Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-08-05


tsipwreeR Of frof PssE -,
IT will he remembered by our, readers
that Prof III E. Peck, formerly OF 0berlio
College, aud recently appointed Consul
General TO Hayti, embarked, With bis vile
and two children. on board ths, bsrque
Wiheminc, Capt VIM. McEweu, at New
Yo'k, on thef 27th Bound fof Port an
Prince. Hoyii Lerters Gave Just reached
MS friends ia Oberiiu, Informing them that
on the b Of July. sftsr 4 M6fs6t storm.
be s'apch vessel ran upon a coral .reee and
sank upon. ihe Submerged rocks. twelve
milss 81 Berpuda, so spssdils thar the
crew bad time, only, to. launch .tha. small
boats atd get The possebgers ana tbam.
selves into them, sans clothes: sans svsrv
thing, save the effects they bad upop ,o tbi tbeir
persons at The time. The Prof. saws that
all on board passengers as wen as officers
and crew, we're perfectly cool and collected.
ana that discipline and order we're maintain.
ed 10 the last. zs4sA lsisosD odi al svii
| With great d 'flieul,y they. swuur them.
selves into the boats, as the sea was often
oIeaSieg oses them; The, frsts mate ahd
TWO - 1anas al , were sent ashore with the pss.
seogers while The. captain staid with The
Wreck. A pilot boat came to their relief,
ana a'iet thtee hours fff,rt They reached
ne is'hnd They were conducted to The
re''denec'of Jobu d Gilbeft.esa. aid we're
received with saHo good cbeef dinto the' 80.
som of his family. The Prof says the tgaf-
ments they stood in were their -poorest-A
those they shuda teeii susiig en- ashlb bossd
and they we're dreDched With brine aanfrwo b.
fully bedrsggIed, Bot Al heir lives baye been
spared sp5 sbesparty were grateful. saisd
Some of the baggage CAME ashafe D. day
or two after the disasteri but only ions Of
the Professors four trunks Was. itaopesed.
Two 81 the other r,kree, Containing allotheir
valuabies, were empty VfbodtS haip OF
their wea ring appeAre was saved, ltut two.
thirds of tie value had gone. The Profes.
sor's library was almost totally ruiped
He sums DIP Ills loss as not less than ftwo
Thousand dollars! ayc,a4't.ff
A few days later the Professor left
Somerset forrHamilt ton, where's, dps tollhe
date Of bis letters, he was stopping atIthe
Hamilton Hotel lHeexpeeiedo toI embark
in a few days for New York;o apda stty shjs
fortune sgain on q cruise 10 9HaYti.isgslsd
vEaEfaBEE ISsrrScrssa "A tree wticbAa
fond Of water, wHea Planted Hear s51s
brook will set off all its principal roots in
that direction. How does it know the WA.
ter is in that direction. How does il ktow
The wa'er- to be there? Aud how does it
know,,hat il will be able TO reach the bo,d-
ar cf it? To say, ID popular phrase. that
The water attracts the roots ID fhr edirec-
tiah7 ds, tGinvent new and ReryisemsskE.
bic sort ofu6ttraetionp that spdllsI at 'fbeC
roots lin HE ground and tdf1sS Stheiif o6t as |,
the point Of starting-is d something Great:
ed to account for the fact 10 duestiol. which,
is even more d f1cuit than. the fact itself f,-es
Mr. Madison, for example, had ,ap saneul
duct Of logs. which 10 reaching his house,
passed by tree especially fond Of water, ct
, considerable distance from -itar Abreast
OF the tree .bere was 90 angur hole 10 thai
log hat had been filled with 4 plug pf soft b
wood. ,-sas7f s9t "a 7u,itaro.e5 500 10 .ssd
long stretch Of roots, which forced their
way through the plug, choking up tie pab-
sage, aud were found there drinking like SO
many thirsty animals Was sitsthen' tbeOi
soft wodd plug thattattracted 4 thesenroots9iD
1t certainly should be on he :attractiRels
princ:ple; for The water was just as near rasss
other points as, here, e-7rsaea q, 90 liv "a
Itris said that's strawberry plant 10, 4
! sand with good earth, a little way off, will
turn its runners ell ia the opposite direE.
.ion and IL the good earth ishoo far offff6
he reached, the, plant will make no moress
fort ON ibat side more than on the ,other :.
which is equivalent to saying thai the y
plant has, in its life principle, an Distinct
Of measur mcnt Ie does not measure tie
r,ind and then itself, and then compare
tie two; but ii has an adaptive powsf ls
Es Shich, without comparison; IL graduates
ii actiou by its possibilities. osa On roiia his
y -1r-----l mh .. ,edT
Toy Maxine IN GERAANY,57Ia yGerGss
oy. The wood wolk, 50 far AS Enghsh i@,,
po!ters Know anything oft, is mostly ia
tie form of small trinkeis and toys for chil.
dren. The prodoctiopzpfct these is immense.
Ia the Tyrol, and near the Thuringian For
es', III The iiiiddie Slater ofthe iif organized
confedracy, and swheretefs sfot este Z sbouud; d
there be- peasants spend much Of thairis
time is. making tpgsGo InotbSTyrol for sxhI
ample. thefe is 9. valley called t6e Grcduef!
thai, about twenty miles long, 10 which the
rough climate sud barren soil will not suf.us
ioglo grow coth for ihe Iinhabisams y lodi
are Tn ther numerous q Shut eodt from ,thelo
agricultural labor customary 10 other dis,
tries, the people earn, their bread chiefly I.
by wood carving. They make toys of 0n6s"
neil IS kinds tn whieh'NoaL's eAtk s6liis
mails are veryunpned6minsns3 Isfahsasdttil
wood Of the oSiAsEiaa plpe nkaewns TO Itbsp;
Germaus a ziebelnusskifer,. The pine. il Of
slow gro h, fouid on t1e .higtef slopes OF
he valley, bu, dow becoming scatcss owing
to impso,idence Of tie peasants I'm 'cul ring I
down The forests siiboussayieg ssplsnIia Il
Q Asrs "a Spcssed ihsmns EoS sbAsdEaasdu "a
years and more lbe ,peasa9ts have been,
crsers Nearly every cott6gs is q woikli
shop. yAiIfte oceepaats, male add Dfemslefl
down to very young cbihifen, seat iihsus .
selves around taO,s, and tsahias I ihely ,siisI.