Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 15 January 1859 — Page 1
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Rhymes of the River.
Oh, Eiver, far-flowing, How broad thou art growing,
And tho sentinel Headlands wait grimly for thee And Euroclydon urges Tho bold-riding surges, That in white-crest cd lines gallop in from theses.
Oh, bright-hearted river, With crystalline quivor,
Like a blade from its scabbard, far flashing abroad And I think, as gaze On the tremulous blare, That thou surely wert drawn by an Angel of God.
Through the black heart of night, Leaping ont to the light, [dawn Thou art recking with sunset, and dyed with the
Cleft the emerald sod— .*• Cl'jft the mountains of God— And the shadows of roses yet rested theroon
Wlicre willows are weeping, ''.Where shadows are sleeping, [crest Where tho frown of tho mountain lies dark on thy
Arcturus now shining, Arbutus now twining, [breast And 'my Castles in Spain' gleaming down in thy
Then disaster'd and dim, Swinging sullon and griin,
Whcrothe old rugged shadows of hovcta aro shed Creeping in, creeping out,
As in droam, or in doubt,
In tho roeds and the rushes slow rocking the dead.
Where all crimson and gold, Slowly home to tho fold,
Do the fleecy clouds flock to tho gateway of Even, Then no longer brook-born, But away paved with morn, Ay, a bright golden street to the city of Heaven?
In the great stony heart Of tho feverish mart,
Is the throb of thy pulses pellucid, to-day: By gray mossy ledgys, By green velvet edges, Where the corn waves its sabre, thou glidest away:
Broad and brave, deep and strong, Thou art lapsing along, And the stars ri.so and fall oil thy turbulent tide,
As light as tlio drifted White swnn's-breust is lifted,
Or the June fleet of lilies at anchor can ride.
Through the close-ordered ranks On the forest-fringed banks, With thy eddies, like ehiidrcn, at plav ill the shade
Then unsheathed in tho sun, Where they sleep, one by onc,i By the iloeks of white villages flocking tlie'glade
And vet. gallant l!iver. On-llnsl ing forever, [main, Thou hast cleft the broad world oil thy way to the 1 would part from thee here,
With a smile ami a tear,
And us Hebrew, read back to thy fnuntniu ai'nin.
Ah, well I remember, Kre dying December [breast. Seemed to fall like, a snow-flake, and melt oil thy
O'er thy waters .so nat row, The little brown Sparrow
I'i-ed to send hi* low song to his mate on the nest:
When a silvery skein
•••.Wove nf snow and of rain, [land. Thou did.it wander at will through the bud laden All the air a sweet psalm,
And the meadow palm--
As a blue vein meanders a liberal hand.
When the Schoolmaster's daughter, With her hands scooped the water, And then laughingly froffered the crystal to mo, (, there ne'ur sparkled up,
A more exijuisite cup,
Than the pair of white hands that were brimming with thee
And there all together, In bright summer weather,
Did wo loiter with thee, along thy green brink: And how silent we grew, If the Ilobin came too,
As we bent hand in hand, Thou didst DOUBLE tho band,
As idle as daisies, and as ik-etinjas they
I.ike a dawn in a eloud, l.av the babe in the shroud, [hand Aud a rose-bud was clasped in its frozen white
At the mother's last look, It had orr.Ni-:] the book,
As if sw-cet-breathing June were nbroa.l in tho land.
Oh, puro. placid Mive Make music fore
*.
im,M^ I
For on thy fair shore, Gently drifted before,
1— -I— :scr\L.r')
If a tree has been shaken, If a star has been taken,
We mav iind the lost blossoms that once wore our economical purposes ot agncultu
Ah, beautiful Kive.r, Flow onward forever, [Ayr Thou nrt grander than Avon aud sweeter than
In thy bosom we look—bud and Pleiad are there!
I take up the old word?, Like the song of dead birds [the Sea That was breathed when I stood farther otf frcm
When 1 heard not its hymn, When the Headlands were dim,— Shall I o'er weave again a rhythm for thee
SENATOR DOUGLAS ON IIIS DEPOSITION FIIO.II TIIE COMMITTEE. Senator DOUGLAS, in his late speech in New York, made a very marked allusion to his recent deposition from the Chairmanship of the Committee on Territories. To use an old expression, "He whipped the devil around the stump." lie considers himself degraded. He said:
"Hcncc, never make a treaty with France, with England, with any foreign power, tying our hands on the future in opposition to what our interests and safety may require. [Applause.] For entertaining and firmly maintaining this doctrine, I had the misfortune to be degraded from the committeo on Foreign Relations in 1851, and was then degraded because my opinions were in opposition to the voico of the Senate on^the Clayton and Bulwer Treaty. ["That won't hurt you."} I have lived to see the day when that Senate and this country, and the American people, think that I did right then by following my duty."
FRATERNITY LECTURES ADAMS, THE FEDERALIST.
BY THEODORE PARKER.
The following report of a lecture by Rev. Theodore Parker, delivered in Boston, the other day, is full of interest and will well pay for a careful reading. He is, in this portraiture of John Adams, as bold in the expression of his opinions and the presen tation of his facts as in all the other infcel- ?eJf ,often ProfoVnd
lectual demonstrations that he has made. We copy from the Atlas: The lecture last evening, in the Fraternity course, was by Rev. Theodore Parker, on the subject previously announced— John Adams.
Tho lecturer commenccd as follows:— In 1634 the Qeneral Court of this colony made a grant of land at Mount Wollaston to enlarge the town of Boston, and in 1636 the inhabitants of Boston granted some of this land in lota to individual settlers or non-residents, who presently formed a church and settled their minister. In 1640 they were organized into a town called Brain tree. I find forty acres of land granted to Henry Adams. He died in 1G46, and left an estate which was appraised at seventy-five pounds thirteen shillings. It consisted of land, a barn and house, which contaiucd one kitchen, one parlor, and one chamber in the attic, where in dwelt the eleven persons that made up the family. The inventory mentions three beds, which, I suppose, contained them all. at night. He left, likewise, one cow, one heifer, swine, some old books, and a single silver spoon. He was grandfather's grandfather to the second President of the United States. It was not a very conspicuous family then, though it lias since borne two Presidents, and is still strong and flourishing, promising I know not how great future glories. (Applause.) On the other side of the sea antiquaries find the family old and baronial. Indeed, the name would justify a larger genealogical claim, for certainly the Adamses ought to be an old family and a great according to received accounts, they are the first in the world. (Laughter.)
John Adams was born the 10th of October, 1735. His father, of the same name, then forty-four years old, and married but the year before, was a farmer of small means, living in that part of Braintree which is now Qnincy—a farmer in summer and a shoemaker in winter, so says the local tradition. When he died, in ITliO, he left an estate of thirteen hundred and thirty pounds—four or five thousand dollars in our money, lie was an officer in the: Braintree militia, several years one of the honorable selectmen of the town, and for manv years a Deacon of the Church. He seems to have been a well-educated man. thoughtful, thrifty, useful, with considerable capacity for business, genuine religiousness, great strength of character and uprightness. Integrity was a virtue which his son might inherit, a.^ virtue run in families
I have not much time to speak of Mr. Adams' character, but will briefly refer to it, dividing it, for convenience sake, into
When he looked ti] to pray, and t' en bent down his intellectual, moral and religious nature, to drink: He had a great mind quick, comprehensive, analytical, not easily satisfied save
Ah, where are the faces. From out thy .still places, [May? That so often smiled back in those soft days of
with ultimate causes tenacious of its treasures, his memory did not fail him until he became old. With the exception of Franklin, I think of no American in the eighteenth century who was intellectually his superior for though Hancock aud Jefferson, nay, Jay, Madison and Marshall, really surpassed him in some high qualities, yet none seems quite so great, on the whole His understanding was ample.— Though constitutionally averse to regular, serious, and long-continued attention, he yet easily gathered what lay before hiin,
iand fittingly reproduced it when occasion required, lie gathered a great amount of which declares the law of th
,orcV'.r" „. various knowledge, for he was a sharp ob- eternal law, to whoever listens. In the (iardens of 1 aradise, hard by ,ha Throne, ittendod
lun"au
great defects, he had naturally instinctive sagacity, and always a sound judgment.— Iu respect to this, I thiuk he has not had justice done him, either by friend or foe.— But in all the great acts of his life—in his defense of Captain Preston—his controversy with Governor Hutchinson—his impeachment of the Judges—his appointment of Ministers to France, when the nation said "No," and the like—all these things indicate sound practical judgment.
tematic habit of work which, though seemingly slow, is found at last so swift and sure. He did things "helter-skelter."— In his administration as President there was no rule for any thing. He had a fair imagination—above the average of the educated men of that time, but not equal to his understanding. Besides, he had small opportunity for cultivating it in early life, or developing it in later. Yet he was rather fond of poetry, had an ear for music, and was charmed with the painting and sculpture and grand architecture which so
not
lLtlie
but little to the world of matter: and save sliould rule the construct of the subject,
tcr about him lie had no eye for science, cr^ ifor:j, ,a™d
CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, JANUARY 15, 1859.
astonish the American in Europe. He had a great reason, though its culture was defective and his method capricious and uncertain. He had not the calmness for a philosopher, yet he always looked for the causes of things, studied carefully and demanded proof.
His philosophical and metaphysical turn appears in all his writings. He was bold in abstract speculation always bottomed his work on ultimate principles of nature.
in
fema,rks
I think no American politician has ever uttered more profound truths than fell from the mighty mind of John Adams.— He certainly had not a mind of the highest class. If he was the first American of that day after Franklin, he was second to him by a long interval, and he had several competitors, not very far behind. He was not qnite well balanced he tipped this way now, then that.
Thus constituted, he was an originator, but not a great one. He was often in advance of his time, especially in planning his scheme for universal religious toleration, and his scheme for the government of individual States. He ran before the foremost of his time in seeing the necessity for a Navy and for a Military Academy. He sought the Military Academy in 1789, and founded it in 1799.
As an organizer he had to deal with political ideas, and construct them into a con stitution, but he had only the smallest talent for organizing men. He could plan a government with great skill, but he was never a practical politician, who understands the art of organizing men about his idea, to defend his measures and make his thought their thing. Here there were many before him, and hence the great failure of his life. Constructing institutions, he could not organize men, nor manage them when organized. He was not a good administrator, except of his own private affairs, where, perhaps, his thrifty wife was the presiding spirit. He had no system, but was governed by the enthusiasm of the moment. In the most important matters, lie often went to work fluently, with haste, and without good heed. As a diplomatist,
Paris, in 1780, lie ran violently down steep places, careless who ho ran over or igainst. In 1798, lie appointed Washington Commander-in-chief, never consulting him beforehand. An hour's explanation, or a letter of a few pages?, would have saved all the quarrel which grew out of that act. He acted often from personal whim and caprice. In a time of great political crisis, in 1799, lie left the scat of government and went off to Quincy. where he staved months long, leaving affairs to manage themselves, or his treacherous Cabinet to manage them asrainst him. lie was not successful
..broad. AVhcn he was Vice-President,' Washington doubted his fitness for any foreign position. In his Administration, lie was not great or prosperous. He could not organize a nation well, nor manage his party. Yet it must be confessed that he
well as transmit, if! won a great diplomatic victory in Holland, .John was the old-i where he was called "The Washington of
est child of a family which at length count- diplomacy." ed twelve—a number not then thought John Adams had great, moral virtues and verv numerous. I great vices. Able-bodied, compact and 31 r. Parker reviewed the life of Adams, vigorous, though not always healthy, he dividing it into epochs as follows: His !,:u^ physical courage—in scholarly men, it them told, and subtracted from his nrorit.s.
childhood and youth his doings as a law-1'* a great virtue, and rare. He says he ver in Suffolk county his work as a politi- meant to be a soldier, but doubted whethas a diplo-' should be a hero or a coward. There eian in Congress his services matist in Europe his conduct as Executive of the United States, first Vice-Presi-dent and then President, and, finally, his demeanor in private life, from the time he left the Presidential chair till his death.
lie had a clear conception of justice.
or for the immediate enjoyment of its bea:i- ™cious, out-spoken, he, had an utter
ty, he never attended to the world of matured of l.es, dissembling and hypocrisy, in
Y'T I nvnrr form- n,„l „nt N«LI- in THO ..Wr..r.T
no taste for it, except when stimulated by but,h, hated liar^Lj^ntes and di ,cm-
he presence ot 1- ranklm. At the age of Wer. the ho need.
forty he was he ablest lawyer in America be the abstract doe, not cxist lie
most profound in the study of first prinei-j could not keep his mouth Jmt. He knew
ou
-the most learned in histonc lore, the was j^d-ly open Ho kn^if°Ur
pics. He alwavs went to the fountains of this. Oucc lie went with some friends to English law, and did not scruple to follow the stream through all its many tributary channels. His first opinion was often faulty, but his final thought was uncommonly deep, strong, and represented the true re'-. said Mr. Adams "but" (with liiscauo tap- ].]sccut-ivc
lations of things. Hcncc, in spite of his own bust,) ^'that d—n fool never jof
i—O could." (Loud laughter and applause.)
But he lacked method in his intellectual cacy, and, becoming President, doubted if Government, "Mr. Adams means well tor processes. He had not that genius which I-*I--• T.I. is its own method, nor yet the sober, syston had appointed him. Ho consulted
ams^todie foreign post to which Washing-!
Washington on the subject, who told him, jIe
"It is right for you to keep him there it would be ver}' wrong for you to put him there."
Mr. Adams had strone temptations to excessive indulgence in animal passions but he never yielded to the temptation, and in his old age he proudly writes, "No virgin or matron ever had cause to blush at sight of me, or to regret our acquaintance." Here he was greatly the superior of Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, nay, of
Washington himself. These arc great virtues. Few politicians, or other men, can count so much.
But lie was ill-f'^pered, "sudden and quick in quarrel.' He was not a good judge of charactcr he often suspected the noblest men, and put credulous faith in the mean and deceitful. Intensely ambitious of place and power as he was, he yet al ways sought to rule his desire by his duty. But if he sought only excellent things, the spirit:of the search was not always commendable his motives selfish, his manner harsh. He was not a magnanimous or noble man. He was suspicious and jealous of the noblest of men before him in social rank and above hiin in power. He attributes mean motives to all men often to the "noblest in the land. He docs this in his earliest letters and his latest. A roundheaded man, he was constantly a fighter. This appears in his diary, and in his newspaper articles, before the Revolution and after it even in his own autobiography, written in his extreme old age. He was violent in wrath, which, when roused, noth-. ing, for the moment, stayed. He was indiscriminate as to the cause of it. It might be the members of his Cabinet at the scat of government, or his butcher at Quiucy, who brought in his bill.
Impatient of opposition, aud greedy of results, he was most intensely desirous of honor aud applause. At Paris, in I7S"2, he was handsomely complimented for his success iu Holland, and lie writes in his journal: "A few of these compliments would kill Franklin, if they camc to his cars." (Laughter.) Franklin would have thought of them as a school-master thinks of a compliment paid to one of his pupils. Yet,, great as his vanity was, I think it never bent him aside from his duty. Loving the praise of men, he never once stooped for it never once hesitated to do even the most unpopular act, if he was sure he was right and he never bowed that head to escape the abuse that came from doing the right thing. lrct he was intensely arrogant. Claiming so much for himself, he abused his rivals. Of Samuel Adams and John Hancock he writes, on one occasion: "They will be sure of all the loaves and fishes of the National aud State Governments, as they hope." A most atrocious calumny. He speaks snecringly of John Hancock, as "a man without head or heart—a mere .shadow of a man and yet Governor of old Massachusetts!" He did not like to hear the praises of Washington. One day he diucd with a company of gentlemen in a town adjoining this. After the dinner a clergyman wished to help him on with his cloak, lie objected, but the clergyman said, "I can not do too much for you, when
diplomatist I think what vou and Washington have done tor the country." "Washington and inc!" growled out the old man "don't let me hear you say that again Washington was a dolt!" It was a momentary spasm of wrath, coming from "that rash humor which his mother gave him," or that came from somewhere else. At other times he did justice lo Washington, but always a little coldly, for neither liked much the other.
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was no occasion for the doubt. There was not a drop of cowardly blood in those manly, impetuous veins. He inherited what wc call "spunk," and we all know he transmitted it. (Loud applause.) He had moral courage in a heroic degree. He could not only facc the bullets of a British inan-of-war, but he could confront the wrath of his own friends for defending Preston in 1770, aud bear the indignation and jeers of the Federal party in 1779, for his adherence to what he believed to be the right. Let him only be sure he was right, and John Adams only feared to be false to his conscience. When tho Judges of Massachusetts went under the golden chaiu of Britain in 1773, and the Governor held it low, in order to have them stoop more low before the people, Adams said: "Impeach the Judges!" and the Court did no more business. Conscious of iutegritv, he ncv-
Certainly, these are great vices, but he had such virtues that he can afford to have
He was so fearfully open, that it is himself who furnishes all the evidence against him self. He defends Hancock, and says, "If he had vanity and caprice, so had I. But these little flickerings of passion determine nothing concerning essential characters" —and he said it right. They were vices of the surfacc the deep hearts of the men, they were pure and clean, clear down to the bottom.
Mr. Adams had strong religious emotions, but I must pass over what had been written on this theme. He was not what is called an eloquent man. He had no rhetorical tricks no traps for applause no poetic images nothing of what half-educa-ted ministers, sophomores and editors call fine writing," what school-girls name "•perfectly SPLENDID!" (Laughter.) liut he had strong sense, philosophical opinions, condensation aud readiness of thought the form is often defective, misshapen, the substance is always strong and good. I'emosthenes said, "The first thing, the next
cr hesitated to take a great responsibility, thing, and the third thing in eloquence is aud to take it alone. \ciiergi/," and John Adams had it to the He was a conscientious man, and sought !fu]1
ext(,nt that
the couiiacl of that still .small voice, scarcely any of his speeches are left. universe, the Their fame survives only iu tradition, lie could command
understand that a kind's cuiiimaiiu ,• ,,
In(jn
Demosthenes wanted
atteiKlccl -f i,, 1 Plc—no instinct of Democracy, lie lean-j incuts have notified the l.nited States that
eJ tQ !irii tocrat forn)S u£
in
ficcrs of ti)0
Majors
4th (J rals Hc iltsistot
in his
j)epcn^
He had not much confidence in the peo-| ment that the English and French Covern-
177n, he would give the Governor an S,
absolnte ne
gativc in all acts of the Le.-is-1
l,Ian
uf
sqi iration of the
hxecutivc powers of the government in a tic papers
peachment
nmst be one llot a councii
upon
out the glittering spoil. "Diplomacy is a country. The charge is utterly false.—
jt| ,t
was a
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ton, who never did justice to New England. He was an intense patriot, and never hesitated to sacrifice his own dearcat wishcs and fondest hopes for M.•. conatrr'.
He met them by arrangement at a special hour, and sat in a great chair in front of the house, under the shade of a tree. "At the beginning of the fight," asked one of these men, "did you think you should succeed Yes,*' said the old man, "I knew the country would go through, but I expected nothing but ruin and death for my family and myself." It was very true, and characteristic of the man.
The hatred against him has not yet died away from old Federal families, and old Democratic. Detraction is still bus}' at its work. But after all just deductions are made from his conduct, it must be confessed that no man had so high, so deep an influence in the great constructive work of founding the best inrtitutions in America, iind the judgment of posterity on him will be—A brave man, deep-thoughted, conscientious, patriotic, and possessed of an integrity which never shook, but stood as firm as the Granite of the Quiucy Hills.
While American institutions continue, the people will honor brave, honest old John Adams, who never failed his country in her hour of need, and who, in his life of more than four score and teu j'ears, though both passionate and ambitious, corrupted no woman and no man. (Loud and pro longed cheering.)
Mr. Parker will deliver the next lecture —and the last of the course—on Tuesday evening next. Subject—"Jefferson.'.!
A\ ILL OF AN EARL OP PKMHIIOKI .—Imprimis For 1113' soul, I confess I have heard very much of souls, but what they arc, or whom they arc, or what they arc for, God knows I know not. They tell me now of another world, where 1 never was, nor do I know one foot of the way thither. W hile the King stood, 1 was of his religion: made my son wear a cassock, and thought to make him a bishop then camc the Scots ind made him a Presbyterian and, since Cromwell entered, I have been an Independent. These, 1. believe, arc the Kingdom's three estates and if any of these can have a soul, I may claim one therefore, if my executors do find I have a soul, I give it to him who gave it to me. Itn.
I give my deer to the Earl of Salisbury, who I know will preserve them, because he denied the King a buck out of his own parks. Item.—I give nothing to Lord .Say which legacy I give him "because I know he will bestow it on the poor. Item.—To Tom 31.ay I give five shillings. I intended him more but whoever has seen his "History of the Parliament" thinks five shillings too much. Item.—I give Lieutenant General Cromwell one word of mine, because hitherto he never kept his own.— Item.—L give up the ghost.
government— they will never consent to the acquisition
So, in the Constitution of Massachusetts,!^ Cuba bv the United Stat
if Cuba In •fpain agrees to that measure.
wor(ls,
„reat
man who made that jrencralization in 1776.
He hated rdl stratagem and trick, and He was often accused of favoring a mon- friends of Cuban annexation* will be greatgrumbled at the slow and stealthy way in archv, and it was said he wished toestab- 'lv strengthened bv it The American I .-»i.urnot
which Franklin threw in his line, and drew lish "a King aud House of Lords in this
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had not much decorum—no reserve. His I he said, "We are legislating for a popula- blood will be heated, and England and
early rule was never to deceive thc people, tion of a hundred millions, which will be nor conceal from them any truth essential I here in no great time." to their welfare. He had great moral deli- In 1780 Dr. Franklin wrote home to his
THE LOMJON TI.MIOS AM) TIIE IMtESIDENT'S MESSACE. The Loudon Times is terrible oxeroisod about the 1'resident's Message, and is q'iit'2 as severe in its comments upon it as were the Republican papers in the United States. It is very seldom the English "Thunderer" is satisfied with the message of American Presidents, but it is especially displeased with Mr. BUCHANAN'S. Those parts of it mained with us all night, and on Tuesday relating to Cuba, Mexico and Central morning wc parted company. We worked America are particularly the subjects of! away all Tuesday and the following night,'' its indignation. The United States, in the and on Wednesday morning wc were out opinion of the Times, is too fond, altogeth-1 forty miles from land. er, of acquiring territory, and adding to
ident writes such a message as will be
wurus, AN y\ngio-r rencn rroiectoratc has Wc had to live on the half allowance',
an Anglo-French Protectorate has
lature, and leave him to appoint all the of- been established over the island. If Spain for seventeen davs, and from Sunday till
„,ilitia_the Generals, Colo- can not sell it without the cogent of K„g- FridaV we were obliged to work nearly all
Captain,, clear down to the land aud France it amounts to just this and the time on the dJl-k of the vessel the
l, however, on „0 more. ip
WHOLE NUMBER 86(5.
PERILOUS VOYAGE OF TOE INDIAN EMPIRK. It will be rccoilectcd that a party of young men from Chicago, on their way to
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good. In liis later days some distinguish- ., cd foreigners came to visit him at Quincy.
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IR.UN1N-C. THI..
its dominions. It ought to imitate England, whose moderation and modesty in that regard are too well known to require comment. Within the last century she has only acquired two empires as large as the United States—viz: Canada and India. She got them both by the sword wliil? the annexations of the United States have .. been by purchase, and by the consent of! '"6 every moment to be the people annexed. The "censures of the 1
B,liP
Times upon the President's -Message arc jtwo
ro
The United States is spceiallv pledged, Jr her, that", i„'V,nl,r to save
Legislative, Judicial ami by nearly all its public men andbi re^at-! from being earri-d overboard, you should
un.iiLu v* XV.. 2
public is likely to submit with compla-
cene
silent art and John Adams was a talker, When nobody else beheld it, he foresaw that we can not have Cuba even if wc get is visibly in
He "wore his heart upon his sleeve." lie the future greatness of America. In 1770 the consent of Spain. The warm patriotic
We trust that resolutions will be offbred i'
out of his senses."—, tion for information as to any notification
hazard a mortal enemy." The criticism of 1-ranee and England in regard to Cuba.,
was iust as the fear of the consequences If the late news is correct, that our Gov•was jusi, as icui
was true. But, weigh the man in an even eminent has been informed officially his faults are chiefly those of will
balance and temper, and a lack of decorum his virtues are patriotism, truthfulness, moral couragc, integrity. These, I think, have seldom been surpassed rarely equalled in any public man. He had no prejudice against any section of the country. Here he was superior to Jefferson and Washing-
France that that nation, together will England, will never consent to the acquisi ton of Cuba by thc United States, even if Spain is willing to sell it, decisive meas
the Indian Empirton
0113
voyage
rom
Halifax to Gal-
way. One of the number, aged seventeen years, writes his parents a long letter, which is published in the Chicago Times.: He gives some details not before published:
ON SHORT ALLOWANCE.
The steerage passengers got but boo biscuit, a little meat and a little soup day. We got for our breakfast two tablespoonfuls of oat-meal porridge, but without any milk for our dinner one potato, spoonful of rice, a small piece of meat, and one glass of water for our supper one loaf of bread (no larger than those mother makes) to be divided among fourtccu of us. Upon such dieting I began to get very weak in a short time, for what I reccived as my allowance for the entire day was barely sufficient for one meal. I used frequently to wish -that I was home again, where I could step into the pantry and take a piecc of bread when I wanted it, and have no one to weigh if out for me. BURNING THE COTTON—THE BALES ON FIRE.
On the day after wc lay to, we found that the ship made so much water that it was impossible to keep her dry with handpumps. It was evident to all that the vesscl must go down if the engines could not be worked but to work the engine coal was necessary, and the coal wc did not have.— Wc had, however, on board, about fivo hundred bales of cotton, with which enough steam could be raised every hour to work the engine for about ten miuutcs. With this SIP' 11 assistance, and by constantly working the hand-pumps both day and night, the ship was kept perfectly dry.
A COUNCIL OF OFFICERS A SAIL SPOKEN, HUT NO IIELIKF. On Sunday, the 21st ult., tho officers of the ship met in council to consult what was best to be done. After deliberating for some time it was agreed that in order to save the lives of tho passengers and crew all timber in the ship, the cabins, desks, &c., should be cut up aud burnt. On Sunday, all hands, both passengers and crew, were set to work to tear up the old ship.— About three o'clock on Sunday afternoon as we were tearing down the paddle boxes, a ship was seen in the distance immediately the flag of distress was hoisted, but she did not see it. With heavy hearts we again set to work. On Monday morning, about ten o'clock, another ship loomed up in the horizon we again hoisted the flag of distress she perceived it and immediately camc to our relief. She proved to be the ship Silistria, bound to Cork, from Callao, in South America, with a cargo of guano. Although there was a heavy sea running at the time, our captain went on board of her in a small boat, to see if tho •Sitistna would be able to take us off. He soon returned and reported to us that tho Si/istrin was 115 days out—leaking badly, and her crow on half allowance besides,there was no place for us to sleep on deck. Under these circumstances it was thought better to remain on our own ship and make a bold push for land. The Silistria re-
£3
BEAUTIFUL FURNITURE—THE
HARDSHIP.
On Wednesday night, when but a few miles from land, wc encountered a most terrific gale. We gave tip all hopes of safety. The ship, with all the steam we could raise, was notable to make any licadwav. Wc were obliged to lay to, cxpetour last, for our condition. The
was in a
wretched
um!er decks-
tl,c
the best evidence in the world that it is berths in the steerage and Becond cabin, thoroughly American and patriotic. We Itlie Peers' cabins on the upper deekwero hope it'will be a long time before our Pres-!
,nirnt
1
A.\ ENGLISH AND I'KKNCir I'ltOTEC TOKATE OVER (,1I!A. Among the items of news brought by. the last steamer from Europe is the .-tate-
paddle-boxes, all the
besides, during the night, the pump
got choked, but fortunately it was cleared
palatable to the blustering and arrogant, hursday morning wat fair, and wc again organ of British public opinion
set to work, tore up tip: upper deck, all the state-rooms in the first cabin, broke up all the furniture of the saloon, all the mahogany sofas, tables, chairs, writingdesks, looking-glasses, ice. It was almost a pity to see the beautiful mahogany sofas, from fifty to one hundred dollars each, destroyed. Hut it was better that they should be burnt than our lives lost, "n ven if. Friday morning at half-pa.s:t,yiie o'clock the In other light-house was seen.
lHn„ fliriouslv and the waves wa,h-
that it will never hold on to the rising. 'I he last couple of age of England days was the worst. All the upper deck become so, was cut away .-o that you were obliged to
Vuursc
Spain con- walk on beams with your load. After
tinues to hold the island, nominally, but working hard all day you were obliged to: its real power is vested in England and sleep on the floor all night in your clothes, Franco. Much cscitement ivill be created which were always wet. in Washington by this report, and the
lf
EritorEAX PROSPKCTS.—The New York
0/Ux
says the general uneasiness of feelpolitically and commercially. increasing, both in England and
imcx
sa?s
to be told "bv France and England i«g abroad,
on tbo
E.WIiASl), FKA.VCE AND Cl'HA. disturbance of the peace of the world than
Continent. That journal concludes
a long article on the subject as follows:
France may have an opportunity of carrv-, .... ing out their threats. indeed every reason to anucipate, rit no distant flay, a tar more serious
h«s
'a ^ise man and ^metimes, and in some in Congress calling upon the Adrninistra- ^.["^''not^ikni^^as^'TsW-ron
»i know that by asserting this I it may have received as to the intentions
,jken
J'Iacu
S'"":e
thc
V"ace
of
Meditcrrane
,a .tn(j
alon th
hus
,(j' .llld
the 'verv ceiftre of civi'liza-
mm commerce and exchange
I.VDIAX.V PKXITEXTIAUY FI.LL.—There are lour hundred and eighty-six convicts at present in the Indiana Penitentiary, one
ures*for the seizure of thc island should be hundred of whom the State is supporting: immediately adopted. Under such a state jiu idleness, in consequence of the limited of affairs, the sooner thc Cuban question' capacity of the workshop,- to i»iv— ilicm is brought to an end thc better. ji.'iiipl»yjin-iit.