Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-07-26

most lnanimate form of q fair girl,
reclining on the cushions. Never
have / seen being more beautiful
than that pale, half fainting creature
seemed at that moment. One arm
supported her on the diyan, and the
other was thrown around her fathers
neck, the blue veins just discernible
as they stole along beneath the ivory
skin. Her headrestedon the bosom
OF her parent, and the hair, loose and
unbound, streamed in dark, glossy
rlnglets over her snowy shoulders
At the noise made by my entrance
she started, raised her head, and [
could see through the tears that gls-
tened on her lashes one of the sweet
est hazel eyes | had ever looked up
on. A quick flush shot over her
face, crimsoning it like rose leaf as
she beheld a stranger; and half start
ing to her feet, she essayed a mo-
ment to speak, and then stood with
half opened lips, gazing almost wild,
ly upon me.
"For Gods sake fly" cried 'sthe
ship is on fire in every part--we can
barely escape by the companion-way
in another instant she will blow
up-why hesitate? Forheaven's sake
come |"
"Oh! sir, God bless you for your
Kindness, there is then hopel'' ex-
claimed the old man "but Isabel has
tainted" he continued, "go, Ay, I will
die with her." he added in voice of
agony, vaiEly essaying to raise in his
enfeebled arms the seemingly lifeless
form of his daughter.
| looked into her face. The tran
sition from calm despair to hope had
been too great and she had indeed
tainted. ltwas no time to hesitate.
Hastily raising the beautiful stranger
in my arms | called upon the old
man to follow, dashed into the front
cabin, hurried up the compamon-
way, and to my utter horror found
the flames had Just crossed the en-
trance. For but a second | paused.
Death was behind, perhaps destruc-
ton before.
Laying my hand upon the old
mtu's shoulder j urged him ahead,
hurrledly threw the shawl of the fair
girl around her face and form, made
a bold, desperate push for life, and in
another instant amid the cheers ofmv
men, had gained the quarter deck
The boat shot to the side, and doz-
en- arms were extended to receive me
L carefully gave it in charge to the
nearest, almost flung the old man af-
Ter, and springing with bound into
the stem sheets waved my arm and
shouted
'.Sboye of-board-give way
and IT ever you pulled before pull,
tor yonr lives, my men!''
With one soul the men bent their
brawny arms to the task, and while
the ashen blades almost snapped,
made the boat whirl from the quar-
ter, and then sent her with the veloc-
lty of sea gull over the deep. Not
word was spoken. The old man
sat beside me in the bewilderment of
gratitude, astomshment and only half
disslpated fright-while the form of
his still manlmate child was extended
unaided, for the moment, by his side,
1t was indeed no time to delay.-
Every man knew we were pulling
for life or death. The other boat was
nearly d mile ahead, skimning swift
ly along from the devoted ship. Far
on on the moonlit horizon lay the
brig, with all her exquisite tracery
reflected in the wave beneath, and
seeming with Thin, taper raking masts
like some aerial vessel floating half
way between sea and sky. Down
to the right was the burning ship,
presenting a vast body of lurid fire,
that roared aloeg her sides, streamed
out OF her ports, eddied spirally up
the masts, and leaped in huge masses
straight out into the sky. Now and
then, as her guns became heated,
they went off with roar like thun-
der; Meantime, the dense smoke
gathering in thick cloud above,
hung like a pail over the consuming
ship.
For some instants the flames ap-
peared to die in part away; but all
at once stream of intense fire that
almost blinded the eyes, leaped per-
pendicularly upward from her decks;
the horizon for miles around was
lllumlned with light more vivid than
that OF the brightest MONDAY; part
OF the foremast lifted bodily out, shot
Ike an arrow almost cable length
on high; conclusion ensued that
made the boat shiver like a reed, and
rock a moment frightful!y about; and
then a stunning roar followed, sha-