St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1862-08-28

sailor. to- officer at once fell in love with
her, and the twain we're privately married
having nrevirusly determined, however,
that the 4fsgnise should still be kept up.
The haprp couple occapied the same state
room CO. The next outward passage.
without exlfsfng suspicion. The
voyake sas ! Iong one. and on the arrival
ofahe s''ss - Alarseillcs. the young mate,
hpviI,g I'm l.r!,prt in her sailor duties. as
aksf- ~ ed sfprrrkissfhn from the ear
tain to go ashore FIR weeks At the ex-
riration of this leave. she came on board
again, but not until shr had commit II to
the care of an honest French cosplea wee t
h lmanity in her own mage The ship
sailed az; in for America, and once more
fuled her sails at the wlarfs Of the CITY Of
Nations. During the absence # the craft
the owners had built new and larger ves-
sci, the command of which they conferred
upon our heroine's husband. He accepted
the position gratefully, n at once ap-
pointed his still DISCUS d wife first m:..c ot
his vessel. The new ship made pros
porous tri P around Cape Horn to San Fran .
cisco, where u contract was made for her
to the Srnlwich lslands for cargo and
back. She made the trip. and then, after
cruising about from one port To another,
started once more for home. Half tie
passage was Accomplished, when the Cap
tain died, and she hrough, the vessel safely
TO Boston, where the owners offered her a
half ownership and the captaincy of the
ship. Wishing to visit her child a: Mar
stiles, she was obliged to decline this
handsome offer, aud took passage immcdi-
atcly in Steamer for Europe
Arriving at Mar.cill,s. she visited the
spot where she had left her babe, but 10
h~r horror, the house even was gone, aud
size could get no intc!ligcnc of her miss
ing babe. As last resource, she enlis-
ted the aid of the police, who finally sue
credrd in discovering that some three
years before the husband of til. woman
to whom she had entrusted the child had
died, leaving bis wife without means Of
support. She bad r, la,ivcs li,iag at Bel
Castro, in Naples, and thithcr She had
gone for b., lp, taking her youthful clarsc
with her, using for her travelling cxpen-
ses the money tLat had been forwarded
just previous TO the death Of her husband
by the mother of the child. To BcIcas-
tire, the anxious mother took her way
and on her arrival there, learned that the
WOMAN and child had been there, but
that the relative Of the former would give
her no aid, and that she was obliged to
GO elsewhere in search of employment.
Where she had gone. and wha, had !,c-
come Uf her none could tell
Our heroine still refused to he di :
couraged, aud continued the search per-
severlngly and vainly for two years At
last she WAS repaid for her labor Of love.
One day, while passing through ward in
IA hospital at Florence, her attention was
attracted by the groans OF poor woman
who lay dying in one of the rooms, with
Il handsome boy weeping over her. She
approached. aud heard her own name
murmured by the sufferer. In another
moment she was Dn her knees beside the
bed, claspiug the sick ones hands in her
own, and asking her the question she al
most dreaded to hear answered. The an
>wer was in the affirmative, aud with her
iast breath Tue oyinG woman restored t.
the mother the child she had been so long
l"oking for. Scarcely was the faithful
creature dead. when the impatient mother
undid the jacket of the weeping boy. and
discovered about his neck little trinkct
her own hands had placed there SOU,
years before. Mother aud son immcdi-
a'ely proceeded to lavre. from whence
they sailed for this country, and are HOW
residing in the city of Detroit.