The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1841-05-29
THE HALE MAST FLAG.


i mpunity they do here. In vast kiln,
the cooking Of the pulse for the consumP-
I ion of this town Of Daniels daily goes on,
a nd the pork, which uneluaies the other
W Use dry mass, is driven in alive and
whole.
All this, be it understood, is the asser-
ton ofthe hogs ofCharlestown, the pump
kins of Rowley, the Marbe-heads OF
Marblehead. and other enemies Of the an
cient town which once formed a part or
precinct Of Salem No Beverly man will
confess the impeachment true in all It's
counts, though many of them are ready
to go their death on beans, as Gov. Ham
ilton was on his sugar. The vessels from
Beverly take out an abundance ofthe ar
tcle among their stores, and 1t is a mat
ter OF report that Beverly vessel once
signalized herself in distress for proyls-
ions, on coming home. Assistance went
down, and it was discovered that nothing
was deficient in the harness cask, or meat
barrel, there was water enough on board
for month longer, and bread and pota
toes sufficient for the same length oftme
The only article deficient was-beans!
and without them the mariners would
not and could not support the fatigue of
working their vessel up the harbor.
That, probably, however. may be mere
fiction, and, as veracious chroniclers, we
are bound to stick to facts. In the fall of
10, a large number of American YES
sells were assembled as usual, at Constadl,
in Russia; and wherever there is large
number Of American vessels in any port,
you are pretty sure to find some Of them
commanded by captains from Cape Cod,
and so along shore in Massachusetts; and
very likely TO find among them Massachu-
sets boys, sprinkling of lads from
"Beantown." The youth there are am
phibious, and from padding and living
among the docks, are not unfrequendy
seen with scales on their feet-particu-
larry when they have been catching fish.
Among these American captains at
Constadt, there was one thorough booded
''beaner." Ask him the particular char
acterlstic of America, and he would tell
you it is the continent on which Beverly
is situated Enquire into farther details, /
and he would mention New York, Phila- |
delphia, Boston. and some other villages,
as also situated in the United States But
Beverly was always uppermost; it was
his Jerusalem, to which. after all his
wanderings, he calculates" to return.
So do many others; and surely it is no
bad place which clings thus 10 the hearts
ofits wandering children.
That our captain was roasted like q
parched pulse among his countrymen, the
reader will easily guess. He bore it all
in very good part, without a word Of com
plant, but looked unutterablc things.
He retorted upon his friends with soubri-
quets oftheir places Of nativity; but beans
stuck the best, and while all jokes on him
told well, none of his told upon others
He was decidedly in a most hopeless mi
nority.
One morning the flag of our Yankee
friends vessel was discovered hanging at
half mast.-Other American captains
Immediately answered the signal, out Of
respect 10 their friend, and all the Amer
lean shipping then in port displayed the
same token Of mourning. Every body
was asking the news, and the occasion Of
this testimonial; but as nothing disastrous
pertaining 10 the general veal Of Ameri-
ca was heard Of, the conclusion was yer
ry naturally reached, that some one on
board the Beverly vessel was dead. Sew
era! EngIishmen, out Of general respect
TO their distant connexion, the Americans,
out of courtesy to our friend in particu-
lar, hoisted their ensigns at half mast,
too, and some of the French vessels fol-
lowed suit, so that the Constadt mole was
pretty generally clad in mourning.
Enquiry soon possessed the captains
of the fact shat no one on board the Eliz.
abeth was dead. and the last and certain
conclusion to which they arrived, was
that Capt L. had got the news Of the
death of his wife. The fact that he had
not made his appearance on shore, siren
gthened this opinion. Capt. L. was a u
Universal favoFite, and II is Justice to 9th
er ship-masters TO say that his mislor-
tunes cast a real gloom over all their IA
ces. They pittied him, and thought OF
their own wives, children and friends.
and each as he thought Of the possibility
that the next melancholy intelligence
from home might be for him, repaired al
his earliest convenience, on board Capt
LIS vessel to offer coincidence.
Sailors may not be always capable OIL
the finish and accuracy of speech which
conceal insincerity; but they are honest
in their assertions, and pretend tono sym
pathy when they do not feelit. Capt. L.
sat on the locker in his cabin; his elbow
rested on a table, and his head on hi:
hand. His grief had as yet found no ut
terance IN words, and the cabin was fill
ing up with visitors. Silence would. no
have answered, SO they began to throw
consolation in by random shots.
sit IS hard to lose a mans wife, sale
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