Indiana State Guard, Volume 2, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1861 — Page 4

Youngster, Quit That Gal. Youngster, quit that "gal," Or else we'll have a row To you she never shall - B ntarer than she ih now, . 'Twas my olil dad's command That I should make you quit; So, youngster, by my hand, You shall get up and git. That young and charming miss, With lis so plump and round, I cannot just now kiss, Because you're hanging round ; Youngster, be off that's clear; Your eyes straight 'tore you keep, Or now, by Jove, I swear, I'll mash you in a heap. When I was quite a boy, I twittered with that maid, And all earthly joy Both she and I have played ; Her daddy knew it not Her mammy took it cool ; So youngster up and trot,. Or else I'll pull your wool. My heart strings stick like glue, ; Close to that gal, young gay ; Knew you a thing or two, You'd quit without delay. My gal, the chap is gqne, "Wilhout that dreded muss, And now, as sure's you're born, Let's have a rousing buss.

A PRIVATEER'S STORY. The following singular night adventure, in the harbor of Grenada, and the narrow escape from capture of the noted Privateer,, the "Yankee," of Bristol, R, I., has never before, to my knowledge, been recorded, save in the log-book of that fortunate little cruiser. I will, therefore, tell the story in the words of her brave old commander; as 1 gathered it from his own lips. It. was in the last week of December, 1812, . said Captain Wilson, and while running up to the Havana, thai we fell ill with a Newport cruiser, who reported that the island, or rather the port of St. George Tow n, was hi that moment in the occupancy of the Americans. That he had sailed from there only two days before, and left in the harbor one of .our frigates and two sloops of war, while the stars and .stripes were tlying from the llag-staft' of the old fort. The same day 1 boarded a Spanish dinger, the skipper of w hich had seen the vessels of war sailing into the p"it at the time stated by the privateersman. - What object our fleet could have had in taking formal possession of this insignificant place, 1 could not imagine, unless it was for the sake of obtaining fresh supplies. At all events 1 was glad to hear of it, as 1 was myself in need of provisions. I concluded to make the harbor, and purchase such supplies as 1 might require. It was night before we made the land; but as I was acquainted with the entrance of the harbor, I did not fire a gun for a pilot, but kept boldly into the outer port. The night was quite dark, and a hazy mist banging over the water rendered the obscurity so great that no object could be peceived a couple of cable lengths off. : My sharpest , sighted youngsters were constantly on the look-out, but no vessels were to be seen, as we glided slowly and silently past the shore batteries and the fort beyond, into the smooth water of the inner bay. As we reached this point, the haze, lifting a little, showed us, at a little distance, the faint outlines of a large ship, which I doubted not was the American frigate ; and a little beyond several other smaller vessels Could be distinguished. Scarcely had we made this discovery, than the people on board this ship were aware of our approach, and hailed us, inquiring who we were. "The American privateer Yankee," I replied. . "What ship is that?" No answer was returned ; and supposing the question was not heard, I waited till we had run farther into the harbor before I repeated it. We had. passed between the fort and the ship, and were in the act of clewing up, when a voice from the other vessel cried out : "Luff!, there the privateer '." . . Supposing, naturally enough, that we were running into shoal water, 1 shouted to the man at the wheel ; "Hard down your helm?" "Aye, sir !" Scarcely was the order obeyed, than the schooner, answeringto the helm, shoved her bows deep and fast into a sand bank, where she remained immovable. This, of course, immediately excited our suspicions that all was not right; for the pretended caution to luff, was doubtless given to produce exactly the result it had. "I'm afraid, sir," said my first officer, stepping to my side, and speakinh low, "that we are now really in for it ! That ship, sir, is an Englishman, or Pm greatly mistaken." "I've no doubt of it myself, sir, now. The treacherous knave ha9 got us into a scrape by that rascally signal. But she's probably a prize of the American frigate, and is now lying under her guns." "But it's strange, though, that a prisoner should be permitted to mislead a vessel entering port." At this moment a boat was seen to leave the ship, and, pulling a good distance around our stern, made directly for the mole under the fort. Scarcely ten minutes elapsed after the landing of the boat, when all was commotion in the fort. The drums beat to quarters, and men with lanterns were running in all directions, while we could perceive that the crew of the ship near us were silently preparing lo drop Irom the berth. We could hear the sound of their capstan bars as they shipped and unshipped them, in the act of heaving home the anchor. While this was doing we were by no means idle ; for now, certain that mischief was intended, our little crew, greatly reduced to man the various prizes we had sent home during our heretofore successful cruise, were called to quarters, and all were ready to act as the emergency might require. In the meantime, a boat left the ship, and approaching the schooner, the crew attempted to climb up our side. But I kept them at bay while I demanded to know where the American frigate lay. "She sailed yesterday," was the answer. '.'And lite sloops of-war?" I inquired. "They all left the port together," replied the officer. "What ship is that ?" I next aked. "The Marquis of Durham," answered the man. "The port is now in the possession of His Majesty's troops, and I demand your surrender. Yon have fifteen minutes to deliver your sword in person (o the commandant of the cas'.le. On the expiration of that time, if the summons is not obeyed, the batteries will he opened upon you." "Come on board," said I ; and as the skipper

of the merchant ship and the boat's crew reached On my return, I fountl (he family had gathered the deck, 1 ordered them under arrest. Prom a bushel of Damsons, the very lirst that had evthesc men we learned the facts, which were these : er ripened in our ynrd. The red plums turned The little squad of American men-of-war had , out well, though no account was kept of quantity. , merely entered the port for supplies, the batter- The rambos ripened, and though many of them

ies not being sufficiently manned to prevent their entrance. The little garrison had escaped to the hills till the sailing of the ships, when they again returned and took up their old quarters. The large merchant ship we had mistaken in the ob scurity of the fog for the American frigate, that had arrived that afternoon, having out-sailed the convoyed squadron of British West Indiamen, to which she belonged. We now perceived that the object of the Brit ish merchantmen was to drop out of the range of ; the guns of the tort, while we should remain last grounded on the shoal, and exposed to their shots when the lirst discharge from their cannon would" ; have knocked us into splinters. j Every man on board was aware of the imir.e I diate danger that we were in, but they were brave fellows, and waited as coolly for my orders, as it we had been at sea in pursuit of a chase "That fellow yonder, sir, is dropping from his berth, said one ot the officers I looked toward the Englishman, and could see she hnd hove homelier anchor, and boats were out with a line, hauling her head round towards the outer harbor ; the other craft in the harbor beyond, was evidently in motion "Get out the boats," said 1 to my first mate, "we'll overhaul that chap. There's but one chance left for us. We'll have !o h ave the schoon er to her fate, and transfer our people to that ves sel. Possibly we may do so before the fort opens upon us. Get all hands ready lor boarding ! Hardly was the order communicated to the men, than with a cheer they sprang into the boats, and were ready to pull away for the merchantman. But at that instant, as fortune would have it, a sudden flaw of wind from the land struck our sails. The little vessel yielded to the breeze, and careening sufficiently to clear her keel from the sand, floated immediately into deep water. A loud huzza now broke from the men, which, regardless of the consequences to the shipping beyond us, provoked a shot from the castle, which passed harmlessly over our stern. . "Away, my hearties !" I shouted to the boarders. Gel possession of the Englishman, and all will be right !" While the boats were pulling in the direction, the schooner, under the influence of the freshening breeze, bore down upon them ; and as the boarders clambered up the side of the English vessel, upon the larboard, the privateer ran into the main rigging on the starboard side, thus bringing her between us and the guns of the castle. " . I knew that all the fortifications of the port were upon that side of the harbor, and intended to keep under the shelter of the ship till beyond the range of the guns of the shore batteries, as well as those of the castle, as the main fort was called. We obtained possession of the ship w ithout a struggle, and forcing the English sailors to assist in the working of the ship, soon made sail, and were running through the outer harbor be fore the enemy suspected the ruse we were playing. In the meantime the fortunate land breeze which was bearing us from the dangerous proximity of the shore, : also lifted the vapors which had been hanging over the water and shipping, showing to the astonished and doubtless chagrined people of the place that not only had the ship changed her position but the privateer also. The latter, they had no doubt, was fast aground, as had been reported to them ; and when they discovered us sailing side by side out of the harbor, the truth seemed to flash across lhem-the Yan kee was running away with the ship. The forts now opened upon us, and a line of fire belched forth from the castle, but without ef fect, as we were by this time out of the range of it. JNotso, however, with the shore batteries, upon the tongue of land making out from the outer harbor ; for we were scarcely a pistol-shot Irom the mouths of their cannon, and the heavy shot struck with crushing effect into the hull, and among the spars of the prize. Occasionally one, passing through the sails and rigging of the ship, would make an ugly wound in some of our upper spars. But our hull was completely protected by the large merchantman, as our decks were scarcely on a level with her deep water-line. The breeze continued to freshen as we ran out of the harbor, and in a few minutes we were beyond the reach of the shot ; though the enemy continued much longer to pound away at us in vain. I now boarded the prize which had been the means of our wonderful escape. She was terri bly cut up, and many of her crew were lying dead and wounded upon her decks. While I was giving proper directions for the care of the latter, Mr. Richmond, who had been examining the condition of the hull, came to me and reported that the ship was sinking. We lost no lime in hurrying the English crew, with their effects, on board the privatt er ; and scarcely had we sailed a thousand yards from the richly freighted merchantman, when, with a lurch and a staggering motion like a drunken man, she went down, and the ocean claimed the noble prize as his own. Four days after this singular night adventure, the Yankee was lying snugly under the walls of the Moro, in the harbor of Havana. The Curculio and Plum. Eds. of Prairie Farmer : I have an experiment to relate to you whieh encourages me to hope that 1 have discovered a remedy for Curculio ; and if this proves lo be a fact. I know all fruit growers will say that my last year was not spent in vain. We have heretofore had several fine native plums in our yard, but as they for years entirely tailed lo perfect Irutt, and seemed to increase the Curculio, my husband cut them all down except one : this my daughter begged off in consideration of the fruit it had yielded her when a child. We had a splendid Rambo Apple, the branches of which interlocked with this same plum tree. Two years since, in 1 859, when these two trees were in blossom, I took sulphur, simmered it well in lard, and when cold, with a painter's brush, laid on a thick stripe some three inches wide around both trunks. There came a late frost that destroyed all the fruit then in bloom, and I had no opportunity of ascertaining the result. The matter passed entirely out of my mind. Last summer my daughter came in one day tel ling me her tree was full of plums, quite red. I observed, also, that the Rambo Apple did not full as u-u d, and the yellow stripe of the sulphur remaining from the previous year, caught my eye. I then took a strip of Canton flanel, doubled it to three inches in width, pinned it around a Damson plum tree, the fruit of which was falling constantly. I look my brush and laid on the flanel a thick coat of sulphur mixed in lard. 1 shook the tree for two or three successive days, and brought down plums, all of which were stung with Curculio. I was absent from home a month.

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ceeded the drouth, they were entirely unharmed ; by the Curculio. Our other apple trees suffered : as usual. Very respectfully yours 'miis. T lirnnLUT. Madison Co., III. March 26th, 1801. Boarders at Saratoga. The first chap we met on our arrival here at. Saratoga was a char- ! acter. We remember him ten years ago as a scoundrel. He was attired in the most eorgeous I style, and was picking his teeth on a hotel pittz za with a gentle ease and a quiet assurance exceedingly pleasant to behold. The first time we saw him, he had boarded some two months with a lady, who could not get a dollar from him. At last she thought she would see what baggage he possessed and for that purpose visited his room. She found only an empty trunk, which was immediatly claimed by another boarder. She saw she was swindled and so she made up her mind as to the course of action. At dinner, when all the boarders were present she thus accosted him : "Mr. - -, I must request you to leave the house, as I want your room for a paying boarder." He did not move a muscle ; he was a perfect wall of brass. "I trust that you will go to-day," continued the landlady ; I have set your baggage out in the hall." "Baggage ?" said he, in surprise. "Yes, your tooth-brush I" He finished his dinner and left. The Parson and the Wasps. A correspond ent from New Hampshire says Hon. Daniel Webster had an anecdote of old father Searl, the minister of his boyhood, which has never been in print, and which is too good to be lost. It was customary then to wear buckskin breeches in cool weather. One Sunday morning, in the autumn, Father Searl brought his down from the garret ; but the wasps had taken possession of it during the summer, and were having a nice time in them. By dint of 'effort he got the iutrifdcrs out and dressed for meeting. But while reading the scripture to the congregation, he felt a dagger from one of the enraged small waisled fellows, and jumped about the pulpit shipping his thighs. But tlie more he slapped around and danced the more they stung. The people thought him crazy, and were in commotion what to do ; bul he explained the matter bv saying: "Brethren, don't be alarmed. The word of the Lord is in my mouth, but the Devil is in niy breeches !" Snatching a Kiss, A gentleman from Cleveland thus describes a pretty incident he witnessed at Crestliiie : The eighth regiment was ordered to' march from Cleveland to Camp Dcmiison. Captain Buckingham, of Crawford county, supposed the train would stop at Crestline, and notified his wife. Unfortunately the orders were to pass through Crestline without stopping. The train, however, checked up a little, but the rate of speed was still high. The gallant Captain saw his wife on the platform, made a desperate spring, clasped her in his arms, kissed her quickly, and under tremendous applause from his comrades on board, sprang back on the flying train 'having, barely time to catch the rear car. My informant says the scene was extremely affecting, and that the gallant Captain snatched his parting kiss at the imminent risk of his life the speed of the train being such to endanger the safety of any person who had the hardihood to leap from it, and in finitely dangerous for a man attempting to leap upon it. VVe shall hear of Captain Buckingham again, if he reaches the battle-field. . VICKERS ' DRUG STCRE, NO. 1 ODD FELLOWS HALL. Mr. Kosengnrten hnving removed, W B VICKERS Has opened out a largo a tut comptelo stock of DRUGS AND MEDICINES, iYirrs, OILS, Window Glass and Druggists' Glassware, PATENT MEDICINES, PERFUMES Y AND TOILET GOODS. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN Will find In this extensive stork (ivftrvtlilng pertaining to the loilel, all Into si lea nnd geiiuino articles, embracing FINE SCENTED SOAPS, HAIR OIL AND BRUSHES, PUFK BOXES, POMADES, Extracts for the Handkerchief, etc CHOICE CIGARS AND TOBACCO. COAL OIL AND LAMPS, JanlB- VKKY rilKAP. S. C. FRirjII, All Work Warranted, and Charges Reasonable OFKICB-SKtOMl STOKV FI.KTCHKM'K BLOCK. 5 ..SS JCI Wnkiem Striet. nJ I' THE OLDEST OPTICIAN IN THE COUNTEY ! WITHOUT KXCKPTIO.f, With Forty-Eight Tears Experience, In Europe and America. Manufacturers of the only true BRAZILIAN PEBBLE SPECTACLES. MV IIS. XR.H Which are superior to all other, and have oince their introduction, rr-c-eivrd a world wide eMerritj. and the fnerui approval of all ina rientifle men of fcurope nnd America, anil the fnllowinir wellknown (rwntlemen ot ludiaitapntlft: I "S Dun la p. BoMm, Jamison. Mcftrs- James M. Kav. Frank Km. 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