Connecticut western news., 1874-07-03

news reached the city, two of the staunchest pilot boats, manned by extra picked crews of gallant souls, were un- der way, and speeding on their swift winged course in search of the ocean lost children.
 Mrs. Walton herself hastened to the city, to urge with her presence and in- fuence, more prompt action but the two vessels had been gone an hour when she arrived, and so she repaired to the house of MT. Alvin, the owner of the ship her husband commanded, to await the return of those who had so nobly gone forth in the mad storm in search of her three darlings. Leaving her here in state of fevered anxiety, hoping in the very teeth of de- spair, we, too, will go forth into the wild, yelling gale, to look upon more sublime ocean picture ......... It was an hour past midnight-dark as the deepest, gloomiest cells of an inquisitorial dungeon, save when the vivid lightning's flash lit up the Cim- merriam blackness with a glare rivalling that of the brightest noon-day sun. Some ninety miles to the eastward of Sandy Hook, lay hove to noble ship, inward bound, in one of the most ter. rife gales that ever swept along the northern coast of America. The gale had set in an hour before sundown, and ever since dark the ship had been hove to under the shortest possible canvas, heading up west southwest, with the gale coming in violent squalls out at due northwest.
 "Do you think there is any danger to us or the ship captain ?" inquired one of three passengers, who stood near the commander of the ship, partly sheltered from the storm by the pro- jecting roof of the round house.
 "Not the least, MT. Kinsley. You are as safe here as you would be at your own house in New York. She is a bran new ship, and have had no opportuni- am perfectly satisfied with her behavior. In fact, 1 never saw any craft conduct herself quite so we'll in hurricane like this. 'Tis a terrible night, however, and God help those who may chance to For the last hour have been thinking not sleep one wink tonight. She never
 
 home. was cast away once on the Long Island shore, not half @ mile from home, in just such gale, only it was at the southeast. would give hundred dollars this moment, to be at home, only for my wife's sake. But we must my God what is that ?'' .'
 A continuous flash of lightning lit up the surrounding space, and as the dark y1,r Ras o1 and distinct" Ship a-hoy p uttered either by female or child, came down on the blast from directly to windward.
 A moment after the hail was repeat ed, and another flash of lightning re- vealed boat driving square down be- fore the gale, and almost under the sh1p's quarter. Ere one could count five, the shrill, quivering cry came up from the boat, as it shot past the ship not three fathoms clear of her rudder.
 "Merciful Heaven There are three children in that boat 1" yelled MT. Kinsley, who, with the captain, was peering down over the taffrail as the boat flew past. 1.s'
 Put your helm hard up, my man" !" said the captain, in voice as calm as mans voice could be :; and then calling the chief and third mates, who were both on deck, he informed them of the fact that small open boat, with three children in it, had just gone past, and then gave his orders
 "Mr. Casey, please go out on the flying jib boom end and keep look. out for the boat and mind, MT. Casey, if we come up with it, you can lay the ship so as to bring the boat close aboard on the larboard side-larboard, remem- Der, MT. Casey. Don't for your life, make mistake. Go forward now, sir, and if we save those children, five hun. dred dollars shall be your reward"
 Then turning to the chief mate, he continued,-
 "Mr. Winsor, you will brace the yards all square, which, without mak- ing any more sail, will send the ship through the water something faster than the boat is going. Having done this, rig six single whips-two on each of the lower yards-on the larboard side. Place the blocks far enough out for the falls to drop fathom clear of the ship, and then reeve off good stun' sail gear, bringing both ends in on deck, with a running bowline in one part, and the other led along for fall, stationing three good fellows at each. In the meantime, will get the ship steady before the wind, and-Frank, my man, you keep her so. Don't let her yaw an inch Steer her as if your very 8 ul depended on it !; and within an hour after the ship reaches New York, you shall have hundred dollars.
 "And now, MT. Kinsley, will you please call up the second mate, and all the gentlemen passengers want them to stand by the whips in order to assist the sailors if necessary. We must save those children, and do it, too, without the boat coming in contact with the ship, as that would be instant destruc- tion to it and them in such sea-"
 "All ready, the whips, sir P came from the mate, and the next moment the young third mates voice rang out from the bloom end, "Boat right ahead Steady, as you go"
 "Now then, my lads, who'll into these running bowlines with me and stand by to pick up the children ?" anxiously inquired the captain. CT, sir" and "I," CT" CT" came from dozen ready sailors, in a mo- ment.
 "Thank you, my lads but I only want five. I go in one of the bowlines myself"
 The selections were soon made, and there they stood in the fore, main and mizzen chains-the commander and five noble fellows-with the bowlines under their arms ready to risk their lives to save the three children.
 "Steady Stand by, now Here they come! Look out i" screamed the officer from the j1b-boom, and mo- ment later the dim outlines of a beat loomed up by the lee cat-head. An other moment of breathless suspense, and the boat wss abreast of the fore chains.
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