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Banner of Light V12 N19 31 Jan 1863 Jitj I j; .r bed o:! i. J-irA j .rttucr . .i'rtl.t VOL. XII. ;' -BOSTON. SATURDAY JANUARY 31,1863 [Bn4WWcon’} - ' • . .. ....... ' '- '* ' ■■____________ ; 1 -' ? A ■'______________ • .. NO. 19. • ! I ' .• ,J'. • . ’ : ■ r ”~:“• ■ ■ ■ ~“,'SF at', .■•■:■■■ an unpretending building kept by an old German— country for America. As. Cqpt. Virolts was killed of friends, bloodshed and Indian depredations in New Stagej for tbo little girl and myoelf. by the politeness elves In a private room, pnd ills- in aduel a few days qflef.jqi&.o opposeddeath, your Dim. Bnt alas I though tho spirit was strong, tho flesh <of J. 0. Burbank, I soon engaged the bonect-bearted fened wlth'^jreat InteresTaSd-wonder to the follow- parents adopted his daugbtet^isrpret qs their own was wehk. Tbe labor hod mental excitement oouaq- andi loquacious driver io vivid account* pf the heart­ child, and ri;o accompanied tjta. fap'ly to the WeaL Written tor tbo Banner of Light, , ’' ig narrative. I relate ths story from memory os queut upon constant travel night and day compelled lessI aud barbarous atrocities of the infuriated In­ Dear os possible in the exact language need by the era World. After two yearelRteldmce in Willough- • me, on reaching 8t. Paul, to plebe myself In tbe bands dians on tho white settlers up country.- Ha.was narrator.' " "l> . , ; (L : < by, Qblo—wheya Marptrefe^wame the wife of Gue- of a physician, who positively forbid my leaving the very communicative, and evidently felt no little " Mp name Is Jacob Vandervere. I, was bojn in tivq/Rhinebardt, a worth/.-tqrmJr— both families, oily under two dr three weeks. Tbe next morning pride In the humane and- noble stand taken by hia ' Frahkfort-oU thfrMaln, that' little disputed spot jpjppywl. to the German oit/fllNer trim, Minnesota, I was attacked with a fever and confined to my room. employer^< the Messrs.BurbankA OB THB irohiially designated as free territory, because it is where,It) fix months afterJ^lr arrival, the husband Little Maria wished at once to become my nnrso “Did you try to get a horse at tbo liveries to go governed’and ruled by the deepqjlo will of Austrian of Margaret waa drowned.qud de again became,a. bnt earnestly Insisted that her father should proceed isorest the country J” asked the driver. and Prussian soldiers, and Rhlqe-German Baron* member of yonr father's ftmUyl’. ( without delay to the up country. The noble-hearted 1 Informed him tbat 1 did. My parents were J a affluent clronmstance^.and I . I was as muob aqtoptqJ^d; as delighted at these men however claimed that he was at least Indirect­ "Yes, I thought as much, Could n’t get one, bed the advantage of tbe best schools In that Joyful revelations, for uptqHj* time the.names of ly the cauM of my illness and exhausted condition though, could you? Fact is, there 'a too much riskw^ Eaotis for jPhlloiopticrannd Olairvoy- wealthy, Intellectual and aristocratic city. At six­ either of my parents or MpjgfretVarnlU had never and generously refused to leave my bedside until of the Indians stealln' ’em I Indians are either ants to Criticise and Explain. passed my lipa since my tonight flight from Frank' teen years of 1 was betrothed to q motherless the physician had stated st the expiration of the killin’ or ptoalla’ everything, now days. They're maiden—Margaret Varniti, daughter of a captain fort-on lhe-Main; and hqfpy^tmoh 1 might nurse fifth day that the fever bad abated, and that I waa tried two or throe times to steal some of our express In the Austrian Regiment of Colonel Wesson, tbs BT A.vqUAUA; . • my ph|lf>aopbiqal skepticism,! vas dctually/oroed in’ a fair way for a speedy recovery. Then, with horses, but they could n't cun; it. Fact is, they can’t, ■ Bloody Brute,’ so-called from his irritable disposi­ to become q.bqlieverlu the <U;)ne truth of my daugh­ tears in bls eyes, be warmly grasped iny bands, get muob ahead of the Minnesota Stage end Express tion, and the success of bls many duels. i ... Having heard and road much of the beneficial ter’s spiritual vision a. j, r wished me a quick return to health, and took Company I Tbe Burbanks slut asleep - they tint .effects of the- pure air of Minnesota on persons suf­ On returning home late one evening, from a sap. All the minu|e particular# of the attack meds'on’ a hasty departure for the interior, leaving bls lovely They do n’t do business ou borrowed capital—either of .faring from diseased lungs, 1 adopted the odvico of per, by a literary clnb, of which I was a member, I me by Col. Wesson—of hie depth by my hands, and daughter lu charge of Mrs. Spencer, tbe worthy money or braine—they do n’t I . J’nrilape you've beard my physicians, and left Boston on tbe 1st of August, was brutally accosted iq a narrow street by Colonel of my singular but successful escape, were enumer­ landlady of tbe American, where I was stopping. of tbe Burbanks. They came from Ludlow, Vermont - ,18J2,;for afqw peeks’ visit to St. Paul—the sotealled Wesson—who was elightly Intoxicated — and or. ated with a lucid truthfulness that even my own He had been absent but a few hours, when the where the boys learn to whittle out basswood «M- • City of Health.” ‘ ■ ■■ ■..: . dered in the most insulting manner to give up all lips could not have equaled.,- .. ...................• ; little angel came mournfully into my room, end witb oumber seeds 'fore they can talk plain.. Well, they claims to the hand of tbe beautiful Margaret, as he . Arriving in Albany, N, Y-, late In the afternoon, I After devoting a few weeks to the careful investi­ tears In her'mellow, bear t-seareblng voice, exclaimed: , - ■ at »noe resolved to” atop ever in tbe city twelve Intended to claim her sb bls own. , t gation and thorough eiuninatlin ot this, to me, " Ob, bow I wish tbat on tbe day of our arrival in "What to tbe extent of their business ?” I inquired, Knowing bls ungovernable passion, I tried to pass hours, rather than endure tbe fatigue of a night’* new and wonderful powpr, Vteeolved to dispose of Bt> Paul father bad left at once for New Ulm, as I with a view of humoring his loquacity. ; .tide In the oars. : ' , . him by without making reply; but he construed my what properly 1 bad acop/nt|i!aiel in England, and requested- him tot. The murder and carnage which “ Why, there amt no extent I” he said proudly. --On the following morning, I took an early walk for wise caution into cowardice, aud instantly made a with my daughter start qt once for New Ulm, Ameri­ appeared In the vision at cur first meeting In Albany "Business Is growing all of tbe timet They now tbe purpose of viewing a sunrise from Capitol Hill, thrust at me with his drawn sword. Springing aside ca, for the final test O,fJ(he truth of these visions has commenced! Grandfather bap been tut alite employ one hundred and twenty men, four hundred sod Just aa 1 bad turned to.retrqoe my steps to tbe with the dexterity of youth, and without for a mo­ relative to Margaret Varans and my parents. pieett I Grandmother was so severely wounded with horses; keep la constant motion forty stages and .hotel,! was accosted by a fine-looking foreigner of ment thinking, In the heat of passion, of the con­ On landing in New York three days ago, my daugh­ hatchets and sculping-knlves that’ she bled to death express wagons, and run over fourteen hundred sequences, I quickly drew a pistol, and ^hot.Ahe .about twenty-eight years of ager leading by. tbe ter informed me that vfjp must at epee proceed to Al-’ after nine hours of untold agony. Father's only miles of express and mail routea dally. They oom- haqd q lovely little .girl of nine attmmere., There' Colonel dead on the spoL . I bany, where we would mos t a gentlem.an who, though sister, Mary, has been taken prisoner by the Sioux menoed this business In 1661, when the whole State waa something so striking and teaching in the tout ■ After the deed was done, I realised in a moment .pot a bellpyer In spirit p?war, woild aqoompany tu Chief, Little Orow, and having ceased to hope for es­ was new snd wild, and drivers thought themsolvee ■snumble of the two—man and child, aa they stood tbe horrors of my situation 1 1 bad taken, tbe life to (he far Weik ■ ;.SI. ■ • , ; . I cape, she is now praying for death as the only relief lucky if they had a bed to sleep In onot a month.” > -before me—that before a word could be spoken, I of an Austrian officer, and however mupb I might She minutely described your appearance, your, from her constant torture. Her little brother, , “ Wbst success have they met with ?” I inquired., ' -bad noticed and recorded |n my mind tbe physical *pe - justify myself on the plea of self-preservation, mili­ dress,and the-exact-pipe#where, we would meet;1 fiolph, In company with ifargant—father’s early ’ "Judge for yourself 1” he exclaimed, touching the ouliarities of each. That tbq.reader may share with tary law would look upon it ns murder, and'tbe des­ and- eeid that cu be.Ing applied to, you would ex-, affianced—escaped to the woods, and the two are off-leader, gently, witb his long and flowing lub.
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