A REMARKABLE STORY.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 210, 31 January 1866, Page 3

A REMARKABLE STORY.

In the steamship Bellona,. Captain Dixon, lately arrived at New York, were two steerage passengers, concerning whom a thrilling incident is related. Franz Meyer, aged 23, and his wife Anna, aged 19, from Canton Soleure, Switzerland, were passengers in the ill-fated ship William Nelson, recently destroyed by fire at sea. In the confusion incident to the efforts to save life the husband and wife separated. The husband waa picked up by one of the ship's boats, which waa soon fallen in with by the brig Mercury. The wife, young and enceinte,.-waa not discouraged at the uncertainly of her husband's fate, but prepared for her own safety. Self-preservation could not suppress her womanly instincts so far as to ignore the feeble cries for help from an infant 14 days old, left to perish by its distracted parents ; but, regardless of her own state, she plunged with her self-imposed charge, into the sea. For two whole days did this brave young girl support herself and the infant on the remnant of a ship's spar, without food or water, sustaining the infant's life by the moisture from her own mouth. Late on the second day the same vessel in which her husband was saved, having ceased cruising, without hope of rescuing more life, fell in with this little heroine, and saved her and her little charge. Eventually the family were landed at Havre, France. The Prussian consul at that port took charge of the infant, as its parents were supposed to have Tjeen lost at the wreck. Many ladies at Havre inteiested themselves to enable this brave young creature, with her husband, again to venture to cross the Atlantic in search of a Western home.