The Wabash Courier, Volume 1, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 April 1833 — Page 1

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|ij THIS I^ojrr SHiP-By Mtu Jbandon. Deep in the silent paters, A thousand fathoms lo'w^

A gallant ship lies perishing-—8 She foundered Jong ago. 1--. #'5 t, ir fe/r fc»' 1*'

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1 There are palesen-fiowcr* wreathing Around her^porUholes now, ,v-s-i And spars anil shining coral s-

JEncrust her gallant prow..

On a Beloved name! *.t

How liltle thosfrwho read th*nA' Deemed far below the wave, That child, and sire, and lover, ^.Ilad found"n seaman'* grave)

frit how that brave ship perished None knew, save Him on high: No island heard her cannon, ..., j'^No other bark was nigh.

We only know from England She sailed far o'er the main-^ \y* only know to England

neur come again.

Upon the old dock bleaching, White hones unburied shine,* ,* While in the deep hold hidden^*

Are cask* of ruby wine.

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There fir* pistol, swdrd, nnd carbine,, Hung on the cabin-wall, And many a curious danger

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But rust has spoiled

ft.nd can this be the vessel "*''t fff- That went so boldly forth, With the red flag of Old England, „§f

To brave the stormy North?

There were blessings ponred npon her When from he* port tailed she, And prayers and anxious weeping

Went with her o'er the sea.

An^l once s$tc sent home letters, And joyous ones w«re they, Dashed with but fond remembraffci

Of friends so far away*

Ah! many a heart was happy That ewning when they came. And many a lip pressed kissc*

And eyes grew dim with watching, That yet refused to weep And years were spent in hoping

For tidings from tbe deep.

It grew an old man's story Upon their native shoreCod rc*t tho*0 tonlsin Heaven iut Who *.et on earth no more!

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A FRAfJMBNT.

Soon will the roses of the spring In ttrginbeauty wan, And tweet bud and blo»«om o'er

My earl/ weleoiae grave. ?, 5*

And gay hlrtls sing their joyoos *on|«, Their joyi»tt**ang* of love, And earth be teen in garb of green,

And skiee to blue above.

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And hnmly wind* will breathe upon My low and lonely bed, And though the long bright days, the tan

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And Cynthia, through tbe evening boors, With all her gUttering train,

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Fltng her wftiilwy ray* on it,

ifmtd jolly demtee of Bae* eh«« was a Ihr day* since foaod by a frieml la a wewmHent pmtkn agaiaet aptle *f board* nearly dead drank, and vttaritin* pro-, Wisely. vVhaf i* the matter wm the to* qairjr. «'Ta a bafsi«*Nw raotorf tke *M«.

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Koqy»«(s I honfht a ^latof ra», down towa, aad ram am* [ktmm} if alraadj mi •ty Utiai!«Wfee Oii»i

DAS6BROCI ADVEXTUft The annexed extract is taken from a paper in Blackwood'* Edinburgh Magazine, rnti» tied, "Adventure* in the North Western Territory." It» a graphic description of a aott thrilling scene.

uAfter

refiding nearly a year in one

of tbe roost distant posts of the North* Western Company, nnd conducting the fur trade there, I began to look forward to my return to .Montreal*, 1 wailed -with the greatest impatience for the arrival of the period which was to terminate my bamshmeuUand restore mc to society. I was nearly three thousand miles distant from any settlements, and my only companions were two youn(* men, clerk* in the establish* mctii, whose characterand limited acquirements rendered them very Uninteresting associates. Our post xvns situated upon the banlcsof a snruiUlakc* about sixteen miles broad. This lake discharged itself by means of a river into another of much greater dimensions, and thick forests coveredjvery pfrt of Jthe surrounding country., ^Oue afternoon, I took my gun, and strolled out in search of game. Though it was nnw the begint ing ofspring, the lake was completely frozen across, the cold of fhe preceding winter havine been exceedingly intense. 1 soon fell in with a /lock of wild ducks, but before I could gc-t a shot at them, they began to fly toward" the middle of the lake however, 1 followed them fearlessly over the ice, in the expectation that they would soon alight The weather was mild,though rather blowy. Detached black cloud* moved rapidly along the face of Heaven in immense masses, and the sun blazed forth in ob scared splendor at one msment, and was completely shrouded from the eye the wxt. I was so interit on the pursuit of my game, that I hastened forward almost unconscientiously,my progress being much facilitated by a thin layer of snow which covered the ice, nnd rendered the footing tolerably secure. At last 1 fired at the ducks, and killed one and wounded another. 1 immediately picked up the first, but its companion having only been winged, began to leap away before I caught hold of it. 1 followed, but had not advanced more than twenty yards, when to my astonishment, 1 found thaUheice was, in many places, covered with water to the depth of several inchci. stopped sL'"l, full of alarm, and irresolute whatto aov It was evident that a thaw had already commenced, and as I well knew with wi.at rapidity the ice broke up when onceeifocjed by* change of temperature, 1 becaj.ie alive to ail the dangers of my situation, and almost thought of moving from the spot on which I stood.

The weather had grown calm and hazy, and the tky was verv black and lowering. Large flakes of snow soon began to fall languidly nnd perpendicularly through the air, and after a little these were accompanied by a thick shower of sleety rain which gradually became sodgnse, that I could not discern the shore. I strained my eyes to eatcha glance of some living object, but a dreary and motionh ss expanse stretched around me on every side, and the appalling silence that prevailed was sometimes interrapted by the receding cries of ll»e wounded bird. All nature seemed to be awaiting some terrible event. I listened in a fearful suspense to hear. I soon distinguished a distant thundering noise, which gradually became stronger and appeared to approach the place where I stood. Repeated explosions nnd hollow murmuring of irregular loudness, were uececded by a tremenduous sound like that of rocks bursting a*sund*»r. The ire trembled beneath my teef. and the next moment it wasdisunited by a vast chasm which opened Itself within a few yards of me. The water of lie lake rushed upwards through the gap with foaming fury and legaa to flood the surface^all around.

I started backward*, and ran, as 1 conceived towards the shore* but my, progress was soon Stopped by one of those urcnk partsofice, called air holm. While walking cautiously roand it. my mi ml grew soatevrb*t composed, am)'J frsolved not to advance any further,until I had fixed upon some may of regulating ray coarse but 1 found this to be impossible* I vainly endeavored to decern land, *od the iwmning of the wind am»ng the distant forests alone indicated that there was nay at all n&r me. Strong and it regular blast*, load* led with mow and slcet, swept wildly along, involring every thing ia obscurity and bewildering steps with malignant influence. I sometiqes fancied 1 saw the spot wher^ottr post wassitaated, and even the trees and Irate* upon it bo* tbe next BMpent a gost df

wind would whirl away the fantastic shaped fogs that had produced the agreeable illusion, and reduce me iifto action less despair. fired roy gnn repeatedly, in ^he hope that the report would bring some one to my assistance however the shores alone acknowledged by feeble echoes, that the sound had reached them.

The storm increased in violence fttk I at intervals the sound of the ice breaking up, rolled upon my ear like distant dc thunder,and seemed to mutter appall ing threats. Alarm and fatigue made me dizzy, and I threw down my gun and rushed forwards in the face of the drifting showers, which were now so thick as to effect my respiration soon lost'all sense of fear, and began to feel a sort of frantic delight iu struggling against the careering blasts, hurried on, sometimes running along the brink of a circular opining in the ice, nnd sometimes leaped across (right ful chasms all the while unconscious of having any object in view. The ice every where creaked under my feel, and I knew that death awaited me. whether fled away or remained on the spot. I feltas one would do, if forced by some persecuting fiend to range over the surface of a black and shoreless ocean, and aware, that, whensoever his tormentor withdrew his wistaining power, he would sink down and be suffocated among the billows that struggled beneath him. |P'

At last night came on, ana, exhausted by fatigue and mental excitement, I wrapped myselfin my cloak and lay down upon the ice. It wa& so dark that I could not have moved nne step without running tive risk of filling into the lake. I almost wished that the drowsiness produced by intense cold, would begin to affect me but IVlid not feel in the slightest degree chillerf and the temperature of the air was in reality above freezing. I hnd laid down only a few minutes when I heard the howl of a wolf. The sound was indescribably delightful to my car, and I started up with the intention of hastening to the spot from whence it seemed to proceed but hopeless as my situation then was, my heart shrunk wMiin me when I contemplated the danger I would encounter in making such an attempt. Mv courage failed, and I esumed my former position, and listened to the undulations of the water as they undermined and heal Jigainst the lower part of the ice on winch 1

About midnight the storm cen?cd, hna tnost of the clouds gradually forsook the sky, while the risint: moon dispelled the darkness that had prc\iously prevailed. However, a thick haZt* covered the heavens, and rendered her light dim nnd ghastly, and similar to that shed by an eclipse. A succession of noises had continued with JiMle ititcrmption for several hours, and at last the ice beneath me began'to move.— I started up, and looking around, saw that the whole surface of the lake was in a state of agitation. My eyes became dim, and I stretched out my arms to catch hold of tome object, and felt n? if all created things were passing away. The hissing,grinding and crushing produced by the different masses of ice coming into collision, were tremenduous. Large fragments sometimes got Wedged together, and impeded the progress of those bel.ind them, nhich being pushed forward by others si ill farther back, were forced u£on the top of the firet, and fantastic shaped pyramids and towers could be distinctly seen rising among the mists of night, and momentarily changing thetf forms, and finally disorganizing themselves with magical rapidity and fearful tumult. At other times an immense mass of ice would start up into a perpendicular position, and continue gleaming in the moonshine for a little period,and then vanish like a fpectre amonz the abv«s of water beneath it. The piece of ice on which I had first taken my position, happened to tie very large and thick, but other fragments were somi forced above it. and formed a mouml six or seven feet hie?. on the top of which I stood contemplating the awful scene around me, nnd feeling a«

if I no longer had the Irast rorK^rioni^'"" «iiK ik« .I

TERBE-HAUTE, IND. APRIL 4, 1888. NO. 48.

dian chiefs walking past me upon the surface of the lake. Their steps were noiseless, and they went along with wan asd dejected looks and downcast eyes, and paid no attention to imy exclamations and entreaties for rejief.— At another, 1 thought 1 was floating in the middJe of the ocean, and that a blazing fbn flamed in the cloudless skv, and made the fee which supported me melt so fast that I heard streams of water pouring from its side, and fell myself every moment descending towards the surface of tbe billows. I was usually awakened from such dreams by some noise or violent concussion, hut f»l«fa)S relapsed into them whenever the cause of disturbance ceas&d to ope-

The longest and hist of these slumber? was broken by a .terrible shock* which my ice island received, and which threw mc from my seat, and nearly pecipitated me into the lake.— On regaining my former position, and looking round I perceived to my joy nd astonishment that I was in a river. wat^r between me and the shore #as still frozen over, and was about tkirty yards wide, consequently the fragment.on which I stood could not approach any nearer than this. After a moment of irresolution, Heaped upon thet frozen surface, and began to run towards the bank of the river. My feet seemed scarcely to touph the ice, so great was my terror lest it should give way beneath me but I reached the* shore in safety, and dropped down completely exhausted by fatigue and agitat ion.

4' raoM ARNOTT'B rnrsics. DIVISIBILITY OP MATTER. The following are interesting particulars in the arlss or in nature, toena ble the mind to conceive how minute the ultimate atoms of matter must be.

Goldbeaters, by hammering, reduce gold to leaves, so thin, that 282,000 must be laid upon ca Ji other to produce the thickness of an inch.

Still thinner than this is the coating of gold upon the silver wire of what is called gold lace, and we are not sure that such coating is, only .one atom thick.

Platinum nnd silver can he driven into wire much liner than human hair. A grain of blue vitriol, or carmine, will tinge a gallon of water, so that in every drop ,the color may be perceiv* ed.

A grain of musk will scent a room for twenty year*, and will have lost but Imle of its weight. «Th'e carion crow smells its food at a dutanceof many miles.

The thread of a silk-worm is so small that many fblds art twisted to get her to form our finest sewing thread but that of the spider is smaller still, for two drachms of it by weight, would reach, from London toJSdinburg, or 400 miles.

In the milt of a cod fish, or in water in which certain vegetables have been infused, the miscroscopc discovers animalcules, of which many thousands' together do not eq ial the bulk of one grain of sand yet these have their iilood and other subordinate parts like large animals,and indeed natuie, with a singular prodigality, has supplied many of them with organs as complex as those of the whale or elephant.

VVater, mercury, sulphur, or in genfwral, any substance, when suHieienOy heated, ri$e$ as invisible vapor or g.-?, in 6thef worlU, is made to assume the aeriform state. Great heat, therefor*, would cause the whole of the metalic universe to disappear, the most soli:! bodies becoming a£ invisible and impalpable as the air we breathe. Utter annihilation would seem but one stage be void this.

ACTO*L Ficr.——A mab. down Jersey, talking of the aoniber of wirra to which be had been married, was askcjl bj a person present, "How many wives have yon had!" "Whj, I believe fonr or five*' said ho, and tecaa to eonnt over. "Folly and Peggy* Sally and Dorothy.11 And there he made a kind of halt—during

which.intrmi«*im%

iwighbot present saitl "there's another, Molly, you forgot hrr." The man of ma ay wires olttpped his hands on his forehead, and run sing for som? trae, said in a tone inimitable, "Well, 1 believe it i* so—I think I did

hke a

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wuh the world, or retained any thing I remeniber now, fhe was poor thing human or earthly in my composition. C. Tlie wind, which was pretty strong. drove the ice down the lake very fast.. My alarms nnd anxieties had gradually become lew intense, and I was scvetimesovercome by a sort of stupor during the continuance of which, tma gination and reality combined thcirdistrarting infloences. At one time I fancied that thcMWW still drifted a« violently as eter, and that I diatinguished thrwifh it* bm*j neihmh »Ifctw ©f la-

sat

Pauw\la ysickly

ou rf

and did*nt livr mor'n a year or two, 'ti* very strange that I «fcoald forget Molly, bat it1*qnitenat'ral «o aany things happen u^.. one's life, that it* plagttey hard to keep account of 'em all, and I baiat got no Bible

home to pat down tbe mairia$e* in—'came I toid it when my last wife died, with tbe rail of the boaaebold and kitchen foraitare.

Mfri»

that one of yoor *tiH« riK«rra rtH

a little fop tow Devil the other day, pointing to a drad akunk. "No, ar," antwered the bey,

bdiew none of jmr rtImHc$u

bare rahaeribed for tbt pa^r.1*

A TRIE TALE OF OLDJIMSS. JJ^HM C. MOMIK. lathey^ar 17^0, i^ouisville mm a eolniHion of huts collected closely together, in order to diminish the danger of the«|ireqt|ent attacks of the Indians. There was, also, ^n the opposite hank of the Ohio, where New Albany now stands, a small collection of houses defended by a log fort.

An understanding existed between the settlers on bothsidesof the liw, that they should, by the firing a swivel, give notice of the approach ot tbe red men, and on hearing such signal they mutually bound themselves to hurry to each others assistance.

It was a dark and stormy nigh^ in the fall oCllie year, when^the citizcns of I^ouisvillf were roused^rom pleasant dreams nod refreshing slum* ber by the sharp report of the swivel of the New Albany settlement.— Every one was instantly in motion.— The. river bad been rising rapidly for several days—huge trees were constantly drifting down, with a velocity which almost rivalled the sweeping rapidity af the Mississippi.

It was with great ditiiculty that the ittle flotilla of boats from Louisville stemmed the rapid current of the river and effected a landing on the northern bank of the river. \,5...

The hardy wariors were much astonished at the death-like stillness which reigned throughout the

4*fort

they feared much that all was over, and that nothing would be lefl for them except vengeance for the slaughter of their allies. -,,

They cautiously crept forward in Indian file Suddenly a low whistle o( the iHider caused, them to halt. A man was dimly discovered approaching through the glooms lie walked carelesslv. He was a whiteman "Where are the Indians?"said fifty men in a hoarse whisper.

Not hereabouts, as 1 know on," was the reply. •», ,.-i What the 1 did you fire the swivel then?1 said the leader of the Louisville forccs. "Well now, that's oudacious queer! —Why we tired for joy, because a child hath been hprn unto us, as the scriptuoe says. It's enough to fire about, 1 reckon, seen' that* it's first while one as ever was born on the north side of the Ohio. And *o you thought it was the Injun—ha—ha!—Why it's imnatter of hie instead of death.'

Half laughing-—half grumbling, the good citizens of Louisville re-cro^ed the river, and returned to their beds.

The first white child born on the northern side of the Ohio was a female.

We were furnished with the sufe stance of ibis anecdote, by one of the old poinecrs, who has killed many a deer on the very spot where the guests of the Union Hall now sit down to dinner.*

A FATHER'S ADVICK TO HIS SOX. Hcwnreof intemperance, iny son, as a vice which degradeth man below the level of the beast of the fit-Id.

It will enervate thy body, and not onlj impair but destroy those faculties which a bountiful creator has given thee for noble purposed

It will pervert thy judgement, reader thee incapable of attending to thy concerns,destroy thy respectability in society, make theecontempiiblcMn the eyes of thy fellow men. and at last consign thee to the tomb^unhonoced aud unrcgretled.

It hath hurled many man from a proud ond lofty emincirce to misery? and contempt. It has caused the heroic achievements of the warrior to be for»otten, and withered ihe i.turels which entwined his brow.

He who indnlgeth himsfelf in scenes of riot and dissipation, who giveth himself to intoxicating draughts, is ihe scorn of his fellows, and when reason resurr.eth hcrscat,and reflection laketh the place of folly, he is the scorn 01 himselC tidok around the, and from the numerous examples which are daily presented before thee, take Warning of its direful effccta.

Indulge not, then, my *n, in the allurements o( the sparkling glass, cast it from thee, for a slow but certain poison is contained therein. ^.

A* nostrar Maw»v-Tl*« fr law ia Vermont by which a ailier i* mt^rcted io a penalty for re&steg to p^riml grain wben called a pon to do *o. Howlat-d J. Robiwn, having eoa»e to tbe conclodon, that he eoalH not, comcimtioady, grind grata for tbe par po*e of distilhitfon, refuted to do lt, wa* prolerated and fitted. He applied to tbe Le gislatare for relief, and that body, at theif 4mt mrioii, pasted a law for bi* relief, and give to all acftfen fbe privilege rff refuting to grind grain to be seed ia tbe aaurafaetara •f di*tiTl«d *pirit*.

A CHlCftlf CASK.

Cowl of Qitarlcr Seuion*-~Xmrtk

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Dr. Jaokson, a coloured Cyclop*, wa* ia.dieted for the foul oflV-nce of stealing ten chicken*: The prosecutor, a good natured German, who follow* the milk butiue**, te»tified to tbo lot* of bi* chicken* and a iter* ward* found a pair of picked chicken* in Doctor #ackton'* cellar the Doctor bad but one chicken'* head anil aaid "he bad no niore tbe protecntor said be recognised hi* chickens, though the head and feather* were off The prosecutor1* wife identified ona chicken by a lump on the foot, which aha bad nuraed in the *ntaner» She also *aw Mm# feathers belonging to ber chickens— Tbe sore footed chicken was in Doctor Jackson's cellar, and was Dot at home: It was the right foot that wa* tame: Tbe Doe* ter suid the prosecotor iuigbt have Ihe two pair, but be bad no more: The watchman1* son brought me a pair of

The watohmaa testified thai lie met t&e pri«otwr a boat two o'clock in tbe morning with a bag of dead chickens, warm and with feathers there were about a doxen pair: another watchman found a dead fowl: none of the head* were of: The Doctor offered to sell a pair for 25 cents, which were worth 67*. '1

Mr. Watlliou^t eloquently defend doctor, and argued to the jury that he wa* entirely innocent of the charge being of tbo medical profession, he was obliged to be out during the night, and that the chickens found in his possession were not those belonging'to Mr. Ash.

Mr. Raybold, for th« Commonwealth, briefly commented on the evidence, and urg» ed that tbe circumstances proved were irro* sistibly strong in manifesting the Doctor's guilt: he insisted that tbe Doctor was a /end dealer in poultry, and sold, though he never bought, nnd uskrd the Jury to render a vcrdiet which 'would stop his guilty career.-* The Jury immediately returned a verdict of guilty, and he was sentenoad to one yfcar'* imprisonment at bard labour.

Electioneering.*—One of the candidates fte^F the Pottery borough, on calling at the houso of one of the electors, who happened to ho from home, wasuoeosted by tbe worthy dam* with—-"How do you do, Mr.—— 1 I am very glad to see you—I have known yo«t a great many years.** "Ye*, replied the cantUR date I hope you ere well—

I hope Mr.——J?

is well, I have called to solicit his vote."-* "I am sorry he is from home,*' rejoined tho old lndy, "he has promised the other threo candidates, and I am sure he would promts* you, he ha* knowji you so long."

REPORTERS.—Mr. HAUGHTON, tor of the Boston Atlas, who wrf* for merly reporter-forone ofthf',lfa8^'n8" ton papers, in an nH^sK in his .paper, on the subject sayif "The hff^-Jfawogranhcr at Washington i« JoslipT ?utcs, tho principal editor of the Na* tionnl liitelligciici r. lie possesses great manual dexterity, is familinr with the hnsiness of the House, aud with all public affairs, and so well acquainted with pvery subject that is brought up that he never misunderstand* the argument of the speaker. His accuracy is wonderful. We recollect to have heard Mr. P. P. Barbour, of Virginia, Say once af. ter raiding a report of half an hour's speech taken down by Mr. Gales, that he believed Mr. Gales had riot varied in one word( from the speech that hd had delivered. Mr. Ran. dolph, hrwever, put him to a serere trial, for hir parenthesis run into each other like tho colors of a rainbow, and. it was no or lii ary task to find the right line of demardatibn.

Mr. Gales has now in his employ a reporter whose ability vies with his own. It is Stans* bury. n» iwiot a stenographer, bnt he is po»* sesffiul of so tenacious a memory tha^ by tbo aid of two or three of the most important words of sentence he can recall the wbolo immediately, lie is a man of very high order of talent and finished edr cation. IIo haMJSihilly deceived- from the Intelligencer the same compensation for his services that is allowed to a member of Congren, vis. 9 dollars per day.. •. a

Tine FARHBR.—Happinessseems to have fixed herscat in rural scenes.-^ The spacious hail, the splendid equip* age, and the pomp of courts, do not sooth and entertain the mind in anyde* gree like the verdant plain, the enamelled mead, the fragrant grove, melodious birds, the sport of beast?, the azuro sky, and the starry heavens.

It is undoubtedly a fact, that in pro*^ portion to our population, too many leave the occupation of the agriculturalist for other employments. If thitf arises from iU being considered tba#* the employment of the farmer is not respectable, it is a very great mistake* Every thing is honorable, which is use* ful and virtuous. This is nn employ* ment instituted by God himself, and by him particularly otfned aod blest, fit is that on which every thing dependsTrue, it is laborious but then labor brings health, and health is the founda* lion of the fariaer, the condition of itv dependence. Ilis little dominion is his own, his comforts are his own*, and he is not at the mcrcy of the public' ifhim and caprice. It is not necemrily the case, in this happy country cspecially, that the farmer most fee

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jsid ignorant man. Ha is taught in hi» youth the first rudiments of education, and he has mnnv spare hours W.read.—

In tlie Iwat of a summer's noon, and by the long winter trvening fire, he hat much time for his books, and in tbi* country they are, placed within the, resell of all.

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