Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1838-09-07
lFrom the Delaware Gazette
coURTSHIP ON A FRAGMENT ar
THE PULASKI.

THE PULASKI.
MANY interesting as well as painful inc
oehts connected with that awful disaste,
arc related TO us by those who have see
ana conversed with persons saved from tina
wresk. Amongst others the following i
Solu OF a MIR Ridge, from New Orleans. an,
a Miss Onslow, from one of the Soutber,
States, two of the unfortunates who wer
p'cRed up on the fifth day about fly miles
rom land. 1t is stated OF the gentleman
that he had been sitting on the deck alone
Tor hall an hour previous 10 the accident
Another gentleman who was walking neal
nm at the time of the explosion was thrown
overheard, and himself was precipita,ec
nearly over the side of the boat and stunned
lie recovered Immediately, as he supposed
when he heard some one remark. "get ON,
the boa's-she is sinking" He was not nc.
quaInted with IA solitary individual on the
boat. Under such circumstances. il is rs
natural TO suppose that he would feel quite
as much concern for himself ms for anv one
else lie was consequently among The fore.
most OF those who sought the small boat for
safety, and was about 10 step into it. when
ne discovered a young lady. whom he re-
Gosh,Seu as one whose appearance had sun
dry times during the passage arrested his
auen'lon. Her protector was the gentleman
VINO was walking on deck and blown over.
BOARD. lie sprang towards her. to take her
into the small boat, but in the crowd and
confusion he lost sight of her and ha sun
ring his ~fruilless search the small boat shov-
eG of. The wreck was last sinking. The
night rang with the prayers and shrieks Of
The helpless and drowning. He turned
away in despair, and tumbled over a coil Of
small rope. Hope like the expiring spark
frightened again. He caught up the rope
lashed togethera couple of settees-lhrew
them upon a piece ofan old sail and a small
empty cask, and thus equipped, launched
upon the element. 1t was all the work of a
moment-He believed death inevitable. and
that effort was the last grasp at life. His
ressei bore him up much better than he ex-
p,cted, and he was consoling himself with his
escape such as it was, while others were
perishing all around him, when he discover
ed a female struggling for life almost with.
in his grasp. He left his ark-swam but
twice his lengih-seized his object and re.
turned safely TO his craft again. which prov.
ed sufficient TO sustain them both, but with
their heads and shoulders only above water.
The female was the young lady for whom
he had lost a passage in the small boat
She ancied their float would be unable to
support both, and said TO him, 'you will
haveto let me go TO save yourself" He
replied, we live or we die together Soon
after, they drifted upon a piece of the wreck,
probably a part oithe same floor or portion
torn asunder by the explosion. This was
the aid OF the s%ettees, fastened beneath it.
proved sufficient 10 keep them out of water.
About this time one of the small boats came
towards them, but already heavily loaded
lie lmplored them to take in the young la
dy. But she said, no she could but die-he
had saved her life, and she could not leave
him. They were fairly at sea, without the
least morsel TO eat or drink, in n scorcbinr
climate the young lady in her night clothes,
and himself with nothing upon him but his
shut and a thin pair OF pantaloons, already
much torn. or the boat which bore them
all in quiet and safety but a halt hour before,
nothing was to be seen bu; scattering pieces
of the wreck. The small boat was on their
way to the shore, their own craft being light,
and lightly loaded. drilted fast away from II
scene indiscribably heart-rending, and which
he still shedders TO think Of
AT daylight nothing was visible TO them
but the heavens and a waste of water. In
the course OF the day they came in sight Of
land, and for a time were confident of reach
ing it--but during the succeeding night the
wind changed, and soon after daylight next
morning it vanished again, and with it all
their lively hopes of escaping from their
dreadful dilemma. On the third day a sail
hove in sight-but she was entirely beyond
hailing distance. When found, they were
sadly burned by the sun-starved and ex-
hausted, though still in possession of their
faculties, and able to move and talk. But
their pain and suffering was not without its
pleasures and enjoyment. The romantic
part ofthe story oftheir expedition is yet TO
come, and there's no telling how much
longer they would have subsisted on the
same food that seems 10 have aided at least
in sustaining them so well such an incredible
length oftime.
The ~intrepidily he displayed-the risk he
run-the danger he incurred, and above all
the magnanimity he evinced in saving her life,
strangers as they We're TO each other, at the
eminent hazard ofhis own, elected with her,
at one the warmest and strongest feelings OF
gratitude towards him, and before the tor
lures OF hunger and thirst commenced, kind,
" that passion which burns nowhere else,
as it burns in woman's bosom. On the o.
Their hand, her good sense her foriitude and
presence of mind at the most p~erilous mo
ment, and particularly her readiness to meet
and share with him the fate which awaited
them. excited ON his part an attac hment