Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-12-20

as she could, Out no one came ID hcT fcliel.
This morning she found that her feet and
limbs were badly swollen, and the skin, in
many places, broken
The discovery vert home 10 her heart,
and she commenced to make her peace with
God, and gave herself I'D to die. She tho't
if her infaut child wesc dead, she, too, could
die in noace but, to leave it to perish with
i old and hunger, was a thought more than
mothers heart could bear. She laid the
little thing down to freeze to death before
she should die herself, but when it wept, she
would take it up, aud clasp it to her bosom.
Despairing at last to make herself heard, as
the wind continued TO blow in contrary
direction, she resor.d to another expedient.
It was ti.is she pad her ehild's bonnet
around the dogs neck, and sent him to So
lett help. The poor animal as if perfectly
understanding her meaning, started off im-
mediately and was afterwards tracked to the
house nearest to his distressed mistress, and
then to mill; but it being Sabbath day
and extremely cold, the dwellings We're al
shut up, and none saw him, and in an hour or
two he returned and took up his station
When it was becoming about feeding time
she commenced calling again, and man on
the top CT 4 stack of hay heard her, and
told his wife that lie heard something or the
,mountain like person in distress; and h.
went to a neighbor aud tod him the SAM
thing to which the latter, however, only
replied i suppose it must be a panther.
This night was also spent in making her
peace with God, and she stated to me, that
if she had persisted that night, she had no
doubt but that she would have gone To
heaven. Part OF the night was spent in
great anxiety about her child. Her faithful
dog, as he had done before, kept close tc her,
and would lie down precisely where tald to
This circumstance, in connection with that
Of being covered with snow, kept her from
freezing to death.
In the morning, which was Monday, 81,
commenced calling, the third time for help
Her clothes were frozen to the ground, ant
kept her from rising, and her exhaustion
was complete. She called like one yielding
to despair; but the wind being now fNora.
BE. maa cho ga5 feeding his flock heafi
her voice, as also did his wife in the house
who WAS intimately acquainted with the dis
/ tressed heroine of our narrative, and who
said 10 her husband, IF Polly Boarer WIS
near, I should say it way her voice" James
Smyth and John Mcintyre took their guns
and mounted Their horses, when Mr. smytf
heard the same plain. Of distress. The sun
was about an hour high, and the long, lin-
gering beams, striking from tie far horizon
upon the snow-elad wilds, inspired feelings
Of the deepest gloom aud solitude.
They started again, but the feeble cry Of
die periahing wdgsan bad ceased; and JUS
as the men were taking a wrong direction,
she said that she felt all iude6nable, mystic
rious feeling come over her, which said that
if she would only call again, help would
como to her She therefore called once
more and was heard and found.
Bat new difficulty arose. She was fro
zen to the ground, and vas almost lifeiess,
aud her faithful dog refused to let the stran-
gers approach At length, however, he
was paeified She he'd not she'd a tear until
this moment of rescue i,ut now the tears
fell like rain drops from her eyes. She was
frozen to the ground, and was almost .ife-
less, and her faithful dog refused to let the
strangers approach st length, however,
he was paclfed, She had not shed tear
until this moment OF rescue. But now, the
tears fell like rain drops from her eyes. -
She was speedily conveyed to the nearest
house, where she became insensihle, and
remained so for twenty-fom hours. The
flesh fell, or rather peeled of her limbs, and
many of her toes came off; so that she was
unable to walk until the following August
a period Of over six montl's. Her husband
supposed that his wife was safe at her IA
theirs, and her father never thought that
she had started to visit his family. Tbs
horse, after becoming free did not return
home; so that there was no Suspicion test IL
regard to her safety
leave the reader to his and her own re.
tleetons on this incident | have heard The
mother and daughter tell in love-feast
what have here imperfoctly told you. How
true and how applicable in every condition
/ Of lite--in poverty or in health, III prosper
ity or III adversely, in sunshine or in storm
in plenty or in distross-that declaration 0
the divine Keeper of our raee--''Ny grace
| is sufficient for thee F" sa.