Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-01-21
6CNDAY evening, DEcEMBER 81.


6cKpAy EvExINo. DscEMyER "a.
lam now. sitting in the saloon Of the
Cuba. On my front. across the table, Is
Mr.. Phillips. from Mexico. a little to my
Lett Mr.. Bailey. the Consul at Hongkong,
and at my side. Mr.. Mapuand, from Bos-
Ton. The wind 10 blowing a fierce gale,
the boat is rocking furiously. and I am
sirsd Of wind. which has continued to
blow for three days. We are now 1900
iniIes from Liverpool, asd 1900 fsom New
York. virtually In raid ocean. and being
rocked and shaken for the last six days,
and now amid the hideousnuess Of an At.
iantic.storm. without any opportunity of
stepping On tern-Irma fora rest, ! should
almost despair, we're 1t not for the fact
chat the passengers are all friendly and
cheerful. and cur boat Is sea.worthy. and
ere think. able 70 live through the dis
trseted eiements-
McEpAy. Dec 2sth.-Nr. Geddcs. our
Scotch wit. was arrested on q charge OF
falsely personating. The same officers
~ere present. except that Rodmsn was
Judge. Daley prosecutor. and the writer
defended. There being no indictment on
Ole. the defendants counsel moved for a
discharge ot the prisoner. The Court
held that he had. in the State Of uncer
ssinty. right 20 ,ry man for crime
without indictment; that the defendant
Asd no rights In this State that the Court
was bound 70 respect. / then picked up
. book, and read this law to the Court:
BE il enacted by the General Assembly
Of the State Of Uncertainty. in the Gov
eminent of Cuba, that no man shall be
put in jeopardy, or tried upon criminal
charge, without he be first indicted by
the Grand jury"
The Court hesitating. the Prosecutor
aroee and called the attention of the
Court to tie fact. that the book from
which had read the law was copy of
Tristan 81 andy. and ought not to govern
the Court. Seeing the effect produced by
che seriousrese OF the Prosecuting Attor-
ney. arose and said:
If your Honor, p!cxse Tristan Shandy
is good law, In this Court, and / have
never heard 1t disputed until the present
time
We thought we saw a marked change
b the countenance Of the Court, favorable
20 the prisoner. when the Dummy En-
CINE caught and nippei the end Of Mr..
Bliss little finger of. The sight of the
blood caused Dir. Bliss to faint away. and
lie bto:n.e the hero and center of attrac.
ton, afterwards.
Tuesday. December Goth. From some
cause. we omitted our entry.
"WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1874.
To-day. the very elements seem to have
burst forth. and In place of running 300
miles as it was expected the Log was
made up at 100. and we were then liz Lat.
81 n. and Long &c ". Yesterday we
were TO have been In New York, but tic
continued squalls and storms will pre-
vent us reaching that point before Satur-
day. January Cd.
1t is now G O'Clock. p. NJ, and the sea is
mountain high. the stray flying, the
waves dashing on the deck of our ship:
out the wind is. we think, abaiing.
No one who has never seen, or rather
been on board of a ship, in tempest, on
the Atlantic, could have the most distant
idea of the terrible. az we'll as grandeur
fthe scene. Language will fall very far
short OF describing it, At this writing.
We are 500 miles from New York-a
strong headwind blowing against us.
Everybody is cheerful on board. as they
have got over their sea-sickness.
Just at this moment, a heavy sea struck
Che vessel. and well nigh cspsized US. Ny
journal was all scattered, and myself
mostly pitched on the table. One gen.
tleman gathering himself up, somewhat
frightened, said what do you think of
that? / remarked that it was pretty big
jerk.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 81.
We awoke at O'clock, to tehold a
heavy sea. During the night, it appeared
that Neptune had opened his batteries
upon US, and the striking of the waves
against the side OF the ship, made The re-
port of a six pound gun. The wind con-
sinned TO blow all day. At this hour, Z o.
clock, NJ, 1t is blowing a heavy gale.
The run 30 day, was l27 miles thence We
are 400 miles from New York; and, un-
less we have more favorable weather, we
shall not see v. Y. before next Sunday.
which viii be four days beyond the time
f1ed for arrival.
The day as usual, was put IN by eating.
drinking, conversing and Specializing on
onr probable time of reaching our desiins.
ton. Part Of the day was sick, and &C.
cup;ed my state-room.
FRIDAY. January I.
We had more favorable wind. and n
pleasant day. Two ships and one steam
sr were passed, and at 10 o'clock, A. NJ.
We met the Pilot Beat. Here our pilot
came aboard.
January I'd, in the morning, we were In
quarantine. Here the physician came
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