Adventures on a Man of War.
CONCLUDED.
A.TnAL, Calbal O'Hara I My poor
Vy little friend, can it oe you r
He grasped my extended hand, and then,
with the rough old tars about him, and the
laced oiTloers gazing curiously from the
quarter-deck, he clasped my, neck with his
arms, but uttered not a word. ,
" One of the lost family found at last ;
and now whero's Catbleen, and where is
your mother? ' And have you seen your
father since his rescue from the French ?"
I asked. ' ... . ,
" Rescued from the Frenoh ? O yes; you
mean that he was washed off the Hiron
dollo's docks. I saw (hat he was saved by
the Englishman, but I have not seen him
since." ' . .
He then told me how the Hirondelle had
beon wrecked among the Bahamas. His
mother, and sister and himself were saved,
together with most of the crew. In wan
dering, however, about the Island of New
Providence, immediately after., the ship
wreck, be bad been seized by a press-gang,
put on board a British tender, and thence
transferred to the Agamemnon. The
French sailors were made prisoners, but
the fate of his mother and sister he had
not been able to learn. ' This had distressed
him greatly, and he would gladly risk his
life in any attempt to escape, for the pur
pose of seeking them out. Great was his
satisfaction at my : recital of bis father's
release from the Insurgents.
, He told me further that the same officer
whom I had knocked off the wall at Lon
donderry was now lieutenant of marines on
board Sir Edward Berry's ship.haviug been
appointed to that vessel only a 'fortnight
previous. Fortunately Catbal had notlv
ing to do with the marines, yet the officer
recognised and looked upon him with a
malicious eye.
" No doubt,", said Cathal, , " he will get
me Into a scrape if he can.", ,
.The young lad was now recalled to hi
ship, and on the evening of that day we
reached Barbadoes with our three remain,
ing prizes.
' Boon after this, I teamed that a seaman
of the Agamemnon was publicly compli-
mented by Sir Edward Berry lor heroism
in the late battle. A shell having struck
on the maindeck of the ship, it was caught
up by Its still burning fuse, by a young lad
of the crew, and tossed into the sea, where
' it ' exploded. . ' This act ' of coolness had
saved manv lives. The name of ' the
brave young seaman," said the gazette,
" " is Catbal O'Hara, of Londonderry."
Nearly at the time of this announcement
an officer of the same ship was court-mar
tialed, and sentenced to be shot for coward
ice. , .The execution was to take place on
r the Agamemnon's decks, which he had so
' dishonored. An officer of , those glorious
oaken walls a coward 1 l t
Our captain went on board to witness the
execution, and I was one of the crew of his
gig. I recognized the officer at once, and
. not without pity softening my. contempt.
He was the same man . whose red coat I
had last seen in the Cramble under Lon
donderry wall. A single crash of musketry,
and he was dead.
We bad been but a short time at Barba
does when I was sent' on board the Yar
mouth, sixty-four, an old ship, and the
. same which, twenty years previous, during
the American Revolution, had fought
battle with the Randolph frigate, the Gen
eral Moultrie, sloop of war, and one or two
smaller vessels, in which encounter' 'the
' Randolph blow up, her consorts being
thereupon obliged to save themselves by
flight. 1
Great was my satisfaction to And Catbal
- O'Hara detailed to the same ship. But
' our officers Were scoundrels. It seemed as
if all that was cruel in the service of
George the Third had been concentrated
'upon this old sixty-faun ' And ' then bow
long was this to last t What a future for
Catbal and myself? What would w not;
risk should the slightest opportunity offer
' ' for escape I ' The glaring injustice or our
detention filled M with indignation till
' we hated the sight of a Briton.
' Soon the old Yarmouth went out of the
, harbor to look for the' Monsieurs.- On the
first day we spoke an American vessel from
Pernambuco for New .York, out of which
our captain coolly - Impressed a Couple of
'excellent seamen. 'But it is an ill wind
1 tbat blows no one good, and from this inci
dent came our "first gleam of more fortu.
natedays. ' ' . ' ' ' '' " ' " ' '
' The two seamen, " drawn by- sympathy
1 toward Cathal and myself, took every op
portunity to 'converse with us.' Among
other things, they spoke of a ship which
lay at Pernambuco, commanded by Cap-
' tain O'Hara, an Irishman, who had with
hira his wife and daughter the latter tbs
' 1 moat beautiful creature that ever wore, a
" suil of sails.' Tbe ship was a New Yoiksr,
'they said, called the -Onondaga, and was,
v' at the time of their departure, loading for
home. ''( J ' -! i ! f ' ; nj
. This was news t 86, then, the scattered
family was thus far reunited. .'. Doubtless
: Cathleea and ber mother, after tbe loss ,f
' the French privateer, had found their! way
from the Bahamas to New York. Captain
O'Hara. an excellent shipmaster, bad been
employed y hse in that city,
sanea upon a ooutn American voyage ana
taken with him bis wife and Catbleen.
But what must tbey not suffer from tboir
uncertainty with regard to Cathal t I
oouia i1Brdy contain myself. It seemed,
for that moment, as if I could swim a thou-
Mnd miles.
We must get out of this ship," I said.
" The first land she makes must be our
land." For I spoke under that transient
excitement which makes all tilings easy.
Now my readers cannot see the old Brit
ish sixty-four as I saw her, with her old
fashioned bends, and bulwarks, and . chan
nels, with her huge clumsy windlass, and
her heavy croaking yards." "There were the
marines, the blue jackets, and the laced
ofllcerr. There was the scrubbing of
stanchions, there was the polishing of can-
and even at this distance of time, I
seem to take in the peculiar odor ot nor
tarry decks. So, day by day, we rose and
full easily in the slight undulations, now
besalmed and beading all around, the com
pass, now, pracing sharp up on the very
light trade wind; and all the while subject
to curses, or witnessing acts of cruelty. .
One impressed American (and we had
many on board) was savagely whipped for
an indignant glance at the third lieuten
ant, who bad kicked him. Another was
knocked, fiat to the deck and beaten with a
rope's end, because when ordered to put
a "mattbew. walker knot" in a lanyard, he
asked the boatswain how it must be done.
The American was from some merchaut-
where he had been a " green baud."
Off the British island of Antigua, we
chased a French brig, which proved to be
a privateer. At first we had all the wind
there was, and bore right down upon . her
while she lay helpless. She finally took
the breeze and began to make off, with the
great sixty -four close at her heels. We
saw the French sailors aloft throwing wa
ter on the sails; then they pitcbod their
guns overboard to lighten the ship; then
their ammunition, barrels of provision,
cables and anchors; and at last their boats.
We could perceive that the privateer sat
lighter after this, and what was still more
favorable to her, tbe- wind now died out
with us, and she carried tbe breeze away
with hei ;
Flap,' at intervals went the sails, with
the Yarmouth'sjazy roll. Now she headed
south,, and now north. At sunset Cathal
and myself stood looking out over the sea.
Antigua was siximtles off. How tempting
looked the green land l But no it , was a
long way to swim six miles 1,,, t '.. ,
A mile from us, as we judged, in a line
parallel with that of tbe shore, we saw one
of the boats which the Frenchman had cut
adrift, and at some distance beyond jt tbe
other, i The nearer boat bad been stove.
bat the further boat seemed to float lightly,
as if the French in, their confusion bad
neglected to render her useless. Oars, of
course, neither of tbera was likely to con
tain, but might not the thwarts and sheath
ing be pried up and used for paddles where
with to reach shore.
Whenever tbe ship was in harbor or near
land ' the marines kept constant guard in
every part of her (how the blue jacketi
bated those marines I), but six miles from
the coast this vigilance would be much re
laxed. - We looked at each otliei, then at
the boats, and then at each other again.
There , wore some thirty , Americans on
board, but we confided our plan to only ten
of them, so that we were, twejve jn all
The wind had generally sprung up In the
latter part of the night, and should it do so
on this occasion, tbe ship would be wide
off from us ere our escape became known.
The hour fixed upon was miantgiit, at uie
changing of the watch,' And we blessed
ourselves that the old man, had not thought
fit to cumber his decks 'with the French
man's cast-off boat, or all our hopes would
have been stranded high and dry.
" Eight bells!" . We breathed quick it
was mionigni at, last, in me uusue oi
" turning outV and " turning in,". we might
not be observed, j Lotting ourselves dowu
from the gundeck ports, which in that sul
try : atmosphere- were always open, , we
struck out from the ship, twelve men, and
all good swimmers. , .,
The darkness: , was not such , but that
there was great danger of . being seen by
the . "lookouts" as we swam ; from the
ship's side, and felt relelved when tbe great
man-of-war became indistinct. We had
calculated that the drift of the boats must
correspond with that of the ship, and that
hence the same relative positions would be
maintained. , A star was our compass ; yet
tbe propabllity of missing so small an ob
ject as a boat was very great. . To Increase
the ohanoes of success, we extended our line
considerably, i , Having at length swain
more than the requisite distance, as we
Imagined, our missglvlngs were becoming
painful, when from the centre of, the long
line,, we heard tbe low glad exclamation .;
: "Here she is I" , , , ,v . , .,
, The boat was full of , water, Itesting a
moment by laying bold of, her gunwalos,
we cheered eaob other and grew almost
nieary, A further effort, over half a mile
of ocean, and then from the. larboard exr
, tremity of tbe line came tbs cautiously ut
tered words : , !,.( .
,i Ilkt, lads I , This way. , l'vs found
ber 17 vJ '" n" ' . .'p . ,' t. !
She was a launch, with purchase blocks
and colls of rlggllng lying in her, together
with rudder and six oars. The French
man must have hoisted her out just as sho
tood, glad to get rid of everything that
had weiglft ; for at tbe time she went over
board our twenty-four pound balls were
skipping unpleasantly near,
We pulled obliquely toward tbe shore, in
direction away from the shin, but ro-
solvod not to land until ' morning. ' Mean
while the land breeze, began to spring up,
and wa knew that the t Yarmouth would
stand away. When daylight appeared we
saw a party of English mariners on shore,
and over a point of land rose the masts of
a small schooner at anchor. Of course, we
had now to put straight out to se.',"v '
The Yarmouth was entirely out of Bight,
for we had rowed many miles' along the
coast. Thete were two porpoise-irons
lying in the boat, and with one of these we
killed a porpoise in a school which came
round us. We bad, however, no water,
but as tbe sky thickened we hoped for rain.
There had, indeed, been a shower every
day since the frigate left Barbadoes. Soon
we saw tbe schooner in pursuit of us, but
she moved slowly with ' the slight breeze,
and we bad a long start. 1
In tbe afternoon it rained very hard, and
by one contrivance and another we' caught
several gallons of water, preserving it 'in
four sheepskins' which happened to bo
in the boat, and which' told a tale of some
excellent soups that had whilom rejoiced
the French privateersmen. . With porpoise
and water we were now secure from imme
diate famine, as was our intention, when
night should again cover our movements, to
alter our course and make for the Island of
Guadeloupe, about eighty miles distant.
That night, however, we had squalls
front the southwest, directly, from Guada.
loupe itself and against the usual course of
the northeast trade wind. We could run
only before the wind and sea, and about
daybreak the boat capsized. We succeed.
ed in righting her, but it was impossible to
free her from water, and we clung to the
gunwales, feeling that all was over.
Suddenly, in the gray breaking morning,
we saw a dusky object close upon us, and
high above, in relief against the sky, rose a
ship's .topgallant-masts. With all
might we shouted :' '
"Ship ahoy!" ' '
Then there was a patter of feet oh dock,
and the ship came up in the wind with her
afteryards aback. ' With' great difficulty
her boat succeeded in reaching us. The
light had now broadened, and passing close
under her bow, I read upon her weather
headboard the name " Onondago."
The meeting of Cathal with his parent.
I need not describe, further than to say It
was a joy unspeakable.
I found the Onondaga a new ship,
launched since my absence from home, and
by a singular coincidence owned by an
uncle of mine, with whom I bad through
all my, boyhood been a great favorite. He
was now oq board the vessel, having been
In hAi In PArnamlmcn. . . ,
,."Bhe is an excellent ship," said Captain
O'Hara, "but she will hardly sail with my
old brig St. Patrick. , Why, that brig was
the fastest vessel that ever sailed from
Londonderry., , The French hsve made a
privateer of . her, and I have been , expect
ing to exchange compliments with her ever
since we came up with the Windward
Islands." t ,, .
; ; The Onondago was armed with six guns,
and for, fear of the French, she was manued
wjth a double complement of , men, sixteen
before the mast. The captain, his two
mates, a boatswain, the cook and my uncle,
iuoreased the number to twenty-two ;. yet
the ship was only three hundred and sixty
tons. Myself and shipmates now furnished
twelve bands additional, raising the entire
.complement of tbe-Onondaga's crew to
thirty-four. ,
Succeeding the squally night came a dull
fog, and at noon a vessel was reported
close aboard of us. Her captain hailed in
broken English, informing us that his ves
sel was a French merchantman in distress.
Our commander, however, was not to be
deceived, aud be instantly prepared for a
more formidable' visitor.' From the light
ness of tho wind, the vessels moved but
slowly, and a brief parley was In progress,
when suddenly the Frenchman,' who had
the weather gage, put up bis helm ' and
run us on board. ' Instantly bis deck
swarmed with men, and tbey made a rush
for our ship yelling as they came.
, But we were ready for them. Three of
our great guns were fired into their midst
with terrible effect ; and then springing to
the bulwarks, we met them cutlass In band
Fierce and brave, and outnumbering us
two to one,, it seemed for a few minutes as
if tbey would gain a firm foothold . on tbe
Onondaga's decks. , , But the Yankee tars
were too bard for them. The Monsieurs
reoollod in a body, and Catbal in his en-
tbusiasm followed Ubem, leaping right on
ooara ineir vessel. .
To save bis life, I sprang after him. , To
save both our lives, Captain O'Hara fol
lowed. This was the signal for a prodig
lous effort, and every man of our. shin
leaped into the Freuch brig. The enemy
ran below.or surrendered where tbey stood:
for so sudden an onslaught struck them
with panic. , , ' '
The brig was ours. , It appears that she
had not a single cannon ; and ws found her
to be the same vessel that had thrown over
hor guns whon chased by the Yarmouth
the Frenoh privateer St. Dennis, formerly
the St. Patrick of Londonderry.';
; She was ejideavorlng to make the island
of Guadaloupe, when falling in with our
ship, her captain conceived the plan of cap
turing, us bv surnrise. . '
Captain O'Hara had recovered the St.
Patrick, a very excellent vessel ; but I had
dona more tluvn this I had made sure of
Cathleett, whose beautiful face was more
eloquent than any words of English, or
even of her own ancient Irish, could have
boon, as Cathal and bis father recounted to
her, with peculiar emphasis, my feats of
arms.
' My uncle was wounded in the battle, and
died on the day that we passed Sandy
Hook. He was a bachelor, aud among
other bequests, he left to me the ship
Onondaga, ; together, with , a considerable
sum of money. , We had but. one man
killed outright, and three wounded.
Grdat was the curiosity of the New
Yorkers to see the brig St. Patrick. In
her Captain O'Hara afterwards made many
voyages.
Tbe Secretary of the Navy granted me a
disoharge from the service ; and Captain
Truxton was ever a kind friend to me.
Cathloen and myself thought of naming
ouf first little girl M Constellation," but
the name seemed to present too vast ' a
breadth of space and splendor for a thing
so minute, and we therefore abreviated it
to " Stella" for a little girl is so much
smaller than a ship.
Story abont a Hawk.
A curious incident occurred a few days
since a short distance from Baltimore, a
local paper says "i One of our well-known
merchants bad gone out on a visit to
friend, at whose house there was a bright
little boy, and one day, . to please the child,
be manufactured a very large kite, and as
the wind was strong enough, tbe kite was
raised at once. After it had gone up
nearly half a mile, a large crowd of country
people collected to admire it, as such
magnificent toy had never been seen, in
that section before. While the spectators
were admiring it, a very large hawk was
seen to fly slowly out of a neighboring
grove and go directly toward the kite. The
hawk approached within a few feet of the
strange looking object, "and then ' circled
about undor it for perhaps five minutes,
when he flew just above it again circled
around several times. ' Suddenly he "hover
ed directly over the kite, 'and after looking
nt It tnfantlv fir a short H m A. dfirtAd dowrl.
glriU1g the paper, passeddirect-
tW Vlto. - miriut on the
lv throueh the' kite. ' coming out on the
other side. After this'strange experience,
which no doubt puzzled the hawk. Vastly,
he fie w off a short distance for reflection
but still keepine tbe kite in view. Not
being disposed to give it up so, he quickly
returned to the charge, and this time fast
ened on the long string of rags' that were
used as a tail to tbe kite,, which be tore
and scattered in trie air in a savage man.
Finding however, . no resistance on
the part of the kite, he became' disgusted
or scared, and flew away toward the woods
whence he came, Tbe gentleman says
that whenever the hawk made an attack he
would retreat a little, as if he expected
the strange bird was going to return the
assault.
A Divorce Romance.
Some twenty years since, says the Cin
cinnati' Timet, the daughter 'of at that
time one of ' our wealthy merchants, was
married under the most flattering auspices,
It was not,' however, very long before the
pair discovered that there was not anything
congenial between them, and, after living
together some nine years, and having three
children, they by' mutual agreement were
divoiced, the children remaining with the
father, the mother being permitted to see
them at her own convenience. The wife
went home to her father, who shortly after
ward died, hopelessly bankrupt. 1 ue wo
man, who, previously, as the child of lux-
ury and the wife of opulence, bad never
known what it was to want for a single
thing, suddenly found herself thrown out
upon the world, and forced to seek a livell
hood as best sue could. a At first sue un
dertook sewing for shops, then attending
stores,' and finally keeping a very plain
boarding-house, in none of which did she
succeed. One day, when almost drivod to
despair, she mustered up courage and went
to her former home and asked the one who
had succeeded her as the mistress of the
house if she would not befriend her, even
ever so little, as she was on the point of
starving, as her wan ' and haggard con
dition too plainly showed. Women's ears
and hearts are ever open to the sufferings
of their more unfortunate fellow beingi
The unfortunate woman was Invited to re-
roum until tne nusoand returned, wuiou
she reluctantly did, and when he came the
- 1 matter was thoroughly discussed. ' It was
- l mutually' agreed for wife No. X to remain
I and make her home in tho .house over
I which she bad once ruled as mistress. ' And
here she is to be round to-day, , seemingly
satisfied witty the change, ' and apparently
, not... earing' 'tha' tbe love that was ' once
pledged solemnly otiiore uod to her alone
J is now bostowed upou another.
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