Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1859-12-31

II have been making reckoning, and +
find that we have but little more sca7reom
left The course we have made since nc
S'Torc, has been, as near us can calculate,
northwest -by-west, so that 4H must have
been driving towards the coast, of HSorth-5
umberlund. think we have plenty of
room to stand on until midnight; but we
cannot stand on much longer. If the gale.
does not abate by that time, know not
what we shall dos ~
The captain started upiffom his chair,
and would probably have walked across
the cabin, but at that moment q heavy sea
caught the ship. and gave her pitch for
ward, which caused him to catch his seat
as quickly as possible. AS soon rs the
flood had gone from thesdcck, and the YES
sci had struggled up from the shock, he
looked into his companions face, and said,
in voice made tremulous by deeper emo
tion than he had before manifested:
"Griffin. have something upon my mind
more than you know; and am anxious to
communicate it, too. / must tell it now3
for have strange foreboding of coming
ill. Something is to happcn that will bear
great calamity 10 some of us. 1 am not
croaking-I am only reading what the
Unseen has written in my soul. However,
you shall hear my story. You have heard
that my parents were both lost ut sea ?i'
''Yes,' said the mate.
"And perhaps you knew that they were
lost in this sea- ~
81 have heard So sir"
"Ayc-so it was. was a bow thcn.-
They were on their way to Copenhagen, as
we should be now. My father commanded
the ship-shc was called the tC2dra Jane
She was named for my mother; and she
was a staunch, noblecraft. was at school
then, IN Troy and when knew that my
parents were dead / was well nigh mad
with grief. fancicd then, in my first
hours of orphanagc, that my heart would
break and, think such would have been
the casciS they had kept me sat school,
But some of those who cared for me came
TO see me, and. it was finally arranged that
should so 10 sea. !. And l prospcred-
prospercd so we'll that when was twenty
years ole, they gave me command of ship.
''The man who owned the ship which [
first commanded was named ThOrnton.-
lie had a daughter named Carrie-ouc of
the sweetest, pNrest, aud lovclicst crea-a
lures that ever graccG this poor life of
earth. She was four years younger than
myself: but even when l first knew her
ana She was not then more than fourteen
she was a woman in intellect and grace,
though q child in simplicity of love and
TO my suit, so loved her with all my soul,
and was blessed to know that she loved
me i'll return. It had been arranged that
we should be married when she was twen-
ty years old that had been our plan for
more than two years, MIR. Thornton having
set the bounds himself. Ii lacked two
months of the time, aud I had arranged to
remain at home until we were married.
But-Thornton had a heavy ship freighted
for Copenhagen, and her captain was dy-
ing. He could find no one to, take his
place but me, and he asked me to 60 ]
could not refuse; but asked that might
be married first. Mr.. Thornton shook his
head, ard said no. But he had another
plan which nc snid would be better. lie
had been planning to visit Copenha gen,
where lie had two brothers in business
they were in company with him-and he
said he would take the next ship, and
bring Carrie ont with him, and we should
he married there. l finally consented to
take out the new ship, and Mr.. Thornton,
with his daughter, was TO meet me in CO.
penhngcn, and. there we were TO be mar
ricd, and all three come home together.
The evening hetore.I sailed I,spemt with
Carrie, and when left her felt that was
leaving my very life.
"Wcn,' continued Lester, wiping his,
ieYcs, al went to Copenhagen. waited
mouth-then I heard that the American
ship, 'JIhitc Fdwn, with William Thornton
and daughter on board had touched nj
! Dover, and that all were safe and we'll
when she left. waited another week and
then / crossed over to Hamburg: but
could learn nothing there. Next went to
London, and there learned enough to as
sure me that the ship had been lost! On
the second day after she left Dover a Sc
/ we're storm had arisen, and several vessels
had been reported lost. I sent my ship
home in. charge of the mate, and spent,
four months in searching after the lost
ones; but could gain no. trace of them.
Not even piece of the wreck could I
find-not mark of the ship nor of one of
its crew came home with sad and
heavy heart"
Maurice Lester stopped a few moments,
and bowed his head upon his hands, for
his feelings had almost ovrrcome him. In
little while, however, hclooked up again,
and added, in aftouching tote-
"Ah, my dear friend, you do not know
what vessuGerSd-tongne. cannot tel
, 1t, nor can pen write it. That blow did
break my heart-brokc it in the rending of
all its earthly hopesl-Do you believe in
dreams?n
The mate started, not so much at the
character of the question, as from the sud-
den manner in which it was put.
J.. "WclEn said Lester, in q lower tone, .I
have had dream repeated many times;
but never has it come to me so directly
land so Yividly as within the past three or
four days. Carrie Thornton is not dead!-
know she is not!-she has appeared to
me repeatedly in IL dream, and calls upon
me to save herl Tonight, us ] stood all