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Columbia, September to, I,Jai• II
GEORGE J. SMITH,
WHOLESALE and Retail Bread and Cake
Baker.—Constantly on hand a variety of Cakes.
too numerous to 110111011; Crackers; Soda, Wine, Scroll,
and Sugar Biscuit; Confectionery, of every description,
Ace., i.e. LocusT STILCIF7I',
Feb. 2,50. Between the Bank and Franklin I Inure.
WISM'S BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY,
for Cough•, Cold., he . for .nle at
MeCORKLE h
Family Mediemo aiore, Odd Fellows' Hall.
Columbia, 0ct.:4,1457.
NITOOLLEY'S All Ilealing and Strengthen
y lug Salve, for vale at
MeeORKLE & DELLETT'S
Family Medicine Store, Odd Fellows'
Columbia, Oet.M. i v 57.
HONEY! Just received, a small lot of
Su
perior Honey, and for sale be
It WILLIAMS,
Nov. 21,1557. row!' ♦treet.
QAPONEFIER! at reduced prices, for sale
by the pound or ea•c, by B. W LLIA MS,
No, 21,1857. Front xtrert.
TOILET SOAPS!---The largest assortment in
Columbia; call and examine for soureelvei, at
R. WILMA IN,
Nov. 21, ISM'. Drug, From. Front creel'.
BRUSHES! BRIJSIIES!---A general asgarlment
of Bruolieu; I.tieh a. Shoe. Slove. ilw r. llorse.
'ooth and Nail Lirualles,juvl recei ved and for male by
R. WILLIAMS,
N0v.2.1, ISM'. Front •Ireet.
VENNEDY'S MEDICAL DISCOVER1 1
.---This
al._ Celebrated Medicine alway= on band, alai for
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sale by
N0v.21,1857
BORN starch, Farina, Rico Flour, Tapioca,
Sago, Oat Meal. Arrow Roca. he..llt the
FAMILY STORE.
Sept 26.'57. Odd Fellow.' Rol:.
JUST received, three dozen Dr. Brunon'x
Vegetable Bitters. a certain core for Dyspepsia;
also. a fresh lot of Sap Sago and Pike Apple Cheese,
Farina and Corn Starch, at D. tiErms
Sept 5, 1.357. Grocery and Liquor Store.
HAIR DYE'S. Jones' Batchelor's, Peter's and
Egyptian hair dyes. warranted to color the hair
any desired shade, without imam - to the skin. For cute
by IL. WILLIAMS.
May 10, Front st., Columbia, Pa.
QOLIJTION OF CITRATE OF lOACNESIA,or Pur•
gative Mineral Water.—This pleasant medicine
-which is highly recommended as a substitute for
Epsom Salts, .Seidlitz Powders, Etc.. ran lie ollinined
fresh every day at Da. E. It. HERR'S Drug Store,
Front st. [32
AMPS, LAMPS, LAMPS. Just received at
j
Here.; Drug Store, a new and beautiful lot of
Lamp. of all dePeriptiona.
May 2. 1857.
ASUPERIOR article of burping Fluid just
received and for vale by If. SUN' DAM 8:, 1.,t IN.
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A LARGE lot of City cured Dried Beef, just
received Yt /I. SUYDAM .t SUN S.
Columbia, December 20,18..i6.
T _ T OOFLAND'S German Bitters. For sale at
mccouKi.E& DELI,I-717's
Family Medicine Store, Odd Fellows' Hall.
July '25, 1857.
IIOUNTRY Produce constantly on hand and
for gale by 11. SLIYDA DI & SON.
T_TONINY, Cranberries, Raisins, Figs, Alm
ond.. Walnuts, Cream Nut., &e.. jun recel red
M. SUYDAM & MONKS.
Colombia, Dee. 20,1 556
ASUPERIOR lot of Black and Green Teas,
Coffee and Chocolate,jwit rerol.ed mi.
.UYDAM *men
Dec. 20,1856. Corner of Front and Union
TUST RECEIVED, a beautiful assortment of
Glas■ Ink wand., at the Headquarters and
Slew. Depot.
Colamina, April IS.
VITRS Family and Superfine Flour of the
Jaj best brand, for sale by II SUYDAM Jr SON.
IDST received 1000 lbs. extra double bolted
Ituekurheut Neal, ut
Die.2o 16.56 11. SUYDAM ft SON'S.
WEIKEL'S Instantaneous Yeast or Baking
Powder. for atile by 11. SUVDA AI h SON.
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"PARR & THOMPSON% justly celebrated l.:Com
mercial and other told Ven.--the lo , n in the
Ai.rket—juvi received. SHREINER.
Columbia. April V. tass.
WIT should (layperson do without a Clack,
when they can he had f0r51.541.,,d
COlUTtift, April 29,195 A
411A81.E and Rock Salt, by the •act or buthel,for
1 sale low. by
Oet. In, 1457. I. n. isreuriEn CO.
D 1 : GRATH'S EI.ECTRIC Just rercicri.
11 tread supply of this
, popolar rcntetly.nnd for •ale
by R. lAA A MS.
May 10,155 a. Front Street. Columbia, Pa.
A LARGE accortment Rope•-all .i7en and len g th ' ,
II on hand and (ornate, at MM. , . WELSIPS.
March 12.1.57 No. I. !Itch .trect.
ANEW lot of WHALE AND CAR GREASING
OILS, received at the store of the subscriber.
May 10, Mit Front Strprt, enlumlttn,
Cold Cream of Glycerine,
WOR the Cure and Preventlnn of Chap
ped Hand•. Far sot. by fir. E. D HERR.
7,1:47. Golden Mortar Drug More
Marie.
Lay your shiningiewels by.
Put your silken robes away;
Underneath this stormy sky,
On this dark and mournful day,
NVhile a thousand routs are lost,
Out upon the tossing seas,
Can I ask a ribbon's cost!
Can I look at gaud+ like these?
All last night, amid the gloom,
To my easement spirits came,
And I heard thmo:cull any name—
Call my name, and weep and wail—
Cousin! you are pule as allow!
Do you fear the angry sea?
Do you always trouble so
When the winds blow, fair Mario?
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Let us talk of days gone Ly—
Of those hnppy distant times
When we wandered, you and I,
Through the fragrant grove of limes—
Then I had not loved and lon,
Then you were not wooed and wed,
lint a laughing girl, instead,
Counting up the pains you cost,
Do you recollect, perchance,
Who walked with us in the grove,
Never speaking of his love,
Diu still singing old romannta,
When the burden and refrain—
(Doth the booming of the sea
Make you writhe as if in pain?)
Still was •love," and 'lair Marie."
All! he was a handsome youth!
Others whom you call so, are
Only unto him in truth,
As the moth is to the star!—
Oh. the brightness of his eyes!
Oh, the darkness of his hair!
If he wa• not worldly-wise,
If his forehead was too fair—
'Tway not long we knew him so—
Oa• the day I saw u rn
Lines were graven on his brow,
And his face wan deathly pale!
Ills sweet eyes were fierce and cold
When he went away to sea—
111 an hoer lie had grown old:
How you shudder, fair Marie!
How some wise, co.:pettish girl!
Might have trifled with his heart!
Might have thrown away the pearl
After winning it, with art!
Alight have daily, smiling, gared
Deep into those wondrous eyes—
Might have blushed beneath his praise—
Might have trembled at his sighs—
Might have tempted him with wiles—
Might have flattered him with fears—
Might have wooed him with her smile.—
Might have won him with her tears!
Than when all his heart was gone—
Mocked I ith her cruel scorn!
Is it but the moaning sea
That (loth move you, fair Marie?
Listen! no! it is too late
fled you listened. hours past.
You had known how deadly Fate
Will avenge us all at last!
Did you hear no sound last night,
Wilder than the tempest-shocks,
While a great ship, full in sight,
Heat her heart out on the rocks!
Did im terror strike you thunb.
While the castle-clock tolled nine!
Dal no wailing spirits come
To your casement as to mine!
Do you I.car no meaning now
In the monnings of the sea!—
Clasp your pale bands on your brow.
While you listen, fair Marie!—
R. WILLIANIS,
From irret
Go! false woman! perjured wife!
To that hushed and silent room,
Where they laid last night in gloom
Him you robbed of love and life—
On, nod kneel beside the dead
While your lord vim at his wine,
On your false breast lay that head,
Dripping from the ocean brine!
Then, go don your wedding-gear,
Smile into your husband's eyes,
For the dead man on his bier
To betray you, cannot rise!
Dot a voice shall haunt your ear,
bilthe murmurs of the sea,
And a shadowy form be near—
Evermore—oh, fair Marie!
On a sheltered ledge, about half Way up
the white cliffs that overhang the little town
of Dartmouth, there stood some years since
—probably stands there still—a pretty
white walled cottage. surrounded by a per
fect wilderness of shrubs and flowers, spread
ing ivy, and blossoming creepers, hiding
the white face of the cliff, and giving a
bower-like appearance to the nook; while
round a jutting point, where it. could com
mand an extensive view of the sea, was a
turret-like summer-house, adding still further
to the attractions of the cottage. From the
foot of the cliff a flight of broad steps, out in
the chalky rock, led up to this abode, while
another narrower flight wound up to the top
of the cliff above.
It was in this pleasant haven that Cap
tain Leigh had cast anchor at the end of his
long and arduous, but not unprofitable voy
age of life. On his last return from sea, he
had found his borne almost desolated by
scarlet fever; hie wife in her grave, and his
three eldest children beside her, and only
the youngest left to soothe his sorrow. Such
events lessen men's interest in the battle for
gold; and considering that be already pos
sessed sufficient for his little daughter and
himself, he gave up his sea life, and estab
lished himself in the secluded home we have
described, devoting himself to the welfare
and happiness of his sole remaining treas
ure.
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At first thought a weather-beaten sailor
may seem a strange instructor for a little
girl, even though he be her father; but
though Captain Leigh, from the early age at
which he went to sea, was necessarily but
imperfectly educated, he had availed him
self of the abundant leisure his profession
afforded, to become an exceeding well-read
man, and, better still, he had pondered on
what he read. In all, save the strictly fem
inine acquirements and accomplishments,
which she learned at school, little Margaret
lintry.
gEtEttialts.
Margaret's Fortunes
A TRUE sronr.
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 17, 1858.
was her father's pupil, and it would have
been difficult to find a more able or gentler
instructor. Side by side the father and
child would sit fur hours, in warm weather,
in the summer house, in winter, in the cosy
parlor, while with equal interest they pur
sued the task in hand; for Margaret pos
sessed that eagerness to learn which is more
efficacious than genius for the acquirement
of knowledge. She loved, when the geogra
phy lesson was finished, to look over the
map, while her father pointed out the con
fines of the country they had been reading
about, and frequently added front his own
observation particulars of its inhabitants,
that individualised it to her mind, so that
the knowledge was never forgotten. In
like manner, history, science, and many
other subjects were discussed, until above
the barren facts there arose fruitful illustra
tions and explanations which rendered study
charming.
Conducted in this manner, Margaret
Leigh's education more resembled that
sound invigorating culture bestowed on boys,
than the superficial knowledge which is
usually esteemed sufficient fur girls. Alge
bra even found favor with these secluded
students; and when the first difficulties ware
overcome, they really enjoyed the employ
ment. It was strange to see the young girl
sitting there, with her sunny face and golden
ringlets, bending over the abstruse calcula
tions; and if by chance she attained the so
lution before her father, to hear the merry
laugh that rang through the room, when he,
with feigned reluctance owned her victory.
It was at this time, when Margaret was
about sixteen, that her father first proposed
to teach her navigation. She agreed, with
delight (even to less ardent scholars the sci
ence is a pleasant one;) and every subse
quent day, when noon approached and the
weather was clear, the captain and his
daughter were to be seen upon the cliff, sex
tant in hand, awaiting the proper moment
to take sun's altitude; and afterwards de
scending to the nook, they worked out the
latitude by aid of logarithms, and then
tracing the course of ideal ships upon the
charts, discussed how they should steer to
gain their destination, and escape the dan
gers which beset them; or else the busy tau.
dents corrected imaginary errors in chro
nometers, by lunar observation.
Unlike their other studies, all this could
not be achieved without attracting observa
tion, and many were the well-meaning re
monstrances Captain Leigh met with, from
his female friends, on the extraordinary ed
ucation he was bestowing on his daughter.
"What can you think will be the end of
it, Captain Leigh," they exclaimed, "teach
ing her things out of any woman's province?
No good ever come to girls of such unfemi
nine knowledge. You may expect she will
run off to sea, some morning, disguised as a
boy!"
"Indeed I expect no such thing," replied
the old seaman, laughing, "I consider that
all knowledge is, or may be, useful, and can
never be an incumbrance."
"She had much better learn to rule an
honest man's house," persisted one of his
counsellors; "it won't forward that much,
to desire the cook to put the meat 'hard-a
port' instead of on the spit."
The remainder of the party laughed at
this; but scarcely so loud as did Captain
Leigh himself.
"But many an honest man has not a
house—only a ship," he retorted; "and then
both accomplishments would be equally
useful. If her husband be sick she could
guide his ship; if she have sailor sons, she
could help their education. And setting all
these considerations aside, as I have done,"
he added, gravely, "why should not the intel
lect of woman be enlarged and strengthened
by various kinds of knowledge, as well as
that of man? and why should nn enquiring
mind be dwarfed and crippled, because it
dwells in a female form?"
"You will stultify her young brain," ob
served another. But the sound of Marga
ret's birdlik voice, singing joyously through
the cottage, seemed so eloquently to refute
that assertion, that the visitors retreated,
silenced though not convinced; leaving the
captain's eccentric ideas unchanged.
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One day, after a violent storm, Captain
Leigh sat in the little summer house, striv
ing to invent an instrument for measuring
the speed of the waves, which came rushing
up channel with great rapidity. Margaret
stood beside him, watching the attempt with
equal interest. Suddenly she uttered an
exclamation of surprise, and pointed to a
vessel which had approached unobserved,
while they were thus occupied. She was a
large ship and had evidently encountered
severe weather; for all her masts had been
carried away, and their places were supplied
by jury-masts."
It soon became evident that the stranger
was about to enter the port, and Margaret
stood leaning intently over the iron fence
that guarded the nook, watching the ship as
she drew near, and then passed almost be
neath her lofty stand. Close as she lived to
the ocean, it was the first time that Marga
ret had ever seen a large vessel dismantled;
and as she looked on the shattered bulwarks,
the broken wheel, the heatless deck and the
splintered remains of what had once been
lofty masts, she felt as if she had never be
fore rightly comprehended her father's tales
of the howling winds and raging waters,
and the fearful scene of crashing timbers
and wave-swept decks, among which the
foundering vessel yields to her fate, or by a
merciful Providence, joined to the skill, en
ergy and daring of her crew, escapes that
doom, and arrives at her destination, a bat
tered, wave worn hull, like that before her.
The news soon spread through Dartmouth
that the new-comer had suffered great dis
asters at sea; that in the commencement of
the storm which had cost her her mast, her
captain and chief mate had been swept off
by a sea, so that during the trying period
which followed, the command and responsi
bility had devolved on the second mate, a
young man not long out of his apprentice
ship; and all the crew were loud in their
praise of his presence of mind and skill, to
which alone they considered they owed their
preservation.
Such a report was enough to attract the
attention of one who regarded moral courage
and good seamanship us much as Captain
Leigh did; and as he bare his honors mod
estly, he soon became a great favorite with
the old gentleman, and a welcome guest at
Koss Nook, as the cottage was called.
It soon appeared that the owners of the
ship Alfred Walpole had saved entertained
so high an opinion of his services that he
was not only desired to see her properly re
paired, but also appointed to the command
when she should be again sea-worthy. And
though he was greatly occupied during the
day there were few evenings in which he
did not appear at the cottage, to ask its
master's advice concerning some of the re
pairs in progress on the Sea Queen; and
while they sat discussing naval aschitecture
and marine affairs in general, and the old
sailor related many a tale of bygone peril a
more observant man would have noted how
often his guest's eye followed the light form
of his daughter as she flitted about the gar
den, or was bent on her sweet face while
she sang, or played the exquisite pieces of
the old masters, in which she so much de
lighted.
It was not until the good ship was nearly
ready for sea, that Captain Leigh's eyes
were opened to the attachment which
already bound together the hearts of his
daughter and his friend. We will not say
it did not give him a pang. To the parent
of an only daughter the discovery can
scarcely be painless that a day is coming
when lie shall be called upon to give her up,
to be the joy and light of another home.—
Captain Leigh was not a worldly man;
therefore the knowldedge that her suitor
was not wealthy caused him little regret,
especially as he really prized the young
sailor's worth and gallantry, and had him•
self a sufficiency to bequeath to his daughter:
so as blithely as he could, not to cloud their
joy, he yielded his consent to their marriage,
only imposing on their constancy the trial
of waiting until the Sea Queen should have
performed a voyage to India and back.
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Regretfully, but with the hopefulness
natural to those whom life has shown its
brightest side, Margaret and Wal pole parted,
mutually consoling themselves with the
thought that the few months of absence
would soon pass by, and each secretly pon
dering schemes to occupy the time. Wal
pole resolving to read and study so as to
improve himself, that he might be a more
fitting companion for the intelligent being
who had promised him her hand; and Mar
garet intending to pay more attention than
ever to domestic affairs—though her father
already declared her the very model of a
housekeeper—and to work with her own
hands the bridal dress and veil she should
require on the Sea Queen's return.
Old Captain Leigh had his resolution
likewise, and it was that crc Margaret be
came a sailor's wife she should learn to
swim. How the young girl's laughter rang
through the nook at this proposal! and how
vehemently she declared it the very drollest
fancy which had ever taken possession of
her dear fathers brain! and in a tone whose
gravity mimicked his own, she suggested
areial locomotion as preferable; and when
laughter failed had recourse to coaxing.—
But Captain Leigh was neither to be laughed
nor persuaded out of anything which he
deemed right, and considered it essential to
his daughter's safety that in marrying a
sailor (when she might sometimes be on a
ship-board,) she should be able to save her
self in case of wreck or accident. He did
not tell her how he had seen one, young and
Lair as she was, fall overboard on a sunny
day, and, ere aid could come, sink out of
reach; but that remembrance decided him.
Autumn and winter had passed, and sum
mer had come again, and Margaret had got
over her first fear of the deep water, and
even began to enjoy that feeling of inde
pendance which comes to the swimmer when
he fells himself moving at will in the yield
ing element; and ero the summer drew to
its close Alfred Walpole returned, and they
were married, the bridegroom receiving as
a welcome and unexpected gift from his
father-in-law a part-ownership in the Sea
Queen, which had been purchased on his
behalf.
It had been settled that as Captain Leigh
had no other child, and Walpole would be
so much away, Margaret should remain her
father's companion; but in consideration of
the warm attachment of the young people,
and the short period which would again
seperate them, the kind-hearted old gentle.
man proposed that Margaret should accom
pany her husband on his first voyage. The
young people were delighted, and Margaret
thought how charming it would be to see
with her own eyes those lands which her
father had so often described, and to return
to talk with him of them again.
When the hour for parting came, however.
Margaret found nothing could compensate
for the pain of leaving one whose life for
years had been devoted to her; not even
the thought of her return, of which the
brave old man spoke, could check her tears.
But with one of her age and joyous dispo
sition, the depression did not last long, and
ere the first outline of Madeira broke
through the silver haze, Margaret was again
her own brilliant self, noting all thingivrith
an observant gaze; charmed with the gorge
ous tropic sky, and the graceful tropic bird
floating like a snowy star in mid-air; watch
ing the tiny bark of the nautilus, as it
floated quickly by, on the clear blue sea, or
that yet smaller voyager, called by sailors
the Portuguese man-of-war, with its tissue
like sail reflecting in the sunshine the
brightest prismatic hues. The dolphins;
the silver flying-fish, flashing out of the
waves; the porpoises; the floating sea-weed
—all were objects of pleasure and interest to
her. And the glorious summer nights, bow
they delighted her! when the stars shone
forth in the cloudless sky with dazzling bril
liancy, the well known constellations which
had been her friends from childhood, grad
ually sinking towards the northern horizon,
while the more splendid star-worlds of the
south rose nightly higher above her head,
and most remarkable of them all, the well
known Southern Cross. Then, when the
hour of noon came round, she never failed
to share her husband's task, of taking ob
servations, and afterwards working out the
Sea Qeeu's day's progress, as she had often
in the nook done that of imaginary ships;
thus Margaret's life on the ocean was never
dreary.
Then they touched at strange lands; and
Margaret saw Rio Janeiro, with its splen
did scenery and gorgeous flowers; the Afri
can Cape, with its mountain crest and the
fair city nestling at i:s feet; Mauritius, that
garden of the south, whose valleys are im
mortalized by the romance of Paul and Vir
ginia; and then Calcutta, the eastern city of
palaces. From this point Margaret had
hoped to return home to the parent whom
both his letters and her own heart pictured
as being lonely without her. But the charm
of travel was yet new; therofore it was with
less regret that she learned- that the Sea
Queen had been chartered for a voyage to the
Philippine Islands and back. And a beau
tiful voyage it was, coasting the fair islands
of the Eastern Archipelogo, and threading
their mazes, while the perfumed air that
swept through the spice groves filled the
Sea Queen's sails, and sent her on her way.
On their return to Calcutta there came a
little daughter to fill yet higher the cup of
Margaret's happiness. What a treasure the
young mother felt her as she clasped her to
her bosom! and what an intense longing
there came over her to present this new
blessing to her beloved father, who she
knew would prize it so highly! and she felt
impatient for her homeward voyage to be
gin. But for the first time in her life Mar
garet's wishes were to be thwarted, and she
shed floods of tears on finding that the Sea
Queen was to return once more to the Phil
ippines; despite her husband's attempts at
consolation, in the first hours of disappoint
ment she felt as if some great misfortune
threatened her.
MIMES
Margarcts presentiments wercnot destined
to belong unrealized; for in passing through
the straits of Malacca, the Sea Queen was
overtaken by one of the sudden gale 3 pecu
liar to those latitudes, in which she lost her
mizen top-mast, and sadder loss stil, her
second mate, who fell from one of the yards
into the sea, which was at time surging and
boiling angrily around them, so that no aid
could be given to the drowning man. A
few days after they arrived at Manilla, and
there they were attcked by fever; and the
first mate and two of the crew sank beneath
it. Margaret trembled for the safety of her
husband and child; but satisfied with these
victims, the disease passed away, and with
out further casualty the Sea Queen comple
ted her valuable lading of cigars and spices,
which she was to convey to England.
A few days after their departure, in pass
ing through the Archipelago, the ship ar
rived at an island rarely visited, but which
was said to abound in precious stones, and
to be peculiarly rich in the beautiful large
pearls of the Orient. Walpole had orders to
pause here, and purchase some of these; so
anchoring in the bay opposite a cluster of
huts which formed the town, ho loaded a
boat with various articles of merchandise for
barter, and started for the shore. This ex
pedition among people known to be unciv
ilized caused Margaret much anxiety; but
her husband laughed at her fears, and as
the boat sped on towards the land lie waved
his hand gaily to her, as she stood on the
deck with her child in her arms.
She held up the babe in answer to the
reefing, and then looked after him. until
his form was lost in the distance; when lay
ing down the child, she resumed her watch
with the aid of the telescope. She saw the
boat approach the strand, and the natives
come crowding to the beach; she saw the
Malay interpreter stand up in the boat to
explain the reason of their visit; she saw,
though she could not hear the noisy demon
strations of joy at the information, amid
which her husband and companions landed,
and took their goods on shore; then the
crowd concentrated, so that she could see no
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more; and with a sigh of anxiety she laid
down the glass and tried to assure herself
that all would go well.
Half an hour and Margaret was again
leaning over the vessel's side, glass in hand.
There was now a larger and denser crowd,
and natives were hurrying in from every
direction, and to Margaret's horror, they
were armed. Hastily mentioning this to
the third mate, who was now in command,
she requested an armed boat's crew might
be sent to aid, which was instantly done,
and then she returned to her watch. It was
a fearful sight that awaited the poor wife:
an infuriated mob, with uplifted weapons, and
wild yells which rang far over the water,
and brought to her very ears the knell of
her husband's death—for what chance had
a handful of men among hundreds of armed
savages, maddened by thirst for plunder?
Meanwhile the second boat's crew hastened
away; but when they drew near the natives
mocked them, and cast out a dark object
towards them—it was a human head, the
men said their captain's. To have gone on
would hove been uselessly to cast away their
lives; so that the boat's crew returned re
luctantly without their shipmates.
Thus by a fearful death, and almost be
neath her own eye, did Margaret lose her
husband. The blow was terrible, and for a
time overwhelmed her; but she roused her
self from her deep sorrow to entreat that a
boat might be sent to endeavor to recover
his remains. It was done, but fruitlessly;
not a vestige existed of the day's events,
save the crimson stains upon the sand.—
And with heavy hearts the ship's crew
raised the anchor and spread the sails; and
Margaret felt as if her heart would break
as she found herself speeding on her home
ward journey alone, and almost desolate.
She dared not think of it, she said men
tally; and yet days and weeks passed, and
she thought of nothing else, and the words
with which she soothed her child to sleep
wre murmured mournings over their loss.—
At length the smiles of her little Alice
roused her to the recollection that she had '
duties still left, both to her child and her
aged father, who had loved her with so fond
and generous a love, that she resolved to
fulfil them; but it is a thing thing trying to
live after our best beloved have departed.
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Meanwhile the Sea Queen was bounding
along under the command of the former
third mate, who now assumed the title of
Captain Hulk; and Margaret thought no
more of her once favorite occupation of tra
cing the vessel's course. But one day in a
difficulty, Hulk applied to her for assistance,
and then she discovered that the Sea Queen
was considerably out of her proper course,
for by defective observations he had lost all
knowledge of the longtitude, and by omit
ting to change the manner of calculating
after crossing the line, he was even out as to
the latitude.
It was at once evident to Margaret that,
though an excellent practical seaman—
which was all poor Walpole required of him
—Hulk was quite incompetent to his pres
ent position, and that if he were allowed to
retain command of the Sea Queen, not only
would the safety of the ship, but her own
life, and that of her child, be endangered.
This thought roused the young mother from
her indulgence of grief, and she herself un
dertook the navigation of the ship, a task
Hulk was quite ready to cede to her; though
as a matter of dignity, he invariably sat
down to the cabin table, and went through
the form of making up the day's work,
though he never came to a right conclusion.
The navigation of the sea Queen brought
Margaret into a frequency of communication
with this man, who was forward and self
sufficient, as well as ignorant, and made
himself exceedingly disagreeable, by intru
ding himself upon her on the slightest ex
cuse—nay, sometimes without any; and as
time went on lie even began to rally her on
the necessity of keeping up her spirits. and
looking on the bright side of life again.
To a delicate and sensitive nature like
Margaret's this bold familiarity was most
repulsive; but she could scarce believe the
strange fears which, like dark spectres,
flitted across her thoughts, or credit that the
late third mate meant more than to reproach
her for her grief, when one day he ventured
to insult her recent widowhood, by breaking
forth into praise of her beauty and grace;
and ere she could stop him, ended by pro
posing himself as her husband.
During as Hulk was, Margaret's burst of
indignation awed him, and when she com
manded him from her presence, he retired
silent and humbled. But this impression
did not last long; he knew, as well as did
Margaret herself, how impossible it was fur
her to avoid him, and over and uver again
he took advantage of the intercourse which
the management of the ship necessitated, to
obtrude upon her some expression of his
feelings.
Many were the bitter tears Margaret shed
over this indignity; but the sense of it
aroused a spirit of resistance in her heart
which she had neversuspected she possessed,
and silently and gradually, so as not to ex
cite Hulk's suspicions, she changed the ves
sel's course, and while that worthy was
inwardly congratulating himself that Mar
garet could not escape his persecution for
the next three months, the Sea Queen was
steadily bearing down upon the Cape, from
which by Hulk's method of calculation, she
was still three hundred miles to the east
ward, and when one evening the look-out
aloft cried, "Land!"
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"Impossible!" was the reply. We are far
enough from any land."
"Yet it shows quite plain, sir; high land
on the leo bow."
Still incredulous, Hulk wont aloft, and
there clearly defined against the evening sky
was a deep blue tracing of hills. 'Without
a word, he went below to communicate this
to Margaret.
"It is the Cape," she said quietly; and
taking down a chart she began to trace the
ship's course upon it. "We must steer nor'
west, Mr. llulk, until we pass these rocks;
then we will bear closer into land. We
will put in for a week to refresh."
For a few moments Hulk was silent from
pure astonishment, then, while a wicked
gleam flashed from his eyes, he said, calm
ly,
"And then we can be married!'
"Mr. Hulk," exclaimed Margaret indig
nantly, have I not already told you I will
not suffer such language:"
Ile laughed a scornful laugh. "That
must be as I please, fair lady, not as you
please. And now remember I am captain
of this ship; and I say she shall not go into
Table Bay unless you promise to become
my wife."
The determined manner and daring tone
in which these words were pronounced,
made Margaret trembld; but it was not the
moment to quail, or all was lost. So firmly
and fearlessly she declared, as part-owner,
her intention of putting into Table Bay, and
directed the insolent officer to go on deck
and see her orders obeyed, But he did not
go until he had made many vain efforts to
frighten her into compliance; and then he
went with muttered threats, which alarmed
her the more that they were indefinite.
Ascending to the deck, Hulk commenced
walking over her head with a quick moody
tread. Hour after hour the sound contin
ued; but faster and faster, as if the walker
pondered on something which disturbed
In renewed alarm, Margaret remembered
his threat of standing out to sea, but a
glance at the "tell-tale" above her head re
assured her—the course was still nor-west.
At length she heard him call the crew
aft. Wondering what this might mean, she
was about to go on deck, but at the foot of
the companion a voice arrested her; and
there, unsuspected, she stood, and overheard
Hulk unfolding to the crew a proposal to
take possession of the ship and cargo, to
come over to America and Pell them, and
then share the proceeds.
A shout of applause, which curdled Mar
garet's blood, followed this speech. Then
Hulk went on to say that, though it was
lawful for a captain to marry in blue-water,
yet he could not marry himself; therefore
he intended that his mate should marry him
to Margaret on the following morning. A
shout of laughter followed this, in which no
voice was raised for the helpless widow but
that of the ship's black cook, who remarked:
"Perhaps de poor lady not like such rough
man."
But a blow from Hulk struck this solitary
partisan to the deck.
Crushed down with misery and despair,
Margaret crept back to tl•e cabin and stood
beside her child with clasped hands and
reeling brain. The nett moment the course
of the Sea Queen was changed, and she
stood out to sea; and through the cabin
windows Margaret could see the dark out
line of the land she had so longed for, and
was now going from.
Suddenly n warm gush thrilled through
her heart, and a bright light gleamed in her
eyes, and hastily collecting the most Talim
bic of the jewels which Walpole had be
stowed on her, she secured them in her
dress; then lifting her sleeping child from
its little berth she approached a window
where Walpole's care had fixed a rope to
aid her descent in case of accident, and by
its assistance she slid down into the sea.
The ship passed on, and she was alone in
the wide waters. Fortunately for Margaret.
the calmness of the early morning was on
them; and there, in the leo of the land,
even the long ocean-swell was scarce per
ceptible, yet it was a fearful situation. But
it was for life and freedom bile struggled.
and these thoughts banished fear. Clasping
Alice in one arm, she stretched out with the
other towards the land, which was not far
distant.
But so burthened, her progress was:ne
cessarily slow. Alternately swimming and
floating, for a short time she continued her
wearying way, though the coldness of des
pair, chillier than the encircling waters,
gathered round her heart, as she perceived
how little her efforts availed. Suddenly,
with the rapidity peculiar to those latitudes,
dawn burst over the sea, and it revealed to
Margaret a vessel near at hand, bearing
down towards her. For a moment her heart
seemed to leap for joy at this near hope of
rescue; but it was quickly followed by a
trembling fear whether the vessel might not
pass her by unseen, or whether it might not
sail over her, and so end her sorrows and
fears together.
The next instant, oh, joy! a boat was low
ered, and the exhausted woman and child
lifted carefully into it. The vessel was a
coaster, proceeding to Table Bay: and
thither it bore Margaret and her infant.—
Thecaptain landed with them, and took them
to his house, where they were made most
truly welcome. But the agitation and ex
posure had been too much for Margaret. and
a severe fever ensued, during which she re
mained the guest of her rescuer; but life