Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-12-04
"AwFUL coSFLAGRAT.ox!!l

YESTERDAY, Sunday Feb 5rh about o'clock P.
n the --'s Facjory located At this place,
took fire and burnt to tn" ground. Scarcely any
thing saved uiIiiug ant Machinery total loss.
Loss estimated from $4,000 to 1920 OOp."
Wbv. thought !, whose Factory Is thar, that's
been burning up? looked again. That isn't our
-'- factory { N---e? AnOth, look.
God of Heaven, IL W.! The blow, heavy and
stunning, was upon ne. fit that in one moment
I was hopelessly ruin 1usly bankrupt Will lh-
lasted, there was to be nothing on earth l could
look upon, and say, with the blessing OF God, this
Is nv own. All hope of soon beiDg ahIe to soorhe
the delicate health or shield the fragile form OF
nv wife with those grateful comfort or elegances
that wealth alone afaTds, was gon" forever. In a
few minutes, o siugularly quiet apaty settled upon
nv feelings that left nay department even more
natural and uuconstrain-j, | lux, than usual
have Il that leaden ease from suffering, hundreds
of times since, en- suddenly oVs rWhelned by d
moral blow, or rejecting upon one DO not know
that ] ever felt it before. Often and often have l
experienced even that very 'sLEEP for sorrow,
whose stupor, we are informed, OveTcame the Dis
clDies while vote ing for their Lord, who was in ag-
onv, "sa eating great roPs Of blood, filling down
TO the GROUND" in the garden OF Grthsemane.
The last time ! felt the wakeul dcadness alluded
TO- az Culy a few months ago. II was RAINY,
dispirring loOkin- day. l was standing in beau
tiful valley, iregu'arly surrounded by v'ry high
hills, the tops OF some OF which were tast fully
crowned with forest timber, that iTnged down TO
the fields with smaller shTuhby growth OF pine,
hemIOyk and chestnut. C an, VaIlOusiy rolling
meadow, was spread out b, fore me- every uhdulI-
ting feature OF which was as familiar to rue a yes
terday though 20 years had elapsed since vie wing
it before just on the top Of a grassy bank, that
stoned sharply down 70 a little rivulet, formed III
part by a -pring rising above, stood number ol
aged apple trees thar, with some cherry and plumb
tres. now gone, once partly surrounded nous,
the traces OF the foundation OF which, with pllrs Ol
Il .vV.I.a limo I'M. FItf
visible. Ten or fifteen PAGES off, IN little recess
IN the bank, wa- the spring, where formerly was d
neat cool spIiug -housc or dairy shaded, T. en- by
tremb.ingaspeu faint trace on the rass tnai X
tie path from the house TO the spring. stood IL
that path The 1.-THE young forms ana ct OF my SIS
tors al 10 years sine cold ID DEATH that had ran
and we'd wit. me Ia that path ten thousand tim :,
were. in Imagination again With me. An lndehua
bic .use Of their presence surrounded me. An
atmosphere Of teuCcri yeaTnnS agO' y psrVaHed
and Ov,rwh, lined me. II was greater tuan cOuii
bfgr | was sinking under II, ana tylt myself, as
It were gliding downwaTcs into the very earn,
when suddenly, nothing was about me tut wet
rrl-s common large 8pplr trees, and rainy look
in, IarFscape. 4 sense of complete l., adeu quet,
utterly null OF any feeling was all was conscious
Of ] can give 10 idea Of it, unless the liant one
Of o. lson standing under the thunder OF Magyar,
suaG,rlv putting their finger IL Their cars, OF
with Cual Quckuess, becoming deaf. Had any
boav come along | could have Ugued and chat
ted with th, m about the weather, with as Hatura.
and real indifference as themselves. 4 few MIN
u.,s, and the came atmosphere OF young, hoping
childhood. with the dear faces and well remember
&c forms Of nv sisters again breathing in me.
same sense Of exquisiteIy tender, decorating az
lection, mt laucL oily ana true, rolled over me.
A very tangible living pTts,Lcc was around me,
that il seemed ] must put my arms out anu rest
upon, as the only support from swimming, elidm-
down into the caIth again. When in al Instant all
ives gone, and the OuIy thing occupying ny atler-
fOr was ia, misty patl,riug Of the rain drops upon
my uu br,a. This happened four FIVE times.
bean slowly 10 understand that son thiug WAS
wrong. and that this would not do. l began to
appreciate from cent fearful ,xper:enc" the pres
enc Of or NJ danger, and that | must leave
Puchiug an apple from tee near whore once vas
d window, | cast one more look around the dear
familiar GROUNDS; yelruIng Tenderness again cOu-
merccd w.lI,rlug me, anc with lings OF alarm,
crossed the fence, TOOK the road down the val
ley BY the time l wa fairly out Of SIGHT in the
woods an old hunter met me, with gun hIs
slould,r, caring nothing for the rain. lie IOd me
tLaJI 1877 be bad h,Ip ped To raise the house, th,
tr-c s OF the foundation If which l al just left.
lie knew ny leth r and all the family well. Aud
holding my uu.br, la over ", We had q long talk.
l walked hin. niles that dty through the rain.
Aud b tore Lii 1t, head the drumming of tue hIs.
pheasant l had ard since leaving the very same
locality - yc.Ts before.
n uuy's waIk, from house to house, you may
have seen some account OF already.