Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 7 August 1858 — Page 1

1EW SERIES-VOL. I, NO. 3.

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"iKrtod in tbe lull of bi» «n* Pur" poHwuto have plnngcd my dirk In the body of Allah McAulmy but I thero Annot Ljle, even win ny wu on the liilt of tho dagger. She tombed her harp to *ong of the Children of the Miat/whtcb *be bad learned when her dwelling waa among o«. The woods in which we had dwelt, pleaaantly rattled their green leaves in tho song und oar stream* were there with tho sonnd of all their waters. My hand foraook the dagger and I would not strike.—SCOTT'S LEOEXD or MOOT-BOSK.

Frowning in a frenzied mood .••• .£ On the feasting and tho ball Though the midnight hour had past,

Still tbe clansmen thronged the board ill.: Flagon* of the foaming alo, 'j&i iiAobletfl of the wine were poured

But I acorn'd his bread to taste Or the generousoup to share Xarknesa brooded on my mind, 'i And revenge forbado to sparo.

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Op the ohimnc !rt mighty throat £ike tfolcanocB roar'd the flames Torches of the resinous pino

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Flash'd stately chiefs and dames Flashing with a rody gleam On tho rafters gray and grim, •n On the banners that like palls

Swung from vaulted arches dim ,: 't Qleamed on buckler and on blade, On the battlc-axo and spear Weapons that upon the walls Rattled with the revel'schocr. ..

As the wassail fiorcor grow, On mo fell a dcoper gloom,

T' remcmbcr'd tlio renown

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Of my own ancestral home, s» Vlre the fierce McAulay came With tho desolating flame

Clutching then my dagger's hilt, a Soon liis heart-blood hod been spilt

But an old strain sad and sweet From tho harp of Annot Lylc, Sootli'd mo till I could not striko, -vCulm'd me like an angel's smilo.

Graceful o'er her harp she bent liaJiant shone her locks of gold, As aho touched tho tuneful wiro To aton!{ belov'd of old In tho sweet stroin, every stream Of our mountains sang again, Chiming down the henthery hills, Ringing o'er tho flowery plain In the song, the bending woods M'here our plcasnnt homes lmd been, Hustled thoir embowel ing shades, fcijmg with all tliei leaves of green.

Memories of happier iluys, MelodiCH of oilier years, Waken'"d with tho inagie strain, Mingling all their joys and tears, SmilM our upland pastures bright, Piiiil'd each eopse, and dingle dim, The gray castle of my sires, O'er my tranced sen so would swim: And a softening influence fell 'bi my spirit like a spell Listening to tho guntlo maid, 1 lorgot the vengeful blado.

A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER.

A ItKVOLl'TIONARY SKETCH.

Colonel Allen MeLanc, who died at Wilmington, Del., in 1820, at the patriarchial age of eighty-three, was distinguished for his personal courage, and for his activity as a partisan officer, lie was long attached to Major Leo's famous legion of horse. While the British occupied Philadelphia, MeLanc was constantly scouring the upper rmd of Bucks and Montgomery counties, to cut off the scouting parties of the cncmv, and intercept their supplies of provisions. Having agreed for some purpose, to rendezvous near Shoemakcrtown, Colonel MeLane ordered his little band of troopers to follow at some distance, and commanded two of them to precede the main body, but also to keep in his rear and if they discovered an enemy, to ride up to his side and iuform him of it, without speaking nloud. While leisurely approaching the placc of rendeivous in this order, in the early gray of the morning, the two men directly in the rear, forgetting their orders, suddenly called out, 'Colonel, the British!' faced about, and putting spurs to their hor» HOB, were soon out of sight. The Colonel looking around, discovered that he was in the ccutrc.of an ambuscade, into which the enemy had silently allowed him to pass without his observing thcin. They lined both sides of the road, and had been stationed there to pick up any straggling party of the Americans that might chanco to pass. Immediately on finding they were discovered, a file of soldiers rose from the aide of the highway, and fired at the Colonel, but without effect and as he put spurs to his horse, and mounted the road-side into the woods, the other part of the detachment also fired. The Colonel escaped but a shot striking his horse upon the flank, he dashed through tho woods, and in a few minutes reached a parallel road upon the opposite side of the forest. Being familiar with the country, he feared to turn to the left, as that course led to the city, and he might be intercepted by another ambuscade. Turning, therefore, to the right, his frightened horse carried him swiftly beyond the reach of those who had fired upon him. *.

All at once, however, on emerging from apiece of woods, he observed several British troops stationed near the road-side, and directly in sight ahead, a farm house, around which no observed a whole troop of tho enemy's cavalry drawn up. He dashed by the troops near him without being molested. The farm house was situated at the intersection of two roads, presenting but two avenues by which he could cscape. Nothing daunted by the formidable array before him, he galloped up to the cross-roads, on reaching which, he spurred his horse, turned suddenly to the right, and was soon fairly out of reach of their pistols, though as he turned, he heard them oall loudly to surrender or die! A dosen were instantly in pursuit but in a short time thevalLgave up the chase except two. CoL McLane's horse, scared by the wound, and being a chosen animal, kept ahead for aeyeral miles, while his two pursuers followed with unwearied eagerness. The pursuit at lengths waxed so hot, that, as the CoJonel'E horse stepped out of a small brook whiah crossed the road, his pursuers entered ji at the opposite margin. In ascending a little hill, the horses of the three

were greatly exhausted, so much so, that neither ctfrild be urged faster than a walk. Occasionally, da one of the troopers pursued on, a little iii advance of his companion, -the Colongl slackened bis pace, anxious to be attacked by one of tbe two but no sooner was his willingness discovered, than the other fell bock to hie station.

They at length approached so near, that a conversation took place between them the troopers calling out, "surrender you rebel, or we'll cut you in pieces." Suddenly one of them rode up on the right side of the Colonel, and, without drawing his sword, laid hold of the Colonel's collar. The latter, to use his own words, "had pistols which he knew he could depend on." Drawing one from the holster, he placed it to the heart of his antagonist, fired, and tumbled him dead on the ground. Instantly the other man came upon his left, with his sword drawn, and also seized the Colonel by the collar of his coat. A fierce and deadly struggle here ensued, in the course of which Colonel McLane was desperately wounded in the back of his left hand, the sword of his antagonist cutting asunder the veins and tendons of that member. Seeing a favorable opportunity, lie drew his other pietol, and with a steadiness of purpose, placed it directly between the eyes of his adversary, pulled the trigger, and scattered his brains on every side of the road! Fearing that others were in pursuit, he abandoned his horse in the highway and apprehensive, from his extreme weakness, that he might die from loss of blood, he crawled into an adjacent mill-pond, entirely naked, and at length succeeded in stopping the profuse flow of blood occasioned by his woiind: In a short time he had so far recovered as to be able to join his comrades.

LIBERIA IN THE SLAVETRADE. The New York Herald says that revelations recently made in the British House of Lords show thttt the free colored citizens of Liberia, have engaged in the slave trade! Oan this be true We annex a portion of the Herald's remarks

The official testimony is, that our pet little free nigger republic, of Liberia, the darling of one shade of the abolitionists in general, the evidence that was to be of the capacity of the free nigger, the hope of Africa, has gone into the slave trade, and sold its fellow niggers, just the same as if it was a colony of white men. The President of that republic approved so highly of the French free slave plan, that he bargained to get $1,505 as his share of the purchase money for 400 head of free niggers, and persuaded the French captain to carry out his operations exclusively in the territories of the Libcriau republic. This is pretty good—dog eat dog, or rather nigger eat nigger. It must not be supposed, however, that this rate of about four dollars a head is (he Libcrian President's valuation of a healthy, able-bodied nigger it is only his price for pcrmiting the French slave trade to bu}r niggers "under tho superintendence of the Libcrian authori tics." Wc can fancy how like a wet blanket this intelligence of the free nigger falling from grace will conic upon the ardent minds of our enthusiastic abolitionists.

MASSACRE OF CM RlSTIAXS IIV ilIOII AM.1IE DANS. Tn the telegraphic news, by the steamer Indian, we find an account of a dreadful massacre of Christians by Mohammedans, at "J'eddah," in Arabia. Twenty persons, including the British and French Consuls, arc reported victims. Attacks of this kind have been frequent within the last few months. In January the lions? of an American minister—Rev. Walter Dickson —at Jaffa, was attacked by a party of Arabs, his son-in-law murdered, the wife of the murdered man and her mother brutally violated, and the missionary himself beaten senseless bv the maurauders. In May, at the town of Salilch, another American missionary, .Kcv. Mr. Dod, was compelled to take to the mountains with his wife and infant child. This last outrage, however, is represented of a more bloody and alarming character, and will probably demand the interference of England and France, whose representatives are among the murdered. Since the outbreak of the Indian war, there seems to have sprung up among the Mohammedan nations all over Asia, a bloody hostility to the Christians—whether that event has had anything to do with the suddeu revival of that spirit or not, it is hard to say bat it looks as if it had gained an extraordinary impulse, from the fact that the Mohammedan and Hindoo population of Hiudostan were in arms against the great Christiau "civilizer" of the Indian peninsula.

•fifMr. Montgomery, of Pennsylvania, in a letter to his constituents relating to his nomination, says: "I have, invariably in all parts of the district, said to the people that I was not a "Lccompton" candidate, nor an "anti-Lccompton" candidate, but simply an old fashioned Democratic candidate, subject to tho customs and usages of the party. We had some difference of opinion among us on the Kansas question, but now that controversy is terminated by a bill, which if it is not all we could ask, is yet a compromise which wc, as good citizens should faithfully carry out. The course of true wisdom demands of every Democrat to exert his influence to harmonise and unite the part\-." I

The Indians in the region of the Frazer river mines are divided in opinion with regard to Americans. Two boatmen who had just returned to San Francisco reported that the more numerous party, headed by Polook, a chief, are disposed to receive them favorably, because they receive more money for their labor from the "Bostons" than from "King George's men," as they style the English. Another portion of the Indians are in favor of driving off the "Bostons," being fearful of having their country overrun by them.

tST "Speaking your mind," Jerrold says "is an extravagance that has ruined many a man."

The corner-stone of the Calhoun

monument at Charleston, S. C., was laid with much ceremony on the 28th ult.

[From the Spiritual Telegraph.]

ANOTHER LETTER on SPIRITUALISM FROM JUDGE EDMONDS —A TEST FROM THE SPIRIT OF DR. HARE.

NEW YORK, Monday, July 5.

DEAR PATRJDGE—The following letter from Maine is worth publishing because of the evidence or identity it affords, thus adding another to the heap already gathered in that respect.'/

The communication from Prof. Hare' is literally true, not only as to his meeting at Saratoga and General Webb's speaking at it, but also as to the fact that the General's brother is my brother-in-law.

It is natural tffat the Professor should have referred to that occasion, because matters then advanced were a frequent topic of conversation between us.

General Webb, in his remarks, took occasion to contrast my belief in revelation through Jesus of Nazareth and his disciples, with the Professor's unbelief in it, and I had watched with close scrutiny the progress of the Professor in that respect.

My first acquaintance with him arose out of his having sought an interview with me shortly after he had begun his investigations of Spiritualism.

He then told me how resolute an opponent to the prevailing religion of the day he had been all his life, denying all revelation, rejecting the Bible, and even going so far as to collate and publish offensive extracts from it, and questioning man's immortality and the existence of a God.— Therefore it was that I watched his pro gress with solicitude, to see if his unbelief would not yield to the truths of Spiritualism, as that of many, very many others of a similar state of mind had yielded.

Scarcely two years elapsed before the Professor showed me that my anticipations were correct, and his unbelief w.Ts yielding to the force of evidence. He first acknowledged a belief in his immortality, and said that had been demonstrated to him by spiritual intercourse, in this wise:— That the spirits who had spoken to him through different mediums, had so proved to him their identity with persons whom he had known on earth—and particularly his sister—that there was no room to doubt it. He was slow and cautious in receiving that conviction, but when it was thus, bv frequent

intercourse

with the spirits of the

departed, firmly fixed in his mind, liis next step was, as he told me, to reason if man did live.forever there must be an overrul iiig Providence! i.

But there he stuck fast for a while, denying still revelation and the value of the Bible. Ilcnce in iuy letter to "A distinguished legal gentleman," written in December, 1856, and now published ns Spiritual Tract No. 5, I used this lttiigitage, "Dr. Ilare has all his life long been an honest, sincere, but inveterate disbeliever in the Christian religion. Late_.nl life .Spiritualism comes to him, and in"a"short time works in his mind the conviction of the existence of a God and his own immortality. So far his Spirit teachers have already gone with him. But he still denies rove* lation."

The Professor saw this letter as publish* ed, and spoke to me about these remarks. This was tho last time I ever saw him, and lie then told mc that he was at length a full believer in Revelation, and in the Revelations through Jesus—that, in fine, he was now a Christian, full in the faith^tluit but a few days before he had made a pub* lie proclamation of this belief, at a meeting which lie had addressed at Salem, Massa* chusetts, and he read to mc a long article on that subject, which he had prepared for publication.

The article was very characteristic of the Professor. It had all the simplicity, directness and vigor of thought which marked the writings of our venerable and much esteemed friend and was a full confirmation of nij' anticipations, for I had often said, that if his life was spared long enough, such would be the inevitable result of spiritual intercourse on his mind.

Hence you will readily pcrccivc how natural it was for him to refer to this topic in any attempt to prove his identity to me. Our conversation on this subject, to the purport of which he now refers, were, many of them, private between us, and were known to no one on earth but him and me. The test of identity to mc, then, is very strong.

But there is something more important than this in the matter. You know how strenuously have ever insisted upon it as one of the blessings of Spiritualism, that I had the power thus to conquer infidelity. In the introduction of my second volume of Sjririhtalism, you rccollcct, too, I published some twenty letters from different persons, showing that the writers of those letters were but a few of the long list that wc have of such conversions. Dr. Hare is now to be added to the list. The elder Robert Owen, now over eighty years of age, is another, and even now the announcement is going the rounds of the papers that Robert Dale Owen is also to be added.

I have abundant reasons to know that all this is the legitimate works of the muchdespised spiritual intercourse.

Yours, &c., J.W.EDMONDS.

"EAST TURNER, ME., July 1, '58. "JOHN W. EDMONDS—Dear

Sir: Al

though a stranger to you, I take the liberty to write, in accordance with a request of Professor R. Hare, who, it seems, passed away, or left the earth some weeks ago. 'iiast evening I was at the house of John 0. Harris, at East Turner. There were six of us present Mrs. Harris being a trance medium, she was controlled by a spirit who claimed to be that of Professor Robert Hare. He said he came for a twofold purpose first, to give us some useful instruction, and secondly to prove his identity. I asked him how he could prove his identity? Said he I will relate a little incident. It is this: In 1850, or two years ago, I visited Saratoga Springs, and on the Fourth of July I was where there was a collection of ladies and gentlemen. I took occasion to address them on the subject of spiritualism. In the course of remarks General Webb interrupted me, and, among other things, he said that I rejected the Bible, and denied all revealed religion, which roused my angry passions (for which I am very sorry,) not because he did not believe in spiritualism, but because he then

land there took occasion to catechise me before I had closed my remarks, and to create a prejudice in the minds of those present. He aiso said that: Gen. Wdbb's brother married Judge E'dthond's sister, and if I would write to you I should get the above confirmed. There, were six of us present, and not one of .us ever^knew anything in relation to the matter.

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"The above is a small thing to trouble you with, but if you will take the trouble to write what you know about it, you will much oblige a friend and stranger. .If.this should prove true, it will be a proof of Spirit identities, and add another to the many I have already received. "Truly yours in the cause of humanity, "SILAS GURNEY."

LIFE IN AND OUT OF NEW* YORK.—A New York correspondent of the Boston

Journal writes: "Business is dull—very dull. Hundreds of young men have no work. Pour thousand clerks have left the city for want of employment. Fine looking intelligent and capable young men take any menial service, rather than have no work tn do.— One young man, a capable book-keeper, may be seen daily on a dray, with his horse, getting a living on that plan. At no time since the panic began, have "times" been so hard for men of moderate means. We have a great many of your Boston young men here, out of employment, who left good comfortable situations at the East, attracted by the glare and temptation of New York. Many of them wish themselves at home. All business is over-done the law, physic, merchandise, trade, clerkships—all but preaching. If any man, "right smart," wants to come into the mission field of our city, work like a galley slave, and get his. "victuals and his clothes," the first scanty and the last coarse, lie can conic to New York and get employment.. All others had better stay away.". -JJhi

8£3~Mr. Jefferson Richardson, a young man residing about two miles South of Indianapolis, took a large portion of arsenic on Friday, for the purpose of self-destruc-tion. He had been jilted, it is said, by a young lady. The amount of poison taken was too large to produce the cffcct desired, and Mr. 11. did not die as soon as he expected to do so. On Saturday-he was in a condition to give his friends some reason to hope for his recover}'. His ease being made known to his "lady love," she relented, and felt very sorry for her "cruel treatment-," and made a visit to him for tlic purpose of doing what she could to relieve his distress. Under her treatment, which consisted in keeping the flies from him, and expressing her regrets, interspersed with a few caresses, the young man, at-la-test dates, was improving, ajid .expressed himself as feeling better.—<Ind. Journal, 26th>. ---<>---

A DESERTED CITY.

A letter dated Salt Lake City, June 18, says: "This city which six weeks ago contained not less than fifteen thousand inhabitants, now has but little over one hundred, they all having emigrated to a small town about fifty miles south, called Provo, where they live, some in tents, some in wagons, some in small houses, some without any one of these comforts. And even to this day, notwithstanding the treaty of peace, they continue to leave the city which they have been for the last ten years attempting to build. The roofs of the public works, the floors of the houses, and all the board fencing, have been used in boarding up the doors and windows of the houses. All appears desolate—hardty a person can be seen, save about the post office, and a small but neat resturant [sic], which is the only place of accomodation [sic] in the city, and it only affording relief in the way of meals. Not a cent's worth can be bought here, nor can any work be produced from the manufacturing establishments. One baker shop emrbaces [sic] all the trade and commerce of the city.

The Governor and lady were fortunate enough to come across a person kind enough to permit them to occupy his house, but all others, officers and stranges [sic], have to enjoy the luxury of sleeping in their carriages or on the ground.

The course of this people will doubtless seem strange to you, and it is really unaccountable. A people, a large majority of whom are poor and needy, to leave their comfortable houses and take up quarters in the open prairie, and this after a settlement of all difficulties had been adjusted, does seem strange.

to it, and will in all probability, destroy by

fire the whole city, and this intention may account for their refusing to allow any one to occupy their houses. ---<>---

LAGER BEER THAT INTOXICATES.—Large

quantities of Cocculus livlicus, poisuii-

ous and intoxicating drug, are imported to

this country for use, it is said, in the manufacture of lager beer. Since that beverage has comc into extensive use, the importation of Cocculus Indicus is said to hare largely increased. It is used by dishonest brewers because their beer requires less malt when Coccidus is an ingredient of it.—N. Y. Times.

•©"Nebraska is our largest Territory.— It will make about eighty States as large as New Hampshire, and is about one-sixth thc size of Europe.

We forgive the man who bores ns

much more easily than we do the man who lets us see that we are boring him.

•©"A beautiful monument has been prepared in Charleston to the memory of thc late Preston S. Brooks,

CBAWF0RD8YILLE, MOHTGOlERY: COUNTY, INDIANA, AUGUST 7, 1858. WHOLE NUMBER 843,

[From tho London Pamphlet*.]

R\REY'S GREAT HORSE'-TAMIX^ §E-

cRirr.

First. That he (the horse) is so constituted'by'nature that he will not offer resistance to any demand made of him, which he fully comprehends, if made in a way consistent with the laws of nature.

Second. That he has no consciousness of his strength beyond his experience, and can be handled "according to1 our will without force.

Third. That we can, in compliance with the laws of liis nature by which he examines all things new to him, take any object however frightful, around, over, or on him, that does not inflict pain, without causing him to fear.

The horse, though possessed of some faculties superior to man's, being deficient in.

reasoning powers, has no knowledge of right or wrong, of free will and independent government, and knows not of any imposition practiccd upon him, however unreasonable these impositions may be.— Consequently he can not come to any decision as to what he should or not do, because lie has not the reasoning faculties of man to argue the justice of the thing demanded of him. If he had taken into consideration his superior strength he would be useless to a man as a servant.

Every one that lias ever paid any attention to the horse has noticed his natural inclination' to smell everything which to him looks new and frightful. This is his trail go mode of examining everything.— And when lie is frightened at anything, though he looks at it sharply lie. seems to have no confidcnce in this optical examination alone, but must touch it with his nose before he is entirely satisfied and as soon as this is done, all is right.

We might very naturally suppose, from the fact of the horse's applying his nose to everything new to him, that he always does so for the purpose of smelling these objects. But I believe that it is as much or more for the purposo of feeling, and that he makes use of his nose or muzzle (as it is sometimes called) as wc would of our hands bccausc it is the only organ by which he can touch or feel any thin much susceptibility

Wc know, from horse sees and

tancc from him, he is very much frightened (unless lie is used to it) until he touchcs or feels it with his nose—which is positive proof that feeling is the controlling sense in this case.

It is a prevailing opinion among horsemen generally that the sense of smell is the governing sense of the horse and Fauclier, as well as others, has, with that view, got up receipts of strong-smelling oils, &c., to tame the horse, sometimes using the chestnut of his legs, which they dry, grind into powder, and blow into his nostrils sometimes using the oil of rhodium, organiuui, &c\, that are noted for their strong smell and sometimes they scent the hand with the sweat from under the arm, or sometimes blow their breath into his nostrils, &e., all of which, as far as the scent goes, have no effect whatever in gentling the horse, or conveying any idea to his mind though the acts that accompany these efforts—handling him, touching him about the nose aud head, and patting him, as they direct you should, after administering the articles—may have a great effect., which they mistake to be the effects of the ingredients used.

Now reader, can you, or any one else, give one single reason how scent can convey any idea to the horse's mind of what we want him to do.' If not, then of course strong scents of any kind are of no avail in taming the unbroken horse.

In order to obtain perfect obedience from any horse, wc must have him to fear us, for our motto isj fear, love awl obcij and we must have the fulfillment of the first two before we can expect the latter for it is by our philosophy of creating fear lower love and confidcncc, that wc govern to our will every kind of horse whatever I should not want, for myself, more than half or three-quarters of an hour to handle any colt and have him running about in the stable after me though I would advise a new beginner to take more time and not be in too much of a hurry. When

Tho war may be at an end, but there is yet some shadow of doubt. I have asked many of the Mormons why it is they yet continue to remove their households and provisions at so great an expense, when all things are reported settled? But few will answer in plain terms, and those who do say that they have riot confidcncc in the fulfillment of what they'consider the agreement. That they want to sec the army enter and locate before the)' change the .. plans previously adopted by them. The will of anything that you can put in it, and What made matters

that lie has any preference for

scent of articles from the hand. I have already made it appear that that notion is a mistake.

As soo'n as he touches his nose to your hand, carcss him .as before dircctcd, always

very soft, ligTit h'and" inerely touch-

ing thc borsc always

rubbing the way the

hair lies, so that your handwill pass along as smoothly as possible. As you stand by his side, you may find it more convenient to rub his neck or the side of his head, which will answer thc same purpose as rubbing his forehead. Favor every inclination of the horse to touch or smell you with his nose. Always follow each touch or communication of this kind with the most tender and affectionate caresses, accompanied with a kind look and pleasant word of some sort, such as "Ho! my little boy, ho! my little boy!" "Pretty boy!"— "Nice lady!" or something of the kind, constantly repeating the same words, with the same kind, steady tone of voice for thc horse soon learns to read the expression of thc face and the voice, and will know as well when fear, love, 6r anger pre

of which—fear and anger—a good horseman should never feel. If your horse, instead of bring wild, seems to be of a stubborn or mtllish disposition if he lays back his 6ars as you approach him, or turns his heels to kick you, he has not that regard or fear of man that he should have to enable you to handle him quickly and casilv and it might be well to give him a few sharp cuts with the whip about the legs, pretty closo to the body. It will crack keenly as it plies around his legs, and the crack of the whip'will effect him as much as the stroke besides, one sharp cut about his legs will affect him more than two or three over his back, the skin on the inner part of his legs or about his flank being thinner and more tender than on his back. But do not whip him much.

THEGREAT STORM ON TIIE AGAMEMNON. The London Times of the ,16th contains a very long letter from a correspondent on on board the Agamemnon, detailing the proceedings of that ship from the time of her sailing from Plymouth, in company with the Niagara aud the other vessels of the Atlantic telegraph squadron, on the 10th of June. The early portion of the letter narrates the voyage, which commenced under the most favorable auspices, the weather on the first three days being very mild and calm. A gale then commenced, however, and the difficulties and dangers to which tho growing storm for many &iys exposed the Agamemnon, arc described at much length. One of the most striking episodes of the storm is thus described: "At ten o'clock, (on the 20th of June,) the Agamemnon was laboring and rolling fearfully, with the sky getting darker, and both wind and sea increasing every minute. At about half past ten o'clock, three or four gigantic waves were seen approaching the ship, coming heavily and slowly .on through the mist, nearer and nearer, rolling on like hills of green water, with a crowd of foam that seemed to double their height. The Agamemnon rose heavily to the first, and then went down quickly into the deep she did trough of the sea, falling over as with

s0 so as

inmost to capsizc completely on

the port.-sidc./-i:: '•v ••••v

experience, that if a There was a fearful crashing as she lay smells a robe a short dis- over this way, for everything broke adrift,

whether secured or not, and the uproar and confusion were terrific for a minute then back she came again on the starboard beam in the same manner, only quicker, and still deeper than before. Again there was the same.noise and crashing, and tho officers in the wardroom who knew the danger of the ship, struggled to their feet, arid opened the door leading to the main deck.—• Here, for an instant, the scene almost delies description. Amid loud shouts and efforts to save themselves, a confuscd mass of sailors, boys, and marines, with deck hatchets, ropes, ladders, and everything that could get loose, which had fallen back .again to the port side, were being hurled again in a mass across the ship to starboard. Dimly, and only for an instant, could this be seen, with groups of men clinging to the beams with all their might, with a mass of water which had forced its way in through ports aud dscks, surging about and with a tremendous crash, as the ship fell still deeper over, the coals stowed on the main deck broke loose, and smashing everything before them, went over among the rest to leeward. The coal dust hid everything on the main deck in an instant, but the crashing could still be heard going on in all directions, as the lumps and sacks of coal with stanchcons, ladders, and mess tins, went leaping about the decks, pouring down the hatchways and crashing through the glass skylights into the engine room below.

Still it was not done, and, surging again over another tremendous wave, the Agamemnon dropped down still more to port, and the coals on the starboard side of the deck gave way also, and carried everything before them. Matters now became most serious, for it was evident that two or three more such lurches and the masts would go like reeds, while half the crcw might be maimed or killed below.— Captain Prccdy was already on the poop, with Lieutenant Gibson, and it was "Rands, wear ship!" at once while Mr. Brown,

you have entered the stable, stand still the indefatigable chief engineer, was^ orand let your horse look at you for a min-1 dered to get up steam immediately. The ute or two, and as soon as he is settled in crew gained the deck with difficulty, and one placc, approach him slowly, with your not until after a lapse of some minutes, for arms stationary, your right hand

hanging

Jail the ladders had

been

by your side, holding the whip as directed, the men were grimed with coal dust, and and the left bent to the elbow, with the I many bore still more serious marks upon hand projecting. As you approach him their faces of how they had been knocked go not too near his head or croup, so as about below. There was some confusion not to make him move cither backward or at first-, for the storm was fearful the offiforward, step a little to the right or left ccrs were quite inaudible, and a wild dan-, ti,rcG times by

very cautiously this will keep him in one gerous sea, running mountains high, heeled

onds. If you arc very near him lie will: feet for an instant, and in some cases were ilt,i„]lt

turn his head and smell your hand, not! thrown across the decks in a fearful man-'

your

your naked hands just as quickly as they machine suffered.

broken away, and

placc. As you get very near him, draw a the great ship backwards and forwards, so Jitchell measured it in 1855, and Profess little to his shoulder and stop a few sec-j that the crcw were unable to keep their

hand, I ncr two marines went with a rush, head

but because that, is projecting, and is the foremost, into the paying-out maehinc, lcvation to be 0,7~11 feet. The first two nearest portion of your body to the horse, if they meant to butt it over the side yet,

This all colts will do, and they will smell strange to say, neither the men nor the

ened to crush any one who ventured

ber of whom

extravagant

vails as you know your own feelings two straining apart, and, of course, as the Aga-

riieinnon righted, they closed again and crushed his fingers flat. One of the assistant engineers (Mr. Harrey) was also buried among the' coals on the" lower deck, and sustained some severe internal injuries. The lurch of the ship was calculated at forty--five degrees each way for five times in rapid succcssiotf. •'The galley coppcrs were only half filled with soup yet, nevertheless, it nearly all poured out, and scalded suirte of the poor fellows who- we're extended on the decks holding to anything in reach. These with a dislocation, were the chief causualitics but there were others of bruises and contusions, mote or less severe, and of course long list of escapes more marvellous than any injury. One fellow wont head first from the main dcck into the hold without being hurt, and one on the orlop deck was "chovicd" about for some ten minutes by the large casks of oil which had got adrift, and one of which would have flattened him like a pancake, had they overtaken him. As soon as the Agamemnon had gone round on the other tack, the Niagara wore also, and bore down as if to render assistance. She had witnessed onr dangor, and, as wc afterwards learned, imagined that the upper dock coil had broken loose, and that we were almost in a sinking conditiou. Things, however, wero not so bad as that, though they were bad enough, Heaven, knows for everything seemed to go wrong that day. The upper deck coil had strained the ship to the very utmost, but still held on fast but not so tho coil in the main hold, which had begun tc get adrift, and tho top kept working and shifting over from side to side as the ship lurched, till some forty or fifty miles werw in a hopeless state of tangle, resembling nothing so much as a cargo of livo cols and there was every prospect of tho tangle spreading deeper and deeper as the bad weather continued/'

LATER FRO.U CALIFORNIA AND FRAZIER RIVER.

Arrival of the .Steamer dose's Taylor.

NEW YORK, July 27.

The steamer Moses Taylor, from Aspinwall on the 10th inst., arrived this morning with the California mails of July 5th, and $1,163,817 in treasure.

The advices from California are not of niiieh importance. The principal feature is the Frazer River cxcitcment, which was without abatement.

The reports froni the new gold fields aro getting to be quite fabulous. One letterwriter, vouched for in the San Francisco papers as reliable, says his lirst day's yield at the mines was $t00

Victoria was crowded with Americans, who had ran up building lots to enormous prices, some as high as 620,000,

The Hudson Bay Company was buying dust at $15 per ounceThe Indians had began to molest tho emigrants on their way to the mines. A party of ten encamped near Seponie, wero attacked and six killed. Twenty-one canoes filled with Indian warriors wero passed going into Victoria, by tho steamer Sea Bird, and 200 more wero on tho way and daily cxpected at that point.

It was feared the mining region would be overrun and indiscriminate massacru would follow-

Fourteen steam and sail vessels left San Francisco during a fortnight for Frazer river*

California news unimportant. The Supreme Court had decided tho Sunday law unconstitutional, and all proscj eutions based on the law had been abanj dolled

One hundred houses iu the Chinese dis-. trict in Orovillo, had been burned. Loss §30,000

Several bridges were burned at Stockton on the 4th of July, together with tho Massachusetts House and iiowen & Bro.'s warehouse.

Advices from Oregon state that the Indians of the Upper Columbia arc Collecting iu large numbers. Object unknown.

Tho State election had resulted in tho choice of the whole Democratic tickets Advices from Oregon and Washington Territories report a general gathering of Indians in that region, with evident hostile intentions. The commander of tho Pacific forces is hurrying hither all tho troops at his command, but their numbers and equipments are wretchedly inadequate.

MOUNTAIN MIIASUKKMKNT.—The highest peak of the Black Mountain in North Carolina, which is the highest land East of the Rooky Mountains, has been measured

scientific

rcsul^ arC

fair widow,

pass it. Thc regular discipline the usage by some self-constituted dispensers ship, however, soon prevailed, and the justice in that neighborhood. Ho was crew set to work to wear round the ship on JugitcJ in a pond, then enveloped in a coat the starboard tack, while Lieutenant

Ivob-,0f

Lf 10

persons, and tho.

quite remarkable. Professor

(Juyot in 1-S56 the first reported tho

were

be G.708 feet, the hitter's figures

0,709 feet. Major J. C. Turner

m0lTSlirC(

was nKl(

worse

last vcar, and reported tho

harometric il movements the third

jc it], the spirit level.

Pul-TOLL T.UlKKt) AND FKATHKIIKU.

was subjected recently to rough

tar and feathers, hoisted on a rail, and

iuson and Murray went below to see uitor cscortod from tuwn, while the perpetrators., those who had been hurt, about the num-

docd,

rumors prevailed town,

principally

were

amon" thc men. There were, however, heers and smiles of their wives and their unfortunately, but too many. The marine sentry outside the wardroom door on the main dcck hail not had time to escape, and was completely buried under the coals.— Some time elapsed before he could be got out, for one of thc beams used to shore up the sacks, which had crushed his arm very badly, still lay across the mangled limb, jamming it in such a manner that it was found impossible to .move it without risking thc man's life. Saws, therefore, had to be sent for, and thc timber sawn away ere thc poor fellow could bo extricated. Another marine on thc lower deck endeavored to save himself by catching hold of what seemed a ledge in thc planks, but unfortunately, it was only causcd by thc beams

daughters.

laborers of tho

rewarded, it is said, with tho

COUNTUV FASHIONS.—Thc Conner.SEVILLE

Telegraph says: It is a novel idea for young ladies to attend evening parties and return home at a late hour at night accompanied by a crowd-. of noisy young men, who make the night hideous With unearthly sounds and still more so for younir ladies to be perched upon the backs of gentlemen wending their way homeward.

jigjr-31rs5. Bloomer says she nevcr'could sec anything pretty in woman's swelling out from her hips to her feet like a hogshead or biir-bottomed churn.