The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1861-05-08
The Restored.


with US who war against women"
The Restored.
God is everywhere. His words are on the heart He
is the battlefield IN our peaceful homes Praise
be to his holy name
1t in the wilds of Wssahcon on the day of bat
tie, the noon-day through thickl lycusered
leaves, that two men met in deadly conflict near the
reef which rose like the rock Of primeval world
at least thousand feet above the dark waters of the
Wissahcon
The man with the dark brown face, and darker grey
eye, flashing with deadly light and muscular form clad
in blue rock Of the revolution is continental named
Warren.
The other man with long black hair dropping along
his cadavegous face is clad in the half military costume
Of tory refugee This is i murderer Of Paoi named
Delaney.
They met by accident and they fought, not with
the sword and rife, but with long and deadly hunting
knives they struggled, twining aad twisting on the
green sward
Atlast the tory is downtown on the turf, with the
knee of the continental his breast-the upraised
knife flashed death in his face.
Quarters! yield" gasped the tory as the knee was
pressed on his breast. spare me, yied!'
My brother,'' said the patriot in a Of deadly
hate, my brother cried for quarters the night OF
Paol, and even as he cung to your knees you struck
that knife into his heart 0, | will give you quarters
of Pao"
And as his hand was raised for the blow and his teeth
cenched with deadly hate, he paused for moment,
theh pnioned the torys arms and with rapid stride
dragged him to the verge of the rock, and held him
quiyering over the abyss
Mercy gasped the tory, turning ashy pale by turns,
as that awful gulf yawned below mercy. L have d
wife and child at home-spare me.''
The continental with his muscular strength gathered
for the effort, shook the murderer more over the
abyss and then hissed his bitter sneer in bis face,
My brother had wife and two children The morn
inc af hat q
children orphans. Would You not like 10 60 and beg
your life OF that widow and her orphaus:n
The proposal made by the continental in moclery
and bitter hate, taken in serious earnest by the
teuor-strcken tory. He begged to be taken to the
widow and her Children and to have the privilege OF
begging his life After amomenjs serious thought, the
patriot soldier consented He bound the tory's arms
still tighter placed him the rocks again, and led him
to the woods quiet cottage embossed among the
trees broke their eyes. They entered the cottage
There beside the desolate hearhstone, sat the widow
and children.
She sat there, a matronly woman Of about twenty
three years with face faded by care deep dark eye
and long black hair hanging in disheyeed state about
her shoulders. On one side dark haired boy OF
some six years. on the other side, Il girl one year
younger, with light blue eyes. The bible-an old and
venerable volumn-lay open on the mothers knee
And the pale face tory flung himself upon his knees
and confessed he had butchered her husband the
night Of Paoli, and begged his life at her hands.
spare lne 1OF the sake OIL my vic enid.
He had expected this pitiful moan would touch the
widows heart butno reenting CLEAN sottencd her
face.
'The Lord shall judge between us" she said in cold
icy tone that froze the murdercrs heart Look, the
bible is in my lap l will close the voumn and this
boy shall open it. and place his finger at random upon
line, and by that you shall live or die
This was strange proposal, made III good faith of a
wild and dark superstition of olden times For mo-
ment the tory paeas ashes wrapped ndeep thought
then, in a faint voice be signiied his CONSENT
Raising her dark eyes to heaven the mother prayed
to the great Father TO direct the finger Of her She
closed the bookshe handed tito the boy, whose cheek
reddened with loathing he gazed upon his fathers
murderer. lie took tile bible, and opened its holy
pages at random, and placed his finger upon verse;
There was silence The continental soldier, who had
sworn to avenge his brothers DEATH stood with datng
ewes and parted lips The culprit kneeDg the Hoor
with his face like discoored clay felt his heart leap to
his throat.
Then in clear, bold voice the widow read this line
from the old testament 1t was short but terrible
THAT man shall de!"
/ LooEi The brother springs forward to plunge the
kne into the murderers heart; but the tory pinoned
as he is clings to the widows knees. He begS that
one more tra may be made by the little girl that child
OF FIVE years old, with golden hair and laughing eyes
The widow consents. There is an awful pause With
smile in her eye, and without knowing what She was
doing the little girl opens the bible it lay hci
mothers knee; she turned her face away, and placed
her finger upon line.
! The awful silence grows deeper. Tae deep-1rawr
breath Of the brother and the broken gasp OF the mur
derer alone disturb the stiffness; the widow and dark
haired boy are breathless. The little girl she caught
feeling of from those around her, stood breath
less her face turned aside and her tiny fingers resting
/ on the line of life and death
! At length, gathering courage, the widow bent he
! eye upon the page, and read 1t was from the new
testament:
/ 81 orn vour enemiesIn
/ OH book of terrible majesty and child-lke love o
submiy that crlhes the heart with rapture you
shoue more strongly than there in that lonely cot
Wissaicon, when you saved the murderer's heart.
! Now look how wonderful are the ways OF heaven
That very night, the widow sat by the ire-sidesa
there with crushed heart and hot eyeds thinking
/ her husband who now lay mouidering the drencheC
soil of Paoli-there tap at the door The opened
and that husband living, though covered with wounds
was in her arms
/ He had fallen in Paoli but not in death He wa
/ alive, and his wife lay painting on bis bosom
/ That night there prayer in the wood embow
cred cottage of Wissahicon.
4 CLAIBoRSE PARIsH.-We venture the assertion tina
there is not parish in our State that is making NOR
rapid increase in wealth, and productions, than ou
oNB as the following statement furnished by our asses
+ sor Mr. Simmons will show. In 1858 this parish pro
duced little 13 600 bales of cotton and in 1885,
it produced over 1S0G0 showing an increase Of fiy
thousand baes, IN ore year AND IN the same time
increase CT million Of dollars in the value of taxable
property OF the parish.
Assessment Of property for the year 1860 Sc 1856 o50
State tax proper, sI1 476,75. Mill tax, s6886o5. Ia.
on trades professions &C., s. $4,000. Poll tax, 1874
90. Internal Improvement tax, $1,7al,5l4 Total
224 9g8,8l1.
Cotton made, 1859, 1850 bales.
Assessment of property for 1859, S5,887,7S0. Stat
tax proper, S98l2 s6. Mil tax, So, ,887, 49, Tax ol
trades professions &C. g sos 90. Poll tax, 81 92o 90
Internal improvement tax, 81, AL 944.
claiborne Advocate.
THE ISAB1LIrY OF MAN.-Giye man the neeessaric
of life and lie wants the convenences. Give him tn
eonYenenees, and he Graves for the luxuries. Gran
him the uxuries and he sghg for the eleganeies LIE