National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-13

seen what took for n group Of people,
about the stumpof the mizzen-
mast. As soon as we hauled on the
wind we got the full force of the breeze,
which increased to half gale, but, if
we carried sail before, you may he GER
tain we didn't take in any now that we
thought stood the least chance of hang
ing on. As the ship careened to the
breeze she trembled like a frightened
thing, but went flying through the wa
ter, deluging her decks and throwing
spray rs high as the weather-leach of
her topsails. The wreck was coming
towards us with every heave of the sea,
and when we had made two tracks, we
could make out six people on top OF her
cabin, who didn't seemto notice us par
ticularly.
"After working to windward OF the
hulk, we lay to, while one of our quar-
ter-boats was lowered, and myself and
crew of six men pulled off to the
wreck. When quite close to the dis
mantled ship / noticed her name,
'Cherub Of Boston, as her stern rose
on sea. On getting alongside we
found her main deck nearly level with
the sea, the only dry spot being the top
of the cabin, where the people had as
sembled.
81 walked aft and found five men
and a woman near the stump of the
inizzenmast, and all so exhausted as to
be entirely helpless. ! never saw such
thankfulness in any beings eyes as
came into those of that poor, weak wo-
man as | lifted her in my arms and car
ried her to our boat, where | laid her
in the stern sheets, and covered her
with a coat. Then, taking four OF my
boats crew, we went back for the five
men and got them into the boat. After
that we went into the cabin of the
Cherub to try and find something OF
the ladies clothes, for we had nothing
on board of the White Swallow to dress
her in but a mans rig. In state-room
on the port side of the cabin we found
large trunk containing womens wear
ing apparel, and from the captain's $
room we took the chronometer, baro-
meter, charts, and quantity of cloth
ing. These were placed in the boat,
while two of us took down the spar from
which the signal of distress was flying,
after which the boat was manned, ana
we pulled away for our ship. After
getting alongside the White Swallow
the boat was hooked on to the davits
with the rescued people in, and so
hoisted, because the sufferers were too
much exhausted to climb up the ships
side on ladder. They were carried to
the cabin and their clothes removed !;
then they were wrapped in blankets; and
after wine and water had been given to
them in small quantities, they were
snuglv slowed away III state-room
berths, where they fell almost instantly
into sound sleep.
When the people from the wreck
had been got on board, the White Swal-
low was put upon her course, and went
reeling off eleven knots an hour after
her detention of almost four hours. In
two days the rescued people had recov-
cred sufficient strength to walk about a
little and be much interested in the
time for meals to be served, and ut the
dinner-table the captain of the lost
Cherub told his story. His ship was
bound from Honolulu to New Bedford,
laden with oil and whalebone. When
eight days out she had been dismasted
in a gale, and became so strained that
the pumps had to be kept going con-
stantly, which, together with the loss
by salt water of all but a small amount
OF provisions, SO exhausted the crew
that, out of twenty-six people who left
Honolulu in the ship, all but six had
died from exposure, hunger, and thirst
combined. The lady was the daughter
of a merchant in Honolulu, going to the
States to visit her fathers relatives.
They had been on the wreck twenty
seven days, drifting helplessfy about,
when we picked them up.
"Our fine fortune in fair weather con-
timed, and we went booming around
Cape Horn in terribly cold weather, up
through the southeast trades, across
the line IL the Atlantic, through the
northeast trades up st. Georges chan
mel, and into dock at Liverpool on the
one hundredth day after leaving San
Francisco. The Sea Horse had not yet
arrived, and as day after day passed ard
/ still she did not come, we began to lose
all interest in ship we had beaten so
/ badly. After we had been three weeks
| in Liverpool, one morning the papers
/ reported the arrival of a steamer IRON
Fayall, and among the passengers were
/ the officers and crew of the ship Sea
Horse, wrecked on Flores, one of the
western islands, From the newspaper
accounts it seemed the Sea Horse had
/ experienced n continuation OF thick
weather after losing the northeast
! trades, and consequently the ship had
been navigated by dead-reckoning
Judging themselves clear of the western
islands, the ship had been kept away
two or three points, and brought up
ashore, about midnight, with a south
westerly gale blowing, on Flores. All
hands had been saved excepting Capt
DAILY, who was drowned by the capsizing
of q boat in which himself and thirteen
others were leaving the wreck at day
! light on the morning after the Sea Horse
| had gone ashore.
"The survivors were sent to Fayall,
and from there the British Consul sent
them to Liverpool by steamer. We on
/ board the White Swallow learned that
after Capt. Adams heard of the loss of
the Sea Horse and her captain, he got
the draft for the money ON the bet
cashed. carried the thousand dollars to
the owners of the lost ship, and had
them invest the money for the benefit
of the widow of Capt. DAILY.
"The people whom We rescued from
the wreck left the White Swallow in
Liverpool. The captain of the lost
Cherub and the young lady took a
steamer for New York, but 1 never knew
what became of the four men.
"There, boys" said 1, that's the
end of that twister; you don't often
have two wrecks in one night. Now
yamose this rancho.
"All right - cried the youngsters in