Evansville Journal, Volume 11, Number 22, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 22 May 1845 — Page 1

u A A LLLd ; 4 :l J. 4 W. II. CHANDLER. THE UNION OF THE WHIGS FOR- THE SAKE OF THE UNION. ,AT $2,00 PER ANNUM. IN ADVANCE 'ft VOL. XI. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1815. .

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BUSINESS DIRECTORY. CHAS. 1. BATTEL!.. ' JOHJ INei.E, JB. LAW NOTICE. . ... . v , " BATTELS & 1SCI.E, Attorneys at Law, Evausville, la. Office on First si. below Main. March 27, '45.-ly. , ;jOIIX J. CHANDLER, 1 Attorney at Law, EVANSVILLE, IA., OffVe os Fikst ST., betwecs Main &. Sycamore, May 15,'45-tfy- ' ' " .MEDICAL NOTICE. BR.G. B. WALKER has associated witli him.his brother, Dlt. JNO. T. WALKER, in the PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. By this arrangement, they will be cnableu to attend with promptness, to all cases, entrusted to their care. . (7-Their office is on Main street, near the ubltc square.'' - March 1 3, '45 3tuo. . A. - : J. II. BOFANDICK. J- VENXEMAN : 3. II BOPANDICK Si CO. JOry Good's Merchants. Main street, between First and Secoxd, " May 8-ty. EVANSVILLE, 1A. GARDNER BOWLES, Coach, Carriage, & BusST Manufacturer? Main street between First and Second, EVANSVILLE, 1A. - Q-Mendmj done to order and ou short notice " . 'y 8-1 yG. coi.vrx,' . ' ' COLVIN tc I B. STODDARD. STODDARD, Coach, Carriage Si Buggy Manufacturers, Main 8t. near the Canal EVANSVILLE, IA. All job work in their line done cheap and at Khun uotice. - - - uss.y oVG.nt MATTHIAS RENSCI1LER, BLACKSMITH, - v fchop on . Locust Street opposite the Slierwood House. AIT business with nearness and despatch. his hue done May 1-ly MARTIN RIES, . CABINET M AKER. Mais street orrosiTE the Washington Hale, EVANSVILLE, 1A. ' A large assortment of Furniture on band aud for sale cheaf for cabu, mayT-ly. JAMES SCANTLIN. MANT-FACTTJREU in Copper, Tin, a id Sheet Iron Ware aud . DEAl KR IN STOVLS, Shop ou Maiu between Second at., aud the Court House, at the sign oi THEGOLDEN COFFEEPOT. Houses covered with Copper, Tin, i lid Zinc, and every article in hi line furnished at short notice. May 8, '45-iy JOHN WARD, . . Fashionable Boot and Shoe Maker. Main street orrosiiK the Bank. EVANSVILLE, IA. J. Ward has carried on the ebove business for twenty yeara in the City of Philadelphia; and moved to the est about one year since. 1 ry him once aud you'll try lain again.' . may 8-1 y Clear the Track for the Mammoth Boot!!! H. J. HART & CO. Boot and Shoe Maker, - Main bt. betweem First A Second at the sign of THE MAMMOTH BOOT. A laree assotmeut of BOOTS and SHOES on band and lor sale low tor casu. iuayo-ty. - : - R. B. HART, Wholesale & Retail Boot St Shoe Maker, Corner of First and Main streets May 1-Iy EVANSVILLE, IND J. II PHELPS, DRAPER AND TAILOR. Water street, between Main and Locust. May l-Iy EVANSVILLE, IND. W. M. MORRISON. Fashionable Draper and Tailor, Main St. I doorfrom tJie corner of SecondA Cutting warranted to fitif properly ma de up. iuay ci-ly. A. HARRINGTON, WATCHMAKER Si SILVERSMITH. Main street, between First and Second, .. . - , EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. Repairing done on short notice. May 1-ly J." L. B1TTROLFF, ' Watch and Clock Maker and Jeweler. Second street, 3 doors from Main EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. Repairing of watches and clocks and all oth er kinds 01 jeweiry cone who neatness ana des patch. May 1-ly WASHINGTON HALL, BT BENJAMIN NURRE. Having leased the above establishment. "jfnrmnrl nernniH b K. Khraam. and fitted it up with new lurniture, he is now ready to accommodate his friends and the public. iuay i-iy WOOL CARDING. ONE in the best possible manner at the Corn Mill, Texas, near Evasville by ilay8-4m. S. W. & S. DAVIS.

NEW TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT, " BRADT fc FRINDLE WOULD respectfully inform the citizens oi Evansville and adjoining counties that they have commenced the TAILORING BUSINESS in all its various branches, on 1st Street a few doors from Main, where they are prepared to execute all work in their line in the iiivst fashionable style, and hope, from their experience and strict attention to business to merit a liberal share of patronage. A. D. BRADT, - March 27. '45, 6no. S. J. PRINDLE.. JV. B. Cutting done on the shortest notice and warranted to fit if properly made up.

EXCHANGE HOTEL, - EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. THIS extensive establishment has A$5- been taken by the undersigned, and in J. Jill $Xj will be conducted by him in future. Having, for several years had charge of one of the most popular Hotels in Ohio, he ia encouraged to- believe that the Exchange will Tank among the BEST Hotels in the Western Country. C. K. DREW. Apri!,.lQ, '45-6in. - . . DRS. DAN'L S. LANE & J. R. WILCOX. TP HE citizens of Vanderburgh County and vicinity are respectlully inloriued that that the undersigned.have entered into a copartnership in the practice of Medicine, in all its various branches. Those who may choose to apply to lh em, riiay be certain of being promptly and carefully attended; and when the atten dance of both mav be desired by any ' individu al, the expenses will not be increased thereby. D.S.LANE, July, 13 '44 tf. JOHN R. WILCOX. MORE NEW GOODS. 1 inllE subscriber has just received,a fresh supH ply of NEW SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS, consisting, in part, of Dlk aud fancy Lawns and Muslins; . . Muslin Delaues; Jaconet Musliu; . Swiss do; - . Calicoes from' 64 to 25; Jaconet Edging aud Inserting ; Ttuead do ; French Ginghams; ' Ameiiean do; Zepher Worsteds; Shell tuck and side Combs; Silver Thimbles; R:bbons; Superfine Kid Gloves; Parasols and Umbrellas; A handsome article 0! vesting; Ladies Slippers and walking Shoes; Irish Linen ; a superior article of Linen Cambrics &c. &c. &c. which the public are invited to calland examine before purchasing elsewhere. . -ap 17-tf W. HUGHES. H. P. DEBRULER- - rrflAKESthis method of tendering to his friend:. Ji. and patrons his hearty thanke, for the many acts of kindness heretofore received from them ; and solicits a continuation of their patron-a-e.- - - ; : ,- - - . He has associated himself with T. M. Elmer lor the purpose of carrying on an extensive garden, and nursery; and will keep on hands a splendid assortment of fruit, and ornamental tree, Green House Plants, &c, among which, the following will constantly be kept: namely Camilla Japouica, Azaiias, garden, and ever bloom ing rose, Cactuses, ol all the colours common to ihote plants, together with ever-greens, Carnations, Dahlias, bulbous and tuberous tooted plants; all of, which, they will sell on the most reasonable terms. To be satisfied on this lact, no uiau can have belter evidence than be can ob tain by calling and examining for himself. All communications, post paid addressed to DeBrcler & Elmer, will receive prompt attention. Their Green House stands immediately on ihe bank of the Ohio river, just below the Steam Boat Landing, tvansvill la., Jan., "J, '4o,tf The best and cheapest Standard SCHOOL BOOKS EVER PUBLISHED. McGuffey's Electic Readers, Nos. .1, 2, 3, and 4. 'I1ICH have been so justly popular whereever used, have been turougnly revised enlarged, geatty unproved, and newly stereo typed, and are now in a rermanent lorm, no further alteration being intended in them. The welT known abilities of Professor McGuffey, and tbe valuable aid atiorded him 10 the rivision ol his series by a successful instructor and finished classical scholar, will it is believed warraut the assertion that these school reading books are GRE ATLY SUPERIOR to any others ever pub hBhed. X bey are used in the Cincinnati fublic Schools, because ihev are considered decid edly preferable to any other extent. Wat. M. YOOL.SfcY, LUIUCUIST, M A IN St. liiV ANSVI LLE, I A., Has a supply of McGuffey's Readers, and will sell them at low prices for cash. Teachers and School officers are desired to give them a careful examination. April J, 1845 tt. NEW GOODS, FOR SPIUIVG AND SUMMER. rWlHE SUBSCRIBER is just receiving from JL the Eastern Cities the first of his s.ock of SPRING AND SUMMER DRY-GOODS, CARPETING. INDIA MATTING, ix., &., &c. To which he would particularly call the at ten t'on of buyers as he has selected his goods with great care for this market. Also, a splendid assortment of extra fine KID GLOVES, for Ladies. April 3, tf. W. HUGHES. STATE OF INDIANA, SS. SPENCER CO. iE it remembered, that at a Probate Court. held for the County of Spencer, the 12th day of rebruary, A. D. ItS4j, present the Honorable Rezin Wear, Probate Judge : frj"ln the matter and things in the Estate of YARROW C. DODDS, deeeased : Petition to settle as Insolvent. NOW here comes the Administrator of said estate, and tne Oourt now Here, oeing satisue-G that the assetts 111 the hands ot the Administrators to be administered upon, are insufficient to pay the debts outstanding against said estate. it is therefore ordered, that the said Administrators give notice by publication six weeks suc cessively in tbe LvansviJIe (Indiana Journal, that unless the creditors of said estate give the Administrator notice of the existence and ex tent of their several claims, by filing the same or a statement thereof, in the office of the Clerk of this Court, on or before the next term of this Court, the same will be postponed in favor of the claims of the more diligent creditors; and on motion of said Administrators it is ordered. that all further administering herein be continued until the next term of this Court. THOS.'P. BR1TTON. Clerk, By Wm. G. Thomas, D. C. May 8,-6t prs fee $3

- -FROM TEE U. S. SATURDAY POST.

"There is a Love that Chaugeth Never." . BY EDWARD POLLOCK, 1 There is a love that changeth never, Hearts around us all decay; All the joys of earth ars ever, f leeting Iilte the clouds away: Far btyond a waveless river, Lieth a land of visions gay. Where the love, that hangeth never, KeepeHi one eternal day. Where is tTie dream that woke thy spirit, Giving joy to thy young May luuef What doth now thy heart inheiit . Jtrom he flowers ol manhood's prime f . Where are the eyes that gazed upon thee? , Where is the love that bless'd thy bloom ; Flowers and eyea and love wait-on thee, in thy goal, the dreamless tomb. There is a love that changeth never, Hearts around ua all decay, - All the joys ol earth are ever fleeting, like tne clouds away : Far beyond a waveless river, Lieth aland ol visions gay, Where the love thathangetn never Keerjeth one eternal day. Like the dove, o'er waste waves sweeping, Goeth the human heart, in vain, Seeking in pain and doubt and weeping, Some dear heart that loves again; Darkly still comes times December, On such hearts as vainly rove, When, oh, when -Shall man remember, Earth is changing, God is love! There ia a love that changeth never, Hearts around us oil decay; -All the joys of earth are ever Fleeting, like tha clouds away: Far beyond a waveless river, Lieth a land of visions gay. Where the love that changeth never, Keepeth oiie eternal day. A CRUEL STRATAGEM. Did you ever hear of 'old Smith,1, that used to live a way down east, during the early settlement of the country now called Maine? Old Smith had lost several relations by the Indians, and had vowed enmitj to the whole race, tie naa oeen twice taken uy tne sav age tribes, but had contr ved to escape from them, and had killed several of their num ber. He sought every opportunity to do them mischief in any way. By this course he had become so exceedy obnoxious to the red men, that they would not even kill him di rectly if they could, but were constantly on the watch to lake him alive for the purpose of satisfying their vengeance by the infliction of the utmost torture that barbarity could in vent. DiTxffi" was'aware ohis disposition of the savages, and was the less afraid of their bullets. It is reported that Smith was at one lime splitting some pine logs for fence rails, and 01 his employment he had neglect ed his look-out, till six Indians Came up on him with a yell of exultation. The chief of the party whose name was Wahsoos, seiz ed, him by his arms exclaiming, 'Now Sunt now Smit: rne got you." Smith saw that it would be in vain to resist, and assuming an aii of composure, thus addressed his savage captor. - "Now Wahoos, 1 will tell you what rll do if you will now tne to split open this log, will then go with you without any resistance otherwise I will not walk a step, and you will have to carry or kill me." The Indians now having him safe in their possession, and willing to save themselves trouble agreed to split the log, if he would tell them how. Smith had. already opened the end of the log with a large wooden wedge and renewed his blows on the wedge with a beetle, he directed them to take hold of the seperated parts of the log, three 011 each side and pull with all their might, while he should drive in the wedge. The red man were not without suspicions, but kept their eyes on Smith's motions, while they piled at the sun dered parts ol the log. Every blow of Smith opened the crevice wider, which enabled the Indians to renew their hold by inserting their'figers deeper into the crevice, when Smith, slightly changing the direction pj the beetle, struck on the side of the wedge, knocked it out of the log, which closing with great force, caught every foe by the hands, save one, who seeing the predicament of his compaeions, took to his heels; but wasquickly brought down by Smith's long gun, which he had kept near him. The other five expected no mercy, and were not disappointed. Five blows from Snvth's axe, silenced their death song. A year or more after this ajffair, Smith was returning one evening from an excursion, and passed . near a bend of the Androscoggin river, about a mile above the falls, on which the Lewiston Mills are now located. It was nearly dark, and he discovered- an In dian making a fire on a rock by the river bank. Smith saw through the business at once : the fire was for a beacon, to guide the landing of a strong party. With unerring aim, he shot the lone savage, who pitched into the- water, and Smith quickly threw the fire and fire-brand3 aftf him; and then proceeded down to the falls, and there he soon kindled another fire on a 'projecting rock; and then retiring up tho river bank a short distance, awaited the result. He soon beard the song3 of a compauy of warriors, who had discovered the fire, and were steadily paddling towards it in high glee. Smith could hardly refrain from laughing aloud, as they neared the fatal beacon. Their sons were suspended by surprise, at the rapid metion of their canoes, aud the hoarse roar of the tails revealed too late the dreadful truth. A brief death song uttered in savage yells, and the cries of several squaws and papooses, were all that preceded their last and dreadful plunge over the perpendicular falls. N. Y. Mechanic.

'ERRY'S VICTORY ON LAKE ERIE.

As related by Old Kennedy, th.e Quarter Master, to "Fequot," a correspondent of the 'Spirit of the Times.' -v "But," says U'Kennedy I think vou said your craft was bound for the lakes which did you go to, Ontario, or Erie?" "I was on both sir.' says he, "afore the war was over; and we got as much accustomed to poking our flying jib boom into the trees on ihem shores, as if the sfick was first cousins which,-being as how the ships was built m tne woods, woulda t be much wonder. Part of that ere craft staid down on Ontario, with old commodore, as was watch ing Sir James, and part was sent up to Erie. I went up to Erie and joined the Lawrence, Commodore Oliver II. Perry and I hopes that old Hill Kennedy neednxbe called a braggart, it he says he did his part in show ing on as handsome a hght on that liesh-war-ter pond, as has ever been ctone by an equal lores on blue water. -Our gallant young Commodore made as tight a fight of it as it has ever been my luck to be engaged in; and seeing as how half his men was down sick with the fever and ager, and not one in dozen knew the difference between "the smell ot gunpowder and- oil of turpentine, blow me! but' 1 think it was about 33" well done.;-" "You see our squadron was lyinainabav, as they calls rut-in-liay and when the ene my first hove in sfght, it ' was in the morning, about seven o clock. I know" that that was the lime, because I had just x been made Quarter Master "by Captain Perry, arid was the first as seen them through my glass They was in-- the Nor'-west, bearing down; as soon as we made them out to be the ene my's fleet, up went the signal to get unde way; our ship, the Lawrence, In course tak ing the lead. Well, as we was working slow? ly to windward to clear some smair Islands one of 'em Snakelsland--I hearn, Cap tain Perry come to the master, and asked him in a low voice, whether he thought he should be able to get the wether gage of the enemy; but the master said as how the wind was Sou'-west and light, aud didn't think he could 'Then,1 said the Comodore, aloud, 'wear ship, sir, and go toleeward, for, I'm determined to fight them to-day,' but just then tbe wind came round to the South ard and East'ard, and we retained the weather gage, and slowly bore down upon the enemy. I hey did all they could to get the .wind, but. not succeeding, hove into line, heading wesrard, and gallantly waited for us as we came down. There iaid theitjquadron, all light sails taken in, just like a boxer, with iuasleeves rolled up, and a hankercher tied about his loins, ready to make a leg'lar stand-up-fight, and there wasn't a braver man, nor a better sailor, in the British Navy, nor that same Barclay, whose broad pennant Hooted in the van of that squadron. "Pretty soon up runs our motto-flag,- the dying words of our hero Lawrence iDont give up the ShipP -and floats proudly from our main, and then the general order was passed down the line by trumpet, 'Each ship lay your enemy alongside and if you ever seen a flock of wild geese flying south'ard in the fall of the year, you'll have some idea of us as we went down into action. The men was full of spirit, and panting for a fight, and even them as was so sick aa 10 be hardly able to stand, insisted on taking their places at the guns. -1 recollects one in particular he was a carpenter's mate, a steady man, from Newport he crawls up when we beat to quarters, and seats himself upon the head of one of the pumps, with the sounding rod in his hand, looking yeller as if he had just been dragged out of a South Carolina cypress swamp; but one of the officers comes up to him as he was sitting there, and says, 'You are loo sicklo be sitting here my man there's no use of your being exposed for nothing you Lad betfer go below. 'II you plase, sir,' says the poor fellow, 'if I can do nothing else, 1 can save the time of a better man. and sit here aud sound the pump.'. "Well, sir, as we bore down, the English occasionally tried our distance by a shot, and when we was within about a mile ot 'em, one comes ricochetting across the water, bounds over the bulwarks, and takes that man's head as clean oft his shoulders, as if it ad been done with his own broad axe. I have hearn say that 'every bullet has its bil let,' and that is sartm, that its no use to dodge a shot, for if you are destined to fall by a shot, you will sartin tall by that same snot; and I bears in mind, that an English sailor, one ot our prisoners, told me that in a ship of theirn, a feller was skulked in the cabletier, during an action with the French, was found dead with a spent forly-two resting on his neck. The ball had come in at the starn port struck one of the beams for'ard, and tumbled right in upon him, breaking nis necK, as he lay snugly coiled away in the cabletier, ino, no mistorlin ana cannons ue very much alike there's no dodging every man must stand up to h'13 work, aud take his chance if they miss, he is ready when they pipes to grog if they hit, the purser's book is squared, and no more charges is scored against him. "But as 1 was savins, it wasn't long be fore we began to make our carronades- tell, and then at it we went, hot and heavy, the Lawrence taking the lead, engaging the De: troit, and every vessel as she came up obey ing orders, and laying her enemy aiongsiae, in right good earnest, except the Niagara.She hung back damn her with her jit brailed up, and her main-topsail to the mast the consequence was, the Charlotte, as her opponent, avails herself ot her distanceruns up close under the stern of tho Detroit, and both ships pours in their combined fire upon our ship, the Lawrence. I hearn the

master myself, and afterwards two or three 1 of the-other officers, go up to the Commo- j

dore during the actiou, and call his attention1 to the Niagara,and complain of her treacherous conduct. 5 Well, them two ship3 gin it to us hot and heavy, and in three minutes we was so enveloped in smoke that we only aim ed at the flashes' of their guns, for we might as well have tried to trace a flock of ducks in the thickest fog on the coast of Labrador, as their bulls. I wa3 working- at one of the for'ard guiis, and after she was loaded, "the captain of the piece stood wailing with the "gger and. lanyard m his fingers, ready to pun, one ot the ofheers cries out, '1 say, sir, why don't you fire?' 'f an'tjo make her tell, sir,' says the gunner l am waiting Tor the flash! so here it is,' as he pulled trigger, a cannon, shot came through the port and dashed him to pieces between us, covering me and the officer with his brains. Their fire was awful: the whole of the shot of the two heaviest ships in the squadron pouring into us nigh two hours without stopping. Uur brig became a complete slaughter house -the guns dismounted the carriages knocked. to pieces some of our port3 knocked into one hammock, netting shot clean away iron slancheons twisted like wire and a devilish more daylight than canvass in "our bolt ropes the wounded pouring down so last into tne cockpit, tnat the surgeons didn't pretend to do mofe than apply tourniquets to stop the bleeding; and many of them came back to tbe guns in' that condition; while others was- killed "in the hands of "the surgeons. One shot came through the cockpit, jusfover the surgeon': head and killed mid shipman Laub, who was coming upon deck, with a tourniquit at his shoulder and another killed a seaman who had already lost both arms. Our guns were nearly all dismounted; and finally there was but one that could be brought tobear;-and so completely was. the crew disabled that the Commodore had to work with Ins own haiidsl - The men became almost furious with despair, as they' found themselves made a target for the whole squadron; and ihe wounded complained bitterly of the conduct of the Niagara, as they lay dying on the decks, and in the cockpit. Two shots passed through the magazine one knocked the lantern to pieces and sent the lighted wick upon the floor; and if the gunner hadn't have jumped un it with 'his feet, before it caught the loose powder my eyesf but that ere ship and every thing on board -would have gone' into the air like a sheaf of sky rockets,' and them as on board, never would have know'd which side whip ped. Out of one hundred men that went into action, eighty-three were either killed or wounded, and every officexwas elitiertmed or intrt eepv-tW-cujisxaiodore.-, Our lieutenant of marines, lieutenant Brooks, him as was called the Boston Apollo the handsom est man in the service, was cut nearly in two by a cannon shot, and died before the close of the action. - ' "It was nigh on all up with us. The men was real grit though, and even ihe wounded cried 'blow her up, rather than strike.- Well, as things stood, there wasan end of the Lawrence, so far as fighting went and our Commodore says, says he 'Lieutenant Yarnall, the American flag must riot be pulled down over my head this day, while life remains in my body. I will go on board that ship and bring her myself into action and I will leave it to you to pull down the Lawrence's flag if there is no help for it. fco we got our barge alongside, by the blessings of Heaven, not so much injured but what she'd float, and off we pushed for the Niagara the Commodore standing with his motto flag under his. arm; but as soon as the enemy caught sight of us, they delivered a whole broadside directly at the boat and then peppered awaj so briskly, that the water all around us bubbled like a duck pond in a thunder shower. There Pery stood, erect and proud in the stern sheets his pistols strapped in his belt, and his sword in his hand his eyes bent upon fhe Niagara, as if he'd jumped tbe distance never heeding the shot flying around him like hail. The men begged him to sit down they entreated him with tears in their eyes but it was not until 1 dragged him down by a .1 1.1 I a .! main lorce tne men- aeciarmg mat m?y would lay upon their oars and be taken then he consented. 'There's them assays ihe Niagara wouldn't come down, and there's them as says she couldn't all I1 kuow is, that when our gallant young Commodore took the quarter-deck, she walked down into it quick enough my eyes! how we did give it to'em, blazing away from both sides at once. We ran in-between the Detroit and Charlotte, our guns crammed to the muzzle, and delivered both of our broadsides into them at the same time, grape, canister, and all, raking the others as we passed; and the Niagara lads, showed it wasn't no fault of their'n that they hadn't come earlier to their work. I never seen guns sarved smartar,than they sarved their'n till the end of the action nor with better effect. We soon silenced the enemy's, and run up the stars agin, on the Lawrence, as she lay a complete wreck, shattered and cut up among them, for all the world like a dead whale surrounded by shirks. They struck one arter another, much like you may have seen flags of a fleet run down after the even-1 ino-gun; and as the firing ceased, and the he'avy smoke bank rolled offto leeward, shiver my timbers! but it was a sight for a Yankee tar tosee the stripped buuttug slapping triumphantly in the breeze over the British , Jacks at their gaffj. "If there's any man, tho,7 as says meir Commodore wasn't a man, every inch ol him, aye! and as good a seaman, too, as ever walked a caulked plank, there's one here, and his name's Bill Kennedy, as will'tell him that he's a know-nothing, and talks of a better man nor himself. Aye aye scrape offthe

crown offhis buttons, and he mirht mess with

uecaiur and Lawrence, and sphce the tnain-; brace with Stewart and Hull, and they be proud of his company. He was badly cut up, tho,' and I hare hearn tell, that wheaho got home to England, be wouldn't 00 for to see the lady what he'd engaged to marry, but sent her word by a fricndI don't know who tnat inena was, out suppose.jt was 'his first lieutenant, m course he send? her word that he wouldn't hold her to herenpao-emenf : cause why- says he, 'I'm cut all to pieces, and ainf the man I was vhea you en3red tor to be my wile.' Well what dy'e think the noble girl says, when she heard this?.-. 'Tell him,' says she, 'as long as there's enougli ot him left to hold Lis soul, Iv will be his.' I say; Master Tom, that's most up to the Virginny gals. s Well well there never was but one as would have said as . much for Bill Kennedy, and she poor Sue she married j. curly-headed Bob, captain of the main-top in the Hornet, in a . per, and was sorry when it was too' late. -. She was, a good girlj.though, and I've lent, her and her young ones a hand onc't or twice since," in the breakers. . v? , ? Psqtjot.: FROM THE N. V. EVESlflG GAZETTE. 'A SCRATCH AT RANK. 1 The .following story, if applied to matters'"4 where doubtful rights arid doubtful honor . were involved, may go far to show the result of concession, if done in good feeling. Mr. Editor I was once dining at -the hospitable residence of one "of our Consuls a-" broad in the. Mediterranean, where. two officers of our Navy were also at the tableAfter the jeloth was removed and the bottle ' had circulated, a discussion arose about rel- -ative rank. Both of these racers were; of ' equal rank,beingbolhMaster Commandants. One, however, was "flag Captain" on board the Commodore's ship, and the other commanded a sloop of war. I belie ve the latter, by this circumstance, was a mtti3s in advance in tempohaev rank over the former. Be this as it may, "the flag Captain" was by far the best natured of the two, whilst all we landsmex believed that he as flag Captain, and on board the biggest sloop, "a double ' decker," was surely the greatest man of the two. . - . .'' After a long discussion, in which this flag r captain tried (rather acetiously perhaps,) to make it appear that he outranked the sloop . of war commander, ihe latter gathered all his argument into what he called "a real clincher, ." VNow, sir," says he, "suppose I was on shore, and I'went down to the wharf, orjjanding place, and cot finding my boat there, saw yoirtandtng ic your Loatfrism the flag ship, and I told you I wanted your beat to go on board my vessel, without asking you whether the same suited your convenience or not now, I ask. you to say what, according to rank and discipline, would be your answer?" The "flag captain" looked at him with assumed sternness,and after repeating the words to know that he exactly understood it, saying, "I, the flag captain of the vessel commanding in reality the Commodore's double decker just landing in my own boat, and being told by you that you wanted my boat to go on board your little sloop of war, and without asking if it suited my coveniance or not? -is that the question sir?". , "Yes, sir,. that is the question, precisely, sir?" "Then, sir, my aswer is, if it cost me an ai rest and trial by Court. Mortial the next hour ay, sir if the Secretary of the Navy himself, or even the President, stood present I should turn to you, sir, in the presence of them all, and the boat's crew in the bargain and looking you straight in tbe face, and letting you see that I understand my rank and my dignitify as well as you did yours, 1 would turn to the o nicer ot my boat, and tell him in a distinct tone, so that no mistake should occur about it 'Mr. Officer, back your boat in, and take Captain R on board'his ship, and follow bis direction sir." ' ' - " - There was during this discussion a serious and anxious stillness on the part oL the listners every one regretting and every one fearing, a fatal result; butfAi's reply set the table in a roar, and even Captain R , who found that every thing had been conceded to him, looked alone as if he had ralher not have joined the battle. But . what could be say ? And yet he did say? a pret:y good thing, under the circumstances. 'Well," says he, "1 think it would have been better for me to let your boat alone, and hire a skiff, rather than get such A Scratch. . The mode of administering an oath in a Chinese court of justice is far loo extraordinary to omit mentioning. The Chinese upon being placed at the bar, are not sworn to tell the truth by reference or lear of their gods, but by the formality of cutting a cock's head off. Thus upon any doubt being bad in regard to what they state, they are instantly tested by this, to them the severest of trials, and which it appears ihey would on no account undertake, provided they were not thorou2hlv certain that they were statins the fact; their asseverations of the truth of their statements being couched in the following terms: "I hereby swear that I am ready to cut the cock's head of! to the truth of what I now say." This is the form of a Chinaman's oath, now used in the courts of justice at Hong Kong. A man carying a cradle, was stopped by an old lady, and ihus accosted: "So sir, you have got some of the fruits, matrimony." "Soltly, softly, old lady," said he, "you ' mistake, this is merely the fruit basket.