New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-04
DAILY CRESCENT.
A Beautiful story.

n shea9lliul story.
The most beautiful and affecting incident
know, associated with shipwreck, y the fol
lowing:
The Governor, an East Indiaman, homewar
bound, goes ashore on the coast of Caffraria
q 1t is resolved that the officers, passengers an
crew, in number 1876 souls, shall endeayor 1
penetrate on foot across the trackless deserts
y infested with wild beasts and cruel savages, I
the Dutch settlements at the Cape of Goo
Hope With this forlorn object before then
4 they finally separate into two parties-neve
more to meet again.
There is . solitary child among the passen
gers--a little boy of seven years old--who ha
no relation there, and when the first party j
moving away, HE cries after some member Of
who has been kind TO him. The crying Of I,
child might be supposed to be 9 little thing t
men in such great extremity but it touehe
them, and he is immediately taken into tina
detachment
From that time forth, this child is sublimel,
made sacred charge. He is pushed on littl
raft across broad rivers by the swimming sail
ors; they carry him by turns through the dee
sands and long grass Che patiently walking a
4 oil other times); they share with him such pu
wait for him when the rough carpenter, VIII
becomes his especial friend, lags behind. Bese
by lions and tigers, by sayages. by thirst AM
hunger, BY death in crowds Of chastity shapes
they neyer-Oh! Father of all mankind, Th,
name be blessed for it!-forget the child. Tn,
captain stops exhausted, and his faithful cox
swain goes hack, and is seen to sit down by hi
side. and neither of the two shall be any more
beheld until the Great Last Day! but, as tht
rest go on for their lives, they take the chile
with them. The carpenter dies Of poisonous
in ofa,u md Qcto1 rc
succeeding to the command Of the party, sue.
ceeds to the sacred guardianship of the child.
God knows all he does for the poor baby; how
he cheerfully carries him is his arms when he
himself is weak and ill how he folds his ragged
jacket round him, lays his little worn face with
q woman's tenderness upon his sunburnt breast
soothes him in his sufferings, sings to him as he
limps along. unmindful of his own parched and
bleeding feet.
. grave in the sand and bury their good friend
the cooper these two companions alone in the
wilderness-and then the time comes when they
are both i'll, and they beg their wretched part
ners in despair, reduced and few in number, to
wait by them one day. They wait by them one
day-tbey wait by them two days. On the
morning of the third, they move very softly
about, 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--deadi b sis
His faithful friend, the steward, fingers but a
little behind him. His grief is great; he stag
gers on for o few days, lies down in the desert
and dies. But he shall be reunited in his i'm
mortal spirit who can doubt it'-with the
child, where he and the poor carpenter shall be
raised up with the words: I" Inasmuch as ye
have done il unto the least of these, ye have
done it unto Me!'
A GREET BuLL-The following bull, which
we picked up we have forgotten where, is hard
to beat: All
Halo, Cowan! What did you shoot at just
nowi'' -
aNone Of your business; go along over the
Surprised at this short and crusty answer,
Hoffman looked around, and discovered a calf
among the bushes. And he again cried out i:
6 say, Gowan, did you shoot at the calf'n
Yes, did; but it's none Of your business %
Why, what made you shoot at it ?s'
g Why, 4 took it for DEER
6 Well, did you hit its"
IS No, I missed it'' 3D.. es
How did you miss s'' y-, z55s
4 "Wby, / wasn't quite sure it wasn't a calf"
Your are q pretty specimen Of q hunter"
reloined Hoffman, et0 shoot calf for deer,
and miss at that"
"Don't make fool of YOURSELF" replied
Cowan, shot at it just so as to hit it if it was
q deer, and miss it if it was calf"
IMPORTANT OCCUPATION. =" Boy, /" said fash
ionably dressed man to the servant of one of his
companions, " is your master at homes'' g Yes,
SIR replied the boy, but he's confined to his