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From the Memorial,
THS BIHNACI.E.
The following narrative is from the 1
lips of a seaman, as related on board 1
of a vessel upon the Atlantic, when
indications of a storm were upon the
heavens/similar to those disclosed
in the tale. To transplant it, from
the scene and circumstances of its
delivery, detracts much from its ef
fect. The scenery adds to the play,
and both are dependant for their in
teresting qualities; upon the state of
the listener’s mind. Let him who
has but a single touch of romance
in his composition, imagine himself
on the relentless deep, away from all
that he holds dear, subjected to the
dominion of wind and wave, and pas
sing a vacant hour among the sailors
on the forecastle, listening- to their
wild tales of storm and death, and
he then may have a faint idea of that
mate attention which was bestowed
upon this simple story. The author
pretends to no other credit than that
which is due to a translator
« A light in the binnacle.” This
order was given in that peremptory
manner, which shows that a man is
either ill at c ise with himself, or
with those peculiar, circumstances
in which he is then involved. He,
from whose lips this order came,
knew not but that it might be deem
ed unmanly in him to begin, at that
moment, to guard against the worst.
Tim topmasts had been struck, the
rigging coiled away in the most sea
manlike stylo, and the sun had now
s-unk beneath a chaos of pillowy
clouds; leaving scarce a star, as a ;
sentinel to watch over the dreary
waste of waters. Yet, to the inex
perienced eye, there was nothing to
warrant any preparation against an
approaching tempest. A summer
evening breeze gently filled the reef
ed foresail, and the helmsman was
warbling snatches of sea-songs, in
termingled with sundry and diverse
musical caricatures of .Inld Lang
Syne.
But the captain and mate were ob
served to converse together in low
tones, and often to look at the rig
ging; and to cast stolen glancs to
ward the sky, which was then dying
every object with a fearful crimson.
The expiring sun-light, as it fell up
on the face of Captain Sears, gave in
deep outlines, one ofthose expressive
countenances, which are frequently
found among the seamen of New-
England ; and one could almost trace
marks of the storm upon his weath
cr-bcuvm visage. On board of his
ehip he was a pcrlkct autocrat; but
in the bosom of his family, or in the
social circle, he was the unaffected,
amiable sailor, pretending to nothing
in art or science higher than the truck
or deeper than the keel of his own
vessel. There was a beam in his
eye, at the moment of which we
have been speaking, allied to both
of these qualities —a note of pre
paration seemed to ring from his
strung nerves, while a stoicism, as to
the result, might have been drawn
from his open and tearless counte
nance. The sailors followed with
their eyes the direction of his looks
and gestures, and with sedulous haste
obeyed his orders, as given through
the medium of his mates
A gradual increase of the breeze
was noticed, and the hesitation of the
commander seemed changed from
doubt to certainly He turned toa
young man near him, and said, in an
under tone, “do you mark that yon
der glim has shut in, that those clouds
are condensed, and do you see that
feathery maze approaching us at the
rate of twenty knotsan hour, upon
our weather bow ?”
“And what then was the reply.
“What then ?■—you do not pre
tend to be ignorant that an equinoc
tial gale will be likely to give us a
Mrot birth for supper—or that it is
Bow coming on as though the very
devil directed it ? Come, Monsieur
Melancholy, give us a specimen o1
yea uro that
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my jack-tars will stand by me as long
as a spike holds ; yet they love your
jacknife better than my whole car
case—cheer up, give bad luck to the
winds help us to port, and who knows
but happiness may await you.”
" I would rather,” soliloquised the
young man, “be gasping in those dark
waters, which are now rising in au
ger around me, and grope my way
into those still coral caverns, which
• arc yawning beneath me. Was I not
bom to a fortune, and have I not
endured penury ? Were not these
hands once soft with luxury, and are
they not now hardened by toil! Did
1 not love thee, Mary, and wort not
thou, my bud of bliss, blighted by
misfortune ?—art thou not the bride
of another Why is it, that,' heart
less myself, others attach themselves
to me, merely to be drawn into that
vortex of ruin, which mine own go
ing down has created ? A home un
der these troubled waves, were bet
ter than to live a thing without a hope
under a seeming iair sky of peace,
when the fiery demon of despair is
burning all within me. Yet these
poor fellows love me ; they love life
—I must save them.”
He started from his musing posture
and it was as it lightning had flashed
across the decks. The cry was,
“ Frederick sees danger, and we
must do our utmost.” The foresail
was ha ded, a balance-reefed storm
staysail placed in its stead ; he was
on the maintop, bowsprit, and in
every part of the ship almost at the
same instant. The excitement was
such, that an indifferent observer
would have thought that all was in
sport —that a visitor was coming, or
a merry-making on foot. The cap
tain and mate seemed to have de
legated their authority, and Fed
crick, the moving cause of all which
followed. An instant of stillness
occurred after all was done, when
Frederick walked leisurely up to the
captain, and putting ufl all restraint,
grasped his hand, and in the lotty
tone of despair, urged him to state,
when (if ever) he should see his
Mary, that she was the last object
upon which his earthly thoughts had
rested. The pressure was warmly
returned with the reply,
“ We have too long (duty to the
cootxixy tQiwjttstiaJipf) tejt cur.
Hae tibieruntartes, pacisque imponere morem, parcere subjectis et debellare superbos.—Virgil.
Milledgeville, Tuesday, February 13, 1827.
selves as strangers; should I not
survive, you will find that I have re
membered you. But I must attend
my duties. Assist me look at yon
mist, created by the storm, as it takes
off the tops of the sea. Farewell.”
Frederick repaired to his station,
and viewed calmly the tornado as it
came on. There were the unearth
ly sounds of contest heard, as the
winds and waters met in their light ;
the frighted sea-bird; as she fled from
the mad onset, was heard screaming
in the distance ; the saddened look
of the sailor, as he watched the
approach of the elemental army, be
tokened thoughts of his far home
and fire-side all seemed like that
instant , when the victim’s neck is
ready and before the fatal axe falls.
Yet Frederick cast but a glance at
the mast, and again settled into a re
verie, as an indifferent spectator of
the work of the Almighty
The first shock careened the ship
almost to a level with the sea —she
then went majestically onward, tri
umphing over the waters like a war
rior in the pride of victory. But on
ward and more furious came the foes.
Brace after brace snapped—sea af
ter sea swept the decks, as if sea
and air were contending for the
prize. The cheering shouts of Fre
derick rose amid the roar and crash
cf elements, until one wave, more
violent than the rest, tore the cap
tain from the deck, and he was seen
amid the froth, struggling in the
agonies of death. There was a wild
shriek which burst from the crew’,
as the ship settled under its burthen
of waters, and when she arose from
the blow’, not a particle of rigging
was standing—the masts were over
the side, and the decks swept as
closely as though some tremendous
machine had, at one onset, severed
each timber and stanchel. The mate
looked fearfully to the situation of
the captain, and then turned his eye
toward the place where Frederick
had stood In a moment be saw- the
latter buffeting his way toward the
former, having in his hand the top
gallant-yard, and apparently swim
ming from the vessel. Two seas
more brought the captain on deck,
nearly exhausted, who murmured
“ Frederick,’’ oud becssw ixjsosi
ble
The gale died away by degrees,
though the swell of the sea still con
tinued, and the next morning dawned
upon a mastless bark, which lay in
her inefficiency upon the billows,
with spars floating all around her.
A disabled ship, with but a bare fore
mast standing, was seen caprioling
upon the waves astern, and the ele
ments were gradually and slowly
subsiding.
Captain Sears’ feelings wore so
goaded, that he was almost driven
mad, when he recollected that his
young companion had sacrificed
himself upon the altar of romantic
friendship. The last words which
he had heard from Frederick's lips,
while they were on the waves to
gether, were continually ringing m
his ears, “you have competence and
domestic attachments—l have nei
ther ; take this and be saved.”
Jurymasts were raised, repairs
made, the sailors lamented the fate
of their beloved comrade, and, at
last, their destined port was reached
in safety.
1 cannot describe Mary. It is
well known that a coincidence exists
between man’s life and the seas and
winds—upon the ocean, in one lati
tude, the breath of heaven stirs rot
its face ‘‘too roughly” —in another,
there are the demons of destruction
raging in their fiercest mood. With
man it is thus—to-day his course is
that of the placid river—to-morrow
what onct: was peace, is thrown into
commotion, and the original beauty
is changed. On the evening of the
shipwreck Mary was strolling in un
easy listlessuess upon the margin of
the sea, entirely unconscious that
every part of it was not as quiet as
that w’hich met her gaze. I cannot
describe Mary, as I have said ; but
she was one who seemed born to
cheer, and not to sadden—there was
a joyousness in her dark eye, yet
sorrow dwelt around her lip. It was
not that her ringlets were glossy—
nor that she was fair—not that her
checks wore the hue of health ; I
have seen many such, and forgotten
them ; but it was the combination
of all her features, set off by a love
ly form, which interested as a whole
and seen, would have
been held not as a standard of
Ijpauty, tzt 33 a crctctype of 3 Uiag
[Vol. 11. No. 6.— Whole No. LVIII.
by whom man would wish to be be
loved. Her thoughts were upon the
sea, upon one ship which was daily
expected.
Tho moon was then shining upon
the white tops ofthe bounding wave;
the distant cloud just blushed the
edge ofthe horizon with the damask
tinge of lightning, and the mild wind,
as it threw hack her raven hair, blew
auspiciously for the return of Fre
derick. 1 will not say but that she
more than once thought of an event
which might follow. She coursed
the winding shore, stopped to view
a piece of the wreck of some ship
which had just floated on shore,
burst into tears, and went home to
weep over the dangers of the sea
There is a loveliness in the grief ol
a beautiful woman, which interests
deeply, although we know not the
cause of her sorrow ; it is not allied
to love, when we behold it, but it
constrains us to vow that we will
achieve impossibilities to remove it.
Mary had a lively, but a sensitive
affection, and that piece of perhaps
antiquated wreck, which she beheld,
was the harbinger of a destruction
to her dearest hopes. Association,
with its shadowy forms, will some
times daunt the mind more effectually
than wh > reality presents to one the
of human wo. It was
thus with Mary, a decayed piece of
a wrecked ship which bad long since
been covered by the deep, awoke
terrors for the fate of her lover which
were not the less severe because
they were the work of her imagi
nation.
■? •****■
A few years passed by, when the
commander, who had not forgotten
the penis of that night which have
been faintly described, called togeth
er, at an Inn, the crew’ who were
his companions in the fearful scene.
Ho sat at the head of the table, a
t-ue picture of the open-hearted, j
generous seaman; with bis mate on
his right, and his hardy tars around
him. He seemed sad, as if some as
sociations connected with former
years, had brushed a dark wing a
cross his memory. Th • careless
jokes of his unthinking companions
awoke no smile upon his lips. He
had discharged his solemn errand
frea Fredrick t 3 Mary, ’*• hz, even
[OR IF NOT PAID IN SIX MONTHS,
| now, was exclusively devoted to the
j memory of hei* first and only love.,
t The deatu of her interested suitor
previous to the binding of the fatal
knot, had absolved her from the ne
? cessity of obeying her parents. She
; was alone, “ a mere waif upon the
world’s wide common,” the mistress
•of a fortune bequeathed her by hei
; lately deceased parents, and though
in the bloom of youth and beauty,
; wa . s . anx ’ ous to join in the world of
• spirits that one who in death could
not forget her. The recollection of
; these things weighed down the spirits
■ of the captain, and the shade of
j derick seemed to upbraid him for the
present apparent festivity. Twice
j had he left the table, with bis hand.
■ upon his brow, and walked in agita
tion across the long room of their
■ entertainment. He gazed from the
- window, and the moon looked down*
in her effulgence upon the frost a%
. it spangied the meadow, and glitter
i ed upon the trees ; in the distance,
the rude sea gamboled in its frolic ;
I the lighthouse twinkled on the beetl
ing bluff, and his own ship rode ma<-
i jestically at her moorings. Thu tear:
I stoic down his bronzed cheek, as he
I thought of his young friend, and a
i reverie of painful reminiscences was
) fast coming over hire when duty,
) the seaman’s watch-word, recalled
, him to a sense of his situation, and
> with an eflort he returned to his
j seat; and filled a bumper “to the
j memory of Frederick.” They all
- rose and a trembling in the hand, aqd
a quiver of the lip could be seeaß-
; mong them, as the cup was slowly
raised to drink an almost sacred
; toast. They were scarcely seated.
; before the door opened, and a sailor,
in a neat, yet coarse dress, accom
< panied by a cabin boy, apparently a
bout eighteen years of ago, came in,
and the sailor, without ceremony,
’ look a seat at the foot of the table,
; still keeping on his shining tarpaulin
j while the cabin-boy stood behind hfs
j chair. The Captain seemed to think
i this an unwarrantable instrusion, and
; in his gruffest tone observed, “ship
mate, you bear down upon us with
out showing colours ; come, give us
a toast, to ascertain whether you are
, not a pirate; as for your Bob-o-lin
, coin, yonder, he appears to be in a
dead calm; send him round under
my lee.” The cabin-boy went be
hind the captain, the can was filled
and all were in readiness for the
stranger’s toast. “ I will give you,’
said he, <.l light in the binnacle !”
The scene was picturesque. The
; Captain dropped his glass, and le«n
cd forward with a superstitious ear
nestness in his gaze. The sailors
locked alternately from the Captain
to the concealed countenance of tho
stranger. “By ,1 see his cloven
foot,” quoth an Irisman, as hr peep»
cd under the table ; a sound box.
well applied to the ear of the captain
from the pretended cabin-boy, and a
loud laugh from the stranger, reveal
ed Frederick and Mary to tlio a-s
--tonsished listeners. The binnacle,
and the ship astern, had saved Fro*
derick on the night of the storm i
fortune bad favoured him with riches:
he had returned, the master of a non
ble ship that every evening ; Mary
had welcomed him with rapture ; and
their little plot of surprise, to Cap
tain Sears and his crew, had been
carried into happy effect.
Mary suffered for her bravery ir»
masquefading by a loud smack from
the Captain, before she effected her
escape. Frederick was doomed to
pay the whole of the reckoning; anil
every sailor, together with Captain
Sears, received an invitation to the
wedding, which was held in jovial
style, at a seat adjoining to the Cap.
tain's, which Frederick hadpurchak,
ed with Lhc fruits of of his sea voj{
age. Iciiabod]
“MY AUNT SHAKERLY. r '
From Hood’s Whims and Odditfer.
“ My aunt Shakerly was of an cZ
normous hulk. I have not done jus
tice to her hugeness in my
for my timid pencil declined to
ard a sweep at her real dirnenbions.
There is a vastness in the outline,
of even moderate proportions, till
the mass is rounded off by shadows,
that makes the hand hesitate, am?
apt to stint the figure of its proper
breadth ; how, then should I have
ventured to trace, like mapping m a
continent, the surpassing boundaries
of my aunt Shakerly! What a visage
was hers ’ —the cheeks a pair of
hemispheres ; her neck literally swal
lowed up by supplementary chin;
her arm cased in a tight sleeve, was
as the bolster ; her body IPto the
feather bed, of Ware. The waist,
which in other trunks, is an isthmus,
was in Ijcrs only the middle zone of
a continuous tract of flesh ; her an
kles ovcrlajFped her shoes. With
such a figure, it may b«. supposed
that her habits v-ere sedentary
Whea dti '•’■'Uh. the Tozer