Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-10
A THRILLING EPISODE
In the Life Of Governor thomas Young,
Member of Congress
[Mashlng.on D. Critic

In the Life OF Governor thomas L Young,
Member of Congress.
Washington % CO Critic
One of the most remarkable men in the
country to-day is the member OF Congress
| from the Second Ohio District Mr.. Young
| is famous not only for his hard. fought and
hot political campaigns, but for his battling
with fate and fortune il more ways than
usually present themselves to soiourner in
this vale OF tears. Mr.. Young has hao many
adventures by land and sea, but he has
fortunately survived them all, and now he
| nils one of the most honorable positions il
the gilt of TIE American people.
Thomas L.. Young, of Cincinnati, was born
in the town eff KillvleaRh, county of Down,
Ireland, December IA, 1882. and emigrsted to
| tie U nited States when but boy of tender
years. The last year of the Mexican war
| found young Thomas SIS an enlisted soldier.
and with the heroes Of Chepultepec, Santa
Cruz, etc., he remained an enlisted soldier
until 1857. Il was during his term of enlist
meat that the romantic incident given below
occurred. Young Thomas had been selected
by Major Hawkins, U. S. A, to accompany
him on voyage to San Francisco from New
York, on the steamer San Francisco, a
| splendid new vessel, which was to make her
first trip for the Pacific Mail S. s. Line
The steamer cleared from the port Of New
| York in December, 1858, with more than
| thousand souls aboard, from the military and
the civic ranks. Everything went well with
all until the oath day of December fuuud the
vessel in gale off Cape Hatteras. The
rouyhness Of that quarter is proverbial, and
the gallant ship was soon laid waste, and
buffeted by wind and sea.
The gale LISTED for thirteen days. and is re.
membered as the fie,ces. that ever s~ep
those waters. When day broke on the 10Th,
the San Fran cisco was little better than
dismantlsd hulk upon the ocean her masts
and smokestacks had been carried away, and
her engine was useless, shaft having been
broken, thus totally incspscitating her. Her
steerSge apparatus was now all that could be
used in thu guidance of the good ship but
the fstes decreed that even that most useful
OF all the ships apparatus was to become use.
less also. On TIE night CT the 10Th her rud
der-chains parted, and she thus became
hopeless wreck. Of the suffering of her pas
sengers and crew from this time forward we
give Mr.. Young's own words. He says:
That night was the longest of all the long
nights Of my life /; the tossing and pitching of
the vessel. the bowling Of the :enpest, the
booming and kissing of the mad waves and
the agoEized shrieking of the passengers ring
in my ears even now. This morning of the
30sh our condition was pitable in the extreme
The sea ran mountains high and broke over
the vessel necessarily. About 10 o'clock
was standing beside the wheel. house, and was
holding tightly to the brass rods, number of
which ran in lateral way over the window,
when terrific wave struck the ship and
careened her. l felt my feet shoot out ia a
straight line with my body. and knew
thst the ship was submerged. For more
than a minute, seemingly, we wers COM
pletely hidden in the trough of the see, but
the good vessel recovered herself, and we
again reached the surface. The sight which
| mat T -
recovered TO look about me was horrible in
the ex:rsme. L was the only living person on
the deck of the steamer-all others on the
deck bad been swept away, and where but q
minute or two before had stood the main
cabins. now glistened rows of bright spikes
over 25O persons. who had crowded the b, cks
aud cabins, nesting here and there from the
fury of the gale, were swept into eternity in
that awful moment. l was horror stricken,
and looked ON each succeeding moment as
ny last.
1t was fearful. Day by day, men and
women, crszal f,om fright, thirst and hun
le3pe over lac ships sides into the mad sea-
Tie n ,rLing # the % of January will be to
me an ever memorable time ; to the sufferer
relisf is always doubly welcome. He who
drags the weary chain of time, while waiting
AID hoping for reprieve from death, knows
and only knows what suspense il. The suf-
terer from soTe dreadful disease, who watches
the eye Of his ply sician and is cheered by the
smile OF hope; tie sufferer from that most
dreadful and most prevalent Of all diseases
rheum atisUl, who anxiously grasps the ere
and only remedy for it-St. Jacobs Oil, knows
what a shipwrecked mariner feels whep, after
days and weeks Of suffering. the sail of hope
looms in sight. Those OF us who are able to
be deck on that memorable morning sighted o
vessel bearing down upon u. All day she
endeavored TO near us, but found il iDpos-
si0le to render us any assistance, and when
the vail of night sbut out the sea from our
gaze. and vi h it our whilom savior, our hope
gave waY 70 disappointment. Another nigh
| f-snG ting ensued. But the morniug broke
more promising than that which had preceded
time from her main cross-trees hung black
board, broad and high, bearing the cheering,
and, tonne, never-so- be-forgotten words, Be
of good cheer; | will save you or sink by you. ;
And we were saved. The ship proved to be
the Scotch ship Three Bells, Captain Camp
bell, bound for New York from Liverpool.
Speaking Of hope and despair. of suffering
ard relief, OF rheumatism and ST. Jac,bs
Oil, reminds me that the words of
hope from that blackboard would
be a very suitable motto for st. Jacobs
Oil. [ was the second man to leave the YES
sci, but was in pretty good condition
compared to several others. However, I
attributed the rheumatism from which have
suffer I'd for the past few years, to the suffer.
ings and exposure of that time. Il only now
remains for me to say that st. Jacobs Oil has
proved the means of cure in that case, and
fixed me up in sbip-shape. My shoulder was
in an awful state with rheumatism, and kept
me regular martyr so TO speak-to that
very uncomfortable silment for A2png time,
but it soon gave under a judicid< hse of the
Oil. In fact, it took just eight days to effect
permanent cure, and free me from my
rheumatism. st. Jacobs Oil is to the rheu-
matte sufferer what stanch ship and smooth
sea is to the voyager-everything. II is de-
stroyer to bodily pains, rheumatism or other
wise, and the safest, surest and best remedy
known. l have recommended it to several
persons, both in Washington and Cincinnati.
and as to hearing people speaking well of the
Great German Remedy, that is an everyday
occurrence. 1t is needful remedy, assure
you, on land or ises, and in my opinion the
best in the market. But that was rather
bad wrecking scrape, was it notg One in
which, as l said BEFORE the Oil would not
have much show. l always look back upon
that time with horror, and shudder when l
think of how near 1 was to DEATH" We
certainly coincided in the opinion Of Gov.
ernor Young, and as we took our leave of
the gentleman and walked toward TIE office
we could not but reflect on his remarkable
career. A few years after the adventure
above related, MIR. Young was practicipg law
in Cincinnati, and was one of the ablest ad-
vocates at the bar of justice. When the re-
bellion broke out he enlisted in the voiuntee rs
as First Lieutenant, and through the war
was steadily promoted until he returned with
the rank of Brevet Brigadier- General In
| 1860 he was appointed Assistant CITY Au.
ditor of Cincinnati, and was elected the same
year member of the State House of Repre-
sentsiives. In 1867 he was elected Recorder
of Hamilton county; in 1861 was appointed
Supervisor of Internal Revenue in the same
year was elected delegate to the Republican
National Convention of Chicago in 1871 was
elected State Senator ia 1875 was Lieuten-
ant Governor of Ohio; in 1877 succeeded
President Hayes as Governor of Ohio was
| elected to the Forty-lixth Congress and re
elected to the Forty.seventh, where he now,
| with unequaled eloquence, with powers pos.
| sessed by cut few of his colleagues and with
the rarest and most fowery elequsnce, adov-
Gates the good of his country, the rights Of
his constituency and the merits of St Jacobs
Oh, the Great German Remedy. Governor
Young IL, as will be seen by the above, a
| most remarkable man, and yet notwithstand-
ing the fact that he has met SO many adyen-
| lures and henors, be is to day the very CUNT.
essence Of modesty. He is sffable, polite and
i courteous, learned. polished and utbane.
What more could we say? What more can
be desired?
WHY He WAS HAPPY.-Tbere was q
little disturbance over at the North End
the other afternoon, in which tW o men fell
| afoul OF each other, and pounded and
clswed and bit each other in great shape,
and took turns in rolling each other in the
mud. During the row little old man
was seen in the crowd rubbing his hands
gleefully, shaping his knees, and encour.
| aging both the combatants with eoual