Southern shield., 1849-04-28
ii Desperate Adventure.

A cCsBcfatc Adventure. Y.
 The morning of July 10th, fS43, whicI
 mad been settled as the day on which wa
 to take the boats up the river for water
 was anything but promising, fresh breez,
 blowing from the southeast and heav1 swell setting on the bar; and I ought tc
 nave been warned of the great risk wa, aDont 10 run, but at that time had psssed so often without any accident, that had
 become foohardy, and very dearly bought
 the experience which has since made me much more prudent. The captain had ey- changed the joIty-boat for giig, sfiaTp at both ends, but with much less beam than a whaleboat. We had raised her one streak, and being anxious 10 try her, took the lead on showing off, having with me, Den man and Law, six men, and several bags: put finding her too deep, advised Denman lahd Law to get into the pinnace or barge,
 ana put also two heavy bags into the latter; Wh2n close 10 the bar hove-to, to bail out omI oI!' and practise the men for crossing a surf VI eTerlng the breakers, 1 found them much n heavier than I had anticipated, and rom lne f-st, saw that it would be quite mercy II Wtcrossed safely. However. we got over loqr breakers beautifully, the boil
 Ing foam takIn4us with it at a most awful rate; the fifth tolNwed us like an oyer-bano. ing mountain, will its crest in the act 0fI Curing' and we roSeto it just as it broke, becoming, as t Were,S component mart off the foam. My feeling Vas that of jntenseI anxiety, and l at one timeAhouohtir + wonIJI pass us' and had an encouraspg "all right"I on the top of my tongue, whS1 the a6rrv surf boiled up afresh. There N7s q cr5si a cry, and in an instant we were SrngqIinT in the breakers; and never were men sScns3 from more hopeless situation. M frst impulse was 10 dive from under the \oat and just as l rose 10 the surface, l foG ! myself grappled by man who could nc swim, whom 1 endeavored to shake of, but finding that could keep him up, told him to keep his hand on my shoulder, and took him to the boat, which kept constantly turn ing round and round like cask, and the seas constantly breaking over us gave us so little breathing time that nearly all hope of being saved was taken away. It was a most awful moment, and all the people, places, and things had ever seen, seemed concentrated and present at the same in- stant to my minds eye with startling dis tinctness; then the misery of being cut of from all, in rude health, with succor close at hand, nerved us all to make extraordina- " exertion, and mentally prayed for pre- sence of mind, for felt that the safety of the whole depended so entirel y on me, that 1 used the whole of my breathing time in cheering up the three men who could not swim.
 All eyes were fixed on the barge close to us, and approaching rapidly, but every now and then hid by the overhanging crest of q wave which engul phed Us a second after wards, keeping us down longer and longer as our strength failed us and we filled with water She was almost within our reach when furious breaker swept her past us with the speed of lightning, and buried us for some seconds. How plainly 1 saw the faces of all in the barge as they passed us, pale as death, with eyes strajnng with ca ger anxiety but they were helpless as our selves, and half-fled their boat in endeavor- ing to round to. My men now began to despair, and utter the most piercing cries, and one of them said, "Good bye, Mir. May nard, am going down." but tapped him on the shoulder, and told him to look at the pinnace, then not far from us, and we held on by the keel of the boat with the energy and despair of drowning men. At least six times did the surf wash me from one end of the boat to the other, my hand grasping the keel the whole length; stillon came our rescuers, our only hope: some screeched and howled, others left the boat and swam towards the approaching one, and exorted my remainig strength in calling out, "Luif, luf," fearing she would pass us like the barge; however, we were all picked up but con JOHN H. HICKS, lIru! ,ity, ". F. MOORE
 'ne poor boy, named CraPwelI, z Who VI ai;; vas T 'robabi y taken down by a shark. had ! 5rasped the bight of the jib-sheet, and when hauled into the pinnace was quite ex- lausted and black in the face, and the men were much in the same plight Fortunate Y the CAlPoH(O was at anchor at about hree miles from us, and we received every ttentIon and kindness from the American thcers; and pr. Tuckerman soon restored $ with bottles of hot water at our feet. nd friction of warm blankets, and 1 re- lsn,, Il