Gallipolis Journal, 1850-11-14

LaMK?rrABuScicurs.-.Tho Balti Baltimore - more Baltimore American has the following ac ac-count - count ac-count of a lamentable suicide in thai city, on Tuesday "A respectable married" lady resid residing - ing residing ia the southwestern part of th city, committed su'wnde at an early hour yesterday morning, under cir circumstances - cumstances circumstances oi the most lamentablei character. She retired to rest with her husband the previous night, ia her usual health and spirits; some sometime - time sometime after midnight they were dis disturbed - turbed disturbed by a youn child which was in the room, and its mother got up for the purpose of attending to its wants. The child was quieted, and the husband fell into a sleep, from which he was awakened iomrim afterwards by a relative living in tba house, who informed him that she heard a noise in the room over which she had been sleeping, and that shs feared some one had obtained an. tranca into tbe house. The band turned to awake his wile, bnf was alarmed at finding she was not in the room. A light was then Dro- cu red, and on entering the room la which the- noise had been heard, tha unfortunate lady was found on tha floor, almost deluged with her own blood, and nearly lifeless. A razor was lying by with which she had rut a terrible pash through the flesh part of the left arm, just above the elbow, severing all the large blood vessels in that part of the body. A physician was instantly summonedd but before his arrival she had ceased breathe. The melancholy act ia entirely Unaccountable on any other supposition than that the unfortun unfortunate - ate unfortunate lady was suffering under soma temporary alienation of mind; she was happy in all hef domestic rela tions, and surrounded by friends by whom she was both loved and as teemed. BaLTIMOBB AND ScSQCEHANjUlt Railrord. This road within tha past month has been finished to Mid' dletown,so that there is now a rail rail-rond - rond rail-rond communication from Baltimore New York, Columbia, Middle town, Harrisburgh and Hollidays. burgh and thence by stages or ca to Pittsburgh. The business on this road during past year, has increased the to total - tal total amout of down freight being 143. tons, and up freight 36,220 tons. 1S47 the total receipts for passen passengers - gers passengers and freight were $249,913,33 1S50 27996,72. Our object in noticing this road was, mainly to direct attention to singular feature in Its business, the Forwarding Business dona it by individuals. The Company the great forwarder, but it allows encourages Individuals and com companies - panies companies to become forwarders on tha road, their cars being drawn by tha company's engines at regular stipu stipulated - lated stipulated rates. There are now fourteen private forwarding companies on this road, and the extent of their opera operations - tions operations Can be inferred from the fact the whole number of burden on the road is 643, of which 264 belong to the private companies. 30 of the private cars aie de devoted - voted devoted to carrying oysters, &c, to York, Columbia, Lancaster, Harris-- burg, Carlise, and other (owns in the interior of Pennsylvania. Cin. Gax. CiUCISSATTI A3D PlTTSBCBOH VIA Coixmbcs. The New York Tri Tri-bune, - bune, Tri-bune, under its commercial head, alludes to the communication between the two great manufactur cities of the Westt "General Robinson of Pittsburgh- President of the Ohio and Pennsyl Pennsylvania - vania Pennsylvania Railroad Company, has iust a contract in Boston for a. number of Express Locomotives- all (he latest improvements, and adapted to run at the highest rates of They are to be delivered ia spring, and will be capable of carrying passenger trains in filteea from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh, the way of Columbus, which con connection - nection connection will be completed next year. time from Pittsburgh to Mas will be four hours." Tin Moaiaow SrrTtiMEfT-In England and Wales, conversions to Mormonism are rapidly Increasing. the last twelve months large numbers, in those countries h-v the Saints and several shin have arrived in this country, their way to Utah the Mormon settlement. . - - TatAS-About 20,000 votes were returned at the August election ia From ten counties, no re returns - turns returns were received. Tha Galves Galveston - ton Galveston Civilian, judging from this vote, of opinion that there are now thirty thousand voters la Tex Texas, - as, Texas, exclusiva of Santa Fal

The attempt to penetrate the ice by Upernavik, lost us a part of the opening season; but a concurrence of fortunate circumstances has put us on a par with the English expedi- tion. Still we are behind the year. October is an impracticable month; and, indeed, the latter part of Sep September, - tember, September, is so impeded by the young ice, that we may look upon our term for successful operations as the very utmost but thirty days. With this before us, if the water and the winds should combine in our favor, much may be done. As for the mere mat ter of distance, the proposed area of search is not beyond the range that might be traversed in such a period. We, therefore, go to work with all hope, but without the purpose of be being - ing being much disappointed if we do not practically achieve a great deal. After communicating with the North Star at Leopold Harbor, a A boat duty which I suppose I may have in charge, we meet our consort at the mouth of Wellington Channel; and then, if the North Star gives us no word to the contrary, proceed at once toward Mellville Is Island, - land, Island, now not more than three hun hundred - dred hundred miles off. Should the sea con continue - tinue continue open, we shall, however, not remain, or more than touch there, but driving on beyond the most wes westernmost - ternmost westernmost limits yet attained, pursue our way toward Banke's Land, and then make Nothing as rapidly and as far as the approaching winter will permit. It may bo and of this I shall give you news when leaving the "North Star," that we will attempt Wellington Channel; or, it may be, that continued open water to the westward may enable us to dispense wilh the Northern progress of which have spoken, so that we may push on past Banke's Land, and toward the Straits. Any plans we may form will be much modified by the vicissitudes of this precarious navi navigation. - gation. navigation. At all events, we are now fairly in for something. Out of five winters that we have wintered in this Sound, and ils appendages, one that of Sir James Ross went or rather could no farther, than the little harbor now fifteen miles ahead. Of the Commanders of the others. Parry the Fury, Sir John Ross de serted the Victory after struggling with the ice lor lour years, and Sir John Franklin But the Sound is open now, our vessel staunch and strong, its officers right well, and the crew, consider considering - ing considering their original material was not the best, enjoying remarkably good health. There was a single case of scurvy on board the Kescue, but It yielded easily to treatment; and, since both vessels have adopted the same system of hygeiene and diet tics, we have been free of disease. More than lime juice and grated po potatoes, - tatoes, potatoes, I enjoin tree exercise, ventil ation, cleanliness, and cheerlul ex citement. My advice, too, has been against the use ol nre lor warming to the present time. This has worked well, for we have taken. when most certain of being able to bear it, the seasoning which sooner later had to come. I am writing now at a temperature in the cabin 35 degrees. Our lowest summer temperature has been 25 degrees. trial was at first severe, even to those who, like myself, learned to their head work in bed; but then, when Artie winter comes upon us, the hands blister against the me metals, - tals, metals, and rime, iciclet form wherever j exhalations of vitality seeks to escape, our temperature below will comfort to that we now habitual submit to. Second only tn value to my few philosophical instruments, I bold three things you gave meat the last; Salt Lake woll skin robe, and Greeley and Emersont Americans three. ' ' Do publish about our meeting here old Sir John Rossi and seeifvou find wit enough to say some thing for-him yourself, in the way of eninusiasiic euiogy, - xou snow ne been "baited" at home, with Bar Barrow - row Barrow to use him up with his theoret science, and a close Admiralty clique to keep him in shadow. Bearing with him his rears of wounds weather, at the age when men the quietude that reconciles to decay, he comes but on a private ex pedition to meet a junior, Captain Austin, in command of a beautifully appointed squadron. I think I set Van " very lately fire This for actual made been ca, light the ol a for block to

. On the 13th of August, a steady breeze and open Leads helped us to an anlooked Tor progress. We got to the north of 75 deg. 40 mm., and the snow lay close aboard ol us, sur mounting cliffs of Trap. Some deep nllevia oassed were the nests ol - . " r . . ' . rem-rtab a rr ac ers. and the ice cen " " o eraiy interested me by the nove character of its formations. I had . c . r .am;.. uuw v f f J ,v"i - my stock of observation on refrac tion. I have now some lorty quarto pages of them. Throughout these regions, the phe nomena of f elraction eclipse any thin? I have seen of Fata Morgana or Mi rare in Africa or Mexico. Some of these distortions were indeed so wonderful that I am inclined to think we have been favored in this respect beyond previous voyages. we have witnessed at Certainly, least twice what no description has yet approached. Parry, with Fish- er and Sabine, had sketched instan of bergs so doubled as to throw the base of one high into the air; but we have had allusions so extrava gantly fanciful that to attempt any description of them would be simply ridiculous. Since we left Disco, our day has been one unending sunshine; and midnight the time for a series of sun downs deepening in color with the advance of the Tear. . Bitter cold as we have had it in earnest, strange to say, the warmest sky of the Medi terranean does not look warmer in the coloring than that of the Sum- mer evening upon Baffin's Bay. I have learned to believe in Turner, in my delight with the rich purple shad- uows oi me sianiing sun nere; ana violet hues it gives to the reach- of white snow and the tranquil water Leads that are like alcove look looking - ing looking glasses unclouded by a breath of It is in these lingering hours that make the wedding of sunset to sun rise, the retractions are so regular beautiful. The earth borrows from skv its clouds and its colors, still is hard to tell where they do or do And the line where you look for the horizon flits up and down so capriciously, and it is so be- studded with glowing figures, some them coming up from the water and others from the sky, that you can mingle, help puzzling yourself with the notion mat your utile vessel some somehow - how somehow or other got out of her place, is either swinging or hanging be tween them. 1 have seen in the course of a single night, regularly castellated feudel towers, glittering pinnacles with pennons streaming trom them, mountains crimsoned lava firiw. oriental rlnrrww nf ml. n incrvA hn tnn. r :j..i - . - ' r bizarre forms of hieroglyph and heraldry; things that have been and and things that imagination never dreamt of; melting into other like the phantasms of a One evening, the 15th. we a fleet of ocean steamers in the with their tall smoke pipes, sail aiong in a line, as if to marshal our way. - it a it a a tne ing of its at

By and by we came to the "Crim son Cliffs of Beverly," the locality of hat curious vegetable growth called the red snow. The coast here was built of high and rugged metamor- phic rocks, broken along the sea line; into precipitous sections and where the configuration of the hills permit ted, lined by a rough detretlut of broken rock. Numerous gorges opened out landward, and on these were patches olsnow stained by brownish red. Imagine the work of a Titian, with his dredging box of cayenne or brick dust, and you have the Crimson Cliffs of Beverly, wita out the poetry. It was a calm, or nearly such. with the little wind that was stir ring ahead, ana tnis gave me an op portunity ol going ashore. After forty five days' impiisonment, hem med in by snow and ice, I enjoyed intensely. We were in latitude 76 deg. 01 min., nearly but eight hundred and thirty six miles from the Pole, and three hundred find fifty six miles from the Northernmost limit attained by man. let, when we landed within little cove, one side of which was formed by a Glacier, and the other formed by its distillations, we found green, bright green, with mosses and a highly elaborated vegeta vegetation! - tion! vegetation! The Glacier came down from a steep gorge, who:e distant termina termination - tion termination was an ice bound moraine. It did not quite fill up the little horse shoe like expansion into which we entered, but stood across it like solid wall or escarpment, sustaining dome of snow. One side was fro frozen - zen frozen to the opposing cliffs, and the other protruded into the sea. The side presented to us offered a longi longitudinal - tudinal longitudinal section, exhibiting its suc cessive increments of growth. Near eye, it had a heighth of above two hunded feet, and its surface be of gentle descent, it met the in- clination of the hi!! side at an acute yards angle of some three hundred abve ns. It is beyond my power of lan guage, dear , to convince you how fresh, and pure, and chaste, and shining, and beautiful, was this wall silver and crystal. Ihe lines of formation were beautifully ar ranged in horizontal strata, blending lust with the soil at its base, and incorporated with the bed above it had grown. at

We were now about thirty miles from the Great Sound, and ready to be pleased at meeting any compan companion, - ion, companion, but these were more to us they were brethren in our Arctic Crusade and bound upon the same good er errand. - rand. errand. , ' Our Captain jumped upon the stern lockers, and clinging fait to the main boom, saluted a rugged sailor sailor-looking - looking sailor-looking man. in a pilot boat. "Can. tain Penny I presume!"" y, ay,Sir!" To this went back the introduction, Lieutenant De Haven, of the Uni ted States Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin;" and then commenced the interchange of news. We learned that the season was backward every where the ice about Melville Bay very discoura discouraging. - ging. discouraging. Commodore Austin was en route for the sound, and had left Ca- ry Islands three days before.the 15th ihe XVorth btar, about whose late we were beginning to entertain some anxiety, was sale and sound at Leo- pole Harbor. "Good by, then. Lood bye, all Slowly she lorged ahead of the La dy franklin; but then, before she left hailing distance, there came oer the rough sea the good old roar we nherit Irom our Lnglish forefathers. the Hurrah! three cheers of beartv brotherhood and sympathy, loud above the storm, "Stand aloft, boys!" and we sent back" the grbetinc. "One cheer more," after this, and "Yet an other," were given and responded to, and the flags of the sister nations parted company. Penny's orders were to Smith's and Jones' Sounds. Whether he has succeeded in entering, we cannot tell. une thing, however, was no small comfort to us: our Yankee expedition was vp to time. U any thing, we were ahead of Austin, with all the steamers and his start of nearly a week from Disco. I go

. (tAt a meeting of the Massachu Massachusetts - setts Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, held ia Lowell, a few evenings since, file following beautiful ode, which had been composed for the occasion by Epes Sargent, was sung: The camp has had its day of song; The sword, the bayonet, the plume Have crowded out of rhyme too long The plough, the anvil, and the looml O, not upon our tented fields Are Freedom's heroes bred alone; The training of the work-shop yields More heroes true than War has known! Who drives the bolt, who shapes the - ,., steel, .... . . .. . May with a heart as valiant, smite, As he who sees a foeman reel ' In blood before his blow of might!' The skill that conquers space and time, That graces life, that lightens toil, -May spring from courage more sublime Than mat which makes a realm its spoil. Let labor, then, look up and see, His craft Do pith of honor lacks; . The soldier's rifle yet shall be -Less honored than the woodman's axe! Let Art his own appointment prize,' Nor deem that gold or outward height Can compensate the worth that lies In tastes that breed their own delight. 'And mav the time draw nearer still When men this sacred truth shall heed. That from the thought and from the will Must all that raises man proceed! Though Pride should hold our calling -"V low. For us shall duty make it good; ' And we from truth to truth shall go Tilt life and death ar understood. i' Th amount of Treasury notes out standing on tht 1st inst. wastll 1,938. saw air, ing as as to are seal a skin seal the as ine five that do saw.

Dearest, come home! I cannot bear Thy long protracted stay, So sd and lonely is my heart When thou art gone away. : I've tried, alas! how vainly tried, Thine absence to forget, - Yet still I can but think of thee With fondness and regret. . As mourns the gentle, cooing dove, In accents desolate, When forced by some unkindly hand r ar from her loving mate So through the chambers of my heart Echoes a mournful tone, - Whilst every pulse affection beats, He-echoes "I'm alone!" I Things that are bright when thou art bere, I Look dark and gloomy now, the And nature seems to share my grief es air. ly the it of Which clouds upon her brow. The birds sing now a sadder song Than e'er they sanS before, . And flowers have lost the sunny hue I hey once so sweetly wore. . To while the weary hours away, That lag with laden feet, I read thy favorite authors o'er, Their choicest parts repeat. But even books,those voiceless friends, I not iin.ro iosi an cnann iur me, And fail to cheer my heart, unless I read them, love, with thee. And music, with her voice ao street, I re called her to my aid, - And soft, and low, with trembling not hand. Thy favorite air I've played But ah! those tender notes have stirred Affection's fountain deep. And sadly I have left my song To think of thee and weep. and lhus gloomy thoughts weir dismal snaae I O'er brightest objects fling, whh How true it is a saddened neart Can sadden everything! I n TliAn. ffA.rp.t-rnmA thv ijifp'n fnrul I - , -j heart Still warmly beats for you ' A heart whose every throbbing pulse with are,