The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-12-04

meet inns outlay, was ihiCImeo ny 'HH| 0N'
that he had no order to advance any money Tor
such purpose The only alternative under
the circumstances, are for the frigate to land
her teas sugars, &c. and go to sea without them
or TO wait orders from Washington. Tie latter
course was decided on.
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A SCENE OF PERIL AND TERRoR.-A Mr.
| Kidd, hand employed i'll flour mill above the
| Middle Falls of the GenesSee, Rochester, N. l.,
! took skiff few days since, and attempted To
| cross the river. When he got about half way
| across. he found that he had lost the command
| of his boat and that lie was rapidly drifting
| over the dam-said dam being few feet above
the Middle Falls-the perpendicular descent oil
which is 20 feet. few rods lower down are
| the Lower Falls, with 4 perpendicular descent
| of 81 feet The Rochester Democrat, whence
we gather these particulars, proceeds:
cdr. Kidd was perfectly acquainted with the
localities and fully aware OF the awful Perus OF
his situation. In the darkness OF the nigh',
! there was no eve save the eye of Him to when
the MIDNIGHT is as noon day, that could see, and
no hand save His that could save him; and
hspeedy and terrible death seemed Inevitable
T5ut that eve did see, and that hand was stretch
ed out to save, and guided his little vessel to
point of the dam, somewhat higher than the rest,
where. after shooting nearly nall way over
grated and finally stuck fast.
! But the terrors of his situation were even no"
but slightly alleviated The river had been rls-
ing fsr some days, and he had reason to suppose
was still rising His boat, rocked by the cur
rent, which was sweeping under ana arounI 1t,
assuring him how evenly balanced 1t was upon
its pivot; how slight an additional force Would
be sufficient to destroy its equipoise, and how
small a rise of water would be sufficient to hit
it of.
5 A wave raised by gust of wind even, or the
gust of wind itself might throw it from its bal
ance and consign it and him to the terrible oe-
struction over which they were suspended as by
D single hair Before and behind and around
, him were the mad waters of the swollen Genes-
! see plunging by successive leaps among the
j crags and down the cataracts into the dark,
E yawning chasm below the Lower Falls, over
t hung with their cloud Of spray which even then
fell upon him, and sending up their stunning
and terrific roar, as if spreading the pail and
J sounding the requiem OF their intended vctlm =
n How small appeared his chance oil escape Out
le ssHope springs eternal in the human breast,''
and its fountains were not CONCEALED in the bos
10 ON of him who then most needed its genial IN.
auence. even by the terrors which surrounded
ID him for the four hours during which his nnal
y rescue delayed.
n He commenced shouting for help, and though
- no voice answered him from the shore, and
though the roar of the waters almost drowned
n,
gather stengh to give more energy to his shouts,
4 for about three hours; at the end OF which the
master miller taking his rounds outside the mill,
20 to see that all was safe, before retiring ior the
e night. heard one of his cries. He supposed that
.r it was from some person the opposite side OF
the river, and was at first disposed to disregard
!" it. He heard the voice again, and thinking that
it sounded like a cry Of distress, determined to
lie cross over, and afford what relief might be In
X his power.
lie ran down for hs boat and finding it gone,
IL and the cries being continued he returned to the
v mill and rallied the hands. 1t was then found
t. that Mr.. Kidd was missing, and the truth re-
,r specting him was at once conlectured. On go
ing down to the bank of the river, one OF the
IS marty after awhile discovered dark spot on the
r. edge of the dam, and no doubt now remained o.
lr Kidd's situation.
To rescue him from it, if possible. was now
= the object Some time was spent IN trying tC
n, construct raft; but as an attempt to bring hin
ID off by n craft SO Interchangeable would be attend
IN ed with vastly more danger to those making It,
. than chances Of deiiverance to him, the Projec
was abandoned
ne One of the party now volunteered an attemp
i which his courage made successful. With
long pole in his hands, and with long rop'
made fast by end to his body, which his com
or rades were to pay out as he advanced, ana WIZ
,n which he was to be drawn back II necessary, III
bravelv ventured into the water. Making hi
way slowly and cautiously along the inner Stop
ne OF the dam, he at length reached the boat, Still
to suspended and swinging with its halt-doome'
er passenger where it first SO Provdentiaii.
:, moo:ed and by means Of rope, pole aud oars
> the whole were safely brought ashore, ard MI
o. Kidd was restored as it to life, after endur
en- ing the mental suferings, the peris and terror
of hs.awful situation, more painful II possible
"' than death ITSELF for about four hours som
e. idea of his intense sufferings during that time
Of may be derived from the fact tat he has bee
,o- il! IN consequence of them ever since
:, We have not learned the name OF the BRAY
~ and generous man through whose agency hi
els rescue was accomplished"
he ------
al A Glorious REcosD.-At New Londof
Connecticut, the following inscription is foun
n on a grave stone The records OF ancler
its Rome or Greece do not exhibit nobler IN
ify stance OF patriotic heroism: "On the 2Oth Oc
- tober I7si, 1000 English fell upon the TOW
with FIRE and sword-700 Americans deienGe
the fort for a whole day; but in the evenln
To- about 4 O'Clock, II was taken The commando
I'm of the besieged delivered up his sword to al
III EngIishman, who Immediately stabbed MN; al
"A his comrades wer4 put to the sword. a line o
H' powder was then laid from tie magazine OF tn
ey fort to the sea, there to be lighted, thus to blow
Is, the fort into the air. William Hoffman, VIII
es Law not far distant, wounded by three strokes o
the bayonet in his body, beheld it, and said +
By one Of his wounded friends, VINO was also SUI