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From the Boston Courier.
BALLAD OF THE ALARMED SKIPPER.
Many a long, long year ago,
Nantucket skippers had a plan
Of findinig out, though *‘lying low,”
How near New York their schooners ran.
The custom was, to grease the lead,
_And then, by sounding through the night---
Knowing the soil that stuck, so well,
They always guessed their reckoning right.
A skipper grey, whose eyes were dim,
Could tell, by tasting, just the spot,
~ And so below he’d “dowse the ghim”---
After, of course, his “something hot.”
: -Sn&:n his berth, at eight o’clock, :
. __This ancient skipper might be found; ~ -
3 *&Jnamr how his eraft would rock---
... He slept.--and skippers_sleep profound !
The watch on deck would now and then
Run down and wake him with the lead,---
He’d up, and taste, and tell the men
How many miles they went ahead.
One night, "twas Jotham Marden’s watch;
A wag was Jo.---the pedlar’s son,---
And so he mused, (the wanton wretch)
To-night I'll have a grain of fun.
We're all a set of stupid fools,
To think the skipper knows by tasting
What ground he’s on,---Nuntucket schools
Don’t teach such stuff, with all their basting !
And so he took the well greased lead,
And rubbed it o’er a box of earth
That stood on deck, (a parsnip bed,)
And then he sought the skipper’s berth.
“Where arc we now, sir? please to taste”---
The skipper yawned, put out his tongue, ,
Then ope’d his eyes in wondrous haste, ;
And then upon the floor he sprung!
The skipper stormed, and tore his hair,
Thrust on his boots, and roared to Marden---
“ Nantucket’s sunk, and here we are,
Right over old Marm Hackett's garden!”
THE FIELD OF WHEAT.
BY MRS. HANNAH F. GOULD.
Tiield of wheat, so full and fair,
Showing thus thy silver hair,
Lightly waving either way,
Where the gentle breezes play,
Looking like a sunny sea,
How I leng to gaze at thee!
Pleasant art thou to the sight,
And to thought a rich delight :
Then thy name is music sweet,
Silken sounding field of wheat !
Pointing upwards to the sky,
Rising straight and aiming high,
Every stalk is seen to shoot
Like an arrow from the root;
As a well trained company
All in uniform agree,
From the footing to the car
All in order strict appear,
Marshalled by a skilful hand,
All together bow or stand.
Still within the proper bound,
None o’ersteps the given ground,
With its tribute held to pay
At its nod whom they obey,
Each the gem that studs its crown
Will in time for man lay down ;
Thou with promise art replete,
Bearing precious sheaves of wheat!
How thy strength in weakness lies!
Not a robber bird that flies
Finds support whereby to put
On a stalk her lawless foot,
None her predatory beak
Plunges down thy store to seek,
Where thy guard of silver spears
Keeps the fruit and decks the ears;
No vain insect that would do
Harm to thee, dares venture through
Armory like thine, to win
From the sheath the grain within.
What a study do we find
Opens here for eye and mind !
What that sees thee as thou art,
Can disown a grateful heart ?
IHere upon this favored ground,
Faith is blessed and hope is-crowned ;
Charity may find the bread
Wide abroad her gifts to spread;
Wisdom, power, and goodness meet,
Beauteous, bounteous field of wheat.
T e L A L M L e S P S U
A RAPPAIANNOCK SETTLER.
A Philadelphia correspondent of the New York
‘Spirit’ tells a rich story of a ‘saw’ which he run
upon a Rappahannock settler—a real, ‘ginoowine,’
live one, whom he scared up on the steamboat
Pocahontas, between Norfolk and Richmond, Va.
The joker was sitting upon the taffrail of the boat,
looking very unconcernedly upon the foaming
spray as it was dashed from under the propellers
of the boat, when his attention was arrested by a
rather queerish. veteran-looking personage coming
towards him. The latter, on coming within six
feet of the railing, halted, and protruding his hicko
ry cord-wood stick of a cane, so as to reach within
a few inches of the boat’s gunwale, and bearing up
on it so as to prevent his falling overboard, thus
addressed the Philadelphian :
‘Stranger, h’aint you afeerd to squat out thar, on
that railing, while this ’ere etarnal thing is pitching
through this li'kar this way?’ :
‘Why, stranger,’ says I, ‘I reckon you-have nev
er been on board a steamboat before!”
‘Well, I'll be dod leezed if ycu aint about right,
thar, and 1 would not have bin on this etarnal
thing only I had to go down to Old Point Com
fort to see about getting my boy wolunteered to go
and lick the Mexicums, but I-—(here the engineer
let ofl’ steamg—-'Hello, stranger,” cried he, stop;iéng
abruptly in his speech, ‘what on arth is that? The
biler’s burst, sartin.’
- Here he made a sudden spring, and unless T had
cau};ht kim, would have gone overboard.
‘Oh,’ said T, ‘that is nothing, only the captain
wants & little more steam put on; but go on with
what you were saying.’ ‘
“Wall, I was saying he wanted to goout and take
Tezico, but 1 found him, and am fetching him back
to keep an eye on the niggers.’
nge he pointed toa szfifow looking, green-cheese
sgecnnen of the biped race, some six feet three in
ches in height, whose ‘legs ‘protruded through his
pantaloons at least nine inches.
‘Why, stranger,” says I, ‘talking about fast trav
elling, this is nothing to the way we run the boats
to the East. The people get so excited there about
running races, that they 'sgend fortunes in ascer
taining the quickest way of generating steam, One
man in particular, I recollect, had all ie’fifu worth
with him, in the shape of hams and shoulders, and
one of the opposition boats coming alongside and
threatening to pass us, he offered the captain the
whole to make steam with. The. ospgin_ accepted
them, and the consequence was, that the steam was
so powerful that the sides of the boat and the
wheels left the keel and went on at the rate of fifty
miles an hour, and arrived at the wharf m‘ieien
the evening! The next ngorniugh we saw the keel
conllu up [hs Dopll, el Mo, St 1
fecevel as the Vipd of MIEMIHy 4pd ghook Jpip
{:nfim bgf*maq ymlfhd is what
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PORTSMOUTH, N. H; TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1847,
From the Nashville Gazette. = =
PUTTING THE “GYVES” ON SANTA
ANNA. (el |
—_— TRiE ¢
AN INCIDENT OF THE PARTIZAN TEXAN WARJ
" e
The eloquent and graceful style in which that
‘ heroic personage, General Don Antonio Lopez de
Santa Anna, has, on all suitable occasions, talked
of making a martyr of himself, for the sake of his
‘country, together with the ease and facility with
‘which he has managed to elude the pains Mfi%
sequences of the assumption of so interesti
‘character—thus appropriating all -the glory with
out any of the inconveniences of martyr fi*y
undoubtedly constitute one of the M
features of the life of the “hel&p,of; ampico. 7=
Had he died as often as he has expressed a resolu®
tion to do so, the nine lives appertaining to the
feline species would be sudden annihilation in com
parison. But luckily or unluckily, for himself and
his people, all his resolves upon death have been
met by counter inclinations to live, and so thus far,
upon every approach of the king of terrors, he has
contrived to give him the go-by. The world is be
ginning to suspect that the vain-glorious Mexican
1s not half so ready and willing to shuffle off this
mortal coil, as he would have them believe; in
which opinion I fully coincide—or rather the world
coincides with me, as I have long been dubious of
his courage. Having had the honor to be present
myself, when Santa Anna was possessed of one of
his deadly resolutions, I will endeavor to describe
briefly that very aTecting scene.
The writer served a campaign, and a pretty long
one, too, in the Texan revolutionary army of 1836.
The company to which he was attached, in con
junction with another, had charge of Gen. Santa
Anna during the latter part of his imprisonment at
Orazimbo, & short distance above Columbia, on the
Brazos. 'While we were there, the army took it
into their heads that, in consequence of the many
bloody massacres he had committed on their friends,
Santa Anna deserved to be hanged, and they pas
sed a resolution to that effect, and sent a request to
General Rusk that he would cause him to be brought
to head-quarters for the purpose of being executed.
The General, however, happened to entertain dif
ferent views from those of his intelligent cohorts,
and refused to comply with their wishes touching
the life of the distinguished captive; but sent an
order to have him ironed and kept in close confine
ment. The order came in a few days, and a neigh
boring blacksmith soon hammered out a rude
pair of gyves, with which to putit into execu
tion.
The senior officer being absent, the duty of su
perintending the ironing operation devolved upon
our Captain, Nick Dawson, who was second in
command Dawson expressed some embarrass
ment as to how the order should be executed, as
he was totally ignorant of the Spanish langumfe,
and every other under heaven, save the vernacular
of the Cumberland mountains, and being purely a
man of action, had never much occasion for even
that. The captain, however, was not the man to
hesitate long about any thing in which his duty was
concerned—he would have undertaken to chain
the very devil had General Rusk ordered him.—
So, taking his great basket-hilted sword under his
arm, followed by the grim-visaged son of Vulcan,
he proceeded towards the quarters of our illystri
ous prisoner. Without puzzling his brains“any
farther, he had fallen upon a plan peculiar to him
self, and that was, to do the business in the plain
est, straight-forward manner possible. Arriving at
the door, they opened it without any great show of
ceremony, marched into the room, where they
found Santa Anna alone, sitting at his table, appa
rently too much absorbed in writing to notice their
entrance. Dawson tapped him gently on the should
er to attract his attention, and immediately com
menced manipulating the air with signs indicative
of the object of his visit. The General stared at
him with vacant astonishment. Meantime, the
sturdy blacksmith knelt upon the floor, and depos
iting his “Jewelry ” by Eis side, he laid his im
mense paws upon the delicate shanks of the pris
oner, Santa Anna’s attention was attracted to his
feet, where the smith was, with great deliberation,
arranging his irons, preparatory to fastening them
on. Instantly divining their intention, he made a
single spring which placed him beyond their imme
diate reach, and getting the table betwixt kim and
them, snatched up a huge glass inkstand, which he
flourished around his head, swearing all the time,
by every saint in the Mexican calendar, that he
would perish by a thousand deaths, rather than sub
mit to such an indignity.
Fortunately for Santa Anna, Col. Almonte, who
spoke English remarkably well, attracted by the
noise, came in to see what the matter was, just as
about half of Dawson’s sword had found its way
from the scabbard. Almonte begged him to desist,
with which he instantly complied, returning his
sword to its place. Dawson told Almonte to say
to Santa Anna that he did not wish to use force or
violence, and that he should regret to be compelled
to injure him in any way, “bnt,” continued
the captain, “ my orders are to place him in irons,
and I'll be ———if it shan’t be done, that’s
certain. ”
Almonte stated the matter as ordered, and en
deavored to remonstrate, but the General impatient
ly waved him off with one hand, whilst with the oth
er he flourished the big glass inkstand.
Capt. Nick Dawson’s patience was entirely ex
hausted—remonstrance was at an end—he “had al
ready said more than he ever had been known to
say to mortal man whenever there was a prospect
of a row. Perfectly cool, however, he stepped to
the door, and ordered in a file of men; whereupon
a couple of fellows entered with muskets in their
hands—one of whom was a fierce looking Kentuck
ian, the most ceadly hater of every thing in the shape
of a Mexican. and particularly Santa Anna, I ever
met with.
“ Shoulder arms!” ordered the captain, in an ex
ceedingly calm and steady voice.
“ Ready !”--up went the muskets to the eye—
“ click ”—* elick, ” went the locks.
“ Aim !"—a dead silence here ensued, whilst an
expression of supreme satisfaction settled upon the
stern features of the Kentuckian, as his eye glanced
along the bright barrel. ‘Santa Auna grew deadly
Ea]e, and seemed to totter. Dawson held in his
and a ponderous silver watch. “I dgive ‘ gou‘ half
a minute to consider—if at. the end of that time
you do not submit you are a dead mam,” saying
which his eye rested again on the dial of his watch.
Thoroughly frightenmy this time, he made a ges
ture of submission, sat down in a chair, and leaned
his head on the bed, over which he drew a blanket,
and placed his feet in-a Jmifl&t"w be shackled.—
When the irons were fastened on, he divested ‘his
head of his blanket, and asked if we were not a
shamed to use the President of the great Mexican
stion ke il od iy o S6F SaIRG EREDOA LR
~%The President of the great Mexican nation be
——!" growled the Kentuekian, as he brought his
musket to his shoulder. R R
“ Right face—march!” eried the captain, in a
quick, sharp voice. -The room was \é’f&\‘ed in an
instant, nndflfie captive President. was left to his
was a philosopher of the r st p, and took the
matter in. WW! AUMmOr. zm’lw
:{cheex pense of vfifizmnfidmfl%‘z
chains, which et every one in a roat, and so tickled
NESS AUring seve! ‘minutes. - It'w the opinion
hat Almonte lipped bis ran offthe somsont e
‘on and took them off 8% pleasare ; but nobody ever
‘nquired into the' matter closely, for Almonte was
& favorite with nsall. : :
'~ HISTORY OF THUNDERBOLT.
b ‘_The Springfield Post, speaking of the death of
this once notorious robber, who %ately died in Vt.
& ‘highly esteemed hysician,” gives the following
‘history of him, and Eis accomplice, Lightfoot, alias
Michael Martin :—
. ‘The discovery of the far-famed robber in the
person of the individual who had for some thirty
| fi:m resided quietly in their midst, and who had
been known to many as the eccentric Scotch doc
tor," in whose prescriptions they had the most ex-
E‘:d faith, tviv‘:s‘a matter well h(:a.lculated oft:o t;)‘:ke a i
sfir among the staid and worthy people of that sec-
SoR angg Tl mflwu,&h@fia
portion of our readers may have .a desire to know
‘iore of the history of Thunderbolt, we propose to
comivile from the life of Lightfoot, as given by an
English author, some accounts of both these Tob
bers, who it seems were confederates in crime,
on the other side of the Atlantic, for many
years. :
John Doherty, or Thunderbolt, was born in
Scotland, but the south of Ireland was the theatre
of his most daring exploits. About the year 1808,
he introduced himself to Michael Martin at an ob
scure inn near Dublin. He took Martin into a
private room, and told him that he (Doherty) was
the notorious Captain Thunderbolt, whose desper
ate feats had made him the terror of the people,
and for whose head a large reward was offered.—
Martin, who had but just commenced a career of
crime, was appalled to find himself alone in such
company, but the robber told him he must stay, as
he could not think of parting with so ‘clever a fel
low” This affectionate declaration was supported
by the presentation of a cocked pistol at the head
of the terrified Martin. They finally sat down a
gain, and Thunderbolt related his exploits, urged
Martin to drink, and finally offered him his purse,
from which Martin would consent to take but six
guineas.
In this way a good understanding was promoted
between the two worthies, and Thunderbolt finally
propased to his companion to enter into co-part
nership in the profession of highwaymen. This
was dgreed to, and after a few adventures in which
Martin displayed great activity and address,
Thunderbolt took a glass of brandy, dashed the li
quid into Martin’s face, and gave him the flash ti
tle of Captain Lightfoot. Under these names
these associates committed many daring robberies,
and had many hair-breadth escapes.
One day they put up at Doneraille in Ireland
over the door of which was a handbill describing
their persons and offering rewards for their appre
hension. They had not long been at their quar
ters before a party of soldiers surrounded the
house. The robbers marched out. Thunderbolt
knocked down two of the soldiers, and then both
took to the ficlds, the soldiers pursuing and firing’
at them. One ball struck the calf of the leg of
Thunderbolt, who still ran, keeping up with his
companion until they found concealment in the ]
woods near by, when Thunderbolt sunk down ex
hausted with the loss of blood. A glass of brandy
raised his spirits, while his companion cut out the
ball, which was left in the wound, with his pen
knife. They remained in the woods twenty-four
hours upon a bed-of leaves, before the woundgd
robber could find strength to continue his flight.—
Two days after they Tett the woods they found
means to disguise themselves, so they visited a
neighboring village without exciting suspicion and
procured medicines suited to the wants of Doherty,
who had some medical knowledge and a very good
education. According to Martin, no man could
talk on religious subjects, and expound the ‘true
faith’ with greater fluency than Thuanderbolt.—
Hence he often wore the dress and spoke the lan
guage of a clergyman of the high church. Some
times he would assume the character of a physi
cian, on which occasion he would assure his pa
tients that few M. D.’s could excel him in the prac
tice of bleeding! o o Sl i
At one time near Kilkenny Ireland, Doherty
and his confederate attacked a stage coach with
nine passengers; they supplied themselves with a
sufficient number of small handecuffs, and when the
stage reached the point agreed upon, they rushed
upon the horses, stopped them, and Martin with
pistol in hand took the off leader by the bridle and
threatened with instant death the passenger who
should attempt to escape by the door of the off
side. Thunderbolt at the same time took position
near the opposite door of the coach, and ordered
the passengers out, one at a time, as he could secure
them with handcuffs. Having thus landed the
whole, a work that occupied several minutes, they
proceeded to the work of robbery, and having fin
-Ished this, they bade the passengers ‘good morn
ing,” mounted two of the horses, and fled with all
necessary speed, carrying off their ill-gotten
booty.
A'z the distance of about fifty miles from the city
of Dublin, they came in sight of an elegant seat.—
Thunderbolt concluded there must be much money
and jewelry about the premises, and determined at
once on an adventure. He rode up to the door,
and inquired of a servant for the master of the
house. The servant informed him that his master
had gone with a hunting party, and that there was
no one at home but the master’s sisters and the
servants. The robbers then entered the house,
contrived to get the servants into a small side
room, by some false pretence, and locked the door.
Lightfoot remaining with cocked pistols, as guard.
Thunderbolt then very politely invited the ladies
into the parlor, told them his opinion in regard to
the property, and his ‘determination to have it.—
The ladies in great alarm produced cash and trink
ets to the amount of ten thousand dollars; and then
produced watches and jewelry from their own per
sons ; but these Thum;erbolt refused to take, de
claring that his sense of politeness would never al
low him to take any property from a lady. The
rob.l;ers-then kissed the ladies and rode off with the
spoils.
We might multiply instances of the daring rob
beries committed by the desperado, Thunderbolt,
as recorded in various English books, but our lup
its will not permit. Some thirty years ago he dis
apieared suddenly from Dublin, and was not heard
of by the people of the United Kingdoms from that
period. fie.was supposed by - some that he had cut
the society of Light,&ot, intentionally and gone to
the West Indies. Others su]fi)@d he was killed in
some desperate encounter. But it now seems, that
for-the last thirty years he has been an q’ufle"l
physician, and a quiet but odd citizen of a neigh
boring State.- Tguly; ‘theré ‘is" much romance in
x'ezill life. ik , of‘ -f;.m d
His quondam associate in guilt, the farsame
Michael Wi, or Lightfot: who afer becon:
ing an outlaw in Ireland, visited this country, and
committed among other offences, a.daring robbery
on mmmflr:&l‘. fßrar,' on' the tli!‘lp&fe",‘_bé
ween Dedham and ‘Bosto , for 'which' he ml;g;
hended at a public house in Springfield, whe
had taken lodgings for the night, conveyed to
Cambridge for trial, convicted, sentenced to death,
al?d*zéiecs‘\%d in_lß2l.- Be m‘mgxwfimfli
Lightfoot, he made a full confession of his_life an
character ; and gave many. interesting incidents
in the history qf@nowmu Thunderbolt. .
‘Some city poet. has worked out the following el
" REMINISCENCES OF YELLOW I'EVER.
} ' FROM 1795 “-Toflgnf”
f At the commencement of every season of fover,
it was a subject of warm dispute about its origin.
Some held 1t to be of domestic ~origin exclusively,
while others were of opinion that:it was of foreign
importation only; but g always thought it originat
ed from both causes. Almost every summer, even
in those seasons when the fever ‘did not generally
prevail, I have known individual cases of yellow
fever, and of its proving fatal to.some, and yet the
disease sEread no further; for instance, I was inti
mate with a captain engaged in ‘the Havana trade,
‘who died in Havana in one of their fever months.
His chest, with his clothes, was brought home to his
‘widow ; among the soiled linen was:some he had on
his back while sick. A wom v;;w;‘,engaged; to
wash them ; she was sex‘q’edof%% the yellow fever;:
and died in a few days. The physicign said it was
a ver{ malignant case, yet I never heard that any
one else took the disease—the atmosphere not be
ing in a state to receive it.
Many tragic and some comic scenes occurred,
even amidst this dance of death ! Among the for
mer I record the following:—An Englishman a
mong my friends was the owner of a beautiful New
foundland dog; wherever the master was, there
was also the dog. This man was a bachelor of thir
ty years standing, and a fair specinien of his coun
trymen ; his home was at a boarding-louse in Wil
liam street, near Maiden Lane. Ile died of the
yellow fever in 1805. As usual in such cases, the
public hearse with a load of coffins, some full and
some empty, stoEped at the door; when-we enter
ed the room with a coffin, their sat the faithful dog |
by the corpse of his master—all others had forsook
him, and fled.- T was afraid the dog would prevent
our movements ; but he stirred not—there he sat
mute, with a look, where profound sorrow and in
telligence were mingled, as if he thought we were
performing a necessary duty. The hearse moved
down William street, up Maiden Lane, and I part
ed with them at the corner of Nassau street. All
this time the dog was the only mourner, walking
close behind the hqgrse ; on reaching Potter’s Field,
the pit being already dug, six corpses were lowered
into the same grave. Next day the hearse-drivers
spoke as follows: ¢ The dog kept close behind,
and sometimes under, the hearse; while we laid
the coffins in the pit, he sat on his hind-quarters,
watching our motions. When we had finished, he
began to moan and howl most piteously, and we
heard him after we had gone a quarter of a mile
back to the city.” He afterwards disappeared, and
I have neither seen nor heard of him since.
Some days thereafter, I entered a cellar. On a
bed lay a man, woman and child. Isaw their hours
were numbered ; they were unable to speak. 1
called a few hours after ; the man and woman were
both dead, and the child trying to draw life from
the cold breast of its mother. The child was pro
vided for, and the parents buried. The Board of
Health and their assistants did much to assist the
poor ; but they could not be in every quarter.
About this period, a Dr. Dingley arrived from Lon
don. He was said to be eminent in his profession ;
and having no family, he took up his abode in a
boarding.house in Nassau street near my dwelling.
Physicians being in great demand, he soon had a
large practice. Ile was a large, corpulent man,
and rode about among Lis. patients in a chair. He
was said to be very successful in his treatment.—
The fever being on the increase in our neighbor
hood, his landlady and her boarders fled to the
country, leaving the Doctor and his serving man to
keep bachelor’s hall. On Sabbath evening, the
16th of September, he came into my house to light
a candle. I said to him, “ Doctor, what reports to
day ?”’ He replied, “ Fifty-two new cases, and
forty-four deaths ;” and added, “ the fever was on
the increase, and I am sick myself.” That night
he was worse ; and through the week, he was visit
ed by one or another doctor almost every hour.
On Saturday, I missed the Doctor’s chairs, and
thought he must be either better or was dying. I
went into the house, the door being open ; Iknock
ed twice, but received no answer ; stepped into the
passage and called aloud, but still no answer. I
walked up stairs, and listened on the first landing ;
I now heard the heavy breathing and groans of cne
dying; following the sound I entered a large room,
in the centre of which, on a cot, lay the Doctor,
his eyes glassy and turned toward the ceiling, and
his spacious chest heaving, and raising the coverlet
with every respiration. I spoke to him, but he
heard not. The day was hot, windows open, and
a swarm of flies had fastened on his lips, describing
a dark, oblong circle. I observed a bottle of wine
on a sideboard, from which I filled a silver spoon,
and put it to his lips, when his mouth opened, and
pouring the wine upon his parched tongue, he
gnashed the spoon with his teeth. It sounded round
the walls of the silent chamber. My flesh crept.
It was the knell of death! In one hour more ie
was in eternity. By the light of a full orbed har
vest moon, on the same nigtixt, he filled a stranger’s
grave in the Potter’s Field. At the same hour and
within fifty yards of this bed of death, my first-born
opened his eyes on the light of this world. Some
six weeks from that event, I met the Doctor’s serv
ing man ; he stated, by way of apology, that on the
morning of the day on which the Doctor died, the
attending physicians informed him that Dr. Ding
ley would die that day ; he therefore thought, as he
could do Lim no good, that he mneed not risk his
own life, and so left him to dic in peace. "
The above events occurred on the 22d Septem
ber, 1798. On that day, sixty-three were reported
to have died from the prevailing fever, which is the
highest number on record. In every season of yel
low fever, it was most fatal in September. Among
the deaths in each season, there were nearly two
males to one female. The reason of it is plain:
men are more exposed than women to the vicissi
tudes of the season—hot at meridian, cool at night,
especially in September, producing chills, which
were generally the forerunner of fever; and in
those seasons, all fevers were merged in the yellow
fever—hence the cause of its fatality in September.
I remarked, also, that a larger proportion of bach-.
elors died of this fever than of married men. The
reason of this to me was plain : in most of the cases
they died for lack of good nursing. When a young
man. took sick, if a :chrk and lodging in the family,
he was generally sent to the Fever Hospital—(the
thought of _whic{killed hundreds)—but 1f his moth
er, sister or cousin kept house in the city, there he
had a chance for his Kfe; the fever came to a eri
sis in three or four days, and before his parents in
the country heard of his illness—intelligence not
being transmitted with that rapidity it is at the
&resept day, three days to Newburgh and six days
vmw&;. g then considered good passages. I
would here stat shsggfouy;z?wmm;%@m@fvf
gg&iw if single men, " lodged in the family" of
‘*wmpo‘ b Wit pansbt, this e was still more
fatal to m achelors aimon Wnsfléfl**-
“for body or soul, were sometimes left, like Dr.
Dingley,to di slowe,. At one .fim',**,x»kne%
seven young foreigners in this situation, and no one
‘but myself to give them a cup of cold water ;—three
om& even died. In more instances than one, ¥
have seen the dinter table in a boarding-house, at
P, M., surfounded by its inmates; next morning
b ape sick ) an’and & Worthless serv-
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nursing a husband or ehild in this fever. Many
could net procure a competent nurse, and no man
felt safe nnless'he was married. Youn have read of
a-woman ‘who, to save her husband’s life, sucked
the poison from his arm, though she knew Ler own
life would be the sacrifice. Such women now exist !
At this tfme manv houses were robbed, and the
farniture wantonly destroyed. Gangs of thieves
took up their abode in some of the g:st houses—
they eat, drank and were merry. In some houses,
1t was supposed they had lodged for months—hav
lmg consumed the food and drink, and made off
‘with the raiment. By way of Kkilling time, they
cut up some splendid carpets into diamonds, as
seen-1n the patterns of the. carpets; these they
built in piles in the centre of the room, and some
of the pies reaching to the ceiling. ,Dggla eto
the amount of thousands of dQl\l‘afs’deé"cdmm%ed
HUSUINE Broaign, T e dERe
In 1822, a case ocourred in ‘my visits among the
sick; veritying the remerk, ‘that-Nature is the be:t
physician.” A young man had the fever, and was
considered in a critical state by the doetors. In
yellow fever, the doctors forbid their patients the
use of anything sour, such as lemons, vinegar, &e.
It was customary in those fevers to sprinkle the
room, where lay the sick, frequently and eopiously
with vinegar. This young man asked the nurse
for vinegar to drink ; she refused, it being contra
ry to the doctor’s order. Ilowever, while she went
into the kitchen to get some gruel, he got out of
bed, seized on the vinegar, and, as she said, drank
nearly a pint. The nurse was in great trouble,
fearing he would die, and she get the blame. He
recovered from that hour; satup next day, and
{he following week was at Hempstead, Long Is
and.
At this time, a carpenter residing in Warren
street drove a profitable trade in the manufacture
of coffins. He had a light wagon, drawn and pusk
ed by two stout boys, who would stop in the strect
and sing out—*“Coflins! all sizes!” They said that
their father kept four men' making coffins, night
and and day, and which were sold as soon as fin
ished. Yours,
GRANT THORBURN.
New York City, June, 1847.
NANTUCKET WHALERS.
A most striking picture of the privations and
sacrifices of this hardy and peculiar race of men,
is given by Mr Abbott:
A man was speaking a few days ago of the emo
tions with which he was overwhelmed when he
bade adieu to his family on his last voyage. The
ship in which he was to sail was at Edgarton, on
Martha’s Vineyard. The packet was at the wharf
which was to convey him from Nantucket to the
ship. lle went down in the morning and saw all
his private sea-stores stowed away in the sloop, and
then returned to his home to take leave of his wife
and children. lis wife was sitting at the fire side
struggling in vain to restrain her tears.
She had an infant a few months old in her arms,
and with her foot was rocking the eradle in which
lay another little daughter about three years of age.
with her cheeks flushed with a burning fever. "No
tongue can describe the anguish of such a parting
it is almost like the bitterness of death. The de
parting father imprints a kiss upon the cheeks of
his child. Four years will pass away ere he will
take that child in his arms. Leaving his wife sob
bing in anguish, he closes the door of his house
‘behind him. Four years must elapse ere he can
“cross that threshold again. One sea-captain upon
this island has passed only seven years out of forty
‘one upon the land.
A lady said to me a few ecvenings ago, “T have
been married eleven years, and counting all the
days my husband has been at home since our mar
riage, it amounts to but three hundred and sixiy
days.” Hec is now absent, having been gone 15
months, and two years more must undoubtediy
elapse before his wife can see his face again, and
when he shall return, it will be merely a visit to
his family, for a few months, when he will again
bid them adieun for another four years’ absence.
I asked the lady the other day how many letters
she wrote to her husband during his last voyage.
“ One hundred,” was the answer. “ And how
many did he receive ?” ¢ Six,” The invariable
rule is to write by every ship that leaves this port
or New Bedford, or any other port that may bo
heard of for the Pacific Ocean. And yet the chan
ces are very small that any two ships will meet on
this boundiess expanse. It sometimes happens that
a ship returns, when those on board have not
heard one word from their families during the
whole long period of their absence. ;
Imagine, then, the feelings of a husband and fa
ther, who returns to the harbor of Nantucket after
a separation of forty-eight months, during which
time he has heard no tidings whatever from his
home. He sees the boats pushing off from the
wharves which are to bring him tidings of weal or
woe. Ie stands pale and trembling, pacing the
‘decks with emotions which he in vain endeavors
to conceal. A friend in the boat greets him with
a smile and says—* Captain your family are all
‘well.” Or perhaps he says, “ Captain, I have
‘heavy news for you—your wife died two and a halt
years ago.”” :
A young man left this island last summer, leav
ing in his quiet home his young and beautiful wife
and an infant child. ‘The wife and child are now
both in the grave. But the husband knows it not,
and probably will not know it for some months to
come. He perhaps falls asleep every night, think
ing of the loved ones he left at his fireside, littlc
imagining that they are both cold in death.
On a bright summer afternoon, the telegraph an
nounces that a Cape Horn ship. has appeared in
the horizon, and immediately the stars and stripes
of our national banner are unfurled from our f?ag.
staff, sending a wave of emotion t,hr()uih the town.
Many families are hoping that it is the ship in which
their friends are to return, and all are hoping for
tidings from the absent. Soon the name of the
ship is announced ; and then thére is eager con
tention with the boys to be the first bearer of the
joyful tidings to the wife of the captain, for which
service a silver dollar is the invajr’iablefbe, T
And whocan describe the feelings which must
then agitate the bosom of the wife ? Perbaps she
has heard no tidings of the ship for more t&ian a
year. Trembling with excitement she dresses her
self to meet her husband. “Is he alive 7 she
says to herself, “or am I a 3 widow and the poor
children orphans ?” she walks about the room una
ble to. compose herself sufficiently to sit down.—
Eagerly she is looking out of the window and down
the street; she sees a man with hutried steps turm
the corner, with a little boy hold of his ha,ntf. o M
Yes, it is he; and her ‘little sén has “gone down
to the boat and found his fathér: -Or perhaps, in¥
stead of this, she sees.two of her 'neighbors return~
ing slowly and sadly, and directing their:steps.to.
her door. It is the knell of her husband’s death,
and she falls senseless to the: floor as they telllier
that her husband has long since been entombed in:
the fathomless ocean. . £A M By i
Col. Donix;l;a;ln,don hii l,retum to St. Louis a few
days ago, attended a public:meeting got upi -
égj;f, lfig retarn, at gflrich; mflt:gngopg»rssx :
At this meeting, in réply,,tq”‘(?ol.jg‘ nton’s speech,
Col. Doniphan stated that the" fi%finfi;w
overnment info fimmw to simall.
fi)ad Scott and . Taylor..even. heen w
20,000 men, they would 'have. won their victories
at a much cheaper rate, and pescewould have
0 “bad effect produced by the Mexicat
}&ohes made inour -ow) 3"" s, and partice: