Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-06-29


Obed Nightingale took the helm, and his
father, pointing cooked pistol at the
head of the English officer, said
"Do you think we are in earnest or nos!'
"I should think you were,' replied the
trembling officer.
"Then you do not obey me, you will
get bullet through your head in an in
slant. Now hail that clipper
"Scorpion, ahoy !" shouted the licuten.
ant, as if for dear life.
In the meantime the Yankee had been
let off little from the wind, so that she
was now within little more than a cables
length of her captor, while the bold fish
crman were nearly all crouched beneath
the bulwarks. Some one from the clipper
answered the call.
"Tcll them the schooner has sprung
leak, and that the cussod Yankees must
have thrown the pump breaks overheard
The poor lieutenant looked first at the
stern face Of the old man, then at the
muzzlc of the pistol, and then stretching
his lungs to the uttormost, he oboycd the
order
"Now tell them to hcavc to, and you'll
run along,idc.'
The frightened officer obeycd, and on
the next moment the clippers helm was
put hard down, and her main boom showed
over to the windward,
Seven of the Yankee fishermen we're
stationed along the lee rail, with stout
grapplings in their hands, and in less than
five minutes the Rhody's bowsprit loomcd
up over the clippers weather quarter
Obcd showed the helm down, aud letting
60 the sheets fore and aft, the Yankee
schooner shot gracefully alongside.
"Why in - didn't you come up un-
der our lee quarter, shouted the English
captain, as the fisherman thumpcd against
the side Of his vessel but before he could
utter any more of his wrath, with which
he was literally boiling over, he found his
deck swarming with strangers.
Tho whole thing had come about so un-
accountably, and, withal, so sundenly, that
hardly a blow was struck by the astonish--
ed EnglisLman and before they were full
ly aware that they had been captured by
their own Insignificant prize, they were Sc
curcly bound and most of them slowed
away below under a strong guard.
"Wal, cap'n,' said Jade uaskins-who
/ had been released from durancc vile-as
he came aft to where that functionary stood
by the side of old Nightingale, "whcn do
you think of takin' us intew Halifax ?"
The Englishman Looked very hard at his
uncouth tormcntor, but he disdained any
reply.
81 say, cap.n,' continued Jade, in a
cc,y unfecling manner, "I raythcr guess as
hcow't that air exploit o yourn won't
amount tow great deal, will it? But,
look here, don't for mercy's sake go home
an tell your king that ycou got took by a
Pcnobscot cod fisherman, cause it might
hurt his fcelins."
This time the Englishman's answer
was more wicked and unfccling than had
been Jades, for he not only sworc terribly
but he even wished that every Yankee in
Christcndom was in the immediate king
dom of that horned and hoofcd individual
who is said to reign somewhere beneath
the earth.
Before the sun had set on the next day
the English prisoners were landed at Bel
fast, and Captain Enoch Nightcngalc fount
himself in command of as handsome ;
privatecr as foated in American waters
and until peace was declared and the EN-
barge raised, he carried on a most des-
tructivc trade among the British merchant
men.