The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-02-23
"And this p said the captain, turn.

Ing the slate over.
The man looked first at one writing,
then the other, qui confounded At
last, "Whut is the meaning OF this -
said he. Il only wrote one Of these
Who wrote the o,her?'
! "That's more than can tell YOU, sir.
My mate here says you wrote it, sitting
at this desk at noon to day"
The capt; in of the wreck and the pas
scneer looked at eac., other, exchang-
ing ylances of intelligence and surprise !;
and the former asked the latter, "Did
you drcam that you wrote on II slate p
No, sir, not that remember
You speak of drra,ning,' said the
captain O: he bark; What was this gen.
tlcma" t"ing about noon to day! p
"Captain.' rejoincd the other, "the
whole thing is most mysterious and ex-
traordinary aud had intended to speak
to you about it as soon as We got little
! quiet. This gentleman. pointing to
the passenger. "bcinc much exhausted,
fell into II heavy sleep. or what seemed
such, sometime before noon after an
hour or more he awokc aud said to me-
Captain. We shall be relieved this very
day When | asked him W at reason
he had for Wing 50, he replied that he
had d canned that he was on board u
bark. aud that she WAS comm. to our
rescue. lie described her appearance
and RIO; and, to our ute: nStonish hmcut,
when Your vessel hove in sight. she cor
dad IL.
of her. We had not put much faith in
what he said, yet sill we hoped there
might be something in it, for drowning
men. You know. will catch at IL straw -
AS it has turned out, | cannot ,ioubt that
it was all arranged in some incomprehen-
sib!c way, by an ovcrruIiny providence.
50 that we nigh. BE- saved. To Him be
all thanks for His goodness to u.s.
There is 10 doubt" rcjuincd the
other captain, ",l,at the writing on the
slate, let it have come there as it may.
saved all your lives. | WIS steering at
the time considerably south of west, and
| altered my course to northwest, and
had lockout a'ot., to see what would
come of it. But you say.' he added.
turning to the passenger, ''ibat YOU did
not drcan OF W. ltny on Il slate p
NO., sir. | have no recollection Of
doing So. got the Impression tha, the
bnquc | saw in my dream was comm.
to rescue as; but how that impression
came ! cannot tell There is another
very strange thing about it," he added
Everything" here on board seems to uc
quite familiar; yet | an, sure | never
was in your vessel before 1t is all a
puzzle to me. What did your mate see ?"
Thereupon Mr.. Bruce stated to them
all the circumstances above detailed ---
The conclusion they finally arrived at
was, that it was a special interposition
OF Providence to save 'hem from what
seemed hopeless ate.
The above narrative was communicate
cd to me by Captain }. s. tIa'k Of the
schooner Julia HalIock,* VIII" hid it di-
rcctly from Bruce hin>elf They sailed
together for seventeen months, in the
years 1886 aud 81 50 that CAPT Clark
had the story irun. the mate ;,bru, eight
years after the occurrence. lie ha, since
lost i :ht OF him, and does not know
whether he is yet alive. All rc las
heard of him since they were >hrpnIa,c>
is, that lie continued TO naIc to
New brunswick. that he became the
master of the brig Comet, aud that she
was lost.
| asked Captain Clark if he knew
Brace WE'LL aud what sort Of a nan he
was.
As truthful and strai "ht-forward ii
man. he replied, as ever | met in my
life. We were as Intimate as brothers
and two men can't be together, shut up
for seventeen months in one >lir, with
sat crttin" to know whether Il cy can
trus: one anothcr'S word or not. lie
alwe,s spoke Of the circumstance in
terms If reverence a of an incident that
seemed t" bring him nearer t. God, and
another world. I'd stake my life upon
it that Lc tod ne no lie"
In July, lsj'. Tn. Julia Iialiock va; the lying
at the foot of Rutgers Squire. New iork sh' tr,ded
between New orS and st. Jt,o. in tn sind 81" nfa.
The ttin allowed me n use his and t. refer to
him evidence of the truth of what is here set down
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