Wabash Express, Volume 7, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 August 1848 — Page 1

WHOLE NO. 345.

DAVID S. DANALDSOIV, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

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Story of a Shark.

The following thrilling sketch is from "The Wandering* and Fortune* of «ome German Emigrant*," by Frederick Gerataecke, a German writer, recently translated by David Bleak. 1 he reader wilt understand that the ship, filled with men, women and children, is under way ihat Werner, a young phyaician, ia aitting upon the croM-treea, «omctime* looking out upon the *ca, and sometimes at the beautilal daughters of Pastor Herhmanri upon the deck—and that a mia* chievoua fellow, who had stumbled in the steerage repeatedly over some great wooden shoes of a met of Oldenbarghers, watched his opportunity, and threw them overboard.

Suddenly the cry of "A shark! A shark!" was heard from the cross-trees. It was young Werner, above

Alluded

lo, who had chosen that eleva

ted place as hie resort, and to whom all eye* were now turned, lo lenrn the direction in which the •ea monitUr was to be found.

Werner pointed to the streak of light formed by the sun upou the water, and all the voyagers distinctly perceived from the deck the dorsal fin of the shark, standing aix or seven inches out of the water.

Although several of these voracious creatures tiad been already around the ship, still probably few of the travellers had seen ono of them, and all firested to the ship'* side to view the fi*h, as it time nearer and nearer lo tho bhip and the surrounding wooden shoes. "Will, I should like to know if heents wooden nhoes!" said llrevcr, rubbing bis hands coinjiln•ceiilly and watching every movement of the creaturc.

His wish seemed on the point ofbring fulfilled, for the liith, approaching the first sabot, described circlo round it, nnd nil expected the immediate tlisap|iearaiice of the same, when fearful ery— «uch a cry as can only issue from the breast of a terrified mother—was beard from the midst of the crowd which had pressed, lull of curiosity, to the bulwarks, nnd in the same moment a heavy body Ml on the smooth surface of the waters, and sank beneath it. "My child! my child!" cried the woman, in the very net of throwing herself alter ihe helpless being, which now rvnppeated on the surface,strui flling snd guruling. Hut tliono who surrounded tier lirlil her hock, nnd nxed in apprehension^! the Worst, at the swifily approaching shark, which now shot forward like an arrow, its attention being aroused by the Kplash of the object in the wat«r. ••Holh the dausbters of l'astor Herhmann had witnessed tho child's In 11 and the eldest of them, ill a voice nlnvini choked with terror, cried 'Help! 1icl|! for (iod\s t-ike!'* "Launch the boat," cried the Captain. Hut there was Botno delay. A few seconds more must decide tho fate of the child— for the shark wns scarcely ton yards distant from linn,,already seemed to scent its prey. It was "then that thoyoune man in tho cross-trees glided tlown a rope with tho activity of a sailor, and liefine any oiw coold guess his purpose, or hinder him, sprang into Ihe chrysial flood beneath, rinht before thro vory jaws of the fish, and coming to the Kurlhcc attain, seized the child, which had just reappeared for the third time. "A Cty of admiration at this desperate boldness tarose from the sailors as well ns passengers but the shark, frightened by the loud crash, nnd rendered uneasy by the crioa nnd noise on board the nhip, drew back from the body he had almost reached, arid careered around tho bravo swimmer ill narrow circles "JStriko with your hnnd«—splnsh— kickmake «s much noise as you can!" cried tho seamen with ono accord. Hut tho Captain had caught up a rope and threw it to the young man, who holding the child in his left arm, seised the rope wilh the Tight one, and held himself afloat by it, while ho kicked out with all his force, and splashed the water far around him. "Sling the rojie round your elbow,called tho Captain* "and we can haul you up.' Tho young man did but all his bold and generous sacrifice seemed in vain for tho shark, who by this time had found that thero was no new danger to l«e apprehended from this quarter, ahot forward once more.

The snitors, indeed* hauled the rope with their Utmost strength and good will, but their help •earned to come too latej for the monster was but few feet off from him, and wasjust about to turn on it» back, lo snap at ihe body of the unhappy man, when—in that very moment—when every one in breathless and fearful diead awaited to see the worst—a heavy piocc of meat fell into the sea. close to the open fangs of the shark, and waa awallowed by him as quick as lightning.

It is tiue that this mouthful only seemed to have whetted hit appetite for more, for he turned again, A ml made a second movement to seixe the body of the bold swimmer, who waa ahead? half drawn up from hia watery grave bul suddenly the shark began to lash tho water with hia tail, started back sevrral feet, and dived down.

Nobody troubled himself at the moment as to the raus* of this slmest inexplicable salvation, for nil that had hands hauletl away to get the poor fellow, who was a,moat terrified to death, on Itoardi ami he had scarcely handed the living child to its mother, before he tell back seuteloM in the •rms of those around him.

But there was not a woman on board who would not have pressed forwanl to call back the fainted cine into life and the mother of the saved child threw herself on her knees, and audibly besought ihe Almighty not to rob h« soon of the saviour of her onlv joy.

There was no surgeon on board—««, indeed, there hardly ever is t»n hoard of ships destined for emigrants—but the Captain had abandoned his medicine chest to them, artd Hoffman's drop*, sal volatile, and «*eral other powerful remedies, were applied to bring the color back to tho pahs cheeks, and open the closed eyelids.

At last a deep sigh escaped from the breast of the unconscious one the women uttered cries of joy. and Hermann's elder daughter clasped her ruler's hand fervently, and called her {vod, dear girl, while a tear glistened in her own ere.

Voting Werner recovered, though but slowly •nd it waa touching to see the woman, wilh the reec.ued child on her arm, fall down on her knees before him, and ki*» his hand so that he could hardly provent her. Even the barfly aailora Wt their heart warm and soften at the sight.

THE WEDDING RISO.—The ring ia the emblem of fidelity whenever it i» looked upon, the marriage vow should be remembered. The Russians have «evertl emblems not at, ell grateful to the feeling* of the wedded nairs, which they make o#e of tt their martiage rite*. The bridge, on her wedding •dav is crowned with a garland of worm--wood—implyirtg not only the bitterness of the trials of tbe marriage state, but the married xvomeu to triumph over these diffi. cullies, and thus make the.-n what they rwlly can be made, enwu, or emblem of fitloty.

%{mu *Bif

Tlic Emigrant

Ship.

SKETCH

FROM LIFE. ,..L.

During the last summer, business summoned os to one of the wharves of this city, al the moment when a ship from Liverpool had just arrived, bringing some two hundred and fifty emigrants, men, women and children, chiefly Irish. Much a* we had heard and read of the condition of many of the poor passengers, we never fully realized their distresses, until we personally witnessed them.

The emigrant ship whose arrival we witnessed, had been seventy odd days from port to port. Her passengers were sf the poorest class. Their means were nearly exhausted in going from Dublin to Liverpool, and in endeavors to obtain work in the latter city, previous to bidding a reluctant but eternal farewell to the old country. They came on board worn out—wan—the very life of many depending on a speady passage over the Atlantic. In this they were disappointed. The ship had encountered a succession of terrific gales —it hud leaked badly and they had been confined great part of the voyage to their narrow quarters between decks, herded together in a noisome nml pestilential atmosphere, littered with damp straw and full of filth.

What marvel that disease and death invaded their ranks. One after another, many died and were launched into the deep sea. The ship entered Fayal to rent, and theie that clime of endless summer proved to the emigrant more fatal than ll.e blast of the Upas-poisoned valley of Java. The delicious oranges and mild Pico wine, uncd liberally by the ptg«engcis sowed the seeds of death yet more freely among their ranks. On the passage from Fayal, the mortality was dreadful, I rut at length, decimated and diseased, the band of emigrants arrived,at Boston.

It waa summer's day—but no cheering light fell upon (he spires of that ciiy. It was damp and gloomy the bay spread out before the eye like a huge hlieet of lead, nnd the clouds swept low and heavily over the hills and house lops. After the vessel was moored, all the passengers who were capable of moving or of being moved, came up or were brought up on deck. We scanned their wan and haggard features with curiosity and pi'v.

Here waa the wreck of an athletic man. His eyes, deep sunken in their orbits, wcro nearly as glassy as (hose of a corpse— his poor attire hung loosely on his square shoulders. His matted beard rendered his sickly, Greenish countenance yet more wan and livid. Ho crawled about the deck alone—hi* wife and five children, they for whom he had lived and struggled, for whose sake he was making his Inst desperate exertion, had all been taken from him on Ihe voyage. We addressed him some queiitious touching his fnmily.

They are all gonr,'' said he—"the wife nnd the childer. Tho lait one—the baby—died Ibis mornin'—she lies below. They're best ojF where they are." in another place sat a shivering ragged man, the picture of despair. A few of his countrymen who had gathered around him, offered him some food. He nugh-1 have taken it eagerly some days before. Nmu ho gazed on vacancy without noticinu their efforts to induce him to take some nonrixhoient. Still they persevered, and one of them held cooling glass of lemonade to his parched lips.

Seated on the after hatchway was a little boy who hail that morning lost both his parents. He shed no tear. Familiarity with misery had deprived liiID of that sad consolation. We passed on to a croup of Irishmen gathered lound nn old grey'haireil man lying at length upon the forward deck. One of them was kneeling besido him. •Fathei! Father!" said ho eomestly—"Kouse up for the love of Heaven. Sco here! I'vo brought ye some porridge—lake a sup ov it—it will give ye heart nnd life." •Sorrow bit of fife'* left in tho old man any how. havohim alone Jamie." Lift him ashore,'' said the mate—"lie wants air.''

The dying man was carefully lifted on the walk, nnd laid down on a plank. His features changed rapidly during the transit. His hend now fell back—tho pallid hue of death invaded his lips— his lower jaw relaxed—tho staring eye balls had no speculation in them—n slight shudder convulsed his frame. Tho son kneeled besiiic him closed his eyes—it was all over. And there, in the ipen air, wilh no covering to shield his revered locks from the fnlling rain, passed nwny tho soul of thcoM man from its earthly tnbernacle.

The hospital enrt arrived. Busy ngents lifted into it, with professional sang frnitl, crippled age nnd tottering childhood. Hut all tho spectators of this harrowing sceno testified by their expressions, sympathy and sorrow. One low-browed ruffian alone excepted. "Serves 'em right—d-n Vm!" said ho savagely. Why don't they stay al home in their own country, and not come here to take the brend out of honest people's mouths!*'

Honest quotha] If ever "flat burglary" and "treason due" were written on a man's face, it stood out in stnring capitals on that Cnin-like brow. But thcte vvero lights as well as shadows to Ihat picture. Out of thnt grim den of denth— of that floating latar-house, there came a few blooming maidens nnd stalwart youths, like fair flowers springing from the rauknes* of a charnel. Their sorrow* were but for the misfortunes of others and even these were awhile forgotten in the joy of meeting near ami dear relatives, and old friend*, upon the shore of the promised land.— They went their way rejoicing, nnd wilh them parsed ihe solitary ray of sunshine that streamed athwatt the dark horrors of the emigrant ship, like the wandering pencil of light that sometime* visit* the condemned cell of a prison.— Yankee Blade.

Ges. TAYLOR—THE Convention.—The Raleigh Register of the 12th insiant, referring lo the statement in the New Orleans papers that Gen. Taylor had not yet received from Gov. Morehead, President of the National Whig Convention, an official notification of his nomination for the Presidency by that body. "We know ihat Go*. Morehead addressed letter to Gen, Taylor, announcing his nomination and asking his acceptance, on the evening ol Friday, tbe 9ih of June, and despatched it by mail. That the General has not received it, whether the tesult of crime or accident in mail agents, is, much to be regretted. We doubt not, Ihat Governor Morehead. on seeing the above paragraph, will repeat his communication, by the moat expeditious means."

Grkks CORN PUDDING.—The lovers of good things will lay the following directions by, until roaating-ear tiune. Take of green corn twelve ears, and grate it to this, add a quart of sweet milk, a quarter of a pound of fresb butter, four eggs, well beaten, pepper and salt, as much as sufficient,stir all well together. and hake four hours ia a buttered dish. Some add to tbe other ingredients a quarter of a pound of sugar and rat the pudding with sauce. It is good cold or warm, with meat or sauce, but epicures of the tnott exquisite taste prefer it we believe bot, and with the first service.

WowAjt.—A gallant contemporary thinks that this world would hardly be worth living in, were it deprived of woman. Linen to his rhapsody: Who would remain io a garden from which the flower* have been taken or in a grove from which the birds have departed, or beneath a sky that th« sweet stars had forsaken? Let cynics prattle as they may, our existence here without the presence of the other *ex would be only dark and cheerlesa void. The light, the entiles and affections of woman are the bow of b-auty *nd promise which, spans the life of mitt from bis cndtc to bis grave."

Western Eloqnence.

The following are extracts from the speech of the Rev. Mr. Magoon, of Cincinnati, made at the Anniversary of tbe New York Baptist Bible Society "It seems strange to me that we scrape every cent we can reach to send the Gospel to our very antipodes, and forget those who come to our own land to make their homes. Do the Catholics build schools and colleges? We may do the same.— Let us meet them in kindness, in philanthropy, in discussion, and win them.— Should a Catholic build on one corner of my house, an Infidel on another, and a Jew in front, when I came forth from my morning devotion I would say, good day to each, and pray that God would bless tliem all. When another speeker told of the Persecutions of the Baptists by the French King, he might have gone farther —he might have told how a man rose in Paris and battled nobly and successfully for their cause, and that man was a foreigner everywhere—it was Cremieux, ihe Jew—subsequently called, in tlie Providence of God, to be Minister of Justice. It is our privilege to give all men freedom to worship God. If they are in error we may pity them, but should never abuse. But the greatest obstacle to be removed is defunct Protestantism—Evangelism congealed. Some men came to the west who had the odor of sanctity, who had perhaps been active class- leaders on this side of the mountains, but they had left all the Christian heat they ever had behind them they were volcanoes burnt out, They would stop in some devoted place and settle down, the select wheat of God's barest, predestined from all eternity to sit in their infernal laziness while the world was perishing around them. They are the fossil remains of Pharoah's lean kine possessed of a vis inertia almost sufficient to slop the wheels of the Almighty's chariot of mercy, and banish every ray of His glory frotn man."

In reference to the kind of preachers received at the west he says: "The education soaked in from the outside, like aTliompsonian's bath, is useless there. There is no field for such preachers. Black-board knowledge and Latin roots, emptiness in the head, green glasses over the eyes, dyspepsia in the stomach, and a diploma in his hand, do not suit the people—they want what the Scotch call "»umption"—they want men like Ringgold's Flying Artillery, who know how lo load and fire in the hottest of the fight. There is no need to wait for a church to call a pastor in the west he can call his church himself. With a log cabin for a vestry, he can have around him a cathedral whose arches were wrought and wreathed, whose roof was adorned in a way the temples of Greece never knew—the blue sky is visible through its dome, the setting sun streams in between its pillars, and there, in a garb as simple as the divine truth he tells, he can preach the Word of Life there is no need of linen in double quantity—linen under linen over his garment—he will not want two shirts."

Not many years since, there lived in the 'moral' city of Boston, two young bucks, rather waggish in their ways, who were in the habit of patronizing rather extensively, a tailor by the name of Smith. Well, one day into Smith's shop these two young bloods strolled. Says one of them— "Smith, we've been making a bet nojv we want you to make each one of us a suit of clothes—wait till the bet is decided and the one that loses will pay the whole." "Certainly gentlemen, I shall be most happy to serve you," savs Smith, and forthwith their meHSitres were taken, and in due course of time their clothes were sent home.

A month or two passed by, and yet our friend the tailor saw nothing of his iwo customers.—One day, however, he met them in Washington street, and thinking it almost time the bet was decided he made up to them and asked how the^r clothes fitted. "Oh! excellent" says one "by the by, Smith, our bet is'nt decided yet." "Ah! gays Smith, tfhat is it?" "Why I bet when Bunker Hill Monument falls, it toiUfall towards the South. Bill here took me up, and when the bet's °y..?e-v' decided we'll call and pay you that little bill."

Smith's face stretched to double its usual length, but he soon recovered his wonted good humor and said—» "Boys.I'm sold and I'll tell you what boys, say nothing about it and I'll send you receipted bills this afternoon."—iV. J*. Spirit.

RETOST.—Tbi*Roman

CStcsso'a

orator wss

one day sneered at by one of bis opponent*, a mean man of coble lineage, oa account of hia low parentage. "You are the

first

Qe»otc5 to politics, duration, Agriculture, £l)c iHarkcts, Current 2m»s, ®l)e Arts an& Scieticcs, Citctahtrc, (General iJittclligcncc, &c., &e.

jOV TO USDEBSTAXB TBS TUBE PRINCIPLES OF THE GOTKKXMKKT 1 'WISH TUB* CARRIED OUT ASK KOTRIXS MOKE

yoor line," said tbe latter "and yoo," rejoined Cicero, "ire tbe last of yours.**

H« who forgets tbe foantain from which he drank, and the tree under which be gunboiled io tbe dajaof bis you lb, is a strauger to ihe awecteat iaprmuKia of the human heart.

From tht A'TW Orleans Delta. S I E E S I O N ST THKODORB X- OOUID. What have 1 done, that you should ever

Haunt me so?

1 never said I loved you—never, Scissors! No! IDJmy mind, all day, are rovln*

Thoughts of thee—

Lite summer zephyrs ever roving, -f .Restlessly.

Indeed, I think it quite outrageous— Yes, I doThat I must even in my slumbers,

Think of you.

Wherefore always doth thy image Form a part Of every scene of joy and beauty

In my heart 1

The sunbeam and the scented flower— The whispering wind— Bring thee every passing hour, .,, To my mind. ,k

Like a fair and shadowy vision,

Rave I done aught to make you haunt me Always so? For gracious sake, I wish you'd tell me:

Ye« or No!

Double-dealing with tlie People.

Correspondence of the New York Express. WASHINGTON, July 9, 1C4S.

I have seen no less than five lives of Gen. Cass, intended for different meridians. There were two editions issued in March last, and two in June the two in March were, in character, unlike those ol June, and two of June, like those of March, obviously designed for a Southern and Northern market. All attempts at explanation only make the matter worse. Here are the books, and here are alterations. Free trade opinions inserted in one edition, and omitted in the other the letter lo Nicholson, against the "Wilmot Proviso," inserted in one, and opinions upon the French Revolution taking its place in the other. Instead of being Janus-faced, therefore Gen. Cass is made to have four faces—one for each of the different points of the compass. He looks North and West jn favor of Internal Improvements Southward he indorses Mr. Polk's votes against thein, and approves of all that he has done. He has two faces upon the Wilmot Proviso, two upon the tariff, two upon the French King and Revolution and his friends have shown him up in so many ways that he has more lives than a cat. The last I have seen is in German, and this is expressly intended, by its omissions and additions, to mislead and deceive that large portion of our adopted citizens who dwell among us. These little tricks of little politicians can hardly have any other effect, now that they are exposed, than to recoil upon those who make use of them.

STRIKE ON.—How much like a rock in the ocean, against which the waves have beat for centuries, is the man of sterling truth and robust integrity? To waves of unholy passion—to unsanctified popnlar applause^ he cries, "Strike on, 1 shall not be harmed." The influence of vice is all around him but he is unmoved. Wealth is at his command, if he will but swerve from the path of duty. No—you could as soon remove the rock in the sea.

When the great and good Algernon Sydney was about to be executed, he calmly laid his head upon the block. He

was asked by the executioner if he should

rise again? "Not till the resurrection— strike on," was the remarkable reply of

yo»r

When an unholy power would remove you on account of your virtue, say calmly, strike on, but do not vield to sin. Be, .. firm in

TAKEN IN AND DONE FOR.—Young ladies who have scheming mothers, are rath-

MARRIAGE IN FRANCE.—The laws in relation to marriage in France are to be materially altered. In the projected cl ges of M. Cremieux, the condemnation of morous author, whom we find quoted as ^ustry with which be toiled. If bistalcnted one party to an infamous punishment shall follows in one of our note-books 'adjutant was surrounded by papers, »o wasj be {round of severance. Mutual consent] "Julia and I sang—"When thy bosom the General aod though he would salute a of husband and manner prescribed

Paris, calling a meeting of all citizen# sin- and 'rosy beds, the old lady, who had

cerelv devoted to republican principles, at hitherto sat in seeming carelessness on

the Place Yendome, to express to citizen Cremieux their gratitude for his advocacy of the changes contemplated in the French law of marriage.

In the projected chan-'er dangerous customers, according to ah«-: bout seeing^evidence of the in-

TEBBE-nAUTE, VIGO COUNTY, INDIANA, AUGUST 2, 1848. VOL. VII. NO. 33.

Oft. you come

And you are, my heart whispers, "Pumpkitu soint."

I pray you tell me why you ever Plague me thus Kicking up within my bosom,

Such a fuss?

And now, when 1 address a lady, Not a doubt, But that, instead of her cognomen,

Yourt pops out!

Time, they say, is quite a soother— That be flings In his flight oblivious ether

From his wings.

But in this case I have found him Useless quite. Instead of dimming, he increases

Memory's light.

I've praised your form, face, voice and music, And all that And you can, for your songs melodious, "Take my hatl"

p,op.h. ,pd

of consequence ia keepipg bul lakep .hue: Hi. I.n(».8e i. «lec.. I suddenly a-back, I stammeringiy eommited myself to the matrimonial trap!"

—Last Words of Harrison

J, From the National Intelligencer.

General Taylor.

The following descriptive sketch of Geto. TATLOR is by Col. HUMPHREY MARSHALL, a Democrat, of Kentucky. We commend it

to the attention of all who desire to know,

«My service in Mexico frequently bxoM

Buena Vista ex-

W|^°,W,C|r^ 8.

:n remarkshii

hibiled at the same time in a remarkable

manner his benevolence and his judgment "Dou't shoot them," said he, "the worst punishment I will inflict is to return them to the Mexican army." When Ktpoleoii said to one of his battalions, "Inscribe it on their flag, "No longer of tbe army of Italy,"

principle,, eren .ha.gh de.,h p?«.«"d "fl ihl would stare you in the face. Strike on.. gdmjjjuon of future ages yet it was not —be this your motto, whenever assailed

by wealth or power, md gloriously will' jn touching the springs of buman action, you triumph—if not in this world, in that thau is that of Gen. Taylor illustrative of which ia lo come.

re forcible as au illustration of his power

the manner in which Gen. Taylor would make an example for the benefit of the army. 5. He is a man of business habits.—I ne*-' er have known General Taylor to give up a

I have never visited his

rife and expressed in a! heaves a sigh,"and songs of that sort, with visiter kindly, and bid bim with familiar a shrewd bystander who saw a chance for ed by law, shall be a iimpunitv—but when it came lo "Togeth- g«ce U» »®u«« himself ontil be was at lei®-, iiule "tpeck" and sold it to the victim A pUcanl primed op er lei pi mp .he Beld,." .here .he eon- '"^"'"1 -•»'««"•.

•MinkHnVrin","- ^°'t j"°

sccmed to tDJa t0 re

TiT#city

the sofa, hemming a kerchief, requested miogtein their society. Aa a conversation- by 'hat hich we give, end our judgment by to speak to me in the back room—and af- ist, I do not think Gen. Taylor possesses tiiat whicb we withhold. t*r shotting the door, asked my inten- g«*1 po*tt. He usea few worda, and ex-j .. i.-.,,.-. .i™,! My heart WM i»

would say, however, from my knowledge of tbe that be ia entirely capable of producing atiy tbing in tbe shape of ao order or letter wbicb has ever appeared over bis sig-

A B&Atmrot. IMAGE.—A deaf and dumb nature, aod in saying ao much, I understand person being asked to give bis idea of for- my*" meniog that be is master of his giveoesa, took a pencil aod wrote: "it is mother toogue, snd cao write about aa handthe sweetness which fiowen yield when aomely and eflectitely as be can fighL Such, Uampled upon." then, is the picture of tbe man, not of the •MI ...— 'general, who won my esteem. I am not in

Pitch upon the course of life which is' he habit of ealogiting men, and have inmost exceitrni, and custom will render itthe'dulged on this occasion because I desired to most delightful. deaenbe to you, wiib the extcwcas of truth,

those qualities which, combined in General Taylor, made him appear to me as a Jirst raft model of an American character. Oth* ers will dwll upon the chivalry he has so often displayed, and his greatness so con* jspicnonsly illustrated upon the field of bat

tle. foT^e(l

i,!PBS

from unprejudiced testimony, something of was fr»-e from doty, and had no motive to the old General's character! .»I

le near to Gen. Taylor, and 1 was iudosiri-1'

ous in my examination of the actual character of the man whenever opportunity was presented. I have no motive to deceive you} and you must take the impressious 1 received for what they are worth. II desired to express in the fewest words what manner of a man General Taylor is, I should sar, that in his manner and his appearance he is one of the common people of this country. He might be transferred from his tent at Monterey to this assembly, and he would not be remarked among this crowd of respectable old farmers as a man at all distinguished from those around him. Perfectly temperate in his habits: perfectly plain in his dress entirely unassuming iu his manners, he appears to be au old gentleman in fine health, whose thoughts are not turned upon his personal appearance, and who has no point about him to attract particular attention. In his intercourse with men. he is free, frank and manly. He plays off no airs, like some great men whom I have met. Anjrone may approach him as nearly us can be desired, and the more closely his character is examined the greater beauties he discloses. 1. He is an honest man. 1 do not mean by that merely that he does not cheat or lie. I mean that he is a man that never dissembles and who scorns all disguises. He neither acts a part among his friends for effects, nor assumes to be what he is not. Whenever he speaks you hear what he honestly believes, and, whether right or wrong, you feel assurance that he has expressed his real opinion. His dealings with men have been of a most varied character, and 1 have never heard his honest name stained by the breath of the slightest reproach. 2. He is a man of rare good judgment.— By no means possessed of that brilliancy ol genius which attracts by its flashes, yet, like the meteor, expires even while you look upon it by no means possessing that combination of talent which penetrates instantly the ab8trusest subject, and measures its length and breadth as if by intuition, Gen. Taylor yet has that order of intellect which more slowly but quite as surely masters all that it engages, and examines all the combinations of which the subject is susceptible. When he announces his conclusion, you feel confident that he well understands the ground upon which he plunts himself, and yet rest assured that the conclusion is the deduction of skill ami sound sense faithfully applied to the itter iu hand. It is this order of mind which has enabled him, unlike many other officers ol the army, to attend to the wants of his family, by so using the means at his disposal, as to surround himself in his old age with a handsome private fortune, and to be blessed wilh an almost perfect constitution. I would to-day prefer his advice in any matter of private interest, would take his opinion as to the value of an estate would rather follow his suggestions in a scheme where property or capital was lo be embarked would pursue more confidently his counsel where ihe management of an army WHS involved, or the true honor of my country was tit stake, than any other man I havo ever known. I regard his judgment as being first rate at every thing, from a horse trade up to a trade iu humau life upon the field ol battle. 3. He is a firm man and possessed of great energy of character. It were a waste of time to dwell upon these traits of his character, for his military career has afforded such abundant examples of his exercise of these qualities as to render them familiar to every citizen who has ever heard or read of the man. In his army they are daily exhibited, and stand conspicuously displayed in every order which emanates from his pen. 4. He is a benevolent man. This quality has been uniformly displayed in his treatment of the prisoners wholiave been placed in his power by the vicissitudes of war. No man who had seen him after the battle of Buena Vista, as he ordered the wsgons id bring in the Mexican wounded from the bat-tle-field, and heard him as he at once cautioned his own men that he was alive to all the kinder impulses of our nature. The indiscretions of youth he chides with paternal kinduess. yet with the decision which for bids their repetition, aud the young men of his army feel lt}ai it is a pleasure to gather around bim, because ihey know they are as welcome as though ,they visited the hearth stone of their own home, and they are always as freely invited lo partake of what he has to offer as if they were under the roof of a father. His conduct in sparing the deser-

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From the Jackson Soufhroti.

Interesting Cok'i-e«|oii«leiicc. T'ie annexed important correspondence may lie it-lied on as not fiom the fanciful pen of the author of the letter with the name of May field Johnson siirned nt the bottom, which appears in the late officeholders organ. This correspondence, unlike that, has every appeturance of being genuine.

Summons of Gen. Cass to Gen. Tayfor. OFFICEBOLDKUS' CAMP, BAI-TIMORI- C«NVKN-? TION, May 27, 1818. 5

SIR: Afier a tortuous nnd zig-tag march of several years, I nin now in this strong position, with a largo force and abundance of patronage—the sinews of political war. Yon are surrounded lv my well drilled phalanx of 90.000 officeholders, with all the patronage nnd other appliances necessary to my success and you cannot, in any human probability, avoid Riitfering a total route in November. But. ns you deserve consideration and particular esteemj I wish to save you and tho 'aw militia under your command from total annihilation. and therefore give you this timely notice, in order that you may surrender at discretion, with the assurance that you nnd your undisciplined army will lie treated with the liberality and forbearance characteristic of a genuine Locofoco, and only asked to pay the piper whilst we are dancing. You will have until the7lh of November nexltoinake no your mind, (unless, in the meantime, mine don't undergo change,! to commence from the time my fine of truce reaches your saw mill in the Cypress Swamp, Jefferson couiJy, Mississippi.

To further this end, I assure you of mv particular consideration. (Jod nnd Liberty!—Pi'lk and Santa Anna!—Marev end ihe Spoils forever!

LOUIS PHILIJII'PB CASS. Late of the TuilUric*.

P. S. forbid yon not to "break your sword when von surrender." ns that is an apocryphal exploit not mentioned in history, for which I have secured a patent.

HF.AU QMNTSNS—At my Saw Milt Planiation, Mississippi, July 4, 1848. 5 Sin: In reply to youK-polile invitation summoning ine to surrender tho people who have selected me for a leader, ul discretion, I beg Icavo most ri-spectfolly to decline your request. With sentiments of high consideration,

Your obedient servant, 7. TAYMR, Commanding the People's Army.

To MONS. LOUIS PIIILII'PK CASS. ... -Officeholders' Camp, if

The l*vo Sexes.

The following true and interesting paragraphs are extracted from an article by Mrs. Sigourney, whose mind is the dwelling of light anil beauty: "Man might lie initialed into the varieties and mysteries of needle-work taught to have patience with the feebleness and waywardness of infancy, and tosteal with noisless step about the chamber of the sick and woman might be instructed to contend for the palm of science to pour forth eloquence in Senates, or to 'wade through fields of slaughter to a throne.' Yet revolting!* of the soul would attend this violence to nature, this abuse of physical and intellectual energy while the beatnv of social order would be defaccd and the fountain of earthly felicity broken up. "We arrive, therefore, at the conclusion, the sexes are intended for different spheres, and constructed in conformity to their respective destinations by Ilim who bids the oak brave the fury of the tempest, and the Alpine flower lean its cheek on the bosom of eternal snows. But disparity does not neccessarily imply inferiority. The high places of the earth, with their pomp and glory, are indeed accessible onlv to the march of ambition, or the grasp of power yet those who pass, with faithful and unapplaiided zenl, through their humble round of duty, are nqt unnoticed by the'Great Taskmaster's eye'and their endowment, though accounted poverty amonjr men, may prove durable riches in the kingdom of Heaven.

How IT WAS DONE BV AN AUCTIONEER. —Perhaps some of our friends who are •going, going, going' it, with the hammer, may get an idea from the annexed:

We hav'nt heard in a good while of a more amusing lake-in than was performed by an auctioneer in a small village of •Down East.' A fiddle had just been bidden off at a "high figure" by a cute Yankee, hut the anctionear was cuter still. "How much," said lie after passing the buyer his purchase, "how much 'moffered for THE bow?—"Hallo! you!— that's mine,'1 said the astonished purchaser. "Wal, that is rich!" replied theatictioneer—decidedly rich! 'Guess you must be from the ken'ntry. Who bids for the bow?—How much 'moffered for the bow? how much? how much for the bow? Anaf. naf, naf! Pass up your change, you lazy devil you would'nt acome in 'spect, except to get eoot o' the sun. 'Guess you must be'from the ken'nlrv. How much 'moffered for the

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black berry ia red when it is green.

Adversity overcome, is tbe brighfat glory and willing'ly undergone, tbe greatest virtue. Sufferings are bat tbe trials of valiant spirits.

For one man who sincerely pities oor misfortunes, there are thousands who sincerely bate our success.

Why i* a ppendthrift'a purse like thunder cloud? Because it keeps comioually lighi'uiug.

The Volunteers.

New Orleans has been a scene of considerable excitement during the last two weeks jrfowinff out of the illiberal courso of the Admihistratioh towards the vol tin*' teers, in compelling them to be transported like galley slaves, crowded together iii steamboats from Now Orleans to their respective places of rendezvous, instead »f discharging them, as they \Vere entitled to be. at Kew Orleans.

It seems that a number of privates and several non-commissioned officers left the encampment near New Orleans and proceeded to the City, without repaid to thrt orders of the commanding officers. They were put under ariest, whereon they joined in a petition to judge Buchanan of tho Fifth District Court for a habeas corpus to be discharged from what they called their illegal detention, Upon the hearing of the matter. S. S. Prentiss, Esq., mado a powerful argument in favor of the soldiprs, insisting that having enlisted for the war only, and that the war deing ended and the troops withdrawn from Mexico,the volunteers were entitled to their discharge —theif enption ntul detention was illegal.

Gen. Butler relied upon the various orders emanating from the War Department, and the nets of Congress under which ihe applicants entered the service, ns his authority* for arresting and detaining lliem, and this the Judge decided w.a^undej: tha, circumstances su lficient. ri* sj

There can be no doubt but what tho course pursued by the Administration was simply to save a few thousand dol-» lars. and thus lessen the expenses just so much, although the parsimony was visiting great injustice upoli the volunteers.—* St. Louis JYcto Era.

We find the following in the Cincinnati Enquirer. We republish it that, if lher» is good counsel in it, the volunteers who are now sojourning here may avail themselves of it:

CAPTION TO VOLUNTEERS NOW RETURNING FROM MEXICO.—I would respectfully caution our brave volunteers now re-4 turning to their homes, against sleeping in feather beds, or in close rooms during the hot weather. They will do well t»» recollect that lliey have been in continual exercise, nnd sleeping on the earth oi* camp beds, for a length of time and I speak from my own knowledge, when I say that feather beds, close rooms, and little or no exercise, will bring on fevers and illness of various types, almost to a certainty, during the next two months.

A VOLUNTEER OF THE WAR OF 1812. Papers will do well to copy this. .»

A GREAT STEAM IIOKSR.—We saw «t the depot on Tuesday morning, a very large and beautifully constructed locomotive, called the "Dorchester," made fof the Old Colony railroad. It was built at the shops of tiie Springfield car nnd en* gine Co,, and cost $9,000. Its weight in estimated al 22 tons, nnd it is the first 12 wheel locomotive, oT its style of construction, that has been made in the United States. The four driving wheels Bre in the ceutrc, and of equal size, so that tho machine will run as well one way as tho other. Its capacity of draft is calculated to be equal to 100 cars with 000 tons burthen. The tender will hold 1000 gallons of water. It is a grand machine iu Bizo and construction, and reflects credit oa the mechanics o£ Springfield. This is the first locomotive turned out by the Cat and Engine Company.— Springfield {Mass.) %•__

A most singular instance of terror in tha human species recorded in the Journal di Medicine, pour Van 1847. It occurred iu the hospital of the Salpetriere, A female of advanced age was so affected with horror oil hearing that her daughter, with two children in her arms, had precipitated herself out of a window, and were killed on the spot, that her 6kin, in a single night, from head lo loot, became «s black as that of a negro. (Tha same pafsion turns the hair whilCj of which many instances are on record.)

BACHEI-OJIS.—Dr. Johnson ^ives thu philosophy of marriage in a few words: "A married man," says he, "has many cares but a bachelor lias no pleasures. (Juttiug himself from life's purest and most exfpjitne enjoyments for fear of some trifling annoyance, he emulates the sagacity of the wiseacre who amputated his leg to secure himself from corns." j&i

DISISFRCTINO AGENT.— This is the season for generating unhealthy gasses, by the decomposition of animal and vegetable substances, aided by the heal of the sun. Uaa the chloride of zinc, a-zincdissolved in muriatic acid. Mix it with witter, and sprinkle it. In sinks aud cess-pools, give it its full strength.

When Texas annexation wss resolved upon, Mr. Pokenham, the British Minister, jocosely said to that noted wag Matthew St. Clair Clarke. "Whv I expect *ou will next annex England." Hush! hush!" Mid Clarke "if you put it into our people's heads—-I'll be hanged if they don't do it."

A HIST TO LOVERS.—There is nothing that tends to keep Ihe fire of love burning brightly aft^r marriage so much as those little attentions which, before marriage, you cou»ilr.t it would be inexcusable in you to forget. Husbands, bear this in mind!

"No man can do anything against his will,' said a metaphysician. "Faith." said Pat, "I had a brother who went to Botany Bay against bis will, faith and he did."

There is no place like home, unless ifs tho home of a young woman we are "arter." That's of courae an exception. Future poets will please note it.

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Why ia »n old coat like au iron pot? BQ*. cause it is a apccimcu uf hard-uare.