The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-28
CAprA N INGRAHAM.


CAPITA N INGRAHAM.
The following sketch of the life of the galan
Captain will be read with interest We take
| from The N. Y Times
| Commander Duncan N. In :raI,am is the s"l
of the late Nathaniel ingrahan, Esq, o
Charleston, s. c., and belongs to family en-
4 inently naval in IT'S character. MI of them
with one exception, were officers in The navy =
/ HIS father, being intimate friend OF Capt
Paul Jones, volu iteered under his command
W ,cn he L. France in the Bon Hommc Rich
ard, in 1879, and fought W ith him in the baitl,
with the Scrapis, one of The most desperate
actions in the annals of naval warfare. Hi
uncle, Captain Joseph lnyraham, U. s. NJ, wa.
! lost in the u s. ship Pickering, which wen
down al sea, and WAS never heard of, at the be
ginning OF this century. His cousin, William
lngraham, was killed at the age of twenty, wher
a Lieutenant in the U. s. Navy.
|. The sole exception in the family, was his un-
Gle Duncan Ingrahan, Esq, from whom he
received his name. He was one of tn most &C
complished gentleman of his day, and though
intimate with the leading political men Of oul
country, yet from taste and early associations
he was n loyaiist in his views. AT the opening
ofthe Revolution in 1874, he went to Europe
and remained there until its close John Adams
when Commissioner to France, in 1879, fire.
qnently speaks of him in his diary, lately pub
li>hed, as his associate in Paris. He returned
however, t, this Country in 1854, gave in his
adherence to the Government, and permitted
his son to enter the navy-the Lieut. William
lngraham whom we have mentioned as being
killed in the service.
Capt. lngraham received his Midshipman'
warrant at the age of nine years, during The last
war with Great Britain. Commodore Smith OF
S nth Carolina, the intimate friend o:his father,
being about to sail in the frigate Congress, Re.
quested Mr.. lngraham to allow him to take his
son with hun. I" We shall probably have an en-
gagement" said he, sc and it will do him good"
lie accordingly went to sea at once, at that ten-
der age, and remained in active service for two
years, until the close Of war. He then retur-
ned home at the age of eleven, and resumed his
education at school. Since then he has most
of his time been employed in active duty. He
commanded the il-fated Somers in blockade
duty at Vera Cruz and other parts of the Gulf,
during the whole of of the Mexican war, and
being pros'rated by sickness, was sent home but
a short time before she was lost. For two years
previous to his sailing for the Mediterranean in
the st. Louis. he was attached to the navy-yard
at Philadelphia the society of which city will
long remember him and his accomplished fami-
ly.
Captain Ingraham married Harriet RuthIedge
Laurens, of South Carolina. grand daughter,
on the paiernal side, of Henry Laurens, the
President OF the first Continental Congress, and
who afterward was captured by British frgate,
while on his way to France as American Com
mis- s.ioner, and confined for long time in the
Tower of London On the maternal side she is
sae grand daughter Of Edward Ruthledee, one
n -.
ms eIues. sr~Henry Laurens lngrahau. is
Annapolis.
~ Paris is by all odds the Paradise or ,.,,er.
writer's. Living in that city seems quite a
sharpener to the inventive faculties and really
il is impossible to calculate the pitch of excel
lence to which Baron Munchausen would have
arrived, if he could only have resided at Paris
while inditing bis veritabls adventures A
ley days since we siaaa s...->,.u....-- ;.m,;ra
some 900 feet descent from balloon tied BY ans
India rubber rope, and flying upwards and
downwards between earth and heaven for
quarter of an hour before assembled thousands
Here now comes an old woman who is hard af-
ter the jumper. We take from the Partisan
Of The Cincinnati Gazette. AT.
ter describing numerous feats and spectacles
exhibited tor the amusement Of the populace,
it says:
Various startling performances then took
place Among others, a Madame Scchi, IS
years old, walked up rope GOO feet long, and
elevated at its middle bya wooden trussef 100
feet high. The ascent as well as the descent
on the other side of the trussel were equal, and
seemed TO be an angle of 35 degrees. She not
only asceDded and descended with ease and ev-
en- with agility, but performed various feats on
the rope which frightened all the beholders.
She would fall down on the rope suddenly,
stretch out on her back, and then, with the
arms extended, raise to her feet again. This
was done several times, at distance Of IS feet
above the ground She continued to shout with
her shrill old voice, "Vicc L Emperor :" the
whole time, and seemed to mock the fears OF
the spectators. The Emperor was sitting in
his carriage in the midst of the crowd, waiting
to compliment her when she descended. This
is the same woman who walked a small rope
suspended between the high towers of Notre
Dame in presence of the first Emperor and Jo-
sephine nearly fifty years ago.
"All of which we most powerfully and po-
tently believe