The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1847-12-18

The President sal that was the rule he
na,l gone by all the way long, and he meant
80 stick to it; and not hearing anything from
IN so long, I'm afraid he's got notion that
ace is conquered. But that would be a
al mistake if he has got such a notion for
.tis Mt conquered it's only scattered. lis
a GOOD deal as twas with Bill Johnson, when
b, and was boys, and lie undertook to
10 CONQUER hornets nest. expecting 10 get
lots of honey. He took a club and marched
bravely up to il and mt it an awful dig, and
knocked il into thousand flinders.
"There blast ye," says Bill, 81 guess
you're done III now, as he begun to look
round for the honey But he soon found
'lwasnt conquered; twas only scattered.
And presently they begun TO fly at him and
sting him on all sides. OAe hit him dab
on his arm, and another on his leg and
another in his face. At last Bill found he
should soon be done III himself If he stald
there, so he cut and run:
"Hal!oo,', says !, Bill, where's your
honeym
"Dam i, all says he, ''if l haint got no
houey, knocked their house 10 pieces
I've cot that TO comfort me-,
wish you would try to convince the
r,esden, us only scattered here: It's MT
conquered, and he must give us the means
TO keep moving, Or we shall get badly snng
binc by If he only backs us up we'll I'LL
pledge myse!fthat we'll carry out the cam.
pagn marked Out in my last dispatches,
which would bring US clear down 70 Cape
Horn in four or five years, and I'm very
anxious to get there, it strikes me that
woull be such good horn TO hold on to in
all dilemmas even if all the rest OF the
country went BY the board. dreamt 10Th
er night that we had got through annexin
all North and South America; and then
thought our whole country was turned into
monstrous grea, ship Of war, and Mr. Polk
the Captain And the captain was walk
ing the deck with his mouth shet, and every
body was looking at him and wondering
what he was going TO do next. AT last he
sung out, "Put her about; we'll sail across
and take Europe Asia and Africa i'll tow
don't stop tor blrd's,egging round among
the West India Islands, We can pick them
up as we come back along-crowd all sail
now and let her have it,
A way we went | never see ship sail
faster.-The wind begun 10 blow harder,
and then it come on all awful storm, and
at las! it bowed perfect halrycane. The
sails began TO 90 TO Filters, and she rolled
as i she was going to upset. Some OF the
Oldest and best sailors among the crew told
the captain we should all so to destruction
if he didn't take in sail, and iurl and cew
up, and get things tight, and bring her head
round to the wind. Mr. Richie was stand
ing by his side, and says he, Captain Polk,
them is all nothing but Federal lies, as Eve
shown hundreds of times, not only in the
Union, but years aud years ago in the En-
quirer. Them fellers only want to give aid
and comfort to The enemy; don't pay any at
tention TO 'cm. Here's the chart, he held
up in his hand the resolutions Of '9S' sail
b this, and I'll risk her on any tack and in
all weahes'
On we went lickiv split, the harycane
bowed harder, the ,imbers began to break,
the sails spltto ribbons, some of the spars
begun 10 snap and 90 by the board, and
then all at once there was terrible cry,
"breakers aheadl' The Captain then lamp
ed as il he was wide awake; and, says he,
'call all hands and put her about, But
when the officers came TO give orders 10
the crew, not one of them would mind or
pay any attention. The whole crew was
in a mutlny; and the ship was so large and
the crew such mixed up mess of different
sorts of folks thai there was more than
twenty different mutnies all al once i'll
different parts of the vessel,
"Well," says Captain Polk, III wash my
hands of this mischief; if the crew wont
turn 10 and help the ship must 60 ashore
Then an old sailor spoke up and said;
Gan the crews in the world couldn't do any
good now, the ship was dished, and must
be pumped Oh the rocks her sails and
spars was gone, the ,imbers sprung, and
the hold already half full Of water" In a
few minutes she struck, and the rocks gor-
ed hole through her side, aud the water
poured in, and down she sunk lower and
lower, till at last she gave one mighty gng-
gle, and plunged all under the water, en-
ccpt piece of the bowsprit that still stuck
out, The storm and the waves swept over
her, and the whole crew and every body
aboard was lost, except a few Of US who
scrabbled up and cluns 10 the bowsprt.
The hard spring | had TO make TO get
on 10 the bowsp,it walked me up; and, al
though amt one that thinks mnch ofdreams,
cant help thinking good deal of Cape
Horn, and naturally feel anxious to get a.
long down that way as fast as we can: so |
hope you'll urge the President to be little
more stirring, ard lie, US have men and
money al little faster.
shall have 10 break off here for to>day,
because Eve got to write q little despatch
to the President to send by the same post.
l have received some letters from Uncle