Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-03-06
A SOU ALL.
BIZ CHARLES A. PAULDING, FORMERLY OF U. 8. N.
"And first one universal crash,
Louder than the loud ocean


sea was SO heavy that she began to roll tre-
mendously.
Suddenly the sky grew black. the thunder
grumbled in the distance, while the forked
lightning seemed to threaten every thing with
instant humiliation.
There was sharp, stern voice from the
quarterback; it was the Captains. GLANDS
by the top-sai clew lines Clew up! Hual
up your buntlines! Lay aloft Lay out Full
away!' :,
| In few minutes our gallant ship was un-
der her coursers, and evelne'ey were close
reefed. hoaH
The Captain was dark, sterrN liking man,
who had "braved the battle and breeze"
for half a century. He was waikiki quar-
ter-deck IN naval undress, apparel rep
thought, but could detect his wealnG. !, Use
eye directed occasionally to windward, with an
evident degree of alarm. He at length broke
the silence which he had maintained for con :
siderable time, with an order to the first lieu
tenant.
"Mr. Slidell, prepare to send down the top
sail yards, and house the 'op-masts!'
All on board were astonshed at his order,
yet they set about it with alacrtv, and in few
moments more, all was as snug as the great
est skill could make her. And it was high
time. The squall which had been so long
brewing, all at once came laundering down,
with an impetuosity that | never before or
since saw equalled The ship was thrown al
most on her beam-ends; the close-reefed fore
and main-sails were blown into ribands from
the bolt ropes. with noise like thunder, and
every thing not secured in the strongest pos
sible manner. was rushing about the deck in
wild confusion. Twas scene for a Salvador
Rosa! To complete the panic, one of the long
guns that composed the spar deck armament,
broke from its fastenngs, and at one tremen-
dous roll of the ship, burst right through the
bulwarks to leeward, and sunk in melancholy
silence to the bottom.
| But the squall was soon over. A tight and
snug ship defed the combined fury of the ele-
ments, and we rode it out in comparivate safe
ty.
Not so with the poor Westphalia, mer-
chairman that we had spoken the preceding
day. She was struck by the raging and furi-
Gus blast in the very act of furling her royal.
The consequences were inevitable. She gave
one deadly and sckenlng lurch 10 leeWard-a
huge black mountain, topped by snow. came
rolling Ont struck her-she reeled and plum
ged like some mighty giant of the deep--an-
other, and another-she gave one sickening
lurch to leeward, and disappeared forever
|
Thus persisted the Westphalia, and thus per.
ishes annually many-very many of the hu-
man race. Fond hearts were doubtless beat.
ing high with hopes of happiness and bliss, that
alas! could never--never be realized. The
young and old, the beautiful and the gay. the
brave and the free-all, all, found one common
grave! The dark and ruthless wave has CLOSED
above their bleaching bone, and in the bosom
of friendship they were soon forgotten.
! 'And what is friendship but name!"
Their memories were perhaps treasured for
a brief-a very brief time--but the gaieties oil
life soon banished the recollection. and they
sleep sad, silent, and forgotten, far away be.
meath the deep main, and their bones lie whit
tening in the caverns of the deep!
''Sic transit gloria mund!"
Il will play the swan, and die in music"
The Editor of the Richmond Enquirer does
make some of the most ludicrous exhibitions
both OF himself and his friends, sometimes, by
, attempting to be fine. In this way, he ha:
. supplied his friend, President Van Buren,, with
a SobTaguet, which will stick to him till his DIV
ing day. His last Message, Mr.. Richie saws
reminds him of "the notes of the diving swar
the sweetest of ALL" Henceforward there
fore, every wag in the land will be calling Mr.
Van Buren, "The Dying S,oan" The boy.
will reiterate it every where; and as often as
, Mr.. Van Buren, appears in public. the air will
: be filled with the cry-"1Here goes the Dying
SDan" Well, Shakespeare says, "Jupiter wa:
cursed for the love of Lede'-and we ough
perhaps to rejoice to learn that Mr.. Van Blu
rem "makes swan-Iike end, fading in musIc!'
, But Mr.. Richie, how could you place your
friend in such queer poetical fix?
~ Y. CON-
r "a Touch Gb0Ue the Common Rua."-Th,
editor OF the Reading, Pa. Gazette. gets quite