FRLIN SLOA PUBLISHERS.
"OLUME 24.
ITSINESB DIRECTORY
ltn S C. BROWNEL.
.side a the Public Squere. 7r. _
.t. .1.1,1 Peach Streets., Prie, Pa.
TEE PolsLAzing HARP
1,7 YPT IKESESSES FOR Di)/ Lip.
. E I ABELL.
lau,r . Rowan over the Brie • 1%.011th
Erie. Pa.
or the belt otyfe of the art. arid warms
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. , ELLOR at l o asr. Warren Pro
collef.tka* will sw/eire prompt
it D. II'ALKER & CO.,
and Conunission Merchant., forirth
11..1-e a e• tof the Public Bridge, Brio Ps.
Dosler , in Cosi, Salt, Plastery Sitters, Fish, Lime
Iron, Stores. Castings, er., with
fnralitie.= for shipping either by stea mboats,
ll , r-• by Railroad.
tt.e.r,t
..C. ARSON GRAHAM,
, ‘,.r • ...rNstu.za A LALIr, Office on Fnmeu
- • r ~ f the Park, Erie.
T W MOO - 11 - E,
Prot - h.ictn , WhieS, Liqunra , 4 21141111 PA,
I lilt door below BOW& & StiPwart' Stato-pt.
Er's dam in yearns look will "dart
An instant sunshine" through the sorrowing Wirt,
And &draw long forgotten wiD arise
1 INCE..NT, lIIMROD & Co.,
,of Storem, $o
pow la the lop soul., aid spedtil ia tbill w si,
:; lkiw Wu% ta f ig oes , m ii ..,
it..ilload Cu., etc.. Ptate AC , Erie Pa. Ind hope! long buried will rewire sods.
- T11(131AS 31. .IITSTIN, • Weaving anew affection's broken chain.
r THE FlO4 ..,F 1•. LFIOIII4 k , And kindling on the altar of the son] . k. ~: , ..•
'.4. • Watches, Jewelry,Silver ~t,...0n5, Must- i Lm c'. purr, undying tame; whieh earth can na'er control.
.I , o,itt•, Looking 1:1.1. , (-., ipainic. anti Fancy, [Ciere/and True Demerol,
-, , -10-ale and rani'.
• U. JARECII.
.:,. It ...t .ide of State street, Fri... l'a
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BAl.§, i & CO.
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1 Jilt I 11111 .or WALKER . ATRIAL', I
Ml—ion and Shipping Merchants, and deal
t ...1.11..ur, Fish . Salt. Wailer Lime, Plaftrr, .te.,
. 4 Flio, Pa. Paekag.-- jut enile.l f r our Iry
V ill irkeal
.1 II tiUNNISON,
.. ~ , tal,ieniuy, Monthly Itheulthe•, Cheap -
•••hee. New.psperc. tioki Penb, Pack- try virtue of our press -warrant we propose to
, e Fokt 'nor west ?!the Reed Howe, tri.. transport the courteous reader's
110 imagination on
OTH Sc. STEWART dotard
~11,1 Retail Dealer in Fancy , and rvyl, 'l,„ au English sloop of war • But in so doing
milhr,ty. C. E.,1 1 k , disclaim all further interference with his free
ur.trl(l. on We will leave him in perfect liberty, to
roam about her decks, while we merely draw his
attention 14 her "whereabouts." • He will ob
ser% e, then. that she is skimming along before a
stewly breeze, well down in the southern latitudes
of the great Indian Ocean; that the quartermas
ter has just made it viz bells in the middle watch,
and being translated into' shore going time, tal
lier wish three O'clock in the morning, and, as it
happened on this occasion, to be about. an hour
before sunrise. Not a sound breaks the monipto
non, roll of the sea, save en occasional "Steady
boy I .—Steady 1 ." from the quarter master, to which
a juvenile, of about fifty, at the wheel, with the
quid side of his cheek as • big as a caliber's lap.
stone, echoes, "Steady It is--steady--.h!" in
tones deep enough for the bass noted of an organ.
Aft, on the poop, the officer of the watch is
lounging away the time in solitude; while, down
in the waist, knots amen are teeth's 'boas, lux
uriating in the cool of the early dawn, secure for'
a brief period front the 'scorching rays of a De.
("ember's sun. On the fineca.stli a, confused
group of the 'Nail hands in_ the ship-are nestled
round a tough old Triton, some lying On the deck,
others on gun-carriages and span, or stowed
in coif. of ‘rhi. breeze is steady, 3.1111, as
we are at the antipodes of course, we naturally
aspect to find, not only the seasons, but every
thing else reversed Accordingly the wind. 1
which iu England is proverbially fickle, becomes
in those happy climes, a symbol of constancy, to
whieh a lover may compare his mistress, aid con
veva complement by the oomparrison. Thiafiict
appear , " to be Well understood on bead the sloop. !
for neither Officers nor men seem to be solicitous i
about the weather, but surrendered themselves
up to. "taking it easy" for the remainder of the
watch. Two keen nyed lopmem, however, are
fore and maintop gallant Yards ,
perched on the
peering into the -Oxus just as though some an
ticipated eveutwas expected with the early streak
of (lawn, and, air will appear, the cause of their
vigilance, oecupiid the thoughts of the watch on
deck as well the Markers out" aloft.
"Come, come, Ben," said a brisk 'young top
to the old Briton before alluded to,—"over
haul your news bag, old boy; tell us oununsi about
this queer island we're a running for. Is it true,
you've touched there afore. eb?"
"True enough, mate."
'."Let's see," chimed in the,ceptain of the fore
castle, c'how do they call the outlandish plum?'
"St. Paul's.
"Ah! St. Paul's. It's, a rum berth for a ship
to run for, I'm told. °
"I niece ye," replied old Ben. "Once put
toe and heel ashoie tbe and you've kosed #tet
fact in your men c ry for e zest 'o the cruise, Fit
warrant ye."
'Deed!" said two or
drawing within ear-shot.
"There's two islands, s'
oy es , 'bout twenty mile
-And no other land near?"
"Not for thOnstual. , of miles, replied the Vet.
LIDDEIX, KEPLER 5: t'u
rrnti ~r Iron Fence. Railiag, Steam
Fare Proof .Staatterr. and all kin& ~ f.Machi
Fancy Cagtinga, .c.. done to order,
JOIK.
ttiLutt, and Habit Maker—Shop on the edit
Mate Street. two door.. north of Eight, and adjoin-
I. Riblet S Co - .. Cabinet Ware-Itaom. Eide, Pa.
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OLARK X METCALP - ,
it nn.l road dealer,: in Dry . and
aerie-. 'No. 1 Reed House.
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Staple Dri, I e. and the ure
any [tore in the eitr, ic lip •Ide, Erie, Pa.
STERRETT & GRAY,
..t. , hhere and retail Heiden, in wet ati.l
Produce, Foreign and Domenic Fruit,
wilt...a and Stone Ware, Flour, Fish, Salt, Ci'laini„
. owlicr, Shot. Caps,-Safety Fuse, French
pi...•ite the Reed /lonia.. Erie, Pa.
• ,t.l And (MIA MW, Veseels. Hotels, anti
,utplied with an, of thr above articles
',.i.ranc— and very cheap.
S. LANE,
I Corratt.Lon at Law.—Of er orer isekoon'a
• N.,rth-Ealit earner of the Public Snare.
ARBI:CKLE & KEPLER,
tu Ih% 1;..418. Grotierief, Hardware. Crockery, Ac, I
rrt Elork, State street, Erie, Pa.
lii '. BRA—
--(Are at Itin re.aidenee
Freneli and Holland. Brie, Pa.
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M S.INFORP & CO.,
~.t r, Bauk • Notev, Draft , . C.-nine:flea
a. ht Exchange on the principal fides
T HERON STUART,
p7IT 41. A \ — getlidellee on Fourth ev
• ~ i 1 Apothecary Hall.
R S REED,
t I.l.git a. German sod American litordwart•
A. Naik. Anril9. Vice*, Iron au.l Stcel 3
I a.... Lne, Pi.
c .11 1\ E & BENS El'T. •
j •r, and Retail Be:den - in Dry good., tiro
r}, 411a6gIrttre, Carpeting, liartliiare. Iron,
spike 4, ke. Empire Storea
,„Staie Street.
Brown's Ilotel, Erie, Pal'
Vieee, Bellows, Axle Arms, Spring,. and a
a•. ,, rtraent of Saddle and . earriltir" Trimming;
EttVIN SMITH.
au 1 Jutdiee of tbe Peace, and _tient for
••, ut Mutual Life Insttratire Company-018m
w- t of Wrtithee store, Erie, Pa.
t ; El)t{l3
I:irard, Erie County, Pa. Ctilleetions
htt•ittt••• attended to with preintrie:.s and die-
.10$1111 KELLOGG,
.ad C,.mmission meTriaikt, the Public
o f mate street.
rialte r and White Fish. constaatly [or sale. ,
.1 G. & W.. I. MILTA
Wholetale Dealers ii Grocerie.,
%.E.s” Foreign Flllii.Nute, Pieklee and
".• •. Lobsfers. Preserves, and llermetrirolty
' : - ~ 1 •••% k.ry deooription - siwar , on baud, No.
• •zratn-At.. oppoolto Brown'- New 110.
P. 4
Slum, N , V•irk. L Buffalo.
to their Aenson ' Upteris in Ph,•ll. fritra J.
bas •Irek... New ,ark, which will be acid
twer prioes. A. C. J Acirson,.kiet. F:rie. Pa.
RT ER ii BROTHER,
;larder, in Drugs. Medicine. Paints
-till(. AJWS, Ake., N 44 6. Held llMlge. Erie.
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A3IES LYll.}.. _
coliant Tailor, on the public
• State .-treet, Erie.
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H.. BURTON & CO.
It Tlll. in brung•. Dye
. No. S. Reed Itourr. Er,e.
1)1: R SLOAN,
Sehool -and Mi.eellsneou , Itookf.,
• , tationery. and "'tinter'. Crird, N.. : 9,
1kt..1. Erie Pa.
IC IRS BEEBE A; STEWART.
4 and Surgeons. Mite. , Tin.' Re-i.l.'n•
HE
.-49tatras Street...
from: to a. A. M• 1 to 2. and 6 t..:. P. M.
& Co.
I c.nuttriAsion Itieretutats, tlealrr it in C. 114
• ,n.I ev4ent fora daily rpptr Lake
r- t'ublt , • Dock Erie, Pa..
(>MMY.INV.
IR. in .14:0. Brea tilnek. State I , : trot.t
ein4e.
I; ViliaTe: J. .HORTON
L.: And Commission hisastiaul.
al. exli, Fish, Floui sad Plsoi..s.
It6kriNgOTEl4
'•%•, 111, RETAIL DFALIRILS in Foroijoi
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,rvmade cluthing.ll,..ost and „Lv.
rlght:h Work. Stale Areet, Eric.
itSll.kl,l, VItiCkST.
t..---ofilee up stairs in Tiuntuani flail
:. t,atft of the Prothonotary's office. Erii.".
'MURRAY 7 WHALLON,
„qt. Col N5El4Olli AT (alit Mee
t rjghe,, Pnt rand , ono dont. n rat -irrei;
• b,‘, ond, Erie.
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,TIBRALS ;& HAVES. •
ri- s 'or ) Goods, Dry ruerr Vr..okkery. Acrd
'• a' • No. I. Brown .Vew Hotel. ,
SMITH JAO - KSON,
Oracerios. harglware. QaP.4k, 11 ar
Nail►, it., 121. ebespside, Erie. PA.
I.I.IAUS X, WHICalt,
, 11-, i.,rr ow{ DoolorK is Gold and Silva• coin,
ht. Mont), Lind Warrants and I...ertitiogitelt of De
-1 .11.0 ,ight Drefte on the principal CitiPs of the
:All port• of the 014 Cdhutry for Cale. Othec,
I.hu,- !nook, saner of Atste-4t. Owl Sqesure•
.%t. C 11.AYIN. (lake
131.04.4 ronwor oI Si...Lt.:and Fifth
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Mt. ).' {,. I: LabVT,
It bentw: and 'broiling on
thr r ,, utl..hle•ot the Public Square, 1 door
•Ea -t ti.e Erie Book Building. Teeth in
11n Plate, (rule ..{6e to an entlr* Onion'
with puts tickl. cud restored to health sad sae -
1 era, cleaned with tzurtratarats sod Loestikcit 84 '
me them of puling deloarasse. AB work wismostod.
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Beside a esystal rivulet that rolled
Its lot-Wing waters o'ar ■ bed of gold.
And to the lone Doves stehuseboly song,
Breathed its soft intrinals as it wept 'loam
Melo bong a harp--a man-elad harp of yore-,
Whose whisking tones of music never more
Might he aroused by the fair band that played
id it* quivering chords in evening's tranquil shade
And yet at time; when autumn winch' came sighing
Amid the falling loaves and dowers dying,
The broken tartar of that lone harp world ere
Aa eoho of such •trains as ono, did lire
Lu lighted hall and sununer's Posy bower:
Where lore and insay spent the festive hour,
Breathing is low and instanehnly main
Amid the sighing winds sad that deep forest lone.
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HE HF :MIT OF ST. PAITL'S,
A TALE OP TB3 BHA
EMS=
emu.
"Well, but lien." contint i the young lepton,
you fall in with a rank sort of customer
when you landed there? Come, come, tell to all
about it," said he impatiently. "or else the look
out at the mast-head will report the island in
sight afore you've had time to ball off your 'yarn."
-11", , no yarn I'm about to sitini replied old
Iteu. "leastways you may call its yarn, l ye
but every strand in it is laid in
truth; true as the log; trod the log, ye know, nev-
111 o'ck.k, M
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er
-Well,. well, we knew that." replied half a
dozen voicelo; "go on."
Old Ben continued. "Von sae, it's now about
four years ago, that I signed articles in a Botany
•ixoy-tuan, boned for Sydney. 0. oar ant out,
our barkey and her consort alighted theso'very
island we're now running down upon far the
tense paurpos■ as brings as among 'ow".
"And whiter; that, Ben?' •
f.Why, to c'rect or thermometers, tobe sure,"
he continued. "Ye see they're sometimes sight
ed by vowels for that reason. and by ships bound
for the Australian ports. Howsaneverohe cap
tains our two craft never could agree about
our blessed time-keepers, so they determined to
make the nearest land to snake their selves right,
get a cargo of fresh vegitables and a live pig or
two into the bargain. Well, in coarse, if ye
' keep a bright look out, ye may find the ssa-air
peat in tines, and, at last, we made this bit dam
island et*. Pears, and deeps oast mho* on
Titittt Vottrti.
Br UT HAINIOCt
titou nucrwrs IIINCULANV
liateuera, gradually
=EMI
its eastermoet side, ins gritty sort o' Meek sand
as like west gunpowder 39 one marine' , like an
other."
"And did you go ashore. Ben? eh?'
"In worse, mate. I did. There was the first
and second cutters, and the jolly boats, and I was
the aspen's cox'snn. My eyes! I 'members the
fun we had a pullin ashore, right through shoals
o' seals and thrashers, for a 'tieing sort o' bay.
There, I tells ye what it is, my lads, the view o'
that bay, or lagoon, or whatever they calls it, is
the most snprisin' in all creation It reglarly
takes a fellar's breath away, like the sight of Bet
Spats= in full toog on the sunny side o' the
common hard at Poramouth. I've cruised in all
parte o' this mortal earth," continued he, eleva
ting his arm to give additional foirt. , e to his me-
MAN 4aeea the Bay o' Naples, Sanly Hook,
the Golan Horn, and all sich like show shops,
but they're no more to be compared to the la
goon we're a talkin' about than a Jew's eye is to
a dabble piece of peel."
"What you means for beauty, I s'poee?" said
the young topmati.
"Sartainly, and for cur'osity too," added the
old man. -
"How big's,you very wonderful bay, eh, Ben?"
"Well, I tell' ye, it tint exactly a bay," re
plied the veteran, "for it's as rounds.; the drum
head of a capstan, leaving only a bit of an open
ing, about a pistol shot wide next the sea. But
fortunately we had a doctor aboard, one of the
'cutest fellers in the world. Lor' blew; ye, he'd
still 'bocce or rum in a.minit, out of any pities in
his medicine chest, and bring a chap tolife when
eier he liked; and he and the captain 'greed that
this here bay or lagoon Was the eater of s bang
out volcano; and it's likely they're right; for
though it's at least three miles round and thirty
fathom deep, yet the water near the shore of the
lagoon reglarly bile', andsteams away like the
galley coppers on pea-soup day.'"
"Capital mermaid's bath," said one of thisea-
Men.
The necessary dutiei of the vessel now called
forth the exertions of old Ben and his amatory,
and as the sun rose in splendid 'majesty the beau
tiful sloop, moved rapidly towards 'the islands,
which, like twin
... giants, seemed torise out of the
ocean, rearing their lofty heads shore the turbu
lent billowi that surround them. The vessel's
canvas was soon reduced to that handy condi
tion best suited for working into an anchorage,
into which abe was steered by Ben. the lead
bringing up from the bottom the 4ingnlar black
sand, like wet gunpowder, which he decided up
man. on as being the proper holding ground. •
"Never Need such a -place for fish= in all The. cutters were -soon lowered-and the lagoon
life—ketch them without bait, too—why, entered, and' we confess it was with a strange
run after a bit of red rag as keen as a girl will medley of surprise, curiosity, and animal ',still
run after a so'ger; we filled our jolly. bait with cation .that we caught the delicious fish of the
all sorts and sixes of the handsomest rockfish, crater-froin the .how of our Mot. and then,' by
with nothing but stripe cut off the corners of a wordy walking aft, selected our own fish-kettle
red ensign twisted round our hooks."
Mahlon, with the /roil dangling from the. honk.
iheinilincram..and...imokoil.....theni... aubieteael
mierit-goirweed-vetertag t'
asked him as many questions in a Isiah, as
ter, I epees ? said the topman," jeering
would 'a took an hour to answer." Old Ben now had;the laugh alt his .bw u wa y,
./.Not exactly," replied Ben. „ and many a greenhorn repeated the experiment
with out & t h e sea was h ot 0 ,,,„„t0 c00k a ; "What countryman Was he_theu? inquired vas and mato, to
o k ay h i mself
of t h e truth
mermaid; why, Ben—hollo! small helm Be— the eoPtain of the forecastle.. • of his statement. and his own appetite. into the
don't work to wind'ard o' truth, old boy." "An Englishman; he'd been left there to emelt . •
"Don't mean to," 'replied the veteran
.Coolly; haTain.
seals, by a whaler, and he was to. b e called for • .
While thus busily occupied we hod 'but little
Irarer. mut "'a"
ritut.i.fenitkimetwmoki..x. -
hook. Ah! I tells ye, St. Paul's is 3 seer sort
alone,
6"
place. strange
fishing
glIm"
where
a "N •j Oi l at il fi rKi. - - replied Ben. "he'd one compels
feller can Wand in the bow ofla jolly boat and
ketch fish in cold water, and then by merely
hisself round, drop 'em into bilin water
and cook
...luicours4, Ben, yin' did's' forget to peep in
to the koker tuts ashore?" demanded the tomes.
with a sly look.
I "Beep into the koker nuts?" said Ben, puzzled
at such. a question: "What for?"
"Wig, yon see, mate, I did'nt know what
might happen in. such a strange country, so I
thought p= i e same fi re as cooked your AA
might a' • the milk in the koker nuts
into slam Melted butter, that's all."
"Ha! ha! ha! roared the group of seamen in a
chorus.
"Precious soon made lobsouuse of 'em," said
Ben. "Don't I tell ye the Mee Ina enough to
blister a wooden leg within twenty yards of the
shore, and yet--it's as cool as an iceberg a coup
le of boat-lengths further off from the land."
"No fib there, thee, 1 epcner! asked the top•
"Hs! ha: ha!" said old Ben, mocking, "why,
e d—ned grinnin hy-he-nahs, eery word as true
as the sloop's log—only wait till we make the
land, and I'll prove it, or forfeit a week's' grog*
'Sides, • man that would play and loose with
Dane Nature, and make her keep a false recknin
isn't fit to be trusted with a sight of her beau-
• "Well—well," the lingithsg seamen, but l
still evidently disbelieving the old man. "Go
on—go on." t-
Ben gave a severe gripe at his quid, and pea
(seeded. "After our feast in the miter, we Scram
bled up the volcano-and gained the top of the
land, where we found patches o' verdure, min
gled with jagged lumps• o'rock, and groves o'
palms; and, over head, there was acres o' sea
birds sereamin' and wheelie' about, and these
woe the only signs o' life about the place. But
the sight than won all our hearts wort the view
lookin' down into the crater we'd just left. You
might 'a fancied 'tsra4 a large green bowl, with
one of its sides 'chipped off, and through this
oputing - the sea had run in and half filled it with
water, that, glistened in the sun, and looked as
moist and bright as a widow's eye. Then it was
io calm and transparent, that the rocks and cliffs,
the groves of palms. and the sky that was the
color o' blue steel, and looked as hard, was re
flected on its smooth surface, with all the truth of
mirror, Well, I don't know," continued the
old seaman, with considerable feeling, 'but, some
tow, I could fancy the landscape had features,
that looked solitary and sad, as if it mourned the
desolation of the Gres that had spread such hav
oc about."
"Well, my lads,"oontinned Ben, after deliv
ering himself of his bit of sentiment; "we did
not gat away from this pleasant spot without a
sigt ; but, of course, when the ceder woe given,
'twas obeyed; so we separated into two divisions
to explore the island, pick seurvy-grass, fresh
vegetables, and shoot pigs."
"Shoot pike" cried the topmeu; "come none
o' your gammon, Ben—why, where could they
come from?"
. "Turned adrift by Capt. Cook, I blieve, to
feed any poor devils that inight chance. to be
wrecked upon the island. Well, we food plen
ty, fir the'd multiplied vontkarfilly, and gave
• It the mew shoal bet dieremei 16 doubt the tiro*/
et So *hi tar, we heir to rake bin te Ihrelmmln &an
Damien go elhoilasi, Ike sisureptais dtbismsekdis
beim
ERIE. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1853.
$1 50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
us lots u' fa. Only faulty , twenty or thirty
sailors sent ashore anywhere after a long, cruise,
and you're sorban to have a 'kitty. But jut
femme 'em on as =inhibited isited,tudf sprung
witk — grog, free from the control of their officers,
and out a pig Aootin."
"What, you'd guns, then?" aid the ttinsau.
"We'd sorts a' weeper's; ristiship's musk
ets, old pistols, and eutlashes," replied Ben.--
Well, away we goes, meths' and lolloping about,
poppin' a t a pig here, and elsokia' at another
there, as they earted out of dmim hidin' places.
Presently s ambady wounds a bog p'r'sps, and
away he amuses, squeidin' with the lungs a'
forty bo's'n's, and cuttin' for hi. life to a hole in
the mks, or else into a tape of pants, with a
couple o' sailors holding on by the slack of his
tail—the pig pain' for his life, and Jack pun
in' for his dinner, and all throe every now and
then swesrin', red grtintin', and pitchin', sad
rollin' over one another, like mews in a breeze.
For, nisi, it's no joke idissifir *hog,
a wild 'us. You mast knock him over, as dead
as n herring, or else yon don't hag him. No, no,
he's clean gone if he's only a leg left, I can tell
ye. Into the reeks he bolts, and you might as
well whistle a jig to a millstone as try to get him
out."
"Well, mates this sort of sport melted the
time away as !lost as the sun does butter upon
the Guinea Coast, so that, by about noon, we
found ourselves broilin' along under a, load o'
game about the centre of the island, and then we
got 'tangled in a stony pass, where Dame Nature
had certainly been trying her hand at a game o'
nine pins, for the rooks are just like skittles.--
Hownomeier, it was a sort of a place, and we
played Tom Core's traverse, and lost and found
ourselves a dozen times, before we entered the
open country again, and then what d've think
woe the first thing we seed?"
"A Mermaid, p'r'aps, out for 2 ' -troll
tie topman.
"No," said Ben.
"What woo it, then, eh?"
"A aaan," replied the veteran
"Only a man!" echoed Ben, "why, who'd
thought of Gatlin' one in a solitary island like
' St. Paul's eh?" and, what's more strange, that
• he should 'a tried to shnn a meetio', for he'd 's
slipped his cable - and run if he could; hut, you
see, that was impossible, because we'd a -clear ,
view afore us right away. to the sea, and we
woe between him and the only hidin' at hand,
the rocky defile, through which, as it nfterwarcis
turned out, we'd driven him. Well, you may
be sure, that finding a man on a hit of a oninhab-
Mail Admit kited &
of the most indifferent observer. It was imposs
ible to behold the vast rotund form of the enter,
its towering concave cliffs, the seething of the
sea, and to detect die sort of moirsOlesatto e,
where it was neither hot nor cold; without feel
ing that such a combination of grand and curb
- ens phenomena arc not to be readily found.
Under any eireumainnts, even in torpid Iceland, I
i such a scene would be full of interest, but when
one. . : lit up by the brilliancy of the sun, in this beau
" Boiled himself to death in the Mater, " s' id , I ful climate, gashing through the feathery foliage
another.• l of the palms, which, like warrior's plumes, bent
,
"No," said Ben slowly. "AL! you'd never gratefully before the passing breeze, it receives an
Pm, so here's tell ye---they mold' * egret." additional charm that no pen can describe. Neith
"What, and so Hid on different parts n the I er must that soft babbler, the wind, be forgotten,
island?" . with its cool murmurings as it gently ruffles the
"Mai yer heart, no," continued Bells "each surface of the water in the crater nor the brilli-
Illall "It have a whole Miami toltimaelft so id" I ant intensity of the hues of the myriads of fish
ter a miler fight one inornin's with knives, down iof every sire and form that floated literally in l
on the Atom of the lagoon, when they both laY i crystal beneath. To these must be added the
stabbed and helpless , they detarmined to separate I charm of primeval solitude, solemn and anbro
for the future, and to settle which should etni- i k en, w hi c h, a l t h oug h pro d uc i ng a f ee li ng akin to
grate himself to the neigboring isle of Amster- me l anc h o ly, ye t canno t preven t one ' s regre tti ng
that so much exquisite beauty should be placed
dam; they tossed up and our friend won, and his
mate, true as steel, took the boat left 'em by the in a quarter of the world so remote from the
whaler, and sailed for his new home, and he'd abodes of civilized man. ,
sever beard on him from that hour." ` And now hurrah for the Hermit's Cave! Old
"Can't think what they could 'a fought about." Ben knew the way, and leaping ashore on the
"Well, you see;" replied the old Reitman, "the beach of the lagoon our party followed him. A
yarn he spun to us won, that soon after the ship ' few steps; through a clump of palms growing on
1 had left 'em on the island, they quarreled , the starboard hand of the crater brought us to a
l about the division o' the seal skhut they'd took, l natural omits , in the cliff; its aperinie woe cur
and our hermit said he went in fear of his life, l tamped with a t a ttered rem nant of an o ld sail,
for he'd found his mate on two or three occasions ; that flapped
. about loosely in the wind. With
1 creeping into his hut, with the intention, as he i some hesitation we drew it aside and discovered
, thought, of murdering him in his sleep." , that the hermit was not within, and that he ap
"But what should he murder him for?" 1 pearedto have deserted it for some time. A bit
"Well, 'twas s'pated he intended to claim the ;of rotten rope, a rude shaped seal skin jacket, a
whole of the skins as his own, when the ship i fragment of a net, a rusty ship's musket, and a
oalkd for 'eat oa her homeward vi'age. . Dead ; few rushes that had served the recluse for a bed,
men tell no tales, you know, and in worse he , were evidences that he bad once chosen the spot
could 'a made his story good to the captain.— i for his home. But now we concluded that he
Be that as it may, however, the suspicion wog l had grown tins] of his solitary existence and
onbearable; they felt that neither won safe; if ; found means to quit the island, which, strange to
they met they !mow and then passed on in sil- ; my, was i disappointment to many. We con
enor, for it they woe afraid of one an- i soled ourselves however, 1*- rambling . about,
other, and 'so they os obliged to sleep as can- , shooting pigs, picking up geological specimens,
ning
as foxes, in lows, thickets, and caves, bottling off some of the boiling sea water, and
-and out-of-the way p ver letting their se- indeed in using up the brief space of time allow
haunts be , if one had ketched ed us for our land cruise after the most approved
t'otber asleep, he'd never walked spin." nautical fashion.
"I should 'aethotight they would have lived i In the midst of our mirth, the attention of our
together for the mkt' of company, " said the top- I I party was directed to something fluttering down
man. I upon the sea beach. At first it was mistaken for
"Alt!" said Ben, "so should I; but there's no the lapping of. some sea bird's wing, but a glance
'constiag for tide, ye knon—'siden, it's my 'pin- through a 'Dollond, soon settled thematter.
km that neither on 'em woe math good, You It was s piece of canvas.. fastened to a pole.—
may be sartaisi the eantais of the whaler To seamen this was enough—a signal of some
didn't part with the veil best hands in his ship sort; and as thi. distance was not more than
--fettaps they was but a couple of mutinous half a mile, the whole, party actuated by one int
cellars, and left there on purpose to get rid of 'em. pulse," moved towards it. Some news of the her-
But solitude suited him, for, long as he'd been wit, no doubt—shifted . his quarters perhaps—
without society, he didn't wish to meet us, He'd found the cave in the crater too hot in the sum
seen us heave in sight, make for the land, drop now, it WWI not his• habit to court observation,
our "el" , send beats ashore, land in the lagoon, for he was known to be a misanthrope. But the
climb up the sides of the ester, wow the island m ystery was speedily explained.
&Pig-1600de, and retreated before era into the As we approoched the spot we saw some ols.
rooky &lie, where we found him." jest lying at the foot of the signal staff. Pre
"Bat how did he liver 'gaily it moved, raised its heed, 'arrayed us for
et ie. r "Prbs it Bak "WY well, WM the ilali *NW, sad then abmgled itself along down
klolffilo l t Okla fon . or jila n , . the alogimg reek wen Wbilli it IMF klin t MA
ion."
"And he ikool, I m'poeser said the topinaK
"how lonely for the sttrvicor!"
"You're wide o the truth but p'eapa," con
tinued Ben, mating, "you would'ut guess in a
blue noon what become of hiut.7
"Tried to escape, p'r'aps„ and wail loot," said
"And then the Wing water is always laid on
at the main," said the topman.
'Sides there's wild hogs, koker nuts, and
vegetables. Ah?" said Ben, sucking his quid,
"a feller might 'a been as happy there as a troop
o' monkeys in a nut grote, with a few compan•
ions of the right sort. But I tell ye mates, it's
my opinion a chap must 'a had some reason for
ahannin his species, if he shut hiaself up in such
a reglar built Paradise as St. Paul's without
wishing to share it.with another."
"True, mate; but I vow you, humored him
and left him there," said the !optima.
"Why. yes," ;Aid Bea, "he would not come
away."
"%lupe be is there sow," maid one of the
semen. •
"Like enough," replied the old tar, "for
though the islands are elOsa sighted they're sel
dom landed on, and it's my belief the captain
of the whaler never meant to call for him, after
being away for four years. But we shan't be
long in suspense, for here comes .the morning
sun, and the sloop's now flying through the water
like a dolphin."
"Land•ho!" bawled the look-out on the fore
top-gallant-yard.
"Land ho!`' shouted the man at the main.
"There 'now" said Ben, our "chronometers
conk Fut tare Keen far from righr, for the island
was due 'cording to our reck'ning by sunrise,
and there's St. Paul's, sure enough, broad off up
on the lee bow," •
"Po'k'sel there!" hailed the officer of the
•
watch.
"Sir."
"Shorten sail beard.'
"Ay, ay, sir!! •
OM
plunged into the sea. Its movements were so
madden, although too singular. that at that it was
impossible to say what it was, and it was only
titer three or four more little round bullet heads
were raised, followed by the same sort of *lsm^
ed shuffling gait and plunge into the sea, that
we discovered them to bo so many large seals
that we had disturbed while basking in the sun.
But yet there still remains a seal at the foot
of the staff, and even though we now approach
it (=finites motionless. We eome, even closer,
but it lies there still. % There can be\no mistake
for we can detest theeenliar color of its fur.—
One of the party raises his-musket to his ghoul
dee—he hesitates—why does not the man fire?.
He' lowers his piece, and walks straight up to
object, having conjectured during the momenta
ry glance, while taking aim, that it looked ha.
man. It turned out to be so. It was the hertnit
Of the crater, i a seal skin drese; but he was
dead, reduced t a mere skeleton and pitting in
the sun.
A sailer soon read the meaning of the bit of
MAMMA 'tied to the staff; it told him of some ca
lamity, sickness, perhaps, overtaking the poor
solitary, and that there he had crawled is his
hour of distress. A nautical eye readily litect
ed also that the shelving rock upon Width we
found the hermit's bones was a prominent one, and
placed upon the side of the islitel upon which ships
pnierally pass. His only hope consisted in his.
chance of attracting the attention of some passing
vessel. Hew he had with his dying efforts rais
ed his signal, sighed his last sigh, and died a
death that sickens the mind to dwell upon. And
here, too, out of the reach of the sweep of the
bnakers, a rude grave!. woe hastily scooped by t
ths silent mariners, and the few bony frog cents
tht were left of the /forma of St. Paul's ;were
burled " in it.
Another wookisehl Lisa I
The auxinatt of aliteitrin's Island" was
too marvelous for belief; bet we have just
description given by Capt. Gibson—whose
data escape from a dungeon in the island I
vs we published lately- I -of the very curio
land of Tristin d'Aectutha, a mere rock t
Southern Ocean. Capt.! G. says s
This island is situated about midway bed
tint Cape of Goad Hope and Cape Roru.
year 4811 4 the British frigate Pandora stnerk on
a ledgis of rocks near this Wand, on . her return
hoine from Bengal, laden with troops. One of
their number, Sergeant Glass, while the troops
were being landed, preparatory to getting the
ship off the rocks, took advantage of therossfu
4.J.,esteseheseshrreem, and secreted Matadi on
the island, and the ship sailed without him.—
,G4tes remained hen. : three years, subsi ng in
the sneanaime, on the hash of gems, w • here
abound. and also no shell fish and root By
this expiration of this' time he had s I in
conslivering a boat from drift timber atoll other
materials, and proeeeded with a cargo goat
tiat - infrltervuv --- ri ,- ..
the westerly winds. lie accomplished hi' peril
ous "voyage in safety.
After a short residenee at t'apc Town,
rind the widow of a soldier who had died
Cape ; and with his wife and a negro ism re
turned to his solitary i sland again, taki g with
him various implernente z seeds, arms and lemma
nition, together with • oilier neomearkss, which
were liberally furnished him by the merchants of
Cape Town. Here thoi good couple carried out
the injunctiou ref "lucre:tee and multiply. l ' - The
remit of their marriage was seven danghters,
who, in the course of time, were married to men
from American whaleri who occasimally4onelted
at the island. These lotus-in-law of the Old man,
in compliance with a lion that he had made that
"no son-in-law of his ehould leave the Wand,"
settled down, and proved as prolific as did the
original couple, so that the population • now .
amounts to 84 children. grand-children. and
great-grand-children. ! •
The old Patriarch, Glass, is now 82 years of
age, and as hale and strong a .4 a youth uCIO ;
indeed, he rays he means to live for 80 years
longer, and,.so fir as personal appearance would
warrant the judgment, he will do it.
A rem arkable fact 'phould. here be mentioned.
that since the island has first been settled by
Glass, death has never visited one of its inheir.
Rants. •
The amount of land at present available for
cultivation on the island, is a mere strip of about
250 acres, which is entirely devoted to the culti
vation of potatoes and other esenlents. But,
as
the spade is used, and every attention paid to
enriching the land, it is even• sow capable of
furnishing Rapport to about 500 persons; and
there is no doubt but that in the course of *few
years, large tracts of other land on the side of
the mountain will be brought into a productive
state.
The island is an =duet volcano, rising almost
1,100 feet above the level of the sea. The edg
es of the ender of !this volcanic mountain are
eternally covered with snow. Within the crater
is a magniffeent lake of pure fresh Water. about
one third of a mile in diameter.
This lake is fed by the melted snows, and it
overfioirs in several torrents and escapes down
the side of the mountain, supplying the inhabit
ants of the island and ships whieh sometimes
touch there, with excellent water. The lake
sometimes abounds with a very peindiir kind of
fish, of excellent flavor, and totally unlike any
other species found in the surrounding ocean, so'
that their origin is an interesting subject for the
investigation of the ichthrthist.
Capt. Gibson stayed at this island for three
days, and only left it and its interesting inhabit
ants; sooner than he wished from compulsion, as
a dangerous storm was brewing, and the elitist
afforded no safe anchorage. The. graud.daugh
ters of old Glass are described as remarkable for
their health and beauty, and it would not be
strange if many adventurous Yankee; should be
inclined to settle there and marry into this patri
archal fraternity. The women are equally ex
pert with the nem in the tem of .the rife; liking
rod and oar, sad find no dilhealty in ohiehdng
bobanda, for wires they =Ow isionst
B. F. 'SLOAN, DI TOIL
NUMBER 19.
With the men of the original stnelvisewinr.
the case is different as women are tam hi Sin
habit of going "a whaling ;" therefore so mom
come to this island. We are interned that time
are now about nineteen young men who waahl
feel under great obligations to come Ithaelieble
Mrs. Farnham.
One of the young men took his - father's boat;
and with twn of his cousin, proeeeded to the
coast of Africa, and mane bold to introaara Mil;
self to a young Cathy woman, who, not being if
fected with any of the punetions of eimiisod life,
readily accompanied him home. By her he IMO
three interesting children, and she makes him as
excellent wife. She is described as of a bright
brown complexion, thin-lipped', With Illas otraight
nose, most interesting cast of coassteswes, lad
a slender agile figure. She has resdilynegainsi
the English
lanautge, . and speaks it with re
markable fineney.
I TAKE Toni COUNTY PAPEn.—We take the
following sensible article front that es te ollema pa.
per, the Boston American Cajon :
" People hardly know how much they lose by
not enbeeribing for their county paper. Mete
are always certain matters of local interest, in
which it behooves every good citizen to keep du
ly 'posted np.'• Instead of sending away fifty
or a hundred miles for I miscellaneous paper,
suited only for the general reader, every man
should take first the paper published is his
county, and pay for . it in advance ; then if he
has any money to spare for mere annutemest or
gratification of his own taste, let him subscribe
for a good city paper, containing able reports of
scientific lectures, legislative and eampeeekmal
intelligence, with a domestic summary of foedgi
and domestic news to the latest moment of goieg
to piss. New if this is not good advice, we
hardly know what is. It is the way we should,
do: and we are not so selfish as to mourn the
loss of a dozen subscribere—ilie should some to
that—who an. perhaps leaving a - fellow 'towns
man, some poor, but worthy printer, to l work cm . .
in weariness of spirit, for want of that gemertmas
support which would net °ally sheer his hiels,
but enable him to make hie paper all-that ids
patrons could desire. We know something of
the sad experienee of those who have guard elf
country papers, from our own connection, in
years bye gone, with a journal of that ekes, • It
becomes a man to be jilt before he is-gemettims, •
and to remember, that 'charity begins at bosses'
Never subscribe to a newspaper without pay* .
for itin advaece. The man whir does his dory
in this respect, reads his paper weekly with an
increased satisfaction. Every one known that
his greatest comfort is derived from the eon
eciousness of having done or tried to do right,
and it in certainly no more thin right to pay the
printer who isntly incurring large.ontlieys
for paper and positiou, and who, shoOst inert,
Addy, pays for very article 'set up' for his pi
flaes
per; even before 't passes into the handl of the
says e good TIM „TONY gore 41. -nceseseammeees....._.
cing people beyond the reach of poverty, as sem
omy in the management of their domestic abits.
It matters not whether a man furnishes little or -
mttelefor his family, if there is a eontbeini !st
age it his -kitchen or parlor, it razz away; he
knots not bow; and that demon waste 'arks
"Mere !" like the horse leech's . daughter, well
be that prmided has no more to give. It is the .
husband's duty to bring into the house sed it is
the duty of the wife to see that none goosing's
fully out of,it. A man gets a wife to look after
, his affairs, and to assist him in his journey
through life ; educate and 'prepare- his eltiNkes
' hitt proper station iu life, and not to dissipate k
his property. The husband's interest should Ile •
the wife's care, and her greatest ambition carry
her tro farther than his welfare or happiness, to
gether with that of her ehilaren, This should •
be her-sole ail, and the theatre of her exploits
in the bosom of her family rand amid her &dared,
where she may do es much towards making a
fortune to he can in the counting Oxen or the
work shop.' It is not the money earned that
makes a.man wealthy . ; it is what he saves from
..
his earnings. Self-gratification in dress, er in
dulgence in appetite, or more company than his
parse - can well eutertaiu, are equally pernicious.
The first adds vanity to eztraysganesiahe seeeni,
' &Mena a doctor's bill to a long butcher's account
and the latter brings intemperance, the worst of
all evils in its train. .
1 wen
ti the
bar lii: Kendall, ore of the editors of the
New Orleans Pieuysise, ',ip a recent letter boo
Paris, says:--"f feel A disposition to crew ties
morning. Do, not our el
i ppars entail ibinatill,
our steamers our nm the di, oirrOoles raid
vers outshoot diem all, .tili our threshing elk
chines outthrash them all- 7 0r thrash than all
out, if you will? if s emus on this side wiriest°
keep his throat moist, does he'not swallow as
"American jnliP, cobbler, or cocktail? If he wish
es to keep . his feet dry, does be not neer as
American overshoe? If he wishes to Imp Ids
'blood purified, does he not use Asiteitas sarsa
parilla and pills? If he wishes to bap shod as
the road, does he not buy an Annulus teselsr?
If he wishes to keep warm, does he rot resift
an American stove? If he wishes to keep esot,
does he not send for American ice? Jibe 'wish
es to keep his mosey and elects safe, *es be
not purchase one of Hobb's American leeks' If
he wishes to keep himself and family free west
or starvation, does he sot go to Arnerieu,oe ten
his eyes or thoughts in ' that' direction? I tell
you that I feel Chaptianish this nexibr—l min
that I have a desire to crow, sad hugely, west
the handiwork sad , advantages of my can num
trymen."
Tug MID= Ann.—Rude were the meaumr ,
thew num apd wife ate off the mum treneher, 3
few wooden-lamßed knives; with Medea of mg
gad iron, were a luxury for the gnat: modes a
bove. A sellout girl held a teeth at egret:
k
ii
one, or at mat two, mugs of alma lath
aware famed all the drinking in
s :ham Iliad gentlemen wow _ nek-
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