The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-02


BRowNLow ON PRENTIcE.-A short
time since, Prentice of the Louisville
JOURNAL, lashed Governor Brownlow
numerically in his paper. The Knox
vile Wing, of the I'd, comes back at
Prentice, whom it compliments as fol-
lows:
George d. Prentice ! the embodi-
ment of all that is mercenary, intem-
perate and corrupt! George D. Prem
tice the butt-cut of original sin, the
uppercrust of all nastiness-a misera-
BILE, old broken down hack, stepped to
the nose and chin in personal and po-
litical profigacv, lost to all sense of
honor and shame, and blind to all the
obligations of patriotism
Go it, Brownlow; go it, Prentice
Nobody cares a continental who whips
in this fight between two infuriated old
Thomas eats Memphis Argus.
BSg= In the debate on the reconstruc-
ton amendment, Gen. Banks said:
Cine Southern people governed by
force, their philosophy was force, their
practice was force, their tradition was
force Whether few or many, they
would have power whenever they were
restored"
General Banks is better able than
almost any other man befare the coun-
try TO speak knowingly Of the ''force'
of Southern people, He obtained
some specimens of it up Red River.
which will serve him for an illustration
and argument all the rest of his life.
The MAELsrRoM VERIFIED.-Of late
years, even the existence of the Neil,
strom on the coast of Norway has beer
doubted, but. the Maelstrom actually
exists, and is sometimes dangerous
Mr.. Hagerup, minister of the Nofwegl
an marine, has recently given a relia
bic account of it, in reply to some
questions from correspondent of th'
Boston Recorder. The vast whirl il
caused by the setting in and out of th'
tides between Lofoden, and AIosken
and it is most violent halfway betweel
ebb and flood tide. At flood and ebl
tide it disappears for about half al
hour, but begins again with the NOV
ing of the waters. Large vessels ma
pass over it safely in serene weather
but in storm it is perilous to the la1
: gest craft. Small boats are not safe i
e any weather. The whirls in the Mae
strom do not, as was once supposed
+, draw vessels under the water; but b
: their violence dash them upon th
E neighboring shoals. Mr.. Hageru
n says;
'In winter it frequently happen
: that, at sea, bank of clouds show
!, west storm, with heavy sea, to be pr
( vailiDg there, while further in, on tt
coast, the clear air shows that on tt
n insidt NJ west tijord, east. side of L.
o fodon .he wind blows from the Ian
st and sets out through the tiiord fro
il the east. In such cases especially 8
Is approach to the Maelstrom is in. u
ID highest degree dangerous, for tt
le 1tream and under-current from opp
e. site directions work saere together,
IN make the whole passage one sing
he boiling cauldron. At such times a
h. pears the mighty whirls which ha
1d given it the name Of Maelstrom, th
in is, the whirling orgrinding stream, al
I'D in which no craft whatever can hold
.er course. For a steamer it is then qul
en- inadvisable to attempt the passage
by the Maelstrom during the winter stor
tie and for a sailing vessel, it may also
he bad enough in time Of summer, shot
raj there fall calm or light wind, where
he the power of the stream becomes gre
he er than that of the wind, leaving
lat vessel no longer U.sder command.
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