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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.:
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-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
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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 •
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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 !
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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. .