ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWAN-DA : gjinrimn fllornmn, fcbtnnrj 10. 1855. Sdtritfc llottrg. JOHN BROWN; 01'., A PLAIN' MAX'S PHILOSOPHY*. . BY CUAKI.ES MACK AY". I've a crown 1 can spend, I've a wife and a friend. And a troop of little children at my knee, John Ilrown ; I've a cottape of my own, With the ivy overgrown. And a garden with a view of the sea, John Brown ; I can sit at my door, Bv my shady sycamore. Large of heart, though of very small estate, John Brown ; So come and drain a glass, Jn my arbor as yon pass. And 111 tell you what 1 love, and what I hate, John Brown. I love the song of birds, And the children's early words, V d a loving woman's voice, low and sweet, John Brown ; And I hate a false pretence, And the want of common sense. And arrogance and fawning and deceit, John Brown ; i love the meadow flowers, And the briar in the bowers. And I love an open face without guile, John Brown ; And I hate a selfish knave, And a proud contented slave, Aud a lout who'd rather borrow than t >il, John Brown. 1 love a simple song That makes emotions strong. [Brown And the word of hope that raises him who faints, John And I hate the constant whine Of the foolish who repine, Ami turn their good to evil by complaints, John Brown ; But even when 1 hate, If I seek my garden gate, And survey the world around lue and above, John Brown, The hatred flies my mind, And I sigh for human kind. And excuse the faults of those I cannot 1 >ve, John Brown. So if you like my ways. Aud the comfort of my days. I can tell you liow 1 live so unvexed, John Brown ; 1 never scorn my health, Nor sell my soul for wealth, Nor destroy one day the pleasures of the next, John Brown ; I've parted with my pride. And I take the sunny side, l\, r I've found it worse than folly to be sad, John Brown ; I keep a conscience clear, I've a hundred pounds a year. And I manage to exist, and to be glad, John Brown. jitlettor Cult. TIKS ©©!L!ka3!im BY WILI-lAM LKGGETT. The Active slooji-of-war bad been laying all becalmed, in mid ocean, and was rolling and pitching about in a heavy ground swell, which was the only trace of the gale she had lately encountered*' The sky was ot as tender aud serene a blue as if it had never been deformed with clouds; and the atmosphere was bland and pleasant, although the latitude and the season might both have led one to expect different weather. Since the morning watch, when the wind, after blowing straight on end for several davs together, had died suddenly away, there had not been air enough stirring to lift the ilogvane from its staff, down which it hung in motionless repose, except when raised by the heave and roll of the vessel, as she labored in the troueh of the sea' ller courses had been hauled up, ami she lay under her three topsails braced on the opposite tacks, ready to take ad vantage of the first breath of wind, from what ever quarter it might come. The crew were disposed in various groups about the deck, some idling away in listless ease the interval of calm; some with their clotlies bags beside them, turning it t<> account in over hauling their dunnage; while others moved fid getlv about, on the forecastle aud in the waist, ovcing, ever and anon, the horizon round, as if already wcarv of their short holiday on the ocean, and impatiently watching for sonic sign of a breeze. To a true sailor there are few circumstances more annoving than a perfect calm. The same principle >f our nature which makes the travel er on land, though journeying without any de finite object, desire the postillion to whip up his horses and hasten to the end of his stage, is manifested in a striking degree among seamen. The end of one voyage is but the beginning of another, and their lives arc a constant success ion of hardships arid perils; yet they cannot abide that the elements should grant them a moment's respite. As the wind dies away their -pirit< Hag; they move heavily and sluggishly about while the calm continues; but rouse at the tirst whisper of the breeze, and never gay- I t or more animated than when their canvas swells out to it- utmost tension iu the gale. 'hi the afternoon in question, this feeling of restlessness at the continuation of the calm was •'')t con lined to the crew of the Active. Her r 'iuimaii(lor had been nearly all day on deck, ' liking to and fro, on the starboard side, with quick. impatient strides, or now stepping into one gangway, and now into the other, and '''■" ting anxious aud searching looks into all quarters of the heavens, as if it were of the ut most consequence that a breeze should spring np and enable him to pursue his way. Indeed II was whispered among the officers that there wfre reasons of state which niadc it important ' my should reach their point of destination as qi'cdily as possible; though # where that point or what those reasons were, not a soul on ~ard knew, except the captain —and he was a man likely to enlighten their ignorance die subject. Few words, indeed, did any 'm ever hear from Black Jack, as the reefers :i Aiiauitd him him; and when he did speak, 1 ; it he said was not generally of a kind to a ; a ke {he m desire he should often break his ta c'umity. We was a straight, tall, stern-looking man, a -' passed the prime of life, as might be infer '■ Tom the wrinkles on his thoughtful brow THE BRADFORD REPORTER. and the slightly grizzled hue of the locks about his temples; though his hair, elsewhere, was as black as the raven. His face lx>re the marks both of storm and battle; it was furrowed and deeply embrowned by long exposure to every vicissitude of weather; and a deep scar across the left brow told a tale of dangers braved and overcome. His eyes were large, black and piercing: and the habitual compression and curve of his lip indicated both lirmucss and haughtiness of character—indications which those who sailed with him had no reason to complain of as deceptive. lint notwithstanding his impatience, and the urgency of his mission, whatever it was, the Active continued to roll heavily about at the sport of the big round billows, which swelled up and spread and tumbled over so lazily, that their glassy surface was not broken by a ripple, The sun went down clear, but red and ficrv; and the sky. though its blue faded to a duskier I tint, still remained unflecked by a single cloud. As the broad round disk disappeared beneath the wave, all hands were called to stand by their hammocks; and when the stir and bustle incident to that piece of duty had subsided,, an unwonted degree of stillness settled 011 the ves sel. This was owing in part, 110 doubt, to the presence of the commander, before whom the crew were not apt to indulge iu any great ex uberance of merriment; but the sluggish and unusual state of the weather had probably the largest share in the effect. The captain con tinued 011 deck, pacing up and down the star board side; the lieutenant of the watch leuued over the tafifrel, his trumpet idly dangling by its becket from his arm; and two quarter-deck midshipmen walking in the gangway, beguiling their watch with prattle about home, or gay anticipations of the future. " We shall have a dull and lazy night of it, Vangs,'' said the master's mate of the forecas tle, as he returned from adding 011 the log slate another •' ditto" to the long column of them which recorded the history of the day. The person he addressed stood on the heel of the bowsprit, with his arms folded 011 his breast, and his ga/.e fixed intently upon the western horizon, from which the daylight had now so completely faded, that it required a practiced and keen eye to discern where the sky and wa ter met. He was a tall, squareframed, aged looking seamen, whose thick gray hair shaded a strongly marked and weatherbeaten face, and whose shaggy overcoat, buttoned to the throat covered a 'oin that for forty years had breast ed the storms and perils of every sea. He did not turn his head, nor wifhdraw his eyes from the spot they rested on, as he said, in a low tone, " we shall have work enough before morn imr. Mr. Garnet." " Why, where do you read that, Vangs ?" inquired the midshipman; " there is nothing of the sort iu my reckoning." " I read it in a book 1 have studied through many a long cruise, Mr. Garnet, aud though my eyes are getting old, I think 1 can under stand its meaning yet. Hark ye, young man, the hammocks are piped down, and the w; te'i is set, but there will be no watch in this night, mark inv words." " Why, Vangs, you are turning prophet," replied the master's mate, who was a rattling young fellow, full of blood and blue veins. " I shouldn't wonder to see you strike tarpaulin, when the cruise is up, rig out iu the broad brim and straight iorgs, and ship the next trip for par-oil." " My eruisings are pretty much over, Mr. Garnet, and my next trip. 1 am thinking, is one 1 shall have to go alone—though there's a sign in the hen vens this night that makes me fear I shall have too much company."' " Why, what signs do you talk of, man ?" said the young officer, somewhat startled by the quite and impressive tone and manner of the old quartermaster. "1 see nothing that looks like change of weather, and yet 1 see all that there is to bo seen." " I talked in the same Avav once, 1 remem ber," said Yungs, " when I was about your age, as Ave lay becalmed one night in the old Charlotte East Indiainan, heaving and pitching in the roll of a ground swell, much as Ave do noAV. The next morning found me clinging to a broken topmast, the only thing left of a line ship of seven hundred lons, which. Avhieh, Avitli every soul on board of her, except me, had gone to the bottom. That AVUS before you was born. Mr. Garnet." " Such things have been, often, no doubt," said Garnet, " and sneli things will be again— i nay, may hup] ten as you say, before morning. But been use you were once wreeked in a gale of wind that sprung up out of a ealm, it is no reasou that every ealm is to be followed bv such a gale. Show me a sign of wind and 1 may believe it; but for my part, i see no like lihood of enough even to blow away the smoke of that cursed galley, which circles and dances ! about here on the forecastle, as if it was mas ter's mate of the watch, and was ordered to j keep a bright lookout," " Turn your eyes in that direction. Mr. (Jar net. Do you not see a faint belt ol light, no broader than my linger, that streaks the sky where the sun went down ? It is not daylight for I watched that all fade away, and the last glimmer of it was gone before that dim brassy streak began to show itself. And carry your eye iu a straighter line above it—do you not mark how thick and lead like the air looks There is that there," said the old man, (laying his hand on the bowsprit, as he prepared to sit down between the niglitheads,) " will try what stuff these timbers are made of before the morn ing breaks." Young Garnet put his hand over his brow, and half shutting his eyes, peered intently in the direction the old seamen indicated; but no sign pregnant with such evil a* he forebone, or 110 appearance of the wish for breeze, met his virion. luiputiDg the predictions ol Y angs to those megrims, which old sailors are apt to have in a long calm, or perhaps to a desire to play upon his credulity, he folded uis peacoat more closely about him, and taking his seat on the nettings in such a position that he could lean back against the force-rigging, prepared to settle himself down in that delicious state of repose, between sleeping and waking, in which ' he thought he might with impunity doze away PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA (lOODRICII. " REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." such a quiet watch as his promised to be. He had scarcely closed his eyes, however, when a sound wrung in his ears that made him spring to the deck, and at once dispelled all disposi tion to slumber. It was the clear trumpet-like voice of the captain himself, hailing the fore castle. " Sir!" bawled the master's mate. Have your halyards clear for running, sir! your elueliues led along, and the men all ut their stations." " Ay, ay, sir! sung Garnet 111 reply, and then muttered to himself, " here's the devil to pay, and no pitch hot. What is the meaning Of all this, I wonder? Has the skipper seen old Yang's streak of brass too? or does he hope to coax the wind out, by raising such a breeze on deck?" and lie stepped npon a shot box, and cast another long, searching glance into the western horizon, but there was 110 signs there which to his inexperienced eye boded any 1 change of weather. " TVeastle, there!" again sounded from the ; quarter-deck, but it was now the voice of the | lieutenant of the watch, hailing through the I trumpet. " .Sir!" answered the mate. " Send the i'o'castle men aloft to furl the forc ! sail. Quarter-gunners and afterguard, do you hear! lay aloft—lay out—furl away!" These and other similar orders were quickly , obeyed, and stillness again succeeded. But the attention of all 011 deck was now aroused; and • every one watched in silence for some less ques j tionable forerunner of wind than was yet visi i ble to their eyes. They all noticed, however, j that the sky had grown thicker and of a dingi- j er hue, and that not u single star peeped thro' i the gloom. But there was not u breath of air 1 yet stirring. The topsails continued to llap : heavily against the masts, as they were swayed j to and fro by the motion of the vessel; the low- j er yards creaked in their slings; and the ship headed now one way and now another, as she I yawned and swung round, completely at the I mercy of the swell. The seamen gathered in i groups at their several stations, and waited in 1 silence the result which all now began to aje prebend. But while these fc lings of indefinite fear were entertained by those on deck, the watch j below were disturbed by no sneh anxiety. The i officers in the gun-room were variously oecupi-! Ed according to their taste and inclinations; some amusing themselves by reading, some wri- 1 ting, and others stretched upon the chairs or in their berths, dreaming away the intervals of rest. The midshipmen in the steerage had gath ered round their mess-table, and wore engaged in lively chat and repartee, and in cracking , nautical jokes and witticisms upon each other, j Their discourses was plentifully interlarded with seaphrases; for these juvenile sons of Xcptune | however slender their seaman hip in other re spects, have commonly great volubility in rat tling olf the technicals of their profession, and ; a surprising facility in applying them to the ordinary topics of conversation. With the ' omission of a single letter, the distich descriL- : ing Hudihras might be applied to them, or, if 1 u poor pun be allowable, it may be said it lit i them to a t, for They cannot ojic Their mouths, but out there falls a rope. One of the merriest and noisiest of the group | in the Active's steerage was a little, rose-cheek- i ed, bright-eyed reefer, whose flaxen hair curled j in natural ringlets around his temples, and was j surmounted by a small, low-crowned tarpaulin j hat, cocked knowingly on one side, in amusing ! imitation of the style of the full grown jack tar. " Hullo Jigger, how does she head now?" cried the little wag to one of the messhoys, as his band v legs made their appearance down the 1 companion ladder. '• She head every which way. Misser Burton," j answered the black, his shining face dilated ! with a pro lig'.ous grin, showing he relished the j humor of the question. "Itis a dead calm on deck, you know Mis- r Burton, and de main yard is brace frat aback." •• (). 1 see," rejoined tne urchin, " they have hove her to, Jigger, to give her half a lemou to keep her from fainting. She has outsailed the wind, and is luyine by to wait for it." " Laying by, indeed!" said another; " she is' going like a top." " And if she keeps on," added a third, "she w ill soon go as fast as the Dutchman's schoon er when she stood into port under a heavy press of bolt ropes, the sails having blown clear oat of them at sea." "Oh, 1 have heard of that schooner," resinn ed little Burton, the lirsi, speaker. "!( was j she that sailed so fast, that when they broke j up her hatches, thev found she had sailed her bottom off!" " ller skipper," interrupted another, "was both master and chief mate, and they made the duty easy by dividing it between them, watch and watch." " Yet the Dutchman grew so thin upon it," added little Burton, " than when he got home his mother and sister couldn't both look at him at once." "And his dog," said the other, "got so 1 weak that it had to lean against tiic mast to ' bark!" i •• Conic, come, take a turn there and belay," cried one of the old midshipmen, who was stretched at full length upon a locker. " Come you have chased iliut joke far enough. Heave about, and see. if you can't give us something better on t'other tack." " Well, Tom Derrick, if you don't like our rigs, tip us a twist yourself. Come, spin us a yarn, my boy, if you huve your jaw-tacks aboard." " No, no, Charley Burton, T can't pay out any slack to-night. " I am as sleepy as a look out in a calm. My eyes feel like the marine's when his cue was served so taut, he couldn't make his eyelids meet. Hullo, Jigger, rouse I out iny hammock from that heap and hang it up. You know where it is, don't you?" "Ki! I wish I had as much tobacco as 1 know which Misser Derrick s hummock is, eagerly replied the negro. This characteristic speech produced a hearty burst of laughter; and in chat and merriment of this tort the evening slipped away, until :i. hour for extinguishing the lights arrived, and the quartermaster came down to douse the glim. " Well, Vangs," cried the ever-ready Burton "it's blowing an Irishman's hurricane on deck, isn't it—straight up and down, like a pig's eye?" "It is all quiet yet," replied Vangs, " but the sky has a queer look, and there will be a hurricane of a different sort before you are many hours older, Mr. Charles." " Is there then really any prospect of wind?" asked the midshipman whom we have called Derrick. " There is something brewing in the clouds we none of us understand," answered the old man, iu his low quiet tone. "We shall have more wind than we want before long, or 1 am out in my reckoning." " Let it come butt-end foremost, if it choses. and the sooner the better," said young Burton laughing; "any weather rather than this, for this is neither ii.sh, flesh nor red herring. Let it blow, Vangs, and I wouldn't mind if it were such a breeze as you bad in the old Charlotte, you know, when it blew the sheet-anchor into the foretop, and it took three men to hold the captain's hair on his head." The old quartermaster turned a grave and thoughtful look on the round face of the lively boy, and seemed meditating an answer that might repress what probably struck him as un timely mirth; but even while he was in the act of speaking, the tempest he had predicted burst in sudden fury upon the vessel. The first indi cation those below had of its approach was the wild, rushing sound of the gust, which broke upon their ears like the roar of a volcano. The heaving and rolling of the ship ceased all at once, as if the waves had been subdued and chained down by the force of a mighty pres- i sure. The vessel stood motionless an instant j as if instinct with life, and cowering in consci ous fear of the approaching strife; the tempest > then busrt upon her, butt-end foremost as Bur ton expressed it, and the stately mast reded , and ldl over before it, like a tower struck down j by a thunderbolt. The surge was so violent, | that the ship was thrown almost on her beam ends, and everything on board not secured iu strongest manner, was pitched with great force toh'cwarp. Midshipmen, mess-table, hammocks ; and the contents of the mess lockers fell rust-' ling, rattling, and mixed in strange disorder, to the lee scuppers; and when the ship slowly l ighted, straining and trembling in every plauk, j it was a moment or two before those who had j been so unexpectedly heaped together in the j I tends, could extricate themselves from the con- j fusion and make their way to the upper deck. 1 There a scene of fearful grandeur was pre-1 sented. Th" sky was of a murky, leaden hue, ! and appeared to bend over the ship in a near- j er and narrower arch, binding the ocean in so j small a round, that the eye could trace, thro'j the whole circle, the line where the sickly look- j ing heavens rested on the sea. The air was | thick aud heavy; and the water covered with | driving snow-like foam, seemed to be packed and flattened down by the fury of the blast, which scattered its billows into spray as cut- ting as the sleet of a Docomber storm. The wind howled and screamed through the rigging with an appalling sound, t hut might be likened to the shrieks and Availing of angry fiends; and the ship lied before the tempest like an affright ed thing, with a velocity that piled the water in a huge bank around her bows, and sent it whirling and sparkling in lines of dazzling whiteness, soon lost in the general hue of the ocean, which resembled a wild waste of drift ing snow. There was one on deck, however, who had foreseen this awful change, and made prepara tions to meet it; and when the tempest burst, in full swoop, upon his ship, it found nothing but tiie bare hull and spars to oppose its tre meitdous power. Leery sail was closely securely furled, except the fore storm staysail, which was set for a reason that seamen will understand; but being hauled well aft by both sheets, it AVIS stretched stiflly amidships, and presented nothing but the bolt-rope for the wind to act. upon. The masts and yards, with their snug and well-bound rolls of canvas, alone encountered the hurricane. But even these were tried to the utmost. The topmasts bent and cracked before the blast, and the royal poles of the topgallant masts, which excited above the cross trees, whipped and thrashed about like pliant rods. The running rigging rattled against the spars, and the shrouds aad backstays strained and cracked, as if striving to draw tha strong bolts which secured them to the vessel. For more than an hour did the Active flee along in t Lis AVUV, like a wild horse foaming and stretching at his utmost speed, driven on ward in the van of the tempest, and exposed to its fiercest wrath. At length, the first fury of the gale passed away, and the wind, though still riigiug tempestously, swept over her with less appalling force. The ocean, now, as to re venge itself for it-' constrained inactivity, rous ed from its brief repose, and swelled into bil lows that rolled and chased each other with the wild glee of ransomed demons. "Wave, up on wave, in multitudinous confusion, came roar ing iu from astern; aud their white crests, leaping, and sparkling, and hissing, formed a striking feature in the scene. The wind, for tunately, issued from the right point, and drove the Active towards her place of destination.— The dumb pall of clouds, which from the com mencement of the gale, had totally overspread hhe heavens except in the quarter whence the blast proceeded, now began to give way, and a reddish light shorn; out here and there, in long horizontal streaks, like the gIoAV of expiring coals between the bars of a furnace. Though the lirst dreadful violance of the storm was somewhat abated, it still raved with too much fierceness and power to admit of any relaxation of vigilance. The commander hiinscif still re tained the truuqiet, and every officer stood in silence atvhis station, clinging to whatever might assist him to maintain his difficult l'oot iug. " Light, oh!" cried the lookout on one of the catheads. " Where awav?" demanded the contain. " Ihad ahead." " Y\ hat does it look like, and Low far off?" shouted the captain, iu a loud and earnest voice. "Can see nothing now, sir; the glim is doused." " Here, Mr. Barton," cried the commander, "take this night glass; jump aloft on the fore yard, sir, and see if you can make out an ob ject ahead. Hurry up, hurry up, and let me bear from you immediately, sir! Lay aft to the braces! Forecastle, there! have hands by your staysail sheets ou both sides. Forevant, there!" But before the captain had finished his hail, the voice ot little Burton AVUS heard, siuriu ,ir out "Sail oh!" " What does she look like, and where UA< ay?" " A large vessel, lying-to under bare poles —starboard your helm, sir, quick—hard a star board, or you Avill fail aboard of her!" This startling intelligence Avas hardly com municated before the vessel described from aloft loomed suddenly into sight from deck through the thick weather to leeward. Her dusk and shadowy form seemed to rise up from the ocean, so suddenly did it open to vieAv, us the driving mist AVUS scattered for a moment. She lav right athwart the Active's bows, and almost under her fore-foot—as it seemed while she pitched into the trough of an enormous sea— and the Active rode on the ridge of the suc ceeding wave, Avhich curled above the chasm, as if to overwhelm the vessel beneath. " Starboard your helm, quarter-master! hard a-starboard!" cried the commander of the Ac tive, in a tone iff startling energy. "Starboard!" repeated the deep solemn ! voice of Yungs, AVIIO stood on the quarter net tings, his tall figure propped against the miz /.en rigging, and his arm AATcatbcd around the i shroud. ! "Jump to the braces, men!" continued the captain strenuously—"haul in your starboard braces, haul! ease off your larboard! does she come to, quarter-master? Fo'ea-tlg there! ease off your staysail sheet—let all go. sir!" These orders Avere promptly obeyed, but it AVUS too late for them to avail. The Avheel, in ! the hands of lour stout and experienced sea men, AVUS forced swiftly round, and the effect of the rudder AVUS assisted by a pull of the starboard braces; but in such a gale, and un der poles, the helm exerted but little power over the driving and ponderous mass. She had headed off hardly a point from ln-r course, when she AVUS taken up ly a prodigious surge, ! and borne onward with fearful velocity. The catastrophe AAUS HOAV inevitable. In au instant the two ships fell together, their massive tim bers crashing Avith the fatal force of the con cussion. ' A wild shriek ascended from the 1 deck of the stranger, and woman's shrill voice mingled Avitli the sound. All AVUS now confu sion and uproar on board both vessels. The Active had struck the stranger broad on the bows, while the bowsprit of the latter, rushed iu between the fore-mast and the starboard fore-rigging of the Active, had snapped her shrouds and stays, and tore up the bolts and chuiuplutcs as if they had been thread and ivire. Staggering back from the shock, she Avas car ried to some distance by a refluent wave, Avhich suddenly subsiding, she gave such a heaAy lurch to port that the foremast—now Avhollv unsupported on the starboard side—snapped short off like a withered twig, and fell A\iih a loud plash iu the ocean. "The foremast is gone by the board!" shout ed the officer ol' the forecastle. "My God!" exclaimed the captain, "and Charles Burton has gone with it! Fo'castle, there! Did Charles Burton come down from the forward?" "Burton! Burton! Burton!" called twenty voiees, and " Burton!" was shouted loudly over the side; but there teas no re ft if. in the meanwhile another furious billow lift ed the vessel on its crest, and the tAvo ships closed again, like gladiators, faint and stunned, but still compelled to do battle. The bow -of the stranger this time drove heavily against the bends of the Active', just abaft her main rigging, and her boAvsprit darted quivering over the buhvarks, as if it Avere the arrow v tongue of some huge sea-monster. At this in stant aw ild sound of agony, between a shriek aud a groan, was heard in that direction, and those Avho turned to ascertain its cause saw as the vessels again separated, a human body, swinging and Avrithing at the strangers bow sprit head. The vessel heaved up into the moonlight, and showed the face of poor Yiuurs the quarter master, his back appurautly crush ed aud broken, but his aims clasjied round the spar, to Avhich he appeared to cling Avith con vulsive tenacity. The bowsprit had caught him on its end as it ran in over the Active's side, and driving against the inizenmu-t, de prived the poor Avretch of all power to rescue | himself from the dreadful situation. While a hundred eyes were fastened iu a gaze of horror ou the impaled seaman, thus dangling over the j boiling ocean, the strange ship again reeled ; forward, us if to reneAv the terrible encounter, j But her rnotiou was now slow aud laboring.— j She was evidently settling by the head; she j paused in mid career, gave a heavy drunken j lurch to starboard, till her topmasts whipped i against the rigging of her antagonist, then ris ing slowly on the ridge of tho next wave she plunged head foremost, and disappeared forev er. One shriek of horror and despair rose through the storm—-one Avild delirious shriek! The Avatcr swopt over the drowning wretches, and hushed their gurgling cry. Then all Avas still!—all but the rush and whirl of waves as they were sucked into the vortex, and the voice of the storm, which howled its Avilcl dirge above the spot. When day dawned on the ocean, the Acti\'e presented a different appearance from that which she exhibited but a few short hours be fore. Her foremast gone, her bowsprit sprung, her topgallant masts struck, her bulwarks shattered, her rigging hanging loose and Avhi | tened by the wash of the spray—she looked | little like the gav and gallant thing, which, at | the same hour ot' the previous day, nad plough : ed her course through the sea, despite the ad verse gale, and moved proudly along under cloud of canvass, as if she defied the fury of the elextentv. Now, how changed! how :ad ( VOL. XV. CS'O. 35. the contrast! The appearance of such of the officer: nud crew as were moving about the deck, hsrmonized with that of the vessel. - I hey looked pale ai d dejected; and the catas trophe they Lad witnessed Lad left traces of horror stamped oa every brow, flic Active was still near the spot of the fatal event, hav iij per ton, implies a loss ol AoOO.OOO—a pretty liberal " peace-of fering" from the King of the Two Seicilies!— This loss of sulphur will be very severely felt lor a short time in England; but eventually it will be of great service, as we have as much brimstone in this coon try as commerce Feouin-s —-a tact that will soon be made manifest bv the demand lor it; and when once it is seen that our own resources are sufficient, the Kig of Naples ir.us never expect us to go to his shop any more. It was thus during the last wat*; that we prevented the French people from tints ing Jumaca sugar; so they set to and mad" sugar from beet-root, ai d we have lost so much trade ever since. Septimus I'iesse. ARKANSAS fiißt.s.—The Memphis Tlryrf~t tells the following story of a friend of the edi tor's who went over into Arkunsas reeeutly, to attend a '"break down," that is a dance: " The ladies upon the occasion, were array ed in their best, with all the gay colors that an uncultivated ta-tc could suggest. The gentle men were dressed in horn spam clothes, and none but our triend had broadcloth upon his back. During the evening, sweet potatoes of enormous size, roasted in the ashes were hand ed round to the company, together with a hand lul of suit for each guest. A beautiful young lady soon became smitten with our friend (per haps with Ids magnificent moustaches,) and r>>- ' solved to dance with hint. Slie therefore tuni ! I'd to a friend, and addres-od her in these words: " Sal, hold my tater while I trot round with that nice hoss what's got on store clothes." Our friend was clinched according!}; he .could not extricate himself from the grip of the rustic beauty, and was obliged to "trot round'* after her for one mortal hour before he could obtain a respite from his labors. Me made his : escape the first opportunity, resolving that he would never again go to au Arkansas " break down." lI OMK POLICY. —If you wish to keep your town from thriving, turn the cold shoulder to every young mechanic or beginner of bu aness; look upon every n w comer with a jealous scowl; discourage all you can; if that don't do decry his work, and rather go abroad for wares of his kind than give him your mouev. Last, though not least, refuse to patronize the town papers. Then, "go to seed." fey- " Perseverance, w said a lady, very ear nestly, to a servant, "is the only way to ae eompiiaii great things." One day eight dump lings were sent down stairs, and they nil disajv peared, '"Beftv, where are all those dump lings?" " I managed to pet through them, ma'am.*' "Why-, how on earth did yon con coatrivt! to eat so many dumplings?" " By ppp, severance ma'am/' said Betty.