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

! The following powerful description of night
and storm at sea, is from Dickin's New WorI
"Martin Chuzzlewit." We have scarcely evel
read more graphic and sublime description Of
the sea in a storm. Such passage is well worth
reading through large mass of trash to arrive
at.-Edt. Wing.
MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT-By Boz.
Psrtll.
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
| steerage passage by Martin and his man,
| Mark Tarpley, from Everpoolto New York !;
| CHAP. XIV. TIE BURDEN WHEREOF Is HAIL
COLUMBIA.
A DARK and dreary night !; people nesting
in their beds or circling late about the fire;
Want, colder than, Charity, shivering at the
street corners; church towers humming with
f hew FIT atesstRng o the ghOsy preachuent
"One!' The earth covered with sable pail
as for the burial of yesterday the clumP OF
dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral featil-
ers waving sadly to and fro all hushed, an
noiseIess, and in deep rcpo :e, save the swift
clouds that skim across the moon. and the
cautious wind as, creeping after them upon
the ground, it steps to listen, and goes rush
inc on and stops again, and follows Ike saw
age on the trial.
Whither 90 the clouds and wind so early =?
! lflike guilty spirits they repair to some dread
conference with powers like themselves, IN
what wild region do the elements hold coun-
| ell. or where unbend in terrible disport!
| Here )! Free from. that cramped prison
called the earth, and out upon waste OF waters
Here. roaring: shrieking, bowling, all n;gh'
lon0. Hither come the sounding voices from
the cayerns on the coast Of that small Island
sleeping thousand miles away so quietly IL
| the midst of angry waves and hlther' 10 pee'
them, rush the blasts from unknown desert
places of the world Here, IN the Jury OF
their unchecked liberty. they storm ana pune
NTH Zach other. until the sea, dashed into pas
sion like their own, leaps up IN ravlngs mlgn
tier than theirs and the whole scene IS Wnir'
Inc madness.
On. on. on. over the countless miles OF an
orv snace roll the long heavlng billows'
mountains and caves arc here, and YET are
NOT for what is now the one, is now the other
i then ali is but boiling heap OF rushing water
Pmrs,,it. and fight, and mad return of wave OF
wave and savage struggle ending IN spoutlne
mn of foam that whitens the black night; inces
SAINT change of place, and form' ana nue. ]
constancF in nothing out eleTldl etiHo S"' va
on. they roll, and darker grows the night; ant
/ lowder howl the night winds. and moro clafno
rouse and fierce become the million voices u
the sea, when the wild cry goes forth upon IN
storm, Az ship =
Onward she comss with gallant comoa
with the elements. her tall masFs tremonns
and her tinnbers starting on the strain W.
ward shc comes, now high upon the cufiln;
pillows, how low down IN the OhIoWs 2. ~.
lsea. as hiding for the moment from IT'S Iury
and every storm voice IN the ar anu woe
cries more loudly yet, "A ship }!
l. Still sll. comes st irving on; and al nee Oolu
!: ness and the spreading cry, the angry Wane
rise above each others heads to look ana roul
about the vessel, for as the mariners on ne
decks can pierce into the gloom. they pr.ss
unon her, forcing each other down, anu std:
tinr up, and rushing forward from aiaI.
dreadful curiosity, High over her tue
hreak and round her surge and roar e.
o;vinc place to others, r1oaningly depart, g a.
: dash themselves to fragments IN tne.r Oaius
{ anrer still she comes onward hravely.-AH
e ss.es,s.i the eager multitude crowd thick an
{ / ssst :sDon her all the night. and dawn OF oa
- The entire traIE yet bearing Gov
! mon the ship in an eternity Of troubled W.
up.,. az sbe comes, with dli lights burning
her hull, and people there ASLEEP - 80.
a Iss i element were piercing IN at ever
aeam' and cbink, and no drowned $500" !. ,
e rave. with but plank 70 cover y, W5ae ya'
5 1ifc ii the nnfathomabl 10 depths De.o"' s