Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-06-09

Mrs. Ebsrman, when the Sea-horse was
suddenly upset in squall, in the Della
ware Bay, we have from the most au-
thentic source, and can, therefore,
youch for their accuracy. When the
vessel was upset, Mrs. Eberman, far
advanced in a state of pregnancy, was
lying, sea-sick on her bed. In an in
slant she was cast out OF her birth into
the cabin, into which the sea was pour
ing in torrents, through the windows
and sky light. In a moment she was,
from she knew not what cause, pitched
from her birth, and, amidst midnight
darkness, found herself ~floundering in
the water, s. as allied Oh all sides by the
drifting furniture, Size heard no sounds
but those caused by the rushing and
dashing of the water-she laid hold of
the side of birth into which, buoyed
as she was by the water, she scrambled.
Ii was afterwards ascertained that this
was the Captains birth, and fortunately
it was a few inches higher than any o.
Their in the ship.
In this birth Mrs. Eberman sat with
her head againstthe deck, and up to her
neck in water. All was silent and dark;
her sensations were most painful and
confused; she supposed the vessel had
sunk to the bottom of the bay. In this
horrible situation, buried alive, she
grasped an orange, which vas floating
in the cabin; she ate it and it greatly
refreshed her. She now heard a noise
over heard, and with a cane which she
had caught in the water, she struck
perpendicularly over her, against the
under side of the deck. She was an
swered by voices; hope revived; she
breathed more freely, and her mind be-
came more alive to her actual situation.
She beard the sound of the axe; it pro-
missed her deliverance, but it created the
most agonizing apprehensicns. Her
head was touching, was pressed against
the under side of the deck, and there it
must remain or be submerged in the
water: every stroke of the axe, more
certainly assured her that it fell directly
over her h~ead:-these were among her
most ~agonized moments.
At length a chip, about the length of
the axe, was taken out from the lower
side of the deck, and the light Of Heaven
again shed its blessed influence on the
suffering mortal beneath. With the
eagerness appertaining to so perilous a
situation, Mrs. Eberman pushed her
hand, as far as il would go, through the
aperture. Her husband, with all an
husbands anxiousness and love, was on
the outside of the vessel; who can tell
his feelings when the appearance, of
her hand, assured him she was yet SEN
sibly alive-but his heart had scarcely
time to beat with joy, before it was col
lapsed with horror. The axe of the
workman was uplifted and about to de-
scend with its sharpest edge upon the
hand ofhis wife-it would severe il from
her 5ody-it vas happily arrested be-
fore it gave the fatal blow Let us be
brief-a saw was procured, a hole suf-
iciently large was made, and Mrs. E.
herman was n again folded in the
arms of her husband, and restored to
the world.-Dem. Press.
FREDERICKSBURG, MAY 2S.-Singu-
lar occu,rence.-About sunset on Tues
day evening, during an extremely broad
asd vived fash otl;ghtning, accompani-
ed by severe thunder, close on board,
an heavy fall was heard upon deck by
the passengers in the cabin of the steam
boat Washington, and in a few seconds
the helmsman came, in a manner dou-
bted up, down the companion, and fell,
like a log of wood, lifeiess upon the
floor. His eyes appeared fixed and
glazed, and for some time it was D
hensed that the poor fellows last life
line was unreeved, and that his grog
was stopped forever-in a short time,
however, he revived, and in about an
hour entirely recovered. His account
was, that, without seeing any lightning,
he was driven by an unknown power
from the wheel of the vessel agsinst.one
of the lateral iron rods of the platform
on which he stood; was then precipita.
ted forward, and recollected nothing
more. His fall from the platform to
the deck was about s feet, and from the
deck to the cabin foornearly the same
distance; but he received not even the
slightest bruise. There is no doubt but
that the shock this man sustained upon
the platform, vas owing to his proximi-
ty 10 the thunder, in the same manner
that the discharge of the cannon near
a window willshatter its glass; but how,
in a state ofinsensibility- and alro.tar