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by CHARL.es DAVIS.]
VOLUME 2.
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
AGENTS.
Bibb County. Alexander Richards, Esq.
Telfair “ Rev. Charles J. Shelton.
Mclntosh “ James Blue, Esq.
Houston “ B. J. Smith, Esq.
Pulaski “ Norman McDuffie, Esq.
Twiggs “ William H. Robinson, Esq.
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THE ADVOCATE.
THE PULASKI.
So much interest is still felt by all on this
absorbing topic, that we give the following ac
count which appeared in the Savannah Geor
gian, as an extract of a private letter from Col.
Robertson:
Wilmington, (N. C.) June 19,1838.
“Having a few hours leisure I may as
well give you-some particulars respecting
my participation in the terrible disaster
of the Pulaski, of which you will have
heard before this reaches you.
We left Charleston at G on Thursday
moriiing, having taken in a very large
number of passengers, • making, when
added to those from Savannah, from 150
to 170, a large proportion being women
and children. The Ladies’ Cabin and
the four state rooms were entirely occupied
by them, and two slept in the Gentlemen’s
.after Cabin. The wind was fresh, the
sea rather rough, and much motion in the
Iboat, in consequence of which most of
the Ladies and many of the Gentlemen
were too sick to come to table: yet we
were all in good spirits, at the idea of
landing in Baltimore on Saturday morning,
particularly Capt. Dubois, who expressed
his gratification at the large numbers of
passengers he had, the “Georgia” having
sailed the evening previous with but 45.
Dr. Gumming and myself were among the
last who retired to bed (soon after 10.) I
was in a sound sleep when the explosion
took place, and the exclamation “The
Boiler’s burst!” and a crash, like the sound
of a thousand iron bars falling at once
:upon stones, and the breaking of all the
glass in the cabin, met my ears simultane
ously. Before leaving my birth I waited
a moment to ascertain if any steam entered
rthe cabin, intending, if it did, to bury my
.head in the bed clothes, but I experienced
nothing but a strong smell of burnt wood.
In my progress to the deck, I found
some of the cabin floor, opposite the berths
of Mr. Hutchison and Dr. Cumming,
blown up. On gaining the deck, 1 found
the after part of it crowded with the pas
sengers, in their night dresses, and ladies
jn the same state, momently issuing from
their cabin, the whole in dreadful con
sternation, enquiring what was the matter,
and calling for Captain Dubois; but alas!
neither he nor any other officer of the
boat,, responded to their call. It occur
ed to.nie that the sails might be hoisted,
and the vessel put before the wind, but
upon trying the rudder ropes, I found
them hanging loose. The cry was then
for byckets—that she was on fire, but no
buckets were to be found.—l now proceed
ed forward, and found the centre of the
vessel a complete wreck, particularly on
the starboard side. She was kealing over
to larboard, rolling with every sea, and
the water entering with every roll, having
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already extinguished the fire.—l now felt
there was no hope, for although the boats
had Occurred to me. I supposed, as usual on
such occasions, that they would be over
whelmed by numbers. I proceeded at
once to the starboard quarter boat, inflat
ing my life preserver, as I went, (which
1 had brought to Savannah as a curiosity,
some five or six years ago, but always car
ried with me in steamboats)in case I should
have to swim to reach it; but found it
just casting off with the mate and two others
in it. I then crossed to the other side,
and found two of the hands lowering
that boat, when I at once leaped in and
assisted them, and was followed by Capt.
Pooler and his son. This was an anxious
moment to me, for fear the boat would
not be properly lowered, for either head
or stern giving way, she would have filled.
As soon as afloat, Mr. J. Hamilton
Couper lowered down Mrs. Nightingale
and Mrs. Fraser, then their children
after them, and followed himself, falling
in a dangerous situation, with his head
in the water. Before we cast loose, two
negro women cast themselves down upon
us, one of whom nearly knocked me into
the sea. After leaving the steamboat, and
rowing off to some distance, we distinctly
heard the cries of some of the perishing
and wounded, who had been thrown over
board by the explosion. From the way
in which I have conducted my narrative,
you my suppose much time elapsed be
tween the explosion and my leaving the
steamboat; but not more than 10 minutes
intervened between quitting my berth
and getting into the yawl. About ten
minutes after leaving, we heard one of
the boats, lying on the promenade deck,
thrown over, but from the sound we feared
she had filled. Some time after we fell
in with the mate’s boat, having in tow
the one last thrown over, full of water,
from which he had taken two of the crew.
This he gave us in charge, which added
greatly to the labor of our two rowers,
for we were obliged to put our boat’s
head to the sea, to prevent her filling.
The mate having picked up two or three
men, returned to us, and commenced
bailing the sunken boat with a hat; but
finding the water enter as fast as taken
out, we were obliged to cast her loose.
About an hour after the explosion, the
lights on board having for some time dis
appeared, we heard terribly distinct, al
though we endeavored to shut out the
sound, the bursting up of the deck, and
wild shrieks of mental agony which accom
panied it.
We continued in the neighborhood of
the wreck, the mate having put one of the
rescued on board of us, and extreme cau
tion being required to prevent being stove
against the notv numerous pieces of wreck,
until 3 o’clock. A squall then coming up,
and being unable to render any assistance
to our unfortunate companions, as any
more in the boats would have overloaded
them, and put at hazard the lives of all in
them, it tvas agreed to pull towards the
land. Accordingly, about a quarter past
3 on Friday morning, the mate first taking
the passengers he had given us, and him
self steering one boat, and Mr. Couper
one,without water, food or necessary cloth
ing, or compass to guide, we commenced
rowing towards the shore. The squall
fortunately passed without any further in
jury than a slight wetting, and we pursued
our course with a fair wind and sea. Up
to this time we had preserved a moody si
lence, each being engaged with his own
thoughts. Our boat having previously
been the one least used, leaked consider
bly, hut by the aid of a hat, borrowed from
the mate’s boat, we soon freed her.
It was only now, under a feeling of
comparative safety, with a fair wind and
sea, and in the sanguine hope of falling in
with some vessel, that we began to con
verse unrestrainedly, and to relate what
each had separately witnessed. My feel
ings at the sufferings and melancholly fate
of our friends, hitherto controlled by the
necessity of action, now found vent, and
I am not ashamed to say found relief in
tears. The prevailing cry during the
dreadful three hours after the sinking of
the wreck, was “ help, help, oh! help!”
which heart-rending exclamations can nev
er be effaced from my memory. Os the
five men in one boat only two were good
rowers, but we relieved each other during
the day, and during our progress not a
word was heard of hunger, thirst or suf
fering. The sun was excessively hot,
and the only protection to our heads was
handkerchiefs, except the ladies who for
tunately had cloaks. I felt but little thirst
till afternoon and no hunger, and kept my
feet in the water at the bottom of the boat,
and constantly moistened my hands.
From 8 till 12 little was said, our eyes
being strained in vain around the horizon
for a sail, and the labour being extreme
we began to dispair. The truth is, had
the wind changed we must have been driv
en further to sea, and our situation been
rendered indeed desperate. The Mate
had conjectured that we should see land
about 12 o’clock, and accordingly some
what past that hour they gave the signal
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1838.
of seeing it from their boat, distant we
supposed about seven miles. About an
j hour previous to this a poor fellow dread-
I fully scalded, picked up by the Mate’s
! boat, and whose moans were distressing,
died and was thrown overboard. Upon
the sight of land our spirits rose wonder
fully, but it required three hours of hard
and incessant pulling to come up with it,
and during the period we imagined houses,
villages, light houses and farm houses vis
ible to our expectant eyes, all of which,
however, were transformed into arid sand
hills defended by a line of surf, as far as
the eye could reach. All hands being
now exhausted, a consultation was held”
when it was decided that the Mate’s boat
should land first through the breakers, and
those in her be ready to help the ladies
in our boat when we attempted it. The
Mate then choosing a placo, went on ur
ged by the surf, stern first with great rap
idity. We watched the result with intense
anxiety, and began to despair after their
long immersion, when we saw them to the
number of five emerge singly from the
w'aves; the others were never more seen.
In our boat we were now truly in an awful
situation; for we w r ere completely exhaus
ted, so much so that if one of us was re
lieved for two minutes he fell fast asleep,
and it was with the utmost difficulty we
could keep the boat from getting among
the surf, far less to row 8 or 10 miles or
more, in reach of an inlet. I now for the
first time despaired, not of myself, for I
felt confident of'reaching the shore, but
on account of the females and the children.
We remained in this tantalizing situation
without our comrades being able to do
any thing for us, except to beckon us not
to land, until near 7 o’clock, P. M., when
becoming desperate, we prepared to en
counter the surf. Mrs. Nightingale tied
her child to her person. Young Pooler
put on the life-preserver; disliking to part
with my coat I tied the skirts round me.
and all prepared for the worst—our com
panions still at a distance. We put her
stern on, and were borne through and
amid the rollers like lightning, towards the
shore, which we were not far from when
our boat unfortunately broached too, was
turned bottom up, and we left to swim
the balance of the way. This we all did
safely, with the aid of the surf, which cast
us up whether we would or not. The
difference in the recess of landing from
the two boats was that the first went ashore
on an ebb tide, with an under current to
contend with; we with the flood tide. In
side of the Island upon which we landed
was a shallow face of water w hich we af
terwards found was named ‘Stump Sound,’
over to which the first boat had been
dragged, and sent off to a house about two
miles off. Here on a sand bar, without a
tree upon it, we had to await the return
of the boat, in our wet clothes, and a cool
w ind blowing in from the sea. The ladies
and their children were laid in the sand
covered with coarse grass and weeds, and
the men afterwards in a row to preserve
warmth. The sun having been shining
on the sand, the side next the earth were
comfortable enough, whilst our upper sides
were miserably chilled. The mate suc
ceeded by digging with a shell in procur
ing some brackish water, but which was
a great relief to us. About 10 o’clock, to
our great jov, three canoes arrived from
the house, bringing' a jug of coffee and
some bread. We soon embarked, and
after half an hours pulling, hauling, hol
lowing and paddling, through water never
over waist deep, and sometimes mud with
out water, we arrived at the house, where
we found a good fire and meat and drink,
being then about 25 hours since we had
left the wreck. We were 31 miles from
Wilmington, to which the mate, another
and myself, volunteered, to proceed, in a
cart, but were compelled to stop half way
thoroughly drenched by a North East
storm of wind and rain. We, however,
reached Wilmington about 9 o’clock,
where our arrival produced the greatest
excitement.
A train of private carriages immediately
set off for our companions! 7 miles off
am? brought them comfortably to town.
The passengers were taken to the stores
and provided vyith clothing,'&,c. at cost to
those who could pay, while those who
were destitute were furnished gratis.
The Bank has offered to cash our drafts
to any moderate amount, and the Rail
Road Company have offered us a free pass
age North or to Charleston. In short,
we have been most hospitably treated, and
I will long remember it.
Capt. Dubois, at the time of the explo
sion, was asleep in the steering house,
having relinquished his room, and the va
rious officers and hands not employd about
the machinery at the time, were asleep in
their berths, adjoining to the boiler. The
explosion seemed to be upwards and to
wards the side of the boat, because the
gentlemen’s two cabins in a line with the
boiler, were not much injured and reciev
ed no steam. The cause was doubtless
gross neglect.
Prince Talleyrand has seen 8 reigns,
commencing with Louis XV.
[From Cooper’s new novel of the “Homeward
Bound.”
In the following extract Mr. Cooper
gives a renewed exhibition of his talent
for the description of thrilling nautical in
cidents which so distinguished his early
novel “The Pilot.”
Pitting a Ship before the Wind.—
Long before noon, or at the hour mention
ed, Capt. Truck foresaw that, in conse
quence of the seas that were constantly
coming on board of her, he should be
compelled to put his ship before the wind.
He delayed the manoeuvre to the last mo
ment, however, for what he deemed to be
sufficient reasons. The longer he kept
the ship lying to, the less hexleviated from
his proper course to New York, and the
greater was the probability of his escap
ing, stealthily and without observation
from the Foam ; since the latter, by main
taining her position better, allowed the
Montank to drift gradually to leeward,
and, of course, to a greater distance.—
But the crisis would no longer admit of
delay. All hands were called, the main
top sail was hauled up, not without much
difficulty; and then Captain Truck reluc
tantly gave the order to haul down the
mizzen-stay-sail, to put the helm hard up,
and to help the ship round with the yard.
Tips is at all times a critical change, as
has just been mentioned, for the vessel is
exposed to the ravages of any sea, larger
than common, that may happen to strike
her as she lies, nearly motionless, with her
broadside to its force. To accomplish it,
therefore, Captain Truck went up a few
ratlines in the fore-rigging, (he was too
nice a calculator to offer even a surface
as small as his own body to the wind, in
the after shrouds) whence he looked out
to windward for a lull, and a moment
when the ocean had fewer billows than
common of the larger and more danger
ous kind. At the desired instant he sign
ed witli his hand, and the wheel was shift
ed from hard-down to hard-lip. This is
always a breathless moment in a ship, so.-,
as none can foresee the result, it resem
bles the entrance of a hostile battery. A
dozen men may be swept away in an in
stant, or the ship herself hove over on her
side. John Effingham and Paul, who, of
all the passengers, were alone on deck,
understood tlie hazards, and they watched
the slightest chance with the interest of
men who had so much at stake. At first
the movement of the ship was sluggish,
and such as ill-suited the eagerness of the
crew. Then her pitching ceased, and
she settled into the enormous trough bodi
ly, or the whole fabric sunk, as it were,
never to rise again. So low did she fall,
that the fore-sail gave a tremenduous flap;
one that shook the hull and spars, from
stem to stern. As she rose on the next
surge, happily its foaming crest slid be
neath her, and the tall masts rolled heavi
ly to windward. Recovering her equil
ibrium, the ship started through the brine,
and, as the succeeding roller come on, she
was urging a-head fast. Still, the sea
struck her a-beain, forcing her bodily to
leeward, and having the lower yard arms
into the ocean. Tons of water fell on
her decks, with the dull sound of the clod
on the coffin. At this grand moment,
old Jack Truck, who was standing in tile
rigging, dripping with the spray that had
washed over him, with a naked head, and
his gray hair glistening, shouted like a
Stenton, “haul in your fore-braces, boys!
away with the yard, like a fiddlestick!”—
Every nerve was strained; the unwilling
yards, pressed upon by an almost ir
resistible column of air, yielded slow
ly, and, as the sail met the gale more
perpendicularly,or at right angles to its sur
face, it dragged the vast hull through the
sea with a power equal to that of a steam
engine. Ere another sea could follow,
the Montank was glancing through the
ocean at a furious rate; and, though of
fering her quarter to the billows, their force
was now so much diminished by her own
velocity, as to deprive them of their prin
cipal danger.
Tartar women. —Among the Tirtars,
the position of the \v?fe differs - not very
materially from that which she enjoys in
Europe, although she is treated on some
points in a manner that would leac a stran
ger to think otherwise. She is pjrchased
from her father according to the primi
tive custom. The suitor, if he cannot at
once pay the price demanded for fier in
cows—a cow, being amongst them the
principal standard of value—must yield
his personal service in lieu thereof, as Ja
cob did of old. The price o'a well-look
ing girl is about thirty cows, in proportion
to the want of personal attractions on the
part of the lady. But thotgli the father
may sell his daughter, th* husband can
not dispose of his wife after that fashion.
If she he. faithless, he ipayeend her home,
and obtain what he pail for her back
again. But if she be wfff conduted and
be the parent of children-'-the great source
of honor in the may go thro’
| life as happy as any wvman of any cotin
• try. —It is true, that am»ngst some nations
;of Tartars she is notpermitted to eat at
the same table with her
is compelled to go tbroug^HnHHHH
of the family, while her^HNRHHgBg
ease. But examples of
may be found even in Fr.'^H^RSHgßg
speaking, the Tartar wJKtSBBSSm
the import of prove
iar from being Tar tars.
pitahlc to strangers, nffc^^HßMflßß
husbands and children,
festival days s|>lt'udidlj^HßßßSßjHßH|
their friends and
choose, they have their
enjo\ incut, for title tattic
Tin: Defence of
defence of Stonington,
of Commodore Hardy,
most gallant little affairs
contest in which it occurred.
rnn of sir Thomas Hardy
Romulus 71, the Pactolus fr^HHHHj
guns, the brig Despatch of 1
a bomb ship, winch bad lain off
for a considerable time—e.itirely^^HH
ading the Sound. Commodore
supposed the place to be cntirelv
less, and had repeatedly thr
destruction. The attack was '
9th of August, 1814, the brig a° c^HSHEj
within half cannon shot;
the bomb ketch fired at a moC HHHh
distance. There was a smafl' ;^»ir^j?v^
defence, however, situated ie
tremity of the peninsula, InitAitP^^HlH
regular garrison. When tli atU^^HHn
menced, the people, supposing
rough was doomed to inevitable (HH
tion, tied, for the most part in wild a^^HH
Others, however, ofstermr stuff, rHHH
ed in their houses, while a Sparta^^^^g
of volunteers rushed itto the lit^^^H
tress, with two eighteen pounders,
were directed against /lie brig witSi||||
effect as to tear up her main de<^H||j||
oblige her to cut her cables and
with all possible expedition. The
ron then drew off. The flag staff
little fort yet stands as during the^^^H
We visited the spot —and the hou^^^H
late venerable citizen, (Mr. Palmer,^K||||
of half a dozen or less enterprising
ers in this city,) whose bouse was
by one of the enemy’s shells, and
own life was saved by the circumstai^^H
his stooping to light his pipe at the ii^HH
the shells passed over bis head,
the only benefit that vve ever kne^^SS
erne from the abominable prac^BHß
smoking
'The Prince dk Joinvii.i.e. —A
stance occurred on the Prince’s
Washington, which must have
him and his suite 'with some
He had arrived in the city
and in a dress “marvellously
With his friends in a similar
called at Gndsby’s for “bed and dH||B|
The person to whom the party a|H|||||
after surveying them from head
and not conceiving a very exalted
of their pccuniosity, told them
no room in the Hotel. They
to Brown’s Hotel, where they
lariy scrutinized, hut were informed
were only two rooms in the garret,
copied. As the travellers were tiredHHS6
accented of this elevated dormitary,
than go farther. The bar keeper
ed his hook ns usual, for the names
visiters, and when the Prince
with all Be titles, &.c. &.c. &c.,
in a great flurry, rang the bell,
B. ordered the best Chamber to be
diately prepared for the Royal
This must have recalled to the
the Prince a similar one in the
adventures of Guzman d’Alferche,flH
which the hero stops at a
tel were he had been very badly
some time before on account of his
appearance, but when he called in /in
egant carriage and stepped in,
brilliant style, there was no erfd ,
fatiguing splendor of his reception/
timure Transcript.
A Short Sermon. word spoken
in season, how good it is,” and never,
perhaps, was this proverb more fully veri
fied than by the late Rev. Rowland Hill.
He was once walking.iivCh©*p&ide, on a
Sabbath afternoon, when he overheard a
conversation between two young mfcn of
gay appearance who were close behind
him. “Where shall we go to this even
ing?” asked one of them- “Wherever we
can have a bit of fun,” replied the other.
“Then let us go to Old Rowley's
el,” said his companion, “ there will be
some fun there.” It was accordingly a
greed upon; and while the worthy Divine
read the lesson in the evening, bis eye
discerned in the gallery near him the very
two persons whom he had beheld in the
street but a few hours before making the
above remark. His text was taken from
Psalms ix 17. “The wicked shall be’tUrn
ed into hell, and all nations that forget
God.” For a moment the Minister paus
ed, and then looking them both full in
the face, and pointing to them with all
the dignity of his calling, repeated to them
the awful denunciation of# scripture, add
ing at the same time, “There’s fun for ye,
my boys!”
A* Evsion JsHPIQHhHHHHHHH
Place Guards yesterday
Eaqr. Ensign. A Committee -mnPitpfsninimT
to notify him of his election, Mi he immedi
ately returned to the je*ne of notion, de
livered the following aadfttHddc ad-*
dress:
“ Gentlemen —The honor which yon have just
conferred on so unexpected that I (Uh
notion the sodden emergency, find voids ad*-
quote for the expression of any gUtllnilii hot
one tiling I can say, end that i*, I Jfcspt the
office, and if YOU have a mind toW4tfl|
all go up to Mr. Meyer’s French GaMt House,
and take a drink.*— {Boston Boot
<*»*
Tub Last Yanks Stobt.— A Mtp pMS*
ing through New Hampshire nhplind the
following notice on a hoards OsjpMe'-'lahqe
in-to grass. Long end afk
asked the »»»»«• «f **» yy| the
see, ma’am, thelong tails can brush away
the flies': hotthe abort ones are aotatnMMftd
bv them they can hardly pit at aIL"