The Democratic Whig. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1843-07-20

The following powerful description Of night
and storm at sea, is from Dickins New Work
Martin Chuzalewil" We have scarcely ever
read more graphic and sublime description Of
the sea in storm. Such passage is well worth
reading through a large mass of trash to arrive
al.--Edt. Wing
MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT-By Boz.
Psull.
This work improves as It progresses. Boz
is warming to his work. From the new
Part received BY the Columbia. and published
by the Harpers and by Winchester, we ex-
tract the following halfchapter, describing a
steersge passage BY Martin and bis man,
Mark Tarpley, from Liverpool 10 New York (;
CHAP XIV. TIE BURDEN WHEREOF Is HAIL
COLUMBIA.
ADARK and dreary night people nesting
~ their beds or circling late about the FIRE;
Want, colder than Charity, shivering at the
street corners; ehureh.,owers humming with
fhss7wiy 'i resting IRON TIE ehosBy pTeachmsnt
"One!" The earth covered with sable pail
as for the burial Of yesterday the elump Of
dark trees, its giant plumes Of funeral ieath.
efs waving sadly to and fro all hushedl aH
noiseless, AID in deep rcpo e, save the swirl
clouds that skim across the moon, and the
cautious wind as, creeping ahef them upon
the ground, It steps to listen, aud goes rush
mo on and stops again, and follows Ike saw
age on the trial
Whittier 60 the clouds and wind so early
! lflike guilty spirits they repair to some dread
| conference with powers like themselves, N
what wild region do the elements hold eoun-
Gil, or where unbend in terrible disport
Here FFee from that cramped prison
called the earth, and out upon waste Of waters
Here, roaring: shrieking, bowling, all nigh
long. Hitler come the sounding voices from
the eavens on the coast OF that small ISLAND
sleeping a thousand miles away so quietly II
/ the midst Of angry waves and hither, 10 NEE
them, rush the blasts from unknown desert
places Of the world Here, in the fury Of
their unchecked liberty, they storm and buiie
with each other, until the sea, lashed into pas
sion like their own, leaps up in rawlings nigh
tier than theirs, and the whole scene IS whf
ling madness.
On, on, on, over the countless miles Of an
gry space roll the long heaving pillows
MIuMNAniN1 anu JAWS az ANHNa aAA ~ ~
not for what is now the one, is now the othe
then all is but boiling heap OF rushing water
Pursuit, and fight, and mad return OF wave o.
wave and savage strugg e'endmg 70 spoutlnl
80 Of foam that whitens the black night; lnees
SAM change of place, and form, and hue
eonslanc, in nothing but eternal strife on, OF
on, they roll, and darker grows the nlglt, an
lowdor howl the night winds, and morn clamC
rouse and fierce become the million voices i
the sea, when the wild cry goes forth upon th
storm, ~ ship -
Onward she CONES with gallant comba
with the elements. her tall mass trembling
and her timbers starting on the strain owF
ward she comes, now high upon the curtin
pillows, how low down IN the pillows Of N
sea, as hiding for the moment from iis fury
and every storm voice in the arr and wat'
cres more loudly YET, "A ship ="
still shs comes st irving on; and at he. box
ness and the spreading cry, the angry wave
rise above each others heads TO look and rour
about the vessel, for as the mariners on h
decks can pierce into the gloom, they press
upon her, lDrcing each other down, and sta
ting up, and rushing forward from alaF'
dreadful curiosity, High over her the
break and round her surge and roar 81
I giving place to Others, Iloaningly depart, ar
!. dash themselves to fragments IN their hathl
y anger still she comes onward bravely.-AT
3 though the eager multitude crowd thick ar
II fast Upon her all the night. and dawn Of d.
discovers The entire tralL yet bearing dow
upon the ship in an steFni,y oiEroubled wat
r onward she comes, with DIM ighls burning
her hull, and people there asleep as u I
deadly element were piercing in at evol
D. seam and ehink. and no drowned seameT
Of grave, with but plank to cover it, were yaV
s. ming in the unlathomable depths below.