sent!" said the Colonel. The perfectability of modern science is as superior to the boasted wisdom of the ancients, as the swift rush of our mammoth craft, with its world of contents, is to the creeping progress of yonder vessel—and yet, our forefathers would have thought her rig and build surprisingly beautiful. Archimedes imagined he should be able to raise the globe itself, if he knew but where to fix his lever. Fulton has done more; steam, yet in its infancy, has revolutionised the world. It has nearly annihilated time and space; and brings within the brief scope of our mortal days, the attainments of knowledge and travel which formerly would have occupied a patriarch's life." By this time, we were passing amongst the beautiful islets that speckle the face of the lake. I pointed them out to my companion, and reminded him that Perry's victory took place in their immediate vicinity. "I know it," said he," and although every American ought to gaze upon the scene with pride, I am unable to look upon that island without remembering a sad event which happened there, and blighted many a joyous hope. and I believe with truth, that the use of the lake water seriously affected the sweetness of the breath. Perhaps the still water in the bay was tainted with the decomposition of vegetable matter, and had acquired an offensive fœtor from not being exposed to the action of the winds. "Our sufferings were dreadful. For three days we had barely sufficient nourishment to keep life within us. My daughter's spirits sunk under the privation, and her weak constitution received a shock it was unable to sustain. She died in my arms, just as the vessel left the island-and I bore her cold corse across the stormy waters of the lake, to find a resting place in the stranger's land." The feelings of the parent overcame the good old man. He turned aside, and wept. I would not insult him with trite condolements, but, leaning over the taffrail, mused on the vagaries of fortune, till the dinner bell summoned us below. We were enjoying the comforts of the well spread board, when I noticed the captain and the clerk suddenly leave the table, and go on deck. A whisper went the round of the waiters, and they ran up the stairs in a body. We had scarcely time to make our observations on this curious conduct, when sounds of confusion were heard from the deck. Several of the passengers left the table to inquire into the cause of this disorder: a voice was shortly heard, from an open sky-light, requesting some of the men to come up, for the ship was on fire, and the flames were raging fu The reader must form his own opinion of the con. fusion which such an announcement would make amongst upwards of two hundred passengers, with more than the usual complement of women and children. I shall not attempt a description of the sudden and universal dismay. "I was crossing the lake, a few years since, with my daughter—an only child. Her health had suffered in the cold regions of the northwest, and I was journeying to a warmer clime before the rigors of winter had spread upon the earth. The steamboatthe Niagara-I mention her name because it will not injure the owners, as she has long since been removed from this station-was neither properly engined, man-riously. ned, nor commanded. Her cabins were filled with passengers, and her decks were crowded with Juggage and freight. We were unable to face the severity of an equinoctial gale, and the captain, a poor weak man, every way unqualified for the command of a vessel, proposed throwing overboard the luggage of the passengers; and, in spite of our protestations, would have carried his absurd proposition into effect but for the resolute conduct of an officer in the United States' Navy. This gentleman, pitying the situation of the poor emigrants, who would have lost their all, upon finding remonstrance useless, actually confined the captain in his cabin, and assumed the direction of the boat. The crew were ashamed of their commander's pusillanimity, and cheerfully obeyed the naval officer's orders-we were, therefore, eventually landed at our desired port. It is the only instance I have ever experienced, wherein mutiny was positively praiseworthy. "The gale was awfully severe. The light waters of these fresh-water seas are easily agitated by the wind; and the waves dashed over our boat in a volume that would not have disgraced the Atlantic press. Fearing that we should be driven on shore, we ran into Put-in Bay-a nook formed in the largest island in that group. Perry, like us, found shelter there, when his fleet was dispersed by a storm. We were detained in this humble roadstead for three days; all our provisions were exhausted, and we were unable to obtain any thing from the only farmer on the island but a few bushels of potatoes. We had fresh water in abundance, certainly, but it was asserted, I succeeded in getting upon deck, and was almost suffocated by a cloud of dense black smoke. The beams adjoining one of the fire places had caught fire, and the frame work of the boiler was in flames. The head of the vessel had been put for the nearest point of the shore, which was about five miles off. Buckets of water were freely applied, but the violence of the flames did not seem to abate. The wind, being off shore, had driven the thick body of smoke over the after part of the vessel, and the whole of the passengers were compelled to crowd the forward deck to escape being choked. A cry arose "The boilers must shortly burst-let us take to the boats." A movement was made; when my friend, the Colonel, jumped on a pile of wood that had been thrown from one of the fire rooms, and his clear round voice sounded distinctly above the tumult. My friends, there is no danger of explosion, and the boats are too small to carry even one-tenth of us to the shore. What man would suffer his wife, sister, or daughter, to go alone, and yet what man could think of occupying a seat in the boat, to the exclusion of that sex we all delight to serve? The fore part of the vessel must remain unconsumed till we reach the shore-follow my example, and we shall all be safe." The old gentleman doffed his long brown coat, and took his turn in handing the buckets. Several of the passengers followed his example; the water flowed in a continuous stream, and in a short space of time the flames were totally subdued. The head of the boat was again turned to its required point; the ladies, who had behaved with surprising calmness in the trying moments of our situa tion, retired to their cabin; the men took a dram each; the sailors repaired the damages of the fire; and the deck passengers administered a little wholesome Lynching to an individual, who had amused himself by breaking open several of their chests during the confusion. I joined the Colonel, and we retreated to the upper deck. One of the passengers, scorched and blackened, was lying panting on one of the seats. "Did you observe that man's conduct during the fire?" said the Colonel. He was more indefatigable in his exertions than captain or crew, and must not be allowed to suffer unregarded." The good old gentleman went below, and shortly reappeared, followed by a couple of waiters carrying refreshment. A little brandy and water soon revived the sufferer's strength, and he was carefully carried down stairs, and placed in one of the berths. "A few days rest will restore him," said the Colonel. "He is an English farmer. I saw him yesterday at the window of the land office, securing a portion of the public domain which had pleased his fancy. His wife and children, and two brothers, were left at New York; he has been on a short tour of observation, and now returns to fetch them to his location; in a few weeks they will be settled in the bosom of the wilderness. I saw him jump aboard the boat this morning with the elastic spring of hope and joy. He came forth a dove-like messenger in search of land, and now returns with glad tidings and ardent hopes of rich success. One such emigrant is worth a dozen of the idle skulking knaves who crowd our seaboard, and rot in laziness and rags. འ visible, till every body on board the boat had been invited to look at him, that they might know and avoid him for the future. All his winnings were taken from him, and he was put ashore at the first wooding place. But the unblushing scoundrel is at his dirty work again, as confident as if no such exposure had ever occurred. "How softly beautiful the sunbeams fall on the surface of this sweet clear lake! it is God's own mirror, reflecting the face of heaven." A boy, about six years of age, was clambering up the nettings of the bulwarks. His mother called him to her by the name of Ahasuerus. The frequent repetition of this strange word excited much attention, and drew the following remarks from the old Colonel. "The rage for out-of-the-way names is peculiar, I believe, to our country-though we may not rival the Spanish in the multiplicity of appellations bestowed upon an individual. Many of our sponsorial titles are absurd. You have doubtless heard of the poor woman who had her infant christened Belzebub, because it was a scripture name. I knew a man who swore an oath that his first child should be named Thomas Jefferson-of course, he calculated upon having a boy; but his first born was a female. He kept his oath; and the lady owning that masculine nomination is still alive. An eccentric auctioneer at New Orleans christened his twin daughters Ibid and Ditto; and a gentleman of the name of Stickney, now living upon the banks of the Miami, has designated his children in numerical rotation, commencing with the first born, as One Stickney, Two Stickney, and so on, up to the infant who is called Five Stickney. No other name or distinguishing mark is affixed to male or female." "A curious family, indeed," said I, "though not a singular one. The father is determined that each child shall cut a figure in the world; but has he assumed no rank of place to himself in the enumeration, or is he but a cypher in the account? What a subversion of arithmetical propriety must occasionally be heard in his dwelling! as thus John, go to the children; take Three from One, and Five will remain." "If One Stickney can eat twelve peaches, how many can Five eat? Answer-half a one." Please, sir, One Stickney has been fighting with his brothers and sisters; he knocked Two down stairs, kicked Three, shut Four up in the wardrobe, frightened Five to bed, and the whole family is at sixes and sevens." "That good-looking man, with a large breast pin, and chain of gold conspicuously displayed across his velvet breast, is a blackleg of the vilest class. He is insinuating himself into the society of those young men for the purpose of making up a card party, when the work of plunder will commence. He has a scar upon the back of his left hand-I will tell you how it was gained. He was travelling down the Mississippi in company with some southerners, and succeeded in provoking them to gamble. One of them soon became a heavy loser-he suspected foul play, and narrowly A steamboat, bound to the land we had left, passed watched the stranger's conduct. He soon discovered within a cable's length of our wheels. An enormous that the blackleg secreted the winning cards of the pile of luggage filled the fore deck of the vessel, pack, and produced them at his pleasure. The south-which was of the largest class, and crowded with paserner had lost heavily-more, indeed, than he could sengers. They are emigrants," said the Colonel, afford-when he saw the end of a card peeping out from blazéed Europe-at least I judge so from the from beneath the other's outstretched hand that was appearance of their luggage. The inhabitants of lying flat upon the table. He drew his spring-back our Atlantic cities know but little of the depth and dirk from his pocket, and, with one jerk, drove it breadth of the stream of emigration that now flows through the hand of the gambler, deep into the top of with a steady current into our western settlements. the table. He was compelled to remain, nailed to the place, with the evidence of his villainy perfectly "Deucalion, the Noah of the Mythological Deluge, is said to have repeopled the world after the flood by throwing stones over his shoulder-the said stones | works, Parent of Good! The heavens declare thy turning to men as they touched the earth. Cadmus glory, Lord, and the firmament proclaims thy handy obtained an army by planting, in a ploughed field, the works. Blessed be the name of the Lord God!" teeth of a serpent-the said teeth growing into soldiers in regular rank and file. If these worthies had settled in this country, and exercised their peculiar privileges for a score of years, I doubt whether the land would have been so thickly peopled as it is. Nor could the unceasing work of Amphion, who built up Thebes by the music of his harp, have excelled us in the facility of city making." These apposite quotations forcibly struck the minds of the standers-by; and, with one accord, the hats of the male passengers were removed from their heads. A holy feeling of reverential awe pervaded our bosoms as "we looked through nature up to nature's God." A thin cadaverous-looking fellow took a hymn book from his pocket, and in a snuffling tone, requested his brethren to assist him in improving the occasion. He mounted the top of the rudder post, and gave out two led off the singing at the top of his voice. One or two of his friends joined in the discord, but the rest put on their hats, and turned jeeringly away. A well dressed youth was parading the deck with an air of self-satisfaction, and amusing himself by pok-lines of a hymn in a canting drawling manner, and ing a large silver tooth pick into his mouth. His ar rogant bearing offended the Colonel's ideas of propriety, and he seized the arm of the youth with such a jerk, that the dandy's hand nearly followed the toothpick down his throat. Young man, if your mother's sugar plums have rotted your teeth, and you must pick them, go below and get a quill tooth pick from the steward; or, beg a pen from the clerk, and cut it into the required shape. Use it privately. To clean your teeth in public is a sign of vulgarity-but to torment your gums with a metal spike, when you can treat them to the softness of a quill, is sheer stupidity." "There," said my friend, the Colonel, “you may note the difference between the effects of genuine impulsive piety and the second-hand cant of the Pha risees-the outward spiritual sign and the inward spiritual grace. The righteous over-much thrusts his worldly sanctity down your throat in disagreeable doses-but the voice of pure religion emanates from the heart, and is sure to find a responsive chord." Passing forward, I overheard one of the deck hands thus deliver himself "in communion sweet" with the The young fellow stared, and said nothing; but he firemen. "Them there sarm singers aboard boats is put his tooth pick in his pocket. The sun was setting with a splendor and a glory unequalled even in "the golden skies of fair Italia's land." Masses of clouds assumed every possible variety of wondrous form and gorgeous tint. Dark and mountainous appearances in the fore part faded in the centre to a clear and sunlit distance. Grades of light and shade heightened the illusion. Rocky steeps and castellated crags frowned over an extensive valley of inconceivable loveliness; and streams of shining sil ver meandered through the purple and yellow fields, It was a most remarkable combination of effect, and elicited general surprise and admiration. The whole of the passengers collected on the after part of the upper deck, and when the first expressions of delight had passed away, they gazed in silence upon this striking development of the beauties of nature. One of the passengers, a stout farmer-looking man, with his wife and daughter hanging on his arms, took off his hat, and said, in a loud tone—“These are thy never no good. I went as hired help to two on 'em west o' the mountains, and down Mississippi; they were raal stingy and mean-they'd pick a pismire off the ground and steal the crumb out of his mouth. They used to preach and pray and sing all day, and steal a nigger at night. They got catched in Looseyanney, and Lynched right away; and I guess, if I hadn't a strecked, I should a been Lynched too, for keeping bad company." The old Colonel bade me farewell, and, dreading the effects of the night breeze on the lake, retired to his berth. The lights of Cleveland, my port of destination, soon appeared in view. I selected my portmanteau from the general mass of luggage; and while inquiring for a porter, I saw a police officer busily engaged in handcuffing the psalm singer. The constable had been some time on the watch for his victim, who was a principal agent of the western gang of counterfeiters. (From the Literary Souvenir for 1838.) JUVENILE JUMBLING. Thron'd on his mother's knee, the hopeful heir, Lisps out his little "now-I-lay-me" prayer; Till, starting up-half earnest, half in play- While drops his head, as in sweet dreams he'd wan- That other pretty prayer, 'bout goosey, goosey gan der, der?" Z. E. B. WHO has not heard of Marion? and as the name, lent crowd came on, loaded with the most various fell upon his ear, his imagination has conjured up an and motly articles of plunder, which they had obtainimage of unfailing truth and devotion to his country's ed in the course of their march to join the regulars. cause, of unyielding firmness, daring and desperate Here, an ill-visaged rascal, in the hunting-shirt and bravery. tattered leggings of the upper country, had thrown over his sprawling shoulders the wardrobe of a woman. Lace handkerchiefs and rich dresses hung in elegant confusion about his ungainly person, while his musket, suspended across his body by a rich scarf, supported some half dozen fowls and ducks, the pillage of a hen-roost. By the side of this worthy, toddled along a thickset sturdy fellow, with but one eye, and that deeply scarred by the nails of some antagonist, yet glimmering with the vacant expression of ad And such he was. In the most desolate and gloomy time of the Southern war, when Carolina, overrun by British force, weakened and betrayed by her own sons, fettered and curbed by armed posts and fortresses, and scathed by the remorseless forays of her haughty invaders, lay trembling and paralyzed at the feet of the British lion; when her best and bravest were prisoners in the hulks of St. Augustine, and resistance was at an end; then Francis Marion, and a few kindred spirits, betook themselves to the unhealthy and impreg-vanced intoxication. His upper man was cased in nable retreats of the forests, and the spark of hope still faintly glimmered in the hearts of these brave men. Some one has said, "Thanks be to God for mountains!" So might we say, thanks for the impassable and unlimited swamps of the South. Far hid in their intense gloom, under the sombre canopy of the dull cyprus, and surrounded by the dark and rolling Pedee, Marion sought and found a fortress; ill armed and scantily provisioned, he burst suddenly and with the swoop of an eagle on the exposed points of the royal troops. Not a single corps could change its position, but the keen eye of Marion saw it; and if in the carelessness of fancied security, they rested from the most perfect vigilance in the dead hour of night, the sharp rattle of the riflemen carried death among them, and long ere they could recover from their astonishment and return an ineffectual fire, the assailers were far beyond reach, speeding on some other quest. Unceasing war, till the last red coat left the soil, was Marion's determination, and well did he carry it out. His name was a perfect terror, and gallantly did he maintain his character. one of those old fashioned and deeply embroidered coats, which were then the mode, and which being made for a tall and elegant figure, reached to his ankles, thereby concealing the deficiency in the garniture of his lower limbs; from the coat pockets projected the necks of several bottles, one of which he extracted and endeavored to apply to his gaping mouth.— After many an effort, in the course of which the red seal became acquainted with every part of his face but the right one, he got it fairly lodged, and after deducting a reasonable portion of its contents, threw it upon the ground, d-ning it for the most washy stuff he ever tasted. Here, Long Jack," said he to his companion," just take another of these nasty things out for me. for the cursed holes is so far behind, I can't get my hand in 'em no how. Blast the things, I won't tote 'em no furder, they makes me reel about Just take 'em out, won't you." Jack inserted his hands, and extracting them one by one, handed them over till he came to a bottle of different form from the rest. This the drunkard thought proper to taste, and decapitating it with his dirk, took an immoderate gulp of the contents. The effect was instantaneous; he reeled, staggered and fell-the bottle con So. senses instantly. No sort of attention was paid him by the rest, except that his next neighbor stripped him of his finery, and left him uncovered to the full rays of the burning sun. After a long and weary march through the centre of what is now Charleston district, the second and third companies of the forty-seventh infanty, and a bat-tained ether, and the dose he had taken destroyed his talion of loyalists, who had that morning left Monk's Corner, at length reached the Santee. Officers and men alike fatigued-even the strict discipline of the British service could scarce keep them in their usual regular array. Staggering and weary, worn out with the heat of the day, and the deep sands over which they had travelled, the men marched with uncertain and wavering step. Behind them came the newly raised loyal volunteers-as pretty a specimen of rascality and misrule as could well be pro-gulars had passed the ferry. As the boat was small, duced. All the efforts of their officers to make a creditable appearance were vain. In the most complete disarray, jostling, swearing, and quarrelling, the turbu Never was there a greater collection of miscreants : and their roar of drunken and brutal laughter, oaths, and execrations, at length drew the attention of the commander of the detachment. Orders were given for the volunteers to fall back, and wait until the re and the stream very rapid, they were a long time in passing over. The ferryman, a low, dark-visaged, very spare and muscular, though small-framed man, with the negroes who assisted him, carried over the major and the first company, and, as he was about to return, the officer detained him to obtain information. He asked if he were well affected to the royal cause. The dark eye of the ferryman lit up with a sudden spark, and his lip quivered as he answered-" I have suffered enough." " ing oft-times to his saddle bow to clear the curling festoons of the wild vine, he soon emerged into a narrow and grassy road which wound through the forest. Through a succession of such by-paths, ever and anon rousing the wild deer from their coverts, he galloped on, and two good hours passed ere he drew bridle on the bank of Black river. After a brief breathing pause, he struck his heels into the sides of his foaming steed, and a few of minutes desperate exer 'Well, my good fellow," said the major, "you shall make up for all this when the king enjoys his own again; by the way, have there been many pass-tion placed them in safety on the opposite side. Again ing this way lately?" "Not many, sir; but I can tell you who did go by here yesterday afternoon: some one you'd be glad to lay hands on." that rapid courser was urged, till at last he halted, and advanced more slowly to the edge of Tearcoat swamp. There stood an immense tulip tree, and beneath its shade, now spreading far to the east in the "Who was that ?-speak out, my man-you'll lose rays of the setting sun, were picquetted two or three nothing by telling me!" Well, then, it was that stuttering devil, Horry, that they say was with Marion. He went by here at full speed, grumbling mightily about something or other." Aha! then the coast is clear-that's what I wanted to know; he could not tell that we were going to move this morning, and my poor devils of men may sleep sound to-night." Again that grim smile played across the dark tures of the ferryman, but he soon relapsed into his ordinary composure. horses. The riders bounded to their feet at the sound of advancing hoofs, and, with presented rifles, shouted who goes there?" "Marion," was the reply, in a deep and soul-stirring voice, which rang through the hearts of the soldiers. ""Tis the general," said the sentinel, rushing forward to seize his bridle, and grasp the hand that kindly met his pressure. The general dismounted, and throwing the reins of his noble courser into the trooper's hand, said, "Call Roberts, Charles, and let fea-him rub Selim down; and do you hasten to Major Horry, and let him know I want him, and bid the men get ready, for we have something to do to-night." Hastily the soldier led the horse into the recesses of the woods, and speeded on his way to the quarters of the men. The moss covered and slippery roots of the cyprus bridged the way across the morass, and springing from knee to knee, he soon reached a dull and dark stream, deeply tinged with fallen leaves and decaying roots, which drained the swamp, crossed by the fallen and insecure trunk of a noble cedar. With firm and careful step he passed, and arrived at the rendezvous-a knoll of elevated ground in the heart of the swamp. A second and third time did the heavily-laden boat work slowly up the wooded bank, and then shooting across the current, land her living freight; but when the order came for the negroes to proceed again for the tories, they positively refused, and betaking themselves to the woods, disappeared in their dark recesses. The ferryman, apparently very angry at their disobedience, dashed into the forest after them. Trees had been felled to admit the fresher air; a deep, thick, stifling smoke rose from the frequent fires that were fed by the resinous tops and branches; and After awaiting his return for some time, the major ordered some of his own men to row the boat over for the refugees, and with a long delay, they all stood on the left bank of the Santee. The sun hung in the west some three hours high, and with many a curse on the strange conduct of the ferryman, they continued their march. Meanwhile, the light form of the boat-closely cowering around them, to avoid the clouds of man might be seen speeding rapidly through the woods, until he burst through a thicket of small and tangled pines, and stood in a glade of the forest, surrounded by a stream of densest foliage. Here the negroes awaited him; one busily employed in accoutring a horse of the true southern breed, whose arched neck, thin mane, small and well set head, and dry, bony limbs betokened the purity of his blood. The other drew from their hiding-place a light and keen sabre and short rifle, and belted them carefully on the body of his master. The proud steed was now brought forward, and having glanced at the equipments and felt the girths, Marion, for it was he, vaulted into the saddle, and bidding the negroes take care of them selves, shook the reins and darted forward. "This day must prove your blood, Selim," said he, as the gallant horse bounded on amid the thickly clustered trees. Few horsemen could have held such rapid way through the forest unharmed, but to Marion it was safe as the most beaten road; darting from side to side to avoid the huge trunks in his rapid career, and stoop moschetoes, was the chosen band that for freedom and their country's cause, endured such hardships. Nearly all were in the prime of youth, or the full flush of early manhood, but it would have been difficult to recognize in the thin forms, the sallow, and smoke-dried countenances, and uncouth garbs, those who once moved in the highest circles of provincial distinction. Still the eye, unfailing index of the soul, beamed bright, and as at the thought of some new deed of violence it kindled into life, you might perceive the energy of the mind and will still unabated. As the messenger rapidly advanced, they rose to meet him, and having delivered his orders to the major, he communicated to the rest the arrival of the general, and his orders to prepare for action. Then burst forth the spontaneous cheer, and with eager satisfaction, they hastened to prepare their arms and equipments. Several clustered around the messenger to listen to his tale. "Which way did Marion come, Charles?" "Heaven only knows," said he," but he burst through the woods from the direction of Santee; and poor Selim, |