Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-09-29

SEE |, '%Jemima, / shall take q snak seq she
Joshua l don't care If | dew tew.' We opened
he basket Jemima and I 'breakfasted on sup.
Dord.' We nit cold tung, cold slaw cold sandwich,
1itto nam, ditto pixies, ditto ctld betes. The
betes wos purple, likewise the cold kabbidge.
These minushie will be ov interes. and Civ o coler
to the n~arrytiVe further on. This was our break
fust.
Just as I was putting q iasser back into the
picknick basket we was q few miles from shoar
sailing dew East, the steamer Elgin just in our
vale as the matt called it, (though our tcakin was
70 come, and did come a leetle aftor). Jemima
said, looking hack, % see them gullsP / sor tho
deks Of the Etgiu covered with Eolic Serryfnes
and the publick generally, and seq /, 'Gulls in q
horn, I done see no gulls out the Elgin.' Them
words Of Jemima's was profetsick. She allooded
to the birds on She water, but there was q deeper
meenin, which has sence been explained. It was
a prtscMfymeat. l shall never forget them words,
See Them gnlls,' for them was we and The EOlie
,SerryGnes.
l left Jemima q few moments and smoked q cigar
on the hurricain dek. l talked with the matt,
and asked him, without nc nonsence, had he bran
dy on borde, for l began to feel q little under the
wether, n sensayshun in my stummick. l thought
might be the cold slaw-retohed man, it was the
LAX.
l took o little brandy at the bar, and then l
went back to Jemima, but l didn't begin to feel
quite we'll. The swete maid was missing. l was
alarmed. / said to a gentleman near by, nigh at
hard, see Ia little alarmingly, for l could not
concele my emoshun-sez l, Have you seen q
swete angel iu lavunder silk throw herself over
bo,de?' Then SEE he, with a Singer, I seen her
you deskribe, throw something orerbodrd, and then 60
inter that staff room. She isn't we'll, l guess,' My
sensashuns began to be more than peculiar. SEE
| to myself, sOrto vocy, seq /, here's a case for the
crowner, let an inkest be sot on to a q duv colored
I'm gman, likewise his lavender colored sweetheart,
directly, fur we're pisened. 1t must have been in
the sandwitch or the cold slaw.'
/ felt wus.
There was a swelling sensation under my west.
cut, and q sense of goneness nigh by the pit Of my
stomach. SEE |. alowd and in agony, Jemima let
me di by thy side.' Then SEE Jemima, onseen, in
q feint voice cut small to 60 through a little win
der, with a red caliker curtain, SEE she, oh, josh
us, I shall d. SEE l, with much emoshun
increasing in my bosum, so shall l, and
Ever my luv with thee,
One tombstun us cover
l rushed into the stateroom and saw Jemima bow.
ed in one corner. SEE l, solemn, 'Jemima, l have
come; for our inst hour together let US pass it on
our knees l supposed she was at her devoshun.
I knelt beside her; my Mortified gaze met a pail
and we mingled our emoshuns, likewise breakfast,
together inter tina. pail. Sex /, family, 'Jemima,
what was it; was it in the mustard
SEE she, gasping, No, Joshua, it is see sick
Retched fool that l was, not to see it befoar. My
eyes was opened. The Come it was dancing like
an eg shell. l went onto the decks, they we're COW
vered with the dying. Thoy sed they was 'dyin'
I supposed | was. Our Salina Jane was at the
iorrid gunnel; she was in the last agonys; ditto
most of the crowd.
My pen shrinks from depicting the scenes that
follured. For hours we were kept PROSTATE on the
: pinnakel of anguish. Sech grones, sech extremi-
; ties l never saw befoar. They lay all about the
deks. Silk gouns seven 20 ten shilliDgs a yard
was no account. Jemima ate pur2el ~cabbidge and
bette for breakfast on ship bored as we calld it.
My duy cullered soot will carry to it's grave the
stanes of the same cutler. l do not particulareyes.
Her head wos on my shoulder. 1t wOs not an
hour to think ov clothes.
, But, Mr.. editur, all the abuv sinks inter insig
i ni6kans wen l recall the feerful seems Of the hour
b Of return. The ~intervle at St. 10. was passed il
eetin ~peeches, walking in the sand and dreddinl
n the comm bak. Some were carried shiyering will
q agony up the gangwaye onto the botes. ant
THAR the sceens began affresh again oncet moar.
For sewing hours we buffeted the waive. Som
tried to die. l never realized befoar the tenacit
q Of life under advers circumstances. II there wa
y ary peeches ct 10 St. Jo.. none of 'em cum to thi
n port. The fishes twixt hear and St. 10. have ha
1t what fishermen call ground bate ad ~libbytum.
Jemima was taken hoam in mi aims in a hak
/ her lavender and my duv-cullered suit are q sigh
n to be hold, moreover her bunnet. We still lu
music ard peeches, but seesic and peeches is VIC
we both ALLURE. The Eolic Serryfnes are much c
our mind, likewise the general public.
Yures, JOSHUA JEPSOME