ཨ ་པ་པད I found the sides so smooth and slippery with damp as to serve an ctual 'ne exeat' upon me. Verily, thought I, 'the way of the transssor is hard!' I consoled myself for a while with the hope of a speedy return of my ty, but hour after hour passed on, and they did not come. Day broke, I as the sun rose in the heavens, the light crept down into my prison illuminated the ghastly countenance of my fellow-captive. His eyes e half opened; and at last, my nerves growing weak from hunger I long confinement in one position, I fancied that I saw upon his urned face a strange and cunning leer; a triumphant expression, as e were chuckling over the horrible scrape into which my attempt to curb his rest had brought me. I shifted my position so that I could y see the back of his head and his bare shoulders, but the rascal had a d of French shrug in the latter, which still left the same impression my excited fancy. t grew cloudy and cold, and sleet and rain began to fall. My enees of the night before returned, and completed their unsuccessful search. elt a strange temptation to cry out and reveal my hiding-place; and they come later in the day, I believe I should have done so. Noon e. Hitherto my position had been one of great discomfort, but not actual suffering; but as the day wore on, (and oh, how slowly!) I gan to feel the effects of fatigue, hunger, wet, and cold. I grew terrinervous! I wept, and prayed, and cursed by turns. My compantoo-how I grew to hate him, and at last to look upon him as a tient and intelligent demon, who, by some horrible diablerie, had wn me into a living grave with him-and then I thought of how, en the old tree should have crumbled down with time, two skeletons uld be found there, and only one suit of clothes; and how people uld wonder; what they would say about me, should the truth become own; and whether they would pity me or not. Perhaps they would -n the field over, and we should both be burned up, 'burned up with ;' and I repeated it over and over again, 'burned up with fire.' en I thought how cold and hungry I was, and what my mother would ,could she know my situation; and I grew childish, and wept with in the wagon beside old H, well wrapped up in a my pleasant companion of that long, weary day beneath hunger satisfied by sundry dough-nuts and cold sausages, a set right by a pull at the brandy-bottle, so long and unin Seth inquired if I had ever been a pearl-diver, I listened planations of the impossibility of any earlier relief to m anxiety they had suffered during the day, lest I had been I slept soundly that night, but for many nights the dreams of ghouls and vampires; of going down and d Simms' Hole with a dead man's arms locked around my nec pillow, and destroyed my rest. Reader, do you wonder that an adventure like this sho with a deeper pencil on my memory than any or all of battle, tempest, and wreck I have since encountered? 'Ha! ha! young boy; I know some dame Hath robbed thee of all thy treasured flame: Is it not so?' I laughing said; He sadly shook his curly head. 'Why, then the maid that all men wheedles Not that: a man- a crime far blacker- Of the chain in dungeon deep Echoes to the ceiling dank O'er the couch where dwells no sleep: HEAVEN hears that prisoner's groan, And the all-avenging EYE Looks upon the oppressor's throne Who would from his fury fly. VIII. There are longings in the city; IX, There are longings when the Christian Σ. Man is striving, longing ever, For the beautiful and good. THE STEAM-YACHT 'NORTH STAR.' THE above engraving is a faithful representation of the Steam-Yacht Torth Star,' which recently left this port for a cruise of pleasure in ropean waters. The magnitude of the enterprise, the liberality of all accessories, and the interest felt in it by the public, have induced us collate from the daily journals an account of the vessel, and to add to at a sketch, known to be authentic, of the career of the owner of the Forth Star,' CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, Esq. We begin with a descrip-n of the Yacht, communicated to 'The Tribune' daily journal: THE 'NORTH STAR' was built expressly for this pleasure-excursion by Mr. SIMONSON, der the immediate supervision of Mr. VANDERBILT. She is two hundred and sixty t on the keel; two hundred and seventy feet on the spar-deck; thirty-eight breadth beam; thirteen feet from floor-timber to lower-deck beams; seven feet eight inches ween decks; seven feet six inches between main and spar-decks; making her whole oth twenty-eight feet six inches. Her keel, of white oak, is fifteen inches sided by rteen inches wide, stem and stern-posts of the same material, with double aprons, dinner posts of live oak, bolted through with one and three-eighth copper bolts; adwoods of white oak, and thirteen inches through, fastened with one and a half h copper bolts, in the most substantial manner. The floor-timbers are sided twelve hes and moulded thirteen inches, being placed close together, and bolted through eways with one and a half inch bolts. The main kelsons, of which there are five vs extending the entire length of the ship, are of white oak, sided fifteen inches by rty-two inches deep, the first tier being fastened with two copper bolts, one and 'a f inches in diameter, through every floor-timber, the upper tiers secured to the lower e with large iron bolts. The bed upon which the engine rests is composed of four vs of kelsons, two feet two inches by five feet deep, secured by iron screw-bolts ven from the bottom before the vessel was planked. The outside planking of white , three and a half inches thick, increasing to five inches, is secured with copper bolts I locust treenails, there being thirty-two thousand of the latter driven through and dged upon both sides. There are six bilge-streaks on the inside of the ship, covering floor-heads and futtocks 12 x 14 inches, fastened to the timbers with iron bolts, and ted edgelays between every frame. The ceiling is of six-inch yellow pine, and ted in the same manner as the bilge-streak, forming one substantial mass of timber rteen feet in depth. The lower deck-clamps, on which the beams rest, are seven hes thick, thoroughly fastened with iron bolts driven from the outside, and riveted |