more fearful
than death, the same young girl that he
had formerly defended in his combat with
the Walkers.
After mutual g tinss and cxplana-
tions, the hunter kind y offered to con-
duet the rescued maiden across the river
to her home. But it seemed she no long
er had home, the cruel Camanches hay
ing murdered the whole Of her father 5
family, and leaving the daughter with
out single relative in the wide world
1t was also evident to Clayton that the
remembrance of his first generous act i'll
her behalf had kept alive u more than
ordinary interest in the poor girls heart,
which his recent conduct had, if possible.
greatly increased. Indeed, sac soon ae-
knowledgei that she loved him to mad
ness, and entreated to be permitted to re-
main aud share his solitary fortunes.
1T cannot be Us you wish, replied her
preseryer, mournfully; for | have nc
longer any affection worthy of the name
to bestow on living clay. My heart lies
cold in the sepulchro Of a buried bride
beneath the dust of Carolina. She fell
down victim to the stroke Of cholera
even at the altar, with the halt-breathed
vow upon her dying lips, and | feel ths
impossiblty of ever loving another. =
To this she rejoined in language of un
speakable tenderness, not the flowery
bloom and freshness of the heart and de
string nothing but to serve him as YES
tai before some sacred shrne-to gaze up
on him as n star--and to worship him a
an idol.
1t was therefore no marvel if the exil'
of sorrow yielded to such passionate de
votion, and the next day they were wed
ded in the Catholic church at Mier, Tn,
wife was an heiress of great wealth; bu
they converted all their effects into cash
and departed on the steamer for New Or
leans, whence they sailed Immediately fo,
Europe, and have since resided in Paris
A few months ago, gentleman o
Brownsville received letter from Capt
Milton Clayton. that was only filed, from