Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-04-05
Correspondence Of the SssrIssL.
Letter from Rev. d. J. Beale..


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ST.. Groaor, Del. March %. 1871.
Nh EDITOR This month came in
Ike lamb but it is going out like q
lion. For fifty hours We have had al
most constant high wind. attended with
cold rain. On Saturday night two sloops
were lost off Turkey point on the Cheasa-
peak. saw a captain of a schooner TO-
day who was in the same gale, and he
assured me, that, although a waterman
for twenty seven years, it was the rong'
est seas he was ever in He said ''it
was as much as bargain that my schoo-
ner lived Almost one hundred vessels
have passed through the canal to-day
Navigation is unusally good this spring
The young druggist to whom refer
ed in former letter as being wounded in
the head by the explosion of a retort, has
since died A feeling of profound sor
row prevails throughout our entire com
munity on account Of this another terri
BILE accident which has recently occur
red. Mr.. Binghurst at the time ofthe sad
casualty which resulted in his death, was
engaged in preparations for scientific
lecture on the properties and composition
of water to be delivered in few days.
before the Working Mems Association of
New Castle county. Mr.. B, was but
thirty fonr years of age. "ln the midst
of life we are in death"
l have received wi h profound emotion
the intelligence of the death of my ex.
cellent friend Joseph Barnard Esq, Of
Tuscarora township. He was man of
more than ordinary mental force He
will leave great void in the community.
As father, friend, and citizen he will be
greatly missed. The Fathers, where
are they! and the Prophets, do they
live forever ?" Rev. Joseph II. Barn
ard. of Wan kashaw. Wisconsin, one of
the most talented and eloquent young
ministers in the Presbyterian church, is
son of the deceased. -.4
One of the Wilmington papers of last
week has the following "R. w. Hum
percy. of Exton, West Whiieland, Ches-
ter county, in company with Alex. Nc
Quins. came township. have purchased
los acres of timber land in Juniata
county Pa. fourty miles west of Harris
burg. There is large saw-mill on the
property aud they intend to engage in
the lumber business. They goto their
new home about the first of April"
Having just returned from the city on
the Whilldin. would like to tell your
readers little about that boat She has
history; and captain higgins has an
enviable immortality. She was the first
steamer pressed into the government SER
vice, when the war broke out She did
extensive service during the whole of the
war and Mr. Anthony Reybold, the
owner, realized handsome income from
he- and six or eight transports he had in
the government employ. You remem-
Der the great naval battle at Newport
on March sth, 1862. Well on that ever
occasion, when the Merri-
mac had sunk the Cumb erland, the
Whilldn advanced right in the face of the
enemys fire, and passing over the deck
of the sunken Cumberland, picked up
more than three -fourths of her drowning
men. Captain higgins and engineer
Tom. Ford. who rendered this good SER
vice, still command the Whilldin on her
tri- weekly trips from Baltimore to Phil.
adrlphia. You will find the name of
this boat and that of its heroic captain in
almost any of the histories of the was-
saw it in Abbotts few day ago.
understood captain r to say that he had
more than 100 soldiers on his steamer
at once. AS many as seventy-fve
men have died on board the
in few hours forgot to say
that Just before the little Monitor came
up and engaged the attention of the
Merrimac at Newport News, the latter
fired into the Whildin near the boiler,
disabling her; but fortunately
killing no one. Engineer Ford told me
ne stood to his post, but it was "a pretty
sick place to be just them u. aF.
Poor Paris seems to be in more pita-
ble condition than ever, II would appear
that second reign of terror was about
to take place. Strange that such history
as the terrible Massacre of 1884 should
ever repea; itself. Passing strange that
hose maddened Frenchmen, scorpion
ike. should after attepting to destroy
heir neighbors, turn upon themselves
Doubtless the verdict Of christepdom to
lay is this: The French people are not
moral and intelligent for self.
.3 i""a
ra.. Very truly yours.
r. ....i II, ...f ID. j. BEALE.
An Insane Man Shoots Priest,
CUATTANoGA, April 9 Yesterday