Fall River Monitor from Fall River, Massachusetts • 1

1 V0L7XXV-i0 14:1 SATURDAY APRIL 1850 WUOLE IVO: 1205 I POETRY FALL RIVER MONITOR Published every Saturday Morning in the Poetise House corner Mum trd pomuMet Street by HENRY PRATT Two Dollars per annum Advertisements inserted three weeks at the rate of One Dollar per square of lines and 17 cent' for each extra insertion and ill be continued till forbidden unless otherwise ordered and charged accordingly The privilege of Yearly Advertisers is limited to their own immediate business All political religious temjx'rance obituary and Other notices will be charged as advertisement prison of this county and frotn thence taken at such time as the Executive Government of this Commonwealth shall bv their warrant appoint and there be HUNG "BY THE NECK UNTIL YOU ARE DEAD 1 And may God a his infinite goodness have mercy upoa your oul! Chief Justice Shaw pronounced the sentence under the deepest cruet ion which' in some part of it almost choke Lff is utterance The feeling in the Court room was intense The prisoner sat down leaned erward resting his heed on tlie railing in6ent of himfand wept the auctioneer in great doubt put up another lot of five hundred chests Dow it went to Peter Flinn I And so likewise went the third hen the sale was concluded the merchants glided off -believing that tlie auctioneer was certainly a man But on presenting the bills and notes of Peter Flinn at the desk ot Stephen Girard the old fellow cashed them at sight The sales came to nearly 100000 the tea was much wanted in market and Peter got rare bargains and before noon next day received 13000 bonus for his bids on the cargo of tea The cargo was soon transferred Girard indemnified and the poor drayman found himself with a snug little fortune in his fob Baritones of DEATH npoa Prof Wabator John In" meqjbig you here for the last time to pronounce lffat sentence which the law has affixed to the crime of which you have been fotind guilty it is impossible by any language to give utterance to the sense of responsibility which we feet The circumstances under which we approach this duty are peculiarly painful At all times it is a painful duty to pronounce death upon a human being but when we consider the circumstances of your past life and contrast them with your present condition we are oppressed with grief and anguish and nothing but an imperative sense of duty impoai upon us by tlp law whose officers and ministers we are would sustain us under it in pronouncing such a judgment 4 Against the crime of wilful taurder of which you stand a crime at which humanity shudders a crime" Everywhere and PETEfl FLINtrS LUCK In that beautiful quiet city of parallel streets sweet butter and sweet Philadelphia there Mice did live a certain native of the Emerald Lie called Peter Flinn A poor hard-toilisg honest and jolly man was Peter Flinn His vocation was the most honorable because of its usefulness to the commercial world driving a dray Peter owned a very ancient and no-wise spry horse and an equally unstable dray by means whereof be essayed and by dint of great physical exertion succeeded in obtaining for his large and growing family a tolerable living Stephen Girard lived and carried on his immense mercantile transactions about the time of which I write and was a principal performer in sny little story The one-eyed little Frenclman the great pet of dame Fortune was not a man of very wondciTul development of heart and soul of sympathy in the misfortunes crosses or losses in his fellow beings but now and then be was known more through eccentricity than aught else to perform some very creditable and really magnificent acts of kinduess and generosity towards those falling in his way One day said he to Peter Flinn whom he had oft and for a long time employed upon wharves in hauling goods from his large ships to his ware-house Pe-tair I believe you have worked very Yis sir and be my soul I responded Peter Veiry long time you no save anything said (lie banker tlie merchant prince the millionaire 1 Be me conscience Misther Ge-rad not a ha-puth I save at all tlie divil himself might dance hes hornpipes in me pockets of a Monday morning without disturbing a toe-nail of his fut against the silver at all there three five seven of de "children home eh Faix and its ycrself that's guessed it CX' actly Misther Gerad I have seven as brave boys and gals as iver ye clapped an eye upon Eaely Tempi- rance Movement is Maikc friend has furnished us with tlie following extract from the York Records as printed in YoL of the Maine Historical Collection It $ow a very early adoption of stringent prohibitory laws on this subject in the Province of Maine The extract is as follows: July 15 1690 At the Court of Sessions of the Peace for the Provinc of Maine held at York Jiefore Major John Davis Deputy President: Whereas there is a great complaint made of several abuses taken notice of in Ordinary by excessive drinking of Rum Flyp Ac The iff consequences whereof is seen in tlie misbehavior of several persons in the presence of authority for the preventing of the like for the future it is therefore ordered: That from henceforth there shall not be any Rum or other strong liquors or Flyp sold unto any inhabitant of the town by any Ordinary keeper therein directly nor indirectly except in case of great necessity as in cose of sickness Ac Nor shall any Ordinary keeper sell unto any stranger more than one gill for a person at a time And all civil officers especially Select Men and Constables in the respective towns in this Province are required to take especial care by inspecting any suspicious House or Houses where any such abuse or profane-ness may be acted and in case any Ordinary keeper shall presume to transgress this order he shall immediately forfeit the The reader will perceive tliat the provisions of this order were three viz: 1st Liquor or should not be sold to any inhabitant except in case of great necessity as in case of sickness 2d To a stranger not more than one gill for a person at a time 3d Suspicious Houses should be searched The distinction here made between an inhabitant and a stranger has prevailed to a considerable extent in the popular mind down to the present day There are many taverns where liquors are kept ostensibly to be sold only to The right of search too in such cases which has made the principal objection to a law passed at the last session of our Legislature is not as has been supposed by many an invention of modem ram but refers back for a precedent to a very early period Portland Adv A gentleman who has recently returned from California and who is as thoroughly cured of the gold fever as any person we have seen tells the following story of San Francisco mud A six-foot muscular down-easter attempted to get to the post-office by crossing the street where nothing had been placed to walk on and before he had got half way a-cross he sank to his middle in the clayey mud He struggled to get out but in vain and called on the by-standers who had assembled for help After laughing at him a while they promised to help him out if he would pay them well for it This he agreed to do and they got some sticks of timber and placed them by his side and by standing on these succeeded in pulling him out minus his boots which remained some three feet below the surface of the mud said he looking at his bootless feet two ounces And how much have I got to pay you His rescuers told him that they should charge nothing for their services but that two ounces would be about a fair price for the use of the timber This he paid and went off muttering something about four The same gentleman stntcs that the hospital at San Francisco is a dreadful place He does not believe that any man has lived in it two days after his gold was exhausted The idea that the sick are hurried out of existence when no longer able to pay the physician Ac is too horrible for belief but this is what he conveys Pawtucket Chronicle The Late Eruption op Mr Bayard son of ex-Senator Bayard of Delware was buried at Naples on February 20 He received his death at Vesuvius on one of the nights of the recent great eruption there from the falling of a stone from4g crater which Dearly severed his arm Hu bled profusely for 60 hours when an amputation was ordered which resulted in lock-jaw and death His funeral was attended by all the Americans in Naples and by one good Englishman who came in his carriage and followed to the burial no Italians and no military escort sent by by the King or permitted from the squadron They were fearful of American soldiers A correspondent of the Joumql of Commerce thus describes the scenes at the mountain since tlie eruption I am sorry I did not come here a few-days sooner to witness one of grand eruptions which has been the- largest ever known We have been today to see the lava Ac and it is mast wonderful A new crater has been formed and the emission of lava was so immense that it has extended a distance of seven miles by one and a half to three miles wide and about thirty feet high After descending the mountains it has gone forward one and a half miles wide and thirty feet high for a distance of five miles at least and forms and embankment like that of a rail road raised over a plain covering thirty-two houses and one or two churches and destroying of course an immense number of vineyards and farms The direction was on the side opposite Naples Th sight must have been most grand and while it lasted (i five days) the rail road cars run all night to carry people to see it Although the trembling of the bouses at Naples was sensibly felt during the eruption there was not the leak apprehension of danger Farm fr April In this latitude farmer expect to put their ploughs a-field by the first day of April-Wo do not always succeed ajjd we are obliged in some seasons to wait till the fifteenth As soon as the soil is dry enough to crumble from the mould-plate of the ploughrthe op-cCitjoS of plougliinfctjW)M: commence for the earner you can sow tlie English grains after the land is fit the better will be your harvest Oats only need a little longer delay for tlie frosts sometimes cut them down in You will have fears about wheat rye or barley therefore sow these as soon as you can Land that bore corn lost year and that waa not ploughed in autumn ought to be managed cautiously to break apart the clumps of corn roots and fit them to be easily buried by the plough The old mode of splitting the hills first and then hqrrowing is better than the mode of some farnibrs-who plough clean and turn under tlie furrow tlie entire clumps of corn roots for these arc not easily broken by the harrow after they arc turned to the surface by a second ploughing and precise farmers are forced to pick up these clumps and cart them from the field The best way wc have tried to split tlie hills first running the plough so close as to shear off about one third part of the corn stumps at first then a third more as the plough comes back When this is done small plough will do it let a harrow pass over the ground and tear in pieces these roots Now your field is ready for seed This should cut very fine furrows such as you can afford to cut when you plough but once Sowing In many parts of New England no wheat is grown and we believe there are but few towns where wheat i raised for sale at large manufacturing mills Maine has a soil better adapted to wheat than any soil with which we are acquainted in New England But the farmers of Maine seem to prefer buying what flour they use from the Westerrf States rather than grow it on their own farms Once in a while we find farmers who are determined to eat no bread that is not grown on their own they resolve to live within themselves Such men are usually as independent as any Wheat must be prepared before is sown otherwise a good harvest can hardly be expected It is not like rye or a barley or oats which need no preparation before There is a fungus growth on wheat that renders it necessary to apply something to the seed that will effectually destroy it before the went is sown Some farmers soak it in strong brine Some use lye from others use lime Probably this last is as effectual as any thing The wheat should first be thoroughly washed and then mixed with the lime The best mode we have tried is to take one half bushel of the grain at a time wash it thoroughly then place it on a tight barn floor where there is lime recently slaked Mix it up well with a shovel and let it lie a day or two before sowing This effectually destroys the smutty fungus that adheres to tlie grain and is very apt to render your whole harvest smutty Ploughman A prisoner brought up in court the following dialogue passed between him and the sitting magistrate 44 How do you liv -44 Pretty well sir generally a joint and pudding at 44 1 mean sir how do you get your bread I beg your pardon sometimes at tlie and sometimeeat the 44 You may be as witty as you please sir but I mean simply to ask you how do you do 44 Tolerable well I thank your worship I hope your worship is The Morgan Journal Jacksonville IlTmols give the following queer account of a new propelling power on sailroada The wind tried its hand at running a locomotive on the railroad yesterday and after driving the car some miles and running over and killing a cow threw the car off the track and vam-oaed Congreai Mondav April 1st In Senate Mir- Butler announced the death of the Hod John Calhoun and after pronouncing a lofty eulogy upon him said the immediate cause of hi death was an affection of the heart He stated that the deceased was perfectly conscious until his end which he met with confidence and uncommon serenity He gave a brief outline of his life offered the usual resolutions and moved that the Senate attend the funeral at 12 tomorrow Mr Clay followed in some touching and beautiful remarks which drew tears from many eyes Mr Webster next arose and paid a noble and merited tribute to the dead statesman-Messrs Rusk and Clemens made some brief remarks The Vice President announced the Committee of arrangements to superintend the funeral services to consist of Messrs Mason Davis of Miss Atchiaon Dodge of Wis-Dickinson and Greene Adjourned In the House The Chaplain made a solemn prayer alluding in an impressive manner to the death of Mr Calhoun Mr Vinton moved a recess to await the report of the Committee from the Senate-agreed to A message was received from the Senate announcing Mr death Mr Holmes of spoke nearly an hoar in brilliant oology upon his character Mr Winthron followed briefly but appro iriately amidst profound silence allnding to pnatdJp' iniNK pmuuiw uciic Iiiuumv hiaebaraeter and in conclusion the day never come when New England men apeak of the great uamea of the South wheth-erUving or dead but aa of Americana aad fellow Mr Venable followed reading his remarks and offered resolutions of condolence Ac which were adopted adjourned TRAVELLING DIRECTORY FALL Hit Lit KAIL UUAD BUflUER ARRANGEMENT Mmtur Jtt rit J'i lK5 Tbs ACCOMMODATION TilRol oil TRAIN run daily (Butiduv axeepteil) ax krilow Lmvc Pall Rivnv fur ftuatuw aUkrdTand I A sad 9 9-4 Lsavc Romoa for Fall River st 7 1-4 A I 14 asd 4 10 CAPS 10 TR4IM Leave Pall River for Waiebure aud Sandwich at 0 A aad 9 Lmvs Middleboru (or Pall River st 0 55 A sad 46 triv-saoroRO Taunt fitivi Fall River for New liedlurd al 0 1-4 8 A 4 6 1-9 Leave Mvrirk'a for Pall River at 7 1-3 9 l-df A AL 1-4 and a 051 NEW-YORK AND NEWPORT TRAINS Leave Boston every day (but Buixiity at 5 FOR XFIF-rORK XLH'rORT RAY STATE Brown On Mondays VVedtieiitU) a and Friday STATE OK MAINE rapt iwett On Tuesday IbuD-dm and Faturdv GiMK WEN Suji't On arrival 4if Train from New Bedford fOs arrival of Trams from Tuiiiitoii CA PAi COD oKANCAA KAIL KOAI) -feirff4 SUMMER ARRANGEMENT Cartr net Bantam leave Dtput ml Me id aiamv Rail Sited ON AND AFTER MOWUY Aprl let IK) Iaeiixar Tiame will leave Boston and band with daily (auudaye aicepted)aa follow is Jjavn HMtoa for al 7 IN A and 4 10 Leave Sandwich for Hoetoa at 45 A and 9 15 Intenectiiu with the Two of the Full Uner Rond at Mid dleboro which tram Intersect with Bedford and Faun-ton Train at fetation A ref tier MaacHtHBita Taiv with Fawns Car at-tarbed ill leave Sandwich daily al II A for and returning ill leave AmltlU boro' utd 95 I PaMengera by tlieil A Tram fr in Sandwich ran so to Providence via Al rich reaclnos titers shout 6 30 1 Buga lews mdwn ifie Caps mi the arr-val of Ue morning tram from Boston Silica leave Rouuiiient daily on tbs nrrival of the morning tram from Boston lor Faliaouth and intermediate retiirnms is aeaeon for Imiu lor Boston drKkaa between tVarfham and New Bedf rd when paid lUie Ticket tflre7S rente Sandwich and fioeton $1 60 Local Merchtmdize Trams between Boston aud Bauds icb daily Sundays excepind Sandwich April 1 8VLVANUS BOURNE SnpH HTKAR HOAT NOTH SUMMER AR RANK KM ENT vafB a On and af'er Monday April let the vS Tleteainer BRADFORD OURfKB Captain Boaona will leave Fall River for Provi-Bgiwfcies ffl SR dents daily (Sunday excepted! at 8 o'clk AM or on the arrival of the morning Tram nl Car from New Bedford and Middletown Returning will leave Providence at o'rlork and arrive Fall River in time for pareeHger to take the 9 14 o'eock 1 rain of Can for New Beuioid and Middteboro' R-Tlie Bust will atop a usual at Bristol Perry (R aide and Bristol each way flrFare 5U cent Match JO On and after Monday July 9d IR40 the gs Newport and liUle Complou Stage will Fall River daily tBnudays excepted) eraxursUSai It oVIock A and arrive in each Urn at 9 Will leave Newport and Little Compton at 10 o'clock A and arrive in Full River at 1 o'clock A star will leave fall River for New Bedford via Wert- nda lv (Sunday exe pted) at 1 o'eock and arrive ew DTOford at 3 14 Will leave New Bedford for Fall River rl Westport at 9 o'clock A aud arrive in Fali Utver at 10 1-fi A A stag will leave Fall River da 1y (Sunday exeepted) at 1 o'clock for Providence Warren and Bristol and arrive in Warren at 3 Providence and Bristol at 4 Rbto4Hiko Will leave Prv dance at 7 1-9 Bn tol at 8 and Warren at A Mad arrive ia Full River at Id 1-9 o'clock A Pars to Newport 75 Itutln Compton Seconnet House $1 New Bedford tJ9 1-9 Providence 75 Warren and Brirtol 50 fr Book kept at Mount He Hmte Block Jim id K'N-LKV Proprietor R'B EXPRESS FOR BOUTOV UV JIAIL ROAD For the Tramteui of 11 detcriph of Merchandize EAVE4 OfRce in Fall River daily (Sunday's excepted) JLi at6 9 o'clock A and 3 Leaves Boston at 7 1-4 A and 3 1-4 Draft Notes and Bills collected and Order executed with promptness Fall River Mount Hope Boston No 11 State street gExprese leaves daily (-umlny excepted) for New Bedford Tuuntun Warr Bristol Providence Ware-ham Sandwich and the Cape KINLKV KINSLEY EXTRESS BY TIIR BAY 8TATE LINE FOR New York Philadelphia and Smith dm!) (Sunday fur the transmission of all descriptions ot Merchandise Drafts Notes and Bills coll cted and orders executed with promptness Fall River Mount Hope Block 44 New York No 1 Wall street Philadelphia No 89 Cliesnniet m26 TO OLD COUNTRYMEN HAKNDEN s3 Pannage Arrangements for 1H4B REDUCED RAILS OK SAGK FUOM L1VERFOOL TO BOSTON By their Regular Line of Fackets sailing from Liverpool on the 1st 7th Mill 91th and 95tii of each month ALSO FROM LIVERPOOL IO NEW YORK By the Regular Line of Packet Ships muting from Liverpool on the 1st oth i Dh loth rid and 9oth of each mootb PAMK splendid Saii comNHiinf Uii Line hve been built expressly for tins trad arecoinmanded by men of long experience their accommodation are rommodmu and they ar in ail respects desirable conveyance for Persoa wiLmg to rent for ibeir friend in irnhnii Eng land Scotland or WMe ean throogii the stihwcribcra Particular a't-ntion will be paid to the aLCummodstion and good treatment of passengers The advantage offered by this Line over all others are the following Test the Ships selected Ih dt Co lor the couv yaaieof ther passengers canma be ur- eased by anv si of the United on this point no etter evidence ean be offered tban the (art of the hundreds ship despatched by them not on has im asm LOS I Pisseager wiM be brought be this Line at very low Fmruee hatdlog Hsavosa A Pssg CmpfcotM It 9 smgasd toons Hir mosth in LtprrpaU kmve the fru oitof ef emhmrkiog is a9 mf Us vmih sstha EVERY WEEK £Ubiduu A Co bavo Agents fa ail lire principal seaport town of Ireland who take charge rf their passenger and protect them from the Baud practised upon the Inexperienced HARNDEN A CO wishing to conduct lhlr hnalneM po principles of fairoew nod equity to prevent fraud and deception have toil one price for passage whtrh in all cases taclodes Hospital fees and provision acrordmg to law PrtpsU gawcagsr ofwags hate the preference etmr MnMin psgmg a UeerpmoL jThose apboig by letter or oilier wise for Certificate of Passage should in ailetees rQr-b the name aad ages of the persons sent Tor with their address ta full containing tbo name of the lownland nearest past tons aad ssnstg together with the ad tress at Ui per on to whit ter a letter Is nsuaily sent to enable Messrs Hansom A Co of Liverpool to notify them of the proper time toloavo borne aad nrnisb other necessary information ICT Those enquiring tor prepaid passengers should give the Nnmf her and Date oftheir Passage Receipt £-JFs ether Pasesag sr He taker is thu fig Ltvtrpeel uiLmW to edeertu er sell Cwttdeeto fer tbi Lime REMIT For the convenwoc of persons wish to remit money to their friends wo keep coietaotlv for safe DRAFT8 AT 8(GH which are cashed at any Bank in England Ireland or Scotland Duplirste checks are famished tooeeuro the porehaser against toss For fnrthor iaformatioa apply (if by letter poet paid) to Hk URNUEN A CO A 4P Brei Street er I Csavt etreet Bosvon OrtoR KINALKV Fall Ritrb Orrica tn Ltniroui at No to Walorloo Rond nH HAIR MATRA8BEN A Pine amort meat of iho abive most comfortable "nmmor Bods and also Woollen Flock tnd Pali Leaf Maumn-WttxoATa A Botoitt'a Not S3 55 and 57 South Mam for jel6 SPLENDID FAMILY Two copies illuminated th most beouttful Mttahio frw th family orrulpA tn rich dark binding For ml low by RI7 Urantt Block in all forms of society regarded H'ithJa4c est abhorrence and whiclf the law hksmatteff with the severest penalties in these simple but solemn and expressive words: person who shall commit the crime of murder shall suffer the penalty of death for the The manifest abject of this law is the pro- tection and security u)f human life the most important object of justice and paternal government It is mado the duty of this Court to declare this penalty agaiust any one who shall be found guilty in the due course and administration of justice of having violated this law It is one of the most important acts of judicial power which an earthly tribunal can be called upon to exercise It is the high manifestation of the sovereign judicial law as well in its stern and inflexible severity as in its paternal benignity It punishes the guilty with the severest penalties that the right and enjoyment of life the most precious right of all may be more effectually secured -By the record before us it appears that you have been indicted for the crime of murder the indictment alleging that on the 23d of November last you made an assault upon Dr George Parkman and by acts of violence deprived him of life with malice aforethought This deed is alleged to have been done in your apartments in the Medical Colege in which you were a professor and upon a person of mature age and extensive' connections in this community and one who waa a benefactor of that institution The intelligence of such a crime created tlie deepest sensation in the community You were in due time arraigned before a Court organized for that purpose able counsel was appointed for your de' fence everything that could be urged in your favor was brought forward and a jury almost of your own seloction have brought in a verdict of guilty To this verdict I am constrained to say upon a careful revision of the whole proceedings the Court can find no just or legal grounds of exception GUILTYI How much under the thrilling circumstances which cluster a-round the case and throng ear memories tn the retrospect does this single word import! The wilful violent malicious destruction of the life of a fellow one in the midst of life with bright hopes warm affections mutual attachments making life a blessing to himself and others 1 We allude thus to the injury that has been inflicted not for the purpose of creating an unnecessary pang jn a heart already deeply lacerated but to remind you of the irreparable wrong done to the victim of your in sheer justice to him whose voice is now hushed in death and whose wrong can be only vindicated by the living action of4he law If tliercfore at any moment you may be disposed to complain that your punishment is too severe or any murmuring word seeks ut tent nee from your lips think oh think of him who was instantly deprived of life by your hand Remember that you are to be cut down not as he was by unlawful violence but by the hand of retributive justice and if you have any compunctious visitings of conscience you will perhaps be led to exclaim in bitter an-' guish I have sinned against my own soul against heaven my punishment is just God be merciful to me a sinner! God grant that your example may afford a solemn warning to all especially to the young! May it impress deeply upon their minds the salutary lesson whieh it is intended to teach to guard against the indulgence of unhallowed and vindictive passions to resist temptation to a sordid wicked a lesson of warning to heed the Voice of conscience and obey the high dictates of duty while they instinctively shrink with abhorrence from the first thought of assailing the life of another May they learn to reverence the Divine law as well as the laws of society which are designed to secure protection to its members We forbear from obvious considerations adding such words of advice to you as sometimes deem fit and proper on occasions like this It has commonly been our province on occasions like the present to address the illiterate and degraded whose early life has been cast among the vicious who have never been blest with means of moral and religious instructions and who have never received the benefit of society It has been our practice in such cases to add a word of advice which may be a fitly But in a case like this where all these circumstances are reversed no word of ours could be more efficacious than what yonr own reflections will suggest But we approach this sad last duty of pronouncing the sentence which is indeed the voice of the law and not our own in giving utterance to which we cannot do it with feelings of indifference as a mere formal act God forbid that we should be prevented from indulging and expressing the irrepressible feelings and interest and compassion which arise spontaneously in our hearts We do most sincerely deplore the distressing condition to which crime Has brought you and though we have no present words of consolation and hope to offer you hi this hour of affliction yet we do earnestly commend you to the mercy of our Heavenly Father with whom is abundance of mercy and from whoni 'you mar yet obtain pardon and peace P'' Arid now nothing remains bwf solemn duty of pronouncing the sente licit the law affixes to the crime of of which you stand eonvieted v-which tea is that you John Webster I ii front this place and detained in cW- jtody in the is a Tho Whaleman1! Adveaturea By Re Chcercr On tlie 2Mh of May 1718 the Roynl Bounty an English ship fell in with a great number of whales in seventy degrees twenty-five minutes north latitude and longitude five degrees cast There were neither ice nor land in sight The boats were manned and sent in pursuit and after a chase of five hours one of them which had rowed out of sight of the ship struck one of the whales This was a-bout four in the morning The captain directed tlie course of the ship to the point where lie had last seen the boats and about 8 got sight of one which displayed the signal of being fast Soon after another boat approached tlie first and struck a second harpoon and by mid-day two more harpoons were made fast But such was the astonishing vigor this whale that although it constantly dragged through the water from four to six boats together with six teen hundred fathoms of line yet it pursued it flight nearly as fast as a boat could row and whenever one passed beyond its tail it would dive All endeivors to lance it were therefore in vain and the crews -of the loose boats moored to tliose that were fast the whale all the time steadily towing them on At eight in tho evening a line was taken to the ship with a view of retarding its flight and topsails were lowered but the harpoon drew In three hours another line was taken on board which immediately snapped At four in the afternoon of the next day thirty-six hours after the whale was first struck two of the fast lines were taken to the ship The most dreadful display of the strength and prowess yet authentically recorded was that made upon the American whale ship Essex CapL Pollard which sailed from Nantucket for the Pacific Ocean in August 1819 Late in in the fall of the same year when in latitude forty of the South Pacific a school of sperm whales were discovered and three boats were manned and sent in pursuit The mate's boat was struck by one of them and he was obliged to return to the ship in order to repair tho damage While he was engaged in that work a sperm whale judged to be eighty-five feet long broke water about twenty rods from the ship on her weather bow He was going at the rate of about three knots an hour and the ship at nearly the same rate when he struck the bows of tlie vessel just forward of her chains At the shock produced by the collision of two such mighty masses of matter itj: motion tlie ship- shook like a leaf The seemingly malicious whale dove and passed under the the ship grazing her keel and then appeared at about the distance of a length lashing the sea with fins and tail as if suffering the most horrible agony He was evidently hurt by the collision and blindly frantic with instinctive rage In a few minutes he seemed to recover himself and started with great speed directly a-cross the course to the Meantime the hands on board discovered the ship to be gradually settling down at the bows and the pumps were to be rigged While the crew were working them one of the men cried out God have mercy 1 here he comes again The whale had turned at about one hundred rods from the ship and was making for her with double his former speed his pathway white with foam Rushing head on he struck her again at the bow and the tremendous blow stove her in The whale dived under again and disappeared and the ship foundered in ten minutes from the first collision But five souls of twenty were saved In another authentic instance when a boat was chasing a whale he suddenly turned to windward and made directly for his pursuers who were so excited by tlie chase as to be blind to danger On therefore they madly rushed without trying to avoid the infuriated monster so eager were they to plunge into him their irons till tho boat struck with such force upon the head as to throw the oarsmen from their thwarts At the same moment the boatsteer let fly his two harpoons into the mammoth body which rolled over on its back and before the boat could get clear of danger being to tho windward a heavy sea struck it and threw them dweetly into the whale's mouth All of course sprang for for lives and thpy had barely time to throw themselves clear of the boat before it crushed to pieces by those ponderous jaws and its ejected crew were providentially all picked up by another boat At length near eight after forty hours of incessant exertion this tenacious asserter of his vast animal vigor and territorial rights was killed A well knows Fhjreicion in certain city we "very much annoyed by an old lady who waa alwaye sure to accost him in the etreet for the purpoee of telling over her ailments Once the met him when he was la a very great harry I aes you are quite feeble eaid the doctor shnt your eyee and show me your ougueJ She obeyed and the moved oft lsarbtprMr standing there fat tamer time in this ndjcufcn position to thaiaSmta of all prho witnessed the funny scene I Ah yes I sec I see veiry w-ell Petair you shall have von chance prezently by-and-bv directly to do something bettaire zan drive de ole horse and Faix Misther Ge-rad its meself that's a saying it as should not be saying it but its few men labor hadcr nor longer for the mate bread praties and hay that we ate tlian meself and Barney the old hoss there and be my conscience it it would be a god send that would put us both meself and the poor ould baste there over all our ills and said the drayman Ah hal vairy well Petair you come into my counting house and the little old Frenchman with his hands locked behind him stalked off to his counting-house leaving the poor drayman considerably mystified as to what the result of this conference was to be Be said Peter to himself may be its the ould feller's whim to set me up in a shop! or be gorra to buy me a new dray and hoss be me conscience no telling what the ould jintleman will do whin he takes the turn and thus soliloquizing after a respectful delay Peter presented himself at the door of the millionaire's counting room and doffing his hat in he walked said the merchant prince ze big Canton packet ship Mozart lay down at my She have one good cargo of continued the banker Faix she have' said Peter To-morrow Petair ze whole cargo be sold to ze highest bidder Peter replies still deeper in mystery as to what or how that could interest or concern him Vairy well continued the hanker to-morrow morning when ze sale begin be you dre ze tea be put up in two or three lots one of the merchants begin to bid den you bid de be gorra saving yer prisince Misther Ge-rad would it be for the likes of Pater Flinn to be among the merchants and bidding for a cargo of tea Its mad intirely say I Nevir mind you bid on ze tea when ze tea knocked down you take ze whole zen you cum to me I Good morning And stumbling and awkward with astonishment Peter got out and the rest of the day he went about muttering to himself over the en-' tire strange and bewildering part which he was to enact on the morrow at the grand tea sale Next day the merchants of the Quaker city assembled on one of quays where huge piles of chests of tea were ready for the auctioneer's hammer and the bids of the merchants It was a cash was to be raised in short metre and the whole cargo was put up in three separate lots half cash and balance at four months with approved endorsements Now said the auctioneer open ing the sale we put up eight hundred chests of Young Hyson tea what do 1 bear hid for this Hyson tea warranted all through as per sample or no sale How much do I hear Start it gentlemen we shall not dwell long on this tea Forty cents a pound I hear bid only forty cents a pound forty forty forty forty cents a pound only is bid two and a half did I Yis forty-two and a half I said Peter Flinn in a tone of voice that fairly startled some of the merchants The auctioneer Your bid sir Yis me go We are not selling a single pound or a box but eight hundred chats Be dad and sure I know that sir go on with The merchants snickered the auctioneer grinned ne more bids were made and down came the tea 800 chests The name sir Peter Flinn Where is your house Mr Flinn Me house Yes your place of business Me house and faith I have no house its two rooms and a cellar I have in Wather street and me place of business is round here on the Your name if you please 4 Stephen Ge-rad sir This dubious declaration produced another To take the census of the people the government allows ax months We wonder how long it would take to add up our follies4 What a suing they would make wouldn't thwy First on the list would br oar poring two dollars a bottle for ebsm-pegne that could be bought under the head of of the phizzeg of lhe merchants and fop-juice for four cents quart? -O.