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B. H. IiEEKE & B. F. BENNETT, Editors.
«* Equality in the Union or Independence ont of it.**
TERMS-—TWO DOLLARS a-year, in Adjnnce.
VOL. X.
CASSVILLE, GEO., THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1858.
NO. 16.
I^btriistmcnts.
iiiiiiii
^usintss Carts.
B. H. LEEKE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Cassviuc, Ga.
B USINESS entrusted to mv care will meet
with prompt and vigilant attention, and
monies paid over punctually.
Feb. 1, 1858—ly.
nrarp
V A Jl.
The Standard Office being well supplied
with a large variety of the best kinds, ot print
ing materials, we are prepared to do all kinds
"job printing-,
in the best style of the art, and at short no-
tl< Having just received a large quantity of all
kinds, and the latest styles, of plain and fancy
it# tim
Cuts Ornameuts, Ac., and having one of
“Hoe’s lightning Hand Tresses,” we can do
as nice printing as can be done at any office :n
the State, and at as low terms.
Particular attention will be paid to the
printing of
lllanks, of all kinds, Itlnnk Notes, Pro
grammes, Hand and Show Hills, Posters, Ac.
* We respectfully solicit the patronage ot the
public, with the assurance that all orders will
be promptly and faithfully executed.
1 1 H. F. HENNETT,
Cassville, Ga. Publisher.
Terms of the Standard.
If paid strictly in advance, if payment is
delayed ii months, £2.50 ; it delayed until the
end of the veur, $3. .
No paper discontinued until paid for, except
at the option of the Editors.
Miscellaneous Advertisements inserted at ifl
per square (twelve lines) for the first insertion,
and 50 cents for each weekly continuance.
Contracts for advertisements by the n
or year will be made at fair rates.
Laws of Newspapers.
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tice to the contrary, are considered ns wishing
to continue their subscriptions.
•>. If subscribers order the discontinuance ot
their newspapers without settling ail arreara
ges, the Publisher may continue to send them
until they are paid for. ,
11 subscribers neglect or refuse to take
their newspapers from the offices to which they
are directed, they are held responsible until
they have settled the bills, and ordered a dis
continuance.
4. If subscribers remove to other places with-
•>nt informing the Publisher, and the newspa
pers are sent to the former direction, they are
lull'll responsible.
f>. It bus been decided by the Courts that
subscribers refusing to take them newspapers
from the office, or removing and leaving them
uncalled for, is /■rhiHi facie evidence of inten
tional, fraud. .... ...
I). The Courts have also decided that, a Post
master who neglects to perforin his duty of giv-
in«y reasonable notice, as required by the Post-
Office Department; of the neglect of a person to
take from the office newspapers addressed to
him, renders himself l iable for the subscription
price.
10 w. V. WESTER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CALHOUN, GEO.
■y^"ILL practice in all tjhe counties of the
Cherokee Circuit,
laid to tue
iver tl
■iy
Particular attention
istfllannras.
the perils of the border.
While reading recently an account of
lie frightful massacre of several wLite
.amilies by the Black-foot Indians, wt
were reminded of a thrilling event which
occurred in ihe ‘Wild West,’ a shot t time
subsequent to the Revolution, in which
a highly accomplished young lady, the
not happened for two long years at White men, apparently in the greatest limb of a gigantic tree, (wuose might)
least.’ j distress, will hail your boat, represent
‘But I don’t mean that, Blanche,’ re-. themsefves as having just escaped from
turned the other, somewhat petulantly ; j the Indians, aud beg of you, for the
‘and you ju3t laugh like a gay and love of God, in the meet piteous tones,
thoughtless girl, when tou ought to be j to come to their relief; but turn a deaf
-erious. Because vou have come safe; ear to them—to each and all of them
daughter of a distinguished of tLe j 2 CJirce j v a boat
thus far, through a partially settled coun
try, you think, perhaps, your own pret
ty face will ward off danger in the more
perilous wilderneas=*?but 1 warn you
that a feaiful jollrliey is before you !—
(Is the Ohio il>»i
even should you know the pleaders to
be your own kin; for in such a case
your own brother might deceive you—
not wilfully and voluntarily, perhaps—
but because of being goaded on bv the
savages, themselves concealed. \es,
branches extended far over the river, and
near which the boat was then swayed
by the action of the current,) and alight
with a crash upon the deck of the beat, j
believe, is the most dangerous part of
our journey—the vicinity where most of
our boats have been captured by the -
savages.”
Saying this, Eugene hastened below,
than eight feet from her. One | where he found the other boatmen slee-
glance sufficed to show her what the J ping so soundly as to require cousidera-
P a
ly paying over
Nov 26, 1S57
-'.'.action of claims, and to prompt-. American Army, played an important , encounter more or less peril such things have been known as one
er the same whet, collected, ] p ai .,_ The storv being of a most thril- from lhe sava ges that prowl along eith- friend being thus used to lure another
ling nature, and exhibiting in a striking
manner the ‘Perils of the Border,’ we
CEDAR, TOWN, GA
W ILL practice in the counties of Floyd.
Polk, Paulding, Carroll, Haralson and
Cass. Strict attention paid to collecting.
Feb. 18, 1858—ly.
month
A :
the Standard Office.
WARRANTS of Appraisement, for sale at
DMINISTRATORS’ Deeds, for sale at
L. t
w the Standard Office.
M ARRIAGE LICENSES, at the Standard
Office, at 75 cents per quire, cash.
R ETAILER’S Bond, Oath and License—75
cts. n-quire, cash, at the Standard Office.
J URY TICKETS, at the Standard Office, at
75 cents per quire, cash.
C OMMISSIONS of Interrogatories, 75 cents
per quire, cash, at the Standard Office.
A
M AGISTRATE’S SUMMONS—75 cts. per
quire, cush, at the Standard Office.
A TTACHMENTS—under the late law. 75
cents per quire, at the Standard Office.
M ORTGAGE FI FAS. 75 cents per quire,
at the Standard Office.
3NT
S UPERIOR COURT SUBPCKNAS—75 cts-
j»er quire, cash, at the Standard Office.
A DMINISTRATOR’S BONDS, at the Stan
dard Office; 75 cts. per quire.
THOMAS J. VERDERY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, have concluded to give an extract from
it, as originally published, as follows :
The angle on the right bauk of the
Great Kanawah, formed by its. juuctioii
with the Ohio, ’"s called Point Pleasant,
and is a place of historical note. Here,
ett the 10ta of October, 1774, during
what is known as Lord Puumore’s War,
was fought one of the fiercest and most
desperate battles that ever took place
between the Virginians and their forest
f’> >es.
After the battle in question, in which
the Indians were defeated with great
loss, a fort was here erected by the vic
tors, which became a post of great im
portance throughout the sanguinary
scenes of strife which almost immediate
ly folio 1 ed, and which in this section of
the country were continued for manv
M. J. CRAWFORD,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
RINGGOLD, CATOOSA COUNTY, GA.
W ILL practice In all the counties of the
Cherokee Circuit.
Particular attention paid to the collecting of
monev, and to paving over the same when col
lected. ’ mh 19, 1858—ly
Wofford, Crawford & Howard,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Cassville, and Cartersville, Ga. . -
W ILL faithfully attend to any business en
trusted to their care, in any of tlie coun
ties of Upper Georgia.
ffm. T. Wofford, .1. A. Crawford, Cassville;
.1. A. Howard, Cartersville. July 23.
E. M. SEAGO & GAAE,
SUCCESSORS TO E. M. SEAGO,
Wholesale Grocers,
PRODUCE DEALERS,
AND GENERAL
Commission Merchants,
SOUTH SIDE PASSENGER DEPOT,
Atlanta, Ga.
March 18, 1Sd$—ly.
PLAIN AND FANCY
PA1WTIM6,
DONE TO ORDER.
T HE subscriber takes this method to inform
Hie public that he is ready at all times to
attend to any kind of
Plain or Fancy Painting;
and hopes by close attention to bus ness to re
ceive a liberal share of the public patronage.
All orders promptly £“V™UMANS.
Cassville, Nov 12—3t
er shore; and some of them go down
freighted with human life, are heard of
no more, and none ever return to tell
lhe tale.’
‘But why repeat this to me, dear
aunt,’ returned Blanche, with a more se
rious air, ‘when you know it is my des
tiny, either good or bad, to attempt the
voyage 1 My parents have sent for me
to join them in their new home, aud it
is my duty to go to them, be the peril
what it may.’
‘You uever did know what it was to
fear!’ pursued the good woman, rather
proudly. ‘No,’ she repeated, turning to
the others, Blanche Bertrand never did
know what it was to fear, I believe I’
‘Just like her-father!’ joined in the
husband of the matron, the brother of
Blanche’s mother, the commander ot the
station, and the middle-aged gentleman
mentioned as one of the party ; ‘a true
years after that establishment of peace daughter of a true soldier. Her father,
DIMICK &
DEALERS
MIX,
IN
Boots and Shoes,
LEATHER, LASTS, SHOE PEGS
AND SHOE FINDINGS,
Peach Thee Street, Atlanta, Ga.
A large stock of the above goods always on
hand and will be sold, cheap for cash at sign
of Rig Boot, Peach Tree Street, Atlanta, Ga.
June 11—ly. D. & JL^
iTurfiMM
S MITH AEZZARD calls the attention of phy
sicians and Countrv Merchants to their large
stock of Drugs Chemicals, Perfumes, Paints,
Oils, Window Glass, Dye Stuffs, Dentists Ma
terials, and every thing usually kept in first
class Drug stores.
We are also sole Manufacturers and I ropri-
etors of Taylor’s Anti-Dyspeptic Elixir, we
have the certificates of twentv-five or thirty ot
the most respectable persons in our citv, testi-
fving to its virtues. Wc warrant satisfaction.
Price $*2,0'^ per bottle. Cash Customers will
find it to their advantage to give us a call.
Atlanta, Ga., May 2S, 1857*
NEW
E8SE EISElt
NEW GOODS! NEW STORE! NEW LO
CATION AND NEW ARRANGEMENT!
Wm. Kay, Agent,
-Sfila HAS for sale a large ... ort-
VrjZf^a m ent of Books, Stationery, Must-
e.;l Instruments, Fancy «"«ds.
fine and common Cutle- >
QfCIREFACI^^ 7; vents per quire, at the
Standard Office.
C A HAS, for Superior and Justice Courts,
at the‘Standard Office.
whi.-li acknowledged the United Slates
Colonies of America a free and indepen
dent nation.
At the landing of the fort, on the day
our story opens, was fastened a flat-
boat of the kind used by the early nav
igators of the Western rivers.
Upon the deck of this boat, at the
moment we present lhe scene to the
reader,’stood five individuals, alike en
gaged in watching a group of persons,
mostly females, who were slowly ap
proaching the landing. Of these five,
one was a stout, sleek negro, in partial
livery, and evidently a house or body
servant; three were l>oatman and bor
derers, as indicated by their rough,
bronzed visages and coarse attire; but
the fifth was a young man, some two-
and-twentv yeais of age, of a fine com
manding jierson, and a clear, open, in
telligent countenance; and in the lofty
carriage of his head—in the gleam of
his large, bright, hazel eye—there was
something which denoted one of superi
or mind; but as we shall have occasion
in the course of our narrative to fully-
set forth who aud what Eugene Fairfax
was, we will leave him for the present,
and turn to the approaching group,
whom he seemed to be regarding with
lively interest.
Of this group, composed of a middle-
aged man and four females, with a black
female servant following some five or
six paces in the rear, there was one
whom the most casual eye would have
siugied out and rested upon with pleas
ure. The lady in question, was appa
rently about twenty years of age, of a
slender and graceful figure, and of that
peculiar class of feature, which, besides
■ :■beautiful in every lintamept, rare- I
A LL the above Blanks are well printed, on
croud paper, and cannot fail to give satis-
tfactiwn. Thej were printed with great care.
B EAR IT iN MIND—That Oue Dollar per
snire will be charged for all Blanks when
on a credit. So pay the cash aud save a
quarter.
PiS*r„, _ , ^...g,
cash W ^ a,e A an sba r ^-th1 is j ly fails to affect the beholder with some-
rcspectfuily solicited. thing like a charm.
JSSStfSEtfS tpSMfS Hr, Krollbg ersturn—. «□. been
habit, high in the neck, buitcned close
ly over the bosom and coming down to
her small pretty feet, without trailing
on the ground—was both neat ana be
coming ; and with her riding-cap and
SHOD.
William Headden,
CASSVILLE, GEO.,
, IS prepared to make and repair
Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, or
anything in his line of business.
He has one of' the best BLACKSMITH S
and some of the best WOOD WORKMEN in
Georgia.
Thankful for past patronage, he begs a con
tinuance of the same. Work warranted.
All those indebted tc him for last years
shop accounts are requested to call and settle
by cash or note, without delay.
.Cassville, Mch 25,1858—-ly
and forwarded per return mao. —
press or stage. Please remember the place—
nearest Book Store to the general passenger
depot, Atlanta, Geo. Jan. 21, 1S.->S-1).
S. B. O ATM AN,
Dealer ix A erican, Italian and Egyptian
Statuabt, and Tennessee
Marble,
Monuments, Tombs, Urns and A ases, Marble
Mantels, asd Furnishing Marble,
Atlanta, Ga.
James Vaughan, Agent, Cassville, Ga.
April 22, 1858—ly.
Col. Philip Bertrand, God bless him for
a true heart! never did seem to know
what it was to fear—and Blanche is
just like him.*
By this time the parties had reached
the boat; and the young man already-
described—Eugene Fairfax, the secreta
ry of Blanche’s father—at once stepped
forward, and in a polite and deferen'ial
manner, offered his hand to the differ
ent females, to assist them on board.—
The hand of Blanche was the last to
touch his—and then bnt slightly, as she
sprung quickly and lightly to the deck
— but a close observer might have de
tected the slight flush which mantled
his noble, expressive features as his eye
for a simple instant met hers. She
might herself of seen it—perhaps she did
— but there was no coi responding glow
on her own bright, pretty face, as she
inquired, in the calm, dignified tone of
one having the right to put the question,
and who might also have been aware ot
the inequality of position between her
self and him she addressrd :
‘Eugene, is everything prepared for
our departure ? It will not do for our
boat to spriog a leak again, as it did
coming down to Kanawah—for it will
not be safe for ns, I am told, to touch
either shore between tbe different forts
and trading-posts on our route, this side
of our destination,—the Falls of the O-
hio.’ ....
‘No, indeed H rejoined her aunt,quick
ly ; ‘it will be as much as your lives are
worth to venture a foot from the main
current of the Ohio—for uews reached
us only the other day, that many boats
had been attacked this spring, and sev
eral lost, with all on board.’
‘2$p one feels more concerned about
tbe safe passage of Miss Bertrand than
mvself,’ replied Eugene, in a deferential
tone ; ‘and since our arrival here, I have
left nothing undone that I thought
might possibly add to Ler security and
comfort.’
‘That is true, to my personal knowl
edge,’ joined in the uncle of Blanche;
•Mil ISXKE,
CASSVILLE, GEO.:
BY S. J. HIGGS.
-a
its waving ostrich plume, set gaily above j j t ^ an ^ y eUj jj r Fairfax, in behalf
her flowing curls, her appearance con- ki nsw0 nian. There will, per-
trasted forcibly with the rough, un,jo1 ' | haps,* he pursued, ‘be no greater danger,
ished looks of those of her sex beside ^ j Qn g m y OU j^p j„ the curient; but
her, with their linsev bed-gowns, scarlet j ^ ° alc h m * ust no t be neglected for a
flannel petticoats, and bleached linen s ; n gj e mon , e nt, either night or day ; and
caps. !’do not, I most solemnly charge and
Oh, Blanche,’ said one of the more j w#ra VOUj un j er a „y circumstances, or
to his destruction ; and so be cautious,
vigilant, brave and true, and may the
good God keep you all from harm !’
As he finished speaking, Blanche pro
ceeded to take an affectionate leave of
all, receiving many a tender message for
her parents from those who held them
in love and veneration ; and the boat
swung out, and began to float down
with the current, now fairly entered up-
ob the most dangerous portion of a long
and perilous journey.
The father of Blanche, Colonel Phil
lip Bertrand, was a native of Virginia^
and a descendant of one of the Hugue
not refugees, who fled from their native
land after the revocation of the edict of
Nautz in 1665. He had been an officer
of some note during the Revolution—a
warm political and personal friend ot
the author of the Declaration of Inde
pendence—and a gentleman who had
always stood high in the esteem of his
associates and cotemporaries.
Though at one time a man of wealthy
Colonel Bertrand had lost much, and
suffered much, through British invasion
— and when, he had met with a few
more serious reverses, he had been fain
to accept a grant of land, near the Falls
of the Ohio, and Louisville, tendered
him by Virginia, which, then held juris
diction over the entire territory now con
stituting the State of Kentucky.
The grant had decided the Colonel
upon seeking his new possessions and
building up a new home in the then Far
West, and as his wife had insisted upon
accompanying him on his first tour, he
had assented to her desire, on condition
that Blanche should be left among her
friends, till such time as a place could
lie prepared which m'ght in some de
gree be considered a fit abode for one
so carefully and tenderly reared.
Blanche would gladly have gone with
her parents; but on this point her fath
er bad been i.xorable—declaring that
she would have to remain at the East
till he should see proper to send for her
—and as he was q man of positive char
acter, and a rigid disciplinarian, the
matter had been settled without argu
ment.
When Colonel Bertrand removed to
the West, Eugene Fairfax, as we have
seen, accompanied him ; and coming of
age shortly after, he had accepted the
liberal offer of his noble benefactor, to
remain with him in the capacity of pri
vate secretary and confidential agent.—
On taking possession of his grant, the
Colonel had almost immediately erected
a fort, and offered such inducements to
settlers as to speedily collect around him
Quite a little community—of which, as
a matter of course, he became the head
and chief; and to supply the wants of
his own family and others, and increase
his gains in a legitimate way, he had
■opened a store, and filled it with goods
from the Eastern marts—which goods
were transported by land over the moun
tains to the Kanawha, and thence by-
water to the Falls of the Ohio, whence
their removal to Fort Bertrand became
an easy matter. To purchase and ship
these goods and deliver a package of let-
object was, and to freeze the blood in
her veins. The glowing eyes of a huge
panther met her gaze. The suddenness
of the shock which this discovery gave
her was everpowering. With a deafen
ing shriek she fell upon her knees aud
clasped her hands before her breast.—
The panther crouched for his deadly-
leap, but ere he sprang, the hunting
knife of Eugene Fairfax, (who, with the
steersman, was the only person on deck
besides Blanche.) was buried to the hilt
in his side, iufiicting a severe but not
.fatal wound. The infuriated beast at
once turned upon Eugene, and adeadly
struggle-ensued. But it was a short one.
The polished biade of the knife played
back and forth like lightning flashes,
and at every plunge it was buried
to the hilt in the panther’s body, who
soon fell to the deck, dragging the
dauntless Eugene with him. On seeing
her protector fall, Blanche uttered anoth
er shriek and rushed to his aid; but as
sistance from stouter arms was at hand.
The boatmen gathered round, and the
savage monster was literally hacked in
pieces with their knives and hatchets,
aud Eugene, covered with blood, was
dragged from under his carcass. Sup
posing hini to be dead or mortally woun
ded, Blanche threw her arms around his
neck and gave way to a passionate burst
of grief. But he was not dead—he vjas
not even hurt, with the exception of a
few slight scratches. The blood with
which he was covered was the panther’s,
not his own. But Blanche’s embrace
was his—a priceless treasure—an index
of her heart’s emotions and affections.—
It was to color his whole future life, as
will be seen in the progress of our story.
Slowly and silently, save the occasion-
sional creak, dip, and plash of the steers-
mau’s oar, the boat of our voyagers was
borne along upon the bosom of the cur
rent, on the third night of the voyage.
The hour was waxing late, and Eugene,
the only one astir except the watch, was
suddenly startled, by a rough hand be
ing placed upon his shoulder, accompa
nied by the words, in the gruff voice of
the boatman :
“I say, Cap’n, here’s trouble!”
“What is it, Dick !” inquired Eugene,
starting to his feet.
“Don’t you see thar’s a heavy fog ri
sing, that’ll soon kiver us np so thick
tiiat we won’t be able to tell a white
man from a nigger?” replied the boat
man—Dick Winter by name—a tall,
bony, muscular, athletic specimen of his
class.
“Good heaven ! so there is!” exclaim
ed Eugene, looking off upon the already
misty waters. “It must have gathered
very suddenly, for all was clear a minute
ago. What is to be done now ? This
is something I was not prepared for, on
such a night as this.”
“It looks troublous, Cap’n, I’ll allow,”
returned Dick; but we’re in for’t, that’s
sartin, and I s’pose we’ll have to make
the best on’t.”
“But what is to be done ?—what do
you advise ?” asked Eugene, in a quick,
excited lone, that excited some degree
of alarm.
“Why, ef yon war’nt so skeered about
tbe young lady, and it warn’t so dead
agin the orders from head quarters, my
plan would be a el’ar and easy one—I’d
just run over to tbe Kaintuck shore, and
tie up.”
“No, no,” said Eugene, positively ;—
“that will never do, Dick—that will
never do! I would not think of such a
THE public generally, and his era jjl e of her female companion., nv Dre tenee whatsoever, suffer vour-
old friends, particularly, are, „.i,:„h had been ^ P _ „
requested to stop with him,- pursuing a conversation wincn nau ueeu ^ ^ ^ decoved t0 e!t Ler sho*”
:,„»i, M medsi»« q ai.a n g l he r « faf
tbe market affords. Connected ^ with ^tliis , i K .|,i u d them,
Dr. J. W. Kinabrew,
THANKFUL tor the pa,
tronage of tbe past -yeari
continues to offer bis servi
ces to the public, and will
attend promptly to every
call, day or ’" —
next duor a
Terrell's, where be can be
found during the day, at
, ‘I cannot bear to let yon
for fe to me as if some-
‘I hope ve uodeestand our duty bet
ter, Colonel,’said one of the men, respecl-
Denot, connecting with the rassenger Trains ; go ; .or » J«f™v fu „
on the State Railroad. Also, «mnected with j „. ere going to happen t0 J'°». ani t j ’
\ when I feel that way, something gener- ! ‘ T ‘
this House runs a semi-weekly Stage line i
this place via Etlijay to Morganton.
ft. nr
i doubt it not,' replied the comtnan.
Mch 25, 1S5S- 6m
„ , , | der of ihe Point ; ‘I believe you are ail
* ‘Welk aunt^returned 1 fenche, with >thftil and true men, or yon wouULJOt
GLOVES, ! a light laugh. ‘I do net doubt in
ters to friends in the East, Eugene had, , w - ,
■ . ... ... , thing-for a moment! We must keep
been thrice dispatched,bis third comroiss- 6 —
ion also extending to the escorting of the
beautiful heiress, with her servants, to
her new home. This last commission
in the current by all means T
“Ef you can,” rejoined tbe boatman;
but when it gits so dark as we can’t
DR. J- T.
had been so far executed at the time 1 ^ one thing from t’other, it’ll be pow-
chosen for the opening of our story, as erful hard to do; and ef we don t run
to bring the different parties to the j a bar or bank afoi.e morning, m
mouth of the great Kanawha, whence^ of the best o’ us,,til be tbe Incki-
the reader has seen them slowly floating j «t go that ever I had a hand in. See,
off upon the stilt glassv bosom of “the, Cap’n-it’s thickening up fast; ween t
belle of rivers.” jseeeyther bank at all, nor the water
... ■ nether; the stars is gittin’ dim, and it
Thadar, which was an suspicions one, i ’- , , .. .
. :, • looks as if thar war a cloud all round
night st Latimer's hotel, last door on the first
Jloor, next to Mr. McMurry’s.
the * have been selected by the agent of Cdl-
HAS removed to thgofto^next door Jo- le&st t h„ t something will happen -for I; onel ®* rt ™^’ djau^ve'u ever carried I thr of note, until near four o’clock, when, ;“*•
^ d D aTanfth?nffieX“ , expect one of these day. to reach my J^ ,0 “ ^ „ d the BUnche was standing on the fore; “I see 1 I seeP’ returned Eugene, ex-
r uiaht. Offirii- Ringed. Prompt a'tention given to .11 calls, ^ fj(ther and blesse d mother ami ; before, but tt.UU. sert > giving 1 part of the deck gazing at the iovely Citedly. Merciful beaten ! I hope no
Executions; from a dutiful daughter to her p , __ L . _ . , ,:i j t 4 ftrihcLodv suddenly leave a heart almost misgnes me , for this, 1
Cassrille, Jan. 21,
1858.
dufa"■ ^****”>.«—*'*•*** * ta “ l
ble effort, on his part, to wake tliem.-
At last, getting them fairly roused, he
infoimed them, almost in a whisper, for
he did not. care to disturb the others,-
that a heavy fog had suddenly arisen,
and he wished their presence on deck,)
immediately.
“A fog, Cap’n J” exclaimed one, in a
tone which indicated that he compre
hended the peril.with the world.
“Hush!” returned Eugene; “there is -
no necessity for waking the others, and
having a scene. Up! and follow me,-
without a word 1”
He glided back to the deck, and was'
almost immediately joined by the boat
men, to whom he briefly made known!
his hopes and fears.
They thought, like their companion!,
that the boat would be safest if made
fast to an overhanging limb of the Ken
tucky shore; but frank'y admitted that
this could no! now be done without d.t-
ficulty and danger, aud that there was'
a possibility of keeping the current.
‘•Then make that possibility a certain
ty, and it shall be the Lest night’s work
you ever performed 1” rejoined Eugene,-
in a quick excited tone.
“We’ll do the best we can, Cap’n,”
was the respouse; “hut no man crin be
sartin of the cum lit of this here crook
ed stream in a foggy night.”
A long sileuce followed, the voyagers!
slowly drifting down through a hiisty
darkness im] enetrable to the eye—when,-
suddet.lv, our young commander, who
was standing near the bow, felt tbe ex
tended branch of au overhanging limb
silently brush his face. He started; with
an exclamation of alarm, and at the
same moment the boatman on tbe right
called out :
“Quick, here, boys 1 we’re agin the
shore, as sure as death !”
Then followed a scene of hurried and
anxious coufusion, the voices of the three
boatmen mingling together id foud;
quiek, excited tones.
“Push off the bow 1” cried one;
“Quick 1 altogether, now ! ovet witli
her 1” shouted another.
“The de’il’s in it! she’s running a-
grouud here on a muddy bottom 1” al
most yelled a third.
Meantime the laden boat was burst
ing along aga’iist projecting bushes and
overreaching limbs, and every moment
getting more and more efflangled while
—the long poles and sweeps of the boat 1
men, as they attempted to push her off - ,
were often plunged, without touching
bottom, into what appeared to be a soft
clayey mud, fiom which they wereonljr
extricated by such an outlay of strength
as tended Stid more to draw the clumsy
craft upon the bank they wished U> a-
oid. At length, scarcely more than a
minute from the first alarm, there was
a kind of settling together, as it were;
and the boat became fast and immova
ble.
The fact was announced by l)ick Win
ter, in his characteristic manner—whd
added, with an oath, that it was just
what he expected. For a momeiit of
two a dead silence followed, as if each
comprehended that the matter was bnti
to l>e viewed in a very serious light.
“I’ll get over tbe bow, and try to gii
the lay of tbe land #i(h my feet,” said
Tom Harris ; and forthwith hesetaboni
the not very pleasant undertaking.
At this moment Eugene heard his
name pronounced by a Voice that seldom
failed to excite a peculiar emotioo Iti liis
breast, and now sent a strange {brill
through every nerve; and hastening be
low; he found Blanche; fully dressed,
with a light in her hand, standing just
outside of her cabin, in the regular pas
sage which led otherwise through the
centre of the boat.
“I have heard something, Eugene :—
she said' “enough to know that ik’d have
met with an accident, but not sufficient
to fully comprehend its nature.”
‘ Uufortunateiy, about two hours ago,”
replied Eugeue, “we Suddenly became
involved in a dense fog; and in spke of
dflr every precaution and care; we have
rnn aground—it may be against the
Ohio shore—it may be against an island
—it is sO dark we can’t tell. Bat be
not alarmed^ Miss Blanche,” be hurried-