Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-10-21
Prom the New York Tribune.
SCENE IN THE OFFICE Or THE COMMITS.
SIONERS OF EMIGRATION.

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SIONERS OF EMIGRATION.
Looking over the columns Of this journal for
he past fortnight, We light upon the following
marine item:
BARK llarvest arrived at this port Yesterday, in
fort, eight days from Liverpool. Cul 'ain Ciaw-
ford reports having experienced westerly winds
during the whole passage. In II hurricane IN
the lllh instant, latitude 4O0 20, longitude G3'
3U/, thirteen Storage passengers were washed
overheard, in trying to get ait after the ship had
preached to-"
Short and to the point is heioGegOing: no SYM
pathy will it excite the terms in which it is pre-
scented are too much like the tabular statements vi
the weekly bills of mortality to move the general
heart to griei-the reader reads it and passes on
to the next paragraph with simple Indifference.
But there are hearts to whom it wlll come like the
knell of the last hupe-humes where it will all
like Egy ptlun night. crushing out all that is lair
and beautiful iii existence upon earth. and max
ing il desert of despair, where erstwhilc blUUmed
the fragrant fuwers OF hope.
hi Conversation with Mr.. Cassidy, Of the office
Of the Commissioners Ut EmigratiOn, he related
the following case:
The other day ~ portly gentleman Of sixty years
or thereabUuts, whose lace bore the index of his
benevolent heart, came Into the office Of the Com
missiunGrs. Following him was Il neatly attired
good looking Irish woman of about thirIy-live
years OF age. The old gentleman walked up to
my desk, and striking IL heavy guld-headed cane
upon the floor with marked emphasis, demanded
where are the commissioners? | must see
them Immediately !"
| replied that the Commissioners were not there,
but ii he had business witt. them we could attend
to it for him. With another rap Of his cane upon
the floor, he said:
well, sir, they ought to be here, then-they
ought to be here. What else do we want them
for, if they can't attend to their business them
, selves?"
, | saw it would be in vain for me to attempt to
. reason with him, 50 l let him proceed, his choler
every moment augmenting, and his cane becoming
J more emphatic.
Here is Il poor woman looking for her children,
and | want to find them for her; do you hear? l
want to find them with another rap of his cane
= Immediately. SIR
What ship are they coming in?" I asked.
/. They have come already, and she cant find
: them; the ship Is already III port"
> Turning to the woman | said, My good wo-
- man you should have informed us before the ship
arrived, and then we would have cared for them
n until you came"
n well. she did not do it until after the ship lad
arrived" broke III her chuleric friend, land YOU
n muNt find them for her now"
lquietly inquired what ship they came in?
- The reply was The Bark Harvest" | took
=, down the manifest file, and turning to that Of the
q Bark Harvest, y inquired the names Of the chill.
f dren.
'Shure yell find them wild the other passengers.
\ WY "a y "a NV "''H = hH'N ''Ahi DSiOH lNHs
said the woman.
'Yes, why do you ask her amt she half crazcd
. about them already ? You must fluid them, ! say
. At once, and not sit there asking their names. |
-, say. sir, you mast find them I'm her friend |
- have come here without fee or reward to see
Justice done her, and she shall have justice done
, ner, and she ShuH hare justice, sir" And then
his stick Numbered against the floor again, and he
T.. Sasped for breath.
turned to him and told him l had endeayored
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. was 50 insancly violent, | should feel obliged if he
would leave the Office, and then | could attend to
tie wumal's business more rapidly. This stag
Sered him. Il cave the ofice!' he calculated
4 aud lie positively seemed about to choke with in
iignaiion. lie threatened and yociieratcd for some
time, but finally, upon being threatened with ar
rest, left. | then learned that the woman had
= come al the way from Vermont, where she had
/. left IA husband and three children, to meet her
+, ether little ones from the old country. ! learned
y that the children's names were John, Annie, and
Katie Wharton, aged respectively thirteen, eleven,
/ and nine years. Of course, they were readily
4 found upon the manifest, but my heart almost
turned To lie when | saw written against the name
of each Washed ocerJoard.
Fearing to shock the poor mother with too sud
|, den Il revelation of her bereavement, | asked her il
she had BEEN long expecting her children
'Ou. yes, sir, the husband first lett ould Ireland
and come cut, and tuiled and scraped until lie airil-
ell money enough for meiself and tie three childer
ltn1t ; mere, 10 come Out VIA. Ana, sir. the parting
wId the other darints WAS Il sore trouble but thin
| knew tLeJ'u soon follow us. And whin | came
here, Paghric-that's me huSband-was taken sick
IN Vermont, but | worked meSeit, night aud day,
and got the bit and the sup for him and the childer.
Aud thin | KEEP scrapingand saving to bring out the
others, and every stlray ~sixpence | could arm | put
away in the old stocking, until had enough TO pay
their way out here wild. | sent thin the. money
nigh fourteen weeks since, ana niyer au hour since
that | didn't, in me heart, pray to the Blessed Vir-
gin to kape thim from har-rm. And now, sorra,
they're here in this heathenish city. and meseli,
tbeir own mother, can't find EN-"
| told her that when she sent for her children,
she must have expected that they would neeessari-
ly be exposed to many duugers, coming alone, and
Gnbefriended, rs they were. | told her she must
not he alarmed if we could not fluid them tor her.
She quickly replied:
IN find 'em if | search the world over. I'll
not rest me till ! see me chiider."
AT length" said Mr.. CASSIDY, 81 told her that
they were dtad. | told her they had been washed
overheard, and shall never forget the fearful shrek
that burst from her very heart rs she looked ut me
with a kind Of idiotic incredibly, and then saw
realized the whole of the sad truth. She tore off
? her bonnet and shawl, and, clutching her hair,
: pulled out handsful Of it hy the roots, as she be-
4 walled her lost ones, and calculated, in the most
,gnnlzing tone Sure a 'g0oi God Wadnt be so
: cruel as to kill my dear. my DAZZLING chilier. Oh,
sir, l W0at betiece IL. The praste says lie is our
Heavenly Father; and a father loves his little
ones In this way she raved for long time. AT
last she became less violent. aud left the Office, de