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12,1857. No. 14.

Literature.

TRODDEN FLOWERS. BY TENNYSON.

There are seme hearts that, like the ] ving vine, Cling to unkindly rocks and ruined towers ; Spirits that suffer and do not repine— Patient and sweet as lowly trodden flowers, That from beneath the passer’s heel arise And give back odorous breath instead of sighs. But there are other hearts that will not feel The lowly love that haunts their eyes and ears ; That wound fond faith with anger worse than steel, And out of pity’s spring draw idle tears. © Nature! shall it ever be thy will Il things with good to mingle, good with ill?

Why should the heavy foot of sorrow press The willing heart of uncomplaining love— Meek charity that shrinks not from distress, Gentleness, loth her tyrants to reprove ? Though virtue weep for ever and lament, With one hard heart turn to her and relent.

Why should the reed be broken that will bend, And they that dry the tears in other's eyes

Feel their own anguish welling without end, Their summer darkened with the smoke of sighs ? Sare Love, to some far Eden of his own

Will flee at last, and leeye us here alone.

Love weepeth always—weepeth for the past, For woes that are, for woes that may betide ; Why should not hard ambition weep at last,

Who are the mighty? they! The builders of ‘Egyptian pyramids ? The unknown kings, on whose stone-coffin lids, Strange forms are scrolled? or men, whose awful sway Wrought the rock-temple, reared the cromled gray, Whose smoke and fire, and incense darkened day,

Not they—Oh, no—not they ?

Who are the great of earth?

Mark, where your prophet stands,

The load-star needle trembles in his hand,

O’er western seas he finds for mind a throne—

Or he on whose wrapt sight new wonders shone,

Where heavenward turned, his. glass made worlds his own ? Not he—not those alone ?

Who are the mighty? see.

Where art’s a wizard ; where the marble rife

With grace and beauty quickens into life—

Or where, as danger’s waves beat wild and free,

Some ‘ glorious arm’ like Moses’ parts the sea,

That a vexed people yet redeemed may be— The statesman? sage—is’t he ?

Oh, no—not these the noblest triumphs prove,

Go, where forgiveness, turning like the dove,

Alights o'er life’s dark flood on some lone heart—

Where men to men, trath, justice, peace impart,

As best interpreters of god-like loye—

Where all life’s noblest charities have birth

There dwell the great, the kings of peerless worth, They shall subdue the earth?

WHICH WAS THE COWARD?

, * Wiil you bear that?’

The young man to whom this was addressed stood facing another person about his own age. on whose countenance was an expression of angry defiance. The name of this person was Logan. A third party, alsoa young man, had asked the ques- tion in a@ tone of surprise and regret. Before there was time for response, Logan said sharply, and in a tone of stinging contempt:

‘You are a poor, mean coward, Edward Wilson! I repeat the words; andif there isa particle of manhood about you—’

Logan paused for a instant, but quickly added,

* You will resent the insult!”

Why did he pause ? His words had aroused a feeling in the breast of Wilson that betrayed itself in his eyes. The word ‘coward’ in that instant of time, would have more fittingly been applied to James Logan. But, as quickly as the flash leayes the cloud, as quickly faded the indignant light from the eyes of Edward Wilson. Whata fierce struggle agitated bin for the moment!

‘We have been fast friends, James, said Wilson, calmly. * But, even if that were not so, | will not strike you ’

* You're afraid.’

‘I will not deny it. Ihave always been afraid to do wrong.’

‘Bah! €ant and hypocrisy ! said the other contemptuously.

* You know me better than that, James Logan, and [ am sorry

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| ‘Why didn’t you knock him down?’ said his companion to| The fearful leap was made in safety.

Wilson. | ‘The latter, whose face was now very sober and very pale, | shook his head slowly. He made no other response.

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The boat struck the

(Seething waters below, and glanced out from the whirlpool,

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bearing its living freight uninjured. ‘Which was the coward ?’

The moment Wilson was alone he seated himself on the Logan, as he gathered with the rest of the company around

;conttaued motionless for several minutes. suffered in that little space of time, we will not attempt to de-

very severe. He was no coward in heart. ever ready to do, even at the risk to himself of both physica} and mental suffering. Clearly conscious was he of this. Yet the consciousness did not and would not protect his feelings from the unjust and stinging imputation of cowardice, so angrily brought against him. In spite of his better reason he felt hu- miliated ; and there were moments when he half regretted the forbearance that saved the insolent Logan from punishment. They were but moments of weakness ; in the strength of a manly character he was quickly himself again.

‘The question of this misunderstanding is easily told. Wil- |}son made one of a little pleasure party from a neighbouring village, that was spending an afternoon in a shady retreat by the banks of a mill-stream. There were three or four young men and half a dozen young maidens ; and, as it often happens on such occasions, some rivalries were excited among the former. These should only have added piquancy tothe merry intercourse of all parties ; and wou'd have done so, had not the impatient temperament of Logan carried him a little beyond good feeling and a generous depertment towards others. Without due re- flection, yetin no sarcastic spirit, Edward Wilson made a remark on some act of Logan’s that irritated him exceedingly. An angry spot burned instantly on his cheek, and he replied with words of cutting insult; so cutting, that all present expected nothing less than a blow from Wilson as his answer to the re- mark. And todeal a blow was bis first impulse. But he restrained the impulse ; and it required more courage to do this

that Logan, whose heart stili burned with an unforgiving spirit, encountered Wilson under circumstances that left him free to repeat his insulting language, without disturbing the rest of the party, who were amusing themselves at some distance, and beyond the range of observation. te did not succeed in ob- taining a personal encounter, as he had desired,

Edward Wilson had been for some time sitting alone with his unhappy thoughts, when he was aroused by sudden cries of alarm, the tone of which told his heart too plainly that some imminent danger impended. Springing to his feet, he ran in the direction of the cries, and quickly saw the cause of excite- ment. Recent heavy rains had swollen the mountain streams, the turbid waters of which were sweeping down with great velocity. T'wo young girls, who had been amusing themselves ina boat that was attached to the shore by a long rope, had through some accident or other, got the fastening loose, and they were now gliding down, far out into the current, with a fearfully increasing speed, toward the breast of the milldam,

some hundred yards below, from which the water was thunder- ing down a height of over twenty feet. Pale with terrror, the poor young creatures were stretching out their hands towards their companions on the shore, and uttering heart-rending cries fur succor.

Instant action was necessary, or all would be lost. ‘lhe position of the young girjs had been discovered while they were some distance above, and there happening to be another boat on the milldam, and that nigh at hand, Logan and two other young men had loosened it from the shore. being Carried over the dam should any one venture out in this boat, seemed 80 inevitable, that none of them dared to encounter the hazard. Now screaming and wringing their hands, and now urging these men to try and save their companions, stood the young maidens of the party on shore, when Wilson dashed through them, and springing into the boat, cried out :

‘Quick, Logan! Take an oar, or all is lost.’

But, instead of this, Logan stepped back a step or two from the boat, while his face grew pale with fear. Not an instant more was wasted. Ata glance Wilson saw that if the girls were saved, it must be by the strength of his own arm. Bravely he pushed from the shore, and with giant strergth born of the moment and for the occasion, from his high, unseifish purpose, he dashed the boat out into the current, and bending to the oars, took a direction at an angle with the other boat, toward the point where the water was sweeping over tle dam. At

every stroke the light skiff sprung forward a dozen feet, and | scarcely half a minute elapsed ere Wilson was beside the other boat.

contended against successtully. To transfer the frightened girls from one boat to the other, in the few moments of time to the edge of the dam, and stil! toretainan advantage, was, for he saw to be equally impossible.

tators of the fearful scene that he had lost his presence of mind, and that all waslost. Notso,however. In the next moment he

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ground, concealed from the party whose voices had interrupted | Wilson and the pale, trembling girls he had soheriocally saved. them, by a large rock, and covering his face with his hands, | Fair lips asked the question.

Cae maiden had spoken to

Hlow much he | another, in a litthe louder voice than she had intended.

* Not Edward Wilson,’ said Logan, as he stepped forward

scribe. The struggles with his indignant impulses had been } aad grasped the hand of him he had so wronged and insulted. What was be not|}* Not Edward Wilson!

He is the noblest and the bravest!’ Wilson made an effort to reply. But he was for some moments too much excited and exhausted to speak, At last he said: ‘ ; ‘! only did what was right. May I ever have courage for

| that while I live.’

Afterwards he remarked; when alone with Logan: “It required a far greater exercise of courage to forbear when you provoked and insulted me inthe presence of those who expected retaliation, than it did to risk my life at the milidam.”’

There is a moral heroism that few can appreciate. And it will usually be found that the morally brave man is quickest to lose the sense of personai danger when others are in peril.

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A LAWYER’S ADVENTURE.

We presume our Illinois readers will readily expand the town of C—-- mentioned in the toliowing sketch into Carlyle :—

About three or four years ago, more or less, | was practising law in Illinois in a pretty large circuit. I was called on one day in my office, in the town of C , by a pretty woman, who, not without tears, told me that her husband had been arrested for horse stealing. She wished to retain me on the defence. { asked her why she did not go to Judge B., an ex-senator of the United States, whose office was in the same town. I told her | was a young man at the bar, &c. She mournfully said

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Tie yang, of which he was not a member, had persuaded him to take the horse. He knew that the horse was stolen, and like a fool, acknowledged it when he was arrested. Worse still—he had trimmed the horse’s tail and mane to alter the appearance, and the prosecutor could prove it. °

The trial came on. 1 worked hard to get a jury of ignorant men, who had more heart than brain; who, if they could not fathom the depths of argument, or follow the labyrinthine mazes of the law, could feel for a young fellow ina bad fix, a weeping pretty wife, nearly broken-hearted, and entirely distracted. Knowing the use of effect. [told her to dress in deep mourning, and bring her cherub of a boy, only three years old, into court, and sit as near her husband as the officers would let her. | tried that game once in a murder case, anda weeping wife and sister made a jury render a verdict against law, evidence, and the judge’s charge, and saved a fellow that ought to have been hung as high as Haman. .

The prosecuuion opened very bitterly; inveighed against thieves and counterfeiters, who had made the land a terror to Strangers and travellers, and who had robbed every farmer in the region of their finest horses. It introduced witnesses, and proved all and more than I feared i would.

The tise came to me to rise for the defence. Witnesses | had none. But I determined to make an effort, only hoping so io interest the judge and jury as to secure a recommendation to mercy, and a lightsentence. So { painted this picture: A young man entered into life, wedded to an angel ; beautiful in person, and possessing every gentle and noble attribute. Temptation was before and all around him. He kept a tavern. Guests there were many ; it Was not for him to inquire into their business; they were well dressed ; made large bills and paid promptly. At an unguarded hour, when he was insane with liquor, they urged upon him, and he had deviated from the path of rectitude. The demon of alcohol reigned in his brain, and it was his first offence. Mercy pleaded for another chance to save him from ruin. Justice did not require that his young wife should go down sorrowing to the grave, and that the shadow of disgrace, and the shadow of a felon father, should cross the path of that sweet child. O, how earnestly did I plead for them! The woman wept; the husband did the same ; the judge fidgetted and rubbed his eyes; the jury looked melting. I[f 1 could have

had the closing speech, he would have been cleased ; but the |

prosecutor had the close, and threw ice on the fire I had kindled. But he did not quite put it out. The judge charged on the side of mercy. The jury found a

Both were now within twenty yards of the fall ; and the | verdict of guilty, but unanimously recommended the prisoner water was bearing them down with a velocity that a strong|tothe mercy of the court. rower with every advantage on his side could scarcely have | shortest imprisonment the court was empowered to give, and

My client was sentenced to the

both jury and court signed a petition to the governor for an unconditional pardon, which was svon granted, but not before

left ere the down-sweeping current would bear the frail vessel the following incident occurred :—

Some three months after this, [ received an account for

Wilson, impossible. To let his own boat go and manage theirs, collection on a wholesale house in New York. ‘The parties to

collect from were hard ones, but they had property, and before

A cry of despair reached the young man’s ears as the oars! they had an idea of the trap laid, [ had the property, which they

were about to assign before they broke under attachment. Finding [ was a neck ahead, and bound to win, they ‘ caved in’ and ‘forked over’ three thousand seven hundred and ninety -

The word reached the ear of

had sprung into the water, which, near the breast of the das, | four dollars and eighteen cents (per memorandum book) in good was not three feet deep. As he did so he grasped the other, money. They lived in Shawneetown, about 35 or 40 miles boat, and bracing himself firmly against the rushing current, | southeast of Moore’s prairie. I received the funds just afier

‘on, but my horse needed rest. {[ hauled up, and a woman came

|to the door. She turned as pale as a sheet when she saw me. | She did not speak, but with a meaning look she put her finger fae her lips and beckoned me in ; she was the wife of my late | client.

When I entered, the party recognized me, and bailed me as an old travelling friend, end asked me to drink. { respectfully, but firmly declined to do so.

‘ By ——, you shall drink or fight!’ said the noisiest of the party.

‘Just as you please; drink I sha'l not,’ said I, purposely showing the butt of a Colt, which kicks six times in rapid succession,

The party interposed, and very easily quelled the assailant. One offered me a cigar, which I reluctantly refused, but a glance from the woman induced me to accept. She advanced and proffered me a light, and in doing so sl:ppeda note into my hand, which she must have written but a momont before. Never shall I forget the words. They were :

*: Beware, they ure members of the gang. They mean to rob and murder you! Leave soon ; 1 will detain them.”’

I did’t feel comfortabie just then, but tried to do so.

* Have you any room to put up my horse?” I asked turning to the woman.

‘What! are you not going on to-night?’ asked one of the men ; * we are.’

* No,’ said [; ‘{ shall stay here to-night,’

‘We'll all stay then, f guess, and make a night of it,’ said another of the cut-throats.

* You'll have to put up your own horse—here’s laptern,’ said the woman.

‘I am used to that,’ I said. ‘Gentlemen, excuse me a minu'e ; Ili join you in a drink when | come in’

‘ Good on your head! More whiskey, old gal,’ shouted they.

I went out, glanced at their wagon ; it was old fashioned, and ‘linch pins’ secured the wheels. ‘To take out my koife and pry one from the fore and hind whee!s was but the work of an

THE LOSS OF THE CENTRAL AMERICA,

Svatement oF Mrs. Witiiam MacNeicn, one or THe RESCUED Passencers.—It was first known by us women that the Central America had sprung aleak, on Friday, Sept. 12, at 2 p.m. We were all in bed sea-sick, and bad not been up for three days, because of our sea-sickness, caused by the heavy sea. In our fright we got up, and entirely forgot. our sea- sickness. ‘I'he gentlemen got pails, and told us they were going to put coals on the fire ; but it was not so—it was to bale outthe water fromthe hold. We soon learned something about our real danger, ‘The sea was fearfully high, and the ship was tossed to and fro in great violense by the tempest; but, nor- withstanding that, the women showed great courage and self- composure=—not a tear was shed by any of thein—there was the calmness of the grave among them. ‘The men told us to be cheerful—that it would soon be all right ; indeed, although we considered ourselves in imminent perl, we did not know the full extent of it. The men did all they could to keep that knowledge from us. We remained quietly in the cabin, we could not remain quietly on one side of the boat, because it was alldown. We had to go into the gentlemen’s cabin, and there we remained al] the afternoon.

We heard the water rolling and dashing against the sides of the ship, thinking it was on the outside, when in reality it was in the cabin—right below us, In that condition we remained all night, the sea running very high, and occasionally breaking over us, the wind blowing a perfect hurricane, the ship rolling and beating about, everything making a most fearful poise, the rigging and spars cracking and groaning, the dishes, lamps, furnuure, &c-, smashing and crashing together. It was an awful night, but the women still endured it without tears or moans.

At first they had gained on the water by pumping, but on the morning of Saturday. Sept. 12. they found the water had gained on them considerably. They then commenced to bale out with barrels. They told us they were gaining on the water again ; but, on the contrary, the water was still gaining on them, though we did not know it. ‘The men, especially the first cabin passengers, had worked hard all night, their strength was fast failing. Sometimes they had to give up, and lay down flat on the deck for a moment, with half-recovered breath again to rise ‘to battle for life and death against the encroaching waters, Many of the men had been previously quite sea-sick, and had not eaten anything for three days, but the peril recalled their strength and activity, and they, or at least many of them, did all that human power could do to save the ship. ‘The storm continued thus ali day Saturday, and the men thus worked on all that day, the women being stil! calm as death, and to death resigned. J and many cthers had made up our minds that there was no hope of being saved; we expecied to die; we were ready for death ; we were prepared for it; we were reconciled to it. It was found on Saturdav that the water had beer coming in through the port-holes for some time, and efforts were made to stop it.

Shortly after noon, the announcement that a sail wag in sight ran through the steamship, and threw us ali into the greatest excitement. Such a sudden hope, when nothing but death had Stared us in the face, at once overcame our self-control; there was shrieking, crying and weeping ; agomies of joy, where late was nothing but agonies of death. The severe Ccalmavss that had sat on each cheek, making it pale ag lead but Stern as steel,

: Fnvy and hatred, avarice and pride ? than to have stricken the insolent young man tothe ground. A|that he had asked a retaining fee above her means, and besides | instant, and [ threw them as far off in the darkness as | could. f ‘ Fate whispers sorrow, sorrow is your lot, moment or two Wilson struggled with himself, and then moved | did not want to touch the case, for her husband was suspected | l’o untie my horse and dash off was the work of a moment. 7 They would be rebels—love rebelleth not. slowly away. of belonging to an extensive band of horse thieves and cuun- | I'he road lay down a steep hill, but my lantern lighted me ce atl ai His flushed and then paling face, his quivering lips and un- | terfeiters, whose head quarters were on Moore’s prairie. somewhat. steady eyes, left on the minds of all who witnessed the scene) J asked her to tell me the whole truth of the matter, and if it [had hardly got under full headway, when I heard a yell WHO ARE THE GREAT OF EARTII? an impression somewhat unfavorable. Partaking of the indiz- | was true that her nusband did belong to such a band ? from the party I had unceremonivusly left. I put whip to my Who are the mighty? sing. nant excitement of the moment, many of those present looked | ‘ Ah, sir,’ said she, ‘a betrer man at heart than my George horse. ‘The next moment with a shout they started. IJ threw The chiefs of old renown, for the instant punishment of Logan for his unjustifiable insult. | never lived ; but he liked cards and drink, and I am afraid they | my light away, and left my horse to pick his way. A moment On some red field won the victor’s crown W hen, therefore, they saw Wilson turn away without even a ae him do what he never would have done if he had not| later 1 heard a crash—a horrible shriek. The wheels were off, Of tears and triumphing ? defiant answer, and heard the low, sneeringly uttered word./@rank. 1 fear that it can be proved that he had the horse ; he | Then came the rush of the horses tearing along with the wreck The Northmen bold, who first o’er stormy seas, coward’, from the lips of Logan, they felt that there was a | didn’t steal it another did, and passed it to him.’ of the wagon. _Fually they seemed to fetch up in the wood. Sent down the ‘ raven’ banner on the breeze ? | craven spirit about the young man. A coward we instinctively I didn’t like the case. I knew that there was a great dislike | One or two shrieks | heard as I swept along, leaving them far Not these—Oh, no—not these ! despise ; and yet how slow we are to elevate that higher moral | to the gang located where she named, and feared to risk the| behind. For some time I harried my horse—you’d better courage which enables a man to brave unjust judgment rather! case before a jury. She seemed to observe my intention to| believe [ ‘rid!’ It was a litde after midnight when [I got to Who are the great of earth? than to do what he thinks to be wrong, above the mere brute refuse the case, and burst into tears. Mount Vernon. 7 The mighty hunters? kings of ancient line, instinct which inthe moment of excitement forgets all physical} | never could see a w oman weep without feeling like a weak| ‘The next day | heard that a Moore’s prairie team had run For ages traced, half fable, half divine, consequences. ; fool myself. If it had not been for eyes brightened by ¢ pearly away, and that two men out of four had been so badly hurt that W hose stone-wrought lions guard in heathen pride As Edward Wilson walked away. from his companions, he | tears,’ (blast the poets that made them to come in fashion by | (heir lives were despaired of; but I did'nt cry. My clients got j Their toreb-like palaces ? where now we read, felt that he was regarded as a coward. This was for him a| praising ’em,) I’d never bave been caught in the lasso of | their money, and [ did’nt travel that road again. ‘ The lived and reigned, and died ' we trial : oo 4 nap a mane there was one in ee ee ie ; _, rs! would-be client — mee. The — —_ SaeieEEianeenemeamenet ; Who spoke, and millions rushed to toil and bieed ? mie group of startied maidens tor whose generous regard he | handkerchief that hid her streaming eyes did’nt hide her ripe * ‘ {, . "Not these-—not these, indeed ! would bave sacrificed all but honour. | lips, and her snowy bosom rose and fell like a white gull ina Gleanings fr om late Papers. . it was, perhaps, half an hour after this unpleasant occurrence, galaof wind atsea. [ took the case, and she gave me the “<p ; t

that in your resentment of an imagined wrong, you should so | held it poised a few yards from the point where the foam-crested _ bank opening, but other business detained me till afier dinner. far forget what is just to my character as to charge upon me! waters leaped into the whirlpool below. At the same instant | I then started for C , Intending to go as far as the village such mean vices. I reject the implied allegation as false.’ his own boat shot like an arrow over the dam. He had gained, of Mount Vernon that night. The excitement pervaded the whole ship, but when its first heat There was an honest indignation in the manner of Wilson however, but a small advantage, It reqnired his utmost, I had gone along ten or twelve miles when [ noticed a iad aerate grave doubts and fears arose, Some of the that he did not attempt to suppress. strength to keep the boat he had grasped from dragging him | splendid team of double horses attached to a light waggon, in oe asaid ath believe that the intelligence was true. “ It ; Do you call me a liar ? exclaimed Logan, in uncontrollable! down the fall. which were seated four men, evidently of the high-strung is too good,”’ said they, “to be true;” and when the sail could Prssion, drawing back his hand, and making a motion as if he | The quickly formed purpose of Wilson, in thus springing |order. They swept past me, as if to showhow easily they | be aoe distinctly it =e not known whether the craft would were about to strike the other im the face. into the water, had been to drag the boat against the current to | could do it. They shortened in, and allowed me to come up hold twelve or five hundred. The sea wes so bigh that it was he eye of Wilson quailed not, nor was the smallest quiver the shore. But this he perceived to be impossible the moment lwith them, and hailing me, asked me to ‘ wet,’ or in other not certain whether the barque Marine, of Boston, (for such she ofa muscle perceptible. From some cause the purpose of | he feit the real strength of the current. If he were to let the | words, to diminish the contents of a jug of old rye they had on | proved to be) could be boarded or not. Logan was not executed, Instead of giving a blow, he assailed boat go he could easily save himself. But not once did such a | board ; but [ excused myself with the plea that | had plenty on) : sis Nile ial : ee s ‘his antagonist with words of deeper insult, seeking thus to | thought enter his heart. ‘board. ‘They asked me how far I was going. I told them as! Mne Central America hoimed the flag of distress; the barque Provoke an assault. But Wilson was not thus to be dtiven | ‘ Lie down close to the bottom,’ said he, ina hoarse voice. | far as Mount Vernon, if my horse did’nt tire out. They Manne answered it and sailed towards us, passing the steamer from the citadel in which he had entrenched himse'f. And now, with e@ coolness that was wonderful) under al) mentioned a pleasant tavern 10 or 12 miles’a head as a nice | about a mile distant. The Marine was also badly damaged by ‘If fT ama coward, well,’ he said, ‘1. would rather be a. circumstances, Wilson moved the boat several yards away from place to stop, and ihen drove a-head. : 4 the storm, but did not Jeak more than what (he pumps could re- foward than lay a hand in violence on him | have called my the nearest sfiore, until he reached a point where he knew the! I did not like the looks of those fellows, nor their actions. lieve her from. Our men had not eaten anything since Frida friend,’ | water below the dam to be more expanded and free from rocks. | But J was bound to go ahead. I had a brace of revolvers, and morning, because nothing could be cooked. My husband At this moment light girlish laughter and the ringing of | Then throwing his body suddenly against the boat, and running (a nice knife ; my money was not in my valise, or my sulky, but| worked at the time; he er not a down to eat, and said . Many voices reached the ears of our excited young men, and along until he was within a few feet of the fall, he sprang into; ina belt round my body. I drove slow, in hopes that they did not feel hungry, but cou d work orty-eight hours saa lieir relations of antagonism at once changed. Logan walked | it and passed over with it. A moment or two the light vessel,| would go on, and I should see them no more. It was nearly it Was necessary ; but as one as the Marine hove in ee away in the direction from which the voices came: while the | as it shot out into the air, stood poised, and then went plunging | dark when I saw the tavern sign ahead. Atthe same time [ “wae willing enough to eat. He came to me and clapped his other two remained where they had been standing. | down. saw their waggon stood beside the door. I would have passed , hands to encourage me, saying there was a vessel very near and

was displaced by the flush of excitement, profuse tears and the embrace of friends, mothers and children, husbands and wives.

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