. Incidents of the Civil War in America . us gaze on the raging elements. It was a night to tax the endurance ofthe stoutest vessel; and it was to weather such a storm that a wretch, d oldboat, built in 1829, was sent to sea, freighted with a crew of men. and a \\u\deck load of valuable horses. Surely this was an act most culpable on the part of those who permitted no lives were lost; but drunkenness and disorder prevailed onboard to such an extent that, owing to the wretched management and cruelneglect of their keepers, only 24 horses were >aved out of 113. When the wind ros
. Incidents of the Civil War in America . us gaze on the raging elements. It was a night to tax the endurance ofthe stoutest vessel; and it was to weather such a storm that a wretch, d oldboat, built in 1829, was sent to sea, freighted with a crew of men. and a \\u\deck load of valuable horses. Surely this was an act most culpable on the part of those who permitted no lives were lost; but drunkenness and disorder prevailed onboard to such an extent that, owing to the wretched management and cruelneglect of their keepers, only 24 horses were >aved out of 113. When the wind rose, and the gale blew about our crazy old boat, a portionof her worthless boiler gave way, and the grates fell down. With considerabledifficulty the boiler was plugged or patched up. Then the stealing gear gavewav. Presently a leak was discovered, and the disorder increased. Instead ofattempting in any way to brighten the prospect of aiVairs, the miserable crewseemed intent on drowning their fears in liqubr, with a fair prospect of drown-. OF THE STEVMER POCAHONTAS, AXU DBOWHGJ MV, O* Wd BOM1 B. 74 HEROIC INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES ing every one on board in the angry waves that raged around the vessel. To■lighten her, magnificent horses, of great value, were constantly thrown over-board. When, at last, the vessel struck, the teamsters who had charge of thepoor animals refused to go down On the lower deck and cut the halters of thosestill remaining there, and they were thus left to perish in the wreck when theymight nearly all have been saved. The loud neighing and snorting of thepoor brutes, when they found themselves in the water, their mad plunging torelease themselves, and their frantic efforts to swim ashore, made a most pite-ous scene. And as ever and again a fierce, prolonged howl announced thedeath agony of some poor beast, I shuddered with horror, for nothing is morestartlingly touching than the death-cry of a horse. I have heard it when thepoor animal was burning
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