Litchfield enquirer., 1854-11-02
From iks Nsw Fork EEprssss The Signal Gun.

Amidst all the terrible incidents atleIlA .dant upon the destruction OE the Asetic, which we have been receiving theseilew days past. shete Is one that ilnpresses us with a feeling of awe and admiration. and shows all the void tha. the age of heroes is not yet altogether gone by. We refer to the yonng man whose post of duty throughout all that trying scene was the fling of signal gun. at inter. vals. in the hope of attracting attention of vessels from a dstance to the scene of the disaster. While all around hinn were
 death and despair. in bold relief there hs
 s'ood, (like Hope herself with ,he calm
 de,crmnation of alrue hero, dischRrging gun after gus, until the gallant shipwent dawn beneath the waves. Here was a courage and a manliness.4 .4--a defiance of death, and an adhesion toduty, we might walk over the most famous battles fields in lis'ory to look for and nol fad. The slldis, who braves tue King oE Iervors at the cannon's mouth, is animated by species cf courage improyised for the oc:- casion, by the ''pomp and CirCHnnstahCe" around him. There can be properly no towards when men are drawn up in bat- tie array, with drums beating. coiors flying. and thoughts of reward and pros moion fli.ling through the brain # q victory is to be won. Dastatds dare do anything then under such s,imulants.
 But the bravery of the battle ield ia not
 the bravery which was shown by our
 young here of tue wreck, The former, is species of unnatural coIrageS-iiis is of an animal nature; but the latter was moral courage of tie highest and nobless kind. With his lighted match he seemed 'o stand. on the quarter deck of that de. voted ship. hurling defiance. as 1t were, in the very jaws of death itself. Others wee desperately struggling for life {; he alone seemed 10 have resolved to demon stra.c how a man may die at his post of duty, without dread or fear, in tue midst of horrors that would make mos. men cows'ds. Awfully impressive. indeed. terribly melo-d dramatic twas the last scene of all, in which our young hero shone forth. wringing exclamation cf d. rniratior even f'om lips that were buffet. lng the hungsring waters then mnrrnNr- ing for their prey. Stuart Holllns, (for that was his name, )"could not be induced
 to leave the ship his post was at the
 gun. from first 10 last. firing signals he
 kept firing that gun at intervals till the
 ship went down. We saw him in tAs very act ef yfying ds tke vessss disappssv. ed beiosb the s0aters." atsa af
 In Greek or Roman days. snch man if he had not awarded him the honorof defcalion, would have had Senates de- creeing him statutes and monuments every where 10 commemorate his dsedss that his example might mol be lost upon posierity. His conduct is given . new Iustl e ,contrae.ed with that Of the carvens who. only nxious 10 save their own livess shut their ears 10 the shrieks of the helps lets women and children that were graphing with horrors all around and about them. Honor tken. eternal honor, to him who went down to death con. queror Of death! That noble ship had many noble spirits on board but none nobler than lie. .s.ss "'rhe brave man is not he who feels no fear. l For that were stupid and irrational
 | But Iic whose noble soul it's fear subdues,
 I And bravely braves the danger natuFe shrinks from" e a@ sl4 F.n-