Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-06-15
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But what was passing in her heart then

I souls Ill tnaJ Ill lNtcu NeSSel. one Hdu lOSJ tne
only loved one, besides her father, on the earth,
when Nathan Hall was hung as q spy on that
morning. She was not thinking how many
hearts would be broken 10y her intended act
she was not thinking of the mothers and sisters
in England who would soon mourn for her dead.
She was only thinking that she would join him
in the spirit land, aud that dearly would his loss
be avenged. For her own lite she cared not
thought not-not even did she think of that
worshipping father, who sadly paced his room
believing she was praying Tor patience to bear
her loss
Meantime, there we're three or four hundred
hearts beating with gladness that they were over
u long and sickening voyage and soon would DO
anchored in front of the sheet OF green even
though the storm lowered over them.
And after looking towards the home in which
she was born--she knew it would be her last
look-she turned aud went to the commander
and said
| "The tide is slack, ii changes sudden, and wc
had better fill away
The commander gave the necessary order to
his lieutenant aud the next moment the main
topsail which had been staid aback, was braced
around the head sheets eascd away and the
vessel headed the narrow channel where a thou
sand crafts have ere this laid their oaken bones.
As she approached the channel and saw the
black, the whirng eddes, the taunting breakers
high on every hand, the officers and crew looked
out upon the danger. But so calm aud fearless
seemed the young pilot, that calm re assurance
had home in every heart--so clear above the
gale his bugle like voice sounded as he gave the
orders
"Port-steady so-lulra point, etc"
They were more than halt through. The tum-
bling breakers of the "punch bowl" and the
"hogs back had been passed, few hundred
mthoms more, and they would be safe from dan
ger. The one quick glance toward Heaven ana
the disguised girl cries
Port-port-hard -
The helmsman obeyed. The vessel passed of
before the wind, and flow ON with accumulated
speed for Il moment aud then was no more
With crash that sent her tall spars tumbling
over her bows, and sent her crew reellng To the
deck, she brought up on II huge rock near per
pendicuar shore to the right. Then amid the
rush of waters, the curses OF officers and the shout
/ of frightened men, was heard the shrill cry
! "If any of you survive this wreck go tell
your British General that Nathan Hall has been
avenged and that by W0mda, too! Sink!
sink aud my curses go with you all -
Aud before II hand could have reached her,
had they wished it, she lcaped iuto the eddying
tide and ere she sank the proud ship with its
shivered spars and sails, its hhgs still flying, aud
its crew Of stout men was going down IN The cold
dark waters, and the murdered Nathan Hall was
avenged.
And thus this brief sketch Is closed. The guns
of the sunkcn irgate rests beneath the tide OF
llurl Gate but the memory of the Patriot Pilot
lives in more than 0no breast
CoNrENrrlDlN CLEVER, Hear how the scall-
wag editor of the New Orleans Delta talks. Not
satisfied with insulting the Government under
which he lives aud enjoys entirely too much lib
erty, he speaks of the old hero of Chippewa and
Mexico, Gen. Scott, in manner which ought to
make every true Americans blood boil
We see il stated in snndry Yankee journals,
that the conservative Gov, Sprague, of Rhode
Island, who amassed all his fortune out Of South
crn people, has furnished the liabOOn Government
with two balloons, for warlike purposes Tho
idea Is borrowed from Louis Npoean, who call
ed into service some half dozen Of the mrial mes
scngers during the late war with Austria. There
are now three balloons in Washington One is
called the Winfield Scott, aud it has been we'll
inflated for some time past with vanity, wind aud
most iuordinato selfconceit.
That is one side of the picture here is the
other, On the goth OF April false report
reached New Orleans Of the detection aud resg-
nation OF the old chcftan. The Pcayttae, another
secession journal, went into ecstacies to the ex-
tent Of a column, at the announcement the clos
ing paragraphs of which we print:
Aud now, how many of those gallant men who,
in various positions, have for years gloried In
Winfield Scott as their leader and exemplar, will
linger in the ranks of the army which, in losing
him. has lost its oldest and most signal ornament?
lie dsdaining to fill the post Of Chief Constable
of u demoralized nation, who will have the har-
dihood to face the scorn which will follow the
accession OF successor to the vacant office
What will the unhappy administration at Wash
ington inscrbe upon the walls of the Capitol =
Ichabod The glory has departed ~
And 20 swes up and on the noble army of
rebels" Can the fiat of Abraham Lincoln,
backed by the advice and consent OF his Cabinet
aud his Senate, " dlsperse ii " We shall see
VIZ have not for long time, read paragraph
in which we more heartily coincide, than tue fol
lowing from the San Francisco EceRiag journal
We may respect man who, born aud raised
In the South from his earliest childhood has been