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Year: 1869

The Hartford COWant published de-
tailed account of the wreck of the whal-
ing schooner Susan N. Smith, of Boston.
in August last, and the suffering of the
crew for eight days without food or wa
ter. The story is told by Capt. Job r.
Rounseville, master of TIE vessel, who
has just arrived in Hartford The
schooner sailed from Boston on the 29th
of February, 1868, on a general whaling
voyage in the Atlantic Ocean, with a
crew of eighteen seamen, besides the
Captain, his wife and two children. On
he 2Sth OF August the wind had been
blowing fresh, and continued into the
night, but it was nothing like a gale of
wind. AT two o'clock the next night,
so severe was the tempest that all hands
were called to close reef the sails. Half
an hour later the wind blew a perfect
hurricane, yet under close sail the vessel
was kept off before it and plunged madly
through the heavy sea, the high, rolling
waves making clear over her decks and
sweeping every portable thing away.
AT three o'clock, the gale still growing
more furious, tore the sails from their
fastenings, as it they were paper balloons,
and at the same time heavy sea washed
the decks from Stem to stern again, and
every small boat was carried into the
ocean. The vessel then ran under bare
poles until about TOUR o'clock, when she
"broached to"-that is came to the wind,
the man at the wheel evidently losing all
control of The helm. This was the criti-
cal time, the high seas buried tho YES
sells rail some two or three feet under
water. Capt. Rounseville Immediately
seized an ak and went forward to cut
away the foremast, in order that the
vessel might right After cutting the rig
ging all clear, he found the mast would
not fall, and commenced cutting that !;
but he had not given more than wo or
three blows before the schooner began to
go gradually, and in hall a minute, at the
longest, the masts were lying upon the
water, and the vessel was clear over.
AT this time the wind was blowing like
q hurricane, and roared like heavy thun-
der. The sea was choppihg ugly, and
dashing in wildly from all quarters. The
going over, and all, was so quickly done,
that the Captain could not change his
position, to go aft where bis wife and
children and most of the crew were I;
for so long as the masts touched The
water the vessel settled down bodily,
and he was washed away from the tore
mast. After being in the water two or
three minutes, most of the time under,
he washed against the rigging of the
mainmast and caught here, getting badly
hurt in the breast as he brought up
heavily against the spar. He got on to
the rigging at the top of the mast by
crawling through the rattling, and there
found nearly the whole crew and the
officers collected and holding on to ropes
and chains. While there he secured
himself with rope, and the first mate
more men in the rigging. The vessel
rishtedfon Wednesday, and four Of the
Year: 1869

COMMERCIAL HoNEsTY.-Fraud seems to ba
losing its power To disgrace, provided it only
be successful or even should it fail and still
retain large means. There is nothing that go
clearly reveals the extent TO which the senti-
ment of honesty has rotted out Of the public
mind as the manner in which great frauds arc
regarded. In proof of this statement; we need
only point to the recent attempt of certain par.
ties in Wall Street to control tie gold market,
and thus certainly TO make money by the ruin
of hundreds of victims Where is the punish
ment for these men Are they not heroes
rather than culprits Do they not glory in
their shame And is there not feeling among
us as though these men were only bold opera.
tors, only little too fast and keen for their
tieEhbors? In country where prize-f fighter
and a gambler may be Congressman, leaders
of the late Wall Street troubles may well pass
for gentlemen only little too adventurous
If things proceed long in this way, the result
will be that these notions of honesty will come
to pervade the whole community, and eat out
the vitals of the nation 1t will poison the
family relations the children will be corrupted
in their cradles and, as a matter pf course,
clerks and salesmen and the astute inventions
of trade will return to plague the inventors.


" T. NethOdist
Year: 1869

FREEZING FIsH.-Among the many articles
originated and brought to perfection by the
unfiagging genius Of inventors, we have seen
none more generally useful than the new pat
ent refrigerator process, by which meats or
fruits can be preserved, and transported in any
kind Of weather. This new process has been
improved and adapted to many USEFUL purpo-
ses, the last improvement being IFS use in freez-
ins fish, so that they can be preserved as fresh
as when taken from the water.


ExMayor F. Geiersdorf one Of our largest
fish dealers has put into operation in his pack
ing-house, this new and perfect method of
keeping fish, taking them fresh flom the water,
and, in a couple of hours time, reducing each
particular member of the fnny tribe to a par
tieularly solid lump then cordng them up in
solid tiers, to be introduced into the market at
the proper time in the winter, when no lake
fish can be caught. The process can be used
for shipping fish at any season, by transporting
them in the patent refrigerator cars. Thus
fish can be frozen here in the warm days OF
spring, then transported any distance in the
cars spoken of, and unpacked in a state OF
perfect preservation. The most important use
of tile process however, is 10 preserve the fish
aud keep them here in large quantities until
the latter part of winter, when fresh lake fish
of the best varieties, can in no other manner
be fufnished.--Saadusky Register. ,rr
Year: 1869

At the regular meeting of the "Medi-
colegal Society,"" at the College of Physi-
clans and Surgeons, last evening, DR.. Fin
nell submitted a rare specimen of fatty
heart taken from the body of colored
woman who recently fell in syncope, while
shouting under great excitement at a re-
ligious meeting, and died in few mo-
ments. The autopsy discovered that the
entire structure of the heart had been
transformed from the ordinary healthy
muscular tissue to pure fat, and yet its or
ganism remained perfect in all it's parts.
The doctor said he presented this case to
the society not only for its rarity, but for
the bearing which it and similar cases had
upon medical Jurisprudence, the special
object for which the society was organized.
1t might often happen, as it often did
happen, that a man was knocked down by
blow in quarrel, and was supposed to
have been killed by the blow, when, in
fact, he died as this colored woman did,
from over excitement acting upon a fatty
heart. 1t showed the Importance of %
careful autopsy in cases of supposed homi-
eide. Death resulted in this case from
paralysis of the heart and long detention of
blood from the brain and it indicated the
treatment in such cases that could not be too
often or too strongly impressed upon the
public-viz., that in cases of fainting the
patient should be Immediately suspended
head downward, or, at least placed in a
horizontal position. Had this been done in
the case of the colOred woman whose heart
was here exhibited, she might probably
have been alive to-day. Scarcely an audi
ence could be got together in which there
would not be individuals, with feeble and
fatty hearts, who were liable at any time
under any extraordinary mental or bodily
excitement, to be attacked in the manner
this woman was, and who might die Under
the attack, unless Immediately treated in a
proper manner In the case of Inspector
Carpenter, the autopsy showed fatty con-
dition of the heart, and had not Mr.. Car
penter been so obstinately opposed to
taking stimulus of any kind, his life might
probably have been prolonged many years
-Neao York Times, Novenaber II.
Year: 1869

Mr. SHIRLEY BROOKS tellsthe Illustrated
London Nesos rather singular story of a
bit of meanness and the appropriate re-
venge which followed it, When the Prince
of Wales lately visited Hull, there was a
desi1e to ornament, in his honor, the
monument in that city erected to the
memory of Wilberforce But the column
was lofty and not easily climbed, and it
was hard to find any one to make the
ascent and wreathe it; with flowers and
foliage The authorities offered money
reward to any man who would accomplish
the task After some time, two sailors
from one of Her Majesty ships undertook
the job, and performed it well. They ap-
piled for the reward, but the local officers
refused to pay it, on the ground that, be-
ing servants of the Queen, it was no more
than the duty of the sailors to decorate the
shaft in honor of the Prince. Beer was of
fered in lieu of the expected guineas, and
the sailors drank it and went their way.
But during the night before the arrival of
the royal guest, all the ornament was torn
away, by the same strong and skillful hands
that had carried it aloft. Moreover, a
small ladder, decidedly not an ornament
to the column, was left sticking there,
where no one could get at it. The loyal
authorities of Hull could only hope that
the Prince did not observe the bar
renness and Disagreement of the Wilber
force column, as he passed it.


Toledo has imported 100000, coo feet Of
pins lumher the past season.
Year: 1869

THE suns atmosphere, say the scientific
men, is in highly excited condition. A
column Of magnetic light is shooting out
further and further from the solar sphere,
and it is now stretching out fortyfve mil
lions of miles In other words, it has ac-
complished half the distance between us
and the sun! The interesting question,
and one on which, perhaps, we donot wish
any more light of this character, is: How
long will it be before it finishes the rest of
the distance and bridges the gigantic
chasm between the earth and the sun
Is it messenger sent out to snatch us up
as food for the insatiate monster that keeps
himself warm by devouring planets, and
whose 1ire-eating propensities this whole
earth would satisfy for a few days only?
If so, how long will this emissary be in
reaching us, and carrying the globe away
as if we were gigantic lump of coal for
roaring furnace? This column of light at
intervals indicates its approach by flashing
and corruscating with fresh brilliancy. So
decidedare its effects that two astronomers,
one at London, the other at Oxford, and
neither knowing the experience of the
other, supposed that the dark glass of
their telescopes had been broken or put
out of range, SO strong was the flash OF
gOluen ignG upon tne VISION. IL Is pre-
dicted that before the end of the next
year this magnetic light will have got near
enough to us to make it's immediate and
actual influence upon the earth distinctly
felt. 1t is announced that In consequence
we may expect to seephenomena that have
never been seen or known before by the
human race. If any of our readers are
therefore yet disposed to complain of the
weather and the earthquakes let them re-
member that, by this time next year, they
may have an entire new line of expert
ences to explain and endure, in compari


son with which the fitful winter and
rough, rude autumn of to-day, may seem
like June morning'in Paradise, and the
earthquakes shock and lightning's storm,
placid rocking in the cradle with pleas
ant lullaby of thunder.-Buf'alo Erpress,
NOU 10. t'& 81
Year: 1869

cult Court of Iowa, in the Des Moines
river land suits. He decides in favor of
those claiming under the Navigation Com
pany, holding that the lands have not been
subject to entry since they were reserved
from sale some years ago.


1t is ascertained that less than 5000 of
the new fractional currency had been ab-
stracted and put in circulation without
the official seal of the department. The
Treasurer attributes the loss to careless
ness.


1t is announced that new grist of ten
dollar counterfeit greenbacks has been set
adoat. This last issue is so well executed
and so close an imitation of the
genuine that professional experts can
hardly detect the difference. The letter
"P," In "pay the bearer, has an up
stroke; in the genuine it has none. The
fine lines which form the shading around
the eagles head in the vignette are coarse
and scratchy compared with the genuine


Judge Fithian, of New York, has just
decided that when man and woman live
together sixteen years as man and wife,
without the consummation of the marriage
ceremony, they are legally married, and
both are estopped as against each other
and all the world from denying the rela-
tionship.
Year: 1869

SUMNER M. BOLTON, of the Eleventh
Maine infantry, at the battle of Bermuda
Hundreds was hit by ball over the right
eyebrow, which penetrated the orbit and
destroyed the sight. The wound was
probed, but no ball could be found, so it
was allowed to heal up. Ever afterward
Bolton was afflicted with excruciating
pain in one half of his head and dizziness
which no medicine could relieve. He
finally consulted physician, who was of
the opinion that the bone in the back part
of the orbit was injured and should be re-
moved, or the ball was still lodged there,
pressing upon the nerves and irritating
the BRAIN A few days ago the doctor cut
down to and removed an ounce ball with
a small portion of the bone attached. The
ball was flattened like an old fashioned
cent, and had been corroding in his head
for FIVE years. Relief was immediate.
Year: 1869

Estimating the present crop of cotton
at two million six hundred thousand bales,
and the price at twenty-five cents, the
clear profits of the cotton States cannot be
less than one hundred and eleven million
of dollars. And when we remember that
this clear capital is realized from single
staple to which are to be added other
valuable crops of sugar, tobacco, rice,
wheat and corn, we shall find that this
people are digging solid wealth out Of the
soil and laying it up more rapidly than
any people in the world.-Mobile Register,
November 5.
Year: 1869

A NAN lying on the railroad track at St.
Joseph, Mo-. few nights ago, drunk, was
saved from death by the killing Of COW
by train just before reaching him. The
engineer stopped his train just too late to
save the cow, but then saw tha man lying
q few yards in advance.
Year: 1869

FAIR is my love, so fair,


/ shuddsr with the sense q
or what light the world would lose
Should she 90 hence.
Sweet is my love, so sweet,


The leaves that, fold on fold,
Swathe up the odors of the rose.
Less sweetness hold.
True is my love, so true;


Her heart is mine alone
The music of its rythmic beat
Throbs through my own.
Dear is my love, so dear,


Ii but hear her name,
My eyes with tears of rapture swim
My cheek is flame
Spare her, Immortal ! spare,


Till all our days are done;
Your heaven is full of angel forms
Mine holds but one
Year: 1869

Two Dairymen in Chester county, Pa,
few days since, who use the same spring
for cooling off their milk, recently discov-
cred that their milk was growing unpro
fitably thin, and came to the conclusion
that somebody was robbing them. The
other night they happened at the spring,
and each discovered to his utter astonish-
ment that his milk was being stolen, and
the vacuum being supplied with water, by
the other.
Year: 1869

1nconsistent.-The school Commissioner
of the end district complains of the expense
of carrying on the schools, and yet he
employees teacher, at Bethel, at the expense
of the county, to act as governess for two
families. How very kind. and yet how
beautifully inconsistent.
Year: 1869

The President has said within a few
days to a leading Senator that he should
recommend the resumption of specie pay
ments at as early a day as possible, consis-
tent with policy that would not unsettle
values. He thinks that the approach to
resumption has recently been so rapid that
the time is not far distant when we can re-
sumo.
Year: 1869

sE Read Mr.. Wanamaker's very inter-
esting note in another column. 1t is clear
and conclusive, and shows very plainly that
the present move at Oak Hall is based on
true business principles, and is sure of large
success. We are only anxious that our
patrons come in for their full share of tie
sDOil
Year: 1869

Snow.-The papers on Monday morning
reported snow storm with rain prevailing
all day on Sunday in Boston. The same
kind of weather prevailed here. Though
we have had already several attempts at
snow the present fall, Sunday presented a
very fair midwinter snow-storm. On Mon
day morning the ground and roofs of build
ings were covered with winters spotless
mantle. As usual, at this season of the
year, we hear Of the various signs portend-
ing severe winter. We have noticed that
the sams~catalogue of "signs" present
themselves every year, and as hard winters
are more frequent in this latitude than soft
ones, the sooth sayers, or prognostigators
of the weather, hit it in majority ofcases
But putting aside the "signs," and taking
the weather itself as an indicator, the
chances seem very favorable for good
deal of winter at least. Snow-storms to
the north and northwest of us have made
their appearance this fall unusually early
and with extreme violence for autumn
SHOWS.


With all these favorable symtoms, how
ever, we hope our tee man will not take it
for granted that we are to have ice on the
ponds and creeks from December to April,
waiting the pleasure and convenience of
the harvesters, but taking advantage of the
first favorable opportunity, will secure a
bountiful store for next summers supply.


The Enterprise Of Port Deposit. While
on business visit to Port Deposit few
days since we were very politely shown
through the large Sash Factory of Noland
q Co., by Mr.. Noland, and had several of
the most important machines and parts of
the work pointed out to us. Their mode
OF making siding, or what is Familiarity
termed weather boarding, attracted our
particular attention. A very fine and ae-
curate circular saw has been recently put
into the mill, termed a resawing machine
by which Il inch boards by 12 inches wide
are ripped and then slit into half inch sid
ing. The saw being very fine, surface is
left smooth enough for painting without
the additional work of planning. By this
neat and economical psocess the company
are enable to furnish very superior arti-
Gle OF siding at much lower rate than the
same quality of lumber can be obtained
elsewhere.


Another speciality which attracted our at
tentlon was the uncommonly neat inside
blinds which are got up at this mill. 1t is
rare thing to find this species of work so
very exact throughout. Mr.. J. M. Bullock
appears to be the leading mechanic in this
department, and to his handicraft this hand
some work is mainly attributed.


By reference to our advertising columns
list Of standard articles manufactured
by this old, established firm will he found.


A drying room is erected over the boiler,
where all panel and other work necessary
to be thoroughly dry is placed, and is in a
short time effectually seasoned.


The pertified tusks of a mastodon were
found in the bed of o,ool, nb;o
Year: 1869

70 the EdltOr Of the BOLlUQr Bulletin:


/ knock at the door of your sanctum,
away here upon tie bordering hills of dear
Tennessee, to watch the heart more fondly
clings, while our native soil is polluted by
the tread of Northern outcasts and miscre-
ants, who are robbing the people, and aim
to take entire control of the State sadly
view the gross unblushing steps they assume
the authority to take over the white men of
Tennessee, and if there yet remains one
solitary ray of hope to rid ourselves of these
public plunderers in the futnre, let US unite
our efforts and make bold fight to restore
peace and liberty to our proud common
wealth.


The citizens here in Middle Tennessee,
are as quiet and lawabiding as they are any
where, but they are alive to the interest of
the State and the welfare of the country and
will continue to oppose the extreme
measures of radical oppressors, with undying
energy.


Though tyrants heels the heather presses


Where oft childhoods have trod,


Though tyrapts faunt their hated tresses


In triumph native sod"
We feel that their reign must be brief
and their headlong career be stayed, by the
protecting hand of Jehovah, and the bitter
cup will be passed from our lips.


l wish that you could see this spirited lit
tie city of ours no doubt you think of it,
the Murfreesboro of your boyhood days,
but now, you would fail to recognize it I
think it contains nearly six thousand inhabi-
tGnts, and is the most improved of any other
place in the South It is brisk business
place, and the citizens work for her interest.
The Fair grounds are worthy of special
praise, being handsomely laid off and orna-
mented. The Confederate Cemetery is be-
ing arranged, about mile out of the City
not far from the Fair grounds Three miles
out the Federal Cemetery is beautifully stu
ated, and in the City are many handsome
buildings bespeaking the culture and refine
of despots over US, we might indeed be
proud, happy and prosperous people, but
while the welfare of the State is at stake,
every one feels the deepest solieitude for re-
lief Soon Ger us another year will dawn,
whose early sun, we hoped, would rise in
a cloudless sky over the vast arena of po-
litical strife but the more earnest we are,
in desiring the prevalence of peace, the
more persistantly our enemies continue to
make discord. They don't want peace, it
would be to their injury, as usurpers in our
State,


"And we, in this darkest hour,


Vow by all that adore.


That distinctions clouds shall lower


Never upon our homes of your


FLORENCE
Year: 1869

The following lines are old, but too appro


pirate not to be read with pleasure. They


were first published In the National Iatelli


gencer more than quarter of a century
ago, and should be handed down from gen.


Grafton to generation for the exclusive bene
fit of the children


Twas the night Christmas all through house
Not creature stirring, mouse;


The stockings were hung by the chimney with care.


In the hope that St. Nicholas soon would there,
The children nested snug IN their beds,


While visions sugar-pIums danced in their heads
And mamma in her kerehief, and 1 my cap.


Had just settled our brains for long winters nap;
When out the lawn there sach chatter,
sprang from the bed see what was the matter.
Away to the window 1 few like FASH


Tore open shutter threw up the sasA
The moon the breast of the fallsn snow
Gave the luster of midday to objects below.


When what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But miniature sleigh, and eight tiny rein deer,
W With little old driver SO lively and quick
knew moment be St. Mich
More rapid tn sn eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted called by name:
Now, Dasher! now Dancer! nOw PrancsrI now. Vixen
On Comet! on Cupid on, Dunder and BIexsnI
To the top Of the porch, to the top of the wall,
Now dash away! dash away! dash away, all"
As dry leaves before the hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle mount to the sky,
So up to the hOuse-top. the coursers they few,
With the sleigh full toys, and Nicholas too.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard the
The prancing and paving of each tiny hoof,
As drew in my head and turning around,
Down the chimney st. Nicholas came with a bound.
He dressed all in fur, his head foot,
And his clothes all furnished SCOTT
bundle of toys flung his back,
And be looked like peddler Just opening his pack.
His eyes-how they twinkled his dimples how merry!
His cheeks like roses, his like a cherry
His droli little mouth drawn up like a bow,
And the beard on his chin white the snow;
He had short, fat legs, and a little belly,
That snOOk when he laughed like bowl full Jelly;
The stump Of pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encrcled his head like wreath,
he chUb by and plump, right jolly old elf,
And laughed when saw him in spite Of myself
wink of his eye and twist Of his head
Soon gavs to know had nothing to dread.
He spoke not word, but straight to his work,
And filed all the stockings, then turned with jerk,
And laying his finger aside CT his nose,
And giving nod, up .he chimney he
He sprang his sleigh. to his gave a whistle.
Away they I'll few, like the down Of a thistle;
But 1 heard him exclaim, he drove out Of sight,
" Aerry Christmas all, and to all a good night!'