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Mails AQr G AND anc be mle u at 8 ITAIN, NEW- EST INDIES, will JRsDAY and Saturvay, Phursday, Jan. 10, 1867. apna ed bia Ey VThurgdiy, ‘ 26, Satufday, -<' 27, ‘Thurgtliy, Beb. 7, Satumlay, LL eae Thiremy, Feb. 21, Satthiny, * 23, ‘Thursdiy, March 7, Saturday, * 9, atuyediy; % ° S1, Saturday, ** 23, Thursday, April 4, Saturday, — *! 6, P. DESBRISAY, Postmaster Gen, en, Post Office, Ch’town, Jar 1 J ¢ FEMALE Subscriber begs leay inhabj sof NEW J JN and sur- roundin, a OY Shop at w London, where he hopes, by strictand punctual atton- tion to his busines# and moderate charges, to merit a share of public patronage. JAS. SENCABAUGH. Clifton, New London, Stunning fellow was Peyton Jones. 'Cho- roughly good fellow, It would take a good deal to kill Jones.” enzi killed Jones? Select MHiterature. A LONG SWIM, “Bless my soul! Jones is dead,” “ What! your cousin the parson?” No, no!” “Not Jones of 99th?” “No, Jones of the Saragossa.” “You don't say so, Which of them?” **Poyton Jones,” ** Dear me! Tin very sorry to hear it. se: th What did he die of ? - Influenza.” ¢ the shark that will falPinto so fine a pro- ‘No! You don,t mean to say thatinflu- perty, and may the glass bottle cut th Gad! fancy a min ney’ vellow fever three times, dying of Whew, Gmesartan sizos Os is influenza!” e084 Sunes ‘Ay, und who Rad been chewed for half an hour by a tiger in ajungle.” * Yes, and who awoke one morning with a boa-constrictor around his neck.” ** Just so, and who took that tremendous swim at Antigua.” “Ah! what was that?” ‘Did you never hear of that? Why, it was one of the pluckiest things that’ w ever done, I am surprised you neyer heard of that. Surely 1 must have told you that myself, Goodness knows, J am never likely to forget it; but for Peyton Jones, I might not be here now to tell it. Jones was in the Briureus when the affair occurred, and the ship was lying in the harbor of Antagua. I wa’ out there at the same time, and saw a good deal of the naval men, and a better set of fellows 1] wouldn't wish to know. You never were in the West Indies, I think; so Limust ex- plain, that outside the regular barber of Antigua there isa sort of second harbor —a large bay, the shore of which, on one side, ster taking a wide sweep, runs out into the sea for a great distance. Well. one fine day it was wrranged that we should have a picnic ; so four or five of the oflicers, among whom was Peyton Jones, with an Irish doetor and myself for guests, took the ship’s pinnace and three men, sailed out of the harbor and aeross the bay to our heart's content, ‘The doctor we n in- valuable min at festivities of this kind. Ilis tales used to follow one another like a string of sausages; the head of one joined to the tale of Ihe other by a+ Faith and thet reminds me’—particularly funny to listen to, from the absence of anything in the first story that could by any possibilty have suggested the second, : **On the occasion Tam speaking of, he t 1 kept usin avoar of lvughtcr all day; tel- linge stories and singing songsi itly, UIP it was time to think about returning. So, after one more tale, whieh, being of an exceedingly comic character, reminded the doctor of a very distressing case at that time in hospital, we finished the other hot- tle, and in a short time were ailoat. No sooner were we under way than Dr. O'- Grady gotup an argument with Jones. Who Was at the heim, upon the subject of steering, and in a short time reqested i the ground that illustration was necessary to render his views clear, to be allowed to give a practical cxample of his powers as vstecrsinan, ‘This Jones at first objected to; but public feeling raoning strongly in fiyor of the doctor's being allowed to. try his hand, and the dector gi. ing his fecling voice with 4 foree and elognence peculiar to himselt, h@oud of the phitter was, that he s soon seated comlortilly at the inging the ‘Groves of Bhiney? “Vor a short time the voyage went on ry smoothly; but just as O'Grady was in jddle of an amazingly ‘tunny com- pari8on between lines, and the negro thought so. I] flatly refused to consent to the arrangement, and not without hav- ing some reason on his side either, And yet, What was Joues to do? He pust give Arion, Whose singing attracted the dol- phins, and himscll, whose voice appeared to possess eertain charm for sharks, sudden gust of wind took us and daid) us on our beam-ends, *: Port yourheln ing up and making for the tiller. O'Grady, port!” “The same “t you, and plenty of it? re- plied the doctor, still fieetions, though a thought flared. Port itis!” “But unfortunately, port itwasn't. By a litde error of the doctor's it ~vas. star- board instead; and the result was that in another minute we w Ul struggling in the water, and the pinnuce was keel up- permost. As several of the party could not swim, the first thing to do was to look after them, and help them to seramgle up i ti ke n v bi Ww fc Ww 5 shouted Jones, jump: SS VOEC, Ww si Pet. 16, 1986.6 ov tothe keal, Deyiou Jones, who was a magnificent sy a hand boys, ning over here it is down here,” left undrunk was in the the hamper was, the sharks knew better coat of his stomach into ribbons. ly,” said Joncs, or ten of us, wet to hOS4DE. keel of a capsized boat, two tell mucSpear shore, with no possibllity of making way either forward or backwards, ( , to all this, jhe bay swarmed with s vom their masters? Guble. Well, Jones and Knapton stripped then- selves to the skin—ihe less lugyage you bett fimey with whi with the Waves, and the spl.si hy their feet. as pe they could 1 with the darkness, and to be lost as well, [tis a terribly painful thing to remain in- active while others are incurring great danger; to feel that you cannot raise a finger to them, however desperate thei position, mmer, and all of us who ld swim at all, worked zealously at this, splashing ag much as possible the while, in order to keep the sharks away; and ina very shof@ime, a long row of moist, uncomfortable bodies ornamented bottom of the capsized boat, ** Ave we all here now?” cried Jones, who was at the end of the line, * One, », three—Good Heavens! where's the ore ‘Help! shricked a man who was at the erend ofthe boat. —* help, help! Iere’s asharkatiny leg He's got my foot in mouth,” ** Faith, and if it is a shark,” said the voice ot thé doctor from the water, 4 yell never be troubied with corns on that foot ming along in the midst of perils which | they had no power to avoid, there came | into my recollection a seene from an old book which I had not read since T was aja child, in which a man had to pass in’ the dead of night through a valley set every- where with snares and pitfalls, which in the darkness he could not see, but still was forced to go walking blindly en, con- scious that atany moment he jmight step into absolute dest: uction, But Jones and the midshipman were swimming steadily all the whic, for some time almost side by side; their faces set for the shore, and their thoughts dwelling as lite as possible upon what might at any moment happen down below, Some men—I among them—have a horror of eC i t : I l n n ¢ ** A shirt and trousers!” said Jones to himself as if such a combination bad never ame benenth his notice before—ta shirt nd trousers! He shall keep whichever the likes, but one of them I must have.— Tere, you!” «And Jones walked solomnly up to the black, and stated that, situated as the ne- gro could sce that he was, he we uffder he necessity of requesting the negro to csign the moicty of his wearing apparel, Te added that he was an offiecr on board 1. M.S. Briavens, aud would trouble the oto look sharp. The negre not mn- Hy declined to part with cither shirt It certainly was rather hard eg ate r trousers, lines for him, when you come to think of it—when you put himself into his position Thata gentleman, of how- tin, Bat this is no fish, butan Ireland- ; ri es ‘i f and garments sn, thing anything unde and Tam cay 4 : ¢ : fortunately for you Thompson, Lend nate Thad been either of those [ever high a standing in Her Majesty's It's nyself, snd no mistake n that way for, alter I bee so carefully, and all?” ering ye ‘By Jove, I thought we'd picked all Pd forgotten you O- »” siid ‘Toes, aaudy.” **Upon my conscience,” said the doctor, frankly, *tand you were justified in’ that same, for, faith? I forgot myself when | dertock to steer, But who could have expected that a boat which was going on so mighty pleasant, would have turned so suddenly over on its stomach, in that un- grateiul fashion 2” “Tdid not know you could swim doc- tor,” some one said. “Tim not, perhaps, whe gethera fine swimmer,” O'Grady returned ; ‘but ifits diving ye want, im the bhoy. Bedad, it was that that detained me jusi now. down I went again; and if my attention had not been caught by Thompson's foot, faith! Tean’t exactly say to the minute when I should have stopped.” ye’d call alto No sooner did TI come up, thar “Well, we're all here now, at any rate, said Jones; ‘but what's to be done next! Has any one of you got any suggestion to 2 ssion of a brand . All the brand Tmper, and wher ‘No gentleman v an we, “Bad luck to the hamper!” said th doctor; ‘and bad luck to the fellow who put the brandy into itg and worse luck to “Stop fooling, O'G the business is yery se rious.” hres 2 Tove, it was. Tere wasnine «And, by Jo. 2 “kin, sitting on the and the night—which comes on with a rush out there, you know—was just falling, so that there was no chance of being sven and picked up. If we were foreed to re- main in this desperately uncomfortable situation all night, there was every proba- bility that some one, overcome by sleep, would be sleeping off his unpleasant perch into the sea; and it was quite certain that the sharks, attracted by such a promising feast, would be cruising about on all sid 1S ting like dogs, for the crumbs’ that Hut what w obe done? The only remedy 0 a that made me shudder to think of—that some one should undertake to swim two miles, in defiance of the sharks and the darkness, and carry the iutellig misfortune to the ship. pedition you can scarcely imagine, and it genee ofo A more risky Imost took my breath when I hea Jone’s voice from the cnd of the row s “Somebody must and as Din the best swimmer of you ull on 5) oO and get 5 ” il go. “By gad! think of the rks, old low,” said the man next to hin, Just what LT shan't do,” said Jones; ¢ shall think of them as little as possible, Phere’s no help tur it, you kuow; some one must go.” “Tt was so thoroughly one man taki the danger of ten ond his shoaid vs, that vach Ol us, from very slave, endeavored to dissuade him; but asjall we could say made no impression upon lim, a midship- prin named Kuapton, who was a very sood swilnmer, declared he'd accompany im.” “It's better for two of us to go,” sa Knapton; ' fomil one only went, and he Were to come to grief on the know, these feliows would be little better way, ve than they are now.” * People talk a good deal al onal degeneracy vow-n-da. 0K like anational deyenery yout our n it doest » Limagi: when, out of ten men—sonmn of whom, as ot bed Dle to swim at all, anust be Ik ut of the aeecount—two could be found oin for such a very forlorm hope as th the nd youn we on tl iliug lig rd fal 1 MA tke on such a journey as thi and dashed into the tt anxious oat watched, as long ould lotus, their beads risin * Kick well,” shouted Jo sto Knapto whe knew what cowards sharks are, aud yhut at small thing sometimes will frighten wm—* Kick well; make as much splash te; its your ouly chance, if the eta sight of you.” And there we sat in silence—oven the doctor was dumb for the time- ter the two heroes; for heroes [they were, if there are such things at all; first’ their hewdls we white foam made by their fect; and know. ing as we did, the Gaugers that they were likely to encounter from the sharks, staring a ve lost in the darkness; then tl ht of th: h the shore s hen we lost 1 don't know that ever I I dic DASE f more wretched time than ght. As] sat shivering on that dism beat, thinking of those two fellows smim- 3 And is it suggestion you mane?” said O'Grady; ‘then it’s myself that has, and ifany gentleman is in the pos- y-tlask, let him pass it Amen. Wye cess In addition fellows, the very knowledge that kick I gave might send my foot again shark, who would snap off my leg twinkle, would have acted like the touch of the electrical cel upon me, and deprived my muscles of all power of motion, — It did not appear so with them, however, ‘The every i ina L , 1 i \ ! 1 could not sce them of course, but, as you may imagine, we had every single incident ated to us aiterwards—they proceeded swiltly and evenly. But after they had accomplished that, distance, Knapton be- gan to drop gradually behind, He had either overrated his powers, or exhuusted himselt with kicking too vigorously; at auy rate, from whatever cause, when they had gone about a inile, he cried out to Yr € ' t i a most impor references however ke his appear: eryice, and gi mexceptionable, o iould n ance in a Sfate of nature, walk up to you er, and cooly demand t part of your clothing, vag rather hard the alarm, and must ive some clothes to do itin, There was mut one course before him; ** to doa great n a lofty r apprehension of danger only made them [2 HW y t Ste iB trying to escape from it, right,” he must ‘do alithe wrong.” It and tor about three quarters of a mile—we | Was exactly one of th eases in which, } there being a show of right on both sides nothing but might can settle it, Tt is not ‘very man, who, atter swimming tor two niles, would feel himsell ina condition anita large negro, Lut Peyton Jones a) was one in a thousand. “Look here, you raseal,” said Jones, *T must have your trousers.” “Yah, yah, yah!” Jaughed the man, ns fhe were beginning to see the joke, «Tl pay you for them, you black seoun- Jones: ** Tecan go no farther, — Tniust shat Aaa y \ he You os : Never mind me—go drel,” said the gentleman in buff. 4 Soe ‘ ; ee ‘ a ; : : Ton.) Jones, however, was the last man], * Yah, yah {Let TARGA BUY him hand in the world to de afriend in. diMicul-|in bim pocket, den, yah, yah,” said tho ties; he turned, and swam back to-him at onee. “Ave you done up, old fellow said to him, Yes,” said the midshipman; ‘*T can't go on any further, Butyou goon; you'd better leave me.” “Not I,” said Jones; ‘* we sct out to- wether, and we'll finish tog: ther, or met at ul, Now, look here.. Don’t you grasp at me, and cling tome; you are too good a swimmer not to know that’s raving mad- ness. Rest your hands upon my hips; let your body float quietly out; and Vil sce what T can do.” : * Knapton did exactly as he was bidden ; Jones stretched himself out before him; and with more than ever resting upon him now, in every sense of the term, struck out again forthe land as resolutely as be- fore. Who was that rusty old here? Mneas, wasn't it? pious Aneas?—that they make so much fuss, beeanse he car- ried his father on his shoulders out. of burning ‘Troy, all the while in’ mortal dread that Greeks would pop out upon de yner? Well, he whs nota Pin wt evUi 867. ly | bit more of a hero than Peyton’ Jones. n fact, give me Jones for choice; for, reck- oning the clements as about equally nasty, py Jones ” iy (33 iC fo " | Hees ke 1 ks, t who would not sooner have to deal with a Greek than a shark Tn the first ease, you might drop the Governor aud go it at the Greek, without fearing to find the old gentleman a cinder when you turned round to pick him up again. But with Jones it was quite different. Tt he left Knapton, the poor fellow must ye drowned; and as far as the sharks were concerned, he lad nothing for it but swim assistance niter Jones and Knapton had got beyond our on, and if the enemy choase to bite his legs off, why, they must. . Besides, there mother thing to be saidfor Jones's case —itis perfectly trae; whereas, a3 regards the feat of F vy /Bneas it is—to put it in the mildest way—open to question, dl as ne “'Thatis, however, a rather trifling way 4) of speaking of what was no trifle of Jones. x1 As he w swimming on, toiling along with Kuapton,morealead than alive, hane- ing to him, he suddenly became sware that one of them was atter him. The denon hadfound them outat last. It was asick- ening moment that; yet, determined neyer to say die, swimming vigorously to rd vs "Cy fel. : . S . : 1) his dust, and kieking and splashing with ail his might, Jones pushed his) way I through thatawful sea, ‘The shark kept close to them; now on. this side, now on that, now diving beneath them, and,— ‘and T give you my honor, sir’ Jones sud tome himsell, * that once I distinetly felt the Lerear’s infernal nose touch my thigh, and the horror of that nearly finished me. fleaven knows how he reached the shore awhole may, but he did reach it at Jast, tnd brought Knapton with him too, faint- ing eevtaioly, but without a limb short, Well, he had got tu the land, and that was a capital thing 9 Alter: strogelii through two miles o: bea, dragging a hall- dead man along with you, atid doc 7 sharks, any lind wouldseem a pra bat still itis not exactly the thing for a gentleman in these days to make his ap- pearance on ferra girma in the very sume costume asthatin which Adam made his Lea id tt a- vi 16 In his joy at reaching land, and) brit Mithis tricnd sately with him, doues had tov. to} gotten. his state of undress; but when he s. {aad carried Knapton in his arms up the Seach, and had Jaid him out, as if to dry, well above high-water mark, then, as he Was starting off ata ron inthe cireccon of the harbor, the full conviction of his abso. lute: clotheslessness came over him with crushing force, Elow on earth was he to make his way to the harbor, and to appear on the deck of TH, M.S, Briaveus without a single thing to cover him except his own confusion. It was a dreadiul dilemma, and fora moment Jones almost reg. ected that the sharks had not delivered him trom the difficulty; but a moment's thought and the recollection of thu misery in’ whieh his friends on the capsized pi eu were, trom which nobody but himselt could save them, restorcd his resolutions. Muttering to himsell that he'd by odds sooner repeat the first part o. his undertaking than carry out the lust, he set off running towards the harbor, But he was to be spared the horrors of having to give such 4 bare re- citalof the ealamity as_ thi Ilis Good Fortune came to his aid—Fortu.e, beiae lind, could do ol course, withon! shocking herscnse of deceney—and helped him at his need. Ile had not to run far before he saw a big negro coming to- wards him, ‘The big negro had on a shirt and trousers, Nowa shirt and a pair of trousers ave not generally considered a lavish superfluity of elothing; Lut in Jone's naked coudition they seemed no- thing less than a monstrous picce of ex- travaguuge, 1 ev t 8 le ‘, th) {= we sO, “cl al gentleman in black, “Tfyou don't give them to me ake them!” said Jones. ‘Yah, yah, yah, ya laughed tho negro as ifthe joke had been a good one all along but here was the cream of it. “Some men can appreciate no argue ment but force, thought Jones; so he knocked the negro down. Negroes ara as everybody knows, hard-headed indivi- dials, but one blow from Jones was more than enengh for him; with two he T shall would have slaina bullot Bashan, ‘The negro offered no more resistance, Jones took off his trousers, put them on himself, and showing, to my mind, great modera- tion in not taking the shirt as well while he was about it, left the sans culotte on the ground, ran off for the harbor, reached his ship. and gave the alarm. ‘The hundred hands of IT. M.S. Briareus were turned up instantly; boats were sent out; and abont ten o'clock that night, when we had given up vl hope of being rescued froin our di sing position till next day, and had it down as certain that both Jones » Knapton had become tood for shir! ) ome lights, that assure? us r Aa rate UU SS. ic, 9) Wercrm.onnbled ta. tree Ge of our own deliverance, but oft of at least one of them, shone th darkness; and in afew minutes we w all taken off that confounded keel, litted into the boat. Tt was a near thru, though, The boats had been here and there for a conple of hours without finding any trace of us; the lieutenant had given the order to return; and it was only through the boatswain neglecting the order, and making one cast more, happily a successful one, that led to our being rescued, Ilowever, ‘just in time,’ is bet: ter than *too late; relief reached us at st: and in spite of sharks and shipwreck, there was not aman of us lost, thanks to Peyton Jone’s hereie conduct in taking that perilous swim in the dark.—