Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1846-04-04
THE SINGAPORE STORY.

interpretations Of America. The follow
ing adds another calumny to the catalogue :
" To The. Editor of tie Times
"SIR-At time when Eugland's atten.
tention is anxiously directed to the conduct
OF America and her Senate, and whilst the
mob-orators Of the New World are aspiring
to an unlimited continental union, or, as
they would term it, panispheric amalga-
nation OF the stars (whose magnitude Brit.
ish astronomers oil non-celestal study are
fully able to appreciale) with other stars Of
nebulous obscurity, it may be as crafty.
ing to the Britishers as tarnation awkward
to the Jonaihans to be acquainted with the
following fact that, although Great Brit
aims hardy sons do now contribute some
three-fourihs of the crews Of the United
States navy--probably, also, of their mer
there is not one man amongs,
them who will be the traitor 10 his country
to "trip an anchor or 'trim a SAIL much
less 'ligh. match on board Of that craft
which shall dare to insult or attack his own
glorious ensign. Nor can it be too gener.
ally known that last year, when America
agltated the same Oregon question, and the
intelligence became circulated in the East,
several OF her men of-war, then at anchor
in Singapore roads, were unable to put to
sea, in consequence Of a majority of their
crews, who were Englishmen, going aft to
a man, and demanding Of the captains and
officers an assurance that they should not
be required, by word or deed, 10 work their
vessels against their country.
"Upon this assurance, and this only, have
those vessels ever been able to move from
their untoward fix and they, as well as
others floating under the spangIed banner,
will, mos! undoubtedly, become placed in
the same unenviable position, should Mr..
Polk and his friends dare to move their pi-
oneers one inch upon the neutral ground OF
Oregon.
81 remain, sir, your very obedient ser.
want, GA SAIOR."
To show how little confidence can be
placed in this charge, we submit the follow
ing contradiction from one of the principal
officers Of the Navy Department at Wash
lngton:
To The Editor of the Union
MY DEAR SIR Il think this must be
{" fish atory," perhaps fshed up with the
slave shackles" from the wreck Of the
Missouri
ScSclol VI Jul UleH-Oi'WdT were uOt AL
chored in Singapore roads last year and
certainly nobody ever heard before of an
English mutiny on board of either of them,
either there or elsewhere.
There are some British seamen, doubt.
less, on board our vessels, but the proportion
is small. OF 900 recently sent from New
York to the Potomac, an officer who accom-
panied them, informs me there were bu,
seven foreigners. British sailors frequently
claim to be Americans, lest they may not be
received. Taking the British accounts for
true, there were many British sailors on
board OF American ships during the last war,
Il do not mean the prisoners J but they are
not believed to have been over scrupulous
about fighting the enemy.
A MODERN MAHoMEr-We see by late
London papers that schism has lately ia.
ken place among the followers OF Mahomel,
and new sect set itself up in Persia, at
the head Of which is n merchant who had
returned from pilgrimage to Mecca, and
proclaimed himself a successor OF the proph-
ct. The following account is given OF The
treatment of those followers Of new
light
Four persons being heard repeating their
profession Of faith, according to the form
prescribed by the imposter, were apprehen.
ded, tried and found guilty OF objectionable
blasphemy. They were sentenced to lose
their boards by FIRE being set to lhem.-
The sentence was put into execution with
all the zeal and ianaticism becoming a true
believer in Mahomet. Not deeming the
loss of boards sufficient punishment, they
were further sentenced the next day to
have their faces BACKED and exposed thro'.
out the city. Each Of them was led by a |
mirgazah, (executioner,) who had made a
hole in his nose and passed through it a
string, which he sometimes pulled with
such violence that the unfortunate fellows
cried out alternately for mercy from the ex
ecutoner and vengeance from Heaven
1t is the custom in Persia, on such occasions,
for the execulioners TO collect money from
the spectators, and particularly from the |
shopkeepers in the bazaar. In the evening.
when the pockets OF the executioners were |
well.filled with money, they led the unfor.
tunate fellows 10 the city gate, and there
turned them adrift. After which the Mol |
| his at Shiraz sent men to Bushire with |
power to seize the imposter, and take him
10 Shraz, where, on being tried, he very |
wisely denied the charge of apostacy laid
against him, and thus escaped from punish.
ment.-N Y. Mirror.
A SUBSTANTIAL STAKE--Nessrs. Miller