Vincennes Gazette, Volume 10, Number 22, Vincennes, Knox County, 7 November 1840 — Page 1

ritL'TH WITHOUT FEAIt. VOLUME X.l VIXCENKES, INDIANA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1810, NO. 22

From the Louisville Journ!. TO DISAPPOINTMENT. Yes, I would bow at beauty's hrin And offer incense there; A blooming garland I would twine In love's gay bowers and call it mine. If I could only stoop to wear A chaplet cf fast fading flowers, Uncertain as the changing hours And fleeting as t&e air. But beavty i an April beam, And love falso illusive dream. The prelude to depair; And I already know too much Of disappointment' withering touch, Ita power again to dare. Ye?, better far to tread a'.ona Life's weary pilgrimage unknown, Unnoticed by the wor! !, Than blindly kneel as I have knelt. And feel the png that I have felt. On psir.ns wiU waves hurl'd. There was a time when I could prize The kindling light of beauty's eyes, And think carh glance that stole From fbs of mild ethereal blue Revealed a bosom warn and true, A h'.gh aud nobis sou?. But tinn has chad ray dreams away; more pute the bright array Of beauty's dazzling charm; My hopes no moro re blind'r cros"d, No more up-sn the tide I'm toss'J By passions wild aiarn;?. One wreck on love's uncertain sea Through life shall be enough far me ; I will not trust again VCy bark upon thai treif-herous wave. Where hope arid friend-hip find a grave. And hill unnumbered reign. VIRGINIA.

had known for years, for they had been children together, and when both grew up it came natural for them to fall in love. Every body vowed it would be a match. 1 remember her when she was just eighteen and ehe was worthy of a monarch's affection! Her form was faultless as the Parian'?, with just fullness enough to be cxquUiti.-ly rounded. Her face was not exactly classic but ah! such an expression! and then her soft, deep blue eyes, thai looked love at eveiy glance. Egad, sir, tills blue is the color to do the work black may be queenly, haze! may come over one at times, but when the deep, blue eye of some sweet little fairy, looks full into your own, you might as well

give up the war at once. I have said Livingston va? something of a male coquette, and though he wa

certainly attentive to sweet A 'ice Leslie for a while, and though they used to sing duetts together, or eit chatting alene when the old folks were out, or take many a long and solitary walk at moonlight, and though if ever he loved it was then, yet somehow or another it fell out at last that he began fo visit her less frequently, and finally the hard-hearted rascal he nearly ceased altogether, h may be he knew he was too poor to marry, and that his pride forbid him to wed one richer than himself and it may be that he feared if he continued the intimacy, his heart would be lost without avail but 60 it was he dropped gradually off, became attentive in other places, was the gayest gallant at your balls, and seemed altogether to have lorgo:t.?n th a such fair creature as Alice Leslie lived, or that he had spent go many happy hours at her side. At last his vis-

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113 ceaseu altogether, it was now sum

first the whole sky was apitchv hue, and the dark brow of the mountain 'was wraped m an inky shroud, from which at interval the lurid lightnings zig-zagged, fallowed by the hoarse thunder, Clashing, rolling, and echoing among the hills. Down in the valley, where the storm had not reached, the yellow corn-fields were smiling in the su'n; the brightness of the landscape below contrasting strongly with the dark and sullen character of the massey clouds above. For awhile, as I said, all was silent, but as the rain began to pour down in torrents, it beat into the stage, and numerous exclamations of discomfort arose from the passengers. The seat of Alice was particularly exposed, and several at once offered to exchange with her. But the only fit one was thai which Harry occupied, and after much solicitations ehe consented to accept it. When they all came to be seated again, by a singular chance, sir, Harry found the only vacant seat was one beside her, and I need not tell a man like you that it sent a thrill, like an electric shiver, through every nerve of his frame. As he sat down the eyes of Alice, for an instant, met his own, and were then quickly east down: but

that glance touched him to the heart, for

he noticed how wan and ethoreal like she

had grown. If ever he had loved Alice

all

river awinaieu in the distance to a stream- Alice" and he felt her hand tremble in let, slept a dozen miles a vay beneath in his rwn like h leaf as ho proceeded, gauzelike canopy of mist and beyond 'why have vn been thus long separated? the hills and highlands of three state God knows, I would coin my blood to melted into the dim obscurity of the hori- aveyou a moment's sorrow, and though zon. Over the whole of this nearly bound-' I have seen you little r,f late, it was only less landscape a shadowy haze hung, such because I dared not trifle with one I loved as might have floated over the dieamy land like you. Yon are a wealthy heiress I of theEId. Ifeverl could believe in fairies'am a penniless ornhan ami ffli ihat thr

it would be at such a lime and place. A was no hope for me in aspiring to the dim, mysterious air breathed around the hand for which so many contended.

avuuie, auu me mina catcning the influence, became insensibly softened and subdued. Livingston felt the power of the scene, and involuntarily exclaimed, "fs it not beautiful?" "Mr. Livingston!" ejaculated the startled girl, hesitating a moment, and then moving toward the door as she added, " I did not know you were nigh." Has Miss Leslie bo completely forgotten an old friend?" he said, detaining her, "that she treats him as a stranger?" "I was startled," answered Alice, "but, perhaps," she continued evasively, scarce knowing whether to stay or not, yet at last determining to remain and assume as indifferent a manner as if her companion was but a common acquaintance, "Mr.

Livingston is fonder of gazing on such a scene alone."

An awkward

pause ensued. Living-

his old leelings returned upon him aton felt how embarrassing it is to be left

then. Tiiere is nothing like meek suffer- alone with one you have loved, and yet ing to touch the heart. His gayety was dare not speak to in your old wav. A gone at once. strange feelingcame over him lie scarce--Pardon me. Miss Leslie but had'nt ly knew what lie said, you better put on a shawl! the air is "How much that song reminded me of growing chilly," and then in a lower other times!" he said abruptly, tone, full of feeling, he added," and "I thought Mr. Living-ton had long you look unwell." forgotten them," said Alice, half coldly

" I hank you! scarcely faltered the and half reproachfully

From the Casket and Phil. Monthly Magazine. BREAKING OXB'S HEART. A CHIT f !MT AT THE COUNTRY SEAT OF JfcREMY SH iRT, FSO."Put up the window. Jim, bring i;i a meerschaum for this gentleman, and another for myself. Egad, air, but isn't it hot? I've almost turne I Turk since these dogdays began, and do nothing but smoke, and drink iced sherbet do make yourself at home hope you had a fine voyage tip the Hudson isn't it a glorious river? a . . M til

I heard a (ierman exile iai- n e7

tha Rhine, and wanted thank CJ H i's

robbir-cistles. Your health, sir anoth r for he old river, and let it be a bum

mer, ana they had not met since Christ- sweet girl, for the tone in which he spoke "Not forgotten sav any thin raih-

rms. ut course Alice never alluded to reminded her of other days, and it was as er than that," involuntarily ejaculated him, if she hid loved, she let it prey much as she could do to prevent her full Harry for the wisest of us often at su-h silently upon her heart, but I don't know heart from finding vent i.i tears. Harry moments is thrown of our o-uard.

how it was though she was gayer and noticed that her vc ice quivered, and that "There is an old German fairy song

wilder ihan ever the bloom grew fainter! when he delicately nl aced the shawl upon I you used to sine -Miss Leslie hat

on her cheek, and she seemed like a with- her shoulders she could scarcely keep from might have been inspired by such a dreamy ering flower slowly fading away. The trembling. Hut discerning as tie thought landscape as thi?," he continued recollecidoctors shook their heads, and feared she himself ho little suspected the cause. ing himself, "may I presume to ask for

was going into a consumption. Ah! sir, I Well, sir, but let me fill your class u?

how many hearts are broken, and we the storm soon swept below, and while It would have accorded with Alice's as-

blindly charge our loss to that fell disease, the top of the Catskill was gilded with the sumed indifference to have at once and,

I a:n a believer in a broken heart. 1 here sunlight, the dark clouds hung like a as if carelessly, complied but she had so

is a blight sometimes comes over the gauze veil around the body of the moun- often sang it in other days for him, that

youn;; ana tender mind, a cold, deadly, tain. JJown in the valley it was still rain- t woke loo many old and tender memories

mys'.eiious feeling, drying up the very iag, and the sunbeams glistning through, I in her bosom, and ehe feared it might springs of life; a mourning over an unre- made every drop pparkle arram, until ill lead her into an emotion that would re-

qmed love, which sends its victims slow- seemed as if a million of diamonds were vear what she would die rather than bely, and almost imperceptibly to the tomb, falling, flashing from the sky. It was in- try. The exclamation, too he had just

Like a bud nipped by an early frost, ehe deed magnificent. jutteied, and more than all its apparent fer-

Jroops silently away and no one knows I Meanwhile the rain had left, the roads vor went to her heart, and dissipated all

me secret ol her decline. A virtuous so slippery that it was with great difhcul- ner resolutions to seem reserved and cold. Consumption poor thin"! had nt they

heart never betrays its disappointment. ty they could proceed. The old gentle- She could not sing she begged to be ex- met as they did, it might have numbered

It almost shrinks from acknowledging it to men, however, made the most of it, rrew Jcused. Isweet Alice amono- its victims: and no

itself. It wraps itself in the mantle of its lively as young bloods, and after awhile! "Miss Leslie his surely not forgotten it,'' I one but herself would have known that

sorrow, and alone, and unpitied. weeps one ol them rked Alice to sing. Ah!said Harry, as if hurt, "but perhaps there her heart was broken. It came pretty

over the ruin of its hopes, withering day you may well laugh, but there's nothinglare others " he paused, not knowing! nigh as it wa though she ought to have

dy day away, while the cheek pales and HKe 6ucn scrapes to make men sociable, how to end. (broken her husband s tor n alter they

the eye grows unnaturally bright, until at and as night set in, and the stars the old! Indeed I cannot sing to-night, said Al- were married the scamp. Ah! sir, your

ht death ''cals m upon the sufferer, and rascals began to wink through the flying ice, dropping her fyes, "some other time health I must take a tumbler after that

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ivare i even now nopej you are weeping Alice, my Alice," and while a gush of ecstacy, which we feel but once in our lives and that is when for the first time we know ourselves to be beloved he stole his arm around the waist of the trembling girl, and drew her gently, yet unresisting, and weeping as she was toward his bosom. What would not Hairy have given to have spared her that second's anguish! At last he whispered, "Alice! am I forgiven!"' There was no answer but as the lovely girl raised her head from his bosom, her deep blue eyes looked at him timidly a moment through their tears, and then, as if afraid even of herself, she nestled her head again his bosom. It needed nothing more. Ah! sir, there is nothing

so delicious as the first moment of unrestrained confidence from one we love! And you will tell me, now, why you were: ill?" whispered Harry, kissing away her tears.

"Hush! hush! let n go into the house thy will miss us," whispered the beautiful girl, as her dark eyes fell to the ground, and he tinned her head p-mially away. But even then Harry could not see that she blushed from brow to bosom. And her heart wa n;t broken after all. Jeremy odds blood! but I was afraid it would be al times you almost mde me cry, my old boy but it told on the 'irbet any how." "No, it ws not broken for from that night Alice grew better, and when, after soiii'? demurring from the old gentleman, they were ailan married, and she looked fairer and more beautiful than ever. Egad, sir, old as I was, I danced at her wedding, and it almost makes me go off in a jjiroutte to think of it. Hut here' to them a bumper! may you have, my young blade, as sweet a bride, and as merry a wedding." "Thank you! with all my soul but what said the doctors, Jeremy ?" Oh! faith, sir, and that's the joke of it they spt down a visit to the mountains, in thHr materia medica, as a soverign cure for ihe first stages of consumption.

per?"

"Thank voti. Jeremv vou are too

kind but isri't th;s country ?.ir delicious? what a fine prospect too from the win-

ii.uv c orio woods there, rich corn-

fields, every thing flourishing and as I

live if there ain't iwo sweet litde cherubs

playing on the lawn ah! but yon r a happy man you live like a prince!"

"Nonsense, don't talk of it, my dar sir, there's nodiing to boast of. except

the children you have n t anv? But

.you're married? Egad, air, I thought not,

you don't look quietly happy enough to be so. But as you were saying there are some fine points in the landscape. That rolling hill; this gentle elope; the stream glittering along thr valley; that dark, majestic wood; away down there the Highlands like eternal sentinels watching over the Hudson; and yonder, just in a line with that sloop, the blue summits of the Catskill rising like thunder clouds in the west. I thank God, sir, I live here! But talking of ihe Catskill reminds me of story a love story too, and one proving

niy theory that woman s heart will break for love. But sit down, sir, and we'll take it easy, for while I narrate, you shall listen; and egad, sir, we'll both smoke to fill up the pause. Harry Livingston did you know him? was the choicest chap I ever saw. He was younger by many years than myself, and ss gay and merry a collegian as ever tricked the professors, wrote poetry instead of Greek, and then the lucky dog! carried off the honors in spits of laziness and the faculty. Ah! but he was a rare genius. How too he could converse! Such a mad-cap scoundrel never whisperad away a girl's heart as this same young attorney; and I do believe before he was twenty-three he had more love scrapes, and got out of 'em honorably too, than youngster of his age I ever knew. He was noor. sir. with a patrimony of noth

ing but blood and wit, and so as he could'nt afford to get married, he used to flirt about, ' among the girls, flitting from flower' to flower, and staying just long enough to get the spice of your lore making, and then off again. I don't say it was exactly right many a heart has been broken th3t way; but at any rate it was firiting!

Well, there was ona eweet ereatflre fcej

THE WIWOiV'S fcO.. i thrilling ami instructive tah of the Hevolutian. By Mrs. Sigourxey. It was th 'day before Christma;, if

the year 1178, that during the war on

die broken heart passes to thstland "where scud as if they were drunk, the gentle-Jif you please," and the low touching

Hie we try are at rest. It is generally a men became perfectly unmanageable. voice said more than her words.

Imle cold, caught by some slight careless-J Old Leslie was as bright as any but still " ou don't seem well," said Harry, nrss, th a bfi; i u j the work; for those, sir,! Alice refused. She felt, poor girl, butjlooking feelingly into her face, "have you

who arc thus deserted, lose all interest in little like the gay company, and it was on- been long sol

the things of life. As the lily hangs its ly when Harry joined in the request, and! Not very!" she scarcely gasped for

head and dies when forsaken by the wat- she feared as if she still declined he might the tone in which he spoke, and th? callers it hath leaned upon, so the heart of a suspect the truth, that ehe consented. It ing her by name as of old, was too much

de'ic-xte woman, when once it is hptravpH. I was. sir. one of those old Scotch sono-slfor her overcharged mind

turns from all solace and pines irremedi- that will live forever. At first her voice "I hope you have not been very ill the Revolution that an armed vessel fail

abK awav. ISut don't mind me. sir. I'm was low! how exauisilelv sweet then it strange that I never heard of it." eaid e'j oul OI ne port oi lioston. lie was

afrvd my eves are srettiuo old and waterv became louder, and swelled out like the Livingston, musingly. strongly built and carried 'JO guns with

I'M take a tiinihler iii atrpntrthen ihmJ rich music of an anffel. prishir? forth in "It is only a cold that has stayed loner I A well-appointed crew of more than a

and thn get on with my story. its own immortal harmonv. The listen- er than common," answered she with hundred, and provisions for a cruise of six We", sir, as a last resor-"-poor thing! ers were spell-bound. Harry had often difficulty, in her soft, musical voice. month-.. As she spread her broad white vusc r'pr-rt tn ir-.trl It lunn,.,. hpard hprsinor it in other dvs. and it "Alice!" said Hairv. after a moment's s il and steered from the harbor with a

ed that Harry having been loitering at came over him like a strain of early child- pause, "there is something grieves you lair, fresh breeze she made a n-jble ap Lake Georcre.'anddrinkimr water and non- hood. Leaning his head on his hand he let me claim the privilege of on old friend, pearanoe. Many throbbing beans breath

ca.ica Mo-ethrr Si a r-a trfTi hiI higI l-anrl-l WAI ln?fc 5 !1 thniiThi. 'fhnt nnir had I to pnnuire what it is. I know it is tin-led a blessing on her voyage, for r-he

ed nt the Catskill village in order to as- touched a long silent chord in his bosom, usual for our sex to speak thus, but we bore a company of as bold and skillfu

ar.,l tha m in n 1 1 ! n whpn i-jlin eVinn'r? ! nnrl tlionoh h ha ? hpnt at lhn shrine nl wpra hrouaht tin from childhood to- seamen as ever dared the perils of the

nn ih river for the same nurnose many a b autv since last he saw Alice, he gether. and 1 feel there is something prey- deep. But soon the north wind blew

Kn Alii-o I.psIip and her fthpr. r.iv- felt at orn-e that he had never trulv loved in? on vour mind that causes vour ill- and brought a heavy sea into the bay.

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started, bowed, and his heart but her. Ah! sir, there are feelings that ness. You are paler, thinner, sadder than p,)e n'ghl proved dark and they came to

smote him when lie saw the paleness of lie dormant for years, and which we ul- you used to be, and even your voice is anchor near the harbor ot 1 iymouth.

thp sweet rrirl the more startling from most forget we have, but which at last a mellowed down to an almost ethereal soli- 1 strong gaie mat uuiieueu mem De-

the faint blush that dyed her marble brow word, a look, or a tone will a waken, and ness what is the matter, Alice?" came a storm, arid the stonn a hurricane.

as she returned hie salutation. By one we are at once well nigh unmanned, tin- l'erhaps. at another, time, mindtui ot onu. 4nu uieuuu lenioij se-

of fortune's freaks they were both thrown der the flood ot old memories that rush in his conduct the proud beauty would have " Jll "dS unven irum ner

together into the same carriage. Rallying upon uj. Just as she ceased they stop- repelled his questions with indignity, and moorings an. struct on a reel oi roctis.

all his faculties he soon became the life ped at the mountain house, and as they walked snently away but now she felt a pc urgdii ' aier, ana iney

.r iU mnm' Ti a dancrermis thintr stenned out and the lights tell an instant mysterious innuenee cuanung ner to me ... u. aa t,i ,lt.

to be placed as" he was with one you have on Alice's face, he noticed that her eyes spot, like the wired power which our oi- Tha sea rose above the matndeck, sweeploved It touches every chord of the were wet with tears. Alas! she had nev- den fathers tell us often fixes our doom. ing over it every surge. They made ev:ieart"ard needs no little fact to disguise er been used to weep at it in other days The tone of interest too in which Liv- ery exertion that courage eould prompt, your 'emotion B-t what was therelhat For an instant a suspicion of the truth ingston spoke, touched the tendcrest cords or hardihood endure. But so fearful mad-cap Harr'y Ivirton could not do! flashed upon his mind but bold as he of her bosom, and though she struggled were the wind and cold that the stoutest Have vou ever amended to the moun- was. he wasn't quite so vain as that. to answer, the words choked in her throat, man was not able to strike more than two tain house? No! Ead, sir. do it to- I have said that the moon but let me Little she thought did he suspect t'ie blows cutting away the masts without beQ . t t 'II 1 1 t 1 11.-k.r..Al.--j-w4lnn,i.ll,IrtH '11-....-. . . 1

morrow as you're a Christain. The coun- ring for some more sherbet burst out in cause oi ner iiiness, anu on: sne would '!,' 1 "e "return try does not afford a finer sirht. Hill all 'her silvery beauty. Harry rambled have given worlds that he never should, people thronged together upon ihe quarand valley roll around vou, and the roads out alone, but he could not forget the pale Yet it was agony to hear him thus ter deck, which wa crowded almost to wind along precipices 'hundreds of Teel face of the once merry Alice, and soon speak, when after all it was only the suffocation. I hey were exhausted with

sheer down while the tops of the tail returning from his solitary walK, wno common inieresi oi inenuiinp. one " pines below were on a level with the should he see as he reached the piazza, knew he had forgotten her, and she had ther provisions nor fresh water. I hey carriage window. Here a rill goes bab- but Miss Leslie, standing by a column long made up her mind to forget him were all covered by ihe deep sea when

stupidity. Others, with fiery face7 blasphemed God. Some in temporary

ueiinum, ranciea themselves in pa!cet surrounded by luxury, and brutally abutedthe servants who they supposed refused to do their bidding. Others there were, who. amid the beatings of the pitiless tempest, believed themselves in tho home, that they never more must see, and with hollow reproachful Voices, besought bread and wondered why water was withheld from them by the hands that were most dear. A few whose worst passions were quickened by alcohol to a fiend-like fury, assaulted or wounded those who came in their way, making their curses heard above the storm. Intemperance never displayed itse;f in more distressing attitudes. At length Death began to do its work. The miserable creatures fell dead every hour upon the deck, being frozen stiff and hard. Each corpse, as it became breathless was laid upon the heap of dead, that more space might La left for the survivors. Those who drank most freely were the first to perish. On the third day ot these horrors, the inhabitants of Plymouth, after making manv ineffectual efforts, reached the wreck, not without danger. What a melancholy spectacle. Lifeiess bodies stiffened in every form that suffering could devise. Many lay in a vast pile. Others sat with their heads reclining on their knees, others grasping the ice-colored ropes some in

a pojture ol defence like the dying gladiator; others with their hands heldup to Heaven as if deprecating their fate. Orders were given to search earnestly for every sign of life. One boy was distinguished among: the mass of dead, only by the trembling of one of his eyelids The poor survivors were kindly received into the houses of the people of PJvmouth, and every effort used for their restoiatiorw The captain and lieutenant, and afew others, who had abstained from the use of ardent spirits survived. The remainder were buried, some in separate graves and others in a large pit, whoss hollow is till to be seen on the southwest side of the burial ground in Plymouth. The funeral obsequies Were most solemn. When the clergyman who was to perform the last services entered, and saw more than seventy dead bodies, some fixing upon him their stony eyes, and others with faces stiffened into the horrible exprejsiou of their Iat mortal agonv, he was so affected a to faint. Some were brought on shore alive, and received every attention but survived only a short time. Others were restored af

.. uui nun meir limbs so

injured bv the frost, pte. for lifp.

In a viiiit, some du'ar.ce from Ply. mouth, a widowed mother with her daughter, were seen constantly attending a couch on which lay a sufferer. It was the boy whose trembling eye-lid attracted the notice of pity as he lav amonn- ih

dead. "Mo'h-r," paid he in a feeble tone, "God bless j-ou for having taught me to avoid ardtnt spirits. It was that saved me. After those around had grew intoxicated. I had enough to do to protect myself from them. Some attacked me and dared me to light. Others pressed the poisonous draught to my tips and bade me drink. My lips and throat were parch

ed with thirst. But I knew if r dr.nl-

with them I must lose my reason as thev

did, and perhaps blaspheme my Maker. "One by one they died, these poor, infuriated wretches. Their shrieks still ring in my f-xs It was in vain that the captain and oiii-r oifiVers and a few good men, warned t.'ieiu of wlvat would ensue, if they thus continued to drink and tried every method in t! eir power to restore them to order. They still fed upon the

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bling and purling across the road, and then and gazing out upon the moonlight. A why then were they thus thrown togeth- the vessel became a wreck, uut uniortumormurs hoarsely, like a storm amid the if by some mysterious influence Livings- er to call up old limes again, and open nately the crew got access to ardent spirits forest boughs, as it leaps and tumbles ton approached her. She did not seem afresh the wound long months of suffer- and many of them dran to intoxication. ,tn-n thp steen. Awav off the clouds aware of his presence and for a moment ing had scarcely healed? She turned Insubordination, mutiny and madness en-

are sailing round the mountain, or hitch- he stood silent beside her. It was a glo- away her head for she could not endure sued.

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npafc t neak across the vallev. rious nicht. The moon was sailing it and the thick, blinding tears swelled ded, Put ios; an an m-uy me i

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It was a

nd thev all Ml into a joy

Hut Alice did not join in it, and only an- liquid light. Before them the mountain

swered in monosyllables, though oh! howl sloping almost perpendicularly down, dis-

sight to m.ke the dumb speak, through the cloudless blue above, flood- one by one into her eyes, and dimmed who rn.'u round them. A v all Ml into a joyous mood. ing hill, stream and valley beneath, her herlong, dark lashes. fui scne can scarcely be im

m;ij;v t ih nns?st:ois addressed to her. closing the valley of the Hudson, nearlyjheard her sob.

H-irrv however did his best, and the! three thousand feet below, stretching fori 'Alice,' said Harry, gently taking her

whole coach was in a roar with his wit. I miles along the river, and spotted witbjunresistinghand.as alight Hashed sudden-

But directly a thunder stoim arose, andlfarms and woodlands, that looked IikeMy upon him, determining hira at once to for i while all gaied silently upon it. At grass-plats in a garden while the lordly J put his fate upon the caet of a die, dear

more fright-

inugined. The

"Alice," said Harry in a low voic?. dark sky, the roaring storm, waves ureaShe answered not und he thought he ing wildly over the rocks, and threading

everv Hiomeni IU iwnii-v up uie uiunrii vessel, and the half frozen beings who maintained their icy hold on life, lost to leasonand to duty, or fighting fiercely with each other. Some lay in disgusting

intoxicating liquor. They grew deliri

ous they died in heaps. "Dear mother, our sufferings from hungerand cold you cannot imagine. After my feet were frozen, but before I lost tho use of my hands, I discovered a box among fragments of the wreck far under water. I toiled with the rope to pull it up. But my strength was insufficient. A comrade who was still able to move, assisted me. At length it came within our reach. We hoped that it might contain bread and took courage. Uniting our strength we burst it open. It contained a few bottles of olive oil. Yet we gave God thanks. For we found by occasionally moistening our lips with it, and swallowing a little, it allay ed the gnawing, burning pain in my stomach. Then my

comrade died and 1 laid beside him as one dead surrounded by corpses. Presently the violence of the tempest, that

had so long raged, subsided, and I heard footsteps and strange voices among tho wreck where we lay. "They were the blessed peoplo of Plymouth, who had dared every danger to "save us. They lifted in their arms and wrapped in blankets all who could speak. Then they earnestly sought all who could move. But every drunkard

was among the dead. I was so exhausted with toil, suffering an 1 cold, that I could not stretch my hand to my deliverers, They passed me again and again. They carried the living to the boat. I feared that I was left behind. Then I prayed earnestly in my heart, "O Lord, for the sake of my widnwed mother, and ray