The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-02-01


To have been thrown, and at the same
time our Qaixotic heroine lay trembling
" watching them, behind g log, cover
cred with leaves and and etfectually
screened from observation She says
she thought thev were officers of justice.
after her and that she could not help
laughing to herself to think how fruit
less was their earnest search and she SO
near them all the while. Finally they
went off. and this strange being says she
Law there three DAYS and nights, fearing
to move away, lest detection should en-
sue-her mind filed with thoughts Of
the arrest and punishment that would
follow for the crime that had SO slngu-
larly been thrust upon her young shout
ders.
While living there it rained, and after
ward froze very hard, and became bitter
cold At last she sought to leave her
hiding place, to seek the shelter, food,
and assistance that she so much needed,
when she discovered that her feet were
SO badly frozen that she could not stand.
Her shawl was also frozen to the ground
so firmly that she could not tear it loose.
and, therefore, leaving it, she crawled
on her hands and knees away from the
Spot, anu tuoUgHI sue NOuitA I'll W iSaSh
a house But her strength failed, and
dragging herself to couple of haystacks
standing in VIM. Cornelius field, she
succeeded in making a hole in one of
them, into which she crept.
She said in my presence, to-day, !"
soon found out that l had got on the
wrong side of the stack. Ugh the way
the wind did sweep
r. ~, ch al
not get between the stacks, and she re
piled, :. i had to crawl into the first
place l came to, and when l got in l
could not get out, " and then added,
with pitiful attempt at merriment, =
guess / will have to go back and try 1T
over again.
She said she heard voices several
times, and once managed to get out of
the stack and tried TO holloa, but was too
weak. When the voices died away,
she continued. Il crept back again and
cried. | then gave up. "
l asked her how long a time she had
been in .he stack, and she said, :
thought 1t was about two weeks, but
the men have been counting the days
since they found the horse, and they say
it was twenty three days.
All this time she was without aourish-
mcnt OF any sort, except hay, nd some
grass that ,hc frost had not uipped it
also showed lightly once or twice, and
catching some IL her hand, she with this
managed to moisten her mouth. How
astonishing that Il human being, espec
tally : frail girl, could exist SO long IN
der such circumstances
l remarked, :. ,Yaat terrible thoughts
y fo1k
like one utterly forsaGen. .
She replied. . No one bat myself can
realize my feelings But the Savior did
not forsake me. He was with me.
l expressed surprise that she was rot
more emaciated Her hands and arms
might almost be called plump, and her
face i. no thinner than one sees almost
any day. l suppose they must be swell
len though She told me that she had
lost more flesh than | imagined, for she
used to be very feshy. Her hair is au
burn. about six inches long, and clusters
in ringlets all over her head. 1t must
be very pretty when cared for, and curl
ed. | have no doubt she was quite
handsome. but hex complexion is now Of
a dull, ieaden hue Her eyvi are deep
blue, and much swollen and Infamed.
One of them is almost entirely faded out,
and you can easily see that the white
eye ball is sightless. She said she had
never had any affection of the eyes be
fore, and that she had lost that eye au-
ring her exposure. She said, believe
my eye was frozen out How nearJ-
rending 1t made my soul sick. | did
not see her feet. as they were wrapped
up, but Miss Davidson told me they
were in the most terrible condition, and
the Doctor SAYS she must lose one Of
them, and probably both. Miss David
son said, They are as black as that
stove pipe, and the flesh looks as though
it would fall from the bones. y
She is not able to sit up or raise her
head from the pillow, and when sha
tries to turn her pain is excruciating-
She says every bone and joint is sore
She once exclaimed, in touching tones,
8. Oh, l wish / had my mothers bosom
to lean my head on and she frequent
ly would say, Come, Savior, take me
take me to the rest Of them. I want to
die; | cannot live. Oh, nav God shor-
ten my sufferinss and take me home, y
and similar expressions She wan; ed
US all to pray for her, and finally selec
ted young gentleman, and pleaded with
him 10 kneel right down beside her and
pray for her. :. Oh, do pray for me,
and the Lord will bless you, said she
pathetically. +" Let Us pray, said the
y eung gentleman. and we all knelt down
with full hearts and overfowing ewes.
while the gentleman offered up a solemn
prayer to the Thlone Of Grace in her be
half. When he concluded, she respond
e5 .sGs3 bless yo,
She has scarcely eaten anything since
her rescue, and her stomach ia so weak
that she has vomited good deal. Wa
ter is all she Graves, for her throat and
mouth. she says, feel dry and parebed.
Her pain IS so great that she has ealy
had few minutes sleep since she was
brought to Davidson's but she remark
ed to me, g That was better than moth
ing One OF them said he supposed.
after the nrst three or four days, she did
not feel hunger: but she said that 8 she
betieved she was conscious all thetirne
during those dreadful twenty three days,
ana that the psngs of hunger never left