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POETRY.
LINES
grillen off Mahon'« Ditch, Sunday Morning,
June 4M, IH4».
BY JAM HS MOSTUOMKRT.
up—tho
Tho
Are surging
And fai
ls slutnb'ring in its
The Must'ring winds
Or frowning clouds above
But the pure sky with
Is smiling in tho
tho sandy shore,
ray the silent deep
ruing sleep ;
o longer howl,
rovrl ;
« (jluw
id his horn,
The musquito, too, lias ce
Al Ihn first blushing sign of morn,
Ami UoUowaril wings his hnslj lliglit,
Hie light,
To seek a covert fro
's enquiring eye,
Where free fro
He may in safe seclusio
lie.
is
The beacon light
.Spreading around it» golden sheen,
With
y a bright and twinkling ray,
his way ;
To guide tho seaman
But lonely
Where ocean billows kiss tho land,
tho beaten strand,
A single house with balustrade
1» roared upon the marshy glade ;
Here solitude eternal reigns
d murky plains.
O'er wat'ry wastes
kid ;
pmy'r il
'Tis Sunday, yet
No anthem sung,
No voice is hoard—
O'er all tho
, not h sound
'ry wastes around ;
to greet the ear,
singing near ;
No lashing
No merry winds
'Tis Sunday whero the billows lie,
'Tis Sunday in the light blue sky ;
The blue above—tho earth holow
Tho rolling tides that ebb nnd flow,
AH own the Sabbath at this ho
to feel its sacr'd pow'r.
All
It is a pleasant thing to lay
the bosom of the hay,
hundred dilfriMit sails
I'P
And
Flap with the gently rising gales ;
Then spread their wings ac
And
the deep,
their pathway homeward keep.
so is rising—hoist the sail !
the gale,
Tho 1
Spread
And lot the white-capped blllc
Upon the distant, fading shore,
must homeward s
And leavo the happy, smiling bay.
canvass
F
to
THE POLITICIAN.
A STOIIY FOUNDED ON THE POLI
TIC AU HISTORY OF DELAWARE,
UNFOLDING THE REAL CHAR
ACTER OF THE POLITICIAN,
AND SHOWING THE BANE
FUL INFLUENCE THAT
THE POT-HOUSE POLI
TICIAN HAS UPON
THE RISING GEN
ERATION.
«V JAMES MONTGOMERY.
CHAPTER XIV.
out of Congress, lie
the workings of that august
ee must he a stoic, indeed.
the ponco and
Whethcr a member
who looks opt
body with indiffe
Questions of vital importance, to
happiness of the whole country,
with a freed«
pcrienccd in legislatic
dread for the safety of
di
that would surpris«» the
d awaken a little
iiie.li boasted lib
'land, and millions
ty. Thousands of acres
squandered by a single vote.
frequently voted
of dollars,
Though millions of dollars
away to a<ld to coffo
hut few laws
of hungry speculators,
passed tlmt abridge the rights
and privileges of the people. Conflicting in
terests, clashing together, often
public good in the shape of compromises and
But if often happens that
orks for the
rondoscentions.
advanced by legislation as
well as tho public good, and tho treasury is
used for tho benefit of speculators.
At the time Mr. Blntliorskito took his seat, it
s evident that tho administration could pass
hills by its own exertions. Tho New York
Hards had taken a stand against the President
that the
private interests
and his Cnhinot, and tho result
opposition stood a good chance of having a
majority. This croatod a good deal of uneasi
in tho minds of thoso who felt interested
in kcoping the wheels of govornment in motion,
id thus risking tho chance of handling the largo
appropriation tlmt would otliorwiso ho made.
During tho sessions of Congress, bords of spec
i around tho halls of legislation,
honest dollar changes hands ho
nnd many
tween tho Representative and his constituent.
interesting individual in the
There is also
lobby of Congress, who plays a conspicuous
part, called a borer ; he is the distinguished in
dividual who plays tho cards and
machinery of the nation ; he
man of consequence ; gives terrapin suppors ;
champaign drinkings nnd sundry littlo matters
that
the
•es about
giro them inilucnco in
made
calculated
tho national councils. Weighty laws
doubly strong, by being hound with a golden
cord. When tho ocenn steamers become a
subject for legislation*; when gold is
had ; the borers have plenty of the needful
which they distribute about among the
hers according to their merits and influence,
a remarkable fact that almost every
session had a Colt's re
lie
It
member of the
volver mado a present to him. This
a specimen of thut
merely to let them
that they could vote understanding^
much desired
pon,
upon tho extension of tho
patent. The ocean steamer speculation was a
glorious harvest for borers and their reluctant
sympathizes. But let us turn to things as they
are:
The great question of the admission of Kan
terri tories into tho Union,
zas and Nebraska
the leading topic of the day. The whole
country Viewed with concern the many
finding elements that
keep these territories out
a government that did not comport with their
circumstances and individual sovereignty. The
proposition
brought to benr, to
admit them, with
repeal the Missouri com*
SELâMffiH D1MMD1II
□
TJUSrXTTT, EQ,TJALITY,
DUBLIN HKD EVERY SATURDAY, BY JAMEM NONTtiOMERY, NO. »3 SHIPLEY STREET, BETWEEN FOURTH AND FIFTH STREETS, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.
$2.00 PER ANNUM.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1859.
YOU. I.—No. 29.
promise, and permit persons holding slaves
and wishing to remove with them, and retain
their property to the territories, to do so. To
this the North raised a strong opposition and
aided by a number of so called democrats,
combatted every inch of ground. Judge Doug
las at the head and front of the Democracy,
was doing buttle for right and justice. Tho
contest was warm and bitter. To be
President did not proscribe those who thought
differently with him, upon this important point,
but lie took a lively interest in the success of
the territorial bill. Among the many political
dogmas that were dragged into this contest
was the right of suffrage in the territories.
John M. Clayton took ground against persons
of foreign birth having the right to vote in the
territories until they had been residents of
the country five years, and become naturalized;
many thought they shuuldc
grounds that tho citizens of Lousiana did.
Mr. Blatherskite, following i
Clayton, stood upon the
him, and made speeches in favor of
ment that would have the tendency to prevent
of foreign birth having the privilege
that had been granted to the citizens of Lousi
d other territories—tho right of electing
own olflcers, and through them, make
laws. This was an important move,
that
the
the lend of Mr.
platform with
ainend
tlieii
thcii
agitated, and
at the time it
calculated to involve the country in
ch
difficulty and ill feeling.
A new society had just sprung into existance,
prohibit por
allow
min feature iu which
of foreign birth holding office,
the right of suffrage until they had
• i'i
the
ing tin
resided in tho country twenty
y<
Catholics, their policy
were in favor of disfranehise
doubtful ;
ing them altogether, while otlie
liberal,
a little
•re disposed to allow foreigners
vote alter they had been in tho country tw
started in
to
•a rs. The
renient
the city of Now York, by a novelist, who sign
ed his name Ned Buntlin, and spread like wild
rcr the country. Dark and dingy rooms
were poorly lighted wherein to hold their mid
night orgies and carry out their dark plans ;
even in little Delaware, many of the original
Democracy were found in these mid-night
gethcrings. It was thought that tho new
mt would prove popular, nnd sweep
the country—with this bait
many prominent politicians were caught and
took sides with the ne
ike wild fire ov
renient.
rident that Mr. Blatherskite was
looking to No. 1 in the great political drama
to l»o played in every section of the country
when he favored the adoption of the
ment
It
•mi
d Nebraska hill that
the Kansas
of foreign birth,
would deprive every persi
in the territory, the right of franchise, nnd
a level with the negroes. The
marked with Ho
pince hi
course of this great
sninll degree of interest ; tho people of the
looking up to him
tin*
whole country,
kind of an individual
inent matters. They
seen 'proper to take leaned a little towards
Know-Nothingism. When that party
about to assemble to clioso the
at the coming election. A select
tako the lend in prom
the stand ho had
they in
tended
committee ot"gentlemcn wrote to Mr. Blather
skite ns follows :
Dovrr, May 15th, 1854.
Hon. Mr. lllatherskite ,
I) ha a Sib:—K nowing from your speeches
of the
and recent actions that y
principles of the great party that is (sweeping
every thing before it in the hind, and judging
in the Kansas and Nebraska
in fnv
fro
ould like to give full v
to your
take the liberty
act y
feelings upon that subject,
to invite yo
about to
•cution Hint i>
address the c
cnihlc to nominate
Please
whether yc
state offi
ver at your car
in this to
Best convoniei
this favor or not.
grant
lost Respectfully,
J. P. GOITGEE8,
8. G. ORDINANCE,
Y<
Committce of Arrangements,
old friend J. M. C. is invited, und
1ms accepted the invitation.
To this invitation Mr. Blathcrskito sent the
following reply :
P. 8. Yc
He will lie here."
, May 10th, 1859.
Washinot
J. r. Ooitgeea , >
S. O. Ordinance, f
"Gbntlembn:—Y ours of the 15th
to
lorse the vie
I believe it will be the ruling
ould
of tho great
hand ; I fully
American parly.
party of this country, und I, for
; out publicly and endorse its principles
were it not for the 'position that I
hold,
by tho Dcmocrati
having been given to
party ; a trust it would not look well to betray.
My private views
ruling America,' but I do
publicly. Entertaining thoso vie
favorable to ( Amoricans
think it politic
to say
and not wishing to luizznrd my future p
flimsy a cord, I respectfully de
nomination
poets upon
dine being with y
election to he held at Dover.
y<
Knowing that y
situation, I
rill fully appreciate my
most respectfully,
Your Obedient Servent,
JOHN A. BLATHERSKITE."
little
of tho party
The great
-prised to hear that the lenial desendant of
all the Blatherskites
tainted with the dark
lantern manic. Many predictions went forth
that this distinguished gentleman would not
probably ever he returned to the Senate again.
But times changed. The dark lantern princi
ples became obsolete, and Mr. Blatherskite re
turned to liis first love, nnd swore vehemently
.•r entertained a single political
not to be found in the Declarn
that ho neve
idea that w
tion of Independence. A regiment of his
him as President
friends, who had
of a Bank, and a manager of
anti-tariff
Iron Works ; a
—u pig
the circumstances required—swore that he
living. Echo caught
heard but the
tariff and
a puppy,
the greutest
up tho 8onnd,"and r nothing wi
praises of Blatherskito from
State to the other. The time e
end of the
to elect
the legislature that was to make another
United States Senator. The influence of the
elected,
a sequel to the arrangement Mr. Blather*
skite was elected Senator for six y
establishing the fact that the mantle i
from father to son, to the latest generations of
the royal blood.
great man prevailed—his tools w
and
fall
when Mr. Blatherskite endeavored
To he I
■•er Judge Vinegarfaeo with this talisiuHii
tic mantle, a year ago, it
tie too short at
looked
dull—hut time and circumstanc
to
found to ho a lit
end, and somewhat throad
fact, it failed to do the work. It
if tho scoptro had departed from Ju
will settle
this dispute. It lias he
Btreak of lightning, oY i
circumstance, should cut off the li
Blatherskite's,
State. Having traced this great
little end of nobody to tho candidate for the
next Presidency,
thought that if a
e other untoward
of the
earthquake would sink the
from the
him in hisgrent
until the day after tho Charleston Conven
tion hns adjourned, when
patent sermon
gratitude.
To dispose of
we must return to Frank Baker in the felon's
will le
will preach
the magnitude of political in
characters systematically,
cell at New Castle. Weary months have passed
friend to relieve him
ver and lie hns found
from his confinement. Those who associated
with him know him
; that confiding
wife, who stood by him in adversity, still stood
by him, but her feeble effort» to extricate him
railing—she had not the
gold. Tilings remained in this situation until
Frank gave up all hope of gaining his liberty.
One day his wife c
smiles; slio had fonnd a person who
to do something towards liberating her hus
wlio had
IV,
to him all radiant witli
I willing
politician, to he
offered to procuro work for Frank, but not
of those
hand. It
, who seek
, contemptible
office for the sake of lucre to he got out of it.
not long in procuring the much needed
d informing Helen that lie thought
He
that everything would work right in tho future,
he privately visited several of his friends
a eontrihutii
taken up for the relief of
the duped moclianic. Helen bore the glad ti
dings to the prison anil the unfortunate
was released, anil the first tiling lie did after lie
sign the tem
perance pledge, and forswear politics. Since
that time prosperity has smiled upon him ; two
ngo he removed to another State and pro
ed employment in a very large machine
shop, where ho hns conducted himself in a
manner that has heen a credit to himself and
ivc.l i
Wilmington
yen
the firm resolution he took to renounce politics
altogether. Ilia wife is happy aud is the mother
of two fine hoys, who she is instructing to de
spise politics ns she does a viper. Frank
talks of his misfortuno without heaving a sigh,
while n slight grating of the teeth is percopti
hle, nnd a slight scowl may ho
The
his premises, and he thinks that if ho is
nominated for President, he will havo to split
his ticket for
Helen loves her native State, but it lias heen
much misfortune to her that
upon liis
of Mr. Blatherskite is contraband
the
she is willingto forego the pleasure of dwelling
in it to returning to a city where the cold hand
of charity w
low
slow in snatching from the
depths of humility, her penitent hut de
serted husband. The little family circle of
Frank Baker i
; lie
hnppy
louves liis confiding and loving wife to spend
his evenings among cold and heartless
who would not turn around
their heels to
l—though that i
voa sinking
boon companion.
The tall gentle
tensivoly through this true story, still goes
his way rejoicing; that he lias improved
duceil Frank Baker from
•liter the banditti
who hns figured
iota since he first
his quiet and happy homo
known
the author. It is
political influe
and that there have been too many
politicians, is a matter unkm
thing certain tlmt his
to
considerably
the wane,
as the one wo liavo just related, to raise up
judgment against him to ever stand again ei
nt the head of tho politicians. That the Dem
ocratic party has considerably degenerated is
a living history before
Once
eyes at this hour.—
knew it pure und undefilcd— hon«
bore the banner of principles high in
tho air without ft taint or stain ;
hie
the v
•Is in the nest of tho dove, nnd tlmt
beautiful nnd fair,
•oils to he scoured and cleansed. Frank Ba
ling which
:e looked
ker says when ho cast his first vote, the Cap
itol at Washington was filled with gentlemen
it is a den of tliici
and state
That Mr. Tight-Flat became n pliant tool for
lord of Delaware
Mr. Blatherskite, tho living
caressed by those
then spurned
ill show to-day ; that ho
him, nnd
s a worthless cur, lifter ho had obeyed their
will contradict. In the noble
who wanted to
inundate,
mind there is
.v the
ed of
difficulty to
sycophancy and mako them germiimto.
the low-born
It b
that everybody gives a kick
d still he chuckles. If thero is
animal
this earth that should ho more despised
th'iii another, it is the brute on two legs, with
tiie face of the Divinity stamped upon him, who
hows tho suple hinges of the knee to power for
the sake of putting gold in his purse. The hon
orable thief will place a pistol to your head,
and demand your money or your life ; tho sy
pliant will lick tho feet that kicks him and
frow
those that hate and dcBpisc him.
Having disposed of the principal characters
» story—though purely a work of
bow to the public nnd
in this
fiction—wo make
thank those who have travelled with us through
the recital of the things that look
like
truth than fiction. Many may apply
aginative characters to living specimens—if
they do, we shall feel highly flattered for paint
ing character
, all
life-like—hut, if such is the
have to say is that we have
denvored to delineate the character of the poli
he would desire to bo.
he is, not
To the ladies, who have been boring us for
r four weeks to give them something of
sentimental character, we will say, that
in the future our first page will be devoted to
them exclusively—no more politics on tho first
page. What we will write next remains to be
commence a story until the
threo
ready to set it up.
typos
productions, it
If there is any merit l
does not grow out of taking much study
compose them.
Finis.
Colokkd PlBHONH.—Twenty
in Cana
Incrsasb
ago the number of colored
three thousand four hundred :
than forty thousand. In
four mouths after the passage of the fugitive
uluve law tuu thousand poured i
ye
da W
tin I'■
the
try.
[ from Vnu»r'a MagMlno.]
Coincidences.--A Tale of Facts.
Mv mind and heart are full, yeti fear to take
up tho pen. I would fain write a short story
of some things which happened to myself—-a
simple, yet a strange tale, wherefrom men may
draw a inoral if they choose. But it is true ;
and it hinges on facts which are the stuple of
daily knowledge, though we lack the faitli
that would show us how they are linked to
gether, and made to act upon each other by
•working power; and, there
fore, I doubt if it will he believed. Within this
hour, in a part of London, whither my duties
Bohlom call me— in the purlieus of Covent Gar
den—I have
•en yet e
one, skulking under the
shadow of night, who lias brought hack
thought? what happened many long years ago
—scenes in which I
forced against my will
which I felt ns if the sorrow
to act, and yet, it
. And here let inn also say,
tlmt my story is not ono of strong passions
gluring crimes. I
ningly schemed fictions,
how—should 1 c
skilful writer of
r—did I even know
harrow tender hearts
•scenes of poignant
with plots ot wicked
grief. My tale will only lie a plain string of
facts; it will have hut one claim upon the road
's heurt, which is,'that it i
About twenty years ngo in the little woody
village of
hoy's school,
gentlemen ; It
cry, a delusion,
, iu Middlesex, there
seminary for young
not a child-trap—"a mock
d a snare," for anxious moth
conunission agency for parent»
It w
a huekster's-shop for fmtcli
and brood for
gunrdiaus,
and bakers to
change
it a house of tor
Latin and stripes ; nor
ul emulous spirits,
for gentio hearts
whero a cold, low despotism chills and stilles
impulses of the childish nature, or a
vile grinding tyranny which stirs and stimulates
tho w
the nascent passions in forms of monstrous pre
dty. It was not a place where the eternal wel
fare of living souls could ho jobbed away
against petty profits on bad beef and stick-jaw
pudding ; nor where one stinted, coarse, unslia
pen moral uniform was forced by contract
nil minds alike, whether by nature they were
great or littte, strong or weak. It was called
a Boy's School ; hut it was something
a family, where the time was spoilt in liv
ing and learning, where authority nml coercion
unknown, because love nnd duty pro
cupicd their places.
The master, to he
emed somewhat
young to he the patriarch of auch a little loving
tribe. Ho w
ll the clergyman of
such ns would
A. M.,
the village. His attainments
have entitled him
distinction in tlic
church, hut, though active-minded, he loved
peace and retire ment, and ho had a jmssion for
training nnd developing the minds of children,
towards whom he felt a really Christian love.
His hoys were his frionds. Ho possessed the
faculty of being able to desceud to tho
level of their intelligence ; and they opened
d hearts to him^ts if ho iiadbcon
their playfellow, a9, indeed,
Yet he had
their brother,
out of school hours, ho often
into tho scene of his tranquil
brought with hi
existence much insight into mankind—a store
of that purer and bettor wisdom which i
founded
a knowledge of tho existence of
I'litchful hope for
evil, tempered by
good.
One hoy—he
was to Mr. Faber almost u companion. On his
the eldest of the school—
promising nature he had bestowed
stimulating his habit of reverence, strengthen
ing his honesty of spirit and passion for truth;
and, while encouraging ft naturally active be
nevolence and disposition to self-sacrifice for
time
•h
the sake of serving others, at the
develop and encourage discrimina
tion and prudence. The youth's mind had thus
attained a healthy and early maturity.
easy circumstances,
kept a sort of little pony barouche—a neat
affair, in which he and his wife could now and
then pay a visit at a distance. Sometimes,
ivhe
The master, who
commission was to lie executed in a
jvn not far distant, he would trust the hoy I
for tho purpose, with
speak of to drive
perhaps a quiet junior.
One day, tho unpretending carriage and its
youthful charioteer
, when, at the end of a plantation, a gen
hailed tho latter from a cottage door.
tho way back to
tier
tali, remarkably hands«
id had a
Ho w
soft modo of address which instantly charmed
the hoy. He had a young lady
, I wish you would do
" My little
favor."
"Certainly, sir,with pleasure."
"Then, will you let this young lady rldo ns
-, and set her down at tho Merton
Arms, to wait for me ? She is not well enough
to walk so far, and there is no hope of any other
3. I
fur
1 ■■
wait here for
veyi
trust lier with you,
a steady
hour
my little gentleman; und I
you «
driver."
The young lady did not speak, but, as she
stepped into tho carriage, hIic bowed kindly to
the hoy, and slowly to the gentle
minute they
mail« some friendly remark to his fair charge,
hut she only bowed, though still kindly. She
spoke not a word ; and her companion, who
had already that instinctive respect for the sex,
which is the true key to human happiness, for
bore to intrude
the road. The youth
her reserve. Iu less than
hour the chaise stopped at the inn ; he jumped
down, handed out his fair charge, whom he
confided to tho smiling landlady, and followed
them into the inn parlor. Alone for a moment
r thut she was in
with the young la«ly, he
tears. He felt sympathy, but dared not speak.
She thanked him courteously,
a young
would thank a growing lad ; and,
giv
ing him her hand, she said, abruptly—
rmmo of the young
this fatigue ?"
" Will you let
gentleman who has save«^
Boy like, he gave her hts name and address ;
and he immediately (proceeded back to the
school, telling tho master of the adventure.
Mr. Faber who
know the
opportunity of
idea, listened attentively, nnd
•rionsly, half jocularly, complimented
the " conquest" he had made, at the
•er missed
cultivating a
half
him
same time praising his delicacy aud good
agemeut. And then the affair
forgot«
It might have heen a month
six weeks
aftorwards. One evt
tea, as (lie master
•Bight, after
ing, in the
sentod with his wife and
of tho principal hoys, it
nouliccd that the landlady of tho Mertou Arms
wished to speak to Master
11 Aha !" cried Mr. Faber, archly. Master
dons that his face
felt
red,yet
called
know why. The landlady
in at his request, when she presented him with
a note, superscribed in a small, delicate, female
hand.
lie did
Olio I" cried Mr. Fuber, again, but rather
gravely.
Tho hoy handed the noto to his master, who
opened
d read it with evident inlorcst.
" It is from the young lady you
the Merlon Ai
down at
i. She hogs that she may
you."
" Alt, poor young lady I" iuterposod thelaud
since. I'm
lady ; " she has been with
she's a good young lady."
Mr. Faber reflected for a few moments ; thou
his face resumed its usual cheering expression,
and lie said laughing—
"Well, Harry, I shall have instiucted you to
little purpose if I cannot trust you with this
little adventure. I suppose alio is, at least, a
princess in disguise I Go back with Mrs.
Critchett. I suppose tho end of it will bo that
you will bring your fuir inamorata to the par
sonago house.
Tho youth did as ho was desired.
Perhaps the reader thinks that this was very
imprudent iu the clergyman. In an ordinury
it would have been so, but Mr. Faber knew
the lad's disposition well ; and, moreover, i
was his system to enforce, wherever it
Bible, his precepts by example, thus preparing
inexperienced minds for tho realities of life.
In less than
henrd at the
hour a ring
hell.
back from tho princess !"
" It is Harry
cried Mr. Faber, laughing.
Harry it certainly
, but bo bad
arm, a young and singularly boautiful girl. Mr.
Faber turned pale, nnd looked very grave. He
had not expected that his jocular remark would
ho taken literally by his pupil. Mrs. Faber
y rod, and looked rather angrily at
his
turned
the
comer.
The youth, in whom the adventuro had in
spired tho natural courage of
friending tho other, said—
" Sir, you have always told
part from my word,
•x when be
vor to de *
if spoken in jest."
right my hoy.
right—you
"Yc
Well?"
Ty anxious that this young lady
should speak in private with you and Mrs. Fa
ber. She will then return to tho inn, where
Mrs. Critchett is expecting her."
The master assented, and tho threo were left
alone. Tho interview lasted two hours, or
more. At the end of that time, a message was
sent to the inn that the young lady would sleep
at the parsonage. Mr. Faber said nothing to
his pupil, beyond praising him for the kindness
d decision he had shown ;
three years after, when he had grown older,
and was leaving the Rchool for college, that he
told him what had passed at the interview.
In about a week after her arrival, the young
lady again left, and her young champion heard
more about her. But the adventure left a
strong impression on his memory.
"I
it till two
not always so steady as I
first, the temptations of a London life
much for a young
r. At
I
thrown suddenly in their
the other baud, if they do not lend to
almost a necessary school.
four
•tual vice, they
At the time I refer to—perhaps twelve
lawstudent. Oncnight
of those taverns
ngo—I
, at n bite h
frequented by young men who lead what they
call a " fast" life, though anything more dull
stupid, senseless, and " slow," cannot he e
ccivcd. Although the taver
aud I believe still is,
popular of its kind, the room
dungeon, boxed off on eithor side into separate
places of confinement, whero to sit and cat at
alone; and the
atmosphere, heated to a poisonous degree with
gas, reeked with the conflicting odors of innu
merable and indescribable suppers. Hero were
to he nightly met a mutiny company, composed
of sucking professionals like myself, intermin
gled with a few steady, toping citizens, to whom
their conversation was a relaxation after their
yc
I
speak of
of the best and most
hut a large
a feat for little
daily toil, and occasionally varied by thepres
of a fishy, slangy-looking
London tav
of beings
—wretched
peculiar to
imitations of the cast-off habits of a fow noto
r. Hcrei
nightly
rifieed their rest, forcing untimely food
cloyed appetites, and drinking fiery stimulants
without relish
aristocratic
in the mad exciteniontthey
produced.
Bat in a box apart. This night there
quietly eat
not many persons prosent. I
ing my chop, thinking how foolishly I had spent
my evening. Insensibly my attention was at
tracted towards the opposito box, where a tall,
florid, handsome
knot of listeners with what seemed to be a
entertaining a small
frequent
the laughter.
good story,
Without actually listening, yet I could not help
hearing.
" Ah, but the way I got tho girl
than nil I I made regular love to her—honor
able proposals, you know, and all that sort of
thing ; nnd the old woman
possible that her daughter Imd a ' gentleman'
for a sweetheart. But she always wanted to
put off the marriage ; her daughter
young she said. The little
so. As she
too
«lid not think
very romantic, (and by the
way, she had a very romantic litttle
I persuaded her to elope, bought the license,
and did everything 'quite proper' y
too,)
know."
really almost ashamed to pen the rest
of his infamous story ; yet, if these things are
known, where is the value of the warning?
, in the coolest way, to relate
thut liis victim had eloped with him ; that he
had, in vain, manœuvered ; till, at last, he
obliged to try what he called a 'capital dodge,'
before used with
the truth of the tale established bc
I
This
diich he had
Were
yond a doubt, it would be difficult that any liu
bcing could be such n fiend. The poor
hist, begun
doubt; hut, in the
to her with the license in liis
girl hud,
morning, he came
hand, and said he
church. Then he told, with passionate protes
tations, his " history ;" that he had, iu early
prepared to take her
youth, been inveiglvd into a marriage; that his
wife bad left him ninny yours before, on find
ing herself deceived ns to his property ; that lie
know not whore she was, whether alive
dead ; that, if ho married again, he incurred tho
risk of the fate of a felon ; but that, finally,
great was his devotion, he was prepared to peril
all, and fulfil bis promise. And then ho
jured her to go to the church. The end may
bo guessed. By her virtue he conquered her
virtue. By her very inagmiuimity and spirit
of self-sacrifice he effected her ruin. He gave
her a promise of marriage, " on the death of
his wife." Of course, he had no wife. Let
severely judge the unhappy girl. To
be utterly ignorant of vice is utmost as dungcr
to be vicious.
CONTINUED.]
[TO
Prom ChamburH' Journal.
School of Industry for Thugs.
Some years ago we gave ourreaders a sketch
of the race of hereditary robbers and murder
ers in Iudia called Thugs ; and we hav<
the task, as strange as it is pleasing, of descri
bing u series of mensures by which,in the part
of the country where the experiment has been
triod, these preternatural monsters have been
already converted into quiet and useful citi
?. Wo are enablod to do this by the kind
i of a stranger who dates iu July last from
Jubbulpoor, iu the Sauger andNerbudda terri
tory. Ho describes himself as a "poor,unedu
cated man, hut one interested in his fellow
beings and ho addresses himself to this
journal in gratitude for its efforts in the cause
of human amelioration, and from liis desire to
tnko advantage of a circulation which is not
confined to one confined to
country,
hemisphere, in giving publicity to
taut suggestions. He begins his communica
tion by roferrlng to
School of Industry in March lust, a perusal of
which led him to suppose that
glad to havo a sketch of a similar establish
ment in India, whose objects
und beggars, hut outlaws of nature
, who inherited from their ancestors, as
their sole fortune and profession in the world,
the trade of assassination I
•count of the Dundee
should l>o
not pilferers
well as
■
Jubbulpoor, wo may premise, is a town of
about 20,000 inhabitants, and somewhat re
markable, even in India, for ignorance and su
perstition. Its neighborhood was specially in
fested with Thugs nnd poisoners, and its citi
to a
still—devout believers in the grossest species
of sorcerery. We mention this to show that
3 to de
peculiar advantages of
—and most of them
the singular school of industry
scribe sot out with
locality.
The grand difficulty that was at first found
in the suppression of Thuggee, arose from the
vast extent of the territory it pervaded, and the
want of local courts for the speeial cognizance
of that gigantic crime. Such tribunals were at
length formed in the capital cities of various
princes, with our residents for their judges;
while at Jubbulpoor, Colonel Sleeman estab
lished himself, in 1836,
of the whole. Thanks
meritorious officer, murder wi
permitted to trave
Upwards of a thousand Thug families
apprehended, and sent in to Jubbulpoor for
trial ; and as everything is
India, it
single morning fifteen, twenty, even twenty
live, of these wretches swinging upon the gal
lows. The eonsequence of this virtually se
verity was, that the whole race was seized with
a panic ; the gangs separated nnd fled.
But ulZ the convicts could not be hanged,nnd
ninny were found useful as npprov
tnining the conviction of the rest, as they w
captured from time to time. Of these there
had collected at Jubbulpoor, in the year 1837,
450 men with their wives and families, who re
sided during the day in a walled village in the
neighborhood built on purposo for their recep
tion for their reception, while at night the
ire locked up in the jails of tho town.
Each family, according to 9ize, received from
four to eight shillings a month for its support;
hut as the mouths increaseed in number, this
grew more and
chief superintendent
» the energy of this
longer
the country unchecked.
a great scale i
•ommon tiling to see in
in oli
inadéquat«, nnd the chil
by their parents to
forage for themselves in
c sent
work, beg, pilfer,
any way they thought proper. Colonel Slce
thnt this system could not go on.—
As the children grew up, their wants would he
greater, and their will stronger, and the c
vict village would
crime.
he a nursery of
Under these circumstances, lie sug
gested to his able and energetic assistant,Lieu
tenant Brown, the necessity of their attempt
ing to introduce habits of industry among the
convicts and their families.
out
Lioutenant Brown set to work with his ci
tomary alacrity, and erected a few sheds near
his own house, where he induced about two
huudred of the approvers themselves to repair,
for the purpose of working at some common
manufacture. These men, how
in their lives tried their hands At anything hut
murder, and such work ns they
did not come kindly to them. Their reward
to be the profit on the articles manufac
tured ; hut the manufacture was so had, nnd the
profit, in consequence, so small, that the labor
bccame first discontented, then disgusted,
and then enraged, at their having condescended
to anything at once so mean and unprofitable
as regular industry. One day, in order to make
end of the business, they set fire to the
whole plant, and burned it to the ground.
Here they had reckoned, however, without their
host, Lieutenant Brown; for the circumstance
only made him the more determined and per
emptory. He turned out the whole village
morning and evening for six hours, to make
bricks sufficient for a shed eighty feet by forty;
and having completed the building, he borrow
ed £50 from the government to roof it in. The
, had nev
set
lieutenant, himself, however, had to attend
his magisterial and other duties from
five o'clock ; and the native guards were usol
iu superintendence, ns they stood in the
of their desperate prisoners, and
play just as they
pleased. He applied, therefore,'for
, nnd olitai
en till
abject
allowed them
d, i
1840, the servi
a Mr. Williams, a during and indefatign
of
hie officer, who kept four liuudred desparu
does
,ork fro
A. M. till five I». M.,
n hands the idle and re
thrashing with hit
frnctory. Under this discipline, the
uble iu two years to spin heuip, weave
common carpeting, make coarse towels, door
mats, Ac., all of which
and the surrounding stations.
considered advisable to mako
sold at Jubbulpoor
It
attempt with tho children; and the approvers
were informed that all w ho chose might bring
their
the factory, who would ho taught
a trade, and roceive a monthly stipend. Not
the idea of tho parents
that the real object of the government
make their childroa Christians ; and although
they, the prisoners, must work under
sioii, they were determined to placo their off
spring, who
jection. Mr. Williutus at length ofTered ns a
premium to BU«h parents as should comply, the
privilege of sleepiug iu the village, instead of
being locked up iu tho jail at night ; and tho
, that twenty boys appeared
appeared. It
to
pul
free, under no suspicious sub
consequence
at the factory the next morning, and one hun
dred
within a week. The latter, howev
were rejected ; for Mr. Williams had become
uneasy at the idea of leaving
rato
many despe
together iu a village guarded by only
necessary to proceed by
degrees, and let the cidevant Thugs feel their
way to the comparative freedom of the village.
The first twenty boys
four sentries. It
taught tho manu
facture of Brussels carpeting by an export
ver from Mirzapore, and in three months were
able to go ou without their master. Another
score of hoys
months there
then admitted ; and i
in all fifty hoys, ander ten
of ago, busily employed in carpet-wcov
Brussels
six
y
ing. But although such a luxury
carpets might employ fifty hoys
it could not nfford
in India.
'.cupation for hundreds ;
rerseer, therefore, constructed another
built by Lieutenant
approvers and boys to
tho
shed similar to tho
Brown, and set
tho manufacture to a considerable extent; hut
to sell it, they found
the long cloths of another hemisphere offered
in the bazaar at two shillings for six yards,
while for tho
luckily, when they
money they could not afford
than seven of their
coarse
, of course, remained unsal
of Manchester I" cays
correspondent. "In tho vnlley of the Ner
hudda, where cotton is cheaper than in any
part of India, and where labor is tho cheapest
in tho world—being six shillings a month for
Indian loom
dowlas. This
able. "Read this,
who will work with
twelve hours a day—in that valley y
sell cheaper cloth than is produced at
very doors, although, to say nothing of the
voyage of so many thousand miles, you hove to
bring y
pay duty
cutta I"
manufacture 800 miles inland, and
It four times after it has left Cal
What was to he done? The cloth must he
used—the work must go on. It was suggested
by the overseer to turn the Rtuff into tents ;
and although these had hitherto heen supposed
to require expert workmen
difficulty in teaching the Thugs anything.
Expert workmen were brought from Futtyghur ;
and in twelve months, 100 pooplo we
ployed in making tents, stamping the chintzes
for lining, turning the poles, making carpets,
ore of other articles iudispe
hie for a Bengal tent. From the year 1840 to
1817, this establishment has increased tenfold;
it has now upwards of twenty large workshops,
built in good style by the Thugs themselves;
and among the hands are 150 hoys, most of
than ordinary workmen in
the town. The original 450 murderers by birth
d profession who have thus been brought
■In
into habits of industry, are represented
hihlting every appearance of contentment and
comfort; their children
growing up re
form of society
apart; their wives keep their
spectahlc members of the
of which they
houses and village clean, nnd add to their fam
ily funds by spinning thread
hours, which is purchased at the factory. The
wages paid to them averngo £80 a month ; and
the goods sold exceed £300 a month. In fine,
the paltry outlay of the government has been
already returned, and the establishment sup
ports itself.
Wo have hut
their leisure
trait to add to this
cheering picture. The question Is no longer
how to induce the attendance of the children
nt the factory ; hut, on the contrary, the ad
vantages derivable from permission to do
so manifest, that the superintendent is able to
make a condition with their parents. The
dition is, that the children attend a school pro
vided for them, aud learn to read and write be
fore being admitted to work I Notwithstand
ing all this growing prosperity, our readers
will he surprised to heur tlmt Mr. Williams
tins as yet no assistant but a single native
clerk to keep the accounts of the establish
ment. This would he incredible to those who
? not aware of the wild extravagance of the
company in matters of show and bloodshed,
mid the miserable per centagc on their prince
which they devote to the purpose of
education and national progress. There
various persons in this country, however, who
have an opportunity,
suggests, of assisting the solitary overseer, and
in a way perhaps conducive to the gratification
of their own tastes. Models, for instance, of
such simple machines nB would assist him in
his labors would be all important to him ; such
as a hrick-and-tilc-making machine, a common
windmill, or a warping-mill.
In the account already referred to of the
Dundee School of Industry, we gave
tails of the previous habits of the objects of
the institution ; but a picture of the same kind
in the present case, besides being infinitely
more painful, would have no compensating
utility, referring, as it would do, to a state of
society so widely different from
with reference to the above history of their
reform, wo must say enough to dispossess
readers of the idea, if any of them have formed
it, that the Thugs were mere ignorant nnd bru
who murdered from an innate
correspondent
de
I, Still,
tal wretch«
ferocity of character. On the contrary, their
worst crimes were tinged with a sort of wild
feeling of religion. Iu the establishment at
Jubbulpoor th(>y
their udvci
rilling
es, asserting that they were
.hcuibclves hut bliud instruments of a higher
power, sent iulo the world for the purpo;
punishing such objects of divine wrath as
delivered into their hands. Our correspondent
states that the approvers iu question were sup
posed to have murdered, collectively, 25,000
persons by Bin n u'ntion ; hut he must
we presume, Unit this was the uumher of the
victims of the gangs to which these individuals
uf
teems.
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belonged. The patie
ingenuity they
of civilized life, receivo a remarkable illustra
tion from tho following anecdote related by
Colonel Sleetnan himself :
, perseverance, and
isingin the arts
"A stout Mogul officer, of noble hearing and
singularly hundsomo countenance, on his way
from the Punjaub to Oude, crossed the Ganges
at Giirmiiktesur Ghat,
Meeruth, to paBS
through Moradahad and Bareilly. He
a fine Turkee horse, and attended
by his kliinmutgur (butler) and groom. Soon
after erossiug the river, he fell iu with a small
party of well-dressed and modest-looking
going tho
d. They accosted him in
a respectful manner, and attempted to enter
into
ersation with him. He had heard of
Thugs, and told them to ho off. They smiled
at his idle suspicions, and tried to remove
thorn ; but all in vain ; tho Mogul
mined : they saw his nostrils swelling with in
dignation, took their leave, and followed slow
ly. The next morning he overtook the
number of men, but of a different appearance,
all Mussulmans. They accosted him in tho
same respectful manner; talked of tho danger
of the road, aud the necessity of their keeping
together, aud taking advantage of the protec
tion of any mounted gentleman that happened
to bo going the same way. Tho Mogul off' -'r
said uot a word in reply, resolved to have a o
companions on the road. They persisted : his
nostrils began again to swell, and putting his
hand to his sword, lie bade them all be off,
lie would have their heads from theirsbouldes.
Ho had a bow and quiver full of arrows
bis shoulders, a brace of loaded pistols in his
was!belt, and a sword by his side, and was ol
togetlier a very formidable-looking cavalier.
In tho evening, another party, lodged in
They were going ^the
road : and as tho Mogul overtook them iu tho
morning, they made their hows rospectfully,
and began to enter into conversation with their
two friends tho groom and the butlor, who
Hinting up behind. The Mogul's nostrils
began again to swell, and ho hade tho stran
gers he off. Tho groom and butler interceded ;
for their master
n grave, sedate
they wanted companions. All would not do ;
and the strangers fell in tho
day, when they had got to tho middlo of
, and
Tho next
extensive and uninhabited plain, the Mogul i
ndv
rants a few hundred
yards behind, he
up to a party of six
poor Mussulmans sitting weeping by the sido
of a dead companion. They w
from Lahore,
soldiers
their way to Lucknow,
down by fatigue, iu their anxiety to
wives and children
their
3, after a long
and painful
hope and prop of liis family, had sunk under
the fatigue, and they had made a grave for
him; but they were poor unlettered
repeat the funeral
vice. Thoii
companion, the
l, nnd
from tho
holy Koran: would his highness hut porforui
this last otfice for them, lie would
find hi
doubt
world and the next.
Tho Mogul dismounted ; the body had b*
placed in its proper position, with its head
i. A carpet
s spread ; the
Mogul took off his bow nnd quiver, then hi
pistols and sword, and placed them
ground
the
the body ; called for water, and
ashed his feet, hands, and face, that he might
unclean
not pronounce the holy words i
state. He th
knelt down, mid began to re
pent the funeral servico in a clear, loud voice.
Two of the poor soldiers knelt by him,
each side, in silence. The other four went off
a few paces, to beg that the butler aud groom
interrupt the
his devotions. All being
of the four, in a low-under tone
good •Samaritan
ready,
gave the shimee (signal;) the handkerchiefs
thrown
their necks, and in a few
minutes all three—the Mogul and his servants
—were dead, and lying in the grave in the
usual manner—the head of
at the feet of
the one below him. All the parties they had
met on the road belonged to a gang of Junial
dehce Thugs, of the kingdom of Oude. In de
spair of being able to win the Mogul's confi
dence in the usual way, and determined to
have the money and jewels which they knew
he carried with him, they had adopted this
plan of disarming him ; dug the grave by the
the side of the road, iu the open plain, and
made a handsome young Mussulman of the
party the dead soldier. The Mogul being a
very
, died almost without a struggle
with such, nnd his two
resistance."
as is usually the
servants made
In conclusion, we must permit ourselves to
express the pleasure we feel in having had
opportunity of recording in these pages tho
names of tho individuals who have been tho
proximate agents in bringing about
a moral revolution. We have strong hope tlmt
the good work will spread, and that the gov
ernment of India will at length he awakened
fully toa sense of its duty, nnd oven to a
i of the glory it may acquire—if glory bo
its object—by ' following up tho bloodless
triumphs of peace and humanity.
happy
Oouooiiiah.—A lute analysis of
Lake Ooroomiiih, shows that it contains
rly three pounds of salt to the gallon,
sidcrnbly
The water is
ly, that a swimmer
mediately covered with minute crystals and
looks as if he hail conic out of a flour bin.
The extreme saltness of this, nnd the neighbor
ing hikes, arises, evidently, from the separa
reniote period, of a large
ocean. Continued
L i
fre
than the water of the Dead Sea.
salt, and evaporates
coming out of it is i
■
of
water from the
oration from this minor ocenn gradually
iluced its volume of water, until it i
fined
vap
the valleys of the Caspian, the Aral
«1 the hikes about Ooroomiiih. The smaller
lakes have beco
and the
perfectly saturate«! brines,
iglihorhood
mpletely dried up, leav
) vail
where the water is
iug nothing hut beds of salt.
in tliei
stees of the New York Inebriate
the clergy
The
Asylum have put forth a
of America f<
of the institution, which they claim to he the
first of til«' kind thut will have heen founded
in tin* world. The establishment of such
institution is bused upon the conclusion sail!
to have heen arrived at, after y
galion of the morbid anatomy nnd pathology
of inebriety, that this alle« tion is a disease,
stitutional and often hereditary ; producing
iu its progress a peculiar insanity, which places
its victim beyond i»s control. The trustees,
having laid down this postulate, proceed to
argue the necessity of u well-organized asyl
hospital, where persons alllieteil witli this di*
: lie confined und
in any other hospital would be. in
aid in carrying out the ohje«
"I ini « \-1i
•ated, jus
the
stead of placing tlu-m i
boarding-houses.