The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1851-06-07

bis desk and wrdte steadily for an hour; and
supsyseribIhg several letters, directed one Of
them 10 words, that IN the distance, looked
very much like my name. This was suspie-
ious, / saw that he had made mp his mind 10
something, What was it7 What could II
be but suieide7 II was clearly my duty 10
prevent this, or at any rate 70 give him
longer time 30 think about IL 90 just at sun
set called Jack and the boy, ald went down
into the cabin AT once addressed myself /
IN him, told him plainly my suspicious; told
him know ljhe intended to throw himself
overheard; and that / was determined he
should DO no such thing, at least for the PRES
ent, had come TO the resolution Of putting
him ia irons. llo started, appeared for The
uian,.ut samewhat astonished, bot readily
submitted without saying word.
"The next morning We were spoken by a
brig, which proved To be a United States
man-ofwar, five days out from Porta Praya,
in the island Of st. Jago and bound for
Chesapeake. The frat lieutenant came a.
board of us, and after hearing my story, took
: me back with him 10 see his captain. who dc
clded at once to transfer Mr. Clark TO his YES
sci and carry him home for trial Al the
same he loaned me three active fellows, 10
{ supply his place; without which | could not
have got along at all, seeing that my third
> man was likely TO be, for some time, confined
10 his berth When all was arranged We fill
p ed away, and stood on IN eompany-bo,h be
q ing boupd for the capes Of the Chesapeake
e The mAn-of-war, however, outsailed us; and
a IL was not until a week after her arrival that
= J eot IN with the Moro-oo. In the meantime
( Mr. Clark had been handed over 10 those who
had Jurisdiction on shore and as soon A. we
= arrived all hands were ordered up As witness
c es, and preparations for his trial at once com
n meneed- Somehow or another they we're no,
] so long about such Kind Of things then as now,
: The lawyers were not 50 expert in staviug
It Oh cases aud bamboozling judges; and the
iuries just as liefhang man as look at him
y il he had fairly thrust his head in tho moose
= 'fherc has been change since then whoth,
, er for the better or worse can't say, but
suppose for the better. The truth Is, Pv,
r. seen 20 many changes which n the beginning
. / was a little dubious about turn out 20 well
in tho end. that am determined never ID
+ say anything new is wrong amin. Why,Tv,
E. seen the time that thought that ship WA
d no ship unless her shrouds were catharpcn
K ed in a. tightly as tho ribs Of Broadway
e belle. I've turned up my nose at chain ca
blcs ; but If / was at anchor OF rocky grounc
4 =4-er- -rrs,lsr + iiiir- uvr zrr iryTT
ground tackle 20 hang by2 or II heav,
u lurch whipped out my forcmast, wouldn't
be glad that my maintopmast stay wasn't u
u the head of it2 No, no, the world is not 81
- periirt yet that one could wish it to stan,
% still. There are cat-harpcns on the shroud
N Of society that we,,ld be well 60 get rid Of
@ ,s and there arc many Improvements in th'
mode of setting up and rafting down TN
- standing rigging; why, il is only within
'e short time that it has been found that tn
~ great national ark carries her sparS easie
when you slacken the STAYS and that, il
:. working to the windward you must not roun'
in the Ice braces too taut or what you max
-. up in pointing you'll lose in going ahead.
y 'Well, well" continued the captain To hi
, auditors, II see that you think that am 60
- iHF AZ rather tasee-itt.t tl.frrt,t
;. put my helm down, and brace up once NOR
and I'll weather my story in half the shak
- of n sharks tail
!. at is is not necessary to 90 into a long ao
:! count of the Suffice il to that ~
evidence, light as could make it, was heav
against the prisoner. ] was compelled to ties
= tify t0the bad blood between him and th
= dead man-the words and sounds heard tina
night-the splash in the water-the attitud
= OF Clark over the bulwark--the blood an
hair found on the deck and rail. But if m
= testimony was hard, Jacks rAs still harder
- he swore that the mate had told him, two o
:, three times, that he, the mate, would hav
Bits life. - He swore that not ten minute
- before the row he heard Mr. Clark ask BH
:, for his sheath knife that shortly after,
- heard the mate say "I'll murder you;" the
- there was scufing, and the sound of two o
"a three blows, and a cry of murder. to which h
- = should have paid no attention, had it nc
= been for the low and peculiar tone in whic
it was uttered that upon this he sprung up
i on the deck, and saw the mate in the yer
z act of lifting the body over the quarter bul
. wark
, The evidence of the sick man, boy, an
: cock was all, Sc, far rs It went, 10 the sam
effect and by the time il was all in, it wa
! all up with MFR Clark-he didn't need a lon
= speech from the district attorney to finish hin
- without that be stood no more chance for hi
70 life than a flying fish does among a school Of
:. dolphins. The jury brought him in guilty
20 alter about fifteen minutes deliberarfon, an,
next day the Judge sentenced him to b
hanged" -
"And was he hanged ?" demanded ons o.
o the group of listeners, as the captain pause,
Is in his stnr'y. l-.-- B.
n Certainly" replied the Captain; ''the.
+ pu. rope around his neck, and knocking ON
. the platform from beneath him, left him dan