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pppri, Mi! x»t. far it unt Br JAMES G. EDWARDS THE IOWA PATRIOT PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY IN THB PPP£R STORY OF THE BTJILD i ufG AT THE CORNER OF yfagJiinvtoii and Water Streets BURLINGTON. DES MOINES COUNTY, IOWA. TERMS: TOW A PATRIOT will be published nnce a week', at THREE DOLLARS per ?5 IN ADVANCE. invFRTISEMENTS will bo inserted at •he rate of one dollar per square, for the first fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. a"liberal deduction will be made to all those Jbo advertise by the year. From the Boston Mercantile Journal. SALT WATER BUBBLES. BT HAWSER MARTINGALE. #AFFALR" BETWEEN A WHALING CAP TAIN AND A MILITARY OFFICER. Perhaps some of my readers may have heard of the story of the duel be tween old Captain Lovett of New Bedford, and the English officer in Deraerara. It has been variously re lated—but the only true version is as follows: __ Captain Zachariah Lovett, after having performed several whaling voy ages to the Pacific, found himself in command of a small brig belonging to New York on a voyage to Demerara. He was a worthy man—and a good specimen of a Yankee sailor-his heart was lull of the milk of human kind ness, but he possessed a noble, spirit -and would neither give nor take an insult. While his little brig Cinderella lay at anchor in Demerara River, Capt. Lovett one afternoon entered a Cof fee House, where he met with a friend -and they amused, themselves by knocking the balls about in the bill iard room. Soon after, and before the game was half finished—some English military officers entered, one of whom Capt. Bigbee, stepped up to Capt. Lo vett, who was arrayed in a very plain not to say ordinary costume, and with a bullying air demanded the table,.as himself and his brother officers wish ed to play a match. Capt. Lovett gave the red-coated Kntleman a stern look, but replied with courtesy, that he and his friend bd engaged the table, and would play out their game, after which, if the gen tlemen wished to play, it was at their :fvice. "But we can't wait," said Capt. Bigbee, in an insolent tone. "You must wait," coolly replied Capt. Lovett. '•But we" shall do no such thing," exclairaed the surly Briton-"we came sere to play billiards—and have no idea of being disappointed by a cou ple of fellows who hardly know a mace from a cue, or a ball from the pocket. It will take you all the af ternoon to finish the game—so clcar ®a. Lovett and his friend played "Come," continued the officer, "e noughofthis-marker, place the balls." toying which, with a most impudent he seized one of the balls which Capt. Lovett's opponent had just dri- ren into the pocket, and caught up bother one which was near him. The matter was growing serious, -aptain Lovett's eye flashed fire—for though lie had mingled a good deal among quakers, and respected that ®oral sect for their humility and qui demeanor, he was no non-resistant himself. He dropped his cue, doubled up a fist of portentous uPut those balls upon the table Jon scoundrel," exclaimed he impera ''anc^ ^eave t'ie room." VVho do you call scoundrel, you ,, ee blackguard? Do you know •°,Ua^ talking to one of his majes ys officers? Take that for your im minence," at the same 'time suiting action to the word, and giving ia^.j,n Lovett a smart rap across the lS '1IS cue*—'n 01§an ie hpln f° Covered h°me a rkJi an 'n" Jy "e received a blow on his fore ®xa°tly where Phrenologists lo Wnnii i Eventuality—which jVei ,ve felled an ox, and" submiss ion! a?.n.0Wedged the favor by mea- his length upon th'e floor! bF°ther 1evl officers, who were with JIIFT A i 5^ who Wcic iiffL £00(* tQ wiin sense to see that blame—and although black at the Yan- W fm-i{ forbore to molest tjei bnllv fGr V ass'sted the stun- aaolher room, where, by restoratives? h,s se he soon n^s. contre lfn°n His rage and at Vh6 resu'1 a bitt«eW the ren- ni°^0Un(^s5 and with ma- sit °a- declared he would satisfaction. fee ^aptain Lovett left the cof ^euteno \a was handed him by ames5 which proved to Re—fr —a peremptory chal- !'5 Bigbee, in which it was insisted that arrangements should be made for an early meeting, tnat he might have an opportunity to wash off the affront he had received, in Captain Lovett's heart's blood. Captain Lovett smiled when he saw such manifestations of a Christian spirit. "Tell Captain Bigbee," said he, "that I will not baulk him. He shall have the opportunity he so ear nestly seeks. Although not a fight ing man, I am familiar with the duel laws—and if he will be to-morrow morning on the bank of the green ca nal, near the South Quay, rather a se cluded spot, he shall have satisfaction to his heart's content." Lietuenant James bowed politely, and withdrew.—Captain Lovett went on board the Cinderella suon after— and ordered his mate, Mr. Starbuck, also a veteran whale-hunter, to select the two best harpoons, have them nicely ground, and fitted—as an op portunity might otfer on the morrow, of striking a porpoise. Mr. Starbuck obeyed his superior officer with alac rity, although he wondered not a lit tle why Captain Lovett expected to find porpoises in Demerara river. The next morning, as soon as all hands were called, Captain Lovett or dered the boat, to be manned, and re quested Mr. Starbuck to take the two harpoons, to each of which some eight or ten fathoms of rattling stuff were attached, and accompany him on shore. In a few moments the boat reached the South Quay, where Capt. Lovett was met by several of his countrymen, who had been attracted to the spot by the rumor of the duel, as well as several merchants and oth er inhabitants of the place. They one and all remonstrated with Captain Lovett for his folly in consenting to fight with the English military bully, who was represented as a practised duellist—an expert swordsman, and an unrivalled marksman with a pistol being sure of his man at twelve paces. Capt. Lovett, however did not show7 the least inclination to back out— but on the contrary seemed more ea ger for the engagement—"I'll give that quarrelsome fellow a lesson," said he, "which will be of service to him— and which he will never forget, as long as his name is Bigbee.'" The challenger, with his forehead ornamented with a large patch to cov er the impression left by the Yankee knuckles, and his swollen eyes dimly twinkling with anger and mortifica tion through two huge, livid circles accompanied by his second, soon made his appearance. He was follow ed by a servant with a pistol case, and an assortment of swords. He bowed stiffly to Capt. Lovett—and Lt. James, approaching the Yankee, asked him if he was willing to fight with swords—"If so," said he, "I be lieve we can suit you. We have brought with us the small sword, a neat gentlemanly weapon—the cut and-thrust, good in a melee, and which will answer indifferently well in a du el—and the broadsword or cutlass, which is often preferred by those who are deficient in skill in the use of arms. My friend, Capt. Bigbee, is equally expert with either. You have only to choose. As the challenged party, you have an undoubted right to select your arms." "Of the privilege I am well aware," replied Captain Lovett, "and mean to avail myself of it. I shall not fight with swords." "I expected as much," resumed Lieut. James, "and have brought with me a beatiful pair of duelling pistols, with long barrels, rifle bores, and hair triggers .—What distance, shall 1 mea sure off?" "Eight paces." "Only eight paces!" cried Lieut. James, a little surprised. "O, very well"—and he measured it off, and placed his man at his spot. Then ad vancing to Captain Lovett, he pre sented him with a pistol. "I do not fight with pistols!" "Not fight with pistols—after hav ing refused to fig-lit with swords. What brought you here then?" "To fight!" shouted Lovett in a thundering voice, which made the Bri tish officers start. "I am the challeng ed party, and have a right to choose my weapons, according to the laws of the duello, all the world over—and you may rely upon it I shall not se lect weapons with which I am not fa milial4, and with which my antagonist." has been practising all his life. Such a proceeding on my jart, is not only not required by the rules of honor, •which after all, is a mere chimera, but would be contrary to all the dictates of common sense. No—I shall fight with the weapons of honorable war fare, with which I have ever been ac customed* Swords and pistols, in deed!" "But, d«ar sir,"" cried the1 aston A Captain Lovett said nothing—but beckoned to Mr. Starbuck, who ap proached him with great alacrity, bear ing the two harpoons. He seized one of the formidable weapons, and thrust it into the hands of Bigbee, who seem ed absolutely paralized with astonish ment. "My weapon," said he "is the jav elin such as the Grecian and Roman knights often fought with in olden times—a weapon, which no man who challenges another, can refuse to fight with at the present day, unless he pos sesses a mean and craven spirit*" Thus saying he took the station which had been assigned him, at eight paces distant from his startled antag onist. He coolly bared his sinewy' arm—grasped the harpoon, and plac ed himself in an attitude. "I'll bet," Said he, casting a triumphant look up on his friends, "a smoked herring a gainst a sperm whale, that I'll drive the harpoon through that fellow's mid riff the first throw-and will finish him without the aid of the lance. Mr Star buck," fiercely continued Captain Lo vett, in a loud and rough voice, such as is seldom heard, excepting on board a Nantucket whaling vessel, when a shoal of whales is in sight, "Stand by to haul that felloiv in/" The mate grasped the end of the ine, his eyes beaming with as much expectation and delight, as if he was steering a boat bow on to an eighty barrel whale, while Captain Lovett poised his harpoon with both hands, keenly eyed the British Captain— shouted in a tremendous voice, "Now FOR IT," and drew back his arm as in the act of throwing the fatal iron! The Englishman was a brave man —which is not always the case with bullies—and he had often marched without flinching, up to the mouth of a cannon. And if he had been met in single combat with an adversary armed with a sword or a pistol, or even a dagger or a Queen's arm, he would have borne himself manfully.— Indeed, he had already acquired an unenviable noteriety as a duellist, and had killed his man. But the harpoon was a weapon with which he was al together unacquainted—and the loud and exulting tones of the Yankee Cap tain's voice sounded like a summons to his grave. And when he saw the stalwart Yankee raise the polished iron—and pause for an instant, as if concentrating all his strength to give the fatal blow, a panic terror seized him—Iris limbs trembled—his features were of a ghastly pallor, and the cold sweat stood in large drops on his fore head. He had not strength to raise his weapon—and when his grim op ponent shouted, "Now FOR IT," and shook his deadly spear, the British of ficer, forgetting his vows of chivalry —his reputation as an officer, and his honor as a duellist, threw his harpoon on the ground, fairly turned his back to his enemy—and fled like a fright ened courser from the field, amid the jeers, the jibes, ahd the hurrahs of the multitude assembled by this time on the spot! Captain Bigbce's duelling days were over. No man would fight with him after his adventure with the Yankee. He was overwhelmed with insult and ridicule—and soon found it advisable to change into another regiment.— But his story got there before him— and he was soon sent to "Coventry" as a disgraced man. He was compel led, although with great reluctance, to quit the service—and it may with great truth be said, that he never for got the lesson he had received from the veteran whaler, so long as his name was Bigbee. POLITICAL CONSISTENCY. A DEPARTED HUMBUG.—One of the most subtle, and effective reasons urg ed by the loco foco party against the re-charter of the U. S. Bank, was, that a part of its stock was owned by foreigners. All thinking men regard ed this objection as mere humbug but it took mightily with the party, and the Bank was put down by it.— How the times have changed? -Now, we have four Commissioners in Eng land, endeavoring by all possible means, to mortgage every foot of land in this State for British gold! and not a loco foco or loco foco press says a word against the pleasure! It is now ill right—sound policy—and entirely democratic!—[Sangamo Journal. The Conservative paper at Grafton very properly speaks on the subject: very singular change has come over our countrymen in relation to 'the sale of American stocks to foreign ers. -No one $an have forgotten the PRIXCIPLES.„„,„xoi MENfc BORLINGTOtJ, THURSDAY", AUGUST 29, 1889. ished Lieutenant, "we must proceed ?xn0n*'n" *°1u'e *n business.— What weapons have you fixed upon?" And in fancy's eye he beheld before him a huge blunderbuss, loaded with buck shot. i hue and cry raised against the bank of the United States because some five millions or more, of its stock was held in England. An alarm was rung —the tocsin sounded,—and the peo ple called, en masse, to rise in oppo sition to a "Monster" that had sold our country to England. Half the presses in the United States were constantly impressing upon the minds of the people the idea that the liberty of our country was endangered by having these few millions of bank stock owned in Great Britain. They eifeated their object. The bank of the United States fell,. and nothing contributed half so much to its destruc tion, as the outcry stockholders. against foreign It is sometimes useful, long after a prominent measure has been effected, and party feelings have subsided, calmly to examine the motives by which the agents were actuated, and thus learn wisdom from experience. Let us then enquire were the men who declaimed so loudly about the danger to our institutions of having a few million 3 of stock owned in Europe honest? If facts are permitted to an swer this question, not the slightest doubt can rest upon the mind of any one. What State opposed the U. S. bank with more virulence than Mis souri? Who saw with more apparent alarm and danger arising from having a few millions of stock owned in Eu rope, than the Legislature and people of that State? Who labored harder in Congress to defeat the bill to re charter that institution, than the de legation from Missouri? In all their efforts against it, the most prominent ground of their opposition was its fo reign stockholders. Who would have believed at that period, that Missouri, in so short a time, would herself send an agent to London, to sell to foreign capitalists the principal part of the stock of a 'Bank of Missouri,' an in stitution under the entire control of the State? John Smith, Esq. President of the Bank of Missouri, is now in England endeavoring to effect a sale to the large amount of two millions. If the 'Monster' was justly stigma tized with the name of a 'British Bank,' when not even a fifth of its stock was owned in England, what epithet is due to an institution more than half of whose stock is offered to 'foreign capitalists? Was there dan ger in the days of the old U. States bank, and none now, when the Bank of Missouri treads in her footsteps? Hundreds of presses sounded the alarm against the 'monster,' yet not a solitary one among them all sees the slightest danger, now that the amount of American stocks held in England has increased fifty fold! 'Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis.'— Times are changed and we are chang ed with them is just as true now as it was in the days of Horace. The outcry against the U. S. Bank arrayed in contrast with the present rage for obtaining foreign loans, ought to. teach our countrymen a valuable lesson." It is well known that Jefferson long since predicted that the "federalists" in order to deceive the people, carry their point ?, and effect their purposes, would take the name of democrats. The Roanoke Advertiser remarks that the prediction has been fully verified. BUCHANAN who declared "if he had one drop of Republican blood in his veins he would let it out" is now a Yan Buren Democrat. So also is INGERSOLL, who said if "he had lived during the Revolutionary War he would have been a Tory." He is now a Van Buren Democrat also.— In this State there is R. P. DUNLAP, the "Young Tim Pickering," who calls himself a genuine Democrat, and Re uel Williams, is now democratic to the back bone and hosts of others of less note, yet figuring as leaders of the self-styled democratic party, boast of their pure, unsullied and unadulte rated democracy. We would caution the people to beware of wolves in sheep's clothing.—Bangor Courier. THE SPIRIT OF SEVENTY-SIX.—We are fast losing it—the spirit which in spired the men of the Revolution, and wrought out the goodly fabric of A merican constitutional liberty. With this generation will, I fear, pass away that generous pride in the achieve ments of our ancestors, which distin guished us in times of peril and dis aster. We are growing cosmopolitan, universal, denationalized- Foreign influence is exercising a control, which threatens to do awav with all vestiges of our great revolutionary struggle. It is nothing now to have been an American born—to have been familiar from childhood with all the old landmarks, crimsoned "with the blood of our heroes. It is nothing to be the immediate descendant of those devoted benefactors of their race.— The mail, in whose ears are yet ring ing the echoes of Bow-bells, and who knows no more of Bunker Hill, Mt. Vernon, and Monticello than he does of the mountains in the moon, may come and push from his stool the gray haired revolutionary veteran, whose blood was shed like water in the con test with our enemies. The presum ing scribbler, who imbibed hatred for this country and its liberties with his mother's milk, may come and traduce every thing American, not only with perfect impunity, but with the coun tenance of those whose lineage should teach them to spurn with contempt the venal creatures, who, while they sue for their bounty, insult the land of their birth. Alack! and well-a-day! That I should "see what I HAVE seen —see what I see!"—H. S. Lee. GEN. SCOTT AND THE WINNEBAGOES. —We omitted to mention in our last that Gen. Scott, while at Fort Win nebago, met the chiefs and principal men of the Winnebago tribe in Coun cil, and gave them permission to oc cupy the country north of the Wis consin until "next grass," but express ly prohibited any of the tribe from visiting, under any circumstances, the country south of Wisconsin and Fox rivers, and Lake Winnebago. Gen. Scott assured them that they were permitted to remain upon the ground north of the Wisconsin only by the clemency of the American Govern ment, and that if they were not next year at the proper time ready to re move to the country that would be provided for them west of the Missis sippi, he w7ould appear among them with an army as numerous as the •'leaves on the trees," and force them to go. the talk of Gen. Scott with the Winnebagoes has had but little effect. The "Great Pacificator" has been less cessful than usual this time, in his ts to carry out the views and wishes of the General Government for we learn that the very Indians who met him in council, instead of going north of the Wisconsin, came down the stream about five miles south of Fort Winnebago and camp ed, and there intend remaining. SU0CI eUor We have been informed by autho rity that can be relied upon, that the only reason whjr the general govern ment does not instantly cause the re moval of the Winnebagoes, is, that the only country it has provided for them, is one altogether too limited in extent for them and so surrounded by warlike tribesof Indians that are hos tile to the Winnebagoes, that the country would be endangered with a war amongst the Indians on our wes* tern frontier.—Wisconsin Enquirer. SUMMARY. .Believe nothing against another, but upon good authority nor report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to others to conceal it. The Philadelphia Savings Institu tion has failed. The immediate cause of the failure is said to have been an excessive issue of certificates in the rm of post notes, which as the}' readied maturity, the company were unable to redeem. In the last thirty days there have been only two burials at the city of New Haven, Connecticut, famed for its beauty, spacious streets, and ele gant gardens. Whortleberries, green fruits, &c. may tell another tale soon. The New Orleans Courier of the 17th ult. says, that the accounts from the sugar districts of Louisiana hold out the promise that the next crop of that article will be abundant. Louis iana, it is added, supplies about one half of all the sugar consumed in the United States. Pray, Sophia, what ar^you mak ing," said Dr. D. to a young lady at work upon a certain garment. A Sophy covering, Doctor." The was not put to a shift for a reply. girl The N. O. Picayune says :—The stock of mosquitoes and muskmellons is on the increase, and although the demand for the former is very limited large transactions are effected. Their bills are always protested, yet still our citizens are obliged to discount very freely, especially those who can not place a bar upon the applications. The Maryland Academy of Science and Literature, has recently been pre sented, by Mr. R. L. Martin, with a living specimen of the horned toad (agama corriuta) which he picked up in Texas,, where they abound. In the city of Lafayette, just above New Orleans, a few weeks since, two bears belonging to a butcher, escap ed from their cage, and one of them seized a child and tore it so severely that it expired in a few hours. Voii. 13. Cabs have been introduced in Phil adelphia. They are much more con venient and cheaper for single pas sengers than hackney coaches, and it is wonderful that they have not been tried before. A new paper called the "Doctor," is to be started in Mississippi. The editor of it is one John Smith. All he asks to succeed is the aid of his rela tives, and the first article is to be a history of the rise, progress, and pres ent condition of the Smith family. On the 4th of July, when the ship Robert Pulsford, Capt. John Prince, lately arrived at Baltimore from Liv erpool was in lat. 36, Ion. 72, the wife of Mr. Lewis, one of the passengers, was safely delivered of three fine daughters. They were severally nam ed, Columbia, Oceana, and Victoria. The mother and children are doing well. A fellow at Cincinnati, convicted of indecencies towards females in the street, was sentenced to confinement in the dungeons of the jail for ten days to be kept on bread and water, and fined $150, to ^tand committed till paid. HEALTH OF PENSACOLA.—The Pen sacola Gazette says that in that city, with a population of 2,300, not a sin gle death has occurred from the 1st of April to July 10. This is a re markable instance of exemption from fatal disease. William Pierce, of Moira, Franklin county, N. Y., has been convicted of the murder of his father, and sentenc ed to be hung on the 21st day of Sep tember next. The father and son were in the woods chopping, when a dispute arose, which terminated thus fatally, by a blow in the breast with a sharp axe. The prisoner is not 17 years' old. Thomas Vail, at a late term of the Court of Common Pleas for Meigs county, was found guilty on an indict ment for whipping his wife, and sen tenced to ten days imprisonment in the county jail—to be fed on bread and water, and pay a fine of fifty dol lars. Verily such little indulgences are "dog cheap." New wheat has been contracted for at Rochester, at one dollar per bushel. The price for several years has been from $1 50 to $2. The practice at the bar, of Mr. Prentiss, of Missisippi, who resigned his seat in Congress, last year, is stat ed, incredible as it appears, to be worth $100,000 per annum. The London papers contain a list of the names and salaries of the Bed Chamber women, "maids of Honor," etc. of Queen Victoria. There are in the list upwards of 22 names—all of high blood, and the aggregate of their salaries is something over four hund red thousand dollars. What they do we don't know. A Frenchman, gasconading over the inventive genius of his country, said: "We invented lace ruffles!" "Aye," said John Bull, "and we ad ded skirts to them." Why is a horse like a stick of can dy? D'ye give it up? 'Cause the more you lick it the faster it goes. The Journal of Commerce says the saddle mountains in Berkshire, Mas sachusetts, present a view of five States. Block Island, in the Sound, only four. The Earl of Dartmouth, at the de sire of the trustees of Dartmouth Col lege, N. H., has presented to that in stitution, a splendid portrait of his grandfather its founder. A liberal donation of valuable books for the col lege library has also been made by Earl Dartmouth. The Treasury o^ Maine, has de manded the sum of 60,000 dollars from the banks of Portland, for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the Aroostook expedition. The banks are obliged by their charters to loan ten per cent of their capital to the State on demand. Among the regular toasts drank at the celebration of the Fourth, at Itha ca, N. Y., we find the following very pretty compliment to the ladies-— Women—There's a purple half to the grape, a mellow half to the peach, a sunny half to the globe, and a "better half to man.''" Cook and Carter, two men who have committed manifold murders, have recently made their escape from the jail of Scott County, Missis sippi, and are now at large. The Grand Gulf Advertiser denounces theni as two of the most atrocious murderers that ever escaped the gal lows. By a recent statement in a Jamai ca paper, it appears that that Island contains 35,000 white-: inhabitants, 100,000 free colored, and 311,000 newly emancipated apprentices.— There are 135,000, white and black, who can vote. •4 1 *i j\ j\ Mr 1 -if •v^r 4 ti