Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-04-12

| you wouldn't mind being broken of your rest,
and so stepped over to tell you. Good
night"
So saying the honest man departed; and
the lantern cleaned along the street, bringing
to view indistinct shapes of things, and the
fragments of world, like order glimmering
through chaos, or memory running over the
past. But Margaret stared not to watch
these picturesque effects. Joy flashed into
her heart, and lighted it up at once, and with
} winged steps she few TO the bedside of her
sister.
Poor Mary |" said she to herself. Shall
I awaken her TO feel her sorrow sharpened by
my happiness? No; VIII keep it within my
own bosom till tomorrow"
She approached the bed to see if Mary's
sleep was peaceful. Her face was turned
partly upward to the pillow, and had been
hidden there to weep; but look of motion
less contentment was visible upon it, as if her
heart, like deep lake, had become calm, be-
cause its grief was sunk down so far within.
! Happy it is and strange that the lighter sor-
rows are those from which dreams are chiefly
! fabricated. Margaret shrunk from disturbing
! her sister-in-law, and felt as if her own better
fortune had rendered her involuntarily uniaith-
full, as if altered and diminished affection must
be the consequence of the disclosure she had
to make. With a sudden step she turned
away. But joy could not be repressed, even
| by the circumstances that would have excited
heavy grief at another moment. Her mind
was thronged with delightful thoughts, till
sleep stole en- and transformed them into Wis
ions more delightful and more wild, like the
breath of winter (but a cold comparison,)
working frantic tracery on the window.
| When the night was far advanced, Mary
woke with a sudden start. A vivid dream
| had latterly involved her in its unreal
| life, of which, however, she could only reuem-
| ber that it had been broken in upon at its
most interesting point. For little time,
/ slumber hung around her like morning mist,
hindering her from perceiving the distiuct
outline of her situation. She listened with
| imperfect consciousness to two or three vol
! leys of rapid and elger knocking at first she
deemed the noise a matter Of course, like the
breath she drew next it appeared thing in
which she had no concern and hastily she be
came aware that it was summons necessary
| to be obeyed At the same moment, pang
of recollection darted into her mind the pail
of sleep was thrown back from the face Of
grief; the dim light of the chamber and the
objects therein revealed, and retained all her
suspended ideas, and restored them as soon as
she unclosed her eyes. Again there was a
quick peal upon the street door. Fearing
that her sister would also be disturbed, Mary
wrapped herself In q cloak and hood, took the
lamp from the hearth and hastened to the
window BY some accident it had been left
Enclosed and yielded easily to the hand.
Who's there ?" asked Mary, trembling as
she looked forth.
The storm was over, and the moon was up
it shone upon the unbroken clouds above, and
below upon lakes of fallen rain, curling with
silver beneath the quick enchantmeut of 4
breeze. A young man, in sailors dress, wet
as if be had come out of the depths of the sea,
stood alone under the window. Mary rccog-
nized him as one whose livelihood was gained
by short voyages on the coast nor did she
forget that, previous to her marriage, he had
been an unsuccessful wooer of her hand.
/ What do you seek here, Stephens" +" said
she.
'' Cheer up, Mary, for seek to comfort
you," answered the rejected lover. D." You
must know got home ten minutes ago. and
the frst thing my mother told me was about
your husband so, without saying word to
the old woman, 1 clapped on my hat and ran
out of the house. / couldn't have slept a
wink before speaking to you, Mary, for the
sake of old times"
Stephen, l thought better of you" ex
claimed the widow, with gushing tears, ant
preparing 10 close the lattice, for she was ne
whit inclined to initiate the first wife OF Zadig
" But stop, and hear my story OUT criet
the young sailor. q I tell you wes spoke brig
yesterday afternoon, bound in from old Eng
land-and whom do you think saw on deck
: well and hearty, only bit thinner than he was
r five months ago? :"
"Why do you ask me such question ="
! "Why, it was your husband himself," con
tinued the generous seaman. He and thre,
! others saved themselves on q spar, when tht
! vessel turned bottom upwards. The brig vii
+ beat into the bay by daylight, with this wind
and you will see him here tomorrow. Therr
is the comfort bring you, Mary, so good
night"
He hurried away, while Mary watched hin
? with doubt of waking reality, that seeme'
II stronger or weaker as he alternately entered
the shade of the houses, or emerged into tn
broad streaks of moonlight. Gradually
. however, food Of conviction swelled into he
. heart, its strength enough to overwhelm heI
: had its increase been more. Her first iTnpuls
: was to arouse her sister-in-law, and communi
= cate the newborn gladness. She opened tn
: chamber door, which had been closed in tn
i night, though not latched, advanced to th
bedside, and was about to lay her hand o
the slumbereF's shoulder. But then she re
: Fmembered that Margaret would wake to tho't
- of death and woe, rendered not less bitter b
- the contrast with her felicity. She sufftre
the rays of the lamp to fall on the H4lconsCiou
Eform OF the bereaved one. Margaret lay
- unquiet sleep, aud the drapery was displace
around her her young check was rosy tinteC
- lips halfopened in vivid smile an EXPIRE
" sion of joy, debarred its passage by her scale
. eye-lids, struggled forth like incense fIom he
- whole countenance.
= "My dear sirter you will awake too soc
ts = from that happy Dream thought Mary.
- Before retiring, she set down the lamp au
~ y endeavored to arrange the bed clothes,
= = that the chill air might do no harm to the
- y verish siumberer. But her hands tremblC
- u against Margarets neck, tear also fell uPt
- her cheek, and she suddenly awoke. The
oY mutual joy was made known, and they we
in each others arms.
hit FATAL AFFKAY.-We learn from an attic
no tive correspondent that H. Walker shot al
fatally, ,voupfJaA m ,er Ct,,,, Or,ra,, cc1pf