The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-02-25

wi h de rmination carved into his watchful
fa Q, ik the 6gure-head of ship. Every man
Dc ably nd trebly armed from head to foot
e. cry n in lying.to at his work, with will
tb It haS al bis heart and soul in it. Every
nj an loo ing out for any trace of friend or enc
nSt, and burning to be the first to do good, OF
as snge Ill. Every man with his face on fire
" on he Jaw me, his countryman who had been
ts ten pi ,oper, and hailed me with cheer,
al Capt. a Cartons boat ran in and took me
OF boar.
rept ted, "All escaped, sir All well, all
81 e, all 1erel"
God ess me-and God bless them-what
q sheerl 1t turned me weak, as was passed
Of from and to hand to the stern of the boat
e' Try ne patting me or graspipg me in some
y or her, in the moment of my going by.
Hok up, my brave fellow" said Captain
q rton. tapping me on the shoulder like a
fr end, ID giving me flask. "Put your lips
to that, id they will be red again. Now, boy s,
gi 70 wa :"
The 9nka few BY Us, as if the mightiest
81 cam tat ever rsavs with 'vs; end 90 it
wis, q ! sure, meaning the stream of those
NJ ms 6, .or and spirit. The banks few by us,
o. q we anne In sight of the rafts-the banks
d, Why and we came alongside of the rsftsL
u bani stopped; and there was tumuls OF
Ia ACHING and crying, and kissing and shaking
OF handAkand catching up of children and set
u OF tem down again, and wild hurry OF
To ankful ess and JOY, that melted every one, and
s<dened. ii hearts.
had >ken notice, in Captain Cartons boat,
rat the' was curious and quite new sort Ct
fitting Of board. 1t was kind of little bower
Ade CT aowers, and it was set up behind the
captain, nd betwixt him and the rudder. Not
OILY was"this arbor, 80 to call it, neatly made
Of towet but it was ornamented in q singular
way. s me of the men had taken the ribbons
aud but les off their hats, and hung them
among 10 flowers; others had made festoons
and sire, ners of their handkerchief and hung
tEem thee; others had intermixed such trihes
Is bits O. glass and shining fragments of lock-
ELS and ;obacco-boxes, with the flowers so
tlat alto ether it was very bright and lively
Object i the sunshine. But why there, or
What for ] did not understand.
Now soon as the first bewilderment was
oyer, Ca gain Carton gave the order to land for
TIE preta mt. But this boat of his, with two
hsnds k in her, Immediately put off again,
waen th men were out of her, and kept eff,
scue yFds from the shore. As she foated
uere. WI q the two hands gently backing water
to keep ,er from going down the stream, this
Petty Ii le arbor attracted many eyes. None
o, the | ats crew, however, had anything to
sly abol it, except that it was the Captains
Ehcy.
The G plain, with the women and children
osusteril around him, and the men of all ranks
8 oupe6 outside them, and all listening, stood,
telling W the Expedition, deceived by it's bad
ittellige ce, had chased the light Pirate boats
s that, atal night, and had still followed in
tieir ws next day, and had never suspected
rstil mi, " hours too late that the great Pirate
bAdy has drawn off in the darkness when the
q ase b. AN, and shot over to the Island He
sood te. ing how the Expedition, supposing the
Whole g ray of armed boats to be ahead of it,
g Vt tenn ted into shadows, and went aground !;
b 1t not Without having its revenge upon the
y 20 dee'7boats, both of which it had come up
ith, on rlsnd, and sent to the bottom with all
e. boar. He stood telling how the Expedi-
y An--fss ;rs than that she ea.a slnea as il did
all, It again, by great exertion, after the
IS of our more tides, and returned to the
bland, here they found the sloop scuttled and
tie tres lure gone. He stood telling how my
6cer, lieutenant Underwood, was left upon
e Isls d, with as strong force as could be
st toy her hurriedly from the mainland, and
ew th three boats we saw before US were
!annef and armed, and had come away, ex-
oringt he coasts and inlets, in search OF any
dings IF US. He stood telling all this with
the | tie arbor of flowers hoated in the sun.
sine b fore all the faces there.
Lean ag on Captain Cartons shoulder, be.
SeenI m and Miss Maryon, was Mrs. Fisher,
er he dropping on her arm. She asked
I'm, WI aout raising it, when he had told so
'uch, neither he had found her mother
Be Omforted! She lies, said the Captain,
emily, ~ under the cocoa nut trees on the
each.'.
AN my child, Captain Carton, did you find
" chill too? Does my darling rest with my
iother
mo- Your pretty child sleeps" said the
s!aptais under shade of flowers"
His 2ice shook; but there, was something
"a it th struck all the hearers. At that mo-
'aent, I ere sprung from the arbor in his boat
Little, feature, clapping her hands, and stretch
log on her arms, and crying, "Dear papal
Dear n ,mmal am not killed. am saved.
am ming to kiss you. Take me to them,
AXE me- to them, good, kind sailors!"
Mob ny who saw that scene has ever forgot
en- it, am sure, or ever will forget it. The
hild ID kept quite still, where her brave
srande ANNA had put her, (6rst whispering in
ier ca, What everhappens to me, do not stir,
ny de, ~ and had remained quiet until the
ort wa. deserted; she had then crept out of
he tire ch, ard gone into her mothers house /;
and tn, &c, alone on the solitary island, in her
mother q room, and asleep on her mothers bed,
The Ca tain had found her. Nothing could in
auce to be parted from him after he took
her ~ in his arms and he had brought her
away With him, and the men had made the
bower s'r her. To see those men now, was a
hight. The JOY of the women was beautiful /;
the Joy<of those women, who had lost their own
ehildre;, was quite sacred and divine but
The &c. .asies of Captain Cartons boats crew,
when ,eir pet was restored to her parents,
we're V inderful, for the tenderness they showed
In thes' midst of roughness. As the Captain
stood tn the child in his ms, and the child's
own Iii je arms now clinging round his neck,
now ro cd her fathers, now round her mothers,
now r. ind some one who pressed up to kiss
her, boats crew shook hands with one
| anoths waved their hats over their heads,
laughe sang, cried, danced-and all among
themsS ives, without wanting to interfere with
anybot in manner never to be represented.
At las l saw the coxswain and another, two
very b .fd.faced men with grizzled heads, who
had be the heartiest of the hearty all along,
close 18th one another, get each of them the
others .aead under his arm, and pummel away
at it tn his fist as hard as he could, in his
excess fjoy.
VIII, we had well rested and refreshed our.
selves< and very glad we were to have some of
the he ;tening things to eat and drink that had
come ], {, in the boats-we recommended cur
voyagf down the river RATS, and boats, and
all. + aid to myself, it was a very different
kind voyage now, from what it had been
and 1 I'll into my proper place and station
| amonl my fellow soldiers. u.
But when we halted for the night, found
that ss Maryon had spoken to Captain Car
ton oacerning me. For, the Captain came
straiec up to me, and says he, My brave
fellow you have been Miss Maryon's body