Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 31 March 1860 — Page 1

NfiW SERIES—VOL. XI, NO. 37.

NAVAf. •ATTT.E OfP *EltA CRM.

Capture of tke Mexican Steamers—Proof the Siege—Journal cf Events. Tm arrival of tie p'riie steamer Miramon at New Orleans Lag already been announced. The following account of the events which prececded and accompanied th$e»pture,we find in the correspondence of the New Orleans Picayune of the 22d:

FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE STEAMERS. "Vera Cruz, March 6.

Thia morningwe have/news, through an intercepted letter, from Corona to Miramon, asking for assistance, saying that the City of Mexico is seriously threatened by the Liberals. •Three of the officers of Miramon were taken prisoners last evening by some

Raneheros," and brought, into the city tbis nftjrning. Miramon yesterday made two attempts to plant his batteries—one at Camp Santo and (Ha.other behirid.the ~Medano.det'Pftt' ro—but the quick and well directed bombs from the different forts drtfve the enemy from his position. .About half past eight clock this mornins there appeared in sight two steam propcllors, and about 1 o'clock P. M., they passed the castle just outside the shoals without showing any flag, as customary, and in consequence the Governor of the Castle causcd a blank shot to be fired as a'signalto show their flag or nationality but no answer whs made to it, and supposing them to hethe Spanish piratical expedition of Marin, preparations were immediately made to pursue them and ascertain the cause of their strange appearance off the coast and their object.

Capt. S., at onco gave his orders to Cap tain Turner of the Saratoga, to get his ship ready and pursue the strange vessels, and I presume gave him orders to use his best discretion and ascertain their flag. The afiair was admirably managed the two steamers, Indianola and Wave, were immediately put in readiness to give tow to the' Saratoga, and Captain Jarvis also ordered some sixty marines and sailors on board the Indianola, under charge of first Lieut Bryson of the Preble, and thirty more on board of the Wave, under charge of Lieut. Kennird of the Savannah, who were respectively placed in the command of the steamers in the mean time, the two mysterious vessels had gone to Anton Liiardo and there come to anchor.

In order not to excite suspicions, the vessels were kept in port until after the shade's of night, when they left in the direction of the mysterious steamers, and to-morrow morning we 3hall have the rcB«U.

The two Spanish brigs of war lying at Sacrificioug, have been seen for several nights past, biking munitions of war on shore in boats for the aid of Miramon. TIT. SUIT OF Til 12 STKAMKRS rAItTICt'LAItS

OF THE ENGAGEMENT. Vera Cruz, March 7, 1860.

At about 12 o'clock last night cannonading was heard in the direction of Anton Lizardo, the first of whijh was from a gun of small calibre, and supposed to be shot from the strange steamers, after which sevoral broadsides and single shots wore heard at intervals for some fifty minutes it is Mipposcd that the steamers have been eantured.

There was a good deal of fil ing from the fortifications and castle during the night, and it is said that a column of Miramon's troops came as far as the Alameda, but they were soon dispersed by the bombs thrown nniong them, and considerable signs of blood were seen, bayonets, coats, nud equipages found scattered on the ground. It is supposed that a good many were killed and wounded.

The gallant Capt. Turner, has brought the two ships into port, and they prove to be the Santa Anna and the Miramon one •was formerly the Marquis of Havana, and the other Paquete No. 1, under command of cx-Com. Marin.

From an authentic source and eye witness, I have received an account of the taking of Marin.

Capt. Turner had the Saratoga towed very near the two mysterious steamers, when lie ordered the Wave and Indianola to let go their lines and stand ready for further orders. This was about 1*2 oclock at night, and a beautiful moonlight. It appears that the strangers had their steam up and ready for an emergency, as on Hearing thorn they were in the act of slipping their cables to-be off. Capt. T. hailed them to know who they were, but received no reply. In the meantime they wcregct tingunder way, when he, (Capt. Turner,) fired a shot across the bows of the formost steamer as a signal to stop her, that he might know lier nationality, which vessel proved to be the Miramon, commanded by cx-Comuiodore Marin, armed with three heavy guns, and some smaller ones, with a crew of 100 men. Instead, however, of 'stopping he (Marin) kept on, and immediately commenced firing cannon and muskets into the Indianola and the Wave, and also there were muskets at the same time fired from the Marquis of Havana. At this Captain Turner silenced the latter vessel with one broadside, and fired seve,eral broadsides at Marin. The Marquis of Havana immediately surrendered but there was a running fight for three quarters of an hour between the steamer Miramon, under the command of Marin, and the two little steamers Indianola and

Ware. I learn that Lieut. Bryson had a little twelve pound brass piece, with whieh and the Minnie rifles, he peppered Marin severely on one quarter, while the Wave, under Lieut. Kennird, with his Minnie riflemen, were telling severely on the other. The. description reminds one of the 'blackbirds pouncing down upon the crow it was too hot work for the old Commodore —he had to surrender.

Lieut. Bryson and Kennird deserve "great credit for their gallantry, as Marin lattdc a stout resistance.

Marin hoisted no flag, but the Captain of the Marquis of Havana, after the mischief was donet hoisted the-Spanish flag.

Marin and tbo Captain of the Marquis lot Havana, were immediately ordered on board the Saratoga, when Captain Turner naked -Marin if they knew who they were.

Bo replied that he knew they were Americana. Captain T. then asked him Vow b* kred te fir* him in tkia

instead of announcing his nationality to which be replied that he had a mixed crew of Spaniards, Portuguese and Manilla men,

badly

disciplined, and that he could not prevent it. Marin's vessel received a shot through and through from the Saratoga, which killed one of hi3 engineers.

The Indianola received several shots from the Miramon, wounding one of our men badly, and also bruising Gen. Goicuria, the owner of the Indianola, with the spliuters. On the part of Marin, there were some 25 killed and wounued.

These vessels were cleared from Havana by the Mexican Consul as Mexican vessels, and were loaded with all kinds of munitions of war and provisions, for the use of Miramon in his attack upon "V era Cruz.

From all accounts there is no doubt that the Spanish Government has been acting covertly in this affair, which confirms my statement in my letter of the 28th ult., that the whole world knows that munitions of war of any .kind are not permitted on the Island of Cuba except for the use of the Government. Powder and guns, were also found on the Marquis of Havana. It appears the Mexican (Miramon) Consul as sistcd in shipping the men on board of both steamers. *,

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MOVEMENTS BEFORE TUE CITY. Vera Cruz, March 9. Yesterday and last night there was some considerable firing at intervals to disperse the working and reconnitering parties of Miramon. This morning there were three deserters and a prisoner brought in from his camp. They report that near the Medano de Perro, there fifteen men killed by the bursting of bombs from the city fort, and a good many wounded and that also a bomb shot from the castle, last evening killed four men and one officer near Cauipo Santo and that the day before yesterday Miramon's ariuy had only rice and beans to eat, and that yesterday only fresh meat was dealt out to them. So that it appears that he is getting short of provisions. They also report that his army is very much demorolizcd—that they have no courage to make a serious attack—that there is a good deal of sickness in the camp, and increasing daily. It is now supposed that as soon as his forces arrive from Alvardo, which place he has evacuated, that he will immediately commcnce his retreat.

A section of cavalry were sent out this morning to destroy the works of the enemy, at Campo Santo, Malibran and Medano del Perro, which was effectually done.

Yesterday a rather amusing incident occurred here between the French Cousnl and the Commander of the Spanish squadron. It appears that they were bolh furious at the Yankees for having taken the I two steamers, one of which, the Marquis of Havana, was claimed to be Spanish, and they were about getting up a protest on the part of the Spanish Government, when very suddenly, the Spanish commander came to his senses, and concluded that he hnd better let the affair alone, as it might lead to au investigation which would compromise the Captain General of Cuba and so the matter, like a hot cake, was dropped.

PROGRESS OF THE BESIEGING WORKS. Vera Cruz, March 10, 1860. This morninrr, two deserters presented ,,

and also state that Miramon had issued a _.tI proclamation in his camp, promising that thev shall be in Vera Cruz on the 12th.— From the well directed firing of the canon here, they say that the impression prevails in the camp, of ^Iiramon that they .are served by Americans.

Yesterday and last night the enemy rebuilt his breastworks with bags of sand at the Mcdano del l'crro, and has extended them considerably, sufficient for twenty pieces of artillery they are at work at them to-day, notwithstanding the canonading from the city but those experienced in millitary matters say that, should he succced in establishing bis batteries, lie is too far off to make a breach in the city walls, with the guns which he has, being some 1300 meters distant. I saw some very well directed shot this morning, and some of thejbombs fell immediately among the working parties, and made a scattering among them.

Yours, &c.. A. A. C.

VERY LATEST FROM VERA CRVZ. Vera Cruz, M^reh 11. At about half past four o'clock yesterday afternoon the cannonading was again resumed against the Trincheros or breastworks of the enemy, at the Medano del Perro, and better directed shot I never saw. It was almost equal to rifle shooting. The large SO pounders were made to boom in continued succession from three of the batteries, and in thirty minutes the breastworks of the enemy were a good deal injured, and the bursting of shells in the trenches soon dispersed the sappers, and must have killed a great many of them.

Rev. HekrtWaro Beechxr on Interest.—How many people in the country have found out the truth of the following, by Henry Ward Beecher:

No blister draws sharper than interest does. Of all industries none is comparable to that of interest. It works day and night, in fair weather and foul. It has no sound in its footsteps, but travels fast.— It gnaws a man's substance with invisible teeth. It binds industry with its films, as the fly is bound upon a spider's web.— Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, arid letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long legged interest devours him. There is no crop that can afford to nay interest on money on a farm.

There is but one thing raised on a farm like it, and that is the Canadian thistle, trhich swarms new plants every time you bleed its roots, whose blossoms are prolific and every one the father of a million seeds. Every leaf is an awl, every branch a spear and every single plant like a platoon of bayonets, and afield full of them is like an armed host. The whole plant is a torment and a vegetable curse. And yet a farmer bad better make his bed of Canadiaa thistle* tban attempt to lit at ease up* on interest.

PERILOUS ADVENTURES OF If A UTS—A FLIGHT OF FORTY MILES 1

Ti THIRTEEN MIWUTES—ifARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH. ,, jOn Thursday last, a Mr. Cevor, accompanied by one Mr. Dalton, made a beautiful ascension at Savannah, in the presence of several thousand admiring spectators. Their voyage through the air was a delightful one until it came to a conclusion, which approached too near the tragical to be very interesting. The particulars are-thus detailed in the Republican of Monday:

After leaving the city a few miles behind them, the balloon entered a current which bore it to the eastward, and hence directly out to sea. The greatest altitude attained was between two and a half and three and three quarter miles, at which point both land an sea were entirely shut out from view. Seeing nothing and borne along on the rapid current, of air, all was perfectly still and the aeronauts unconscious of motion tbough~going--&t the rr te of over three miles to the minute. The roar of the ocean, though, was distinctly heard from beneath, and just then they entered auother current that bore them more northward. It was determined to descend and take the chances rather than be carried out to sea. The valve was opened for the escape of gas, and the grappling iron thrown out to the length of the cord, 200 feet.

The balloon descended rapidly, and the anchor finally attached itself to a tree on Danfuskie Island ''So' greht h'owever, was the force of the current thai the cable snapped like a thread, and. the balloon suddenly mounted up to a great height and moved off in a northeasterly direction towards Callabogo Sound, which though several miles in width, had the appearance of a very narrow stream. To descend in the Sound, and risk an encounter with the water, or to be carried out to sea with all its uncertainties became the only alternatives.

Mr. Cevor decided promptly on the former, but so rapid was the flight of the balloon that he had to act promptly in order to strike the Sound. The valve was raised and the air ship came down, as Mr. Cevor informs us, with almost the velocity of a cannon ball, gaining momentum in its passage: It struck the water with great force completely submerging the voyagers. In going down, however, Mr. Cevor, had the presence of mind to dip bis ear so as to enter the water edgewise, and thus, in some measure, break the force of the concussion.

On rising to the surface and finding themselves unhurt, Mr. Cevor aud his companion became composed, and set to work deliberately to save themselves and the balloon. They had lost their ballasts, provisions, everything in the descent, and the great point was to prevent the balloon from rising out of the water. A heavy gale was prevailing in the Sound, and they were between five and six miles from shore.— By keeping one edge of the car under water, it would afford sufficient rcsistence to answer the purpose of ballast. This was done by Mr. Cevor, while Mr. Dalton took h's stand on the ring to which the netting is attached, and which kept the bottom of the balloon on the surface. In this condition, and often submerged to their chin?-,

the balloon was made to answer the pur-

themse ves, and one- prisoner was taken ,. ,, pose of a tow in takme them to hind.— thev conform uie statements of yesterday,!'

and say that one entire company deserted,! ,.

Eventually they approached a marsh, and

with apparent astonishment at the strange spectacle. Mr. Cevor and his companion cried for help at the top of their voices, and soon a boat manned by negroes and their overseer, Mr. George Savage, was despatched to their aid.

The boat came up just before they reached the Marsh, and now the great object was to discharge the gas, and save the balloon. Mr. Cevor and.Mr. Dalton took hold of the cord, and in the confusion pulled so hard as to break it short off below the valve, whereupon'the latter closed and ilie ballon rushed into the marsh, arid got wholly beyond their control.. Mr. Daltou became entangled in the cords, which became twisted around him, and had to take out his knife and cut his way out in order to extricate himself. The balloon then commenced to ascend rapidly, Mr. Cevor in the car, and be only saved himself by leaping out when at a distance of twentyfive or thirty feet from the earth. He fell into the water and mud uninjured. The balloon shot off like an arrow towards the sea, and in the space of a minute was out of sight.

Thus ended this perilous adventure.— The balloon worth some seven hundred, is a total loss to Mr. Cevor, though under all the circumstances we consider the party as extremely fortunate to have escaped with their lives. Thej- were taken to the plantation of Mr. Brainard on the Island, by Mr. Savage, when the latter and his wife bestowed-upon them every kindness and attention, for which they desire us to return their most grateful thanks. The next evening Mr. Cevor and Mr. Dalton took a row boat to Bluffton, where they took passage on the Cecile and came to this city.

The speed with which this journey was made is wonderful. The point where the balloon Btruck the water is forty miles from Savannah, and they reached it at 5:20 they ascended precisely at 5:07—so they were just thirteen minutes in traversing the distance.

Notwithstanding Macaulcy's reputation for conversational power, he appears to have uttered few bon mots, to have made few conversational points wbieh are repeated and remembered. One of the few good stories current of him is the following It is said he met Mrs. Beecher Stowe at Sir Charles Trevelyan's and rallied her on her admiration of Shakspeare.

Which of his characters do you like the best

said he. Desdemona," said the

lady. "Ah, of coarse," was the reply, "for she was the only one who ran after a black man/:

JfiTThere is a prposition before the Maine Legislature to remove the Capital of that State from Augusta to Portland.

MMlu* to avoid drowning—always k««p your bead abort -water..

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CMWEORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERYCOUNTY,a-INDIAM, MARCH 31, I860.

THE UKASE OF MR. BATES. V™ A promineht arid' sagacious politician remarked to us. in Wellington, some two' years ago, that he had bepn.many years engaged in politics among the leading men. of the country, and that he had observed whenever any man got the idea of the Presidency into Ins tead, no matte'r how wise and sensible he had been before, it generally made a fool of him. Mr Edward Bates, a sensible old fogy lawyer of St. Louis—and we have' a hundred'men in Indiana equally talented and experienced, both in law and statesmanship—has got his head turned by looking towards the "White House. In 1856, Mr. Bates was a very conservative Whig he repudiated Republicanism in. toto, and supported the American presidential nominations of Filmore and Donelson. He was president of the Baltimore Rational Whig 'Convention of ihc^-oa^which adopted the following res

"That those who revere the Constitution and love the Union must look with alarm at the attitude assumed by the ttro great parties in the field, in the Presidential canvass the one claiming to ^represent only the sixteeu Northern States of. the Union the other appealing, maiply, to the passions and prejudices of the Southern States, and that the success of either of these facr tions must add fuel to'the flame which now threatens to wrap our dearest-interests in one common ruin."

At a speech to the Whigs of Palmyra, Mo., in July, 1856, he uttered the following sentiment:

Mr. Bates then spoke of the Black Republicans and Black Democrats" as "agitators," aud denounced both as "dangerous enemies to the peace of our Union."

In 1860 we find him coquetting with the Republicans. A letter appears from him under date of the- 20th instr,- replying to seven interogatorics addressed to him by the delegates from Missouri to the Chicago Convention, which it is understood he assumes the doctrines of the Republican party, which less than four years ago he looked upon with alarm and pronounced them "dangerous enemies to the peacc of our Union." The correspondent of the Cincinnati

Commercial

says of the letter:

It is understood that he stands fairly on the Republican Platform, but the letter will lessen, rather than increase, his prospects of nomination by the Chicago Convention, inasmuch it is so strongly Republican that if nominated he could not carry Missouri, the belief of his ability to do this being the principal argument in his favor.

The Cincinnati Gazette says, in commenting upon the letter: He comes fully up to the standard of Republicanism laid down in the call for our National Convention. The vital principle of the Republican organization is the extension of

opposition to the extension of slavery',.

anything be more decided and unequivocal" than the avowals of Judge-Bates on this head? And these are views which he has entertained for life-time.

This is satisfactory evidence that Mr. Bates has yielded his former opinions, and for the sake of a Presidential nomination,

one common ruin. The question here }jrs Morrisscy was a woman of verv arises, has Mr. Bates, or the Republican party changed? lias he gone to them or have they come to him? The Cincinnati Gazette says the vital principles of the Republican organization are the same now as when the Philadelphia platform was promulgated. Mr. Seward, the great leader of the party, takes nothing back in his

late speech, but only attempts to round

impairing their,present efficiency and we depreciate all further agitation of the questions, thuS Settled as dangerous to our peacc and will discountenance all efforts to continue 6r renew such agitation, whenever, wherever, or however the attempt may be made and will, maintain this system as essential to the nationality of the. Whig party and the integrity of the Union." •Pretty strong anti-Republican resolution that, and so it was regarded by the Philadelphia Convention of 1856.. No attempt was'ever made in that body to reaffirm it. What did Mr. Bates and liis compeers do after.that Convention had met and promulgated its doctrines? They assembled in Baluiuoie and adopted a platforiu.Jwo resolu tions from which we extract:

Resolved, That the Whigs of the United States now here assembled, hereby declare their reverence for the Constitution of the United States their unalterable attachment to the:. National Union and a fixed determination to do all in their power to preserve them for themselves and their posterity. They have no new principles to announce no new platform to establish but are content to broadly rest—where their forefathers rested—upon the Constitution of the United States, wishing no safer guide, no higher law.

Resolved, That the Whigs of the United States declare as a fundamental article ${ political faith, an absolute necessity for avoiding geographical parties. The danger so clearly discerned by the Father of his Country, has now become fearfully apparent in the agitation now convulsing the nation, and must be arrested at once, if we would preserve our- Constitution and our Union from dismemberment, and the name of America from being blotted out from the family of civilized nations.

And there is not much Republicanism in those resolutions either. Such, however, were the sentiments of Edward Bates in 1856. He says he has "no new opinions." The record wc have quoted, then, contains his life-long unchanged sentiments upon the slavery issue. Can the Rcpubliparty, will it now indorse the old Whig crced? And yet the leading Republican press of the West, the Cincinnati Gazette, is willing to accept Mr. Bates as the Chicago nominee? Is Mr. Bates honest in the avowal that his opinions remain unchanged? Can the Republican party be true to its principles and accept a eandididate who stands upon the old Whig platform?— These are rather interesting inquiries for the solution of a party which claims to represent "all the intelligence, all the morality, all the integrity of the country"—a parowed principles es-

wh(jse solcmnlv

based upon a conviction of tne social and political evil of that institution. Could scntial to Republican interests require re-

vampins at least once

tinel.

Lepaigc were passing along the Pocstcn-

accepts the doctrines of a party, the sue-j kill creek, near the second street crossing, tion was cess of which, four years ago, with no such interest to sway his judgment, he said "threatens to wrap our dearest interests in

they discovered the body of a woman float-j

off and sinoothen the rough corners and tbe Second street bridge, Joanna lost her!

edges of that platform. And the New York Tribune says the last spcech of Mr. Seward is but a re-aflirmation of the sentiments he had previously advanced upon the slavery issue.

And what does Mr. Bates say in his bid for the Presidency? Discussing the slavery issue, he starts out with this positive declaration: fin tliic cnViipft. in the States nnd in

struggle. At that time, my position re quired me to seek all the means of know! edge within my reach, and to study the principles involved with all the powers'of my mind, and I arrived at the conclusions which no subsequent events have induced me to change." 'No new opinions," says Mr. Bates, but he still adheres to those which he has entertained for the last forty years. Up to 1856 his sympathies were with the Whig parly. The Whig faith was his faith. He has so announced it. Let us look to the record of the Whig party in 1852 and in 1856, to ascertain the sentiments of Mr. Bates upon the issue which divides the parties of the country. It will be remembered that Mr. Bates was the presiding officer of the last Whig Convention, and its resolutions went to the country with his endorsement. The Whig National Convention of 1852 made the following apart of their platform. "That the series of acts of the Thirtyfirst Congress, (tbe Compromise of 1850,) the act known a» the Fugitive-slaTe Law inoladed, are received and acquiesced in by the Whig party of the United States as

7 em arm

a settlement, in principle, and substance,Jj. STRAJWE A of the dahg'erdus and exclfin'g" quefetiljris a toung trA'DY1 el© which' they embrace, and. so far as thcy'are

ticu]ara

inc in the water. The corpse was drawn to persons be appoint the shore, and found to be that of a well kuown character, named Joanna Morris

steady habits, and has probably engrossed the attention of the Troy magistrates more than any other single person. She has repeatedly served terms in our penitentiary. During nearly'a year pa.s"t the unfortunate woman had been an inmate of: the'Troy county house, which she left only a day or two ago, and has siuce been quite intoxicated. The body bore the appearance of

having been in the water all niirht, and the

proba

|iIit.

ig that

j„

attC

inpting to cross

way aud walked into the creek. Madden took Dr. Burton ma tion. Mrs. Johu Morriss pany with two Jersey City for England yesterday noon. 1. ... lie received the announcement of her

Coroner

death a few moments before his departure,

MISREPRKSKNTATION,

Tlii* liftmtliliftnn Tirosn rorrnrH r!i* Hmi

ator Toombs in the following words: The prophecy made by Senator Tootnbs that he would live to see the time when he could call the roll of bis slaves beneath the shadow of the monument on Bunker

inn. Long ago, over his own signature, MrJ Toombs denied that he ever uttered such

a sentiment. And a short time ago

telegraphed over the country that Senator

false, upon reference .having been made

toit by a Republiaan Senator. 1 ct. in

be.,tionor

script, repeated this slander against Mr. -ar

these facts. It is a flimsy afiair. Jt

Toombs had again pronounced the charge tj/i. ^^.f.'and the !|ici:iIlsMto

Tin? innnu

again ahii returns,-ali. in t'ireis

concerned, we ~will maintain them and in- j. The Memphis Enquirer relates the..persist upon thejr inforcement until time and

of a singular affair, whose denoe-

m.'i* r.. lien™*.)* ilau^utorof C*Jl.

vasion of the laws on one hand? and the' M»»s_ Hamiah Bond, mcqfcin'tlie lOWilr tart of town. By close* abuse of their powers on the other, notK®sltoa

Bon£'

lT wea,W

Denmark, Tenn., became acquainted with a youh'g gentleman named J. G. Sinimous, and this soon ripened into love* resulting in an engagement. Miss Bond being but a school girl, young and inexperienced, her friends undertook to break the engagement. But their admonitions and opposition only fauned the flame into a blaze., arjd an elopenieut'was the consequence. Th"?y

in conipanv with a paTtV of young ladies I and-gentlemen, came to'this city on Thurs-!

dav last and were worried. During the

at the hotel, and there, together with the

Mr. Simmons having occasion for a moment to-Jeave the room, Mr. Bloom requested an interview with the bride in'an adjoining room. She complied with the request, and they left the parlor together. Nothing was suspected until a considerable time had elapsed, and they not returning, a search was instituted, but nothing could be found of either of them. Mr. Simmons soon affer returned, when on inquiry at the office, the}- were informed that the couple had left the hotel and hurriedly driveu off in a hack. It was then that the truth of the faithlessness of the bride flashed upon them, aud- the before unsuspected close conversation and exchange.nf billets at the theatre was explained.— The}- had fled together and left the confiding husband to spend the remainder of the night in-sleepless agony, amounting well nigh to distraction.

The forepart of the day yesterday was spent in endeavoring to find the whereabouts of tbc fugitives, but without sue ccss, and nothing was known of them until about five o'clock, when a letter was received from Mrs. Simmons, directed to her deserted husband, repenting and pleading for his forgiveness. Soon after, the faithless one herself came, when a most affecting scene followed. Deceived and intoxicated by the meshes so effectually thrown around her, she had been led astray, only to be deserted and left to return repentant and imploring for mercy. Her friends had left before her return, with feelings of sadness, and with them the trip which promised so much joy and happiness to all ended in feelings akin to despair. The

couple were left alone for th? remainder of

the dav, and last cvenins we ascertained

a reconcilliation had been brought about, thev would remain together for the night, and the marriage which has been so closely followed by sorrow, may yet terminate happily.

FilKE I. VnoiJ vs. CONVIC l. VttOlt. Tbc citizens of JelTersonville are milch

DEATH OF JOHN MORRISSEY'S MOTHER. exercised about the competition of convict —About six o'clock on Wednesday morn-:

ing, says the Albany Knickerbocker, as

two men named rraneis Cole and Joseph

tljfrcc

]abor in that vicinity. A meeting

rLcent,v

hfjld to tak,.

WHOLE

...

Rrsolrcd,

That

hension th

made up from false premises and state-

meats.—State

Senti*ul.-i!

MR 1* MEMPHIS. Ian UXOfi'ftti. APPAHITI«f,"iPI«iK*y*

"^n.e

action t0

rn,

-bate the difiieultv. fhe following resnlu-

committee of twenty jj iL.ft j,js p0S[

About two year,3 since a of twen-ty-five of,., thirty summers, good ad Jrs.« and prepussing appearaucor Wime to this city, and soon aTfoF^obtamcd the position of book keeper in'-a wholesale ftsLihliflh-

,S:^attention 'to (justness lie so won upon tLe

ho,

whose duty it .shall be to notify the ar- tterly preclude supposition of voluntary den and Directors ot .ihe .State Prison on absence, and—at least so far ns the public i'ndny, .darcn 10th, l^OO, that troui and ,ra

The Democrat remark® of the characicr, spirit and-objeets of the meeting: The meeting at the Market-house, on Thursdav niirht, was the largest ever held

proceedm nieetin

fair

a 1 ,e cnt

the object.

cy have sustained at the late election in leart heats for Douglas and victory that State, savs that if it had been settled (Jne cannot be mistaken in this opinion.— that we were to stand on a non-interven- On the cars, in the hotels, and on the uv.u street, his name is mentioned oftencr than

popular sovereignty platform in the^,

Presidential election, alir.cd our most san add

.,t extreme men and ultra

vieW! are t0 prcra

on upon tiie

rcgard.ibfSliis lBiiployoii'(hat, at. the termination of a year, the merchant tookhint into liis family to board. An intimacy im- -j mediately grew tip between the book-keep-er and his employer's eldost daughter tb«» ripened into love. The parents of tbo girl seemedaather, well pleased with,Uic. young man's attentions, ami when he asked their consent .to his Union with the fair"

\,lct ?v.,th even less opposition

1,e

evening a voung man named BlooVwho matters remained till a few even-" had formerly been a suitor for the hand ofW

the young lady, visited: the happy couple I1"1

sinc0

vLen- a/

tbc

Iov,er

thn,U,c3.

whole party, made au engagement to air,|were,to tend, the theatre at night,. which they did, At the close of the. performance they all returned to the hotel, whore they were engaged in conversation until' near- one o'clock, the other members of the company little drcamiug,of the plan being concocted between the young bride and Bloom, which was to result in so much unhappincss and misery.

^r'cdnftcr

fcw, w.?r.ds

V1}*

,n®

relative tlioir nuptials, wbidl celebrated the .comiu^ week,

an express wagon, was drivpn rui?roil:of thc-'htm^ riiid the'-dofl^ -bell a moment la-

tcr violently rang:, The merchant answered the bell himself and was confronted by a good looking Irish woman, bearing in her arms a child about eighteen months old, and leading by the hand another, apparently about a year its senior. With a strong Celtic accent the woman asked if Mr. was in, expressing a strong desire to be presented to that gentleman immediately. On receiving an afliuiativc answer she rushed by the surprised merchant, and opeuing the. parlor door, she dropped the infantile candidate for human misery upon the floor, nnd throwing ttp lief hands, exclaimed 'f'Ilowly-Mother!.. An' is it here ye are Patrick ?—(throwing hotCarins about bis neck.) Sure, an' you promised to writo yer own darling every week of your life, and haven't heard of ye for two years. (Another embrace) How could you do so? Slcre, Jamy, (to the elder of her children) come to your 1'aJcr. He'll be glad to sco yer now I., rpi rr

4..

Ihe effect of this spc'ccH, and nmeh more, which was delivered with remarkable rapidity, to use a very original expression. can be better imagined than described." The result, too, heed hardly bo" told. The merchant was minus a bookkeeper the following morning, and Mary without a lover. She wept a little of course but she now thanks her stars for the timely uxorial visitation that saved her from shame.

A f.UEAT31 YS'flJIlY SOI.VKI). Our readers will remember the interest excitcd all through the country by the mysterious disappeftfanrn

Sizii'A

**w1

Wlt'1

Island,

N. Y., of Mrs. Brennaii, the wife of Capt. Brcnnan, of the army, and daughter of the late Col. Crane. She was last seen, as was supposed, on the 20th of Julv, 1858 rs. Brcnnan, came on the morning of

('"3' fro"i

the Island,

'ier and brother, and the tbr9

Ui rc to

meet at tlie feirj- at 4 clock, to

return. .Mrs. U. was traced to the house of a friend in New York, which she left, I just in time to reach the ferry boat at 4 I o'clock. She was seen, as was said, just jailer the boat left the dock, having missed it and the boat which she took was the one that left at 7 o'clock, and.which landed .on Stanton Island some four miles from her place of residency.

She was traced, as"was Said, from thin' boat to a livery stable, where she hired a carriage, which she got into into thin carriage a man also got, and it was driven off. No clue was obtained farther: the carriage,

or man were never found. Capt.

ferrct,

thein

support principles in regard to slavery at' D°u?'a3

with all thit havc fwi?ht da

Toombs, for partisan effect. The character the last si* years. And we are satisfied I ^k1'" of Mr Morton's effort may be judged from (that we can make no converts from tbe cd-

!e*J until we are placed

-mistakably upon the principles upon which *—J it.ci.aru

the Jast esi'jcnt al

ii bv this meeting, character of 31rs. ii. was such as Co

after April lt., ly0t), Iney shall ke^p the ^e( outrritred and murdered. convicts of said Prison eonfinH within the ),( n,cw Vorlf Tribune, of the 20th the mystery is solved, and it were better for all parties bad the truth never com't to light. That paper says: "We leiirn, through a private Jotter from Florence, that Mrs. Brcnnan, whose disappearance from Staten Island causcd so much excitement some fifteen months

walls of the same, and in ease the Warden and Directors shall refuse or neglect ty comply with Uieir demands, said Committee shall have power to resort to such means as they may deem best calculated to sccurc this object.

some time pa out foundatio

of public sentiment,,

'"s'a5m »naiJ1

L'-iC

uring le

speeches, and ,-thc .hundreds of voices in the affirmative tipou the adoption of each Do** and every resolution, told plainly the de-. York

.*$rThc Concord (X. II.) Viitrmt,

commenting upon the defeat tne Dcmocra-

t]10 mystery

concerned—it was supposed she had

ago, and who was supposed to have been murdered, is- now in Italy, and tras recently for a short time in Florence. By whom

•i been supposed to he with' i-. fact."

YOT.K.—The New" the Louisville Dcm-

/L.TR-

rie and Seymour. Thio latter is a recent 'combination, and may possibly account for the presence of 'luthric here. There are all sorts of political guesses and specula-

t|ons amon£? fhc politicialJS( Lut tlic

can(]i(jatcs combine(1_ Thc

:tion, we would hare re- pooplo regard him as thc great champion anguine expectations. Tt

uuu-. I combinations are being made dailv by pol-

popuiar rights, and know that vhibi

^rk

his defeat,- he rises above

aii'

ji in our Convention at!®®rac.y-

the face of these denials, with which every Charleston, bad a depressing and repulsing I l^fP'^'icauism wou.d be well mv» 1

intelligent politician should be acquainted, influence in-our caarass,.. It kept men rotated. Mr. Morton, in an eiaboratalj prepare! if™ who are ro.dj »join u, whanavar! sorv.ee of the Hepubhcjn, it is settled that we are not to be forced to address, which he read from the manu-!

the

P0,"!r *?T PS'™*1?'

N\n!l

Douglas the field, Black-

Hence you will find the cawe

are dailv writing columns to show that

not :m

rj"

liable

ring th3 Democracy,

herc^

1 samo

contest was fou-ht and Ta^ lor, one of the delegates to tho

!woo But if that is done at Chafleaton, Charlston Convention from LouUiana. A

.*• [and an acceptSHrcftdldatCTloininated. we letter writer savs that he is wealthy, looks J»-It is a good rule always to- back believe we shall give him thc electoral Vote *er/ much Jik« oia. .atuer, and strong.) your friends and face your enemies iof ?PeV !T»mpsbire 's$gr.a--•• .. ropi^^d t**' '-J

an etcMicu-

el"

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Tuv!or KO

cf Preside