The Arkansas advocate., 1830-05-12


 other, when disengaging 1nyselfby q sud- den movement, l gave him a blow on his lace with the hammer with all my strength. The Aruaut staggered re- peated my blow, and he fell, atthe same. 1 time dropping his weapon. Itis uane- cessary to add that ] seized it. and l plunged 1t several times into his body.
 < ran to our advanced posts, whose arms 1 perceived glittering in the sun, and at length, reached tic camp. Cur people stunned me as they would spec tre. The same day was attacked with violent fever and conveyed to the hos pital.
 ''In six weeks I recovered from my fe- yer and my wounds, and reioined the ar- my. On my arrival the gipsy brought me her 'T4okay, and l was informed that dilringmy absence, different cireumstan- ces had come to pass exactly as she had foretold, and had procured many con- saltations and many legacies. All this was very extraordinary.
 Not long afterwards two deserters ] from the enemy came tous. They were Christians of Servia, who had been en- pioyed about the baggage of the Turk isl army, and deserted toavoisdl punish ment they hadincurred. They no soon- CT saw the gipsy than they knew her, and declared that she frequently went at night to the Turkish camp, to give the enemy an account oi our movements. This astonished us greatly; for the wo- man had performed for us, various ser vices, and we had even admired the ad- dress with which she executed the most perilouseommission. The ever, persisted in their testimony, ad- ding that they had several times been present, when this woman described to them our projects, and encouraged them to make attacks which had actually taken place. 4 Turkish eipherseryed for her passport. This convincing proof being found upon her, she was sentenced to suffer deatha a spy. Before her exc eution l questioned her on her predic- ton relative to me. She acknowledged that, by acting as spy to both parties, which procured her double profit, she had often learned the designs of both; that those who secretly consulted her on their future fortune had made her acquainted with many circumstances, and she was likewise under some obliga- tion to accident. As to what regarded 1 ne in particular. she had selected me 10 make of me great example, capable of confirming her credit, by fixing so long before hand tile fatal moment. At its approach she instigated the enemy to make an attack, on the night of the :3g0ttifl, on the posts ofour regiment. From | the intercourse which she had with the officers, she learned that there were two to go out before me; to one she sold a. Edulterated wine, which made him very ill; as for the other, at the moment of his departure, she went up to him as if to sell him something, and found means, Iunperceived, to introduce very high into the high nostriis of his horse piece of burning tinder."
 sQUALE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.
 From the Lye ofa .Midshipman.
 The vessel was moving gently along towards the coast of Egypt, there was scarcely breath oi wind to curl the sur face of the sea, and there was no aglta- ton of the ship to prevent his writing with the greatest ease. He had, how ever, scarcely commenced, ere he heard a foot hurrying rapidly down the com panlon, and bursting Into the gun-room; ill ail instant, the messenger geffeturned up- on deck, followed by one or two Of the officers; the boatswain piped aloud all hands aloit to reef the topsails, and inidshipmancame rushing intot the berth, to say there was q sqliail approaching, and the sky to windward was as black as midnight. Godfrey was just sealing a letter to his mother; he handed it to Frank, and requested him to take charge of it for the Captains clerk, who would enclose it in the packet for England. Frank thrust 1t into his bosom, and his companion ran hastily upon deck.
 h some parts of the Mediterranean, there are, at all times, to be apprehend- ed sudden and violent gusts of wind, de- nominated hyy the seamen s sanallsD which como on almost as sudden as light ming. Their first appearance on the verge of the sky IS like dense black mass Of clouds, and in the next moment they will be seen darkening the surface of the water, and rushing towards the I vessels whichlie intheir direction, which