,.&* ^&isfewjs_M 'r-m^'am8. ,ii'mijpw 1 ae UNNUMBERED GRAVES. time and immediately rose and dressed not a bit of it I hadn't much fear board the English vessel could make out still dangling from the end of the little myself. When I reached the yard I found i perhaps I might tell the truth, and say I with the naked eye the dark forms upon line, to let the noose drop and pull away the clouds all passed away,and the moon had none, for I had a good pistol, and her deck, ior she was crowded with at the end till the large rope tightened Yon hillside wita its shafts ofgleaming white, "vas shining brightly. The hostler was more than that my passenger was safe, men. whose features and black beards around his body. This was tried, but Bathed in the glory of the setting sun *sily aroused and by twj o'clock I was yet I was glad when I came to the old were with a glass distinctly visible. She Hoids many a grave, where, hidden from our the shark slipped out. He was however, on the road. The mud was deep, and flour-barrel factory that stands at the sight. had just fired a gun at the chase as a signal so hungry that he immediately returned, my horse could not travel very fast. However, Some loved one sleeps, life's toil and labor edge of Jacksonville, and in ten minutes for her to surrender, and the English and the maneuver was repeated and with done. on we went, and in the course of more hauled up in front of the tavern, captain, sorrowfully, had just given orders success the seconed time. But there are graves above whose slumb'ring half an hour I was clear of the village. and found a couple of men in the barn to haul down the English flag when, The moment Captain Lewis got the mold \.t a short distanee ahead lay a large cleaning down some stage horses. in a moment, a sudden squall broke upon No polished marble rears its stately head, noose around his body, eight or ten persons tract of forest, mostly of great pine. The And where no flagrantflowersabove unfold 'Well, old fellow,' said I, as I got both vessels. The English captain pulled away at the rope, and it was j.oad lay directly through this wo6d, and To waken pity for the quiet dead. down and went to the back of the wagon, was less loaded with canvass aloft than hardly a minute before it began to tighten as near as 1 can remember the distance 'youhave had a good ride, haven't you?' the French brig. He seems to have around the shark's body, and, as it did These are the graves deep down within our wis twelve miles. Yet the moon was in Who are you?' he cried, and he seen the change ol the weather first, and so, it slipped down to his tail and when hearts, the east and the road ran nearly west, so swore as he asked the question. began to take in sail immediately, but "Where he the hopes and dreams of early he felt it getting uncomfortably tight he howgM I should have light enough. 'I am the man you tried to shoot,*' years, the squall struck the Bellone broadside paid no more attention to the bait, but, bad entered this wood and gone Buried from sight, but signaled bysuch mark, was the reply. she keeled over, with all her sails set, turning slightly gave one flap with his As only can be made by blood and tears. ..f-orjt half a mile when my wagon wheels like the Eurydice. There was no time Where am I? Let me out., mighty tail that nearly took the whole ot Some early love that crowned us in our 1 fettled with a jump and jerk into a deep for shriek or shout. She went down in "'Look here we've come to a safe us overboard. Captain Lewis, with the youth. 1 bole. I uttered an exclamation of astonisment, silence. In one moment she disappeared, And made life glorious for one short, sweet stopping place, and, mind you, my pistol rapidity almost of thought, made a turn 1 but that was not all.. I heard 1 hour and the waters oi the channel closed is ready for you the moment you show of the rope about a fastening, but so powerful Some cherished promise, robbed of strength another exclamation from some source. over her. yourself. Now lie quiet.' was the fish, that he seemed to retard and truth, What could it be? I looked quietly As soon as the captain of the Falmouth "By this time the two hostlers had the movement of the ship, if not to drag Crushed in the morning of its new-born around but could see nothing, yet I packet could strip his vessel and round come to see what was the matter, and I power. her backwards. knew the sound that I heard was very to, he made all possible search for some explained the case. After this I got A large number of men now got hold Here is the spot where memory has engraved close to me. As the hind wheels came remains of the lost vessel, but in vain. one of them to run and rout the sheriff, ot the rope and succeeded in drawing The form and face of one we called a friend, up, I felt something besides the jerk from Not a hat or a hen-coop ever floated to and tell him what I believed I'd got for him out of the water, and left him suspended One for whose welfare we would e'en have the hole. I heard something tumble the surface, not a wrack was lett be- him. The first streaks of dav light were braved under the stern. from one side to the other of my wagon, Censure and heartache to the very end. hind," of the proud vessel, sent to sudden just coming up, and in half an hour it We looked for the pilot fish, but in vain and I could also leel the jar occasioned by But 'cwas not wisely done, and so we draw swift destruction in a momentthe would be broad day light. In less than they had disappeared during the excitement Before the treachery of the smiling eyes the movement. It was simply a man in very moment ot her triumph and her that time the shiriff came and two men and struggle. A heavy veil. The cold world if it saw, my cait! I knew this on the instant pride. The Falmouth packet remained with him. I told him the whole affairra Would pioner pity a thousand lies. After the shark had time to expirefor Of course I felt puzzled. At first I imagined crirsing over the spot where her late a few words, and then made for the cart. he never stined after being, pulled out of So life goes on. We lay the forms away, that somebody had taken this enemy had sunk till after sunsent, when He told the chap inside who he was, and if the waterthe sailors hitched a tackle to Of things we loved, not wisely, but too well meihod to obtain a lide. My next idea she continued her voyage, and reached he made the least resistance he'd be a And in the lapse of years we learn to stay him and swung him around to the side of was that somebody had got in to sleep Falmouth Bafely in a tew hours. The The fretful chanting of their funeral knell. dead man. I then slipped the wrench the ship, where he remained until nearly there but this passed away as soon as it "We learn to smile befoie tbe smiling thiong, French government long supposed their out, and as I let the door down the fellow noon-time, when the sailors got permis Although the adder's fangs be deeply set, came, for no man would have broken into famous privateer, had been captured by made a spring. I caught him by sion to open him and take out the blubber, And join, peihaps, our voices the song. my cart for that purpose. And that some English cruiser At last the news the ankle, and he came down on his face, To soothe the pain we nevei can forget which is charged with oil that is extremely thought, gentlemen, opened my eyes. reached them of what had taken place, and the moment I saw the chap I recognized serviceable about a ship. This was Whoever was there had broken in. My And thus we learn to envy the calm rest published by the captain of the Falmouth him. He was marched to the lockup found to contain several pailsful of oil. next thought was of the suspicious individual Of those who sleep beneath the silent sod packet in some local English paper. and, I told the shinff I should After dinner, one of the passengers, Dr. Bound with life's galling chains, we know tis I had seen at the tavern. He heard remain in town all day. The description of the ship that had Hookei, signified his desiie to have the best me say that my load was all sold out, and gone down, combined with what was last "After bieakfast the sheriff came down To bow our heads and pass beneath the red jaws of the shark as a memento ot the of course he supposed 1 had money with And when we see the mourners, heavy clad known of the Bellone, left no doubt she to the tavern and told me that I had unusual scene. So the great cre.at.ure was me. In this he was right, for I had over In robes of black, haggard, with tear-dimmed was the unfortunate vessel. It was long caught the very bird, and if I would remain drawn on deck and the rope taken off. eye, two thousand dollars. I thought he meant before the little boy's nerves recovered until the next morning I should Scarcely was this done, when, instead We know their lives would be morebnget an to leave the cart when he supposed I had from the shock of that sudden disaster. have the reward of two hundred dollars glad, of being dead, he was found to be so reached a safe place, and then creep over Could they but reason,it is life to die. The excitement of the chase, the diead which had been offered. thoroughly alive that he cleared the deck and shoot me or knock me down. All of a French prison, the preparation for "I found my goods all safe, paid the of men in two moments for, as he commenced this passed through my mind by the time Mourn not the slumbering dead, but rather surrender, the sudden lelief, the horrible express agent for bringing them from his contoitions and twistings say, I had got a rod irom the hole. destruction of brave men, made the deepest Indianapolis, and then went to work to about the deck, we all scampeied to Blessedare the sleepers. Years may come and "In a few moments my horse was knee impression upon him. Two hundred stow them away in my cart. The bullet go places of safety. deep in the mud, and I knew I could slip fellow creatures had perished in his sight Heads that are biown and gold may turn to holes were found in the top of the vehicle His vitality Btruck us with wonder and gray, off without noise. So I drew my pistol drowned in the moment of success and just as I expected. They were in a alaim. He had hung on the outside of But they are done with earth and tears and and having twined the reins about the exultation. He lived to be an English line, about five inches apait, and had I the ship, in the broiling sun, during woe. whipstock, carefully slipped down in the admiral, serving under Nelson, Collingwood been where I usually sit, two of them morethanhalf a day. He had been despoiled Somewhere, we know, beyond the world of mud, and as the cart passed on I went and Exmouth all through the great must have hit me somewhere about the stars, of a portion of his vitalizing apparatus They will at last have found sweet Lethe's behind and examined the hasp. This door old war, but to the day of his death he small of the back and passed upward, for yet now, after we had supposed him dead stream, of the cart lets down, and is used to tell the story with emotion, generally they were sent with heavy charges of for hours, we found him able to keep the Some time we'll meet them at God's judgementbar, fastened by a hasp, which slips over the remarking tfeat he believed it to powder, and his pistols were heavy ones. whole ship's crew at bay. staple and is then secured by a padlock. be a tragedy unparalled *n naval annals. "On the next morning tho sheriff called Where Me is love, and love one long, sweet The men soon sommenced hostilities,, dream. The padlock was gone, and the hasp was upon me and paid me two hundred but still for a long time he was able to Ogden, (Uttea) Freeman. The Vitality of the Shark. secured in its own place by a bit of pine, dollars in gold, for he had made himself maintain himself against the great odds. so that a slight force from within could sure that he had got the right villian. He bent his body and with surprising During the spring of the year 1862, break it. My wheel wrench stood in a TBE PEDDLER'S STORY. "I afterward found a letter in the postoffice strength threw himself from side to side when the war was in progress, a number leather pocket on the side of the cart, and at Portsmouth for me, from the and, as be he did so, he opened his huge of army officers left Boston in the new A eold winter's night, several years I quickly took it out and slipped it into sheriff of Hancock county, informing me jaws and barely missed from time to time sailing ship "Merchant" for a voyage to the staple, the iron handle just sliding since, found a stage-load of passengers that the fellow who had tried to kill and seizing our legs. He showed successive Ship Island. down. gathered around the warm fire ot a tavern rob me was in prison for life." rows of sharp teeth, and by the aid of his Among the passengers were Dr. Hooker, bar-room in a New England Tillage. Now I had him. My cart was all cartilagenous tail, he turned forward and Lieutenants Prince and Emerson, and most new, made of a stout frame of white Shortly after we arrived, a peddler drove backward and obliquely along the deck the writer and we all witnessed the CAPSIZED. oak and made on purpose for hard usage. and really seemed to be empowered witi* up and ordered that his horse should be scene I am about to describe. I did not believe any ordinary mortal a million lives. A Ship Ctoea Down Inan Instant 1 Itn All stabled for the night. Early one morning, Dr. Hooker called could break out. I got on to my cart as For two full hours did the battle continue. on Board. After we had eaten supper, we repaired from the deck to us below that a shark noiselessly as I got off, and then urged At last a thrust through the heart to the bar-rocm, where the conversation was following the ship. We took this to From the Baltimore American. my horse on, still keeping my pistol was the finishing touch. He gfcve one flowed freely. Several anecdotes had be a practical joke and did not move The terrible destruction of the Eurydice, handy. I knew I should come to a hard spring, twisting his body povcerfully, and been related, and finally the peddler was from our state rooms. a stout ship under full sail, her disappearance road, and so I allowed my horse to pick fastened his great jaws upon a spare spar asked to give us a story, as men of his But when we did go on deck, about in a moment, the almost entire his own way through the mud. that was lashed at the side of the deck profession were generally full of adventures six o'clock, we looked over the stern of loss of every soul on board of her, is a About ten ninutes after this I heard and, afterward, we found it hard to disengage and anecdotes. He was a short, the ship and there saw an enormous, disaster almost unparalled in naval history a motion in the cart, followed by a grinding his grip, and could only do so by thick-set man, somewhere about forty shovel-nosed shaik following us, but yet we have heard a similar event noise, as though some heavy force tearing out splinters from the spai. years of age, and gave evidence of great keeping his distance about two hundred often related and have all its details was being applied to the door. I said We found he measured fifteen feet in physical strength. He gave his name as feet. Every person on board was called deeply impressed upon our memory. It nothing, but the idea struck me that the length. Lemuel Vinney, and said his home was to look at the huge fish. took place within 100 miles of the spot villian might judge where I sat, and The two doctors on board were ardent in Dover, New Hampshire. The old sea captain said it was no unusual where the Eurydice went down and may shoot up through the top of the cart at physiologists, and they did not desire to "Well, gentlemen,'' he commenced, incident to have a shark follow a have been partly owing to some flaw of me so I sat down on the footboard. let such an oppertunity slip to obtain an knocking the ashes from his pipe and ship for an entire voyage. They subsist the wind coming off the land with especial Of course I knew my unexpected increase of knowledge. putting it in his pocket, ''suppose I tell largely on the waste matter thrown overboard force down some gorge or valley. passenger was a villin, for he must have So they began their investigations by you about the last thing of any consequence and, as they are very fast swimmers, In the early summer of 1787 a Virginia been awake ever since I started, and examining many parts of the shark, and that happened to me. You see I can always keep up with a vessel. gentleman who had been in England nothing in the world but absolute vil they finally removed his heart. am now right trom the West, and on my during the revolutionary war, serving as It was proposed by Captain Lewis, one lainy would have caused him to remain The tact about to be recorded is properly way home for winter quarters. It was captain in the Stafford regiment, tben the of the captains on board, to make an quiet so long, and then start up in this vouched for, and yet it seems almost during the early part of last spring, one king's body-guard, finding himself isolated effort to capture him. particular place. The thumping and incredible. pleasent evening, that I pulled up at the among his countrymen, and pining We threw into the ocean pieces of pushing erew louder, and pretty soon I Although the shark was dead and door of a small village tavern in Hancock for ihe scenes and associations ot his active bread and other articles of food, and were heard a human voice. emptied of blood, yet his heart, when removed county, Indiana. I said it was a pleasent manhood, exchanged his estate beyond greatly interested to see him eat them. Let me out of this!" he yelled pretty from his body and resting on the I mean warm. I went in and called the Blue Ridge for property in The ship was searched but there was not loud. deck, kept up its contractions for a period for supper and had my horse taken care Yorkshire, and left America with his little a harpoon to be found there was not of from twenty minutes to half an hour,, I lifted my head so as to make him of After I had eaten,* I sat down in the son. even a shark hook. Theprospect of capturing just Ihe same as when in place, and performing think I was in my usual place, and then bar-room. It began to ram about eight They embarked on board the Falmouth -this great fish was not very bright its office of pumping the blood asked him what he was doing there. o'elock, and it ws very dark out doors. boat at New York, and after a prosper until Captain Lewis proposed to make a to the various parts of the body. Let me get out and^I will tell you,' Now I wanted to be in Jackson the next ous voyage, found themselves off the noose and lower it down into the water, This wonderful power seems to be in he replied. morning, for I expected a load of goods southern coast of England. They had passed and thus entangle him. harmony with the belief ot some scientists, Tell me what you are in there for.' there for me which I intended to dispose the Lizard and were within a few But Sir Shark kept away from the who say the heart possesses a nervous I got in here to sleep on the rags,' of on my way home. hours' sail of Falmouth when they found rope. I then proposed to put a piece of center and power over its own life, he answered. themselves chased by a large French pork, big as my hand, on a common fish The moon would rise about midnight, seperate and distinct from the brain, for How did you get in?' I asked. privateer. As they knew afterwards she line, and by a little maneuvering of the and I knew if it did not rain I the protection of life in times of accident. Let me out or I'll shoot you through was the Bellone, the most successfull bait induce the fish to pass his head into could get along through the mud very Wide Awake. the head!" vessel of her kind in the French service. the noose. But he was very cautious and well after that. So I asked the landlord "Just at that moment my horse's feet Her cruising ground was the mouth, or would not near the ship when I lowered if he would see that my horse was fed A Responsible Situation. struck the hard road, and I knew that what sailors call the Chops of the channel, the piece of pork, until two little pilot about midnight, as I wished to be off at the rest of the route to Jackson would be and her beautiful build, her uniform success, fish, that rode on his back, one on each about two. He expressed some surprise good going, the distance of twelve miles. I wish to employ an energetic man of and the self-confidence of her captain side of the great fin, came forward and at this and asked me why I did not stop I slipped back on the footboard and took forty, to sit in my hall and be my Agentanswerer and crew made her a scourge to English inspected the bait, then returned and took for breakfast. I told him that I had the whip. In fifteen minutes we cleared commerce. Again and again fastsailing and peddler-conciliator. I cannot their places. sold my last load about out and that a the wood, and away we went at a keen English vessels had been detailed say that the woik is light, but the They had barely time to finish this new lot of goods was waiting for me at lump. The chap inside kept yelling to to capture her, but she alway sought refuge wages'will be good. I want him to be action when the shark swam under the Jackson, and I wanted to be there before be let out. in some one of the innumerable stern of the ship and, opening his ponderous well up in scripture, so that he may be the express agent left in the morning. small ports upon the coast of Brittany. jaws, attempted to take the bait. "Finally he stopped, and in a few moments able to entertain the man with the bigbible "There were a number of persons She could outsail anything in the English But I held it just above his nose, noting came the report of a pistoh-one sitting round while I told this.'but I to sell. He must know music Boas navy, and, as we said before, her captain he possessed no power to leap or jump up twothreefour, one right'after the other. took little notice of them only one arrested to baffle the man who has sworn to sell and his orew had acquired -that confidence as many fish do. I heardjthe balls whiz over my head. my attention. I had seen that my house an organ. He must be able to in their own good luck which in I also watched with curious interest If I had been on my seat, one of these week ndtices for the detection of a notorittus detain the agent of Borum & Bleedum'sunrivaled robber. The bill gave a description encounters with the Jfiaglish has generally the pilot fish, which, having performed balls if not two would have gone through sewing machine, and so control been wanting to the French navy. their office, were now quietly clinging beside me. I popped up my head again and ot his person, and the man before the conversation that the kind-hearted The passengers on board the Falmouth the fin of his back. gave a yell, and then I said: me answered very well to it. He agent shall depart feeling that enough packet, who werejust rejoicing over the While Captain Lewis was preparing a 'O God save me!I'm a dead man!' was a tall, well-formed man, rather/slight has been said. He will have to be^ kind close of their long voyage, and making noose which was to be slipped over the i in frame, and had the appearance thosa of '-Then I made a shuffling, as though I to the man with brooms, but, at the same gentleman save that his face bore 1 their preparations for going ashore, were shark's head, I asked about the pilot was falling off, and finally settled down time, firm. To the person who appears greatly alarmed by seeing this French fish. hard, cruel marks whicli an observing on the footboard again. I now urged up as agent of the Consolidated Encyclopedia vessel. It was a bright summer day. She Every shark has one," said the captain, man cannot mistake for anything but the old mare by giving her an occasional of Medseval Literature, he must exercise came on under a cloud of canvas. .The and sometimes two and when the JI, the index of a villainous disposition. poke with my whip-stock, and she peeled urbanity and not attempt to curtail captain of the Falmouth packet crowded shark is without one he is shy and will When I went to my chamber, I askd faster than ever. the conversation, this work having on every sail he had. It was a stern chase seldom approach very near a ship "The man called out to me twice more the landlord who that man was. describing been subscribed to by MT Goldpot and proverbially a Jong chaseand he These pilot fish seemed to be five or pretty soon after this, and as he gocnoreEreahethe the individual. He said he did Mr. Silverware, leading citizens. In fact, thought he might possibly run into port six inches long, and a yellowish-brown ly made some tremendous efforts to not know him. He had ceme that afternoon as to all these agents, he must be patient, before she could overhaul him. In vain color, having longitudinal dark stripes on door open, and as this failed and intended to leave the next day. respectful, polite. Thereaj one visitor, the French ship sailed two knots to one. their sides and resembling much the him he made several attempts on the top. The host asked me why I wished to though, upon whom 1 shall permit him She came nearer and nearer. The passengers perch of'New England ponds. It seemed But I had no fear of his doing anything know, and I simply told him that the to expend his pent-up feelings. He shall urged the captain to run out his strange that so powerful a fish should there, for the top of the cart is framed man's countenance was familiar, and I be not only allowed, but authorized, to* two old brass six-pounders and fight, but place so much dependence en such insignificant with dovetails, and each sleeper bolted to merely wished to know if I ever was ac^jouainted smash into 900,000 fragments the person he pointed to the line of ports in her creatures. the posts with iron bolts. I had it made with him. who comes and leaves a patent medicine black sides, and told them that 'captivity The captain again lowered his rope, so I could carry loads there. M.' I was resolved not to let the landlord circular, and asks that tne circular be being inevitable, it was better to do nothing but the current of water drew it PJ?ke asid By and by, after all else failed, the tjin the secret, but to give information returned when called for. Address Endurance, that would provoke severe treatment. and the attempt to entrap thethfish was scamp commenced to holler 'Whoa' to "to the sheriff and perhaps he might reach box 200,000.Courier "Journal *vth inn before the villain left, for I had The little boy was loaded with every again a failure. the horse, and kept it up until he became a body's valuables. There were some hopes, Then, some one suggestedt holding the identity.1 hoarse. All this time I kept perfectly no doabts with regard to his Sethe it was thought, that the French might not noose open by retaining "bite" in Medici ruffs and sleeves, with puffs in quiet, holding the reins firmly, and kept 0 "I had an alarm watch, and having set search and despoil the child. hand, and when the shark put his head the armhole and around the elbow, are poking the beast with the stock. We it to give the alarm at one o'clock, I went orde announced as coming fashions. o^yife^PeJi were not an hour going that dozen miles On came the Bellone, and those on sleep. I was aroused at the proper isffiwUtt&