L• ' 1 - 1' *D**l4 11111 Mt T 0 WI saturn_ gtornina,.*lrit a,_ 'BSA. '-ktirritli THE HEATtSCH-JCRITY. )T 'LIZA COOS. a 4 A riclfOtan 'talked abroad oisediy, Awl epoor man walked to y the siltsanse*ay,.. When a pale and starving face came by • With a palid by and a hopeless eye; . • And that starving face remained to stand. And ask for bread at the nob mans bard , • But the rich man sullenlykorked askaace, With a gathering ttowti and a doubtful 'MACS , " i have nothing, said he, " to give tsx'yous for any such a rogue of a canting crew ; Oat work. Ott work! I know full well , The whining lies that beggar can tell:" t And h e f aste ned his rocket ; and on he went, With tits soul untouched and his conscience content Now this great owner nfgolden*re Had built • church not long before, A s no ble a °Pane as man could raise, And ihe world had given him thanks tad praise s s And all who beheld it lavished fame • Oa his Christian gift and godly name. The poor titan passed, and the white lips dared To ask of him if a mile could be spared; Ths poor marl gazed on the beggar's cheek. And saw that the white lips could not speak. lie stood for a moment, but not to pause Pa the truth of the tale, or the parish laws, lie was seeking to give—though it was toti small— For a peony, a single penny was,all4—d • vv. But be gave itwith alcindly word, Whilst the warmest pulse in his breast was stirred; "rwas a tiny seed his charity shed. But the white lips got a lute of bread, And the beggar's blessings hallowed the crust That came like a spring in the desert dust. The rich man and the poor man died. As all of us must, and they were tried At the sacred judgment seat above, For their thoughts of evil and deeds of love, The balance of justice there was true. And fairly bestowed what fairly was due; And the two fresh corners through Heaven's gate Stood their to learn their eternal fate, The recording angel told of things That fitted them both with kindred wings, Bat as they stood on the crystal tient. The plumes of the rich . men grew lest bright. The angels - knew by that shadowy sign, That the poor man's work had been most divine ; And they brought the unerring scales to see What the rich man's falling oil could Full many deeds did the angels . weigh. Out the balance kept an even sway ; And at last the church endowment laid With its thousand promised and thousand paid, With the thanks of prelates by its side, - In the stately words of piouvptide ; Anl it weighed so much that the angels stood Tosee how The poor man could balance such good A cherub came and took his place Dy the empty scale, with radiant grace, And he dropped the penny that had fed White staLyirg lips with a crust of bread. The ehurch'endourment went op with the beam ; And the whisper of the Great Supreme, As he beckoned the poor man to his throne, Was heard in this immortallope— •Blessed are they who from great gain Give thousand. witha reasoning brain, But bolter stiltshall be his part Who gives one coin with pitying be t,7. THE POINT OF :I ONOR. One rti.ning in the autumn of the year . 1842, semen persons, including myself, were siting/1 chatting in a state'of hilarious gaiety in knot of Se nor Anuilas' country house, a mile 6r so out of Santiago de Cuba. in the Eon:ern lotendencia of the (been of the Antilles, and once ite chief capital, when an incident occurred that as effectually put tin extinguisher upon the noisy mirth as if a bomb shell had sudderil! exploded at our feet. But first ! a brief account of those seven persons, and the cause l of thiiir being so assembled will-be necessary. 'lf Three were-American merehante—Southerners rl and smart traders, extensively connected with she commerce of the Columbian archipelago, and de signing to sad on the morrow, wind and - weather permuting, in the bark Neptune, St key master and part owner—for Morita Bay, Jamaica ; one-.was a lieutenant in the Spanish artillery, and nephew of our host ; another was a M Dupont, a yeung and rich creole, of mingled French and Spanish parent. age, and the reputed suitor for the hand of Donna Antonia—the daughter and sole heiress of Setter Arguellas, and withal a graceful and charming Mai den of eighteen—a ripe age in that precocious clime; the With gAst Was Captain Starkey, of the Neptune., a gentlemanly, fine looking English seaman of about thirty years of age; the seventh and last Was myself, at that time a merry youngster, and belittle recovered from .a severe fit of sickness which a twelvemonth previously bad necessitated My re. moral from Jamaica to the much mote 'temperate and equable climate of Cuba, albeit the two islands ars only distant about five degrees from each other. I was also one of Captain Srarkey's passengers, and so was Senor Arguelles, who bad business to wind _ep in Kingston. He. was to be accompanied Se" flora Argullas, Antonia, the young lieutenant, and boporit. The Nephew had broagnt a•earisti of snottier, corisirting of hi trleraiS, cotton, el 4terii,-;,c; Cut a, and was relenting about: half laden with goods. Among these, belonging: to the- , American merchants. were a num beret barrelenlgunpowder, that had proved trasaleableiti'Cisba,'aistl "bitty it was thought. might alqut.fit'ocuy ifs ast Jamaica. There was eaciellentcabin eacommoda. tine on hoard C a p ta i n Starkerils vessel, And as the weather was fine, and the tiam;Vo43cri*eil to - be a brief as Well as a pleasant one.-sibewinifluivitig shifted to the northwest,. withiheittientem. i ii 'seem of remaining them some fume-ive weieralff 9P 1 hare filmed, in-eireedit;Pyotelquirnot;l*4l- euing the it,itendell Aieel l 4 3 l:,nnO European IRA Wet. the role Pa ra l i !" and SPeeit`h wine anti Uaianx veil , Atibansas,ei, 11v 0 , wiib InfiniteVetralidgiStki: *, The eveoln,v. ', - .,44 . 41441titti0t :104 ake e r• The teee?e ) ,pleetillerseel i*ltlinAliCkfil 10 be tieing to a five or six knot, one tat auk- tohly te y s.l•re I 'he rich and ot3ctrors rertation r+- ---- 7-..- -,...: q...: C3' ! C.:. , 5 .''''',n ! . ..; o',: ., f4.•.1!.. - .-. 1 -"Y.!, ,' , .. i;.-k..t+ 1.,T.'0.Q1 C' i.,"...,(.7f ..i - '117.4- 15-r 4 ,, .• -et ." , -7 ^sl' I'l - 3'4 ' ..- 7 .1"1!, - ' v '''' -; - ' ..." '...' 4.... 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' 'A. --;.- ' ' • .....i ;. - - "..;* : - .:1 , • t' ., '' ' '.4 • ..."" ' - :l i ` ' '-, !' • ...• ' ' ''' ' ' . - • ' BM MEI RN 1 MI=MI =OEM V EERIE 1- ._ll.l4l$l:llr,w,,FARY SAVIRDAT, ATLTOW•Pi,,I4O4I4O.OIP . ;cONeTy,-P : A., ,ST S. il.O !nat.. GOODRICH. oilthe Ira ys, t stre i tchtng feraway. neathitts; . gent-.. iy _ taco of the. party itegrate rid perfnmey end slightly ripple the:winding riiplets,ratlia,,i . which : eyetywheielatersect and ir rigate the isitiorf, Te„rel _which were no gli)tering, with the myriad spier dors of the intensely lustrous stars - that diadem 4 Cebu •night. Nearly all the guar Oaf drunk very freely of wine, too much so, indeed'; but the talk , in, french, which all could apealtuderahlY, did not profluie the calm glor? of the scene, till some time after Senora Arguelles end heir danghter bad left us. The Senor, I should state, was atilt detained itt tetvh, by basineos which it wu . . neceseary, he should.disposa of ihatvious to embark ing for Jamaica: "Do no go away? said Senora Arguelles, ad dreising Captein Starkey, as she rose from her seat, " till I see you again. Man you are at leisure, ring the sonnets on the table end's servant will in form roes I wish to speak tunher with you relative to the cabin arrangements:" Capt Starkey bowed. It'd never, I thought, seen Antonio smile so sweet y,; and the two ladies left ue. Ido not pricisely reniember how it came about, or what Amt led to k, but it was not very long before we were all conscious that the conver sation had assumed a very disagreeable tone. It struck me that possibly M Dupont did not like the expression of Anto ia's face as she concesied to Captain Starkey. This, however, would, I think, have passed of hsrmles,ly, had it not been that the captain happened to mention, very imprudently, that-lie had once served as a midshipman on board the English slave-squadron. Th s farmed M Du pont's smouldering iii humor into a flame, and I gathered from his confused maledictions that he had suffered in property from the exertions el that force. The storm of angry words raged fiercely The motives of the English for interfering with the slave traffic were denounced with contemptuous bitterness on the one side," and as warmly and an grily defended on the other. Finally—the fact is, they were both flustered with sine and mision, and scarcely knew what they said or rlsl,--M Du pont applied an epithet to the Queen of Ettulami, which instantly brornrht a idas• of wine full in his lace from the hand of Capon Starkey They were all instantly on their fee , , anti a - pp:trendy sabered, or nearly so, by the unfortunate iPigid r.l the wordy tun oh Caiaai-t' Starkey 'cab .he einv flu-heti 414 4 1 angry' fealtite• pAril -14',1e0 U. an 111 most ,Ip 7 .4. 1 1 % whfie, aril he ...atnitieeti "1 boy ynnr pardon. Al Duipon Ir WM , truirg —very wrong in me 10 do o. ;though not iurrcuaa• ME r• pa•rl.•n Mille tornierres !th owed Ditruit. who WWI capering ilt/Ottl in an ecstasy 'age. and wip. log he tare ur ult iris harutkerritiel. •• Vet!, a bul let through your head phalli pardon yiWil—nothing leea !" Indeed. aeconling to the then notions of Cohan eneiet y , no tithe, attedihtive pave the 4iielln appear. ed po.sible Lieutenant Arguellap hitrried at MVO into the house, and speedily returned a ith a cape of pt‘trilP. Let us proceed." he said, in a quiek whisper, " frohe wore )under; wu shall be ►herg Gee hum interrnption " He took Dupont's arm, and both tamed to more off: An they did an, Mr. D amond, the elder of the American gentlemen. stepped towwds Captain Stirkey, who' with recovered calmness, and with his arms folded, was standing by the table, at.d said. " I em not entirely, my good sir, a stranger to these_rtflatro, and if I can be of service I shall—" " Thank you, Mr Desn.rinif ," replieit the F.ng. fish cal tain i " butt shall not require your assist ance Lieutenant'Arguellas, you may as well re. mai - - lam no duellist. and shall not fight M. Du pont." • - ig What does he say!" exclaimed the lieutenant. gazing with sippiit bewildern3ent round the circle " Not fight!" The , Angio Saion blood, I saw, flushed as hotly in the veins of the American as it did in mine at exhibition . , of the whit? feather by one ot our race. "Not fight, Captain Starkey !" said Mr. Des. mond, with grave ejameemera, alter a painful pause " you whose came is in the fist ot the Brit. iihyoyal navy. say this ! You must be jesting 1 ." 1' lam pettedly serious-4 am opposed to duell •ing upon principle." "A- coward upon principle !" fairly screamed Dupont, with mucking fury, end at the same time st eking his clenched.fist at the Englishman. - The degrading epithet slung like a serpent. A gleam at fierce passion broke out of Captain Start. ey's 'eyes, arid he made a Step towards Dupont, but reaolUtoly checked Well, it-mstarbe borne ! I was going •to' offer you personal violence, although your impertinence certainly deserved'rebuke. Sill, I repeat I will not fight with you." " But yon lila give,my friend sati*Lictimi !" es. claimed Lieutenant Arguelles, who 'was. we much eieited . arr Duplijit; " nr. by heaven, l'vvill port you as is rirn•iarri ; Cot only throughout this i land but Jamaica t." . :.. CeptatirStgirey for 'all, answer do this Molar* \\ coolly rang, the ernmenejand desire the eve-who aliatiered" .. it to inform Serita Airiellarr tt t he was ahnnt irrler3y i e;'ait:rt Witii.writt,iSee her , „ ' i " Thai btave-*nglOmen ,ivtilinit• to, Oa* birn- , ' selkutderthe protecrionlif :your aunt's petticoats. Attihertserstrottierfollpoot, With trituripharitiiioelt.' " f ahne4 atiabi whaerlir Starkey ierinEni . !'!t7 l #9 7 „ a W e ;. 1i'1 1 i4 1 4. i.:1 ?. e1 . t)wl'.. -l A l , h ? - re!f w el l 41 T 4.. tr! ireckrt l l. wax.irninl.prltcly stly.P. ioceor edi t" beliiat all e•tintio,tai ter' father mid. mother Were tror&and-risirrther eld'inet.trY It - ynii. pre-: .ai r ii c id j iiiiiiu&,e - thaii - :- r' ,., r -- .' - .----- I , ..,) ~ 3..1 .' • 1 . 3 - ' 1 3 -r fn r ... . • .... ;' '. 3 P54°!4;A4P Cll 4; alll 4 l O 4P P I A ) k a P PrWhiSAilnd', Aneiratis..MnerirtattorttOnmCdifureitylie strain e d hilb6elV.Theleiliptptleiredirifttirilaitrkt litfil.litirge; 10:4:6ttilli'tittikrt:it44Y1*;.idAl.qi, 01'fi:N. ?I#.4l.ltFr;;iii,itl."NTl:i*Olft:friPta-IN H1PJ,1114.301K1 the way into the boaserhesvingdirseOtthissisi•. ton, as the , French say, pbmtes la. , SaiN= ; A. l llllt.N.li , lEEE OEM MEM 7 " assay itssit or OlmlttotAtios Ito* air *trail:rms." Tin Mint:nee CliPlain:Statkey had, lett t h e tkolgitr,,lfter tug upon SenoreArgusillas-that the Neptune would sail the nest turning precisely at pine o'clock. A renewed torrent of rage; Coritetnfit, ahtl scririOneki - s forth at this , aprionnietnent; and srinel at one - time seemed inevitable between Lieutenant Arguelles , and- Mr. Desmond; the last named gentleman ttianis fasting great anxiety to shoot somebody bt other ltt vindication of his Anglo-Saxon lineage. This, hovever s was overruled, and the party broke op in angry diserdei. - We were all on board by the appointed time 'in ' the following morning. Captain Starkey muffed ns wi h civil indifference, and I noticed. that the elaborate sneers which sat upon the countentnees of Dupont and the lieutenant did not appear in the alighted degree to ruffle or affect him; but the aver ted eye and scornful air of Donna Antonia as she passed with Senora Arguelles towards the cabin. draseine, her mantilla tightiy round her as she swept I by, as if-4o I perhaps wrongfully interpreted the action—it would be soiled by contact with a pol troon visibly 'touched hite. , -only, however, for a few brief moments. The expression of.pain qniek ly vanished, and his countenance wee as cold and stern as before. There was, albeit, it was soon found, a limit to this, it seemed, contemptuous for bearance. Dupont, approaching hint, gave hie thoughts audible expression, - exclaiming, loud enough for several of the crew to hear. and looking steadily in the captain's face t " Lathe?" He would have turneJ away, but was arrested by a gripe of t steel. '• Ecoutet, monsieur," said Captain Starkey : " in• dividually, I bold for nothing whatever you may say ; but I am captain and king in this ship, and I will permit no one to beard me before the crew, and thereby lessen my authority over them. Do you preAnne again to do so, and 1 will put you in solitary confinement, perhaps in irons, till we arrive at Jamaica." He then threw off his startled auditor, and walk ed forward. The passengers, enloreil as well as white. were all on board ; the endow already speak, was bmintlii home; the bows of the ship tell plow.. Ic at!: and we ware hi a few moments running be (Ore the wind, though but a faint nue, fur Puiut Mo rant NO one, could be many hours nu hoard the Nep tune ssi,hotto being fully *awned that, ho sever tie. licient in duelling enutae , " tic' captain might be, he vrit* a thtt.uu4it seaman, and that his cteve —about a 1.1..zen ut atlite tellowa I have ever sern—were ender the intro padre* dt.ciptme and command.-- The service of the vessel was carried on as noise lessly and rekularly as nn board a ship of war; and a sense of confidence. that should 3 tempest or oth er seaperit overtake us, every reliance might be place., in the proles.innal skit and energy of Cap taw Starkey, -ow. mealy er openly acknowl. cited by all on board. • The weather throughout happily continued fine, but the wind was light and variable, so that for several days after wo had sight. ed the blue mountains of Jamaica, we scarcely ap. pealed sensible to diminish the distance between them and us. At last the breeze again blew steadi ly train the hwest, and we gradually neared Point Morant. We passed it, and opened up the bay at about two o'clock in the morning, when the voyage might be said to be over. This was a great relief to the cabin passentrers—far beyond the or dinary pleasure to land‘folk of escapinz from the tedium of confinement on shipboard. There was a constraint in the behavior of everybody that was exceedingly unpleasant. The captain presided at table with hefting civility; the conversation, it sack it could be called, was usually restricted to monosyllables; and we were all very heartily glad that we had eaten our last dinner in the Neptune.— When we doubled Point Morant, all the passen gers except myself were in bed, and at:planer of an hour atterwads Captain Starkey went below, and -was soon busy, I understood with papers in his cabin. For my part I was too excited for sleep, and I continued to pace the deck fore and an with , Flawkini, the first mate, wtiose watch it was, ea gaily observant of the lights on the well-known shore, that I had left so many months before, with but faint hopes of ever seeing it again. As I thus gazed landward, a bright gleam, as of crimson moodiest, shot across the dark sea, and turning quickly round, I saw it was caused byw tall jet of flame P h not ip g up from the main hatchway, which two seamen , for &nine purpose or rubel!, had at the moment partially opened-1n my still weak Mote, the terror of the sight—for the recollection of the banels of powder on biiard 'Hashed instantly somas my mind—for,sereratmontents completely stunn ed me, and bet that I. caught instinctively at the settlings, I should have fallen prostrate on thedeek. A wild outcry of " Fire !' firerthe most' feartill cry that can be heard at sea=-mingled yriith and !heightened: the dizzy ringing". in my . *Au,. anti I .was barely sufficiemly conscious to idiscem, amid the riindinga to and fro, and the indolterent'excla m mons of the crew, the sinewy, athletic fi gure - id the captain leap opus it %refe r :root the companion ladder wills deck, and withoirt trumpet-voice corn rnaml immediate silettbe,instantli &Wowed by the order again to batten tiown.the blazing bate Belay.. Lfhis t with his own assistance, was prompUy efiett• ed, and then he disappeared down , perform:Ws; The tyro or three mantel 'he Wris`gnnett (meld Attukni),cornpleteily Aid-4,appear Jo 41* 'sequin:it that ; our fate-mnat - •deperid wpoit slits inilVtunit MA's' *Ord *ea Ata . dtent,' 'lined It pie( 1 iiiFiCial4,7ll4 .nearly suoiehed,em ,plackener 1b.,. Mt, ! and &again:tap .what seemed a dead body in hisshoy,' -11 b• ihrowlds' be rile* r-deltil s r add : pi - maim; (n 4 bu r - 1 ...,OeII , "IMPVF, in:LWOW /0-.12914. e.? .•-••“•.• -, • ~ . -ttßtpidosuaind:mtme, thelstiatugtenvand - brlag pistolsfrplat, the cantle locker. !;e, ki , 4111: , _ Et is rill/ ifiii-Vieeora -5 iilo 7l o4 l r .' t• o, 7 i-.1114e413t r!*544 - -)1K0.114.e43644 1 M 1 001M144410i " You well know, men, that I would net on any xiargas , -- En =I nem . uolort.Or rex „soy. motive deceive you. .Lituin, Oise, attentively. Yon drunken brute—he is Lieu. tenant Arguelles' tervarit--ints fired with the candle the Spiritr he ores stealing,: and the hold is a man' of Ore *hi:h it is *se ess to waste one pteeione moment in attempting to extinguish!' Aory of rage and terror burst from the erew, and they sprang imptilsively towards the boats, but the captain's anthorititive voice at Once &nested their steps. .~ BM " Hear ms out will you, Hurry and confusion will destroy us all, but with courage and steadiness every soul on board may be saved before the flames can teach the .plowder. And remember," he add. ell, u he took bis pistols from Hawkins and cock• ad one of theM, "that I will vend a bullet after any man who disobeys me, Wel I seldom miss my aim. Now, then, to your work—steadily, and with a will P It was marvelous :to observe the influence his bold confident, and commanding bearing and words had upon his then. The panic terror that had seii ed them gave place to energetic resolution, and in an incredibly 'short space of time the boats were in 'Me water. " Well done, my fine fellows ! There is plenty of time, I again repeat. Four of you"—and he named them—" remain with me. Three others jorap into each of the large boats, two into the small one, and bring them round to the landward Bidet of the ship. A rush would swamp the bosh:, and we shall be able to keep only one gangway open." The passengers were by this time rushing upon deck half clad, and in a mate el the wildest terror, for they all knew there was a large quantity of gun powder on board. The instant the boats touched the starboard side of the bark, the men, white Al well as colored, forced their *ay *ith frenzied ea gerness before the women end children—careless, apparently, whom they sacrificed, so that they might themselves leap to the shelter of the boats from the fiery volcano raging beneath their feet— Captain Starkey, aided by the font tithletiC seaman he haJ selected for the duty, hurled them fiercely back. " Back, back I" he shouted. It We must have funeral order here—first the woman and children next the old men Hand Senora Arguelles along; next the young lady her daughter : quick " As Donna Antonia, more dead than alive, was about to be lifted into the boat, 2 gush of flame burst ap through the nPain hatchway with the roar of an explosion ; a tumultuous cry burst from the frenzi ed passengers, and they jostled each,,/other with frightful violence in their alone to reich the gang way. Dupont lorced hie way through the lane of seamen with the,energy of a madman, and pressed so soddenly upon Antonia that, but for the utmost exertion of the captain's Herculean strength, she must hve been precipitated into the water. " Back, unmanly dastard !back, dog !" roared Captain Starkey, terribly excited by the lady's clan ger ; and a moment afteryseizing Dupont fiercely by the collar, he added : " or if you will, look there but for a moment," and he pointed with his pistol hand to the fins of several sharks plainly visible in the glaring light at but a few yard's distance trom the ship. " Men," he added, 't let whoever pass. es forward ont of his turn fall into the water." " Ay, ay, air !" was the prompt mechanical res- ponce. This terrible menace instantly restored order ; the colored woman and children were next embarked, and the boat appeared full. " Pull off," Was the order," Fonts. dyer ipeough for safety." A cry faint as the wail of a child, arose in the boat. It war heard and, understood. u Stay one moment ; pass along Senor Arguel les. Now, then oft with you, and be mean P The next boat was quickly loaded ; the colored lads and men all but one and three Americans went in her. 4 . 1 You are a noble fellow," said Mr. Desmond, pausing an instant, and catching at the captain's band ; " and I was but & tool to—" " Pass on)' was ahe reply ; there is no time to bandy compliments." The order to shove off had passed the captain's Tips, when his glance chanced to light upon me, as I leans 1, dumb with terror, jast.behind him against the - vessel's bulwark& Hay on a . moment" he cried. " Here is a yonnglier wbose-weight will not hurt yon ; " and he fairly lifted me over and dropped me gently in to the boat, shivering as he did so : " Remember me, Ned ; to thy father and mother should I not dee 'them again." There was.now only the small boat, capable of safely conraining but eight persons, and bow, it was whispered among us—bow in addition to the two seamenalready in ber,van sbeiaker off Lien. tenant Arguellai Dupont , the reinslning ‘ coloi. Oti'manohe.l'otu Illankflayllll4i Captain. Starkey They were, however, all speedily embarked ex -cepi the captain. " Can she bear another !" he asked, and ahho' .his voice,wipt 4rru as ever, his countenance, I no. tined was ashy pale yet (atlas ever of unswerving resolution: • - " VVe must, anti will sir, since it's yon ; but We Are dangerensb overcrowded, now, especially with yon‘nly customers swimming around " is Stay one` moment ; I cannot quit the ship White t iliere's a living soul on bOard." He stepped hastily , *Fara and presently reapplmred„ at , the vngway :with. the win senseless body ot hen. tenant's'servant in his arms and dropped it over the ydtliiinto - the boat. 'There Wall a cry of indignation •bnd it_was of no avail. The boat's rope the next instant was cast into the water. "Now volt for - yotir lives FL The we from , the instinct 'Owl! galifiervinion, Ali into the - taste!, and the •irit sprang oft Captain Markey, now that all ez cept.himsen were claar-of tha beming•shipi gazed ,itegkrtyvith eyes ifteiled with his hand its the di 090' l r eaeatt y he hOll9 the bnd- vi t li o taitsnost l itrinesa langsp4; And the pilot-boa!s ought to be eornirg Dot, thonik tki7Mlol - ,I= , UP I don't see any. It you meet one bid him be smart; them may be a chance ft.t." . Alibis scene, this long agony, which has, tit i ken Itte so many words to depict very imparfet4from my own recollection, and those ot others, only'last. ed, I was aftereards assured by Mr.. Clesmond, eight minutes from the embarkation of Senora Ar guelles till the last boat left the ill-tated Neptune. Never will I forget the frightful sublimity of the spectacle presented by the flaming ship, the sole object save ourselves discernable amidst the vast and heaving darkness, if I may use the term, oftthe night and ocean, coupled as it was with the dread tel thought that the heroic Man to whose firmness and presence of mind we all owed our safety aas inevitably doomed to perish. We hstl-not rowed more than a couple of hundred yards when the flames, leaping up every where through the sleek, reached the rigging and the few sails, so present ing a complete outline of the bark and her tracery of mists and yards drawn in lines of fire ! Capt ain Starkey, not to throvit away the chance he spoke ot, had gong out to the end 01 the bowsprit, having first let the jib and foresail go by the run, and was for a brief space sate from the flames ; but what was this but a prolongation of the bittemssa of death'! the boats continued to increase the distance be tween them and the blazing strip, amidst a dead silence broken only by the:Measured dip of the oar and many an eye was turned with intense anxiety shoreward, with the hopeif descrying the expect ed pilot. At length a distinct hail—and I felt my heart stop beating at the sound—was heard ahead lustily responded to by the seaman's throats, and presently afterwarla a swiftly propelled pilot boat shot out of the thick darkness ahead almost imme. diately followed .y another. e • " What ship is that 1" cried a man standing in the bouts of the first boat. " The Neptune and that is captain Starkey on the bowsprit !" sprang eagerly to my feet, and with all the force I could exert shoaled : " A hundred pounds for the first boat that reach es the ship !" " That's young Mr. Mainwaring's face and voice" exclaimed the foremost pilot : "Mora, then, lot the prize !" and away then both t-ped with eager vigor, but unaware certainly a the peril of the task. In a minute or so another shore boat came up, but after asking a few nuestieni and seeing how mat. tern stood, remained, anti lightened us . of a portion dour living cargoes. We were ad three too deep in the water the sine!: boat perilously co. Great God ! the terrible suspense we all felt while this was going forward. l Can scarcely bear even now, to think about it. t shut my eyes and listened with breathless, palpitating excitemer t for the explosion that should end all. It came '. • least I thought it did, and 1 sprang convulsively to my feet —So sensitive was my my brain, partly no doubt from recent sickness as well as fright, that I hail mistaken the suds' en shout of the boat's crews for the dreaded catastrophe. The bowsprit, from the end of which a rope was dangling, was empty, and both pilots, made aware doubtless of the clang er, were pulling with the eagerness of fear from the ship. The cheeriog among es were renewed again and again, during which—l continued to gaze with ar rested breath and facinated stare at the flaming ves sel and fleeing pilot. boats. Suddenly a pyramid . of flame shot up from the hold of 'h• .14., ea by a deaTening roar. I fell, or was knocked down, I know not which ; the boat rocked as it canght In a fierce eddy ; next came the hiss and splash of numerous heavy bodies falling from a great height into the water; and then the blinding glare and stunning uproar were succeeded by a soundless silence and a thick darkness, in which no man could discern his-neighbor. The stillness was broken by a loud, cheerful hail from one of the pilot-boatel we recognized the voice, and the sim ultaneous and ringing shout which burr from us as sured the gallant seaman of our own safety, and how exultingly we rejoiced in his. Half an hour afterwards we were safe)! landed ; and aa the ship and,cargo had been especially insured, the only ul timate evil result of this fearful passage in the lives of the passengers and crew of the Neptune was a heavy lass re the underwriters ) A piece of rlate, at the suggestion of Mr. Dia mond and hie friends, was subscribed for and pre sentel to Captain Starkey at a Oldie dinner given at Kingston in hie honor—a circumstance that many there will remember. In his speech on returning thanks for the compliment paid him he explain. ed hi. motive for resolutely declining to fight ado el with Mr. Dupont, half a dozen versions of which , had got :tto the newspapers. I was very early left an orphan," he said, and was very tenderly reared by a mammal anni, Mrs mentioned a name with which bond dreds of nevrspaper readers in England must be fa miliar) " Her husband—as many bete may be fiware—fell in a duel in the second month of wed- My aunt continued to live dejectaily on till had passed my nineteenth year ; and so v ivid a n imrression did the patient scum.* of her life make o n me—so thoroughly did I team to loathe and de fest the barbarous practice that consigned her to a Premature grave, that it scarcely required the sol "simn promise she obfained tram me, as die last sigh trembled on her lips, to make me resolve never, under any circumstances to fight a ,duel As to my -. behavior during the unfortunate conflagration of the Neptune, which my friend Mr Desmond ha. spoken of so flatteringly, I can only say that 1 did hQ !sore than my simple duly in the Minter. Both Wind I belong to a maritime nice, one Of whose most lieremptory_maaiaaiit is that the captain must be the last man to quit or give up his ship., Besides 1 mast have been the veriest dastard alive to have quailed in the presence o f --of—that is, in the pres enee'of—einbuniiiincel which—in point of fact— / J I . 4 F . 1 0 1 .PV4 7 . 3 4ier Puatea and boggled sad. ly ; ha was evidently nootvile ;Inewheeher it was :be Fly tipifiranee cf Benet ,l t'suellas'conntenance ...,-......,... ? ,... ,, ,...., - , , . - ....r - . 4., _ !''ff,,.','.,-1. lIIIIMEI which just then happened to be turned to ww orthe glaticei he threw at the gallery where Senn. ra Arguelles' gravepluritlity and don,ta Ant‘,l!ie•4 bright , eyes and bloating clerks enco un le ie d hint that so completely put him out, I cannot LI ; but he continued to stammer pninfolly, aithough dos company cheered smiziaughed with weal vebtru once and uncommorrgood humor, iu order to give him time. He could not recover himsett ; and et. tar flouadering about 'through a tea n sentences, sat down, evidently very hot and un comfortable, tl ou.h amidst a lade hurricane of hearty cheers an hilarious laughter. I haire but a few words to say. Captain Sia. ley ha• been long settled at the Havana ; and Dufinu Antonia has been just as long Mrs. Starkey. Three. little Statkeys have to my knowledge, made the t appearance, and the captain is, altogether a rich prospemus man; t 3 t though apparently permanent• ly domiciled in lorelm country, he is, I sni quite satisfied, as rue an Englishman, and as loyal a ruk.ject of Q 4 - 6 R Victoria, as when he threw the glass of wine liable Cuban Creole's face. I don't know what has l aecome of Dupont ; and, to tell the truth. I don't shach care. Arguellas has attained the rank of 11430 r Arguelles officially reported t r be slightly worded in the late Lopez expedition. 1 And I, also, tt ► "m pretty well now, thank you! Lisa Is THIL TROPICS.—Sydney Smith writes-- . " Insects are the curse of tropical climates 'rho " bete rouge" lays the foundation of a tremendous ulcer. in a moment you are ith ticks. Chigoes bury themselves in yont flesh, and hatch a large colony of young chigoes in a few hoar'. They will not live together Gut every chi ,, oe sets up a seperate ulcer and has his own private por. lion of pus. Flies gat entry into the mouth, into your oyes, into your nose--you eat flies, drink flies and breathe flies. Lizards, cockroaches, and snakes get into t`le bed ;and ants eat up the books ; scor pions s ins _you on the foot. Everything bites and stings and bruises ;livery second of your existence, you are wounded by some piece al animal life thAt nobody has ever seen before. A-. insect vrith elsv • en legs is smitnming in your tea-cup, a nontlesctipt with nine wings is struggling in the small beer, Or a caterpillar with several hundred eggs in her bel ly is haste', int over the bread and butter. Ai‘ na ture is alive, Aid seems to be gathering all her en tomological host. to eat you up, as yon are standing nut of your coat, waistcoat anti breeches. Such are the tropics All this reconciles us to our dews, logs, vapors and drizzle—to our apothecaries ru,hing about with gargles and tinctures—trt your, old Sw ish conatittuional coughs, sore throats and swept! faces." A Dertertinx of Bigotry —Old Job Itt undee was at one time one of the most popular darkies in oar city He Was a kind of a patriarch amore the colored population, and universally liked ty the white folks. About the time that he stood at the head of the new street church he was snpoenaeit before Squire (now Judge) Wiseman, to testify to the character of a Negro ITIIO was charged wi.h pet ty larceny. I= I . Well. Jot," said the Squire, " wile! do yen know of the character orate defendant r " Well I knors considerable 'bent de celnre I it.- iliwidnal, and lineber fin's him guilty of onlyone 'fence," replied Job, with great reference. Well, what is the nature of the offence Tee a:. We to " " Why, de nigger am bigoted ." " He's what" " Bigoted, bi pted--iloesen't you know what dat am 1" ""Why, no, , eptied the Squire, who is much of a wag. " Will yon define the term Job ?" " Sartainly, sartainty, I does. To be bigoted, colored puesen mO4 know too much lot one mg. gar, and riot enough for two niggate." WASTED AVM distinguished physie,an of Chestereounty, gave the following story in a letter to a friend! At the commencement of my practice I was call ed to see an Irishman's child who was laboring under a very severe ausett of pneumonia. The poor little fellow grew worse and worse for several days, until on one of my visits I.found him very low, his breathing difficult, and the extremities almost cold. The family saw it clearly tind felt deep'y the danger. WherTl left the house, the father came out of the doorisind as I was mounted my horse, he said: " Doctor', dear, do you think little Jemmy will come oat of it rf I replied, " the case is very doubtful : but there is some hope." "Sure, doctor, and I hope no hope at none in 'heti work' ; so 1 hav'rit. Hi* mother and Me have often 6e - en - el:leaking about him, to we have, and we never expected to raise him. Such ohiltlien can't be rested, f doubt ; they never stay long." " Why?' " Ah, doctor, he's so crafty. 'Ye wth'n't believe what takin' airs he has witi him—he's wqntell ahoy, among lbleaced We take the to:lowing, grsoil one ft ore the ti,l2e ford The Rev. Mr. R, who liva,l not a thousand miser horn Portland was preparing his discourse far the root Sabbath. Stoping occas o .alty to re' tew Rh. t he had written and to erase that which he was Jill. posed to improve, he was attet?sted by his Hide soo who had numbered but three summery. " Father, does qrod tell you what to prraoh " Certainly my Child?' " Then, what maktuyou strakb it out ' Poriav —.A wiahy-wasthy kinil of filch! that young people live on white troubled o lit' a palpitation of the heart. Mixed with mcolitiglit, it is very apt to make young ladle* feel as it they would Lite to lean against a white vett. mr Punch asks.— , ‘ Why is a man mho , lees ncc bet, ss Wd ss a Irian who &Noel Because he is Ev!!- El El E ~~~lt jl(l(3►h~►_~c;t~`i~
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