Indiana American, Volume 17, Number 32, Brookville, Franklin County, 3 August 1849 — Page 1

INDIANA AMERICAN. OUR COUNTRY-OUR COUNTRY'S INTERESTS-AND OUR COUNTRY'S FRIENDS.

BY C. F. CLARKSON BROOKVLLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1849. VOL. XVII ---- NO. 32.

CORRESPONDENCE.

. For the American. Rapp's Colony---its Ruins---and the Infidel- ity of its scattered followers---a Brookville Boy, an Efficient Missionary. Dear Clarkson: It is not necessary to travel in "foreign lands to find objects of real interest. I have found in Indiana caves, the exploring of which would be worth a visit to old ocean; yet they are comparatively unknown to their im- . mediate neighbors. The antiquarian can have

his curiosity fully gratified in one place at least saving sinners. j riotism, Wm. M. Albin, Putnam Co.; moderate in Indiana. That place is New Harmony. j I might moralize here, but I prefer letting Responsability of Public Station, I. Birch, FounAllhough It is but abont 30 years since it was each reader draw his own moral. How profita- I tain Co.; eloquent. The Federal Constitution" first settled by the colony of Germans under J ble it might be for many who remember the oc- j D. W. Voihees, Fountain Co.; very fine. The Mr. Rapp, yet there is a mystery hanging over , casion alluded to, and were even "glad," to ask ; Influence and Office of the American Scholarmany things around it that makes the visitor . have I spent the past thirteen years as profitably ' Valedictory JamesC. Macintosh, Connersvillefeel as he imagines he would feel among the ru- ( as this young saddler? I may indeed have laid impressive and good. The Baccalaureate bv

ins of some eastern city. j mere sutuua a o um. uuuuiiig ij feet by 135 feet, originally all in one room on the first floor, with a story of 25 feet height, and one naturally asks why it was built? The answer invariably is, it was built for a church, but why so large and uncouth in appearance, why a second and third story, are matters of conjecture. Some say the plan was revealed in a dream and the design kept a profound secret. Some say it was built only to furnish employment for the men who would have been idle but for this, and at last you wander off wondering why it was built, although you may have enjoyed the company of "the oldest inhabitant." But if "the hall" is invested with mysteryf "the granary" is doubly so. It stands a few rods north of "the hall," and is built of large rough stones. The wall is about three feet thick, and perforated on each side by four port holes which are about ten inches wide and two feet high out side, but the)' are beveled so as to be probably two feet wide inside. With a gun, a range of nearly 60 degrees could be commanded from the inside. Why was it built? Her yon are met again by conjecture. It could not have been designed for offensive war, but for defense against some imaginary foe. The Indians were gone long before, cud it is supposed that they feared attacks from the "squatters," to whom the Germans were offensive, as their industry contrasted so much with the idleness of these roving men. But it was never used as a fort. It is now used as a labratory by Dr. David D. Owen, the Geologist, and it cantains thou sands of interesting geological specimens, as well as skeletons of birds and animals of almost every clime. This bnilding as now occupied would justify a lengthy journey to any lover of geology. Tradition says that from this fort there were subterraneous passages to the principal 6 1 . bence these will be sought out with great interest. The location of New Harmony is beautiful;' and although most of the houses are of queer 6 , . , . , J architecture, bei a g more of th? German than of ' . , . , , , . . . ' . J : honses. The house hobert Dale Owen, who is the lion of the place, lives in, was, in the days of New Harmony's greatness, a cotton factory. It has nndergone various modifications, and yet needs changes to make it comport well with the ordinary notions of convenience or beauty. You may well judge so, by taking in your mind, a two etory factory about 100 feet by 60, and attempting to give it the appearance of a decent house. How long he has been at the work I do not know, but he was vet at it a few weeks affo.

The gardens are fine-the streets of the town ! one S'8 luilion and two f one-half year's tnwid and always dry and comfortable, even in ! ition- ne of the ,arSer is for the best "Sd mid-wialer. It is surrounded by a country the comPosition. other for the best declamation;

rnott fertile of any thing I have seen in this part of the state. It produces corn iu great abuu-

dance, and of eourse whiskey is made in abun- ! 1 ' pme ,or U,e Dest reclamation was awarded dance also. There are three or four large dis- to Mr Natha,lipl McDonald of New Albany, la.; tilleries, but they are constantly changing own- ! that for the second best' t0 Mr" IIenry IL Hea" ere, as no firm is able to stand the losses of the t0" of Tiri,'-'calle Co Ia- Both were very business but a few years. The houses are built god- T1"S rrize for the bept original was and the corn grows, aad it would be a great pity !awarded to M'-William S. Turner of Jersey to see either wasting, and hence men engage in pWe' for ll,e Becond bestt0 Mr- Jam,s A" the benevolent work of making whiskev, altho' i Rw,ck cf Laconia, Ina. Mr. Turner's suball experieuce tells them it is a losing business. j"ct was Industry. However common-place and There is one house however that has been idle narkn"y lhe subject might appear for such an nearly a year, whose last owner died suddenly, ' occa!lon' J"1 Mr- T.'s thoughts were any-thing and no one seems to own the concern. I guess els than common-place and hackneyed. They It days are numbered. j were st"k''igly and finely original. He showed The Oweasyou know, who bought out the n ""questionable acquaintance with his subject Rapp community with a view ofconvincing the ! no1 onIy in ,heory but in Practice. Mr. Besworld that all our evils result from bad educa- ' wick's suh'ect was "A Defence of the Ministry." tion, are rank infidels. Their experiment was Mr" B- is the better rea3er bat his performance to ba baaed on a disbelief of the bibie, and sure- exhibited a less degree of thought than Turner's, ly no experiment ever had a more propitious be- ' be Performance of the unsuccessful competginning. Old Mr. Owen was wealthy and in- , itors werf mediocretelligent,and he had a fair chance to demonstrate 1 At 4 'clock in the afternoon the Valedictory

that there might be some better way of doing buainess than that defined in the bible. But alas, I tha materials in the shape of humanity, with ; which he began, had been badly tempered before j fca got hold of them. Under Mr. Rapp's direc-1 tion the German colony, with the bible as the ! ule of right, was constantly increasing in wealth and intelligence, bnt nnder Mr. Owen's direction, with the bible discarded, in ten month he found himself minus twenty seven thousand dollars, and was glad to CRpitulate and quit. Of course he was not convinced that he was a fool, though it was hard to satisfy the world that he was not. He left his sons a large estate to no part of which do they adhere more closely than to his infidelity. All of those who remaiued at New Harmony and In the vicinity, on the failure of the Owen cheme, were infidels. The bible was not read, al C -1 - me oaoDam was disregarded, except as a day of music and dancing, fishing and hunting, and o It continued for years. They had undisputed away until a lew years ago an unpretending youth who had spent most of his time in a saddler'a shop in Brookville, ith a bible in his sad die-bags entered the town as a Methodist preach er, and found the door of a widow open for the' ffosnel. 11 Drearheii nnl l-n nr.tKur . ment. Ue preached agaiu and left another, and llthough he made no pretentions to great learning, be could tell the simple story of salvation wy iu.ii in unnst, and ne louud even there willing hearers. He soon formed a little society I The eoclety increased, and it is now the centre1 of a irooH rir..,;t t i- . i n i ucio is in me town a neai frame church, one of the largest in Posey county, and a very comfortable parsonage, with garden and stable attached. ' Thus it is that the wisdom of this world is confounded by the preaching orChrist crucified, Who wonld have tliongijl on one Mendav mot-

eomeUiirteen yearsago, as aeood natured ,

tailor said half joking and half in earnest "Well Asbury you have joined the church. have you ? I am glad to hear it" that that y on th would in a very few years, fearlessly proclaim a rlM,u a frgivmg&avior to the children of the Persons who had so boldly set at defiance the whole of the precepts and schemes of the gospel? et so it was. And with what success we have seen. Truly we should never despise the day ! - .. wings, nor contemn liod's method of j up more treasure on earth, but is it a treasure . uvui nmcn x may craw in eternity' Evansville, July 15, 1849. G. For the American. Indiana Asbury University. Mr. Editor: I have just returned from witnessing the tenth annual commencement of the above popular and flourishing institution, which took place on Wednesday the 18th inst. As this University is beginning to attract the general attention of the people of Indiana, I have ' thoucht that a sketch of the exercises. attend! ! the close of the tenth year of its existence, might not be uninteresting to most of your readers, and shall therefore haste, imperfectly, to give it. The bad state of the roads, prevented my being present at the annual examinations which I commenced on Monday the 9th inst. All of the classes save the Senior had passed that ordeal before my arrival. The common expression of those, however, who had been more fortunate than myself, was, that they were of a highly creditable character, and reflected honor upon both instrncters and students. At the examination of the Senior class, which I had the pleasure of witnessing, on Saturday, I was forcibly struck with the perfect and entire familiarity they exhibited with their studies, in the promptitude and correctness of their answers to the different questions propounded them by the teachers and visitors. This reciprocally evidenced their own perseverance and application, and the en ergy and faithfulness of the Faulty. Tn Faculty, indeed, is one of high order. There is not another College in the west, in my acquaintance, that possesses a corps of teachers more efficient, or more deserving of public confidence and esteem. Under their management we find Asbury University in its i tenth Tpar. thp firl th rsrv Arc! Ciarai-iT stitulion in th State, and second to no one in the g'eat Mississippi Valley an ornament to ttie Cause of edlicalinn. and nn tinnn, tn tliA cur u -oj . i t . ., On Sundav at 11 o clock A. M. services in the AI ,. . ... . . , , , Methodist pulnit were conducted by Rev. Chas. B. Davidson of Law rencebur?, Ia. Rev. Ed ward R. Ames of Indianapolis delivered a lecture to the students, in the College Chapel at three o'clock in the afternoon. The sermon and lecture were such as would reasonably be expected from the standing of the Reverend gentlemen. On Monday, 10 A. M. the annual prize declamations and prize compositions by the members of the Freshman, Sophomore anu Junior Classes came off". The prizes are four two of ""b ' ",e smaller ,or lne second Desl comrsi , tion, the other for the second best declamation. exercisM of the Platonean Society took place, A at tbe simi,ar exercises of the Philological SocietY neit morning, I had not the satisfaction ofbeinS Present- They were well spoken of nowever by those who attended. At 7 t o'cl'k in llie evening the Alumni were addressed by J"wton Both, Esq., of Terre Haute. His theme was lhe "Democratic Tendencies of the Age," and he handled it ably and eloquently, The general cleverness of the address however was impaired by the radicalism of some of its doctrines aud sentiments. Mr. B. is a you jg

man yet he graduated in the class of 1S46, but. College one student free of tuition. Up to Oche is an impassioned and finished speaker. toher 1S1?, 1040 of them had been sold. "This At 10 A. M. on Tuesday, Professor Boobs of omomlt, added to $10,000 given by ten individthe Medical department of the University pro- un8 jn 1S40, for the endowment of the Trofesnounced an oration ou the Philosophical Asso- sorsnip 0f Mathematics,makes$114,000. Agents ciation, upon Physical Education. The topic are now egaged collecting this endowment, as was happily selected and treated with ability. lne notes falI jue tnat it Itlay 8afeiy and profit-Rev-Dr. Tefft of Cincinnati was to have de- ahy be invested for the permanent support of livered an address before the Platonean Society instruction iu th University. The aat 4 P. M., but was prevented from doing so by nlount 0f endowment will probably be increased sickness. J hy the sale of additional scholarships, as the iuAt 7'. o'clock in the evening R. N. Hudson, terests of the institution may require the foundEsq , of Terre Haute addressed the Beta Theta ing 0f additional professorships." Pi Society. The address was an excellent one. This plan was worthy of the head of Alexan-

Mr.II.'s appearance as a speaker is exceedingly ! prepossessing. He was Graduated at the LTni ver- ' sity some years ago. ' Wednesday was Commencement Day. The ! was ne, anu mo v nape i n..eQu.. " .u...gcu uU.u. . lowine '8 ,ist of lhe wmea of the eduanK their several subjecU and my opinion of the manner in which thev acanited themselves, 88 1 markcd il down on the margin of the pro- ' gn,mme, at the time: Latin Oration Salutatory I William II Le Motte, New Castle; very well ' delivered" L',Us and sllades r American Hisj torT T- C" Woodward, Greencastle; very good. Thp Miss of Amic Eott N. Bowman,

Jacksonville; moderate. National Character-!

ivesuuoi individual excellence John M. Lame, Tippecanoe Co.; moderate. The Power of Political Association, Isaac R. Hitt, Vincennes; very good. The Political Triumph of Christianity, Thos. R. May, Putnam Co.; good. Historical Contrast, B. F. Rawlins, Bedford; fine well declaimed. Political Integrity, Win. H. Dixon, Jeffersonville; bold and good. The Original Thinker, Wm. II. Conwell. Cambridge fllA I I . . . . City; excellent. The Sphere of American P t Trof. Larrabee was such as one would anticipate from his reputation as a scholar and writer. Between the Orations there was some very excellent music by the University Orchestra. At the meeting of the Joint Board of Trustees and Conference Visitors, on Tuesday Rev. Lccien W.Berrt Presiding Elder, upon this district was elected President of the University to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Dr. Simpson. This is au exceedingly happy selection. The high moral character, fi I", scnolarsniP' anJ inflexible hrmness of "' " ' y "J nim lor mis re1 sponsible station. Another of his recommendaj tions is that he is a Western man. He has ever I been identified with the cause of education it its ! peculiar adaptation to the wants and interests of pepIe IU West' IIis feelinK9 and Pre- ; dilections in this matter are entirely Western. We in the White Water Valley, among whom he has labored for the last few years will regret to lose him. If he must go, however, "we are ready to bid him God Speed. His power as a thiuker, his eloquence as an orator, and the dig nity of his deportment will render him useful ' and respected anywhere, and make him felt in any capacity. President B. is not a graduate of any institution I believe. He was several years at Miami University, Oxford. Being a member of the Board of Trustees, he was consequently present at his election and responded to it by accepting the honor conferred on him in one of the neatest and most appropriate speeches I evor had the pleasure of listening to. Joseph Tingly A. M.f who was graduated in 1S46, and who has since then been acting as a tutor in the University, was elected Professor of Natural Science to fill the vacancy occasioned by the promotion of Prof. Downey to the chair of Chemistry and Pharmacy in the Medical department. Both the Whig and Democratic candidate for Governor, Hon. Joseph A. Wright and Hon. John A. Matson were present as Trustees and voted. In the election of President it was the genera 1 wish of the students that Prof. Larrabee, who has been acting President for some time, should be selected for that high oflice. This was to be expected. It was a grateful and sincere compliment to Prof. L. who had endeared himself to them by more than the usual ties that connect the instructor and the pnpil, the governor and the governed. Under other circumstances I myself would have rejoiced at the election of Prof. L. He was my second choice. But I venture to predict, and I do it with the utmost confidence, that when the students come to know President Berry as we know him in this portion of the State, or as they know Professor Larrabee, he will be equally popular. With this addition to the present able and efficient faculty, the institution cannot but prosper. Every thing favors this opinion. "The catalogue of 1S48 shows 295 students in attendance; that of 1839 but K", exhibiting the astonishing increase of 350 per ceut in nine years! It will appear, however from comparing the number of graduates with the whole number on the annual catalogues, that a very small portion of those who enter complete the course. This will be found on examination to be the case in all western colleges. Very many come with the design of remaining only a few terms, to acquire sufficient education for some specific purpose in practical life. The number of candidates for graduation, however, is annually increasing, and is larger now than at any former time. Indeed the whole number of graduates, at the nine commencements already held, is greater than the number at the first eleven commencements of Harvard University. Probably the number is as great as wonld be found to be the average on the catalogue of any of the Americn Colleges for the first nine years of their existence." To the rapid increase of the last two or three years, as well as to the healthy state of it finances, the University is indebted to the genius and indefatigable industry of Rev. Isaac Owen, its j late general agent, and at present a missionary to California. In 1844 he projected a plan of permanent endowment, by the sale of perpetual scholarships. These scholarships in considara,;on 0f tne sum of $100 vests in the purchaser -,i his heirs forever the orivilepe of keeninir at der Hamilton. We never heard of any thing cimorinr to it. Mark the results: while it has secured a permanent endowment, it has actually engaged the attendance of over one thousand students at xne i u.cn o..u ...... r'"1' five hundred young men will be receiving kistruction within its walls; and nothing in reason will nrevent its finally becominc the first Coli - " I lege, in point of the number of its students in ! the Union. But real good it has already accom- j plished, and that it will be the instrument of; accomplishing hereafter, can cot be determined ' llntj the things of time are weighed in the ba!- j auccs 0f Eternity. T. I

POETICAL.

Children. Bless them! We love to hear their sweet j onenskv W. W (hi 7 i-T1 Ivieso ond FT. T ' l"reM. f0ndlhem'rlh that 8tart'eS Echo: riuirinr cneeniv nnn r .ar nnH ilia from hersleep And show the native gladneM oftlieir hearts. What a delightful poem is that of Mary Howitt's on little children! Here it is, Reader! if thou, like myself, art fond of the prattling and engaging creatures of which it speaks, thou wilt love it, and take ifto thy heart for ever. Sporting through the frest wide, Play iug by the water side, Wandering o'er-the heathy fells, Down within the woodland dells, All among the mountains wild, Dwelleth many a little child! In the baron's hall of pride, By the poor man's dull fireside, 'Mid the mighty, 'mid the mean, Little children may be seen; Likethe flowers tharspring up fair, Bright and countless every where. In the fair iiles'of the main, In the desert's lone domain, In the savage' niountain glen, 'Mid the tribes of swarthy men W heiesoe'er the sun hath shown, On a league of peopled'ground. Little children may be found! Blessings on them! they'in me Move a kindly sympathy, With their wishes, hopes and fears, With their laughter and their tears, With their wonder so intense, And their Bmall experience! Little children, nofalone, On the wide earth you are known, 'Mid its labors and its cares, 'Mid its sufferings and its snares; Free from Borrow, free from strife, In the world of love aud life, Where no sinful thing hath trod, In the presence of our God; Spotless, blameless, glorified, Little children ye a'lide. Ntrrani. BV MISS FRANCES BROWN. Ye only minstrels of the earth Whose mighty voices woke The echoes of its infant woods Ere yet the tempests spoke! How is it that ye waken still The young heart's happy dreams: And shed your light on darkened eyes, O bright and blessed streams? Woe for the world! she hath grown old And gray iu toil and tears; But ye lrnve kept their harmonies Of her uufu'len years. Forever in our weary path, Your ceaseless music seems The spirit of her perished youth, Ye glad and glorious streams! Your murmurs bring the pleasant breath Of mauy a sylvan scene They tell of sweet and sunny vales, And woodlands wildly green. Ye cheer the lonely heart of age Ye fill the exile's dreams With hope, and home, aud memory Ye unforgotten streams! Too soon the blessed spring of love To bitter fountains turn, And deserts drink the springs that flow From hopes exhaustleess urn; And faint upon the waves of life May fall the summer beams; Bnt they linger long and bright with you, Yesweet unchanging streams. The bards the ancient bards who sang When thought aud song were new, O, mighty waters, did they learn Their miuistrelsy from you? For still methinks your voices blend With all their glorious themes, That flow fur ever, fresh and free, As the eternal streams ! Well might the sainted seer of old Who trod the tearless shore. Like many waters deem the voice The angel host adore! ForBtill where deep the rivers roll, Or far the torrent gleams, Our spirits hear the voice of God Amid the rush of streams. M j mother. BY RICHARD COK, JR. My mother she is aged now, And many a silver hair Is sadly parted on her brow, Deep furrowed o'er with care, Oh! she has been so kind to me, So loving aud sincere, That I would make her half forget She ever knew a tear. Yet will mine eyes o'erflow with tears, My bosom heave a sigh, To know that in a few short years, My mother, dear, must die! For who will guide my manhood then, Or watch my steps in love, Methinks I hear her sweet voice say, "My child, thy God above!" Then I will hear my mother's voice. Her council, sweet obey; Thus may I sooth her sorrow s here, Thus cheer her latest day: And when my hour of death shall com As come full soon it must May her dear angel form receive My spirit from the dust! Jlrn. Partington Poetic. The Timea and Keystone has the followiu? . froin Mrg. Partil ,on n refer-nce . her visit to aee the statuary of "Hero and Leander j Zander swam the Hellespond. m to,d there ' o doubt; p ,i , , , ,. r or "efo. loo, the bra ten thing., At whom our maids would scou To stand upon the river's brink For so the story goes onTo meet a man at dead of night, Without a stitch of clothes on.

HISTORICAL.

Erfcnrc of the Frivnlrrr. THE BOLDEST FIGHT O BF.CORD. : rm - . . warlare do not furnish IWWil" BCtio fought at Fayal, Western Islands, in 1511. between a British gun brig and the boats of a British squadron on the one side, and on the other the little privateer armed American brig General Armstrong, of seven guns and ninety men, commanded by Capt. Samuel C. Reid, out of the port of New York. The terrible engagement of Paul Jones w ith a British cruiser, is scarcely a n:irs)llul j j - ii.uu lew naval battles, even by large fleets, exhibited Crt irrf.l n kImi. rrliloi. A !-:: I- . . fe b".. uiuiMi resident ol tayal, who was witness to the action in a letter to the celebrated L-obbet, under date of Oct. 15. vv....,i..-. ucicuee ana noble conduct of the daring American privateersman. 'The American privateer brig Gen. Armstrong, of New York, Capt. Samuel Reid, of seven guns and ninety men, entered here on the 2Gth ultimo, about noon, 17 days from that . ! r . . i i. . tlma iouirili.. .Jr. i . . piae.e, lor me purpose ot obtaining water. The captain, seeing nothing iu the horizon, was induced to anchor. Before the lapse of many hours, his majesty's brig Carnation came iu, and anchored near her. About six, his majesty's ship riantagenet, of 74 guns, and the Rota frigate, came in an anchored also. The captain of the privateer and his friends consulted the first authorities here about their security. They all considered her perfectly secure, and that his majesty's officers were too well acquainted with the respect due a neutral port to molest her. But to the great surprise of every one, about nine in the eveiiing, four boats were dispatched, armed aud manned, from his majesty's ships, for the purpose of cutting her out. It being about the full of the moon", the night perfectly clear and calm, we could see every movement made. The boats approached with rapidity towards her, when it appears, the captain of the privateer hailed them, and told them to keep off several times. They notwith- . -....: i. . . . Biuuuiug f.usiieu on, and wero in the act of boarding her before any defence was mand from the privateer. A warm contest ensued on both sides. The boats were finally dispersed with great loss. The American now calculating on a very superiorforce being sent, cut his cables and rowed the privateer close in alongside of the fort, within half cables length, where he moored her, head and stern, with four lines. rrl. i ne governor now sent a remonstrance to Captaiu Lloyd, of the Piantageiiet against such proceedings.and trusted that the privateer would j not be further molested, she being in dominions of lortugal, and under the guns of the castle,' was entitled to Portuguese urotectii.n

r. . t i I tn win t cm lj htr on. Captain Lloyd s answer was that he was ce- j New York . July 2 1th I send y on this n.or -termined to destroy the vessel, at the expense of nin(? a brief telegraphic despatch, announcing all fayal and should any protection be Civen le attempt nnde by young R.Uiil.un, to murher by the fort, he would not leave a house der his own n.oih, r. Some further particulars standing ,n the village. All the i..habitals wU not be uninteresting. were gathered about the will,, expecting a re- Loomis Uathbnn, son of n,i,,i Ratl.l.un, newal of the attack. At about midnight, (our- . proprietor of Rathbun's IloUl has been in the teen launches were discovered to be coming, in ,wbit ofdrinking, someti mes to excess. His inflation for the purpose. toxication is followed by terrible fits of delirium hen they got within clear gunshot, a tre- 1 tremens, mendous and effectual discharge was made from j This morning he got up out of be.!, Pft..r a the privateer, which threw the boats into con-j week', hard drinking, and took up the razor and

insion. i ney now returned a spiriteo fire; but

the privateer kept up so continual a discharge, 1 happy mot it was almost impossible for the boats tomake'tives verv

any progress. They finally succeeded, aft-r .mmense loss, to get alongside of her, and attempled to board her at every u rr-i nery ijuatier, cher-rcd , with a shout of -No quarter!' i cistinctly hear, es well ns their by the officers which we could shrieks and cries. The termination was nenr a total massacre. Three of the boats were sunk, and but one' poor solitary officer escaped death, in a boat that contained fifty souls ; he was wounded. The i- nrmnfM: some oi Iheiih iem(o era w it 1 l iree or our, the mo.-t that ftnv nna mlnrnad :tl. .. 1 A mavi oniia fminlil Tit. e jt ... mii'iivu n mi nas nuuui ihii: spvprw boats floated on shore full of dead bodies. With great reluctance I state that they wero manned with picked men, and commanded by the first, second, third, and fo-irlh lieutenants of the Plantagenet; first, second, third and fourth lieutenants of the frigate, aud the first officers of the brig, together with a great number of midshipmen. Our whole force exceeded 400 men; but three officers esc:-ped, two of which are wounded. The bloody and unfortunate contest lasted about 10 minutes. After the boats gave out, nothing more was attemr ted till daylight next morning, when the Carnation hauled alongside and engaged her. 1 lie privateer still continued to make a most gallant defence Those veterans reminded m of

Lawrence's dying words, cf the Chcsapeak, "ix horses cannot move; it can readily carry up- j l,rk -Mirror says: Dont give up the ship!' The Carnation lost " its back three or four th uaud pounds' "Th numerous friends of Father Mathew In oneofher topmast, and her yards were shot weight, upou its tusks alone it can support near N' York will be glad to learn that the Presiaway; she was much cut up in the rigging, and a thousand. lis force may also be ol.tniii-d by h-t intends to invite the Apostle of Temperreceived several shot in hull. This obliged her 'e velocity of its motion compared with the,ace to visit him at the executive mansion." to haul off to repair, and to cease her firin-r. mass of its body. It can go in its ordinary pace j The Americans now finding their principle horse at an easy trot, and whe.. ! Tj 1 The following is the true passage in Genrn.(lJ..T.,n..J.Mi.,l nushed it can move as swifllv as a horse at full Taylor's Allisoa letter, to which reference

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so superior a force; they therefore cut away her "'"'ts a day, and when hard puslud alnust doumasts to the deck, blew a hole through her hot- l,le tllat distanre.

tow. took out their small arms, clothinir. ir.J t. F and went en thore. I discovered only two shot holes iu the hull of the privateer, tluniuii much cut up in the rigging. Two boats' crew were afterwards despatched

from our vessels, which went ou board, took Virginia, set out, in compaay wilii herniece: Elsrriblr Ornih. out some provisions, and set her on fire. and uephew, to visit the daughter of a friend j Tlie following verdict was given by an easternFor three days alter, w were employed in who was ill. After travelling about two miles corouer: "We believe firmly that die deeeaaed burying the dead that washed on shore in the they discovered a cloud rising, and determined ! came to his death by falling from the top of the surf. The number of llritibh killed exceeds to stop at the house of an acquaintance near by mainmast ou the bulwarks fell overboard and 120, and 90 wounded. The enemy, (the Ameri- until the cloud should pass over. Cut at that' -drowned washed ashore and froze to deathcans) to the surprise of maukiud, lost only two momeut a yonug man rode up and informed aud then carried lo the wa.'ch house aad. eaten killed and seven wounded. We mav as well them thai ih vn.m 1.,' .., ..t J i.,. .-.i t

' say Hjod deliver us irom our enemies,' if this is the way the Americans fight. After burning the privateer, Capt. Lloyd made a oemano ot me governor to deliver up the Americans as prisoners which was relumed, He threatened to send 500 men on shore, and take them by force. The Americaus immediatcly retired with their arms to an old Gothic : Convent, knocked away the adjoining drawj bridge, and determiued todefend themselves to j the last. The captain, however, thought better Mian to sotM ins men- M tlicu demanded two

men, which he saij deserted from his vessel when in America. The governor sent for his men, but found none of the description p iven.

Many houses received much injury on shore, from the guns of the Carnation. A woman "Uing in the fourth story of her house had her thiBh shot off; and a boy had his am, broken. The American Consul here has made a demand m the Portuguese government for a hundred thousand dollars, for the privateer; which our Consul, Mr. Parkin, thinks injustice, illbe paid, and that they will claim on F.ng'aud , Mr. Parkin, Mr. EJwar.1 Bavlev, and otVr ' English gentlemen, disapprove of the outrage 1 ,u..U;.. . . m ui-nuuiiuu i.uiiiiiiiiit"u i)v our vessels on this occasion. The vessel fa shin-of-war thai . . . . , was despatched to tnc'.and with the wounded ' was not permitted to take a sincle letter from !anv person. IVinr.,, ,v.. ... .i :.. ' : - n " . v .. . ill. - o I II III!.-. irausnuiion, i nave given you a correct ment as it occurred." t..te.

ipnt 'uni on de band box, and it drawd her new .... pink bonnet all out ob shape, and spile urn enAlans paper anuouueed that New Orleans J, had beeu "submerged and aban loned;" where- i ' upon the N. O. Crescent City exclai ins: i "' "Abandoned? Look at the Ioiig line of stores ! s?"e was a lk-aul'ful g'lrl of sixteen; with black no- going up in ,t. Charles street, supported ,uir' aud 3arkltvel" e esi an a face that bad a by irou pillars a fit emblem of the duration of.,or" 10 tM- IIow J'2"creul faces are in thia our prosperity. See building after Luilciing ! Particular! Some of them speak noU They springing up day by day from the workman's are booliS in which not aline is written, save hands, in Camp, Magazine, Tchoupitoulas, and ri'rlla!,s a date. Others are great family bibles, many other streets. Behold the massive founds-jwilu lbe 01d aud new Testament written in tion prepared for the immense Custom-house, ll,eln- Others are Mother Goose and nursery to tower, a temple of commerce, above the busy tules; others bad tragedies or pickle-herring: offices of trade around. See the noble struct ure farces: a"d others, like the landlady's daughter for the use of the Second Municipality, almost at the Star, sweet love-anthologies, und aonge

ready to receive the "City Fathers the new Theatre that will soou rise with its fairy-like domeover the deciples of Thalia. And then to enumerate the private houses, why it would take a small directory to even "make a note of Vm." Abandoned, indeed, with thousands of laborers piling on the bri. ks and mortar; energetic citizens liberally dispensing their capital and an intelligent press working night und day in the cause of progress! Talk of the rivers of the Old World of the storied Rhine and the song-echoing hanks of the Seine and Rhone the Mississippi has Indian tradition and the boatman's shout! Speak of the golden Tagus, the far-famed Guadalqniver, the cradle-freighted Gange, the silver Arne thejeilow Tiber, the Turbid Ni'e and Father Thames; attach every grandiloquent epithet to each; bundle them up, like the Roman faces, and all sink into insignificance before the Father of Waters. A puff from one of pur mammom steamers would blow J.av the Minerflnous a!iertive ,,r..f , ...1 ..,, ..t. ... i. rs as the Thames', and the (road.i'e cf the" "Eostona" would almost dam their waters, i arancuy in . trk 'in. tCat hbmi't. , attempted to cut his own throat . which his nnmother who had been watching his moery naturally tried to prevent. He cried, .-Good bve mother'," before drawing the ins.ru ' Inelll nrr0M his tIlr0!, ,lv which he winded ; hinm.lf wvwIv ,mt Ilot dancrri..nk!y. W ; ogei, Imhcr, half frantic, seized his band, a:,d cMeti as Wt, K,,e wa1 a,(,tf fur i;ssM:,nce. A, this moment this unfortunate man turned round upon his parent, and attempt-d to t ,ke her life, exclaiming "du her, I'll ki)l her," and with mf 07 u,e razor :nt iro;a 'fro m ear to ear. The waiters had by this ti me arrived and mccM in drap?ng hIm off rr )0i;y ho,," f MrS" IU,bbui,'fl covery. Her mhi is to be conveyed to a luuntic - i ' J

.Vnr i. tlx rc." j for"ler duchess, (Mr. Coulte.; The American flag is almost the only flag A .Tf odrl X hijf Kdi tor. that waves diplomatically over Rome. App'.i- ! On the 15th nit., the editor of the Springfield cation has beeu made tn our Charge firperinis- (II!.) Journal wrote Fevera! handsome Whig arsion to suspend the American flag from two tides and whipped the two editars of the Regisprincely houses, the heads of which are members ter, one iu the forenoou and the other in the afof admini.-lratien, in order to save their female ternoon. lie was not in the least fatigued by inmates from violence and dishonor, in the event his day's work. Lou.Jonr. of the enemy obtaining entrance. I - , , . . iTA cockney philologist says that the letter stmisih of tin- i-haut. j w t.nt(.r., iut0 nle composition of women in all Those who have not 'seen the elephant' may re,iltio,ls of liree. R. -jf,., wjdow. wirgin, not he aware how strong the critter is. 1 "he an(j w j following from the Loudon Times, givts au idea, j - The strength of an elephant is equal to its ' The rresidrnt nixl I iillu r .Unthrn-:

hulk, for it can with great ease draw a load that! tra'lon. Tt ra,, travel ith ease fift v ar sixtv . ... ...... I A ."! hinrliolv lor. , On the afternocu of Thursday 11:1. ultimo,'; W nelt of Trairieviile, Pike county, Missouri, and da itchier of Mr. Archer Il-n. of I .vnrhbnMi. live thro' lhe ensuing uirht. This determined Mrs Carnell to go on with him leaving her niece and nephew to follow ou after the storm, which was fast approaching. Immediately af-1 ter the rain had ceased, which was about au! hour ftom the time of their stopping, the niece and nephew rvaumed their journey, and iu about a mile they came upon the dead bodies of their aunt aud the voung man, Mr. Geor?e Wells. formerly of Albemarle coucty; Virginia, togcther with their horses lying by the road tiJe, ail hain been killed lv Hahming. .

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Utilities of Nettles It is a singular fact, that steel dipped in the nettle becomes flexible. Dr. Thornton, who has made the medicinal properties of our wild plants his peculiar study, states that lint dipped in nettle juice, and pat up the nastril, has been known to stay the bleeding of the nose, when all other remedies have failed-- and adds, that flowers fifteen of the seeds ground into powder, and taken daily, will cure the swelling in the neck, known by the name of goitre, without iuany way injuring the general habit.-- Medical Times. Very Fine I i , Mr. Johnson, did you hear 'bout de catalepsy dat befel Phillis?" "Ob course I didn't: what was it? "You see, de doctor ordered a blister on her chist; well, as she hadn't no chist, no how, she 1.. J. 1 1 ... . , of the affections. Hyperion. ☞ A man in Philadelphia ndvertiseaa hoase to rent immediately, alongside a fine plumb garden, fri'in which an abundant supply of the most delicious fruit may be stolen during the season. Unknown Disease in Kentucky. The Louisville Journal makes the following extract from a letter written by a gentleman in Columbia, Kentucky, to his relative in that cily dated on the 7th int. "Tlie number of deaths up to the time I' write, is 17, and the numbet of cases is about 13. There will be more deaths to-day, and I do not think from all I can learn that there U one of: the cases out of danger. The doctors are unable to say what disease it is. In its course it presents symptoms of typhoid fever, flux and cholera. The patientsgenerally live from eight to ten days, then sink into a collapse and are gone." A Singular Town. A correspondent of the Investigator says; "The to wn cf Meubury, N. H., support neither doctor, lawyer, minister or pauper! It ia one of the bett forming towns in New Hampshire, bus about !)'J voters, many of whom are thrifty aud wealthy farmers." Worth Remembering. He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It's your cool, dissembling hypocrite, of whom you should beware. There is no deceit about u bull dog. It's only the cur that sneaks up aud bites you when yonr back is turned. Again, we my,, beware of the man w ho has a cant in his looks. ☞ The plague of locusts has fallen Upon Texas. The whole country i full of tliem from Austin to the Gulf of Mexico, and vegetation its sufiering from their depredations. ☞ A candidate for Judgeship recently being. ' 'erropueo as lo n l,1,1,-v ,,p "CU,J gravely replied: flict on the crime of arson "Aron! nr.ou! I ivcui.! make the fellow pay a hundred dollars aud marry the girl!" A Wealthy Lady. Miss Burdett Coults, the richest woman iuEngland, has received au accession of 10,000 i poum!s a lo Ler ;iJread almog. counlJeH income, We., large store ofrich plate and ' otlier vitluublfn, iu cousoqueitre of the demise i of the Duke of trt. Alhaus.an annuitant of the 1 be aslnngton correspondent of the XSew frequently made: "1 have no rilVATR purposes to accomplish, no paktt projects to build' up, no knkmifs to punish nothing to serve but mv cocntrv." That even man who is turned . r ,-.- Sj ,,. k ,im,i ,,, ,,. is. little .:,:''.,,.,...,.. f?ut the Rotation party, therefore, want now to be tke "Slationai ry parly." Alex. 5az. Circumstantial Evidence. David Ross, a citizen of Putnam co., Georgia, was recently shot in a dark night, near his own house. The Coroner's jury rendered a verdict charging the son of Mr. Ross with the murder. The wads from the gun were a piece of the Macon Telegraph. The number from which it was torn was found in the shot bag of young Ross. . ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ☞ Among the deaths by cholera in New York, we regret to notice that of the only son of Horace Greeley.