Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-11-17

Here and sorrow SIT,
Let kings come bow 10 liking Joh'i-

Let kings come bow 10 liking John
81 fear am disturbing you, madam" said gen.
tleman in very handsome candy store in Hudson
street. to an elderly lady who came out Of an inner
room, in which he saw through glass door that she
had been assisting emacated and apparently help
less young lady who was pillowed and bolstered up
in arm chair.
"No, sir, / thank you" said the old lady, as with
the corner of her apron she wiped away tear which
stood trembling in her eye.
You were attending young lady, who appears to
be very i'll and to need your assistance
Ut Is my daughter, sir. She is IN a consump-
ton"
The gentleman again looked through the little
glass door that divided the inner room from the out
ward store. The victim of this dreadful scourge
clined upon the chair. She seemed worse than he
had imagined. The disease had gained that fright
fully beautiful appearance when all the grosser attri-
butes of our seem FILTERED away and the form
that ethereal look which tells truly that
i is not long for this world
SIS there no hope, madam" said he, of her re-
corery?
1.-THE doctors say so, sir bat they may be mis,a-
ken-they are not infabIe God may spare her to
me. She is the last l have here-perhaps in the
world"
Alas for the hope which chung 70 the fond mothers
heart and could not be discovered Dreadful dread
full, thought the gentleman will be the moment when
that is wiIhered
"This has been fatal country TO me, sir," said the
lady.
"You are not native of America, thenl
"No, am of England. had, when first came
from home husband and four children. The times
rat her hard with there and little, per-
haps, disconnected with the situation in which we
were placed at all events, thought we should do
better here-so, as many more have done, we packed
up our all and came over. My husband was the first
to feel the change. His constitution delicate by
nature-more 90 by his profession which kept him in
an artificial atmosphere for agreat portion Of the day
The sudden transitions from heat to cold which we
experience in this climate too much for him. He
fell into consumption, and wasted away, and was
lost to us. had my two boys, sir. call them boys
but they we're young men-as fine young men as you
ever saw-lke their father only not so delicate
they"-
spray, compose Yourself my dear madam"
"They were blown up in a steam boat in the wes-
tern country. One was blown all to pieces-not
fragment of him found the other was dreadfaly
mangled, and fingered eight months after, in great
agony and then died. l had now only two girls one
have sent to England she was consumptive-the
change of air may do her good-but fear that she has
only gone home to die the other-thc LASTS you
see-incapable of even moving without assistance"
"You have indeed, madam, drank deeply of the
cup of affection, but in the hands Of One who
is wiser than are and knows best what is for our
lasting advantage. After all, soourn here is but
for brief ime and our departure whether in infancy
or old age, is bat a moments difference in the
cords Of eternity"
al try to think so, sr-but il is hard-it is very
hard" and she cast sorrowng look at her suffering
offspring, and wentin drying The tears from her own
cheek to assume look Of cheerfuness, and 20 strive
to comfort the last moments Of her child
There is skeleton in every house.
WaEcx OF THE SCHOONER ISABELLA, AND Loss or
LIFE.-We have the melancholy duty to lay before
our readers the particulars Of the loss Of the Schooner
Isabella She sailed from this port the 18th ult.
for Wilmington, N. c., having on board Capt Samuel
Turner, Of the Isle Of Haul (Me.l Mr.. James Hen
derson, ofthe same place. mate; Mr.. Snow Of Bucks
port and Charles Lewis, or Nealer, Of Camden,
cook-a lad Is years Of age.
On the fourth day out they hove too in gale. On
the 9th day. when in the galf stream, they shipped
two tremendous seas, which capsized the schooner.
They were oil in the cabin at the tme-beth masts
broke of, and the vessel rghed. All managed to
gain the deck but the boy, who was drowned in the
cabin.
Fifteen minutes afterwards Mr. Snow was washed
off, and in half an hour the captain shared the same
fate Mr.. Henderson was now the only one left,
and he expected 10 be washed eff every moment
The sea ran mountains high, and delayed him incss-
sanity. The gale continued twenty-four hours after
the capsize.
Henderson continued TO the wreck nine days, dur
ing which time he had nothing to eat but little hay.
He saw several vessels all too far off TO him, but
one, which bore down upon the wreck, and actually
came within speaking distance and then veered OIL
and left him, as they thought, to perish. There were
ten men locking at him, and he could distinguish the
hoops on the buckets.
On the 4th inst, lat 80 so long rs 20, the schoo-
ner Forest, Davis, Of Friendship Me-, hove in sight
and picked up the sufferer Capt Turner has left
wife and three children to mourn his loss
Ma BooTH.-There has been some bad arrange
meni in regard to this gentleman and the Woodwork
benefit, which was to have taken place this week at
the Rowery. Mr.. Booth volunteered his services and
came all the way from Baltimore, at some expense
and msch inconvenience, TO perform, and upon arm
wing AT New York he is told very cavalierly that the