Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-09
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Late last Autumn, afarmer living near the
AdirOndacks, in New York State, went out
20 cut timber on the mountain in q remote
and solitary locality. He took his son along
with him, q little boy OF about four years OF
age. After having been employed for a short
time, be missed the child, who had been
amusing himself in chasing a kid which he
found on a hill, and he became alarmed lest
be should have fallen into one Of the many
rayfnes, or stumbled over some Of the rocks
or precfpices with which the place abounds.
No trace Of the boy, however, could be found.
In vain did he call upon his name, for no
answer was returned. The anxiety of the
father led him from place 70 place with the
utmost rapidity, sometimes finding the print
of bis sons little feet on the leaves, but he
never dreamed ofcrossiDg a deep gorge which
runs on the south side Of the locality alluded
to down the steep and rocky side of the
mountain to the margin of the Hudson.
Over this gorge he conceived it impossible
for a child to make its way. In theievening
he found means to send to the settlement an
account OF the circumstances, and several
humane persons, accompanied by the dis
tracted mother, cam to aid his search for
the poor child in this wild and rocky region.
One Of them happening to cross over the
gorge alluded to, perceived there the i'm
preston Of the boys footsteps, and these
were occasionally traced all the way down
to the margin of the Hudson, where they
lost all trace of the unfortunate little wan
derer, and were filled with the most painful
apprehensiOns that be must have been carried
of by the stream. Going along its banks,
and crossing ~ravines and sleeps, which they
conceived il almost impossible the child could
have passed and climbed, they again found
the print of his naked feet on the soft sand
of small ~rivulet; and by applying a meas
ure which they had taken of the former i'm
pIessions they found it exactly to correspond.
They were therefore induced still to 90
forward, though they had now proceeded
upward of four miles from the place of their
setting out; and they continued for the
space of about another mile, accompanied by
the anxious father and mother, without
finding any other traces of the boy. Night
was now coming down on the forest; and as
the search bad continued eleven hours, over
a rugged space of five miles, they thought of
rttracing their steps in despair-the dis
tracted mother tearing her hair, and starting
at every white stone, and figuring to herself
the specter of the torn corpse of her son at
the bottom of every cliff or stream which
they passed.
at this time one of the party, who had
been before the rest, on looking into the
stream of the Hudson, found a handkerchief
round a stone in the channel of the river,
which he recognized to be that of the child,
and had now little doubt that he would be
found drowned near this place in the stream.
He called the rest of the party to approach,
when a little further down the bank, be per.
ctiyed the boy with his feet in the water,
ana his head resting on a stone in quiet
ifntp father 1G,"" 'sre 'o yoa alive Ssi p III The sFi little
pilgrim, lifting his head from his rocky pill
low, exclaimed, ooh, fatherl is it you?
Why didn't you come to help me catch the
little kid?" The little fellows cap was filed
with pebbles, with which he had pursued the
kid f. ON rock to rock, from hill TO hill, and
through the ravines for upward of FIVE miles
bare. footed, over one of the most rugged
tracts in the State, and had been for twelve
bours without tasting a mOrsel of food. The
sudden joy of the mother had nearly cost her
her life, but the young wanderer was found
not to have suffered injury from his long
peregrination.