Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1854-10-12
AN INCIDENT OF WAR.

written by sailor in the Baltic fleet to his
wife in Eng land. The incident is narrated
with .ha. simplicity and purity Of express
sion which conveys every idea and image
in the most effective manner:
Every man on board ship volunteered, 80
the captain picked a crew, and ] was sent
ashore with lhe marines. There were re-
gular troops on the bank, who fired on US
as we pulled to land, bu, The broadsides of
the Terrible, what with the she'll and what
with the smoke, covered our landing. We
dispersed at a few hundred yards distance
from The beach to keep the coast clear while
The boats crew made prizes Of the guns
The enemy bad the advantage Of the wood,
and also knowing the country well, and
troop Of then, showed in advance. We
were ordered to fire. ! took steady aim,
and fired on my man al about 60 yards
He fell like stone. A, The same time a
btoadside from the Terrible wen. in among
the trees and the enemy disappeared we
could scarce tell how. feI. as though
must go up to him 10 see whether he was
dead or alive. He lay quite still, and was
more afraid Of him lying so than when he
stood facing me few minutes before. LIS
a strange feeling 20 come over you all at
once lha, You have killed man. He had
unbuuoned his jacket, and was pressing his
hand over the front Of his chest, where the
wound was. He breathed hard, and the
blood poured from The wound and also from
his mouth at every breath he took. His
face was white es death, and his eyes look
ed so big and brigh. as be turned them and
stared al me, shall never forget it. He was
a fine young fellow, not more than five and
twenty. wen, down on my knees beside
him, and my breas. was so full, as though
my own heart would burst He had real
English face, and did not look like an enc
my. Wha. fel, never can :ell, but if my
life would have saved his, believe should
have given it, laid his head on my knee,
and he grasped hold Of my hand and tried
TO speak, but his voice was gone. could
not tell word be said, and every time he
tried 10 speak the blood poured out so,
knew il would soon be over. ] am not a.
shamed 10 say that | was worse than he, for
he never shed a tear and couldn'. help it,.
His eycs "ese e!asing siieu gun was fir
ed from the Terrible TO order us aboard, and
that reused him. HI pointed to the beach,
where the boat was pushing off with the
guns which we had taken, and where our
marines were waiting 10 man the second
boat, and then he pointed to the wood where
The enemy was concealed. Poor fellow
he little thought how had sho, him down.
| wondering how could leave him TO die
and no one near him, when he had some
thing like convulsion for moment, and
then his face rolled over, and, without
sigh, he was gone. trus. the Almighty
has received his soul ! laid his head down
gently on the grass and left him. !; SEEM
ed so strange when looked a, him for the
las, time; some how thought Of every
thing had heard abou, the Turks and Rus
SLAMS, and the rest of them but all that
seemed SO far off and the dead man so near.
INDUsTRY-To be really industrious,
one must improve the minute particles of
lime, known as "Spare minutes" Of all
portions Of our life, these spare minutes are
the most fruitful for good or evil, and are
literally the gaps through which temptation
finds access 10 the soul. ''Spare minutes
are gold dust of time" said Young; sand
makes the mountains, moments make the
wear! Idleness wastes man as insensbly
as industry improves him evil deeds and'e-
vii thoughts never creep upon him who is
assiduously employed upon good ones
The mind and body both require activity to
keep them in pure and healthy action
Like water, if it runs free ii is pure and
wholesome but what is there m ore nnisome
and pes.llenlIal than a s.agnanl pool! Dill
gence itself alone is fair fortune, and in
dussry is a good estate 10 have and to
hold.
GREELEY SoLD-a Good Joke.-florace
Greeley has been most egreglously hum
bugged by The Richmond Examiner. That
print, in jocose vein, undertook to assert !:
"That the shooting Of itineran. Abolition
schoolmss,ers is frequently a creGilable and
laudable act, emitting respectable Southern
man TO, at leas. seat in the Legislature, or
place in the Common Council"
The Tribune, supposing this to bave been
perpetraled in sober seriousness, comment
ed in lis usual meal-axe manner on the saw
age propensi,les Of s!avehoIders whereup-
on the Virginia editor, laughing in his sleeve
d, the gullblIly of The grea! head of The
Abolition party, reJnInS:
"Ths, print mus, be ignorant, we pre-
sumo, of how, in the OrachIa country, Ar
kansas, upon The Tumbling Fork of Roar
ing River, they have fricaseed Yankee Ab-
olliouisls every day for breakfast, and ra-
gout clock -pedlars for dinner on Sundays.
The righ, to do SO is claimed under The
Virginia resolutions Of '9S and '99, and un-
der the repeating clause in tie Apostles
vision, which authorizes The ealing of un.
clean beasts. and commands, saying 'Rise,
Peter, slay aud cat. '"