New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-18
A MagdaIen,s Death.

From the Washington Capital
| "Fisk's is the Fall river line, is 1t not 7"
eyes. And the way he tries to beat
everybody else. and make his the only line
| to Boston is astonishing. Why, I'll tell
you something about Fisk. One day, just
as we were starting from New York, q
trim little girl stepped aboard and took a
stateroOm, saying she was going through to
Boston. She wasn't dressed loud, but
mighty neat and rich, wearing a Turkish
hat, velvet sack trimmed with lace, a dress
with lot of scOllOps and satin trimmings
around it, and about the most bewildering
foot ever saw on human. She was
| pretty, sassy, and called me old father at
| supper, and carried on in a way that soon
| showed what she was, though she deceived
me at first with her baby face and girlish
| manners. 'HiH
She was standing on the dock about seven
| o'clock, after having Mortified the ladies and
amused the gentlemen by her rollicking
humor, and becoming quiet for a few mo-
ments, while she looked far out at sea, she
turned round to the captain, and putting up
her small white hands and taking him by
the whiskers on each side of his face she
looked up at him, and says she, very sol
EMMY, ''Did you ever want to die, captain ?"
''Weil, no." said he, II don't think ever
did y Sand if you did, said she, what
would YOU do ~ swell, IN that case" said
the captain, loosing her hands and turning
away, Il think, asI have plenty of oppor-
tunity, should jump into the sound and
| drown myself" Jt3l III ..fH
The words were scarcely out of his mouth
| before she turned round like a flash, and,
| putting one hand on the railing. leaped over
beard. She was gone before person could
| stir to catch her, and a terrible scream arose
from the passengers who saw it. was
standing aft when 1 heard the shouts, and
looked out and saw her come to the surface.
| She had taken of her hat, and her splendid
brown hair, which she wore loose down her
back, floated in mass on the water. fam
cied she looked straight at me with her
childish face as she came up, and there was
nothing wild or struggling about her, but
she seemed to smile in the same jaunty way
that she did when she was plaguing me
! half an hour before. -,,- 90 80. g.......
| "In another moment she was swept
rapidly astern and disappeared. We put
| about and lowered the boats but we never
| found her. 1t is strange how the women,
| who had been so shocked at her conduct
before, now pitied and even wept for the
| little girl when they found what load
| there must have been in the foolish baby's
heart while she was laughing the loudest.
She had left small reticule in the cabin,
and when we opened it we found some YER
ses, written In little cramped hand on a
folded sheet of note paper. They ran
about this way, and were headed
A MAGDALEN'S DEATH.
81 can no longer endure this polluting
This fostering breath;
Gladly fly to the refuge that's left me,
Mereiful death ...
Not sadly, tearfuly.
But gladly, cheerfully,
Go to my death.
priests may refuse to grant sanctiied burial
There unto me,
Father, thank Thee a blessing is always held
Over the sea,
Aye, in its widest foam
Aye, in it's darkest gloom
Blessed is the sea.
Welcome, sea with thy breakiHgs and dashings
That never shall cease;
Down in thy angiiest, stOrmiest waters
OF hide me in peace,
Say to the weary face
Come to thy resting place,
Slunber in peace"