Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-03-01
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ITrES FOR THE YoRKvILLE ENQUIRER.

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tain
sWhat-what do you mean"
Il just saw him myself, not three yards
from the sloop. Shall I lower the boat "
What question down with her. On
what side did you spy him? Here, Amos !;
put off with Davis here-a man in the wa
ter; dead or alive, bring him up"
aye, aye, sir-on the weather bow sir ;
now, Amos steady. There we are
Take a flask of rum,' said the captain, as
he handed the lantern over. Gan you see "
'Aye, aye, dozen rod, put to now,
Amos; keep sharp look Quits water a.
bove and water below-there's the feller,
nearer than I thought. 1 swan to goose,
l believe he's alive
NO he haint; fellow as bobs that way s
a gone sucker-there's something there
keeps him up. Pull steady now; here he
is-dead as a door-nail, guess
Pull him in carefully
'Cau't-you'll have to help He's clutch
ing them oars awfully. That's death grippe
May be so, may be not. Why he's a
young chap, swan to goose, if he amt
Here, you take this lantern and the jug
I'll soon uuloose that hold; jest balance
the boat will ye? He don't sense anything,
1 guess but, blame me, if he aint alive
There, that gripe is unfastened. You set
farther that way while haul him in, then;
put some of the spirits down his throat in
a giffy. Poor fellow he's one of the nice
ones look at his broadcloth out alone |
spose, and unused to a boat. Now tend
to the sperits and we'll put him board of
the sloop, sweetly.'
Thug, thug The heavy strokes of the
oar told; and in few moments the rescued
man lay in the captains berth, gaping
with newly recovered life.
'He's young, handsome chap said the
captain.
so he is, I swan to goose was the ele-
CANT rejonder of the sailor, called Amos.
Guess he came from New York, said
the captain.
so do |. He's scholar-ch know
by the look of his head and hands. l
shouldn't wonder if he's out of some col.
lege, and been spreeing it. Hush he's a
speaking.
sOh. Mr.. Carlisle, for Gods sake, don't
leave me to perish, murmured the young
man.
'He's little out, or else somebody's been
playing foul, whispered the captain. Then
he added aloud
Young chap, you're safe enough; pick
ed up by the sloop Nancy, bound for
Schenectady; what's your orders"
Marshall looked up, family smiled, and
closed his eyes again.
Il say young man, you'll tell US who you
are, after we've saved you,' said the cap
tain bluntly.
My mother my mother Forthe sake of
my mother, Mr. Carlisle cried Marshall,
springing forward and clutching at some
thing his fevercd imagination beheld.
Il swan to goose, capting, if that chap
amt out of his head, said Amos.
Yes; we've got sick man on our hands
Well, we shall be in Schenectady by six in
the morning if the wind holds fair, and We
can put him right into the hospital; his
good clothes II be recommendation, if
nothing else
'Sarch his pockets, capt'n.'
The captain acting on this advice, turn
ed the young mans pockets inside out
his wet clothes had been previousl y stripped
of-aud found therein purse with twenty
five dollars, a gold pencil-case, and that
was all
twenty-five dollars, captain, will pay for
good lodgins, and may be he'll be better
soon, and tell who he is
He was not better soon. however. All
night he lay tossing and groaning, anon
shriekiug for mercy, then muttering about
the darkness, the cold waters, his mother,
his home; and sometimes FROM his teverish
lips went up wild prayer commencing his
soul to Gods mercy.
Came the gray morning, and still there
was no sign of intelligence in the hand
some face of the stranger; still he tossed,
siched. moaned and muttered, but did not
rave; and by the time he was located in
one of the hospital wards he was quiet,
though raging fever purpled his face
For seven days he was utterly unconscious
of all that passed around him ; on the eighth
feeble intelligence returned. The physl
clans we're unremitting in their attentions.
and hailed with JOY the first ray of reason,
although they would not allow him to utter
4 word.
On the second day, after long, refresh
ing sleep, Marshall opened his eyes, and
took in at a glance, his situation and its sur
rouudings. Fcebly opening the thin cur
tain of his bed, his eye roved through the
long room, lighted now by the first beams
Of the morning He could sec the rows
of beds; here and there pale, distorted
face; here and there the form OF woman
moving cautiously and quietly. Gradually,
his mind took in the features of this, to him,
unusual scene
Il am in a hospital he thought, letting
fall the curtain-'that is strange. In what
city or town can | be? was picked up.
am certainly in the land Of the living,
though by the look of my hand and by my
,yo,LnoSs have had hard STRUGGLE for If
I remember nothing since | caught the oars
all was horrld darkness. hear the ter
rible sound of the waters roar But, my
mother, my father, Media! Do they know !?