Washington Weekly Telegraph (Newspaper) - February 24, 1860, Washington, Indiana F. QQ 7. WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 24, 1860. Written for The Washington Weekly HEART TO tale of love under difficult E. days the proud ship sailed over the deep blue ocean storms arising to cause fears or Day after day Mark visited the we introduced in chapter and day was spent in except on occasions when his mind would revert to scenes of and thought of would they passed their time until one day a storm They had been si and little of when the hoarse cry of tlie sailors attracted their they arose and left the place to witness the work of the With all speed were hauled and the rigging taken in. But the storm with all its fury burst upon The ship plunged through the foaming now rising mountain now plunging valley Tho masts bent before the fury of the The loud thunder reverberated across the the red glare of lightning occasionally lit up the heavens as if they were on The good ship continued to ride the but the fury of the storm Fears began to be entertained by the on the ship nor did the Consternation had now all on Sailors began to and Still more the The masts began and were finally swept in. It was all when the now frightful flashes would break the moment it expected that in the depths of the for an hour longer the ship was tossed upon the billows of the but finally the storm began to began to spring up in hearts until cry was heard The cry of alarm had reached tho ears of our young friends the ship had a and in little was well high filled with Gradually she was settling down into the depths of the and no power could Tho email boats were the and all and quickly filled with men and Such a scene of Some leaping from the ship into while others were clinging to broken masts with almost the death Others still were pleading for the of others again had given themselves up in and were awaiting their Mark and his lady with lier father had reached the spot where these fearful scenes were being boat had Mark cried aloud for a but none were For a moment he and only a He seized an and with almost he burst planks from the stern of ithe Quickly be cut loose some and in less than five had a raft which he launched into ithe taking his lady friend and her father with had just got far away be when the ship sank from Everything was now sea had grown and the moon shone most beautifully upon the of the What a A few hours they were nor did they dream of A iW they were on the great ship which semeed steady as a but it was at the bottom the While they were floating upon the of the with ^t a frail few planks as their for all Mark steadily plied to increase the distance the foundered it was near Their fears had and had all resigned to their .tf Not had they sat thus when Mr. this was tbe name of the beautiful lady we have spoke to his this is all very strange and mysterious asked it not common for ships to founder at Why not ours as well as any but that is not all that makes it nor I may as well tell you since we may pass time you have aught that interest let us I but first I must tell you that I firmly believe that we will be and my story may give you both My hope is based upon a single of which our condition tonight is a strong asked the anxious us y You are aWare that I the young man who had won your heart from my went to lie set sail for another never heard of him did I did I suppose he was young man was driven from the United States because lie loved and could not Aved the one he This you told she told you replied yon have devised means there is a hope of our being have a we and mine is a strong spoke the father as if imparting a 'a circumstance similar thus far to the one that has occurred tho one you so much Was he not but like this Avas the means of saving the life of a fair girl whose love he surely Tho was but he devised a plan whereby they were It is all like I have 'a that we Avill meet the good fortune they Henry saved not only but another you never told I was cruel not to do but whIt I tell you is does he live did when we left you know his how could you thus the knowledge from I was The young man was nor was he yet rich when last I heard from I have had his letters to you intercepted and withheld from so I know all about if heaven grant our salvation from the I will no longer interpose I feel that true worth lies not in the possession of but in a noble One who could so readily in an hour when danger was all devise means for the salvation of and take her under his especial be her from all and bravely act the part your lover can only be can only be worthy the daughter of a iu all except the mutter dollars and have this night felt that there is to be a time when the king and the beggar will be I have repented error 1 have committed and with but a few boards to divide them from the they were They had forgotten and for a long time wore all silent as if in deep Finally Mark cast out upon tho raging yet the hand of God can guide us to In him I have ever put my why pray to him for He can save a word of reply the father and daughter kneeled there with hearts turned towards the great who looks down and protects his servants Mark's heart was He kneeled and prayed - all a deep and fervent such as God to hear and here we leave and we hope to meet them under more favorable Let us hope that God heard and answered their this Must my whole or anything Go time passed slowly No sprang up my whole and now I am resolved that in my fortuno shall be used to make happy tho good who have been unfortunate in the acquisition of worldly if we shall ever reach home in I pledge you that Henry shall be was the simultaneous answer of both the lady and Even out upon the perilous no prospect of a bright future appeared to Nearly a year had passed refused to listen to the entreaties of her father to wed young but still he continued his day Mr. Graham entered his seemingly filled with despondency and He sat down without saying a word to his and thus remained for a long silent and Evidently his mind was greatly disturbed about After a long Minnie what you? You seem to be suffering in I am I am suffering in and that most can bo the You look frightens me. Has anything serious ' What? pray soon are to have no is so. 1 am so deeply involved that I can never pay it. Not all the property I liave in the world would discharge my am not you will still have me left to comfort how will you comfort mo if wo have no did you set your heart on have now taken and have you could save me from disgrace if 5-0U pray will you? is in your power to do now will you? In less than a half unless you do your I shall be a what can I tell me if I tell Vou will if is in my power to save you anything that I can I will tell you If you wed Alfred I am Has it come to at Must I be forced to wed a man to whom I have no heart to I shall not long survive this terrible you still for heaven's sake spare your She is at last thy and you within the power of this man but if you my urge not this mater I had rather fold around me my own winding than wed a man I cannot and more especially since I must do it or be driven from what an awful alternative to saVe my it is the may wed must Did I not say my heart was fixedly What can man want with the whose heart is nor never can bo say never can He will love you He will win your If you do not so fondly love after you have known him bettor you will become you think of this and for the of your whose honor or depends upon think as if thinking upon tho issue that was to give mo liberty or for I fall into tho grave if you save me there is no Avay to avert tho I feel I know it. Will you save your spare me yet a barren Have I truly loved to be thus sacrificed upon a shrine so unholy and damnable as protect me in this hour of She fell upon her clasped her hands upon her raised her eyes towards heaven and fervently and with the soul and inspiration of holy she implored help from God in this hour of most severe For a time she remained after which she arose without saying a She directed her steps to her own there to weep bitter there to again throw herself down to implore help from her let us pass over a few weeks of her it is not our purpose to fully detail in fact it would perhaps bo out of place to do or at least for your imagination cannot fail to picture her deep her her fears and months had passed when one day Mr. Graham summoned Minnie to the and spoke this matter must be attended to at ' If you still you know that l am lost without a I have waited and Mr. Clinton has waited long. 1 want an answer he will have one or withdraw his leaVe meto sink in I cannot survive this say not so. I toll you will love this will be what will see but mark set not the time too This is all I have to and tremblingly did bright and happy girl leave the spot and the presence of the man of all others she most bitterly Once more in her she again fell to her knees and prayed to be Once more she prayed for that resignation of heart that enables us to bear the severest trials to even suffer she felt th at already she surely almost broken but she felt that that only the good can and that alone can As for Alfred ho soon was joined by Mr. who seemed so full that the young man forgot the picture of despair he had seen a few moments and the Uvo entered into conversation about tho contemplated just as if it had been a business neither having more feeling about it than they closing a sale of The day just two months took his leave and hastened away to join his and glory over his prospect of becoming heir to the Graham the father rejoiced that soon he was to be able to pay by his all his and again look at the world with avarice any time for a virtuous and lioly if I did I would not imitate the example of the one you so dearly HE my heart is Mark will Aved I I shall the sooner be freed from I net long bo uith Come dont look so cheer up and look gay soon this talented and young man Avill be I suppose I must yield to the force of I have considered tho matter and come to the conclusion that since I owe a duty to and since there is no Avay of discharging the duty you have imposed on except bj the sacrifice of my that sacrifice shall be If it Avill save and since all hope of happiness for me on earth has I may as Avell spend the remaining portion of my days to make you if it be in suffering double torture the surely this is all a Why if I could the bell and soon the entered the parlor to inform the father that Mr. Clinton to be a moment Alfred stood before them in tho Mr. Graham eagerly grasped the hand of but Minnie barely rose and his a moment passed until Alfred and Minnie Avere But a moment more passed until Alfred dear Miss me to ask What has taken tho rose from those What has caused those eyes to look so dim I not ever ready to make you say you I it. Then look up and be Long have I and I Avill ask for the last Shall your hand be my hand all you but surely your heart goes with your - I none to No none to give My father tells I must wed but you only are entitled to my heart will ever be your Avill I shall win your I know it Avill be so. When you Avill love you will forget your childhood days and your early you asked not? Risk I my my fortune my all for my father has the disposal of my and he has told me that it must be given to so go to my my heart Stay yet I have more to speak of. The tho day of that bo replied J rising to her this is no of purely a bargain and sale have nothing to say in fixing to AY on the expansive and on the three occupied the frail but not a single object could be save the broad sheet of that spread out far beyond tho reach of human Noon but yet no vessel appeared in Night set in but still over the face of the they they knew not but in any direction the breeze carry of anxiety and care had bore heavily on Neither had they partaken for that length of time of any manner of nor had they had a drop of water to slake their In addition to all towards the dawn of the second day after their it began to mist and grow so day began to break across the they Avere not only but faint and almost ready to lie down and they Avere borne along over the face of the until the sun had again approached the when Mark's eager eye caught the glimpse of something little larger than the Aving of a greAv larger and yet larger until he could distinctly see that it was the sail of a and nearer it then he could see the then the and it was in full view when he cried See There is eyes Avere turned in the Quickly he hoisted a signal of and soon found that they were In less than half hour h boat was and stout arms Avere plying the oars to roach Soon all were in tho and being roAved to a place of ship being Mr. Hanley on then then next Luella was but just as she Avas boarding the a gale of wind rocked the ship and being excessively weak she No sooner had she touched the water than a caused the vessel's hid her from but no sooner had she been thus submerged had plunged into the ocean tp rescue some time both disappeared from The anguish of that father at this time was beyond the power of any to It seemed as if both Avere lost beyond a possibility of But soon they arose to the surface of the Mark having a firm hold of while she and only floating along as caused by The were beginning to run but boldly and manfully did this noble youth stem their It Avas not that he had thus to for the boat was quickly sent to their and Avere drawn safely on But Luella and remained so for a but ahe was When she could speak slie saved ill his Own young and but above all gifted Avith an air of lately presented herself before a certain Parisian - I came to consult you on a grave affair I Avant to oblige a man I lore to marry me in spite of How shall I gentleman of the bar of a elastic He reflected a then being sure that no person ever heard replied according to our you always possess the means of forcing a marry You remain on three occasions alone Avith you can go before a Judge and thai he is your that Avill Avith one further you will produce who Avill make an oath to their having remain a good quarter of Avith the individual said to trifled with your I will retain you as counsel in the of this days afterwards the young girl She Avas mysteriously received by the scarcely giving her time to seat questions her Avith the most lively Mademoiselle hoAv do matters in your but mind the next time come to consult mo you must tell me what the name of the man is that Ave are going to render so happy in spite of shall have it fortnight afterwards young poison more vaive and candid than knocked discretely at the d of her counsel's No sooner was she in the room than she Hung herself into a saying that she had mounted the steps too and that the emotion made her Her counsel endeavored to made her inhale and even proposed to release her is said am much tell me the name of the fortunate mortal you are going to fortunate bo it known to said bursting into a love I have been three tete a tote Avith and my four witnesses are ready and to accompany me to the gravely continued the thus fairly had sense not to get The most singular fact of all is that ho adores his young by the Avay makes an excellent item greedy sat this and pandering o'er a memorandum book of items used or days to gather them in of limb and pondered wo those While we conned slowly rocking our mind stange fancies came a a nervous knocking at the tum that must be wo that's knocking at ouK the - hoAv Avell do the walls that then confined lay behind us and us on the Ave called to some newspapers be relief from ' to get rid of the open him the the kept louder up our patience another murmur said your pardon forgiveness fact residing of Pembina proceedings they voted the and ways by the and were lost in the reflection that the might Avith sent for Becker Calculations Here Ave Avide the But our phel nka it wasn't the the form that stood before us caused a come o'er and memory quickly bore us back to day days when items so and this he picked up interesting pencillings at almost horned this young infernal outstretched like foreman's out of it kinder riz our that like grasping he had setup air the and already this had already till nearly he had sauntered through the city till his feet were through Pine and Spruce and through the you never both public and and examined shop and and had every all refused tp telV or hint at any published Having met Avith no would rather sorter guess he might have felt a trifle at that ugly little Avith the message from the foreman that he it's time your you young you b in to the where you Avere or tho words you have Avill get your noddle seized a cudgel that was on the still he stood and never stirred from his position the never of dost of persecution Thinkest thou and haunt me like the till I have said this sheet thou art doomed to and to like on live noble young maiv Avas the swept clip the following from the N. Y. rich scone lately occurred at the depot at Camden N. J. The when they enter a Avell filled car usually consider it the duty of the gentlemen to give up the scats to no doubt it but how often do they receive thanks for their the boat arrived a a lady into the Avas Avell and looked around for a quiet looking lad offered her which was accepted The young man a and then said in a tone sufficiently loud to be heard by you lady regarded him Avith and asked him to I felt grateful that you condescended to occupy my seat publicly ' are rather and should bo taught to speak more politely to a observation does not apply in this was the Do you mean to say I am not a said fully are no you're an she broke is exceedingly ignorance is her ho not somebody protect mo from the insults of this asked the indignant any presume to insult i said the un you recovered to talk at thinking ho had caught a I would leave him to your lady and from car in and the Then the devil fled muttered him But our never still and landing just outside the tears his cheeks is his heard a foreman Avants some and by that every Avel dismal horning of the imp out and a fancy Avill come o'er reader's face us beS us classic antiquated would you risk a life so dear to the one you love? Won Id yoti plunge into what would seem to be a grave to save I would risk and to his seat amid roars of laughter that shook the The human like a feather must be roughly well to variety of to its Ball grand amalgamation ball came Thursday tho Assei Prince street composed entirely of black men and white no or black woman was Daily room was tastefully decorati and conspici among the number being 1 ored photograph of John si rounded by a of At o'clock festivities were brought to close by the arrival of Broadway lers and with bags of flour and soot about They the flour er the black on the At this the lights Avero and then commenced a scene which to Indian literally baked to death in N. last under the liquor had been induced an Irish woman enter the which Avas a fashioned one of whore she confined intending to take him out iu a short Meanwhile the oven was for and he avus this hot prison for when he was found and entirely Did j the of
