The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-12-27

| hats, shouted for help, all was explained,
and fesrfnl excitement ensued. The boats
had unfortunately gone farther up the
stream with the last load of passengers, and
several minutes elapsed before the urgency
of the case could be made clear 10 them.
They then bore down with all speed TO the
rescue, but TO the anxious spectators it
seemed as though they moved not. Rails
from a near fence, and limbs of trees hurri-
edly broken of, were thrown into the cur
! rent, but il refused TO carry them in mid
stream, and they hoated useessly along the
shore. Ia the meantime the adventurers
struggled manfully, and, with incredible
exertion, one exificaIed himself from the
dangerous current and fell down exhausted
upon the shore. 1t was not the young hus-
band He still bnffeted The stream which,
alas though he knew il not, was bearing
him farther away from the bank. The little
clothing be had ou,clinging round his limbs,
impeded his movements, and be was evi-
DENLY wearied. Twice he bad been drawn
under, but The love or life, now doubly
strong, still bore him up. His efforts grew
fainter and weaker, and his voice crying for
help sounded TO the horror-stricken specta>
tors like The low wall of an infant. The
sunk again, and the swift river gurgled over
him. Cropping hooks were let down and
grsPpled Tor him, divers swan in the water
and dived for him for more than an hour
the search was continued, but The treacher-
GUS current kept him and hid him.
The next morning The steamer was raised
by means OF lighters and species of der
rick from her unpleasant position, and al
sunset of the same day lay alongside of the
wharf, her destination gained al last. ] was
standing in The front saloon of the boat
watching the bnslling crowd around me,
but much depressed in spirit, when saw a
young woman, with weak step, struggling
through the rush Of men along the gang
way. She came up the steps 10 the saloon
where the baggage from The empiied state
rooms was promiscuously piled. She was
white as marble, and her eye burned with
bright though unsteady lusIre. She gazed
anxiously around iE every direction, but
seemed TO miss the object of her search.
She was on the point of leaving, when
passing by the mass of trunks | saw her
stop and quick smile Tighten up her pale
face. Then she sat-down upon a trunk on
which the nams of "Gsorge Graham" was
written, again looked around for the owner
My God J" involuntarily uttered, sit is
his Wtfe." No; an eye but was moist in all
that rude and busting lhIong, for The story
was now known. None could break The
terrible news to her. My tongue cluug 10
the roof OF my mouth. Sill she sal there,
the palIor again settling over her face, and
clulching the trunk with her thin white
hands, mother would her child, alas
10 those gathered theIe-her dead child.
One BY one the baggage was claimed and
taken away. Sill the secret slept. At length
a porter came up suddenly and shouted,
''Cap'n, wbaT must send that mans traps
what was drowned !' The woman sprang
TO her feet, glanced anxiousIy from one to
another, and read the plying sympathy they
could not express. No sound escaped her
hps-that blow was crushing; only dead
ller pallor ovenan her white face, and the
lustre Of her eye dimmed. Then the cap
tain, with sense oil kindness that seemed
not 10 belong 10 his nature, gently led her
away TO the office of the boat, and tenderly
as he could, unlolded the cruel news to her.
No tears fell from her; with hands clasped
before her and lips moving as IN low Drav-
er, she stood for moment. Upon her face
a leok of the most unuuerabie woe, hope
aud life dying together. Darker shadows
crepl over il; larried, then faded away
She was borne from the boat 10 her home,
but it was only the body they bore. She
was dead, and The child she carried beneath
her heart became her own in heaven.-BaI
tiaore Sunday Telegram.