Jack built”—what induced him to write the letter lash of Orator Jerry. But it was the least part of on the relative merits of the Egomeipsumites and our intention to enjoy this fun alone. With a the Duuminunomites we cannot say; to put in noiseless step we hastened away, vowing Mr. Dodpractice his theory in regard to episode, most pro- drington should have an audience, on the coming bably. His dissertation on the charms of Miss evening, which even his imagination could little Boggs, was the overflowing of a happy disposi- suspect. We had only to tell the story to enlist tion-the effect of an oleaginous person--and we recruits in abundance; and an hour before sun could scarcely forgive ourself the Tam O'Shanter down found a dozen youths cozily hidden among exclamation, which interrupted a dance in which the bushes, which surrounded the open space sacred the feet kept time to the music of the heart-of to oratory and love. One gentleman we took unMiss Boggs, we know nothing--Jerry's love being der our particular supervision, threatening a resort limited, only, by the number of his female acquain- to strangulation if he dare interrupt our Oratortances. Here let us mention a peculiarity of Mr. ours by right of discovery-with a mal-apropos Doddrington's self-communings, which we have not, burst of laughter,-an event which his character as yet, noticed. When he enters into a supposed led us to fear. We knew the path by which Jerry conversation with a lady, and utters aloud the re- must approach, and, of course, the ambuscade was sponses--he always answers himself-he not only so arranged as to avoid the slightest chance of changes the tone of his voice, but he is sure to discovery. We had hardly been concealed twenty lisp. Whether lisping be a characteristic of the minutes, before Mr. Doddrington entered the cirsofter sex, we may be allowed to doubt; but, we cle. He removed his hat, bowed gracefully to the suppose, the fond deception is increased by the use right and left, and then entered into a careless of the much-abused; but-pardon our taste, dear pick-tooth conversation with his shadowy audience. reader-beautiful th. Jerry's "yeth thir" is the It was sometime before we could discover the perfection of feminine affirmatives. meaning of his discourse, when lo! we found Jerry A grove of stunted chinquepin bushes-dwarf on the banks of the Tiber in full intercourse with chesnuts, in the parlance of some-becomes the the departed spirits-real and fanciful-of old scene of Mr. Doddrington's last farce-last so far Rome! O, genius! genius! genius! as the pen of the historian is enabled to trace him. "Ha, Cicero! how are you? Hortensius, your Two weeks after the events related above, were most obedient. Maximus, give us the news of the spent in the fruitless endeavor of trying to discover day. What! a mutiny of the sixth legion ?—that's his haunts and to chance, at last, we were in- bad. Vortigus, when does your son assume the debted for the happy consummation of our wishes. virile gown? Indeed, I thought he was older. While taking a solitary walk one evening, we were Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, Octavius, Nonus, Destartled by hearing voices engaged, apparently, in cimus, quid agis—what are you about? Not cona violent controversy. Thinking we would act as spiring against the State, I hope. Oh, Tully, that peace-maker, led on by curiosity or fatality, recog-speech of yours in the case of Simpkin vs. Timpnizing some few notes of Mr. Doddrington's natu- kin, (wheu!) was excellent. I read it with much ral voice, or for some other reason, we scrupled pleasure, though the infernal printer (!!) made sad not to make use of the brushwood to approach the work with the type. Cease making puns, Cicy— field of battle. There, within an amphitheatre some vile practice. But I will cut the Romans," conten or a dozen feet in diameter, formed by the shrub-tinued Jerry, with an air of great pride, "they are bery, we found Mr. Jeremiah Doddrington standing low, vulgar, exceedingly so-redolent of oil and in the attitude of a young Apollo. His body was assifœtida. I am off to Greece. Demosthenes, I erect; one arm was slightly distended; his lip ex-salute you. A word in your ear. Philip is a genpressed scorn and defiance; and ere we had leisure tleman-Macedon is my friend, and you must cease to note the other beauties of his attitude, he ex- to arouse the passions of your dirty Athenian mob. claimed "faugh!" in accents which at once let us into the inmost secret of his soul. It expressed toward his adversary the most unmitigated contempt. Suddenly wheeling to the left-on which side he appeared to imagine the most of his hear- On hearing this (to him) most unexpected exers stationed-he vociferated: "but, gentlemen, clamation, the laughter-loving gentleman under our though I detest your organ, I must respect the care, exhibited sundry signs of an explosion. His number, at least, of your party ;" and he then pro-face became flushed, and every vein of his temples ceeded to pour forth such a torrent of argument swelled most prodigiously. We placed our fingers and invective-pausing every two or three minutes significantly on his throat, and threatened to choke to applaud himself, by dashing his feet against the stump on which he was mounted-such a mingling of pathos and ridicule-that we almost pitied the man whom our fancy depicted writhing beneath the

I'll have a phalanx down upon you directly. By the way, you were wont to stammer-is that true about the sea-shore and the pebble? O, Miss Wilkins, how I do love you!"

him into silence. He whispered that he had as well die one way as another-that there was very little difference between strangulation and the rupture of a blood-vessel, and that the last would cer

tainly ensue if we refused him permission to ease an indignant Public frown me down forever-hang his breast. We made an appeal to his love of the it! I fear I make the 'indignant public' frown too ridiculous, and, as Jerry fortunately paused for often."

some minutes, we at length succeeded in quieting Mr. Doddrington here stamped most vehemently, him. The reader may think that in the place of by way, we take the liberty to guess, of cover"Miss Wilkins," we should have written "Missing his iteration, and then, with his characterisBoggs;" but he must remember that two weeks tic instability of purpose, he began to sing the have passed since she was the divinity of Mr. praises of Miss Wilkins-applying precisely the Doddrington's worship; and two weeks, with him, same similes to her eyes, lips and teeth, that he witnessed the birth and death of a dozen passions. had once applied to the eyes, lips and teeth of Miss Mr. Jeremiah Doddrington now ascended his Boggs. He resumed: stump; made a very low bow, and then stood, for some time, with his eyes fixed on the earth, as if modestly deprecating the applause with which he was received as if his feelings of gratitude were too great to be expressed by words, and only communicable by an eloquent silence.

"Conscript Fathers"-in Rome again thought we-"no! Fellow-Citizens," resumed Orator Jerry, "I offer myself as a candidate for your suffrages, and, in accordance with a good old democratic custom, I proceed to make known my opinions on most of the political topics of the day, and on every other subject which it may be your will and pleasure to interrogate me. Before such an intelligent assembly, (I see fifty asses in the crowd, this moment) it has never been my lot to appear, and being unaccustomed to speaking (I unaccustomed to speaking-that's a joke) you will pardon me if I do not make myself plainly understood, and believe that my sole aim is to convince you that-I am the fittest person in the world to represent you in the National Assembly-"

Here Mr. Doddrington applauded himself, moderately, by kicking the stump. The sentences in parenthesis were uttered in a low voice-they being the private opinions of the Orator, and, of course, not intended for his audience.

"These being my sentiments, say, am I the candidate of your affections, or am I not that candidate?"

"You are, you are, you are," (as if the response came from his hearers.)

"Shall I have your votes, or shall I not have them?"

"You shall, you shall, you shall!" "Thank you, gentlemen, and now let's to dinner with what appetite we may.'

We confess that even we were surprised to see Jerry, after making this quotation, leap from his stump, and falling on his knees before a chinquepin bush-a branch of which he took in his hand-esclaim

"How long, my dear Miss Wilkins, will you torture me thus ?"

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'La! Misther Dodthrington!" (in his lady-bird notes.)

“But it is n't ' la,' madam—You are killing me by inches-a dry mortification of the heart is hastening me to my tomb."

"La! Misther Dodthrington!"

"What is it you desire? Ambition! I will crown you a queen and run the first man through the body, that denies your authority. What is it you desire? Love? I will build you a temple and the Cyprian Venus shall again have her worshippers. What is it you desire? Wealth? I will steal the purse of Fortunatus-I will make Cræsus disgorge and Plutus give up his treasures-I will go in search of Aladdin's lamp, and rub it from morning until night, if you will

'Only say you'll be Mrs. Brallaghan."" "La! Misther Dodthrington!" “‘La,' again—Madam, I profess you are enough to provoke a saint."

"My creed, gentlemen, is the creed of the majority: for I hold it anti-republican to have a single, poor, mean, shabby opinion of one's own, when he has so many neighbors anxious to give him the benefit of theirs-Isolation in politics I detest, and a life of political bachelorship I wont lead. What is your opinion, sir? I will wed it. And yours? and yours? I will wed them too. Thank heaven! political polygamy is not forbidden in the statute book. Do you believe the moon is made of green cheese? So do I. Do you believe the world don't At this juncture, a whiff of air blew the branch turn on its axis? By the club of Alcides, I am of from Jerry's hand. Feigning to suppose her ladythe same persuasion. Do you believe that it does so turn? Then, I say, if it don't, it ought to. Yes, gentlemen, I repeat it is anti-republican to have an opinion of one's own, and, if one dare be so rash, he should be frowned down by an indignant Public." Applause.

ship offended by his last uncourteous speech, be instantly took advantage of the incident, and exclaimed, in tones of the most heartfelt repentance, "Nay, fair lady, turn not away-I meant not to offend thee."

Our charge could be restrained no longer. With "I go to Congress, if I go at all, to vote for my the whoop of a wild Indian, he broke from our constituents, and not for myself; and should I be grasp, and, bounding forward, fell at the feet of so lost to all sense of duty and gratitude, as to dis- the astonished lover, rolling over and over again in obey the wishes of any one here present, then may convulsions of laughter. The rest followed, and

Old friends that childhood, and that youth had chrished,
Look down upon me with their earnest eyes;
And voices, whose love-music long hath perished,
Are whispering with me from the 'starry skies.'
Few are the years my backward glance recalleth;
Few, and with little of dark grief to hide;
But on the happiest heart some care-tint falleth-
The sunshine and the shadow, side by side.
For who, though blest his destiny may seem,
But hath some mournful memory to recall?
A hope unrealized-a vanished dream,
A shade of disappointment over all?

The world hath many troubles for our learning,
But something of young rapture yet will last,
If in the future where our steps are turning,
We hear them still, those echoes from the past.
And Thou, oh thou, in whose sad eyes there burneth
The deathless light of Love's thought-speaking gaze,
Say, if when Night, with all its stars returneth,
It hath for thee a voice from other days?

[riety of colors. The stern is crowded with images of hideous aspect; and flags and signals of all sizes and colors flutter from the mast heads. They carry each, six iron guns about the calibre of our nine pounders, secured upon swivels amid ships.

Having never before seen an American manof-war, the Chinese insist upon it, that we are English; and the authorities, actuated by their jealousy of foreigners, treat us with great rudeness. To our intercourse with the shore, every impediment short of actual resistance is presented. At length, we are ordered to leave the country; all supplies of provisions are interdicted, and the squadron of Junks considerably increased. We are compelled to smuggle fresh provisions for the crew; and water when required, is procured with arms in our hands. And here, the skilful and dextrous management of the Chinese boatmen is most apparent. The war junks, in the form of a crescent, are anchored to the East, in shore of us. On the opposite side of our ship, we always moor the launch. When the moon is set or overcast, a Chinese smuggling boat can be distinguished coming from the Western side of the bay, and standing directly for us, in such a manner, that our towering Chinese War Junks; A Smuggler; Spirited Chase, cap-hull conceals it from the junks in shore. When ture and execution; Manilla; Rumors of war with Eng- almost upon us, the boat's helm is put, as it is termed, “hard down ;” quick as thought, the boat ranges along side the launch, into which three or four bullocks are precipitated; and the next moment, hauled sharp on a wind, the smuggler is standing from us. The slight noise which unavoidably accompanies

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FROM THE JOURNAL OF AN AMERICAN NAVAL OFFICER.

[Concluded.]

land; Arrival of two English men-of-war; Hostile appearances and preparation for battle; Scene on the Prado at the sounding of the Vesper-bell. Rescue of a part of the crew of a Chinese Junk which had foundered. Intelligence from the United States; Massacre at Manilla; Escape of two gentlemen; The death canoe, and funeral procession; Cholera breaks out; Light, flickering airs, calm and heavy squall; The straits of Sunda; the transfer is invariably heard by the vigilant The ravages of pestilence; The cholera succeeded watchmen of the fleet. Instantly, a single rocket by the scurvy; Rio de Janeiro; Great political change; is sent up from one of the junks, which, before it Attempt to sieze the Crown Prince; The black, the reaches its full ascent, is succeeded by others from guard room-and the fatal platoon; The haughty queen; the other vessels; plain and colored lights are Fracas with the police; A military funeral; Sail for shown along the island and in every inlet around

home; Early morning; The ocean; The Adventures of

Harry Adams; "All hands to witness punishment;" the bay. The tumult of a hurried chase succeeds. The love-lorn mizzen top-man; The weather; Hopes But it is usually fruitless, except that its exciteand fears; The light-house; Arrival; Last salute; Con- ment has relieved the tedious monotony of the watch.

clusion.

Riding at anchor, a short distance within shore Our bold smuggler, rendered incautious by conof us, are several Chinese war junks, commanded stant success, made the attempt one night when it by a Mandarin of rank, and stationed here to pre- was not sufficiently dark, and it is feared that he vent smuggling. The largest of them is about was caught at last, for we never saw him aftersix hundred tons burthen, shaped like a shoe, and wards. Whether he perished on that occasion, of having a high forecastle and poop. It has no figure- in the attempt to approach us on another, has not head, but has an eye painted on each bow-from been ascertained.

the idea that ships are animate things, and that About a week after the last incident, a little the ocean, even when most agitated by storms, is before midnight, the signals were made from the intersected by smooth but narrow and intricate fleet, long before we could discover any thing. As pathways, to deviate from which, is certain destruc- soon as the signals were made, the smuggler, (for tion. To all our questions upon the subject, the invariable reply was, "No have eye-how can see? No can see, how can save-e?"

some smuggler it certainly was,-possibly one in the opium trade,) in the endeavor to escape, must have shifted his course and tried to regain the These vessels have high bulwarks; they carry Western shore. Intercepted perhaps in his course, three masts, are stayed irregularly and have sails or else despairing of the result of a chase, by a of fine matting. Their hulls are black with white dextrous evolution, he doubled upon

ports; and the masts and spars are painted a va

his

pursuers,

and with a flowing sheet, and every muscle strained

to the oars, bore down towards us, evidently with first and fourth Lieutenants, the Master, Gunner the purpose of claiming our protection.

The scene at this time was an exciting, and, but for the sympathies it awakened, a most beautiful one. The alarm had been communicated not only to the adjacent islands, but to the distant mainland. The indentations of the shore were defined by a continuous line of light. From various points, rockets were thrown up-every boat on the river hoisted a lantern, and the men-of-war were incessantly firing, shouting and exchanging signals with each other.

and three Midshipmen beside myself, the only officers on board. About 4 P. M. two sail were discovered in the offing. In a short time they were made out to be a frigate and a corvette under English colors. They stood in very handsomely under all sail, and rapidly approached us. When about one mile distant, they hove to, exchanged signals, shortened sail, and beat to quarters. We likewise beat to quarters, double-shotted our guns, sanded the decks, and got springs upon the cables. After exchanging signals for some time-which had apparently been employed in hostile preparation-the ships filled away and stood towards us— their tompions out, and the men at their guns.

The English had paid so little respect to neutral ports, that we certainly anticipated an attack, and our expectations seemed confirmed, when some of our crew recognized the Corvette to be the Cherub, one of the ships which had attacked the Essex in

As well might Acteon hope to elude the fate awarded by Diana! One of the men-of-war, fleeter or better manned than the rest, closed upon the unfortunate smuggler. We heard the grapple, the rude chafing of the boats as they ranged side by side, and a brief scuffle; after which, a few orders were given in a distinct voice; four or five times, at intervals of a few minutes, gurgling sounds were heard, as if the bowstring were being in- Valparaiso. flicted. A blue light was then burned, the lights were extinguished, the men-of-war returned to their anchorage, and the sentry's cry of "all's well," alone disturbed the silence of the night.

Some of our officers visited Canton, so well known from the description of travellers. I passed a few days in Macao, a Portuguese town, only celebrated as the residence for many years of the unfortunate poet Camoens.

From the deficiency of the crew, the first lieutenant directed the guns to be kept trained upon the frigate alone, and, that, not the slightest regard should be paid to her consort. The whole arrangement evinced his excellent judgment and cool intrepidity; and the result, showed the importance of a self-possessed, collected mind. Acting as his aid, I had, by his order, taken my stand upon a shot box, to note the movements of the advancing After the lapse of nearly two months, we sailed ships. The Corvette had passed on the larboard from Lintin, and spent six weeks in search of a side and luffed athwart our bow, as we thought, to fictitious bank, laid down nearly on the equatorial rake us; the frigate passed about a musket-shot line and in the midst of the China sea. Our men astern, and rounded to-when immediately from the and junior officers were very much exposed, sound-nearest port, came a flash and a volume of smoke. ing at great distances from the ship, in open boats. I called out "a gun from the frigate ;"-the first Unsuccessful and dispirited, with nearly one lieutenant, sprung beside me, cast a hurried glance, hundred of the crew on the sick list, we reached and exclaiming "it is indeed," raised the trumpet Manilla, the capital city of Luconia, the principal of to his lips; but, even in that exciting moment, the Phillippine Islands. Immediately on our arrival, while the reverberation rolled along, and every a large building was hired on shore for the accom- gaze hung upon his countenance, he waited to modation of our sick, and the Spanish authorities hear the striking of the shot. The next mowere most considerate and attentive. ment, his suspense was terminated by the disWe had heard in Canton, rumors of a war be-charge of a gun from the opposite side of the fritween England and the United States respecting gate. In compliment to our position and contrary the cession of the island of Cuba, but, neither the to custom, the salute of the English frigate was American Consul, nor the merchants, nor ourselves commenced on the larboard side. believed them. When we reached Manilla, the Manilla is situated on the South side of an exGovernor, who had received later intelligence, as-tensive bay. The city proper, is surrounded with sured us that the reports were not unfounded. He a high wall, strongly fortified, within which, reside stated that he daily expected despatches containing the authorities, the natives of Spain, and their dethe official notification. We therefore made all scendants. The suburbs, circling the walls on the possible expedition in filling up our water, and no land side, stretch far to the South and West; and expense was spared in providing for the sick and are more extensive, and more densely populated, feeble. Upwards of a week elapsed without fur-than the city. With the exception of the principal ther intelligence, and our former doubts returned. streets, the houses in the suburbs are mostly built One Sunday, we had ninety men sick on shore, at of bamboo, in many places raised on piles within the hospital, and about one third of the remaining the margin of the river. In houses so constructed, crew were on liberty. The Captain resided on shore, the floors consist of bamboo cane, split longitudiand many of the officers were absent; leaving the nally, and laid with the convex side uppermost