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elements began to work upon the SuperstI- tious fears of the sailors, at the same time that the terrible heat of the sun spoiled our water and provisions, and affected ma- ny of US with dreadful pains in the bead, and even with delirium. Pale, and strick- en with terror, we asked ofheaven, storms and tempests, and the heavens, turned to brass, like the ocean, afforded us nothing but the same frightful security. Sun, moon, and stars, presented alike death- like spectacle; and all in nature which are harbingers of peace and gladness, convey ed to our minds nothing but terror, and presage of death.

 At length to swell the horrors of the scene, camep famine. It had been ap- preaching gradually, but when it was an- nounced that it had become necessary to deal out our damaged provisions by allow ance, it fell like a thunderbolt among us. It is a calamity sufficiently terrible on land, but on that unfrequented sea, with nothing on his desert bosom more substan- tial than its foam for hope to cling to, how infinitely dreadful what, in such total a. bandonment of all nature, could rescue US from the horrors of despair.

 There was wailing on our decks there were blasphemies, shouts of madness, and frenzied prayers for the tempests, the waves, and the lightning. The sun was dropping for the fifteenth time, towards the sea, as to his grave. It set, and shot his parting rays on dark body that at that moment rose, like the demon of night, in the eastern horizon.- O! the joy with which we hailed that cloud On it came, blazing as if all the fires of the elements were concentrated in it's bosom. On it came, and with it came the wind.

 All the demons ofthe storm appeared to have leagued their forces in that one gust. Still it was pleasanter than the light of the sun; the mingled howl of the clements was music to our ears, and we hailed that tenn pest, as it swept over us in its power, with tears ofjoy. In four hours it left us shorn of every spar, and filled with water, in the regular trades. Our decks had been swept of every thing but our bodies, but we heed- ed it not. We felt only that once more it blew, that once more we moved.

 Sagacity of the Dog.-The following circumstance occurred at the Cotton Fac tory, in Methuem. A girl who was going to her work, at an early hour, in passing d foot bridge, accidentally slipped, and was precipitated into the river immediately be- low the Spicket Falls. No person was near her or saw her situation. The dog which is kept at the establishment, happen ed to see her fall into the river, and imme- diately ran to the Factory, and commenced scratching violently at the door, bowling most piteousIy. The overseer, on open- ing the door, was induced to follow the dog, who immediately ran to the river, and pointed out the girl who was there in the water struggling for life. The man plunged in and rescued the sufferer, when she had risen for the third time, and was nearly ex- hausted.-Lynn Record.