The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1857-09-12
A TRAGEDY At SEA.

fact than in the most highly'wronght de-
tail, which an imaginative writer OF ro'
nance can weave into narrative for
there are many incidents which are 'ouch.
ing in tho very plaluness of their truth.
rs vain would 1t be TO attempt to pain, the
hy. or add ltesh sweetness to the violet,
~ 20 improve upag tie plain, strai-hi Tor
ward unadorued statements which some,
times meet Us IN the daily journals aud
vin our sympathy, our regrets, aad often
our tears.
Yesterday we copied tom New York
paper long and painfully tnteres'in. ac'
cont Of a collision which took place ou
saturday between the steamboat Hetto>
polls' aud the propeller -. W. ilstts.'
The latter vessel leli New otk on Friday
afternoon with a large cafgo, and iWen'y
seven human beings, sixteen ot whom
were passengers, vita - crew Of eleven
tpaut two O'Clock ou SATURDAY morning,
when the propeller was sixty five miles up
the Sound, between Falkland !.lud aud
New Haven, she was run iu,o hy the " We
uopolis," There was scarcely any light
shown by the ptoprlrrl which cut her go
two. The o. ". llarus' -auk almost
immedat,l, in sixteen fs'tYms winter.
The women aud chldten ou board vef" ia
bed. and slmost instantly persisted The
" Metropolis" picked up ana saved twelve
persons, Including the Captain, the fret
aud secoui eng two deck hands and
seven passengers Among the fifteen who
persisted eight aetc females. The tepor;
add-
Immediately after the collision ~
woman was seen struggling be the water,
supporting her infant child ip uer anus.
rope was thrown to her, which tell with
ia her reach. AID she might have seized
aud saved her self by felnqpi-h.ss her
bold upon her child She locked up. 81"
the rope. saw thls. who WON'T have given
almost their o,,n hold upon lIie TO save
het. lbeu pressed her child 10 Der breast
aud sank ufetef.
lh,s n.i .enjrnc'. ga ..nIl- hu' i"neh'
ue. has tar deeper patilos dian can be
nund ju the Artificial maufu'4lae-s OF
lrunysnu's g. Nemoatm- lua dsv'.
ted mother might have ssved her own ide
b, lenne her maut petish She looked
ar. pressed the child Ia her bosom. and
persisted with It.
Ihe uauifiye o( CHptv.u Smith, of the
w liaris., eoh'"'' many i'Nsas''
1T natural patt9s, which, 90 doubt, have
afcad, touched the heart, Of many 81 our
reader. There is oue which every moth
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