The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-04-11

while the tide OF emigration would come
pouring. when the first pioneer would
reap golden harvest. Every article Of
food, must. Of course. command the high
est price, and the cunning specuator al
ways ended by selling out aud wandering
further into the Western district, there to
repeat the profitable yet painful expert.
ment, and so on ad infnitum. cd
By continuing this singular process Of
ceaseless toll and patient sslf.denial, old
Nose finally became the master of re-.
spectacle fortune. AS may we'll be i'm
agined, such life exposed him to per-
petual dangers, and developed to the
highest degree his native courage. His
heart grew hard as a fragment Of primi'
Tive granite, IN warfare with the aborigi.
nal savsges, and in more horrible com bats
with the desperadoes and robbers Of the
frontier: for where legal restraints were
either impotent or wholly unknown. the
individual sovereign had to rely exclu.
sively on his own powers and sense ot
justice for the protection Of all rights
and accordingly, our hero had been long
celebrated for the number and ferocity
of his dreadful duels and sudden rem.
counters.
However, it must not be supposed that
he contracted the brutal thirst for blood,
or the more malignant passion for no;ori,
ETY., which 30 often characterizes the fa-
nous fighters Of the Southwest. On the
contrary, he never welded the knife OF
pis' 'ol, save TO redress son real or fan.
cied wrong, or to rid society Of what he
deemed walking nuisance or absolute
outlaw. II is thus easy to comprehend
how such course Of habitual conduct,
and all the examples and familiar scenes
within the sphere of his observation
should lead him 10 regard bravery as the
climax of all virtue, and cowardice as the
acme Of shame aad degradation, if not q
rather a positive and inexpisbls siu.
His family had at first consisted Of hi,
wife, an Industrious commonplace KIDD
Of woman, who nsensibly imbibed all hii
notions and prejudices, and several daugh
ters, all save one, then provided with hus
bands and homes; and yet none of then
had welded with tile appreciation of theil
parents. The object in each case of gen
eral character, that the respective suilor,
4 did not come up to the old duellist'
standard OF bravery, the sole quaIi6Ca
ton which could end favor in his sight
Indeed six of the daughters appeare,
poorly endowed by nature or education t
inspire any very ardent fame in heroi
hearts. as their forms were coarse an,
masculine, and features rude and repul
sive.
Nevertheless, the youngest girl diff.re'
entirely from the rest, and seemed as i
by a miracle, TO have monopolized all tn
charming graces intended for tbs separate
members of the household I; and truly
you might have wandered over the worl,
and no found another loveler being tina
+ Meuia Miller. Strange phenomenon tha
a family circle of such common clay
should be able to exhibit so rare jewel
! Blu. So it sometimes happens; in a line
age of proveibal and hereditary coarse
ness, there will come one like strange
,, from distant planets, bearing OH It's visag
, the living lustre of celestial, which q
, tones for all the accumulated ugliness q
its race, as If the mothers dream of a
angel had been embodied in her own bos
ON And so this fair flower of Texa
woods presented to every beholder the
deal Of his mind and Imagination, th
fautless form which had fioaIed before hi
visionary sight in the hours of earl
I youth.
. Her shape, though slight and childlik'
appeared full to overlooking with anima
4 ton and vital energy, and every gestu!
and motion seemed like the rapid an
graceful waltures Of wings in pure eIhe
. Her small features of perfect ova
n white as the lilly. and radiant red as til
Summer rose, lived in the starry light {
- an everlasting smile the sunbeam born {
E sinless soul, while those luminous cur
OF golden hair surrounded her face, as
natural halo. aud made her resemble son
divine picture, the matchless creation of
! musing artist, rather than mortal Lbir
= Of flesh and blood. But her eyes alon
1 would have rendered her countenancs
=, resislible; they were SO large, liquid, al
beautifully blue. ..
\ 1t was no marvel then that her paren
10 worshipped this fascinating creature us
at idol and resolved TO give her the means
i'd intellectual cultivation such as they HI
il never thought necessary iu the case
ID their other children. As they could n
s. endure even for a single week, her a
We scence from home, private teacher VI
n. procured in the person OF a young a
handsome lawyer, recently arrived frC
I'd the North, who had not as yet beeh' be
i'd ored with single brief, TO: the unansw
ed able reason that where no Court existe
Oh litigation might be considered logica
e. impossible. 0-f 'a =.
ed Albert Hilton succeeded but too well
or his agreeable work of tuition, for at |
lis end Of six short months be had taue
he his beautiful pupil the sweet mysteries
ry first love, and mastered the same profou
and pleasant lesson Of which be had be
us previously altogether ignorant, SO Il
DIS they were both prepared to take the big
n est degree at the bridal altar.
ed Without anticipating the least oppo
or ton to step SO innocent and desiFab
&c the young attorney SO soon as he had 9
OF tied the matter to, their mutual satisfi
ng ton with the daughter, proposed the 81
IT, ject in faltering terms, to the father.
OF II am amazed at the extent Of your i