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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 2, Issue 33, 28 March 1850, Page 3

True Heroism.- Lieutenant Beall, of the Uuited States Navy, is already well known to the country, having particularly distinguished himself on several different occasions as the beater of important despatches to mid frum California, both through the heart of Mexico during the war, and .across the prairies and ttocky"Mountains, foicing his way with equal spirit, through civilized and savage enemies, As a gallant naval officer, and intrepid traveller, with the courage to face anil the energy to overcome every difficulty and peril, we" can well believe In; lias no superior; but we have recently heard mi nnecdolc told of liini, being the account of a circumstance which happened on the last journey to California, (mill which he has only so lately returned, which, while it illustrates the dangers of tho road, proves Unit there is another quality in him higher than mere resilution and bravery, n. humane and generous disposition, which fives to those virtues the character of heroism. It was, wc believe, m the Gila country, thut Lieut, lleall, haying encamped bis pnrty, and placed it in safely, went out huntii:g. He set out alone on a favourite saddle mare, which was generally kept ■up or spared for such occasioi s. About six miles from the enmp, be had the good fortune to kill a deer; and he was on the ground diessing tbe carens?, when on looking up, he suddenly beheld a troop of mounted Apaches, who had discovered him, and were dashing /iiriously towards him. They bad doubtless beard the report or stcn the smoke of his rifle, and so were on him before lie was aware ; but he knew very well that to be overtaken by them, a single- while, man on those naked hills which they call their own, was certain death ; and accordingly lenving his quarry, and mounting in hot haste, be relied upon the mettle of his horse, which he put to her lull speed, to carry him back in' safety to tho camp. Away darted the young lieutenant, and on rushed the savages yelling anu thundering in the certain assurance of their prey, but confident as they were, ihe fugitive was quite as well satisfied of his ability to escape, although their horses were fresher than the mare, and il was pretty certain they were gaining slightly upon her, and would give her a severe contest before reaching the camp. Thus of his safety, but not relaxing ]iisi r VJ, Lieut, Ileal! bad recovered half his distance from the camp, wlun, dashing over the crest of a hill, lie was horrified at the sight of one of his own men, on foot, climbing thy hill, and, in fact, following in bis train, to assist him in the hunt. The sight of the lieutenant flying down the hill at such a luiious rate was, doubtless, enough ; perhaps the poor fellow could hear the whoops of the IndiJiis ascending the bill from the opposite side j at nil erents, he understood his fate, and spreading his arms before tbe horse's head, cried out with the accents of despair,— "Oh, Mr. lleall, save me ! I am o husband, and the father of six helpless children." Never was prayer more quickly heard, or more heroically answered. The lieutenant, though riding for bis own life, immediately stopped bis mar?, dismounted, (jiving her to the man,

said, " You slull be saved. Ride buck to the camp, and send them out to give my body decent burial!" And so they parted—the footman to escape, ltie officer, as be supposed, to be slain ; for the hill was utterly bare, without a single hiding place, and he thought of nothing hut selling bis life os dearly as possible. l J or this puiposc, he drew his revolver, and silting down on the ground, waited for the savages, who in a moment, came rushing over the brow of the hill, and then to the unspeakable amazement of Lieut. Beall, dashed past dint down the descent like mndmen,not a soul of (hem paying ilie least regard to him, not a oul in fact, seeing him. They saw, iu reality nothing but the horseman they had been pursuing for three miles; they know nothing of :i footman ; and perhaps, the sitting figure-of the lieutenant appeared to eyes only bent on one attractive object, as a stone, or huge cactus, such as abound on those sterile hills. At all events, I.ieut. Ueall, by what seemed to himself a providential interposition in his behalf, remained wholly undiscovered ; and a moment mure the Apaches were oul of sight, still pursuing the horse and his rider to the camp. The latter barely succeeded in escaping with his life, the Indians having overhauled him so closely, just 09 he reached Ilia camp, as to he able to inflict one ortwo slight 'wounds upon him with bullets, or perhaps with arrows. As for Lieut. Beall, he was not slow to take advantage of his good fortune ; and selecting a roundabout course, he succeeded in reaching the camp just about the time the poor fellow whom he had saved, and the other members of his party, were about sillying out to obey his last icqucst, to give his hotly decent burial. Upon such an net as this, it would be superfluous to comment. It is an action however, which deserves to live in men's recollections like the story of a great battle and victory.

Lions at the Caps.—The following extraordinary end distressing occurrence, whieh lately occurred near the Bushman's Station, Tambookie Land, appears in the Eastern Province Herald, and is vouched for as strictly tr ,, e ..__•• Three Bushmen and a little boy went out to hunt. At night, they had laid themselves behind n rock. One man and a little boy were rolled up in a skin blanket, and a linn came and carried them away, the teeth of the animal going into the man's back and loins. However, the man and child were dropped, and the lion was satisfied with the ■.-ar.'ss. Tho man awoke his companions, and was telling them how he had been carried away by the lion, and escaped, and, whilst reI iting bis Etory, the lion came again, took him by tlfe neck, and c-tiricd him away. He cried out to his companions to shoot; one took his aim, but the gun missed fire ; the other fired, and killed the lion, but the man was also dead. The lion had bit his neck oil'. While looking at the man and lion, other lions were seen approaching, so they fled to a precipice for the night. The next morning they went to *cc their companion, hut both tho man and the lion had hern devoured by the other lions, leaving no remains. A similar occurrence has again happened, but the particulars are not I known.

The Sabbath.—Remember the Sabbath day 10 keep it lioly. It is a matter of deep regret and lively sorrow, to see how much that liolv day is profaned, boih by old and young. Keli-ioii can never prosper with tliose who devot<:°the Sabbath to idleness or amusement, [f you are in the habit of violating its sanctity, you deliberately break one of the divine commandments. And, while tlio breach of one of the commandments naturally leads to n disregard of the rest, as temptation may occur, the neglect nf the fourth commandment is particularly to be deprecated and lamented, bscauso the Sabbath is the wise and gracious appointment ot God for providing us with a season of instruction and meditation, that we may bo fitted for the duties of the succeeding week, that we may he fortified against temptation, and that wis may attend to nil our spiritual interests. AccordiiK'ly, wherever there is a degeneracy in the observance of the Sabbath, there is sure to be a declension of religious principle and mowl conduct. . Almost all those who have advanced in the path of iniquity till it became their ruin, who have sullercd from the hand of justice fothcir crimes, and have died, whether in penir tence or despair, almost all of them have confessed that Sabbath-breaking was the commencement of their guilty career; and that this vice, so prevalent and so little heeded, contributed more than any other cause to hasten them on to the consummation ot their late. Ob, my friends! let me intreat yon to sanctify the Sabbath. It was sanctified by God, who on that day rested from ull Ins work?. It is sanctified by Christ, whoso resurrection from the dead it commemorate?. It is sanctified by all our spiritual necessities here, and by all our hopes of happiness hereafter. Do not then profaue it.— Rev. Dr. Thomson.