The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1858-11-17

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l.sForwith upright he rears from of the pool s.
His mighty stature; on each hand the flames
lDriven backward slope their pointing spires,
4 - and rolled att; ,g} errat1rEafrrr iii
In billows, leave in the midst n horrid, vale
Then with expanded wings he steers his flight
Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air. '''
+ Mr.. Hynside thought it was in the ad-'
4 joining room, his friends that it was, per-
haps, in the street among the crowd, but
there was a wail-a subdued sound like
a ventriloqual shriek-a voice pronoun-
cling the words, ..-..-f
/ "Back! back! AVA WI ye! Tn not to
lbe bruised-I'm the seed O.. the wo-
mani" %.
| Almost simultaneously with this there
was crash. !, The benches were all dash
ed away from under the boards, and the
Ibody rolled upon the floor. The curatc
started to his feet, but his companions
held him back. Clinging to one another
they listened in sort of a asphyxia for
what was to follow. They htarl step,
as of being barefooted, and heavy, The
house shook, and the sound would have
been much louder, if the footsteps, had
not been cautions and stea!thy. But
soon they heard another noise, like the
dragging of human body over the
| floor. 81. .ia
The four men cried in loud voice
but such cry In its spasmodic quiv-
ering it sounded like. laughter, and from
1.-THE street a yell Of, horror rose upon the
midnight air, such as never yet had been
heard; for the doomed corpse was dashed
against the partition, separating the two
rooins with force above human. When
it fell it was dragged away, and hurled
against the wall, at each repetition the
conclusion produced a sound more and
more, dull. The curate looked every mo-
ment for the wall to be broken, down
He had now no one to. restrain him; he
took his candle and rushed into the room
exclaiming as he did SO, -.+.. =, -. 81
| "It is my duty" ,...., 81, : ,,,I, Il
1 The, noises continued some time after
| Mr.. Hynside entered the chamber, bnt at
length they ceased. .,.;I.ag.,f .i.i, ia -
+ The people became alarmed for their
I pastor, and several of them went in, to, his
assistance, They found him, in a swoon,
! from which they soon resuscitated him
! But they gazeG around, and--what could
they expect to see! There lay the body
| Of. Andrew Allen, bruised and beaten in.
to q quiyering, .gelatinous, clot of gore;
while upon the floor, printed in blood
4 were y4a, footprints Of gigantic dimens
ions! 80 al. - ~ .f. =
Mi. Hyndside has never told, what he
4 saw. His only, answer, to, the 81 impprtu.
J mites of his friends has beep:.., zd ,ao :
ll""sI thopshtt it was my duty, but | was
4 4 mistaken; I committed g., sin. Heavei
4i lHPtsisse Hhs s7es nlfei!;1ns nav ,aiuYr ,fI IA.
a.bn,i.iali.iT i. 15,'HifrT ut YIh al ui
4 a~oIopr Trouble with sh9rl2aalF Paraguay.
II The Paraguay Expedition is about te
==ibe dispatched. The origin Of the. tdifi
: Guilty with Para quay is as follows;.a re
In 1852 the United States steame
: rWatsr Witch rLieutenant Page, comman
e der,Ew sent out to make an exploration
tof the River Plata y and its s9ftrbuta.ies
Q The expedition was un6e$taken and pros
i eepted, with the oncarrenee of Braid, tn
= Argentine Characterization, and Rnragua,
? E71the States borderinglupon these waters
J, Every thing proceeded satisfactorily urti
8. s.tSeptemher, 1854, when taslghtldiitieult,
6, occurred between q lPsraguayan, icitizel
g and Mr.. Hopkins, the .Americpneoasula a
9 Asunsion,o who was also the general agen
n ofan American'mercentile company Th
, PaEaguaynn. Government took up the quar-
" rel; sharp corre spondence 'eusned, whic
d was ended by the withdrawal of the ere
s. quatur of the consul and the suspensio
of the business of the company, them
n bers, ofwlich, left the country ON board
+ the. American steamer, Shortly after
N ward President Lopez issued !, q deere
IS prohibiting foreign vessels Of war fror
Of navigating the rivers of Paraguay. q o
o the. lst Of February Of the next year, tn
$ lKater Witch, while ascending the Rive
( Parana, which forms the boundary b,twee
% Paraguay and Corrientes, one of th
~ States of the Argentine Confedera,ioi
lie was fred upon from the Paraguayan for
u HApirn.3 The man at the helm was killed
,e andithe vessel was slightly injured 18th
d steamer was at the time under the con
d mand of Lieutenant Jeffers; ,Lieutenar
e, Page and most of the officers being abset
ON an exploring. expedition in anotht
n Quarter 1t was subsequently asserte
ult BY Lopez that the Wfdter Witch had le
- the common channeI,a aud was actuall
"a Within the waters Of. Paraguay; and b
~ Furnished a chart Of the river and. tie pt
III sition of the steamer to cerroborate tt
"a assertion. Tie chart vas altogether e
'd1 roneous. % The steamer was il. the ctahn
BIS common to Para aguay and Corrients, as
nJ shown By accurate charts prepared by tt
r. 1texpedition; and even had She been in tt
a. waters Of Paraguay. the fact that She WI
te not properly vessel Of war but sma
re steamer engaged in q scientific ,enterprls
81 should have exempted her from the OF