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VOLUME 11. = CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, SEPTEMBER 17,1&50. NUMBER 74.
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w The following lines are respectfully dedicated
to the Rev. Lucius Bellinger:? (
" The Indian*, when the pole-face approached, took up 1
their line of march for the went. Far in the untracked for- {
em they went, until they come to a wide, deep, rolling <
r.ream. 44 Here." *aitl the old Chief,44 will we reel?-this |
w our Alabama."?[W hich. in their language, mean*, here i
we re?t.] Time pa**ed on?and the old chief, returning
from hi* hunting one day, heard humming in the branch- <
em above, a honey bee. [This in*cct never precede* civ- (
ilixation.J He Rtopded, and calling hi* tribe around him, .
he *aki, "The pale-face if coming?lhi? if no Alabama to
w,"and again they reaitmed their march towards f un-?et." |
The pale-face from a distant clime, i
Across the waters came, I
To seek a home in stranger land i
The clime of savage fame; I
Before his face the Indian fled, (
To trackless regions West 1
To seek an unmolested home,
I
A weary nation's rest.
Far through the untracked forest wild,
With spirits sad they roam, . 1 (
In memory of their father's graves, ,
Their loved?their native home? ,
Till by broad Alabama's banks, j
Which forests wide invest, I
The Indian chieftain stopped and named
The river44 Here we rest." '
i
A mighty people here they live, I
Within their wigwam home, ;
And in their Alabama bathed, J
And by its waters roam: 1
j
Upon its waves their light canoes,
Like arrows glanced along,
Then to the music of the maid,
Now to the warrior's song:
Around their council fire met, ,
The chief and dauntless brave, i
And cried their war-whoop to the breeze, <
And o'or the warrior's grave: I
Their war-dance wild with painted forma, 1
To ruder music timed,
And orgies and mysteries, '
To the Great Spirit chimed: '
The warrior wooed his dusky maid,
At evening's gentle hour, I
And sang to her of warlike deeds, (
His sweet prairie flower. j
nnm ttin a trail chitttlain'l son.
Is soon his bride to wed,
Ere yet his father in his grave,
Is numbered with the dead? ,
And now the gathering?rowd begin, . j
The festival to hail, i
With war-dance, trophies, sacrifice, 1
War-song and legend tale.
But hark! that sound, the chieftain's ear i
Has heard the IIoney-Bee, i
Humming amid the blooming flowers,
Upon the forest tree:
Too well the aged Indian knew,
Tbe sadness of that sound,
That even here their last wild home,
The pale-face's steps were bound.
"My Braves! no Alabama here,"
He said, and smote his breast,
" No Alabama! we must go,
And seek another rest!
Farewell, ye Alabama waves,
Thou proud, deep, rolling stream;
Your flowery banks and currents bright.
Shall fill an Indian's dream,
When far amid the desert waste,
In climes yet furthei West,
The Indian shall in fancy see,
'PKz-v otTfor ?Horo WP Rpst "
> UU IITCI **v*v V
Camden, 3. C. CONSTANCY.
~ GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA.
I am composed of 20 letters.
My 1, 2. 10,18,6, is a city in Italy.
My 2,5,12, 4, is a large canal in the U. States.
My 3, 6,19,20,18, 5, 2, is a town in Bengal.
My 4, 15,9, 16,19,18, is a river in South Carolina.
My 5,6, 10,6, 9, is an Island in the Pacific 0cean.
My 6, 20, 7, 6, 16, is a chain of mountains in
Africa.
My 7, 18,10, 15, 18. 3, is a city in Europe.
My 8, 13, 16, 2, 5, is a river in Germany.
My 9, 10, 3, is a river in Austria.
My 10, 6, 5,18, is a town in Sicily.
My 11, 14,12, 10, 19, is a river in Georgia.
My 12, 3, 15,9, 6, 10, 6, is one of the I'nited
States.
My 13, 15, 1, 4, 11, 9, 13, 7, 15, is a District
in So. Ca.
My 14,9,3, 17,18,7,10, is a County in N. C.
My 15,2, 13, is a River in Scotland.
My 16,13,9, 3,13, i3 a River in France.
My 17,2,17, 12, 7, is a county in Maryland.
My 18, 5, 6,10,1, 4, is a county in Vermont.
My 19, 13,10, 3,2,16, 16, 4, 2, is one of the
U. States.
My 20, 4, 3, 10, 12, 16, is a town in Egypt.
My whole is the name of s distinguished
American officer. C. C. II.
Flat Rock,- Sept. 3rd, 1S50.
I
miscellaneous Department.
THE IIOTHEB'S LAST VISIT.
"There is something in this more than natural, if phioKophy
could find it out."? [Hamlet.
One dark, foggy winter's evening, a party of
young men were assembled in as strangelylooking
an apartment as a companv of welliressed
respectable people were perhaps ever
collected in for the purpose of enjoying a convivial
meeting. It was a large attic with a
slanting roof, from which projected two square
windows with rattling casements, through
whose chinks and crevices the feathery snow
danced gaily, and then settled in a miniature
range of alps upon the inner sill. Over one was ;
carelessly hung, by way of curtain, an old fa-1
Jed and tattered table-cloth that had once been
printed baize; and over the other a piece of
jack-cloth served a similar purpose.
A larcre strontr deal table stood near the win
o o ,
lows, and on it lay a strange assortment of j
surgical preparations, hones, skulls, chemical;
xpparatus, bottles, instruments and hooks. A
small bed of the shape that Punch denominates
the scissars, was pushed into an obscure corter
near the fire-place; and this, with the table
before mentioned, sundry boxes, and one old
leather-covered easy chair, composed the whole
furniture of the room. This easy chair was ocjtipicd
by a young man of slight figure and delicate
health; the rest sat upon the bed or upon
tioxes round the fire. Another box, placed'in
the center, supported two pewter pots, the re
mains of a loaf and some cheese-rinds, tne
wrecks and fragments of their supj>er. The
>wuer of tliis place of few comforts sat upon
he most ricketty of all the boxes. He was
ibout two-nnd-twonty; but his pale studious
face made him look much older. There were,
Asides, in the film compression of his mouth
when silent, in his rapid but distinct enunciation
when he spoke, in the quick glance of his
intelligent dark eye, even in the small attention
K'Stowed upon bis crisply, curling black hair
md redundant whiskers, evidences of a reliance
jpon himself, and an indifference to the opinions
of others, that belonged to a maturer age
th:n he could claim. Yet his figure was not
Jevoid of a certain picturesque grace that, to
the eye of an artist, would have more than coin[>?'nsated
for absence of neatness. Mis open
ihirt-collar, slightly confined by a black ribbon,
iisplayed a strong and well-shaped masculine
neck; and his loose German blouse suited well
with h'>? 'Tge-boned vigorous and symmetrical
Fr ''he only sign of ornament that could
1 ?c. ?d about him was a steel buckle to the
iilu ... leather belt round his waist. It was perlectly
plain, but very bright; and often while
conversing, his eyes would fall upon it, and he
would mechanically polish it with his hand.
'I'**" ? '?An fiim In nnmliaf nil
I Iiu CUIIU1 iivv ?aa iiuiih/vi) ?? ,
bore the stamp of mental superiority over the
common run of young gentlemen ; and all bore
in their attire, and some in their gold watchchains,
the marks of greater affluence than the
poor student they were visiting. There is one
remark, which I am sorry to say, veracity compels
me to make concerningthein. They were
all? from the stalwart host to the pale youth
in the chair?all smoking; yes, smoking common
clay pipes and filling the room with an
odor resembling that of "villainous shag."
Walter Cameron loved these friends and fellow
students; they formed his social world in
the loneliness of the hutre citv ; and every .Sat
urday evening found tliem assembled in his comfortless
abode, where they enjoyed t teni>elv.
much more than they would have done in t
most elegant drawing-room with a len^ geni-il
companion.
"1 am the more disposed to put soino fail i
it," said the host, continuing the conversniin
between the puffs of tobacco smoke, "from the
natural bias of us north-country folks to give
some latitude to the excursions of our organ*
of wonder. When I was a child I had a very
firm belief in fairies, brownies, kelpies, wraiths,
and all the rest of them; and though they have
now, of course, vanished, like the inist on the
hills, the faith that was once capricious enough
to contain such things may, without very great
difficulty, stretch so far as to embrace a subject
that is supportod by a name standing so high
in the scientific world as Dr. Elliotson's. Still,
look, I cannot positively believe in mesmerism
till I have had full proof of its reality; I morely
suspend judgment"
"You must see something of it; you must try
some experiments yourself, cried Tom Dunsford
eagerly (he was the only believer present,
una u warm uuvuc.ue ui iijcsiiimiaiii.i n i?
impossible to learn anything of it from public
exhibition; thoro ore ?o many counter iofluences
at work?so many things to distract the
mind of the oporator, and to draw the Influence
from the patient. In short, the only way thrv-1
ougkly to convince yourself of the fact?, at tile ]
case is to have a patient all to yo^rseff, in a
. quiet room, where you know you won't be dis- a
turbed, and try there all sorts of dodges to test d
the reality of the trance. Truly marvelous
things come out in this way. You can hardly I
believe the evidence of your own senses sometimes."
"Humph!" responded Cameron?net con- s
temptuously, but as though something had just
occurred to him that he meant to keep to him- ii
self. n
"If one could believe in that," said another o
of the friends, "it would induce a more ready b
belief in the existence of a soul and a future d
state?two things, by the way, that I have had
no faith in for some years past." g
"Yes: if you could allow mesmerism, you o
might swallow anything," observed Arthur b
Leigh (the chairman.) " Cameron here feels t<
disposed to credit this humbug because his
childhood was spent amidst the mists, literal o
and metaphysical, of the Scotch mountains.? a
Why, 1 could make out a much stronger claim e
lor a belief in ghosts and hobgoblins of every o
Mi"-e;i??fion.although I was reared amid the sun
t:? viilf S)mvi 'isliire. I might make out an I;
!; iftJiturj title to the power of seeing visions; n
for niy mother and all her ancestors, as far as b
we can trace them hack, had all of them this v
peculiar privilege. Nay, I might even assure v
you that 1 had seen a ghost or a wraith myself h
when I was about ten years old. but that I pre- s
fer giving a more rational explanation to the n
circumstance." F
"What was it?" asked two or three at once, v
"We lived in Devonshire, on account of my c
mother s health, as she wts consumptive," con- c
tinued the pale student. "The night that she e
died, I awoke suddenly, from a consciousness n
that some one was near me, and I saw her stand- p
ing by my bedside. I was a little surprised, as o
she had not been strong enough to leave her fi
bed for some weeks past; and asked her if she s
felt better. 'Oil. yes,' she answered, '1 am quite h
well now.' She then went slowly out of the tl
room. The next morning they told me that she t!
had died during the night; and when I related d
the visit she hud paid me, they looked at each fi
other in alarm,and 1 afterwards understood that
I was supposed to have seen my mother'slpir- o
it. But the affair admits of so easy an explan- ti
ation, that any such idea is perfectly preposte- p
rous. In one of ..hose accessions of strength so e,
common before death, my mother had natural- u
ly felt a wish to see her only child, and had tl
risen from her bed to come and see me." h
"But was no one sitting up with her?" asked
Dunsfred. ?
"Yes?an old nurse. But nurses always go d
to sleep, and never will own it She said she ?
had been wide awake all the time, but that's all t<
rubbish. I dare say I could have heard her
snorhlg if I hnd _ tl
"Was your room closq to your mother's?" e
said Cameron, thoughtfully. s
"No; it was at the end of a tong passage and I
a flight of stairs." . s
"And do you think that any person who had a
been for weeks unable to rise from her bed could
traverse that oassage, down those stairs, and g
back again, an hour or so before her death ? 1 u
should rather suppose it the effect of your own *
imagination." a
"Anything you like, except a ghost," said d
Arthur Leigh, rising to replenish his pipe. r
"There's some one knocking at the door." c
sail! one of the students. a
"Come in !" shouted Cameron, hut no one en- '
tered. "Come in !" he repeated. "Arthur, as o
you are on your legs, just sec who it is will ^
you ti
Here the knock was heard again by all in the d
room, and Arthur opened the door.
"Here is an old lady who wants you, I sup- i
pose, Cameron," he said, turning to his friend.
Cameron started up and went to the door. h
"Where is she?" he asked while an unaccountable
sensation caused his heart to stand t!
still, and his cheek to blanch. f;
"She was here this moment. I vow." said the p
other, looking eagerly around. " Where can
she have gone to i My eyes were not off her f
more than an instant." a
"Did she speak I what was she like ?" were t!
Cameron's hasty questions. s
".She merely said, 'Tell Walter Cameron h
that 1 am gone home, and the keys are with the n
minister.' And for what she is like, give me a v
sheet of pappr and I will sketch her." b
"He' o?here,"said Cameron, as with a trembling
hand he g ive a sketch book to his friend, b
" I'liU is Very >iugiilar," he-muttered as he sat d
loom igiia ami buried his face in his palms. s
" t'.Mt. :ii- \ou ? what is the matter with
. ' ' : , i ! :l of li|s friends at once. n
.. n'\v minutes,*'he replied; ii
.1 : i. i i-. ii.iislied his sketch. ' ii
. et h .( Walter Lchjh was an j<
. xjieit d/aug daman, and his task was quickly si
done. d
" There it is? that's just like her;" lie sajd,
<?*?*..w? f Knnl/ 4Piitnomn r
? ? Hit i)i(i|n tvi uu.mv.....
"Oli, tioil! it is, then, as I feared," cried the \
latter, clasping his hands in agony. "You shall f
judge fur yourselves; and he took a miniature t
ease from a drawer ju a table, "This is a ppr- t
trait of my mother; it is a morp daub by p (
country artist, hut still it is an excellent like- r
npss. Now what say you? compare these 1
two."
"They are the same person," said Dunsford i
"Decidedly the saajo," said one of the oth- <
ers. i
"There pan't j,e two opinions," said a third. I
? -; i O... r. .1. ...?i |.,c? . .
"UWWiniy not, sam mv ?uu ,
"Well,and wlutof that?" asked A rtliur Leigh, I
who was a staunch gpbeliever in all 'metaphysical
aid.' Sho r^ust have come from Scotland <
to pay yon ^ visit, and retreated on seeing so !
many i^iaiigers with you. '
; N6, no," replied Ctynoron mournfully; "we <
have been parted fur more than two years, and i
she would not be frightened away by the sight
of a few strange faces; and besides, where could i
he have gone! I much fear that she is dead or
lying."
"But I tell you that I saw her distinctly; that
heard her speak,' persisted the obstinate Arthur.
"You are quite sure of that?"
"I'd swear to it, if that would give you any i
atisfaction."
"Well, 1 shall not go home tin l hear ot her i
ii some way, which cannot be till Monday mor- <
lit g. But it is impossible to study in this state |
f mind; so if you don't see ine at the hospital i
efore, just look in here after post time on Mon- i
ay. will you ?" I
They all promised, and bidding their friend I
ood night, they took their departure; every j
ne of them, excepting the seer of the vision,
eing more or less disposed to give credence
a the supernatural character of the visitation. :
For a long time after they were gone Cnraer- <
n walked up and down his gloomy apartments, <
nd when at last he threw himself half undressd,
upon his bed, it was not to sleep?the idea i
f his moiher' continued to occupy his thoughts. '
He had left the candle burning, and as he I
ly ruminating on the strange event of the eve- I
ling, his eye was caught by the glitter of his '
iuckle, which he had thrown upon the table. It 1
.... ~ ?: _:A i.:? I
vtio a pulling gut iiuiii mo lurcu ptiicu^ aiiu
/as doubly prized by him, because it was the 1
andiwork of his father, who, though a man of 1
uperior intellect and even learuing, had been I
othing more than a simple worker in iron.?
'erceiving in his son the same mental vigor i
/liich he had through life felt to be "cabined, i
ribbed, confined" by his own mechanical oc- i
upation, he had determined'to give him a lib- 1
ral profession ; and thus it was that the young '
tan was studying hard, subsisting on the siiu- <
lesi fare, and living in a garret, in order to eke i
ut the slender remittances which he received <
roin his now widowed mother; for alas! the
'rong arm that had toiled, the active brain that i
ail planned, to work out a brilliant future for i
tie loved son, were now in the tomb. His fa- 1
lerbad died during the second year of his 6tuentship;
and it was on the day following his t
ineral that he had last parted from his mother, i
During the course of the evening the events |
f which f have just narrated, h<} had several t
mes observed a dimness that obscured the |
olished surface of the buckle, and when bis i
ye fell upon it as he lay in his bed, he started |
p and pressed it to his lips, half believing that <
lis had been caused by the breath of her wbo <
ad given it to him. <
" I have heard,' he thought, "that by gazing i
arnestly into crystal and polished substances, I
istant persons and events may be beheld. It |
uch a power resides in anything, it surely ought '
3 be found in this."
He looked intently into the broadest par: of 1
be steel. His imagination was probably over
xcited by what Arthur XeigTi" had seen, for he i
aw presently, the interior of a homely cottage, i
Jpon a bed lay a quiet figure, covered with a I
heet. This was turned back from the face, I
nd he saw distinctly the features of his mother. 1
Cameron dropped the belt, and uttered a deep
[roan. Mastering his emotions, he picked it
ip, and endeavored a 6econd time to obtain a i
ight of the strange vision, but it came not i
gain; and shortly before day-break he lay ]
lown once more, and obtained a brief and unefreshing
sleep. The next day, being Sunday,
ould bring him no news, so he spent it in taking
. long walk many miles away, among hills that
1 their wildest parts slightly recalled those
iver which he had rambled in his boyhood.? 1
Vhen at night he returned to his lodging, exreme
weariness procured him a deep and
Ireaniloss slumber.
When he awoke in the morning, he saw his
piaikI Tiim rimisfnrH utitniliniT hpvirlri hi*
"I am glad to see you sleeping so soundly," (
e said; "I hope I did not disturb you?"
"No, no," replied Cameron, "1 only wonder j
hat I should have slept so long. I was much ,
itigued yesterday. What is the hour? Is it ,
ast nine yet?" (
"It is only half-past eight yet," answered (
)unsford; "come along and breakfast with me .
t the coffee-house over the way; we shall hear
he post-man when he is coming down the *
treet, and then we can run out, and see what ,
e brings for you. Come along. Perhaps you
lay have a letter in your mother's own hand, (
i'hich will at once dispel all your gloomy for- ,
odings." j
"If I should have one from her, I should not .
e the less certain that she was dead on Satur- j
?y nigTit. I reel as sure of the fact as if i had j
een her."
"Indeed!" said DunsforajTinmg*.*^.!^, -
ime will show. The idea is too deeply graltea ,
ito your mind to admit of being urged away, ,
tid raillery would be indecent on such a sub- (
ect. We'jl trv to divert your thoughts from it. |
.rid wait the healing hand of thne to console or ,
lisabuse you." ,
It was with difficulty that Cameron could be i
>ersuaded to bike a little refreohipent, Ho sat
vatchinc the arrival of the postman, He onme
it last. The letter was seized. There were
he black seal, tlio linnd-wnting of th? minister,
he postmark of his native viltgc. Cameron
cast one look of anguish upon his friend, and
ushetl up to his own room, closely followed by J
Dunsfr rd. The letter announced the death of
Mrs, Cameron on the previous Saturday, after
ill illness of a few hours onlv. The writer concluded
bv saying that tho deceased had consigned
to his care the keys of some chests confining
her little valuables, and come important
papers, which wer? to. be givtn up to no one ;
hut her son.
1 "* 1 T"?..?e>0\rrt inrmnnr'
"Cood, gooa i" exciHiuieu i/uus v.., n
is j>:i|o almost as the paper which Cameron
lind handed to him In silence; "who after this
will deny the existence of mesmerism, or any
Dtl^or thing, because it seems incredible, and
runs counter to the pre-cqnoeivert ideas ?"
"Every one," replied Cameron ''You will
doubt it yourself after a few years."
THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Wo have bad frequent occasion to notice the
increased and increasing business and the lifgh
prosperity that seemed certainly to wait on
the future of Charleston; and at no former period
have there been more striking evidences of
this rapid and sure advance in trade and wealth
tlion of ilia wnannf lima* on rl nrkal aa a onkiaaf
biimi at/ bi 10 pivaviiii muiw) ouu ? "T 10 a guujcvv
of grntulatioo to as all, is the activity and energy
with which this accamalation of business
is met by all classes of our community, and
amongst them we note with especial pleasure
the very efficient preparations that oar Railroad
has made, and is making, to do its part in the
general progress.
We understand that the South Carolina Rail
Road Company, besides putting all their large
stock of motive and car power in complete order,
have added greatly to both, in anticipation- ~"~"M
af die business of the approaching season.
Of Locomotives the Company jiave reoeived,
and expect shortly to receive^flve new engioes,
vfip -*F H FJm^rrr^ now in the ettfine
tause; the "R. Y. Hayne," on board ship, both
from Norris and Brothers, Philadelphia; the
'Wm. Lowndes" and "Wm. Cummings," from
Baldwin, Philadelphia; sod the "I^agdon
Cheves," from Rodgers, Ketchurn and Gros?
feneur, Patterson, New Jersey. Of these all
that have not arrived'and on'the way or ready
[or shipment
Of passenger cars the'Corapanv are freceivng,
of the most approved model and construe;ion,
seven new ones?-vie tlie "Col. Gladden"
ind "Augusta," both now on the Road, and
K/i ?rnlii.nKi'i " "r~!?mrU>ri " "Grwenville."
Charlotte" and Montgomery," which will be
jn the road in & fortnight Two of these are
n course of construction by Mr. Hacker, of
Charleston, are nearly finished.
01 freighting cars the Company have now
eady for sei vice four hundred, and are receivng,
under an existing contract for two hundred
>ox cars, at tlte rate of three a week.
These preparations indicate tlte ability of
;he Company to despatch promptly everything
bat may come, either in the-way of freight or
massage; but we learn at the Charleston depot,
hat their arrangements are snch that the Company
have, without exception op to this time,
ind will continue in all time|to come, to dispatch
every package of goods by the five o'clock
morning train, that was received at the
Jepot by dark the evening before, and in the
?vent of more passengers arriving than can be
leeomniodated in the Mail trains of ten and
lialf past ten o'clock, an extra train will be dispatched
half an boar afler the regnlar trains,
ivhich will arrive at Hamburg Colombia and
Camden at or very nearly the same time aa the
latter.
There are also, we learn, other improve merits
in "piugress tfaai-witf- add gre*tljM?-ibo ultimate
efficiency of the Road/We-allode particularly
to work now going on in cutting round
the inclined plane at Aiken, which the energetic
contractors, J. C. Sproulls and Co. are pressing
on to completion; to the new ironing of the
Road with heavy Bridge and T rail, which we
learn will be finished by the 1st of January,
and to the construction of new workshops, engine
house, dec. which has been undertaken bv
J. P. and B. F. Earle, to be completed in part
by the 1st of January, another part by the 1st
of February, and the whole by the 1st of April.
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till that is needed on the part of the community
of Charleston to make oar City ail that its
warmest friends coald desire.
MYSTERIOUS OUTRAGE.
A Determined Villain.?Daring the past
week we were informed of a series of outrages
committed by some unknown villain, in the
western section of the city, op a respectable
lady, but fearing that a publication of them
would prevent the detection of the perpetrator,
we withheld the facts which we are now authorized
to give. It appears that on Sunday
;venitig, the 24th ult, about 8 P. M., Mrs. Menlies,
wife of James Menzies, of the Morse tele*
jraph office, was standing in the front passage
jf her dwelling on Franklin street, between Eu?
aw and Paca, just inside of the door, when a
nan passing, threw something which struck her
)n the left cheek, causing it to Rioter with severe
pain. On Monday night about the same
lour, whilst in the act of closing the front door,
ifler a lady who had just left, the contents of a
)ottle ol oil ot vitriol was suddenly thrown at
ior, which burned the body of her dress, but
hor ffe* At
ivoro usod to discover the
watch constantly kept on iho house. Ou ThursJay
morning, however, whilst sitting at the
front parlor, a paper conta'ning gunpowder aid
matches, with turpentine worked into it, and
sand paper so arranged as to ignito the match- _
es and cause an immediate blaze, was thrown
jnto the room. It was evidently intended to
cause a quick flame, and thus set fire to herclothing,
but Icing opened with suspicion and
care there was no damage* was done. Again,
Ti.nr.dav afternoon, not six hoursafter the
VII * J ~ T package
was thrown in, Mrs. M. was sitting at
a window opening in the back yard, having resolved
to keep away from the front part of the
house, when a man suddenly appeared in the
yard, and again threw some vitriol at her, a
portion of whjeh foil on her forehead, and the
Ir.la.ioo on her dress, severely blistering the
flesh and burning her dress. These repeated
outrages caused renowed v^jilance to detect
the perpetrators, the neighbors joining in the
watch. Consequently no further attempt was
Renewed on Friday, and by renewed watchfulnea?
on the part of Mr* Mv, it was hoped that
no farther attempt could he made. On Saturday
morning, however, a small boy called at the
door with two sugar rusks, nicely wrapped up,
saying that IVIr. Menzios had sent them uw hoi'
fi am the office. Supposing him one of ha ofV