Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-05-30


One spurn from his demonIac heel
Away, away they fly,
Where darkness might be bottled up,
And sold for "Tyrean dye"
And what would happen 10 the land,
And how wolld look the sea,
If, in the bearded devils path,
Our earth should chance 10 be
Full hot and high the sea would boil,
Full red the forests CLEAN
! Melhoughl heard and saw II all,
In a dysPeptic dream.
| saw The :utor take his tube
The Comets course 10 spy
| heard scream-the gathered rays
Had stewed the tutors eye
| saw a fort-lhe soldiers all
Were armed with goggles green
Pop cracked the guns! whIz flew The balls!
Bang went the magazine
saw the scaldlng pitch roll down
The cracking, sweating pines.
And streams of smoke, like water spouts,
Burst through tie rumbling mines
asked the fireman why they made
Such noise about The town
II answered. not, but all the while
The brakes went up and down.
saw roasting pnltet sit
| Upon baking egg;
| M Z, Ia ccDrcb Lilo bapI
Distinguishing his leg
saw nine geese upon the wing
Towards the frozen pole,
And every mothers gosIing fell
Crisped TO cracking coal
| saw the OK that browsed the grass
Wnthe in the blslerng rays,
The heritage in his shrinking jaws
Was all fiery blaze;
| saw huge fishes boiled to rags,
Bob through the bubbIing brine;
And thoughts Of supper crossed my soul
had been rash al mine.
Strange sights and sounds O! fearful
dream!
lis memory haunts NE still b;
The steamng sea, the crimson glare,
That wreatIled each wooded hill
Stranger if through thy reelihg brain
Such midnight visions sweep,
Spare, spare. 0 spare thine evening meal,
And sweet shall be Thy sleep.
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I>FoRMArIoN WAxrED.--There is now
in this city, says Fort Dodge paper, at
the house Of Maj. Williams, a Little boy
years old who escaped the bloody mas.
sacre bv the Indians a! Springfield, NJ. +.
on the 27th of March last, and who was
brought to town by the volunteers. who
went up 10 the rescue. He says his name
is John Sidman Stewart. We learn from
some Of the survivors Of the massacre, that
he is the son OF Josiah Stewart, formerly
of Indiana county, Pa. The boy says
that his grand-latber's name was Fleming
probably his mothers maiden name.
All the boys family. father, mother, and
two little sisters, are among the murder
ed.
Also, young lady. about l6 or II
years of age. named Elizabeth Gardner,
whose family were also murdered, she on
Iy escaping the horrid fate. She says her
fathers name was Roland Gardner, but
she knows not the residence Of any rela-
tives. Her father emigrsted from the
State Of Indiana TO this State, and was
formerly from Steuben county, New
/ York.
Both are desirons Of hearing from their
relatives, if they have any and all COM
municalions in reference TO them. address
sed TO Maj. William Williams. Fori
Dodge, Webster county, Iowa, will be
promptly answered. they will he kind
} ly cared for NIL such time as their Iriends
shall come for them.
Newspapers throughout the United
States will confer favor by publishing
the above.--UGpelto iowa) MfsiGgen
Ger.
4 The TENNESSEE WzEAr CRnP.-The
| Knoxville Wing SAYS:
There has been All unusually LARGE a.
mount Of wheat in East Tennessee. ans
il the season-is good from this In harves
there Will be crop gathering that velll a.
ionish The natives. If nothing h,ppen
to the growing crop, in view Of the amoun
that has been sown, IL will Weld our PEG
: pie in The thirteen Complies of tins end g
The Sale 90, 100000.