Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-04-19
From the Dollar Newspaper.
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II was midnight. Within a chamber the dim ray
of taper disclosed melancholy scene. On q bed
lay the cold and inanimate form of q child. Upon
its brow death had stamped his signet, yet fear
full lines traced in the fatal seal The features
were calm and beautiful for, although the king of
terrors beached the cheek he did not rob the lips of
their sweet smile; that played round them ere the
vital essence waned and rested on them though the
soul had fed
TWAS lovely child in life: it was o beauteous
mould in death. - r:.,
The mother of the departed soul lay moaning by
its clay Oh my child! my child b she bitterly
exclaimed that should have lived to suffer such a
loss O! that thy life had been spared, or thou
hadst never been! My pride and my joy-dead!
dead!" As she uttered the last words she started,
and with wild fondness hung over her babe crying,
in piteous accents !" 1t cannot be! Death could
not pluck so fair fower!" But alas! as she
kissed the icy lip of the dead chill struck her heart
that conveyed stronger meaning than words can
express. That act broke the deluson which she had
anxiously endeavored to court and she fell across
the corpse with heart crushed beneath its burden of
Woe She lamented the severe fate that deprived
her of her most precious treasure and in her agony
conjured pictures Of brightness and bliss which she
anticipated awaiting the maturity of her child
| to crown him with distinction and happiness. O.,
what a contrast
| Never did a mother love her offspring more fond
y grieve deeper for the loss of which than she
In her affection she raised no thought nor hope on
high her whole mind had worshipped but ON earth,
and all her thoughts and hopes lay whitening with
the dead. Her soul was dark, for God was not
therein
From the combined effects of unccasing attention
and toll during the illness of the deceased boy, and
the unwearying excitement of grief nature was at
length fatigued beyond further endurance, and the
mother slept by the side of her departed hope. But
her slumbers seemed to partake of the character of
her late hours of watchfulness for she restless
and anon started in her sleep, as if frightened by
some horrid visions. She dreampt.
-t H- HER DREAM.
1t was charming day Her child, playful boy
had reached his tenth year and his companions had
come to greet him on his birthday
Ten years old =" She thought time had passed
very rapidly through those ten year. as her mind re-
verified to the day on which she gave being to her
darling babe-her eherub boy Yet it aras so he
was ten years old that day u
How her heart beat with mothers pride!
The children gambolled through the house, over
the little garden and then into the road. coach,
drawn by spirited team, came whirling along-the
children were romping in innocent glee they ran to
get out of the vehicles way, but the boy-her boy-
stumbled and fell beneath its wheels. He lifted
up for dead, and conveyed to his home. 1t was a
sad sight to see her child, who q moment previous
was SO healthy and gay, crushed and CORY.
At first, she would not be comforted, but surgeon
came, and gave hope that the child would recover
He was not dead. Then all mothers tenderness
devoted to the sufferer with what fondness she
strOve to anticipate his wants! At length he show
ed symptoms for the better and then the danger
passed. He did not debut alas he was crippled
for life Such was the sad fate of her idolzed boy.
A change came over her dream: s...s.
She stood beneath the star-lit heaven. The cool
zephyrs famed her cheek She held the hand of her
child. His sghtess eyes turned, as if inquir-
ingly toward her face she endeavored to describe
to him the beauties of the night. All! how her mo.
theirs heart wept for her sons affection! ''Bind
never to view the beautiful world never to gaze in
to the starry armament never to look upon her face
his mothers face.' Hot tdUrs fell fast and thick
upon the hand she held and the poor blind boy wep
in agony he felt their scalding. He knew why
those waters flowed o, affection! O, misery pro-
found
Again change came DER her dream.
Her son had chosen the vocation of sailor, and
was then at sea. She thought she accompanied him.
Their ship was under full SAIL and cut through the
waves with a spanking breeze. o, what a mighty
scene the ocean!
AS far as the eye could reach, wave upon wave
rolled over and over each other Nothing beneath
but the unfathomable deep and few frail timbers
nothing around but the tossing and an azure can
opy. On, on they few before the breeze Soon a
small cloud hung far away in the horizon and then
the breeze which had sent them so gaily on their
grew stronger and stronger until it waxed 70
giant wind. The tiny cloud spread fast and fast
er, till it blotted out the sky Then the wind howl
ed with dreadful violence and their vessel careened
beneath the blast till her yards swept through the
water. So urously did the wind rush the ocean
that its swell was beaten down a ripple was
on its surface and this fact added terror An appa-
rently tranquil sea and awful tempest raging
what contrast 1t was impossible longer to carry
what sail had been left standing for the purpose of
aiding to keep the ship to the wind The order was
given for every stitch of canvass to be clewed up
and among those who sprang to obey it was her son.
How the seamen labored and chung to the shrouds,
in their endeavors to go aloft !" The wind blew
SO tremendously that they could barely keep from
being blown from the rigging. They toiled upward
however, but ere they could clay OUT upon the
yards the sails split into ribbons, with report
like the bursting of artillery, and blown from the
spars.
And now, :: under bare poles" their vessel was
driven with velocity truly fearful. What line
of boiling foam she left in her wake and how hel
timbers cracked and groaned beneath the tempests
pressure! 1t was impossible to stand on the deck
unaided by hold upon something. The sailors were
lashing themselves to all parts of the ship. Those
below had succeeded in making themselves secure
when still violent storm of wind swept oye1
e them' which was instantly, followed by an awful
crash the foremost snapped as though it had been
reed and fell into the sea, carrying with it those
who were upon the rigging. shrek of horror came
from the mother. Her son-her only child was
struggling in the eddy at the vessels stern. Sh'
heard his cries for aid above the of the tempest
n and saw him whirl and whirl and whirl amid tn
foam until her head grew dizzy and her brain reel
ed. She could more, and sunk inselslble up
: on the deck.
Again her dream changed: .--r.. <e. r.
|, 1t was bright day in spring. Her child ha'
+; grown to manhood, and was parting from his oil
= home to reside in a commercial mart
She blessed him and kissed him she again ant
q again pressed him to her bosom. O, how she love
him He was so handsome, so affectionate so dutl