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COTTON, prime, ( 1“
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HENRY LYON.
HtiitMpha, Ala. Jan.. Kd 1835
From the Mobile. Register of the 2lst ult.
The Execution of Charles R. S. Boy
ington, for the murder of Nathaniel
Frost, took plaee yesterday, pursuant to
sentence, about two and a half miles from
the City. A large crowd of spectators,
assembledto witness the dreadful specta
cle. Two thirds of the male population
of the city were on the ground; and ma
ny hundreds, we might almost say, some
thousands, from the country. Different
computations vary the number from six
to nine thousand. The smaller number
is doubtless nearer the truth—but the
copcourse was really immense, consid
ering the size of the town. The public
mind had been so intensely excited by the
circumstances of the crime; the place, so
open and frequented,-the time, the broad
sunshine, so audaciously chosen for the
deed the victim, a confiding helpless in
valid, the motive so base and sorid,-by the
flight and pursuit ofthe accused, his extra
ordinary coolness and self possession on
his apprehension, and at the trial; and the
rumours that have prevailed since, of his
hardihood in all things relating to the
crime and the punihsment, to life, death,
judgement, ami eternity—that a case nev
er was presented, combining more ofthe
elements of fearful interest, of curiosity
deepened by wonder and horror. The
expectation was universal, that he would
address the public, either in confession or
denial of the offence, and as it was known
that he had been engaged in prison, in
drawing up a long document, many, who
in general avoid executions, were indu
ced to swell the number of spectators.
The demeanor of the prisoner, on his
way to the scaffold, corresponded with
these intimations. Declining assistance
and refusing to ride, he walked with a
stepas firmand unwavering and mienas
erect and undaunted, as any one among
the escort. Not a muscle seemed to
shake, or a feature to be moved; and it
was remarked that his foot kept time per
fectly to the dirge that followed him.
The procession marched so slowly, as
lobe more than an hour in reaching the
place of execution; during all of which
time Boyington seemed by his deport
ment, more like the chief personage in a
grand mouring procession for another,
than a condemned criminal, carried to a
certain and ignominious death. Indeed
his subsequent conduct, leaves a general
impression that he did not believe himself
going surely to his death; but expecting
without the slightest ground for such a
dclusion,—but nevertheless expecting,
a reprieve, or some other chance for
safety; and had prepared himself to go
through the ceremonies without shrink
ing, so as to produce a public impression
of his inocence, and popular sympathy for
his sufferings. This is only therational in
terpretation of his whole conduct. His
hope was the heated and fervent conclu
sion of an over sanguine disposition, per
suading itself irrationally of what impos
sible, or among the most improbable of
possibilities; yet upon such delusive spec
ulations, did he rely to the last minute of
his existence; discarding for it, every
atonement for earth, and every thought of
eternity.
When the scaffold was reached,he w
permitted, as a matter of course, to ad
dress the multitude and commenced the
expected address. Its particular charac
ter we cannot speak of, except by report,
not having heard any portion of it, or
seen it.
It is described as an ingenious and ela
borate comment upon the testimony which
convicted him, designed less to show that
he was innocent, than that he was not le
gally convicted. But the true purpose of
preparing it, was to produce delay. A
mong his calculations for delay, was one
formed on the notion,that,if by any chance
the execution of the sentence could be
protracted beyond the hour appointed by
the Court, his life, would be safe.
Notwithstanding the warnings he re
ceived that this would not avail him, he
seems to have clung to it to the last, eag
erly repeating the inquiry while stand
ing on the Scaffold, and still persevering
to believe it at least a chance for post
ponement.
He was permitted to proceed, untillthe
hour of four had nearly arrived. He was
then informed of the necessity of closing,
and directed to prepare for the final scene.
The shroud and cap had not been put
upon him, and this annunciation appears
to have been the first circumstance that
wakened him to the reality of his fate.
Standing under the gallows, with the in
struments of death around and above
him; his preternatural resolution and san
guine hope of pardon, reprieve, or delay,,
never gave way until the ministers ofthe
law commenced robing him for death and
fixing the noose about his neck. His
whole soul steeled and nerved, as it had
been up to that minute, cowered and sunk
at once into abject desperation.
A more sudden and fearful transac
tion according to all accounts, cannot well
be imagined. When his abrupt and eag
er inquiries of the attending ministers of
religion,—ls there no hope?— must I die?
were answered solemnly in the negative
the dreadful certainty overwhelmed him.
His nerves were apparently shattered;
the blood, forsook his cheeks, and despair
was written in awful marks upon hisashy
features, Asa wild chance for the life
which he coveted, now that death was
so close to him. he dashed from the foot
ofthe scaffold in the frantic hope of escape
among the. crowd. This futile effort
was easily defeated, and it is remarked
as a proofofthe universal detestation of
the foul dime for which he suffered, that
there was no movement of sympathy with
his desperation among the crowd. Had
there been a doubt of his guilt,—had it
been less atrocious—less "sordid less
cowardly in its unprovoked mercenary
j blood guiltiness, there would hav< been
jan expression ut lesat, of commiseration
. for his agony But the thousands the 1
surrounded the pole were passive, and the
fugitive, in his bewilderment, rush
ed among the military escort, rather than
among the multitude, was easily secured
and reconducted to the spot of execution.
Some are of opinion, that even then,
the attempt to escape was in accordance
withall his other course of conduct, and
designed to obtain the delay which he
imagined would carry the time beyond
the hour named in the sentence, and thus
save his life, This is corroborated by
the fact of his having inquired of his
counsel; after he was shrouded, whether,
if he could keep the execution off till after
4 o’clock, he, the counsel, would interfere
in his behalf. The reply simply admon
ished him that no such procrastination
could take place. When he leaped from
the scaffold, he told the Sheriff he would
escape if he could.
Then ensued a scene of horror, which
we pray may find no parallel hereafter in
the execution ofthe laws. The hopeless
agony of the criminal was displayed in
obstinate resistance to the performance of
the necessary duties of the agents of
the law, and even when at last suspended
from the fatal cord, his desperate cling
ing to the life he had forfeited, was shown
by struggles to free his arms from the pin
ions, and clutching at the rope. He suc
ceeding in thrusting his hands between
the ropeand his throat, and thus resisting
and struggling to the last—died despair
ing, and for ought that human eye could
read, impenitent. The last five minutes of
his life were marked by a horror ofdying,
a prostration of energies, as remarkable
as the sternness of nerve and reckless lev
ity of carriage which had signalized him
during the whole of the trial, and in the
interval between condemnation and execu
tion up to that moment.
Such was the end of Charles R.S. Boy
ington:—a dreadful end of a bloody fate:
The horror ofthe punishment with which
it closes, compares fitly in tragic intensi
ty of interest, —with the terrible atrocity
ofthe crime. The victim—a gentle and
confiding invalid, fell by the hand of an
assassin,—‘that assassin his professed
friend, —in an open thorougfare, beneath
the walls of a grave yard,—the busy hum
ofhuman voices warning him ofthe neigh
borhood of busy life, and the tombs of the
dead speaking to the murdrer of the end
of life—the begining of eternity.
The interval is filled with strong ex
citement; — hot chase of the fugitive; sin
gular developements of circumstancial ev
idence, imprisonment, trial, and condem
nation; courage almost supernatural; lev
ity sometimes approaching to scorn of the
very ordinary attributes ofhuman natur
ingenuity & address which staggered be
lief, and a confidence which held out a
gaiust reason, and upheld by iron nerves,
sustained the convict to the very portals
ofthe Grave to which human Retribu
tion had doomed him. Theo,.at the last
moment, comes the force and abrupt reac
tion of nature, against the deceits of self
delusion, and the stimulants of artificial
courage and false hope, delivering the
whole soul shattered & unnerved, into the
dominion of perfect hopeless despair.
These are awful pictures of human na
ture, such as it rarely presents. May
they be warning for good,—lessons more
potent than the exhortations of the moral
ist or divine, to the practice of selfgov
ernment, —the rule, of the passions, and
the early training of the heart, to those
fixed principles of conduct, and of the life
to habits of industry, the want of which
led, Boyington step by step to such guilt
and such punishment.
PRINCE TALLEYRAND.
Has retir.-d from private life. His great
age would seem to have indicated the pro
priety of this course long ago—but politi
cal diplomacy had doubtless become with
him a confirmed habit, and he would have
preferred unquestionably to die in the
‘harness.’ This hoary politician having
been a traveller in our country we deem
it not inappropriate to insert entire the cor
respondence that took place on his retire
ment as we find it in Galignani’s Messe
nger.—?V. y, Com.
The Moniteur announces officially that
the King has accepted the resignation of
the prince Talleyrand as Ambassador to
England, and has appointed General Se
bastian! to be his successor. The same
journal also publishes the following let
ter addressed by Prince Talleyrand to the
Minister for Foreign Affairs,dated Valen
cay, Nov. 13:—
“Sir,-‘When the confidence of the King
called me four years ago to the Embassy
of London, the very difficulties of the mis
sion induced me to obey. I believe I have
accomplished for the benifit of France and
of the King two objects of interest which
I have always had in my mind, and
which 1 have always considered as close
ly connected. During these four years,
the maintenance of a general peace has
admitted of all our relations being simpli
fied. Our policy, isolated as it was, has
been minged with that ofthe other nations.
It has been accepted, appreciated, and
honored by the honest men of al countries.
The co-operation we have obtained from
England has cost nothing to our indepen
dence or to our national feelings; and
such has been our respect for the
rights of all, such has been the can
dour of our proceedings, that far from
creating mistrust, it is our guarantee
that has been called for against that spirit
of Propagandism which disturbs the old
states of Europe. It is certainly owing to
the exalted wisdom and great abilities of
the King that all these satisfactory results
must be attributed. I claim for myself no
other merit than that of having divined
before all others the profound thoughts of
the King, to have announced them to those
who have since been convinced ofthe truth
of my words.
Nowall Europe knows and admires
tiie King and thereby the principal diffi
culties h«ve been surmounted -now that
England has perhaps an equal wafit with
ourselves for a mutual alliance between
us, and that the path which she appears
to be inclined to follow must induce her to
perfer a mind with traditions less ancient
chan mine. I conceive I may, without
failing in my devoted duty to the King or
to France, entreat respectfully, that his
Majesty will accept my resignation,which
I request you, Sir, will lay before him. My
great age, the infirmities which are in its
natural consequence,the repose they coun
sel, the reflection they suggest, render this
step very simple, but too fully justify it,
and even render it a dtuy. I rely upon
the equity and goodness of the King to
form the same judgment.
Accept, ect. “Prince de Talleyrand.”
The following is the Answer of the
Minister for Foreign Affairs, which is on
ly dated Wednesday.
“Prince—l have laid before the King
the letter you addresed to the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, by which you entreat his
Majesty to accept your resignation ofthe
Embassy at London. His majesty for a
long time hesitated to accept it. In associ
ating yourself with his sentimen.s and
those of his Government, you have so a
bly concurred in giving stability to the
new Monarchy and grandeur to its policy,
and in maintaining the peace of Europe,
that the King could not consent to deprive
France of your powerful services and
vast experience. But his Majesty has
felt that after so great and so long a car
reer, the attachment even, and the grati
tude he bears towards you will not suffer
him any longer to resist the desire you
have expressed to him on account of your
great age, to retire into repose.
Accept, ect. “Rignv”
COLUMBIA, S. C. March 5. — Attro
cions Murder. — We have been informed
that on last Saturday night, a man wrapt
at the door of a negro house in the lower
part of our town—ordered the door to be
opened—inquired for some one; The ne
gro within, who it appears, was lying
with his feet against the door, commen
ced to rise as the man pushed open the
door. Being informed by the negro, that
the person for whom he inquired, was
not there, he said he had a great notion
to shoot him—cocked his pistol and shot
him.
In our opinion , such a diabolical deed
deserves the severest penalty. Just in
propotion as men are without influence
in society, should they be protected by the
strong arm of law.
Another case occurred on Tuesday.
Between Col. David Myers, Sen., ancFa
Mr. Macklemore, there was a dispute a
bout some land.—The former set his
hands to work upon it The latter order
ed them off; the former refused to let them
go: whereupon Mr. Macklemore dis
charged the contents of one of the barrels
ofa double barrelled gun into the body of
Mr. Myers; and it was said, was about to
discharge the other at him when the O
verseer told him that he was dead.
Such deeds ol death and darkness need
no comment. They are melancholy
proofs of the great length to which men
who have no tear of God before their eyes
will go.— Herald.
Movement of the U. S. Troops.—
The schooner Virginian, Capt Bedell ar
rived at this port yesterday in four days
from Fortress Monroe with a detacthment
of Artillery under the command of Lieut.
Col. Fanning. They are, we learn, on
their way to Fort King, in Florida. There
are two Companies on board the Virgin
ian—Company C. of the Ist Regiment,
commanded by Lieut. Farley, and Com
pany F. ofthe 2d Regiment, commanded
by Capt. Sellon. The other officers are
Lieuts. French, Capron, Morris, and As
sistant Surgeon Archer. Two other Com
panies of this detachment are hourly ex
pected in the brig Union.
The “Keys" of the IVes? Indies, and
“Key West." These words are frequent
ly the subject of inquiry; and we extract
the following account of them from the
new and amusing work entitled “Letters
to a Gentleman in Germany,” ascribed to
our adopted countryman, and late towns
man Dr. Leiber:
“ rhe Spanish cayo, a eliffor breaker,
has been changed by the English mariner
into Key, of which there are many in the
West Indies; but one of the strangest cor
ruptiohsis our Key West, from the Span
ish Cayo Hueso [pronounced HwessoJ or
Bone Isle, because the form of the island
resembles somewhat a bonejyel Key West
is now the official and legitimate name,
though it has no moreto do with Westthan
with East, North, or South.”
The above we have abstracted from the
Boston Atlas.
Dr. Leiber is correct as to the deriva
tion of the present name of our Island,
from Cayo Hueso, but is wrong as to the
reason for its being socalled by the Span
iards.
Tradition states, that about 120 years a
go, a battle was fought here between two
rival nations of Indians—one of them hav
ing been driven from the Islands along
the western shore of the Florida Pensula
by ther stronger and more numerous
neighbors ofthe main land. The few who
escaped from here, it is said ventured in
their canoes across the gulf to the Island
of Cuba.
1 races of mounds and embankments a
long the western and southern shores of
the Island seem to bear evidence to the
truth of the statement relative to this bat
tle; the result of which, was a great num
ber of bones left to bleach and moulder a
way upon the surface ofthe earth,causing
the Spaniards to designate the Island as
Bone Key,—Key West Enq,
Fingers before forks. —-An Albanian
woman being once asked why she did'
not use a fork in eating ? She held up her
hands in answer, and said, “You have'
but one fork, I have ten.”
AUGUSTA,
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1835.
We have had no mails from the north so long
that it will soon be an imprescriptable right to
neglect us : and the Rail Road tract has been
tooslippery for the cars to travel ; so both the
last dav’s mails from Charleston, are yet due>
and unreceived. It is the bad weather swelling
the water courses, which has been the cause of
the failure on the Northern Line. No stage had
reached Camden, coming this way, for three
days. We presume, there is no truth in the re
port in town yesterday, that the French fleet,
lately in the West Indies, had run up Tar River
and intercepted the stages in N. Carolina.
FIRE !
Last night about 1 o’clock the Citv was rous
ed at this alarming cry. The reflection of the
glowing sky from the snovv-covered earth and
houses, made it so light, that every one started
from his slumbers, under the impression, that
the danger was at his own door. It was, how
ever, in a comparatively distant spot, opposite
the Roman Catholic Church, on the lot known
as Fury’s old Tau-Yard. It originated in Mr.
Fuller’s stable, where there was light waiting
for the departure of one of his stages. It burned
the olfl “red house,” as it used to be called, and
on the other street reached to the stables, where
Mr. Longstreet’s stage horses are kept, which
escaped. The property on the corner, we be
lieve, belonged to Gilbert Longstreet, who lost
his black-smith and Harness shops, with the
tools and materials. Not less than half a do
zen stages were burnt, and we regret to state,
four horses lost their lives. There were about
a dozen others in the stable; but these four had
been rubbed and prepared for the next stagfe,
and were placed near the- door, where the fire
originated, aad could not be got out. Loss esti
mated at from sto 7.000 dollars. We under
stand there.was no insurance.
O" Since the above was in type, which we
gleaned from different sources, we are informed
by Mr. Fuller, that there had been no light in
the stable since 7 o’clock, when the doors were
locked, and that the fire originated in the loft
We observed, that it snowed all the morning
of Wednesday last—it snowed all day and much
ofthe night—sufficient, as many persons think,
but for the thawing, to have covered the ground
to th* depth of at least a foot. It commenced
snowing again yesterday after dinner, and kept
it up till this morning, when it was succeeded by
sleet and rain. The snow was, this morning,
on an average, between 3 and 4 inches deep.—
We talk about cold weather—we know nothing
about it —read this, which we find in an ac
count of the regions towards the Poles. Bless
us ! It makes us tremble :
“ After the continued action of the suu has a‘
last melted away the great body of ice, a short
and dubious interval of warmth occurs. In the
space of a few weeks, only visited by slanting
and enfeebled rays, frost again resumes his tre
mendous sway. It begins to snow as early as
August, and the whole ground is covered to the
depth of two or three feet, before the month of
October. Along the shores and the bays, the
frozen water, poured from rivulets, or drained
from the thawing of former collections of snow,
becomes quickly converted into solid ice. As
the cold augments, the air deposites its moisture
in the form of a fog, which freezes into a fine
gossamer netting or spicular icicles, dispersed
through the atmosphere and extremely' minute,
that might seem to pierce and excoriate the
skin. The hoar frost settles profusely in fantas
tic clusters, on every' prominence. The whole
surface of the sea steams like a limekiln—an
appearance called the frost-smoke caused, as in
other instances of the production of vapour, by
the water’s being still relatively wanner than
the incumbent air. At length the dispersion of
the mist, and consequent clearness of the at
mosphere, announce that the upper stratum of
the sea itself has cooled to the same standard •
a sheet of ice spreads quickly over the smooth
expanse, and often gains the thickness of an
inch in a single night. The darkness ofa pro
longed winter now broods impenetrably over the
frozen continent, unless the moon chance at
times to obtrude her faint rays whicb only dis
cover the horrors and wide desolation- of the
scene. The wretched settlers, covered with a
load of bearskins, remain crowded and im
mured in their h-ut, every chink of which they
carefully stop against the piereing external
ei Id; and, cowering about the stove or the lamp,
they seek to dozeaway the tedious night. Their
slender stock of provisions, though kept in
the same apartment, is olten frozen so hard
as to require 10 be cut by a hatchet. The
whole of the inside of their hut becomes
lined with a thick crust of ice ; and, if they
happen for an instant to open a window, the
moisture ofthe confined air is immediately pre
cipitated in the form of a shower of snow. As
the frost continues to penetrate deeper, the rocks
are heard at a distance to split with loud explo
sions. The sleep of death seems to wrap up the
scene in utter and oblivious ruin.
“At length the sun reappears above the hori
zon; but his languid beams rather betray the
wide waste than brighten the prospect. By de
grees, however, the farther progress ofthe frost
is checked. In the month of May, the fam
ished inmates venture to leave their hut, in
quest offish on the margin of the sea. As the
sun acquires elevation, his power is greatly in
creased. The snow’ gradually wastes away—
the ice dissolves apace—and vast fragments of
it, detached from the cliffs, and undermined be
neath, precipitate themselves on the shores with
the crash of thunder. The ocean is now un
bound, and its icy dome broken up with tremen
dous rupture. The enormous fields of ice thus
set afloat, are, by the violence of the winds and
currents, again dissevered and dispersed. Some
times, impelled in opposite directions they' ap
proach, and strike with a mutual shock, like
the crush of worlds, —sufficient, if opposed, to
reduce to atoms, in a moment, the proudest mon
uments of human power. It is impossible to pic
ture a situation more awful than that of the
poor crew of a whaler, who see their frail bark
thus fatally enclosed, expecting immediate and
inevitable destruction.
“The Esquimaux, on the approach of winter,
cut the hard ice into tall sqaure blocks, with
which they construct regular spacious domes,
connected with other smaller ones, for the va
rious purposes of domestic economy. They
shape the inside with care, and give it an even,
giossy surface bv the affusion of water. The
snowy wall soon becomes a solid concrete ma
which, being a slow conductor, checks the ac
cess of cold, while it admits a sufficient portion
of light.’
Not having an opportunity of
the Cooking apparatus, advertised in our paper
to day, we copy the following notice from the
Charleston Courier;
Patent Cooking Apparatus.—We were amused
yesterday, at witnessing a rather unusual exhi
bition, at the corner of Broad street affil
East Bay, viz: aCooking Apparatus performing
its avocations in the open air, with all the des
patch and accuracy', that might be expected,
where all the culinary implements w ere et baitd
in an ample kitchen. It occupies bilt a small
• space, is very light, being made 0# block tin, and
requires, but a very small quantity of fuel £cfi*r
coal) to produce a great heat. The agent was*
employed in cooking beef steaks, and roasting*
potatoes, and boiling coffee, in limited quanti
ties, much? astonishing our wondering cit
izens, many of whom expressed their surprise
at the inventive powers of our Yankee breth
ren. Those desirous of seeing the advantages
offered by this- apparatus, would do wet) to*
call and see it in operation. The ageiif is inde
fatigable in his vocation of disposing of thiy
useful invention, the good qualities of which
are expatiated upon witha pleasing good n&turtf
and volu&lity.
I'unnel at Cincinnati.— The bold enterpriser
has been projected at Cincinnati of having ts
railroad to the Kentucky shore, constructed
under the Ohio river. A writer in the Courier,
estimates the expense at S'N^OOO; but we shbttfd
fear that he had much underrated it, if the ex
perience of the attempted tunnel under th*
Thames, be taken as our guide.
The Tribune We are assured that
the government was not sorry to have an oppor
tunity of recalling M. Surrurier, and that When
the question as to the American elaim is ar
ranged, he will not return to Washington. It
appears that previous to the debates in the
Chamber on the 23,000,000, he wrote to the
King that the difference might be settled for 12
million francs, and it is believed that a copy of
this dispatch, being communicated to several in
fluential members of the Centre by the friendr
of M. Surrurier, contributed in no small degree
to the rejection of the demand for the 25,000,000*
francs. From this moment the disgrace of the
French Minister to the United States was re
solved on ;' but it could not be decided upon for
fear of divulging the motives.”
The following simple rule for calculating
Georgia interest, may' be acceptable to 1 som«
of our readers.
The principal sum in dollars, is the interest*
in cents, for a month and a half, or forty-five
days. Thus, the interest 0f5350 fora month
and a half, is 50. It will be immediately
seen that this rule furnishes an easy method oF
finding the interest of any sum for the smaller
fractions of a- year, or month ; by working en
tirely upon the principal thus :
To get the intetestfor three months, double
the principal.
For one month, take two-thirds of the princi
pal.
For nine days take a fifth of it.
For five days take a ninth of it.
For fourteen- days, take a ninth and a fifth
of it.
For eighteen days, double the fifth of it, Ac.
The rule supposes the year to consist of IJ*
months, of thirty days each ; and so do Row
lett s Tables, and so do most ol our operations
in practice. It is not, therefore, strictly
but its results are near enough the truth for all!
practical purposes.
The reason of the rale is obvi >us.
If, instead of multiplying by 8, and taking half
the product, to get the interest for six months
or half year, we multiply by the half of 8, or 4
we get the same result or a single operation. So
if we multiply by 2, it will give’the interest for
the half of the six or three months ; and if we
multiply by one, it will give the interest for a
month and a half, or forty-five days. Practice
in combining multipliers, will enable the opera
tor to calculate interest with astonishing des
patch; thus to get the interest for eighteen
months, combine 8 and 4* and m -Itiply by 12.
For nine months, combine 4 (for six) and 2 (for
three) and multiply by 6 ; for seven months and
a half, combine 4 and 1 and multiply by 5, Ac,
[Sentinel,
THE DYING BOY.
It must be sweet, in childhood to give back
The spirit to its Maker ; ere the heart
Has grown familiar with the paths of sin,
And sown to garner up its bitter fruits.-
I knew a boy whose infant feet hadtsod
Upon the blossoms of seven springs,
And when the eighth came round and call’d him
out,.
To revel in its light he turned away,
And sought his chamber, to lay down and die.
'Twas night—he summoned his accustomed
friends,
And in this wise, bestowed his last bequest.
Mother—l am dying now ?
There’s a deep suffocation in my breast,
As if some heavy hand my bosom pressed ;
And on my brow
I feel the cold sweat stand;
My lips grow dry and tremulous, and my
breath
Comes feebly up. Oh ! tell me, is this death 1
Mother your hand—
Here, lay it on my wrist,
And place the other thus, beneath my head.
And say. sweet mother, say, when I’m dead
Shall 1 be missed ?
Never beside your knee,
Shall I kneel again at night topray,
Nor with the morning wake, and sing the lay
You taught me.
Oh, at the time of prayer,
When you look round, and see a vacant sekt,
You will not wait then, my coming feet—
You’ll miss me there.
Father—l’m going home !
To the good home you spoke of, that blest
land,
Where ’tis one bright summer always, and
Storms do not come.
I must be happy then ;
From pain and death you say I must be free,
That sickness never enters thete, and we
Shall meet again.
Brother, the little spot
I used to call my garden, where long hours
We’ve staid to watch the buildings, trees and
flowers,
Forget it not ’
