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THE lriLMISGTON JOURNAL. KVOELIIAHn PRICE, Proprietors. rt o!i'rniil Lf!'t rs-n Business mustbe addressed. V II it ii ii ii it in Terms of Subscription. W.-okiv raner. one Year, in advance, $3 00 Do. Sixiaonths," 2 CO iHiiv I'aiH i-, one y :ir, in advance, $10 00 fix. month:, " 5 00 hri-n mrmtliH. in ail vanre 3 OS TOL. 24, ouo month, " 1 j WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUAEY 10. 1868. NO. 48. ii ii SPECIAL NOTICE. ERRORS OF YOUTH. GENTLEMAN who Buffered for years from i j "V eru)iis l.tDuiiv, x remaiure uucay aue: - . i i t . i , - -ii tho cin.-cts oi youtmui indiscretion, win, ior the haki- t' fullering humanity, send free to all v. ha nerd it, the receipt and directions for making t!;ti eh:il I -J'i ni;;;ly by which he was cared. Suf- i Lio wi-dilng t' profit by the advertiser's expe rience can do so bv addressing, in perfect confi j...Mce, " JOHN Ii. OGDEN, No. 42 Cedar St.. New York, april IS) 10-ly HIGH SCHOOL, silSM AX mMMs CLASSICAL. AND PRACTICAL., 311. ernoa Springs, Chatham Co,, N. C. MOST ELIGIBLE LOCATION ; SCHOOL IN successful operation for the past two years. Ample accommodations for 100 pupils. EXPERIENCED TEACHERS, STRICT DISCIPLINE. Board JO per month in advance. TrmoN- $10 to S2i, one half in advance. r.uiF.Nfs wishing to give their children a Tni.r.oLGii i:ducation without unnecessary ex pense, and at the same time preserve their health, may send them to us. Pupils are taught Vocal Mtrcio without extra charge. Mrsic ox tiif. Piano $23. TiiK .sext Term of 2i) weeks will commence on the vras-r Moxiay in Januarv. lSuH. dec 20 -15 w4t STATE OF OUT II CAROLINA, OAVIDgOX COL" NT Y. IN EQUITY. l'he ThonutsriHe Bank, wjauist the Creditors of the Thomasvdie Bant. IN OBEDIENCE TO A DECK EE AND ORDER of tho Court of Equity, made in the above named cuz;nntice is hereby given to all the cred itors of the said "The Thomasvillo Bank," that said Bank has tiled a Bid in tho Court of Equity of said county of Davidson, to close the business of s.iid Bank, and surrender the chartered rights and franchises of the stockholders of said Bank, in pursuance of an Act of Assembly, entitled "Au Act to enable tho Banks of this Stato to close their business," and ratified the 12th day of March, A. D. 100; that a Commissioner of said Bank, to wit: J. L. Lee, Esq., of Raid county, has been duly appointed in pursuance of said Act of Assembly, and has been intrusted with all the rights and effects whatsoever of said Bank; and id'l creditors of .-aid Bank are hereby notified to appear before the said Commissioner and prove tl-eir sever.tl claims, debts and demands againet said Bank ?ecurding to said Act of Assemb'y, by .- fa-si March, A. JJ. 18(18, or they will be forever barrel, and tho Court will proceed to ad minister tho accounts of said Bank -without re gard to anv claims and demands not so establish ed. YviUiGss. F. C. RoEBiNs, Clerk and Master of said Court, -and the Seal of the said Court of Equi tv, at oitk-o in Lexington, in said county, the 13th tiavof Dc-rnV?r, A. D. 1H-J7. F. C. BOBBINS, C. M E. lTTi1iiirJa'------'--.i.lll II I" HlllMllMlf'llll Pagan Christianity anil Christ's Christi anity Centrusted. Pajitii Christianity represents the Maker oi' heaven ami earth as infinitely selfish, malicious an J powerful ; as having created tho world either whimsically or wickedly, and as preserving tho world, and the race of intelligent creatures inhabiting it, to carry forward certain iron-hard, designs. He has cherished malignity from all eter- iily or, being alone in his infinite auto cracy, as iloundering gigantically through a deponan which is a horrid failure, and which ho cannot make a complete success, or even a decent imitation of a success. According to tLl.-, God hates the world he made ; Las ertated intelligent beings and ';ieii them juwshich they not oniy can ned keep, but cannot wholly apprehend, not t. say comprehend ; and that when lioor mortals k .to these laws, God loves to catch the tinner in the act and punish him therefor ; and, that he may cover his , i l .'ii :i ii . i. .1...H uiirri.ne cnaracLer wnn huuic eii inut fcuiin hide it, he has taken his only Son and cruelly slaughtered lira, the innocent for the guilty, that ho might say to the world, ''Tiieronow, you see that I love yon, my creatures, more than I elo my Son, whom 1 have killed for your sakes ;" anel thus presenting himself as a monster, according to all those laws of thoughts and intuitions of the human soul he himself had previ ously tstablis.hed, does effectually drive his creatures stil! further from him. Chris!' Christ :anilv stands in most direct contrast to all thi Substantially it teaches that CVod is essentially good, the very goodness of tho universe, tho author of all good thoughts in men, the maker of the very conceptions of tenderness, love, good ness, kiudness towards others ; that the creation of the world was not so much the stretching out of his powerful arm as the overilow of his transcendant lovingness ; that he loves all the creatures he has made, and takes no pleasure in their sin and suf fering ; that all his law is righteous, true and good, framed not as edicts of a selfish and tyrannical ruler, but as provisions in behalf of the welfare of all those who are to live and act under those laws, so that the law is their life ; that his goodness is over all his works, his infinite wisdom and power uniting with his infinite love in the sustention, tho vivilicatiou, the perpetual repairing, reinforcing, reinvigoratiug of all things, so that tho minutes atom afloat in the darkness is as indestructible as an arch ansxel. and every hair on every human head hath number and weight in the census of God : that it is utterly impossible to make God hate anything he hath made, es pecially man, but that he loves him with au everlasting love that when man wrung from tho benediction of the freedom of his will that only thing which the soul of God hateth, to wit : sin, which is tho male diction of the universe, God did not allow his holy hatred of sin to beget in l.im any unholy hatred of the sinner : tnat tno con troversy as between God and man is alto gether on the side of man, (jroa resitmg m his purity, goodness and lovingness ; that me evil ana injury oi sin is noi against uuu, but the evil doer ; that God always forgives, pities, loves and strives to save the sinner; that he brings to bear every practicable ap piiance of salvation going all practicable lengths doing all things that do not in vade the domain of that right regal free dom of the will, tho destruction of which by any process and for any motive would be the most thorougn and total damnation of man to destruction ; that Goel is recon ciled to the world ; that tho supreme thought in the, mind of God now is the reconciliation of the world unto himself, and that tho supreme act of the infinite Father is the embodiment of himself in such way that God might bo tho Son of God and the Son of Man at once, and thus come so near to man as to draw him into a re conciliation ; that God is in Christ, not that Christ stands between an irate God anel a crouching, shivering creature, Christ the only good one. man bad and God worse. but that the God is Christ and Christ is God, and all the good on the part of God is as voluntary as all the evil on the part of man ; that (jod is the 1 ather of all men and could not forbear when he saw his ddl dren sinning and suffering, but came in the llesh, that in the flesh, with arms of flesh and heart of flesh he might wrap tho world to his bosom and warm man's heart into a generous willingness to be at one with the laost generous God. Jiev. Dr. Deems. IN MEMORIAM." BY 1-ATUEU HYAX. From the Savannah 2Tev;s & Herald.' "We are indebted to Rev. A. J. Ryan, the gifted Southern poet, for a manuscript copy of the lines on the death of his brother, a Confederate soldier, who died on one of the battle-fields of Kentucky. It was one ef the pieces read at the entertainment for the benefit of the Catholic orphans, and Father Ryan's introduction to the reading cf it was thril lingly pathetic and eloquent, and was received by the auelience attentively, and with the meist im pressive silence. The speaker stated that he had a brother, at the breaking out of the war, who ap plied to him for advice regarding the army. He referred him to their mother, to whom the young patriot wrote an appeal. Like many a Southern mother, she teld him to go and defend the cause of his people. He died under the Confederate flag ; but the speaker would rather have him there under the soil of Kentucky, in a soldier's grave, than living in a down-trodden land. The Hdcs canno'o be read without emotion by any capable of appreciating the sensation so poetically ex pressed. IN MEMORIAM D J. R. Thou art sleeping, brother, sleeping In the lonely battle grave ; Shadows o'er the path are creeping Death, the Reaper, still is reaping Years are swept and years are sweeping Many a memory from my keeping, But I'm waiting stiil and weeping For my Beautiful and brave. When tho battle songs were chanted, And war's stirring tocsin pealed ; By whose eongs their heart was haunted And thy spirit, proved, undaunted, Clamoured wildly wildly panted " Mother 1 let my wish be granted ! I wiil never be mocked and taunted That I feared to meet our vaunted Foemen on the Moody field." " They arc thronging, Mother, thronging To a thousand fields of fame ; Let me go'tis wrong and wronging Cod and thee to crush this longing ; On the muster roll of glory, In my couutry's futuro story, On the field of battle gory, I must consecrate my name." "Mother gird my sword around me ; Kiss thy soldier boy " good bye." Tu her arms she wildly wound thee. To thy birthland's cause she bound thee, With "fond prayers and blessings crowned thee, And she sobbed" when foes surround ihee, If you fall, I know they found thee, Where the bravest luve to die." At the altar of their nation, Stood that mother and her son ; Ho tho victim of oblation, Panting for his immolation ; She in priestess' holy station Weeping worels of consecration While God smiled his approbation, Blessed the boy's self-abnegation Cheered the mother's desolation. When tho sacrifice was done. Forth like many noble other, Wont he, whispering soft and lovv, " Good-bye pray for me, my mother ; Sister, kiss me farewell brother ;" And he strove his grief to smother ; Forth, with sphit prouel and peerless Forth, with footsteps firm and fearless And his parting gaza was tearless, Though his heart was lone and cheerless, Thus from all ho loved to go. Lo ! yon flag of freedom Hashing In the sunny Southern sky ! On to eloath and glory elasliing On whero swords are clanging clashing On where balls are crushing crashing On 'mid perils dread, appalling On they're fulling falling falling On they're growing fewer- fewer On their hearts beat all the truer On on on no fear no falter On though 'round the battle-altar There were wouudtel victims groaning There were dying victims moaning On i if" tit on eleath danger braving Warring where their ilag was waving, And baptismal blood was laving, With a'tide of crimson water, Ail that field of death and slaughter ; On still on that bloody lacer Made thern brave and made them braver, On on with never a halt or waver On they're battling bleeding bounding, While the glorious shout is sounding " We will win the day or elie." And they won it routed riven, Reelect the toemen s proud array, They had struggled long and striven, Blood in torrents they had given, But ther ranks, dispersed and driven, Fled disgracefully away. Many a heart was lonely lying There that would not throb again ; Some were dead, and some were dying ; Some were silent, some were sighing ; Thus to dio lone unattended Unbowept and unbefriended On that bloody battle plain. When the twilight, sadly, slowly Wrapped its mantle o er them all! O'er these thousauds lying lowly Hushed iu silence deep and holy There was one his blood was flowing, And his last of life was going And his rulse faint fainter beating Told his hours were few and fleeting : And his brow grew white and whiter, And his eyes shone bright and brighter There he lay like mlant dreaming, With his sworel beside him gleaming ; For the hand in life that grasped it, True to eleath still fondly clasped it, There his comrades found him lying, 'Mid the heaps of dead and dying ; And the sternest mere uent weeping, O'er that lonely sleeper sleeping, 'Twas the midnight stars shone round mm In a shroud of glory bound him ; And they told u i how they found him Where the gravest love to tall. Whero tho woods like banners bending, Drooped iu glory and in gloom There, when that sad night was ending, And the faint, far dawn was blending With the stars now fast elescending There they mute and mournful boro him With the stars and shadows o'er him There they laid him down, eo tender, And the next day's sun and splendor Flashed upon my brother's tomb. From tho National Intelligencer. TO TIIK WHITE MEN OK AMERICA. Air " Urvce's Address." 1SY MAX MIDDLETON. Americans ! who proudly trace Lineage from a noble race ; Who fill a high and honored place 'Mong nations of the earth : Where is all your freedom grand ? See ! a wretched negro band Ruling o'er your Southern land, Where white men now are slaves. Tho' the South, at battle's call, Madly staked and lost their all, Shall we drive them to the wall, And crush their manhood out ? Shall a base, ignoble horde Over white ni3n play the lord Lay in waste with fire and sword Our Eden of the South V Is our CnAiiTEii now repealed, Which our fathers' blood has sealed ? Shall we Freemen basely yield The birthright of our race ? Sha'l we stand where Judas stood Break the bond of brotherhood Force the men of our own blood To bow to negro rule 1 Lo ! the land of sunny skies, In the " gloom of Egypt" lies : Soul of Washington, arise I And save us from our shame. By tho blood of our fathers shed, By the souls of heroes dead, Ood forbid it should be said : We've made our brethren slaves 1 Eighty white females in Lexington, Ky., are starving. A Hartford man is in jail for inordinate jealousy of his wife. An American has paid $11,000 for Pore's picture of the Baden gamblers. ir MIDNIGHT PERIL. BY AMY RANDOLPH. The night of the seventeenth of October shall I ever forget its pitchy darkness, the roar of the autumnal wind through the lonely forest, and the incessant de wo-pour of the rain? I had heard of lontly way farers being lost in the woods before; lhad pitied them ; but now I fully realized the vague terror, the unelefinetl danger which broods over the lost ! "This comes of short cuts," I muttered pettulently to myself, as I plodded along, keeping close to the trunks of the trees to avoid the deep ravine through which I coukl just hear the roar of the turbulent stream some forty or fifty feet below. My blood ran cold as I thought what might be the possible consequence of a mis-step or a move in the wrong direction. Why had I not been contented to keep in the high road? "I should have reached the railroad station an hour ago if I had not foolishly imag ined the wood path would be more direct ; now I have wandered off, nobody knows how many miles out of civilization, and if I escape with a whole skin and sound bones, I shall consider myself particularly lucky. Hold on was that a light, or are my eyes playing me as false as did my common senae ?" I stopped, holding on to the low, resin ous boughs of a hemlock that grew on the edge of the bank, for itactually seemed as if the wind would seize me bodily and hurl me down the precipitous descent. It was a light thank Providence, it was alight, and no i'jnus fatuus or corpse-gleam to lure me on to destruction and death. Halloo-o-o-o !" My voice rang through the woods like a clarion, strengtheueel by the energy of des peration ; the light hesitated, oscillated back and forth, and finally stood still. I plungeel onwarel through tangled vines, dense briars and rocky banks until, gradu ally nearing, I could perceive a bent figure wrapped in an old oil-cloth cape or cloak, carrying a lantern. As the dim light fell upon his face, I almost recoiled. Would not solitude and the woods bo preferable to the companionship of this withered, wrinkled, hideous old man ? But it was too late to recede now. " What's wanting ?" he snarled, with a peculiar motion of the lips that teemed to leave his yellow stumps all bare. " I am lost in the woods ; can you direct me to K station ?" " Yes ; R station is twelve miles from here ?" " Twelve miles ?" I stood aghast. "Yes." "Can you tell mo of any shelter I could obtain for the night ?" "No!" "Where are you going ?" " To Drew's, down by the maple swamp. " "Is it a tavern ?" "No." " Would they take me for the night ? I could pay them well." His eyes glecnieel ; the yehow stumps stood revealed orce more. "I guess so. 'Taint a tavern, but folks do stop there once in a while." "Is it far from here ?" "Not very; about half a mile." " Then let us make haste and reach it. I am drenched to the skin." We plodded on, my companion more than keeping pace with me, though he must have been nearly seventy-live years of age, and bent with infirmity. Presently we left the edge of the ravine, entering what seemed like trackless woods, and keeping straight on until the lights of some habitation gleamed fitfully through the wet foliage. It was a ruinous old place, with tho win dons all down to one sido as if the founda tion had settled, and the pillars of a rude porch nearly rotted away, yet Aladdin's castle could scarcely have looked pleasant er or more welcome to me, wayworn and weary as I was. A woman answered my fellow-traveler's knock a woman apparently about thirty five years of age, with reddish-brown hair, wound in thick braids about her head, anel curious, half-shut eyes. My companion whispered a word to her, and she turned to me with smooth voluble words of wel come. " She regretted tho poverty of their ac commodations; but I was welcome to them, such as they were." " Where is Isaac?" demanded :ny guide. " He has not come yet." I sat down on a wooden bnch besiele the fire, with my valise close to me, while the woman threw on fresh logs, drew out a round pine table, and produced bread, cold meat, and a bottle of some spirituous compound. I ate a few mouthfuls of the bread, but elid not touch the other articles. "I should like to retire as soon as pos sible," I said, for my weariness was exces sive. "Certainly." The woman started up with alacrity. "Nvhere are you going to put him ! asked my guide. " Up chamber." "Put him in Isaac's room." "No." " It's the most comfortable." "I tell you no .' " But here I intorruptel the whispered colloquy. " I am not particular I don't care where you lodge me, only make haste." The woman's smooth apologies were pro fuse. " She only wished to make me com fortable, and Isaac's room always leaked in wet spells. " So I was conducted up a steep ladder that stood in the corner of the room, into an apartment ceiled with sloping beams and ventilated by one small window, where a cot bedstead, crowded close against the board partition, and a pine table, with one or two chairs, formed the sole attemptaat furniture. The woju,0-n set the light au oil lamp on the table. " Anything I can get for you, air ? " " Nothing, I thank you." "I hope you'll sleep well, sir when shall I call you?" "At four o'clock in tho morning, if you please. I must walk over to K sta tion in time for the seven o'clock express." She withdrew, leaving me alone in the gloomy little apartment. I sat down and looked around mo with no very agreeable sensation. Wearied as I had become I felt nc incli nation to sleep in fact, it seemeel as if I had neveribeen more wakeful in all my life. I walked up and down the narrow room ; I lay down on the bed, trying to woo slum ber by listening to the ceaseless drip, drip of the rain upon the roof ; but all in vain ; my brain seemed preternaturally active. " I will sit down and write to Berenice, I thought. " That will soothe my nerves and quiet me, perhaps." I descended the ladder. The fire still glowed redly on the stone beneath ; my companion and the woman sat beside it, talking in a low tone, and a third person sat at the table eatir.& a short, stoat, villain- ous-looking man, in a red flannel shirt anel muddy trowsrs. I asked for writing materials. A bottle of ink, a stumpy pen and a ceuple of sheets of soiled paper were brought oist of a little cupboard in the chimney, and I returned to my room to write to ray wife. " Jy Darlinfi Jiereiice." I paused anel laid elown my pen as Icon eluded the words, half.' smiling to thiuk what she would say could she know of my strange quarters she, my fair Italian flow er, now regaining the lost roses under the blue, balmy sky, of her native land. Sweet little Berenice ! She, at least, was spared the perils of this stormy midnight ! Not until both sheets were covered did I lay aside my pen and prepare for slumber. As I folded the paper I happened to glance toward my couch. Was its the gleam of a human eye ohserr ing me through the cracks of the board partition, or was it but my own fancy ? Whatever it was, it sent a cold chill through the very marrow of my bones. I took my light to reconnoitre. There was a crack there, but only blank darkness beyond ; yet I could have sworn that something had sparkled balefully at me. I took out my watoh it was one o'clock. It was scarcely worth while for me to un dress for three hours sleep ; I woulel lie down in my clothes and snatch what slum ber I could. So placing my valise close to the head of my bed, anel barricading the lockless door with the two chairs, I ex tinguished the light anel laid down. At first I was very wakeful, but graelually a soft drowsiness seemed to steal over me like a misty mantle, until, all of a sudden, some startling electric thrill coursed through all my veins, and I sat up excited and trembling. A luminous softness seemeel to glow and quiver through the room no light of moon or star was ever so soft or penetrating anel by the little window I saw Berenice, my wife, dressed in a floating garment of white, with her long golden hair knotted back by a blue ribbon. Apoarently she was beck oning to me with outstretched hands and eyes full of wild, anxious tenderness. I sprang to my feet and rushed towards her, but as I reached the window, the fair apparition seamed to vanish into the stor my darkness, and T wras left alone. At the self-same instant the sharp report of a pis tol sounded I coukl see the jagged stream of fire above the pillow straight, straight through the very spot where, ten seconels since, my head had lain. With an instantaneous realization of my danger, I swung myself over the edge of the window, jumping some eight or ten feet into the tangled rosebushes below, and as I crouchetl there, recovering my breath, I heard the tramp of footsteps into my room. " Is he deael ?" cried a voice up the lacl der the smooth, deceitful voice of the wo man with the half-closed eyes. " Of course he is," growled a voicoback; " that charge would have killed ten men ! A light there, quick ! and tell Tom to be ready to elipose of it." "It!" A cold, agonized shudder ran through me as I recalled what "it" meant. What den of midnight murderers had I fallen into ? And how fearfully narrow had been my escape. With a speeel that only mortal terror anel deaelly peril can give, I rushed through the woods, now illumined by a faint glimmer of starlight. I knew not what impulse guided my foot steps I never shall know how many times I crossed my own track, or how close I stooel to the brink of the deadly ravine ; but some merciful Providence compasseel me with guiding and protecting care, for, when the morning dawned, with faint reel bars of orient light against the eastern sky, I was close to the high road, some seven miles from B . Once at the town, I told my story to the local police, anel a detachment was sent to the spot. After much searching, and many false alarms, we succeeded in finding the ruinous ohl shanty ; but it v empty and eleserted. Our birds had flown ; nor diel I ever recover my valise rnd watch anel chain, which latter I had left uneler my pillow. "It's Drew's gang," said the leader of the police ; "and they've troubled us these two vears. I don't think, though, they'll come back here just at present." Nor eliel they. But tho strangest part of my story is to come yet. Some three weeks subsequently I received a letter from my sister, who was with Berenice in her Italian home a letter whose intelligence filloel mo with surprise. "I must tell you something very, very strange," wrote my sister, "that happened to us on the night of the 17th of October. Berenice hael not been so well for some time ; in fact, she hael been confined to her bed for nearly a week, anel I was sitting besido her reading. It was late ; tho clock had just struck one, when all of a sudden she seemed to faint away, growing cold anel rigid as a corpse. I hastened to call assistance, but all our efforts seemed vain to restore life or animation. I was just about seneling Antonie for the doctor when her senses returueel as suddenly as they hael left her, and she sat up in bed, push ing back her hair and looking wildly arounel her. "Berenice," I cxclaimeel, "how you have terrified us all ! Are you ill ? " " 'Not ill,' she answered ; 'but I feel so strange. Gracie, I have been with my hus band ! " "And all our reasoning failed to con vince her of the impossibility of her asser tion. She persists to this moment that she saw you and was with you on the night of the seventeenth of October, or rather on the morning of the eighteenth. Where and how she cannot tell; but we think it must have been some dream. She is bet ter now, and I wish you could see how fast she is improving. " This is my plain, unvarnished tale. I do not pretend to explain or account for its mysteries. I simply relate facts. Let psychologists unravel the labyrinthical skein. I am not superstitious, neither do I believe in ghosts, wraiths and apparitions; but this thing I do know that although my Italian wife was at Naples, in the body, the morning of the eighteenth of October, her spirit surely stood beside me in the moment of the deadly peril that menaced me. It may that, to the subtle instinct and strength of a wife's holy love, all things are possible ; but Berenice surely saved my iite. There is said to be a great deal of spuri ous money in circulation in Chicago con sisting of twenty-five cent postal currency and two and five dollar greenbacks. The total exports of coal oil from tho port of Philadelphia since the 1st January, 1867, amount to 20,282,008 gallons. A man is in jail in Ohio for breaking into a faro bank. Steubenville, Ohio, had three separate prize fights on Christmas day. Dr. Geoee Stubblefield, an aged citizen of Cumberland, Md died last weeK. i T,,e Burning of t lie itairigh Thrilling Particulars Statement flf a Passenger ivomienui Escapes. The Charleston Courier has received the following account of the late burning of the steamship Baleigh, off the coast uf H ":i(h Carolina : Dr. Jonathan Cat-s, a passenger, who ar riveil Thursday morning, states that on Tuesday, about a quarter to 12 o'ceck, he was going from the upper deck below, when he met the purser's wife at the foot of the stairs. She informed him that the steamer was on fire, and asked for her hus band. He told her he had not seen Mr. McMauns. On arriving on the lower deck he saw the flames issuing from the rear of tho engine, anel the captain and others making efforts to extinguish the fire. One of the firemen told him the fire was just aft of the boiler, and that they could do nothing not being able to get the donkey engine or the fire apparatus in working oi'vicr. A general alarm was given, and the fire spreading very rapidly, the forward part of the steamer was soon enveloped in flames. The passengers and crew made a great rush aft, anel commenced lowering the boats. Being unable to stop the engine the wheels kept going and the steamer in motion. The boats were lowered aft of the wheels. Could not say how many boats were low ered, but after getting into one he saw two ot hers afloat. Captain Marshman was very active, giving his orelers with great cool ness and decision. The passengers, how ever, paid but little attention to him, low ering themselves by ropes anel by the sides of the steamer into the boats, over-crowding and capsizing them. The sea was very rough. The Doctor fell into the water and was picked up by a boat then containing about twenty-five persons. This boat cap sized over twenty times, but being a me talie life-boat, with air-tight apartments, she did not sink, even when she filled with water. The occupants capsized her them selves several times, with the hope of clear ing her of water, flinging, at such times, to her sides. The men were so exhausted, however, that they would get in without beiDg able to wait. Gradually one after another fell off and were lost, until only ten were left. Many ineffectual attempts were made to right the boat and elip out the water. At length those who wore life-preservers agreed to keep off some distance, and accordingly left an old sailor in the boat by himself, who, by means of a piece of wood, com menced bailing, and was successful iu lightening her a little. Another got in, and, taking off his shoes, also assisted in bailing. Tho Doctor then took off his boots ; by the help of which the boat was entirely cleared, when the rest of those aground got in. They had now drifted a quarter of a mile from the steamer. It wras then near sundown. They had but one oar, but just beforo dark, in sailing arounel tho wreck, they came up with tho purser's boat, irom wmcn tney toon tnree men, anel were given another oar anel row locks. They then steered westward. In going near the wreck they saw various parts of the steamer floating about, anel a number of sharks swimming around. They also saw two rafts, on which there were a number of men, but could not tell how many. As they passed the burning steam er they hearel some one hailingjtheru, but could not tell who it was, though it was thought not to be the captain's voice. Tho men, without cither hats or shoes, workeel very cheerfully, each taking their turns at rowing. After rowing all Tues day night, they maele land on Kiawah island. On going ashore tho boat wras car ried over the beach and launched into Kiawah river. They got agrounel several times, anel tho men had to foot it through the woods. About d P. M. they came across a house, and were kindly received by the negroes, who gave them water and some sweet potatoes, which partially re lieved their hunger. One of the negroes offereel to pilot them to Charleston an offer which they gladly accepted, They maele another halt on the roael after this at another house, where they stayed anel warmeel themselves until 10 o'clock Weel nsday night. About half past 10 they starteel for Charleston, guideel by their negro pilot, anel arriveel here about half past 8 Thursday morning. They were all very kindly receiveel at tho Mills House, where they took breakfast. One of their number, a poor Italian, named Garigarelo, unable to speak a word of English, hael four sons on board, who are believeel to have been drowned. They were harpers, and were on their way to New Orleans for the purpose of trying their fortunes in that city. The last Dr. Cass saw of the captain ho was still enga geel in supplying life-preservers, chairs, etc , to those in the water. At one time several vessels wore report ed in sight, and many hoped to receive aid from them, but none came near them. Among the lost was John Brooks, first engineer, who was last seen by Purser Mc Manus on one of the gratings of the vessel, anel James Ammerman, seconel engineer. Dolly Davenport, having reael over fifty obituary notices of himself, cut out from Northern newspapers anel forwarded to New Orleans, has come to the conclusion that he must be really dead, anel now signs himself accordingly, " Yours, truly, A. H. Uaven port, deceased." A ladv walked from Athens to Schnec- tady, 43 miles in 11 hours the other day. Her name was Stanton, which perhaps had something to elo with it. Mr. Chesbrough. the engineer of the Chicago Lake Tunnel, has received a Christ mas present of 11,000 in water bonds from the city. Greeley says he gave his heart and soul to the Clav canvass of 1844. That is the reason he has been destitute of both ever since. Cars with family compartments, fitted up in hotel style, with attendants, are to be run between New York and Chicago, Illinois. That was a fine stroke of satire present ing Chief Justice Chase with a portrait of Marshall. Fancy Marshall electioneering as Chase is. The bodies of three children were found in the mud at the bottom of the lake in Begent's Park, London, when the water was drawn off An Eastern paper recommends a monu ment in Cincinnati to the hog. Such a one is built more enduring than granite in their stomachs. Helen Western's troupe kept a Milwau kee audience waiting for an hour between the plays, and a small row ensued. The Helena Herald thanks God that there are some places where provisions are high er than at Helena. It had just heard from Cheyenne. King William of Prussia wrote Louisa Muhlbach a very sweet note for the ten derness with which she had dealt with his ancestors. The Land of the Windmill A Capital Description fur Young Reader. " Carleton " writes to the Boston Jour nal a letter in regarel to Holland, which is a model in its way, giving to young read ers a more definite anel vivid conception of the gce.graphy of that country than they would be likely to get from their regular school text-books. Wo copy a large part of the letter: I am suro that every boy and girl who reaels the Journal would take great pleasure in visiting Holland, it is such a queer, strange, funny place, and the people are so odd ami curious. There are such scenes as cannot be founel anywhere else in the wide world. Most of the boys in New Eng land carry knives in their pockets, and I dare say there is not a lad among all of them who may read this letter who has not 1 Mil 1 1 1 Ml wniiuea out a winamin, or, at least, a (vhirbgig ; but there aro mere windmills here than they ever dreamed of windmills in the towns and cities, out in the country, and all the shore of the sea all in motion where there is wind enough to turn them. Yesterday I coukl see nearly one hundred at a time. It was a gusty, breezy day, and the storm-clouds were flying in from the German ocean, and there was a tremen dous commotion among the windmills. Each one seemed to be trying to whirl fast er than the other. TJneloubtedly you have read of the ex ploits of that crazy knight Don Quixote, who saw a windmill and thought it was a giant, anel went at it full tilt, anel got tum bled into the dirt by the great fans, which went rounel and round just as if nothing had happened; but if he were alive in these days, and were to visit Holland, he might think with good reason that the land was full of giants. WIIAT THEY ABE FOR. You wonder, perhaps, what tho people of this country can want of so many wind mills ; but let me tell you that if it had not been for these mills in the past there woulel be very few people in Holland now. The windmills, in one sense, have made the country what it is. Looking upon your map of Holland you will see that the river Bhine, which has its source away south in the centre of Europe among the mountains of Switzerland, here reaches the sea. When it gets within one hundred miles of the sea it splits itself into a dozen or more channels, all of which, after winding and turning through a great marsh, pour their waters into the. ocean. Holland, therefore, was once a great marsh or bog. There are very few stones in the country ; thero are no mountains or hills, but one dead level of marsh land. Hundreds of years ago the people who lived near the mouth of the Rhine saw that tho marsh land was very fertile, for the silt in tho river brought down every year from the mountains made the land very rich : they saw also, if they coukl only get rid of the water on the marshes, they might lay out cabbage gardens and little farms. Tby commenced by building dams here and there one on tho branch of the Bhine called the Potter and the place in, time was known as Rotterdam ; another on tho Amstel, which was the origin of the name of this city Amsterdam. So all of the dams in Holland came, not Joecauso the peaplo were in the habit of using wicked words, but because they built dams on tho streams. But the water soaked through the embankments, and every rain made their gardens wet ; they elug ditches, into which the water settled, and then con ceived the idea of building windmills for pumping tho water into the river. ! They set one of the forces of nature tho wind to work against another force the rain ; and as a gust of winel will turn several thousands of mills just as easily as it docs one, they have conqueretl the rain have f orceel the great river Khme to quit the marshes, and have begun to pump the ocean elry. That is tho meaning of all these giants 1 swinging tneir arms irom one ena ot me year to the other day and night when ever t iero is a breath ol air. THE COUNTRY. To see the country as it is, imagine a great embankment along the shore of the sea, against which the waves arc always dashing. Walking along tho embankment, you notice tnat mo lanei is ten, mteen, twenty, even thirty feet lower than the sea. You can hardly realizo that these gardens green with cabbages, turnips, cauliflowers, anel other vegetables were once tho beel of the ocean ; that the waves rolled miles and miles inland ; that vessels once sailed whero farm-houses now stand ; that fishermen now let down their hooks and nets above those meadows. But so it has been, and tho story of the riso and growth anel pumping out of Holland is one of the most interesting in ad history. It shows us what enterprise, intelligence, perse veraDce, anel hard work will accom plish. It would give you a strange sensation to sail up tho river from the ocean in a steam boat or in a ship, and nnel yourselt so high above the houses that you can almost look down tho chimneys, also to soe cattle and sheep feeding down below, anel men catching fish above. Were it not for the windmills, the river, the ocean, and the rain woulel soon flood the fields and meadows and set all the houses afloat ; but because the mills are always going, the boys anel girls of Dutch land sleep securely at night, go to school, eat their three meals a day, play in the streets, go to church on Sunday, without ever dreaming of any danger. Once there was a terrible disaster ; a dam gave way, and the wa'er came pour ing in, covering the meadows, drowning eattle and sheep, sweeping away farm houses, villages, and towns, destroying many lives anel making sad havoc. But the people filled up the breach, set the windmills agoing, pumped the whole country dry again, and ever since have taken good care to keep all the embank ments strong and in repair. There is a saying that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," but here in Holland it is the price of life. Men are on the watch all the time to see that there are no weak places in me emuannments. xney are i i j mi - paid by the Government, and have con trol of all the mills. They wage constant warefare with the ocean at a cost of nearly three millions of dollars every year : but with the wind for an ally, they are enabled to keep the marshes drained, and have transformed the bogs into beautiful mead ows, pastures, orchards, and gardens, and built villages and towns below the level of the sea. From California Message of Governors Lou and Haight. The valedictory message of Governor Low, of California, anel the inaugural ad dress of Governor Haight are published in tho ban Jb rancisco papers. Governor Low reports a healthy condition of State finances. The treasury is full of money, all demands 1 A 1 aro met in casn, tne aeDt nas been some what reduced in apite of extraordinary ex penditures growing out of the war. Great progress has been made in the set IIATK3 OP ADVKUTIJIItfG, 1 square, of 10 lines or less, for each and every insertion, $1. Special Notices will bo charged i2 00 per square for each and every insertion. All Obituaries and private publications of every charau t,sr, are charged as advertisement. 8r"So advertisement, reflecting upon private character, can, under any cikctmstancf.s, admitted. tlement of land titles, the United States land office having listed over more than live hundred thousand acres of the school, swamp and building land grants, with lists on the way for over one million more. Tho titles given by tho State will now be good, and itamigration and cultivation be greatly promoted. Governor Haight, in his inaugural, speak ing of national affairs, says : " Tho propriety of admitting tho blacks tu suffrage belongs to each Stato to deter mine for itself. Had Congress been ablo to control this subject, both negro and Chinese suffrage would probably have been forced npon tho people of California against the will of the majority. Ignorance of tho cuee-ts ei bi.cn legislation wouia nave in flicted upon us evils actually intolerable. So far as California is concerned tho poo ple of this State have expressed their op position both to negro and Chineso suf frage. " A portion of those persons in this Stato who favor negro suffrage hesitato to advo cate Chineso suffrage, but tho congressional policy makes no distinction. On the con trary, that policy proposes to ignore all discrimination in political privileges founded on race or color. Indeed, thero is no line that can bo drawn, unless suf frage is confined to tho whito population. "It is a question of justice, as some as sert, and justice requires the ballot to bo given to tho negro, that equality requires tb ballot to be given to the Chinaman. If tne negro reepiires tho ballot to protect himself, as the others assert, tho Asiatic needs it to protect himself. Thero is, how ever, no truth in either statement. No prin ciple of justice is involved any more than in the case of females, or minors, or for eigners not naturalized nor doeis tho ne gro need the ballot to protect himself any more than either of tho other classes refer red to. On the contrary, it is for the good of both those races that tho elective fran chise should bo concedeel to tho whites. The aid of Africans or Asiatics woulel be an evil and not a benefit. It would intro duce the antipathy of race into our politi cal contests and lead to strife and blood shed. The opposition to giving tho negro and Asiatic the ballot is not baseel upon prejudice or ill-will to those races, but upon a conviction of tho evils which would ro sult to the whole country from corrupting the source of political power with elements so impure. " The inferior races have their civil rights, as all good men elesire they should have. They can sue and be sued in tho courts, acquire and possess property, they have entire freedom of person, and pursue any lawful occupation for a livelihood, but they will never with tho consent of tho people of this State, either vote or hold office." Gov. Haight speaks as follows of immi gration and labor : "The subject of immigration anel labor has engaged much attention in this Stato since the first organization of a Stato gov ernment. Our distance from the sources of emigration and the difficulty and expense of reaching California from the East and Europe, havo prevented the increaso of our laboring population as rapidly as was" an ticipated and desired; but while the in crease of population will expedite the de velopment of tho resources of the State, it would not bo wiso statesmanship, in my judgment, to invite an immigration of Chinese or any other Asiatic race. " The completion of the Pacific railroad will afford the laboring people of Europe and tho Eastern States an opportunity to remove to tho coast expeditiously at a mod erate cost, and they will flock hither if tho avenues of labor aro not filled by Mongo lians. The lack of labor will then ceaso to bo seriously felt what wo desire for tho permanent benefit of California is a popu lation of whito men who will mako this State their homo, bring up families hero anel meet the responsibilities and discharge the duties of freemen. Wo ought not to desire an effete population of Asiatics for a free State like ours. "It is urged that this class of immigra tion shoukl bo permittee! on philanthropic grounds, but history and experience show that it is not tho dictato of true philanthro py or sound policy to locate together in ono community races so radically dissimilar in physical, mental and moral constitutions as tho Caucasian and African or Mongo lian." f'UOM WASHINGTON. bpecial Dispatch to tho Baltimore Sun. The China Ambassadorship to Europe The Xlcpoit4 Concerning game Humored llemoval State Official Expected Mr. liurlin of Virginia, Meage on Southern Destitution Commisalonerahlp of Patents. Washington, Jan. 2, 18G8. Tho cable dispatch announcing that Mr. Burlingame, our minister to China, has accepted an ap pointment as-special ambassador to roviso the treaties between the Great Powers of urope and tho Celestial Empire, is not creelited iu official circles here. No infor mation on tho subject has been received by the Executive, and it is not believed that Mr. Burlingame would accept such a com- rniion without consulting the Deparment of State. It is barely possible Mr. Bur- ingame intends to resign his position as Minister to China to accept the celestial ambassadorship, but if such bo his pur pose he has not advised the President of the fact. A report is current that Geu. Schofield will directly remove tho State (officers ot Virginia and appoint others in their places, anel that tie has been in correspondence with the President and General Grant on the subject. Tho latter part ot this report is incorrect. No such corref nondence has irobably taken place. Undv-r tho law tho President has noauthority iu the matter.' and Gen. Grant's power i revisory. Gov. Sharkey, of Alabama, is among the recent arrivals in this city. it seems to bo the t'eneral belief that tho President will send a message to Congress, probably within ton days, on the deplora ble condition of the Southern people. Ihero is a lively business done hero by candidates for office in the way of adver tising themselves as the choice of the Ex ecutive and Cabinet officers for this or for that office. Several successors to Mr. Theak er, Commissioner of Patents, have been in this manner appointed in tho papers, I can, upon sufficient authority, stato, how ever, that no selection of a new Commis sioner has been made, and Mr. Theakor's resignation ha3 not yet been accepted. Data. MAIUUKD. On the 30th Dec., 18G7, by Rev. John N.An drews, at the residence of Mr. John II. Marshall, of this city, Mr. JOHN II. MARSHALL, Jr., to Miss ELIZABETH E. JOHNSON, of Charleston, 8. C. . DIfCD. In this city, at 2 o'clock on the morning of the 2d inat.. EENNET FLANNER, Esq., aged 73 years, 4 months and 8 days. O