Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-06-25

2 sexes Their excitement had reached feveris
height, and every moment was augmsnting it
} several females had been removed from the from
J ranks of the mob in violent Mysteries, and tn
deep murnur of the male voices was varied b
their occasional sobs but hey perceived MI
Desford speaking to the sufferer. and there wa
a deep hush of anxious listening.
;, 1t would be cruel to deceive you with hopes,
r he said; If you cannot draw the foot no chanc.
OF extrication now remains for you, save through
the gates of death.
: The words were scarcely spoken when Their
was short cry, and one agonized cob from
Bills boat. 1t was from the girl Sal, who has
crouched close to the sufferer, that her cry il
the strange tension of his nerves, seemed t,
strike him like blow. He had been stunnet
but not convinced by the surgeons words, gps
this aroused him.
If not at the knee, he asked with a sinking
voice, CHANGING at the waters, which had nov
nearly reached that joint, couldn't you take tn,
limb off at the hipi'
IMPOSSIBLE repeated the surgeon. Tits bu
cruel to delude you with hope you must die T.
i The skipper heard that calmly spoken but do
cided doom. He looked to the other surgeon
a dumb and desperate appeal for the renewal 0
that hope almost dead within him. The surgeon
tried to smile an answer, but he turned away
his head, and the wreathing lip seemed but
mockery on that face of horror. Well did tht
victim read it he sank back in his chair, rath
| er from the relaxation of the limbs than any vol
tunary movement. The cries of shame = min
| gled with threats, that followed Mr.. Desford' ;.
speech, were paralyzed to silence by a cry
scarcely human. 1t was from the skipper. Ht
| had scarcely touched the seat of the chair wher
he bounded up again. Well might horror change
his voice the chair was ahoat, and he had plash
ed into bed of water.
God bless you, captain = cried Bill, wipine
his eyes; Sits but death after all-why you've
been alongside of him thousands of times
1t is but DEATH repeated the sufferer, hollow.
| ly ay, it is word to you, bat what is it to mel
chained down with those black waters rising
rising Ny God deliver me .
| hand gently touched his arm it was Sal
whs, with pale, earnest face, was gazing al
| him.
1t is not SO dreadful she said. Ny little
brother smiled, and said death did not hurt him
Don't-don't take on so it is not SO very dread
| full
tened.
VIII you do the GRAND of dying want be
asked gently.
The flood Of silent tears she wiped away was
her answer and STOPPING down, he whispered
few earnest words in her ear, then taking 8
memorandum-book from his pocket, he wrote in
it rapidly for few minutes, and placing it in
her hands, said slowly: Rene mber, and fare
well =
Il will, will y replied the girl.
He pressed her arm; then turning to the sur
geon, said: viii you be my executor You
will find here he continued, understanding the
| surgeons expressive silence, "a memorandum
of my will, my address, and all particulars neces-
sary and now pray to God for me in this my
struggle.
is there anything more l can do for you p
| asked the surgeon.
| 'Ah,' he continued, shiveringly, how very
cold it is Brandy brandy to thaw this ice
at my heart Brandy, say =
| And brandy you shall have, captain said
Bill. energetcaliy, or may live upon water !;
and he strded along the boat in his hurried way
! to the shore to fetch it. He soon returned with
4 bottle ard glass, into which he poured some
| There that is sufficient said the surgeon
checking him.
Fill up fill up was the shippers counter
order.
Would you die drunk y said Mr. Desford
expostulatng with him.
'Ay, ay, captain, you shall have enough oft,
cried Bill. He has right to do as he pleases,
he continued, addressing the surgeon it is hi
own affair, suppose.
You would not dare to enter King George
presence if you were not sober replied the sur
! geon: your captain is going TO the King o
/
| NO, no don't mean that said Bill, i'll
subdued tone but it's hard to refuse it 20 fel
| low-creature when there is no other comfort lef
| him.
| He was interrupted by cry from the multi
! tude on the shore, announcing the return of thu
messengers with.the surgical instruments; bu
even the surgeon who had sent for them nov
showed no thought Of using them: the water
| had risen several inches above the knee; bu
the multitude still retaining 1heir belief il TIL
possibility of amputation, tho lives of the sur
geons were becoming endangered by their des
perate excitement. Bill who saw too clearl
that all hope for his captain was gone, suggests
that it advisable that they should, in his owl
expressive phrase, bolt by the way of the riv
er-advce very rapidly taken. The skippe
i pressed the hand of Mr.. Desford when that gen
| tleman grasping his, at his departure; but hi
| eyes roved bewiideredly, and though he echoed
the adieu, il was with mechanical Indifference
The boat in which the surgeons weIe standing
was, by the aid OF bride to the boatsnsin, almoS
imperceptibly padded out OF the circle Of jost
ling vessels, and they were soon in the gloom,
security of the md-stream. What need to pro
coed inch by inch in the description Of the ap
proach of that which the reader perceives to b.
4 inevitable. Gradually but surely, those gloomy
/ those relentless waters stole on: they reaches
the waist-they covered the shouders-the,
drew cold and strangling circle rouad tn
throat-they dubbed from the lips, tho the necl
was strained in the effort to raise them abov
the blindly fastening food. Who shall do serb
the horror of the multitude, that from tlse Lane
and from the river looked on powerleSs, Will
the mighty waters, like an inevitable fate, swa
rowed up, limb by limb, a living being. A
length their came one strong. one desperate or
from the sufferer. 1t was his last the water
closed over his month-they rushed ints his nos
trils-there was a struggle, deadly struggle bO
Ia them fer few moments, and then StI lines
the stiffness of death