BY (i:o. W. BOHfIAX.
NEW SERIES.
Select Pcetrn.
Daily Duties.
Our daily paths! with thorns or (lowers,
We can at will bestrew them ;
What bliss would guild the passing boars,
il we but riabtly knew them.
The way of lib* is r<iuh at best,
But briars yield the roses ;
So that which yields to joy and rest,
The hardest path discloses.
The weeds that oft we away
Their simple beauty scorning.
Would form a wreath of purest ray,
And piove the best adorning.
So in our daily path-, 'twere well
To call each gift a treasure,
However slight, where love can dwell
With life-renewing pleusuies!
Thy Farmer's Life.
The Farmer's life is ihe life for me
I own ! love it dearly
And everv season, lull of glee,
I'il take its labor, cheer'ly ;
To plow or sow . to reap or mow.
Or HI the bai N to thie- h, sir ;
All one to me, 1 plainly see—
' Twill bring me health and rash, sir.
The Lawyer leads a harrass'd life,
Much like the hunted otter;
And 'tween his own and others' strife,
He's always in hot water.
For toe or li lend, the cau-o defend,
However wrong, must he, sir.
In rea-on ipite, maintain he's right,
And daily earn Ins tee, sir.
The Hector's styled a gentleman,
Cut this I hold hut humming,
For, like a tavern waiting man,
To every call he's corning,
Now here, now there, mii.-t he repair,
Or starve, sir. by denying.
Like death itself, unhappy ell",
He thrives by others dying.
The Farmer's life then let me live,
Obtaining, while I l-uil it,
Fnough for self, and some to give
To such poor souls as need it,
I'll dram and fence, nor grudge expense,
And give tnv land good dressing,
I'll plow and >o . and drill in row,
And hope for Heavenly ble-sing.
VISION OF HELL.
Follow ing hiiri as before, down, down, down,
I entered info another vast apartment, lighted
hy a most flattering but dubious and unsatisfy
ing gloom. Taking my seat, as usual, I felt
the pressure of his two lingers again on the op
posite side of my head.
What now! he inquired.
Av, 1 know not what, said I. It is not hope;
nav it is hope: but I'-ow strange! It does not
resemble such hope as mortals l ave, and yet it
carries its features well. It is a hope in doing
wiong. It is entered in whatever u.av oppose
itself to good. Sin, rebellion, tre,;*>on to Hea
ven, mutiny, and rage and tierce revenge, ami
plots of deep arid subtle purpose, such as may,
perchance, succeed against the Almighty and
hurl hun from his seat tins is now rnv hope:
and vet this hope, stai bed by rson. maddened
by fear, condemned by conscience, is pushed
on to powerful despair. Despair is powerful.
It is the insanity of hope: arid insanity is often
stronger than sanity. It sometimes breathes
resistless valor into timid I reasts. It causes the
fearful lawn to turn upon its pursuer, and makes
a viiltuie of the dove. Come, then, fell des
pair, he thou my hope! and heaven shall yet
tremble u h.en llino shalt marshal! all thy rage.
Nay, hut lie is Almighty, I am not: he is all
good: lam not; all my powers and passions
war, by turns, upon my purpose, which is no
thing hut loss of every expectation hut that ol
eternal woe! Come woe, come ruin, come
whatever lies next above annihilation, which I
covet, but cannot have, and bury me in deep o
hlivion, w here no thought of life, no ray of
light, no Uam of goodness, no hope of mercy,
no look of love, n.av ever reach me more! Nav,
Oh, God! '•{ w ill live!" This last, deepless,
ileal hi ess element survives to torture me forev
er; and forever I am doomed to live the black
death of unchangeable d-'spair.
Now thou hast pricked the worm which coils
eternally about my (mart to sting my soul for
ever, and pierce me with tmdving pangs. This,
with thv other tortures, would alone be hell.—
That hell thou carriest in thee. It is thyself,
from whom thou canst never make one brief
remove. Always to be thvselfis hell. Fire,
and all physical tortures, would he harmless
here. Depraved by sin, with thy mernorv liar
rowing up thv recollection of better days, with
thy i"imagination filling thee with the most
learf'ul shapes, with thy best affections centred
in the love of sin, u ith thy anger raging against
the essence ofall good, and, worst of nil, with
thy
deathless conscience forever damning thee
with its intollerable rebukes—this last one is
Hell. Tl lis is H- II we feel; and thou shalt sink
deeper into it, while the cycle of eternal ages
roll!
Is there, then, no repiieve?
None.
Is there no speculation, no tradition handed
down,of some period, however far away in the
dearths of revolving ages, when some change for
the better may arrive?
None whatever."
Is there no hope that the souls, worn out with
pain, will sink beneath its load and die?
No, never ! Every moment gives it new ca
pacity to suffer woe. There w ill come a time
when thy grown heart shall hold more torment
than all the suffering sons of cursed Adam ever
knew by poverty, disease, misfortune, flood or
life. Thou shalt afterwards carrv more pain
than all Hell itself now knows. Thy being's
law is growth. Hadst thou come here with a
heaven-formed character, heaven itself could
not now furnish thee a measure of thy future
joy; but, with a mind bred to sin, there is
naught before thee hut the deeper and deeper
depth of insufferable agony and despair! Look
thou upon those awful deeps, where shapes
of misery thicken ami blacken as thy vision tra
vels down. Ib-hold them descending towards
the bottomless abyss of woe! Mark the dial
face of that massive clock above thee, whose
pendulum ticks ages instead of seconds: and ev
ery time the hammer of it hits the doleful beff,
the words f irever ! FOREVER ! ! FOREVEII! ! !
roll and reverberate through the deep caves of
Hell. As I lay (his crown upon thy head,
which shall touch thy faculties into ten-fold
life, harrowing them ail up to their horrid work,
I leave thee as thou didst first desire, to wander
thy w ay down alone!
No sooner had the crown fairly "settled upon
my head, than every power and propensity of
my perverted nature lose into a rage of activi
ty which I had never known before. If the
excitement of a single facuitv undei the succes
sive touches of my instructor, could cause me
such insufferable agonies, what words shall ex
press the repeated hails of their combined ami
concentrated action? Like one on fire with de
lirium, 1 ran down the rapid descent, ha!) to
hail, flight after flight, determined, as soon as
possible, to reach the lowest level of the strange
edifice, and thence plunge at once into the last
abvss of aiin: but when that awful verge was
gained, and the plunge made, I found myself
descending through regions of thick darkness to
an unknown and perhaps imexisiing bottom, a
horror so terrible took possession of me ibat I
awoke from the frightful vision, which, in spite
of the colli snow upon which I was lying, had
caused great drops of perspiration to stand upon
mv forehead.— Sketches of the three-fold Life,
of .Man.
An KloprßH'Ut.
A gentle- an named Storer, from Ohio, while
on a visit to some friends in the vicinity of Eli
zabethtown, a few miles above this city, rPtent-
Iv became enamored of Mis S. a ladv residing
in the neighborhood. Previous to his depar
ture for home, he made a proposition of mar
riage, which was accepted !>v the lady. The
father of the lady, on being informed of the cir
cumstance, withheld, his assent, and forbid the
gentleman access to his house. A close watch
was kept on the motions of the love-lorn lass—
notwithstanding her declaration that she "would
Jet the matter drop, and think no more about
it." Nothing remarkable was observed irj her
conduct for some time when one evening af
ter tea she betrayed an uneasiness of manner,
and was dressed with greater taste and preci
sion than was usual on ordinary occasions: this
excited and confirmed the suspicions of the fa
mily; hut she repaired to her room in company
with a younger sister as usual. She did not re
tire, however, until some time alter her sister,
and then gently laid down without undressing,
w here she remained a!K>ut an hour—when,
thinking her companion in the land, of dn arris,
and her lover in the woods, she crept stealthily
avvav, ami at the 'switching hour of night'," w as
about taking leave of the paternal roof, when
she was hailed hy tier sister, who, although
feigning sleep, had been wide awake. The
toßeintic lady was nut to be impeded hy trifles,
and, !>rne on the wings of love, disappeared in
a neighboring wood. The father and brother
were aroused andstaited in pursuit: hut not fin
ding the fugitive they proceeded to E izabetb
t iw n, about a mile distant, and stopped at a ho
tel to which it was presumed they would re
jsiir. Tlie landlord informed thein that there
were no young lovers in his house; and they
were about departing, when lo! the enamored
twain appear. Here was a crisis. The angry
lather and sort—the ardent gallant and his sweet
captive, meet face to face. Hut no weapon is
used, no blustering indulged in. The old man
gently admonishes his wayward child of the
madness of her conduct—reminds her of a home
of ease and plenty—and requests her to return.
The daughter asks her parent to forgive any
wrong she may have done, hut expresses her
unyielding determination to marry the young
man. The clergyman was sent for, and the
sorrow ful old man would have remained to wit
ness the ceremony which consigned his child to
the guardianship of another, had he not been
constrained hv his son to depart.
The parties were united in wedlock between
two and three o'clock in the morning, and a
few days after left for the home of the groom in
the State of Ohio. The lady's parents are ve
ry respectable, and in eav circumstances. The
young man is said to possess nothing hut a fair
character and a good constitution.— Pittsburg
I nion.
The Lofty and the Lowly. —The Washing
ton Union indulges in the following sensible re
marks: ,
Who is he, no matter how exalted his posi
tion, who has no relatives among the humblest?
The writer himself has seen members of the im
mediate families of two Presidents nf'this repub
lic toiling (or their suppott in the severest of
employments; and it is probable no man fias oc
cupied the White House who has not been a
ware that many of his kindred, unless relieved
by himself, were reckoned among the poor, if
not the honest of the land. The only brother
ofClav was a cabinet-maker. Webster, the gi
ant of Statesmen, and the ornament of his coun
try, had a brother-in-law who never Darned to
read until ulter completing the period of three
score and ten; and a majority of the first States
men of (fie present time are the energetic and
ambitious sons of poor, but honest parents. E
verett, who will never blush to hear it, was dis
covered in hi< younger pursuit of knowledge,
under difficulties of poverty—though I hey pre
sented to him hut slight impediments on the
road to renown.
AN ALLFRED BIGAMIST IN TROUBLE.—A ;
man who was once a resident of Raleigh, and :
BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. 0, 1855.
i 1 who is quite extensively known on account ol
I other species of duplicity and fraud, was in
■ Washington city last summer and fall, living in
i the finest style, driving the most elegant estab
• lishmerit of Which the city could boast, and oth
erwise cutting a great swell. In tlie meantime
! an acquaintance was firmed with a lovely young
■ lady from New York, and their intimacy final
ly ripened into com {ship, and on the Kith o!
October last thev were married in New York.
Thus far matters had gone on very smoothly,
■ until recently some suspicious circumstances
gave rise to inqniiies being made of one of our
citizens as to I>is character, &c., w hen lo ! the
ciushing, blasting truth was made known that
he had a law ful wife and children in this city,
whom lie had deserted and basely betrayed and
scandalized. These facts being received, the
base deceiver was arrest-d, and is now lodged
in Delaware county jail, N. Y., awaiting his
trial upon the charge of bigamy : and irrefuta
ble testimony has been and will he collected and
forwarded proving his first marriage in this city,
several years ago.— R/deigb ).\. C.) *lge.
Bloody Fight between, n Californian and a
Crizzly I'cur. — Last week a voting man I' ft
St."Andres for a stroll over tlie hills, taking
with him only ,1 pistol and a knife, and in bis
wanderings came on a large griz/.lv hear,
which, after a short struggle, siruck him to the
ground, throwing him on his pistrt! side, (.here
by rendering it impossible to use that weapofi
in defence. He was aide to draw his knife,
which In* used pret'v freely on olil hrttin, and
was shortly enabled to regain bi> feet, w hen he
pitched so bravely into his savage assailant that
the grizzly hauled off for a -breathing spell.—
This was alsi an a hantage to tire young man;
whirl) lie so successfully employed as to be in a
better condition to continue the fight.
The armistice lasted hut for a short lime—=
the grizzly was cautiously coming up to renew
the battle, when trie* young man. with knife in
hand, although severely wounded, charged up-?
on the monster with a whoop and yell, burying
the knife in the animal's neck, which being
more than he liar! reckoned on, and not at all a*
greealde, o!i! grizz'v turned tail and trotted off,
fairly beaten in a stand-up tight of his own
seeking. The brave voting fellow then hetho't
him of his pistol, (he contents of two bariels of
w'liich lie discharged into his retreating foe.
This is tire second tight this voting man has had
with heats. He was found hy his partner ve
ry much cut and torn, and removed to San An
dres. where liw wounds Were dressed, and he is
now in .1 fair wav of recovery. We aie sorry
the name of this brave fellow kas our
mem -re*—be wefF knnirn ;n f-an A'Tltf: egf
where he resides.— Calaveras Chronicle, De
cember 2.
SINGULA it DEVELOPMENTS.— The Raiguel
Robbery—Arrest and Con fession of the Of
fender. —On Saturday, before Aid. Kenney, a
young man named Henry Wilson Williams,
was charged with highway robbery, in knock
ing down .Mr. Jacob Raiguel in July last, and
robbing him of a gold watch and chain. A
few weeks after the commission "f tlie offence,
a young man known as Dock Ennis, was ar
rested from the description given hy .Mr. Rai
guel and another gentleman who had seen him,
and lie was tried before judge Kelly and con
victed, though quite a number of witnesses
swore to his being elsewhere at the time of tile
robbery, as fixed hy Mr. Raiguel. A motion
was made fur a new trial in the case, and it was
granted. Ennis was liberated, and was not
tried a second time. A few d.ivs ago a gold
watch was left at a watchmaker's in this citv
fur repair. It curiously enough happened that
out of the several hundred watchmakers in this
citv, it was sent to one who knew it to he Rai
guel's from Ins having put cases ftn it. Mr. R.
was apprised of the fact, and nftT a consulta
tion with Mr. Reed the matter was placed in
hands of officers Seed and Summers, of the !
Mayor's police, who, with the aid of officer
Hickman, of the Thiiteenfh Ward, traced it to j
V\ liliams, tlie prisoner. J!- 1 soon afterthe rob-!
bery had sold it at an auction store in Spring
Garden, and it bad passed through the hands ol
two or three. On Saturday, Williams made a
j clear breast of it, confessing that he did the,
deed, and professing some little contrition. At;
first lie implicated Ennis, hut afterwards disa- |
vowed that be had any connection with it. Mr. i
Raigtn*! was examined before the Alderman, on !
i Saturday, and gave a detailed statement of the!
robbery far as he could recollect the circurr.-
| stances. The weapon used hy the robbei to!
knock Mr. R. down was a slung shot of a dead- :
ly character, being a heavy paving stone ted j
up in a handkerchief. The injuries of Mr. Rui- 1
gti'-l were so serious that his life was despaired!
of for several weeks. Williams is about the'
built man of Ennis, but of different features and |
complexion. H" is a brother to the young j
butcher, w ho, twelve years ago, murdered a lad
in the High street market. The worst feature j
in the case is. that he was not compelled by j
bis necessities to the commission of crime. He I
was committed to answer the offence, S3OOO.
hail being required.— Philadelphia -Wits.
Graphic.
Mrs. Swissheim, in the Pittsburg Gazette,
thinks that the sterner sex had better devote!
their attention to their own ridiculous fashions'
in dress, rather than to find so much fan it with ;
the ladies. The gentlemen ol Pitlskiiig must
lie rather a comical looking s-t, if Mrs. S.'s por- (
trait of them is correct. She savs:—"Here,!
for two winters, they have been stalking around,;
looking for all the world like so many pumpkins 1
with two coro stalks stuck in the blossom end, |
and a bit of stem left on the other—in coats just
the I engthof a farmer's wamns, a half yard too!
wide stuffed wit!) wadding, and drawn tip
around their ears—sleeves like meal sacks, and
pantaloons as tight as fiddle strings. To see.'
them handle their diurn-slicks in this outfit was,
a natural curiosity. This winter the stilt-like,
supporters mysteriously disappear : pantaloons
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
)f | are invisible, and coals bid fair to rival ladies'
n \ skirts in the sublime art of street sweeping."
TAMPERING WITH JURORS.
Fhis offence, called in law ''Embracerv," is
v ; it appears greatly on trie increase in this State,
5 i and every Court in the commonwealth should
exeit all the power with which it is vested for
•' | its suppression and punishment. It is a too
" I common practice lor parties having suits pend
> j ing in our Courts, to obtrude themselves into
? I the company of men whom they know have
r bei-n summoned as Jurors, and to converse with
e them upon the merits ol their case, thus at
' tempting to bias their opinions and warp their
>! judgments. 'l'his is altogether wrong, and is an
l ' j offence of the deepest dye against the rights and
e | interests of every citizen, and which, when
'1 I brought to the notice of the Court, should he
j punished in ttie most exemplary manner. Our
* | < ourts, too, should strictly piohibit the publica
' tion in the newspapers oi the names of'the Ju
;! rors, Grand and Traverse, as the publicity thus
j given them enables unprincipled and designing
q j litigants the more readily to accomplish their
■j own sinister and interested purposes.
r , An offence ol this discription was lately corn
*l milted in FJeiks county, in this State, and the
' offender prosecuted th"-re(or. From a report of
| the trial, we give an abstract of the opinion
_ } ol Judge Jones :
T Commonwealth vs. J. ]). Kaoffman. This
, was an indictment ol enihracerv, or attempting
f to improperly influence a Jurv:: an. The case
c was one determining the annual value ofa farm,
t in which Jacob Forney was I*l IF. Lvdia For
- ney the mother-in-law of John D. Kaoff'man,
, was defendant—the defendant asserted it was
i worth $t)00. Kauff'man remarked with a view
Fof two of the Jurors, standing by the Court
J! House, hearing it. that lie would not give one
.'t hundred a year for it. For this Im is found
, guilty of the charge preferred. The Judge gave
_ this wide application <! the law in such cases.
From the moment tiiat the uameot the juror
P | is announced in the j apers, yes, from the tune
. it is drawn -from the w heel, (us person is conse
crated tu the purjio.se of justice. Tfie law draws
, around him an invisible cord which no man
; j may pass but at bis J>l I il. It is as complete the
j ; moment he is select, d as w ben lie is impannel
. ] e'l
i This institution is attacked bv any attempt
. to influence or prejudice a iurv. The del'end
. a;it in this case is cliarged with such an attempt.
To speak of a case acculently in the presence of
• juiors without knowing their character, is no
r 'offence: but it the defendant knew they were
* juror**, ami knowingly used language in their
. tiearing calculated to influence their verdict,
the offence is complete. .No one is permitted
jto speak to or at a juior. It will not do to sit
' j down in a tavern and discuss a case in the
. ! hearing of jurors, although riot a word may be
, I addressed to them. AIIV attempt to influence
tie ir minds is an offence in the eyes of the law,
. j and punishable.
.7 .Marriage License Fraudulently Obtained.
—.7 Scene in Court. —The Richmond Enquir
' er gives the following as the sequel to the
Schoiibej-ger rase, which has afforded so much
food for gossip in the \ irginia papers :
"The case of Lew is Schonberger v §. Patrick
! Jordon, to obtain possession of his (S.'s)w ife,
alleged to be forcibly and unlaw fully detained
bv J., the father, came before Judge Clopton,
on a writ of habeas corpus, on Saturday last at
the State court-house. Air. Klb'tt. clerk of
Henrico court, testified that he had issued a li
cense for tlie marriage of Schonberger to Miss
Jordon, on the authority of a written order from
S., presented bv a man named Hughes, who
solemnly swore that .Miss J >r.lon was twenty
one years of age : and the Rev. Philip Court-.
I row stated that the parties came to his house,on
j Church Hill, on Sunday night, the 21st instant.
! and were married under said license. Thomas
; P. August, Esq., counsel for the bridegroom,
j mintaiued the informality and trickery in ob
j taming the license, and the failure to obtain the
I consent of'the parent, did not vitiate or render
null and void the marriage ami IV. W. Crump,
esq., counsel for the father, claiming the child
on tiie ground that she was only eighteen years
' of age, argued that a parent, under the laws of j
i Virginia, was entitled to the services and guar
j dianship of his infant child until he had given!
| his consent to the marriage, or until she had j
i been married under a legal and legitimate, and
j not a false and corrupt license.
"Judge Clopton, after the argument of coun- j
j si>! had been submitted, n ad the law governing |
!ti< powers in the case, and said he had nodiffi
j culty in deciding the marriage, notw itstanding j
the manner in which the license was obtained,
was a valid one, and that, consequently, the
husband was entitled to the possession of his I
wife. He therefore diiectnl that she be given
! into his charge. Schoneberger immediately !
approached her, placed her arm under his. j
. atul tlu v l. ft the court-house together, surround
; ed hv a large crowd of persons who had been j
anxiously awaiting the result of the contest.— j,
; Thus, it appears, that although, 'Jordan is a
i hard road to travel,' Schonbeiger, by the aid
; of perjury, has succeeded in getting over it."
j The Enquirer adds :
"When Judge Clopton announced his deci
; sion in favor of restoring to Schonberger his
wife, a shout of exultation went up from the
large crowd such as we have never before wit
i tussed ill the halls of justice. The applause
I was as noisy and disorderly as it was disgrace
; tu!."
Diabolical Outrage at Saw/lake. —Tin- Alba
ny Register savs a negro took lodgings at j
George Miller's tavern, West Sandlake, Rens- i
sela-r county, on Saturday night last, and after j
the inmates had retired annul himself with the
foot-round of'the bed-stead in Ins room, arid en- ,
tertng the apartment in which the bar-lender—
Mr. Josiah Siperley—was sleeping in bed with
George Smith, committed a violent assault upon
them, lie struck Mr. Siperlv so hard with the
' stick he had armed himself with that he knock
ed out a number .of Ids teeth. He struck the
other man on the side of the face, and broke his
jaw. Probably thinking he had killed both, he
s | then left the weapon, and, breaking through
, two doots, entered a room where a man and
I his wife were were sleeping. The man heard his
i* j approach, and, seeing him enter, sprang from
> i his bed and clutched him by the thioat. The
. female shouted murder; the landlord and the
, whole house were aroused ; and presently the
. bar-tender, armed with the round of the bed
, | stead with which fie had been assaulted, rushed
. | in, and was about to strike the scoundrel with
r I it, when he was restrained by Mr. Miller, and
! the scoundrel was secured. He was taken to
j Troy. His object was, no doubt, to murder and
i then plunder.
The Cares of a Crowned Head. —ln the
course of his last letter to the Courier ties Etnts
. I'.iis , its Paris correspondent, E. Gallairdet,
i has the following :
"The Emperor has sought a diversion from
'! the pressing cares which the precarious situa
tion of tlie army in tlie East has caused him.—
He has shut himself up—invisible to the whole
world, save hi* ministers—in the Palace of St.
' Cloud. He, who is ordinarily so calm, cannot
1 ; now, it is said, conceal his irritation. Nobody
i dares to approach him. The Empress seems to
have lost that supreme influence with which
■ her grace, her swei-tness, and her beauty have
. hitherto in vested her. In the midst of continu
al and violent rains, St. Cloud has become to
her a dreary abode. She desired to return to
,1 the Tuileries, but her august husband for thir
; teen days resisted her wishes. To him solitude
was p necessity. He recovered his serenity
and consented to return to the Tuileries, when
he Darned that Austria had joined the allies.—
His diplomacy has borne him a great triumph—
lie s-*es that Franc* returns to him which at at
j one time seemed so far away."
WRECK OK TIIE BAIIK ARGYLK.—Another
melancholy shipwreck, attended with great suf
fering and loss of life, has just occurred on the
: coast of New Jersey. At midnight, on the
night of Sunday, the 2Sth, the hark Argyle,
Capt. Burton, came asiiore about five miles to
j the south of Squan Inlet. The hark struck sev
eral times, very heavily, on the outer bar, and J
then swung round, stern tow ard the shore. The |
Captain and crew exerted thamselves to the ut- !
most to get her off, hut all their efforts proved
unsuccessful. The heavy sea broke constantly
over her deck, and both Captain and crew were
soon compelled to take retuge in the rigging for
their lives.
All through the black night the Bark beat
with tremendous violence upon the bar, and
every wave that rolled in shore threatened to
engulph all on board.
At length day dawned, and the fearful situa
tion of the mariners w as discovered by the coast |
people, who, with their accustomed humanity, !
promptly proceeded to the rescue. The life- ,
boats were soon brought to the beach, but owing
(o the tremendous sea then running, it would
have been madness to launch them. So the j
surfmen were obliged to stand on the beach, lis
tening io tlie harrow ing cries of the* shipw reck
ed mariners for help, without being atjle to go
to their aid, save at the cost of their own lives. !
Gradually the suffering men, worn out with j
lasiing and tlie perishing cold, and exhausted hy
the fierce hula tings ol the waves, one by one,
loosed their huh!, and dropped into the boiling j
surge, or wei e washed from their places of re
fuge hv she great waves, and perished in the |
sea, while those who longed to assist them w ere j
forced to look impotent ly upon their sufferings, !
debarred from domg aught hut sympathising
with their distress, or mourning their dreadful j
death.
When our informant left the beach, at 3 o'- j
clock P. M. ol'the :19th, four of the crew and
one passenger had been drowned. om* man
came ashore, manifesting signs of life, and he j
was subsequently resuscitated. The remainder ;
of the ship's company—numbering five persons I
were alive on the wreck, but no hopes were
entertained bv the people on shore of their ul
timate safety. The bark hail broken up, her !
masts had snapped off", and these poor starved
and half-frozen beings had crawled out upon I
the how-sprit—the only place of refuge J-ft to ;
; them. The sea was continually washing over j
them, and momentarily threatening to swallow
up toe last fragment of the devoted vessel, and
the last members of her hapless crew.
Mr. J. S. Forman, agent of the underwri
ters, and Mr. J. W. Morris, Coast Inspector, j
as we|| as many other competent coast men and ,
wreckers, were speedily on the spot, alter the :
situation of the bark become known : but as in
too many cases, the appliances provided by the
Government for the saving of life, proved worth
less. Nothing could be done but to stand and
look on the destruction of life and property in j
in utter helplessness.—V. Y. Tribune.
_
Another "Infernal .Muchin e" at Cincinnati. :
A diabolical attempt was made on Monday ev- :
ening to destroy the family of Cyrus Swiss- j j
helm, at Cincinnati, the particulars of which j i
the Enquirer gives: 11
"On the evening in question, Mr. Swishelmi.
and family, consisting of five persons, were i
seated around the fire, when a huge ball descen- j
ded the chimney, and bouncing into the fire,'!
rolled in a bright blaze into the middle of the M
floor. It was made of cotton saturated with i
turpentine, during its brief* contact w i:li :
the fire had become ignited. Luckily, a p.aii i
of water was standing near, and Mr. Swissheim '
catching the burning ball in his hand, instantly i
immersed it in tlie water and extinguished it. I
Upon opening the ball it was found lo be filled I
with gunpowder and slugs,and (bitunate indeed i
was it for Mr. Swissheim and his family that 1
the water was near, as otherwise he suvs he i
would have hurled it into the fire, in which I
case, in all probability, would have been our 1
painful province to have recorded another event I
TESJUa, S3 i*ER YEA It.
VOL XXIII, NO. 26.
as horrible in its details as that which transpir
ed at tile Marine Hospital.
A SAD, SAD SCENE. —The New York Jour
nal of Commerce, of Wednesday morning last,
thus touchingly alltidei? to the closing scene of
the late terrible calamity near that city :
"Yesterday afternoon the remains of Sarah,
Crace. and Mary, daughters of Mr. John A.
Haven, were consigned to their last resting
place. The liirneral services were held at the
house o! Mr. J. M. Hopkins, son-in-law of Mr.
Haven, at Ft. Washington, a short distance Irom
the scene of disaster. Friends and relatives of the
bereaved "family filled the house to its utmost
capacity. A large number arrived in the 1 p.
m. ttain from New York. The distressing e
vent had otershadnwed the vicinity with the
deepest gloom. Sympathy drew to the place
many strangers to the family.
"Rev. Dr. Bellow offered the first prayer.—
The remaining services were conducted by Rev.
Dr. Osgood. His remarks'were short, but deep
ly touching and sympathetic, and the silent e
loquence of grief responded to his words of con
dolence. Scarcely an eye was dry. Strangers
who perchance had never felt the sorrows of
personal bereavement were constrained to drop
a tear for others' woes. Said an old gentleman,
'i have lived sixty years, hut never in my life
have I witnessed so solemn a scene!' Then the
tears trickled down his cheeks.
"it was a mournful occasion. The bearers
took up the three coffins one bv one. On each
lay a fresh wreath of flowers—flow ers so soon
to fade. Ah, it was sat! to see the fond lather,
'with grief bowed down,' surrounded by the
weeping remnant of a happy home, following
his lifeless idolrto the grave . For how manv
long years, warmed by the brightest hopes, had
he toiled tor them ! A life's golden dream l.ud
fled.
"They buried them together in one grave in
the family enclosure—strewed over them a feu*
fresh flowers bedewed with (ears, replaced the
sods, and left them there alone. Then the
bright sun gleamed out for a little time trorn
the clouds that had made the whole day gloomv,
and shone, as to dispel (lie grief and cheer the
desolate hearts of the bereav ed mourners."
THE CUILOTINI:. —The Paris correspondent
of the Cincinnati Gazette says :
"A great improvement is said to have been ac
complished lateiv in the operation of that h*n-
I inanely French instrument, the guillotine. For
i a long time attempts have been made to dimin
i.-h the horrors of the guillotine by • rendering
| more rapid the process of preparing the criminal
; after his arrival at the instrument, and lor ren-
I dering the (all ol the knife more rapid and more
| certain. At the execution of a man a few*
j mornings ago, at the Place de la Roquette in
i this city, the system was put into operation
| with the most happy, and, it might be added,
j most (rightfully rapid results. A particular
arrangement of the leather straps enables them
to tie the criminal in a second, and holds him
perfectly motionless. Sliding boards, fitted in
j to the grooves between which glides the instru
ment ol death, accelerate its fall, so that the
execution takes place with Ihe most frightful
rapidity. By this new method there is no dan
ger of being obliged to strike a second time, as
(sometimes happened with the old method, nor
is thepe any fusible delay in a moment where
minutes are centuries. '
KANSAS.
"Westward the Star of Empire takes its way."
.Many friends have, ot late, applied to us for
information in relation to the prospects in Kan
j sas. What information we could gather, we
: have been careful to publish. The following
may be regarded as coining by authority, and
we think may be reli-d upon as correct :
Governor JRF.rnnrt writes from the Shawnee
mission, Dec. 22, as follows :
•'This is a most lovely afid promising coun
try. There is no finer under the sun, and next
| summer it will be a nice hnvest for all kind of
building mechanics and laborers. Last season
i stone masons ami carpenters got §2 25 and $2-
f)0 a day, arid laborers ft I 25 and $1 S(J. A
j legion of them will be needed earl)* in the
springand all summer. If you have any to
spare, send them along. We shall pav out in
the Territory near a million of dollars in build
ing, and a man can be earning the highest wa
ges and securing a good farm at Si 25 per
acre at the same time. The Government alone
will spend ft 100,000 or $150,000 in stone build
ings at Fort Riley. The stone mason, carpen
ter, brickmaker, bricklayer, plasterer, laborer,
limeburner, &c., can lay the foundation of it
fortune here the first year. Send them on. I
know they will not repent it. Klotz is pre
paring to build a large hotel. We have as yet
had nothing I would call winter, and I doubt if
it will be any colder. Spring opens about the
Ist of March, and mechanics, &c., should he
here at that time. There are some twenty
towns laid out. the greater part of which mmt
be built up, tosav nothing offormeis' houses,
&.C., Sec."
DEATH ON* THE BRIDAL DAY. —The Baltimore
Sun ol the 22d contains the following:—"Dr.
Cunningham, Coroner, was, on Saturday morn
ing, called to hold an inquest on the body of a
gentlenian who died under veiv peculiar cir
cumstances. Mr. D. Thomas, (aged about fit),)
who resided at No. 248 Ann street, was mar
ried on Friday night, and retired to rest with
his bride. In about an hour afterward, she
heard him breath in a singular and unusual
manner, inducing her to think something was
wrong. Site arose to see what was the matter,
inasmuch as lie replied to no question, and found
him breathing his last. The jury rendered a
verdict of "Death from organic clif-ease ot the
heart."