Washington telegraph., 1854-07-19
A Beautiful story,

The most beautiful and affecting incident
| know associated with shipwreck, is the
following
The Governor, an East Indiaman, home
ward bound, goes ashore on the coast Of
Cafraria 1t is resolved that the off GERS.
passengers, and crew, in number 135 souls
shall endeavor to penetrate on foot, across
trackless deserts, infested with wild beasts
and cruel savages, to the Dutch settlements
at the Cape Of Good Hone With this for
lorn object before them, they finally sepa-
rate into two parties-never more to meet
on earth.
There is solitary child among the pas
sengers-a little boy Of seven years Did,
has no relation there, and when the first
party is moving away he cries after some
member of it who has been kind to him
The crying Of child might be supposed to
be little thing to men in such a great ex-
tremity; but it touches them and be is im-
mediately taken into that detachment.
From which time forth. this child is sub
timely made a sacred charge. He is push
ed, on a little raft. across broad rivers, by
the swimming sailors they carry him By
turns thrugh the deep sands and long grass,
(he patiently walking at all other times,)
they share with him such putrid fish as they
find to eat they lay down and wait for
him when the rough carpenter, who be-
comes his especial friend, lags behind. Be-
set by lions and tigers, BY sayages, BY thirst
and hunger, by death in crowds Of ghastly
shapes, they never-Oh! Father of all
mankind. thy name he blessed for it,-for.
get the child. The captain stops exhausted,
and his faithful coxswain goes back and is
seen to sit down by his side, and neither of
the two shall be any more beheld until the
great last day but as the rest 20 On for
their lives, they take the child with them.
The carpenter dies Of poisonous berries,
eaten in starvation and the steward sue
ceeding to the command Of The party. sue
ceeds to the sacred guardianship of the
child
God knows all he docs for the poor baby.
how he cheerfuly carries him 10 his arms
when he himself is weak and ill-how he
folds bis ragged jacket round him, lays his
little worn face with woman's tenderness
upon his sunburnt breast, soothes him in
his suferings, sings to him as he limps along
unmindful Of his own parched and bleeding
feet
Divided for a few days from the rest,
they dig a grave in the sand and bury their
good friend the cooper-tbese two compan-
ions alone in the wilderness-and then the
time comes when they are both i'll and beg
their wreiched partners in despair. reduced
and few in number, to wait by them one
day. They wait BY them one day-thev
wait by them two days. On tie morning of
the third, they move very sof ly about in
making preparations for the resumption Of
their journey--for the child is sleeping BY
the fire, and it is agreed with one consent
that he shall not be disturbed until the last
moment. The moment comes, the fire is
dying, and The child is-dead
His faithful friend, the steward, fingers
but little behind bin. His grief il great,
he staggers on for few days, lies down in
the desert and dies But he shall be re-
united in his immortal spirit-who can
doubt it with the child where be and
and the poor carpenter shall be raised up
with the words, Inasmuch as We have done
it unto the least Of these, ye have done it
unto Me-