The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-05-27

and erhaps o dead, brought up upon the
deckt for ldi ,mbarkation. We were sad
enoui ., indest but we had no miseries of this
kind hen to . sad for Charley. The East wss
then peace, shither he was bound the yes.
sci Il It bore b - was cleaving tranquil seas.
Tb next lst 9r, however, which we got from
him, wss fro, : Spain. The ship had been
wrec sd, with .sful loss of life-hinself pickle
up e, lsus.ed, 'Sut sails we'll !" he wrote, "as
far a am CO -.erned, except for my kit, and
/ hoI to star; from Gibraltar in luckier yes.
sell" y
lip Of D per was enclosed for me 9" ]
told gu that, peril threatened me remember
our / st talk on the Shore"
Tt re was 4 word in his account of the
shipf teck OF I q incident, which we read of in
the r 'wspape, I.
mong O, er deeds of Eeroism during the
conf lion, ant when it was plain that the ship
must go to pi es in few minutes, that of q
Mr.. I harles 3 poke, E. /. G. S., deserves spe.
cal 'ention. Observing yonng lady-Mias
| Clau daugh: of Lieutenant General Claud,
OF u Benga army, who was on her way to
join her ia er in Calcutta = unprovided
with lsfe-E server, he removed his own
feom his wa ;, and fastened it around her ;
and n the 5ter afterwards, perceiving her
to b dfiftin cut to sea, he brought her,
by ] credible exertiops, under the protec-
ton the hc Hand, and into the bay, where
she as RESET I. Mr.. Brooke was picked up
subs luently, sensible; but we are happy to
state hat thit soble young fellow has since en-.
trelf recover :"
If his hat 3happe ned two years later, we
shou net ha Sconsidered the proceeding so
eutir " dlsint tested, as after that period Miss
Clam BEGAN figure in his letters pretty fire.
quep y, isnde; be more familiar title of "dear
est lem ! due time they were married,
and st 'aflu y wrote US most enthusiastic
accoi Mt If ID, little boy, then exactly month
old, nd 'lraa beginning to take q great
deal # n ,tice
"f ext Chr mas" wrote our Charley, I" we
hope al three spend in the beloved island,
,Wfereg, tes of pine either hand
20 bfeaki blast of winter, stand,
Aus, eas and west the hoary channel
Fuml'es ., teaker on chalk and sand;
Where, = lerneah the milky steep
The hips battle slowly creep,
AMI oar pugh zones of light and shadow,
alml her ~ TO the lonely oeep"
w have latest poetic accounts of you,
you re, Up b, at Fusabsd, which, indeed, is
alno as mu in the world, and quite as civ.
llized town., your Southampton. Arden is
here. ard vii lake his leave at the same time
with for FL land. How I long for you ell
to SCI deer FL and the child"
Nc more IN we longed for them, be sure
How We pleas | ourselves with imagining what
what ort Of Pc son-pretty and good.temp ered,
we re certs n-Charles's Ellen would be
And ;hat swe baby, too, whom we loved in
aGva ce ever :, much, and kissed, and handled
AID Aade mt h of, already in anticipation !
Whei Ter won1 our Charley himself be changed
or nc How much would he have to tell US,
after ais fvl cara absence What merry,
merr Christh.', it would furely be-
Tb N came the first rumors of revolt to
SHADE " this E r picture. Again the soldier
crow ed ships, egan to pass in quick succession
befoI US over he eastward sea but THIS time,
howl UGH mos ,four selfish hearisthey bore with
them How Pr 'erfully, women though we were,
we shed Gu speed to ife-ball and bayonet |
One ay, we z a letter from our Charley, con-
irn,i our " ct fears; words which, from b;
who ways ts- { The most cheering view of mat
ters, illed u.s. jth cruel grief.
j is folyf wrote he, "to disguise our posi-.
lion my long, : The irregular cavalry here
ara II 10 be asted, and our lives are in their
hard the G, ,ersl cannot afford US any add.
lion o our lie band Of European soldiers
there ,s mu;ia all around us and this is prob
ably be last { ,wk that will go safe to its desti.
natio !, SO " tie in haste to catch it. l have
| locke death the face before now, mother,
but ,ver viii such dear ones in my company
thia what N kes it terrible. Some of US here
thinB better !. our situation, and Gcd grant
that hey may 9s right; but IL saw her last
night and yqKsnow what ! hold guch sight
to mt an. You will not soon forget nae and
mine whates<. happens, well know. Heaven
bless 2ou al y,
OCT Charley never wrote to rs again. The
very ,aext telegraph ran thus -A
" ! n outbrssk of the /. G. at Fusabad their
Office were ICED upon; al the civilians in the
static mass, eted, save three"
Ne Per, sus u, had oracle of old the power to
east despi ;. to exile to passionate hope, to
SgoDi ;e by tispense, its credulous believers,
that ais VIC ,a.Iaversing dumb sibyl possesses
in th' Sc days It's wires are as the very threads
Of fat I, on sl .cb hang human lives cur heart
strin, have scome electric, too, and with them
shud er in icon. e
IS i've II 90" In these two words, and
their interp Cation, all happiness or misery
seem d for /. 90 centre: Father, mother, child !!
Two fthep one of them, at least, in mercy,
must oe am j., at those " threel" After nearly
two lonths +. wearing hopes and fears, the
nam, fwere ,hlished, giving Joy to other house
holds Ito O. despair. They we're all three
strar ers. G., ,tain Arden, poor Charley'g friend,
was ne of lie few officers who escaped with
life &e wr6t as a sad letter. with but one cold
gleaf of hep in report that he had heard of
| some Eurol E q of Fusabad being still alive in
| the Soltee / strict under the protection of a
natis rsja., ut we were aunk too deep in scr.
row be .. ,ged by such a floating straw as
this. We ~ the writer credit for good in
| tent us, buta 1sre not more wretched when we
| read n bis ond letter: 5.at FL
"t,ur las erk of hope has, fear, died out.
/ cot e to ! j land by the earliest packet, and
my st visit ill be to you" --
| 81 thad til, Is to tell us, of very terrible in
| teres BY tie time, autumn had faded, and
winVs was reading over rs his snow white
! pail, slightly ID tenderly, as in cur island he
| ever Spreads !, like father covering the face
| of b dead q i'd. But the seasons themselves
| coub fbringi such change upon nature as ii
seem I'd, in sadness OF our hearts, to have
| aires ~ sutf, ID. The breeze that swept our
lofty downls Is was no longer blithe and spirit.
stirR az, but ose in gusts of lamentation, and
| died away Is melancholy signs the laughing
sea lad bee ne waste of waters and our
| favo: he patti, where the evergreens flourish as
| in ring, H. int have been full of withered
leav, !, 80 10, were we to walk there because
orr tarleyCs smed to be associated with all
| thes. things, the scent with the flower, or as
! the 1ul with beautiful form. If this seems
! TO be- exagee ton, it mast be remem bered that
! our tile hep hold is very simple one, and
alon; in the world, and that our Charley was
| all i, all ton .f
II time now arrived when the steamer
| that vas tot ng Captain Arden might be ex.
pect 4, and a watched for it attentively, but
with at imIN t'nce with eyes less fearful than
! had ,ollow.8 that retreating vessel years ego,
but i'h hess Sfsr heavier. 81
81 tbert i, been despatched to Southamp-
ton await q captain, and bring him on to
! rs q once 4 that when the black ship went