Wabash Express, Volume 13, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 March 1854 — Page 2

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41 WABASH BXPIESS.

J. B. L. BOTTLE,: Editor.

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not his stand will become a-favorite resort for the purchase of all kinds of^ nyceBsaries in

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TTliat it Contemplate*.

"nature and form of government which any set of irresponsible squatters may set up under the name of "Territory." 4th- It co-templates, under -the plausible plea of democratic equality, depriving Congreso of thp regulating power in tire new Territories, and placing it in the hands of partizan officeholders. 1 5th.'It contemplates/notwithstanding (he boisterous denial of its author, the introduction of tlctery into Nebraska—a. territory compris ing more land than the original thirteen States, extending west to the Rocky Mountains, and North to the latitude of' Lake Superior. Of this there is proof. /th. It contemplates the permanent ascendency of Southern influence in national affairs, and the rivalry of slave labor against free labor in northern latitudes. s, 7th. It contemplates, last as well as first, the olection of Stephen A. Douglas to the nest Presidency.

IT The New York Tribune says that the Toledo and Illinois Railroad Company have negotiated $50(1,000 of their bonds, at 93 cents, ami interest. The Treasurer, Mr. Whitchouse, had previously negotiated $1,500,000 of these bonds. This road forms a continuous line from Toledo on the lako to Danville, Illinois, a distance of 34D miles. The portion from Toledo to Fort Wayne—92 miles, will be open in October next, and the whole rond to Danville will be completed in twelve-months. It connects at Danville with what is callod the Wabash and St. Louis road which will be rapidly pushed through to the groat emporium of the Mississippi,

(D* The Washington National Monumont.at the close of tho lust working season, we learn from the National Intelligencer, attained a height of one hundred and fifty feet from the ground. Tho niiu is to carry it twenty-fUrht feet.more during tho next season, which will commence about the 21st inst., if the weather b« favorable. About a dozen stone cutters havo been employed all winter, and consequently a sufficient supply of worked stone is on hand to go on with. The annual amount necessary to keep tho building going steadily forward is $35,000.

!^*TheStaat8 Zcitnng,of Noti York, having called the Germans, who were opposed to the Nebraska Bill, green horn», they turned out in procsssion to tho number of several thousand, on the morning of tho 6th inst., with bands of music and a forest of banners and transparencies, and proceeded to salnto tho Zeitung with "cat music." As they had becu called preen Korni they wore in their hats etripos of evergreons which they finally left for the editor.

O* A correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce, is happy to inform tho friends of African colonization, that the late decision in regard to the McDonough will, secures for forty years, $30,000 per annum to the American Colonization Society.

1. .. launch started the fourth time with 80 persons •well known enterprise, spirit of accomtnoda- ,t ... or a re is tion.and accuracy of business habits, we doubt: (, nrill r»r,nru* r^nrt for

O* Seven years ago the Legislature of New Hampshire passed a set of strong resolutions endorsing the Wilmot Proviso, and instructing their Senators and Representatives in Congress to rota for it. These resolutions were signed by MOMS Noaats, as Speaker of the House, aud difficulty will be obviated." "approved" by JARKD W. WITU*ts, Governor. These same men, Norris and Williams arc now Senators from New Hampshire, in Congress, aad-votod for the Nebraska Bill.

Tng STOLEN PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.—It is currently reported at Washington Uut the editors of the New York Herald. Times, and Tribu,«e, Philadelphia North American and Lcdgand Baltimore Sun, together with a score of others, will be called up before the Senate soon, to give information in regard to their publication of the secret doings of the Senate, *9 well as public documents ifce.

rr it is said that Judgv Osdy, in writing to Mrs. Stanton, the Woman's Rights woman, commenced with—-'iVy dear Sirf* Mrs. S. is daughter of the Judge.

CBAKOS or CimctMSTA.vcEs.—A liverv stable proprietor in Sacramento City. California, has five hostlers, three of whom, before they left, tho eastern States, wcr« Broadway dry goods clerks, and two wem preachers,

17 The British Brig-of-war Liu net lms captured two slavers on the coast of Africa. The Captain reports that the slave trade isasae tire as ever, if not increasing ..»*»

From the Cincinnati Gatette of the 17th init. Terrible -Calamity at Virgin Bay I Gil

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Of every variety, tie at) jr and promptly excciued. detained for the cabin passengers, baggage jror

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We give below the particulars of the sinking of the launch at Virgin Bay, and the consequent loss of life.

^^articalar attention eiven^to and specie. But they, with their natural jeal- {refused to enter into bonds to contest the valid-

CAB» *R'I!f T-fWOt 'ousv. thinkinsr something was to be gained by! ty of rlie seizure, but abandoned her to the ofPer which we jxowfM supsrior facilities. ,, .. r«.fnspd in im it ficers- The Black Warrior is not a very valu-

I£7» AdvcrttiemenU inserted at the asu*t ratci a firaf K^of nut nff craft, and her owners would make a profit least many of them. to the first boat put off

l!'^ht load' leavinf thelarScr

,-BittRbJichinpnt, just opened and f„ll f„„i»h !p^o"gc™ tin, other boat They were con- _s._ ed by D. S.Danald^on. Jtidging from the lib- ™ye

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of latitude 36° 30\ with the waves others yielding themselves at 3d. It contemplates the rejection of all right, once iu despair, were sinking without any ap oh the part of Congress, to examine into the

Others siiccpecToJ Tn saving the mother. Other closes of like character occurred one native man lost his life in his generous ef forts to save others. Some of the passengers clung to the launch until she was drawn ashore others swam safely to the bench, while still others sank exhausted beneath the waves.

It is impossible as yet to determine how many pcrisheu. In less than an hour after the disaster occurred, sixteen dead bodies were upon the beach, some dragged ashore by the natives, others washed in with the surf. Several others were subsequently found, and about half a dozen more were known to be missing. Fiftyone of those in the launch were saved. The first body recovered wns that of a woman, upon whose clothing were found large sums of gold. Uer husband was also drowned, who also carried thousands of dollars, the weight of which perhaps aided in causing their deaths. One man had upon him an inflated life preserver, but beueatli it was a belt of gold Sufficiently heavy to weigh him down. The persons of most of the drowned contained more or less gold. It was not, therefore, necessity that made them steerage passengers.

SALE OF THE Pt?DI.ic WOIIKS.—In the Senate of Pennsylvania, the first section of the bill providing for the sale of the public works, passed by a vote of 18 to 12. This section authorizes the sale of the main line at $10,000,000 the Delaware division at $3,000,000, and the Susquehanna division, includingthe North and West branches, at $8,000,000, niakinga total sum of $21,000,000. The cost to tho State of these works is over $10,000,000

BLOOMKR OVTDOXK.— Miss Mary B. Williams contends for the right of women to wear men's clothes, if they choose. In a letter recently published, she argues the qustion, and lays down the law of good taste in regard to the cut and color of jackets and trowsers for the fair sex. She snys: "I hold that women should wpjr this costume whenever and wherever they choose to do so, cither in town or country, in doors or out of doors, occasionally or constantly. If the male partof creation should find any trouble in determining our sex, let them qmt shaving their faces, and then the

1 LAIN* TALK.—Tho Concord (N. H.) Reporter of a late date contains a long and pungent letter from Hon. Edmund Burke, in reply to the communication of Senator Douglas. In introducing the letter, the editor of the Reporter savs "We never expected that the author of that (Nebraska) bill would turn upon us in the discourteous and savage manner he has done—to deny the plain import and meaning of his own words, and to call upon us to practice ft deception and cheat upon the people of this State."

ET The Jaurtml says that a large addition is to be made to the Prairie House,of seventyfour feet front, on the east end. four stories high—the basement to be used for stores. Upwards of 200 hpuses, it adds, will be pnt up, the coming season, on the Rose and Jewett additions, east of the Depot.

XT Seme boys at Tahoia, Miss, on the 34th ult., tied some fire-crackers to a dog's tail, and the dog ran into a cotton shed, setting fire to the cotton, and causing a loss of $30 ',000.

a-'-.*7 'ft D* A Tery large aod enthusiastic anti-Ne-

On a cannon shot, fired from the right bark meeting was held ia Qmney, Illinois, of the Danube, which fell close to the q«arteri) *wently» without distinction of party. Strong of Prince GorUchakoff, were the word*, "good' resolutions were adopted. ttrotning toyon. Prsnco GorUchakoft"

O* A sen*e of ignorance is incipient wis-1

CT A eounterfenw with seme tiro or three dom: and that sense coming so late in life, is! The Alton THegrmpk says, thai 3,000 tboaaand doHars apuriotts t»o»«y itf his pos- the reasoa why all the personification* of wi».! bars of iron for tbi Terre-Haute and Alton aeaaioa, has ju*-t been arreted in Eranarilfo, (dom aw represented as grac«he*ded

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Tbe fteamer Brother Jouatban with 600 pas- law, which had long ago fallen hito d&ose.— jfcengers from San Franci«co. arrived at San But, as we suspected, this is likely to prove a Juan Dvl Norte. March 1st. The passengers misstatement. The Boston Courier says^

"Prnmcc immediately took mules for Virgin Bay, on 'The Spanish government have passed a

payment !.convey them across the Lake, and it was pro-

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be delayed to the end of the year. poBed to the steerage passengers to take pas-J she has entered the harbor of Havana thre? Spending hi^ life in making extensive voyages, j- JOB PRINTING, sage in one immediately, while the other was

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anxiety. As wave after wave struck her she '{was *een to sink lower in the water, until at

Weiave been asked on several occasions, length when about lOOyards distant the whole ,, column of a heavy sea rolled over her entire "what_doeB. this Nebraska Bill contemplate? jengtli, filling her to the gunwales. A scream Easily aivawered. l_ j. of horror ensued which beggars description .1st. It contemplates Stephen A. Douglas for Cries of terror simultaneously arose from the tj- iotT launch and the hundreds of spectators upon Pres»4ent-m 1857. the steamer and on shore. The sea was in^d. Tfe conte^oplates the repudiation of the stantly covered with floating objects, among Missouri Compromise, bv which the South, which were distinguished many human forms for value received, agreed "that slavery should i^at had been washed from (lie boat, or had -i .1 thrown themselves over board in the first mobe paoniBiTED FOREVER from territory north

ment of alarm gome were l?allling manfulIy

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their hands as if in

lication raised above their heads, while the midst of all was the launch, still half filled with human beings, clinging with almosthopeless agony to each other. The crowd upon the steamer unable to render assistance, looked on with horror. The people on shore were less constrained. Here women stood in clusters and wild alarm, and men ran to and fro, some giving orders, others cursing and swearing, and few knowing either what they did or said. The cooler headed, however, rushed towards the miserable apologies for boats that lay along shore, and endeavored to get them afloat. But the natives were the first to discover the full extent of the danger and render efficient aid. With one wild shriek, and an impulse that would have done credit to tho best of mankind, they tore off their scanty garmens and rushed to the relief of the sufferers—the women being the first in the benevolent and dangerous work. They hesitated not to count the cost, or calculate the danger, but dashed into the furious surf, heedless of everything but a desire to save their fellow creatures from death, and these strangers of another race, between whom and themselves there has been no sympathy and but little knindly feeling. Brighter examples of true heroism could not be imagined than were exhibited by these rude and ignorant people.— A dozen native women rushed to a large bun£0 that laid high and dry upon the beach, and dragging it to the waves, pushed it with almost incredible speed through the water towards the launch. As they approiiched this one of the women sprang forward, tearing a half dead child from the arms of its drownin^ mother, held it witii one hand above her head, and swam with her prccious charge to the shore. ... ..1

The Black Warrior*

It has been asserted, by those who wish to get up amass with Cuba, oat of the affair of the Black Warrior seizure, that the Cuban authorities had made the seizure bj putting in force, snddenlyand without notice, an old port

first* Here two steamers were waiting ihe owners and Captain of the Black Warrior and as familiar with the "paths of the sea, as

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public is called to the advertisement in this ,nnVBVintT monstrous costs beside." T'

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Oiirinformation from Washington says the

Louisville Journal of the l?th, is that the spe cial committee of the Senate on the Pacific Railroad project have agreed upon and will probably submit a bill this week. Instead of specifying any particular route, it will it is understood, leave the matter open for competition among bidders, by merely providing that twenty sections of land to the mile shall be given in Territories, and that the company undertaking the construction of tho road, shall receive about one thousand dollars per mile, or two millions a year for thirty years, for carrying the mails from the Mississippi to the Pacific. It is also said that various amendments have been made to the Gadsden treaty, and that a disposition is manifested to ratify it, if it can be so arranged as to guaranty to 11s a port ou the gulf of California.

TRIAL OF Miss DELIA WEBSTER—IMITSOXMENT IN- BEDFORD JAIL.—On Wednesday, Miss Delia Webster, a notorious character in this State, says the Louisville Courier, who resides opposite Madison, was arraigned before Judge Gray, of Trimble county, on the charge of enticing away slaves from their owners in that county. There was evidence that since her residence in that county some twenty slaves had escaped from her neighborhood also, that Messrs. Day and Cram, who stand indicted in that county for cuticing away slaves, reside on the same farm with her and are her friends and associates. Also, that she had heretofore been convicted ou a charge of aiding in the escape of slaves. It was also shown to the court by a number of the most respectable citizens of her neighborhood that she was generally suspect ed of having something to do with the recent escape of slaves from that vicinity. Upon th evidence, Judge Gray required Miss Webster to give bond, with sureties, in the sum of$10,000 that she would be of good behavior, or that she would give bond iu the same amount that she would leave the State and never return .to In default of giving bail as required, Miss Web stcr is now in the Bedford jail.

O* Iu the House of Representatives Mr Dean, of New York, has given notice that shall introduce a bill for the repeal of our neu i-rulify latco, eo fnr as tilry nre applicable to Spain and her colonies. This move has been called forth by the grievance of the "Black Warrior" steamer, and the bill, if passed, would be equivalent to a declaration of war with Spain. What a prccious set of statesmen we have at Washington Here is a little case of trouble about a steamboat at Havana, for the examination of which and all kindred cases we have a consul there, who, if necessary, must report to his government and seek advice. Hardly waiting for a statement from our consul and before any measures are taken to learn whether the first reports are correct, or to see if a satisfactory adjustment can be made 111 the ordinary way the cry of war is raised at cnce, and there is a plenty of men in Congress, and throughout the country, ready to echo the shout! "Oh justice thou hast fled to brutish beasts,

Anil men have lost their reason

A NEW COMPROMISE !—The N. Y. Herald has a Washington letter, which says, Done Brown, editor of the Indiana State Sentinel, has been thero engaged in the great work of establishing pacific relations between Bright and Pettit. This business is about, equal in dignity to one he is said to have pursued in early life. The letter-writer says lie has effected a reconciliation, the terms of which are said to bo, that supports the Nebraska bill, "and Brown supports, with his paper, the re-elec-tion of both to the United States Senate. Under this happy arrangement, the opponents of the repeal of the Missouri comgromisc act in Indiana will be "crushed out."

Had Pettit opposed the bill, as was expected from his antecedents, with Mace, Harlan and Chamberlain with him, it would have probably distracted the democracy of Indiana, and and led to bad results. Great credit is due to W. J. Brown for this master stroke of policy.

O* The fashion of expressing popular disapprobation of men who are obnoxious to blame by burning them in effigy, is a poor one, and has no argnnient in it. Wo see that another effigy of Douglas has been hung upon the old "Washington Elm," in Cambridge Mass., with the following inscription: ',7'

STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS, HA SO ED FOR TREASON* TO FREEDOM.

ft Sic Semper Tyrannist

O" Another of the frame buildings on the Blake Square" was removed yesterday, to moke way for the new block, the foundation for which is to be commenced in a dav or two.

O* The Cleveland harbor is free from ice, and there is prospect of an early opening of a a &

CP Tho Coopers of Indianapolis have 'struck The coopers here have baen striking ail winter.

IT A western paper, speaking of man who died in the most abject poverty and neglect, said that "he died tctiJnut the aid of*pky- «&«*.

CP The characters of Peter the Great and his subjects were well described by Frederick the Great of Prussia, who said "the Cnr Peter operates on the Russians like aquafortis on iron." '•"".fc

CT The whole nnoiber of children at teediag Sabbath school, in Indianapolis, according to a Ute report, is 1,983.

1 Railroad have arrived at that place.

Ar Mi Dmitf Exprtt*.

THE XTSTCBIOUI LEGACY.

My grandfather was a sea captain—not an illegitimate claimant of that title, like the watermen of the Lakes, a.nd the coast skippers of the present day, who were never out of sight of land, and who if they ever got there, could not get back agaiu—but a genuine "old salt,"

bargain if tlicy can dispose of her to the

shepherd is with those of a sheep-pasture.

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violation of the law, and the Captain for the salt apray to dry on his weather beaten

seldom at home long enough at a time

Of course his history was crowded with many interesting personal adventures, and curious incidents, that fell within his world wide observation. Most of these, at the relation of which my childish ears tingled, and my eyes dilated with wonder, have become so faded in memory as to be incapable of a tolerable narration.

Tho allusion to his ill health, attracted my grandfather's scrutiny, and the introduction of himself as an old sailor touched his heart. On noticing him more particularly, lie W«B struck with an undefinable feeling of curiosity and sympathy at his appearance. Tall,straight and rather slender, he was dressed in fine, black broadcloth, with a sort of Spanish cloak of the same color and quality. A two-edged sword, common on shipboard at tint time, and improperly called a cutlass, was partly covered by his cloak, and hung by his side without a sheath. His hair was quite gray, and his features, were manly and would have been handsome, had they not been considerably emaciated which circumstance gave unpleasant, promnence to some half dozen deep scars on different parts of his face. His eyes were blue and full of animated expression, but restless, and at times showing a sudden air of abstraction. The looseness of one of his black gloves gave evidence that he had lost a finger or two from his left hand. These observations were made by the Captain while the stranger was looking at a beautifully finished sextant that lay upon the table, and had for a moment attracted his attention. Turning, as if startled at his forgetfulness, lie resumed: "Name the price of the passage, Captain, and will pay it now."

My grandfather has already fixed the price in his mind, and replied: You area sailor, sir, and sick. The accommodations of my ship, as well as my own services, are at your free command."

The language of a sailor's heart cannot be misunderstood, and needs no interpreter and the stranger knew that remonstrance would be ungeneVous on his part. He made no reply, but eagerly extended his hand, and my grandfather, as he shook it, thought he saw a pearl in the stranger's eve. But noble hearts are impatient of exhibitions of gratitude, and he quickly added: "I am ready to sail, sir: is your baggage oil board?" "This is all my baggage, sir he replied, showing a small black satchel, under his cloak.

Leading him to his quarters, the Captain left him and went on deck, and found the ship

breeze, and wharves, ware houses and spectators growing small in the rapidly increasing distance.

The stranger soon after made his appearance above deck, and was politely invited aft by the Captain, who noticing that he was "not inclined to conversation left him to his own meditations wrapped in his cloak and seated on the windlass. Silent and pensive, he sat there gazing intently upon the sublime scene around —the heaving swell of thj sea now chopped by the increasing wind, the distant sails that seemed glued to the western horizon,

As Hfetesx a paintrd sbip '-*1 *as"A?. Upon painted ocean"— 5 and then out upon the dark, boundless and boisterous deep, over which the sombre wings of night were already hovering.

cheeks, and there was hardly a port on the sick man's berth, the storm ceased with a sudhabitable globe, in which ha could not shake hands with an old acquaintance, either civilized or savage. Indeed his home was ou the ocean, and his family, like aaostrich egg, was hid on the shore while he was gone.

The following, however, seems to have made a more lasting impression, owing, perhaps, to its having been oftener repeated at the family fireside.

About eighty years ago, during the calm that occurred between the old French war and the American Revolution, a large ship was lyinqr st the wharf in the town of New York load-

ed with a valuable cargo, and ready to sail for}

1 Liverpool, and thence to whatever portion of the globe the chances of commerce might die tato

This was my granfather ship, waiting only for her papers and a fair wind. The papers were BOOU ready, and shortly after them came the desired breeze. Presently everything on board was in active motion—the casting off and coiling of ropes, the unfurling of canvas, and the running up of sailor boys along the ratlins, like spiders on their webs while the short imperative orders of the mate, and the hearty "ye-hoy-he!" of the cheerful crew, echoed over the rippling waters of tho harbor, which looked in the rays of the setting sun as if covered with a cream of liquid gold.

Just before the last plank was hauled in. a stranger stepped hurriedly on board and inquired for the'Cuptain's state room. Being conducted thither, heentered, and with a slight bow accosted the Captain, who sat writing at his desk: "You are bound for Liverpool, I believe, sir.'' "Yes sir." "I am in poor health, and intending to spend the winter in Italy, wish to get passage in the first ship that sails for Europe. Will you take a passenger?" "Yes sir, if my accommodations will suit you." "No matter about accommodations, Captain, I am an old sailor, and know how to accommodate myself. Besides the trim of your ship suits my eye."

already under weigh, thesails filled with astiff Jb«t vesitel Captain but never in port and I

What were his thoughts? Kcibody knowa. But he gazed with an eagerness of interest, as though conscious that: he was taking a last view of those riotons billows, upon whose bosom he had so long made it his horeev

And so he was. At leagth, as darkness shot in the view, he quitted his seat with evident relutance, and went shivering to his berth.

The wind increased to a gale, and from a gale to a tempest and for ten days and ten sights the noble ship which had plowed the seas of every latitude, from Spitsbergen to New Zealand,underwent such a conflict with the elements as she had never before eocoant«red. Daring all this tame, the stranger had been confined below *ith an apparently rapid eonsumption which the sea air and the rough 1 weather had swiftly developed and matured.

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During the long and perilous storm, the duties of the Captain were so urgent that he eoold make only snatched and hasty visits to the sick min and even if they could have been spared from their posts, he could bairei hoped for little aid or sympathy from any of the crew, who with the easy tendency to the superstitious peculiar to their class, had associated his presence with the perils of the ship.

It would have required but slight encour- Peking

agemcnt from their officers to induce them to pay him the same compliment that the sailors of Joppa paid to Jonah, on a similar occasion,' when "thesea wroughtand was tempestuous."

But on the tenth night. Just as the Captain was ready to answer a summons to visit the

As he seated himself besido the berth, the sick man fixed his brilliant eye upon him, and said calmly: "Captain, 1 am dying!" "I hope not, my dear sir this dreadful gale has weakened you. It is over now, and you will soon be better." "No, Captain," he repeated, "I am dying! The tempest, I know is over, and so is that other tempest in my breast! This ship has

lonSbeen

I will not describe her charms, Captain, for you have been young, and a heart that lias ev or loved needs not to be told, that to the eye of true affection, its object has no defects.

My father learned my secret—but I knew it not. I had a life long secret afterwards which he never learned 1 He catne to me ono morning, and smiled, and said: "My son, do you want to go to Cuba?"

I eagerly answered in the affirmative for it had been a cherished, but hitherto forbidden passion with me, to travel. "One of my vessels," saidjic, '.'sails to-mor-row, and you may go." *ei'

This short interval allowed me no time to bid farewell to my shepherdess, who was fifty miles distant, nor even to inform her of my departure but I said aloud, 'I will soon be back' and many other consolations I whispered to my heart, as the next day, while bounding over the blue Atlantic

'•—At each rcmovo

I dragged a lengthening chain behind."The ship arrived in good time, at Havana, discharged her cargo, reloaded, and sailed for —Calcutta! I tens a prisoner on my father's ship and for five long years I was kept from home —as if all the waters of all the oceans could wa.*h out my love!

I escaped at length from the prison ship, while lying at Rio Janeiro, and took passage in a French barque, straight for the Guadalquivir. No circumnavigation of thcglobe was ever so long as that voyage. I strained my eyes every day, watching for Gibraltar, when knew it was thousands of miles off and every night I dreamed of mountain rivulets, moonshine, snowy flocks and l.v.v 1

Arriving at last at Seville, I Tmstcncd over the Nevada, and sought the sunny dell, where my affections had so long nestled,, and there found that the idol ofmy heart was the wife of an Andalusian shepherd! She had been told that I deserted her, and afterwards that I was dead. I did not weep, for my heart was turned to stone. My father, said I, shall never know of his victory! I did not go to sec him it was wicked, I know, but burning with the spirit of revenge, I turned again to the sea, and never saw him more. I am faint, Captain, and cannot prolong my tale. In six months I was master of a fast sailing vessel—you have seen

have often seen you, and knew your name twenty years ago 1 But no matter about that. My father continued to freight his ships and send them to different parts of the world—but he never knew that I superintended a large part of his business, and that many of his car goes found a sale in ports to which they had never been consigned. His agents sometimes failed to report!

I have said enough, Captain before tomorrow's sunsets, I shall be in the caverns of the deep. But have forgiven him, and do not complain. I have a fortune in the Bank of England, but w!th it is deposited a will, aud the orphan son of ISA is my heir.

You have been kind to me,CapUtn,'an^[ in to ken of gratitude. I b,igyoa to accept my watch and cutlass, and this paper, which you will care-. fully preserve. So saying he held oat a folded scrap of paper, which my grandfather put into his pocket.

denness that was startling the wind was entirely lulled: and np evidence of its fury remained except the long swelling billows of the sea—those deep after-sighs of its mighty passion. of old age, leaving little to his family, except

The sudden stilling of the tempest, and the the pirate's cutlass, which three generations of mournful creaking of the spars, now audible boys have used in their juvenile "trainings," for the first time for many days, forced a shade and which rusty and blunted, may be seen in of melancholy over my grandfather's spirits, as he hastened down the gang-way at the call of the stranger.

tossed and beaten about by the fury

of the waves, but it has been sunshine and caltn, couiparedwith that tempest. Captain!— But it is all over now—-for I have forgiven him— he has been long in the grave—but I have forgiven him!"

My grandfather thought he was delirious but a second look at the deep intelligence of his eye, and the smiling calmness of his features, forbade the conclusion. He gazed at him a moment with mingled compassion and curiosity, anxious to learn something of a history, the closing scene of which was so dark and mysterious but unwilling to ask it. His look was interpreted, and tho stranger continued: ,jri,

I told you 1 was a sailorl Of thirty-fi years I have not spent one upon the land. But this was not my choice. Like a ahip/Captai my supports were knocked from under me, was launched upon the ocean. My father was an English merchant in Cadiz, and was exten sively engaged in navigation. He took pride in me, and lavishly provided for my educa tion in England. Having, traversed the halls of science, I left Oxford, and returned to Spain at the age of twenty. The first year of my free dom from school, I spent in rambling over the mountains of that enchanted country. In deep inland dell, shut out from the world where the earth was always green and the sky always blue, I met one day. a beautiful young shepherdess—and loved her

Morning dawned—but Uie stranger's eyes did not open upon it—they were closed forever. In the afternoon the "Burial Service at Sea," that most solemn of sea scenes, was performed—and the shrouded body of the P«ATE, with a gentle plunge, broke the glassy surface Tuesday evening, the 14th Itfftt., a seof the ocean, aod sonk swiftly into its myateri- ]rcre storm, accompanied by hail in great qaatione depths. titles, passed through Butler county, Ohio, do-

It wan many hours afterward* that my grand- *a£

tucket, at high water mark, is a tail sharp cliff.!' A quarter leago* due waat from that cliff is a large round stone, and near the stone, a thornbush.

That tfcorn grows in a very rick mil." The duties of his statioQ kept my grandia-

ther a long time abroad, and when h.e was next in Boston, about 6*o "years afterwards, having a few days of leisure, he was thjhkiug of acting upon the hint of the enigrotical paper, when his eye chanced to light upon the follow ing paragraph in *he old BostonMetsenger. "WONDERFUL DISCOVRBT.—As Mr. John Rogers was breaking apiece of pasture ground, on the east shojeof Nantucket,, about a month ago. his ploughshare turned up a stout thorn,

the roots of which Mr. R. spied sevl

er&l Spanish dollars. Upon this lie* went t6 digging lustily, and did not give over till h4 hauled out coins, chiefly Spanish doubloons, of more than twenty-three thousand pounds' value! No doubt it was buried by Capt. Kidd or some of his piratic kin." "No doubt," thought my grandfather, as he put down the paper, with a slight nerrtmstressc In a week he was again facing the storms of the ocean, enriching his employers by his skill and toil, till infirmities finally drove him high and dry on shore. There, in due time, he died

the office of his great grandson, a young lawyer on Beekman Street, New York.

S a a a

For many months there has been quite a lull in what was at one time almost a continuous moan, pervading the land, in consequence of calamities by steam and the public heart was encouraged to hope that the stringent laws, touching the subject, were at last to prove an effectual remedy. But within the last few weeks the papers have given us four or five new and startling chapters in the horrible history of steam slaughter. The rapidity with which these calamities have followed each other, is an ominous sign to attend the opening of navigation. Is the coming season to be distinguished for steamboat disasters—and are hundreds of health}' and happy rutffcens, old and young, who are now in the full enjoyment of life, before the leaves fade again, to be, mangled, and scalded and drowned all along the western waters Perhaps some of our river contemporaries, who are thoughtlessly in tho habit of giving a premium to Death, by praising fast boats, can answer, H-PM)

Burning of the Steamer Caroline. The following touching incident connected with the burning of the Caroline on White River, Arkansas, is copied from the Memphis Whig, of the 10th inst. We are happy to seo, in the catalogue of tho passengers saved, the name of Constable PETTIMOILL, of this place "Mr. Elliott, Clerk of the Caroline, told us of many thrilling incidents which lie witnessed during the burning of tho boat. One, of a father, who attempted to save his two children by swimming with them both in his arms. He succeeded in reaching near tho shore when lr

strength so failed him, that lie was com- or

polled to release them, in order to save hi self by swimming to willow tree, where he rested and saw them sink the second rime.— He leaped in and brought them to the top of the water, and reached the tree, but alas they were dead. Placing the two bodies iu tho fork, lie climbed above them, and there sat., with dripping clothes, weeping over ln's dead children, until the Naomi came along and sent out her yawl to his relief."

NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION-.—Tho latest re turns from New Himpshire, says tho Louisville Courier, confirm the statement published, that the popularity of General Pierce has sadly declined since he was called to administer the affairs of the nation. He received a majority of six thousand votes in his own State, but now wo learn that in one hundred aud twenty-nine towns, a majority of nine hundred and eighty six has been cast against his favorite candidate for Governor—being a falling off of nearly three thousand three hundred votes. In the samo towns, one hundred and eleven Whigs, nnd one hundred and six Democrats have been elected to the Legislature. What a wonderful revulsion this exhibits in public feeling—what a scathing robtike.it is tp the administration

O* The N. Y. Express says that the "Know Nothings" have become quite a power in the State. Their meetings arc called by pasting sheets of blank paper against the walls, but the most expert reporters can learn nothing of their business proceedings. An election of municipal officers recently look place at Salem, Mass., where the whigs, there largely in the majority, were to their astonishment, badly beaten nnd similar results have beeu noticed elsewhere. The organization of this invi.ii blc power is widely extended. Its principal object, we understand to be to vote down, and if necessary, to fight, down, the Catholics.,

RESISTANCE or THE U. S At'THOR'KS.-Partics in Southern Missouri, against whom writs have been issued for destroying lumber belong ing to the General Government, have risen open resistance to the United States authori ties sent to enforce obedience to the writs.— The U. S. Marshal was forced to leave the dis trict, and at last accounts was surrounded in a tavern by the outlaws who demanded that he should be delivered up to them. The citi zens however, were defending him, and aid was to be sent to him from Fort Gibson.

FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE.—The city of Milwau kie has of late been thrown into a state of great excitement, at the arrest of an alleged fugitive slave in that vicinity, who was carried into the city and lodged in jail. The people called a meeting and passed some strong reso lutions, in one of which they pledged them selves to stand by the fugitive, and not permit his removal till he had had a trial by jury. They appointed a large committee to watch the jail by night, and prevent his removal.— At last accounts the U, S. Marshall, with a posse of a hundred men, bad taken him from the jail and removed him to Racine. ——=^1 im***

O" The United States steamer, Princeton, has received sailing orders, and has supplies on board, ready to sail at a moment's warning —-her destination is supposed to be Cadiz, to carry out the result of the deliberations of the Cabinet in relation to the seizure of the steamer Black Warrior, by the Cuban authorities.

O" A man advertises for a wife, in the Madison Banner, and represents himself as 46 years old. A man of that age, who cannot find a wife withont advertising for her, is either too simple, or too ugly, or too knavish to have one.

muc^

father bethought himself of the paper in his torn np by the root*, fence* swept away, barns pocket. He opened it and read as follows: #|Bn^ houses unroofed, and the bail in places,

Captain Lane: On the eastern point of Nan- «rooBd

damage, frees were snapped off or

dePUl

The Loit Found.

-Our readers probably remember the circumstance of the capture of MM. Wilson, by the Gamanche Indians, about two years ago as she with her husband and a party of emigrants were on their way from Texas to California.— Ser husband was killed with several others of the party, and Mrs. W. with two boys, her brothers-in-law, were taken captive^ Mrs. Wil-ws son, after many months of intolerable abuse and hardship, made her escape to the frontiers, leaving the boys with the savages, whose fate has hTthertd been unknown. The last Missouri Republican contains a letter, dated Fort Washita, Choctaw Nation, Feb. 11th, stating* that both the boys have been rescucd, through the accidental discovery of a white, tradac^i, whose.sympathy was so much excited for the poor boys, that he gave a large quantity of gopds for their ransom. ?f 5 ?jj,

O*In reply to inquiries from a Postmas!© ^, in Tennessee, the Postmaster General has decided that "an actual subscriber to a weekly: newspaper, residing in the county where the! same is printed and published, is entitled tog* rcceive such paper free of postage nt any office in tho adjoining county, provided such isf|» the ono at which ho usually receives commu-{a nications by mail."^ jift.v „*r,

DIED

In this citr, on Mondav morning. Marcher 20th, Mr. DAVID WILKINS. aged 73. Mr.^j W. wns one of the earliest settlers on tho Va-L bash, and was a soldier in tho Tippecanoe campaign.

AT THE LATE 8TAND OF THE EXPRESS $ PRINTING OFFICE.

Coffee, Sugar, Teas, Molasses, Fruits,?!

NUTS, TOBACCO, fec., Ac.

HAVING

retired from the quill, the scissors1*

and paste-cup, and bought out the stock of DRY GROCERIES recently owned by the Messrs. it: Wasson fe Co., and fully replenished tho same with new purchases at Cincinnati nnd further^ east, I now offer to the public at my old stand, a very excellent stock of

At as low rates as similar articles can be had in this part of the country. Buying prudently and cautiously with, cash, nnd preferring to sell in the same way. I shall be content with a very small advance on cost. I guarantee that 3 every article shall be as represented, under the penalty of returning the money on the return of the goods, in which I take the risk of pleasing all tastes, however dissimilar and diversified they may be—as every ono knows. I

romisu fair in the beginning, and think I shall able to meet and fulfil all pledges in the

outcome—respectfully soliciting many trials, a

a»y

amount of scrutiny and investigation.

I enumerate tho following articles now in store, or to arrive during this week, to-wit: ,cap=c». SUGARS—New Orleans, Common, HVw^ij!lF-nr. Prime, and Clarified Powdered ®»®*White, Crushed—White Crystals, and White grained Coffee Sugars—a fine stock.

TEAS—Gunpowder Extra, Imperial, Common and Extra Hvson, nnd Common and Fine

Teas.

filack

COFFEE—Laguirn, Rio—White aniVaflJpjgf Green, and superior old Java Coffee, SYRUPS—New York Golden Syrup—tho drippings of loaf sugar New Orleans lteboiled, Sugar-House,Goodnlu and Plantation Molasses. -.pFI3H—Mackerel in barrels, half iiid quarter barrels, and Kits Tongues and Sounds, Codfish and fresh Sardines.

FRUITS, &c—Oranges, MR Raisins, Figs, Prunes, Zante Currants, Citron, Canton Ginger, Olives, Cocoa Nuts, Almonds, Filberts, Brazil and Peanuts, English Walnuts, Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves, Spices, Ginger, Cayenne, Ac.

TOBACCO—.John Anderson's Solace, and Wntson's Virginia fino cut Chewing Virginia —Edwards' and El Dorado natural leaf Chewing fine cut Smoking common Missouri, and Lennox's very sweet small plugs, and Maccou* ba Snuff

CIGARS—La Norma and T^a Union, fine Fig.iro, La Fiel—Colorado, Plantation, and light brown Havana.

SOAPS—(Cleanliness is a virtue)—-Bar.in's Poncinc, Windsor, Sassafras variegated, brown Bar, white Soda, Gertnaujwushing and Paliix^ Soap.

PICKLES—Assorted in gallon and half gallon jars, Pepper Sauce in quarts nnd pints Ground Spices, Cas

sia,Mustard, Lemon Syrup, ifcc., Ac.

Flavoring Extracts, fcc.

Vanilla, Orange, Lemon, Rose, Sultana Rail*, ins, Bayleaf and Rose water.

Miscellaneous Articles.

Star and Tallow Candles Powder, Shot, Lead Rice, Table Salt, Soda. Salmratus, Baking,,, Powders,Starch, Blacking, Tubs, Buckets,

Her Mantilla Department

fs also very complete and of the latest Designs. O" Ladies visiting Cincinnati, will find it to their interest to cation MRS. RICH, before making their spring selections.

March 22, 1854-IXlWpd

D" The season is opening, so far, very favorably for agricultural operations, and farmers are already busy, preparing for.iM^Ayme.

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Friction Matches, Shaker Brooms, Rope Mats, Whisks, Bedcords,Clothes lines, Willow Baskets. Clothes and Roll:, ing Pins and Mashers, Wooden jh., ./$

Boxes, Wash Boards,

English Dairy Cheese, and Cider Vinegar.

PROVISIONS!!*-

Early's Sugar-Cured Hams, Corn Meal, Po«n tatoes, White Beans, Onions, fec., fcc., Ac. Crl will pay the highest current rates for merchantable products of the country, at all times, aiid Farmers having provisions'for sale are respectfully invited to call on me before selling. D. S. DANALDSON,

Market street, East of the Courthouse. O" Fresh Garden Seeds on hand.

March 22, 854-tf

MRS.

f-4sr,!-sy'**i!

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RICH has just returned from New York, with a large and splendid stock of, BONNETS,

RIBBONS, '4 *.- it* I**-** FLOWERS, EMBROIDERIES, tr. To which she would invite particular attention.

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GS'CiDabcfIss®*

No. 204 Fifth Street, •%. Bet. Elm and Plum, Oin., O.

March 22,1854 tsep27

State of Indiana, Sullivan County, ss. Relief Court, May I'ith, 1854. VooiMen, VS. Keziab G*rrctuon, John Garrett•on, Jotitb Garretuon, Weiley Grtrrettoon, R»eh«el Garretuon, Clurlei A. Gtrrettnon, M»rjr

Buker, J*mc« B»fc«r. Margaret £ty, Alfred Elf.

THE

nbove named oefcmlaut* are hereby notified that on the )3tb daf of May, IK!4,'before Hiram 8. Hancbctt, ComtoiMioner of the Relief Court, at hi office jn Sullivan,Sullivan county, Indiana. I will proceed to take «od perpetuate evidence of aod concerning a deed made by Kreeborn Garretuon and Keilah Garretuon bio wife, to tbe said I«aac VoorMea of and to a certain tract nf land lying in tbe county and State aforeaaid, and deaerriwd as follow#, to-wit: the north *eit quarter ot the norlb eaat quarter of xection number tbfrty-flve. and tbe sooth we«t aarter of tbe aouth east qnartef of section number 30, all in town eight north of ranee number nine went. Kaid deed waa made in HM9 whlcb aaid deed waa deatroyed by fire at tbe burning of tbe Sailivaa Coert-HouM, in February, 189V. ISAAC VOOKHIES.

DAVID A. POWELL,

S am E in an

Butler Street, between Congress and Treat Cincinnati, Ohio. i{

ALL

kinds of Planing Machines, Lathes, Screw Cutting Machines, Cast Iron Saw and Grist Mill Water Wheels, Saw and Grist Mill Irons made to order.,

March J, l«54-12-ly *t. tv' A £_ -1 v- A

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