The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-07-08

Ing down through misty darkness Impenetrable to
to the eye-when suddenly, our young commander
who was standing near the bow, felt the extended
branch OF an Overhanging limb silently brush his
face. He started, with exclamation of alarm, and
at the same moment the boatman the right called
out:
"Quick, here, boys we're agin the shore,
as death -
Then followed scene of hurried and anxious con-
fusion the voices of the three boatmen mingng to-
gether in loud, quick, excited tones.
Sc Push off the bow !'' cried one.
"Quick. altogether, now . with her 20
shouted another.
'The de'il's in it she's running aground here
n muddy bottom % almost yelled third
Meanwhile the laden boat brushing along
against projecting bushes and overreaching limbs,
and every moment getting more ana more entangled;
while the long poles and sweeps of the boatmen,
they attempted to push her off, were often plunged,
without touching bottom, into what appeared to be
soft clayey mnd, from which they only extri-
Gated by such outlay Of strength tended still
more TO draw the clumsey craft upon the bank they
wished TO avoid. At length, scarcely more than
minute from the first alarm, there a kind of
Ting together, rs it were and the boat became fast
and immovable.
The fact announced by Dick Winter in his
characteristic uianner-who added, with oath,
that 1t was just what he expected For n
two dead silence followed if each comprehended
that the matter was to be viewed in very seri-
Gus light.
''i'li get over the bow and try to git the lay of
the land with my feet,' said Tom Harris and forth
with he set about the not very pleasant undertaking.
At this moment Eugene heard his name pronounced
by voice that seldom failed To- excite peculiar emo
ton in his breast, and sent a strange thrill
through every nerve; and fastening below, he found
Blanche, fully dressed, with light in her hand,
standing just outside Of her cabin, in the regular
passage which led lengthwise through the of
the boat
Il have hearl something, Eugene,'' she said,
" enough TO know that we ha with accident,
but not sufficient to fully comprehend its nature
Unfortunately, about two hours ago. replied
Eugene We suddenly became involved in dense
fog, and, IN spite of every precauton and care,
have run agroand-it may be against the Ohio shore
it may be against sland-it is dark we can't
tell. But be not alarmed Miss Blanche he hur-
rieily added 81 shall be afioat again.
though, IN any event, the darkness Is sufficient
conceal US from the savages, even they in the
vicinity
81 know little of Indians returned Blanche,
g but have always understood that they
what remarkable tor their acuteness of hearing; aud
If such is the case, there would be necessity their
being very near, TO be made acquainted with
10 .alIty, Judging from the loud voices heard u few
minutes ago
81 fear we've been rather impruent,'' said
Eugene, in deprecating tone; g but in the excite
ment-
His words suddenly cut short by several loud
voices of alarm from without, fJllowed by quick
and heavy tramplng across the deck; and the next
moment Seth Harper and Dick Winter burst into the
passage the former exciaimug
We We run plum into red ngger's nest Cap'n,
and lom Harris IS already butchered and scalped =!
And even rs he spoke, If in confirmation of his
dreadful intelligence, there "A series Of wild,
piercing. demonlacal yells. followed by dead and
ominuus silence.
% rorIoweu ioveIy
friends in this adventure; but the foregoing is all
that publish in columns. The balance of
the narrative only be found in the New York
Ledger, the great amily paper, which be obtained
at all the periodical stores where papers sold
Remember TO ask for the g Ledger, dated May I'D,
and III 1t you will get the continuation of the narra-
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ter Address Robert Bonner, Ledger Office, A Ann
street, New York This story entitled 'Peris Of
the Border, and grows and more interesting
it goes on.