Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-11-06
LastIsIand sufferers

EXTRACTS FROM LETTER WRITTEN ny A
LADY RESIDING NEAR LAST ISLAND, LOUIS
IAsA.--People are recovering ina measure
from the effects Of the storm. There never
was seen in the world a more awful calamity.
You would hardly credit what | could tell
you concerning it. One Of the rescued dined
with the other day--a Mr.. R.-who had
been given up as lost irrecoverably. A re-
ward was offered for his body, and his friends
mourning for him, when, by the strangest
chance, he was discovered He had noated
upon billiard table and landed upon the
marshes, which, on this coast, are as unin-
habited rs the sea itself. There, for ten days
he subsisted on snails and one dead atwhich
came swimming along too. There, in the
blazing August sun-not tree for miles and
miles, not shrub--nothing but the impass-
able and impentrable cane-brake, he survived
every horror, and lived OH till, in the provi-
dence Of his unsearchabe Maker he was
sought out by one solitary fishing boat,
rescued by its humane master, who, doubt
less from the generosity within him, had
been cruising about, in the hope Of doing
some chance good. The scene which occurred
upon his unexpected arrival home was truly
affecting. The news reached them few
moments before his own landing, when every
negro rushed from the plantation, somejump-
ed into the bayou and swan to meet the
boat. They shouted, nay, laughed, danced,
seized their master by the feet, legs, arms,
neck and hands; kissed him wherever they
could touch him, he kissed them in return
At last, the over-joyed creatures, elevating
him upon their shoulders, carried him up in
triumph to the house. l thought TO myself,
could Henry Ward Beecher, his sister and
all his relatives do more?
OF The n. Y. Herald says of the editors
of the n. Y. Express, that "they should net
even be kicked" Bennett certainly ought
to know whether kicking will do any good
or not, for he has received enough of it to be
competent judge.
The Herald also says
"The folly that is being committed in this
canvass by the political partizans of Fremont
is only equalled by the shamelessness and in
fanny that are illustated in the course of the
friends Of Fillmore"
The greatest folly the Fremonters have
been guilty of, was the purchase of such a
miserable, trading, treacherous TOOL as Ben.
nett, and proves what the Herald says, name
ly /: that Fremont wants more discipline
in his canvass"
Again, the Herald is troubled about Col
Webb, and asks '
"Couldn't he be got to keep quiet, by
promises, or coaxing, or somehow, till after
the election? The idea of such simpleton
as that worthy old gentleman being allowed
to go loose over the country, firing off tremen-
dous speeches, and telling everybody what
he said to Jessie, and what Jessie said to him
-as though that were of the slightest conse'
quence to him or any one, or of the least per.
tinency at the present time-is very alarming
to sincere friends of Fremont"
Thus is the willy Scotchman preparing tC
hide his head from the disgrace that will fol
low FremOnts overwhelming defeat. Bu
the old merceuary dodger cannot escape this
time-his feet are tight in the stocks-tht
yoke is around his neck, and he must tak'
his share of the rotten eggs.--Boston Post.