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THE HAUNTED SCHOONER.
A FRESH .WATE I R SKETCI.
Br GEORGE S. R 11310 ND
It is-many years ago-t ! ! so. - far: back on!
my life voyage that I have
,forgotten-the'
precise .yetir in which the ; somewhatlpeeu-'
liar and nhtlial very strange at first; but
eitiemely simple in, the end, circuhistan
•ces,.Ot rather several icom
biped of which nni aboiii to
relate the particulars. 'lt is all so vividly
impressed on my. !that .wer . 4l I to
live ihundred'years yetOt Would stilt re
main in my memory as j fresh as though
the events were but a - single monthigone
by.
I was but a boy then in, years, although
I Was a man in stature and s nalitiealexpe
:rience, for . could haul: the weather:gear
'ins. of a six hundred ton iship in
,a gale of
wind as quick as any man of her-,vhole
,crew ; and I had made! two. voyages -as
chief mate, one - to -Indialand one t 9 the
north of Europe ' _when I learned" that
much better wags werepaid on the:iwest
ern lakes than at sea, that a' steadyi
. young man, capable of c f pnniinding : ;a x'es
sel, could almost aid-avk get :one Within,
two or three years on "Lake. Erie or iOnta
rio, which was morethan he could . liqpe
to do at sea, Unless lie lin& inoney—nr , in-1
fluential friends;' and asi I had neither of
these, I determined to (Ink the sea and
try fnylortuneS' oh the lakes. - • 1
"Stickett's Harbor was'.the nearest 'port,
znd as I had been inforMed that it was
about the best place .short, of Buffalo to
get a berth, there-being; ' usually a good,
many vessels laid up,there every w i inter,-
I shaped my course for that place, and af
ter several adventures of slight interest
any one except myself, Ilmd arrivecrwith
in five miles of my journey's end, TWhen
the old:fashioned lumbej-ing stage illeigh
in which fwas the passenget't got'
stuck first in a huge snow-drift that i com
pletely blocked up. the rciad: . •
It was a. bit ter cold freezing 'nigh Ond I
suffered more during. the half hour' that I
was engagM in assisting the driver to ex
tricate Alis teatri.than I had everPiNne hi
the .most severe winter's gale on• the
coast of America.
. had passed a corkfortable looking
log:house a-few hundred!yards back, and
as it was found impossible. to proceed, We
decided to turn back (alVery sage-cOnclu
sion,kby the way,)and se4 Adler frit. -our
selves and the poor horses, till morning.
We were met at the door by a tine
stout-looking young* - Olow, who having
heard, our request, bade 'us wek:ome. and
insisted upon, our entering the houtle and
getting ourselves warm, while bkdispos
ed of the horses. .
There was little urging neeessari, for
we were both more trian7half frozeN and
we wee soon seated before a blight., bla
zing wood fire, while a fine, nobie-h - joking
woman, of perhaps Ibrtyi and a Ifait:, To,sy
checked girl of sixteen; whose • features
were so like those of the elderfemalkhat
it needed no one to tellime they.wete mo
ther.atia daughter, set about preparing
supper, which, by the time we were thor
-oughlyWarmed and the yotmg ; man had
returned , from the barn / was placed upon
which as soon as our boy
host had divested himself of a stout, ser- .
vicable!peajacket 4m/7u-ester, We sat.
down, hind never,befori ;or singe have I
partaken of a Meal that relished a 4 hell
as did that plain, substantial supper,
.of
which everything excepti the tea was pro
. duced on the little farm: where it was eat
en.
The stage driver was acquainted-with
the family, to whom he had introdntted me
so far as he could without,. knowing "him.'
self who I was,'" any further than ithat
was a sailer. bound froth Boston tfti. Sack
ett's Harbor. But on the otherhand, the
introduction was mere definite, US I learn-.
ed that the lady was a widoW, !named
Spencer, and that the noble-lookingyoung
fellow, together with the beautiful girl, I
were her children, 'Wharton 'and . I:ovina
Spencer ; the first, a stout, manly fellow I
of nineteen, and a sailor Iwithal, l al . id the
latter twayears younger, and .fitir and
beautiful a creature as had ever. seen.
There is ever a speci'es of natural. free
masonry existing among ' sailors, unknown
to landsmen, dra'Ws out their kin-1
dred . sympathies, and [makes I thOm ac
quainted with each other oftener ; ..iat the
first meeting, and under 'eirCutOtances
where men of any other profession; or oc-
cugation wotifarr cumin entire strangers.
So it was - uitliyoung . t spetlcert, and my
self that night, and long hetore supfier was
ended, we were•eonversing sociablas
though we had= know* each' . Oilier for
years" • . 1 1 . I •
Nor was the acquaintance. coithnedtO.
cis alone, for Mrs. Spentyir and LOvina min=l
gled their conversation with ours,o that.'
Within au hour from the time I elittired.,
the house,. I wa* gni te ias much at. home.',
among my new friends ;as if I had dmOwn
them for years, and I did: not regret the
circumstance which hattturned his back.-
- The stage driver retired to bed son af
ter supper . •! but I. remained in conversa- '
tion with the family till liOng 'past "mid-
night, during whit time I. hadjearnect
from. the widow and her; seen mnil Of their
history for some fiVeyears past, - Which in
substance was briefly this • •
• Mrs. Spencer's husband had been fur
many years the commander'of a vessel on
a lake, and atthe time'of • his death, not
quite five years back, he was the sole own
er of a fine schooner which he had:Aaunch
-ed some - three.months
Capt. --'s brothe• 'mer.pittuit,re-
...apt. Spencer's brother, a
siding at Sackett's Harbor, was L i appointed
•
executor and administrator of tin estate,
estate,
and - within three weeks lafter hia brother's
death,..M.r. John Spencer produced claims
against the estate to an amount far exeeed ,
ing the value of the 4ehooner, together '
with a valuable 'farm situated o Ole bay:
shore about four miles from Sackett's both-?
,
of which the merchant took possession of,
turning the . wido* andher two fatherless 1
children out from \ their , orn.forbsblii: home,-
l er
: penniless upon e txtlfi charitiek; of tko 1
world.• • 1
But Mrs. Spen w4B' not
foimany of the. masters of vi
more \of' the cidiumon .eallors,j
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VO,L. 17. ;
known Oapt. Spencer', puti their headtfand
their mites' together and after purchasing
forty acres of land; ;hey prOeured the ma-
•tmials fora house and barn,lan4 then turn-1 -
hig out pi "'mac With nipiy of the citizens I
and neighberingfafmers, they put up the.
wo buildings, Cleared some eight acres of
land, and after having provided provis
ions. amply sullicient a•year's consump-1
tion, they installed the widow and her
-children in their new hente,-- Where. they
\yere quite iS:Comfoitable as they had-been
in that from which they Were driven by
- the avariecandffrand of their uujinit rela-,
five: J,,
Whatton told me in conclusion, that the
schooner, whiehliis'unele still owned, had
beenlizinnted everlsince about sts months
,
after he tool: possession ()flier: - •
" Haunted r inquiVek in astonish
ment.; how is she haunted, or - what
.with ?"I• . • • -
"0, we don! know that," replied the
young man ; ‘i F tliat's - whittlputzles- - every
' body; but haunted she -niost certainly is,
and with the Most:strange noises, too that
I ever heard.
, .
. _
-‘‘ Abnut sib months aftermy uncle got
her, he !changed her rig, by taking:out her
long masts and putting in shorter ones,.
making her a topsail scl°otter instead of
'a fore-and-after, as - she vas •before ; . and
i
ever since. that : She has b en haunted. He •
can never get any one, either captain, °M.
errs' or Men, to go •iii her more than. two
or three months at'a time, on account - of
the dreadful noises, and last season he was
obliged; to..lay; her up
. altogether,; as he
could get no one to"p m her et any price.
He would sell ilhe could; but nobody
will b - her, flit. shel,is known all about
Lake Ontario as the-.'haunted schooner;'
and people fear her." . .
•" Do ') ,- ou think I could get her?" I 'in
quired, 'after I had heardAMirton's ac-.
count. • ` - - . - .. - . -
"Gee her! Yes, an . (tdouble wages, too,
1 ifyou'll!go in:her.7 . - 1 . - .. ~
I ' ` . l'herr‘rrti in luck,"l replied, "for I
I will moSticertaihly go in the vessel WI can
get the:eh:ince:"
"And will vou,give me a mate's berth,
Isir ?" he inquired , after ...-' moment's pause:
• "Provided I, fret the schooner—yes."
i "Thank you, sirc-and iow I'll tell you
1. whatl Wish you would do. lt'll be more
1 than a month yet, before „it's time to fit
out
' and you may as well stay here with
t us-as tofive among' Strangers in' the vil-
Ilac , e. To-morrow morning I will go with
. .
I vou tolsaCkett s, when
.yiu can make your
Ant-gain; wiih my - tincle,.l and then come
" back h4re with me, where you shall be
,
I Welcome to such 141'e:- as.we have till . it's
time tofiti-ont the schooner."
Mrs. spencer and toll,'
entreaties to those of. WI
i own inclinations. disposin
i
the kind. invitation, I
yo nng . man's_ proposal, ai
a member of a faniily arlj
hog I had.never before 1!
After breakfast on-thi
ing; we assisted the dri.
team thronah the snow
than an hour after, Wh - :
myself stood on the
harbor, exiunining th
-
which I found to be a
craft of about .one hund i ,
and froth what I could
fay there frozen in solid,
a'N'ery ;pretty modelle
nothing of the `unreal nr supernatural in
her appearanee, nnd I Made up my mind
at once:. that,• provided I could get the
comniand . of her, I w Juld weather out
one season in her in spi eof all the strange.
noises in creation:,
When we left the wh.
ed out to Me the reside,
which I entered alone,
out azain- two hours.af
commander of the I
. - Swallow, with a glary
that olany otlier eapta ;
It was a bargain of
sides. TMr. John Spein
the comm ind !of his
beeau t ie cotdd-aet n.
at anyinice; and I had
I could not get a-tia.%
,
else.
At the village hotel;
Lin conversation ivith
felloW,! whom be introd
rowsin4 Mr: Johnh Spene
Lsras,.:-.pruch plea.sed;.al
an emir with the .t w
which time I infohned
poiotnietit to the comm
schooner, learned a grel,
return froth my new a
. _
ammrr; them the,thet th
cer •Jr..,,was in love wi‘
in Lovina, and that,. his
er hadlforbidden him t
of her is his. vilife; and
b6ing iambiput of do.
ed forever. 1.
I did not offer any a
ses the:lll4, but det
mind, that I Nrould do
portunity, and having
refreshments, Wharton
home, Promising_ to me
.days,at the hotel till th;
dy to ' • I
• Springcame atlengt i
up, navigation. Vas ag:
`calm; beantiftil day in
Mira, Wharton and •
operations on lboard th
her out for the bitlines
60a.:
Th - ree day of fine
pas!ied off, wail in all f"
. ,
pea;
indicative of the su tural had been
heard about, the vessel, I, had ransacked
her all over, fore and 1 below and aloft,
the hold;forciatie and bin, and for all
ts..! B
ni,.
that I Could &sower, e was as free from
ghosts awl eil spirits any emit I had
ever been in. , ', • , ]
TwO night • N‘r had slept together in I
the cabin -wit Out havi g heard the slight- 1
est Unaccoun ble sound, and INCAS begin-
Mug to thi • as I lay there in my bunk
aboitt ten o'Clock' of the third, night, that j
the haunting had all been a matter of jai %
agination, or that the goblins * had all per-
ishedby hunger , and fr ost, shut, nvthere',
alone .during The long Old winter-,--When
all at oneie I Waal star ted, and I must ad-,
mit a - good deal frightened, by a•strange,
'peculiar" noisicyllicla speared to, come
friendless,
ssoB and
who had
- 'R. .
//o/E JOIN THE.PARTYAIICARRIES - THE FIAG, AND KEEPS ,STEP:TO - THE MUSIC OF THE-UNION.-
ma joined their
[ hatton,- and ins .
g
me to accept
!onsented to the
nd retired to rest,
lom till that even
ear& cf. .
c fAowinr. inorn
ter in getting his.
lo artier, atiditi less
rton Spencer and
lhart at Sackett's
haunted vessel,
:tout, Sue looking
ed and forty tons,
;ee ,o 1 her as she.
she seemed to be
d schooner, with
yf, Wharton point
.ce of his uncle,
nd when I came
, etwards, it was as
aunted Schooner
-cry_ nearly double
n on Lake Ontario.
!iecessity dn both
er•had given me
• sel and extra pay,
one to go in. her
taken hey - because
's lierth anywhere
found 'Wharton,
,handsome young
teed - to me- as .
ter,'Jr., with wh6m
iu toter spending,'
cousins; • during
ithem of -my up.
mi. Utile haunted
it many Things in
CquaintaneeS ; and
at Mr. John' Spen
lh his pretty cons
lery antiableTath
visit her,, Or think
r the penalty- of
ra and disinherit-
,
vice in the prenii - -
ruiined in ny own
.o at a fitting :4:1) 7
iiirtalien of 80111 C
and-I set out for.
Johns every few
sehooner was rea-
;Hthe ice broke
open, and on a
rho !latter part of
yself commenced
• Swallow, fitting
of the -sailing sea-
pleasant weather
t than not a sound
- SIONTROSE, PA.;, .THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1860
through the bulkhead from the bold; and I
seemed to,fill the whole cabin untit:the
air vibrated, as it w ill Mider the deep bass 1
tones of a violin, in a close, still room.
At first; the sound lilts a low monoto
nous moan or wall, l 'different._ from any
thing I have ever hearil, so that I cannot -
describe it by comParikum.; 'hut if it - was
like anything hurnan;ii WU the faintf_long
drawn-Mit moan of a aytils; ipflint, Wort--
ed by the last terribled.eath agony.- •
For- a few—perhalis five minutes, it
continned, when it,„ceilsed, and aMoment
afterwards theie burs4fortli; a wild tierce
shriek, so shrill, so. fulof horror, that my
hair seemed to stand, on end, and blood
chilled curdling back to my heart. • .
The.shriek• died awiiy m a'-mournful,
.dirge-like cadence, au4 was followed by a
succession of quick nervous cries, imita
ting very nearly 'die sharp, yelping hark,
of a pack of half-famished wolVes, .when
close upon their prey.- a • .
Then, there followeda piercing whistle,
a chirping as of small !birds, - croaking ,of
frogs, hisses, anti a huridred other strange
noises that no cembinition of letters' can .
repiesent, nor any coniparison give nn idea
ofit; at one -moment separately, mid the
next altogether, and Imingling with low
sweet strains of duce dulcer n music, as of the
gentle zephyr's breatiii stealing softly over
the - finer wires of the !tEolian harp.
And thus it was ill throughout the
night, shrieks and uiliStles and moans,
with thousand itniffke, :hideous noises;
while without, the niOt was pitchy dark,
the rain poured down Tara perfect ileluge,
I and the wind howled an wild, fitful gusts,
1 and shrieked back to. the goblin voices in
the_ bold from the rigging, and altogether
I it was a night of horrqr such as Ihad• nev
er experienced befoie,.i . and 'determined
to Abandoe . the hauntid craft with the
coming dawn . to Anybne who. chose . to
take her; for I had a hundred times
to myself, " I s will not "go in. this demon-
haunted schooner." t • •
But I grew familiar iwith the sounds at
last,,and - when,day-ligilt came, I was rea
dy to laugh at my'cowrd .fears l and said
to,Wharton t who ssfethed to 'take it. very
":gtr long as *e - are haunted b'y invisible
beings,,we:need not
. ;fear them. -They
cannot harm us, and Nte shall get used to
theiiinferual mad hon9ing after awhile.
The noises. continued all throughout the
day and succeeding night, but much faint
er than they had lipeM at first, and
When m-,e got under wieitzli the following
morning, and rounded Ship-house Point,
they suddenly' ceaseid entirely as n-e
squared away deadalimd betbre the wind
out of the bay. In ithe afternoon, how- ever, after we had gt out into the open
lake, the wind yeeredt round to the West
ward,. and the moment, we braced up,.and
hauled aft the• sheets, the invisible: spirits
"began their u•nearthl3,4din - a,E,rain, and kept
it up without a moluent's - intermission
for two whole days and nights, until the
wind flew around tO the eastward once
more when they Warne' quiet in an in
stant; whereupon I i.aurie to the eonelu
.sion that they were
_itecies of flying de-
mons,_ vexed. at :cod; totally opposed to
head winds. • t
Thus it went on tilliwe anchored on the
Canada side, near the - head of 'the. lake,
'Where we were- tolload with staves for
, the river St. Lawrence." Whenever the
winds came ahead, the fiends were out in
I their wrath, and the Moment it came -fair
;
all was quiet. . 4 t
While we were taking in our cargo, we
Made a discovery which puzzled us ex
! eeedingly. We lay to anchor, riding, of
course, head toThvitid all the time, and
during the-eight day: that were oad
, Mg, not a single strange noise was heard:
It seemed most unreasonable to us, that
spirits who would ho,W•rind scream -so at
a head - wind when wo were tinderweigh,
' should remain perfecly quiet with
"a head
i wind when we were .to an anchor. ••
When; we got underweigh with our
! hold full of `staves, the spirits began their
amiss again,: but. in a very different tone
from "that with which' thew had saluted us
-
when. the schooner was' light. There was
no longer any wild, thrilling shrieks,
, mournful wales, fierce barks, and -loud
!whistles; but in their stud, we were
I greeted with a supprOssed wheezing noise;
like that given forth by an oyertasked ox
. I whose bow chokes hint. • ;
We had many a hearty latigh during"
I our three day's
,paisage, the poor
devils, witches, ghosts, or whatever they
were, puffing and Wheezing away there in
the ola among the F4avesosThough they
were just at, the point of death from suflb.
cation. At . last, wefairlypitled the •
mis
erable things ; attd it was a relief to -us
when the schooner +ling head to wind-
ward at her--anchor in - the harbor of
~French Creek, and thy once more became
• t••• •
quiet.
More than `five months pasSed away,
and Vharton and n:vself having failed ter
trace the strange rises to any natural'
causes, were reluctantly compellM at last
to admit that the.Suiallow, was a haunted.
craft..
But we had becotne so accustomed to
our iMisiblel serenadeis, that they rather
no:need us .chap othtrwise, and we slept
just as soundly :mill their discoid:uft din
as
_should harq done on board any
other craft, or, on shire. •
. The stave -trade being done for the sea-; :
son, we ran Over to, : -Genesee River, and
loaded_ with wheat :iin- bulk for Sackett's
Harbor, where we arrived_about the ,mid.
dle-of Seyteinber,And We had remarked
that during the Whets tithe that the cargo
had been inthe vessel, a. periOd of more
than iwb Weeks, there had not Occurred a
single repetion_lof the-noises. -
- I bad remembered the old-time legend
of the maiden's : pacifying the outrageous
A ar
"Demon of the • ' Mountain,". with an
offering .of wheat,t
an I thought' that per
haPs
: the demons ot the: SWallow, being
reLatives• ; - of•Lthe "Brocken Devil.;"
: had
been at last "laid' by a whole 'cargo;
or what. seemed .quite. as probable,. they
might hare been al). - smothered outright
by the very material which had been used
.to appease- t~h© wrath of ;their -illustrious:
1 - •
Ancestor,- • - • t- - - .
•But I WAS raitaken; Or,. if th e y, had'
been • leak stiothdrd, they came to life
again rtsliarhibly !pick alter the cargo Was
out, and that mg*, after the schooner
. 1 5 .. .
. .
I was discharged,.they held old revel there
in • the hold fiercer than • anythinF I had
ever heard, even exceeding their fiftt
[grand demonstration in the spring. .We
were laying alongside the wharf, in the
very birth we had occupied &aim* the
winter, and I happened to think that ppr
lama the goblins were holding a Frand ju
bilee carousal in honor of myself for bring
ing them home once more..
It Was a wild, tempestuous night, and i
was entirely alone; the crew haying gone
aShore -to - daue,e, and . Wharten to -visit
his mother and slster,'SQ I had the weird
music all - tQ myself;• and although I was no
longer afraid of anything, yet I was . lone
some there with those strange, 'hideous,
gibbering noises all about Me, and, I was
in no wise sorry, when daylight came once
more. • •
• Directly after,, sunrise, - a- clerk in the
store of my owner came doWn to the'ves
sel, and after informing me that Mr. Spen
cer was lying . quite ilat a farm which he
owned at Stoney Island, some twelve miles.
outside the luaior, he put into. iny hand
an open letter which he had received- the
twilling previous from Mr. Spencer, in
-which he requested - him to send the
schooner Swaroff over to the 'island- im
mediately upon. her arrival, .fOr'the pur
pose of britlag himself' and several head -
of cattle froi the farm, down td Sacketes
Harbor. - b
,"Why, this is not the ~" J coin- .
menced, as, my 'eye caught the name of
Swaroff, another schooner owned by Mr.
Spencer, and • which
. I was eixpecting 'in
every - hour from Kingston. . -- • .
..
l3ut " I .cheeked myself, as a. sudde
t h ought . ashed upon my brain, and mere
ly remarking to the clerk that I would" be
off as soon as I could get MY crew aboard,
I passed np• the wharf, ,and within ,ten,
'minutes a carriage-was despatched. froM
the livery stable after Wharton :and -his
sister, with
to
'positive instuctions to
the driver to go and come like',l.ehu, and
not spare the horses. . . ,
. . I called first.upon a shrewd young law
yer, whom•l invited 'to take a short cruise
with me over to the island inthe.afternoon,
and then set out to find young John, and
conurtnicate •to him a scheme which had
just been launched in my brain, full rigged,
without one moment of study or. plotting
on my. - part, -
rfounil -hint at home and alone with
his youngest sister, a sweet, lovely girrofi
•
t eighteen,who loved her handsome Cousin
Wharton quite as devotedly - as Lovina
did her brOther; but all intercourse be
tweet' her . and Wharton had been inter
dicted-by her stern, hard-hearted parent,
and • the little beauty ' was- in , raptures
when I proposed a plan by which it seem
ed she as well as her brother and cousins,
might.easily work to windward of all pa
, rental head-winds, and steer fOr Port.
I Matrimony, under Rear Admiral IlYineo,
kwith the blue swallow-tailed pennant of
Cupid flying at-the "main''of their
h - earts,.
f Long before noon, we were all assem-
I bktd on board the schooner-John and.
'Wharton Spencer, their sisters, Lawyer
Bates, and two wealthy, influential - citizens .
, whoM I had ' invited to accompany us on
our excursion: ....
. .
We left. the wharf at noon„ and having
l '.tt•ot out clear of the western point of the
harbor, - the, schooner was kept off square
[before the strong easterly breeze, Wing
I and wing, and away in, the direction of
the Island She sped, with :alight scarcely
less rapid titan the swift bird whose name
she bore. , .
Among' he schooner's crew Was :I man
named li.e.ndrick, •a
,reckless, daredevil
sort of, a fellow, who feared nothing. lin
man or supernatural, and - Who, as I had
discovered some time previously, posses
sed -the most perfect ventriloqual_ powers
I had ever heard. ' This man I deterniined
to make nse of in my sehene,, and, having
called him aft, I made known to 'hitti'my
wishes, and gave him' the
,requisite in
structions, W hie h 6 promiged to obey• s to
the letter.
In little over an hour-from - the time we
left Sackett's larbor, . we were to -anchOr
close in with the island, near Mr. Spencer's
farm Louse, - which stood a little way back
from the beach.'
Directing my .. friends to remain oat of
sight in the cabin, I landed-with the crew,
and went directly to.. the house, were 'I
found Mr. Spencer • barely able toCrawl
abbut, haviiig had a severe attack of
cholera-inorbus,from which he was just be
ginning to recover.
' Ile was much astonished at my being
there, as he had not seen the schooner,-
and when I informed that as the Swaroff
had not arrived,. I -had : ntii , Over with the
Swallow to carry himdown -to Saskatt's,
he refused at tirst to go in her; but when
I assured him that all was - quiet on board, '
the spirits - gone on a holiday, and priiin
ised I Avonld get' tinder weigh: before
night, lie at length consented to go, and
I • set : about getting our honored, passett-
gers _off -and on board, which,. as we had
only' a smalfseow capable of carrying only,
,-one at a time, and then having them all'
t• ,
to hoist in on deck, became rather a tedious
job; and it: was :very nearly sundown
when the last scow was landed oti : deck,
Mr.' Spencer assisted in over the a side, the
Windlass manned, and the vessel ready to
be off, •
Leaving Wharton to get -the , schooner
under weigh, I- first went into the cab. ,
i in, Where, finding, my friends -all snugly
stowed away in two after - state-rooms, -I
returned.. to the desk for the purpose-of
assisting my invalid owner below.
.Ile-Was quite feeblg, at . first considera,
bly agitated, but-after listening-Tor several
minutes,
and -hearing
: no . sound, but the "
clink" of the chains - .in. the iron tiauser '
pipes, and the ."filip-slap" "of the rills as
i the windlass went :round heaving. home
'
the anchor, be became .more'composed,
•
and ;invited . me- to a aeatleside him on
the transom .locker, he . had . just.. pant
' meneed a conversation something about
II& -faith; the tows oadeek,,and how .-riar
i rawly. he had escaped death-:_w hen the
1 anchor broke ground; her head paid off,
1 the sails filia away, she, hteled down . on
1 the Starboard-tick, - and the next moment
there 'canie ' front. the' hold 'a wild, 'awful
I.sbfiek, followed by Moans,' bowl , subdiied
[cries of anguish, and a hundred'. Other.
strange,: unearthly uoikes,. more hideous
than anything I hall yet heard.on board
the demon-haunteck craft: ' - •
For, a•. few morhents. the: conscience !
cursed old man sat!thqre silent, and quiv
ering with mortal;;,Aerror, and then he
gasped-in alhusky yoice.: -
":Wha--*-wha4"—What's that? .My 'God I
what is it 2 You tooldine,--they—they
—were all ,gogonei- wet , .
sir,-1. thought they- *ere,"' I re
'plied, striving . to. look frightened. -1
For fifteen minutes the hcirriddin eon
ginned, . and 'all the time,the old 'Min lay.
there , flat on . his 'iface.',, :shutting out the
light with his fear-palsied bands, and then
all at.'enee,•startir up, he 'glared about
him for a moment, and again he-.. shouted_:
"0 Ileaienl.whatls it?" r
•
- "Does :riot your ..own conscience tell'
you what. it is, Jo4n,'Speneer,?" came in a . l
hollow, measured Yoke, apparently'*from 1
a closet in the for Ward part'of the whin.
"Quick! fly to that closet! See who it
is. There's some one in there,!"..4creamed
the Ohl map, pointing toward the -locker,
and -sinicing down again ,on the cushion.
" - sir; therels no -one here," • re
plied, flinging back the Clos4 door so as
to; reveal the wliolp interior. i*
. "My-God! what shrill I do?". exclaim
ed'the trembling inerchant.
" Make restitut i on to . the widow and
the fatherleSs for the wrong you• have
done them," spokekbe same ghostly :voice,.
.coming this time from the floor beneath
our feet. • I , • ,
"I will! - I Will!" • piped the mer
chant, in .a hoarse whisper.
"Give ythir daughter Harriet to .i , Cour
.nephew as, his wife," came thevoicethis
time from the rudder, con directly he.
hind us. •I- • * 1 •'• •
• -
"Yes-0 Ivek • I will! screamed the Old
man. •
. . .
t ' 1 ' .
"Contsen Ito yoiw son's marriage
_with
my child; hiFi '
cousin Lovind." :ma now
the i-oiee earne,frdin a small drawyr in .The
table before Ins. - :** 1 ' • * ?
I :do consent.," and awthelwords trem
bled upon the old !man's lip, the larboard
state-room- door Swung open, and foith
front the apartment came his ion, with !
his arm *kit the! waist of,his cousin Lo- . 1
vina, and after them stepped forth, the
two merchants. whom I had invited to. be
of the party! FrOm the starboard •Side
came' the old man's_daughter,snpported
by the yonrig- laWyer„ and at the.same ;
moment Wifarion! joined the group•gath
ered about the fear-Convicted Merchant,
who confessed there before! them all, the
• wrong he had done his brOther'S :widow
and children, -pro"rnised to, i tuake fill and
lininediate restitution, and gave his con
sent to a union between the yonng people.
The lau'Ver had • taken !down. every
word faithfully, arid when the, old man
ceased to s*ak,,he was about to read it
aloud, but I .lie interrupted by the
strange vohie issuing from it large Water
pitcher on the table: •
`..Do all that I have commanded,_ John
Spencer and I will trouble You no more."
"I will—So help me Goa!" cried the
merchant, and leaving the group to them:
selves I went ondeck to look out for the
schooner, Which I found past Horse Is
land Light,! and heading pp:for the, en
trance to the harbor, wrere we arrived
twenty - minutes 'later; andj that night I.
was de c tained 'until twelve!o'clock at the
residence. of John Spencei, for„the 'pur
pose 'Oil-witnessing. certain legal • docu
ments drawn, up by Lawyer Bates , in the
*shape of deeds; hills of sale, 'etc.,by *arts
of which the merchant conv=eyed back to
his brothers widow a ee'rtain...valtiable
Ilam, four miles from .town,iand to Whar
ton Spencer•ther OWnership Of the "Ilaun 7
ted Schoon4r." •
As-I stepped on board. the vessel, the,
next morning,l found the goblins at their
revels in the rold, aildKendriek; the Man
who had so. ittecessfully 'acted his•part as
a ventriloquist the evening previous,
standing there on the quarterdeck, With a
•whisp 20 - loakuin in his:i•rand, and laughing
ready to burst. I•. -
"What in the !name of deck-lightiand
down-hanli are ydu lauging at, Kendrick?".
asked. • 1
Captain," hel said, "will3ou help me
a -minute?'? and Iwithout Waitin . g for.my
answer, hel unhooked the t . mam throat
halyards, and hooking. them into, a ling
which he bad ready. knotted; he seated
hiniklf in it, and requested• me to . koist
hiin aloft. . •
' "Belay!'? he sung out yheit*l • luidi him
about half-Way ,up the mainmast, r
"Do you see d Cap'n ?'?' be asked, a
moment after I got him made fast, !and-as I
looked 'aloft', I saw him thrusting, hid; fin
n'ers..into a' black knot-hole on the -4fter
17ide of the
-
mast.
"Yes, I see—What of it `.",•'b • - 4 i,
" Why, that'S' the Doll's -
Cow just see howl I'll stop, his 1111.113. p fl and
as he thrust the Whisp of - Oakum into the
hole, the,n6ises ih . the vessel's hold ceased.
• I dragged Ott 'one of the hatches and
leaping doomintothe hold] I found on the
after-squares of ithe masts' four 'or! -five*
. kaig rents - 4 ,.! one lof which could .thrust
my hand - into, :while the others • ;were
much less,nnel*g, so fine that,a blade
Of a stout case knife mould scareelY
The ••whole witch 'mystery was atfmce
apparent. rher the ischoonet. was- under- . •
weigh , and; hauled to the hind, a•sireng
current of air Iva; driven' towards the - lutf
of the sai4 and Of course into" the'lmot
liolei and the mast being entirely hollow,
it was driven downwards cud °attire:4h
the vent in the. hold, while the ten thou ,
sands slivers and: splinter along. thejeldes
of the cheeks,. canted the air to Vibtate. in
as .many . afferent .ways: as there Iwere
splinters. •
• When 'the ssehooner- la head -.to the
wind to an;anchar'no air entered ilk:l6le,
and'pf course,' elltvasiniet; se-when we
were going_ before the win.* with the; Main
boon
,aide, oft, [the oarrent Went out the
after leech; of the sail,
.and:the hole; i•was
:port,
;1 hut when- Stern - to
:Port, with no 'sail 2set, ; the - wind blew
square into Alio Devil's Blow
. 1191 e, . as
Kendrick it. I•• , •
• -Kendrick infoimedine that he had found
"out ;the , . mystery within \ a imenth after he,
had joidedl•the schooner, as he vies; Scrap.
nag the grist One day; but he knew:rat the
owner's rascality :thwardti, the - so
he kept _the' discovery"! aebrat, hoping 'to
tars it to good aocount some day, la facer
at Mrs. Spender and lair two children. -
I ' revealed-- the secret •to J4lin and
Whartonithat afternoon, but advised them
to. say:-
,nothing • about_ until after they
were .married, aniL, .the two weddings
were to sake place Within ten "days; they
acted ujon my adviee, and - kepi the, se
cret clos within their own bieasti.
On the', very day after the double,wed:,
ding 'ye' put a new mainmast into the'
Swallow, and always after that She was
is•kuiet; well-behayed a craft asany other.
on.Ontirio. But sbmehow her bad patiM,
always clung to her, and there ate many
I. ) f
persons . ' "still '
wing, who remenber- the
Swallow; and w believe she was l ; a-haun
ted craftras fi yas they do-the -truths
niChristianity: .• • •'• • '
1 ----.+-4. 6 •••••—• .^, •
Sit it ILTs" •
, .
Tama Is beauty In the Spring-time,'"
When the 'violets awoke, •
S And the wihr•birds' mellow chime
tioluds o'er nummtain,•vale, and lake;
There Is beauty in the fountain, It.
Sparkling in its silsery foam—
Oh I'm greeted with the beautiful
yhern'er I chance to 'roam.
• In Summer there Is beauty.
When all Nature's decked in 'greed,.
' And joy, and ltfe, and beauty,. -
In everything le Acen.
Beauty in-the floating clouds.
through the azure sky—
Oh ! I'm greeted with the beautiful,
!Where'er I :vet my eye. .
•
There le beauty In the wild. wood,
• ! !Where bloom the Summer flowerei
...That has charmed my early childhood,.
And brought many happy berme; 1,
Th, emit! beauty in the meadow,.
• !And in the shady grove—. ' -, •
Oh! rin greeted with the beautiful,:
•
.J. IWhereer I chance to rove. • I
• r
tilal yes, sad there la beauty • 'i,
II In Autumn .; golden days, .
Reminding one of duty, -;
In many, many ways:
There Is beautyy In Ike Winter, . ! .. .
When the delde are robed-In wow=- .
Oh! I'm gr e eted wia. the beautiftd,i •
• i Where er I chance to go. - 1
• I
" Moat heautiftil is Nature, •
'ln all her varied forma. • ' i --.•
. • - 'Whether placid eycry Awture,
I Or-grand amid the storm;
Phis world 14 tilled with beauty. ''' - - •
. I Sparkling beauty, bright and . falrj-
Oh? I'm - greeted With the beautiful,i;
I. - • .. i . :• 31# smiling every where! .•
East' F . 'CHU ROI
N, Feb., Zn ms
ic 3la.
—' .
,
Tut NEcissrry OF LAtion.—The notion
is false !that genius can secure tits aims
without labor: All the great minds who
have left their marks upon the hitstory of
the world's progress, have paid ,for their.
1
success and notoriety \by,the price of un
remitting toil and labor. Nap4leon Bo
napartetworked.hard and.lncessantly, and
has been known to eklthust the !energies
of several secretaries at one time. t Charles
XII of Sweeden, frequently tired out all I
his . officers. The -Duke of Wellington was 1
the hardest working man in the Peninsula. '
from-his youth, applied himself With such ,
t
in delati t able application .t o ' the . ' study oft
letters, 1 that 'it occasioned weakness of 1
sight and ultimate blindness.: The labor.(
1 of Sir Waltei Scott is evident in the num- '
1 ber of hit; literary productions,tand it is
apparent to every reader that thelimmense
masses { of !;. -, ,enerat - information ' which
abound throughout his multitudinous
[
works, lcan only have been acquired b
.dint of many years' hard stud. ByrOn!
was in the habit of reading even, at his
meals. 1 tattier mide it a rale tottranslate
a verse of the Bible every day. This soon
brought him to the completion 'of his la
las, and it was aanatter of ast+ishment
to EutOpe, that in the multiplicity of his
oth.erlabors, besides travelling, he could
find the time to prepare sach a surprising
work. 't Newton and. Locke Pars:ied their
.studieS with ; tireless efforts, and Pope.
sought retirement, so that henight 'pur:
FOe . hi; literary operations withoat inter
ruption and distraction. _lnduStry • is et>.
sentialt to all ; by. forming the laibit of do
ing sothething tiseful every daY,ta man in-.
creases his own amount of happiness; and
-enlarges that of others about hu11... Many
a one,! by a judicious use of the! odd mo
nients,lthbile little vacancies' inteveryday
life which occur . to all, - have irendered'
themselves famous amongtheii fellows.
Nature, is preserved in ith prOpei Working
eonditionby constant ekertion;iind man,
to keep in a healthy condition ofimind and
body, mast exert his mental and physical
faculties; the constant employmbnt of the
first will give them strength of character,
'So that it is capable of . thinking on any
subject at any time,..and by-active bodily'
exertion he preserves his health, fortune, -
-and As 4 orldly position: The Marquis of
Spinolh once asked Sir Horace )Tere "of
What his brother died." "He ilied,,sir,"
replied Sir Horace, "of having 4inhing to
do.' "t" Alas I sir," said Spinola, "that is
enough to kill any general of us :ill:"
N . ° DANGER.-- 4 Pompey," said . a
darkg, coming up to a similar 1 specimen
of animated nature; the other!: day, "I
wants] to propose to you a question, which.
hab of late dislocated my , underfitanding:"
"Well, Snowball, what am de knowl
edge YOu would have dis learn 4
_niggali:
impart to your benighted mental imagnia
tion ; ;for I spaciate on beauties Of de wor
kin' substance inside de eraninin, which
takes nff de siiperfluencY from,ide mind,
and leavede head frenoxious—?
" ! Pompey, 'taint ilat, :it all.
I'll tell yer, now, if you'll be SOU!. •
"Make hurry, for dis nig am in a haste."
• ' "'Wall, 'tis dis:--"Spose - Imatries a
yal
tar.gal, and tubs her berry inheb; and
some day I sick, and die, and goes to
lleaben, and arter . a whi.leimoder greasy
nigge cuilis 'long' and marries thy oleko
man, and labs her too; now I wants to
know; arter dey both die and gcl to Heab
en,,where Lam, which oly . de Oder is to
hab xi* Wench ?"
Poinpy stood, thoughtfully fora moment,
I then looking Snowball :in the !face, and
reverently shaking his . head; replied- 7
"3lv friend; if yotir and her . man
go to; de good lankyouneedliab.no fears,
for you won't be - dar to pick any Mims!"
' •
HINTS TO YOUNG 1 8 4DIEs.- I ,Don't sit
down to your crochet work 'or eMbroidery
unless you have first mended that hole in
your Stocking& No Ann crowding it nu
clei the heel of your shOe-rags; like mur
der, will out . ; and they speak with terribly
loud Voices and. at, inconvenient seasons,
sometimes. •
Don't .undertake to write skim-milk
poetry when_you feel a little disposed to
wards enthusiasm. Go and do g a kind ac
tion lor speak an encouragin - viord to
somebody. Depend upon it, you'll be bet
ter satisfied afterwards. ! • .
JGB PRINTING of ALL BINDS,
••• DONT: AT IT*: OFFICE or VIE
D 3EIIW Co FL A. lrig
;men:sr AND molt • Y, " •
AXD•AT 44' LlyE AND LET LIP
Tt oMie of the Montrose Democrat
has recently been supplied with a noW and ehoicri earkty
Oft etc., and woken Dow unwed to print parnplilets
'
,etc,clrntlat~ etC., In the beet style. on short notltet•
•
Handbills, Posters, l'rogitmineq,nti
Doke, Muds of 'Fork to ltd." lbw, done jecoprdltaz to order. "
- Business,. Wedding,' and Ball Cirws,
"Tickets, etc., printed with neamem and del:fatal..
Ju.sticima' and Conitable.sl.Etlanks, \o es,
Deeds, and sU otber Mardis, onlood, qr Reused to order,
1 NO; 20.
nr - JobwiiiiilbdinstP, to be, psi d tenon all eery.
_ - .So,the young
. count narrated a myth of
one of Ids proggnitors, 7 : 7 lte might _ karts
lived a century ago, or a 'thousand. years,
or'before 'the Christian" epoch, far any,
thing that Donatello knew : to tho',emstra..
ry,—Who'had Made
.acquiutaiice. with' a
fair, creature belonging tO this fountain.
Whether woman or'sprite was ti'mvstery,
as - was all else ahout ber, except, that her
life.and soul, were
.somehoW interfused
throughout the' gushing water. lte was
ifresh,- cool, dewy thin., sunny and JIM- •
Owy, fah 'of pleasant lithe mischiefs, -fitful
and changeable wifh the whim pfthe . mo'
ment btit . vet.as- constant as her native
stream, which kept the . same -gush -iuld
flow forever, *while tharble crum))le.l.over
and nit,. und it. The fountain wonian Irv.
ed the. -yottth,—a. knight, as Doilatello
called him ;— for, aceotding to the legend;
hiS race . wits^ akin to hers. - At least, whe...
ther-Jkin .or no, there' had' been . friendship .1
and ilympthy of old betwixt an- ancestor
of his, with furry'ears, my' the. long-lived
lady- of the fountain. And, after . all tlioso
ageg, she was still as young..as a 'May
morning,-and is froliesonie as-a bird Upon
a tree, or a breeze that'll - I:116 merry with
the leareA
She taught him how to call her from
her pebbly source, and they spent trumy a •
happy hour tdgo.her; more• especiallyJu''
the ferVor of.the summer days. For oft
en.as.he sat *aiting for herby the margins
of the spring,
she ivould suddenly tall
down. around him in a shower of • sunny
raindrops, with a rainbow -glancing.thro",
them, and forthwith gather-.herself up in ,
to the likenesS-of a beautiful girl, -laugh,
ing—or was it the-warble of the rill over
the pebbles?— , -to see, the, youth's amaze.,
meet:
. .
- Thus, kind maiden that sho leas,—tlto
atmosphere became delici - ouSly cool -and
fragraht An- this favored knight'; and, fur.
therm Ore, when he knelt (town to-.drink
out of the spring:, nothing was morn
than for a pair of -ren;y lips. to
come Up out,of its little depths, and touch
mouth with the thrill (.1f a sweet, cool,
dbwv kiss !
" kis a delightful' story
.for the h6t. -
noon of your Tuscan suntiner," observed
the sculptor at this point.., "But - the _de- "
portment of the watery lady. nn-t have -
kida niost chilling influence in midwiti(er,
Her lover would - find it, very lift rally,:a ,
cold reception !"
, stippose,'! said lionatello, ratliCr std.
" you are in:thing' fun, -of
But I see nothing laughable in the thing
itself, nor in what you-salt about it."
Tre Went ou`to,relate that for. a limp;
while the knight found infinite; pleasure
and comfort in the friendshiP of the foun
tain nymph. In his Merriest hottr. , , slit. •
•gladdered hint with her sportive 'humor.
If ever lie was annoy,M with earthly trou
ble, she - laid her -twat- hand tune} his
brow, and charmed the fret- and cover'
qtuee' aWay..
But one day—one fatal noontide—the
young - knight came rushing With - hasty
and. irregular steps to the aecustorned
fbuntain. Ile called the nyniPh ; but—no .
donbt . because there was -something•
seal and frightful in his tune—she did nut'
appearoter, answer hiri.. He7.fiung hint- •
self' down and -washed his hands and .
bathed his. feverish brow in the - cool, pure
water. And then there was somid of
I woe.: it might have beerea woman; voice;
might have been only the sighing oldie -
brook over the - pebbles. The water shrank__'
away from'the youth'sbands, - aral left his
broW . aS dry and ti.veris'has beihre.
• Donatello hero came to :nlead pause.'
" Why did the water shrink from -this
nithappy knight?" - inquired the - sen!plor: .
. "Bee;fue.he'had tried to.'w:eat . off a
bloo&staio !" said the pinint count, in a
horror-stricken - whisper. "Tbe guilty
- man ;had 'polluted the 'pure Water.- The
nymph mtght, have comforted him in tor. .
- CORM not chtenwhis con. , 7 eience•
of a crinie." . • . • • •
• "And did he never behold her more?" .
-asked Kenyon. • . -
"Xever but . once," replied his - .friend; •
‘,•llq never beheld her -blessed face but
mice iagaim.and then there 'was a blood
stain!ori the poor nymph's brbw ; it was
the stain his guilt had left in tlie foUntain
where he tried to wash it - Off. Be mourn.
ed for her his whole life long, and critPloy.
ed thif best sculptor of the time
.to carve
this•stat tie of the nymph iron; hi. descrip
titin 4f. her 'aspect.. But,
.t hough my at-•
. cestor would fain •have,' bad the imago
wearjher happiest look, the artist,tunlike
your elf, was so imOressed Witlftbe mourn:
fulness of the story, that in spite of hi 4
best •ellbrts, he made her forlorm>and for. •
everweeping, as-yon .:et-•••• : -'
Kenyon found a certain-eh:lmi in this
• legend. Whether so intended or not, he .
-understood it as an :fpologue, .typiting
the soothing and genial effects of`• an ha.
bitted intercourse with nature; in all ordi-.
nary cares.atid grief;; while on the oth
er-hand, her mildUnfittence fall. sltOrt in
theie',effect upon ibe ruder pas:;ious ; .and.
arc altogether poWerless iin the dread tc. '
.ver fit or deadly - chill of
•
GOoo—asn Put FECTLY T 1: r e 11;44:
Island Argus relates a good
.st cry_ of a ills
cussion betweetr a Democrat and a Repub.:
licanat that place a .6:w days ag(. The.
Democrat contended:for the silperiority of
the' white race over thatiof Me negro,
The - claimed 'Mat, naturally
the negro race was fullf eval to the
white. race, and eited.as: an instance - the
great, abilities 'and talents of Scipio
canuS; The Democrat.replied that Kiplo
AfriCatiuS was a tbartau,. anirtherefore
could not l)( nsed . to support position,
The Republican, as, he thought,;trutuph
aUtlY declared -that" he WAS
.anAfrican for
his •naiite" Was • Afrieanusl was - 'a
clincher, of course, and . the 'Democrat
gracefully yieldtd—but he
.* had • a sly
twinkle in his eye,. which causedomeef
the bystander:3 to hold:their sides,. •
fir.H'3lrs. Piwdie bays that ono of. her
boys knows . nothing,. and another don%
The question is, which knows the most?
.I_ • .
LEGEND OF TliE FOUNTAIN,
MC: officer was lately sent to Springftehl
to :Summon a Mis. Thayer, .alias: Barnett
to attendtourt, He returned gay-in l; that
bo hdliuntinoned Mrs. Thayer, but "Alias
Burnett" could not be fouild.
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