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wlian not perverted bv a corrupt will, rise up
ward cu naturally as the morning i!u\v on the
dowers is exhaled to the skies. Ihe genius
of Mrs. Sigourney, like the ‘ imperial Passion
Flower,’ has always been
* Consecrate to Salem's peaceful King—
Though fair as any gracing beauty's bower,
Yet. linked to sorrow like a holy thing.
It is this sadness which shows her strains to
be of earth —their purity and serene loveliness
are angelic. Ifthere be a want felt in reading
her effusions, it is that of fervency. The light
is brilliant and pure, but it does not kindle into
flame. Her ‘ truths’ need to be more ‘ impas
sioned,’ to produce their greatest effect. Yet
this deficiency arises from the delicacy of taste,
which makes her fear to pour forth the full
gush of tier feelings. And it is very seldom
that a woman can or will do this. Hence
much of the monotony and mediocrity of their
poetry.
We must not omit to record that Mrs. Si
gourney is, in private life, an example to her
sex, as well as their admiration of her literary
career. She is a good wife and a devoted
mother ; she has two children, a daughter and
son, whom she has hitherto educated entirely
herself. And in all domestic knowledge, and
the scrupulous performance of her household
duties, she shows as ready acquaintance and as
much skill as though these formed her only
pursuits. Her literary studies are her recrea
tions—surely as rational a mode of occupying
tho leisure of a lady, as the morning call «r
the evoning party.
From the Baltimore American,
Till WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
During a walk to tho heights of the northern
portion of our city an evening or two since,
we looked with honest pride as natives of
Maryland upon the noble tribute paid to the
worth of our country’s greatest sou, in tho
erection of the magnificent column to the
memory of Washington. After years of soli
tude and toil, of conflict with difficulties and
vexations, through the praiseworthy and un
tiring zeal of a few public spirited individuals
who have devoted themselves gratuitously to
the patriotic task, Maryland can at length boost
of a structure in some degree worthy of the
great man to commemorate whose worth it is
intended. Simp!* and grand, the majestic
colum rears itself aloft, bearing on its summit
the representation of one whose noble eleva
tion enabled him to look down as from an
eminence on the crowd of his fellow men.
Washington when living attained a moral and
intellectual cxhaltation that placed him beyond
the more ignoble influences, by which human
nature is actuated, and aloof from motives that
could sully the purity of his spirit, or cast a
•hade upon the brightness of his fame. Un
ambitious of controlling others, he achieved
the more mighty work of governing himself,
and gave a practical illustration of tho passage
in holy writ, which proclaims that he that
humbleth himself shall be exhnlted. To have
been tho first among the sister States to erect
* monumont to the saviour of his country, ie a
proud distinction in behalf of Maryland. It
•hould he regarded by her sons as a source of
patriotic self-gpatifieation, and so long as the
lofty pillar which adorns their metropolis shall
•tand, so long willj the names of their follow
citizens who haveboeu instrumental in effecting
the object, be’held in respectful and affectionate
remembrance.
It is not our intention to enter upon an
eloborato history of this truly beautiful work,
most of the particulars connected with which
are already familiar to the great body of our
readers, butjinasmuch as] it Ms now approach
ing completion, we deem it no moro than
proper to direct public attention to the struc
ture, whilst we attempt a description of its
proportions and appearance. The column is of
white marble, quarried in the vicinity of our
city. Its height independent of the colossal
figure, is one hundred and sixty-five feet from
the base. The diameter of the pillar is twenty
feet at the base, its proportions being in strict
accordance with the rules laid down for what
was known among the Greeks as the Dorric
order of architecture. From the capital which
•unmounts the column springs a rounded cone,
the effect of which is to givo sufficient eleva
tion to the lower part of the statue, so as to re
lieve and cause it to be seen by the beholder
from below. The Statue represents General
Washington fti the act of resigning his Com
mission to Congress at Annapolis, tho capital
of our State, wrappod in a military cloak the
folds of which form an easy and appropriate
drapery, whilst the right arm projecting sus
tains the parchment containing the warrant of
authority of the great Captain. The face of
the figure presents to the South, or in tho di
rection of the scene of transaction intended to
be represented.
The main column rises from a grand base
the elevation of which is about twentv feet, and
its diameter fifty feet, there being a door in the
centre of each front. On either side of each
of those openings is an inscription commemo
rative of some signal occurrence connected
with the eventful history of the life of the foun
der of our Republic. These inscriptions have
just bean completed and the order iu which they
•tand is as follows :
On a tablet in the frieze of each of the four
fronts of the grand basement are the words,
in letters of an appropriate size—
TO
GEORGE WASIIIN G TON.
nv THE
STATE OF MARYLAND.
As the Statue on the Monument fronts the
South and Annapolis, where he resigned his
Commission, (which he holds out toward that
city,) we begin with this front as the principal,
and the one first approached from tho body of
the town bv Charles-street. On the spaeos
each side of the door, reading always to the
right, are inscribed—
BORN DIED
22<2 February 19 th December
1732. 1799.
On the East side, reading still to the right,
are these inscriptions—
COMMANDER IN CHIEF RESIGNED HIS COMMAND
of the at
. AMRRICAN ARMY ANNAPOLIS
15 th June 23 d December
1775. 1783.
fhn the North side—
TRENTON YORK TOWN
25M December 19 th October
1776. ITS 1.
On the West side — . - • -
PRESIDENT RETIRED
of the to
I UNITED STATES MOUNT VSRNON
4 th March 4/A March
1789. 1797.
These are the eight most remarkable events
of his civil and military life, and it will be seen
that they are put in opposition by a kind of
antithesis, to render them more striking, and
more readily impressed on the memory of the
reader.
The monument is encircled by a massive and
beautiful iron balustrade of proper height, on
the outside of which is a circular pavement of
flags, composed of granite of uncommonly find
quality.
There still remain to be finished four statue
or trophies, which are to occupyfthe tops of the
angles of the base, and we sincerely hope that
the ensuing session, the Legislature will pass a
law authorizing the appropriation of a sum
sufficient to complete them, instead of depend
ing on the precarious resources at present
allotted from the revenue from lotteries. In
addition to these there only remain to render
the Monument complete, the four doors and
the eight blocks for the tripods on each side of
them, which it is believed will be in place before
the winter arrives.
It would be doing great injustice to our own
feelings and the deserts of those gentlemen, if
we did not offer thanks on the part of the com
munity to Robert Gilmore, Esq. as President,
and Fielding Lucas, Jr. Esq. with the other
directors, for the able and efficient manner in
which they have discharged their arduous and
responsible duties, the only reward for which
is to be found iu the approbation of their coun
trymen.
Should tho brief notice here taken of this
ornament to our coimtry serve to awaken in
the minds of our young leaders a desire to
intimate the virtues of him who was “ first in
war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his
countrymen,” our object will be fully attained.
.From a late number of the Edinburgh Review.
ASTONISHING FACTS RELATIVE TO A FORMER
ORGANIC WORLD.
Dr. Buckland now (proceeds to the most
important and popular branch of his subject,
to give a description of the most interesting
fossil organic remains, and to show that the
extinct species of plants and animals which
formerly occupied our planet display, even in
their fragments and relics, the same marks of
wisdom and design which have been univer
sally recognized in the existing species of or
ganized beings.
After giving some account of the supposed
cases of fossil human bones, and establishing
the remarkable fact of the “ total absence of
any vestiges of tho human species throughout
the entire series of geological formations,” our
author passes to the general history’ of fossil
organic remains.
“ It is marvellous that mankind should have
gone on for so many centuries in ignorance
of the fact, which is uow so fully demonstrated
that no small pavt oft Vie present surface of
the earth is derived from the remains of ani
mals that constituted the population of ancient
seas. Many extensive plains and massive
mountains form, as it were, the great charnel
houses of preceding generations, in which the
petrified exuviaa of extinct races of animals
and vegetables are piled into stupendous mo
numents of the operations of life and death,
during almost immeasurable periods of past
time. ‘At the sight of a spectacle,’ says Cu
vier, * so imposing, so terrible, as that of the
wreck of animal life, forming almost the en
tire soil on which we tread, it is difficult to
restrain the imagination from hazarding some
conjectures as to the cause by which such
great effects have been produced.’ The deep
er we descend into the strata of the earth, the
higher do ascent into the archselogical history
of past ages of creation. We find successive
stages marked by varying forms ofanimal and
vegetable life, and these generally differ more
and more widely from existing species as we
go further downwards into the receptacles of
the wreck of more ancient creations. * * *
“ Besides the more obvious remains of tes
tacca, and of larger animals, minute examina
tion discloses occasionally prodigious accumu
lations of microscopic shells that surprise us
no less by their abundance than their extreme
minuteness; the mode in which they arc some
times crowded together may be estimated from
tho fact that Soldani collected from less than
an ounce and a half of stone, found on the
hills of Casciana, in Tuscany, 10,454 miscros
copic chambered shells. * * * Os several
species of those shells, four or five hundred
weighed but a single grain ; of’one specimen
be calculates that a thousand individuals would
scarcely weigh one grain.”
Extraordinary as these phenomena may’
appear, the recent discoveries of Ehrcnberg,
made since the publication of Dr. Buckland’s
work, are still more marvellous and instruc
tive. This eminent naturalist, whose discov
eries respecting the existing infusorial animals j
we have already noticed, has discovered fossil
animalcules, or infusorial organic remains;
and not only’ has he discovered their existence
by tho microscope, but he has found that they
form extensive strata of tripoli, or poleschiefer,
(polishing slate,) at Frazenband, in Bohemia;
a substance supposed to have been formed
from sediments of fine volcanic in quiet waters.
These animals belong to the genus BaciUaria,
and inhabit siliceous shells, the accumulation j
of which form the strata of polishing slate. ,
’Tho size of n single individual of these animal
cules is about 1,288 th of a line, the 2400th of
part of an inch. In the polishing slate from 1
Bilin, in which there seems no extraneous mat
ter, and no vacuities, a cubic line contains, in
round numbers, 23,000.000 of these animals,
and a cubic in«h 41,000.000,000 of them. Tho.
weight of the cubic inch of tho tripoli which
contains them is 270 grains. Hence there are
187,600,000 of these animalcules iu a single
grain, or the siliceous coat of one of thqse ani
mals is tho 18,000,000 th part of a grain!
Since this strange discovery was made, Mr.
Ehrcnberg has detected the same fossil ani
: mals in the semiopal, which is found along
with the polishing slate in the tertiary strata of
Be!m, in the chalk flints, and even in the semi
opal or noble opal of porphyritic rocks. What
a singular application does this fact exhibit of
the remains of the ancient world ! While our
habitations are sometigpes built of the solid ag
gregate u#'millions of microscopic slielis; w hile
as we have seen, our apartments are heated
and lighted with the wreck of mighty forests
tiiat covered the primeval valleys, the chaplet
of beauty shines with the very sepulchres in
which millions of animals are entombed ! Thus
has death become the handmaid and the orna
ment of life. Would that it were also its in
structor and guide.
From the Southern Literary Messenger.
THE MAGNOLIA.
Amidst the great variety of trees indigenous
to the United States, there is, perhaps none
which more forcibly claims attention or com
mands admiration than the Magnolia. This
beautiful genus or family of trees, consists of
about fifteen species, and is almost equally di
vided betwixt the United States and China.
The generic term Magnolia is derived from
Magnol, a distinguished French botanist of the
eighteenth century. The genus is arranged
under the class, Polyandria, and order Poly
gynia, of the sexual system of Linnaeus. The
two most interesting and ornamental species
arc the Magnolia Grandjlora, and Magnolia
Macrophyl/a. In Florida where the former
flourishes in extreme luxuriance and grandeur,
the forest during the flovvry season, is repre
sented as being sublimely picturesque, and pre
senting one of the most enchanting views in
nature. It not unfrequently presents a living
column of eighty or ninety feet in elevation,
almost unobstructed by branches, and termina
ting in a spreading top of the deepest perenial
verdure. It has a pyramidal,or semi-eiliptical
head, when not injured by accident. From
May to August, in favorable situations, it is
generally covered with brilliant white flowers
on the extremities of the young branches.
Another species of Magnolia frequently met
with in our forests, and which has been cultiva
ted to some extent, is the cucumber tree (Mag
nolia Acuminata.) It derives its familiar name
from a resemblance betwixt its cono, or seed
vessel, and the common garden cucumfcer-
But it is the Magnolia Macrophylla which at
tracts tlie greater share of attention, and on
which it is chiefly intended to mako a few
desultory observations. The extent of this
species in the United States extremely limited
and its diffusions but partial wherever found.
Nuttall observed it on the banks of the Cumber
land river, Tennessee, but of very’ small size.
He also points out its most noted locality in a
“ narrow tract of about two miles in length,
twelve miles south-east of Lincolton, Lincoln
county, North Carolina.” The limits, how
ever, of this species are more extensive than
those assigned by the above distinguished
naturalist. In Lincoln county I have been
enabled to discover several other localities in
the section of country bordering on the Catawba
river. It has also been found ia Florida and
Kentucky. In all of its different situations it
seems to prefer a light, virgin soil. It may be
frequently seen growing very luxuriantly on
some rugged and abrupt hill side, where it is
protected from the sun by the surrounding
growth. Indeed, a cool situation seems to be
greatly conducive to its prosperity’. Yet it is
not exclusively restricted to this its native and
and favorite situation. It bears transplanting
very well provided some attention is paid
in having it ocaasionally irrigated during dry
seasons. To ensure its future growth, with
some degree of certainty, after removal, I would
recommend, as a precautionary measure, the
plantingof rose bushes, lilacs (syringa-vulgaris)
or other small undergrowlh about its roots.
These will keep up a coolness and moisture
during the heat of summer. The Magnolia
may also be raised from the seed; and this
method is, perhaps, the most advisable when
young plants cannot be easily procured. It
is admitted by the most assiduous collectors in
Botany, that this species of Magnolia has the
largest leaves and flowers of any other tree in
North America. It is in the vegetable king
dom that we behold the finest delineations of
nature amply and richly portrayed.. Her
choicest penceiling, her most delicate tints, and
brilliant hues, we find attractively displayed on
the variagated flour. And with what pleasura
ble emotions do wc recognize her beautiful
finger-work as exhibited in the large and snow
like blossoms of the Magnolia. The magni
tude of the leaves is not a little remarkable, and
naturally suggests to the inquisitive mind the
idea of coolness, shade and protection. They
are frequently found measuring from eight to
twelve inches in breadth, and from twenty
five to thirty inches in length. These dimen
sions, it is true, arc vastly inferior in size to the
leaves of the Palm trees of Ceylon, winch are
said, by a distinguished writer, to be capable of
sheltering whole families from the inclemency
of the weather. But it may be observed, that
in tropical climates all plants assume a more
luxuriant growth, and the magnitude of the
leaves seems to be the result of benevolent de
sign by the author of the universe in consulting
the health, the comforts, and the pleasures of
the inhabitants destined to live beneath the
scorching rays of a torrid sun. liven in a
medical point of view, the Magnolia is worthy
of attention. The bark of all the species are
known to possess camphorated,* aromatic, and
tonic qualities. In intermittent fevers, chronic
rheumatism, &c., several species have been
advantageously used. But it would be foreign
to this sketch to enter into detail. The pro
ceding remarks are made with a view of point
ing out the most desirable species of Magnolia,
nud presenting to the general reader a brief
outline of its natural history. In Philadelphia
and other notbern cities, where the Magnolia
has been successfully cultivated, a great value
is attached to it as an ornamental tree ; but in
our own more favored clime, in this respect,
it is too frequently doomed to realize the line
of the poet,
“Bom to blush unseen,"
and deck its secluded retreat, in solitary gran
deur. To the lovers of Flora, and particularly
to the Indies, who delight to see dame nature
attired in her inimitable drapery, from the
purest white to the most exquisite and varign
ted tints, is the appeal made to cultivate the
Magnolia. Wherever known in the United
States it has acquired the merited appellation
of “ beauty of the forest,” and is justly deemed
the most splendid mid magnificent tree in
North America.
A HACK WOODSMAN BOTANIST.
They have in the Philadelphia Library a 1
clock which once belonged to Oliver Cromwell. I
TREASURE TItOVE,- OR A LIFT TO THE DIGGERS.
In tlie course of grading Hawk-street in the
fields, a few days since, just where it passed
through an old burying ground, u coflin was
discovered, and near it a trunk much decayed,
which was hauled up and examined. It was
found to contain a substance resembling tin
der, which was once upon a time bank notes,
or perhaps continental money, and a jmreel of
coin, all of which was greedily taken up by
the black men engaged in digging. As no
white person was near, the discovery of the
treasure was not known until it was too late
to examine the decayed trunk, and the only’
piece of gold, that has yet been exhibited of the
lot, is a ducat, bearing the date of 1758, and
having on one side the likeness of a stalwart
Knight, with a sword in one hand, and a sheaf
of wheat in the other, and round about him the
words abbreviated as follows : Concordia Res.
Per. Cres. lioll. probably “Concordia, lloi
publicte perpetuo crescat Hollands.—•“ Let
the tranquillity of the Republic of Holland in
crease for ever.” On the other side there is
a regular square drawn and inscribed with the
following words: Mo. Ord. Provin. Feeder.
Belg. Ad. Leg. Imp. which may be translated,
“ Issued (misso) by order of tlie Confederated
Belgic Provinces according to the law of the
land of the empire; or supposing the word Mo.
to be an abbreviation for Anno, the reading
would be, In the year of the organization of
the Belgic confederacy’, &c.
The coin is of fine gold, and was hid in its
secret place with its colleagues by some cau
tious person during the revolutionary troubles,
by some staunch tory, who lived long enough
to cuckle over the worthlessness of continental
money, and to console himself with his trea
sure put away’, but who never reached the
Borough after the war. The diggers were
lucky dogs ; if the suspicion be just that the
deposite was large. Other pieces will soon
creep out. Norfolk Deacon.
“ I AM AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.”
We derive the following gratifying facts
from an account of a late visit to the Museum
of the College of Surgeons, in Dublin, by a
correspondent of the Worcester (Mass.) Spy ;
“ To obtain admission to this Museum, an
introductory note from one of the members of
the Society is generally required. I was una
ware of the fact previously to going, and con
sequently was unprovided. But, upon stating
that I was an American, I was immediately’
admitted. Tnis is not the first instance in
which my being a foreigner, and American,
has obtained for me privileges which otherwise
would have been refused. In former days,
the declaration, Mama Roman citizen ’ was
an a?gis of protection to those- who could say
it with truth. Now, the similar one, ‘lam
an American citizen,’ not only ensures protec
tion in this country, but opens to our country
men, places which in some instances are closed
even to Englishmen. It gained admittance for
me into the House of Commons, on a day
when the crowd was so great and the demands
for seats so numerous, that the Speaker had
refused to grant the privilege to many who had
requested it—the day upon which the considera
tion of the Queen’s message was before the
House. In several other instances have I been
more than usually thankful that 1 could say
“ I am an American citizen. ’”
VALUE Os NEWSPAPERS.
Rev. Mr. Winslow's opinion of the value
rs newspapers. —“As ready vehicles of public
intelligence and instruction, newspapers are of
indispensable service ; they are eminently re
publican. They are the most constant com
panions and teachei-3 of the people. In their
daily visits they are at the doors of their patrons
to give them the news, first in the morning and
first in the evening ; frequently they breakfast,
and dine, and sup with them ; they entertain
them in the parlor and advise them in the coun
ting room; they travel with them in all the
coaches, cars and steamboats, upon the public
ways ; there is not an athenaeum, nor reading
room, nor house of entertainment, nor any
place of public daily resort, where their forms
are not seen and their voices heard. They
are in truth the omnipresent geniuses and
tutelary goddeses of the if there
be any truth in trie proverb, that they who
perpetually have our ears, have at last our
faith, their influence must be great and decisive
upon the destinies of this republic. Consider
ingtlieir immense power over the public mind,
every good citizen must seethe importance of
endeavoring to save them from perversion, of
elevating their character, and desseminating
them as widely as possible. Every family that
can afford it should take at least one paper,
and should exercise the most wise discrimina
tion in the selection. Few men confer more
benefit upon the community than gaod editors,
and few do more harm than bad ones.”—(Ora
tion, July 4, 1728.)
“ I WISH I WAS RICH.”
How frequently do we hear this wish ex
pressed, yet how seldom is it that we find a man
who has in this respect, attained tho object of
his wishes. Look upon that thin, haggard,
care-worn man, with a countenance depicting
anxiety in every furrow channelled in his shriv
elled face. You would suppose, from his ap
pearance, that lie is in the extremity of want—
a houseless beggar—but go upon ’change, ex
amine the financial operations of the port, and
you will find that be is the controller of millions,
the arbiter of the happiness and fortunes of one !
bait' of the community. But he is not rich. 1
He commenced hi* career a pauper; money
iie desired, money he obtained, money lie now
posseses ; but money lie still desires, and there
fore, lie is still a poor man. Now look upon j
tout old gentlemen with a benevolent, satisfied
countenance ; there is a smile on his lip, and
his clear blue eye twinkles with delight at every ;
remark made by the beautiful, bloomin gdaugii- I
ter hanging on his arm. Me cannot command |
the wealth of the nation, lie lias not the means
of hording up thousands of dollars, yet lie is
richer than the person first remarked, who lias
at Ins command the wealth of a nation. Why
is lie richer I Because he is contented with
*is lot, The first man looks upon the posses
sion of wealtli as the principle of happiness,
and would obtain that wealth by any means ;
the second believes bis duty to God and man
requires that lie should act well the part in j
wlujJli hr lias been cast, and having accomplish- !
ed that duty, he w contented. \ man p ,
ted with his station,and jiossessed oftheiimM
consciousness of having done his duty W 1
family and society, is richer than the .nilfionaim
who, tho he has acquired tlie riches of tl ’
Indies, would not be satisfied if he possessed f
whole world. r, - loe
Baltimore Sun.
THE NEW GREAT SEAL OF ENGLAND.
The following is a description of the i .
Griccit &cnl« which has been finished by Mr
Wyon, principal engraver of* her Majesty’*
seals. It is said to be a beautiful specif
of art:—Obverse—An equestrian C c of
her Majesty, attended by a page. The Queen
is supposed to be riding m state ; overa ridiim
habit she is attired in a long robe, or doalT
and a collar of the order of tlie Garter; in ] CI !
right hand she carries a sceptre, and ’on
head is placed a royal diadem. Tlie attendar
page, with hat iu hand, looks up to tlie Q llu 'f
whilst gently restraining the impatient horse’
which is richly decorated with plumes and
trappings. The inscription, “ Victoria, Dei
Gracia Britanniarum Regina, Fide Defensor”
is engraved in Gothic letters, and tlie spaces
between the words are filled with heraldic
roses. Reverse—l’in? Queen, royally robed
and crowned, holding in her right hand, the
sceptre, and in her left the orb, is seated upon
the throne beneath a Gothic canopy; on either
side is a figure of Justice and Religion; the
whole encircled by a wreath or border of oak
and roses.
From Cooper’s “ Homeward-Bound."
SHIPS MEETING IN A GALE.
C iptain Truck was in the mizzen-rigging, bare
headed, every lock of hair he had blowing out like a
pendant. Occasionnally he signed to the man at the
wheel which way to put the lielni—for instead of sleep
ing, as may be supposed, ho had boon conning the slm
for hours in the same situation. As day appeared, he
was directing the atten'ion of several of the gentlemen
to some object astern, but a very few moments put ,:|
on deck in possession of the facts.
About a cable’3 length, on one of the quarters of the
flfontauk, was a ship careering before tlie gale like our
reives though carrying more canvass, and consequent
ly driving fnsier through tho waves. The sudden ap
pearance of this vessel in tho sombre light of the morn
ing, when objects were seen distinctly, without the glare
of day—the dark hull relieved by a single narrow line
of white paint, dotted with ports—the glossy hammock
cloths, and all these other coverings of dark glistening
canvass which give to a cruizer an air of finish and
comfort, like that of a travelling carriage—thesymme.
try of the spars, and the gracefulness of all the lines,
whether the hull or hamper, told all who knew anything
of sucli subjects, that the stranger was a vessel of war.
To this information, Captain Truck added, that It was
their old pursuer, the Foam.
“ She is corvette built,” said the master of the JL:i
tank, “ and is obliged to carry more canvass than wo,
in order to keep her out of the sea*; for if one of these
big fellows should overtake her, and throw its crest into
her waist, she would become like a njan who lias taken
too much Saturday night, and with whom a second
dose might settle the purser’s becks forever.”
Such, in fact was the history of tho sudden appear
ance of this ship. She had lain too as long as possible
and on being driven to scud, carried a close reefed main
topsail, a show of canvass that urged her through the
water about two knots to the hour faster than the rate of
the packet. Necessarily following the same course, hud
overtook the latter just as the day began to dawn. The
cry had arisen on her sudden discovery, and tho moment
bad now arrived when she was about to conic tip quilt
abreast of her late chase. The passage of the Foam un
dersuch circumstances was a grand but thrilling
Me r captain, too, was seen in the mizzen rigging of die
ship, rocked by tlie gigantic billows over which his
fabric was careering, lie held a speaking trumpet .a
liia hand, as if still bent on bis duty in the midst of all
that awful warring of the elements. Cap!. Truck call’. ii
tor a trumpet in his turn, and fearful of consequen t
ho waved it to the other to keep more aloof. The in
junction was either misunderstood, the man-of-war's
man wns either too much bent on his object, ortheffs
was too uncontrollable for such a purpose, the comite
driving up on a sea tpiitc abeam of the packet, and in
fearful proximity. The Englishman applied the truai*
pet, and words were heard amid the roaring ot the
winds. At that time the white field of old Albion with
the St. George's cross, rose over the bulwarks, and by
the time it had reached the gnfi’end, the banting waa
whipping to ribbons.
“Show ’em the gridiron !’* growled Captain Trick
through his trumpet with his mouth turned on board.
Aa every thing was ready this older was instantly
obeyed, an 1 the stripes of America were soon sees
Ifhttering nearly in separate pieces. The two ships
now ran some distance in parallel lines, rolling trom
each other so heavily that the bright copper ol the
corvette was seen nc-.r'y to her keel. The Euclid
man who seemed a portion of his ship, again tried he*
trumpet: the detached words of “lie by”—“orders -i
“communicate"—were caught by one or two,' us
howling of the gale rendered all connection in 136
meaning impossible. The Englishman cearfd l« s
cilbrts to make himself heard, for the two ships were
now rolling to, and it appeared as if they would inter
lock their spars. There wv.s an instant when Mr
Leach had h:3 hand on the main-brace to Id it? 3 ;
but the fi, iin started away on a sea like a horse di l )
foi ls the spur, and disobeying her helm, shot torwarc
as if about to cross the Montuuk’s forefoot.
A breathless instant followed, fur nil on board ::i 1
ships thought they must now inevitably conic foui 3l
each other, and this the more so, because the M 1 ■ ■ 4
took the impulse of the sea just ns it was lost t o
hoam, and seemed on the point of plunging dircctl} ‘
the stern of the latter. Even the seamen clenched t e
ropes around them convulsively, and the boldest f“.
their breaths fora time. The “ l’-o-r-t, hard a port- °j
Captain Truck; and the “S-t-a-r-b-o-n-r-d, starb o
hard !” ol the Englishman, were both distinctly au y
to nil in the twuships; for tlus was a moment in wh*
seamen can speak louder than the tempest '
affrighted vessels seemed to recede together, and t e
they shot asunder in diverging lines, the foam lca«i<oc
All further attempts at a communication were ins.an-.
use It--s, the corvette being half a mile ahead in a d ll * r
ter of an hour, rolling her yard anus nearly 10 " 6
water.
MR. MAURY AND MISS MARI'.
Mr. Maury and Miss Marv,
Os graver talk grow n weary,
Essay’d to task their cunning.
In the pleasant sport of punning.
Said die former to the latter,
“ Far lie ’t from me to flatter,
But certainly 'tis true,
That if 'twerc not for U
Most gladly I'd be Mary.”
The ready witted fairy,
Prompt not to be undone
In compliment or pun,
Replied, “ If I hnd U
I would be Maury too."
W ashington City.
The increase of the Army* authorised by a late A A
amounts 4, r >oo men rank and file.