The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-01-04

oerIaed. think we have pleoty OF room to
stand on until midnight but we cannot
stand on much longer. II the gale does not
"bate by that time know not what we shall
do,"
The captain started up from his chair, and
would probably have walked across the cab
in' oat at that moment heavy sea caught
the ship, and gave her pitch forword, which
caused him TO catch his seat as quickly as
possible. As soon as the food had gone
from the deck, and the vessel had struggled
up from the shock, he looked into his com.
panion's lace, and said, in voice made trem.
ulous by deeper emotion than he had before
manifested
"Grltfin, l have something upon my mind
more than you know and am anxious to
communicate it, too. must tell it now, for
| have strange forebodng OF coming ILL.,
Something is to happen that will bear great
calamity TO some of US. am not crouking
Il am only reading what the Unseen has
written in my soul. However, you shall
hear my story. You have heard that my pa.
rents were both lost at sea :"
Eyes" said the mate.
"And perhaps you knew that they were
lost in this sea I"
II have heurd so, SIR"
"Aye-so it was. wss o boy then
They were on their way to Copenhagen, as
We should 5e now. My father commanded
the sbip-she was called the Clara Jans.'-
She was, nsmed for my mother and she was
staunch, noble craft. / Twas at school then,
IN Troy and when knew that my parents
were dead l was we'll nigh mad with grief.
fan3ied then, in Try first hours CT orphan
oge, that my heart would break; and |
think such would have been tho case il thew
had kept me at school. But some of these
who cared for me came to see me, and it wes
finally arranged that should 60 TO sea-
And prospered-- prosPered 60 we'll that,
when | was twenty years old, they gave me
command Of a ship.
1.-THE man who owned the ship which
first commanded was nnmed Thornton. He
| bad daughter naE:ed Carrie--one of the
sweetest, purest, and loveliest creatures that
ever graced this poor lie Of EARTH She was
four years younger than myself but even
when | first knew her--and she was not
then more than fouftcpn-- she was a woman
in ntelIect ard grace, though child in sim
| p1cIly OF love md col fidence. Mr. Thorn.
ton did n@t object to my suit, so Loved her
With all my soul, and was blessed to know
IA ( she loved me in return. 1t hnd been
arranged 'hst We should be married when
she IVES twenty years ole, THAT hyd be4n
| u pIsn for m,re than TWO years, Mr.
Thornton haViog set the bDuHds himself l.
! lacked two months of the time, and ] had d
arranged to remain bt home until W. were
married. But--ThUrnon had heavy shlp
treightcd for CoDenhagcn, and her cap: in
WAS dying. H. could find no one to take
His pIac" but ne. aud he asked me to 60
could not refuse but I asked thl might
b. married first. Mr.. Thornton shock his
he ID, and said no. But he had another pl n
which he said would be better. He had been
Planning to visit Copenhagen, where he had
two brothers in business--they were in com.
pary with hm--nnd he said he would take
the next ship, and bring Carrie out with him
and we should be mtrried there. finally
| consented to take out the new ship, and Mr.
Thornton, with his daughter, was to meet
me in Copehhagen, ana there we were to BE-
married, and all three come home together
The evening before ! sailed spent with
Carrie, and when | left her felt that wa.
leaving my very life.
"Well," continued Lester, wiping his eyes
II went to Copenhagen. waited month
--then | heard that the American ship
'IVhite Fa,yn,' with William Thornton and
daughter on board, had touched at Dover
and that all were safe and we'll when she
lett. waited another week, and then
crossed over to Hamburg ; but I could learn
nothing there. Next l went to London
and there learned enough to assure me tha
the ship had been lost On the second day
after she left Dover a severe storm had aris
en-, and several vessels had been reported
lost. sent my ship home in charge of tn
mate. and spent four months in searcaiDl
| after the lost ones but could gain NJ
trace of them. Not even piece of tb
wreck could fnd--not mark of the shiJ
nor OF one OF its crsw! came home will
a sad and heavy heart"
Maurice Lester stopped few moments
and bowed his head upon his hands, for hi
feelings had almost overcome him. In
little while, however, he looked up again
and added, in touching tono.--
"Ah, my dear friend, you do not know wha
I have suffered--tongue cannot tell it, no
can pen write it. That blow did break m
heart-broke it in the rending OF its tender
est cords, and in the crushing OF all it's earth
iy hopes DO you believe in dreams a.
The mate started, not so much at tn
character ofthe question, as from the suddeI
manner in which it was put.
"Well," said Lester, in lower tone, I"
have had dream repeated many times bu
never has il come to me so directly and g,
vividly as within the past three or four days
Carrie Thornton is not dead l know sh
is not !-she has appeared to me repeated,
in dream, and calls upon me to save her