“ The powers granted under the Conititution, being dericed from the People of the Ihdted States, may be resume I by them whenever perverted to their injury or oppre^surn:'—Madi^fon.
VOLUME 7.
CHARL.OTTE, IVORTIl-CAROLIXA, APRIL 19, 1848.
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M 31RER 333.
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THE .1 E F F E R S O I A
Saturday, April 14, 1848.
wliirli AUE Foeiiis.
We know ol nulLing in the whole range of litera
ture, so wholly and irredeeraaWy insipid and un
readable as slip-alop poetry, or rather attempts at
poetry, (or there is not one grain of pure gold in a
mountfiin of each rubbish.
With the rollowing, from the pen of Williaai Cul
len Bryant, indisputably the first poet of America,
many of our readers, no doubt, are lamiliar, but
even they, we he£itate not to say, will again recur
to them with pleasure.
Tlie siariZii which we have italicised, will be re-
cotjnized by nearly every one as an old acquainl-
ance, having been quoted, perhaps, as much as any
similar passage in the language :
“TflK IJATTLE-FIELD.^’
Once iliissoft tuif, this rivulet’s sands^-«ii^
Were irani{)Ied by a liurrying crowd,
And liery hearis, and armed lianiis
fincounter’d in the batile-cloud.
who enter* d tui a few niinutes previous a bulldog,
but had been drawn out into his prcstnl shape by
his rapid passage through such a narrow aperture.
bel was impajsabh’, labor on the sugar esfaits \v;is ! A tor’s cu(umeicial dealuigs btcamt vastly
susptndtd, and niartiai law was prociiiimed. l'h«*
revolutionists at Sania Cruz had repuls'd the gov
ernment troops, and were about to al'acK' S.tKnian
It is said that the Acadt-my of Natural Sciencts'ca. which was being fjriified. Njiiiing fuither of
have had the subject before thtin for some time. ! the British t .xpcditiun in that quaiter,
and great results are e.xpccltd. We shall await!
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To Btate our views Uj>on avl the questions at
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only a few of the prominent and most exciting
t»q)i‘*ii -I diHCiist^ion, which at present agitate the
mmd^ ol the people throughout the Union;—The
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tvu“:-,tions,—Fulij:‘*is, in themselves of the highest
MnporiaiiC(^, and to the two lii.t ot wliich the present
pi ►^itnn ;)f aflairs. ha.^ given a paramount and all-
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i» say info as lew words as possible :—
AihI lirsi,— W’o ;iio iit t’.vvour ol n ppeedy and
' toii^riihlr ptMi*;'. and of a vigorous prosecution of
the w'-r. as the brst and only practicable means of
attaining this desirable result. Regarding the dis-
ijrat elnl piopositionto withdraw our troops, dishon
ored and wiihont iiulemniiy. as a practical absurdi-
\\ ihe ini'amoijs re^j)onsl^lllity of carrying which
uro rMcet, ii'i pally \%oold daie lo assnme^ we con-
shler the i'roviso a.s ihe oiily real matter which
AS ill enter inio tiui !inal issue, arul upon this we can
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JAMCS FULTO.X.
 HAnLOTTF. .tAN. H, iSS3.
Ah! never shall the land forget
ilow gush’d the life blood of lier brave—
Gush’d, warm with iiope and courage yet,
Upon the soil they fought to save.
rS'ow’, all is calm, and fresh, and still;
Alone the chirp of Hitting bird,
And talk ofchildren on the lijll,
And bell of wandering kine is heard.
No solemn host goes trailing by
The black-mouth’d gun and staggering wain;
Men start not at the battle-cry ;
O I be it never heard again.
Soon rested those who fought; but thou
Who rninglest in the harder strife
Fur truths which men receive not now,
Thy warfare only ends witli life.
A friendless warfare! lingering long
Through weary day atul weary year,
A wild and many-w'eapon’d throng
Hang on thy front, and flank, and rear.
Yet, nerve thy spirit to the proof.
And blencfi not at thy chosen lot.
The limid good may stand aloof,
U’he sage may frown—yet faint thou not.
Nor heed the shaft too surely cast
The hissing, surgi-ng bolt of scorn ;
For with itiy side shall dwell, at last,
The victory of endurance born.
Truths rruglCd to earthy shall rise a§^ain,
The ttcnial years o/'God are hers ;
TtuL error^ wounded, writhes with pain^
And dies among his icorshijipers.
Yea, though thou lie upon the dust
When they wlio help’d thee flee in fear
Die full of hope and manly trust,
Like those w'ho fell in battle here.
Another hand thy sword shall wield.
Another iiand the standard wave
Till from the trumpet’s mouth is peal’d
'riie blast of tiiuinph o’er thy grave.
the next new’s with all due anxic-'.y.
N. B. The dog is rapidly regaining bis heallh,
Chloroform having betn ustd with Ihe happitsi
effects.
moie
exttiided. Soon on ex ery st.a his frt ightcd" vessels
vvere borne. 1 he msti octious he cave lo his cap**
tains c.xhibit his txl« risive knowhdge of the variou^
marktts, as well as the prodtjcis of each country.
We have bt foie us a number of his autograph let««
ters, writtui on imp-ortant sut jects, at vaiious period-*
He wrote a wrelcbed scraw l, stlling tptlling and
ranunar  qually at difiuice; and y* t, the sironp,
The whole audience in the thca're at Norfoik,
Va., on Saturday night, when the MarstilUs hymn
was struck up, rose cad gave thr'e cheers for the i prafance last Sunday; yet these were cutwaidly
republic of France.
l>Cci.11i of Joliii A*otor.
ISTEBEsTIN'* BIOGRAPHY. i - , ~ , , . • " ' i i •
, , ^ . .u I , mascu.ine unuerstanding ol the man is visible in all
John Jjcob Asior, c.niuenl lor the nrcumulat.on bnOly, »nJ lo the purpose.
0 an Mnm.r.se p.opcly, expired al Joclock;On| Xi.e i.icrcastd value of tuU oMaie in this cilr,
U tdnesday mornu.g, al h|^s m New : advancement of
\oMv, inlbo Solhyeatof his aoe. 1 he lleiulJ - York, and this, as iis iawmdmo result, ha
... I ttoin the first foresaw. Without h:mself mortgoginfr
The MeKican Treaty.
'J'he following from the Washington Correspond
dent of the Baltimore Sun, while it does not explain
how the copy of the Treaty was obtained will be
sd^icient satisfactorily to exculpate Mr. Buchanan
from all suspicion, if any stich ever did txisl. The
Correspondent of the Herald while exculpating all
the Senators and those connected with that
refuses lo say how he got possc^sion of that
■ so faint as to encourage the opinion of a more pro
I'-act^d issue. Even at tight o’clock this morning,
an hour previous lo the lime, he was cnabUd to
pariake of so:ne slight nourishment. Ilis death,
which was the consequence of old age merely —
the phytical pow’ers huvinjj become gradually ex
hausted—evidenctd no painful struggle, but was
eas}’, quid and compostd—to be compared most
fi'.iy lo an infani’s passage into slet p. All his fami
ly were present at the sc ne. The funeral wil.
ment:
I'he exculpation of Mr. Buchanan from the [ time of his dtct ase can hatdly be repitscnled in
suspicion which some persons had entertained or I ^be sum of ten millions cf dollars, was in no part
feigned, that the treaty with Mexico was divulged
Syniploms of coming dissolution made iheir ap- | he cons;amiy 'ii.Vested in ;;;on;;;;ge;;an7'io';;;^l7of
fortclosure, would nol unfrtquenily boy ihe proper
ty. h IS impossible to sptak indituil of his wealth,
amidst which are vast tiacts of land in Missouri,
Wisconsin, Iowa, and other W^estern Sialt.s, dailv
rijing in value. 'I'fie bulk is in this city, invested
in real eslate and mor:gages. it is said that Mr.
Astor has givin ^35U.UU0 for a city library, the in*
ten St of which is to be expended in employing
agents to puicfiase books, and in the erection of a
building, ihe same nol lo exceed in cost ^t3U,000.
Mr. Astor has iwo sons—one Win. B., and tho
"liters,
became the Countess of
led lo
residin»r
al Bristol, ilaode Island.
bodv°Mili I ‘f"u- i other imbecile Iron, his bi.l'h. Oneoi his daus
M I ^ ' I "t“* ‘“'J at 1-aris, became the Count
I Lufayilte place. t . v u- u u i Humpff. another, w ho has also died w as marr
I 'I’he wealth of J'*hn J leoo Astor, which at the M ij ' , , .1
I veai o u II ^ \ Briatad, an author and clergy man, now re:
by him, is complete. I presume that the Stnate
committee will now drop the subject. A resolution
of inquiry has been adopted into the expedier,cy of
, I Mr. Astor did nui play al cards or gamble, in the
hereditary. In the year 17bl he stood on our l
shorrs a poor youth, without knowledge of u,b,,co, leading and talking upon busir.e«
iiiaiteis. lie lo^e early and went soon to bed, was
language, or our people, yet in possession of that
disposition of heart and firmness (d' pui p(£e wtiich
providing, by law, for the punishment of any per^ j enabled him to obtain gre^al wealth, i I is place ol
son who may, hereafter, -‘'■urreptiiiously obtain and j birth was the village of W alkiop, mai Ileidelbeig,
publish any communicution from the President to j Uuchy of Baden, Germany; its tr.ne the
the Senate.
“ But such a law, if passed, will not cfTtcl its
object, for the communications may be published
without being obtained by fiaud. A better remedy
would be that proposed by Mr, Allen — to abolish
secret sessions and throw open everything to the
public. In this government there is no necessity
for secrecy. Treaties have never been kept secret
by the Senate, nor has any Senator ever been pun-*
ished for revealing them, and none ever will be.”
and )!>cieiic‘e.
There is no opinion more common, and at the
same time none so fallacious, us that a deep and
searching investigation into the mysteries of science,
and a tliorougl.. knowledge of the organization ol
physical nature necessarily leads to materialism, or
IS in any degree mimical to the spirit of genuine
religion. Ti.e very reverse is the case, ami if sci
ence has at limes been placed in aj)parent antago
nism to the Cliristian religion or its minislers, it has
merely been liom a misguided spirit of self delence.
denounce a man, treat him coolly, spurn his doc
trines without examination, and you must not be
surpiised, il, w lial God has desiined for the failh-
lul hand-maid of religion, man should, in a momenl
of irritation, converi into us bitterest enemy. True
religion is but a written and revealed copy of the
great volume ol nature, and all truthful research in
to one, cannot fail lo elucidate the oilier.
W hich, might we ask, would bo moie likely .to
reverence the truth, the sinq'licity, and tlie beauty
of the creed taught l>y the meek and lowly Jesus—
he w ho stands aloof Irom the examination of the
>vorks of nature, or he. w ho, in unloldmg p'age after
page of’ the great book which God has left open
lor all nations, tree alike to the Jew and to the Gen-
nle, to the CJreek and to ihe Baii>arian, ever dis
covers fresh evidences oi'ihe wisdom that planned,
and the power that executed such wonders.
We are no friend lo ctiartalanism. We know
that this is the age of’ linmbug, but w'e also know,
that scarcely one discovery has been made, or one
novel proposition started, that has not been rather
discouraged than otherwise, by the clergy. We
A.in/IHUNE,
F A S 111 (• A B L E T A 1 L O W ,
Two Doors West of Klms^ Cuiiicr,
CHARLOTTE, C.
do not say this in any spirit of fault-rinding—we
believe iliat the members of the clerical profession
have been actuated by moiives every way worthy
o! their sacred calling, but still we would venture to
suggest, lliat opposition lo any attempl at improve
ment, a: least without dilligent investigation of its ^
merits, will inevitably have the efl'ect of placing it ,
for the time being, in antagonism to thechuich, and i
thus, to a certain extent depriving religion of tlie |
support it should derive from knowledge, which is
but another name for practical truth. If the i*ulpii
would direct the tendencies ot the age for gooil, it
must keep up with its progress, and not lag behind
it.
Asrou.SDi.No Fact in Natlkal EIistohy I —
A bull dog in the city ot New York, to whose tail
some mischievous boys had appended a tin kettle, in
his terror and consternation darted into one of ilie
sewers ofihat city, from w hich he dj J nol anaiii
emerge. It has been said, however, that a long
lean greyhound was obscned shortly after, crawl'
ing out of the opposite end of the passage. Bui
lillle doubl cnlcrlaincd, that this is the same dog
The following extract from the remarks of Mr.
Allen in the Senate of the United Slates, in the
debate on the resolutions expressive of sympathy
with the progress of the French Republic, poss
ess both force and beauty, besides taking precisely
the same view which we ourselves did, soma weeks
sincc:
“ One great truth has been established w’ithin the
last forty days; and I pronounce it one of the most
important truths which has been politically estab
li?hed since the foundation of society, and it is this;
thatarnud men no longer afford a guaranty lodes
polism. Standing armies can no longer be rr lied
on to sustain thrones; but, on the contrary, niix and
mingle with the oppressed multitude, and are the
first to reduce those thrones to ashes, 'i'hat is the
ereal truth of the age. It has been established in
Francc'-established in the presence of a hundred
thousand bayonets in the pay of the crown.
" There are but two powers in the governmrnt
of man now in operation — force and public opinion.
Force has failed in the h*art of Europ'^, and the
governments there must fort ver rest upon opinion,
and that opinion founded upon the enlighiened rea
son of the people.”
Santa Anna. — Much has been said about his
pass, every W’hig press great and small, has harped
upon this same string; with how much success we
will not prelend to say, as, to our poor optics il has
been peifectly invisible. The following extract
from a late speech delivered in the Senate of the
United States by G« n. Cass should be attentively
read by all both W^higsand Deniocrnls:
“ 'There is one subject upon wfiich the honorable
Senator from Delaware challenges us all to moita)
couibal, and which he considers
iiie spring
Of woes unnumbered
and lhat is, the permission for the return of Santa
Anna lo Mexico. 1 shall not enter, sir, into '.he se
rious defence of this meastjre. 1 leave that to the
President himself; and 1 think he placed it upon
inq)regnable ground in his rnt stage on this subject.
If not, no man is more capable of showing the fail
ure than the Senator frotn Delaware : and as he has
not done it, I may safely conclude thal it is not to
be done. But I beg leave to make one remaik, for
'he consolation of ail wiio have rna ie tlie rettirn of
Santa Anna such a peculiar subject of grief. He
has proved himself the best Mexican General for us
who could have been selected ; and has well jus'i-
fied ihe anticipations of ihe President, if such spec
ulations could have enter«d into the qtns’ion of his
return, W^hy, sir, if he had been nominaied to the
Senate, and the rtsnit could have been foreseen, he
would have been unanimouslv confirmed. He has
been defeated in (very battle he fjught, lest every
! position he attempted to hold, and is now a wander-
i er u iihoul power or influence, having seen his
j country overrun, her capital taken, her armies dis
persed, her governmen’. a fugitive, and a large por-
li n of her population subjected to our dominion.
I do nol belli ve we could have found a General
a ho would have lost more baiihs, ab.indoned mote
positions, or fl-.d with more ionomioy.”
Its
month cf July, 1764. His father, w ho had a good
reputation for truthlulm ss and the leading a coirect
life, held ihe humble but honorable tdfice of baliO
of Waldrop. This worthy man sought wi;h much
care to impiess on his children those pious viev\s
and resolves which he held as the saleguaid lo
worldly happiness und prosperity.
His means and inlluence were yet insuflicitnl lo
obtain in Germany a situation lhat af]ordtd to his
younger son permanent support. The United
Stales held fortii an inviting promise, not unheed
ed. Accordingly, the young A^tor, with many
tears and reorelful thoughts, bade adieu to lhat
home to uhich the eyes of millituis now inquiring^
ly turn, lo behold the first on*ens of so unexampled
anti foriunate a career. Crossing the British ch in-
neS, he dirtcted his steps to London, where he
found, in his brother, who had established there a
flute manufactory, a salutary adviser. In Novem^
ber cf 1783, he tmbaikcd from tbat pait, as sieor*
age passenger, in a vessel bound for Biltimore.
'I’he passage was long and dangerous. So encom
passed was the course of the vessel wilfi ice, that
three months tlaps(d before her ariivat.
On landing, his property consisted of seven iluKs
and a few articles of merchandize. His fitsi busi
ness was to st 11 these. I’he proceeds, ol nictssity
small, were invested in the fur uade, the business
of which he at once comrnenct d 10 karn. A short
time had elapsed ere he exciud the attet;lion of
llobeit Brown, proprietor of a fur establithuibnl in
sioui iiud srpjare buih, ovtr five feel nine inches in
hcigbi, w iiu a fngh, square forehead, and his features
sointftviial heavy. He was eiijier very »ood lem-
pertd, or else had great command of fiis passions,
for lliose who liave seen him, wfien he had cause lo
be displeased, urS'ire us lhat he was any thing but
violent in his disposition.
'I'he minor details in business did not escape his
attention, though nol spending at bis counting house
half his disposable lime. The house in the lower
pariol Broadway, which he occujiied for many
years, displayed wilhm a cosily magnificence. It
was auornul with woiks of ait, lor which largtj
sums had been expended. His servants, severally,
vxereof the nations with which he traded.
From tiic New York Spirit of the Tiiiica.
How Joe lliiiikliuS Pony l uii off.
One day .loe Dtiiiklin drove up to a c^^lry tav
ern with a very short'leggid pony, which he called
Dick. The animal looked so dumpy iis to attract
the attention ol several of the know mg oms, who
happened lo be out lo the shtd. A fu r cracking
several jukes on the shoitness ot the animal’s legs,
one of me parties sai l, inquiiin^ly,
“'riial’s a mosi singular creature, stranger—he’s
one of ’em. sariin—but these things happen fre*
quenily You have no doubt set n various mon-
itrosiiies in the animal world, partaking of the same
general characu-i istics of this animal
“ Exact!v, siianoer. I have seen the Si^mease
•/ * 3
ivvins and ihe two-legged bear—besities any quanti
ty of insects, ftom a bid'bug to a boa-consiriclor—
but 1 never saw one that run himself into that pre-
Baltimore, of hiuh repute, and was by him engag- j dicamenl yil 1 ’ replitd Joe.
ed iis a clerk. Mr. Astor exertid every power for •• You don’t pretend to say that horse run his legs
absorbing, as it were, w hatever personal bent fit ‘.he
increastd advantag(S of this situation ( ffcrtd, nor
was the result le;s deserving of nole than ihe en
deavor.
Mr. Aitor’s integrity and assiduity were well ap
precialed and satisi'actorily remuneralt d by his em*
ployer. Waller Biowne, a first iJoutin o! the lailer
and a wealthy butcher, was induced to lend several
thousand dollars, by which in connection wiih the
late Cornelius Hever, Mr. Astor commenced busi
ness on bis own account. 'I'he father of Geint
Smith subsequently joined him. 'I’fie occasion is
not uninteresting at whicb John Jacob Astor is
known first to have breathed an ambitious intei.l.
'i'he revoluiionaiy war, though causing the posts of
Oiwego, rsiugara, Detroit and otheis lo be field by
off.^” said the individual, iiic'edulousiy.
* 1 don’t pretend to say any thing elje,’’ responded
Joe, looking the stranger full in the eye.
“ Well, i declare, it’s the most lemarkable io'
stance I ever htard of,'’ said the stranger, scrulini'
zing the pony more intensely than before.
If y(;u’ll stand the liqoor, I’ll itll you all about
i’,” S lid Joe.
'i'he fquor being brought. Joe mounted a sugar
tiogshead, lhat he might tdify the whole crowd,and
b( gan as follow s :
•• One day — no matter wht n, for I havn’ttime to
recollect dates—I was tiding Dick across one of
those infernally btoad prairns that seem to have
neiihi r erids ri(;r si les, (lyiris between Fort Leaveri-
w'oith ai.d the Rocky .Mountains.) and thinking
a hostile power, was accompanied with such s» rious | about the probable chancrs of losing my traps and
embai rassmeni lo the fur tiade, lhat, on ihe forma
tion of a treaty and their consi quent sum rider, Mr.
Astor, in view of the benefits thence resulting, de-
eland that he w'ould make his fortune. 'Fhe pre
diction was not lost in air, nor any b( numbing influ
ence suffered to act on the energe'ic purpose thal
prompted il. Opportunity on oppoitun'ty was
descried and skilfully improved — years followed
years of continuous thought and labor.
scalp in case I met wi.h the Paw nets, when a low',
rumbling noise fill upon my ear, like the muttering
of thunder. 1 lookt d up, but there wasn’t a cloud —
the sky was just as blue and quiet as my wife i-*ol-
ly’s eye. So it couldn't be thunder. It might be
an earth(juake. 'I’liis wasn’t a very pleasant reflec
tion, for as i had hvtd in New \ladrid, and seen
the ground gnpe some, I expected every minule to
ee rnyseif ani Dick beautilully buried wi'.hout un-
Foreign associations, upheld by the moft wealthy ^ deilaktr or sexton,
British capitalists, had hitherto monopolized, lo a i “'I’he sound by t'nis ti;i»e ha I increased to a prrt-
large exKiit, the Northern and Westein portions ol ty chunky roar, an 1 as there was no chance of be
our country, John Jacob Astor, nol loving their ; ing svvailowid up, I thouglit it reasonable to tak«*
spoiis, mtdilaled liie consltuciion of a destroying ' an observation, for ifiings began to lookasihougf
power. 'I'tiis could be gained only by a combinaiK-n they wouldn’t lust loniz. 'i'urning in my saddle, 1
of all Ameii'jan houses engaged in the trade. 'I’he 1 saw one of ifie most interesting spectacles lo a niun
proj'-ci was vast, and apparently unattainable j y*-i. * siiualed as I wa«, ihai I ever expect to look om
under fiis di.''eclion and his skilfui guidance ol envi i again. About half a mile behind me, roaring
oua elements, the A.neiican Fur Company was es- snurting, blowuig and rurining as if h — li was aftir
tablistied — in itself a grand monument to fiis memo- ‘ them, was one of the most unrighteous piles of buf-
ry. Not only has il extended its op rations to fields faloes ever congreoaud together. And ihey put
untoucaed belore, but utterly shut out from others
down as if each fellow was striving lo be the first ? r
the prospect of foreign ascendancy. This prej-ct get a dig ul me. I tiied 10 appear cool, but it w.is-
realiz d, he conceived anolher. 'I’his was the set" j no use — my hair kepi ri>ing till it got so slifT eaf>i
llement of Astoria with a vii;w of miking u the ; bristle would liave bilanced a plate. God! if th* v
commercial emporium of the Northern l'*ac:fic.— I didn’t look li'-rct*, with ihtir eyes filming like fi •
Alunii that ocean, and on the Columbia river, he de> ‘ coals, and lh» ir shaggy aianes iiiraming ia the
Fro>i Central A.merica. — Revolution and
Bloodshed. — By the arrival of the brig Sarah
Breniley. from Honduras, the New York Tiue
Sun has intelligence to tin- 17th March.
Mr=. Frz^ibbon, an Irishman, for many years
resident in New '^'ark. has been imprisoned by the
British aulhoritus at Br'ize. for comnrnting too
freely upon their outrageous policy in that q larter.
He tdittd the G-iz tte. I’tie revolution commenced
in Guatemala last O- tober. t\ns s',ill spreadinfj. and
the rebels, w ho numbered LOGO on the 4th of Feb-
ruarv, had gained some victories in the op**n field.
In Jjlapa the Corrcg idor Figuerraand 30 others
were kilit-d. The road fru:n ja’.canl.i lo \za.
signed a series of forts, w hich should secure lo ih* ir
hoider the w hole fur trade w» si of the Rocky Moun
tains. Vtsselsfrom New York were iosuj)ply As
toria w iih commodi’.tts, receive her furs, and far
ihe same consideration tliose of the Russiun posts,
further North. 'I'hese were then to proceed to
Canton, dispose of their cargo, and return with it as,
sil.vs and nankeens.
li was in the year ISIO thal the first post was es
tablished. Astoria was ‘esiablish« d by a padyof
sixty men, commanded by W. I*. Hurii, .Mr Astor
had expected, in twenty years from that time, t-j rc-
'iliz-.d, in me mode mentioned, a rniliion of doll us
per annu;n. 'i'hough misl'jrlune met this undeiia-
king at first, (two of the three vessels sent out fiaving
wind !”
Didn’t you feel a'Aful? ’ asked a sympalhcti.:
spectator, appe.iling to Joe,
‘•FlcI!” responded our hero—“I fell like a
siiay pig on a railroad track, with an express loco
motive behind him and ad d high fence on bo'b
sides of the ro id. I'herc was no such thing ii'
running around lht:n, for they were spread acro.->
the prairie as Iiir as the eye couiJ ach, and can «•
upon me like a great black wave. I ime was grow -
ing precious; every second counted. The on’v
chance w s a stiaigtit race—Dick and I againsi tbf*
field. In a twinkling I snipped Dick lo the bridly,
and myst If to ihi! sf.urs. ThebuiTalois were now
well up, and doing their nastiest—the pe ny all of a
been lost.) it would have undoubtedly been prtpsed ' tremble to be of]. 1’. was a sin 10 hold hini, and i
to success, but that a partner (»f Mr. Astor sold As j t. |1 the iiuth. I wasn't vtry anxious lo do so. A
toria to the Biitish Noiihwest Fur Co np/iny. 1’rnm j ytll did the b’i^’ri'SS, and awiy we went like u
the ts'ublishmcnl of' the Atn^^rican cvcnpanv^Mr. Ueated dog.