Lorain Republican (Newspaper) - July 3, 1844, Elyria, Ohio EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN OF STATE OH ASSIGN OR POLITICAL VOLUME III NEW SERIES ELYRIA L GRAIN CO OHIO WEDNESDAY J U L Y 3 No WHOLE No 85 THE LONE STAR OF THE SOUTH BY J E DOW Far Southward o'er the stream A young Republic lifts her head Whose single star doth proudly gleam valor's grave and glory's bed That star of empire took its flight From freedom's coronal of light Beamed o'er deathless plain And watched a birth again And there how sad how strangely still The Indian city sits No herd the No skeleton beneath the stone Forsaken mart of ago start Life's current from Idy marble heart And bid the pulse of empire beat Through ivied hall and mossy street Beside the green and sculptured piles Whole the wouds The hunter's borne in beauty smiles And joy runs through the solitudes And where the western Drutt trod And offered human blood to The gospel bell doth sweetly chime At Sabbath morn and even time The fierce seeks his home Beyond the Rio wave No more in battle paint to roam Around its fathers sunken grave While the broad stream whose bosom ne'er Knew but the swan awl fallow deer Whirls the swift steamboat's wheel along And echoes to the song Oh tis a fair and goodly land Where restless spirits love to roam Where labor spreads its rugged hand I And decks with flowers homo Where prairies vast the woods embrace j And rivers run their race j Ana wild winds whisper the sea I Of ages past and yet tu be To its green breast young nations cling And raise the wail of infant life While commerce spreads her ocean wing And war's wild bugle wakens strife j And there the freeman from afar j Sees on its a star And strive the glorious hour to team When the Lost Pleiad shall return There shall the wave of life roll on As rolled the north on Europe's shore Till the last boundary is won And ocean's voices drown its roar tyrant's grave and tomb I O'er tyrant's aud plume I O'er craven hosts to slaughter led The northern foot shall let the British lion roam Along the prairies of the Suuth Leave life and liberty and home Dependant on his gory mouth Oh sooner should our children fold In deepest shame the stars of gold And bury freedom s burning shield Ou every deathless Oh for a coal of buining fire That fiorn the Almighty's censer fell To ouch lips of son and site And break the spell Then should the freeman scorn the name Of him who dipped the pen iu shame And o'er the revolution's urn bade a sister State return A MAN OVERBOARD From the proof sheets of Italy and the now in press pleasure of was much marred by tho loss of a man overboard When within a few hundred miles of the Azures we were overtaken by a succession of severe squalls Forming almost instantaneously of the horizon they moved down like on the ship For a few moments after one struck us we would be buried in foam and spray and then heavily rolling on a heavy sea We however prepared ourselves and soon got every thing snug The light sails were all in the jibs and spankes furled close the main sail clewed up and we wore crashing along under close reefed topsails when a man who was down from tho last reef as he stepped on tho bulwarks and went over backwards into the waves In a moment the most terrific of all cries ut sea A man overboard a man overboard flow like lightning over the ship 1 sprang upon the quarter just as the poor fellow with his fearful human riding the top of billow lied past In an instant all was commotion plank after plank was cast over for him to seizo and sustain himself on ti I the ship could be put about and the boat lowered The first mate a bold and fiery fellow into the boat that hung at the side of the quarter deck and in a voice so sharp and stern I seem to hear it yet shouting in men in men But the poor sailors hung back the sea was so The second mato sprung to the sido of the first and tho men ashamed to leave both their officers alone folio ved away the exclaimed the officer the knife glanced around the rope boat fell to tho water TOSO on a high wave far over the deck and drifted rapidly astern I thought it could not live a moment in such a sea but the officer who held the helm was a skillful seaman Twice in his life he had been wrecked and for a moment I forgot the danger in admiration of his cool self He stood erect the helm in his hand his flashing eyo embracing the whole peril as a single glance and his hand bringing the head of the gallant little boat an each high sea that otherwise would have swamped her 1 watched them till nearly wo miles astern when they to look for the lost sailor Just I returned my eye to the Southern horizon and saw a squall blacker and heavier than any we had before rushing down upon us The Capt also saw it and was terribly excited He afterwards told me that in all hia sea life he never was more so He called for a flag and springing into the shrouds waved it for their return The gallant fellows obeyed the signal and pulled for the ship But it was slow work for Iho of the boat had to laid on to almost every wave It was now growing dark and if the squall should strike tho boat before it reached the there was no for it It would cither go down at once or drift awny into tUe surrounding darkness to struggle out the night as it could 1 shall never forget that scene All along the southern horizon between the black water and the black heavens was a white streak of tossing foam Nearer and clearer every moment it and roared on its track Between us appeared at intervals that little boat like a black speck on the of tho hallows and then sunk away apparently forever One moment tho squall would seem to gain on it beyond the power of escape and then delay its progress As I stood and watched thorn both and yet could not tell which would roaoh us first tho excitement amounted to perfect agony Seconds seemed into hours I could not steadily on that gallant little crew now settling tho question of life and death to themselves and perhaps to us who would be almost unmanned in tho middle of the Atlantic and encompassed by a storm The soa was making fast yet that frail thing rode it like u Every time she sunk away site carried my heart down with her and when she remained in a time than usual I would think it was al I over and cover my eyes in horro the next moment sho would appear between us and tho black rolling cloud literally covered with foam and spray The Captain know as he said afterwards that a few minutes more would decide the fate of his officers and He called for his trumpet and springing up the rattlings shouted out over tho blast and waves Pull away my brave bullies the squall is coming give away my hearties and the bold fellows did give way with a will I could see their ashen oars quiver as they rose from tho water the life like boat sprung to their strokes down tho billows like a panther on the leap On she came and on camo the blast It was the wildest struggle I ever gazed on but the gallant little boat conquered Oh how my heart leaped when she at length shot round the stern and rising a wave far above our lee quarter shook tho water from her drenched head as if in delight to find her shelter again The chains were fastened and I never pulled with such right good will an a rope as the one which brought that boat up to the vessel's side As the heads of the crew appeared over the bulwarks I could have hugged the brave fellows in transport As they stepped on deck not a question was asked no report given but Forward men broke Captain's lips The vessel was trimmed to meet the blast and we were again bounding on our way If that squall had pursued the course of all the former ones we must have lost our crew but when nearest the boat and it seemed to me Iho foam was breaking not a hundred rods the wind suddenly veered and held the cloud in check so that it swung round close to the bows The poor sailor was gone bo camo not back again it was his he was 25 years and alas it was his deathday W bother a bold swimmer he was at a distance his companions hunting hopelessly frr him and finally with his heart growing cold with despair beheld them turn back to the ship and the ship itself toss its spars away from him forever or whether the sea soon look him under we know not We saw him no more and a gloom fell on tho whole ship There were but few of us and we felt his loss It was a wild and dark night death had been among us and had left us with sad serious hearts And as I walked to the stern and looked back in the foam and tumult of the vessel's wake in which the poor sailor had disappeared I instinctively murmured the mariner's hymn closing with tho sincere prayer Oh sailor boy sailor boy peace to thy soul At length the winds lulled the clouds broke away and a large space of blue sky and bright stars appeared overhead The dark hung along the distant horizon over which the lightning still played while tho distant thunder broke at intervals over the deep The black ocean moaned on its heavy sobbings and the drenched and staggering ship rolled heavily on its restless bosom and the great Right encompassed all This was solitude so deep and awful that my heart seemed to throb audibly in my bosom My eyes ached with the to pierce the surrounding darkness and find something to the loneliness of the scene At length the rising moon showed ita bright disk over a cloud tinging its black edge with silver and sea of light on a sea of darkness till the waves gleamed and sparkled as if just awakened 10 life and hope The moon never looked so lovely before it seemed to have come out in the heavens on purpose to bless and to cheer us THE I had heard and read so many marvelous stories about the rapacity of the shark that 1 foil somewhat desirous of an opportunity of judging of the of yarns with which the sailor entertained us gaping landsmen My curiosity was not long ungratified within view ot of Madagascar whon it became necessary to lake in to fill up the empty While a Portuguese seaman was employed in this duty ho unfortunately himself and fell overboard The sea being calm and the man an excellent swimmer no danger was on his account The first mate and four of the crew prepared to descend to his assistance in the captain's gig which hung astern but owing the hurry of moment the boat was lowered by the run and the whole party immersed No time was of course lost in getting out another boat but before it could be lowered tho man in the shouted out A shark a shark make haste men for your lives A general rush was instantly to the sides and bow of tho vessel which by this time had been put about and the ami rigging became also crowded with anxious spectators A scene of fearful interest presented itself to our view and almost every man's cheek became blanched with horror Within about 20 feet of the first mate who was swimming towards the vessel utterly unconscious of the proximity of his dangerous neighbor was an enormous shark whose extended jaws were already prepared to engulf his unsuspecting victim On seeing us point at sorno object him lor hear he could not a a l ho latter looked round and became paralyzed terror Tho monster was on point of seizing him when the second boat arrived opportunely to his assistance and picked him up Cheated ol his prey the shark made for another of the struggling men and succeeded in laying hold of a poor fellow named Andrews who could not swim and who was supporting himself on a that had just been thrown overboard to him An imploring look and an agonizing scream that went to the heart of one present told us all was over with tho unfortunate man and the next tho calm and mi surface of tho waters was crimsoned with his blood The remainder party reached the boat in safety but the fate of their companion and iho narrowness of their own escape had such an effect upon them that two of their number were confined to their hammocks for nearly ten days after Whon the mate who happened to be one of them rose from his bed his hair had turned as white as snow Life in the Ranks SriCK A It is no small labor that of sticking pins We buy pins by the paper but very few aro aware of the labor that is performed before these indispensable articles are put on has been greatly within a short time A writer who has recently visited a factory in Connecticut thus of this last As an instance of the marvellous of skill when so brought to bear upon even ono branch of this process and that quite subordinate the facility for executing the task of slicking the pins upon the sale paper may he noticed It takes in England sixty females to stick in one day by sunlight ninety packs containing pins The same thing is performed hero in the same time by ono women Her solo o is to pour them by gallons at a time into a hopper from whence they come out all neatly arranged upon their several papers The machine by which the labor of fifty-nine persons is daily saved yet remains a to all but the inventor and no per sun but the single one who attends to it is under any pretence whatever allowed to enter the room where it operates PERPETUAL MOTION Col Boon is now exhibiting his perpetual motion machine in New York It is said to be very simple in its principles neat and compact in its structure and capable of being applied to a great variety of practical purposes A cylinder in which an airtight piston works is connected with a reservoir of fluid When the temperature of the atmosphere increases tho fluid expands ami pushes out the piston When the temperature is reduced the fluid contracts eind allows tho piston to be forced back by weights that are hung upon it As it is operated upon by the ordinary variations in the temperature of the air it will continue to work as long as night is colder than day or winter than summer So tis said fiust Bee the N V Plebeian High Duties make Low Prices Low Duties mule High Prices The Tall the Miller takes the more Meat the Farmer gets The less Tull thu less Meal he gets Senator Evans of Maine mado a capital speech at tho commencement of the present Congress which is we understand extensively circulated among tho farmers with a most happy effect Mr Evans shows conclusively thai the high r the duty the the can ill ford to sell his and cloths auu the lower the duty trio more he is compelled to ask for them Wo sec from an article in the Illinois Register that the millers have adopted the logic of Mr Evans and havo concluded to support tho Tar iff publish from tho Register the following which is the most forcible argument in favor of the present Whig tariff we recollect to have seen anywhere The miller and his Whig Customers Some weeks since Mr McConnell was in Mr Douglass Congressional district making Democratic speeches where he met a staunch Democratic friend of his who accosted him very and said friend Mack 1 hear you aru going to inako a democratic speech to-day about the tariff Well Mr M 1 think of it any objections friend Hob Well I have says his friend I am afraid you are going lo interfere with my interest with your confounded discussions about the tariff and about high and low that is so Bub I am very sorry says Mr M pray how can that happen Well Mack now 1 will tell you in a private way like but I dont want you to bo blabbing it all jound the country and make a blowing horn of yourself about it and get me a deal of a scrape perhaps into the newspapers besides Oh of course says Mr M I will whisper it to any ono but how is it Well says Bob now you know 1 am a miller and keep a grist and grind for toll Yes I know and a first rate mill it isj too and all your neighbors say that you aro an anomaly in nature a first rate accommodating honest miller that never takes too toll Oh yes I understand you I understand your grist of soft corn but that is here nor there let me tell you how it was Some weeks ago one of my Whig customers came to mill and brought with him a copy of Mr Evans speech upon tho tariff and his grist was grinding ho sat down and read it over to mo and commented learnedly and long upon that part of the speech that proves that a high protective tariff makes goods lower and the higher the duties the lower the to the consumer I listened attentively and never disputed a word he said and when ho was about to start home 1 asked him lend me the speech for I was greatly taken with it and wanted to read it to the people as came to tho mill My Whig friend readily complied thinking that he had made such a valuable convert to tha high Whig protection cause As soon as he left I went to work and made mo a new toll dish and I made it about two inches higher than the old one and immediately commenced taking toll with my new dish Tho report was soon circulated in the neighborhood too that I had turned whig and my Whig neighbors flocked in by dozens to sec mo and among the resi my old friend that loaned me the speech with several others came together to get grinding and all shook me cordially by the hand and welcomed mo to the household As soon as their greetings were over I took my new toll dish and in their presence heaped it rounding full out of their grists Halloo Dob says ono of them you have got a new toll dish you Oh yes says I tho old one got a little like and a little wore off at the top and rather to small for interest of my customers and i thought it was best to have a new one Yes by gracious says another of them do you see that Williams about a third bigger than tho old one I will bo shot sure enough says the other Why Bob what the mischief does that mean how is that for the interest of your customers as you say Oh says I very plain don't you understand it tho higher tho toll the lower the of grinding and the more meal you get Shaw now Cob says ono of them how can you make that out 7 Now none of your humbugging us with your big toil dish in these hard Tyler times Well now says I it is all as plain as day come set down here and let me explain it to you and straight way took out Evans speech and read it to them and explained how the high tariff worked and although it appeared to increase the cost of the goods to the importer merchant yet thp higher he or them the lower he could afford to sel them to his customers the fanners am laborers who consumed them and now said I the same universal law of md cause and effect applies with equal force to the miller and his custom rs Ho docs the grinding and lakes he toll you are his customers and consume the and the toll being the price and cost if grinding it follows as a necessary consequence that the higher the toll the lowr tho price of grinding and although my new toll dish appears larger yet you get by it and all this I proved very clear by Evans speech and the argument of my whig neighbor who gave me tho document and 1 tell you friend Muck it was a knock down argument lo boys they looked at each other like so bewildered pigs in a Newfoundland fog the other lo answer my speech but it was no go it was a good whig argument and proven by accredited whig documents and they immediately gave in and admitted that although they did not exactly understand it at first yet it is now clear and as selfevident as Mr Evans argument showing the higher the tariff which stands in he place of the toll the cheaper the goods which stands in the place of the From that time I have been using my now toll dish pretty freely and manufacturing meal and flour has got to be a first rato business and what is better rny whig customers although their grists of don't last quite as long as they used to are well satisfied and now Mack I don't want to be blowing away hero that Evans speech is not true and that this Whig doctrino about tho high tariff making goods lower is all wrong for if you do my pond is out and I am ruined with my new toll dish operation But says Mr pray Bob how do you get along with your Democratic customers surely you can't humbug them with your Evuns speech and Whig Oh shaw no says I use the old toll dish for them and all goes off well but now you tell any body what I hold you From the Detroit Free Press of yesterday DREADFUL STEAM BOAT DISASTER Wo have to record a sad and melancholy accident that occurred across the river about 9 o'clock resulted in the immediate death of and fatal injuries to three or four of our citizens The steam boat Gen Vance lately purchased and fitted up by our well and favorably known Samuel blew up while ying at the wharf at Windsor Mr Woodworth was standing on the deck near the bell at the time and was thrown high in the air and falling in deep water was not found for some two or three hours Major Truax of together with two or three others were very seriously injured The engineer of the United to which tho Vance was attached was blown off and has not been found John J Adam our State Treasurer was on board but being in the cabin was but slightly injured in the hand Many other of our citizens was on boaid but none killed or injured that we have heard of The boat sunk immediately and it is with iho greatest difficulty that those saved got on shore As the boat had just left our city with a good load of passengers for her downward trip to Monroe others may have been lost unknown to us GOOD NATURED MEN Tho greatest misfortunes men fall into arise from themselves and that temper which is called very often though with great injustice good nature is the source of a numberless train of evils For which reason wo are to take this as a rule that no action is commendable which is not tary and we have made this a That a man who is commonly called good natured is hardly to be thanked foi any thing he does because half that ia acted about him is done rather by his sufferance than approbation It is generally laziness of disposition rather to let things pass the worst way than to go through the pain of It must be confessed such a one has so great a benevolence in him that he bears a thousand rather than incommode others nay when hq has just reason to be offended chooses rathor to sit-down with a small injury than bring it into reprehension out of pure compassion to the offender Such a person has it of him He is no man's enemy but his own which is in saying He is a friend to every man but himself and his friends for by a natural consequence of his neglecting himself ho either incapacitates himself to be another's friend or make others cease to be his If I take no caro of my own affairs no man that is my friend can take it ill if 1 am negligent also of his This soft disposition if it continues uncorrected throws men into a sea of The Tattler No 70 MORE COON FALSEHOODS NAILED TO THE WALL AS BASE COIN 1 he Clay papers are most unfortunate thuir falsehoods Reckless and unprincipled an of them seem to be they might exhibit a little more in their madness Their put HENRY CLAY'S upon some one else is laughable Hough But it will not do people know this embodiment of whig principles too well for his adherents to pass him off for what ho is not Road following from the Hen C C Clay of Alabama and then blush for recklessness of the whig press and the desperate charactor of their embodiment What has the Ohio Atlas among others to say of this Statesman the Tuscaloosa Ala Flag May 7 1844 Dear Sir Yours of the ult calling my attention to an article published in the Alabama Journal ot the ult from the Rochester Democrat hai been duly received and 1 appreciate friendly motives which prompted your communication This is a second attempt lo transfer to me the profane expressions recited in thu article alluded to which were originally charged lo Henry Clay of Kentucky an having been used by him at Iho bar of the House of Representatives when Mr Speaker Polk gave the casting vote on the Mississippi contested election between Messrs Premiss and Word Messrs and Gholson during the session of I think in the month of February The charge was made against Henry Clay in some of the newspapers of Washington city immediately after that contested was but so far as I know neither that nor at any other lime did any newspaper or individual of that city pretend to charge mo with the language referred to months afterwards perhaps in April appeared the article which seemed to be cd in the N Y Com Advertiser and which assumed authority for exonerating Henry Clay and fixing this charge on mo pretty much after the manner of tho article to which you refer I immediately addressed a letter to the of that paper in substance pronouncing the me false and slanderous and demanding the name of his author or He published my letter withdrew the charge and I think said he had mada it on the authority of a newspaper published in one of the interior towns of New York which I do not now recollect but perhaps this same Rochester Democrat My letter was published in many of the newspapers at tho time and seemed to put the matter at rest I content and gave myself no further trouble on the subject The Editor of the Rochester Democrat exempts Mr Clay of Kentucky on ground that he was a member of the and had nothing to do with the business of tho House If he had been well informed he might have exculpated me on the same ground for I too was a member of the Senate and not of tho House as his article intimates And I may add that I was not in the House of Representatives at the time or on the when the profane language was said to havo been used nor was I in Washington but in Philadelphia having been called thither by the ill health of a member of my family I regret that I have not been able lo lay my hands on any paper containing my letter to the Editor of the Commercial Advertiser and his remarks thereupon or I should have enclosed it as a of the calumny 1 hope some Editor friendly to truth will publish it You are at liberty to make such use of this letter as you may proper With great respect Your friend and servant C C CLAY Gen C M JACKSON Montgomery Ala LIGHTNING AT BREAKFAST Dr in one of his lectures states that a doubly charged Leyden jar will not yield so much electricity as is generated at every meal by the contact of a silver spoon with the mouth Exchange paper Science continues to develope new horrors and new wonders and we expect every day to see it philosophically demonstrated thai iron increase a man's speed exactly by tho electricity which they attract from tho ground and conduct into his legs Accum an old chemist did enough in a little book of his to make a man forswear eating He showed death in glazed poison in stone jars convulsions in a pewter porringer and all sorts of horrors in a copper cauldron and hero comes Dr Lardner and a great streak of lightning in a silver spoon Oh thunder thai people's heads should be nothing more than leaden vials of mental electricity which tho touch of silver or gold alone can bring out
