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POETRY.
THE LOST AT SEA.
l«Y THE LATE JAMES 0. ROCKWELL.]
Wifq, who in thy deep devotion
Puttest up a prayer for one,
Sailing on the stormy ocean,
Hope no more—his course is done.
Dream not, when upon thv pillow,
That he slumbers by thy side;
For his corpse beneath the billow
Heaveth with the restless tide.
Children, who, as sweet flowers growing,
Laugh amid the sorrowing mins,
Know ye, many clouds are throwing
Shadow's on your sire’s remains?
Where the hoarse grey surge is rolling
With a mountain's motion on,
Dream ye that its voice is toiling
For your fallier, lost and gone?
When the sun looked on the water,
Asa hero on lus grave,
Tinging with the hue of slaughter
Every blue and leaping wave, —
Under the majestic ocean,
Where tire giant currents rolled,
Slept thy sire without emotion,
Sweetly by a beam of gold.
And the violet sunbeams slanted,
Wavering through the ehrysla! deep
Till their wonted splendors haunted
Those shu eyelids in their sleep.
Sands, like crumbled silver gleaming,
Sparklen through his raver, hair;
But the sleep that knows no drt tiing
Bound him in its silence there
So we left him; r.- •< >
Oi our s. rroiv- i- .. >.
Os tile tv -e tin
Conn e t.. , ;.i
That thine - q--i « ■
Tit it thy ,i .-.vg,
T l -d.
Are tiio fruits of these new woes.
Chih'r- •. whose meek eyes irqoiring,
I >ger on y -nr in V.!ar’» face,
Kti’-w y i sat she if expiring?
That ye are an orphan race?
G- i) br with y< ; on tie morrow!
Father, mother, bum no more;
One within a grave of sorrow,
One upon the ocean’s floor.
CONJECTURES.
A lior-e, with hi* nose in a bag,
Is probably thinking of corn;
A vestment reduced to a rag,
Is likely enough t’have been worn;
A sceptic, who boggles at doubts,
Mav silently swallow a sin,
And. in politics, they who are “outs,’’
May possibly wish to get in
A lady, when dressing for church,
May. perhaps, have a thought of this earth’
A lover, when left in the lurch,
With maudlin may bother your mirth:
A lawyer, who frowns at a fee,
May bo moved by some deeper pretence;
And a man, who is hanging, can be
In a state of most painful suspense
I^tsrrUaitroas.
Urum the .Xew- York Constellxition.
A HUNGRY JURY;
on, Tim Doußrrpx. case of david occiofs.
Rogues must hang, that journeymen may dine.
Lope.
The public have doubtless heard of the
fate of poor David Dubious, whose case
w:is decided by a lull gry Jury. Blit it
may not be uninteresting to some of our
readers to state a few of the particular
circumstances attending that decision.
It was a case of life and death; but one
doubtful urn! difficult to decide. The ev
idence tv at. entirely circumstantial, and in
many re? p< cU: contradictory. The pris
oner, David Dubious, unfortunately bore
a very doubtful, if not a very bad, char
acter; at :1 many people did not hesitate
to say, that, if he had not committed mur
der, fie was none too good to do it. Put
v hut made his condition still more un
fortunate, was the condition of the stom
achs of the Jury. They had been kept
out all night; they had eaten neithereup
per nor lircakfast; and it was now near the
liyur of dining.
Consider then the perilous condition of
the poor prisoner, his life depending on
such untoward circumstances —presump-
tive evidence, a doubtful character, a hun
gry Jury! He might have got over the
two first; hut wo to him whose life de
pends on the last. A comfortably filled
stomach is one of the best guarantees for
acts of justice, kindness, and charity.
Trust a hungry Jury with one’s life! Nev
er. Hunger renders a man savage; and
he who has a stomach to eat, has seldom
any bowels of compassion.
In the ease of David Dubious, seven of
the Jury were for hanging and five tor ae
ipiittal. This they had continued for
1 some time without any prospect of ever
dunking .'dike. I!<<th side* were consci
entious; both fcl< bound in honesty and
M»y tlu ir oath, to adhere to w hat tb«y cou-
ceived to be the trqf state of the case.
Said those in favor at hanging—
“ The man is very evidently guilty, and
we could answer neither to God nor our
country, should we consent to his acquit
al.”
While those on the other side said—
“ W e have serious doubts of his guilt; the
evidence is entirely circumstantial, and
exceedingly contradictory: and we eould
not answer it either to God or our con
sciences, to take the poor fellow’s life.”
“Gentlemen,” said the constable, for
the fifteenth time, “have you agreed upon
your verdict?”
“No.” said the foreman, “and what is
worse, wc are not likely to agree—where
fore we Leg once more that you will con
duct us into Court.”
“ There’s no use in it,” said he of the
tall staff-“the Judge will send you back.”
“At all events,” said one of the Jury,
“let us have something to eat and not keep
us shut up here starving.”
“The more you starve, the sooner you
will be likely to agree,” returned the con
stable. “Besides, you know it is strictly
against the law to allow you any thing to
eat, u’ltil your verdict is made up.”
The Jury again took up the subject, &.
endeavored with all their might to agree,
but with no better result than before.
The case was a stubborn one, and would
not yield to the unanimous desire for ar
gument.
The Jury were at length permitted to
return into Court; where, on stating to
the Judge, that it was utterly impossible
for them to make up a verdict, his Honor
gave them a very severe reprimand for
their inability to think alike, and peremp
torily sent them out again—declaring,
with an awful shake of bis wig, that they
should neither cat nor drink until the case
of the prisoner was decided.
“Alas!” said one, “we must cither u
gree on a verdict, or agree to starve.”
“The bitter we can never agree to,”
s iiil another—“self preservation is the
first law of nature. What time of day is
it, neighbor?”
“ It wants half an hour to dinner time.”
“Only half an hour! We have bui lit
tle time to spare. We must agree before
dinner time by some means or other. Its
almost twenty-four hours since w-e have
eated a morsel, and to miss another meal
would be absolute suicide.”
“Heighho! that’s a fact,” said another,
“and suicide is an unpardonable sin. If
a man commits murder be may have time
to repent; but if he commits sSiciik*, he
must go to the devil tit once, without bene
fit of clergy.”
Those who arc in favor of banging are
usually more fixed in their opinions than
those on the other side—thus exactly re
versing the only charitable maxim of crim
inal jurisprudence—viz: that “It is better,
twenty guilty persons should escape, than
that one innocent one should suffer.”
Tliis was most unfortunately true in the
case of poor David Dubious.
“It would be a thousand pities,” said
one of lus friends, “to hang an innocent
man.”
“That is very true,” replied one of the
opposite side; “hut then you know it is
better that twenty innocent persons should
be bang than one guilty one should es
cape—so the maxim savs.”
“Why as to the maxim,” said Jonathan
Standout, “there Iflay be something in
that. But still 1 have been hitherto in fa
vor of the acquittal of poor David, because
I had my doubts about his 1 ring guilty.
Ilowsomever all manner of doubts must
yield to circumstances. So far as I can
see, till* evidence is by no means clear as
to the fellow’s guilt. But then, on the o
therhand, who is he, that twelve respect
able men should starve to save his life? A
fellow at least of doubtful reputation—a
man, who if he is not guilty of this, or
some other murder, may very well be
spared from the world.”
‘There is much truth in what you say,’
said Ichabod Avery; “but then consider!
how shall we answer to God and our con
sciences for the verdict?”
‘True,’ said Joseph Judgment, “there’s
the rub. 1 acknowledge the prisoner to
be of little or no value to the community,
and as likely to be guilty of murder as the
best of us. But then we are bound to de
cide according to evidence.”
“And what,” said Obadiali Lankley, is
to become of our stomachs in the mean
time. I’m as conscientious as any other
man—l do’nt care who he is—and I think
I’ve proved it pretty well too, in standing
out ns long as I have. But all things
must yield to circumstances, as neighbor
Standout says —and self-preservation is
the first law of uature, as another gentle
man observed; wherefore,for one, I’m for
having some dinner.”
“And 1 too,” said Christopher Comea
bout. “I pity the poor devil of a prison
er, and, as you all know, have fought hard
for his acquittal. But to go the length of
starving on his account—l could’nt possi
bly think of it.” •,
“But have you no mercy, no bowels of
compassion?” said Ichabod Avery.
‘Bowels of compassion!” exclaimed O
hadinli Lankley, pressing Ins hands sadly
upon the gastric region—‘how can n man
have bowels of compassion, when there
is’at a morsel of any thing in his stomach?
The idea is preposterous.”
“You arc exactly of my, mind,” said
Jonathan Standout. "Charity being* tit
home; and it is our hounden duty to take
care of ourselves, whatever may become
of oilier people. For my part, ihe evi
dence of David’s guilt Itegius to look to me
much more clear than it did a short time
ago. At any rate, considering all tilings,
I think we can’t do better than to hang
him.”
“I can’t agree w ith you there,” said
Joseph Judgment; I must still adhere to
ihc poor fellow, though I am starving.
1 can’t get over my oath, my conscience,
and all that.”
“Your conscience!” exclaimed Christo
pher Cornea bout; “what sort of a eon
science is that which prefers the life of a
poor devil of doubtful reputation, to the
comforts of a good dinner which no one
among us is disposed to doubt. As to the
prisoner, I’d stick to him till all was blue,
if I was’ut so infernal hungry. But lam
not bound to commit murder oil my own
stomach. Wherefore, gentlemen, much
as I regret the taking of any innocent
man’s life, I must in this case agree to a
verdict of guilty.”
‘Well, well,’ said Joseph Judgment,
looking at his watch—‘it’s a hard case—
a monstrous hard case. It wants hut a
quarter of on hour of dinner time—and
our landlord informed me, he should cook
those fine canvassbacks. The prisoner,
as far as I can understand the evidence,
is as likely to be innocent as guilty, 1 do’nt
know what to think, indeed. One thing
is certain, however—l must have some
dinner—l can’t think of starving—rny
conscience wont let me. Gentlemen, I’ll
agree to any thing that’s reasonable.”
‘l’m very glad, sir,’ said one of the o
riginal seven who were in favor of hang
ing—‘l’m very glad, you have finally con
cluded to listen to reason. Wc are all n
greed now except one, and I think he’ll
come over in time to dine. What say
you. friend Avery? shall we hang the pris
oner and go to dinner? ay, or no?”
‘Why indeed, gentlemen, I don’t know
what to say. I see no satisfactory proof
of the man’s being guilty. It’s a hard
case—a confounded hard case. Our din
ner must he nearly ready—and something
ought to lie determined upon soon. Re
ally. gentlemen, I think you’d better agree
to acquit him.”
‘Oh, we can’t do that possibly,’ said
another of the original seven. ‘A major
ity of us have been in favor of hanging
from the first; and now all the others have
come over except you—eleven against
one.’
‘lt wants hut ten minutes of the dinner
hour,’ said Obudiah Lankley.
‘Only ten minutes!’ exclaimed Ichabod.
‘l’ve done, gentlemen, I’ve done. Oh
rny stomach! Let the man be hung.”
‘We are all agreed then,’ said the fore
man. And a verdict of GTILTY was
returned in time fur Dinner.
FROM TltlL GREENVILLE (.MASS.) GAZETTE.
VOYAGE of DISCOVERY.—It will
be recollected that Mr. J. N. Reynolds,
some years since travelled from city to
city, delivering lectures in support of the
theory of Captain Symmes. This theory
declares the earth to be a hollow sphere—
a mere “pumpkin shell,” to borrow a
phrase from a familiar ballad—and that it
is inhabited within as well as without. Mr.
Reynolds maintained the possibility of
entering the interier regions by a hole near
where the south pole should be according
to the theory of those philosophers who
could conceive nothing in the material
w orld to be lighter or emptier than their
ow n solid craniuius, and who therefore put
it down as a philosophical dogma not to be
disputed by any man who hud a regard to
his character for intelligence, that the
earth was as solid as a cannon shot, or
else stuffed full of melted eurths, metals,
and rocks, which occasionally boiled over,
ejected smoke, fire, cinders, and lava,
from various mountains, which seem to
act as a part in relation to the heated li
quid below, similar to that of a spout to a
tea-kettle when full of boiling water.—
The boldness of this talented disciple of
Cnpt. Symmes, and bis enthusiasm in the ;
cause of the new projected world, gained
him a number of friends; and two of three
years ago, these friends fitted out an ex
pedition for Symzona, (this is the name of
the continent within the concavity,) and
Mr. Reynolds went out in the capacity of
a man of science, to gather all that he could
respecting the upper region of the globe,
as well as to fetch back a cargo of Sym
zonians and Sytnzonian herring, float
wood, and sea-serpents, and perhaps to
interdict the people there, from their un
civil freaks of punching through upon
their friends on this side the globular crust,
such a mess of rubbish as Vesuvius has
often vexed the people of Italy with.—
Certainly his object was a good one; and
the learned and scientific must regret that
the world is to derive no great benefit
from the expedition—that we mites on the
outside cannot lie permitted to shake
hands with our brethern only a few miles
from our feet on the inside. But such it
seems is to he the fact. Mr. Reynolds, on
his arrival at the hole, found it shut os
close ns the cave of the forty thieves, and
what is worse, he could contrive no plan
to open it—he could cry “open n same /”
but that was not the iinine,— the forty
thieves had not been there to christen it,
and his horology could not teach him the
charm. In short, he was compelled to
ack about, and look f*r other objets to
voii. i.—iro. go*
discover, —which were on the outside of
the eaith. —another proof that a man’s
mind may Ik- more penetrating than lus
body ; for were it not so our internal tn
tijMidt s would undoubtedly ere this, have
complimented Mr. Reynolds, who would
have been a second Columbus, by a pub
lic, dinner of hot lava and meteoric stones,
seasoned with ashes and 'incipient earth
quakes. lie determined, however, that
the world should Ik- something of a gain
er by his expedition, and lie landed in
South America, resolved to penetrate the
country of the Araucauians, or Aracceau
ians, as he culls them, who live to the
south of Chili.
In tliis design he has hern more suc
cessful. At first, the Indians refused to
permit him to enter their country, saving
that no Spaniard had ever been sufiered
toeuler it, and no white man ever should.
But our traveller was not so easily to he
foiled; and in a few days, by assuming
the garb of a “great doctor” in search of
medicines on the top of a volcano, hr suc
ceeded in entering and traversing a con
siderable portion of the country, n e take
peculiar interest in this visit to the Arau
caninns; as, ever since we read in our
boyhood, the History of Chili, which al
so embraces the history of tliis wonderful
people, we have regarded them ns a mod
ern nation of ancient Spartans. They
differ much from the Chilian and
Peruvian Indians, as the old Greeks did
from the effemcminate Persians. We
sincerely hope Mr. It. will he able to
complete his investigations in that coun
try, and such other parts of the earth as lie
may visit, and arrive home in safety with
his observations.
ADVENTURE OF A WHALE.
Nonrn Pacific Ocean,
Eat. 2 50, long, 04 30, April 18.
To the Editor of the Weekly Me ssenger.
Dear Sir: If my expectation, when
lust 1 wrote you from California, hud been
realized, 1 should have been before this
on my homeward bound passage, but
Providence has otherwise directed For
five months wc saw not the spout of'a
sperm whale, and it was not until within
ten days past that we have heard the joy
ful sound from the mast-head of,
“There she nlows!” Our boats put off,
and we succeeded in making prizes of
two small whales, since which we have
been very successful. The ship’s compa
ny have been in excellent spirits, highly
oiutcei tv»t 1» vllY idea ul ftUHII tUUl|)ltlHJg
our cargo, and then of shaping om course
towards our native land. But we have
this day met withascrious accident, which
has changed our calculation altogether.
You wish me to give you an account of
the grand South Sea exploit ofkill.ng a
w hale. As the accident to which 1 have
made illusion occurred in a battle with
one of these monsters of the briny deep,
1 w ill gratify your request by narrating,
in a simple manner, the transaction of
this day.
At daylight, as usual, our mast-head
was maimed; and a» about seven o’clock
we heard the cry /‘There she blows!” All
on deck listened to hear the cry repeated,
that they might feel an assurance of a
sperm whale being in sight. In a lew
moments the well know cry was repeated
and reiterated a number of times. The
officer on deck inquired, “Where away?,’
“Right ahead,” sir, was the reply, “liow
far off?” “Aboutthree miles, headed right
athwart us—l can see lus liutnp—lt is an
old soldier’ sir.” Tins phrase is used by
whaleman to designate a large w hale.
Now a scene of bustle and contusion
presents itscif; some going aft, and others
preparing the boats for the expected en
counter. “There goes flukes,” is heard
from a dozen voices aloft; which implies
that the whale has sounded. A huge
whale remains under water from forty
minutes to one hour, but when on the
surface, and when not alarmed, spouts a
bout once in every thirty seconds, and
remains above, going at the rate of lour
miles to the hour, lor ttu or twenty min
utes. At tunes they are motionless, with
the exception of the movement made in
spouting, w !*ich is a gentle elevation of the
head. “There she blows!” “Where—
where?” asked the Captain, in a hurried
tone. “About two miles oil'our lee beam
sir.” “Haul up the mainsail; lay the top
sail to the mast; down w ith your helm; let
the ship conic to the wind.” The helm is
instantly put to lee. The ship comes up
dashing the spray majestically from her
hows, until checked by the action of the
wind against her mainsail. “Is already
for lowering?” asks the Captain. “All
ready,,’ is the reply.
After decending to the deck, the Cap
tain points out to the officers the direction
in which the whale is going, and gives
such orders as the case requires. The
boats arc lowered; the whale has sounded
before the bouts touched the water, mid
each steers as judgement dictates in re
gard to the supposedcour.se of the whale.
To-day the Captain's boot wa» within a
yhort distance when the whale made its
appearance, and every nerve was strained
to get ulong side before it sounded. “Full,
my good feilovrs, pull away!” was often
re pouted. *“J.ay back, every man? A
few more like this chap ahead, and wc
will bid adieu to the Pacific.—Stretch
hard, every one of yon, a few more strokes,
and she is ours; pull hard, 1 tell you.”
At tbisuioiueutous lime,every one feels