Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-10-30


NO f.
Crowd poured ii from tic. neigh
3Eboring u,Nfs and hanlleta until &c
/ / twelve O'clock, the streats ot' Had
Edington could not ho1d them. No
#donbt$mt,re thu. 8 thousand per.
] sons visited the room up stairs Ia,
] the blackslnith's house, and hund.
lrsds.ott.rsdto watch with Mr.. Han
ltI.ysiaer and aecotnp npany him into
ftha dead man ! cIlanberat the first
unusual sound, (t1tor such was The
curate's purpose, fred qnentlr avowed
II the course OF the day, but when
that good man, 4 few hours after
nlght-fall, mounted the stairs with
his candles and his bible, only four
f.nen tollvwed him. sented at a
table, hs calmed the fears Of his
comp paniona,by boldly investigating
the awful facts subjected IS their
consideration. He acknowledged
hia belief tosbe that asupernatursl
agency was at work, and insisted
that the citizens Of Haddingtou
should treasure up the circumstance
&c 9 warming against dissoluteness.
= s,erhaus,n said he with hesitation.
IS Il the idea he wished to advance
was inco,nnrehensible even to him.
self, perhaps, in this case, death
has been too eager-so that disease
could not co1npl te its office Of bodi.
y punishment, and there is yet in
the disturbed corpse a soulless SEN
sibility, over which conscience and
Satan have control--not that I wish
tojudge Andrew Allen. God for.
- He read such passages from his
Bible as had q bearing upon tho Z
personality Of tlle Internal Being
and impressed upon the minds Of
bis hesrers, by repeating, with s
happy emphasis, the sublime para
phrases Of Milton: @
Forthwith nprigat b resrs fron, os III. pool #5s
Ills mighty statase On sath hand The aaraas @sss
Dirty p backward elppe tba- pointing spirss snd
rolled E=5 - 5'a555s@Ss'- : = = - 1
T., Z siilavs !eaye = ths raidst hersid vas
Aie!t tntumhant on ths dnRky air.~~4 Ia - 4sSz
Mr.. Handyside thought it waa III
The adjoinlng roorn-his friends
.hat It was, perhaps, in the street,
among the crowd-but there was q
vail "a sllbdned sound like d ven.
;riloqllial sIlriek k-a voice pronoun-
ing tie sworda, Backi backl awa'
u ye N not to be brl1ised-Tur
he seedgo tile woman r. Almost
itnultaneoualy With this there was
! crash The benches were all DASH !.
d aya from under the boards, aud
he body rolled upon the floor
The curata started to his feet, bat
tis companions held him back
ylingislg 70 one another, they List
.ned ina sort Of aspIhy Hi TT Whak
ras to follow. They haarad i step
i d being barefootea heavy
ehe house shook, and the sound
would have been much loader IL
he footsteps had not been eauti
tealthy- But. soon they heard
t,nptner noise. ike tire dragging of
human body over the floor, The.
our men cried ina loud go,ce--bnt
uctl s cry! In its spaamod dic 4,iv-
ring itsout,ded like laughter, and .
rem The thronged straefsa veil .
tarfor rose upon the midnight air u,
l1ch as never yet had been heard
Dr the doe,nsd corpse was dashed J
<.sainst the partition separating tie
NO rooms with 4 force sar above .
uluan. When itsfell It was drag
ed away, and ii I llar1ed against
be wal amaeh m resetition tho
product q sound mora T.
nd more dull. The ourate looked
very moment for the wallto Be =
ashed down. He had now no one
D restrain him; lie took bis candle
nd rushed into The room, exclaitn~
", as he did 50, i is my duty ~ r.
The noises continued sometime 81
fter Mr. HandTsida= entered the
hanber, hut at length they ceas.
d. >,.. 80 z.
The people. became alarmed for
1eir pastor, and several Of them
'ent to his assistance. They found 3