Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-03-15
Affecting Story Of a Shipwreek,


ornooI to the Spanish Main. In a thick fog
onJ strong vole from s. ). w. struck upon a
ledoe of rocks between the Great and Little
Rr,sson---,,vo b;gb rocks rising between six
90 and seventv feet above bicI, water mark,
about one mile off the bluff headland of Cnpe
Cornwall and four miles northwar,ls from
,bp Ionds End. The sen running very high
the vessel immediately went to pieces. and
the crew. nine men, with one woman, the
wife of the master, got on the ledge. They
were discovered from the shore as soon MS
day broke, but no assistance could then be
uossilly rendered them
In ,I,is uerilous condition the poor crea-
lures remnincd until about Q o'clock, when
tbev vore nil wnsIied off together by one
tremendous wnye. and hurled into the boil
inc deem. Seven out Of the ten sank AZ once
into n waterv grave.
OF the remaining thrce-one. mulatto,
con,rived IN got on n norton OF the floating
Yreck. and alter having been beaten about
fnr some hours i'm imminent peril of being
every instant swallowed up by the breakers,
managed. with remarkable coolness aud
presence of mind, by means of plank
which be used as a paddle, aud piece of
canyns which served him for sail, with the
assistance of the strong tides, to keep clear
of the broken waters,
While this Door fellow was thus struggling
for life, amid the anxious expectations OF the
people who Witnessed his attempt for the
shore. whose lofty cliffs were now crowded
by tIpwnrd of 1000 spectators, five fisher
men, belonging TO semen, small fishing
cove close TO the Lands End, determined,
with that bold and resolutc spirit for which
these men are distinguished, 10 lannch their
bont through the breakers, in which they
happiy succeeded, and eventually, after en-.
cointering great risk, they rescued the poor
mulntto Iion his pefiluus situation.
Tho o,her tyvo the rnnster and his wife,
,vhon ,Lev ,verc carried off tbe ledge. were
,yashoJ ,,,,o, ,I,e i,,le Brisson Rock. which
r;scs II, n ncnLed head. aud * The resort of
n,n,cro,,s son ,a,vI The master first gnined
n iooting ,non the rock. and upou l1okinr
nrn,,nJ lin snv his wife struggling In The
waves bnt sufficiently near 10 enable him 10
stretch ont his bnnd and null her in. While
the semen fishermen were occ,ipicd in res
c,,inp the mulntto. Her Maiesty's revenue
cutter Sylvin. commanded by Mr.. Forward.
yns sccn puIlnntlv working round the Lands
End baying bpeI ordered TO the spot by
CAPTAIN Duyies. n. n. the late and sill nci-
inc insnccting comunnder of the coast gunrd
of This district. Cant. Davies himself and
several of the officers took m their stations
upon The lofty promontory of Cane Cornwall.
tho Prisons, On rencliing tbe
point Mr.. Forward launced his bout. a,,d nj
tcmptcd. with n crew of four men. 10 get
near the rock but the attempt was Gnitless,
md il was only will great difficulty thai be
tbe cu,icr 10 the qrent relief of
Captain Davies and The numerous spectntois
on Tho cliffs yybo rpioiced ~ nerceiye that.
though success did nor attend Ills daring ex
ploit. still he himself and Ills rallnnt crew nj
least were safe. 1t was now growing late,
aud nothing more could he ATTEMPTED IN. the
way Of rescue for the tiuy, Ms. ssst%,crs,
hosied his colors aud hove 10 his craft, to en-
courage the poor sufferers, who were now 10
he left TO spend the wrelchcd night without
food or shelter, exposed TO the wind and
rain upon this desolatc rock, amid the wide
waste of waters, aud TO assure them that
! they had still friend who would stand by
and not lorsake them.
On Sunday morning the wind happily
drove little 10 the southeast, which caused
the sen to abnte; all hands were Immediate
ly on the alert. AT one o'clock our boat:
were seen approaching from the Senner
Cove-three manned by fishermen and one
by the coast guard; at the same time Cnptnir
Davies arrived, having embarked in pre-
ventive boat At small cove named Pendeen
about three miles northeast of the spot, will
four preventive men aud one miner, taking
rockets with him. The cutters boat alst
WAS manned hy Mr.. Forward-so that 81,
boats were quickly on the spot. BY ihi
time the scene had become one of the mos
exciting description, and the crowds of peo
pie upon the cliffs could not have numbered
less than 5000 or 6,OOO; aud as each boa
arrived at the SPOT, the cheers Ct this vas
multitude awakening all the echoes of tlli
cavernous coast, added not little to the eS
citement. sfiet
The sea ran so high that no boat coul
, venture within one hundred yards of th
rock. The rockets which Captain Davie
had taken with him in the preventive boa
had never been tried here before, even ffoi
0 the shore, aud we believe never elsewher