The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-01-24

aad tried TO find out what had become of
the mate, but could not until that very
day, when he had heard at an inn that
sailor had been hurt, and was lying at
Us. The captain added that the
ship had been suddenly ordered to sea,
had taken In her cargo, and was re adv TO
sail with that afternoons tide. There be-
ing no time to lose. the mate wrote a letter
TO the surgeon, which he left unsealed on
the table, and in which he said all that
was necessary, including an intention TO
revisit them on his next voyage: a car
riage was procured, and he, though feeble,
went to Liverpool, and that evening sail
ed in his old vessel for New York The
letter left by the mate, unfortunately, was
never received by those for whom it was
intended, being as was be lieved, obtained,
read and destroyed, by young lawyer,
who had made hlary an offer of marriage, &
been refused, but still visited the house.
Thus, on their return home, Mary and
her brother were still without the least
clue to their local habitation or name of
their preserver, with this exception, that
! the lawyer in the course of an incidental
conversation. had sneeringly observed,
that the mate was ''poor weak yankee,
! but denied knowing his name.
| Mary fretted and pined away, and at
last took TO her bed, for almost uncon-
| sciously she had become deeply attached
! to the sailor; her illness at last assumed a
serious character, and it being eviden: that
she could not survive long unless ske saw
the object of her affections, her brother at
her urgent request, took ship for North
America, and landed in Boston, whence
they came on 10 New York. The pass
age, and the hope of meeting one whom
she loved, restored her to comparative
health and strength, and they put up at a
| private boarding house in Pearl street.
! Thus had Mary travelled double the dis
tance of Becket's mother, without know
| ing either the christian or surname of her
t beloved. tn the meantime the mate arrI-
we'd III New Y ork, was transferred TO the
command of a merchantmen in the south
ern trade, was cast away, fell i'll, wrote to
Europe, his letter miscarried; he sailed
himself for England, went TO the sur
geon's house, was told all about Mary,
and that she had sailed about seven days
before his arrival, for Boston. He took
passage in the first vessel, came on to n
York, and without knowing that they
were in the house, actually put up at the
same place, and slept beneath the same
roof with Mary and her brother. In the
morning, when he descended to the break
fast table, where he found the family al
ready assembled, the first object that met
his view on entering the room, was the
form OF the fair traveller. She saw his
face-uttered no exclamation, but sprang
from her seat toward him, and would have
fallen, had he not rushed forward and
caught her in his arms, exclaiming "Good
God, Mary, is this you!" as she tainted
away. When she recovered. mutual ex-
plantations and greetings took place, and
we are happy TO say, that they were mar
ried, and set off the same evening 10 spend
the honey moon at Albany, and by this
time, doubtless, know one another as we'll
as though they had been acquainted for
wears.