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. exie, s out informant, in bis = wrapsed. before the body was drawn _._. You who hive | friends around you and a horme-you who have the common ~ comforts of this world, simple though [COPYRIGHT WHITEHALL, N. Y, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1871 SECURED.} LIPE IN WHETEMALL: «~m@G@a-~ A TALE OF THE SHIP FEVER TIMES. a» yes br kez hamid CAYFHERE anivd from the north, on the morning wee have feebly des- orlbed in the Bast chapter, a larger number of passengers thin usual Among the emigants that crowded the forward deck, vore two sisters, one ap- parently cightom, ani the other about twonty years ofnige. They belongedito the lowor class of Trigh, and like many of their condition, fad only outlived the perils of n boistrouss voyage, and the still more dreadfal dingexs of the Ship Fe- ver, to land apm our shores without a penny ind wilhout a friend - They {nad seemei to bo otlirely undecided where to go, or what to do. Theo last cont bad been oxpended, ima thore they stood up- on the wharf, two as forlorm and lonely beings is one thy well conccve. An} day long they wintered atout, yaring wistfully at as If silently | strangers, in a foreign through the dark valloy and abadow of doath-tho other tofwandor on a raving manise, down thef more felofual valley of her life. | 5 Wo have alldded to this indieft, in order that our readers rosy bave an ink. | ling of the history of one, who vil fg ure carmowhat in these pages, under the imploring a word GL kindness or recog- nition But whom the day was closing, and the night was coming on, aind they were work with bungor, and overcome with furs, thoy ffted the air vith such communication says he hopes never to hear agin. , At lingtb, yhioer it was grow quite dark, thay laid their exhausted forms upon the ground, and locked in each other's arms sobbd themselves to sleap. j they bo, yet sometimes murmur with all theso, think of thesosorrowing creatares whoso spirit a - cloud of misfortans overshadows daz zer than those that Soat above thin, in the midnight heavy» ens, mid Team a Lesion of content It mi hays bam as late is one Of iwo o' , whez the most agonizing shrick that sor cans from human lips, broke the stillness of thenight, and was repoted many times in quick succer ston. - 'The staztlél boatmen leaped from{heir ind hurtled to the plac from whmcs the sounds procésd. ed. Thoy fund Ahayounger sigter wild | dni distracted, Tut the elder one was gone, | 'They mcertgined only from her broken accents, that the missing sister. was beside lor whorshes sank to sleap, and what hil became of her, was nadré 'thanshe could tell Al search was in effectual, until one who had become in- terated donttyrst; procured grappling irons, and higar digging the Lake in front of the dock. But a fw minutes *s CHAPTER v. fort was made to restore life; but life hnd fled forever. Heartrending beyond the power of language to depict, sero tho lamentations of the surviving giz), as she wildly clapsed in hor arms, the cold unshrouded corpes of. her dead sister, who thus mysteriously, in the bearstiful Innguage of another, had ''fAoated out upon that unknown sea that rolls around tho world.\ When, after a long embraso, they were parted by min strength-the liv- ing from the dead-tho spectators who were thrilled with undofinablo horror, as a Inugh, morg terrible than any ery of ngony, burst from the white lips of the formar, show- Ing thom that her light of rensore had “difPJ-‘E’Eu - appellation of erazy Jang.\ wasthat indefnable something in manners and conversation which is 14 was evident enough | that through folly or misfortune, hs had seended from the sphers in which was accustomed to move, \His cot ance exhibiled the signg -of disipd although it still retained the expr of intelligent and manly beauty., . gether, he was a personage whose was. Aa | iy surrounded by strange sténes. a ths surfice off the water, Every of- v as t ' - boul £00 a ec co -+ anmonk! a p ;} a_ r tinnaphed, ere my passion wupingsfimarinm ‘Erindluls. Emhmse, “mil, 1ind--ong.| Left me wills the W'm‘ THC Tint ~a i fors. cauple of \brandy smashed oad oyo.* ~ | In thogamo steamer which brought the sisters, was also another pisenger, who set foot in Whitohall that morning for the first tie. | Ho was a yourg mail who had not passed the age of twenty invariable characteristic ofthowell-brd. idated dress contrasted so strongly #th ‘Jhis easy do r > | bou 6 ‘ , guage was so much supsrior to his #o-| tinued, \Ehat have been uporasprée, | 'The two having drank, 'Tom throw ' of the detl, that. itwas R Tom thi difficult to jadgé whit manne of miho i“ hose &n-| \' € On leaving the steamer, ho masked with an air of roekless inéigegee \through the streets, untit reachinfhe comer of Division street, he s ed : zeive,\. , tran and Jooked about him; like onefho| Eng Steadity in Tom's Bice, with agentlé wales up; ind finds hinigelf unexpfed- Leaning back agninat the site dthe building, he repeated to :P ~ } «< Well, here I am, out at pocks out at elbows, and three thousand miles from home ! \ * 'To this complexion I have come at last,' Shrkespoire must havehad mo in his prophetic eye when he wrote that.', Fust thon, Tom, having emerged from the Shamrock, happened to be prising on his way to make arrangements for the better of Kathleen and hor mother, in pursuance of his prom- ise. - The stranger observing him, made a sign of recognition, and touching his hat politely remarked : ** Exougse me for saying thatI am un- der the pairiful necessity of begging of you the loan of a quarter, for an indefi- nite period of time.\ R \Sick?\ asked Tom, surveying him from head to foot, for a fow moments, considerably puzzled. 20 \\The very mmo,\ responded the strangor, at the smo time making & profound bow, that for gracefluiiness could not have been excelled by Count d'Orsay, **I am afflicted with the dis- case of dryreess.\ a 'Then as ££ tho last word had recalled lost in revoery, and son's Looksloy Hall: with the jaun ed from his mouth something closely resembling that commodity, * «Look here, my boy,\ said Tom, the stato of the caso getting through his 'hair, \you\vo been on a spree, you have, my boy |\ R \! Exnotly so, thank you; but my dear Bard of Avon?\ . « Well, £ aint,\ answererd Tom, view- ing him again from hat to boot, with an expression of mingled surpri and fan, \Who'she?\ , \Ho? Gray, in his progress of po- 6 --l ogy, of himin this wise: - - «Far from tho sun and mummers 1:1. In thy green lap was mmfgxzflufihim. 3.| Whatline -- 8 -| - *The devilhs was |\ ejaculated Tom, Tnterrupting him. K a __ ®t Ag I was nbout to observe,\ hoe con- is but the simple truth, and- - « Godt,\ said Tord, Interrupting him again, breaking forth into an inmoder- até laugh. tot . «I preceive,\ said the stranger, ilpék- see os q & Snclination of the heal, that your dichin- atory organs ate easily ércited. . Langh- ter promotes, digestion, and, digestion -# 2. CoC \- U 22k onc une nn Apen Aen nl me iMacros dais en gsuddonly, somathing to his mind, he, apparontly unconscious that ho was giv- ing utterance to the throught pssing through his mind, repeated from Tenny- « Spitting of blood,\ hoe resumed, *Is one symptom in cases of a pulmonary character, but the distinctive disease under which I am at progent laboring, is attended with spitting of cotton,\ and tas s f Prank-7M IE\ 22° 2 \. fellow, persuit me to ask if you ars con-. four. - Although shabpily attifed, that“? wersant with the immortal works of the plasurable demonstritions; would that my necessities could move your bowels to compassion.\ \What do you want?\ enquired Tom, his countenince resuming it former ex- pression during the utterance of the above dignified and philosophical sen- tences, in which he psesived the speak- er's sensitiveness to ridicule, | \What I desire more particularly at this moment,\ he replied, \Is a glass of brandy, mingled with sugar, slightly poppored with grated nutmeg, and duhed with stoughton bitters. \Do you want it vory bad ?\ inquired Tom again, \So much so, my friend, that X could orclaim somewbat as did King Richard Third, on Bothwel fold : 'A horn! a horn! a kingdom for a horanl' This was said with so much force as cirried the conviction to Tom's mind that a morning potation would be of in. finite sorvice to him, besides, to tell tho truth, he was revolving in his mind, at the very*moment he was accosted by the mgged gentleman, whether it tere bet- tor to imbibe himself, before, or after his from the dook. =- Chis decided him to pursue the course which, in fact, ho hid been rmtheor in dined to follow from the beginntng, and ascordingly ho at once invited his nor - Parning to- Com, \Déltoro\tiseing off the boverage, the offer remarked tigt previous to drinking the health of mch an exceallont fellow, it would be a pleasure that he should remember to his dying day, if ho but know his namo E WBAS,__.____________- \L was born,\ said Tom, plckng his glass upon the bar, and Axing hishat on one side of his head, \in old Yermont, . the star that neversets. I wis born, I was, as near hs I can learn, in 1823; thorigh for all that, I count mymelf tho oldest man in this ore «town, I havo upand down the raging capul, the biggest part of my interesting lif, ind my name is Tom Bovee, frosn York to Canada.\ ~ f «and Iiwas bom,\ said the othor, \not far from London, in mirry lind, in the sams year as yourself, in the month of March, As nearas £ can es- timate I have been upon. whatis. .called in this country '@ teafo,' for €ho lost three years, Thoconsequencohasg been' -and he removed the coveting From his head smilingly-'I am not the Hichard Floranceo'that I was when -this old Int was now.' ~ down the guinea he had reterved the night before, gud while the change wis being made the inimitable Richard Ad- dressed the Iandlord upon the subject of his intention of roitiaining with big & days, provided that- gentlénan could kee propor to trust to Providence for the reckoning. 2002 A rather megative aemile played over the featured of Thi portly or pressing as cleat fas any langaage, tit hesithystate of the system» ~My:80DCGE: lhe dould not posiibly affotil ih * ~: | aaice stones to excite in your zaind aoni6) percieve,\ ited 'it *.,
