The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1844-06-24

ing, moaning, hissing spouting fre all disappeared
before my eyes and senses.
"'rhe forest below Trinity flew towards us; on il
cnme, the wheels cracked, and the people howed be-
fore and behind us. Hurah IIurruh! II was
gaoPadc, gigantic s,ruggle-Triny the goal
before u.s. and both of us almost conquerors. At
the captain cries. she is before and then he snres
right out and bites his lips, which were covered with
blood. 'coptaIn said !, she is not before Look
Mr. Doughty, says he,--'lookv looked, and ms
was spying all became dim before my eyes. |
convinced that she would have caught us in two min
utes; and t did not take even two minutes.
"'Upon my soul she is ahead cried. She is
ahead repeated the captain in a low voice: he was
deadly pale. could not speak woodland he, sure
live, he had to support himself at the railing,
he would have fallen. Their was no hope; his fig
parallel with stern now; ten seconds AZ
terward, third Of his length alongside Of us;
ten seconds later, two, and in less than minute he
flies proudly before u.s. an hunders his hurrahs into
ears and the five behind us Join into it
and didn't hear anything but hurrahs and hurahs
All, would have given thousand dollars If we had
reached Trinity two minutes before. Suddenly
heard the cry from below, the boiler burst! the boil
or burst!' Immediately rafting, then kissing and
roaring. Happy voyage into eternity. all cried and
thought, now comes the hot bath. But it wns no.
thing; the cry originated with pair of negroes, who
called by Emily and Airs Warren, and the 9th.
er females in the ladies' cabin. Both had been down
TO the engineer; had begged him, cunured; and al
the women had made the mans head so hot, that he
consented and opened the vanile-and we were only
within hnIfa mile Of Trinity. I believe, surely
that if the cowardly villain Ind not done tive would
have kept equal course with tho Washington, for she
did not arrive two minutes before u.s. fell upon
him, was mad, and il the captain and some good
friends had interiered I would have thashed him
on the spot; and had it cost thousand dollars,
he deserved it, the disgraceful rascal. We had ar
rived in Trinity. and had made the five miles in less
than twelve minutes; but Mrs Warren was so angry
and the old gentleman mad and stiff as pair of
fire tongs. But couldn't help it-honor goes above
ALL
'But you are too daring, indeed remarked Rich.
ards.
Daring +" replied Doughty, unsntisied Daring
when the honor Of the ship is in the gamer
'Pshaw! the honor of steamboat
'Pshaw, you say Richards! Now, if. did not
know that you n true old Virginian, upon my
soul! should almost believe that YOU were one OF
those soft soap Creoes 'Pshaw, you say ,'the hon
ola steamboat steamboat, tell you is a ship
too, and large one too, and an American--true A.
merican--it is our ship,we have discovered it. The
old world might have stood long, and not have found
it out. We got it boys, says I. 'Pshaw,' he con-
tinued, excited 'And r Perry had said, 'pshaw, ON
Lake Erie, or McDonou Oh, on Champuin, or Rogers,
Porter! You say pshaw TO every thing, at the hon
or of a steamer-a ship-a State. Itell you he W no
says pshaw when his ship is sailed over will also say
pshuw when it is taken; and he who does not &c
warm when he sees another vessel sailing proudly
pas; his own, is coward. tell you, this pride is
ambition and this ambition is the true thing
But the lives Of so many human beings
tell you, OF the three hundred and twenty pas
sengers we had on board the Helen there were not
three, Mr. Warren and the ladies' excepted, who
would have cared straw about it they should have
a barrel Of hot water them provided they had
rived two minutes earlier in Trinity
We had to laugh at the Kentucky brute, and ac-
knowledge the truth of his assertions. Cold blooded
and passioness Uncle Sam generally is on points
like this he often changes his nature, and in his de
sire his ship first in harbor, he 70 gets that he
very seldom does, wife, child property and fortune,
a maniac, who puts all single throw. And the
five hundred or thousand lives which these daring
ces cost him yearly, only increase his fever
heat
THE REAL AND THE IDEAL.-Dow, jr. of the
N Y. Mercury, in one his recent discusses thus