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VOLUME 24
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B rgINEIIB DIRECTORY.,-...w: •
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1 ~,,,.. tad Po o ch &meta, Bri o, *, I eras born and was mime, in Coaseetient
, r( I .b.' t:u T IPA L I K I'NE&Y44.I FON LAB
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Bobo/ to ask sad was wrecked is Alpe*:
E H. ABELL. (1 " 1 " 6 " 8 " 4 " a s"" 1 .a p es 1 °ll k
Mb**. eosins beck, to keep eelbool I begs& I P `
row s sitsiss , Rooms over the Erie Ronk. Bomb .
the Lomond. Brie, Pa. .
these at the aaw-mill I proved a
0 , , taken in are best stykrer tbe MI, and narrate
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And as • minister made a soissU kC sy:sga, wi l
--- T. D. EDWARDS. Reckon I felt mote at 'tome ips a lawyer,
otr Art• Coonat , toa at Law. Warren P a. pn.. Ere. as a dottier. I learned how to,,perers. ,
. ~,i bonne. , and collections will metre prompt -a
Bat the long words Is the saedieal /saloon
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I 1 D WALKER & eO.
groat In ma:papist against Lie domed Maxima.
.ivey.• produce awl Commission Merclimete; (moth
When I Isonssitaasied the Bela vets:atom.
0 , 1 , 0 , gig of the Public. Bridge, Ig r i i i, Pa.
_Naleti ka Coal, Salt, Pilaw. staca4 rub, Lim , Jost ?era change, dien , a paper I edited,
I • Iron Nada, Stoves, Castings. le., with
..aat Stoat, , .
Brasfield politsoiani, and pitched into books:
awed factlitle• for sin= either by Atostuluats,
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"to • tint life that of minister riskiest.
or AND COI .11121.1.112 AT Law. 0111011 on trench rt.,
Posting dispitehis to kings .ad want testy Last corner 4.1 the Park, Erie.
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Hanged if I care to mine at my lot.
.1 , drocenes. Provisions, Wines. Lepton. Candies, •
1, on, ,i,..m. !whit Booth a Stewart's State.st. I - ._
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F tV.SY,Weit 4 A, CALICO JACK.
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A side State Street, Erie, Pa.
L. TIBBALS & CO.
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Lti tri rag rum or WALICIa TlallA11.)
141. C. , 9011 . . and Shipping Merebants, and deal
a /tif. Flour. Fish, Snit, Water Lime, Plaster, ilk.,
D-4, Erie. Pa. - Packages intended for out e 1...
rtaricr.l.
ELS
GUNNISON,
.11 Look., Stationary, /fallibly Wiliam's, •Chsip
mo , ,t,.•heet Musts, 'Newspaper*, bold Pens. Kelt
:to". door west of the Read Bowe, Erie.
BOOTH & STEWART,
t•itl and Retail Leiden. itt Feeley and otayde Dry
,n 1 Mdlowry,so. Ml, Poor People's Row, opposite
• liotol.
LIDI)ELL, KEPLER & CO.
Ti Er , ~ f Iron Erne*, Railing, Steam %Alert,
rb.) ,, r.. Fire Pro..f Shutters, and ell kinds of Moebi
t ! f , tue3 Castings, ke.. done to order.•
1 . RK & I :4IETCALF,
and retail dealer,. lu Dry Goode, Carpeta, and
, eries.-.Nr,. 1 Reed Mu....
JOHN B. COOK,.
...tple d nary Dry anode, Anil the ctonte.,l
a, gore in the rite, Chospn444. Xrie. Pa.
STERRETT & YiBAY,
J .bheror And Fetal Dealer in wet and dry lire
?r..% lOionsd. Produer . Poreisnt and litancetic
low and Stone Wart... Flour, Fu.h. Snit. tats..
Shot. Cure, Safety Fu. , ‘.. Frem•4
1... it, the lieerl non**. Erie,
sin and Canal limas. Velsociii. Hotels, sod Pri-
..11,1.1:ed with say or the shute artieles
/411,1 ery eheap. '
WM. 8. LANE, -
3 Coy •oELLO it LAt•.—Ooiee over Joekootee
,rte-East corner of the Publie Poona.
:CKLE: & REPLIgIi,
Groeerief, Hardware, Cr.ekery,
Dl.ek. State 'meet. Brie. Ps.
bit " C. BRANDES,
Fncsa~—office at hia riPidenMon Eighth ,
(111 , t11YrtIVII and Holland; Er ie . Pa.
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N,Ter. Haat Note?, DmHA, C•rtifinuei
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Partictas--Reeidendie on Fourth claret. one
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Nails. Aprils, Vireo. Iron and Steel N. 3
u.a. Eno, Pa.
c DWr:LI4 & BFNNEIT,
,bbeir. and Retail healer,. in Dry Gorata, llro
xery, (Ammar*. Carpeting, Hitch/arc
IP, Spiker. le. Empire Stores State Sin...i s
, below Brown'', Hotel, Erie,
Axle Armr, Spring., and a
•wrtmant,or Saddle laid Carriage Trimmings
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Us% AWL Justice of the Peace, rind ilireht for
:too! Life Insulating Coitieny--oSee
.Writrhee atom Erie. Pa.
GEORGE H. CUTLER,
Omni. Erie Coanty, PK IColleetiont. ;
•annera attended to witb pre4tpe,4 and
JOSIAH REII-OGG, y
4.1 Commission Ilterehant, an the Public.
State street.
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Wholesale Nam in Groceries, Wines,
ors —duo 'Foreign Fruit,ltats. Pielden and
'plan, Lobsters, Presnerres, and Herisetrieally
clef of every description always on hand. Nn.
1110-t, Statc-st,, opposite Brown's New Ho-
. Nee York. W. I. Miw, Buffalo.
:heir MOOR, Oysters in shell. from .1.
iesst.. New York. which "will be sold
news. A. C. JACKSON, AO, Erie, Ps.
CUTER A: BROTHER,
&tail dealer' in Drop, Median*. Paton.
(Rasa kr.. No. 6, Reed Doure4trie•
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.. , lifiebaat Tailor, on Ow paddle equate, a few
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JitHS H. BURTON d , CO.
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?- , . , Hans and Surgeons. Me* and Residen
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"Now.for it!" shouted the Colrain, in a voice
JOHN WARN .tCO.
• Merthantn, dealer i n in Coal, ! of thunder, as the harpoon left his hands, and
Ltel fora daily lins of rpper Twk• was buried deeply in the back of the porpoise.—
gridb. lie. i
EXAMkrecimpAN - v r "Haul in! hen! in! why (keel you had in?' 4 '
to No. S Raid Inset, saw sever. • "Haul in! haul in! responded Mr. Weatmaent
11;°.eleek' A. 311 ' ; the'mate, and the remainder of the crew in chap. 3: o'clock. I'. 31.
/FIG II SIOTITCIN, rus, as they rowed in the elect of the nrpe, drew
totumissioa Merckutat. Public Dock, Eric. the struggling and astonished fish from beneath
4. ?al Fish. Moat and Plasttp..
- - . _ • the shin and after a Revere struggle, hoisted him
I ROZENSWEIti- A, (.74t.
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to tloe
"grit.
ready made clothing. Boots awl Shoe,., As. , "A bowline! A running bowline to clap over
Welt. tilutr -uvet, Eris.
his screamed Mr. Kee stameot—"or we s h a ll
ARSIIALL VINCENT.
y 0* " . lase him—the harpoon is drawing Ant!"
LAlF—Oent up stairs in Tam
=serf o f the Prothonotary:44 . k'. Erie. A running bowline, formed aloof the fore-top-
MURRAY WHALWN, ; niamtsMaysail wits thrown over his
4ib CoulslLLoll .he taw
/ new. , unn don, west *wen st ree t . tail, notwithstanding the oonvulsive efforts of the
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cc,u•l. Erie.
TERRALS,i l inen the noose was jammed fast, and the mate
Ley Goods, Dry Groceries. Croeekry. Hard- •
1: Brawn's New ifoul. in a triumphant voice proclaimed that he—that
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SMITH JACKSON, ; is, the flah—was safe. In a few moments h e
Dry Goods. Groceries. bwidware. Quasi.. ware. was 'saluted in on deck, by the united forte of
r ,, L. Sail , AS.. in, che st ed., Eric. Pa.
the crew, whose white prawns indicated by
many a sanguinary spot and streak, the bloody
business in which they had been engaged.—
Thrown into the lee scuppers, the Benching pro.
eel; eoismeneed, and the porpoise was soon strip
pod of his jacket of blubber in true scientific
style. The harslet, resembling a pig in appear-
DR. O. L ladansr. ' awe as well as favor, was carefully preserved,
Resident Dentist Oa gen passed
over to the cook, who soon had it ready
eke `r , ulh side of Aa ,g e u ggi mig
tb• Polak NOM% slew for the frying-pan, and in due time it ,lippeered
Bash aJaz Teed' la" i
Kata. tram eau 1,. an milk", ° m u m in de cabin, and formed a welcome +Mon to
olt pew liotd,aiminuarss leun t h
ti.. "th deansd with Wattage's's and a ! a the breakfast table,
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As ham u I could sea.'
'Porpoises! porpoises! porpoises!"
Such will the cry one morning about six belle,
on board the ship Lobster, of Portsmouth, N.
FL, and the cry was taken np in all parts of the
~hip. and the shout of "porpoises!" "porpoises!"
wag heard in every key, from the gruff bass of
the boatswain.lo the shrill treble of the cabin
boy.
1: Ell 3E12!
The ship Lobster was bound, t. Liverpool, end
was now approaching soundings . off Cape Clear,
after a long and boisterous passage. The crew
were a lively set of fellows, and eagerly seised
upon anything which promised eTeitement and a
little relief front the monotony usually attended
on along passage across the Atlantic. The erg
o "porpoises:" seemed a magic charm to rouse
ill their energies into aetkm, and every man
hastened to the weather aide of the desk, and
with ontstretche4 neck, and glistening eyes pro
trading from their sockets, were soon earnestly
gazing torus& that part itof the oeeat► indicated
by Sam Stailtwt:ather, a gnarly-looking old tar,
who was standing on the starboard cat-head,
holding on by the fore tack.
And there, sure enough, away off on the
weather bow, was seen a shoal-4 porpoises, rap- '
idly approaching the ship. Tilley seemed to be
in high glee, sporting with each other, leaping
out of the water, and playing a variety of antics,
which would hive excited the admiration o f a
harleuniu.
••Where is the captain?" exeltitued 31i. We-.-
macot, the mate. "Steward, wall the captain."
"Aye, aye, sir," and that sable functionary
(lived below.
"Hand along the harpsm:" yelle,l the mate.
"Bend on the end of the forelefrimil halliasti!!"
"Aye, Ky.., sir."
And now Captain Rutherford, its mar%elleus
scanty costume, came rushing no .I.•ek, with ea
ger determination in his look, if lie WWI re.
rAveil on mighty deeds. "When? are the. por
poices!" he exclaimed, as he sprang out of the
companion way. In three bounds he reached
the forucestle; the Lobster was not aneverlaat
iugly long, maids", looking, modern mammoth
clipper.
"Here they are, sir! almost under the bows!"
icreamed Sam Stszkweather.
Captain Rutherford took his station on the
bowsprit shmuds, albeit he was pretty sore of a
ducking. "Reach me the liorpoon! Be lively,
lads! What are you about! Now stand by!—
See all Ow to haul one of those &nous aboard!"
and with stalwart arms he brindished the death-
dealing instrument. -
A tall block was ta, •.. rare stay,
' through which the topsail halliari was rove,
and then made fast to the eye of the piece of
.r..ipe permanently attached to the harpoon.
i The unsophisticated fish, unconscious of den
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ger, and attracted by a very natural curiosity,
began to gather riff"-TII 'he bows of the Lobster.
One of goodly sit • ^d .41 double portion
of animal spirits, or too eager t.• diEphij^hisvon-
I.deroloi activity, made a cede beneath the bow.
• itprit, which brought him near the stern of the
ves4el, and direitly beneath the (net of his form.
idable foe,, armed with the weapon of destrms.
tion.
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use of any one in the cabin or forecastle who was
desirous of regaling on such fresh grub u could
be furnished by the coarse, oily, taa, repul
sive-looking flesh of a porpoise.
I have said that the whole crew of the
ster participated in the excitement caused by
this incident, and gladly aided in capturing the
Ash. There was, however, one exception in the
shape of Jack Callimaneo—or as his shipmates
called him, Calico Jack—e, neat, trig-looking,
snag-built, warm hearted-tar, who by his cour
age and activity in times of peril, and his kind
limas and good humor in pleasant weather, was •
favorite with all on board. But greatly to the
astonishment of the crew, - duriug the hubbub,
noise, and confusion, caused by the attack on
the porpoise and its successful result, Calico
Jack, en far from lending a hand, stood leaning
over. the waist. with his arras folded, apparently
looking in the depths of the ocean, and deeply
engaged in philosophical redeeti 'us of the gra-
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WM not unnoticed by several of the crew,
*ha, during the battle with the porpoise ; were
too busily engaged to ask hint what was the
meaning of such conduct-4m after the usual,
order and quiet on laud the Istbsteronolt the
piece of the interesting proceedings which". have
attempted to describe, some of, his shipmates
Calico Jaek on his indifference, and asked
why he did not lend a hatid to haul in the por
poise.
"Ab, mid Jack, with a doleful
grin—"l have helked faith many a fish in my
day,---but in fishing days are over, lA'S nev
er try to crteh a . fish again, especially a pur . •
Poit*'•!
"What is tie. resat* of that,'..' inquired Sam
Starkweatber. "Taking fish it capital fun.—
Porpoisai are eo•gtcat things, to be sure--but
even a porpoise is better than nothing."
• "That's true," replied Jack. "A porpoise is
akapitalpiemid at a pinch, as I 'have found out
by experienee, I was once active enough in
catching fish, but now I cannot look upon Such
sport without disgust; and I have 81/0111 never
to injure a porpoise!"
'4lmett that!' said Sam - . "Yon must have
had Rome strong reason for taking such an oath;
and you must tell us all about it, if you have to
spin a yarn as long as the flying jib down-haul."
The hardy crew of the Lobster gathered
around Calico Jaek, insisting on bearing his too
t ry. The poor fellow held off as long as possible,
i bet at last, after making a very wry face and
! bringing himself to anchor on the windlass end,
gave in, saying—" Well, I suppose I must spill
you my yarn, if I hope for a quiet life; and if
you have any wish to know my oxperieseo•in
fishing in general, and my opportunities fee
studying the habits of the porpoise us particular,
lea•. sae your furs, as the monkey said when he
sliced off the cwt.'s listening tackle with one of
the captain's razors."
The crew gathered around Calico Jack, for
mod i1....5 r . . 0. amain, .1•04, Ir—
,piipiar among the shi p 's rompsuy--eould sing
a good song and talk like a hook. They expec
ted something interesting, End listened, with ex
emplary stteution, while be proceeded with
fish story all follows:
•`lt is now just three years. seven months and
ninetetli days, since I sailed from New York in
the ship Pocahontas, of three hundred and fifty
tons, bound to St. Jago, in the Cape 'de Verde;
thence to. Rio Janeiro, The Pocahontas was a
good ship, and well formed; the captain was an
honest man and a real sailor, and the officers
were not so bad as they might have been. On
the whole, there was little to find fault with, for
1 doubt not all hands were treated with out much
kindness and indulgence as-they . deserved---and
we got along 4ery harmoniously together -
"As we drew ep towards the Cape de Verdi',
the wind was light, and the weather was pleas
ant, and the ship's bottom being *little foul, a
large number of Ash made their appearanee—
dolphins, bonetas, and albioores. They seemed
to ay—"catch me and eat me!" in snob an im
ploring way, while they sported in the water be
neath the bows, that no man, with the heart of a
stock-fish could possibly withstand the temptation
to capture them—or at least make the 'attempt.
If lever had a weakness, of which there may be
some doubt, it we. an excessive fondness for fish
ing. Trout in the fresh water streams of New
Hampshire, my native State; pickerel in her
ponds—cod on the beak of Newfoundland--bor
-1 racooters in the West Indies—hallibut on Geor
ge's Shoal—maim in the broad ocean—or
dolphin and bonitos in the tropier—it was all
one to Jaek: I loved the sport, and indulged
my fondness for it whenever alid wherever I tad
a chews. You will therefore not be surprised,
shipmates, that I bailed with great glee the O
ptimum of various kinds of fish around the Po.
eabostae, es we were drawing up towards the
spa dr Verd, Wands.
"In those days I never went a voyage to sea
with Out being well provided with fishing gear of
all kinds. I had hooks of various sum, from b
hallibut hook, double @banked for an albioore,
and ganged with stout wire, down to a hook
mull enough to catch a rudder fish--.-and many
were the hours of my watch below I passed on
the dying jib-boom-end, trying to book a boneta
—or on the martingale, with the gainee, attempt
ing to strike a dolphin. And as neither the cap
tain or the mates cared much about fishing, I
had it pretty much all my own way.
"One unlucky day after we had made Bona_
vista, and were standing in for SL Jago, with a
moderate breese, I beard a cry on deck, of "dol.
phis—two big dolphins right under the bower—
It was about mix bells in the afternoon. I was
busily engaged in making up sow old duck into
I a pair of trousers, at the time—but the moment
I heard the words "big dolphin," I 'dropped my
duck like a red hot marlinepike, took a couple of
large hooks, stoutly ganged, out of my ...lest, in.
I atinetirely put them in my pocket, and rushed on
deck.
"Whet are the dolphin!• , I examined, as I
seised the mime, which was lying an th e f em .
mile. But at that inowisst a black squall was
rapidly rising to windward, add the watch wow
too busy is tab** sail to attend in ray wow
tic's*. l apnea tip lamming the wight)wookhasd
ERIE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1554.
"I was a good swimmer, and a heu.toop from
the quarter deck was tossed overboard at ware,
whieh I pilled towards in quick time, and got
boll of; but the squall blew with great violence,
and was attended with considerable rain. Of
amuse I lootAight of the ship in ♦ ism minutes,
and I saw with a glance that there was hat s
slender chance Poor Pilgarliek; and let me tell-
yoti, shipmates, there are many better berths for
an honest fellow in this life than to be 4trug
gliog alone in the wide (wean, with nothing to
buoy you up buts hen-coop,. and no ship i n
+light! I hope you may u. ter have .weasion to
try it,
"The squall' lasted for an hour, and raised
such a commotion among the wave, that r could
hardly retain my station on the hen-coop, and I
was sometimes •eompulled to stoney more emit
watee.than was iltortiter agreeable, or good for
Mie's health. When the weather cleared up I
raised my head at high out of water a- I could,
and looked around for the ship, but no ship was
right. - The Pocabouuts bad gone on her way re
joicing, andleft Jack Calimaneo behind'.
"But a true sailor will bever despair—he will
never dowse his flag s s long as there is a shot in
the locker—and although, as night was coming
as sea matters looked rather dark and dreary, I
really wished myself on the deck of a good ship
—yet I called philosophy to my aid, and reflect
ed that my condition, though bad enough in all
emiscience, might have been worse. I still had
a hen-coop to cling to through the . night, and I
might, by an extraordinary piece of good luck,
be picked up by a &other or some other vessel
in the morning. It is true, it would sometimes
occur to me that my legs dangling in the ws,ter
would make a nice tit-14t for a hungry shark—
and also that, as few vessels ever emssed the spot
where I was, the chances of being snatched from
the clutches of Davy Jones were about one out
of a thousand. But I stoutly resisted r.ll such
gloomy forebodings, and iusardly_resolved to do
all that a man could do to says my
&hetet!, I ehoull be drowned, it 'mild he through
uo fault of my own.
'That W 39 41 , 11i4 night, Ali that I p a .,.
04,1 on the hen-' p. it bol`PUled lik , hair 3 dawn
night.; 11)1ee1 one.. dayligit Lit
bo t..
tuewhat, fatipt74 mutt hungry. !four mu?
hour i,omei, and my pro peels wor , ay dismal as
ever. The wind had died away w d y a dead
calve--ltd this, although it tnad myl :aviation
op the raft mow comfortable than daring a atiff
breeze, diminished my. ebance4 of ecospe as no
teasel could tine to my rescue.
"It was, as near as I can calculate, about four
bells in the afternoon, while I wae lounging on
my hen-coop, with my heel under my wing, and
thinking whether it wax likely I should ever
again indulge in the luxury of malt junk and
mouldy biscuit in a ship's forecaitle, that I was
startled by a noise which sounded like the blow
ing of a porpoise. I looked up, and beheld an
immense shoal of those noble fish, coming from
the south in a direct line towards me on their
way to some better - marine pasturage, perhaps
thousand al miles off. I had no inclination at
that moment to harm them--and I prPsume they
had no wish to harm me.. I rupposed, alvi mat.
ter of course, they would not notice so insignifi
cant a being u Jack CsHume° on a hen-coop.
but posh forward on their journey as quick as
possible.
"But I was out in my reckoning. Ttie per-
poises saw the hen-coop, and a sailor hanging to ;
it--a novel sight which aroused their curiosity,
and they crowded around as if determined to fa-
atom the mystery. I did not like such close
companionship with the rascals—and made a
great splashing in the water to keep them at a
respectable distance. But it was of no use. It
was not often that an opportunity offered to make
acquaintanceship with an old salt, and they ;
seemed resolved to improve the present chance.
They forgot the object of their journey, and the
importance of despatch, and jostled one another
in their efforts to get near, and find out what
was going on. tAh" thought Ito myself, 'my
be fellows; if I was.nnw standing on the bow of
a good ship with a harpoon in my fist, I would
sickle your curiosity to some purpose.' .
. "They crowded nearer and nearer. At length
one big fellow, who seemed a sort of king among
them, trade a dash towards me and thrust his :
ugly nazsle between' my legs, giving at the same
time a snort, whether of triumph, admiration or
surprise. I cannot tell , which scattered the water
all over me. At this moment, provoked at the
rascal's impudence, I recollected the fish-hooks
in my poekk. and as he turned and 'attempted
to repeat the muneavre, with admirable presence
of mind, a quality which never forsakes me,
shipmates, io any strait, I thrust a fish-hook in
each of his jowls, just forwent of his eyes, and
held bard on the ganging'. At the sawn mo
ment, I dropped upon his back, seated myself
firmly in the saddle, and hauled taut upon both
parts of the bridle! In this way I kept his head
to the water's surface, and easily defeated his
desperate attempts to plunge into the depths be
low. Finding himself foiled in all his efforts to
unseat me, he suddenly started off in an easterly
direction, as if a shovel-nosed shark of the larg
est aim wag after him.
*1 50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
in les.s . than two minutes was starbliug on the
lower martingale stay, with one arm around the
martingale Im a UDC of the tinlphins--ti big
f e ll ow hi. was 1 , 00 ! The squall was rinse aboard
of us, coming thick and heavy! and I wa.t too
eager to secure my fish, to attend properly to my
own safety. I made a furious throw at the dol•
phin, with what effect I know not—for with the
effort I missed my hold, and fell overboard' The
Neal struck the ship at the same time, and as
the old Pocahontas dew pot
,me while I was
struggling in the foam, I heard one of 'my ship
mates cry out in a voice of terror, "A man over
board!"—at the wune time that the eaptain shout
ed in a voice of thunder, "lat go the topsail
halliards, fore and aft!"
“The ben map I soon bat sight ed, and the
ether porpoises astonished st my unexpected eon
duet, and not Insuring what I might be tempted
10 do assm v sesttered in every dimetioe; and
them was asoming Oyer tilt) ocean - mires st
thelake rt sever Weir* or , lifosea knots, on the
bmit sid • porpoise.
EMI
Jly situatital trim a novel one. It required
no little siren& toti skill to mime ley emtroter,
keep his nose at the water's edge. and steer him
in the right flireetion; hut I felt that my chance
of getting out of Davy donee' clutches this time
was far better on the porpoise's back than when
clinging to a hen-coop, half buried in mat water,
out of sight of land.
•`I knew that when
.the island of St. Jago
could not be more than thlyty miles off in a south
east direction—for I had heard the captain-way
to the chief mate, after he marked the ship's
place on the chart that afternoo—and I tried
hard to steer my ship for St. Jago, by keeping
the sun well on the larboard quarter But
I had tough, work:. I would rather be rattling
down the topgallant rigging in a hurricane,
or lying to in Mawatehuttetts bay in a northeast
wow storm, with the deep and rigging covered
with ice, than to manage a headstrong porpoise
with a bridle without a curb. With all_my ef
forts Feould not prevent his broaching to ocia
anion:illy, and •his wake was as.crooked as the
track in the 'mow of an old man-of--war's man
who had just been paid off!
-Such wild steering lengthened my distance
considerahly--fterertheless; in about an hour
looked oat sharp for land; but it was full two
hours before I sari it, rising, as it were. all at
once, high out of the ocean, about three points
oa the starboard bow, and not more 'than nine or
ten mama. A noble landfall! And a glad sight
it Ira*, shipmates, I mark you, for f longed to
finish rity ride—and I gave the - old fellow beneath
me a kiek or two to quicken his pace; and away
he went again ss if a granspus had kicked hint in
the end.
1 "As we drew in towards the land. spied a
j little open hay lined with a white .sandy beach,
leak of which were erected softie dwelling houses
—and on this spot I at once made up my mind
a, bench my craft--;die I ainnd in direotly for the
bay My 'appearance at this time, mining in
from the open sot at a furious rate, with' ludter
two•thirds of my body oat of the water, fruit
have been singularly striking, and calculated tip
si tract atteuties. At all events; it seriously
alarmed the quiet imhahitanni of this little vW
lage. They gathered on the shore, wan. women,
and eltil,lreu, to the souther of fifteen or twenty.
armed with old tuuedkets, enthdises, hatcheta, aid
harpoons, prepared to oppose my landing by force
of arms, if necessary They looked so formida
ble and threatening, that, if I could have had my
own way, I should have hove to, within hail of
the shore, and held a parley. Bid may faithful
' friend, to whom I was firmly :detached, would
stand for no ceremony, hut f.irwar,l with
inereasins spot *prank the 'deuce. I bad only
debt to ware my hood and /lent watigo!
before I fiend the porpoiw! bad run him :
self upon the beach. hard and lAA. with on
his bark.
"1 never saw folks so astmaishell as those Por
tuguelie wore. One among, them could speak
FAIR ' att uKattiatiou
rimers and acclamations by the whole compeny.
The pirpoise also came in for a share of their ad
miration. They admits-4 hie noble Kim and plump
rvrtimut, and although. I begged hard for his
life, wishing to return him safe and sound iato
his native element, I soon saw, it was of no me;
phis fate was settled; and as the sun went town,
' they were feasting on his carom and trying out
his blubber. Poor old fellow; I shall nerer for=
get hint! (and Jack wiped a tear (ma his'eye
; with his starboard flipper.)
"Thew people treated me kisdly, mid the sad
day carried me over to Pod Prays, isto Shia
harbor the Puoahoutas was jest esteriag. I bor
rowed a boat, pulled "long the aide, sad asked
the eaptait if he wanted a pilot:
"The captain looked hard at me, asd answer
ed,rather grnfHy, 'No"
"I had a •sombrero' hat on, which a kindheart
ed native had given me, and the skipper tild'at
know me. Never mind,' said I, shall come
aboard.'•
- "The tone of my voice, which i» not a common
one—for I have been told it resembles the sound
of a bassoon afflicted with the phthiaic—bother
ed him, and he watched me closely as I passed over
the side; but I had no canner jnmped from the
gunwale on deck, lifted my 'sombrero' from my
head, and with a bow, said quietly, hare come
aboard, sir." than be threw his hat . half way up
to the main-top, rut a regular pigeon-wing, and
called out at the top of his' voice, 'lt is CALICO
JACK, as 411 Te as my namely Jeremiah Thomp-
ruio .in my own hook was ended, and I
was ghtil enough .to find myself once more on the
deck of the good old Poeshontsa. Bot, shipmates
since that time I have abandoned in disgust the
sport of catching fish at Rea, and as for lending a
hand to harpoon a porpoise. I would as wino %end
an iron through the best friend I have in the
world."
THE TWO BPIEE
from the Autobiography of liwv. J. B. Valk-,
As early as the year 1790, the bit:A-house
and stockade above the mouth of the. Hocking.
river, was a frontier poet for the hardy pioneers
of the Northwestern Territory. There Nature
was in her undisturbed livery of dark and thick
forests. interspersed with green and Sowing
prairies. Then the forest had not heard the
sound of the woodman's axe. nor the plow of the'
husbandman opened the bosom of the earth.
Then those beautiful prairies waved their golden
bloom to the God tof Nature; and . iummag the
most luxuriant of these were• those which lay
along tne Ilockhocking Valley, and %specially
that portion of it - on which the town of Lancas
ter now stands.
Hare the tribes of the North and West met to
counsel, and from this spot led forth the warpath
in different directions. Upon one of theae coos
ekes, when the war spirit moved mightily among
the sons of Nature, and the tomahawk lahped in
its scabbard, and the spirits of their friends, who
had died at the field of battle, Idabel the warrior
In his sight visions and called loudly for revenge,
it was aismtained at tho garrison above the
math of the Hoekhocking river, - that the tali
aim trernipsthering in great numbers *r the
pir
pau at iiiribbigi blot es goes parr or* frau-
tiers ; To meet the crisis, two of the meet skill
ed and indefatigable spies were dispatched to
watch their movements and report.
M'Clelatel and White, two spirits that never
quailed at danger, and as unconquerable as the
Lyhian lion, in the month of October, and on one
of the balmy (1.11,s of Indian 'termer, took leave
of their fellows and moved on through th e th e
thick plum and hazel bushes with the noiseless
tread of panther*, armed with their unerring
and trusty rifles They continued their moral,
skirting the prairies, till they reaehed the twee
remarkable prominence, now known by the name
of Mount Pheasant, the western termittatiou of
which is a perpendicular cliff of rocks of some
hundreds of feet high, and whose petunia, front
a western view, towers tit the clouts and over.
looks the vast plains below. When this point
was gained. our holly spies had a positson faint
which they could see every movement of the In
dians below in the valley.
Remy day sand a new accosiou of wartime
to the eoinpauy. They wituemed their mercies*
of horse-racing, running fooweees, jumping,
throwing the tomahawk and .Lowing; the old
sachems looking on with their Indian indiffer
ence, the aquaws engaged in their drudgery, and
the ehikiren engaged in their playful gunshots.
The arrival of a new warrior was greeted with
terrible shouts, whish, striking *hesitant! face of
Monet Pleasant, were driven back in the various
indentatjons of the surrounding bits, producing
reeerbitiona and echoes as if ten thOttead fiends
were 'gathered as a universal levee. Suck yells
would have struck terror to the hearse of those
unaccustomed to Indian, revelry. ..
To.our spies this was but martial music- .1
strains which waked their witehfuluens, and new-
ly strung their. veteran courage. From their
early, youth they had always been eu the frontier,
and were well.pneticed is all the subtlety, craft
and cunning of Indian warfare, as well as the
ferocity and hiCesd-thirsty nature of these savage
warriors. They were, therefore, not likely to be
;ensnared by their cunning. nor, without a desper
ate conflict, to fall cicalas to their scalpiapknivee
or tomahawks. On several tierasions, small par
ties left the prairie and ascended the mount from
the eastern side. On these occasions the spies
would bide in the deep fissures of the reeks on
the west, and again leave their hiding plats"
when their unintited and unwelcome visitors had I
disappeared.
For food, they depended on jerked venison
and elan bread, with which their knapsacks were
wall stored. They dare not kindle a fire, and
the report of one of their rifles would hero
hreught upon them the entire fora of the Indi
ana. Per think, they &speeded on some rain
water which still stood in the hollows of some of
the rocks: but, iu a •short time, this store was
exhausted, and l'elelattil and White must
abandon their enterprise or find a new supply.
To accomplish this must hazardous enterprise,
M'Cleland, being the oldest, resolved 4, make
the attempts and, with his trusty_ rifle in his
shoulders, he deeenital, by a circuitone rouse, so
the prairi'e, skirting the hill on the north, and i
under oover of the hasel thickets, be reached the
river, and turning to a bold point of the bill, he
found a beautiful spring within a few feet of the
river, now known by • the name of Cold *Spring,
ou the farm of D. Talmadge, Esq. He filled
his canteens, and returned in safety to his watch
ful,
taintimakm. It was now. determined to hav e
ion
fresh supply of water every day, and this duty
was performed alternately.
Oa o ne •of these occasione, after White had
1114 his canteens, he sat s few moments watch
ing the limpid element as it canes gurgling out
of the bosom of the earth, when the light sound
of footsteps caught his practiced ear, and upon
turning around he saw to squaws a fewieet
him. upon turning the foot of the the
..-
dent squaw gave ewe- of those far-reachine whoops
peculiar to Indians. White at once compretw*
ded his perilous eituetiou: if the alarm should
reach the camp or town, he anti his companion
.must inevitably perish. Self-preservation com
pelled him to inflict a noiseless death on he
squaws, and in such a outniter se, if possible, to
leave no trace behind. Ever rapid in thought
and prompt in action, be sprang up o n hie victims,
with the rapidity and power of a lion, and grump
ing the throat of each, 'sprang into the 'river.
He thrust the head of the eldest under the water.
While making strong efforts to submerge the
younger, who, however, powerfully resisted him,
and. during the short struggle with this young
athletic, to his astonishment she addressed bbn
in his own language. though in almost inarticu
late sounds.
Releasing his hold, she informed him that she
had been a prisoner for ten years. end was takes
from below Wheeling, and that the Indians had
killed all the family, and that her brother and
herself were taken prisoners, but he succeeded on
the second night in making his escape During
this narrative, White had drowned the elder
squaw, and had let her float off with tit:• current,
where it would not probably be found out soon.
He now directed the girl to follow him, and with
his usual speed and energj, pushed for the
mow. They had scarcely ; gone half way. when
they beard the alarm cry some quarter of smile
down tile stream. It was supposed some party
of Indians, returning from hunting, struck the
river just as the body of the squaw floated past.
White and the girl succeeded in reaching the
mount, where MeCleland had been no indif
ferent spectator to the sudden commotion among
the Indians.
The prairie parties of warriors were seen im
mediately to strike off ia every direction, and
NV bite and the girl had searady arrived, before a
party of sense twenty wareien had reached the
eastern acclivity of the mount and were cautious
ly and eariftilly - keeping under cover. Soon the
spies ow the swarthy foes as they glided (nun
tree to tree aid from rock to reek, till their posi
tion was sarrounded, azoeps on the west perpea
tkiaalar and all hope ci Neaps was cut 'off.
in this perilous condition, nothlug was left but
to sell their lives as dearly as possible, and this
they resolved to do, sad advised the girl 'to es
ape to the Iniffans sad tell theta she had belie
taken primer. She said, "Nos death to me, in
the pet)[ os of my troth people, Is s *attain.'
giViit°). tare : 1.
B. 14. J 4
NUMBER :39. -gg
av4i
times sworter than oaptivity awl davtity,,,,..,,pme; riot
Dinh we with a gun. awl I will oliew yeatig* TV
cftp titait am well a+ air. This plaere I Wry..
Item 111 . $ hour.* rhalt Ti. , bleelling with piwailkiL i fit
and should dilwr or y•ot peyou will carry : Kr.;
aitii
tidings of aty death to my f.,w_relati4na.7 410 4,
ReinoteitrAle , - , tiri,%ktl fruit loss. Tite
~pion qu i c kly naatureil their plait of difenite,•Wor ,, Pki
vigorously comtionreil the AMA' from the f r est;:f
when., from th , very liaeltlaute of the . :;::
mount, Ow i•avages t,adviotte, in single tiikh ;4;1 .,
.iwt without any novvrt. • Ileyotul.. thin weigh. ther'zi' - i*
warrior 4 tivailelhetnvelvws !NIA , irn.l trots it a::
advaneing, but i ii pas4ing from oue to othef
. t
they must he a 1 41.41
mimeo 4t.stu ' vluri • of their swarthy Swan" . VIM
esougit-titr the iin , wring litho of the +vim,
Indians (wing i-utio.-1:% ignorant ov, mat.> itoniti(l/ 0
in ninbuseade. titer. wore eautioUs how they ii4:`, 4 "'"
vaneeiL
After bravely nusintaissiug the fight in front :,-.1- . ,4..
1 and keeping dm enemy in check, they ditivessodliett
1 a new danger thee:o,4lns - - theta. The AA' ftef ig lr..
now made ce *ohne yr paratieue in allsel, Um* .`
on die Sleek, which eould lee more entereeliall : •,, ,
• dune by reaching an teolated rock lying is sem of :.
the ravine; ,in the leathern hillside. This reek ' '
nom gained by the Itlien-. they u eild brine the :
spies under point hl tuk -duet of Ili • rill.•eritheut. ic e ,.
' the puseibility of .ftecepse. Our brave witness ' •
the titter leirekissmess of their 101 . 113441.41. WM* -
nOthing tliOl4l avert fall a brave eouspeeime e ml e
an nnerring eb it. The-c they had we, bit the • . ,
bray never despair ; With I'M:. itupendiug fate
resting upon elem. thee cum-flatted vales antral- • =
calming, and as unwearied a- .the strouge e e d l t..-
.. ,
sire if life and the r e siscauee of a twee:aeons-kw ----.
c,titlireme erase. - - . .
Hum M'Clelauel saw e tall awl swarthy figara . -
preparing to spring from 31 reeert :to near to the •
fatal rock that, bound 14f two would reach it, sad •
all hope of life thou wiei g.me. Ve fele`that all \
depended au one ,iugle adventurous thee; heel ee:
although but an such or two of the warrior's body
was exposed, and that at the distsure of eighty Or - .
*hundred yard", he resolved to r • all; ettolly
raised his rifle to his face, nod , ing the sight
,ati gst
with his hand, tie drew a tend sure that hoe • .
felt cones:Lim; it. would a., the truirk.l Ile touched
the trigger with his linger, the hkunner ease
down, but in place of striking tire, it broke his
flint into many pieueee. and although he felt that' I
the Indian must. reeeli the reek before he could - . 4 ,
adjust another dant, 13 ' proceoJed to the task with -'.. 4 ' 4 .' '
the utmost veal:wain , . . • 1
, 1 Casting his eye toward the fearful point, sad- ', '
' -
denly be saw the werrior stretching every anti- •
de Toe' the leap, awl with the agility of the lila-
ther he made the spring, but instead °freedman , ' ' -''''
... -
the rock, he gave a yell, and his dark bodylo - ..!' • .''
and rolled down the steep into the valley below ' '-'' .
He had eventually rewired a death-wound from ... - '..
some unknown hand. A hundred•vuoioes re-echo- ' I- '.-
ed from below the terrihl.• eleuut. It was ell- '
dent that they : had lost a favttrite warrior, as well
an being disappointed for a time, of the meet ill= -' _
portant movement. A very few minutes proved " '.
that the advantage gained weell be of short tin- .
ration; for already the spiv. caught c glimpse ti • .••
a tall swarthy warrior cautionely advancing to -----:
the covert so recently occupied by his fellow eons-- 't . '" '‘
pinion. ,Now, too, the attack in front wia re-' .' - '-''l
sewed with increased fury, so as to require the . 4
~ ' * l '
ineemant lire of both spies to - prettent the liali- - 1 1'
-__
tints to leap to the fatal reek. Thnteillfrets. 0
111131.11., and the Indian torutug a , eau.tcrwtt, Wise ,
corpse rolled down the hill towards tidy former '
rompanion. Again an nukuowu agent had iti-
imposed in their behalf. This second seerifice '
met dismay into the ranks of their 31+Failsoti.; and
just as the sun was disappearing behind the west.
ern hills, the foe withdrew to a short distance, to
devise some sew mode of attack. This respite
came most seauensably to oar spies, who had kept, •
their ground, and bravely tosiutained the utse- •
itad fight.from nearly the middle uif the day.
Now, for the fret time, rd... the , girl musing,
and the spies thought that threugh terrur she
had eecaped to her former encore, or that -be -
Mel been killed during the fight, but they wee
tett long left to Conjecture, The girl was seen
emerging from bleitioda rock and coming to them
with a rifle in aei hand. Duenag the Melt she .
.:w a warrior rail who had adyancedleatue distanue
before the rust, end while some of then' changed
their peeitiou, she resolved at once, live or the,
to pees _-as herself of his! gun and austmitiems; and '
crouching down beneath the underbrush, she
crawled to the place and suumeetiesi iu her enter
prise. Her beau and watt hint eye had early no
ticed
the fatal rock, and here was the mysterious -
hand by which the two warraws fell, the laatit
ing the twee.. intrepid and 14..4i-thirsty of Ille
Shawnee tsetse, and the leader uel the vitalism}
which killed Ler mother. and her 'sters, and leek e.
her auti her brother prisoner,
- Now, in the west, arose dark elenullil i wiltels .
s o on overspread the whole heaven-, awl the vie- :
meets were pest %ids peals ef thunder_ Itark .
wets, deep and gloomy, altmteled the wilful,. heat '-
yew.. This uLtektteen great!) embarraestel the '
ep ee ; i e s t „.4- eeutetuplated etzlet escape, euppe
ite that they totglit reatiti) 1.., Wei, way. ail
aCeidentally fall on their enemy; but A Short cant
imitation decided the plan; it wee agretel that ILO'
giru ahead • , , ,, tareniost, fr ont her intimate ku e wi-
ed ge of t le i.realities, aoth.uother might be gain
ed in case they ehoull fall In with any of the par:
ties or outposts From her kuewletige of the ,
language, she taught therive the sent Meisel* the
a •quel proved, for seartady bee th -y 31a1e c u,1,4 a
Landniti yard,. when a. low wheel ft ow the girl
warned them of their danger.
The spies enuk silently en the wound, where, '
by preview- arrangement, they a. re to renaint.
till the bign II was Octet.* by the girl I., , uant'e , go:
liar absence, for the space of a quarter ot t anknue e ''
beg-tn to exeito the most -erilats apprehessiiMm t
Agin she appeared, and told them she- Itawinees'
~,,,de d in , remeying twit ,eutioels toes short 4ill. '
lance, who were ultreetly um their reute. The de*.
ce ps was no i:elletely resumed, and the spies fol
lowed their intrepid leader for tea t& wile in 01
most. pe Bo und silence , when tin t barking dr a
dog-at a short distance apprised them of new dan--'
,ter. The almost simultaneous click , f th e S pi t e;
rifles was heard by the girl, who stated that they
Were now in Olt mild of the Indian teacups and
their lives depended on the most pretested silence; . ~.....,.
and implicitly following ter flee:act:4. weeeesesi
• A moment afterward, the girl was are etteel b r , „ 4 ,,,,,. ,
Mayuaw; from an opening in her wigavain; . *,:,„ ,
iteeplied. in the Indian language, and - ''" t'..,, , :,
I pingottill pressed forward. In. a short time'
stopped and assured the spies that de , vi '
~• . - -
.was cleared, and that they had passed the gresti••-'
.
' est danger. ',She knew that every leading paw .
was guarded safely by the Indians, and at once
resolved to adopt the bold adventure of parsing '
through the centre of the village, as the least hi=
swans, awl the Fennel proved the correetness or, - :: a
her *meat. They now steered a coarse 6.,A::,„.....,
..,,
die Ohio river, and a ft er three diye'triseelarritilee ,,,. e ,
~
ed safe at the blockhouse. Their estsps and 41,1, , , - . ~.,
venture prevented the Indians from their eon tkaf s 1; ''.,.
plated attack; and the rescued girl peuved,tp - bn p ,
~,,k
the shier of the intrepittflorusel WashkurieWl.s
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