Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-09-12
SEPTEMBER -, 1850.

thessmall boat. She fancied their float would be
unable to support them both, and said, " You
will have to let me go to save Yourself" He
replied, 1" We live, or we die together" Soon
after they drhed upon a piece of the wreck prob
ably palt of the same floor or partition, torn
asunder by the explosion. This, with the aid of
the settees, fastened beneath it, proved sufficient
TO keep them out of the water. About this time,
one of the small boats came towards them, but
already heavily loaded. He mplored them to
take in the young lady. But she said no, she
could not leave him. They were fairly at sea,
without the least morsel to eat Or drink, in
schorching climate. Ofthe boat which bore them
all in qeiet and safety but half hour before
nothing was to be seen but scattered pieces of
the wreck The small boats were on their way
towards the shore-ther own craft, being light
and lightly loaded, drited far away from scene
indescribably heart-rending, and which he still
shudders to think of.
At daylight nothing was visible to them but
the heavens and waste of waters. In the course
Of the day they came in sight of land, and for
time were confident of reaching it but during
the succeeding night the wind changed, and soon
after daylight next morning it vanished again,
and with it all their lively hopes of escaping their
dreadful dilemma. On the third day sail hove
i'll sight, butshe was entirely beyond hailing dis
tance. When found, they were sadly burned by
the sun-sarved and exhausted, though still in
possession of their faculties, and able to move
and talk. But their pain and suffering was no
without its pleasure and enjoyment The 70
mantle part of the story of their expedition il
yet to come, and there is no telling how mucl
longer they would have subsisted on the sam
food that seems to have aided IN sustaining ther
so well such length of time.
The intrepidity he displayed-the risk he ra
the danger he incurred, and above all, the mag
nanmlly he evnced in saving her life, stranger
as they were to each other,a at the imminent hazar
OF his own, elected from her at once the warme
and strongest feelings of gratitude towards hin
and before the tortures Of hunger and thlr
commenced, kinded that passion which burr
nowhere else as it burns in womans bosom. o
the other hand, her good sense, her forttude, an
presence Of mind at the most perilous momen
and particularly her readiness to meet and shar
with him the fate which awaited them, excite
on his part an attachment which was neither t
be disguised nor deferred. And there upon tn
"wa,ers Wild" amid the terrors which surround
ed. and the fate which threatened them, in pres
ence of an a-seeing God, did they pledge thei
mutual love, and declare, if their lives wer
spared, the destiny, which misfortune had unite'
u sl.,..lA be. ,,-.i.., ..,--.s---hla
ls.ssis M lissi informed ner tnat scns
of duty impelled him to apprisc her, that by tn
misfortune which had befalen them, he had lo
every dollar he possessed on earth amounting
$25 ,000,) that he was in "poverty to his yer
lips"-a beggar amongst strangers, without tn
means of paying for a single meal of victual'
and, painful as was the thought of separation
him, he Offered to release her from her engage
ment, if it was her choice to leave him. Sh
burst into tears at the very thought of separation
and asked him if he thought it possible for I'll
the poverty of this world to drive them to a moi
desperate extremity than that which they ho
suffered thus together He assured her of h
willingness to endure for her the same trial agai
and of the joy, more than he could expires
which he felt at finding her so willing TO ful
her engagement, which, it is said, was soon a
ter consummated. 1t was not till then that
was made acquainted with the fact that his la'
love was heiress to an estate worth $200,0O0