Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-05-02
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IuDLthu Wdb M buAlutiu6blg lpfpi VI hhLAIpF
Mountains, forests, lakes, rivers, sea-sbores, with
their myriad voices and forms Of lie, were his
unceasing ever increasing delight. Hs pre-
ierred living apart in communion with nature,
to holding converse with men. He found na-
turc truthful, honest, understanding unseliish,
ho found man untruthlul dishonest, descending
selfish aud he, most unfortunately gave 10 his
own life another instancelof mans soldshuess
Without considering, or at least believing, that
he was sent to work in Gods vineyard, and that
the more work be found 10 do the bad cond-
ton in which he found the yineyard-was only
an additional reason why be should stay in that
vineyard and strive, to the extent Of bis ability,
to improve is condition, he left bis work in
disgust, and sought after bis own happiness, en-
joyment aud advantage, instead Of that OF his
follow men. OF most fine and scholarly tastes,
of keen perception, Of delicate sensIbitIes, and
with all the chords Of his spirit 10 perfect har-
mony with the infinite beauties and perfectons
Of the natural world, he was ever drawn away
from the greedy scrambes and the fierce con-
tentions Of life, to the quiet haunts Of the peace
iu happy world beyond the borders Of ciyllizl-
tlon; or when be did not visit the resorts Of the
deer and partridge and trout, he would wan Ter
for days along the seashole, holding companion.
ship with the Infinite ocean 10 the book be-.
fore U.s. he has given graphic sketch Of his
nmbles on Cape Cod aud while We cannot
commend, in every particular, is philosophy,
our readers will yetfnd 10 it much excellent en-
tertainment and suggestive reading we give
below an extract from the opening paper in the
book, relating very graphically some incidents
Of a shipwroca near the Cape
The brig St. John, from Galway, Ireland,
laden with emlgrants, was wrecked on SUNDAY
morning j. was now Tuesday morning, and
the sea was still breaking violently 90 crooks
There were eighteen or twenty Of the same
large boxes that have mentioned, lying Cn
green hillside, few rods from he water. and
surrounded by crowd The bodies which had
been recovered, twenty-seyen or eight 10 all, had
been collected there. Some were rapidly nail.
ing down the lids, others were cartina the boxs.
away, and others were lifting the Ids, which
were yet loose, and peeplng under the cloths,
for each body, With such rags as still adhered t.
IT, WAS covered loosely with white sheet.
witnessed no Signs Of grlef but there was
sober dispatch of husincs. which was affecting
One man was seeking TO identify a particular
body, aud one undertaken or carpenter was
calling to another TO know in what box a certain
child was put saw many marble feet and
matted heads as the hs were raised, and one
liyid, swollen, and mangled BODY Of "a drowned
glfl,-who probably had intended 10 % on, 10
eerslce in some AmercIn amiv.-to which
some rags still adhered with string, half con
ceaed by the assh about il swollen neck the
ooiled up wreck of a human hulk, eashed by
the rocks or fishes, 50 that the bone and muscle
were exposed bat quite bl odles' merely red
and white. with vide open and staring eyes
. yet ustreless, headlights or like the cabin
windows of stranded vessel filled with sand
\ Sometimes there were two or more children. or
parent and child, in the same box. and on the
Ind perhaps would be written with red ch,lk.
Bridget such-a-one AMI sisters child. The
surrounding sward was covered With bits Of
snls aud clothing. | have since heard. from
one who lives by this beach, tba, woman who
had come over before, bu; had LET. her infant
behind for her sister to bring, came and looked
into these boxes, and saw 10 one, probably the
same whose superscription have quoted her
child in her sisters arms, as If tbs sister had
meant to be found thus and within three DAYS
after, the msthe, died from the effect Of that
sight
We turned from this and walked along the
rocky shore. ln the frs, cove were strewn what
seemed The fragments Of a vessel. in small pieces
mixed with sand aud sea weed. and great guam
titles OF feathers but it looked 20 old and
rusty, that ! at FIRST took It 10 be some old
wreck which had lain there for many years
ey thought Of Captain Kidd, and that the
feathers were those which sea-fowl had cast
there; and perhaps there might be some tradi-
hon abou. It in the neghborhood. | asked
sailor It that was the St John. lie said it was;
asked him where she struck. He pointed to
rock in front Of us, mile from the shore,
called the Grampus Rock, and added
You can see part OF her now sticking up,
looks like a small boat
saw IT. 1t was thought! to be held by the
shain cables aud the anchors. | asked II the
t)des which saw were all that were drowned.
Not quarter OF them, said he.
"Whero are the rest !''
Most OF them tight underneath that piece
yu sao"
ltappeared 10 Us that there was enough rub.
PISA to make the wreck of a large vessel IN this
coye alone, aud that it would take many days to
ca't 1t of. IL was several feet deep, and here
aud there was bonnet or iackct on it, In
the yery midst OF the crowd about tins wrock.
there were men with carts husily engaged col.
ieeung the sea.weed which the storm had east
ep, aud conveying 1t beyond the reach OF the
tlde, though they were often obliged to separate
fragments OF clothing from It, and they might
atany moment have lound human body under
Drown who might, they dld not forget that
Wis weed was valuable manure. This ship.
sreck hal not produe ID a visible vibration IN
VIC laorc OF society.
About u mile south We could see, rising ah We
the rocks, the masts of the British bril- which
the st. John had eadeayored t0 follow, which
nad slipped her cables, and by good luck, run
into the mouth Of Cohasset larbor. 4 little
iurther oloug the shore we SAW mans clothes
on rock further. womans scarf, gown,
aslfaw bonnet, the briggs caboose, and one OF
nef masts high and dry, broken into several
pieces In another rocky cove, several rods
irom the water, and b.hind rocks twenty eet
nkh, lay part Of one side Of the vessel, still
us'1s together lt was, perhaps, forty feet
iohg, bY fourteen wide. | was even more sur.
pti'ed at the power ot the waves, exhibited on
es shattered fragment, than ha1 been at the
VT OF the smaller fragments before. The lar.
w hmbers aud iron braces were broken supe,.
naoosly, aad saw that 40 material could with.
shnd the pJwr OF the waveu that iron must
H to pieces IN such casc, and an IRON vessel
wo'd oa cracked up like an egg-shel ON
rocks. Some oi these tmbers, however.