Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 15 June 1861 — Page 1
A BB BOW in "r*c«ipt of their Fall and Winter A--ttokW
Staple and Fancy.
DRY GOODSI
CLOTHING,
Boots and Shoes,
QUEENSWARE, CUTLERY,
Wash and 1 fork Stands, WHAT-NOTS, LOUNGES, SOFAS,
Hickory. Cane, Wood and Sofa-Scat
Chairs and Rockers!
In fact every articlo of Furniture called for, which we will sell clicapor thnn any other house in town.— Call and examine for yourselves.
REMEMBER:
We defy all Competition!
lO^Warerootns on Oreen street, one door south of Campbell, Oaley A llarter's, [March 24. l^GO-tt.
No. 3, Commercial Block.
NEW FIRM MEW GOODS!
AND
EVERYBODY!
undersigned having purchased tho Dry Goods Stock of Grimes Burbridgo, are now receiving
their Fall and Winter Goods, Which th«y are
kfOKail, NO. 48.
r. r.
SOTOM
FKEH AKRIVA1
7i(
fS'-
or
NEW GOODS!
Y.yq.-.
AT THE
OLD
BINFORO CORNER!
WAA8SON & BINFORD
&C..&C.
LADIES' DRESS GOODS, BONNETS AND RIBBONS, )f
all sorts and sixes, for Ladies and Misses,
French Flowers, American Flowers Laces, Fringes, &c.
BEADY MADE CLOTHING,
Of all kinds and styles for men and boys, along your
April 7, IKOO-Dec. 15-ly.
Bring
Produce and Cash!
Farmers: we will sell you
O O O O S
AND AT AS
LOW FIGURES,
As any house in this place can or dare sell. Give us a call.
We Study to 3?lease!"
irjf. ROBERTSONS
CABINET AND CHAIR
WAR O O W IS
W!bave
on hand and make to order, from good seasoned material, nnd by superior workmen, the following assortment, consisting of
Breakfast., Dining, Card and CENTRE TABLES, Plain and Fancy Bedsteads,
TUCKER'S PATENT SPRING BEDS,
MATRASSES,
determined to sell as low as
•r ioBMt to
We ask all who visit our market to purchase Goods to fi*o as a oall. as we are confident woean do them food. Our stock oonsists of
PRINTS, of all grades, DELAINES, MORINOS,
In short, if you want !o
S A 1 I
any
DEBEGES,
Bleached and Brown Muslins, Flancbtfall klada, Gia|kam,
SHAKER HOODS, NET HOODS,
MATS AND CAP8, OF ALL KINDS,
Ready Mae«l Colthfng!
Satitutts, Cossimeres, Ticeeds, J-c.
BOOTS 5c SHOES
For everybody, CHEAT! A fine stock of
Qseensware, Glassware, Groceries, Knives 4* Forks, Tea Tabic Spoons, everything that oan be called for in
T. U. MTERS win
0B
happy to wait -on all
...
h&n(j.readyand
his
old
friends
and
customers.
1^5'L€s
BINFORD.
Cfyfordiville. Sept.M. iseo. nii-ly
oaoaac D.HCRUIT- n. B. MASON. •VBLBV MABOW, Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
totU wttlqp—t ofjaartM««-te. hfefeviow OOoe.
S
MORGAN & WILLSON,
(Successor* to Manaoa A Power*.)
No. 4, Empire Block,
*"'s
"v
5 W holesale & ZE&etail
DEALEB8 IIV
PURE DRUG S, MEDICINES, CJHEMIOALS,
Paints, Oils, Varnishes,
DIE STIFFK,
GLASS, PUTTY,
FINE TOILET SOAPS,
HAIR AND TOOTH BRUSHES.
PAINT BRUSHES,.
E E
Toilet Fancy Articles/ STATIONERY,
Arc., Arc.
Embracing all articles usually kept in first class
DRUG ESTABLISHMENT,
The establishment will bo under the Supervision of Dr. Morgan, who will guarantee every article
M*ure and Genuine.
Thepatrunose of the public is respectfully solicited. N. B. DR. MORGAN will continue the practice of Medicine as usual, und will give strict attention to all calls, either by day or night.
FORT SUMTER S E E N E E
1000 Volunteers
W .V
*1 O A E
Savo the Union py, triulo with
.sieep sound live long and diohap-
BILL BOWERS.
April CO, lHfil-
The
Best Place
S and
oth-
punctual men or for
'CASH OR PRODUCE!
OUR
[Panic i'riccs!
Enables us to sell bettter bargains to our friends than they can set elsewhere, l'urchaser* will do well to call at GEO. SNYDER A CO.'S,
March 30, 1SG1. Washington Street.
COBB
p\ LJ
To buy tiuodi lit -BILL" HOWKItS1
BXCEL8I0R STORE!
BILL IBOWEZR/S
HAS
just rvturiu-d from »h Eest with the ino«t magnificent stoi-k of Iever olt'i.'rcl in this market, consisting of "Vrrythim: in hi- line nil of which ho is selling at COST and mid just little MOKE. Thereforo it' you want cheap Cl.ithin^ In
If you want
Cheap
Go to
If you want
uiLij nowi-iks*.
JHoots tend Shoes.
1UI.I. HOWEKS'.
Superb Dress Goods I
So cheap that it will HJ*.
4(the
O O S
CLOTHING,
.f
S,
BOOTS SHOES,
IS
SNYDER'S CFIE1P CASII STORE!
new stock of Spring Goods having been bought during the greatest depression in the market, in New York acd Boston, at
L. CLURE,. ..s. A. Dt'CKWOItTII,
New Cabinet Warerooms
No. 5, MAIN ST.
McCLUBE &~DUCKWORTH,
VITOULD respectfully inform the citizens of Mont*V gomery county that they have opened a new and largo
Furniture Wareroom,
Where will bo found at all times furniture of every description which will ba sold cheap for cash or in
EXCHANGE FOB LUMBER
We haTe secured tho BEST WO KM AN" in tho West, and our customers may rely on our furniture being of tho very best quality. AH orders promptly attended
March 30. '61-tf.
JsMTsURl* 191k, I860.
ONE HUNDRED BUSHELS
CHOICE
CLOYER SEED!
F0B $ALE AT
Graham .Brother's*
January «. raeo.
Htrtf.
•rgtffl "The lllMtfr Rlath." PHUXIFPA, VA., Jane 3,1861.
DEAR SENTINEL
a
I
ANo agents for sill the mogt popular
PATENT MEDICINES.
Since I wrote yon
from Grafton, we bare had a most delight* ful season. It was arranged by Colonels Kelley, Irwine and Milroy that we should proceed to this place on the night of the 1st inst., and capture the secession forces assembled here, to the number of 1,500, as we learaed after my last. As soon as the news reached the boys, they were all on the qrt vive for the chase. Sick men suddenly got well old men young, and all enthusiastic for the fray. I remember some instances that may serve as samples of the rest. Captain Patton's company was detailed as our camp guard on that evening, and of course could not go along with us When informed of our expedition, these men begged permission to go with us, and many of them wept when informed they could not go. The captain himself ran round the camp endeavoring to exchange places with some of the rest, and offered all his wages for the campaign to boot, but could find no takers: and at last sunk down in sullen disappointment,
.• hardships of anv march made anion" these accepting his fate as a necessity. Anoth-1,
er instance occurred in Captain Cameron
company. When the hour of starting— half past six o'clock P. M.—arrived and the company was ordered to fall in, some of them grumbled, because they had not yet obtained their rations for the expedition. The captain promptly informed those who complained of insufficient supplies, that if he heard any more complaint the men who made it should stay in camp. This cured the grumblers, all of whom promptly rushed into the ranks, and from that moment wore happy countenances.—
The regiment then formed and inarched from Camp Milroy to Grafton, where we halted and were ordered back to camp, to the infinite dissatisfaction of the eager soldiers. But a few words of explanation satisfied them that it was all right. The explanation was simply this: General Morris had arrived after the three Colonels had determined on the expedition, and it was but proper that he should have time to inform himself in regard to its feasibility, for he would necessarily have to bear the responsibility of the affair. All knew this and a'l were satisfied.
Weary and sad of heart wc laid down and slept, as the weary only sleep. In the morning we arose, ate breakfast, mounted guard, and had a serious accident, namely: the accidental discharge of a gun, which seriously wounded two men of Captain Segur's company, one in the arm, the other in the leg. Just as the wounds were dress
we were ordered to tail in, and to |:t necessary thins, for the troops have comgo aboard of the cars and start forthwith
eil—the distance being near thirtv mile
mittcd
for Philiippa. ^e started, and arriving tolerated. at Grafton, we were joined by (he Virgil Jt is now June the -i-th, and have pasta and Ohio regiments, and started on the Lsed the ia-fc ni-ht with our most advanced
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for Kvaus ville—a point marked on the diagram I blanket, tent- or any other comfort, exeentl
the howl of the balls irom the guns of our friend- 1' counted the time from the flash of the guns till the report by my pulse, which was steady and determined that the battery was little more than a mile distant from us. The Virginia regi-j rnent was to have crossed tho hills back ot of courage no indication that the destroy er was near. We followed him to the Na
town, and seize the road to Beverly so as to intercept the passage of the traitors but as the movement was to have been consumated before tie cannon opened from the hill, the gallant Virginian forgot or abandoned the original plan, ar.d dashed forward round the point, ordering us over the hill toward the road to Beverly. This led us up a steep hill which was cut up into a number of small fields by fcnccs. Lieutenant Wcimer, of Captain Dunn's (Logansport) company, threw down these fcnccs to facilitate the advance of our regiment, and our brave Colonel— looking every inch a hero and being all he seemed—led on the column. .Never did regular troops advance with greater regularity or confidence than did the true hearted boys of the Ninth Indiana. Forward forward double quick inarch was the command and notwithstanding their hunger, sleepiness aud exhaustion from a thirty miles march, they responded to the command in a style equal to the best efforts of your holiday soldiers who do the fancy part of war at home. Capt. Moody whose company had been selected to act specialty as a skirmishing party on the occasion, led the column in the coolest aud most gallant style possible. I was proud of him and his officers and men—all of whom manifested a courage and coolness worthy of the glorious cause for which they sought the fra)\ Near the top of the hill Lieut. Weimer procured a horse, and dashed forward over the hill and down the other side. Just as he got on the top, where I arrived about the same time, the retreating forces of the traitors fired at him, and the balls whistled over our heads. Down the hill he dashed, and into the town, where he obtained the traitor flag, and brought it back to the regiment afterwards. In the meantime our whole force was sweeping down the hill and seeing Col. Dumont's Regiment sweeping through the town in perfect order, after the retreating columns of the foe, Col. Milroy ordered three cheers for the gallant 7th Regiment and its Colonel, to which a response was promptly given in A style befitting the glorious occasion. We pursued the foe to the woods, where we halted from mere exhaustion, and returned to town.— In ike porssit I ioood a splendid blAaket, w£m}
CBAsWFQRDSyiLLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, nfDlAM, JUNE 15, 1861.
owii at Camp Milroy,.andhadnone. Some flying son of one of the first families" had flung it away in-bis terror.
I was on top of the-hill in time to see the gallant Virginians elose with the rear guard of the enemy. They were led by Col. Kelley in person, who was shot through the right lung just as be came up with the traitors. I saw him fall, and his men carry him back to town. Dr. New, of our city—the Surgeon of Col. Dumont's Regiment—dressed his wound, thus doing the first surgery required from hostile action in our campaign. The State has cause to be proud Of such a man as Dr. New, who was in the thickest of the fray, as ready to meet the dangers of the position as to share its honors. The wounded Colonel may recover, but it is doubtful. God grant he may, for a nobler man never drew a sword Another one of his men was shot through the thigh—a dangerous wound
send you of the field of operations. From .be consciousness of a good cause and just jcit3r which Mr. Douglas replied that point we started for Philiippa by the wishes for its success? \Ve shall probably I ^c'nrly every one of them." circuitous route I have indicated in pen- pursue the enemy to that place tomorrow, ^r-
when hope they will stand loutr enough
After making about twenty, we bivouack- to get the thrashing we have laid up for ed, without either tents or blankets, in an theTn. I am vonrs 'trulv open meadow. The grass being very wet, STAT NOMINIS UMBRA and the rain falling in torrents, wo had no comfort during our stay. At 1 o'clock in the morning we arose and sot forward on a march of ten miles, over the worst roads both as to mud and hills and stones, that passed the officc of the Tribune, surroun- street and drink in the iresh niorniu^ I ever saw. Wc made the distance by ded by the friends of years and the cn-
in the .Tiidnt of
tAfc
daylight—the Virginia regiment in the emics* whom he had just'disarmed attend- jlile- Then he began to sink away his van, the Ohio in the center, and the Oih I ed by a procession such as the city has
Indiana in the rear. Just before turning rarely seen hearlded by the triumphant• measured cadences, with considerable the hill upon the town there was a full strains of martial music* and by banners P"««e between each accent, he uttered halt, during which our artillery commene- and devices which expressed the svmpathy Death !—Death !!—Death ee firing Irom the hill towards Webster, tof tho whole people with the sacred cause After this he seemed to revive slightly, This was the signal tor a general assault, he had espoused hailed by the loud ac-1 and Mr. Rhodes asked him whether he and never was signal more welcome than claim of thrice ten thousand voices shout- had any message to send to his mother or
ing in his praise idolized by the great party whose soul he was admired by the men who had fought him with zeal only equaled by their bitterness—as he passed wc
measured
recent triumph, come by death,
in fpoi pty, is Iiri left ny fallf* Hs^r ]FeiT^u
LAST
I am unable to speak of the features of the march of the 6th and 7th regiments, of our volunteers from Webster to this! place, but am told it was bravely done.— you freely." It would g:ve your readers no idea of the 'Pl"~
4
..
mountain*, to inform thomot the number
of miles passed over. They must kuow, what is impossible for them to think of without personal observation, the character of the roads, before they can know what these brave men overcame in their passage. Col. Dumont speaks of the march as one of great difficulty, and his experience in Mexico, makes his judgment worthy of regard. He led his regiment with great spirit and enthusiasm At the top of the hill, near where the cannon of our army was posted, he was fired on by the outposts of the enemy, which were of course driven in before his advancing columns. As soon as the artillery opened on the rebels he marched down the hill to the town, the balls uf our cannon passing over tiie heads of his troops, and poured them across the bridge through the main street. Notwithstanding their long march they swept forward with great rapidity in pursuit of the flying rebels, Col. Dumont leading his regiment in person, and cheering them forward in the most gallant style. Lie followed them near five miles into the country, captured several baggage wagons richly loaded, a horse or two and a splendid pair of epauletts of a Major General. \A itli these trophies of his success and courage along with him, I met him on his .iturn just as I was raising the American flag over the quarters of the gnllaut Kelhv. The Col. is now in command of this post, being the senior Colonel of our forIces, lie is just getting the place in order
HOVBStf
said
some excesses that are not to be
outpost on the road to Beverlv, without then said to Mr. Dough t( 'IV-. 1 1
1,0
marked him well. There was in his mien I his neck and .said no sign of physical disease, and in his front My dear, do you know Cousin Dan Yes," he replied.
ble. Yesterday we sat at the same win- changed the dying man's pos dow as before,and saw another procession the bed for the last time. He irjw
which the faces of the thick thronging: forward and oft' the pillow.
^Victory had been over-
#SF* A wealthy manufacturer at Newark, N. J., has been grinding the face of the poor most cruelly. He recently compelled a poor woman, with a family of eight children, to make heavy military pants by hand for twenty cents a pair. The woman succeeded in making fcur pairs iu a week, and received therefor eighty cents! Other cases of a similar character have occurred in which advantage has been taken of the necessities of poor working men and women. This has induced the movement among the the tailors for concerting action to secure fair wages.
•9* The oity of Cumberland, Maryland, where the 11th Indiana Regiment is petted, is 101^ miles from Gnftat And '7ft.
IIMTOB DOrOLAS CmuwUlii Aw KI*|W»
AIUMIM fcy a NMoil Spjwi
The following extracts from a letter to the New York Herald, respecting the last hours of the great statesman, are full of patriotic interest, as well as what follows from the Chicago Tribune
At abouteleven o'clock on Sunday morning Bishop Duggan called at the request of friends to converse with Mr. Douglas, who was then, for the first time, perfectly rational. Mr. Douglas immediately recognized the Bishop, and expressed his gratification at the visit. Bishop Duggan soon asked
Mr. Douglas have you ever been baptized according to the rites of any church?" Mr. Douglas replied
Never."
The Bishop continued Do you desire to have mass said after the ordinances of the Holy Catholic Church The answer was
No sir when I do I will communicate
The Tishop then turned to Mr. Rhodes I and said Do you think he is fully possessed of his mental faculties
Mr. Rhodes replied I do not know—perhaps you had better ask him again."
The Bishop repeated his question, to which Mr. Douglas answered, in a strong, full voice
You perhaps did not understand me. When
I
desire,it,
I
will communicate with
you freely." The Bishop then remarked to Mr. Rhodes He is undoubtedly in his right mind, and does not desire iny offices."— He then withdrew.
During the day (Sunday) Mr. Douglas seemed to be much better, and strong hopes were entertained of his recover}he slept most of the day. and in the evening seemed much refreshed. Mrs. Douglas and Mr. Rhodes remained with him during the night. At about four o'clock ou Monday morning he seemed to be much worse, and sank rapidly his friends were sent for, and at the request of Mrs. Douglas, Bishop Duggan agai
3'^
visited him.—
after the Bishop" entered he approached LP,1C
the bedside, and addressing tiie patient
Mr. Douglas, you know your own condition tully, and in view of your approaching dissolution, do you desire fhe ceremony of extreme miction to be performed
Mr. Douglas replied No, I have no time to discuss these things now."
The Bishop then withdrew. After he had gone, Mrs. Douglas requested Mr. Riiodcs to a-ic iier husUuui if ho desiivi the ministration ot any other e!eri'yinan.
know
the elergymen of tl
1{ll0t'cs—"
Do you wish to have ei-
a".V
of theui call to sec you, to con
verse upon religious subjects?" Mr. Douglas—" No, I thank you." Soon after this, about five o'clock, he desired to have his position in bed changed,
wc arc in Drufh. the blinds opened and the windows raised.
Thirty-seven da\-s ago Mr. Douglas -^r- Rhodes lifted him to an easier posniade his last entry into Chicago. As he where he could look out upon the air.
il ft ni0llui,lt!j
e}'es
seemed to gain new
partially closed, and in slow and
sister Sarah, or his boys Robby!" and "'T'J /'l
Stevie," to which he made no reply, ev-i'iT
idently not understanding the question.—I !j1,"1,US3
Mrs. Douglas then placed her arm around !li0Ur'?
Mrs. Douglas continued
Your boys, Robby aud Stevie, Sarah—have
tional Hall, just reconstructed to country instead of party, and there saw the greet- your mother and sister ing which the ten thousand gave him. It any message for theni was a triumph for which a man might lay I 'The dying man replied down his life and say that he had achieved "Toll them to obey fhe laws and supa success. We wondered and envied—j port the constitution of the United States." wondered where dwelt the secret springs At about five o'clock Dr. Miller came of that visible power which moved and into the room, and noticing the open .shut
Yesterday we sat~at*tbe same win- changed the dying man's position again in ^Tcndit1urc
1
pass. The trappings of woe worn bv those further down in the middle of the bed,, ... who marched therein the signs of grief upon his left side, his head slightly bent: P,CaCna
multitudes carried in every look the slow, beside him, holding his right hand in both Kentucky, I would implore its inmates—j
He is—very comfortable."
We make the following extract from a late letter of the Hon. Joseph Holt, of Kentucky, in favor of the people standing by the Union
It is true, that before this deliverance of the popular mind of the South from the thrcatenings and alarms which have subdued it, can be accomplished, the romorseless agitators who have made this revolution, and now hold its reins, must be discarded alike from tho public confidence and public service. The country in its agony, is feeling their power, and we well understand how difficult will be the task of overthrowing the ascendancy they hare sccurcd. But the Union men of the South—believed to be in the majority in of
every scccded State, cxccpt perhaps South Carolina—aided by the presence of the Government will be fully equal to the emergency. Let these agitators perish, politically, if need be by scores A breath can unmake them, as a breath has made, but once destroy this Republic, and
Where is that Promeatbinn heat, That can its light relume V"
Once entombed, when will the Angel of the Resurrection dcsccnd to the portals of its sepulcher There is not a voice which comes to us from the cemetery of natious that does not answer Never, never Amid the torments of our perturbed existence, we may have glimpses of freedom as the maniac has glimpses of reason, between the paroxisms of his madness, but we shall attain to neither nitional dignitv nor national repose. We shall be amass ot jarring, warring, fragmentary States, enfeebled and demoralized, without power at home, or respectability abroad, and like the Republics of Mexico and South America, we will drilt away on a shoreless and ensanguined sea of civil commotion, from which, if tiie teachings of history arc to be trusted, we shall be finally rescued by the iron hand of some military wrecker who will coin the shattered elements of our greatness and of our strength into diadem and a throne. Said M^Fould, the great French statesman, to an American citizen, a few weeks since, Your Re
W
no'". WI'l
reiSn
P™bab,J'. last
ever see. ou will have a
terrorism, and after that two or
three monarchies.
All this may be vcr
ified, should this revolution succeed. Let us then twine each thread of the glorious tissue of our country's flag about our heartstrings, and looking upon our homes, and catching the spirit that breathes upon us from the battle fields of our fathers, let us resolve that coine weal or woe, we will, in life and in death now and forever, stand bv the Stars and Stripes.— I. hey have floated over our cradles let it be uin- prayer and our struggle that the}' shall float over our graves. They have been unfurled from the snows of Canada to the plains of New Orleans, and to the halls ot tho Montezumes, and amid the solitudes of every sea, and everywhere, as the luminous symbol of resistless and beneficent power, they have led the free to victory and to glory. It has been my fortune to look upon this flag in foreign lands and amid the gloom of an Oriental despotism and right well do I know, by contrast, how bright are its stars, and how sublime arc its inspirations. Tf this banner, tho emblem for us of all that is transporting in human hope, is to be sacrifiecd ou the altars of a satanic ambition, and thus disappear forever amid the night and tempest, of revolution, then will I feci— and who shall estimate the desolation of that feeling '—that the sun has indeed been stricken Irom the sky of our lives, and that henceforth wo shall be but wancrers and outcasts, with naught but the
:,"'i
V,'!t'' h?"d*
electrified multitudes—envied him the tri- tors and windows, inquired upon the eartli anu the question now is, pirates were undoubtedly the fishing-boats' umph he had achieved, and which that Why have von all these windows rais- whether tve are to perish by our own hands crew ot the coast, and nothing would please day bade fair to ripen into the most august ed and so much light Jand have the epitaph of the suicide writ-•
honors that thirty millions of freemen can Mr. Doug'as replied 'cn_ upon our tomb. The ordeal through M'ud being well^ prepared, to lay a trap for bestow. So that wc can have fresh air." which we are passing mu.it in The ways of the Almighty are inscruta-j At Mr. Douglas' request Mr. Rhod"-
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tread the sable-draped banners of hers, and leaning tenderly over bim,!1^ they would not have tnc rivers of their #®/"A gentleman recently from New of troops and civic societies the clangor sobbing. Mr. Rhodes remarked to Mrs. prosperity shrink away, as do the unfed Orleans states that the newspaper propriof the toiling bells: the deep and mourn- Douglas streams beneath the summer heats—to
ful notes of the military bands, which 1 am afraid he docs not lie comforta- rouse themselves from their lethargy and Poct
ble,"
reply to which 3Ir. Doindas said
made the air resouud with the city"s grief the nodding plumes of black which overshadowed the horses' heads and the funer-! These were hi3 last al car, toward which all men looked, and I-roin live o'clock he was speechless which bore a coffin beneath its canopy, told evidently retained his consciousness.— that the hearts of the people were deeply hen, a few moments before his death, moved. Douglas was going to his resting wife leaned lovingly over him and sob-,, place. The pageantry of woe pressed bingly asked, "Husband, do you know !beabandoned for tJic solemn duty that upon the gladness and exultation ot the! me will vou kiss me?" he raised his
eyes and smiled, and speak, the movements of the muscles of his mouth evidenced that he was making an almost dying struggle to comply with her request.
His death was calm and peaceful a few faint breaths after nine o'clock a slight rattling of his throat, a short, quick, convulsive shudder, and Stephen A. Douglas had passed from time into eternity.
Mr. Douglas leaves two sons—Robert Martin, aged thirteen, and Stephen Arnold jun., aged eleven years—who are now at Georgetown College. These, with his wife, are the only members left of his immediate family.
1S
lie New Orleans papers are con
gratulating themselves upoo the eomnmnnspfint of the maBafaeture of rifle eeaig^MBilar to tbe WJihwortb gmx-
for our hps,
.°»fstretel,cd in fec-
a,1'l
on which, any
n,,.1,Uu': t/ra,lt
V0M
in riV(:t tl,c
snfferinrr audio,
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ters of a despairing bondage. May God in his infinite mercy save you and me, and the laud we so much love, from the doom of such a degradation and I -s" contest, so momentous as this has
!arisen in human history, for amid all th"
Jtutions.
II 1 I tl '.t 11^ UUUO I1UU IIU WiU 1UI III* v. I .««•
to tlie
but j'jorhooc'' until the electric fires of ism shall flash throughout the land.
WHOLE NUMBER 992.
TALK or •VPVBBnfi-A Craw CrMias tfce Arakiaa BCMM. The Bombay papers publish A stAtement of Charles H. Cooke, late master of the ship Good Hope, at Bombay, describing the perilous passage of the Arabian Desert by the crew of that vessel. The Good Hope was seized off Cape Fatask by pirates, who, after dismantling and breaking np the vessel, landed the captain and crew, and left them in a desolate state. The natives treated them with kindness, but they suffered much weakness ami from privations. Captain Cooke narrates this story of
TIIE PASSAGE THROUGH TIIE DESKSFI We were turned ashore through the serf, nnd passed the night on the boach in charge some Arabs, who, having now nothing flint* 1...1 i«
that they could take but our lives, did not further maltreat us, after having taken awa}" our shirts nnd trousers, and substituted some of their own rags to cover our nakedness. Next morning they gave us about five pounds of our own ship's bread, and intimated to us that the road to Muscat was before us, and that wc were to start off, which wc did. The bread and threo handfuls of dates were our sole provisions for a journey of about four hundred miles across the arid stony desert of Arabia Petrea. We journeyed for eleven days, scorched by the blazing sun, which foil upon our almost naked bodies and shoeless feet by day, and chilled by dews at night, which clamped us and brought on bowel complaints.
To avoid losing ourselves in the desert, we usually traveled along tho coast catching crabs and sea-snals, which wo ate raw, for sustenance. Tor water—prccious water—we had every day to recover the camel track, sometimes finding a water-hole or well, sometimes not, near the road. At times we were two days without water, and when it was obtained it was very brackish and dirty. Occasionally—two or threo" times during that terrible journey wo met with a traveling family of Arabs or Scedios, the former invariably searching us closely, while the latter, the women especially, gave us water, tho only thing we asked for, as our mouths and tongues were so sore and swollen that we could barely swallow any thing solid, and their povorty was almost as great as ours in tho
matter of food.
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CHARITABLE ARADS.
At last, on the eleventh day, with blistered teet, with tongues swollen, lips bleeding, and totally exhausted, having fortyeight hours previously divided the last drop of water, which was carried in a boot,' wc lay under a scrub bush to die, as we thought. Blank, hopeless despair was at our hearts, and wc felt unequal to making .:'j another exertion for lile. At this moment we heard a donkey bray, and scrambling over a low range of sand hills near, wc saw the welcome sight of a drove of camels and donkeys, with seven or eight natives, picketed fcr rest We hailed, anu made signs for water, which wa? freely given, and treated us kindly. These peopie proved to be a party of Bedouin Arabs, and, with significant gestures they asked us if the coast people had not robbed us. By signs they inquired if we wished to go to Muscat, and, understanding that wo did, they gave us fish, rice and milk for supper, and mats to sleep. Never wore refreshment aud rest so sweet and so acccptablc. With gratitude and thankfulness at our hearts to God for his watchfulness and protection to us poor castaways, and to these Bedouin Samaritans for their kindness, wo slept that night.
ARRIVAL AT MUSCAT.
Wo were all suffering from gripes aud bowel complaints, and to alleviate this tho Arabs applied the cautery freely to our stomachs, the scars of which wc can still show. The next day they packed us upon camels, and after eleven days' journey (and mote searings of stomach, cramps and spasms) passing through some long and precipitous mountain passes, and Cnu populous village nestled in a palm grove, wc arrived at Muscat, where Mr. Rassam, the acting Consul, kindly supplied all our
conflicts of men and of nations, the life of wants, and engaged a passage for us in a :H such government as ours lias ever been bungalow tor Bombay. I had an interview at .stake. Our fathers won ur independ-!
w-ith
once by the blood and sacrifices of a sov-' kindly and said that, had he possessed en years' war, and we have maintained it steamer, he would have sent to look after against the assaults of the greatest power
UJ,™'. moro,-v
tho Imaum of Muscat, who spoke
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upon the earth and the question now is,! pirates were undoubtedly the fishing-boats'
pirates and the stolen schooner. Tho
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more than to go again in a small craft,
and beinjjj these rascals which would make them more
for us all, but careful in boarding strange crafts for the future.
be well made, if the result shall be the on my back, having lost nautical instruments, clothes and all I wa3 possessed Could mv voice reach cverv dwelling in His wife sat'
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^.ndreds future. At present, owing to their kind
.'°f millions, but of billions of treasure will1 intentions, stand possessed of what
etors
everlastingly too late. Man should ap- the North, and the difficulty of obtaining a
intelligible words I l)c:d man, and neighborhood to nei-idi-i sufficient supply of cheap paner. Busi-
com-jcession
mon deck. The howl of the storm is in bankrupt almost every newspaper cstablishour ears, and the lightning's red glare is ment in the seceded States painting hell on the sky," and while the noble ship pitches and roils under the lashings of the waves, the cry is heard that she has sprung a leak at many points, and that the rushing waters are mounting rapidly in the hold. The roan who in such an hour will not work at the pumps, is either a maniac or a monster.
tSf It is stated that the cannonading at Acquia Creek, Na., was beard at the distance of 150 miles.
WST The Cincinnati Commercial says a lsdy was arrested, in that city for wearing dresp too lov in the peck-
I
°j. that city are alarmed at the pros-
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their ruin consequent upon tho
rescue of their country before it suspension of commercial intercourse with
to neigh-i sufficient supply of cheap paper, patriot-! »css is completely parlyzed in New Orid. It is! I eans, and the advertising patro ngeof the
a time in which the workshop, the officc, various newspapers has fallen off to such the counting house and the field inav well'an extent that their revenues from that ource are now said to be inconsiderable. upon us for all these toils will bring but: There are few paper mills in the rebel
treasure—not for ourselves, but for the States, and quite a number of their weekspoiler, if this revolution is not arrested. ly newspapers have already suspended We are all with our every earthly interest I publication. It is believed that these* embarked in mid ocean on the same
movement will, in a short time,
wiii unfi'i'jote'i
ly be a gerscrrj
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bursting up among Southern newspapers^ Tho two old political organs at Mobile the Register and the Advertiser, have been united, and to keep the new concern from fizzling out, ono of the editors has been elected Mayor and the other City Printer.
At the ordinance department of the
navy yard at Washington great aetivity prevails. A large force of operatives are at work in casting shot and shell 15,000 Minie balls are tarn ed oat daily