The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-08-14
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Cutting an Old Friend.

Many yyears ago, the coed ship CLEOPATRA,
arrived in Baltimore with hundred steer age
passengers from the Emerald Isle. Among
the number were two young men from Ty.
rome, who had married just on the eve o.
sailing, and had come with the buxom brides
to seek their fortunes in America. The lat.
ter bud grown up side by side from childhood,
and were intimate as sisters. The former
were no less intimate and attached to each
other.
The names Of these adventurers were Ter.
rance Leary and his wife Margaret, and An
dy O'Shane ard his wife Biddy or Bridget
The first idea of coming to America, had
been suggested by Leary, who was quick.
intelligent young man, and had conceived a
notion that fortune was to be made in the
new country across the Atlantic, from which
ever and anon was coming the most inspi-
ring intelligence to the enterprising and am
bilious. He had been during two or three
years gardener for an Irish gentleman, in
whose family Maggy, his wife, had for some
time acted as waiting maid. O'Shane was
adraper's clerk he had been better educa.
ted 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 gefng to
America had been decided upon by Leary
and Maggy, O'Shane and Biddy we're not
long in making up their minds to 60 with
them.
After settling for their passage and enter
ing the vesselwith which they wished to
sail, their wealth consistedo of but twenty SOW
ereigns. This was to be the basis OF their
future fortunes in the New World. Leary
who was a great deal more talkative than
his friend, had great deal more to say about
what they should do in America. He pro.
posed that they should unite their interests
and stand by each other in good or evil for
tune.
Heaven knows, Andy" he would some
times say, ''thatI'd divide me last crust with
yees. ony day. And Maggy has the same
feehn' for Biddy, bless her sweet soul !"
as. To expressions of this kind, the more
thoughtful and reserved but equally warm
hearted Andy, would reply, that while he
could lift hand or earn penny the friends
~ his early years should be as the members
hs own household.
With such feelings, and in mutual conf.
dence, the emigrants landed in Baltimore
where they soon made the acquaintance oi
some OF their own countrymen, and gained q
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
& twas in the capacity of laborer in digging
out cellars and foundations for houses about
: being erected. This was several weeks af
I ter their arrival, and when their few sover.
{. eigns had become much lower than when
they set their foot in the land OF strangers
It Was some time after this before O'Sbrne
got anything to DO, and this was not until he
hadseen nearly his last farthing. During
the discouragng period that elapsed between
the finding work by Leary, and the getting
Of employment by O'Shane, not word wa.
said BY the former, who had become very re-