The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1866-11-16
ono women Were saved,

/ NOl u NOHlul BhNth II lOul
ships are uuscaworthy; if to gain afew
more dollars, Yankee thrift builds them
with so much top hamper that a gale
endangers the life, or insures the death
of hundreds; where at least is the dis
cipIinc Of your officers and crew, which
ought TO guarantee to weak woman
Il share in the miserable safeguards
that stinginoss affords, and which with
out that discipline brute force inevita-
! bly, seizes? Officers and crew saved in
part but ''not woman savedl" En-
gincer and purser in one boat, with
crew, but no women; and the purser
lives to tell the tale The captain and
sixteen men and only one woman and
one child, on another boat Fortu-
nately, TO avoid meeting the shaking
of locks CORY with the death water OF
the sea caves, the captain Of the ill
fated steamer, after six struggles after
life, has gone to meet, before another
than earthly tribunal, the question pro-
pounded, "Why was not a woman
saved2' Was there not one among
the crowd, of whose memory it may
yet be said,
"Among the faithless, faithful only he!"
Some fifty years ago or more, q ship
sailed from Liverpool with many pas
sengers Just after midnight, when
a little past the centor Of the Atlantic,
the Jupiter struck an ice island, caus-
ing her to settle almost instantly into
the awful water. She was badly pro-
vided with boats, but such as they
were, and all of them, were at once
launched in silence and in order
Every passenger that was awake was
summoned to the boats Discrimina-
tion was used, for the boats could not
hold all. Let those that are awake
save their livesl Let those that sleep.
pass to the sleep of death was the
terrific, but merciful decree. Sleep is
but the precursor, the portal, the simile
Of the great enemy of lifo There can
be no pang in dying to the sweet and
unconscious sleeper. So every wake
: person was summoned; every sleeping
: person left to wake in an eternity
: The two boats were already over
= crowded the devoted ship fast sinking
: Again the Captain went to forecastle
= to steerage to cabin, and on deck, t
= = see if one conscious passenger still wa
= left unprovided for. Not onel "Pusl
/" off your boats, was the solemn order
. "But where's my sister ?" screamed
- voice of despair from one of the boats
- ~ see her not, and would die to saw
= her" "She sleeps. would not awake,
- - her One person more in, and tn
70 lives of all are endangered" replie
!" the Captain from the deck of the sink
= ing ship. "Then / sleep with her, if
: cannot save her." uttered the heroi
- brother, as he sprang upon the fas
" settling vessel and he and she ant
Z the ship went down together, with tn
= great Oceans hyms testifying to al
% heroic devotion and self-sacrifce era
= died in affection, and dying to nee
= an Immortality "Not II woman
y u saved from the Evening Star! Wha
= a contrast?
" We cannot recall the name Of tn
vessel, because, cut off from the world
the Southern States, for four year
t. back, have little chronology left; bu
not many years since, British trans
$. port foundered in the deep Atlantic
m She was crowded with soldiers, thei
10 wives, and women and children. Dis
l. ciplino prevailed, however, in tn
n. awful scene where half thousan,
e. were summoned to death Every boa
l. was launched and guarded ever.
woman and child was conducted to til
n gangway and securely deposited as
,e the boats had been bathrooms, and tn
,e seamen the ushers The bouts wer
pushed adrift each soldier repaired {
his post each sailor to his place; an
1 with drums beating and flies playing
(. and solitary gun booming a farewe
to earth and sky, the ship and its o
ficers and crew went down the Britis
of flag &ying gong down with them, br
NJ covering them with its cross of glory
n. There was discipline; there was SET
ne manship; generalship, heroism Th
no g,mgling waves told to the mute hoa'
In ems the story of devotion, and the RI
rs cording Angel copied it from u
ar heavens upon the Great Book of Go
Il. Not woman, not a child was lost !
he Natchez Courier.