Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-04-29


Don't be frightened, dear Willie
spoke the little angel. Mother says tina
God watches over people that live on tht
seas. And don't you remember, brother
how often our dear mother, has told u:
that Jesus loves little children? IF God
watches us and Jesus loves US we shall
be safe. So don't be afraid.,7
Night-dark, wild and gloomy, night
came down on the world Of waters; and
still the terrible tornado ragged in all its
horrors Of wild lightning, rain and thun-
der ; and there, in their fraiI open boat
we will leave the hapless young yoyagers
speeding on and away. right cut into the
very heart of the Atlantic ocean. We
will bid them aaieu and glance back to
their home-te their fond mother render.
ed desolate in heart by the dread calam-
ity, that had fallen upon her in the loss
Of her children.
At the moment when the children first
embarked, Mrs. Walton had glanced out
towards the cove, and for a few moments
watched them with all a mothers fond
pride as she saw them sailing to and fro
on the quiet waters of the bay and then
some visitor called and she forgot her
children until just as the storm came
down. when a neighbor rushed in with
the heart rending intelligence that the
launch had been seen only a few minutes
previously, several miles out at sea.
The first terrible shock almost killed
her, but 0 0 rallying her woman's energy
and mothers love, she rushed from hel
home regardless Of the furious storm
aroused her neighbors, and besough
them with all the eloquence called np by
the deep anguish of her riven heart. t
help recover her lost d~arlings.
There was no vessel at Rockaway o
Falkner's Island, and to venture out t,
sea in such a storm with such small
crafts as were along the shore, wer
worse than madness, and immediate des
patches were sent to New York, not onlr
to the owners Of the ship commanded b.
Capt. Walton, but the Pilots, and within
an hour after the news had reached the
city, two of the staunchest pilot boats
manned by extra picked crews of gallant
souls, were under weigh. and speeding on
their swift winged course in search of the
ocean lost children.
Mrs. Walton herself FASTENED to the
city to urge with her presence and infu-
ence, more prompt action but the YES
sells had been gone an hour when she ar
rived, and so she repaired to the house of
Mr.. Alvin, the owner of the ship her hus-
band commanded, to await the return of
those who had so nobly gone forth in that
mad storm in search Of her three dar-
lings.
Leaving her there in a state of fevered
anxiety, hopir1g in the very teeth of des-
pair, we, too will go forth into the wild,
yelling gale, to look upon a most sublime
oceaE picture.
1t was an hour past midnight dark as
the deepest, gloomiest cells Of an inquisi-
torial dungeon, save when the vivid
lightning's flash lit up the Cimmerian
blackness with a glare rivalling that of.
the brightest noen-day sur.
Some ninety miles to the eastward of.
Sandy Hook, lay hove to a noble ship,
inward bound, in one Of the most terrific
gales that ever swept along the northern
coast of America. The gale, had just set
in an hour before shutdown, and ever
since dark the ship had been hove to I'M
der the shortest possible canvass, heading
up west southwest with the gale coming
in VIOLENT squalls out at due northwest.
do you think there's any danger to
US or the ship, captain 2" inquired one of
the three passengers who stood neal
the commander of the ship, partly shell
tered from the storm by the projecting
roof of the round house.
Not the least Mr.. Kinsly. You are
as safe here as you would be at your
own house in New York. She is a bran
new ship, and | had no opportunity of
her hove to before (; but | an peri,
ectly satisfied with her behavior. In
fact I saw any craft conduct her.
self quite as we'll in a hurricane like this.
"Tis a terriblaenight, however, and
God help those AX&ex may chance to be
out on a smaller Naft than ours For
the last hour | havebeen thinking of nv
wife and children Ny wife will not
sleep a wink to nigh Shenever can in
a storm like this when | am notat home.
| was cast away once on Long Island
shore, and not a half a mile from home.
in just such a gale, only it was from the
southwest. | would give a hundred dol.
to be home only for my Bife's sake.
But we must-my God what Is that ~
A continuous flash of lightning hit nm
the surrounding space, and as darkness
shut in again, a faint but clear and dis.
tinct-" Ship Alloy r uttered by a female
or a child, came down on the blast from
directly to windward.
A moment after the hail was Fepeated.
and another fash Of lightning revealed q
boat driving square down before the gale,
ana almost under the ships quarter
Ere n could count five, the shrill, ouiv-
erlng cry came up from the boat as it
past the ship not three fathons clear
OF the rudder.
Merciful heaven | There are three
children in that boatf" yelled Mr.. Kin.
sly, who with the captain, was peering
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