The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1837-04-07

Wont you take poor dlsiracteu ihu'''ei
aboard to get her dear boy, who has been
persuaded away by! have alrea I
DIV been at the police office, but We have no
laws to proiec, ourselves.
Several of the cool and courageous
Whi,ehallers nov grouped around the IN
fortunate lady. Perhaps no class OF r1en
have softer and more feeling hearts TO all
the impulses Of genuine humanity than the
ocean dweilers-those adventurous men
who brave a death in every b,low, aud
smile at eternity speaking IN the Storm
And | will go
And | will GO
Aud III 20 too
Grulf, quiet, bu, true to sympathy for lie.
male suffering, SIX robust ~atermeu oil
Whitehall volunteered 10 accompany the
LADY 10 the vessel on which her son was a.
board.
She was therefore handed gently into the
boat. The wind blew chilly over the wa
ier-ihe sky clear and cold. She pulled
her shawl close around her shoulders, eat
down in the stern, and keeping her eyes IN
direction down the harbor the whole time.
regained some composure IN the novelty Of
the scene. The gallant lars labored at the
oar the whole afternoon, The ht'le skiltlew
sullenly over the light, airy. cu'in- waves.
While The little bark IS ,4Is clearing IFS
watery way 10 the NaTtows, We viii unrav.
ell The csusrs that brought poor distracted
mother SS.ois singular and adventurous
position.
The Cause Of Texas has created much
svmpa,by-and Justly 50. letlrequen,ly the
best Of causes Is injured by inJudlcluus and
improper acts. 4 small vessel called the
InvlnclbIe sailed last Sunday for Texas.
Numbers of individuals joined the expedI-
ton, and among others a very pretty boy
called Sererda julius SigReite, tue son
uflhe late p. f. Seignette, resident here, oil
the great brandy house OF Rochelle. ms
vessel was fitted out, as we hear, by several
individuals IN this CITY, on the faith Of some
land speculation 10 Texas, aud # we are not
mistaken We have heard the names Of James
Watson Webb aud Samuel Swartwout, on
the list.
Great efforts were made to procure crew
amounting to 90 or 80 men. Young SIEVE.
ran J. Sei.nette, the youth IN question, "as
employeda At Yates lottery Office, at the cor
ner Of Broadway and Maiden Lane. II was
here he got acquainted with seine oftIe Tex
ian officers, one Of which vas a ilr. Waite,
the bro her ofhls employer. Dung Seiguet'e
was smart, capable, intelligent, beautiful
boy Of his age. The Texan SPECTATORS
threw their eyes upon hlm-talsed 10 him
asked hip to jim them-that they would
make him midshipman in their nayy-then
lieu'enant-thea commodore. The i'm
aC,nailon of the youth was fired. HIS mo
ther 20. notice oft and forbid MS INDUCING
10 ans such extravaganza, assuring hun thai
his prospects were excellent IN life, bu. for
him to 20 into the Texan navy would be
death and destruction TO Der hopes, her
maternal feeIIngs-and to her delight and
happiness.
In spite Of this, the poor boy was per.
soaded 10 run away froui h:s mothers roof
last Sltur1sy--lo stop all night on Staten
Island, and OF Sunday moralng 10 JOIN the
schooner IN the stream.
Ga suspeclins this thing, the poor moth
or went to bis employer in Broadway, the
brother Of the Tesian officer She got nc
satisfaction. She went to the police office
i can do nothing for you, said the polict
justices.
NV God = said she, { is this country i
nv native land and are there no laws am
no authority to protect mother agalns
the acts Of plraiesl
In this distracted state Of mind the mo
ther went TO Wu'ehaII slip and determine
herself to 90 aboarsthe Texan vessel an
demand her boy VIC all the energy and III
dignatlon Of a mofiers love.
It was, therefore, about half an hour pas
five in the afternoon Of last Sunday that
little sklf approached the side Of the If
ynclble, which was lying at anchor on til
side of the Narrows, near Staten lsiaut
II was mere accident that the vessel ";
here. Her commander had Just gone
shore al Staten Island to give his wife Il
last parting kiss--lhe last long, warm, co
elusive embrace, before he embarked On
strange and severe expedition.
The skiff came rubbing up to the vess
4 rope vas dung aboard The Whlteha