American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1860-02-02

c'Oselys 'nen stepping hs''H 30 AZ 10 CON
ceal The slate from The passenger, he turn.
ed it over. and gave il to him again with |
the other side up.
you say that is yotr hsnd.writihe7"
said he.
, ~ need not say so. o."'reioined the other
looking at 1t, ''for yot saw me write IT,"
"And tbis?" said the captain turning
the.siats over.
The man looked first at one writing,
then At the other, quite confounded At
last he said; ;"What is the meaning Of this
l only wrote one Of ,bese. Who wrote
the other?
"That's more than can tell you, sir
Ely thats here says you wrote it. sitting at
this desk at noon te day"
Thecaptain OF the wreck and the pas
spnger looked at each other. exchanging
glancss OF. Intelligence and surprise; and
the former asked the latter, "Did you
dream that you wrote on this slate?"
mo, sir. not that remember"
you speak Of dreaming" said the cap
tain of the hark. "Whst was this gentle>
man about at noon to-day"
"C4p ain rejoined the other, "tho
whole thing 10, most mysterious and extra.
ordinary: and | had intended to speak to
you ahout it as soon as we got little quiet
This gentleman (poinling to the pa sen
ger, being muc, exhausted fell into a
heavy sleep. or-what seemed such. some
time before noon After an hour or more
he awoke and said to me; Captain we
shall be relieved this very day When |
asked him what reason he had for saying
so. he replied that he had dreamed that !e
was on board a bark, and that she was
coming to our rescue. He descrbpd her
appearance and rig; and, to our utter as
,onishment. when your vessel hove in
sight she corresponted exactly to his lie
scripion Of her. We had not put much
faith in what he said; yet still we hoped
that there might be something in it. for
drowning men you know will catch al
straws. As it has turned out it was all
arranged in some incompreheusible way
by an overruling Providence. so that we
might be saved To HIM be all thank:
: for his goodness to u.s."
} "There is not a doubt" rtloined thC
other captain, "that the writing on th'
7 81 te, let it have come there as il NAV, sa
2 vtd all your lives. was steering a, th
time considerably south cf west, and / al
e tered my course to nor west, ani had
look -out alolt, to see what would come o
a it But you say" he ad1ed, turning t.
1 the passenger, THAT you did not dream o
writing on slate"
g "No sir. | have no recollection what
: ever OF doing so. | got the impression
T that the bark saw in my dream was com
0 ing to rescue us; hut how that impression
came cannot tell There is another yer
6 strange thing about it," he added. "Ev
4 erythlng here ON board seems to me- quit
b familiar, yet | am very sure never wa
: in your vessel before. II is Il puzzl
t to me. What did your mate see?"
Therpupon Mr.. Bruce related to the
), all the circumstances above detailed. Tn
n conclus on they finally arrived at was
;, that it was special inlrrposition OF Prov
idencs to save them Irom what seemed
= hopeless fate .aul,
t, The above narrative was communicate
J. to me BY Ca;t j s. Clarke of the schoon
d er Jnla Halock,* VITO had it direct
: from Mr.. Bruce hims.lf. They sailed 10
: rether Tor seventeen months in the yea
10 and 81; so that Capt Clarke ha,
n the story from the male a uur eight year
d. after the occurrence. H has since los
IS sight of him, and does not know whpthe
is he is yet alive. 4 i he heard of him sine
1t they were shipm ates is that he continue
n to trade to New Brunswick, that he he
n came the master of the brig Comet, au
that she wss lost.
it asked Captain Clarke il he knew Bruc
!. well. and what Sort Of a man he WAS?
1t GAS truthful ard straight for ward
Ie mar" be replied as | ever me: with i
all nv life. We were intimate as broth
J. ersj and two men can't he together, shu
e up for sevehtasn months in the sam shiI
d without getting 10 know whether they CA
IS trust one anolher's word or not. He a
3 ways spoke Of the irrumstrnces in term
OF reverei ce. as of an incident that SCENE
to bring him nearer 10 God and anotht
'e world. Id stake my life upon it that b
W told me no lie."
In July, 1859. The Julia Halock was then lyir
at the foot OF Rutgers Square New York. She trad
ID between New York aud ST. Jago, in the island CT
ho hoH atn llny. dtfin IN N. ana nd