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[From, the New York Tribune.]
Jv - PLEA FOR THE HEART.
p|p " BY HENRY W. PARKER.
r&T' The human heart! the human heart!
. ^ A sea in storm, or sea at rest
>- - Where golden joys in glimpses dart,
' Or monsters lift a bristling crest:
< . And bidden fountains boil below,
And upper, under currents flow?
Ah, why and whither, who may know 1
Such is the heart
' '
Trust not the heart, if it be trust
1 In hoarded goodness, windy will;
The rock of faith is drifting dust?
And wilfulness in lust of ill;
But if thy calmer mood it be
That lores to bow the humble knee,
-Fear not?an angel leadeth,thee,
Follow thy heart
^ Passion may flash in vivid flame
" And madly rush at reason's bound ;
And worship tor a human name,
<" May madly cast thee to the ground ;
' But if 'tis love, and love alone,
That, as a flower has gently grown,
And would to seraph eyes be known,
V'-J: >, Honor thy heart.
Doubt may embattle earth and sky;
\ - The holiest word seems but a word:
Yet Ijeed thy heart; let not its cry
In all the conflict be unheard.
God is not found in mental din :
A way He would more sweetly win?
Oh, bring the King of Glory in!
J* Believe thy heart.
Error may come in robes of light
Andlead thee in its sylvan path,
Or wrongs may rise in feltered might,
yi And ask a voice ef righteous wrath:
But first learn silence; stay to think,
{ ' . And if thy burdened soul must sink,
- From outward danger scorn to shrink;
Utter thy heart
Wouldst raze the castle that may screen
The nested adders of the past:
Or wouldst thou wreath it in the green
Of reverent ivy clinging fast ?
I Cherish the old, nor feer the new.
V And pay the past its grateful due,
? Yet be to human longings true; *
. Enlarge thy heart.
The human heart?a sea at rest,
. . Or tost in dashing passion's play,
> " A gate that bars each angel guest,
L. Or swings apart to boundless.day ;
A vine that struggles for the light,
; Or falls?a knotted mass of blight *
And self-impiercihg thorns of spite?
Oh, save thy heart
The heart isall; be thine a deep
That mirrors all the upper blue;
gAn arch triumphal v:ith a sweep
" So high that heaven may enter through;
?C; - A growth that clasps the Highest Throne,
And circles Earth?a blooming zone?
^ - A heart?a pulse of Nature's own!.
h Such be thy heart
By. Courage.?"Well, Patrick my good fellow,''
B. said a victorious General to brave son of Erin, afB
ter a bloody battle, "and what did you do to
^ help us gain this victorry?' "Do! repeated Pat,
"may it plaze your honor, I keketf up bloody to
> wun of the iniiuy and cut off Iris feet.' "Cut off
k . his feet, and why did you not cut off his head!'
\ asked the General. "Ah, and, faith, that was
k~' off already!" says Pat.
Bullets and Tin Pistols?Two Irishmen walkIB
ing together observed a pile of lead upon the side
walk.
ISr "How would you UKe, l ai, juskcu une, vj
|Biave it melted into bullets, aud to receive one
of them into your soft head ?'
"Faith,'said Pat, "Pd rather it was made into
B^a tin pocket pistol, and ttpn neither of us would
W mind taking a shot from it.
Br A lovely woman, says an exchange, always
W se>>ms more lovely when attending to flowers.
El There is such a sweet affinity between a rose-bud
Pjf and a coral Op, that more than once we. have
If kissed the one for the other.
A gentlemen wishing to get rid of a visitor,
r-^nd not liking to tell him "To put on his hat
1 and' make himself scarce,' modified it thus:
Elevate your golgotha to the summit of your
f pericranium, and allow me to present to your
ocular that scientific pieceof mechanism which
K" forms the egress portion of this apartment."
k Rice Batter Cakes.?Mix two cups of cold
r boiled rice with one cup of flour and one cup of
corn meal, and cold milk enough to form all inSfr
to a stiff batter, to which add a little naleratus.
Bake on a hot griddle. Nothing in the shape
hot cakesJort5W8Wiast4:an excel this dish.
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[From the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal]
Constantinople.
After leaving Smyrnia, the passage through
the Dardanelles' was delightful beyond anything
in the course of mv vovagines in foreign lands.
We are but a few miles from land on either side,
and every island, every promontory and inch of
terra firma above water, was classical ground:?
the plain of ancient Troy?Mount Ida?the
.great mounds over the remains of Achilles, Patroclus,
^Eneas, and Hecub?each of which
mounds would yield, I doubt not, materials for
a dissertation of great interest to the archaelogist,
were they explored; for they remain, within
precisely as they were left by those who made
them. Without recounting the particulars of the
wide scenes?the Hellespont, where Leander
swam across to Hero?or the phases of character
in the vessel, where there were praying Turks,
smoking Arabs, veiled beauties enveloped in large
white sheets, that no man should see them;
Greeks in such breeches as are seen no where
else; slaves, soldiers, officers, dervishes, monks;
Germans, Italians, English, and French, all staring
at each other as oddities both in physiognomy
and dress?I must come directly to the busi
ness of stating that i am now writing in Constantinople.
No descriptions of the beauty of
the scenery, the grandeur of the appearance on
approaching the C/olden Horn from the sea of
Marmorv, or the loftiness of the Mosque of St.
Sophia, "iomes up to the real impression the first
sight of the imposing array of public and private
edifices makes on the mind. I shall not think
of attempting any thing like a narrative of what
is to be seen or what I have examined. The
Turks never take a census, therefore the population
of Constantinople cannot be ascertained ;
yet it is conjectured to stand in the neighborhood
of 850,000, and perhaps there may be more.?
The city is far superior, within, to what I bad
anticipated, from the relation of travellers and
from personal experience in most of the great cities
belonging to the Ottoman empire, which I
have ranged over. Most of the streets are narrow
and crooked, but being up hill and down,
they are drained of the waste water thrown into
them from dwellings. -Rains, too, clear thorn of
offal, that in Cario, Jerusalem, Damascus, Alexandra,
Rhodes. Cyprus, <fcc., <fcc., is a source of
disease and perpetual offence. Some of them
will admit of the movement of a carriage?but
of all queer things, Constantinople coaches arc the
most absurd contrivancesimaginable. They have
no seat, but-contain two persons, who sit on the
floor faciug each other, and are drawn by one
horse, led by a driver. The body is carved and
gilded atrociously. Horses, very plump and
finely proportioned, are standing all the while at
certain stations for hire. Donkeys are not patronized
here, as every-where else in the East.?
The water is alive with thousands of light long,
narrow boats, called caiques?pronounced caiks
?appearing much as though they were made from
a log. One man rows cross-handed, the voyagers
sitting flat down. There is no safety without
resigning one-self to the direction given on stepping
in, as they roll over instanter if a raismoveinent
occurs. Most of the walking for sight
seeing is done in these boats. The bazars are so
extensive?being miles upon upon miles in length
were they strengthened into lines?that I have
given over the intention of seeing them all. You
travel hours together in narrow streets, lined with
shops 011 either side, and covered over head by
heavv arches?the light being admitted through
glass windows. In all other Turkish and Arab
bazaars, the streets are covered by mats, reeds,
poles, and vinos, as they could bo procured. All
the druggist wholesale dealers are together; and
I. verily believe they are a medicine taking race,
or it would be impossible that so many hundreds
of these could be sustained. Each one has a sign
by which his particular stall is known, instead of
his name. Some have a miniature ship, another
a miniature mosque, a third the head of an animal,
a fourth a morter, a fifth a key, and so on.
Then the shoemaker, silk twist dealers sword and
pistol merchants?the latter very numerous.?
Grocers make a feeble show, owing to the smallness
of their stalls, and the exhibition of their
stock, in baskets. It is usual for pretty exten
siye dealers in many parts of Syria to keep all
they have in straw baskets, or bag mats, quite exposed
in the street, through the day. A five dojr
Jar customer would clear out the establishment,
and perhaps make the owner's fortune. A capi
tal of ?10,000 is incomprehensible to these kind
niiirclwuits?fhr that sum. well buried out of
the reach of tfte government fmrpiers, would be
thought an inexhaustible fortune for coming generations.
One very'long bazaar is occupied on one side
by pipe makers exclusively?where you not only
sec more mouth peices than there are saints in
the city of amber, glass, and pVecious woods but
a pcrlect multitude of men sitting on the floor
near the edge of the street, and turning out more
pieces with bow laths. They hold the point of the
chisel with the toes of either foot, just as pcriectly
as we do with our hands. This educating of
the muscle of feet, to give mechanics the advantage
of four hands, instead of two, is an every
day affair. I have often witnessed their expertncss
in using tools between the great and second
tne all nver the oarts of Asia which I have been
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viewing. Embroidery stalls are immensely numerous.
All these people are fond of tinsel,
la&- work on their clothes.
The Merchant's Clerk axd the Plowroy.
?The young man who leaves the farm field for
the merchant's desk or the lawyer's or
doctor's office, thinking to dignify or ennoble his
toils, makes a sad mistake, lie passes, by that
step, from independence to vassalage. He barters
naturally for an artificial pursuit, and must
L _ .1 1-..^ ..e *V./? Annri/ta t\f fMlsfnmprs And ttvn
CK3 UHJ Slave Ui uio v?. v..v
chicane of trade, either to support himself or to
acquire a fortuue. The more artificial is a man's
pursuit, the more debasing is it morally and phycally.
To test it, contrast the merchants^ clerk
and the plow-boy. Sho former may have most
/ -
exterior polish, but the latter, under his rough !
outside posseses the true stimina. Ho is the !
freer, franker, happier, and nobler man. Would j
that young men might judge of the dignity of
labor by its usefulness and manliness, rather
than by the superficial glosses it wears. Therefore,
we never see a man's nobility in his kid
gloves and toilet adornments, but in that sinewy
arm, whose outline, browned by the sun betoken
a hardy, honest toiler, under whose farmer
or mechanic's vest kinglicst heart may beat,
TTimfv Mf>>-rhnnPs Man/mine
From the Soil of the South.
A Treatise on the Culture of Corn.
BY JAMES M. CHAMBEhC.
For this crop, I lay it down as indispensably
necessary, that the earth should be broken deep
and thorougly. The process of preparation may
vary with the nature of the soil. The time of
planting, in this climate, where the summers are
hot and long, and doughts frequent should be
just as early as may be practicable, to escape the
spring frosts, and the culture should be early and
rapid. First, then, I say, the earth is to be pre
pared by deep, close and thorough plowing. This
is necessary, to give an opportunity to the small
fibrous roojs, which are so numerous with this
plant, to shoot out and penetrate the earth easily,
to retain proper moisture when dry, and to absorb
excess of moisture when wet.
Next, I would secure deep and thorough
breaking of the ear-h immediately about where
the young roots first begin to spread, by a deep
and close listing with some long plow; nothing
in use among us is better for this operation than
a well made Scoeter. This done, the opening
furrow, checking across the list, in which to drop
the seed, should be deep, and so wide as to stand ;
well open, free from clods or turf; and the seeel
corn being dropped in the check, then cover with
the hoe, by drawing a small portion of loose earth
upon ths seed which should, when planted, not
have more than a depth of one and a half or two
inches of earth upon it. I would put in three
or four grains, where only one was to stand, esteeming
it much better to thin than to replant,
thereby securing an early, regular and good
stand. As soon as the young corn was up, with
about four blades, the first work should be given.
My process would be to plow with a long Scooter
or Coulter, running as near the corn as possible,
without plowing it up, and breaking out the
whole middle deep, close and thorough, leaving
the whole bed soft and well pulverized. The
Vinoc elinnlel fnllnw elrwe after thp nlows. clean
ing the surface about the stalk, leaving no young
grass or weeds, and returning enough soft earth
to cover the roots of the corn a little deeper than
they were before; and at this hoeing, I should
thin out, ordinarily, all except the one stalk
which was to l>e left to make the crop. In about
twenty days, the plows should return again. At
this time, if the plowing previously had been
deep and thorough, I should not plow quite so
deep as the first. But this also ought to be a
deep plowing, and the middle of the row also to
be well broke and pulverized. A small mould
board ought to be attached to the plow, running
next to the com, so as to place a greater depth
of earth 011 the roots, thereby securing moisture
and protection from the hot sun. Now is the
time, when the roots are spreading rapidly and
widely, seeking nourishment and moisture in the
soft and well plowed soil. At this working, care
utinnia l,o tnltnii-tlmt whf>n th<? work is done.
each furrow should well fill up its predecessor, so
so that every inch of earth should be broken, and
no furrows in the bed should Ik? seen standing
open to expose the roots as they shoot across,
but all sbould lie smooth and soft. At this
working, the hoes should also follow, cleaning
any hills which the plow should have slighted,
straightening up the bent stalks, pulling out any
surplus stalks or suckers, and cleaning round the
stumps and trees. Care should be taken at this
working to leave no grass or weeds near the
stalk. If the plows have faithfully performed
their duty, but little will remain for the hoes to
do. The corn will now be sufficiently large to
bear the dirt, and a good plowman with a well
fixed plow, will throw the soft earth around the
root of the stalk, covering up most of the grass,
which as yet must l>e very small and young, and
sufficiently hilling the corn, leaving the work
nearly complete without the aid of the hoe. In
these workings, I would greatly prefer that the
earth should be in a moist state, but regard it
unsafe to delay the work, more than a few days
at most, to wait for just such seasons as would
bo preferred. As a general rule, in the cultivation
of the crop* it is not best to regard the seasons
too much, but move directly and energetically
forward, leaving the results to be controlled
by Ilim who "giveth the early and the latter
rain."
About three weeks after this working, the
third and last should be given. The operation
of laying by corn Is one requiring more discretion
and judgment, usually, than any other, and
much after all must be left to the judgment of
the planter, dependent upon the circumstance of
the case. It would sometimes happen that it
had been dry, and everything standing as when
left; at another time, hard rains will have ensued,
and all the former plowing have been undone,
the land washed and settled hard and
close again. What to do, and how to do, must
be determined very much by the necessity and
circumstances of the case. If the seasons had
been ordinary, plow shallow and not very close,
leave the surface of the bed smooth and soft,
without having torn the roots of the com much.
The weather is now hot, and the roots of the
corn matted and spread thick through all the
earth Irom row to row. The stalk needs all the
nourishment and support which the roots can
give, and it is at great hazard now to cut off
ttw'sn snnnlies. ITonrn the neeessitv of those
early, rapid and thorough workings, which I
havo recommended, before the- roots have so
spread out; before the weather has become so
hot; and beforo the stalk, now sappy, needs so
much support. As I have previously remarked,
I now repeat, this crop must be worked rapidly
and thoroughly. It will not do to let the young
corn stop growing, or the stalk ever become hard.
It must be pushed from the beginning, and if
ample justice has not been done in the earlier
workings, it is in vain to hope by later workings,
to reclaim and make good a corn crop which has
been permitted to suffer in the earlier part of
the season. The roots of corn grow upon the
stalk, and arc all the while seeking the surface?
hence the necessity of adding more earth.1*1
At the last working, if I wanted to make the
-mv.n norfiii't T wnuM nase nvpr with thp hops
x..?r .^v, - ..w_, v
after the plows, clean out every thing, pull off
suckers, straighten up the bent stalks, and draw
some more earth around ihe root of the corn,
giving greater protection against the scorching
heat of the sun, and retaining moisture longer
about the root. My opinion is, if proper attention
has been given in throwing dirt to the stalk
in former workings, that not a great deal remains
to be done in that way at the laying by.
It remains now for something to be said about
distances of rows, number of stalks, hill and drill
corn, <fec. Taking the common lands of our
country for my basis, and it is perhaps best, in
a treatise of this sort, to select a medium grade.
I would give my preference to hill corn, rather
than drilled, and to one stalk in preference to
two, in the hill. I would have the hills four and
a half feet one wuy and three and a half the
other, and leave one stalk in eachjiill. The first
plowing should be the narrow way, the two last
the wide way of the rows. My objection to drill
corn, is founded mainly in the difficulty in getting
the stand uniform in the distance of the
stalks from each other, and I think it requires a
little more labor in its cultivation. My objections
to the two stocks in the hill are, the one
stalk is better fed and sustained when standing
alone, than two would be thrown together to seek
their supplies from thesame space of earth; that
consequently more vigor will be imparted to one
than could be to the two; that in time of drought
the two will s lfier more than the one; that the
two stalked com cannot be worked so conveniently
worked either with the plow or hoe, and
will not produce such large ears. I admit there
maybe frequently, perhaps generally more in
number, but the cars of one stalk will he uniformly
larger, the yield as great, and the quality
of the corn better. On river bottoms, where
the lands are richer, more stalks may be crowded
upon the lands : more and different workings
may be required; and of course the plan should
be so varied as to suit the circumstances of each
case.
It will be borne in mind that my theory is
made out to suit the medium -average lancU of
the country. In the close, I would remark that
I have written for practical men, have presented
facts, rather than scientific theories, and if there
is any merit in my thoughts, the plan is easy of
comprehension and adoption by the great body
of planters. In the selection of seed, I have only
to add, that I like that corn which has least
cob and most grain, and would select those ears
which have deep, long grains. I have no doubt
that,much improvement may be made by a judicious
selection of the seed for corn planting;
by selecting from the field those ears where two
may be found on the same stalk, and where the
ears are large, well matured, and well tilled. The
benefit of this plan has been very fully demonstrated.
It will be found, however, to be true,
that almost in the same proportion jis the number
of cars are mnltiplied their size will be diminished.
Between these two extremes will
therefore be found the best seed, and the best
guide for its selection.
As to the varieties of corn cultivated in this
country, my preference is for that which seems
to have fallen in as a 6ort of medium, betwixt
the old gourd seed and the flint, possessing the
peculiar qualities of neitner, but a sort of combination
of both.
I might enlarge this treatise by speaking of the
kinds and methods of manuring, but as that
properly constitutes a separate branch and our
society have called for a separate treatise on the
application of manures, I shall not trespass upon
your patience by adding more.
IIiLLixG Crops.?Hilling, ridging, and moul-i:
? .1 1. ?..?i
Ul'Jg up plains, mum;u luc twj;ciiciai piuupivAr
from time immemorial, is sis much opposed to
reason and observation as it is to the economy
or nature, and these ought to govern all our ag.
. . ?
ricultural pursuits. It is a practice only serviceable
to celery, or other plants which require to be
blanched. This mistaken practice compels the
plants to form a new set of roots, as often as they
are hilled up. This injures the growth of the
plants. It is also exactly calculated to carry otf
rains and produce artificial droughts. A level
cultivation, which is the best, should only be
indeed enough to extirpate weeds. Ridgingand
cutting the loots of the plants with the plow, although
very commonly done, is undoubtedly an
injurious practice. The hoe and cultivator are
the best instruments, for cleaning crops.
TTnoop TlicTrMniT! ?Pnr in flip mnrnincr and
night, about one-half of ateaspoonful of spirits
of turpentine on the bone between the ears, dirictly
on the top of the head.?Apply the same
for several days, or until the disease appears to
give away,
The above remedy or cure for that afflicting
disease, commonly called " horse distemper," was
comminicated to me recently by an individual
who had successfully tested its efficacy in several
instances. I have had but one opportunity
to prove its value, and in that one was perfectly
successful. I think that if the horse be attended
to at the commencement of the disease, there
mill K/. n/> ?,n/v-.eciftT nf hie lrwinrr n dnv's work.
In all tiio books that I. have read, I have never
yet found as speedy and certain a cure for this
disease as the above.
The Spanish Govexmext.?From the suppression
of .the Diario dc la Marina, in Havana,
the recall of C <nch;i, and other recent acts of . j
the Spanish G vernment, the New York Her- 'is??
aid draws the inference that it has been takirg *'
into considerat on the position, destiny, and se- . V3sSj
curity of Cuba, and that under the good sense
and influence of Queen Christina, who iaaonsidered
the own jr that of that island?^rcy are - ilia
preparing the way to dispose of the gem of the ' vgjgi
Antilles to the United States, at eighty or a
hundred mill ons of dollars, or as much as they
can get. They want to smooth the way to a
good bargain, and arc doing everything, for that ..'2
purpose to conciliate the good feeling of the
American people, and draw forth a high 'price '- '1
from the American Government. The sudden '
removal of Gen. Concha?tire arrival of a new ' s
Governor iti Cuba?the suppression or disapproval
both of the Diario de la Marina ana the ; v;
Cronica?hithe-to so very savage against the . .'f jjl
American people and Government? are all
parts of the same grand scheme, instigated bj-'. " - i|!|nH
Queen Christina for the purpose of getting the . '-I&B
best price for Cuba at an early day. That ;
beautiful diplomatist has found out that she cant
make more money by selling the island, than by
the revenue she could hope to receive from it' ' : >^3
hereafter. She litis a number of very tine young
daughters, who want large fortunes; and the sales '
of the island to the United States, for a hundred
millions of dollars, would enable her to marry 1'4
them off to some of the princes and royal bloods ' ?
of Europe, with great eclat and splendor. '?%
Spiritual Knowledge.?There is not so much
need of learning as of grace to apprehend those _ f"
things which concern our everlasting peace; neU .
ther is it our brain that must be set to'work, but
our nearc. nowever excellent tne use 01 scuoiarship,
in all the sacred employments, of divinityv
yet in the main act which imparts salvation, skill
must give place to affection. Happy is the soul V*-I|
that is possessed of Christ, how poor soever in . ;4||
all inferior endowments. Ye all wise and ye
great wise, while ye spend yourselves in curious
questions, and learned extravagancies, ye shall '-^53
find one touch of Christ more worth to your ;y|j$
souls, than all your deep and laborious discussion.
In vain shall ye seek for this in your books,
if ye miss it in your bosoms. If you.knojv all
things and cannot say, "I know whom I have
believed," you have but knowledge enough to? ::'. ^
yourselves completely miserable.^ The deep
mysteries of Godliness, which to the great clerks _ ' Iv
of the world are as a book clasped and sealed up, .. 'j;i
lie open before him, (the pious and devout man,) - |
fur and legible; and while those book men,
know whom they have heard of, he knows "whom
he hath believed." The truth of Christianity,
says a pious author, "is the spirit of God, living
and working it it, and whon the spirit:is not the
life of it, then the outward form is but like^ttie
carcase of a dead soul." Divinity has certainly
been confused and perplexed by the learned. It -r.;
requires to be disentangled and simplified. . It ;
appears to me to consist in this single point?
the restoration of the divine life, the image of
God, lost and defaced by the fall, by the operation
of the Holy Ghost. When this is restored,
every other advantage of Christianity follows in
course. Pure morals are absolutelyTfecessary to ^
the reception of the Holy Ghost, and ah una- >
voidable consequence of his continuance. The
attainment of Grace is thus nunc necessarium, ^
It includes in it all Gospel comfort, it teaches all ^ /
virtue, and leads infallibly to light, life, and im< .
mortality.?Bishop Hall. ? ; 4
The Influence of Christiakitt.?The hies*
sed character of the influences which Christianity
has exerted upon the world, are variously manifest.
It is shown in the intellectual advancement
and ameliorated nhvsical condition of the
race, in the relaxation of legal restraints, the in'
creasing mildness of crimiral codes, the decrease
of crime itself, the multiplied efforts of an en*
lightened benevolence, the growing tendency to
give a liberal character to national institutions,
the diffusion of an honest sympathy with the : ? ' v
oppressed, the unfortunate and the employment
of active measures appropriate to their relief.?
For all of that superiority which the present age
and the nations of Christendom may exhibit over
the pa?t, they are indebted to the increasing
light of the Sun of Righteousness, as'it rises towards
the zenith with healing in its wings and
to the clearer discernment and heartier appro
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imparted in the Scriptures.
Cruelty of Japanese to American Sailors.
?Philadelphia, June 14th.?The barque Eureka
from Canton brings accounts of cruel treatment
inflicted by th 3 Japanese on some shipwreck
American sailors. The whaling ship Lawrence
of Poughkeepsie was wrecked on May 28th,
1846, on a reef of rocks 300 miles off the coast
of Japan. The crew left for the coast in three \
bo; ts but got separated. One boat reached Japan
safely after a voyage of 7 days, but her crew
were immediately seized and put iuto cages similar
to those used for wild beasts. They were
kept there for nearly a year in a half starved condition,
and then transported to the Dutch settlement
down the coast and put into prison. After
two months thev were brought before the
chiefs, who tried them fur daring to approach
land and threatened to behead them, supposing
them to be Englishmen, against whom they Hit
bittgr animosity. They explained that they
were Americans and nothing more was said, but
they were compelled to teample under foot a
a cross bearing the image of the Saviour under
threat of being massacreed. They were confined
two days more and then put on board a Dutch
ship for Batavia, where they arrived in December,
1847. While in prison, Thomas Williams
made his escape, but was brought back wounded,
and died in chains. They heard of several Englishmen
under similar confinement, The name*
of those saved are Geo. liar, fid mate; Peter
Williams, Henry Spencer and Murphy Welle,
caroenter.
[The above statement is said to be the old story
published in a St. Helena paper 18 month*
ago.]