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C T COMAS, ( berth ndr,cal,
"THEY SHALL 13E MINE.'
BY THE AUTHOR OF 'LEAVES FROM TUE BACK
"They shall be Oh! lay them down to
Calm in the strong assurance that Lie gives;
He calls them by their names, he knows their num
ber,
•
And they shall live as surely as lie lives
It is a tale
Told by an idiot-full of Bound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
In the first hour of his speech to-day,
the Senator gave us a kind of rehash of
the report he made from the committee
on freedmen, (I believe that is its name,)
touching the repeal of the fugitive slave
law, in which he treated of the question
of constitutional power. I will do the
Senator the justice to say that his lan
guage was excellent ; he does write good
English ; but I must also say that his re
port is the most illogical and unlawyer
like paper I ever read in my life, coming
from a gentleman of such learning and
reputation. My friend from Pennsylvania
[Mr. Buckalew] put the subtle knife of
truth and logic to it ; he exposed its
sophistry, its want of historical and con
stitutional truth ; in a single charge he
scattered it to the four winds ; but we
have had a rehash of it here to-day. I
shall enter into no constitutional argument
for the purpose of overthrowing such kind
of rhapsodies. If 1 had any inclination
to do so, the report of my friend from
Pennsylvania has relieved me of the
trouble. His very searching, potent,
though short analysis is on your table,
and it disposes of the question.
The Senator from Massachusetts to-day
has quoted from Patrick Henry, and he
has eulogized him very much. Certainly
he does not feel any more admiration for
that distinguished orator than I do. Does
not the Senator know that an amendment
to the Constitution has been adopted since
Patrick Henry made that speech, which
says that private property shall not be
taken for public uses except on just com
pensation, and that is an answer to his
whole quotation from Mr. Henry. I do
not believe Mr. Henry was right in the
position he assumed in the speech from
which the Senator quoted. Mr. Henry
was engaged at that time in making an as
sault ou the Constitution in a slave State;
he wished to reject it ; he did not like it ;
but even if what he then stated were true,
the amendment since adopted explodes
the whole of the Senator's argument on Is the gentleman, in order to carry out
that branch of the case, and Mr. Henry's his one idea of destroying negro slavery,
argument along with it. not only to overthrow the fixed and firm ,
But the Senator has said that the way principles of his life, but is he to overthrow A Midnight Adventure.
to preserve the Republic is to carry it Christianity ? The whole system of Chris- Females often possess presence of mind,
back to the principles of its baptismal I tianity is to go by the board because the and the power of self-control under cir
font, a beautiful expression, but what Senator wishes to effect through the in- cumstanees o f imminent peril, which seem
appropriateness is there in it in the way strumentality of arms one single object— almost foreign to their nature, and beyond,
in which the honorable Senator uses it? the abolition of slavery. He is willing to ! the endurance of delicate organization.
What did our fathers do when they formed forego not only his former principles about ; A striking instance of self-command, by
the Government? What was their status? human affairs, but to overthrow the re-'I . 4 lady whose fears must have been power-
What was their condition When they ligion of the blessed Saviour himself, to ; fully excited, and whose life of affluence
stood around the; baptismal font, and pro- bring about that, to him most desirable cif had probably never before given her nerves
claimed the birth of the Constitution that all objects. any severer test than is incident to the
Mr. Powell. I tell you, Senators, that carried joy and gladness to the hearts of The honorable Senator from Massaobu- vexations of domestic cares, is given io a
your only hope is to s t r ik e doWn free liberty-loving men throughout the world, setts further says on this subject ~ f Chris- 1 late number of Chambers' Journal. We
speech, a free press, and free bailor, in every minister at that altar, save those tianity and war: copy the adventure, premising by way of
order to maintain your power. Hence it from one State, was a representative of a It was not until Christianity became explanation, that the lady was the daugh
is that, although we hope, we do not much slave State, and four-fifths of them were corrupted that its followers became sol- ter of a rector residing in . a quiet English
expect that you will d o an ythi ng in the slaveholders. They were the men who diers, and its priests learned to minister country village, and was upon the eve of
right direction. Your past action does gave us the Constitution so much vaunted at the altar of the God of battles.' marriage.
not convince, us that you will. Give us to-day by the honorable Senator. I would I admit with the Senator that many of The wedding day was to be on the mor
these three great conservative peaceful to God we could go back to those days the' clergy in his region of country have row of that on which our adventure hap
agencies , it is all we want. Let us freely I when men were honest and had regard for become very much corrupted, because they pened. Grand preparations were made for
canvass your administration of public of- j property rights, when men were patriotic preach war and nothing else ; but 1 sup- the wedding ; avid the rector's fine old
fairs ; let us freely investigate the earth:et and exerted themselves in the cabinet and pose the honorable Senator is willing to see plate, and the costly gifts of the bride,
of your men in power ; let ns through the the field for the promotion of the best in- not only the church and the clergy, but were discussed with pride and pleasure at
press and the tongue, on' the stump and terests of their country, when our states- everything else corrupted to carry out this the Hare and Hounds, in the presence of
in every cabin, say wh a t we thi n k ; let men were wise and philanthropic, prudent one idea. 1 have sometimes fallen in some strangers who had come down to a
the newspapers go forth pOinting to the and capacious, and took in their broad among that description of preachers who prize-fight which had taken place in the
fact, and showing to the people clearly ' view the whole interests of the country. deliver nothing but political essays. I neighborhood.
and distinctly that you are overthrowing' None of them were led off by this misers- never heard one of that description but , That night, Adelaide, who occupied a
the Constitution ; that you are plundering ble, one-idea fanaticism in regard to negro once. When I go into a church and the separate room from her sister, sat up late I
them of their tr eas ure that you are un- 1 slavery or any other ' ism.' They were minister commenceepreaching in that way, , —long after all the household had retired
worthy of trust, and your political days ; men of extended catholicism in all their I sit and listen out of the respect I have to rest. She had a long interview with
will be numbered. I tell the conservative political views. Unfortunately for us, for the name of Christianity. I do not her father, and had been reading a chap
men, the Democracy, the old Whigs, the those wise, those good, those virtuous, rise and leave because the thing is offen- ; ter to which he had directed her attention,
honest Republicans everywhere—and 1, those great men have departed, and we sive to me, but I remain until the services and since, had packed up her jewels, etc.
wish to God my voice could extend to the now have succeeding them a set, of men are concluded. But, sir, I never go back She was, consequently, still dressed when
remotest parts of this country—to be of who are governed entirely by a single idea,' to that church again ; for I think the 1 the church clock tolled midnight. As it
good cheer ; and if those in power attempt and who would renounce any theory they Christian minister that does not preach ceased, she fancied she heard a low noise
to enslave them, to put ch a ins up on their had ever held in order to carry out that Christ and Him crucified pollutes the ; like that of a file ; she listened, but could
limbs, to prevent their tree tongues from idea. pulpit in which he stands, and is an un- distinguish nothing clearly. It might have
wagging in words of honest and burning I have heard the Senator declare in this worthy servant of that blessed Master who been made by some of the servants still
censure against those who are striking Chamber that under the Constitution we is the king of peace. about, or perhaps it was only the creaking
down their lit , erties, if the minions of had no power to interfere with slavery in But sir, let us go on a little in this ad- of the old trees. .She heard nothing, but
power attempt to interfere with the fred- -the States. To-day he tells us that it is dress of the Senator. Here is an extreet the sighing of the winter winds for many
dom of the press, I would advise the peo e constitutional to strike and crush slavery upon civil war. The Senate will remem- ; minutes afterwards. Housebreakers were
pie throughout the length and breadth of wherever we can find it. ber that these extracts that I read from mere myths in primitive Thyudon, and the
the land to insist on freedom, and give The Senator swears to support the Con- the honorable Senator's speech are general ' bride elect, without a thought of fear, re
their lives in its defence. I a m for law stitution, and declares in his place that he propositions. He says : sumed her occupation. She was gazing on
and order; I beg, I i m pl ore , I entreat, would not assist in the execution of the The soul trembles aghast as we con- a glittering set of •diamonds, .destined to
that we may have these great constitutional fugitive slave law, a law made in obedi- , template fields drenched in fraternal gore, be worn at the wedding, when her bed
_ agencies without blood ; but before God, enee to the command of the Constitution. where the happiness of hcmes has been room door softly opened. She turned,
I shall advise the people everywhere, The Senator disregards the Constitution, shivered by the unfriendly arms of neigh- looked up, and beheld a man with a black
rather than submit to the degradation of his oath' of office, and everything that bore, and kinsmen have sunk beneath , mask, holding a pistol in his hand, stand
having free speech, a free press, and free should bind the conscience of a good and • the steel nerved by a kinsman's hand. ing before her.
ballot taken from them, to strike the just man, to carry out his abolition This is civil war, whiCh stands accursed She did mat'scream, for her first thought
usurpers to the ground. If a free people schemes, forever in the ealander of time.' • • was for her father, who slept in the next
will not fight and give their blood for The Senator from Massachusetts talks Great. God ! the Senator from Massa- room, and to whom any sudden alarm
these inestimable blessings they are un- as glibly about war as if he had all his life ohnsetts says that civil war stands ac- might be death, for he was old, feeble, and
worthy to live as freemen, and the beet had the harness on, as if nothing had ever cursed in all the annals of time. Why, suffering from heart complaint. She con
thing for them would be to die, for they delighted his eyes but hacked and bruised sir, he sometimes speaks of this as a war fronted the robber boldly, and addressed
will have to do that or live as slaves. armor and broken blades. He has talked of Massachusetts. To continue : him in a whisper. c You are - come,' she
I hope we will have hereafter the per-. about this war as being righteous and ; But the muse of history, in the faithful said, 'to rob us. Spare par soul -the awful
foot freedom of elections everywhere ; right ;he has advocated it throughout ;he record of the future transactions of nations, guilt of murder.. My father sleeps next
that we shall have free speech, a free has voted all the men and all the money inspired by a new and loftier jnstioe, and to my room r and to be startled from', his
press, and free ballot. These are all the they wanted, and to-day he eulogizes war.' touched in finer sensibilities, shall extend ,Make 'noise, I
'weapons we ask. But if they are denied Now, what do you , think has heretofore ;to the general sorrows of universal man the • beg - Of yon. ;- ,
us,l shall advise the Democracy and the been the tenet of that honorable Senator ' syMpathy still profusely shed for the selfish I The fellow was astonishi3d
"They shall be mine." Upraised from earthly
Gathered from desert sand, from mountains cold ;
Called from the graves beneath old Ocean's billows ;
Called from each distant land, each scattered
fold.
Well might the soul, that wondrous spark of being,
Lit by His breath, who claims it for his own,
Shine in the circle which His love, forseeing,
Destined tuglitter brightest round His throne.
But F.hall the dust, from earthly dust first taken,
And new long mingled with its native earth,
To life, to beauty, once again awaken?
Thrill with the rapture of a second birth'?
"They shall be mine: . They, as on earth we
know them.
The lips we looted, the hands we loved to press,
Only a fuller life be circling through them—
Unfading youth, unchanging h einess.
"They shall bo mine." Children of sin and sor
row,
Oiv'st thou, 0 Lord, heaven's utmost verge to
them !
No! from each riled gr ire thy crown shall borrow
An added light a prized and cosily gem
"They shall be mine." Thought falls, and fancy
falters,
Striving to sound, to fathom love divine,
All that we huow-110 tithe Thy promise alters,
All that we trust—our loved ones shall be Thine.
Lc SHODDY."
Old Shoddy sits in his easy chair,
And cracks his jukes and drinks his ale,
Dumb to the shivering soldier's prayer,
Deaf to the widows' and orphans' wail,
His coat is as warm as the fleece unshorn ;
Of a "golden fleece" he is dreaming still ;
And the music that talk , him night and morn,
Is the hum . hum hum of the shoddy mill.
Clashing cylinders, wheezing wheels,
Rend and ravel and tear end pick ;
What can resist these hooks of steel,
Sharp as the claws of the ancient nick?
Cast off mantle of a millionaire,
Pestilent vagrant's vesture chill,
Rage of miser or beggar bare,
All are " grist " for the shoddy mill.
A soldier lies on the frozen ground,
While cracks his joints with aches and al ls ;
A "shoddy " blanket wraps him round,
His " shoddy " garments the wind assails
The coat is "'shoddy," well „ stuffed " with
" flocks,"
. He dreams of the flocks on his native hill ;
His feverish sense the demon mocks—
The demon that drives the shoddy mill.
Aye! pierce his tissues with shooting pains,
Tear the muscles, and rend the bone,
Fire with frenzy the hart and bruin;
Old Nough Shoddy, your work is done ;
Never again shall the bugle blast
Waken the sleeper that lies so still;
His dream of home and glory past ;
Fatal's the ‘: work " of the shoddy mill
Struck by " shoddy " and not by "shells,"
And not by shot, our braves ones fall ;
Greed of gold the story tells,
Drop the mantel and spread the pall.
Out on the vampires! out on those
Who of our life-blood take their fill!
No meaner " traitor" the nation knows,
Than the greedy ghoill of the shoddy mill !
EXTRACTS FROM A SPEECH
DELIYEIIED IN TEE 11. S. SENATE BY
SENATOR POWELL, of Ky '9
In Reply to some Remarks made by Mr.
Sumner, of ➢lessaohusette
conservative men in every State of the
Union to fight for them ; I -do not mean
to go out of the Union, but I mean to
fight for-the ballot, and fight under the
Constitution and laws of their country,
and defend theinselves by striking to the
earth those who attempt to prevent them
from exercising these inestimable blessings
of a free people.
The Senator from New Hampshire, will
have to see that free speech and free press
and free ballot are destroyed before he
can kill the Democracy. They are not
destructible articles. Strike down .me by
cruel and bloody tyranny, and a thousand
will spring up. You may cause some of
the timid to be silent; you may cause
them to be afraid to go to the polls and
vote ; but the love of truth and of con
stitutional liberty is in their breast ; the
bold will speak it, and they will strike for
it ; they will vindicate it with their blood,
not in seceding, but in fighting at their
own hearthstones, as it were, for the liber
-1 ties given them by their fathers ; and we
should be unworthy descendants of the
noblest sires the world ever saw, unless
we did standup thus boldly for our rights.
Mr. President, I had intended to notice
in a very brief manner the moat remarka
ble effort of the Senator from Massachu
setts this morning. I have heard that
Senator, ever since I have been in the
Senate Chamber, reading his long, illogical
rhapsodies upon slavery. They are all of
them much alike ; all speak of the barbar
ism and cruelty of slavery. They are
filled with a good deal of encyclopedia
learning, with scraps of quotations here
and there. Without meaning any disre
spect to the Senator, I must say that they
remind me of the rhapsodies of a man
who has a nightmare. They remind me of
an expression of Shakespeare :
"THAT 06UNTRY IS THE MOST PROSPIROUS WHX&E LABOR OOMMANDS TUB GREATEST BRWARD.' - BUOHANAM
LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1864.
As I before said, those-who have but one
predominant idea are not wise counselors.
The Senator has changed the whole cur
rent of his thoughts within the last few
years on this subject of war.—Let me read'
from a most elaborate oration, very hand
somely written, and replete with all the
encyclopedia learning for which that Sen
ator is so eminent, made some years ago.
Let us see what.the Senator then said of
peace; and if everybody in this Chamber
who his witnessed his conduct here does
not say that he has run counter to the
principles laid down by himself I will
admit that I have not capacity to see the
truth or to state it. Here is an extract
from an oration, made by Hon. Charles
Sumner, entitled The Grandeur of Nations,
a few years ago.
Mr. Sumner. What is the date of it
Mr. Powell. The 4th of July, 1845,
and I would r ither have it dated bank at
that time than now, because it expressed
the Senator's ideas when everything was
cool and calm and quiet, and there was
not the excitement of civil war. I hive a
right to use it as a weapon against him.
He is using this war as an instrument to
destroy slavery. This is his whole object ;
he has none other ; and I think he will
get up and avow that to be the case. I
am sure he will not deny it. Now, sir,
let us look to what he said on war in that
address :
In our age there can be no peace that
is not honorable ; there can be no war that
is not dishonorable.'
And those words are pet in capital let
ters. According to his own tenets, the
Senator is now urging on a dishonorat:le
war. Ido not say that is what the Sena
tor is doing; but I say that if he uttered
the truth when he made the speech from
which 1 have just read, he is now advoca
ting a dishonorable war, because in that
speech he said there can be no war that is
not dishonorable. I suppose the Senator
in the course of has life has had two ideas,
a war idea and a peace idea ; and when he
was on the peace idea he thought nothing
under heaven was good bet peace. Ido
not concur with the Senator in that senti
ment, for I think there are times in the
affairs of nations when it is right to go to
war. I read it merely to show the Sena
tor's inconsistency.
Mr. Sumner. The Senator will allow
me to say that at the time I made that re
mark I had very little idea of the barbar
ism of slavery.
Mr. Powell. I have no doubt of that,
and if the Senator would look into himself
he would find that he is more barbarous 1
than perhaps any elavehotder that ever
lived. The Senator is the perfect embudi-
client of barbarism—the barbarism of
fanaticism. I am a slaveholder ; and if I
believed that I had about me half the bar
barism the Senator has, 1 should be
disposed to hide from the civilized world.
But, sir, let me go on with the speech
from which I am quoting :
War is utterly ineffectual to secure or
advance the object at which it professes to
aim. The misery which it excites contri
butes to no end, helps to establish no
right, and therefore in no respect deter
mines justice between the contending
nations.'
Why does the Senator carry on this
war ? Just for the love of blood, havoc,
public plunder, and the destruction of hu
man life lie boldly and clearly and
most perspicuously declared in 1545 that
it never will effect its aim. Yet we find
the Senator in that most ridiculous atti
tude, at war with himself. That is the
barbarism that fanaticism teaches. It
brings him into most, striking contradiction.
But I will read a little further from the
honorable Senator's most elaborate speech.
He says :
c Christianity forbids the whole custom
of war.'
sorrows of the country, and shall pro
nounce international war to be civil war,
and the partakers in it as traitors to God
and enemies to man.'
Here the Senator declares that those
who partake in these civil wars, or in in
ternational wars, which he says are civil
wars, are traitors to God and enemies to
man. Why, sir, to take the Senator's own
position here as true, he stands to-day a
traitor to God and an enemy to man.
And yet that Senator is forever prating
about the barbarism of slavery. Had it
not been for the eternal ringing of that
word in my ear I would not have put the
Senator to the cruel torture of quoting to
day his principles which he now stands up
and openly violates.
The Senate will bear me witness that
this is the first time since I have been a
member of this body that I have attempted
even to resist or cast back these accusa
tions upon the section of the country from
which I came. They are distasteful to me,
but, sir, there is a point beyond which
forbearance ceases to be a virtue, and I
think that we have reached that point.
Let me read one other sentence from
this address. The Senator says :
A man is higher than the beasts of the
field ; as the angels are higher than Mars ;
as he that ruleth his spirit is higher than
he that taketh a city, so are the victories
of peace higher than the victories of
war.'
That is very handsomely said, and in
the main it is very true. The Senator
then goes 'on to inveigh against standing
armies. He sp mks of the vast expense of
maintaining them, and quotes a table of
expenses of other countries ; and yet that
Senator is engaged here in war. When I
say he is engaged in a war I will do the
Senator the justice to say that he only ad
vocates it on his lips ; he advoc 'tee it here
by word, by speech, by letter. He attempts
to fire the hearts of the people every
where to join in this crusade. The
honorable Senator does not go where he
would hear the rattle of small arms or smell
gunpowder. Were I for this war as fcro-
ciously as that Senator is, 1 think I would
take up a musket and go into the field.
I have not much faith in the sincerity of
those who always preach war and never
fight. It would be better for them to fight
a little, and then people will think they are
in earnest. The Senator is willing that
other people's blood shall be shed. He
is willing that a million of young men of
the country shall be sacrificed. He is
willing that the hard earnings of the labor
ing wan, though his wife and children may
be starving, shall be wrenched from him
b y the ruthless hand of the tax-gatherer in
order to defray the expense of this war,
and to pay the interest on the immense
1 dobt that is accruing. All these things he
is willing to see for the purpose of carry
ing out a fanatical idea. That he boasts
I of ; that he gloats over ; but, sir, he never
1 seeketh the battle even afar off. He does
not go within sound of the drum and fife ;
nor is he like the war horse that smelleth
the battle afar off. I repeat I have not
much confidence in the sincerity of that
description of patriots.
1 Mr. Pr( sident, I have said all I intend
to say on this matter. It was not my pur
-1 pose to open my mouth on this amendment.
1 had determined to content myself with
the very elaborate speeches made by my ;
colleague, the Senator from Delaware [Mr.
Saulsbury] and the Senator from Indiana,
[Mr. Hendricks] but, sir, such were the
inconsistencies of the Senators fro i• New
.England to whom I have refered, such
were their assaults upon my own State,
that I felt called upon to say a word in
their vindication. In doing that I thought
it but right that I should allow the Senator
from Massachusetts to look into his own
timirror, and hence I have held up the
speech he made come time ago to his
vision.
We won't make no noise,' he replied, if
you give us everything quietly.'
Adelaide drew back and let him take
her jewels—not without a pang, for they
were precious love-gifts, remarking at the
same time, that two more masked ruffians
stood at the half-opened door. As he took
the jewel case and watch from the table,
and demanded her purse, she asked him if
he intended to go into her father's room.
She received a surly affirmative : he
''wasn't agoing to run all risk and leave
half the tin behind !' She proposed in
stantly that.she should go herself, saying: - ,
I will bring you whatever you wish, and
you may guard me thither, and kill me if
I play false to you.' The fellow consulted
his comrades, and after a short parley
they agreed to the proposal ; and with a
pistol pointed at her head, the dauntless
girl crossed the passage and entered the
old rector's room. Very gently she stole
across the chamber, and removing his
purse, watch, keys, and desk, she gave
them up to the robbers who stood at the
door. The old man slept peacefully and
calmly, thus guarded by his child, who
softly shut the door, and demanded if the
robbers were yet satisfied. -
The leader replied that they should be
when they had got the show plate spread
out below, and that they couldn't let her
out of sight, and that she must go with
them. In compliance with this mandate
she followed them down stairs to the din
ing-room, where a splendid wedding
breakfast had been laid to save trouble
and hurry on the morrow. To her sur
prise, the felows—eight in number wheh
assembled—seated themselves and pre-'
pared to make to make a good meal.—
They ordered her to get them out wine,
and to cut her own wedding cake for
them ; and then seated at the head of the
table, she was compelled to preside at
this extraordinary revel.
They ate, drank, laughed and joked ;
and Adelaide, quick of ear and eye, had
thus time to study, in her quiet way, the
figures and voices of the whole set.
When the repast was ended, and the
plate transfcrreu to a sack, they prepared
to depart, whispering together and glanc
ing at the young lady. For the first time
Adelaide's courage gave way, and she
trembled ; but it was not a. consultation
against her, as it proved. The leader, ap
proaching her told her that they did not
wish to harm her—that she was a jolly
wench, regular game, and that they
wouldn't hurt her, but that she must swear
not to give the alarm till nine or ten the
next day, when they should be off all safe.
To this, of course, she was obliged to 7.9-
sent, and then they all insisted on shaking
hands with her. She noticed during this
parting ceremony, that one of the ruffians
had only three fingers on the left hand.
Alone, and in the despoiled room, Ade
laide, faint and exhausted, awaited the
first gleam of daylight ; then, as the rob
bers did not return, she stole up to her
room, undressed, and fell into a disturbed
slumber. The consternation of the family
next morning may be imagined ; and Ade
laide's story was still more astounding
than the fact of the robbery itself. Police
were sent for from London, and they,
guided by Adelaide's lucid description of
her midnight guests, actually succeded in
capturing every oue of, tha gang, whom
the young lady had no difficulty in identi
fying and swearing to—the , three fingered
Jack ' being the guiding clue to the dis
covery. The stolen property was nearly
all recovered, and the old rector always
declared—and with truth—that he owed
his life to the self-possession and judgment
of his only daughter.
The only ill effect of the great trial to
her nerves was a disposition, on the part
of the young heroine, to listen for mid
night sounds, and start uneasily from
troubled dreams ; but time and change of
rosidences soon effected its Ohre.
.William Courtland Prentice.
GEORGE D. PR.ENTICE, in the Louis
ville Journal, gives a very long sketch of
his late son, who was an officer in the Con
federate army, and was killed about
year ago, in a rebel raid to the banks of
the Ohio.
He loved to seek the wildest and lone
liest portions of Kentucky. Repeatedly
he went far up among the bald and deso
late crags of the cliffs of Dix river, a
region haunted by the bear, the wildcat
and the catamount. The piercing scream
of the panther even then was a sound of
rapture to his ear. He was ever in search
of natural curiosities, and he discovered
and explored eaves previously unknown,
in all probability, to any man of our gen
eration, and in one of them he found im
mense numbers of human bones that
se,tmed to him to have belonged to a dif
ferent order of beings from any now upon
our continent. He subsequently became
as familiar with the Mammoth Cave as
the best of its guides. An adventure of
his in that subterranean realm attracted
loch attention four years ago. An ac
count of it was published in our columns,
and as we have often been requested to
republish it, we will do so now.
TERRIFIC ADVENTURE IN THE RAH
MOTH CAVE.—At the' supposed end of
what has always been considered the long
est avenue of the Mammoth Cave, nine
miles from its entrance, there is a pit,
dark and deep, and terrible, known as the
Maelstrom. Tens of thousands have
gazed into it with awe whilst bengal lights
were thrown down to make its fearfal
depths visible, but none ever had the dar
ing to explore it. The celebrated guide,
Stephen, who was deemed insensible to
fear, was offered six hundred dollars by
the proprietors of the Cave; if . he would
descend to the bottom of it, but he shrank
from the peril. A few years ago a Ten
nessee professor, a learned and bold man,
resolved to do what no one Before him
had dared to do ; and, making his-arrauge
ments with great care and precaution, he
had himself lowered down by a strong
rope a hundred feet, but, at that point,
his courage failed him,
and he called
aloud to - be drawn out. No human power
; could ever have inddced him to repeat the
appalling experiment. E.
A couple of weekii ago, however, a young
' gentleman of Louisville,• whose nerves
never trembled at mortal peril, being at
the Mammoth Cave with , Professor Wright,
of our , city, and others,' determined; no
matter what the, dangers might: be, to ex
, plorp the depths . ' of' the Maelstrom. Mr.
Proctor the enterprising. proprietor of the
Cave, :sent -ba
_premed • a
long ropci , of fft eat' strength .cixpressfy fer
the purpose... Viie rope' itfid - ni
some 0013-
' eery timbers were borne by the gtiiiteßriaiid
others to the point of exploration. The
arrangements being soon completed, the
rope, with a heavy fragment of rook affix
ed to it, was let down and swung to and
fro to dislodge any loose pieces of rooks
that would be likely to .fall at the touch.
Several were thus dislodged, and the long
continued reverberations rising up like
distant thunder from below, proclaimed
the depth of the horrid chasm. Then the
young hero of the occasion, with several
hats drawn over his head to protect it as
far possible against masses falling from
above, and with a light in his hand and
t•e rope fastened around his body, took
his place over the awful pit and directed
the half dozen men, who held the end of
the rope, to let him down into the Cim
merian gloom.
We have heard from his own lips an ac
count of his descent. Occasionally
masses of earth and rock went whiizing
past, but none struck him. Thirty or
forty feet from the top he saw a ledge,
from which, as he judged from appearances,
two or three avenues led off in different
directions. About one hundred feet from
the top, a cataract from the side of the
pit went rushing down the abyss, and, as
he was irkthe midst of the spray, he felt
some apprehension that his light would be
extinguished, but his care prevented this.
He was landed at the bottom of the pit,
a hundred and ninety feet from the top.
'He found it almost perfectly circular,
about eighteen feet in diameter, with a
small opening at one point; leading to a
fine chamber of no great extent. He
found on the floor beautiful specimens of
black siles, of immense size, vastly larger
than were ever discovered in any other
part of the Mammoth Cave, and also a
multitude of exquisite formations as pure
and white as virgin snow. Making
himself heard, with great effort, by his
friends, he at length asked them to pull
him partly up, intending to stop on the
way and explore a cave that he had
obseived opening about forty feet above
the bottom of the pit.
Reaching the mouth of the cave he
swung himself with much exertion into it,
and, holding the end of the rope in his
hand, he incautiously let it go, and it
swung out apparently beyond his reach.—
The situation was a fearful one, and his
friends above could do nothing for him.—
Soon, however, he made a hook of the end
of hie lamp, and by extending himself as
far over the verge as possible without fall
ing, he succeeded in securing the rope.—
Fastening it to a rock, he followed the
avenue one hundred and fifty or two hun-
dred yards to a point where he found it
blocked by an impassable avalanche of
rock and earth. Returning to the month
of this eave, he beheld an almost exactly
similar mouth of another on the opposite
side of the pit, bat, not being able to
swing himself into it, he re-fastened the
rope around his body, suspended himself
again over the abyss, and shouted to his
friends to raise him to the top. The pull
was an exceedingly severe one, and the
rope, being ill adjusted around his body,
gave hiak excruciating pain. But soon his
pain was forgotten in a new and dreadfnl
peril.
When he was ninety feet from the mouth
of the pit and one hundred from the bot
tom, swaying and swinging in mid-air, he
heard'rapid and excited words of horror
and alarm above, and soon learned that
he rope by which he was upheld had
taken fire from the friction of the timber t
over which it passed. Several moments
of awful suspense to those above, and still
more awful to him below, ensued. To
them and to him a fatal and instant catas
trophe seemed inevitable. But the fire
was extinguished with a. bottle of water
belonging to himself, and then the party
above, though almost exhausted by their
labors, succeeded in drawing him to the
top. He was as calm and self-possessed
as upon his entrance into the pit, but all
h:s companions, overcome by fatigue, sank
down upon the ground, and his friend,
Professor Wright, from over exertion and
excitement, fainted, and remained for
some time insensible.
The young adventurer left his name
carved in the depths of the Maelstrom—
the name of the first and only person that
ever gazed upon its mysteries.
We visited him in Texas, in April,
1860, and passed several days with him.
He invited us and a fine young friend of
his to go with him into the wilderness upon
a hunting excursion for a few days, and the
invitation was excepted. After getting a
fow miles from the town, he said : 'Father,
before we go further I want to show you
how I can shoot my rifle ; I am the best
shot in Texas.' He chose his position
and asked us to go off seventy-five or a
hundred yards and throw a stone
,through
the air. We said to him that he could
not possibly hit it. 'As certainly,' said
he as I touch the trigger.' A stone as
large as a turkey's egg, at about seventy
five yards distance, was thrown, and
scarcely had it been a second in the air
when it was knocked ten yards. The ex
periment was repeated with the same re
sult. His weapon was an old Kentucky
rifle, of great weight and length, that he
had taken with him from home. During
the whole excursion, which extended many
miles through a region infested by all
kinds of wild animals, and often visited
by the Indians, who were at that time be
coming very troublesome, stealing horses
and committing murders, he never missed
anything, sitting, running or flying, that
he fired at with his trusty weapon.
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