Danvers Eagle & Whig Newspapers, 1844-1845, Part 63

Author: Samuel T. Damon (Danvers Eagle) / Danvers Whig publisher unknown.
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"Well, my son, I will not bid thee tarry here; though whispering aff ction pleads, yet thy duty forbids the appear, But it is hard to part with thee; thou the last of

my children the beloved of my old age. c. I was surrounded by a belt of living fire, Go forth then in Heaven's strength and aid the princely Bruce in this sore strait, and ders of the horizon. Anon, the pillars of fore the fire I saw a venerable looking wo- flame grew larger and fiercer, and ascend- | man sitting as in immediate expectation of may He protect and preserve thee in the

ing yet higher, filled the whole air with some one's appearance. . That the looked Tho temperest the wind to the shorn lamb.

I yield thee up to thy country's service;

down sto the lasti current hour, "I stood at midnight upon one of the many mountain

peaks that dend a rough sublimity to that strange unearthly forms hovering and fit "These mother, "said the lady, "that the Hereupon she arose, and opening a nar- region whose annals I had been perusing jung to and fro about the fires, for a brief lammy of the English tyrant isdast approach- Prow crypt in the wall, drew therefrom a By the mystical knowledge I have before dispace clearly revealed against the brilliant inmus, and that sdom they will reach the heavy, cumbrand; bradsword, whose din- spoken of, I was aware, that the tide of light, and, then as suddenly disappearing bills pandemie bLast night, the valiant tedadge and dim discolored surface bure At times I saw them Price who lieth encapped in a deep glon evidence that it had been where steak and a across our northen boundary, sent a mes-

time had receded, > (by which I was not in ) luknew not whither. the least surprised,) bearing ma rapidly cast |huge withered limbs into the wild blaze, and then retrive in search of more

back on its bosom five hundred years el moreis Beingoin vnd wise astonished as I fuel, winging their antic flight far into the

have said,at this quick rate of locomotion , a black forest, where I saw the dense foliage morning. considering it a thing of no marvel quite | quiver and shake as the visionary figures an ordinary, zevery dayloccurrence in fabr! Rent and tore the branches from their ,pa- About some fires they form-

though I had left Danvers" one minute bet trent trunks.

fore, three thousand miles away in the vest led a circle and, with, joined hands danced

I did not entertain thelidea of, making an rashcally, raising from time to time avale beneath was peaceful, and the silence | seathless and unharmed.Udswiss Mw doidw

mournful chant, sometimes, swelling like

the roar of many waters,and then sinking

Iso low and faint, the ear could scarcely

the dying strain. What is worthy i known means hud discoved the news ofthe of mention, the tenor of the sing seemed invasion, and so kindled the blaze themese

the scenes of dantepor ovig os onicsb quo si al Hastily snatching the weapon candies

coaches: b No, dodgs wishing to beliold this

climes renownedtin song and story I be- warning of impending evil, a prophecy offwas the case. But before he gained the andy an earnest call, to buckle on the Bottom, they had nearly caught the alarm, Brushing away the mostme from MPereyt mos

stowed not a thought on the means by which war resistance. Long Is sewed the and he saw them branding to and I'd" enter the Biff

absorbed in deep un- ling and emerging from HousesTh Wild ex- speed. tasting che sorrow af't di fiantput trad.

The youth here paused for backwards, at the home, and her, he was fos leaving, perhaps forever. Swiftly towards

the village hie sped ('I attending his steps. ) Is

tive land, yet dimly gleaming, for the moon |that they sopred not so high, but made 145} "The blessed saints preserve ps! jae- and soon we saw the adventurous nand, dens ovad

.Lower and lower they fell, these upon which we are fallen; danger were preparing for bare. But benfrente bus

awayoin the distance, a mighty host of gain defeated. feebly struggling with their decay, yet dy- and death impend I know. Alas for our ! reached hem a shout arosefrtill thefood

shadowy'summits, loomed loftily and grand; like gigantic Watchers o'er the destinies ing, until at last there was nought but em, poor distracted country. bers, and these were rapidly fading. The heard men say that the night previous to.

Often have. I ranks, baning our approach. ait Here comes young William Loverthe

of Earth. bsThe black and sombrous mass

of forest folinge that clothed them waved same process of extinction attended the the disastrous Fight of Falkerk, where thy keenest unter on the mountains, shadowy beings who kindled and fed them ; father was slain fighting side by side with

wildlydin the night winds (and strange to

a mournfubistrain whichys by the magic' power de dreaming Fancy I was enabled to interprety and inow present to the reader. Thus ran dhe derge-like song !!

SONG OF THE WATCHERS

'Sons of the mount, the vale, the forest, rise to arms with one accord,

That evil threats, the worst, the sorest,

day outspread before me, to learn from the last night, that their purpose was friendly,

him : thon timidly disclaimed his ability, to

inhabitants, whose cottages thickly dotted and not to burn us to destruction and be their leader, but reiterated cries showed

Oppression ' neath a foreign lord.

hanging in dense masses around and o'er Evil may we well forbode, when spirits of- A buzz of approbation came from the part in the actions, of mankind; therefore ranks, and voices from every side confirm- cd. the nomination. Heaven be with us, I say, and grant, that, With a modest, downcast look the youth the invisible world are permitted to take the hills., Full of astonishment at these a- Imazing prodigies, { hurried, down the hill on which I had been standing, and bent my rapid steps to a wide pleasant valley that although disembodied beings were abroad heard the enconiums pronounced upon

est, bravest kindest heart in the veneyi he

tell) seemingito chant (as it appeared tome): with the, decay of the fire they became less the brave Wallace, that the warning fires shall lead us; ( none so fit, ) for he kneweth clearly defined; grew more indistinct and were lighted by other agency thes human every winding way among the hills, What transponted till they totally faded, merging for that no one was ever seen to apply the say ye friends ?. Shall he he our chief, and with the mist that the early dawn revealed, torch, and no one ever clanied the deed lead us forth to the ight !!!

senger fleet of loot to light the beacon -!

evil Take it,"she said, and though it pre-

who arrived in the village below early thist "He saith that ere he had reach- were wrought hy it at bis hands, ifthis sun-co a served not thy parent's life, yet noble deeds

Led the chain of hills, the first in his Way vivino companions say true. elias it proveosash they broke out suddenly and friendly all #- (strutstien: with the]my Vson:|Farewell,samaund round him, and almost simultaneously, lightofthe blessed saintaltotershadol sind -keepassis ed as he deems by no mortal hand, for the thee: if prayer. will dxbil, itbrio shalt getuds Hada of night rested gently on o'er all the scene. Overwhelmed with amazement he descend- Without trusti g herself. with faither stata ed, to learn if the cottagers iby some un-

Speech the widow withdrew to tomadomit o W dosef, there to agonise andodrasdessind fossi

tors bofs steamboats, railroads and stage

to be the same that I had heared at first, a selves, little thinking however that such

of. slaughter in Long these gloomy shades flifted over apaser countenance, but at last, by'a strong effort =5

she repelled them, and, nerving hersen byug

Vigorous excercise of will, spake" www sjed: no lise

this portent, and speculate what might next ensue, I beheld a flame, of fire flash up from a neighbouring cliff. Swift and fiercely it shot aloft; rising higher and wild honey suckle and other trailing plante, higher every moment, into the abyss of air, until at last a steady, slender column, un- which gave forth a rich fragrance I enjoy- ed ere I had reached it .. I had approach- ed within fifty rods, when, unexpectedly a youth rushed by me, his handsome, face glowing with, wild excitement, and plunged into the cottage. Having the power to rens flickering soared afar, on, high. 1 Before I had bent my gaze for one instant up this new wonder it was succeeded by a simi- lar light from an opposite crag, and then der myself invisible, (so I dreamed ) I av-

ful abode, smiling in the morning sun and sweetly enfolded in the embrace of the Which sh Ana was widowed coger

ORIGINAL TALE

Ere the last faint notes of the wonderous melody had died away on solemn silence, town far behind, until I found myself draw- and when I had just begun to muse upon jing near to a humble, yet nent and cheer-

inany a reminiscene of her past history, and Iprominant among them, that unhappy scene.

Then up, and nerve ye for the fight,

Those blades | your sires once drew, and sheath: 4 181032

And battle boldly for the right /w Come welcome victory or deathbui

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ybue's bail mange lowwoods tad becq gibtes un

sun s cb 1 eu mid doisw 1'.omd

ade doidw to

Dodge nwo sidesnimulfi

[hour of danger and death, who is able, and

I shall endeavor to relate a Methought, through that strange q faculty /common das dreams, in which, (Nature's laws destroy- ed) the slumberes will vange all climesland | bright, showery sparks, shedding a ruddy for visitor was the young man with whoin countries In asingle night, in all Tages of gleam on the overhanging skies, and chang I came, was evident from her first words the world, from the primitive dags of Adam fing the jar oft ocean, as it were to blonde | which were theseb 4"So sodu returned mne sommending thy life to one who is the God Presently there appeared (which I had not, sha? |1\Vell what tidings dostahou Bring ofbattles, and can save as well in the field observed before, a myriad [throng of mefrom the village?"= = gnitqobs.vd [of blood as in the peaceful cot."

application to Congress forhaspatent on a new method of travelling, and on the sup- position of its being granted, picture to myself the excessive wrath of all proprie } catch

I came, but fulllof the presenti all my res sword fo flections were confined to passing stones, marvellous scene, Above thef wele shigiltg the countless Bitars shaken interest . Length I could, perkeitement. sos-09

the same:I ofthad looked upon in my ph kolove that the flames grew gradually paler breathe"

was upwins all heroglorious majesty na flar effectual attempts to leap up, and sunk a- ulated the widow ;- what evil times are

blood flowed like summer rain.

@ yab stadt badsinh yaisa kis.boow qoda ni jedi golsgiga stued wi borista your ,drow

Hither they look with eggs bus (mums!) And steadfast gaze, bent -n each peak, That towers above the rest on high, Here mean they, their dark hate to wreak.

that the popular choice persisted, and he by an Association of individuals, who will was compelled to sanction their wishes.

"If ye will thus force me" he said "I must needs submit, but methinks ye might as can be found. bave made a better selection from many ainong you abler than 1

"William Lovel, W.lliam Lovel, he is our chief " shouted the crowd. Last of her race, she sinks into the grave, THE YOUNG MAN .- There is no moral leaving probably no one living, who knows objeet so beautiful as a conscientios young or suspects himself her kinsman, according pond, but the thaws of spring had already The nearest way was over Middleton "Since it is even so" said he, "I would man. I watch him as I do a star in the hea- to the flesh-though far awa' cousins some- counsel that we quickly array ourselves; vens! ( louds may be before him, but we where in England or America, there prob- and speedily commence our march to join know his light is behind them, and will ably may be .-

the princely Chief, jor to-night at farthest the Southron will seek to enter the valley through a ravine, where Bruc. hopes to encounter them.

Then passing through a hastily formed line, he inspected their weapons of offence and defence, saw that each man was well provided with sword and buckler and other requisites for the fray.

This examination being concluded satis- factorily, they set forth uplifted with high aspiration for glory and patriotic enter- prize I will not attempt to describe their march accross the hills, which occupied time hours, but conduct the reader at once to their place of destination.

This was a small wood-embowered hol- low hidden by the surrounding mountains; a lonely, secluded vale, so isolated from human sound or habitati n, that it seemed as if nature had intended it expressly to be tenented by outlaw or hunter, or to be the refuge of men, proscribed and exiled from the abodes of their race, as was the unhap- py condition of him, who now with some faithful followers, had made it his rendez- vous. Beneath an aged oak upon a slight knoll, almost in the centre of the little val- ley were seated some sixty men, making a repast upon a deer which they had just roasted by a fire now decaying between the clefts of a rock near by.

Iought to have mentioned before that I had preceded my companions who were still on their way, and invisible as usual, now viewed the scene.

[TO BE CONTINUED.]

DANVERS EAGLE.

I soar, as on Eagle's wings, To spread the truth abroad!

DANVERS, MONDAY, MARCH 31.

TO OUR READERS,

On the first of June, 1845, we shall en- deavor to enlarge our paper to nearly DOUBLE ITS PRESENT SIZE. To in- crease the circulation of the paper, we shall charge but ONE DOLLAR A YEAR which will be the cheapest paper in the State of Massachusetts.

We feel compelled to make this improve ment because the Eagle bas received at the ishes not beauties in a performance, one is eagerly sought, the other carelessly neg- Jected. hands of the public such a kind reception. It is our desire to give you a paper well worthy your confidence and support. We The man who chooses his wife from the assembly, or drawing room, prefers muslin to merit, form to substance-and will usually be disapointed in his expectations. commemced small, becuse there was a risk to run in getting subscribers; and as we have before said, not knowing whether we could find such matter as would be inter- esting and acceptable. But as our sub- scription list is filling ap so rapidly, we have engaged the services of many able and experienced writers, who will com- The man who talks much of himself, does mance their labors on the enlargement of this paper. "We have, at considerable ex- not possess the respect, or the applause of of Dame . Cloyce,

Never fear the man who threatens you in which were cultivated peas, beans escu- with an injury; the silent enemy is the most dangerous.

lent root, medicinal and culinary herbs &e. . Here, in the month of March, year 1747; in the evening, sat a middle aged woman, the wife of Gloyd, a daughter (the school mistress the world. A wise man, never need sound of the parish, to whom we, the descendents of bound up with bandages and her whole of some pote to furdich us, every week his own virtues, and few wish to hear the the early settlers may be more indebted for triumph of Fame blowr, by the breath of the constitution of our minds for ideas, for pains.

pense obtained the nunistance of an Author with La ORIGINAL STORY.

Our friends will bear in mind that to do this, it will require much of the "where- with, "and will not be slow in giving us a list of subscribers unequalled by any other paper in Essex County.

We are having an "Eagle". engraved expressly for the head of the paper, which will cost as much as forty volumns of the paper.

We furthermore assure : our Readers lence, the roaring of the tempestuous that at that time the Eagle will be Edited ocean.

Written for the Danvers Eagle.

HISTORY OF SARAH GLOYD.

On Monday night, the 10th inst., in the work, they started for home agreeing that Alms House, Danvers, SARAH GLOYD, the one of the company who should reach aged nearly 98.

the tavern first should be treated by the others,

rendered the ice an unsafe bridge. Gloyd however intent on a dram at . free cost, or what was probably more seducing, the prospective joy of the winner of a game, ran over the pond, fell in and was drown- ed. The others escaped.

The news reached the new made widow pound note in his pocket." (Ten pound, old excentricities of character und vagaries of who exclamed, "O dear dear he had a ten mind that could hardly fail to interest and instruct the generality of readers-a brief tener 1' pound 6 shillings 8 pence-a- and imperfect sketch of which is here, at- tempted.

bout $4,44 cents)

The lone widow and daughter, naturally

About the year 1747-on the bank of timid, and renderd daily more so, by their Beaver-dam brook in Salem Village, near the gate or entrance of the avenue to the Lawrence Farm stood the humble cottage of -- Gloyd-and there it had stood for half a Century and there it stood more than half a century longer.

The atmosphere which she breathed, the ing house of Mr. David Guilford-and no milk she drew from her mother's breast, vestige of the ancient appearance remains: but in memory's glass I see it yet.

An old dilapidated one story building a- bout 16 feet square leaning against a grav- elly knoll, with two small leaden sashed di- amond glass windows-one in the southern front and another opposite in the back side. The west end was occupied by a chimney and fire place sufficiently large to accom- modate the whole family in its corners .- Opposite the chimney in the east end was the door, with a wooden latch, (string al- ways pulled in) and several curious substi- tutes for bolts and locks dangling about it. In this room was a bed, trundle bed, two

The meed of praise, the delight of 'oc- cupaney' attending ali the way, and the fi- nal recompense of reward, all taken to- gether, will be found to turn, there ca. be or three wheels for spinning linnen tow and

no do .bt, rather in favor of him who pos- sesses ONE of the few talents, than of him who has the more or the greater, and has to show therefore no greater proportionable results. Awake, arise, then young man- assume the beautiful garb of virtue. It is easy to err-it is difficult to be virtuous, to be pure-to be holy you must strive! Put therewith, an old chest of drawers, a table on thy strength! Let thy chivalry be and several chairs, blocks and benches. aroused against sin! Let Truth be the lady of thy love-defend her! [Rev. Sims.

Parents too often injure, destroy, and excite to the most outrageous acts in their children, by adopting a favorite, and cher- ishing an improper partiality towards some one of them. Joseph's coat of many colors, caused his slavery, produced the violence and hatred of his bretheren, and embitter- ed the days of his good old father.

A man whose soul is not tremblingly alive, to the tender affections of private life, should never be trusted by the people.

A man who can sorrow, must have a soul attuned to benevolence, a heart open to the suffering of others, and hands ready to relieve: the SAVIOUR of the world, was "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief"

A critic usually examines to find blem-

men generally were under the control of fears of adumbrant supernatual imaginary Esticious fancy to a degree that can now hardly be credited.

They subsisted I have said partly on charity, but when the children had become beings, the creations of diseased and super- old enough to earn their own living and the mother still a well and able bodied wo- man, the neighbours began to feel that

In front and around the east end of the their donations were no longer needed and house enclosed by an old rail fence inter- consequently with held them altogether, or woven with brush wood etc. was a garden

bestowed them more sparingly.

The effect this had on the family clicited strongly one distinguishing trait in their

character. One of their number must feign sickness. And very soon Sarah was reported sick. When visited by any one she was always found in bed, her head

frame agitated by tremors or tortured with even theological notions handed down to us from our ancesters than we can be aware

of.) with an only daughter about 8 years old buisily employed in carding wool or

The door was always kept fastened by so many contrivances that it took several minutes to open it tor admit an errand boy other domestic manufacture, little dream- voice from within would inquire, "who, or visitor. Knock at the door, and a shrill

Never contradict a man in anger-it ing of the sorrowful inteligence which a there?"-this answered-"what do you will only serve to inflame. You may as messenger on horsback was bearing at full well produce calmness, by your command, speed from Middleton Tavern, to their hum- want?" followed. when the hurricane rages, or reduce to si- ble residence.

If the applicant for entrance and his or her errand were deemed admissible, the Gloyd, a jolly, laughing, care-despising, fastening would begin to ratile, and after improvident man, went in the morning of while the door would open.

lonely situation, lived on alone in the cot- tage above described, till arter a few days or weeks the subject of this obituary was added to their number. Of her infantine pranks and promise, tradition is silent, and no living witness can now inform us.

all, all around her, all the sources and streams of knowledge that reached her young mind, were deeply tincured with fear. superstition,' misanthropy, suspicion and deception. Fear of evil minded persons caused them to keep their doors always shut and fastened. Their capacious chim- ney was filled with thorn and barbery bushes to prevent intruders from getting iu through that opening: so that much of the smoke from their fire had to travers the whole house, and make its escape from knot hole and crevices, or become solidified and pre- cipitated upon the walls, the clothing or their persons in the shape of soot or lamp black, as chance might determine.

Thus situated, the widow, by what she spinning wheel, assisted by the charity of her neighbours, brought up her two daugh- ters.

North of the house out of which the brook issues is a dark wooded swamp, the cover of foxes and such other quadrupeds and birds of prey as the setler-hunters of Salem. had not as yet destroyed or driven from

wool, some old baskets containing wool tow and cards, pails, pots and kettles, To prevent the ingress of witches and evil spirits, horse shoes were nailed up over the doors and windows, which, whenever there is full faith in the expedient, never fails to prove effectual. warming pan, frying pan and all the &c's of housekeeping. In irregular festoons a- round the walls were spider webs, the ward- robe of the inmates and numerous bundles of medicinal herbs promiscuously assorted could earn by her labours, chiefly on the

The eldest whose name was Hannah, was the carrier and errand doer of the house. This made her familiarly acquain- ted with the world around her i. e., with a their borders. To the southwest and south- dozen families that were within about a mile east were extensive bogs and wet meadow of her residence. She too inherited a large lands over which, if tradition is to be be- lieved, on gloomy dark nights those mysti- cal lights called jack o'lanterns played their perstition and waywardness of the mother portion of her father's mirthfulness which her gloomy home and all the waters of su- diabolic gambols. Close by also was a haunted district where -- but I will not describe the phan- tasms of superstition so common and so gen- erally believed in those days,-but now happily out of fashion. could not wholy quench. She would when abroad, through life occasionally sit down, talk, laugh and enjoy frolic with her neigh- bours. She even learnt a few songs, that she sung so well that the children would hang around her with delight. This ac- complishment however she never exercised after the death of her mother.

At that time removed only about half century from the era of Salem witchcraft a which commenced in the same village, when there must have been living many who remembered the appaling scenes of the bible, spin and sew as Hannah had that period, the minds of men and wo- been before her.

Sarah was doubtless made a baby of an long as possible, and then taught to read

vanity.

A selfish man was never beloved or re- spected-he never had a tear for the mis- erable, or a farthing for the distressed.

The history of the family of which she

blaze again; the blaze . f other's popularity may ontshine him, but we know that though was the youngest daughter-and a fair unknown, he illumines his own sphere. specimen, could it be faithfully and truly He resists temptation. not without a strug- gle, for that is not a virtue-but he does resist and conquer; he hears the sarcasms written, would abound in amusing incidents, of the profligate, and it stings him, for that is the trial of virtue but he heals the wound with his own pure touch. He heeds not the watch-word of fashion, if it leads him to sin ' The atheist, who says not only in his heart, but also with his lips, "there is no God!" controls him not; he sees the hand of a creating God, and he rejoices in it. Woman is sheltered by fond arms and loved counsel: old age is protected by its experience, and manhood by its strength, but the young m n stands amid the temp- tations of the world like a self-balanced power- happy he who seeks and gains the hope of immortality Onward, then, con- scientious youth-raise the standard, and nerve thyself for goodness. If God has given thee intellectual power, awaken it in that cause. Never let it be said of thee, "he helped to swell the tide of sin, by pour- ing his influence into its channels," and if thou art feeble in mental strength, throw not that drop into a polluted current.

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Danvers Eagle & Whig Newspapers, 1844-1845, Part 63

Author: Samuel T. Damon (Danvers Eagle) / Danvers Whig publisher unknown. Publication date: Publisher: Number of Pages: 139

Author: Samuel T. Damon (Danvers Eagle) / Danvers Whig publisher unknown.
Publication date:
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 139