Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1857-08-14
ELLSWORTH Me- FRIDAY AUGUST IA. 1857. $l5O Y

A hand gently touched his arm; i
was Sal, who with pale, earnest face
was gazing at him.
"lt is not so very dreadful she said
my little brother smiled, and said deatl
did not hurt him. Don't-don't take OF
50: it is not so very dreadful"
The sufferers countcnancc relaxed n,
he listened.
VIII you do the crrand of a dying
man. he asked, gently.
The food of silent tears she wiped
away was her answer; and stoopin,
down, he whispered few earnest word,
in her car, then taking a memorandum.
book from his pocket, he wrote in it ra.
PLY for few minutes, and placing it in
her hands, said. solemnly:
'Remcmbcr, and farewell =
Il will, will, replied the girl.
He pressed her arm then, turning to
the surgeon, he said:
will yoa be my executor: You will
find here, he continued, understanding
the surgeons expressive silence, "a mem
orandum Of my will, my address, and all
particulars necessary and now pray to
God for me in this my struggle
rs thcIe anything more can do for
you asked the surgeon.
'Ah,' he continued, shiverin ,ly, show
rery cold it is. Brandy, Brandy, to
thaw this ice at my heart. Brandy, |
say"
And brandy you shall have, captain =
said Bill, ener5ctically, or may live
upon water and he strided along the
boat, in his hurried way, to the shore to
fetch it. He soon returned with a bot
tie and glass, into which he poured
some.
There that is sufficient, said the sur
gcon, checking him.
Fill up. fill up was the skipper 5
counter order.
Would you die drunk said Mr.. Des-
ford, expostulatinS with him.
.Ay, ay, captain, You shall have enough
of it, cried Bill. lie has a right to do
as he pleases, he continued, addressing
the surgeon; it is his own affair, sup
pose
.You would not dare to enter Kin !,
Georges presence, if you were not sober,
replied the surgeon 'yourcaptain is 60
ing to the King Of Kings woald you
send him there drunk
.No. no. don't mean that sa, Bill.
in subducd tone; bat its ha.d to re-
fuse it to fellow creature, when there 5
40 other comfort left him.
He was interrupted BY cry from the
muItitule on the shore, announcing the
return of the messengers with the sur Il
cal instruments; bat even TIE surg on
who had sent for them now showed no
disposition of using them; the water
had risen several inches above the knee :;
but the multitude still retaining their be-
lief in the possibility of amputation, the
lives of the surgeons were becoming en-
dangered by their desperate excitement,
Bill who saw too clearly that all hope for
his captain was gone, suggested that it
was advisable that they should, in his
own expressive phrase, bolt by way OF
the rivcr-alvice very rapidly t,kcn.-
The skipper pressed the hand Of Mr..
Desford when that gentleman grasped
his. at his departure, but his eyes roved
bcwildcrcdly, and though he echoed the
adieu, it WAS with; mechanical inlitfer-
cnce. The boat in winch the surgeons
were standing, WAS, by the nd of a bribc
to the boatman, almost imperccptibly
padded out of the circle of jolting ves-
sells, and they were soon in the gloomy
security of the mid stream. What need
we to proceed inch by inch in the des-
cripton of that which the reader per-
caives to be incvitable' Gradually but
surely, those gloomy, those relentless
waters stole on; they reached the waist
they covered the houlders-they drew
a cold and stranglins circle around the
throat-they bubblcd from the lips,
though the neck WAS strained in the effort
to raise them above the blindly fastening
flood. Who shall describe the horror OF
the multitude, that from the land and from
the river looked on powerless, while the
mighty waters, like an inevitable fate,
swallowed up limb by limb living be-
ing. At length there came one strong,
one desperate cry from the suFe. er-it
was his last the waters closed over his
mouth-thcy rushed into his nostrls-
there was struggle, deadly struggle
beneath them for a few moments, and
then stillness-the stiffness OF death
You charge dollar for killing a
calf, you smutty rascal" said planter
to an old negro. No, no, Massa," re.
piled the gentleman from Africa, charge
fifty cents for killum calf, and fifty cent'
or the know how
To Punch belongs the credit of the
following -
Roman Cement-The French army
for it has been sticking in Rome now
ever so long, and the Pope finds it i'm
possible to remove it.
WEBSTER AND BUCnANAN.--A good
anecdotc has lately been revived touch
ing Webster and Buchanan soon after
the Great Expounder had discharged