Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-03-25

ATHBILLING NARRATIVE.
Under the caption of .'The Steamship Pacific
lis she Ioses the Boston 4ngIo-SaSon pub
fishes the following remarkable story
The blow ing narrative. for the truth of which
We youch, may be of interest 70 the reader, as
teaching US never to despair while there is yet
oEei and showing ma very rerlafkable de-
gree, the providence of God
the town of Liverpool, IN Nova Scotia, situa-
ted about sixty miles from Halifax, is a place OF
some magnitude for colonial outpost Tt Is
and atyFay has been, remarkable for. the neat
ness Sntl eoIntortef it's houses, for the activity
end enterprise Oe5tS Pcoplc and 10 inc wealth.
and EFei-being of all who choose to be inSiastrf4s
GUS and inclined to lay up worldly goods The
intercourse with Halifax, the capital of the pri-
EiIce, was. at the period Of which ve1speak,
chiefly Kept up by smart and dashing little craft
called tue Liverpool Packet, commanded BY Capt
Bass, which piedweekly between the two places
IN the spring and summer months, laying up du-
tring the severity of the winter, when the COM
tmunicatlon with Halifax was for the most part
limited to a-weeilly post by land.
About the year 1S15or 1916 IS the season for
navigation was drawing to close, great nunl-
Der of passengers went to Halifax, as was the
EcustoiD, to Feptensh their stores for the winter
while many heads Of families proceeded thither
| to purchase clothing. groceries, &C. for their
private winter stock; and as this was to be the
last trip of the season, the little bark was crowd
| ed with some forty or fifty passengers, chiefly
fathers and mothers of large families who we're
I left at home.
+ The voyage to Halifax was prosperous; the
yoyagers made their purchases, and IN due time
/ the Liverpool Packet was ready to return. An
the passengers embarked in good spirits and the
bark sailed chccrfully down the harbor, and pro-
ceeded for her destination.
few hours after her departure there sprung
up one of those terrible North-wcste-s, 50 well
| known on the coast of Nova Scotia, and blowing
with the utmost fury for several days and attend.
ed with intense frost 1t clear that no YES
sci could keep the coast she must either put her
self before the wind and run out to sea- OF all
perish miserably by wreck and the rigor of an
atmosphere twenty or thirty degrees below zero.
a. change ofweather so sudden, so severe and so
unexpected, gave rise togrcat fears for the safety
of the little packet and the friends and relatives
at both towns.
The post at length arrived, but brought no
ddings of the Liverpool packet; another post
and another came in, and yet news of the
missing vessel. Search was then made along the
shore to see if the wreck could be found, but,
as in the case of the Pacific, not EeStige could
be discovered. The bold began to doubt and the
timid to despair, and the opinion was at iastar-
rived at, that the vessel had hem blown of the
coast or sunk in gale. If the latter, she and
her passengers were irretrievablY gone as no
Ipersen could live in boats in such weather; il
the former, there was still hope that the next
arrival from Bermuda would bring some ;ntelli-
gencc
i We will not attempt to describe the deplora-
bic state of mind of the people in the once hap
tpy little town, for nearly all had relative on
board; either father, mother, brother OF sister.
Prayers were put up in the churches, and
gloom mantled over the countenance of every
one
Advices were in due time received from Ber-
muda, but nothing heard from the little
Packet and her passengers. Accounts were also
received fran several OF the West India Islands,
but still without intelligence of the missing YES
sell
Three months at length passed away, and the
Packet was given M for lost Those who had
friends on board went into mourning, and pray
ers were even offered up for the repose of the
souls of departed; and SO connected were the
different families with each other throughout the
town, that the Sunday on which all who had
friends put Oh black, put nearly the entire popu-
tation in the habiliments of woe.
-Four months had now passed away; the mour-
ners, notwithstanding the irreparable loss were
becoming reconciled to their bereavement; for
there is philosophy in the human heart which
teaches us to bear with foTtitudc great losses
I when those of less severity are met with impat-
icnce. All hope had now fled; the vessel had,
| without doubt, foundered and gone to the bottom
with all on board; but when or IN what part of
I the vast ocean, was to remain yelled in the Sc
crets ofthe deep until the sea Should give up her
| dead
Sixteen weeks had now elapsed, when one fine
! morning in the spring, scattering people
down at the fort deserted strange brig approach
| ing the harhor. She attracted attention from
the circumstances that although a stranger, she
was navigated by one who knew well the entrance
! of the harbOr, for she came in without pilot or
shortening sail The quick eyeand watchful hab-
its of searnen could not lightly pass over such
sci coming in, soon spread through the little
town and many persons assembled. The best
telescopes were put in requiStion, but none could
make out what the stranger was. As she drew
nearer to the anxious group, her deck was dis
covered to be crowded with male and female pas
Sengers.
'tAh!" exclaimed one who had certain indie
Unable hope, as that hope sank within him, s:an
enigrant ship after all, and deep sigh came
from his bosom; for he had near and dear friend
on board thelittle packet.
| ''An emigrant ship" said another, chow can
any captain of an emisrantship know so well his
way into the harborg Beside, elnigrant ships
do not come to Liverpool
| Apause ensued during which one with quick
| eye was gazing through the best glass the town
afforded he was on one knee, resting his teles-
| cope, when he suddenly sprans to his feet and
declared that Capt. Bass was among the passen-
| gers.
".Nonsensei" was the incredulous CRY, "Capt.
Bass and the Liverpool packet arc at the bottom
Of the sea, and will there remain till the day of
resurrection"
Not daunted by their ineredulity, he said
give me the trumpet, viii speak to the brig,
in few moments she will be near enough
What brig is that" The response was given:
ttAre you Captain Bassgn Yes was theTeplyi
A few words suffccd to reveal that the vessel
had been blown off, aud for many days went be-
fore the wind with great rapidity. As the gale