Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-12-05
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EFFERSON COUNTY, VA SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER s. 1857
The shadows of an Awful Winter.

The Shadows of an Awful Winter.
The following eloquent extract is Ia
ken from discourse lately delivered by
Rev z. Fl. Chaplin to his congregation in
New York:
alt is not the ruined merchant, merely
it is not The spectacle or deprecated
property and lost credit, and ihe manifold
discomlorls Of usual baukruptcy-Ihat
makes US shudder and grow sad. Around
the gloomy shadow there is still darker
rim. Away down below the platform OF
financial transactions there looms sea OF
faces~-these faces Of workingmen and
workingwomen, looking up among the
stopped machinery Of the factories, and
the silence of ship-yards, and all the des-
olations Of suspended labor; looking up to
the shadows an awful winter overcast
ing Them. Men and brethren, what shall
we do for those whose hard earned dollars
are not merely honor and credit, but
bread and blood and life ilseif What
shall we do for The poorest Of babes, that
must hang on the wIIed breasts OF fam
inc, and for the women for whom we
must say something more than God help
them J" All, yes, financial crisis is
matter for tears and shudderlng, as well
As for arithmetic and rumOr.
Mysterious Disappearance OF a Child.
On Monday last, portion Of Rocking
ham county, (Va.,) Was thrown into great
eXrlI, menr. by the report that two chH-
dren, each about two years old, were lost
in or near the Peaked Mountalp. The
facts Of The case appear TO be these I: The
Youngest child of Mrs. Mallory was al
near neighbor's playing with her child OF
about the same age, and rambled oil To-
gether in the woods. She says they were
not gone more than ten minutes before she
heard child crying, aud went in search
for them and found her child, but II could
not tell where the other child was. The
neighbors were sent for, and close search
made for the lost child, but without sue
cess that DAY. They assembled again at
night, with torches resumed the search,
but heavy rain falling in the nighi, they
were compelled 10 quit unIll the ensuing
day, when a large number assembled, AID
forming themselves into a line, about ten
steps apart, they traversed ilte mountain
for several miles around, but finding no
trace Of The lost child. and wearled With
the hard travel, they would fam have giv-
en- up the ea.ch, but the tears OF The al
most heart.broken parents promoted them
to renew the hunt, until the darkness OF
night compelled Them, Win sad hearts,
to relurn. The S arch was continued ~
this manner for several days, but without
success.
The place where the child was found
by its mother, was about half mile from
the house, and ii seems impossible that u
could have gone SO far in so short time
(ten minutes) as ns mother said, and
equally impossible that she could have
heard it cry SO far. These evidently false
statements, in connection with ether car.
tend TO throw suspicion in that
quarter. and will probably lead TO an ex-
animation, as many persons believe that
the child was stolen. About four years
ago. the mother Of the lost chile was shot,
through a crack in the house. whilst dc.
posting her babe in The cradle.