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Toiiclilii' these Hunker 1 1 11 1 Proceedings,
nr "stiiaws,"
I rip in atonishmcnt !
Imlignnnt I've bin Hit t in :
If ernnite could ert rabid, why
I'd swear you'd all bin bitten !
Such tnorumrtilnl raptures! such
A tiili'n' cl ullition !
Cold water's all you'll (fi t from me;
PLccJ in this 'ere position !
Just state the cape. Old Mrs. Bull,
As lives across the waters,
In course of law arid natur', gets
A set of saucy daugh'ers ;
A rcg'lnr biltcr's doz' n all
The world declares 'em beauties
First thinR they Joes, they takes and sets
Their faces 'gainst their duties !
Well, Mrs. Dull of course is vrtcd,
As most o' mothers would be,
To find her calls a turniu out
No better than they should be;
She Aires up 'bout authority,
They font in f.rmtr.idiciion,
And Mis. null gorg ravin' mad,
To strengihrn her conviction !
Next, just to do Vm cood of course
She just begins to I ilhor ;
And blessed ifth-y don't turn about
And pitch into her, rather!
You talk shout your 'Lexington"
My fcMinV I can't smother i
It beats the ipiakrr gentleman
As took and kicked his mother !
They keeps on not a-m'mdiii', push
I'tom bad to worse, you are;
And having tnpM her claret, why
Next thing they sp lls her tea t
Abuse her on the corners, and
Wol'a more outrageous still,
Got up anoth r precious fight,
On this here Bunker Hill !
I wonder wot you're mndc of! is
There any here a parent !
Or any as soon as may be t I
Should say at one there wn'n't.
This crowin' ove M'o. Bull,
Who "right rlivina" could show, loo
As a weny distinguihcd Yankee statesman
might observe.
"Where !' ye expect to go to ?"
And wot a nice example ! Since
Just see the jolly rows ;
There's not a regal dame alive
Can keep a (iiiet house!
It's "Charier," 'Constitution," "Right
Of SulTiaue," "common weal,"
And last, and loudest, round the world,
5-.vr-.IIs Ireluud's cry, 'Jtrpral .'"
Just "-jo ahead," as Khk--peare says,
Keii on your celebration.
You'll have it your own way at last,
No d.uiht am 'iig the nations :
With freedom your rrligion why,
You'll soon convert the planet ;
Kuril Und may boast its sacred bill,
Capp'd ly its spire of granite!
Or,
Tour sin's a very citrhmir. one,
Kist, west, and nordi, and south, sirs ;
And tt.t v may pile granite next
I'pon the I ti ll a Unlet ft, sirs!
Dkatii from Katimi Pnosi-iioiti s. Yester
day, the infant daughter of Mr. Newman, on
Frank street, died in consequence of having ea
ten the ihiy previous, a considerable quantity of
phosphorus. The phosphorus was calcn about ,
l'J o'clock on Friday, end the mother initnedi
iitely gave it an emetic, titter which it reminded
perlect'y cssy and apparently well until the
next Saturday morning, when it was seized
with terrific pains, which continued until she
died, 0 o'clock, 1'. M. A post mortem exami
nation disclosed extensive hums through the
whole course of the intestines; and it is mat
ter of surprise that the child should have remai
ned undisturbed until the next morning. The
only explanation suggested is, that the phos
phorus did not meet the oxygen immediately,
nnd that it did not take fire until the next day.
The smoke of the phosphorus escaped freely
from the bowels during Saturday, and probably
coumbustion was then going on. The preper
antidotes were given treely, and other moans
used, but with no apparent effect. Rochtstcr
J'ost.
Coi Kno.vc iiF.s. The following method of de
stroying these detestihle intruders is at once
simple and effective: Procure from the apo
thec try a small quantity of that odoriferous ve
getable called poke roof. Boil it in water un
til the juices are extracted, and mingle the li
quor with good molasses ; spread the mixture
in large platters or soup-plates; place these
wherever the cockroaches visit, and the enemy
will lie found slain by fifties and hundreds on
the following morning. A gentlemen to whom
we are indebted for this information, states that
lie slaughtered 57o cockroochea in one night,
by the above process, and hat the root which
had been boiled being thrown into a closet thick
ly infested by the enemy, the place was quit
ted entirely in a few days, great numbers be
ing left upon the tield Huston Gaz,
Co.mfoutabi.f.. The chairs in the cars of the
Eastern railroads aro provided with rockers.
They only need pillows to be perfect ; a man
could then easily bleep away the tedium of travel.
SUNBURY AMERICAN.
Absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the
ly Manser V i:is ly.
From the Altihama Monitor.
POIITUAITS OPT UK 1 till CO.XGRICSSt.
In the speech of Air. Wii.de, of Georgia, de
livered in the House of Representatives in l'Vi,
on the Tariff, ho thus introduces, in a style of
beauty peculiar to his own classic genius, a
sketch of some of the distinguished men of the
Fourteenth Congress (I-?lfi.) Mr. Wilde says:
The restrictive system is more plainly to be
traced to the embargo, non-interconrse, non
importation, war, and double duties. When
peace came, these duties were about to expire.
A new syttcm of revenue was to bo devised,
nnd the manufacturers, threatened, as they be
lieved, with ruin, earnestly and humbly entreat
ed that the amount required as revenue should
be so imposed as to enable them to stand the
shock.
It wns under such circumstances that the
fourteenth Congress assembled. At that time
I hod the honor to be a member of this I louse.
It was an honor then. What it is now, I shall
not say. It is what the twenty-second Con
gress have been pleased to make it. I have
neither time, nor strength, nor ability, to speak
of the legislature of that day as they deserve ;
nor is this the fit occasion. Vet the coldest or
most careless nature, cannot recur to such associates-,
without some touch of genetous feel
ing, which, in quicker spirits would kindle in
to high and almost holy enthusiasm.
LOWNDES.
Pre-eminent yet not more proudly than
humbly pre-eminent among tlieni, was a gen
tleman from South Carolina ; now no more ;
the purest, the calmest, the most philosophical
of our country's modern statesmen. One no
less remarkable for gentleness of manner., and
kindness of heart, than for that passionless, un
clouded intellect, which rendered him deserv
ing of the praise if ever man deserved it of
merely standing by and letting reason orguc
for him. The true patriot, incapable of nil sel
fish ambition, who shunned office and distinc
tion, yet served his country faithfully, because
he loved her. He, I mean, who consecrated,
by his example, the noble precept, so entirely
his own, that tho first station in the republic
was neither to be sought after nor declined a
sentiment ro just and so happily expressed, that
it continues to be repeated, because it cannot
be improved.
PINKXEY.
There was, also, a gentleman from Mary
land, whose ashes now slumber in your ceme
tery. It is not long since I stood by his tomb,
and recalled him, as he was then, in all the
pride and power of his genius. Among the
first of his countrymen and contemporaries, as
a jurist nnd statesman, first ns an orator, he was,
if not truly eloquent, the prince of rhetoricians.
Nor did the soundness of his logic suffer any
thing, by a comparison with the richness: und
classical purity of the language in w hich he co-
piously ponied forth those figurative illustra
tions of his argument, which enforced while
they adorned it. Hut let others pronounce his
eulogy. I must not. I feel as if his mighty
spirit still haunted the scene of its triumphs,
and whcti I dared to wrong them, indignantly
rebuked me.
These names have become historical. There
were others, of whom it is mure difficult to
speak, because yet within the reach of pruisc
or envy. For one who was, or aspired to be,
a politician, it would bo prudent, perhaps wise,
to avoid all mention o! these men. Their acts,
their words, their thoughts, their very looks
have become subjects of party controversy.
I5ut he whose ambition is of a higher or lower
order, lias no need of euch reserve. Talent is
of no party exclusively ; nor is justice.
KANDOI.PII.
Among them, hut not of them, in the fearful
and solitary sublimity of genius, stood a gen
tleir.an from Virginia whom it were superflu
ous to designate. Whoso speeches were uni
versally feared. I'pon whose accents did this
habitually listless and uulistening House hang,
so frequently, with wrapt attention ? Whose
fume was identified with thut body for so long
a period ! Who was a more dexterous debutor !
a riper scholar 1 better versed in the politics of
our own country ! or deeper read in the history
of others! Above all who was more thorough
ly imbued with the idiom of the I'nglish lan
guage more completely master of its strength,
and beauty, and delicacy! or more capable of
breathing thoughts of llame in words of magic,
ond tones of silver !
CALHOUN.
There was, also, a son of South Carolina, still
in the service of the Republic, then, undoubt
edly, the most influential member of this House.
With a genius eminently metaphysical, he ap
plied to politics his habits of analysis, abstrac
tion, and condensation, and thus gave to the
problems of Government something of that
grandeur which the higher mathematics have
borrowed from astronomy. The wings of his
mind were rapid, but capricious, and there
were times when tho light which flashed from
them as they passed, glanced liki a mirror in
the sun, only to dazilc the bch ddc r. Fugrot s-
AND SIIAjMOKIN JOURNAL
majority, the vital principle of Republics, from which
Sunhiiry, IVoi-llitiniliciiaiKl to.
cd with his subject careless of his words his j
loftiest flights of eloquence were sometimes
followed by colloquial or provincial barbarisms.
Hut, though often incorrect he was always fasci
nating. Language with him, was merely the
scaffolding of thought employed to raise a
dome, which, like Angclo's, he suspended in the
heavens.
CLAY.
It is equally impossible to forget, or to omit,
a gentleman from Kentucky, whom party has
since made the fruitful topic of unmeasured
panegyric and detraction. Of sanguine tem
perament, and impetuous character, his decla
mation was impassioned, his retorts acrimonious.
Deficient in refinement, rather than in strength,
his style was less elegant and correct, than an
imated ond impressive. Hut it swept a way your
feelings with it, liko a mountain torrent, and
the force of the stream left you little leisure to
remark upon its clearness. His estimotc ofhu
nmn nature was, probably, not very high. It
may be that his past associations had not tend
ed to exalt it. Unhappily, it is, perhaps, more
likely to have been lowered than raised by his
subsequent experience. Yet then, and ever
since, except when that imprudence, so natural
to genius, prevailed over his better judgement,
he had, generally, the good sense, or good taste,
to adopt a lot ty tone of sentiment, whether he
sKkc of measuics, or ol men, of friend, or ad
versary. On many occasions he was noble ond
captivating. One, I can never forget. It was
the fine burst of indignant eloquence with
which he replied to the taunting question,
'what have we gained by the war !'
NVF.nSTF.K.
Nor may I pass over in silence a representa
tive from New Hampshire, w ho has almost ob
literated oil memory of that distinction, by the
superior fame he has attained as a Senator from
Massachusetts Though then but in the bud
of his political life, and hardly conscious, per
haps, of his ow n extraordinary powers, he gave
promise of tho greatness he has since achieved
The same vigor of thought ; the same force of
expression ; the short sentences; the calm,
cold, collected manner ; the air of solemn dig
nity; the deep, sepulchral, 'nnimpasfinncd
voice; all have been devclopod only, not chang
cd, even to the intense bitterness of his frigid
irony. The piercing coldness of his sarca -in
was indeed peculiar to him ; they seemed to
be emanations from the spirit of the icy ocean.
Nothing could be at once so novel and so pow
erful-it was frozen mcr:ury, becoming as caus
tic as rod iron.
Fxuitixi Okimnation S;:ne in tiik !-
toi'ALi m lu ll. t.ieven young men were, on
Sunday, ordained at St. Stephen's church, by
the Rev. H.sliopOiidcrdoiik. The service was
read by the Hishop. After he had concluded,
the eleven candidates stood around the alter,
when he announced, as is customary, thut he
was about to ordain them, and requested that
if there were any person or persons w ho had a-
ny objections to make, or knew ought ugainst
them, they would now announce the same. A
moment of silence ensued, when the Rev. Hugh
Smith (of St. Peter's) rose in the middle aisle,
and stated that ho had by letter yesterday in
formed the Hishop that he should protest against
tho ordination of one of the candidates, Mr. Ca
rey in consequence of his holding opinions fuvo
rable to Umnism ; and he did now according
ly protest. When he sat down, the Rev. Mr
Anthon, of St. Mark's church in this city, who
had been sitting in the same pew with Mr.
Smith, also rose, and in liko manner protested
against the ordination of Mr. Carey, for the
same reason.
Hishop Onderdonk stated that he had recei
red the objections of the Rev. gentleman, and
had in consequence appointed six competent
and worthy persons to examine into the charge
which had been made ugaiu.st Mr. Carey and
that they had unanimously reported to him that
it was unfounded ; and that also was his own
conviction, and that he should piocced to or
dain all the candidates. He then commeucei
reading the prayer, and during the ceremony
Messrs. Smith and Anthoti both nroc and left
the church.
It is supposed that the objections to the or
dilution of Mr. Carey arose from the iJea
that he held an op:nion similar to'those pro
mulgated in the celebrated Oxford Tracts and
for w hich Dr. Pusey has been recently suspen
ded in F.nLlaud. It is indeed a continuation ol
the same controversy which has divide the L'
piscopal church on tho other side of the Allan
tic. .Y. Y. KjrjiTCf.
Fatiiui Mii.Li u is afflicted like Job, w ith
'sore biles ;" he says lie has twenty-tw", from
the bigness of a grape to a walnut, on his slum!
der, back, arms and aide. He has now fixed
upon the Fall as the time of the Second Advent
He closes his letter as follows : "If this should
be true, we shall not sec his glorious appear
ing until alter the autumnal equinox. A few
months more of trial and calumny and then all
w ill be over. I wish I could see you once more
but do not leave your work t-) gratify me. Mir
1 expect is done.''
lliero is no appeal but to force, the vital principle- and
la. .Saturday, July 15, is 13.
Mil. I. KG.t Rf.
Mr. Justice Srouv, in tho course of one of
his customary Lectures to the Law class under
his charge, spoke with much eloquence and
feeling of the late Attorney General. His re
marks have been published in tho Huston Daily
Advertiser ; we extract from them the follow
ing :
"When I last met you, I little anticipated
the calamitous event, which has since occurred
in the death of a distinguished man w ho expir
ed in the city of Hof ton on Tuesday morning
ist. boever considers the principles of the
Constitution can never forgi-t him ; for he was
firm ond true to its doctrines, and exhibited that
levatetl ond comprehensive statesmanship.
which the Constitution demands cf its real
friends. I refer, ofeotirse, to Mr. Legare, the
lute Attorney General, with whom I had the
happiness to be intimately acquainted ; whom I
knew not only os an accomplished gentleman,
but nh;o as a great lawyer. I speak of him to
you here, not merely to pay a deserved tribute
to his worth, but because I know of no man
whom I would sooner propound as an example
to voting men entering the profession, which
ic has so much adorned. I had indeed looked
to him with great fondness of expectation. I
had looked to sec him accomplish what he was
so well fitted to do, what, I know, was the
darling object of his pure ambition to engratt
the Civil I,uw upon the jurisprudence of this
countrv, and thereby to expand the Common
liaw to grcuter usefulness and a wider adapta
tion to the progress of society.
It is a most singular circumstance, that emi
nence in general literature should, in the pub
lic mind, detract Irom a man's reputation as a
lawyer. It is an unworthy prejudice, for cer
tainly the science of jurisprudence may bor
row aid as well us receive ornament from the
cultivation of oil the other branches of human
knowledge. Hut the prejudice exists and yet
one would think that the public had witnessed
so many examples or men who were great
scholars and great lawyers likewise, that the
prejudice might he at this day disarmed of so
much of its quality, as is apt to do injustice to
the reputation of living men. Lord Mansfield
was a most eminent scholar in general letters ;
but he was also unsurpassed in jurisprudence.
Sir Wm. Hlackstone was so elegant a scholar,
that his Commentaries arc models of pure F.ng
lish prose ; but they are none the less the in
valuable mine of the laws t f England. Kird
Stowell, the friend and Executor of Dr. John
son, wan, in various attainments, exceeueu uy
... I,,
few ; but his knowledge of general juri.--pru
dence was greater than that ifanymau of his
day. Some of the proudest names now on tin
English benches arc some of England's best
scholars. Hut there us well as here thougl
certainly it is far greater here the public pre
judice almost denies to a great scholar the right
to be eminent as a juri.-t Dr. Johnson bus said :
And mark wh.it ills the scholar's life asjil
Toil, envy, want, the patron and the gaol.
None of these were the evils of our friend. His
only evil was, that his reputation as a lawyer
was sometimes underrated, because of his great
L'eneral attainments. Hut nothing could be
more unfounded than this idea, lie consider
ed the Law as his pursuit : as his object ; as
the field of his ambition. Fifteen years ago, I
knew him as an eminent lawyer; he afterwards
went abroad in a diplomatic capacity ; und, at
Brussels, where he resided, devoted himself a
new to the study ol the Civil liw, w ith a view
to make it subservient to the great object of
his life, tho expansion of the Common Ijiw, and
the forcing into it the enlarged and Itbcial
principles und just morality of the Reman juris
prudence. This object he seemed about to ac
complish ; fr his arguments before the su
premo Court were crowded with the principles
of the Roman Law w rought into the texture of
the Common Law with great success. In eve
ry sentence that I heard, I was struck with this
union of the two systems.
At the same time, the whole wus wrought
in a style beautiful and chaste, but never push
ing from the line of the argument nor losing
tight of the cause. I lis argumentation was
marked by tin; closest logic ; at the same time
he had a presence in speaking, which I have
never seen excelled. He hud a warm, rich
style, but he had no declamution ; lor he knew
that declamution belongs neither to the jurist
nor to the scholar. It w as only during the last
summer, that he wrote tome that he intended
to translate lle'mecc'us's Elements; tor he
wi.-hed, he said, to entice tho Ameiican lw
yer to the study of the Civil J J w. lie added,
that he hud nothing to gair. by undertaking
such a work, but that he would undergo the la
bor as a homage to his country. Knowing his
eiui'ietit qualifications f.r tho task, I advised
him to make the truncation, and to add to it
notes of his own, so as to adapt the principles
to the existing state of the Common Iw ;
telling him that he would thereby confer a
benefit on his country, which no man of the
bjjo would be likely to exceed. A few years
immediate parent of despotism. JurrKRaov.
Vol. 3 Xo. .I? Whole -o, 1 1
since ho published a paper in the New York
ucview,on me wrigm, wisiory aim iniiuuiice
of Roman Legislation, and afterwards printed
it separately from the Review itself. Who
ever reads that en;oy and 1 hope you will all
reud it will perceive his vast attainments in
the Civil I-aw. You, who have not heard him,
cannot judge of his attainments in tho Com
mon Law; hut I, who heard his arguments,
know that he devoted himself to the Common
Law with a wise perception of its defects, and
a purpose to ameliorate them with the riches
of the Civil I,aw; and I may Fay of him, hav
ing Feen his mastery of both systems of juris
prudence that he walked with them triumph
antly, the one in one hand, and the other in 1 1
other hand, in the path of a great jurist. Al
though he might have hud other places in the
gift of the Government us I have been told
yet he desired only the office of Attorney Gen
eral, and he desired that for the sake of the
Law. When, therelorc, the question is asked,
was he eminent as a lawyer! 1 answer, no man
more so. Ooyotiusk w hat was the Eccrct ot
his eminence ! 1 answer, it was diligence, pro
found study, and withholding his mind from
the political cxcitenvtit-) oftho day. To me,
his loss is irreparable. How few do I see a
round me, of severe studies in jurisprudence,
willing to devote their days and nights to the
mastery nnd improvement of it as a great sci
ence; and looking for the fame that comes of
devotion like him. Such study is not fanned
by the breath of popular applause and so it is
rare. H it in him it shone most brillautly. I
pronounce him a great loss, as one of the most
valuable lights of jurisprudence that it has been
my happiness to know ; my misfortune to lose.
Wasliliisloii,
The following tribute is from on English
work recently published, entitled Remini
seenses of a trip to the United States.
Hut we must leave the habitation of the li
ving und stand by the narrow house of the dead.
The tomb ol General Washington is situated
somewhat behind the house, in a clump of trees
surrounding a small grass plat. The original
sepulchre is completely in a state of decay, ha
ving been rudely and unsubstantially built.
The present vault, which is built of red brick,
is as plain and ungraceful as if the inmate were
the most ordinary and commonplace of men.
The marble sarcophagus, presented by the hard
but reverential hands of a Philadelphia Mason,
stands about a foot from the floor, and there,
separated from the gazer by a few iron rods, lie
the ashes of once of the noblest chiefs of hu
manity. See! there is a flower cast by loving
bands from the cold marble.
Who would smile ot the enthusiasm of the
heat t at such a time and place, though I bent
the knee in reverence for the noblest ofa race
created a little lower than the angels; for a
soldier who never drew his sword but in the
cause of justice; for the ruler, who wielded the
sceptre but to save ! What shall we not say
of such a man, of so noble an emanation from
the Almighty Father of all. The husband, the
friend, the suldier, the dictator, the chief magis
trate, and the powerful citizen did he not dig
nify them all ! The hand has ceased to write,
and the heart to beat, and the form that trod
the council chamber and the buttle field with
the same -teidy glance and the 6auic unwave
ring bti-p, is but d'jst and ashes ; but the life
that was concentrated in that great heart, vi
brates, though it be but feebly, in that of the
whole nation. As the rose gives forth a per
fume which lingers long alter tho flower is
withered and dead, so from the ashes of George
Washington arises an intluence which is borne
on every breeze that sweeps across the public
mind, and every discussion ukjii the capacity of
our race lor trim freedom.
The following bit of diollery is from the 1'i
rmune ;
I here was a droll sulnect on Irishman up i
liel'ore the Criminal Court yesterday, on the
charge of having in his possession forged notes,
knowing them to be counterfeit.
'Do you know your rights !' said the judge.
Not so w ell as I know my wrongs, said he,
fir we havn'l been such intimate acquaintances,
of late.
'Wei!, you have the right to challenge the
twelve men who will be called up to try you,'
said the judge.
'Pon me so I, thin,' said the prisoner, Tin
not going to exercise it d l a one but t hut's
a nice job you'd be afther givin' me this mom
Mi,' to thullenge, und ti'jht them too one down
and another come on, I supjiose o'i, no, you
can't come it, Judge V
The jury acquitted him, more for his drollery
than for the clearness of his case, we believe.
There are peop'e in the world who are con
linuully speaking of their ill luck. One ofthe.e
discontented beings was passing through our
streets the other day. Something flUtened on
the sidewalk, and he vtopped to pick it up.
"Dang it," he exclaimed, in a tone of petulant
disappointment, "if nyb.idy else had found it,
it u uulil fc'u tuarWr dollur.
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l'rom the Richmond Star.
Terrible Kncounter wllh a Pirate.
Cupt. Robinson, now a wealthy and much
respected citizen of New York, while in com
mand ofa ship many years ago, at a time when
several of the European powers were at war,
discovered one day just as night was setting
in a suspicious looking sail under his lee ;
but as the stranger made no movement to
wards him, he concluded that she was proba
bly one of the many privateers which then
swarmed the ocean. The next morning ha
discovered the strange sail nearer to him and
very soon became satisfied that she was not on
ly hostile but a pirate, lie had one gun, and
un abundance of small arms and ammunition on
board, and fortunately a good number of passen
gers, mostly men. When satisfied tint he hod.
no alternative but to fight or surrender, he as
sembled the passengers in the cabin and told
them that they must decide whether they would
surrender and be themselves murdered, and
give their wives and daughters to the brutality
of the fiends then pursuing them, or stand up
on their defence like men. If they choose tha
latter alternative, he gave them a fair warning,
that it must be a desperate conflict, and that
boarding the pirate was probably their only
chance of success.
Most of the passengers responded promptly
that they would fight to the last, if fight they
must Although to the windward, it was found
that the superior sailing of the pirate was more
than a match in a long chase for this advantage,
and Robinson resolved at once to meet the cri
sis and decide the matter while his position
gave him the choice of commencing the en
gagement. He steered at onco to meet the
foe, thus giving him to understand that he was
prepind fbr him. As he ncared him the pi
rate gave him a broadside from '.he guns, three
in number, that crippled him badly, killed tno
of his best seamen and one passenger. S'.iil l.e
kept on receiving broadside, that injured him
more, but not as badly as the first. In a fev
moments he was near the pirate, and by a skill
ful manoeuvre got a raking position, and taking;
good aim, he for the first time discharged his
gun, loaded heavily with canister and grape.
The cfJ'ect was tremendous, the vessel being
much cut up, and the slaughter among tho pi
rate crew prodigious. This created confusion
among them and enabled Robinson to plant
his bow against the pirate, just where he pre
ferred. In an instant the bowsprit was crowded with
the devils, looking like very fiends, who dashed
upon the forward deck in large force. A bloo
dy struggle then ensued, hand to hand, in
which the ship's defenders were driven back by
the overwhelming force, nnd the prtvpect for
an instant was that they would bo annihilated,
beyond the chance of hope. At this moment,
some of tha passengers shouted in English to
their friends to 'clear the way stand brick for
the gun !' The Spaniards raised a yell of tri
umph, as they saw their foes, who had met them
so sturdily, rush back, and w ere in the act of
springing forward as the murderous charge of
the gun met them with sweeping carnage
leaving but few alive and covering the deck
with the mangled remains of more than a scoro
of the wretches. Hut a fresh force supplied
their place and for several times the good gun
cleared the deck ot the blood-thirsty villains.
As they went leaping back the fourth time, Ro
bison shouted to his men to 'board,' and in a mo
ment the strife was upon the pirate's own
deck.
The force of the pirate had been tcrrib'y c;t
down in t lie previous contest, and after a short
but desperate struggle in which Captain Rj
binson received a shocking wound from a cut
lass, passing from his forehead between his eye?,
across the cheek and down to the back of tha
neck yet he killed the man w ho wounded him.
and two others after receiving thcslash they
were all driven below and secured. The cabin
was then cleared of every thing valuable, tha
vessel scuttled, and in a short time she sank,
carrying with her every soul on board th j
woundej, dying and dead. Captain Robinson
w as w ounded in many places, besides the last
shocking wound across his lace, the s?ar of
w hich he yet bears, and many of his force had
fulleu or were desperately wounded; but lie
carried his ship safely through her voyage, nnd
was able to tell of one oftho most gallant und
desperate actions, of which we ever heard, cr
which hUtory can show.
Thk End of iiic Mil u it Tlnt. A terr l !
storm occurred near Rochester, lir' Fri
The rain came down in streams '' he v
Mr. I linen, one of the Miller proph- is wi, de
livering a fiery exhortation to about otsl m the
highlit, when the rain descendcJ, and the
tbskl-. came, und the tent wus cast away, be
cause it wax built on the ea'nl." The whole
concern was rent in twain, the women were
frightened, but most luckily few persons were
hurt. Tho tent is destroyed altogether, and
thut we suppose is the last vettige of Miller-ism.