The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1848-02-18


mother! But Mary knew it not; sull
stood she, sta,ue>ike, watching with Wild
intensity the recediug form or her last pa
rent; the only change Of attitude and ex
pressioa was the swelIlng aud falling of
The chest and the cleaning and fading oil
the eve, as her mothers form appeared
and disappeared in the tumbling waters.
Nearer, shll nearer the frm earth-the
white snrf covers ber--a rush of stalwar
men-tbey are bearing her up the beach
She is safe!-she is safe!' and with eve.
thrown heaven ward, Mary falls, ,faiuting.
But thgoll sailor was by her side--sho
felt nol'ilis rushing ofthe waters as sl.f
too war borne to the shore, and when she
next awoke to consciousness, she was
| stretched beneath a sheltering cliff, and
beside, oh, joy, her mother!--oh, despair
her dead mother!
Not wall, not tear. not sigh, be-
trayed the agony of that broken.hearted
gil, as vainly and still hopelessly she
strove to recall that departed spirit They
came around her, the kind hearted strang.
ers, yet ye sawsl them not; and the mute
savlours, yet she needed not their caress-
ings; but With her mothers read against
her breast, she sat amid the sands, buried
in her deep, deep woe.
AT length, when with tears streaming
down their weather. beaten cheeks, those
friendly strangers would take her from her
lifeess mother, Mary seemed to arouse
They told her she must go with them many
miles to 6od shelter--that night and a
Gercer tempest were coming on, and that
she must leave her dead unburied. She
pressed her hands around her throb bing
brow, and while her sad blue ewes rested
for moment ias gratitude upon them, she
gently waved them 10 depart, sayi ing calm
ly, Il will follow And they left yher--a
kind fisherman bearing her little nephew
in his arms--and she was alone, alone with
her dead.
lmpressing one long kiss upon that ICY
brow, Mary Conway rose up quietly, and
her own hands, a grave for her mother il
the sand She then bore thiiher, ia he
arms, as tApogi, u were sleeping infant
test TO tss, s.sa "a ia Il Saiasea IL
, her own breast spread it over the belov
q ed face, and then carefully replaced he
r sand. She knelt above that shallow grave
: aud with her orncfx pressed to her lips
=; murmured brief prayer for the soul Of the
u departe -there, on the wild desert shore
d with oceans voice for a dirge, and the
tempest fora requiem. Then in that utter
desoation Of spirit which has no outwarc
manifest alion--that great agony, fea tfn
in its fearless stillness-she turned anc
meeky followed the foot. prints in the
sand, which told where her shipw re ok ec
companions had gone before her.
Oh, pale young mourner, sitting n th,
o darkened chamber, giving way to thy sor
; row with passionate abandonment, listen
I The angels have called hence thy mother
& and thou hast indeed known the grief o
e griefs; but if still unraconcIed to Hin
II of one whose own hands laid to rest he
G best beloved ones, shrouiless and co fir
less--one who literally buried father ant
mother, and had no time for aceeping.
Tie nnforluaates met sympathy an,
y kindness in the 6sherman's house, whicl
= they reached al last, and the next "a,
Mary Conway and her nephew eed ed
D TO the nearest town, where she sought anc
e found employment for them both, intend
t ing to seek her brother, as soon as sh,
e had earned sufl cent to defray her travel
: ling expenses. All her money and paper
had been lost at he lime of the wreck
and most unfortunately, the shock of tia
disaster, and her succeeding afli ctions
had driven from her mind allsre co olection
II of her brothers place of residence. She
: but remembered that it was somewher
u in the state of New York, and she Gnall
{ resolved TO go al once TO the city Of New
i York, where she hoped TO hear of th
pace sue WlSueu 10 Uuu, mt last SUI
'' reached that great metropolis, still ac
/" companied by her young nephew, for he
{ widowed sister, when dying, had give
hIm to her. and she was ever faithful tt
u the holy trust. She soon procured stu
tion for herself and little charge, in
boarding house, where she remained abou
" a month, still unable to recall The name o
The village TO which her brother had di
rected her. But one day, a stranger ar
J. rived, and on his trunk being brought int
the hall, upon the card affixed TO il, sh
recognised with cry of delight, that lost
that blessed word!
Tie next -morning saw her aud liul
Alick on the deck cf one of, The Hudso
3 stesmers waving adiem 10 the few friend
I who lad followed them TO the wharf. A