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PORT GIBSON, CLAIBORNE COUWY, ll«9., HOYfinBER 17, 1848.
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Wm. DOWSE, P M.
I
A. GILKEY,
Cheap Cash Grocer ai d fi*ro
dacc Merchant,
No. 7, Stamps' Row,
PORT GIBSON, MI.
THE subscriber lias opened a new and
1 fresh stock of Groceries and Produce,
suitable for family a nd plantation use, and
"ill keep constantly .on hand, a good as
sortment of articles IK. his line, which he
will sell al a very small profit for cash, viz:
frown, Loaf and Crushed Sugar; Coflee;
Tea; Moiasses; Sperm and Star Candles;
boston Soap; Lard Oil; Mackerel; Coarse
•md Fine Salt; Pickles; Ketchup; Ground
l'epper, Spice and Cinnamon; Mustard;
Sardines; Almonds; Figs; Raisins; Boston
frackers; Soda Biscuit; Tobacco Rice;
Powder; Shot; Macaroni; Nutmegs; iCho
c, date* Salaratus; Nails; Matts; Brooms;
v Crockcry IVarc;
Dour; Ltfrd; Bulk Meat; Dridil Beef; Pota
•oes; Appl»;. Choose; Stone Jars, Churns,
Milk Pans and Jugs, &c. &c.
His friends and the public are invited to
call if they wish to buy their supplies cheap
for cash.
March 4.
27-ly
Fresh Flours.
F.W ORLEANS and St. Louis brands
A. GILKEY,
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*•* just received by
Dried Beef.
A good article received, and for sale by
May 2G A. GILKEY.
Fish, Fish
SALMON, Herrings and Mackeral in
Kits, lor sale by A. GILKEY.
Fresh ^Raising.
article received and for sale
A. GILKEY.
A fresh
Aby
Loaf and crushed Sugars.
A superior article of above Sugar for sale
low by A. GILKEY.
n Coffee,
>0 Havana Coflec, for sale low by
iY Ma y 26 A. GILKEY.
i Tt: Smoked Tongues.
I ; 8 F received and for sale low by
20 A, GILKEY.
L n __ m Candles.
N » ® tar Candles, for sale low by
26 A. GILKEY.
fet-Tho*:B. MADRIDER,
[( J^ERS h', a Professional services to the
c 'iizens of Port Gibson, and to those of
, ^jacent country. Ilis residence at the
of Port Gibson.
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SPRING GOODS.
IV. ROSENBERG,
No. S STAMPS ROW, one door above
Moody's Drug Store ,
I) ESPECTFÜLLY informs the public
1.1) that he has just returned from New
Orleans with a very handsome assortment
of Goods suitable to the season, among
which are
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Dry Goods.
Comprising a fine assortment of Bareges,
Painted Muslins; Sheetings and Shirtings;
Calicoes, Ginghams, black and fancy Silks;
Irish Linens and Lawns, Linen Cam
brie, Silk and Cotton Hdkfs., Swiss, Book,
and Cambric Muslins, Blanket, Siik, ami
Clothing.
Cashmere and Merino dress nnd frock
coats; black and fancy Cashmere, Merino
and Linen Pants; Satin and Fancy Cash
mere Vests, Shirts, Drawers, Suspenders,
Gloves, etc.
Hats and Caps.
Fine Silk and Beaver Hats, Oil'd Silk
and Glazed Caps, for men and boys.
Boots and Shoes.
Men's Calf Boots, Calf Brogans for men
und hoys, coarse, black and Russet Brogans,
Ladies Morocco and Seal Shoes and Gait
ers, Child.'ens and Misses Shoes and Gait,
ers.
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An assortment of Crockery and Glass
Ware, Knives and Forks, Scissors, Razors,
Penknives, Candlesticks, Looking Glasses,
Tobacco, Cigars, etc., etc.
Those who desire to purchase articles in
his line are requested to call before pur
chasing elsewhere, as his stock has been
carefully selected, and will lie sold at very
small advances on cost for Cash.
April 29, 1848.
35-tf
NEW GOODS!!
CALL A AD 8 EE,
rUHE subscribers have just received a
.L splendid assortment of Fashionable and
Seasonable Goods, consisting in part of the
following articles, viz:
White and colored Linen Drillings,
Onttonades, Hickory Checks,
Blue Plaids & Stripes for womens dresses.
Brown Linens, Irish Linens,
Assorted Calico Prints,
Colored Jaconet Muslins,
White
Cross.barred Muslins,
Swiss Muslins,
Linen and Cotton Diapers,
do do do Sheeting.
Table Linens, Linen Lustre,
Brown and bleached Domestics; Lowels,
4-4 o 4 and t>-4 Matting,
Mahogany Oil Cloth,
Grass Skirting,,
Silk, Thread and Kid Gloves,
Hosiery, assorted, &c.
French Marino Dress Coats,
do Frock do.
English and German Dress Coats,
do do do Frock do.
Grass Linen Sack Coats,
Brown do do do.
Linen Check Dress and Frock Coats,
Cottonade do do do do.
Colored Alpaca Sack Coats,
French Marino pants,
White and colored Linen Drilling Pants,
Nankeen Pants, Cottonade Pants,
Linen check Pants,
White and colored Marseilles Vests,
Black Satin Vests,
Linen and cotton Drawers,
Linen bosom Shirts.
Hats.—Panama, Leghorn, Oampeachy
and Straw Hats. Beaver and Silk Hats,
and also a good assortment of
HARDWARE AND CROCKERY,
to which we invite the attention of our
friends and customers.
BROUGHTON & WRIGHT.
April 21, 184g.
" aggiaig & Rope, just received by
_ the undersigned and for salt.
50 pieces Bagging,
50 coils Rope,
5 bales Twine.
Broughton & Wright.
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September 1,1848.
New and Fashionable
SPRING GOODS.
E would call the attention of our friends
and customers to our importations of
new and fashionable Spring Goods, which
we are now opening, received per ships
Ashland and Thetis, direct from New York.
These goods have been selected with taste,
are many of them of new styles and pat
terns, comprising a general assortment of
Summer Silks; Bareges; Fig'd French Ja
conets; French Ginghams and Gingham
Lawns; Organdys; Foulard Silks; Brazilli
ans, &c. Handsome Embroidered worked
Collars; Chimesettes; Reveiro Bordered
Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs; Ladies' H.
S. Gloves, assorted; Long White Kid do.;
Herman and Bcrege Shawls; Berege and
Satin Scarfs; Cravats & Neck Ties; Swiss,
Cambric, Jaconet and Nansook Muslins,
and a very handsome assortment of new
style Spring Ribbons. We have a new
stock of Gentlemen's Clothing, made up in
fashionable style and of good material, all
of which we are prepared to sell on mode
rate terms. J S MASON & Co.
March 17, 1848.
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Liusey & Jeans.
BALES Linscys,
Jeans
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J S Mason Sc Co.
47-6t
for sale by
July 21, 1848.
nagging, Rope and Twine,
_D 100 pieces Bagging,
1 Bale Twine,
J S Mason, At Co.
48-6t
for sale by
July 28, 1848.
Blue-Lick Water.
BARRELS just received and for sale
J. S Mason & Co.
47-4ts.
10
by
July 21
ÖTLERY —A lot of fine Poeket Knives
and Razors, just received and for stjJe by
H ? MpftptJTM»*
Nov.
Robert Potts.
John G. Hastings.
POTTS J* HASTINGS,
GROCERS.
Court House Square,
Port Gibson, Miss.
POTTS âç HASTINGS
H AVE opened at their store, an entire
hew stock of Groceries and Produce,
consisting in part of
Brown Sugar,
Crushed,
Loaf,
Pulverised ••
New Bedford
Adamantine, " Soap. Rnstnn No. 1
Soap# small Boxes for family
Coarse and Fine Salt,
Tabic, "
Cheese,
Candies and Fruit,
Cigars, Mackerel,
Tobacco.
Sweet Oil,
Mustard,
Spices of all kinds,
Raisins,
Almonds,
Filberts,
Old Rye Whiskey,
Rectified "
flams, Lard, Flour, Ac.
Together with a good assortment of Cas
tings. Nails, Brushes, Wooden and Crock
ery Ware, and variety of other articles.
Havana Coffee,
Java, "
Molasses,
S. H. "
Candles, Rice,
use,
Lard Oil,
Wine Vinegar,
Green & Bl'k Tea
Pickles,
Ketsups,
Syrups,
Lemons,
Pepper,
Sardines,
Powder,
Shot,
Lead,
Claret,
Porter,
Just Received.
S HAY'S Superior Family Bams,
Sugar Cured " " *
Clear Sides,
Dried Beef,
St. Louis and Ohio Flour and Lard,
Potts & Hastings.
41—3t
June 9,1848.
For Families.
S ODA Biscuit,
Boston Crackers,
Pilot Bread,
English Dairy Cheese,
Western,
Call at
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Potts & Hastings.
.fust Received.
\NDERS' 'Harry ofthe West' Tobacco,
Myers' "Phoenix" "
Price's, Rogers' and other Brands,
Large assortment ol Cigars,
Also, Shot Pouches, Powder Flasks,
Game Bags, and Walker's Percussion Caps.
Potts & Hastings.
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To Families.
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WAN A Sugar especially for preserves,
A superior article of Imperial Tea,
Mackerel in Kits,
Ouau In simili Duivs.
Potts & Hastings.
FOR SALE.
T
HE family residence, at present occu
pied by J. T. Marye, Esq., is now of
fered for sale This is the most desirable
situation for a family, in the Town of Port
Gibson, embracing the whole of square
No. 7, all enclosed, being the third square
immediately West ofthe Female Academy.
The main building is a large
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well finished in every respect; having a cir
cular stair-way leading to the sky-light
from the centre, with galleries running
the entire length, and a twelve foot passage
through the middle, east and west.
Also a two story brick kitchen, with ser
vant's rooms, attached to the south end,
and galleries entire, affording ample room
for lodging, washing, ironing and all cuiina
ry affairs, with a good
WELL OF WÂTER
at the door. This property has been
repaired the present year, and put in good
order, and well painied. The out buildings
all that could be desired, furnishing
every requisite for convenience and com
fort. " It has also a good garden and orchard
attached, and the main yard handsomely
decorated with select shrubbery.
Any person wanting such a property
will do xvell to examine it, as it will be sold
low for cash. Possession given the 1st of
January, 1849. Any information required,
will be given by Mr. Wm. O'Kelly, of
JAS. COTTE N.
5-12t
Port Gibson.
September 29, 1848.
TRUST SALE. j
CCORDING to the provisions of a Deed
of Trust executed by Charles T. Miles,
the 30lh of October, 1840,1 will sell at
Public Sale for cash, at the Court House in
Fayette, Jefferson county, on the
Twenly-lhiiMl day of March,
1849 .
between the hours of 11 o'clock, A. M. and
2, P. M., the following named slaves to wit:
Asa, Dolly, Ella, Martha, Angeline, Mat,
Jim, Poindexter, Reuben and Rowan, or
of said slaves as will be sufficient
A
on
so many
for the payment of the debt in said Deed
mentioned due to Charles Clark, at whose
request the said sale will be made.
GEO. TORREY,
Surviving Trustee.
3-6mo.
September 15, 1849.
* # * Port Gibson Herald copy for six
months and send account (with proven ad
vertisement) to this office for settlement.
Southern Watch Tower.
CHEAP STORE.
H E undersigned are now opening, at the
old stand, formerly occupied by James
G. Martin, corner of Stamps' Row, Main
St., a large assortment of
DHY GOODS:
Clothing; Hats; Boots; Shoes; &c., &c.
Which they offer to the citizens of Port
Gibson and the neighborhood, at very low
prices. Please call and examine before
purchasing elsewhere. Our terms are
CASH. LEVY & MORRIS.
September 29, 1848. 5-3m
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GrFORGiEi V. MOODF,
Jlttorney al LtJl W,
PORT GIBSON, Miss.
iß ce opposite and near the Court-House.)
Nov. 38, 1847 18-ly
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POETRY.
Loneliness.
TRANSLATED FROM LAMARTINE.
Beneath the oak tree's shade, the mountains
crown,
At eve's mild hours T sit, in sadness, down,
And gaze upon the field:?, a picture sweet,
Unrolled in varied beauty at my feet.
TKoro Howe tho fjvor, with jtifoaming mw,
There creeps, there hides within a rocky cave,
A brighter stream, with waves of milk-white hue
Rolls by the golden stars, which light the hea
vens of blue.
Upon the mountain's top and wooded sides,
Twilight's rust ray, in tranquil beauty glides;
Night's gleaming chariot rbes o'er tire night,
And gilds the horizon's edge with mellow light;
While from the Gothic spire, like spirits spring
ing,
The soft tones of the evening chimes are ringing;
The traveller listens as the village bel!
With day's last jnuryiurs blends, and sounds the
parting knell.
Beauty is spread around; yet my dimmed eye
Sees nought to charm the sou! in earth or sky—
For earth is but a shadow on the wave,
And suns warm not tlip coldness of the grave.
In vain, the spiiit casts wild glancps forth,
Sweeping from east to west, from south to north;
Upon her darkness breaks no beam of light,
Nor flashes in the sky, angelic pinions b ight.
Cottage and palace—mountain vale and sea!
The charm has gone that made you dear to me;
The breathing spirit of the rock, the wood,
The stream, has flown—all, all issolitude!
With ey.c unkindled, gazing on the sun
I see his burning steeds their courses run;
The clear blue sky—the blackening cloud ! see.
Wrapt in a gloomy shroud; they're both alike to
me!
O! could I mount to where the sun fires glow,
Earth's plains of green, and deserts far below—
Though caring nought for all the day-beams gild,
The boundless riches with which earth is filled—
Yet, far beyond the boundaries of his sphere,
Celestial tones might strike the spirit's ear,
Anothir sun shine bright upon her eye,
All of me left behind—save that which' cannot
die!
Then would mv longing spirit rise above,
With hope reviving,and rekindled love.
Ravished with joy and burning with a flame,
Which all have felt, and none could ever name!
Why can I noton morning's chariot rise,
Pierce the blue vault, and seek my native skies?
Why must my chained pulses here remain,
Throbbing discordant in this world of pain?
When autumn's leaf falls withered from the
trees,
It gently floats upon the passing breeze:
Horne on the whispering zephyrs, slowly sails,
iYimI Ir»»« tu last
And I ain like the leaf—a withered form,
Hear me, ye tempests, on your wings of storm,
To valleys of delight, to hills above,
Plains of eternal green and rivulets of love!
ill III tl.v.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
From the Union Magazine.
The Beggar Ship.
BY JOHN HOWARD PAYNE.
Truly, the world upon the sea affords us
stranger topics for meditation than even its
wild storms, unfathomable depths, and
spouting whales!
I hav one emorc to mention, of the exist
ence of which nothing I had ever before
heard or read about the sea had given me
the remotest intimation.
The day was a very bright one, just after
we had got out of the fogs of the banks of
New Foundland. The melancholy dub of
the drum, and the dreary toll of the bell,
were no longer necessary to warn the ves
sels that there was another vessel rising in
visible through the cloud.
After dinner on that day, I was pacing
the quarter deck with a passenger who had
attracted much of my attention throughout
our voyage. He had just opened himself
fully to me; had told me the history of a
strangely baffled life; and, instead of being
angry at his own sufferings from the jaun
diced or purblind judgments of the world
seemed to have been too much diverted by
its queer blunders generally, ever to have
left himself leisure for melancholy or re
pining about those particularly affecting
himself. There had been a sort of alarm
on board concerning pirates; and the pas
sengers at dinner had beten comparing notes
as to our means of defence which were
found to be extremely narrow. "Now,
exclaimed my friend the practical philoso
pher, "you saw how pale some of those fel
lows turned when pirates were talked about?
With such defences as these, a man may
snap his fingers at all the buccaneers that
ever roved the deep." And he showed
me a half sovereign and a New Y'ork shil
ling. "There is my fortune," cried he.
"That is what I take back to my own coun
try after long years of labor which have
filled the pockets of others: and labors hard
er, a hundred thousand fold, than those by
which many have gained so enormously as
to puff up their empty heads far above all
consciousness of any poor man's existence!
But nobody knows that my pockets are
not overflowing, and I don't mean that any
Many even think me an incorrigi
ble spendthrift, many will even swear that
I have always been an idler; many, that
I have neither soul, sense, nor sensibility.
When calamity upon calamity has poured
upon me, and forced me to bind up my heart
with every argument of fortitude to keep it
from breaking, I have been told, by those
who professed to be my friends, "Had it
been any one but you, I should have wept
at what I witness; but you are not like
anybody else; you can't feel as other people
do—as we ourselves do; for if you could,
you would have cut your throat long ago!"
Bo here you see, how ingeniously friend
ship contrives self complimentary excuses
for inaction and indifference."
The turn we had just taken in walking
up and down the deck chanced at this mo
ment to bring my face fronting "the house,"
as they call it, on the top of which stood
our captain. I caught fiis glance as it was
earnestly seeking mine, and fie gave me a
sert iff beckon \o mount up to where fie
was. Ï went;
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"Do you see that ship?" exclaimed He.
"Yes. What is it?"
"That is the sort of ship of which we
packets have the greatest horror.
"A pirate, then?" answered I, hurriedly.
"I would rather she were a pirate than
what she is. Stop a bit; you'll see.
I now eyed the ship intently. The fresh
water sailor at the first blush, feels toward
every sail as, when on our travels, we feel
towards a letter from home; but the salt
water sailor knows well enough that the
prince of darkness sometimes takes a cruise
upon the wide waters. With a glance,
the salt-water sailor will detect in ships,
differences imperceptible to his inexperi
ence^ companion, and, aa William Ponn'ä
servant said to the baliff, will sometimes
think to himself, "Thou hast been seen,
friend, but thou hast not been liked.
As we drew nearer to the vessel, I ob
served that she was hanging back, waiting
for us to come up; and that there was some
thing very uncommon in her appearance.
We drew still nearer. I now perceived a
forlornness in her aspect, which I had not
noticed before. Her spars were broken;
her sails were some in patches, some in
rags; her ropes appeared to have been men
ded over and over again; and naked and
worm-eaten wood peered in blotches
through the worn-out paint of her hull and*
bulwarks. There was in her complexion
that peculiar look of hopelessness and des
peration which we sometimes encounter in
the streets of a great city, from strangers
who dare not speak for shame, and yet who
must speak or perish.
"What does all this mean?" cried I.
"That, sir," said the Capt. "is a Beggar
Ship."
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"A Beggar Ship?—A Beggar Ship at
sea?—I never heard of such a thing!"
"I wish there were no such things to be
heard of," answered the captain,
ney would do for them, I would not care;
but money's of no use in these cases.
Here was a new wonder of the deep.
The world again, upon the waters, and in
its most harrowing form.
We were at last in full view of the
If mo
strange ship.
The sides of our packet was crowded.—
F resh and well-fed faces bent forward ea
gerly over her railing from stem to stern.
The ship opposite—oh, what a contrast!
The shrouds were covered with what
once might have been men and women;
shadows of men and children lined the
bowsprit; aged of both sexes hung over the
sides;—all alike squalid and lean; their garb
was as ragged as their sails.
With a small glass I dwelt upon these
extraordinary' groups, during a pause of
breathless silence.
ifd till. JI ITT It lit C
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I thought I could almost read in them the
fortunes and peculiar sorrows of some ofthe
most prominent of the party.
That tall and stern, and proud and
thoughtful figure, standing apart, wrapped
in the remnant of a large cloak, and leaning
scornfully, with folded arms, against the
mainmast—he is one, though never where
his presence was not feet, and, in despite
of disheartening disadvantages, to a certain
degree, honored; yet whose every effort in
every way, through life, has been steadily
circumvented by the subtile treacheries of
always smiling and never slumbering envy.
Goaded by its petty and perpetual covert
persecutions to an entire change of charac
ter, he who once trusted in all, now trusts
in no one; and disgusted with the old world,
he seeks the new, there to become famous
either for his virtues or his villainies, as
opportunities may tempt a desperate mind.
Who is that more buoyant looking person?
—he without a coat, his neck open, and a
fragment of a black handkerchief flung
around it loosely—fie who sits on the spar,
from which his legs dangle, with such an
independent swing? He resembles one I
knew formerly at his uncle's shop counter,,
in a country town near certain romantic
lakes in Ireland, and who, when next I
heard of him, was a conquering general in
in South America, where lie is still great
and powerful. May not this youth be des
tined to become also a triumpher, like his
(perhaps) compatriot, my quondam friend of
the shop counter? May nof the apprise of
the wheel send him almost as high in for
tune as it sent a recent chieftain of our own
—provide_chances for the elevation of any
son of his hereafter to supreme power,—
quite equal to those ofthat same chieftain's
parents, who, when a ship perhaps not un
like this bore them between sixty and sev
enty years ago from, it may be, the self
same port,—as little thought of giving a
ruler to our land, as dreams the heedless
lad now following in their track, that any
child of his can ever be a president?—Mark
that gentleman-like, independent, boyish
looking little man, in black, who with an
air of nonchalance, sits by himself, one
hand in his pantaloons pocket, the other
tapping a tune upon his knee with his fin
gers! How his face resembles that of an
orphan I once saw who never had a plan,
nor a patron, nor very often a penny,—and
yet prospered in everything he undertook,
or, rather, what was undertaken for him.
Is not this youth the very one I speak of?
It must be. He has got tired of some of
the good luck which has been thrust upon
him in his native country—has thrown it
into other hands, spent the proffits, and,
when entirely out at elbows, flying himself
on board the first cheap ship that offered,
and will probably, ere ten years pass over
his head, be found a rich man, in spite of
himself, somewhere in our far West. Not
far from this emigrant that pale cheek,
those haggard eyes, doubtless betoken a
story of broken-hearted love, vainly seeking
a refuge from despair in the lone wilder
ness!—Who is that whose deeply interest
ing countenance, though it looks healthful,
expresses rather the health of the mind
than that of the full fed and empty-headed
body. On that countenance is written ele
vated and religious resignation to deep dis
comfort within*, I have seen just such a
countenance before. It belonged to one
whose sister and aged parents J knew,—
Their family farm had ceased to provide
for thorn, and was eaten up by taxes. They
loved their son, they implored him tQ stay
with them; but he stole away, determined,
illtilUilLLO)
a
under happier auspices, to labor for inde
pendence, and ere long invite those by
whom he was so tenderly beloved to a bet
ter home, in the paradise to which the vast
and fertile regions far beyond the Allegha
milingly beckon the poor. With
this same resolution to lighten the pressure
of an overburthening family, those two
girls, who have no higher ambition than to
support themselves by the honest labor of
their hands, surely also have quitted their
widowed mother's roof;—lovely girls, with
a style about them which would have graced
a drawing-room. The ferocious, -giant
framed man, from whom all the rest stand
aloof, and do not even glance that way, is
Ideally some fugitive and dare devil
criminal, of tvhose heavy secret, though
never yet divulged, all have instinct,though ;
an unspoken one. !
Of the other shapes of desolate-hearted-1
and of the aged and infirm, who j
mes s
Cl
ness,
seemed changing the place, not where they
were to live, but only where they were to
die,—I forbear to speak, for it would have
been hard even to have counted them, so
thronged was this sad vessel. But there
they stood, eager, expectant, motionless as
death, and their hollow eyes all glaring.
The usual sea courtesies were exchanged;
but from our packet in a subdued tone, and
in a sepulchural one from the Beggar Ship.
It appeared that the ship in question had
been upwards of three months on her way
from Ireland. She had lost her reckoning,
and was entirely out of provisions. She
was entirely out of provisions. She was
one of those ships of sordid and heartless
speculators, who buy condemned vessels
for a trifle, crowd them with as many emi
grants as can be stowed on board, from
whom they get a few dollars a head, and
and then send them out, ineagerly officered,
and worse stocked with food.
Our captain told the captain of the stran
ger ship exactly what part of the ocean
he had reached, and was turning away.
"Sir," said the stranger captain, his voice
choked, and perhaps weak from want, "we
are entirely- destitute of provisions!"
"My friend," replied our captain, "I
have a very large family to provide for here.
We are two hundred and twenty persons
on board. I am obliged by law to retain
ample supplies. If money will do, you
shall have it. There is another ship in
sight—speak to her. She is a merchant
ship, and probably has few mouths to feed.
Money may- buy provisions from her, and
when you get them, you had better make
for Nova Scotia, for y-ou'll probably reach
there ^soonest."
"Sir," answered the Beggar Captain, in
a tone of anguish which I hear to this hour,
—"we are very hungry!"
our steerage passengers half uncon
sciously broken their limits. All were
crowded directly under where the captain
stood on the house top. They- were con
founded with those of the cabin, whose feel
ings were so much absorbed, that they nev
er even noticed how entirely- their territo
ry, of which they- were usually- so jealous,
was overrun by- the invaders. Every eye
on board the Beggar Ship, Vas riveted on
our captain. The stillness was frightful.
"Passengers of the steerage," observed
the captain, "you see that ship. The cab
in passengers have provisions but such as
I supply them with; and though we may ar
rive m three days, we may not arrive in three
weeks. If any of you can contrÜhte, after
reserving enough to last y-ou three weeks,
to relieve the distress you now witness, I
will join you to the extent of my power;
but let every- one remember what he owes
to himself,—to his family,—and not calcu
late upon reaching port too soon; for we
have chances of head winds and calms.
Not a syllable was uttered in reply; but
it seemed scarce a moment when every
soul had disappeared from the deck.
With the rapidity- of thought the deck
was piled up with provisions.
The Beggar Ship lowered its boat. The
boat was lowered from the packet. The
captain wished to come on board and offer
thanks but our captain preferred answering
him from a distance.
As the boat reached the Beggar Ship, all
its passengers hung over the side, climbing j
on each other's shoulders, to assure them
selves that this shower of manna in the wil-1
demess was real food. A sudden breeze
sprang np; and as our ship bore gallantly-1
away, "God bless you!" burst from myr- !
iads of voices. j
We of the senatorial cabin felt somewhat
humbled by the generosity of the lower ;
house, the steerage; especially as we had
had some few bickerings in that quarter i
about rights and dignity. It was proposed
that, at any- rate, we should send a sum of
money as our share of the contribution, to
indemnify- the steerage passengers in part
for their liberal donations of eatables. j
The first man who stepped forward was
my friend the practical philosopher, who
was returning to his native land after years
of absence, with a fortune of a half sove
reign and a shilling. He said nothing; j
but put down his half sovereign. I knew !
he would, when I remembered howqueerly
he screwed up his face when the Beggar
Captain said, "Sir, we are very hungry." .
He squeezed that face ofhis into the small
est possible compass, and turned it away-,
lest after all, a tear should steal out from
his eyes and be detected. j
It is scarcely necessary to add, that there
was not another word of ill humor during
the rest of the passage. Up to the moment, !
which in all cases brings about a spirit of
universal amnesty and benevolence,——the ;
moment when, in our particular case, at
at night all were at the side, watching with
all their eyes and hearts for the flash of the
distant revolving light which had been an- [
nounced as the harbinger of land-—when
— 44 Ha! -there I see it!" shouted one, and
"Stop— now—no— I can't see it," sighed
another; and the still happier moment ;
when, at sunrise, the old cow, from the
palace in the covered long boat, between
the mam and mizzen mast, stretched forth
her neck exulting to snuff the green grass
on the shore—up to that moment, evermore j
one of joy, all seemed particularly well
pleased with themselves, a? with their
neighbors; and, after that« there was m>
more trouble to ie feared. My friend the
practical philosopher, who had forgo ten
that he had acquainted me with the state
ofhis treasury, made himself out as rich
as the richest;' by really lamenting'that lie
had put down so little!'* The last I saw
of him somewhat amused me:—
"I will only give a shilling," said he to
a cartman, who wished to take his small
and worn and light portmanteau,
"Not a farthing under a dollar, sir"—
"Then hand it back to me, I don't
mind the dollar, but I do mind the imposi
lion," said he and caught up the portman
teau.
"A gentleman!" cried the pampered
cartman, sarcastically-"A poor gentleman!
Ha! ha! ha!"
While the coarse cartman was laughing,
; with a vulgar sfteer of malignant disap
! pointment, the practical philosopher coolly
and philosophically trudged up Broadway,
j with his little portmanteau on his back, and
and his shilling in his pocket.
So much for the world upon the ocean.
°V vhich is ,eft a bleal ^ »n each end of the
w *' p * so that the passing electricity shall
J nab e a spark as it crosses each break. A
Leyden jar is charged, and a spark is sent
through the coil. I o the eye this appears
*° cross both breaks at the same instant,
allho,l S h thc:e are twenfy-five miles of wire
between, 'i he experiment is made in a
roo,n which has an arched ceiling, in a pre.
c | se scmi-circle, carefufiy measured and di*
* ,,b> sections. II, then, this board
be s0 placed that the revolving mirror may
re (j ec t tb e spark, and (the room of course
being darkened) the mirror being put in
,n °fi° n ar, d the charge sent along the coils
°* w ' re > tb e first break in the wire will lie
marked by a ieflection of the mirror on the
ar . c | 1 ' ant ^ tbe s P ar k at the second break
", he a little further along on the arch,
^ bus, if the mirror be making one hundred
rcv °lutidns per second, and the reflections of
tbe two . sparks be one-eightieth part of the
c * r v e distant from one another, it is obvious
that the min . or has made one-eightieth part
a # r ev °lution while the electricity
passing twenty-five miles, and the time oc*
cu pied is of course one-eight-thousandth part
°** a second, which would give a velocity of
200,000 miles per second
After repeating the experiments with
c0 'ls of wire of various lengths, from five to
a hundred miles, and finding the distance
between the reflections on the arched wall
to var 7 * n precisely the same ratio with the
lengths ofthe wire, and the final result tobe
unvarying, it is evident that the problem
b ft s been solved, and the velocity of electri.
c,t J as certained. __
Nothing is cheaper than kind words—
there is no excuse, therefore, for surliness.
If a civil word or two will render a man
happy, said a French king, he must be a
wr etch indeed, who will not give them,
Louis Philippe owes his life to his polite
ness , i t was by bowing to the people as
t h ey cheered him, that he onçe e^apeij
being shot by ap assassin,
: —— -
It is characteristic of great minds, to
corivey much information in a few words;
little minds on the contrary, have the gift
'of talking much, and saying nothing.
Oliver Evans—John Fitch.— Oliver
Evans, in 1786, urged upon a committee
of the Legislature of Pennsylvania the ad
vantages to be derived from steamboats and
"steam-wagons," and predicted their uni
versal adoption in a short time. The
opinions which the committee formed of
him w-as expressed a few years after
ward, by- one of its members, in the follow
ing words: "To tell you the truth, Mr.
Evans, we thought you were deranged
when y-ou spoke of making steam-wagons."
The other relates to John Fitch, a clock and
watch-maker, than whom a more ingeni
ous, persevering and unfortunate man never
lived. In spite of difficulties that few could
withstand, he succeeded m raising the
means to construct a ste.mboat, which he
ran several times from Philadelphia to
Burlington and Trenton, in 1808. As a
first attempt, and from the want of proper
manufactories for machinery at the time,
it was of necessity imperfect; then public
opinion was unfavorable, and the share
holders finally abandoned the scheme. His
feelings may- be imagined,but not described;
for he saw and predicted the glory that
awaited the man who should succeed in in
troducing such vessels in more favorable
times. "The day will come," he observes,
"when some more powerful man will get
fame and riches by my- invention, but
nobody will believe that poor John Fitch
can do any- thing worthy of attention." He
declared that within a century the Western
rivers would swarm with steam vessels,
and he expressed a wish to be buried on
the margin of the Ohio, that the music of
marine engines in passing by his grave
might echo over the sods that covered him.
In a letter to Mr. Rittenhouse, in 1792, he
the applicability of steam to propel ships
of war, and asserts that the same agent
would be adopted to navigate the Atlantic,
both for packets and armed vessels. De
scanting on one occasion upon his favorite
topic, a person present observed as Fitch
retired, "poor fellow what a pity he is cra
zy-!" He ended his life in a fit of insanity,
by' plunging into jhe Alleghany-.— Etc
bank's Hydraulics.
Velocity of Electricity —We find
the following in an exchange paper:
It is not unfrequently a subject of wonder
that the velocity of electricity has been so
accurately measured, when its speed is so
incredible, and many persons expressentire
disbelief in the correctness of any such
measurement. It has nevertheless been
accomplished, and that by a contrivance so
ingenious and yet so simple, as to be within
the understanding of a chiid, and at the
same time incapable ofcommittingan error.
A small mirror, one inch long by a half inch
broad, is made to revolve on a pivot, and
attached to a spring and cog-work which
gives it a swifl revolution. It is of course
perfectly easy to regulate this velocity to
any required number of revolutions per
second. Coils of wires of various lengths
are provided. A coil is taken, say for ex
ample, twenty-five miles in length. The
two ends of this are brought near each other
and fastened on a board, on the flat surface
was