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[these very hard times with us?"
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February 25, 1841.-19-ly
W I I A
C.
E A A N
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Iowa City, Iowa Territory,
WILL
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lections in any part of the Territory punctually at
tended to. 16-ay Feb 12,1841
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Tailor.
(Q'Snor ON SECOXD STREET OPPOSITE THE POST
OFFICE.
IRAD C. DAY,
A O N E Y
A W
BLOOMINOTON, IOWA TER.
(C/'OfTice on Second Street, third door below the
Post Office. Recorder's Office in the same building
T. S. PARVIN,
A O N E Y A A W
BLOOMINUTOJT, I. T.
JMEDICJit*.
U E U I S E i S U E S E i S
THE LVCKY FOB TUJYE- ELLEB.
A TRUE 8TOKV.
Why then, Paddy, my jewel, hot arent
Hard exclaimed Paddy begor, tho'
its the middle^of summer, they are harder than
a hard frost.*'
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Yes," said his poor wife, Judy Brien, an
old peasant woman, who with her husband,
was thus talking over their past misfortunes
and prosent griefs "yes, its mighty hard for
us, in our old days, to think tiiat we are so
soon to be turned out of our cabin, because
misfortune has come upon us, and that we
have no rent to pay, but no! a praty, (potatoe)
in the house."
"The divil a rent I have," says Paddy,
"but the rent in the hack of my coat, that I'd
give any money you had a haporth of thread
to mend it with. And it's I that, if I had th«
rent, would let the master go whistle after it,
before I'd let him see a tester (sixpence) of it
Sure we aren't more than two years in arrear
and what's the use of a man being a freehold
er, if he's not free to hold the land he's once
put his spade into?
Well, well, there's no use in talking, Pad
dy a change will soon come in ourselves, as
there will be a change in the weather for al
though it's now as dry as powder, we'll have
powers of rain powderin down on us before
morning."
44Oh!
by dad, Judy, if there's as little
chance of our good luck, as there is for a show
•r of rain for the next twenty-four hours, nei
ther of us will ever live till the harvest comes
round."
Well, Paddy, I wish I was as sure of a
fortune, as I am of the weather. It will break
—and it will be the more like ourselves."
Why then, for an ould woman, yon are
the biggest fool 1 ever saw. I tell you (here
will be no rain."
And I 6ay there will."
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Oh! then that I mighn't but only I'm
thinking thai you got neither breakfast nor
dinner to-day, I'd give you such a leathering."
4k
Tailor,
informs the citizens of
Blooraington and vicinity, that he continues
to carry on the Tailoring Business in all its branches,
Willi neatness and despatch. (£_/'All kinds ot coun
try produce taken in exchange for work. He is
igent for and in regular receipt of T. Oliver's Fash
i«ns. 21-tf March 10. 1841.
Is it for telling the truth? For, as sure
as you're standing there, we will have rain in
the morning, and I tell you, 1 know it," ex
claimed Judy, rubbing her left knee, which
was a little rheumatic.
The poor old couple retired to rest, and long
before the hour for work next morning, the
dropping rain, that poured like a flood through
twenty holes in the straw-covered roof of the
cabin, proved, if not to their satisfaction, ai
least to the utter conviction of Paddy, that
his wife had prophecied truly. He looked in
amazement at the thin threads of water, that
were fast forming themselves into pools upon
the mud floor, and then, striking his wife's
arm, he exclaimed—
»4 t».w —t--- a—. t...
ilu-re, Judy, and the rain making a waterfall
into your old brogues at the foot of the little
bed I Get up, I tell you, and dress yourself,
and let us be off" out of this for with the pow
er you have, we ought to he living with slate
over our head, and a real chimney to let the
smoke out of, not to mention the grandeur of
glass windows. Why, Judy, you're a fortune
teller, and I never knew it be.foro! Well,
well there's no end to miracles Get up, I
tell you, and we'll go all over the world for
sport, telling fortunes that is, you'll tell them,
and may be I won't sp~nd a fortune for you.
I flatter myself I'm able to do that, although
digging for twelve hours upon two pints of
butter-milk and a skillet of praties is beginning
to bother me. Be np with yourself, Judy, I
say, and I'll set you up as a fortune-teller."
then, none of your nonsense. Sure,
you know well enough, I'm no fortune-teller."
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What! is it after telling me last night that
there would be rain this morning, and that too
in the
verv
face of the inoon, thatwas shinins:
as bright as a horse-soldier s hemlet. lJegar,
it was the heighth of fortune-telling, and 1
never knew anything to equal it."
Ah then, sure Paddy, it was the rheuma
tiz that told it to me."
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The rheumatiz! Does the rbeumatiz talk
aS if it was a christian? Oh, but I under
stand you it was a fairy called the Rheuma
tiz that whispered into your ear and, by my
sowkins, I find you know every thing, so let
be off with ourselves. Why should we
btay here and starve, when we have only to
walk abroad and make lashins «nd laving of
money
Judy knew but too well the sanguine and
arbitrary disposition of her husband, to think
of contradicting him: so she immediately
obeyed his commands, and, having blessed
herself, she prepared to set out on her travels.
They had not proceeded more than a hundred
yards from their door, when they wereencoun
iered by a wealthy farmer, followed by some
of his working men. The farmer was a very
rich man, whohad considerable property about
ten miles distant from Paddy's cabin. He
now rode up to them greatly excited, and said
My good people, there has been stolen or
strayed from me, in the course of the night, a
black horse and two grey mares and if you
can tell m© anything about them, or where 1
am likely io fitid them, I shall pay you very
handsomely."
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Upon my word, sir," said Judy,441know
nothing about them."
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Dont you mind her, your honor," exclaim
ed Paddy, and catching hold of the saddle of
the farmer's horse, and drawing him down so
as to be able to whisper in his tar,
mind her, your honor for that I may never sin
but that she knows every thing. She is the
greatest of fortune-tellers that you ever heard
of, but thon, she's horrid stingy and the dick
ens a hapworth she'll ever say, until you have
paid her well for it first."
The farmer took the hint, calling Judy over
to him, placed a five shilling piece in her hand,
and observed,
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Come now, Judy, out with it at eftee
Just tell us where you think they afe."
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Why then, how should I know, when I
was asleep all the time?"
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Oh, nonsense cried Paddy speak out
and tell the gentleman where they are, or you
never got such a mollaoging in all your life, as
I'll give you."
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murder, murder!" shrieked Judy,
driven to desperation,
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really dont know
where in the world they can be, unless it be
in the field on the other side of the hill."
There, you hear," says Paddy,44 and now
be off with yourselves."
The farmer took his advice, darted off", fol
lowed by his servants, as fast as he could
while Paddy, rejoicing in the prospect of a full
breakfast, of which he had not partaken for
many a month, started off in the opposite di
rection. He had not advanced more than
quarter of a mile, when he heard the voices of
the farmer and his servants hallooing after him
ami his wife and was about seeking some
place to shelter himself when he happened to
turn round, and behold that Ihe farmer had re
covered the animals that he had lost, and pla
cing five golden guineas in the hand of Judy,
he said,
My good woman, take these, and
you are heartily welcome to them fori would
not have lost this black horse alone for a hun
dred guineas. I found him and the two mares
in the very spot you described."
"Did'nt I tell your honor she was a great
fortune-teller asked Paddy.
You did, indeed, my good fellow, and on
ly told me the truth for she is, in my opinion,
the greatest and best fortune-teller that ever
was in Ireland."
There was no one more surprised at the suc
cess with which chances had enabled her to
guess, than poor Judy herself. She knew that
it was chance. Paddy believed the opposite,
and insisted upon her setting up as a fortune
teller, and she was afraid to refuse liiin. But
almost at the commencement of their career,
a very awkward accident nearly occurred to
them for the fame of her exploit reached to
the ears of the only magistrate in the district,
who was a proud, ignorant, obstinate and self
ish man, and hearing from the farmer of how
he had been told by Judy Brien, of where his
stolen steeds had been conveyed, he sect for
the old couple,' and directed that they should
wait upon him at his mansion.
Paddy and Judy Brien did appear there, for
they were escorted by the constable hut just
before they entered the house, a favorite game
cock of his worship, that had been aceidently
killed, was brought *.o him. Me placed the
dead bird under a large three-cocked it, which
he usually wore, and then desired the old cou
ple to be admitted.
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understand," said he^4jthat £0g aj$
I wish to let you know that 1 suspect you are
a pair of itoposiors, who are in collusion with
all the rogees and vagabonds in the country
and if you are such I will have you transport
ed. If you are not, I will reward you as high
ly as, oil the other hand, I intend to severely
punish you. But I shall put you to the proof
this moment. If you can tell me what is un
der that hat I will give you a guinea if you
cannot tell it you shall go to jail."
Paddy looked a little perplexed at this pro
position but still he had sufficiency of impu
dence to brazen the thing out. Such was not
the case with his poor wife for she looked ut
terly bewildered, and exclaimed to him.
told you the dirt would soon come out but
as the magistrate was one of those gentry who
thought it vulgar to speak or know their lan
guage, she said it in Irish thus,
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Indeed," said the magistrate,
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Take that as earnest of what
I will do for you, if you can tell me where are
the two mares ami the horse. Just give me a
hint at where 1 am sure to find them I wont
stop at gold."
Upon my sowl, I dont know," cried Judy.
Dont mind her at all, at all. Just give her
another crown, your honor, and see what
guess she'll make," observed Paddy.
The farmer took the hint. Poor Judy felt
completely bewildered when she felt the mo
ney in her hand, and heard her husband say­
JJO-
Very well, then, on Saturday," remarked
the magistrate,44 that will be time enough, and
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the meantime I will confide you to the care
of the servants, who.mustgive you every thing
you order.
•4 But mind," said Paddy,14 the servants are
not to be bothering her with no fortune-telling
in the meanwhile."
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Dont you
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gellanagh Kocgh!"
The instant the sound of
mahac ma-
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magellanagh
Kocgh came to the ears of the magistrate,
TNITLR IU* —.— I-- .'
word, Judy Brien, you have guessed right it
is a cock, and nothing!else but how did you
come to know it!"
Don* ask her, your worship," for she cant
tell you, nor I neither, that's her horn hus
band but the fact is, she is the greatest wo
man in the world, and there's H«t a tittle that's
happening under the sun that she cannot tell
you."
,4then
there's
one thing more, that if she can tell me, will be
the making ot her fortune, and save her from
doing anything for the rest of her life. My
wife is about to be confined and if she can
NOW tell me whether it will be a boy or a girl,
1 will settle £20 a year upon you both, with a
house and three acres of land, rent free."
Ah, then, just tell his honor's glory, at
once what it will be," said Paddy, with a per
fect confidence.
44Oh,
millamuther! it's worse and worse
you're getting every'day, Paddy. You will
be the ruinaiion of me. I cant tell it."
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That is, your honor's reverence," said Pad
dy,
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she cannot tell it to-day but do you just
feed her up with the best of every thing, and
see what she'll tell you on Saturday."
The first that does so will be dismissed,"
remarked the magistrate.
The Saturday came, and Judy, who by this
time had received a hint from Paddy, called
for a bowl of eggs| selected, after a long ex
amination, two from the mass, broke them in
to a glass, and then, taking up tho two glass
es, she looked at them for a long time, and then
said,
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Well, of all the puzzling things I ever
met with, this bates them all hollow! Oh, I
see plain enough, I cant tell until next Satur
day."
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Very well, very well," said the magistrate,
a little impatiently
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let it be next Saturday,
but why cant you tell me anything to-day 1"
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Because, your honor," answered Judy,—
when 1 look into one glass it is a boy, and
when I look into another, that 1 may never
skin another praity, hut its a girl! It's the
curiousest thing 1
ever saw."
Before the next Saturday came, the accoach
ment of the magistrate's lady took place and
here again fortune aided poor Judy Brien, for
S -J V U O
the lady presented her husband at
whole earth is mine, and all thaf inherit
must succumb to the puissance of the almigh
ty mandate of my will?" Yes, I ask, why°is
it tha he should do this, while the very worms
at his feet are peeping from the clods and laugh
ing bun to scorn, saying "Old chap, you may
crow and triumph in your vanity, but the time
will come when we will make oat-meal of you
and your household, just as we have breakfast
ed upon the flesh of your forefathers." Man
is nothing more than,a lump of dirt in the scale
of animated nature, and when he dies he min
gles his ashes with those of the reptiles of the
earth aud 1 feel well assured that even Pro
fessor Siliiman himself could uot pick out two
particles of once organized dust, and swear
that this is reptiferous and (hat human. It is
true that man is endowed with intellect and
reason, which ij denied the blasts bnt this
only adds a thicker coat of shame to the dis
grace of wantonly molesting or torturing them
while they are quietly snoozing in the comfort
able lap ol Nature who provides for theiu with
maternal tendernes and cure, as beinc her first
born, and legitimately entitled to her love and
protection. If cats and dogs do sometimes
kick'tfjfi bl&tfay jbwi, we can forgive them, be
cause they know no better but for reasoning
man to purposely crush the insects in Lis path
beneath his high-heeled boots of arrogance, or
to annoy dumb aniimlsin any manner, is who
ly inexcusable, and he ought to suffer for it.
He should take a lesson from what Uncle To
by said when he opened the window and told
the poor fly to go, for the world was wide
enough for hint arid it. VV by, my friends, I
believe that 'coons, skunks and 'pos^uius are
Uie true aboriginee9 of America—the real na
tives of Columbia's soii—that they hav a bet
ter right to its unlimited possession than you
or I have and it is a hard case that they
should be chopped up and made soup of by a
blood-thirsty race of savage-civilixed carnive
rous two-legged beings.
My friends—this venerable old 'coon, allu
ded to in my text, it appears, was soundly
sleeping opon his favorite rail, in the silvery
away. There he was, quietly reposing in his
own valley of contentment, while the wings of
the zephyrs brushed the balmy tiew-drops from
the leaves upon his chestnut pillow—aye, up
on the very spot which contained the bones of
his ancestors, and which had been bequeathed
him by the God of Nature. He felt himself
secure upon his elevated couch, and yet when
ever he ttiought upon his latter end, he was
fearful that thereby hung a tail, which might
prove a plague to bis peace and so it turned
out for, ere the midnight moon had reached
the climax of her ambition, a wandering loafer,
full of wine, mirth and mischief, crept slyly
up, and laying hold of the posterial ornament
of the poor defenceless 'coon, hauled him upon
the ground and abused him iu fcuch a ruffianly
manner, that he was glad to escape with a
bunged eye and bloody nose.— What business
had he to pull the inoffensive 'coon by the tail
while his carcase was unprotected by his sen
ses, which were drowned iu oblivious slum-
ber 1 How would you, my friends, like to be
served in the same way Ah you would
squeal for vengeance, and invoke ten thousand
curses upon the head of him who did it. Such
inhumanity is steeped in the deepest dye of cen
sure, and places a contemptible grease spot up
on the bright escutheon of a civilized commu
nity. It appears to me that because the sins
of the human race are visited upon after gene
rations, you want to make innocent 'coons be
come responsible for a pertion of them, since
they have no iniquities of their own to answer
for. O, shame, where didst thou get so much
cheek
the same
time with a son and a daughter!
The magistrate kept his word with the for
tune-teller, while she, upon hearing the news
of the double birth, snatched up
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The Life of
James Feny, the Robber," which was the on
ly bound volumo to be seen in the magistrate's
kitchen, and kissing it reverentially as if it
were a Bible, exclaimed—44 By this book, I
will never tell a fortune again ^s lone as. I
five!"
SHORT J*JtTEJYT SERmWOJYi
BY DOW, JR.
0FT CROELUY TO AKIMAL9.
T*XT«—As I walked out by the light of the mtfMl,
So merrily singing this old tunc,
I came across a big raccoon
A sitting on a rail,
And sleeping very sound.
At this Id 'coon I longed peep,
Because l»c was so last asleep
So up to him I gently creep,
And kotch him by the tail,
And pull him on the ground.
Popular Song.
My hearers—We find it recorded on the pa
ges of sacred history, that man shall hold do
minion over the beasts of the field and the fowls
of the air—and so he does, with a vengeance
that is sickening to mercy, revolting to human
ity, and frightening to crows. What i* a man
more than a 'coon, that he should set his arms
akimbo, and stick his elbows clear throngh
both sides of creation, exclaiming:
44The
Bnt, my dear friends, this poor, persecuted
old 'coon"is still living in the sun-shine of a
wide-spread fame and undying honor.—While
his brethren are every day falling victims ro
relentless politicians,* and the skins of his
kindred hang parching on the gable ends of
log cabins, he is allowed to roam abroad in
the green cornfield of freedom, venerated and
respected by all. When the lime shall draw
nigh for hitnto take his grey hairs down to the
grave in peace, he will glory iu the consolation,
that, allhuugh he once lost a comfortable snooze
by a walloping, still he gained immortal re
nown by a cruel and unjust persecution. Be
ware, my friends, how you torment creatures
beneath you because they are not endowed
with the gift of gab, and have no way of man
ifesting all the tortures they feel. I shall raise
my leather-lined lungs in their defence,
sha'nt even permit you to treat them as you do
one another for they ajre worthy of more re
spect and decency. At my friend Mr. Mortis
JSU
would say, so say I—Old 'coon, while I've a
hand to save, a loafer shall harm thee not and
I offer the same protection to the whole quad
raped kingdom, from a titmouse up to the be
hemoth himself.
My friends—wherever you make tracks up
on the sandy desert of life, let Mercy lead you
with her rosy hands of Jove, and your paths to
the grave shall not be wholly barren, neither
shall the sun of existence go down in the midst
of the dark boding clouds of doubt. So mote
it be!
'This sermon was first preached during the elec
tioneering of 1840.
BUtWUYG OF THE EBME.
BY A 8L'RVJVOR.
About 8 o'clock I was sitting in the taloon.
rarmerlee, the barkeeper, had just made me a
punch, and we were playing a rubber of whist,
when all at once we heard a slight explosion,
and hissing sound, and a cry of fire. So many
accidents have occurred, and I had so school
ed myself to the thought of such an accident,
that 1 felt comparative!v nool and t«ir nn.»._
comparatively cool and self possess­
ed. I sprung to the floor, followed by Pa
merlee, and we were met by a mass of scorch
jng flame. I rushed forward. He followed
but no more. Of the dozen or fifteen hi the
saloon at that moment, not another survives
In a second all that part of the boat nearest
to where the flames burst out, the boiler deck
was all in flames, and they must have perish
ed horribly in the saloon, from which there was
no escape.
On going forward I saw in a moment the
whole terror of the scene. The flames burst
out in immense masses, and were driven back
by the wind, enveloping, in one minute, the
whole body of the boat. Titus sprung to the
wheel and headed her to the shore, and the
wind now drove the flames into every part of
her, and she rolled over the seas a mass of fire
—for she had been lately painted, and her pan
nel work varnished, so that she caught as if
dipped in spirits of turpentine.
Thcu the air was filled with shrieks of ago
ny and despair. The boldest turned pale at
thai awful moment. I shall never forget the
wail of terror that went up from the poor Ger
man emigrants, who were huddled together on
the forward deck. Wives clung to their hus
bands, mothers frantically pressed their babes
to their bosoms, lovers clung madly to each
other. One veueruble old man, his gray hairs
streaming in the wind, stood on tho bows, and
stretehing out his bony hands, prayed to God
in the language of his father-land.
But if the scene forward was terrible, that
aft was appalling, fur there the flames were ra
ging in their greatest fury. Some madly rush
ed into the fire. Others, with a yell like a de
mon. HKid.la
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waves. The officers of tiie boat and its crew,
were generally cool, and sprung to lower the
boats, but these were every one successively
swamped by those who threw themselves into
them, regardless of the execrations of the sail
ors, and of every thing but their own safety.
1 tried to act coolly—I kept near the captain,
who seemed to take courage from despair, and
whose bearing was above all praise. The boat
was veering towards the shore, but the mad
dened fl uues now enveloped the wheel-house,
and iu a moment the machinery slopped. The
last hope had left us—and a wilder shriek rose'
upon the air: at this moment the second engi
neer, the one at the time on duty, who had
stood by bis machinery as long as it would
work, was seen climbing the gallows bead, a
black uiass, with the flames curling around
him. On neither side he could not go, for it
was one mass of fire. He sprung upward,
came to the top, one moment felt madly around
Wore mrfiiWIiiif "vt/-nJtn«r, ioi We "u"
broached round and rolled upon tho swelling
waves, a mass of fire. I seized upon a settee
near me, and gave one spring, just as the flames
were bursting through the deck where 1 stood
—one moment more and 1 should have been in^
the flames. One moment, and I found myself
tossed on a wave, grasping my frail support
with desperate energy. At one moment I saw
nothing but the yawning deep and the black
ening sky—at the next the flaming mass was
before me, as the wave pit lied me up and a
round me were my fellow passengers, strug
ling with the waves, some supported by no
thing but their strong arms—every moment
growing weaker, while the wild, agonizing
shrieks of those who were every moment ta
king their last look at the upper world, and
those who were still clinging to the bulwarks,
but every moment dropping with every pitch
of the vessel, made such a scene as nightly
haunts my dreams, and can never be oblitera
ted while memory remains.
1 had been in the water but a short time,
though every minute seemed an age, when 1
heard the voice of Capt. Titus, who was the
list to leave the vessel, was now in the water,
calling out with a firm voice,44 Courage—hold
on—help is .coming." One word of hope!—
how it cheered us in that hour of gloom. I
looked and saw the lights of a steamboat, and,
in a short time, the hull of the Clinton, which,
upon seeing the fire, hastened to our assist
ance. Her boats were ready lowered, and gui
ded by the light of the vessel and the prayers
for help, twenty-seven of us were saved
a watery grave. Some were terribly burned,
and some in the last stage of exhaustion, but
all thankful for their preserva.ion.
a HUGMBa,
ro n
Of the poor German emigrants, I do not
know that one ^*as saved. Parents and chil
dren seem to have found one common grave,
and lay at the bottom of the lake all locked
together. There was but one female of the
whole number saved, and among the passen
gers were some of superior elegance and rare
beauty. The number burned and drowned can
not be less than^two hundred. It may be more.
Oh never again may I witness such a scene
of horror. It seems like a frightfulJdream
only too real. That pale old man haunts mo.
The agony of some of those beautiful young
girls will be impressed upon my mind forever,
and 1 would that I could forget the horrible
sifht of that poor fellow, calling in the air for
sotne escape from the flames which were ra
iritiff all around him. It was all terrible
dreadful! horrible! I can find no language
which will portray my feelingp,
SINGULAR PHENOMENON.—At a recetA
meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society,
Newman, Esq. read an extract ofa letter
from a naval officer, who sailed on board
the sloop China, from Bombay to the Pers
sian Gulf, in the year 1832, detailing
most remarkable phenomenon, which was
seen by all on board, with astonishment
and some degree of fear. In the monlli*
or August, about 8 o'clock at night, while
the ship was rapidly advancing with strong
wind and high sea, they were, without
any interval, instantly surrounded by wa*
fer as white as milk. The color near the
ship was of a dead white this brightened
a*
it receded from the ship, until, towards
the horizon, it became of a silvery hue.
No horizon was, however, visible, but the
white color seemed to ascend towards the
zenith, becoming constantly mote brilliant
aud dazzling, so as to obscure the stars,
which had been before fully visible. The
sea became quite smooth,and the ship per
fectly steady, as though in a calm, nor
could any appearance indicating her cul
ling through the water, be discefned: not
withstanding which, the wind still contin
ued to blow, and the ship to advance as
rapidly as before. The water when taken
up in a bucket, did not differ from ordina
ry sea water: it became phosphorescent
on being agitated, but not more so than
usual no phosphorescence was visible in
the sea itself, being most probably over
come by the color of the water. The ves
sel sailed about fifteen miles through this
while sea, and then left as suddenly as it
reached it, meeting in an instant the tu*
raultuous sea it had been sailing in before.
The change in both cases was as rapid at
a flash of lightning. The same phenom*
enon was again observed two several
times, for periods of about twenty minutes
duration and the appearance was in both
instances, as before described. Colonel
Briggs remarked upon this letter, that he
had himself witnessed a similar phenom*
enon on board the Benares, in the year
1810: that some alarm was, at first, caus
ed by it, but that the captain had witness^
ed this remarable appearance bef»re. In
fact, he understood it was by no means
rare, but had been noticed by most vessel#
sailing in those latitudes Lil'y Gazette.
were lavoreu wnn an opportunity, one
afternoon last week, of learning a little of
naval battles, from actual observation
while the crew of the Delaware 74, lying
at anchor within two miles of lliem, were
being exercised at the great guns and
going* through the operations of a regular
fight with blank catriges. It yns an ex
hibition as terrific and exciting to most of
hose in the gay groups of fashionables
who viewed it from the beach and the
imitation of Jove's thunder" was admit
ed by all to be on a larger scale than they
had ever witnessed it. The fire was
kept up briskly from both sides and alt
parts of the ship' and at every pause in
the anion of the booming deep toned can*
non, the prittle prattle of the musketry ill
the tops and on the quarter deck was
to noWs'oi tuusft-ai iiismmiem respunuwg
to the deepest tone of the thorough bass.
I he ship at times was nearly hid from
view by the clouds of smoke from her
cannon.—Notfolk Beacon.
A passenger in a steamboat a short time
since brought suit in St. Louis against the
captain for not starting at the hour he ad
vertised, thereby creating a loss to him.
The case went before a jury, who brought
in a verdict of one hundred and ninety
dollars damages.
A large meeting was held! at Erie,
this State, on Monday, the 2d inst. in ref
erence to the McLsod question. The
Hon. John Galbraith presided. Strong
resolutions were passed condemning the
course of Mr. Webster, and approving of
the decision of ihe Supreme Court of NlPIP
York.
Multiply the figure 9 by any other
gle figure, and the two figures composing
the product, added together will make 9.
—Thus, 9 multiplied by 4 make 36,.
which figures added together, make
and so with all the other figures.
An Irish drummer, whose round atW
rosy cheeks gave notice that he ndto and
then indulge in a noggin of right goodpo~
teen, was accosted by the inspecting gen
eral
4What
makes your face look so red
sir?' Plaze your honar,' replied Pat, *1
always blushes when I speak to a gin«.Ml}
officer.
COKFKCTIONABIKS AT RETAIL.-—
you keep confectionaries here ma arolr- o
"Yes my lad." ^S4:"
"Well, sister Sally sent me to get
some#
I guess I'll take three, done up in a newt
paper without no printing on either side.
Tim says there is no time so proper for
a man to make his will, as when tilted
back in his chair with one
foot
l-i
it
resting on
a table. There is no chance of his for
geting any one then, as he has hw teg m*
ease befipEe hini.