The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-07-15

sHINGTON, d, c., TIL
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che had rabbsd of ,asy sss sins Of rusticiiy or
provincielism that might q q haso slang to her.
without losing any Of tie ncisss, fNnk kinA,
illness, or gentle dignitb \ ,ich lad srosn M
With her, while she aasi - hse meehas -
superintend her rural hsns or 10 DO Tie hoaoss
of the, {" International Mo ,sion y in the city.
She might have helped to infer upon her istls
boy and girl other gifts an graces besides her
good health, with its natu Il accompanimsnts
of good spirits, loo Ks, and smpsr; bat, A. she
was hurrying back from b faakers death bed,
to find consolation for bss fra soesov in their
rosy kisses and chubby ,mbsaoss, shs vas
killed, or murdered-call ! which yoa VIII
cut eff BY violent and e aising dsaHh, in her
benign and glorious prime by enc Of tAoss rail
road accidents which shay :, many Of our conn
trymen, perhaps, a. the swksd. Shs vas dragged
out breathing, rnin from shs rsins, ard lissd
long enough 10 see sssalfA naaelsA srip8ae,
and to try TO press her husb nd hand, but, hap.
PLY, lived no longer! ...s-.' 49,.
The Young stranger had-Already, in her brief
residence among his acqusintsncss, &C sudear-
ed herself to them, that Oh State street, Beacon
street, and Park, Chestnut and Mount Vernon
streets, seemed 70 ring Wit tone outcry Of hor.
ror, grief, and indignation. Mr.. Ardsn's nerves
were shaken by grief and s;ssress to such de-
gree, that he was incaps sle, for months, Of
thought or action bat ,me of his friends
prosecuted The company OF the railroad, in his
name. The grossest carek,ssnels vas proved
on the part of an ignorant nd stupid uuderling
who had been employed, appacsntly, net be-
cause he was supposed to 10 cspAhls, but be-
cause he Was known TO b. chss9. The com
pany were made to pay IL, eos (which they
we're rich enough to . ord 70 do pretty
easily, ont Of their past y | fatass economies
in the wits and wages Of tfsir ssssants} or this
wife and mother, quite ASH she had been =
negress. 1t was the price = her blood, and her
husband loathed it. He sook it, howevee, in
order to make, 90 far as be could, wholesome
example Of her Destroyer and, thinking of his
own little bereaved ones, As endowed with it
an asylum for Orphans.
Mrs. Arden, the third, vas pretty, sensitive,
fearful little devotee, who vent almost directly
from her sick room in her Jathsr's house to her
sick room in her husbS,d's. Morbidly and
narrowly conscientious in i,er fears Lest she had
done or should do wrong, ;he seemed to forget
that she could be wrong IMPLY in not doing.
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general order to the chu,rh militant on this
anxious earth, Rejoice Away; and again l
say unto you, rejoicel !" Thus her heavenward
march, wanting the heave " music OF gladness
and hope to inspirit it, an to allure others to
join it, Jagged sadly, becat . crawl, and would
have been an utterly solit Try one, had not her
little Herman, her only and her husband's
youngest child, come to PIT his tiny, puny hand
in hers, and move beside her though the let
ter years of her abort and orrowfal pilgrimage.
He was her constant ompAnion In her hushsd
and darkened chamber, and, sitsiag on hin little
stool, a. it we're, in the shadow al asath, never
making "a noise to distui poor nsmma," and
feeding on gruels and jell e., looked % pale, as
unearthly, and almost O. thin, a. herself, 90 a.
to justify, in the opinion of the few visitsrs
whom she at long intervals admitted, her own
belief that he was doomed very soon to precede
or follow her to the other world.
On the other hand, hev ever, Sally DALEY (a
poor neighbor of the seco ID Mrs. Arden ct the
West, who, having bee, befriended BY that
lady in her youth, had the night herself incrsdi-
bly, favored in being perm tilted, when her rich
hueband came to carry Ter of to New Eng.
land, to follow her fortunss as sort Of female
versatile fac totuns, and xAs q that time doing
duty as nursery.maid TO Ter orphans) ejsssed
over the fast disappearing hedge of her sssth
the opinion-@ Oh, massy there want nothin
under tie sun allied the d ild-noshin' on earth
but mewiu' up an ooddlia I. Lordi how'd Ed'-
ard an Clary look in . weeks time, dye
'spcse, if they was kept hut up in the dark,
an couldn't git no bread an milk, and baked
apples, nor beef steak, al mutson-chopa, an
roast puttaturs, nor moth n but blanc mango,
an slops, an 80 on '-ne couldn't Git ont 10
the mall, to roll their hoo ., an run, an romp,
an hollerf Ideclare, ell 'em sometimes it
seems Almost as If they'd saks nay very ears of.
heared a learn'd man , once, we'd ell got
drums in our ears. doipt know ~ We have,
nor don't know IS We b int; bat know this,
if / don't know nothin' slse--if my ears is
drums, them ere children tougnss is the drum
sticks. But, lsi / alws 10 pat 'em TO bed the
second the nursery clock strikes ssvsn-an' l
keep it little fast, cans it's best to be pune.
tooal an then there's ,eacs till six in the
mornin' an | tell 'em, + they'll only be good
Children, an love each mother, an let dogs
delight to bark an bite, Ike birds in their lit.
tie nests, I can stand lght O. good-uatured
noise"
"Sickl" Sally was on4e heard TO say TO An.
other guardian of youth land it would have
cost her her place but fa Mr.. Ardsa's tender
memory of her faithfalnet TO his dead Alice and
her dear little ones,) in nswer TO some hind
Inquiries about the presnt incumbsat, Or re-
cumbent, "Ishould thini she might bs-s isk o.
doin' nothin'l reckon If shs'd jump ont Of
her bed, and make it nj for hersslf @ Min
Arden-my Miss Ardent would say-would
when We was short o fslp, tvould do more
good to her dyspepy tbs . layin' in Il I'll day.
wish could have The sAakin' up of her faith
era once, with her in 'emtn R sw
Bat Sall5's opinions OF. this point were not
entitled to 20 much consflerstion, ~, from hsr
general ssgscity and god psnsrssion, they
would have been if they had been less tingsd
with jealousy Of her nsstress-I beg Saly's
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pardon, her mistress's SUCCESSOR. Though shs