Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-05-31

rlble expression Of their last mortal agony, he
was SO affected as to sGlint.

HDie expression o' tnelr last mortal agony, he
was SO affected as to faint.
Some were brought on shore alive, and re
celved every attention, but survived only short
time. Others were restored after long sickness
but with their limbs so injured by frost as to
become cripples for life
In village some distance from Plymouth,
widowed mother and her daughter were con-
stantly attending couch on which lay suffer
er. 1t was the boy whose trembling eyeld at
tracted the notice of pity as the lay amongst
the dead.
Mother" he said, in feeble voice, /" God
bless you for having taught me to avoid ardent
spirits; it was this that saved me. After those
around me grew intoxicated, had enough to
do to protect myself from them. Some attack
ed and dared me to fight; and others passed the
poisonous draueht to my lips, and bade m
drink. My lips and throat were parched with
thirst, but knew if drank with them, | must
lose my reason as they did, and perhaps blas
pheme my Maker.
/" One by one they died, these poor infuriated
wretches their shrieks and groans still seem to
ring in my ears; 1t was in vain that the cap
tain and other officers, and few good men warm
ed them of what would ensue if they thus con-
tinued to drink, and tried every method to res
tore them to order. They still drank the in
toxicating liquor; they grew more delirious !;
they died in heaps.
Dear mother, our suferings from hunger
and cold you cannot imagine. After my feet
were frozen, but before lost the use of my
hands, discovered box among fragments OF
the wreck, far ander water. toiled with a
rope to drag it up, but my strength was not suf-
fcient A comrade, who was still able to move
II little, assisted me. We hoped it might con-
tain bread and took courage; uniting oul
strength, we burst it open. 1t contained only q
few bottles of olive oil yet we gave God thanks
for we found that by occasionally moistening oul
lips, and swallowing little, it allayed tho
gnawing, burning pain in my stomach Al
length my comrade died, and lay beside hin
as one dead, surrounded by corpses.
il" Presently the violence of the tempest tina
had SO long ragged, subsided, and heard quicl
footsteps and strange voices nmid the plac
whcIe we lay. They were the blessed people o
Plymouth, who had dared every danger to say
u.s. They lifted in their arms and wrapped il
blankets all who could speak then they earn
estly sought all who could move; but ever
drunkard was among the dead, and was so eS
hausted with toll and suffering, and cold, that
could not s reich hand to my delverers. The
passed me again and again.
"Thcy carried the living to the boat. feal
ed thatI svasleft- behind Then prayed ca
ncslly in my heart, 20 Lord, for the sake {
my widowed mother, for the sake of my dea
sister, save me
Methought the last man had gone, and
bcsought my Redeemer to receive my spirit
But felt warm breath in my face; | strair
ed every nerve my whose soul strove and shut
dercd within me. Still my body was as immo'
able as marble. Then a loud voice said, Com
} back and help mo out with this poor lad on
Of his eyelidS tromb es-hc lives The trem'
} ling eyeid, the prayer to God, and your ow
lessons of temperance, my mother, saved me.
= Then the loving sister embraced him wit
= tears, and the mother said, " Praise be to tli'
!; who hath spared my son to be the comfort
: my old age