Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-09-28

middle Of the bay. Vainly were strength
and skill and energy exerIed to turn the lit
tie vessel from the fearful barrier ahead; the
whole force of the Northern ocean. in its
wilds, mood, was opposed to their efforts 5;
a mighty wave carried them almost on to
the reef; and as the bark heeled over on
the returning surge, another and another
sweep into her; one smothered shrlek-
and she is gone!
Those on shore-oh, with what beating
hearts had watched the gallant but un
equal struggle; and now a wild scream
arose from many voices, and above all was
heard the despniring cry ofthe young wife
so soon TO be wdow-as she sank insen-
sble on the shore. Blu, the boat rises! she
has righled No: she rises indeed, but keel
uppermos, and where are they, so lately
straining every manly sinew, and flushed
with the struggle for dear life !? Twice the
waves carry under the devoted bark !; bu,
she rises again and oh this time there
are living forms clinging to her keel and
three strong men are seen supporting their
helpless and insensble old father. By this
time small boat, manned by two noble
hearted fellows, who have ventnred in the
face of almost certain death, in the hope of
rescuing their comrades, has neared them :;
The waves, TOO, seem pausing 10 contemplate
their work of destruction. There is mo-
men,aIy InIl, during which the four men so
wonderfully rescued are placed in the lit
lie boat by their deliverers. the old man to
all appearance a corpse. Blu. where is the
| hfih-the youngest born-,he pride Of his
fathers heart? Alas in vain do the gallant
fellows linger among the foaming breakers
I'LL every hope has fed. and their own i'm
mnent danger forces them from the spot.
He is gone; and when The spcedII v-subsid
ing wafer (ior the storm did not las, above
four hours) permitted search to be made
for the boat, corpse was found, wrapped
in the sail as in wlns!ing-sheet He had
evidently made a gallant struggle for life;
for clasp-knle was found cienched in his
dying grasp, and The sail was partly ripped
open; but its deadly folds had encircled
hin too firmly, aud the choking waters did
The rest.
spair orthe poor young widow, thus depriv-
ed Of the companion of her life. and the
sole means Of support for herself and her
three infants, and ! was anxious 10 visit her;
but my ,rus,y Jean, whom had dispatched
with offers of service to the bereaved family,
dissuaded me from it,
"Eh, men," she said, "dinna gang. dinna
gang. She kens maistly naebody, puir thing,
and IFS awfu TO see her greet; and she's
whites no sensible forby, and Gamma ,hole
anybody near her.''
So | waited 10 hear that the first violence
fof her despair had worn itself out, for very
much doubted my own powers of consola-
ton; and who but One, indeed, could con-
sole in such grief as hers? However, after
a time, heard she had been partly brought
TO her senses by the illness of her baby.
who, deprived of its natural sns,enance by
the blow lha, had shaken the very heart
slrIgs of lis poor malher, had been a, the
point OF death. However, it was now bet
ter; and the young widow, recalled to the
consciousness that there existed yet great
er depth Of anguish than that in which her
reason had almost fo,ssken her, became
c4lmer and more composed, at leas, in out
ward appearance and hearing this, sci
out one day, abou, three weeks after the ia
ial accident, to visi, her.
1t was in the beginning Of December :;
yet the weather in this 6lul climate takes
no heed of the ancient division of the sea-
sons, and The day was bright and balmy as
in early spring. 1t seems TO me as if nature
had assigned to these northern regions as
many fine days. or nearly so, during the
year, as fall to the portion Of happier eli
males; but they are in some mysterious
manner SO strangely jumbled. lha, many a
wintry day chllIs US in The midst ofsummer,
while those belonging TO more genial sea.
son sometimes make their appearance un-
expececly among the blasts aud fros,s OF
autumn or winter. One of these stray chill
dren of summer was gliding and beau,irying
The wild country through which | had Ia
pass, on my way to the little fishing town
d.. The level beams of a December
sun threw a rich golden light over large
extent Of bare bu, highly. cultivated coun-
try =; the plough was merrily a-firld among
the s.ubhle, the lark was singing hig h in the
clear air, and the smoke assembled from
many humble hearth, and scarcely waver-
ed in its upward course, while the scene
was bounded by the blue and wsveless
ocean, dotted here and there with white
sail aud in The far distance, the outline Of
the hills of Cailhness stood ont sharp and
defined against the cloudless sky. As
neared the sea, and caught fuller view oil
the coast, the whole Of the Moray Firth
; opened before me in panorama scarcely to
he surpassed on British shores. But
thought little of these familiar scenes as
drove on; my thoughts were bent on the
errand had undertaken; and as slowly
descended the Precipious road leading to