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I took my J not thus to ruin his reputation. You look sur- became bail for Cooper, and the others found From Latrobes’ Rambles in North America. luvial country which is contiguous to the point tols had all been fired glass and went up into the mizzen top, and prised, hut I speak the truth. No man, be he bail among their friends. Romance of Real Life—First Steam­ of junction of the two rivers, and especially the ever so pure, can associate long with evil com­ That night Nathan went home a wiser man, BV sylvancs cobb, JR- I Now boys, said I, you know what that for awhile I watched the bloody scamps. I boat in the W est—The Earthquake vicinity of New Madrid, seems to have been the Bt sYLtA .ts 'fellow is after; and if I ’d thought of this could see ’em one after another, sink out of panions without losing his standing arnoDg re­ ami in his heart he thanked Mr. Clark for the centre of the convulsion. There, during the spectable people. Why, even you are looked counsel he had given Jos -ph Cooper went home o f 1811. years 1811 and 1812, the earth broke into innu­ It was Captain Sampson’s turn to tell the lull in the wind, I shouldn’t have run in here. sight, and I knew that none of them would upon by some us having had a hand in the mis­ wiser, too, but be was miserable and unhappy. But it cant be helped now. We cant run ever do any more murders. But in a little Circumstances gave me the opportunity of merable fissures, the churchyard, with its dead, nest story. He was a stout, bronzed hard- chief of which 1 have spoken.’ He now saw what evil company had done for was torn from the bank, and engulphed in the away, and we all know if those Malays take time the few heads that were left struggling becoming acquainted with the particulars of the fisted, but kind hearted son of the ocean, fifty ‘ But people who know me would know bet­ him and he wished that he had been wise be­ very first voyage of a steamer in tho West.— turbid stream. To the present day it would ap­ fore. years old, and full of thrilling adventures. us, they’ll cut our throats every one. I fancy above water were beyond the reach of my ter,’ uttered Nathan quite confidently. The complete success attending the experiments pear that frequent slight shocks of earthquakes ‘ How should they know better? You seek Within a week, eleven of the guilty party went Our pipes were again re-filled, and”then Samp-! y°“’d a11 rather fight to the death than to be sight and I came down. in steam navigation made on the Hudson and are there lelt; and it is asserted that in rn as follows: | lulled so. Will you stand i t ! those evil companions, and are present at their and saw the people whose property had been tho vast swamp at the back of the town, son took his turn as follows : ’Tisn’t much use telling how Ned Grover adjoining waters, previous to the year 1890, Of course they all said yes, but then they was disposed of, for you can judge for your­ evil work. You know who pulled down East- abused, and no; only confessed their error and turned the attention of the principal projectors strange sounds may at times be henrd, as of It's now ten years come nest November man's fence of course. I don't mean to ask offered to make pecuniary restitution, but they didn’t speak like men who had any hope.— selves. Yet he was modest and mild as ever to the idea of its application on the western some mighty cauldron bubbling in the bowels of that I took charge of the ‘ Yankee.’ She you who did it, but I say you know.’ also implored forgiveness end promised to do so rivers ; and in the month of April of that year the earth. Along the hanks of the river, thou­ was a noble ship, and I felt proud of the And surely I didn't blame them, for our en­ and begged us to say nothing more about it. ‘ Yes. sir—I do.’ no more. The consequence was, that at the sands of acres with their gigantic growth of emy was more than double us—almost thrible. When we got home, the owners made him Mr. Roosevelt, of New York, pursuant to an charge. We lay at the wharf down Peek ‘ And yet, were you asked who did it, you next term of the eou. t no complaint appeared arrangement with Chancellor Livingston and forest and cane, were swallowed up, and lakes Slip, (we cleared at New York you know) Yet I saw that my brave fellows meant to accept a thousand dollars, and made me would not tell.’ against the contrite youths. Only three ring­ Mr. Fulton, visited those rivers, with the pur­ ind ponds innumerable were formed. ‘ Of course not. 1 would not expose a com­ leaders—three low, reckless, hardened youths— and got the last lot of duds on board, when fight. promise to teach him navigation. Ned is pose of forming ail opinion whether they adinit- T heennh in many pans, was observed to The proa was now about a mile distant and now four and twenty—as noble a fellow as panion.’ were tried, and were sentenced to one years im­ ■ ted of steam navigation or not. At this lime burst suddenly open, and jets of sand, mud. 1 felt something touch me on the leg. I ! prisonment in the county jail. you could wish to see—and last month he ‘ So I supposed. And now look at i t : You two boats, the Nor.li River and the Clermont, and water to shoot up into the nir. The beds turned around and there stood a boy 'some j 'TouId bo alongside in ten minutes unless were in the company—one of the party ; the It was a good lesson for many a youth in that left New York as the captain of the good were running on the Hudson. Mr. R. surveyed of these giant streams seemed totally overturned, fourteen years old with a bundle on his iwe oaught a smart breeze. I looked about party did certain deeds, and you must share the town, and from that time forth there was no islands disappeared, and in many parts, the shoulder. He kind o' trembled when I look-' but £aw n° signs of any breeze, save a single ship Daniel Boone. Now who comes nex t? the rivers from Pittsburg to New Orleans, and blame. But let this pass. You know that more such disturbances of peace and injuring as his report was favorable, it was decided to course of the river was completely changed.— ed at him. but there wasn’t any dishonesty ! bauk t apor to the north d. I called after these young men with whom you would associ­ of property ; for the more virtuous of the youths build a boat at the former town. Great inundations were the consequence. The in that lace not a bit. He had great grev 'Ned run to the cabin and get my slippers, BAD COMPANY. ate are evil disposed, a n '^ .n know tjo, that i^) had learned how dargerous it was to be found This was done under his direction, and in the clear waters of the St. Francis were obstructed, eyes, almost dark enough for hazel, and his Jfor »>? hoots I had wi wire Stiff and clumsy, they go over to AlacWuyne's to-night, they will in had company, and had consequently with­ Course of 1811, the lirst'boat was launched on the ancient channel destroyed, and the river* hair curled over his head like a girl juBt ®u^.Ned was not to be found. It is an old saving that ‘ a man is known by be up to some sort of mischief. I think 1 have drawn from all connection with suuh, while the the waters of the Ohio. She was called the spread over a vast tract of swamp. In many said enough to enable you to understand tbc few who were evil in mind and wish, dared not rigged for a party. Then he looked so earn- : Never mind, I said to myself so I can the company he keeps,’ and a saying more true “ New Orleans,” and intended ‘to ply between places the gaping earth unfolded its secret#, and rest.