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IT IS A FACT, BY JINti. Oh. nnnzhty eirls! oh. naughty irirla I With cyi's Imth Mack and bhi':--Witli downy chocks, and flowing curls,

And lips of rose's hue Your Hinilcs shoot to mv pizar-l plump 1 And there they closely clinc. Like a woodehnek to a rotten stump—

It is a fact, by jing!

Et never saw a rosy lip. 3i• I'.ul my heart went pitty-p.it. A' if mine wished its to s:p,

But it suid, "all but that!'' My :irt vi ry sensitive And yet a ch'uiL'jful thin^r, That won't eojiiin itielf to ouo— 5f It i«i a fa_-t, by I

5f Your eyes nre perfect telegraphs— Mairnctie onus. I think— Which tell more sweet and -nugish talca

Than lips ran, with a wink -Bi-sides. tney'er all tlw tim-i at work—• "l.ike bees! th.'V'cr pwe«.t. but stint,',

And l'W.c a misrhty ticklish smart fs It is a fact, by jing 1 1 cn"e dil love, in other times, i»: A maiden hrijrht and fair—

That is. her ddudv had the '•dim'vi,'* And she- had liemp-ish hair 1 n«ki' 1 her on^e the price, of "tow," sfa She said. "You ugly tiling!"

And knocked me 'bout a luet or ao— It is a fact, by jing 'Jailer dnddv kicked me down the stairs---

Her brother blneke'd my eyes 3 I lost my hat. my heart, and worso— I lost the silver prize

And after that 1 swore I'd liva »s A huehelor's life, nor clin^ dl any one particular f.-:ir--

Wliu-li i» fact, by jing I ff: And now. dear trirl. don't look so Hvrecl When I'm on hand and. too, lii'-1 tin ?e "revolvers'" from my .sight,

lil

Whii-h shoot so platrny true Or els.: I'll certainly go mad, K" And in some horse-p.ml spring

Hu» hoi Ion Zed! You've spun enough That is a fact, by jing'

[From the New York Monthly for Fobiuiirv.] ONil-IA'Ml) DI.AIUC:

Tin: iNYoi.rNTAKY rmATE. had tlin mid-watch on clerk cur fri

comprehension! I was in just that state of mind which Iho scenc was calculated to produce, gazing now at the rolling billows, crested with phosphorescent light, as they swelled and heaved far away to leeward and anon at (he ciouds marshalled like a host in the and moving in wild array to the

flashing

rry. It was simply a summons to send a

man to the wheel, which was quickly done but the interruption was enough to change

he current of my thoughts, and 1 glanced

around the deck to see it anything in the routine of duty needed my attention: our ship was snug, and the men quietly stowed awav under the lee of the bulwarks, except one. He was gazing pretty much after the fashion I had just been practising, alternately on the sea nnd sky. "Well, Blake, what do you make of it?" asked I.

-It's all plain enough, sir, said he, as,

he touched his hat, interpreting my quos-

t.on literally, "we ve had the worst of it,.

though the gale will probably last 'forty-1

"Aye, sir, and many a wild scene, said

be, answering more directU to the spirit of.

-promised to spin me ft yarn lets have it,

I feel in the humor.

the sailor. "So. it you please, I ha no j10W

•pet the flask you 11 find on the bottom shelf,

it won do any harm to 'freshen the nip

before you begin: and bring a can of wa-|

ter as you come by the scuttlebutt.' j,

i. *f

-natured,

nte was lying to under a close-reefed main-' like little mountains turned adrift, and the

cou

^lict, the moon-beams glittering on its ar-

along its ranks!—when a bail from

the quarter-deck recalled mo from my rev-j

lop-sail the gale was heavy, but steady,' clouds rolling and tumbling aloft in such ,enrronades a sido, and a "Long lom on a nnd the swell of the sea long and regular grand confusion, I could not help thinking' pivot, and her bulwarks were lined with dark masses of clouds were rolling to Ke- what poor, weak, foolish critters wo are small arms. Resistance was perfectly eward, through which ever and anon the straining and toiling a few years, after we less, and we made no attempt at it but inoon shone, brilliantly, silvering their sa- don't know what, and then being thrown' heaved to as we were ordered, and receivblo edges, and lighting up the wild storm! overboard with a couple of round shot to ed the Pirate Captain and about twenty of scene just sufficiently to make visible its| our feet, to sink down—down, where even'his crew on board. Though we offered no fierce and gloomy aspect. There is at all the sharks won't find us. our names scratch- opposition, we were every mother's son of times something in the war of elements cal-: ed from the muster-roll of memory, and, us bound hand and foot, and bundled into ciliated to awaken sublime sentiments even our places in the mess, p.nd on the watch-j the schooner, which lay close under our in the dullest soul but there is a majesty book filled, as though we had never been quater. The captain of our brig was sharpin the Occan, when its mitjhlv hs are and yet all this will goon again, and again.' ly questioned as to her cargo, and whether stirred, which calls forth every feeling of and others will look to it as we do feel' there was any specie on board, and though admiration and awe of which our natures their hearts lifted up for a while like our's, he answered without equivocation, he renre capable, and arrests us as before the wonder at it as we do, and give up all like ceived a severe blow on the mouth from the type of that Eternity which wc are taught us, without making the wherefore any bet- hilt of a cuttass, for telling the trutn as to to contemplate as too vast fur our finite ter." "You are quite a philosopher, Blake." "No, sir, but all this makes me ask why should we set such value upon life, when it's so trifling a thing?" "You know the Bible says all that a man hath will he give for life." ?V "Well, sir, I am glad you have the good

book for

it,

mor, and the lightning's fierce artillery aftcrwanls,

was

of approximate correctness he was cer- to him. My poor father was awfully mantainlv old, hut still full of activity and en- gled, and didn't live an hour. It so hapdura'nee the first man aloft, and the last pened that I had been left at home that to quit his post always ready, intelligent, voyage, and the first news we had of our and reliable. The man was not morose or loss was brought by the parents of the child ill

but silent and mysterious res- he had saved they appeared almost as pectful to his superiors, and, notwithstand- much distressed as we were, and were veino- his unsociable habits, popular among ry kind and generous, and gave my moihhis ship-mates sailors being ever ready to er money, and promised she should never recognize merit in one of their calling and want nor did they forget her afterward, excellent judges of human nature withal. The little girl cried much, and throwing No one ever molested Blake he was not her arms around my sister's neck, declaroven the subject of those occasional prac- ed she should always be her sister. I nevtical jokes with which Jack innocently va- er saw anything more beautiful, and boy ries the monotony of ship-board. On one as I was, I thought I would willingly have occasion only had I ever known liim an- made fight with a shark myself for her grv, and that was when a skulking fellow sake. whom ho was compelled to report for a

gro?s neglect of his duly, called him in re- was rated ordinary seaman the first voyage, sentment a "d—d p:rato." In an instant and after that I got full wages. Things Blake caught him by the throat with an went on pretty smoothly for four or five iron i^rip, his swarthy visage glowed like a years after this we ceased to hear from our heated furnace, and his single eye burned friends, but my mother was conifortab'y in its socket with destructive fierceness.— fixed and my wages were good.* It was The paroxvsm lasted only an instant by a between six and seven years after my fathpowcrful effort he resumed his self-control, er's death that I shipped on board a brig throwing off the offender, pale and fright- bound for the West Indies. We had a fine encd, never again to renew his insolence. run until we got down among the "Keys," I remembered this rencontre, and deter- when one morning about day-light we were mined if possible to have an explanation at overhauled by a stranger. It was easy some time the occasion now appeared fa- telling what he was at first sight his long, voruble, and when Blake returned, after dark hull, and tall raking masts never behc had touched the grrg, I asked him a- longed to an honest trader. We would bout it. We had taken our seats on a gun- have cscaped if we could, but there was no slide, the space around which, etiquette— earthly hope we had been becalmed all a nice point with sailors—had left vacant' night, and he brought the breeze along with for my benefit. Somewhat to my aston- him. Our skipper did say perhaps it might ishment there appeared no reluctance on his be only a slaver, and the worst we need part to communicate freely about himself, jfuar would be a loss of water, and provis"I had as well tell you* that now as any ions but he was mistaken, for as she rangother time and I don't mind your know"-'ed along up under our quarter, her deck ino- nil about it. though you wi'll easily un- jwas alive with men, and a harder looking, derstand why I don't care to have my life'more cut-throat set I never clapped my' a ship's talk. Well, sir, a little while* ago, eyes on: they were of all colors and nawhen I was looking at the waves playing tions, yet it was easy to see they were

blood bile all over, because it

true"**

'You a pirate, Biak 'Yes, sir didn't I tell you a man would

d() tha

'tQ

sRve hjs ]ift he woukJ n0 ]ikc (o

think of afterwards and yet I do think of it, and often wish myself a hundred fathoms down in the blue water, if it could only wash out the recollection of that one act," said he in a sad and hollow voice. "It was this way, sir: I was born, you see, on the occan, and never knew any other calling.— My father was a seaman before me, and a a if re

hUs aml (1,.01.Si a hc:

nQW anJ lhcn( which is sai]

anJ nH.ar„s n0 harm

ncedn ha )ccn as iamc 0

tight hours longer. I ning here, and when they overhauled it "And you have seen man\ a harder one, jqj ket

I have no ooubt. j1 t)

er W

lor

0 vas

Reader, you may be an advocate of the to amuse me very much, yet I always got Maine Law for aught I know but if grog tired out before the time was half over, and is ever allowable, it is in a gale of wind at used to lonof to be off boat again. 1 was sea, and even though you may belong to'about fifteen years old when my fatheri that very estimable class of moral reform- died he was lost in saving a little girl, a| ers, I shall feel inclined to question your passenger, who

(picked

for a man will do much that he

es not like to think of, much less hear

s]{Ulk,

savo liis life: and when that

Juno, called me a d—d pirate, it

ni!U 0 niv

his reck'-

quru-tcr ]1C passed muster

best, and has as sunny a berth as

any of om was ie onl son

an ag lo

jj yQU^ jJQrn

niv inquiry. being on her passage out to America, for "By the way, Blake, jou have often. jj

at sea mo

)er

as a true blooded Yan-

he ad married in

.to-night. 1 teel in tnc numor. born a sailor,' said the old man when he "And I too. sir, somewhat so. rep ilc

gaw and a sa

London. 'He's

or ie si,a]i

ec on wag on s]^ip

wou eaV

be!' I can't

0 was lcn

objection to settle off that score. jr0'ing to sea, for it appears as if my recol''Well, just step clown to my locker, and

first commenced

board. My father

me at home sometimes for a

voyage, but although the old woman

wag aood cnough

to mc/and a little sister

born about two years after, used

being

constancy if a wet jacket and a long night- fallen oveiboard at sea. He happened to l' raiseel his hand to cut the skipper down •watch were the provocatives, and a flask of be in'the mizzen rigging, and jumped over- but

fragrant "schnapps" the temptation. But board and caught iter the boat was lower- upon the plank, and with a shout to my subject. cd and pulled for them: it was not a half "'Farewell! boys: there no mercy for One-eyed Blake, as he was generally dozen s'rokes off when my father shrieked us here, so let die like men. •called, was one of the most incomprehensi- out, threw up one hand, commenced beat- lie leaped into the blue water, ar.d sank tile and mysterious old 'salts" I ever fell ing the water, while with the other he tried forever beneath its waves. The fate of the in with. He was a thorough seaman in to lift the child above him. They all knew rest is soon told those who had begged to appearance lank, bonv, and muscular, with what was the matter. Two hard strokes join the pirate were next disposed of all it face tanned and wrinkled until it resem- on the oars, and in an instant the boat was had double-headed shot slung^around their bled an old piece of puckered leather. lie alongside. One hauled the girl in, while necks, and driven when they hung back, had but one eye, as his cognomen indicat- another caught at my father, who was al- with blows, and curses, and cutlass thrusts, rj, and that was small, deep-set, and fiery ready sinking, with the boat hook. They over the side. Such shrieks, such blashis' beard consisted only of a scattered managed to get a hold on him the water phemy My God! it rings in my ears even growth of grey hairs, which, however he was all bloodv around, and it was some now at times. I ve witnessed many scenes evidently regarded with partiality. Of trouble to pull him in. for the shark didn't of horror, I've seen death in many shapes, JJlafcV* "af*D

could scarcelr give an idea let go until they punched the boat hook in- I've watched strong men struggle with the

I heard distinctly, sank beneath the blue waters, my heart died out within me.

There she iioes, the d- -d old ballyho, and leaves no tell-tales behind her,' said the Pirate Captain. 'Now, boys, rig out your gangboard, and bring up a few necklaces we'll soon give these chaps a free passage to Davy Jones' locker." "Well, sir, you may imagine how we felt when that order was given. Our feet were cast loose, and we were mustered in the "•an^wav. Some of our fellows bejnred 1 1 hard, and oflered to join others damned and swore, but neither was of any use.— For my part I was silent and lost in the awful certainty of what awaited us. The first they took was our skipper his mouth was still bleeding, and he was pale, but not a bit afraid. When they wanted to sling the shot around his neck, he resisted slightly. "'Let him alone,'said the captain, 'if he prefers being made shark's meat.' 'I* 'I shall not find them half so blood!thirsty as you are, ye cowardly lubbers!' exclaimed he. "The taunt even from a man thev were

too venturesome, had murdering appeared to rde the pirate, and

was

Our Country and her Institutions.

"Well, I soon found employment, and

YOL. 5. CB-AWF0KDSYILLE, MONTGOMERY C0Ul\TY, IIVD., FEBRUARY 25,1854.10. 31.

men. 1 he schooner mounted three

the money, llis blood spurted on me, and my heart turned sick, for it seemed but a taste of what was in store for us all. Why bind us when there was no resistance, and why put us on board the schooner unless for objects of cruelty? The pirates found little in our brig worth their while, except provisions and water, of which they stood in need: These they might have taken without harming the crew, and such is sometimes their custom, but 1 learned afterwards that their Captain had sworn nev'er to spare a soul he captured, being well nigh caught through his clemency on a previous occasion. "When they had got all they wanted out. of her, they scuttled the brig, anil the schooner hauled off. The pirates paid no attention to us at first as we lay huddled together on the deck, but their vessel being hove to, were watching with infernal glee the poor old brig as she. settled in the water. I too could see her through a porthole from where I lay, and at last when she lurched forward, and with a groan- which

too late—the brave fellow sprang

each other, and a jolly rover's life is better than a plunge inio the sea 1 wouldn't have those whitc-jivercd hounds among my crew, but you arc a lad of spirit. Will you join us?' "•Yes!' I answered. "M}* hands were very quickly loosed, and I was taken off and made to sign the articles, and an oath of the most terrible kind administered to me. I could not but think how ridiculous it was to expect an oath would bind men who were ready at any moment to murder, burn and steal, but such was their custom, and I have since learned

there may be reason in binding even a rogue by his conscience, which all have more or less, of whatever kind-it may be. Well,! sir, .'o I became a Pirate. I soon found it'

idence in my favor, for it relieved me in a

nate accident happened in my favor. We were chased in a few days after I joined, by a sloop of war she came upon us unawares in a fo£T, and we had close sailing to

and was obi I: crawled up

You area brave lad, and a good steersman remember hereafter you are stationed at the wheel whenever all hands are called.'

waves, and sink, in their agony, when help Capos of Virginia that we gave chase to a was almost at hand I've known our scup- merchant brig one day, and soon overpers to run blood in an action, but never hauled she was a picket running bebefore or sincg have I ftlt as I did then, tween Charleston and New orlc. a while one by one my shipmates were mur- prize she w:is almost worthless, but we were dered with cold, sneering, diabolical cruel- badly in want of it and provisions and ty, each one bringing my own turn nearer I shuddered when I thought that for the and nearer. At last they were all gone, sake of obtaining these, more murders must and I stood alone on the pirate's deck, sur- be committed, for the pirates adhered to rounded by fiends who had no pity or re- their rule of destroying all whom they capmorse. I had not opened my lips during tured, lest evidence might turn in against the whole terrible ordeal, for horror froze them when they gave up their trade to enup my speech the certainty of death gave 'joy on shore their ill-got gains. me, however, a sort of calmness like de-1 "The brig was soon .-tripped off all they spair, which it seems attracted the attention wanted and as usual scuttled. There was of the pirate captain, who approached where some resistance among the crew and pas!I stoo-.l, waving off those who were about sengers, which caused them to be cut down to seize me. mercilessly. Thank heaven! I did not "'You have good muscle, and some wilm ss the conflict, for I was at my station pluck,' said he gripping me by the shoulder, at the wheel of the schooner, but I learned 'will you take the bounty or follow your the cans? quick enough. There were wofriends?' men on board, prizes more valued by the I "In an instant the thoughts of home, of pirates than gold or silver. One young girl my mother and sister, came over me—my in particular had struck the Captain's fanlife, which one moment before I thought' cy. Poor thing! how my heart sickened forfeited, became inexpressibly dear to me, when they were brought on board .1 had i-. and revolting as the price was at which it been forced to witness the fall of their predemust be preserved, I felt at once an eager- cessors on previous occasions, and if hell, ncss to accept his proposal, which the fate, ever hatched one on rage more diabolical of those who had gone before, warned me it than all others, it is in the treatment of fewas not prudent to shun. The captain no-: male prisoners on board a pirate ship ticed my hesitation. Three or four of the male prisoners had 'Come, my lad, if we are obliged to do been tied and bundled on board of our these tilings for our safety, we are true to schooner as wc cast off from the brig, to1 afford the wrelckc? amusement by

neccssary to conceal the aversion with which supernatural struogle she sprang fiom the I looked upon the business, and to pretend negro's arms and loll at my leet, ex daimat least to be as cruel and heartless as any ing— around me. A circumstance happened "'Oh God! Charles! brother, sa\e me shortly after I joined that seemed like a prov

great measure from the necessity of placing Captain, who was at the gangway giving a part which I fear I should have been is- some directions about the pri oners. He! covered in. 1 had made up my mind that, turned quietly and looked on, while I cast! come what would, I could never shed a my eyes upon him in terror. W hat was drop of innocent blood, though I might make mv additional surpri.-e to behold in one ot believe to join fully in the sentiments of my the prisoners, the father of the poor girl.— companions. However, as I said, a fortu-. He, too, had recognized me, and cxclaimed

wrelckc? r.mu-cmo?,

in a vo:ce ot a .c.

get clear of her I happened to be at the roulinr- of cruellies, replied sne ringly: WrieCl, As we

contemplate'.

participation in many a dark deed which would have been forced upon me, or my id pantomime. I life been taken. "'Quick quick! brother,' she said in a' "'Well, sir, you may suppose I have low, firm voice, 'It is the only way—God something more particular to tell than that bless you quick.' I became a pirate to save my life, so instead "The blow would have bee a thousand of backing and filling any more I will come tinws less painful in my own heart. It was to the point. It is true I could make your surely done, and in a few minutes all was hair stand up with horror by describing over! She blessed me with her dying eyes more than one scene which I was compell- nothing would have made life endurable ed to witness but, sir, there never was a and yet it was horrible life-yarn without one turn in it more im- The poor fellow trembled even after the portant than all the rest, and the twist you long lapse of time, as if the scene were still give it then you can never unlay until every before him. "Say, Mr. Brace, was I right? strand is parted, and the fish or the worms Would vou have done it?" make oakum of us "You were right, Blake: your conduct "I had been on board the pirate about a ™s heroic, and 1 have no doubt the spirit year, and we had never been in harbor but of the martyred girl looks

once, and that was a place away down with gratitude from I aradise among the Keys off the south coast of Cuba. "'That's it, sir.'said he, grasping my It was a little land-locked bay, in a wild, hand,'that's my only consolation. I see her I unhabited island, which it was impossible face and hear her voice in my dreams: her! to reach in anything bigger than a joliy- eves look up out of the blue sea upon me, boat, except to those who understood the and her form appears to me in the clouds pilotage. The pirates had a cave here but never in reproach, always kind and af-• where they hid their treasures. I was so fectionate. and I sometimes hope when my closely watched during the whole time of time is up here and ray last cruise made, I: our stay, that I would have bad no chance shall go up aloft, it only to know that shei to escape even if I had attempted it. As I forgives me, and my deed was approved.' showed no symptoms of such an intention, "Well, sir, when the Captain saw what I however, the Captain took me into full con-

iad (](,nc,

fidence, and as we sailed out again showed leveled it at my head. I faced it without, me the channel, that I might know it in our flinching, for at that moment death would future visits. 'have been a favor. I saw the (ire stream "Well, we had been chased off our cruis- forth from its muzzle, felt a shock, and sank ing ground two or three times, some months blinded, bleeding and insensible to the deck, after that, and our Captain had stretched The ball entered my eye and passed out at awnv to the North. He was in a bad hu-' the side, without wounding the brain, mor, for he looked for one or two rich prizes "I was for a long time unconscious, and of which hu had information and he made when I came to, I found myself cared for, up his mind to abandon the sea for a while and in my hammock. The momentary pasand enjoy the fruits of his piracies. I wasision of the Captain over, he had forgiven the only'confident he had made as to hisjmy act. In truth there wa3 something in intention, and I hoped thereby to effect my it that touched a lingering sentiment of his own cscape. It was somewhere off the better nature, such as it was before crime

•FC

hy watM!

the plank so true is it, sir, that our natures! bee jir.e hardened by crime, and witnessing O miser}*, as to take pleasure in cruelty.— The women were hurried forward to endure their fate, with the exception of the girl ij have alluded to. She was borne aft in the! arms of the captain's negro steward to his cabin. She had recovered from her iirst' fainting spell, and seemed conscious of the horrors that awaited her. She did r.otj shri k, but moaned so pi'.eously that I could not help turn i)g my eyes upon her as she passed :nc. Great God I recni/nizerf her. it was the little gill my father had died to save, my own adapted sister, now grown into a most lovely and splendid woman.— The recognition was mutual, and with a

kill me I "The. scenc at •Led the attention of the

ony:

Pirate Captain was watching me close.— She shall be a rover's bride, and you may Whether he suspected me of any treachery,' console yourself that she will be well prodon't know, but if so, he was wrong fori vided for.' knew very well that he intended to blow "The scene occupied less, far less time the vessel up rather than be taken, in the than I am relating it. The black had noo first place, and in the second I had no hope disturbed he as she kneeled, but watched even if captured that I should be able to the captain for his cue. A thought came prove my inneeence so that I was eager to across my soul like a flash of lightning.— escape as he. After we were clear of the When the pirate's eye turned from me to chase, he came up to me and saic the father, I still beheld the .gaze of the latter riveite 1 on mine. I .-dial! never forget his imploring look, or how it changed lo one of triumph, as I touched my knife significantlv, and raised my own eyes to heav-1 nd so, sir, I escaped the immediate en to ask approval of the terrible deed I,

•iave her! save her, my boy "Our captain, who evidently enjoyed the scene as something out of the e!inaiy

'Why, ibis is dramatic .ever mi:

ed to steer very fine, to the windward the old fellow, I'll r.ot give him the trouble.—

d. She too understood my rap-

on ou

he instantly drew a pistol and

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had hardened and pointed his soul. I? learned from the messmate who tended mtv that when well, I might safely appear ou deck. In reply to my inquiries as to what occurred after my fall, he said: "'You made a sure blow of it—she wns^ dead before the Captain reached her so ha just tied her and the old fel'ow together,' and gave them a plunge overboard.' "My heart swelled and my eye grew dim! with tears when he told me this, sir n«r were my feeling* altogether painful. It was a beautiful tiling, was it not, sir, that they whom I had rescued from worse than death, had been joined in thei/1 st embrace, and the good old father could know as ho sank fathoms deep in the sea,' with his daughter in his arms, that she had died pure and unviolated

IIow eloquent was that simple sailor's thoughts! What terrible scenes had he witnessed! What sublime heroism had ho evinced! Yet he spoke so naturally, and with such self-distrust, that I was led to respect as well as admire him, "Well, BLdie," asked I, after he had paused a few minutes, from his recital,.' "IIow did you get rid of the pirate?" "That is a short yarn, sir. Some weeks after we sti ered for the rendezvous, but were intercepted by a ankee sloop of war which had been on the look-out for us all along. She was a clipper, the only craf:I ever know to hold her own with our schooner. The Captain knew her well, too, and as wc- wore well in among the Keys wheus she was made out, he thought it safest to trust to our harbor. They had been thcro before if, however, and though they had not found out the channel exactly, determined to follow u. in their boats. I was steering, but the Captain stoo 1 by with a pistol at iry head, for some instinct bid him fear me. I had made up my mind to jump overboard, and by diving and swimming escape the schooner and reacli the boat but I had no mind to try his pistol again, especially so near as lie was, not that I cared much for life, but for the sake of my mother and sister. Something called his attention off a momeii'. I will hardly trust myself to say whether the idea of safety or revenger prompted me, and even now, villain as he was, I sometimes regret the act but he wal the only one watching ir.c, the only one who® cared probably, to prevent the accomplishment of my escape. As he turned his head from me to give an rdtr, my hand sought my knife, it was the one she hod dial hy, her hlo(.i tcus still on it. I gave him one blow! and le!

\p.?:v LMFOP.M.— ihe following order I jut been issued by the war depart-: meat:, by direction of the Secretary, making changes in the uniform for enlisted men: 1 1. Sky blue will be substi'.u'ed for "Saxony blue," for all trimmings for the infantry. 2. Metnlic scales will be issued to all arms in lieu of epaulettes. 3. A cord or welt of the prescribed CO' will be substituted for tho cap bands, and coat facings now used. 'I. Cord on the trowsers will be dispensed with. 5. The same bufton will be used, for all corps, to-wit: that now used for the infantry omitting the I in the shield.

G. A jacket, according to pattern in tho clothing, bureau, will be substituted for tho frocii coat, for all mounted men. 7. Letters and numbers on the horse equipments will be dispensed with.

THE MORALS OF TRADE.—The mnnufac-* turer's frauds arc the result of the buyer's dishonest passion for having more expensive tilings than he can afford—a low prico can command only an inferior article.—• Commerce is a benevolent scheme by which both seller and buyer should be profited.— If the request in the Lord's Prayer nero granted, it would bring fire from Heaven on half the occupations of the world. If dollars and cents had voices, what fearful words would they utter in the ears of tho owner's! The lawyer takes a fee to equivocate—that is, lie—place him on the bench, and he refuses it, as a bribe—though tho work and the principle are just precisely the same.—Ilenry Ward Beccher.

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overboard, and dived. The schooner was| far ahead when I ro~e, and still further be-? tore they fired on me. Their shots were harmless the boats picked me up. I piloted them, and after a terrible battle tho pirates we re captured to a man, and executed afterwards. I learned that my blow had beui fatal the Pirate Captain died where lie fell, on the same fpot where hi innocent victim had breathed for her angel, soul. I mingled his blood with her's ou the Liii/V."

The Evening Mirror says gravely,

with regard to the baby shows advertised in various parts of the country: The subject is '.r or thy of serious and philosophical consideration. If one half tho pains was taken to improve the human race that there is to improve the breed of sheep, the blood of horses, and the size of pumpkins, we would have some hope for the "perfectabilitv of mankind." But so long as physical and moral deformity and disease are licensed to perpetuate themselves, the bree 1 of ill-shaped sinners will continue to multiply so rapidly as to postpone the milfenium beyond the boundary of human hope."