Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 April 1856 — Page 1

VOLUME

[From an English P»per.] THE WIDOWED SWORD, roriT or wiiu

'^Tiicy L&ve sent m« lb« sword that my bravo boy wora 'v. 'On vU» field of hk joung renown—

On tL* l»«t red flold where his f»to WBJ SEATED) And the «un of his days went down. Away with tears

That are blinding mc B04 There la joy in hia years, Though hi« young head be low}

And 111 gate with a solemn delight evermore. On the Sword that my brave boy woro.

'Twa* for freedom and home that I gave him away, Like the Bona of hia race of old, And though agod and gray, I am childless tbia day, lie is dearer a thousand fold.

Thore is glory above him To hallow his name— A land that will love him

W or it am

And a aolace will shine when my old heart Issore, Jiound the sword that my brave boy woro.

And so noblo, so true—how they stood, bow they fell In tho battlo, the plagno, and the cold Oh, bravely and well as e'er story could UiU

Of the flowers of the horoea of old. Like a Bword through tho fof Was that foarful attaok,

That BO bright ere the blow, Comes so bloodily back

.'And foremost among them his colors ho bore— And here is the Sword that my bravo boy woro.

It wns kind of hiscomfades, yo know not how kind, -It is nionJkhsr tho Indies to me \Yt»u' know not how kind, and steadfast of ralnd

ITlie soldier to sorrow can bcChey know well how lonely— How griovoualy wrung,

Ss the toart that its only Lovo lomra so young.

And ihty Ma dart eye whon the battle was o'er, .And *snt his old father iVt© Bword that he wore.

REMARKABLE INCIDENT AT SEA. Among the startling incidents with which •lie papers are filled, of tho sufferings and lotaea that hare recently occurred on the ocean, the following account of the escape of the ahip Wisconsin, Captain Scott, from Havre to this port, from destruction, by lightning, and the unusual phenomena attending it, will bo read with interest:

Tho ship's position was lat. 37.30 N.t long. 70.40 W. Temperature of water, 60 lcg., air 28 dog. Fahrenheit. The weather dark and lowering, with sharp lightning, *ud barometet fulling fast ship under double reefed topsails, foresail and jib. At 2 A. If. commenced blowing hard, with heavy raia and sleet. By 2:30 A. M., while shortening sail, an immense ball of fire struck tho main royal mast-head, and then fell on the main hatch, where it exploded with tro--rarndous force, filling tho deck with fire nnd sparks, with continued explosions of 4ho particles like detonatiug powder or torpodoos. Owing to the ice, sleet and snow, -with which the decks, bulwarks, rigging nnd sails w«re covered, the fire was soon extinguished. About ten minutes afterwards a second ball struck near the same place, but was driven by (ho force of the wind just clear of the ship's side to leeward, when it i-xplodcd with a loud report, nnd great commotion.

Thero were several men furling tho jib j*t the time, and the concussion was so great ihftt it lifted them nearly clear of the boom. The tornado lasted all next day and night, from N. W. by N. The air very cold and water 69 degrees, causing an immense exhalation from the Gulf, which congealed as ttoon as it rose, and was diiven furiously over tho ship, excluding tho very light of day. One of the crew was knoeked down and stunned, for a time, but was not seriously injured. The mate was blinded^ by it, and probably will not recover the sight of both eyes. Had it not been for tha ice, fleet and rain which deluged the ship, there can be no doubt but that she would have been on fir© from the truck to tho water. The fore-top-sail was blown out of the boltrope, and the royal mast-head seared as it were with a red-hot iron, being all the damage tho ship received, which, to say the least, was very providential.—-V. Y. Cour. and Enquirer.-

RBMARKABLS TRIAL.—Within the laat two weeks a trial was had in the Court of Common Pleas of Ross county, which has developed some etartling facts. An adhering member of the Know Nothing order charged ieeeder with perjury, in having disposed the secrets of the order. Upon this charge a rait for slander was instituted.— Upon the trial, the defendant introduced, as in evidence, the testimony of several members of the order, who disclosed these startling faets:

They testify that §ach man who joins the Know Nothing order, takes a solemn oath never to disclose the existence of the order, the names of any of its members, or hit .. own connection with it. When asked whether this oath taken in the order was not regarded by them as conflicting with the oath they had just taken in Court, from the faet that each one of these witnesses had not only told of the existenee of the order, but had revealed the names and oonnection of members, they replied it did not, from the faet that eaeh of them had a permit from Thomas Ford, President of the order, granting them permission to testify «a witnesses in that case.—Lancaster (0.)

Eagle.

OirA young democrat at Dover, N. H., showed commendable grit in seeuring his right to vote at the recent election. His name had been stricken from the list on election morning on the evidence of his father's family physician, that he waa not of age. He immediately chartered a swift hone, read eighteen miles through almost impassible roads to hia father's house, procured the family bible and other evidence of the date of his birth, and got back to Dover after the polls had been closed an hoar and a half. But ha demanded the right to rote and the docuaseat being eoncusive, he waa. allowed to make his deposit, and bee the JbefO of the day.

ANOTHER snip AMONG THE ICEBERGS. The New York Tribune of the 26th ult., gives a very interesting account of the loss of the Paeket ship ship, John Rutledge, whence we copy the following:

On the 20th of February the paeket ship John Railed go, Capt. Kelly, of New York, while on her voyage from Liverpool to this port, struck upon an iceberg ana sank, with the mate, carpenter, and 30 to 35 passengers on board. Our information in regard to the disaster is derived from the only known survivor, Thos. W. Nye, of New Bedford. So far at we have been able to learn, the subjoined narrative contains all the facts in the case.

The paeket ship John Rutledge left Liverpool on the 16th of January, with 120 passengers and a crew of officers and men numbering, all told, 16 persons. One of her erew was washed off the bowsprit, and a male passenger was carried through the bulwarks by a heavy sea and drowned.— On the 20th of February the John Rutledge was struck by an ieeberg, and went down. From the log book of the mate, whieh was saved in the boat with the boy Nye, we extract the following entries: "Monday, 18th February 8 A. M., thick, foggy,, with drizzly rain. Middle and latter part, strong breeses and rainy.— Passed several icebergs on both sides.— Passed one within ten feet of the weather side. Lat. dead reckoning, 45 degrees 34 min. N Ion. D. R. 46 deg. 66 min. W."

Tuesday, 19th, P. M. —Follows with light winds and hazy. The vessel was surrounded with icebergs it being very difficult to steer clear of them. At 8, saw a large field of ice ahead tried to steer clear of it, but there being little wind it got down to tho ship before we could get past, and the wind passing away, we could not steer clear. At 11 the ship was completely wedged in with drift ice, and very large icebergs in all directions, and the breeze springing right aft, there was no alternative but to prooeed through it. The further we got hi, the thicker the ice got, and the greater the number of icebergs. Midnight, light winds, and the ship making very little headway through the ice. 4, morning, the *as&e. 8, steady breeze, and the ship making more headway. Passed some very large bergs. At 9 the I."

Here fhe log abruptly terminates. From this we infer that the collision with the iceberg took place between 9 and 10 o'clock on tho morning of tho 20th of February.— And it would seem that the mate was writing up his log when the fatal shock occurred. The ship was abandoned about 6 o'clock the same evening. Before leaving his vessel, Capt. Kelly finding that she leaked badly, manned the pumps, with passengers and seamen and as the leak continued to gain upon her, had about 100 bags of salt and a number of crates of crockery broken out of the forehold and thrown overboard. Getting elear of the ice soon after, it was discovered that a plank was started from the forefoot, and an attempt was made to stuff the leak with blankets and rags. It appears that this was not verv successful, as the captain subsequently decided to abandon the vessel. There were fivo large boats on board, in which 134 passengers were to be saved. How the captain bore himself at this time we could not learn, as the survivor lies in a very critical situation and it was as much as his life was worth to question him closely. Wc only know that four boats put off before that in which Nye was. The captains boat was tho only one of the four which had a compass. How Capt. Kelly distributed the provisions and seamen, we could not learn. Tho last boat which left the ship contained only thirteen persons. It appears that Atkinson, the mate, put his wife into this boat, and, with tho carpenter went to sound the pumps. While they were gone, the boat was struck by a heavy sea, which broke her from her fastenings, and she rapidly drifted from the ship, leaving the mate and carpenter, with from thirty to thirty-five of the passengers, on board.

When last seen, the ship was down to her mizzen chains in the water and from the character of her cargo salt, iron and crockery'—she probably went down in a short time afterward.

Of the thirteen persons in the last boat, there were four women, one little girl, five male passengers, Mr. Nye, a Scotch sailor, and the boatswain, an Irishman, whose wife resides in New York. For the subsistence of these people, there was only one gallon of water and six or eight pounds of bread. The mate had placed a compass iu the boat, but his wife, in leaping from the ship, had broken it. Cast thus helplessly upon the open sea, among the fogs and mists of the Banks of Newfoundland, and surrounded by drift and berg ice, their prospect could hardly have been more gloomy. Soon after the boat broke adrift, night eame on—how it passed may be imagined. From what we could learn, but little was said by any one,

and

probably all

of them soon came to a realizing sense of their dreadful situation, for as soon as Mrs. Atkinson entered the boat, she seized the vessel containing the water, and being large robust woman# fought off all who attempted to obtain a drink from it. Nye got onlv two or three swallows and the^ rest was drank by herself and the boatswain. What disposition was made of the bread does not appear. The probability is that there was no organization whatever among the little party, but every one looked out for himself. Having no compass nor sign by which to steer, they did not exert themselves, other than to keep the boat before the sea. The sailors were warmly clothed, as was alto Mr. Atkinson but the passengers, for the most part, were very scantily attired, and suffered keenly from the oold. Day after day only dawned to raise th®ir spirits anew, with hopes of succor, whieh the long and dreary nights turned to the bitterness of despair. The time passed until the third day, when one of the little band, a man whose clothes were quite too thin to shield him from the bleak weather, sank under the combined effects of cold and hunger, and his body was committed to the deep. Then woman died in the arms of her husband and little daughter, and her corpse was also silently dropped into the sea. The fourth day came, and with It the same angry sea, the sine leaden sky—no

ray of hop* anywhere visible. The cold was ao intense teat it al|i#st froze the mar

row, and not a drop of water could be obtained, while only a small quantity of food remained. Human nature could not bear up mueh longer against this exposure and privation, when, just as they were about to give up all hope the wind lulled, and lo! brig hove in sight. "She was not very far off," and they pulled for her with might and main. Signals were also made. For some time they seemed to gain upon her, but she did not see them, and the wind freshening, she was soon out of sight.— With her went all hope. A burning thirst soon fell Upon all of them, and heedless of young Nye's earnest appeals, they fell to drinking salt water. This only increased their thirst, and they drank eagerly and repeatedly of the fatal fluid. What followed is the old story of delirium and death. One by one they grew mad and madder besought eaeh other to kill them then they dreamed of sitting at sumptuous feasts, and spoke of the rare dainties which mocked their grasp of the delicious beverages, whieh they in vain essayed to quaff. At length worn out with fatigue and the intensity of their physical and mental sufferings, (hey grew more subdued, their haggard features became more rigid,—their wild eyes assumed a glassy look, and their shrunken forms seemed gradually to subside—the next lurch of the boat tumbled them off their seats dead 1 Sueh were the sights which young Nye witnessed daily. As they died, he threw their bodies into the sea, as long as his strength would last

He says that, although his thirst was of the most agonizing character, he not only warned his fellow sufferer* against drinking salt water, but showed them how he obtained relief by simply rinsing his mouth occasionally. They

were

Soatswain

hopeleas and des-

crate, and would not listen to him. The grew delirious, and died within twelve hours after drinking it. In his delirium he was most violent. He attempted to throw the oars overboard, and did succeed in throwing over the bucket with which they bailed out the boat. Nye did his best to quiet him and stop him from drinking more sea water but he struck him a severe blow upon the chin, inflicting a wound which has not healed up. Mrs. Atkinson was also very violent, and, being of a strong constitution, was a long time, before she expired. Our informant's recollection of events "which occurred about this time is very indistinct. But, from what we could gather, on the 6ixth day there were only himself, a small woman wrapped up in two blankets and the little girl alive in the boat. Before sunset the child died, and on the day following the woman breathed her last. He had strength enough to "throw the body of tfte ehild overboard but.thatof the woman, together with the bodies of three others, was so coiled up under the thwarts that ho was unable to extricate them. Feeling a strong sense of drowsiness creeping over him, he fastened a red shirt and a white shirt to an oar, and hoisting it to attract any passing vessel, he coiled himself up in the stern of the boat and "dozed away the hours. Occasionally he would rouse himself and bail out the boat, and then lay down again. He did not sleep but the time passed in a kind of waking vision. Occasionally he felt light headed and began to dream of being at home in New Bedford with his family. Fearing thai he too might be delirious, he fought against these influences, and kept himself awake by various means. At first the sight of his ghastly companions caused him much distress and his mind became oppressed with gloomy forebodings. He resolved to shake these feelings off, and hope for help even to the last, thinking it better to go to the next worlk with all his senses about him than to die a raving maniac. Thus resolved, he bore up bravely and to the end. On the 26th of February a ship hove in sight to the lonely boy. He says that he saw her before those on board discovered fcim, nnd he was sure from the first that they would pick him up. That vessel was the packet ship Germania, Capt. Wood, from Havre, bound to New York. When Capt Wood descried the solitary boat, he ordered one of his own quar-ter-boats to be lowered, and sent an officer to see what it contained. As they approached him poor Nyo groaned "For Jesus Christ's sako take me out of this boat." They did take him out with womanly tenderness, and with the boat and its fearful load in tow, rowed back to the ship.

The young sailor was quickly transferred to the comfortable cabin of the Germania, and his late companions, already far gone in decomposition, were thrown into the sea. The boat was half full of water, and the bodies washing about in it had covered the seats and sides with blood. It is a wooden life boat, about 25 feetlong

PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENTS. Chase is evidently io be the Black Re publican candidate for the Presidency. Indications of this fact are thickening all about us. The Fusion press are beginning to speak ont. The Painsville Telegraph and Portage Democrat come to us this morning with Chase flying At their mast-head.--That ho is the choice of his party in Ohio there can be no doubt. He is preferred in New York to Sewafd, and in New England to Hale or Sumner. His extecsite and fa vorable personal acquaintance throughout the North West, will secure him its entire vote in convention, which of course will commission him as the standard bearer of the opposition for the coming campaign.

The Philadelphia Convention in June, next, will verify this prediction. Old Tom Benton declines, Judge McLean is now, and ever has been, a "Squatter Sovereign,"

Fugitive Slave Law" man, and, of course Is out of the question Fremont is a national man, and will never do and Giddings is too mueh of the Giddings man, to hare any show. Depend on it, Chase will be the nominee.— Cleveland Plaindealer,

£tjr Commodore Perry's great work on Japan is in a state of rapid completion, and will be ready for delivery by June. It is a magnificent affair, elegantly illustrated, and full of scientific, historical and geographical interest It coats the Government two hundred thousand dollars.

fw A wretched creature has been arrested in New York, for declaring that the |QH of a printer's devil would be very like-

Did

to prove a nightmare i. e. as Inky tais. you ever!

CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY BOUNTY, INDIANA, APRIL 5, 1856.

THE HORSORS OF WAR—LETTER BY A RfJSSfAN SISTER OFMERCY.

The following Is a translation of a letter written in May last by one of the Russian Sisters of Mercy ministering at Sebastopol:

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"Only* few days have passed since I last wrote to yon, and now I could again fill pages with the events of the one single night between Tuesday and Wednesday. Oh, how much I should have to tell you. but how or with what words 1 My God, what a horror is was 1 Whatunnatu ral cruelty it is! In tho night between Monday and Tuesday our men were order ed to dig fresh trenches throw up batteries, with strong force to protect the workmen. We were all night prepared for an attack, but it passed off quietly, and the whole of Tuesday was calm and still. In the evening all was again expectation every preaartion was made. Several rows of mat tresses were laid on the ground small tables were arranged* with lights and writing materials upon them. The attendants were placing heaps of lint, bandages, dress ings, short stearine candles and medicints upon a table. In one corner stood a large icmora, (a camp kettle,) and near it two small tables, with small teapots and cups. On the other side was a table, covered with brandy, wine, lemonade, tumblers, and wine-glasses. Tho room, is nearly dark, and a peculiar stillness reigns around as in the air before a thunder-storm.— Fifteen surgeons, and more, are seated around Pirogoff in the room for operation, or walking up and down in pairs. The officer and the smorited, (superintendent,) who havo to see that every thing is in readiness, are busily moving about, or are fetching in more medical help and attendance. "As you stand at the door, or look out through the lofty windows at both sides of the room, you see a bright quiet nighty for the moon is shining and the stars are twinkling without a cloud. Between nine and ten o'-.lock there is a flash like that of lightning at the windows, and suddenly it roars till every pane of glass rattles. By degrees flash follows flash more frequent and rapidly you can no

longer

distinguish the shots

from each other. The fifth and sixth bastions are lit up with fire but tho enemy's bombs do no reach the city. We sit and listen, ever hi the same sort of twilight, and about an hour passes over. Then comes a litter, another, and another—it has begun.

The candlcs are lit, folks run hurriedly backward and forward, the large room is soon filled with men. The floor is covered with wounded—everywhere, where they can sit, they who havo crawled in do sit.— How they shriek! what a din! Hell is let loose around us. You cannot hear the thunder of the guns for this wailing and and groaning. That one,screams, but not in words. This one cries, 'save me, brethren! save me!' Another sees the brandy on the table, and entreats me, 'Be a kind mother to me and give me a dram.' In all directions voices aremoaningly entreating the surgeons, who are probing the wounds, 'Good my lord, please do not rack me/ I myself walk with great difficulty between the rows of stretchers, and cry out, 'Come here, my men, and take him to Gustsezinski's house'—that is where the hopelesly wounded are carried 'take this man to the Nicolaieff battery place that mafi upon on his bed. Now they bring in officers, too. The room is erowded densely with the wounded, but operations are not to be thought of at this moment. God give us but time to bind up the wounds of all. We sisters are all busily engaged.

They are bringing in an officer his face is deluged with blood I wash it off meanwhilo he takes laboriously out of his snap-purse some money for the soldiers who brought him, to drink his health. I have seen many do the same thing. I kneel on the floor to light the doctor—the wounded man has been shot in the breast—to see if the ball has gone right through, I placed my hand under his back and feel for the wound. You may think how he lies, weltering in his gore but enough. You would shudder if I were to describe to you all the tortures nnd agonies I witnessed that night. Dawn comes at last and the firing ceases. We hate a little garden—picture to your mind well, there are wounded lying there also. I took brandy and ran down to it, while the sun was rising most gloriously over the bay, amid the twittering of birds in the shade of accacias full of white blossoms. I found thirty or thereabouts, all grievously wounded, most of them already at the point of death. My Maker and my Lord! what a contast to this sweet spring morning! I begged two of the inhabitants who had been helping most diligently all night to carry the wounded, to take these immediately into .the hospital. Thank

Heaven, the bringing in of stretchers is at an end! The surgeons wliosbad gone home at daybreak to get seme rest, returned when those whose turn it was to be relieved departed with the elose of day. "At seven o'clock the operations recommence. Although it was not my day to be no duty, I resolved to be again in attendance. The operations last till two in the morning. Between fivo and six o'clock Pirogoff comes back, and they operate till eight then the work was over, and at nine I went home."

THE WEATHER.—The Caddo (La.) Gazette will be pardoned for trespassing upon this delicate subject whenever it treats it in such strains as follow:

The weather just about this time, contents us with our fitful clime the buds are swelling on the trees that bless the bland and blithesome breeze the blue birds twitter in the bush, while geese fly northward with a rush, and sooth to say, full well they may, as spring tide beckons them away.— The jetty crow, with swelling throat caws forth his harsh, portentous note as if to say: "You drap core dar I git him if he's soaked in tar.M The streamlets from the hills aie gushing! the dairy on the lairn is flushing the lovely maid—ah, vo can't j®*tice to the subject fw A nnraery

"SfS

ve thousand peach

trees cultivated by Mr. Burnet, of Vincennes of Indiana has been all destroyed, with the exception of fifty, by the long continued fP06t.

THE MORAL ASPECT OF THE PROHIBITORY LIQUOR LAW IN NEW YORK.,

The Boston Journal contains a letter from its regular New York correspondent, in which we find the following statements: "The State Temperance organization, at whose head stands Mr. E. C. Delevan, have issued a circular "to the friends of temperance in the State of New York." It reaffirms the prohibitory law asserts that no hope of repeal can be entertained by any one, as the law has a decided majority in both Houses, and informs the people that the Court of Appeals (the ultimate resort) will in a short time make a report, and sustain the constitutionality of the law. But the circular admits that moral suasion and moral influence have been sadly neglected —that a whole generation have grow up without the pledge—that it is needful to "persuade all men and women not only to uphold prohibition as to others, but to practice total abstinence themselves." This movement has not been started too early. No one can deny the fearful increase of drunkenness and the low class of tippling shops. While men have been fighting over the law, the old customs have come back. Social drinking has been revived— the social glass has been called in to the merry party—and as of old we are again in danger of being a nation of drunkards.— And such has been the doubts about the propriety and constitutionality of the Law of Prohibition, and so earnist and persistent have the champion* of the Law been to make a support of the Law a test of a man's temperance, that the great bodv of the most reliable temperance men have, to say the least, stood aloof from the enuso and refused to act openly in its behalf. And that cause that once rallied all good men under its banner, and opened all pulpits, now can find hardly one pmlpit open to the general causo. Appoint a meeting in this city anywhere—announce that some of the clergy of New York will bo present and it can at once be known who of the eleigy will speak. It will be Dr. Tyng, of the Episcopal church or Mr. Cuyler, of the Dutch Reformed church or Mr. Chnpin of the Universaliat church or Mr. Henry Ward Be'echer, of the Congregational church. No Episcopal clergyman but Dr. Tyng sustains the law, nnd the great mass of clergyman, such as Berrien, Spring, Bethune, Potts, Phillips, &c., who have passed their lives in New York and been identified with all its interests, will not come on to the Maine Law platform. But let the same plan be adopted in New York that you have been compelled to adopt in Boston let those support the law that wish to let there be a distinct organization for all those who are to promote temperance and are not ready to sustain the law, and these men would stand where they have always stood, and temperance would again stand up with the past power of moral influence around it."

FREEDOM or THE PRESS IN NICARAGUA.— We learn from a California paper that on one occasion recently the Walker troops did not receive their usual weekly literary pabulum—El Nicaragitenst—fojr the excellent reason that it was not issued—the corps editorial and typographical having been overcome either by the climato or aguardienee. Whereupon General Walker sent word to the office that in case the paper was not issued by sunset the next day, he should send a file of soldiers to arrest the editors, printers and all. Great activity prevailed in the office after the reception of this hint, and the paper was "rushed up" just in time. The file of soldiers arrived just in season to see the forms locked up.

This is a regular Napoleonic feat, with the difference that the French Emperor sends files of soldiers to stop the press, while the dictator of Central America uses his force to set it going. Great country, that Nicaragua. Thermometer at 80 deg.-all the time. Nothing but peace, plenty, orange groves, volcanoes, and pretty women. —Jf. Y. Herald

A PARADISJK TOR LAZT FOLKS.—Dr. McBean, in a lecture recently delivered at New Orleans, on Nicaragua, drew the following picture of what could be done in that country by a lazy man who wished to live independent:

The Government gave him 250 acres of land, and the first necessity was a bouse. This was quickly supplied bv placing four posts upright in the ground, the Bpaces between which were filled in with the common cane, which grew in abundance around, and this plastered over with mud. The roof was then thatched with grass, and the house was thus completed. Little or no furniture waa needed, a hammock, answering all purposes of a bed and seat, and almost any kind of earthen vessel would answer to cook in.

The next care was to plant about a dozen bauana or plaintain trees, which need no further care, and about fifty yards of land should be hilled and planted in yams whieh if properly placed, would yield most enormously. The common frijole and Lima beans would grow with the yams, as well as a variety of other vegetables, and the native fruits of the country were almost indigenous. The plantains and yams would yield more than enough for the subsistence of the entire familj, and game of every variety could be shot almost from the door of the house. The climate was such as te render little or no clothing absolutely necessary, and thus with one month's labor a man can fix himself comfortably fur a year. Isn't that the country for a lazy man.

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Greeley calls the black females of

Washington sisters to the white women of this country. Who ever heard of white parents having bl&ok and white children How then oan black women and while women be sisters? Greeley ought to go to school and study physiology a quarter before he presumes to insult white women io this way.

(fc^A letter from the Fejee Islands, published in the New Bedford Mercury, says: "The missionariea from Sydney are considered as a great pest and source of trouble in the islands, as they improve their op

portunities in making money and interfer- that they have ever contemplated

ing with the whites, rather than in preach- Kansas,

ELOQUENTLY SPOKEN—WASHINGTON* CHARITY. Gov. Wis*, of Virginia, can utter brilliant thoughts, and sometimes they are apropos, as is his recent letter to New York on religious toleration:

I I RICHMOND, Feb. 17, 1856. GKKTLKMBR:—I cannot, I regret to say, accept your invitation to the first annual banquet in commemoration of the birthday of WASHINGTON but I concur heartily in the object of rescuing the fame of the Father of his Country from the imputation that he would ever have excluded any class of citizens from equality under the law that he would ever havo fettered conscicnce, reason, or the free will of man that he would, have ever countenanced religious intolerance by means of Test Oaths and secret cabals, and by a union of priestcraft with politics! His wisdom was too profound, his religion too pure and unspotted from the world, his Republicanism was too genuine and devoted to his country and fellow man, for that. In his name I invoke all who follow his example, to his sign in the Heaven I point all who regard him a guardian of our laws and liberty, to come up to the help of our Constitution and Union, and to the succor of the oppressed of every clime, who would come, "without money and without price," to partake of the waters of liberty and equality freely 1 There are "many mansions in our Father's house in Heaven," and every door to each nnd all is open, and tho ways to all should be left open upon earth. WASHINGTON never closed ono behind him

I am yours, truly, HENRY A. WISE.

A YOUNG DEMOCRAT OK THE RIGHT STUFF. —The following interesting incident, which occurred at the late voting-day in Dover New Hampshire, appears in the correspondence of a Boston paper:

We cannot omit to mention a circumstance in ward 2, which goes to show what good blood runs in the veins of some of our yeomanry. A young gent by the name of Durgin, of Farmingtoa, was denied the right to vote. It was conlended by the boy that he was twenty-one, but a letter from an up-country pi'.l-doctor was put in, alleging that he was not of ago, and his name was stricken nolens volens off the list. This was rather "steep." The thermometer was at zero, and the roads in the country almost impassable, but what matter when the rights for which our fathers fought knee-deep were infringed on? He chartered a fleet horse and rode away for his native home 18 miles distant where was the old family Bible, which would tell the tale. On his arrival affidavits were made out and signed by the good old grandmother, who had taught him*genuine New Hampshire democracy on her knee, and at 5.J- o'clock—tho polls having been closed an hour and a half—he presented himself once more, and demanded with the voice of a lion the right to vote. The documents were examined closely, and found correct, and into the box went as plump a democratic vote, from tho 'eagle bird' to the bottom, as ever wns printed. Of such stuff are tho New Hampshire boys made."

THE UTTEK FAILURE OF MR. BARNLM. At a recent examination in tho Supreme Court of New York, Mr. Barnum stated that in June last he had property in his hands of the value of 8000,000, against which there were liabilities of §300,000— leaving him worth #500,000. His surety for the Jerome Clock Company was originally only 9100,000, but having given them his name in blank for the purpose of renewing notes, he found to his astonishment and dismay that he was in for §464,000, for which he had not received the equivalent of a cent. He thinks now that with proper management of hia property he would be able to pay all his liabilities and still have 8400,000, but if it is disposed of at a forced sale, be will be left with worse than nothing.

During the examination of Mr. Barnum, he stated that his entire wealth consisted in a gold watch, a diamond pin, and a few obligations in his favor, by him considered worthless. He further stated to the Court, that he supports himself by keeping a boarding house in Eighth street, the provisions being furnished by his son-in-law, and the vegetables contributed by friends in Connecticut. lie likewise remarked that be had but two suits of clothes and 825 in cash in his possession. IIow are the mighty fallen I

has never given occasion for the slightest scandal, so uniformly prudeut and correct has been her life.

What enabled the Rev. Richard Cox after the revelations of his almost unprecedented scounderlism, to longer breath the air and walk In the sunlight, we have no way to determine. If ever mortal deserved the punishment of fabled Tophet, this incarnate devil merits it in its worst.

A SATANIC CLERGYMAN. A few days since, we published an extract from the New York papers, relative to a legal case in which an Episcopal clergyman of that city, one, Rev. Richard Cox, was endevoring to obtain a divorce from his wife on account of what he, and his counsel alleged to be, ter most abandoned and grossly lascivious conduct. She was stamped as a strumpet and the charges so well testified to, that we had then no doubt of their truth. But from the evidence furnished in favor of Mrs. Cox, it appears that she is A most deeply slandered and foully injured woman and that her ministerial husband is a villian of the blackest dye.— His witnesses against her have been proven to be persons wholly unworthy of belief change of discipline prohibiting such mem under any circumstances. He married his bership, will most probably be agitated, wife, it seems, with the hope of obtaining! Indianapolis is the most western point at a fortune, and when her means did not which this General Conference has ever meet his expectations, he formed tnis dam-1 held its session, and the present Confernable conspiracy to rob her of her peace of, ence was

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the ffosnel to the cannibals of that coun-j and denounce the accusation try pnitigated falsehood."

mind, her reputation, her every friend, her from our State, at tho last meeting of the all on earth. General Conference. Its members will His late unfortunate spouse is a highly .comprise a vast amount of intelligence and respectable, virtuous, excellent, lady, who L^ity, and its session will be highly in-:

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AN ELOPBMBNTEITRAOROIWAKY.—A novel elopement or fugitive slave case, whichever it may be, (says the St. Louis Herald, Feb. 27,) came off at New Albany, Indiana last Tuesday. On the morning of that day. at New Albany, a runaway couple wero captured and sent to the Louisville jail.— One of them was a likely black woman, tho cook of Mr. Newland, of Louisville, and the other a white gentleman from the East somewhere, bearing the name oi Elisha Hillyear. It was a regular love-match, tho particulars of which are thus given in tho Louisville Courier: "The white man was deeply enamored of the black cook, and no doubt persuaded her to run away, having before-hand provided a couple of through tickets over tho New Albany railroad to Michigan City, which tickets were subsequently found in bis possession. The woman, after getting breakfast for her master's family, as usual, paeked up her duds, took the omnibus to Portland, where she was joined by tho white man, and together they crossed tho river, on the ferry-boat. The woman was closely veiled, nnd excited the suspicion of Mr. Conner, the ferry-man, who noticed her pretty closely, nnd after she entered the ladies' room on the ferry-boat, saw tho man go up to her raise her veil, and im press a sweet kiss upon her pouting lips, when to the great surpriso of the ferrymaster, he discovered tho woman to be a negro. He at once took her in charge, and on the return of the ferry handed her over to Mr. Crowfoot, of the police.

The officers and others then returned tu New Albany, and, after a short search, found the white man in a cellar, captured, and brought him back to this city, and lodged him in jail, nnd he will now bo arraigned on the sweet charge of negro stealing. Hero is another caso to excite tho sympathies and indignation of tho Freosoilers and free-lovers all over the North, and wc expect them to forward funds in abundance to relievo their brother's distress."

tt3T The Minnesoiiun of the I Oth says: "The prospect of an early opening of navigation is every day growing smaller by degrees and beautifully loss. Thus far in March, the ice has become moro firm, if anything."

TIIK LOST STKAMKR PACIFIC -Tho X. V.

Courier & Inquirer says: Our belief in the Bafety of tho missing steamship Pacific has become extinct.---Fifly-nino days havo how elapsed since she left the Mersey, and no tidings have yet been received. Two steamers despatched specially to make search have returned, reporting their errand a fruitless one. Intelligence from the Western Islands has been received down to the 18th of February, but it makes no mention of the object of our solicitude. With reluctance and pain, wo are at last compelled to admit to our mind the conviction that tho Pacific is know drifting in the cavernous depths of tho ocean, a shattered shapeless wreck. Four weeks ago we wrote hopefully, giving reasons for the hope that was in us and we now feel it incumbent to assign the causes which have blanched the ruddy features of Hope, into the paleness of Despair.

A MAN OF COUKAGZ.—Captain Barnabas Willkins was as great a blusterer as Boaddil. He was very quarrelsome, but ho could never be mado to answer for his in. solence. One time a comrade, whom ho had offended, ordered him to choose his weapon—'the sword or pistol at thirty paccs.' 'Very well,' said Captain Barnabas 'I'll choose the sword at thirty paces.' Once he was brought on the duel ground. 'Surrenderl' he called out to his antagonist, in tones of thunder, though he shook like a leaf. 'Never!' retorted his enemy.—

Then I'll bo more generous,' said he, 'I'll, surreder myself!'

GENERAL METIIODIST CONFERENCE.

We have taken some trouble to be informed as to the character of the great Conference which will assemble at Indianapolis, on the first of May next, and have gathered tho following statement of facts.

The Conference will ba composed of delegates from all the annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

The whole Church North, which includes the Baltimore Conference, the Conference of Deleware nnd part of Virginia, nnd all tne Northern, Eastern and North Eastern States aro within its jurisdiction.

It convenes only every fourth year. The number of regular delegates will be about 230, besides irregular, or visiting delegates from England, Canada, fec., which will probably swell it to about 250.

Seven Bishops are expected to be attendcnce, and probably a large number of lay visitors.

The Conference is expected to continue in session about four weeks. The whole of this vast and ponderous religious association will be ia revision before the Conference.

The deeply interesting question whether the slaveholder should be allowed tho right of membership, and whether a

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structive and interesting. A daily report of its entire proceedings' will be published, and ready for delivery^ to its member and to such other persons as may desire to subscribe, on each succeeding morning.

Largo and suitable accommodations have been securod for the rr.embers. Its sossion will bo held in Roberta Chnpel.

A large throng of visitors from nli parts of the State will be here, and we bespeak them and for thr gentlemen of the Confercnce a liberal exhibition ol the proverbi-

as ao "uu- al hospitali'y of the citu-. »s c»| JndiaflijpQ* lis.— Stale Sentinel.