Huron Signal, 1848-02-25, Page 1.10
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TEN SHILLINGS
is •Ilsr•IVICIa•
VOLUME I.
dente guron signal,
se releTan arm eeat.il$0t twine moose
BY CHARLES DOLMEN,
MaRKeT SQUARE, Domaatcu.
THOMAS MACQUEEN ,Editor EDrres.
QTAII kinds of Beek sed Job rimti*adt wihe
the
Engle* sod French languages,
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neatness and dispatch.
THE DEAD OF THE WRECK.
DT W. STONE.
([ou,rrinu*D.] —told,
house was deserted :evident
The aged, comfortless ! 1t
unprovided, .Iase in, and the
that winter was already stet g
snow began to drive through the ur, in
clouds of hard, mimeo cutting particles, as
ie usual in high northern latitudes.
be
agent, unfaithful to his trust, u
sorted his post, Leen lost by accident, or
cut off by design. In either event the case
was equally distressing to us, and odr
hearts sank within us at the propect. Nor
in the bitterness of our disappointment dad
the rebellicu thought arise alone in my
bosom, that the fate of
who hed en more
ne
over *ith the wreck, would
have welcome to us all, than to 11.11 been
brought here to perish of hunger, sed cold.
Eve° now, at the ,present menient, it seem•
ed as though our condition was sufficiently
deplorable for human endurance ; but the
intruding thought of the extremities to
which the hapless sufferers might be driven,
(rune up tiro blood with recoiling horror ere
it could rush back to the heart. But Hope,
,t{bich Croly has beautifully likened to the
icicle, that melts even in the ray in which
it glitters—Hope, the first-frnit of happi-
ness, and the only medicine ot the misera-
ble--stept in to cheer our drooping spirits,
and whispered that she bad weathered a
thousand storms.
Florae common cooking utensils were dis-
covered, together with a few cords of wood,
collected bj the absent agent, in part pre-
paration for the winter. By putting our-
selves upon short allowaned; the little
stock of provisions which wo had secured
would suffice for a few weeks ; and
it
was hardly possible that a sail would not
appear, in some directiod, which might by
•ig°als be called to our V118f. Other
means of escape might be preeeuted.—
Possibly, too, the agent might return.. Or
—but all was enshrouded in fearful ucer-
taisty ; tad se the unwelcome thought
of
what t1Rr cetrdltleil mtgta ire awaits stole
over the urbappy group, every coin•teoance
drooped, and a deeper cloud of gloom dar-
kened every brow.
The first day was exhausted in making
such arrangements as seemed beat rather than
calcu-
lated to mitigate our misery,
to reader it tolerable. Oa the day follow-
ing, we determined to eetabheb • look.otit,
to descry, if possible, the sail of any ship
that might yet be labouring in this dan-
gerous region. But the precaution was
vain. The snow continued to drive in
clouds through the atmosphere, rendering
it tmpoesible to discern objects at any con-
siderable distance. The dotting fragments
of ice had increased in the northern chan-
nel, and reached the southern, extending
the direction of Gaspe, and yet
down the gulf towards the Magdalene
Islands, beyond the bounds of our couplet -
ed vision ; and the sense of our perilous and
solitary condition was again quickened by
the appalling fact, which now rushee upon
our recollec•ion, that i° our anxiety about
other maters of more immediate urgency,
when cast ashore, we had neglected to haul
Thad been crashed, by nmid &cure our boato the heavy hdri. nighturie g
masses of ice, into a thousand pieces!—
„ Thus early vanished our only hope of relief
and rescue, save by succour from abroad.—
Day followed day (and long dreary
"THE GREATEST pO$$LILE 4100D TO THE GREATEST POSSIBLE NUMBER."
"1'►1 ta.1 r; ANu *Lt..
T riot IND e► Tee rR•a.
'UODRRICH, HURON DISTRICT, (C. W.) FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 18-18.
In most cases, the Illinois proved to be wily she proudly threw from her Ioagudken e.e
the breaking of a wave upont
a mound of lashes the startling `sar, as otiD
ice, or the (lasbrog of the 'Dow -white foam f t -- io (.quid li lit after the W g
. you the naked ruck.
Additional poignancy and bitterness were
imparted to uur suffering by the presence
of tbo females under uur charge, draining
with us the cup of misery to its very dregs.
The pleadings, the taplortag looks, the
eloquent silence of woos. is dHtress, who
unmoved ca. bebold ! But never wero the
diviconspic-
uously attributes
dsplayed. For rfor
ertitude in the
midst of danger ; resolution in the .hour of
peril ; patient endurance of the most exqui-
site suffering, and uncomplaining submis-
sion in the moment of utter and hopeless
despair • it was wuman,—Dobie, generous,
glorious woman,— who, throughout this
10111 period of incessant and aggravated 1 uncomplaining agony of woe.
disaster,—amid scenes of suffering and wo I Thege were
now f .( drawing
to an end.—
which would requ re the glowing pen of alY
lly
Mackenzie to describe,—sot us the highest, around as the brief day cloned again upou
the Doblest, the brightest examples. I us, driving the snow furiously onward,
In a former part uf my Da r tide, which,' Jeptg,11 up in heapsg u s and r llys& ot
te onormous
like :be leach, as o: the valleyof the cess crash o: a towering pine, breaking when it
dew of death, as sketched is the progress
of the imaginary pilgrim cf Bunyan, pre- could bendsnow be tot )used storm nolog<er_
the
rents not a ray of 1 ght,'and across which
Thenot a solitary sunbeam glances to cheer the apertures.Pf our habitation, covering us in
path or soften the gloom, I mentioned the places, before morning;