Marshall County Democrat., April 24, 1856, Image 1

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THE BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD FALL ALIKE UPON THE RICH AND THE POORJACKSON.
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JOB PRINTING OFFICE.
We hive on hand an extensive assortment of
JOB TXFB,
Ami are prepared to execute
JOB ivD F.1ACV PRIXTIXG!
Of ererj description and quality, such as
Kerums,.
II AN DDI M-',
l.ABKLS,
CATAU;rE3,
rAMPiu-irrs, .
BUSINESS CARDS,
BLANK DEEDS tfc
MOKTfi.WiKS ;
And in short. Blanks of every variety and descrij
tion, on the shortest notice, i on reasonable terms
XLYMOUTII J1AXNKR, HY W.J. BURX.S.
11) mouth, Ind.
THROWN LKE & SHIRLEY. DEALERS IN
y Dry Good and Groceries first door e ist of
Michigan street, llyinomn, mi.
B " ÜÖÖK & KVANH DEALERS INT DRY
Goods and (I roeeries, corner Michigan and
La Torte streets, I lymouth, Ind.
Cr ALM ER, DEALER IN DRY GOODS &
. Groceries, south corner la IVrte and Mich
igan streets Plymouth, Ind.
NIL OGLES BEE & Co., DEALERS IN
. Dry G ods .V Groceries, Brick Store Mich
igan street, Plymouth, lnl
JOHN C( )UG IK DE A LKR I X DRY GOODS
and Grcerics,cornT of Michigan and t'uio
streets Plymouth, Ind.
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no lU'VlUM Mil I IYI'1? t MWTI'V
$ M.'kcr, Plymouth, lud.
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R O W N k B A X T E R, DEALERS IX
Stoves, Tnr.vare, &c., Plymouth, lud.
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R. PERSHING k Co.. DEALERS IN
Drugs and Medicines,. . .Plymouth. Ind. !
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D A M Y I N X E DG E, W II ( 1 1. ES A 1 . E
and Retail Grower,.
. .PIvniouth. Ind.
WM. L. PIATT, MAXI'i'ACTl'RER oi-'
Cabinet Ware P'.ym uth. In 1.
Ll'YTER & FRANCIS, HOl'SE CARPEN
t t. rs J iiicrs Plymouth, lud.
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V. SMITH. Jl'STICEO;' THE PEACE.
' West sale Michigan .-t., Plvinouik, Til l.
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"ELLIOTT & Co., MANCS'ACTCR ERS OF
Wagons Carriages Plows, Piymoutli. Ind.
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ers ofSadi Ve P!vi:ru:h, Ind.
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Plymouth, Ind.
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Son, Proprietor-, Plymouth, IikI.
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RBKRIN(i AND HAIRDRFSINC, I1Y
Alfred Billow, Plvmout'.i, Iu.l.
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ITCIIKI.L & WILCOX, MANCr ACTU
rer of Plow.-, Kc.,. Plymouth, Ind
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ESTERVKLT k IIKWIT, DKAI.KRS
in Drv (lood Si ("roccries, Plymouth, IikI.
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S. CLKAVKLAND, DKAI.KR IN DRY
JTm Coxls, Il.inlware, etc.,. . Plymouth, IikI.
TIL CASK, JÜSTICK OF TIIK PI'AC K,
Plvmoiith, Ind.
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A. IH'Crs ATrORNKY AT LAW
0 Piymoutli, I nd.
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A LOON, BY S. EDWARDS,
Plvmoutli, Ind.
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R. J. J. VINALL, ilOMKOPATIIIST,
Office over Palmer's store, Pbin wth, Ind.
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IIUMi;, IIASNLSS MAKER,
Plymouth, Ind.
BLANK DEEDS AND MORTGAGES!
Wc now hive .1 u;j!v f Bl.-mk D r.l.s and
Mortgage, of an approved form printed in the J
jrst tvle of tlie art, on line white folio p.sf, and
or sale at one dollar mt jiiire, or li e cent-. sin-Io ,
; co ward; on Ihe contrary, they were all
ALSO, BLANK NOTES ON HAMD,!br:lvo m:u but 1 wa3 wi,h co1
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fi primeu u oruer on Hiort notice. Justices
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ol.inks irinte-1 to order, and tn reri-vmaMp trnn t I
Tins OrricK.
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lehi-hwtmsh price jid for Prime Mink and i
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Coon (.kini lv
J. F. VAN VALKLMJUiani.
At the Post OiIi e
f rh liilicst market price paid in fash for Peer
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Mink and Coon skins, ami Ueef hides at
C. Palmer j
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THE YANKEE LOVER S SOLILOQUY.
A. thin a.s a hatchet I've grown,
Ami a ioor as J oh' 3 turkey, by roily !
I stand like a scare-crow alone
Had victim of love's melancholly!
I feci most cofouiidedly blue,
Life's rose is turned into thistle ;
My sweetheart has turned out untrue,
And fooled me as slick asa whistle.
Though lively and keen as a rat,
And lively as any young kitten;
She has irot the sham claws of n cat.
And has showed Vm to me thro' the mitten. !
Of our village girls she is the belie
As iluiuo as a partridge she grows
Her lips for two cherries would soil
Her cheeks are as red as a rose.
Like two bran new dollars her eyes
Her figure is neater than wax
In beauty, with Yenus sh? vies
Her hair its is finer than llax !
I courted her d tv after dav,
Expecting a wedding to follow;
Alas! for my love thrown away
Her heart like a uinkin was hollow!
As thin as a hatchet I've grown,
And as mr as Job's turkey, by golly!
I stand like a scarecrow alone,
A victim of love's melancholy!
LOVU AND DUCKS.
Oh, I seen her out a walking
In her li.il.it de la rue.
And itaintno use a talking,
Dul she's pumpkin-; and a few.
She slides along in beauty
Like a duck upon a I..kc,
And 1Mb. all live and duty
If I on! v ere her drake.
Oil her glances are like rockets,
An l I. er voice has seen a ring
It's like eagles in your p ickets
Just to hear the lady sing.
And when I sit beside- liT,
An I look into her eyes,
It seems as if in rainbows,
O'er bridges of mitice-pies,
And on wings f sky-bhre glory,
I felt my spirit rise ?
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(i'rm Putnam's Monthly Magazine.)
THE OCEAN DEPTHS.
A DIVER S TALK.
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The life of one who explores the
rL-softhesea, is not more perilous than fis-
-Vl,rm The ch um of terror hangs
.iiiniii 1 u, n:i:i m mt.-rniniabie succession
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f exciting events renders it dear to its pro-1
fessor. Not to the common diver of the
Kast, who can remain but f r a fn.cii m of
tmK' bei.oalli tho wave, and grope fearfully j
among rugged ocean-mounds, but to the
nd 'pt in tlie civilized mode of iMving, who, !
in his protective armor, may remain sub-!
'merged for hours, and wander, with im-:
pvlni Vt f,jr rniles along those unknown re-1
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gioiis far belw tlie sea. To him are laid
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pen the horrors of the watery crea: ion,
mid he may gaze upon such scenes as Ara -
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bian s.ory tells us were presented to the
foarfui 0Ves of Abdallah. To him the most
thrilling ie;urrenc4s seem frivolous; for,
j ,;s m.-niory, he retains thoughts that ;
may well chill the soul wnh dread.
I am a diver a diver from choice and j
I am proud of my profession. Where
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eu,rum 1 loroear. 1 will tell my sto-
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ry, and leave others to judge conceiniii'
It.
An appalling shipwreck occurred, not j
long ago, upon the wildest part ,f the coast 1
of Newfoundland. The tidings of ihis ca
lami y reached tho ears of thousands; but,
amid the crowd of accidents which follow
ed in juiek succession, it was soon forgot-
: ten. Not by ns, ho.vcver. We found that
the vessel h:u sunk upon a spot where the (
water's depth was by no means great, !
and that a daring man might easily reacli
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her.
She was a steamer called the Marmion, looked like the stern of a vessel whse hull
and had been seen going suddenly down.jhiy there.
without an instant'8 warning, by some fish-1 Suddenly Kimmer struck me again, and
ermen nearby ;she had, undoubtedly, struck pointed upward. Following the direction of
a hidden rock, and had thus been, i 011 j his hand, I looked up. and saw the surfece
moment destroyed. j ,,f t'10 watT all fo amy and in motion. There
I spoke to my associates of the plan, and I was a momentary thrill through my heart,
.hey approved it. No lime was lost in hut it parsed over. We were in a dan
making the necessary preparations, and a gerous condition. A storm was coining
short time Ixdiehl us embarked in our small on!
schooner for the sunken ship. There were j Hut should we turn back now. when we
six of us, and we anticipated extraordinary
success.
j I was the leader, and generally ventured j
upon any exploit in which there was tin-
("omniu" langer. Not thai the others wer
"thorS W'to destitute.
As two persons
were needed, in order to explore the Mar-j
mion, i had selected as my companion a,
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"UI1o ,"lnw wnosw .Meanuiess and uautu-
less courage Iiad several tinvs befon? been
f. -a r fully tested,
It was a calm and pleasent day, but the
southern and eastern horizon looked deceit-
fttl. Small tupicious cloudy were gather- j
PLYMOUTH, IND., APRIL 24, 185G.
od there, ill of aspect, and 'sneaking fel
lows, regular hang-dog fellows," as my
comradc, Ilimmer, remarked to me. Never
theless, we were not to be put off by a lit
tle cloudiness in the sky, but boldly pre
pared to venture.
So deep was the water, that no vestige
j of a chip's mast remained above the sur
face, to point out the resting place of the
j Marmion. We were compelled, therefore,
to select the scene of operations according
j to the best of our ability. Down went the
! sails of our schooner, and Ilimmer and I
; put on our diving armor. We iixed on our
helmets tightly, and screwed on the hose.
I One by one each clumsy article w as adjust-
ed. The weights were hung, and we were
j ready.
j "It looks terrible blackish, Horton," said
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; Ilimmer to me.
! "Oh," I replied gaily, "it's only a little
! mist all right!"
"Ah!" He uttered a low exclamation,
! which sounded hollow from his cavernous
i helmet.
"All ready," I cried, in a loud voice,
which they, however, could not easily dis
tinguish. Then making a proper sign, I
1 was swung over the side.
Down we went, I first, and Ilimmer
close behind me. It did not take a long
. time for us to reach the bottom. Wo found
ourselves upon what seemed a broad plain,
I sloping downward, toward the south, and
j rising slightly, toward the north. Looking
I forward then, a dim, black object arose,
; which our experienced eves knew to be a
: lofty rock.
' I motioned to Ilimmer that we should
proceed there.
I cannot tell the strangeness of the sen-
salion felt bv one who lirst walks the bot-
torn of the sea.
j There are a thousand objects fitted to ex
ci:e astonishment, even in the mind of him
who has dared the deed a hundred times.
All around us lay the plain, covered by wa
; ter; but here the eye can not pierce far
I away, as in the upper air, for the water, i ti
! the distance, grew opaque, had seemed to
: fide away into misty darkness. There was
j no sound except the incessant gurgle
I which was produced by the escape of air
from the breast valve, and the plash caus-
ed by our passage through the waters. We
walked on at a good pace; for this armor,
which seems so clumsy up above, is excel-
Ient below, and oilers little inconvenience
to the practiced wearer.
Fishes in crowds were around us. Fish -
s of every shape and sizo m it our eyes,
no matter where tl.cy turned. They swam
swiftly by us; they sported in the water
above us; they raced and chased one anoth-
er in every direction. Here a shoal
poises tumbled along in clumsy ga
of por-
gambols,
there a prampus might bo seen rising slow-
ly to the surface; here an immense- number
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' of smaller fish flashed past us, there some
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; huge ones, with ponderous forms, floated
: in tho water lazily. Sometimes three or
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four placed themselves directly before us,
1 staring at us, and solemnly working their
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1 gills. There they would remain till we came
close up to them, and then, with a start,
'they would dart a war.
t,js time ;vc Vt0rc AV;iIkili onward,
along tho bottom of the sea, whileabove us!
like a black cloud in the sky, wc could o.
.
our )oat sl(nvly mov,ni, onward upon the
'Ol
surface of 'he water nd now not more
..uii.ul 01 .in, aicr. YUU now , 1101 mOlO
than a hundred yards before us, wo could
see the towering form of that ebony rock
-which had at first greeted our eyes from
afar. As yet, we could not be certain that
this was the place where the Marmion had
struck. Hut soon a round, black object be
came discer nable, as we glanced at the
rocky base.
Ilimmer struck my arm, and pointed. I
signed assent, and we moved onward more
uuickly.
.
A few moments elapsed; we had come
nearer to the rock. The black obiect now
were so near the object of our search?
already it lay beforo us. Wo were close
beside it. N, I would not. I sh-nalizod
to Ilimmer to go foward, and we still kept
our course.
Now the rock rose up before us, black,
rugged, dismal. Its rough sides were worn
down by tlm action f tho water, and, in
some places were covered by marine plants
and nameless ocean vegetation. Wc passei
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onward, we clambered over a spur, which
jutted from the clilf, and there lay the
steamer.
Tlw Marmion there she lay upright,
with everything still standing. Sho had
gone right .down, and had settled in such
a position, among the rocks, that she tood
upright here, just as though she lay at her
wharf. We rushed eagerly along and clam
bered up her side. There was a low moan
in the water, which sounded warninülv in
our ears, and told of a swift approaching
danger. What was to be done, must be
done speedily. We hurried forward. Ilim
mer rushed to the cabin. I went forward,
to descend into the hold. I descended the
ladder. I walked into the engineer's room.
All was empty here, all was w ater. The
waves of the ocean had entered, and were
sporting with the works of man. I went
into the freight-room. Suddenly I was
startled by an appalling noise upon the deck.
The heavy footsteps of some one running
as though in mortal fenr, or most dreadful
haste, sounded in my ears. Then my heart
throbbed wildly; for it was a fearful thing
to hear, far down i:i the silent depths of the
ocean.
Pshaw! ii's only Ilimmer.
I hurriedly ascended the deck by the first
outlet that appeared. When I speak of hur
ry, I speak of the quickest movement pos
sible when encumbered with so much arm
r. Uut this movement of mine was quick;
I rushed upwards; I sprang out on the
deck.
It was Ilimmer!
lie stepjed forward and clutched my arm.
He pressed it with a convulsive grasp, and
oiited to the cabin.
I attempted to go there.
He stamped his foot, and tried to hold
me back. He pointed to the hoat, and
implored me, with frantic gestures, to go
up.
It is appalling to witness the horror
struck soul trying to express itself by signs.
It is awful to see these siinis when no face
is plainly visible, and no voice is heard. I
could not see his face plainly, but his eyes,
through his heavy mask, glowed like coals
of fire.
4I will go. I exclaimed. I sprang from
him. he clasped his hands together, but
dared not follow.
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miii" la neie. ji.il neeuec.tii oe so uiciiu-
f ,1 as to mralvzo the soul of a practiced 1
j Jivcr. I for lnysi.lf
j I walked forward. I came to the cabin
door. I entered the forward saloon, but , remembered to have seen open when I des
saw nothing. A feelingof contemjit came i cended? or had some fearful being from the
tome. Jlimmer shall not come with me
again, I thought. Yet I was awe-struck.
! j)own n tiie depths of the s.-a there is on-
j ly silence oh, how solemn! I paced the
1 Ion-' saloon which had echoed with the
j shrieks of the d rowing passengers. Ah!
j there are thoughts which sometimes till
! the soul, which arc only felt by those to
w hom scenes of sublimity are familiar.
Thus thinking, I walked to the af.er-cabin
and entered
Oh, God of heaven!
Had not my hand clenched the door with
a grasp which mortal terror had made con-' I seized a bar of iron and tried to pry it
vulsive, I should have fallen to the floor. 1 ' up; I raised it slightly, but there was no
stood nailed to .he spot. For there before j way to get it up further. I looked around
inc stood a crowd of people men and wo- j and found some blocks; with those I raised
men caught in the last death struggle by ( the heavy door, little by little, placing a
the overwhelming waters, and fastened to j block in to keep what 1 had gained. Hut
the spot, each in the position in which the work was slow and laborious, and I had
death lud found him. Fach one had sprung worked a long w hile before 1 had it raised
from his chair at the shock of the sinkin' feur inches.
ship, and wi h one common emotion, all j The sea rolled more and more. The sub
had started for the door. I5ut the waters j merged vessel felt its power, and rocked,
of the sea hal been too swift for them. Lo! : Suddenly it wheeled over, and. lay upon its
then some wildly grasping the table, oth-1 ide.
j ers the beams, others the sides of the cab -
in there they all stood. Near the door was
a crowd of people, heaped upon one anoth- I
er some on the floor, others rushing overi
them all se iking, madly, to gain the out-
let. There was one who sought to clam-i
her over tho table, and still was there, hold-
ing on to iron post. So strong was each
convulsive grasp, so fierce the struggle of j
each with death, thai their hold had not yet
been relaxed; but each one stood and look
ed frantically t the dor.
To the door good God! To me, to me
they were looking! They wer' glancing
me all those dreadful, those terrible eyes!
Eyes in which tlie fire ot life had been dis -
placed by the chilling gleam of death. Eyes
which still glared, like the eyes of the ma-
niac. with no expression. They froze mo'then turned upon her side.
with their cold and icy stare. They had
no meaning, for the soul had gone. And
this made it still more horrible than it could
have been in life; f r the appallin contor
tion of their facer,, expressing fear, horror,
despair, and whatever else tho human soul
may feel, contrasting with the cold and
glassy eyes, made th-'ir vacancy more fear
ful. He upon the table seemed more fiend
ish than the others, for his Lug, black hair
was disheveled, and floated horribly down;
and Iiis beard and mustache, all loosened
j by the water, gave him the grinuicss of a
demon, wn, wnai woe ana lo-tnre! what
unutterable agonies appeared in the des.
pail ing glance of those faces faces twisted
into spasmodic contortions, while the souls
that lighted them wer; wiithino-and strii"
gling for life.
I heeded not the dangerous sea which,
even when we touched the steamer, had j
slightly rolled. Down in thoüc awful depths j
the swell would not be very strong, unless
it should increase with ten-fold fury above,
But it had been increasing, though I had
, .
hol uouceu ii, anu ine motion oi me water
began to be felt in these abysses. Sudden
ly the steamer was shaken and rocked bv
the swell.
At this the hideous forms were shaken
and fell. The heaps of people rolled asun
der. That demon on the table seemed to
make a spring directly towards me. I lied,
shrieking all a ere after me I thought.
I rushed out, with no purpose but to escape.
I sought to throw off my weights and rise.
My weights could not be loosened; I pull
ed at them with frantic exertions, but could
not loosen them. The iron fastenings had
grown stiflf. One of them I wrested off in
my convulsive efforts, but the other kept
me down, The tube, also, was h ing down
still in my passage-way through the ma
chine rooms. I did not know this until 1
had exhausted my strength, and almost
my hope, in vain efforts to loosen the weight
and still the horror of that scence in the
cabin rested upon me.
Wheie was Ilimmer? The thought flash-
ed across me. He was not here. He had
returned. Two weights lav near, which
seemed thrown off in terrible haste. Yes,
Ilimmer had gone. I looked up; there lay
the boat, tossing and rolling among the
waves.
I rushed down into the machine-room,
to go back, so as to loosen my tube. I had
gone through passages carelessly, and this
lay there, for it was unrolled from above as
I went on. I went back in haste to extri
cate myself; I could stay here no longer;
for if all the gold of Golconda was in the
vessel, I would not stay in company with
the dreadful dead'
I3ack fear lent wings to my feet. I hur
ried down the stairs, into the lower hold
once more, and retraced my steps through
j the passages below. I walked back to the
! place into which I had first descended. It
! was dark; a new feeling of horror shot
! throiKrli mc T lonl-ed im 77, ),
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Heavens! was it closed by mortal hand?
I Had Rimmer, in his panic" flight, blindly
thrown down the trap-door, which I now
, caoin mat demon who sprung towards
I started back in terror.
Rut I could not wait here; 1 must go; 1
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"st escape from this den of horrors. I
i sprang up the ladder and tried to raise the
I dor. It resisted my efiorts; I put my
helmeted head against it, and tried to raise
it; the rung of the ladder broke beneath
1 but the tloor was not raised; my tube
came down through it and kept it partly
open, for it Avas a strong tube, and kept
strongly expanded by close-wound wire.
: I ran around to get on the deck above, to
try and lifi, up the door. Hut when I came
to the other outlet, I knew it was impossible;
for the tube would not permit me to go so
far, and then I would rather have died a
thousand deaths than have ventured again
so near the cabin.
I returned to the fallen door; I vat down
in despair and waited for death. I saw no
hope of escape. This, then, was to be my
em!
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Hut the steamer gave a sudden lurch,
IUJ again acted upon by the power of the
;ltwaves. She had been balanced upon a
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f roc-i 111 KlK'n :l that a slight ac
j f the water was suflicient to tip her
over.
She creaked, groaned, and labored, and
I 1 I clung to the ladder; I pressed
the trap-door open, while the stonner lay
with her deck perpendicular to tho ground.
I sprang out and touched tho bottom of the
sea. It was in good time; for a moment af
ter the mass went over back again.
Then, with a last eifert, I twisted the
j irn fastening of tho weight which kept me
down; I jerked it. It was loosed, it broke,
it fell. In a moment I began to ascend,
and in a few minutes I was floating on the
water fer the air which is pressed down
for the diver's consumption constitutes a
buoyant mass, which raises him up from
the sea.
Thanks to heaven! There was the strong
boat with my brave men! They felt me
rising; they saw me, and came and saved
me.
Ilimmer had fled from the horrid scene
when I entered the cabin, but remained in
the boat to lend hi ai l. Ho never went
IUI II i IBI'fl'TI
down again, but became a sea captain. As
forme, I still go down, but onlv to vessels
whose crews have been saved. "
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ins nceuie to ay that me .Marmion was t ..jjEAK Siu: A correspondent of yours
never again visited. j has lccommended your paper to me as an
, advertising medium. 11c mentioned the
A "Wife in Ecstasies and a Husband in ' circulation, but may have been mistaken in
Fidgets. ; the amount. Will vou kindly inform mo
The deed is accomplished. My wife I lhc 'ula;ion.f your weeklv. as I
, , . , :. , . wish to make a contract with you for tho
has got a piano, "and now farewell the . ,,. i, . i ...
0 ' insertion oi my aacriietnenU 1 am un-
tranquil mind farewell fun and the even-1 limited in my a'lvertisin.; 13- list of papris
ing papers, and the big cigars that make is now thirteen hundred, and I pay in nd
ambkion virtue oh, farewell! and oh, ve vanee. lours respectfully.
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mnrfnl o uom,. w1t., rude tW.tc tbo im.
mortal Jove's dread clamors counterfeit,"
but stop, I can't bid them farewell, fdronc
of them has just arrived. It came on a
dray. Six men carried it into the the par-
i..r nd W rnonfnd ..ivfiN- Tf -rt.,i.rt.i
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ton, shines like a mirror, and has ca. ved
Cupids climbing up its limbs. And such
lungs whew !
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My wife has commenced to practice, and
.1, .f 1 t 1 1 i 1
the first time she touched the machine, I
thought we were in the midst of a thun- j exertions in procuring new subscribe?.
der storm and the lightning had struc k the , This number should be further augmented
crockery chests. The cat with tail erect, i by a permanent exchange list of sixty-five,
took a bee-line for a particular friend upon '"-hig in all a constant weekly circulation
, , f 1 ,. , . . . I of one hundred and thirteen, besides an av
the back fence, demolishing a six-sh'llmg I , . , .... .
pane ot glass. 1 lie baby awoke, and the
little fellow trL'd his b'St to beat the instru
ment, but he did n't do it. It beat him.
A teacher has been introduced into the
MM IlkJ VVVII Kill VMU.,V4 IllbV tMV
Tr . . . . A . . .
He says he is the last of fcapole-
j house.
an's grand army. He wears a large mus-
tache, looks fiercely, smells of garlic,
and goes by the name of Count Run-away -and-ncver-come-baek-again-by.
He play
ed an extract de opera the other night. He
run his fingers through his hair twice,
then grinned, then he cocked his eyes up
at the ceiling, like a monkey hunting flies, ceive that 1 '-dl be the means of opening
.1 , e 1 V it!-'1 market to you for 855,370 worth of the
then down came one of his lingers, and li. 11, 1. , ,
...... ... 1 invaluable remedies which have ltnmorta-
ncaruaueiigmiui sounu, similar to mat
producedby a cockroach dancirg on the'
tenor string of a fiddle. Down came an-!
other finger, and I was re
j w,ml whistling through
! hen c
coop, lie touched his thumb, and I
ght I was in an orchard listening to
I thou
j t"t laying ot a jackass. .Now he
Angers along the keys, and I tho't
of a boy rattling a stick along a picket
fence. AU jf a sudden he stopped, and I
thought something ha. I happened. Then
down came both fists, and oh, Lord ! such
a nois was never heard before. I thought
a herricane had struck the house and the
1,10
was
walls were caving in. I
imagined I
; in the cellar, and a ton of coal felling up -
..ii 1,...1 T llw.nrrlif tl. mn,.l.;n, l,-,d
, , c " . . . , ! the next time you see her; tell her die is a
burst, when the infernal noise stopped, and : i i. i T . , , . f t
1 1 ' j lady whom I greatly cst4em, and that I of-
I heard my wife ejaculate, Exquisite !" ten' think with what satisfaction, while thi
"What the deuce is the matter ?" The disastrous war is so thinning ihe popula
answer was, "Why, dear, that's La Som-' tion of lic'r realms, slie must ic-lWt that
n,ml.i, 1" " im she at least, has done her duty in the way
ii.tntui.il... j .i juiiiiiauiif uia .
thought I ; and the Count rolled up his
sheet of paper. He calls it music; but;
fer the life of me I can't make it look like j
anything else than a post-and-rail fence j
with a lot ot juvenile niggers climbing:
J j
over it. j
Hefore that instrument cam- into the
house, I couM enjoy myself, but now ov-'
cry woman in the neighborhood must be
invited to hear the new piano, and overv
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time the blasted thing shrieks oil. like a
locomotive with tlie luonclntis. l nave to .vx -u, ,,, at him. an he say -furs-rate;'
praise its tones, and when the invited an when lie got dry, .'ie breihe in 'im
o-uests are playing 1 have to say -Fxquis-! de btvtf ob lite. He put him in de garden
ite, Delightful, Heavenly 'and all such 1 ",h Kden. an' he sot lnm in one corner oh
. t , ' le lot. an he Me him to eat all de apples,
trash, while, at the same time 1 know just;, ,; i . i.:iii i. . i i
' J i ceplin tleni in Ie middle ob orchard, dem
as much about music as a blind codfish. jhe'wan.ed fer winter apples. Hyme-by
There are more tuning hammers than Adam he got lonesum. S de Ior' m.ik
comforts in mir house and and I wish the Fbe. 1 tole VU lfr he make her. He
rentor of the piano was troubled with a ! f ;V,,am 1,H,,,,m.; wu,,,d1
1 lift 'ten Ii gouge a Mil out lie side, an lie mak
rpetu.il nightmare and obliged to sleep . ,K; Khi h C()rn,.r o1m1o r.
! 1 . . . .11 I !. Vf 4.1. .. . ... .
Ill V
perpetu;
in one of his instruments all his life. As
for myself I had rather put my head un -
der a tin pan and be drummed to sleep with
r i . .1. i .r
a pair of smoothing irons than near "La
.
Nimnamhula, or any other La thumped
out of a piano. Scatter pennies in front
j ,f m' house, and draw together all the
wandering minstrels in the cityhand or-
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gans, banjos, fiddles, tambourines, rattling::
bones and fish horn
L -t juvenile nioii -
keys crawl hi at my window in search of
three cent pieces let us be awakened at
night by the cry of murder ! ring the fire
i 1,:,vo a "(,ovil of n tim0" Mr'
ally ; do all this, and I will not complain ;
banish pianos !
My piano must go ; I am going to hunch
the infernal machine out of the window
the first dark night, and mv friends I ad-
vise you to sleep with cotton in your cars,
or when she gives her dying grunt you '11
think you 'vo fallen out of bed or a f.iilen !
star has gone to rost an your house top.)
F.r ihn inf.o-m ifi.iii .f Vonn - America. I
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will state that all the pieces ol brass wiie
and ivory keys they are welcome to, but
the skeleton I want for a refrigerator.
The following interesting conversation
occurred between the census-taker and a'
young lady: J
'I am taking a statistical census of man-'.
ufirlures and prolucc; was there any pro!
t.uce raised hero last year:
Yes, I have g"t ono about six months
old.'
The man left.
NO. 24.
I Thomas Hollowav, the great pill and
"Ult,r,0nt 111:111 1,1 London, writes to th3
j lrilU'vl Xtir wn tLe subJect lvertUing.
I He says:
,11- lnC KOT Ol U1C -UIT.T, TC
sponds.
'Very dear Sir: The circulation of tho
A?ir, which has been increasing with un-
exampled rapidity for more than two year
nrtW amounts tofortpthrce, though I am
hound in honor to say that two of my sub-
senbers being very precarious pay, I shall
probablv cut them off before this reaches
you, so that you are liberty to consider the
list reduced to fortv-onc. To this number
i should be added seven gratis copies, sent
1 to as many friends of mine at a distance,
j e v . . 1 e
our. f't romtilimoiir. to their lodcf i rahlo
.ei.ige 01 11.111 .1 uuicu eiquea u eeK, nuicii
are sent w ith religious scrupulosity to prst
masters and other distinguished individu-
als 111 benighted parts of the world. I have
good reasons for estimating my trading
j
1 patronnge at forty-nine persons pr copy.
j -oU mly safely calculate that the 5537
renders of my paper would consume, each ,
J ? 10 (X) Worth of your medicine particular
the pills, for I ran not promise you an ex
tensive sale of your ointment in this re
gion, cutaneous diseases being rare, as may
be inferred from the fict that the foreign
bom population of Mississippi is only one
! hi sixty-two of the aggregate. So you per-
f,.eii Vour nftm, ? on yxtr) , ,f,er deduct-
ing the cost of materials, boxes, etc., your
profit will be about eighty-live per cent, or
reminded of the I 47'UG 4 51' UI)0" tl,is handsome in
. , . 'crease of your profits, accruing through
a knot-hole in a j .:..-., al .. . t nwnilSe 0 cll "
j tl. moderate commission of one per
lor $473 G2.1- If thS terms do not
ent,
suit
. 3". r m ine next steamer, ana
h tiln V.rho ' first nuartcriv
! m,.(.t if 17 CO. be s,, -,H,d as t
11 i.iiiv i .' 11 1 11. 11 -in tiu r.iiisnu'i
install-
to pay for
me one year's subscription to Punch,"
"Diogenes," and the "Times," all of w hielt
are good papers and shouldjbe encouraged,
and send me balance in cuttings of the
j London Parlicul-ir Madeira grape vine.
j Subsequent installments maybe sent, at
j your option, in Rank of England notes, or
; ay s-rt f truck except yur medicines
'V0 lllV V'St TcSJ OctS to QuOCll Victoria.
of keeping it up.
Your obedient servant,
The Emtor.
Colored Discourse. .
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My tex, bruderen and sistcren, will bo
f,,un' ;u d fast chapter ob (iinesis, an do
twentv-seben verse:
S de Lir m ike a man ju-t like Hoself.
Nnv mv bred.'m, you see dat in de Un
"h l '"rM ,A(,;,m-
I toie veil liow he make lnm: He make lum
out oh de ol tv. an he sot him on a K.ird,
j ,,.. :l' j, Me her to eat all de apples cop-
ltin' dem in de middle ob de orchard, deni
' he want for u inter apples. Wun day do
I Lor' go out a bisiiin; le deblile cum long
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! he dr'ss himself in de skm dule snake, an
, ,u. foW K,.. ;u, Jt0 !0r; .Ke! ,vhv fer
j you no cat de apples h de mi Idle oh de
orchard? hl sav: 'Dem de Lor s w in-
ier apples. Hut de ch hbl say: 'I M
you to eat d ni, case deys tie lioj-t spple.n
j Adam a bite, an de h bble . awav.
in oe rel;:ii'ii . rsi !. eai He at li e ntul
Hvnie-by le Lor' -onie h me. an' he call:
Alam! you AdamT Adam h lay low.
S d Lr' all agin: Vu Adam!' Atl
ant say: 'Ilea! Lor!' an' de Lr sav:
- Who'sMe do w
inter apples? Adam Me
j am . don-t El-o, he fxtvc'!
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o
de Lor' call: 'Ehe!' Ehe she lay low: do
. h' call agin; Vu EU!' EU Kay: 'Ilea!'
j ' v j ji c?.t if in ri'i in: liiii; i ij'j'iv..
Ehe Mo him she dont know Adam she
evocc'! So de Ir cot oh 'em hod mi' L
trmv ,.ni itr t, f..nc am- ,e t , m:
(io work for vou lixinl
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Piuvnxo OkkIck 1U i.ks. Here are the
latest. Thev sh.ould lie observed:
.
1. Enter sof.Iy.
'J. Sit down quietly.
3. Subsciilx for tho pa perl
4. Don't touch tho. jviker.
ft. Say nothing interesting.
C. Engage in no ontrovorsy.
7. Don't smoke.
T. Keep six feet from the table.
0. Don't talk to the printers.
10. Hands otf the papers.
. 11. Eyes olT the manuscript.
If you w ill observe these rules when you
go into a printing oHico vou will greatly
' oblige the printer.
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