• I • • -••• - -rz • ?Ai • - •,.: e , t • ....et - • ' NY A • • I • tr • qua. - AC 4$11; 4; " S. •C ▪ ; 1 1P * , - - ' . ; ' * - 4 . ; ; ` n kt. ' `Zttf' - , •-% VOL. X.--NO. 6.] ADVERTISEMENTS S F ISOLATX. To the Voters of Adams County FELLOW CITIZENS Through the (wont-am - mm:l et many of my friends, I ofnr myself' as a can didate for the Office of Sheriff, for said County at the ensninr, Election, should 1 receive the nomination of the Con vention to settle a county tide, t, and be %elected, I pledge myself to perform the tat of that Office promptly and impartially. JACOB KEJ.LEII. 111outitjoy township, ? April 23,1839. S %WEIR I IFF RATY . To .the Free and Independent Iroters of Adams County. FELLOW CITIZENS: Through kind persuasions from ninny of my friends, I have been induced to offer myselfas n candidate for the Office of sheriff; at the ensuing Election, and respectfully solicit your votes. And should Ibe so for tunate as to receive your confidence. by be ing elected to that oflitte, I pledge ruyse!l to dischorge the duties of the office tvc.hfideli ty and impartiality. FREDERICK DI EH L. Franklin township, March 19, 1839: SVIERIFF ALIATX. GEORGE %V. M'CLELLAN, Returns his sincere thanks to hii4 friends and the public in general, for placing him on the returns with the present and former Sheriff, and again offers liims.Al -once more ns a candidate for the •-• . Office of Sheriff, nt the ensuing Election. Should he be 'honored with their confidence in placing him in that office, no exertion on his part shall be wanting to a faithful discharge of tho duties of that important trust March 19, 1839 8 IC SC IFF T To the free and Independant z•oters of Adams County. FELLOW CITIZENS : I oiler myself again to your con sidoration as a Candidate for the f Sheriff. at the ensuing Election, (If 1 receive the nomination of our next General County Delegation) / would then warmly solicit your suffrages. And should ILe so fortunate .us to become the Honored Candidate of your choice, I would evince my gratitti& to you by a faithful discharge of the duties of .suid Office, and by adhering to punctuality, and to impart ial,humane, and social feeling. The Public's Humble Servant, WM. ALBRIGHT. Conowago Township, April 23. tf-4 To the - Voters of atltuus County. SNIIIIE Subscriber, oilers -: himself to the -IL consideration of his fellow citizens of Adams county, as a candidate for the office of Prothonotary of • said County, (p:ovided ho shall receive the nomination of the Con vention to settle a county ticket.) And res pectfully solicits their support. B. GILBERT. Gettysburg, Feb. 26, 1 39. to-43 To the Independent Voters of Adams County. FEL LO W—CITIZENS : I offer myself to your consideration, nt the ensuing General Election, as a can. dilate f•nr the offices of Re4ietr, Record ,tryand Clerk of the Orphans' Court: And ,pledge myself, if elected, to discharge the Auties of those offices with fidelity and promptitude. JACOB LEFEVER. March 19, 1E 1 39. to-51 To %lie 'Voters alao.uis Couuty. FELLOW CITIZENS: if Offer myself to your consideration as a candidate tor the officra of Register, Re corder and Clerk of the Orphans' Court, at the ensuing election. 'laving, from practical experience acqui redliberfent knowledge of the &tie& of those aqices, I hope (it nominated undetect ed) to be able do the business promptly, cor rectly and in person. ' The Public'q !rumble Servant. WI LLIASI KING. Gettysburg, Feb. 26, 1539. te-48 o the Voters of a. &am s oulA . FELLOW CITIzEws.: lrufier myself to your consideration as a -ra• candidate for the offices of Register. and Recorder (under such combination as may be adopted by the Legislature,) at the ensu ing election. Under a knowledge acquired from attend 'into several of the duties appertaining to nia offices, and practical t.kjll as a convey ancer, I hope (if nominateftend e!ected) to be able le execute the &meb therentperson ,ally, in a prompt and correct manner. irtipecibilly • • JOHN L. GUEERNATOR. March 12, 1830. 11:450 Office of the Star & Banner: :Thambersburg Street, a few doors West of the Court-House. I. The STAR & REPIIIILICAN BANNER is pub ished at TWO DOLLARS per annum (or Vol ume, of .!"):: numbers,) payable half -yearly in ad ra,,cr: or TWO DOLLARS & FIFTY CENTS //not paid until after the expiration of the . year. 11. 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All Letters and Communications addressed to the Editor by mail niast be post-paid, or they will not be cal ndcd to TM E.GAIRLA ND We,- ka,epr- ":dirtz.- tr4,7,„.7.1.4 : „., ~.- ~ f ige,,a. ~_.,---,_..„.._ 44 , 4- „......_ it- / o st it. 1..., ._.„.....„.•,...„.„,........,. •.._-_-fA-v-_,,,,,,-.•::_s___----4_ ~,... 25•%:_:•••..,t,... . • •wectvst flowers vorich'd, From various tzanlens cull'd with est.," Prom the neligioue Souvenir. for 1838 AGE:IICuLTuRE. C. W. Ev How blest the Farmer's simple life How pure the j o y it yields ! Far from the world's tempestuous strife, Free, 'mid the seentcd fields! •When morning WOOF., with roeeate hue O'er the far hills away, lli<foot-tcps brush the silvery dew, To greet the welcome day. When Sors lust [Pain in glnry glows, And blithe the sky-larks song, Pleased, to his toil the Farmer goes, With cheerful steps along. While Noon broods o'er the sultry sky, And sun beams tierce arc east, IVhere the cod.' streamlet wanders by, lie ~!tares his sweet repast. When Twillight's Along the darkening profit, Jlc lists his faithful tvntt-h-dogs call, To warn the listtning train. Down the green lane young burying reef Their eager pathway press ; His loved ones come in joy to greet, And claim their sire's 'caress. Then, when the evenieg prayer in said, And He3rell with praise is blest, How sweet reclines his weary head Oa shienLer's couch of rest Nor deem that fears his dreams ottani, for cares with harking dim ; Without, his dogs will guard from harm, Aud is peace w ithin. Olt, ye who run in FeHy's race To win a wortl&ss prize! Learn from the simple tale wo trace, Where true coutchtment lies I Ho! monarch flushed with glory's pride Thou painted. gilded thing Hie to the free-barn Farmer's side, And learn W be a king ! :I) rt'S 0 STONY POINT. BY RLV. .1. N. 11AFFITT Stony Point is about forty miles above New-York, and ten or fourteen miles below West Point. It Is a rounded, gravelly hill, of small extent, jutting into the stream, and connected with the main land by a low 11 , /o• Fess u kick is partially overflowed with the tide waters. It was fortified in the revolu• tionary war, and occupied by a small force, it might have been considered as n remote outpost to the strong fortress of West Point. It was captured by the British in the year 1779, and strongly repaired and garrisone by more than r•ix hundred soldiers,command ed by the brave Lient.'Col. Johnson. A few days before the sixteent:i of July, in the same year, a tall,commanding person, age, mounted on a strong charger, was seen On the eminences above Stony Point. lie had a ;Mass in his hand,and appeared to study 1 the character of the defences with an inten soy of interest.. Johnson, who was returning ; the gaze of the horseman, with his spyglass Itarried to one of his staff,and romni lied that the apparition on the bill portended no good. Rumors wereafloat about the entrenchments that the same tall figure had keen seen across the river on the highest opposite eminence the day before, like a horseman painted against the sky. A cow boy said that thi: figure was the apparition of W ash irloir. and-dint it never was seen excepting jast b-fore a battle or thunder storm. But while these idle rumors floated around the atmosphere of the camp, the real Wash ington, from observations made with his own eyes, was concerting a soldier-like plan for,,,its surp: ise. On'tho night-of the sixteenth of July, by the twinkling light of the'stars that broke over and through the clouds, two columns of Aoldiers might have been seen under the brow of the eminence in the rear of the tort. They; were stern men—the silent, thoughtful men of New-England. The eagle eyed Wuyne was at their head, and his heart was like that of the lion. The ICY" E <<o I: S .Ar ir) EItE E . ROBERT S. P.IXTOOr, EDITOR .I.VD PROPRIETOR. CaIUIUZZ.Z:UP:2(th trEtP,W.Vaktilr zr f19 aG34.31h regiment of Febiuez and Meigs, with their youthfol Major Hull's detachment formed the right column ; Butler's regiment, with two companies under Major Murphy, formed the lea. The van of the right was formed of one hundred and fifty volunteers, at whose head stood the brave Fleury : ono hundred volunteers under Hewart, composed the van of the left. Arid still further advanced, the' noblest post of all, stood two 'forlorn hopes' of twenty men each—one commanded by Lieut. Gibbins, and the other by Lieut. Knox. Wayne stepped from man to man through the van-guards saw them Mks their flints from their pieces arid fix the death•bayonet. At twenty minutes past eleven, the two columns moved to the bloody work before thorn, one going to the 101 l and the other to the right, to make their attack on opposite sides. 'I 'he inhabitants on the eastern side of the river first heard a sharp crashing as the tor• lorn hope on either side broke in the double row of abatns: the muskets of the sentinels flashed suddebly amidst the darkness, nod in a nom ell t the lin ress lannite.d out flame and thunder, as if a volcano bad been ignited, and was tossing in lava upwards. The cry of brittle not to be mistaken, shriNs, wild and fea I ful,brolie upon the dull eur of night. But all was in vain for the fortress Under the showers of grape, and full in the re( eye of battle the two gloomy un waver ing coluinnA moved on, and the two van wields met in the centre of the god:. T h e littlish ntado.an instant surrestdor, to avoid the e:derininatfon which awaihul the deploy the columns upon the int renchments. Sixty-three liiittslt FiddierS lay dead at their guns ; five hunched and forty•thieo were wade prisoners, and the spells were Iwo Stu:dards, IwU ifLets, fifteen pieces t ordnance, and other tnaterialit of war. ( the sone of New Itiglitod, ninety eigit were killed or wounded Of Lieut. Gil bins' forlorn hope seventeen were no more. 01 Lieut. Knox ' s about the same number were slain. These spots, where the life-Hood of the rce has been poured out like water, and vhere the traces of the revolutionary ditch wd mound still remain, me altars sacred to the high it:collections of freedom. Green be the turf over these departed patriots. The bold Willi' of Stony Point in classic ground. Hither in future time sled! the pitet and the sentimentalist motile, to pay their tribute of aphelion nod honor, “Our fathers I.:m.lft lnatlc for a tti aritl.” Prom the Boston Weekly Me anger The npahtish OVER 'I IE 01/AVE OF 11Elt BROTHER But we have parted—hrothur thou art (load ! Olt its lust retiring place I hid my [tend, Then by thy eollin•side knelt down and took A sioteri. farewell kiss, and farewell look." It was in the spring of 18—, that I vi ited the burial ground in a small village north or Madrid, in Spain, where I beheld n beautiful female, sitting by a lonely grave in one corner of the yard. encircled round with beat i'ul flowers, then in lull Wesson). Ilie grass was beginning to look green upon the sod that covered the mound which she had watered with her tears. She Wad pensively leaning over the grave, therelOre did not observe toe and I remain ed silent. At last she murmured to her self, "Yes, Francisco, thou bast left mu —she then reclined her head on the turf— "thou halt forever left me, to attend a louder and dearer call, 1 should not weop—l will mot ;" wiping away the tears that were caul.. sing down her cheek ; " for thou !last obeyed the call 01 one who loved thee far better than we could love thee. Thou bast bade adieu to the world, and flown to II is bosom, and has left nothing behind thee for thy disconsolate and lonely sister, but the cold, cold sod ! ' She remained silent for a few minutes, as though her bosom was too full for expression. The sun had now set, and the moon was Ins* beginning to climb over the tops of the rrves, and as she stooped dawn In take an )ther kiss of the green turf that covered e *rove or her brother, I sew the (ears a they flowed fast from her eyes. "Oh! dear brother Francisco, thou bust left me here alone," cried sh , .. raisin,' her face from the grave, and clasping her hands in agonizing grief; "but we will meet again, and then we will part no noire.' She then rose, comparatively calm, and refired. Never did I behold a sw?eter or more lovely being. thin !night have read the very sentence it, her face, "Tlic,u lati.t. tar clit.r kit ni.t." A Gem) IDEA.—The Baltimore Sun Lai - es the account of an old woman in Con. necticut who is collecting all the Loco Foci) papers she can lay her hands on to make soap of. She says they are a "disput sight better than ashes—tkey are most as good as clear lye." "I would barely ask the gentleman who spoke last," raid an orator roving at a public meeting and throwing off his coat. "Suili r the ladies to withdraw first,"cried a deacon, using with great concern in his countenaaco. OVER - FEEDING.-11 r. A her net!) v. agreed with the opinion entertained by Franklin, who said that nine-tenths of the diseases wore caused by over feeding.' The learned surgeon, in one of his lecturers in 1827, thus addressed his hearers; "I tell you honestly what I think is the clink , of the complicated maladies.of the human race : it is their gormandising and stuflin!•, and stimulating their digestive organs to excess, thereby producing nervous disorders and ir ritation." CALVARY. From Buckingham's lectures, repotted in the New York Observer : "I had supposed that Calvary was a high hill, I always heard it called "Mount Cal. vary," and I had seen the pictures of the ancient masters, where it is always delineat • ed. Su impressed was my mind with the notion, that nothing could remove it but an actual inspection of the place itself. I found no mountain, and felt some uneasi ness, until 1 returned to review the Scrip tures which describes the place, and then for the first time observed that there was nit "Meunt Calvary," in tlierilible. The supposition is altogether gratuinius; and seems strange that it should have become so universal. The Gospel speaks of the spot es "the place of Calvary," or "the place that was called Golgotha " Matthew was the most particular. Ile says "a place called Galgotha, that is to say the place of ,kull. Mark uses nearly the same word. "The I lace Golgotha, which is being inter preted the place of a skull. Luke HI mply sans, "They clone to a place called Cal vary." John's words ore, "And he bear ing his cross, went forth, into a place called in the Hebrew, Golgotha.'•' Ile adJ• , , "The place where Jesus was crucified was near to the city." Hare Is no melanin of any mountain or hill. It is simply called "a place." The spot is a naked rock, from 4 to 500 feet bread at the base, and not over 25 lest is perpendicular elevation ; but as it - rises in an oblique direction, its height du[s not appear to ba more than from 15 to 20 feet. Man oil Sorrows. oThe I . oxes have haler], and the birds of the air lave nests ; but the eon of Man bath not where o lay his head. The gorgeous skies of Palestine In evening splendor grow, And twillight's lingering rays recline On Cannel's verdant brow ; And Jordan's plain, and Ela,h's vale In gathering darkness lies, And fonish'd wild beasts fiercely hail Night's glaoiny canopy's. The birds of day, riot]; £# and air, To chosen covert fly, /Lid forth from burrowed hole and lair The roaming r,:cs hie ; i..:locks to fold the brills to st,ll, On plain and mountain side, And men in cottage tent, and bull, FruLudt:v.ll) ni6L-Llenis hide. O'er llted tlron"e !wool: shh fainting tread, The ""Man of Sorrows" wont— No roof to hide his careworn head, • In deeds of mercy spent ; 'lle Son Of Man no dwelling hath, As unto others given— ror him there li.s sn 110MEWAUU path, Save to higii And up the shady Olivet Ilia languid Potatepa trod— No cou c h to reel his wearied Pet, Save the acre mountain sod ! And there he slept the skies above, Th:_ , cold hard earth beneath— And such the suffering Saviour's lore, While travelling unto death. Rev. .1. D. Treeit BRILLIANT METEOR. On Saturday night last, between 10 and 11 o'clock; while walking alone East-Bay street, our attention was arrested be an ex• tram dinary flash of light, as brilliant and intense, as the most vivid lightning, casting n broad but momentary illumination over the scene. Wu Wel 0 at first too much startled and dazzled to detect the cause of the brilliant phenomenon, but on turning round we saw a luminous streak of serpen tine form, athwart the north eastern part of the heavens, some thirty feet in length, and five or six inches in wild', fading from the vicw,ntid changing from a bright flame like color to a dull 3 allow, and assuming the form of a crcsont before its entire disappear ance. Not facing the proper threetion, we did ant see the meteor as it shot through the firmament, but from its volume of light it most have been of immense size. The streak of light was visible for at least a minute.—Cliarlcstown Cou ler. A FEELER.-A suraeon and a lawyer had very little good fueling for each other, and the following dialogue took place asked the surgeon, a neighbor's dog destroy my ducks, can I recover damages by law?" "Certainly," replied the lawyer ; "pray what are the circumstances ?" " Why, sir, your dog last night destroyed two of rri) ducks." "Indeed I then you certainly can recover the damages ; what is the amount? I'll instantly discharge it." "Four shillings and six•pence," chuCkled the surgeon. 'And my fee for attending and advising you is six and eight•pence," responded the attorney ; "and unless you immeditaly pay the same, my conduct will be slut•able. Say what you will . nhout old maids, their ovo i 6 generally more strong than that of the young milk and water' creatures, whose hearts vibrate between the joys of wedlock and the dissipation of the ball-room. Until the heart of woman is capable of set• ding down fittnly and exclusively on one object, her love is like a May shoes er which makes rainbows, but fills no cisterns.— Boston Galary. . Norntivo.--An Irishman has defined no• thing to be "u leafless stocking without a leg." A description by an other Emeralder is better. "What is nothing 'I" lie was ask ed. "shut your eyes arid you'll see it," said Pat. Krssrtsro.—A writer in the New Yuri, I Spirit of the Times calls the ceremony o young ladies kissing each other, “adrerdfu! wasted* the raw material." Many persons See corks used daily wit!. nut knoNing whence come these exceed ingly useful materials. Corks are cur from large slabs of the conk tree, a species of oak, which grows wild in the countries of Eu rope. The tree is generally divested of it, bark about fit - teen years old. It is tote. r. while the lice is growing; and the opera tion may be repeated every eighth or ninth year, the quality of the cork continumg eact time to improve as the age of the tree increa ses. %V hen the bark is taken off, it is bin ged in the flame of a strong fire; and. after being soaked for a considerable time in wa ter. it is placed under heavy weights, in or der to render it straight. Its ext reme light ness, the ease with which it may be com pressed, and its elasticity, are properties so peculier to this n:ubstance, that no sufficient sobslitute has vet been disenvered. Thy valuable properties of cork were known to the Greeks and Romans, who employed it for all the purposed for which it is used at present, with the exception of stordes ; the ancients mostly employed cement fur elo sing the mouth of b ittles or of vessels. The Egyptians are sand to have made coffins at cork, which, being spread on the inside with a resenous substance, preserved dead bodies lrein decay. In modern times, cork was 'not generly used fir - stoptles to bottles tilt about the close of the 17th century wax being till then eheifly in us,e for that purpose. The cork imported into America. is b•ougio principally from Indy, Spain and poi-fugal. The pit:amity annully consumed amounts to several thousand tons. NEVER LOOK SAD. DT T. 11. DAT LET. Never look sad—nothing so had As getting familiar with sorrow, Treat him to-day hr a cavalier way, And he'll seek other quarters to-morrow Long you'd not weep, would you but prep At the brightside of every Idle) ! Fs)rtune you"II find is often roost kind, When chilling your hopes with denial. Lc tlic sad day carry away Its own little burthen of sorrow ; Oryou may miss half of Pao bliss Tint comealta the lap of to-morow- When hope is wrecked ; pause end reflect If error occasioned your Fulness ; If it he so, hereafter you'll knnast. How Ye"lri!ei to a harbor of iilaaness • '401,0" LONGEVITY.—WC are somewhat puzzled to understand n very excellent and valued correspondent, touching the cause •of the death of the lute Dr. Holyoke, of Salem.— , Although he arrived ut the great age of one hundred and one years, and sat at a public table by nom slim of his brother physicians on his one hundredth birthday, it is flow gravely asserted that he did not die of old age. It Witti ascertained that it was a can cer of the stomach which hastened the me laneholy exit of the patriarch of physic in New England. But our friend would fair: ' have us believe that the rise of ardent spirits produced the disease. How old must a man be to die, actually, of old ego I We were personally acquainted with the late Donald McDonald, of quarrelsome memory, who was sent to the House of Correction, by the Police Court, for n street brawl, when about one hundred and five years old. At the age of one hundred and eight he enjoyed excel lent health, notwithstonaing an immoderate use of tobacco, and a proneness to get ab solutely drunk whenever be had an oppor. timity. The father of Donald lived to Le one hundred and thirty•seven, in Scotland, and no one knows when he would have died, had he not been accidently killed.—Med- cal htelligcncer. CoonAc, n. A Revolutionary patriot tii.ed to relate an athiedete of a man he knew when a boy, who had been a soldier in the French war. On one occasion, the English, aided by the colonial malitia, of which he was one, were besieging n French fort some where in or near Canada- In front was a space of forest levelled by a tot nado, and be neath the fallen trunks the besiegers sought shelter from the sharp fire from the f-nt; all save one man. Like another Ethan Aten, he stood upon a tree elevated above the rest, returning the enemy's fire. His com panion below hailed him to. know if be had any bullets to spare, as he was out; the repl was 'Hang you. come up Ito:e; you cat. catch a handful a taii.uto.' A N Imam Dum.—M r. O'Connor relates no in.stunce where the panics in 'an altir of honor' had actully agreed to put the nnizzsl ol their ptstols (so inveterate were they) into each other's mouths! 'and yet, would von believe it V said he 'one of them escaped.' 4 4 ' Just us the second was about I, give the signal, the other said to his princi pal" Jack, hob• hither.'—Jack turned hi head, and just in time for the ball passed out through his left cheek, doing him little hurt, while his opponent was killed. Smoutivn —The Boston Medical and Sur gical Journal Lilies ground m favor of smo king tobacco, by clerg% men, as a preventive of the ministers oil, or malady of the throat. s It says "the clergy of olden times mnke(l and chewed very oniversalv. The Icadiny. lawyers are very great smokers, and who ever heard of a lawycr who had lust hie voice'!" Thore is a man at Holly Springs so lel! that he pays no poll tax. Because why? his head is nut or the county. ENNIIO.LE NO: 474. 2aaT.:Val.2oU` :Can Overboard. No one who has ever heard this startling cry at sea, can forget the scene r.f excite ment that imo.ceiately ensues; the shout, the resit, the ilue , :og overboard of ropes and Cask , and t!:c e n ter: e anxiety with which every one wa:clies the resuh of the mencswald to saw fcNow crcaure ftom the aves. The .wece I am arson to de's: the occur red daring a rotate horn a southern port to New York, and furnishes ono of the multiplied 3,74 appalling illustrations of the ruin caused by intemperate habits. EArly rn May of the last year, I embark ed at EZVZIEIII3II in the packet brig Madison. Capt. Relkiey, a repaid which tor het own good qualities sad for those of her Captain And Mate, I would cudidently recommend. :o arc taking the Voyage. To thorough zwainaristiip, Captain B. joins one of the kindest hearts, relined by true piety. Ho is an exemplary member of the Episcopal Church. 1 here were on beard abont a dozen cabin pafsengers cad fifty or sixty in "tile steerage. Ou the erennig, of tue sec ond day out, (I thick it was,) we were off Cape !lettere.. ; it vase mild and brilliant night, and the brig was making about six riots inaler a moderate breez_.. The Cap tain and in 3 self were standing on deck to gether, when he mentioned to me that one of Itte steerage pa... A -angers was sutiimng un• dm' a paroxysm .4 - deli-ium tremens, and sug. , ested the propriety of my seeing him. I immediately went forward for the but find:ng that he had just waited until he should e.-L.:, Ile shortly ezure the cabin, said been ordered to once by ilia side gau to pray in the mos: in-ancr. Ilia groats scared the e::;;;:essitins of extieme aony. and he trembled like one under filo in t,, iluonee of an anful tit. Among other in coherent ravings. 4e caul that his mite was in bell—diat be bizmabad been summon ed to app-nr there nod iliat the devil was comics; to aqch him at four o'clock nexc morazirg. The cr.ate, hearing the he made, came in, and grasping him miller roughly by the si:onld2r, told him to leave the cabin, be caulti behave hotter he might as yo-1: go overheard. About eight in th runtaing 1 was m,alkin. , the drck,the night was mild and esceeZingly litiliiant— the moon nearly at foil and laying a long irregular aima; of light right in the wake of . the brig, when I beard a noise and scut tle in the waste of the cm-A, and directly • the cry a scan vTerboard! The drunkard had leaped from the fort of the main mast Uptril the Luboard bole - mkt% and breaking Iron, the grasp of the mate who attemptod . to hold hito, IL‘d plon„,oed over _llse aide. The Mate sprang at the FaTIM instant up the ladder, nc rushing past me, seized a lead line lying upon deck With which we had been taking soundings, threw over a large coil of it, and then at once leaped with theee or four of the crew into the boat hang ing at the davits. The Captain was on deck in a moment, and throwing aside his coat, and with it the quiet, easy, almost in dolent manner he trztrally wore, issued his orders with an energy I had not before seen hint display, and at the same time with the self possession which no one else on board seemed at the moment to retain. He or dered the helm to be put down and checks d the impatience of the Mate and crew who were r,r:owertn the stern boat at the haz ard of swamping her, before the brig's head. way had been stopped. Steatk! Mr. Hubbard, sung the Captain—don't hurry ! stand by men to clear the tackles! lower away ! handsomely there! handsomely ! In a moment torze rite boat was puNing for nib back on the brigs wake, and full in the line of the moonli;,-,lit. He watched her with in !ense eagerness until the . Captain called out to pull more to the right, when they became hidden from us in the dark mass of tossing :yawl!. Cot we still heard the sound of oars; far a shert time this was suspended ; again it commenced. and we soon distin. guished the boat pullioe rapidly on board. It has been the general (pinion that !here was no chance of picking the man up- I had seen during the day seve:al large sharks cutting areteit; the cease!, with their back tins out of the water, and between them and the probability of his eitkirg lielplesly at once, I took it for gramcd there was no hope of s.,ltie. , • Lan. Ibe quick return of the be.. 31 however, seamed to sbvw tbat their ieareli had bc-eii Fucct-ful. The n.zn lay eutionles.4 acrecs iLe thwarts. Shoal} nf• •er leaving !ha En. of moonlight, the boat come right u2en him. He had never ut tiered a ehout elr given any 6..gna! whatever, !nit Etat as if ratNthaLicallvatul unconscious :v, he was balding with the wavers, and keeping his head above water. He was ;foisted orf board and taken by same of the crew into the steerage, where his wet f:lothes were removed and replaced by oth• -Is from his c.wei Lundle, and the Captain SlenFle c I tt,1.:Y.2 to keep an eye on :um riad rrereat his cotnieg on deck. 1 IA a seep ti:inkiag t,f thts wretched victim of interaf.nance and rejoiced that he had beea hared from .cot a death, so unfit is he wa-a, to enter the presence of his linker. 1 had s!.-2pt some hours when I was au-aLri.e.; by tEc fame startling cry Jfan orcrboard! 1 gang from my birth Ind rushed (Au of the cabin door in my night blebs only. The moon had ulna down and the wind then. The brig under reefed top. -tads, was ben•ling and plunging in the xaves, buryipg bers•elf to the hawse bolts tt even- v.We the ?piny flew over .c i 7. .
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