Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-10-20
.PoMEROY, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 20. 1857.

fdiHs ITO TlCE, bthT-ilhc RlhHCc PIN Itf0s-
ed her own, and the subtitle fascination
kept her bound. The mental energies, how
ever, in the moment Of their greatest trial,
now gathered suddenly to her aid, and
with desperate effort, but with a feeling
of most annoying uncertainty and dred ,she
succeeded partially in the attempt, and
threw her arms backwards, her hands
grasping the neighboring tree, feeble, tot
Iering, and depending upon it for that sup
port which her own limbs almost entirely
denied her. With her movement came,
however, full development OF the powerful
spell and dreadful mystery before her.
"As he feet receded, though but a
single pace TO the tree against which she
now rested, the audible articuleied ring,
Ike that Of the watch when wounded up
with the verge bl loken, announced the ma
ture of the splendid yet dangerous pres
ence, in the form of monster rattlesnake.
now 5ut a few feet before her. lying coiled
at the bottom Of beautiful shrub, with
which, to her dreaming eye, many Of its
own glorious hues had been associated She
was at length conscious enough to per-
ceive and feel her danger; but terror had
deprived her Of the strength necessary to
fly from her dreadful enemy. There still
glared the eye. beautifully bright and
piercing, fixed upon her own; and. seem
ingly in the spirit of sport. the insidious
reptile slowly unwound himself from his
coil, but only to wind himselfup again in
to his muscular rings, his great fiat head
rising in Me mids,, and sioscky nodding as
IL ,oere toward her, tt~ eye still peering into
h.r oson, Me rattis ightly ringing at inter
vd's, and giving forth that paralyzing
sound, which once heard, is remembered
forever. The reptile all this while being
conscious Of, and to sport with rhile seek
ing to excite her terrors. Now, while its
fiat head, distended mouth, and curving
neck, would it dart forth its long form to
warn her--its fatal teeth, unfolding on
either side of its upper jaws. seeming to
threaten her with instantaneous death,
while its powerful eye shot forth CLAN
ces of that fatal fascination, Indignantly
bright. which, by paralyzing with moved
form Of terror and of beauty. may readily
account for the spell which it possesses Of
binding the feet of the timid. and denying
even to fear the privilege of flight. Could
she have fed? She felt the necessity but
the power of her limbs was gone; and there
still it lay. coiling and uncoiliug, its arch
ed neck glittering like a ring of bronzed
copper, bright and lurid, and the dreadful
beauty of it's eye still fastened, eagerly
contemplating the victim. W hile the pen
dnlous rattle russg the death note, as if to
prepare the conscious mind for the fate
which is momently approaching the blow.
Meanwhile, tie stiffness became dedth-iike
aOiM al surrounding odJects. The bird had
gone with It's scream and rush. The leaves
family quivered on their stems. The SER
pent once more lay still, but the eye was
never turned away from the victim. Its
corded muscles are all in a coil. They
have but to unclasp suddenly, and the
dreadful foils will be upon her in iull
length, and the fatal teeth will strike, and
the deadly venom which they secrete
will mingle with the life blood Of her veins.
1.-The terrified damsel, her full con-
seriousness restored Tut not to her strength,
feels all her danger. She sees that the
spcrt of the terrible rrptils is at an e"d--
She cOnRot no,o m stake the hOrrid erpres-
sion Of Ills eye. She tries to scream, but
her voice died away to a feeble gurglng in
her throat Her tongue is paralyzed--hel
lips sealed, once more she strives for flight,
but her limbs refuse their Office. She has
nothing left Of life but it's fearful conscious
ness. II is in her despair, that, as last
effort she succeeds to scream single
wild cry, forced from her by this accumu-
lated agony; she sinks down on the grass
before her enemy her eyes. however, still
open, and still looking upon those which
directs forever upon. them. She sees him
approach, now advancing, now recs'iing;
now swelling in every part with something
like anger, while his neck arched beautiful
ly, like that of wild horse under The curb,
undI, at length, tired as it were Of play,
like the cat with her victim, she see the
neck growing larger, and becoming com
pletely bowed as if TO strike-the huge
jaws unelosing almost directly above her
the long, tubulated fang, charged with
venom, protruding from the cavernous
moutlI-and she sees no more Insensi-
billy came to her aid. and she lay almost
lifeless under the folds of the very mon.
ster.''
Nothing in ancient or modern literature
is more strikingly conceived. or vividly de-
scribed than this scene. At this mement
when we feel that the summer air is un.
changed with this evil presence, and nature
aghast in her solitude under these human
psngs. the arrow of a young savage trans
fixes the neck of the reptile, and thus turns
aside the deadly fang. The accessories ar,
all in keeping-the snake-like vine; thu
golden and crlminson blooms. the shad
lows of the old woods, the cry Of the bird
all enhance the sense Of the beautiful anc
remote, while the touches which we hav,
italicized heighten the effect till we fee
the glittering eye Of the beast, and its ter
rible undulations rise image-like to tn,
mind, and we see bow all the ,benignitie
of Nature are at war with the spirit Of th
reptile.
! The Detroit Advertiser learns through
private information that Lewis Cass. Jr.
has rositivAlv resi0ned his position a