Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-12-06


trial. Her husbands fellow prisoners
shrunk from obtruding on his grief and
misery, and left him to himself alone, in
the small room he had previously occupied
in common with two companions. She
shared with him; and lingering on without
pain, but without hope, her life ebbed
slowly away.
"She bad tainted one evening in her hus-
bands arms, and he had borne her to the
open window TO revive her with air,
when the light of the moon falling full up
on her face, showed him a change upon her
features, which made him stagger beneath
her weight, like helpless infant.
"'Set me down, George she said, faint
ly. He did so, and seating himself beside
her, covered his face with his hands, and
burst into tears.
"'It is very hard to leave you George
she said but it's Gods will, and you must
bear it for my sake. Oh! how thank
him for having taken our boyl He is hap
py, and in Heaven now. What would be
have done here without his mother?
"'You shall not die, Mary, you shall
not die,' said the husband, starting up
He paced hurriedly to and fro, striking his
head with bis fist, then re-seating bimself
besides her, and supporting her in his arms,
added more calmly, Rouse yourself my
dear girl-pray, pray do. You will re-
vive yet
"'Never again, George, never again,
said the dying woman. Let me lay by my
poor boy, but promise me, that if ever you
leave this dreadful place, and should grow
rich, you will have US removed to some
quiet country churchyard, a long, long
way off-very far from here, where we cnn
rest in peace. Dear George, promise me
you will
"'I do, 1 do'-said the man throwing
himself passionately on his knees before
her. Speak to me Mary, another word,
one LOOKOUT one
"He ceased to speak; for the arm that
clasped his neck grew stiff and heavy. A
deep sigh escaped from the wasted form
before him; the lips moved, and smile
played upon the face, but the lips were
pallid, and the smile faded into rigid and
ghastly stare. He was alone in the world.
"Tbat night, in the silence and dessola-
ton of his miserable room, the wretched
man knelt by the dead body of his wife,
and called on God to witness a. dreadful
oath, that from that hour, he devoted him
self 10 revenge her death and that of his
child; that from thenceforth to the last
moment of his life, his whole energies
should be directed TO this one object: that
his revenge should be undying aud unex
tinguishable; and should haunt Its object
through the world.
"The deepest despair, and passions scar
cely human, had made such fierce ravages,
his companions in misfortune affrigbted
from him as he passed by. His eyes were
bloodshot and heavy, bis face deadly white,
and his body bent as if with age. He
had bitten his under lip nearly through
in the violence of his mental suffering, and
the blood which had flowed from the
wound had trickled down his chin, and
stained his shirt and neckercLief. No tear,
or sound of complaint escapes him, but
the settled look, and disorded haste with
which he passed up aud down the yard,
denoted the fever which was burning with
in.
at was necessary that his wife's body
should be removed from the prison, without
delay. He received the communication
with perfect calmness, and acquised in the
propriety. Nearly all the inmates of the
prison had assembled to witness its re-
moval; they fell back on either side wien
the widower appeared; he walked hurried
ly forward, and stationed himself alone, in
little rallied area close to the lodge gate,
from whence the crowd, with an instinct
i've feeling of delicacy, had retired. The
rude coffin was borne slowly forward on
mems shoulders. A dead silence pervaded
the throng, broken only by the audible
lamentations of the women, and the sbuf-
fling steps of the bearers on the stone pave
ment. They reached the spot where the
bereaved husband stood; and stopped
He laid bis hand upon the coffin, and me-
chanically adjusting the pail with which it
was covered, motioned them onwards.-
The turkeys in the prison lobby took of
there hats as it passed through, and in an
other moment the heavy gate closed behind
it. He looked vacantly upon the crowd,
and fell heavily to the ground.
"Although for many weeks after this he
was watched night and day, in the widest
rawlings of fever, neither the consciousness
of his loss, nor recollection of the vow he
had made ever left him for moment.
Scenes changed before his eyes, place sue
ceeded place, and event followed event, in
all the hurry of delirium; but they were all
connected in some way with the great object
of his mind. He was sailing over bound
less expanse of sea, with blood red sky
above, and the angry waters lashed into
fury beneath, boiling and eddying upon
every side. There was another vessel be-
fore them, toiling and laboring in the howl
ing storm; her canvass futtering in rib
bons from the mast, and her deck throng-
ed with figures who were lasbed to the
sides, over which huge waves every instant
burst, sweeping away some devoted crea-
lures into the foaming sea, Onward they
bore, amidst the roaring mass of water,
with speed and force which nothing could
resist; and striking the stern of the for
most vessel, crushed her beneath their keel.
From the huge whirlwind which the sink
ing wreck occasioned, arose a shrek so loud