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DAVIS & CIIKWS, J /*"?/ llaiiucr ; , I.KE it WILSON, |l Fnr Pr?*n. ! c -m mriawi " MISCELLANY. i ! tut? t> n r> T n x> ' c D I) T TV r ! L JLA. XJ 1/ V U X V XV O JLI JLv X -U JL-i J y l;v LMLUtSON l:liSNKIT. I i 'We Doctors sometimes meet with I strange adventures," once said to me a dis- I tinguis!led physician, with whom I was on < terms of intimacy. I i l,I have often thought," I replied, "that ' i tlie sccret history of some of your profession, I ; if written out in detail, would make a work 1 < i if I lii'itlinrr " - ? I '"I do not know that I exactly agree with | you iu regard to detail," rejoined my frieud, ; < "for we medical men, like every one else, j i meet with a great deal that is common place, , I and therefore not worthy of being recorded ; ; I Lut grant us the privilege of you novelists, j I lo select our characters and scenes, and l work theui into a kind of plot, with a den- i element, and, I doubt not, many of lis could < give you a romance in real life, comprising < only what we have seen, which would equal, j if not surpass, anything you ever met in the j way of fiction. Bye-thc-bye, I believe I never told you of the most strange &t;<] ro i nan tie adventure of my life ?" j "You never told mo of any of your a<lventures, Doctor,1' I replied ; "but if you : liave a story to tell 3'ou will find mean eager listener." "Very well, then, as I have a few minutes to spare, I will tell you one more wildly romantic., mere incredibly remarkable, if I insy co speak, than you probably ever found ; in a work of fiction. ! ?.r ..II ??t?r.-~ ?? ? (Aiii on ailCUllUII. | | '"Twenty-five years ago," pursued tlic I , Doctor, "I entered tlio medical college at i j F , as a student. I was then quite ! ( v young, inexperienced, and inclined to be j ( timid {ind sentimental; and well do I ro I j member t^o horror I experienced, when one ' ] pf the senior students, uudur pretence of allowing me the beauties of tho institution, ] suddenly thrust me into the dissectingroom, among several dead bodies, and closed the , door upon rue ; nor do I forget how in)' j screeches of terror, and prayers of release ( jrom mai asviui place, made mo Ibo laugh- ! }ng stock of my older companions. JJidioylo is a Lard thing to bear ; the jcowaj d becomes bravo to escape it, and the brave man fears it m'oro than he would a belching cannon. I suffered from it till I could tear it ?q more } and wrought up to a pitch of desperation, I demanded to know whnt. T nriitrht do tn redeem mv chnraeter. and gain an honorable footing aipong my fellow students. "I jiwrtell" said one, Ilia eyes sparkling with mischief; "you will go at the midnight hour, &?d dig up a subject, and tafce it (o your room, and remain alone wjtb it till morning, we will let you off, and never iftjrAnother word about your womanly .'irigUt." 1 shuddered. It was a (earful alternative: J ? . ? f but iteeomed lees terrible to suffer all the rborrors that might be concentrated into a jingle night tbaq to boar, da^ after day, tbo jeem of my companions. "Where shall I go 1 and when?" waa my timid inquiry ; and tlie very thought of 6ucb an adypRtqre tnacje my blood ran cold. . . - ,n >r a-f f ni ^? ? . "To the Eastern Cemetery, at twelv o'clock to-night,*' replied inv tormen'.or, fi> itig his keen Mack eyes upon me, and allow ing his thin lips to curl with a smile of coi tempt. ''13iit what is the use of asking sue: a coward as you to perform such a tnanl feat?" he added deridingly. His words slung me to the quick; an without further lefliction, and sea reel aware of what I was saying, I rejoined bolt ly: ' I am no coward, sir, as I will prove ti yon by performing what you call a maul feat." "You will go ?" lie asked quickly. "I will." ' Bravely s-nid, my lad!" lie rejoined, in tone of approval, and exchanging his e> pression of contempt for one of surprise atn admiration. "Do litis Morris, and llie firs mat; that insults you afterward makes ii I'lieniy of me Again 1 felt a cold shudder pass throng my frame, at the thought of what was l?< fore inc; but I ]ia<l accepted his challeng in tlic presence of many witnesses?for thi L*otiVci>ation occured as we were leavitij the hall, after listening to an evening lectin ?and I was resolved to make my wort jood, should it even cost my life; in fact, vtiew T could not do otherwise now, withou lie ri.-k of being driven in di>grace froti he colh go. I should here observe, that, in those day here were few professional resurrectionists iiki as 11 was aiisuiuieiy necessary to liavi ubjects fur dissection, liic unpleasant busi less of procuring them devolved upon tlx tudents, who, in cotiscijue'iK'ti, watclio. very funeral eagerly, and calculated tin ilianccs of cheating the sr-xlon of his charge iiid the grave of its victim. There had been a funeral, that day, of : >oor orphan girl, who had been fallowed t< he grave by very few friends; and this wa1 lonsidered a favorable chance for the path vliose turn it was to procurc the next sub ect, as the graves of the poor and friendles vere never watched with the sanm lcuwi igilance as those of the rich an<l influential still, it was no trifling risk to attempt to ex mine tlie bodies of tlio poorest ami humble? ?for not unfrequently persons were I'oiim )n tlie wateli even, over these, and only tin rear before, one stuJant, while at his mi.l light work, had been mortally wounded hi i rifle ball; another, a month or two subse juently, had been rendered a cripple for lili jy the same means. All this was explained lo me by a parti jf six or eight, who accompanied me to in; rooms which was in a building belonging o tlio college; and rented by apartment .0 such of tlie students, as prefered bachelor' ia!l to regular boarding, and thev look car .oaddsevejal terrifying stories of ghost md hobgoblins, by way of calming my ex :ited nerves; but as I have before observei dd women stand around a weak, feverisl jatsent, and croak out their experience ii 'ceing awful sufferings and fatal termina ions of just such maladies as the one will vliicli their helpless victim was then alflic ed. ' Is it expected that I should go alone ? [ inrjuiiedj in a tone that trembled in spiti ji uie, Miitie i?iy knees uirnost knockcd to jclher, and I felt as if >ny very lips wer white. "Well, no," replied Benson, my mos Jreaded tormentor; "it would be hard!; rair to send you alone, for ono individua lould not succeed in getting the body fron ihe grave quick enough ; and you, a tner youth, without experience, would be sure ti fail altogether. No, wo will go with yoi some tiiroe or four of us, and help you t Jig up tho corpse; but then you must tak it on your back, bring it up to your roon liere, and spend tho night alono with it !M It was some relief to me to find I was t liavo company during the first part of m iwful undertaking; but still I felt far froi: agreeable I assure you ; and chancing t look into a mirror, as the time drew nea for selling out, I fairly started at beholo ing the ghastly object I saw reflected then in." "Come, boys," said Benson, who was a ways, by general consent, tho leader ( whatever frolic, expedition, or undertakin he was to have a hand in?"Como boys, i is time to be on tho move. A glorioi night for us !" ho added, throwing up th window and letting in a fierce gust of win and rain ; "tho devil himself would hardl venture out in 6uch a storm !" IIo lit a dark lantern, then throw on h long, heavy cloak, took up a spade, and le the way down stairs; and the rest of u three besides my timid self, threw on ot closfcs also, took each a spade, pod follows him." We took a roundabout course, to nvoi being seen by any citizen that might chant to be stirring, end in something lees tha half an hour we reached the cemeter a^oln/1 lliA l* oil mWtiAnt ? ?MW " *?? n ikuVHk uiuiwuikji Oil stealthily searched, for the grare, till v found it, in the pitchy darlfqefs?the jgin and rain sweeping past us in dismal how find woaus, to me, trembling with terro ....... ?h.n. .. . ...fr-,-?.. . - _ . . : e ' seemed to be tho unearthly waitings of the c- 1 spirits of the damned. ; | "Ilere we arc*," wispered l?en?on to 1110, i- as we at length slopped at a mound of fresh h | earth, over which one of the party had , v stumbled. "Come, feel round. Morris, and ! stiike in your spade, and let us see if yon >1 will make n good hand at exhuming a dead y , body, as you will some day at t illing a livI ing one with physic." | I did as directed, trembling in every r? limb; but tlie first spadeful I threw up I v started back with ? yell of horror, that, on ^ anv omcr oui !i nowiing, siurmy nigni, i would have betrayed us. It appeared to j 1110 as if I bad thrust my spado into a buried a lake of lire?fur tho (iisl dirt was all aglow, j like living coals; and as I had fancied the! I j moaning of tho storm tho wilings of tormcn it , ted spirit, T now fancied I had uncovered II . a small portion of the Bottomless J 'it it- i j self. Ii j ' Foci!" hissed Benson, grasping my arm with the trrino of a vice, as I stood Ic.-iiiimr 1 e on iny spade for support, my very teeth s ehalti-rini; with terror; "another yell like I f that, and 1*11 make a subject of you ! Are : e \-ou not a>hamed of yourself, to be scared ; 1 out of vour wits, if you ever had anv, l>v a * 1 J * I little phosphorescent earth; J >oii*t you t ; know that it h often found in grave i ! yards His explanation ro-as?urcd nio, though 1 s i was too weak, from inv late fright, to he of. ? | any assistance to the party, who all fell to with a will, sccretly laughing sit me, ami ' - j soon reached the ttofliii. Splitting the lid , ' , with a hatchet, which had been brought i 1 i for the purpose, they quickly lifted out the , }' corpse; and then Benson and another of . i the party taking hold of it, one at the head and another at the feet, thev hurried it away, * bidding tile fellow, and leaving the others ' . . I > to (ill up the grave, that it might not be j suspected that the body had be exhumed. ! >' | Having got tho corpse safely over the walls of the cemetery, Benson now called s on me to perform my part of the horrible > business. 1 1 | 4'IIere, you <juaking simpleton," he suit], i - . ' I want you to take this on your hack, and t make the host of your way to your room, I and remain alone with it all iii^ht. If you i 1 . . I f* ilo this brawly, we will claim you as one of us to-morrow ; ami tin: first one that dares j f to say a word against your courage after - 1 that, shall find a foe in inc. But hark you ! j - ' if you make any blunder on the way, and . i lose our prize, it will be better for you to < quit this place before I set eyes on you \ f again ! Do you understand me J" r' "V.r/i.v.j.v/>c ?' r ct..-i.~? J . IVJV . x gMllliUigiVU HIU1 UUllb* j s i tcring teeth. s \ "Are you readv ?" | j <s "Y?yeye-yes," I gasped. s "Well, come here, where aro you?" All this time it was so daik that I could I 1 not see anything but a faint line of white,! i which I knew to be the shroud of the corpse; j > | hut I felt carefully round till I got hold of i Benson, who told me to take off my cbak ; i | and then rearing the cold body up against - , my back, he began fixing its cold arms j about my neck?bidding mo lake hold of ' ; them, and draw them well over, and keep e : tliem concealed, and bo sure and not let go I of them, on any consideration whatever, as 1 e j valued my life. Ah, the torturing horror I experienced. 1 j as 1 ineclianically followed his directions ! Y Tongue could not describe it! I At length, having adjusted the corpse so i that I might bear it oil* with comparative o ease, he threw my long, black cloak over it 0 and over my arms, and fastened it with a >1 cord about my neck, and then inquired : o "Now, Morris, do you think you can find ? ! the way to your room?" ii "I-I do-do-don't know," I gasped, feeling as if I would sink to the earth at the first o step. V ItWJI ? '? -< ? ' / I jvju v-rtiiuui. ju?u your way ii you i n ! go Btraight ahead," ho replied. "Keep in o the middle of the road, and it will tako you r tu College Green, and then you are all right. I* Come, push on, before your burden grows too heavy ; the distance is only a good half mile !" I- I set forward with trembling nerves, ex>f peeling to sink to the ground at every step; g but gradually my terror, instead of wenkenit ing, gave me strength ; and I was soon on is the run?splashing through mud and water o ?with the storm howling about me to fury, d and the cold corpse, as I fancied, cling to ; y me like a hideous vampire. How I reached my room, I do not know is ?but probably by a sort of instinct, for I d only remember of my brain being in a wild s, feverish wbirl, with ghostly phantoms all ir about me, as one sometimes sees them in a d dyspeptic dream. But reach my room I did, with my dead ^ burden on my back \ and I was afterwards :0 told that I made wonderful time j for Benn ion and his lellow students, fearing the loss h of their ?ubject?which on account of the difficulty of ffdtttaff bodies was Wflro uali.akl* ? : i ,e ?followed clo?e bohind roe, nod were ^ obliged to ruo nl tho top of their tjpeed to '8 keep itoe within bailing distance. r> The first I remember distinctly, aftor get ting to my room, was tlio ilnding myself awake in with a dim consciousness of something horrible having happened? though what, for some minutes, 1 could not for the life of me rccollcet. Gradually, however, the truth came upon me ; and then I (oil a cold perspiration start from | every pore, at thought that perhaps 1 was j occupying a room was not dark; there were a few embers in the grate which threw out a ruddy light; and fearfully raising my head, I glanced quickly and timidly j around: And there?there on the floor, against i the light hand wall, but a few feet from me ! ?there, sure enough lay the cold still ! corpse, robed in its white shroud, with a; lileain of lire liirht restintf tmon its <rh:tsilv ' w O I O I face, which to my excited fancy seemed to i move. I 'id it move ? I was gazing upon j il, thrilled and fascinated with an undes- I cribable terror, when, as sure as I see you now, I saw the lids of its eyes unclose, and | saw its breast heave and heard a low stilled j moan. "( real Cod !" I shrieked, and fell back ' in a swoon. How long I lay uuconscious I do not ! know but when I came to myself again, it is j a marvel to me that, in my excited state I did not lose my senses altogether, and be- j come tlie tenant of a mad liouse, for there ; ?right before 1110?standing up in its white i shroud. with its eyes wide open and staring j upon me, and its features tliin, liollow, and j death-hued?was the corpse 1 had brought j from the cemetery. ' In God's name, avaunt!" I gasped. ! "Go back to your grave, and rest in peace! I will never disturb you again." 'J lie large, hollow eyes looked more wild- \ ly upon me?the head moved?the lips i parted?and a voice in a somewhat sepul- j chral tone, said : ' Where am I? Where am I? Who i are you?which world am I in? Am I j living or dead V' ? I ''You were dead," I gasped, sitting up in ' bed and feeding as it' inv brain would burst with a pressure of unspeakable horror; "vou ' were dead and hurried, and I was one ofthe ! guilty wretches who this night disturbed you in your peaceful rest, liut go back, j poor ghost, in Heaven's name! and no mor- ' tal power shall induce me to come nigh you 111 ' again : ''Oh ! I feel faint," said the corpse, gradii-1 ally sinking down unon the floor with a groan. ''Where am 1!?Oh ! where am I r "Great God !" I shouted, as ihe startling truth suddenly Hashed upon me; "perhaps this poor girl was buried alive, and is now living!'' I bounded from tho bed and grasped a hand of the prostrate body. It was not warm?but it was not cold. I put my irembling fingers upon the pulse. Did it beat? or was it tlio pulse in my fingers? I thrust my hand upon tho heart. It was warm? there was life there. Tho breast heaved ; she breathed ; but the eyes were now closed, and tho features had the look of death. Still :? ~ 1: i_ _ i - T " ii. was <1 iivm-j uuuy?or cise l invscii was insane. I sprung to the door, tore it open, and shouted for help. "Quick ! quick !" cried I; "the dead is alive! ? the dead is alive !" Several of the students, sleeping in adjoining rooms, cntne hurrying to mine, thinking I had gone mad with terror, as some of them had heard my voice before, and all knew to what a fearful ordeal I had been subjected. "Poor fellow !" cxclaimed one, in a tone of sympathy; "I predicted this." "It is too bad," said another; "it was too much for his nervous Rystem !" "I am not mad,1' returned I, comprehending their suspicions; "but the corpse is alive! hasten and see !" They hurried into the room, one after another; and the foremost stooping down to what ho supposed was a corpse, put his hand upon it aud exclaimed : "Quick! a light and some braudy ! She lives! sho lives!" All now was bustle, confusion and excitement, one proposing one thing, and another something else, and ajl speaking together, They placed her on the bod, and gave h er some brandy, when she again revived, I ran for a physician, (one of the faculty,) who came and tended upon her through the night, and by sunrise the next morning she was reported to bo in a fair way for rocovery. 'Now what do you think of ir.y story so far ?" queried tbe Doctor, with a quiet smile. * ''Very remarkableI replied i "very remarkable, indeed j But tell me, did the girl finally recover I" "She did ; and turned out to be a most beautiful creature, end only sweet seventeen. "And I suppose she blessefebe resurrectionists all the rest of her life!*1 I rejoined, with a laugh. "aba certainly tela one or them m kind remembrance," relied the Poctor with a sigli, la ?. ^ . yy^gi "What became of her, Doctor "W hat should liavo bccome of her, nc- j cording to tho well known rules of poetic j justice of all you novel writers?" returned j my friend, with a peculiar smile. "Why," said I, laughing, "she should have turned out an heiress, and married you." "And that is exactly what she did!" re- ; joined the Doctor. "Ciood heavens! "You are jesting!" "No, my friend, no," replied the Doctor, in a faltering voice : "that night of horror only proceeded the dawn of my happiness; for that girl?sweet lovely Helen Leroy?in time became my wife, and the mother afmy two boys. She sleeps now in death beneath the cold, coM sod." added tho Doctor, in a tremulous lone, and brushing a tear from his eye; ,;and no Inimftn icsurrceliouisls shall ever raise licr to life again ?" Nettie. "Ncltic i* n strange coijuette !" All the ladies cry. Si) lonij as Nettie jilts not me, Pray, what euro 1 i If Nettie hath n mind to laugh, Anil Irilh no luiiul to crv, "Who shall rehnko her merry mood ? in truth, not 1. But if love. deep as deepest sea, As lasting ns tlic sky. lie Nellie's wish who'll uivo it her? I answer, I. Wedded Lovo. Thus shall tny bosom cling to thine, }.'nchangcri hy gliding years ; Through Fortune's rise, or decline, In sunshine or in tears ; And though between us oceans roll, And rocks divide u*. still my soul Shall fool no jealous fears ; Confiding in ft heart like thine, Love's unconliuiied shrine. THE FRIGATE^ TENDER; Or The Ruse. It was early on a sunny morning, during the progress of tlio last war with Great Britain, that a naval officer, walking on the Battery at New York, had his attention drawn to a group of persons earnestly engaged in watching two vessels that were just visible down the harbor. 'What is it, ray friends ?' ho asked, in a frank, hearty tone, as he joined thetn. 'The tender, again, chasing in a schooner sir,' answered an old tar, touching the point of his hat, as he noticed the anchor button on me orucor s coal. 'llore is a spy-glass, sir,' said a master's mate who stood near, at the same time respectfully banding it to him. 'Thank you, my man,' answered the lieutenant with a smile, as lie took the instrument and placed it to his eye. By its aid he could clearly distinguish an armed schooner of about ninety tons, crowding sail inchasc of a trading, 'fore and af ter,' that was making every exertion to escape, both l>y towing and wetting her sails. 'The chase m about half a mile ahead, ttii* * c*iil mncfur1*! * Vint! nr?<1 /-?? .sails like a shark in chase of a dolphin. The fore and after don't stand any chauco of getting in past the fort.' 'The tender can sail, and 1 am the one that ought to know it,' said a stoat weather-beaten man. 'She was a pilot boat, and the fastest craft that ever danced over the water. Three weeks ago I and crew were out in her, when yon English frignto suddenly made her appearance out of a fog bank, and brought us to. 15ut I took to my yawl and pulled for the land a league away, and escaped ; for the fog was so thick that the Englishman could not get a glimpse of inc. It is my schooner they linve turned into a tender, sir, and that made bo many captures tho last tlireo weeks of our small coasters. 'She carries forty men and a long thirlytwo,so I bear,' observed a seaman in the group. 'And is commanded by a luff and a reefer,' added the master's mate. It would bo a blessing/ observed a mannf.u/or'a man o/Iia tio/1 nstf rnt onnlron ?Tf W. ..... o .UKU, MttU At that c-rafl could bo caught napping. It aint safe for a sloop to put her nose out of the harbor, beyond the capo ; but while the frigate was there alone, they could slip along the coast in light water, and show her theirLeels. But now everything that ventures out is brought to by the long gun of the tender.' 'That's a fact, Ben,' responded another seaman, 'feho has taken or driven back in port no less than twenty six craft in the I ..ft ll.XOO toaol.o T .1.-11 I 1- j / -_ r??w ?M|V? ? Oiinii w gmu lor fODC, when our frigate laying off there gets ber 'armament aboard ; for tben I think we'll swallow ibe English frigate outside, find pick our teeth with the tender.' " All these remarks were heard by the young o^oer, jjrbo all the while cautioned to look though the spy glaii St thtf tender apd bercbase. 'There goes a gt*n P crted several of the spectators,as a fl^shanda jet of smoke csmo front the tstyier'a-bows. Thart bold enough,* observed the young officer, as jf speaking hi? thought* alond ; the imprudent tender i? almost up to the - ?- in iii i^n" i?lini fort, and dares to fire at the chase in the very face of the batteries.' i 'It's only to try and do her mischief, sir,' said the master's mate ; 'for she finds the ! fore and after will escape her, so she flics a < gun to cut away something.' I 'Von are right, my man,' responded the oflicer, 'for she has put about and stunds seaward again.' i lie continued to watch the retiring ten- i I I der for some moments in silence. ! 'It's a pity that we hadn't an armed cutter in port that would sail faster than she !: can ; so that we might give iier a chase out,' i said a lad approaching the group. His ' dross was that of a midshipman, and his : air singularly free and careless. 'Ah, l-'rank, are you lu re V said the lieu- i tenant. 'Come nsiilo with me,' said he, ; ! ; ' , |niuii)g iiih arm in umi 01 ntc midshipman. ' '1 liavc conceived a plan for capturing the tender.' 'In what way, sir?' demanded the youth. 'I will show you. The tender's game appears to be the coasting vessels from which 1 she takes men to impress in the British naj vy, and also plunders the craft of such things I as they contain which are of nnv vnlnn Mr I ' J I : plan is to charter an old sloop, the worst ; J looking ono that it is possible to find in port, yet a tolerable sailor, for sho must : work well and readily obey her helm. I will load her deck with hen coops, filled i with poultry, pens crammed with pigs and J a few sheep, and a calf or two by way of variety. You laugh, Frank, but the commander of the tender will finrl if lnm*1.5n<r ! matter, if I succeed as I anticipate. I sball ship about thirty-five men, and conceal ( them in the hold ; and taking command of my craft with one hand only visible on the leek, I sball set sail out of tho harbor- j [ When I get outside, I think I shall bo able i to show John Bull a Yankee trick he will not be likely to forget very soon. But all will depend on your good management of the affair. Now you see what I would be at Frank ! Will you join ino J' 'Heart and hand sir,' responded Fiank . Talbot, with enthusiasm. 'Now wo want to proceed at oncc to action,' said the lieutenant, 'I want you to go to the Anchor rendezvous, in Pearl street, and drum up about five and thirty men. Take only those that are daring and ready for ! anything. Let iiono of thein know your object, lest we should he betrayed by information being conveyed to the tender. You will find enough in these times that will ask no questions. Meet roe at twelve o'clock at the Exchange reading rooms, and report to me.' The midshipman then look his leave, and hastened up the Battery. Tho lieutenant returned to the group, and taking aside the master's mate, whom wo knew, ho laid briefly before him his project. Tho old tar eniereu into u witu all zeal. Together they went to tbe docks, where on account of the blockade, lay idle a largo number txf vessels of every description. They were not long in discovering such a craft as suited them ; a Hudson sloop of 70 tons. She was immediately put in trim for sailing by the masters mate and three or four men whom he employed, while tho officer proceeded to buy up aud send on board his live stock. ***?*** *?. The morning following these events, the tender of the British frigate was standing off and on under easy sail and'*close iiv with Sandy llook. The wind was'from the southwest, and blowing about a five knot breeae. The sky was without a cloud, and only a gentle undulation lifted the surface of tho ocean. The tender was a clipper built vessel, very narrow in tho beam, ami constructed wholly with an eye to her fast sailing Qualities ; and she nave woof of them bv overhauling everything. She carried amidslyps a long thirty-two pounder. Her crow consisted of about thirty men, in the uni. form of tho British navy. They were now principally assembled in the bow and on the wiudlass talking together or watching the Bhore. Aft, the officer of the deck, a bluff, full-faced young English 'middy,'was lounging over the quarter railing, smoking a cigar. The man at the helm had a sinecure of his post, for the vessel tripped along so easily that she seemed almost to stoer herself. 'Sail ho !' cried tho lookout from the heel of tho bowsprit. 'Where away V quickly demanded the officer. * ' * 'In shore two points forward the beam V 4Aye? aye, I see I' answered the middy, leveling bis glass at a sloop just stealing out of the harbor elosely hugging the shore, ItYanolher of the Yankee ooaftera, A tail in enoro, ?ir, aiaoiey, said be, speaking through the ?ky light. The lieutenant* a stout, fleshy-viwged John Bullf<y?mQ oh deck and took a eight at the stranger, which waa about a league distant. It is a lumber kloop/bot we WUI bring her to, if sbo dares venture out for we may gfel sodje fresh pro*iaious*and vegetables fro(u her, if nothing more,' maMaMMhia(itoM(^..*r.lii in 'Shall I put her on the other truck, strffc naked the middy. 'Not yet. Keep on as we are till tli? sloop gets nn offing. If we run for her now. she will take refuge in the harbor/ replied the lieutenant. The sloop stood out for half a mile, andl llien linulding her wiiid, beat down alonp? the land. The tender delayed her chase till' she had got too fai f.om the entrance of the harbor to get back again, and then putling about, ran for her as to cut her off. Thosloop seemed to take alarm, and, putting1 ituoiu, ucgan io maKe me best or her way towards the harbor she had left. Confident of the speed of his own vessel, thaEnglish lieutenant felt satisfied that thechase was already his, and laughed at tlu>dibits of the sloop to get away, At length they enmo near enough to ?e?that her decks were covered with pigs aDit poultry. 'A rare haul wo shall make tbi* morning,' said the middy, "Enough of chicken pie for the whole frigate's crew, tasay nothing of the turkeys and roast pig for the cabin.' 'What a regular slab sided Yankee skip*per she has at her helm ! Man and boy,. she has a stout crew !' said the lieutenant;, laughing. 'They looV frightened out ofr their senses, as they begin to think they are' gone for it! Sloop ahoy I' 4\Yeat ye want V camo across tho waiter. in the strongest nasal of Yankeedonn. I want you to heave to, brother Jonathan !' 'I'd rather not, if its n)l the same toyoU'I' I'm in a niity hurry " was tha reply. 'Frank' added the dissuiaed officer,.in an undertone, 'when i order you to let go. the jib, yon'must Omn it aft as hard'as your strength will let you. I at the same timewill put the helm hard up, so the stoop; will pay vapidly otT, and faH aboard ofi thetender} for ilm determined to fall? aboard! of her. 1 shall curse your blu<)derA,.and> order you to let goj but don't mind' me keep pulling the jib sheet hard to windwardt Leave tho rest to rac, Now, my man/'liasaid speaking through the companion way,. Hake a (rood grasp of vour cwtUuuea- and] pistols. When I stamp ray foot on. the duek over your heads, throw off'the hatches*, leap on deck, and follow me.' 'Heave to, or I'll sink you! What ar?you palavering about!" sliouted the lishmau. TIio two vessels were ?ow side by side*, steeviug the same course, abeam of- eacU> other?the tender tu leward, about atbua* died fathoms off, 'Wnl, don't be too ftee with your pow* der, and 1 will. Amindab, let go-tliut-j^k sheet.* 'Ye*, I will* answered the reefer 5 and with a hearty will he hegAO.to.cUaw it to windward at the same mornentitUe^Vmericaa officer put the li'elm hart) upland tha sloop rapidly paid off right toward*-the tear dert 'Let go that jib sheet f shouted tile Bbglish officer. 'Yes, Aiuinndab^ you taraal fool yoUt.lfet; it go, ] say f Let it go J Don't joujM* we are coming right aboard the captaiojfcYCS3el V i Hut 'Aoiinadab1 pulled tho harder,, and fairly took a turn with the sheet about a. belaying pio. The English oflkcr was about to. ?0O? out upon him a volley of oath#, when*seeing that the sloop would certainly (all foul of hiua, he turned to give oiden iur tka protnAlinn aT l?'o Atun ?!/\rn/v1 ktti ?? bvuvivn u? wuu IWWCI | IMIt ere OD tfWWl utter them, the sloopte bows, struck hat uear the foro rigging and swung rounds aieru. At the same iustaut the American oftoer stamped upon the deck, and forty nm utade their appearance, from the Wrhew> foreoaitle, and cabin, and leaped after ^Kuival upon the tender** deck. The Englishman taken by surprise, surrendered * without scarcely strUdug * blow; and, getting both vessels under sail, in the very sight oT lb* fngaie, tbe gallant young captain sailed wi*k We pri*a DncK inio uio naruor, atju safely iBoboratt her off tlie Battery after a* afcmee of ai? hours and twenty-seven miftuts>k This exploit U danbtleaa aaaaftte Eldest nnd most spirited during the war, and tUe afepct&t'gfaran above is a faithful narrative tion. A gentleman, dined, ogp day with * dull preacher. Dinner wu scarcely ov*r, jjf-* iore we genuemaQ ieu uiaej^ imi w^ JWp(-> ened by the divine ?n ininted ta ?9 jjtjk hear him preach. . ' 1 r" 'I beseech you, sir,' Mid he, *t6r<|gM0ji me ) I can sleep very wall Wfcflie n Printer* with nlpS empted from twtatioa in A4r8 York. z*;W'JL .r