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

deck for .embarkatiou. We were sad
enou ii, indie but we had no miseries of this
kind hen to ,,ead for Charley. The East was
then II peac shither he was bound the yes.
sci I, at bore fm was cleaving tranquil seas.
TT next I ger, however, which we got from
him, wss fl, . Spain. The ship had been
wrec ed, viii ,wful loss of life-himself picked
up e. hsusses but calls well" he wrote, "as
far am Z lcerned, except for my kit, and
! no 3 to sta from Gibraltar in luckier yes.
sell"
A Slip Of per was enclosed for me: al
told 'ou that peril threatened me remember
our ist talk ION the shore"
II ere was 5t word in his account of the
ship 'reck of :is incident, which we read of in
the ewspaps !;
I" ,mong { ser deeds of heroism during the
conf sion, ar when it was plain that the ship
mus, go to pi ces in few minutes, that of a
Mr.. .harles coke, E. /. G. s., deserves spe.
cal tpennon, Observing young lady-Miss
Cisu daugt j. of Lieutenant General Claud,
OF lie Beng. army, who was on her way to
join her Il aer in Calcutta = unprovided
with a life>f sserver, he removed his own
from his we T., and fastened it arouud her ;
and in the ater afterwards, percsiving her
20 b, driftil cut to sea, he brought her,
by scredibf exertions, under the protec-
zion # the h dland, and into the bay, where
she as resc, 4. Mr.. Brooke was picked up
subs quently 'nsensible but we are happy to
state that thi aoble young fellow has since en-
sirel recovel l."
If this rs happened two years later, we
5hou d not b, q considered the proceeding so
eutr ,ly disip Srested, as after that period Miss
Clau began figure in his letters pretty fire.,
queT ,ly, und, the more familiar title of dear
oh y Ion ~ Ina 49, cd
and ast Jan, ny wrote US a most enthusiastic
int of Il IL little boy. then exactly month
old, end elre ~ beginning to take q great
Zeal IF motto ,
"Eext Oh :tmas," wrote our Charley, we
hopeall,thre 20 spend in the beloved island,
.Wherel yves of pine either hand,
70 break e blast of winter, stand
And ei and west, the hoary channel
Tumbles breaker on chalk and sand;
where aderneath the milky steep
The ships i battle slowly Creep
And on rough zones of light and shadow,
GlIrnmef !. gay TO the lonely oeep"
vs. have ,e latest poetic accounts of you,
you see, up re at Fusabsd, which, indeed, is
almost as mH b in the world, and quite as civ.
ilzeo'a town. IS your Southampton. Arden is
here, lard wi take bis leave at the same time
with Us for gland How l long for you all
to sea dear en- and the child"
Ma more IAN we longed for them, be sure
How We plea d ourselves with imagining what
whataort CT -rson-pretty and good tempered,
we TAre cet, .in-Charles's Ellen would be |
And that ~ ct baby, too, whom we loved in
aGvasce eve, 20 much, aud kissed, and handled,
Whether wos ] our Charley himself be changed
or NO? Bol much would he have to tell US,
after bis hvs Sears' absence! What a merry,
merr.' Christ as it would surely be
Tb.n can, the first rumors of revolt. to
shadow th's. .ir picture. Again the soldier
crows ed chip .egan to pass in quick succession
before US ovs the eastward sea {; but this time,
owInuch FAC ,of cur selfish hears they bore with
them. Howl syerfully, women though we were,
We wsshed lspeed to riAe-ball and bayonet |
One say, we 1t a letter from our Charley, con-
firnliEg CUR Fst fesTsi words which, from h;n
who aiways TX The most cheering view of mat
ters, filed u, nth cruel grief.
" ItSis follJ wrote he, "to Disguise our posi-
ton Guy Ion. r. The irregular cavalry here
are net to 5s- tusted, and our lives are in their
hands; the { neral cannot afford US any add
lion 70 our tie band of European soldiers !;
there y mntI all around US and this is prob
ably tae LAST swk that will 60 safe to its dest-
natiot, SO ite in haste to catch it. l have
looked death in the face before now, mother,
but pt'ver wit such dear ones in my company !;
this j what !. .kes it terrible. Some of US here
think better f our situation, and Gcd grant
that Gey ma be right; but IL saw her last
nightSand y know what hold such sight
TO mean. 7, will not soon forget rae and
mine, ywhatee<. happens, l well know. Heaven
bless aou al
Ors Chart never wrote TO us again. The
very fext tex rsph ran thus: 1G
" an ouths TX of the |. c. at Fusabad their
Offices we're. ed upon; all the civilians in the
station masss red, save three"
Nt$er s1ss :, had oracle of old the power to
cast n desps to exile to passionate hope, to
agonSe by l ,pense, its credulous believers,
that Ais wos traversing dumb sibyl possesses
in thu days its wires are as the very threads
Of fats, on WI g, n hang human lives; cur heart
STRING havet come electric, too, and with them
shudl'er in u ION. 81
Save ths i" In these two words, and
their interpr alton, all happiness or misery
seem d for u % centre: Father, mother, child
Two e them one of them, at least, in mercy,
must be amo tst those I" threel" After nearly
two aonths' hwearing hopes and fears, the
namf we're /. olished, giving Joy to other house
holds - OF despair. They we're all three
stran {erI. G. tain Arden,poor Charley'e friend,
was me of few officers who escaped with
life; se ,Srot is sad letter, with but one cold
gleait o. hor in report that he had heard of
some Europe IS of Fussbad being still alive in
the VOTED, strict under the protection of q
native rAjah. .ut we were sunk too deep in sor.
row . ae b ,yed by such a floating straw as
this. We q. the writer credit for good in
tentIas. bus ere not more wretched when we
read bis & ond letter: --~t 4
80 dr last. ark of hope has, fear, died out.
COZ e 10 EI land by the earliest packet, and
my st visif ill be to you"
b. had thu rs to tell Is, of a very terrible in.
teres /, By. . time, autumn had faded, and
whit was ;eadirg over rs bis snow white
pail, lightly d tenderly, as in cur island he
ever preade I, like father covering the face
of hl dead lid. But the seasons themselves
couli bring such change upon nature as i,
seem ID, in 4 sadness OF our hearts, to have
alres " suff, d. The breeze that swept our
LOFTY downls is was no longer blithe and spirit
stirri ig but ose in gusts Of lamentation, and
died away i, melancholy signs the laughing
sea ad be< me waste of waters and our
favo, tie patti where the evergreens flourish az
in s ring, ght have been full of withered
leay, !; go 10 were we to walk there because
orr harley emed to be associated with all
thes. things, 8 the scent with the flower, or az
the al with ts beautiful form. If this seems
10 bt exaggs alton, it must be remembered that
our tle hot ehold ia very simple one, and
alon' in tn, world, and that our Charley was
all il all to-
II time = ID now arrived when the steamer
that vas to ing Captain Arden might be ex
pece d, and e watched for it attentively, bui
with ut imp jence; with eyes less fearful thar
had solloWe that retreating vessel years ago
but 18th hes far heavier 81 -
d. ebert been despatched to Southamp
ton , await he captain, and bring him on tc
as osce; that when the black ship wen