tr'• ' -''" 4 "' ' We . have -J1 brillingaccot p . shi An 21 1 .F.;;Debtats; ,of Sik* Whale, . Inoself;' %O w a, , *t4on• Sunday . .A ai cr bean know,. Whole historflq whnl° fishing, and that wa s th e : Afstruetion of the ship Essex, ' , so p& y twenty venty or twentve years 'ago, 'a r id,.vhicih many Of our readers fully re r .o .4inter. We proe,red the narrative, .as furnished us by captain Deblois, and 41fieh'is fully: Authenticated by' nine' of the crew, qn a`prefeit under the seal. .of the' U. S. Consul, Alex. Ruden, Jr.,', at Paha. • • , \:‘ e llhe ship Ann Alexandee,'Capt. S. bids; sailed ' from New' Bedfo'rd,- Ma ss., June Ist. 1850, for n cruise in the' South Pacisc for,,sperm whale.' ' Fla‘?liag . taken about'soo . .sarrels . of oil: in'_ the Atlantic , , the ship proceeded On her voy a ge to the Pacific. Nothing of unusal interest ,oc rred, until when 'passing Cape Horn, one of the men earned Jackson Walker, of Newport, New Hampshire; was lost, over board, in a storm. Reachitig the Pada, she came up the coast and stopped,at Val: divia, coast of Cbili, for fresh pro visions, and on the 31st of May last, she called for the' purpose of shipping a man. The vessel proceeded on her voyage to. the Smith Paeific. ' On thiC2otli of August lost she reached What is well , known to all whalers as the ''Off shorn Ground," in hit. 5 deg 50 min. eionth, long. 102 deg. weit. In the mor ning ofthat day, at about 9 o'clock, whales wets discoVered in the neighborhood, and about nomithe Same:day, they sueceedeed in making 'fast to ono. _ Two ,boats, had gone after the whales—the 'larboard' and etarbOard;'the former conunauded by the first mate, rind, the latter bytaptain De blois. ' The whale wliidh they had struck was 'harpooned by the larboard boat, Al. ter running soMe time, tho' Turned upon the boat, and rushing iit it with tre mendous violenee, lifted open' its, enor mous jaws, and taking' the 'boat in, actual ly crushed it into fragments as small as a common Sized chair Captain• Deblois immediaiely struck for the scene of the disaster, with the starboard boat, and suc ceeded, against alt expectation, in reset'. lei the whole of 'the crew of the boat— nine in number 1 , .• :.There were now eighteen men na l .the Starboard boat, Consisting . of the Captain, the first mate, and 'the crow of bath heals. The frightful disaster had been witnessed from the' ship; and the waste.boat• had., been called into , readinesi and • sent to their relief'. •• The 'diatance trona the ship was about six miles. 'As soon as the waste boat arrived the'erewP were divided, and it was determined . tepuratie the same whale and make another attack upon him. Ac. Cordingly they separated, aril proceeded , at some distance from each, other, es is ] , usual on such occasions, after the whale. In a short dine they came up to him; and prepared to give him battle. ,The waste boat, commanded by 'the first mate, was in advance.,Ati soon as the whale porcoiv. ed the denionstmtien being made upon him, ho turned his course suddenly, and making a ' trernendaus dash at his boat, seized it with his wide.spread jaws, and crtished,it into atoms, allTring the men barely time to eseepo hie vengeance ,by throwing themselves Into the ocean. Captain,Debtois, again seeing thp per. ilous condition of his men, at the risk of triet.thig the same fate, directed his boat to hasteu to their, rescue, and in, a short time succeeded in Paving them nil, from a "Acath' a ' little less-horrible than that from, which "theyhad twice so narrowly esea. pelf. ' fie:then ordered the boat ,to' put for the ship as speedily as_ possible ; and ,no sooner had the order been given than they discovered the monster of the deep making toward theni . with, hia jaws widely exten. tied. .Fortunately the monster came, up' and named, them at a short distance. —. 7 The botiv,then made her way to the, chip and they ill got on board in safety., , 1 ' A ft er, retching the ship a boat was dis patched - for \the .oars of the , demolished, beats, and it .leas determined to,puruo the, whale with thnihip. As '.soon as the . boat ' returned 'with :tie oars, sail was set, and the ship preceedet,after the . whale. jn e - shore time she tiveitook hint and a lance , .was thrown, into hie )90d. The ship.plass dem] by him, and itNediately alter they dieeiirered . that the .w\tile was . making f or ib a ship, ,M,he name , linear her, they hauled to the . wind,And s tired the mon ster, to pais by her. Mke had - fairly passed, - , they, hept-ntrto ova 'lle an d et . tack hini ariiia: When' , A m p h e d re4clieit' within ; about . fi ft y , 0 i hi m; they ditteoirpred That, the ,whale a d . mar tied _down deep below.the feria of , th e 4'athery and tks . 4 Waß,Clelfsr P. 144. they efipeipded,tctgiv'e up the pursuit ~m' -' , t A 4004 00104' was" at thi s . time ti d. \'‘titit.lhek,i3ightlaeads on the larboard ; 4 ii l / 4 1 'itift-in hand r . ready tO stria : i ..taylt , y;,blOth shoult..be appea ,igi l ki io j ,t :fir ) , kr!Qtt :' when 11 44,0 theehiPt he 4ifef(W* ;081. *aids:heretthe 1 4 en', 4/044, the " .4 thstretnltiedOco l , . 'Vrt.ltteo4 1 .'S~y's,,~ tip::, 1,; as she had a largo trantity of bbaid. In doing this the mate Id in relieving 'only one anchor to clear; the other havilg been fits. .ound the foremast. The ship was sing rapidly. The Criptan ;work bin, where ho found three feet i of to: hOVievM 4 , suce d eded in 0.002 1 t'ontinteter, sextant, and chart. Oho (lecke he ordered the boats mred away, and to get water and , is, as the ship was keeling over. I descended to the cabin, but the in so rapidly that he could procure 'nothing. He came upon deck, ordered all hands into the boats, land was the Inst himself to leave the shipi . which he' did by - throwing himself into the sea and swimming to" the nearest boat ! The ship was on her beam end, her top, gallant:yardEi., tinder water. They' then pushed Off Some distance froth' the ship, expecting hot. to sink in n very short time: Upon an exaMination• or tho-steoros they' had been ablo . to save, ho discoVered that' they hnd only twelve quarts of water, and not n mouthful of provisions of any kind!' The'boati contained 11 men each'; were leaky, and night coming 'on, 'they were obliged to bail theta nll night to keep them, kr:Om - sinking I ' • Next day at daylight, they returned, to the ship, no one daring to venture-4A board but the captain. their intention being' to cu: aWrtiii the masts, and fearful that the niornont that the masts w ere cut aivair that the ship 'mini& go down. , Withra single hatchet the captain- went on board, cut away the mast,, when the 'ship' righted.— The bets they came' up, and the men; by the sole aid of spades, cutaway the chain cable from around the foremast, which got the 'ship: nearly on her keel. Tho men then tied' ropes" to' their bodies, gut into the-sea, and cut a bole through the decks to get out proiisions. They could pro curenothing but about five gallons of-vin eget-and twenty pounds of wet bread.— The ship' threatened to sink, and they deemed it imprudent to remain by her lon ger, so they'set'sailin their boats and left her.' • ' '•• • ' On the 22dofAugusf, at about 5 o'clock P.'M.; they , had the indescribable joy of dis Cording a ship in the distance. The made a 'signal and was soon answered, and in a shot t time they were reached by the good ship Nantucket, of Nantucket, Mass., Capt. Gibbs; who took them all on board, clothed and fed them, and extended to them in every way the greatest possible On the succeeding day, Capt. Gibbs went -to the wreck of the ill-fated Ann‘Al outrider, for the purpose of trying to pro cure something from her; but as the sea wus rough, and 'the attempt considered dangerous,- h 3 abandoned the project.— The Nantucket then set' sail for Paita, where she arrived on the 15th of Septem ber, and where she landed Captain •De blois add his men. Capt. • Deblois was kindly and hospitably received and enter tained at Paita by Captain Bathrast; an English gentleinan residing there, and subsequently , took passage on board the schooner Providence, Captain Starbuck, for this port, arriviiig here on Sunday last, the 12th inst. . At Paita, Capt. Deblois entered his pro test at the:,U. S. Consulate, which was authenticated ,by the following officers and seamen, on board at the time of the disas ter; the two officers and the rest of the crow having shipped on board other ves sels,: Joseph R. Green. first mate: Jas. Smith, third do.: John Morgan ; Carpen ter ; James Riley, cooper; James M'Rob erts,John Smith; William Smith, Henry Reid, and Charles F. Booth, seamen. The Canonsburg Murder. . The Pittsburg Gazette gives the follow. ing ns the.true version of the late murder at Cannorisburg, Pa : . • On the evening of the 28th ult., a wild and reckless young man named Annan, a. student of the College, whoa had been but a few weeks in that institution, had a diffi culty with Wilson, the deceased, a young man, of the town. Tho student was in toxicated, and was violent and abusive.— A considerable fracas ensued, but all pass ed off for that time as such affairs' goner ally,do,.. On thensxt night, the deceased, in company .with several of. his friends, posted himself in front of the house where Annan boarded, and as he and two other students passed by them,the deceased said, , 4 that's him," or ""is that him." • • The three' students passed' on .a few steps;• when Annan turned, and• contrary to the advice of the others, advanced to wards the prirty, and gavo Wilson to un derstiind, that he was the 'Gerson , in ques tiOnt and that !wives ready :to meet him. They soon ,came ',into, conflict. Wilson, the elder and target ofithe two, threw. An, non, and was on the top of , him, striking him on the face, when Annan stabbed, him with; a, xlirk. twice in..., the arm, and, as is generally believed, inflicted the fatal blow in his abdomen:. ~ With'regard to this Tata! blowithere is a diference of , opinion,aad the-104mq in the case'ia , conflicting, , ,— Another i *Want, . named, Robinson' came down, thastief4and.joined the parties just as they were aboiit to.engage, and,two of the,witnesses--loung men of the' town— %tined :that bezpicked : up the dirk and, in- . 'Wed, the.fatatWoura. ! t The, *tam:my, \ ell the °lke., Iritheasea go against Ahem, inudeparticuktr, -1.• ; ,1 •0 , i - ,„ • b , . , ; ! e wholkittllny was , the . work of a I few \ „ • Wilson died the next evening. MI ,one the id,ght , of the affray; n, who made no effort tb.es+ reat4and sent to .prittan:-- *nit* var: the' lostinit,7 with a view to his haw ut the court rallied to 7,4*itt prfoondi The 4 i,iiit t , 114,,, ,heitt , weekki• a ftes tttestipted I IN. , '''‘ ‘. 4 • ,A t these ex i#X '4 ' 43 - . 414 iii, •., ;144* mini but Itd capap übtetii 4,`,_" • witnesses; and from this circumstance it has been charged in some quarters, that they were the authors of the Into fires in that town, with a view to the ereseue or ltdbinson from prison. Such charges, 41)Pn.61-ch ;vague , and iMprqbablogroundi, On *taply , 43juot, ; ' c i d , ! '' ~• ' ' PR BASTIN AtiON'.' Procristination is the thief of time. • What a world of , time is wasted in courtship—engagement —marriage. A young gentle Man visits 'a young lady to determine whether the would wish to marry her. At the end of the year he has-decided to be more undecided. At length ho pops the question. ' His fair one, whio . , had decided a year ago 'to accept him when he offered, takes weeks to deliberate, and at length, refers him to papa—who, thoughl he has long known hisllabits, and every shillinig of his property, bags time to inform hiinself and advise with his friends. Then a distant day is named—so that two fami lies 'are excited and , anxious for more , than twelve months about a matter that, between those who ' have long known: each other,l should be - dispatched in a week.? Be sure you're right, then go ahead, is a maxim that will ever hold good. . Whatever ought to be done cannot be done too quickly. My, fair young ' Lady, if a young gentleman addresses you, and you love him and intend to marry him, tell him so frankly and plainly the moment he asks you. If he then asks . you when the wedding shall be, tell him "as early as he likes," and my word for it, if he is a man of sense; he will appreciate your frankness and the confidence you repose in him. Young Gentle man, if you are engaged, with means enoug,h.to support a wife, break off the engagement with the young lady who procrastinates and will not marry you at once. Ten to one that she is only look inat' out for a better chance and if, in her fanny, she finds it, she will cast you off with as little cere mony as her,worn—out .slipper. Never put off till to—morrow what can be as well done to—day. THE WONDERS OF CALIFORNIA.— Prf. Shepard, in giving an account of his recent explorations of Cali fornia, portrays the country in the folloWing enthusiastic, almost romantic style. 4 I have now explored California for nearly two years. I can truly say it is a land of wonders. rhere are fresh flowers every, month in the year, the winter now wears the bloom of spring. I have , faund water falls three or four times as high as Niagara.; natural bridges 1 iof white marble, far surpassing that of Rackbridge, ;Va. ; some thousands of gold bearing 'veins, inexhaustible quantities of iron and, , chrome ores,lead,' Ihsmuth and quicksilver, beutiful porcelain clay and, in short; eveything that can bless an industrious, enterpri ing people. In one valley I found more than forty springs of over 100 deg's, fahrenheit. In another valley sixteen geysers, like the! faihous one in . Iceland. ln this famous abode of vulcan the rocks are sa bot, that you ' can stand upon them put a short time even with thick boots on. The ailed ous rocks are bleached to snowy whiteness; and breciated and con glomerate rocks aie'llo 4 * actually, forming. .The roar of geysers at times may be heard a mile . or more,. the moment is oneefintenge interest as you apptoachilieiri- 1 Mt:rt.C.—Reader, did' yettever move? If so you" Can fully eppTeciate,the follow. ng poetic confusion , :,. • , ,„ "dome, - Sally ‘ coop . hold.,here and give Ul3 a lift, let ve pull up the .carpet and set it adrift; unccrd the bedstead;; and peck up - the, quilts, be carotin the crock. ery doesn't got split ; •let., the baby - yell tourder ? the, boys go to grass, but•bewqe, how yeti bandle.that, basket . of glass.—: i Take the stove pipe apart, fl(it the stoves i on the cart,* the hureau retneintilLnext load, and see that, tbo victuals tion't spill, in the kettles, er babisS 'fall offin the zoad. to? Never PO aliout, day wife oaly -, fur. Eq4i uisniethiqg-ic) t o , prlgukilow 'Os i 4, fi f o pt : Mity,, ,syi ~tad we Avant f tci OttPew s irl*Reat I'm % 4orry we am. lied a1t , 01e:9404 , i 0 rell,s'il9 place ti -1 skiWp,..gn4 - mit' , uti,y9a.pmentromil' 49,w.a l cOoistAlm,. i ~ rior, , lustwkorikl yn'thirlis,l ll 9o4744o A ,w, 164 glitirokiko IfPf44 II PIATem.-. :.,, , , ),1191(111 1 11):40*, 4.4,44f1.04Y1 . 10..., . qtii • i o.it4bei*lstiti put**, nti.W.A 1 4-441 1 144hirt qo494,lkaut ftaAll's..atiaifits sitogottith . the viniegar jug is now springing a leak;, oh, I wish they were all in the middle or next week. Thus will the day in noise pass away, and 'none will be happy on the first day of May., Decision In thO Mettle'lid Oh rck . (lose. The New. or weeo k CoMm ) following abstract of the deciiion this important case: U.. S. Circuit Court—Before Judge Nei son and Betts, H. B. Bascom and others vs. George Lane and others. The opin ion of the. Court in this crase4ee,delivered this morning by 'Judge 'Nelson;. and we may now expect that the controversy be tween the Methodist Episcopal Church ',and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,.in relation to the division of prop. ertv will be definitely settled. The case. , was argued several , months ago by George Weed and Rufus Choatos for the defendants, and Daniel Lord andßeverdi Johnson for, flat, complainants. We re. iported,the facts at ,considerrible length at', the time;and it is therefere unnecessary to recapitulate there. The opinion of the Court is voluminous, and occupied an hour and a half in its delivery. Judge Nelson requested that its publication might be de ferred until to-morrow, as he desired in the mean time to revise the proof sheets, but there will be such a general anxiety to know the result, that we give the sub. stance of the decision to-day. The greater part of the document con sists of the summary of the complaint and answer... The first point considered is the power of the general conference to author ize a separation, and this the Court held to have been clearly shown., "Independent of party," they say, "the , power of sever ance is ,written upon every page of their proceedings." They then advert to the plari of separation in 1,844, by which the only conchae!) upon'which a permanent separate organization was made to depend was the voluntary action,of the annual conference in the slaveholding States.— The conference determined upon the sep. oration and ipso facto it became complete. It was stipulated in the plan of severance that, ministers might attach themselves without' blame to either branch of the church, and the local property within the limits of each branch was not to be claim ed by, the other. The general property, such as notes, tho book concern, dm., was reserved for disposal upon equitable prin ciples, after further consideration, it being considered 'essential before this part of the division could be accomplished;that two thirds of all the annual conferences, North and South, should consent to the ,repeal of the sixth restrictive article of the' church. This article not having been so repealed, the court held t hat if there was no other consideration in the case, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, might not per haps be entitled to a share of the prop erty. , But, the - rights of. the Church, South, resta.:\ppon established principles of law and equity, which make it the duty of a Court of Chancery to interfere and see that the fund is properly distributed, es pecially as it is by no means certain that the distribution claimed would be even in contravention of the sixth restrictive arti cle. What have the travelling preachers of the South done to deprive themselves of their : right to the fund ? It was agreed on all hands that two distinctecclesiastical organizations, though identically the same in faith and disciphne, were necessary for the promotion of their holy mission "to spread gospel holiness throughtheselands," and by the plan of separation, ministers were permitted to attach themselves to either without blame. The complainants are nol only within the description, but aro among the very persons designed by the spirit, if not by the letter of, the ar ticle. • • - • "tpoh the whole, our conclusion is, that the complainants are entitled to their share of the produce of the Book Concern ; and a decree will be ordered accordingly.-- Whether a fund shalt he administered by an application , of the produce, pro rata, or by an apportionment of the •eapitil, are questions reserved until the settlement of the deciee." The decision concludes by, expressing the hOPe that an, arrangement may yet be affected inn' spirit of harmony and Chris• tian feelhlg, without the legal enforcement of the decree.. ' The New York correspOndent.of .the Washington Union, in his letterofthe 12th inst., giies the following „, The circuit court of the _United States has just decided the famous Methodist case • - _, __ Involving the righ t to the Book Concern, so-called,, which . is. valued at ..8750,p0t). TO the , great grati fi cation, of every, ; one here,, (the northern . Methodists excepted,) the award is in fayor,of the rights of the' tiouth?ru , branch of this extensive religious assecintlen to their full share of "the joint property . . Aside from the pecuniary in., involved in it, this case. is cue, or vtts,t, and vaTied importance .; lncthe Orst pjace, it exhibits • religious abolitionism in its true light, and' holds it up , to the world as a thief and a robber condemned to make restitution by the 'highest legal nud:wit lorthe , laud: A body of Christians, las. rioted for religious purposes, keeems, i cidP,Ptill.iY the INlssel,ora efft Igrge amo ' t of property, the fruit of theiecmntnon rk. chistty, And contribution. ,' They, difill no n point ,pl . ,cliurCh discipline ) and, agrep to sePtirOPP 2 to 140 i etltikt? l, ,P l ' ~ neildrioal divisions, In g 9 dOingv corninQU eqPity would dictate 4 1 .r0 ?.4.3 , Oiioionio • rsjhe join! property.., M en ill private 4449ultit las a qgiyer of cows!, mike. such • div r i l , 1 60:4,,?# 0 ,,C9419V19 1 . 28 i , P 11 6 . 1 PL1 1 1p ItgA4PNii!int 19Pnetortiof eve . ,eallnp,,, 1 tiSihritOttt AP4 3 iiiiole theirF4 petelitP I rippomovAiiptlhetwe9)s. i4llO-Mrt ,viral P? t*,440400 , :p ,rtipm Arn39.4p*s4,,clElsmir I**?,,iityc oroPmf. 1.14%.491,4**4 AP:, v4l3Y!pict, FAcn • -4 .9,41.,-,Mliri wii ut any- Polt‘9,l/f 11 , , .1.” rig t except that of 4.: -I;sien.lttitt olairn I n - tairui held on to t he whole of the assets belonging to both, a il , now. It was left' for religious abolitiot am to set !he eXam plc if wholesale frau and'robbery;and it seers 'is if it was' " itted to do reo and Providpneei ip, ,cirtfe` that; its unworibit nese Ali ighl, be - Publ4 exposed; rebid - Cid, arid: ibld up ns at 4 -iniag to the i whble world' of mankind. -" IMPC Farmer, Farrier GEO. W. CELEBRATED) vravotaAulosp Ls the misFt G p - Spavms. ' Sweet one, Windgalls, ' Poll Evil, Callous, Heels. Galls of all kinds 4, Fresh ' -, Sprains. Braises,. Sitfaat, ' :racks, Strains,..Lioneiiiistc Voirntiereci I ni or '