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t - v II ndler. Jili' i i V A lib 'M3jM AJLJBCE20LMX. awaaiHmw . ' ' ' ' f;.-.v.' A FAMILY NEWSPAPER NEUTRAL IN POLITICS. - r , ,, - , ' - 0 cfcbJetr to all tfjt Sit fntsts of Eije Soutfj, fitcwtutx, Mutation, multo, itos, flic ittarfctts, to. VOL. Ill XO. 28. RALEIGH, XOBTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1854. WHOLE NO. 132. 1 ' 1 1 1 4t -1 . 4 SELECT POETRY From the Sat unlay Evening P'ost. DON'T PROPOSE. Only don't projurse to me ! 1 really like ynu .o; We suit e ich .o:h'ervharminylj, at b.-.ll or feast, you . kri'iw. Wc can brighten for each other best the revels cureless honrs, We can g itlicr from each other still, the moment's passing l!owers; We ever best tan u'larl len life's river a it flown Ihrough sunny liels and quiet but I hope you won t propose . No voice suits mine so well as yours in gay duet or ..soog, , No other arm can guide me :ife through the j ol- V ka's wl.iiling throng: No other laugh re-ech'.es half so meiily lo mine, No o'.her iiati'l ko tastefully my Louquet flowers.; can tw ins-: j None save me' lialf so cleverly from bores my ; - deadliest l"es ; . . ; I cannot do without you oh, I hope you won't , propose. . , Why will you try for sentiment ? you never used , to talk I Qf aught but fun or nonsense, in long qu:idri!!e or; walk. ' ; Why will you sigh? really like your ringing ' :' laiifh the b's! ; . j Why-frown at me for. lingering with another joy- j ous gll' St ? j Why will you .talk of hopes ar.d fears? why hint at friendship's elo-e, You never ucd to tease rue f-o oh, I hope you won't propose. j You know 1 should refuse you I must love before '. I wed :' ' What should wc two do together when the summer bun had fh'd ? " N And, then, we must be strangi-rs mut pnsseach other by, With fiushiog cheek and distant bow, and co!d averted eye. Why doom: our ay "companionship to so dolorous . a el- se ? Ww like each other much too well I rfope you won't propose. Let us, still be smiling -when we part, and happy when we meet ; Let us together pluck the bloom of the flowers at " our. feet ; . Let us leave the deeper things a'.oite, and laugh "' -C. and sing and cLnce ; And flirt a little now and then, to spend an hour penhance. Oh, there's a deal of pleasure in sunny links like ! those: i Don't break the rosy ties just yet dear Cii:riey i don't propose. Katie. SELECTED STORIES. THE DUEL. Ose September I went down to Bath to re cruit a little dyspepsia, which had been some month's impending ou my diaphragm. Among the pleasant acquaintances I made was that of a young officer of ijragoons, who occupied the ad joining apartment to my own. He was singu larly unfitted for his vocation for he was of slight build, and delicate in his looks and de meanor. He looked as if he was better fitted for a life of quiet retirement in some country rectory, than one of bustle in a barrack or camp, j He had traveled extensively, however, and was very communicative upon every subject except himself and his family. . - ., .-.. thjo afternoon, just before twilight, we ere INTERIOR VIEW OF D. APPLETO.V &, C03 BOOS 1 torrethor in the pump-room talking about quit- ! tincr it for a promonado, when, as w;e passed a ; group who seemed to be strangers just arrived, j I tVit my companion's arn twitcli in my own, i and his frame shudder; He stopped, as of course f dil I, being arm-linked withbim. lie halfturn- i ed toward the coup, w hen I heard the words : i "'Why. Julia Langton was any body's favur- j ite !"' followed by a laugh from one, and a sly I nudire from another . directed towards a foreign 1 -. . j looking fellow who, as these things were said '' and done, stroked his whiskers very eomplaisant- i'lv. and looked knowinadv, but before I could I ca'ci'ullv scan him. the young officer sprang from my side towards the group, and with extraordi nary fierceness, cried " you are a band of li ars." ' '- . Instantly the similarity of name just baudied with his own crossed mv mind. "Hello! who the devil are you ?" cried one of them, whilst all stared. . " Pooh, he's drunk the, Bath waters have proved too much for him," said another. "Which of you spoke of the lady just na md said my late companion. " Oli, jealous, is he jealous by the gods !"' responded the person with the whiskers, as lie stroked them more complaisantly than ever: -"but don't disturb yourself, sir, I can't spare my little Julia, anyhow !" The words had scarcely crossed his lips when he fell prostrate on the floor, felled by a blow from the younoythVer, whose arm, if slender, was versed either in science, or was powerfully nerved. Instantly the other companions sprang upon him, while the fallen man was bleeding from the nose. - His face, otherwise was white with mingled fright, surprise and rage. He was raised from the ground by his friends. " So will I serve any one who insults my sis ter," said the officer, Cornet Langton, as he ex tended his card, and n joined me, Avitli his ex citement somewhat subsided. The cool air of the street re-assured him. and he revived. " It was my sister, sir," said he, in explana tion " my only relative, who unfortunately was educated at a fashionable school, and is coquet tish and fond of admiration ; but as pure and h"ly in virtue as a saint. To think of her being named in a public place like that." I endeavored to calm him. I spoke of the probable" thoughtlessness, rashness, and ignor ance of the men; but it was hard to calm him. ; " Of course I shall be challenged," said he. " I think not." I answered. " When they eam the , eltionship, it . w ill be seen at once that you could have done nothing else. He will withdraw the expression, and you the blow." He slightly laughed, and said " perhaps so; but I am prepared to fight for my sister's honor, at all hazards." We parted for the night, and sure enough, in two hours' time, one of the party waited upon me at. my room, and said 44 Sir, I am Mr. , the second of Mr. Rupert Rawden, whom your friend struck. I am referred to you as his friend." " What, already ?" inquired I. " Yes, and the meeting must be to-morrow-morning." 44 That is as we say," responded I 44 for we challenged. It is a short time." 44 The insult was given in a shorter time than that," said tRe man, with some bitterness, yet still lofty in his politeness. " Well, be it so," I said. u Cornet Langton will agree to it, I -am sure. Pistols, I suppose, and ten paces ?"' STORE, X. Y. F or (tes-cription, see "' Cosmos's " Letter. My antagonist nodded, and said " I suppose 1 you know w ho niy friend is V j " I have no idea never saw him before." . widen I had been, 'while talking, cautiously ex . "Wull, he is a most accomplished shot, and j amining as to locality I won. He took the as sure as the" sun rises your friend will be killed, j word to fire witliout'a moment's hesitation, al I give you this hint, that no precautions may be i though the work of 'design and deliberation of negic-.-iea tor tue living. j " We parted, and I returned to Langton. He j was sitting in his accustomed se.it by a writing i desk. He was in dishabille, turning over some papers, and before him lav a portrait. "Here she is' now.," he said, holding it before me. "as she was in her tenth year Jading Ju- j " When the sight is tin id way between his slioul lia as I used todraw her in her little wagon on i ders, press, and you liave him; and if you miss, the Brighton sand. We are motherless and fatherless now dear one, but I will protect vour honor," and he covered the picture with kisses. " But aow to business," said he. " When am fto shoot him ?" This was in a ton of affected hilarity. Perhaps it may be al'erei said I. gravel v. He tried t t , up a laugh, but then said. solemnly u I shall not fall. Do you see this ring ? It has the motto of our family, given it years ago by royal license on the field of victory for deeds of valor : 4 Dieu proteg"ait le droit' (God will protect the right !) " I shall shoot him. and both stood firm. : for I am right." j " They have missed," said I, as my adversary You make-"no will, then ? You give no di- came to me ; " and shall we have another fire j" Tactions whatever ?" said I. I "Of course." he answered ; "and you under- None. ' I tell you I shall not fall, nor be stand why," as we prepared the other pistols, harmed." The antagonist of Cornet Langton left his po- I thought of what my antagonist of a second sition, and crossed to a stick near by, where he had said about his principal being a good shot, had hung his coat, and drawing his pocket-haud-but reflected, if I repeated it, it might unnerve kerchief, blew- his nose; It was an act of arlect him ; so, seeing his mood, I encouraged him, ; ed nonchalance. My friend kept his .post and and in a short time we were quite gay that is, ; did not stir, but took the pistol mechanically, to appearances but I ha-.e no doubt he was as 44 1. shall fetch him this time," I heard the sinking of li cart as myself. other whisper to his second, as he resumed his We sat and chatted until daybreak, and he ' pistol. told me the story of his life. There was little of i There w as the same pausing the same drill romance or geneijal interest in its details: a red-1 of preparation the same words as before when tal of 'happy existet.ee love and domestic bliss ; both fired, and together. only one sfiglif shade, and that Ins sister's vola- i tilitv. of maimer, giddiness, and thoughtlessness, i which had often made her the subject of obser- valioti, but never before of insult. She was now in London with a distant connection. She, with himself, had a little landed 'property, from which 1 some reasonable income was derived. j As soon a? the dim light of approaching day ! -t : I ..1 .1 1, .t.., ! ,.,...1 !... I siiaggieu uuouii uie iuwov v pai leu lie 10 a bath, and I to an adjustment of pistols and '. little particulars. The former I had borrowed ; of a friend in an adjoining street, who had been ! ou the continent. By a queer device the sight: was tipped with a delicate diamond, and the1 trigger, pressed when its gleam obscured the ob-; iect from the eve, he said, was indicative of cer- tain death. It seemed reasonable, and I fel,t my spirits rise, notwithstanding the other was s un-' erring a shot. Our toilets were soon made, and w walked some mile and a half to the designa - ted spot a field, with a wood on one side, and f a copse on the other. We found our adversa - j ries already present they had rode down, and ; had. been waiting. Two other things in our fa - vor ; for even to the bravest the expectation of a crisis is harrassing and depressing the time be- j fore it must be filled up entirely to make thej mind most tranquil. As we w alked we talked, i and our nerves were cool. We saluted, I ap- j proached my opposite, and whispered " Will j 1 your friend withdraw the remark ?" He shook his head, and answered, in a low tone " He says he is right, and he will not cannot ; that your friend's sister is his mistress- I and he can prove it by letters now in the pouch j of his jacket. This, of course, would, when exj pianied. odLv bo a fresh reason for a meeting ! ! - I saw that this was so, and we beo-an to pre pare. Tossing for the choice of a position the tew moments oetore ; I chose it, and man- aged to place the couet with his back to the east, where the sun Was beginning to rise, and in range of a church ..spire just beyond over the hilly ground where we stood. I handed my friend the pistol, and whispered these words don't ir." lie was cool, beautifully cool, and nodded as cent. The two took position: " Gentlemen, are yitu ready'?" said my oppo site. : There was no answer. " I take it y u are ready ; and you will fire af ter two, and before live." lie paused a moment, and said, "I will now count," and then in a quick tone, said ''Raise; one, two, three, four, five." The cornet tired at three, the other at five. The cornet was uninjured, while the other fell, with a ball through his neck. 44 You see I was right," said he ; " I should not be touched. God has protected the right." He has indeed, I thought, as I mechanically placed in his hand the first pistol, which I had reloaded, and took from him the. discharged messenger of death. I approached the fallen man, who was evident- bj in dying condition, and was unable to ar- ticulate. The ''bath surgeon" was by his side, and shook his head at me. The unfortunate man t"4-' to speak; but at last, finding this in vain, he drew a letter from his vest, and pointed to his coat. I understood at once. It was .brought him. He took out three or four, and j handed them to me, pointing at his opponent, who now stood about twenty feet off, with his ' back resolutely turued, and holding the pistol ! rather carelessly. I knew I had loaded it, and ; that he was in danger. I knew that the letters ! might be important, if the intimation given me 1 was correct, I approached him with them in 1 my hand. 44 He says they are from her," said I. ! He made no effort to take them, but his face be- i -m m came ashy pale. "I don't believe it was his response. "He is a double liar 1" jien donit die jes on tie;r jj" sajd j sternlv. " Well, you may read them, if you choose." I began one ; it was full of tenderness, and could admit of but one construction. His frame shook with emotion. r u How is it signed ?" said he. I showed him the bottom of the paper, where was traced rt Julia Langton.' His eyes glared he muttered a curse then i sobbed once " My poor sister !" and quick as I thought, and before I could anticipate his motion, he raised the fresh loaded weapon to bis brain, fired, and fell dead ! Horror-struck, I ran to the other. He too had just expired, and the souls of the two duel lists quitted mortal strife together. I shall not dwell upon the immediate sequel, nor my after reflections. They were too painful for remembrance. My friend was decently buri ed in the Bath church-vard, and 1 left for town immediately, to avoid comment and arrest. I took my friend's personal effects with me, com prising his little valuables and payers, and de termined to see the erring and unfortunate sister who had caused this doubled calamity. I said to myself, " if she be not wholly lost, that will, at least bring her to a repentant life." From the second who officiated with me, I learned her res idence, and thither I went on the night of my arrival. I knocked at the door of the house, and inquired for Miss Langton. " There was no such name in the house." I remembered that she perhaps passed by the name of her betrayer, and corrected my request by substituting Mrs. -. " It's up stairs," said the maid, eyeing me sus piciously. I ran up, but as my foot touched the upper stair, a light form bounded forth from a door almost into my arms then as quickly stepped back. I saw it was she. " Well, well, what message ? He is well, you sav he is, don't voir?" I followed her into the room and closed the door. " Don't keep me in suspence !" said she. .1 had to, for I was collecting my thoughts. Mv duty was a very delicate one, particularly as I saw before me a light, fragile beauty, who was not unlike, in form and appearance to the unfor tunate cornet. " What have you heard V said I. "Here, here," said she. bringing forth acruni- pled letter from the folds of her dress. Ile wrote it the night before, and said he was to fight my brother. It is some horrid mystery, for I have no brother." . 44 No, madam," I answered solemnly, 44 for he too is dead." 44 He too ho too ?" she exclaimed. ''There are twograve-yards which claim them," I rejoined. 44 Explain. Two dead who are they ?" 44 Unfortunate lady," I thought to myself; but I cortM not speak; so I mechanical ly handed her the letters signed by " Julia Langton." She took theii in her hand read them for a line or so looked in my face a searching in quiry and swooned. When she recovered, for I dashed a w-ine-glass full of water in her face, and laid her upon a couch by an open window although pale as marble, she seemed to remember all and said 44 It is a dreadful mistake. Take them to the real Julia Langton, at her aunt's, in street; she will explain all, when you add to whatever story you have to tell, Clara Ellis my name. I cannot hear you now to-morrow v to-morrow. It is enough to know that my Charles, my idolized Charles, is dead." 44 Idolized mistakenly," thought I to myself, remembering his public boastings in the pump room, at Bath a public desecration of a trusting heart. I left her, and sought the real Julia Langton, (as she phrased it,) with a mind full of perplexi ty and mvstery. What could it mean ? Why should "Clara Ellis" be quoted for another ? I saw the lady, and not to make more painful in detail a story which can scarcely be surpass ed in real or ficticious life, for its mistakes, mis fortunes, and tragical events, I told her all, show ing her the letters. She was insensible for hours. The father and physician both came, and I was commanded to wait below. I believe j it was thought to send for an officer, and appre hend me. I began to think I ought to be in custody, for I spread tragedy wherever I moved. Hours passed by. I was still in the dark as to the mvstery and the fearful mistake for such J it was, I now could perceive and one that j cou,i notj al;is ; bring to life the duellist and the ! suicide. Nor was it until next day, after again seeing Miss Ellis, that I learned the matter. The unfortunate Clara Ellis had been a school gov erness in the place where Julia Langton had been educated. Her seducer, by some strange recol lection of names, arising from the two being out together, and he hearing the name of one and not the other, had attached it to her on a chance j meeting in the school garden. Not knowing to j what unhappy lengths it would lead, and being I of a romantic turn, she did not, at first, unde- j eeive him ; and when enticed by his arts and persuasions, she fled the place, and soon became a mistress where she hoped to be a wife, it be came convenient to keep up the name of a pure and virtuous woman. She loved him to distrac- j tion ; but still she had a loving father a poor curate in the north ot England to whom she, as his daughter, would be dead. The letters which caused the whole thing were written by her, and signed with her assumed name. What became of her I know not ; but the un fortunate sister of the doubly unfortunate cor net, only lingered a year, and literally died of a broken heart. Never in the course of my professional experi ence have I read of or witnessed a more compli cated tragedy a toore strange entangling'of the threads of hnmXn destiny. From Sharpe'i London Magazine. A LEAF FOB LITE. BY "WILLIAM HCRTON. After my discharge from the hospital at Ha vana, I shipped in the American barque Inde pendence, Captain Robert L , bound to Yalparaiso, and thence round the Horn to the western coast of North America. She was a large vessel, of some seven hundred tons register, with a handsome poop, top gallant forecastle, and all other points of a flash ship. The captain was a native of Jersey, and the crew were a mix ture of Americans, British and Spaniards, with ,a sprinkling of woolly-heads, or " snoiv balls" as we called the negroes. We had not been, a week out, ere very great dissatisfaction prevailed among the crew, for the captain, with unaccountable perversity, did not allow us half enough junk (i. e. salted beef) to our meals ; and even what we did get, was what sailors call 44 old horse" viz., hard, tough, leanf stringy stuff, devoid of nourishment. The usual allowance of junk pu ship-board is one pound and a half for each man per diem ; but I am sure we did not get more than half that quantity. The captain used to come on deck every morning, and stand by the steward as he weighed out the junk from the 14 harness cask," to see that we did not get an ounce over what he had ordered. On the other hand, this captain allowed us thrice as much grog as is, usual. But sailors, although very fond of rum, can't live upon it ; and three quarters of a pound of 44 old horse," and a few rotten biscuits, quite alive with 44 weevils," was a poor day's allowance for a hearty fellow. .Our first mate often remonstrated with the captain on his conduct, and plainly told him . that the men would not long submit to it ; but the only reply the captain made was to tell him to mind what he was about, or he would 44 break him and haze him up," meaning that he would send the mate forward as a common sailor, and work him to death- At length, after a long and fierce discussion in the forecastle, we all went aft one morning in a body, and complained through the carpenter, as spokesman, thai we had not enough to eat. Captain L listened without interruption, and theu coolly turned round and said 44 Steward, go down in the cabin, and bring my pistols." We looked at one another in silence. In a couple of minutes the steward returned w ith the pistols, and, with a face as pale as death, handed them to the captain. The latter coolly placed both on full cock, and laying them side bv side on the top of the binnacle, crossed his arms, and glared round at every soul of us ere he spoke. " Now men," cried he at length, between his teeth, 44 nil I've got to say is, that you are mista ken if you think you are going to get the upper hand of me. I am your captain, and the law gives me power to do what I like. You didn't ship to bullv me. Go for'ard to your duty, and the first man that hesitates, or gives me any jaw, I'll shoot him as I would a pigeon !" We tumbled to the forecastle in a body, and for hours after the captain walked the deck, big with his achievement. We had light baffling winds for many days, and the temper of the captain grew perfectly savage. By-and-bye came a calm, and he was a complete madman. He stormed and swore from morning to night, and " hazed " us all, from the cabin boy up to the mate. Our allowance of meat was worse than ever, and he stopped grog altogether, and put us on half allowance of water, under pretence that he feared to run short if the calm lasted. But when a breeze sprang up at the expiration of four days, our allowance re mained the same half meat, half water, no grog ! The sailors grew half desperate, and curses both loud and deep were bandied from mouth to mouth, and indistinct menaces uttered. By-and-bye it grew whispered in the ship that the captain had had a coup-de soleil, or sun stroke, before leaving Havana, and that he had drank freely of brandy ever since, and was conse quently really insane to a certain extent. This would explain his conduct, and we all were in clined to accept it as the proper solution ; but the captain had certainly never yet committed anv act which would legally be held proof of insanity ; for all that he did, although highly cruel and tyrannical, was within the bounds of that fearful amount of almost irresponsible pow er that the law allows to sea captains. We had been three weeks out, when it was mv morning watchf on deck. Six bells (seven o'clock had just struck, and I was engaged coil ing away the line of the log, which had been hove by order of the mate, then in charge of the deck, when Captain L- unexpectedly came out of the cabin. I noticed that he had a wild nervous look, for he glanced around and aloft, just as a man might do when suddenly aroused from a dream. This is a literal fact. The whims of sea officers are often very strange indeed. I once made a voyage in a Swedish ship, and the captain being laid up in the deck house, almost in a dying state, the mate was lord para mount. He was a gigantic fellow, and was always com plaining that the men didn't earn their, salt ; yet he treat ed them rery well, and gare them a liberal allowance ot beef and pork (both most excellent in quality,) but not a drop of grog. He hi mself never touched meat ! I messed with him in the cabin daily for nearly a month, and the only food he ate was tsn-l dried cod-fish. This man would read his Swedish Bible in a loud monotonous voice for an hour at a spell, and then break oT to tell me motA indecent stories. ' t The " morning watch, " is from four a. k. to eight, i. jc. The first night watch k from eight T. u. to twelve p. . The middle watch is from twelve r. n. to four A. M.'ii "Bella "are struck erry half bowj "ben eitfri beti rfril n wtch i t " What's the course ?" he abruptly demanded ot the man at the wheel. " South east by east, sir." The captain then stepped up to the binnacl and looked at the compass. Turning round wit an oath, he struci the man a blow in the mout that knocked him away from the wheeL anA thundered . 44 You take the spokes in hand ! You knor no more alout steering than your mother !" (Such were the exact words, for I distinctly r -member theni.) ' The poor fellow who was one of the best helmsmen in the ship took hold of the spokas again, the blood trickling down his chin, anid muttered 44 1 was steering to a hair's breadth." 44 What's that you say ?" "I say I was steering as well as any man could, and you're a tyrant, captain." The captain's face grew black with passion, and the light foam flew from his lips, as he screamed 44 Mr. Jackson, clap this fellow in irons ! No, seize him up make a spread-eagle of him ! I'll teach him to toe the mark !" ) The mate Jackson, in vain attempted to soothe the madman, who compelled his officers to " seize un" the unfortunate sailor that is, to lash his wrists to the shrouds, with his back bare for punishment. This is called makinga "spread eagle." I dare not dilate on the sickeningscena that ensued. Suffice it that the Captain, with his own hand flogged the man most brutallyj in the presence of all hands, and not a soul ofus dared to speak. That night we all signed a 44 round robin," that is, a paper stating a grievance or petition, with the names of the men written in a circle, so tiat no one can be pitched upon as the ring-leader addressed to the chief mate, stating that we all felt that our lives were not safe in the hands of the Captain, as he is obviously insane, and re questing the mate to take the command of the I ship, and plr.ee the captain in confinement. Yve sent this to Mr. Jackson by one of the boys, and in a quarter of an hour the mate came forward. 44 Men," says he, 44 do you know what you are j about ? you are in open mutiny and you know what the penalty for that is. For God's sakej let us have no more of this. Capt. L is cap tain, and his will is law. We must all subrnit to it. Were I to do my duty strictly, I should show this," pointing to the round-robin, "tojthe captain ; but I don't want to make matters worse. Let us get to port, and then complain as you please. But for your own sakes and my sake don't mutiny." We all respected the mate, and his words i made a great impression. We consulted to gether, and the prudence of the majority over came the fierce impulse of the bolder spiritsi It was, however tacitly understood, that if matters rrew much worse, we would risk the dreadful penalty of mutiny by seizing the captain, for we now considered he was undoubtedly insane al though the mate acted rightly enough in hold ing aloof at present, as the captain had not yet evinced himself incapable- of managing the ship. " WTiether any whisper had leaked out in the cabin, through the officers or steward, I cannot : tell, but the captain undoubtedly suspected what had passed. At noon the next day, herame on deck, with a double-barreled gun in his hands, and deliberately loaded it with ball in our pres ence. When he had done this, he called all hands aft, and in language that sufficiently indi cated, from its wild incoherency, that he was un doubtly insane, he addressed the crew, winding up with the words 44 YTou think to get the upper hand of me, do you ? You will mutiny you will take the ship i Till 1 1,! T11 away trom me s 111 ihukb au eujpie u show vou whom you have to deal with ! Mr. this Jackson, let those two men be seized 'upj minute, for I'll make spread eagles of them sure as I live." r As he spoke, the captain pointed to two jof the nearest men one an American, the other an -Englishman. These poor fellows looked found at their messmates, and seeing how undecided all were, then suddenly turned and sprang into the rigging running aloft for safety. j ' The captain's eyes glared like a wild beast's, and seizing his gun he shouted " Lay down this moment, both of ye, or HI shoot ye !' They saw the threatening movement! and heard the command ; but this only caused! them to run up the rigging higher and higher. jTwice more the captain hailed them, and then hie rais ed his piece, and quick as lightning, levelled .and fired. A burst of execration from us j&ll fol lowed, for the ball had struck the Englishman and broke his leg. He fell like a wounded bird into the main-top, and screamed in agony. ' 44 Oh, God ! what have yon done, Capt L-l P : exclaimed the horror-siricken mate. " You have committed murder !" I ' 44 No, I have not," answered the "captain, u I ordered the fellow down, and if he won't obey ' its mutiny, and the law will justify me in kfl- ' ling him, or killing you either so mind what J you say !" '" " j The mate turned aside, and when one of the oldest seamen whispered in his ear" Say the word, sir, and we will dap the madman in irons, J he only shook his head, and buried his face in his hands. ' j ; Meanwhile the American, a fine pun r 1 known by die $oubriquet of 44 Boston 3iH,3ad ; ascodedMothei'H down on deck to see what course matters tj iv - it. ; : if f-1 'VI 1 Y-'t- : 0. i . -1 t- 1 it j ? " C i V- -i 1 i i f i t I' t ' t i 1 r r.. 1 i .-. f
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