New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-26

Some years ago young man holding subordi,
nate position in the East Indian Company's ser
swapping loaded pistol at his head. Each time
the pistol missed fire. A friend entering his room
shortly afterward, he requested him to fire it out
of the window it then went off without any diff
Guilty. Satisfied thus that the weapon had been
duly primed and loaded, the young man sprang
up, exclaiming, must be reserved for. some
thing great u and from that moment gave up the
idea Of suicide, which for SEINE time had been up
permost in his thoughts. That young man after
ward became Lord Give.
Two brothers were on one occasion walking to-
gether when violent storm of thunder and light
ming overlook them. One was struck dead on the
spot, the other was spared, else would the name
| of the great reformer, Martin Luther have been
unknown to mankind. eA RI.
\ The holy st. Augustine having to preach in q
! distant town, took with him guide, who by some
nnaccountable means mstook the usual road and
| fell into by.path. He afterwards discovered that
| his enemies. having heard of his movements, had
4 placed themselves in the proper road with the
| design of numbering him. ~ =
| Bacon, the sculptor, when atender boy Of five
years. fell into the pit of soap-boier, and must
have persisted, had not a workman, just entering
the yard, observed the top of his head and deliy-
cred him.
When Oliver Cromwell was an infant, monkey
snatohed him, from his cradle, leaped with him
through garnet window, and ran along the leads
of. the house. The utmost alarm was excited
among the inmates. and various were the devices
used e rescue the child from the guardianship Of
his newly found protector. All were unayailing
his wouid-be rescuers lost courage, and were in
despair Of ever seeing the baby alive again, when
the monkey quietly retraced his steps and depos.
tied his burden safely on the bed. On a subse-
quent occasion the waters had well nigh quenched
Ills unsuitable ambition. He fell into deep pond,
from drowning in which clergyman named john
son was the sole instrument of his rescue.
At the siege Of Leister, young soldier about
seventeen years Of age, was drawn out for sentry
duty. One Of his comrades was very anxious to
take his place. No objection was made, and this
man went. He was shot dead while on guard.
The young man first drawn, atterward became the
author of the " Pilgrims Progress"
Doddridge, when born, was 80 weakly an infant
it was believed to be dead. A nurse standing by
feebled spark of life was saved from being extin
guished, andsan. eminent author AMI consistent
Christian preserved to the world.
John Wesley, when q child, was only just pre-
served from fire. Almost the moment after he
was rescued, the roof of the house, where he had
been, fell in. Of Philip Henry similar instance
is recorded.
& William Lloyd Garrison fell into tanners val
at very early age, and would have been drowned
but for Mr.. Liant, of Boston, who pulled him out in
time to save his lfe--but not until he was pretty
well tanned: and this accident very possibly gave
coEoTing to his subsequent course of life.
Timon experienced several narrow escapes from
drowning, which gives rise to a suspicion that he
was mot born for such fate, but reserved for
higher.
John Knox the renowned Scottish reformer
was always wont to sit at the head of the table
with his back to the window. On one particular
evening, without, however, being able to account
for it. he would neither himself sit in the chair not
permit any one else to occupy his place That
very night bullet was shot in at the window
to kill him it grazed the chair in which
lie sat- and made hole in the foot of q candle
stick on the table.
Many years have now elapsed since three subal,
terms might have been seen struggling in the water
off St. Helena--ene of them, peculiarly helpless,
was fast suecumbng. He was saved to life as
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington.
The life of John Newton is but the. history of q
series of marvellous deliyerances. AS youth he
had agreed to accompany some friends on board
He arrived too late; the boat in
which his friends had gone was capsiZed, and all
It's occupants drowned. On another occasion,
when the tide surveyor in the port of Liverpool,
some business had detained him, 30 that he came
10 his boat much later than usual to the great sur
Prise of those who were in the habit of observing
lis then undertaking pnnctuality. He went out in
he boat as heretofore to inspect. ship, which
blew up before he reached her. Had he left the
ihore a few minutes sooner he must have persisted
With the rest on board. fg ss5 H. q : -
Evelyn was sauntering one day along meadow
lear Says Court, when he looked in at the window
If matched cottage, and saw young man cary
ng one of Tintoretto's cartoons. He entered adj
he Charles II. Thus the name Of Gibbins became
known. Milton sees q wretched : mystery IN
Italy, and conceived the plan Of Paradise Lost
The plague breaks out in London; he retires to
Chalfont, and the simple, question Of 2 Quaker
muses. among the ruins of Roman grandeur; and
the Decline and Fall OF the mighty Empire breaks
IA long pcrspectic on hls view A Welsh harper
thrills ne chords at Cambridge, and Gray, fred
with sudden emotion, writes the conclusion of the
9 Bard Lady Austen points to q sofa, and Cow
per creates the " Task, y